(Ilass Book COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT 'I e^^ THE HISTORY OF CONCORD, FROM ITS FIRST GRANT IN 1725, TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT IN 1853, WITH A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT PENACOOKS. THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH NUMEROUS INTERESTING INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES, DOVrS TO THE PRESENT PERIOD, 1855; EMBELLISHED WITH MAPS; WITH PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS, AND VIEWS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN RESIDENCES. " This shall be written for the generations to come." BY NATHANIEL B,OUTON, Pastor of the Firat CoDgregatioual Churoh in Concord. /ill CONCORD: PUBLISHED BYBENNING W. SANBORN. 1856. MoFARLAND & JENK8, PKINTERS. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855, By Nathaniel Bouton, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New - Hampshire. !~ ■ ■ ■ .C788 TO THE INHABITANTS OF CONCORD IN general; TO THE DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS. AND TO ALL WHO FORMERLY HAD RESIDENCE HERE, BUT ARE NOW LOCATED IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF OUR COMMON COUNTRY, THIS HISTORY IS VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BT THEIR FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. LIST AND LOCATION OF ENGRAVINGS. 1. PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, (facing title page.) page. 2. MAP OF CONCORD, (unbound — following title page.) 3. FIRST SURVEY OF HOUSE AND HOME LOTS, 121 4. FAC-SIMILE OF PETITION, 1744, 152 5. THE BRADLEY IMONUMENT, 167 6. PLAN OF RU:\IFORD AND BOW, 207 7. VIEW OF LOG MEETING-HOUSE, 1727 230 8. PLAN OF MAIN STREET, 1798, 297 9. THE OLD TOWxN-HOUSE, 306 10. THE OLD NORTH MEETING-HOUSE, 341 11. THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH, 407 12. JUDGE UPHAM'S HOUSE, 410 13. METHODIST xMEETING-HOUSE, 413 14. SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE, 437 15. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, 443 16. FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH 447 17. NORTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE, 451 18. MAJ. DANIEL LIVERMORE'S, OR DR. BOUTON'S HOUSE, . . . .517 19. JACOB HOYT'S HOUSE, 519 20. SNOW-SHOES, 527 21. OLD HAY-SCALES, 539 22. HOUSE OF SAMUEL COFFIN, ESQ. ; THE ELM TREE, ... 548 23. VIEW OF THE STICKNEY HOUSE AND ELMS, 549 24. VIEW OF THE ANCIENT WALKER MANSION, .557 25. COUNT RUMFORD'S BIRTH-PLACE, WOBURN, MASS., .... 570 26. PORTRAIT OF "THE COUNTESS," 572 27. THE "GAMBREL ROOF," OR BRADLEY HOUSE, 576 28. PORTRAIT OF REV. ASA McFARLAND, D. D., 582 29. PORTRAIT OF JONATHAN EASTMAN, ESQ., 590 30. PORTRAIT OF COL. WM. A. KENT, 593 31. PORTRAIT GOV. ISAAC HILL, 600 32. PORTRAIT OF MR. ABEL HUTCHINS, 603 33. VIEW OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 611 34. VIEW OF PLEASANT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 618 35. PORTRAIT OF ISAAC DOW, ESQ., 644 36. PORTRAIT OF CAPT. JOHN EASTMAN, 647 37. PORTRAIT OF OLD MRS. ELLIOT, 651 38. PORTRAIT OF MR. BENJAMIN GALE 663 39. THE HERBERT HOUSE, 665 40. PORTRAIT OF MR. RICHARD HERBERT, 668 41. PORTRAIT OF DEA. JOHN KIMBALL, 675 42. PORTRAIT OF MR. WILLIAM LOW, 678 43. PORTRAIT OF MR. ARIEL WALKER, 690 44. COL. BENJAMIN GROVER'S HOUSE, 743 TO THE READER. In preparing this History, I have availed myself of all the information I could gather — from -n'hatever source — during a residence and ministry in Concord of more than thirty years. ]\Iy attention was first directed to the subject of a historj- of the town, while collecting materials for a centennial discourse 2)reached in November, 1830. Many of the facts embodied in tills History were treasured up at the time of their occurrence ; others have been carefully collected from the recitals of aged citizens and others, well acquainted with the affairs of the town, and from newspapers of the current period ; but the greater part was derived from original records and docu- ments in the office of the Town Clerk, the Secretary of State, or in the archives of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, and from choice family papers which have been generously placed in my hands. For the aid and encouragement I have had in prosecuting the work, I acknowledge my obli- , 9 gations to my feUow-citizens, for the liberal appropriation of three hmidred dollars, in March, 1853, towards the pubUcation of portions of " the original Proprietors' and Town Records." I am under especial obligations to the Committee, at that time appointed, viz. : Hon. Nathaniel B. Baker, Jona- than Eastman and Joseph B. Walker, Esqrs., for their coimsel and coojje- ration ; also, to his Honor the first Mayor, General Joseph Low, and the City CouncU, for appropriating the sum of one hmidred and fifty dollars, to procui-e maps and engraraigs for the illustration of the work. I hereby express my particular obligations to all those who have communicated to me, verbally or in MTiting, information on various topics. Especially I am indebted to Richard Bradley and Nathan Stickney,* Esqrs., and General Robert Davis, for valuable information relative to the civil affairs of the tovm, with which they have long been intimately acquainted ; to Capt. Benjamin Parker and Stephen C. Badger, Esq., two experienced surveyors, for the exact description they have given of localities and distances — to the latter of whom belongs the honor of the beautiful and accurate ^lap of the City, which accompanies this History. I am greatly obHged to Moody Kent, Esq., for an account of the ancient trees which are the ornament of * Mr. Siickney deceased Oct. 29, 1855 — an eminently useful, respected and honored citizen. See " List of Officers." Z TO THE READER. our main village, and for many imjjortant facts respecting professional men who are deceased ; to "William Prescott, M. D., for his contributions to the chapter upon Physical History; to Jacob Hoyt and George Abbot, Esqrs., Mr. Simeon Abbot and Mr. Benjamin Ilolfe, for the entertaining incidents and anecdotes they have furnished relative to ancient times ; and to the gentle- men who have aided me in the difficult work of preparing the genealogy of famiHes, whose names I have the honor to mention in that connection. The genealogy of the Eastman family was chiefly prepared by Rev. Daniel Lancaster, who also aided in preparing the account of lawyers, physicians and graduates. My acknowledgments are due to Hon. Chandler E. Potter, of Manchester, for friendly aid in furnishing me copies of original docu- ments, and even more to a young lady of our own city, for results of her careful researches into our Indian history, and for her cheerful services in examining and copying ancient papers and records. I owe many thanks to George Kent, Esq., of Bangor, Me., for some entertaining reminiscences of ancient men, who have passed off the stage, but whose "words" and " works " live after them. As I am, personally, so are all the readers of this History, indebted to the individuals who have gratuitously furnished views of residences or portraits of the distinguished citizens that adorn the pages of the volume. The cost of all the engravings executed expressly for this History and presented for insertion in it, amounts to more than seven hundred dollars. I have the honor to acknowledge the liberal dona- tion of James F. Baldwin, Esq., of Boston, of twelve hundred lithographic prints of the " Rumford House," in Woburn, Mass., and also an equal number of copper-plate portraits of " the Countess," lately deceased. Whatever value may be attached to the engraving in front of the title, must be accredited to ladies of the parish, at whose request and by Avhose generous subscription it was jn'ocured. This volume is said to be the larg- est and most costly original work ever issued from a New-Hampshire press. A discerning public need not be told to whom they are indebted for the superior style of typography in which the volume is presented to them. Last, but not least, the author is grateful to the compositors, for their patience and skill in decyphering much " bad copy." In the arrangement and execution of the work, I have aimed at perspi- cuity, precision, impartiality and accuracj'. That no errors will be found in it, would be almost presumptuous to expect. Some have already been detected, and marked as errata, which the reader is desired at once to cor- rect. The work is arranged so as to correspond with the changes in the name and civil relations of the to\^Ti, while the chronological order is observed. Each portion of the History is designed to be complete in itself. For example, the Indian History, the Proprietary History, the Bow Controversy and the Revolutionary Period, form each a distinct chapter — and so of the rest. It will also be perceived that in the several decennial periods I have given in each chapter, 1. The Ci\i\ History of the Town, authenticated by records ; 2. Miscellaneous matters, and, 3. A list of town officers within the same period. TO THE READER. In preparing the index of names at the end of the voknne, I have in- tended to put down every name mentioned in the body of the work, from the Indian History to the beginning of the Genealogical Section, p. 619, except those in the List of Officers. If a reader wishes to ascertain what OFFICE a particular person held in the town, he must examine the list per- taining to the period in which the person was engaged in the duties of civil life ; or, if one wishes to find a particular family name, he must turn to the Genealogy, and examine it in its alphabetical order. So of Lawyers, Physicians and Graduates. The Table of Contents in the first part of the volume will exhibit the leading subjects of each chapter and section. I have only to add, that as the preparation of the M'ork has cost much labor, in addition to the duties of my profession, so it will afibrd me great pleasiu-e, should it meet the reasonable expectations of my fellow-citizens ; especially, should it enhance our estimate of the privileges and blessings derived from the original proprietors and settlers of the town, and attach us more strongly to the moral and religious principles and habits which distinguished them. Verily, "Our lines are fallen unto us in pleasant places ; yea, we have a goodly heritage." Be it our aim, with the Divine blessing, to transmit it to future generations ! Nathaniel Bouton. Con-cord, N. H., 1855. Note. Upon a careful revision of the printed pages of this History, the author has discovered a number of errors — some of which it is very impor- tant to correct. They are all noted as " errata," on the last pag"e of the volume, before the Index, to which readers are respectfully requested to turn and make the necessary corrections. Should readers 'discover other errors, they are requested to make them known to the author. His chief fear is, that he may be censured for the omission of facts of which he had no means of knowledge. In transcribing the Proprietors' Records, a few, mostly imimportant, mis- takes occurred, which will also be found corrected on the last pao-e. The certificate from Jonathan Eastman, Esq., Proprietors' Clerk, entitles the printed Records to authority, as legal evidence. INTRODUCTION. The author begs leave to introduce the His- tory of Concord to ills readers, by rcquesling their attention to the beautiful and accurate ilap which accompanies it, and to observe the boundaries, prominent localities and ob- jects tiiere laid down, a brief explanation and description of which here follows. Penacook was the ancient name of a tract of country extending along the Merrimack river about ten or twelve miles on both sides, from the Soucook, or perhaps Suncook, to the Contoocook river, but of undefined width from east to west.* The name in ancient re- cords and documents is variously spelled ; — for example — Penny Ciiokc, Penny Cook, Pen- necooke, Pennecook, Pcnnicook, Peniconk, Pen- kook. The late John Farmer, Esq., uniformly wrote it Penacook, and as the name, thus spelled, is now incorporated into various pub- lic works f of standard value, I have adopted the same orthograpliy. CoNcoKD, the modern name for the ancient Penacook, is at this time a city; the sl)ire town of Merrimack County, and Capital of the State of New-Hampshire. It is situated near the centre of the State from east to west ; about fifty miles from tlie Atlantic coast, and tlie same distance to the Connecticut river. Its latitude is 43° 1-2' north ; longitude 5° 47' 3P" east from Washingtun city, and sixty- two miles north, 22° west of Boston. Its boundaries and extent, as laid down on the map, are as follows: Commencing at the north-west corner, thence north 75° east, on Boscawen, 4 miles and 91 rods to the south- east bound of Boscawen ; thence, commenc- ing at the south-west bound of Canterbury, on the east bank of the IMerrimack river, north 72° east, 3 miles and 124 rods ; thence, on Canterbury line south 18° east, 192 rods, to Loudon line ; thence, the same course on Lou- don line, 2 miles and 3 rods, to the ancient Bow gore ; thence, south 45° east, 2 miles and 284 rods, to the Soucook riverj ; thence, the middle of said river to its junction with the * See Document for Chap. II., No. 1 ; com- pare with p. 55. t See Farmer's edition of Belknap's Hist, of New-Hampshire ; his Genealogical Register, &.C. X Some surveys make this line a few rod.s more, and some a few rods less. Merrimack ; thence, following vp the Merri- mack river to the old Rumford line, about two miles and a half; thence on Bow, south 72° west, 4 miles and 134 rods ; thence, on Bow north, 18° west, 328 rods ; thence north, 17° west, on Hopkinton line, 3 miles and 251 rods, to Beach Hill road ; tlience north 16)^° west, 2 miles and 2i)l rods, to Contoocook river; thence north 15° west, 234 rods, to the first bound. More concisely, Concord is bounded north-westerly by Boscawen and Canterbury ; north-east by Loudon ; south-east by Pem- broke ; south by Bow ; south-westerly by Hopkinton, and contains about 40,000 acres. LOCALITIES, WHICH ARE FREflUENTLY REFERRED TO ly THE COURSE OF THE HISTORY. JVames and description of Localities on the west side of Merrimack river. 1. HoRsE-HiLL, is the name of the territory included in School District No. 1, lying north- erly of Contoocook river ; — so called from the practice, in early times of the settlement, of turning young horses and cattle there to pas- ture, in spring and summer. Oliver Hoit was the first settler there, in 1772. 2. Mast-yard, on the Contoocook river, about a mile and a half from Horse-hill bridge ; so called from the heavy timber that used to be hauled thither from adjacent forests and rolled into the river, to be floated thence into the Merrimack and down to the Atlantic ocean. Opposite Mast-yard, about a mile southerly, is Broad Cove, in School District No. 4. 3. Dagody, or Dagodon Hill and Brook, on or near the northerly boundary line be- tween Concord and Boscawen; — so called from a man named Dagodon, who formerly resided there. The brook is famous for trout fishing Lieut. Marshall Baker, when a young man, on a fishing excursion to this brook, in liis haste to catch a large mess, took off his pants, tied a string around the bottom of the legs, buttoning the waist-band and opening them with sticks, set them for a fish-pot at the mouth of a little dam which he threw up : then driving the fish down the stream, he cauglit in a short time about ninety fine trout, one weighing over three pounds. INTRODUCTION. 4. Within the Horse-liill territory, partly in Boscawen, is a Little Pond, sometimes call- ed Catamount, abounding more with snakes and turtles than with fishes. 5. The Borough, School District No. 2, settled originally by the Elliots : now the res- idence of old Mrs. Lydia Elliot, at the ago of 102 years. Among the ancient men distin- guished in this locality in former times, and known by their honorary titles, were " Gov- ernor Elliot," " Lawyer Elliot," and " Judge Baker," grandfather of His Excellency Na- tlianiel B. Baker. 6. Host's Brook, which crosses the road to Boscawen, about one mile south of Fisher- ville. 7. Beaver-meadow Brook, about a mile south of Hoyt's Brook. Near this is Beaver- meadow hog road to Horse-hill. 8. Sand-banks, about a half mile easterly from Hoyt's brook, where logs and timber were rolled into Merrimack river. Capt. Jo- seph Pratt, of Orford, with a two-horse sleigh, drove off this bank one night, by accident, and, though precipitated to the bottom, es- caped without material injury. 9. HonsEiNG-DowNs, was the name given to a long, narrow neck of land, lying at the foot of sand-banks, on the east side, as the river formerly run, but since cut off by turning the river for the track of the Nortliern rail- road ; better known now as Ooodioin's Point. 10. Dustin's Island, at the mouth of Con- toocook river— the scene of the famous exploit of Mrs. Hannah Dustin, who killed and scalp- ed her Indian captors. 11. Sewall's Island and Falls, so called from Judge Samuel Sewall,of Massachusetts, who formerly owned the (iremises. 12. Rattlesmake Brook, running from Long Pond through West village. 13. Rattlesnake Hill, so called on ac- count of the snakes of this species that for- merly had their dens here— well known now as Oranite Hill, about two miles north-west- erly from the main village. 14. Parsonage Hill, so called from the eighty acre lot laid off to the parsonage right, west of Isaac Farnum's. 15. Long Pond. [See ponds, page .542.] 16. Pine Hill, belonging to the farms of Nathan K. and Jeremiah S. Abbot, west of Long Pond ; is estimated to be the highest point of land in Concord. 17. South and westerly of Long Pond is a range of hills, of which the highest is "Jer- ry's Hill," so called from Jerry, or Jeremiah Bradley, who formerly owned the land. From tlie summit of this hill a grand and pictur- esque view is had far to the north and east, taking in the Franconia Alountains, White Hills, Red Hill— and on the south-west the grand Monadnock. North of Jerry's is a hill having a large and curious cave on the south- west side of it. 18. "Little Pond," or District No. 6, is so called from a small pond, situated north- east of Nathan Ballard's, Esq. This neighbor- hood was settled about 1789, by Nathan Bal- lard, Nathan and Henry Chandler, and Eben Fisk, on farms bought of the estate of Col. Paul Rolfe. 19. Beach Hill, on the westerly line be- tween Concord and Hopkinton ;— so called from the abundant beach wood there found. 20. Dimond's Hill, about four miles west- erly of the main village, on Hopkinton road ; so called from Ezekiel Dimond, a large land- owner, who formerly resided on or near the place where Joseph S. Abbot now lives. In 1828 Mr. Nathan Call moved a two-story dwelling-house, thirty by forty feet, on wiieels with forty yoke of oxen, from Hopkinton to' Concord.* In descending this hill, then much steeper than at the present time, he put three yoke of oxen before, and the remainder be- liind, to hold back. It took four days to move the house — the distance was about five miles. 21. Ash Brook, running at the foot of Dil mond's hill, through the farm of Atkinson Webster, Esq., into little Turkey pond. 22. FusH Market, on the Hopkinton road, three miles from Main street ; origin of name not known. Long distinguished for excellent brick and earthen ware there manufactured. 23. Powell's Hook — at the ravine near the upper mills, in Millville ; so called from one Powell, a drummer, who lived near there. 24. Millville, a name recently given to the settlement where Aloses Shute, Esq., re- sides, including the house and land of Dr. Geo. C. Shattuck, of Boston :— whicli house was the first of brick in Concord, and was built by Jacob Carter, father of Jacob Carter now Post-master. This house and farm were recently given by Dr. Shattuck for the pur- pose of a School, to be called " St. Paul's School." 25. Runnells' Mills, were situated on the stream from Great Turkey to Little Turkey pond, on the road to Stickney's Hill. For- merly well known, these mills have fallen into entire decay. Stickney's Hill, about a mile south-west of Runnells' mills, so call- ed from settlers of that name. 26. Bog Road, running from Concord thro' the bogs of Turkey Pond to James Hall's : thence to Dunbarton. Before reaching Mr. Hall's this road crosses Tury brook aiid Pe- ter's or .BcZa'^- brook, —the latter so called from former owners of land. 97. Rum Hill, including the high land N. westerly of road to Hopkinton, owned by Benjamin Gale and others, about a mile and a half from the Slate House ; so called from a drunken carousal and fight which took place there in early times, at a coal-pit. 28. Eleven Lots, extending, according to the first survey, from the residence of the late Countess of Rumford to near the old Bow line. 29. The Bend, (that is, in Merrimack riv- er,) near the southern boundary line, and tak- ing in a small section of Bow. On the bank at this bend is a beautiful view, north, of the Main village. 30. Iron Works, south-west part of the town, including Sch. District No. 18. In the Revolutionary War the " Iron Works" were owned by Daniel Carter, Daniel Gale and Dr Philip Carrigain. A forge was built in the lot easterly of the bridge which now crosses Turkey River, where iron was wrought from native ore. 31. Frog Ponds, on the interval east of the residence of the late Gov. Hill, who owned the premises and made various experiments to improve them. Name derived from the " se- renades" of their principal inhabitants. 32. Hale's Point, the extreme point of land on "Ferry Road," by Richard Herbert's— named from Joseph Hale, who in early times owned the land. From the " Point" across ■ This house now stands on the east side of State street, second house south of Pleasant street. INTRODUCTION. the river was formerly a ferry, extensively known as Kimha'.Ps Ferry. Hale's point was cut off by a great freshet about 1831, and the ferry is discontinued since the opening of the Free Bridge road. 33. Fort Eddy, about half a mile north of Hale's Point, on land owned by Richard Brad- ley—opposite Sugar Ball. According to tra- dition this was the location of an old Indian fort. 34. The Fan, a tract of land bordering the river, north of Fort Eddy ; valuable for natu- ral mowing, and derivingits name from a fan- cied resemblance in shape to a lady's fan. Chiefly owned by the late Abiel Walker. 35. Wattanvmmon's Brook, the princi- pal feeder and outlet of Horse Shoe Pond on the east— crossed by a bridge, and so called from the name of an Indian chief* who owned and cultivated the land adjacent. There is an outlet from both ends of the Pond. 36. Horse Shoe Pond, at the head of Main street. [See Ponds.] 37. Wood's Brook, the little stream from " little pond," crossing the Boscawen road north of Richard Bradley's, and formerly turning the " dry saw mill," which was built there; deriving its name from David Wood, original proprietor. 38. P/.RADisE, about forty rods northerly from Wood's brook— so named from a beauti- ful grove and the scenery around it, including a charming view of the interval and meander- ing of the river on the east. It was owned by Capt. E. S. Towle. The grove being re- cently cleared away, it may be called " Para- dise lost.^' 39. Blossom Hill, a pleasant eminence, covered with a fine growth, opposite " Para- dise." 40. The Gulf, or steep hill bridge, on the main road to Boscawen, about tvventy rods south of the railroad crossing, near Benjamin Farnuni's. East of this Gulf is Farnum's Eddy, so called from a current or whirl in the river. 41. West's Brook, formerly " Meetmg- house Brook," rising in swamp land west of the State Prison, crossing Main street near the house of the late John West, senior — whence the name. The space between this brook and " Tan-yard Brook" was neutral ground between the north and south end boys. 4-2. Clav-Pits, and tan yard brook, which runs (under the road,) in the valley by Mr. Ivory Hall's house. The late Capt. Richard Ayer carried on an extensive tannery on the west side of the road ; and clay of good qual- ity was formerly dug here. Opposite the tan- yard stood the old hay-scales,] and here was "the great elm tree," marked on the Plan of Main street. 43. Bow Brook, partly flows from Little pond, runs along by the new Jail and the In- sane Asylum, and empties into Turkey river. 44. Free Bridge and Free Bridge Road, across the Merrimack and interval, nearly opposite Center street.^ This road was first opened and bridge built in 1839. * Often spelled Waternummon. See Chap. 1., Indian History. t See Chapter of Ancient Matters, p. 539. X See Free Bridges, p. 741. Localities on the east side of the River, begin- ning on the northern line at Canterbury. 1. Burnham's Brook, running from Canter- bury by Chandler Choate's to Merrimack river, opposite the eastern point of Rolfe's in- terval. 2. ITackett's Brook, so called from a man of that name who once leaped across it, and then turning around, said to himself — "I'll bet a mug of flip you can't do that again, Hackett." Then attempting to leap it again, as his feet struck the opposite bank, he fell backwards into the brook. The brook has its principal source in " Hot Hole pond," easterly on the Loudon line; empties into the Merri- mack just north of Sewall's Falls bridge. On this stream is situated Lovejoy's Mills, so called, and also a saw-mill near its mouth. 3. Snow's Pond, [see Ponds.] Oak Hill is a high eminence east of Snow's pond, or north- erly of Turtle pond. [See page 543, 544.] 4. Hot Hole Pond, [see Ponds.] 5. SNAPTo\vN,thesection comprising School District No. 14. in the north-easterly part of the town, near Loudon line. The origin of the name is uncertain. One tradition is, tliat it is derived from a man by the name of Blanch- ard, who had a habit of snapping his eyes, or winking quick : on which a woman re- marked, that " she should think all the chil- dren in the neighborhood would 'snap.'" Another tradition is, that an early settler in the locality, thinking himself croicded by oth- ers who moved in within half a mile of him, was cross, or snappi.ih. 6. The Mountain, comprising School Dis- trict No. 21, and extending from the dwelling- house of Jacob Hoit to the residences of Abra- ham Bean and John L. Tallant. 7. Bowen's Brook, crossing the road to the Mountain in the valley near Meshech Lang's ; origin of name not ascertained. 8. Turtle-town, comprising School Dis- trict No. 15, derives its name from the large pond in that vicinity, which abounds with turtles. See " Ponds," page 543. 9. Apple-town, southerly of Turtle pond, supposed to derive its name from the abund- ance and excellence of apples there raised. 10. Leather-lane, the section from the fork of the road to Apple-town, to the old burying-ground in the East village. li. The Fort— including the East village- deriving its name from the "Irish Fort," or from the garrison of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, which stood directly west of the residence of Israel W. Kelly, Esq. 12. Squaw Lot, westerly of Federal bridge. [See Indian History.] 13. MiLL-BRooK, the outlet of Turtle pond, affording a fine water power in the East vil- lage, on which the first saw and grist-mill were built, in Concord, 1729. 14. Death's Hill, on the Portsmouth turn- pike, near the school-house on " Dark Plain," a short, steep ascent, which the road now runs around on the south and east side, de- rived its name from the circumstance that a traveller, with a loaded team from Ports- mouth, was killed in going over it by a hogs- head of molasses rolling from his wagon. 15. Sugar Ball, the first prominent sand blutf northerly of Kimball's Ferry, or Sam- uel ClitTord's residence, and opposite Fort Eddy. On this, according to invariable tradi- tion, stood the old Penacook fort. 16. Mount Pleasant, a high and steep INTRODUCTION. sand bluff, about eighty rods north-westerly of Sugar Ball, recently so called from the ex- tensive and beautiful view it aff6rds of the interval of the Merrimack, and the main vil- lage ; of hills of the West parish, and scenes more distant. 17. Garvin's Palls, formerly the residence of tiie Garvin family, including a portion of the " southern Bow gore." In the ancient re- cords it is known as the Penny Cook Falls, and not, as on the map, " Soucook Falls." 18. Head's JIills, on the Soucook river, near the old line of Concord, a little north of the old road to Pembroke, about two miles from Concord bridge. 19. '• Placer," a favorite place of resort in the summer, at a great bend in Soucook river. Villages. Besides the foregoing localities, the reader will please observe that in Concord are four villages, or principal settlements, of which the first is the Main viUai miles ; opened in Sept., 1842 ; whole :ost, $1,450,000. The Northern Railroad, from Concord through Franklin, to Connecticut river, 69 miles. The first section of it opened in 1846, and the residue in 1847 and 1848. The capi- tal stock amounts to $2,770,000. Boston, Concord and Montreal Rail- road, chartered in December, 1844, extends from Concord to tlie Connecticut river, through Haverhill, to Woodville, opposite Wells Riv- er, in Vermont. Tliis road was first opened as far as Sanbornton Bridge May 10, 1848 ; next to Plymouth, and then on to Warren and its present terminus, 99}^ miles from Concord. Capital paid in, $2,271,478. Every train in summer connects at the Weirs with tlie steamer Lady of the Lake, Capt. Win. Walker. Concokd and Claremont Railroad, was incorporated in 1848. It extends to Bradford, a distance of 29% miles. Amount expended to April, 1853, was $698,258. Contoocook Valley Railroad connects with the Concord and Claremont at Contoocookville. Portsmouth and Concord Railroad, in- corporated in 1845. Length of road, about 48 miles. BANKS IN CONCORD. Merrimack County Bank, first incorpo- rated in 182G; renewed in 1845, with a capital of §80.000. Francis N . Fisk, President ; E. S. Towle, Cashier. Directors, 1855— Francis N. Fisk, Samuel Coffin, Nathan Stickney, Rich- ard Bradley and Joseph B. Walker. Mechanicks Bank, incorporated in 1834. Capital, $100,100. Joseph M. Harper, of Can- terbury, President ; Geo. Minot, of Concord, Cashier. Joseph M. Harper, Seth Eastman, Josiah Minot, D. M. Carpenter, Ezra Carter and George B. Chandler, Directors in the year 1855. State Capital Bank, incorporated in 1852 ; has at this time a capital of $150,000. Samuel Butterfield, President; Edson Hill, Cashier. The present Directors are — Samuel Butter- field, Enos Blake, Abraham Bean, Hall Rob- erts, Asa Fowler, Robert N. Corning and Ebenezer Symmes. New-Hampshire Savings Bank, in Con- cord, was incorporated in June, 1830. Its business is under the direction of eighteen trustees. Samuel Coffin, President ; Samuel Morril, Treasurer. In 1855 there were 7.824 depositors, and the " means" of the bank amounted to $402,704. The valuation of estates in Concord, made in the returns of the United States Census in 1850, was : Real estate, . Personal estate, Total, . . . $3,015,286 . 573.624 $3,588,910 The growth of Concord in business and population since 1816, has been steady and healthful. The population ia 1767 was 759 1820 was 2838 1775 " 1052 1830 " 3702 1790 " 1747 1840 " 4903 1800 «« 2052 1850 " 8584 1810 " 2398 1855 estiraat.. 10.500 The number of names on the check-lists of the several wards of the city, as first laid out in 1853, was as follows : Ward 1. 1 . . 184 Ward 5. . 509 t) . 289 " 6. . . 436 3 . . 136 " 7. . 301 4. . Tetal, 2325 TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INDIAN HISTORY. PAGE. Five Principal Nations, 17 Penacooks — Fight with Moliawks, 18 Passaconaway, 21-26 Wonalancet, 27-30 Wanuchus — Montowampate, 30-34 Tahanto, 34 Kancamagus, 37 Hope-Hood, 39 "Wattanummon — Anecdote of Capt. Eastman, 40 Fight at Baker's River, 41 Mrs. Dustin, 42 Mr. Dustin — " The Father's Choice," 44 Squaw Lot — Peorawarrah's Gun, 46 Pehaungun — The Last of the Penacooks, 48 CHAPTER n. PENACOOK BEFORE SETTLEMENT BY THE WHITES. Sources of the Merrimack River, 1638, 49 Survey, 1652 — Inscription on Rock at " The Weares," 50 Petition from Dover and Newhury, 51 Order of Court, 52 Petition from Chelmsford — from Salem, 53 Petition from Inhabitants of Essex County, 1721, .53 Survey, 1722 — Petition, 1725, . . . ' 55 " L-ish People,"* 56 CHAPTER III. PL.INTATION OF PENACOOK. — 1725 TO 1733. Proprietors' Records, 57-121 Order of the Great and General Court, 57-64 Admission of Settlers, 1725, 59 Letter of Rev. Christopher Toppan, 60 Letter of Rev. Samuel Phillips, 61 Survey of House and Home Lots, 62 Journal of Committee, 64 Additional Grant, 1728, 64 List of Settlers, 68 Surveyors at Penacook, 66 Committee of New-Hampshire — ""WarnOlT," 68 Orders and Rules of Settlement, . . . \ 70 * See Document, for Chapter II., p. 745. 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS. FACE. House and Home Lots — drawn, 72 Opposition from New-Hampshire Government, 77 Letter from Henry Newman, Agent, 82 Building a Block House, 80-85 Second Division of Interval surveyed, 81-86 Capt. Eastman's. Team, driven by Jacob Slmte, 88 Grant of Bow, by New-Hampshire, 88 Samuel Aver and Team, 89 Rights forifeited — Delinquents, 86-90-98 Committee to agree v.itli a Minister, 86-100 First Saw-mill and Grist-mill, 89-97 Call to Rev. Timothy Walker — Salary, &c., 95-106 Laying out Burying-ground, 98 Ferry, by John JMerrill, 90-1 02 Blacksmith — Cutting Noycs, 101-114 Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk, 102 Petition for Town Rights — Order of Court, 95-104 School — Money raised for, 106 Grist-mill and Saw-mill on Turkey River, 109-113 Mills on "Mill-brook" — Nathan Simonds, 112 Mill on " Rattlesnake Brook," 114 Henry Rolfe's Petition for Incorporation, 115 Names of Pro])rietors, 122 Explanation of " First Survey," &c., 121 " of Second Survey, 125 " of " Twenty Acre Division," 127 " of Emendation Lots, 128 " of Eighty Acre Division, 128 Special Grants, 128 State of Settlement, 1731. — Expenses, 128 Brief Notices of Proprietors, 132 CHAPTER IV. RUMFORD I^'COR^ORATED. — 1733 TO 1742. Act of Incorporation, 141 School. — Various Proceedings, 142 A House for Rev. Mr. Walker, 142 Essex County — Meeting-house repaired, 144 Garrison around Rev. Mr. Walker's House, 144 Controversy between New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, 1740, . . . 145 "The Crotch" — Meeting of Commissioners, 145-146 Decision of His Majesty, 148 CHAPTER V. RUMFORD A DISTRICT. — 1742 TO 1750. Indian Hostilities — Jonathan Eastman's Wife taken, 151 French War — Louisburg, 152 Petition — facsimile — Garrisons, &c., 125-6 The Massacre, 1 740, 157 Notices of Persons massacred, 162 The Monument, Erection, Procession, &c., 166 Garrisons — New Arrangement, • ... 174 Capt. Lovejoy's Mill — Petition, 175 Anecdotes — Philip Eastman, Estabrooks, &c., 177 Dr. Ezra Carter's Petition — Aimer Hoyt, 177 Benjamin Abbot, Joseph Pudncy, &c., 178 Reuben Abbot — Stephen Farrington, 180 Capt. Lovejoy — Depositions, &c., 181 List of Officers from 1763 to 1749, , . 182 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 11 PAGE. CHAPTER VI. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAKS, IN WHICH THE INHABIT.^'TS OF EUMFORD TOOK AN ACTIVE PART. — 1754 TO 1760. Robert Rogers, John and William Stark, 189 Capt. John Chandler, 1754 — Capt. Joseph Eastman, 189 Capt. John Goff's Company, 17.56, 191 Amos Eastman, Bcnj. Bradley, Stephen Hoit, 192 Fight at St. Francis, 1759, 19.3 David Evans, Nathaniel and Stilson Eastman, 194 John Sliute and Joseph Eastman, , 196 " Bill Phillips," Daniel Abbot, 202 Mr. Nutter, Enoch Bishop, 204 CHAPTER VII. CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. — 1750 TO 1762. Grant of Bow — "Associates" — Plan, &c., 205-6 Suit against John Merrill — Defence, 20S Assessment on Bow — Selectmen — Petition, 212 Rev. Mr. Walker first sails for England, 213 Petition to the King— Second Visit, 214-216 "Bow Act" — Inhabitants (Zoomef/, 217 Inventory by Selectmen of Canterbury, 219 Letter from Rev. Mr. Walker, 1762, 220 King's Decision, 222 Settlement of Canterbury bounds, 226 Miscellaneous, Items, Anecdotes, &c., 230-38 Letters from Rev. Mr. Walker, 1754, '55, . 231 Iron Crane, 231 Timothy Walker, Jr.'s License to Preach, 232 Andrew McMillan's Store — " Old Ledger," 232 A Young Fawn — Wolves — Rattlesnakes, 236-38 CHAPTER VIIL 1765 TO 1775, Incorporation of the " Parish of Concord," 239 " Bow Gores," — Concord — Name, 242 First Legal Meeting, 243 " The School"— Phineas Virgin, 244-45 Petition of Selectmen of Bow, 245 Census of Concord — Town Proceedings, 246 Address to Gov. Wentworth, 248 Rumford, in Maine, 249 Miscellaneous Facts and Anecdotes — Slaves — Bears — Militia — Town Accounts, 249-59 List of Officers from 1766 to 1775, 259-62 CHAPTER IX. PERIOD OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Benjamin Thompson — Battle of Lexington, 263-64 Congress at Exeter — Battle of Bunker Hill, 264 Capts. Hutchins, Abbot and Kinsman, 265 Census of Concord, 266 New-Hampshire " Declaration of Independence," 267 Prisoners of War — Committee of Safety, 268-69 "Association Test" — Signers, 269 Oliver Hoit — Gun-powder — Tories arrested, 272 Col. Hutchins — Soldiers for Bennington, 274 Convention to form a Plan of Government, 276 12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Currency — another Convention, 277 Article Eighth of the Confederation — Peace, 281 Miscellaneous Items and Anecdotes. Small Pox — Andrew Stone's House — Lottery, 282 Richard Potter and Dr. Carrij^ain, 283 Death of Rev. Mr. Walker, 1782, 284 Meeting-house — General Court, 285-87 Annexation to Concord — Change of Name, 288 The New Constitution, 178.3, 288 List of Town Officers, &c., 289 CHAPTER X. 1785 TO 1795. Tucker's Ferry — " Call " to Jonathan Wilkins, 293 Laying out Main street — Plan — Map, 295 Paper Money — Federal Constitution, &c., 298 " Call" to Rev. Israel Evans, 303 School Lot — Town House — Anecdote, 304 " Warning Out" — Revision of the Constitution, 307 Rev. Mr. Evans — " Minute-men," 308 Miscellaneous Items and Anecdotes. Dauphin of France — " Concord Herald," 309-10 Post-riders — " Clothes make Men," 310 Sacred Music— School — Stages, 312 List of Town Officers, . • 314 CHAPTER XI. 1795 TO 1805. Singing Society — Rev. Mr. Evans resigned, 319 " Call'' to Rev. Mr. McFarland, . 320 Anecdote of Capt. Aver — " Oxford War, 322 Scliool Districts — a" Bell— Meeting-house, 324 Annexing part of Bow to Concord, 325^^, Burying-ground at Horse-hill, &c., 325-6 Miscellaneous Items and Anecdotes. Concord Bridge — Federal Bridge, 326 Persons drowned — Thunder Storm — Library — Fire, . . . 329 Blazing Star Lodge — Mill burnt — Post Office, 330 List of Town Officers, 330 CHAPTER Xll. 1605 TO 1815. New Map — Concord Bank — School Districts, 337 A Bell — Meeting-house — State street, 1809 — Swine, .... 340-41 Washington Street laid out — State Prison, 342 Extinguishment of Fires — War of 1812, 343 Disturbance at Town Meeting — Col. Kent, 344 Scarlet Fever — Deaths — Lieut. Marshall I3aker 345- Soldiers — Volunteers — Exempts, &e., 347 Miscellaneous Incidents. Maj. Chandler's House burnt — Mad Dog, &c., 349 Extraordinary Calf — Fire — Marriage — Capt. Roach, .... 350 Eourth of July, 1811 — " Shipping Memoranda"— Post-rider, . . 351 Capt. Charles Emery's decease — Hannah Shapley — Fire, &c., . 353 Concord Price-current — F^phraim Earnum's son killed, . . . 354 Moral Society — Concord i'emale Charitable Society, .... 3.54 Francis Thompson drowned, 355 List of Town Officers, &c., from 1805 to 1815, 355 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 13 CHAPTER XIII. 1815 TO 1835. PACE. Intermission " One Hour" — September Gale, 363 State House — Location — Ballots — Hearses, 363 School Committee — Timothj- Abbot's Land — Temperance — Bridges, 366 Town Expenses — Support of Poor — Lancasterian School, .... 367 Cows and Sheep — Town House f/a??n!(/;ec; — Suit, 368 Premium to Engine-men — Lease of Parsonage Lot, &e., 369 A new County— Schools — A History of the Town, &c., 370. Toll on the Sal)bath — New-Hampshire Turnpike, 371 MiSCELLAVEODS ItEMS AND ANECDOTES. Middlesex Canal— Cold Summer — White Beans, 371 Benj. Thompson drowned — President Monroe's Visit, . . . 372 Mrs. Mary Calfe — Abigail Kimball — Hannah Bradley, . . .373 Ebenezer Chickering drowned — Earthquake — Abel Hutchins' House burnt, 374 Mad Dog — Transportation to Portsmouth — Fire Engine, . . . 375 Ereshet — Eagle on the State House — Sunday School, &c., . . 37.5-6 Steamboat — Dark Days — Col. McNeil, &c., 376 Card of Thanks — Episcopal Chapel — Meteor, &c., . . . .378 Pres. Tyler's Election Sermon — Death of Mrs. Abigail Hoyt, &c., 381 Celebration of Fourth of July — Thunder Storm, &c., .... 382 Death of Rev. Joshua Abbot — Deaf and Dumb, 383 Large Hogs — Deaths in 1824 — Notes, 384 CHAPTER XIV. 1825 TO 1835, Dr. McFarland's Resignation — Call to Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, . . . 385 Sale of Parsonage Lands — Meeting-house — Fourth of Juh^, .... 386 Security against Fires — Poor Farm — Rocky Pond Lot, ." . . . . 389 Town Funds — Fire Buckets — Schooling for Poor Children, . . . .391 Bridewell — Horse-sheds — Cholera, 392 Laying out and naming Streets, 395 " Concord Directory," 1834 — List of Stages, 397 Miscellaneous Items and Anecdotes — [too numerous to be all men- tioned, hut to be read.] Visit of Gen. LaFayette, 399 Dedication of First Baptist Church — " Lic{uorR," 401 Gen. Jackson's Victory — Death of Mrs. Harriet S. Bouton, . . 403 Death of Ezekiel Webster — Ordination of Rev. M. G. Thomas, 405 Park street — Judge Upham's house — Last Election Sermon, . . 410 Four Days' Meetings — Revival of Religion — Col. Ambrose killed, 412 Methodist Meeting-house — Escape of Convicts, 412 Visit of Gen. Jackson — Death of John Estabrook, .... 414 Mrs. Elizabeth Haseltine's death — Lj'dia Farnuni's, 418 Mechanicks Bank — Prescott's Trial for Murder, 421 Death of old Mrs. Willey — New Prison, 422 CHAPTER XV. 1835 TO 1845. Speculation in Land — Security against Fires 423 Schools — Small-pox — West Parish Burying-ground, 424 Railroad Stock — Insane Hospital — Surplus Revenue, 425 Location of Insane Hospital — Railroads, &c., 427 Concord Bank Failure — Cemetery — Keeping the Peace, .... 428 Lot for Burying-ground, by Charles Smart — Police Regulations, . . .'430 Committee before Legislature — Reservoirs, 431 Question on abolishing Capital Punishment, 432 H 14 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Altering the Constitution — Parsonage Lot sold, 432 Miscellaneous Items and Anecdotes, numerous, entertaining and of great variety ■ . 433-462 CHAPTER XVI. 1845 TO 1853. Fire Department — Bowling-Saloons — Town Funds, 463 Union School Districts — Support of Poor, 464 Hall Burgin's Estate — Burying-ground, East-Concord, 465 Nuisances removed — Burying-ground, Millville, 465 Prohibiting the sale of Spirituous Licpiors, 465 Col. Palmer's llesolutions — Resci-voirs — Sickness, 1849, .... 466 Railroad Crossings — Fire Engine — Hearse, &c., 467 Delegates to Constitutional Convention, 468 Tolling of Bells — Night Watch — License, &c., 469 Reservoirs — New Town House — Public Library, 470 City Charter — Last Town Proceedings — Town History, .... 471-2 Miscellaneous items and anecdotes relative to the period from 1845 to 1853, 472-498 City of Concord. City Charter — Vote on its adoption — First Election of City Officers, 499 Organization of City Government, 501 Address of the Mayor, &c., 502 List of principal Town Officers and Representatives from 1815 to 1853, 505-9 CHAPTER XVII. ANCIENT MATTERS. Grave-Stones — Burials — Monuments — Vehicles, 510-13 Old Clocks — Dwelling-houses — Customs, 514 Maj. Livermore's House — Ancient Wells, 517 Jacob Hoyt's House — Anecdote — Food — Drinks, 517 Cider — Flip — Toddy — Egg-nog — Liquors — Reformation, . . . 522 Ancient Furniture — Dress — Snow-shoes, 524 Work of Females — Hours of rising and retiring, 527 " Going to Meeting" — Old Men's Seat — Intermission, 528 Ancient Horse-block — Singing — Musical Society, 530 Baptisms — Visiting — Amusements — Raisings, .533 Ancient Travel — Masting — Pork Barrels, 536 Ancient Pear-tree — Old Hay Scales, 538 DESCRIPTIVE AND PERSONAL, IN SECTIONS. No. 1. PHYSICAL HISTORY. Rivers — Merrimack, Contoocook, Soucook, 540 Ponds — Turkey, Horse-shoe, Long, Little, Turtle, Snow, 542 Intervals — " Dark Plains" — Up-lands, 543 Granite — Anecdotes — Iron — Clay, 544 Quadrupeds — Birds — Reptiles — Fishes, 549 Pruit — Ornamental Trees — Elms — F'orest Trees, 549 Climate and Temperature, 550 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 15 No. 2. BIOGRAPHY, IK THE ORDER OF DECEASE. PAGE. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, 551-3 Dr. Ezra Carter, 553 Bcnjan)iii Rolfe, Esq., 555 Rev. Timothy Walker — Note — The Walker House, 556 John Stevens, 563 Jacob Sluite, Andrew McMillan, " Mother Osgood," Florence McCauley, 5G5-G Rev. Israel Evans, 567 Ephraim Colby, the Wrestler 569 Sir Benjamin Thompson, or Coimt Eumford, 570 Sarah, Countess of Kumford, 572 Hon. John Bradley — His Grandfother's Will — House, 573 Joseph Wheat, the Stage.driver — Reuben Abbot, 577 Hon. Timothy Walker, 579 Rev. Asa McFarland, D. D., 582 Nathaniel Haseltine Carter, Esq., 584 George Hough, Esq., 587 Capt. Richard Ayer, 589 Jesse Carr Tuttle — Jonathan Eastman, Esq., 590 Stilson Eastman, 591 John Farmer, Esq., 592 Col. William A. Kent, 593 Philip Carrigain, Esq., 596 Gov. David Lawrence Morril, 598 Abiel Chandler, the Donor of Dartmouth College, 599 Gov. Isaac Hill, 600 Mr. Abel Hutchins, 603 No. 3. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, IN THE ORDER OF ORGANIZATION. First Congregational Church, 604 Friends' Meeting — Ejuscopal Church, 606 Methodist Episcopal Church, 609 First Baptist Church, 610 Second Congregational, or LTnitarian Church, 612 West Congregational Church, 613 South Congregational Cimrch, 614 East Congregational Church — Universalist Society and Church, . . . 616 Freewill Baptist Church, 617 Pleasant Street Baptist Church, 618 Christian Baptists, 619 Second Advent Society, 619 Besides the foregoing, there is a Baptist, Congregational and Methodist Church in Fisherville ; also a Universalist Society. NO. 4. GENEALOGICAL. HISTORY OR REGISTER OP FAMILIES THAT SETTLED IN CONCORD, MOSTLY PREVIOUS TO 1800, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED IN TWO CLASSES, VIZ. : First Class, furnished wholly or in part by individuals, .... 619-701 Second Class, copied from Town Records, 701-17 [These names are too numerous to be repeated. Any particular name must be looked for under the family head.] 16 TABLE OF CONTENTS. No. 5. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY, PAGE, Including, (1.) The names of all the Lawyers who are known to have practiced in Concord, arranged in the order of their graduation, or of entering their profession, .... 718-723 (2.) The' names of all Physicians who have resided or practiced in Concord, 724-729 No. G. The names of Graduates at College from Concord, 729-736 [As tlio List of Professional Men and Graduates may be easily referred to and examined, it is deemed unnecessary to repeat them, either hero or in the Index of Names.J No. 7. Miscellaneous Matters, 737-745 Printing, 737 — " Election Day," 738 Ministers who have preached the Election Sermon, .... 739-40 Concord Literary Institution — Boating Company, . . . 740-41 Free Bridges — Col. Grover's House, 741-42 Carriage Manufacture, 742 Contest about an old Gun, 744 Indian remains — remarkable discovery, 745 No. 8. Documentary and Statistical Chapter, 745 Document for Chap. II., (see p. 56,) 745 Documents for Chap. III., IV., V., VI., VIL, VIII., . . . 746-47 Act of Incorporation of the Parish of Concord, 747-49 Names of Grantees of Rumford, Me., 749-50 Documents for Chap. IX., — Prices of Articles, &c., . . . 750-51 Names of Concord Men in the Revolutionary War, . . . 751-53 Bounties paid to Soldiers in the Revohitionary War, .... 753 Soldiers killed, or who died in the War, 754 Soldiers who lived aiul died in Concord, belonging to other towns, 754 Docuincnts for Chap. IX. and X., 755 Names of Men from Concord in the War of 1812-15 —Doc. No. 1, ■ Chap. XII., p. 347, — Doc'ts for Chap. XIII., pp. 369, 547, 550, 755 Catalogue of Fishes, '56 STATISTICS. Monies raised at different periods, 756 Ratefor Rev. Mr. Walker's Salary, 1755-6, 757 Town Rates for 1778, "»8 Table of Division of Parsonage Fund, from 1830 to 1853, 760 School Statistics for 1855, J61 Schools and School-masters, '62 Post-masters in Concord — Military and Field Officers, 763 Captains in Military Companies, ^6-t Adjutants with the rank of Captain, '765 Table of Mortality in Concord, 1825 to 1853, 766 Deaths by Consumption, ^ J^' Persons deceased eighty years of age or upwards, 767-69 Criminal Statistics of Concord for the year ending February 1, 1854, . 770 Report of the Police Justice, ^^ 770 Extracts from a Diarv kept by Benjamin Kimball, 771-72 Extracts from the Meteorological Register, kept by Wm. Prqfecott, M. D., 773 The " Dark Dav," Friday, May 19, 1780, 773 Snow that fell iii Concord, from September, 1841, to June, 1853, ... 774 Errata — Proprietors' Records, 774 Index of Names, "^^^ INDIAK HISTORY. CHAPTER I. The history of the Penacooks, a powerful Indian tribe that formerly occupied this soil, is full of interest. Our sources of information concerning them are much more reliable than is commonly supposed. Some things are merely traditionary : others are authenticated by ancient historians, and by official documents on record or on file, both in the Secretary's office of Massachusetts and of New-Hampshire. At the first settlement of New-England, there were five prin- cipal nations of Indians. 1. The Pequots, of Connecticut; 2. The Narraganseits, of Rhode-Island ; 3. The PawhmnaivJcuts, in the south-eastern parts of Massachusetts, including Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ; 4. The 3IassacJtusetts, situated about the Bay ; and, 5. The Paivtucketts, which, says the historian Daniel Gookin, 1674, " was the last great sachemship of Indians. Their country lieth north and north-east from the Massachusetts, whose dominion reacheth so far as the English jurisdiction or colony of the Massachusetts doth now extend ; and had under them several other smaller sagamores ; as the Pennakooks, Agowames, Naamkeeks, Pascataways, Accomintas, and others. They were a considerable people heretofore, about three thousand men, and held amity with the people of Massachusetts. But these were almost totally destroyed by the great sickness that prevailed among the Indians, (about 1612 and 1613,) so that at this day they are not above two hundred and fifty men, beside 2 18 INDIAN HISTORY. women and cliiklren. This country is now inhabited by the Enghsh, under the government of Massachusetts."* That the Penacooks occupied the soil which is now Concord, all historians and public documents agree. The name itself is thought to indicate the locality ; for Penacook means, " the crooked place, •'''j having reference to the broad sweeps and wind- ings of the Merrimack as it flows through the township. Here, when first known by the English, were the head-quarters of the Penacooks, under a powerful chief whose name was Passacona- "VVAY, and who extended his dominion over subordinate tribes, along the river, from the Winnepisslogee to Pawtucket Falls, and as far east as the Squamscots and Piscataquay. J In 1G31, Gov. Thomas Dudley, in his letter to Lady Lincoln, estimates the Indians under Passaconaway, along the Merrimack, " at four or five hundred men." On the east side of the river, upon a bluff called " Sugar Ball," northeast of the main village, and in full view, was an ancient Indian fort. Tradition has so preserved and fixed the identity of this location with " Sugar Ball," that it is presumption, at this time, to call it in question. Near the fort, a little to the north, is the spot which probably was their ancient burying-ground — as a considerable number of human skulls and bones have been dug and ploughed up, or washed away by the rains, and been picked up on the side or at the bottom of the bank.§ x\t this fort, according to tradition, there was once a terrible fif'ht between the Penacooks and Mohawks. The traditionarv *Gookin's Hist, of Indians. JIass. Hist. Coll., vol. 1, p. 147-9. 1st series. fFroni Pennaqui, (crooked,) and Auke, (place,)— a name strikingly appropriate to their fertile grounds embraced within the folds of the Merrimack at Concord." Hon. C. E. Potter. J For a more minute notice of Passaconaway, the curious reader is referred to Hon. C. E. Potter's account, in the Farmers' Monthly Visitor, vol. 12, No. 2. He there shows that Passa- conaway's name is on the famous Wheelwright Deed of 1729, and which Sir. P. does not believe to be a forgery. In the same article Mr. P. adventures the opinion that tl)e Concord Indian fort was on the south side of Sugar Ball intervale— an opinion whicli wo cannot entertain for a moment, in opposition to clear, unbroken, invariable tradition. The widow of the late Benjamin Kimball, now 88 years of age, who has lived on the said interval moro than sixty years, points to the north bhilT as the only supposable location of the fort. Ptohert Bradley, Esq., of Fryeburg, a native of Concord, now 83 years of age, says, " tlie tradition always and invariably was, that the old Indian fort stood on Sugar Ball,— the Sand Blurt", on the east side, nearly opposite his brother Richard's house." $ Several of these skulls and bones arc now in the possession of Hon. Chandler E. Potter, of Manchester, a native of Concord, who has made diligent researches into our Indian history. THE PENACOOKS. 19 account of this fight accords so exactly with what Gookin says of the Mokawks, that its correctness can hardly be questioned. In his history, 1674, he says : " These 3Iaquas are given to rapine and spoil : they had for several years been in hostility with our neighbor Indians, as the Massachusetts, Pawtucketts, Pennacooks — and in truth, they were in time of war so great a terror to all the Indians before named, though ours w^ere far more in number than they, that the appearance of four or five Maquas in the woods would frighten them from their habitations and cornfields, and seduce many of them to get together in forts ; by which means they were brought to such straits and poverty that had it not been for the relief of the English, doubtless many of them had suffered famine. * * * * rpj^g Maquas' manner is, in the spring of the year, to march forth in parties several ways, under a captain, and not above fifty in a troop. And when they come near the place that they design to spoil, they take up some secret place in the woods for their general rendez- vous — then they divide themselves into small parties, three, four or five — and go and seek their prey. They lie in ambushments by the path-sides in some secure places, and when they see pas- sengers come, they fire upon them with guns ; and such as they kill or wound, they seize on and pillage, and strip their bodies ; and then with their knives take off the skin and hair of the scalp of their head, as large as a satin or leather cap ; and so, leaving them for dead, they pursue the rest, and take such as they can prisoners, and serve them in the same kind." The tradition of the bloody battle between the Penacooks and Mohawks is substantially this : The Mohawks, who had once been repulsed by the Penacooks, came with a strong force, and encamped at what is now called Fort Eddy, opposite Sugar Ball, on the west side of the river. Thence they watched their prey, determined either to starve the Penacooks, by a siege, or to decoy them out and destroy them. Having gathered their corn for the season, and stored it in baskets around the walls of their fort, the Penacooks, with their women and children, entered within and bid defiance to their foes. Frequent skirmishes occurred between individuals of the parties. If the Penacooks went out of the fort, they were sure 20 INDIAN HISTORY. to be ambushed ; if a canoe was pushed off from one bank of the river, others from the opposite side started in pursuit. Some time had thus passed, and no decisive advantage was gained by either side. The Penacooks dared not adventure a fight in the field, nor the Mohawks to attack the fort. After a day or two of apparent cessation from hostihties, a solitary Mohawk was seen carelessly crossing Sugar Ball plain, south of the fort. Caught by the decoy, the Penacooks rushed out in pursuit : the Mohawk ran for the river. Band after band from the fort joined in the chase, till all were drawn out and scattered on the plain, when the Mohawks, who had secretly crossed the river above, and by a circuitous route approached in the rear, suddenly sprung from their hiding-place and took pos- session of the fort. A shriller war-whoop than their own burst on the affrighted Penacooks : they turned from the chase of the solitary Mohawk, and long and bloody was the battle. The Penacooks fought for their wives and children — for their old men — for their corn — for life itself; — the Mohawks for revenge and for plunder. On which side the victory turned, none can tell. Tradition says the Mohawks left their dead and wounded on the ground ; and that from that fatal day the already reduced force of the Penacooks was broken into fragments, and scattered. A diversity in the sculls which have been dug up in the ancient bury- ing-ground has induced the belief, that in it the dead of both the savage tribes were promiscuously buried. What remains to be said of the Penacooks can best be nar- rated in connection with the biography of their principal chiefs or sagamores, as gathered from authentic historical documents. Over the track of the Concord and the Northern Railroad, at this time, (1853,) are daily seen running three powerful engines, named Passaconaway, Wonalancet and Tahanto. A stran- ger to our history reads these names with wonder, and asks their origin. We are almost proud to answer. They are the names of three of the noble chiefs of the Penacook tribe — tried friends of the English in prosperity and in adversity — and one of them a bold advocate of temperance, against lawless traffickers in rum. These names are almost the only visible mementos of the race that has perished from our soil. PASSACONAWAY. This name is supposed to mean in the Indian tongue, " the cJdld of the hear^'' from Papoeis, child, and Kunnaivay, a bear. How far the name corresponds with the character of the famous sagamore, must be judged by the sequel.* The ancient historians, Wood, Thomas Morton, and Hub- bard, all agree that he was regarded with the highest venera- tion by the Indians, on account of the wonderful powers which he possessed. He was a Poivoiv, sustaining at once the office of chief, priest and physician, and having direct communication with the Great Spirit. Wood, in his " New-England Prospect," says : " The Indians report of one Passaconnaw, that hee can make the water burne, the rocks move, the trees dance, meta- morphise himself into a flaming man. Hee will do more ; for in winter, when there arc no green leaves to be got, he will burne an old one to ashes, and putting those into the water, produce a new green leaf, which you shall not only see, but substantially handle and Carrie away ; and make of a dead snake's skin a living snake, both to be seen, felt and heard. This I write but upon the report of the Indians, who confidently afiirm stranger things." Thomas Morton writes : " If we do not judge amisse of these salvages in accounting them witches, yet out of all question we may be bound to conclude them to be but weake witches : — such of them as wee cal by the name of Powahs,t some correspon- dency they have with the Devil, out of al doubts, as by some of their accions in which they glory is manifested ; — Papasiquineo, '■ Hon. C. E. Potter, on Indian names. Farmers' Visitor, (Language of Penacooks,) Vol. 13, No. 11. t Powahs are said to be " witches, or sorcerers, tl)at cure by the lielp of the devil." After Rev. Mr. Elliot began to preach to the Indians with success, "divers sachems and other principal men amongst them, met at Concord, Ms., in the end of Feb. 1G46, and agreed " that there shall be no more Potmcoicmg amongst the Indians. And if any shall hereafter Powwow, both he Ihat shall Powwow and lie that shall procure him to Powwow shall pay 20^-. apiece."' ^2 INDIAN HISTORY. that sachem or sagamore, is a Powah of great estimation amongst all kinde of salvages ; — there hee is at their Revels — (which is the time when a great company of salvages meete from severall parts of the Country, in amity with their neighbours) — hath advanced his honor in his feats or jugling tricks, (as I may right tearme them,) to the admiration of the spectators whome he endeavored to persuade that he would goo under water to the further side of a river too broade for any man to undertake with a breath, which thing hee performed by swimming over and de- luding the company with casting a mist before their eies that see him enter in and come out, — but no part of the way hoc has been scene ; — likewise by our English, in the heat of summer, to make Ice appear in a bowle of faire water ; — first having the water set before him, he hath begunne his incantations according to their usual accustom, and before the same has bin ended a thick cloAvde has darkened the aire, and on a sodane a thunder clap hath bin heard that has amused the natives ; in an instant hee hath showed a firme piece of Ice to flote in the middle of the bowle in the presence of the vulgar people, which doubtless was done by the agihty of Satan, his consort." Such was the reputation of Pas- saconaway, when first known by the English. He seems to have exercised his powers in vain against the English, on his first acquaintance with them : at least, he had the sagacity to perceive that opposition would be not only useless but ruinous : and hence he showed himself friendly, and sought in various ways to conciliate their favor. In 1632, he delivered up an Indian who had killed a white man by the name of Jenkins, who went into his country to trade. In 1642, upon an alarm of an Indian conspiracy from Connecticut, the government of Mas- sachusetts sent a force of forty men to disarm Passaconaway. Failing to reach his wigwam, on account of a violent rain, they entered that of Wonalancet, his son, and seized him, together with his squaw and child. Tying him with a rope, thej^ led him along ; but Wonalancet, watching his opportunity, slipped the rope and made his escape into the woods. The court fearing that this rmjust assault upon the family of Passaconaway would provoke his displeasure, sent a messenger to apologize to him and invite him to come to Boston and speak with them : whereupon he THE PENACOOKS TASSACONAWAY. 23 made the manly reply — " Tell the English, when they restore my son and his squaw, then I will come and talk with them." Notwithstanding this provocation, Passaconaway cherished no resentment ; but desirous of peace, " about a fortnight after, he sent his son and delivered up his guns" to the authorities. In 1G44, Winthrop says, " Passaconaway and his son desire to come under this government. He and one of his sons subscribe the articles ; and he undertook for the other." Soon after this, Winthrop again records, " Passaconaway, the Merrimack sachem, came in and submitted to our government." At this period Passaconaway was an old man — his age vari- ously estimated from eighty to one hundred. Hitherto he had stood aloof from Christian instruction, and from all the usages of civilized life. But the famous John Elliot, known as the Apostle of the Indians, had previous to this gathered companies of praying Indians in various places in Massachusetts, and in pursuance of his apostolic labors, in 1G47, he visited Pawtucket Falls, (now Dracut,) where he met Passaconaway with two of his sons. The result of this and a subsequent interview in 1648, is thus told by Elliot himself, under date of Nov. 12, 1648. " This last spring I did there meet old Papassaconnaway, who is a great sagamore, and hath been a great witche in all men's esteem, (as I suppose yourself have often heard,) and a. very politic, wise man. The last year he and all his sons fled when I came, pre- tending feare that we would kill him : But this year it pleased God to bow his heart to hear the word ; — I preached out of Mal- achi 1 : 11, which I thus render to them: '■From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, thy name shall be great among the Indians ; and in every place prayers shall be made to thy name, — pure prayers, — for thy name shall be great among the Indians.'' * * * * ^fter a good space this old Papassacon- naway speak to this purpose — ' That indeed he had never prayed unto God as yet, for he had never heard of God before as now he doth :' and he said further, ' that he did believe what I taught them to be true ; and for his own part, he was purposed in his heart from henceforth to pray unto God ; and that he would per- swade all his sonnes to do the same,' pointing at two of them who were there present, and naming such as were absent. His sonnes 24 INDIAN HISTORY. present, especially his eldest sonne, (who is a sachem at Wad- chusett,) gave his wilHng consent to what his father had prom- ised, and so did the other, who was but a youth : And this act of his was not only a present motion that soon vanished, but a good while after said that he would be glad if I would come and live in some place thereabouts and teach them ; and that if any good ground or place that hee had would be acceptable to me, he would willingly let me have it." ***** Again, 1649, Elliot writes : " Papassaconnaway, whom I men- tioned unto you the last yeere, who gave up himself and his sonnes to pray unto God, this man did this year shew very great affection to me, and to the word of God ; he did exceedingl}- earnestly, importunately, invite me to come and live there and teach them ; he used many arguments, many whereof I have for- gotten ; but this was one, ' that my coming tJdtJier hut once in a yeere did them hut little good, hecause they soone had forgotten what I taught, it heing so seldom, and so long hetwixt the times ;' further he said, That he had many men, and of them many nought, and would not believe Jdm that praying to God was so good, but if /would come and teach them, he hoped they would believe me : He further added, ' That I did, as if one should come and throw a fine thing among them, and they earnestly catch at it, and like it well, because it looks finely, but they can- not look into it to see what is within it, and what is within, they cannot tell whether something or nothing, it may be a stock or a stone is within it, or it may be a precious thing ; — but if it be opened and they see what is within it, and see it precious, then they should believe it — so, (said he,) you tell us of praying to God, (for so they call all Keligion,) and we like it well at first sight, and we know not what is within, it may be excellent, or it may be nothing, we cannot tell ; but if j^ou would come unto us, and open it unto us, and show us what it is within, then we should believe that it is so excellent as you say.' * * * " Such elegant arguments as these did he use with much grav- ity, wisdome and affection ; and truly my heart much yearneth towards them, and I have a great desire to make an Indian Towne that way." Of Passaconaway we hear but little more till 1G60. He THE PENACOOKS PASSACONAWAY. 25 seems to have been at the Penacook fort, ^vhich was visited by Maj. AValdron, of Dover, in 1659 ; but in 16G0 he met the Indians subject to his authority, with their sachems, at Pawtucket Falls, and there made to them his farewell speech. An English- man was present, probably Daniel Gookin, " who was much conversant with Indian affairs along the Merrimack," and who was a witness of the scene. The substance of the speech, as reported by Hubbard, was this : " I am now ready to die, and not likely to see you ever met together any more. I will now leave this word of counsel with you, that you may take heed how you quarrel with the English ; for though you may do them much mischief, yet assuredly you will all be destroyed and rooted off the earth, if you do : for I was as much an enemy to the Enghsh on their first coming into these parts, as any one whatsoever ; and I did try all ways and means possible to have destroyed them ; — at least to have prevented their sitting down here ; but I could no way effect it, [meaning by his incantations and sorce- ries,] therefore I advise you never to contend with the English nor make war with them." With a freer rendering of this Farewell Speech of the Great Sachem, we may imagine that the venerable old man, tremulous with five score years, stood in a circle of a thousand of his chil- dren and said : " Hearken to the last words of your dying father : I shall meet you no more. The white men are sons of the morn- ing, and the sun shines bright above them. In vain I opposed their coming : vain were my arts to destroy them : never make war upon them : sure as you light the fires, the breath of Heaven will turn the flames to consume you. Listen to my advice. It is the last I shall ever give you. Remember it, and live !" It is a sad conclusion of the noble old chief's history, that two years after this — his tribe reduced and scattered — his possessions encroached upon on every side, his physical force abated, and waiting only to die, — he was obliged to petition the General Court of Massachusetts in tliese humiliating terms : " The humble request of yr petitionr is that this honord Courte wolde pleas to grante vnto vs a parcell of land for or comforta- able cituation, to be stated for our Injoyment ; as also for the comfort of oths after vs ; as also that this honerd Court wold 26 INDIAN HISTOKY. pleas to take Into yr serious and grave consideration the condi- tion and also the request of yr pore suplicant, and to a poynte two or three persons as a Committee to [assist] sum one or two Indians to vew and determine of some place and to Lay out the same, not further to trouble this honored Assembly, humbly crav- ing an expected answer this present session I shall remain yr humble servante Wherein yu Shall commando Boston, 9 : 3 mon. 1662. Papissecoxewa." The order of the Court upon this petition is as follows, viz, : " In answer to the petition of Papisseconneway, this Court judg- eth it meete to grant to the saide Papisseconneway and his men, or associates about Naticot, above Mr. Brenton's lands, where it is free, a mile and a half on either side Merrimack river in breadth, three miles on either side in length, provided he nor they do not alienate any part of this grant without leave and license from this Court first obtained." This grant included two small islands near Thornton's Ferry, now known as Reed's Islands. The -whole tract afterwards reverted to the government, and was granted in 1729 to John Richardson, Jos. Blanchard, and others. Here, however, probably Passaconaway closed his long and eventful life, in weakness and poverty, but a firm friend to the EngUsh, and praying to God. The date of his death is unknown. Drake says, there can be no doubt that he was dead some years before Phillip's war. His son Wonalancet was chief of the Pen- acooks in 1669, and his dying charge — as this son testified — was : " Never he enemies to the Emjlish ; hut love them and love their God also, hecause the God of the English ivas the true God, and greater than the Indian gods.'''' Passaconaway left four sons and two daughters, viz. : Nana- mocomuck, sachem of the Wachusetts ; Wonalancet, sachem of the Penacooks ; Unanunquoset ; Nonatomenut ; a daughter that married Nobhow, and a daughter that married the sachem of Saugus. WONALANCET. Though Wonalancet was the successor of Passaconaway as sagamore of the Penacooks, yet his history belongs as much to Amoskeag, Chelmsford or Pawtucket as to Concord.* In his pacific temper and friendliness to the English, he resembled his father ; but his life seems to have been one of trial, disappoint- ment and sorrow. He was wronged by the whites ; distrusted by the Indians ; a wanderer in the wilderness, in unknown but re- mote places from Penacook ; at one time a prisoner at Dover ; for many years under the watch and supervision of Col. Tyng, of Chelmsford ; and at last he died, like his father, in poverty. The first notice we have of him, as connected with Penacook, is in 1670 : " He moved to Pawtuckett and built a fort on the heights southeast of the river." Hutchinson thus notices this event : " The Penacooks have come down the river and built a fort at Pawtuckett Falls. They tcere opposed to Christianity, and obstinately refused to pray to God. They joined in the expedition against the Mohawks, and were almost all destroyed. Since that time the Penacooks were several of them become pray- ing Indians." In 1674, AYonalancet embraced the Christian faith. His con- version was regarded as an event of great importance, of which Gookin gives the following account : " May 5, 1674, Mr. Elliot preached from Matt. 22 : 1-4, the marriage feast. We met at the wigwam of one called Wonnalancet, about two miles from the town, near Pawtucket Falls, and bordering on Merrimack river. This person Wonnalancet is * * a sober and grave person, and of years between fifty and sixty. He hath always been loving and friendly to the English. ]Many endeavours have been used several years to gain this sachem to embrace the * See Hon. C. E. Potter's notice of Wonalancet, in Farmers' Visitor, 1852. 28 INDIAN HISTORY. Christian religion ; but he hath stood ofif from time to time, and not yielded up himself personally, though for four years past he hath been willing to hear the word of God preached and to keep the Sabbath. A great reason that hath kept him off, I conceive, hath been the indisposition and averseness of sundry of his chief men and relations to pray to God ; >yhich he foresaw would desert him, in case he turned Christian. But at this time. May 6, 1674, it pleased God so to influence and overcome his heart, that it being proposed to him to give his answer concerning pray- ing to God, after some deliberation and serious pause, he stood up, and made a speech to this effect : " Sirs, you have been pleased for four years last past, in your abundant love, to apply yourselves particularly unto me and my people, to exhort, press and persuade us to pray to God. I am very thankful to you for your pains. I have all my days used to pass in an old canoe, (alluding to his frequent custom to pass in a canoe upon the river,) and now you exhort me to change, and leave my old canoe, and embark in a neiv canoe, to which I have hitherto been unwilling : — but now I yield up myself to your advice, and enter into a new canoe, and do engage to pray to God hereafter." Brother Elliot was desired to tell this sachem, " that it may be, while he went in his old canoe, he passed in a quiet stream — but the end thereof was death and destruction to soul and body : But now he went into a new canoe, perhaps he would meet with storms and trials ; but yet he should be encouraged to persevere, for the end of his voyage would be everlasting rest." Since that time, says Gookin, " I hear this sachem doth persevere, and is a constant and diligent hearer of God's word, and sanctifieth the Sabbath, though he doth travel to Wamesit meeting every Sabbath, which is above two miles ; and though sundry of his people have deserted him since he subjected to the gospel, yet he continues and persists." During the period of Phillip's War, as it is called, 1675, Won- alancet, to avoid being involved in any way in the war, withdrew with his men from the banks of the Merrimack into the woods, which excited the suspicions of the English ; and messengers were dispatched to search him out and invite him back. The THE PENACOOKS WONALANCET. 29 Court of Massachusetts assured him of a safe pass, if he would come back ; but " he could not be persuaded on to return, but travelled up into the woods still further, and kept about the heads of Connecticut river all winter, w^here was a place of good hunting for moose, deer, and other wild beasts, and came not either to the English, or his own countrymen, our enemies." Gookin says, that about the time Wonalancet withdrew into the woods, " Capt. Mosely, with a company of about one hundred soldiers, was sent to Penacook, where it was reported there was a body of Indians ; but it was a mistake, for there were not above one hundred in all of the Penacook and Namkeg Indians, whereof Wonalancet was chief. When the English drew nigh, whereof they had intelligence by scouts, they left their fort and withdrew into the woods and swamps." But under these circum- stances Wonalancet evinced his friendly disposition to the Eng- lish ; for he would not allow his men either to lie in ambush, nor in any case to shoot at them, although the English burned their wigwams and destroyed some dried fish. Returning from his retreats, in 1676 he went to Dover, and submitted himself, with his men, to Maj. Waldron. He also brought back from captivity six English captives — a Widow Kimball and her five children, of Bradford — whom, it seems, he was the means of saving alive, after they had been condemned to death, and fires made ready to burn them. This year, also, Wonalancet and his men were, according to order of the court, placed near Mr. Jonathan Tyng's, at Dunstable, and under his inspection. He also resided next 3^ear awhile on land which had been granted him, at Chelmsford, and there he conducted him- self, says Gookin, like " an honest Chi'istian man, being one that in his conversation walks answerably to his knowledge. He prays in his family, and is careful of keeping the Sabbath ; loves to hear God's word, and sober in conversation." Being par- ticularly friendly to the minister of Chelmsford, Rev. Mr. Fiske, it is said that Wonalancet called on him after his return, at the close of the war, and asked him " if the town had suffered much from the enemy." Mr. Fiske replied, " they had not, for which he desired to thank God." "Jie next^'* said Wonalancet, \Yith a smile, concious of the influence he had exerted. 30 INDIAN HISTORY. The last wc hear of Wonalancet was in 1697, when he was again pLicecI under the care of Jonathan Tjng, and the General Court allowed £20 for keeping him. The time and place of his death is unknown. But he never committed an act injurious to the English. WANUCHUS, THE DAUGHTER OF PASS AC ON A VV AY ; OR, ''THE BRIDAL OF PENACOOK." The following story is related by Thomas Morton, in his " New English Canaan," 1632:* " The Sachem, or Sagamore of Sagus, made choise, (when hee came to man's estate,) of a Lady of noble discent, Daughter to Papasiquineo, the Sachem or Sagamore of the territories neare Merrimack River — a man of the best note and estimation in all those parts, (and as my Countryman, Mr. Wood, declares, in his prospect,) a great Nigromancer. This Lady the younge Sachem, with the consent and good liking of her father, marries, and takes for his wife. Great Entertainment hee and his receaved in those parts at her father's hands, where they weare fested in the best manner that might be expected, according to the Cus- tome of their nation, with reveling, and such other solemnities as is usuall amongst them. The solemnity being ended, Papasi- quineo causes a selected number of his men to waite upon bis Daughter home ; into those parts that did properly belong to her Lord and husband — where the attendants had entertainment by the Sachem of Sagus and his Countrymen. The solemnity being ended, the attendants were gratified. *See Hist. Tracts, by Peter Force, vol, ii., 1838, THE BRIDAL OF PENACOOK. 31 " Not long after, the new married Lady had a great desh-e to see her father, and her native country from whence shee came. Her Lord, wilUng to pleasure her, and not deny her request, (amongst them) thought to be reasonable, commanded a selected number of his owne men to conduct his Lady to her Father, where, with great respect, they brought her ; and having feasted there a while, returned to their owne country againe — leaving the Lady to continue there at her owne pleasure, amongst her friends and old acquaintance : where she passed away the time for a while, and, in the end, desired to returne to her Lord againe. Her father, the old Papasiquineo, having notice of her intent, sent some of his men on ambassage to the younge Sa- chem, his sonne-in-law, to let him understand that his daughter was not willing to absent her selfe from his company any longer ; and, therefore, (as the messengers had in charge,) desired the younge Lord to send a convoy for her ; but hee, standing upon tearmes of honor, and the maintaining of his rejmtatio, returned to his father-in-law this answere : that when she departed from him, hee caused his men to waite upon her to her father's terri- tories, as it did become him ; but, now shee had an intent to returne, it did become her father to send her back with a convoy of his own people ; and that it stood not with his reputation to make himself or his men so servile to fetch her againe. The old Sachem, Papasiquineo, having this message returned, was in- raged, to think that his young son-in-law did not esteeme him at a higher rate than to capitulate with him about the matter, and returne him this sharpe reply ; that his daughter's bloud and birth deserved no more respect than to be so slighted, and, therefore, if he would have her company, hee were best to send or come for her. " The younge Sachem, not willing to under value him selfe, and being a man of a stout spirit, did not stick to say that he should either send her, by his owne Convey, or kecpe her, for hee was not determined to stoope so lowe. " So much these two Sachems stood upon tearmes of repu- tation with each other, the one would not send her, and the other would not send for her, lest it should be any diminishing of honor on his part, that should seeme to comply, that the Lady (when I 32 INDIAN HISTORY. came out of the Country) remained still with her father ; which is a thinge worth the noting, that Salvage people should seeke to maiataine their reputation so much as they doe."* The poet Whittier has made the above story the foundation of a beautiful poem, called the " Bridal of Penacook," whom he names " Weetamoo ;" and the Sagamore-groom he calls " Win- nipurkett." The real name of the bride was WenucJius, or Wanunchus, and of her husband, Montowampate. His English name was James^ brother of John, of Lynn. Governor Dudley, in his letter to the Countess of Lincoln, March 12, 1631, says : " Vpon the river of Mistick is seated Saggamore John, and vpon the river Sawgus, Saggamore James, his brother, both so named by the English. John is a handsome young [a line missing,] conversant with us ; aflFecting English Apparell and howses, and speaking well of our God. His brother James is of a perworse disposition, yet repaireth often to us. Both theis brothers com- mand not above thirty or forty men, for aught I can learne. Near to Salem dwelleth two or three families, subject to the Saggamore of Agawam. This Saggamore is himself tributary to Saggamore James — having been before the last yeare in his [James'] minority." This determines the age of the Saugus- groom to be about twenty. How long his bride was absent, or how she got back, is matter of conjecture. Whittier, with poetic license, represents her as leaving her father's home at Penacook in the spring, alone, in a canoe. She was seen going over the Falls of Amos- keag, where her frail bark was dashed in pieces, and the bride seen no more. " Sick and a-weaiy of her lonely life, Heedless of peril, the still faithful wife Had left her mother's grave, her father's door, To seek the wigwam of her chief once more. " Down the white rapids, like a sear leaf whirled, On the sharp rocks and piled up ices hurled, Empty and broken circled the canoe. In the vexed pool below — But where was ' Wetamoo V " *See "New English Canaan," by Thomas Morton, 1632, in second volume of Tracts, by Peter Force, 1838, pp. 27, 28. THE BRIDAL OF PENACOOK. 33 Then follo^YS the responsive dirge, chanted by the " Chikireu of the Leaves :" " The dark eye has left us, The spring bird has flowu ; On the pathway of spirits She wanders alone — The song of the wood-dove has died on our shore ; Mat wonck Kunna-monee ! * We hear it no more ! " Oh, dark water spirit ! We cast on thy wave These furs which may never Hang over her grave ; Bear down to the lost one the robes that she wore ; 31at iconck Kunna-monee ! We see her no more ! " Oh mighty Sowanna ! t Thy gate-ways unfold, From thy wigwam of sunset Lift curtains of gold ! Take home the worn spirit whose journey is o'er, ' Mat wonck Kunna-monee! We see her no more !' " This is indeed beautifal poetry; but the fact is, that " We- tamoo," alias WanueJms, found means to get back alive to her sagamore lord. The remaining incidents in her history, and that of her husband, James, are thus related by ancient historians : " On the 8th of August, 1632, about one hundred Tarrotines landed from their canoes, at Ipswich, in the night, and killed seven of Masconomo's men, wounded Monohaquaham and 3Ion- towampate, who were on a visit to that place, and carried away Wanuchus^ the wife of Montowampate, a captive." Hubbard says : " About the same time, [5th of August, 1632,] came a company of Eastern Indians, called Tarrotines, and, in the night, assaulted the wigwam of the sagamore of Agawam. They were near a hundred in number, and they came with thirty canoes. They slew seven men, and wounded John and James, two sagamores that lived about Boston, and carried others away captive, amongst whom was the wife of the said James, which they sent again (that is, returned,) by the mediation of Mr. Shurd, of Pemaquid, that used to trade with them ; and ♦ Indian phrase — Wc shall sec her no more, f The south-west Heaven. 3 34 INDIAN HISTORY. sent word by him that they expected something in way of ran- som." On the 4th of September following, there is recorded a sentence of the court on Richard Hopkins, of Watertown, " for selling a gun and pistol, with powder and shot, to Montowampate, the Lynn sagamore" — to "be severely whippt, and branded wnth a hot iron on one of his cheekes." Winthrop writes, De- cember 5, 1633 — "John Sagamore died of the small-pox, and almost all his people — above thirty buried by Mr. Maverick, of Winiscemit, in one day." ^^ James, Sagamore of Saugus, died also, and most of his folks." But what finally became of Wanuchus, the " Bridal of Pena- cook ?" It is unknown ; but possibly, after the death of Mono- wampate, in 1633, she returned to her aged father ; for that she had two grand-daughters living at Penacook, in 1686, appears from the following testimony: "September 17, 1686. Thomas Guakusses, alias, Capt. Tom, now living at Wamesit, neare Paw- tucket Falls, aged about seventy-five years, testifieth and saith — ' I know two squaws were living about Pennicooke, one named Pahpocksit, and the other's name I do not know ; and I knew the grandmother of these squaws, named Wammchus. She was a principal proprietor of those lands about Naumkeage, now Salem.'"* TAHANTO. In the first notice we have of Tahanto, he stands before us the earnest opposer of the rum traffic. In the summer of 1668 an Englishman, by the name of Thomas Dickinson, was mur- dered at Penacook by a drunken Indian. The particulars of the murder, with the evidence relative thereto, are detailed in official papers published in the third volume of the N. H. Historical Collections. The summary of the afiair is this : By virtue of a •History of Saieni, by Felt. THE PENACOOKS TAHANTO. 35 warrant from Gov. Bellingliam, of Massachusetts, Thomas Hinks- man, with a sufficient aid, the 18th of August, 1668, "repaired to the trucking house of Capt. Eichard Walderne, at Penny- cooke, to make enquiry concerning the kilhng of an Englishman at the said trucking house, and, also, of what strong liquors have been sold there, and by whom, and when, taking the Indians' evidences therefor, about and concerning the same." Among others examined by Mr. Hinksman, was Tahanto, sagamore, and Pchaungun, sagamore ; and they say " that one Thomas Payne and the Englishman that is slain, sent several Indians to their masters, Capt. Walderne's and Mr. Peter Coffin's, to Pis- cataque, who told those Indians that they should bring from them guns, powder, shot and cloth ; but instead thereof, Capt. Wal- derne, and the said Peter Coffin returned those Indians back to Pennycooke, loaded only with cotton cloth and three rundletts of liquors, with which hquors there were at least one hundred of the Indians drunk for one night, one day and one half together ; in which time of their being so drunk, the Examinants say, that all the Indians went from the trucking house except one, who re- mained there drunk, and who killed the Englishman — the other Englishman being at the same time in the fort." The Indians who were examined, further testified, " that an Indian, hearing the slain Englishman cry out, he swam over the river, and went to the trucking house, where he found the Englishman dead ; and presently after he saw the Indian who killed the Englishman going towards the fort with his knife bloody in his hand. The murderer being examined why he had killed the Englishman, said that he was much sorry, and that lie liad not done it had he not been drunk. When told that they must kill him for it, the murderer answered, he was willing to die for it, and that he was much sorry for the death of said Englishman." " The Indians then belonging to the fort held a council Avhat to do with the said murderer, who, after some debate, passed sentence that the said murderer should be shot to death ; which sentence was accordingly performed the then next ensuing day, about noon. The said murderer died undauntedly, still saying that he was much sorry for the Englishman's death." In further investigations, it was testified by John Page, Kobb. 36 INDIAN HISTORY. Parris, Thomas Tarball and Joseph Blond, October 27, 1668, " That going to Pennycooke on or about the month of June last, and riding to the fort there, they were told that an Eng- lishman was killed by an Indian, and that all the Indians were drunk, else it had not been done. And further, they testify, ' That Tahanto, a sagamore, being afraid that we had hrougltt liquors to sell, desired us, if we had any, that we woidd pour it upon the ground, for it tvould make the Indians all one Divill.' " In the sequel it appeared that the chief blame in this mur- derous affair was thrown upon Thomas Payne, who was in Peter Coffin's employ, and upon his associate, Dickinson, who was murdered. Capt. Walderne cleared himself, upon his oath, of having any participation in it ; but Peter Coffin, who, it seems, was "licensed to trade with the Indians" — though he must do it according to law — was so far implicated with his man Pajme, that he confessed " his grief for the miscarriage, and more especially for the' dishonor of God therein;" and "I doe, there- fore, cast myself upon the favor of this honored court, to deal with mee therein as in pytie they shall see cause." Accordingly the court, finding that " said Coffin hath traded liquors irreg- ularly, and contrary to Law, do therefore Judge that he shall pay as a fine to the Country the smn of fftg piounds, and all charges which hath accrued thereby." The next year. May, 1669, it appears from the court record " that Thomas Pajnie, trader among the Indians at Pennecook, confessed he sold rum to the Indians ; said he did this when Thomas Dickinson was killed by an Indian, and was fined X30." In honor of Tahanto, for his noble-hearted remonstrance against the rum trade, a temperance society was formed in Concord, in 1835, under the name of Tahantoes, and his fame celebrated in the following stanzas, written by George Kent, Esq. : Chieftain of a wasted nation ! Thine no ivords of promise were — But, in hour of dark temptation, Thine to do, and thine to dare! Wiicn tlic white man, hovering round thee, Tempted oft thy feet to stray, Indian shrewdness nobly bound thee To the straight and nan'ow way. THE PENACOOKS KANCAMAGUS. 37 With Jire-ivater when invaded, Thine the evil to foresee — Nature's light alone pervaded Minds tliat ranged the forest free ; But — shame on thy Christian brother! He, with " light of life " endow'd, Sought, with " liquid fire," to smother Life's true light in death's dark shroud. When approaching with temptation, Thine to see and shun the snare — Thine to utter, from thy station, Pirmly the prevailing prayer : " Were, of liquor, they the vender, " On the ground at once to pour — "For the Indians it would render "All one devil, o'er and o'er," Honor to the chieftain ever ! High his name by fame enroU'd — From his bright example never Be our own departure told ; — Meet for Pcnacook to rally Under his tee-total name, Whose resolve, in her fair valley, Quench'd the demon's liquid flame ! KANCAMAGUS. Kancamagus, known by the English name John ITogkins, or Hawkins, was the last sagamore of the Penacooks. lie was a grandson of Passaconawaj, and probably son of Nanamoco- muck. He is first mentioned in 1685, when some of the Pena- cooks, who had been to Albany, reported, on their return, that the Mohawks threatened to destroy all the Indians from Narra- gansett to Pechypscot, in Maine. He seems to have possessed some of the worst traits of Indian character — cunning, deceit, treachery and revenge. Conceiving himself slighted by Gov. ob INDIAN HISTORY. Cranfield, on his report against the Mohawks, he ever after — even amid professions of friendship, and when begging protec- tion — cherished a spirit of revenge against the Enghsh. He seems to have acquired some education, and Avas able to write. Some letters, reputed to have been written bj him, are pre- served;* the first of which the following is a copy, addressed to Gov. Cranfield, of New-Hampshire : " May 15, 1685. "Honour Governor, my friend, — " You my friend I desire your worship and your power, because I hope you can do som great matters this one. I am poor and naked, and I have no man at my place because I afraid allways Mohogs he will kill me every day and night. If your \yorsbip when please pray help me, you no let Mohogs kill me at my place at Malamake river, called Pauukkog and Nattukkog, I will submit your worship and your power. And now I want powder and such alminisbon, shott and guns, because I have forth at my bom, and I plant theare. " This all Indian baud ; but pray do you consider your humble servant, -r „ ,. ' John Hogkins. [Signed also by fourteen other Indians.] Under pretence of fear of the Mohawks, Hogkins removed, in the fall of the same year, with the Penacooks, to the eastward ; and soon after, together with the Saco Indians, entered into a treaty with the Council of New-Hampshire, of mutual aid and protection against the Mohawks and all other enemies, agreeing, also, to return and live near the English. Yet, with the old poison of revenge rankling in his bosom, he entered into a con- spiracy with other Indians, in 1689, to make the attack on Dover, which ended in the death of Maj. Waldron and about twenty others. Through the friendship of tAvo Pcnacook Indians, Maj. Hinksman, of Chelmsford, had notice of this conspiracy, and in- formed the government of Massachusetts, who hastily dispatched a letter to Maj. Waldron, giving him warning ; but unfortunately detained on the way, it was too late to save him from savage revenge. In this letter they say there is a report of " a gath- ering of some Indians in and about Penecooke, with designe of mischiefe to the English. Among the said Indians one Hawkins is said to be a principal designer ; and that they have a particular * Sec Apiiciuiix, Belknap's Hi:^t. of N. II., Farmer's ed., vol. i., p. 508. THE PENACOOKS HOPE-HOOD. 39 clesigne against yourself and Mr. Peter Coffin, wliicli the Council thought it necessary presently to despatch advice thereof, to give you notice, that you take care of your own safeguard — they intending to betray you on a pretention of trade." Next we hear of Hawkins in a fort on the river Androscoggin, at a place (Pechypscott) which was attacked the 12th of Sep- tember, 1G90, by Maj. Benjamin Church and a body of soldiers, and was taken and burnt. Several Indians were captured, among whom was a brother-in-law of Kancamagus, and a sister of his was slain. On the 29th of November, 1G90, a truce or treaty of peace was made by the government of IMassachusetts " with the eastern Indian enemy, sagamores," among whom was John Hawkins. The sagamores, six in number, " covenant, promise and agree for themselves, and all the eastward Indians now in open hostility with the English — from Pennecook, Win- nepesseockeege, Ossipe, Pigwocket, Amoscongin, Pechepscut, Kennebeck river" — to keep the peace, &c. This treaty " was signed and sealed, interchangeably, upon the water, in canoes, at Sackatehock, (Maine,) when the wind blew ;" * and this is the last we know of Kancamagus ! HOPE-HOOD, The name of this Indian is connected with the Penacooks, not as one of the tribe, but as acting with them in hostilities to the English, in 1685, and afterwards. In April, 1689, Col. Bar- tholomew Gidney, of Salem, is instructed by the Council of Massachusetts to dispatch a messenger to Penacook, to ascertain the number and situation of the Indians there, and to concert measures for securing Ho'pe-TIood^ and other hostile Indians. He is described as one of " the most bloody warriors of the * Mass. Hist. Coll., 3(1 series, vol. i., pp. 112-114. 40 INDIAN HISTORY. age." "A tiger," "killing, burning and destroying in every place where he found the people unguarded," He was killed, in 1690, in a fight with an Indian party, which he mistook for hostile Indians, but who were his friends and confederates. After this the Penacooks continued to exist as a distinct tribe for many years, but their power was gone. They are mentioned in Penhallow's Indian Wars, in 1703, in a conference held by Gov. Dudley, at Casco, with delegates from several tribes. Those of them who were hostile to the English probably mixed with the eastern Indians, between whom and the Penacooks was a close affinity. As the Governor of Canada had encouraged the Indians who inhabited the borders of New-England to re- move to Canada, it is likely that some of them went thither, and were incorporated with the tribes of St. Francis. But those who continued friendly to the English — of whom there had always been a small number — remained here until 1725, and after, and were highly useful to the first inhabitants ; supplying them with food in the winter, when almost in a state of starvation. WATTANUMMON. "Wattanummon is the name of an Indian chief who, at the time the first settlers came to Penacook, lived in a wigwam on the knoll or rise of ground on the south side of the brook which is the outlet of Horse-shoe Pond — where the Concord and Montreal Railroad now crosses. He was a friendly Indian, and owned the land which lies east of said brook, from its junction with the Merrimack, westward, to what is called Farnum's Eddy. This brook and field are called by his name. A tradition is M'ell preserved, that soon after Capt. Ebenezer Eastman came hither, in the summer of 1726, he crossed over from the east side with his men, and began to cut tlie grass on Wattanummon's field: THE PENACOOKS WATTANUMMON. 41 Seeing which, the old Indian went forth with a gun and two of his sons, to prevent the trespass. As he approached, Eastman and his party ceased their labor and saluted him : " How do ? how do ?" His reply, in broken English, was : " My land ! my grass! No cut! no cut!" and drew up his gun. Eastman replied : " Yes, this is your land, and your grass. Come, boys, put aside your tools and rest." Sitting down under a shade, the lunch and the bottle were brought forth and offered to the old chief. "Won't yon take a drink ?" "Yes, yes; me drink!" Capt. Eastman drank a little himself, and then offered a cup to one of Wattanummon's sons. The old Indian interposed, sajing, " He no drink ;" and taking the cup himself, drank it, exclaim- ing : " Hugh ! good !" By this time the old Indian began to be very generous and friendly ; and, stretching forth his arms, ex- claimed : " My land ! my grass ! — all mine ; every thing ! You may cut grass — all you want !" After this friendly interchange of property — rum for jrass — Capt. Eastman and Wattanum- mon hved in peace on opposite sides of the river. What finally became of old Wattanummon is unknown. Some interesting facts are related, either of him or another of the same name, previous to this period. In May, 1689, mention is made of Watanum, " one of the chief captains" of Wonalancet. In 1689, March 5th, " a company of thirty or forty Indians made an attack on Andover, and killed five persons;" and Col. Dudley Bradstreet and family were preserved by the friendly interference of " Waternummon, an Indian who lived at New- bury," In June, 1703, Waternummon is mentioned as one of the chiefs of Penacook and Pigwacket who was at the conference in Casco. "About the year 1720, (or 1712?) Capt. Thomas Baker, of Northampton, Massachusetts, set off with a scouting party of thirty-four men ; passed up Connecticut river, and crossed the height of land to Pemigeswasset river. He there discovered a party of Indians, whose sachem was called Wafernmnmus, whom he attacked and destroyed. Baker and the sachem levelled and discharged their guns at each other at the same instant. The ball from the Indian's gun grazed Baker's left eye-brow, but did him no injury. The ball from Baker's gun went through the 42 INDIAN HISTORY. heart of the sachem. Immediatelj upon being wounded, he leaped four or five feet high and then fell instantly dead. The Indians fled, but Baker and his party pursued and destroyed every one of them." This aifair took place, it is said, at the confluence of a small river with the Pemigewasset, (between Plymouth and Campton,) and hence has ever since had the name of Eaker's river."* If the above story is correct, the Waternummus above named, said to have been killed in 1720, or earlier, could not be the Wattanummon of Penacook, 1726. It seems, however, probable that the person mentioned as " one of the chief captains" of Wonalancet, in 1689, and the one friendly to Col. Bradstreet, of Andover, was the old sagamore- farmer who lived, in 1726, on the bank of the s&eam, and culti- vated the field that bears his name.* MRS. DUSTIN At the junction of the Contoocook river with the Merrimack, on the north line of Concord, and near where now is the flour- ishing village of Fisherville, is an island, known by common tradition as the scene where the captive woman from Haverhill, Mrs. Hanxaii Dustin, performed the daring exploit of killing and scalping ten Indians, and making her escape. The Northern Railroad now passes directly across this island, and by many a traveler it is looked at as an object of strange curiosity. A monument ought to be erected on the island, to commemorate the deed of the heroic woman. A part of the history of Mrs. Dustin belongs to Haverhill ; yet, as the scene of her exploit lies chiefly in Penacook, we are re- quired to give it a conspicuous place. The attack on Haverhill was made by the Indians on the 15th -*See Hon. C. E. Potter's notice in tlic Farmoi's Visitor, Vol. 13, No. 9. MRS. DUSTIN. 43 of March, 1697. Mrs. Hannah, wife of Mr. Thomas Dustin, was confined to her bed with an infant child, seven days old, and attended by a nurse, Mary Neff. Hearing the w^ar- whoop of the savages as they approached, Mr. Dustin ran from the field where he was at work, to his house, and ordered his children — seven in number — to flee ; while he seized his gun, and finding it impossible to remove his wife and infant, mounted his horse and rode after his children — defending them airainst the savages who were in pursuit. Supposing it impossible to save them all, his first thought was to catch up one of them — even the one that he loved the most — and save that ; but he was unable to make a choice ; and, keeping in their rear, he retreated and fired, sometimes with fatal effect, till the Indians gave over their pursuit. In the meantime a small party of Indians entered the house, took Mrs. Dustin and nurse prisoners, and set the house on fire. The babe was snatched from the arms of the nurse, and its brains dashed out against an apple tree. Feeble, and with but one shoe on, Mrs. Dustin was compelled to travel through the wilderness, in this inclement season, till they reached the home of her Indian captors, on the island above named. The Indians on the island were twelve in number : two men, three women, and seven children ; and with them an English boy, named Samuel Lannardson, who was taken prisoner about a year before at Worcester. After a few days the women were informed by the Indians that they would soon start for a distant settlement, and when they arrived there would be obliged to submit to Indian customs — of which one was to run the gauntlet, naked, between two files of Indians. On learning this, Mrs. Dustin formed her deadly plan. She told the boy Lannardson to ask his master ivhere he would strike a man if he wished to kill him instantly, and hoiv he would take off a scalp. The Indian laid his finger on his temple — "Strike 'em there," said he; and then in- structed the boy how to scalp. Engaging the nurse and the boy in her plot, they waited the midnight hour for executing it. With tomahawks in hand they struck the fatal blows on the heads of the Indians as they lay fast asleep. Ten were killed at 44 INDIAN HISTORY. once. Mrs. Dustin killed her master, and Samuel Lannardson despatched the very Indian who told him where to strike and how to take oif a scalp. A favorite Indian boy was spared, and one of the squaws whom they left for dead, jumped up and ran into the thicket. Mrs. Dustin, gathering up what provisions there were in the wigwam — taking the gun of her dead master, and the tomahawk with which she killed him, and, to prevent pursuit, scuttling the Indian canoes, except one — she embarked in that, with the nurse and boy Lannardson, on the waters of the Merrimack, to seek their way to Haverhill. They had not pro- ceeded far, however, when Mrs. Dustin, perceiving that they had neglected to take the scalps, and fearing lest her neighbors — should she ever arrive at her home — would not credit her story, hastened back with her companions to the scene of death, took oif the scalps of the slain, put them " into a bag, and, with these bloody witnesses of their feat, hastened again on their downward course to Haverhill. There they safely arrived." On the 21st of April following, Mrs. Dustin and her two attendants went to Boston, carrying, as proofs of their exploit, the gun, tomahawk, and ten scalps, and received as a reward from the General Court, fifty pounds, besides many valuable presents from others.* Mr. Dustin's heroism in defending his children has been com- memorated by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of the Ladies' Mag- azine, in beautiful stanzas, called the " Father's Choice." " Now fly, as flies the rushing wind ! Urge, urge thy lagging steed ; The savage yell is fierce behind, And life is on thy speed. " And from those dear ones make thy choice ; The group he wildly eyed : When — "father" — burst froni every voice, And — " child " — his heart replied. " There 's one that now can share his toil, And one he meant for fame ; And one that wears his motlier's smile, And one that bears her name. *See a more detailed and very interesting narrative of tlie wliole affair in llerick's- Hist, ol Haverliill. MRS. DUSTIN. 45 "And one will prattle on his knee, Or slumber on his breast ; And one whose jojs of infancy Are still bj' smiles exi^ressed. " The}' feel no fear while he is near ; He '11 shield them from the foe ; But oh ! his ear must thrill to hear Their shriekings should he go. "In vain his quivering lips would speak ; No words his thoughts allow; There 's burning tears upon his check, Death's marble on his brow. "And twice he smote his clenched hand — Then bade his children fly ! And turned, and e'en the savage band Cower'd at his wrathful eye. \ " Swift as the lightning, winged with death, Flashed forth the quivering flame ! Their fiercest warrior bows beneath The father's deadly aim. " Not the wild cries that rend the skies, His heart of purpose move ; He saves his children, or he dies The sacrifice of love. "Ambition goads the conqueror on; Hate points the murderer's brand — But love and duty, these alone Can nerve the good man's hand. " The hero may resign the field, The coward murderer flee ; He cannot fear, he will not yield, That strikes, sweet love, for thee. " They come, they come — he heeds no cry Save the soft child-like wail, ' Oh, father, save !' ' My children, fly !' Were mingled on the gale. " And firmer still he drew his breath, And sterner flashed his eye, As fast he hurls the leaden death, Still shouting — ' Children, fly!' 46 INDIAN HISTORY. " No shadow on his brow appeared, Nor tremor shook his frame, Save when at intervals he lieard Some trembler lisp his name. " In vain tlie foe — those fiends unchained — Like famished tigers chafe ; The sheltering roof is near'd, is gain'd — All, all the dear ones safe !" It may here be added that Mrs, Dustin was the daughter of Michael and Hannah Emerson, and the eldest of fifteen children. She was horn December 2-3, 1657, and married to Thomas Dustin December 3, 1677. She had thirteen children. She was forty years of age when captured by the Indians. Her descendants of the name of Dnstui, and also her family con- nections of the name of Emerson^ are numerous in New-Hamp- shire. Mr. Thomas Dustin, of Ilennikcr, N. H., a descendant who has retained the name, is said to have in possession the identical gun which his heroic maternal ancestor took from her Indian captor. "SQUAW LOT." On the east side of Merrimack river, due west from Federal bridge, and bordering the river, is a lot known as the " Squaw lot." The eastern bound — a dark stone — maybe seen, close to the fence, on the road that runs by the house of Mr. George W. Moulton, and about one hundred paces from said house. The western bound of the lot — a stone — is also visible, about forty rods further on the same road. The lot now belongs to the heirs of the late Jeremiah Pecker, Esq. The tradition respecting this lot is, that soon after the first settlement of Pen- acook, an Indian chief, named Peorawarrah, enamoured of the wife of another Indian, ran away with her from a settlement "squaw lot." , 47 belo^y Penacook ; and passing up the Merrimack In a bark canoe, had lodged for the niglit on Sewall's Island. Missing his wife, the Indian, jealous of the cause, with his gun in hand, started in pursuit. Assured that he w^as on the track of the guilty pair, he sped his way on foot till near night fall, when he discovered the canoe, and saw the place of their landing on the island. Secret- ing himself In the bushes directly opposite, on the east side of the river, and near the late residence of Henry S. Thatcher, Esq., he Impatiently waited the dawn of morning, to execute his pur- pose. At early dawn, Peorawarrah pushed off his canoe, to pursue their flight up the river. The revengeful husband watched his opportunity, and as a current In the river turned the course of the canoe, the guilty pair were brought within the range of his deadly aim. He fired, and both were killed — fell overboard and sunk. The report of the gun was heard by one of the settlers — tradition says, Ebenezer Virgin — who afterwards met the Indian who had satiated his revenge. The Indian told him what he had done, and said — ^'■Peorawarrah had good gun:' A few days after, the body of the squaw, with the mark of a bullet shot on it, was found washed up on the shore of the river. It was burled on the adjacent land, and ever since the lot has been called " the Squaw lot." Tradition further says that Ebenezer Virgin made search in the river for Peorawarrah's gun, and found it ; that at his death the gun descended to his son John ; then to his grandson John* from whom it was obtained, by exchange for another gun, by Jonathan Eastman; Esq., about forty years ago, and is still in his possession, as fit for good service as ever. This gun, bearing marks of antiquity, identically the same "good gun," except the stock, as when in the hands of Peorawarrah — the writer has seen and handled, and has no doubt of the substantial truth of the tradition. It is carefully kept, though in frequent service, by Esq. Eastman, now seventy-two years of age, and called " Peorawarrah's gun." f *This was the " Old John Virgin " wliose life and death are noticed in another place. t Mr. Eastman informed mo that he intended the gun should go, after his death, to his grandson, Jonathan Eastman Pecker. THE LAST OF THE PENACOOKS. PEHAUNGtJN. Tradition says that the last Penacook who died here was named Pehaungun, a celebrated warrior, whose wigwam and planting grounds were on the east side of the river, upon the land afterwards owned and occupied by Stilson Eastman ; subsequently, by John Miller; then by the late Mr. Samuel Blake, and now by two of Mr. Blake's sons. Pehaungun is mentioned in connection with Tahanto, at the trial of the Indian for the murder of Thomas Dickinson, in 1668. He is there called an " ancient Indian.^'' He is supposed to have died about 1732, at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years or more. The tradition respecting his death is, that the Indians had a "big drunk" at his wigwam — that they drank from the bung-hole of a keg of rum. Capt. Eastman, hearing the drunken revel and outcries, went to see what was going on, and was invited to drink ; but, hoisting the keg to his mouth, he let more run out than ran in; seeing which, Pehaungun threatened to kill him. Capt. Eastman withdrew, and the next morning this "ancient Indian" was found dead. The Indians who partook of the revel feared that the spirit of the old warrior would come back and punish them ; therefore, in burying him, they placed his body in a hollow trunk of pine, covered over with a slab ; bound it round with withes, and, laying it in the ground, threw in dirt, and then stamped it down hard — crying out, "He no get out ! he no get up !" They then stuck up willow boughs about the grave ; some at the same time dancing, wailing, howl- ing and tearing their hair. The whole ceremony was concluded with another " big drunk," which laid them all low on the iiround. CHAPTER II. NOTICES OF PENACOOK PREVIOUS TO ITS SETTLEMENT BY THE WHITES. By virtue of her original charter, obtained in 1628, Massa- chusetts claimed all that part of New-England lying between three miles to the northward of Merrimack river, to the source of the same, and three miles to the southward of Charles river ; and in length, within the described breadth from the Atlantic ocean to the South sea. Accordingly, in 1638, men were sent to discover the sources of the Merrimack, and found some part of it above Penacook to lie more northerly than forty-three and a half degrees. In 1652 the General Court of Massachusetts ordered a survey, to ascertain the northern bound of the colony ; and for this pur- pose appointed Captains Edwakd Johnson and Simon Willard commissioners. Capt. Johnson, accompanied by John Sherman^ of Watertown, and Jonathan Ince, of Cambridge, surveyors, together with several Indian guides, went up the river Merri- mack, to find the most northerly part thereof, which the Indians told them was Aquedocktan, the outlet of lake Winnepissiogee. Capt. Johnson was the author of " The Wonder- Working Provi- dence of Zion's Saviour." John Sherman was the ancestor of the distinguished Roger Sherman, of Connecticut; and Jonathan Ince was a graduate of Harvard college. The surveyors, on the 1st of August, 1652, decided the head source of the Merrimack " where it issues out of the lake called Winnapusseakit," to be in " latitude forty-three degrees, forty minutes and twelve sec- onds, besides those minutes which are to be allowed for the three miles north which run into the lake." At this point, which is 50 HISTORY OF PENACOOK now called the Wea7-es, a rock was discovered, a few years since, with its surface but little above the water, and about twenty feet in circumference, on which the following letters were found sculptured : EI S W WP lOHN ENDICVT GOV Col. Philip Carrigain, of Concord, who carefully examined these letters in 1834, gives the following explanation: "The E I, are the initials of Edward Johnson ; S W, of Simon Wil- lard — the two commissioners. W P are on the same line, and immediately precede lOHN ENDICVT, and it is not improbable they stand for worshipful — a title often given, in those Puritan- ical times, to the governor and magistrates," The surveyors on this expedition passed through Penacook " in a Bote," and occu- pied nineteen days; and the whole expense attending it was about £84:* *«' Accoiimpt of Disbursments about Jorney to the head of the iMerriineck : Ipr. for makeing the Bote & Ores, with all the Boards & Stutf, for one man for the Jorney & his worke in preparing levall, for 5 pound of powder 4 pond of shott matcli and Indian flowes, [? for 3 yooke of oxen and a horse, [f. to James Prentise for the jorny, 01 03 12 11 00 d. 00 00 00 00 00 02 17 00 07 10 00 00 16 00 08 06 00 Daniel De NISON. Reseaved in parte of this Accoumpt, Ipr. for the Sayles, pieces of Rope & two Blockes tlie Bote & some Rufl'&c, that were left, Remaynes to me still on tliis Accoumpt, Duo to Good. Bull tor carting Sum total due to ('apt. Johnson, ««Th9 Deputies consent this bill should be satisfyed to Capt. Johnson. "J " The Deputies consent that Capt. Jolinson be paid for his Jouniey, 13 6 8 " Daniel Denison. " The Magists. consent liereto. Edward Rawson, Secrct'y. " Consented to by the deputyes. Wm. Torret, Clerk. " Tiie Magists. desire these accompts may by the Auditor and the psons concern'd drawne & put into such a way as may stand on record. Edw. Rawson, Secr'ij." In the other account are cliarged, among otlier things, " 6 gal. & 3 quarts of liquers ; 38% lbs. of Bacon; payd one of our pilatts ; paid two other Indians, and payd for ells in our jorny " &c., &c. The whole expense of the expedition could not be less than £84 10*. lOd. BEFORE SETTLEMENT. 51 While Massachusetts ^Yas thus fixing the bounds of her colony at the head waters of the Merrimack, the General Court of New- Hampshire also had an eye on the same, and claimed that the said territory was within their patent and jurisdiction. This claim of New- Hampshire was founded on a patent obtained by Capt. John Mason, in 1629, " under the common seal of the Council of Plymouth," which conveyed the land " from the middle imrt of Merrimack river ; and from thence, northward, along the sea coast, to Piscataqua river, and up the same to the farthest head thereof; and from thence, north-westward, until sixty miles from the first entrance of Piscataqua river ; and also through Merrimack river to the farthest head thereof; and so forward up into the land westward, until sixty miles were fin- ished ; and from thence, to cross over land to the end of the sixty miles accounted from Piscataqua river, together with all islands and islets within five leagues distance of the premises." This territory was called New-Hampshire. But, owing to the unsettled state of affairs, the towns settled at this period in New- Hampshire agreed, for their better defence and security, to place themselves under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts ;* which con- tinued from 1641 till 1680. Hence, being under one govern- ment, in 1659 a petition was presented to the General Court of Massachusetts, by inhabitants of Dover and Newhury, in the words following : To the Honcrd Generall Coiirte, now assemhlcd at Boston : The humble petecyon of us whose names are underwritten, beinge inhabytants of this jurisdiction, and beinge senseable of the need of multiplyinge of towneshippes for the inlargeuient of the contrey, and accommodateinge of such as want opportunity to improve themselves, have taken into consideration a place which is called Peunecooke, which by reporte is a place fit for such an one. Now the humble request of your petitioners to this honred Courte is, that we may have the grant of a tracke of land their to the quantity of twelve miles square, which, being granted, we shall give up ourselves to be at the cost and charge of vewinge it, and consider fully about it, wheather to proceed on for the settlinge of a towne or noe, and for that end shall crave the liberty of three yeares to give in our reso- lution ; and, in case that wee doe proceed, then our humble request is, that we may have the grant of our freedome from publique charge ♦See Belknap's Hist., vol. i., p. 39, Farmer's edition. 52 HISTORY OF PENACOOK for the space of seaven yeares after the time of our resolution given in to this Honcrd Courte for our encorragement to settle a plantation soe furre remote, as knowinge that many will be our inconvenyences (for a long time,) which we must expeckt to meet with, all which desires of ours beinge ansered, your petetioners shall ever pray for the happyness of this Honred Courte, and rest your humble pete- tioners. Richard Walderne, John Bayley, Vail: Hill, John Cheiuey, Peter Coffin, Nathaniel Weare, John X Hird, Robard Coker, Williar Ffurbur, l'^!^ ^7'' Roger Plaisteed, 5°^^^'* ^^S^^^' Edward Woodman, Edward Richardson, John Pike, William Cotton, Abraham Toppan, John Wolcott, Benia : Swett, John Bond, George Little, William Titcomb. 18 (3) 59 : [that is — 18^/i 3fai/, 1659.] The Committee do judge meet that the petitioners be granted a plantation of eight miles square, upon condition that at the sessions of the General Court, to be held in Octo., 1660, they make report to that Court of their reso- lution to p'secute the same with a competent no. of meet persons that will ingage to carry on the work of the said place in all civill and eclesiasticall respects, and that within two years then nest en- suing there be 20 families there settled. x\lso, that they may have imunity from all publique charges (excepting in cases extraordinary) for seven yeares next ensuing the date hereof. Tho : Danforth, Edavard Johnson, Eleazar Lusher. The Deputies approve of the returne of the Committee in answer to this petition, with reference to the consent of the honored magis- trates thereto. ,-rr m .-»7 • William Torrey, Glenc, 6, 3: 1662 — [that is — May 6, 1662.] Upon informacon that Penicooke is An Apt place for A Township, and in consideration of the lord's great blessing upon the countrie in multiplying the inhab- itants and plantations here ; and that Allmost All such places are Allreadie taken up : 'Tis ordered by this Court, that the lands at Peniecook be reserved for a plantation till so many of such as have petecioned for lands there or of others shall present to settle A plan- tation there. The Deputies have past the same : desiring the consent of the Honob'®* magistrates thereto. -nr m ^t - ^ ^ William Torrey, Cleric.'^ * Mass. Col. Records. BEFORE SETTLEMENT. 63 It appears, also, from the records of the Massachusetts colony, that a petition was presented, in 1G63, by inhabitants of Chelms- ford, for the grant of a township at Penacook. In October, 1663, the court " granted the inhabitants of Salem a plantation of six miles square at Pennicook, if getting twenty families on it within three years." The conditions not being fulfilled, the foregoing grants, it would seem, were forfeited. In June, 1714 — fifty-one years after their first petition — the people of Salem again petitioned that the grant of a plantation of six miles square to them at Pennecook, in October, 1663, may be confirmed to them. They stated that since the first was made, they had been embarrassed by Indian wars, and that " some of the inhabitants of the town had erected a trading house at Pennicook forty years since." Whether this trading house was the same as that of Waldron and Coffin, in 1668, is not clear ; but, from the concurrence in the dates, most likely it was. One trading house, it is believed, stood on the east side, on or near the farm of Judge Sewall. PETITION FOR PENNYCOOK — 1721. To his Excellency, Samuel Shute, Esq*"-' Caj/- Gen^^ and Govern"^ in Chief in and over His Majesty^ s Province of the Massachusetts Bay; and to the Hon^^'^ the Council and House of Rejjrcsentatives in Gen^ Court assonhled, this 31*' day of May, Anno Domini 1721. The Petition of the suhscnhers, Inhabitants of the County of Essex — Humbly sheweth, That y^ Petif-^ being straitned for Accommo- dations for themselves and their posterity, have Espied a tract of Land, scituate on the River of Merrymake, (the Great River of the said Country,) whereon they are desirous to make a Settlement and form a Town, if they may obtain the favour and countenance of this Great and HonWe Court therein : Y"" pete's therefore humbly pray this Great and Gen' Court to grant them, under such Restrictions, and on such Conditions as y"" Excellency and Honours shall think fit, a Tract of Land for a Township, which lies at the lower end of Peu- niecook : to beginn three miles to the Eastward of Merrimake River, at the place nearest to the mouth of Conduncook [Coutoocook] River — to extend to Merrimake River, and over it, to and up Conduncook River, eight miles ; from thence, to run Southerly seven miles, par- rellel with Merrimake River; and at the End of the s** seven miles, to run directly to the mouth of Sun coot River ; and then up Sun coot River till it comes to the distance of three miles from 3Ierri- make River; and then to, on a Strait Line, to the first mentioned 64 HISTORY OF PEXACOOK bound and Station : Which Tract of Land is Computed to Contain about the quantity of Eight miles Square, wh^'i Request your peti- tioners are the more Imboldened and necessitated to make, inasmuch as They are informed the Three Townships last Granted are all laid out and Taken up, and They cannot be accomodated in either of them. And y'' pef^ shall, as in Duty Bound, ever pray. Stephen Barker, Bis John X Granger, Sami' Phillips, John Osgood, Timothy Johnson, Ebenezer Eastman, Joshua Bayley, James Fales, William White, His David X Kimbel, mark. Moses Day, John Hall, ni3 Sam''' X Runills, Jerath"' Hug, Nathaniel Abbot, John Chandler, Stephen Abbot, James Black, Benjamin Stephens, William Marten, Stephen Osgood, Thomas Bhmchard, Eben Lovejoy, Thomas Abbot, John Wright, Joseph Parker, James Stephens, James I3ayley, John Astin, Same' Kimbel, Jona. Chadwick, Benja- Calton, Nehemiah Calton, Nathaniel Clemens, John Mulcekin, Samf*' Hazeltine, Rich Hall, James Smith, William Wickar, Matthias Cowdry, Tho's Scihegsar, Joseph Work, Nicholas White, Sam*-' White, Eben Thornton, John Saunders, Elezar Crocker, Nath''' Lovejoy, John Merrill, Sam®' Chandler, Robert Kimbell, Job Hiukley, Jonathan Clark, John Sandars, Henry Wook, [?] Benjamin Gage, His Tim X Hogg, Andrew Allin, David Stephens, William Barker, Eben Stephens, Annaniah Barker, John Barker, Samel Barker, Nathan Barker, James Parker, John Foster, Aaron Foster, Christopher Colton, Robard Pesley, Daniel Astin, John In gals, Jon^ Gage, Dan®' Jaques, Richard Jaques, William Gutterson, Jonathan Rolando Zebediah Barker, Tho! Page, Nathi Page, John X Mattis, mark. David Cragg, Sam' Aires, James Barker, Eben"" Barker, Ed. Clark, Samel Clark, Sam' Granger, John Pecker, John Loel, [?] Wm. Davis, Joseph Davis, Nehemiah Heath, Samel Kimbal, Abraham Coole}', John Goterson, Samel Borbank, Andrew Mitchell, Jon'J Page, Ephraim Farnon, John Hastins, Samel Davis, Ephraim Davis, Nathaniel Morrill, Stephen Morill, Thol Kiugsbery, John Bayley, Same' Granger, Nathe' Sanders, Sam' Ela, Eben-- Gill, Benj^ Smeth, Joseph Page, Stephen Emerson, John Morden, Jon''J Corlis, Moses Aboott, John Osgood, Nathe' Peaslev. BEFORE SETTLEMENT. 55 In the House of Representatives, June 9''', 1724. Read and Ordered, that Captain Shipley, Co" Buckminster and M^ Winslow, be a Committee to view the said Land, and to make their Report y® next Session. Copy Examined per j ^^^,^^^^^^ SecY In May, 1722, however, a survey was made of Penacook by William Ward and John Jones, " according to the direction of the committee appointed by the Honorable House of Repre- sentatives in y" former sessions" — comprising in the whole 69.500 acres of land. The interval land was 2.000 acres. This survey — a copy of which I have from the original plan in the Secretary's office, Massachusetts — was as follows : The south line, crossing the Merrimack river at its junction with Shoo-Brook [Soucook,] was eleven miles, viz. : 1530 perches east, and 1990 Avest side. The north line, crossing the Merrimack at " the river called Contucuk or Conduncook" — 1450 perches east, and following the course of the Contucuk west. The east line, drawn from the eastern terminus of the south line to the eastern of the north line, was ten miles. The ivest line, drawn from the western terminus of the south line, northerly, till it struck the Contucuk, was 2930 perches, or nine miles and fifty rods. Another petition was presented June 17, 1725 : To the Hon''^^ Wm. DuMMER, IJsc/., Lieut. Governor, and Com- mander in Chief in and over His Majesties province of y^ Mas- sachusetts Bay, in New England, to the Hon^^'^ His Majesties Council and House of Representatives in Gen. Court or Assembly convened at Boston, June 17"', 1725. The petition of Benj^ Stephens, Andrew Mitchel, David Kimball, Ebenezer Eastman, John Osgood and Moses Da}', a Committee appointed by and in behalf of the petitioners formerly for a Tract of Land at a place called Pennycook — Humbly sheweth, That whereas y"" petioners have at two sev®' times petitioned the Great and Gen^i Court for a grant of the afore- said tract of Land at Pennycook, with resolutions fully inclined to make a speedy settlement there, w"^*" they conceive, under the divine protection, they are able to go on and through with ; and the Hon''''' House of Representatives having been pleased twice so far to take their petition under consideration as to grant the prayer under such 56 HISTORY OF PENACOOK. conditions as by y® vote of the s** Hon'^^® House may more fully ap- pear, which conditions, though they be expensive, yet y"" petitioners have well weighed the same, and would willingly have undertaken the settlement, if it had been the pleasure of the Ilon"^'*^ Board to have concurred in the aforesaid vote. ]^ut as y"" petitioners are in- formed it did not meet with a concurrence : Wherefore, y'' petitioners are emboldened, with ejreat submission, to renew their pet" to y"^ Hon- our, and this Great and Gen' Court, that you would please to take the premises again into y'' wise and serious consideration ; and as the building a Fort there will undoubtedly be a great security within and on Merrimack River, and y^ your petitioners are still willing to build and maintain it as afore propos'd, at their own cost, y^ they may have the countenance and authority of this Court therefor, and that they woud pledge to make them a grant of it accordingly. Y"" petif^ wou'd also suggest to y"" Honnours, that many applica- tions have been made to the Government of New Hampshire for a grant of the s'^ Land, which, though it be the undoubted right and property of this Province, yet it is highly probable that a parcel of Irish people* will obtain a grant from New Hampshire for it, unless some speedy care be taken by this great and Hon'''" Court to prevent it. If that Government should once make y'" a grant, tho' the pef^ conceive it wou'd be without right, as in the case of Nutfield, yett it wou'd be a thing attended with too much difficulty to pretend to root y*" out, if they shou'd once gett foot hold there. Your petitioners therefore pray that the vote passed by the Hon**'" House may be revived, or that they may have a grant of the Land on such other terms and conditions as to the wisdom of this Court shall seem best. And for y'' Hon''^, as in duty bound, y"" petitioners shall ever pray, &c. Benj'^ Stephens, Andrew Mitchell, David Kimbel, Eben" Eastman, John Osgood, Moses Day. In the House of Representatives, June 17'^, 1725. Read, and the question was put whether the House wou'd revive their vote above refer'd to — Resolved in the affirmative. Copy examined per j ^r„^j_^^^^ ^,,.^. *" Irish people," as they were called, from Nutfield, had already built a fort on tho cast side of the river, as will fully appear in the sequel. CHAPTER III. THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK, The period had now arrived, in the order of Divine Providence, when the territory which had so long been desired and sought for a settlement, should become the abode of civilized life — when the " wilderness should be made glad," and the desert become vocal with the praises of God. In this chapter we shall narrate all the measures that were adopted for the settlement of the place, and detail every incident of importance that attended the enterprise. While, for the general reader, we give a con- nected narrative of events, with original documents, anecdotes and illustrations, we would direct particular attention, also, to the Records of the Proprietors,* which were kept with great accuracy and care, and which are exactly copied and transferred to the printed page, except, in some cases, the notifications of ^PROPRIETORS' RECORDS. THE ORDER OF THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT. The committee appointed to consider what is proper for this Court to do on the petition of Benjamin Stevens and others, are humbly of opinion, that it will 1)0 for the interest and advantage of this Province that part of the lands peti- tioned for by the said Benjamin Stevens and company, be assigned and set apart for a township : provided, that the same be done in a good, regular and defensi- ble manner, to contain seven miles square, and begin where Contoocook river falls into Merrimack river, and thence to extend upon a course east seventeen degrees north three miles, and upon a course west seventeen degrees south four miles, to be the northerly bounds of the said township ; and from the extreme parts of that line to be set off southerly at right angles, until seven miles shall be accomplished from the said north bounds. And that the petitioners may be encouraged and fully empowered to prosecute their intended settlements — Or- 58 THE TLANTATION OF PENACOOK. meetings are left out. The records embraced in this chapter extend through the period — about seven years — that Penacook was a plantation, and until incorporated into a township. It will be perceived that the (iates of the records are according to the old sti/Ie, when the year commenced the 25th of March instead of the 1st of January. The petition of June, 1725, it appears, was successful. On the 17th of January following "the Great and General Court" decided " that it will be for the interest and advantage of this Province, that part of the Lands petitioned for by the said Ben- jamin Stevens and Company be assigned and set apart for a Township — provided that the same be done in a good, regular and defensible manner — and to contain seven miles square." A committee of nine, of whom the Hon. William Tailer, Esq., Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, twenty-seven years, was chairman, and John Wainwright, Esq., clerk, was at the same time appointed by the court to take special care that the rules and conditions on which the grant was made should be punctually observed and kept by all such as shall be admitted as settlers — particularly that the land be allotted and divided into one hun- dred and three equal parts and shares, as to quantity and quality, and that one hundred persons or families — such only as in the judgment of the committee shall be well able to pursue and bring to pass their several settlements — should be admitted. Each settler to pay five pounds for his lot ; be obliged to build a good house for his family within three years ; break up and sufficiently fence in six acres of land within the same time ; that the houses should be erected within twenty rods of each other, on the home lots, and in a regular and defensible manner ; and that a con- venient house for the public worship of God should be completely dered, That the Hon. William Tailer, Esq., Elisha Cooke, Esq., Spencer Phipps, Esq., William Dudley, Esq., John Wainwright, Esq., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder, (any five of whom to be a quorum,) be a committee to take special care, that the following- rules and conditions be punctually observed and kept by all such as shall be admitted to bring forward the proposed settlements, namely : That the aforesaid tract of land be allotted and divided into one hundred and three equal parts and shares, as to quantity and quality ; and that one hundred persons or fomilies be admitted, such only as in the judgment of the committee PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 59 finished within the three years. The settlers were also to pay twenty shillings each for the privilege of admittance, and to defray the whole expense of cutting a road through the wilder- ness to the plantation ; of laying out the land into lots by sur- veyors and chainmen, and also the charges of the committee of the Great and General Court. The remainino; three rishts were reserved : one for the first settled minister ; one for a par- sonage, and one " for the use of the school forever." The grant of the township being made, the next object was to begin and carry forward the settlement safely, but as expedi- tiously as possible. Accordingly, on the 2d of February, 1725, the committee of the General Court met at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, for the purpose of admitting settlers. In this matter they proceeded with great care and caution. Persons were not admitted merely because they had petitioned for it ; but the committee inquired into their character and their ability to fulfil the conditions. To aid them in this they officially invited some of the principal inhabitants of the towns to which the generality of the petitioners belonged, to attend and give the committee information of the circumstances of the petitioners and others, " in order to the admitting of such as shall be thought most suitable" After such careful inquiry and examination, the requisite number — one hundred — was admitted. Among this number, as appears in the list on record, were the Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover, Rev. Bezaleel Top- pan, son of Rev. Christopher Toppan, of Newbury, and Rev. Enoch Coffin, then a young preacher, also of Newbury. The shall be well able to pursue and bring to pass their several settlements on the said lands within the space of three years at fiirthcst from the first day of June next : That each and every intended settler to wliom a lot, M'ith the rights and privileges thereto belonging, shall be assigned, shall pay into the hands of the committee, for the use of the Province, at the time of drawing his lot, the sum of five pounds, and be obliged to build a good dwelling-house, fit comfortably to receive and entertain a family who shall inhabit the same ; and also break up and sufficiently fence in six acres of land for their home lot, Avithin the term aforesaid : And that the first fifty settlements shall be begun and perfected upon the eastern side of said river Merrimack, and the several houses shall be erected on their home lots not above twenty rods the one from the other, where the land will possibly admit thereof, in the most regular and defensible manner, the com- mittee, in their best prudence, can project and order ; the houses and home lots 60 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. following letters from Rev. Mr. Toppan and Rev. Mr. Phillips will evince the deep interest which was felt in respect to the admission of settlers. LETTER OF REV. CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN, OF NEWBURY. Newb: Febr: 2, 1726. May it please your Honors : It was my design to have waited on your Honours and the other Gentlemen appointed to be a Committee for Granting Lotts at Penny- Cooke, but being at present bodily Indisposed, durst not venture so far from home, have thei'efore sent my Sons to wait on you, and, in my name, to Request y* you'd be pleased to Grant me or them a Lott amongst the Rest, and the Conditions of y^ Grant shall be per- formed by my Self or them. And if your Honours would give me leave, I'** mention a few things relating to the Affair now before you, as 1. That it seems Just y' Consideration be had to one Town as well as another, and that there be some Proportion, in that respect, as to the Number of Persons in each that the Lotts are granted to. 2. That those who have at any time before had Lotts allowed them in any JNcw Township, should be excluded now. 3. That the Persons to whom the Lotts are granted be obliged [if it may be] to keep their Lotts and not sell y"* to others, at least not without the leave of the maj"^ part of the Society to whom the rest of y® Lotts belong. Some, no doubt, will desire Lotts under no other view than to make gain by Selling of y"' afterwards, [and 'tis pitty such should have any.] Besides, if the Lotts should be presently bought and sold, it will be likely some of y™ at least may fall into the hands of Persons very iindesirable for the first Settlement of a place. 4. That the Persons to whom the Lotts are granted be obliged, at their first Settling on the place, to build a Garrison or Block-House for their defence, and so live as near it as with Convenience may be ; for it will be very unsafe at first for enny oue to build and dwell on his own Lott. This will too much expose y'" to y^ Indians, in whom little trust is at any time to be putt ; besides, we may expect they '1 on each side of the river to be alike snhjected unto the above-mentioned condi- tions. That a convenient house for tlie public worship of God be completely finished witliin the term aforesaid, for the accommodation of all such as shall inhabit the aforesaid tract of land, upon such part thereof as shall be agreed upon by the aforesaid Committee, for the ease of the community; and that there shall be reserved, allotted, and laid out to the first minister that shall be lawfully settled among them, one full right, share, and proportion of and in the aforesaid tract of land, with all rights and privileges thereto belonging : his house lot to be laid out next adjoining to the land whereon the meeting-house shall stand. One other full right, share, and proportion of and in the aforesaid tract of land, PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 61 not a little resent it, when yy come to understand that we are Settling upon a former noted Settlement of theirs. 5. That in case the Tract of Land at Penny-Cooke [the Settlement whereof is Designed] was formerly purchased of y*' Indians [as I have heard it was, tho' I know not by whom,] it seems hut Just that He or They so purchasing, should have reasonable allowance made y'" out of the Lotts that shall be granted, as shall be to their satisfoction ; for that Kight I take to be the best in y^ Eye of Concience, what ever it be in the Eye of the Law; besides, I know not how the Title can fairly be Justifyed against the Indians, if at any time they should demand it, but under the consideration of a former purchase. Many other things might have been added, but 'tis not for me to direct your Honours. Begging therefore pardon, for my boldness in offering what I have, I take leave, so Subscribe my Self your Hon- our's most humble and obedient Servant, Christopher Toppan. HEV. SAMUEL PHILLIPS' LETTER FOR ADMITTANCE. For his Honour WiLLlAM Tailor, Esq'', a7id if other HonornUc Gentlemen of ij'^ Committee for Pcimecook, note at HaverJiill. For the Honorable members of y® Board and House w" constitute the Committee for y® Settlement of Pennecook, now Convened at Haverhill : Gentlemen, — Having Intelligence y^ the Great and General Court have allowed of y" Settlement of Pennecook, and made choice of your Honours to Effect and Complete the Same; and I the Subscriber, being one of y^ Petitioners [and having Expended somew' already,] humbly pray y* your Honours will please to Enter me one of y® Proprietors. I have Sons* growing up, and the Land w'^'' I am here setled upon is Parsonage land. The Articles I hope to fulfill, altho' I may not be an Inhabitant there. to be appropriated for the use of the school forever ; and one other ministerial lot of equal value with the rest — the home lot appertaining thereto affixed near to the meeting-house. And for the better enabling the intended settlers to per- fect what they are hereby enjoined, and empowering them to remove all such lets and impediments as they may meet with in their progress and lawful under- taking, that when and so soon as there shall be one hundred persons accepted and allowed by the Committee to go on and improve those lands for the ends and uses above specified, upon application made to the aforesaid Committee, it shall and may be lawful for them to notify the undertakers to meet at some con- *Two of these sons, John and Samuel, were founders of Andover Academy, and the former was tho founder of Exeter Academy and of the Pliillips' Professorsliip of Divinity in Dart- mouth College. G2 TflE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. Pray Excuse my not waiting upon your Honours in person, being oblige' this day to cattend part of y" Duty and Business of my office. Intreating that y® Direction and Benediction of Heaven may al- ways accompany you, I ask Leave [Gentlemen] to subscribe my Self your Honours' most humble and Obedt ServS Andover, Feb: 2: 1725/6. Samuel Phillips. The persons who had the honor of being admitted on such conditions as settlers, proceeded with energy, and with entire unanimity, to forward their object. To save the committee of the General Court the trouble and expense of coming again from Boston, upon application of the admitted settlers, another meeting was held on the 7th of February, at which, with the approval of the committee, the settlers unanimously agreed and resolved to fulfil all the conditions and orders of the Court re- specting the settlement; and in case of any settler failing to comply with said conditions and orders within two years and a half from the 1st day of June next, such settler shall absolutely forfeit the lot or lots by him drawn, with all the improvements thereon, to the other settlers. Also, it was agreed and resolved '■Hhat no alienatmi of any Lott shall he made ivitliout the cojisent of the Community ,^^ on penalty of forfeiting the same. This regulation was in accordance with the suggestion of Rev. Chris- topher Toppan, and probably with special reference to the exclusion of the " Irish people^^^ against whom a strong preju- dice then existed. At this meeting, moreover, the committee of the court voted to appoint surveyors, and chainmen to attend them Avhen they should go, to allot the said tract of land into one hundred and three shares, according to order ; to meet at Dunstable, on the venient time and place, they being seasonably notified of such meeting, who, when assembled, shall make such necessary rules and orders as to them shall be thought most conducible for the carrying forward and eftecting the aforesaid settlement ; provided, tliat three fourth parts of the persons present at such meeting are consenting to what rules or orders shall be then proposed and agreed upon, two or more of the Committee to be present at such meeting, who shall enter into a fair book, to be kept for that purpose, all such rules, orders, and directions agreed on as aforesaid, and give out copies thereof when re- quired ; the whole charge of the Committee to be paid by the settlers. And that when they shall have performed the conditions above expressed, provided it PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 63 5th of April next, at the house of Col. Tjng, in order to proceed thence to Penacook to lay out the land into lots ; that Col. Tyng be desired to prepare fifteen days provisions for twenty men, and that the settlers be notified to pay the sum of forty shillings for defraying the charges of the committee, and " that the money he ready at Col. Tyng'%^ at Dunstable, on or before the bth day of April next.^' 1726. On account of engagements as members of the General Court, the committee found it necessary to postpone the laying out of the lands at Penacook until the second Tuesday (10th) of May, 172(3. They then started from Haverhill, with surveyors and chainmen, and " a number of admitted settlers attending them," and proceeded to Penacook and laid out one hundred and three home lots, or divisions, on the west side of the river, instead of the east side, as at first proposed. This was done with consent of the General Court, for reasons assigned, viz. : That " upon view and strict survey of the Lands on the East side of Merrymack, we find that there is little or no water ; the Land near the River extream mountainous and almost impassible, and very unfit for and uncapable of receiving fifty families, as the Court has or- dered ; more especially, considering that near the centre of the Town, on the East side of the River Merrymack, the Honourable Samuel Sewall, Esq., has a farm of Five Hundred acres of good be within the space of three years, as before limited, tliat then tlie said Commit- tee for and in behalf of this Court execute good and sufficient deeds and con- veyances in the law, to all such settlers for t!ie aforesaid tract of land, with all the rights, members, profits, privileges and immunities thereon standing, grow- ing or being, for the sole use of them, their heirs and assigns forever, with a saving of all or any former grant or grants. By order of the Committee. N. BrriELD. In Council, January 17 th, 1725. Read and ordered that this Report be ac- cepted. Sent down for concurrence. J. WiLLARD, Sec'n/. In the House of Representatives, January 17, 1725. Read and concurred — AVm. Dudley, Speaker. Consented to- W,j. Dummer. *See Documentary Chapter — Endicot Grant, fee., No. 1, chap. iii. 64 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. Land, formerly granted by tins Court and laid out to Gov. En- dicot."* This description refers chiefly to the high banks and bluiFs that border the Interval on the east side of the river. Judge Sewall's farm embraced the island known by that name, and the intervals, with some upland east of it, including the farms now owned by Mr. Samuel B. Larkin, Samuel B. and John Locke, and what is known as the Thatcher farm.* The first survey and laying out of the house and home lots, with the incidents connected therewith, are graphically related in the journal kept by John Wainwright, Esq., clerk of the General Court's committee, of which the following is an exact copy — every word of which is interesting to read. A Journal of the proceedings of the Committee appointed hy the Great and General Court or Assembly to lay out a New Township of seven miles square, at Penny Cook, on each side of Merrimack River : 1726. Tuesday, May 10*/' This Day, the Committee met at the House of Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, in order to go to Penny Cook to lay out the Township according to order. ^yednesday, May \V[' Present — The Hon'''^ William Tailer, Esqr, Jn*? Wainwright, Esq"", Cap*. Jn? Shipley, Eleazer Tyng, Esqf, and M^ Joseph Wilder. This day, the Committee received of several of y*' Setlers forty shillings each, a list where of was taken : being to defray the charge of surveying the Lands, &c. ; and prepared the necessary provisions for their Journey and their Attendants to Penny Cook. Lowry Weather, with some rain. Thursday, May 12'.^ Early this Morning, the Committee above named, with i\P. John Sanders, one other of the s'' Committee, begun their Journey from Haverhill, in order for Penny Cook, being at- tended by twenty sis persons, including the Surveyors, Chainmen, and such of the intended Settlers as were disposed to take a view of the Lands. About half ways between Nutfield and Haverhill, at a ADDITIONAL GRANT TO PENNY COOK, AUG'T 1, 1728. At a Great .ind General Court, or Assembly, for His Majesty's Province of tlie Massachusetts Bay, in Ncw-EnglancI, began and held at Boston, upon Wednesday, the twenty -ninth of May, 1728, and continued by prorogation to "Wednesday, the twcnty-fourtli of July following, and then met August 6, 1728 — In the House of Representatives, upon a motion made and seconded in behalf of the Penny Cook settlers — Resolved, That in consideration of the five hun- dred acres of land formerly confirmed by this Court to satisfy a grant made to the late Governor Endicott, which falls within their boundaries, the settlers be *For plan of the farm, see large Map. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 66 place called Providence Brook, we bated : About clevcu or twelve of the Clock we arrived at Nutfield, alias Londonderry, and refreshed Our Selves and Horses with our own provisions at the House of one John Barr, an Irish Tavern keeper, as we were informed ; but we had nothing of him but Small Beer. Expenccs for our Trouble at y® House, 5^. About one or two, we proceeded on our Journey. This afternoon we forded two Brooks or liivuletts, call Great and little, which proceeded from Great Massa Beseck and little Massabeseck Ponds and Empty themselves into Merrimack ; and about Five a Clock we arrived at a place called Amoskeeg Falls, on Merrimack River, and there Encamped that night. At Amoskeeg Falls we found several Irish people catching fish, which that place affords in great abundance. We travelled in a Cart path from Nutfield to Amoskeeg, but it was very indifferent travelling. Cloudy Weather. Friday/, Mai/ lo'/' This morning we proceeded on our Journey. Very Hilly and Mountainous Land. About Eight a'Clock we pass'd by a Fall called Oanahookline, in Merrimack lliver, which is taken from a Hill of the same name. About Nine a'Clock we forded a pretty deep Brook or Rivulett, called [a blank,] and soon after we came upon a large Tract of Intervale Land, joining to Suneook lliver, where we baited and refreshed our Selves and Horses. About ten or eleven a'Clock we forded Suneook lliver, which is a rapped Stream, and many loose stones of some Considerable Bigness in it, making it and hereby arc allowed and empowered, by a surveyor and chainman, on oath, to extend the south bounds of that townshijj one hundred rods, the full breadth of their town, and the one hundred rods of land is accordingly granted and con- firmed unto them as an equivalent for the aforesaid five hundred acres. In Council : read and concurred. Consented to : W. Burnett. A true copy : Examined by Thad. Mason, Deputy Sec'rij. A true copy : Examined by Benja. Rolfe, Proprietors' Clerk. At a meeting [held in the Council Chamber in Boston, tlie eighteenth day of January, Anno Domini 1725,] of the Committee of the Great and General Court or Assembly, appointed at their session began and held at Boston, upon Wednesday, the third day of November, 1725, Anno y R. Georgii. Mao-. Brittan- niae, &c. duodecimo, for bringing forward and settling a tract of land at a place called Penny Cook, on each side of Merrimack river, to begin where Contoo- cook empties itself into Merrimack : present, The Honorable William Tailor, Esqr., Elisha Cook, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wainwriglit, Esq., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder. Voted, That John Wainwright, Esq., be Clerk. 5 G6 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. difficult to pa?s. One of our men going over, having a heavy load on his Horse, was thrown off into the River, and lost one of the l^aggs of provisions, which we lost, not having time to look after it. Another of our men fell into y" River. Here we met with two men Coh Tyng sent up before us with some stores, [Benj^ NiceoUs and Eben^ Virgin, two of y« setlers;] and about one a'Clock we passed Penny Cook River, \_olias Shew Brook or Sow Cook ;] pretty deep and very rocky. Here one of our Men tumbled into the River. In a short time after we came up as far as Penny Cook Falls, on Merri- mack River, and then we steered our Course North, and travelled over a large pitch pine plain, [indifferent Land,] about three miles at least in Length, and proceeded on our Journey : and about five a'Clock, afternoon, we arrived at Penny Cook, and Encamped on a piece of Intervale Land or plain called Sugar Ball plain, which takes its name from a very high Head or Hill, called Sugar Ball Hill, whereon was the first Indian Port, as we were informed, which the Indians in old times built to defend themselves from the Maquois and others their Enemies. — Just as we were making up our Camp, Voted, That a book be bought for entering the votes and orders of the com- mittee, and for the use of the community. Voted, That the committee meet on Wednesday, the second day of February next, at tlie house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, inn-holder, in Haverhill. Voted, That tlie clerk prepare advertisements of the above said meeting of the committee, in tlie words following, viz. : " Pursuant to an order of the Great and General Court, or Assembly, at a session began and held at Boston, upon "Wednesday, the third day of November, 1725, appointing a committee to bring forward a settlement of a tract of land at a place called Penny Cook — " Public Notice is hereby given that the said committee have appointed to meet at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, inn-holder, in Haverhill, on Wednesday, the second day of February next, to treat with a number of per- sons, petitioners for the said tract of land, and others, in order to bring forward a settlement thereon according to the directions of the General Court. By order of the Committee, John Wainavright, C. Clerk. Dated at Boston, 18th day of Jan'ry, 1725. At a meeting of the committee of the General Court for bringing forward the settlement of a tract of land at Penny Cook, begun and held at the house of Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverliill, the second day of February, 1725 — Present, John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder. There being but just a quorum of the committee present, and Mr. Chairman, with the remainder of the committee, being detained on the road by reason of the extremity of the weather, — Ordered, That the meeting be adjourned till to- morrow morning, ten o'clock. , PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 67 there came up a smart Thunder Shower, and we had enough to do to save our Bread from the llain. This Sugar Ball plain is a pretty large Tract of Land, encompassed on all parts with very high and mountainous Land, as steep as the Hoof of an House ordinarily: only where the River runs round it, which encompasses the other parts of it. It is altogether impracticable for a Team, or indeed Horse Cart to get on y^ plains, y" land is so mountainous round it ; and there is no Spring on it, as we could find. Saturday, May 14'.* This Morning Early we got together the Surveyors and Chainmen, and set them to Survey the Township ac- cording to the General Court's order. M"! Jonas Houghton, Sur- veyor, with Jonathan Shipley, Josiah Cop, Moses Hazzen and Benji^ Niccolls, Chainmen, being first Sworn truly and faithfully to discharge their respective Duty and Trust in taking the Survey, were sent to run the line of the Township, according to y^ Court's Grant : to begin on y^ East side the River, where Contoocook falls into Merri- mack. M*; Josiah Bacheldor, Surveyor, with John , Ens. John Chandler, Chainmen, being first duly sworn, were appointed to Survey the Interval, on the East side of the River; M*; Richard Hazzen, Junf, Surveyor, with John Ayer, John Sanders, Jun^, Chain- Thursdaj/, Feb'ry 3d, 1725. At a meeting of the committee — PRESENT, The Honorable "William Tailer, Esqr.,Elisha Cook, Esqr., John Waimvright, Esqr.. Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder — Agreed and Voted, That some of the principal inhabitants of the towns to which tlie generality of the petitioners belong, be desired to attend the commit- tee, and inform them of the circumstances of the petitioners and others, in order to the committee's admitting such of them as shall be thought most suitable for bringing forward the settlement of Penny Cook. Capt. John White, Mr. Oba- diah Ayer and Capt. Joshua Bayley, of Haverhill ; Capt. Benjamin Stevens, Messrs. John Chandler and John Osgood, of Andover ; Messrs. Moses Day and David Kimball, of Bradford, did accordingly attend the committee. Then the committee adjourned till to-morrow morning, ten o'clock. Friday. Feb'ry ^th, 1725. At a meeting of the committee : Present the same as yesterday. The committee proceeded to inquire further into the circumstances of the petitioners and others who appeared and were desirous to be admitted to bring forward the intended settlement, and admitted several of them. Then the committee adjourned till to-morrow morning, ten o'clock. Saturday, Feb. 5th, 1725. At a meeting of the committee : Present as before. The committee further proceeded to admit settlers, and completed the number according to the order of Court. A list whereof follows, each of whom paid 68 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. men, being first duely Sworn, were appointed to survey tlie Intervale on y West side of the River Merrimack, in -wliich Service they sev- erally proceeded. About Twelve of the Clock this day, Mess':^ NathJ Weare, Richard Waldron, Junr, and Theadore Atkinson, a Com- mittee appointed by the L*. Gov": and Council of New Hampshire, came up to our Camp, [being attended with about half a score Irish men, who kept some Distance from the Camp,] and acquainted us that the Governm' of New Hampshire, being informed of our Busi- ness here, had sent them to desire us that we would not proceed in appropriating these Lands to any private or particular persons, for that they lay in tbeir Government ; and our Governments making a twenty shillings to Mr. Chairman, upon their admittance to pay and defray the. charge of the committee, viz. : Zebediah Barker, John Osgood, Benjamin Parker, Moses Day, John Sanders, Robert Kimball, Nathaniel Abbott, Stephen Osgood, John Wright, Ebenezer Stevens, Thomas Page, Robert Peaslee, John Grainger, Timothy Johnson, William White, Samuel Reynolds, Natli'l Lovejoy, John Saunders, jun., John Chandler, Thomas Blanchard, Joseph Parker, Nathan Parker, John Foster, Ephraim Parnum, Mr. Samuel Phillips, Eben'r Eastman, David Kimliall, Nicholas White, John Merrill, Samuel Grainger, Benja. Stevens, Esqr., Eben'r Lovejoy, William Barker, James Parker, Cliristopher Carlton, John Austin, Samuel Kimball, Nath'I Clement, Samuel Ayer, Josepli Davis, Nehemiah Heath, Nath'I Sanders, Abraham Foster, Nath'I Barker, Samuel Davis, Samuel Toppan, Ammi Ruhamah Wise, Jonathan Pulsepher, John Ayer, Thomas Perley, for Nath'I Cogswell, David Dodge, Benja. Carlton, Nath'I Page, Edward Clark, Ephraim Davis, Stephen Emerson, Andrew Mitchell, Benja. Gage, Nath'I Peaslee, William Gutterson, Enoch Coffin, Richard Urann, Ephraim Hildreth, Thomas Colman, David Wood, Joseph Hale, Nehemiah Carlton, John Mattis, William Whittier, Joseph Page, John Bay ley, Joseph Hall, Benjamin Niccolls, John Jaques, Bezaliel Toppan, Nathaniel Jones, Eben'r Virgin, Thomas Wicomb, John Pcaliody, Jona. Huiibard, for Daniel Davis, Jacob Eames, Joshua Bayley, Richard Coolidge, Isaac Walker, James Simonds, John Coggin, Jacob Abbott, Moses Hazzen, Moses Bordman, Nathan Fiske, Zerobbabel Snow, Nathan Blodgett, John Pecker, Richard Hazzen, jr., Isaac Learned, Jonathan Shipley, Edward Winn, Nathan Simonds, Obadiah Ayer, Henrv Rolfe. 100. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 69 Grant might be attended with very 111 Consequences to the Settlers, when it appeared the Lands fell in New Hampshire Government — and then they delivered a Copy of an order pass'd by th'' Honour, the L'. Gov', and Council of New Hampshire, respecting the Setting of the Land at Penny Cook, to which we refer. We made them answer. That the Government of the Massachusetts Bay had sent us to lay the Lands here into a Township ; that they had made a Grant of it to some particular men, and that we should proceed to do the Business we were come upon, and made no doubt but our Govern- The committee received the following application from the admitted settlers, viz. : To the Honorable Committee of the General Court, for bringing forward the settle- ment of Penny Cook. "We, the subscribers, being admitted settlers at Penny Cook, and being very desirous that the settlement may be brought forward with the greatest expedi- tion, according to the rules and directions of the General Court, do therefore request that the community may be notified to appear at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, on Monday, the seventh day of this instant, February, at twelve of the clock in said day, in order to make such necessary rules and orders as shall be thought most conducible for the bringing forward our intended settlements, agreeable to the order of Court. Benjamin Stevens, Jonathan Hubbard, Robert Kimball, Ammi Khuhamali Wise, Thomas Pearley, Samuel Reynolds, Ephraim Hildreth, John Sanders, Joseph Hale, Obadiah Ayer, John Pecker, Thomas Wicomb, Joshua Bayley, Nathan Blodgett, Ebenezer Eastman, Edward Clarke, Thomas Colman, Nathan Simonds, Andrew Mitchell, Enocli Coffin, James Simonds, Zerobbabel Snow, Nchcmiah Carlton, Jacob Abl)ott, John Coggin, Bezaliel Toppan, John Jaqucs, John Peabody, Nehemiah Pleath, Benjamin Gage, Stephen Emerson, Ephraim Farnum, Nathaniel Page, Henry Rolfc, "William Barker, Jacob Fames, William White, Samuel Kimball, Benja. Carlton, David Dodge, Isaac Walker, Samuel Ayer, John Grainger, John Osgood, Nath'l Barker, Ebenezer Stevens, Thomas Page, Joseph Page, Benja. Parker, Samuel Toppan, Nath'l Clement, John Mattis, Richard Hazzen, jun'r, David Kimball, Moses Hazzen, Nathaniel Sanders, Edward Winn, Joseph Davis, John Foster, Samuel Davis, Ephraim Davis, John Merrill, Nathan Parker, Nath'l Peaslee, John Chandler, Nicholas White, Nath'l Lovcjoy, Moses Day. And the committee having considered thereof, and for the avoiding considera- ble charge to the settlers, did concede to make the following order, viz. : 70 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. ment would be always ready to Support and Justifie tbeir own Grants, and that it was the Bisness of the publick and not ours to Engage in, in order to determine any Controversy about the Lands. We sent our Salutes to the L'. Gov"", of New Hampshire, and the Gent'." took their Leave of us and w' homeward this afternoon. The Surveyors and Chainraen returned to us in Safety about Sun down. Fair AVcather. Sahhath daij, Mui/ 15'/' This day M": Enoch Coffin, our Chaplain, performed divine Service both parts of the day. Fair and Cool. At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook — PRESENT, The Honorable William Taller, Esq., Elislia Cook, Esq., Spencer Phipps, Esq., John Wainwright, Esq., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Elcazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder. Agreed and Voted, That proper notifications be given to the intended settlers now admitted, to assemble and convene in order for the making the necessary rules and orders, and at the time and place as within mentioned and requested. Attest : John Wainwright, C. Cleric. Dated at Haverhill, Feljruary ye 5th, 1725. Then the clerk published the said order to the settlers. Then the committee adjourned till Monday, ye 7tli curr't, at 10 o'clock before noon. Mondmj, Fehiiiar)/ ije 1th, 1725. At a meeting of the committee — present, the same as last. Agreed and Voted, That there be two surveyors and four chainraen to attend the committee upon the next adjournment, to allot out the said tract of land into one hundred and three equal parts and shares, according to the order of the General Court. The settlers came into the following orders and rules for their future regula- tion and proceedings in their intended settlement, viz. : At a meeting of the subscribers, admitted settlers of the land at Penny Cook, held at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, the seventh day of Februarj', 1725, the committee of the General Court for bringing forward the said settlement being present, and the subscribers being duly notified, the follow- ing rules and oi'ders were unanimously agreed on and resolved, viz. : Tiiat the settlers will well and truly fulfil the conditions and orders of the Great and General Court for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook to all intents and purposes ; and for the effectual accomplishing the same, it is agreed and resolved. That such and so many of the intended settlers as shall fail of plowing, fencing or clearing of one acre of land within twelve mouths from the first day of June next, shall each of them forfeit and pay to the community or settlers the sum of five pounds, to be used and employed for their service as they shall direct and order. In case of fiiilure of complying with the aforesaid article for bringing forward the intended settlement within two years from the said first day of June, and of PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 71 Monday, May IG'/' This morning at Sun Eisinrr, according to Notification, we choose a lleprcsentative, nem. con., viz!, M"! Jn'! 8aa- ders. Early this morning the Surveyors and Chaiumen went out to their Business respectively. Four of the Company that came out with us returned to Haverhill this day. At night the Surveyors returned. M"! Ilougton's Company brought in a Bever, M"! Haz- zen's acquainted us they had caught a Hedge Hogg. Fine clear Weather. Tuesday, May IT'.'' This morning Early M^. Houghton and Com- pany went over to the West side of the Biver, in order to run the Line of the Town on that side, and took two days' provision. M[ Bacheldor and Company went on with Surveying the Interval on y® East side of the Biver. M'i Hazzen and Company went on with Surveying y^ Interval on y^ West side of y^ Biver. At Night the two last Surveyors and their Companys returned, and gave an acco^ that they had Surveyed the Interval on eacli side of the Biver. M^. Bacheldor informed the Committee that he was of opinion that Grov"; Endecott's Grant of 500 Acres of Land claimed by the Hon'''^ Judge Sewall, lay on y'' Interval on the East side the Biver ; that he discovered an Island in y'' Biver very much like that in the plan of y^ s*" 500 acre Grant. Fair pleasant Weather. each settler having a sufficiency of timber felled, hauled, and adapted for build- ing his house within six months after the direction of the committee of the Gen- eral Court for building the same, such defective settler or settlers shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds each, to be used and employed as aforesaid. And in case of any settler or settlers failing to comply with the orders and dii-cctions enjoined liim or them respectively, by the General Court, for bringing forward and effectually completing the settlement within two years and a half from the said first day of June next, such settler or settlers shall absolutely for- feit the lot or lots by him or them drawn, with all the improvements that shall be made thereon to the other settlers ; and in such case it shall be in the power of the other settlers, with the consent of the committee of the General Court, to appoint and admit such person or persons to liring forward the settlements or allotments of the deficient persons as aforesaid, as may be judged will effectu- ally bring forward the settlements according to the Court's order. Agreed and Resolved, That no alienation of any lot shall be made without the consent of the community ; and if any of the intended settler or settlers shall alienate his or their lots or settlements, to any person or persons, without the consent of the community first had and obtained, such sale shall be declared void of itself, and the settler that shall so pretend to alienate his lot shall forfeit the same to the community. Agreed and Voted, That Messrs. Timothy Johnson, Moses Day and Joshua Bayley be a committee, in the name of the settlers, to wait on the Honorable Committee of the General Court for giving out notifications proper for the set- tlers to assemble and convene for tlie future, as shall hereafter be thought neces- sary. Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer be desired and empowered, in the 72 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. Wednestlai/j Mai/ if 18'/' This morning Early some of j^ Com- mittee went over to y^ West side of the Kiver with M': Hazzen and Company, and some of thom with M"; Batcheldor and Comp*}, to lay out the Home Lotts according to the order of y^ General Court. On }" West side the Committee and Surveyor met with Great DitRculty to find a tract large enough to lay out the Number of Lotts and their contents agreeable to the Court's Act, but at length agreed they should be lay'd out on the Great Interval, over against Sugar Plain and the Land nest adjoining thereto, having first made a Beginning on the Upland next adjoining to the Interval : but found it imprac- ticable if not impossible to lay out the Land there into Six Acre Lotts so as to be fenced and broken up within Three Years : the con- name of the settlers, to examine the General Court's Records, and see if there be any former grant made of any of the lands now granted and ordered to he settled at Penny Cook, and report to the settlers at their next meeting. Benjamin Stevens, Jolm Peabody, Bezaliel Toppan, Henry Rolfe, John Sanders, William Gutterson, Enoch Coffin, Benja. Carlton, Nicholas White, Edward Clark, Samuel Kimball, Thomas Wicomb, Stephen Osgood, Andrew Mitchell, Thomas Page, Zcrubbabel Snow, Joshua Bayley, John Grainger, Timothy Johnson, Nathan Blodgett, Nath'l Abbott, William Barker, Thomas Blanchard, Ebenezer Lovejoy, John Osgood, James Simonds, Moses Hazzen, David Kimball, Robert Kimball, Nathan Lovejoy, Joseph Davis, Epliraim Farnum, Hi9 Nathan Parker, David Dodge, Saml. X Reynolds, Joseph Hall, Ammi Rhuhamah Wise, mark. Richard Hazzen, jun.. Jonathan Shipley, John Chandler, Nath'l Sanders, Richard Urann, Moses Day, Joseph Hale, Thomas Colman, Ebenezer Eastman, Sam'l Grainger, Hi3 Joseph Page, John Pecker, Edward X Winn, Ebenezer Stevens, Isaac Walker, mark' Benjamin Parker, Nath'l Clement, John Saunders, juur.. John Merrill, John Wright, Nathan Simonds, Nath'l Barker, John Austen, John Coggin, Robert Peaslee, Stephen Emerson, Obadiah Ayer, Benja. Gage, His John Jaques, Nehemiah Carlton, Abraham X Posters, William White, Ephraim Hildreth, m^pk. Jonathan Hubbard, JSTath'l Page, Jacol) Eames, Joseph Parker, Nath'l Peaslee, Nehemiah Heath, John X Mattis, Samuel Ayer. A true copy of the origi nal. Attest : Johx Wainwrigut, C. Chrh. Then the committee adj( jurned till to-morow morning, ten o'clock. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. /O tents being too large wholly to be lay'd out there. Towards Evening M": Houghton and Company returned to y'' Camp from the Line on the West side of the River, and at Evening the other two Surveyors and Compel returned. M": Bacheldor informed they had taken y" Copy of Gov': Endicott's Grant, and been upon the Laud they supposed to be the Land laid out formerly and Surveyed to satisfie the s'' (Jrant; that it agreed Exactly with the plan, and cousisted principally of In- terval L^nd, and that the Grant extended down the lliver within Eighty pole of the place where the Irish people had lately built a Tnesdaj/, Februari/ ije Sth, 1725. At a meeting of the committee — present, the same as before. Mr. Wainwright, clerk to the committee, was sworn to the faithful execution of his office. Coram : Eli sua Cooke, J. Pads. A true copy of the original : Examined l>y Johx Wainweigut, C. Clcrl: Agreed and Voted, That the committee meet at the liouse of Col. Tyng, at Dunstable, on Tuesday, the fiftli d.ay of April next, in order to proceed to Penny Cook, to lay out the land into lots, according to the Court's order. Agreed and Voted, That Col. Tyng be desired to prepare fifteen days' provis- ions for twenty men. Ordered, That the clerk put up notifications that the committee expect and direct each of the intended settlers to pay into the hands of the committee they have appointed for application for calling of meetings, the sura of forty shillings, for defraying the charge of the committee, the money to be ready at Col. Tyng's, at Dunstable, on or before the fifth day of April next. Attest : John Wainwkight, C. Clerk. March ye 2&h, 1726. Upon advice from Mr. Chairman, that the General Court would sit on the thirteenth of April next, and the committee being mem- bers of the Court, notifications were given out that the committee could not meet at the time proposed to go to Penny Cook. At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook, held at the house of Francis Holmes, in Boston, April 14, 172G : PRESENT, The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esqr., William Dud- ley, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder. Agreed and Voted, That the committee proceed to Haverhill on the second Tuesday of May next, in order to go to Penny Cook to lay out the lots and settlements, agreeable to the General Court's order. Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Wilder provide one surveyor and Mr. Wain- wright provide the other. Agreed and Voted, That the settlers' committee, viz., Messrs. Timothy John- son, Moses Day and Joshua Bayley, be desired to notify the settlers to get ready 74 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. fort : so that there remained but a small quantity of Interval, which would accommodate not half a score Home Lotts : so they had not laid any Lotts out that side the River. This day, fine pleasant Weather. It may be observed that divers Rattle Snakes were killed dayley by the several Companys in Surveying, but Thanks be to God no Body received any Harm from them. Tltursdaij, Ma// //'■ 10'/' This Morninp; the Com'''*' agreed to send ^P. Houghton and iM": Ilazzen, withy" Chainnien, (some of the Com- mittee concluding to be with them,) to finish the laying out the Lotts fifteen days' provision for the committee and tlicir attendants, which will be about twenty persons, with the committee. Agreed and Voted, That the settlers' committee be desired to notify the settlers that the committee expect and direct each of them to pay forty shillings to their Committee, to be ready at Iluverhill on the second Tuesday of May next, which is to defray the charge of the committee, surveyors and chainmen, &c. Attest: John Wainwrigiit, C. Cleric. At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook, held at Haverhill the tenth day of May, Anno Domini 172G — PRESENT, Tlic Honoralde William Taller, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder. Tiic committee, with the surveyors and chainmen, and a number of the admitted settlers attending them, proceeded to Penny Cook, and laid out one hundred and three home lots or divisions on the west side of the river, in equal proportion, according to quantity and quality, as near as the land would admit thereof, agreeable to the order and last direction of tiie Great and General Court, and then they returned to Haverhill, to receive the payment of two hun- dred pounds, to defray the charges of the survey of the town and laying out the home lots, as above said, and the said committee defrayed the said charges accordingly. Tlie settlers of the township at Penny Cook are hereby notified and warned to assemble and convene at the house of Mr. Francis Crumj)ton, at Ipswich, on Tuesday, the sixth day of September, at eleven of the clock before noon, to draw their respective lots according to the General Court's order, and raise the sum of one iumdred pounds, to defray the charge of laying out a way to the township, and other necessary charges, which may be thought reasonable to be allowed. By order of the committee : John Wainavbight, C. Clerk. Boston, August ye 27th, 1726. At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward tlie settlement at Penny Cook, held at the house of Mr. Francis Crumpton, at Ipswich, the seventh day of September, Anno Domini 172G : PRESENT, The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esqr., John Wain- PROPRIETAEY RECORDS. 75 on the West side the Eiver, agreeable to the Court's order. About Six of the Clock Col'! Tailer, M-; Wainwright and Col" Tyng, with Mf Coffin and 13 others, took their Leave of y" remaining part of the Committee and set out on their Journey back to Haverhill. Cloudy Weather and some small Showers. We baited on the Intervale to the Eastward of Suncook River, a few minutes, and then steered our Course for Amoskccg Falls, where we arrived about Eleven a' Clock, and found abundance of Irish men catching fish. By the account we could get of them, we supposed they killed in the season Seven or Wright, Esqr., Capt. Jolin Shipley, Mr. John Sanders and Eleazar Tyng, Esqr. The settlers came into the following orders and rules for the bringing forward and eft'ecting the settlement which the committee received from them, viz. : At a meeting of the proprietors of the town of Penny Cook, assembled at Ipswich, September ye 7th, 1726 — Agreed and Voted, That Capt. Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., be and is appointed treasm-er, to receive of the Honorable General Court's committee the money whicli they have received from said admitted settlers, and not expended in defraying their own charges, the said money to l)e disposed of in marking out and clearing a way to Penny Cook. Agreed and Voted, That there shall be three men chosen a committee to go out and clear a sufficient cart way to Penny Cook, the nighest and best way they can from Haverhill. For said committee were chosen, Ensn. John Chandler, of Andover; John Ayer, of Haverhill, and Mr. William Barker, of Andovcr. Agreed and Voted, That the said committee be paid out of the money which may be in tlie treasurer's hands, so far as that will go, [for their said service,] the remainder, if any be wanting, to be defrayed by the community. Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer be paid out of tlie treasury forty shillings, money for his service in searching the province i-ecords, in order to tind out any former grant of Penny Cook. Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer make application to the Honorable General Court at their next session in behalf of the admitted settlers of Penny Cook, in order to have the five hundred pounds abated, and the five hundred acres, [being an equivalent for Mr. Sewall's farm,] added to said township. The settlers completed their payment of twenty shillings eacli, making in the whole the sum of one hundred pounds to Mr. Chairman, inclusive of what orders were given to their treasurer for the delinquents to pay him. 1 7 9 G . At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at the township lately granted at Penny Cook, held at the Council Cliamber in Bos- ton, the third day of January, Anno Domini 1726 : PRESENT. The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wain- wright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder. Agreed and Voted, Tliat the charge of the settlers hitherto necessarily arising 76 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. Eight hundred Barrells of Shad. After some short tarry we set out for Nutfield, and in our way there we over took abundance of the Irish with loaded horses returning from Amoskeeg, and met a many of them going to the Falls for their Loads. About two a' Clock, af- ternoon, we arrived at Johny Barr's, at Nutfield, where we refreshed our Selves and our Horses, and made a considerable tarry there, and then sot out for Haverhill. We stoped a little while at Providence Brook, and about Sun down we arrived at M"". Eastman's in Safety, by Divine protection. M"; Bacheldor, the Surveyor, came back with us. for laying out a cart-way from Haverhill to the aforesaid township, &c., and be laid before the committee appointed by the settlers, viz. : Lt. Timothy Johnson and others, for their perusal and examination, and that they report their opinion to Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., of Andover, treasurer to the settlers, what charges ought to be allowed and paid, who is hereby ordered and directed to pay the same accordingly out of the settlers' money in his hands. Agreed and Voted, That the Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dud- ley, Esqr., and John Wainwright, Esq., be desired to meet at the dwelling-house of Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., in Andover, on Tuesday, the seventh day of Feb- ruary next, in order to receive of each settler a bond, with sufficient surety, for the sum of five pounds, that so they may draw their respective lots, and proceed on the premises granted, and effectually bring forward the said settlement, according to the grant of the General Court. Attest : John Wainwkight, C. Clerk. At a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement of the township at Penny Cook, held at Andover, the 7th and 8th of February, 1726 : PRESENT, The Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wain- wright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders. The committee proceeded to take a bond of five pounds from each -of the admitted settlers, under hand and seal respectively, for tlie payment of five hundred pounds for the use of this province, when the General Court shall order the committee to demand the same of them, on pcralty of forfeiting their title and interest, &c., in and to the lands respectively, as by the said bonds lodged in tlie hands of Mr. Chairman, and the clerk may fully appear, reference being there- unto had. The committee then allowed the settlers to draw their lots, which was accord- ingly done, as appears by the following list of their names and the lots entered to them : Enoch Coffin, N. 36, 26. John Peabody, N. 37, 27. Richard Urann, 42, 6, 3d range. Andrew Mitchell, N. 19, 13. Mr. Samuel Phillips, N. 25, 38. 2d range. Samuel Ayer, N. 5, 9, island range. John Grainger, N. 1 , 02, 2d range. Henry Eolfe, N. 45, 9, 3d range. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 77 The Andover men parted from us after we refreshed our selves at Johny Barr's, at Nutfield. Frida//, Mai/ if 20'/' This Morning cloudy, Lowry Weather, and very Sultry hot ; Wind Southerly. We sent for M^, Browne, the Minister of y^ Town, to dine with us. M'i Bacheldor, the Surveyor, was Employed in making a fair plann of the Interval on y'' East side of the River, which he surveyed. Saturday, Mai/ y'^ IVj- Fair Weather. The order of the Council of New-Hampshire, referred to in the foregoing journal, with other proceedings respecting Pena- cook, will be read with interest in the following documents, viz. : Extracts from the 3Iessage 0/ Lieut. Gov. Wentwortii to the General Assembly, held at Portsmouth, April 11, 1726. '' The Massachusetts are daily encroaching on us. A late instance we have in voting a Township should be erected and settled at Pen- nycook, which will certainly be in the very bowels of this Province, and which will take iu the most valuable part of our Lands. " I would therefore recommend this matter to your mature consid- eration ; and am pursuaded that you will consult such measures that John Sanders, junr., N. 21, 15. Thomas Page, N. 3, 49. William Barker, N. 36, ."ig, 3(1 range. Isaac Walker, N. 28, 33, 2d range. Joseph Davis, N. 44, 8, 3d range. John Coggin, N. 10, 71, 3d range. Benjamin Parker, N. 37, 1, 3d range. Edward Clarke, N. 7, 4, island range. Stephen Osgood, 8, 3, island range. Benjamin Gage, N. 8, 0, lowest range. Moses Day, N. 25, 19, David Kimball, 24, 18. Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., N. 1, 5, island range. John Chandler, N. 7, 68, 2d range. Ebenczcr Virgin, N. 6, 10, island range. John Pecker, 23, 17. Moses Hazzen, N. 31, 37. William Gutterson, N. 27, 21. Joseph Hale, N. 29, 45. Ephraim Davis, N. 10, 2. John Wright, N. 33, 29. Jacob Eanies, N. 33, 40, 2d range. Jacob Abbott, N. 12, 47. Christopher Carlton, N. 5, 7. Nathaniel Page, N. 34, 28, 2d range. 78 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. may be not only serviceable, but for the honour of His Majesty's Province, v/hich I assure you I shall cheerfully embrace. " I have lately represented this affair to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and have transmitted the best and exactest draught of this Province, Merrimack River and situation of Penni- cook to their Lordships, praying their f^ivour in obtaining a settlement of the lines, giving instances where in it highly concerns the interest of the Crown." The General Assembly, in reply to this part of the Governor's message, say : " As to the settling the lines between the Governments, we shall take it under our serious consideration." Pro : OF ] At a Council held at Portsmouth, llmj W', 1726. N. HaMP. I PRESENT, His Honour Jno : Wentwortii, Esq., L^. Gov"! Mark Hun king, '\ Eich° Wibird, Geo : Jaferey, ^ Esq^. Joth : 0j:)I0Rne. Shad* Walton, ) It being reported to the board that in Pursuance of a late vote of the Gen' Assembly of the Province of Mass^ sundry persons are go- ing or gone to lay out and take possession of and settle upon some of Samuel Kimball, N. 18, 103, 2d range. Nathan Simonds, N. 31, 31, 2d range. David Dodge, N. 4, 48. Robert Peaslee, N. 26, 20. Richard Coolidge, right drawn by Sam'l Jones, N. 39, 3, 3d range. Thomas Wicomb, N. 14, 55, 2d range. Robert Kimball, N. 43, 7, 3d range. John Saunders, N. 13, 54, 2d range. Nathaniel Clement, N. 6, lowest range. Ebenezer Lovcjoy, N. 4, 8, island range. John Osgood, N. 11, lowest range. Zerobbabel Snow, N. 35, 61, 3d range. Ebenezer Eastman, N. 9, 70, 2d range. Jonathan Shipley, N. 5, 66, 2d range. John Austin, N. 7, 5. Edward Winn, N. 34, 25. Ebenezer Stevens, N. 17, 58, 2d range. Joseph Page, N. 29, 32, 2d range. Samuel Davis, N. 46, 10, 3d range. Ephraini Hildreth, N. 10, lowest range. James Parker, N. 28, 22. Nathan Lovejoy, N. 22, 16. Samuel Reynolds, N. 16, 10. John Foster, N. 20, 14. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 79 his Majesty's lands within the limits of this Province, at or near a Place called Pennecook, without the consent of this Goverum' for so doing; which is not only unneighborly, but unjustifiable, and has a tendency to the destroying the mast trees fit for Flis Majesty's ser- vice that may be growing thereon ; which the Lieu": Gov^. and Council in faithfulness to His IMajesty, and in discharge of the trust reposed in them, cannot pass by without bearing testimony against : It is therefore Ordered, That a Committee in behalf of this Govern*, viz. : Messrs. Nath' Weare, Theo'} Atkinson and Ftichard Waldrou, jun., immedi- ately repair to s'' Pennecook, and forewarn any persons whom they may find there or thereat from laying out, taking possession of, or settling at or near the place called Pennecook, or presuming to ap- propriate any other of His Majesty's lands within this Province, till they shall have the countenance and grant of this Govern* for so James Simonds, N. 41, 5, 3d range. Joseph Parker, N. 24, 39, 2d range. Natlian Fisk's right drawn by Zech. Chandler, N. 4, 65, 2d range. Zebediah Barker's right drawn by Edw'd Abbott, N. 16, 57, 2d range. John Bayley's right drawn by Samuel White, N. 14, 8. William Whittier, N. 6, 6. Joshua Baylcy, N. 33, 24. Ammi Ehuhamah Wise, N. 26, 35, 2d range. William White, N. 7, lowest range. Nathaniel Peaslee, N. 1, lowest range. Thomas Colm.an, N. 8, 4. John Jaques, N. 17, 11. Obadiah Aver, N. 5, lowest range. Abraham Fostei% N. 3, 64, 2d range. John Mattis, N. 20, 43, 2d range. John Merrill, N. 27, 34, 2d range. Thos. Pearley, for Nath'l Cogswell, N. 38, 2, 3d range. David Wood, No. 9, 2, island range. Nathaniel Abbott, N. 12, 53, 2d range. John Ayer, N. 2, 6, island range. Nathan Blodgett, N. 15, 56, 2d range. Benja. Carlton, N. 18, 12. Jona. Hubbard, for Daniel Davis, N. 30, 36. Ephraim Farnum, N. 15, 9. Stephen Emerson, N. 9, 3. Timothy Johnson, N. 10, 1, island range. Nath'l Barker's right drawn by Solomon Llartin, N. 19, 44, 2d r. Nehemiah Heath, N. 3, 7, island range. Nathaniel Sanders, N. 32, 30, 2d range. Nathaniel Jones, N. 6, 67, 2d range. Samuel Grainger, N. 22, 41, 2d range. Thomas Blanchard, N. 21, 42, 2d range. 80 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. doing ; and to direct them in an amicable way fortliwitli to withdraw themselves from the s"* land, and their Pretensions to it by virtue of the aforesaid vote of the Gcn> Assembly of the Massachusetts. R. Waluron, Clerk Conns. In obedience to an order of His Hon., the Lieul GovF, and the non''"e the Council, made the 10^'' Instant, appointing us a Com- mittee, with directions to repair immediately to Pennccook and forewarn any persons whom we might find there from laying out or settling upon that place or any other of His Majesty's lands within this Govern^, as by the s'' order will more at large and fully appear. We have been at s«i Pennecook, where we found his Hon., CoK' Will. Tailer, Esq., Jn'; Wainwright, Esq., and Col" Elea>- Tyng, Esq., with sundry others, (mostly unknown to us,) to the number of near forty men, who were felling the trees and laying out the lands there : Whereupon we presented them with the order of Court aforesaid, and assured them that their proceedings were highly displeasing to the Government which sent us thither, and that their prcsisting Nicholiis White, N. 3, lowest range. Jonathan Fulsepher, N. 4, lowest range. Kichard Hazzen, junr., N. 9, lowest range. Samuel Toppan, N. 2, 63, 2d range. Moses Bordman, right drawn by Josiah Jones, N. 32, 23. Bezalicl Toppan, N. 11, 52, 2d range. Thomas Learned, N. 40, 4, 3d range. Joseph Hall, N. 2, lowest range. Nehemiah Carlton, N. 13, 46. Benja. Niecols, N. 11, 1. Minister's lot, N. 1, 51 Ministerial lot, N. 2, 50. School lot, N. 11, 60. N. Parker, N. 8, 69, 2d range. Lots in number, 103. The settlers came into the following orders, votes and rules, for the more speedy bringing forward and securely effecting the settlement, which were pre- sented to the committee for their consideration, and allowed and approved of by them. At a general meeting of the intended settlers of a tract of land called Penny Cook, held at Andover the eighth day of February, Anno Domini 1726, Agreed and Voted, That a block house of twenty-five feet in breadth and forty feet in length, be built at Penny Cook for the security of the settlers. Agreed and Voted, That John Chandler, Moses Hazzen, Nehemiah Carlton, Nathan Simonds and Ebenezer Stevens, be a committee, and they are hereby empowered to build, either by themselves, or to agree with workmen to build, a block house of twenty-five feet in breadth, and forty feet in length, as in their judgment shall be most for the security of the settlers. Agreed and Voted, That Benjamin Stevens, Esq., be treasurer for the settlers. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 81 therein would be at their peril ; for that they might depend upon it when the controversial boundary between the two Provinces should be determined, the poor misled people who might be induced to settle there under the colour of a Mass. Grant would be dispossessed of the said lands, or suffer some other inconveniences equally grievous, and that the message on which we were sent, and the fair forewarning they had by us, would take away all occasions of complaint when they should be compelled to leave the s'' lands and lose the benefit of their improvement. To which the gentlemen above named were pleased to reply, that as we were sent by the Govern"^ of N. Hampshire, so were they by the Govern^ of Mass., and that when they returned home they shall lay before their Gen. Assembly the order of Coun. which we had delivered them, who without doubt would pass thereon, as they, the said Gen' Assembly, should think proper. Nats'- Weare, Rich" Waldron, Theodore Atkinson.* Dated at Portsmouth, the IS'h May, 1726. On the 28th June, 1726, Mr. Dummer, agent in London, was instructed by the government of Massachusetts " to take care and answer any complaint" that New-Hampshire might send home against the grant of Penacook, lately made ; and he was furnished Agreed and Voted, Tliat Timotliy Jolinson, Jolm Osgood and Moses Day, be chosen, appointed and empowered to examine tlie charges that siiall arise in Imilding a block house at the place called Penny Cook, or any other charges that shall arise in the bringing forward the settlement, and to allow, as in their judg- ment shall be just and equal, and also to draw money out of the treasury for the defraying of said charges. Agreed and Voted, That the sum of one hundred pounds be raised and paid by the settlers into the hands of Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., treasurer for defraying the charges that arc past, or that shall necessarily arise in bringing forward the intended settlement, to be paid in to said Benja. Stevens, Esqr., by the first day of March next, in equal proportion. Enoch Coffin dissented. Agreed and Voted, That a committee of five persons on oath, three whereof to be a quorum, be chosen out of the number of the intended settlers, to lay out the remaining part of the interval at the place called Penny Cook, that is not yet laid out, so that the whole of the interval already laid out, or to be laid out to the settlers, shall be equal in quantity and quality. Agreed and Voted, That John Chandler, Henry Rolfe, William White, Rich- ard Hazzen, junr., and John Osgood, be a committee, chosen and empowered to lay out the interval at the place called Penny Cook, that is not yet laid out, so * Documents for Chap. HI., No. 2 — " E.xpenses," &c. 6 82 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. with the necessary papers. And, on the 8th of August, Mr. Henry Newman, agent of New-Hampshire, addressed the fol- loAving letter To the Right Honorable, the Lords Comm'^f of Trade and Plantations. May it please your Lordships : I have just now received Letters from New-Hampshire complaining of the encroachment of the Massachusetts Province, hy selling, grant- ing and laying out great quantities of land near the centre of the Province of New-Hampshire, at a place called Peunecook. 1 have some time since lodged in the Council Office, to he laid be- fore his Majesty, a Memorial, requesting that the boundaries of these Provinces may be settled, so as to prevent any future disputes be- tween their respective governments, which I presume will be referred to your Lordships ; but as that may require time to be considered, I humbly beg your Lordships would be pleased, in the meanwhile, to interpose your authority for securing his Majesty's interest in the Province of New Hampshire, from any detriment by the grants al- ready made, and for suspending all grants of land on or near the boundaries in dispute, till his Majesty's pleasure therein shall be I am, with the greatest respect, Your Lordship's most obedient. Middle Temple, ^^^^^^ ^^^^^VJ^' 8"^ August, 1726.* H^^^^' Newman. that the whole of the interval already laid out or to be laid out to the settlers shall be equally divided among them as to quantity and quality. Agreed, That Jonathan Hubbard be admitted a settler in place of Daniel Davis, who was admitted a settler of Penny Cook by the Honorable General Court's Committee, appointed to admit persons to settle Penny Cook. Agreed arid Voted, That three pence per tail for every rattlesnake's tail, the rattlesnake being killed within the bounds of the townsliip granted at Penny Cook, be paid hy the intended settlers ; the money to be paid by tiie settlers' treasurer, upon sight of the tail. By the Committee of the General Court — Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Rich- ard Hazzen, junr., be desired to draw a plan of the township of Penny Cook, at the charge of the settlers, to be annexed to the town's book, for the use thereof. The committee adjusted the accounts of the sum of four hundred pounds they received of the settlers, the balance of which, being forty-nine shillings and five pence, was lodged in the hands of the clerk. Agreed and Voted, That the settlers petition to the General Court about set- tling on the west side, founded on the report of the committee with the order of Court thereon, allowing their settlement on the west side of the river to be re- corded, which is in the words following : The committee appointed by the Great and General Court, in their session * From the original in the Secretarj's office. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 83 At a meeting held at Ipswich, on the 9th of September, 172G, Ens. John Chandler, John Ayer and William Barker were chosen a committee of the proprietors "to go out and clear a sufficient cart-way to Penny Cook — the nighest and best way they can from Haverhill." Richard Hazzen, also, was one who went " to search out a way from the place where Chester meeting-house stands to Penny Cook, and mark the same." This way was partly cleared during the fall, and, according to tradition, several persons, among whom were Henry Rolfe and Richard Urann, passed the winter of 1726 in the settlement — suffering severely from the cold, and for want of suitable provisions ; and that they were relieved by the aid of friendly Indians who still dwelt there. In January, 1726, (the reader will bear in mind that this is old style — the year then commencing the 25th of March,) the committee of the Court, having taken a bond of five pounds from each of the admitted settlers for their lots, to be paid on demand, begun and held in November last, to bring forward a settlement and admit one hundred persons therein on a tract of land lying on Merrimack river, at a place there known by the name of Penny Cook, and having given sufficient notice for any persons that were ready and would engage in the settlement, to meet the committee at Haverhill, the first week in February last. The committee at that time and place admitted one hundred persons or grantees into the said tract or grant, giving preference to the petitioners that appeared to us the most suitable therefor. And in May last we proceeded to the place, in oi'der to lay out the whole township, and the lots directed in the order of the General Court, begin- ning at the mouth of Contoocook river, where that joins Merrimack river, and thence run a line east seventeen degrees north, three miles, and upon a course west seventeen degrees south, four miles, and so at right angles at the extremes of each of the aforesaid lines, seven miles southerly each, and thence from the termination of the seven miles which complete the grant, and is according thereto ; and upon view and strict survey of the lands on the east side of Mer- rimack, we find that there is little or no water, the land near the river extreme mountainous and almost impassable, and very unfit for and incapable of receiv- ing fifty families, as the Court has ordered ; more especially considering that near the centre of the town on the east side of the river Merrimack the Honor- able Samuel Sewall, Esqr., has a farm of five hundred acres of good land, for- merly granted by this Court, and laid out to Gov'r Endicott. The committee, therefore, with submission to the Honorable General Court, thought it advisable, and accordingly have laid out one hundred and three lots of land for settlements on the west side, contiguous to each other, regularly, and in a defensible man- ner, as by the plat of them and of the whole grant, [which is hereby presented,] will appear ; and inasmuch as the generality of the land answers not the grantees' 84 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. then allowed the settlers to draw their lots, which resulted as stated in the list presented above in the records. The figures represent the house and six acre home lots. Thus — "Enoch Coffin, N. 36, 26," means that Enoch Coffin drew house lot number thirty-six, and home lot — six acres — number twenty- six. All the house and home lots recorded in the list were on the west side of the river. By reference to the map at the close of this chapter — drawn from original plans, and carefully arranged by Stephen C. Badger, Esq. — the primitive house and home lots may be identified, and their exact location deter- mined. The ranges — such as "2d range," "Island range," '* 3d range," " Lowest range," &c. — are explained on the map. 17 2 7. The lots being drawn, the proprietors, at a meeting in An- dover, on the 8th of February, 1726, voted to build a block- expectation, and five hundred acres laid out as aforesaid, humbly offer that the like number of acres of the unappropriated lands adjacent to the township may be made to the settlers as an equivalent therefor. All which is humbly submitted. Signed by order of the Committee, Wm. Tailek. In Council, June 15th, 1726. Read and sent down. In the House of Representatives, June 15th, 1726. Read and ordered, Tiiatthis report be so far accepted as that the settlers or grantees be and hereby are em- powered and allowed to make their settlements on the western side of the river Merrimack, according as it is proposed in the said report, and projected in and by the said plan ; the former order of Court notwithstanding, and the said committee are directed to proceed accordingly. Sent up for concurrence. Wji. Dudley, Speak'r. In Council, June 2Uh, 1726. Read and concurred. J. WiLLARD, Sec'ry. Consented to : Wm. Dummer. A copy from file composed and examined from the original. By J. WiLLARD, Sec'ry. A true copy. Examined by John Wainwright, C. Clerk. Attest : John Wainwright, C. Cleric. PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY. Tb John Wainwright, ^s^.. Clerk to the Committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook : At the desire of the admitted settlers of the said town, these are to empower and direct you to set up a notification in the towns of Andover, Bradford and PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 85 house, twentj-fivc feet in breadth and forty feet m length, -which should serve the double purpose of a fort and a meeting-house. Then, to meet and defray all expenses as they went along — or, rather, in advance, — they agreed to raise and pay into the hands of their Treasurer, Benjamin Stephens, Esq., the sum of one hundred pounds by the first day of March, in equal proportion ; chose a committee to lay out the remainder of the interval " that is not yet laid out" — including all on the east side, and a portion also on the west side. In the records this is called " The Second Division of Intervale at Fenni/ CooJc.'^* This division was sur- veyed and laid out in May, 1727, by Richard Ilazzen, Jr., surveyor, and was accepted by the Court's committee in the following March. The division on the east side comprised Twenty-four lots on the Mill Brook Interval, first range ; Twelve lots on the Mill Brook Interval, second range ; Sixteen lots on the Sugar Ball Plain ; Twenty-eight lots on the Middle Plain ; " Which lots were numbered from the upper end dotvn Merri- mack river." Haverhill, warning them to assemble and convene at the house of John Gi'iffin, in Bradford, inn-holder, on Wednesday, the sixth day of March next, at ten of tlie clock before noon, then and there to receive the return of the committee of the settlers to lay out a way, &c., from Haverhill to Penny Cook, and to settle accounts with the treasurer, and to take effectual measures to oblige any settlers to pay the arrears of any former grants of money for the bringing forward the settlement, if any such there be, and generally empowering the settlers at said anniversary meeting to come into such good and wholesome rules, votes and orders for the speedy and effectual settlement of the said town, agreeable to the conditions of the grant thereof from tlie General Court, as they may then judge proper and necessary : — provided there l)e two at least of the General Court's committee present at the said meeting, and approving of the votes the settlers shall then pass before they are entered in the town book. Given under our hands at Boston, the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini 1727. Wm. Tailee, Spen'r Phipps, Wii. Dudley, John Wainwright, Eleazar Ttng. [The meeting of the admitted settlers was held at the house of John Griffin, in Bradford, agreeable to notification, March 6, 1727.] *See Records, Mar. 7, 1727-8, and explanation at the close of tliis cliapter. 86 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. The division of the Lowest Interval, on the east side, in which the " lots were numbered from the town Hne up Merrimack river, consisted of thirtj-one lots, with a drift-way of three rods wide through the westerly end of the thirty-first lot. In the same " Second Division" were included seventeen lots on " Rattle-snake Plains," numbered iqj the river ; sixteen lots at " Frogg Ponds," together with lots to several individuals, as appears in the record. No plan being found of the lots in the Second Division, they cannot easily, if at all, be identified. By reference to the annexed list the quantity of lands and their locality, as designated by particular names, may be seen. The section called " Rattle-snake Plains" included the interval lands from " Farnum's Eddy," so called, to the hills and bluffs which border the river, north-east of West Parish village. The Agreed and Voted, That Solomon Martin be admitted a settler in the place of Nathaniel Barker's right, who, refusing to pay his proportionable charge, the same was paid by the said Solomon Martin to the treasurer, the 8th of Feb'ry last. Agreed and Voted. That the sum of twenty -six pounds be allowed and paid out of the settlers' treasury to the persons to whom the same is respectively due, to discharge the account of laying out the second division of interval. Agreed and Voted, That the sum of one hundred and thirteen pounds seven- teen shillings be allowed and paid out of the treasury to the persons to whom the same is respectively due, for building the block house, making canoes, &c., in full discharge of said accounts. Agreed and Voted, That Ebenezer Eastman, Joseph Hall and Abraham Foster lie a committee appointed and empowered to amend the new way to Penny Cook from Haverhill, and to fence in all the first division of interval, — the said fence to begin at the corner of John Peabody's house lot next the river, and so to run along the foot of the home lots to Horse Shoe Pond, where a gate is to hang; tlien to begin at the corner of David Wood's house-lot by the pond, and thence to the upper end of Walter Nummons' field, along by the hill side, and tliere hang a gate, or leave a pair of bars, — each proprietor to have liberty to fence in his proportion, or else to pay the committee for doing it, — which fence shall be erected and finished by the last day of May next. The eleven lots in the lowest interval are excepted out of this vote, and any person who neglects to make up his proportion of fence by the aforesaid time, he shall pay ten shillings per day to the committee who makes it up. Agreed and Voted, That the committee aforesaid shall set out each settler's proportion of fence by the middle of May next. Agreed and Voted, Tiiat Messrs. Joseph Hall and John Pecker be a com- mittee empowered to agree with a minister to preach at Penny Cook the year ensuing, to begin the service from the fifteenth day of filay next. The said committee are directed to act with all prudence, and not assure tlie gentleman PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 87 hill west of this interval was formerly called Rattle-snake Hill — now more commonly known as Granite Hill. Three pence per tail was offered as a reward by the settlers for every rattle- snake's tail that should be killed within bounds of the township — to be paid " upon sight of the tail." Richard Hazzen, Jr., who surveyed the " Second Division," was desired by the committee of the General Court " to draw a plan of the Township of Penny Cook, at the charge of the settlers, to be annexed to the Town's Book ;" but no such plan is now to be found. The tradition is, that he drew the plan, but, on account of some misunderstanding about the pay for it, he burnt it up. In a deposition given by Mr. Hazzen, in 1752, he says — "That during the time he was laying out said lots there was constantly near fifty of the Proprietors of said Plan- tation at work, or persons whom they hired, as he understood more than after the rate of one hundred pounds per annum for his services, and to make report of their proceedings to the settlers. Agreed and Voted, That the sum of one hundred pounds be forthwith raised on the settlers in equal proportion, and put into the hands of the treasurer for defraying the necessary charges that have already ai-isen, or which shall hereafter arise for effecting the settlement. Adjourned to three o'clock, post meridian. Agreed and Voted, That Ebenezer Stevens, Moses Hazzen, John Coggin and Benjamin Carlton, be, and are herebj- empowered, appointed and chosen col- lectors, to demand and receive of the settlei's respectively, as soon as may be, all such sum and suras as have been raised on said settlers and not paid by them or any of them, according to the grants for raising the money ; and the said collector or collectors are hereby constituted and appointed attorney or attor- neys respectively, if need be, in the name and behalf and for the use of the set- tlers, to sue for and recover in the law the sum or sums raised on any settler or settlers as aforesaid, who shall neglect to pay the same ; and the said collectors are directed to pay the money they collect unto the treasurer, the charge of col- lection to be paid by the settlers. Agreed and Voted, That Deacon John Osgood be chosen treasurer, and is hereby empowered to adjust accounts witli Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., the former treasurer, and receive of him any money which he has received of any settler or settlers, and not yet paid out. Agreed and Voted, To pay Deacon Osgood and Capt. Rolfe, out of the treas- ury, twenty shillings for the charge in preferring a petition to the General Court in behalf of settlers. Agreed and Voted, That the treasurer be empowered and directed to pay to John Wainwright, Esqr., clerk to the committee, according to law, for recording all the votes of this present meeting, upon his certificate of the charge. 88 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. from them. Some were building the Meeting House; some were clearing and fencing in their lots, and others were plowing up their land: and that Ebenezer Eastman, one of the Pro- prietors, worked constantly in said Plantation during the whole time he was there, laying out lands." According to tradition, Ebenezer Eastman's team — six yoke of oxen, with a cart — was the first that crossed the wilderness from Haverhill to Pena- cook. It was driven by Jacob Shute, who, in order to get safely down Sugar Ball bank, felled a pine tree and chained it, top foremost, to his cart, to stay the motion of it down the precipice.* While the proprietors of Penacook were thus vigorously bring- ing forward their plantation, under the auspices of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, the government of New-Hamp- shire, on the 20th of May, 1727, made a grant to Jonathan Wiggin and others, of the tract comprised within the following The consideration of the ferrv and mills is referred to the adjournment of this meeting. Agreed and Voted, That the treasurer be directed to pay to John Wainwright, Esq., for his service and expense in attending at the meeting of the Penny Cook settlers, according to the usual custom. Arjreed and Voted, That the treasurer be directed and empowered to pay Mr. John Sanders fifteen shillings, for his service and expense in attending on the present meeting. A coptj of the Settlers' Discharge to the General Court's Committee for the first four hundred pounds. Received of John Wainwright, Esqr., clerk to the committee of the General Court, appointed to bring forward the settlement of Penny Cook, March 7th, 1727, the sum of two pounds, nine shillings and five pence, being the balance of an account of four hundred pounds paid by the said settlers of Penny Cook at sundry times to the said committee, which account was adjusted at a meeting of the settlers, held at Andover, the 8th of February, 1726, and the said balance was then lodged in tlie said Wainwright's hands, as appears by the Penny Cook book. ^2, 9, 6. John Osgood, Trcasr to tje Settlers. A true copy of the original receipt. Attest: John Wainweight, C. Clerk. This meeting is adjourned to Wednesday, the fifteenth of May next, at ten o'clock, to be held at the block house in Penny Cook. Attest: John Wainwright, C. Clerk. *Seo further notice of Jacob Shute in Biograpliical Chapter. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 89 bounds, viz. : " Beginning on the south-east side of the town of Chichester, and running nine miles bj Chichester and Canter- bury, and carrying that breadth of nine miles from each of the aforesaid towns, south-west, until the full complement of eighty- one square miles are fully made up." This grant, covering the greater part, both of Concord and Pembroke, and a part of IIop- kinton, gave rise to a vexatious controversy between the claim- ants under each grant, which was continued from 1750 till 1762, of which we shall speak in full hereafter. Robert Bradley, Esq., of Fryeburg, relates that his grand- father, Samuel Ayer, when a young man of eighteen years of age, drove a team of six or ten pairs of oxen from Plaverhill to Penacook, with a barrel of pork ; that on reaching Sugar Ball hill, he took off all but the hind team, and let the cart down the hill by fastening to it a pine tree, which was cut down and At a meeting of the admitted settlers to bring forward the settlement of the township of Penny Cook, began and held at the house of John Griffin, inn- holder, in Bradford, the 6th day of March, Anno Domini 1727, and from thence continued by adjournment to Wednesday, the fifteenth day of May, then next following, at ten of the clock, and held at the block house in Penny Cook — Capt. Henry Rolfe, moderator, being present, Voted, That Capt. Henry Rolfe, Messrs. Ebenezer Eastman and James Mitch- ell be a committee to agree with some person or persons to build a saw mill at Penny Cook, at some suitable place for a mill, and to oblige the persons who shall build the same to .supply the town with good merchantable boards of yellow pine at thirty shillings per thousnnd, and good merchantable white pine boards at forty shillings per thousand, — or else to saw of each sort to the halves ; the said mill to be ready to go and cut within six months ; and to agree with some person or persons to erect and build a grist mill at Penny Cook, in some place convenient for the same, and to oblige the persons with whom they shall agree, to grind the town's corn of all sorts, well and free from grit, for the usual toll ; said mill to be ready to go and grind within one year from this day, or as much sooner as they can. The said committee are to indent and agree with persons to build said mills upon the conditions following, viz. : That as soon as said mills are built, fifty pounds in bills of credit shall be paid by the community to the builders of the saw mill, and fifty pounds more to the builders of the grist mill ; and, secondly, to lay out fifty acres of land to the said saw mill, as con- venient as may be, and also fifty acres more to the said grist mill, to be laid out as convenient as may be. And lastly, that the persons that shall build said mills shall be entitled to the said lands and also the stream or streams upon which the said mills shall stand and be, so long as they are kept in good repair, and the end and design of the town in having said mills built answered. And in case the said committee cannot find persons that will undertake to build the 90 THE PL.\NTATION OF PENACOOK. trimmed so tliat tlie sharp and stubby limbs dragging behind would retard the motion of the cart. In swimming the oxen across the river to the Avest side, one ox was drowned, but was immediately dressed for beef. Young Ayer is supposed to be the first person who ploughed a field in Penacook. He started, on his return to Haverhill, at sunrise, and did not arrive there till midnight. It is conceded that Ebenezer Eastman's family ■was the first that settled in Penacook in 1727. The proprietors were exact in requiring each one to bear his part of expenses, as they were incurred ; and in case of refusing to do this, the right to a settlement was forfeited. Hence Solo- mon INIartin was admitted a settler in place of Nathaniel Barker ; and, subsequently, (1730,) WiUiam Whitcher, Nathaniel San- ders, Thomas Coleman and Thomas Wicombe, forfeited their rights, and their lots were taken by Joseph Gerrish, Henry said mills as aforesaid, tlien they are desired to proceed and build the said mills at the cost and charge of the community, as soon as may be, not exceeding the time above-mentioned. Agreed, That the undertakers to Imild the saw mill and grist mill shall be entitled to said lands of fifty acres to each mill, and the stream or streams, in case the mills arc built as aforesaid and providentially consumed, that then not- withstanding, the builder or builders shall be entitled to the stream or streams, or lands. Agreed upon and Voted, That Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. Abraham Foster and Mr. Joseph Hall shall be a committee to agree with some suitable person to keep a ferry on Merrimack river at Penny Cook, in the most convenient place they can find for that purpose ; and that they lay out and clear the best way they can to the ferry place, and after they have stated the place where the said ferry shall be kept, that the ferry-men shall have and receive the prices following, viz. : For ferrage of each m.an and horse, six pence ; for each horned beast, four pence ; and this establishment to remain and be in force for six years. Agreed upon and Voted, That Capt. Henry Rolfe, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman and James Mitchell be empowered to exchange Samuel Jones's house lot to some more convenient place, there being no conveniency for water where the lot is now laid. Agreed upon and Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the house of Mr. Griffin, in Bradford, on the last Tuesday of October next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon. Henky Rolfe, Moderator. A true copy — Attest : John Wainwright, C. Clerk. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 91 Rolfe, Esq., Nathan Webster and Joseph Parker — they paying, severally, five pounds for said lots.* 172 8. The spring of 1728 opened upon the new plantation with most favorable auspices. Eager to fulfil the conditions of their grant, and to become settled in their chosen home, a large number of the propi-ietors were early engaged in building houses ; clearing, fencing and plowing their lands. The block, or meeting-house, was finished ; canoes constructed for navigating the river ; the new-way to Pennycook from Haverhill was improved, and the First Division of interval ordered to be completely fenced by the last of May. Messrs. Joseph Hale and John Pecker were chosen a committee to agree with a minister to preach at Pen- nycook — to begin the 15th of May, — but they were not to Andover, December the lOth, 1728. To the Honorable Committee for Penny Cook : Whereas those men which liave been empowered for building the meeting-house at Penny Cook, and laying out land, are kept out of their money, arc in want of it, and they can't come at it : "We, the subscribers, humbly pray that a meeting be appointed for the community and society of Penny Cook, to consult some way and method how every man may come by his just dues, and also to see if they can come into some way and method to preserve their corn, — we received great damage the last year in our corn for want of fence, — and also to see whether those men that first went to wait upon the Honorable Committee to Penny Cook may have allowance for their sei-vice therein, and to do such other matters as may be thought necessary for the interest of the settlers. TiMOTHT Johnson, John Foster, John Chandler, John Osgood, WiLLiAsi Barker, Abraham Foster, Ebenezer Stevens, Joseph Abbott. Due notification being issued upon this petition. 1729, N. S. At a meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook, regularly assembled at Andover, the 8th day of January, Anno Domini 1728, at the said meeting were present the Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., and Mr. John Saunders, of the General Court's Committee. Voted, That Ens'n John Chandler be moderator of this meeting. Voted, That Bcnja. Stevens, Esq., be chosen and empowered to prefer a peti- tion to the Honorable Genei-al Court in behalf of the settlers of Penny Cook, * See Document for Chap. III., No. 3. 92 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. " assure the gentleman more than after the rate of one hundred pounds per annum for his service." In answer to a petition presented by John Osgood, in behalf of the settlers, — prajing that an allowance might be made them for the five hundred acres formerly laid out to the right of Gov. Endicott — the General Court, on the 6th of August, this year, authorized them " to extend the south bounds of the township one hundred rods, the full breadth of their town," and the same was confirmed to them as an " equivalent for the afore- said five hundred acres." Arrangements were also made for building a saw-mill within six months, a grist-mill within one year, and to establish a ferry at the most convenient place. The first grist-inill stood at or near the bark-mill now owned by Robinson & Morrill, in the East Village, and the saw-7niU, on the same stream, about half a mile above. The mill-crank was brought upon a horse from Ha- that they will be pleased to declare the said township to lie in the county of Essex, or some county. l^'oted, That the sum of six pounds he allowed and paid out of the settlers' treasury to the Honorable Col. Tailer, and Col. Wainwright, Esqrs., for their service in the Penny Cook affair, January 8th,l 728-9, and Deacon John Os- good, the present treasurer, is directed to pay the same accordingly. Voted, That the meeting be adjourned to the house of Mr. John Griffin, in Bradford, to Wednesday, the twelfth day of March next, at nine of the clock before noon. Attest : John Wainavright, C. Clerk. Upon adjournment on the twelfth day of March, 1728, the proprietors and settlers of the lands called Penny Cook met at the house of Mr. John Griffin, in Bradford, and tlie moderator, Ensign John Chandler, opened the meeting. Voted, That a good and substantial fence, according to law, be made, so as to enclose the great interval, and secure the corn and mowing grass from the en- croachment of cattle, horses, &c., and that the said fence be made at the charge of the proprietors in said field in equal shares or parts, except Mr. John Ayer, who is excused for that he has no improvable land on the west side of the river, and that the said fence be made up and finished, completely finished, on or before the fifteenth day of Jlay next. Voted, That Messrs. Ebenezer Eastman, Ebenezer Stevens, John Chandler, John Pecker and Nathan Simonds, be a committee to view the fence and see that the same be made sufficient, according to law, and maintained accordingly ; and in case any one shall refuse to make and maintain his part of the fence, it shall and may be in the power of the committee to hire the fence made at the PROPRIETARY RECORDS. ' 93 verhill. Soon after commencing operations the crank was broken. How to remedy the evil they knew not, as there was no black- smith nearer than Haverhill. One of the men, who had once been in a blacksmith's shop and seen them work, undertook to mend it. Collecting together a quantity of pitch-pine knots for a fire, they fastened the crank with beetle rings and wedges, and then welded the disjointed parts. The crank was afterwards used many years. For the grist-mill fifty pounds Avere allowed, and fifty acres of land granted to Nathan Symonds, as near to the mill as was convenient. 1729-1T30. It appears from the records that Rev. Bazaleel Toppan and Rev. Enoch Coffin, both of whom were proprietors, had been em- ployed to preach to the settlers. The first was allowed and paid thirty shillings in full discharge for his services ; and " the heirs charge of the delinquent, and every such delinquent shall pay ten shillings per diem for eveiy laborer who shall be employed and hired by said committee to make or repair such delinquent's fence. Voted, That fourteen pounds, two shillings, be allowed and paid unto the sev- eral men who have laid their account before us for mending the highways to Penny Cook, in full discharge of said accounts. Voted, That Mr. Bezaliel Toppan be allowed and paid out of the proprietors' treasury, for preaching and performing divine service at Penny Cook, thirty shillings in full discharge. Voted, That the sum of four pounds be allowed and paid unto the heirs of the Reverend Enoch Coffin, deceased, for his preaching and performing divine ser- vice at Penny Cook, in full discharge. Then the proprietors by unanimous vote desired the moderator to adjourn the meeting to this place, to the first Tuesday of May next, at nine o'clock, which was accordingly done. To which time this meeting stands adjourned. Copy. JouN Chandler, Moderator. 1799. At a regular meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook, begun and held at Ando- ver, the eighth day of January, Anno Domini 1728, and from thence continued by sundry adjournments to the house of John Griffin, in Bradford, to the sixth day of May, Anno Domini 1729, and then met. Ensign John Chandler, Moderator. 94 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. of the Rev. Enoch Coffin, deceased,'" were allowed and paid four pounds for his services. But as the settlers were resolved to have a minister permanently established among them, in Oc- tober, 1729, thej voted to raise one hundred pounds " towards the support of an orthodox minister;" and, October 14, 1730, in obedience to the order of the General Court's committee, voted, Whereas several persons the last year lost their corn which was growing at Penny Cook, by reason of sundry disorderly persons who failed in bringing forward their settlements as was proposed, and by reason of several other inconveniences we labor under : therefore, Voted, That Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., Messrs. John Pecker and Jolin Osgood be a committee to lay our grievances before the General Court's Committee, in order to prefer a petition to the General Court at the next session for relief in the affair. Voted, That ]\rr. William Barker, Lieut. Timothy Johnson and Mr. Nicholas White lie a committee to make a ford-way over Sow Cooke river, and clear a way from thence to Merrimack river, against the eleven lots, to be done at the charge of the community by the 1 6th of May current. Voted, That Mr. Nehemiah Carlton be desired to build a ferry boat of about nineteen feet long, and of a suital)Ie breadth, to be well timbered, and every way well built, workmanlike, at the charge of the community, and to be done by the 20th of May current. Said boat to be delivered at Penny Cook for the use of the society. And a pair of good and suitable oars to be made by said Carlton, for said boat, said boat to be well and sufficiently caulked, pitched or turpentined, and finished fit to carry people and creatures. Voted, That Messrs. John Osgood and John Pecker be desired to procure a minister to preach at Penny Cook, to the community there, the charge to be paid by the community. Voted, That there be a floor of plank or boards laid in the mceting-liouse, at the charge of the community of Penny Cook, and that Lieut. Timothy Johnson and Mr. Nehemiah Carlton be a committee to get the floor laid as soon as may be conveniently. Voted, That the sum of seven pounds, eighteen shillings and six pence, paid by several persons and several subscriptions, to the sum of forty-one shillings and six pence, be put into the treasurer's hands, and by him paid to Mr. Nehe- miah Carlton for the ferry boat when it is finished, — which was accordingly delivered to the treasurer. (Copy.) John Chandler, J/o&rator. June 25th, 1729. The settlers of Penny Cook met at Mr. John Griffin's, at Bradford, taverner, and then chose Henry Eolfe, Esqr., moderator, and Mr. Obadiah Ayer, clerk for the present meeting. The company met at two, afternoon, and immediately adjourned for half an hour. At five, afternoon, met again and chose Messrs. Deacon John Osgood, John Pecker, John Chandler, Ebenezer Eastman, Nathan Simonds, William PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 95 by tlie admitted settlers, " that we will have a mniister," and " that the Rev'^^ Mr. Timothy Walker shall be the IMinister of the Town." A committee was also appointed to agree with Mr. Walker upon terms of settlement. Mr. Walker was a native of Woburn, Massachusetts. He was then about thirty years of age — a graduate of Harvard College, in 1725. How Barker, Joseph Hall, to be a committee to call and agree with some suitable person to be a minister of the town of Penny Cook, and pay him such salary as shall hereafter be agreed upon by the companj' of settlers. Voted, Tliat the minister of said town shall be paid by the community one hundred pounds per annum for his preaching and performing divine service there. Voted, and allowed to Mr. Henry Rolfe five pounds for his building a ferry boat for the carrying the community and company over the river Suiicook. The following persons paid, viz. : Deacon John Osgood, 11 shillings; John Pecker, 3s. ; Nath'l Lovcjoy, 3s. ; Obadiah Ayer, 3.5. ; Joseph Hall, 3s. ; David Kimball, 5s. ; Nathaniel Page, 3s. ; Ebenezer Eastman, 5s. ; Nicholas White, 4s.; amounting in the whole to 40s. Voted, That one hundred pounds be allowed and paid out of tlie company's treasury for and toward the settling of tlie first minister of Penny Cook, as an encouragement for settling as their minister, and taking the pastoral charge among them. The moderator then adjourned to the last Wednesday in August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Attest : Obadiah Ater, Clerk. The within votes were passed by the settlers of Penny Cook regularly assem- bled as within mentioned. Henry Rolfe, Moderator. Concordat cum originali. Attest : John Wainwright, C. Clerk. Bradford, Au(just 27th, 1729. At a meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook at the house of Mr, John Grifhn, held by adjournment from a meeting of said set- tlers at the house of the above-said Griffin, on the 25th day of June, last past, "when Henry Rolfe, Esqr., was chosen moderator. At the present meeting Mr. Nathaniel Coffin was chosen clerk for the present meeting. Henry Rolfe, Esqr., was chosen to join with Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., and Mr. John Pecker to petition the General Court [as soon as may be] for to em- power the settlers of Penny Cook to raise money to pay public charges by mak- ing that settlement a township, invested with powers and privileges, &c., or other- wise, as may be thought proper. Voted, That Ensign Chandler and Mr. Ebenezer Eastman are desired and empowered to alter the way to Penny Cook in some places, if they can do it to good advantage, and also to mend said way as they think best on the proprie- tors' charge. 96 THE PLANTATION OF TENACOOK. long a term he had preached before he was called to settle is unknown. The "call" seems to have been mianimous, and Mr. Walker's answer to it in the affirmative. They agreed to pay him, as a salary, one hundred pounds for the first year ; then to increase forty shillings per annum till it came to XI 20 — together with the use of the parsonage. The salary was to be It was Voted, That this meetuig shall be adjourned to the 14th day of October next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mr. John Griffin. Wliat is above written is a true and just memorandum of the votes passed at the meeting on the day above written. Witness my hand : Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk. Henry Rolfe, Moderator. Concordat cum originali. Attest : John "Wainwright, C. Clerk. Tuesday, October \Uh, 1729. The intended settlers met by adjournment at Mr. John Griffin's, in Bradford, and chose Mr. Obadiah Ayer for this present meeting their clerk. Voted, That every proprietor or intended settler of Penny Cook shall forth- with pay or cause to be paid into the hands of John Osgood, of Andover, the company's present treasurer, the sum of twenty shillings toward the support of an orthodox minister, and to preach at Penny Cook aforesaid for this current year, — the same to be by him paid in proportion to his preaching and perform- ing divine service at Penny Cook. Voted, That the sum of fifty pounds be forthwith raised and paid into the hands of the company's treasurer ; — that is to say, ten shillings to be forthwith paid by each proprietor toward paying for a grist mill at Penny Cook, when the same shall be finished according to contract. "Whereas sundry persons who have been admitted intended settlers at Penny Cook have refused to pay in their respective proportion of charges that have necessarily arisen in order to bring forward the settlement according to the condition of the grant, which very much tends to hinder and discourage the same : Voted, therefore. That Messrs. Henry Eolfe, Esqr., and Deacon John Osgood, of Andover, be empowered to make due inquiry who or what persons are in arrearage, and that then Deacon John Osgood, or some meet person, be by him employed to call upon all such as are behind hand in their payments, forthwith to pay in the same to tlie company's treasurer ; and upon their refusal or non-pay- ment, to return their names to the General Court's Committee, praying that their honors would proceed with them with the utmost rigor and severity. Voted, That Messrs. John Johnson, Ebenezer Stevens and John Pecker be a committee to view the saw mill and grist mill at Penny Cook, and see whether they be well built and finished according to contract, and so as to answer the company's design in granting the stream or streams, &e., and upon their report- ing that the said mills are so built, that then Mr. Osgood, our treasurer, be PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 97 paid " in whatever shall be the medium of trade for the time being in this Province, at silver, seventeen shillings per ounce." The late John Farmer, Esq., estimated Mr. Walker's salary of £100 at;$130,67; adding £20 it would be $156,83. In addition to this, ,£100 w^as paid to Mr. Walker " to enable him to build an house ;" and he also had, in his right, the lot laid out directed to pay unto Mr. Simonds and company the sums heretofore granted for building said mills. Then Voted, That Mr. Moderator be desired to adjourn this meeting to this place to the last Tuesday in March next, at ten of the clock in the morning, to which time and place the moderator accordingly adjourned the meeting. Attest : 0. Ayer, Clerk. Concordat cum originali. Attest : John "Wainwrigiit, C. CUrk. We, the subscribers, being chosen a committee at a meeting of the admitted settlers to bring forward the settlement of the town of Penny Cook, begun and held at the house of John Griffin, inn-holder, in Bradford, the sixth day of March, Anno Domini 1727, and from thence continued by adjournment to Wednesday, the fifteenth day of May, then following, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and held at the block house at Penny Cook, this twenty-third day of July, A. D. 1730, have, according to the best of our skill or knowledge for the good of the town and the conveniency of the mills, — that is to say, the saw mill and grist mill, or for the builder thereof, have laid out the hundred acres of land, fifty at or for each mill, according to the vote passed at the aforesaid meeting, in two parts or parcels, — the first bounded as follows, viz. : beginning at a poplar, which is Chandler's and Stevens' bounds at the head of the intervals, and run- ning southeasterly about sixty-five poles, to a stake between Eastman and Cog- gen ; thence northeasterly, upon the head of the interval to a white oak, called Chandler's bounds ; thence northeast and by north, about one hundred poles, to a stake ; thence northerly, about eighty-six poles, to a black oak marked ; thence southwesterly, about one hundred and forty poles, to a pitch pine marked ; thence southwesterly, thirty poles, to the poplar first mentioned. The second piece is as follows, viz. : beginning at a white oak marked, thence northwesterly, about eighty poles, to a black oak marked ; thence soutliwesterly, about eighty poles, to a white oak marked, and from thence to the white oak first mentioned, allowing a highway four rods wide from the saw mill so down by the grist mill to the white oak, which is Ensign John Chandler's bounds of his addition lot ; also, a highway from the corn mill northwesterly to the common land. Henry Rolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, James Mitchell. A true copy of the original return, recorded and examined by John Wainwright, C. Clerk. 7 98 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. to the first minister. It was, however, expressly stipulated " that •if Mr. Walker ly extrcam old age shall he disenabled from carry- ing on the whole loorh of the Ministry, that he shall abate so much of his salary as shall be rationaV^ The 18th of November was appointed as the day for ordi- nation. The council invited and present, so far as known, were Rev. John Barnard, of North Andover, Rev. Samuel Phillips, 17 3 O. At a legal meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook by acljournment from Octo- ber Utii, 1729, to March 31st, 1730, Henry Eolfe, Esqr., moderator. Mr. Jus- tice Wainwright appointed clerk to said settlers, [l>y the Honorable Committee of the General Conrt,] being absent, Joshua Bayley \yas chosen clerk by a full vote for said day. Voted, That Messrs. John Osgood, John Pecker, Ebenezer Eastman, John Chandler, William Barker, Josejih Hall and Nathan Simonds, be a committee to agree with the Eev. Mr. Timothy Walker, in order to his carrying on the work of the ministry in Penny Cook for the year ensuing, and to treat with the said Mr. Walker in order to his settlement in the work of the ministry in said place, and to make report to the next meeting. Voted, That Mr. John Merrill be added to Messrs. Timothy Johnson and Nathan Simonds, in order to a speedy repairing the present meeting-house at Penny Cook, at the settlers' cost. Voted, That Messrs. John Cliandler, Ebenezer Eastman and Ebenezer Virgin be a committee to amend and repair the way between the twenty mile tree and Penny Cook in what is necessary, not exceeding thirty pounds, at the settlers' cost. Voted, That Messrs. John Pecker, Ebenezer Stevens and Abraham Bradley be a committee to amend and repair the necessary roads in Penny Cook, accord- ing to their discretion, for the year ensuing, at the settlers' cost, and also to build a good bridge over Sow Cook river, as soon as may be, at the cost of the settlers also. Voted, That Henry Rolfe, Esqr., Mr. John Pecker and Mr. John Chandler be a committee to lay out a suitable place for a burying-place in the township of Penny Cook ; and if the said burying-place should happen to be on any man's lot, and the owner willing for the same, that the said committee are hereby empowered to lay out an equivalent in undivided lands in some other place, to his satisfaction. Voted, That Messrs. Ebenezer Eastman, John Pecker, John Chandler, Eben- ezer Stevens and William Barker be a committee to take effectual care that the General Fence at Penny Cook be made up according to law by the 20th of April next, and that the proportion of fence be ordered to each proi)netor that Avas appointed the last year, and the delinquents shall pay ten shillings per day for each day's work that shall be done by the appointment of the above-said com- mittee. Voted, That Messrs. John Pecker, Ebenezer Stevens and Abraham Bradley be PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 99 of South Andover, and Rev. John Brown, of Haverhill, Massa- chusetts. A church, consisting of eight members, including Rev. Mr. Walker, was organized on the same occasion. The expenses " for providing for the ordination," which were after- ward allowed and paid, " amounted to thirty-one pounds, ten shillings." The next week after ordination Mr. Walker went to Woburn for his wife, and she came to Penacook on horse-back, accompanied by four or five other women, wives of settlers. During the year 1730 measures were taken for fencing the great interval ; John Pecker, Ebenezer Stevens and Abraham Bradley appointed highway surveyors — " to mend and repair the necessary roads according to their discretion, and also to build a good bridge over Soucook river." Henry Rolfe, Esq., John Pecker and John Chandler were appointed " to lay out a a committee to build a suitable jiouiid in the township of Penny Cook, at the town's cost. Voted, Tliat David Barker and Jacob Shutc be field drivers for the year ensuing. Voted, Tliat Henry Rolfe, Esq., and Mr. John Pecker, be a committee to apply themselves to the General Court, at a suitable time, for the end a])pointed the last year. Voted, That John Merrill shall have the ferry at Penny Cook, and that said Merrill shall have twenty acres of land near the ferry of said town — said Mer- rill being to allow an equivalent in lands in some of his first division now to come. The said Merrill shall have four pence for a horse, two pence for a man, four pence for a beast ; that in twenty years the said Merrill is to carry the in- habitants of Penny Cook, at Penny Cook, at one penny per man and three pence per horse, and other beasts at three pence per head — the said ferry to be kept by the tenth day of April next, with a good boat and constant attendance, and to be regulated by such laws as the ferries are subject to ; the said Merrill to have said ferry and lands forever, provided said Merrill fulfills each article above mentioned ; otherwise, said Merrill being to forfeit all the privileges that arise to him with the ferry. Voted, That the said committee, under oath, shall be empowered to lay out the above-said twenty acres to said Merrill. Voted, That one himdred pounds be raised to defray the above-said charges. Voted, That one hundred pounds be raised for the use of the minister. Voted, That the sum of three pounds be paid to Mr. John Sanders, in part of pay for his service as one of the General Court's Committee for the settlement of Penny Cook. The present meeting was adjourned to the second Tuesday in September, at ten of the clock in the morning, at the house of Mr. John Gritfin, in Si'adford. Joshua Batlev, Cleric. A true copy. Examined by John "Wainwkight, C. Clerk: 100 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. burying-place." In pursuance of which it is understood that the " Old Burjing Ground," as it is called, west of the Biblical Institute, was laid out for that purpose. John Merrill was agreed with to keep a ferry across Merri- mack river ; to " have four pence for a horse, two pence for a man, and four pence for a beast," for the first twenty years — after that, to carry the inhabitants of Penacook " at one penny a man, three pence for a horse, and other beasts at three pence At a meeting of the General Court's Committee for bringing forward the township of Penny Cook, the 23d of September, 1730 — Ordered, That the proprietors or grantees of said town be and hereby are noti- fied and warned to assemble at the meeting-house there, on Wednesday, the fourteenth day of October next, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to choose a minister for and settling him in the said town ; and upon his acceptance of the choice, to agree upon a time for his ordination ; and each pro- prietor is hereby more especially notified to prepare the sum of five pounds, ordered by the General Court in the grant of the township, and that they do respectively pay the same to the said committee, who have agreed to assemble and meet for receiving the same, at the liouse of Mr. Stedman's, taverner, in Cambridge, on Wednesday, the twenty-first of said mouth, at ten o'clock before noon, as they will avoid the trouble and charge of having their bonds put in suit at the next court ; and the said proprietors are also directed and required, at the said meeting to be held tlie 14th of October, to pay the whole arrearages of the sum granted by and levied upon them for defraying the necessary charges of said town ; and to consider of and do any other business that may be thought proper for the more speedy settlement of the town. Wm. Tailer, Spencer Piiipps, Wm. Dudley, John Wainwbight, (Copy.) John Sanders. At a legal meeting of the admitted settlers or grantees of Penny Cook, con- vened the 14th of October, 1730, at the meeting-house in said township — Voted, That Ensign Jolm Chandler shall be moderator for the present meet- ing. Voted, That Benjamin Eolfe shall be clerk for said meeting. Voted, By the admitted settlers, that they will have a minister. Voted, That the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker shall be the minister of the town. Voted, That Deacon John Osgood, Mr. John Pecker, Ensign John Chandler, Lieut. Timothy Johnson, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. William Barker and Mr. Ebenezer Stevens, be a committee to agree with the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker upon terms for being our minister. Voted, That Mr. Timothy Walker shall have one hundred pounds for the year PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 101 per head." In consideration of this service, he was allowed " twenty acres of land near the ferry," and, in case he fulfilled all the articles of agreement, was " to have said ferry and land forever." This ferry crossed the river south-east of the lower end of Main street — the road running down the hill to the crossing east of the present road. The old track is still visible. Mr. Merrill's twenty acres of land were laid out on the hill-side west of the crossing, and his house was built at the point where ensuing, and then rise forty shillings per annum till it comes to one hundred and twenty pounds, and that to be the stated sum annually for his salary. Voted, That the aforesaid sums relating to the salary shall be paid in whatever shall be the medium of trade for the time being in this province at silver, seven- teen shillings per ounce. Voted, That the one hundred pounds formerly voted for the ministei', to enable him to build a house, shall be paid in eighteen months time from the date hereof, — provided, and it is to be hereby understood, any thing to the contrary above mentioned notwithstanding, that if Mr. Walker, by extreme old age, shall be disenabled from carrying on the M'liole work of the ministry, that he shall abate so much of his salary as shall be rational. Voted, That Deacon John Osgood, Mr. John Pecker, Mr. Benjamin Niccolls and Mr. Ebenezer Eastman be a committee to discourse with Mr. Walker about the time of his ordination, and to appoint the day ; and that the said committee send to such chnrches as they think proper, to desire them to send their minis- ters and messengers to assist in ordaining Mr. Walker ; and the said committee is to appoint suitable entertainment for them whilst here. Voted, That Mr. Cutting Noyes shall have fifty acres of land in the township of Penny Cook ; ten of which shall be laid out against Mr. Pecker's lot, to be sixteen rods n-ont, and to extend back from the highway till the ten acres be accomplished, and the other forty acres to be laid out in some of the after divis- ions, provided the said Noyes shall do the blacksmith's work for the town for ten years from the date hereof Voted, That there be two men chosen to go to the General Court's Committee, to Cambridge, on the twenty-first of this instant October, to pray their forbear- ance with the proprietors relating to the five pounds due from each of the pro- prietors to the province ; and that Mr. Pecker and Ensign Chandler be the com- mittee. Voted, That Ensign Chandler and Mr. Niccolls be a committee to make up accounts with Mr. Sanders, as he is one of the General Court's Committee, and to give an order to the treasurer to pay what is due to him for his service. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the tenth of November next, at four of the clock in the afternoon, at the meeting-house in Penny Cook. Attest : Benjamix Rolfe, Clerk. John Chandler, Moderator. A true copy. Examined by John Wainwkight, C Clerk. 102 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. the roads novr part, at the lower end of Mahi street, and where the origmal well still exists, with good water in it. Fifty acres of land were voted to be given to Mr. Cutting Noyes, " provided he shall do the blacksmith's ivork of the town for ten years." 1731. At this period it appears that John Wainwright, Esq., clerk of the committee of the Great and General Court, resigned his office — the last record in his hand being the answer of Rev. Mr. Walker to his call for settlement. Benjamin Holfe, Esq., then a young man, and a graduate of Harvard College, was chosen " clerk for the settlers and grantees of Penny Cook." Penny Cook, October 14tli, 1730. To the Admitted Settleis or Grantees of Penny Cook: Whereai?, formerly, l>y .i committee you Imve invited mc to settle in the minis- try in the said township, upon which invitation I have advised with learned, pious and judicious divines in the ministry, Avho have jointly advised me to take up with your invitation, provided you vote a sufficient maintenance for me, and you having this day renewed your invitation to me, and done what satisfies me upon the account of salary : — I, therefore, being deeply sensible of the impor- tance of the charge, and my own insufficiency to discharge the duty of the same, do accept your call, humbly relying upon the all-sufficient grace of God, which alone can enable mc suitably to discharge the same, — earnestly desiring your prayers, as well as of all other of God's people, that such plentiful measures of His grace may be afforded to mc as may enable mc to discharge tlie duties of so sacred a function to His acceptance and to your edification,— so that both you and I may rejoice together in the day of our Lord Jesus. Timothy "Walker. Concordat cum originali. John "Wainwhight, C. Clerk. 1731. Agreeable to notification given, at a legal meeting of the settlers and grantees of Penny Cook, on Monday, the 29th day of March, 1731 : Henry Eolfc, Esqr., being appointed moderator by the General Court, Benjamin Kolfe was chosen clerk. For assessors were chosen Mr. Nathaniel Albott, Mr. Jeremiah Stick- ney and Mr. John Chandler, jr. Mr. Stephen Farriugton was chosen collector of the rates and taxes levied on the settlers of Penny Cook. Mr. Samuel Kimball and I\Ir. Christopher Carlton were chosen collectors of the rates and taxes that shall be levied on the grantees of Penny Cook that are non-residents. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 103 The conditions of the original grant of the plantation having been complied with, the proprietors were now anxious to have all the rights and privileges of a town. For this they petitioned the General Court: in answer to which the following order was passed : Order of the General Court fur a Meeting ^ IK IK KK 9.33 IK m ^% IK ii.< 9.107 2 IK IK 13^ ll'.< iKi IK 1 1.< ii.< First Range. Second Range, First Range. Low'st R'nge.* First Range. First Range. First Range. Six-Acre, or Home Lots, and Range. 24 6.104 Great Plain. 17 6 43 18 24 22 4 40 '20 1 iK 27 nZ Second Range Island Range. First Range. First Range. Third Range. First Range. Third Range. Third Range. First Range. First Range. Second Range. Second Range. First Range. First Range. First Range. Second Range, Second Range Second Range Second Range, Eleven Lots. First Range. Island Range. Eleven Lots. First Range. First Range. Eleven Lots. First Range. Eleven Lots. 6.96 6. 5.130 6.66 5.110 5.128 6.94 10. 7K 1 1 1., 7.10~4 5.128 8.50 4.100 6.93 61., 5.7'3 5.32 5>.< 5.r28 5.1051 5.130 4.50 First Range. Second Range Third Range. Second Range. First Range. First Range. Island Range. Third Range. Second Range. Second Range. 65 4.152 62 7.60 41 4.96 5.93 2.114 6. 6.27 36 ll5;f 2 1 5.138 11 5.130 62 6.20 7 6.66 103 6.50 18 6.50 16 5.95 8 4.64 4 7.50 43 34 lOlOO 8.100! Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Wat'num.'s. Great Plain. Island. Great Plain. Great Plain. Wat'num.'s. Great Plain. Wat'num.'s. Wat'num.'s. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Island. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Island. Great Plain. Great Plain. Wat'num.'s. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Island. Wat'num.'s. Great Plain. Great Plain. *The Lowest Range was "The Eleven Lots," and included House and Home Lots. 124 THE PLANTATION OF PKNACOOK. THE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS — CONTINUED. Names, alphabeticalli/ ar- ranaed. Ntuiiher Range l?f0.1qUAN. , Qiiantilij and of House Lots. Mitchell, Andrew Minister, . . Nichols, Benjamin Osgood, Joiin . Osgood, Stephen . Piuker, Benjamin Page, Thomas Peaslee, Robert Parker, Joseph Parker, Nathan Page, Nathaniel . Phillips, Samuel Parker, James Pulsipher, Jonathan Peaslee, Nathaniel Pecker, John . Page, Joseph . Peabody, John . Parsonage, Reynolds, Samuel Rolt'e, Henry . Sanders, John . Stevens, Ebenezer Sanders, John, Jr., Sanders, Nathaniel Stevens, Benjamin Simonds, James . Simonds, Nathan Shipley, Jonathan Snow, Zorababel School, Toppan, Samuel Toppaii, Bezaleel Urann, Richard ' Virgin. El)cnezer . Wright, John . White, William . AVhite, Nicholas Wise, Anuni Ruham Walker, Isaac . Wood, David. . Whittier, William Wicoml), Thomas Winn, Edward . Mill Grant on Turkey Noyes Cutting Grant, Mill Grart to Nathan Simonds 1>2 1>^ IM IK l>i ^% IK 9^i IV, i3i 1% i>^ nl ]}4 lil \^4 1)1 i¥ \^2 \U i>i 13^ iK m 9.3.5 IM i}i 2 li.< First Range. First Range, j First Range. ; Eleven Lots.* i Island Range. Third Range. First Range. First Range. Second Range. 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Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Island. Wat'num.'s. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Wat'num.'s. Island. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. Island. Great Plain. Great Plain. Great Plain. 140 acres on Turkey River. [Main street. 40 acres, east side of river, and 10, 2d Range, 100 acres on the east side. * " Tlic Eleven Lots" iiichided House and Home Lots J. KUioJuUtr Ik £rc IrA- . Sostt PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 125 EXPLANATION OF THE "SECOND DIVISION OF INTERVAL," MOSTLY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE MERRIMACK RIVER, SURVEYED BY RICHARD HAZZEN, Jr., IN MAY, 1727, AND LAID OUT BY JOHN CHANDLER, RICHARD HAZZEN, Jr., AND WILLIAM WHITE, COMMITTEE. The phin of tliis survey is not preserved, but the localities mentioned are un- derstood by tradition — the several names given in the record being still applied to them. 1. The "Mill Brook" Interval designates tlie lands which lie in the vicinity of the brook that runs from Turtle Pond through the East Village, and empties into the Merrimack easterly of Federal Bridge. Tliis was divided into two ranges, which included the whole interval west and north of the bridge. 2. " Sugar Ball Division " lies in the valley south of the Sugar Ball Hill, in the vicinity of Samuel Clift'ord's present residence. 3. " The Middle Plain " includes the interval immediately north and south of tlie Free Bridge Road, extending up to Sugar Ball Plain and down to the curve in the river, near the house of the late William Davis. 4. The " Lowest Interval " includes the lands from the ancient town line, this side of Turkey Falls, upwards, till it meets the Middle Plain. .5. " Rattle-snake Plains " lie on the west side of the river, from what is called Farnum's Eddy, northward, to the high banks north-east of the West Village, or as far as the interval extends in that dii-ection. 6. "Frog Ponds" include the section of interval still well known by that name — though the course of the river has greatly changed the original bounds of some of the lots. The following table shows where the several lots, as laid out originally, were located, and, also, the quantity of land to each. It will l)e observed that in several cases two parcels were allotted to the same person, in different localities. The record of this " Second Division " is in Vol. I. of Proprietors' Records, pp. 29-43. 1. MILL BROOK INTERVAL — FIRST RANGE. VO. ACRE?. 1. Edward Abbot, . . . . 2i., 2. John Foster, 2^o 3. Nehemiah Heath, .... 2 i^ 4. Ebenezer Lovejoy, . . . .21., .'i. Samuel Ayer, 2i., 6. Steplien Osgood, . . . . 2}7-, 7. David Wood, 4 ~ 8. Jolm Grainger, 5 9. William Barker, . . . . 4h, 10. Timothy Johnson, .... 4 11. Ebenezer Virgin, .... 4}:^ 12. Nathaniel Abbot, . . . . 4^ 13. John Chandler, . 14. Bezaleel Toppan, 15. Jolm Coggin, . l(j. Ehcnezcr Eastman, 17. Samuel Davis,. 18. Nathan Parker, . 19. Edward Clark, . 20. Benjamin Stevens, 21. Nehemiah Heath, . 22. John Foster, 23. Jonatlian Shipley, 24. Natlianiel Jones, MILL BROOK INTERVAL — SECOND RANGE. ACRES. . 4 . 41..- . 4)/, . 4i.< . 417. . 6 " . 6 . 3U . 3 " . 4 14 NO. ACRES. 1. Abraham Foster, 5 2. John Sanders, 5 3. Thomas Wieomb, 5 4. Nathan Blodgett, 5 5. Minister, 6 6. Parsonage, 6 NO. ACRES. 7. School, 5 8. Zerobbabel Snow, . . . .5 9. Edward Al)bot, .... 2)^ 10. Ebenezer Lovejoy, .... 2}^ 11. Samuel Ayer, 2j'| 12. Stephen Osgood, .... 2)^' 126 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. 1. Benjamin Niccolls, 2. E))Iiraim Farnum, . 3. Nathaniel Lovejoy, 4. Joiiii Jaijues, . 5. Benjamin Carlton, 6. Andrew Mitchell, . 7. Stephen Emerson, 8. Thomas Colman, . 1. Tliomas Coleman, 2. E])liraim Davis, . 3. Benjamin Niccolls, 4. Stephen Emerson, 5. Epln-aini Farnum, 6. Nathaniel Lovejoy, 7. John Jaques, 8. Benjamin Carlton, 9. Andrew Mitchell, 10. Joiin Sanders, Jr., 11. John Pecker, 12. James Parker, . . 13. Kohert Peaslee, . 14. Joseph Parker, 2. SUGAR BALL PLAIN. ACRES. ! NO. ACRES. .3 I 9. Ephraim Davis, .... 2>^ , 2,',< ; 10. Samuel Reynolds, .... 5 . 2}^ 11. John Aver, 6 2io,12. SamuerWhite, 5 . 2'^ i 13. David Kimball, .... 5 , 2ij|l4. Moses Day, 5 15. John Pecker, 2%, 16. John Sanders, 2>^ 91., MIDDLE PLALV. 2K, 21', 21." 1^ 5 ■ 5 5 15. Jacob Eames, . 16. Samuel Grainger, . 17. John Mattis, . . 18. John Osgood, 19. Ephraim Hildreth. 20. Bichard Hazzcn, Jr., 21. Benjamin Gage, . 22. William White, . . 23. Nathaniel Clement, 24. Obadiah Ayer, . 25. Jonathan Pulsepher, 2G. Nicholas White, . . 27. Joseph Hall, . . 28. Nathaniel Peaslee, . ACRES. . 5 . 5 . 5 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 3(?) . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 All the foregoing lots are numbered from the upper end down Merrimack river. 4. LOWEST INTERVAL— ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER. Lots numbered from the town line up Merrimack river. 1. Nathaniel Peaslee, . 2. Joseph Hall, . . 3. Nicholas White, 4. Jonathan Pulsipher, 5. Obadiah Ayer, . 6. Nathaniel Clement, 7. William White, . . 8. Benjamin Gage, . 9. Richard Hazzen, Jr., 10. Ephraim Hildreth, 11. John Osgood, 12. Joseph Hale, . 13. John Peabody, . 14. Edward Winn, 15. Josiah Jones, 16. Joshua Bayley, ACRES. •4|4 4>4 ■ ^h 43*4 .43, ^'■^^ • 4:^4 4.^4 . 5 ^% . 234 21.4 . 21^ 2V, ACRES 014 NO. 17. Jonathan Hubbard,. 18. Ammi Ru'i Wise, . . . 2% 19. Thomas Blanchard, . . .2% 20. Moses Hazzen, .... 2)| 21. Isaac Walker, 2% 22. Nathan Simons, .... 2% 23. Josej)h Page, 2% 24. Nathaniel Sanders, . . . 2)| 25. John Wright, 2}Z 26. Nathaniel Page, .... 2)1 27. Nathan Fisk, alias Zachariah Chandler, 5 28. Solomon Martin, .... 5 29. Samuel Kemball, .... 5 30. William Gutterson, ... 5 31. John Merrill, 5 NT. B. There is to run a drift-way of three rods through the westerly end of the thirty-one lots last mentioned, as nigh to Merrimack river as may be with convenience. 5. RATTLE-SNAKE PLAINS. These lots arc numbered up Merrimack river. 1 . David Dodge, . 2. Samuel Toppan, . 3. Christopher Carlton, 4. Nehemiah Carlton, ACRES. . . 5 . 5 . . 5 . 5 NO. ACRES- 5. Jacob Abbott, 5 6. William Whittier, .... 5 7. Thomas Page, 5 8. John Austin, 4 PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 127 1*0. ACRES, 9. Henry Rolfe, 4 10. Benjaniiu Parker, .... 4 11. Thomas Perley, for Nathaniel Cogswell, 4 12. Samuel Jones, 4 NO. ACRES 13. Thomas Larned, . . . . 2}X 14. James Simons, 2 15. Robert Kimball, . . . . 2}.< 16. Joseph Davis, 2}Z 17. Richard Urann, .... 3 NO. ACRES. 9. Moses Hazzen, • • (^) 10. Thomas Blanchard, . . 2X 11. Am mi Ruli Wise, • • 2>^ 12. Jonathan Hubbard, • .2)^ 13. Joshua Bayley, . • • ^'A 14. Josiah Jones, ■ ■ 2K 15. Edward Winn, . . 2V, 16. John Peabody, . ■ .2>2 N. B. There is allowance in these lots for a highway to run through them till it comes to Urann's lot. 6. DIVISION AT " FROG PONDS." NO. ACRES. 1. Enoch Coffin 5 2. Samuel Phillips, 5 3. Nathaniel Page, .... 2)^ 4. John Wright, 2}^ 5. NathanielSanders, . . . . 2Kj 6. Nathan Simons, 2^., 7. Joseph Page, 2i.< 8. Isaac Walker, ..... 2 }.< Laid out to Nathaniel Abbot, " all that swamp betwixt his first division of interval and Merrimack river, containing one acre and a quarter, more or less." To Joseph Hale, two acres of swamp adjoining Abbot's. To David Wood, one acre of swamp adjoining Hale's. To Benjamin Niccolls, one acre of swamp adjoining Wood's. To John Austin, one acre of swamp adjoining Niccolls'. To Ebenezer Stevens, four and a half acres of land, bounded on Benjamin Parker's lot, on one side, and Horse-shoe Pond and the brook that runs out of it, on the other. To William Barker, all that land lying betwixt the highway that runs by his interval lot, and the brook that runs through Horse-shoe Pond, containing thirty- five poles, more or less. To Ebenezer Virgin, the land tetwixt his first division of interval and the brook that runs out of Horse-shoe Pond — forty poles. To Timothy Johnson, the land lying betwixt his first division of interval and Horse-shoe Pond brook — one acre and a half EXPLANATION OF THE " TWENTY ACRES" DIVISION. This division of land was made between the 14tli of September, 1732, and the 18th of June, 1734, agreeable to a vote of the proprietors, " according to our best judgment," by Ebenezer Eastman, John Chandler, Jeremiah Stickney, Jo- seph Eastman, Edward Abbott, Benjamin Rolfe, committee. No plan has been preserved of this division. The lots were laid off" in differ- ent parts of the township. The original bounds are recorded in the Proprietors' Records, Vol. II., but only a part of them can at the present time be recognized by the description there given. Ten twenty acre lots were laid off north of what was called the Contoocook [Boscawen] road — extending from the north end of Main street into the neighborhood of the West Village. Ten more were laid off on the Hopkinton road, in the vicinity of the new jail, westward, beyond the monument. Several were laid off west of the " second range," on Main street. In many cases, however, the original lots are known only by tradition, and by records of conveyances, &c. 128 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. "EMENDATION LOTS." These lots were laid out in different quantities, and frequently in different sections, in order " to make the interval lots belonging to the proprietors equal as to quaniity and quality." The bounds are recorded in Proprietors' Records, Vol. 11., but must be recognized mainly, at this time, by family tradition, and by -written conveyances. This division was made between the 14th of November, 1732, and the 1st of December, 1734, by vote of the proprietors, and •' according to our best judgment," by Ebenezer Eastman, Abraham Bradley, Joseph East- man, committee. "EIGHTY ACRES DIVISION." A division of common and undivided land was ordered (14th of March, 173G,) to be made to the several grantees, "as large as the committee shall think the good land will allow of" — to be laid out in one or more pieces. This is called the " eighty acres " division, though the lots varied from eighty acres to one hundred and fifty, or even more, according to quality. The lots were laid off, in many cases, in different pieces, remote from each other. Phms of these lots are preserved among the Proprietors' Records, Vol. III., with the roads and drift-ways reserved which ran througli them. The division was made by Benja- min Rolfe and John Chandler, committee. Special grants of land were made as follows : To Nathan Simonds — mill grant, one hundred acres, on the east side of the river. To Cutting Noyes, for doing l)lacksmith work, forty acres, on the east side of the river, and ten acres on the west side, opposite Lot No. 23, first range of house lots. To Henrv Lovejoy and Barachias Farnum — mill grant on Turkey river — one hundred and forty acres. To Col. John "Wainwright, for services as clerk, one hundred acres. To John Merrill, for keeping ferry, twenty acres. No. 9. THE STATE AND CONDITION OF THE SETTLEMENT IN OCTOBER, 1731. [copied, alphabetically, from the original report.] Nathaniel Abbot. He had a house built and his family there. Jacob Abbot. He had a house built and inhabited. John Austin. lie had a house built and inhabited. Samuel Ayer. He had a house framed, and twelve acres of land fenced, mowed and ploughed. Obadiau Ayer. He had a house built and inhabited. John Ayer. He had a house inhabited. John Bayley. He had a house erected, but not finished. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 129 Nathaniel Barker. He had a house built, and the lot impvoved by James Varnum, an inhabitant. Zebediah Barker. He had a house and barn well finished and inhabited. William Barker. He had a house well finished and inhabited, and a good barn. Joshua Batlet. He had a house built and inhabited. Thomas Blanchard. He had a house built and inhabited. Moses Boardman. He had a house built, but not quite finished, but tenant- .ablc — six aere lot fenced in and under improvement. Nathan Blodgett. He had a house inhabited. Christoi'Her Carleton. He had a house built and inhabited. Benjamin Carleton. He had a house built, and the order of Court com- plied with by Jeremiah Stickney, an inhabitant. Nehemiah Carleton. He had a house erected, and the order complied with by Abner Hoit, an inhabitant. John Chandler. A house built and inhabited — the order fully complied with. Nathaniel Clement. He had no house and no inhabitant — three acres ploughed. John Coggin. He had a house erected, but not finished — twelve acres of land fenced and improved. Edward Clark. He had a house built — not finished — a man inhabiting there — twelve acres within fence, mowed and ploughed. Enoch Coffin. He had a house built, and the order complied with by Jon- athan Danforth. Thomas Colman. He had a house built and inhabited. Ki CHARD Cooledge. Hc had no house, but land improved, and order oth- erwise complied with by Ens. John Chandler. Joseph Davis. He had a house built and well finished. Ephraim Davis. He had a house built, and the order was complied with by his son. Samuel Davis. [Blank.] Moses Day. He had a house built and inhabited. David Dodge. Hc had a house built — not finished. Jacob Eames. He had a good dwelling house — six acre lot fenced in and broke up. Ebenezer Eastman. He had six sons on the spot — six men in his family. He paid the charge of building a corn-mill ; and he has broke up, cleared and mowed upward of eighty acres of land, and had very considerable buildings, out-houses, barns, &c., there. Stephen Emerson. He had a house built, and the order complied with — no inhabitant. Ephraim Earnum. He was an inhabitant and had a house built. Nathan Fisk. He had a house built and inhabited, and the order complied with by Z. Chandler. Abraham Foster. He had a house Imilt and inhabited. John Foster. He had a house built, and (he order complied with by his son. Benjamin Gage. Hc had a house built and inhabited. 9 130 THE PLANTATION OF TENACOOK. John GR.WGEn. He had a house built and finished — order complied with hy John Russ, inhabitant. Samuel Grainger. He had a house built — order complied with by George Abbot. William Gdtterson. He had a house built, and the order complied with by John Merrill. Joseph Hale. He had a frame standing on the house lot. Joseph Hall. He had a house built and inhabited. Moses Hazzek. He had a house built and inhabited. Richard Hazzen, Jun. He had a house built, and the order complied with by Dea. Osgood. Neiiemiaii Heath. [Blank.] Ephrai.m Hildreth. He had a frame, not raised, but ready, and laud ploughed. Jonathan Hubbard, for Daniel Davis. He had a house built and inhab- ited. John Jaques. He had a house built and inhabited. Timothy Johnson. He had a house built and inhabited. Nathaniel Jones. He had a house built, and order complied with by his son. David Kimball. He had a house built — an inhabitant. Robert Kimball. He had a house — the order complied with — his son an inhabitant. Samuel Kimball. He had a house built — not finished — the order com- plied with by his son. Isaac Learned. He had a house — man dead. Ebenezer Love.toy. He had a house, but uninhabited. Nathaniel Lovejot. He had a house erected — not finished. John Mattis. He had a house and bam, and inhabited. John Merrill. He had a house built — an inhabitant. Andrew Mitchell. He had a house erected — not finished — twelve acres fenced and ploughed. Benjamin Nichols. He had a house built and inhabited. John Osgood. He had a house built and inhal)ited. Stephen Osgood. He had a house — ten acres fenced and mowed — cleared — nothing ploughed. Thomas Page. [Blank.] Joseph Page. He had a house built and inhabited. Nathaniel Page. He had a house built, finished and inhabited. Joseph Parker. He had a house, but not finished — orders otherwise com- plied with by Ezekiel Walker, an inhabitant. Nathan Parker. He had a house built and inhabited. Benjamin Parker. He had a house partly covered — ten acres fenced and improved by ploughing and mowing. James Parker. He had no house — the land ploughed, mowed and fenced by Lt. Farrington, an inhabitant. John Peabodt. He had a house up — negro man, inhabitant — orders oth- erwise complied with. Nathaniel Peaslee. He had a house — order complied with by John Merrill. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 131 Robert Peaslee. lie had a house and inhabited. John Pecker. He had a house built and inhabited. Rev. Samuel Phillips. He had a house up — not finished — order for im- provement complied with by William Peters. Jonathan Pulsipher. He had a house built and inhabited. Thomas Perlet, for Nathaniel Cogswell. He had a house built and was an inhabitant. Samuel Reynolds. He had a house erected, but not finished, and land fenced and improved — no inhabitant. Henry Rolfe. He had a house built and inhabited. John Sanders. He had a house built and inhabited. Nathaniel Sanders. He had a house built and inhabited. John Sanders, Jr. He had a house built — land ploughed, mowed and fenced. Jonathan Shipley. [Blank.] James Simonds. He had a house built and inhabited. Nathan Simonds. [Blank.] Ebenezer Stevens. He had a house and barn built, finished and inhabited. Zerobbabel Snow. He had a house up, inhabited by Isaac Walker. Benjamin Stea'ens, Esq. He had a house and barn — improved by Ebene- zer Stevens. Bezaleel Toppan. He had a house built and inhabited. Samuel Toppan. He had a house inhabited — order complied with by Danforth. Richard TJran. He was an inhabitant, and had land mowed, ploughed and fenced. Ebenezer Virgin. He had a house and inhabited it. Isaac Walker. He had a house up — not finished — was an inhabitant, with his family — twelve acres fenced, mowed and ploughed. William White. No house frame ready — three acres ploughed — that's all. Nicholas White. Frame raised — possessed by Call, an inhabitant there. Thomas Wicomb. He had a house built, and had a man there. William Whittier. No house nor inhabitant. Edward Winn. He had a house up — not finished. John Wright. He had a house almost finished — an inhabitant. Ammi Ruhamah Wise. He had a house built and inhabited. David Wood. He had a house and a man on the spot — ten acres fenced, mowed and ploughed. Total— 100. The above is the account of the present state and circumstances of the Plan- tation of Penny Cook, taken there by as careful a view as we could, and the best information of the principal settlers and inhabitants. John Wainwbight, October 20, 1731. Jno. Sanders. 132 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. No. 3. A STATEMENT OF EXPENSES INCURRED Bi' THE SETTLERS, FROM 1725 TO 1733. £ s. For the privilege of admittance, 20s. each, 100 00 For right to a lot, .£5 each, 500 00 To Obadiah Ayer, for examining records, 2 00 For expense of committee, surveyors, &c. — first division — 40s. each, . 200 00 For laying out second division of interval, 26 00 For block-house and. canoes, 11317 For preferring a petition to the General Court, 20 To Mr. John Sanders, for his services, in part, 15 For mending the highways to Penacook, 14 02 To Rev. Bezaleel Toppan, for preaching, &c., 1 10 To heirs of Kev. Enoch Coffin, 4 00 To Mr. Hemy Rolfe, for a ferry-boat over Suncook river, .... 5 00 For " and toward " settling the first minister, 100 00 For a grist-mill, (10s. each,) 50 00 To Mr. John Sanders, in part 'pay for his services, 3 00 I'or ordination expenses, 31 10 To Jolm Wainwright and John Sanders, for services, 4 00 £1157 14 Abated, 500 00 It appears, however, that £500 — toward which each settler gave a bond of £5 for his right to a lot — was, upon petition, abated. Beside these expenses — which, it would seem, were promptly met — each settler met his own charges in building his house, clearing and fencing his land ; and, after Rev. Mr. Walker's settlement, paying his salary and other current expenses of the community — all which shows that they were, in general, men of substance, and " well able " to prosecute their noble and hazardous enterprise. BRIEF NOTICES OF THE PROPRIETORS AND EARLY SETTLERS, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR NAMES. ABBOT. Nathaniel Abbot, sou of Nathaniel, son of George, the ancestor of the Abbots, of Andover, Massachusetts, was born in Andover in 1696, He married Penelope Ballard; was about thirty years of age when he came to Penacook. They had thirteen children. His house lot was No. 12, second range — where the North Congregational Church now stands. He was the first constable of Penacook, (1732/3,) — an efficient, enterprising, useful citizen, and member of the church. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 133 At the commencement of the French war, (1744,) he entered the service, and joined the rangers under Maj. Robert Rogers. He held a lieutenant's commis- sion in 1755, in Capt. Joseph Eastman's company, in the expedition against Crown Point, and was a lieutenant in Capt. Richard Rogers' company of rangers, in Fort William Henry, at the time of the massacre, 1757. In 1746 he had command of a company in defense of the town against the Indians. He died in 1770, aged 74. [See Register of Abbot family.] Edward Abbot, cousin of Capt. Nathaniel; son of Timothy, son of George. of Andover, married Dorcas Chandler ; was one of the first selectmen of Rumford. In 1746 his house was a garrison that stood on the spot where Dr. Thomas Chadbourne now lives — south-east corner of Montgomery and Main streets. Edward, his son, was the first male child born in Penacook, (7th of January, 1731,) and Dorcus the first female child. [See Town Register.] Jacob Abbot, cousin of Nathaniel and Edward ; son of Benjamin, son of George, of Andover. He died in the French war, 1760. AUSTIN. John Austin, probably a descendant of Tlmnas Austin, from Andover, where was Samuel Austin (1714,) who died 1753, aged eighty-three. AYERS. Obadiah, Samuel and John Ayers, or Ayer, were from Haverhill. Ohadiah was a graduate of Harvard College, 1710 ; was employed to " examine the General Court's records, to see if there be any former grant" of the township ; was "one of the principal inhabitants of Haverhill." Samuel and John were of the same family — young men — and were among the most active and enterprising settlers. [See Family Register.] They were all descendants oi John, who was of Salis- bury, 1640, of Ipswich, 1648, and at Haverhill, 1657. BLA.f^CHARD. Thomas Blanchard, from Andover, was a son or grandson of Samuel Blan- chard, who came from England, in 1639, with his father, Thomas, on the ship Jonathan, and settled in Charlestown. Thence Samuel removed to Andover, in 1686, and died April, 1707, aged seventy-seven. Thomas, the proprietor of Penacook, died in 1759, aged eighty-five. BARKER. William, Nathan and Zehediah Barker came from Andover. William, son of Richard Barker, one of the founders of the church in Andover, 1645, was uncle to Nathan and Zebediah — the one, son oiEbenezer, and the other of Stephen Barker, brothers of William. [See Family Register.] BAYLEY. Capt. Joshua Bayley is named in the Proprietors' Records as " one of the prin- cipal inhabitants of Haverhill." Probably came to Haverhill from Newbury ; born the 30th of October, 1685, and a descendant of John Bayley, who came from Chippenham, England, (a weaver,) and settled in Newbury, 1650. [See Cofiin's Hist, of Newbury, App., p. 294.] BOARDxMAN. Moses Boardman — unknown. 134 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. BLODGETT. JVathan Blodgctt was probably from Woburu. CLEMENT. Nathaniel Clement was from Haverhill. CH.\NDLER. John Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, of Andovcr, who died in 1721, and grandson of Cajit. Thomas Chandler, who died in 1703, was a leading and inflnential man. Zechnriah Chandler was a cousin of John, son of William, son of Capt. Thomas. The first Capt. John was a powerful, athletic man, of great muscular strength and cool, indomitable courage. The late Nathan Chandler, great-grandson of Capt. John, used to relate, that on one occasion, when his ancestor, Capt. John, of Andover, went to Newburyport, he was impressed by three of the king's officers — saying to him, as they laid hands on his shoulder : " The king needs your service." He wished to be e.Kcused ; saying that his family required his care and attention, &c. ; to which the reply was : " We can- not help that ; the king needs your services ; you will go with us." Apparently yielding, he walked quietly along with them till they reached a spot where a house had been burned down, and where was a deep cellar with ashes and half consumed timber. Turning quickly around, he seized them one by one, and threw them into the cellar, where he left them and went on his way. C.VRLTON. The Carltons — Benjamin, Nehemiah and Christopher — were relatives, proba- bly from Andover and Haverhill. Mirick, in his History of Haverhill, says, " Christopher Carlton was among the original proprietors of Penacook ;" but the late John Farmer, Esq., said that Christopher Carlton was son of John Carl- ton, of Andover. The name was common in both places. COOLIDGE. Richard Coolidge — unknown. COGGIN. John Coggin is believed to have been of Woburn. None of the name are now in Concord. CLARK. Edward Clark was from Haverhill. COFFIN. Rev. Enoch Coffin was son of the Hon. Nathaniel Coffin; born at Newbury, Massachusetts, February 7, 1695/6; graduated at Harvard College in 1714; died August, 1728. He received a call to settle in Dunstable, N. H., as suc- cessor of Rev. Thomas Weld, but declined it on account of his health. Mr. Coffin accompanied the honorable Committee of the Court and surveyors when they came to Penacook to lay out the land, in May, 1726, and preached twice on the Sabbath after their arrival, in a tent, on Sugar Ball Plain. His father, Nathaniel, was son of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury, whose fivther, Tristram Coffin, was born in Brixham Parish, town of Plymouth, England, in 1609. In 1642 Tristram Coffin came to this country with his mother, Avife, two sisters, and five children — Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James and John. Peter Coffin, son of this Tristram, was born in 1630; resided the principal part of his life in PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 135 Dover, N. H., and was concerned in the trucking house, in Penacook, in 1G68. He died the 21st of March, 1715, at Exeter, aged eighty-five. Tristram Coffin was the ancestor of a numerous race, to which helong Samuel Coffin, Esq., of Concord, and those of the name in Boscawen. [See Coffin's Hist, of Newbury.] The first settlers of the name in Concord, after the death of Rev. Enoch, were William and Peter, sons of John, of Newbury. Peter afterward settled in Bos- cawen, from whom those of that name tliere have descended. COLEMAN. Tliomas Coleman was of Newbury, probably a descendant of Thomas Coleman, or " Coultman," as he wrote it, (laborer.) who was born 1602, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, and came to Newbury in the James, 1G35. He died at Nantucket, 1685, aged eighty-three. Coleman forfeited las lot, by not paying, to Henry Rolfe, Esq. COGSWELL. Nulhaniel CogsweU's right was drawn and carried on by Thomas Perley. " Perley" was, and still is, a common name of Boxford, Massachusetts. DAY. Moses Day was from Bradford. One of the same name was deacon of the church in the West Parish of Bradford, 1730, and also 1750. Probably one of them was the proprietor in Penacook. [Sec Rev. G. B. Perry's sermon, December 12, 1820.] DAVIS. Epliraim, Joseph and Saimiel were from Haverhill. Ephraim was the only one who finally settled in Concord. He was born the 20th of March, 1697 — son of Ephraim, son of John, a descendant of Thomas, who was of Marlborough, Eng- land, and was in Newbury, 1641 ; then in Haverhill, 1642, where he died in 1683, aged eighty. [See Family Register.] DODGE. David Dodge — not known from whence he came — none of the name now resident here. EASTMAN. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman vf as from Haverliill; one of the most enterprising and useful of the proprietors. He settled on the east side of the river. His house was a garrison in 1746 — situated west of the present residence of Robert East- man. On the old house lot, wliich is now divided by the track of the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, several ancient apple trees are still standing, which Capt. Eastman set out with his own hands. [See biographical notice.] EAMES. Jacob Eanies was from Andover. EMERSON. Stephen Emerson was from Haverhill. FOSTER. John and Abraham Foster were from Andover — descendants of Andrew Foster, one of the first settlers in Andover, who came from England, and died 1685, aged one hundred and six years. John was son of Ephraim, who died 1746, aged eighty-eight. Abraham was probably a cousin of John. 136 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. FAR NUM. Ephraim Farmim, from Amlovcr, was son of Ephraim, son of Ralph rarnum, who married Elizabeth Holt, in 1658. He drew house lot No. 15, which was the spot where the house of the late Dr. Green stood. He afterward settled on the land now owneil hy Dca. Benjamin Earnum and by Moses H. Farnum, who are descendants. Ephraim Farnum was chosen deacon of the church Au- gust, 1731. How long he served is unknown. But, " desiring a dismission from the office, at a church meeting, he was dismissed, and George Abbot chosen in his room." He died in 1775, aged about eighty. His descendants in Concord are many. [See Farnum Family.] GRANGER.' John and Samuel Granger were brothers from Andover ; sons of John Granger, who was born in 1655, and died in 1725, aged seventy — who was probably a son of Lancelot Granger, of Newbury, ancestor of the late Gideon Granger, Post- master General of the United States. GAGE. Benjamin Gage was from Bradford. GUTTERSON. William Gutterson was from Andover — son of John Gutterson — probably a descendant from an early fivmily in Ipswich. HEATH. Nehemiah Ueath was from Haverhill. HILDRETH. Ephraim ITddreih was probably from Chelmsford, where many of the name have resided. HALE. Joseph Hale was from Newbury — probably son of Joseph, a descendant of Thomas Hale, (glover,) " who, with his wife Tamosin or Thomasinc, came to Newbury in 1635, and died December, 1682, aged seventy-eight." HAZZEN. Moses and Pochard Razzen, Jr., were from Havcrliill. Pvichard was a graduate of Harvard College in 1717; surveyor in Penacook in 1726 and 1727 ; repre- sentative from Haverhill in 1742. Both Moses and Richard were connected with the Bradley family. [See Genealogical List— Ch., "Bradley Famihj" —nei- ther settled in Concord.] Richard Hazzen was one of the surveyors appointed by New-Hampshire to i-nn out and mark the boundary line fixed by the king, in 1740, between New-Hampshire and Massachusetts. [Sec Belknap's History, Farmer's ed., vol. i., p. 259.] HALL. Dea. Joseph Hall, from Bradford. One of the same name was deacon in the West Parish church of Bradford, in 1730. He drew one of the " Eleven Lots," (No. 2,) for his house and home lot, and settled there. July 5, 1736, he married Deborah Abbot, sister of Edward and George Abbot, by whom he had five children. [See Family Register.] He was deacon of the church in Concord more than forty years ; a benefactor to the poor, and an example of Christian virtues. Durin"; the hostilities of the Indians his house was a garrison. He PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 137 elicil April 8, 17S4, aged seventy-seven. Deborali, Iiis wife, was a ])atlern of industry, economj^ charity and piety. She rose, summer and winter, as early as four o'clock. " In the early settlement of the town, going one day from her brother Edward's to her brother George's, she turned from the path to pick berries, near where the State House now stands, and lost her way. In her ninety-fifth year she fell and injured her limbs so that she could not walk." JOHNSON. Timothy Johnson is said by Mirick, in his history of Haverhill, (p. 246,) to have been from that place. John Farmer, Esq., reckons him as from Andover — son of Timothy, who died in 1719, aged eighty-eight. JAQUES. John Jaques is believed to have been from Bradford — none of the name arc now in town. JONES. Nathaniel Jones — unknown. KIMBALL. Robert, Samuel and David Kimball were from Bradford. Probably the latter only finally settled iu Concord. He was the father of Capt. Reuben Kimball, whose name often occurs in our history. He died November 20, 1745. [See Family Register.] Thomas Kimball was an early settler in Bradford, and was shot by the Indians, May 3, 1676, and his wife and five children taken captive, who were afterward returned by the friendly offices of Wonalancet of Penacook. [See History of Haverhill.] LOVEJOY. Nathaniel and Ebenezer Lovejoy were brothers, and sons of John Lovejoy, of Andover, who died in 1690. Some of the family still live In Concord. Several of them have been distinguislied for longevity. LEARNED. Thomas Learned was probably from Woburn. MERRILL. John Merrill, deacon, is believed to have come from Ilavcrhill, (West Parish,) — probably a descendant of Nathanid, brother of John Merrill, one of the first settlers in Newbury. Dea. Merrill's house was built on the hill at the lower end of Main street, where the roads part. The original well still remains, with good water in it. He was chosen deacon December 17, 1730. He kept the first ferry over the Merrimack river. [See Family Register.] MATTIS. John Mattis. His origin is not known — probably not a permanent settler. MITCHELL. Andrew Mitchell was from Newbury — believed to have been a descendant of William Mitchell, who died in Newbury in 1654. NICHOLS. Benjamin Nichols. His origin is not certainly known. There was a Nicholas Nichols, of Andover, in 1702. 138 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. OSGOOD. John and Stephen Osgood were cousins, from Andover — the former son of John, and the hitter son of Stephen Osgood — both descendants from John Os- good, one of the founders of the church in Andover, October, 1645, who came from Andover, Engknd; born July 23, 1595, and died October, 1651, aged fifty-six. PARKER. Benjamin, James and Nathan Parker were brothers, from Andover — sons of John Parker, who was born in 1G53, and died in 1738, aged eighty-five— and grandsons of Nathan Parker, one of the founders of the church in Andover, in 1645 — born in England, and died in 1685. Joseph Parker was son of Joseph Parker, son of Joseph who died in 1678 — one of the founders of the church in Andover (1645.) This family went from New- bury to Andover. It is not improbable that Joseph and Nathan were brothers. The descendants of these families still live in Concord. [See Family Register.] PAGE. Nathaniel Page was from Haverhill, and, probably, Thomas and Joseph also. [See Mirick's Hist., p. 146.] Several of the name still remain in town. PEASLEE. Nathaniel and Robert Peaslee were from Haverhill — probably did not settle here. Nathaniel Peasley was representative from Haverhill in 1737,1739 to 1742 ; 1 746 to 1749 ; 1752 and 1753. In 1739 he was one of the General Court's committee on the disputed question of the boundary line between the provinces of Massachusetts and New-Hampshire. PHILLIPS. Rev. Samuel Phillips was minister of the South Parish church in Andover ; born February 28, 1690; graduated at Harvard College in 1708; ordained at Andover October 17, 1711, and died June 5, 1771. His right in Penacook was carried on by William Peters. His two sons, Samuel and John, were distin- guished men — the latter as founder of E.xeter Academy and of the Phillips Professorship of Divinity in Dartmouth College — now filled by Rev. Daniel J. Noyes, first pastor of the South Congregational Church in Concord. Rev. Mr. Phillips wus one of the council that ordained Rev. Timothy Walker at Pena- cook, November 18, 1730, and gave him the charge. PULSIPHER. Jonathan Pulsipher's origin is not known. None of the name now resident in Concord. PECKER. John Pecker is believed to have come from Haverhill. He was a leading and useful man in town — supposed to be the ancestor of the late Jeremiah Pecker, Esq., who deceased August 12, 1843, aged seventy-one. James and Jeremiah Pecker, both of Haverhill, were graduates of Harvard College — 1743 and 1757. PEABODY. John Peahodij was probably from Salisbury, Massachusetts. None of the family now in Concord. REYNOLDS. Samuel Reynolds. Whence he came to Concord, unknown. PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 139 ROLFE. Henry Rolfe, Esq., was from Newbiuy — a descendant of Henry, son of Hon- our Rolfe, who came to Newbury among the first settlers, and died in 1643. [See Family Register.] Henry Rolfe, Esq., was one of the commission ap- pointed by Massachusetts, in MZl , on the question of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New-Hampshire. [See Belknap's Hist., note, p. 243, 1737.] SANDERS. John Sanders, John Sanders, Jr., and Jonathan Sanders — the two former, fiither and son, were from Haverhill — probably, also, Nathaniel Sanders. John Sanders was representative from Haverhill from 1720 to 1726, and was one of "the Committee of the Great and General Court" for the settlement of Pena- cook. Nathaniel Sanders forfeited his rights to Nathan Webster, Esq., of Ha- verhill. STEVENS. Benjamin and Ehenezer Stevens were brothers, from Andover — sons of John Stevens, son of John, a member of Rev. Mr. Dane's church in Audover, and who died in 1662. Capt. Benjamin Stevens, "one of the principal inhabitants" of Andover, who died in 1730, aged seventy-three, was also son of the first John, and uncle of Benjamin and Ebenezer. SIMONDS. James and Nathan Simonds were probably from Woburn. SNOW. Zerohbabel Snow. From whence he came is unknown. The name is not found at present in Concord. He owned a lot on what is now called the Borough, and for him is named Snow's Pond. SHIPLEY. Jonathan Shipley. Whence from not known. TOPPAN. Bezaleel and Samuel Toppan were from Newbury. Rev. Bezaleel Toppau was born March 7, 1705, and was son of Rev. Christopher Toppan, pastor of a church in Newburj', who died July 23, 1747, in his seventy -sixth year. Bezaleel was a graduate of Harvard College in 1722 ; preached a while at Penacook ; was settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and died in 1762, aged fifty-seven. Samuel Toppan was born November 24, 1702, and was son of Samuel, son of Dr. Peter Toppan, and cousin of Rev. Bezaleel. Their common ancestor was Abraham Toppan, who came to Newbury in 1637. URANN. Richard Urann, it is believed, was from Newbury. The name still continues in Concord. VIRGIN. Ebenezer Virgin. His origin is uncertain, though, probably, he came from Salisbury. WRIGHT. John Wright. WHITE. Nicholas and William White were from Haverhill. John White was repre- 140 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK. sentativc from Havcrliill in 1715 and 1716, and again in 1719. William White was representative in 1733 and 1734. WISE. Ruhamak Wise. He may liave been connected with Rev. John Wise, minister of a parish in Ipswich. WALKER. Isaac Walker was from Woburn — a relative of Rev. Timothy Walker, from the same place. Isaac Walker was fatlier of Isaac, Jr., grandfather of Abiel, lately deceased, who lived on the spot where his grandfather built his log house. Isaac Walker, (Jr.,) died on the same day that Rev. Timothy Walker died. [See Town Records.] In 1746 the house of Timothy Walker, Jr., that stood about where George Hutchins now lives, was a gamson. He was a son of Isaac Walker, Sen. WOOD. David Wood. This is a Newbury name. He had a house lot at or near the brook north of the late George Arlin's, and hence the brook is called " Wood's Brook." WHITTIER. WiUiam Whitiier was from Haverhill. He forfeited his right, by not paying, to Joseph Gcrrish, Esq. WICOMB. Thomas Wicomb forfeited his right to Joseph Parker, of Andover. WINN. Edward Winn is believed to have been from Woburn. BRADLEY. Abraham Bradley was not an original proprietor, but came to Penacook as early as 1729. His name first appears on the Proprietors' Records March 31, 1730, as one of a " committee to amend and repair the necessary roads in Penny Cook, and, also, to build a bridge over the Sow-Cook river as soon as may be, at the cost of the settlers." He had but little education, and he usually made his mark for his name. He Avas, however, a man of sound judgment, and be- came one of the most enterprising and useful citizens. FARRINGTON. Stephen Farrimjton — not an original proprietor, but an early settler — came to Penacook from Andover; bought of Daniel Rolfe, (1734,) lots laid out to the original right of Thomas Blanchard ; afterward bought lots laid out to Na- thaniel Pcaslee and Robert Peaslee. He married Apphia, a daughter of Abra- ham Bradley, and was an enterprising, useful citizen. SHUTE. Jacob Shufe came to Penacook with Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. [See biograph- ical notice.] STICKNEY. " Jeremiah Stickneij came from Bradford about 1731 — not an original proprietor, but became a valuable citizen. His descendants have held prominent offices in town. [See Family Register.] CHAPTER IV. RUMFORD INCORPORATED. From 1731 till 1733 the settlement at Penacook was in a transition state from a plantation to an incorporated town. The petition of Henry Rolfe, Esq., Dec. 1732, was so far successful that, as we have seen, " the inhabitants " of Penacook were allowed to hold legal meetings, for the choice of officers, and to raise money for necessary town purposes. But they were under the immediate direction of " the Great and General Court," who appointed the moderator of the meetings. This state of things continued till near the close of the year 1733 - 4, when the Act of Incorporation for the township by the name of Rumford, was obtained.* The origin of this name we have been unable to determine. It is supposed to have been given from that of a parish in England, from which some of the proprietors origin- ated ; but which of them, we cannot tell. * Tlic proceedings preliminary to the Act of Incorporation were as follows : " Samuel Game, Esq., brought down a petition of Henry Rolfe, Esq., for him- self and the other grantees of the plantation of Penny Cook, praying that they might be heard to make it appear to the Court that they have fulfilled the con- ditions of their grant, and that thereupon they may be allowed to bring in a bill to erect the plantation into a township, for the reasons mentioned. Passed in council. February 8, 173.3, i?eac? and Ordered, Thiit Thomas Gushing and Edward Godard, Esqrs., with such as shall be joined by the honorahlc house, be a com- mittee to consider of this petition, and report, as soon as may be, what may be proper for this court to do thereon. Sent down for concurrence. 142 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. The proceedings of the inhabitants while in transition from a " plantation " to a to\ynship, are not otherwise important than as illustrating the order and resolution with which the " inhabit- ants carried forward their enterprise. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman was moderator ;* twenty shillings were offered " for encourage- ment of killing wolves in the township," and six pence for rat- tle-snakes, — " provided that the destroyer of such snakes shall bring in a black joint of the tail, or with the tail, to the select- men;" also, "a penny for killing of black-birds — the head being brought to the selectmen, or any of them, and burnt." In December, 1733, thirty pounds were voted to be drawn out of the treasury for the use of the inhabitants and freeholders of the plantation ; also, a sum sufficient to pay all just debts, and " sixteen pounds for to pay a school for this present winter and spring following ; and that the selectmen shall find books for the use of the inhabitants and freeholders, on the town's cost, so far as they shall think necessary." In January, (16,) 1733-4, fifty pounds were appropriated to Rev. Mr. Walker, " for building of him a dwelling-house in Pen- ny Cook, provided he gives a receipt that he has received in full Read and concurred. Capt. Hill, Mr. Hobson and Mr. Hall are joined in the affair. February 9, 173.3. The committees reported thereon that the petitioners had leave to bring in a bill. " All Act for erect mg a neio town icilh'm the County of Essex, at ajilantation called Penny Cook, by the 7iame of Riunford. Whereas, the plantation of Penny Cook, so called, of the contents of seven miles square, and one hundred rods, extending on the south bounds the full breadth of said plantation, which has by this court formerly been [and hereby is] declared to lie in the County of Essex, is competently filled with inhabit- ants who have built and finished a convenient meeting-house for the public worship of God, and some time since have settled a learned Orthodox minis- ter among them ; and have, to full satisfaction, complied with all the articles and conditions of their grant respecting their settlement, and thereupon have addressed this court to be erected into a separate and distinct township, and hold and enjoy equal powers and privileges with the other towns in the province : Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor, Council and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the planta- tion of Penny Cook, in the County of Essex, as the same is hereafter bounded *See list of officers, at the close of this chapter. HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 143 for his salary in times past, until this day, for the decay of money — it not being equal to silver at seventeen shillings the ounce." 1734. From this period the affairs of the new town proceeded with regularity and safety, till 1737. The proprietors' books and papers, that had been faithfully kept by John Wainwright, Esq., were dehvered into the hands of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., who was both proprietors' and town clerk. May 10, 1735, Mr. John Chandler, town treasurer, was ordered to make the several col- lectors that are in arrears, forthwith to pay in what was due ; and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., was appointed attorney in behalf of the town, " to sue for and recover in the law, any sum or sums of money which Mr. John Chandler, treasurer, is indebted to the town." In September, money was i-aised for building a bridge over Suncook river, — "one third part of the expense of building said bridge to be at the cost of the town." Deacon John Merrill and Mr. James Abbot, or either of them, were empowered to hire a man to keep school four months the next winter and spring ; and Capt. John Chandler, Benj. Rolfe, Esq., Dea. Merrill and Abner Hoit, appointed a committee " to take care that the bridge over Suncook be well done." 17 3 6. Fifty pounds were granted to Rev. Mr. Walker, to enable him to clear a pasture and bring it to English grass : thirty pounds and described, be and hereby is constituted a separate and distinct townsliip, by the name of Rumford ; the bounds of said township being as follows, viz. : Be- ginning where Contoocook river falls into Merrimack river, and thence to extend upon a course east seventeen degrees north three miles, and upon a course Avest seventeen degrees south four miles, which is the northerly bounds of said town- ship ; and from the other parts of that line, to be set off southerly at right angles until seven miles and one hundred rods shall be accomplished from the said northern bounds ; and the inhabitants thereof be and hereby are vested and endowed with equal powers, privileges and immunities that the inhabitants of any of the other towns within this province are or ought by law to be vested or endowed with. Passed in Council, February 22d, 1733. Sent down and read a first time. Bill passed, February 27, 1733. 144 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. of the said fifty pounds to be paid in 1736, and twenty pounds in the year 1737. Henry Rolfe, Esq., was authorized " to use proper means to get the County of Essex divided into counties," Edward Abbot was " empowered to repair and fit up the seats in the meeting-house, and make a door to the pulpit, and put up the windows." On the 18th of May the question of sending a Kepresentative to the Great and General Court in Boston, was tried in town-meeting, and decided in the negative. The same question was decided in the negative the 7iext year, and still again in 1738. 1739. The school was ordered to be kept from the 20th of October to the 20th of April, 1740. Seventh of November, Voted, " That there shall be a good and sufficient garrison built around the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker's dwelling-house, as soon as may be conveniently, at the town's cost." Benj. Rolfe, Esq., Dea. Merrill, Dea. Ephraim Farnum, Lieut. John Chandler and Ed- ward Abbot, to build the said garrison, at the town's cost, " as they shall think best." Five pounds were also granted to Mr. Barachias Farnum, to enable him to build a flanker to defend his uiiHs, — "provided he give security to the town that in case he shall not keep a garrison at his dwelling-house, the town shall have liberty to take said flanker, and convert it to their use." Mr. Farnum's mill was on Turkey river, and his house also in that neighborhood. Mr. James Scales,* afterward minister of Hopkinton, was allowed " liberty to build a pew in the one half of the hinder- most seat at the west end of the meeting-house, that is next the window." * To the Church of Christ in Rumford, the First Church of ChrUt in Boxford sends greeting : Reveraid and Beloved: — We dhmisa from our to your holy communion, our beloved and worthy brother, Mr. James Scales, desiring you to receive him as becometh saints, and pray for us. Your brethren in Christ, JoHjf Rogers, Pastor, with ye consent of the brethren. Boxford, July 3, 1737. Rumford, July ye 17, 1737. This dismission and recommendation was read to the Cliurch, and thereupon Mr. Scales was received to full communion here. TiMOTHT VValeeb, Pastor. fflSTORY OF RUMFORD. 145 Joseph Eastman and Lieut. John Chandler were appointed " to inform of all breaches of an act for the better preservation and increase of deer within the province, and to take care that the violators thereof be duly prosecuted and punished." At this early period there appears to have been a ferry across the Merrimack from Hale's Point in a " Great Boat," and a road was laid out from the landing-place along the bank of the river " to the old fort," through land of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot and William Barker. 1740. June 11, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., " was elected and deputed to serve for and represent the town in the Great and General Court " in Boston, and empowered, in behalf of the inhabitants, " to prefer a petition to His Majesty, that they may be quieted in their possessions, and remain under the jurisdiction of the Massa- chusetts Bay, or for any thing that may be proper or convenient." In order to understand the ground and reasons for the dis- quiet implied in the foregoing, it is needful to refer, briefly, to the controversy at this time going on between Massachusetts and New-Hampshire respecting their boundary lines. The point in controversy between the governments of the two provinces, so far as aifected Rumford, was the southern bound- ary line of New-Hampshire, or which is the same, the northern boundary line of Massachusetts. The latter by virtue of her charter and grants claimed to " hold and possess" all the lands " on the southerly side of New-Hampshire, beginning at the sea, three English miles north from the Black Rocks, so called, at the mouth of the river Merrimack, as it emptied itself into the sea sixty years ago ; thence running parallel with the river, as far northward as the crotch, or parting of the river ; thence due north, as far as a certain tree, commonly known for more than seventy years past by the name of Endicott's tree, standing three miles northward of said crotch or parting of Merrimack river, and thence due west to the south sea" — which they said they were " able to prove, by ancient and incontestable evidence, were the bounds rightfully belonging to them and within their jurisdiction." The " crotch " above spoken of was the point of confluence of 10 146 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. the Pemigewasset and Winnepissiogee rivers at Franklin, on the southeast side of the home-farm of George W. Nesmith, Esq. ; the " Endicott tree," standing three miles north, — which cannot be identified at this time, — must have been near to Sanbornton Bridge ; a line thence duo west to the south sea or Pacific ocean, might have taken in some of the gold mines of Cahfornia, as well as the rich interval lands of Penacook ! On the other hand, New-Hampshire claimed " that the south- ern boundary of her province should begin at the end of three miles north from the middle of the channel of Merrimack river, where it runs into the Atlantic ocean ; and from thence should run on a straight line west, up into the main land, (toward the south sea,) until it meets His Majesty's other governments ;" that is, until it should reach New- York. At this time New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, as provinces of His INIajesty, were so far united that they were under one Governor, — Jonathan Belcher, — who resided in Massachu- setts, and was supposed to be in her interest ; while David Dunbar, Esq., was Lieutenant Governor of New-Hampshire, who, with a majority of the Council and of the House of Repre- sentatives, was opposed to Governor Belcher and to the Massa- chusetts claim. In order to settle the conflicting claims as to boundary, appeal was finally made to His Majesty, and a royal order obtained, constituting a board of commissioners, to be selected from the counsellors of the neighboring provinces — Nova Scotia, New- York, New-Jersey and Rhode-Island, with power to settle the contested lines. This commission first met at Hampton, Au- gust 1, 1737. Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., then and afterward of Rumford, was appointed one of the clerks. Arrangements had likewise been made for a meeting at about the same time, Au- gust 10, for the legislative assemblies of the two opposing prov- inces : that of Massachusetts at Salisbury, and of New-Hampshire at Hampton-Falls — five miles apart. This was done in order that the claims of each might with greater facilities be repre- sented before the commission, and that the Governor, who professed to be equally the father of both, might seem to dis- charge his duty in the premises with entire impartiaUty. This HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 147 great occasion was conducted with pomp and parade. Governor Belcher was escorted from Boston by a troop of horse, and met at Newbury by another troop, who, joined by three more at the supposed divisional line, conducted him to the " George tavern," at Hampton-Falls, where he made a speech to the assembly of New-Hampshire. No doubt this procession, with the Governor riding in state, attended by members of the Great and General Court, was an imposing spectacle ; but such was the temper of the times, that it was made the subject of burlesque in true Hibernian style. " Dear Paddy, you ne'er did behold such a sight, As yesterday morning was seen before night ; You, in all your born days saw, nor I did'nt neither, So many fine horses and men ride together. At the head, the lower house trotted two in a row, Then all the higher house pranced after the low ; Then the Governor's coach gallop 'd on like the wind ; And the last that came foremost were troopers behind : But I fear it means no good, to your neck or mine, For they say, 'tis to fix a right place fur the line ! "* While the assembhes were in session, and the commissioners were devising to settle the disputed claims, Gov. Belcher, with a select company, made an excursion of three days to the falls of Amoskeag — an account of which was published in the papers, and concluded in the following manner : " His Excellency was much pleased with the fine soil of Chester, the extraordinary im- provements at Derry, and the mighty falls at Skeag." Among the questions which puzzled the commissioners, and which it required all their wits to settle, were, " Whether Merri- mack river, at that time, emptied itself into the sea at the same place where it did sixty years before ? Whether it bore the same name from the sea up to the crotch ? and tvhether it loere possi- ble to draw a jMrallel line three miles northward of every part of a river ; the coarse of ivhich was in some places from north to south ? The first and second questions might be settled histori- cally, or by competent Uving witnesses, but the last must have required wiser heads than Solomon's to decide ! * See Belknap's Hist. N. H., 1737. Note. 148 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. The commissioners at tliis session evaded the main point on which the controversy turned, which was, " Whethei' the charter of WilUam and Mary granted to Massachusetts all the lands which were granted by the charter of Charles the First ?" If the former, then the claim of Massachusetts must be granted ; if not, then it must fail. Making, therefore, an evasive decision, the commission adjourned, and left the parties to pursue their contentions as best they could, by means of agents, before His Majesty's Council in England. The New-Hampshire interest was represented by John Tomlinson, Esq., who employed a Mr. Parris as solicitor — a man of shrewdness, penetration and art- ful address : Massachusetts employed as her agent Mr. Edmund Quincy, who died in 1738, and afterward the affair was in the hands of Wilks and Partridge — neither of whom understood so much of the controversy as Tomlinson, nor had the address of Parris. The latter drew up " a petition of appeal" to His Ma- jesty's Council, in which all the circumstances attending the transaction from the beginning were recited and colored in such a manner as to asperse the Governor and assembly of the " vast, opulent, overgrown province of Massachusetts ;" while " the poor, little, loyal, distressed province of New-Hampshire," was represented as ready to be devoured, and the king's own prop- erty and possessions swallowed up by the boundless rapacity of the charter government.* To those who would look further into the merits of the ques- tion, I must refer to original documents, or to the condensed view in Belknap's History, It suffices my purpose to say, that after the agents of the respective governments had exhausted all their ingenuity and address to accomplish their objects, the whole subject was decided by His Majesty, in Council, on the 5th of March, 1740, on principles of equity and common sense ; at least, so far as respects the course of the Merrimack river — which, at the date of the original charter of Massachusetts, was unknown, viz. : It was determined, " That the northern bound- ary of the province of Massachusetts be a similar curve line, pursuing the course of Merrimack river at three miles distance, on the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic ocean, and *See Belknap's Hist., Ch. 17, year 1737. HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 149 ending at a point due north of Pawtucket Falls ; and a straight line drawn from thence due west, till it meets with His Majesty's other governments." The northern boundary line of New- Hampshire was fixed as it remains essentially to this day. By this decision of His Majesty all the towns that had been laid out by Massachusetts west of the Merrimack river, above Pawtucket Falls, and those bordering the river, and embraced within the " three miles north of the river," which Massachusetts claimed, fell within New-Hampshire. In pursuance of this decision, the next thing was to run the line. Gov. Belcher received orders, 1741, to apply to the gov- ernments of both provinces, to join in appointing surveyors to run out and mark the lines ; and that if either should refuse, the other should proceed ex parte. Massachusetts failed to com- ply. New-Hampshire appointed three surveyors, one of whom was Ilicliard Hazzen — surveyor of the interval lots at Penacook — who surveyed and marked the west line from Pawtucket Falls across Connecticut river to the supposed boundary line of New- Hampshire.* This decision respecting the boundary awakened deep concern in the inhabitants of Rumford. Strongly attached to the Massa- chusetts government, they were anxious, if possible, to retain their connection. On the 11th of June, 1740, in obedience to a pre- cept from the General Court of Massachusetts, they elected their first representative, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., and instructed him to prefer a petition to His Majesty, that the inhabitants " may be quieted in their possessions, and remain under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay ; also, to petition the Gen- eral Court to use their influence with His Majesty in that behalf." At a meeting, also, September 26th, " the town being informed that by the determination of His Majesty in Council, respecting the controverted bounds between the province of Massachusetts Bay and New-Hampshire, they were excluded from the former province, to which they always supposed themselves to belong — ' Voted, unanimously, to prefer a petition to the king's most ex- cellent Majesty, setting forth their distressed estate, and praying to be annexed to the said Massachusetts province.' " * Belknap, 1741. 150 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. At the same meeting, Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., agent of Massachusetts, " was empo^Yered to present the said petition to His Majesty, and to appear and act fully in behalf of the town, with respect to it ;" and in ease he declined, Benjamin Rolfe was authorized to act in the matter, " according to his best dis- cretion." All, however, was to no purpose. In accordance with the decision of His Majesty, New-Hampshire extended her jurisdic- tion over all the inhabitants within her bounds, and on the 18th of March passed what was called the District Act, including a part of Salisbury and Almsbury ; a part of Methuen and Dra- cut, Litchfield, Nottingham- West, [Hudson,] part of Dunstable, and Rumford.* By this act the inhabitants of these several districts were subjected to taxation without representation.^ *See Document for Cliap. IV., No. 1. t Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., be hereby desired and empowered, in the name and behalf of said inhabitants, to prefer a petition to His Excellency our Governor, or to the Gen- eral Assembly of tliis province, that they may be empowered to make choice of some suita- ble person to serve for and represent them in every session of the General Assembly from time to time, within this province. — Rcc, 1744. CHAPTER V. RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT FROxM 1742 TO 1750. We have now reached a period of tragical interest in our history. From 1742 to 1754 scenes of anxiety, alarm and terror were of frequent occurrence. The Indians, whose hos- tihties are related in this chapter, were not, so far as known, of the Penacook tribe ; for as long as any of the Penacooks remained in this section of country, they were friendly to the inhabitants, and especially so to the minister. Rev. Mr. Walker. But the Indians who committed depredations and massacres in Rumford and vicinity, were mostly from Canada — instigated by the French, who then had possession, and who, from 1744 till 1762, were most of the time at war with England and her colonies. Entirely unmolested by Indians, great progress had been made by the inhabitants in their settlement, in clearing and cultivating their lands, improving the roads, and in the structure of their houses. But in 1739 apprehensions of danger were entertained, and the town, by vote, ordered " that a garrison should be built round the house of Rev. Mr. Walker, and that five pounds should be granted to Barachias Farnum, to enable him to build dbfiariker, in order to defend his mills on Turkey river." About the year 1742, according to tradition, the wife of Mr. Jonathan Eastman — who resided on the Hopkinton road, opposite the house of Mr. Aaron Shute — was taken by a party of Indians and carried to Canada. She was, however, soon redeemed by her husband, and restored to her family. 152 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. The opening of the French war, in 1744, greatly increased the alarm and anxiety which pervaded the colonies ; and, par- ticularly, the frontier towns which were most exposed. As one means of removing or allaying these fears, the expedition against Louisburg, on Cape Breton — which was the strong-hold of the French — was projected, and triumphantly executed by the daring enterprise of the New-England colonies. In this expe- dition Capt. Ebenezer Eastman was commander of a company raised in these parts, and was engaged in the assault made on that strong-hold the following year.* Before he set out, he signed a petition, with sixty-two others, to the General Assembly of New-Hampshire, for assistance against the French and Indians. This petition was drawn up by Rev. Mr. Walker, of which the aLimexed facsimile will be examined with interest. In the company which Capt. Eastman commanded were Na- thaniel Abbot, Isaac Abbot, Obadiah Peters, one Chandler, and probably others whose names are not known. The late aged Joseph Abbot said he " always understood that his uncle Isaac was killed at Cape Breton, and that one Mr. Chandler from this town also died there." Capt. Eastman went to Cape Breton twice. He first set out from Rumford, March 1, 1744-5, and returned November 10th, the same year. The next year he went again, and returned home July 9, 1746.1 The reduction of the fortress at Louisburg only changed the scene of war. The Indians, the more instigated by the French, poured forth from Canada upon the frontier towns, and, Avith horrible barbarity, carried on the work of destruction. The inhabitants of Rumford felt the general shock, and sought for means of defence and safety. At each parish meeting, from 1744 to 1747, they chose some person to represent to the gov- ernment, cither of New-Hampshire or Massachusetts, or both, " the deplorable circumstances they were in, on account of their being exposed to imminent danger, both from the French and Indian enemy."| The language which they instruct their agents * Rumford, June 22, 1744. Received of Capt. John Clwmiler, five ixmnds of powder, which I promise to pay — the said powder — or the value in money, to tlie said Capt. Chandler, on his demand — as witness my liand. Ebenezer Eastman. ■f Minutes from Rev. Mr. Walker's Notes. J See copy of said petitions — Uocuments for Chap. V., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. Fold-out Placeholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at a| future date. Fold-out Placeholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be insertec future date. INDIAN HOSTILITIES. 153 to use is — " We request of them such aid, both "v\-ith respect to men and mihtary stores, as to their great wisdom may seem meet, and which may be sufficient to enable us, with the Divine blessing, vigorously to repel all attempts of our said enemies." In answer to these petitions, early in 1745 two small com- panies of scouts were raised, by authority of Gov. Wentworth, under the direction of Col. Benjamin Rolfe, of which Capt. John Chandler, of Rumford, had command of one, consisting of ten men, and Capt. Jeremiah Clough, of Canterbury, of the other, consisting of five men.* The Massachusetts government also sent a small detachment of men from A^ndover, and another from Billerica, who were stationed here in 1745. In 174G precau- tionary measures were taken by the proprietors for the preserva- tion of their records. f Under authority of Gov. Wentworth, garrisons were established at different points in the town, and men, with their families, assigned to them, as was most con- venient. The garrisons, or forts, were built of hewed logs, which lay flat upon each other — the ends, being fitted for the purpose, were inserted in grooves cut in large posts erected at each corner. :|: They enclosed an area of several square rods ; were raised to the height of the roof of a common dwelling-house, and at two or more of the corners were placed boxes where sentinels kept watch. In some cases several small buildings — *See Documents for Chap. V., No. 5. t At a meeting of the proprietors, the 19th of March, 1746 — Voted, "That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., clerk for said proprietors, be directed and ordered to carry the iiroprietors' books of record to tlie town of Newbury, or any other town where he sliall judge they may be kept safest." ''Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., be desired and ordered to purchase suitable books, at the proprietors' cost, and copy all the Proprietors' Records therein, for £100, old tenor, to be paid him by the proprietors." 17 4 7. February 0, 174G. Voted, That Dr. Ezra Carter l)e clerk for this meeting — Benjamin Rolfe, Esi]., the clerk for said Rumford, being out of the province. Voted, Tliat two men be chosen to represent the difficult circumstances of tlie inliabitants of said Rumford to the Great and General Court, at Portsmouth, respecting the danger we are exposed to, botli from the French and Indian enemy, and to request of them such aid or protection as they in their great wisdom shall think meet. Voted, That Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and Mr. Henry Lovejoy be chosen to make the afore- said representation. X A part of one of the main posts of the garrison round the house of Rev. Mr. AValker is still preserved, and may be seen in the room of the N. 11. Historical .Society. It was pre- sented to the society by Joseph B. Walker, Esq. 154 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. erected for the temporary accommodation of families — were within the enclosure. Houses not connected \Yith garrisons were all deserted by their owners, and the furniture removed. In the day-time men went forth to their labor in companies, always car- rying their guns with tliem, and one or more of the number placed on guard. If the enemy was discovered approaching, alarm guns were fired, and the report answered from fort to fort. On the Sabbath the men all went armed to the house of worship ; stacked their guns around a post near the middle, and sat down, with powder-horn and bullet-pouch slung across their shoulders, while their revered pastor — who is said to have had the best gun in the parish — prayed and preached with his good gun standing in the pulpit. The following official document was found among old papers in the hands of Jonathan Eastman, Esq., and presents an exact view of the state of the settlement in the summer of 1746. GARRISONS IN 1746. Province of ] New Hamp? [ We, the subscribers, being appointed a Committee of Militia for settling the Garrisons in the frontier Towns and Plantations in the sixth Regiment of Militia in this Province, by bis Excellency, Benninq Wentworth, Esq., Governor, &c., having viewed the situation and enquired into the circumstances of the District of llumford, do hereby appoint and state the following Garrisons, viz. : The Garrison round the house of the Reverend Timothy Walker to be one of the Garrisons in s'' Rumford, and that the following in- habitants, with their familys, viz. : Capt. John Chandler, Nathaniel Rolfe, Abraham Bradley, Joseph Pudney, Sanuiel Bradley, Isaac Walker, jun., John Webster, Obadiah Foster, be, and hereby are, ordered and stated at that Garrison. Also, the Garrison round the House of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, [on the east side of the river,] to be one Garrison, and that the fol- lowing inhabitants, with their familys, viz. : Ebenezer Virgin, Jeremiah Dresser, Eben': Eastman, jun. Phillip Kimball, Phillip Eastman, Nathan Stevens, Jeremiah Eastman, Judah Trumble, Timothy Bradley, Joseph Eastman, jr.. ESTABLISHMENT OF GARRISONS. 155 Nathaniel Smith, William Curey, Daniel Annis, be, and hereby are, ordered and stated at said Garrison. Also, that the Garrison round the house of Mr. Henry Love.joy, [in the West Parish Village, where Levi Hutchins now lives,] be one Garrison, and that the following inhabitants, with their fam- ilys, viz. : Henry Lovejoy, Ephraim Earnum, James Abbot, Zebediah Faruum, James Abbot, jun., Joseph Farnum, Reuben Abbot, Abiel Chandler, Amos Abbot, James Peters, be, and hereby are, stated at said Garrison. Also, the Garrison round the house of Mr. Jonathan Eastman, [on the Mill Road, opposite the house of Mr. Aaron Shute,] be one Garrison, and that the following inhabitants, with their fam- ilys, viz. : Jonathan Eastman, Abner Hoit, Amos Eastman, Jacob Hoit, Jeremiah Bradley, Timothy Burbanks, Seaborn Peters, Isaac Citizen, be, and hereby are, ordered and stated at said Garrison. Also, that the Garrison round the house of Lieut. Jeremiah Stickney, [where Joseph P. Stickney now lives,] be one Garrison, and that the following inhabitants, with their familys, viz. : Jeremiah Stickney, Joseph Carter, Nathaniel Abbot, Edward Abbot, Ephraim Carter, Aaron Stevens, Ezra Carter, George Hull, Joseph Eastman, Edward West, Samuel Eastman, Sampson Colby, Joseph Eastman, od, James Osgood, William Stickney, Timothy Clemens, Thomas Stickney, Jacob Pillsberry, Nathaniel Abbot, jun., Stephen Hoit, be, and hereby are, ordered and stated at that Garrison. Also, that the Garrison round Joseph Hall's house, [where the late Dea. Jonathan Wilkins lived,] be one Garrison, and that the following inhabitants, with their familys, viz. : Col. Benjamin Rolfe, Joseph Pudney, Joseph Hall, William Pudney, Ebenezer Hall, Henry Pudney, David Foster, John Merrill, Isaac Waldron, Thomas jMerrill, Patrick Garvin, John Merrill, jun., 156 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. Moses Merrill, Jacob Potter, Lot Colby, be, and hereby are, ordered and stated at that Garrison. Also, that the Garrison round Timothy Walker, jun.'s, house, [near where Mr. George Hutchins now lives,] be one Garrison, and that the following persons, with their familys, viz. : Timothy Walker, jun.,* Kichard Hazelton, David Evans, George Abbot, Sanuiel Pudney, Nathaniel Piix, John Pudney, jun., Benjamin Abbot, Matthew Stanly, Stephen Farrington, Isaac Walker, Nathaniel West, Abraham Colby, William Walker, Jacob Shute, Aaron Kimball, Daniel Chase, Samuel Gray, Daniel Chase, jun., James Rodgers, Abraham Kimball, Samuel Rodgers, be, and hereby are, stated at that Garrison. And, inasmuch as the inhabitants who reside in the Garrison round the house of Mr. George Abbot ;f the Garrison round the house of iMr. Edward Abbot, ^" and the Garrison round the house of Mr. James Osgood, f have, as yet, made no provision for house-room and conveniences in the respective Garrisons where they are placed, for themselves and familys, and the season of the year so much de- Bianding their labor for their necessary support that renders it diffi- cult to move immediately — Therefore, that they, for the present, and until January next, or until further order, have leave, and be continued in the several Garrisons in which they now are, and so long as there stated to attend the necessary duty of watching, ward- ing, &c., equally, as if the same had been determined standing ^^'^'^^ons. j^g^pjj Blanciiard,) Benjamin Rolfe, ^ Co7n% &c. Zacheus Lovewell, j Rumford, May 15th, 174G. Such was the state of the settlement in the summer of 1746. Indians were now in the vicinity and an attack was daily feared. At the earnest solicitation of the inhabitants, a company of soldiers, under command of Capt. Daniel Ladd$ and Lieut. *Not the lato Judge Walker. t George Abbot lived in the anrient house, now on Fayette street, west of Mr. Samuel Farrington's. Edward Abbot lived where Dr. Thomas Chadbourne's house now stands — a part of the old house still remains. James Osgood lived where Hosea Fessendeu's house was recently burnt down. X See muster-roll of Capt. Ladd's company — Document for Chap. V., No. G. Also, see the part of Clough's journal which follows. THE MASSACRE. 157 Jonathan Bradlej, had been sent bj the Governor, from Exeter, for the defense of Rumford and the adjacent towns. This company had been ranging in the woods and scouting in the vicinity about three weeks previous, and a part of them were in Rumford on the Sabbath, August 10th. On that day it ap- pears that the Indians had meditated an attack upon the inhab- itants while engaged in worship, and the night previous had secreted themselves in the bushes adjacent to the meeting-house, to await the favorable moment. One party of them was con- cealed in a thicket of alders back of the house where Dr. Samuel Morril now lives ; another was hid in the bushes, north- west, between the meeting-house and where Ebenezer S. Towle, Esq., now lives. Some few of the Indians, it is said, were seen in the time of worship by a little girl — Abigail Carter, sister of the first Dr. Ezra Carter — but she did not make known the discovery until the meeting closed, when the people marched out in a body with their guns. The presence of Capt. Ladd's com- pany, it is believed, prevented the Indians from making the designed attack. Thus thwarted in their bloody purpose, they retired and lay in ambush till next morning, in a deep thicket, about a mile and a half south-west of the main village, in the valley — a few rods beyond where the Bradley Monument now stands. THE MASSACRE, AUGUST 11, 1746. For the particulars of the tragic scene which now follows, we are indebted to the journal of Abner Clough^ clerk of Capt. Ladd's company, which is published in full in the fourth volume of the Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, and to the story related by the aged Eeuben Abbot, five years before his death, which was taken down in writing by Hon. Samuel A. Bradley and Richard Bradley, Esq., grandsons of Samuel Brad- 158 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. ley, who was one of the killed. The manuscript is now in the hands of Richard Bradley. It was taken August 29, 1817, when Mr. Abbot was in the ninety-fifth year of his age. FROM ABNER CLOUGH's JOURNAL. " Capt. Ladd came up to Rumford town, and that was on the tenth day [of August,] and, on the eleventh day, Lieut. Jona- than Bradley took six of Capt. Ladd's men, and was in company with one Obadiah Peters, that belonged to Capt. Melvin's com- pany of the Massachusetts, and was going about two miles and a half from Riimford town to a garrison ; and when they had gone about a mile and a half, they were shot upon by thirty or forty Indians, if not more, as it was supposed, and killed down dead Lieut. Jonathan Bradley and Samuel Bradley, John Luf kin and John Bean [and] this Obadiah Peters. These five men were killed down dead on the spot, and the most of them were stripped. Two were stripped stark naked, and were very much cut, and stabbed, and disfigured ; and Sergeant Alexander Rob- erts and WilUam Stickney were taken captive. * * * * Jt was supposed there was an Indian killed where they had the fight ; for this Daniel Oilman, who made his escape, saith that he was about sixty rods before these men* when they were shot upon, and, he says, the Indians shot three guns first. He says he thought our men shot at a deer ; he says that he run back about forty rods upon a hill, so that he could see over upon the other hill, where the Indians lie, and shot upon the men ; and, he says, as ever he came upon the hill so as to see over upon the other hill, he heard Lieut. Jonathan Bradley speak and say, ' Lord, have mercy on me: — Fight P In a moment his gun went ofi", and three more guns of our men's were shot, and then the Indians rose up and shot a volley, and run out into the path, and making all sort of howling and yelling, and he did not stay long to see it, he saith. It was supposed that John Luf kin was upon the front, and Obadiah Peters on the rear : and they shot down this Lufkin and Peters the first shot, as they were in the path, about twelve or fourteen rods apart ; and they shot Samuel Bradley, * Tradition says that Gilnian went on ahead to shoot a hawk, and the Indians, seeing him alone, let him pass. THE MASSACRE. 159 as lie -was about twelve feet before where this Obadiah Peters laj, and wounded [him] so that the blood started every step he took. He went about five rods right in the path, and they shot him right through his powder horn, as it hung by his side, and so through his body — and there lay these three men, lying in the path — and Lieut. Bradley run out of the path, about two rods, right in amongst the Indians. He was shot through his wrist. It was supposed he killed the Indian ; it was supposed that he fought, (as he stood there in the spot where he was killed,) till the Indians cut his head almost all to pieces ; and John Bean run about six rods out of the path, on the other side of the way, and then was shot right through his body ; — so that there were none of these men that went one or two steps after they were shot, excepting this Samuel Bradley that was shot as above said. And there seemed to be as much blood where the Indian was shot as there was where any one of the men were killed. It was supposed the men laid there about two hours after they were killed, before any body came there. We did not go till there came a post down from the fort,* three quarters of a mile beyond where the men lie and were killed. The reason we did not go sooner, was because we did not hear the guns. I suppose the reason that we did not hear the guns, Avas because the wind wa'nt fair to hear. We went up to the men, and ranged the woods awhile, after these captives, and then brought the dead down to town in a cart, and buried the dead men this day. These men, when they went away in the morning, said they in- tended to be at home about twelve o'clock, in order to go to Canterbury in the afternoon, or, at least, to get fit to go. It was supposed that these men, some of them, rid double on horses when they were killed. On the twelfth day, early in the morn- ing, went up and took the blood of the Indian, and followed along by the drag and blood of the Indian about a mile, very plain, till we came within about fifteen rods of a small river, and then we could see no more sign of the Indian ; but we tracked the Indians along down the river, about twenty or thirty rods, and there were falls where they went over. * * * It was supposed there could not be less than fifty or sixty Indians." * Jonathan Eastman's fort, on the rocky knoll opposite Mr. Aaron Shute's. 160 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. NARRATIVE BY MR. REUBEN ABBOT, Who drove the cart that contained the dead bodies, from the place of massacre to James Osgood's yarrison. " I, with Abiel Chandler, was at work in the Fan, near Sugar Ball, making hay, on Monday morning, August 11, 1746, then in my twenty-fourth year. We heard three guns fired at Parson Walker's fort, which were the appointed signal of alarm at the approach or apprehension of the Indians. On hearing the alarm guns we ran up to the garrison, and found the soldiers who were stationed there, and such men as could be spared, had gone to where the men were killed. We followed on, and took the foot-path [by Capt. Emery's, near the prison,] and arrived at the spot where the bodies lay as soon as those did who went round on the main road. When we arrived near the brook that runs through the farm formerly owned by Mitchell, on the east side of the brook we found Samuel Bradley, stripped naked, scalped, and lying on his face in the road, within half a rod of the bridge over that brook. He was shot through the body, and supposed through his lungs ; the ball struck and spoiled his powder horn, which the Indians left. He was not otherwise wounded by the Indians than shot and scalped. Jonathan Brad- ley lay about ten feet out of the road, on the south side, and about two rods east of the brook. He was lieutenant in Capt. Ladd's company, from Exeter, and a number of years older than Samuel. He was not wounded by the Indians in their fii-e, and immediately after the Indians had first fired he ordered his men to fight them. As but few of the Indians fired the first time, Jon- athan supposed that he and his six men could manage them, and they fired at the few who had risen up from their ambush. Im- mediately the whole body of the Indians, about one hundred in number, rose up and fired. Jonathan, seeing their number and receiving their fire, ordered his men to run and take care of them- selves. By this time, Ohadiah Peters, John Bean, John Liifkin and Samuel Bradley, were killed. The Indians then rushed upon Jonathan Bradley, William Stickney and Alexander Roberts — took Stickney and Roberts prisoners, and offered Jonathan Brad- ley good quarter. But he refused to receive quarter, and fought THE MASSACRE. 161 with his gun against that cloud of Indians, until they struck him on the face repeatedly with their tomahawks, cut a number of gashes in his face, one large gash running obliquely across his forehead and nose down between his eyes ; another on the side of his head, and one on the back part of his head, which entered his skull and brought him to the ground. The Indians then des- patched him, took off his scalp, and stripped him nearly naked. Obadiah Peters we found shot through the head. Bean and Luf kin were shot, and ran from the brook toward the main road about six rods, and fell within a rod of each other, on the north side of the road as now travelled. Four of the Indians were killed and two wounded, who were carried away on biers.* The soldiers from the garrisons were too late to avenge the lives of these brave men. Before their approach the Indians fled like cowards, leaving many of their packs and various things, which the soldiers took." Mr. Abbot further related that the bodies of the dead — mangled, bloody, and some of them naked — were laid side by side in a cart which had been sent up with a yoke of oxen to convey them down to the main street. As all others refused, Mr. Abbot himself drove the team down to Mr. James Osgood's garrison. There a great multitude of men, women and children collected to see the dreadful sight ; they wept aloud. Mothers lifted up their young children to see the dead bodies in the cart. The late Mr. Joseph Abbot, who died January 20, 1832, aged 90, then about four years of age, said his " mother lifted him up and he see the bodies dreadfully mangled." Next day they were all buried in two graves, near what was then the northwest corner of the old burying-ground. The Bradleys were buried in one grave, and Luf kin, Peters and Bean in another : the spot *Some of these particulars were obtained from Roberts, who returned after about a year's captivity among the Indians. Note. JVovember 30, 1747, it was put to vote whether or no they would raise any sum or sums of money for tlie hiring or maintaining of a school for the present year in Rumford, and it passed in the negative. 1748. Felrruary 5, 1747. Voted, To choose a man to make application to the General Assembly for a suitable number of men to guard the inhabitants of Rumford the year ensuing. Voted, That Lt. John Webster make application to the General Assembly for a suitable number of men to guard the inhabitants of Rumford the ensuing year. U 162 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. cannot now be exactly identified, but it was very near tbe place now enclosed and occuijied as the burial-plat of the Bradley and Ayer family. NOTICES OF THE PERSONS WHO WERE MASSACRED, AND OF THE CAPTIVES. Lieut. Jonathan Bradley was a son of Abraham Bradley, •who came from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Penacook, in 1730. He married Susanna Folsom, of Exeter, who at first settled on the farm with his father, but afterward disposed of his property in Penacook and moved to Exeter, a year or two before the time of the massacre.* He was Lieutenant in Capt. Daniel Ladd's company, and only two weeks before, as appears from Clough's Journal, had been " very sick," and w^as not yet entirely recov- ered. He was a brave man, about thirty years of age, and when he met the Indians would neither flee nor fall alive into their hands. The ancestors and relatives of Mr. Bradley, in Haverhill, had had a bitter experience of Indian cruelty. Dan- iel Bradley was killed there, August 13, 1689. Isaac Bradley, at the age of fifteen, was captured in the fall of 1695. f Daniel Bradley, (son of Daniel,) and Hannah his wife, and two of their children, Mary and Hannah, were killed, Mai'ch 15, 1697, when Mrs. Dustin was made prisoner ; and Joseph, INIartha and Sarah Bradley, children of Joseph Bradley, were slain at the same time. The house of Joseph Bradley, grandfather of Lieutenant Jonathan, was burnt by the Indians, February 8, 1704, and his wife taken prisoner a second time, and her infant child, born in cap- tivity, was sacrificed by her barbarous captors. The story of this Mrs. Bradley's captivity and sufferings, (grandmother of Jonathan and Samuel,) is so intensely interesting as to justify a place in this narrative. It is abridged from Mirick's History of Haverhill. " On the 8th of February, 1704, about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, a party of six Indians attacked the garrison of Joseph Bradley, which, unhappily, was in an unguarded state — even the sentries had left their stations, and the gates were open. The Indians approached cautiously, and were rushmg into the * See account of his family in the Bradley Genealogical Record. fSee narrative in Mirick'a Hist, of Haverhill, pp. 78—84. THE BRADLEYS. 163 open gates before they were discovered. Jonathan Johnson, a sentinel, who was standing in the house, shot at and wounded the foremost ; and Mrs. Bradley, who had a kettle of boiling soap over the fire, seized her ladle, and filling it with the streaming liquid, discharged it on his tawny pate — a soa/>orific that almost instantly brought on a sleep, from which he has never since awoke. The rest of the party immediately rushed forward, killed Johnson, made prisoner of the intrepid woman and some others. #**#**«** " Mrs. Bradley was in delicate circumstances and in slender health. * * The weather was cold, the wind blew keenly over the hills, and the ground was covered with a deep snow ; yet they obliged her to travel on foot and carry a heavy burden, too large even for a man. In this manner they proceeded through the wilderness, toward Canada ; and Mrs. Bradley informed her family, after she returned, that for many days in succession she subsisted on nothing but bits of skin, ground-nuts, the bark of trees, Avild onions and hly roots. "While in this situation — in the midst of a thick forest — she gave birth to a child. The Indians then extended their cruelties to the babe. For the want of proper attention it was sickly ; and when it cried these remorseless fiends showed their pity by throwing embers into its mouth. They told the mother that if she Avould permit them to baptize it in their manner, they would suffer it to live. * * They took it from her, and bajjiized it by gashing its forehead with their knives. Not long after, while she was absent for a short time from the child, they seized it and piked it upon a pole, where the mother saw it dead. " When they arrived in Canada Mrs. Bradley was sold to a French master for eighty livres. She was treated kindly. It was her custom, morning and evening, when she milked her master's cow, to take with her a crust of bread, soak it with milk and eat it. With this and with the rations allowed her by her master, she eked out a comfortable subsistence." In March, 1705, her husband, hearing she was in Canada, started on foot with a small sled, accompanied only by a dog, and succeeded in redeeming her. Knowing, as Lieut. Bradley doubtless did, the story of these 164 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. sufferings which his immediate ancestors experienced, it is no wonder that " he refused to receive quarter " from the Indians, and that he chose death rather than captivity. SAMUEL BRADLEY. Samuel Bradley, brother of Jonathan, resided at Rumford with his father Abraham, after Jonathan removed to Exeter. He married Mary Folsom, sister of his brother Jonathan's wife, by whom he had two children, viz., JoIlti, born February 13, 1743, and 3Metabel, born January 16, 1745. In Rev. Mr. Walker's notes is the following : " February 19, 1744, baptized John, son of Samuel Bradley, and Anne, daughter of Jona. Bradley. Dec. 22, 1745, baptized Mehetabel, daughter of Sam. Bradley." Mr. Bradley was a young man of great enterprise and promise. The anguish of his wife on hearing of his massa- cre, and seeing his mangled body, was intense and overwhelm- ing. His little son John, then less than four years old, was shown the bloody bodies of the slain, as they lay together at Osgood's garrison, and retained through life a lively impression of the scene. Indeed the impression was so strong, that a terror of the Indians haunted him for many years afterward, and his grandfather's faithful servant, Pompey^ used to accompany him, as a sort of life-guard, and to carry him, when quite a large boy, on his back. Mrs. Bradley afterward married Robert Calfe, Esq., of Chester, and died at Concord, in the family of her grandson, Richard Bradley, Esq., August 10, 1817, aged ninety- eight. She was a woman of remarkable powers. In the latter years of her life she used to speak with great affection of the husband of her youth, and of his tragical end ;* to relate many little incidents of his life, and to repeat expressions which she said he used in the last prayer he offered in his family ; also, the last chapter which he read in the Scriptures. OBADIAH PETERS Was of Rumford, son of Seaborn Peters, one of the first settlers. " He had been out in the Louisburg expedition, and was at the *8ee further notice of Samuel Bradley's family in the Genealogical Record of the Bradley family THE MASSACRE. 165 capture of Cape Breton the year before his death" — one of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman's company. About the tune he was killed he appears to have been a soldier in the Rumford com- pany of militia, commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Abbott, as he is named in his muster roll, and his death there recorded. Peters' father and family lived near Eastman's fort, to which the party was going at the time they were attacked and massacred by the Indians. John Bean was from Brentwood, and John Lufkin from Kingston. William Stickney, who was taken captive, was son of Capt. Jeremiah Stickney, of Rumford, and a brother of the late Col. Thomas Stickney. " After about one year's captivity in Can- ada, he found means to escape with a friendly Indian, and proceeded on his way home to within about one day's journey of the white settlements, when they fell short of provisions. The Indian directed Stickney to hght a fire and encamp, while he would go in quest of game. After Stickney had prepared his camp, he also went out to hunt, and in attempting to cross a river on a log, fell in and was drowned." This was the story the Indian told when he came to Rumford ; but from the circum- stance of his being dressed in Stickney's clothes, many were led to doubt the truth of it. Alexander Roberts, who was one of Capt. Ladd's company, made his escape from captivity, after being carried to Canada. On his return to Rumford, next year, Roberts stated that four Indians were killed and several wounded — two mortally, who were conveyed away on litters, and soon after died. Two they buried in the Great Swamp, under large hemlock logs, and two others in the mud, some distance up the river, where their bones were afterwards found. Roberts claimed a bounty from govern- ment, for having, as he said, killed one of the Indians at the time of the attack, whose bones he afterwards found. On the 19th of November, 1747, the General Assembly of New-Hampshire passed the following resolution, which was approved by the Gov- ernor : " Whereas Alexander Roberts arid, others have been carefully examined upon oath, of and concerning a human skull-bone, 166 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. which said Roberts and company found at or near the place where said Roberts supposes he killed an Indian man, and where he saw said Indian buried ; and inasmuch as it appears to the House, upon the evidence produced, that the said skull is really the skull of the aforesaid Indian : Therefore, " Voted, That there be paid out of the money in the public treasury, unto the said Alexander Roberts and company, the sum of seventy-five pounds, in the following proportions, viz. : To the said Alexander Roberts, fifteen pounds ; to Daniel Gilman, seven pounds ten shillings ; to the widows of Jonathan and Samuel Bradley, each eleven pounds five shillings ; and to the heirs or legal representatives of Obadiah Peters, John Luf kin, John Bean and WilHam Stickney, each seven pounds ten shillings." The Assembly also, April 3, 1747, Fo^^cZ, "That there be allowed to John Osgood twelve shillings sixpence for expense for coflBns, &c., for the men killed at Rumford last year."* The initials of the names of the persons who were massacred, soon after were marked on a large tree which stood near the fatal spot, and which remained as the only monument of the event for many years, when the tree was cut down. But it was fit that an event of so much tragic interest should be commemo- rated by a monument, that should stand for succeeding genera- tions to behold. The MONUMENT — which the annexed engraving well repre- sents — bears the inscription beneath it. * To the House of Representatives : Gents. : — I desire that your honors do allow to Abiier Clough what expense and charge he was at on the account of burying them five men that were killed last year at Ruinford, namely, Lieut. Jonathan Bradley, Samuel Bradley, and John Luffkin, John Bean and Oba- diah Peaters. To bords for making of 5 coffins, and making of 5 coffins, . . • £1 10 To expense for drink for the peopel, 1 00 In old tenor, £-2 JO James Osgood, Warrant to pay Clough, July 7tli, 1747. THE MONUMENT. 167 This Monument is in memory of Samuel Bradley, Jonathan Bradley, Obadiah Peters, John Bean and John Lufkin, Who were massacred Aug. 11, 1746, by the Indians. Erected, 1837, by Richard Bradley, son of the Hon. John Bradley, and grandson of Samuel Bradley. 168 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. The followino; notice of the erection of this Monument, and the event it commemorates, appeared in the New-Hampshire States- man and State Journal, August 26, 1837. THE MONUMENT. On Tuesday last, the 22d instant, corresponding with the 11th of August, O. S., the ceremony of raising the Monument in com- memoration of tlie massacre of the Bradleys and otlicrs, on that day, 1746, was attended near the scene of the event, in this town, hy a large concourse of people. The procession was formed under the direction of Col. Stephen Brown, Chief Marshal, at the residence of Mr. B. H. Weeks, in the following order. Teachers and Scholars of the several Public and Private Schools. Chief Marshal. Music. Committee of Arrangements. Orator. New-Hampshire Historical Society. Descendants of the persons killed in 1746. His Excellency the Governor. Officers of the State Government. Past Oificers. Citizens generally. The procession moved to the ground on which the Monument was to be erected, when it was raised into its place ; after which the pro- cession moved in the order above to the grove of oaks on the south side of the road, when the following order of exercises was observed : 1. Hymn, by the Kev. John Pierpont, of Boston, and sung under the direction of Mr. Wm. D. Buck. Not now, God, beneath the trees That shade this vale at night's coUl noon, Do Indian war-songs load the breeze, Or wolves sit howling to the moon. The foes, the fears our fathers felt, Have, with our fothers, passed away ; And where in death's dark shade they knelt. We come to praise thee and to pray. We praise thee that thou plantcdst them, And mad'st thy heavens drop down their dew — We pray, that, shooting from their stem, We long may flourish where they grew. And, Father, leave us not alone : Thou hast been, and art still our trust : Be thou our fortress, till our own Shall mingle with our fathers' dust. '2. Prayer, by Ptev. N. Bouton. 3. Address, hy Mr. Asa McFarland. THE MONUMENT. 169 [This highly appropi'iate and well written address was published in the New-Hampshire Statesman, the following week, and was republished, nearly entire, in the sixth volume of the New-Hamp- shire Historical Collections, 1850, pp. 112 — 121, to which we refer the reader.] 4. Ode, by George Kent, Esq. On this devoted spot — Never to be forgot, Till time shall end — Manhood's high hopes Averc orush'd, And mercy's voice was hush'd, While blood in torrents gush'd From foe and friend. Pas'conawaii's kindly aid, That erst had been display'd, Was now withdrawn ; And Wonalancet's skill. Ready each feud to still, And cultivate good will — A hope forlorn. Mild Kanramagm* too, With love could not imbue His recreant sons ; But IIope-Hood's hostile art Possess'd each mind and heart, And led them to depart From peace at once. No council fires around Told of the battle's sound, Or signal gave ; But by the white man's path, Sudden as lightning's scath, The red man in his wrath Ambush'd the brave. Five gallant yeomen fell — While loud the Indian yell Echoed the deed ; Peters, Lufkin and Bean, With Bradleys bold, were seen, Staining with blood the green, Without remead. Not unaveng'd was done The work of death, begun In treachery base : Four of the tribe lay low. To bleach in winter's snow ; Unstrung for aye, the bow; Unjoined the chase. Hallow the memory, then, Of the devoted men * The poet mistook the character of Kancamasiis. 170 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. Who bravely fell ! LoiifT may this stone display, In the broad liuht of day, The deeds tlieir children may With honor tell. 5. Readino;, by Richard Bradley, Esq., of an orii2;inal petition of the inhabitants of Riunford, to the Governor, Council and Assem- bly, for succor against the Indians, with autographs of the orig- inal settlers ; after which a conveyance of the Monument and grounds was presented to the New-Hampshire Historical Society, by Mr. Bradley, [which was received by Rev. N. Bouton, in behalf of said society, and, being duly recorded, was deposited in the society's archives.] 6. An Historical Ballad, by Miss Mary Clark, of Concord, read by Mr. T. D. P. Stone,* entitled, '' A Ballad commemorating the fall of the Bradleys, Peters, Bean and Lufkin, near this spot, on the 11th of August, 1746, 0. S., ninety-one years ago this day. I sing a tale of days of old. When Pcnacook was yountj, — A tale that often has been told, But never yet was sung. It was a mournful tragedy, Most doleful to relate : How five young men all suddenly Met with a horrid fate. The settlement at Penacook Was girt with forests then. Where savage beasts a shelter took. And still more savage men. England and France a cruel war Had with each other waged ; — Woe to the colonies ! for there Its bloodiest contests raged. The fierce Canadians, (Frenchmen they,) Had set the Indians on ; 'Twas sad to see for many a day The mischief that was done. Houses were burnt and cattle slain, And smiling fields laid waste : ' To seek tlic lurking foe was vain, — His steps might not be traced ; For the dark, trackless woods concealed Ilim, issuing whence, he seized The unwary laborer in tlie field, A captive, if he pleased ; * Timothy Dwiglit Porter Stone, from Andover, Mass., then Trincipal of tlie Concord Lit- erary Institution and Teachers' Seminary. THE MONUMENT. 171 Or else, more merciful, despatched Ilim at a single blow ; Then his defenceless home attacked, And laid his loved ones low ; Or led into captivity The children and the wife. In hardship, pain and misery, To drag a weary life. Such scenes as these, we understand, Were acted o'er and o'er, Beginning first at Westmoreland, Not far from Number Four.* In both those towns, in Keene likewise. Were killed and taken some ; And then eight persons, by surprise, They took in Hopkinton. In Eumford, alias Pcnacook, The people all alarmed, Themselves to garrisons betook, Nor ventured out unarmed. Oh ! faces gathered paleness then, Hearts trembled with dismay ; For foes without and fears within, Disturbed them night and day. A hundred Indians, near about, Blood-tliirsty, fierce and strong, Seen now and then in straying scout, As they had passed along ; In August, '46, came down Direct from Canada ; Bent to destroy the embryo town, If in their course it lay. Yet did the people not forget The holy Sabbath day ; In their log meeting-house they met To hear, and praise, and pray. Each carrying his gun, went in. For fear what might betide ; And Parson Walker there was seen. With musket by his side. No prayer from feigned lips arose — With death and danger near, Their cries to Heaven, we may suppose. Went up from hearts sincere. Hid in an alder thicket, nigh The meeting-house, the foe (A little girl did them espy,) Were laid in ambush low. * Now called C'harlestown. 172 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. A militaiy company Had rome tlic place to guard, Yet truly might the people say Their help was from the Lord ; For not a single hand was raised To harm them on that day ; They safely came unto the place, And safely went away. But ah ! the morrow comes, and then In Penacook was seen Such slaughter of their bravest men As never yet had been. Eight of the men set out to go To Eastman's garrison ; Full two miles off — but did not know The risk they were to run. Arriving early at the spot Where now secure we stand, Two fell beneath a fatal shot From unseen Indian hand. They wounded Samuel Bradley, too — At every step he bled — Another shot his body through. Laid him among the dead. Lieutenant Bradley cried out, " Lord, Have mercy on me ! — Fight ;" He fired — but as he spake the word They rush'd on him outright. But stoutly he resisted, still Refusing proffered life ; They, horrid ! mangling him, until Death closed the unequal strife. As they rush'd out, the echoing woods With Indian yells they filled ; And kept their work of death and blood Till three more men were killed. Then seizing tlie remaining two, They quickly left the place ; A dreadful siglit it was to view Those bodies in such case. Some of the foe were slain, 'tis said. How many, is not known, For leaving there the other dead, They bore away their own. And thus did end this dire affray : The names of all who fell, I need not in these verses say, For yonder stone will tell. THE MONUMENT. 173 One of the men, it seems, went on Some rods before the rest, And safely reached the garrison, Which they did not molest. But sad the news he carried there, For he had seen the fight ; And sad were they who stood to hear, O'erwhelmed with grief and fright. And having gathered what he knew, A man was posted down To bear the woeful tidings to The people of the town. And there were sounds of keen distress, " And hurryings to and fro," So deep is human tenderness, So bitter human woe. When speedily a cart, prepared The bodies to convey, Was sent, attended by a guard, Along the fearful way. The rustic hearse came heavily O'er the uneven ground ; Returned, their slaughtered friends to see, The people gathered round. Oh ! what a day for Penacook ! The widow — what a day ! A long, a last heart-rending look, And in the earth they lay. The Bradleys were distinguished men ; Brothers, they were, so brave. And many a tear was shed for them. Laid in untimely grave. Each left a mourning family, Samuel, an only son, rather of him whose piety That monumental stone Has raised — the sorrowful event Thus to commemorate : Go read their names, and then lament Their melancholy fate. 7. Concluding prayer, by Rev. E. E. Cummings, [of the Baptist Church.] But to resume the narrative of Indian troubles : After the massacre, as above related, the Indians withdrew for a short time from the immediate vicinity. The inhabitants, however, were in constant anxiety and alarm. On the 13th of August, Clough, in his journal, says : " Eumford people said that they 174 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. heard several guns, early in the morning, some distance from the town. They supposed that the Indians had killed some cattle, as they [had,] about a month before, killed two oxen." In answer to repeated petitions, a guard was kept stationed here most of the time, at least for the two following years.* In the mean time, some new arrangement was made concerning the garrisons, as appears from the following official document : Province of \ New Hamp^ ) District of Rum/ord, March y^ 21s;, 1746/7. We, the subscribers, Committee of Militia, &c., at the request of sundry of the inhabitants of Rumford afores'^ — representing their uneasiness with the orders not being coiuplycd with ; and the pressing of the enemy having compelled two of the stated Garrisons to break up, and, by that means, apprehending a further view and settlement to be necessary — Have, therefore, repaired to Rumford afores'd and reviewed their circumstances, and do still continue the following Garrisons, as at first, viz. : The Garrison round the house of the Rev'' Mr. Timothy Walker, with the inhabitants stated there, excepting Obadiah Foster, who is removed and ordered to attend and do his duty at the Gar- rison round the house of Mr. Joseph Hall. Also, the Garrison round the house of Mr. Jeremiah Stickney — and have further ordered that the house of Mr. Edward Abbot, being near and convenient to make one joynt defence with s'* Stickney's Garrison, be likewise garrisoned — both which housen to be looked upon, and in all Garrison priviledges and duties, to be one Garrison — their keeping, in times of necessary watching and warding, a watch and ward in each house ; and that the inhabitants before ordered and stated at s*^ Stickney's, be as equally, as with convenience may be, apportioned to each house, as best accommodates them, under the regulation of Capt. John Chandler — excepting Ephralm Carter and Joseph Carter, Lt. Isaac Chandler and his son Isaac, who are ordered to remove and do their duty at the Garrison round the house of the aforesaid Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker. Also, that the Garrison round the house of Mr. Timothy Walker, jun., be continued, with the inhabitants ordered there, excepting Stephen Farrington and Benjamin Abbot, who are hereby ordered to remove to, and do their duty at the Garrison round the house of the aforesaid Jeremiah Stickney and Edward Abbot. Also, the Garrison round the house of Mr. Joseph Hall be con- tinued, with the inhabitants before ordered there; and that the Gar- rison round the house of Mr. Henry Lovejoy, and the Garrison at Jonathan Eastman's house, f be thrown up and not kept, until the *Doc. for Chap. V., No. 8, 9 and 10. f These garrisons were out of the main settlement — one at West Parish Village ; the other near what is now called Millville. INDIAN TROUBLES. 175 inhabitants posted at these Garrisons, or either of them, shall have further assistance and be willing to return, and then to be invested with the same Garrison privileges as before — but not till then- and, in the mean time, they arc I'cspectivcly ordered to the following Gar- risons, as most convenient for them, viz. : James Abbot, Amos Abbot, Amos Eastman, Henry Lovejoy, Abiel Chandler and Joseph Farnum, to do duty at the garrison stated round the house of the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker ; and that Ephraim Farnum, Seaborn Pe- ters, Timothy Tytus and Jacob Hoyt, to do duty at the garrison stated round the house of the aforesaid Jeremiah Stickney and Edward Abbot ; and John Burbank to do duty at the garrison stated round the dwelling-house of Mr. Timothy Walker, jun. : — which four gar- risons, in our judgment, is as many as can be admitted for the interest and safety of the inhabitants, and the places well situated for the defence of the town. Joseph Blanch ard, ") Benjamin FtOLFE, y Com"." Zacheus Lovewell, 3 Henry Lovejov's garrison, at the West Parish, [where Mr. Levi Hutchins now Hves,] it seems had been broken up ; and as there had been a grist mill, it subjected the inhabitants in that section, and also in Boscawen and Canterbury, to serious incon- veniences, as appears from the following joint petition : To IIi'x Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq., Captain General and Governor of Ills Majestij's Province of Nev>Hampsliire : To the Honorable His Majesty's Council and Assembly of said Province: The Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of Rumford, Canter- bury and Contoocook — Humbly sheweth. That we, especially at the two last mentioned places, are greatly distressed for want of suitable Grist Mills ; that Mr. Henry Lovejoy has, at great expense, erected a good mill at a place the most advantageously situated to accommodate the three towns : that it is the only mill in all the three towns that stands under the command of the guns of the garrison : — That the ill conse- (juences of abandoning the said garrison the year past has been severely felt by us : That the said Lovejoy appears desirous of residing there again, provided he might be favored with such a num- ber of soldiers as just to keep his garrison with a tolerable degree of safety J and that, as an additional encouragement to us to appear as petitioners on his behalf, and to your Excellency and Honours to grant our said petition, he will become engaged, with all convenient speed, to erect a forge for the making of Barr Iron,* which may also *Thi3 forge was erected by Capt. Lovejoy, and was in operation many years. Mr. Levi Hutchins says the forge was situated about forty rods westerly of his Iiouse, on the stream that flows from Long Pond, and that old cinders of ore are still visible there. The ore was obtained from the banks at the deep bend of the river, just above the Concord Bridge. Iron ore was also found in the south part of the town. 176 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. stand under the command of the said garrison ; which undertaking would probably be vastly advantageous to all the towns and planta- tions up this way, as well as to the general interest of the Province. We therefore pray, as well on behalf of ourselves as the said Lovejoy, that your Excellency and Honours would take the premises into your wise consideration, and grant unto the said Lovejoy such a protection as may encourage him to reenter and possess his at pres- ent abandoned garrison, for the ends and purposes above mentioned ; and your Petitioners shall, as in duty bound, ever pray. John Chandler, Ebenezer Eastman, Ezra Carter, Nath. Abbot, Isaac Waldron, Amos Eastman, Edward Abbot, Isaac Chandler, James Osgood, Seborne Peters, Abraham Kimball, Joseph Pudney, Stephen Gerrish, John Towle, George Jackman, Richard Jackman, Richard Hood, Jacob Flanders, James Scales, Jeremiah Clough, William Miles, William Forest, Thomas Clough, Josiah Miles, Ben. Fifield, Jacob Hoyt, John Burbank, Caleb Burbank, Amos Abbot, John Chandler, jun., Benjamin Abbot, Ephraim Farnum, Daniel Chase, Henry Lovejoy, Jeremiah Stickncy, Aaron Stevens, William Peters, Philip Caul, John Corser, William Emery, Joel Manuel, John Flanders, John Gibson, Archelaus Moor, Moses Danforth, James Head, Benjamin Blanchard, James Gipson, Rumford, January 2d, 1747-8. Stephen Farrington, Stephen Hoyt, George Hull, Samson Colbe, Eben'r Eastman, jr., Philip Eastman, Jeremiah Eastman, Nathaniel Eastman, Joseph Eastman, Daniel Anis, Nathan Stevens, Ebenezer Virgin, Of Rumford. Philip Flanders, Stephen Call, Phiueas Stevens, Nathaniel Malloon, William Danford, Of Contoocooh. William Moor, William Forest, jr., Samuel Shepherd, John Forrest, Thomas Danforth, Samuel Moor, Of Canterbury . ANECDOTES. The following traditionary anecdotes relative to this period have been received by the author from sundry individuals, and may be relied on as substantially correct. Philip Eastman, son of Capt. Ebenezer, married Abiah ANECDOTES. 1 i t Bradlej, sister of tlie Bradlejs who were killed, and in 1746 lived on the farm where John L. Tallant, Esq., now lives. When the news of the massacre reached them, Mr. Eastman hastily saddled his horse, rode up to his door, and said, " Come, Abiah, let us go." She replied, " I am ready," and at a single bound sprung upon the horse's back, behind her husband — and then they rode on full canter down to Capt. Eastman's fort. It was a common saying in those times, " It takes a hard hloiv to kill a Bradley I " — C. E. Potter. On the 10th of November, 1746,* a Mr. Estahrooks, of Hop- kinton, was killed by the Indians on the road leading from Con- cord to Hopkinton, and about one fourth of a mile eastward of where the Bradleys were killed. The circumstances, as related by Mr. Benjamin G-ale, now in his eighty-fifth year, and in full possession of his faculties, are as follows : " My grandfather, Dr. Ezra Carter,! lived in a house which stood where Sanborn's book-store now is ; he pastured his horse in Dea. George Abbot's lot, where the late Timothy Chandler lived. Mr. Estabrooks came into town, and called on Dr. Carter, but was in great haste to return to Hopkinton before night. Dr. Carter said, ' I have a call to make on the same road, and will accompany you ;' then taking his bridle and saddle bags in hand, he went to the pasture to catch his horse ; but, what was very unusual, the horse could'nt be caught. The doctor, therefore, standing in the field, waved his hand to Mr. Estabrooks, who was waiting, and said, ' Go on.' Estabrooks proceeded about three quarters of a mile on the road, to where the watering-trough now is, at Rum- Hill, (so called,) when he was fired at and killed. The report of the gun was heard in the street, and in half an hour after- * PETITION OP DE. EZRA CARTEB. October ye 23d, 1747. To His ErccUency Benning Wentworth, Esq., 4'C. ; The Petition of Ezra Carter, in behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Ruinford, shevv- eth, that they are destitute of soldiers, and very much exposed both to the French and Indian enemy, and daily expect, by experience of last year, invasions by them, by reason of their KILLING ONE MAN ON THE TENTH OF NOVEMBER LAST ; and OH the nineteenth of said No- vember they were discovered by their tracks in a small snow : — and pray your Honours to consider our dangerous circumstances, and grant us such protection as you in your groat wis- dom shall think meet. Ezra Carter. jMr. Gale's father, Daniel, son of Benjamin, from Haverhill, married Ruth, daughter of Dr. Ezra Carter. 12 178 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. ward Estabrooks was found dead on the spot." Dr. Carter's escape was considered very providential. Jacob Iloyt, Esq., residing on the east side of the river, (on the Mountain, so called,) now in the eighty-third year of his age — vigorous both in body and mind — relates that his father, John^ son of Abner, who came to Penacook from Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts, about 1728, and lived in a house where Dr. Samuel Morril now lives, was said to have been the second male child born in Penacook. He married Abigail Carter, the little girl who saw one Indian or more in the bushes on the Sabbath before the massacre. His grandfather, Abner, was in Mr. Jonathan East- man's garrison, and at this time owned land where Mr. B. Hub- bard Weeks now lives. On one occasion his daughter Betsey went out to milk the cows, just at twilight. She was accompa- nied by a soldier named Roane, for a guard. While she milked the cows, Roane sat on the fence ; but instead of looking out for Indians, his eyes were attracted toward Betsey. She, observing his gaze, said, " Roane, you better look the other way, and see if there are any Indians near." Turning round at that mo- ment, he saw an Indian with tomahawk in hand, creeping slyly toward him. Roane screamed, leaped from the fence, and run, gun in hand, leaving Betsey to do the best she could for her- self. Fortunately, however, Betsey regained the garrison in safety. Mr. Hoyt further relates — as what he had often heard his father say — " that at this time Indians were constantly lurking about, so that people had to go out in companies to do work in the field ; that Benjamin Abbot had a large field of rye on what is now called the Bog Road, which the Indians watched with a design to kill the men who went out to reap it. But at the proper time, the people turned out in such force that the rye was all harvested and carted home early in the forenoon, so that the Indians were disappointed ; whereupon they gratified their re- venge by killing as many cows, oxen, sheep and horses as they could, at pasture, in the vicinity of Turkey Pond. They also fired at and wounded an old Mr. Pudney, who was carrying a wooden bottle of beer from one of the garrisons to men at work at the Eleven Lots. The ball broke his arm, so that he dropped ANECDOTES. 179 the bottle, and ran back to the garrison,"* [round Timothy Walk- er, junior's, house.] In the fall of 17471 a large party of Indians made their ap- pearance in the southwest part of the town, and for several weeks continued ranging about the woods, destroying cattle, horses, &c. Jeremiah Bradley, (who lived near where Mr. Charles Hall now lives,) had a fine field for fall grazing, and into this many of the citizens had turned their sheep and neat cattle. Reports from the guns of the Indians were frequently heard, and numbers of the cattle were destroyed. The inhab- itants at length rallied, and a strong party, armed, proceeded cautiously in two divisions toward the enemy. In the woods, near the field, one of the party found numerous packs, &c., be- longing to the Indians, and concluded to await their approach in concealment. As they were approaching, one of the men, through accident, or an eager desire to avenge his losses, fired his musket, and alarmed the Indians, who, observing the smoke * See Joseph Pudney's petition, as follows : 174S. PROV. OF NEW-HAMP, 2o His Excellency Benning AVentavorth, Esq., Gov't, Sj-c. : The Petition of Joseph Pudney, of Rumford, most humbly sheweth — That your petit'r, the last summer, at Rumford afores'd, while in His Majes- ty's service, Avas wounded by the Indians, who by their shot bi'oak. his arm, and the bones much shattered ; that altho' the wound is healed up, yet he is unable to do any work to earn his livelyhood, and his arm so weak that he is unfit for scouting, &c. ; that he is able to do the duty of a garrison soixldier, and as such are wanted in the sd town of Rumford, he humbly conceives in that body he might be so far serviceable as to earn his living. Wherefore your pet'r most humbly prays that he may be held in His Majesty's service, and posted at the sd town as a garrison souldier. And yr pet'r as in duty bound shall CA^er pray. Joseph Pudnet. May 17, 1748. In the House of Representati\-cs, 28th May, 1748, Voted, That in ansAver to ye within petition, ye Avithln mentioned Joseph Pud- ney be posted as a soldier at ye garrison at sd Rumford, til ye last of Septem- ber next. D. Pierce, Clerk. In Council, eodem die, read and concuiTcd. TiiEOD. Atkinson, Sec'y. Eodem die, consented to. B. Wentavorth. f Moore's Annals of Concord, p. 271. 180 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. of the gun, filed off in an opposite direction. The whole party then fired, but with little injury to their tawny adversaries. The body of an Indian was, however, sometime afterward found secreted in a hollow log, into which, it is supposed, having been •wounded by the fire of the party, he had crawled and expired. There was a garrison — though probably at a somewhat later period — situated on what was called Rattlesnake Plain, just across the road southwest of Mr. Simeon Abbot's house, near the track of the Concord and Claremont Railroad. Belonging to and defended by the garrison, were four houses, built of logs, the cellars and foundations of which are visible to this day. Here were James Abbot, James Abbot, jun., Reuben Abbot, Amos Abbot, and Joseph Farnum. There is a story that the young folks from the Abbot garrison were very fond of going out, of an evening, to visit the Farnums, who lived some eighty rods distant, and that the old people were much concerned lest they should be waylaid by the Indians. As the young folks did not heed the cautions given them, Mr. Reuben Abbot, (the same who lived to his hundredth year,) undertook to cure their temer- ity. Accordingly, one evening, when the young folks were at Ephraim Farnum's, he, dressed in Indian style, secreted himself in the bushes by the road -side, and Avaited their return. As they approached the spot, he made a rustling noise, grunting like an Indian, and partially showed himself — when the young people fled with terror to the garrison. After that they never wished to go out again in the evening, but they kept the cause of their fright a secret. Samuel Farrington, grandson of Stephen Farrington, who married Applda, daughter of Abraham Bradley, relates that on one occasion, in the time of Indian troubles, her grandmother, who, like others of the Bradley race, was a fearless woman, went into the field where her husband and others had gone to mow, and she found them reclining under a tree, after dinner, asleep, and their guns stacked near by. She took one of the guns — of the kind called Queen Anne's muskets — and discharged it very near them. The gun rebounded and nearly kicked her over. They sprung upon their feet with great consternation, supposing that Indians were upon them : when INIrs. Farrington, recover- ANECDOTES. 181 ing also from the unexpected shock, laughingly signified that possibly they might receive a worse fire than from a woman, if found asleep again ! Capt. Henry Lovejoy once had a narrow escape from the In- dians. Returning from Osgood's tavern to his garrison, on horse- back, in the evening, he apprehended that Indians might way- lay him, and that they would be likely to do it in the gully, south of Ephraim Farnum's. As he approached the crossing-place, he pretended to have command of men, and cried out, " Rush on, my boys — be ready to fire ! " and then galloped over with full speed. On reaching home he went to turn his horse into pas- ture on the north side of Rattlesnake hill : letting the bars down, he noticed an alarm and stir among the cows. Inferring that Indians were near, he turned toward the garrison, and hid himself under a large wind-fall tree. Immediately two Indians with guns trotted over the tree in pursuit. He lay still till they returned and went off, and then regained the fort. In a deposition given relative to the Bow controversy, 1757, Isaac Chandler and Jacob Pilsberry, of Rumford, state, " That there was no way for the people, in their power, to defend them- selves against their [Indian] enemies, but by assembhng together, by common agreement, as many families as conveniently could, and first erecting a fort or garrison sufficient to contain them, and then building within the same a house for each family to screen them from the inclemency of the weather. And all this they did at their own expense. Moreover, by being obliged to keep watch and ward, and to work together in large companies for the greater safety during the summer ; and their being frequently called from their business — either by some assault, or the dis- covery of the Indians — and other avocations occasioned by the war, the deponents really believe that the said inhabitants lost near one half of their time during the most busy and valuable part of the year ; for all which they never, as the deponents heard of, had any allowance or consideration. "And that notwithstanding all these discouragements, they have stood their ground against the enemy ; supported themselves with all the necessaries of hfe ; and also yearly spared consider- able quantities of provisions to the neighboring villages in the 182 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. said province, — which must have suflfered verj much if they had not had their assistance. " And that they have been always ready, upon notice of dis- tress or danger among their neighbors, during the war, to go to their relief, many times in considerable companies, to places at a great distance, all at their own expense : beside the losses they have sustained, not only of human lives, but also in their stocks of cattle, many scores of which were destroyed in one day by the enemy, beside what were destroyed at other times. Isaac Chandler, Jacob Pilsberry." LIST OF OFFICERS IN THE PLANTATION OF PENNYCOOK AND RUMPORD, FROM 1732 TO 1749. Moderator, Clerk, . . Selectmen, . Constable, . Assessors, . Collector, . Surveyors of High Tythingmen, . Sealer of Leather, Hogreeves, . Treasurer, Fence-viewers, aijs, January, 1732-3. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, Benjamin Rolfe, . Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, Dea. John Merrill, . Edward Abbot, . Nathaniel Abbot, Ebenezer Eastman, Dea. John Merrill, Edward Alibot. Nathaniel Abbot. Richard Hazeltine, . Ebenezer Virgin, . ( Ens. Jeremiah Stickncy, ( Lt. John Chandler, . David Kimball, . ( Joseph Ilall, .... ( Isaac Foster, .... Lt. John Chandlei', . j Aaron Stevens, . ( James Farnum, . March G, 1732-3. Ebenezer Eastman. Timothy Clement. f Ebenezer Eastman, I John Chandler, ■\ Jeremiah Stickney, I Joseph Eastman, l_ Edward Abbot. . Abraham Colby. Jeremiah Stickney. John Merrill, John Riiss. William Barker, David Kimball. David Kimball. George Abbot, Jose])h Davis, Richard Urann. John Chandler, r Joseph Hall, J Samuel Pudnev, 1 David Barker," [ Isaac Foster. OFFICERS. Field-drivers, . Moderator, . Town Clerk, . Selectmen, Constable, Collector, Assessors, James Farnum, Joseph Eastman, March U, 1733-4. Ebenezer Eastman. Benjamin Eolfe. Ebenezer Eastman, ' Benjamin Rolfe, Dea. Epliraim Farnum Abraliam Bradley Surveyors of Ili(jhways, Tythingnien, ■-vieivers, . . . \ Fence Sealer of Leather, . Treasurer, . . . . Field-drivers, . . . . Hogreeves, } Poiind-lceeper, Surveyor of Flax and Hemp. Sealer of Weights and Meas. Selectmen. . Jeremiah Stickney, Ebenezer Virgin, Daniel Chase, . John Webster. . Edward Abbot, . John Russ, . Richard Hazeltine. Aaron Stevens, . James Osgood, . James Farnum, . William Barker, Ebenezer Virgin. David Kimball. Lt. John Chandler. James Osgood, . Samuel Pudney, Jei-emiah Dresser, Aaron Stevens. Jacol> Shute, David Barker, . Nathaniel Abbot. Nathaniel Abbot. Moderator, Town Clerk, Selectmen, . March 9, 1735-6. Ebenezer Eastman. Benjamin Rolfe. Benjamin Rolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Stickney. Selectmen. . Assessors, . Constable, . Surveyor of Hemp and Flax, Nathaniel Abbot. (David Barker, . Abraham Bradley, Edward Abbot, . Tythingmen, . Fence-viewers, Daniel Chase. James Abbot, James Farnum, f Richard Hazeltine, Joseph Eastman, - Isaac Foster, Ephraira Farnum, John Russ. . Jacob Shute, Joseph Eastman, Aaron Stevens, j Ebenezer Virgin, Timothy Clement, [ John Russ. March, 1734-5. . Ebenezer Eastman. . Benjamin Rolfe. . Benjamin Rolfe, . Jeremiah Stickney, . John ]\Ierrill. . Edward Al)bot. . Edward Abbot. . Selectmen. . Ebenezer Eastman, . Joseph Hall, . James Osgood, . Lt. John Chandler. . Ephraim Farnum, . George Abbot. . Abraham Bradley, . Daniel Chase, . Isaac Foster, . George Abbot, . Joseph Eastman. . Jeremiah Stickney. . John Chandler. . Timothy Bradley, . Timothy Walker. . David Barker, . Zebediah Farnum, . Benjamin Abbot. . Nathaniel Abbot. . Edward Abbot. March 15, 1736-7. . Ebenezer Eastman. . Benjamin Rolfe. . Benjamin Rolfe, . James Osgood, . Joseph Hall. . Selectmen. j Richard Hazeltine, I also Collector. . Nathaniel Abbot. James Abbot, Jeremiah Stickney, Barachias Farnum, Daniel Cbase, Ebenezer Virgin. Edward Abbot, John Merrill. ' Nathaniel Abbot, George Abbot, Nathaniel Rolfe, Daniel Rolfe, John Russ, David Barker. 184 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. Field-drivers, Ilogreeves, Sealer of Leather, . . Jeremiah Stickney. ' George Abbot, . David Kimball, . Zebadiah Farnum, . Jonathan Bradley, . Ebcnezcr Eastman, Jr Samuel Puduey. ■ Jacob Shute, Isaac Walker, Jr., . Abraham Colby, Jr., [ Onesiphorus Page. Sealer of Weights and Meas. Edward Abbot. Treasurer, .... Lt. John Chandler. March 29, 1738. Moderator, .... Jeremiah Stickney. Totem Clerk, .... Benjamin Rolfe. ( Benjamin Rolfe, Selectmen, < Lt. John Chandler, ( jiichard Hazeltine. Assesso7-s, Selectmen. . Constable and Collector, . Joseph Eastman. Survei/ors of Ilighivaijs, Tgthintjmen, Fence- James Abbot, . Jeremiah Stickney, Jose[»h Hall, Barachias Farnum, [ Isaac Foster. ( William Barker, ' ( Ebcnezcr Virgin. ' Benjamin Abbot, James Farnum, Edward Abbot, James Abbot, . David Barker. . Jeremiah Stickney. Seeder of Leather, Sealer of Weights and Meas. Edward Abbot. Treasurer, .... Benjamin Rolfe. Ilogreeves, Field-drivers, . Philij) Kimball, William Walker, 1 George Al)bot, . Abraham Kimball, Ebenczer Eastman, Jr., Philip Kimball, William Walker, Daniel Chase. . Survey' rs of Timber, Planh { Daniel Chase, and Boards, \ Nathaniel Abbot. Pound-lceeper, Surveyor of Hemp and Flax, Nathaniel Abbot. March tlO, 1739-40. Moderator, .... Ebenczer Eastman. Town Cleric, .... Benjamin Rolfe. ! Benjamin Rolfe, Lt. John Chandler, Ebenczer Eastman. Assessors, Selectmen. . , Jeremiah Stickney. , Benjamin Abbot, , Al iraham Colby, Jr., , William Barker, , Timothy Bradley, . John Russ. Daniel Chase, Aaron Stevens, Joseph Farnum. Edward Abbot. March 15, 1738-9. Barachias Farnum. Benjamin Rolfe. Benjamin Rolfe, Barachias Farnum, Ebenczer Eastman. Selectmen. James r)sgood. f James Abltot, I David Kimball, ! Jeremiah Stickney, ] Joseph Hall, j Baracliias Farnum, [ Isaac Foster. Richard Hazeltine, George Abbot. Stephen Farrington, David Barker, Jeremiah Dresser, James Farnum, Samuel Puduey. David Kimball. Edward Abl)Ot. Benjamiu Rolfe. William Walker, Philip Kimball, Benjamin Abbot, Philip Eastman, Joseph Farnum, Jacob Shute. f Benjamin Abbot, I W^iUiam Walker, I Jonathan Bradlee, \ Richard Hazeltine, Nathaniel Rolfe, I Jeremiah Dresser, y Ebenezer Virgin, Jr. Nathaniel Abbot. March % 1740-1. Ebenezer Eastman. Benjamin Rolfe. Benjamin Rolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, John Chandler. Selectmen. OFFICERS. 185 (Barucliias Farnum — [refusing "1 to sei^-e, paid his fine of £5, ! j ^^ ,^ jj^^,j_ and Ehcnezer Virgin was | ' chosen.] J f James Abbot, James Abbot, Jeremiah Stickney, . . . Jeremiali Stickney, David Kimball, .... David Kiml)all, Barachias Farnum, . . . Barachias Farnum, j Joseph Hall, Joseph Hall, I David Barker, Ebenezer Eastman. l^ Ebenezer Eastman j Aaron Stevens. . ( Edward Abbot. SuTvei/ors of Highways, Tythingmen, Joseph Eastman, Nathaniel Rolfe, Fence-vieicers, . . . ■{ Daniel Chase, . Abiel Chandler, Isaac Foster, Sealer of Leather, . . David Kiml>all. Sealer of Weights and Meas, Edward Al)bot. Treasurer, Hogreeves, Field-drivers, Moderator, Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, . Constable, . Treasurer, . Collector, Surveyors of Highways, . ■{ Tythingmen, Fence-viewers, •I Sealer of Leather, Sealer of Weights and Meas. Hogreeves, ....•] Benjamin Rolfe. ' John March, William Walker, Jacob Sliiite, Jiidah Trumble. John March. William Walker, Benjamin Abbot, Jeremiah Dresser Lot Colby, Ebenezer Eastman, Jr. March 31, 1742. Ebenezer Eastman. Benjamin Rolfe. Benjamin Ivolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Stickney. Selectmen. . George Abbot. . Benjamin Rolfe. George Abliot. . Timothy Bradley, . Barachias F'aruum, Nathaniel Aljbot, . James Osgood, . Daniel Chase, Ebenezer Eastman. Richard Hazeltine, Isaac Walker, Jr., Samuel Piitnee, Joseph Eastman, James Abbot, Jonathan Bradley, Ebenezer Virgin, Abraham CoUiy. David Kimball. Edward Abbot. William Walker, Nathaniel West, Judah Trumble. James Osgood, George Abbot. Benjamin Abbot, James Farnum, Abraham Bradley, Lt. John Chandler, Ebenezer Virgin, Eben'r Eastman, Jr. David Kimball. Edward Alibot. Benjamin Rolfe. William Walker, Isaac Walker, Jr., David Barker, Lot Colby. William Walker, James Farnum, Jonathan Bradley, Eben'r Eastman, Jr. March :il, 1743. Ebenezer Eastman. Benjamin Rolfe. Benjamin Rolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Stickney. Selectmen. Daniel Chase. Benjamin Rolfe. Daniel Chase. David Foster, Abiel Chandler, Nathaniel Abbot, Barachias F'arnum, Philip Eastman, David Kimball. Richard Hazeltine, James Abbot. Samuel Putneo, Abrahani CoIIjv, Jonathan Bradley, Jeremiah Dresser. David Kimliall, Edward Abbot, ' Samuel Grey, Abiel Chandler, Abraham Colbee, Judah Trumble. 186 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT. fWilliam Walker, .... Timothy Walker, jr., (Daniel Chase, David Chandler, Joseph Farnum, .... Obadiah Eastman. Edward Abbot, Oltadiah Eastman. tt^ Nathaniel Abbot and David Kimball were chosen ( Ebenezer Eastman, " to take care that the laws relating to the preservation of < jun., and Sam'l Grey, deer be obseiwed," &c. ( do. Moderator, Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, . Constable, Treasurer, March 28, 1744. Ebenezer Eastman. Benjamin Rolfe. Benjamin Rolfe, Barachias Farnum, Capt. John Chandler. Surveyors of Uighways, TytJiingmen, Sealer of Leather, Sealer of Weights and Meas Fence-vieiuers, Field-'s office. 218 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. we were to tax, wc should have addressed the Greneral Assembly long before now, but our distance is such that we seldom hear of the adjournment and prorogations thereof before it is too late ; several times were pitched upon for said purpose, but before they arrived the Assembly was adjourned. And now, having an opportunity to lay the alFair before your Excellency and Honours, we humbly hope that you will take our case into your consideration, and in your wisdom and goodness compassionate our circumstances. As to our paying our part of publick charges of the government, we can uprightly answer for ourselves, and have reason to believe that we speak the united sense of the people of Eumford, that we ought to do it, but humbly pray we may have the priviledges of a town or district, viz., to raise money for the maintenance of our minister, school and poor; the repair of highways, &c., for the want of which for several years past the inhabitants there have been great suSerers. That we ajjtprehend we are doomed much beyond our just propor- tion of the public charge, which has happened as we conceive for want of a true list of our poles and estates, which we believe was never laid before the Assembly. That we have been unavoidably subjected to great loss of time almost every year for several years past by disturbances from the Indians, and particularly for the two last years past. About a quarter of our inhabitants have been drove from their settlements during the busie season of the year, and the whole of them obliged to desist from their husbandry, in order to repair their garrisons and provide for the safety of their families. Wherefore your petitioners most humbly pray that their circum- stances may be considered, that they and the inhabitants aforesaid may be relieved against the penalties and rigour of said act ; that a proper method may be prescribed to have a true list of the poles and estates aforesaid laid before the General Assembly, so that they may pay no more than their proportion, considering their situation ; that they may, be incorporated to all the purposes of a town, and that the assessors aforesaid may have a further time allowed to perform the business assigned in assessing and the collectors in levying the sum that shall be finally determined must be paid by said inhabitants. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray. Ezra Carter, John Chandler."* While the inhabitants of Rumford were thus complaining of grievances and struggling with their difficulties, the i3roprietors of Bow proper became sensible that the controversy in which they were involved was detrimental to their interest, and, to " save the great expense which inevitably attends contention," *Tliis petition was unsuccossful, and was followed by .inothor from Dr. Ezra Carter, July 15, 175 , which may be seen in the Secretary's office. CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 219 thej proposed terms of " accommodation and agreement," having respect, however, chiefly to settlers of Smicook.* In 1761 an order was issued for taking " an inventory of the polls and ratable estates in the Province," which order, " for Bow," was delivered to Col. Jeremiah Stickney, of Eumford. On the 19th of March, 1761, Col. Stickney addressed a letter to Capt. Thomas Parker, of Litchfield, then a member of the General Court, excusing himself, and apologizing for not taking the inventory — saying, " We never understood we had power to act to ordinary purposes under the incorporation of Bow, in which, if we were mistaken, it was our unhappiness."! In April, the same year, Ezekiel Morrill and Thomas Clough, selectmen of Canterbury, were appointed to take an inventory of the " polls, stocks and improved lands in the town- ship of Bow," which they accordingly did, and made the fol- lowing return thereof to the General Court of New-Hampshire. It will be borne in mind that nearly the whole of their invoice related to the inhabitants of Rumford, who, at this time, were comprehended in Bow. The document is valuable as exhibiting the state of the settlement at that time, and the amount of the assessment. An Invoice of the Polls, Stocks and Improved Lands in the Township of Bow — taken hy us, the suhscrihcrs, according to the lest of our knowledge : Polls, 154 Houses, 91 Planting ground, (acres,) 341 Mowing land, (acres,) 498 Orcharding, (acres,) 16 Oxen, 160 Cows, 222 Cattle, three years old, 85 Ditto, two years old, 90 Ditto, one year old, 103 Horses, 77 Ditto, three years old, 12 Ditto, two years old, 13 Ditto, one year old, 10 Pasture land, (acres,) 150 Negroes, 6 Six mills, yearly income, £125 *Doc. No. 6. fDoc. No. 7. 220 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. VALUATION. Polls, £2770 00 Land, 502 10 Horses, 231 00 Oxen, 480 00 Cows, 444 00 Three years old, 145 10 Two years old, 103 00 One year old, 56 10 Slaves, 96 00 4828 10 Doom, . . . : 1000 00 £5828 10 EzEKiEL Morrill, Thomas Clough, Selectmen for Canterhury. We suppose the above assessment was never collected. But happily, the controversj which had been so long waged was now drawing to a close. In the courts of New-Hampshire every case brought to trial, touching the title to their lands, had been decided against the proprietors of Rumford ; but the Rev. Mr. Walker and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq. — the men to whom the pro- prietors had entrusted their cause — confident of its justice, were neither baffled nor discouraged. With a firmness of pur- pose worthy of all praise, and sustained by the unanimous will of the people, the Rev. Mr. Walker persevered in his agency. In the fall of 1762 he visited England for the third time, to attend the trial of the cause, which was still pending. He had formed valuable acquaintances among ministers of religion, mem- bers of Parliament, and members of His Majesty's Council. Sir William Murray, his learned counselor and advocate in the first trial, was now Lord Mansfield, chief justice of the King's Bench. After long and anxious suspense the trial came on, and Mr. Walker announced the result in the following letter, dated — London, Decemb"^ 23, 1762. Dear S^ : Last Friday, y^ 17*'' inst., we had our Tryal; have obtained judg- ment in our tavour, viz. : that the judgment against us shall be reversed ; and the particulars whereof I now send you, so far as my memory serves. Mr. DeGrey, my Council, had proceeded but little CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 221 way in opening the cause, wlien L'^ Mansfield interrupted liim by saying we had in our printed cases prepared a large field for argu- mentation ; that it would take two days to goe thro' y° whole — but he had a mind to narrow the case ; that there were but two points worth insisting on, viz. : y® false laying out of 13ow, which he called a nonsuit, and the order of the King respecting private property. He began with the former, on which he said our former case turned, when [by the way] he observed it was not as the Repp'^ had alledged in their printed case, that we were drove from every other point, &c., for, in truth, there was no other point considered ; that the L*^^, not being clear as to the other point urged — merely out of tenderness to possession and cultivation, which, they said, in America was almost every thing — they laid hold of that and determined as they did, but came to no determination upon the other, viz. : the order of the King in Council, &c., which he called the great point. The first he de- termined roundly against us. I suspected by the manner of his treating it that he determined it should have no weight in the present decision, and, therefore, would hardly allow it the force it deserved. I was, therefore, not much concerned at my Council's submitting the point. L'^ Mansfield then said he was now come to the main point, viz.: the order respecting private property, which, he said, must mean, in cases like ours, where both sides claimed and made grants. Whoever settled under a grant from either side, if he happened to beon the wrong side of the line when it came to be settled — as he was precluded from defending himself by his grant — his possession should be his title ; and, in this case, he said that possession with a grant from the Mass"** Bay was as good as possession with a grant from New-Hampshire. Mr. Yorke, y^ Eepp^^ Council, allowed y*, but alledged ours was not a Lona fide possession ; that we had been warned, &c. L** Mansfield said he had read those depositions as they were printed, where it appeared Bow had chose Committees to warn people from trespassing, kc, [which he seemed to speak with a sneer;] but he said the sum was this: Mass"^ people were strong — went on and settled, and Bow claimed. As to what is possession, L"^ Mansfield distinguished between possession and property. With respect to the Royal order, he said the words were not private pos- session, but private property. His design most certainly was to carry y® idea of property further than actual improvement. The sum of what he said was to this effect, viz. : What a man claimed under a certain title, part whereof he actualy improved, was his property. What is done, and what was said in the case, if truly represented by any body whom Bow will believe, will, I am persuaded, eS'ect- ually discourage them from any further attempts, even against Suncook — much more against Rumford ; yet I suspect their lawyers will urge them on to further tryals — with what success time must discover. Tours, &c., rp ^_ The following is the decision of His Majesty in Council, upon 222 HISTORY OF RTBIFORD. the several cases -R-hich were then on trial — all involving the same principle. At the Court of St. James, the 2d(h day of Decemher, 17G2. PRESENT, The King's Most Excellent Majesty : Earl of Huntington, Viscount Falmouth, Earl of Halifax, Mr. Vice Chamberlain, Earl of Northumberland, George Grenville, Esq., Earl of Egremont, Henry Fox, Esq., Earl of Delaware, Welbore Ellis, Esq. Upon reading at the Board a Report from the Right Honorable the Lords of the Committee of Council for hearing appeals from the Plantations, dated the 17th of this instant, in the words follow- ing, viz. : Your Majesty, having been pleased by your order in Council of the 15th of February, 17 — , to refer unto this Committee the humble petition and appeal of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Daniel Carter, Timothy Simonds, John Evans, John Chandler, Abraham Colby and Abraham Kimball, setting forth, amongst other things, that, in 1721, Benja- min Stevens and others petitioned the General Court or Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay for a grant of land at Pennicook, upon the river Merrimack, which petition, having been referred to a committee of both Houses, and they reported in favor of the application, that it would be for the advantage of the Province that part of the land pe- titioned for should be assigned and set apart for a township, to con- tain seven miles square, and to begin where Contoocook river falls into Merrimack river. And they appointed a committee to bring forward the said settlement, and laid down several special directions with regard thereto. And, amongst others, that the lands should be divided into one hundred and three lots or shares; and that one hun- dred persons or families, able to make their settlement, should be admitted, and each settler to pay for his lot five pounds for the use of the Province, and be obliged to build a good house for his family within three years, and break up and fence in a certain quantity of land, and the houses and lots to be on each side the river; and that a meeting-house should be erected and finished, which was to be as- signed for the use of the minister and for the school, and the charge of the committee was to be borne by the settlers; which Report was agreed to by both Houses of the Council and Assembly of that Province, and concurred in by the Governor. That, in 1726, the town of Pennicook was laid out and divided into lots amongst the proprietors, who began and carried on a settlement there with great difficulty and cost, it being above twenty miles up into the Indian country beyond any English settlement then made, and being a perfect wilderness, having not the least sign that human foot had ever trod the ground there, and notwithstanding the difficulties they CONTROVERSY WITH BOAV. 223 were under in establishing a new town in so remote a desert, they pursued their undertaking with such industry and pains, clearing the land, building houses, sowing corn, &c., that, within a few years, a town was erected, and the place capable of receiving their families, who were then removed up there. That, on the 6th of August, 1728, in consideration that five hun- dred acres of land, which had, prior to the aforesaid Pcnnicook grant, been granted to Gov. Endicott, fell within the Pennicook boundaries, the Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay came to a resolution, Avhich was concurred in by the Governor and Council, that the Pennicook settlers should be allowed and empowered, by a surveyor and phain- men upon oath, to extend the south bounds of their township one hundred and thirty rods the breadth of their town, and the same was accordingly granted and confirmed to them as an equivalent for the said five hundred acres of land ; and in a few years they had so far erected and settled a town that, in 1733, the Governor, Council and Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay passed an act for erecting the said plantation of Pennicook into a township by the name of Rumford; which act was confirmed by his late Majesty in council ; and the settlers having ever since, at great costs and labor, gone on improving the lands within the said township of Rumford, by build- ing, cultivation, and otherwise, and having been in continual posses- sion thereof for above thirty years past, and the same is now become a frontier town on that part of New-Hampshire. That, on the 6th of August, 1728, David Melvin and William Ayer petitioned the General Court or Assembly of the Massa- chusetts Bay, for themselves and others, who had served as volun- teers under Capt. John Lovewell, praying a part of the Province land might be granted to them for a township, in consideration of the service they had done, and the great difficulties they had under- gone in the war ; which petition being read in the House of Repre- sentatives, it was resolved that six miles square of land, lying on each side of Merrimack river, of the same breadth from Merrimack river as the township of Pennicook, and to begin where Pennicook new grant determines, and from thence to extend the lines of the east and the west bounds on right angles, until the six miles square should be completed, be, and it is thereby granted to the forty-seven soldiers, and the legal representatives of such of them as were de- ceased, who marched with Capt. Lovewell, (himself included,) when he engaged the enemy at Pigwacket. That on the 9th of July, 1729, the said David Melvin and others petitioned the Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay, setting forth that they had caused the said tract of land to be surveyed and platted, and praying a confirmation thereof, and that the grantees might be empowered to assemble and choose a clerk, pass votes, and be empowered to admit the persons in Capt. Lovewell's first march, to be associated with him ; and the survey or plan of the said tract, which is annexed to the petition, and mentions it to begin at the south-east corner of the said other town of Pennicook, and from thence to run out according to the 22-4 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. grant. It was ordered that the land described in the plan should be confirmed to the petitioners and their associates, and their heirs and assigns forever, provided it exceeded not six miles square, nor inter- ferred with any former grant. And the Assembly, on the 23 d of September following, ordered a preference to be given to those sol- diers who were actually with the captain in the engagement when he killed several of the Indians, and the said resolutions of the As- sembly were concurred in by the Governor and Council. That the Suncook proprietors carried on their said settlement which adjoined to Pennicook, otherwise Rumford, in like manner as the Pennicook or Piumford settlers had done ; and, in 1737, had a minister settled there, and by their industry, labor and charges, it became a good parish, filled with inhabitants. That some years since, upon a dispute about the boundary line be- tween the provinces of the Massachusetts Bay and New-Hampshire, his Majesty was pleased to issue a commission to mark out the divid- ing line between the said Province of New-Hampshire and Massa- chusetts Bay, but with an express declaration that private property should not be aifected thereby. And upon hearing the report of the commissioners appointed to settle the said boundary. His Majesty was pleased, by his order in Council, made in 1740, to adjudge and order that the northern boundary of the said Province of the Massa- chusetts Bay are and be a similar curve line, pursuing the course of Merrimack river at three miles distance on the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic ocean, and ending at a point due north of a place called Pautucket Falls, and a straight line drawn from thence due west, cross the said river, till it meets with His Majesty's other governments ; by which determination two third parts at least of the said river Merrimack, with the lands and settlements thereon, and among the rest the said towns of Pennicook, or Paimford, and Suncook, would lay upon the said river considerably above the said Pautucket falls, were excluded out of the said Province of Massachusetts Bay, in which they had before been thought and reputed to be, and thrown into the said other Province of New-Hampshire. That notwithstand- ing His Majesty had been pleased, at the time of issuing the said commission, to fix the said boundary, to declare the same was not to affect private property : yet, certain persons in New-Hampshire, desirous to make the labors of others an advantage to themselves, and to possess themselves of the towns of Pennicook, otherwise Rumford, and Suncook, as now improved by the industry of the appellants and the said first settlers thereof, whom they seek to despoil of the ben- efit of all their labors, did, on the 1st of November, 1759, by the name of the proprietors of the common and undivided lands, lying and being within the township of Bow, bring an ejectment in the infei-ior court of common pleas, holden at Portsmouth, in New- Hampshire, against the appellants, by which ejectment the re- spondents, under the general denomination aforesaid of the pro- prietors of Bow, demand against the appellants the possession of about one thousand acres of land, alleging the same to lie in Bow CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 225 aforesaid, and to be described and bounded as therein mentioned and set forth in the ejectment, their grant of the town of Bow, dated the 20th of May, 1727, from John Wentworth, Esq., Lieutenant Gov- ernor of New-Hampshire ; and that by force thereof they were seized in fee of the lauds thereby granted, to the estent of eighty-one square miles, and they had afterwards entered thereon, pursuant to their grant, and were seized thereof, and alleged they were en- titled to the one thousand acres of land sued for, as part of the said eighty-one miles square of land, and that the same lay within the said town of Bow; but that the appellants had entered therein and ejected the respondents, and withheld the same from them. To which action the appellants severally pleaded not guilty, as to so much of the lands sued for as were in their respective pos- sessions. That, on the 2d of September, 1760, the cause was brought on to trial in the said inferior court, when the jury gave a verdict for the respondents, and judgment was entered up accordingly, with costs, from which the appellants prayed, and were allowed an appeal to the next superior court. And on the second Tuesday in November, 1760, the cause was brought on again to trial in the superior court, when the jury gave their verdict for the respondents, and the judg- ment was thereupon entered up, affirming the said judgment of the inferior court, with costs. That the appellants, conceiving themselves to be thereby greatly aggrieved, prayed, and were allowed an appeal therefrom to your Majesty in council, and humbly pray that both the said verdicts and judgments may be reversed, and that they may be otherwise relieved in the premises. The Lords of the committee, in obedience to your Majesty's said order of reference, this day took the said petition and appeal into their consideration, and heard all parties therein concerned, by their council, learned in the law, and do agree humbly to report as their opinion to your Majesty, that the said judgment of the in- ferior court of common pleas of the Province of New-Hampshire, of the 2d of September, 1760, and also the judgment of the supe- riour court of judicature of the 2d Tuesday in November, 1760, affirming the same, should be both of them reversed, and that the appellants should be restored to what they have lost by means of said judgments. His Majesty this day took the said report into consideration, and was pleased, with the advice of his privy council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said judgment of the inferior court of common pleas of the pi'ovince of New-Hampshire, of the 2d of September, 1760, and also the judgment of the superior court of judicature, of the 2d Tuesday in November, affirming the same, be both of them reversed, and that the appellants be restored to what they may have lost by means of the said judgments, whereof the Grovernor or Commander-in-chief of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, for the time being, and all others whom it may con- cern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. 15 226 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. But notwithstanding His Majesty's decision, the controversy had become so complicated, and involved so much personal inte- rest and feeling, that many years elapsed before its final settle^ ment. The difficulty with the government of the Province in respect of taxes, was terminated by a charter of incorporation — as the next chapter will show — but conflicting personal interests had to be compromised. The prudence, decision, and readiness for reconciliation on just principles, which distinguished the pro- prietors in .all their subsequent proceedings, appear from their records. The controversy was finally terminated in 1772. The common lands which had been reserved were divided and laid oflF to the respective proprietors and grantees.* SETTLEMENT OF CANTERBURY BOUNDS. While the controversy was pending between Rumford and Bow, an attempt was made on the part of Canterbury to have the gore of land lying on " the southwesterly side of Canter- bury," and between the Canterbury and Bow line, (as claimed,) annexed to the former township. This gore included the nortli- * At a meeting of the proprietors, October 8, 1771, Capt. John Chandler, Mr. Philip East- man and Mr. Abiel Chandler were chosen a committee to take a plan, and survey the com- mon and undivided land, and lay out the same to each proprietor his or their equal proportion in a just and equitable manner. That the said committee " in the first place lay out as much common land as to make whole Mr. Phillips' two eighty acre lots ; and likewise Mr. James Farnum's, which was given away to complete the settlement with Bow." " N. B. Mr. Philip Kimball entered his dissent against the vote passed to lay out the common land." Jiihi 27, 1772. Andrew McMillan was chosen " agent to petition the General Court to em- power the proprietors to raise six hundred pounds, lawful money, by an equal assessment on all the lands within the township of Rumford, in order to complete a settlement between said proprietors and the proprietors of Bow, Mason's Patent and Canterbury." Voted., That Mr. Benjamin Emery, Ensign Reuben Kimball and Mr. Daniel Gale, be a committee " to examine and see how much land has been sold by their former committees towards paying fifteen hundred dollars voted at a' former meeting." N. B. Voted, by way of direction to the committee, that " the late Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., his estate be chargeable with all the lands recovered within the bounds of the township formerly called Suncook." By examination of the Plan of the town, it will at once be seen that the original south line of Rumford run across the Merrimack and Soucook rivers, and took in a considerable section of land that was afterwards laid off to Pembroke. (Several lots lying in that section were laid off to the settlers of Rumford, of which by the foregoing it appears some " were recov- ered." See Proprietors'' Records, April 22, 1773. The case was referred to Jlatthew Thorn- ton, Esq., Londonderry ; Capt. Moses Little, of Newbury, and Mr. Moses Gerrish, of Can- terbury, " finally to determine what sum of money the estate of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., de- ceased, shall pay towards carrying the case of the Bend of the River (so called) to Great Britain." In a " notification" for a meeting, November 21, 1772, the proprietors say that" the trouble- CANTERBURY BOUNDS. 227 east part of Rumford, and seems to have extended up the Merri- mack river so as to take in the interval farm of Stephen Gerrish.* At a legal meeting, held at Canterbury August IG, 1759, Voted, That Capt. Miles refar a petition to the Grate and General Corte, and prosecute the same in order to have that gore of land lying between Canterbury and Bow annext to Canterbury aforesaid. ppey , EzEKiEL Morrill, Toum Clerk . In pursuance of the above, Capt. Josiah Miles presented a petition to the General Assembly of the Province, February 7, 1760, setting forth " that there is a gore of land lying on the south-westerly side of said township, between that and Bow, on which several of the home lots of said Canterbury are laid out by mistake of the boundary on that side, on which there are sun- dry families settled, and when an invoice was returned to regu- late the proportions of the towns to the Province tax, those famihes were returned, supposing they were within said town- ship ; but upon running the line afterwards they were found without : * * since which they have refused to pay any tax to said town ; that the people are willing to be annexed to Can- terbury, as it would be more convenient for them than to be joined to any other township, and there is no prospect or rather possi- bility that it should ever make a township, considering the situa- tion, the shape, the quantity — by estimation about fifteen hun- dred acres — and the quality of the land." On this petition a hearing was ordered at the February session, some and expensive controversy which has so long subsisted between them and other claim- ers of their land, we rejoice to find now happily closed." At a meeting, March 15, 1773, Mr. William Coffin was chosen proprietors' treasurer, "to pay the money as he receives it to the committee formerly chosen to make a settlement with the proprietors of Bow." Voted, "That Sewall's Farm, (so called,) be assessed to pay an equal proportion for quantity and quality with the rest of the town towards the settlement with the proprietors of Bow," &c., and " that the estate of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., deceased, reim- burse towards defraying the charges of carrying the cause to England, wherein the bend of the river, (so called,) was sued for, not being within Rumford claims." "_N. B. That Mr. Peter Green wait upon Mr. Be/tjamin Thompson to Portsmouth, to repre- sent the above case to the judge in behalf of the proprietors." Benjamin Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford, married the widow of Benjamin Kolfe, Esq., Mrs. Sarah, daughter of Rev. Timothy Walker. Hence we infer he was married pre- vious to this date. The " Bend in the River" is understood to be that on the southern line of the town, em- bracing part of the Interval Farm of the late Col. John Carter. The " Bend" is so great that a strip of land north of the river now falls within the line of Bow. * A Plan of the land claimed is now in the archives of the N. H. Hist. See, which see. 228 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 1761. In the mean time remonstrances to said petition were presented from various quarters. (1.) A remonstrance from inhabitants of Rumford, authorizing Dea. Joseph Hall " to repair to Portsmouth as soon as may be, and do what he can to hinder the prajer of said petition being granted ;" stating among other reasons their hope that the township would soon be incorporated, pursuant to a petition before the Assembly, then on file ; and that " we hope and expect that the validity of our title to our said township, which is soon to be decided by His Majesty, will issue in our favor, and therefore that the matter may be at least suspended whilst that event is known." This was signed by John Chandler, Jeremiah Stickney, Timothy Walker, jun., Ben- jamin Osgood, Jacob Shute, Daniel Chase, Moses Merrill, Nath'I Abbott, Richard Hasseltin, George Abbott, John Merrill, Ben- jamin Abbott, and Ebenezer Hall. (2.) From John Webster and Samuel Osgood, February 16, 1761, stating that " they had lately purchased the farm commonly called Kent's farm, contig- ous to Rumford, of the claimers of the right of John Tufton Mason, Esq.," and that it would be more convenient for them to be annexed to Boscawen than to Canterbury, on account of the distance from the meeting-house, and the badness of the road, and " not agreeable to their interest, connexions or inclination," to be annexed to Canterbury. This farm contained three hun- dred acres, and lay north of Rumford line, on the east side of the Merrimack river. (3.) A remonstrance from Stephen Ger- rish, February 14, 1761, whose farm was still further north on the Merrimack — stating, among other reasons, that " the meet- ing-house in Boscawen is within a mile of my house ; that my interest is in several respects closely connected with that of Bos- cawen ; that I largely contributed to the settlement and support of their late minister, Mr. Stevens, as long as he lived ; as also towards procuring what occasional preaching they have had since his death." But the two strongest remonstrances came from " Joseph Man " and " Will. Gault," of which the following are exact copies : To Ms Excellency the Governor and House of Assembly : These are to inform you that I live on the Common Lands Near Canterbury, and that Capt'n Miles is trying to have me Corperated CANTERBURY BOUNDS. 229 to them, whicli I have no Desire to, be Cause they Intirely Eefused me of all town Privileges altogether : Whereupon I would humbly pray your honors to set me of to Some other Christian People, for if I am Set over to them I expect Nothing but oppression. Will. Gault. These are to Inform His Excellency the Governor and the honorable Assemhly of Portsmouth, That I Live in The Common land and Near to the town of Can- terbury, and the Select men of the town has rated me every year, & I have paid Piates this five years past to them. Which I think Very hard of ; Whereas they have a grate Entervail that they have the Cheef of their liveing Every year, & Never pays no Kates for it, Which makes me think they use no Conscience, or they would Rate their own Common land as Smart as they doe others. Seeing that Mr. Parsons laid out and Incroaehcd on Severall Eacers of my land, and has taken it into his farm, I Requested of them to lay out my land in Canterbury, as they Reserved a tract of land to make good the home lots that fell out of the town in the Commons. But it was Said yt I should have no other land than I had Gotten : for my Part I am aifraid to be Corporated to Canterbury for fear of oppression, and for these reasons I would pray his Excellency and the Honorable Assembly of Portsmouth, that they would be pleased to Corporate me to Some other Christian people. t i ^ '^ Joseph man. Finally, on the 13th of June, 1765, after the bounds of Con- cord were determined by the new incorporation, the Canterbury petition was, in part, granted — that is, a strip of land lying north of the original Rumford line, and extending up the Mer- rimack river, was annexed to Canterbury. The bounds were as follows : " Beginning on the easterly side of Merrimack river, on a course north, seventy-three degrees east, from the mouth of the Contoocook river ; from thence, continuing the same course about six hundred and six rods, to Canterbury south-west side line ; from thence, north-west, by said Canterbury side line, to Merrimack river ; from thence, down the said river, to the place begun at; and all the lands, polls and estates taken by said boundaries are hereby added to said Canterbury and made a part thereof." Hence it appears that the original west side line of Canterbury was six hundred and six rods from the river, and that it run along on the upland without taking in the interval. The interval between the river and Canterbury line belonged to what was 230 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. called "Mason's Patent," and the farms of Stephen Gerrish and Richard Kent, on the east side of the river, ■were included in the strip of land annexed to Canterbury, while none of that asked for between Canterbury and the Bow line, Tyhich belonged to Rumford, was granted. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1750 AND 1765. NEW MEETING-HOUSE. The " garrison-house, forty feet in length and twenty-five in breadth," built in 1727, near ^. West's brook, had served the a'vS^ "^^"^ V^^^i'' inhabitants for a meeting-house about twenty-four years ; but the increase of population and decay of the old house ren- dered it necessary to build a HH MLi UNO iioL'-L new one for public worship. Not being in a capacity to act as a town, the work was under- taken by a number of individuals, called " Proprietors of the Meeting-house." A new location was chosen, and the main body of the house was erected in 1751, on the spot where it still stands* — now the " Methodist Biblical Institute." Its timbers were of the best white oak. According to tradition there was a large gathering of people at the "raising," which commenced the 12tli of June and took three days. But while the men were so laud- ably employed, the women of the parish afforded material " aid and comfort" by cooking and providing victuals for them on the spot. The meeting-house was sixty feet long, forty-six wide, and two stories high. It was without porches or gallery. The only * The various changes it lias passed through will be noticed hereafter. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 231 entrance was at the door in front, on the south side. The seats were coarse benches, arranged on each side of the broad-aisle, and east and west of the pulpit, which was on the north side. The men sat on the west, and the women on the east side. The minister had a i^eiv near the pulpit, and the deacons sat together directly in front of the pulpit, facing the congregation. Thus unfinished the house remained till after the Revolutionary War. A LETTER FROJI REV. MR. WALKER TO HIS DAUGHTER. While in London, on his first visit, Rev. Mr. Walker wrote as follows to his youngest daughter, Judith, then about nine years of age : " London, March 13th, 1754. " While I am addressing myself to each of my children, Judith surely must not be forgotten, which, altho' the youngest, yet is none the less dear to her tender hearted Father upon that account. My dear, I hope you have not forgotten your prayers and pretty verses which I used to hear you say over when you went to bed; but as you grow in years, you will advance iu every endowment, both natural and spir- itual ; for I can have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in y" truth. Fear God and keep his commandments, which is the whole duty of man. Honour your Father and Mother, which is the first commandment with promise. Be courteous and affable to your brother and sisters ; let there be no family strife or contention, but remember that where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. J ^.gj^^jjj y^^^j. j^^.j^g Father, Timothy Walker." In 1755, on his second visit, Mr. Walker wrote to his brother- in-law, Mr. Joseph Burbeen, of Woburn, a letter, which has been preserved, in which he says : " The fate of Europe, as to peace or war, as yet remains doubtful. Vigorous preparations have been and still are making ; but many are confident matters will subside : but I expect, at least, that the poor frontiers in New- England will have a troublesome summer. I am in pain for my family as well as other friends exposed." THE FIRST IRON CRANE. The first iron crane used in a chimney fire-place in Rumford was put up by Stephen Farrington, in 1757. Mr. Farrington built and lived in the house where ]Mr. David G. Fuller now 232 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. lives — recently owned by the late Widow Huldah Evans. The occasion was as follows : Heating water one day to scald hogs, the lug-pole, upon which the kettles were suspended, was burnt off and the hot water was spilt, seriously endangering the children who were playing on the floor. This so alarmed the family that Mr. Farrington determined to have an iron crane ; and, having business at Portsmouth, he there purchased a bar of iron and brought it to Rumford on horse-back, where he had it made into a crane. The date (1757) is marked on it. Before putting it into the chimney they made a trial of its strength by chaining it to a tree and suspending on it a barrel of water — a wager being laid that the crane would not bear it. It stood the test, and it was afterwards used in the family for more than ninety years. This crane was deposited in the rooms of the New-Hampshire Historical Society in June, 1853, by Mr. Samuel Farrington, it having been used a long time previously by the descendants of Stephen Farrington for a boot-jacJc — a part of the brace being taken out.* TIMOTHY WALKER, JR's., LICENSE TO PREACH. At an Association Meeting, at the House of the Rev4 M^. Barnard, in Haverhill, September 11, 1759, M": Timothy Walker, jun., having appl/d to us for encourage- ment to preach, and having receiv'd from him a specimen of his ministerial abilities, do heartily approve of him, and recommend him to the Churches of Christ as well furnished for the service of the sanctuary, ardently wishing to him the presence and blessing of the great Head of the Church in all his future ministrations. Joseph Parsons, Samuel Bacheller, William Balch, Edw. Barnard, James Gushing, Abner Bayley, Ebenezer Flagg, John Tucker, William Johnson, William Symmes. ANDREW McMillan's store. The principal store in Rumford, at this time, was kept by Andrew McMillan, Esq.f The following charges, found in his old ledger, will serve to illustrate the state of the currency at that * Facts furnished by Samuel Farrington. fFor a more particular notice of tliis gentleman see Biograpliical Sketches. His store was kept on the corner of Main and Pleasant streets. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 233 time, and also, somewhat, the habits of the people. They show what was the price of articles then in common use, and hence enable us to compare the same with prices as they arc now. We may be surprised to observe how large a portion of family ex- penses was for spirituous liquors ; and, in this regard at least, we may mark an improvement in our favor. The charges, it will be seen, are carried out 'mj)ounds, sUllings fmdi pence; yet it is not strictly either "oZc7 tenor'' or ^^new^' but \hid pounds are put for sUllings, and shillings for pence. Thus, as will appear, £6 means six shillings, or one dollar; X3 are three sUllings, or half a dollar; £12, 10s., are tzoelve shillings and ten jJf^nce, or two dollars and nearly fourteen cents. As specimens of this book account I transcribe the following : Eev. Mr. Timothy Walker, junior,* Dr. 1762. £ ,,. a. Decemb. To ] lb. of coffcy, 1 06 00 '^ " 1 scain of silk, 14 00 " " f yd. of bear-skin, at 8s 6 00 00 " " h gall, of wine, at 9s., 4 10 00 " " J gall, of W. I. rum, 3 00 00 Jan. 10. " 1 lb. of coffee, by John Colby, ... 1 06 00 " " " 12 pipes, 12 00 " 18- " 1 comb, 20s., 1 00 00 " " " h lb. of tea, at 12s., 6 00 00 " " " 1 quire of post paper, at 50s., .... 2 10 00 Feb. 9. " 4 lbs. of sugar, at 14s., 2 16 00 Mar. 6. " 1 quart mug, at 50s., 2 10 00 " 9. " 1 pint of brandy, by John Colby, 24s., .1 04 00 May. " J a yd. of long lawn, by Judith, ... 4 00 00 " " 1 handkerchief, by Judith, 8 00 00 " " 1 pint \Y. I. rum, 15 00 July. " 1 gall. W. I. rum, by John Colby, ... 6 00 00 " " i lb. of powder, by John Colby, ... 1 05 00 Deacon Far num. Dr. 1763. ' £ s. d. Jan. 15. To sundries brougbt from old ledger, p. 196, 211 11 06 " " " ^ gall, and pint of N. E. rum, ... 2 19 00 " " " 1 lb. of coffey, at 26s., 1 06 00 ' " "1 glass of brandy, 04 00 " " " 1 qt. of wine, at 25s., 2 05 00 * After Timothy Walker, Jr., was licensed to preach, Sept. 11, 1759, he remained in Concord, and was a wh.le in company with Andrew McMillan. See biograpliical notice. 234 HISTORY OF RUJIFORD. Feb. 1. To ^ gall, of brandy, 4 10 00 " 1 pint of brandy, 1 04 00 " 1 olass of brandy, 03 00 " 8. " 2 tbs. of brown sugar, at 14s., .... 1 08 00 " 16. " 1 glass of brandy, 04 00 Mar. 1. '' V> gall, of brandy, at 9s., 4 10 00 '' " " i tb. of raisons, 1 00 00 " 14. " 5 pare of men's gloves, at 50s., . . 12 10 00 " " " 2 pare of woman's black do., at 50s., . 5 00 00 " " " 1 pare of woman's white do., .... 2 13 00 '' " '•• 3 yds. of hat crape, at 50s., .... 7 10 00 Contra. Rum/on?, January 15, 1763. Cr. By sundrys brought from old ledger, . .156 08 08 April 5. " cash, 124 17 00 June 6. '' cash, in full, 94 00 10 ]^YQ3 Ezra Carter, Doctor, Dr. £ s d Jan. 21. To sundries brought from p. 11, ... 492 15 06 " 22. " i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00 " 26. " i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00 " 27. " i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00 " 28. " i gall, of brandy, . 4 10 00 " 29. " i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00 " 31. ">} gall, of brand>, [for medicine?] . . 4 10 00 " 5 tbs. of sugar, 2 10 00 Feb. 4. " i- gall, of brandy, 4 10 00 " 8. " 5 nots of thread, at 3s., 15 00 " " " 6 sheets of paper, at Is. 6(7., ... 09 00 " " " }j gall, of snakerut, 4 05 00 " 11. " 1 gall, of W. I. rum, 3 00 00 " " " * aall. of clove water, 3 15 00 " 12. " h gall, of W. I. rum, half a dollar, . 3 00 00 ^„pr John Chandler, Dr. J. / uO. £ s. d. June 13. To 4 buttons, 1 00 00 " * bowl of tody, 07 00 Mar. 11. " ii yds. of blue broad cloth, 17s., . . 25 10 00 " 2"'doz. buttons, at 30s., 3 00 00 " 8 jacket do., 10 00 "1* yds. of blue eamblet, 6 00 00 " 1 qt. of rum, at 24s., and 2 bowls of tody, 2 12 00 July 22. " 1 gall, of W. I. rum, 6s., 6 00 00 Tr-nr, Rev. Timothy Walker, Dr. Dec. 9. To the balance of your account, . . . .26 15 00 " 3 yds. of red shoe-binding, by Judith, 09 00 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 235 Dec. 8. To IJ lb. of cbalk, at 40s., 2 10 00 " " " 2 qts. of rum, 3 00 00 1764. Jan'y 2. " } lb. of popper, ISs., IS 00 Feb'y 2. " 1 quart of W. I. rum, 35s., .... 1 15 00 " " " i of buckram, 12 00 " 16. " 1 gall, of W. I. rum, by Mr. Tim., . . 6 00 00 June 2. " i yd. of cambrick, by Judith, at lis., . .1 08 00 " " " 1 punch bowl, at 15s., 15 00 " " " 1 yd. of eauze, and to * skein of silk, . . 1 04 06 " " " 2 qts. of mm, 3 00 00 Aug. 9. " sundries paid Mr. Paul Burbeen, . . 50 00 00 " 11. " 1 gallon of rum, at 6s., 6 00 00 The foregoing are fair specimens of the charges in the " old ledger" against various persons. It must be noticed that in the account against Dr. Ezra Carter, the price of " half a gallon of rum" is "half a dollar," which is carried out three pounds — and this explains all the charges. The " pounds" were so many "shillings," and ^^ six shillings^' made a dollar. We must in charity suppose that the kind-hearted Dr. Carter bought his brandy for medicine; but whether the same will apply to the others we presume not to say. Unquestionably the custom of the times allowed a greater liberty in that regard then, than would be thought consistent with temperance now. Eunice Chase, mother of Mrs. Abigail, widow of the late Benjamin Kimball, of Sugar Ball, when a girl was gathering berries on a hill on the east side of the river, when she discov- ered a young fawn asleep under the shade of some bushes. Taking off her apron, she threw it over the fawn, and, clasping it in her arms, carried it home. She sold it to Andrew McMil- lan for six pounds of sheep's wool.* WOLVES. Jerry Farrington, son of Stephen Farrington, when a mere lad was one day out near his father's house and heard the geese making an unusual noise. He caught his gun and started to ascertain the cause. He found the geese in a small brook near where Capt. Philip Watson's house now stands, and judging from * Related by Mrs. Kimball. 236 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. appearances that some enemy had been among them, he went on in pursuit as far as what is called the " Whale's Back,"* where he saw a large wolf facing him. His gun was loaded with fine shot. He therefore took aim directly between the wolf's eyes, fired, and put them both out. The wolf thus wounded raised a tremendous yell and ran confusedly about until other persons came to Jerry's help, and the wolf was killed. f Benjamin Rolfe, who came to this town at the age of sixteen, (about 1758,) and who lived on the Rolfe farm, so called, (now Fisherville,) often told his children how the wolves would come down at night to the high sand-banks south of his residence, and set up a terrible howling. The cattle, conscious of danger, would collect together in some corner of the field, and when they lay down the young cattle would lie in the middle and the old and strong ones outside, for defence. RATTLE-SNAKES. In the early settlement of the township particular sections of it were greatly infested with snakes of various kinds, and espe- cially with rattle-snakes. These latter were most numerous on and in the vicinity of " Rattle-snake," or, as it is now called, Granite Hill, and along the shores of Long Pond. A reward was oifercd, and paid by the town for many years, for killing these snakes, and some, it is said, even made it a profitable busi- ness — being able thereby to pay all their town taxes. Tradition says that the inhabitants used to go " snake hunting " on " good snake days," as still, sunny days in the spring and autumn were called. Their weapon consisted of a white oak or white ash stick, from six to eight feet long and about an inch round, with a hook fastened in one end, to be used in drawing the snakes from their holes and from cracks in the ledges. Thus armed, they repaired to the " snake ground," treading slowly and softly, to prevent the snakes from hearing them. Generally the snakes were found lying in the sunshine, near their dens, asleep. Some- times they were so numerous as to form a large heap. If they heard any noise, the snakes gave the alarm by shaking their *Tlie ridgo of land west of Mr. Abel B. Holt's, f Tradition from Samuel Farrington. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 237 rattles, which made a fine buzzing noise ; then they run into holes or under rocks for safety. The rattle-snake was easily killed — a well directed blow with the stick above described was sufficient for the purpose. Their motion was slow, and they v.'ould usually retreat from the presence of a man ; yet " the hunting" of them was dangerous, for, if overtaken and provoked, they were very ferocious. Coiling up in a small ring, and emitting a fine buzzing noise with their rattles — their bodies rising and falling like a bellows — their parti-colored skin rough and sparkling — the upper jaw thrown nearly back upon the neck, and their eyes, like a fiery flame, which would suddenly change to a greenish color — they would suddenly dart on their foe, strike their fang, and, at the same instant, emit a poison in the wound, which usually proved fatal. Many traditionary stories are related of rattle-snake hunting. The late Amos Abbot — father of John and Simeon — with his cousin Reuben, one afternoon killed forty-nine snakes with sticks and hooks ; but such an effluvia proceeded from the slaughtered snakes as to sicken them. Commonly the faces of the hunters would be swollen with inflammation, caused, as was supposed, by poisonous effluvia. There is a tradition that a Penacook Indian undertook to re- venge himself on the nation of rattle-snakes for having bitten one of his family. He made a large fish-pot and set it at the mouth of a den of rattle-snakes. As they came out they filled the pot, which, in the joy of his success, ho rolled away from the den, and then piled around it a large quantity of brush, which he set on fire, dancing and singing to see the contortions and struggles of his conquered foe ; but his joy was short. Whether from the effluvia inhaled, or some other cause, he soon sickened and died. One person undertook to " blow up" a den of snakes. Hav- ing caught and fastened a large rattle-snake, he tied to his tail a powder-horn filled with powder — putting in for a stopple a piece of punk, which he set on fire and let the snake go. Re- turning to his snaky companions, unsuspicious of the fate that awaited them, soon the powder-horn exploded, when the whole den of snakes was blown " sky high." 238 HISTORY OF RUMFORD. Another mode of destroying these reptiles, if not equally singular, was as effectual — that is, the letting the hogs run at large where the snakes wore abundant. In the autumn of the year, being fat and lazy, the snakes made a delicious morsel for swinish appetites. The hogs would often kill them before they had time to coil and dart their poison.* The oil from rattle-snakes was found very useful, and was used for sprains, stiff joints, rheumatism, &c. George Abbot, Esq., relates that his father, when a young man, killed an enormous fat rattle-snake, which he afterwards stretched out on a flat rock, in the sun, and that the oil which came from it penetrated the rock so deeply that the marks of it remain even till this time. So thorough was the war of extermination carried on by our fathers against the rattle-snake tribe, that it is said not one has been seen on Rattle-snake Hill for the last forty years. *A writer in Harper's Magazine for March, 1855, says: "Of all enemies with which the rattle-snake has to contend, except man, the hog is the most formidable. An old sow, with a litter of pigs to provide food for, will hunt for the reptile with a perseverance and sagacity truly astonishing, tracing them to their hiding-places, and never letting them escape." [See the whole article, which is very interesting.] CHAPTER VIII. FROM 17G5 TO 1775 INCORPORATION AS A PARISH IN BOW BY THE NAME OF CONCORD. As the greater part of the inhabitants of Rumford were at this time comprehended in the township of Bow, to which the former were unanimously opposed, vexatious difficulties were experienced in conducting town aifairs, and particularly in assessing and collecting taxes. Even some of the inhabitants of Bow proper felt themselves as much oppressed as those of Bumford. Hence petitions were presented to the General As- sembly of the Province, setting forth their respective grievances.* On the 11th of April, 1764, Rev. Mr. Walker presented a peti- tion,* setting forth that the " affiiirs of the inhabitants [of Rum- ford] have been in great confusion since 1749 ;" that they have "felt themselves greatly aggrieved" by the imposition of heavy taxes ; and, as a remedy for the evils complained of, prays that they may be " incorporated by their former known bounds." In answer to this petition the House of Representatives reaffirmed by a vote, that " what the town of Bow is now in arrears for the Province tax shall be collected," and that " all the inhabitants settled on lands between said Bow, Canterbury and New-Hop- kinton, except such as are already polled off to Pembroke and New-Hopkinton, shall be taxed and pay their proportion" of the same ; that " the inhabitants of Bow [including, of course, all in Rumford] should meet in Bow for the choice of officers, &c., *See Documents for Chap. VIH., Nos. 1 and 2. 240 PARISH OF CONCORD. and on these conditions " the petitioner shall have liberty to bring in a bilir^ It hence appears that the government tenaciously clung to their original purpose of giving Bow the preeminence, and of disallowing all the claims and rights of Rumford as incorporated by Massachusetts. Finally, however, on the 25th of May, 1765, an act of incor- poration was obtained, the conditions of which were humiliat- ing to the inhabitants of Rumford ; but it was the best they could get, and this was preferred to the abhorred embrace in which they had been held for more than fifteen years. For the whole act I must refer the reader to the documentary chapter ;* but the title is in the words following: "^w act for setting off a 2Jart of the Town of £oiv, together with some lands adjoining thereto, with the inhabitants thereoti, aiid makiiig them a Parish ; investing them ivith such privileges and immunities as Towns in this Prov- ince have and do enjoy. ''^ To this " parish" in the town of Bow was given the name of Concord. The " parish" comprised the inhabitants who are settled on the lands herein described, viz. : " Beginning at the mouth of Contoocook river, so called, which is the south-east corner of Boscawen ; from thence, south, sev- enty-three degrees west, by said Boscawen, four miles ; from thence, running south, seventeen degrees east, seven miles and one hundred rods ; from thence, running north, seventy-three degrees east, about four miles, to Merrimack river ; then crossing the said river, and still continuing the same course to Soucook river ; then, beginning again at the mouth of Contoocook river aforesaid, from thence, running north, seventy-three degrees east, six hundred and six rods from the easterly bank of Merri- mack river, or till it shall come to the south-west line of Can- terbury ; from thence, south-east, on said line, two miles and eighty rods ; from thence, south, seventeen degrees east, to Soucook river aforesaid ; from thence, down the said river, till it comes to where the line from Merrimack river strikes Soucook river." The inhabitants included within the abovesaid bounds were granted all the ordinary powers and privileges of towns, " ex- * Documents for Chap VIII., No. 3. BOUNDARIES OF THE PARISH. 241 cepting that when any of the inhabitants of the aforesaid parish shall have occasion to lay out any road through any of the lands that are already laid out and divided by the said town of Bow, application shall be for the same to the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said Province, as in other cases." Provision was also made in the act for collecting " all arrearages of taxes," and for assessing and collecting the taxes which should be due in 1765 and 1766. To secure all these ends more effect- ually, John Noyes and Edward Ptussell, of Bow proper, were to be united with the selectmen of the new parish, to assess the polls and estates of all the inhabitants who were subjected to pay the taxes. It will be perceived that by this incorporation the bounds of the township are considerably varied from the original.* The north line of Concord, on the west side, was changed from " the middle" of the Contoocook, to the "southerly side thereof." The north bound, on the east side, was run straight to the Can- * The original grant of Penacook was seven miles square and one hundred rods, commencing " where Contoocook river falls into Merrimack riv^er, and thence to extend, upon a course east, seventeen degrees north, tliree miles, and upon a course west, seventeen degrees south, four miles — to be the northerly bounds of the said township ; and from the extreme parts of that line, to be set otf southerly at rig-ht angles, until seven miles sliall be accomplislied from the said north bounds." This original grant does not determine the prscise point " where Contoocook river falls into Merrimack river" — where the north line shall be run — whether it shall be in the middle of the Contoocook, or on the northerly or southerly side. It seems, however, to have been understood to run from the middle ; for when Contoocook (now Bos- cawen) was granted by Massachusetts, in December, 1732, it was bounded as follows, viz. : "Beginning at the middle of Contoocook river, where it empties into Merrimack, where it joins on Penacook plantation ; thence, running west, fifteen degrees south, adjoining Pena- cook line, four miles, to a white pine tree, marked for Penacook corner-bounds ;" and thence, further on the same line, three miles and eight poles," &:c. [?ee original grant in Price's History of Boscawen, p. 21.] The difference of two degrees in the line was probably owing to the variation of the compass ; for it is manifest that the Contoocook line west, which com- mences "a« the middW" of the Contoocook river, " where it joins on Penacook plantation," ran on the Penacook line four miles to its westerly corner bounds. But when Boscawen was newly incorporated by Nevv-IIampshire, in 1700, the bounds were described as follows, viz.: " Beginning at the southerly side of Contoocook river's mouth, where tliu same falls into Mer- rimack river; running thence, on a course west, seventeen degrees south, seven miles and one hundred rods," &c. Why this change in the starting point of the line between Concord and Boscawen — from "the middle of the Contoocook " to the " southerly side thereof" — there are various conjectures. [See statement in Document ?vo. 4, Chapter VIII.] But the variation and change from the original bounds were far greater on the cast side. Originally the line ran straight from the mouth of the Contoocook, "oast, seventeen degrees north, three miles ;" but by the new incorporation it was to run east, seventeen degrees north, only "six hundred and six rods from the easterly bank of Merrimack river till it shall come to the south-west lino of Canterbury ; from thence, south-east, on said line, two miles and eighty rods; from thence, south, seventeen degrees east, to Soucook river; from thence, down the said river till it comes to where the line" from the west of Merrimack river running across strikes the Soucook river. 16 242 PARISH OF CONCORD. terbury line six hundred and six rods ; then, south-east, on the Canterbury line, two miles and eighty rods ; thence, south, sev- enteen degrees east, to meet the Soucook river, which was made the remainder of the eastern bound. The southern boundary, also, instead of being seven miles, according to the original grant, was Hmited on the east side by the Soucook, at the point where the line from the west across the Merrimack river struck it. This hne struck the Soucook river about twenty rods above what were called Head's Mills, in Pembroke. The old bounds are still visible.* In consequence of this change in the original boundaries on the east side, there were two gores of land, called the northerly and southerly Bow Gores. The northerly gore, containing about one thousand three hundred and seventy-nine acres can be dis- tinguished on the map of the town accompanying this volume, lying on the east side of the township, between the Soucook river on the east and the original straight line, which formed the east- ern boundary of Rumford. This gore came to a point on the high land north-west of the dweUing-house of Mr. John Clough, on the Loudon road. The house of Mr. Clough was formerly owned by Mr. Benjamin Thompson, who lived in " Bow Gore," and who used to be complained of by his neighbors " because he didnH pay taxes any zvhere.'' Near Mr. Thompson's, within the Gore, was a school-house, where the children of the Potter families, and others in Concord, attended school. This state of things continued until both Gores were annexed to Concord by an act of the Legislature, December 13, 1804. f In regard to the name — Concord — given to the township in the new incorporation, the uniform tradition is, that it was de- si'^^ned to express the entire unanimity in purpose and action which had characterized the inhabitants of Rumford during the period of their controversy with the proprietors of Bow, and, indeed, from the first settlement of Penacook.^ By the act of incorporation, Samuel Emerson, Esq.,§ of * See Town Records, Vol. III., p. 12C. t See acts in Secretary's office. J The Rev. John Barnard, in his sermon at the ordination of Mr. Walker, charged the people "always to live in Love and Peace — to rejoice and strengthen the hands of their Minister by their Concord." This they always did do. $See Town Records. FIRST LEGAL MEETING. 243 Chester, was authorized and appointed to call the " first meeting of the inhabitants, for the choice of town officers," on the third Tuesday of August, 1765 ; but, as the records set forth, " by some accident the meeting was not duly called," and was not held at that time. Consequently, at the next meeting of the General Court, November 27, 1765, a special resolve and vote were passed, authorizing the said Emerson to call a meeting for the aforesaid purpose, on the third Tuesday of January, 1766.* Accordingly, the first " legal meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the Parish of Concord^' was held on the 21st day of January^ 1766. At this meeting it was voted that " Lieut. Richard Hasseltine be moderator, and Peter Coffin parish clerk." " Voted^ That Joseph Farnum, Lot Colby and John Chandler, jun., be selectmen. " Voted, That Benjamin Emery be constable. " Voted, That Lieut. Richard Hasseltine and Amos Abbot be tythingmen. " Voted, That Jonathan Chase, Robert Davis and Nathaniel Eastman be surveyors of highways. " Voted, That Dea. George Abbot be sealer of leather. " Voted, That Lieut. Nathaniel Abbot be sealer of weights and measures." The foregoing is the whole record of the first " meeting of the Parish of Concord." The persons above chosen held office till the ensuing first Tuesday in March, when the first annual meeting was held.f At the first annual meeting, March 4th, Ezra Carter, Esq., was chosen moderator, and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., clerk. J One hundred pounds, lawful money, were raised " for paying Rev. * See Town Records. fThe manner of notifying parish meetings was as follows: 1. The selectmen issued an order to the constable of the parish to notify a meeting at a specified time and place, and for specified purposes. 2. The constable issued his notice "by setting up a notification," agreeably to the order from tlie selectmen, at the meeting-house door, — days before the meeting. 3. A meeting held pursuant to such a notification was a " legal meeting." From the first meeting in January, 1766, till 1784, the "notice" for legal meetings was given " to the inliabitants and freeholders nf the Parish of Concobd " — subsequently, upon petition, in 1784, as will appear from the records, the word "parish," which was always offensive to the inhabitants, was dropped, and "town" substituted therefor. J See full list of officers at the close of this chapter. 244 PARISH OF CONCORD. ]\Ir. Walker's salary from the 26th of May, 1765, to the 26th of ]May, 1766, together with the other necessary charges of the parish, and a committee appointed to reckon with the collectors and constable that have been chosen." * On the 25th of March it was " Voted, That the school shall be kept on the eisterly side of the river such part of the year as their rates for the school shall come to of the polls and estates that lay to the northward of Sugar Ball ; also, at a place that will best accommodate those persons that live upon Contoocook road, northward of Nathan Colby's — and those persons that live westward of said road, such part of the year as their rates will pay ; also, at a place that will best accommodate those persons that live upon Hopkinton road, westerly of Theodore Stevens' and westerly of Turkey river, such a part of the year as their rates will pay ; and the remainder of the year it shall be kept in the town street, about the middle way from Capt. Chandler's to Lot Colby's." Capt. Chandler, referred to in the above vote, lived in a house on the road which runs west by Richard Bradley's, on the spot where a new house is just erected by Hamilton Perkins, Esq. An apple tree is now growing where the old cellar was. Here his son Daniel lived, Avho was father of Abiel, the distinguished benefactor of Dartmouth College. Abiel Walker, Esq., well remembered the old Chandler house. Daniel Chandler erected a frame in addition to his father's house, on the same spot, but not being able to finish it, it fell first into the hands of John Stevens, trader, and was sold by him to Capt. Robert Davis, and moved on to the Davis lot, north side of Franklin street, on the rise of ground about ten rods from Main street. In this house lived Capt. David Davis, father of Gen. Davis. Lot Colby lived at the other extreme of the main settlement, at the " Eleven Lots," and on the spot where the venerable Joseph Abbot died, January 20, 1832, aged ninety. Mr. Joseph S. Lund now lives on the same spot. The school-house was a few rods north of Gass' tavern. The late Richard Herbert and Abiel Walker, when boys, went to school there to a Master Hogg, from Dunbarton. Another meeting of the Parish of Concord was held November *See Constable's Warrant, Doc. No. 5, Chap. VIII. THE FIRST CENSUS. 245 lOtb, this year, at whicli jNIr. Phinchas Virgin was chosen sur- veyor of highways " in the room of Lt. Ebenezer Virgin, de- ceased." Phinehas was the eldest son of Lt. Ebenezer — born November 21, 1733. The father was an original proprietor — a man of enterprise, and highly useful as a citizen. He probably came from Salisbury, Massachusetts, and built and lived in the house still standing on the IMill Brook Interval, so called, on the east side of the Merrimack, a few rods in rear of the house of Mr. John Jarvis. Mr. Virgin was the man who first came in possession of the " Peorawarrah gun," before described. He was the father of seven children, and his descendants are num- erous and respectable.* 1767. About this time the inhabitants of Bow, who, according to the charter of " the Parish of Concord," were rated with the latter, feeling themselves '■'■ greatly abused,'" presented the following petition to the General Assembly for relief: "■ To Ilis Excellence/ John Wentworth, Fscjicire," &c. : The Petition of the Selectmen of Bow, in behalf of themselves and inhabitants of said Bow, exclusive of such as are set oif into Parishes — Humbly sheweth, '' That your petitioners have been and are now greatly abused by being rated with Concord ; for their Selectmen are y® major part of the Assessors, and they make the rates as they see fit : Wherefore the s'* petitioners humbly and earnestly prays your Excellency and Honours to take their distressed curcomstances under consideration, and releave them from being rated any longer with Concord, in such manner as your Excellency and Honours shall in your great wisdom and clemency see fit, and your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray. o -r> J ' i^ J Samuel Rogers, Samuel Welch, Ephraim Moors, Selectmen of JBow." [August 28, 1767. Bead and ordered to be sent down to the Honi^'e Assembly.] The first enumeration of the inhabitants of the Province! was *See Register of Virgin Family. fThe number of towns in tlie Province at tliis time was ninety-five — whole population, 52.700. Twenty-one towns were returned as having a larger population than Concord. [See census of 1767 — Historical Collections by Moore & Farmer, vol. i., p. 166.] 246 PARISH OF CONCORD. this year made by order of the General Assembly. The fol- lowing is the return for Concord : "Unmarried men, from sixteen to sixty, ... 62 Married men, from sixteen to sixty, 125 Boys, sixteen and under, 189 Men, sixty and above, 18 Females, unmarried, 204 Females, married, 126 Male slaves,* 9 Female slaves, 4 Widows, 15 Total, 752" 1T68-9. At a meeting January 2, 1769, Capt. Chandler was " chosen and desired to notify all persons that owe any rates in this parish, and use his best endeavors with them to get them to settle with the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, and to pay what rates they owe before Concord was incorporated." Mr. Timothy Walker, Jr., " was chosen, March 7, town clerk, in place of Benjamin Rolfe," who appears to have been in feeble health ; and the parish clerk was " desired to purchase two suffi- cient books for the use of the parish." Messrs. Benjamin Emery, John Kimball and Robert Davis were appointed a committee " to treat with the proprietors of the meeting-house, in order to purchase said house for the use of the parish." The purchase was not made till 1782. 1770. The parish agreed to " give forty shillings, lawful money, per acre for land" through Joseph Farnum's field, for a road, and " to pay Mrs. Osgood the first cost for the burying-cloth ;" to " pay ten shillings for every wolf, and six pence for every crow killed within the parish the present year." The following year, 1771, the bounty for killing a wolf was raised to " twenty shil- lings," and " for every crow catched in the parish, nine pence." * See " Facts and Anecdotes " at the end of tliis chapter. COMPENSATION OF JURORS. 247 On the 21st of December, 1771, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., de- ceased,* Heretofore nothing has appeared in the records respecting courts or jurors, or even the county to which Concord belonged. But a "warrant" was issued for a special town meeting, to be held August 24, 1772, " to choose one man of those duly quali- fied to serve at His Majesty's Superior Court of Judicature, to be held at Exeter, in and for the county of Rockingham, as a petit juror, the first Tuesday in September next ;" also, " to see what said parish will allow those who have served as jurors for said parish, and what said parish will allow jurors for the future." Accordingly, at the meeting held for the above purpose, " Mr. Lot Colby was drawn out of the box for a juror." " Three shil- lings" were allowed "Messrs. Ebenezer Hall and Joshua Abbot for each day they have served the parish as jurors;" and " three shillings to be paid each juror per day, who shall serve the parish as jurors for the future." November 21st, this year, Andrew McMillan, Esq., was ap- pointed to present a petition to the Honorable General Court, " that the inhabitants of Concord may have the same power and privilege of laying out roads which any other town or parish in this Province have or do enjoy ; and that the boundaries of said parish may be made as extensive as the township of Rumford (so called) formerly was ;"t and the next year, 1773, Mr. Mc- * " Juhj 29, 1771. At a meeting of tho proprietors — Fbfct/, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., the proprietors' former clerk, deliver the proprietors' books to John Kimball, the present clerk." Mr. Kimball was chosen proprietors' clerk May 7, 1771, and took the oath of office before Andrew McMillan, Esq. He held the office till October 18, 1774, when he was succeeded by Timothy Walker, Jr. JVovembcr 7, 177-i — Voted, That the proprietors' books be delivered by Mr. John Kimball to Timothy Walker, Jr. ; " that a just and equal division of all the com- mon land be made, and that Messrs. Benjamin Emery, Robert Davis and Philip Eastman, be a committee for said purpose ;" and " that said committee make up to Ebenezer Hall and Jabez Abbot what land the proprietors of Eow took from the heirs of Edward Abbot, de- ceased ;" '-that Messrs. Benjamin Emery, Philip Eastman, Thomas Stickney, Joseph Hall, Jr., and Lot Colby, be discharged, and are discliarged from tho sum of £100 3s. 5d. Iq. — being part of tho notes which they recovered of the administrators on the estate of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., deceased, for the proprietors of Concord, dated March, 17G0, together with the interest for the notes dated Xovember, A. D. 1753." The division of common lands above ordered was duly made and laid ofT in one hundred and three shares. A record of tho same is found in the third volume of the Proprietors' Records, pp. 45C-505. t As to the right of laying out roads, &c., see charter of Concord. 248 PARISH OF CONCORD. Millan was appointed to present a petition that the parish of Concord may be annexed to the county of Hillsborough, provided that there might be an inferior and superior court held annually in said parish. 1773. Previous to presenting the petition for the purpose just named, the inhabitants of the town made an expression of their respect to the Governor in the following address, which tradition ascribes to the pen of the then young but aspiring Benjamin Thompson, afterward Count Rumford : ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF CONCORD TO GOV. JOHN WENTWORTH, 1773. The Humble Address of the Inhahitcints of Concord, in the Frovince of Neio-IIampshire, to His Excellency JoHN Wentworth, Esq., Cciptain General, Governor, and Commander-in-Chief in and over said Province. May it tlease your Excellency : As good Will and Affection between Rulers and Ruled are the happy source of all well ordered Government, it gives us pleasure to observe the great Harmony and Unanimity that subsist between your Excellency and the People of this Province, while those of the Neighboring Colonies are daily seeking Redress, and still complaining of grievances and oppression. Notwithstanding the great Difficulties which have attended your Excellency ever since you came to the Chair of this Government, and the many disadvantages this Province in par- ticular has, and still labors under; yet, from the best Obseiwatious we have been able to make, we Unci no Colony on the Continent in which good Order, Peace, and good Government, have more prevailed than in this, or in which Officers of every kind have discharged the duties of their respective Offices with more Prudence, Moderation and Firmness. Through your Excellency's great care and Wisdom, we find the unsettled Lauds improving and settling with rapid progress, and that your Excellency is pleased to give every necessary encourage- ment to promote and facilitate the same, and that even by your Excellency's own Example.* And if your Excellency's wise Administration should be continued, we make no doubt in a few Years of seeing this Province not unequal to those of its Neighbors, in numbers of People and Opulence. Whatever Aspersions your Excellency's Character may have inju- riously met with in England, from prejudiced and designing Men, with regard to your Excellency's governing this Province, we are assured, and believe every disinterested person will join with us, that they are urged without any just foundation — and, were those Matters * Gov. Wentworth had began a plantation for himself, in the town of Wolf borough, on which he expended large sums. [BcUcnap's Hint. ofJ^.II., vol. i., p. 339, Dover ed., 1»31.] MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 249 represented in a True point of Light, wo are fully satisfied tbat your Excellency would receive the Approbation of His Majesty, and" the Applause of the People of this Province in general. At a mectinc of the said Inhabitants of Concord, on Thursday, the 1st day of April, A. D. 1773 — Voted, That the foregoing Address be immediately presented to His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq., Captain General, Governor, and Commander-in-Chief in and over the said Province of New- Hampshire. Attest : TiMO. Walker, Jr., Ton-n Clcrh. 177-4. During the year 1774 the settlement of the long controversy between the proprietors of Bow and Rumford " was completed." Immediatelj thereupon, and even in anticipation of it, a petition was presented by Timothy Walker, Jr., " in behalf of himself and his associates," to the General Court of Massachusetts, setting forth the great expense they had been at, and losses incurred by the controversy with Bow, and praying that, as a remuneration, " a tract of land may be granted them on the Ammoscoggin river," in the Province of Maine. Through the politeness of Timothy Walker, Esq., of Rumford, Maine, youngest son of the late Charles Walker, Esq., and grandson of the Hon. Timothy Walker, of Concord, I have been furnished with a copy of the said petition, and the proceedings of the General Court in relation to it, with the names of the original grantees of the new township; also, a copy of the record of their early proceedings — all of which must be interesting to the descendants of the ori'anal settlers, both of Concord and of Rumford, in Maine.* MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THIS PERIOD. SLAVES. Concord, March 4, 1767. Received of Andrew McMillan the sum of forty-seven pounds ten shillings, lawful money, in full consideration for my Negro Boy slave named Ctesar, aged about eleven years, which Negro Boy I have this day sold to said McMillan, and promise to warrant and defend the *See Documents for Chapter VIII., No. 7. 250 TARISH OF CONCORD. property of said Negro Boy to Lira, tbe said McMillan,* and his heirs or assigns forever, against the claims of any other person or persons whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and date above mentioned. Witness • I ^^"^ Burbeen, Benjamin Osoood-I ' I James Osgood. Knoio all Men bi/ these Presents, That I, Patrick Gault, of Chester, in His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, in New-England, husbandman, for and in consider- ation of the sum of twenty pounds, lawful money, to me in hand befere the delivery hereof, well and truly paid by Andrew McMillan, of Concord, in the Province aforesaid, Esq., the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have bargained and sold, and by these presents do bargain and sell unto him, the said Andrew McMillan, my Negro Garl, named Dinah, aged about eight years, to have and to hold the said Negro Garl Dinah, by these presents, to him, the said Andrew McMillan, his heirs, administrators and assigns; and I, the said Pat- rick Gault, for myself, my heirs and administrators, shall and will warrant, and forever defend her, the said Negro Garl, unto him, the said Andrew McMillan, his heirs, administrators and assigns, against all the claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever ; and have put her, the said Negro Garl, into his, the said Andrew McMillan's, possession, by delivering her unto him, the said McMil- lan, at the time of sealing hereof In witness whereof I have here- unto set my hand and seal, this 24th day of May, and in the eighth year of His Majesty's reign, A. D. one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight. X ^ , n f Hannah McMillan, Patrick X Gault. In presents oi us : -^ ^ -i xt ' mark. ^ ( bam 1 JNoyes. BiLLERiCA, May 2, 1761. Know all Men hy these Presents, That I, Hannah Bowers, of Bil- lerica, widow, have sold unto Lot Colby, of Rumford, in the Province of New-Hampshire, a mulatto Negro Boy, named Salcm,'l and have received forty-five shillings sterling, in full consideration for the said boy, as witness mv hand. tt -r. •" .^ , , r ,, Hannah Bowers. Test • I *^°^^P'^ " alker, ' * I Josiah Bowers. *See Biographical Notice of Andrew McMillan, Esq. t Benjamin Osgood was a brotlier of McMillan's wife. I That slaves were bought and sold like cattle and horses, previous to the Revolution, appears from the following, taken from the Essex Journal, (Newburyport,) Jlarch 2, 1774 : "To be sold, A HEALTHY NEGRO GIRL, about twenty-three years old — born in this country. LIKEWISE, A SERVICEABLE MARE, which goes well in a carriage. Enquire of the Printers." MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 251 Of the subsequent history of the "Negro Garl Dinah" but httle is now known, except that on the removal of her master to Conway, in 1774, she was left, probably, in the family of Mrs. McMillan's mother, (" Mother Osgood,") and that she married and settled in the neighboring town of Canterbury, where she lived to an advanced age, familiarly known as " Old Dinah," where several famihes of her descendants now reside and are frequently seen in the streets of Concord selling baskets. The "Boy Ctesar" accompanied his master to Conway, but was roving and unsteady in his habits, and finally absented him- self from the family entirely. He married twice, and died in 1847 or 1848, in the ninety-second year of his age. His eldest daughter, Lois, is now living, in good health, in the family of Daniel Eastman, of Conway.* Aaron Stevens, commonly called "crowner" — that is, Cor- oner Stevens — had a negro man who was the town " dog- whipper" — it being his office to scourge dogs out of the meeting-house on the Sabbath, for which he received a few pennies from such as were disposed to pay him. The faithful discharge of his office affi)rded fine amusement for the children during Sabbath hours. Capt. John Roach, who lived in the old " Rogers house," east of the late Gov. Hill's residence, owned a negro woman. She had a child, who was taken care of and supported by the town. Dea. Joseph Hall, senior, had a slave woman who had two children, one named Lois and the other John Brown. John was given to Dea. Jonathan Wilkins, who married a grand-daughter of Dea. Hall. John was non conijjos, and gave the deacon so much trouble that at last he threw him on the town for support. At one time John was put to hoeing potatoes alone ; but it was found he skipped over every other hill. Being asked what he did it for, said — "So as to keep up." He was once sent to turn out calves from the stall, but, not succeeding in unfastening their yokes, the deacon's hired man turned the calves out and yoked John up. Of other slaves in Concord about this time, tradition has preserved some interesting reminiscences. Ephraim Farnum, * Information from Dr. Chadbourne. 252 PARISH OF CONCORD. grandfather of Moses H, Farnum, and living on the same spot, owned a black boy named Ccesar. Mr. Farnum had a pen for small pigs near his kitchen door. On looking into it early one morning, he discovered a bundle closely pinned together, which, on opening, he found contained an infant negro child. Pitying the little foundling, he took it from the pig-pen into his house, and took care of it. Some ten years afterwards a gentleman from Massachusetts called very privately on IMr. Farnum, inquired for the boy, and made a suitable compensation for the good care that had been taken of him. Ciesar was a favorite among the white boys of about his age. Capt. Samuel Herbert says he " used to think it quite a treat to go up and have a good play with Ciiesar Farnum." Abraham Bradley had a negro slave named Pompey — com- monly called "Pomp" — for whom he paid thirty bushels of corn. " Pomp " was quite a favorite in the family. He was the attendant and sort of life-guard of John Bradley in his boy- hood. In his last will Mr. Bradley gave Pomp to his grandson John, and ordered his executor " to take especial care that my said negro be not wronged by my aforesaid grandson in any w\ays ; and if he should wrong him, I give him power to do him justice." Mr. Bradley also gave Pomp " the use and improve- ment of one half acre of land," near his dwelling-house, during his natural life.* Col. Benjamin Rolfe owned a negro who, in 1772, when the inventory of Col. Rolfe's property was taken, was valued at X55, lawful money. Wilham Coffin, the grandfather of Samuel Coffin, Esq., owned a negro woman named "Lucy." " Sampson," a negro belonging to Archelaus Moore, of Canterbury, wanted her for his wife ; and there was an agreement that Sampson should work one year for Mr. Coffin to pay for her. A man's wages at that time were about forty dollars a year, or the price of a yoke of oxen. Sampson was a famous fiddler, and for many years afforded fine fun for frolicsome fellows in Concord with his fiddle on election days. Rev. Timothy Walker had three slaves : a man called Prince, *See biography of John Bradley, and Abraham Bradley's will. MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 253 and two women — Luce and Violet. Prince was good natured, much attached to his master, and faithful in taking care of horses and cattle. On the adoption of the State Constitution he had his freedom, and went to Andover, where he hved with Dr. Thomas Kittredge. There he married. At one time he came back to Concord dressed in a red coat, which he displayed with much pride, saying — "I rides in the troop, I do." Prince became very infirm, and was thrown on the town of Woburn for support till he died. Violet married in Dunbarton. Luce died in Concord. Lieut. Richard Herbert had a slave named Nancy, who was said to have been born in Boston about 176G, and when nine days old was given to a man resident in Bow, who, wishing to remove from the vicinity, brought her to Rumford, and, in 1768, sold her to Lieut. Herbert for about five dollars. As Nancy is very well remembered by many now living, and was much esteemed, the following notice of her will be interesting : When bought by Mr. Herbert " she was about eighteen months old, and grew up with the children of the family — attended school a little — learned to read and to recite the catechism. She used to say she ' was treated just the same as the other children, but she supposed she did not expect so much ;' and, also, ' that she was never conscious of a wish that she had been bom white.' The adoption of the State Constitution, in 1783, was regarded as abolishing slavery within the State. She was about fifteen years of ago, and often spoke of the fears she felt lest the Constitution should be adopted. She had been told that she came from Boston, and had a notion that she must return there, and she was constantly inquiring about the city and the road thither. One day she Avas engaged in washing dishes, when some one came in and told her she was free ! She burst into tears, exclaiming, ' What will become of me !' She supposed she must start for Boston. The family gathered round, and she said she never was so rejoiced as when it was decided that she should remain in her old and only home. An arrangement was immediately effected as to compensation, which continued till the death of Mrs. Herbert, senior, who made provision for Nancy in her son's family through life. 254 PARISH OF CONCORD. " In 1816 she became a member of the church under Dr. McFarland's ministry, and honored her profession. She was faithful, aifectionate and cheerful. The anecdotes and incidents of early times, stored in her retentive memory, were a source of infinite pleasure to the children, each of whom had been in turn her favorite. She read much, usually the Bible — was sensible and dimified in manners — none knew but to esteem her. Both Charles and Jonathan Herbert left her bequests by will. In her charities she felt a particular interest in the Education Society, in the cause of Missions, and in all efforts for the elevation of her race. The last two years of her life she was unable to walk much, or attend church often ; but death came suddenly and without terror. She died of paralysis, after an illness of two days, October 9, 1845, aged seventy-nine. The following epitaph, written by the late Benjamin Gleason, Esq., of Charles- town, Massachusetts, was received too late for inscription on her tomb-stone ; " ' At first unknown — then sold a slave ; Then free, and loved from early youth ; In Christian hope, ripe for the grave : This tablet but records her worth.' " BEAR STORIES. Soon after moving to his place, west of Long Pond, Mr. Reuben Abbot heard one of his hogs squeal, which was running at large in the woods. Presuming that a bear had caught it, he hastily seized his gun and went in pursuit. He came in sight of the bear, which was devouring the hog, in the field east of Mr. Jerry Abbot's house. He leveled his gun at the bear, but it missed fire three times. The bear then turned and ran towards Mr. Abbot, who, to escape, sprung upon a small tree, which the bear could'nt climb. In relating the circumstance, Mr. Abbot used to say " that the old paw of the bear just touched his leather breeches." The flint of his gun being out of order, Mr. Abbot hallooed for his brother James, who came, and the bear was killed. Oliver Hoit was the first settler, about 1772, on Horse Hill. It was then a wilderness, and the bears and wolves were very MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. ZOO troublesome — devouring his sheep when they were but a small distance from his house. He used to kill bears, some by shoot- ing and others by trapping. The trap was formed of heavy logs in the shape of the figure 4 — the upper log falling when the bear entered to take the bait. One trap was set at a dis- tance of nearly three miles from his house. On a warm day in May he rode his old mare to the trap, and found a large bear in it, dead. How to get it home he was at a loss, but soon con- trived a way which proved successful. He took off his vest, and buttoned it tight round the old mare's head to blind her eyes, to prevent her being frightened at the bear ; next, he took the throat-latch from the bridle, and buckled it tight round the old mare's tail ; then cut a hole through the bear's nose, and put in a withe and fastened the other end to the strap on the mare's tail — mounting, he rode home, dragging the bear after him, much amused at the success of his contrivance.* Mr. Zebediah Farnum, who lived where Samuel Ames now lives, proposed to Ephraim, son of Deacon Farnum, to go over Rattle-snake Hill, to the east side of Long Pond, and see if they could shoot a bear. They crossed the brook at the outlet of the pond, and in a few moments their dogs began to bark. When they came to them, they found the dogs had treed a large- bear. Zebediah shot at it. The bear fell to the ground, and he sup- posed it was dead ; but when the dogs came, and began to .smell of the bear, the creature began to kick, and snarl, and fight the dogs. Zebediah, who was very resolute and courageous, thinking that the dogs would get beaten, sprung astride the bear, and took it by the ears, while Ephraim thrust the butt of his gun into the bear's mouth. In this position the bear was held until it was exhausted ; when Zeb. let go of one ear, and, taking his jack- knife from his pocket, and opening it with his teeth, cut the bear's throat, which bled to death in a few moments. At another time Zebediah Farnum killed a bear with a largo pitch-pine knot. He heard the bear squeal or grunt, and started in the direction of the sound, near where Isaac Ferrin now lives. Coming near he found bruin in the act of robbing a ivasj)'s nest * Tradition, by George Abbot, Esq. 256 PARISH OF CONCORD. in the ground; — sticking his head in, the wasps would sting, and he squeal. Zeb., creeping up unseen, and watching his chance, when the bear's head was in the hole, struck him across the back with his club, and killed him.* Stephen Farnum, and John, his cousin, killed a bear at Horse Hill. While the bear was engaged in defending himself against the dog, Stephen clenched him by the ears, and John knocked his brains out with a pitch-pine knot.* Rev. Ephraim Abbot, now of Westford, Massachusetts, relates, " That his uncle, Isaac Abbot, told him that he and his brother Ephraim went to the Dark Plains to get a load of candle wood, and came to a large wind-fall tree ; that one of them struck upon it with an axe, and a large bear came out of it, and was about to make an attack upon them ; but that they defended themselves and killed the bear with the axe and a lever. The flesh weighed about four hundred pounds." The late Moses Abbot and Richard Flanders, who lived near Hopkinton line, west of Long Pond, employed Mr. Asa Herrick, surveyor, to perambulate the line between them. While at work they were attracted to an old root, by the barking of their dog. There they found a bear. Herrick says, " Let it out ;" Abbot says, " Keep it in," and struck at the bear with the head of his axe. But as bruin attempted to come out, he turned the edge of his axe, and with a well aimed blow struck it into the bear's head, and soon killed it. After drawing the bear out, Lieut. Herrick seeing its huge paws, was greatly terrified — being more afraid of a dead bear than of a live one.* The late Richard Potter used to relate that soon after settling on his place, — where Mr. Thomas D. Potter now lives, — he one night heard an unusual commotion among his hogs, in a pen near the house. He got up and looked about, but saw nothing. After carefully covering the pen with boards, he went to bed, but was soon after roused again by the squealing of his hogs. On going out, he found one of them missing — being borne off by a bear, which carried it on to the hill west of his house, and there devoured it. The bristles of the swine thus devoured were afterwards gathered up, and preserved many years in the family. ♦Tradition, by Georgo Abbot, Esq. MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 257 At another time, (soon after his settlement,) Mr. Potter heard a noise at the lower end of " Pine Hill," southeast of his house. Proceeding thither, he found a bear. Bruin had mistaken a wasp's nest in the roots of a tree for a honey-bee's nest, and was attacking it fiercely for its supposed sweets ! But the attack proved a hitter sweet — for the wasps, stirred up at so unprovoked an attack, had gone at him with waspish fury ! The bear would rush up to the tree, thrust both paws into the nest, and then, covered with wasps — paws, head and ears — he would retreat a rod or two, uttering the most painful shrieks ! Mr. Potter furnished himself with a stout pitch-wood knot, and when the bear rushed up to the tree to attack the wasps, he rushed up behind him, and dealt him a blow that staggered him ; and, re- peating them with a will, he brought bruin to the ground, and despatched him.* MILITIA. In 1774 there were two companies of militia in Concord, be- longing to the fifteenth regiment, of which \hQ field officers were, Andrew McMillan, Esq.,f Colonel ; Thomas Stickney, Esq., Lieut. Colonel ; Benjamin Thompson, Esq., Major. Their com- missions were dated January 20, 1774. Nbn- Commissioned Field Officer — James Walker, Sergeant- Major. UNIFORM OF THE KEGIMENT. "The officers to wear red coats, cufF'd, lin'd and lapel'd with skj- blue. Sky-blue waistcoats and breeches, all triin'd with white. Black hats with silver hat-baud, button and loops, without lace. White stockings, cockade, sash and white gorgets. Swords with silver hilts. Captains and Lieutenants to carry fusees. Field officers to wear silver shoulder knots.'' " By order of His Excellency, John Wentworth, Esq., Captain-General. "February 15, 1774." EXERCISE. " The exercise or discipline ordered to be observed and practised in this regiment is that composed for the use of and practised by the Militia of the County of Norfolk, in Great Britain." " By order of His Excellency," &c. * Tradition, by Hon. C. E. Potter. t After 1774 the name of Colonel Andrew McMillan disappears from our record. See Bia- graphical Sketclies. 17 258 PARISH OF CONCORD. OFFICERS OF THE FIRST COMPANY IN CONCORD. Joshua Abbot, Captain, . . . Commissioned February 21, 1774. Jonathan Stickney, Lieutenant, Commissioned February 21, 1774. John Shute, Ensign, .... Commissioned February 21, 1774. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Richard Haseltine, 1st Sergeant,* May 24, 1774. John Chase, 2d Sergeant, May 24, 1774. Dan Stickney, 3d Sergeant, May 24, 1774. Nathan Kinsman, 4th Sergeant, May 24, 1774. OFFICERS OF THE SECOND COMPANY, BEING THE SIXTH IN THE REGIMENT.f Abiel Chandler, Captain, . . Commissioned February 26, 1774. Ebenezer Virgin, Lieutenant, . . Commissioned February 26, 1774. Jonathan Eastman, Ensign, . . Commissioned February 26, 1774. TOWN ACCOUNTS. Extracts from Accounts exMhitecl and accepted, from March 5th, 1771, to March, 1775. £ s. d. To Abiel Chandler, for keeping school and surveying for the parish, 55 14 2^ To Jo. Emery, for keeping school, 10 6 Patrick Guinlon, for keeping school, 31 17 6 John Blanchard's order for boarding a school mistress, 7 6 Robert Hogg, for keeping school two years at £30, .60 Daniel Abbot, for a wolf's head, 10 Dr. E. H. Gross, for taking care of Jacob Pilsbury and wife, 2 78 Rev. Mr. Timo. "Walker, for procuring the incorpora- tion of Concord, 5 5 10 Joseph Eastman, jr., for a wolf's head, 4 Timo. Walker, jr., for a set of measures, 53 crows' heads, articles supplied Pilsbury, and his service as selectman and clerk, 7 16 Abiel Chandler, for surveying, 6 Benj. Emery's order for carrying out a lame man, and his services as selectman, 2 80 1772. To the Rev'd Mr. Timo. Walker, for preaching from 26th day of Jan'y, 1772, to 26th Jan'y, 1773, 47 1 OJ To John Kimball, for making 5 staves for the tyth- ing men, 63 *The First Sergeant was Clerk of the Company. jThe names of the Privates in these Companies are not to be found, but the number on the " Alarm List " of the two Companies was one hundred and ninety. \ Equal to $156,83, or £120, at silver 17s. per ounce. PARISH OFFICERS. 259 To sundry articles supplied Elisabeth Russ and Sam- ^ «• ^• uel Walker, ...1 73 To Noah Parker, for one new weight, and sealing the old ones, 12 To Gilman West, for making nails for the meeting-house, 5 5 FROM 1774 TO 1775. To Abiel Chandler, for surveying roads and taking the number of the people, 3 10 6 John Kimball, for mending the meeting-house, and for nails for do., 13 Andrew McMillan, Esq., for petitioning the General Court, and assisting in settling Mr. Walker's salary, 6 John Kimball, for a coffin for the body of Samuel Walker 60 Timothy Walker, jr., for his bill against the parish the year past, 2 13 3 Do. for journey to Exeter, to attend the Congress, 5 days at 5s., travail 13s. 4fZ., 1 18 4 To cash paid John Giddinge, for the support of the delegates at the Continental Congress, as per rec't, 6 4 Rev'd Mr. Walker, for three journeys to Exeter, to attend the Congress, 3 16 To cash paid John Giddinge, for the support of the Delegates, as per rec't, 3 10 To a horse the above four journeys, at 6s., .... 1 40 To cash paid Mr. John Fowle, for taking care of Dr. Carrigin, when sick of the small pox, as per rec't, .3 To 711 'feet of plank for bridges, 2 10 Abated Nath'l Chandler Abbot, 2 6 LIST OF OFFICERS ANNUALLY CHOSEN IN THE PARISH OF CONCORD, FROM 176G TO 1775. Moderator, Clerk, . . Selectmen, . Constable, . Tythingmen, March 4, 1766. Ezra Carter, Esq. . Benjamin Rolfe, Esq. Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Mr. Joseph Farnum, Mr. John Chandler, Jr ' Lot Colby. . . . Lt. Richard Hasseltine, [ Nathaniel Eastman, Amos Abbot. March 3, 1767. Ezra Carter. Benjamin Rolfe. Lt. Rich. Hasseltine, Philip Eastman, Amos Abbot. Joseph Farnum. Lt. Tho's Sticknej, John Kimball, Lt.Timothy Bradley, 260 PARISH OF CONCORD. Sealer of Leather, . . William Coffin. Sealer of Wts. and Mms., Lt. Nathaniel Abbot. { Ebenezer Virgin, . Reuben Abbot, . Surveyors of Highivwjs, \ Robert Davis, I Richard Flanders, . i Dca. George Abbot. r Timothy Bradley, 1 Capt. John Chandler, Amos Abbot, Ebenezer Hall, Dea. Joseph Hall. f Philip Eastman, j Benjamin Emery, . \ Lt. Peter Coffin, Isaac Chase, \ Joseph Hall, Jr. ' John Chandler, Jr., Daniel Gale, Benjamin Fifield, . Abiel Lovejoy, . James Walker, . Simon Trumble. S John Kimball. . ( John Blanchard. March 1, 17G8. Capt. John Chandler. . Benjamin Rolt'e. ( Benjamin Rolfe, Selectmen, . . . . } Ebenezer Hall, . ( Reulien Kimball. Constable, .... Nathaniel Eastman. ( Reuben Abbot, . Tythingmen, . . . < Robert Davis, . ( Ebenezer Virgin. Sealer of Leather, . . David Hall. . Sealer of Wts. and Meas., Nathaniel Abbot, . f John Chandler, Jr., Fence-viewers, Field rods from the corner — eight feet on the road — fourteen feet front. Mr. Wilkins's house — SSjo rods from the comer — eight feet on the road — twenty feet front. Mr. Hough's printing office — 68)^ rods from the corner — three feet four inches on the road — twenty -four feet front. Esq. Green's house — 67 rods from the corner — six feet three inches on the road — twenty feet front. Mr. Green's office — eighteen inches on the road — fourteen feet front. Mr. Hutchins's shop — 62 rods from the corner — two feet three inches on the road — twenty-two feet front. Mr. Thorndike's store — 10 rods from the corner — fourteen and a half feet on the road — twenty-eight feet front. Mr. Dustin's bark-iiouse — three rods from the corner to the south side — seven and a half feet on the road — twenty feet front. Brick drove into the ground one rod and one link westerly of the north-west corner of Mr. Dustin's shop. Mr. Butters's corner stone — four and a half feet west of willow tree. West side — north end : Stone — twenty -six feet from the north-east corner of Jacob Abbot, Esq.'s, house, and 12.3 rods from the Great Elm. Mr. Gale's house — 50 rods from the comer; 70 1^ feet front; north side 10)^ feet on the road ; south-east end, five feet seven inches on the road. Mr. Wait's store — 44 rods from corner — seven feet six inches on the road — twenty feet front. . Mr. Manley'- store — 30 rods from the comer — six feet four inches on road — thirty-six feet froir. Corner, north of Capt. Chandler's. Birch pole — 2 rods and six feet from an oak stump in Mr. Jos. Abbot's land. School-house — 85 rods from stone at Shute's corner. Mr. Ladd's shop — 41 rods from stone at Shute's comer. South-east corner of Mr. Shute's house, six and a half feet on the road. Mr. Shute's shop on the road twenty-two feet. *Mr. Jonathan Herbert's store still standing, occupied as a dwelling-house. t The late residence of Dr. Bouton. frH JUDCEWALKEB'S BARM JUDGE WALKERS HOUSE MAIN STREET, 1798. HERBERTS STORF MAJOR UVERMORES HOUSE WILKINS HOUSE hough's printing OFflCE BENJ. GALES HOUSE WAITS MANLY thorndikeT's store dustin's bark house STONE CHANDLER'S SCHOOL HOl)SE\ LADD'S SHOP' JOHN SHUTE'S ^\^ .STONr 298 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 1T86/ PAPER MONEY. About this time a great excitement existed in various places through the State on account of the scarcity of money. Some were in favor of paper money ; but, at a meeting called agreea- ble to a recommendation of the General Court, to consider the subject, the town voted " not to make p)aper money on any plan whatever.^' During the June session of the Legislature which met in Con- cord this year, an attempt was made to call a convention to petition that body in favor of a plan for a paper currency, but the attempt was defeated in the following singular and ludicrous manner : At the first sitting of the Assembly, in June, when only five members of the proposed convention were in town, some wags, among whom were several young lawyers, pretended to have been chosen by the towns in which they lived, for the same pur- pose. In conference with the five, they penetrated their views, and persuaded them to post an advertisement, requesting all the members who were in town to assemble immediately, it being of the utmost importance to present their petition as early in the session as possible. By this means, sixteen pretended members, with five real ones, formed themselves into a convention, choos- ing one of the five their president, and one of the sixteen their clerk. They carried on their debates, and passed votes with much apparent solemnity. Having framed a petition, complain- ing in the most extravagant terms of their grievances ; praying for a loan of three millions of dollars, funded on real estate ; for the abolition of inferior courts, and a reduction of the number of lawyers to only tivo in each county ; and for a free trade with all the world ; they went in procession to the Assembly, (some of whom had been previously let into the secret,) and with great formality presented their petition, which was suffered to lie on the table. The convention then dissolved — the petition was withdrawn — and when others, who had been really chosen by * Kofcd, Jtfarc/t 7, " That Richard Flanders be released from paying for the u.se of the School Lot in future ; " and " to abate Andrew Stone his rates that are due, and exempt him from paying taxes for the future." Andrew Stone at last came upon the town of Bow for support. MONEY DIFFICULTIES. 299 the towns, arrived, they were exceedingly mortified on finding their views for that time so completely frustrated. The pro- ceedings of this mock convention were for a long time subjects of sport and i-idicule.* The pubhc excitement, however, did not stop here. County conventions were called ; petitions presented to the Legislature, and the ferment at last subsided in the arrest and punishment of the rioters at Exeter, f The following extract of a letter from Hon. Robert Bradley, of Fryeburg, Maine, gives a vivid idea of the extreme scarcity of money at this time : " The same year that the Legislature was surrounded and held as prisoners at Exeter, [1786,] by a mob demanding paper money, my father was elected a representative ; and the next day gave me a letter to carry to Timothy Bradley, living on the mountain, (so called.) On my way in the w^oods I met Mr. Bradley, gave him the letter, and was instructed to say to my father that the dollar — the only one on the east side of the river — which he had the promise of, had gone. A case of life and death had made it necessary to send to Andover for Dr. Kittredge ; but there was a rich maiden lady in Canterbury who had a crown, and he would go the next day and see my father about it. He did so, and afterwards obtained the crown piece and an old pistareen of Miss Clough, which was all the money that was to be found. My father then went to Judge Walker, who took care of the honor and interest of Concord, who fur- nished him with the means to pay his board at Exeter ; and he was the only one of fourteen boarders who paid their landlord, (a man by the name of Clifford,) their expenses in full. " Col. David Page, who represented Conway the same year, told me he left home with two shillings and sixpence in money to pay expense to Exeter by way of Alfred, Maine. He informed me that he had a small sum due him from John Pierce, Esq., of Portsmouth, for which he received a guinea, and paid all of it towards his board, save two shillings and sixpence, to pay for bread and milk on his way home. The representatives offered * Moore's Annals. t See Belknap's account of the insurrection, in Hist, of N. H., 1786; also, vol. III., pp. 117-122, of N.H. Hist. Coll. 300 HISTORY OF CONCORD. the whole of their State scrip for their services, to the landlord, who preferred their private securities. About ten or twelve of them returning home, took lodgings at the Gambrel Roof, [Esq. Bradley's house,] about one half of the number on couches on the floor. My impression is, they had not a dollar amongst the whole of them." 1787-8. On the 19th of March the town voted " to fence the burying- ground with a post and board fence." In October, Col. Peter Green, Col. Timothy Walker and Lieut. Joseph Hall, were chosen " to forward to the Secretary's office a particular account of all bounties, for raising men for the Continental Army, or the mili- tia called into service during the late war." In January, 1788, Col. Walker was appointed to petition the General Court for a new County, that should include the town of Concord, and any other towns that may petition for the same. ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. Capt. Benjamin Emery was chosen to the convention which was called to meet in Exeter on the second Wednesday of Febru- ary, 1788, " to take into consideration the proceedings of the late Federal Convention ; " in other words, to discuss and act upon the adoption of the Federal Constitutmi, which had been proposed by a convention of delegates in Philadelphia, from all the States except Rhode-Island, and which had already been adopted by eight States. To give the Constitution eflfect, or " to set the political machinery in motion," it was necessary that nine States should adopt it. On the decision of New-Hampshire, there- fore, great consequences were depending. The convention for this important purpose first met at the court house in Exeter, Feb- ruary 13. His Excellency, John Sullivan, was chosen President, and John Calfe, Esq., Secretary. The convention continued in session at Exeter ten days, then adjourned to meet in Concord on the 18th of June following. The convention met at the meet- ing-house, (now the BibUcal Institute,) and was composed of a large number of the most respected and honored men in the State — men who, having fought for liberty and independence, RATIFICATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. 301 were jealous of their rights, yet desirous of securing for themselves and for posterity all the blessings of a National Union.* When the final vote was taken on the Constitution, with cer- tain amendments which had been proposed, there were fifty-seven yeas and forty-seven nays. Our delegate, Capt. Emery, voted in the negative ! The Constitution, as amended, was adopted in the name of the people of New-Hampshire, in the following words : STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. In Convention of the Delegates of the Peoj^le of the State of New- Hampshire, June 21s<, 1788 : The Convention having impartially discussed and fully considered the Constitution for the United States of America, reported to Con- gress by the Convention of Delegates from the United States of America, and submitted to us by a Resolution of the Ceneral Court of said State, passed the fourteenth day of December, last past; and acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in affording the People of the United States, in the course of His providence, an opportunity deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new Constitution, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to themselves and their posterity — do, in the name and in behalf of the people of the State of New-Hampshire, assent to and ratify the said Constitu- tion for the United States of America. Resolved, That the assent and ratification aforesaid be engrossed on parchment, together with the recommendation and injunction afore- said, and with this Resolution ; and that John Sullivan, Esq., Presi- dent of the Convention, and John Langdon, Esq., President of the State, transmit the same, countersigned by the Secretary of Con- vention and the Secretary of the State, under their hands and seals, to the United States in Congress assembled. John Calfe, Secretary. The adoption and ratification of the Constitution was the oc- casion of great joy to all the friends of union throughout the * For the particulars of the interesting proceedings of the convention, reference must be had to the original record in the Secretary's office. The names of the members from the several towns in the State may be found in the New-Hampshire Annual Register, 1853, pp. 20 - 25. 302 HISTORY OF CONCORD. country. It was announced to Gov. John Hancock, of Massa- chusetts, in a letter, by President Sullivan, as follows : Concord, June 21, 1788. Sir : I have the honor to inform your Excellency, by favour of Mr. Keed, who is obliging enough to forward this letter, that the Convention of this State have this moment adopted the New Consti- tution — yeas, 57; nays, 46, [47.] The amendments recommended, nearly the same as in your State. With every sentiment of respectful attachment, I have the honor to be Your Excellency's Most obedient servant, John Sullivan. In the ^^ Salem Mercury'^ of the 24th of June the event was thus announced : "THE NINTH PILLAR UP! Laiis Deo .'" On the arrival of the news at Salem a procession was imme- diately formed of the military, the clergy, physicians, merchants, seamen, mechanics, and school -masters with their schools. Sa- lutes were fired in the evening; the front of the court-house was illuminated, and an emblematical painting exhibited, representing Justice, Peace and Liberty, (Fame over the whole sounding her trumpet,) on an arch supported hj nine columns — four others lying in the back ground, ready to be introduced into the va- cancies left for them. Under the whole were the words, "FEDERAL CONSTITUTION."* In Portsmouth the celebration of the glorious event was grand and imposing. After the people of that and the neighboring towns had assembled on the parade, about eleven o'clock, of the 27th, " an armed ship was espied from the State House, bearing down under full sail. Being hailed on her approach, she proved to be the ship Union, Thomas Manning, Esq., commander, from Concord, out five days, bound to the Federal City, all well and in good spirits. About a quarter past eleven she dropped an- chor, and, having received a pilot on board, got under way and joined the procession."! » Salem Mercury, June 24, 1788. fSee Salem Mercury, July 1, HSS. SETTLEMENT OF A MINISTER. 303 The procession was composed of all classes of citizens, with appropriate banners. Among them were the scholars of the schools, with the insignia of their studies ; a terrestrial globe, rectified for New-Hampshire, and decorated bj young ladies, was carried by two lads in uniform. In the decorations each State was distinguished — New-Hampshire in the zenith, and Rhode-Island in the western horizon, in mourninix ! MOTTO. "Where the bright beams of Fed'ral freedom glow, The buds of science in full beauty blow." There is a current tradition that Col. Timothy Walker, who was zealous for the adoption of the Constitution, apprehendino- that the vote would be a close one, invited certain members of the convention who were opposed to its adoption to dine with him on the day that the question was to be taken ; and that he treated them with such liberal entertainment and good cheer, that the vote was taken and decided in the affirmative before they made their appearance in the house. 1789. The Rev. Israel Evans, who had been a chaplain in the army under General Washington, had been employed to preach in Con- cord as a candidate for settlement ; and on the 1st of Septem- ber, 1788, received a call to settle, with the offer of ninety pounds as a salary annually, " during his performing the work of the ministry in this town," together with the use of the parson- age, and two hundred pounds, (in materials for building a house,) as a settlement. Capt. Reuben Kimball and Capt. Benj. Emery, Mr. Robert Harris, Mr. Henry Martyn and Mr. John Kimball, were appointed a committee " to estimate the pieces of materials that shall be provided for building a house." At a subsequent meeting it was voted to give Mr. Evans " fifteen pounds annually, in addition to the ninety pounds in lieu of the settlement," to which Lt. John Chandler and Lt. Robert Ambrose entered their dissent. The terms of the call were in some respects unsatisfactory to Mr. Evans ; but, March 17, 1789, he made answer in the affirm- 304 HISTORY OF CONCORD. ative.* A committee was appointed to " superintend the ordina- tion of Mr. Evans, and to provide entertainment for the minis- ters and delegates who shall attend;" and it was also voted, " That the town concur with the church in appointing the first Wednesday in July, 1789, as the time for the ordination services." In 1789 an act was passed " to authorize and empower the proprietors of Rumford, alias Concord, to collect a certain tax." This was in answer to a petition by Thomas Stickney, setting forth, that in settling the controversy between the proprietors of Rumford and of Bow, "in 1771, they came to an agreement, which was that the proprietors of Rumford should have the whole of said township, except one hundred and sixty-two acres of land, which was to be laid out by them in some part of the town ; and the proprietors of Rumford were to pay ten pounds to said proprietors of Bow, for each hundred acre lot which was laid out by said Bow in said Rumford ;" that thereupon Thomas Stickney, Andrew McMillan, Esq., and Abiel Chandler (since deceased) were appointed a committee by the proprietors of Rumford, " to receive a quitclaim deed from the proprietors of Bow, and give them a bond, upon interest, for the ten pounds for each hundred acre lot." Moreover, " that the proprietors of Rumford, in 1773, voted to raise the sum of X600 by assess- ment on the several divisions and the common rights in said township of Rumford," which was supposed to be suflScient to pay the proprietors of Bow, and to give £Q0 to the Masonian proprietors for their pretejided right to part of said land." The above assessment not being all collected, Timothy Walker was appointed and empowered to collect the remainder of said assessment, in order to discharge fully the said bond. 1790. SCHOOL LOT TOWN HOUSE. In 1790 the building erected in 1775 on the hill back of Capt. Emery's, for a " pest-house," was removed into the town street, for a school-house, and located near the present hay-scales, at the head of the street. The lot,t belonging to the school right, * See Doc. No. 1, for Chap. X. t See engraved Plan of House and Home Lots. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE GENERAL COURT. 305 originally laid out on the south side of the road that runs west- erly by Richard Bradley's, was exchanged by the town for a lot adjoining the burying-ground, owned by Lieut. Robert Davis, containing one acre and one hundred and twenty-eight rods.* There was no legal conveyance of the lot thus exchanged at the time ; but in 1842 the burying-ground was extended so as to embrace the aforesaid premises ; at which time Gen, Robert Davis, having inherited the land, by will of his grandfather, gave a deed of it to the town. Lt. Robert Davis, who deceased in August, 1823, was buried in this field, and his grave was enclosed with a chain fence, which stood alone till 1842. On the 30th of August this year the town voted to raise " one hundred pounds for building a house for the accommodation of the General Court ; and that the house be set on the land of Mr. William Stickney, near Dea. David Hall's." Capt. Reuben Kimball was appointed agent to build the house. The dimen- sions were eighty feet long, forty feet wide, and fifteen feet post. This action of the town was preceded by a subscription of $555,00 for the same object. The following is the copy of the original : Concord, June 21, 1790. "We, the subscribers, being desirous of accommodating the General Court with a convenient house, and in order to encourage the same, do hereby engage to pay the several sums annexed to our names in labour or materials for building, provided said house is set near Mr. William Stickney's dwelling-house, in Concord. Thomas Stickney, .... 40 Benja'n Hannaford, ... 40 John Bradley, 30 NAMES. Time. Walker, . DOLLARS. . . . 100 Peter Green, . . 100 Benj. Emery, . . . . . 40 * In the warrant for the annual town meeting, 1786, was an article to see if the town will exchange the house-lot belonging to the Bchool right, with Lt. Robert Davis. On this article the selectmen were appointed a committee, who, in 1790, reported as follows : In exchange of the school-lot with Lt. Robert Davis, we have the following piece, adjoin- ing the burying-yard, bounded as follows, viz. : Beginning at a stake and stones, at the southwest corner of the burying-yard, running west seventeen degrees south, by Capt. Ben- jamin Emery's land, twelve rods, to a stake and stones ; thence north, twenty degrees west, twenty-four rods, to a stake and stones ; thence east, nineteen degrees north, twelve rods, to a stake and stones ; it being a bound of James Walker's land ; thence by said Walker's land and burying-yard, twenty-four rods, to the bound first mentioned, containing one acre and one hundred and twenty-eight rods. 20 306 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Eobert Davis, Joshua Abbot, John Kimball, Enoch Coffin, . 30 30 30 20 George Hough, 20 Joseph Hall, 30 James Walker, 20 John West, 25 THE TOWN HOUSE. The bouse was built as soon s as practicable, and called the r»tTown House. Originally it j^ was one story ; stood length- wise to Main street, and had a door in the middle, with a spacious entry. The interior ^^P^' contained two rooms — one for =^ =....^^- 't^6 House of Representatives, TOWN HOUSE. on the north side, and the other for the Senate, on the south — with several small committee rooms on the back side. A stair-way led to a small gallery for spectators. In the centre of the building outside was a cupola, or dome, sur- mounted by a vane, which was invented by the mechanical genius of Mr. Ephraim Potter, and hence received the name of " old Potter^ The land on which the building was erected was given for the purpose by Mr. William Stickney, on condition that if the town shall neglect or refuse to keep a public building on the premises for the space of three years, it should revert to him or his heirs.* When this building was raised, Benjamin Rolfe, brother of Nathaniel, and father of Mr. Benjamin Rolfe, now living on State Street, had a finger caught in a mortice, in putting on the south plate, and so badly jammed that it was necessary to ampu- tate it. Dr. Carrigain — celebrated for surgical operations — • was immediately called, and directed Mr. Rolfe to lay his finger on a block. With a chisel and mallet the doctor cut the finger square oif at a single blow ; but the stump was a sore trouble to Mr. Rolfe as long as he lived, for the end of the bone was always visible, and in cold weather the flesh about it would recede from the bone and crack. *See original Deed. A quitclaim Deed of the same land was given to the city in 1854, by Nathan Stickney, Esq., for the erection of a City Hall and County Court House. REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 307 The town meetings, which heretofore had been held at the meeting-house, were henceforth held at the town-house. The place was honored by the sittings of the General Court, when- ever its sessions were held in Concord, until the completion of the State House in 1819. The building has since undergone many mutations, modifications and enlargements — answering all possible purposes — civil, political, rehgious, military, judicial, and fanatical ; a sort of '■^Noah^s ark,'' in which have been col- lected all things, clean and unclean, and the history of which ■would be well worthy of the pen of " Punch," or " Mrs. Part- ington," or Jack Loivning ! 1791-3. In March, 1791, the town voted that the intermission for the future on the Sabbath — which had been one hour the year round — should be one hour and an half, from the first Sabbath in May till the first Sabbath in November following. WARNING OUT OF TOWN. According to a law of the State, persons who came into town without property, and who, on that account, were liable to become a town charge, might be warned to depart. This being done lawfully, such persons could not obtain " a residence," and hence not come upon the town for support.* CONVENTION TO REVISE THE STATE CONSTITUTION. On the 7th of September, this year, (1791,) a convention was held in Concord to revise the Constitution of the State, adopted in October, 1783. The convention was held at the meeting-house. * STATE OP NEW-HAMPSHIRE, ) Rockingham ss. j Concord, Oct. 29, 1791. By virtue of this Warrant I have warned the said McGlaufling, and Betty, his wife, Archabald McGlautiing, and Mary Abot, immediately to depart out of this Town, who all came into this town, last from Loudon, in May, A. D. )791, liaving no estate. Also the said James Delap, and Lydia, his wife, and Richard Delap and Mical Delap, sons of said Delap ; also, MavtJia Elms, who all came into tliis Town, last from Boscavven, Dec'r, 1790, having no estate. Also, the said Polley Car, who came into this Town, last from Bow, July, 1791, having no estate. Also, Hannah Sleeper, a Minor, who came into this Town, last from Loudon, March, 1791, having no estate. Also, Joseph Hutchins and Jerusha, his wife; also Hannah Hutchins, their daughter, who all came into this town, last from Loudon, March, 1791, having no estate. I have warned all the above mentioned persons immediately to depart out of, and leave this Town. j^j,^ Bradlev, Constable of Concord. 308 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Hon. Timothy Walker was delegate for Concord. The whole num- ber of delegates in attendance was one hundred and eight, of whom eighty were present the first day of the session. The last survivor of this convention was Ex-Governor William Plumer, of Epping, who deceased while the convention of 1850, of which his son Wil- liam Avas a member, was in session in Concord, to revise the very Constitution which the convention of 1792 amended and so far per- fected that it continued unaltered through a period of sixty years. Hon. Timothy Walker was chosen chairman of the conven- tion, and sworn ; John Calfe, Esq., was elected Secretary, by ballot, and sworn ; then the Hon. Samuel Livermore, of Holder- ness, was chosen President. " Rev. Israel Evans was requested to attend and officiate as chaplain to the convention, during their present session." For the important proceedings of this convention, reference must be had to their Joui'nal.* Before their work was completed four sessions were held, all in Concord, occupying thirty-six days. The first session was from September 7, to September 16, 1791. The sec- ond, from February 8, 1792, to February 24. The third* from May 30, to June 5. The fourth, from September 5, to Septem- ber 6. This constitution, as amended and approved by the people, was established, and went into full operation in June, 1793. By this constitution the title of " President " for the chief execu- tive magistrate was changed to Grovernor. 1794. At a meeting August 4, this year, a committee of five, viz : Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Henry Martin, Capt. Joshua Abbot, Capt. Jonathan Eastman, and Lieut. Joseph Hazeltine, was appointed, " to wait on the Rev. Israel Evans, and inquire of him what the reasons are for his (of late) discovering an uneasiness with the town about the payment of his salary, or any other matter, and receive his answer in writing ; and for the town to act thereon in such manner as they may think proper." Mr. Evans had made a written communication and submitted to the town certain prop- ositions, which were acted on September 22. " Voted, That the * The original manuscript copy is in the Secretary's office. The names of the members may be seen in the N. H. Register, 1852, pp. 28-32. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 309 Selectmen pay the whole that is due to the Rev. Israel Evans immediately, or give said Evans a note upon interest till paid. Voted, To accept of the second proposition of the Rev. Mr. Evans, viz : the money appropriated to the use of the pulpit shall not in future be applied directly or indirectly to any other use. Voted, To accept of the third proposition of the Rev. Mr. Evans, viz : the collectors themselves shall pay to him, as often as can be done conveniently, all the money they collect for the use of the pulpit, and if possible within the year for which the money aforesaid was assessed."* In the warrant for a town meeting 8th December, this year, was an article " To see what encouragement the town will give for the raising of their quota of minute men ;" and it was Voted, " To give, in addition to the continental pay for this town's quota of minute men, so much as shall make each one's pay eight dol- lars per month ; and one month's pay be advanced to each man when they shall be called to march." The occasion for raising these minute men is not stated ; but at this time the " Pennsylvania RebeUion," as it was called, was in progress, and the Indians in the western country were in a state of open hostility. It does not appear that the minute men from Concord were ever called for. The " rebellion" was suppressed by Gen. Lee, who by order of Gen. Washington marched into Pennsylvania at the head of fifteen thousand men ; and the Indi- ans were conquered by Gen. Wayne, in a well fought battle, August 20, 1794. INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THE PERIOD FROM 1785 TO 1795. In 1785, when news of the birth of the Dauphin of France, Louis XVII.,t reached this country, the people of Concord, at a pubhc gathering, imdertook to celebrate the event — France * August 25 it was Voted, " To vandue the collector's berth ; and the same was struck off to Mr. Paul Rolfe for eight dollars, and he was then chosen a collector to collect the same." t This was the unfortunate child with whom the Rev. Mr. Williams' name has recently been associated in the public prints. 310 HISTORY OF CONCORD. having been the ally of America in the struggle for independence. The powder, which was purchased with the XlOO that Oliver Hoit paid for the school lot on Horse Hill, had not all been used, and for safe keeping had been stored away aloft in the new stee- ple of the meeting-house. On this occasion, therefore, the pow- der was called forth, and a grand salute fired in honor of France and the new born dauphin. Hence, afterwards, whenever any- thing was said in town meetings about selling the public lands, Capt. Benjamin Emery would be sure to oppose it, saying, " Soon it will all go like powder, as the money for Oliver HoiVs school lot wenty The first number of the Concord Herald was issued January 6, 1790, on a sheet fourteen by nine inches, bearing the follow- ing title and motto : " The Concord Herald and New-Hamp- shire Intelligencer. The Press is the Cradle of Science, the Nurse of Genius, and the Shield of Liberty. Printed at Concord, (New-Hampshire,) by George Hough."* On the 7th of December the Herald announced, " No Boston post is arrived ; all news we beheve is frozen up by the cold weather ; we have not even a report with which we can serve up a paragraph for our news-hungry customers." At this period newspapers and letters were carried through the country by persons who rode on horse-back, called " post-riders." In 1790 Samuel Bean was post-rider from Boston to Concord. His route was through Andover, Haverhill, Atkinson, Kingston, Exeter, Epping, Nottingham, Deerfield, and Pembroke to Con- cord : returning he passed through Londonderry and Haverhill. He performed the route once a week. John Lathrop was post- rider from Concord through Boscawen and intermediate towns to Hanover ; thence up the Connecticut river road as far as Haver- hill — returning by way of Plymouth and New-Chester (now Hill.) In the fall of 1791 Lathrop called on subscribers to his papers "to pay up" by the beginning of the next year, saying he will ever be willing to gratify his customers with a reasonable pay-day, but when " the earth yields her increase " in abundance, he views it as a " happy presage " of punctuality among those who have kindly become his debtors. " Cash, wheat, rye, or flax * See History ol Printing in Concord, in Miscellaneous Chapter. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 311 will be received ; and for the convenience of every one lie has appointed the following places at which the pay may be deHvered." But as the " pay " was not forth coming at the places of de- posit, Lathrop notified his customers that " delays are danger- ous f^ " MONEY, we all know, is always scarce. But, when a grain debt is not paid in the season of it, the creditor says money. That will be disagreeable to the debtor, and the post, while pro- duce is plenty, puts off the harsh expression." In 1791 four routes were established, by resolve of the Leg- islature, in New- Hampshire, and one person appointed in each of the following towns, viz : Portsmouth, Exeter, Concord, Amherst, Dover, Keene, Charlestown, Hanover, Haverhill and Plymouth, to take charge of all matters which are conveyed by the posts ; to receive as a compensation, tivo j^ence, to be advanced on the postage of every private letter which shall pass through the respective offices. Postage on all private single letters six pence for every forty miles, and four 'p&nce for every number of miles less than forty. Two of these routes proceeded from Concord, and took in the principal towns west from Concord to Keene, and north from Concord to Haverhill. Mr. George Hough was appointed first post-master in Concord. March 30, 1791. As an instance of the extraordinary indus- try of the women of our country, the Herald of March 30 men- tioned " that an old lady of this town, who is upwards of seventy years of age, has, in the course of ten months past, spun two hun- dred and ten runs and three quarters of yarn of different kinds." "CLOTHES MAKE MEN." David G-eorge, tailor, advertises (March 31, 1791,) that " his price for making a genteel suit of superfine broadcloth is three dollars ; for making an ordinary suit of coarse cloth, tivo dollars." The first number of " The Mirror " was pubhshed in Concord October 29, 1792,* " by Elijah Russell, at his office near Mr. *Thi3 year, (1792,) the 11th regiment, for the first time, paraded on Eastman's plain, on the east side of the river, and continued two days. At night several companies slept in barns in the vicinity. An immense number of spectators — women and children — were on the field. A six pounder fired on the occasion produced the greatest wonder ! 312 HISTORY OF COXCORD. Hannaford's tavern, in Concord, N. H." It was printed on a sheet fourteen inches long, eight wide, coarse paper, " price five shillings per annum. One shilling only to be paid yearly in money, on receiving the first paper of every year, and the re- mainder in country produce, at the market cash price, any time in the course of the year. Of those who cannot pay one shilling in cash, produce will be received for the whole at the end of the year." " We are informed," says the Mirror of November 19, 1792, " that a number of wealthy gentlemen of respectability have it in contemplation to erect a bridge over Merrimack river, near Mr. Butters' ferry. Our informant says they are to meet this day at Mr. Butters' inn, to consult on the expediency of the measure. We wish them success." " On Saturday last," (December 8, 1792,) says the Mirror, " that contagious and fatal disease, the small-pox, was discovered in the family of INIr. Daniel Hall. Mr. Hall broke out with it himself, and on Sunday was removed to a proper house and pro- vided with good nurses. His physician reports that he is at present in a very favorable way." " Last Saturday, sen'night, a child in the house of Lieut. Stickney, dec, died of the small-pox,* and Lieut. Jonathan Stickney died of the small-pox, on Sunday evening, November 18th." Through fear of spreading the infection, Mr. Stickney was buried in a secluded spot, on his own farm, on the north-east side of Stickney's Hill, so called. In the " Mirror" of January 21, 1793, appeared the follow- ing notice : "to the LOVERS OF HARMONY. " Whereas, a great number of inhabitants, desirous to promote the art and practice of sacred music in this town, have sub- scribed to pay an able teacher of psalmody, (Mr. McFarland,) Therefore, all persons willing to improve the advantage of a free singing school are requested to leave their names, before the first of February next, with either person of the following * Mirror, December 10, 1792. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 313 committee, viz : Capt. Jonathan Eastman, Capt. Timothy Chan- dler, Lieut. David Davis, Lieut. Amos Abbot, jr., and Mr. Levi Abbot." "the school. " On Thursday last Master Eastman* closed his school, in the Main street, in this town, with an exhibition of various scenes of entertainment, in which each of his pupils, about eighty in num- ber, participated. They performed their various exercises to the general satisfaction of their parents, and the honor of their inge- nious preceptor and themselves— by which they gained the ap- plause of a very crowded and respectable audience, which was expressed by frequent clapping of hands and smiles of approba- tion."— ilfwror, April 1, 1793. " Last week we experienced a severe frost, which destroyed most of the young apples, &c., and killed the flax, so that people have generally sowed their ground a second time. A severe drought prevails. It is now three weeks since we have had rain enough to lay the dust in the streets." — Mirror, May 27, 1793. " Concord, July 22, 1793. On Tuesday last a tempest arose in this town, accompanied with very heavy thunder and consid- erable rain. About three miles north of the meeting-house it hailed ; the hail-stones were some of them nearly as large as ounce balls. It leveled most of the corn, rye, oats, &e., for a considerable width and distance, its course being from north-west to south-east. One half of the roof of a house, belonging to Lieut. Phinehas Kimball, was taken off by the wind, carried a considerable distance, and dashed to pieces. The chimney was leveled with the chamber floor. There were two women in the house, who happily escaped with only being severely frightened." — Mirror. "new line of stages. A number of gentlemen in Haverhill, (Mass.,) Chester, and this town, have agreed to run a stage from Haverhill to this town twice a week, to communicate with the Boston stage ; which will render communication to that metropolis much more certain and * An order in favor of Edmund Eastman, for keeping school in Concord, 1793, £1S. 314 HISTORY OF CONCORD. expeditious than heretofore. We understand that this stage ■will commence running early in September next." — Mirror, August 12, 1793. In July, 1792, there was not a book-hinder in the State of New-Hampshire. In 1788 Timothy "Walker, Esq., was a candidate for Repre- sentative in Congress, and received in this town thirty-nine votes. In 1791 he was a candidate for President of New-Hampshire, and received sixty votes ; in 1792, he received seventy-seven votes for President, and his Excellency Josiah Bartlett received ninety. The same year Mr. Walker had one hundred and eight votes in Concord for Representative to Congress, and twenty-nine votes for Elector of President and Vice President of the United States. In 1793 (after the adoption of the revised constitution,) Mr. Walker had ninety-three votes for Governor, and in 1791 he had one hundred and five votes. He was the democratic can- didate, in opposition to John T. Gilman, Esq., who was elected. LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS, REPRESENTATIVES, DELEGATES AND JURORS, FROM 1785 TO 1795. ,r , , ,„, March 7, 178^, March 1, 1 /8o. arijoumed to March 21. Moderator, .... Timotliy Walker. . . Clerk, John Kimliall. . ( Col. Timotliy Walker, . Selectmen, .... J Capt. RcuLen Kimball, ( Col. Thomas Stickney. „ , ,, ( Lt. Moses Eastman,* . Constables, . . . . | ^phraim Carter. . . Col. Timothy Walker. John Kimball. Col. Timothy Walker, Col. Thomas Stickney, Reuben Kimball. Capt. Joshua Abbot,* Lt. John Chandler. Lt. Phinehas Virijin, , Richard Hazeltine, Tijtiunrpnen, . . . Richard Hazeltine. . . \ Ebenezcr Hail, Lt. Jona. Stickney, [ Daniel Abbot. Sealer of Leather, . . David Hall David Hall. Sealer of Wts.andMeas.,T>a\id'ilal\ David Hall. * Excused. TOWN OFFICERS. 315 Sia've)/ors of Ilighways, A Hogreeves, Surveyors of Lumber, { Eichard Ayer, . Lt. John Chandler, John Hoyt, . Stephen Farnum, . Asa Herrick, Benjamin Farnum, . Lt. Joseph Hazcltinc, Richard Ilazeltine, . Lt. Asa Kimball, . Ebenezer H. Goss. . Robert Duncan, Micah Flanders, David George, . Anthony Potter, Ebenezer H. Goss, . Daniel Page. Benjamin Hanniford, Jacob Carter, . John Kimball. . Treasurer, .... John Kimball. . „ , , ( Beniamin Hanniford, Pound-keepers,. . • | Robert Ambrose. . Representatives, Moderator, Clerk, . Selectmen, Constable, Peter Green. March 6, 1787, adjourned to 19. Col. Timothy Walker. Caleb Chase. ■ Lt. Joseph Hall, [ Henry Martin,* ' Thomas Wilson. John Kimball. . Tythingmen, John Kimball, . Richard Hazeltine, Robert Eastman, (. Lt. Jonathan Sticknej' Sealer of Wts. and Meas.^D&viAJliiW. . . . Samuel Thompson, Richard Herltert, Amos Abbot, Jr., John Stevens, . Ezra Abbot, . Timothy Bradley, James Walker, . Isaac Abbot, William Fificld, Edward Abbot, . Phinehas Kimball, Joshua Graham, Isaac Dimond, . Moses Abbot, Timothy Dow. Surveyors of Highways, < ' Stephen Crosman, Samuel Thompson, Richard Potter, Richard Hazeltine, Thomas Wilson, William Coffin, J Timothy Bradley, ' Nathan Abbot, Josiah Farnum, Jr., Lt. Asa Herrick, Wm. Fitield, Jonathan Eliot, Jr., Joseph Colby, Jr., Moses Abbott. Robert Eastman. . Dudley Ladd, . Daniel Rogers, . Samuel Goodwin, . William Fitield, . Lt. Joshua Thompson. (Chandler Lovcjoy, Benja. Hanniford, John Kimball, Lt. Asa Herrick. . John Kimball. . Robert Ambrose, . Benja. Hanniford. C Col. Peter Green, \ Lieut. John Bradley, I June 24. March 4, 1788. . Col. Timothy Walker" . Caleb Chase. . Col. Timothy Walker. . Capt. Benja. Emery, . Chandler Lovejoy. . David Hall. Robert Eastman, Daniel Gale. David Hall. Nathaniel Eastman, Philbrick Bradley, Anthony Potter, Ezekiel Carter, Moses Abbot, Jabez Abbot, John Elliot, Timothy Dow, Thomas Wilson, James Walker, Stephen Hall, Isaac Dimond, Samuel Butters. * .March 19, Amos Abbot, Jr., for H. Martin. 316 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Uogreeves, Surveyors of Lumber, Treasurer, . Representatives, Surveyors of Wood, Moderator, Clerk, . Selectmen, Constables, fDiuiiel Stickney, . I Daniel Hills, . . ■l Moses Fifield, . . Capt. Kichard Ayer, [ Daniel Hall. . . C Chandler Lovejoj, . I Benjamin Hanniford, \ Daniel Livermore, . I John Blanchard, [Jacob Carter. , Caleb Chase. j Peter Green, Esq., . • [ Lt. John Bradley, June 22 j Thomas Wilson, ( Benjamin Hanniford. March 3, 1789. Col. Thomas Stickney. . Caleb Chase ( Capt. Reuben Kimball, . ] Timothy Walker. Esq., , ( Lt. Asa Herrick. . . Robert Ambrose. . (William Currier, John Stevens, Stephen Crosman, Daniel Rogers, [ Philbrick Bradley. Sealer of Leather, . . David Hall. . . . &a/ero/Trte.aHC^il/eas., David Hall. . . . 'Lt. Ebenezer Virgin, John Eastman, . Capt. Asa Kimball, Stephen Faruum, . Lt. Benjamin Farnum, Phinehas How, . Moses Abbot, . Joseph Runnels, Lt. Asa Herrick, Lt. Joshua Hazeltine, William Coffin, Benjamin Hanniford, Samuel Butters, Richard Hazeltine. . Surveyors of Highways Hogreeves, . Surveyors of T^umber, Pound-lecper, . Representatives, Surveyor of Wood, . Hay-ward, . Richard H. Osgood, Benjamin Powel, . Robert Eastman. Benjamin Hanniford, Lt. Asa Herrick, Maj. Daniel Livermore Lt. Joshua Thompson. Benjamin Hanniford. Rol)ert Ambrose, . Peter Green, Thomas Wilson. . Millen Kimball, Henry Rolfe, Samuel Thompson, Capt. John Roach, Maj. Wm. Duncan, Benjamin Powel. Benjamin Hanniford, Daniel Livermore, Joshua Thompson, Asa Herrick. Peter Green, Esq. William Duncan. March 2, 1790. Col. Timothy Walker. Caleb Chase. Timothy Walker, Esq., Capt. R"euben Kimball, Lt. Asa Herrick, Lt. Phinehas Virgin, ' Jabcz Abbot, ' Thomas Wilson. Daniel Rogers. David Hall. David Hall. 'Lt. John Chandler, Nathaniel Eastman, Lt. Moses Eastman, Lt. John Bradley, Jonatlian Virgin, Isaac Abbot, Robert Harris, . Daniel Farnum, Lt. Joseph Hazeltine, Isaac Dimond, Ebenezer Dow, Joseph Runnels, Barnard Elliott, Daniel Abbot, David Stickney. Eljenezer Duston, Joshua Currier, " William Filield, Moses Eastman. Benjamin Hanniford, Maj. Daniel Livermore, Lt. Joshua Thompson, Lt. Asa Herrick. Benjamin Hanniford. Peter Green, Esq., Lt. John Bradley, 21st of June. Thomas Wilson. Thomas Wilson. TOWN OFFICERS. 3ir Moderatoi; .... Clerk, Selectmen, . . . . ^ Constables, . . . . ) Tijthingmen, . . . \ Sealer of Leather, . . \ Sealer of Wis. and Meas., Surveijors of Highways, March 1, 1791. Col. Timothy Walker. Caleb Chase. . . . Timothy Walker, Esq., Ciipt. Reuben Kimball, Capt. Benjamin Emery Lt. John Bradley, . Robert Eastman, Ephraim Farnum. . Daniel Rojiers, . Caleb Biiswell. . Dea. Hall, excused — Asa ker David Hall ' Maj. Daniel Livermore, James Johnson, Jonathan Eastman, Samuel Goodwin, . Maj. Asa Kimball, Richard Hazcltine, . William Fitield, . Jolm Hoit, . . . Joseph Colby, . Barnard Elliott, Nathan Abbot, . Lt. Asa Ilerrick, Daniel Abbot, . ^ Col. Thomas Stickney. ' Maj. Daniel Livermore, Lt. John Chandler, . Lt. Joseph Hall, Jacob Diraond. John Colby, Jr., Jeremiah Virgin, Daniel Farnum, Abner Farnum. William A. Kent, . ILazzen Kimball, Ebenczer Eastman, Moses Farnum, . William Eastman, John Sliute, Jr. f Benjamin Hanniford, . I Lt. Joshua Thompson, Surveyors of Lumber, . \ Maj. Daniel Livermore, Benjamin Abbot, Isaac Dimond. Benjamin Hanniford, Maj. William Duncan. Par- Fence-. Field-drivers. Hogreeves, . March 6, 1792. Timothy Walker, Esq. Calel) Chase. Timothy Walker, Esq., Capt. Reuben Kimball, Capt. Benjamin Emery. Benjamin Hanniford, Ezra Carter, Lt. Ebenezcr Virgin. Daniel Gale, Robert Eastman, James Johnson. Asa Parker. Dea. David Hall. Hazzen Kimball, Col. Thomas Stickney, Lt. Joseph Hall, Stephen Farnum, Lt. Samuel Davis, Jesse Abbot, Bruce Walker, William Fificld, John Elliott, Jr., Lt. Phinehas Kimball, Chandler Lovejoy, Jonathan Virgin, Ebenezer Eastman, Joseph Carter, Lt. Asa Herrick. Timothy, Walker, Esq., Maj. William Duncan. Pound-keeper, . Representative, Delegate to Constitutional Convention, J Grand Juror, . Petit Juror, Surveyor of Wood, Hay- ward, .... Jeremiah Virgin William Manly. Samuel Bradley, Jeremiah Chandler, Daniel Gale, Jr., Christopher Osgood. Maj. Daniel Livennore, Abel Baker, Lt. Joshua Thompson, Isaac Dimond. John Bradley, Esq. Timothy Walker, Esq., Aug. 8. ( Maj. William Duncan, I May 7th. Stephen Farnum. Thomas Wilson John Thorndike. Robert Hams Thomas Wilson. March 5. 1793. March 4, 1794. Moderator, . Clerk, . . Judge Walker Timothy Walker, Esq. Caleb Chase Caleb Chase. 318 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Selectmen, .... Constables, ... Tythingmen, Sealer of Leather, . Sealers of Wis. and Ms., Surveyors of Uighwaijs, Fence-viewers, Field-drivers, Hogreeves^ Surveyors rose. ( John Shute, Jr., } Timothy Carter, ( Jeremiah Virgin. ( James Moulton, I Stephen Tattle. . ( Jacob Abbot, } Ens. Jonathan Wilk ( Charles Walker. March 3, 1801. Jonathan Wilkins. John Odlin. . Jonathan Wilkins, John West, . Stephen Ambrose. Jan. 31st. David Hall. David Hall, f Jonathan Wilkins, Capt. Kichard Ayer, llichard Herbert, Jr., Levi Abbot, Stephen Hall, Isaac Dimond, Nathan Abbot, .3d, Samuel Davis, Timothy Walker, Jr., Stephen Farnum, William Eastman, Barnard Elliot, Jeremiah Virgin, Jonathan Ambrose, Mellen Kimball, ^ Moses Gale. ^ Richard Herbert, Jr., } Jolm Batchelder, ( Abiel Eastman. . Paul Kolfe, . Jolm Eastman. . llichard Ha^eltine, . Jonathan Eastman, . Abel Baker, . Moses Gile, . William Fifield, . James Moulton. ' John Currier, Jr., John Kimball, Jacob Eastman, Jacol) Carter, Abel Baker, Chandler Lovejoy. . David George, . Charles Eastman. Jacob Abbot, Esq. ( David George, ) Stephen Ambrose, ( John Tliorndike. . John West. . Ephraim Carter,* . Joseph Cleasby, Jr., . Jeremiah Virgin. . Stephen Tuttle, . Henry Moulton. . Capt. Benja. Emery, . Cinirles Walker, Esq., . Capt. Richard Ayer. . Benjamin Emery. March 2, 1802. . Timothy Walker, Esq. . John Odlin. . Timothy Walker, . John West, . Stephen Ambrose. * Excused. 334 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Constables, Tythingmen, Sealer of Leather, C Eliphalet Emery, < Richard Haze J ^»,^wi..v. ^lazen Ayer, ( Aaron Austin. . f Jacob Abbot,* . Capt. Enoch Coffin, rd Hazcltine, rick Bradley. Dea. David Hall. . I Capt. E ■ I Kiciiard [ Philbric Sealer of Wts.and Meas., Dea. David Hall. . f Jeremiah Story, Capt. Richard Ayer, Richard Herbert, Jr., Benjamin Farnum, Moody Dow, Daniel Abbot, . Jonathan Elliot, Jr., Joseph Cleasby, Jr., Joseph Runnels, Israel Dimond, . Jacob Eastman, Abiel Eastman, Philbrick Bradley, . [ John Hoit, Jr. . Survei/ors of Highways, Fence-vieivers, . Field-drivers, . Abiel Eastman, Samuel Davis, Zenas Wheeler. Hogreeves, . Surveyors of Lumber, Pound-keepers, . Representative, . Grand Jurors, . Petit Jurors, Carders of Wood, Hay-ward, . Collectors, . Benjamin Gale, David Davis, Timothy Chandler, Dyer Abbot, Murray Bradley, Joseph Swan, Simon Virgin, . James Moulton, Abel Baker, Jacob Hoit, Moses Gile ' John Currier, Jr., . Jacob Eastman, Moody Dow, John Shute, Jr., Abel Baker, . John Kimball, . Jacob Hoit. . j Benjamin Hanniford, I Charles Eastman. . William Austin Kent. ( Richard H. Ayer, . } Capt. Samuel Davis, ( Paul Rolfe. j John Shute, Jr., I Samuel Davis. . i John George, Jr., . ) Edmund Leavitt, . ( John Thorndike. John West. . ( Eliphalet Emery, . } Richard H. Ayer, . f Aaron Austin. Joseph Dow, Jeremiah Virgin, Ebenczcr Dustin. John Bradley, Kathan Ballard, Jr. David Hall. David Hall. Eliphalet Emery, Abel Hutchins, Samuel Butters, Jr., Edmund Leavitt, Nathaniel Ambrose, Asa Graham, Ebenezer Tenney, Moses Earnum, Abel Baker, James Jolinson, Asa Herrick, Ezra Abbot, Jr., Samuel Davis, Aquilla Ferrin, Samuel Bradley. . Paul Rolfe, . Richard Ayer. { Reuben Goodwin, ( Joseph Giles. . Jeremiah Pecker, . William Tay, . Eliphalet Emery, . John Roach, . W^illiam A. Kent, . Calvin How, • David Hutchins, . Richard Elliot, . Israel Dimond. . Samuel Gains, . Samuel Davis, . Jacob Eastman, . Chandler Lovejoy, . John Kimball, . Abel Baker, . Abiel Virgin. . Charles Eastman, . David George, Jr. . John Bradley, Esq. . Sherburne Wiggin. Jonathan Wilkins, Isaac Emery. David George, Jr., John Thorndike, Edmund Leavitt. John West. Joseph Dow, Jesse R. Tuttle.t Jeremiah Virgin. ♦Excused, t Excused, and in his place, Ebenezer Duston. TOWN OFFICERS. 335 Cullers of Staves, . Auditors, Inspector of Bread, Moderator, . Clerk, John Odlin. . ( Jona. Wilkins, Selectmen, . ( James Moulton, ) Nathan BaUard, ( Jolin Silver. ( Capt. Richard Ayer, . \ Col. Timothy Walker, ( Maj. Timothy Chandler Timothy Chandler. March ], 1803. Jonathan Wilkins, Esq Constables and Collect' rs. Tythingmen, Sealer of Leather, . Sealer of Wts. and Meas., David Hall. . C Eliphalct Emery, John West, Stephen Ambrose Richard Herbert, Jr. Sherburne Wi,i::gin, Jeremiah Virgin, Stephen Ambrose, John West. . David Hall. . . Surveyors of Highways, • Fence-viewers, Hogreeves, Surveyors ofLumher, Pound-keepers, Representative, Abel Hutchins, Paul Rolfe, . . James Corlis, Zenas Wheeler, . Israel Dimond, . Richard Flanders, Enoch Farnum, Isaac Farnum, . Samuel Runnels, Jedediah Hoit, . Amos Abbot, Jr., Phinchas Virgin, Jr Jona. Ambrose, . Jacob Hoit, . Asa Kimball, Jr. [ Samuel Butters, ' Richard Ayer, . f Nath'l /Vmbrose, f Jacob Emmons, Ebcn'r Duston, . Charles Emery, . Daniel Virgin, . Isaac Dow, . James Moulton, Jere'h Wheeler, . Moody Dow, ^ Daniel Kendall. f Samuel Gains, . Abiel Virgin, Abel Baker, . John Kimball, . Benja. Powell, . John Hoit, Jr., . Jacob Eastman. David George, Jr., Charles Eastman. William A. Kent. Henry Moulton. John Roach, Richard Ayer, Col. Timo'. Chandler. March G, 1804. Jonathan Wilkins. John Odlin. Jona. Wilkins, John West, Amos Abbot, Jr. Timothy Bradley,* Timothy Carter, John Hoit. Benja. Kimball, Levi Abbot. David Hall. David Hall. Isaac Shute, Abel Hutchins, John West, Isaac Dow, David Elliot, Timothy Dow, Ephraim Carter, Reuben Dimond, Christopher Rowell,Jr., Israel Dimond, Levi Alibot, Pearl Kimball, Reuben Goodwin, , Jonathan Virgin, , Joseph Potter, , Daniel Kendall. . Paul Rolfe, . Peter Farnum, . Jona. Eastman. . Jere'h Pecker, . Moody Dow, . Nathan Abbot, 4th, . Sherburne Wiggin, . John Batchelder, . Isaac Dimond, . Reuben Goodwin. Samuel Gains, Abel Virgin, George Rogers, Abel Baker, Jacob Eastman, Asa Graham, Moody Dow, Samuel Bradley. David George, .Jr., Charles Eastman. Wm. A. Kent. * Excused. Richard H. Ayer in place of. 336 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Grand Jurors, . Petit Jurors, Corders of Wood, . Hay-ward, . Cullers of Staves, . Auditors of Accounts, Inspector of Hoops, Ebcn'r Diiston, Jan. 8 ; Nath'l Eastman, Isaac Dimond. . ■ John Stevens, . James Willey, . David George, Jr., Edmund Leavitt. ' Nath'l Abott, Jr. James Moulton, ' Nathan Ballard, Samuel Butters. Timothy Walker, Esq Ebcn'r Duston, . John Batchelder. James Moulton. . Eben. Duston, Jan. 20. . John Coll)y, . John Eastman. . Charles Emery, . James Willey, . Edmund Leavitt, . John Stevens. . Sherburne Wiggin. . James Moulton, . Richard Wood, . Joseph Runnels. . Richard Ayer, . Timothy Walker, . Benja. Emery. CHAPTER XII. FROM 1805 TO 1815. By authority of the Legislature, Philip Cakrigain, Esq., of Concord, was at this time engaged in preparing a new map of the State. To aid in the work, surveys were ordered by towns. The survey of this town " was sold at public vendue," and bid off by Capt. Edmund Leavitt, for one hundred dollars. Capt. Leavitt lived on the east side of the river, possessed a good knowledge of surveying, and executed a handsome map of the town, copies of which are in the hands of Jonathan Eastman, Esq., and William Prescott, M. d. John Bradley, Jonathan Wilkins and Ebenezer Dustin were appointed a committee, March 27th, to meet the committee of Boscawen in building and supporting a bridge across Contoocook river. The bridge was formerly considerably lower down the river than where it is now located. The committee reported in favor of supporting " one half of the bridge across Contoocook river at the old place ;" which report the town accepted, and voted to raise two hundred and fifty dollars to carry the same into effect. Subsequently the bridge became a source of htiga- tion between the towns.* CONCORD BANK. By an act of the Legislature, June 18, 1806, " Timothy "Walker, Caleb Stark, John Bradley, John Mills, Robert Harris, Ebenezer Peasley, Richard Ayer, William Whittle, WilUam A. Kent, * See Document No. 2, for Chap. VIII. 22 338 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Joshua Darling, Thomas W. Thompson, Aquila Davis, John Chandler, Baruch Chase, Joseph Towne and Joseph Clough, and their associates," were incorporated " by the name of the Presi- dent, Directors and Company of the Concord Bank ; for a period of twenty years, with a capital of not less than $50,000 nor more than $200,000, in specie." In proceeding to organize for the transaction of business under their charter, special difficulties were encountered, growing chiefly, it is said, out of questions of location and management. Already there was a " north end " and a " south end " interest. In the former was Hon. Timothy Walker, and in the latter Col. Wilham A. Kent, with whom, respectively, others took sides, according to their own ideas of interest. The result, however, was, two banks went into operation under the same charter, one called " The Upper Bank," and the other " The Lower Bank," each claiming exclusively to be the " Concord Bank.''' Of the Upper Bank, Timothy AValker was first president and Samuel Sparhawk, from Portsmouth, cashier. Of the Lower Bank, Joseph Towne, of Hopkinton, was president, and William A. Kent cashier. For several years a disagreeable competition existed between them. On the part of the upper bank a run was made upon the lower, for the payment in specie of their bills. By the lower bank, or by persons interested therein, suits were commenced against the other for issuing bills contrary to law ; and hence a litigation as to which was the lawful Concord Bank, was continued for a considerable time. In 1808 one Nehemiah Jones commenced a suit against Timothy Walker, containing more than a hundred counts, which embraced all the questions at issue.* In these suits the late Jeremiah Mason was employed as Jones's counsel. Tradition says that, after a while. Mason, per- ceiving the difficulties of the subject, and disposed to adjust the matter between the parties, signified to his client " that as he had got into gentlemen''s company he must expect to pay a gentle- man'' s price." Soon after, the rival banks came to an agreement, at least so far as to cease from vexing one another ; both obtained credit with the pubhc, and continued to do business under one charter till the expiration of twenty years — then the upper bank ' See printed volume, entitled " Pleadings, Jones v. Walker,''^ in N. H, Hist. Soc. Library. ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 339 obtained a new charter, and took the name of Merrimack County Bank, A new brick buikiing was erected for its use, in 182G, on the house-lot owned by the corporation, where the bank has continued to flourish until the present time. The lower bank obtained a modification and extension of its charter, in 1826 ; and continued to do business till 18-10, when it failed, to the great loss of the stockholders and the det- riment of the public. 1807. Agreeably to a law of the State, passed in 1805, the town appointed a committee, i\.pril 8, 1807, consisting " of one from each school district where orders have been drawn for school money annually," together with the selectmen, " to district the town into school districts." The committee consisted of Elipha- let Emery, Richard Ayer, Paul llolfe, John Garvin, Levi Abbot, Asa Herrick, Nathan Ballard, jr., Moses Abbot, Samuel Davis, William Eastman, Abel Baker, Nathaniel llolfe, Stephen Farnum, John Eastman, Nathaniel Ambrose, Jonathan Virgin and Asa Kimball. The selectmen were Ebenezer Dustin, Enoch Coffin and Edmund Leavitt. The residence and number of members of this committee show that schools were at this time kept in at least sixteen places in town ; and that the law of the State authorizing towns to lay out districts, only legalized what had already substantially been done. The local school districts, though not exactly defined and bounded, preceded the passage of the law. The committee above appointed chose Ebenezer Dus- tin, chairman, and John Odlin, clerk, and in May following laid out the town into sixteen school districts, as follows,* viz : District No. 1. At Horse Hill, so called; " " 2. The Borough, so called ; " " 3. West Village of Concord; ic ic 4 "W^est Parish, where Capt. Samuel Knowlton lives ; " " 5. West of Long Pond ; " " 6. At Little Pond, where Nathan Ballard lives ; <' " 7. On Hopkinton road, three miles from Main street ; " " 8. At Millville, so called; " " 9. South end of Main street; * For the bounds of these districts, see Town Records, 1807, pp. 310-316. 340 HISTORY OF CONCORD. District No. 10. Middle of Main street ; " " 11. North end of Main street ; " " 12. In the East Village, south part ; " *' 13. On the Mountain, so called ; " " 14. At Snaptown, so called, north-east part of the town ; *' " 15. On Loudon road, where Hon. Jacob A. Potter lives ; " " 16. At Garvin's Falls, so called. The districts formed at subsequent periods are : No. 17. By dividing district No. 8, on the line between Concord and Hopkinton. " 18. By dividing district No. 9. " 19. By dividing district No. 12. " 20. By dividing district No. 2, now in Fisherville. " 21. By dividing district No. 13. " 22. On the Dark Plain, so called, towards Chichester. " 23. Near the line between Concord and Bow, beyond Mr. James Hall's. • In thus districting the town, the selectmen " determined that the lands owned by persons residing without the limits of Concord shall be taxed in the several school districts, for school purposes." In March, 1808, thirty dollars were ordered to be raised " to build, of wood, a pound ; to be located near the meeting-house." This pound was at first located a few rods north of the meeting- house ; — afterwards it was removed to Pond Hill, where it remained till about 1826. The selectmen were authorised to purchase powder and ball, and other articles that the law requires, for a town stock. To procure a bell for the meeting-house, it was determined " to sell the ground of two of the front seats on the floor of the meeting- house," which should be made into pews, and the money arising from said sale to be appropriated towards purchasing a bell, when a sufficient sum in addition shall be subscribed for the purpose. The ground for the pews was sold at " public vendue," at the house of William Stickney, March 27th, and bid off as follows : 1. To Peter Robertson, $86.00 2. " Daniel Greenleaf, 86.25 3. " Bowen Crehore, 68.00 4. " George Hough, 67.25 1307.50- THE OLD NORTH CHURCH. 341 October 19th, the selectmen, by request, laid out for a road that part of State street, extending from Pleasant to School street, three rods in width ; the land being given for the pur- pose by Benjamin Gale, George Hough, Thomas G. Stevens, Josiah Rogers and William A. Kent. 1810. THE MEETING-HOUSE. The meeting- house, Avhich, as mentioned in the preceding chap- ter, was enlarged in 1802, received this year the ad- dition of a hell — Avith the sound of ^ which the people - appeared to be so much pleased that ^ they provided for ringing it three T^^ times a day. At the meeting in March it was vot- ed, " that the bell be rung at seven o'clock in the morning, twelve at noon, and nine at night, except Sundays, — and the selectmen di- rect the time on Sundays ;" " that the ringing of the bell and the care of the meeting-house be set up to the lowest bidder, and that the person bidding off the same give bonds to the selectmen for the faithful performance of the same ;" " that twenty-five dollars be 342 HISTORY OF CONCORD. raised for ringing the bell, and paid to Sherburn Wiggin — it being bid oiBf by him agreeable to the above vote." SWINE. Heretofore swine had had a laivless range in Concord: but this year they were not only to be " yoked and rung," but con- fined. Hence, Voted, " That for every swine found running at large at any season, in the Main street, between John Bradley's, Esq., and John Colby's, the owner be liable to the same penalty, and to be recovered in the same way, as for swine going at large unyoked and unrung in the season that the law requires them to be yoked and rung." By request of WiUiam A. Kent, Samuel Green, Simeon G. Hall, Benjamin Gale, George Hough, Joshua Abbot, jr., and WiUiam Stickney, the selectmen, in September of this year, laid out that part of State street, from the corner Avhere the house of the late James Buswell stands, to what is now called School street, to meet the portion of the street laid out the year previ- ous. As a compensation for the land taken for this road, they awarded to the owners of the land as follows : "to James Bus- well, six dollars ; to Joshua Abbot, jr., fifty cents ; to William Stick- ney, twenty-five cents ; to Simeon G. Hall, twenty-five cents ; to Timothy Abbot, thirty dollars ; to William A. Kent, twenty-five cents ; to Ebenezer Dustin, twxnty-five cents ; to Richard Ayer, twenty-five cents ; to Abel Hutchins, twenty-five cents ; to George Connell, ten dollars ; and to Peter Robertson, twenty-five cents. At the same time the selectmen laid out that part of what is now Washington street — two rods wide — from State to Main street. Benjamin Emery, jr., bid ofi" "the ringing of the bell, taking care of and sweeping the meeting house," at thirty-nine dollars. 1812. The liberty of the swine was still further abridged. March 9th, Voted., " That no swine be allowed to run at large on the road from Concord bridge to Boscawen bridge, under a penalty to the owner of twenty-five cents for each offence." STATE PRISON. Before State street was made, the building of the State ESTABLISHMENT OF A FIRE DEPARTMENT. 343 Prison was commenced. The land, consisting of about two acres, was given by the late Mr. Joshua Abbot. The location was thought to be quite out of the way of business and of population. The superintendant in the building was Stuart J. Park, Esq., who afterwards built the State House. The prison was built entirely of granite, quarried from Rattlesnake Hill. The part which now forms the south wing, originally constructed, was seventy feet in length, thirty-six wide, and walls three feet in thickness : in this the prisoners were confined. There were in all thirty-six cells, the dimensions of which were eight feet by nine, with the excep- tion of six in the upper story, for the accommodation of the sick, &c., which were ten feet by seventeen. The yard was enclosed by a faced wall of granite, fourteen feet high, surrounded by a range of pickets ten feet in length. The first cost of the build- ing to the State, with the appurtenances, was about thirty-seven thousand dollars. It was completed in 1812. The first person committed to the prison was Jolin Drew, of Meredith, Strafford county. He was committed for horse-stealing, November 24, 1812, for five years ! The prison has since been greatly en- larged and improved. EXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRES. A committee, consisting of Thomas W. Thompson, Charles "Walker and Samuel Green, Esqrs., was appointed, March 9th, to report at the next meeting a " by-law for the extinguishment of fires ;" and one hundred dollars were voted to purchase '■^fire-liooks, and make the necessary repairs to the engine." This appears to have been the first step which the town took towards organizing an effective fire department. The committee, composed of able lawyers, drafted a by-law, which was approved and adopted by the town. It provided, (1,) for the appointment of a suitable number of fire-wards, who should have, for a distinguishing badge of their office, a staff", five feet long, painted red, and headed with a bright spire, six inches long — to be purchased at the expense of the town. (2.) They should have authority to require and demand assistance of any inhabitants of the town to extinguish fires ; direct their labors, suppress disorders, &c. (3.) To search and inspect houses, and places where danger 344 HISTORY OF CONCORD. was apprehended of fires; and to order the removal of com- bustibles, &c.* THE WAR OF 1812. Soon after the declaration of war, by Congress, against Eng- land, in 1812, Concord was selected as the place of rendezvous, both for soldiers destined for the defence of the northern frontiers and of the sea-coast. The large house built by PhiHp Carrigain, near the north end of Main street, about 1799, was occupied for barracks.f Gen. Aquila Davis, of Warner, had command of a regiment of volunteers for the northern army, of Avhich John Carter, of Concord, was lieutenant-colonel. About this time, or early in 1813, Joseph Low, of Amherst, came to Concord, holding a heutenant's commission in Capt. Benjamin Bradford's company, which marched to the frontiers. At the close of the campaign in 1813 Mr. Low had charge of the recruiting service here. He was also pay-master and quarter-master in the regi- ment to which he belonged. Lieut. Col. Darrington, a recruiting officer for the United States service, had barracks for his soldiers at the lower end of Main street, opposite the house of the late Dea. Willey. The whole number of soldiers who had their ren- dezvous in Concord in 1812 and 1813 was reckoned at about five hundred. At the annual town meeting in March, 1813, some of the vol- unteer soldiers attempted to vote contrary to the decision of the moderator. Col. Wilham A. Kent. The affair, which was at- tended with great excitement at the time, is thus referred to in the town records : " Voted, That the conduct of one McCoy, a volunteer in the service of the United States, and not belonging to this town, in attempting, yesterday, in defiance of the moderator of the meet- ing, to vote for State and County officers, deserves severe cen- sure ; but his act of collarmg the moderator while in the exercise of his official duty, we consider an outrage of the most destruc- tive character. " Voted, That the thanks of this meeting be given to William * See Town Records, 1813, p. 376 ; also, list of officers for 1812. tThe house is now owned by Robert E. Pecker and Jonathan E. Lang. SOLDIERS INTERFERING IN AN ELECTION. 345 A. Kent, Esq., the moderator, for his temperate, resolute and judicious conduct upon that occasion." To which vote the moderator made the following reply : " Fellow Citizens, — This expression of your approbation of my conduct, as presiding officer at the election of your State officei'S yes- terday, demands my grateful acknowledgment. " Aware of the responsibility attached to the office of moderator, and having intimation of the claiming that was intended by the sol- diers stationed in this town, calling themselves United States Volun- teers, to interfere in our election, I endeavored so to decide respect- ing their voting, as would, I hoped, satisfy every man who regarded the rights of the citizen. With this view I was led to extend the right of suffrage to what was, in my opinion, and that of many oth- ers, a doubtful case : — I mean, that of admitting the votes of those in the service of the United States who were inhabitants of this town at the time of their enlistment, and not yet departed from it. The arguments in favor of their admission were, that in consequence of the rendezvous being in Concord, they had not yet left their liahita- tions ; that some of them had families here ; and that they had paid taxes to the town for the year which had not yet expired. " Having no disposition to abridge the right of suffrage, I was wil- ling to give all possible weight to these considerations; and if I erred, that it should be in favor of that privilege. I therefore received their votes. Here I thought it my duty to stop. The soldiers from the barracks, who never were recognized as inhahitants, could not, in my view of the subject, be so considered, for the purpose of elect- ing or being elected into office. I was yesterday proceeding to state the grounds of my opinion on this subject; but meeting with inter- ruption, evidently intended to protract the meeting to a late hour, I determined to proceed no farther in that attempt, but to come at once to that ground which I determined to maintain at the hazard of my life. "I considieredi faithfulness no less a duty in a moderator than im- partiality. I viewed it as an important crisis, as it respected this town, and perhaps the State. This may be the place in which a standimj army shall first attempt to lay prostrate the rights and lib- erties of the citizen. I decided that these ballots should not be re- ceived in any way or manner. The insult offered to the town by the assault on its representative, I doubt not is duly felt by my fellow citizens; and I rejoice that notwithstanding the difference of opinion respecting our national politics, so many of those who differ from me on that part united in reprobating and resenting that indignit3\" The scarlet fever broke out among the soldiers early in March, 1813, which was very malignant and fatal. It spread also among the inhabitants. The whole number of cases was two hun- dred and forty-seven : of which, of inhabitants, ninety-three, and 346 HISTORY OF CONCORD. deaths six ; of regular soldiers, fortj-nine, and deaths seven ; of volunteers, one hundred, and deaths twenty-four.* For accommodation of sick soldiers, a building was erected, as a hospital, upon land owned by Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, west of the State Prison ; which was afterwards sold, and the proceeds ap- plied to liquidate the cost of building.f A Dr. Bartley, (proba- bly of Londonderry,) was engaged to aid in taking care of the sick inhabitants ; for whose compensation the town voted, " that the selectmen should collect what they could from the persons whom the doctor visited, and the remainder of his bill be paid out of any money belonging to the town." Of soldiers belono;ing to Concord who marched to the northern frontiers, the following were in Capt. Flanders' company, 45th regiment, of which Marshall Baker, of Concord was first lieu- tenant: Ebenezer Frye, James Emerson, John Uran, Daniel Arlin, Jonathan Uran, Jonathan B. Worth, Nathaniel Parker, James Elliot, Samuel Emerson. In the 4th regiment were John Elliot, Jonathan Uran, J John Dunlap, John Virgin, and James Dunlap, who died. James Elliot reenlisted in the fourth regiment ; Asa Hardy served in both the forty-fifth and fourth ; Jonathan Elliot was on *Tlio names of tlie soldiers who died of scarlet fever in this town, 1813, as recorded by tlie late Jolin Farmer, Esq., were — March 6. Joshua Belknap; " 16. Kendrick Houghton. " 17. John C. Bo}d. April 4. James Tangart, of Hillsborough. " 7. Samuel Davis, Chester. " 7. Bradbury M. Carr, Chester. " 9. Nathan gtearns, GotTstown. " 1.3. John Abbott, Warner. " 13. Elias Davis, Bow. •' 14. One Jones. " 15. Alexander Witherspoon, Bridgewater. " 16. Isaac Smith, Goshen. " 17. William Gage, Wendell. " 18. Ebenezer Woodburj', Dunbarton. " 18. Kobert Crawford, Bridgewater. " 18. " 19. W^hitney, Henniker. " 19. David Patch, New-Boston. '•■ 19. David Hart, Goftstown. jMr. Abbot bought the building, moved it onto Main street and fitted it up for a dwelling- house. It now forms a part of the house owned by Dea. James Moulton, on Washington street. X He served part of the time in the 4yth and part in the 4th regiment. PATRIOTIC MANIFESTATIONS. 347 the peace establishment, and died at Rock Island, in the Missis- sippi river, Illinois. Timothy Abbot, of Andover, was a Concord recruit.* In 1814, August 29th, the selectmen were authorized " to hire all soldiers which may be called for, in lieu of drafting." In March, 1815, they were directed to pay four dollars per month to each soldier detached for the defence of Portsmouth, in the service of the United States. As Portsmouth, the only sea-port in New-Hampshire, was in peculiar danger from armed vessels of the enemy, public attention was particularly directed to that quarter. For the names of the men from Concord, sta- tioned there in 1812, '13, '14, and '15, with their respective commanders, reference must be had to the documentary chapter.f Capt. Peter Robertson's volunteer company of artillery, that was in service twenty days, from September 10th to 29th, marched from Concord on the Sabbath, passing the old North Church, over Federal bridge, thence on the turnpike to Portsmouth. In this company were several highly respected citizens still living. But the spirit of patriotism was not confined to the men who actually marched to the field of danger. Venerable, aged men, some of whom had served in the War of the Revolution, who were exempted from active service, offered themselves for the defence of their country. Sometime in September, 1814, at the instance of John T. Oilman, the then Governor of New-Hampshire, a public call was made for volunteers of that class of citizens who were by law exempt from military duty, in the ranks of the militia, to form themselves into companies, for the purpose of home defence in case of necessity from invasion. Some of the most respectable citizens of Concord immediately responded to the call ; held a pub- lic meeting, and organized a company for that purpose, numbered the sixth company of volunteers. The officers chosen by the company were — Stephen Ambrose, Esq., captain ; Samuel Spar- hawk, Esq., 1st lieutenant, then Secretary of State; Nathan Ballard, Esq., 2d lieutenant ; Ezra Hutching, ensign ; MoseS Long, 1st sergeant, orderly and clerk ; G. W. Rogers, ex-cap- * Reminiscences of Lieut. Marshall Baker. See Baker family, in Genealogical Chapter. t Document No. 1, for Chapter XII. 348 HISTORY OF CONCORD. tain, 2d do. ; Samuel Davis, West Parish, ex-captain, 3d do. ; Samuel Runnels, 4tli do. Corporals not recollected. There were some over an hundred privates enrolled in the company, many of whom had held offices, both civil and military, as the secretary of the State and treasurer, seven justices of the peace, one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, one major, and nineteen captains. Quite a majority of the company were made up of some of the most respectable citizens and yeomanry of the town ; among whom may be recollected the elder Esq. Bradley, Esq. Charles Wa-lker, Wm. Stickney, inn-keeper, Capt. Richard Ayer, Major Timothy Chandler, Capt. Edmund Leavitt, Capt. Charles Eastman, Capt. Jacob Eastman, Jeremiah Pecker, Millen Kimball, Asa Kimball, Asa Graham,* &c., &c. The meeting preliminary to forming the above company was held September 10, at Stickney's hall ; Col. Wm. A. Kent, chairman ; Seth Tucker, clerk. A committee, consisting of Col. Wm. A. Kent, Stephen Ambrose, Jonathan Eastman, Isaac Dow, and John George, reported the following preamble and res- olution, which were adopted : " Whereas, in defence of our altars and fire-sides, our property and our country, Americans can have but one opinion : Resolved, That it is expedient to form a military association in the town of Concord, of such persons as are not enrolled in the militia, to be in readiness, at a moment's warning, to act under the direction of the Commander-in-Chief, for the defence of the State." Capt. Richard Ayer, Capt. John Eastman, Hon. Wm. A. Kent, Mr. Isaac Dow, Mr. Philbrick Bradley, Mr. Daniel Clark, Ballard Hazeltine, Esq., Mr. John Garvin, Capt. Samuel Run- nels, Nathan Ballard, jr., Timothy Carter, Esq., and Capt. Pearl Kimball, were appointed a committee to give information, and form a plan, &c., for the association, which was duly organ- ized. This company of venerable men, fully armed and equipped, paraded in town, October 1, and marched through Main street. " Their appearance was accompanied with the proud conviction * Reminiscence, by Dr. Moses Long, of Kochester, N. Y., who was clerk of the company. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 349 that this nation can never be conquered when such defenders shoulder the musket."* A squad, or small company of volunteers, was also formed in East Concord, in consequence of a rumor that the British in- tended to destroy the United States seventy-four gun ship Wash- ington, then on the stocks at Kittery, Maine. This company was also under drill by Dr. Moses Long, and consisted of about twenty men, of whom Gen. Isaac Eastman, Gen. Simeon Ste- vens and Col. Robert Ambrose, are recollected.f MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS. On Thursday evening, August 17th, 1809, at about half an hour before midnight, the inhabitants of the town were roused from sleep by the dismal cry of '''■fire! fire!''^ supposed to have originated from the heat of an air furnace or forge in the clock manufactory of Major Timothy Chandler. The manufactory, with all its contents, house, barn, (full of hay,) &c., sheds, and other buildings belonging to Maj. Chandler, with two large barns of hay, belonging to Robert Harris, Esq., were consumed. Maj. Chandler's loss was estimated at $5.000 ; for his relief $1,200 were generously subscribed by inhabitants of the town and of the vicinity. Mr. Harris's loss was about $1000. MAD DOG. A dog, belonging to Mr. Charles Emery, supposed to be mad, bit a number of other dogs, and snapped at several persons. He was immediately killed. J Died in this town, January 16, 1810, Henry, the only son of Mr. Henry Chandler, aged about nine years. At his funeral the scholars of the fifth school district, of which the deceased was a member, being clad in mourning, formed a procession, walked to the house, preceded by Peter C. Farnum, Esq., preceptor of the * JV. H. Patriot, October 4, 1814. t Dr- Long. J Patriot, August 29, 1809. 350 HISTORY OF CONCORD. school, and attended the funeral. The regularity and decorum of these youths reflected credit on themselves and their in- structor. Mr. Abraham Osgood, who lived in school district number four- teen, came to his death by a wound received from a mill -saw.* He was sitting on the log, in meditation, and was imperceptibly drawn so near to the saw that it caught him, and before he could extricate himself was mortally wounded — deep incisions being made in his side through the ribs, into his abdomen. With great strength and firm nerve he turned the saw some inches from its course ; shut down the gate, and walked a few rods to a near house, from which he was borne on a litter to his home, and in about three weeks died, aged forty-four. Several creatures which were bitten by a mad dog in the month of April died about three weeks afterwards, exhibiting all the symptoms of canine madness. EXTRAORDINARY CALF. A cow belonging to Mr. Abner Farnum, jr, of this town, last week brought two calves, one of which had two perfect heads, with two back bones running parallel to each other — two perfect intestines — two hearts, &c., with only four legs. Its body was about the size of a common calf at a month old. The other calf was of perfect shape and the common size — both hved for a short time.f The tannery of Mr. Abner Farnum, jr., of Concord, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday, 27th February, 1811. Married in this town, Mr. Ubenezer Ball to Miss Nancy Cu- more. When Cupid M'ith his fiery dart Had pierc'd this maiden to the heart, — The most extra'rdinary thing of all, She's not afraid to face a Ball. J. W.J Married in this town, Mr. Robert Ambrose to Mrs. Cleasby, the ages of both (79 and 67) make 146 years. One great-grand- daughter, 18 years of age, attended the wedding.§ * The date is not certainly known, but sometime in 1810. Tlie occurrence took place aJ " Lovejoy's Mills," so called. Mr. O. was born in Salisbury, Mass. t Palriot, January 22, 1811. % lb., March 2G, 1811. $/*., April 12, 1811. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 351 Capt. John Roche, or Iioach, died in this town May 11, 1811, aged 74. He was a native of Cork, Ireland, and came to Con- cord during the Revolutionary \Yar, about 1778. The tradition is that Capt. Roach was the master of a vessel engaged in the fur trade .Having loaded at Quebec for London, he most unaccount- ably got out of his latitude and made Portsmouth harbor, where he disposed of his furs on his own account ! He afterwards mar- ried Major Robert Rogers'* wife, [who was divorced from her husband,] whose maiden name was Elizabeth Furness, of Ports- mouth.! Moving to Concord, he settled on the farm lately owned by Gov. Isaac Hill. The house where he lived is still standing — known as the " Rogers House." Many anecdotes are related of Capt. Roach, which, as they illustrate vices rather than virtues of character, may be passed over. He was, however, a regular customer at Mother Osgood's tavern and at the store kept by John Stevens. The story is told that he often bought New-Eng- land rum in a wooden bottle or small keg ; but sometimes a trick would be played upon him, by taking out the stopple, or boring the bottle with a gimblet, in which cases the Captain would dis- charge a volley of oaths ! Benjamin Hanniford died on the 6th of May, and was interred on the 9th in the Friends' Burying Ground. CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE JULY 4, 1811. The anniversary of American Independence was celebrated in Concord by the republican citizens of this and the adjoining towns, those of Amherst and Wilton, and by other gentlemen from various parts, with greater splendor, dignity and hilarity, than had been witnessed on any former occasion in this State. At the dawn of the morning a salute of eighteen guns was fired from the Artillery, stationed near Capt. Solomon Mann's, which was answered by an equal number from the ship President, lying at anchor near Concord Bridge. At ten o'clock an immense collection of republicans met in convention at Capt. Mann's, and * The spy-glass used by Maj. Rogers in the French War, is now in possession of Mr. Charles Hutchins, of Concord. t Related by Hon. C. E. Potter. 352 HISTORY OF CONCORD. chose Hon. Timothy Walker president of the day, with other officers. A procession was formed, the centre of which was opposite Major Timothy Chandler's, which, at a signal gun from the ship President, moved to the meeting-house, where prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. Ruter, of Northfield. The Declaration of In- dependence was read, and an oration delivered by Charles G. Haines, Esq., of Canterbury. At the close of the exercises at the meeting-house the proces- sion marched to the bower appointed for the entertainment ; but on the way a naval battle was fought between the ship President and His Majesty's sloop of war, the Little Belt, of which we have the following notice : " SHIPPING MEMORANDA." " Interesting interior Ship News. The United States frig- ate President, sailing with four wheels on dry land, emblematic pi our dry dock policy, and mounting one iron and twelve wooden swiv- els, while passing Horse Shoe Pond, near Concord, N. H., the 4th inst., fired upon the British sloop-of-war Little Belt, (an old canoe, or rather, a hollow log, each end being well secured with mud to keep it from sinking,) and, shocking to tell, made such havoc and confu- sion among the musquetos, that she struck her colors and surrendered at discretion." After this glorious victory the President hauled her wind, tacked to the southward and came in under an easy sail to the bank of the bower — east of Mr. Mann's tavern — for the enter- tainment prepared ; where, after a grand salute of eighteen guns, which was answered by an equal number from the artillery, and three cheers from her crew, which were responded to by the spectators, she dropped her anchors. After dinner toasts were drank, with appropriate music, amid the thunder of artillery. The following volunteer toast was offered by Timothy Dix, Esq., father of Hon. John A. DLx, of New- York : " God guard our President from harm, Long may he weather out the storm ; Long may he live to queU his foes, And hold the Essex Junto by the nose." INTERESTING INCIDENTS. OOd About four hundred dollars in money and produce were sub- scribed by the citizens of Concord, for the relief of sufferers by fire in Newburyport, Mass. POST rider's NOTICE. ''LoohYe! " From Concord to "Wal'pole through Charlestown, I say, I Iiavc rode through the mud and the dust of the day : — I have met with the showers and the shines in their turn, And sometimes a storm whieh would cause me to mourn — To bring you the news ! "And now, my good patrons, let us square our newspaper accounts — you with me, and I with the printers, on the first week of Octo- l>er next. Joseph Smith. September 10, 1811." Capt. Charles Emery, who died October 10, 1811, aged thirty- one years, was interred with mihtary honors, attended by a very numerous and respectable concourse ; nearly four hundred of whom followed his remains to " the house appointed for all living." Died suddenly in this town, December 28, 1811, (at Mrs. Duncan's,) Hannah Shapley, aged eleven years. Her death was occasioned by a fall — her head striking the door-step before her body reached the ground. The neck was so injured that she expired immediately. On Saturday morning, February 15, 1812, a fire broke out in the building occupied by Messrs. Mann & Robertson, traders, and Capt. George "W. Rogers, cabinet-maker, which stood on the spot where Mr. Richard Herbert now lives. The shavings and other combustible materials soon enveloped the upper part of the build- ing inflames, and it was consumed. The fire greatly endangered the " Upper Bank," which, however, was preserved by the sjDir- ited exertions of the citizens, with the help of Concord engine No. 1 — the only fire engine then in town. The bank vault was then in a small building adjoining the house now owned by Rev. Dr. Bouton, and the north room of said house was the office of the Cashier and Directors. The house was entirely cleared — the windows and doors taken out, in the expectation that its 23 354 HISTORY OF CONCORD. destruction was inevitable. The contents of the vault were also removed to a place of safety. COLD WINTER. We believe there has not been within the recollection of the oldest inhabitants a winter in which the cold has been so severe and of such long continuance. Even now the sleighing is good in the interior of the State, and the Merrimack is in most places passable on the ice.* About one hundred feet of Concord bridge was carried away by the ice, Sunday morning, April 12th. Mr. Stephen Swett, of the U. S. army, was drowned in the Merrimack river, July — , supposed to have entered in, in a deranged state. He leaves a wife and several children in Andover. In March, 1813, a mail commenced running between Concord and Amherst, through Dunbarton, Bedford and Goffstown. CONCORD PRICE-CURRENT IN TIME OF THE WAR — 1813. Corn, $1,121 to $1,33; rye, $1,33; wheat, $2,00; oats, 50 cents per bushel. Veal, 4 to 6 cents per pound ; butter — very scarce — 20 cents per pound. A child of Mr. Ephraim Farnum was killed by the falling of stones from a wall.f On the 3d of September, 1813, Joseph, son of Mr. Joseph Wheat, of Concord, was drowned in Merrimack river. A society was formed in Concord this year, "/or discounte- nancing vice and immorality, ^^ of which Rev. Asa McFarland was president, and George Hough secretary. In December a petition was forwarded to Congress, praying that restrictions might be laid upon " the distillation of bread-stuflfs into ardent spirits," as a means of remedy for the exhorbitant price of pro- visions, and to check the growing evil of intemperance. In January, 1814, the members of " the Concord Female Charitable Society," with other ladies of Concord, raised and transmitted the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars and • Patriot, March 31, 1812, f lb; J"'/ Cth. TOWN OFFICERS. 355 seventy-seven cents to Portsmouth, to be distributed among the women and children who are sufferers by the late calamitous fire in that place. In 1814 a bounty of one hundred and twenty-four dollars was offered to soldiers who should enlist in the United States service, one hundred and sixty acres of land, and eight dollars per month, with rations and clothing. Master Francis Thompson, son of Hon. Thomas W. Thompson, aged ten years, was drowned in Merrimack river, on Wednesday evening, June 22, 1814, while bathing. He was accompanied by Hamilton Hutchins, John B. Chandler, and Artemas David- son. The place where the occurrence took place was then known as Sandy Point, — the bend in the river about a mile south-east of the State House. The companions of Thompson were terri- fied, ran home so soon as they saw what had happened, and gave no alarm. In the night, Hutchins being aroused from sleep, and enquired of what had become of Thompson, said, " he is in the river." A resolve passed the Legislature of New-Hampshire in June, 1814, authorizing the Directors of the State Prison to request the Rev. Dr. McFarland to attend prayer with the convicts on the Lord's day, and furnish each occupied cell of the prison with a Bible and Hymn book. LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS, REPRESENTATIVES, DELEGATES AND JURORS, FROM 1805 TO 1815. March 12, 1805, March 11, 1806. Moderator, .... Jonathan Wilkins, Esq. . . Timothy Walker, Esq. Clerk, John Odlin. . . ( Jonathan Wilkins, Selectmen, . . . . < John West, . ( Amos Abbot, Jr. i Jeremiah Virgin, Constables and Collect'rs, } Richard Herbert, Jr.j I Eliphalet Emery, m .1 . I Abel Hutchins, . Tythngmen, . . • | peter Swan. . John Odlin. Ebenezer Dustin, Enoch Coffin, Edmund Leavitt. Timothy Carter, Peter Robertson, Isaac Emery. Edmund Leavitt, Samuel Davis. 366 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Surteijors of Highways, Hogreeves, Surveyors of Lumber, Pound-keepers, . Representative, . Grand Juror, . Petit Jurors, Corders of Wood, Cidlers of Staves, Sealer of Leather, . . David Hall. . Sealer of Wts.and3Ieas.,Da\id Hall. . Asa Graham, Reuben Goodwin, Anthony Potter, Charles Eastman, Joseph Knowles, Enoch Coffin, . Timothy Chandler, Jonathan Wilkins, Asa Abbot, . Joseph Dow, John Garvin, Ballard Hazeltine, Joseph Elliot, Jr., Moses Abbot, . Moses Swett, Isaac Dimond, . ' Benjamin Kimball, Richard Herbert, Jr., Fence-viewers, . . . ■{ Capt. Richard Ayer, Jacob Eastman, Daniel Kendall. James Willey, .... Field-drivers, . . . \ Jeremiah Pecker, Paul Rolfe, ^ Josiah Whidden. ' Timothy Butters, . John Stevens, . Timothy Walker, Jr., Joseph Cutchins, . James Moultou, Daniel Virgin, . . David Goodwin, James Buswell, Daniel Kendall, Benjamin Simpson, William Garvin, Eben Tenney, Abner Dimond. ' Samuel Gains, Jacob Eastman, Abel Baker, Asa Herrick, John Kimliall, . John Thompson, . Chandler Lovejoy, . [ Abiel Virgin. . ( David George, . ( Charles Eastman. . William A. Kent. . Richard H. Ayer. . ( Capt. Richard Ayer, ( Stephen Ambrose, Esq (Charles Emery, Stephen Ambrose, . James Willey, . John Thorndike. {James Moulton, Sargent Rogers, Samuel Gains, Daniel Newell, Richard Wood. David Hall. David Hall. Joseph Walker, Abel Hutchins, Samuel Butters, Jeremiah Virgin, Nathaniel Ambrose, Moses Gale, Mellcn Kimball, Moses I'arnum, Jonathan Johnson, Joseph Elliot, Jr., Israel Dimond, Moses Hall, Jesse Baker, Reuben Abbot, Jr., Benjamin Wheeler, John Garvin, Peter C. Farnum. John West, Edmund Lcavitt, William Wheeler. David George. Samuel Willey, Benjamin Paine, Daniel Virgin, John Elliot, Jr., Samuel Dow, John Batchelder, Benjamin Abbot, Jr., William Garvin, George Arlin, Stephen Chase, Moses Carter, Jr. 'Daniel Kendall, Sargent Rogers, Samuel Gains, Abiel Virgin, George W. Rogers, Daniel Newell, Abel Bakei", Jacob Hoit, Moody Dow. David George, Jr., Charles Eastman. Samuel Green, Esq. Capt. Sherb'neWiggin. Ens. Jonathan Virgin, Daniel Kendall. James Willey, John Thorndike, Stephen Ambrose. John Thompson, Henry Moulton. TOWN OFFICERS. 357 I John Eoach, ..... Capt. Ayer, Auditors, . . . . ' Benjamin Emery, .... Ca]it. Emery, 1 Paul Kolfe Maj. Chandler. Mardi 10, 1807. March 8, 1808. Moderator, .... Timothy Walker, Esq. . . Timothy Walker, Esq. Clerk, John Odlin John Odlin. ( Ebenezcr Dustin, .... Enoch Coffin, Selectmen, . . . . < Enoch Coffin, Samuel Butters, ( Edmund Leavitt Timothy Carter. 1 Timothy Carter, .... Samuel Davis, Constables and Collect' rs, ■ Joshua Abbot, Jr., .... Moses Ayer, 1 Eliphalet Emery Timothy Bradley. 1 Ebenezer Dustin, . • . . Nathan Ballard, Jr., Tythingmen, . . Enoch Coffin, Ephraim Carter, i Edmund Leavitt Levi Abbot. Sealer of Leather, . . David Hall. Sealer of Wts. and Meas., David Hall Timothy Chandler. Abel Hutchins, Timothy Chandler, Timothy Butters, .... Timotliy Butters, Levi Abbot, Daniel Kendall, Zonas Wheeler, .... Israel Dimond, Stephen Webster, Jr., . Ephraim Farnum, Jr., Abiel Walker, Moody Dow, Isaac Dow,* Thomas Abbot, Ephraim Colby, . . . . Enoch Hoit, Surveyors of HigJiways, ■ Enoch Farnum, . . . . Enoch Bi-own, Heniy IMartin, Jr., . . . . Stephen Ambrose, Joseiih Elliot, Jr., . . . . Nathaniel Ambrose, Jacob Eastman, . . . . Ebenezer Tenney, John Lovcjoy, Jolm Thompson, Aljiel Eastman, . . . . Joseph Morse, t William Hoit, Peter Farnum, John Garvin, Moses Carter, Zel>ediah Farnum Joshua Abbot, Jr. ' Joseph Walker Paul Rolfe, John Thorndike, . . . . John Thorndike, Fence-viewers, . . . ■ Stephen Ambrose, .... Enoch Coffin, John Thompson, . . . . Isaac Dow, Timothy Bradley, . . . . Timothy Bradley. Ballard Hazeltine. Abiel Walker Jonathan Perkins, . Isaac Shute, .... Isaac Eastman, .... David Gai-vin, . . . . ■ Abel Baker, .... Joseph Colby, Jr., . John Odlin, Bowen Crehore, Abner Farnum, Jr., Eofjreeves, Timothy Butters, Chandler Eastman, Simeon Virgin, James Moutton, Peter Flanders, Benjamin Emery, Jr., . Abel Clough Timothy Dow, David Kimball. ■ George W. Rogers, Sargent Rogers, Sargent Rogers, .... George W. Rogers, Samuel Gains, James Willey, Sm-veyors of Lumber, . ■ Abiel Virgin, Joseph Dow, Abiel Virgin, Abel Baker, John Lovejoy, Samuel Davis, Abel Baker, Daniel Newell. Jacob Eastman, Daniel Newel Pound-keepers, . David George, Jr., David George, Charles Eastman James Moulton. Representative, . Samuel Green, Esq., . Samuel Green, Esq. Grand Juror, . Capt. Sherburne Wiggin. . Capt. Richard Ayer. ♦ Excused. Moses Farnum substitute. 358 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Petit Jurors, . Carders of Wood, Hay-ward, . Cullers of Staves, Auditors, Fire-wards, . ( Capt. Jacob Eastman, I Richard H. Ayer. ' Charles Emery, John Thorndike, James Willey, . Obadiah Kimball, Sargent Rogers. ( James Moulton, ( William Garvin. Paul Rolfe, . . Benjamin Emery, Jonathan Wilkins. Benjamin Kimball, Nathaniel Abbot, Sargent Rogers, Timothy Chandler, ^ Paul Rolfe. March 14, 1809. Moderator, .... William A. Kent. Clerk, John Odlin. . ( John Odlin, . Selectmen, . . . . ) Amos Abbot, Jr., ( Nathaniel Abbot. Levi Bartlett, . James Buswell, John Bradley, Jr. Abiel Walker. . Jr., Constables and Collect' rs, Sealer of Leather, . . Sealer of Wis. and Meas., Timothy Chandler. ' Moses Carter, . Daniel Hall, . Stephen Webster, Timothy Butters, Peter Robertson, Nathan Stickney, Isaac Dow, . Samuel Davis, Timothy Dow, Ezra Elliot, . Moody Dow, Christopher Rowell John Garvin, Jeremiah Pecker, Nathaniel Ambrose, Jonathan Virgin, Asa Kimball. Surveyors of Highways, Surveyors of Lumber, Field-drivers, ■ John Ladd, . . James Willey, . Abel Baker, . Moody Dow, Peter C. Farnum, Ezra Hutchins, . Abiel Virgin, John Lovejoy, . George W. Rogers John Thompson, Josiah Rogers. Jr » Collector. Timothy Chandler, Peter Robertson. Sargent Rogers, Charles Emery, James Willey, Jonathan Eastman, Jr. Isaac Eastman. Sherburne Wiggin. ■ James Moulton, Joseph Runnels, ' Nathan Ballard. ' Benjamin Emery, Paul Rolfe, Stephen Ambrose. Timothy Chandler, Joseph Walker, Paul Rolfe. March 13, 1810. William A. Kent. John Odlin. Nathaniel Abbot, Edmund Leavitt, Sherburne Wiggin. Charles Emery,* Reuben Goodwin, James Buswell. David Hall. Timothy Chandler. John Corliss, Nathaniel Bradley, Ezra Hutchins, Timothy Hazeltine, Abel Hutchins, Eliphalet Emery, Timothy Walker, Jr. Joseph Elliot, Jr., David Carter, Benjamin Simpson, Moses Abbot, Laban Page, Isaac Farnum, John Garvin, Jeremiah Pecker, Timothy Bradley, Moses Kimball, Jonathan Virgin, Daniel Virgin. " Josiah Rogers, Porter Blanchard, Abiel Virgin, John Thompson, John Lovejoy, Abel Baker, Peter Farnum, Benjamin Swain, George W. Rogers, James Willey. Reuben Goodwin. Charles Emery, John Colby. TOWN OFFICERS. 359 Fence-viewers, Hogreeves, Pound-keepers, . Representative, . Grand Juror, . Petit Jurors, . Carders of Wood, . Culler of Staves, . Auditors of Accounts, Fire-wards, (John Colby, Peter C. Farnum, Stephen Ambrose, Richard Herbert, Jr f Seth Tucker, . Samuel Green, . Nathaniel Bradley, Samuel Currier, Joshua Abbot, Jr., Samuel Butters, Moses Elliot, Isaac Emerson, James Elliot, . John Bradley, Jr., Chandler Eastman, Jonathan Goodwin, William Hoit, Moses Kimball. (Joseph Walker, I James Moulton. Stephen Ambrose. . Capt. Richard Ayer. ( Jonathan Wilkins, I Capt. Peter Robertson. ' James Willey, . David George, . George Hough, . Isaac Dow, . . . . Isaac Eastman, . ^^Josiah Rogers. . r James Moulton, \ James Willey, . [ Joseph Runnels. ( Capt. Edmund Leavitt, } Joseph Walker, ( Richard Ayer. . Capt. Richard Ayer, Timothy Bradley, Abicl Walker, Timothy Butters, Jeremiah Chandler. William Shute, Benjamin Powell, Asaph Evans, Daniel Greenleaf, Samuel Kimball, David Davis, John Hoit, James Moulton, William Garvin, Philbrick Bradley, John H. Durgin. Joseph Walker, James Moulton. Stephen Ambrose. Timothy Chandler, Abel Hutchins, . Stephen Ambrose, . Paul Rolfe, . . . Abiel Walker. . March 19-13, 1811. Moderator, .... Richard Ayer. . Clerk, John Odlin. ( Nathaniel Abbot, . Selectmen, . . . . } Edmund Leavitt, . ( Abiel Walker. . ( Nathan Stickney, Constables, . . . . } Josiah Rogers, ( Nathaniel Ambrose. Collector, .... Nathan Stickney. Constables and Collect'rs, James Willey, George Hough, John West, Jr., John George, Francis N. Fisk, Edmund Leavitt. James Moulton, Joseph Runnels, Richard Wood. Capt. Richard Ayer, Capt. Benja. Emery, Jeremiah Pecker. Timothy Chandler, Josiah Rogers, Aliiel Walker, Paul Rolfe, Stephen Ambrose, George W. Rogers. March 9, 1812. William A. Kent. John Odlin. Nathaniel Abbot, Amos Abbot, Jr., Abiel Walker. rr, ^1 ■ { Thomas W. Thompson, Tythngmen, . . • | Arthur Rogers. . . . Sealer of Wts. and Meas., Timothy Chandler. ( Nathaniel G. Bradley, Field-drivers, . . . < Timothy Bradley, Jr., ( Benjamin Kimball. f Moses Flanders, Moses Ferrin, Richard Bradley, Edmund Leavitt. . Thomas Abbot, . Moses Abbot, Jr. . Timothy Chandler. 360 Surveijors of Highways, Fence-viewers, Hogreeves, Surveyors of Lumber, . Pound-keepers, . Representatives, Grand Juror, . Petit Jurors, Corders of Wood, . Cullers of Staves, . HISTORY OF CONCORD. " Jonathan "Wilkins, James Ayer, Samuel Herbert, James Corliss, . William Shute, Ezra Hutchins, Abner Farnum, Jr., Joseph Dow, Timothy Carter, Joseph Hoit, Abel Baker, Samuel Davis, . Isaae Farnum, . Charles Eastman, Timothy Bradley, Joseph Potter, . Jonathan Virgin, John Garvin, Benjamin Kimball, ! Peter C. Farnum, Jeremiah Pecker, William Sticlaiey. ' Asaph Evans, . Benjamin Damon, David Davis, Moses Ferrin, . James Moulton, William Tay, . Keyes Powell, . John Ballard, . Jeremiah Chandler, Samuel E. Scales, Timothy Bradley, Oliver Hoit. James Willey, . George W. Rogers, Josiaii Rogers, . Edmund Leavitt, Isaac Dow. . I Joseph Walker, [ James Moulton. i Stephen Ambrose, . [ Thomas W. Thompson. Benjamin Kimball, Jr. ' Richard Ayer,* [ William Austin, ' Stephen Ambrose. ■ Charles Emery, James Willey, . - Isaac Dow, .... Josiah Rogers, . Edmund Leavitt. . James Moulton, Joseph Runnells, . James Willey. . * Excused. ■ Moses Carter, Moses Hall, Ezra Hutchins, Timothy Butters, Abel Hutchins, William Garvin, Orlando Brown. Timothy Carter, Daniel Fisk, Samuel Davis, Ephraim Colby, Samuel Runnels, Marshall Baker, Charles Eastman, Mellen Kimball, Nathaniel Ambrose, Hazen Virgin, Benjamin Kimball, Samuel Trumble, Henry Rolfe, [ Richard Bradley. , John Thorndike, . Jacob Eastman, . John Ballard. . Samuel Willey, . Thomas Wilson, Jr., . Benjamin Kimball, Jr. . Bela Carter, . Keyes Powell, . Orlando Brown, . James Moulton, . Jonathan Abbot, Jr., . Ezra Hoit, . Timothy Bradley. Samuel Butters, Jr., George W. Rogers, Abiel Virgin, Nathaniel Bradley, Moses Ferrin, Joseph Runnels, Abel Baker, Jr., Hazen Virgin, Stephen Webster, John Thompson. . James Moulton, . Joseph Walker. . Stephen Ambrose, . Tho's W. Thompson. . Edmund Leavitt. . Joshua Abbot, Jr., . John Eastman. John George, Asaph E vans, George Hough, Isaac Dow, Stephen Ambrose, ^ Abel Houghton. ' Samuel Butters, Joseph Runnells, James Moulton, George W. Rogers, Stephen Chase. TOWN OFFICERS. 361 Auditors, William A. Kent, . Sherburne Wiggin, Charles Emery. Fire-wards ' Josiah Kogers, . Timothy Chandler, George W. Eogers, Benjamin Kimball, Jr., Stephen Ambrose, . Isaac Dow, . . . . Ezra Hutchins. . March 9-10, 1813. Moderator, .... William Austin Kent. Clerk, John Odlin. . ( Nathaniel Abbot, Selectmen, . . . . ) John Odlin, . ( Amos Abbot. Josiah Rogers, Constables, Richard Bradley, - Isaac Eastman, . Orlando Brown, Benjamin Abbot, 3d ( 0. Brown, . ) J. Eastman, . ( B. Abbot, 3d. ( James Corliss, \ Thomas Abbot. Collectors, . Tythingmen, Sealer of Wis. and Meas.^^ Timothy Chandler, ■ William Abbot, James Hall, Ezra Hutchins, . Nathan Abbot, 3d, Henry Rolfe, Enoch Brown, . Abel Hutchins, . Oi-lando Brown, Enoch Hoit, Benjamin Kimball, Surveyors of Highways, j IZf-^o'.^ ' Christopher Rowell Ebenezer Fisk, . Isaac Emerson, . John Garvin, Charles Eastman, Anthony Potter, Nathaniel Ambrose Jacob Hoit, . Samuel Kimball, Benjamin Kimball. Fence-viewers, . Pound-keepers, . ( John Thorndike, } Benjamin Emery, Jr ( Moses Ferrin. . ( Joseph Walker, \ James Moulton, Enoch Coffin, Charles Walker, Tho's W. Thompson. Josiah Rogers, George W. Rogers, Seth Tucker, Abicl Walker, Peter Robertson, Asaph Evans, - Benjamin Kiml)all, Jr., Chandler Eastman. Jeremiali Pecker, Isaac Dow, Orlando Brown, Ezra Hutchins, Daniel Clark. March 8, 1814. Thos. W. Thompson. John Odlin. Nathaniel Abbot, Nathaniel Ambrose, Nathan Stickney. Timothy Bradley, Benjamin Emery, Bel a Carter, Joshua Abbot, Jr., Orlando Brown. T. Bradley, B. Emery, B. Carter. Nathan Ballard, Jr., George W. Rogers. Timothy Chandler. Isaac Shute, Josiah Rogers, Benjamin Wheeler, Richard Trow, Ezra Hutchins, Jere'h Pecker, Reuben Goodwin, Hosea Virgin, Abiel Eastman, Nathaniel Abbot, Moses Harriman, Nathan Abbot, Jonathan Elliot, Joseph Knowles, Samuel Abbot, Benjamin lumbal!. John Thompson, Samuel Davis, Joseph Runnells, James Hoit, Isaac Farnum. ' Ephraim Carter, John Thorndike, Chandler Eastman, Samuel Bradlev, Abiel Walker. ' ■ Abiel Walker, Charles Eastman 362 fflSTORY OF CONCORD. Hogreeves, Surveyors of Lumber, Representatives, Grand Jurors, . Petit Jurors, . Corders of Wood, . Cullers of Staves, . Auditors, | . . . Fire-wards, . Timothy Butters, . . Moses Hall, Levi Abbot, Moses Shute, Daniel Coolido;e, . Benjamin Emery, . . Francis N. Fisk, . . John Flanders, . Abel Baker, . . . Reuben Johnson, . Jonathan Runnells, Benjamin Elliot, Benjamin Kimball, 3d, James Moulton, Robert Adams, Isaac Virgin, Hazen Virgin, Eben'r Lovejoy Dudley Ladd. Josiah Rogers, . George W. Rogers, Chandler Eastman, Moses Ferrin, . Abiel Virgin, . Stephen Webster, Samuel Davis, . Abel Baker, Jr., Samuel Butters, Benjamin Swain, John Lovejoy. . ( Stephen Ambrose, I Thomas W. Thompson. James Willey, . John George, Stephen Ambrose, I 0. Brown, . I Samuel Bradley, [ Abel Houghton. James Moulton, Stephen Chase, Samuel Butters, Joshua Abbot, Jr , Joseph Runnells. ( Timothy Chandler, ) John Thorndike, / Seth Tucker. . Josiah Rogers, . James Willey, . Timothy Chandler, Seth Tucker, . . George W. Rogers, Benjamin Kimball, Jr ■ Abicl Walker, . Orlando Brown, Isaac Dow, . Stephen Ambrose, Jeremiah Pecker, Ezra Hutchins. . James Willey, Isaac Hill, James Buswell, Charles Eastman, Chandler Lovejoy, Asa Graham, Thomas Potter, Timothy Abbot, Jr., Joseph Runnells, Jedediah Hoit, Robert Knowlton, Richard Trow, Isaac Colby, Bowen Crehore. ' Abiel Virgin, Nathaniel G. Bradley, Joseph Dow, Moses Bullen, Stephen Webster, Robert Davis, Jr., Nathan Abbot, 3d, John Lovejoy, Benjamin Swain, Moses Ferrin, Abel Baker, Bowen Crehore. Thos. W. Thompson, Richard Ayer. ( Enoch Coffin, ) Abiel Walker, f William Low. Nathaniel Abbot, B. Hazeltine, " F. N. Fisk, Asaph Evans. ' Daniel Cooledge, George W. Rogers, Isaac Dow, John George, Stephen Ambrose, Edmund Leavitt, _ Asaph Evans. Joseph Runnells, Stephen Chase, Samuel Butters, Samuel Bradley, Moses Ferrin. William A. Kent. Stephen Ambrose, Timothy Chandler. Abiel Walker, George W. Rogers, Josiah Rogers, James Hall, Isaac Dow, Nathan Stickney, Jeremiah Pecker, Timothy Chandler, Isaac Shute, Orlando Brown, Stephen Ambrose, Pearl Kimball. CHAPTER XIII. HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1815 TO 1825. At the annual meeting in March, 1815, the town voted " That the intermission be one hour through the year, except Commun- ion day, and on those days one hour and a half." On the 23d of September a violent gale swept over this town, and indeed over the greater part of New-England, which did immense damage to buildings, fences, and especially to wood-lands. Hence at a meeting January 1, 181 G, Richard Bradley, one of the selectmen, was appointed " agent in behalf of the town, to dispose of the wood and timber blown down on the eighty acre lot belonging to the parsonage, and that the net proceeds of the sale be given to the Rev. Asa McFarland." Mr. Bradley was also appointed agent to sell the wood and timber at the Rocky Pond, so called, that is now blown down on the land belonging to the town, and all the wood and timber blown down on any other lands owned by the town. Abiel Walker was appointed " assist- ant agent" for the same purpose. 1816. This year the building of the State House was begun. A spirited competition arose between the North and South End, as to where the house should be located. The North End inhabit- ants were in favor of the location where the old town-house stands, or further west, on land owned by the late William Stick- ney. At the annual meeting, March 12th, it was voted, " That 364 HISTORY OF CONCORD. the town-house may be removed, if the Legislature should want to make use of the land for a State House, on which said house stands." The conditions on which the State House might be located in Concord, as proposed by the Legislature, were, " That said town of Concord, or inhabitants of said town, shall convey to the State of New-Hampshire a suitable piece of ground on which to erect said State House, to the acceptance of his Excellency the Gov- ernor and Honorable Council aforesaid — shall level and well prepare said piece of ground, to the acceptance of the committee to superintend the building aforesaid — shall also give all the stone necessary to be used in the erection of said building, and shall convey or have conveyed said stone, under the direction of said committee, to the place or plot of ground upon which said State House shall be erected ; which condition shall be perform- ed free of any charge or expense to the State," The inhabitants of the South End were in favor of the loca- tion at or near where the State House now stands. Especially interested and active in securing their object were the late Col. William A. Kent, Gov. Isaac Hill, and William Low. Li exam- ining the two locations it appears that a committee of the Legis- lature had reported favorably of that on Stickney's land, but the decision of the question was left with the Governor and Council. In order to fulfil the conditions, subscriptions were started at both the North and South End ; the latter soon amounted to about four thousand dollars ; and tradition says, that in the mean time the most urgent and favorable considerations were presented to Governor William Plumer by those in the South End interest. The Governor had formerly boarded at the North End, with Fran- cis N. risk, Esq., but this year he boarded with Mr. Hill, and both personal and political considerations were brought to bear on the question. The arguments for and against the respective locations in dispute were : That Stickney's land was dry, elevated and airy ; a building erected thereon could be seen far and wide ; it was near the Town House, where the Legislature had been accustomed to meet, and had been recommended by a committee of that body. The other location was said to be more central, and less difficult of access : to which it was objected that it was ERECTION OF THE STATE HOUSE. 365 low and wet, and contemptuously it was called a "frog-pond," out of which a member facetiously remarked, " that the frogs would peep up, and with their croakings interrupt the debates of the House !" — That the expense of laying a foundation in such a spot would swell the cost far beyond the estimate ; and, in fact, that the people at the South End had no just claim whatever to put in, in opposition to the location on Stickney's land. Tra- dition further says, that the Governor and Council were as much divided in their opinions on the subject as the people of the respective sections. Two of the Council, Gen. Benjamin Pierce and Samuel Quarles, boarded with the late John George, and were decidedly in favor of the Stickney location — indeed, a majority of the Council were in favor of the latter spot. A day was fixed on to decide the question ; — but, it happened, that just at that juncture one member of the Council, who was in favor of the north end location, was called away on special business, and before his return the Governor called the Council together, and decided the question in favor of the South End. Thus saith tradition. The lot on which the State House is erected, containing about two acres, formerly belonged to the estate of Peter Green, Esq. On the north-east part of it stood the house of Capt. Peter Rob- ertson, which house was sold to Mr. William Kent, and moved to Pleasant street, where it still stands. The entire lot was pur- chased and presented to the State, agreeably to the conditions specified. Mr. Stuart J. Park* was chief architect, assisted by Mr. Levi Brigham.f Messrs. Albe Cady, WilUam Low and Jeremiah Pecker, of Concord, were the superintending building committee. * Stuart J. Pahk. The parents of Mr. Park were natives of Scotland, and came to this country in 1767. His father was a stone mason, and the first here who practiced splitting stone with a wedge. Mr. Park possessed unusual mechanical genius. He was the overseer or contractor of the following structures: overseer in the work of building a jail in Portland, 1798; overseer of jail at Northampton, Mass., 1801 ; contractor State Prison at Charlestown, 1803; overseer upon prison at Windsor, 1808; contractor State Prison in Concord, 1810; Middlesex Locks and Canal, 181.3; overseer State House in Concord, 1816, overseer jail at Dover, 1818; overseer Boston Mill Dam, 1850; overseer Dry Dock, Charlestown, 1825; over- seer Lowell Railroad, 1835. Since that time he has resided upon his farm in Groton, Mass., one of the best in Massachusetts, and is eighty-two years of age. He visited Concord in March, 1854, and was then enjoying fine health and a green old age. He is still living. t Mr. Brigham was from Boston. He married Ann, daughter of Capt. Richard Ayer. 366 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Convicts of the State prison were employed to hammer the stone. On Tuesday, September 24, 1816, the corner stone was laid. The building was completed and the Legislature first convened in it, in June, 1819. The expense of building the house, including the fences and the furniture of the house, amounted to nearly eighty-two thou- sand dollars.* At a meeting November 4, 1816, it was voted, that in future the ballot for Representatives be brought in on the same ticket for State and County oflEicers. 1818. At the annual meeting in March the selectmen were author- ized to purchase two hearses ; one hundred dollars were raised for purchasing a fire engine and other necessary apparatus there- for, and a quantity of hose to the amount of forty dollars. The selectmen were also authorized " to sell any part of Timothy Abbot's land, or the whole, as they may think best, and pay his debts."! SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Heretofore Dr. McFarland, ex officio, had performed the ser- vice of visiting and inspecting the schools of the town, examin- ing teachers, &c. ; but this year, March 11th, for the first time, a committee was appointed to visit the schools, viz. : Thomas W. Thompson, Dr. McFarland, Capt. Richard Ayer, WilUam A. Kent, George Hough, Abiel Rolfe, Stephen Ambrose, Thomas Chadbourne, Moses Long, Richard Bradley, Samuel A. Kimball, and Samuel Fletcher. It was also voted, " That the committee in each school district make out a fist of all the children in their respective districts, * For description of the State House see Miscellaneous Chapter. t Timothy Abbot was a son of Edward Abbot, 2d. His land lay north of Centre street and extended back to Sand Hill. On account of irregular habits he was placed under guardi- anship. His property was conveyed to the town, which became obliged to support him. He died in 1820, leaving a [second] wife, Lydia. By virtue of her interest in her husband's estate, she received support from the town in her old age. She boarded for several years at Mr. Jacob Hoyt's j then at Simon Virgin's. In her latter years she fell and broke her thigh, and hence became very intirm and helpless. Finally she was boarded at Mr. Ebenezer East- man's, in the East Village, where she died, May 25, 1853, aged eighty-five. RESTRICTIONS ON INTEMPERANCE. 367 from the age of four years to twentj-one, and return the same to the selectmen in the month of April in each year, under oath if required." TEMPERANCE. Voted, " That it shall be the duty of the selectmen to prose- cute all persons in the town of Concord who shall, within knowl- edge or from satisfactory information, retail spirit contrary to law, except on public days." The selectmen were also directed to prosecute any person or persons who had trespassed or who shall hereafter trespass on any of the lands belonging to the town ; and " to confer with the directors of Federal and of Concord bridges with respect to the compensation they will require, to permit the inhabitants on the east side of the river to pass and repass to attend public worship ; and likewise to attend town-meetings by the year." The imme- diate occasion of this vote was a vote passed by the directors of Federal bridge, September 2, 1817, requiring " all persons cross- ing Federal bridge, going to or returning from public worship on Sabbath days, (excepting foot-passengers,) to pay toll," which vote was reconsidered September 24, 1817. Great difficulty was experienced in obtaining a road from West Parish village to Horse Hill bridge, on account of conflict- ing opinions as to the best route ; hence, at a meeting of the town December 21st, it was voted, " That a committee of three from some adjoining town or towns be requested by the selectmen to assist them in laying out a road from Horse Hill bridge to Orlando Brown's in such way as shall best accommodate the public." Andrew Bowers, Capt. Stone and Dea. Pettengill [of Salisbury] were chosen for the purpose. 1819. On the 10th of March, voted, " That in future it shall be the duty of the selectmen and auditors of accounts to report at each annual meeting such sum or sums of money as will, in their opinion, be necessary to defray the expenses of the town the ensuing year; and that they specify each object of expense, together with the sum they judge necessary to meet it." This rule 368 HISTORY OF CQNCOED. hcas been found highly useful, and been generally acted on since its first adoption. Thomas W. Thompson, Samuel Sparhawk, Stephen Ambrose, Isaac Hill, Samuel A. Kimball, Timothy Carter and Nathan Bal- lard, jr., were appointed a committee to report at the next town meeting " the most eligible mode they can devise for supporting the poor in future." LANCASTERIAN SCHOOL. Voted, " to admit the south end of the Town House, called the Senate Chamber, to be prepared and occupied by a Lancasterian school, provided the town be at no expense." This kind of school derived its name from a philanthropic gentleman in England, by the name of Lancaster ; the school was designed for a large number of scholars of every age, to be conducted on the plan of monitorial instruction : that is, at the head of each class was a monitor, who was the teacher of the class, under the supervision and direction of the Principal. Cards were generally used in- stead of school-books, and the exercises consisted much in repeat- ing lessons, after the monitor. The schools had a short-lived popularity in different parts of the country. COWS AND SHEEP. Voted, " That whereas the inhabitants of Concord and trav- elers with teams and loaded sleighs are frequently annoyed by cows and sheep running at large ; — therefore, that hereafter no cow or sheep shall be permitted to run at large in the Main street between Carr's inn and Richard Bradley's dwelling-house, or within half a mile to the west of Main street, after the first day of November, 1819, till the first day of April, 1820." Isaac Eastman and James Hoit were appointed by the town, to take legal measures to ascertain the names of those persons who have injured or damnified the seats, candlesticks,- &c., belonging to the Town House, and report their names ; and that they, the said Eastman and Hoit, prosecute the same. September 2d, Richard Bradley was appointed " an agent to settle or defend the suit commenced against the town of Concord by Ephraim Farnum, jr." This suit was to recover from the TOWN REGULATIONS. 369 town the value of a horse belonging to Mr. Farnum, hired to Col. William Kent to go to Boston, and which horse, with a chaise, run oflf a bridge just north of the house of the late Dea. Wilkins, in the time of a high freshet, and was drowned. Mr. Farnum failed to recover. 182 0. At the annual meeting this year the town voted to pay five dollars " as a premium to the engine which may arrive at a fire first, and that the same be awarded by direction of the fire- wards." On the sixth of April the selectmen were directed to lease to the 11th school district, for such a length of time and on such terms as they may think proper, so much of the Parsonage lot near the house of David George as will be needed by said district for the purpose of building a school-house — provided the Rev. Dr. McFarland, or those who may claim a right to said lot under him, shall give his or their consent." The selectmen were also authorized to purchase or build a house or houses suflB- cient for the safe-keeping of the hearse or hearses which belong to the town. On the 4th of January, 1821, the selectmen were authorized to agree with the selectmen of Boscawen to repair or rebuild the bridge across Contoocook river, near John Chandler's, in the same place it now is, and that the town of Concord pay half the expense. 1821. At the annual meeting in March, 1821, upon recommendation of a committee previously appointed, consisting of Samuel Spar- hawk, Charles Walker and William A. Kent, the town voted to provide a book " for the purpose of entering therein all returns of roads,"* and whatever else relative to that particular subject : also a book in which an account should be opened with every pauper maintained wholly or in part by the town ; and an invoice and tax-book, so ruled and arranged that " any one who wishes may see at one view both the amount of his taxes and the prop- * See Doc. for Chap. XIII., No. 1, " Return of Roads." 24 370 HISTORY OF CONCORD. erty on whicli his taxes are assessed." It is to be regretted that the second recommendation above was never carried out. 1822-3. A NEW COUNTY. The question of forming a new county — to be called Merri- mack County — was acted on by the town at the annual meet- ing in March. Yeas, 522 — nays, 6. The selectmen were directed to petition the General Court " so to alter and establish the line between Concord and Boscawen, that said hne may strike the centre of Contoocook river at the place fixed upon to build a new bridge across said river." The committee for visiting schools recommended in their annu- al report, " that a sum not less than three per cent, of the mon- ies raised for the support of schools, be appropriated by the town and placed at the disposal of the committee — to be expended in premiums, in part, to school-masters" who shall have distin- guished themselves for their ability and success in instruction and government ; — " and the residue in useful books, to be given as rewards of merit to those scholars who shall have made the greatest improvement in their studies." The recommendation was adopted. A new county being constituted. Concord became the shire town, and hence, for the accommodation of the courts, it became necessary to make alterations and improvements in the old town house. September 16th it was voted, " That the town so far comply with the act of the Legislature of June session, 1822, as to remove the town house back, turn it end to the road, raise it one story, and complete it to the acceptance of the Justices of the Superior Court, — provided Mr. Stickney will give the land which may be necessary for this purpose ; and provided, also, that one third of the expense of removal and repairing said house be defrayed by individual subscription." Jeremiah Pecker, Robert Davis, 3d, and Joseph Low, were appointed superintend- ents, and eight hundred dollars appropriated towards defraying the expense of removing and repairing the building, agreeably to the foregoing vote. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 371 The school committee reported that about one thousand chil- dren and youth, or one third of the whole population of the town, attended school during the winter; and that one half of them studied English Grammar, Arithmetic and Geography. Add the little children who attend only in summer, and nearly one half of the population are actually receiving their education " at these domestic institutions." Jacob B. Moore made proposals to the town to publish " a history of the town," which he had prepared, to contain, with an appendix, about one hundred and fifty pages; whereupon the town voted, " to take a sufficient number of copies of said history to furnish each family in the town with one copy." The work was published in 1824, entitled " Annals of the Town of Concord." — pp. 112. 1824. This year the selectmen were authorized to straighten " Centre street," and " to lease or otherwise dispose of the land given to the town by Deacon Joseph Hall, deceased." It was voted to give the proprietors of Federal Bridge twenty-five dollars per annum as a compensation for the privilege, to the inhabitants of the town, of passing toll free on Sabbath days, when going to and from public worship. At a meeting November 1st the select- men were authorized to purchase that part of the New-Hampshire Turnpike (including the Branch) which lies in Concord ; to pay a sum not exceedino; five hundred dollars for the same.* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THIS PERIOD. The first boat, with regular freight, from Boston to Concord, through the Middlesex canal, arrived at Concord June 23, 1815.t * The New-Hampshire Turnpike was the road from Federal Bridge through to Chichester, Epsom, Northwood, on to Portsmouth — and the " Branch " run from Concord bridge north- east till it met the Turnpike near the late Philip Stevens's. t See " Boating Company," in Miscellaneous Chapter. 372 HISTORY OF CONCORD. The summer of 1816 was remarkable in Concord and tlirougli- out New-England for the severity of the cold. It is said that there were frosts every month in the season, from April to No- vember. Corn, rye and other crops were almost entirely de- stroyed. Apples and other fruits were likewise cut off. In con- sequence, the price of provisions was unusually high, and the poor suffered from scarcity. The lot where the brick school-house now stands, in district number eleven, was the Parsonage house lot, which Dr. McFar- land had liberty to improve during his ministry. Some years after his settlement he leased it to Benjamin Kimball, jr., hatter, at the north end of Main street. Mr. Kimball moved his shop on the lot — agreeing to pay Dr. McFarland one bushel and a half of wlilte beans annually. In the cold summer of 1816 white beans were a scarce article, and the quantity due could not be had. Mr. Kimball gathered from various sources two bushels or more of beans, " ring-streaked and speckled," and of all col- ors, and carried them to Dr. McF. for payment. The Doctor observed, " You have brought me more than a bushel and a half," "iVbi5 of wJdte ones,'' said Mr. Kimball, "and the rest I'll throw in," [1817.] Mr. Benjamin Thompson was drowned in Turkey Pond, June 20th, by the upsetting of a boat, in a squall of wind. He was in company with Lieut, B, Kimball. The former attempted to swim to the shore, and was drowned ; the latter, who could not swim, clung to the boat, and was saved. On the 18th of July President Monroe, on his tour through New-Endand, visited Concord. He was met on the borders of the town (on his way from Dover,) about three o'clock, P, M,, by a committee of the citizens, consisting of the selectmen and Thomas W. Thompson, Samuel Sparhawk, William A. Kent, Charles Walker, Jonathan Eastman, Stephen Ambrose and Abiel Walker, Esqs., and under escort of Capt. Abbot's company of cavalry and citizens of Concord, proceeded by the Branch tui-n- pike to Concord bridge. His approach was announced by Capt. Samuel Herbert's company of artillery, which saluted him from Butters's Hill, as he passed the bridge and through the Main INTERESTING INCIDENTS. O/O street. Arrived near Barker's tavern, he was received by Capt. Long's excellent company of light infantry, and saluted by that and a company of citizens consisting of several hundreds. After a few moments' rest, he ascended a stage erected for the occa- sion, three sides of which were covered by the three escort com- panies, with presented arms — where he was met by the cheers and huzzas of the surrounding multitude. Here the Hon. Thomas W. Thompson made an address to the President, welcoming him, in the name of his fellow citizens, to the town. To which the President responded. A sumptuous dinner was partaken of at Mr. Barker's, after which the President gave as a toast — " The town of Concord — May its inhabitants continue to flourish and prosper." In the evening he attended a musical concert at the meeting-house, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion. On Saturday he received calls from individuals, among whom was the vener- able Judge Walker, eighty years of age. After dining with Mr. Thompson he took an excursion down the river as far as Garvin's Falls in the newly launched pleasure boat ; the Presi- dent, with a select company of ladies and gentlemen — returning by land in carriages. He passed the evening with an invited party at Col. William A. Kent's ; attended public worship in the morning of the Sabbath at the Old North Church, and left town on Monday morning, highly gratified with his visit to the Capital of the Granite State. Died in this town, at the residence of her grandson, Richard Bradley, August 10, 1817, the widow Mary Calfe, aged nine- ty-eight, being the oldest person in town. She first married Samuel Bradley, who was killed by the Indians August 11, 1746, and was the mother of the late Hon. John Bradley. She after- wards married Richard Calfe, Esq., of Chester. About six years before her death she was disabled by a fall, and was con- fined ever after to her bed. She retained her faculties in a re- markable degree to the last. In her youthful days she had stud- ied the Scriptures, and when strength and sight failed her, not only its doctrines but its very language were familiar to her — which she would repeat, to the comfort and satisfaction of her friends. She placed a firm reliance on the merits of her Saviour, 374 HISTORY OF CONCORD. and died in sweet peace and hope of rest in the kingdom of God. Miss Abigail Kimball, aged sixty, who had been an attendant and nurse of Mrs. Calfe for about thirty years, died on the 4th of August — and Mrs. Hayinah Bradley, widow of the Hon. John Bradley, aged sixty-six, died in the same house on the 15th of August. Their vmitcd ages made two hundred and fourteen years. Mrs. Bradley -was a woman of uncommon excellence and usefulness in all the relations of life. The disease of which she died was dysentery. Drowned in this town, Sabbath morning, August 17, 1817, Ebenezer Chickering, in the nineteenth year of his age — a youth of much promise. In his anxiety to become a swimmer, and unbeknown to the family where he hved, early on Sunday morning, with two other youths, he went to the river, and ven- turing in deep water, where he was unable to manage himself, he was carried down the stream. The body of young Chickering was found several days after, floating on the surface of the river, about two miles below the place where he was drowned. A smart shock of an earthquake was felt in this town on Sun- day, October 5, 1817, about twenty minutes before twelve o'clock. It was of one or two minutes duration, apparently in a direction from south-west to north-east. On Tuesday, November 25th, a large three story dwelling- house, chiefly owned by Mr. Abel Hutchins, and occupied by him and Mr. Albe Cady, was consumed by fire. The fire burst out of the roof about one o'clock, P. M. — probably communi- cated from a stove in the third story. A considerable portion of the furniture was saved. Loss estimated at about three thousand dollars. The house stood on the spot where the Phoenix Hotel now stands. The fire was prevented from extending to adjacent buildings, by the energetic eSbrts not only of men but of the fair sex, who were busy in furnishing carpets, coverlets and blankets to cover the exposed buildings, assisting also to bring water, forming lines for the engine, and in clearing adjacent buildings. Burning flakes fell among combustibles under a large barn full of hay, but were accidentally discovered and extinguished by INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 375 Gen. Isaac Eastman and Capt. Philip Watson, who were carry- ing a tub of water, by a circuitous route, for the engine. To this circumstance the preservation of the adjacent buildings is mainly ascribed. MAD DOG. A large dog, from every appearance mad, was killed in this town on Friday, November 28th. The day before from twenty to thirty dogs were bitten by him on Concord street. [1818.] " Portsmouth and Concord Wagon Company " was formed at the beginning of the year 1818, " for the transporta- tion of merchandize " between the two places. Wagons to leave Portsmouth every Monday for Concord, and pass over the Turn- pike through the towns of Durham and Northwood ; returning, leave Concord every Thursday, and arrive in Portsmouth on Saturday. From the 2d to the 10th of April continued rain and snow fell, without the appearance of the sun. Stages from the north and south arrived on runners, on the 6th and 10th of April. FIRE ENGINE. An additional fire engine was purchased by the inhabitants of this town in April, 1818. It was a new invention, by Mr. S, F. B. Morse, the celebrated painter (and inventor of the electric telegraph) and was procured for about half the usual expense of other engines — say one hundred and fifty to two hundred dol- lars.* On Tuesday, May 5th, was an unusual freshet. The intervale was covered with water, and the river extended from its usual channel to from one to two miles. Bridges in town were impass- able for a number of days. No spring freshet is recollected to have been so high. The bridge between Boscawen and Canter- bury was carried away. The raising of the Eagle which crowns the spire of the State House took place on Saturday, July 18, 1818, with appropriate ceremonies. At two o'clock, P. M., a procession was formed * Patriot, April 14, 1818. 376 HISTORY OF CONCORD. in front of the State House, under the direction of Major Rob- ertson ; proceeded down State street and back, entered the State House, -whci'e a handsome extemporaneous address ^yas deUvered by Philip Carrigain, Esq. Refreshments were plentifully dis- tributed ; toasts were drank amid loud cheers and the firing of artillery, the Concord Band, at intervals, playing appropriate airs. The thirteenth toast was — " The American Eagle, — May the shadow of Jds ivings protect every acre of our united Continent^ and the lightniiig of his eye flash terror and defeat through the ranks of our enemies^ A Sunday School was established in the West Parish village in Concord, on the first Sunday in June — consisting of about fifty scholars. During the months of June and July they com- mitted thirteen thousand six hundred and forty-six verses of Scripture and answers in the Catechism. In the month of August forty-five scholars attended, and committed twelve thou- sand six hundred and six verses and answers. On Thursday, November 12th, a newly discharged convict from the State Prison, by the name of Royal Allen — a mulatto — entered the new State House and stole the keys of most of the doors, (fifteen in number.) He was soon arrested, and be- sides the keys he was found to have stolen twenty-six dollars in money the same day. The Phoenix Hotel was opened as " a house of entertain- ment," by Mr. Abel Hutchins, the first of January, 1819. Mr. David Carter, of Concord, aged about fifty-five, dropped dead while driving his team.* INlr. Henry Moulton, aged eighty-five, fell dead from his arm- chair.f The citizens of Concord have for two weeks past been much gratified with the appearance for the first time of a steamboat in our river. A good portion of the ladies and gentlemen in town availed themselves of the very polite invitation of the proprietors to take pleasure rides up and down the river, for two or three miles. $ This boat was owned by John L. Sulhvan, Esq., superintend- ent of the Concord Boating Company, and was intended to tow loaded boats up and down the Merrimack river. * Patriot, January 12, 1819. j H'--, ^^^V 25, 1S19. t H., June 22, 1819. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 377 Tuesdays, November 2d and 9th, 1819, were remarkably dark days. Candles were found necessary near the middle of each day. On the 9th, domestic fowls retired as if it was sundown, soon after two, P. M. It seemed almost as dark as at the time of the great eclipse in 1806. [1820.] January 4.* On Wednesday evening last a splen- did ball was given in this town, in honor of the gallant Col. Mc- Neil, of the United States army. The party was very numer- ous and respectable. On entering the hall Col. McNeil was announced and introduced by the managers, and was received by the ladies as well as gentlemen by a manifestation of the glow of beauty and the fervor and animation of patriotism. Among the strangers who attended were Gen. Benjamin Pierce and lady, and their daughter, Mrs. McNeil. Christmas was celebrated in this town by the Episcopal soci- ety. The Town Hall (their place of meeting,) was fancifully decorated with evergreen. An excellent discourse was given by the Rev. Addison Searle, who at present officiates alternately in this town, in Hopkinton and Bradford. On Thursday morning, the last day but one of the year 1819, previous to a serious storm of wind and snow, the thermometer stood in this town at eight degrees below zero, and during the storm it did not exceed ten degrees above. April 25. Notwithstanding the high grounds in this vicinity are covered, and the snow remains two or three feet deep in our forests, the thermometer stood in the shade, on Tuesday and Thursday last, at eighty-four, in this town. May 16. Nearly seventy tons of goods were sent to the landing, in Boston, of the Union Boating Company, the first week of business on the river. May 30. Last Friday the fields in our vicinity exhibited the novel spectacle at this season of a mantle of snow, extending as far as the eye could reach. The storm was from the north- east, and cold. *]\Iost of the articles which follow with the prefixed dates, were taken from the news- papers of the day. 378 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Died in this town, June loth, a child of Mr. Runnells, aged two years, in consequence of eating dirt the day before. From the 1st of July, 1819, and the 7th of June, 1820, six thousand eight hundred and seventy-two persons visited the State House, and were shown its apartments. The General Assembly of the Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire convened on Wednesday, the 1-lth of June. Officers for the en- suing year were appointed, and on the second day of the session a grand procession was formed, and religious services performed in the meeting-house. Sermon by Rev. Thomas Beede, G. Sec, from Numbers xv. : 38, 39. July 4. The fare from this place to Boston, by stage, a dis- tance of sixty miles, is reduced to one dollar. This was the effect of competition between two lines of stages. August 15. A meteor was seen on the evening of Friday, August 4th, in this town, at about twenty minutes before eleven o'clock. A bright flash was observed, followed by a luminous meteor, rising from the western horizon thirty degrees or more towards the zenith, lasting about two minutes. The celebrated traveling preacher, Lorenzo Dow, preached in town on Sunday and Monday, the last of July. August 22. That part of vegetation which the drought and grasshoppers had left, was revivified by a gentle rain on Thursday last ; not indeed until the crops of corn and potatoes on the higher grounds had been almost entirely cut off. September 5. Died in this town Mr. Abel Merrill, in his seventy-third year. He went to bed apparently well, and before midnight was a corpse. September 12. The Merrimack river was never known to be lower than at present. The boats can ascend no farther than Hooksett. CARD OF THANKS. The Youth's Christian Knowledge Society in Bradford, New- Hampshire, acknowledge the reception of seventy volumes of books, from Concord and other places, all by the hand of the INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 379 Rev. Ezeldel Rich, to constitute for tliem a library, for which they render most cordial thanks to the benevolent donors. By order of the Society, T. ir J o i. I. -I -I QOA Sarah Bliss, Librarian. Bradford, September 1, 1820. October 24. On Tuesday last the water of the Merrimack covered the intervale to a higher extent than has been known for twenty years. The river had been unusually low, but rain com- menced on the evening of the fourteenth, and continued to the evening of the sixteenth. The water rose perhaps fifteen feet in twenty-four hours. November 21. Intense cold succeeded the late snow storm, and several boats, fully laden, were frozen up in the river. [1821.] January 15. The Episcopahans of this town have finished a building, centrally located, as a chapel. It is fifty-five feet by thirty, affording a commodious place of worship. This building was located on the spot where the American House stands. April 16. The Concord Female Academy and Boarding School commenced April first, with fifty scholars. June 11. A panorama of victories on Lake Champlain and at Plattsburgh, comprising three distinct views, was exhibited at the Town Hall the second week in June. July 9. The forty-fifth anniversary of our National Indepen- dence was celebrated by companies on each side of the Merri- mack, in a most agreeable and appropriate manner. [1822.] January 14. Thermometer on Friday morning last, at sunrise, stood twenty-four degrees below zero. February 18. Died, EveUne, daughter of Mr. Caleb Camp- bell, aged three years — scalded by falling into a tub of hot water. March 9. On Saturday evening, about ten o'clock, a most brilUant meteor, in size nearly as large as the moon, fol- lowed by a long and dazzling train, was observed passing from north-east to the west with incredible swiftness. Though the moon was in high meridian, the illumination of the meteor ap- 380 HISTORY OF CONCORD. peared to persons sitting in their houses like continuous flashes of lightning. June 24. The visit of Capt. Partridge and his cadets has afforded great satisfaction, both to our citizens and strangers. Capt. Partridge lectured on the battle of Waterloo, on Monday evening. Tuesday the young ladies of Mr. Blake's school pre- sented a standard to the cadets, with appropriate addresses, and iq the evening Capt. P. again lectured, by request, on the im- provement of the militia. July 15. During the thunder storm on Thursday, hail fell in the back part of this town of a sufficient size to break glass and cut down the corn. September 16. The Rev. Mr. Truair, pastor of the Marin- er's Church, New- York, delivered a sermon in behalf of sea- men, in Rev. Dr. McFarland's meeting-house on Friday evening. At the close, a collection, amounting to fifteen dollars, was made for the benefit of the church for seamen, lately erected in New- York. In the garden of John George, Esq., of this town, a radish was raised weigliing tliree pounds and one half an ounce, and measuring thirteen inches and three-quarters in circumference. This radish was the growth of a second crop — the seed being planted in the latter part of June, and the tops weighed nineteen pounds. [1823.] January 13. On Friday the Londonderry Expe- dition Line came into town from Boston at half past three, P. M., having passed sixty-three miles, including stops to dine, exchange the mail and horses, in eight hours. January 20. Died, Mrs. Rebecca, wife of Dr. Moses Long, aged thirty- six years. The death of Mrs. Long resulted from poison of white lead, accidentally mixed in the sugar vised by the family. July 4. A company of citizens repaired to the grove opposite Kimball's Island, listened to the reading of the De- claration of Independence and to a short but pertinent address from Col. Richard Bartlett. After an excellent dinner, toasts were drank and several oridnal and selected soncrs sunsi:. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 381 A child of Robert Davis, 2d, of tliis town, was killed in 1823, bj being thrown, with its mother, from a chaise, in Epsom. September 29. A swarm of bees, taken up bj Richard Bradley, Esq., in this town, last week, yielded, in weight of honey and comb, one hmidred and sixty-five pounds. November 10. On Saturday, first instant, a transient person, named Joseph Lusty, a native of England, sixty-eight years of age, called at Mr. Gale's tavern early in the evening, bespoke and paid for lodgings. Being intoxicated he was refused spirit, and in a rage received back bis money and left the house. The evening being very dark, after the Boston stage passed an outcry was heard, and he was found with the bones and flesh of his left leg crushed almost to a jelly, from both wheels having passed over it. Surgical aid was called, and Mr. Gale kindly received him at his house, where every attention has been be- stowed ; and there is a prospect of his recovery without amputa- tion of the limb. December 15. Priscilla Hunt, an esteemed minister of the society of Friends, attended a meeting at the Union school- house in Concord, on the evening of the third of December. [1821.] May 28. On Tuesday morning, the 18th instant, at nine o'clock, the corner stone was laid for the new brick meeting- house now building in this town by the First Calvinistic Baptist Society of Concord. The ceremony was introduced by singing the one hundred and twenty-seventh psalm, read by Dr. McFar- land, after which a short and appropriate address was delivered by the Rev. William Taylor — who then, assisted by Rev. Dr. McFarland, cordially invited to join in the ceremony, deposited the corner stone in the place assigned for it. Mr. Taylor then, standing on the stone, addressed a pathetic prayer to the Most High God, for a blessing on the great undertaking. The whole was concluded by singing the eighty-fourth psalm. The house is located on the east side of State street, on land presented to the society by the Hon. William A. Kent, about forty rods south of the State House. June 5. The Election Sermon, by Rev. Dr. Tyler, Presi- 382 HISTORY OF CONCORD. dent of Dartmouth College, was eminently worthy of the sta- tion which he occupies ; a fine display of sound practical mo- rality, as applicable to the citizens of a State, both in their indi- vidual and collective capacity — embelhshed by the graces of a chaste and finished composition, and enforced by a manly and energetic delivery. In this town. May 25th, Mrs. Abigail Hoit died, aged eighty- seven, widow of Mr. John Hoit. Her descendants were thirteen children, eighty-two grand-children, one hundred and five great- grand- children, and five of the fifth generation. A public dinner was given at the Columbian Hotel, to Gov. Miller, of the Arkansas Territory, on the fourth of June — Gen. Benjamin Pierce presiding. The forty-eighth anniversary of American Independence was celebrated on Monday, the fifth of July. The procession march- ed to the meeting-house and listened to religious services and an oration by Philip Carrigain, Esq., which did equal credit to the head and heart of its author ; then proceeded to the area of the State House, where some three hundred partook of a sump- tuous entertainment, prepared by Mr. A. Hutchins. An original song by George Kent, Esq., and an ode by Jacob B. Moore, Esq., were sung, and many prepared and volunteer toasts drank, accompanied by the discharge of cannon, and music from the band. July 24. About six o'clock, on Monday afternoon last, this town was visited by an unusually severe thunder storm. While the cloud from the northward was passing over our village, the lightning struck the brick meeting-house, and did considerable injury to the frame of the tower, raised a few days since, and not enclosed. The timbers of the tower were spht and doors and window-frames injured, but no damage was done to the brick or stone work. Two young men on the ground floor were knocked down but not materially injured. Rev. Joshua Abbot died at Norfolk, Virginia, September 22, 1824. He was interred in the grave-yard of the Baptist society in Portsmouth, a small town separated from Norfolk by Elizabeth river. Two neatly executed white marble slabs mark INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 383 the spot where rest the remains of this devoted servant of Christ. The inscription is as follows : " Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Joshua Abbot, who departed this life September 28, 1824, aged 45* years. "He died in Jesus and is blest, How sweet his slumbers are : From sufferings, from sins released, And freed from every snare." Mr. Abbot was a native of Concord, son of Capt. Joshua Ab- bot. He married Miss EUza Kimball, by whom he had six chil- dren, four sons and two daughters. He became a member of the First Congregational Church in 1814, and turned his atten- tion to the study of theology, although he had not the advantage of a pubUc education. Licensed to preach by the Deerfield Asso- ciation of ministers, he went to the South, in 1820, for the ben- efit of his health ; resided at Norfolk, Virginia, where he con- ducted a school on the Lancasterian system, and preached the Gospel in the vicinity, as opportunities occurred. He made his family one visit after his first departure, and hoped either to rejoin them permanently in Concord, or have them go to him. He died of fever after a short sickness. At his funeral a dis- course was preached, from 2d Cor. V. : 1 ; " For ive knozv that if our eartJihj house,'"' &c. Mr. Abbot was a man of amiable spirit, gentle and conciliatory manners ; modest, upright and devout. Nathan Carter, son of Fphraim, of this town, was killed in a saw-mill in Hopkinton, March 2, 1825, aged twenty-nine. November 6. The Rev. Mr. Gallaudet, Principal of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, Connecticut, visited this town last week, with two of his pupils, and gave, on Friday afternoon at the Town Hall, a very interesting exhibition of their talents and attainments. * He was only 42 years of age. 384 HISTORY OF CONCORD. November 20. The Rev. Chester Wright, of Montpelier, dehvered an address last evening, to a very full assembly in the Representatives' Hall, in behalf of the American Coloniza- tion Society. December 24. j\Ir. Benjamin Gale had tvro hogs killed, •which weighed one thousand and eight pounds. The weight of the largest was five hundred and sixty-three pounds. They were thirteen months old. Number of deaths in town in 1824, eighteen only. Note 1. Heretofore, at the close of decennial periods, we have published the names of all who have been chosen annually to any town office ; but on account of the yearly increase in the number of minor offices, we are obliged to restrict the names hereafter to those only who were chosen to the principal offices. Note 2. By a law passed January 1, 1796, any person who was chosen to any town office in a town for one year, " for which he was liable to be fined for not accepting it," thereby gained a " settlement " in said town. This law was so far repealed, by an act passed 'December 25, 1816, that a person could gain a settlement only by being chosen and actually serving for one year " in the office of clerk, treasurer, selectman, or overseer of the poor." Note 3. For more convenient reference we have placed the list of principal town officers and representatives chosen since 1815, at the close of the civil history of the town, in 1853. CHAPTER XIV. HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1825 TO 1835. On the 9th of March the town voted to accept the following proposition, made bj the Rev. Asa McFarland relative to dis- annulling his ministerial contract with the town, viz. : " Since the time of my sickness, last winter, I have endeavor- ed to make full trial, to determine whether I could perform the duties of the Christian ministry in this place. The result has been a conviction on my mind that I shall not be able to do all that the condition of the congregation requires. Thus far there is, so far as I know, a good degree of har- mony in the Society ; and if I should attempt to continue alone to perform the duties of the ministry, I apprehend that I may fail ; dissatisfaction may in consequence arise, and the Society not be in so good condition as it now is to call and settle a minister. After much deliberation I have come to the settled conclu- sion, that the civil contract which is with the town, shall close at the end of the present ministerial year ; that is to say, next March. In regard to the pastoral relation, I shall be willing to have that dissolved, also, if it should be thought best ; — but if it should seem that it will promote harmony to have me continue in this relation, I may be willing that it should be so. This, how- ever, I leave to future consideration. I have nothing more to communicate, only that it will be important to the Society, and pleasant to me, that a separation, in whole or in part, may take place with peace. 25 386 HISTORY OF CONCORD. I shall probably live among you, and I hope in peace, and do what I can to promote harmony, and support the institutions of religion and the welfare of society. Asa McFarland. Concord, July 11, 1824." Having voted to accept the foregoing proposition, Dr. McFar- land's ministerial relation to the town ceased, after a laborious and faithful service of twenty-seven years.* Soon after the fore- going communication was made, measures were taken to organ- ize a new religious society, agreeably to a law passed July 1, 1819, which authorized " any sect or any denomination of Chris- tians in this State to associate and form societies, admit members, establish rules and by-laws for their regulation and government, and to possess and exercise all corporate powers necessary to as- sess and raise money by taxes upon the polls and ratable estates of the members of such association, for building and repairing houses of public worship, and for the support of the ministry." The new Society, organized July 29, 1824, was composed the first year of two hundred and twenty-three taxable members. In the fall of 1824, the Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, a licentiate from the Andover Theological Seminary, was invited to preach as a candidate. He preached his first sermon the last Sabbath in October, from the text, Luke x : 42, and continued his services as a candidate seven weeks. On the 24th of December the Church gave him a unanimous call to settle in the ministry, and on the 30th of the same month the Society concurred with the Church by a unanimous vote.f The call was accepted, and the Council called on the 23d of March, 1825, to ordain Rev. Mr. Bouton, dissolved also the pastoral relation of Rev. Dr. McFar- land to the Church. Thus, after a period of ninety-five years — that is, from the settlement of Rev. Timothy Walker, in 1730 — the town in its corporate capacity ceased to provide for the support of the Min- istry. Yet, at the annual meeting in March, it was voted, " That the Rev. Dr. McFarland have leave to cut fire-wood, suf- * See Biographical Notice. ^Jolin Odlin, Esq., objected to the salary, which was $750. See correspondence with Rev. Mr. Bouton in his twenty-fifth Anniversary Discourse, Appendix, pp. 38-41. RESIGNATION OF DR. McFARLAND. 387 ficicnt for his own use, on the Parsonage land the current year ; also, that he have the use of the improved lands the current year, ■which belong to the town."* 1826. The obligation of the town for the support of the ministry having ceased with the resignation of the Rev. Dr. McFarland, and the law of July, 1819, going into effect, relative changes were commenced in the disposition of the parsonage lands, and the interest of the town in the old North Church. At the an- nual meeting in ]\Iarch, Joseph Walker, Robert Davis and Jere- miah Pecker were chosen " a committee to sell all the parsonage lands and the school lands belonging to the town," and were authorized to make and execute, " in the name and in behalf of the town, all necessary conveyances, &;c. ; and were dii-ected to vest or secure the proceeds of the sales of said lands to be a permanent fund — the interest of which shall be applied for the purposes for which said lands were reserved." William A. Kent, Joseph Walker, and Abel Hutchins were also chosen " a committee to take into consideration the subject of selling the interest or right the town may have in the meet- ing-house, to the First Congregational Society in Concord." This committee, in a subsequent report, estimated the interest which the town had in the meeting-house at two hundred dollars ; in the land on which the meeting-house stands, measuring six rods east, south, north, and west, to the original reserve for a road, at three hundred dollars ; and in the bell at three hundred dollars ; and they recommended that the whole be offered to the First Congregational Society for eight hundred dollars, which was accordingly done, and the town's interest therein sold to said society.! November 14, 1828, the town voted to relinquish the claim of three hundred dollars on the Society, for the bell. * Among the items of expense the past year were the following : Paid for Portsmouth Turnpike, $500,00 " " other roads and bridges, 1.286,04 " " the new Town House, 6£4,93 " " Paupers belonging to the town, 634,17 " " Paupers not belonging to the town, 97,91 «' " Militia, 83,73 $3,256,78 t See original Report in the Town Records, 1828 ; also the special report of a committee, " on the Heirs of Joseph Hall," 1850. 388 HISTORY OF CONCORD. The income of the improved lands belonging to the town was granted to Rev. Dr. McFarland another year ; he also, with Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, and Rev. Nathaniel W. Williams, of the Bap- tist Church, had leave to cut from the parsonage land fire-wood sufficient for their own use the current year. The selectmen were authorized to appoint an orator and a committee of arrangements for celebrating the fiftieth anniver- sary of American Independence on the fourth of July. They made choice of Richard Bartlett, Esq. The day was cele- brated with unusual demonstrations of joy. At sunrise, a na- tional salute was fired by the Columbian Artillery, and a merry peal rung from the bells of the churches. The Legislature, then in session, with His Excellency the Governor, and Council, joined the citizens of the town in the glorious commemoration. At eleven o'clock, A. M., a procession, with a band of music, under direction of Col. Robert Davis, chief marshal, assisted by Capt. Joseph Cofran, Capt. Samuel Coffin and Maj. John D. Abbott, moved to the Old North Church. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Bouton ; the Declaration of Independence was read by Dr. Josiah Crosby, and an oration delivered by Richard Bartlett, Esq. A sumptuous dinner was afterwards partaken of in the area of the State House, which was splendidly decorated by ladies for the occasion. Hon. Samuel Green presided at the table, assist- ed by Hon. Samuel Morril and Major Timothy Chandler. Toasts were drank, accompanied with music, songs, and the dis- charge of cannon. Among the volunteer toasts was the follow- ing, offered by Jonathan Eastman, Jr., Esq. : " Our Great Grand Fathers, who here, a hundred years ago, planted the tree of Lib- erty in the wilds of Penacook."* On the 22d of April the committee aforenamed to sell the parsonage and school lands, held a public auction at the Wash- ington Hotel, and made sale as follows : to John Eastman, Jr., eighty acre lot, for $3,277,70 ; to Abiel Walker six acre inter- val lot, for $494,47 ; to Richard Bradley, twenty acre grant, on Little Pond road, for $542,06 ; five acre interval lot on east side of the river, to William Hurd, for $357,64 ; three acre Emendation lot, on Contoocook plain, to Abiel Rolfe and Henry * This was the last celebration of the glorious Fourth by authority of the town. PROVISION FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE POOR. 389 Rolfe, for $147.34 ; twenty acre Emendation, on Little Pond Hill, to Henry Chandler and Henry Martin, for $129,07 ; Par- sonage house lot, near school house, north end of State street, to Robert Davis, for $176 ; Last Division lot, on Beaver Meadow, to Abner Farnum, for $210,50; — the whole amounting to $5,335,51, which constituted the Parsonage fund. The School Lands were also sold, as follows : To. Isaac Hill, twenty acres on Little Pond road, . . . $392,76 To Henry Chandler and Henry Martin, twenty acres on Little Pond Hill, 142,82 To Enoch Coffin, a part of sis acre lot at Old Fort, for . 215,16 To Abiel Walker, a part of same lot, for 70,12 To Abiel Ilolfe and Henry Rolfe, four acres, Emendation on Contoocook Plain, 220,00 To Josiah Fernald, five acre intervale lot on the east side of the river, for 271,57 To Richard H. Ayer, last division lot on Beaver meadow, 378,58 Amounting to the sum of $L691,01 1827. As security against fires this year the following regulations were adopted, viz. : " That all ashes when taken up shall be kept in vessels of iron or tin ; or in some place made of materials not combustible, so long as they shall remain in any building ; and when carried out, if put into wooden vessels shall be placed at least fifteen feet from any building or combustible matter. Shav- ings shall be seasonably removed from all buildings, and depos- ited in suitable places, or burned under the direction of a fire- ward. No person shall carry a lighted cigar or pipe into any barn, shed or stable, by day or by night ; and no person shall carry any lighted torch or fire, by night or by day, within forty feet of any building, lumber, or any combustible material which would endanger the property of any individual, on penalty of a fine of not less than one nor more than five dollars." Effective measures were this year taken to provide a house and farm for the support of the poor of the town, who had here- tofore been " bid off " to the person who would board and provide 390 HISTORY OF CONCORD. for them at the lowest rate. At the annual town meeting, " Voted, as the sense of this meeting, That the poor of the town be siqjported on a farm.'''' " Voted., as the sense of this meet- ing, that the town will purchase a farm, on which the poor of the town shall be supported." To carry this decisive vote into eifoct, Timothy Chandler, Ste- phen Ambrose, Abiel Walker, Abel Hutchins and Isaac Dow, were " authorized and directed to purchase stock and put in re- pair a suitable farm, on which all paupers which this town may be compelled to reUeve or maintain may be placed for support." The selectmen were also instructed to employ a suitable person to have charge of the paupers and farm aforesaid. In pursuance of the authority given to them, the aforenamed committee reported to the town, next year, " that they had exam- ined six farms, shown them by diiferent persons, all of which embraced many advantages for the purpose required ; but they considered the farm of Mr. Timothy Walker, near the West Parish village, under all circumstances the most profitable, and they purchased it for four thousand dollars." " The farm," say the committee, " contains over two hundred acres of land, about forty acres of which are good intervale ; also, a number of acres of brook land, which will make good mowing. The land on the ■west side of the road amounts to about one hundred acres, on which is a large quantity of valuable timber and a great quantity of wood, which, being only two miles from market, must render it very valuable." In addition to four thousand dollars paid for the farm, the committee expended four hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-seven cents in the purchase of stock, repairing buildings, &c., making a total of four thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-seven cents. Since the purchase of this farm the poor of the town have been supported there, in a manner greatly conducive to theii- comfort, at an expense much less than by the former mode. At a special meeting, September 29, 1827, Robert Davis, Samuel Coffin and Samuel Herbert were authorized to sell the Rocky Pond lot, so called, devised by the late Dea. Joseph PARSONAGE AND LITERARY FUNDS. 391 Hall " for the benefit of the Congregational minister who should exercise the duties of his office where the meeting-house then stood.''-* 1828. To dispose of the interest which should annually accrue from the Parsonage fund, the town voted, " That the selectmen re- quest each man in town to designate, annually, the incorporated religious society in Concord, which supports the preaching of the gospel, to which his proportion of the interest of the ministerial fund shall be paid ;f and that the selectmen divide the interest accordingly." This became a permanent rule for the division of the interest of the Parsonage fund, with the addition, that " in case any persons did not choose to designate to what society their proportion should go, the same should be divided equally among all the societies." 1829. FUNDS. William A. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low were appoint- ed a committee to invest the principal of the Parsonage fund in bank stocks, or such pubUc stocks as, in their judgment, would be for the interest of the town. The same committee were authorized to make a similar investment of the School and Lite- rary Funds belonging to the town.J Five hundred dollars, which remained due from the First Congregational Society for the town's interest in the old meeting-house, was ordered to be divided among the incorporated religious societies in the town on the same principle that the interest of the Parsonage fund was divided. To aid the smaller and less wealthy school districts, the sum of four hundred dollars, of the money raised by the town for the support of schools, was divided equally among the districts of the town, * See Special Report of a Committee on " Heirs of Joseph Hall : 1850." f This proportion was determined by the amount of each man's tax on poll and estate. X The Literary Fund arises from a ta.x on banks, which is divided among the several towns in the State. In 1828, a large sum, accumulated from this source, for the purpose of establishing a College, was, by a law of the Legislature, divided among the several towns. 392 HISTORY OF CONCORD. As a security in case of fire, every house 'within a quarter of a mile of Main street, of two or more stories in height, having four or more fire-places, was required to be furnished with two or more fire-buckets. The " Chandler farm," so called, which was in the hands of the town, lying on the hill north-west of Henry Martin's, was sold to Christopher Rowell for $625.50 ; and several parcels or tracts were also sold from the Poor Farm, viz. : to John Jarvis, Isaac Dow, Zebediah Gleason, Abner Farnum, Abel Baker : — the whole quantity sold amounting to three acres and twenty square rods — for $156.24. Fifty dollars were placed at the disposal of the Superintending School Committee, for the purchase of books, to be distributed as rewards in the several schools, at the discretion of the committee ; and ten dollars were appropriated for the benefit of the children at the Poor farm, to be instructed in school in District No. 3. Equal or larger appropriations for this latter purpose have gen- erally been made every year since. 1830-31. Ten dollars were appropriated in 1830 " for the benefit of poor families in District No. 12, who live too far from school to send their children with convenience ; and for the benefit of Ephraim Davis's children, in District No. 9, all to be expended for schooling." Those families lived on or beyond what is called the "Dark Plain," about two and a half miles east of Main street. Measures were taken to paint, repair and furnish steps for the Town House, and to restrict the use of the building to town business, and to meetings for religious and charitable purposes, unless on rent. The toll of ministers of the several incorporated religious societies in town, passing over Federal bridge, was, by vote of the town, paid by the selectmen. " Voted, That a bridewell be built at the expense of the town ; and that Richard Bradley, James Moulton, Jr., and Cyrus Rob- inson, selectmen, be authorized to contract for the same." The TOAVN ORDINANCES. 393 selectmen were also authorized to contract " to build a pound on the Poor Farm.*" The plan before acted on, of dividing a portion of the school money — about $300 — and also the whole of the literary fund, as annually received, equally among the school districts of the town, was adopted in 1831, and has been continued from year to year as a settled policy. It operates as an encouragement to educa- tion in the minor districts, and gives general satisfaction. Fif- teen dollars were appropriated for the schooling of children on the " Dark Plain." Permission was given to the inhabitants of Concord " to build horse sheds in front of the burying-ground on the town land, un- der the direction of the selectmen." During 1831 a long line of sheds was built for members of the First Congregational Soci- ety, by contract with Mr. Moses Morse, at a cost of about twelve dollars each. These sheds stood close to the fence of the bury- ing ground, west of the old meeting-house, and there remained till the new meeting-house was built, in 1842, when a part of them were sold to Richard Bradley, Esq., and part moved to the location of the new house, and fitted up in the rear of it. The following resolution, presented by Col. Dudley S. Palmer, was unanimously adopted : Resolvedj That the selectmen of this town be respectfully request- ed not to grant a license permitting any theatrical corps, circus, car- * Among the items of expense in the auditors' report " for tlie year past," were : Paid for steps for Court House, $44,GG " " painting Town House, 200,05 " " building Bridewell, • . . . . 30,78 " Superintending School Committee, 75,00 " Z. W. Gleason, for building stone pound, 62,50 September 25th, the selectmen, by direction of the town, sold of " the property which be- longed to the estate of the late Timothy Abbot," three acres of land on Sand Hill, to Jacob B. Moore, for $288. For land of said estate previously sold, the town had received, from Philip Watson, $350,00 Alary Russell, . • 450,00 James Sanborn, 355,00 Joseph Low, 93,00 Interest and rents, 148,30 $1,683,30 The town had also paid on demands against said estate, for the support of his widow, 1.045,85 Leaving a balance of $637,45 394 HISTORY OF CONCORD. avan, or any sliowmen, to exliibit or be exhibited witliiu the limits of the town during the year for which said selectmen have this day been elected." 1832. The Poor Farm was taxed like other property, for the benefit of school District No. 3, and a vote passed to " establish a house of correction, iJi connection ivitli the poor housed' In June, this year, intelligence came that the Asiatic cholera, whose deadly march through Europe the year previous had been reported, had crossed the ocean and commenced its ravages in Canada. As Concord lay in the direct line of travel from Can- ada to Boston, great apprehensions were entertained that the fatal malady might visit us also. Hence, upon the petition of a re- spectable number of citizens, a special town meeting was called on the 9th of July, " to see if the town will choose a board of health, and make provision for the accommodation and support of strangers and foreigners who may become sick and need assist- ance." At this meeting a board of health was appointed, con- sisting of Richard Bradley, Joseph P. Stickney, and Laban Page, selectmen ; and doctors Thomas Chadbourne, Ezra Carter, Peter Ronton, Elijah Colby, Samuel Morril, Thomas Brown, and J. T. Oilman Leach, who were authorized to make all necessary provision and accommodations for sick strangers, &c., and for the comfort and safety of our own citizens." Five hundred dol- lars were appropriated to meet expenses. Through the care and kindness of Divine Providence, no case of cholera ever occurred among us !* 1834. At the annual town meeting the following important measure was adopted : " Voted, That whereas, from the great increase of inhabitants in the compact part of the town, new streets or highways may be * In the Auditors' Report of 1833 are tlie following items : Paid for rations for Militia, $111,99 ; for bounty on crows and foxes, $10,95; for guide boards, $12. The expense of supporting paupers on the fann is $420,94. Average number of paupers in 1832 is 17. " The auditors cannot refrain from expressing their approbation of Mr. Joseph Parker, the overseer. Tliey believe he merits the commendation of the citizens of Concord for his industry and fidelity in the discliarge of the duties of his office." LAYING OUT OF STREETS. 395 required, — Therefore streets maybe authorized by the select- men, and become highways, to be thereafter maintained by the town as such, in the usual manner ; — provided, that where streets are required for the especial benefit of the owner or owners of the land through which the said street may pass, the necessary land for the same be given for the purpose by the owners, and that the road and suitable water-courses be first made to the ac- ceptance of the selectmen, at the expense of those for whose benefit the street may be laid out. " And whereas, for the more easily describing lots and resi- dences, the names of the several streets now made or hereafter to be made, should be known and recorded — Therefore, that suitable names may be given to such streets within the limits of the 9th, 10th and 11th school districts, a committee be appointed, (residents in said districts) who shall be authorized, with the con- currence of the owners of the land, where it has been given for the purpose, to report proper names to the selectmen ; and when approved by them that the same be entered on the records of the town, and that the street be thereafter known b}^ that name." In accordance with the foregoing vote, William A. Kent, Abiel Walker and Timothy Chandler, were appointed a committee to name streets, who subsequently made report, which was adopted, as follows : NAMES OF STREETS. 1. The street known by the name of Main Street shall retain its name, and shall extend from the head of the Londonderry Turnpike road northerly to Horse Shoe Pond, by the dwelling-house of the late .Judge Walker. 2. The street west of Main Street, known by the name of State Street, shall retain its name, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly by the Burying Ground to Wood's brook, on the Bosca- wen road. 3. The street west of State Street, known by the name of High Street, shall hereafter be called Green Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street. 4. The street west of Green Street, recently laid out through land of George Kent, shall be called Spring Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street. 5. The plat of ground appropriated by George Kent, Esq., for a public square, containing about five acres, lying between Merrimack and Rumford Streets, shall be called Rumford Square. 396 HISTORY OF CONCORD, 6. The street west of Spring Street, and making the east line of Rumford S(juare, shall be called Runrjmd Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street. 7. The street west of Rumford Street, and making the west line of Rumford Square, shall be called Merrimack Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street. 8. The street running northerly from Centre Street through land partly of Mr. Odliu, shall be called Union Street, and shall extend from Centre Street northerly to Washington Street. 9. The street running southerly from Pleasant Street, by the dwelling-house of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., shall be called South Street, and shall extend from Pleasant Street southerly to Mr. Benjamin Wheeler's dwelling-house. 10. The street running south-easterly from Main Street, at the head of Londonderry Turnpike Road, to Concord Bridge, shall be called ^yater Street. 11. The street running southerly from Water Street, by the late Dea. Wilkins's dwelling-house, through the Eleven Lots, shall be called Hetll Street, and shall extend from Water Street to the town line by Col. Carter's dwelling-house. 1'2. The street running westerly from Main Street, at the head of Londonderry Turnpike Road, shall be called West Street, and shall extend from Main Street westerly to South Street. 13. The street running westerly from Main Street through land of the late Mr. Richard Hazeltine, shall be called Cross Street, and shall extend from Main Street to South Street. 14. The street running westerly from Main Street, near Mr. Chas. Hoag's dwelling-house, through land of the late Mr. Thompson, shall be called Thompson Street, and shall extend from Main Street to South Street. 15. The street north of Thompson Street, through the same lot, shall be called Fai/ette Street, and shall extend from Main Street to South Street. 16. The street running westerly from Main Street by Mr. Asaph Evans's store, shall be called Pleasant Street, and shall extend from Main Street westerly to the junction of the roads by Mr. Stephen Lang's dwelling-house. 17. The street running westerly from Main Street, through the lot lately owned by Mr. Benjamin Gale, shall be called Warren Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street. 18. The street known by the name of School Street shall retain its name, and shall extend from Main Street westerly by the north side of Rumford Square to Merrimack Street. 19. The street running westerly from Main Street by the nortb side of the State House lot, shall be called Park Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street. 20. The street known by the name of Centre Street shall retain its name, and shall extend from Main Street westerly over Sand Hill until it intersects Washintrtou Street. DIRECTORY OF THE CENTRE VILLAGE. 397 21. The street running westerly from Main Street by Dr. Cbad- bourne's dwelling-house, shall be called Montgomenj Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street. 22. The street running westerly from Main Street by the north side of the Court House, through laud of Mr. John Stiekney, shall be called Cou7't St>-cet, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street. 23. The street running westerly from Main Street, by Dr. Carter's dwelling-house, shall be called Wash! ay ton Street, and shall extend from Main Street, crossing State Street and over the hill, until it in- tersects Centre Street. 24. The street running westerly from Main Street, south of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot'.s dwelling-house, shall be called Fearl Street, and shall extend from Main Street to State Street. 25. The street running westerly from Main Street, by the dwell- ing-house of Charles Walker, Esq., shall be called FranJdin Street, and shall extend from Main Street to the angle of the old road on the hill where the Hospital once was. 26. The street running westerly from Main Street, on the south side of the North Meeting-House lot to State Street, shall be known and called by the name of Church Street. 27. The street running westerly from Main Street at Horse Shoe Pond, shall be called Penacook Street, and shall extend from Main Street westerly by the dwelling-house of Richard Bradley, Esq., to the foot of the hill on the Little Pond road. William A. Kent, ") Concord, June, 1834. Timothy Chandler, V Committee. Abiel Walker, ) In June, 1834, a " Directory" was published, " containing the names of all heads of families, males of twenty-one years of age, and all others doing business in Concord centre village, with their occupations, places of business, and residence. The follow- ing summary, taken from this directory, is valuable for the infor- mation it contains, and for future reference. NUMBER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TRADING AND MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, ETC. State House, Court House, State Prison, 5 Meeting-Houses, 3 School Houses, 10 Hotels and Taverns, 2 Banks, 1 Savings Bank, 11 Printing Offices, 10 Newspapers, 26 English and West-India Goods Stores, 1 Hard Ware Store, 1 Crockery Ware Store, 3 Apoth- ecary Stores, 3 Hat Stores, 4 Clothes and Drapery Stores, 6 Book Stores, 5 Book Binderies, 1 Circulating Library, 9 Shoe Stores and Manufactories, 1 Mu.sical Instrument and Umbrella Store, 2 Tanne- ries, 4 Saddle and Harness Makers, 1 Coach and Chaise Manufoctory, 398 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 1 Distillery, 3 Tin Ware Manufactories, 7 Blacksmiths, 3 Wheel- wrights, 4 Furniture Warehouses and Cabinet Shops, 2 Bake Houses, 9 Tailor and Tailorcss Shops, 3 Slaughter Houses, 1 Last Manufiictory, 1 Whip Manufactory, 1 Silver Plating Establishment, 1 Looking- Glass Manufactory, 1 Carver and Gilder, 4 Millinery Shops, 1 Mar- ket House, 3 Victualling Cellars, 2 Chair Manufactories, 1 Comb Manufactory, 1 Boat Manufactory, 1 Confectionery Store, 3 Watch Makers and Jewellers, 1 Clock Manuf;ictory, 1 Grave Stone Maker, 1 Chemical Apparatus and Soda Manufactory, 8 Joiner Shops, 5 Paint Shops, 1 Cooper Shop, 2 Livery Stables, 2 Barber Shops. The extent of communication and mode of public conveyance between Concord and other places, at this time, appears from the following LIST OF STAGES. Concord to Boston. — 1. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Pembroke, Candia, Chester, Hampstead, Atkinson, Haver- hill, Ms., Bradford, Andover, Reading, to Boston. 2. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, through Hooksett, Derry, Methuen, Ms., Andover, Reading. 3. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Hooksett, Derry, Pelham, Lowell, Ms., Billerica, Woburn, 4. Six times a week, through Hooksett, Manchester, Londonderry, Pelham, Lowell, to meet the stages to Boston. 5. Every day, through Hooksett, Amoskeag, Bedford, Merrimack, Nashua, Tyngsborough, Lowell, Billerica, Woburn. Concord to Amlicrst. — Every Tuesday and Saturday, through Dun- barton, Goffstown, New-Boston, to Amherst. Concord to Petcrhorouyli. — Every Monday, Wednesday and Fri- day, through Hopkinton, Henniker, Hillsborough, Antrim, Hancock, to Peterborough. Concord to Charlestoion. — Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day, through Hopkinton, Warner, Bradford, Fishersfield, Newport, Claremont, to Charlestown. Concord to Hanover. — 1. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Hopkinton, Warner, Sutton, New-London, Springfield, En- field, Lebanon, to Hanover. 2. Daily, through Boscawen, Salisbury, Andover, Wilmot, Spring- field, Enfield, Lebanon, to Hanover. Concord to Bradford, Vt. — Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day, through Boscawen, Franklin, New-Chester, Bristol, Hebron, Rumney, Wentworth, Orford, to Bradford. Concord to HavcrhiU. — Sis times a week, through Canterbury, Northfield, Sanbornton, New-Hampton, Plymouth, Rumney, Went- worth, Warren, to Haverhill. Concord to Conicay. — Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Canterbury, Upper Gilmanton, Gilford, Meredith, Cen- INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 399 tre- Harbor, Moultonbo rough, Sandwich, Tamworth, Eaton, to Con- way. Concord to WolfboroiKjli. — Every Tuesday and Saturday, through Loudon, Gilmanton, Alton, to Wolfborough. Concord to Dover. — Every Tuesday and Saturday, through Chiches- ter, Pittsfield, Barnstead, Stratford, Barrington, Madbury, to Dover. Concord to Portsmouth. — 1. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day, through Chichester, Epsom, Northwood, Nottingham, Durham, Dover, to Portsmouth. 2. Every Monday, "Wednesday and Friday, through Pembroke, Al- lenstown, Deerfield, Eaymond, Epping, Exeter, to Portsmouth. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES EELATIVE TO THIS PERIOD. July 4, 1825, was celebrated by a religious service appro- priate to the occasion. Rev. Mr. Bouton delivered an address, and at the close a collection was taken up in aid of the American Colonization Society, amounting to $44,58. Drowned in Horse-shoe pond, at the north end of the village, on Saturday, the 9th instant, John Bradley, aged five years and seven months, eldest child of Richard Bradley, Esq. Drowned in Merrimack river, on the 16th instant, Mr. Leonard Fales, aged forty. He fell from a small boat while intoxicated. June 22d Concord was honored by the presence of the im- mortal LaFayette. Great preparations were made for his reception. Met on the town-line, between Concord and Pem- broke, he was addressed by Hon. William A. Kent, chairman of the committee of arrangements, as follows : General LaFayette : In behalf of the citizens of Concord, we offer you a cordial welcome to our village and to our hospitalities. In the various climates of our country through wdiich you have recently passed, you have experienced a uniform temperature in the public feeling toward you. It has been ivai-m — it has been (jratcful; and in this northern region, sir, where we are no strangers to cold and io frost, you will find no chill in our affections. 400 HISTORY OF CONCORD. In expressing our admiration of your cliaracter, and our gratitude for your noble and disinterested services to our countr}', we but respond to the distinct voice of that country ; and we again echo that voice when we say, as we now do from the heart, may God Almighty bless you. To this address Gen. LaFayette responded. Arrived at the gate of the State House yard, an immense number of people, gathered from the town and from every part of the State, wel- comed him w^ith enthusiastic and prolonged cheering. In the hall of the House of Representatives he was welcomed and ad- dressed by His Excellency the Governor, David L. Morril, and introduced to each of the members. Next, the General was introduced to the Revolutionary soldiers to the number of two hundred and ten, who had come to pay him their respects. He was addressed in their behalf by Gen. Benjamin Pierce. At three o'clock in the afternoon he was conducted by the Governor, amid the cheerings of the assembled multitude, to the dinner-table, in front of the capitol, where, with about six hun- dred others — including more than two hundred Revolutionary officers and soldiers — he partook of a sumptuous entertainment, provided by Mr. John P. Gass, of the Columbian Hotel. After dinner toasts were drank, accompanied with the dis- charge of cannon, and interspersed with songs. One song was written by Col. PhiUp Carrigain to the tune — " Scots who ha' wi' Wallace bled." The first stanza of which was — " North, and South, and East, and "West, Grateful homage have expressed — Greeting loud the nation's guest : Son of Liberty ; — Whom tyrants cursed — whom Heav'n approved — And millions long have mourned and loved — He comes, by fond entreaties moved, The Granite State to see."* During his sojourn in town the General was the guest of Hon. Wilham A. Kent, at whose house a great number of ladies and gentlemen had the pleasure of a private introduction to him. * Concord Register, June 25, 1825. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 401 He left at seven o'clock, on Thursday morning, for Dover and other places eastward. He again returned to Concord on the 27th of June, and took his final leave, for Windsor, Vermont, by way of Hopkinton, Warner, Newport and Claremont. On passing the house of the late Daniel Clark, of Concord, Miss Mary Clark stepped out of the door and presented to Gen. LaFayette a beautiful bouquet of flowers, for which he politely thanked her. The mercury stood at ninety, or above ninety degrees, on thirteen days during the month of July. [1825.] December 17. We have fourteen regular stages running to and from this place three times a week — six of them to Boston ; and, also, several one and two horse carriages carry- ing the mails across the country once a week. DEDICATION OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The Baptist meeting-house was dedicated on Wednesday, De- cember 28th. The order of exercises was — 1. Anthem. 2. Prayer, by Rev. Mr. Robinson, of Sahsbury. 3. Select portions of Scripture, by Rev. Mr. Barnabee, of Deerfield. 4. Singing, Psalm 132, L. M. 5. Dedicatory prayer, by Rev. Mr. WiUiams, late of Windsor, Vermont, now of this town. 6. Singing, 132, C. M. 7. Sermon, by Rev. Mr. Elhs, of Exeter, from Haggai ii: 9. 8. Prayer, by Rev. Mr. Carlton, of Hopkinton. 9. Singing, Hymn 136. 10. Anthem. The house, costing between six and seven thousand dollars, is a handsome edifice, and creditable to the skUl of the architect, Mr. John Leach.* [1826.] January 28. A bell, weighing about thirteen hun- dred pounds, from the foundry of Col. Revere, of Boston, for the new brick Baptist church, to which is to be attached a clock, was purchased by the donations of a number of citizens of this vicinity, and raised to the belfry the latter part of January. *This edifice has since been considerably enlarged and beautified. See engraving of it aa it now is, in history of the Baptist church. 26 402 HISTORY OF CONCORD. February 4. On Wednesday morning the thermometer was twenty-six degrees below zero, which is the lowest that has been noticed for the last eight years. February 18. The joiners' shop, owned by Capt. John Putney, at the East Village, was destroyed by fire. Loss esti- mated at three hundred dollars. An unusual influenza at this season pervaded this town, and extended over the whole of New-England. [1827.] On Thursday morning, May 3d, the hills in Canter- bury, and the tops of Kearsarge and Cardigan, in sight of Concord village, were covered with snow, which had fallen two days before. Died in this town, April 27th, at the residence of Capt. Joseph Walker, Mr. David Sawyer, of Salisbury, aged twenty-one. His body was removed to Salisbury. The cause of his sickness was the lodgment of a stick from an apple tree, exceeding one half of an inch in length and one eighth in diameter, entirely within the eye. It entered the pupil and was invisible to any observer for some length of time. The stick was extracted from the eye ; but lock-jaw ensued, which was the immediate cause of his death. The following is a fair specimen of advertisements for the sale of spirituous hquors, in this town, for many years before the temperance reform commenced : GENUINE LIQUORS AND GROCERIES. WILLIAM GAULT, (Opposite the State House, Concord, N. H.,) Has just received the following supplies, viz. : 10 casks Wines ; 5 hhds. St. Croix RuM ; 4 pipes old Cognac Brandy ; 4 do. pure Holland Gin ; 2 casks old Whisky ; 1 do. Jamaica Spirit. W. G. endeavors at all times to keep a supply of Old Liquors, as good as can be found in the capital of New-England. May 10. tf A reading room was opened in Concord, under favorable auspices, on Thursday, May 24th, having, as contributors for its support, about seventy subscribers. The room was the centre INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 403 room, second story, of tlie large brick building — now Sanborn's block — near the State House, and was fitted up with much neatness and taste. The watch and jewel shop of Mr. Timothy Chandler, of this town, was forcibly broken open and entered on Friday night, June 1st, and articles to the amount of from fifty to one hundred dollars taken therefrom. On Friday morning, June 22d, in attempting to swim across Merrimack river, below Garvin's Falls, Mr. John Thompson, Jr., was drowned, aged thirty — son of Capt. John Thompson, of Concord. A little son, four years old, of Mr. Atkinson Webster, was killed, July 7th, by the kick of a horse. A hog, slaughtered by Mr. John Elliot, of this town, eighteen months and one week old, weighed, when dressed, five hundred and eighteen pounds. Theatre. " At the hall of the Eagle Coifee House, in Con- cord, on Monday evening, July 28th, will be presented Shak- speare's celebrated tragedy of Othello," &c. " Doors open at seven and a half o'clock." This was the first experiment of theatrical performances ever tried in this town. The performances were continued every evening through the week, except Saturday — receiving, how- ever, but httle patronage. They then closed. Died in this town, on the 5th of August, of paralysis, Mr. William Stickney, aged sixty-nine. He was attacked in the morning, while about his ordinary business ; was insensible through the day, and expired the same evening. Died in this town, in September, Mr. Oliver Hoit, aged eighty. He was a worthy member of the Baptist church, whose last hours were distinguished by a calm reliance upon that Saviour whose religion he had honored by a uniform life of piety for a number of years. [1828.] The victory of Gen. Jackson over the British at New- Orleans, January 8, 1814, was celebrated at Concord by an im- mense concourse of citizens from this town and other parts of the State. A procession was formed at eleven o'clock, in the forenoon, in front of the State House, and moved to the old North Church, 404 HISTORY OF CONCORD. where the Hon. Isaac Hill delivered a discourse, -which was the first ever delivered by him on a public occasion. Prayers were offered by Rev. Nathaniel Bouton and Rev. N. W. Williams. A sumptuous dinner was served in the area of the State House. A ball at the hall of the Eagle Coffee House, in the evening, was said to be more splendid than any other exhibition of the kind that ever took place in the interior of New-England.* The Eagle Coffee House, in Concord, kept by Wilham Rich- ardson, was opened for public entertainment in February, 1828. Died in this town, on Wednesday morning, May 21st, aged twenty-one years, Mrs. Harriet Sherman Bouton, consort of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton: Never has it been our lot to record the death of one in our immediate neighborhood whose departure has excited a more intense or more general interest. The im- mense crowd of people that attended her funeral obsequies on Friday — the tears that glistened in many eyes — the deep so- lemnity that pervaded the audience — the long procession that followed to the "house appointed for all the living" — all evinced how strong was the attachment of those who two years ago were to her utter strangers. So young — so beautiful — so innocent, and meek, and unassuming, and yet so interesting — so pious, without affectation — so familiar, without obtrusiveness — so pru- dent, and yet so artless — hers seemed a spirit too pure and too angelic to be long of the nether world. Until within a few hours of her death, unconscious as was her partner of the alarming nature of her disease, the shock was as sudden as it was over- whelming to him, who was united by early attachment and by the tenderest sympathies.! Mrs. B. was a daughter of Rev. John Sherman, grandson of Hon. Roger Sherman, of Connecticut. She was born at Tren- ton, New- York, April 3, 1807, — adopted daughter of Rev. Erastus Ripley, of Meriden, Connecticut ; married in Lebanon, Goshen Parish church, September 11, 1825, and died suddenly, of puerperal fever, leaving two children, the youngest a son of one week old. Printers' elastic, composition rollers were first used in Concord, *See JV. H. Patriot, January 7 and 14, 1828. f-^''- ^^- Patriot. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 405 in the Patriot and Statesman offices, instead of the old fashioned halls, in August, 1828, The eleventh regiment of the New-Hampshire militia, under the command of Col. Simeon Stevens, paraded for inspection and review, in this town, October 9th, on the same ground — west of the State Prison — upon which were encamped for some time, during the late war, a portion of United States troops. The troops were reviewed by Adjutant General Low. [1829.] The blacksmith and machine shop, occupied by Gen. Isaac Eastman, on the east side of the river, in Concord, was destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 20th of March. The alarm was given by the ringing of bells, about one o'clock at night. By the aid of engines from the main street, the buildings near the shop were saved. No insurance. Loss esti- mated at about $500. Died in this town, December 2d, Phebe Hutchins, wife of Levi Hutchins, aged sixty-three. She was for many years a worthy member of the Society of Friends, and manifested much of that spirit of universal love which she beheved ought to be felt and cherished by all. DEATH OF EZEKIEL WEBSTER. On Friday afternoon, April 10, 1829, at about half past three o'clock, the Hon. Ezekiel Webster, of Boscawen, while addressing the jury in the Court of Common Pleas, in this town — apparently in perfect health, and with his usual strength and abihty — sud- denly fell, deprived of sensation and life. He had spoken for nearly half an hour in a full and unfaltering voice, and had finished a sentence, when the hand of death arrested his earthly course. The physicians of this town were immediately present, but his soul had left its earthly tenement ere any human aid could be administered. No language can paint the consternation of the court, the bar, and jurors, together with a crowded audience, whose eyes were riveted upon the speaker at the moment of his sudden exit. The court immediately adjourned, and the body of the deceased was conveyed in a carriage to his boarding-house — Mrs. Mary Ann 406 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Sticknej's — and thence to his family mansion, in Boscawen, on Friday evening. On the opening of the court, on Saturday morning, the Hon. Charles H. Atherton announced to the court the deep feehng which pervaded the bar in this melancholy bereavement, and suitable resolutions were adopted. In the afternoon the court, members of the bar, and a great number of citizens, walked in procession to the North Church, where prayers were offered by Rev. Mr. Bouton. Mr. Webster was one of the ablest lawyers of the State — a distinguished legislator — and left a rich inheritance in fame for his orphan children. He stood at the head of the Merrimack bar, by every member of which he was honored and esteemed for his courtesy, talents and integrity. The void created by his premature death will not soon be filled.* In the summer of 1829 an infant school was kept by Mrs. Ruby B. Preston, in Stickney's hall. About thirty children, between the ages of two and a half and six years, attended. The expense of the first quarter was two dollars and a half a scholar. The ordination of Rev. Moses G. Thomas over the Second Congregational Church and Society in Concord, took place on the 25th of March, 1829. The services, agreeably to request, were performed in the old North Church. Introductory prayer and reading of Scripture, by Rev. Mr. Gage, of Dunstable, N. H. ; sermon by Rev. Mr. Barrett, of Boston, from Ro- mans V : 4 ; ordaining prayer by Rev. Mr. Gannett, of Boston ; charge to the pastor by Rev. Mr. Capen, of South Boston ; right hand of fellowship by Rev. Mr. Lathrop, of Dover ; address to the Society by Rev. Mr. Gannett, and concluding prayer by Rev. Mr. Gannett. The corner stone of a new church for the use of the Unitarian Society in this town was laid, with appropriate religious services, by the Rev. Moses G. Thomas, pastor of the Society, on Satur- day, May 2, 1829. In a leaden box, under the corner stone, were deposited, * JV. H. Journal. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 407 among other things, an historical account of Concord, from the time it was first visited bj inhabitants from the eastern continent, in 1639, prepared by John Farmer, Esq. ; also, a copy of the New-Hampshire Register for 1829, and a copy of each of the newspapers printed in the town. Died in this town, Sunday evening, October 25th, Mr. Joseph Wiggin, aged eighty -four. Mr. W. attended meeting in the fore part of that day, but died suddenly in the evening, in a fit of apoplexy. DEDICATION OF THE UNITARIAN CHURCH. On Wednes- day, Nov. 11th, the new meet- ing-house erect- ed by the Second Congregational (or Unitarian) Society in this town, was dedi- cated to the wor- ship of the " one only living and tine God." The 01 dcr of exercis- es were : 1. An anthem. 2. A ^piajer, by Rev. Ralph W.Emer- son, of Boston. j^3. Reading of the Scriptures. 4. Dedication hymn. 5. Ded- ' icatory prayer, by Rev. Mr. Parkman, of Boston. 6. Consecration hymn. T. Sermon, by Rev. Mr. Thomas, pastor of the church. 8. Con- cluding prayer and benediction. 408 HISTORY OF CONCORD. [1830.] The Concord Mechanics' Association held its annual meeting January 6th, and an address was delivered by Richard Bartlett, Esq. The society consists of about fifty master mechan- ics, and has a library of nearly one hundred volumes for the use of the members and their apprentices. George Hough, Esq., presi- dent; Maj. Timothy Chandler and Gen. Isaac Eastman, vice presidents ; Jacob B. Moore, Esq., treasurer and hbrarian ; Dea. James Moulton, secretary ; Lewis Downing, Benjamin Parker, William Restieaux, David Allison, directors. The first public measures for a temperance society in Concord were taken on Fast Day, April 1, 1830, by a meeting at the old North Church. On Thursday, the 8th, at the Town Hall, a con- stitution was adopted, a society organized, and officers chosen, viz. : Timothy Chandler, president ; Samuel Morril, vice presi- dent ; Albe Cady, secretary ; Joseph Low, Ira Rowell, Elijah Colby, William Kent and Henry Fisk, executive committee. At the inspection and exercise of the independent company of light infantry of this town, in May, 1830, under the command of Capt. George D. Abbot, the company abstained entirely from the use of ardent spirit. On Tuesday evening, April 6th, a meeting was held at the Town Hall, in Concord, to consider the project of a railroad throuo-h this State and Vermont, to connect the business of the great western lakes with the tide waters of the Atlantic ! Maj. Timothy Chandler called the meeting to order, and Hon. William A. Kent was chosen chairman, and Albe Cady, Esq., secretary. The project was approved, and a committee appointed to cor- respond on the subject, viz. : William A. Kent, Timothy Chandler, Dudley S. Palmer, Stephen Ambrose, Jeremiah Pecker, Joseph Low, George Kent, Samuel Coffin, Samuel Fletcher and Asa McFarland. May 19. Mr. Joshua Sawyer, taverner, at the lower end of Main street, committed suicide by hanging. July 26. The stage now runs three times a week from Bur- lington, through Montpeher, Hanover and Concord, to Boston, in two days. August 9. A deer has been seen several times of late upon INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 409 the interval east of the Merrimack river, a mile from the State House. September 22. James Stevens, son of Mr. Phihp Stevens, of this town, was killed at Quincy, Mass., while working in the granite quarry, by the falling of a huge stone on him. He was buried in Concord. Mr. William Gault exhibited last week two long white Turkey cucumbers, which grew in his garden this season, one of w^hich is nineteen and a quarter inches long, fifteen and three quarters in circumference, and weighs eight pounds and four ounces. The other is sixteen and a half inches long, twenty and a quarter inches in circumference, and weighs nine pounds and six ounces.* November 15. On Wednesday last the Concord Light In- fantry company, Capt. Joseph E. Estabrook, celebrated its fourteenth anniversary in handsome style. Much interest was imparted to the occasion by the ceremonies attending the pre- sentation of an elegant standard to the company by a number of young ladies of this village. jNIiss Hannah Hutchins, in behalf of her fair companions, delivered the address. [1831.] January 81. On Thursday evening last about eighty mechanics of this place partook of a splendid supper at the Columbian Hotel. April 4. Drowned in Merrimack river, in this town, on Friday last, while employed with other persons in rafting, near West Parish village, Mr. Newell Currier, of Canterbury. The bank of the river on which he stepped caved in, and he imme- diately sank and was not again seen. Mr. Currier had a wife and two children. In April, of this year, James Elliot was drowned in the " outlet," so calledj at the Borough, aged about sixteen. April 11. The first annual meeting of the Concord Tem- perance Society was held at the North Meeting-house, on Thurs- day (Fast day,) in the afternoon, and was addressed by Rev. Mr. Kelley, of the M. E. Church. The other exercises of the pulpit were conducted by Rev. Mr. Bouton, Rev. Mr. Williams and Rev. Mr. Thomas. April 25. On Tuesday evening last, about nine o'clock, the * Patriot, October 4th. 410 HISTORY OF CONCORD. auroFca borealis presented an unusual and magnificent appearance. There was a brilliant bow in the heavens, the more effulgent horn apparently resting on a dark cloud in the eastern horizon. Light flashed upward from the bow, whilst the stars shone dimly in the sky beneath. In the south, also, waves of light flashed to the zenith. PARK STREET.* This beautiful street, which is situated immediately north of the State House yard, and overlooks the same, was opened to the public about this time, by private individuals, principally through the instrumentality of the Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham. The \ %,\ rT^ 0,'' ^ dwelling-house of Judge Upham, of which a view is here pre- sented, is a fine specimen of the best architecture of this period. The house was built in 1831. At first a court was opened to it from State street, but was extended to Main street in 1831, at which time the American house was erected by Mr. John P. *So called in honor of Stuart J. Park, Esq., architect and builder of the State House. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 411 Gass and his son. This house was built in less time than any other house of its size ever before built in Concord. The site where it stands was occupied by a store called the green store, and by the house owned by the late Mr. Jacob Emmons. These buildings were moved in March — the first a few rods west, and the other a few rods north, where they still remain. The under- pinning of the American house was laid in April, and in six weeks and two days the spacious edifice was completed, and opened the first of June for the accommodation of guests. A large number of members of the Legislature obtained board there. The piazza on the front and south side of the house was built subsequently. On Sunday, May 22, during the afternoon service, a boy by the name of Benjamin Tibbetts, 13 years of age, entered the store of Dea. William Gault, and took from the money drawer the sum of $19.37 ; but before he had retreated was seized by a young man of the name of Wiggin, who was left in the store in the morning to watch. Tibbetts was examined next morning before Albe Cady, Esq., and the proof being positive against him, he was, for want of bonds to the amount of $100, committed to the jail in Hopkinton, to await his trial in September. Election Sermon. The sermon before the Executive and, both branches of the Legislature, was delivered on Thursday af- ternoon, June 2, at the old North Church, by Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D., President of Dartmouth College. The text was I. Cor. xiii : 5 : " Charity seeketh not her own.^'' This was the Zas^ Elec- tion sermon in New-Hampshire. The first was delivered by Rev. Dr. Samuel McChntock, of Greenland, in June, 1784, and the practice of having such a service annually was continued till this time. A motion, made by Hon. Charles F. Gove, indefinitely to postpone a resolution introduced by Benj. M. Farley, Esq.," to appoint a committee on the part of the House to select some per- son to preach the Election sermon next year," was carried by 107 yeas, to 81 nays, and the good old custom henceforth ceased, to the great regret of a large portion of the citizens.* On Sunday, June 12, the hghtning struck an elm tree near Mr. Charles Hutchins's, in the south part of the village ; and on * Seo Miscellaneous Chapter, — '' Election" and "Election Sermons." 412 HISTORY OF CONCORD. the 19th it struck another elm, near Mr. Moses G. i^.twood's. The last tree was very much shattered. About this time rehgious meetings, of three or four days' con- tinuance, were held in many places, and attended with remark- able effects in awakening attention to religious concerns. They were called " three" or " four days meetings." In the summer of 1831 there were connected with the First Congregational Society in Concord fourteen Sunday schools, taught in different parts of the parish, containing four hundred and fifty-five scholars and eighty-two teachers. In the winter one school, taught during intermission, at the meeting-house, contained three hundred scholars. The New-Hampshire Savings Bank in Concord was instituted in June, 1830. The first year the amount of deposits, by two hundred and twenty-one persons, was ^19.443,25. The General Association of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers was held at the North Meeting-house, in Concord, Sep- tember 6th, 7th and 8th, 1831, and was followed by an extensive revival of religion in every part of the town. Col. Robert Ambrose, of Concord, son of Stephen Ambrose, Esq., on a visit at Boston, rode out of the city on the 20th of September in company with another gentleman, over the Mill- dam, where they met a loose horse pursued by a dog, and run- ning with great rapidity, at which their horse became restive and ungovernable. The other gentleman leaped from the wagon without serious injury, but Col. Ambrose was thrown out with such violence as to fracture his skull and occasion almost imme- diate death. The sad intelligence of his death was communicated to his wife and father by Rev. Mr. Bouton, early on Thursday morn- ing — only a few hours before the arrival of the corpse from Boston. It was an occasion of inexpressible sorrow and anguish. The funeral took place in the afternoon of Thursday, attended by a large concourse of sympathizing friends and citizens. Col. Ambrose was thirty-four years of age — a gentleman of great activity and enterprise. For t\yo years in succession, 1829 and INTERESTmG INCIDENTS. 41^ 1830, he represented the town in the State Legislature, left a wife and four children — three sons and a daughter. DEDICATION OF THE METHODIST MEETING-HOUSE. He The new Metho- = dist Meeting-house =,in this town was ' dedicated to the "^ service of Almighty *jod, on Thursday, ^December 1, 1831. The order of exer- cises was as fol- lows: Introductory anthem — " I was glad," &c.; intro- ductory prayer, by Rev. 0. Hinds, of Chichester ; read- ing of the Scrip- tures, by Rev. Sam- uel Kelley, pastor ; ^M hymn, read by Rev. E. Stickney, Hop- kinton — " Before Jehovah's awful throne,"' &c, ; dedicatory prayer, by Rev. J. Perkins, of Epping ; a selected hymn for the occasion, read by Rev. G. Storrs ; sermon, by Rev. G. Storrs, of Portsmouth ; hymn, read by Rev. J. Perkins, selected for the occasion ; con- cluding prayer, by Rev. E. Stickney ; dismission anthem ; bene- diction. The church is forty by sixty feet, including the vestibule, and has about eighty-four pews. [1832.] On Sunday night, July 15th, six convicts in the New- Hampshire State Prison, who were confined in one cell, effected their escape by splitting out a stone in the roofing of their cell, cutting; a hole in the roof of the building, and letting; themselves down to the wall by their blankets. All this was accomplished 414 HISTORY OF CONCORD. ■with so little noise as not to alarm tlie sentinel on duty in the guard-room ; and the discovery was not made until Monday morning. On Tuesday four of the six were captured near Hill's bridge, in Hopkinton, and returned to the prison. Another was taken in Grantham, and one finally escaped. On the 8th of August a public dinner was given, by his po- litical friends, to Hon. Isaac Hill, at the Eagle coflfee-house. Between two and three hundred joined in the festivities of the occasion. The frame of the meeting-house for the West Congregational Society in Concord was raised August 17th. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Bouton. Maj. William Abbot was architect. No ardent spirits were used on the occasion. [1833.] A large wolf was killed in this town on Saturday, February 16th, within a mile of the State House. His track was discovered in the north-western part of the town, and followed by a party of hunters from the West Parish for nearly a week, until the wolf was driven into a swamp south of the village, which was surrounded, and he was shot by Capt. Enoch Dow, one of the party who first started in pursuit. LECTURES ON READING. A couple of young gentlemen from Andover, Mass.,* are giv- ing a course of lectures in this place upon reading. It is said that they read so well as to draw tears from the audience, even when reading the fable of the old man and rude boy ; and that at the introductory lecture, so pathetic was the enunciation, and so affecting, withal, that the audience came near being drowned out by the flood of tears !f Died in this town, June 14th, Mr. Moses Hall, aged about 50 ; an industrious and worthy citizen. Mr. Hall rose in the morning, apparently in usual health, and expired in a few min- utes afterwards from disease of the heart. On the 28th of June Concord was honored by the visit of Gen. Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. Agreeably to arrangements, he was met in the afternoon on the line between Bow and Concord by a large cavalcade of citizens and strangers, * Mr. T. D. P. Stone and Mr. Fackler. t-'V. //. Patriot, April 20, 1633. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 415 and welcomed to the town by Col. Robert Davis, chairman of the town committee. A procession was formed, which moved to the Plain in Concord, an(.I was met by eight brilUant indepen- dent companies, mider command of Col. Stephen Peabody, of Milford, for the purpose of escorting the President to his lodg- ings. The President then left his barouche, and mounted an elegant horse, and the procession moved to the north end of Main street, down State street, through School street, to his quarters, at the Eagle coffee house. The interesting occasion called out an immense concourse of people to see the chief magistrate of the nation. It was estimated that more than ten thousand persons were in Concord on Friday. The President was exceedingly exhausted at evening, and retired to his room at an early hour. At eight o'clock on Saturday morning the troops were paraded west of the Capitol, under command of Col. Peabody, and at nine, the President, accompanied by the Gov- ernor and their suites, and Adjutant General Low reviewed them ; after which, he repaired to his quarters, front of the cap- itol, when the troops formed a line from the coffee house to the east door of the capitol, and opened to the right and left, through which the President, the Vice President, his suite. Gen. Miller, Col. McNeil, several ex-governors, and other gentlemen of dis- tinction, passed to pay their respects to the several branches of the civil government. On entering the Representatives' hall the President was announced by Chief Marshal Cushman. The assembly rose, and the Marshal introduced the Governor, who addressed the President, and received a pertinent and pathetic reply; after which the Governor introduced the Council and and the President of the Senate. The latter introduced the Senate and Speaker of the House. The Speaker of the House introduced the members individually. He was then greeted by several other gentlemen, and returned to his quarters amid the cheers of thousands. After a little respite the President appeared in the piazza, attended by Vice President Van Buren, Gov. Cass, Secretary of War, and Judge Woodbury, Secretary of the Navy, who were severally introduced to the multitude, with cheers of approbation. In the afternoon, at three o'clock, the President received the 416 HISTORY OF CONCORD. respects of all those citizens who wished to call on him, and visited the State Prison ; and at seven in the evening, in the area of the capitol, received the hands of nearly five hundred ladies, who thus expressed their pleasure on seeing the chief magistrate of the United States. On the Lord's day, in the forenoon, the President and the gen- tlemen who accompanied him, attended religious service at the First Congregational meeting-house, and heard Rev. Mr. Bouton from the text Luke x : 20. In the afternoon they attended the Unitarian meeting, Rev. Mr. Thomas ; at four, met the Baptist and Methodist Societies at the Baptist church. Rev. Mr. Cummings offered the prayer, and Rev. Mr. Dow preached. While the President was attending worship in the old North Church, a Mr. Hewins, portrait painter, took a pencil sketch, from which he painted one of the best likenesses ever taken of the General. Among those introduced to the President in this town were two lads of from twelve to fifteen years of age, one of whom was named Isaac Andreiv, the youngest son of Hon. Isaac Hill, and the name of the other Andreto Jackson. The President took them kindly by the hand, and said, " My sons, I am glad to see you ; you are fine boys, and I make you the same legacy I make to all my children — the eagle of your country." So saying, he drew from his purse, for each, a United States coin, and presenting it, added, " Here, my sons, is the eagle of your country, which during my life I have endeavored to honor and defend. Keep it in remembrance of me ; and if ever it should be assailed by a foreign or domestic foe, rally under its pinions and defend it to the last." On Monday morning, at seven o'clock, the President left this place on his return to Washington. He was escorted by the Concord committee, on horseback, to the town fine, and on the spot where they first had the honor to receive him, opened to the right and left, dismounted and uncovered. The President, with beaver in hand, passed through, gracefully saluting the commit- tee ; when their chairman. Col. Robert Davis, briefly repeated the assurances of the pleasure his visit had given, and in the INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 417 name of the committee and his fellow citizens generally, bade him " God speed." The President took him kindly by the hand, and in a few touching and eloquent words directed him to return his thanks to the committee and citizens, and assure them that their kind wishes were most heartily reciprocated. Ripe Indian corn was gathered on the premises of Hon. Isaac Hill, in this town, August 7th. The corn was the small eight rowed, planted in May, seed from Montpelier, Vt. j\Ir. John Estabrook, of this town, was instantly killed by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat New-England, on the 9th of October, 1833, at Essex, near the mouth of Connecticut river. Mr. Estabrook had taken passage from New- York, ex- pecting to go to Weathersfield, Connecticut, to meet his wife and child, then on a visit to the family of Amos Pillsbury, Esq., warden of the Connecticut State Prison. By the explosion of the boilers thirteen persons were killed and many more severely injured. Mr. Estabrook was probably blown off the deck into the water, whence his body was recovered in full dress. The watch in his pocket stopped at the precise moment when the explosion took place. Mr. E. was interred at Essex, but subse- quently his remains were removed to the family burying ground in Hopkinton, N. H., which was his native place. He was in his 29th year. Mr. Estabrook was the eldest son of an orphan familj^, form- erly of Hopkinton, to whom he had been, to the best of his ability, a protector and guardian. He married Miss Emehne Abbot, youngest daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, of this town, July 6, 1829, by whom he had one child, Frederick, who died January 3, 1844, aged 12 years. Mr. E. was a trader, — a young man of active and enterprising habits. Isaac F. Williams, of Concord, raised the present year in his garden, one hundred and twenty-four bushels of the first quality potatoes, on a httle less than one fourth of an acre of land. On Sunday evening, January 12, 1834, Mr. Ephraim Pettengill was found dead, on the road north-east of Mr. Meshech Lang's, and about one fourth of a mile from his own house. An axe lay by his side, stained with blood, and the main artery of his leg, near the groin, was cut. A bottle of rum was found in his 27 418 HISTORY OF CONCORD. pocket. He started from Mr. Ambrose's store about nine o'clock, on Saturday evening, and it is supposed fell on the edge of the axe and bled to death. An elm tree now marks the spot -where he was found. Died in this town, February 25, 1834, Mrs. Elizabeth Ila- zeltine, aged one hundred years and six months. Mrs. H. was the oldest person that ever deceased in Concord. She was the fourth child of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, one of the original propri- etors of the town ; born July 1, 1733, old style. She married Joseph Hazeltine, and lived in the south-west part of the town, on what is now known as the " silk farm." Mrs. H. was remark- able for kindness of temper, suavity of manners, vivacity of spirit, energy, and for her tenacious memory. This she retained till the last of life. She remembered and related not only early incidents in her life, with great exactness, but things that oc- curred when she was seventy, eighty, and even ninety years old. On the day she was ninety-nine years old, a sermon was preached at her house by Rev. Mr. Bouton, from Psalms 71 : 9 : "(7as« me not off in the time of old age; forsake jne not when my strength faileth." Her hearing was then perfect, her mental faculties bright, and after meeting she held sprightly conversa- tion with many neighbors who visited her. When one hundred years old another discourse was preached at her house, which was numerously attended by persons from the main village, who had the curiosity to see a centenarian. With the exception of her eye-sight, her faculties were still good. She was able to sit up in her armed chair during the whole service, and enjoyed it greatly. After the lecture she said to her pastor — " When you preached here last year from the text in Psalms, 71 : 9, I did not expect that I should Uve to hear another sermon ; but I am thankful that the Lord has spared me to hear the word once more. To-day I am a monument of his mercy, and a witness for his goodness and forbearance." On being introduced to children and grand-children of those whom she formerly knew, she addressed them severally with great propriety — often re- lating some little anecdote suited to the occasion. Mrs. H. was greatly "esteemed and beloved by her neighbors — for whom, in sickness and trouble, she would cheerfully sacrifice her own com- INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 419 fort. In middle life she was once called on, in a cold winter night, when the snow was deep, to attend on a neighbor's wife, half a mile distant ; and, fastening on snow-shoes, she walked over the top of fences to the place. The following beautiful sketch of her character was written bj the late Miss Mary Clark, and addressed to a friend : '' We proceeded together to visit the venerable matron of ninety- seven, now probably near the close of a long and exemplary life. We found her sitting upright in her easy chair, somewhat more com- fortable than she was the day previous. The dimness of her eye- sight prevented her from recognizing us, but as we were successively introduced by her grand-daughter, her withered hand was extended to us with the same cordial expression of kindly feelings she was wont to manifest. The same entire trust and confidence in her heavenly Father, the same perfect resignation to his will, the same happy serenity of mind, the same desire to arrive at the end of her pilgrimage, yet the same willingness to wait God's time, ai-e still ap- parent iu her; and I might add, the same benevolent regard for her friends and neighbors, and the whole human family, which has char- acterized her life and conversation. She converses with much pro- priety, and seems to retain her mental faculties wonderfully, consid- ering her advanced age and the sorrows of her life. There was always something peculiarly pleasant in visiting her. Her humility of mind ; her calm, unobtrusive piety ; the sweetness of her disposi- tion ; the aifability and dignity of her manners, and her intelligent conversation, rendered her society highly interesting. Her's is the evening of a well spent life ; an evening without clouds, over which the bright assemblage of her Christian virtues sheds a delightful radiance. And how has she attained this excellence of character ? Has it not been by continued perseverance in the way of well doing ? Doubtless she has had her conflicts with temptation, her sorrows for sin ; she has felt her own weakness, she has lamented her own frailty ; but she has been ltd to the Rock that was higher than she, — she has trusted in the arm that was stronger than hers, — she has believed in Him who is the way, the truth and the life, — she has followed him, and he has owned and blessed her, and will undoubtedly save her with an everlasting salvation. And why may not we do likewise ? What hinders us from u-alking hy the same rule, from minding the same thing ? The same aids are profl"ered to us, the same Almighty Power remains to hold us up, that we may be safe from sin and temptation ; we also may die the death of this right- eous woman, and have our last end be like hers, if we will be careful to live as she has lived, by faith in the Son of God. What though we are weak ? He is mighty. What though we are tempted ? He can deliver. He can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities, for he was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the Throne of Grace, that we may obtain 420 HISTORY OF CONCORD. mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Let ns lay aside every weight and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." " ' True, 'tis a strait and thorny road, And mortal spirits tire and faint, But they forget the mighty God Who feeds the strength of eveiy saint.' " An Irish emigrant, in a dying state, was found in the bam of Samuel Simpson, of this town, on the 9th of July, and shortly afterwards expired. He was apparently about thirty-five years of age. It was supposed that the cause of bis death was the fatigue of travelling on a day of such extreme heat, and his having drank too freely of cold water. He was respectably interred in the common burying-ground, by the town authorities of Concord. Died in this town. May 26, of pulmonary consumption. Miss Lydia C. Farnum, daughter of Mr. Ephraim Farnum, aged twenty-seven. She was distinguished for a bright and active mind, a highly finished education, uncommon aptness to teach, personal beauty, and, above all, for christian excellence. Her death was peaceful and happy. An unsuccessful attempt was made on the night of July 4 to rob the Concord Bank. The outer door was entered, but the robbers were unsuccessful in forcing the vault. CONCORD PRICES CURRENT OF FURS, BY I. C. BRADLEY. Red Fox, prime, S0,75to$l,12 XFox, '' 2,00 Silver, " 6,00 Sable, " 25 Mink, " 10 Fisher, " 75 Otter, " 5,00 House Cat, " 6 Bear, " 3,00 Cubs, " 75 Raccoon, " 6 2,50 10,00 1,06 45 1,50 7,00 17 4,00 1,00 25 At Concord, the 4th of July was celebrated by two political parties — both branches of the Legislature joining in the fes- tivities, according to political predilections. Processions were INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 421 formed of the friends of the Administration at the State House, and of the Whigs at the Court House. The first proceeded to the Brick meeting-house, where Mr. Theophilus Fisk, a minister of the denomination of Universahsts, deUvered an oration. The latter proceeded to the North Meeting-house, where Leonard Wilcox, Esq., of Orford, delivered an address. Each party had its dinner, toasts and speeches. mechanics' BANK. The first meeting of the grantees of the Mechanics' Bank was held at the Eagle coffee-house, on Tuesday, August 12, 1834, Joseph M. Harper in the chair, and the following board of di- rectors was chosen : Nathaniel G. Upham, Peter Renton, Horatio Hill, Joseph M. Harper, Nathaniel Curtis, Abner B. Kelly, Arlond Carroll. At a subsequent meeting of the directors, Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham was chosen president, and George Minot cashier. A public dinner was given in Concord, by the Whigs of New- Hampshire, on the 30th of September, to the Hon. Samuel Bell, of Chester, Senator in Congress. A splendid pavihon was erected for the occasion, on the common in School street, and about six hundred persons sat down to the dinner. The speakers were Hon. Daniel Webster, John Holmes, of Maine, Ichabod Bartlett, and Senator Bell. Col. Amos A. Brewster, of Hanover, presided at the table ; grace was invoked by Rev. Moses G. Thomas, of Concord, and the toasts were read by George Kent, Esq. September 8, 1834, Abraham Prescott, a young man charged with the murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran, both of Pembroke, was tried before the Court of Common Pleas, held (on account of the large concourse of people) in the old North Meeting-House in Concord. He was found guilty, but allowed a new trial. The second trial took place at the same place, September 8, 1835, and on Saturday, the 12th, at nine, A. M., the jury came into court with a verdict of guilty. Sentence of death was pronounced by Judge Upham on Monday, September 14, and the time of his execution fixed on the 23d of December, between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock. A reprieve was granted by 422 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Gov. William Badger till the 6tli of January, 1836, when Pres- cott was executed, by hanging, at Hopkinton, in the presence of a large concourse of people. Died in this town, October 30th, Mrs. Anna Willey, at the advanced age of one hundred years, wanting a few days. Through life she enjoyed uniform health, and, until within a few years of her decease, contributed of her own handiwork in the family of her son, Dea. James Willey, with whom she resided. Her age was ninety-nine years, eleven months and six days. The new prison, or north wing of the State Prison, was com- pleted this year. It is composed of granite, one hundred and twenty-seven feet long and thirty-seven feet wide. The walls are from twenty to twenty-four inches thick and twenty-five feet high. The whole cost was $17,533,75. CHAPTER XV. HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1835 TO 1845. The first part of the period of our history from 1835 to 1845, is distinguished for nothing so much as the remarkable spirit of specidatmi, amounting almost to a mania, -which extensively pre- vailed. It was awakened about the beginning of the year 1835, in relation to lands in the State of Maine, and soon extended to real estate in all the principal cities and villages of New-England. Visionary schemes were projected, airy hopes raised, and extrav- agant sums paid for land, with the expectation of amassing thereby a large fortune. Lots in Concord, valued at from forty to sixty dollars per acre, suddenly rose to twice and five times that sum ; purchases were made — generally on credit — and many lots changed owners. Associations were formed of gentle- men who had by their industry laid up a few hundred or thousand dollars, and the whole placed at stake in a sjyeculatmg race for wealth. In 1837 the crisis was reached, the bubble burst, and a large part of all who had enlisted in the enterprise found their money gone, without an equivalent. The loss to persons in Con- cord, principally by speculation in eastern lands, was estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred thousand dollars. The con- sequence was, a pecuniary embarrassment which lasted long afterwards, and from which some never recovered. In the mean time the common aifairs of the town proceeded in their usual order. As a means of security in case of fires, the selectmen were authorized, in 1835, to purchase two fire engines of a large size, for the use of Main street, and to locate those then on Main street, one at the East and one at the West village. 424 HISTORY OF CONCORD. On recommendation of the selectmen, school district No. 12 ■was divided and a new district formed on the Dark Plain, (No. 22,) " consisting of the inhabitants living on the turnpike from Philip Stevens's to Pembroke line, from the turnpike to Loudon line, and from the turnpike to Pembroke line, on the Sheep road, so called." A school-house was subsequently built at the angle of the turnpike and Loudon road. The superintending school committee reported this year the whole number of scholars 1049, in the winter schools, kept by male teachers. Of that number, besides reading and spelling, there were writers, 425 ; mental arithmetic, 239 ; written arith- metic, 223 ; grammar, 175 ; geography, 228 ; history, 40 ; philosophy, 25 ; chemistry, 7 ; astronomy, 7 ; Watts on the mind, 5 ; algebra and geometry, 9. SMALL POX. During the months of August and September, 1835, four cases of small pox occurred in town. The patients were removed to a retired situation, about two miles from the main village (to a house on the Bog road.) One case only proved fatal, viz., Abiel E. Thompson, aged 38, died September 20th. But in consequence of the general alarm produced by this disease in the community, the town, in 1836, adopted a law of the State, passed June 27, 1835, for the prevention of the small pox, and appointed Dr. Ezra Carter agent for vaccinating all the inhabit- ants of the town. The selectmen were authorized to demand the highest sum of showmen in all cases, and to withhold licenses for the sale of ardent spirits. By order of the town, land was purchased of Gen. Robert Davis for a burying ground in the West Parish, north of the meeting-house, at a cost of $190.83. The first person buried therein was Mr. Orlando Brown, taveruer in the West village, Avho deceased December 12th, aged 54. RAILROAD STOCK. At a special town meeting, October 10, 1836, William A. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low, having charge of the par- sonage and school funds, were authorized to invest the same in THE SURPLUS REVENUE. 425 two hundred shares* of the Concord Railroad. The same com- mittee were " empowered and directed, for and in behalf of the town, to subscribe for five hundred shares of Concord Railroad stock, and to borrow a sum not exceeding $30,000 at not more than six per cent, interest, redeemable after the year 1845." The same committee were appointed to make application to the Legislature, at its ensuing session in November, " to empower the town of Concord to procure a loan of $30,000, or any less sum, to be invested by the town in the stock of the Concord Railroad." At a towm meeting, held November 7th, on the question, " Is it expedient for the State to grant an appropriation to build an Insane Hospital ?" there were five hundred and fifty-three yeas, and sixteen nays. 1837. SURPLUS REVENUE. At a special meeting, January 30, 1837, " Voted, That the town will receive from the Treasurer of the State the portion allotted to it of the public money of the United States, deposited •with this State, agreeably to the act providing for the disposition of the public money, passed January 13, 1837." Isaac Hill was at the same time appointed agent in behalf of the town, to receive from time to time the town's portion of the aforesaid money, as it should become due ; to receipt for the same, and " to pledge the faith of the town for the safe keeping and their payment of the same when demanded by the State treasurer." " Voted, That the act of the Legislature of New-Hampshire, passed January 14, 1837, authorizing the town of Concord to hire money to be vested in the Concord Railroad stock, be accepted by the town." At the same meeting the vote of the town, authorizing Wilham A. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low, to subscribe for shares in the aforesaid stock, and to borrow $30,000 on the credit of the town, was renewed ; and they were directed to borrow from the agent of the surplus revenue " the portion allotted to the * One hundred and ten shares were purchased with the parsonage fund, and ninety for the school fund. 426 HISTORY OF CONCORD. town " as it became due, " for the payment of assessments on said railroad shares." The agent was authorized to loan the money to the committee, and to take a certificate from them that they had received the same for investment in the aforesaid stock. At the annual meeting in March the above committee reported that they had received from the agent of the town the first instal- ment of the surplus revenue, amounting to $4,287. From this had been paid, in part of an assessment on six hundred shares in Concord Railroad stock, $900, and the remainder, $3,927, loaned for the benefit of the town at legal interest, on a note signed by Joseph Low, George Hutchins, George Kent, Amos Wood, Asaph Evans, Samuel Fetcher, N. G. Upham and Samuel Evans. The next year the committee reported three instalments paid to the town, amounting to $14,481. Stringent regulations were adopted for security against fires ; no horses, cattle, sheep or swine were permitted to go at large within the limits of the town. The selectmen were instructed to " cause the hay scales, standing in the highway at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets, to be forthwith removed ;" to pub- lish the warrant for the next annual town meeting in two public newspapers of the town ; and to purchase a hearse and pall for the new burying ground at the West Village, and build a house for the same. 1838-9. On the question, " Is it expedient to revise the Constitution ?" there were seven yeas, and two hundred and seventy nays. Abiel Walker, Richard Bradley and Isaac Dow, a committee to sell lands on the town farm, reported that they " had sold and conveyed to Daniel Farnum the water power, with about two and a half acres of land and a right of way to the same, for $550." A part of the literary fund was this year appropriated to " em- ploy a teacher to instruct in penmanship in the several school districts in town." At a special meeting, June 15, 1839, it was voted, " That the income, — after it shall have been accepted by the trustees of the Asylum for the Insane, — accruing from the surplus revenue of the United States, now received by the town of Concord, be ap- INSANE HOSPITAL CONCORD RAILROAD. 427 proprlated to the use of the Insane Hosptial for the term of twenty years, provided said hospital shall be located within the limits of this toum.''^ Robert Davis, WiUiam A. Kent and Joseph Low, were appointed a committee to secure said sum to the trustees of the hospitaL A great interest was felt by the citizens generally, and espe- cially of the main village, in the location of the Hospital for the Insane. At a meeting, June 15, a committee of the town was appointed to show the State Committee of Location " the several sites in town proposed for the location and erection of the insti- tution." This committee consisted of William A, Kent, Richard Bradley, Jonathan Eastman, Theodore T. Abbot, Cyrus Barton, Ezra Carter, Lewis Dowming, Joseph Eastman, jr., Timothy Chandler and Abraham Bean. The sites which were examined ■were, Mr. Jacob Hoyt's place, on the Mountain, so called ; John Glover's, on the Pembroke road, south-east of Concord bridge ; Josiah Stevens's, near the Bradley monument ; the Em- ery lot, owned by E. S. Towle, including upland and interval, at the place called ' Paradise ;' also, a lot owned by Francis N". risk, on the west side of the road, opposite the Emery lot ; and the lot owned by Benjamin Gale and Elisha Morrill, which was finally selected as the location. The chief competition of those interested in locating the hospital was between the Emery place and the Gale lot. The sum actually appropriated next year from the surplus revenue for the Asylum for the Insane was $9.500 — leaving available for other purposes, $6,293,18.* The interest in the Concord Railroad had by this time risen to such a pitch that William A. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low, as committee, were empowered and directed, in behalf of the town, to subscribe for two thousand shares of the Concord Railroad stock, and to borrow a sum not exceeding $100,000, redeemable after the year 1850, " the interest on said loan to be paid from the income of the road," or otherwise, as found expe- dient ! This amount of stock was not taken, and as the enthusiasm for the railroad cooled down, the town, having paid an assessment of * See Auditors' Report, 1841. 428 HISTORY OF CONCORD. on six hundred shares already subscribed for, finally, in 1841, transferred " all their right and title to said six hundred shares to the Trustees of the Concord Literary Institution, to relieve them of their debts and liabilities ;" at the same time deciding to " carry on two hundred shares of said stock ;" but subsequent- ly the committee having in charge the town funds were instructed to sell one hundred shares of this stock, leaving one hundred shares only, which also were finally disposed of by the commit- tee.* 1840. In 1840 the town voted, " That so much of the Interest of the surplus revenue fund as shall be necessary for the purpose, shall be appropriated to pay the poll tax of the town !" Five hundred dollars were appropriated to be laid out on Dimond's hill, for repair and improvement of the road ; one hun- dred and fifty dollars to build an engine house, and a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars, from the surplus revenue, " to pay the debts of the town." The whole amount of the surplus rev- enue in March, 1840, including principal and interest which had accrued, was $16,886,84. CONCORD BANK FAILURE. About this time (June, 1840,) the failure of the Concord bank occurred, in conscf^uence of which a portion of the Par- sonage fund, that is, thirteen shares of the bank stock, amounting to $1,326,25, and a portion of the School fund, (ten shares,) equal to $1,020,25, was rendered worthless. 1842. At the annual town meeting, 1842, Josiah Stevens, Jr., Joseph Low, Robert Davis, Luther Roby and William Restieaux, were appointed a committee " to purchase so much land as may be necessary for a cemetery or burying ground, in connection with the one near the old North Church," to fence and ornament the same, and five hundred dollars were appropriated for that purpose. Robert Davis and Joseph Low, the committee who had for *See Town Records, 1841-2. APPROPRIATIONS FOR A CEMETERY. 429 several years had in charge the town funds, resigned ; and Samuel Coffin, Francis N. Fisk and Seth Eastman were appointed in their place. The average number of paupers at the town farm the past year was only sixteen, and the expense for each pauper eighteen dollars and seventy-nine cents. In consequence of disturbances which had occurred for several years on the fourth of July, (especially in the evening,) by the assembling of numerous unknown individuals, endangering the property and in some cases the lives of the citizens, the several constables and fire-wards of the town were appointed " to keep the peace, and to assist in quelling any and all disturbances in and about Concord main village, on said fourth of July and at other times." 1843. At the annual meeting in March, 1843, the committee on the burying-ground made the following report: " The committee appointed at your last annual meeting to pur- chase land for a cemetery near the North Meeting-house, and fence the same, have attended to the duty assigned them, and have ex- pended the following sums, viz. : Paid for land, 8127,50 " " lumber, 108,23 " " stone posts, iron bolts, building fence, making road, and other labor and ser- vices, 321,10 Making in the whole, S556,83 Your committee would state, that they deem the quantity of land which they have purchased and enclosed with the old grave yard, equal to the public wants for half a century ; that the whole, with the exception of the front, is enclosed with a fence as durable as they could construct of stone, iron and wood ; that the front, until re- cently, has been occupied with sheds, which have prevented your committee from fencing the same ; that a part of the sheds have recently been removed, and consequently the grave-yard is at this time entirely unprotected on the front ; and your committee sincerely hope that immediate measures will be taken to complete this work. Luther Roby, William Restieaux, \- Committee." Joseph Low, 430 HISTORY OF CONCORD. An additional sum, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, was appropriated to finish the fence around the grave-yard, and the horse-sheds were ordered to be removed. The next year the cemetery was laid out in lots or plats, for the use of families, according to a plan drawn by Capt. Benjamin Parker, under direction of the committee of the town. The committee were authorized to convey a right or title to such lots to any individual, at their discretion, at such price as they deemed proper, not to exceed the sum of ten dollars ; — to enter the name of the individual upon the number of the plan corres- ponding with his lot, and to give him a certificate, which, when entered and recorded by the town-clerk, in a record kept for the purpose, his title to such lot shall be absolute and exclusive.* The town also voted to " accept the donation of a lot of land from Mr. Charles Smart, for a burying-ground, and the select- men be authorized to fence the same." This lot lies easterly, at the foot of Stickney's hill, so called, and near the road that runs across from the Stickney Hill road to the old Dunbarton road. Jonathan Stickney, who formerly owned the land, died of the small pox, November 19, 1792, and through a fear of spread- ing the infection he was buried by his friends in that retired spot ; as were, also, subsequently other members of the Stickney family. Mr. Smart bought the land of the heirs of Mr. Stickney, and made a donation of it to the town for the purpose specified. The selectmen were directed to take a conveyance to the town from Abraham Bean of the property which was conveyed to him by Benjamin Green, and to settle with Mr. Bean agreeably to the conditions of his bond to the town, relating to that prop- erty.! By a vote of the town the selectmen were " authorized to send to the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, at their discretion, any or all insane persons who are now or may become chargeable to the town," Strict police regulations were this year adopted, respecting the * See Records, 1844. t This Benjamin Green is an Englishman by birth, a native of Yorkshire, aged at this time 61 years. He spent several years with the Shakers at Canterbury, left them, married and settled in Concord. He is subject to seasons of mental derangement, fancying himself a mon- arch, and authorized to put down all usurpation. He is now an inmate of the Insane Hos- pital. TOWN ORDINANCES. 431 extinguishment of fires and safe keeping of gunpowder ; no per- son being allowed to keep more than twenty-five pounds. Among the offences against the police laws of towns, which were prohib- ited with suitable penalties, were the following : No person shall make any brawls or tumults in any street or public place ; or be guilty of any rude, indecent or disorderly conduct ; or insult or wantonly impede any person passing in the streets. No person shall sing or repeat any lewd, obscene or profane song, or write or mark in any manner any obscene or profane word or obscene or lascivious figure or representation on any building, fence, wall, or any thing whatever. No person shall wantonly injure or deface any building, or cut or injure any tree standing in the highway, or rob any garden or field of fruit or vegetables. No person shall use any juggling or unlawful games or plays, or play at any game for money or other property. No one within the compact part of the town shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun or pistol, or beat any drum (without authority from a military ofiicer) or fire any rockets, squibs or crackers, except by permis- sion of the police. Nor shall any person bathe or swim, undress- ing for that purpose, in the day time, within view of any dwelling- house. If any person shall be found drunk in any street, or other public place ; or shall be a common street-walker or prosti- tute, such person shall be punished therefor : and no person shall sell, give or furnish to any pauper, or person committed to any house of correction, or to any spendthrift or idle person, under guardianship, any spirituous liquor. At a town meeting. May 27, 1843, the following resolution, ofiered by Asa Fowler, Esq., was adopted : " Hesolved, That the selectmen be requested to grant the use of the Town-hall for the purpose of meetings, to any citizen or citizens who may apply for the same, without regard to the particular religious, political, or other sentiments, if such citizen or citizens will be responsible that the pubHc property shall not be injured by such use." 1844. Failing to elect representatives this year, the town voted " That Franklin Pierce, Richard Bradley and Wilham Low, Esqs., be a committee, with instructions to apply for leave to be 432 HISTORY OF CONCORD. heard in behalf of the town before the Legislature," on the sub- ject of a new proportion of public taxes. One hundred dollars were appropriated for building one or more reservoirs on Main street, between Francis N. Fisk's and Porter Blanchard's. On the question taken at a town meeting, November 4th, "Is it expedient to abolish capital punishment?" yeas four hmidred and three, nays one hundred and fifty-four. On the question, "Is it expedient to alter the Constitution?" yeas four hundred and eighty-seven, nays one hundred and sev- enty-three. A lot of Parsonage land near Little pond, containing nine and a half acres, was sold to Daniel Farnum for $237,50. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THIS PERIOD. [1835.] A company, called the " Sewall's Falls Locks and Canal Corporation," took active measures, at the beginning of the year, to construct a canal from Sewall's falls to the East village in Concord, for the purpose of carrying on manufacturing operations. A dam was constructed at the falls above Sewall's island, and a canal commenced at the same place, to terminate near Federal bridge. Both were left in an unfinished state, and the whole enterprise failed, with a heavy loss to the corporation. As John Shepard, of this town, stage proprietor, was riding in an open wagon to Hooksett, on Wednesday, January 21st, the harness broke while descending a hill. The horse ran, over- turned the wagon, and threw Mr. Shepard out, whose leg was broken by the fall. Another person in the wagon escaped with- out much injury. May Day. The return of this anniversary was celebrated in fine style by the members of the " Concord Literary Institution." INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 433 The scholars assembled at the Court House earlj in the morning ; then made an excursion into the neighboring fields and woods, in search of flowers. Upon their return the court-room was taste- fully decorated with evergreens and artificial fruit trees, and tables spread loaded with bountiful provisions. At half past six in the evening the pupils again assembled. A beautiful hjmn, composed for the occasion, was sung, and an address on social habits was dehvered by the principal, Mr. T. D. P. Stone. The festivities of the evening then commenced, accompanied with music, and continued until about nine o'clock, under the form of a festive social party. Died in this town, June 7th, Mrs. Nancy Hazen Brigham, aged forty-two, relict of Mr. Levi Brigham, of Boston, and daughter of the late Capt. Richard Ayer. For the last twenty- five days of her life she endured the most intense sufferings from a total obstruction of the intestinal passage. The disorder had been gradually increasing for the last ten months. She bore her sufferings with remarkable patience and equanimity, sustained by the hope of a blessed immortality through Jesus Christ. On Wednesday, June 17th, agreeably to appointment by the New-Hampshire Legislature, Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham deliv- ered an eulogy, in the old North Meeting-house, commemorative of the life and services of Gen. LaFayette. The address occu- pied one hour and forty minutes in the delivery. It was well and ably written. Two hymns, composed for the occasion by Hon. Philip Carrigain, were sung — one by the choir and the other by Mr. George W. Dixon. The discourse was published by order of the Legislature. In June a company was incorporated in this town, with a capital of $75,000, for the manufacture of silk. Albe Cady, Esq., was chosen president, Moses G. Atwood corresponding secretary, and G. Parker Lyon, treasurer. Albe Cady, Isaac Hill, Abner B. Kelly, Stephen Brown, Samuel Evans, Charles Smart and John Whipple, were chosen directors. The farm for- merly owned by Ballard Hazeltine, Esq., in the south-west part of the town, near Turkey pond, was purchased for the pur- pose. The house was handsomely repaired and several hundred 28 434 HISTORY OF CONCORD. mulberry trees set out. Silk was manufactured in small quanti- ties for a few years, and the business was then relinquished. THE MORMONS. On Tuesday and Friday evenings, June 25th and 28th, one of this sect — a Mr. Green — held forth in the Town Hall ; and he proposed to continue his lectures until he had given a full exposition of the doctrines and practices of what he termed the " Church of the Latter Day Saints." He made no converts in this town to his new doctrine. In the summer of 1835 INIr. George Thompson, a celebrated anti-slavery lecturer from England, came to this country. In the month of August he visited Concord, and caused great ex- citement by his denunciations of slavery, and of all those who did not embrace his views on the subject. On Thursday eve- ning, September 3d, a pubhc meeting was held at the Court House, agreeably to a call signed by seventy-four citizens of Concord, at which Ralph Metcalf, Esq., presided, and George AV. Ela and Joseph Robinson were secretaries. The meeting was numerously attended, composed of persons of both pohtical parties — Democrats and Whigs. Addresses were made by Hon. Isaac Hill and Samuel Fletcher, Esq., of Concord, and Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth. Resolutions were adopted, of which the third was as follows : ^^ Resolved, That we heboid with indignation and disgust the intru- sion upon us of foreign emissaries, paid by the money of open enemies to our form of government, who are traversing the country, assaiUng its institutions and distracting the quiet of the people." The next day the friends of Mr. Thompson posted up hand- bills, giving notice that a meeting would be holden on Friday evening, at seven o'clock, at the Court House, to be attended by George Thompson and John G. Whittier, when the principles, views and operations of the abohtionists would be explained. This notice produced a general and intense excitement, which it was evident would end in disturbance and tumult, should the meeting be held. Seeing this state of things Gen. Robert Davis, chairman of the board of selectmen, called on George Kent, Esq., a friend of Mr. Thompson, and advised that the meeting INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 435 should not be held. He also directed Mr. Constable Bean to close the door of the Town Hall — the door of the Court Room (in the same building) being also closed bj the sheriflf. At the hour appointed, however, persons of both parties began to as- semble around the Town Hall. Soon three men were seen approaching, of whom one was supposed to be Thompson — the other two being Whittier, and Joseph H. Kimball, editor of the Herald of Freedom. These three were immediately assailed by the multitude with tumultuous shouts. Dirt and gravel were thrown at them, and they were followed up Washington street, down State street, to the house of Col. WiUiam A. Kent, when the people were assured that Thompson was not one of the number. Next the multitude — about two hundred — went to the house of George Kent, Esq. , where Thompson was hospitably entertained. Aware of their approach, Thompson left the house, and Mr. Kent also withdrew, leaving the house in charge of Mrs. Kent. Just at this time Gen. Davis arrived, and ascer- taining that Thompson was not in the house, and that Mrs. Kent ■was sick, notified the people accordingly ; assured them that Thompson would not attempt to lecture on anti-slavery in town ; that their assembling under such circumstances might be deemed riotous, and requested them at once to desist and withdraw. Col. Phihp Carrigain seconded the motion, and, lifting his hands and voice, cried, " Come, let us go !" All moved off together ; but, constructing an effigy, they paraded it through the principal streets, and afterward burnt it in the State House yard, concluding the whole with a display of fire-works and discharge of cannon.* On Wednesday evening, December 23d, a fire was discovered in the garret of Hill's brick building, which originated from a defect in the chimney. The night was intensely cold — the wind blowing fresh from the north-west, and the thermometer twenty degrees below zero. As soon as the fire was discovered Mr. C. R. Winter, clerk in the Patriot counting-room, and J. R. Whit- temore, clerk in Brown's book-store, rushed into the garret, which was filled with smoke and flame, and by well directed efforts extinguished the fire, which otherwise must have rapidly spread and caused immense loss of property. * See JV. H. Patriot, September 7, 1835, and Herald of Freedom. 436 HISTORY OF CONCORD. [1836.] A meeting was held at the Court House, on Thurs- day, March 31st, on the subject of a hospital for the insane — Richard Bradley, Esq., in the chair, and Dr. Ezra Carter secre- tary. After the passage of resolutions approving of the object, the following delegates were chosen to attend the meeting at Portsmouth, on Wednesday, April 3d : Nathaniel Bouton, Hall Burgin, Joseph Low, Charles H. Peaslee, Thomas Chadbourne, Richard Bradley, Theodore French, Ezra Carter, William Kent, Benjamin Gale, Timothy Chandler, Cyrus Barton, George W. Ela, Jacob B. Moore, E. E. Cummings, Samuel Herbert and William Gault. At this meeting Charles H. Peaslee, Esq., who from the first had manifested a deep interest in the establishment of an asylum for the insane, made an able and effective speech in behalf of the object. Gov. Isaac Hill also recommended the subject strongly in his message to the legislature in June, 1836. Rev. George B. Cheever, of Salem, Mass., author of the famous " Dream about Dea. Giles's Distillery," by invitation delivered a temperance address in the old North Meeting-house, on the annual Fast-day, in April. Opposition was shown by sundry persons in the rum interest, and in the evening a party of them — about seven in number — passed through Main street in a noisy manner, and, stopping before Rev. Mr. Bouton's house, where Mr. Cheever was, assailed the front door — shaking it vio- lently and calhng for the man " who dreamed a dream !" The police soon coming, the party withdrew to the State House yard, where they burnt a man of straw in honor of Mr. Cheever ! The next day the rioters were arrested, tried before Albe Cady, Esq., and fined three dollars each. On Friday evening, June 10th, Samuel E. Coues, Esq., of Portsmouth, delivered a very interesting address in the Repre- sentatives' hall, upon the nature and extent of insanity, and the best method of treating it — enforcing the utility, importance and necessity of a hospital for the insane in this State. The thermometer on Friday, July 8th, was snug up to one hundred degrees in the shade.* The joiners' shop belonging to Capt. John Miller, on State * JV. H. Patriot. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 437 street, in this town, was entirely consumed on Friday, August 26th. The loss was about $300, and no insurance. The fire was discovered about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and in thirty minutes the building was demolished and the fire extin- guished. The house, which was connected with the shop, had a narrow escape. A printer by the name of Charles Watrous, boarding at the Merrimack hotel, committed suicide by taking laudanum, on Thursday, September 22d. He lately published a paper at Chelsea, Vt., and his valedictory article bears evidence that he had for some time labored under insanity. He was a man of intemperate habits, aged about 36. DEDICATION OF THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE. [1837.] On the 1st of February the house erected for the use of the South Congrega- tional Church and Society was ded- icated to the wor- ship of God. The building is of ^^ wood, with a base- ment of stone — 77 feet in length and 64 in width, ^ and has one hun- dred and eight pews on the low- er floor. In the basement is a con- venient vestry, 64 feet in length and 06 in breadth. In front of the vestry are two rooms de- signed for stores. The house was built under the direction of 438 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Capt. Philip Watson. The whole expense of the house was about $10,000. The body of a man was found in the Merrimack river, July 13th, in the south part of the town, too much decayed to be recognized ; but from some articles found with it, it is supposed to be that of John Givens, a native of Ireland, who was missing some time in November last, and supposed at the time to have been drowned in the river. [1838.] Died in this town, in February, Mrs. Lucia Anne, wife of George Kent, Esq., and daughter of the late Hon. Daniel *rarrand, of Burlington, Vt., aged thirty-nine. Mrs. Kent was a woman of uncommon decision and energy of character, com- bined with cultivated taste and religious sentiment. As a wife, mother, sister and friend, she was greatly esteemed and beloved. A friend and helper of the poor and afflicted, and ardent in all benevolent enterprizes, her charity always reached to the full extent of her means. For several years she was president of the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society, in which cause she evinced great zeal and resolution. In a period of unusual ex- citement, in 1835, she showed her decision, in opposition to pre- vailing prejudices against the blacks, by taking a colored woman with her into church, and sitting by her side in the same pew. When Mr. Kent's house was assailed in search of George Thompson, Mrs. Kent, in feeble health, boldly went to the door, asked what they wanted, and assured them Mr. Thompson was not there. At the time of her decease she was a member of the South Congregational Church. Her funeral was attended by a large concourse of people. A lad by the name of J. Q. Symonds, aged ten years, was drowned July 10th, a little above Concord bridge, while bathing. He was in the water but about fifteen minutes, yet all attempts to resuscitate him were fruitless. A direct hne of stages leaves the Phenix Hotel, Concord, for Hampton Beach, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at seven o'clock in the forenoon. Fare, two dollars and fifty cents. Nathaniel Ewer, Jr., living in the north part of this town, was drowned in Lovejoy's mill-pond while bathing, on Sunday after- noon, July 29th, aged sixteen. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 439 Died, August 9th, Mr. Joseph Bickford, aged sixty-nine. His death was occasioned by falling backwards from a wagon and breaking the spine of his neck. The accident occurred in East Concord, on the road to Canterbury, near the foot of the long hill south of Jacob Hoit's. NEW-HAMPSHIRE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. The first meeting of this corporation was held, agreeably to public notice, at the Grecian hall, (in the Eagle coffee-house,) August 14th. Richard H. Ayer was chairman, and Samuel E. Coues, of Portsmouth, secretary pro tern. The act of incor- poration was adopted, and a committee of five appointed to draft by-laws, regulations, &c., viz.: Daniel M. Durell, of Dover; John H. Steele, of Peterborough ; Charles J. Fox, of Nashua ; Joel Parker, of Keene ; Charles H. Peaslee, of Concord. BALLOON ASCENSION. Mr. L. A, Lauriat, a foreigner, proposed a grand balloon ascension in Concord, with his little son in company, September 11th. He was not, however, wholly successful in filling the balloon with gas ; but just as it began to rise from the ground Mr. Amasa Powell, of Concord, jumped into the car and went up some two hundred feet, and made a safe descent two miles distant, south of the village. On the 21st of September Mr. Lauriat made a successful and grand ascension. His balloon, completely filled with gas, rose from the ground near the State House, about five o'clock in the afternoon, in the midst of an immense throng of spectators, and slowly and majestically as- cended with the daring aeronaut about five thousand feet, moving in a north-westerly direction ; then it changed to the north-east and went directly over the Shaker village in Canterbury, when a rope was thrown out, by which the balloon was pulled down. After partaking of the Shakers' hospitality, Mr. Lauriat again ascended, and was borne away toward Northfield, where he de- scended at six and a half o'clock, sixteen miles from Concord. The greatest altitude he reached was eleven thousand feet. A part of the time he was far above the clouds ; at other times in the midst of them, and was wet to the skin by vapor. 440 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Died at the hospital, in Boston, of typhus fever, November 6th, Isaac Shute, Jr., son of Mr. Isaac Shute, of this town, aged twenty-four. Young Shute was a youth of much prom- ise, enterprise and inteUigence, and his death was deeply de- plored. Died in this town, on Friday evening, November 9, 1838, Mrs. Elizabeth McFarland, aged 68 years, widow of the late Rev. Asa McFarland, D. D. Mrs. McFarland was born in Bos- ton, March 19, 1780 ; the only daughter of Mr. Bartholomew and Mrs. Susanna Sewall Kneeland. Her grand-father, Samuel Sewall, of York, Me,, was a kinsman of the distinguished chief justice Samuel Sewall, of Massachusetts. She was married to Mr. McFarland in September, 1803. Possessed naturally of superior endowments of mind and heart ; with a good education, refined manners, and of singular conscientiousness, humility and devotion of spirit, Mrs. McFarland rendered herself eminently useful in the station which she occupied. In her domestic rela- tions she was a pattern of industry, order, frugality and diligence. Rising early at all seasons of the year, she spent a season in private devotion, before other members of the family were up ; thus, as she said, she was prepared and strengthened for the duties of the day. In the instruction of her children, she usually Avent over with them the studies they were pursuing at school ; but most assiduously taught them lessons from the holy Scriptures, and aimed to form within them right moral and relig- ious principles, and to mould them to habits of virtue and piety. By her charity, her self-denial, simplicity in dress and manners, her eminent social qualities, and, above all, by that " orna- ment of a meek and quiet spirit," which she always wore, she greatly endeared herself to all who knew her, without ever exciting the envy of any. Mrs. McFarland was one of those who not only " devised," but executed " liberal things." She first suggested the plan of the New -Hampshire Cent Institu- tion, in 1804, and of the Concord Female Charitable Society, in January, 1812. With her commenced the first offerings made in Concord for foreign missions. She originated the first female prayer meeting held in town ; and by her agency, especially, was the monthly female prayer meeting established INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 441 in the First Church, in 1816, which is sustained till this time. After the death of her husband, less occupied with domestic cares, Mrs, McFarland spent a greater portion of her time, each day, in rehgious devotions and active christian duties for the wel- fare of others. The north chamber of her house was her closet, which seemed to all who entered it to be hallowed by her devout spirit. In her last sickness, of lingering consumption, she enjoyed in a remarkable degree the presence of her Redeemer and the consolations of his religion. She died in the complete triumph of faith, and in joyful expectation of a glorious immor- tality. Of the many excellent women that have adorned society in Concord, at different periods, and whose memory is precious, it may be said in respect of her without envy, " Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all." On the white monument erected by her children to her mem- ory in the ancient burying ground, are inscribed the fit words of the Saviour — " She hath done ivhat she coidd.^^* Mr. Henry Farley died in this town, November 23d, in con- sequence of a fall of a few feet from a ladder in the wood-shed of his house, striking the back part of his head upon a box, which fractured his skull. He was taken up insensible and died in a few minutes. In the latter part of December teams crossed the Merrimack river on the ice at the place where the Free Bridge now is — a road being opened across the middle interval for their accom- modation. [1839.] An interesting daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Ridge- way, U. S. N., of this town, five years of age, was so badly burnt on January 1st, by her clothes taking fire, as to cause her death the next day. The child was playing with her brother, two years older, and approaching too near the fire her clothes caught, and before assistance could be rendered were nearly * For further and full particulars of the life and character of Mrs. McFarland, the reader is referred to a IMemoir of her, written by Rev. ]\Ir. Bouton, and published in 1839. See also "McFarland family," in Geneological Chapter of this History. 442 HISTORY OF CONCORD. consumed. No other person was in the room with the children at the time of the occurrence. Died in Concord, February 15th, Mrs. Mary Ann P., wife of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, aged 34. Mrs. B. was the eldest daughter of the late Hon. John Bell, of Chester. The funeral services at the North Meeting-house, on Monday, 18th, were attended by a large assembly of citizens and christian friends, who testified their deep sympathy on the mournful occasion. An appropriate sermon was preached by Rev. John M. Putnam, of Dunbarton, from Coll. i : 27, " Christ in you^ the hope of glory. ^^ During her residence of about ten years in Concord, Mrs. B. had endeared herself greatly to the people of the parish, and indeed to all who knew her, by her gentle and affectionate dispo- sition and manners. She was especially distinguished by her native modesty and guileless simplicity of character. She pos- sessed in an uncommon degree the " charity which thinketh no evil." " On her tongue was the law of kindness," and never was it heard to speak evil of any one. She bore her lingering sickness with christian patience and submission, deriving great comfort from the promises of the Bible ; trusting in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ.* A short time before her death the account of the martyr Stephen was read to her. Acts vii : 66 - 60. She said, " I desire that the last prayer which shall be offered for me may be the same as his — ' Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' " On Sunday, May 19th, a very extensive conflagration took place on the pine plain, directly east of the main village, which, as was estimated, run over more than a thousand acres, destroy- ing the growth and consuming a large quantity of wood that was cut and in piles. It was believed to be the work of incen- diaries. The large dwelling-house owned and occupied by Mr. Leavitt C. Virgin and Capt. Samuel Blake, of this town, was consumed by fire early on the morning of Tuesday, May 14th. This is * See Christian Panoply, February 22, 1839. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. Ul the first dwelllng-liouse that has been entirely consumed in this extended village for the last twenty years. ST. Paul's church — laying of the corner stone. The corner-stone of St. Paul's Church, in Concord, was laid with ^ appropriate ceremo- ^ nies, on Thursday, the 3 13th of June. Ser- p vice by Rev. Mr. Ten Broeck, assisted by Rev. Mr. Chase, of St. Matthew's Church, Hopkinton. An inter- esting address on the condition and prospects of the Society was de- livered by the Rector, m Mr. Ten Broeck. A deposite of various articles was made beneath the corner-stone. On Friday, July 5th, the dwelling-house of Mr. John Dear- born, of Concord, was struck by lightning. The fluid burst the top of the chimney, sending the bricks in every direction ; passed down, bursting the chimney again between the chamber and lower part of the house, throwing off the breast- work, and pre- cipitating the tongs through the cellar door. There were eight persons sitting in the room, yet no one was in the least injured. The house, barn and shop, belonging to Mr. Jacob Clough, on the hill three miles from this village, on the Canterbury road, were entirely consumed by fire on Saturday, November 9th, about eleven o'clock, A. M. Loss about one thousand dollars. No insurance. It seems the boys had built a fire in the shop where they were husking corn, from which it was communicated to the husks. The buildings w'ere in distinct view of this village, and the engines promptly repaired to the scene of conflagration, 444 HISTORY OF CONCORD. but too late to render assistance. The house was formerly owned bj JNIr. Simeon Virgin. [18-10.] The stagemcn's ball, held at the Eagle coffee-house on Friday evening, January 10th, was attended by one hundred and fifty couples, and everything was done up in the neat and ele- gant style peculiar to the gentlemen of the whip on such occasions. Col. Stevens, Secretary of State, delivered a lecture upon the subject of common schools, at the North meeting-house, on Fast day, April 9th, before a numerous audience. The subject was ably and eloquently treated. Died in this town, April 1st, Philbrick Bradley, Esq., aged 84. He was in the battle of Bennington, in Col. Stickney's regiment, and also at the capture of Burgoyne. Mr. Bradley was very social and facetious in conversation, and delighted to entertain the young with stories of olden time. He lived on the Mountain, so called, in East Concord, about three miles and a half from the main village, and was a pensioner of government. On Saturday morning, September 3d, a small building in the rear of Stickney's block was consumed by fire. The air was still, otherwise there must have been an extensive conflagration, as the building destroyed was in the midst of the most combus- tible as well as valuable part of the town. [1841.] The freshet of the second of January was one of the most remarkable ever known on the Merrimack in the winter. On Tuesday week the cold was excessively severe, the mercury down to sixteen, eighteen, and nineteen degrees below zero in the morning. Wednesday moderate, eight degrees below zero, and commenced snowing. Thursday, rain and strong south wind. Friday, as warm as April. At noon the river had risen four or five feet ; by night-fall its banks were nearly full. About seven in the evening the ice started, and immediately a crashing sound, nearly as loud as the report of a small cannon, announced the destruction of the east part of the Free bridge, and pier after pier and section after section followed, till, at a little past eight, all but one pier on the west was carried away. One pier of the Federal bridge and two lengths of stringers were carried away. The ice blocked up the channel of the stream above the Lower bridge, and turned the water over the interval, thus saving the INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 445 bridge. Fears were entertained that the river had cut a ncw channel for itself, but it soon resumed the old channel. The ice between Wattanummons and Federal bridge was piled up in such quantities that some of it remained till the following Maj. On Thursday, January 21st, the Bridewell, situate in the basement story of the wooden building opposite the American House, was discovered to be on fire. In it was confined a fellow named Rufus Orcutt, charged with attempting the life of his wife in a brutal assault which he made upon her. The door of the Bridewell was immediately forced and Orcutt found half buried in the burning straw. When he was taken out it was supposed he was dead. His face, neck and breast were very much burned. Medical aid was soon procured, and he was restored in some degree, but he survived only till Sunday, 24th. He had once been in the State prison for life, but was pardoned, and had threatened, if committed to the Bridewell, to burn it. The fire was extinguished without much damage to the building. Died in this town. May 9th, Miss Mary Clark, aged 49, daughter of the late Mr. Daniel Clark. Miss Clark was a lady of uncommon gifts and acquirements, of a social disposition, sim- ple in her manners, kind to the poor, ever sympathizing with the afflicted and suffering of all classes. In the latter years of life her health was very delicate, but she was interested in the events of the day, and especially in the cause of peace and the anti- slavery society. She was fond of historic and antiquarian research, and a particular friend of the late John Farmer, Esq. In religious views she was remarkably catholic ; admiring and loving all, of all classes and denominations, who possessed a humane and devout spirit, but she was not united with any in a religious profession. A short time before her death she prepared a paper, giving her " dying testimony, — being on the brink of Jordan, — against all those ministers and churches ivho have refused to pray for the slaved* She directed that her funeral should be without parade, and without the ceremony of an offici- ating clergyman. Accordingly, the services at the funeral were performed by her friends, Mr. Amos Wood and John B. Chandler. On Sunday, September 12th, Stephen S. Foster, an anti-slavery * See Herald of Freedom, May 14, 1841. 446 HISTORY OF CONCORD. lecturer, from Canterbury, entered the Nortli meeting-house, (the pastor. Rev. Mr. Bouton, being absent on an exchange with Rev. Jonathan Curtice of Pittsfield,) and interrupted the usual order of services. He first prayed, kneeling in front of the pulpit ; then he ascended two or three of the pulpit stairs, and said he had a message from God to deliver. Refusing to desist, as requested by deacons of the church and others, three young men, Lyman A. Walker, James M. Tarlton, and Charles W. Walker, rose and took him, without violence, led him down the broad aisle, out of the front door, and he departed. He then pro- ceeded to the South church, where he conducted in a similar dis- orderly manner, and whence, with less ceremony, he was ejected. Josiah Hardy, of this town, raised from one pumpkin seed seventy-five pumpkins — seventeen of them suitable for family use. Beat this, if you can ! Who can furnish from one seed such a bountiful supply of pumpkins for thanksgiving ?* Mr. Theodore T. Abbott, of this town, who carried on the cutlery business at Millville, contracted to supply the members of Congress, in 1841, with all the cutlery wanted for their use. [1842.] Mr. Asaph Evans, formerly a trader in the old store corner of Pleasant and Main streets, died in New- York city, January 8th, aged 57 years. Mr. Evans was the first trader in Concord who voluntarily relinquished the sale of ardent spirits, after the temperance reform commenced. The new Congregational meeting-house in East Concord was dedicated to the worship of God, January 13th. Sermon by Rev. Mr. Bouton. Mr. Asa McFarland delivered the first lecture before the Concord Lyceum this year, February 4th, on " The Campaign of Napoleon in Russia." The lecture was ably written, and subse- quently printed. Opening of the Railroad to Concord. On Tuesday eve- ning, September 6, 1842, at one fourth before seven o'clock, the locomotive "Amoskeag," with a train of three passenger cars and some baggage, came through from Boston to Concord. The grounds about the depot were thronged with men, women and children, to behold the new and wondrous sight ! As the * J\r. H. Patriot, November 4, 1841. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 447 cars came in the multitude raised a cheering shout, and the cannon pealed forth its thunders to celebrate the event. A few minutes after the arrival, it was announced that the conductor would give the people a ride. Immediately every car was crammed, and scores could not find a place to stand or sit down. The train went a few miles — as far as Bow-crossing — and returned, with the party delighted at the thought that theirs was the first ride in the first hour after opening. The locomotive, cars and every thing appeared in the finest order. The passenger train commenced running regularly twice a day, and the week following three passenger trains a day were run. The Universalist meeting-house in Concord was dedicated on Thursday, October 6, two o'clock, P. M. Sermon by Rev. Otis A. Skinner, of Boston. UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. The house here represented was oc- cupied by the Uni- versalist Society until June, 1855 ; when the Society, having decided to erect a new, more spacious and costly edifice, it was sold to the South Free ^jWill Baptist Soci- ety, Rev. Hiram |_|p|Whitcher, pastor, and moved to a lot ^.fnear the south end 'v;^of State street. U^.* The"MilIerites," Uitis5='so called, believers ^Hin the visible advent of Christ and the end of the world in 1843, held a great meeting in Concord 448 HISTORY OF CONCORD. the fourth week in July. Having erected and consecrated a spacious tent, capable of holding four thousand persons, on the hill, near where the house of Mr. Abel B. Holt now stands, a violent gust of wind soon after prostrated it to the ground. Thej next raised the tent in the valley west of the hill : assign- ing as a reason, ' that in raising the tent on the hill they had exalted themselves, and must move down into the valley of humil- iation.' On Saturday afternoon the wind blew violently, attended with rain, which fell in torrents and flooded the ground where the large tent stood, so that they were obliged to desert it. The smaller tents, beds, &c., were completely drenched, and the occupants, amid darkness, thunder, lightning and rain, at mid- night, were compelled to seek refuge in neighboring houses and in the public hotels of the village. On Sunday morning a fire engine with hose was used to draw off the water from the place of the encampment. The meeting was largely attended, and pro- duced great noise and excitement among believers in the doctrine. The workmen on the railroad at the lower end of Main street, near the river, have dug out the bones of two bodies, supposed to be those of Indians.* On Friday, September 2, a large company of gentlemen and ladies from Concord main village, visited Long pond. The gen- tlemen caught fish and the ladies cooked them, and with other eatables furnished by the ladies, a fine dinner was prepared. After dinner it was resolved that, henceforth and forever, what had been called " Long pond" should be known as " Lake Pen- acook.^'' But, notwithstanding the resolution. Long pond is still " Long pond." On the morning of July 4, at eight o'clock, the corner stone of the new meeting-house, for the use of the First Congrega- tional Society, at the corner of Main and Washington streets, was laid with appropriate religious services, to wit : 1. Singing, 87th Psalm, L. M. 2. Reading of select scripture by the pastor. 3. Depositing a box under the north-east corner stone, con- taining sundry documents. 4. Prayer, by the pastor. * ^. H. Patriot, August 11, 1842, INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 449 5. Singing, hymn 64, 2d book. Bj the ingenious use of tackling, the whole main body of the house was raised before four o'clock, P. M. Messrs. Mack and Lambert delivered a course of lectures in Concord during the winter season of 1842, on physiology and anatomy. Their lectures were illustrated by a manikin, or model of a man, so ingeniously wrought and put together in pieces as to require a near inspection to satisfy a spectator that it was not a real living subject. Every portion of the human body, suitable for exhibition before a promiscuous assembly, was exactly represented. On Wednesday morning, May 11, James M. Abbot, oldest son of Mr. David Abbot, was drowned in Horse-shoe pond. It is supposed that he fell out of a boat — his cap and a boat being discovered floating near each other in the middle of the pond at the time he was first missed. He was eleven years old. His body was soon after recovered. Maj. WiUiam Walker, jr., and Nathaniel White, of Concord, and B. P. Cheney, of Boston, have established a daily express between Concord and Boston, (Sundays excepted.) William Ainsworth, Esq., member of the House of Repre- sentatives from the town of New-Ipswich, died at his lodgings in this town June 14th. FOURTH OF JULY. Scenes of rowdyism and violation of law and order were at- tempted in this town on the evening of the glorious fourth. A barrel of tar was hghted in the middle of the State House yard, and the tossing of fire-balls begun, when the poUce of the town interfered, with the design to stop such proceedings. Several persons were arrested, tried and fined. One of the beautiful maples in the State House yard was nearly destroyed by the burning of tar under it.* On Friday, July 8th, Nathaniel P. Abbot, aged twenty-one, fell from the belfry of the newly-raised meeting-house, and was * .V. H. Patriot, 29 450 HISTORY OF CONCORD. precipitated from the upper flooring to the ground, a distance of about thirty feet. Before any one reached him he was up and attempting to get upon the sill. A large gash was cut in his head, and he was much bruised, but no bone was broken, or dan- gerous wound inflicted. George M. Thomas, aged eleven years and six months, only son of Kev. Moses G. Thomas, of this town, was drowned in Merrimack river on the 13th of July, near the Free bridge. He was bathing with other boys on the easterly side, and was missed about sunset by his companions. Between eight and nine o'clock in the evening search was commenced, and his body was found about half past eleven, P. M., near one of the piers, in about four feet of water. OPENING OF THE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. The New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane was publicly opened for the reception of patients the first of November. Price of board for patients belonging to the State, two dollars and twenty-five cents. A patient from Tuftonborough was ad- mitted the week previous, who was rendered insane by the excite- ment on the subject of the second advent. He prayed, preached, exhorted and harangued upon the subject about four hours every morning, and remained quiet the rest of the day. Died in this town, October 28, Mrs. Nancy B. Fletcher, wife of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., aged 54. Mrs. Fletcher was a woman of great excellence of character, intelligent, affectionate, charitable to the poor, of exemplary piety, and greatly beloved by a large circle of relatives and friends. Her maiden name was Nancy Bordman, a native of South-Reading, Mass. She was for several years treasuress of the New-Hampshire Cent Institution, and president of the Concord Female Charitable Society. On Tuesday morning, November 15, about half past three o'clock, a fire broke out in a stable belonging to WiUiam Walker, jr., & Co., situated in rear of the houses and stores on the corner of Warren and IMain streets. By the energy and prompt- INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 451 itude of the firemen, with their engines, the fire was subdued with a damage only of about two hundred dollars. DEDICATION OF THE NORTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE. The new meeting-house erected for the use of the First Con- gregational Society was dedicated to the worship of Almighty God, November 23d. Introductory prayer was ofiered by Rev. Abraham Burnham, of Pembroke ; reading of Scripture by Rev. Moses Kimball, of Hopkinton ; dedicatory prayer by Rev. John M. Putnam, of Dunbarton ; sermon by the pastor, from 2 Chron. vii : 16 ; concluding prayer by Rev. Asa P. Tenney, of West Concord. Public worship was first attended in the house on the following Sabbath, November 27th. The pastor preached in the morning from John ix : 27 ; " Will ye also he his disciples .?" In the 452 HISTORY OF CONCORD. afternoon from Acts ii : 47 ; " The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved^* A man died in this town, November 24th, who confessed on his death bed that he set fire to the barn of WiUiam "Walker & Co., which was partially destroyed by the flames on the morning of November 15. On Friday, December 6th, Mr. Horace Call, a young man of Concord, while at work in repairing the Free bridge, across the Merrimack river, fell from the bridge upon the ice, about fifteen feet. His fall was not discovered till some time afterwards, when he was taken up insensible, and supposed to be dead. His right eye and side of his face were much bruised. Dr. Renton was immediately called, and the young man was restored to con- sciousness and suffered but little permanent injury. Thomas W. Dorr, who claimed to be governor of Rhode Island, and was leader of the insurrection in that State in 1842, visited this town while under indictment for high treason. He attended public Avorship, incog., at the North church, December 11th, but on the evening of the 14th a public meeting was held in the Court House, at which he delivered a speech occupying three hours. He was introduced to the meeting by Gov. Henry Hub- bard, and his speech was followed by a complimentary address and resolutions by Hon. Franklin Pierce. [1843.] The evening passenger train of cars, which usually arrives here at about half past eight o'clock, run off the track about half a mile below the depot, on Tuesday evening, January 24th, in consequence of the switch being out of place. But lit- tle damage was done. On Sunday afternoon, night, and Monday morning, February 6th and 7th, we had a very severe snow storm, with heavy drifts. The cuts on the railroad were so filled that neither * Previous to leaving the old North meeting-house as a place of public worship, a union meeting of the four Congregational churches in town was held in it. The meeting was attended two successive days, viz. : Thursday, 27th, and Friday, 28th of September, in which the several pastors took part, viz. : Rev. Asa P. Tenney, of the West church ; Rev. Daniel J. Noyes, of the South church ; Rev. Timothy Morgan, preacher at Ea^it church, and the pas- tor of tlie First church. In the forenoon of Friday the pastor preached a discourse on remi- niscences of the old meeting-house. In the afternoon about five hundred and fifty commu- nicants, belonging to the four sister cliurches, sat down to the Lord's Supper. It was a season of tender and affecting interest. Many wept at the thought of a separation from the place where they and their fathers liad so long worshipped. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 453 train of cars due here on Tuesday arrived, and it was impossible to force a passage through from Nashua to Concord until Wednes- day afternoon, when the united energies of four powerful engines made a way through the drifts of snow. April 27. The freshet in the Merrimack river has been higher at Concord than has been known for a great number of years. The water, which a week ago last Monday was the high- est, fell some four feet by the last of the week. Since that time, in consequence of rains and rapid melting of snow, it has been rising again. A great portion of the interval is submerged, and the entrances into Concord from the east over Federal and the Free bridges are impassable. In anticipation that the second advent of Christ and the end of the world would take place on or about the 23d of April, 1843, according to the " Miller doctrine," a considerable number of people in this and other places, believing it, neglected all worldly business, gave themselves up to religious services ; ex- pended their property, and in consequence several became insane, and others were reduced to absolute want. At the time ap- pointed they stood in hourly expectation of seeing the " sign of the Son of Man " in the heavens, and of being caught up in the air to meet him, while the world should be burnt up. A com- pany went to the old burying-ground, to ascend with the rising dead. The day passed without any thing unusual ! TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN CONCORD. At a meeting held in the Court Room the latter part of April, a committee, consisting of the following gentlemen : — Franklin Pierce, Lewis Downing, Abraham Prescott, Hosea Fessenden, Nathaniel B. Baker, Moses T. Willard, Joel C. Danforth, Josiah Stevens, Jr., Zenas Clement, Joseph Low, Francis N. Fisk, Samuel Coffin, Richard Bradley, Chandler E. Potter, Abraham Bean, Joseph F. Dow, Harry Houston, Theodore T. Abbot, Moses Shute and Atkinson Webster, were appointed to report at an adjourned meeting such resolutions and plan, as, in their judgment, would most certainly and speedily cause the use and traffic in intoxicating drinks to cease in this town, except for mechanical and medicinal purposes. 464 HISTORY OF CONCORD. At an adjourned meeting, held at the old North meeting-house, may 7th, the above committee reported the following resolution and pledge, with a preamble and appeal : "Resolved, That the signature of every individual present be solicited to the following pledge and appeal ; and that the same be printed and presented to the citizens of each school district in town for the sanction of their names. PLEDGE. " We, the undersigned, citizens of the town of Concord, believing that intoxicating drinks of every description, used as a beverage, are not only useless, but injurious to men in health under all circumstan- ces ; and being fully persuaded that it would conduce to the best interests of said town, and tend greatly to promote the morality, happiness and prosperity of its citizens, of all classes and conditions, wholly to abolish the using and vending of such liquors within its limits, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes, hereby pledge to the accomplishment of so desirable an object our best exertions." This pledge and the appeal which accompanied it was signed by one thousand seven hundred and sixteen inhabitants of the town, male and female.* Joseph Gerrish, a young man from Boscawen, aged about 25, supposed to be insane, drowned himself in the Merrimack river, near the Free bridge, early on Monday morning, June 19th. His body was found a week after, floating in the river about half a mile below the bridge, soon after the firing of a cannon on the bank near the river, for the purpose of raising it. Col. Franklin Pierce delivered a most eloquent and powerful address upon the subject of temperance, Thursday evening, June 22d, at the old North church. He held his audience in breath- less attention for one hour and a half. On July 20th the Meredith stage, with sixteen passengers, returning from the White Mountains, was upset on the east side of the jNIerrimack river, descending from the plain to the interval which leads to the Free bridge. No bones were broken or lives lost, but some of the passengers were bruised and injured. The price of butter in Concord (August 3d,) is only nine cents a pound. Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, of this town, while at work on the * See JV. //. Patriot, May 18, 1843. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 455 bridge over the Merrimack river at Hooksett, making repairs, on Saturday, August 5th, fell from the bridge and was precipitated upon the rocks below, about thirty feet. He received a cut on the head, and one wrist and one ancle were broken. Mr. Eastman relates that in 1839 he went out west, and while in Brown county. 111., in the month of May, he went with a party of two others to hunt deer. They came in sight of a pack of wolves, four in number, which had infested that section for some time. One of the wolves was shot and killed ; the others retreated to their den in the hollow of a large oak wind-fall. At first the party attempted to shut the wolves in, but one not liking the idea of " durance vile," rushed to the mouth of the hole. The party seized him, tied his legs, and laid him down by his dead companion. Then the question was how they should dispose of the remaining two. One of the party proposed to get an axe and cut them out ; but Eastman said a better way was to crawl in and shoot them, as old Putnam did. " Well," they said, "you may do it, we won't." Whereupon, loading his gun heavy with buck shot, he crawled into the hollow log till he saw the glare of the wolves' eyes. Discharging his gun it kicked him back, and the confined report nearly stunned him. Recovering, however, he reloaded, crawled in, and gave the wolves another shot. Both were killed, and dragged out of the hole by means of a hook fastened to a long pole. After this exploit, they called Eastman " the little smart yankee." Jeremiah Pecker, Esq., died in this town August 12th, aged 71. Mr. Pecker was a thrifty farmer, and frequently held responsible offices in town. He was a man of quick wit, of much mechanical ingenuity, facetious in conversation, and a respected and useful citizen. A severe gale was experienced in this town on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 16th, accompanied with torrents of rain. One of the fine elms in the State House yard was completely destroyed. The main branches were spht off and the body of the tree, which was about twenty inches in diameter at the butt, was broken off about twenty feet from the ground. In the year 1843 thirty-seven new dwelling-houses, making fifty-one tenements, were built in the main village of Concord, besides one large church and various stores, shops and offices. 456 HISTORY OF CONCORD. E, B. Little, Esq., of New- York city, made a donation of five hundred dollars to the Episcopal society in this town, for the purchase of an organ for the church. Died at the Eagle coffee-house, in this town, Saturday evening, September 30th, of consumption, Charles Walker, Esq., aged 45. Mr. W. was the eldest son of the late Charles Walker, Esq., of Concord. He graduated at Cambridge in 1819, was a tutor in Transylvania University, in Kentucky, with President Holley, two years ; studied law with Thomas Addis Emmett, of New- York city, where he went into successful practice and con- tinued until 1835. On account of ill health he visited the West Indies, but afterwards resided at Key West, in Florida, where he received the appointment of District Attorney of the United States. Subsequently he went to Porto Rico, and pur- chased a plantation, which he cultivated till the spring of 1843, when he returned to the place of his birth — to die! Mr. Walker possessed many admirable qualities, and was greatly esteemed and beloved by all who knew him. He brought a pony from the West Indies, for his use in riding, which, a short time before his death he gave to Mr. James Prescott, in remembrance of boyhood attachments, when Prescott lived in the family of Mr. W.'s father. The gift was made on condition that Prescott should use the pony well, and when too old for service should Undly kill him. This beautiful and tractable animal is yet alive, (1855,) and has had the honor of bearing on his back hundreds of ladies and gentlemen of Concord. Mr. Walker's monument stands in the range of others of the Walker family, in the north-east section of the old burying-ground. On the 18th of September, Charles Fcrrin, son of Mr. Philip Ferrin, in drawing a charge from a loaded gun, struck the butt of the gun against a beam, with his hand over the muzzle, when the contents of the musket were discharged, badly shattering his hand. October 23d there was a considerable fall of snow in Concord and vicinity. On the 3d and 4th of November the printers, binders and booksellers of Concord, formed into two companies, and went out on a shooting match. On the evening of the 4th the game was INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 457 brought in and counted, and a supper had at Moore's tavern, north end of Main street. Members of the companies were as follows : (1.) L.B.Morrill, Captaiii ; Perkins Kimball, Frank Eastman, N. B. Baker, F. Allison, H. H. Carroll, E. Mansur, S. S. Dow, Noah Little, E. Shattuck, George 0. Odlin, William P. Foster, Josiah H. Nelson, Charles W. Walker, George F. Kent, John M. West, Joseph A. Pearson, John C. Stowell, Benjamin C. Lowell. (2.) John C. Wilson, Captain; True Osgood, John M. Hill, George G. Estabrook, John D. Carswell, Oscar Knox, George H. H. Silsby, Harriman Couch, Ezra F. Pike, Charles Williams, L-a R. Philbrick, B. F. Watson, N. J. McClure, Samuel C. Hunt, Jr., Frank S. West, Samuel Dobie, Henry Anderson, E. D. Carpenter, Jacob H. Ela. After supper the companies chose N. B. Baker president; True Osgood, Frank S. West, vice-presidents ; John M. Hill secretary, and N. J. McClure toast-master. The whole amount of game brought in was 7.772. Captain Morrill's side, 3.939. Capt. Wilson's side, 3.833. Difference in favor of Capt. M., 106. On Capt. Morrill's side, Frank Eastman and Perkins Kimball brought in a count of five hundred each. On Capt. Wilson's side, Ira R. Philbrick brought in a count of six hundred and ninety-two, and True Osgood a count of five hundred. On the 23d of November a frightened horse, running with the fore-wheels of a wagon, took the side walk below the Phenix hotel, and ran over a little daughter of Ira Perley, Esq., about two years old. By some means the child was thrown from the walk about ten feet, into the street, but received no material injury. At a meeting of the citizens of Concord, at the town hall, August 9th, without distinction of party, Jonathan Eastman, Esq., was chosen chairman, and A. C. Blodgett and John Whipple sec- retaries. The proposition was made and unanimously adopted to invite the celebrated Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, then about to take a tour in New-England, to visit Concord. This invitation was accepted, and Col. Johnson made his visit to this place on Friday, October 25th. Leaving Boston in the morning by cars, he reached the crossing, near the south line of 458 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Concord, about half past ten o'clock in the forenoon, where he was met by Col. Franklin Pierce and Judge Upham, of the com- mittee of invitation. Mounting a beautiful white steed, he rode, escorted by a cavalcade of citizens, as far as the Rumford place, where he was received by the committee of arrangements, and welcomed to the hospitalities of the capital by Ira Perley, Esq. Thence a procession of citizens and soldiers, led by Gen. Charles H. Peaslee, chief marshal, Col. Johnson still mounted on his white horse, marched, amid the firing of cannon and ringing of bells, through Main street, down State street to Pleasant street, and thence to the American house, where lodgings were provided for the distinguished guest. The streets through w^iich the pro- cession moved were lined with people, who saluted him with shouts. The Avindows and balconies of the houses were thronged by ladies, who testified their interest in the scene by the waving of handkerchiefs and by smiUng faces. Soon after. Col. Johnson was conducted to the hall of the House of Representatives, where he was introduced to the people assembled by Ira Perley, Esq., in a highly appropriate address, to which the Colonel responded. Col. Johnson wore a red vest, the same he had on in the battle of the Thames, at the time he killed the Indian chief, Tecumseh, and which was pierced by eleven bullet shots. At three o'clock in the afternoon Col. Johnson, with a large company, sat down to dinner in the hall of the Eagle hotel. At the dinner Franklin Pierce presided, assisted by Ira Perley, Joseph Robinson, Thomas P. Treadwell, Joseph Low, Abel Baker and Moses Shute. Speeches were made by the president and others. A beautiful song, written by Mrs. Susan A. Barnes, of Hooksett, was sung by Mr. George Wood with admirable effect. Mr. WiUiam Low proposed the question to Col. John- son — "Did you or did you not, in your opinion, kill Tecumseh?" Col. Johnson then minutely related the circumstances of the battle, and closed by saying, " In my own opinion I did kill Tecumseh !" In the evening was a public levee at the Eagle hotel, where great numbers had the pleasure of a personal introduction. On Saturday morning Col. Johnson rode about the town, and at noon left by stage for Newport. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 459 On Thursday, November 30th, Anthony Potter, son of Samuel G. Potter, living in the eastern part of Concord, was drowned in Turtle pond while skating. A companion by the name of Par- ker, rushing to his aid, also fell in, when a third, seeing them, went to their rescue, who also fell in. A dog with them raised a pitiful howling, which attracted the attention of some men near by. By their exertions the two last were saved, but Potter sunk. His body was recovered the next day in about sixteen feet of water. One boot was pulled off. He was about 20 years of age. At a temperance meeting, December 30th, a committee was appointed to prosecute all persons who continue to sell intox- icating liquors in town. [1844.] The new road from Concord, east village, to the Shaker village, running west of Oak hill, was opened for public travel early in 1844. On Friday morning, January 26th, between twelve and one o'clock, one of the watchmen of the State prison, in going his rounds, discovered a fire breaking out in the blacksmiths' shop in the prison yard. A fire alarm was given, and by the active exertions of the citizens the fire was extinguished, but with a loss to the State estimated at about $1000, and to Messrs. Greeley & Eayres, contractors of the blacksmiths' shop, at a larger sum. The night was intensely cold, and it Avas with great difficulty that the engines could be worked. Early on Saturday morning, February 5th, a fire broke out in the third story of the stone factory, at Fisherville. There being no fire-engine at Fisherville, Mr. Leonard Morrison, on horseback, riding at full speed, gave the alarm to No. 6 engine company, at West Concord, and to the fire companies in Concord main village. Great progress was made by the fire before the arrival of the engines, but it was checked and extinguished ; with a heavy loss, however, in machinery and materials. The upper part of the factory was nearly destroyed. There were in operation in the factory one hundred and eighteen looms, and four thousand three hundred and eight spindles — employing about one hundred ope- ratives. A coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday, April 2d, on the 460 HISTORY OF CONCORD. body of Mr. Ephraim Upham, who was found dead near tlie rail- road track, about half a mile below the bridge over the railroad, at the south end of the town. He had been missing since the night of the 29th of March. He was 67 years of age. It ap- peared in evidence that Mr. Upham was at the house of Joseph Whitcher, in the evening of the 29th, in a state of intoxication, and, attempting to walk home on the rail track, it is probable he fell and perished in the cold. April 18. The weather for the past ten days has been as warm and balmy as in June. Last Sunday was almost a hot day. Vegetation is very forward. July 4. Mr. Carter, who lives near the stream that connects Great Turkey pond with Little Turkey, has fitted up five boats for the accommodation of those who visit the ponds for a boat- ride or for fishing. There was a temperance celebration in Concord on the 4th, which was numerously attended. A collation was prepared in the State House yard, which was partaken of, as is estimated, by over two thousand persons. The members of the Universahst society in Concord had a fishing party at Turkey pond July 23d. On their return they drove through the streets of the village, forming a large pro- cession of carriages. First was a four horse carriage, with the Concord band, playing some most excellent and enhvening music ; then a carry- all, containing their pastor and family, and others ; then three stage-coaches, crowded full and covered on the top with ladies and gentlemen ; then several two horse carriages, followed by twenty-six buggies, chaise and wagons. Died in this town, very suddenly, of disease of the heart, August 23, Mrs. Anna, wife of Mr. Joseph Potter, aged 70. Mr. Potter rose early in the morning, went to his barn, and was absent about fifteen minutes. On his return his wife was a corpse. Died in this town, September 7th, Capt. David Neal, aged 36. His funeral took place on Sunday, from the Universahst meeting- house. Capt. Neal was buried with military honors, being a member of the Concord hght infantry at the time of his death, and formerly commander of the company. A very large proces- sion followed him to the grave. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 461 On the 24tli of September a daughter of John Arhn, aged 15, was burned to death. The drought in this region is extreme. Almost every thing is turned to dust. For three weeks, from September 1st to Sep- tember 22d, we did not have one drop of rain. A house belonging to James C. Whittemore, at the north end of Main street, was burned on Thursday, September 26th. One of the chimneys was burned out early in the morning, and it being observed that there were defects in it, by smoke issuing, it Avas watched till about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, when all danger seemed to be at an end ; but in a little more than an hour after- ward the house was discovered to be on fire — the fire having been communicated from a defect in the chimney to the flooring of the garret. The engines were upon the ground in good sea- son, and had there been a sufficient supply of water the fire might have been extinguished in fifteen minutes ; but in a long drought that had prevailed the wells near by gave out in a few mo- ments. A line of people was then formed to Horse-shoe pond, for the passage of water. The fire w^as then too far advanced to be checked by the inadequate quantity of water thus supplied, and the house was completely consumed. It was occupied by four tenants — Rev. Sylvester Dana, Justin L. Robinson, Joshua Ingalls and Mrs. Anna True. Mr. Dana lost four or five hundred volumes of theological works, and many articles of bedding and clothing. Mr. Robinson's family suffered severely. The loss of the others was not so great. The house was insured in the Merrimack County Insurance Company for $1000. Died in this town, October 2d, Hon. Hall Burgin, aged 74. He formerly resided in Allenstown, owning the extensive farm now owned by George W. Ela, Esq. He was a man of great influence in Allenstown, had held the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was once a member of the State Senate. Removing with his family to this town, about 1835, he built the elegant brick dwelUng-house now owned by Joseph A. Gilmore. Toward the latter part of his life his property became embar- rassed. He was highly respected as a citizen. A shocking casualty occurred in Concord on Friday evening, November 8th, while the democratic party were celebrating the 462 HISTORY OF CONCORD. triumpli of the New- York election of Polk and Dallas, candi- dates for president and vice-president of the United States. Mr. John L. Haynes, one of the officers of the Columbian Artillery, had his left arm almost entirely blown off, his right arm dread- fully shattered, and his face shockingly burnt, in the act of ramming down a cartridge. The discharge took place in conse- quence of the vent not being stopped, in the excitement and hurry of the firing. His left arm was amputated by Dr. Haynes, of Concord. The number of deaths in town in 184-1 was one hundred and thirteen, which is a larger number than ever occurred in a year before. Of these, fifty were children under ten years of age, who died mostly of the bowel, or summer complaint, as it is called, which extensively prevailed this season. Among the number deceased was Mr. Samuel Jackman, formerly of Bos- cawen, a revolutionary soldier and pensioner. He lived in the easterly part of the town, near Lovejoy's mills, and at the time of his death, August 20th, was the oldest person in town, being 96 years of age. He was a man of uncommon physical vigor, with the exception of his eye-sight. He retained his physical and mental powers, in a good degree, to the last. CHAPTER XVI HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1845 TO 1853 ; OR, TO THE OR- GANIZATION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT. At a special meeting of the town, September 23, 1845, new rules and regulations were adopted for the organization of the fire department. Four hundred and twenty dollars were appro- priated for the purchase of three hundred and fifty feet of hose for engine No. 2 ; three hundred feet of hose for engine No. 4, and twenty-five feet for engine No. 5. Reservoirs were ordered to be constructed ; one between the South Church and Hoyt's tavern, at the south end of Main street ; one opposite the State House and west of Green street, and one or more at such other place as the board of engineers of the fire department shall determine. At the organization of the fire department, according to the new regulations, September 24, Luther Roby was chosen chief engineer, and Arthur Fletcher, George H. H. Silsby, Caleb Par- ker, Daniel A. Hill, John Haines, John Abbot, Lowell Eastman, Harvey Rice, Benjamin Grover, James Moore, Shadrach Seavey, William Pecker, H. H. Brown, Moses Shute, Benjamin F. Duncklee, Lewis Downing, Benjamin F. Dow, and Stephen Brown, were chosen assistant engineers. The town also adopted a law of the State, passed at the June session, declaring " that any bowling-alley, situate within twenty- five rods of any dwelling-house, store, shop, school-house, or place of public worship, shall be deemed to be a public nuisance ;" 464 HISTORY OF CONCORD. and the selectmen were instructed to adopt the proper legal measures necessary to abate such nuisances as then existed in the town. At this time there were four or five bowling-saloons in the compact part of the village, in which some young men spent a portion of their time every day, to the grief of parents and friends, the injury of their morals, and waste of money. 1846. Asa Fowler, Esq., was appointed one of a committee to take charge of the town funds, in place of Samuel Coffin, resigned. Two hundred dollars were appropriated to purchase of Lewis Downing engine No. 3, together with the house, hose, and other fixtures belonging to the same. This engine was purchased by Mr. Downing in 1833, for two hundred and twenty-five dollars, for the protection of his large carriage manufactory estabhsh- ment, then situated at the south end of Main street, on the spot now owned and occupied by Mr. J. Stephens Abbot & Son. A law of the State was adopted by the town, authorizing " any two or more contiguous school districts in any town to form a union, for the purpose of maintaining a high school, for the instruction of the older and more advanced scholars." An attempt made to unite the three adjacent school districts in the main village proved unsuccessful. The superintending school committee reported that " some of the higher branches, History, Philosophy, Astronomy, Physiol- ogy and Algebra, had received the attention of the more ad- vanced scholars in district schools." 1847. The auditors reported that " the whole expenditure for the support of the poor the past year, including the interest on farm and overseer's salary, over and above what has been received for that purpose, amounts to $374,49." The average number of paupers, twenty-two and two thirds, and the " income has been sufficient to support them." The committee having in charge the various funds of the town were authorized to sell and convey, in the name of the town, the APPROPRIATIONS FOR VARIOUS OBJECTS. 465 real estate formerly owned by Hall Burgin, Esq. This property was mortgaged to the town for money borrowed of the surplus revenue fund. In pursuance of the above authority the Burgin house and land — including the widow's dower, which the town had purchased — was sold to Mr. Caleb Pratt, late of Hartford, Conn., for $4500. Mr. Pratt died suddenly at his house, Sep- tember 26th, aged fifty-seven, of disease of the heart. A sum not exceeding four hundred dollars was appropriated for a new burying-ground in the East village, and for fencing the same. Land for this purpose was bought of the estate of the late Jeremiah Pecker, Jr., and a new burying-ground laid out on the south side of the cross road running east of the meeting- house, to the Loudon road. The selectmen were " directed forthwith to remove all nui- sances called bowling-saloons ;" and " to cause the blacksmith shop, stone shop, and all other incumbrances now on the highway and common near the old North Church, to be removed." The blacksmith shop stood near the corner of the lot where the new house of Francis N. Fisk now stands. 1848. At the annual meeting this year, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars was appropriated, for enlarging and fencing the burying-ground at Millville, on the Hopkinton road. Permission was given to fence the common about the Biblical Institute, or old North Church, and incipient measures taken towards erect- ing a new Town-house. These measures were fully carried out after the town became a city. One hundred dollars were appro- priated for the support of a Teachers' Institute in and for the County of Merrimack ; a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars to purchase land and fence the same, for a burying-ground at Fisherville. The selectmen were instructed to grant no Hcenses during the year, permitting the exhibition of circuses ; and upon the question, "Is it expedient that a law be enacted by the General Court, prohibiting the sale of wines, or other spirituous liquors, except for chemical, medicinal or mechanical purposes ?" aflBrmative, one hundred and eighty-six ; negative, none. 30 466 HISTORY OF CONCORD. The superintending school committee reported one thousand five hundred and thirty scholars in winter schools, and one thou- sand four hundred and thirty-two in summer schools, of whom one thousand three hundred and twenty-four were under fourteen years of age. At a special meeting. May 6th, resolutions introduced by Col. Dudley S. Palmer were adopted, requiring the selectmen to ap- point a committee of five, whose duty it should be " to enforce the provisions of the license law against the unlawful sale of intoxicating drinks ;" and also " a committee to prosecute every instance of a bowling-alley being used unlawfully;" — the ex- penses of such committees to be defrayed by the town, not exceeding five hundred dollars. 1849. Our representatives to the Legislature were instructed to oppose the annexation of any part of Bow to this town ! H. H. Brown, Nathaniel Rolfe, Eldad Tenney, Theodore F. Elliot and E. F. Brockway, were appointed a committee to lay out into lots the burying-ground at Fisherville. The selectmen were instructed to pay each member of any engine or hook and ladder company in the town, twenty-five cents per hour for all labor actually performed by him at fires. Luther Roby, chief engineer of the fire department, reported that the expense of constructing reservoirs of desirable materials, and which will contain one thousand cubic feet of water, will vary, according to the kind of earth and depth of excavation, from one hundred dollars to one hundred and sixty dollars ; — and that the fire hooks which belong to the town, whenever their use has been attempted, have either broken or straightened out, and conse-. quently thrown down and made a pile of the men attached to them, instead of pulling down the building to which they were attached. The summer of 1849 was an unusually sickly season, from the prevalence of cholera morbus. In two or three cases the disease strongly resembled what was called the Asiatic cholera. Hence, on petition of Joseph Low, Nathaniel B. Baker and others, the selectmen, June 7, appointed doctors Ezra Carter, Thomas MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 467 Chadbourne and Charles P. Gage, Joseph Low and Asa Fowler, Esqs., a board of health, — which board immediately adopted sanitary regulations ; examined out-buildings and places where stagnant water, decayed vegetables, or other offensive matter was accumulated, and ordered the removal of the same ; also recommended to the inhabitants " the observance of strict tem- perance in regard to food and drink — limiting the diet to the most plain, simple and easily digested articles ; avoiding all crude vegetables and unripe fruit, much fresh animal food, large draughts of cold water, and, above all, ardent spirits in every form." This year the deaths in town were one hundred and fifty- eight — a larger number than ever occurred in one year before. At the June session of the Legislature this year, an act was passed " to incorporate the City of Concord." September 22 the vote of the town was taken on the adoption of the charter. Yeas, 183 ; nays, 637. 1850. To render the crossings of the highways by the several rail- roads more safe and practicable, the town voted that the Concord and Claremont railroad, the Northern, and the Boston, Concord and Montreal railroads, should be required to secure the crossing of their respective roads with the Free bridge road, by the con- struction of bridges ; and that at the intersection of the Boston, Concord and Montreal road with the highway near the easterly end of Federal bridge ; of the Northern railroad with the high- way near Horse-shoe pond ; of the Concord and Claremont road with the highway near Horse-shoe pond, near Benjamin Far- num's, and near the Mast Yard, gates should be erected and maintained ; and that at the crossing near the "West Concord depot a bridge should be built. A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars was appropriated for the purchase of a fire engine, hose, &c., for the use of engine company No. 3, to be located near Mr. J. S. Abbot's carriage manufactory ; and a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars was appropriated to purchase a new hearse and burying-cloth, to be used at the West Parish. The town paid the "Temperance Committee," for services and expenses, seventy-three dollars. 468 HISTORY OP CONCORD. At a meeting, October 8, called " to choose delegates to rep- resent this town in a convention to revise the Constitution of this State, to be held at the Capitol, in Concord, on the first Wednes- day of November next," the following ballots were cast : Whole number, 662 Necessary for a choice, 333 Franklin Pierce, 441 Nathaniel G. Upham, 365 Cyrus Barton, 369 George Minot, 395 Nathaniel Rolfe, 382 Jonathan Eastman, 376 Moses Shute, 381 Richard Bradley, 222 Asa Fowler, 263 Nathan Stickney, 260 Simeon Abbot, . 261 Jeremiah S. Noyes, : 272 Francis N. Fisk, 127 John Eastman, 202 IraPerley, 150 and others, scattering. This Convention assembled in Novem- ber. Hon. Franklin Pierce was chosen President of the Con- vention, which, with adjournments, continued its session till Jan- uary 3, 1851. Proposed amendments to the Constitution were agreed upon by the Convention, and ordered to be laid before the people, to adopt or reject at the annual town meetings in March, 1851. The amendments were fifteen in number, every one of which was rejected in this town by majorities of from four to six hundred,* and also rejected by a large majority throughout the State. The Convention again assembled, April 16, and agreed upon three amendments to be sent out to the people, viz. : 1. To abol- ish the property qualification for oflBce. 2. To abolish the religious test. 3. To empower the Legislature to originate future amend- ments of the Constitution. These were acted on at the March meeting, 1852, and the vote stood as follows : (1st.) Yeas, 304 ; * See original Records, March, 1851. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 469 nays, 341 ; (2d.) yeas, 286 ; nays, 360 ; (3d.) yeas, 294 ; nays, 348. At a meeting November 18, the town appropriated $1500 to pay the award of the road commissioners to the proprietors of Federal bridge, for a highway across the same, and other expen- ses connected with necessary repairs. The selectmen were au- thorized to advertise for proposals and to contract for rebuilding said bridge. The Federal bridge thus became free. In 1851 it was rebuilt in the most substantial manner, at a cost to the town of $14,830.14.* 1851. At the town meeting in March, Asa McFarland, Esq., intro- duced the following, which was unanimously adopted : " Whereas the tolling of bells on funeral occasions is productive of no good, and may, in case of the illness of the living, result in evil — Therefore, " Resolved, That the practice be discontinued here, as it has gene- rally been in other populous places." Thus ended a custom which had been invariably observed since a bell was first used on a meeting-house in Concord. At the funeral of Mrs. Sarah, wife of Mr. Richard Herbert, May 5, the bell was tolled by his particular direction. A committee, consisting of Joseph P. Stickney, Seth Eastman, and Ira Rowell, reported that in consequence of turning the cur- rent of Merrimack river to the east side of Sewall's island, by the Northern Railroad corporation, " from two to three acres of the most valuable interval land had been washed away" from the town farm. Measures were taken to suppress billiard tables. The selectmen were authorized to employ two or more suitable persons as a night watch for the main village, and one or more for the village of Fisherville. The persons employed in the main village were Horace H. Holt and Loring R. Cook, who were paid for their services $387,87. The selectmen were instructed to license but one person to sell *See Miscellaneous Chapter, "Free Bridges." 470 HISTORY OF CONCORD. spirituous liquors and wines for medicinal, mechanical and chem- ical purposes. Mr. Joel C. Danforth ■v\as appointed. 1852. Money was this year appropriated for the construction of new reservoirs : $100 for one near the brick school-house in district No. 10 ; $100 for one near the house of A. B. Currier ; $100 for one near the house of Francis N. Fisk ; $50 for one at the brook near Isaac Emery's ; $50 for one at the brook near Philip Watson's ; $200 for the enlargement of the reservoir in front of the State House, and $50 for one near the school-house in district No. 9.* New Towisr House. A committee, consisting of Josiah Mi- not, Richard Bradley, Joseph B. Walker, John Abbot and Na- thaniel B. Baker, was appointed, and " authorized in behalf of the town to make such arrangements as they think proper with the county, for the erection of a new building, on or adjoining the site of the present Town House, with a town hall, court room, and other offices in the same." The committee was also author- ized " to dispose of the old town house as they may think advis- able, and appropriate the proceeds thereof to the new building." A committee, viz. Sylvester Dana, Asa Fowler, Jacob A. Pot- * From a report of a committee on the Fire Department, it appears that at this time the town is provided with six good and reliable Engines, which are located as follows : No. 2 near the State Prison, at the corner of Tremont and State streets ; No. 4 on the north side of Warren street, a few rods west of State street ; No. 3 at the south end of Main street, nearly opposite Abbot & Go's carriage manufactory ; No. 8 at Fisherville ; No. 6 at the West Village, and No. 7 at the East Village. In regard to a supply of water, your committee find that there are now in the town four- teen public reservoirs, located as follows : At the south end of Main street, opposite Abbot &. Co's carriage manufactory, is a reservoir whose capacity is about 1000 cubic feet ; opposite the Thompsonian building is another, whose capacity is about 1000 cubic feet; near the South Church is another, whose capacity is about 400 cubic feet ; in front of the State House are three others, whose aggregate capacity is about 2300 cubic feet; at the intersection of Centre and Main streets is another, whose capacity is about 600 cubic feet; opposite the Merrimack County Hank is another, whose capacity is about 600 cubic feet, but which is always fully sup|ilied with water; opposite the house of John H. George is another, whose capacity is about 800 cubic feet; on State street, near the house of Sewel Hoit, is another, which is supplied by a brook, and is unfailing; on South street, near the house of N. B. Baker, is anotlier, wliose capacity is about 1000 cubic feet. Besides these there are others of various capacities, not strictly public reservoirs, located in different parts of the Centre Vil- lage — there being three near Warren street, between Main and Green streets ; one in the rear of Call's block ; one at the intersection of State and Washington streets ; one at the in- tersection of Main and Franklin streets, and various others, of small capacity, which it may be unnecessary here to enumerate. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 471 ter, Moses Shutc and Abel Baker, appointed last year, on the establishment and perpetual naaintenance of a public library for the use of all the inhabitants of the town," made a report, and proposed a plan, which was accepted, and resolutions in favor of it adopted. The plan, however, failed of being carried into exe- cution.* At a town meeting, August 14, Joseph B. Walker, John H. George and Stephen C. Badger, were appointed a committee, " with full power to build a bridewell for the use of the town." The selectmen were authorized and instructed " to take imme- diate measures for building a bridge across Merrimack river at Sewall's falls." The bridge was completed the next year as a free bridge. 1853. The annual meeting in March, of this year, was the last ever held in the capacity of a town. On the question of the accept- ance of a city charter, which had three times before been reject- ed, the vote stood : yeas, 828 ; nays, 559. The usual town officers were elected, who continued in office until the organization of the city government. From the report of the committee having the town funds in charge, it appeared that at this time the Parsonage fund amounted to . . $4,296,76 School fund 8.188,58 Surplus Revenue fund (in 1852,) . 7.985,30 This latter fund had been borrowed by the town : but as the fund itself was considered the property of the town, and entirely at its disposal, the committee having it in charge, March 13, 1852, were " directed to cancel the certificates of this fund :" — the effect of which was to extinguish not only the debt due from the town, but the fund itself. The last important business transacted by the town, at this meeting, was passing the following votes : '• Voted, That the committee appointed at the last annual town meeting, viz. : Josiah Minot, Nathaniel B. Baker, Richard Bradley, Joseph B. Walker and John Abbot, be authorized, in addition to the powers and authority given by the vote passed at said meeting, which * See Town Records, 1852. 472 HISTORY OF CONCORD. are hereby renewed and confirmed, to purchase for the use of the town all the premises in said town lying between Main street, on the east ; Court street, on the north ; Summer street, on the west ; and the south line of the Dearborn lot, so called, as it now runs, extended in a straight line westerly to Summer street, on the south — or such parts thereof as they think proper ; and that the selectmen be au- thorized from time to time, in behalf and on the credit of the town, to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for that purpose, or for any of the purposes mentioned in the vote aforesaid ; and that the same be placed at the disposal of said committee." " Voted, That a committee of three be appointed, with full powers to procure the publication of such portions of the original propri- etors' and town records as they may deem expedient, either in con- nection with the proposed history of the town by the Rev. Dr. Bouton, or otherwise, at their discretion ; and that a sum not ex- ceeding three hundred dollars be appropriated therefor. " Committee — Nathaniel B, Baker, Jonathan Eastman and Joseph B. Walker." *' Voted, That the selectmen be instructed forthwith to organize the city government." " Voted, That this meeting be dissolved. John P. Johnson, Toion Clerk." MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THIS PERIOD. [1845.] A fire broke out in the store of Mr. Albert Herbert, on the corner north of the Merrimack house, Main street, on Saturday evening, May lOtb, at half past nine o'clock. By the prompt exertions of the firemen the fire was kept from spreading. The house of Capt. Samuel Herbert, on one side ; the Merri- mack tavern and the house of Mr. Richard Herbert, on the other, being in imminent peril, were cleared of furniture, &c., as was also, in part, the house of Rev. Mr. Bouton. The store of Mr. Herbert was totally consumed, together with a consider- able quantity of goods. Loss estimated at about ^2.500 — insur- ance, $1,800. A highly interesting, able and exciting political debate took place at a public meeting held in the old North church, on INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 473 Thursday, June 5th, between Hon. John P. Hale and the Hon. FrankUn Pierce. Mr. Hale represented the cause of the Anti- Slavery party and Mr. Pierce that of the Democracy. As usual, the friends of each claimed the victory. A sketch of the debate may be found in the newspapers of that week. The New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society met in the old Town Hall on Wednesday, June 4th. The whole day was spent in dis- cussing the question whether a secretary should be appointed and the meeting regularly organized by the choice of officers. N. P. Rogers, of this town, and others, spoke against organization, and in favor of allowing every member perfect liberty. Stephen S. Foster, of Canterbury, was in favor of organization. The meet- ing was split on this rock ! Mr. John G. Gould, of Concord, was drowned on Sunday, June 15th, in the Merrimack river, aged 28. He was bathing at the foot of Turkey falls, near the railroad crossing, in com- pany with two others. He swam a few rods to a small island in the river, and on returning was drowned. Mr. Benjamin Hoit, living near Horse Hill bridge, killed a rattle-snake, in the month of June, which was five feet long and nine inches in circumference. Forty-nine eggs were taken from it. It had twelve rattles, and consequently was supposed to be fifteen years old. One day last week an eagle, which measured six feet from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other, was shot by a boy only thirteen years old, by the name of Goodrich, in the west part of the town.* George W. Currier, aged 29, and Alva C. Currier, aged 22, brothers, were drowned in Little Turkey pond on Wednesday evening, July 2d, about six o'clock. Their bodies were found on Thursday morning, about six rods from the shore, in about nine feet of water. They fell from a boat in which they were at- tempting to cross the pond. Died in this town, September 5th, at the house of his son-in- law, Lewis Downing, Esq., Mr. Jonathan Wheelock, a Revolu- tionary soldier and pensioner, aged 85 years. He was born at Lancaster, or Dempster, Mass., and entered the army of the * JV. H. Patriot, July 10, 1845. 474 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Revolution when lie was IG years old, as a musician. He was at the battle of Bunker Plill, at the capture of Burgoyne, and served through the whole war — occupying the station of drum- major at its close. Not ten minutes before his death he had signed the papers necessary for the receipt of his pension, sitting up in a chair. Twelve thousand eight hundred letters were mailed from the post-office in Concord during the quarter ending October 1st. The receipts for the quarter ending June 30th were $827,1 6i, and for the quarter ending September 30th, $742,43. The Rogers' family, consisting of three girls and one boy,* of ages varying from 11 to 17 years, gave a concert at the Uni- tarian church on Wednesday evening of last week. The house was full, and all were highly satisfied with the performances of this interesting family. f About the 1st of November Mr. Thomas D. Potter, of Con- cord, fell from a chestnut tree a distance of thirty-four feet, bruising him, but not fracturing a hmb. Twenty-four years ago the same individual fell from the same tree, and the same dis- tance, breaking an arm, thumb, &c. On the 26th of November a drove of five hundred and twenty- five turkeys passed through our streets — a pleasing sight for the day before Thanksgiving. Samuel Carr, of this town, took a dose of laudanum on Fri- day, October 31st, designedly, it is supposed. The apphcation of the stomach-pump relieved him of this, but he died on the next day in a fever, superinduced by the poison. Mr. George Battes, recently resident in this town, while eating his breakfast on Monday morning, November 17th, dropped from his chair and died instantly. It is supposed he was strangled with meat. He was formerly of Lebanon, about 35 years old, and was a man of intemperate habits. A blacksmith's shop, at the north end of Main street, caught fire on Saturday forenoon, December 13th, and the roof was nearly destroyed before the fire could be extinguished. It was occupied by Mr. Justin L. Robinson. Capt. Benjamin Parker, of this town, slaughtered a hog last * Children of Nathaniel P. Rogers, editor of the Herald of Freedom, t •'V. H. Patriot, Oct. 23. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 475 week, which weighed six hundred and thirty-nine and a half pounds.* In the month of December a party of four men went from this town to the neighborhood of the White mountains, to hunt for deer. They made their head quarters at Littleton, and were successful in getting ten fine deer in a few days. [1846.] On Saturday morning, January 3d, about half past six o'clock, the two story wooden building on Main street, owned and occupied by Messrs. Morrill, Silsby & Co., printers, stereo- typers, binders and booksellers, was discovered to be on fire in the press-room of the second story. By the promptness of a few individuals, and the exertions of our firemen, it was extin- guished in the course of an hour, with but comparatively little damage. The fire was communicated from a stove — in which a boy had a few moments previously kindled a fire, and then left the room — to a quantity of printed sheets which had been hung up to dry on the preceding evening. At a little past twelve o'clock at night, January 7th, a fire broke out in the spacious frame buildings at the depot of the Concord Railroad Company, occupied by Messrs. Gilmore & Clapp for an extensive wholesale grocery establishment, and by the railroad company as a car house. The building contained an immense amount of West India goods and groceries, comprising a large quantity of flour, lime, oil, plaster, pork, fish, iron, &c., besides four valuable passenger cars and three baggage cars, belonging to the railroad, nearly all of which were destroyed, or so much injured as to be almost a total loss. By the well directed efforts of our firemen on that part of the building in which Messrs. Gilmore & Clapp's safe — containing all their books — was situated, the latter was drawn out but slightly heated, and with the contents uninjured. The building was entirely consumed. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. At a meeting held at the office of Gen. Charles H. Peaslee, on Saturday, February 14th, for the purpose of considering the expediency of forming a natural history society in Concord, Dr. * JV. H. Patriot. 476 HISTORY OF CONCORD. William Prescott was chosen chairman and Nathaniel B. Baker secretary. After some remarks from the chairman, from Rev. Mr. Bouton, Hon. Franklin Pierce, Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham, Paul Wentworth, Esq., H. H. Carroll, Esq., and others, on motion of Stephen C. Badger, Esq., it was unanimously voted that it was expedient to form a natural history society in Concord. February 28th the following persons were chosen officers of said Society : William Prescott, president ; N. G. Upham, Paul Wentworth, vice presidents ; N. B. Baker, recording secretary ; Asa Fowler, corresponding secretary ; I. F. Williams, treasurer ; John H. George, librarian and cabinet keeper; Joseph Low, Charles P. Gage, Richard Bradley, Abiel Chandler, managers. Messrs. E. & G. G. Hook, of Boston, have recently erected, in the First Baptist meeting-house in this town, a splendid organ from their manufactory, a subscription of $1,500 being raised for the purpose. About two months since a new organ was erected in the new North Congregational church, which cost $1,150.* A child of Mr. John Shields, an Irishman, was run over by a team heavily loaded with timber, on Monday afternoon, April 20th, and was instantly killed. The wheels passed directly over its head, crushing it in a most shocking manner. The damages paid by the Northern railroad for land taken for the track of the road, &c., on the east side of Main street, as appraised by the State Railroad Commissioners, were as follows : Damages. Rods — length. Area. Per sq. rod. Abel Hutchinsjf . $1000 . . 12 . . 64 . . . $15,46 Isaac Hill, .... . 400 . . 6 . . . 32^ . . .12,31 Joseph LoWjf . . . . 480 . . 6 . . 331 . . 14.40 Benjamin Grover, . 601 . . 13. . .64 . . . 9,89 Mechanics' Bank, . . . 189 . . 3 . . H . . 14,26 W. B. Saflford, . . . 400 . . 3 . . . 7f . . . 51,61 Mary Ann Stickney, . . 1000 . . 27 . . 183| . . 5,43 Luther Farley, . . . 350 . . 6. . . 26* . . . 13,23 Samuel Butterfield, . 551 . . 12 . . 60^ . . 9.14 Sarah Hall,t . . . . 261 . . 6. . .34i. . . 7,32 *J\r. H. Patriot. jThe names above marked, cultivated their ground for gardens. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 477 Damages, Rods — length. Area. Per sq. rod. Woodbridge Odlin, . . 301 . . 8 . . 38 . . . 7,92 John Whipple, ... 148 . . 4 . . . 20J . . . 6,83 George W. Ela, . . . 400 . . 17 . . 83^ . . 4,72 Nancy West, .... 250 . . 26 . . 100 .. . 2,50 Samuel Morril,* . . . 50 . . 13 . . 2U . . 2,33 D. L. Morril,* .... 10 . . 2 . . . 2^ . . . 3,61 E. S. Chadwick,* . . . 11 . . 3 . . 3 . . . 3,66 Nathaniel Bouton,* . . . 25 . . 8 . . . 7^ . . . 3,42 Richard Herbert,* . . 400 . . 11 . . 57 . . . 7,00 Samuel Herbert,* . . 200 . . 4 ... 18 ... 11,11 James Woolson and wife, 250 . . 5 . . 25 . . . 10,00 Asa Fowler, 252 . . 5 . . . 22J . . . 10,90 William Prescott, . . . 233 . . 4 . . 2l". . . 11,10 Lucy A. Jordan, 2d, . . 175 . . 2 . . . 10^ . . . 16,66 Charles H. Stearns, . . 165 . . 2 . . loi . . 16,56 Pecker & Lang, . . . . 354 . . 10 . . . 54 . . . 6,51 P. Lang and Smart, . . 500 . . 18 . . 93 . . . 5,45 Joseph B. Walker,t . . 508 . . 18 . . . 68J . . . On Tuesday morning, May 5th, about half past one o'clock, a fire broke out in one of two barns, owned by Messrs. Joseph and William Low, situated a few rods south of the lower d^p8t of the Concord railroad, just west of the track. Both barns were totally destroyed, together with about twelve tons of cotton waste and paper-rags, belonging to Peabody & Daniell, of Frank- lin. A buggy-chaise, belonging to Gen. Low, and a small quan- tity of hay, were also consumed. The fire arose from spontaneous combustion of the cotton waste. The ancient dwelling-house, long owned by Dr. Peter Green, opposite the Court House, on the east side of Main street, and occupied by Irish families, with a small barn and shed in the rear, was nearly consumed by fire on Thursday afternoon, June 18th. Died in this town, in the evening of Tuesday, August 4th, Henry Harrison Carroll, Esq., aged 33 years ; editor and pro- prietor of the N. H. Patriot and State Gazette. His disorder * The names above marked cultivated their ground for gardens. t Mr. Walker's land includes Horse-shoe pond. Other lands of his were purchased at private sale. 478 HISTORY OF CONCORD. was congestion of the brain, of which the partial loss of sight for the last three months had been but too sure a precursor, — end- ing in twcntj^-three distinct fits of convulsion. Mr. Carroll graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836. As a pohtical writer, for his age, " he was capable of wielding as strong a pen as any other editor in the State." A considerable shock of an earthquake was felt in this town and vicinity, for twenty or thirty miles around, on Tuesday morning, August 25th, about five o'clock. The foundation for a new brick school-house, in district No. 10, for which $3,200 had been appropriated, was laid early in September. A man named Scales, a tailor, at the west parish of Concord, last week presented a note for eight hundred dollars, signed by himself as principal, and two sureties, to the cashier of the Mer- rimack County Bank, and received the money therefor. It was afterwards found that the names of the sureties had been forged. Scales was arrested, five hundred dollars recovered, and then he escaped. Mr. Abel Hutchins raised a musk-melon in his garden, this season, four feet and two inches long ! At the age of 83, Mr. H. is industrious, and as active as most men of 60. A fire occurred Saturday, September 26th, in the house of Mr. Samuel Palmer, on Green street, corner of Warren street, which took from the pipe of a boarder, setting fire to a bed on which he lay down to take a nap after dinner. Died in this town, October 5th, at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Susan Webster, in the East village, very suddenly, Stephen Ambrose, Esq., aged 75. His disease was dropsy in the chest. Mr. A. rose at the usual hour in the morning, nearly completed dressing himself, and had been called to breakfast by his daugh- ter, to which he answered. In about fifteen minutes afterward she opened the door of his room, and found him sitting in an upright posture in his arm chair — dead ! For more than forty years he was extensively known as a trader at the East village. He represented the town in the Legislature several years, and filled various important offices of trust and responsibility, with ability and credit. He was an ardent politician, embracing the INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 479 Whig cause, and was higbly esteemed as a kind neighbor and an enterprising and useful citizen. At the failure of the Concord Bank he was its president.* Lieut. Joseph H. Potter, a son of Thomas D. Potter, Esq., of this town, who graduated at the West Point military academy in 1843, was wounded in the battle of Monterey, September 21, 1846. In a letter to his friends here, dated September 27th, he says : " I was shot through the leg about two inches below the knee — the ball passing between the two bones of the leg and out on the opposite side. I was wounded while storming a bat- tery on one of the hills back of the town. We had three days hard fighting." An aged Man. Capt. John Palmer, who died in Canterbury in October, 1846, at the age of 102 years and 5 months, was for many years a resident in this town. He was born in Marble- head, Mass., in May, 1744 ; followed the sea, in the East India trade, about thirty years, and in the Revolutionary war he was a lieutenant and captain of a privateer. About 1790 he moved to Hopkinton, N. H., where he went into trade ; thence he moved to Concord, in March, 1794 ; from Concord to Canterbury, in 1800, and remained in the latter place till 1816, when he again returned to Concord and Uved with his son, Capt. John Palmer, Jr., in the house built by the latter on the Mountain, so called. In 1844 he returned to Canterbury, where he remained till his death. Capt. Palmer was small in stature — about five feet and four inches — but very spry and quick in his motions. Unfor- tunate in business, he was reduced in his circumstances, and disheartened. For a few years he was somewhat irregular in his habits ; but afterwards he became strictly temperate in drink and rather abstemious in food. In his old age he was industrious and active — working at the cooper business, which was his trade, in a little shop near his son's residence, on the Mountain, on the west side of the road. He continued to work till near one hun- dred years of age. He retained his faculties of sight and hearing, and also his memory, till within a week of his death. [1847.] A meeting of teachers, and others interested in the improvement of schools and education generally, assembled at * See lists of officers, &c. 480 HISTORY OF CONCORD. the Court-room, Friday afternoon, January 1st. Josiah Stevens, Esq., presided; Asa McFarland and Arthur Fletcher, Esqs., officiated as secretaries. In the evening Prof. Haddock, of Dartmouth College, the State School Commissioner, delivered an address. After he had concluded. Rev. Mr. Bouton introduced a series of resolutions, which, after a full discussion, were unan- imously adopted. One hundred and ten couples attended the stagemen's ball in this town, on Friday evening, January 15th, and had a jovial time of it. The music and entertainment are said to have been excellent.* A meeting of the citizens of this town was held on Tuesday evening, February 23d, to take into consideration such measures as it might be deemed expedient to adopt for the relief of suffer- ing caused by famine in Ireland. At this meeting a committee was appointed, who issued the following notice : " The undersigned individuals, having been appointed a committee to receive and transmit to Ireland such contributions of money, pro- visions and clothing as may be made for those suffering from famine in that country, hereby give notice that they will receive and trans- mit contributions for this purpose, made by the citizens of Concord and other towns, to Boston, free of expense, whence they will be transmitted free of expense by the committees in Boston to Ireland. Persons making donations in provisions or clothing are requested to forward them to the care of Gilmore & Clapp, in Concord, and dona- tions in money to the care of E. S. Towle or George Minot, cashiers. Joseph B. Walker, Nathan Stickney, George Minot, Joseph A. Gilmore, Stephen Brown, Ebenezer S. Towle, Mitchell Gilmore, Jr., Concord, February 25, 1847" S"'""' «' ^^^^''^ The following donations were sent in : From citizens of Concord, $1,293,02 u u u Pembroke, 5,25 *' " " Gilmanton, 5,62 " 6th school district in Canterbury, 14,00 " citizens of Concord, 100 bushels of grain. « " " Pembroke, 168 " " " * JV. H. Patriot, January 3L INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 481 Died at Loudon, February 13th, Thomas Haines, a Revolu- tionary soldier, aged 87, well known in this vicinity as " old soldier Haines." He entered the army at the age of nineteen; was at Ticonderoga in 1777, and in the retreat from that place was shot at and his woolen frock pierced in several places with bullets — he being only slightly wounded. He escaped the pur- suit of Indians by hiding in a deep ravine. He was in the battle at Bemis's Heights, near Saratoga, and was shot down and lay among the dead more than forty-eight hours. When found, it seemed doubtful whether the breath of life was in him. He Avas wounded by a ball passing through his cheeks, from side to side, nearly cutting off his tongue and knocking out most of his teeth. His face bore the marks of mutilation till his death. In the latter years of his life he received a pension from government. Soldier Haines lived many years in a small house about four miles from Concord Main street, towards Chichester, and near the corner of the road leading to the mills on Soucook river, known as Dickerman's mills. He often came into the main village, and was highly respected. He removed to Loudon only a few months before his death. In answer to a call* signed by one hundred and fourteen citizens of Concord, a large meeting of those " in favor of a vig- orous and determined prosecution of the war with Mexico," was held at the Town Hall, on Monday evening, February 8th. The meeting was called to order by Col. Josiah Stevens, and was organized by the choice of Jonathan Eastman, president ; Isaac Dow, Moses Shute, Francis N. Fisk, WiUiam Low, Nathan Call, vice-presidents ; Joseph B. Walker and John M. Hill, secre- taries. The meeting was addressed by Gen. Charles H. Peaslee, Franklin Pierce, Joseph Low, Charles F. Low, and a letter was read from Lieut. Joseph H. Potter, who was wounded at Monte- rey, but was then in town. At this meeting Franklin Pierce, Joseph Low and WilHam Butterfield were appointed to procure subscriptions " in aid of the citizens of New-Hampshire who are attached to the reo-iment * See names in Hill'a N. H. Patriot, February 11, 1847. 31 482 HISTORY OF CONCORD. of volunteers" under the command of Col. Caleb Cushing. A subscription from seventy- three individuals amounted to $310.* Hon. Franklin Pierce having received the appointment of brigadier-general in the United States army for the Mexican war, on Monday evening, May 10th, an elegant sword was presented to him by ladies of Concord. In behalf of the fair ones, Mrs. N. B. Baker, in presenting the sword, addressed Gen. Pierce in a very happy and appropriate manner, to which the General responded.! A beautiful horse, lately purchased of Col. Fox, of Nashua, by gentlemen in this town, and intended as a present to Gen. Pierce, died last week from the effects of a sudden and severe cold. Since that event several gentlemen, distinguished for their liberality, have purchased and presented to Gen. Pierce the fine black horse which has been owned by William Walker, Esq., the proprietor of the Eagle coffee-house. f Messrs. Fisk & Norcross, of Lowell, have employed the last winter about one hundred men, in cutting and drawing timber in the vicinity of the White mountains. In the month of May they had upwards of thirty thousand timber logs scattered along the Merrimack river, between Thornton and Concord. These logs are to be carried to Lowell and sawed into lumber for building purposes, in the steam saw-mill of Fisk & Norcross. * The following are the names of the subscribers and the amount subscribed for the " Vol- unteer Fund :" Gen. Joseph Low, Franklin Pierce, AI)el Baker, $20,00 20,00 5,00 M. Hill, 5,00 Nathan Call, . . . 5,00 L. S. Noyes, .... 2,00 Benjamin Grovor, . 10,00 H. Langlev, .... 2,50 M. S. Judkins, ... ,50 L. M. Kimball, (Hillsbo- rougli,) 1,00 D. G. Fuller, . . . 2,00 John McUaniel, . . . 3,00 Cyrus Carton, . . . 5,00 Jonathan Currier, . . 1,00 Samuel G Berry, . . 2,50 C. A. W. Folsom, Joseph Greeley, N. B. Baker, . . Ezra Carter, . . J. A. Potter, . . H. Houston, .... 2,00 Charles H. Peaslee, . 10,00 Parker West, (Manches- ter,) 5,00 G. W. Morrison, do. 5,00 Jacob Carter, . . . John Lull, .... J. Bl()df;ett, .... Joseph Robinson, . . Samuel B. Larkin, . . Cyrus Hill, .... John H. George, . . Isaac Dow, .... R. T. Leavitt, . . . S. C. Badger, . . . George Minot, . . . L. Runlet, (Manchester. Daniel Poor, .... Jonathan Eastman, . H. N. Harvey, . . . VV. Johnson, . . . 00 ! T. P. Treadwell, . . 5J00| Josiah Minot, . . . 5,50 John Pettengill, . . . 5,00 John L. Tallant, . . 5,00 1 Josiah Stevens, Philip Sargent, . . . VV. H. Wynian, . . . George Jones, (Bradford J. C. Duncklee, . . . J. S. Hatchman, . . 3,00 1,00 1,00 10,00 3,00 10,00 5,00 1,00 2,00 1,00 5.00 )5,00 5,00 3,00 1,00 1,00 5,00 5,00 2,00 2,00 5,00 2,00 1,00 ,)2,00 1,00 1,00 True Osgood, . . Atkinson Webster, . R. G. Wyman, . . William Butterfield, W. P. Hill, . . . E. A. Bodwell, (Man Chester,) . . . . S. G. Sylvester, . , Emery Burgess, . . William Low, . . Nathaniel Rolfe, . . J. A. Gilmore, . . William Hopkins, Ebenezer Symmes, John Gass, . . . . J. E. Lang, . . . J. B. Walker, . • . F. N. Fisk, . . . William Prescott, . . Abiel Walker, . . Cash, Franklin Low, . . Perkins Gale, . . . J. F. Brown, . . . Total, • . . 5,00 3,00 1,00 5,00 5,00 3.00 2,00 5,00 3,00 3,00 20,00 1,00 3,00 5,00 3,00 5,00 5,00 3,00 5,00 ,50 5,00 3,00 2,00 $310,00 t JV. JI. Patriot, May 13, 1847. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 483 On the first of July, 1847, James K. Polk, president of the United States, visited the capital of New-Hampshire, and was received and entertained in a manner worthy of the high station he occupied. Patrick Hart, of this town, a young man in the employ of the Concord Railroad, as brakeman, was so severely injured near Lowell, on Monday evening, August 30th, that he survived the accident but a few hours. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery, of Boston, under com- mand of Gen. J. S. Tyler, celebrated their two hundred and eleventh anniversary on Thursday, September 9, by a visit to the capital of the Granite State. This corps, accompanied by Flagg's brass band, arrived by the noon train. Disembarking a short distance below the village, they formed in column and marched to the foot of Main street, at which point they were received by the Concord Light Infantry, Capt. Charles A. Davis, attended by the Fisherville band. After the usual ceremonies of reception by the military. Gen. C. H. Peaslee, in behalf of the citizens, welcomed this time-honored corps to the hospitalities of Concord. Lieut. Charles F. Low, son of Gen. Joseph Low, of this town, sailed for Vera Cruz from New- York, on the 17th of September, with eighty-five recruits of the ninth regiment. Died in this town, October 6, Mr. Andrew Willey, aged 96 years ; the oldest man in town. Sergeant John C. Stowell and Henry F. Carswell, both of the ninth regiment, and both lately printers in the N. H. Patriot office, died at the camp near the city of Mexico about the first of September. The former was very severely wounded in the battle of the 20th of August. Carswell died of fever. Died in this town, November 7, Col. John Carter, a revolu- tionary pensioner and colonel in a regiment in the war of 1812, aged 88 years and 5 months. Col. C. was a native of Concord, and at the time of his decease was the second oldest resident of the place. He was always a firm and consistent democrat, and lover of his country.* On Thursday night, December 2, about eleven o'clock, the * JV. H. Patriot, November 11, 484 HISTORY OF CONCORD. cabinet shop of Mr. Charles E. West, adjoining the foundry, on Warren street, was discovei-ed to be on fire. It had made such progress before it was discovered that the building was nearly consumed before it was extinguished. Loss about $1,500. Four young men, Messrs. Pettengill, Bickford, Ricker and Marden, mechanics employed in the shop, lost their tools, valued at about [1848.] On Wednesday, January 19, the large and nearly new dwelling-house and barn of M. N. Brown, situated in the north-eastern part of Concord, were entirely destroyed by fire, together with most of his household furniture, thirty or forty tons of hay, a large quantity of grain, farming tools, and a young horse, &c., amounting in value to about $2,500. Insured for $775. Gen. Pierce arrived in this town, on return from Mexico, Jan- uary 27, and was received with distinguished honor. It was estimated that between three and four thousand persons were at the railroad d^pot to greet him. At the Depot Hall he made a public address. In the evening, a public levee was held at the State House, where he received the congratulations of his friends. The body of a child, enveloped in a napkin and handkerchief, was found May 1, by some young people who were out " May- ing," in the woods west of the village, near what is known as the New Colony. From appearances when discovered it had proba- bly laid there nearly a week. Died in this town. May 19, Capt. Samuel Davis, in the 90th year of his age. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and for several years the oldest native of the town. His life was characterized by industry, integrity, and a faithful discharge of life's duties. He spent much of his time in old age in reading the Holy Scrip- tures. A beautiful monument has lately been cut from Concord gran- ite, at Mr. Luther Roby's stone-yard, at the north end of Main street, to be erected in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the spot where Jason Russell and eleven other American citizens were killed by the British army on the 19th of April, 1775. On Tuesday, September 12, Charles West, son of Hazen K. West, of this village, was struck, at the north end of Main street. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 485 bj a boy named Quinn. There had been some controversy be- tween them in the former part of the day ; and upon meeting, towards night, the latter boy struck West several blows with a stake over the head. He died the next morning. The boys were about 15 years of age. Quinn ran away. Mr. Theodore A. Hall died in this town on Thursday, Octo- ber 12, under the following circumstances : Being employed in the wood-shop of the Northern railroad company, on the Saturday previous, he received a severe blow from another workman, which took effect in the region of the chest, or stomach. No bad con- sequences were apprehended at first ; but he soon became very ill, and died in five days after receiving the injury. No malicious intention was imputed to the person who struck him. On Friday morning, November 24, about two o'clock, as Gen. Joseph Low was returning from a visit to a sick friend, in passing the block opposite Gass's hotel he heard something resembling the cry of an infant in an entry-way next door to S. E. Brown's store. Proceeding to the spot he found a little male infant, apparently about two weeks old, lying on the floor, upon its face, nearly stifled. Gen. Low took the foundling home, and gave it proper care until provided for by the town. Died in this town, on the 28th of January, of paralysis of the left side, after an illness of about ten days, Hon. David Law- rence Morril, aged 77 years.* The building owned by Capt. Ebenezer Symmes, and occupied as a bakery and confectionery estabhshment, was discovered to be on fire on Tuesday morning, February 13. The night was intensely cold, and the fire had made considerable headway at the time of the discovery ; yet, by judicious management, it was extinguished. The fire took from ashes which had been thrown out near the building, communicating to a flight of outer stairs, and thence running to the building itself. On Tuesday evening, February 13, at half past ten o'clock, the quiet of our usually peaceful village was broken by the cries of fire and the ringing of bells. The extensive coach manufac- tory of J. Stevens Abbot, Esq., (formerly Downing & Abbot,) was found to be on fire, which had made such progress before its discovery as to bafile the exertions of the fire department. The * See Biography. 486 HISTORY OF CONCORD. entire establishment, with the exception of a large blacksmith's shop, (a fire proof building,) was in a few hours laid in ashes. An Irishman, named Michael Storan, committed suicide in this town on Tuesday morning, April 8, by drowning himself in the Merrimack river. Died in this town, March 30, Isaac Emery, Esq., aged 80 years. Mr. Emery was a native of this town, and was for many years the well known landlord of a public house on the east side of the river. He had been twice elected a member of the Leg- islature, and had held a number of important stations in the gift of his fellow-citizens. In the evening of March 17, Mr. Henry Larkin, an Irishman of this village, drank by mistake — supposing it to be brandy — a quantity of poison, (tincture of aconite,) enough to kill fifty men ; and was immediately thrown into the most dreadful convul- sions, and died in about twenty minutes. The presentation of the sword voted by the Legislature of the State of New-Hampshire to Gen. Pierce, took place June 27, at half past four o'clock, P. M., in front of the State House. The sword was presented by Gov. Samuel Dinsmoor, in presence of a lar^e number of the members of the Ledslature and of citizens. A serious accident, resulting in the death of one individual and the serious injury of two others, occurred on the Concord and Claremont railroad upon the occasion of its opening to War- ner, on Friday, September 21. Mr. Matthew G. Gould, of Sutton, aged about 20 years, was accidentally thrown from the platform of a car near Fa mum's crossing, and his legs were shockingly crushed, so that death ensued. George E. Farnum, aged 15 years, eldest son of Dea. Benja- min Farnum, of this town, was fatally injured on Tuesday eve- ning, September 18, by falling from a scaffolding to the lower floor in his father's barn, thereby fracturing his skull and breaking his right thigh, causing his death in two or three days. The clothing store of F. C. Edmunds, in this place, was broken open on the night before Thanksgiving, and about one hundred dollars' worth of clothing stolen therefrom. A small trunk, con- taining papers of little value, was taken, but was found the next morning near the Free bridge. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 487 On Friday, December 14, about half past twelve o'clock, the large three story Avooden block on Mam street, next south of the Eagle coffee-house, called Butterfield's block, was discovered to be on fire, and before men enough to resist it had assembled, the fire had made such progress as to render it impossible to save the building, and it w^as entirely consumed, together with the two story building next south, owned and occupied by Abraham Prescott & Sons, for the manufacture and sale of musical instru- ments. Next to that were two " ten footers," and then a two story dwelling-house, all owned by Col. Benjamin Grover — the first of which was nearly burned up and the others considerably injured. Died in this town, December 22, Mrs. Mary Abbot, aged 85 — just three weeks after the death of her husband, Mr. Samuel Abbot. They had hved together in wedded life sixty-three years, and in their death were not long divided. [1850.] Mr. Peter Jenness, of Chichester, was instantly killed, on Saturday, February 9, at the crossings of the railroads and Free bridge road. He was coming into the village with a horse and sleigh, just as the eleven o'clock train on the Concord and Claremont railroad was starting out, and either supposing the train had not started, and wishing to cross before it, or for some other reason, he whipped his horse into a very fast gait, and just as the horse had cleared the track, and the sleigh had got square upon it, the engine struck him and killed him in- stantly — cutting, tearing and mangling his body in a horrible manner. Mr. Jenness was a respectable farmer, about 53 years of age, and has left a wife and children. Daniel Prince, residing on Pleasant street, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a knife, on Saturday evening, March 23. He survived until Tuesday morning. He was 67 years of age, and leaves a wife. The only cause assigned for this act was the fear of pecuniary troubles, which had no real foundation. Died in this town, in May, Mr. Nathaniel Ewer, aged 77. He ate his dinner as usual, and, going out of his house, suddenly fell and died. The grocery and provision store of W. Odlin & Co., in this village, was broken into one night last week, and about twenty- 488 HISTORY OF CONCORD. five dollars in money stolen therefrom. It was probably entered by means of a false key.* On Friday, November 15, upon tlie Poor Farm in this town, two men were engaged in blasting rocks, and while one of them was charging a seam from a keg of powder which he held under his arm, the charge exploded, igniting the powder in the keg, and very seriously injuring and burning both of the men. Nei- ther of them were fatally injured, but it is a wonder that both were not killed. Their names were SulUvan Davis and Corhss. Another horrible accident occurred on the Concord and Clare- mont railroad on Tuesday morning, attended with the loss of two lives. As the morning train was coming through the cut at Farnum's ledge, about two miles above this village, where the highway crosses the track diagonally, it came in contact with a two horse wagon, containing a gentleman and lady coming into town. The horses had barely crossed the track, and the wagon was upon it, when the engine struck the wagon, staving it in pieces, and passing over the bodies of its occupants, horribly mangling and instantly killing the lady, and so injuring the man that he soon died. The persons were William Coult and wife, of Manchester, aged about 55 years. They had been on a journey to Vermont and Western New-York, and were just re- turning home, when thus suddenly called to another world. [1851.] On Monday night, November 3, between eleven and twelve o'clock, the dwelling of Mr. David Tandy, near the Sand hill, so called, was assailed by several young men, and violence committed. The assailants on reaching the house com- menced calling for the sons of Mr. Tandy, threatening violence if they came out, and that the house would be demolished if they remained within it, accompanying their threats with a volley of oaths. The sons, David and Calvin L., went out to resist the assault, when they were saluted by stones, one of which struck Calvin L. Tandy in the forehead, just above the right eye, and fractured his skull. Missionary Convention. A convention was held at the North church, in this town, on the 4th and 5th of November, * J\'. //. Patriot, September 19, 1850. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 489 the object of which was to obtain more full information respecting the state of nations unenlightened by Christianitj, and to awaken and diffuse more of a missionary spirit in churches. The con- vention was well attended by ministers and others from different parts of the country ; and great interest was given to the meeting by the presence and addresses of Rev. Mr. Goodell, a returned missionary of the American Board, who has spent about tliirty years in the service, and of Dr. Pomroj^, one of the secretaries of the Board. Gen. Robert Davis, of this town, sustained serious injury on Monday, October 6, by falling from the roof of his dwelling- house, whither he went to remove leaves and other obstructions in the gutter. He had a hook attached to a pole — being accus- tomed to ascend the roof for a similar purpose — which he ap- plied to the ridge-pole, and descended towards the gutter. The hook became detached from the pole, and Gen. Davis was pre- cipitated to the ground, breaking one thigh and being otherwise injured. Mr. Stephen Chase, formerly a resident of the East Village, died in Conway a few days since, at the age of 67. Mr. Chase will be remembered by those who were boys inl812 — 15, as being the man who had the honor of carrying and beating the first base drum ever seen in the world-renowned Eleventh Regiment of New-Hampshire militia, at a muster which took place on the " lower interval," as it is called, east of Federal bridge.* The most destructive conflagration ever known in Concord took place on Monday night, August 25, about eleven o'clock. The flames were first discovered issuing from a long, three story wooden building, known as " Mechanics' Row," immediately in rear of the apothecary store of Mr. E. H. Rollins, and which was surrounded by structures as combustible as itself. The fire rapidly spread to the stable of the Eagle cofiee-house ; thence to a new and elegant brick building, called the " Merchants' Ex- change ;" near the same time enveloping wooden buildings on the south, owned by Mr. Abraham Prescott and Col. Grover, and on the north the Eagle coffee-house and the brick block *JV. H. Statesman, October 25. 490 HISTORY OF CONCORD. occupied for stores, together with all the wooden buildings in the rear. The fire was finally arrested on the north at the building with brick ends, still standing, owned by Mrs. M. A. Sticknej, and on the south by the brick building known as Low's block. All the intermediate buildings — forming the business centre on the east side of Main street — were destroyed, with much of their contents. The buildings were mostly insured. The light of this great fire was seen over nearly every part of New- Hampshire — as far as Franconia ; also in Thetford, Vermont, eighty-four miles ; and in Portland, Maine, one hundred miles from Concord. At Portsmouth, it is said, it appeared as if only twelve or fifteen miles distant, and at Francestown it shone into sleeping chambers like the light of the waning moon. The owners or occupants of the buildings burnt and principal sufferers were as follows : Benjamin Grovcr, Abraham Prescott, Prescott & Brothers, Jane Dustin, Allison & Gault, Porter, Rolfe & Brown, William Walker, Jr., E. H. Rollins, Mrs. M. A. Stickney — owners ; John Gibson, of the Eagle hotel ; Jacob Carter & Son, C. W. Gardner, J. & C. Munroe, C. W. Harvey, Nathaniel Evans, Jr., Page & Fay, Johnson & Dewey, Moore & Cilley, C. E, Savory & Co., Brown & Young, G. P. Lyon, Sylvester Dana, Ephraim Eaton, B. W. Sanborn, McFarland & Jenks, J. Prescott & Co., G. D. Abbot, Fogg & Wiggin, Dr. T. Haynes, David Winkley, R. C. Osgood, H. A. & A. H. Bellows, Peaslee & George, C. Ainsworth, James Peverly, Tripp & Osgood, G. Bullock, B. Gage, S. G. Sylvester, Miss A. Hamlin, Reed & Stanley, Norton & Crawford — occupants. Discourses of a kind naturally suggested by the fire were de- livered to most, if not all of the congregations here, on the fol- lowing Sabbath. Mr. John F. Brown, of this town, the well known book-seller and publisher, presented us on Wednesday with an apple raised by himself, which weighs seventeen ounces, and the greatest cir- cumference of which is thirteen and a half inches.* The mansion house of the late Gov. Hill was purchased on Monday, September 22, by Isaac Danforth, Esq., of Boston. The price at which it was bid off was $4,450. * Statesman, September 27. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 491 The freight train down over the Northern raih^oad, last week, consisted of one hundred and ninety-four, and on Tuesday, Oc- tober 7, of two hundred and forty-two loaded cars. [1852.] On new year's day two of our young men were removed from us by death. Mr. Marshall B. Colby, station agent on the Claremont road at the Mast Yard depot, was crushed to death between two cars, and Mr. Lyman Aldricli died on the same day of inflammation of the lungs, following a course of typhus fever. The funeral services of both were at- tended on the following Sabbath, at the West Parish church. Sermon by Rev. A. P. Tenney. On Friday morning, January 23, between three and four o'clock, a fire was discovered in a small wooden building on the Free bridge road, within a few feet of a range of wooden build- ings on Main street, owned by Mrs. Mary Ann Stickney, to which the fire was soon communicated, and the whole were de- stroyed. The occupants of the consumed buildings were Daniel A. Hill, furniture ware-house ; David Symonds, harness maker ; Day & Emerson, marble workers ; William Oilman, shoe maker ; Eben Hall, tin-ware manufacturer ; Joel C. Danforth, whip man- ufacturer, and Moore & Jenkins, market house. On Friday morning, April 23, the interval on both sides of the Merrimack river was completely covered with water, extend- ing from immediately east of Main street to the " Dark plain." There was an unbroken sheet of water from the foot of the hill, near the Walker barn, to the East Village. In the distance Kearsarge mountain was seen white with snow. John McAlpin, assistant road-master on the Concord Railroad, was instantly killed on Wednesday, April 21, by being thrown from a gravel train, which passed over him. He leaves a wife and four children. On Wednesday, May 19, Rev. Augustus Woodbury, pastor of the Unitarian church in this town, while examining a jam of logs, owned by Fisk & Norcross, at the Concord lower bridge, having stepped upon the timber, fell into the water ; and such was the rapidity of the stream, he was instantly carried beneath the thickly imbedded logs, to a point some sixty feet from the upper end of the jam. Fortunately he was rescued from his perilous 492 HISTORY OF CONCORD. situation — when death seemed inevitable — by two of the men in Fisk & Norcross's employ. Their names were John Crawford and Abbot Haynes, both of the State of Maine. A fire occurred on Saturday, May 20, about five, P. M., in the large house — formerly Washington hotel — owned by Mr. Charles Smart, north end of Main street. It was extinguished without much damage. The new jail, located about three-fourths of a mile from the Main street, at the intersection of Warren and Pleasant streets, was finished the last of May. The site, including about ten acres of land, was purchased of Mrs. M. A. Stickney for $1,100. The building was erected at an expense of $11,000. The labor was performed mostly by contract. The stone work by John C. and Francis Farnum ; the wood work by Cross and Warren ; the brick work and slating by James C. Whittemore ; the copper work and plumbing by J. D. Cooper, and the iron work at the State Prison. The plan was designed by Messrs. George A. Pillsbury, Luther McCutcheon and John Tennant, committee, in connection with John Miller, architect. The body of an Irishman, named John Montgomery, was dis- covered floating in the Merrimack river, near the Free bridge, on Wednesday, A. M., June 30. Montgomery, who was lately in the employ of Robinson k Morrill, tanners, of the East Village, was intemperate ; and late on Saturday night was in company with one John Quinn and other Irishmen — the whole company having indulged, in the course of the evening, in frequent pota- tions. An inquest on the body was held by Seth Eastman, Esq., and the following verdict returned : " That said Montgomery came to his death on Sunday morning, 27th June, by the hands of some person or persons unknown ; and that John Quinn was the person last known to have been in company with him before his death." The fourth of July was celebrated in Concord pretty much as usual. The bells were rung and salutes fired at sunrise, noon and sunset ; chowder parties came off at Long pond and other favorite resorts, and the boys wound up the whole with a little fun in the evening. Mr. P. C. Holmes, aged 20, son of Charles Holmes, Esq., of INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 493 Dunbarton, clerk in the store of INIr. B, Plummer Whipple, of Concord, was drowned in the Merrimack river, under the Free bridge, on Sunday morning, between five and six o'clock, where he went to bathe with another young man. His body was found next day about four, P. M., being raised by the firing of cannon on the bank of the river. Wednesday, August 25, is the anniversary of the great fire in Concord last year. New and elegant buildings have already been erected upon the ruins, and nearly all are tenanted, or ready for occupancy. The hotel, on the site of the old Eagle coffee-house, is to be opened on the first of November, by Maj. John Gibson, and will be the most spacious and elegant in the State.* An elegant and lofty flag-staff, or liberty pole, near the State House yard, on Main street, was erected in August, by the " Granite Club," at a cost, with the flag, of three hundred dollars. The main pole is ninety- three feet in length. The flag pole about sixty. The pole and staff were cut in Dunbarton. The flag-staff erected this season in West Concord is one hundred and ten feet high. Died in this town, September 8, very suddenly, Mr. John Park Gass, aged 58, extensively known as the popular keeper of various public hotels. Mr. Gass was named for his uncle, Stuart J. Park, Esq.f His mother was S. J. Park. In 1816 he came to Concord with his uncle, and was the overseer of the State Prison convicts, to learn them to hammer stone for the State House. After the State House was finished, Mr. Gass and Dearborn Johnson hired the prisoners to work for them, up to 1820. He then went to Columbia, South Carolina, and built locks and canals on Saluda river, and made a handsome sum of money. Returning to Concord, he bought the Columbian hotel of Maj. Peter Robertson, kept the hotel until 1826, went to Boston, kept the Back-street house, now called Salem-street, stayed there a few months, then went to New-York, and kept the Broadway house until the fall of 1829. At the request of Isaac Hill he then returned to Concord and took the Eagle coffee-house, and kept it until 1831: — having for about two years * JV. H. Statesman, f See notice of Mr. Park, p. 365, note. 494 HISTORY OF CONCORD. of the same time the charge also of the Columbian hotel. In 1834, in connection with his son John, he built the American house, where he continued till 18-47, when he went into the gro- cery business in a store fitted up in the basement of the old " Emmons house," immediately north of the hotel. Mr. Gass was one of the most agreeable and popular taverners in New- Hampshire. His accommodations were always on a liberal scale, in which he himself participated ; attentive to his guests, socia- ble and witty in his remarks, he rarely failed to give satisfaction. Mr. Gass died suddenly of apoplexy and congestion of the lungs. He left an only son, Mr. John Gass, proprietor of the American house, and three daughters. Susan, the eldest, married George Wood ; Jane Park, married Sullivan H. Sanborn ; Mary Ann, married Ohver Greeley. Three hundred and eighty-two cars, loaded with live stock, passed down over the Concord Railroad on Tuesday, September 14, besides the regular freight trains, amounting in all to five hundred and thirty-four cars.* Omnibus. Mr. George Dame, of the Pavilion hotel, has started an omnibus, which runs twice, hourly, between the north end of Main street and the depot. Upon the panels are views of the State House, Depot, and Main street, and a likeness of Gen. Franklin Pierce, painted by Mr. Wolcott, in the employ of J. S. Abbot & Co. This was the first omnibus started in Concord. News of the death of Hon. Daniel Webster, at Marshfield, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning, October 24, twenty-two minutes before three o'clock, was received in Concord by tele- graph at nine o'clock the same morning. The bells of the town were immediately tolled, flags that were on public buildings were lowered half-mast, and the several clergymen in their church services made appropriate allusions to the national bereavement. On Monday morning, at ten o'clock, most of the stores and ofl&ces on Main street were closed, and the citizens, as if moved by a spontaneous impulse, assembled in the Representatives' Hall in the State House, to express in an appropriate manner their feelings on the mournful occasion. A large number of ladies were also present. The meeting was called to order by Edward H. * JV. H. Patriot INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 495 Parker, M. D., when prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Bouton. Hon. Ira Perley was chosen chairman, and Dr. Parker secretary. On taking the chair Judge Perley made an appropriate and impressive address. A committee, consisting of W. H. Bartlett, Richard Bradley, N. B. Baker, Ezra Carter, and H. A. Bellows, was then chosen, to report resolutions appropriate to the mourn- ful occasion. On the resolutions being offered. Gen. Franklin Pierce, then in nomination as a candidate for the presidency of the United States, made an address, in which he used the impressive words, " How do mere earthly honors and distinctions fade amid a gloom like this ! How political asperities are chastened — what a lesson to the living ! What an admonition to personal malevo- lence, now awed and subdued, as the great heart of the NATION THROBS HEAVILY AT THE PORTALS OF HIS GRAVE."* On Monday evening, January 3, as Hon, Henry Hubbard, of Charlestown, was going from the Eagle hotel, in stepping from the sidewalk at the north end of the block his feet slipped, he fell heavily upon the ice, and struck his left arm upon the curb stone, breaking the bone above the elbow. For this accident the gov- ernor sued the town for damages, and obtained a verdict in his favor for about $800. Benjamin, the only son of Gen. Franklin Pierce, was instantly killed on Thursday, January 6, by a terrible accident to the cars on the Boston and Maine railroad, about one mile from Andover, Mass. In company with his parents he had just left the house of his uncle, John Aiken, Esq., of Andover, for Concord. The cars, running at a rapid rate, were suddenly thrown from the track, and precipitated down a rocky embankment of twenty feet or more. At the time of the occurrence the beautiful boy was standing near his parents, and when the cars went over it was supposed he was thrown forward in such a manner as to fracture his skull and produce instant death. It is remarkable that he was the only one killed, although some were severely and many slightly injured. His remains were conveyed back to the house of Mr. Aiken, where funeral services were performed on the Monday following, in the presence of a numerous and sorrowing assembly. Rev. * See report of proceedings, &c., JV. H. Patriot, October 27, 1852. 496 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Henry E. Parker, of Concord, officiated. About sixty persons from Concord attended as sympathising friends. Twelve lads, associates and school-mates of " little Benny," attended as pall- bearers. After the services at Andover the remains of the dear boy were brought to Concord and followed by an immense pro- cession from the Depot to the ancient burjing-ground, at the north end of the village, where they were deposited in the family enclosure, beside those of his deceased brother, Robert, who died November 14, 1843, aged 4 years and 2 months. The silver plate on the coffin of the deceased bears the following inscrip- tion : " Benjamin Pierce, died January 6, 1853, aged 11 years and 9 months." The dwelling-house of Mr. Isaac F. WilUams, opposite the South church, took fire on Sunday, January 16, a little past noon — originating probably from a defect in the chimney. It was soon extinguished. The damage from fire and water is esti- mated at between two and three hundred dollars. On the 24th of February, John Virgin,* commonly called " Un- cle John," or " Old John," was found dead in a small hut near Sugar Ball, where he had lived alone about three years. He was discovered by Mr. Moses Cass and Mr. True George, upon whose information a coroner's inquest was held by Seth East- man, Esq. When found he was lying on the floor, with only a shirt on, one hand in the stove, (in which was no fire,) and his lower limbs frozen. Virgin was a soldier from Concord in the war of 1812, and was with General Harrison at the battle of " Tippecanoe" — which was a theme for his boasting as long as he lived. He was an invalid, having an ulcerous sore on one of his legs, which was very oifensive. Virgin received a pension of $96 a year from the government, and upon this he determined to live independently of every body. Refusing the offer of as- sistance from the town, he lived alone the latter part of his fife, in his little hut, in a most wretched and filthy condition, exposed to the severities of winter, and sometimes without sufficient food, or wood to warm him. He would occasionally visit the main village, where his haggard appearance and his loud, patriotic ha- rangues, always excited attention !f Virgin was a man of vio- * See page 47. t See sketch of Virgin in the Concord Directory, published by Charles H. Wheler, 1853. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 497 lent passions. He had no friends, because he would not have them. He lived alone, died alone, and was buried alone. At the order of the selectmen, on the evening of the day that he was found his body -was taken by the sexton, Joseph Brown, and carried to the hearse-house, in the burying-ground by the old North Church. Next morning at 11 o'clock he was buried with- out the attendance of a single person, except the sexton. It is but just to remark, that notwithstanding Virgin spent his last days in so wretched a condition, the selectmen repeatedly offered him assistance, and would gladly have made him comfort- able. Individuals, also, from the main village sent him many little comforts ; and the families near him, at Sugar Ball, partic- larly Mr. Samuel Chfford's and Joseph Lougee's, looked after him, and from their own table often sent him warm food, and in winter provided him with wood. When he came into Main street peojole treated him kindly, and even with a degree of re- spect. Some were always ready to listen to his eloquent ha- rangues, and to applaud him. He had remarkable fluency and command of large words. The following is a specimen, taken from Wheler's Directory, of 1853 : '' When the ' Old Hero/ as ' Uncle John' called General Harrison, was up for the Presidency, he had no more ardent or sincere sup- porter than John Virgin. We remember him then ; and, in imagi- nation, we seem to see him coming down the street with his peculiar gait, staif in hand. Some one accosts him. He halts with military precision and promptness. ' Good morning, Uncle John !' ' Ah ! good morning, my friend .' ' How is the election going, Uncle John V And then he brings up the cane from the ground j he un- consciously assumes an oratorical attitude, and then breaks out in the following style : ' Ah ! (rising inflection) the gallant General Harrison ! whose name has always been allied with victory ! illuminating the great American heart like the brilliant meteor, as it madly dashes through the Universe ! The heroic General Harrison ! whose name, that once struck terror to the hearts of his country's enemies, shall cause still greater consternation among his political foes, when, like the deep rumbling earthquake, or the irresistible tornado, he shall ascend to the throne of the people's grateful heart ! ' Glory to the noble General William Henry Harrison ! whose fame has already burst upon the distant nations with the swiftness of the comet and the brightness of the lightning's glare ! Ever shall his name glow like the sun at mid-day, and the stars by night ! [Orator- ical pause.] Ah ! what mighty voice is that I hear ? It is the 32 498 HISTORY OF CONCORD. howl of the angry ocean waves, as they madly dash against the earth- bound rocks ! Ah ! 't is the uprising of the glorious American peo- ple in their majesty, speaking in thunder-tones ; reverberating from North to South, from East to West, — The gallant Harrison is our President !' " At times some wight is hardy enough to disparage the hero of ' Uncle John's' laudation — but wo to him ! ' By all the mighty cat- aracts !' begins the enraged orator ; and before he is through with him he drives him into the knot-hole of his insignificance, and then kicks his diminished shadow in after him ! But Uncle John is gene- rally very kindly treated, whatever may be the political complexion of his audience." On the 5th of March, Benjamin Hazcn, child of Mr. Robert P. Kimball, aged 2 years and 9 months, accidentally fell into a pail of hot water, and was scalded to death. CITY OF CONCORD. The City Charter, which, as already stated, was granted by the New-Hampshire Legislature July 6, 1849, has been pub- lished in a permanent form, and distributed generally among the citizens. It is, therefore, deemed unnecessary here to insert it. Strongly attached as many of the people were to the usages of the town organization, and not having experienced personally much inconvenience on account of the increase of population and correspondent changes in the business aflfairs of the town, they were reluctant to hazard a change from a town to a city govern- ment, especially as it was apprehended that the expenses would thereby be greatly enhanced. One strong argument in favor of a city government was found in the inconvenience of the annual town meeting in one place. The number of voters having in- creased to upwards of two thousand, the annual meeting, in contested elections, was necessarily protracted and tedious — requiring, in repeated instances, four, five and six days to choose oflBcers and transact the ordinary business of the town. INCORPORATED A CITY. 499 On the question of the adoption of the city charter, four trials were had, which resulted as follows : VOTES UPON THE ADOPTION OF THE CITY CHARTER. March Sept. 22, 1849. Whole number of votes cast, 820 . Nays, 637 . Yeas, 183 . Majority against adoption, . 454 . Majority in favor, May 17, 1851. March 13, 1852. 10, 1853. . . . 721 . . . 1072 . . . 1387 . . . 582 . . . 614 . . . 559 . . . 139 . . . 458 . . . 828 . . . 443 . . . 156 . 269 The first election under the charter adopted by the town on the 10th of March, took place on Saturday, the 26th of the same month. There were three candidates for mayor,* viz. : Richard Bradley, Joseph Low and Asa Fowler. The result of the vote was as follows : Bradley. Low. Ward 1. . . . .... 87 . . . . . 42 " 2. . . . .... 59 . . . . . 86 " 3. . . . . . • . 73 . . . . . 25 " 4. . . . ... 135 . . . . 170 " 5. . . . ... 102 . . . . 189 " 6. . . . ... 113 . . . . 157 " 7. . . . .... 75 . . . . . 80 Fowler. 3 7 5 25 46 33 7 644 749 126 Majority against Low, 21 At the first election the following gentlemen were chosen to office in the several wards, viz. : ALDERMEN. Ward 1. John Batchelder. " 2. John L. Tallant. " 3. Joseph Eastman. "■ 4. Robert Davis. Ward 5. Edson Hill. " 6. Matthew Harvey. " 7. Josiah Stevens. COMMON COUNCIL. Ward 1. Jeremiah S. Durgin, Eben F. Elliot. " 2. Samuel B. Larkin, Heman Sanborn. " 3. George W. Brown, Moses Humphrey. " 4. Ezra Carter, George Minot. *See ./v. H. Statesman, April 2, 1853. 500 HISTORY OF CONCORD. "Ward 5. William H. H. Bailey, Cyrus Barton. " 6. Ebenezer G. Moore, Thomas Bailey. " 7. Moses Shute, Giles W. Ordway. ASSESSORS AND MODERATORS. Assessors. Moderators. Ward 1 Nathan Chandler Jeremiah S. Durgin. " 2 William Pecker Timothy W. Emery. " 3 John Abbot Daniel Holden. " 4 Jonathan E. Lang John H. George. " 5 Nathan Call John L. Hadley. " 6 William M. Carter N. B. Baker. " 7 Jeremiah S. Noyes Josiah Stevens. Ward 1. James D, Page. " 2. John M. Dearborn. " 3. Elbridge Dimond. " 4. J. B. Smart. CLERKS. Ward 5. Mitchell Gilmore. " 6. John F. Brown. " 7. James M. Otis. SELECTMEN. Ward 1. Albert H. Drown, Samuel F. Brown, Rufus D. Scales. " 2. Thos. D. Potter, Isaac Virgin, Zebulon Smith. " 3. Simeon Abbot, Hiram Farnum, Jeremiah S. Abbot. " 4. Lyman A. Walker, Thos. A. Ambrose, Jas. H. Buswell. " 5. Jona. Sargent, Benj. Coffin, Jr., George A. Pillsbury. " 6. James F. Lund, Joseph H. Mace, Caleb Parker. " 7. Atkinson Webster, Isaac Abbott, James Thompson. SCHOOL BOARD. Ward 1. Edmund Worth. " 2. Henry A. Kendall. " 3. Asa P. Tenney. " 4. Eleazer Smith. Ward 5. Chas. P. Gage. " 6. Jas. W. Sargent. " 7. Josiah Stevens. On Tuesday, the 5th of April, a second and successful effort was made to elect a mayor, the vote in the several wards being as follows : Bradley. Low. Scat. Wardl 74 60 1 " 2 69 84 " 3 73 31 3 INCORPORATED A CITY. 601 Ward 4 138 ... . 175 « 5 106 ... . 197 « 6 107 ... . 153 " 7 G8 . . . . 127 635 827 635 Low's majority, 192 Whole vote on the first trial, 1.519 " " " " secoad trial, 1.466 ORGANIZATION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT. Agreeably to public notice, a large number of the people of Concord assembled in the Representatives' Hall, on Wednesday afternoon, April 6, at 2 o'clock, to witness the induction to office of the Mayor elect and the two branches of the City Council. At twenty minutes past 2, Gen. Joseph Low, mayor elect, arose from the chair of the speaker, addressed the chairman of the board of selectmen, and stated, that having been apprized of his election to the office of mayor, he appeared before his fellow- citizens to take the oath required, before entering upon the duties of his office. The chairman of the selectmen, John C. Pillsbury, Esq., then invited Hon. Josiah Minot to administer the oath of office, which was done, after which the mayor administered the oath to the aldermen, the common council, the school committee, and the board of assessors. The aldermen, councilmen, school committee and assessors were seated on the right and left of the speaker's desk, and the board of selectmen, chosen by the town on the 9th of March — Messrs. Pillsbury, Webster and Abbot — were at the clerk's desk, immediately in front of the mayor. After the administration of the several oaths, Rev. Mr. Flan- ders, pastor of the Baptist church, read portions of scripture, when the Throne of Grace was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Bouton, senior ordained clergyman of the city. These several ceremonies and services being concluded, the 502 HISTORY OF CONCORD. mayor arose and addressed the members of the city government as follows : Gentlemen of the City Council and Gentlemen of the several Boards 0/ the City Government here assembled : Unacquainted as I am with the rules of legislation or vyith the municipal affairs of the town, it is with the sincerest distrust that I venture to enter upon the trust assigned to me by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens. It is, indeed, a distinction that I may most highly appreciate, but a position that my habits of life and course of business but illy fit me to hold. I can, therefore, only promise that whatever of strength or ability I possess shall be devoted to a prompt, impartial and faith- ful performance of all the duties pertaining to the executive office of this corporation. The change of government upon which we are about to enter involves duties and responsibilities that can be successfully met and performed only by the united and patient efforts of those to whom the administration of the affairs of the city have been confided. I may consider myself singularly fortunate that I am associated with so many gentlemen of tried worth and long experience in the muni- cipal affairs of the town ; and I doubt not that it will be the anxious care of every member of the government of the corporation, to have the change bear as lightly upon every section and every individual, as may be consistent with the highest good and truest interests of the city, and realized only by its convenient, economical and efficient action. I might here, perhaps, with great propriety take a retrospective view of the rise and progress of this highly favored town, from its earliest organization, in 1725, through its seasons of weakness, priva- tions and hardships, as well as its days of prosperity and distinction, down to the present period of mature strength and enviable position ; but as the labor of writing our history is now being performed by a gentleman in every way competent to the task, and the results of which, it is understood, will soon be accessible to all, I may not prop- erly detain you longer upon this subject. By one of the provisions of the charter it becomes the duty of the mayor from time to time to communicate to the city council such information and to recommend such measures as in his judg- ment the interest of the city may seem to require ; and, gentlemen, I trust that I need not assure you that it will be my anxious desire and earnest purpose, as circumstances and experience shall suggest, to discharge this duty with promptness and fidelity. I am not aware that any considerable change or unusual outlay will be required to accomplish all the objects for which the city charter was obtained — nor do I apprehend, gentlemen, under your administration, any augmentation of burthens, or material increase of taxation, consequent upon its adoption. Our fire department, composed as it is of our most active and INCORPORATED A CITY. 503 efficient fellow-citizens, lias at all times answered the most sanguine hopes of its friends, and received the commendation and liberal sup- port of the town ; and I am happy to say on this occasion that no further considerable appropriation will at present be required on ac- count of this department. The management and improvement of our schools is an object ot paramount interest, and in my estimation immensely transcends in its beneficial consequences to the children and youth of our city, and the welfare and prosperity of any community, all considerations^ of mere dollars and cents; and as I have so often spoken in the hearing of the town of the importance of an improved and more elevated standard of education in our primary schools, I may not on this occa- sion, with propriety, further allude to this most important subject, otherwise than to express my fullest confidence that a liberal and enlightened policy will always characterize your acts in connection with this great interest. In regard to the expenditures upon our highways, respecting the construc^tiou of common sewers, the draining and grading of our streets, the substantial construction of our roads and the improve- ment of our side walks, I will only say, they are subjects that especially belong to you, gentlemen, to consider, and which you are so fully competent to decide that I will not venture upon your judg- ment any suirgestion of my own. The town form, so valuable in itself, and which has so largely con- tributed in by-gone years to the comfort and support of the unfortu- nate and destitute, will, I doubt not, receive at your hands that provision and consideration its importance and reasonable expectation demand. I avail myself of this opportunity to call your early attention to the iuiportance of providing a house of correction for the security of vagrants, truants and disorderly persons, where they may be made, in some good degree, to contribute by their labor to their own support. It is already seen that a slight amendment must be made in the city charter, in order to the convenient arrangement and limits of one of the wards. I would therefore suggest the propriety of an early examination of all its provisions and defects, with a view to an appli- cation to the approaching session of the Legislature for such altera- tions and improvements as its practical working has thus far shown to be desirable. It becomes us at all times to realize and acknowledge our depend- ence upon the great Maker and Governor of the universe, for life and for all its blessings ; especially does it become us now, as we are about to enter upon new and untried duties and responsibilities, involving the dearest earthly interests of our citizens, to remember our accountability to Him in whose hands our breath is, and whose are all our ways, and at all times to look to Him for guidance and direction. It may not, gentlemen, be inappropriate for me, in closing, to remark, that in my inexperience I must rely largely upon your kind- 504 HISTORY OF CONCORD. ness and support for a successful discharge of the duties that devolve upon me, and that I shall at all times take pleasure in the fullest cooperation with you in every measure calculated to advance the interest or promote the convenience of every section of our city and of every class of our citizens. At the close of the address the common councilmen retired to another room, and the boards organized separately. In the board of aldermen, Messrs. Harvey and Stevens were appointed, with such as the council should join, to report rules for the city coun- cil ; and Messrs. Davis and Tallant, with such as the council should join, to procure rooms for the various branches of the city government. In the common council, Thomas Bailey, Esq., the oldest mem- ber, took the chair, and they proceeded to elect a president. On the first ballot there was no choice — George W. Brown had one, Ezra Carter six, and Cyrus Barton seven. On the second ballot Cyrus Barton was chosen, having twelve votes to two for Ezra Carter, and on taking the chair returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him. W. H. H. Bailey was chosen clerk pro tern, of the common council. Messrs. Minot, Moore and Barton were joined to the committee to report rules. Messrs. W. H. H. Bailey, Shute and Thomas Bailey, were joined to the committee to procure rooms. The two boards met in city council, and aldennan Stevens was elected city clerk, pro tern. Both boards then adjourned to meet at the Court House on Saturday, April 9, at 2 o'clock, P. M. At this adjourned meeting John F. Brown was elected city clerk, and William H. Bartlett city solicitor. Amos Hadley was elected clerk of the common council. The city government being thus in due form fully organized, proceeded to the transaction of business, according to the provis- ions of the charter ; for which reference must be had to the original records in the oflSce of the city clerk. LIST OF OFFICERS. 505 I ^, w p p^ l-l w t?^ o 1— ( o o Ph (—1 o PM W O o t— I 00 O a .a sT . oj" . ■d" . s ^ a o a ^3 o o o o 6 2 i coco >. o >t - o Is -a 3 Mil p" a a .-d tn O a" 2 It ^ 1 § =3 aj ~ E' a^ >;> .■tf O -—4 i-~< o OS rt _^ CJ o o o 5 o o o o "5 O o o o a-S 1-2 Ph a P-(CC 1^1 rt a 1' 021-5 2 a a g a a i 1-5 o a c „ o" oT 1-5 O o" S +j O _3 cT oT ^1 II III a ^"i o "ci o t^ 53" 1 -^ a 1 £ :3 s ^s « S x^ >- --; c ^ s a o t-^ CO ci 6 ^ ci CO (M (M CI (M >H 00 s 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 506 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 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TO O S _ _, 3 o o g,o a £- Sa^a 5| a-5 laooco S a^l OOco all gf2M "o 3 p CO H, h, CO O Irs CO 02 f^ c: 0) o ^ i3 COCOh^OJS O cj ^ -a CO tc ^ ^' 4 &^ C o - o c: o S 1? a" "p- o &. o :ao a-a fe^>r c ^ a CO a b c — - o.i o c; fl ^ a 2 p .-t ■ O 5 .2 c .S .5 s s 2 a a 3 S ^5 S 3 -a 1-5 >2i 1-5 h. ilHIl •S ■£ o •x: o a t-S S^; l-S !«5 1-3 ^-3 a a a'-s ^ - . o a -w ?.%< ■so a ;lp^;i >> t^ >, ,o rP r^ o d o 3 o CO CO CO 6 9 3 a o W w w a i-s t-s >-i >-5 a a w 1 1 »-3 p^ g O o o o O o ID 3 -^ n s n pq "1 O Hi C3 t-4 [3 o PQ •S ^ o o '3 o O 1^ O l-S to to ^ 1 ^ CO '^ lO o 1^ 00 OS s ^ •* ■* ■* -* ■* ■* ^ 00 00 00 00 00 OO 00 ■^ "^ LIST OF OFFICERS. 509 - u -^ ~ ^' 3 <^ t^ S J <^ c t^ i3 13 ^O fe ? o _ • ^ r^ r; o «> to •o , o 2ft S, ® r • 5 cl,-? 2 W«3 §' «-> b " '-' S S c^ ;^S;§;|^c3^i;|^^4^M« [>. c SO-. 3 o a'? a oi ii g (U cj Q >-k clothes, and shoes with large buckles. He was held in high respect W"^ / by all his parishioners. After service on the Sabbath, both morning 1^ j and afternoon, the whole congregation stood until j\Ir. Walker went J out — he respectfully bowing to those on each side as he passed down the broad-aisle. Mr. Walker served the town, as a wise counsellor, in relation to every matter of public interest ; and, in connection with Benjamin llolfe, Esq., who married his eldest daughter, drew up the first peti- tions for help against the Indians, addressed to the government both of Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, and also many of the papers used in the long controversy with the proprietors of Bow. As fully related in the History, he thrice visited England, as agent for the town in that vexatious litigation, and through his judicious and persevering efforts, and his personal influence with his counsel, Mr. Murray — after- wards lord chief justice Mansfield — secured forever the rights of the proprietors of Rumford. As a preacher, Mr. Walker was instructive and practical, dwelling more on the duties than on the doctrines of religion. He was calm and moderate in his delivery ; his sermons — of which a considera- ble number still exist — were mostly written out in full, on sheets of paper folded in the 18mo. form, and would occupy about thirty minutes. Sometimes we find extracts of considerable length from favorite authors, such as Tillotson, Foster, Poole and Brackett. His style was good for that period, perspicuous and didactic, with but few illustrations, but well supported with quotations from Scripture. In his theological views Mr. Walker was '^ Orthodox," according to existing standards. He received the Westminster Assembly's Catechism, which was then also used in the families and schools of the town. In distinction, however, from those preachers who in his day were called " New Lights," he was accused of being an Armi- and south parlor chamber being green, the south parlor blue, the north parlor chamber and tbe old people's bed-room white, and the kitchen red. Thus con- structed and finished, it remained witliout alteration, with the exception of an enlargement of the ell, until 1848, when it was modified in some particulars, and thoroughly repaired by its present proprietor. In 1739 it was appointed a gar- rison house, and fortified, " at the town's cost," by the erection about it of a wall of timbers lying in contact one upon another, and held in position by tenon-ends let into grooved posts set into the ground. [See pp. 153-4.] Eight families besides Mr. Walker's were assigned to it, and occupied it more or less of the time until the close of the second French war. When, in 1782, the Legislature met in Concord for the first time, and held its sessions in the hall over Judge Walker's store, which was near by, the President of the State, with his Council, occupied the north parlor of this house, while the south parlor served as a general committee room, and the room above it as the office of the Treasurer of State. It was the residence of Rev. Mr. Walker until his death ; and his son, the late Judge Walker, lived in it during almost the entire period of his life. It is now owned and occupied by Joseph B. Walker, Esq., a great grandson of Rev. Mr. Walker. BIOGRAPHICAL. 559 man, hut called himself a "moderate Ccdvi'nisf.'^ lie was bighly conservative, as it regarded innovations and new measures. Hence, in the period of the great Reformation, under the preaching of Rev. George Whitefield and others, Mr. Walker was among those ministers who did not favor the excitement which was generally awakened. In January, 1743, he preached and published a sermon to his people, entitled, " The ivay to tri/ all pretended Apostles," from the text Rev. 2:2. In this sermon he dwelt at length on the evils produced by itinerant preachers ; especially the divisions which they caused in established churches and societies. Hence he warned his people not to go after them, or hear them preach. " Nothing," he says, " I am well satisfied, has so much contributed to the evils that do so cloud the present day, and look with such a direful aspect upon us, as the indulging an unmortijied iteli after novelties, and having the j^crsons of strangers, whom we know nothing of, in admiration, and setting them up above the ^j^ace of instruments. If, therefore, you would not become accessory to the guilt of those who arc endeavoring the subversion of our religious Constitution, keep out of the way of temptation as much as may be; ponder well the first step that leads to a compliance with these errors." At this time all of Mr. Walker's hearers were of one way of thinking in religious matters ; and his object was to keep them together, and make them steadfiist in the " religion and church order which was very dear to our forefathers." Conscious of the power he had over his people, he not only charged them not to go after or to hear these pretended Apostles preach, " but," said he, " if any of you think yourselves unable to manage a controversy with them, invite them to accompany you to my house, and I will gladly under- take this, or any other service I am capable of, for the benefit of your souls." In 1771 Mr. Walker felt himself called on to give his people another warning against innovations, and what he counted disturbers of the peace and order of the churches. A Baptist elder, Ilezekiah Smith, of Haverhill, had preached in the vicinity, and awakened much interest in his peculiar views. To counteract this influence, Mr. Walker preached a discourse. May 12, 1771, entitled, " Those who have the form of Godliness, hut deny the potcer therecf, described and cautioned against." The text was 2 Tim. 3 : 5. The sermon was " published at the desire of many of the hearers." It is dedi- cated " to the church and congregation under the author's pastoral care, having been composed and delivered solely for your benefit, without the most distant view of its forther publication, is now respect- fully inscribed by him who esteems it his highest honor and greatest happiness to serve your best interest. Timothy Walker."* During his ministry of fifty-two years there is no regular record of church proceedings after 1736; but in his memoranda there are entries made of those who owned the covenant, were admitted to * See Rev. Mr. Bouton's Centennial Discourses, pp. 29 and 78. 560 HISTORY OF CONCORD. communion, baptized, married and died, together with notices of private aflfuirs, the weather, journeys, &c.* From the memoranda kept by Mr. Walker it appears that he did not confine his hibors to his own people, but performed what may be called missionary labors in destitute places. In 1766 he visited the Pigwacket country, which included Conway and Fryeburg, which towns were originally settled in part from Concord, about the years 1764 and 1765 ; there he preached and baptized their children. During his long ministry Mr. Walker enjoyed remarkable health. Tradition says that he was able to preach every Sabbath, except the one previous to his death, rrobably this is not quite correct; for in the warrant for a town-meeting, March 3, 1778, four years before his death, we find the following article : " To see if the parish will vote to hire preaching, if the Rev. Mr. Walker remains unable." The article was not acted on, and Mr. Walker resumed and continued to perform the duties of his office till near his death. A short time (two or three weeks) before this occurred, he set out to attend a funeral of a Mrs. Simonds, in the south part of the town, at what was called the Iron Works, but on his way, as was supposed, he became bewildered, or had a slight paralytic shock. It seems that, *The following are a few specimens: 1749. Mayl. Abigail, second wife of Jacob Sliute, ad. full com. She was Widow Evans, mother of Jno. July 2. Sampson Colby and wife ad. full com. Musu-it 29. Bot chair. October 10. Preached to Convention at Dover. January 7, 1749. Ben. Eastman and family moved up here. March, 1749. I'd. .Sam. Little for making clock-case. 1748. October 27. Mr. W. attended ye funeral of his aged mother-in-law. 1750. Aprils. Ben. Eastman and wife admitted into ye church. June 24. Sarah Abbot ad. to full com. October 7. Received Jonathan Straw and wife into our church. 1757. January 27. Richard Herbert married to Hannah Hall. October 16. Both owned ye covenant. JVovemberW. Jona. bap. . , , „^ , ■, ,. 1766. Sunday, 28fA September. Preached at Mr. Swan's, in Pigwacket. Arr'd 25 ; lodg'd at Capt. W.'s. " . J , Monday, 29. Visited and Icilced at Mr. Moses Day's. Bap. Judith, his daughter. October a. Preach'd at Pigwacket. Bap. Susanna, daught. of Holt; Barnard, son of Timothy Walker, jun., [nufJudire Timoiliy Walker;] Su.«anna, daught. of Sam. Osgood; Ann, daughter of Leonard Harriman ; Robert, son of David Page ; William, son of Jno. Evans ; Sarah, daught. of David Evans; Win., son of AVin. Eaton ; Moses, son of Jas. Osgood; M^m., .son of Ben. Osgood. II bap. at Pigwacket. In his memorandum of 1780 — the last one entire which can be found — are the following interesting notices: January 7. Philip [Abbot, his hired man,] went with a team to Portsmouth. January 15. Teams that had been detained below a fortnight by the deep or drifted snow, arrived. January ^"i. Preached all day — very cold — the coldest Sunday yt has been for years. March 12. Preached. Read ye letter from Pembroke chh. to assist in ordaining Mr. Colby. The church chose Col. Thomas Stickney and Tini'y Walker, jun., Esq., delegates. April 17. Nathaniel Eastman's house was burnt. April 2P. A Continental Fast. Preached. May 19. A remarkable dark day, althougli the clouds appeared thin. June 30. Heard that ye French fleet had got possession of Halilax. N. B. Agreed with ye post-rider for half a year's newspaper, beginning ye 28th of June and to end ye 21st of December. AuirustS. Finished winter-rj'e harvest — had about 47 shocks. October 20. 'J'he town was assembled to raise men to resist the enemy at Cowas [Coos.'] October 21. Finished making cyder — having made thirteen barrels of cyder, and upwards of five barrels water-cyder. October 27. A remarkable eclipse of the sun. JVorember 23. The post arrived — brought the good news of the arrival of ye French fleet off Georgia. December 9. A Continental annual Thanksgiving. BIOGRAPHICAL. 561 in fording- a stream, lie dismounted from his horse, and, taking the bridle in his hand, attempted to lead him, while he walked on loo-s laid across it ; but the horse refused to go, and got away. Failing to attend the funeral, his absence created alarm, and word was sent to his fomily. Immediately his son Timothy, with others, went iu search, and found Mr. Walker lying on the ground, his clothes wet, and he much exhausted. They helped him mount his horse, but he rode home with difficulty. The next Sabbath he was prevailed on by his family not to preach. About two weeks after this, on Saturday after- noon, he visited his aged relative, Mr. Isaac Walker, who had long been sick, and who lived iu a house near where Abiel, his grandson, now lives, and conversed and prayed with him. On leaving, Mr. Walker bade his aged friend farewell, saying, " I do not expect to see you again." For convenience, in his old age, Rev. Mr. Walker slept in the north front room of his house, and his hired man, Philip Abbot, was near by, to assist him whenever necessary. On Sabbath morning, September 1, he woke early and said, " Come, Mr. Abbot, build a fire, for I am tired of lying." A fire being made, Mr. W. rose, partly dressed himself, and with his loose gown of green baize on, sat down in his armed chair, as usual, before the fire to tie his shoes and complete his dress. Abbot perceived that he slipped forward in his chair, and quickly going to him, he found him nearly helpless. He was laid back on his bed, the family called, and a physician sent for, but in a very short time Mr. Walker expired. The people from the West Parish were on their way to meeting before they heard of his death. It was so sudden and unexpected that they could hardly credit the report ; but supposed it must be Mr. Isaac Walker, who had long been sick, and who also died the same day. Gathering, however, at the meeting-house, the report of their aged minister's death was confirmed, and the day was to them all a day of sadness.* On the plain slate slab which stands at the head of his grave in the old burying-ground, is the following inscription : THIS STONE, Erected by the Town of Concord, IN MEMORY OF THE REV. TIMOTHY WALKER, Late Pastor of the Church in said Town, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE Sept. 1, A. D. 1782, In the 78 jear of his age, And 52 of his ministry. ANECDOTES OF REV. MR. WALKER. Tradition has handed down a number of anecdotes of Rev. Mr. Walker, of which the following may be worthy of a place in our history. * See funeral services, &;c., p. 284. 36 562 HISTORY OF CONCORD. In time of peace Indians frequently called at his house, where they were hospitably entertained. On one occasion a number of the warriors, with their guns, encamped near his house. Mr. Walker being absent, his wife was under great apprehensions of injury. The Indians, perceiving this, said, '' minisfrr's vifc afraid." Upon this one of them delivered her all the guns, and said they would call for them the next day. This they did, and treated her with great civil- ity.* One Sabbath afternoon Mr. W. preached from the text : Ecclesi- astes 5 : 4, 5, " When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it," &c. In the discourse he showed that all the vows which we make should be paid. An Indian was present, and listened very attentively. After meeting, the Indian came to him and said, "I vow I will go home with you." "Very well," said Mr. W., "you may go home with me." "I vow," says the Indian, "I will have some supper." "Yes," was the reply, "you may have some supper." "I vow," says the Indian, again, " I will stay all night." By this time Mr. W. saw the joke, and instantly replied, "I vow you shall go away in the morning." Mr. W.'s dignified deportment and manners were such as to com- mand universal respect. The noted Ephraim Colby, who worked much for him, used to say, that " Parson Walker was the only man the Almighty ever made that he was afraid of." Goins out to work one day with his hired man, John Evans, with a team and cart, they had to pass a very wet and muddy place. In passing it, John sat on the cart tongue, or neap, while Mr. W. was in the cart. When about mid-way of the muddy place, John slyly pulled out the pin which held the cart down, and dropped it, to make Mr. W. think it worked out accidentally ; up went the cart, and out went Mr. Walker into the mud and water. He got up, and said, " John, this is a bad accident, but drive on, and I'll go back." A few days after, Mr. Walker having been absent from home, he went late in the afternoon into the field where John was at work. When it was time to go home, Mr. W. told John that he would drive the team, and accordingly took his seat on the cart tongue, while John was in the cart. At about the middle and deepest part of the muddy place, Mr. Walker pulled out the pin, and down went John into the mud and water, and was thoroughly soused. When be got up, Mr. W., holding up the pin, says to him, " John ! John ! here is the pin : " I did'nt throiv it aicaij 1" A hearty laugh ended the joke.f Mr. Walker was a patriot. Having encouraged his parishioners to join Gen. Stark's regiment, to oppose Burgoyne, he waited the issue with great solicitude. When the late Capt. Jonathan Eastman returned from Bennington, bringing intelligence of the victory, Mr. Walker came running out to meet him, eagerly inquiring, "What news, friend Eastman, what news ?" The captain related the joyful * Moore's Annals. fA confused tradition relates this story of Mr, Walker's negro, Prince, but it belongs to John Evans, as Mr. Timothy Walker affirms. BIOGRAPHICAL. 563 tidings, and the old patriot exclaimed, " Blessed be God ! the coun- try is saved — I can now die in peace I" Having one day hired a niimber of men to mow for him, they came, but seemed to hesitate on account of appearances of unfavora- ble weathei-. However, Mr. Walker directed them to go on to the island and begin their work. Perceiving from the hill that they still hesitated and were looking about, he went over to them and in- quired, " What is the matter ? " They said they were observing the clouds. " Clouds, clouds," said Mr. Walker, " what have you to do with the clouds ? I hired you to cut my grass — He who made the clouds will take care of them !" As a specimen of his prudence and good sense, it is i-elated that the Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton, once requested an exchange with him on the Sabbath, and that he would preach upon the subject of witchcraft, which at that time was making trouble among some of Mr. F.'s parishioners. Mr. W. accordingly prepared a sermon for the occasion, and preached. He told the people " that the most they had to fear from witches was from talking about them ; that if they would cease to talk about them, and let them alone, they would sooq disappear !" The hint had its desired eifect. A ludicrous story used to be told by the late Col. John Carter. Before the meeting-house was finished there was, opposite to the pul- pit, an elevated seat for the singers, where boys also sometimes took a seat. Dogs in those days attended meeting, but to keep them in due order was the business of " the dog-whipper." A huge dog had planted his fore paws on the top of the singers' seat, near where young John Carter was sitting, and thus stood looking over on the congregation. In the absence of the dog-whipper, John undertook to administer discipline. Looking carefully about, and supposing that no one saw him, he quickly seized the dog by the hind legs and threw him over, much to the astonishment and disturbance of the congregation. Nothing was said at the time, but soon after Parson W. called at the house of old Mr. Carter, and after conversing freely for some time with the father — John being present — turned to the latter and said in a low tone of voice, "John, I dixViit hlame you at all for pitching that dog over the seat, a few tSedhaths ago !" Mr. Walker left a wi'll, dated August 10, 1782, by which he made the following distribution of his property to his children : To Mrs. Sarah Thompson, [wife of Count Paimford,] . . . . £10 To Sarah Thompson, his granddaughter, to be paid at her marriage, or at the age of eighteen, 140 £150 To Mrs. Mary Goss, [wife of Dr. Eben'r FKanders Goss,] 150 To Mrs. Judith Rolfe, [wife of Nathaniel Eolfe,] 150 (Both to be paid in one year after his decease.) All the real and personal estate remaining, to his son, Timothy Walker, who was appointed executor of the will. JOHN STEVENS. John Stevens, or, as he was usually called. " Merchant Stevens," came to Concord from Charlestown, Mass., and first went into trade 564 HISTORY OF CONCORD. with Col. Andrew McMillan. When he brought his wife into town he rode about the village with her, and said, " Select the house or spot which you like best and I will buy it." She pointed out the house built by Stephen Farriugton — David Gr. Fuller's — as the handsomest in Concord. Stevens bought it, with the adjacent field. He traded in the store on the corner of Pleasant street, build- ing an addition to it, and fitting up the upper story as a hall for the House of Representatives, which met there several times in after years. Being suspected of toryism he was arrested, as related, in 1777,* and cast into Exeter jail. There he refused to take the oath of allegiance to his country, because, he said, he was as good a friend to his country as any, and felt that he had been insulted and abused. He accused Capt. Benjamin Emery of setting a trap for him, by calling on him in the night and persuading him to sell tea and peicter plate — which were interdicted articles — on pretence that he wanted them for one of his daughters who was about to be married. The Legislature ordered his discharge from jail, but required him to keep within the limits of Concord for one year. He did so. The next Legislature gave him a full discharge, and, as a sort of compensation for what he had suffered, conferred on him a commission of justice of the peace. Stevens bore a bitter revenge towards Capt. Emery, and challenged him to fight. Stevens was small and slender, but quick and full of nerve. Emery was heavy and clumsy. They agreed to meet at Mother Osgood's tavern. Stevens, dressed in light clothes and coat off, was on the spot aforehand. As soon as Capt. Emery entered the front yard Stevens sprung upon him with such violence as to knock him over, and then leaped on him ; but, being much stronger, Emery soon got him under. The bystanders then interposed and ended the fight. Stevens never forgave the town for accusing and confining him as a tory. Some time'before he died he said to his wife — " Wife, I am a justice of the peace, and I wish you to make oath, before me, that when I am dead" you will see that I am buried between those two apple-trees in the garden — pointing them out — that no citizen of Concord shall follow me to the grave ; — no minister be present ; — that you will pay one crown apiece to the four men who bear out my body and bury it." His wife demurred from taking the oath, but promised to do as he wished. He was buried accordingly. His bearers were Zenas Wheeler, Job Page, Daniel Page, and . Mr. William Manley, who was an Englishman by birth, and who was a trader in town, and one other foreigner, it is said, followed his corpse to the grave. f Several years afterwards, when the house owned by Col. Wm. Kent, (since by Col. Paul Wentworth,) was moved on to the spot where it stands, in digging a vault for a privy the bones of Stevens were dug up, put in a box and reinterred in the back part of the same lot, where they remain unknown to this day. *See pagea 270-3. f Tradition by Benj. Gale. BIOGRAPHICAL. 565 The following notice of bis death appeared in the " Mirror,' De- cember 25, 1792 : FROM A CORRESPONDENT. Died, on Tuesday morning, the 25th instant, after a short sickness, John Ste- vens, Esq., of this town, in the 45th year of his age He was a gentleman of good education, and possessed a general knowledge of manners and mankind ; the first lie obtained by a liberal education at the University of Cambridge ; the last, by leisure observations ; wliich, as he lived in attluent circumstances, he had uncommon opportunities to make, both in Europe and America. We tender the tear of sympathy to a distressed wife and family, the one, by this unfortunate stroke of Providence, bereaved of an endearing consort ; the other, of an afi'ectionate father. He was a firm and faithful friend. By his particular desire he was interred on his own land, by four men, whom he appointed himself wiiile living, and ordered them a generous reward for their service. These four men were the only persons present at the interment. JACOB SHUTE. Jacob Shute was the ancestor of the Shute family in Concord. There is a tradition in the family that \\i% fatlicr was a French Protestant, or Huguenot, who formerly resided in Paris; but, on revocation of the edict of Nantz, fled to Ireland to escape persecution. Jacob was born about 1702, and was apprenticed by his father to a stocking-weaver in Dublin. Disliking the trade, at about the age of seventeen he left, in company with one Dawen, and took secret passage in the hold of a ship for this country. They remained concealed until driven out by hunger. Arriving at Newburyport the captain demanded pay for their passage, but as they had nothing it was necessary to sell them- selves — that is, their service — for a time, in order to meet the de- mand. They were both bought by Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, of Ha- verhill, and served him till twenty-one years of age. Before he bought them, Eastman asked Dawen " if he would be a good boy and work well, provided he would pay his passage ?" Dawen said, " Yes; the Lord bless him !" He then asked Shute ; he said, " No — he wouldn't do any thing." On trial, however, Shute proved an indus- trious, faithful hand, while Dawen was indolent and deceitful.* Shute, as more fully related in another place, drove Eastman's team from Haverhill to Penacock, in the fall of 1727 ; the first that ever came into town. Here Mr. Shute settled. He married Sarah, George, of Haverhill, who had a daughter Sarah, born there, and John and Elizabeth, born in Penacook. His wife Sarah died in January, 1745, and, as appears from Rev. Mr. Walker's journal, was buried January 16. May 7, 1749, Mr. Walker says: "Abigail, second wife of Jacob Shute, admitted to full communion. She was widow Evans, mother of John." By his second wife he had two daughters, both of whom died young. Mr. Shute died February 16, 1794, aged 94 years. COL. ANDREW MCMILLAN. Col. Andrew McMillan, whose name often occurs in the town records previous to 1775, was an intelligent, enterprising business * Dawen settled in Pembroke, and lived and died tliere. 566 HISTORY OF CONCORD. man, and a worthy citizen. He came to this country from Ireland, about the year 1754 ; received a lieutenant's commission, dated Lake George, June 20, 1758, from Gen. James Abcrcromby, "in the inde- pendent company of rangers," of which Jonathan Burbank was captain, and is said to have been with Rogers in the expedition against St. Francois, in 1759. He married Hannah Osgood, of I\um- ford, daughter of the widow James Osgood, November 12, 1761. The same year he commenced trade in the store that now stands on the north-east corner of Main and Pleasant streets, which was then a small one-story shop, standing as it now does, partly on the street. Here he continued to trade for several years ; one year in partnership with Timothy Walker, Jun., and afterwards with John Stevens, who added a second story to it. In 1767 or 1768 he and Gen. Stark received each a grant of land from the Provincial Gov- ernment, in consideration of their services in the old French war, located in the town of Conway and vicinity. In August, 1774, he removed to Conway, to take possession of his extensive landed prop- erty, where two of his wife's brothersf a few years before had pre- ceded him. Here, in the cultivation of one of the most valuable farms on Saco river, (where his only remaining son, Gilbert McMillan, Esq., now resides,) he passed the remainder of his life, — repeatedly representing the town in the State Legislature, and faithfully dis- charging his duty as a citizen and a magistrate. He died November 6, 180U, aged 70 years. His wife died in 1827, aged 84.* "mother OSGOOD." In this connection we must pay a compliment to our worthy host- ess, the widow Hannah Osgood, relict of Mr. James Osgood, as one of the distinguished personages of the times. Mr. Osgood's house, * FLORENCE McCAULLY. Florence was a colored free man, a soldier in Capt. Joshua Abbot's company; and as he had a strong attarliment to Col. McMillan, it is but just in this connection to give him the meed of praise wliich is his due. When he came to Concord, or frcjui whence, is unknown. He probably lived witli Col. McMillan some time before he joined the army. He could not write; but just before he left Concord for the Continental service, he made a will in due form, and, in case of his decease, gave " a suit of clothes" to the Colonel, as a token of grat- itude for past favors. Florence survived his Continental campaign, and for many years was a faithful servant in Col. McMillan's family, where his devotion to its interests was in striking contrast with the less praiseworthy habits of the -'boy Catsar" — before mentioned as Col. ftloMillan's slave, (pp. 249-51,) — producing a state of feeling between them not always the most friendly. The fol- lowing anecdote is characteristic both of the cunning trickery of the one, and honest sim- plicity of the other. " Old Florence," as he was called, was very proud of his skill as a marksman — that he pretended to have acquired from Gen. Stark himself. The Colonel had a valuable bay colt that he was rearing with great care. Ciesar, in passing the stable at twilight, saw through the open window this colt, in a position in whicii his tail only was distinctly visible. He told Florence to run for his gun, as " there was something in the stable that looked like a fox." The report of Florence's gun that soon followed, convinced Cn'sar that he had carried the joke too far— that his master's favorite horse was probably killed. The Colonel was absent, and would not return for several days. The result of the confer- ence between the parlies in the stable was, that as the colt appeared to be mortally wounded, the only safety for Florence was In tliglit, and that Cffisar, the innocent party, should remain and make the necessary explanation to the family and tlie Colonel tui his return, which ho did so succsssfully as to throw, of course, all the blame on Florence. But sucli was Flor- ence's attachment to the family that he could not stay away, and in a few weeks returned, when Caisar, fearing the effect of Florence's account of the affair, thought it most prudent for him now to decamp, and he never after was known as heretofore, a constant inmate of the family, but wandered wherever he could get employ. f James and Benjamin Osgood, of Concord. BIOGRAPHICAL. * 567 when he kept tavern, in 174G, stood on the spot where Dea. Hosea Fessenden's house now stands,* (the remains of the old ceUar being still visible.) Here the widow kept tavern a while after her hus- band's death. She afterwards built the house immediately north of Dea. Fessenden's, known as the old " Wiggiu house," and but recently standing as a relic of olden times. There she kept tavern for several years. At a later period she occupied as a tavern, a house that stood where the "Merchants' Exchange" is erected, and which was the scene of mucli good cheer in those days of " punch" and *' flip." The widow was highly respected in her vocation. She kept a good table, and maintained order in her house. Hearty in the American cause, she rejoiced in the victory of our arms. When the news of the capture of Gen. Burgoyne reached town, she partook so largely of the general joy, as to join in the shouts of her fellow- citizens, '^ Hurrah!" "Hurrah!" When very earnest in giving orders to persons in her employ, she would emphatically repeat, " Lord, help you !" " Lord, IlcJj) you ! "f REV. ISRAEL EVANS. Mr. Evans was a native of Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Prince- ton College, New- Jersey, in 1772. His father and grandfather were settled ministers in this country, and his great-grandfather was a minister in Wales. He was ordained at Philadelphia, in 177G, as a chaplain in the United States army. From 1777 till the close of the war he was chaplain to the New-Hampshire brigade, at first under the command of Gen. Enoch Poor. His connection with this brigade was the means of his introduction to this place. The Rev. Joseph Eckley, of Boston, who preached the sermon at the installation of Mr. Evans, and who was his classmate in college, thus spoke of him to the people: "In consequence of the long acquaintance I have had with your pastor elect, I have the pleasure to congratulate you that we this day settle a gentleman with you who, added to the natural gifts and improvements of his mind, has afforded every reasonable evidence of his being a sincere friend of our common Lord." As Mr. Evans was stationed at different posts with the army during the war, he became acc[uainted with the principal officei's, and was known to most of the soldiers. Several sermons which he preached and pub- lished while in the army, were distinguished for their patriotic spirit, and acquired for him an honorable reputation through the country. Of these, one was addressed " To the officers and soldiers of the Western army, after their return from an expedition against the five nations of hostile Indians." Another was " delivered near York, in Virginia, on the memorable occasion of the surrender of the British army to the allied forces of America and France," and was dedicated "To the honorable Major General, the Marquis de la Fayette, whose disinterested services in the cause of America prove him to be the friend of mankind, and whose well known amiable virtues render all *This house was burnt in August, 1854. f Tradition, by Mr. Benjamin Gale. 568 HISTORY OF CONCORD. panegyric needless." Another was delivered in New- York, Decem- ber 11, 1783, on the day set apart by Congress "as a day of public thanksgiving for the blessings of independence, liberty and peace." He also delivered an oration on the occasion of the death of Gen. Poor, in September, 17S0. In 1791 he preached the Election ser- mon, which was printed. These performances were at the time emi- nently popular. They were written in a flowing, redundant, martial style, full of patriotic ardor, and suited to the state of public opinion.* With the feelings and habits acquired in a seven years' service in the United States army, Mr. Evans entered upon the duties of a pastor among this quiet, industrious and unostentatious people. His manners were a perfect contrast to those of his predecessor. His sen- timents and style of preaching were also diiferent. After continuing his labors about eight years, Mr. Evans announced his " intention of resigning to the town their pulpit, and of finishing the work of the ministry in this place on the 1st of July," 1797. The proposal was accepted. An ecclesiastical council was called by Mr. Evans and the church, to dissolve the pastoral connection, " if it should be thought expedient." The council, " after solemn prayer for direction and assistance," dissolved the pastoral connection between Mr. Evans and the church ; and, " as no charges had been exhibited against his min- isterial or Christian character, they recommended him to the churches and to the work of the ministry, wherever God in his providence might open a door." Mr. Evans bought of Stephen Kimball the house where Hon. Samuel Morril now lives, in which he resided till his death, March 9, 1807, in the GOth year of his age. Mr. Evans was a gentleman of fine personal appearance, of dignified and martial manners. On all public occasions he wore his tri-cornered hat. Was fond of a good horse, good music, and good living. Out of the pulpit he was less serious and devout than is usually expected of ministers, but a ready, fluent and earnest preacher. "j" An excellent portrait of him is still preserved. When Gen. LaFayette visited Concord, in 1825, he was shown this portrait, and, on seeing it, immediately ex- claimed — " It is our worthy chaplain." Mr. Evans married Miss Huldah Kent, sister of the late Col. Wm. A. Kent, of Charlestown, Mass., who survived him many years. After his death she purchased the Farrington house, still standing nearly opposite her brother's, where she lived with her venerable mother, Mrs. Mary Kent, who died December 5, 1827, aged 90 years. She afterwards built the house on the corner of State and Pleasant streets, now occupied by Col. Wm. Kent. In the latter years of her life she drew a pension from the government, by virtue of her hus- * These discourses, bound together, were carefully preserved by Mrs. Evans during her lifetime. See specimens of them in the author's Centennial Discourses, 1830, pp. b'2-83. t Tradition affirms that his preaching was sometimes attended with violent action, so as " to make the dust fly from the old pulpit cushion ;" and there was, moreover, a suspicion that he was more spirited than spiritual. Old Lieut. Richard Herbert, in his characteristic way, would sometimes say, after meeting — " I wonder what Parson Evans eat for his dinner I" BIOGRAPHICAL. 569 band's office as chaplain, and lived retired and cheerful, in elegant simplicity, highly esteemed by all who knew her. She died October 19, 1846, aged 84. Madam Evans used to relate that, after their marriage, she rode in a chaise, with her husband, to visit her friends in Charlestown, Mass., it requiring then two days to make the journey. On returning they were belated, so that in approaching Concord, on the Bow road, by what is now called Rogers's Mills, it was so dark that Mr. Evans could not see his horse. She got out of the chaise, threw a white handkerchief over her bonnet, and thus walked in the road before the horse, to enable him to see where to drive. They had no chil- dren. By his will, after giving legacies, amounting to about two hundred dollars, to a sister in Philadelphia, her daughter and grandchildren, and making suitable provision for his widow, he gave the balance of his property " to the trustees of Dartmouth College, for the support of a Professor at said College, to be called and known in his office as the Evans Professor of Oratory and the Belles Letters."* It is related of IMr. Evans that on one occasion, just before the army was going into battle, he prayed — " O, Lord of hosts, lead forth thy servants of the American army to battle, and give them the victory ! or, if this be not according to thy sovereign will, then we pray thee — stand neutral, and let Jlesh and blood decide the issue !" He retained his military spirit even in death. In his last sickness his successor, Rev. Mr. McFarland, visited, and in praying with him, asked, " that when he should be called from this to the eternal world he might sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the king- dom of heaven." Mr. Evans, who was a great friend and ardent admirer of Washington, said, " and with Washinfjfoit, too!" He could not bear the thought of being separated from Washington in the eternal world. EPHKAIM COLBY. The name of Ephraim, or, as commonly called, BjJi Colbt/, is noted in traditionary history as a lorestler and fighter. His parentage is not exactly known. He appears to have been an ensign in Capt. Abbot's company, 1774, in the war of the Revolution, and spent most of his days in Concord. He was rather short, but a stout, broad-shouldered fellow, and was the " bully" of all the region, far and near. He served some time in town as a constable. He was sure to be present at all public gatherings, and gloried in such occa- sions as raisings and military musters. When a large building was to be raised it was customary to send an invitation to the strong and stout men of neighboring towns ; — such as the Heads and Knoxes of Pembroke, the Chamberlains of Loudon, Lyfords and Cloughs of" Canterbury, and Jackmans and Flanders of Boscawen. When the raising was completed they had a wrestling match ; and after all * See copy of Will, on file in librarj' of N. H. Historical Society. 570 HISTORY OF CONCORD. others who chose had entered the lists, and tried their strength, then Colb}- would step forward and defy them all. Being all well stimu- lated and warmed up with rum, that was free as water at such times, it was not uncommon to end the wrestling sport with a serious fight. Colby at such times was insolent and provoking. No one liked to engage him alone, and yet they could not well brook his insults. At the raising of Major Livermore's house, 1785, Colby got into a quar- rel with the Elliots, frum the Borough — Joseph and his two sons, Barnard and John. The two latter attacked him together. John sprung upon him like a cat, clasping him round the waist, while Barnard seized him behind. In the wrestle they all fell together, when John Elliot bit Colby's nose half off. Pained and infuriated by the bite on his nose, Colby rose, shook John oif and dashed him on the ground ; then, seizing Barnard by his neck and bottom of his pants, tossed him head first into West's brook ; and turning, kicked the old man off the ground. This fight is well remembered by Ben- jamin Gale and Richard Herbert, and was related as above by the late Isaac Shute. At another time Colby had a fight in Pembroke with one of the Heads — a powerful ni-an, yet not equal to the former in muscular strength. Enduring Colby's insolence for some time. Head's friends at last persuaded him to show resentment. Picking up a good sized stone, that he could cover with his hand. Head watched his chance, and struck Colby such a tremendous blow on the face as to fracture his jaw-bone. This laid him up for about sis weeks, and pretty nearly cured Colby of his fighting propensities. Colby worked a number of years for the Walker family. He said that " Parson Walker was the only man the Almighty ever made that he was afraid of." He was employed to set out many of the older growth of elm trees that are now the ornament of our Main village. Marrying late in life, he moved to Rumford, Me., where, living unhappily with his family, he became poor, and received assist- ance in his last days from the late Capt. Joseph Walker. The time of his death is unknown. SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON, OR COUNT RUMFORD. Mr. Thompson's connection with Concord, and the circumstances in which he left it, have already been related.* His subsequent fortunes are the most remarkable that ever attended any person whose name is recorded in our history. Driven by unreasonable suspicions from his home, his wife and infant child ; forsaking his native country for a foreign service, he became the associate of princes, the honored favorite of kings, and the commander of armies. As the promoter and founder of public institutions of learning and benefi- cence, his genius shone resplendent among the literati and philoso- phers of Europe. His name, invested with the honors which royalty * See pp. 2C3-4. For the beautiful view of the place where he was born, in Wohurn, Mass., and the portrait of his (laughter, Sarah, the Countess of RuniforJ, I ani indebted to the gen- erosity of James F. Baldwin, Esq., of Boston. BIOGRAPHICAL. 571 alone can confer, is transmitted to posterity as that of tlie " Friend of mankind." The events in the life of Count Rumfonl, after he left Concord, are so numerous as not to admit of recital, in deiail, in the brief space allotted to this notice.* Suffice it to say, that in January, 1770, he was entrusted by Gen. Gage with dispatches to Lord Ger- maine, in England, then Secretary of State fur the department of the colonies. In 1780 he was appointed under secretary in tluit de- partment. Towards the close of the Revolutionary War he obtained the commission of lieutenant-colonel, and was sent to New- York in command of a regiment. In 1784 the King conferred on him the honor of knighthood. Subsequently he went to Germany, and at Strasbourg was introduced to Prince Maximilian, and then to His Serene Highness the Elector Palatine, reigning duke of Bavaria. From the Elector he received all the honors that could be conferred, and, among others, that of Count '■'■of the hoJi/ Roman Empire," to which jMr. Thompson added the title, Rmnford, in remembrance of his former residence. Under the patronage of the Elector, Charles Theodore, he introduced great improvements in the condition and discipline of the army. At Munich, in 1700, he suppressed the system of mendicity which widely prevailed, and provided houses of public industry, in which beggars were supported and required to labor. Two thousand and six hundred of this class were put in in a single week, and the industrial establishment for them, which at first was supported by voluntary contributions, came to yield to the State a net income of one hundred thousand florins."]" In grateful remem- brance of his services and benefactions, a monument is erected in Munich to his honor. Inscribed beneath his bust is the following : " To him "VVlio rooted out the greatest of public evils, Idleness and Mendicity ; Eelieved and instructed the Poor, And founded many institutions for the education of our Youth. Go, wanderer, And strive to equal him lu Genius and Activity ; and us, In Gratitude." On the other front is inscribed — " Stay, Wanderer ! At the creative tiat of Charles Theodore, RuMFORD, the Friend of Mankind, By Genius, Taste and Love inspired, Changed this once desert place Into what thou now beholdest." * See memoir by Jareti Sparks ; Jloore's Annals of Concord, and an eulogy by Ciivier, 1814, in the Boston Weekly Messenger, vol. v. t Cuvier's Eulogy. 572 HISTORY OF CONCORD. He became almost the object of idolatrous regard by the poor. At one time, when dangerously ill, they formed processions, and went to the church to pray for his recovery. When sick at Naples they de- voted an hour each evening to join in supplications for his restoration Id health. About 1794* he sent to this country for his daughter, who met him in England, accompanied him to Munich, and for several years afterwards shared his fortunes. For his services in Bavaria the Elector settled on him a pension for life of nearly two thousand dollars, one half of which descended to his daughter, as Countess of Eumford, during her life. Returning to England, he assisted in putting in operation the society known as the Royal Institution, in London, about 1709. He afterwards located himself at Paris, mar- ried the widow of the celebrated chemist, Lavoisier, and with her resided at Autcuil, on the estate of her former husband, where he died of fever, August 21, 1814, in the 62d year of his age. He bequeathed the annual sum of one thousand dollars to Harvard College, with other reversions, now aggregating about 830.000, to found the Rumford Professorship. To the "American Academy" he previously presented funds which now amount, it is said, to S24.500. The personal appearance of Count Rumford, in early manhood, is described " as a model of manly beauty ; his stature nearly six feet ; figure erect, limbs finely formed, eyes bright blue, features chiseled in the Roman mould, and hair dark auburn." There is a tradition that after he became affianced to Mrs. Rolfe, (who was by some years his senior,) seated in his carriage and dressed in the brilliant scarlet attire of those times, he drove out from Boston to present his in- tended bride to his mother ; but was completely non-plused by her exclamation on first meeting him, " Why, Ben., my child! how could you spend your whole winter's wages in this way?" His distin- guished military promotions, it is said, were primarily owing to his splendid appearance when mounted on horseback. Among the qual- ities that most characterized him were or(]n- and mrthod, which he termed the " only possible instrument of true happiness, and almost a subordinate divinity in this lower world." In the eulogy pro- nounced before the Institute of France, January 9, 1815, Cuvier says, " In his own person he was in every respect the model of per- fect order. His wants, his pleasures and his labors were calculated as rigidly as his experiments. He drank nothing but water, ate meat roasted only, and allowed nothing superfluous, not even a step nor a word." "His veneration for the Deity was never diminished. In all his works he has constantly taken occasion to express his re- ligious feelings, and to point out to the admiration of others the innumerable precautions which Providence has taken for the preser- vation of his creatures." SARAH, COUNTESS OF RUMFORD. In connection with the foregoing notice of her honored flither we place the portrait of the daughter, engraved on steel, with a brief * Perhaps as early as IVM. 'W/ '-i*&,^„ J/y/- .>■" S.mAH Cor^TE^is or ElBIFOl BIOGRAPHICAL. 573 sketch of her eventful life. She was born in the family mansion — the Rolfe house — October 18, 1774.* A portion of her early life was spent with her paternal grandmother, at "Woburn. After the death of her mother, in 1792, she went to Europe, at her father's invitation, and was introduced into the polite and fashionable circles of Bavaria, of Paris and of London. Between the death of her father and her own decease she visited this country two or three times; but her principal residence was at Brompton, near London, in a house which she inherited from her father. A portion of her time she spent in Paris, where she had funds invested. In 1845 she returned to the spot where she was born, to live and — to die. Here she remained in great retirement, having, as her only companion and the solace of her df^clining years, a young ladyf whom she adopted when a child, at Brompton. Occasionally the countess attended public worship at the North Church, and visited her family relatives and friends, but spent most of her time in adorning the grounds about her house and fitting things to her taste. By her habits of strict economy the property she inherited, together with her pension of about SI. 000, had accumulated to a very considerable sum at the time of her decease — all which she disposed of by will, partly to family connections, but mostly for charitable objects. 1. To the Rolfe and Eumford Asylum, in Concord, .... $.5,000 which she founded — witli all lierreal estate, appraised at . . 5.000 2. To the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 15.000 3. To the Concord Female Charitable Society, 2.000 4. To the Boston Children's Friend Society, 2.000 5. For the Fatherless and Widows' Society, Boston, .... 2.000 She left a legacy of ^10.000 to Joseph Amedee LeFebre, a son of her natural brother, Capt. LeFebre, of the French army, on condition that he would assume the name of Joseph Amedee Rumfurd. The executor of her will was James F. Baldwin, Esq., of Boston, who was a neighbor and personal friend of the countess in youth, and her financial agent in later years. The paintings which she inherited ^ from her father, consisting of a portrait of the Elector of Bavaria, ' and Prince Maximilian, afterwards King of Bavaria; also, of several j- ladies of the court, and several of Count Rumford, representing him i at dilferent periods of life — were given to Joseph B. Walker, Esq., | to descend at his decease to his son, Charles Rumford Walker. A beautiful marble monument is erected to her memory in the old burying-ground, near the Walker family. JOHN BRADLEY. Hon. John Bradley was justly esteemed one of the most upright, useful and honored citizens of the town. His name is conspicuous in town affiiirs, on almost every page of the preceding history, from the age of twenty-one till his death, in 1815; and it may hereafter be the pride of his descendants to collect into a summary all the re- * On the monument it says October 10. t Miss Emma Gannell, now the wife of Mr. John Burgum, of Concord, who was a native of Birmingham, England. 574 HISTORY OF CONCORD. corded acts of his public life — while the virtues which shone in his private character, and in domestic relations, will ever be worthy of their imitation. At the period of the tragic event of his father's death, August 11, 1740, he was under three years of age, but he remembered, in after life, that his mother, overwhelmed with grief, took him down to the place where the dead body of his father lay in blood, with the others slain — the sight of which produced an impression of horror which he never entirely lost. He was baptized by Rev. Mr. Walker, six days after his birth. Under the care of his mother, a woman of superior gifts and excellent qualities, he was often re- minded of his father, and the scenes through which others of the family had passed iu conflict with the Indians ; at the same time the principles of patriotism, of morals and religion, were instilled into his youthful heart. Living with his widowed mother, in the house of his grandfather, Abraham, he inherited, by his grandfather's will,* the house and homestead, together with the negro slave, Pompey, with whom John, in childhood, had been a particular favorite. In the war of the Revolution Mr. Bradley took a noble stand on the side of his country. In 1775 he received from the Committee of Safety of the Colony of New-Hampshire, signed by Matthew Thorn- * The following is a copy of the Will, which possesses unusual interest. In the name of God, Amen. Tliis Eighth Day of July, Anno Domini 1754, and in the 28th Year of liis Majesties Reign, I, Ahraliam Bradley, of a Place called Kuniford, in the Province of New-IIampshire, in New-England, Yecmian, being .'^ick and Weak in Body, tho' of Perfect Memory and Sound understanding, (Thanks lie given to Almighty God,) therefore calling to mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do therefore make and Ordain this, my last AVill and Testament ; T|iat is to say, prin- cipally and first of all, I recommend my S., Edward, Sarah B. 6.-Phebe, b. Mar. 16, 1806; m. Simon K. Lock. 6.-l)avid, b. July 12, 1809 ; m. Sarah H. Abbot— nine children, viz., Judith M., John C, Sarah C, George M., Ehza E., Ilhoda B., Catherine A., Sarah E., Ellen C. 4.-Jabez Abbot, 2 m. Hepzibah Stevens. Their children were — 5.-Ly- dia, b. July 10, 1768 ; died young. 5.-Lydia, 2d, b. Jan. 10, 1773 ; d. Mar. 22, 1841; m. Christopher Roivell. 5.-Dyer, b. June 18, 1778; d. Mar. 1832 ; m. Sarah Atkinson. 5.-Hepzibah, b. Feb. 1, 1780 ; d. Jan. 23, 1817; never married. 5.-Asenath, b. Oct. 3, 1781 ; m. Feb. 24, 1801, Thomas Brickett. 4.-AAR0N Abbot, m., 4.-Lydia Abbot. Their children were, 5.-Betsey, d. y. o.-Betsev, 2d, d. y. S'-Samuel, d. y. 5.-Samuel, 2d, d. v. o.-Ly- dia,b. April 4, "1771; d. May 25, 1853; m. April 17, 1812, ^.-Timothy Ahhot. 5. Joscjjh, d. y. 5.-^Thomas, d. y. 5.-Aaron, b. April 11, 1778, d. ; m. 5. -Sarah Abbot. / GENEALOGICAL. 625 4.-NATnAX Abbot, m. 1766, Betsey Farnum. Their children Avere : o- Betsey, b. 1767 ; d. 1774. o.-Jacob, b. Jan. 16, 1769; d. Jan. 13, 18.38; m. Betsey Knapp. 5.-Asa, b. Nov. 11, 1770; d. Feb. 11, 1843; never married." 5.-])avid, b. Sept., 1772. Went away in 1794, and not heard from. 0. -Henry, b. Julv 24, 1774 ; m. 1798, Susan Hall. 5. -Anna, b. 1776 ; d. y. 5.-Betscy, b. Ap. 19, 1778; d. May 24, 1831 ; m. 1816, Jeremiah Eastman. o.-Anna, 2d, b. Jan. 8, 1781 ; m. 1806, Edmund Blancfutrd. o.-Chloe, b. June 10, 1783; m. Dec. 1809, Zebediah Farnum. o,-Esther, b. May 19, 1789. Descendants of 3.-NATII.VXIEL Abbot, son of 2-Nathaniel, and grandson of 1. -George Abbot ; [see notice, p. 132.] He was an original ])ro])rietor. There is a tradition that he came near losing his life by falling through the ice on Long Pond, in chase of a deer ; but saved himself by sticking his hatchet so far into the ice as to get a hold, and thus raised himself out. He m., Dec. 4, 1726, Penelope Ballard, of Andover. Their children Avere — 4.-Nathamel, b. March 10, 1727 ; d. Feb. 19, 1806. 4.-Dorcas, b. Nov. 11, 1728; d. ; m. Moses Merrill. 4.-Ilebecca, b. [Nlav 27, 1731 ; d. Thetford, Vt. ; m. John Merrill. 4.-EUzabeth, b. July 1, 1733 ; d. Jan. 25, 1834, a? 100 ; m. Joseph Ha- seltine. [See p. 418.] 4.-Mary, b. March 7, 173,5; d. March, 1795; m. Joseph Walker. 4.-Hannah, b. ]March 7, 1736 ; d. ; m. Ephraim Moor. 4.-Ruth, b. Jan. 28. 1738 ; d. Feb. 27, 1817, aged 79 ; m. James Walker. 4.-Joshua, b. Feb. 24, 1740; d. March, 1815, aged 75; m. 4.-Rachel, b. April 7, 1743 ; d. June 13, 1788 ; m. 1761, 4.-Daniel Abbot. 4.-Jeremiah, b. March 17, 1744; d. Nov. 8, 1823, aged 79; m. 4.-Dorothy, b. Dec. 28, 1746 ; d. Sept. 27, 1776 ; m. May 29, 1766, David George. 4.-Sarah, b. Dec! 3, 1748 ; d. June, 1842, aged 94 ; m. Samuel Farnum. 4.-NATIIANIEL Abbot, (lived at the Iron Works, in the house now owned by Ira Abbot.) m. 1749, Miriam Chandler; she d. Jan. 24, 1811, aged 82. Their children were — 5.-Nathaniel C, b. Julv 28, 1750; d. o.-Moses, b. June 19, 1752; d. July 11, 1837, aged 85; m. 5.-Joseph, b. May 24, 1754; d. Jan. 24, 1774; never married. o.-PhiHp, b. Feb." 4, 1757; d. March 20, 1841, aged 84; m. Feb. 10, 1791, Experience Howe. 5.-Joshua, b. June 15, 1759; d. March 4, 1831, aged 77; ni. Polly Brown, and next Ann Manning. 5.-Susanna, b. Jan 21, 1761; d. June 24, 1832, aged 70; m. John Gar- vin. 5.-Phebe, b. Aug. 8, 1764; m. o.-JVathan Abbot. o.-Levi, b. Sept. 23, 1767 ; d. Dec. 15, 1825; m. 5.-David, b. Aug. 8, 1770 ; d. June 30, 1836, aged 66 ; m. Betsey Colson. S.-Nathaniel C. Abbot, m. Hannah Farrington. Their children were : 6.-Joseph, b. Dec. 14, 1778. 6.-Susy, b. Sept. 25, 1782. 6.-Katv, b. Jan. 21, 1785. 6.-Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1787. 6.-David, b. Mav 6, 1789. 6.-Sally, b. Sept". 5, 1791. 5.-M0SES Abbot, m. Mary Batchelder; she d. July 2, 1833, aged 77. Their children were — 40 62G HISTORY OF CONCORD, 6.-John, b. Sept. 6, 1779; m. 6.-Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1781; d. Aug. 16, 1846; m. o.-Peter H. Ahhoi. 6.-Moses, b. Aup:. 3, 1783; m. Eunice Call. 6.-Liza, b. June 22, 178o; d. 1803; never married. 6.-Nathaniel, b. June 23, 1787 ; m. Sabrina Morse. 6.-Levi, b. April 21, 1789; m. 6.-Calvin, b. July 14, 1791 ; m. 6.-Pollv B. Abbot. 6.-Luther. 6.-Elsy ; m. Moses Colhy. 6.-Mary, d. April, 1822 ; m. Ephraim C. BuswelL 6.-J0HN Abbot, m. Hannah Flanders. Their children were seven, viz. Ilazen, Nancy, Iliram, Polly, John G., Emily, Andrew B. 6.-LEVI Abbot, ni. Eliza Dimond. Their children were thirteen, viz., Maliala, Albert, Eucinda, Eliza Jane, Benjamin D., Franklin, Abigail D., Angelinc, Oilman W., Susan I)., Cyrus, Laura Ann, Cyrus, 2d. o.-Levi Abbot, m. July 10, 1791, Elsie Moore. Their child — 6.-Ann, d. 1817; m. Samuel Moore. o.-Levi, 2 m. Oct. 6, 1795, Mary Carter. Their children were — 6.-Joseph C, b. April 6, 1796: d. July 23, 182j; m. Susan Furber. 6.-Charles, b. Nov. 30, 1797; m. 6.-Aaron, b. Sept. 28, 1799; m. 6.-Alice, I1. June 28, 1801; married Sept. 26, 1820, Mindall Satnpson. 6.-Marv C, born Jime 1, 1803; d. Oct. 27, 1825; never married. 6.-Ira, b. Feb. 14, 1805; m. 6.-Eliza, b. April 3, 1807 ; m. Dec. 12, 1827, Simeon Carter. 6.-Hannah J., b. July 1, 1809; m. April, 1844. Leonard W. Page. 6.-Susan G., b. Nov. 17, 1811; m. Nov. 17, 1839, John C. Wilson. 6.-Clara C, b. May 4, 1813; m. Jan. 13, 1841, l.-Abkl Rolfe. 6.-Ruth AY., b. Dec. 23, 1816; d. Feb, 10, 1845; m. Dec. 10, 1843, John M. O. Ladd. 6.-CHARLES Abbot, m. Dec. 13, 1827, Sarah Carter. Their children were six, viz., Levi W., Mary J., d., Clara Ann, Sally W., Betsey C, Frances Maria, d. 6.-AAR0N Abbot, m. Oct. 5, 1824, Nancy Badger. Their children were nine, viz., Joseph C, Ann Marv, EHzabeth H., Sarah J. H., George D., Edward M., Susan F., Ellen S.," AUce A. 6.-IRA Abbot, m. Feb. 20, 1831, Hannah A. Capen. Their children were six, viz., Laura F., Lvdia P., Valeria Ann, d., Albert G.,d., Albert G., 2d., d., Hannah J. 4.-JosiirA Abbot. Captain ; commanded a company in the battle of Bunker Hill, and also in the Continental service. Lie was a courageous man, resjjected for his good sense and integrity. He and his wife Avere worthy members of the Cong. Church. INIarried Elizabeth Chandler. She d. !Mav 27, 1812, aged 73. Their children were— 5.-Nathaniel, b. Aug. 25, 1767 ; d. Mav 31, 1709. 5.-Nathaniel, 2d, b. Oct. 28, 1769; d. Nov. 25, 1848, aged 79. 5.-Betsev, b. August 6, 1773; d. July 30, 1846, aged 73; m, April 8, 1798, 6. -Jacob Ahhoi. 5.-Sarah, b. Dec. 16, 1775 ; m. Gorham Duminer. 5.-John S., b. Aug. 20, 1778; d. Aug. 10, 1810; m. 5.-Joshua, b. Dec. 8, 1782 ; d. Sept. 28, 1824 ; m. 5,-Nathaniel Abbot, 2d, selectman, representative in the N. H. Legis- GENEALOGICAL. 627 lature, and many years treasurer of the X. II. Bible Society ; m. Elizabeth Dearborn. Their children were — 6.-Fanny, b. Oct. 27, 1794; m. Nov. IG, 181j, Gen. Joseph Low, first Ma^or of the citv of Concord. 6. -John R, b. Feb. 22, 175)6; m. Sept. 1S26, Mary E. Bartlctt. 6.-Marv, b. March 8, 1797 ; m. Joseph C. West. 6.-Emeiine, b. Feb. 21, 1811; m. July 6, 1S29, Johi Estahrook. He d. Oct. 9, 1833 ; death caused by the exjjloding of the boiler of a steamboat. 6-Emeline, 2 m. Robert E. Pecker. 5.- John S. Abbot, m. 1802, 6.-MarvFalkner. Their children were : e.-EHzabeth C, b. Feb. 18, 1803; m. June 17, 1824, John C. Pillsbury. 6.-Mary F., b. April 22, 1805 ; m. Sept. 22, 182.3, Henry Lawrence. 6.-Thomas F., b. Nov. 20, 1808. 6.-John S., b. Dec. 1, 1810; d. Aug. 10, 1811. 5.-J0SHUA Abbot, Col. of Militia ; afterAvards licensed to preach the gospel. In the exercise of this profession, and in the instruction of youth, he died at Norfolk, Va., respected and much lamented. On page 382 his death is put down Sept. 22 ; on his monument, page 383, it is Sept. 28. The_ latter is believed to be correct. M. Nov. 6, 1808, Eliza Kimball. Their children were : 6.-Joshua K., b. Dec. 23, 1810. 6.-John S., b. Feb. 21, 1812 ; d. at Bloomington, Iowa, Aug. 30, 1840. 6.-Ann M., b. Oct. 21, 1813 ; m. Jan. 25, 1842, Stephen H. Parker. 6.-Sarah D., b. Mav 29, 1815; m. Sept. 21, 1841, William Kelsea. 6.-Charles H., b. Feb. 7, 1817 ; d. Sept. 28, 1818. 6.-Charles H., 2d, b. Feb. 25, 1819. 6.-Nathaniel P., b. March 2, 1821. 4.-JEREMIAH Abbot, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, a sergeant in the company of his brother Joshua, and lieutenant in the service at Ticon- deroga, and in the expedition against Canada. After the close of the war he married Ehzabeth Stickney. She d. Sept. 10, 1836, age, 84. He moved to Conway, N. H., about 1787, and there endured many hardships and pri- vation by frost and Hood. He kept a house of entertainment, where the few travellers who visited that part of the country found a home. They were industrious and energetic, beloved and respected by all Avho knew them, and kind and hospitable to all who had claims on theii-" benevolence. They Avere early supporters of religious Avorship and order. Descendants of 3.- James Abbot, Avho was a proprietor, having purchased the rights of Rev. Bezaleel Toppan and Stephen Emerson. He Avas son of 2.-Wil- Ham, grandson of l.-George, born at Andover, :\Iass., Feb. 12, 1695 ; died Dec. 27, 1787, aged 93. He came to Concord about 1735, and at one time lived in a house Avhich stood nearly opposite the residence of John and Simeon Abbot, Avho inherited the old farm. His house at some time Avas a garrison. The same kind of corn has been planted on this farm about ninety years in succession. He m. Jan., 1714, Abigail Farnum, b. 1692. Their children were : 4-Abigail, b. Jan. 1, 1715; m. Kidder. 4-James, b. Jan. 12, 1717 ; d. 1803 ; age, 86 ; m. 1742, Sarah Bancroft. 4-EHzabeth, b. Feb., 1718. 4-William, b. Sept. 8, 1719; d. Oct. 29, 1741. 4-Ilachel, b. 1720; m. Manning; 2 m. Russell. 4-Ezra, b. March 19, 1722; d. Dec. 5, 1741. 628 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 4-Reuben, b. April 4, 1723 ; d. May 13, 1S22, in his 100th year. 4-Simeon, b. Sept. 8, 1724; d. Nov. 15, 1741. 4-Amos, b. Feb. 22, 1726 ; d. Dec. 3, 1821 ; age, 96. 4-Phebe, b. Nov. 22, 1727 ; d. 17r;5 ; m. Thomas Merrill. 4-A son, b. and d. 1729, 4-Sarah and Rebecca, b. Aug. 13, 1730 ; 4-Sarah m. Job Abbot ; 2 m. Dca. Eastman ; 4-Rebecca m. Enoch Eastman. 4-Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1732; d. 1780; m. Monijah Tyler. 4-Hannah, b. Jan., 1735 ; d. Sept. 10, 1736. 4-Reuben Abbot, [see pp. 160, 254, and biography, pp. 577-579,] was the oldest man that ever deceased in Concord. He lived west of Long Pond, and saw his son, grandson and great-grandson bearing his own name, residing at the same time in the same house. He married Rhoda AVhitte- more. Their children were : 5-Reuben, b. May 18, 1752 ; d. y. 5-Reuben, 2d, b. Feb. 5, 1754 ; d. Dec. 12, 1834 ; age, 80 ; married. 5-Rhoda, b. Dec. 31, 1755; d. Aug. 31, 1839; age, 84; m. Jonathan Joh7ison. 5-EHas, b. Oct. 24, 1757 ; d. March 19, 1847 ; age, 89; m. 5-Phclie, b. A]ml 14, 1759; drowned July 4, 1760. 5-Phcbc, 2d, Dec. 6, 1760; d. Nov. 2, 1777; never married. 5-IIannah, b. March 29, 1762; d. Feb. 15, 1832; m. 5-Ezra Abbot. 5-Ruth, b. Feb. 14, 1764 ; d. v. 5-Ezra and Nathan, b. Aug. 8, 1765; 5-Ezra, d. April 24,1839; age, 74, m. ; 5-Nathan, d. Mav 13, 1849; age, 84, m. 4-Reuben, 2 m. wid. Dinah Blanchard ; she d. March 11, 1826 ; age, 94. 5-Reuben Abbot, m. Sept. 24, 1776, Zerviah Farnum. Their chil- dren were : 6-Ruth, b. April 2, 1777 ; d. Feb. 20, 1849 ; m. March 11, 1798, Hennj Chandler. 6-Phebe, b. Mav 17, 1779; m. March 27, 1804, Peter C. Farnum. 6-Rcbecca, b. May 13, 1781 ; m. 1803, Thomas R. Brock. 6-Susanna, h. June 20, 1784; never married. 6-Zerviah, b. Dec. 20, 1785 ; d. July 1, 1841 ; m. Jesse C. Tiittle. 6-Pollv, b. March 2, 1789 ; m. Henry Martin. 6-Rcuben, b. Oct. 23, 1790 ; m. 5-Hannah Abbot. 6-PiErBE\ Abbot, m. 5-Hannah Abbot. Their children were eight — Reuben K., m. Mary M. Emerson — two children. Catherine W., m. Daniel Farnum — seven children. Hannah G., m. John Ballard — two children. Elizabeth B., m. Franklin B. Carter — two children. Esther M., m. Albert G. Dow — one child. Ezra C. ; Peter G. ; Henry C, m. Adeline Currier. 5-Elias Abbot, m. Sept. 5, 1782, Elizabeth Buswell. Then- children were : 6-Abigail, b. Aug. 5, 1783 ; m. Feb. 8, 1827, Jeremiah Hall. 6-Elias, b. March 22, 1786; m. Lydia Sawyer; 2 m. Sarah Winslow, 6-Elizabeth, b. June 3, 1788; d. March 29," 1847 ; never married. 6-Charlottc, b. Dec. 9, 1790; m. Sept. 29, 1808, William Straw. 6-James B., b. June 24, 1799 ; m. Nancy B. Rogers ; 2 m. Ehzabeth B. Rogers. 5-EzKA Abbot, m. Mary Walker ; she d. Sept. 22, 1852, aet. 89. Their children were : 6-John, b. March 20, 1787 ; d. Dec. 3, 1839; m. GENEALOGICAL. 629 6-Timothy, b. Dec. 21, 1788; d. Jan. G, 1847 ; m. 6-Job, b. Nov. 14, 1790 ; m. ^Liv 9, 1816, I.vdia :Morrison. 6-Xancv, b. Nov. 21, 1792; m. March 30, 1818, James Hoit. 6-Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 1795 ; d. Dec. 28, 1828 ; m. Sarah Eastman. 6-David, b. Jan. 13, 1798; m. 6-Esthcr, b. :March 30, 1800 ; m. William Kimhall. 6-liuth, 1). May 9, 1802 ; m. March 24, 1829, Samuel Ellsworth. G-Mary W,, b. Nov. 8, 180G ; d. :May 12, 1836 ; m. Alexander H. Putney. 6-JoiiN Abbot, m. Sarah Straw. Their children are seven, viz. : Laura S., d. ; Joseph W. ; Charlotte, m. Farnum Morse ; Laura, 2d ; Wil- liam, d ; Mary Ann ; Esther 'M. G-TiMOTHY Abbot, m. Aug. 8, 1818, Rhoda Gleason — one child : Charles, m. Martha Haseltine. 6-Dayid Abbot, m. May 18, 1828, Mary Holbrook. Their children ■were four, viz. : Mary P. ; James M., drowned in Horse-shoe pond, Mav 11, 1842 ; Joseph M., Elizabeth M. 5-Nathan Abbot, m. o.-Phebe Abbot. Their children were : 6-Rhoda, b. May 17, 1790 ; d. Aug. 29, 1847 ; m. 1810, Richard Webster. G-Amos, b. Nov. 16, 1791 ; d. Dec. 4, 184^3 ; m. Oct. 18, 1820, Sally G. Foster. e-WiUiam, b. Aug. 23, 1793 ; d. Feb. 3, 1837 ; m. March 7, 1820, Dor- cas Carter. 6-Sophia, b. July 7, 1795 ; d. Jan, 17, 1843 ; m. Aug. 28, 1817, John Johnson. 6-Hazen, b. Nov. 6, 1797 ; m. 1828, Ruth M. Ela. G-Susanna, b. March 13, 1800 ; never married. G-Jacob, b. March 13, 1802; d. Sept. 13, 1803. G-Jacob, 2d, b. May H, 1804; m. April 11, 1833, Harriet Garvin. G-Phebe, b. Oct. 17, 1806 ; m. Jan. 17, 1831, Seth Judkins. G-Amos Abbot, m. Oct. 18, 1820, Sally G. Foster. Their children were eight, viz., Carohne C, Henry M., Hazen F., Martha Ann, Samuel K., Sarah Jane, d., Benjamin C, d., Amos J., d. G-WlLLlAM Abbot, m. March 7, 1820, Dorcas Carter. Their children were six, viz., Julia Ann, WilHam P., m. Emily Uran ; Emily E., George W., Charles C, Rogers A. 6-H.\ZEN Abbot, m. 1828, Ruth M. Ela. Their children were nine, viz., Mary Jane, Nathaniel C, Amanda ^L, Clara Ann, d., FrankHn A., Hazen E., Nathan G., Daniel E., Susan A. G-Jacob Abbot, m. April 11, 1833, Harriet Garvin. Their children were five, viz., Harriet E., William H., Ann M., Eugene, Lydia. 4-Amos Abbot, m. wid. 3-Rebecca A. Chandler ; d. Feb. 13, 1803, aged 86. Their children were : o-Amos, b. July 15, 1754; d. Oct. 11, 1834, aged 80; m. 5-John, b. June 23, 1756 ; d. Aug. 31, 1779. John Abbot, brother of Amos and uncle of John and Simeon, was six feet seven inches Mithout shoes, and said to be the stoutest young man ever raised in Concord, though not quite so tall as Samuel Baker, uncle of the Governor, Nathaniel B. He received a ball at the battle of Bennington, on his breast-bone, which fell harmless at his feet. He d. aged 22, weighing 230 pounds. 5-Rebecca, b. Dec. 26, 1760; d. Dec. 24, 1846, aged 86; m. Oct. 9, 1781, Moses Chamberlain. 630 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 5-Amos Ai5B0T, served several campaigns in tlie Revolution. Farmer, lived with his'fother . lie Avas distinguished for his skill and success in managing bees ; m. Judith Morse. Their children were : 6-John, b. Nov. lo, 180.5. 6-Simeon, b. Aug. 3, ISO" ; m. 6-Sarah H., b. June 27, 1809 ; m. Dec. 18, 1838, 6-David Abbot. 6-SiMEOx Abbot, m. Feb. 8, 1837, 6-Mary Farnum. Their children are nine, viz., Amos S., Rebecca C, Mary S., Abiel C, Calvin F., Stej^hen F., Loisa G., Clara, Martha. o-WiLLiAM Abbot, son of 4-Isaac, son of 3-Isaac, son of 2-George, son of 1-George, was born Oct. 30, 1772 ; ni. ISOl, Rebecca Baily. Their children were : 6-^yiniam, b. Sept. 7, 1801; m. 6-Isaac, b. Nov. 12, 1803. 6-Rebecca, b. Oct. 6, 1806. 6-Moses B., b. April 19, 1815. 6-Rhebe C, b. Oct. 2, 1817, m. Joseph S. Lund. 4-Jacob Abbot, b. March 22, 1746 ; d. March o, 1820, son of 3-Joseph, son of 2-Nathaniel, son of first George Abbot. Resided in Concord from 1797 to 1802. when he removed to Brunswick, Me. For notice of him, see "Abbot Genealogical Register," page 131. His son, o-Jacol), b. Oct. 20, 1776, d. Jan. 21,^1847 ; he m. April 8, 1798, 5-Betsey Abbot, daughter of 4-Joshua Abbot, of Concord. He is the father of Jacob, John S. C, Gorham D., &c., who are distinguished as authors. THE AYER FAMILY. The branch of this family that settled in Concord is reckoned from 1-Rob- ert, of Haverhill ; 2-Samuel, (son of Robert) who was killed by the In- dians, Aug. 29, 1708, was the father of 3-Obadiah, and 3-John, who were originally projirietors ; 3-James, (son of 2-Samuel,) was father of 4-Sam- uel, another proprietor.* These proprietors had comphed with the condi- tions of the settlement in 1731, p. 128; but it docs not appear that they finally settled here. They were not in any garrison in 1746. V^'e have no account that Obadiah ever married. He was a graduate of Harvard College ; studied for the ministry ; a man of talents and influence, but sub- ject occasionally to aberrations of mind, at which times he had lodgings in Boston provided for him by his particular friend, John Hancock. 3-Jonx, who was doubtless here in the earliest period of the settlement, married Mary Johnson, of Haverhill. Their children, born in Haverhill, were — Abigail, Avho d. unmarried ; Timothy, who m. Ehzabeth White, and lived in Bradford, Vt., and John, who Hved in Bradford, Ms. 4-SAMrp:L Ayer, son of 3-James, m. Ann Ilazen, and lived at Haver- hill, Ms. Their children (5th generation from liobert,) all born in Haver- hill, were, Mary, b. Dec. 23 (O. S.) 1738 ; m. Samuel Morrison, of San- * See notice of these pioprietnrs, p 133, where they are said to be defcendants of John Ayer, who was of Salisbury, 1640, of Ii)svvicli, 164§, and of Haverhill, lli57. t^ee l-'ariiier's Genealogical Reg.; name, AYER. GENEALOGICAL. 631 bovnton; d. Ap. 1782. Anna, b. Sept. 22, (O. S. ;) m. Dea. John Kimball, of Concord; d. March o, 1819; (Sec Kmiball Family.) Samuel, b. Nov. 29, 1742; m. Sarah Chase, of Haverhill; d. April G. "1811. Ehzabeth (1) and Elizalieth (2) d. v. Elizabeth (3) b. Jmie 22, 1748 ; m. Jacob p:ia, of Haverhill; d. May 18, 1794. Hannah, b. Aujj. 2,5, 17,51 ; m. John Bradley, of Concord; d. Aug. 15, 1817. (See Bradley Family.) lluth, b. Dec. 4, 1753 ; m. Dr. Peter Green, of Concord ; d. April, 1823. (See Green Fam- ily, and Town Kecords.) Lydia, b. Dec. 1755, d. y. 5-RlcnARD, b. ^lay 12, 1757; m. Susanna Sargent. James, b. Jan. 1, 1761; m. Mary, dau. of Dr. James Brickett. 5-RlCHAilD Ayer, (see biography, p. 589,) Mho appears to have been the first permanent settler and resident in Concord of the name, m. Susan- na Sargent, of Methuen. Their children, born in Concord, were eleven, viz : 1. Richard Hazen, b. Jan. 12, 1778, d. in Manchester, Feb. 5, 1853, aged 75. He was a man of great strength of will and force of character ; rej)- resentative of Dunbarton and Ilooksctt ; a memljcr of the State Council five years ; one of the Presidential Electors in 1816 and in 1848 ; first she- riff of the county of ]\Ierrimack ; appointed naval store-keeper at Ports- mouth in 1829; an enterprising citizen of Manchester from 1837 till his death, having accumulated a large pro])erty. He was President of the Amoskeag Bank. He left a legacy of $7000 to the Unitarian Society in Manchester, of which he was a member. His wife, who svu-vived him, Avas the daughter of Col. Peter Green, of Concord. His children were only two, both daughters, one of whom, Susan R., d., was the wife of Dr. Enoch B. Barnes; and the other, Mary G., m. Dr. Amos G. Gale, of Manchester. 2. Samuel, b. Feb. 22, 1780; d. Jan. 3, 1785. 3. Moses, b. Apr. 28, 1782; d. Dec. 1813. 4. James, b. June 15, 1784. 5. Samuel, b. Aug. 31, 1786, (see Graduates,) d. at Eastport, Me., leav- ing three children — Sarah C, Samuel H., d., and Harriet O., d. 6. Susanna, b. Feb. 24, 1789; m. Isaac Hill. [See Biography.] Their children were four — AVilham P., John M., Isaac Andrew, and a dau. Geor- gianna T., who d. Sept. 16, 1825, ag. 11 mos. 7. John J., b. May 27 l79l ; m. Harriet Fox, of Jafi"rcy; d. in Con- cord, Aug. 14, 1837. Their children tAvo, Richard Hazen and Harriet Y. 8. Anna, or Nancy H., b. Sept. 24, 1793; m. Levi Brigham, of Boston; d. June 7, 1835, (see p. 433,) leaving two children, Levi and Ann S. 9. Ehzabeth, b. March 14, 1796; m. Richard Bradley. [See Bradley Family.] 10. ]\Iary, m. Isaac F. "Williams. Their children, Mary Ehzabeth, Susan Ayer, Georgianna Hill, and Annette. 11. Charlotte, m. Washington WiUiams. Their children, three — Char- lotte, Marianna, d., and Josephine. AMBROSE FAMILY. The first of the Ambrose name mentioned in our records was Robert Ambrose, who signed the "Association Test," 1776. He is understood to have come from Chester. Lived on the mountain, where his son, Capt. Jonathan, afterwards hved. By his first wife he had six sons and three daughters, viz. : 1. John. 632 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 2. Benjamin, ni. a Miss EusavcH, of Sanbornton, and d. at Peacham, Vt. No children. His M'id., 2 m. Ste])hen Chase, of Sanbornton. 3. Jonathan, ca])tain, m. Mehctabel I.anc, of liaymond. lie d. Oct. 7, 1840, aged 79. Slie d. Marcli (i, 1S53, aged SG. No children. 4. Nathaniel, deacon, 1 m. Sally Stevens, of Concord, who d. Dec. 23, 1830, aged (32. He 2 m. Martha Eastman, danghter of Capt. John East- man, and d. April 20, 1849, aged 85, leaving no children. 0. Josiah, m. Mary Morse, and lived in Northfield. He d., lea\"ing no children. 6. Stephen, Esq., — see " Stejjhen Ambrose." The daughters of Robert Amiirose were : 1. Martha, m. Dea. John Church, of Dunbarton. Had six daughters, but no son. 2. Susan, 1 m. Nathan Chandler, of Boscawen ; 2 m. Enoch Browni. 3. Abigail, m. John Lovejoy. Their children were five, viz. : Chandler, Polly, Judith, Harriet and Miriam. Mrs. Abigail d. March 26, 1832, aged 62. He d. Sept. 6, 1837, aged 71. Mr. Ambrose, 2 m. wid. Molly Thistle, a sister of Aaron Stevens. In April, 1811, Bobert Ambrose, at the age of 79, 3 m. wid. Sarah Cleas- by, aged 67. Mary Church, a great-granddaughter, aged 18, was present at the wedding. The second wife lived to the age of 98 years, retaining her faculties in a remarkable degree. She d. July 11, 1841, being, at her decease, the oldest person in town. Stephen Ambrose, Esq., youngest son of Robert, [see town officers, and p. 478,] m. Hannah Eastman, who d. July 31, 1832. Their children were : 1. Robert, b. Jan. 24, 1797; d. at Boston, Sept. 20, 1831; m. Dec. 25, 1823, Jane Johnson Hutchins. Their children, George H., Charles W., Nancv Jane, d., Robert S. 2. Lucretia, b. Jan. 15, 1799 ; m. Sept. 22, 1823, Rev. Charles Walker, D. D., now of Pittsford, Vt. 3. Mary, m. July 23, 1827, Pliihp Eastman, Esq., of North Yarmouth, Me. 4. Hannah, m. Jime 23, 1834, Hon. Amasa Walker, of Boston. 5. Nancy, b. May 4, 1805; d. 6. Benjamin, b. Aug. 5, 1807. 7. Susanna, b. Aug. 22, 1809; m. June 8, 1829, William G.Webster, Esq. BAKER FAMILY. DESCENDANTS OF 1-ABEL BAKER. Abel Baker, son of Hon. Samuel Baker, born 1756, died 1817, came from Berhn, Mass., to Concord. Settled at the Borough, 1789, and built the first grist-mill in that part of the town, which he continued to run until 1816. He also built a saw-mill near the grist-mill, both of them further up the stream than the old Elliot saw-mill. Mr. Baker married Polly, daugh- ter of Phineas Howe. Mr. Homc Avas a stout, muscular man, measuring six feet and nine inches in height ; whose children were Phineas, Silas, Abram, Lucretia, Polly, Betsey, Achsah, Abigail. Most of the Howe family Avere remarkable for size. Phineas was six feet five inches. Polly, wife of Abel Baker, was six feet, and weighed two hundred pounds. She used to take GENEALOGICAL. 633 charge of the grist-mill with her husband, and taking the grists from the horses' backs to the mill, and retm-ning them to the horse with as much ease as the strongest man. She has been known to lift three bushels of corn at once. The children of 1-Abel Baker and Polly Howe were : 1. Polly, b. in Berlin, Mass. ; m. Samuel Rogers, and had nine children. 2. Betsey,!), in Berlin, Mass. : m. Joseph Tallant, and had ten children. 3. Marshall, b. in Berhn, Mass., March 21, 1788; m. Naomi Hoit, of Boscawen. 4. Abel, b. in Concord, Jan. 16, 1791 ; m. Xancy Bradley. 5. Parncy, b. in Concord, May, 1794; 1 m. Bradbury Gill ; 2 m. Isaac Dow. 6. Achsah, b. in Concord, Aug. 31, 1796; m. Rev. John Woods. 7. Susan, b. in Concord, May 10, 1799; neyer married. Six feet, two and one half inches high. 8. Samuel, b. in Concord ; m. Nirah Barrett. 9. Saphira, b. in Concord ; d. y. 10. Clarissa, b. in Concord ; m. Jesse Durgin — three children. 2-Makshall Baker, m. Xaomi Hoit, in Boscawen, April lo, 1789. He served as a lieutenant in the war of 1812. Their children were : 1. Mary Ann, b. ^larch 18, 1809; m. Hazen Kimball, Hopkinton — eight children; '2. Charles E., b. Feb. 3, 1811; m. Mary S. Colliy, Hopkinton — six children; Sophia, b. April 1-5, 1813; Albert M., b. July 10, 1816; Catherine, b. April 9, 1820; Adeline, b. April 21, 1822. 2-Abel Baker. Abel Baker, m. Nancy Bradley, daughter of 3-Samuel Bradley. Their children Avere : 1. Nathaniel Bradley,!), in Henniker, Sept. 29, 1819, [see graduates,] m. May 10, 1843, Lucretia M. Ten Broeck — four children. 2. Ann. 3. CaroHne. 2- Samuel Baker. Samuel Baker is said to haye been the tallest man ever raised in Con- cord, measuring six feet and nine inches and one half, !)arefoot. At twenty years of age he M-eighed two hundred and thirt}- poimds, and sul)sequently two hundred and sixty. He left Concord about 1826, and went to the West. After he reached Buffalo an article appeared in the newspapers, saying that a New-Hampshire !)oy liad recently been there, who was so tall that he could wade across the Niagara river ! BALLARD FAMILY. I-Nathax Ballard, one of the first settlers at Little Pond, was a native of Andover, jNIs. ; m. Hannah Holt, and moved to Wilton, this State, where were l)orn their children, viz., Hannah, Sally, Mary, Betsey, Phebe, Na- than, John, Ezra, Timothy. From AVilton, 1-Nathan moved to Concord al)out 1792, and settled on the farm where his son, Nathan Ballard, Esq., now lives. Mr. Ballard, sen., Avas in the battle of Bennington, and lieute- nant in Capt. Goss's Company, but on the day of the battle Lt. Ballard commanded the company. He d. Jan. 14, 1835, aged 90 ys. and 2 mos. 634 HISTORY OF CONCORD. During his long life he enjoyed remarkable health — having never been ill enough to requii-e medical aid but once ; and then, in the army, he had the camp fever. 2-Nathax, son of Lieut. Ballard, came with his father to Concord, about 17 years of age. Worked on the farm in simimer, and taught school in the'winter about ten years. In May, ISOO, he married Hannah Bubs, of AVnton. Their children, born in Concord, are : 1. William, b. March 3, 1801 ; fitted for coUege; d. Nov. 1819. 2. Ezra, b. May 12, 1802; m. June, 1825, Mary Flanders. Their chil- dren, 1. William, m. CaroUne E. D. Virgin ; 2. Sarah M., d. ; 3. Geo. H., d. ; 4. John H. : .5. Geo. A., d. ; 6. Charles E, 3. An infant, d. 4. Hannah, b. April 7, 1805. 5. I'hebe, b. April 4, 1807 ; m. Geoi-ge D. Abbot. 6. Marv-Ann, b. March 8, 1809. 7. Charles, b. Dec. 23, 1810 ; 1 m. Jane Frost, of Andover, Ms. ; d. 1852 ; 2 m. Lvdia Dane, Andover, ^Is. ; d. 1854. 8. Ciara, b. June 3, 1813; m. 1843, S. B. Goddard, of Washington, D. C, who d. 1851. She d. Sept. 7, 1850, leaving one child. ,9. Nathan, b. March 31, 181G; m. Emily J. L. Goddard, of Xewbury- port, Ms., Sept. 1851. [See Graduates.] 10. John, b. Jan. ], 1818; m 7-Hannah G. Abbot; two children. 11, Eunice B., b. Jan. 21, 1820; m. G. W. Weaver, of Virg., 1853. BRADLEY FAMILY. The ancestor of the Bradleys of Concord was ABRAHAM, son of Joseph Bradley, of Haverhill, Mass., who, with his family connections, exprienced great sufferings from the Indians. [See Historj-, pp. 162-164.] The other sons of Joseph, were, Joseph, the ancestor of Dea. Amos Bradley, of Dracut, and of Enoch Bradley, of Haverhill, West Parish ; Isaac, taken prisoner by the Indians, 1G95, [see Mirick's History,] and Daniel, who was dro^^■ned, Jan. 22, 1695. 1-Abraiiam Bradley, m. Abigail Philbrick ; came to Concord about 1729, probably after the birth of all his children. His will is dated July 8, 1754, soon after which he jjrobably died. [See notice, p. 140, and biogra- phy of Hon. John Bradley, pp. 573-577.] His wife survived him some years, Ijut there is no record of the death of either of them. Pomjiey, their black slave, survived his master and mistress, and was willed to John Bradlev, and died in the winter of 1772. The children of 1-Abraham and Abigail Bradley were : 2-Generation. 1. Jeremiah, b. , 1 m. Fitzgerald; 2 m. Betty Keyes. Their chil- dren, Keyes, >Iurray and Warren, and one dau., who m. Abraham Bradley, of Fryelmrg, Me, and another dau., who m. Benjamin Powell, of Concord. 2. Abigail, m. Benjamin Pichards, of Atkinson. 3. Timothy, m. AlJiah Stevens. Had by her twelve children. 4. Ai)i)hiai m. Stcjihcn Farrington, of Concord. [See notice, p. 140, and Farrington Family.] 5. Jonathan, b.' 1717 ; m. Susannah Folsom, of Exeter. He was killed by the Indians, 1740. [See notice, ]))). 160-162.] " 6. Abiah, m. Philip Eastman. [See Eastman Family.] GENEALOGICAL. 635 7. Samuel, b. 1721 : m. Marv Folsom ; killed bv the Indians, 1 746. [See pp. 160-1 Go.] 8. Martha, unmarried. 9. Mehitable. m. Amos Eastman. 1 743, and settled in Hollis. 10. Betty, m. Josiah Folsom, of Exeter. 2-TiMOTHT Bradley, m. Abiah Stevens : was called Lieutenant. Their children, 1. Benjamin, b. A])ril 4, 1739, one of Rogers* rang-crs : perished after the St. Frai^cis fight. [See notice, p. 193.] " 2. Abigail, b. Sept. 2, 1740; m. Isaac Chase, of "Warner. 3? 4. Timothy, b. Oct. 30, 1743; d. Jidy 31, 1811. aged 68. 5. Abraham, hved in Frveburg, and was drowned when over 80 years old. 6. Betty, m. Abner Chase, of Warner, brother of Isaac. 7. Abiah, b. Feb. 10, 1748; m. Virgin. 8. Samuel, b. 1752: m. Catherine Green, dau. of Nathaniel Green ;"d. Jan. 1826, aged 74 — the grandfather of Gov. X. B. B;\ker. 9. Jonathan, b. l754;"m. Susannah Emery, who d. July 27, 1793; 2 m. wid. Lucretia Cook. 10. Philbrick, 1 m. Sarah Emery ;" 2 m. Mary . 1 1 . Kuth, m. Nathaniel Eastman, of Concord. 12. Benjamin, '2d, had two wives. 2-Ji)XATllAX Br.\dlet, who m. Susanna Folsom, and was killed, 1746, left children: 1. Mary, b. Sejit. 2, 1739. 2. Susanna, b. Aug. 10, 1741 ; 1 m. Emerson, of Chester ; and 2 m. Virgin, of Concord. 3. Ann. b. Feb. 11, 1743. 4. Josiali, b. 174.5, who d. in Chester, leaving sons Jonathan and Josiah, now of Vienna, Me. 2-SAMrEL Bkadlet, who m. Mary Folsom, killed, 1 746. lefr 3-John , b. Feb. 13. 1743. and Mehetabel, b. Jiin. 16, 174 J. See notice of liis wid., Mrs. Mary Calfe, p. 373. S-JoHN Bradley, m, Hannah Aver. Their children : 1. Robert, b. June 17, 1772; m. Abigail Bailev ; .settled in Frvebursr, Me. Their children : (1.) Samuel, m. Jane Lane." of IloUis. Mo. : "he was one of the most talented and most distinguished lawvers hi Maine : d. in Saco, June 26, 1849, aged 47 years. (2.) Israel Bailev. m. Sarah John- son, of Fryeburg. (3.) Alexander Ramsav. m. ^[arv O. "Barrows, of Frve- burg. (4.) Mary Ann, d. July 2o, 1841, aged 27, iiniversallv beloved and esteemed. 2. Samuel A., born Nov. 22, 1774. [See Graduates.] 3. Mary, b. Feb. 27, 1777 : d. Jan. 3, 1796. 4. John. b. Aug. 29, 1779; 1 m. Grace Stevens: had two sons, John Jay and Thomas Stevens ; 2 m. wid. Catherine J. Kittredge. 5. Moses Hazzeu, b. March Ij, 1782; m. Marv Green; no children ; d. .Tune 22. 1834. [See Graduates.] 6. George, b. Oct. 6, 1784 ; d. Feb. 19. 1812 ; never m. 7. Anna. b. June 17, 1787 ; d. Sept. 30. 1789. 8. 4-RlciiARD, b. Feb. 28. 1790 : m. EUzabcth Aver. 9. Anna Ayer. b. Jan. 6, 1793; m. John S. Barrows, Esq.. of Frveburg, who d. Julv o. l84o, leaving two sons, Geora:e B. and John S. The latter d. Feb. 2, 1849. 4-RicnARD Bradley, Esq.. who married Ehzabeth Aver, settled on the old homestead in Concord. Their children are : 1. John."b. Nov. 27. 1819: drowned in Ilorse-shoe pond, Julv 9, 182."). 2. George, b. March 23, 1824." 3. Susan A., b. March 20. 1826; m. llarvev Jewell, Esq., Boston. "4. Moses Hazzen, b. Sept. 17, 1833. 3-PHn.BRicK Bradley. Philbrick Bradley, son of Lieut. Timothy and Abiah, married Sarah Em- erv. Their childieu were — Go6 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 1. John, born, Dec. 2o, 17S3; 2. Lucy, born May 27, 1785; 3. Abigail, born Feb. 13, 1787; 4. Sophia, born N'ov. 4, l7S8 ; 5. Sarah, b. Dec. 11, 1791 ; G. Sabra, born April 27, 1772; 7. Robert A., born June 1, 1794; 8. Enoch, born April 24, 1796; 9. Philbrick, born Aug. 13, 1798 ; 10. Su- sanna, born July 29, 1800. Sarah, his wife, died Nov. 8, 1801, in her 3<5th year. She was born Feb. 5, 1706, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Emery. Mary, his second wile, died Jan. 29, 1833, aged Gj. 3-TiMOTHY Bradley, Jr. Timothy Bradley, Jr., son of Timothy and Abiah, born Oct. 13, 1743; m. Sarah Foster. Their children were — 1. Ehzabeth, born Jan. 9, 1775 ; 2. Asa, born Dec. 13, 1776 ; 3. Sarah, born April 26, 1779; 4. Abiah, born Aug. 7, 1781 ; 5. Hannah Peters, born January 1, 1784; G. Timothy, b. January 24, 1786; 7. Foster, born May 3, 1788; 8. Abiel, born May 6, 1790. 3-Benjamin Bradley. Benjamin Bradley was the second Benjamin in the family of Lt. Timothy, and was born after the melancholy death of his oldest brother, in 1759. Benjamin Bradley was twice married. His children by his first wife, Betty Quimby, were — 1. Susy, born 178G ; 2. Mehetabel, born 1788. 4-TiMOTiiY Bradley. Timothy Bradley, son of 3-Timothy, jr., m. Anna . Their chil- dren, as recorded, Mere — 1. Asa Foster, b. Feb. 28, 1811 : 2. Louisa, b. April 14, 1813; 3. Peter M.,b. March 13, 1815; 4. David M., b. Sept. 7, 1817 ; Cyrus, b. Xov. 14, 1819. CARTER FAMILY. The first settler of the Carter family in Concord, was I-Ephraim, about 1740, the father of Dr. Ezra, Daniel, Ezekiel, Joseph, Avho never married, and Abigail, who married John Hoyt, p. 157. The tradition is, that Abi- gail Carter came from South-Hampton, with her father, when she was about eleven years old — she being the youngest of the family. She rode on horseback on a pillion, and forded all the streams. When the family left South-Hampton the neighbors expressed great sympathy for them ; gathered aroimd and wept, when they bid them farewell, to go so far into the wilderness! Reaching Sugar Ball hill, they chained the wheels of the cart containing their goods, to get them down the hill safely ; transported their goods over the Merrimac in a canoe — swimming the oxen ; then fas- tening l)ed-cords to the tongue of the cart, dragged that across the river. Rc-loading their goods, they carted them all up to a house which stood where Dr. Samuel Morril now lives. Tradition further says, that on one occasion Mr. Carter went to Newbury with a load of produce, and on his way losing his goad-stick, he cut a small limb from an apple tree, which he brought home Avith him, and stuck it in GENEALOGICAL. G O/ the ground near the brook which runs along ^v]lere the steam-mill now stands. There it took root, and grew to a large tree, which was standing when Dr. Morril sold the lot.* Ephraim Carter and Ezra Carter were in the garrison round the house of Lt. Jeremiah Sticknev, in 174G. [See page 155.] DocT. 2-EzRA Carter and his Descendants. Dr. Ezra Carter married Ruth Eastman, 1 742. Their children were— Oci: 2rili6 ^"' ' ^' ^"'•^'^•^^^- 26, 1745; 3. Ephraim, b. S-Epiiraim Carter. Ephraim Carter, son of Dr. Ezra, born Oct. 21, 1746 ; m. Dorcas Kali. Their children were : 1. Ezra, b. Oct. 24, 1769 ; d. Nov. 4, 1769 • "> Han- nah, b Oct. 31, 1770 ; 3. Ezra,b. Feb. 15, 1773; died; 4. Ebcnezer, b. April 2 Ino-, died m Charleston, S. C, 1795 ; 5. Dorcas, h. Oct. 2'^ ] 777 • ?7«? o 1? a"f^^ Judith, tH-ins, b. Sept. 21, 1780; 8. Polly, b. July 1,' 1783; 9 Ihomas Gross, b May 21, 1786; 10. Bela, b. July 12, 1789 11. Hubbard, b.Aprd 21, 1791; 12. Sally, b. June 6, 1794. " ' ' 4-Bela Carter. Bela Carter, son of Ephraim and Dorcas, b. July 12, 1789; m. Judith Carter. Their dnldren were: 1. Clarissa, b. Aug." 18, 1815; 2. Dorcas Hall, b. June 1, 1817; 3. Phebe Whittemore, b. Feb. 21, 1819- 4 Iluth lownsend Knight, b. May 22. 1821; 5. Judith Ann, b. Oct. 28 * IS'^4 • died Sept. 5, 1826; 6. John Whittemore, b. Aug. 18, 1826. ' ~ ' 2-Daniel Carter, and his Descend.ants. Daniel Carter, brother of Dr. Ezra, came to Concord about 1750. and Mn r h, t'fi \' '":T^ -^l''^ '^J^'°'^ ^^'~'^^- Ho was born in Salisbury, Mass., but first set led in South-Hampton, whence he came, after the birth bf his three eldest chiklren, to this town. His wife was Hannah Fowler. She Avas also born m Sahsbury, Mass. Their children were Ezra, :yiolly Ayhom.\\ilham Currier and Daniel, born in South-Hampton; Hannah! Avho m Ezra Badger, and lived in Bow; John, Moses, and Anna, who m. John Colby, born in Concord. Wm. Currier, who m. Molly, moved to Concord between 1750 and 1760, and to Plymouth in 1793. 3-D.\NiEL Carter, Jr. Daniel Carter, Jr., son of Daniel and Hannah Fowler, born Sept 8 1 794 • married Molly Chase. They removed to Winslow, Me., 1790, and' sulise- quently, when he was seventy years old, to Ohio. Their ch. were • 1 Mar- tha, b. March 30, 1771; 2. Jonathan, b. Sept. 17, 1772; m. Polly Flan- ,fVA "5"fh'J^- O^'^- 2, 1"^^; m- James Thompson; 4. Polly, "b. Oct. 12, 17,8; 0. Sarah Houghton, b. April 14, 1777; 6 and 7, Nahum and Sophia, twins, b. April 10, 1783. 3-EzRA Carter. Ezra Carter, son of Daniel and Hannah Fowler, born in South-Hampton, married PhebeJYhittemore, of Pembroke, and settled in the West Parish m Concord. Their children were: 1. Ruth, b. July 6, 1765; m David Eastman; 2. Timothy, b. March 6, 1767; d. Feb. "7, 1843; 3. Hannah i^.^Y''u i'', 'V'^\ ™- ^^''^- E^^"^™^^ I'--^-^^"^'-^"' «f Limerick, Me 4 S ,',o"F'''; 1^ 1771; m. Moses Farnum; d. Oct. 1808; 5. Ezra b March 1,8^1773; m Sally Fabyan ; 6. Phebe, b. Dec. 25, 177^; m Dr Richard Hazelton ; 7. Esther, b. Feb. 21, 1778 ; m. Moses Farnui;i, 2 m. ; * Tradition by Jacob lloyt, Esq. See Biography of Dr. Carter, p. 553. 638 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 8. Daniel, b. June 1.5, 1780; m. Breed, LjTin, Mass. ; 9. Judith, b. May 2, 1783; m. Bcla Carter; 10. Deborah, b. April 17, 178G; m. Capt. Henry liolfe. 4-TiMOTHY Carter. Timothy Carter, son of Ezra and Phebe Whittemore, m., June 12, 1794, Judith Chandler, daughter of Capt. Abiel and Judith Walker. [.Vote. — This branch of the Carter family is connected Avith the Walker family. See " Descendants of llev. Timothy Walker." 3-Jacob Carter. Jacob Carter, son of Daniel, and Hannah Fowler, m. Sarah Eastman, daughter of Moses. Their children were — 1. Susanna, b. January 21, 1777; d. Sept. 3, 1778 ; 2. Susanna, May 21, 1780 ; m. Abraham Duncklee ; 3. Moses, M. D., b. Aug. 8, 1782 ; m. Clar- issa Poor, Newburyport, Mass. ; 4. Sally, b. Aug. 2, l78o ; m. John Ilo- bie and Jonathan Worthen ; 5. Ruth, b. March 20, 1788 ; m. Jonathan Proctor ; 6. Abiel, llev., b. March 2, 1791 ; m. ^laria Beach, dau. Rev. Abraham, New-Brunswick, N. J. ; died in Savannah, 1827 ; 7. Anna, b. Dec. 12, 1793 ; m. Jeremiah Tilton, Sanbornton ; 8. Jacob, m. Carohne Stoclung ; 9. Ebenezer, m. Mary Goodhue. 3-MosES Carter. Moses Carter, son of Daniel, and Hannah Fowler, married Molly Robin- son. Their children were — 1. Wilham, b. July 13, 1788 ; 2. Daniel, b. :Mav 12, 1790 ; d. Oct. 3, 1813 ; 3. Pollv, b. May 3, 1793 ; 4. Alice, b. June 7, 1795 ; d. March 22, 1812; 5. Simeon, b. Feb. lo, 1797 ; 6. Moses, b. April 20, 1799 ; 7. Anna, b. Mar. 19, 1801 ; 8. Hannah, b. June 10, 1803 ; d. July 31, 1812 ; 9. Sa- rah, b. June 13, 1805; 10. Jacob C-, b. Dec. 28, 1807; 11. Israel Evans, b. April 8, 1810. Moses Carter, sen., died March 8, 1833, aged 71. 3-JosEPH Carter. Joseph Carter, son of Daniel and Hannah, married Hannah Carr. Their children were : 1. Polly, m. Levi Abbot. 2. Abigail, m. Eben Capen. 3. Lydia, m. Andrew Robmson. 4. Nathaniel IL, [see biography.] 5. Thomas 1 m., ■Mary Colby ; 2 m., Laura Strong. 6. Betsey, m. Ebenezer Hutchinson. Col. 3-JoKN Carter. John Carter, son of Daniel and Hannah Fowler ; 1 m., Betsey Brown, and had one daughter, Anna ; 2 m. M'id. Lucy Wells, formerly Cavis. Their children, Betsey, Wells, John, Nathaniel, Aaron, William 'SI. and Hiram. 3-EpnRAiM Carter. Ephraim Carter, son of 2-Ezekiel, m. Dorcas Presby. Their children were: 1. Rebecca, b. July 14, 1789. 2. Phebe, b. April 6, 1791. 3. Katy, b. May 21, 1793. 4. Nathan, b. Oct. 11, 1795, 5. Dorcas, b. Dec. 3, 1797. 6. David, b. Jan. 5, 1800. 7. John, b. Feb. 4, 1802. 8. Ezekiel, b. May 26, 1804. Ephraim Carter. Ephraim Carter married Lydia. Amos, their son, born Oct. 7, 1793. CHANDLER FAMILY. Capt. John ChxIxdler and his Descendants. Capt. John Chandler, one of the original proprietors of Concord, was a son of Capt. John, of Andover, who was a man of great muscular power. GENEALOGICAL. 639 and famous as a wrestler. It is related, " that being informed that Rev. Mr. Wise, of Ipswich, excelled in the art of wrestling, and had not been thrown, he made a journey on purpose to try his strength and skill. Mr. Wise, on being requested to wrestle, declined — having reUn- quished the practice, as unsuitable to his profession. But being earnestly solicited by Mr. Chandler, they went into a door-yard, which >yas fenced by a wall set in the bank, took hold, and began to play ; when Mr. Wise, suddenly, with a ti-ip and twitch, threw him over the wall upon his back. Chandler rose and requested another trial, but Mr. AVise refused. So the Captain returned home sadly disappointed." [JVote. On p. 134, in notice of Capt. Chandler, it is said his father " died in 1721," and that he was grandson of Capt. Thomas Chandler. It should read 1740, and that he was great-g)'andson, &c. Capt. Jolm Chandler, who settled in Concord, is reckoned in the Chand- ler genealogy the fourth in descent from Capt. Thos. Chandler, one of the first settlers of Andover, whose sister, Hannah Chandler, married 1-George Abbot. In this Genealogy we call Capt. 1-John Chandler, of Concord, the first generation. 1-Capt. John Chaxdler, b. 1702, m. 3-Tabitha Abbot, and d. July 26, 1775, aged 72. [He Uved in a house west of Richard Bradley's, where Hamilton Perkins, Esq. recently Iniilt. [See Hist., p. 244, and biography of Alnel Chandler, p. .] Their children were — 1. John, b. 1731; m., 1751, Marv Carter; d. Mar. 1, 1807. 2. Timo- thy, b. Aug. 15, 1733 ; m. Elizabeth Copp ; d. March 24, 1770. 3. Dan- iel, b. Feb. 15, 1735 ; m. Sarah Eastman, dau. of Capt. Ebenezer, jr. ; d. Oct. 25, 1795. 4. Joshua, b. June 9, 1740; m. Irene Copp; d. Dec. 3, 1816. 5. Hannah, b. Sept. 3, 1744. 2-LiEUT. John Ch.\ndlek. Lt. John Chandler, son of Capt. John, b. 1731 ; m., 1751, Mary Carter, who d. June 9, 1793, aged 64. Their children were — 1. Capt. John, b. Dec. 11, 1752; m. Naomi Farnum ; b. April, 1760; d. Mar. 1832. 2. Nathan, April 28, 1754; m. Susan Ambrose ; d. April 13, 1781. 3. Isaac, b. April 18, 1758; m. Mary Kimball; d. Mar. 1826. 4. Joseph, b. Nov. 18, 1760; m. Hannah Farrington ; d. April 23, 1826. 5. Jeremiah, b. March 31, 1763; m. Judith Farnum; d. Feb. 1829. 6. Moses, b. Nov. 23, 1765 ; m. Sally Goodwin. 2-TiMOTHY Chandler. Timothy Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, b. August 15, 1733; m. Elizabeth Copp; b. April 16, 1740. Their children were — 1. Tabitha, b. June 17, 1760 ; m. Mclntire. 2. Timothv, b. April 25, 1762; m. Sarah Abbot; d. Aug. 9, 1848, a. 86. 3. Abiel, b. Oct. 20, 1765; m. Miss Thomas. 4. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 28, 1768; never married; d. Jan. 25, 1799. 2-Daniel Ch.axdler. Daniel Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, b. Feb. 15, 1735 ; 1 m. Sa- rah Eastman, daughter of Ebenezer Eastman, jr. Their children were — 1. Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1756; m. Abner Flanders; d. 1842, ee 86. He 640 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 2 m. Sarah Merrill, daii. of Dca. John Merrill. 2. Molly, b. Jan. 27, 1760; 1 m. Ebcnczcr West ; 2 m. Richard Flanders ; d. May 1, 1831, ae 71. 3. Hannah, b. June 19, 1773; m., June 7, 1787, Joshua Graham ; d, March 31, 1828, aged Go. 4. Lydia, b. June 22, 1765; m. Jonas Wy- man; d. June 24, 1842. 5. Abigail, b. Julv 4, 1767; m. Jan. 12, 1784, Oliver Flanders ; d. Jan. 2, 1841. 6. Paul", b. May 5, 1770; m. Susan Hardv ; d. April 5, 181o. 7. Ann, b. 1771 ; m. llichard Walker; d. Feb. 7, 1790. 8. Abiel, b. Fel). 26, 1777; m., May, 1827 or '28, Dorcas Sar- gent, dau. of E])pes Sargent, of Boston. H. Coll., 1806. [See Biographv-] 9. John, b. March 19, 1781 ; m., Nov. 28, 1805, Mary Harriman. 2-JosHUA Chandler. Joshua Chander, son of Capt. John; b. June 9, 1740; m. Irena Copp. She. d. Dec. 7, 1810. Their children were — 1. Daniel, b. Sept. 1, 1768; m. Mehitabcl Arlin ; d. June 1817. 2. Ruth, b. Feb. 20, 1770; m. George Arlin; d. May, 1792. 3. Ruhamah, b. May 4, 1772; m. 4. Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1774 ;"m. Geo. Arlin, 1792. 5. Joshua, b. Feb. 1776; d. 6. Hannah, b. April, 1779; never married. 7. Joshua, b. Sept. 4, 1782 ; m. Nancy Arlin. S-TlMOTIIY ClIAXDLER, jr. Timothy Chandler, jr., son of Timothy Chandler, b. April 25, 1762; m. 5-Sarah Abbot, 1787. Their children were — 1. Peregrine White, b. Julv 10, 1788; d. Aug. 28, 1792 2. Sally, b. Feb. 11, 1791. 3. Peregrine 'Hale White, b. March, 6, 1793— /e/o de se. 4. Judith, b. Feb. 16, 1796; never m. 5. Timothy Fav,b. May 21, 1798. 6. Dorcas, b. July 22, 1800. 7. Isaac Abbot, b. October 2, 1801. 8. John Bradley, b. Feb. 13, 1805. 9. Abiel, b. April 2, 1807 ; m. Mary L. Felt. 10. Seneca, b. Sept. 10, 1809; d. 11. Elizabeth, Feb. 4, 1812. Besides the foregoing, who were descendants of Capt. John Chandler, the original settler, there are other ancient families of the Chandler name, to wit : Capt. Abiel Chandler. Abiel Chandler, son of Abiel Chandler, of Andover, born May 11, 1744, was Cajitain in the Mihtia, Adjutant in the Army, and Justice of the Peace. He died of the small pox at Crown Point, 1776. He m. Judith Walker, daughter of Rev. Timothy Walker, first minister of Concord. Their chil- dren were — 1. Sarah, b. Jan. 15, 1768 ; m. Peter Blanchard. 2. Judith, b. Oct. 9, 1779; m. Timothy Carter, Esq. [See "Descendants of Rev. Timothy Walker."] 3. Rebecca, b. Dec. 17, 1773. Henry Cii.vndler. Henry Chandler, still living at the age of 89, son of Henry, of Andover, Ms., b. Julv 16, 1766, Avas an early settler at Little Pond; m. March 11, 1798, 6-Ruth Abbot, dau. of 5-Rcuben Abbot. She d. Feb. 20, 1849, a. 72. Their children Avere — 1. Phebe, b. Jan. 23, 1799; m. July 4, 1836, Daniel Dunlap. 2. Henry, b. May 13, 1800; d. Jan. 16, 1810. [See p. 349.] 3. Rebecca A., b. Feb. 14, 1803; m. March 6, 1828, Dea. James Moulton ; d. April 23, 1844. 4. Judith, b. Jan. 8, 1807 ; m. Aug. 2, 1842, Abiel R. Crosby, d. 5. Susan D., b. Dec. 31, 1810; m. October 9, 1834, WilHam Pecker. 6. Maria, b. Nov. 28, 1813 ; m., May 30, 1853, Joseph C. Tilton. Lucia, b. April 23, 1816. GENEALOGICAL. 641 Nathan Chandler was also an early settler at Little Pond, from An- dover; d. Jan. 27, 1837, ag. 80. His wife Lucy, d. June 8, 1827, ag. 67. Their cliildren were Nathan, Ezra, Hammon, Lucy, Rebecca, and Dorcas. DAVIS FAMILY. Ephraim Davis was an original proprietor and settler in Concord. See p. 135. There is no record to be found of his family; but he had three sons, Samuel, Benjamin and Robert ; and two daughters, whose names are beheved to have been Deborah and Judith. Samuel and Benjamin were soldiers in the Frencli War. One of them was drowned, and the other died soon after his return, of sickness contracted m the camp. Of the daughters, the elder married Col. Moses Baker, of Campton, and the yoimger a Mr. Morrison, who lived at or near Sanbornton Bridge. Robert, son of Ephraim, m. Sarah Walker. Their children were — 1. Deborah, b. Julv 14, 1757; m. Daniel Hall. 2. Samuel, b. April 17, 1759. 3. David, b. June 20, 1761. 4. Benjamin, b. May 17, 1763; d. June 10, 1792; never m. 5. Sarah, b. October 10, 1767; m. Lt. Joshua Thompson. 6. James, b. Feb. 27, 1770; drowned in Horse Shoe pond. 7. Polly, b. Feb. 25, 1773; m. Elijah Russell. 8. Judith, b. Feb. 24, 1775; m. Abiel Walker. 9. Moses, b. Feb. 23, 1777 ; m. Nancy Fuller; d. at Hanover, July, 1806. Robert Davis died August, 1823, aged 89. Sarah Davis, his wife, died April, 1824, aged 87. David Davis, son of Robert and Sarah Walker, m. Sally Cavis, of Bow. Their children were — 1. Lucy, d. y. Lucy, b. Nov. 17, 1785. Robert, b. March 9, 1790. Robert Davis, son of Robert, and Sally Cavis, 1 m. Eliza Tapley'llall, of Boston. Their children Avere — 1. Sarah Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1819; m. Franklin Evans. 2. Edward H., b. Feb. 25, 1821. 3. Robert Lewis, b. Dec. 3, 1822. 4. Henry C, b. May 2, 1825. 2 m. wid. Rebecca A. Whitney, of Boston. Samuel Davis, son of Robert and Sarah Walker, settled in the West Parish ; m. LycUa iSIerrill. Their children were — 1. Dorcas, m. Enoch Farnum, d. 2. Sarah, m. James Buswell, first wife, d. ; 3. Nancy, m. Laban Page, d. ; 4. Ruth, m. Ephraim Colby, d. 5. Robert, m. Almira Dearborn ; d. leaving one son, Charles A. Davis, M. D., now living. 6. Samuel, d. unmarried. 7. Judith, m. James Bus- well, 2d w. 8. Moses, m. Esther Martin. 9. David, m. Eliza Phelps. THE DIMOND FAMILY. [Facts furnished by Mrs. Sarah, wife of Capt. Samuel Knowlton.] EZEKIEL DiMOND, the common ancestor of the families of that name now resident in Concord, came hither with his wife about 1750. Both were na- tives of South Hampton, in this State. They had ten children — seven sons and three daughters ; two of whom died in infancy. AU the sons ex- cept one lived to be over 70 years of age, and two were between 80 and 90. 41 642 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Their second child, a daughter, lived to be 75. During the period of In- dian troubles they lived in the garrison around the house of Rev. ]\Ir. "Walk- er. When their first daughter was eighteen months old the garrison gate fell on her, and hurt her head so badly that life was despaired of for some time ; but she providentially recovered, with no other injury that the loss of the sight of her left eye. Mr. Dimond's ancestors emigrated from De- vonshire, England, to this country.* He was the first settler on the farm now owned by Mr. Joseph S. Abbot, on Avhat is called Dimond's Hill, and lived in a log house on the brow of the hill. He became an extensive land- owner, and had a proprietor's right. In their log-house the family was often alarmed by the Indians, and moved back and forth fi-om their farm to the Fort. Once, when alarmed by the Indians, Mrs. Dimond had a web in her loom, and she took out the yarn beam and wound the reed and har- ness about it, carried it to the Fort and wove it out there. Schools then were very uncommon. Their sons had a taste for learning ; the parents were very good readers for the times ; Mr. Dimond himself a good writer, and they taught their children so much that they were all good readers, and could write and cipher. Some of the oldest children never went to school over six weeks. Their manner of learning to write was a novel one. Winter evenings, supplying themselves with pitch-pine knots instead of lamps and candles, and with birch-bark instead of paper, they would lie down before the fire and ■vvi'ite ! Jacob Dimond, the third son, was a self taught man. He kept school for many years. It is probable he kept the first school ever taught in what is now Dist. No. 7, in an old, uninhabited house, before a school house was built there. About the year 1792 or 1793 he went to Kennebec, in Maine ; there kept school, and ■\\Tote for business men. He had something of a poetic gift, and the last time he visited his friends in Concord he composed and left an Acrostic for his mother's consolation.t She was a pious woman, but he was not a professor of rehgion, and their parting was always a sor- rowful one. THE ACROSTIC. Jesus, thou might}' King on high, And sovereign Lord of all below, Command thy great salvation nigh ; O Lord, to me thy mercy show : Behold, I stand in need ! Deal gently with thy servant, Lord ; In mercy. Lord, incline ; May I receive the Gospel sound — Obey its precepts, and be found Near to thy throne of grace. * There was a John Diamond in Lynn, 1647. f My grand parents, Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond, were bntli professor? of religion, and belonged to i)arson Walker's church. They lived to see the third minister. Rev. Or. McFar- land, settled in Concord. Grandfather died Feb. 22, 1800, aged 75; grandmother died April, 1809, aged 82 Sarah Knowlton. To. Dr. BouTON. GENEALOGICAL. 643 Foiu' of the sons were in the Revolutionary war ; one of them was out three years ; the others were out a few months at a time. In addition to the foregoing, the following names are found in the town records : Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond, b. Sept. 11, 1749. Isaac, b, Aug. 24, 1759. Reuben Dimond m. Molly Currier. Their children were — Sallv, b. July 23, 1781. Esther, b. Nov. 19, 1782. AViUiam, b. Aug. 9, 1784. ' Daniel,' b. March 22, 1786. Hannah, b. Oct. 19, 1787. Jacob, b. Sept. 5, 1789. Molly, b. July 29, 1791. Isaac Dimond, m. Hannah Sleeper. Their child, Origen, was b. Aug., 1799. John Dimond, who d. Jan. 14, 1830, aged 66, had a large family. DOW FA]\IILY. 1-Ebenezer Dow, the ancestor of the Dow family in Concord, Avas born about 1737, supposed at Newbury, Mass. According to family tradition he ■was a ranger in the time of the French and Indian wars, from 1757 to about 1762 ; was in the fight at Ticonderoga, Cvowa Point and Fort "Wil- liam Henry, and at the capture of Louisbm-g, in 1758. He was also at the capture of Quebec, in 1759. In his old age he used to relate the incidents of his Hfe, to the great entertainment of his children and grand-children. He said that at the massacre at Fort WilUam Henry he " heard the groans of the dying — praying and cursing — and the yells of savages, all mixed together." "While a ranger, he was once sent with a company, in the winter, to surprise an encampment of Indians. Being short of provisions, they supposed they should find a supply when they arrived at the encamp- ment ; but the Indians had fled, and left nothing but a hide, which was hanging up. This the company divided into equal parts. Dow and three others had for their share a piece as big as two hands, of which they made a soup, drank the broth, and then started to return. They were three days on the way. Attempting to cross a lake on the ice, Dow took off his snow- shoes ; in doing which, a gust of wind blew away his mittens, and then his hands were badly frozen. Ahnost starved, he reached a log house, where they were making bean-porridge, and, in his haste to satiate his hunger, he thrust his frozen hands into the pot, and they were injured and disfig- ured for life. Of the party, only four lived to return. In the Revolutionary war, Mr. Dow was in constant service. He stood as a minute-man at Concord, Mass., when the "red coats" came to destroy the stores there. He saw the bodies of those who were killed at Lexing- ton, April 19, when they were laid out. He was also in the battle of Bun- ker Hill, and joined the expedition under Col. Arnold, when he attempted to reach Canada by what is called the Kennebec route — in which he en- dured almost incredible sufferings from fatigue, cold and hunger. At Quebec 644 HISTORY OF CONCORD. he Avas taken prisoner ; bnt, on being exchanged, he again entered the army, and was in the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. Mr. Dow Uved in the West Parish of Concord, with his son, Moody Dow, and died November, 1817, aged 80 years. The descendants of Ebenezer Dow, as entered on the to\ra records, are : 2-JosEPll Dow. m. Hannah "Walker. Their children were — 1. Joseph Farnum, b. Dec. 9, 1794. 2. Ruth Walker, b. Sept. 6, 1797. 3. Wasliing- ton, b. Dec. 31, 1799. 4. Jacob, b. Sept. 24, 1801. 2-TiMOTnY Dow, m. Margaret Gott, of Pembroke. 1. Polly, b. March 24, 1780. 2. Samuel, b. Feb. 24, 1782. 3. Timothy, b. July 27, 1784. 4. Hannah, b. April 6, 1786. 5. Isaac, b. Dec. 31, 1789. 6. WiUiam, b. Jan. 14, 1793. 2-Is.\AC Dow, Esq., married Hephsibah Farnum. Their children were : 1. Isaac W., b. Dec. 26, 1797; d. 2. Susan, July 14, 1799; d. May 14, 1852, aged 52. 3. Judith, b. June 7, 1801; d. Dec. 29, 1835, aged 34. 4. Ebenezer, d. Dec 2, 1825, aged 22. 5. Lucinda, d. Jan. 5, 1828, aged 22. 6. Maria, d. July 22, 1831, aged 23. 7. Albert G., m. INIary Hamil- ton — six ch., and hvcs in Ohio. 8. ^lary Ann, married Ilalph Wells. 9. John R. 10. Benjamin F., m. Martha' Hall — six ch. 11. James M., d. Feb. 2, 1840, aged 22. 12. EHzabeth AY., d. Oct. 6, 1851, aged 32. Isaac Dow, Esq., whose Hkeness accompanies this notice, hyed in the West village, and Avas a tanner and currier by trade. He was a man of native good sense and sound judgment ; often employed in town affairs ; select- man in 1822 and 1823, and was on the committee to purchase the tovra farm, m 1827. Esq. Dow was a man of integrity and firm purpose ; strong m his poUtical preferences, and attached to the democratic party. His influ- ence was always on the side of morals, good order, education and rehgion. At the age of about fifty he made a public profession of rehgion in the First Congregational Church, but subsequently became a member of the West Congregational Church. He was greatly afflicted by the death of many of his children ; but, resigned to the will of God, he cheerfully bore the trials of hfe and infirmities of age, and died, much respected, in the faith and hope of the gospel, Feb. 17, 1851, aged 77. His widow d. Feb. 13, 1855, aged 78. The youngest son, Benjamin F., lives on the home- stead. 2-MooDY Dow, another son of Ebenezer, 1 m. Margaret White, of Bow. Their chilcbren — 1. Betsey, b. Dec. 7, 1795; 2. Clarissa, b. March 26, 1796; 3. Isaac White, b. Aug. 4, 1801 ; 4. Ira, son of Moody and 2 w. Joanna, b. Feb. 16, 1803 ; 5. Peggy, b. March 24, 1804 ; 6. iNIoody, b. June 11, 1808 ; 7. Enoch H., b. Feb. 19, 1806 ; m. Judith W. Chandler, selectman 1837 and 1840 ; d. Feb. 22, 1853, aged 47 ; 8. Rebecca, b. May 10, 1810; 9. Rhoda, b. Nov. 12, 1811. 3-Saml'el Dow, [T. Rec] son of 2-Timoth}', 1 m. Mary Ann . Their children — 1. Margaret, b. May 29, 1810; 2. Hannah, b. Oct. 1, 1814 ; 3. Joseph, SliiiijS jIiSW^ GENEALOGICAL. G45 b. Sept. 10, 1817 ; 4. Samuel H., b. }»Iarch 30, 1S2J ; 5. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 28, 1827. 2 m. Sally . 2-Ebenezer Dow, [T. Rec] m. Susannah . Their children — MoUv, b. Oct. 5, 1806. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 23, 1810. EASTMAN FAMILY. Descexd.^-ts of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, 1-Capt. Ebenezer Eastm.\n. [See pp. 13a, and 551-3.] Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, son of Philip Eastman, of Haverhill, Mass., and grandson of Roge^ Eastman — the first of the name who settled in Salisbury, Mass., in 1640 — was born Jan. 10, 1689 ; married Sarah Peas- lee, of Haverhill, ^Slarch 4, 1710; became an early settler in Concord, where he died July 28, 1748, aged 59. Six of his sons also settled in Concord before 1731. His children were — 1. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 5, 1711 ; m. Eleanor ; d. 1778. 2. Philip, b. Nov. 13, 1713; m. Abiah Bradley; d. Sept. 1, 1804. 3. Joseph, b. June 10, 1715; m. Abigail Mellen ; d. 1803. 4. Nathaniel, b. March 16, 1717: m. Phoelje , 1754. 5. Jeremiah, b. Aug. 25, 1719; m. Dor- othy Carter. 6. Obadiah, b. Dec. 11, 1721. 7. Ruth, b. Jan. 17, 1729; m. Dr. Ezra Carter, 1742; 2 m. Fowler, of Eoscawen. 8. Moses, b. Feb. 28, 1732 ; m. EHzabeth Kimball; d. April 4, 1812. 2-Ebenezer Eastman, Jr., Son of Capt. Ebenezer, was born in Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 5, 1711 ; m. Eleanor ; settled in Concord ; d. 1778, aged 67. His children were : 1. Sarah, b. July 14, 1737; m. Daniel Chandler, 1755. 2. Stilson, b. Jan. 7, 1738; [see pp. 195, 591.] 3. Ebenezer, b. April 17, 1740. 4. Peaslee, b. Aug. 20, 1742. 5. Elizabeth, July 31, 1744. 6. Eleanor, b. Sept. 6, 1746. 7. Allen, b. July 23, 1748. 2-Philip Eastman, Son of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, born Nov. 13, 1713; m. Abiah Brad- ley, March 29, 1739, and died Sept. 1, 1804, aged 80. Philip Eastman was one of the most useful citizens of liis generation. He was a man of great resolution and force ; of sound judgment, and took a leading part m the business of the Proprietors and in town afiairs. His children were : 1. Robert, b. Oct. 5, 1742; m. Mary Bradley; d. Mav 22, 1812. 2. Jonathan, b. June 10, 1746; m. Mary Chandler; d. Oct. 19, 1834. 3. Ruth, m. Page. 2-Capt. Joseph Eastm-^n, Son of Capt. Ebenezer, was born June 10, 1715; m. Abigail Mellen, dau. of Dea. Henry Mellen, of Hopkinton, Mass. He died 1803. She died March 13, 1801, aged 81. Their children Avere: 1. Mary, b. Feb. 16, 1740; m. Major Asa Kimball; d. 1805, aged 65. 2. Abigail, b. May 27, 1741; m. Joseph Eastman; d. 1832, aged 90. 3. Moses, b. March 3, 1743 ; m. Lucretia Tyler ; d. 1796, aged 53. 4. Sarah, b. Nov. 5, 1755 ; m. David Young ; d. 1836, aged 81. 5. John, b. March 4, 1758; m. Syl)el Chamberlain. 6. Jenny, b. Sept. 12, 1762; m. Hon. Wm. Chamberlain, Peacham, Vt. ; d. 1830. 646 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 2-NATnANiEi. Eastman, Son of Capt. Ehenezer, was born March 16, 1717; m. Phoebe , 1754. Their children were : 1. Xathaniel, b. Oct. 9, 17 oo ; m. Ruth Bradley. 2. Mary, b. April 6, 17o8 ; m. Aljel Blanchard, Pcacham, Vt. 3. Ehzabeth, b. June 5, 1761; m. Aliiel IManchard. 4. Jacob, h. July 9, 1763 ; m. Abif^ail Kimball, June 27, 1784. .5. Ilhoda, b. April 7, 1766; m. James llosmer. 6. Levi, b. July 24, 1771. 2-MosEs Eastman, Son of Capt. Ehenezer, was born Feb. 28, 1732 ; m. Ehzabeth Kimball, 1756, and died April 4, 1812, aged 80. Their children were : 1. Sarah, b. Au' '" ^'""^°"^- '^'l^OO to the South Cono-re^ I on T^I "\C°"^'""^ ' •* 1^>«0 to the American Colonization Society "and $1000 to the Academy m Pittsfield, X. H., leaving his widow in ver 'Com- fortable circumstances. Dr. Green's tenth child was Eliza, TApri 5?179?. m. Asaph Evans; d. 11. Charles liufus, b. Feb. 11, 1795 • m and ive^ THE HERBERT FAMILY. THE HERBERT HOUSE.* Lieut. Richard Herbert. Lieut. Richard Herbert came to Concord about 1752, and at first worked at his trade of shoe making. Tradition says he bought the first lot of 66G HISTORY OF CONCORD. land sold by the proprietors on Main street, situated where the new City Hall is located. For this land, which was apparently a sand heap, he paid ten dollars, and in 17.3G built the two-sfory house, called the " Dearborn house," which Avas recently removed to what is called Fosterville — see page 514-515. He was frequently raUied by his neighbor land-holders for his singular pur- chase, at such a price ; but in 1854 the city paid six thousand dollars for the same land ; and, as Gov. Baker remarked at the laying of the corner stone of the new City Hall, this latter price was about equal to the compound interest of ten dollars, at six per cent., for one hundred years. About 1765 Lieut. Herbert sold his house to Dea. David Hall, and built the house where his son, Capt. Samuel Herbert, now lives, and which is well represented by the annexed cut ; and for a number of years carried on the manufacture of malt — page 521. In the Revolutionary war he was a Lieutenant in Capt. Ebenezer Webster's company, and was in the battle of Bennington, in Col. Stickney's regiment. After the battle he was one of a court-martial, held September 2, 1777, for the trial of two soldiers, on a charge of stealing " two horses and a quantity of other plunder." He was one of the town " Committee of Safety," in 1776 and 1777, and sustained other important offices of trust and responsibihty. See List of Officers. Lieut. Herbert is remembered for his original and pithy sayings, — exhibiting shrewdness and a knowledge of human nature. One of his neighbors, owing him a sum of money, which he found it difficult to collect or to get a note for it renewed, Mr. Herbert had an interview with him before the late Charles Walker, Esq., and after urging a variety of motives in vain to induce his neighbor to pay or renew the note, suddenly taking him by the arm, he said — " Come, go with me doAVTi to the bank, and let Esq. Sparhawk weigh you in his money scales, to see if you are an honest man !" This appeal decided the matter, and the note was renewed. After the passage of a new law by Congress, 1817, making provision for poor Revolutionary soldiers, Lieut. Herbert, then about ninety years of age, and in comfortable circumstances, having been introduced to President Monroe, on his visit to Concord, the same year, wrote and published in the N. H. Patriot the following com- munication : " Concord, May, 1818. " Lieut. Herbert gives his humble and hearty thanks to the President of the United States, that in his wisdom he recommended, and with the appro- bation of Congress, has made ample provision for the jioor who jeoparded their lives in the high places of the field in defence of the sacred rights of America. Thanks be to God that their labors were l)lessed, and tliat we were not carried into captivity before our enemies. Now to the President : Give him long hfe and prosperity ; give him tlie wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job ; make him victorous, happy and glorious, long to rule oyer us. Save the President ! Let his enemies bow and tremble before him. May his name be written in a bound book, and be read by twenty genera- tions. God save the President .'" GENEALOGICAL. 667 Descendants of Richard and H.annaii Hall Herbert. [For the names and dates of this genealogy, I am indebted to Miss Alma J. Herbert.] Richard Herbert, born Dec. 31, 1729 ; died July 17, 1823. He was the first of the name in Concord, and the youngest child of James Herbert, who came to America from London, Eng., and settled in SaHsbury, Mass. He married Susanna Woodbury, of Rowley, Mass. Richard Herbert m., Jan. 27, 1757, Hannah Hall ; b. Xov. 31, 173u; d. Aug. 11, 1825, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hall, of Bradford, Mass. Their children were — 2-Jonathan, b. Nov. 20, 1757. 2-Jamcs, b. Mar. 11, 1759. 2-Richard, b. Oct. 14, 1761. 2-Sarah, b. May 21, 1766. 2-Marv, b. Feb. 11, 1769. 2-Persis, b. Dec. 22, 1772. 2-Hannah, b. Aug. 21, 1775. 2-Saniuel. 2- Charles, b. March 2, 1779, 2-JoNATnAN, never married, but remained in Concord through life, and for many years kept a store in the building on Main street, next north to that now occupied by Mr. J. D. A. West. When Jonathan was five years old he received a present of a little manuscript book from his cousin John, of Newbury, Mass., written in a neat and ornamental hand, with the alpha- bet, and drawings of various kinds of birds and quadrupeds, a ship, meet- ing-house, mariner's compass, all which seemed to be original. On the first leaf was written : JONATHAW HaRBUT, of Penacook, his Book, Anno Dominy 1762. On the second leaf: John Harbut is my name. And English is my nation ; Newbury my dwelling-place, And Christ is my salvation. When I am dead, and in my grave, And all my bones are rotten, You see, remember me — I may not be forgotten. January 10, 17G2. Jonathan kept this httle gift till his death, Feb. 26, 1836, aged 79; then it was preserved as a sacred relic by his brother Richard, and is now carefully treasured by the daughters of the family. 2 -James Herbert, settled in Rumney, N. H. ; m. Nov. 12, X784, Olive Gage, of Merrimack, his cousin. She was born July 14, 1767 ; d. Oct. 26, 1835; he d. Jan. 1, 1843. Their children were— 1. John, b. Jan. 25, 1786; d. May 13, 1841; 1 m., March 17, 1812, Sarah Allen, bv whom he had two children, Samuel, b. Dec. 17, 1813, and Emeline, b. May 28, 1815; 2 m. Lydia Darling, March 17, 1818. His son Samuel, attorney at law, m. Lydia M. Darling, Sept. 4, 1831. Their ch., seven, Ellen Maria, d. at Thetford, Vt., Nov. 4, 1854 ; Carohne Adelia, d. Nov. 22, 1845 ; Charles Wayland, Henry, d., Henry William, Mary Car- oline, d., and John. Emeline m. Robert Colby, Sept. 3, 1834. Their ch., three, Marv Adaline, Charles H., d., and Charles H. Emehne H. Colby d. April 4, 1844. 2. Charles, M. D., b. May 15, 1789; d. at Concord, Oct. 28, 1816. 3. Hannah, d. at the age of two years. 668 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 4. Sarah, b. Dec. 17, 1792 ; m. Samuel C. Allen, Jan. 23, 1813. _ Their ch., four, A-iz. : Mary H., Valeria, Thaddeus S., d., Charles J. Valeria 1 m. Hiram Keay, Xov. 7, 1S36. Their cli., Orestes H., Francis Luella. 2 m. Aaron Page, Oct. 3, 18o0 — one child, Herbert Allen. 5. Mary, b. Nov. 10, 1796; d. at Ilumnev, Jan. 11, 1834, unmarried. 6. Richard, b. Mav 7, 1798 ; M. D. Dart." Coll. 1822; settled in Rowley, Mass. ; 1 m. Nancy Kendall, July 10, 1822, who d. Aug. 29, 1826. Their child, Helen Augusta, d. y. 2 m. Ann L. Lancaster, March 29, 1827. Their ch., William Orestes, b. Dec. 27, 1827 ; d. Dec. 26, 1849, in San Francisco, Cal.; Lydia Lancaster m. Gorham Thurber, Providence, R. I. ; Helen, Charles Hale, d. y., and Charles. 2-PtiC'HARD Herbert, whose perfect likeness is here presented, was born in the first house built by his father, and attained to within one month of the same age. He died March 31, 1855, aged 93 years, 5 months and 17 days, being at the time the oldest native born person in town. Mr. Herbert is well remembered by a large portion of the mhabitants of the toA^-n. He always lived in the neighborhood where he was born ; industrious, tem- perate, and regular in his habits ; an obliging and kind neighbor ; of a retentive memory, and shrewd, and often witty in his observations. For several years, from about 1808 to 1818, carried on the butchering business, and hence was commonly called " butcher Herbert." He built the Merri- mack house, and kept tavern in it at different times, about fourteen years. In 1842, at the age of eighty, Mr. Herbert, who had always been a sup- porter of pubUc M'orship and religious institutions, made a public profession of religion in the First church, and his subsequent years were spent in com- parative ease and retirement. He generally rose at an early hour, in the summer and winter ; overlooked his affairs, and devoted a portion of each day to reading the scriptures. His health was uniformly good. In the last two or three years of his life he was in the habit of walking once a week from his house, about half a mile, to a barber's to be shaved. In winter he used a staff, which was a present to him, about five feet long, pointed at the end, and which he held in both hands ; placing it on the left side of him, it served the double purpose of holding him up and of shoving him along. His step was slow, measured and long. His venerable and singular appear- ance when wallving in the street with his staff, always attracted attention. His last sickness was sliort, seeming at first to be a slight influenza ; which, however, as it increased, alarmed his children, all of whom, living near, gathered around him. When he expired he lay on his bed, gently ele- vated by pillows, with both hands extended, Uke an old patriarch pronouncing a benediction. He retained his faculties to the last, and expired so easily that the moment of the change M'as hardly perceptible. 2-RicnARD Herbert, m. Sarah AViggin, April 29, 1800, who d. May 5, 18.31, aged 74. Their children were— 1. Charlotte, b. Jan. 27, ISOl ; m. James Woolson, Julv 5, 1836 — one child, Charlotte Augusta, b. Sept. 24, 1840; he d. March 23, 1853, aged 51 years. 2. Sarah Odlin, b. May 24, 1S03. 3. Gilbert, 1). Dec. 24, 1805; d. Feb. 22, 1830. 4. Belinda, b. Dec. 4, 1808 ; m. Shadrach Seavev, Jan. 22, 1834. Their ch., Gilbert H., b. May 5, 1835; Ellen Augusta, b. INIay 31, 1837; Marshall, b. July 10, ..^' (yC/: 'c A i^ ^^^ y^^^^e^r^-^e^-v-^ Aged, 9 3 Yrs, GENEALOGICAL. 669 1841; d. Aug. 22, 1850. 5. Albert, b. May 22, 1812. 6. Marv Clnrk b Dec. 10, 1817. • ' in^;?nr"'i."'-/°.^".?'^^'''^°''- -^' 1791— one child, Charlotte, d. Feb. 10, 1793 ; she d. April 9, 1794. 2-Mary, m. Maj. William Preston, Rumncv, N. H., Jan. 21, 1807 • he ?Q<5''u-' ^¥^;j Tlicir ch., Jonathan H., b." July, 1809; d. March' 15, 1804; Hannah H., b. June 4, 1811; m. Hazcn Webster, Oct. 3, 1833 Iheir ch. seven, viz. : Kendrick Brown, Amanda Jane, Mary P., Wilham P., Alma H., Esther Gould, d., and Mary F. ^ ' '» ^'^^'ini 2--PERSIS, m^^ Benjamin Little, Esq., Boscawen, N. H., March 5, 1816— no children. Esq. Little d. Aug. 30, 1846. looT^^^^'^."'.""- ^''- benjamin Marshall, Jan. 14, 1799; he d. July 9. 1824; she d. Aug. 22, 1835. Their ch. seven, viz. : ^ 1. Charlotte, b. July 26, 1801 ; m. Sylvanus B. Stillwell, Brooklvn, X Y Julv 2o, 1822. Their ch., Benjamin M., attorney at law, m. Ehza Jo- sephine Wood Avho d. feept, 26, 1846, aged 19 years; Charles H., M. D , m. Sarah 1). Wardsworth— three ch. ; Mary, m. Samuel F. Whitino--! three ch.; Sarah Ann, m. Charles Davis— three ch. ; Hannah M d% • Ihomas Hunt, Wilham lioss, Hannah Maria and Samuel D ' ' •> ' 2. Persis, b. Oct. 1, 1804 ; d. Sejit. 24, 1805. 3 Benjamin b. June 11, 1806, M. D., New York, d. Oct., 1853 ; m Ann Skic more Aiml 1 1827-five ch., viz., Edward S., Benjamin, d. v., Benjamin graduate N. Y. Medical College, Charlotte Stillwell, and Ann Skidmore. ' iQOQ ^^u'^^' \ ^"^- ^^' ^'^^^' ™- E'^^^ Sillick, New York, Mav 11, 1828. Iheirch. fom-, viz., Sarah Ann, m. William Ludlum, one child; Ivucretia, Maria Louisa, and Thomas Abraham, d. 5. Charles H., b. Sept. 4, 1810; d. July 29, 1812. 6. Lucretia, b. Dec. 14, 1813; m. Edward B. Coleman, Oct. 29, 1835— one child, Marshall ; she died at the Astor house, N. Y., Nov 3 185'^ nl f7c?-r^-'!^V'^™^ ^^' ^^^^' "'• Henry Coleman, liocheJteis N- Y., Oct 4, 1837. Their ch seven, viz Elizabeth M., Edward H., Marietta d., Marietta, Henry B., Charlotte L., Earnest. 2-Samuel, m Feb. 11, 1823, Nancy Bridges, dau. of James and Mary Montgomery Bridges, of Andover, Mass. Their ch. five, viz. : 1. Alma Jane, b. Dec. 15, 1823. 2. Charles Horace, b. Feb 6 18'^5- m Dec. 9, 1848, Louisa W. Sampson. Their ch. two, Charles A. and Mary. 3 Marcia Hannah, b. Aug. 28, 1826 ; m. Leonard Holt. 4. Sam- uel Sparhawk, b. March 2, 1828; d. of yellow fever at New Orleans, La., Uct. 9, lbj4. o. Juhette Bridges, b. June 9, 1832; d. April 6, 1845. 2-Charles, twin brotlier of Samuel, learned the trade of a hatter, and carried on the business in Concord for many years. Li 1811 he made a pubhc profession of rehgion in the First church, and was cUstinguished m subsequent life for devotion and zeal in his Master's service. With Joshua T. Russell, Joshua Abbot, Wilham Clark, Henry Wood, and two or three others, about 1816, he commenced, in his father's house, the first prayer meeting ever held in Concord by male members of the church. The meet- ing has been continued, on Saturday evenings, till the present time, and has proved to be a rich means of spiritual blessings to those who have attended. Mr. Herbert was able and fervent in prayer ; a dihgent reader of the scrip- tures; very exemplary in life; free to converse on rehgious subjects, to dis- 670 HISTORY OF CONCORD. tribute tracts, and to contribute for missionary and benevolent objects. He never married, but lived Avith his brother Samuel, esteemed and loved by all who knew him. He died of dyspepsia, Aug. 25, 1829, aged 50. THE HUTCHIXS FAMHLY. The ancestor of the Ilutchins family in Concord was Col. GoRDOX HuTClllNS, son of Ephraim Hutchins, born ui Exeter, this State, in 1733. At about the age of 13, Gordon accompanied his father, who commanded a company in the expedition against Louisburg, in the capacity of a waiter, but subsequently held a lieutenancy in the army. Returning from the war, he married and settled at Harvard, Mass., from which place he removed to Concord, about 1773. The part he took in the Avar of the Revolution, and in the aflairs of the to^m, is recorded in the preceding history, (pp. 265 — 274. See Officers.) He rose to the office of Colonel. After the war Col. Hutchins returned to domestic Hfe, and died in Concord, highly respected, Dec. 8, 1815, aged 82. Col. Hutchins married twice, and had a family of twenty children, of whom Levi and Abel settled in Concord. Ezra Hutchins lived in Concord some years, but then moved to Exeter ; returned to Concord ; moved to Andover, N, H., and thence to Bangor, Me. Levi Hutchins, son of Col. Gordon, married Phebe Hannaford. Their children were : 1. Ruth, b. Dec. 29, 1789. 2. Anne, b. Aug. 25, 1791. 3. Harriet, b. May 13, 1793. 4. Mary, b. July 13, 1795. 5. Lucy, b. April 18, 1797. 6. John, b. April 12, 1799. 7. Ednah, b. June 21, 1803. 8. Samuel. LeA-i Hutchins, d. June 13, 1855, aged 93 years and 10 months. Phebe, wife of Levi Hutchins, died April 2, 1829, aged 68. Abel Hutchins, son of Col. Gordon, married Betsey Partridge. Their children were : 1. Charles, b. Nov. 6, 1786; m. :Mary Thorndike. 2. Sally Gridley, b. July 3, 1788 ; m. Warren Lovejoy, Boston. 3. Dolly, b. July 18, 1790 ; m. Isaac Danforth, Boston, now of Concord. 4. Catherine, 1). July 21, 1792; m. William Kent ; d. 5. Eliza, b. Nov. 16, 1794; m. Samuel N. Baker, of Ipswich, ]Mass. 6. George, b. Oct. 21, 1797 ; m. Sarah R. Tucker. 7. Jane Johnson, b. July 15, 1799; m. Col. Robert Ambrose. 8. Lewis,]). Sept. 30, 1801; d. at"Wetompke, Ala. 9. Ephraim, b. Oct. 4, 1803 ; m. Elizabeth Blodgett, of Randolph, Vt. 10. Hamilton, b. July 10, 1805; m. Miss Chandler; d. 11. Mary Ann, b. June 1, 1807. 12. Hannah Tavlor, b. Dec. 22, 1810; m. A. C.' Pierce; d. 13. Martha Cur- rier, b. March 1, 1813 ; m. A, C. Pierce. Ezra Hutchins married widow Sally Currier, whose maiden name was Lamson, who had one daughter that married Nathan Stickney — first wife — the mother of Martha Stickney, wife of Mr. Edward Pcndexter, of Mad- bury, N. H. The children of Ezra Hutchins and Sally C. were : Clarissa Lamson, b. Dec. 10, 1797, in Concord; Mary Parker, b. July 10, 1799, in Exeter ; Dolly, b. June 10, 1802, in Exeter ;' m. Richard Potter, Esq. GENEALOGICAL. 671 Descend.ots ok 1-Abner Hoit. Abnor Iloit, who was the first of the name in Concord, came from Ames- ])ury, Mass., probably betMeen 1728 and 1731 ; was the son of William Hoit; married Mary BlaisdeU, Xov. 14, 1717. Their children, of whom the youngest only was born in Concord, were : 1. Jacob, b. Jmie 16, 1718. 2. Zuriah. 3. Betsey. 4, Stephen. 5. Apphia. 6. Philip. 7. John, who is said to be the second male child born in Concord, Sept. 10, 1732. [See Moore's Annals of Concord, p. 11.] Of the foregoing children of Abner Hoit, Jacob, after residing several years m Concord, went to llochester, Vt. He married Margaret Coleman, and d. about 1800. Zuriah m. Joseijh Farnum. Betsey, 1 m. Lamson Colby, of Ilopkinton ; 2 m. Ezelviel Straw. Apphia, m. Xatlian Lovejoy, of Andover. PhiHp, died young. Stephen, m. Abigail P:astman ; their ch., Stephen, b. Sept. 23, 1746; Enoch, b. Oct. 11, 1748; and one other son. [See p. 194.] 2-Jonx Hoit, son of Abner and Mar\-, married Abigail Carter. Their children were : 1. Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1775 ; unmarried. 2. Abigail, b. March 12, 17,37- m. Joseph Durgm. 3. Abner, b. April 15, 17o9; 1 m. Betsey Blanchard, had 12 ch. ; 2 m. widow Phillips, and had 1 ch. 4. Martha, b. Feb. 10 1761; m. Jeremiah Clough. 5. Sarah, b. April 16, 1763; m. Ebenezer loss. 6. John, b. Dec. 4, 1765. 7. Susanna, b. Dec. 17, 1767 ; 1 m Ebenezer Sanborn; 2 m. Meshech Lang. 8. Ezra, b. Jan 23 1770 9 Jacob, b. March 28, 1772. 10. William, b. May 2, 1774; d. y. 11. liuth] b. May 21, 1777; m. Jonathan Fowle. 10. Betty, b. Nov. 8, 1779- m' Wdham Knowles. 13. William, b. Nov. 24, 1782.' ' _3-JoHX Hoit, son of 2-John and Abigail, 1 m. Sally Crosman. Their children were : 1. Clarissa. 2. Sarah. 3. lluth. 4. Abigail. 5. Susan Sally, his first wife, d. 1801 ; 2 m. llebecca Currier, Oct. 5, 1802. Their chddren were : 6. Philip C, d. y. 7. Mahala. 8. John Currier. 9. :\Iary. 3-Jacob Hoyt, son of 2- John and Abigail, 1 m. Ruth Virgin, Oct 27 1800. By her one ch., Prudence V., b. Aug. 24, 1802; m.'Francis w' Tucker, liuth, his wife, d. July 28, 1803. He 2 m. Fanny Tucker, Feb! 7, 1805. Their children were : 1. Sophia, b. Feb. 12, 1800; m. Asa Fifield. 2. John, b. Nov 10 1807; m. Margaret M. Jewett; Hves in Cleaveland, (O.) 3. Daniel v' b. Aug. 23, 1809 ; m. Ehzabeth Brown ; was killed in Andover, Mass.',' Oct. o, 1844, on a freight train, of which he Avas conductor. 4 Rachel T ' b. March 2 1813 ; d. 1835 ; m. Asa F. Bradley, 5. Fanny Jane, b. April 25, 181o; d. 1843; m. Cyrus Tucker, of Loudon. 6. Jedediah T., b. Auo- 21, 1817 ; m. Mary Jane Crunkleton ; now hves on the homestead in East- Concord. 7. Wilham, b. April 6, 1820; d. June 16, 1842. 8 Ruth E b. April 19, 1824; m. John M. Dearborn. 9. Jacob N., b. Dec. 15, 1831.' at^Ti';'^VvL^^'''J,L'°"/^1",-~'^''^" ^"^ '''^'S'''^' °^- ^^tsey Thompson, March 14, 1808. Iheir children were : J i ^ 1. Charles T-, b. Jan. 9, 1809; m. Hannah Wyatt; died in Haverhill, Mass. 2. Ruth T., b. Oct. 18, 1811 ; m. Ebenezer Eastman ; lives m San- bornton. 3 Xahum P., b. Aug. 30, 1813; d. in New-York State, 1842. 4. Hannah G., b. Dec. 22, 1821 ; d. 1849. 5. WiUiam F., b. July 9, 18'>6 6. George Henry, b. June 21, 1828 ; d. at sea. 672 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 4-AVli,LlAM HoiT, son of 3-Abner, and grandson of 2-John, ni. Betsey Hazeltine, June 7, 1809. Their children Avere : 1. WiUiam Barnes, b. Jan. 20, 1810. 2. Hephsibah Hall, b. Feb. 20, 1812. 3. George Hough, b. Sept. 1, 1814. 4. A daughter, d. in infancy. 5. Thomas Chadbourne, b. May 16, 1818, 6. Grace, (a twin,) b. May 14, 1821. 7. Charles Henry, b. Aug. 5, 1823. 8. Edward, b. Aug. 19, 1826. 9. Franklin, b. Aug." 23, 1829. WiUiam Hoit, prmter, called the " Old Veteran," died at Pembroke, Dec. 28, 1854. Oli\t:r Hoit and Brothers. Olhtir Hott, son of Joseph, of Boscawen, was the first settler at Horse-hill, in 1772. He first married Rebecca Gerald. Their children were : 1. Susanna, b. May 21, 1766; m. Nathan Davis. 2. Moses, b. March 11, 1768 ; m. Nera Gerald. 3. Anna, b. Oct. 3, 1770 ; m. Moody Dow. 4. Polly, b. Dec. 7, 1772; m. WiUiam Cleasby. 5. Phebe, b. March 19, 1775 ; m. John Powell. 6. Hannah, b. April 2, 1777 ; m. Zechariah H. Sargent. 7. James, b. June 30, 1779 ; m. Mary Pil)bles. 8. Joseph, b. April 26, 1781 ; m. Jane Davis. 9. Enoch, b. Aug. 16, 1783 ; m. widow Mary Hoit. 10. Sally, b. July 2, 1785; m. Isaac Esty. 11. Mehetabel, b. June 2, 1787 ; m. Joshua Esty. 12. Ezra, b. July 15, 1789 ; 1 m. Abi- gail Ferrin ; 2 m. Fanny Call. 'l3. Rebecca, b. March 11, 1791 ; d. 1819. Rebecca, A\ife of Oliver, d. 1808. He then m. widow Whittier, of New- town ; maiden name Rhoda Hoit. Oliver Hoit d. Sept., 1828, aged 80. Jedediah Hoyt, son of Joseph, of Boscawen, and brother of Oliver, 1 m. Hannah Elliot, of Concord. Their children were : 1. Jonathan. 2. James. 3. John. 4. Miriam. 5. Naomi. 6. Han- nah. 7. Jedediah, b. Feb. 15, 1795. Hannah, first wife of Jedediah Hoyt, d. Feb. 26, 1795. He then married widow Sarah Farnum, Feb. 28, 1796, and he died 1840, aged 82. Joseph Hoit, son of Joseph, of Boscawen, and brother of Oliver and Jedediah, settled at Horse-hill ; married ^loUy Elliot, of Concord, 1786. Their children were : 1. Hannah, h. Oct. 17, 1786 ; m. Joseph Colby, jr. 2. James, b. Sept. 17, 1788; m. Nancy Abbot. 3. Molly, b. June '22, 1791; m. ; d. 1816. 4. Benjamin, b. July 25, 1793 ; m. Hannah Eastman. 5. ^lartha, b. Sept. 25, 1796 ; d. April 26, 1797. 6. Joseph, b. Oct. 30, 1797 ; m. Mary East- man. 7. Amos, b. Feb. 20, 1800; m. Betsey Abbot, and lives on the homestead. 8. Ruth, b. May 24, 1803 ; m. William Eastman. Joseph Hovt died April 17, 1839, aged 78. His widow, Molly, d. Dec. 17, 1839, aged 68. THE KENT FAMILY. [See Biography.] William Austin Kent, 1 m. Charlotte Mellen, dau. of Rev. John Mellen, of SterHng, Mass. She d. May 6, 1820, aged 52. Mr. Kent 2 m. wid. Margaret "^Tucker. She d. Feb. 28, 1833, aged 57. Mr. Kent had children only by his first wife, viz. : 1. Wilham, b." April 2, 1793; 1 m. Catharine Hutchins, Nov. 27, 1817. Their childi-en were — 1. Charlotte Augusta, b. Sept. 3, 1818. WiUiam GENEALOGICAL. 673 Austin, b. Mav o, 1820. 3. Lucv Jane, b. Sept. 25, LS21. 4 Henry Mel- len, b. Nov. 8,' LS23. 5. Henry KirkAvood, h. Au^- 27, 1827. 6. John, b. Sept. 8, 1829. 7. Ellen Emerson, b. July 31, 1S31. 8. Charles Edward, b. Nov. 26, 1833. 9. Prentiss Mellen, h. Au-,'. 17, 1837. Mrs. Catherine Kent d. March 12, 1839; 2 m. Letitia C. Stinson, of Dunbarton — one child. 10. Frederick Augustus, b. Oct. 2, 1840, 2. Charlotte Mellen, b. Oct. 25, 1794 ; m. Hon. James H. Bingham, of Alstead. 3. Cicorge, b. May 4, 1796 ; m. Lucia Ann Farrand, dan. of Hon. Dan- iel Farrand, of Burlington, Vt. Their children were — Alexander Hamil- ton, b. Oct. 22, 1822, d. ; Mary Farrand, b. Jan. 23, 1823 ; George Fred- erick, b. Feb. 4, 1824. 4. Caroline, b. January 21, 1798; m. Prof. Samuel P. Newman, of Bow- doin College. 5. John, b. May 10, 1800. Was a young man of great promise and moral worth. Went into trade in Boston ; died of jjulmonary consumption, Jan. 6, 1826, aged 25. He was a mcml)er of the Old South church, Boston. HLs funeral was attended in Concord by a large concourse of people. On the ensuing Sabbath evening the Key. Mr. Bouton preached a discourse, com- memorative of his character, addressed to young people, from the words, Josh. 24 : 15 : " Choose you this day whom ye will serve." Mtcv the death of Mr. Kent a paper was found in his hand writing, with his signature to it, as follows : " Convinced that God has a claim upon me, as my Creator, Preserver and Benefactor ; — that my happiness in time and eternity depends on him ; — that his requirements are just and reasonable, and that the present is an accepted time to secure my salvation ; I do now, humbly relying on his grace to assist me, and pleading the merits of Jesus Christ the Saviour, Resolve to devote myself to the service of God. I choose him for my portion ; I choose the Lord Jesus as my Saviour ; I choose the Holy Spirit as my Sanctifier and Comforter. I resolve to break off my sins by righteousness ; to renounce every pur- suit and interest that is inconsistent Mith supreme love to God ; — to make it my chief ol)ject, as long as I hve, to honor my Maker, by devoting to his service my time, talents, property and influence ; and by endeavoring to do all the good in my power to my fellow men. JoH.\ Kext." 6. Edward, b. Jan. 8, 1802, [see "graduates;"] m. Sarah M. Johnston, of Hillsborough, dau. of Nathaniel Johnston, Esq. 7. ^lary Jane, b. June 23, 1806 ; m. Eev. Moses G. Thomas. 8. Rebecca Prentiss, b. Feb. 17, 1808; m. Rev. Charles Packard, KIMBALL FAMILY. 1-David Kimball. David Kimball was an original proprietor, see page 137. His wife Mary fUed Nov. 12, 1745, Their children were — 1, Reuben, b, Jan, 3, 1730; d. June 13, 1814. 2. Mary, b. Auo-. 14, 1733. 3. Asa, b. March 26, 1736; d. y. 4. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, "1838 5. Asa, b. Nov. 25, 1741 ; d. May 18, 1804. 6. Hannah, b. July 11, 1745. 2-Capt. Reuben Kimball, Capt. Reuben ICimball, son of David and Mary, born Jan. 3, 1730; m. Miriam Collins, Dec. 25, 1754, Miiiam d. Feb. 17, 1792. He Hved at 43 674 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Sugar Ball, and was a very enterprising and useful citizen. [See list of officers, p. 538.] Their children were — 1. Mary, b. Sept. 14, 1755 ; d. Jan. 14, 1756. 2. David, b. Oct. 15, 1757. 3. Benjamin, h. April 24, 1759. 4. Mary, b. June 29, 17(52. 5. Anne, b. Nov. IS, 1703.* 6. Miriam, b. Julv 14,' 1765. 7. Mehetabel, b. Sept. 1, 176G. 6. Phinehas, b. April 7, 1768; d. Aug. 14, 1768. 9. Sa- rah, b. May 24, 1769. 10. Susanna, 1). Sept. 5, 1770; d. Oct. 13, 1770. 11. Susanna, b. Oct. 18, 1771. 12. Simeon, b. Dec. 1, 1772. 13. Kuth, b. March 12, 1779. 14. EHzabeth, b. Oct. 14, 1782. 2-AsA Kimball. Asa Kimball, son of David and Mary, born Nov. 25, 1741 ; m. Mary . Their children were — 1. Mellen, b. Oct. 16, 1761. 2. Betsev, b. Nov. 2, 1765. 3. Asa, b. April 6, 1767. 4. John, b. June 25, 1769. 5. Reuben, b. Dec. 27, 1771. 6. Pollv, b. April 19, 1775. 7. Wilham, b. Aug. 14, 1777. 8. Jeimy, b. May 19, 1780. 9. Moses, b. July 12, 1782. 3-Benjamin Kimball. Benjamin Kiml)all, son of Reuben and Miriam, was born April 24, 1759; m. Abigail Eastman, Nov. 25, 1789. Their children Avere — 1. Gardner, b. Oct. 17, 1790 ; d. Aug. 20, 1799. 2. Mahala, b. Jan. 16, 1795. 3. Hazen, b. July 2, 1796 ; d. 1832, aged 36. 4. Marv, b. March 18, 1801. 5. Betsev, b." Julv 12, 1802. 6. Clarissa, b. Aug. 27, 1804; d. 7. Charlotte, b. Feb! 2, 1808. 3-SiMEON Kimball. Simeon Kimball, son of Reuben and Mii-iam, m. Polly Kimball. Their children were — 1. Pamclia, b. Jan. 3, 1800. 2. Mary, b. Dec. 18, 1804. 3. Hiram, b. Jan. 2, 1806. 4. Harriet, b. May 2, 1814. Philip Kimball. Philip Kimball, proliably a relative of David, came to this town from Bradford, jNIass. His wife's name was Dorcas. The names of their chil- dren on record are — 1. William, b. June 19, 1738. 2. Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1741. 3. Susanna, b. April 12, 1747. Philip Kimball lived on the " Stevens place," where Mr. Samuel Curtis now lives. He was a famous hunter, well acquainted with the manners and habits of Indians. In the time of Indian hostilities, men appointed to brhig cows from the field Avent armed, but sometimes were not suthciently cautious in other respects. At one time, observing a man following the cows, with his gun su])]5orted in his arms, Kimball hid himself behind a large ])ine tree near the path, and as soon as the man had passed, sud- denly stepped out and clasped him round the waist. Sui)posing it to be an Indian, the man struggled and screamed. At length Kimball let him go, saying, " When you go after the cows, start them on the way, but never follow ; take a circuit, and thus you '11 avoid the Indians, who are on the look out when the cows come from pasture." Kimball was famous as a marksman, at shooting-matches. He would * The marriage portion of Anne Kimball, eldest daughter of Capt. Reuben Kimball, who was married to Siiiieun Eastman and moved to Landaff, this State, was one barrel of pork, a barrel of beef, one cow, a yoke of oxen. A tlock of sheep would have been given, but, on account of tlie ravages of the wolves, they were withheld. E. Walker. '-V ^^ iiiL ^®iis lEisraiisa GENEALOGICAL. 675 fire, at arms' length, across the river at Tucker's ferry, and hit a mark the size of a dollar twice out of tliree times, and thus Avin a pistareen each shot.* On the hill Avesterly of Thomas J). Potter's is a rock called the " deer rock," on which Kimball shot a noble buck. Mr. Kimball died early in 1800, aged 88 years. Lieut. Phineas Kimball. Lieut. Phineas Kimball was a cousin of Philii) ; came to Concord from Bradford, Mass., and settled at A2)pletown, east end of Turtle pond. He m. Lucy Pearl, of Boxford, INLiss. He died Nov. 6, 1826, aged 80 years. Their children were : 1. Pearl, b. March 20, 1772. 2. He])hzibah, b. Se])t. o, 1773. 3. Molly, b. May 15, 1775. 4. Sarah, b. March 3, 1777. 5. Obadiah, b. Aug. 20, 1778. 6. Benjamin, b. March 11, 1781. 7. Robert, b. Nov. 15, 1783. 8. Betsey, b. July 12, 1787. Dea. Johx Kimball. Dea. John Kimb,\ll, son of Benjamin and Priscilla Hazen, was born at Bradford, Mass., Feb. 16, 1739. Anna Ayer, his wife, was daughter of Samuel Ayer and Ann Hazen, and was born at Haverhill, jNIass., Oct. 3, 1740. They were married at Haverhill, Nov. 23, 1765. He died Dec. 31, 1817,jiged 78. His wife survived him until ]\Iarch, 1819, when she died, aged 78. Their children, all born at Concord, were eight in number : 1. Hazen, b. Sept. 8, 1767; merchant, in Savannah, Ga. ; d. July 16, 1819. 2. John, b. Oct. 3, 1769; m. Eunice White ; had 11 children ; Hved in Barton, Vt., and died May 9, 1844. His Mife died Mav, 1840. 3. Ben- jamin, b. June 4, 1771; 1 m'. Mehetabel Foster; 2 m. Rhoda Beman, and died at Concord, Oct. 4, 1818. 4. Anna, b. June 1, 1773; m. Robert Par- ker, Esq., of Litchfield, 1793; and 2 m. Dea. John True, of Hampstead, 1820; and d. Aug. 18, 1850. 5. EHzabeth, b. April 17, 1775; m. Dr. Samuel Morril, Sept. 1802 ; d. Feb. 4, 1848. 6. Hannah, b. June 24, 1777 ; m. Rev. Sylvester Dana,t March, 1802 ; d. Nov. 16, 1846. 7. Sarah, b. Sept. 22, 1779; lives unmarried. 8. Samuel Ayer, b. March 3, 1782; m. Eliza Hazen, and lives on the homestead. Bexjamix Kimball. Benjamin Kimliall, son of Dea. John Kimball, b. June 4, 1771; m. Me- hetal)cl Foster, of Canterbury. She died Sept. 23, 1803. His second wife was Rhoda Beman, whom he married in 1805. The children by his first wife were : 1. Harriet, b. March 16, 1799. 2. Asa, b. Jan. 1, 1801. Mehetabel, his wife, d. Sept. 23, 1803. His second wife's children : 3. Robert Parker, b. March 18, 1806. 4. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 13, 1807. Benjamin Ivimball died Oct. 4, 1818, aged 47. His wife, Rhoda, d. May 14, 1852. ^ Samuel Ayer Kimball. [See Graduates.] Samuel Ayer Kimball, Esq., m. Ehza Hazen, daughter of John Hazen, Esq., of Bm-ton, Province of New-Brunswick. Their children were : 1. John Hazen, b. July 14, 1823. 2. Samuel Sparhawk, b. March 1, 1825. 3. Priscilla Hazen, b. March 2, 1827. 4. George Leonard, b. Nov 2, 1828. 5. Ann Ayer, b. April 17, 1830. Dea. Johx Kimball, whose excellent likeness is herewith ])resented, imited with the church in his native town, at the age of eighteen, and * Tradition by C. E. PoUer. f See notice at the close of " Kimball Family." 676 HISTORY OF CONCORD. through a long Hfe honored that profession. Tlie Sabbath was his dehght. Diu-ing thh'ty years of his early life he was absent but once from pubHc worship, and that caused by a death. " Given to hospitahty," preachers of the gospel were his frequent guests. lie highly valued their society, and among them were his most beloved and intimate friends. Long an oihcer in the church, its welfare, the welfare of souls, lay near his heart. A few months before his death he attended a meeting of the General Association, at Exeter, and while enjoying the rehgious services, and the deH"-htful intercourse of Christian friends, his youth seemed " renewed Uke the eao-lc's ;" but in a few days after his return, sudden illness seized him, and although partially recovering from the first attack, he walked thought- fuUv as one treading the shores of eternity. Precious and full of instruc- tion Avere those last days to the favored few who shared them. He de- parted in peace, with full trust in his Saviour, on the evening of December 31, 1817 : the first death in the family, after keeping house fifty-two years. Dr. McFarland, on the next Sabbath, preached from Revelations, 14 : 13 : " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." In the conclusion of his dis- course. Dr. McFarland said, in reference to Dea. Kimball : "A few hours before the year closed, the elder deacon in this church finished his labors and sufferings here below. He was a member of the visible church of Christ nearly sixty years, and for almost thirty had sus- tained an office in this particular church. He discharged every official duty with promptness and conscientious fidelity. The Sabbath was a day of sacred rest to him, and he was careful to have it sanctified in his house. In the various relations of life he was distinguished by an uniform tenor of kindness, hospitality and piety. In society he Avas a peace-maker, and in all his transactions he aimed to keep a conscience void of ofl'ence both toAvards God and man." Mrs. Kimball Avas a true help-meet to him during the fifty years of their married life. To her mother she Avas indebted for all her education, except- ino- five Aveeks at school to learn the art of Avriting. In that school she Avon the distinction of being one of the two hest spellers. In her youth she tau"-ht school in " Haverhill toAvn," and through Hfe Avas very fond of read- in"-. In 1769 she united Avith the church in Concord, under Rev. Mr. Walker, for Avhom she ever entertained great affection. After her hus- band's death her health declined, but her mind retained its strength, and seemed fast ripening for Heaven. Her last Avords, addressed to her minister the evening before, Avere : " Pray for the spread of the gospel." To that object she gave her last dollar. The Rev. Sylvester Dana Avas born at Ashford, Conn., July 4, 1769, son of Anderson Dana, and a descendant of the fifth generation from Rich- ard Dana, a French Protestant, Avho came to this country about 1040, and settled in Cambridge, noAV Brighton, Mass. In 1772 he removed with his parents to the Wyoming Valley, in Pennsylvania, Avhere his father, in 1778, was massacred bv the Indians. Returning Avith his mother to Connecticut, GENEALOGICAL. 677 he worked at farming until sixteen years of age. In 1793 he entered Yale College, and united with the college church in his Soj^homore year. After graduating, 1797, he studied divinity with Dr. Backus, of Somers, Ct. In 1799 was employed as a missionary by the Connecticut Missionary Society, in Western Xew-York. In May, 1801, was ordained pastor of the Congre- gational church in Orford, this State, where he remained twenty-one years. Preached four years in Thornton, and with his family moved to Concord in 1837. While resident in Concord he jn-eached, as he had opportunity, in various places. 'Sir. Dana was an able and faithful minister, a devoted Christian, and exemplary in life. After the death of his wife he lived in more retirement, occupying a i)art of the house owned by Mr. Shadrach Seavey, near the new North meeting-house, where, assiduously attend- ed by his daughter Hannah, he died in the faith and hope of the gospel, June 9, 1849, aged 80. The ministers of the town attended his funeral as bearers. The Rev. Dr. Bouton preached a discourse from the words, " The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." The children left by Rev. Sylvester and Hannah Dana were. Rev. Charles B., rector of an Episcopal Chiu-ch, Alexandria, Va. ; Sylvester, attorney at law. Concord ; Anne K., who m. Dr. Reuel Barrows, of Fryeburg; and Hannah, who m. Rev. S. S. Tappan, and d. April 19, 1855, at Providence, R. I., but v,as buried in Concord, by the side of her parents. A neat monument is erected to the memory of the venerable father, in the old burymg-ground in Concord. Stephen Kimball. SxEniEN Kimball, a cousin of Dea. John Kimball, came from Bradford, Mass., to Concord, about 1780. He was a shoe-maker. His shop stood near where Mr. Charles Moody now lives, at the north end of Main street. At first Mr. K. lived in a one-story house on the south side of West's brook, where Mr. John Titcomb's wheelwright shop now is. Afterwards, about 1786 or 1787, he built and lived in the house where Hon. Samuel Morril now Hves — the old one-story house being used for a school-house, subse- quent to the conflagration of the school-house by the burying-ground at the North end. Soon after this, Mr. Kimball m'oved with his family to East-Hanover, where he bought and carried on a large farm. His house in Concord was sold to Rev. Israel Evans. Stephen Kimball, m. Betty Wilson, of Exeter. Then- children were : 1. Betsey, b. Oct. 20, 1774. 2. Stephen, b. March 9, 1776; died. 3. Increase, b. Oct. 20, 1777. 4. Moses, b. Nov. 11, 1779. 5. Mehetabel, b. Jan. 25, 1782. 6. John Wilson, b. Oct. 25, 1783; d. Oct. 3, 1784. 7. John Wilson, b. Jan. 18, 1787. 8. William, b. Jan. 4, 1789. William Low and the "Amherst Colony." About fifty years ago, and within a short period of each other, several active and enterprising young men came from Amherst to this town. They were William Fisk, Peter Robertson, William Low, (whose portrait is here presented,) Benjamin Damon, Francis N. Fisk, Isaac Hill, and a few years 678 HISTORY OF CONCORD. later, Joseph Low. These gentlemen, associating together as they often did, were called the "Amherst Colony;" and, with a single exception, they have })roved to be a permanent and valuable acquisition to the town. Wil- liam Fisk, who married Margaret Dodge, settled in the West Parish village, in the house, then one story, where the Rev. Asa P. Tenney now hves, and there had a family of five children : Mary C, WilHam P., David D., Sarah and Clarissa. He worked at his trade of shoe-making about tAventy-five years, when he moved to ]\Iain street. His son, David D. Fisk, is at this time (1855,) mayor of the city of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Fisk died Octo- ber 9, 1854, aged 76. Mr. William Low and Benjamin Damon came to Concord together, in January, 1806, and went into partnership in the chair-making and painting business. They commenced in the "Wilkins house," which stood where the " Merchants' Exchange " now is, where they remained one year and nine months, paying a rent of about thirty-five dollars. Next they moved to the house built b}- Mr. Low, on the corner of Main and School streets, and which Avas afterwards the residence of Mr. Low's family. Soon after commencing business they bought a load of unpaintcd chairs, (about one hundred,) from Peterborough, at Avhich the neighbors expressed great sur- prise, saying, "You'll never sell so many chairs in your lifetime!" Next, they bought a building which had been occupied for a cabinet-shop by Levi Bartlctt, now of Boston, and moved it from the " Fessenden place " to the rear of Mr. Low's house, where, with some additions, it now constitutes the post-office for the city. In this building Messrs. Low and Damon carried on their business eighteen years, when they dissolved partnership. Before he came to Concord Mr. Loav married Grace G. Nichols, of Am- herst, June 9, 1803, Avho survives him, having no children. In January, 1811, ]Mr. Damon married Sophia N., a sister of ]Mrs. Low, and built him a house on the corner opposite Mr. Low's house. For his house-lot, con- taining one hundred square rods of land, he paid four hundred dollars. Mr. Damon relates, that when Mr. Loav moved his goods from Amherst to Concord he had a team of three horses, on the forAvard one of Avhich Joseph LoAV rode postilHon, for Avhich service he received twenty cents, one third of Avhich, I have the best authority for saying, Avas spent the same day for candy. Thus, in his boyhood, the future mayor made his first triumphal entrance into the city ! Entrusting business affairs chiefly to the untiring industry and honesty of his partner, Mr. Loav in a feAV years became deeply interested in national and State politics, Avarmly espousing the Democratic cause, in conjunction AA'ith his neighbor and friend, Isaac Hill, Avhom lie had j)ursuaded to come to Concord as a printer and editor. Under Gen. Jackson's administration, (1829,) Mr. Low Avas appointed ])ostmaster in place of his brother. Gen. Josejjh Low, which ofiice he held about ten years. In town meetings he Avas a ready, pithy and smart debater — ahvays brief and to the i)oint — sometimes Avith a spice of wit, and sometimes of "gtit." In his latter years ;ti^ Gone orrf. GENEALOGICAL. 679 he was afflicted with nervous complaints that impaired his health and hap- piness ; but he never lost his interest either in the prosperitj- of the town or in political affairs. A friend remarked of him — " He was always an ardent man, but never was there a more honest man in the cause of his country." Mr. Low died on Sabbath evening, May 9, LS47. On the same day the particulars of the victory of Gen. Scott at Cerro Gordo, April 17, reached town, and Mr. Low was rejoicing in the success and glory of the American arms. lion. Isaac Hill, Avho visited him in the afternoon of that day, said, " The countenance of joy lightened up the last day of the patriot. We left him almost in a hallucination on this theme." Retiring to his room after nine o'clock, he complained that he could not rest, and returned to his chair, in which, in less than one hour, he breathed his last. A numer- ous attendance at his funeral evinced the high respect in which he was gen- erally held by his fellow citizens. Respecting the other "Amherst" gentlemen whose names stand in this connection, it may be proper to add that Mr. Damon still Uves on the spot where he first built — an efficient member of the First Bap. church and society — has had three children, viz. : 1. Mary Ann, who married William W. Estabrook, and lives in San Francisco, Cal. ; 2. George N., who m. Caroline Nichols, and died Nov. 8, 1849; 3. Charles B.,m. Harriet W. Jennison, of Worcester, Ms., and Hves in Boston. Hon. Francis N. Fisk, for many years a successful trader at the North end, married into the " Walker family," which see. Gen. Joseph Low married into the " Abbot family," which see. Isaac Hill's biography is written. Capt. Peter Robertson and his wife, Sally Hazeltine, when first married were accounted " the hand- somest couple in Concord." Capt. Robertson is a failure. Descend.vnts of Dea. Joiix Merrill. [Furnished by Rev. Samuel H. Merrill, of Oldtown, Me.] Dea. John Merrill [see p. 137] came from Haverhill, West Parish, Mass. ; he married Lydia Haynes. His three oldest children were probably born in Haverhill, as their baptism is recorded there, though not their birth. The following were his children : 1. Moses, m. Dorcas Abbot, of Concord, 1748, and settled in Pembroke. His children were — Penelope, Moses, Dorcas, Lydia, Betsey and Nchemiah. 2. Thomas, baptized 1729; 1 m. Phebe Abbot, and settled in Conwav, N. H. His children were — Thomas, who m. Hannah Ambrose ; William, never married ; Enoch, m. Mary Ambrose ; Amos, m. Lydia Willey ; Phebe, m. Col. Eastman. For his second wife, Thomas m. Avidow Johnson, by whom he had two children, viz. : Stephen, m. a Bailey ; Mehital)le, m. R. Crocker. For his third wife, Thomas m. widow Amijrose, and had one child, viz. : Jonathan, m. Lydia Merrill. For his fourth wife, Thomas m. a widow Cummings, and had two children, viz. : John, M. D., m. Mary S. Boyd. Benjamin, Esq., never married; died in Salem. 3. John, m. Rebecca Abbot, and settled in Pembroke ; was in the Con- G80 HISTORY OF CONCORD. tinental service in 1776. His children were — Rebecca, b. Aug. IG, 1751; m. Abner Farnum, 1769. Lydia, b. Feb. 19, 1753. Penelope, b. Oct._ 15, 1754. John, b. Jinie 14, 1756. These three sons, whose families are given above, were with their father in the garrison in 1746 — p. 155. 4. Hannah, d. in infancv. 5. Jonathan, b. Feb. 10, 1733 ; m. Mary Farnum, and settled in Hill, K H. Their children were— John, V). Oct. 6, 1760. Jonathan, b. Dec. 23, 1761; d. in infancv. Mary, b. Dec. 31, 1763. Sarah, b. April 26, 1766. Lvdia, b. Nov."l3, 1767. John, b. March 9, 1769. Lucy, b. Feb. 7, 1771. 'Jonathan, b. Sept. 6, 1772. Moses, b. Dec. 28, 1774. 6. Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1735; 1 m. R. Eastman; 2 m. I. Odell, Conway. 7. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 4, 1738 ; m. Ann Wallvcr, and settled in Brovni- field, Me. Their ch., Nathaniel, m. Phebe :SIerrill. John, b. July 9, 1769 ; m. jNIartha Walker. Sarah, b. May 2, 1771 ; m. Enoch Merrill. Lydia, m. Jonathan ]\Ierrill. Isaac, m. itannah Eastman. Moses, b. Mar. 17, 1777 ; m. Sally Merrill. James W., b. March 4, 1779; m. Dolly Ulmer. Samuel, b. Dec. 19, 1780; 1 m. Phebe Goodenow ; 2 m. Dorcas Eastman. Pollv ; Ruth, m. Joseph Colby. Nancy, never married. Betsey, m. Amos Eastman. Judith, m. Walter Edgecomb. Thomas II., M. D., b. April 29, 1789 ; m. Eliza Ward. 8. Sarah, b. April 24, 1741 ; m. Daniel Chandler. 9. Ann, b. Dec. 20, 1743; m. Benjamin Farnum, of Concord. 10. Abigail, b. Dec. 9, 1746; m. Tappan Evans, of Warren. 11. Lydia, m. Amos Foster, of Pembroke. Thus the number of Dea. John ;Merriirs children was eleven. The num- ber of his sons' children (for I have not traced daughters' children) was forty-three. The whole number of his descendants from the male branches is not far from five hundred. Among these are seven ministers, two law- yers and two physicians. S. H. Merrill. Rufus jNIerrill, son of Enoch and Sarah Merrill, b. hi Conway, June 19, 1803; in. Sophia Barker West, b. Feb. 7, 1812, of Concord, and settled in Concord and keeps a bookstore. THE MOULTON FAMILY. Henry Moulton. Henry Moulton, born at Hampton, 1732; married Betsey "Slace, who was born at the Isles of Shoals, and removed to Concord in 1772. He died in 1817, aged 85. His wife died in 1818, aged 85. Their children Avere : 1. Jonathan, m. Hannah Virgin; 2. Betsey, m. Peter Pressey, of San- down; 3. Judith, m. James Ayer, of Canada East; 4. James, b. at San- down, jNIarch 5, 17(57 ; 5. Mary, m. James Eastman; 6. Henry, m. Susan Stevens ; 7. Sally, m. Samuel Brown ; 8. Hannah, m. Wheatley, of Lebanon. James Moulton, Sen. James Moulton, son of Henry Moulton and Betsey Mace, b. at San- down March 5, 1767, 1 m. Sally Virgm, who d. soon after their marriage ; 2 m. Anna Johnson, of Woburn, Ms. Their children Mere : I.James Moulton, Jr., b. Nov. 11, 1798; 1 m. Rebecca A. Chandler, who d. April 23, 1844. Their children were : James Henry, Susan Rebecca, WilUam Richmond, Edward Augustine, Ann Maria, Helen Chandler. Second m. Betsey Souther, March 31, 1846. GENEALOGICAL. 681 2. Georj^e W., b. Dec. 14, 1799; m. Mid. Mary Eastman, dau. of Sim- eon Kimball. • 3. Daniel Jolmson, b. March o, ISOl; d. Jmic 2o, 1831, aged 30. 4. Anna, b. May, 1803. 5. "V^'illiam, died in infancy. Mrs. Anna Moulton d. Feb., 1848, aged 76. Jonathan Moultox. Jonathan Moulton, son of Henry IMoulton and Betsey Mace, m. Hannah Virgin. Their children were : 1. Jonathan, b. Jan. 30, 1792. 2. Hannah, b. Ang. 29, 1794 ; m. Dr. Benjamin Parker. 3. Phebe, d. y. 4. David Virgin, m. Marcia Conner, and d. at the West. 5. Paulina, m. Charles Lane, and d. Henry ]Moulton, Jr. Henry ]Moulton, son of Henry and Betsey ^lacc, m. Susan Stevens. Their children : 1. Mace Moulton, sheriff of Hillsliorough County, and member of Con- gress, 184G and 1847 ; m. Dolly Stearns. Their children were : Eliza Jane, Henry De Witt and Charles. 2. Henry. 3. Simeon Stevens. Henry Moulton for several years kept tavern at llooksett, and afterwards at Andover, N. H., where he and his wife both died. James Osgood. James Osgood, from Andover, ^Lass., was son of John, an original pro- ^ prietor, who was born at Andover, 1682, and died in Concord in 176j, aged 'i^yXJt, 83; who was son of John, d. 172o; son of John, d. 1693; son of John, ^ who came from Andover, England, and settled at Andover, Mass., jn'cvious i, '"Ivv/ to 164j, and died in 16.31, aged o6. James, son of 4-John, the proj)rietor, m. Hannah Hazen, dau. of Richard Hazcn, of Boxford, Mass. Their chil- dren were: 1. Anna, b. July 18, 1732; m. Col. Thomas Stickncv, — see Stickney family,— and d. Jam 20, 1802. 2. Samuel, 1). July 13, 1734; m. Jane Webster. 3. Ehzabeth, b. May 12, 1736; m. 4. James, b. Aug. 27, 1738; m. Anna Webster. 5. Benjamin, b. Sept. 29, 1740; m. ^liriam Stickney. 6. Hannah, b. Aug. 1, 1743 ; m. Col. Andrew Mc^^Iillan, Nov. 12, 1761, and had twelve children, viz.: Sarah, Martha, Hannah, Lewis, James, Catherine, John, Jane, Nancy, Elizabeth, Sophia, Gilbert. ^lartha m. Dr. "William Chadbourne, father of Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, of Concord. 7. William, b. Feb. 19, 1747 ; d. y. 8. John, m. Sarah Danford. 9. Rich- ard Hazen, m. Susanna Swan. Their son, liobert Parker, b. Max 8, 1789. Richard Hazen Osgood d. at Conway, 1796. CiiRiSToniER Osgood m. Anne . Their ch., Anne, b. Oct. 2, 179j. Benjamin Parker. [See p. 138.] The descendants of Benjamin Parker, one of the original proprietors, who settled in Concord, were Enoch Parker and Asa Parker, sons of the late Dea. Asa Parker, of Andover, Mass., who was an only child of Benja- min, the proprietor. Enoch settled on the eighty acre lot, Xo. 99, on Horse hill, so called, which was drawn to the right of Benjamin. He removed to Andover, Mass., about the year 1808, with his whole family. 682 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Asa, son of Asa, and grandson of Benjamin, after liaving served out his time in the Revokitionary army at West Point, as a drafted man from An- dover, settled in Concord, and married the widow Sarah Thompson WiUard, in 178G. Their cliildrcn : 1. Isaac Marble, b. Jan. 19, 1787; m. and lives at Mei'cdith Bridge. 2. Mary, b. Sept. L>.j, 1788. 3. Benjamin, b. Sept. 27, 1790; lives on the homestead with his sisters, Marv and Sally B., No. 12 Center street. 4. John, 1). Aug. (5, 1793; d. Aug. 12, 1795. 5. Sally l?artlett, b. Aug. l.j, 1796. 6. John Adams, b. Oct. 26, 1798; m. and lives in the city of Xew-York ; a merchant and distinguished mathematician. Asa Parker d. Sept. 1, 1803, aged 42. Sarah,his wife, d. Jan. 10, 1815, aged 54. Enoch Pakker, brother of Asa, who moved back to Andover, m. EHz- abeth . Their children Avere : 1. Sally, b. April 23, 1787. 2. Apphia, b. Sept. 11, 1789. 3. John, b. March 17, 1793. 4. Moses, b. May 4, 1797: whose names are on the Town Records. They had, also, Eliza, Olive, Mehitable, and son Enoch, whose names are not recorded. Eliza, dau. of Enoch Parker, m. John Marljle, of Bradford, Mass., and Avas the mother of Rev. Newton E. Mar- ble, 1). 1)., noAv of Concord. Joseph Parker. Joseph Parker came to Concord about 1821, not related to the preced- ing. He Avas born in Pembroke, Noa\ 3, 1781 ; m. Esther Chapman. He Avorked on the granite ledge a number of years ; Avas the first overseer of the alms house and toAvn farm, and a respected and useful citizen. He left Concord in 1834, and now resides in Lancaster, Mass. His Avife, Esther C, d. Their children, as recorded in the toAvn records — 1. I.ucretia, b. :May 4, 1807. 2. Martha, b. Nov, 30, 1808. 3. Caleb, [Dea. in South Ch.,] "b. Sept. 8, 1810. 4. Lvman, b. Jan. 2, 1812. 5. Horace, b. April 5, 1814. 6. Joseph, b. A])ril 30, 1817. 7. Horace, 2d, b. Aug. 15, 1819. 8. George A., b. May 8, 1821. 9. Mary Esther, b, Julv 10, 1823. 10. Lucy Ann, b. March 9, 1826. 11. Lucretia, 2d, b. Aug. 19, 1829. David Parker. David Parker m. Jane . Their children — 1. Charles Thomas, b. Sept. 5, 1812 ; 2. David, b. Nov. 12, 1814 ; 3. Jane Maria, b. Aug. 13, 1817; 4. Nancy Herbert, b. Sept. 25, 1821. Jeremiah Pecker, Supposed to be a descendant of John Pecker, an original ])roprietor from Haverhill — see p. 138; 1 m. liuth, dau. of Capt. Reuben Ivimball. Their children were : 1. Mary Eastman, b. Julv 21, 1804; d. y. 2. Robert Eastman, b. Ap. 29, 1807 , 1 m. Esther J. Lang; d. Ap. 2, 1847, aged 37. Their children, Francis H. ; Ellen M., d. ; Mary E., d. ; Rol)crt J>. and Harriet. 2 m. Avid. Emclinc A. Estabrook. 3. WiUiam, b. Jan. 23, 1809; m. Oct. 9, 1834, Susan D. Chandler; tAvo children, Susan E. and Ruth K. 4. Jeremiah, b. June 4, 1813; m. Mary L. Eastman, Aug. 11, 1835; he d. Ap. 2, 1847, leaA'ing three children. Ruth, Avife of Jeremiah Pecker, d. Feb. 26, 1815, GENEALOGICAL. 683 aged 3fi. He 2 ni. wid. ]Marv Lan, 1822. 6. Judith, b. April '26, 1826. 7. Henry Durgin, b. Sept. 1, 1829. The fovir latter born in Frye- burg, Me. 4-James Walker, son of 3-James. He 1 m. Abigail Chapman, of Bethel, Me. Mr. Wallver was a preacher of the gospel. His education was Hmited, but ho was a pious, devoted and useful missionary in the desti- tute places of jSTew-Hampshire and i\Iaine. By his first Avife he had two children : viz., Milton C. and Abigail C, d. His second wife was Patty H. In- galls, of Shelburne. Their children were: Abigail C, Robert I., James A., and Betsey I. Mr. Walker died at West-Milton, N. H., Sept. 4, 1826, aged 48. Descend.vxts of RiLX. TiMOTiiy AYalicer. BY JOSEPH B. WALKER, ESQ. [Note. The following genealogy, divided into generations, commences with that of Dea- con Samuel Walker. Tlie Roman numbers mark the generations, and the Arabic, in paren- theses, attached to the Roman, tlie paragraphs devoted to different families. The figures in the first left hand roliimn of Arabic numbers mark the number of descendants, including Dea. S. W., and those of tlie second column, separated from the first by a hyphen, the num- ber of the children of the family, in the order of the ages, to which they are attached.] The first Anglo-American ancestor of the family has not and perhaps can- not be determined with certainty, but from a note addressed by Dr. Farmer to Charles Wallter, Esq., it would seem that he Avas either John Walker, the first of the name among the freemen of Massachusetts, who was ad- mitted a freeman April 4, 1634 ; or Augustine Walker, who was admitted in 1641, both of whom settled in Charlestown, Mass. Between these and Deacon Samuel Walker, the father of Rev. Timothy Walker, a chasm of several generations intervenes, which cannot be supplied with much assur- ance of accuracy. In conflict with this supposition, however, a manuscript record of the family, in the hand writing of Charles Walker, now in the possession of the compiler of this genealogy, states that Deacon Samuel Walker was liimself the first Anglo-American ancestor, and that he, with a brother, came to this country from the west of England, and settled in Wo- burn, Mass. With his name the following record commences. First Generation. (1) I. Deacon Samuel Walker lived in Woburn, Mass., in a part of the town afterwards called Wilmington. His first wife, Judith, died Nov. 14, 1724, and he married for his second wife ^Irs. Fowlc, widow of Major Fowlc, who died Oct., 1748. Dea. Walker subsequently removed to Bur- lington, and died in September or October, 1744. Dea. Samuel Walker left the following children : 2-1. Timothy, born July 27, 1705. (2) H. 3-2. Samuel, Avho Hved in Wilmington, Mass, near the meeting-house, where his father first settled. 4-3. Phebe, who was married Dec. 4, 1726, to Noah Richardson, a hatter, who Hved at the sign of the ark, in Woburn, Mass. She was buried in the old burjing-ground. 5-4. , married W\-man, and Hved in Dracut, Mass. 6-5. , married Johnson, and hved in BurHngton, Mass. 692 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 7-6. , married Buck, and lived in Wobiirn or Burlington, Mass., and was buried in the old burying-ground in Woburn. 8-7. , married Kendall, and lived in "Wilmington, Mass. 9-8. , married Eames, and lived in Wilmington, Mass. Second Generation. (2) n. Rev. Timothy Walki'.h (2-1) was born in a part of Woburn, now Wilmington, Mass., July 27, 1705 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1725. Was married on the evening of Xov. 12, 1730, to Sarah Burbeen, who was born June 17, 1701, and was daughter of James Burbeen, of Woburn. He died Sept. 1, 1782, aged 77. His wife Sarah died Feb. 19, 1778, aged 77, and they were buried side by side in the old Concord burying-ground. Their children were : 10-1. Sarah, born June 18, 1732 ; died Dec. 21, 1736. 11-2. Timothv, born June 26, 1737. (3) HI. 12-3. Sarah, Ijorn Aug. 6, 1739. (4) HI. 13-4. Marv, born Dec. 7, 1742. (5) HI. 14-5. Judith, born Dec. 24, 1 744. (6) HI. Third Generation. (3) III. Judge Timothy Walker* (11-2) was born Jime 26, 1737, and married Esther, daughter of Rev. Joseph Burbeen, of Woburn, who was born April 11, 1746. Mrs. Walker died at Concord, Sept. 28, 1828, in the 83d year of her age. They had the following children : 15-1. Sarah, born Jan. 21, 1764. In December, 1785, or January, 1786, she was married to Maj. Daniel Livermore, and lived in Concord. After his death, which occurred June 22, 1793, she resided for a portion of the time in Concord, and during the remainder in Boston and vicinity. She died at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 17, 1843, aged 79. 16-2. Charles, born Sept. 25, 1765. (7) IV. 17-3. Paul, born April 14, 1767. He accidentally fell beneath a sled loaded with wood, and in consequence of the injuries received he died, Jan. 10, 1775. 18-4. Timothy, born Feb. 2, 1767. With the exception of a year or two passed at Rumford, Me., in early life, he has always lived in Concord, and until 1827 was engaged in farming. About this time he sold his farm, and has since lived very much in retirement. He was first married to Lydia, daughter of Samuel Thompson, Esq., of Woburn, Mass. She died Oct. 20, 1838, aged 68 years. He was married a second time, June 10, 1840, to Mrs. Ahce Poor, daughter of Daniel Parker, of Bow. She died March 14, 1846, aged 43 years. He was married a thii-d time, Sept. 7, 1846, to Al)igail B. Griffin. 19-5. Joseph, born June 21, 1771 ; Avas drowned in Horse Shoe pond, June 7, 1774. 20-6. Susan, born March 17, 1773 ; died Jan. 11, 1777. 21-7. Esther, b. April 17, 1775 ; died Dec. 29, 1776. 22-8. Susannah, born Jan. 4, 1777; died Jan. 11, 1791. 23-9. Esther, born Oct. 13, 1778; died July 15, 1804. She is said to have been a person of interesting character, and to have been afflicted with imjierfect vision. 24-10. Betsey, born April 15, 1780. (8) TV. 25-11. Joseph, born Jan. 12, 1782. (9) W. 26-12. Bridget, born Jan. 1, 1784. (10) IV. 27-13. Pollv, born March 22, 1786. (11) IV. 28-14. Clarissa, born July 27, 1788. (12) IV. * See Biography, page 579. GENEALOGICAL. 693 (4) ni. Sarah AValker, (12-3,) was born Aug. 6, 1739 ; was married to Jienjamin Rolfe, Esq.* They had one son, the late Col. Paul Rolfe, who was'l)orn Aug. 4, 1770, gradiiatcd at Harvard College, 1792; was married to Elizabeth Kirkwood, of Medford or Charlestowii, Mass., and Hved on his paternal estate, where he died July IS, 18 19,' in the 49th year of his age. His Avidow died Jan. 15, 1837, aged 78. She was married a second time, aliout Nov. 1772, to Benjamin Thomp- son,! afterwards Count Ilumford. They had one child, Sarah,t afterwards Countess Sarah Ilumfcrd. (o) III. Mary A^^alker, (13-4,) was born Dec. 7, 1742. She Avas mar- ried May or June, 1768, to Dr. Ebenczer Harnden Goss, of Concord, and afterwards of Brunswick, Me. Their children were : 29-1. Gustavus Adolphus, born July 8, 1770. He was an officer in the war of 1812. Resided during a portion of his hfe at Paris, Me. Is now dead. 30-2. Sarah, born Aug. 9, 1772 ; married ^tlarshall, and resides at Paris, Me. 31-3. Abigail, born May 16, 1775 ; was never married, and is now dead. (6) m. Juchth Walker, (14-5,) was born Dec. 4, 1744. _ She was first married to Capt. Abiel Chandler, then of Concord, but previously of Ando- ver, Mass. Their children were : 32-1. Sarah, born Jan. 15, 1768. (13) IV. 33-2. Judith, born Oct. 9, 1770. 34—3. Rebecca, born Dec. 17, 1773 ; never married. Capt. Chandler died 1777, and she was married a second time to Nathan- iel Rolfe, jr., of Concord, Avho died Nov. 15, 1829, aged 86. Their chil- di-en were — 35-4. Abiel, deacon, born April 6, 1781. He hved in Concord; was never married, and died Feb. 19, 1840. 36-5. Jane, born Jan. 21, 1782. (15) TV. 37-6. Henry, born Aug. 31, 1785. (16) IV. Mrs. Rolfe died 1806, aged 63. Fourth Generation. (7) TV. Charles Walker,§ (16-2,) was born at Concord, Sept. 25, 1765. He was married in Oct. or Nov., 1796, to Miss Hannah Pickering, (daugh- ter of Hon. John Pickering, of Portsmouth,) who died Nov. 12, 1821, aged 52. Their children were : 38-1. Charles,|| born March 31, 1798. 39-2. Lucrctia Pickering. (17) V. 40-3. Susan Burbccn, born Oct. 24, 1801. (18) V. 41-4. Augustus Willard, born Julv 10, 1803. (19) V. 42-5. Timothy, born July 10, 1813. (20) V. (8) IV. Betsey AValker, (24-10,) Mas born A])ril 15, 1780 ; was mar- ried, April 4, 1804, to Eliphalet Emery, son of Benjamin Emery, Esq., of Concord, who was born Aug. 14, 1775, and died Sept. 16, 1825. She died Aug. 23, 1834, aged 54. Their children were : 43-1. Esther Walker, born Oct. 1, 1806. (21) V. 44-2. John Langdon, born Sept. 25, 1809. (9) IV. Joseph Walker, (25-11,) Avas born Jan. 12, 1782; was married' *See Biography, p. 555. fSee Biography, p. 570. J See Biography, p. 572. $See Graduates. || See History, p. 456. 694 HISTORY OF CONCORD. :Mavch 22, LS20, to Ann Sa^\Ter, daughter of Dea. Moses Sa^Ter, of Salis- bury, born June 21, 1786, and died Dec. 25, 1824, aged 38. He cUed March 3, 1833, aged 51. Their children -were — 45-1. Joseph Burbeen. born June 12, 1822. (22) V. 46-2. Ann Burbeen, born Dec. 24, 1824; died Jan. 5, 1825. (10) IV. Bridget Walker, (26-12,) was born Jan. 1, 1784 ; was married in June, 1804, to Jothani Stone, a merchant of Brunswick, Me., where she resided and died Sept. 10, 1805, in the 21st year of her age. They had one child — 47-1. Timothy Walker, born June 17, 1805; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1826, and cHed July 4, 1826. (11) IV. Polly Walker, (27-13,) was born March 22, 1786. She was married, Oct. 25, 1805, to Charles Emery, a trader of Concord, who died Oct. 9, 1811, aged 31. Their children were— 48-1. Mary Walker, born May 2, 1807, and died in infancy. 49-2. Charles Livermore, born Aug. 8, 1808. He was never married, and died in Texas in . 50-3. Clarissa Walker, born Oct. 31, 1810 ; was married April 25, 1830, to Horatio Hill, of Concord. They removed to New-York city, where she died Sept. 19, 1839, in the 29th year of her age, leaving one child, Sarah EHzabeth; married Jan., 1855, to Enoch G. Hook, Esq., attorney and counsellor at law, at Chicago, 111. She (Mrs. Emery) was married a second time, March 1, 1813, to Hon. Francis N. Fisk, of Concord. Their children were — 51-4. Sarah Walker, born Sept. 20, 1814; was married Aug. 20, 1834, to James M. Tarlton, for many years a merchant of Alabama, and now (1855) U. S. consul at Melbourne,. Australia. 52-5. Mary Walker, born Dec., 1815 ; died in infancy. 53-6. Joseph AYalker, born June 12, 1817 ; died in infancy. 54-7. Francis Allen, born April 26, 1819. (23) V. 55-8. Timothy Walker, born April 7, 1820; Avas a midshipman of the U. S. Navy, and'dicd at Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1845. 56-9. Joseph Walker, born June 10, 1822; died Aug. 25, 1825. 57-10. Susan Eunice, born Nov. 17, 1825; died July, 1828. 58-11. Lucretia Morse, born Nov. 26, 1826; was married Aug. 20, 1849, to Dr. WilUam G. Perry, who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842, and is at present engaged in the practice of medicine at Exeter, N. H. (12) IV. Clarissa Walker, (28-14,) born July 27, 1788; was married, Dec. 19, 1814, to Levi Bartlett, Esq., who was born at SaHsbury, N. H., June 3, 1784, and has been for many years a merchant in Boston, Ms. She died Oct. 28, 1845, aged 57 years. Their children were : 59-1. Hannah Clarissa, born Sept. 13, 1815, and died Feb. 29, 1852. 60-2. Joseph Walker, born Sept. 5, 1817 ; died April 3, 1818. 61-3. Susan Walker, born Aug. 4, 1822. (24) V. 62-4. Charles Levi, born Aug. 16, 1825; died April 14, 1831. 63-5. ISIartha Jane, born June 22, 1833. (13) rV^ Sarah Chandler, (32-1,) born Jan. 15, 1768; was married in 1786, to Capt. Peter Blanchard, born x\ug. 12, 1755, then of Concord, Init previously of HolHs. Thev removed to Peacham, Vt., and subsequently to Danville, Vt. Capt. B. died :May 25, 1810, and Mrs. B. Nov. 21, 1836. Their children were : 64-1. Rebecca, born Jan. 4, 1787. (25) V. 65-2. Sophia, born Sept. 7, 1790. (26) V. 66-3. Sarah, born Nov. 6, 1792. (27) V. GENEALOGICAL. 695 (14) IV. Judith Chandler, (33-2,) born Oct. 9, 1770 ; was married, June 12, 1794, to Timothy Carter, of Concord, and resided at the West Parish. Mr. Carter died Feb. 7, 1843, aged 76, and Mrs. C. died Dec. 28, 1852, aged 82. Their children M'ere : 67-1. Abiel Chandler, born Jan. 8, 1796. (28) V. 68-2. Ezra, born Dec. 27, 1798. (29) V. 69-3. Sarah Rumford, born Feb. 16, 1801 ; was married to A. C. Pierce, now of Concord, May 15, 1826, and died July 23, 1829. She had one child, Edward Rumford, who was born Nov. 2, 1828, and died Aug. 1, 1832. 70-4. Judith AValker. (30) V. (15) IV. Jane Rolfe, (36-5,) born Jan. 21, 1783; was married, in 1805, to Nathan Chandler, of Boscawen, who died April 1, 1835. Their children were : 71-1. Abiel Rolfe, born Aug. 25, 1805. (31) V. 72-2. Judith Walker, born Aug. 5, 1807. (32) V. 73-3. Naomi Farnum, born Dec. 5, 1809. (33) V. 74-4. Nathan, born June 12, 1812. (34) V. 75-5. Harriet, born Julv 10, 1815. 76-6. Sarah Blanchard,"born Aug. 10, 1817; died Feb. 16, 1841. 77-7. William Palmer, born Oct. 27, 1820; was married Oct., 1845, to Sarah E. Ivimball, of Orange, N. H., and resides at Decatur, 111. (16) IV. Henry Rolfe, (37-6,) born Aug. 31, 1785; was married, in 1808, to Deborah Carter, who was born April 18, 1786, and died Jan. 11, 1849. Their children were : 78-1. Judith WaUver, born Jan. 30, 1809. (35) V. 79-2. Jane Chandler, born i\Iav 4, 1810. 80-3. Rhoda Carter, born Mav 26, 1812. (36) V. 81-4. Nathaniel, born Jan. I,'l814. (37) V. 82-5. Phebe Whittemore, born Jime 17, 1815. (38) V. 83-6. Timothy Carter, born :\Iav 9, 1817. (39) V. 84-7. Henry, "born Jan. 26, 1819. (40) V. 85-8. Deborah, born Feb. 8, 1821 ; Avas married April 30, 1844, to John A. Holmes, of Londonderry. 86-9. Abial, born March 29, 1823 ; was married, April, 1847, to Sarah E. Call. Thev have one child, Lvdia, born May 18, 1849. 87-10. Lvdia, born April 1, 1825 ; died July 28, 1849. 88-11. Martha Farnum, born Jan. 28, 1828. She was married Aug. 15, 1854, to Rev. Anson A. Baker, American Home missionary at Petalurna, California. They have one child. Fifth Generation. (17) V. Lucretia Pickering Walker, (39-2,) born July 15, 1799; was married, Sept. 29, 1818, to Prof. S. F. B. Morse, LL. D., and resided at New-Haven, Ct., where she died Feb. 7, 1825. Their children were: 89-1. Susan Walker, married, 1841, to Edward Lind, Esq., a merchant and planter, of Guayama, Porto Rico, W. I. They have one son, Charles Walker. 90-2. Charles Walker, who is married, and resides at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 91-3. Finley — resides at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (18) V. Susan Burbeen Walker, (40-3,) born Oct. 24, 1801; was mar- ried Feb. 14, 1826, to Hon. Wilham Pickering, of Concord, for many years Treasurer of the State of New-Hampshire. Upon his retii'cment from 696 HISTORY OF CONCORD. public life they removed to Greenland, where he died, July 1, 1850, aged 73. Their children were : 92-1. William, born April 14, 1831; died May 5, 1831. 93-2. Lucretia Morse, born Oct. 10, 1832. 94-3. Hannah Walker, born May 21, 1834; died May 21, 1839. 95-4. Charles Walker, born Sept. 14, 1838. (19) V. Augustus Willard Walker, (41-4,) born July 10, 1803; was married, Jan. 15, 1836, to Abigail A. Hanson; resides at Atkinson, Me., and is a merchant. Their children are : 96-1. Susan Pickering, born Dec. 10, 1836. 97-2. Charles, born Sept. 18, 1838. 98-3. Sarah Livermore, born Dec. 18, 1840. 99-4. Joseph Eurbcen, born Nov. 12, 1843. 100-5. Augustus AVillard, born Nov. 10, 1847. 101-6. Lucretia Pickering, born Sept. 24, 1851. (20) V. Timothy Walker, (42-5,) born July 10, 1813; was married April 16, 1835, to Luna Abbot, of Ilumford, Me., born July 7, 1811, and resides at Kumford. He is engaged mostly in agricultural pursuits. He represented the Ilumford district in the State Legislature, in 1851, '52, '53 and ^00. AVas one of the State senators. Their children are : 102-1. Sarah, born March 4, 1836. 103-2. Charles, born Sept. 16, 1837. 104-3. Hannah, born Feb. 14, 1840. 105-4. Cvnthia, born April 15, 1845. 106-5. Susan, born April 21, 1849. (21) V. Esther Walker Emery, (43-1,) born Oct. 1, 1806; was married April 11, 1827, to Capt. Ebenezer S. Towle, cashier of the Merrimack Comity Bank. They reside at Concord, and their children are : 107-1. George Sanborn, Ijorn April 25, 1828. He is a merchant in Boston. 108-2. Esther, born May 25, 1831; was married, Oct. 1, 1853, to Ed- ward T. Nichols, and resides in Boston. They have one child, George L., born July 19, 1854. 109-3. Susan, born Dee. 12, 1832; was married, June 28, 1855, to John H. Stewart, of Concord. 110-4. Charles, born Dec. 5, 1834; died Aug. 22, 1835. 111-5. Sarah, born Dec. 13, 1837. 112-6. Elizabeth, born Julv 10, 1844; died Aug. 8, 1844. 113-7. Mary, born May 25, 1848; died Aug. 1, 1848. (22) V. Joseph Burbeen Walker, (45-1,) born June 12, 1822 ; graduated at Yale College, 1844; was admitted to the Merrimack County bar March, 1847, and was married. May 5, 1847, to Sarah Adams Fitz, daughter of Rev. Daniel Fitz, of Ipswich, Ms. She died Nov. 21, 1848, aged 21. He was married a second time to Ehzabeth Lord U])ham, daughter of Hon. N. G. Upham, of Concord, May 1, 1850, and resides on the old homestead, in Concord. Their children are : 114-1. Charles Rumford, born Feb. 13, 1852. 115-2. Susan Burbeen, l)orn June 27, 1853. 116-3. Nathaniel Upham, born Jan. 14, 1855. (23) V. Francis Allen Fisk, (54-7,) born April 26, 1819; was married Feb. 22, 1849, to Abby Oilman Perry, daughter of Dr. WiUiam Perry, of Exeter, and resides at Concord. Their children are: 117-1. Mary Wallcer, born Jan. 30, 1850. GENEALOGICAL. 697 118-2. Francis Walker, born Sept. 19, 1851. 119-3. William Perry, born Dec. 6, 1853. (24) V. Susan Walker Bartlett, (61-3,) born Aug. 4, 1822; Mas married Dec. 12, 1844, to Abel G. Farwell, a merchant, of Boston. Their children were : 120-1. Clara Walker, born Feb. 16, 1846; died Aug. 27, 1848. 121-2. Charles Hallet, born Oct. 27, 1849; (bed March 31, 1850. (25) V. Rebecca Blanchard, (64-1,) born Jan. 4, 1787; was married Nov. 2, 1807, to Aaron Porter, who was born in Boxford, Ms., June 27, 1773. ]\Irs. Blanchard died at Danville, Vt., Oct. 11, 1847. Their chil- dren are : 122-1. Sarah Chandler, born Aug. 29, 1808 ; was married Dec. 13, 1826, to John Kelsey, and resides at Lacon, 111. 123-2. Catherine Bucl, born June 4, 1810; was married ^larch 23, 1836, to Joseph C. Fuller. 124-3. llebecca Blanchard, born April 28, 1812; was married Feb. 3, 1839, to Dr. Samuel Livingston, and resides at AVest WhceHng, Ohio. 125-4. Mary Adams, born Jan. 1, 1815 ; was married Jan. 29, 1837, to Daniel Putnam Dana. "\A"as married a second time to Giles C. Dana, April 28, 1838, and resides at Wyoming, 111. 126-5. Martha Osgood, 'born Aug. 27, 1817; was married, Sept. 18, 1839, to Henry Mattocks. She was married a second time, Aug. 7, 1850, to Isaac Dyer, of Baldwin, Me. 127-6. Charles AVilliam, born Jan. 14, 1821; married Ada McAIichael, and resides at Plattsl)nrg, Missouri. 128-7. Luther Clark, born Feb. 18, 1824. (26) V. Sophia Blanchard, (65-2,) born Sept. 7, 1790; was married in 1808, to Augustine Clark, Esq., attorney at law, Danville, Vt., who died Oct., 1832. She had the following children : 129-1. ^Mary. She was married to Rev. G. B. Manser, of Benning- ton, Vt. 130-2. Harriet NcAvell, who died young. 131-3. Sophia Blanchard. She was married to Samuel L. French, Esq., and resides at Boston, AIs. 132-4. William Augustine, who died at about 18 years of age. (27) V. Sarah Blanchard, (66-3,) born Nov. 6, 1792 ; was married, Oct. 18, 1813, to AVilliam A. Palmer, attorney at law, Danville, Vt. He was born at Hebron, Conn., Sept. 12, 1781 ; moved to Danville ; was a U. S. Senator from A^ermont, and for three years Governor of that State. He is still Hving. His wife died Jan. 12, 1853. Their chikb-en were — 133-1. AA'^iUiam Blanchard, born Julv 1, 1814; was married July 16, 1840, to Orpha L. Benton, of Barton, A^t., Avho died Alay 25, 1841.' He M'as married a second time to Harriet A. Baxter, of Stanstead, C. E., July 20, 1843 ; who died April 16, 1845, leaving one child, Harriet Angelia Baxter, who Mas born April 5, 1845, and died Dec. 30, 1851. Air. B. re- sides at Danville, A^t. 134-2. Abiel Chandler, born Oct. 22, 1816; was married, Oct. 1, 1846, to Sophia J. Pope, and resides at Danville. Their children are : Calista Jane, born July 17, 1849, and died Nov. 30, 1851. Carrie Ameha, born Julv 14, 1853. 135-3. Sarah Jane, born May 6, 1819 ; died Alay 7, 1819. 136-4. Henrv AVirt, born Julv 25, 1820; resides at Lowell, Mass. 137-5. EdM-ard Carter, born Feb. 18, 1825 ; resides at St. Paul, Min. 698 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 138-0. Sarah Jane, born Dec. 12, 1827 ; died May 16, 1828. 139-7. FrankHn Rolfe, born Oct. 19, 1832. (28) V. Abiel Chandler Carter, (67-1,) born Jan. 8, 1796 ; was married, 1819, to Martha Farnum. Their children were — 140-1. Timothy, born April 17, 1820 ; was married, April 15, 1842, to Hannah A. Colbv. Their children are — Lucy Colljy, born April 4, 1843. Mary Knowlton,"born Au^. 22, 1846 ; died Jidy 7, 1848. Judith AValker, born June 3, 1850; died Oct. 1, 1853. Martha Hall, born Sept. 22, 1835. 141-2. Franklin 13., born Dec. 1, 1822 ; married EUzabeth B. Abbot, March 2, 1847. Their children are — Lucinda Farnum, born May 11, 1848. Emma Frances, born April 8, 1853. 142-3. Sarah Pierce, born Feb. 23, 1827. 143-4. Augustine Clark, born Aug. 28, 1831. 144-5. Martha Hall, born Sept. 22, 1835. (29) V. Ezra Carter, (68-2,) born Dec. 27, 1798; was married. May 8, 1830, to Abby T. Clark, of Portsmouth. Is a physician, and resides at Concord. Their children are — 145-1. Edward Pierce, born May 12, 1834. 146-2. WilUam Gardner, born Aug. 8, 1838. (30) V. Judith Walker Carter, (70-4,) born Dec. 4, 1807; was married, Nov. 3, 1824, to Ezra Carter, jr., who resides at Portland, Me. He is a pubHsher, and also at this time collector of the port of Portland. Their children are — 147-1. Ann Elizabeth, born Nov. 16, 1837. 148-2. Sarah Ilumford Pierce, born July 16, 1844. 149-3. Judith Augusta, born Oct. 18, 1848 ; died Aug. 23, 1849. (31) V. Abiel Rolfe Chandler, (71-1,) born Aug. 25, 1805; was mar- ried, Oct. 9, 1829, to Ehza J. Morrison, of Boscawen, and resides at Law- rence, Mass. Their children are — 150-1. Henry Walker, born Aug. 2, 1830 ; died Aug. 15, 1850. 151-2. Catherine Frances, born Dec. 4, 1831. 152-3. Ann Rebecca, born April 11, 1837. (32) V. Judith Walker Chandler, (72-2,) born Aug. 5, 1807; was mar- ried, March 30, 1837, to Enoch H. Dow, of Concord, who died Feb. 22, 1853. Their children are — 153-1. Nathan Moody, born Nov. 27, 1838. 154-2. Abiel Rolfe, born April 14, 1842. 155-3. Ellen Maria, born A])ril 22, 1844. 156-4. Luther, born July 23, 1846. 157-5. Ezra AVilson, born July 29, 1849. (33) V. Naomi Farnum Chandler, (73-3,) born Dec. 5, 1809 ; was mar- ried, April 16, 1842, to Asa H. Morrill. They have one child — 158-1. George Sullivan, born March 28, 1843. (34) V. Nathan Chandler, (74-4,) born June 12, 1812 ; was married, Dec. 8, 1840, to Louisa W. Ferrin. Their children are — 159-1. Edward Webster, born Dec. 19, 1841. 160-2. Sarah Blanchard, born June 15, 1843. 161-3. Frederick Grey, born Dec. 31, 1845. 162-4. WiUiam Palmer, born Nov. 20, 1849. GENEALOGICAL. 699 (35) V, Judith Walker Rolfe, (78-1,) born Jan. 30, 1809; was married, May 3, 1838, to Jacob Whidden. Their children are — 163-1. John Sanborn, born Aug. 6, 1843. 164-2. Henry Rolfe, born :\Iarch 10, 1855. (36) V. Rhoda Carter Rolfe, (80-3,) born May 20, 1812; was married to David Farnum, in 1834, and resides in Concord. Their children are — 165-1. Alma Jane, born Jan. 5, 1S36. 166-2. Isaac Henry, born Jan. 9, 1838. 167-3. Esther Abbot, born March 29, 1840. 168-4. Lydia Rolfe, born Aug. 26, 1842. 169-5. Ann Ehza, born Dec 26, 1844, (37) V. Nathaniel Rolfe, (81-4,) born Jan. 1, 1814 ; was married, Jan. 1, 1839, to Mary Jane Moody, and resides in Concord. Their children are : 170-1. Charles Moody, born Aug. 18, 1841. 171-2. Joseph Henry, born ]March 1, 1843. 172-3. Abicl Walker, born Jan. 21, 1844. 173-4. John Holmes, born Oct. 1, 1847. 174-5. Mary Lancaster, born Oct. 3, 1852. (38) V. Phebe Whittemore Rolfe, (82-5,) was born June 17, 1815 ; was married, July 3, 1840, to Horatio N. Harvey. TheLr children are — 175-1. Luther Rockwood, born Feb. 3, 1840, 176-2. Henry Rolfe, born Feb. 25, 1842. 177-3. Cvrus Augustine, born Julv 4, 1844. 17S-4. Mary H., born Feb. 22, 1847; died Aug., 1848. 179-5, Mary Rebecca, born Dec. 24, 1849; died Aug., 1851, 180-6, Martha Baker, born Aug. 18, 1855, (39) V. Tunothy Carter Rolfe, (83-6,) born May 9, 1817 ; was married, June, 1844, to Eliza Ann Emery. Their children are — 181-1. Timothy Emery, born July 17, 1844. 182-2. Eliza Jane, born July 17, 1844. 183-3. Enoch Emerv, born April 3, 1848. 184-4. Henry, born Jan. 29, 1850. 185-5. George Edwin, born Dec. 2, 1852. 186-6, Mary Lydia, born Feb. 18, 1854, (40) V. Henry Rolfe, (84-7,) born Jan. 26, 1819 ; was married, Xov., 1843, to Abiah P. Atkinson, and resides at Lowell, Mass. Then* children are — 187-1. Frances Atkinson, born Dec. 30, 1844. 188-2. Lydia, born June, 1850. WEBSTER FAMILY. Stephen Webster was born in Haverhill, Mass., March 11, 1758. His wife, Chloe Wheeler, b. in Salem, N. H., Nov. 28, 1760. They were married April 15, 1779. He served three campaigns in the Revolutionary war ; was m the battles at Saratoga, Stony Point and Diamond's Island. He moved with his family from Atkinson to Concord, April, 1803, where he lived until his death, ]March 24, 1845, aged 87. Chloe, his Avife, d. Jan. 10, 1838, aged 78. Their children were — 1. Jonathan, b. April 11, 1780 ; m. Elsey Haskell, Deer Isle — six children. 700 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 2. Stejjheii, b. Oct. 14, 1781 ; m. Anne "Woodman, Salem, X. H. — nine children. 3. Richard, b. July 22, 1783 ; ni. Khoda Abbot— eight children; d. March 3, 184G, aged 62. *4. Esther, b. June 14, 1786; m. Moses Bel- knap, Atkinson — six children; d. Aug. 17, 1818. 5. David, b. Jan. 4, 1790 ; m. Mary Willson, Castine, Me. — nine children. 6. Daniel, b. Jan. 28, 1793 ; m. Abigail AVoodnian, Salem — five children ; d. Sept., 1838, aged 45. 7. Susan, h. Jan. 28, 1796; m. Nathan Call — four children. 8. Atkinson, b. Dec. 27, 1797 ; m. Rebecca Smart, dau. of Col. Benning S. 9. James, b. April 25, 1800 ; m. Mary E. Moody, Belfast, Me.— five chil- dren. Atkinsox Webster. Atkinson Webster, son of Stephen Webster and Chloe Wheeler, born Dec. 27, 1797 ; m. Rebecca Smart, dau. of Col. Benning Smart. Their chil- dren were — 1. Louisa Belknap, b. Oct. 6, 1821. 2. Lorin Atkinson, b. Aug. 12, 1828. 3. Ann Rebecca, b. Oct. 10, 1830. 4. James Walker, b. Oct. 20, 1832. 5. Marv EHzabeth, b. Dec. 13, 1842. AVEST FAMILY. Natha>'IEL West, married Sarah Burbank. Their children were — 1. John, b. Xov. 18, 1742. 2. Sarah, b. July 1, 1744 ; d. Aug. 26, 1745. 3. Sarah, b. Nov. 8, 1745 ; d. Dec. 17, 1800. 4. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 19, 1747. 5. Jonathan, b. Oct. 9, 1749. 6. Oilman, b. Aug. 29, 1751. 7. Marv, b. April 9, 1753. 8. Ebenczer, b. Dec. 25, 1754. 9. Noah, b. Oct. 1,1756. 10. Lvdia, b. Mav 13, 1758 ; m. 11. John, b. April 25, 1760. 12. Edward, b. Dec. 30, 1762. 13. Deborah, b. May 18, 1765. Nathaniel West, sen., died of small pox, in July, 1775 ; see p. 282. [Note. !Most of Mr. West's children moved from Concord.] Jonathan West, son of Nathaniel, married Hannah ■ . Their son Samuel was born Sept. 17, 1768. Jmix West, son of Nathaniel, m. Susanna Eastman. Their children were — 1. Susanna, b. March 22, 1786; m. Henry Sweetser. Their children — Clarissa W., Nancy B., Henrv Philips, John, Isaac, Susan A., John W., Augusta. 2. Jolin, b. Sept. "7, 1788; d. Oct. 17, 1836; m. Nancy :\Iont- gomery. Their children — George M., Clarissa A., Francis S., John M. and Ellen E., twins ; Charles 11., Alontgomerv. 3. Hazen Kimball, b. March 25, 1791 ; d. April 13, 1798. 4. James, b. jNIay 4, 1793 ; ni. Isabel Blanch- ard. 5. Clarissa, b. Dec. 1, 1795; d. July 19, 1810. 6. Hazen K., b. May 4, 1798 ; m. Maria Farnsworth. Their children — Henry C, Charles, Sarah A., Mary, Augusta, James, John. 7. Persis Maria, b. June 9, 1802 ; d. y. 8. Charles, b. Sept. 9, 1805; 1 m. Hannah Adams;. 2 m. Amanda Fair- banks. Their children — Ellen A., Henry, Lucy, James. John West, sen., d. Sept. 1, 1825, aged 65. Susanna, his ^^ife,"d. Nov. 7, 1831, aged 64. Edward West, son of Nathaniel, born in Salisbury, married Miriam Badger. Their children — Noah, William, Moses, Joseph Carter, Edward, Nancy, Fanny, Sophia. William West, son of Edward, settled in Concord ; m. Mary Barker, dau. of Lemuel Barker, formerly a taverner at the north end of ]Main GENEALOGICAL. 701 street. Their children — AVilliam, jNIoocIv K., Edward B., Mary E., Lewis, Sarah A., Lemuel, Henry. Joseph C. West, son of Edward, settled in Concord ; m. Mary Al)l)ot, dau. of Nathaniel Altbot. Their only child, John D. A. West, m. iSIary E, Hoyt, dau. of Daniel Hoyt. SECOND CLASS. The following names of families were copied from the Town Records, as arranged by the late John Farmer, Esq., without alteration, except in some instances to add known changes Avhich have recently taken i)lace. For ex- ample, the names of persons married, or the date of births or deaths. [Ao/e. — The reader is admonished that this record is exceedingly defect- ive — not incorrect, probably, as far as it goes, but in numerous instances only part of a family is recorded.] Ezra Badgek. Ezra Badger m. Hannah Carter. Their children were — 1. Miriam, b. iNLirch 10, 1768. 2. Lois, b. Aug. 18, 1770, 3. John, b. Aug. 3, 1772. 4. Jacob, b. Nov. 5, 1778. 5. Jonathan, b. Jan. 6, 1784. G. Moses, b. June 3, 1786. 7. Fanny, b. July 18, 1793. William Baricer. William Barker m. ]\Iartha . Their children were — 1. WilHam, b. Jan. 28, 1731 ; d. Jan. 1741. 2. John, b. Nov. 28, 1733. 3, Marv, b. Nov. 23, 1735. 4. Martha, b. Oct. 22, 1737. 5. Deborah, b. Sept. 20, 1739. 6. Stephen, b. Jan. 21, 1741. Samuel Butters. Samuel Butters married Tabitha Nichols. Their children were : Pollv, b. Sept. 16, 1773; d. July 17, 1781. Samuel, b. Aug. 20, 1775. Fannv" b. Nov. 5, 1777; d. Feb. 22, 1788. Timothv, b. Nov. 27, 1781 ; d. April 8, 1813. Pollv, b. Aug. 10, 1784; d. April" 17, 1813. William, b. Nov. 1, 1786. Thomas, b. Aug. 3, 1789. Tabitha, wife of Samuel Butters, died March 24, 1808, aged 53. Samuel Butters died June 14, 1812. Samuel Butters, jun., m. ^liriam Virgin. Their children were: 1. Charlotte, b. Dec. 2, 1803. 2. Charles, d. April 9, 1804. 3. Marv, b. Julv 5, 1806. 4. Charles, b. Jan. 15, 1808. 5. Thomas, b. May 12, 1810. 6. James, b. Dec. 30, 1812. 7. Sarah, b. Jan. 17, 1815. Timothy Butters m. Ismenia Robertson. Their children were : 1. John Stevens, b. Jan. 23, 1810. 2. Wilham Thomas, b. May 31, 1812. Samuel Burbank. Jonathan, son of Samuel and Lydia Burbank, was b. Jime 21, 1732. 702 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Caleb Buswell. Caleb Buswell married Mary Badger. Their children were — 1. Ezra, b. March 8, 1767. 2. Caleb, b. Dec. 16, 176S. 3. Jonathan, b. Feb. 28, 1773. 4. Moses, b. April 16, 1775. 5. Paul, b. June 23, 1779. 6. James, b. Aug. 7, 1782. 7. Joseph, b. March 24, 1786. Caleb Buswell died Aug. 31, 1803, aged 63. Dr. Philip Carrigain. Philip Carrigain married Elizabeth Clough. They were published Sept. 24, 1768. Their children were — 1. Martha, b. Fell. 20, 1773? 2. Philip, b. Feb. 20, 1776? 3. Obadiah, b. March 2o, 1778 ? The last figure of each year appears to have been altered in the original. Dr. Philip Carrigain died Aug. 7, 1806, aged 60. EHzabeth, his wife, died Dec, 1805, aged 59. William Chamberlain. Wilham Chamberlain married Jenny Eastman. Their children were — 1. Joseph, b. Oct. 24, 1781, 2. Betty, b. Sept. 25, 1784. Sally, daughter of Abel and Ruth Chamberlain, was born June 6, 1792. Caleb Chase, Caleb Chase m. Joanna , Their children were — 1, Mary, b. at Gorham, Me., Jan. 31, 1771. 2. Joseph, b. Aug. 9, 1772. 3. Abigail, b. Aug. 12, 1774. 4. Wilham Hills, b. April 11, 1776; d. in Concord, Oct. 10, 1791. 5. Jacob, b. Feb. 11, 1778. 6. Amos, b. Aug. 4. 1780. 7. Susanna, b. May 28, 1782. 8. Joanna, b. April 8, 1784. 9. EHzabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1785. 10. Moses, b. Feb. 14, 1788. 11. Charlotte, b. Dec. 23, 1789. 12. WiUiam, b. March 2, 1792. Caleb Chase was a graduate of New-Jersey College in 1766, and for some years to^\^l clerk of Concord. Jonathan, son of Daniel and Molly Chase, died June 7, 1771. Daniel Chase, married Susanna . Their children were — 1. Paith, b, at Haverhill, Mass., Feb. 20, 1772. 2. Polly, b. at Ames- burv, Mass., June 12, 1774. 3. Ezekiel, b. Aug. 15, 1783. 4. Martha, b. Nov. 29, 1785, 5. John, b. June 9, 1791. Daniel Clark married Mary Whitmarsh, of Braintree, Mass. Their children were — 1. Mary, born at Lyndeborough. 2. Daniel, b. March 26, 1793. 3. Peter, b. Aug. 11, 1794. Daniel Clark died Aug. 11, 1828, aged 60. Benjamin Clark. Benjamin Clark married Susanna Bass, of Braintree. 1, Hannah, their dau., b. Dec. 3, 1793. 2. Susanna, b. Jan. 29, 1795 ; tlied, Samuel F. Clark. Samuel F. Clark married Abigail . Theii* children were — 1. Mary, born at Dimbarton, March 31, 1794. 2. Anna, b. April 4, 1796. 3. David S., b. April 21, 1798. 4. Samuel G., b. Aug. 12, 1800. 5. Jonathan, b. May 8, 1802, at Waterville. 6. Daniel D., b. Jan. 3, 1805, at Sidney. 7. Lucinda, b. June 9, 1807, at Waterville. 8, Abigail, b. Dec. 10, 1808. 9. Lorra, [daughter,] b. Sept. 2, 1811. 10. Charles E., son of S. F. and Betsey Clark, b. April 5, 1815. GENEALOGICAL. 703 Joseph Cleasby, married Betsey Farnum. Their children were — 1. Isaac, b. July 20, 1787. 2. Sally, b. Aug. 5, 1788. 3. Ruth, b. March 8, 1794. 4. Ezckiel, b. June 4, 1795. 5. Enoch. 6. Joseph. 7. Daniel. 8. Amzi. 9. James. 10. Nancy. John Cleasby. Joseph, son of John and Betsey Cleasby, born Feb. 18, 1793. \_JVote. — The first Joseph Cleasby died in Xorthfield, aged about 95.] William Coffix. WilHam Coffin married Sarah Haseltine, March 28, 1754, Then- ch. : 1. Enoch, b. June 4, 1755. 2. Sarah, b. Aug. 1, 1757. 3. Richard, b. Oct. 16, 1759; d. Nov. 24, 1759. 4. Samuel, b. Dec. 18, 1760; d. Oct. 20, 1762. 5. Marv, b. July 27, 1763; d. June, 1815. 6. John, b. Oct. 16, 1765. William Coffin died Oct., 1815, in the 90th year of his age. Sarah Cof- fin died May 26, 1829, in the 92d year of her age. Enoch Coffin. Enoch Coffin 1 m. Lois Cavis, of Bow, Jan. 21, 1790. Their children : 1. Peter, b. Feb. 14, 1791; d. in Missouri, 1815. 2. Samuel, b. Oct. 27, 1793. 3. Clarissa, b. Jan. 13, 1796; d. 4. Judith, b. Oct. 18, 1798; m. Zara Cutler, Esq., and d. in Conway, March 26, 1835. 5. John, b. May 5, 1801 ; d. Sept., 1803. 6. Sarah, b, Jan. 29, 1805 ; m. Seth East- man, Esq. 7. William, b. Jan. 12, 1807 ; d. 8. John, b. ]May 4, 1809 ; d. in New-York. 9. Wilham Tristram, b. Nov. 8, 1813 ; d. Aug. 5, 1838. Capt. E. Coffin 2 m. widow Achsah Plummer ; d. He died June 7, 1836, aged 81. Lois, first wife, d. Dec. 21, 1820, aged 52. Samuel Coffin, son of Enoch, 1 m. Elvira Sargent ; d. April 19, 1836. 2 m. mdow Harriet F. Ayer. Their children, Elvira S., b. Jan 22, 1842. Sarah E., b. March 27, 1844. Charlotte E., b. Dec. 24, 1846 ; d. Samuel fives on the homestead, north of the " Old North Chm-ch." Lot Colbee. Children of Lot and Ann Colbee — 1. Samuel, b. May 22, 1740. 2. Ann, b. Sept. 9, 1742. 3. Ruth, b. Dec. 5, 1744 ; d. Feb. 1, 1810 ; wife of David Hall. 4. Zorobabel, b. Aug. 15, 1747. 5. Isaac, b. Nov. 3, 1750. 6. John, son of Lot and EHz- abeth, b. March 27, 1765 ; d. Aug. 19, 1811. 7. Moses, b. Sept. 10, 1767. Lot Colbee died April 2, 1790, in the 73d year of his age. Abraham Colbee. Children of Abraham and Phebe Colbee— Mary, b. July 22, 1741. Me- ribah, b. July 20, 1743. Abraham, b. Jan. 22, 1745. Sarah, d. July 27, 1746. Zorobabel, son of Abraham and Sarah, died Dec. 18, 1741. Samson Colbee. Ebenezer, son of Samson and Betty Colbee, born Feb. 1, 1745. Samuel Colby. Childi-en of Samuel and Sarah Colby— 1. Sarah, b. April 25, 1764. 2. Asa, b. March 26, 1766. 3. Daniel, b. July 10, 1768. Joseph Colby. Children of Joseph and Molly Colby— 1. Eleanor, b. June 8, 1776. 2. 704 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Judith, b. Jan. 23, 1779. 3. Ephraim, b. Jan. 12, 1781. 4. Hannah, b. Nov. 1, 1783. 5. Joseph, b. Oct. 22, 1785. 6. lluth, b. April 25, 1787. 7. David, b. Jan. 7, 1789. John Colby. John Colby married Anna Carter. Their children — 1. Betsey, b. Xov. 22, 1785. 2. Nancy, b. July 31, 1788. 3. Sally Thompson, b. May 30, 1791. 4. Moses, b'. April "7, 1793. 5. ]Mary, b. May 7, 1795. 6. John Calvin, b. Dec. 30, 1797. 7. Clarissa, b. April 29, 1800. 8. Charles, b. May 16, 1803. 9. Cynthia, b. Jan. 4, 180G. John Colby d. Aug. 19, 1811, in the 47th year of his age. Anna Colby d. Dec. 15, 1811, aged 48. Joshua Currier. Children of Joshua and Susanna Currier — 1. Rebecca, b. Aug. 27, 1782. 2. Benjamin Kimball, b. July 16, 1785. 3. Meribah, b. June 22, 1788. 4. Joshua, b. Feb. 21, 1791. 5. Obadiah C, b. April 10, 1794. 6. Jerah- mul, b. July 15, 1797. John Currier. Children of John and Bridget— 1. Fanny, b. July 7, 1793. 2. ]\Iary, b. May 9, 1795. 3. William, b. Jan. 20, 1797; d. y. Bridget, wife of John Currier, d. May 10, 1797. John Currier m. Betsey ; their child Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1800. William Dunc^vn. William Duncan m. Dolly Haines. Their children — 1. Polly, b. Dec. 2, 1784 ; d. Feb. 22, 1785. 2. Nancy, b. Oct. 30, 1785 ; d. Feb. 12, 1786. 3. Polly, b. Oct. 30, 1785. 4. Nancv, b. Aug. 20, 1787. 5. James, b. May 2," 1789. 6. Mehetabel H., b. May 14, 1791. 7. William, b. May 5, 1793. Major WilHam Duncan d. ]Mrs. Dolly Duncan d. in the State of Ohio. Samuel Dunc.\n. Samuel Duncan m. Hannah . Their children — EHzabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1784; Susanna, b. Aug. IG, 1781 ; d. Oct. 20, 1787. Ebenezer Duston. Married Molly . Their children— Sally, b. Jime 16, 1785 ; d. y. Ebenezer.b. Jan. 18, 1787. Natt, b. Jan. 13, 1789. Sally, b. Feb. 9, 1792. John Bryant, b. Oct. 13, 1795. Benjamin Emery. Benjamin Emery married Sarah . Their children — 1. Susanna, b. April 15, 1762 ; d. July 26, 1793. 2. Benjamin, b. Jan. 3, 1764 ; d. June 24, 1785. 3. Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1766 ; d.Nov. 8, 1801. 4. Isaac, b. Nov 28, 1768. 5. Elizabeth, b. April 30, 1771 ; d. Aug. 6, 1827. 6. Euth, b Aug. 30, 1773; d. Dec. 3, 1801. 7. Eliphalet, b. Aug. 14, 1775. 8 Enoch, b. May 23, 1778 ; d. April 3, 1802. 9. Charles, b. July 22, 1780 d. Oct. 9, 1811. 10. John, b. Jan. 24, 1783; d. March 20, 1783. 11 Benjamin, b. April 9, 1786. Capt. Benjamin Emery died Nov. 2, 1819, aged 81. Sarah Emery, his wife, died. Is.vac Emery, Married Hadassah Tay. Their children— Harriet, b. Aug. 11, 1796 ; d. Aug. 16, 1797, [and others not recorded,] among whom are Isaac and Timothy W. GENEALOGICAL. 705 Eliphalet Emery, Married Betsey Walker. Tlieir children — 1. Esther, b. Oct. 1, 1806 ; m. Capt. E. S. Tmvle. 2. John Langdon, b. Sept. 25, 1809. Charles Emery, Married Mary Walker. Their children— 1. Charles Livermore, b. Aug. 8, 1808; d. 2. Clarissa Walker, b. Oct. 31, 1810; m. Horatio Hill; d., leaving one daughter. Jonathan Emerson. Jonathan Emerson 1 m. Lydia . Their children — 1, Nathaniel, b. Aug. 21, 1767. 2. Mehetiibel, b. April 29, 1769. 3. Lydia, b. July 21, 1770. 4. Jonathan, b. June 17, 1773. 0. Sarah, b. April 18, 1775. Jona- than Emerson 2 m. ]Mary . Their children — 6. Isaac, b. Jan. 19, 1782. 7. Samuel, b. May 2, 1783. 8. Polly, b. AprU 8, 1786. 9. Ruth, b. Feb. 25, 1788. 10. Mehetabel, b. May 13, 1790. 11. Nancy, b. Feb. 19, 1793; d. Sept. 16, 1794. 12. John, b. Feb. 19, 1793. David Evans. John, son of David and Abigail Evans, b. Sept. 13, 1731. Abigail, dau., b. Sept. 13, 1731. Stephen Farrington. See p. 140. Stephen Farrington m. Apphia Bradley. Their children — 1. Elizabeth, b. July 16, 1734. 2. Jonathan, b. April 12, 1737. 3. Stephen, b. May 13, 1739. 4. Apphia, b. June 16, 1741. 5. John, b. Dec. 17, 1743. 6'. Jeremiah, b. April 19, 1746. 7. Samuel, b. Aug. 10, 1748. Samuel Farrington. Samuel Farrington m. Miriam . Their daughter Apphia, b. Feb. Benjamin Fifield. Benjamin Fifield m. Hannah Peters. Their children — 1. Mary, b. April 1, 1748. 2. Obadiah Peters, b. Aug. 31, 1749. 3. WilUam, b. May 6, 1751. 4. Hannah, b. Dec. 21, 1752. 5. Benjamin, b. Oct. 4, 1754. 6. Jonathan, b. Aug. 9, 1756. 7. Sarah, b. July 13, 1758. 8. Paul, b. Auo-, 5, 1760. 9. John, b. May 20, 1762. 10. Moses, b. Aug. 11, 1764. 11. David, b. Jan. 16, 1767. 12. Shuah, b. Jan. 27, 1769. Benjamin Fifield d. March 8, 1794. Hannah Fifield d. WiLLi.\M Fifield. WiUiam Fifield m. Dorothy Eastman Nov. 21, 1776, Their cliildren— 1. Mollv, b. Sept. 30, 1777. 2. Jeremiah, b. March 20, 1779. 3. Rebec- ca, b. Nov. 22, 1782. 4. William, b. Oct. 24, 1784. 6. Moses, b. Oct. 20, 1786. 7. Philip, b. Dec. 18, 1788. 8. Molly, b. Aug. 9, 1791. Richard Fl.\nders. Richard Flanders m. Mary . Their children — 1. Oliver, b. April 21, 1765. 2. Phihp, b. Jan. 22, 1767. Zebulon Flanders. Zebulon Flanders m. Miriam , Their children — 1. Jacob, b. Nov. 19, 1759. 2. Josiah, b. April 3, 1761. 3. Olive, b. June 16, 1763. 4. Theodate, b. March 28, 1765. 5. Anne, b. April 10, 1767. 6. Jesse, b. Nov. 29, 1768. 7. Miriam, b. Sept. 2, 1771. 8. Israel, b. Aug. 21, 1773. 9. Molly, b. Nov. 29, 1775. 10. Joseph, b. Jan. 18, 1778. 11. Apphia, b. March 27, 1780. ^ ^ 45 706 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Abner Flanders. Abner Flanders m. Sarah Chandler. Their children— 1. Molly, b. Feb. 26, 1774. 2. Charles, b. Aug. 5, 1776. 3. Sarah, b. Nov. 7, 1779. 4. Nathan, b. March 13, 1782. 5. Samuel Wood, b. June 20, 1785. 6. Chris- topher Paige, b. May. 11, 1788. 7. Abner, b. May 21, 1790. EiCHARD Flanders. Richard Flanders m. Molly West, March 20, 1777. Their children— 1. Daniel, b. Dec. 17, 1778 ;"d. Dec. 9, 1854, aged 76. 2. Hannah, b. July 29, 1781. 3. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 23, 1784; d. Dec. 24, 1788. 4. John, b. Jan. 19, 1787 ; m. ]lachel Abbot. Their children— nine, viz., Lou- isa A., John W., AVilliam, Mary S., Daniel, Rachel A., Sarah A., George, George W. 5. Jacob, b. March 22, 1791; d. y. 6. Lydia, b. Aug. 11, 1793. 7. Jacob, b. 1795; m. Huldah Abbot; six children, viz., Richard M., Lucia Ann, Jacob N., George H., d. y., Lydia Louisa, Samuel A. and William H. OlIA'ER Fl.AN'DERS. OHver Flanders m. Abigail Chandler. Their children— 1. Peter, b. June 19, 1784. 2. Moses, b. Ajiril 21, 1786. 3. Richard, b. April 23, 1788. 4. Ebenezer, b. April 30, 1790. David Fl.axders. David Flanders m. Martha Their children— William Bus-oell, b. June 16, 1815. Samuel Blanchard, b. Sept. 17, 1816. Natil\a-iel Furber. Nathaniel Furber m. Abigail . Their children — Philip, b. June 24, 1786. Sally, b. Nov. 23, 1788. David George. David George m. Dorothv Abbot. Their children — 1. David, b. Jan. 4, 1767. 2. Hannah, b. June 23, 1768. 3. Jane, b. April 22, 1772. 4. Dolly, b. Feb. 8, 1774. 5. Betsey, b. Jan. 22, 1776. Dorothy, wife of David George, d., and he m. Hannah Colby. Their children — 6. Anne, b. Feb. 23, 1779. 7. Ruth, b. Jan. 16, 1781. 8. Thomas C, b. June 5, 1785. 9. Jacob R., b. July 20, 1787. 10. Christopher C, b. July 4, 1789. 11. Hector T., b. July i7, 1791. 12. Laura C, b. March 4, 1794. 13. Wash- mgton, b, Aug. 18, 1799. David George, Jr. David George, jr., m. Elizabeth Emery Aug. 30, 1789. Their children— 1. David Bailey, b. April 12, 1790 ; d. Dec. 12, 1824. 2. Charles Henry, b. Aug. 11, 1792. 3. Dollv, b. May 23, 1794. 4. Ehzabeth, b. May 10, 1797. 5. Hannah, b. July "29, 1800. 6. Ruth Emery, b. Aug. 14, 1802. 7. Sarah, b. Feb. 27, 1806. 8. :MattheAV Oliver, b. Jime 30, 1809. 9. Grace Low, b. Aug. 14, 1812; d. Elizabeth George, wife of David George, died Aug. 6, 1827, aged 56. David George died April 21, 1838, aged 70. John George. John George m. Ruth Bradlev. Their children— 1. Paul Rolfe, b. April 25, 1807. 2. Susan, b. Feb. 25, 1809; d. 3. Clarissa B., b. Sept. 3, 1811 ; m. Hamilton E. Perkins, Esq. Ruth, wife of John George, d. in May, 1821, and he married Mary Hatch, of Greenland. Their son, 4. John Hatch, b. Nov. 20, 1824. John George, Esq., d. Jan. 9, 1843, aged 62. GENEALOGICAL. 707 Zebulox Gitchel. Zebulon Gitchel m. Hannah . Their child — 1, Milliscnt. [daugh- ter,] b. Sept. 14, 17S1. Jacob Goodwin. Jacob Goodwin m. Sarah . Their child — 1. Philip, b. INIay 26, 1771. Samuel Goodwix. Samuel Goodwin m. Elizabeth . Their children — 1. Bettv, b. Sept. 12, 1774. 2. Mollv, b. July 22, 17 76. 3. Reul^en, b. May 27, 1778. 4. Asa, b. May 11, 1780i o. David, b. May 27, 1782. 6. Jonathan, b. May 27, 1784. 7. Patty, b. Aug. 24, 1786. ' 8. Susanna, b. Sept. 4, 1788. 9. Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 1791. 10. Sally, b. Sept. 3, 1793. George Graham. George Graham m. Azubah . Their children were : 1. Joshua, b. June 7, 1763. 2. Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1767. 3. Sarah, b. Feb. 18, 1770. 4. Asa, b. Xoy. 3, 1771. Joshua Graham. Joshua Graham, son of George, m. Hannah . Their children were : 1. Aaron, b. March 6, 1788. 2. Sally, b. May 31, 1790. 3. Nancy, b. May 30, 1792. Asa Graham. Asa Graham, son of George, 1 m. Sally West, by Avhom he had one child, Azuba. He 2 m. Eachel Morse, of Chester. Their children were : Sally, George, Joseph, Charles, Hannah. He 3 m. Sarah St. Clair, of Can- terbury, by whom he had four children : John S., Aaron, Elizabeth M. and Benjamin F. Samuel Gray. Samuel Gray m. Sarah . Their children were : 1. Sarah, b. Jan. 25, 1739; d. May 10, 1740. 2. Sarah, b. March 16, 1741; d. Sept. 4, 1746. 3. Mary, b. Dec. 29, 1743. Peter Greex, Esq. (See Lawyers.) Peter Green m. Elizabeth Bulkley. Their children were : 1. Polly, b. May 22, 1772; d. Sept. 13, 1783. 2. John Bulkley, b. Feb. 8, 1774; d. I\Iay26, 1779. 3. Sophia McUen, b. March 7, 1776; d. June 11, 1777. 4. Samuel Liyermore, b. July 10, 1778. 5. John Bulkley, b. Oct. 11, 1780. 5. Thomas Mellen, b.'Feb. 21, 1783. 7. Polly, b. Jan. 17, 1785. 8. Charlotte, b. Sept. 13, 1787. Peter Green died March 27, 1798. Rebecca Green, his wife, died May a, 1800. Samuel Greex, Esq. (See Lawyers.) Samuel, son of Nathaniel and Lucy Green, was born March 7, 1770; married Mary CofHn, of Chester. Slie d. 1806. Their- children were : Mary, Herman, Lucretia. He then m. widow Wardrobe, of Portsmouth. Their child, Hunking Wentworth. Nathaniel Green d. Aug., 1810, ag. 92. Dea. Joseph Hall. (See notice, pp. 136-7.) Dea. Joseph Hall m. July 5, 1736, Deborah Abbot. Their children were : 1, Joseph, b. July 17, 1737; d. June 10, 1807. 2. Sarah, b. Sept. 2oi 1738; d. Oct. 21, 1746. 3. Hannah, b. Noy. 24, 1740; d. Oct. 21, 1746. 4. Mary, b. March 17, 1742-3; d. Dec. 12, 1773. 5. Sarah, d. Noy. 4, 1746. 6. Jeremiah, b. Jan. 6, 1746; d. Oct. 8, 1770. Dea. Joseph Hall died April 8, 1784, aged 77. Deborah Hall died Oct. 25, 1801, aged 97. 708 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Jeremiah PIall. Jeremiah Hall ra. Esther Whittemore, 1769. Their child, Sarah, b. Aug. 29, 1770. Ebenezer Hall. Ebenezer Hall m. Hephzibah Their children were : Ebenezer, b. Aug. 8, 1744. Hephzibah, wife of Ebenezer Hall, died Aug. 23, 1744. He then married Dorcas Abbot, June 17, 1746, in Bradford, Mass. Their children were : Hephzibah, b. March 29, 1757. Obadiah, b. Oct. 2, 1748. Dorcas, b. Jan. 13, 1751; d. Sept. 5, 1823. Sarah, b. Feb, 4, 1753. Daniel, b. Jan. 13, 1755. Timothy, b. Jime 5, 1757, Stephen, b. Mav 13, 1759. Abiel, b. May 31, 1761." Lydia, b. Oct. 10, 1767. Deborah, _b. Sept. 18, 1769; d. Oct. 25, 1791, at Grantham or Lebanon, being the wife of Daniel Barker. Ebenezer Hall, sen., died April 24, 1801. Dorcas, his wife, died Sept. 28, 1797, aged 69. Dea. David Hall. Dea. David Hall, son of David and Naomi Gage, m. Sept. 22, 1737, Ruth Colby. Their children were: 1. Anna, b. March 29, 1767. 2. Sim- eon Gage, b. Oct. 11, 1768 ; m. Sarah Hardy, Sept. 22, 1801. Their chil- dren were: 1. Edward, b. April 20, 1802. 2. Samuel Colby, b, April 21, 1803. 3. Lewis, b. March 23, 1805. 4. Louisa, b. Aug. 9, 1806. 5. Margaret Wiggin, b. Feb. 7, 1808. Stephen Hall. Stephen Hall m. Patience Flanders, of Boscawen. Their children were : 1. Moses, b. May 12, 1780. 2. Susanna, b. Nov. 13, 1781. 3. Anne, b. Feb. 17, 1784. 4, John Coffin, b. Jan. 21, 1786. 5. Lydia, b. March 2, 1788. 6. Abiel, b. Jan. 21, 1790. 7. Debbee, b. March 16, 1792. 8. Sally, b. April 28, 1794. 9. Harriet. 10. Stephen. 11. Ebenezer. Stephen Hall, sen., died Nov. 23, 1808, aged 49. Patience Hall died Feb. 17, 1834, aged 75. Daniel Hall. Daniel Hall m. Deborah Davis. Their chidren were : 1. Dorcas, b. Aug. 14, 1776. 2. Ebenezer, b. May 9, 1778. 3. Robert, b. June 16, 1780; d. Aug. 18, 1805, in West Indies. 4. Joseph, b. May 4, 1782. 5. Jere- miah, b. May 4, 1782. 6. James, b. June 19, 1784. 7. Simeon, b. March 16, 1786. 8. Sally, b. Sept. 11, 1788. 9. Polly, b. Mav 9, 1790 ; d. Sept. 28, 1798. 10. Daniel, b. June 17, 1792. 11. Hannah, b. March 12, 1794 ; d March 16, 1794. 12. Ivory, b. Aug. 25, 1795. 13. John Calvin, b. Sept. 12, 1798. 14. Polly, b."July 27, 1801; d. July 19, 1803. Daniel Hall, sen., died Feb. 18, 1835, aged 80. Deborah Hall, his first wife d. Nov., 1822, aged 65. Ehzabeth, his second wife, d. Dec, 1831, aged 74. Benjamin Hannafokd. Benjamin Hannaford m. Ruth . Their children were: 1. John, b. May 5, l763; d. Oct. 3, 1777. 2. James, b. Jan. 4, 1765. 3. Phebe, b. April 15, 1766. 4. Greeley, b. Nov. 19, 1767. 5. Ruth, b. June 21, 1770. 6. Sarah, b. AprU 16, 1772. Ruth, wife of Benjamin Hannaford, died Oct. 23, 1777. Benjamin Han- naford died 1811, aged 76. Philip Harriman. Philip Harriman m. Hannah . Their children were : 1. John, b. Nov. 30, 1767. 2. Moses, b. Feb. 5, 1770. 3. Lois, b. March 10,. 1772. GENEALOGICAL. 709 4, Ruth, b. March 12, 1774. 5. Leonard, b. :March 8, 1776. 6. Hub- bard, b. Feb. 28, 1779. Richard H.\zeltine. Richard Hazeltlne m. Sarah Hall. Then- children were : 1. Joseph, b. Dec. 27, 1731 ; d. Mav 30, 1798. 2. Sarah, b. Feb. 3, 1734; d. June 22, 1735. 3. James, b. May 1, 1736; d. Mav 17, 1736. 4. Sarah, b. Jan. 2, 1738? d. Mav, 1829. "a. James, b. March 25, 1740? 6. Richard, b. April 5, 1742 ;' d. Aug. 21, 1817. 7. William, b. June 16, 1744. 8. Abi- gail, b. Aug. 20. 1749, 9. Hannah, b. March 16, 1752. 10. Barnes, b. Aug. 23, 1754. Richard Haseltine, Jr. Richard Haseltinc, jr., m. Hephzibah . Their cliildren were : 1. Mary, b. May 25, 1766 ; d. Sept. 29, 1793. 2. Abigail, b. April 24, 1768. 3. Joseph, b. Nov. 17, 1770. 4. Richard, b. Nov. 28, 1773. 5. Timothy, b. Aug. 28, 1776; m. Lydia ; six ch. ; d. Julv 24, 1811. 6. Barnes, b. Nov. 3, 1778; d. Nov. 6, 1799. 7. Sallv, b. Jan. 23, 1781. 8. Hannah, b. April 29, 1783. 9. Betsey, b. May 23, 1785. Joseph Haseltine. Joseph Haseltine m. Elizabeth Abbot. Their children were : 1. Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1755. 2. Abigail, b. Sept. 3, 1758 ; d. April 17, 1785 ; Avife of John Page, of Haverhill. 3. Anna, b. Mav 19, 1760. 4. Peter, b. Sept. 23, 1762; d. Nov. 20, 1779. 5. Susanna, b. Sejjt. 12, 1765. 6. Hannah, b. Aug. 31, 1767. 7. Ballard, b. Sept. 4, 1769. 8. Betty, b. Oct. 3, 1771. 9. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 24, 1774; d. Feb. 23, 1796. Joseph Hazeltine died May 30, 1798, in his 67th year. Elizabeth Haz- eltlne died Jan. 25, 1834, aged 100 years, 6 months and 13 days. Ballard H^izeltine. Ballard Hazeltine m. Sallv Noyes. Their children were: 1. Peter, b. Jan. 7, 1793. 2. John, b. Oct. 12, 1794. 3. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 2, 1797. 4. Joseph, b. Nov. 29, 1799; m. Al)igail Whitmarsh ; 6 ch. 5. Eliza, b. Dec. 5, 1802. 6. Mary, b. May 21, 1805. 7. Emily, b. Aug. 3, 1807. 8. Sally, b. July 16, 1809. 9. Nancy Jane, b. Sept. 24, 1812. Ballard Hazeltme died at Platts'burg, N. Y., 1836, aged 66. James H.^zeltine. James Hazeltine m. Susanna . Their children Avere : 1. John, b. June 3, 1763. 2. Amos, b. Feb. 6, 1765; d. Jan. 3, 1780. 3. David, b. March 7, 1770. 4. Ruth, b. July 28, 1772. 5. James, b. March 21, 1786. John Hazeltine. John Hazeltine m. Hannah . Their children Mere : 1. Amos, b. Jan. 16, 1787. 2. Susanna, b. Mav 5, 1788. 3. Sarah, b. Feb. 28, 1790. 4. Nancy, b. May 1, 1792. 5. Dolly, b. Jan. 31, 1794. Joseph Hazeltine. Joseph Hazeltine, son of Richard, m. Ruth Chase. Their children were : I. William, b. Feb. 8, 1792. 2. Mary, b. March 7, 1794. 3. Susanna H., b. April 15, 1796. 4. Daniel H., b. May 7, 1798. 5. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 4, 1801. 6. Peter, b. Feb. 3, 1803. 7. Phebe, b. March 7, 1805. 8. Sarah, b. June 13, 1807. 9. Lucy T., b. July 6, 1809. 10. Timothy. II. John C. Asa Herrick. Asa Herrick m. Annas . Their children : 1. John, b. July 18, 1780 ; d. May 1, 1797. 2. Polly, b. May 28, 1782. 3. Asa, b. May 23, 1784. 710 HISTORY OF CONCORD. 4. Anna, b. July 4, 1786. 5. Israel, b. June 1, 1789. 6. Moses, b. Oct. 2, 1792. Annas Herrick died Sept., 1797, and he married Abigail Hilton. Their son, 7. Asa, b. Aug. 28, 180o. Lt. Asa Herrick d. April 23, 1822, aged 68. D.\MEL Hills. Daniel Hills m. Hannali . Their children were : 1. Hannah, b. Feb. 9, 1786. 2. John, b. Jan 16, 1789 ; d. April 22, 1790. Isaac Houston. Isaac Houston m. Molly . Their children were : 1. Sarah, b. Sept. 20, 1786. 2. Phebe,' b. Feb. 24, 1789 ; d. y. Molly Houston d. Aug. 13, 1791. Samuel Ixgals. Samuel Ingals m. EHzabeth . Their child, 1. Anna, T^-as b. Nov. 15, 1767. Jonathan Johnson. Jonathan Johnson m. Rhoda Abbot, Jan. 8, 1778. Their children were: 1. Phebe, born Sept. 10, 177S. 2. Timothy, b. Jan. 10, 1780. 3. Elea- nor, b. Oct. 16, 1781. 4. llhoda, b. Noy. 1, 1783. 5. Hannah, b. May 13, 1785. 6. John, b. Feb. 17, 1787 ; d. Dec. 2, 1790. 7. Reuben, b. Jan. 12, 1789. 8. Sarah Carter, b. May 15, 1791. 9. John, b. Jan. 15, 1793. 10. Phihp, b. March 11, 1795. 11. Ruth, b. Aug. 24, 1797. Nathan Kinsman. Nathan Kinsman m. Mercy . Their ch. were : 1. Nathan, b. April 22, 1767 ; d. April 15, 1776. 2. Mercy, b. April 10, 1769. 3. Mercy, Avife of Nathan Kinsman, d., and he married 2d Elizabeth Shattuck. Their chil- dren : 4. Stephen, b. Aug. 14, 1773. 5. Peter, b. Aug. 3, 1775; d. Mar. 21, 1776. 6. Nathan, b. Noy. 14, 1777; d. at Portland, March, 1829. 7. Peter, b. Nov. 22, 1779. 8. Mercy, b. Oct. 4, 1781. 9. Timothy, b. Aug. 17, 1783 ; d. at Lincoln, aUas Morristown. Ephraim Knowlton. Ephraim Knowlton m. Mary . Their children were : 1. Hannah, b. Aug. 30, 1738. 2. Timothy, b. Feb. 24, 1740. Dudley Ladd. Dudley Ladd m. Bethiah Hutchins. Their children were : 1. Samuel Greenleaf, b. April 14, 1784. 2. John, b. Feb. 15, 1786. 3. Dudley, b. Aug. 19, 1789. 4. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 25, 1791. 5. Wilham Manley, b. Feb. 9, 1794. Edward St. Loe Livermore, Married Mehetabel Harris. Their children Avere : 1. Carohne, b. June 22, 1785. 2. Samuel, b. Aug. 26, 1786. 3. Harriet, b. April 14, 1788. 4. Robert Harris, b. Oct. 1, 1790. Henry Loyejoy, Married Phebe . Their children were: 1. Henry, b. • ; d. Oct. 22, 1745. 2. Henry, b. Sept. 27, 1746; d. Aug. '18, 1747. 3. Hannah, b. June 26, 1748. Capt. Henry Lovejoy d. March 15, 1793. Chandler Loyejoy, First married ^Ilriam . Tlieir children were : 1. John, b. Jan. 23, 1766. 2. Miriam, b. July 25, 1767. 3. Phinehas, b. July 16, 1770; d. Jan. 19, 1786. 4. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 17, 1772. 5. Peter Chandler, b. GENEALOGICAL. Vll Dec. 17, 1776; d. Aug. 17, 1778. 6. Sarah, b. June 27, 1783. 7. Phin- ehas, b. Feb. 29, 1788. Chandler Lovcjov d. Nov. 30, 1827, aged 86. His second wife, Azubah Graham, d. July 29, 1829, aged 91. John Lovejoy, Married Abigail Ambrose. Their children were : 1. Polly, b. May 19, 1792. 2. Judith, b. ?»Iav 24, 1794. 3. Harriet, b. April 4, 1796. Abigail, wife of John Lovejoy, d. :March 26, 1832, aged 64. John Love- joy d.Sept. 6, 1837, aged 71. " Ebenezer Lovejoy, Married Susanna Their children were : 1. Charlotte, 1). Sept. 14, 1798. 2. Henry, b. July 13, 1800. 3. John, b. May 20, 1802. 4. Peter, b. April 12, 1806. 5. Joel, b. Feb. 21, 1808. 6. WilUam, b. Mar. 12, 1810. 7. Abigail, b. Sept. 25, 1813. Henry Martin, married Esther . Their children were : 1. John, b. July 30, 1768. 2. Esther, b. May 26, 1770. 3. Daniel, b. July 16, 1772. *4. Kimball, b. Dec. 7, 1774. 5. Solomon, b. Feb. 11, 1777. 6. Henry, b. Aug. 7, 1779; married wid. Polly Fcrrin ; two chil- dren. 7. Hannah, b. Sept. 6, 1781. 8. Mary, b. Oct. "30, 1785. Henry Martin d. Dec. 12, 1821, aged 82 years. Benjamin Morse, married Rachel . Their children were : 1. Benjamin, b. at Amesbury, June 24, 1771. 2. Jonathan, b. at New- town, Jan. 29, 1774. 3. Sally, b. Aug. 8, 1777. 4. Nabbee, b. April 7, 1780. 5. Ptachel, b. Sept. 1, 1782. 6. Harmah, b. Nov. 17, 1785. 7. Luke, b. Oct. 18, 1789 ; d. Dec. 10, 1793. 8. Ruthee, b. July 10, 1792. Benjamin ^SIorse, Jr., married Dolly . Their children were : 1. Sabra, b. Nov. 14, 1793. 2. Dorothy, b. Aug, 1, 1795. John Odlin, married Sally Herbert, Nov. 20, 1791. Their child, 1. Charlotte, d. Fel). 10, 1793. Sarah H. Odhn died April 7, 1794, and he 2 m. ^lary Souther, widow of John Souther. Their son, 2. Woodbridge, was b. March 19, 1810. Joseph Ord\vay, married Mehetabel . Their children were : 1. Lydia, b. June 9, 1731 ; d. March 2, 1732. 2. Joseph, b. March 11, 1732. "3. John, b. Jan. 27, 1734. 4. Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1736. 5. Eben- ezer, b. Sept. 20, 1738. 6. Lydia, b. Aug." 4, 1740. 7. Edward, b. Jan. 30, 1741 ; d. Nov. 22, 1743. 8. , b. Jan. 25, 1743. 9. Edward, b. March 14, 1745 ; d. Sept. 24, 1746. 10. Samuel, b. Oct. 22, 1747. James Orkings, married Hannah . Their son, 1. James, b. at Kingston, Dec. 30, 1777. David Page, married Ruth . Their ch. Susanna, b. June 7, 1763. Daniel Page, married Lydia . Their children were : 1. Betsey, b. at Haverhill, Nov. 23, 1777. 2. Lydia, b. at ILaverhill, 712 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Feb. 1, 1781. 3. Hannah, b. April 26, 1783. 4. Daniel, b. Feb. 23, 1785. 5. Francis, b. June 26, 1787. 6. Peter, b. June 28, 1790. 7. Nancy, b. Aug. 11, 1792. 8. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 15, 1794. Job Page, Married Lydia . Their children were : 1. Sally, h. Oct. 15, 1783. 2. Jerry, b. Aug. 15, 1785. 3. Nancy, b. Dec. 22, 1787 ; d. March 21, 1788. 4. Rhoda, b. April 13, 1790 ; d. Sept. 5, 1791. 5. Charlotte, b. March 3, 1792. 6. llhoda, b. Oct. 11, 1794. 7. James Kimball, b. June 20, 1798. Bexjamin Paine, Married Hannah Dearborn, of Chester. Their children were : 1. WilHam Babcock, b. Oct. 4, 1797. 2. Nathaniel Dearborn, b. Feb. 25, 1799. 3. John Ballard, b. Sept. 4, 1803. William Partridge, Married Elizabeth . Their children were : 1. WiUiam Woodbram, Feb. 25, 1790, at Boston. 2. John Stevens, b. June 24, 1791. 3. Sarah, b. July 20, 1793. Zephaniah Pattee, Married . Their child, 1. Elizabeth, b. April 9, 1767. James Peters, Married Elizabeth . Their children were : 1. James, b. Jan. 19, 1738. 2. William, b. Dec. 7, 1740. 3. Obadiah, b. Oct. 8, 1747. John Putney, Married Anna . Their child, Anna, was b. Oct. 11, 1747. Samuel Putney, Married Elizabeth . Their child, Rebecca, was b. Nov. 2, 1728. William Putney, Married Hannah . Their child, Hannah, was b. July 17, 1747. Jonathan Runnels, Son of Abraham and Hannah Runnels, was born Aug. 16, 1758, at Lee ; married Dorothy Dimond, daughter of Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond, born July 27, 1758. Their children were : 1. Samuel, b. July 30, 1781. 2. ISIiriam, b. July 3, 1783. 3. Ezekiel Dimond, b. Jan. 21, 1786. 4. Abner, b. March 2, 1789. 5. Israel, b. July 14, 1793. 6. Jonathan, b. Sept. 29, 1795. Joseph Runnels, Married Joanna Farnum. Their children were : 1. Joseph, b. March 27, 1782. 2. Isaac, b. Nov. 27, 1784. 3. Theo- dore, b. April 2, 1786. 4. Sarah, b. May 2, 1788. 5. Jonathan, b. Mar. 28, 1790. 6. Josiah, b. April 10, 1792. 7. Farnum, b. March 1, 1794; d. March 3, 1794. 8. Farnum, b. Jan. 25, 1795. 9. Dorcas, b. July 9, 1797. 10. Hazen, b. Sept. 21, 1801. John Russ. Married Priscilla . Their children were : 1. Priscilla, b. June 3, 1733. 2. Anna, b. June 19, 1734 ; d. May 4, 1738. 3. John, b. Nov. 2, 1736. 4. Anna, b. Dec 13, 1740. GENEALOGICAL. 713 Elij.'IH Russell, Printer, Married Polly Davis, March 25, 1 794. Their children were : 1. Joshua Thompson, b. Oct. 20, 1794. 2. Sally Thompson, b. Feb. 20, 1797. 3. Daniel Livermore, b. Nov. 27, ISOO. 4. Mary Walker. Elijah Russell died. Polly Russell died Dec. 3, 1819, aged 46. Nathaniel Rix, ^Married Mary . Their children were : 1. James, b. Dec. 13, 1743. 2. Peter, b. March 8, 174o-6. Christopher Rowell, Jr., Married Lydia Abbot, Oct. 27, 1796. Their children were : 1. Ira, b. May 29, 1797 ; 1 m. Elizabeth Thompson, who d. leaving one child, Thompson. He 2 m. Rebecca Kimball. Their children were : AVil- liam K., Elizabeth T., Thomas E., James H., iSIary C, Rebecca K. and Christopher. 2. Thomas, m. Bridget W. Farnum. Their children were : Peter C. Farnum, Lydia. He died April 20, 1832, aged 32. Thomas Saltmarsh, Married Betty Abbot. Their children were : 1. Mehetabel, b. April 12, 1762. 2. John, b. May 21, 1764. 3. Mary, b. Aug. 28, 1766. Barnard Sargent, Married Anna . Their son, Thomas Barnard, b. Feb. 20, 1793. James Scales, Married Susanna . Their children were : 1. John, b. Aug. 4, 1737. 2. Joseph, b. April 15, 1740; d. y. 3. Ste- phen, b. Oct. 16, 1741 ; grad. at Harvard Coll. 1763, and d. at Chelmsford, Mass., Nov. 5, 1772. James Scales removed to Canterbury, and was afterwards ordained the first minister of Hopkinton, where he died July 26, 1776. Joseph Sherburne, Married Dorcas Hall, Nov. 13, 1800. Their children were : 1. Robert, b. Sept. 20, 1801 ; m. Ruth Eaton ; four children. 2. Wash- ington, b. Nov. 19, 1804. 3. Almira, b. Aug. 13, 1806. 4. Mary J., b. Feb. 24, 1808, posthumous; m. Oliver L. Sanborn. Joseph Sherburne d. July 29, 1807, aged 37. Samuel Silver, Married Abigail . Their children were : Obed, b. Julv 4, 1789, at Bow. Buswell, b. Aug. 3, 1791, at Bow. Arad, b. Aug. 5, 1793. Benjamin Simpson, Married Mary Their children were: Nathaniel, b. May 9, 1790. Paul, b. Dec. 1, 1791. John Souther, Married Mary Stickney, dau. of Col. Thomas S. Their children were : 1. Thomas Stickney, b. Jan. 3, 1786; d. March, 1814, at Conwav. 2. Samuel, b. Sept. 17, 1787. 3. Anna, b. Feb. 19, 1791. 4. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1795; d. April 30, 1797. 5. John, b. June 20, 1793; d. March, 1835, at Charlestown, Mass. 6. Ehzabeth, b. Sept. 30, 1797. 7. Joseph, b. Oct. 28, 1803; d. Oct. 27, 1804. John Souther d. Nov. 23, 1804, aged 44. 714 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Matthew Standley, ]MavriocI !Mary . Their children were : 1. Samuel, b. Aug. 11, 1743. 2. Joseph, 3. John, b. April 30, 1745. 4. Uenjamin, b. April 24, 1747. 5. Molly, b. Aug. 21, 1749. Aaron Stevens, Coroner. Married Deborah . Their children Avere : 1. Deborah, b. Oct. 30, 1734; d. June 8, 1737. 2. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1736; d. June 16, 1737. 3. Deborah, b. March 30, 1737? 4. Susanna, b. Feb. 13, 1738. Aaron Stevens d. Feb. 2, 1796, in his 86th year. Deborah Stevens d. March 18, 1796, in her 86th year. James Stevens, ^Married Susanna . Their children were : 1. Judith, b. Oct. 16, 1767. 2. WilUam, b. Sept. 5, 1769. 3. PhiHp, b. Sept. 7, 1773. 4. Susanna, b. Aug. 7, 1776. 5. Daniel, b. Dec. 20, 1778. 6. Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1780. 7. James, b. Aug. 8, 1783. 8. Sim- eon, b, Dec. 27," 1787. John Stevens, ^Married Sarah . Their children were : 1. Mabel Jcnners, b. April 14, 1776; d. May, 1836, in Maine. 2. Grace, b. July 25, 1778. 3. John, b. Jan. 15, 1780. 4. Stephen Grcenleaf, b. Feb. 24, 1782. 5. Thomas Jenners, b. Oct. 2, 1787. 6. Benjamin Wood, b. Nov. 27, 1789. John Stevens, Esq., d. Dec. 25, 1792; see Biography. Sarah Stevens, his wife, d. May 11, 1804, aged 53. Thomas Stevens, Married Lydia . Their child, Betsey, was b. March 23, 1795. Moses Swete, Married Sallv . Their children were : 1. Sally, b. Feb. 17, 1793. 2. Frederick WiUiam, b. Dec. 14, 1794. Moses Sweat, ^Married Naomi Farnum. Their children were : Ephraim, b. Sept. 25, 1805; Clarissa S., b. Oct. 10, 1811. Benjamin Thompson, Married Susanna Stevens, 1776. Their children were: 1. Sarah, b. Nov. 1, 1776. 2. Benjamin, b. Feb. 2, 1779. 3. Joshua, b. July 8, 1781. 4. Nathan, b. Sept. 6, 1783. 5. Charles, b. Aug. 24, 1785. 6. Betsey, b. Feb. 4, 1788. 7. James, b. July 12, 1791. 8. Sam- uel, b. July 24, 1*793. 9. Abiel, b. Aug. 12, 1795. 10. Hannah, b. Aug. 12, 1795. 11. Persis, b. Nov. 8, 1797. Susan Thompson d. Dec. 10, 1798, aged 44. Samuel Thompson, Married Sally . Their children were : Nancy, b. Nov. 27, 1780. Sally, daughter of Samuel and Miriam Thompson, b. Dec. 18, 1785. Reuben, b. Dec. 24, 1787. John,b. Jan. 5, 1790; resides in llichmond, Va., a gentleman of property and distinction. He gave one hundred dollars towards the erection of the Episcopal church in Concord. His son, John R. Thompson, is editor of the Southern Lite- rary Messenger. GENEALOGICAL. 715 John Thorndike, M. D., ISIarriecI Mary Wilson, March 25, 1792. Their children were : Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1793; m. Charles Hutchins. John Larkin, b. April 23, 1796 ; lives in Pittsfield. Thomas Wilson, b. Nov. 20, 1797 ; lives in Weare. JUDAII TrUMBLE, Or Trumbull, married Grace . Their children were : 1. Marv, b. June 1, 1737. 2. Simon, b. Dec. 14, 1739; d. Feb., 1800. 3. Samuel, b. June 7, 1743. 4. Nathaniel, b. March 30, 1746. 5. John, b. ]May 30, 1749. 6. Ruth, b. July 4, 1752. John Trumbull, Married Lucy . Their child, EHzabeth, b. Dec. 11, 1792. Eliphalet Tucker, Married Anna . Their children were: Arthur, b. June S, 1791. John Sawyer, b. Aug. 12, 1794. Seth Tucker, Married EHza Kent. Their children were : Lucy Maria, Charles, George Brinley. Bela Turner, Married Ruth llannaford. Their children were : Lucv, b. Dec. 7, 1792, at Hanover. John Hannaford, b. Sept. 19, 1794; d. Oct. 19, 1796. Stephen Tuttle, Married Jane Their children were : 1. Jesse Carr, b. Sept. 20, 1779, at Goffstown ; m. Zerviah Abbot. 2. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 21, 17S1, at Gotistown. 3. Willis, b. June 27, 1784, at Goffstown. 4. Hall, b. Oct. 10, 1789. 5. Nancy, b. Feb. 18, 1792. Stephen Tuttle died Oct. 11, 1801, aged 48 years. Ebenezer Virgin, married Hannah . Their children were : 1. Phinehas, b. Nov. 21, 1733. 2. Ebenezer, b. May 25, 1735. 3. WiUiam, b. July 4, 1737; d. Aug. 21, 1803. 4. Jonathan, b. Oct. 29, 1740; d. Feb. 8, 1755. 5. Miriam, b. Mav 23, 1744. 6. Ehjah, b. June 17, 1747. 7. John, b. Aug. 8, 1749; d. May 19, 1786. Ebenezer Virgin died 1766. See p. 245. Phinehas Virgin, married Abiah . Their children were : 1. Ruth, b. Dec. 7, 1775; died July 29, 1803, wife of Jacob Hovt. 2. Abigail, b. Feb. 20, 1777. 3. Phinehas, b. Aug. 12, 1779. Ebenezer Virgin, son of first Ebenezer, married Dorcas . Their children were : 1. Jonathan, b. Nov. 23, 1758 ; d. Max 9, 1813. 2. Mollv, b. Jan. 3, 1761. 3. Ehjah, b. March 7, 1763. 4. Hannah, b. June 5, 1765. 5. Dan- iel, b. Mav 5, 1767. 6. Phebe, b. Aug. 5, 1769. 7. Henry, b. Nov. 19, 1771. 8." Simon, b. Sept. 21, 1779. 9. Peter Chandler, b. July 23, 1783. Jonathan Virgin, son of second Ebenezer, married Sarah . Their children were : 1. Pattv, b. March 21, 1783. 2. Hazzen, b. March 20, 1785. 3. Aaron, b. April 28, 1787. 4. Isaac, b. July 14, 1789. 716 HISTORY OF CONCORD. John Virgin, son of first Ebenezer, married Betty . Their children were : 1. James, b. Feb. 18, 177o ; d. March 8, 1775. 2. Susanna, b. Sept. 4, 1777. 3. Sallv, b. May 30,1780. 4. John, b. Jan. 14,1783. [See no- tice of, p. 496.] 5, Joel, b. Nov. 30, 1785. William Virgin, son of first Ebenezer, married Mehetabel . Their children were : 1. Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1762; d. June 4, 1797. 2. Jeremiah, b. Sept. 7, 1765. 3. Ebenezer, b. March 15, 1767. 4. William, b. April 22, 1769. 5. Abial, b. Feb. 21, 1771. 6. Bettv, b. Jan. 15, 1773. 7. Bethiah, b. Feb. 23, 1775. 8. Miriam, b. April 6, 1777. 9. Molly, b. May 23, 1779 ; d. July, 1810. 10. Simeon, b. Nov. 11, 1781. 11. Hannah, b. Jan. 18, 1784. William Virgin d. Aug. 26, 1803, aged 66 years. Ariel Virgin, son of WiUiam, married Mehitabel . Their children were : 1. WilUam Manlv, b. Dec. 13, 1795. 2. Charlotte, b. jNIay 23, 1798. 3. Ira, b. April 7, 1800. 4. Charles, b. Dec. 10, 1802; d. Oct. 14, 1804. 5. Janette, b. Sept. 29, 1804. 6. Charles, b. Oct. 11, 1806. 7. Jonathan Ambrose. 8. Samuel. Jeremiah Virgin, Son of William, married Jenny . Their children were : 1. Jonathan Sticknev, b. Oct. 29, 1793. 2. John, b. July 16, 1795. 3. Harriet, b. May 1, 1805. Isaac Waldrox, Married Susanna Chandler. Their children were : 1. Jacob, b. March 2, 1743. 2. Isaac, b. June 18, 1746. 3. Susanna, b. June 9, 1751. Jacob Waldron, Married Sarah . Their children Avere : 1. Ezra, b. May 2, 1765. 2. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 29, 1767. Stephen Ward, Married Elizabeth . Their son, Jonathan, b. Aug. 17, 17 — . John Weeks, Married Susanna Abbot. Their children were : 1. Abigail, b. June 29, 1786. 2. Mary, b. July 13, 1788. 3. Nancy, b. April 7, 1791. 4. Joseph, b. July 21, 1793. 5. James, b. Nov. 22, 1795. 6. Timothy Abbot, b. Sept. 17, 1797. 7. Samuel, b. May 25, 1799. 8. George, b. Oct. 26, 1801 ; d. y. 9. Eliza, b. Nov. 17, 1802. 10. Harriet Stickney, b. April 11, 1806. John Webster. John Webster m. Jane . Their children were : 1. Sarah, b. May 20, 1734. 2. Jane, b. May 18, 1735. 3. Stephen, b, June 26, 1736. 4. Sarah, b. July 11, 1740. Jeremiah Wheeler, Married Kezia . Their children were : 1. Dorcas, b. Feb. 4, 1771. 2. Pollv, b. Sept. 10, 1772. 3. Abel, b. Sept. 2, 1774. 4. Betty, b. May 25, 1776. 5. Hannah, b. Feb. 21, 1778. 6. Sally, b. May 27, 1780. 7. WilHam, b. July 5, 1782. Mr. Wheeler 2 GENEALOGICAL. 717 m. Sarah Abbot, and had children : 8. Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1791. 9. John, b. Feb. 25, 1793. 10. Jeremiah, b. Feb. 14, 1795. 11. Ruth ^Y., h. Jan. 4, 1799. 12. Judith, b. Aug. 10, 1802. 13. :Miriam, b. June 21, 1805. Keziah Wheeler died Aug. 12, 1789. Jeremiah Wheeler, sen., d. Oct. 17, 1827, aged 80. Mrs. Sarah, his Avife, d. Aug. 20, 1847, aged 88. Zenas Wiieelek, Married Shuah Fifield. Their children were : 1. Zenas, b. March 8, 1792. 2. William, b. Oct. 22, 1793. 3. Uriah, b. Aug. 15, 1795. 4. Elizabeth, b. March 16, 1797. 5. Asa Herrick, Sherburne Wiggin, Married Margaret . Then- children were : 1. Harriet, b. Nov. 3, 1798. 2. Charles Sherburne, b. Jan. 28, 1801 ; d. March 15, 1809. 3. Mary Gordon, b. July 12, 1802. 4. Grace Stevens, b. Oct. 6, 1806. 5. George, b. May 24, 1808. 6. Washington, b. May 24, 1808. 7. Nancy Green, b. July"l0, 1810. Sherburne Wiggin died March, 1814. Samuel Willard, Married Sarah Thompson. Their son, Moses Thompson, b. Jan. 21, 1783. Jonathan Wilkins, Married Sarah Hall, 1787. Their children were: 1. Sophia, b. May 21, 1788. 2. Janette, b. Oct. 13, 1789. 3. Jere- miah Hall, b. Dec. 25, 1791. 4. Joseph Hall, b. Jan. 22, 1794 ; d. July 24, 1819, at Matanzas, Cuba. 5. Sally, b. July 24, 1796. 6. Esther, b. Julv 5, 1798. 7. Fanny, b. Jan. 21, 1800. 8. C^iithia, b. Sept. 13, 1802. 9. Caroline, b. Feb. 21, 1805. 10. Rufus, b. March 27, 1807. 11. Mary. 12. Erastus, b. Dec. 16, 1811. 13. Charlotte, b. May, 1818. Sarah Wilkins d. Feb. 16, 1826, aged 55. Jonathan Wilkins, Esq., many years deacon of the First Church, d. March 9, 1830, aged 75. Thomas Wilson, Married Mary Hall. Their children were : 1. Molly, b. July 23, 1772; d. Jan., 1849. 2. Elizabeth, b. July 24, 1779. 3. "Rebecca, b. April 4, 1782. 4. Ruth, b. Nov. 20, 1783 ; d. Nov. 27, 1789. 5. Thomas, b. Nov. 1, 1786. 6. Ruth, b. Nov. 27, 1791; d. March, 1844. Mary Wilson died Jan. 7, 1796. Thomas Wilson d. May 23, 1818, in the 73d year of his age. 718 HISTORY OF CONCORD. No. 5. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. LAWYERS. Names of Laavters who have practised in Concord, arranged in the order of their graduation or of entering tlie profession, with brief notices, more par- ticularly of those who have deceased. .?Vote._Tlie author regrets that the limits of this History do not admit of his giving— as he has the means of doing— more full notices of professional men ; but the names of most of those who have been any considerable time residents in Concord are found already In the body of this work. Their actual connection with the history of Concord may be seen by reference to their names in the Index, in the List of Officers, and in many cases in the record of families. I. Peter Green, son of Nathaniel Green, born in Worcester, Mass., 1746; opened an office hi Concord, 1767. He was chosen State Councillor in 1788 and 1789. See pp. 272-3, and "Officers." He died March 27, 1798, aged 52. H. Edward St. Loe Litermore, son of Hon. Samuel Livermore, born in Londonderry, 1761, entered upon his profession in Concord, 1783 ; So- licitor for Rockingham County, 1791-3; Judge in the Superior Court of Judicature, 1797-1799 ; then resided at Portsmouth. He was also Mem- ber of Congress from Massachusetts. His first wife was Mehetabel, daugh- ter of Robert Harris, of Concord ; his second Avife a Miss Stackpole, of Boston, by whom he had children. He was the father of the celebrated Harriet Livermore, born in Concord, April 14, 1788. He died at Tewks- bury, Ms., Sept. 15, 1832, aged 71. HL Thomas W. Thompson, son of Dea. Thomas Thompson, of Boston, born March 10, 1766; graduated at H. U. 1786; was tutor in College, 1789 ; Aid to Gen. Lincoln at the time of " Shays' Rebellion ;" commenced the practice of law at SaUslniry, 1791; Representative from that town in the State Legislature; chosen Representative to Congress 1805-1807. In 1810, Treasurer of the State, when he moved to Concord. Speaker of the House in the State Legislature, 1813 and 1814 ; Senator in Congress, 1814- 1817 ; elected Trustee" of Dartmouth College in 1801, Avhich office he held till his death. Mr. Thompson was an accomplished gentleman, distinguish- ed for the dignitv and urbanity of his manners, for integrity and piety. He held the office of Deacon in the First Church in Concord, from 1818 till his death. He died of pulmonary consumption, Oct. 10, 1821, aged 55 years. IV. Arthur Livermore, Judge, brother of Edward St. Loe Livermore, opened an office in Concord in 1792 ; soon moved to Chester ; thence to Holderness, to which place his history properly belongs. He died July, 1853, aged 87 years. V. Charles Walker, [See List of Graduates.] VI. Samuer Green, Judge, son of Nathaniel Green, born March 7, 1770, read law in the office of his brother, Peter Green, Esq. ; commenced practice in Concord, 1793 ; Associate Justice of the Superior Court from 1819 to 1840, when he retired on account of the constitutional limit of age. He was then appomted to a clerkslup at Washuigton, where he continued PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 719 till his death, March, 1851, aged 81 years. Judge Green was a lame man ; was distinguished for industry and sound judgment. Pie built what was afterwards known as the |' Kent Place," and owned about sixty acres of land on the hill west of Spring street. VII. Arthur Rogers, son of Maj. Robert Rogers, opened an office in Concord, 1793, but remained here in practice only a short time. Residing in different places till the death of Capt. Roach, in 1811, he returned to Concord, and was under guardianship — at first of Lewis Downing, and then of Isaac Hill. He died not long after leaving Concord, at Portsmouth, in 1841. [.Yote. On ])age 351 it is said that the maiden name of liobert Rogers' wife was Elizabeth Furness. This is a mistake, ^firthur Rogers married Ehzabeth Furness, and his mother M'as a Brown, and daughter of Rev. Arthur Brown, of Portsmouth.] VIII. Philip Carrigaix. [See Biography, p. 596.] IX. Moses Eastman, a graduate of D. C, 1794; came from Sahsbury to Concord about 1826 ; was Clerk of the Courts in Merrimack County till 1834. He then retm-ned to Sahsbury, where he died, 1848. X. William Pickering, a native of Greenland ; grad. of H. C, 1797 ; educated for the law ; Deputy Secretary, and Avas State Treasurer about 12 years previous to 1828, during which time he resided in Concord ; mar- ried Susan B., daughter of Charles Walker, Esq. Returning to Green- land he was Representative to the General Court, and Collector of Customs at Portsmouth. He died in 1850. XL Moody Kent, son of Joseph Kent, was born in Xewburv, Mass., May 22, 1779; graduated at H. C, 1801; admitted to the bar in 1804; practised in Deerfield nearly five years ; came to Concord in September, 1809, where he remained in practice till 1832, when he withdrew from bu- siness. XII. Isaac Gates, graduated at H. C, 1802 ; was in Concord a short time in 1814; died in Harvard, Mass., in November, 1852. Xni. Samuel A. Kimball. [See Graduates.] XIV. ^Matthew Har"\t-Y, son of Matthew Harvey, of Sutton, graduate of D. C, 1806; commenced practice in Hopkinton ; Governor of the State in 1830; District Judge of the United States. Although Concord has had the honor of his residence since 1850, his history belongs to Hopkinton. XV. Lyman B. Walker, from Gilford, while Attorney-General of the State, from 1843 to , resided in Concord. XVI. Moses H. Bradley. [See Graduates.] XVII. Samuel Fletcher, born in Plymouth, July 31, 1785; graduated at D. C, 1810; opened an office in Concord, 1815; Trustee of Dartmouth College ; Trustee and Treasurer of Philijjs Academy and Theological Sem- inary, at Andover, from 1841 to 1850, when he resided there. His health declining, he returned to Concord, where he still resides. XVIII. John Whipple, born in Hamilton, Mass. ; graduate of D. C. in 1812; commenced practice in "the eastern part of Dunbarton, (now Hook- sett,) 1817 ; came to Concord in 1833, since which time he held the office of Register of Deeds for Merrimack County, 1833 to 1836 ; Sohcitor of the County from 1836 to 1843; Deputy Secretary, and for several years past Treasurer of the N, E. Mutual Fire Lisurance Company. XIX. Amos A. Paricer, born in FitzAvilliam, graduated at Burhngton 720 HISTORY OF CONCORD. College, 1813 ; came to Concord in 1823, and commenced and conducted the Ne\v-IIami)shire Statesman. He now resides in his native town. XX. Geokge Kent. [See Graduates.] XXI. RiciiAKD Bartlett. [See Graduates.] XXII. Samuel D. Bell, Judge, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, of Chester, had an office in Concord, 1838 and 1839, whence he removed to Manches- ter, where he still resides, and to which place his history belongs. XXIIL Natilaniel P. Rogers, born in Plymouth, June 3, 1794; grad- uated at D. C, 1816 ; though educated a lawyer he is known to Concord only as the editor of " Herald of Freedom." He came to this town 1838, where he remained till his death, Oct. 16, 1846. In 1840 he visited Eu- rope, to attend the World's Anti-Slavery Convention. He was an earnest and poAvcrful writer in support of abolition j)rinciplcs, as his articles in the Herald of Freedom evince. Unfortunately, he became alienated from the church of which he was a member, and avowed opinions adverse to _ the received doctrines of Christianity. According to his directions, no minis- ter of the gospel attended his funeral. He was buried in the old burying- o-round in Concord. His grave is without a monument. XXIV. WiLLLVM T. Heydock, practised in Concord a short time in 1829. Died at Hanover, 1835. XXV. Nathaniel G. Upham, son of Hon. Nathaniel Upham, of Ro- chester, and grandson of Rev. Timothy Upham, of Deerfield, graduated at D. C. 1820 ; admitted to the bar in Straflbrd County ; opened an office in Bristol, whence he came to this town, 1829 ; from 1833 to 1843 one of the Justices of the Superior Court; a member of the Constitutional Conven- tion, 1850 ; Commissioner to London, 1853, " for adjustment of claims be- tween citizens of the United States and Great Britain, against the govern- ment of either country." Since his resignation of the office of Justice of the Superior Court, he has been General Agent of the Concord Railroad. XXVI. WiLLL\M C. Thompson. See Graduates. XXVII. Stephen C. Badger, a native of Warner, born April 12, 1797; graduated at 1). C, 1823; admitted to the Bar, 1826; came to Concord from New-London, 1833 ; Clerk of the Courts of Merrimack County from 1834 to 1846; PoHce Magistrate several years previous to the adoption of the City charter, and a practical and scientific Engineer. XXVHI. Henry A. Bellows, born at Walpole, Oct. 25, 1803; admit- ted to the Bar, 1826. After practising at Walpole two years and at Little- ton from 1828 to 1850, he came to Concord, and is in practice. XXIX. William W. Stickney, a native of Enfield ; graduated at D. C. 1823 ; opened an office in Concord, 1826; next year removed to New- Market. XXX. James Whittle, from Weare, studied law with Samuel Fletcher, Esq., and opened an office in 1827, but soon left. XXXI. Ralph Metcalf, Governor of the State, 1855 ; born in Charles- town, Nov. 21, 1798, graduated at D. C, 1823 ; came to Concord, as_ Secre- tary of State, in 1831, where he remained seven years. He resides in Newport, to which place his history properly belongs. XXXH. iRA Perley, appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New-Hampshire, 1855; born in Boxford, Mass., Nov. 9, 1799; graduated, D. C, 1822 ; tutor from 1823 to 1825 ; admitted to the bar, 1827, and PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 721 opened an office in Hanover ; treasurer of the College, 1830 to 1835. Came to Concord, 1834 ; was a Justice in the Superior Court of New- Hampshire from July, ISoO, to October, lSo2, when he resigned. Mr. Pcrley delivered an Eulogy on Daniel Webster, before the Executive and Legislative Depai'tments of New-Hampshire, Dec. 22, 1852, which was pubUshcd. XXXIII. William G. Webster, born at Plymouth, Aug. 20, 1800; graduated at I). C, 1822 ; read law with Samuel Fletcher, Esq. ; practiced at New-Hampton, llochester and Concord. He died at Plymouth, June 14, 1839, aged 39. XXXIV. Charles H. Peaslee, son of AVilliam Peaslee, born at Gil- manton, Feb. G, 1804 ; graduated at D. C, 1824 ; opened an office in Con- cord, 1828. He has held numerous and important offices : Adjutant and Inspector-General of the Militia of New-Hampshire from 1839 to 1847 ; Representative in Congress six years, from 1847 to 1853; Trustee of the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane — an institution he was particularly instrumental in establishing : Director of the Concord Railroad, the charter of which he took an efficient part in procuring ; and Collector of the Port of Boston and Charlestown, Mass., April 1, 1853, which office he still holds. XXXV. Fuaxklin Pierce, President of the United States; son of Gov. Benjamin Pierce, of Hillsborough ; born Nov. 23, 1804 ; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1824; admitted to the bar, and practiced law in his native town from 1827 to 1838, when he came to Concord; was Repre- sentative in Congress from 1833 to 1837 ; Senator from 1837 to 1842 ; Avas Brigadier General in the ^lexican war, 1847; elected President of the United States in November, 1852. XXXVI. David Pillsbury, born in Raymond, whence his father soon removed to Candia; a graduate of D. C, 1827 ; practiced law in Chester from 1830 to 1854, when he opened an office in Concord. Several years was a Major-General in the New-Hampshire Militia. XXXVII. Ira A. Eastmax, Judge, son of Stephen Eastman, of Gilman- ton, born Jan. 1, 1809 ; graduated at D. C, 1829 ; came to Concord in 1853. His history belongs to Gilmanton. XXXVIII. Hamilton Hutchixs. [Sec Graduates.] XXXIX. George Mixot, l)orn in Bristol; graduated at D. C, 1828; admitted to the bar, 1831 ; practiced in his profession at Gilmanton, Bris- tol and Concord. He is cashier of the Mechanics' Bank, and United States Pension Agent for New-Hampshire. XL. Calvix Aixswortii, a native of Littleton, born Aug. 22, 1807 ; admitted to the bar, 1835 ; came to Concord from Littleton, 1843 ; Rco-is- ter of Probate for Merrimack County five years, and first Pohce Justice of the city of Concord, 1853. XLI. Ephraim Eatox, a native of Candia; graduated at D. C, 1833; studied law with Samuel Fletcher, Esq., and opened an office in Concord! 1837, where he continued in business until 1853, when he relinquished the practice of law and moved to Troy, N. Y. XLII. Asa Fowler, appointed one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of New-Hampshire, 1855; born in Pembroke, Feb. 23, 1811 ; o-rad- uated at D. C, 1833 ; admitted to the bar and opened an office in Concord 1837. Clerk of the New-Ham]ishire Senate from 1835 to 1840. From' 1838 to 1845 in company with President Pierce, under the firm of Pierce & Fowler. [See " To\n\ Officers."] 46 lIZ HISTORY OF CONCORD. XLIII. Arthur Fletcher, a native of Bridgewator ; graduate of Yale College, l.S;3G; admitted to practice in Concord, 1840; Avas^ " principally occupied for two years afterwards in winding up the aftaii'S of the Concord Bank," and has ever since practiced law in Concord. XLIV. William Butterfield, a native of Goffstown ; born Sept. 18, ISlo ; graduated at D. C, 1836 ; educated for the law, which he practiced awhile in Lucas Co., Ohio, and in Gilmanton, X. H., but since 1846 editor of the Xew Hampshire Patriot. XLV. JosLUl MixOT, son of James Minot, of Bristol ; gi-aduated at D. C, 1837 ; admitted to the bar, 1840; practiced at Bristol and Concord; was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, September, 1852, but resigned March, ISoo, on receiving the aj)pointment of Commissioner of Pensions, at Washington. XLVI. George G. Fogg, son of David Fogg, born in Meredith, May 26, 1815 ; graduated at I). C, 1839 ; studied laM' and admitted to practice in Gilmanton, 1842; came to Concord as Secretary of State in 1846, and since editor and proprietor of the Independent Democrat. XL VII. Stla-ester Dana, a native of Orford ; son of Rev. Sylvester Dana; graduated at D. C, 1839; studied law with Pierce & Fowler, Concord, and at the Dane School of Harvard College; admitted to the bar, 1842, and soon after opened an office in Concord, where he still resides. XLVIII. Nathaniel B. Baicer. [See Graduates.] XLIX. X^eiiemiah Butler, born at Pclham, Feb. 22, 1824; studied law with Asa Fowler, Esq., of Concord, and at the Law School in Harvard Universitv ; commenced practice at Fishcrville, 1843 ; was appointed clerk of the Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas for the county of Mer- rimack, and removed to Concord, 1852. L. Abel Herbert Bellows, son of Abel Bellows, born ^lay 28, 1821, in the citv of London, England, during a foreign tour of his parents ; grad- uated at Harvard College in 1842 ; admitted to the bar and practiced in Keene fi-om 1845 to 1849 ; then made a tour in Europe, Asia and Africa; came to Concord in 1850, and is associated in business with H. A. Bel- lows, Esq. LI. William Lawrence Foster, son of John Foster, born in West- minster, Vt., June 1, 1824; fitted for College; read law with Le^i Cham- berlain, Esq., of Keene ; ])racticed law in Keene from 1845 to 1851 ; Clerk of the Senate 1851 and 1852; came to Concord, and continued the prac- tice of law in connection with John H. George, Esq. In March, 1853, he was appointed Pteporter of Decisions of the Superior Court. LII. John Hatch George, son of John George, born in Concord, X'ov. 20, 1822; entered Dartmouth College in 1840; left at the end of three vears ; studied law with Pierce & Fowler and Charles H. Peaslee ; admit- ted to the bar, 1846; Clerk of the Senate, 1847, 1848 and 1850; County Solicitor, 1849 and 1854; United States Attorney for the District of New- Hampshire, 1853. LHI. Lyman D. Stevens, bom in Piermont, Sept. 20, 1821 ; graduated at I). C, 1843 ; studied law with Ira Perley, Esq., and opened an office in Concord in 1847. LIV, Lyman T. Flint, born at Williamsto^^ii, Vt., Sept. 29, 1817; graduated at D. C, 1842 ; admitted to the bar, 1847, at Lancaster; prac- ticed at Colebrook until 1854, when he came to this city. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 723 LV. Amos Hadlfa', born m Dunharton, ]May 14, 1825 ; graduated at D. C, 1844. Studied law and admitted to practice in 1848, but has de- voted his time chiefly to teaching, and to the editorship, since 1853, of the State Capital Reporter, of which he was joint publisher with lion. Cyrus Barton.* LVI. Jesse Augustus Gove, born in Weare, Dec. 5, 1824; entered Norwich University, 1844; lieutenant in the ninth regiment of U. S. Li- fantry, in tlie war with Mexico, 1847 and 1848 ; came to Concord in Sept., 1848; studied law, and admitted to the bar, 1851 ; was Deputy Secretary of State in 1850 to 1855 ; and under act of Congress, March 3, 1855, for increasing the army, was appointed Captain in the tenth regiment of In- fantry Riflemen. LVII. Francis B. Peabody, born in Milford, Oct. 27, 1827 ; gradu- ated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1848; studied law and admitted to practice in Hillsborough, 1851; came to Concord in 1852, and opened an office in connection with Hon. N. B. Baker. LVIII. Sidney Webster, son of Caleb Webster, born at Gilmanton, May 28, 1827 ; graduated at Yale College, 1848; admitted to the bar, 1851, and went into business in Concord with John H. George, Esq. On the election of Gen. FrankHn Pierce to the Presidency, Mr, Webster became his private secretary. LIX. William H. Bartlett, son of Samuel C. Bartlett, born in Salis- bury, Aug. 20, 1827; graduated at D. C, 1847; studied law with Hon. Ira Perley and H. A. Bellows; opened an office in Concord, 1851; City Solic- itor in 1853 and 1854. LX. Anson S. Marsh.axl, born in Lyme, Dec. 3, 1824; graduated at D. C, 1848; studied law with Pierce & Minot; opened an oflSce in Con- cord, 1852, and formed a connection in business with Henry P. Rolfe, Esq. LXI. Henry P. Rolfe, son of Benjamin Rolfe, born in Boscawen, Feb. 12, 1823; graduated at D. C. in 1848; commenced the practice of law in Concord in 1851, and in March, 1853, became associated with Anson S. Marshall, Esq., under the firm of Rolfe & Marshall. LXII. Amos S. Alexander, born at Lowell, Mass., May 24, 1829; opened an oflice at Fisherville, in Concord, 1853. LXIII. John Y. Mugridge, born at Meredith Bridge, April 18, 1832; fitted for College at Gilford Academy ; studied Law with Col. Thomas J. Whipple, of Meredith, and with Asa Fowler, Esq., of Concord ; opened an oflice in this city, 1854, in connection with Asa Fowler, which continued till the latter was appointed Judge. LXIV. William F. Goodwin, born in Limington, Me., Sept. 22, 1827 ; graduated at B. C, 1848, and at the Law School in H. U., 1854, and open- ed an office in Concord, 1855. *Col. Barton died very suddenly while engaged in a public debate in the town house at Loudon, Feb. 18, 1855, aged 59. '24 HISTORY OF CONCORD. PHYSICIANS. Brief Biograi-hical Notices of Physicians in Concord, in the order in which they severally commenced practice in town. For many particulars in this article I am indebted to " Biographical Notices of Physicians," prepared by Urs. William Piescott and Thomas Chadbourne, of Concord, published in N. H. Repository', 1840, vol. 11., Nos. 1 and 2. I. Dr. Ezra Carter was the first regular physician in Penacook of whom we have any account. See Biography, pp. 553-ij. II. A Dr. Emery resided here a short time, and moved to Fryeburg, Me. III. Dr. Erexezer H.\js'DER Goss, of Bolton, !Mass., settled in Concord about 1770, and married a daughter of llev. Timothy Walker. He lived at the north end of Mam street, where Mr. Charles Smart resides ; set out the elm trees before the house ; held important olfices in town — [see List of Officers] — was surgeon in the army under Gen. Stark ; a man of eccen- tric habits ; tall, and of strongly marked features. He moved to Bruns- wick, ]Mc., where he died at an advanced age. IV. Dr. PlllLir MacCarrigain, of Scotch descent, born in the city of New-York, 174:6 ; studied medicine in Haverliill, Mass. ; came to Concord, 1768 ; died Aug., 1806. He married a daughter of the late Thomas Clough, Esq., of Canterbury. Dr. Carrigain had an extensive practice, and was famous for surgical skill, of which we have given two specimens : one, in chopping off a finger of Benjamin Rolfc with a chisel and mallet; and the other, saving off a leg of liichard Potter. See pp. 283, 306. He lived in the house now owned by ]\Ir. Charles H. Stearns, and kept an apothecary store, Avith other things. Being suspicious that his sons who tended the store did not always make a full return of money received, but without sufficient proof to charge either of them with dishonesty, he called them before him one morning and said, " Boys, in passing Horse-shoe pond last night, I heard voices ! saying, " Who is the rogue ? who is the rogue ?" One said, " Philip ! Philip !" Another said, " 0-ba-di-ah ! 0-ba-di-ah !" In his practice Dr. Carrigain rode horseback. He was very polite, and when he met any one, even a child, would jjull off his hat, and waving it in his hand, make a low bow. V. Dr. Peter Green came to Concord in 1772. See notice in Dr. Green's Family. VI. Dr. Samuel Adams, from Lincoln, Mass., was a resident in Concord about 1796; moved to Wiscasset ; thence to Boston; and to Cincinnati, where he died at an advanced age. VII. Dr. G. Gridley was in Concord about 1798; married a daughter of the late David George, Esq. He moved to Newburyport, and thence to Condor, Tioga Co., N. Y. He Avas celebrated for his successful treatment of the " indolent ulcer," or " sore legs," for which he used what is called " Gridley's Plaster." VIII. Dr. Zadok Howe, from FrankHn, Mass., was in practice in Con- cord about twelve years prior to 1814, Avhen he rehnquished his business to his partner. Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, and moved to 13oston, and thence to Billerica. He was distinguished for scientific skill. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 725 IX. Dr. Thomas Ciiadbourne, son of the late Dr. "William Chadboiirnc, of Conway, came to Concord, 1814; married a daughter of Dr. Peter Green, and is now the oldest practicing jjhysician in Concord ; received his medical degree at Dartmouth College, 1813 ; is an honorary member of various medical societies ; attended the World's Fair in London, and was one of the Jurors. lie resides on the spot where was the garrison house of Edward Abbot. X. Dr. Benjamin Pakker, from Bradford, Mass., was m Concord a short time — not far from 1818. He Hved in a house on Pleasant street, afterwards owned by Samuel Fletcher, Esq., where the new Baptist church stands. XI. Dr. Alexander Ramsey, a native of Scotland, delivered lectures on Anatomy and Ph^•siolog}■ in Concord, and other places in New Hamp- shire, from "1808 to 1823, He died at Parsonsfield, Me., 1824. XII. Dr. Moses Long, a native of Ilopkinton, N. H., commenced prac- tice in Concord, East ^■illage, in 1813. He moved from Concord, 1824 ; practiced three or four years in Ilopkinton and Goffstown ; went to "Warner, and thence to Rochester, X. Y., where he still resides. He has been ex- tensively engaged in the construction of a superior kind of bridges, the in- vention of his brother. Col. Long. XIII. Dr. Henry Bond, was a native of Livermorc, Me. ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1813 ; was tutor, 1815 ; received his medical degree in 1817. He practiced in Concord from 1S16 until 1820, — highly respected and useful, — when he removed to Philadelphia. XrV. Dr. Moses Chandler, a native of Fryeburg, Me., commenced practice in Concord, 181G; was a surgeon on board of a ])rivateer that sailed out of Portsmouth in 1813. He Avas a tall, stout, athletic man, and devoted to his profession. He died of dysentery, Sept. 2, 182.3, after a short and most distressing sickness ; was ])uried with masonic honors, and a handsome marble stone marks the place of his interment in the old bury- ing-ground. XV. Dr. Peter Renton, came from Scotland and settled in Concord, 1822. His practice soon became very extensive, both in Concord and neighboring toA\iis. He Hved in the house where Dr. "William Prescott now lives. In connection with Mr. John Jarvis, he built the brick factory mill in the West village of Concord, at a cost of about .f 12,000, designing it for a flour mill, which considerably embarrassed him. Dr. Renton mar- ried in Scotland ; had two sons, John and George, and a daughter, Christi- ana, born in Concord, and still hving. A brother and sister, also from Scotland, were with him while here. He removed to Boston in 1843 or 1844, where he has an extensive and lucrative practice. XVI. Dr. Samuel Morril, a brother of Hon. David L. Morril, came to Concord, 1819, from Epsom, where he had practiced nineteen years, and held important offices. In 1826 he received the honorary degree of M. D. from Dartmouth College ; was appointed Justice of the Court of Sessions for the County of Rockingham, 1821 ; Register of Deeds for the Coimty of Merrimack, 1823, which he held till 1828, when he was elected State Treas- urer. In 1829 he was chosen Treasurer of the X. H. Branch Education Society ; in 1830, Treasvu-er of the New Hampshire Savings Bank, which office he still holds ; and in 1837 was chosen deacon of the First Congre- gational church in Concord. XVII. Dr. Richard Russell, resided in Concord about three years pre- 726 HISTORY OF CONCORD. vious to 1824, but spent most of his life in practice in Wakefield and Som- ersworth, at which latter place he died, May 22, 1855, aged about 70. XVIII. Dr. Elijah Colby, son of Isaac Colby, of Hopkinton, N. H., born June 18, 1798 ; graduated at the Medical College in Hanover, 1823, and the same year commenced practice in the East village of Concord. He married Susaii Eastman, grand-daughter of Jonathan Eastman, Esq., Oc- tober 27, 1828. In April, 1838, he moved to New Bedford, Mass., where he still resides. XIX. Dr. Ezra Carter, was son of Timothy Carter, Esq., of Concord, West Parish. [See " Descendants of Rev. Timothy Walker," and " Toivn Officers."] He received the medical degree of M. D. at Bowdoin College, in 1824; commenced practice in 1825, in his native town; next year he removed to Loudon ; returned to Concord in 1828, where he has remained in large practice till the present time. Representative in 1836 and 1837. He was commissioned justice of the peace in 1837 ; in 1844 and 1845 was President of the Centre District ]\Iedical Society, and in 1852 President of the Xew-llampshire Medical Society. XX. Dr. Josiah Crosby, now of Manchester, came to Concord in 1825, from Epsom, and remained here in good practice till 1828. He was a son of Dr. Asa Crosby, formerly of Gilmanton. His history properly belongs to Manchester, where he is distinguished by an extensive and successful practice. XXI. Dr. Edward B. Moore, of Lancaster, practiced in Concord about six months, in 1828 ; thence removed to Epping. XXII. Dr. Joseph Reynolds, son of Rev. Freegrace Reynolds, of Wil- mington, Mass., came to Concord in 1828; removed to Chester in 1831, thence to Gloucester, Mass. While in Concord he was two years Secretary of the N. H. Colonization Society. XXIII. Dr. Nathaniel Wheat, came from Candia to Concord in 1834, and remained till 1837. XXrV. Dr. Josiah Kittredge, a native of Mont-Vernon, N. H., com- menced practice in Pembroke, 1819 ; moved to Boston, 1833 ; came to Concord, 1837, where, remaining a year or two, he moved to Nashua, where he still resides. XXV. Dr. Robert Lane, of Sutton, came to Concord about 1837, but remained only a short time. His daughter married Geo. W. Ela, Esq. XXVI. Dr. Thomas Brow^n, a native of Andover, N. IL, practiced in Deerfield ; was in practice in Concord from 1831 till 1837, when he went to Cambridge, ]\Iass. He afterwards settled in Manchester, where he be- came widely known for his exertions in the cause of temperance. He died suddenly of cholera, in 1849. XXVII. Dr. Moses Thompson Willard, son of Moses F. Willard, half-brother of Ca])t. Benjamin Parker, was born in Bow, 1806 ; graduated at the ^Icdical College in Hanover, 1835, and commenced the practice of dentistry in Concord, where he continues to reside. XXVIII. Dr. Timothy Haynes, a native of Alexandria, N. H., born Sept. 5, 1810 ; took his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, 1836, and immediately after commenced the jjractice of med- icine and surgery in Concord, where he still resides. A large number of individuals have pursued their professional studies tmder his instruction. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 727 XXIX. Dr. Charles Pinckney Gagt-% horn in Hopkinton, April 5. 1811; took his degree at the Medical Collefyc in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1837, and remained in that city a year, when he came to Concord, where he still resides in extensive practice. In 184(5 he was a delegate to form the American Medical Association, in New-York, of which he is a member. XXX. Dr. Heniiy O. Stone, from Salem, Mass., had an office in Con- cord in 1845, and remained four or five years. XXXI. Dr. Daniel J. Hoyt, son of Daniel N. Hoyt, who formerly kept the "Washington House," at the north end in Concord, studied medi- cine with Dr. Peter Kenton, and commenced practice in Concord in 1840 ; next year he removed to Manchester, where he died, July 13, 1847, but was buried in the old burying-ground in Concord, where a handsome mon- ument is erected to his memory. XXXII. Dr. Isaac Colby, son of Isaac Colby, and cousin of Dr. Elijah C, born in Hopkinton, Aug. 6, 1793, came to Concord in the fall of 1839, and remained about one year and a half. He then moved to Keene, and in 1844 to Salem, Mass. In 1854 he returned to Concord. XXXIII. Dr. MIOSES Carter, son of Jacob Carter, of Concord, [see " Carter Family,"] entered on the practice of medicine in Newbury, Mass., 1811. During" the last Avar with Great Britain he was a surgeon on board three different vessels, and was twice captured and carried into British ports. After the war he practiced in Salisbury and Amesbury, ]SIass. ; came to Concord, in poor health, 1842. He had a large experience in small-pox, and was usually employed as town physician for persons in that disease. He resided in Concord till 1854, when he moved to Sanbornton- Bridge. XXXrV. Dr. JoNATiLVN C. pRESCOTT, bom at Sanbornton, June 11, 1795, came to Concord from Pittsiicld, in 1843 ; he died, after a most dis- tressing sickness of disease of the kidneys, Feb. 13, 1844, in the 49th year of his age. He was buried at Pittsfield. At his funeral the Pev. Jonathan Curtice, his former pastor, preached a sermon from Col. 4 : 14, " The be- loved physician." XXXV. Dr. Ebenezer G. Moore, a native of Dorchester, N. H., 1797, having practiced in Tamworth and in Wells, Me., came to Concord in 1844, where he still continues in good practice. XXXVI. Dr. George Chandler, came to Concord from Worcester, Mass., in October, 1842, as the first Su])crintendent of the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, and continued in chargij of that institution until 1845, Avhen he was appointed Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Massachusetts. XXXVII. Dr. WlLLL\M D. Buck, a native of Williamstown, Vt., a grad- uate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New-York city, opened an office in Concord in company with Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, in 1842. In 1845-G spent a year in Europe, and in the fall of 1846 went into prac- tice in Manchester ; thence, in 1850, to San Francisco, Cal. He returned the next year to Manchester, where he still abides in practice. XXXVIII. Dr. Benjamin H. Tripp, born in Oxford county, ]Me., Nov. 25, 1815 ; commenced practice in Londonderry at the age of 23. Came to Concord in 1843. He paid particular attention in his practice to cuta- neous diseases. He left Concord in 1849. XXXIX. Dr. William Prescott, born in Sanbornton, Dec. 29, 1788; 728 HISTORY OF CONCORD. received his medical degi'ee at Hanover, in 1815. He practiced in Gil- manton about eighteen years ; then in Lynn, Mass., about thirteen years. Having sustained numerous useful and important offices in those places, he came to Concord in 184o, where he still resides. For many years Dr. Prescott has turned his attention to literary and scientific pursuits — partic- idarly to Natural History. lie has one of the most valuable and extensive private cabinets in natural history, geology, antiquities, and other curiosi- ties, in NeAv-England — containing more than ten thousand s];ecimens. He was the principal founder of the Concord Society of Natural History, and for many years its President. XL. Dr. Moore Russell Fletcher, a native of Campton, born Jan. 17, 1811, and nephew of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., of Concord, with whom he resided in his youth. Pursuing his preparatory and ])rofessional studies under great pecuniary embarrassments, he took his medical diploma at Bowdoin College, 1836, and opened an office in Boston. In 1838 he invented the "Fletcher Truss." In 1840 he married Anne Catherine, daughter of Hon. James AUanshaw, of the Province of New Brunswick, where he resided about five years, and in the fall of 1845 opened an office in Concord. Here he remained two years, and now resides in Camljridge, Ms. XLI. Dr. Andrew' ]\IcFarland, son of Asa ]McFarland, I). I)., of Con- cord, born July 17, 1817, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Dixi Crosby, then of Gilmanton ; begun practice in Sandwich, 1838; received a medical di])loma from Dartmouth College, 1840 ; and from Jetierson Medi- cal College, Philadelphia, 1843 ; practiced about two years at Meredith Bridge, and was appointed superintendant and physician of the New Hamp- shire Asylum for the Insane in August, 1845. In 1850 he made a tour in Eusope, and after his return pubhshed an entertaining volume, called " The Escape." Dr. McF. resigned his office at the asylum in 1852, and in 1854 was appohited Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Illinois, at Jacksonville. XLII. Dr. James F. Sargext, born in Warner, July 4, 1810; received his medical degree at Dartmouth ; practiced in Warner, Lowell, ]\Iass., and Hopkinton, and came to Concord, 1847. XIJII. Dr. ErnRAlM F. Wilson, son of Dr. Job Wilson, Iiorn in SaKs- bury, Oct. 30, 1817 ; took his medical degree at Castleton, Vt. ; commenced practice at Sanbornton, and came to Concord, East village, 1849; Avhence, in 1854, he moved to Rockville, Conn. XLr\\ Dr. Willl\m H. Smart, son of the late Col. Benning Smart, was born in Hopkinton, April 8, 1810 ; commenced practice at Centre Har- bor, 1839, and came to Concord, 1849, Mhere he remauis in practice. XLV. Dr. Edward H. Parker, son of Isaac Parker, Esq., of Boston, opened an office in Concord, 1850 ; removed to New York, wliere he prac- tices, and is a professor in a medical college. XLVI. Dr. ALniErs Morrill, a native of Canterbury, practiced some years in Ohio; came to Concord, 1849, and adopts the liomreopathic prac- tice. Dr. Baker, from Loudon, is associated Avith him in his practice. XLVIL Dr. Benjamin S. Warren, a native of Peacham, Vt. ; gradu- ated at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio ; came to Concord in 1849. XLVIII. Dr. John Eugene Tyler, Superintendent of the New Hamp- shire Asylum for the Insane, at Concord ; was born in Boston, Dec. 9, 1819; received a medical degree at Dartmouth College, in 1845, and at Philadelphia, in 1846, when he commenced the practice of medicine at PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 729 Salmon Falls, He continued in that place till he Mas a^jpointed, in lSo2, to the ofKce which he now fills. XLIX. Dr. William "VV. Fletcher, Dentist, born at Plymouth, 1S16; studied dentistry in Boston, 1839-40 ; came here in 1846, and remains in practice. L. Dr. Charles Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, of Chester, opened an office in Concord, 1855, and is in practice. Besides the foregoing physicians, the following were in Concord, in prac- tice, or residents, a short time, but whose particular history is not known. Dr. Charles Herbert, died at Concord, 1816. Dr. Jonathan Badger, about 1812. Dr. John Brodhead, about 1821). Dr. Stephen Emery, 1843. Dr. Philip BR0^YN, Jr., 1843. Dr. John T. G. Leach, about 1832. Dr. John Henton, about 1843. Dr. Augustus Frank, Homoeo., 1843. Dr. D. S. Lyman, 1845. Dr. Jeremiah Gates, 1845. Dr. D. P. Wilson, Dentist, 1846. Dr. Luther Farley, 1847. Dr. mioses x\tw'ood, Homieo., 1849. Dr. Charles A. Davis, 1850, son of Robert Davis, 2d ; now at Hospi- tal, Chelsea, Mass. See " Graduates." Dr. S. LaFayette Simpson, a native of Concord, 1849 ; now at Con- toocookville. Dr. W. H. Hosmer, Fisherville, 1850. Dr. John AY. Little, Dentist, 1850. Dr. J. M. Graves, 1854-5. graduates at college from concord, WITH BKIEF NOTICES. [Arranged in the order of their graduation.] I. Timothy Walker, A. 'SI., H. C, 1756. See Biography. II. Stephen Scales, A. M., son of Rev. James Scales, born in Concord Oct. 16, 1741 ; H. C, 1763 ; settled in the practice of law at Chelmsford, !Ms., and there died, Nov. 5, 1772. There, a tombstone erected to his me- mory contains a Latin inscription, concluding with the following lines from Horace : " mi amice, Vitae summa brevis — spcm nos, Vetat inchoare langam ; Jam et premit nox." IH. John Coffin, A. M., Colonel, son of William Coffin, born Oct. 16, 1764; grad. D. C, 1791 ; for many years an instructor of youth; resided 730 HISTORY OF CONCORD. in the city of XeAV-York, a useful and respected citizen; died Dec. 27, 18o2, aged 87, and was buried in the old Inirying-ground in Concord. rV. Charles Walker, A. M., son of Hon. Timothy Walker, born Sept, 25, 17G5 ; grad. H. C. 1789 ; was the first preceptor of the Aurean Acad- emy at Amherst ; studied law with John Pickering, of Portsmouth ; set- tled in the practice of lav; in his native town ; was appointed second Post- master in this jilace, in 1801 ; Solicitor of Ptockingham County, lSOG-1808; Justice throughout the State, 1830; was several years President of the upper Concord Bank. He was averse to public oihce, and hved in much retirement the latter years of his life. He died July 29, 1834, aged 68. V. Paul Rolfe, A. M., grad. H. C, 1792. Settled as a farmer in Con- cord. [See Biog. of Benj. Kolfe, pp. 555-6. VI. Edmund Eastman, A. ^M., son of Benjamin, grad. at I). C. 1793 ; .some time a teacher in Concord ; settled in the ministry at Limerick, Me., 1795, and died in 1812. During his ministry forty were added to the church. VII. Philip Carrigaix, grad. D. C, 1794. [See Biog., p. 596. VIII. Samuel A. Bradley, A. M., son of Hon. John Bradley, born Xov. 22, 1774; grad. D. C. 1799; settled in the practice of law at Fryeburg, Me. ; several years represented that toAvn hi the General Court of ]Massa- chusetts ; afterwards moved to Portland ; was candidate for Member of Congress ; a gentleman of noble appearance and dignified manners. He never married; died Sept. 24, 1844, aged 70 years. IX. Xathan Kinsman, son of Xathan and Elizabeth Kinsman, born in Concord, Xov. 14, 1777 ; graduated at D. C, 1799 ; settled in the practice of law in Portland, about 1803, where he continued in extensive practice till his death, March, 1829. He was the lawyer of whom the anecdote is told relative to Dr. Payson's asking a blessing at tea, and who became, afterwards, a member of Dr. P.'s church. X. Epheaim Abbot, A. ]M., son of Benjamin, born Sept. 2S, 1779 ; graduated at H. C.,in 1806; ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Greenland, Oct. 27, 1813 ; previous to which time he performed mission- ary service in Maine, Xew-Ham])shire and Hhode Island, designing his charge on account of ill health, he was dismissed, Oct. 28, 1828, and after- wards was Preceptor of Brackett Academy in Greenland, and of AVestford Academy, Mass., in which latter place he now resides ; a justice of the peace, and has been representative of the town. Mr. Abbot first married Mary IL, daughter of Rev. Eliphalet Pearson, LL. D., of Andover, Mass. She died, 1829, aged 48. He second married Abigail W. Bancroft, of Groton, Mass. XL Abiel Chandler graduated at H. C, 1806. [See Biography.] XII. Samuel A. Kimball, A. M., son of Dea. John Kimball, born March 3, 1782, graduated at D. C, 1806; practiced law a short time in Dover, but settled in his native town ; has been clerk of the senate, dep- uty secretary, and representative of the to^ra. XIII. Moses Hazen Bradley, A. M., son of Hon. John Bradley, born March 15, 1782, graduated at D. C, 1807 ; settled in practice at Bristol, 1816 ; representative in 1823, and next year senator for the eleventh Sen- atorial District. He died of consumption, at his brother Richard's, in Con- cord, in 1834, aged 52. XIV. Samuel Ayer, A. M., INI. D., son of Capt. Richard Ayer, born Aug. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 731 31, 1786 ; graduated at D. C, 1807 ; Avas tutor two years ; pursued medi- cal studies at Philadelphia, and settled in practice at Portland, Me., vhere he Avas representative ; thence removed to Easti5ort, as surveyor of the port of Passamaquoddy. He died, much respected and lamented, Nov. 12, 1832. His widow, Sarah Connell, and three children, afterwards came to Concord, where she died, INIay 7, 1835. XV. Natiiajstiel H, Carter, A. jNI., graduated at D. C, 1811. [See Biography.] XVI. Abiel Carter, A. ^I., son of Jacob Carter, born ]\Iarch 2, 1791, graduated at D. C, 1813 ; ordained as an Episcopal minister ; preached at various places, and died at Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1, 1837, aged 3G. XVII. George Kent, A. ]NI., son of Hon. Wm. A. Kent, [see •' Kent Family,"] graduated at I). C, 1814; studied laM-, and admitted to practice, 1817, and settled in his native town. In 1821, was appointed cashier of the Concord bank ; represented the town, 1828 ; Avas one of the editors and proprietors of the Ncw-llam])shire Statesman and Concord Register, several years ; dehvered the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth College, in 1832, which was published; was a trustee of the College, which he resigned in 1840. Mr. Kent now resides in Bangor, Me. Many articles from his pen of " prose and poetry," have been published, and it is understood that he has in compilation, ready for the press, a man- uscri])t volume, containing about one hundred and fifty articles, which may hereafter be published. XVIII. Richard Bartlett, A. M., son of Caleb Bartlett, grandson of the Rev. Samuel McClintock, I). I)., formerly of Greenland. He was born at Pembroke, Jan. 8, 1794, but resided in this town before and dur- ing his collegiate course; graduated at 1). C, 1815; studied law, and admitted to practice in Concord, 1818; was several vears Dejnitv Secre- tary of State; Clerk of the Senate; Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829,_ and Representative in 1830 and 1831. He was editor and proprietor of the New-Hampshire Journal. In March, 1834, Mr. Bartlett left Concord for a residence in the city of New-York. In June, 183G, his health began to fail, and he gradually declined, until his death, Oct. 23, 1837. Mi*. Bartlett was one of the founders of the N. H. Historical Society, and Avrote an al)le article on the Preservation of Manuscripts, which was juiblishcd in volume fifth of the Historical Collections. He was a gentleman of many excellent qualities, and held in high esteem by numerous ft-iends. XIX. Charles Walker, Jr., A. M., son of Charles Walker, Esq., grad- ated at H. C, 1818. [See notice, p. 456.] XX. David Kimball, Rev., born in Hopkinton, lived in Concord; learned the printers' art in George Hough's ofiice ; graduated at Y. C, 1818, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1821 ; some years settled in the ministrv at Martinsburg, N. Y^., and at other places ; editor of the New-Hampshire Observer, which he relinquished in 1841; now resident at Hanover, and printer for the College. XXI. William S. Rogers, son of Josiah Rogers, foi-merly of Concord, born Sept. 11, 1797; graduated at D. C, 1820; teacher in Washington city, 1821 ; afterwards in Lynn, Mass. He died of consumption, at his father's, in Concord, March 8, 1823, and Avas buried in the Friends' bury- ing ground. No monument is erected at his grave. XXII. Edward Kent, A. M., son of Hon. Wm. A. Kent, born Jan. 8, 1802, graduated at H. C, 1821 ; settled in the practice of law at Bangor, lOZ HISTORY OF COXCORD. Me. He was ap])ointed Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions for Penob- scot County in lS2t) ; representative in 1S29-32 ; mayor of the city of Bauiror. 1836 and 1837: Governor of the State of .Maine. 1838; one of the Commissioners chosen in 1842 to represent the State in the negotia- tion of the Ashburton Treaty, at "Washington. In 1849 appointed by President Taylor, Minister Plenipotentiaiy to Kio Jimeiro, in Brazil, which office he held four years. Now in Bangor. XXIII. "William C. Thompson. A. M., son of the late lion. Thomas W. Thompson, was born in Salisbury, but while a resident of Concord graduated at D. C, 1820. He studied law ; practiced a short time in Con- cord : removeil to Plymouth, and thence to "Worcester, Mass., where he now resides. XXrS'. Hexrt AVoop, a native of Loudon, learned the printing business in the otHce of George Hough, Esq. ; united with the First Church, under Dr. McFarland. 181(5; graduated at 1). C, 1822; tutor in Hampden Syd- ney College, Va. : ordained pastor of the church in Gotfstown, 182G: in- stalled over church in Haverhill imd at Hanover : editor of the Congrega- tional Journal trom 1840 to 1854 ; and now U. S. Consid at Beyrout, in Turkey. XXV. "NA'iLLLVM CL.VRK, a native of , was an appentice in George Hough's othce in Concord ; united with the church in Concord, T>v. ^Ic- Fai-land's. 1816 ; graduated at D. C, 1822 ; settled pastor of the Congre- gational church in A\"ells. Me., and for many years agent of the American Board for Foreign Missions. XXVI. Seth R4STM.\>", son of Robert and Sarah Eastman, born in BrunsTA-ick, Me.. Jan. 24, 1808, graduated at the Military Academy, West Point, 1821: Lieut, in the U. S. ser^^ce at Fort Snelling; Professor of Drawing at "West Point eight years : was in the Florida war : now holds a Captain's commission, and is stationed at "Washington city, illustrating a magniticent work gi\"ing an account of the Intlians of the United States. Capt. Eastman married, in 1835, Mary Henderson, daughter of Dr. Thomas Henderson, of Virginia, and grand-daughter of the late Commodore Trux- ton, of the U. S. Xavy. XXMI. John McClintock Baktlett, A. B., brother of Richard Bart- lett, Esq., resided in Concord before and during his collegiate course ; grad- uated at Bowdoin College, 1823 ; studied law, and resides m the State of Xew-York. XXATH. Sami-el Gilmax Texxet, A. B., graduated at D. C, 1823, wliile a resident in Concord ; studied theology ; settled at Lyndon, Vt., 1825; was dismissed, 1831: preached in HiUsborough from 1838 to 1843, and has been at Alstead since 1851. XXIX. Joshua Thompson Russell, son of Elijah Russell, printer, bom in Concord, Oct. 20, 1794, and named for his uncle, the late Lieut. Joshua Thompson, a Revolutionary soldier ; graduated at the Xew-Jersey College, 1825 ; settled as pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Newark, N. J. ; afterwards an agent of the Presbyterian Board. Subsequently he joined the Baptist denomination, and was pastor of a church in Jackson, Miss. He died suddenly, !March 6, 1854. under the following unusual circumstan- ces : He was present at the meeting of the Jackson Bible Society, on Simday evening, in the Presbyterian church, and had just spoken to the following resolution — "Resolved. That the Bible is a tried book, and that its circulation thi-ough the agency of the American Bible Society — cathoHc in its spirit and aim — merits the highest confidence and the warmest sup- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 733 port of the Christian public." He dwelt on the fact that the Bible was a tried book ; he said " millions now around the throne of God, singing the song of Moses and the Lamb, had been saved by the blessed influences of this book." While he uttered this sentence, he looked up, as if he had a vision of what he described : he then paused a moment, and said, " I have done." ITaese were his last words. He sat down, but sunk immediately into apoplexy, from which the skill of experienced physicians could not arouse him. He breathed his last at two o'clock, P. M., next day, at the residence of his son, E. P. P».ussell. XXX. Daxiel Livermoee Russell, brother of Joshua T., bom Nov. 27, 1800, 'is also a preacher of the Baptist denomination, at the South. He studied and Is understood to have graduated at Hampden Sydney College, Va., about 1S26. XXXI. Joseph Koeinsox, A. M., son of Josiah Ptobinson, bom Xov. 26, 1798: graduated U. C, 182.j; followed teaching in Concord till the fall of 1829; Deputy Secretary of State six years; Ilegister of JJeeAs, 18.36; Representative, 1841; Register of Probate, 1844; postmaster four years; chairman of the board of selectmen, 1850; for tv>-o years director and treasurer of the People's ^Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and has pursued mainly the basiness of farming for twentv-five years. XXXn. Moses Ki3IB.u.l, A. B., bom m Hopkinton, July 24, 1799; learned the printing business with Geo. Hough, Esq. ; grad. at D. C, 1826, whUe a resident in Concord ; studied theology." at .\ndover ; was ordained at Randolph, Vt., January, 1832 ; dismissed la 1833 ; settled at Hopkin- ton, May 7, 1834, where he remained twelve years. He now preaches in Weathersfield, Vt. XXXHI. Tho>l^s B. Waterman, A. B., son of Rev. Thomas Water- man, bom in Bow, but resided in Concord; grad. at 1). C. in 1826; an honorar}- member and patron of the Xew-Hampshire Historical Societv'; resided in Boston ; deceased. XXXR^. Hamilton' Hltchins, A. M., son of the late Abel Hutchins, bom July 10, 1805 ; grad. at I). C, 1827 ; admitted to the bar in Concord, 1830 ; was highly esteemed for his amiable temper and gentlemanly man- ners. He married, Oct. 30, 1845, Man,' Chandler, of Lexington, Mass., who died Xov. 30, the same year. After suffering much from protracted ill health, he died April 6, 1851. A beautiful portrait of him is in posses- sion of his sisters, at the family mansion on State street. XXXV. TH03IAS Sp.vrh.\"wk, M. D., son of Samuel Sparhawk, Esq., former Secretan,- of State, was bom in Portsmouth, but grad. at I). C. while a resident in Concord; studied medicine ; took his degree, M. D., at Harvard College, and settled in Conway ; now in practice at Amesbury, Ms. XXXVL Charles Edward Thompson, A. B., son of Hon. Thomas W. Thompson, bom in Salisbury; grad. at J). C in 1828; studied law; practiced some years in Haverhill, X. H. ; now resides in Chicago, lU. XXXVH. Cha>T)LER E. Potter, A, B., son of Joseph Potter, bom ^lar. 7, 1807 ; grad. at D. C. 1831 ; instructor at Concord, Portsmouth and Man- chester ; studied law with Ichabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth, and whUe there was representative one year. In 1844 moved to Manchester, and became editor and proprietor of the Manchester Democrat four years ; ia 1848 was appointed Jastice of the Police Court of Manchester ; editor of the Far- mers' Monthlv Visitor two years, and since connected with J. O. Adams, Esq., editor of the Granite Farmer and Visitor. Mr. Potter has been some 734 HISTORY OF CONCORD. time en,2:agcd in preparing a History of Manchester, and is President of the N. H. Historical Society. XXXVHI. SiiEUDURNE B. Piper, A. B., a native of Northwood, grad. at D. C. 1832, while his mother, a M'idow, was resident in Concord. XXXIX. Alfred K. Gould, A. B., a native of Hopkinton ; member of the First Congregational church in Concord ; grad. at Y. C. 1838; died in Concord, July 29, 1835, Avhilo a member of the Theological Seminary at Andovcr. XL. Horace Herrick, A. B., resident in Concord, and member of the First Cong, church; grad. at T). C, 1834; settled in the ministry at Fitz- wiUiam, Sept. 4, 1844, where he remained about four years, and has since been engaged in teaching. XLI. Henry Sew all Gerrish French, son of Joel French, of Bos- cawen, was born April 17, 1807 ; served an apprenticeship at the printing business with George Hough, Esq., in Concord, where he was the first who professed conversion under the llev. Mr. Bouton's ministry, 1826; gradu- ated at Y. C. 1834, and at .\ndover Theological Seminary, 1837 ; was or- dained for the foreign missionary service, at Concord, Sept. 19, 1838 ; mar- ried, April 9, 1839, Miss Sarah" C. AlHson, of Concord, and emlmrked at Boston for tlie Siam Mission, under the patronage of the American Board, July 6, 1839. Mr. French died at Bangkok, in Siam, Feb. 14, 1842. His widow, with her only son and child, returned to Concord. XLH. Abraham H.\7EX Bobinson, son of Josiah Robinson, graduated at Y. C. 1835; studied medicine, and practiced about one year at Hillsbo- rough Bridge, when, in 1840, he removed to Salisbury; Avas a member of the Constitutional Convention, 1850; postmaster some twelve years, and still is in practice in that town. XLHI. Henry L. Low, A. M., oldest son of Gen. Joseph Low, born Sept. 10, 1817; grad. at I). C. 1836; tutor, and professor of the Greek and Latin languages in Genesee College, N. Y. ; travelled in Europe ; spent some time in Berlin, pursuing classical and other studies. He^ took orders in the Episcopal church, and preached some time in Hopkinton, N. H. Mr. Low was a fine scholar, and highly esteemed for his intelH- gence, gentlemanly manners and piety. His health failed, and he died at the McLean Asylum, Charlestown, Mass., April 26, 1852. XLIV. Ezra E. Adams, A. M., son of Robert M. and Amaris Adanis,^ was born in Concord, Aug. 29, 1813; commenced study in the family of Br. Bouton, in the fall of 1829 ; grad. at D. C. 1836 ; kept an academy at Lyndon, Vt., three years, the last of which he was licensed to preach ; was appointed clia])lain for seamen bv the American Seaman's Friend Society, and ordained in the Old North church at Concord, Oct. 9, 1839. Having spent about two years in the seaman's service at Cronstadt, in Itussia, and in England, and "ten years at Havre, In France, he returned to this country, 1853, and was installed pastor of the Pearl street church, in Nashua, Aug. 31, 1853. XLV. Luther Farnum, A. M., son of Ephraim, of Concord ; grad. at D. C. 1837 ; studied theologv at Andover ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Northfield, Mass., Nov. 20, 1844. He is noAV res- ident in Boston ; preacher, and writes for rehgious papers. XLVL Nathan Ballard, A. M., son of Nathan, of Concord, born March 31, ISIO ; grad. at D. C. 1837 ; has followed the profession of teach- ing, and is now at Brooklyn, N. Y. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 735 XLVII. Cyrus P. Bradley, A. B., son of Mr. Isaac C. Bradley, born at Canterbury, Oct. 20, 1818; grad. at D. C. 1837. He died of ])uhnonary consumption, July 6, 1838, aged nineteen years. At the age of fourteen, young Bradley, upon recommendation of some of the princi])al citizens of Concord, was received as a charity scholar into I'liillips Academy, Exeter ; he possessed a high order of intellect ; devoted much time in college, and afterwards, to the natural sciences, and to historical research ; collected a large number of autographs ; of rare and curious ]mniphlets, and specimens of minerak' — all of Avhich he bequeathed to the New Hampshire Historical Societ}'. XLVIII, Nath'l Bradley Baker, son of Abel, [sec " Baker family,"] grad. at H. C. 1839; studied law, and was admitted to practice in Concord in 1842. From 1841 to 184,5 was joint proprietor and editor of the N. H. Patriot, M'ith II. H. Carroll, Esq. ; in 184G appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and of the Superior Court, for Merrimack County ; licpre- sentative and Speaker of the House in 18.jO and 18ol; in 18o2, one of the electors of president and vice-president; and in 18j4 chosen Governor of the State. He is in law partnership with Col. F. B. Peabody. XLIX. WiLLL^M Pickering Hill, A. M., son of Hon. Isaac Hill, born Oct. 18, 1819; was two years at H. C, "hut graduated at D. C. 1839; co- ])artner in " Hill's New-Hampshire Patriot" from 1840 to 1847 ; three years conducted the "New Hampshire Gazette," at Portsmouth; in 1853 received an appointment in the naval office department at the Custom House in Bos- ton, where he now officiates. Mr. Hill married Miss Clara Anne, daughter of John West, of Concord, Oct. 26, 1843. L. Samuel Hazex Ayer, son of Dr. Samuel Ayer, born Dec. 19, 1819; grad. at I'owdoin College, 1839, M-hile a Mard of Hon. Isaac Hill ; admitted to the bar and practiced in Hillsborough, 1842 ; was representative from that town five successive years ; Speaker of the House in 1848 and 1849 ; soHcitor for the county of Hillsborough in 18,50. He removed to ^Nlanches- ter, whore, amidst growing prospects of usefulness and fame, he suddenly died, Oct. 4, 18o3. His remains were interred in the old burying-ground in Concord, where is a beautiful family monument, LI. Alexander Hamilton Kent, A. B., son of George Kent, was born in Concord, Oct. 22, 1822; grad. at D. C. 1841; studied law in Troy, N. Y., where he died of disease of the brain, Oct. 10, 1844, much beloved and greatly lamented. LII. Charles French Low, A. B., son of Gen. Joseph Low, born Jan. 14, 1819; grad. at 1). C. 1842; studied theology and law; awhile editor of the N. H. Courier ; entered the United States army in Mexico as a private in Capt. Edward Webster's company ; was promoted to a lieutenancy in the ninth regiment of infantry ; has travelled extensively in the "\Yestern States ; opened a law office in Concord in 1853. LIIL David Dimond, A. M., son of David, son of John, son of Ezekiel Dimond, was born in Grotcn, N. H., April 26, 1819 ; hved in Concord in his boyhood ; graduated at 1). C, 1842, and at Andovcr, 1845 ; went to the West, and has been a i)reacher at Troy, in Missouri, and at Collinsville, 111., and is now Professor of the Greek and Latin languages in AVebster College, St. Louis Co., Missouri. LW. Levi Brigham, A. B., son of the late Levi Brigham, of Boston, born in Concord, ]May 2, 1822. After the death of his father, was the ward of his uncle, Richard Bradley, Esq. ; graduated at D. C, 1843 ; went 736 HISTORY OF CONCORD. to Port Tobacco, Md., as a teacher, Avhere he died after an iUness of ten days, of congestive fever, Oct. 1, 1843. LV. Jonathan Texney, A. M., a native of Corinth, Vt., born Sept. 1-i, 1817 ; was an aj)])rentice in the office of the N. H. Observer, in Concord ; graduated at D. C., 1843 ; pursued teaching as a profession several years ; editor of the " Stars and Stripes," and resident in Manchester. LVI. William A. Patten, A. ]\I., a native of Kingston, N. H., born June, 1816 ; learned the in-inting business in the office of the N. H. Ob- server ; graduated at D. C., 1843, and at Andover in 1846 ; ordained to the ministry ; preached in various places, and was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Deerfield, 1850 ; dismissed in 1853. LVII. James O. Adams, A. B., son of Kobert M. and Amaris Adams, born June 5, 1818 ; graduated at D. C, 1843 ; teacher in various places ; settled in Manchester, 1846; editor and proprietor some time of the " Manchester American ;" publisher of the " Granite Farmer ;" representative, and mem- ber of the Common Council of that city. LVIII. Edward Barker West, A. B., son of William West, born April 1, 1822 ; graduated at T). C, 1844 ; private tutor one year in the family of Gen. Jackson, at the Hermitage, East Tenn. ; studied law, and was admit- ted to practice in 1848. He opened an office at Warner, but now resides in Nashua. LVIX. ^SIellex Chamberlaix, son of Moses, born in Pembroke, June 4, 1821, but while a resident in Concord graduated at D. C, 1844 ; studied law, and took the degree of LL. B. at H. C, 1848 ; was elected a member of the Roval Society of Northern Antiquarians, in Copenhagen, 1840, and of the N. 11. Historical Society, in 1842 ; has a law office in Boston, but resides in Chelsea, Mass. LX. Joseph B. Walker, son of Capt. Joseph, born June 12, 1822; grad. at Y. C. 1844 ; studied law and admitted to the bar, March, 1847, and settled on the paternal estate, in the house built by Bcv. Timothy Walker ; is engaged chiefly in agricultural pursuits ; is a director of the Mer- rimack County^Bank ; trustee and secretary of the New-Hampshire Asy- lum for the Insane, and sustams various other important trusts. LXI. Charles A. Davis, A. B., son of Robert Davis, 2d, born in Con- cord about 1821; grad. at D. C. 1845; took his degree in medicine at Harvard University in 1848; went into practice in Lowell, with Dr. Hunt- ington, 1851; and in July, 1853, was appointed surgeon to the United States Marine Hospital, at Chelsea. LXII. David Lawrexce ?>Iorril, A. B., son of Gov. David L. ^lorril, was born in GofFstown, Init resided in this town, and grad. at D. C. in 1847 ; studied law ; ])racticed in Winchendon, Mass., and is now in practice in West Brookfield, Mass. LXIII. Joiix EuRXESS Jarvis, son of John Jarvis, born in Concord, 1826 ; graduated at D. C. 1848 ; took his mecHcal degree at Harvard Col- lege, 1853, and practiced in Boston. LXIV. Andrew Jacksox Burxham, son of Noah Burnham, born in Chester, July 2, 1829, but resident in Concord; grad. at Y. C. ; studied medicine ; teacher in several places ; now in j^ractice at Bellows Falls, Vt. LXV. George Sullivan Barton, son of Hon. Cyrus Barton, born March 9, 1831, graduated at D. C, 1851; studied law; admitted to the bar in Iowa, 1853, where he practiced one year. Returned to New-Hamp- shire, and is now in partnership with Hon. Edmund Burke, of Newport. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 737 LXVI. Theodore French, son of Capt. Theodore French, graduated at D. C, 1852; studied law; now in practice at St. Pauls, ]\Iin. LXVII. Nathaniel, L. Upham, son of Hon. N. G. Upham, graduated at D. C, 1853 ; accompanied his father, Avho was " Commissioner of Claims," &c., to England, the same year, and is now a student in theology. LXVIII. William W. Bailey, a native of llopkinton, graduated at D. C, 1854 ; a student of law. LXIX. Bela Nettleton Stevens, son of Hon. Josiah Stevens, gradu- ated at D. C, 1854 ; a student of law. LXX. Benjamin E. Badger, son of Stephen C. Badger, Esq., gradu- ated at D. C, 1854 ; a student of law. LXXI. Charles Carroll Ll'nd, son of Joseph S. Lund, graduated at D. C, 1855; now teacher in High School, Concord. LXXn. William Kimball Howell, son of Dca. Ira Rowell, horn Nov. 9, 1829, graduated at D. C, 1855; now teacher of Academy in Hop- kinton. No. 7. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS : SOME OF WHICH ARE REFERRED TO IN NOTES IN THE PRECEDING HISTORY. PRINTING. (Seep. 310.) In 1835 the late Jonatlian Farmer, Esq., wrote an article, giving the history of printino; in this town, — particularly of newspapers, — which M'as read at a Printers' Festival in commemoration of Franklin's birth-day, Jan. 17, 1835, and afterwards published in the N. H. Patriot, Jan. 26, 1835 : to wliich those who wish to investigate the subject are referred. In continuation of that history, the following statements are here added. The Neiv - Hampshire Patriot. Nov. 21, 1840, Cyrus Barton, associated with Henry H. Carroll, as editor and publisher, under the firm of " Barton & Carroll." Dec. 1, 1841, Cyrus Barton retired, and Nathaniel B. Baker asso- ciated with H. H. Carroll, under the firm of " Carroll & Baker." Oct. 30, 1845, N. B. Baker retired, and H. H. Carroll became sole proprietor. Mr. C. died Aug. 4, 1846, and the business was carried on by George Minot, Esq., adminis- trator—Thomas P. Treadwcll, editor. Dec. 3, 1846, William Butterfield became sole proprietor. May 27, 1847, the N. H. Patriot, represented by Wm. Butterfield, and " Hill's N. H. Patriot," by John M. Hill, were united under the proprietorship of "Butterfield & Hill." May 10, 1853. John M. Hill retired, and William Butterfield became sole proprietor. New-Hampshire Statesman and State Journal. George W. Ela, editor and publisher, disposed of his interest in this paper to Jacob H. P21a and A. C. Blodgett, in 1842 ; in July, 1844, it went into possession of George 0. Odlin, John C. Wilson and John P. Osgood, in whose hands it continued with some changes of an unimportant nature, up to July, 1851, when the establishment was purchased by Asa McFarland and Geo. E. Jenks, who are now the proprietors. New-Hampshire Observer. Since 1835 this paper has passed through many shanges, as to editors and owners. Rev. David Kimball was a while connected 47 738 HISTORY OF CONCORD. with Edmund S. Chadwick, in publishing^ it, ixnder the title of " Christian Pan- oply ;" ilr. Kimhall next became sole proprietor, and a connection was formed in 1840, with the Rev. Henry Wood as editor, and the name was changed to " Congregational Journal."" The connection between Mr. Kimball and Mr. "Wood closed in 1842, and the paper was wholly conducted by Rev. Henry Wood. In 1846 Mr. Wood's interest in the paper was transferred to B. W. Sanborn, as publisher ; the former retaining a connection as editor, and contin- ued thus till Jan. 1, 1854, when the Rev. Benjamin P. Stone* became editor. A paper advocating the principles of temperance has been published for a consideralile time, but under so many names and so many editors that to trace its history is impracticalile. Other papers have had " their day," and passed away. The " Balm of Gilead and Practical Universalist" was published at Concord, Nashua and Manchester, in 1842, and continued a few years. In April, 1842, Messrs. Tracy and Colby, of Concord, commenced the publi- cation of the " Iris and Literary "Repository," a monthly periodical ; discontinued. A semi-weekly paper, edited by George Kent, Esq., was started in Concord, in May, 1842. The " Baptist Register " was published in Concord for several years, com- mencing about 1833. The Independent Demorraf was first published at Manchester, May 1, 1845, by Robert C. Wetmore ; moved to Concord in about nine weeks, and shortly after, G. G. Fogg, Esq., then of Gilmanton, commenced contributing to its editorial columns, and soon became sole editor. In July, 1847, the proprietorship of the Democrat was disposed of by Mr. Wetmore to "j. E. Hood and G. G. Fogg, and united with the " Granite Freeman," a liberty party paper, previously published by Mr. Hood, and under the title of " Independent Democrat and Freeman," published bv them until Feb. 1, 1849 ; then Mr. Hood disposed of his interest in it to G. G. Fogg and A. H. Wiggin. In 1854 the former became sole pro- prietor. The Semi-weekly State Copital Reporter was commenced by Col. Cyrus Barton, Jan. 1, 1852. In May, 1853, Amos Hadley, Esq., was associated with him under the firm of " Barton & Hadley." They commenced the weekly State Capital Reporter, July 1, 1853. In August, the same year, the Reporter iiecarae united with the " Old Guard," a journal commenced by Hon. Edmund Burke. In Nov., 1853, the name of the Reporter was changed" to the "Reporter and Old Guard," conducted by the same editors, with Mr. Burke a contributor, and so conducted until Feb. i'T, 1855 ; when, Col. Barton having died, his interest was vested in his widow, and the name of the firm was changed to " Hadley & Barton." The semi-weekly Reporter was discontinued in August, 1854. At the present time, printing, not only of newspapers, but books of every description, is one of the most extensive" branches of mechanical business in Concord. "ELECTION DAY." The great day in Concord, of all the year, was Election day. This occurred on Thursday, of the first week in June, when the new Governor was usually inducted into office. Preparations for the occasion commenced in May, when the women put every thing in order in-doors, and the men, out-doors. Rooms were swept, white-washed and garnished ; wood piled, and chips raked up ; door-yards cleaned ; fences repaired ; barns put in order ; provisions laid in, and * Rev. Benjamin P. Stone, D. D., has resided in Concord since 1837. He was born in Reading, Vt., Feb. II, 1801, son of David Stone, a native of Groton, Mass., whose mother was Martha Lawrence, a descendant of John Lawrence, of Watertown, Mass., 163.5. Mr. S. sraduated at Middlebiiry Colleae, 1828 ; studied theology at Andover ; ordained the first pastor of the church in Franklin, N. H., May, 1831, where he remained one year; installed pastor at Campton, 1832; appointed Secretary of the N. H. Missionary Society, 1837, and moved to Concord. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. i6\ all things else put in readiness for " 'lection." From Monday to Wednesday, members of the Legislature, ministers of the gospel — all sorts of public men — would be seen " coming into town," some on horseback, some in wagons and carriages ; some in stages — but all would be on hand by Wednesday. Almost every family on Main street in old times took boarders. The ministt.rs of the "standing order," as they were then called, who were always provided for, met in Convention on that day, and had a sermon preached at the Old North Meet- ing-house in the afternoon or evening. On Tlmrsday, the "people" came from all adjacent and remote sections of the State — men, boj's and negroes — equally eager to participate in the festivities of tlie occasion. JJooths, tents, or stands well furnished with all kinds of eatables, and especially driiifcaldes, were erected along on both sides of Main street, from the vicinity of the meeting-house to the middle of Main street. On tlie forenoon of Thursday was the great procession, composed of a cavalcade and of mihtary companies, by which the Governor was escorted into town, amid a cloud of dust and the thunder of a s/.r-pounder ! Next followed in procession all the iionorable State authorities, ministers of the gospel, public men of all ranks, titles and pretensions, with a more numerous side procession of the "people," including women and boys. Previous to 1819 this procession marched with martial music from the old town hall, and after- wards from the State House to the old meeting-house to hear the Election Ser- mon. The sermon was preached by a person previously appointed either by the Governor and Council or by the Legislature. On this august occasion the old meeting-house was crowded to its utmost capacity — tlie honorables having seats in the pews lielow, and the people in the gallery. To prevent any accident from over-crowding the old oak edifice, the galleries were shored up with substantial timbers ! The appointment to preach the Election Sermon was con- sidered complimentary to the talents and standing or to the politics of the min- ister, and of course it was not uncommon for him on such occasions to do his best — si)eaking " to the tiipes " — and often echoing the voice of the people, as well as the voice of God ! Some of the election sermons were fine specimens of pulpit oratory, and are remembered by aged people to this day. At the earliest period the sermon was followed by a public dinner, which, how- ever, was discontinued in later times. Gov. John Langdon, John T. Oilman and Samuel Bell, are remembered as among ilie most dignified Governors of former years. Gov. Oilman is remembered by many as wearing a cocked up hat, with a large cockade. For his body guard he had a negro servant by the name of " London." This London, having been a soldier in the Revolution, always appeared on election days, dressed in his regimentals, with a cocked hat, and bore the name of " Gineral." All the negroes in the vicinitv, especially such as had served in the war, would rally, and march under command of " Gineral London," to pay their salutes to tlie Governor ; and, what was better, to receive from him a treat ! Previous to 1816, and even later, the head or center of the great gatherings on election day was at the north end. There was the meeting-house, and the post-office, and the great Washington tavern ! But after the State House was built, the attraction was stronger that way ; so that, gradually, as the people drew down into that vicinity, the distance to the old meeting-house seemed much longer ; and finally the old customs of processions, sermons, booths and exhibitions on election day ceased. Though the name is kept up, the thing itself has passed awa/. " Sic transit gloria miindi! " * " LIST OF MINISTERS WHO HAVE PREACHED THE ELECTION SERMON, SO FAB A9 COULD BE ASCERTAINED. NAME. BESIDENCE. YEAR. Rev. Samuel McClintock, Greenland, 1784. Rev. Jeremy Belknap, Dover, 1785. Rev. Samuel Haven, Portsmouth, ]78r). Rev. Samuel Langdon, Portsmouth, 1788. Rev. Oliver iNoble, New-Castle, 1789. NAME. Rev. John C. Ogden, Rev. Israel Evans, Rev. William Morrison, Rev. Amos Wood, Rev. Wm. F. Rowland. RESIDENCE. YEAR. Portsmouth, 1790. Concord, 1791. Londonderrv, 1792. Weare, ' 1794. Exeter, 1796. *An amusing reminiscence of " Election Day" was published in 1842, in a paper called 8 " Locomotive," edited by Geo. Kent, Esq. It was attributed to Hon. Edward Kent of aine. The article was republished in Hill's N. H. Patriot, June 9, 1842. * tbe Maine. 74 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Rev. Stephen Peabody, Atkinson, 1797. Rev. David Sutherland, Bath, 1815. Rev. Robert Gay, Dover, 1798. Rev. Pliny Dickinson, Walpole, 1810. Rev. Seth Paysoii, Rindge, 1799. Rev. Daniel Merrill, Notti'gh'ni W M817 Rev. Jacob Biirnap, Merrimack, 18(11. Rev. William Allen, Hanover, 1818. Rev Joseiih VVooiliiiaii, Sanbornton, 180-3. Rev. James B. Howe, liarcmont. 1820. Rev. Aamn Hall, Keene, l^o.•^. Rev. Eph'm P. Bradford, New-Boston, 1821. Rev. Natli'l Porter, t'onway. 1804. Rev Jonathan French, N. Hampton, 1822. Rev. Reed Paijie, Hancoch, 1805. Rev Bennet Tyler, Hanover, 1824. Rev. James Miltiinore, Strathani, 1806. Rev Phinelias Uooke, Acworth, 1825 Rev Natbau Bradsitreet, Chester, 1807. Rev Ferdinand Ellis, Exeter, 182C. Rev Nathan Parker, Portsmouth, 1808. Rev Nath'l W.Williams , Concord, 1827. Rev Wm. F. Rowland, Exeter, 1809. Rev Nathaniel Boiiton, Concord, 1828. Rev Roswell fihiirtleir, Hanover, 1810. Rev Humphrey Moore, Milford, 1829. Rev Thomas Beede, Wilton, 1811. Rev Jazeniali Crosby, Cliarlestown 1830. Rev. Moses Bradford, Francestown ,1812. Rev Nathan Lord, Hanover, 1831 Rev. Peter Holt, Epping, 1814. CONCORD LITERARY INSTITUTION AND TEACHERS' SEMI- NARY. THE FIRST, AND THUS FAR THE LAST OF THE KIND EVER BUILT IN CONCORD. In 18-35 a building was erected on the hill directly west of Union street, on land given by Samuel A. Kimball, Esq., for the purpose of a High School or Academy. The building was 58 feet long, 54 wide, two stories in height, with a cupola ; entrance, two doors in front, one for males and the other for females. The apartments were separated on the lower floor by a partition with sliding doors. In the upper story were rooms for a library, apparatus and recitations, with a spacious hall for exhibitions. The cost of the building, which was paid for by subscriptions, was about $3500, exclusive of apparatus and library, which were estimated at $200. A Board of Trustees was chosen, of which Rev. N. Bouton was President, Rev. E. E. Cummings, Secretary, and Dea. AVilliam Gault, Treasurer. An act of incorporation was obtained, and a public school opened in the building in the fall of 1835, under the instruction of Mr. T. D. P. Stone, as principal; Miss Elizabeth Fuller, preceptress, and Miss Rowena Cofiin and Miss Mary K. Coffin, assistants. Mr. Stone resigned in August, 1837, but the school was continued under successive teachers until 1844, when, on account of pecuniary embarrassments the building was sold at public auc- tion for $540. It was afterwards bought by Hon. Isaac Hill, moved away, and constructed into three dwelling-houses, at the lower end of Main street. [For further particulars, see Records of the Institution, in N. H. Historical Society's Library, and document on file, marked " Concord Literary Institution," &c.] BOATING COMPANY. (Seep. 371.) The navigation of the Merrimack by boats to tliis place was consummated mainly by the enterprise and energy of John L. Sullivan, Esq., a gentleman highly esteemed in this section, who was many years superintendent of the Middlesex Canal, in Massachusetts, and also of the locks and canals on the Merrimack. Most of them were built under his supervision. He early con- ceived the idea of navigating the Merrimack by steamboats, and with this view, having obtained a charter from the Legislature giving him the exclusive right, he commenced about 1814, building boats at Charlestown, Mass., and, after trying various models and numerous experiments on machinery, he so ftir suc- ceeded as to get a boat propelled by steam to reach here in 1819. It \yas his purpose to tow the loaded boats by this steamboat, but it was found on trial that she had barely sufficient power to pass herself up the rapids, without any incum- brance, and tiie project was finally abandoned. A charter was granted by the Legislature of New-Hampshire in 1812, incorpo- rating John L. Sullivan anil his associates, by the name and style of the " Mer- rimack Boating Company." The first boat up the river arrived at Concord in the autumn of 1814. Ine locks on the river not being completed, she brought but a small cargo, consist- ing of general merchandise. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 741 In June, 1815, tlie locks on the river, and the wareliouse near Concord bridge beinji in order, the boats commenced running regularly. The rates of freight between Boston and Concord were as follows : viz., 1815 to 1819. Upward, $12 ; downward, $8 per ton of 2240 pounds. 1819 to 1822. " 10 " ' 7 1822 to 1824. "8 "6 1824 to 1830. "7 "5 1830 to 1836. "5 "4 " 2000 1836 to 1837. " 6 " 4 " " " 1837 to 1841. " 5 " 4 1841 to 1842— 1st class. "5 "4 " " " 1841 to 1842— 2d class. "4 "4 " " " The mode of propelling the boats up the river was by means of setting-poles. In going downward they used oars, but when the wind was fair, sails were used, both in ascending and descending. The company suffered severe losses occasionally by the upsetting or swamp- ing of boats. In one instance a boat, by imprudently attempting to run over GoflFe's falls, was capsized, and one of tiie men drowned. This was the only instance of any one being drowned from the boats. It was customary in high water to use oxen to tow the boats over some of the rapids. At the head of Amoskeag falls was one of these rapids. A boat, with a full cargo of miscel- laneous goods, having ascended the locks, the team was made fest to her to tow her over the rapid ; by some misunderstanding the team was started before the men on board had got the boat in the proper position. This gave her such a " shear" out into the current that the whole force of it came against her broad- side, and it was impossible for the men to " round her to" in season to save her, and it was found that she must go over the falls " in spite of fate," and for a time it seemed that the men and team must all go with her, but fortunately the men, by leaping overboard, made shift to reach the shore in safety, and by dex- terously cutting the rope just as they were being drawn into the river, the oxen were saved. The boat weut over the falls, and was, of course, dashed in many pieces. A portion of the cargo was picked up below, very much damaged, 'i'his happened in 1840, and caused a loss to the company of about S2500. The company was under the general management and control of John L. Sullivan, Esq., from its commencement up to 1822, when his interest in it ceased. The business of the Boston Landing was under the care of the late David Dodge, Esq., from its commencement to 1823; from that time to its close Mr. Reuben B. Sherburne had charge of it ; at Concord, the late Samuel Butters had charge up to 1819 ; from then to its close Theodore French was in charge. The number of boats employed during spring and autumn was about twenty ; in summer, a less number; capacity of boats, twenty tons — manned by three men. The greatest amount of freight charged in any one season was in 1839 — $38,169. The average from the commencement to the close of the business was about S25,000 per season. In addition to their freighting for others, the company brought up and sold large quantities of salt, lime and plaster on their own account. In 1823 the corporate name of the company was, by act of the Legislature, changed to the " Boston and Concord Boating Company." They continued to do a prosperous business until superseded by the Concord Railroad, in the fall of 1842. FREE BRIDGES. (See p. 469.) The first free bridge ever built over any part of Merrimack river, it is believed was built in Concord, in 1839. In this undertaking persons residing in the Main village, and near tlie center of Main street, took an especial interest. The first meeting for consultation on the subject was called by Mr. John Gass, and was held at the American house, in the fall of 1838 ; Hon. Isaac Hill was chair- man ; a committee was then appointed to obtain subscriptions for the purpose, in Concord, and in towns eastward, and $4380 were subscribed. At a subsequent meeting, Nathan Call and John Gass, of Concord ; Bailey Parker, of Pembroke, 742 HISTORY OF CONCORD. and Cyrus Tucker, of Loudon, were appointed a building committee. It was built of wooden piers, where tiie free bridge now stands ; a road opened across the interval on both sides of the river, and tlirough the gulley, eastward ; and road commissioners tiien laid out the road, assessing one half the cost upon the town. In January, 1841, the bridge was carried off by a great freshet, but rebuilt as soon as practicable, at a cost of about $3000. Still, it was materi- ally injured again and again by freshets; when, in 1842, a powerful opposition was raised against it by inhabitants in other sections of the town. At a meet- ing, April 11, 1842, it was voted, "that, in the opinion of the legal voters of the town of Concord, the free bridge over ^Merrimack river is, in its concep- tion, location and construction, imjiolitic, unequal and oppressive, and ought not to be continued at the expense of the town." The question of sustaining it was also carried into court, at a considerable cost to the parties.* In 1850 a board of selectmen was chosen, who were in favor of a free bridge, and who were instructed to proceed to rebuild it in a substantial manner. This was accordingly done in the course of the year. At tiie present time, 18f)5, the " Concord Bridge," which was built in 1795, is the only toll bridge iu the bounds of the city. COST AND ESTI.MATED VALUE OF BRIDGES. WHEN BUILT. ORIGINAL COST. hRESENT VALUE. Free Bridge, 1849-50 . . $1G,753 . . $12,000 Federal Bridge, 1850-51 . . , 15,950 . . . 12,000 Two Bridges at Fisherville, . .1849-50 . . . 5,150 . . . 4,000 Horse-hillBridge, .... 1852 ... . 2,676 . . . 2,000 Sewall's Falls Bridge, town paid, 1852 .... 1,735 Sewall's Falls Bridge, city paid, 1853 . . . . 6,.335 . . . 8,000 $38,000 COL. BENJAMIN GROVER'S HOUSE. t Col. Grover's house, an elegant view of which he has furnished, by particular request, for this History, is the latest and best specimen of architecture to be seen in the city. It stands on Pleasant street, near the new Baptist church, on a lot SO by 17.5 feet, w'hich cost, in 1850, S900. The house was built in 1854 — G. M. Hiirding, then of Concord, architect ; Colby and Dow, of Concord, build- ers. The sketch was drawn by Mr. Nathan Brown, of this city, and engraved by Kilburn & Mallory, of Boston. The cost of tiic house without the land was about $7,500. A view of this elegant structure, with other beautiful houses in its vicinity ; also, others on " Kent's," or •' Holt's Hill," some towards the south end of Jlain street, and the northerly part of State street, together with the sub- stantial dwelling of Hon. Francis N. Fisk, at the "north end," may give us a just idea of the progress made since the log-house period, not only in architect- ure, but in the comforts of domestic and social life J CARRIAGE MANUFACTURE. Mr. Lewis Downing, in answer to a request from the author, says : " I com- menced business in Concord, May, 1813, nearly ojiposite the Merrimack County Bank. When I began, my whole capital consisted of my tools and about $60 in cash, iu all, $150. The first year I Morked entirely "alone. At that time ever}' part of the work was done by hand labor ; no poiuer machinery. In the ftiU of 1816 I moved my shop to the south end of the street. After the first year I employed from three to six hands, for ten or twelve years ; after that, I enlarged my shop, and started all the different branches connected with carriage business, such as blacksmith, painting and trimming, &c., and commenced building chaise and coaches, &c., and employed from thirty to forty hands up to 1847. At that time I built new shops in tile center of the street, and took my * See Town Records, f fof » view of it, see next page. % Compare p. 511, &r. 744 HISTORY OF CONCORD. two sons into the liusincss witli me. Since 1847 liave employed from forty to seventy hands ; now seventy hands, and could sell the work of twice that number, but my practice has ever been to do no more business than I could see to, per- sonally." In reply to inquiries of Messrs. J. S. & E. A. Abbot, who are also engaged in the manufacture of carriages of various kinds, they say: " In 1854 we sent car- riages into every State, Territory and Province in North America, (except Del- aware ;) also, Mexico and South America. We employed averaging one hun- dred and ninety men ; delivered six hundred and twenty-live carriages, and used three hundred "thousand feet of lumber, two hundred aiid fifty tons Cumberland coal, six thousand five hundred bushels charcoal. Wc cannot now name the exact amount of iron, but about two hundred and fifty tons." CONTEST BETWEEN THE "NORTH" AND THE " SOUTH-END- ERS" ABOUT AN OLD GUN! [COMMMUNICATED BY MR. CHARLES K. WEST, OF CONCORD.] At the close of the war of 1812-15 there were two small cannon in Concord — one belonging to the south and the other to the north end— and to manage them, two companies were formed : that at the north end commanded by a son of David George, and that at the south by Col. William Kent. About 1817 a sham fight occurred between them, on the Court House hill, in which both com- panies became greatly excited, and began to load with gravel, when the town authorities interfered. From that time an enmity continued between the boys of the north and south ends, until botli guns were out of the way. " The fate of the south gun," says Mr. West, "I never knew." "About the year 1818, on the 4th of July, the south-eiiders took the north-enders' gun from them, after a hard conflict. Before winter tlie gun was recaptured, dismounted and kept till the spring of 1819, wlien tlie south-cnders again took the gun, wliile it was firing one evening on the hill back of the Court House, and hid it in Major Chandler's jewelry shop. Tiie nortli-enders keeping themselves well drilled and armed with suitable cudgels, with spikes in the end, appointed a committee to prepare tools and break into Major Chandler's shop in the night and get the gun, while a sufficient number should stand by to carry off the prize. After commencing operations, however, they desisted tin-ough fear that they might be taken up for stealing ; but the Major soon after ejected the gun from his shop. It was then placed by the south-enders in the loft of the Phenix stable, chained to a beam, fastened with a padlock, and guarded by a faitliful dog. Before a month passed away tlie dog was bribed, the gun taken, and let down through the attic window on to the dung heap, where it struck hard, but noiseless ; thence it was triumphantly borne off upon a wheel-barrow, and fired once that night at the north end ! It was never fired but a few times after that, and but once at a time. I kept the gun in m}' possession till 1826, occasionally changing its hid- ing-place. When al'out to leave town, as I could get no one to take charge of it, and the excitement was still kept up, finally, ratlicr than the gun should go into the hands of the south-enders, (with the help of only one of the faithful to assist me,) I took the gun to Horse Shoe pond and sunk it, where I have every reason to believe it still remains — a north-ender !" INDIAN REMAINS — REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. Just as this chapter of our History was going to press, an interesting discov- ery was made of Indian remains. The third week in November inst., (1855,) Mr, Cyrus W. Paige, in digging a cellar for a new dwelling-house west of Rich- ard Bradley's, and on land recently sold by him, came to human bones, which, from tiieir position and (juantity, greatly excited his attention. Before remov- ing them he called on l)r. William Prescott, who, after carefully examining them, expresses the opinion that without doubt they are the remains of Indians long since interred there. Dr. Prescott says, in a communication which I have DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 745 tlie honor to acknowledge : " The wliole number fonnd thus far is iiiur, and all were comprised within a space of about ten by fifteen feet. Three of them were adults — one male, of a very large size, and two females ; the others were children and youth. Considering the time that must have elapsed since they were interred, the liones were in a tolerable state of preservation. Two of the craniums were nearly perfect — that of the adult male and one of tiie adult females. They were each enshrouded in a thick envelope, consisting of several thicknesses of pitch pine bark — the only exception being what appeared to be a female between two infants, all being enclosed in one general envelope. The skeletons all lay upon ti)e right side, in a direction north and south, the face looking east; the lower limbs somewhat flexed upon the trunk, the knees flexed at about right angles, and the elbows completely flexed, the head resting upon the right hand. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your friend, Wm. Peescott." No. 8. DOCUMENT AEY AND STATISTICAL CHAPTER. The author had designed to publish in this chapter all the documents referred to in the body of his History, but is compelled by the limits of the work to abridge in this particular. Those of more general interest, and essential to illustrate and confirm the statements in the History, are, however, herein con- tained ; M'hile the others have been carefully labeled and marked, so as to cor- respond with the pages referred to, and may be found filed in the archives of the N. H. Historical Society, where they will be accessible, upon application to the librarian, by persons who desire more particular information. DOCUMEiNT FOR CHAPTER II., p. 5C. Pennecook, March 22, 1722. March 19, Capt. Frie and Lieut. Barker with thirty men moved fiom Ando- ver, to go to Pennecook. Ye 1st day was Stormy, but we went to Nutficld, and lodged there that Night. The 2d Day we came to Amiskege, and lodged there. The 3d day we Came to Suncook, in Pennecook, and built four Casys, and lodged there. The 4th day we came to Pennecook Plains, att ye Intervale Lands, about 11 of the Clock. There we found five of those men which came from Ireland. Mr. Houston was one of them. They came to us, and we chose Capt. Frie to discourse them with 4 men. They saj' they have a Grant of this Pennecook on both sides of the River. They call us Rel)bels, and commands us to discharge the Place, both in the King's name and in the Province's ; and if we don't, in a fortniglit they will git us off : We therefore desire you. Justice Stevens, with the Committe, to send us word whether we have any Encourage- ment to Stay, or else to draw off. Butt Capt. Erie's Courage is So that he will Sta}' allone rather then Let them userpers drive us off. A true copy of ye Journall Sent from Pennecook, and of Their Treatment when they got there.* * Furnished by Hon, C. E. Potter. 746 HISTORY OF CONCORD. DOCL^MENTS REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER 111. No. 1, pp. 63, 64. The Endicot or Scwall fiirin. No. 2, p. 81. Expenses of committee sent to Penacook to notify "Massachu- setts gentlemen to withdraw tliemselves." No. 3, p. 91. Eorfeiiure of rights. DOCUMENTS IN CHAPTER IV. No. 1. " An Act for subjecting all persons and estates within this Province, lying to the eastward or northward of the northern and eastern boundary of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, (not being within any township,) to pay a tax, (according to the rules herein prescribed,) towards the support of this Gov- ernment." DOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER V. No. 1, p. 152. Petition of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., April 30, 1745, for aid against the French and Indians. No. 2, p. 152. Petition of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, March 12, 1746, for the same. No. 3, p. 152. Petition of the Inliabitants of Rumford. July 13, 1747, to the Governor, Council and Assembly, for the same. This petition signed by sixty- two persons. No. 4, p. 152. Petition of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, Sept. 23, 1747, for the same. No. 5, 153. Col. Benjamin Rolfe's muster roll of two companies, June 8, 1745, viz. : of " Capt. John Chandler, leader of a scout," of ten men ; and of Capt. Jeremiah Clough, " leader of a scout," of five men. No. 6, p. 156. Capt. Daniel Ladd's muster roll, of sixty-five men, Aug. 11, 1746. No. 7, p. 156. Contains a petition from " Capt. Daniel Ladd," March 31, 1747, "asking remuneration for losses sustained while in command of his " volunteer company," in 1746. He says: "Your petitioner was obliged to carry two horses for the said service, and lost one of them. I had one gun also taken from me by the Indians, when they killed Jonathan Bradlec, and some others of my company — said Bradlee having m}^ gun with him at that time." No. 8, p. 174. "A muster roll of the company in His Majesty's service, under command of Cajit. Ebenezer Eastman," 1747. In this company, consisting of sixteen men, were Rev. Mr. Phinehas Stevens, of Boseawen, and James Scales, Esq., of Canterbury. No. 9, p. 174. A muster roll of a company under command of Capt. Eben- ezer Eastman, in Nov., 1747, in which were thirty-five men. No. 10, p. 174. A muster roll of a company under command of Capt. Moses Foster, 1748. In this company were twenty-seven men. among whom was Rev. Mr. Whittemore, of Pembroke. DOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER VI. No. 1, pp. 190, 191. From this document, which is placed on file at length, it appears that Capt. Eastman's company marched from " Ste])henstown," which ■was also called " Bakerstown" — now called Franklin — about the last of July, 1755. On the I6th of August they were at Deerfield, Mass. "Then our com- pany took allowance of bread, meat and rhuni ; part of our bread we took at Northfield. 2 days before, but we took no pease." On the 24th of August they were at All)any. " This day we took allowance of bread, meat, and Aug. 25th we took allowance of pease ; all which allowance we took for 8 days, and our rum we took every day." On the 6th of Sept. they were at Fort Lyman ; and on the 8th of Sept. at Lake Sacrament. " We fought with the enemy, and Timothy Eastman was wounded." Sept. 13, "we took Ja P'^t of molasses each." Sept. 19. "From the 30th of Aug. until now, we took no rum, except DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 747 ^ a gill each at a time, when 16 of us came from 'ye Lake, from fighting, to Fort Lyman, and ^o a gill each at 'ye Lake, twice ; and a gill each, since ; and 18 of us received a pint each, in order to go to scouting; and Sept. 18, ten of our men went to scouting, and received a pint each and 20 ounces of ginger at once ; and no flour since Sept. 6, nor molasses, nor no sugar since we came from Albany. Sept. 18 and 19, we rec'd a gill and a half of rum, in all, each, and a quart of molasses for 'ye sick in our company." [These extracts may give us some idea of the privations and sufferings of the " ranger life."] No. 2, p. 192. Depositions of Amos Eastman, John Stark and William Stark, as to their capture by the Indians at Baker's river, &c. Dated Peuaeook, May 23, 1754. [Copied from Secretary's olKee.J DOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER VII. No. 1, p. 206. Charter of Bow, copied from records in Secretary's office. No 2, A, p. 208. Petition of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq , to the Governor and Council of New-Hampshire, for the incorporation of Rumford by its original bounds. No. 2, B, p. 208. A counter petition by the Selectmen of Bow. No. .3, p. 208. Writ of ejectment against Dea. John Merrill. No. 4, p. 213, A and B. Power, by the inhabitants of Rumford, to Rev. Tim- othy Walker and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Feb. 12, 1753, to "represent to the King's most excellent Majesty, the manifold grievances they labor under," &c. ; and also by the proprietors, to the same, to represent " their manifold griev- ances" to the General Court of Massachusetts. No. 5, p. 216. Petition of Clement March, Daniel Peirce and Zeb. Giddings, July, 1754, to Penning Wentworth, &c., for a grant of £100, to aid in carrying on the suit against the proprietors of Rumford. No. 6, p. 219. Petition of Daniel Peirce, &c., "for accommodation and agree- ment," February, 1757. No. 7, p. 214. Jeremiah Stickney's letter. DOCUiMENTS FOR CHAPTER VIII. No. 1, p. 239. Petition of Joseph Baker and Philip Eastman, representing the difficulty of collecting taxes, May 1, 1764; and petition and complaint of Edward Kussell, Solomon Heath and Thomas Chandler, setting forth their burden of taxes, &c. June 12, 1764. No. 2, p. 239. Petition of Rev. Timothy Walker, for an incorporation by "their former known bounds," April 11, 1764. No. 3, p. 240. Act of incorporation of a Parish in Bow, by the name of Con- cord. May 25, 1765. Anno Regni Regis Georgii Magnte Brittankti, Franchc, IHberniie, Quinto.* An Act setting off a part of the town of Bow, together with some lands adjoining thereto, with the inhabitants thereon, and making them 9EJ a Parish ; investing them with such privileges and immunities as towns in this Province have and do enjoy. Whereas, there are sundry arrearages of taxes now due, which the inhabitants aforesaid apprehend they cannot levy for want of sufficient authority, and several of them praying they might be erected into a town or parish, and enjoy the common privileges of other towns in tliis Province : Be it enacti'd, Therefore, by the Governor, Council and Assembly, that the inhabitants who are settled on the lands hereafter described, viz. : Beginning at the mouth of Contoocook river, (so called,) which is the southeast corner of Boscawen, from thence running south, seventy-three degrees west, by said Bos- cawen, four miles ; from thence running south, seventeen degrees east, seven- miles and one hundred rods ; from thence running north, seventy-three degrees *In the year of the reign of George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, the Fifth. 748 HISTORY OF CONCORD. east, about four miles, to Merrimack river ; then crossing the said river, and still continuing the same course to Soucook river ; then beginning again at the mouth of Contoocook river aforesaid ; from thence running north, seventy- three degrees east, six hundred and six rods from the easterly bank of Merri- mack river, or till it shall come to the south-east line of Canterbury ; from thence south-east, on said line, two miles and eighty rods ; from thence down the said river, till it comes to where the line from Merrimack river strikes Sou- cook river. And that the polls and estates within the aforesaid boundary be, and hereby are, set off and made a parish by the name of Concord, and invested and en- franchised with all the powers, privileges and authorities which ar.y town in this Province doth by law enjoy, excepting that when any of the inhabitants of the aforesaid parish shall have occasion to lay out any road through any of the lands that are already laid out and divided by the said town of Bow, that appli- cation shall be for the same to Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said Province, as in other cases. And that the said inhabitants of said parish are hereby subjected to the same duties, pains and penalties the law subjects the inhabitants of other towns in this Province. And that their first meeting for the choice of town officers be held on the third Tuesday of August next, which officers shall stand and continue till the next March following; which meeting shall be notified by Samuel Emerson, Esq., who is hereby directed to post the same, together with the time, place and occa- sion thereof, in some public place in said parish, fifteen days beforehand, who shall also govern said meeting until a moderator shall be chosen by the major part of such inliabitants as the law directs in such cases ; and that their annual meeting for the future for the choice of town officers be held on the first Tues- days [of March,] annually. And that the officers that shall be chosen in virtue of this act are hereby in- vested with the same powers which other like officers have in other towns in this Province, and under the same duties and penalties of other like officers. And wlsereas the Province tax for the year 176.3, which arose and should have been paid liy the said town of Bow, as their proportion thereof, amounting to eighty pounds ten shillings sterling, and ninety-six pounds twelve shillings new tenor; and for the year 1764, the sum of ninety-six pounds two shillings new tenor : Be it therefore enacted, That the selectmen that shall be chosen in conseriuence of this act the day the first meeting shall be held for the choice of town officers, as aforesaid, together with John Noyes and Edward Russell, Esqrs., or the major part of them, shall assess the polls and estates of the inhaliitants living within the aforesaid limits, as also the other inhabitants within the remaining part of Bow, (exclusive of such as are already set oft" to Pembroke and New- Hopkinton,) with the said tax that arose and became due in said year 176.'?, to- getlicr witli the current charges that shall arise on said Bow for the year 1765, and order the same to be paid into the treasury of said Province by tlie 2.')th day of December, 1765 ; and the selectmen that shall be I'hosen in said parish for the year 1766, together with the said John Noyes and Edward Russell, or the major part of them, as aforesaid, shall assess all the inhabitants that shall be within the said boundaries and the aforesaid town of Bow, excepting as aforesaid, with the sum of ninety pounds twelve shillings, new tenor, together with the current charges of the year 1766, and order the same to be paid by the 25th day of De- cember, 1766; and that the selectmen that shall be chosen annually for this parish, together with the aforesaid John Noyes and Edward Russell, as afore- said, shall annually assess the inliabitants aforesaid with the current charges of the government that shall be due from the said town of Bow, as their part of the Province tax, until a new proportion of the same shall be made. And be it further enacted, that the constable or collectors who shall have any of the said taxes to collect, shall have full power and authority to levy and collect the same, as though all the persons mentioned in the respective lists were within the aforesaid parish. And be it further enacted, that no person or persons who shall move into the said town of Bow, on any new lauds that are not improved, nor the polls that DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 749 shall come into said Bow after the date of this act, shall be liable to pay any part of tlic arrearages that arose in the year 1763 and 17G4, but are hereby de- clared to be exempt therefrom. And be it further enacted, that in case of death or removal of either of the aforesaid John Noyes or the said Edward Russell, that their place shall be sup- plied by the proprietors of the town of Bow, upon having notice thereof; but if in case the proprietors of said Bow shall not supply such vacancy within one month after notice is given to one of the agents of the proprietors of said Bow, that then tiie selectmen of said parish shall make the necessary taxes for the Province themselves : Provided, that private property be no ways affected by this act. PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. In the House of Representatives, May 25, ITG.'j. This bill having been read three times, Voted, that it pass to be enacted. H. Sherburne, Speaker. PROVINCE OF NE-VV-HAMPSHIRE. In Council, June 7, 1766. This bill read a third time and passed to be enacted. J. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary. Consented to. B. Wentworth. Copy examined per J. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary. Copy examined per Timo. Walker, Jun., Farisk Clerk of Concord. No. 4, p. 241. " It was said by some at the time, that one object the selectmen of Concord had in view in consenting to this change, was, to get rid of support- ing a certain bridge, that crossed the Merrimack considerably below where the present bridge is. But some few years after, the Court, on petition for that jjur- pose, straightened the road, and located the bridge furtiier up the river, in Con- cord, on condition that each of the two towns should build and forever support one half of it. Boscawen consented to the condition, and called a sjtecial town meeting, at which they chose an agent, and authorized him to bind the town to build and support one half of the bridge. This they did for several years, but finding that they could not be legally compelled to support a bridge out of town, refused to do it. Concord prosecuted Boscawen, but failed of their object, and now the support of the iclwJc bridge devolves on Concord."* No. 5, p. 244. Constable's warrant for collecting taxes. No. 6, p. 248. Petition of Andrew McMillan, for annexation to the county of Hillsborough. No. 7, p. 249. Petition of Timothy Walker, Jun. Grant of township, &c. This document is placed on file, but the names of the original grantees, &c., are here inserted. NAMES OF THE ORIGINAL GRANTEES OF THE TOWNSHIP OF RUMFORD, ME. The Committee appointed by the Great and General Court, at their session in Boston, February, 1774, (upon the petition of Timothy Walker, Jun., and associates,) to inquire into the sufferings, and make out and return a list of said sufferers, having notified, met and fully heard said sufferers, as directed by said Courts report the following list of names to whom rights are to be assigned. RIGH Timothy Walker, Jun., of Concord, George Abbot, Thomas Stickney, John Chandler, William Coffin, Ebenezer Hall, Jonathan Merrill, Amos Abbot, Edward Abbot, ♦Communicated by Capt. Henry Rolfe. RIGHTS. RIGHTS. 3rd, 3 Ephraim Farnum, Concord, 1 2 Benj. Farnum, " 2 3 Joseph Farnum, 1 3 Timothy Bradley, " 1 1 Rev. Timothy Walker, 2 1 Joseph Eastman, 1 1 Aaron Stephens, 2 2 Moses Hall, 1 2 Philip Kimball, 1 750 HISTORY OF CONCORD. El)enezer Eastman, Concord, 1 David Hall, " 1 Philip Eastman, " 2 James Walker, Charles Walker, Richard HaseUine, Paul Walker, Jeremiah Bradley, Hannah Osfjood, Asa Kimball, Moses Eastman, John Bradley, Jonathan Stickney, Reuben Kimball, Benjamin Abbot, Joshua Abbot, Abiel Chandler, Timothy Walker, tcrtius, Nathaniel Eastman, Heirs of Eben Virgin, Peter Green, Ephraim Carter, Heirs of Jeremiah Dresser, Nath'l Rolfe, Ebenezer Ilarnden Goss, Nathaniel Abbot, Gustavus Adolphus Goss, Concord, Amos Eastman, Hollis, Aliraham Kiml)all. Bradford, Timothy Walker, Conway, Ebenezer Hall, Sanford, Jeremiah Eastman, Sanford, Dr. Charles Chauncey, Boston, Heirs of Rev. Samuel Phillips, An- dovcr, Stephen Farrington, Fryeburg, Heirs of Abner Fowler, Coos, Elijah Durgin, Hopkinton, N. H., Calel) Smart, Jonathan Strawy " " Benj. Gale, Haverhill, Nathaniel Marsh, Haverhill, Cutting Marsh, " James McHard, " Robert Davis, " Anna Stevens, '•' Henry Lovejoy, " Phinehas Kimball, " Samuel Rennals, Boxford, Samuel and William Dana, Groton, Dudley Colman, Newbury, /2 DOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER IX., No. 1, PAGE 273. PRICES OF ARTICLES OF PROVISION. "By virtue of an act of the Honorable General Court of this State, called a reo-ulaiing act for the preventing monopoly and oppression, we, the subscribers, have aftixed the prices of the several articles hereinafter mentioned, being a committee lawfully appointed by the parish of Concord for the same." The Committee were— Reuben Kimball, James Abbot, John Kimball, Robert Davis, David Hall. The language in which the prices of the several articles is expressed in the report is thus : " Wheat — good merchantable — shall not exceed the price of seven shillings per bushel," — which 1 have abridged, as follows : d. 4 per lb. 4 " 6 " per pair. 3 " Wheat, .... . 7 per bush. Indian Corn, . . 4 Rye, .... . 5 " Oats, .... . 2 6 " Peas, .... . 7 Beans, . 7 Potatoes, in the fall, . 1 " At no other season, over 2 Cheese, .... . 6 per lb. Butter, . . . . 9 Wood, oak, . . . 8 per cord. Pork, salt, . . . 9 per lb. Pork, fresh, . 0i " Veal, fresh, . . 3 " Beef, grass fed, . 3 " Beef, stall fed, . . 4 Tallow, good tried, . 9 Mutton, grass fed, . Hides, raw, .... Leather, sole, Shoes, men's best, . Shoes, women's best, Flip and Toddy, made of N. E. rum, . 1 Victuals, at tavern, . 1 Horse keeping, in win- ter, 1 Horse keeping, in sum- mer, Ox keeping, one yoke, in winter, ... 1 Ox keeping, in summer, 1 Cider, at the press. Cider, other times, in proportion. per mug. per meal. 3 per night. 9 per night. 6 per night. per night. per bbl. DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. h'K 751 Cider, per mug, . . Oats, per quart, . . Flax 1 Wool, 2 Stockinojs, good yarn, per pair, ... 7 Hay, best English, S6 per load in field. Farming lalior, men, . Farming labor, ox work in proportion. Charcoal, at the Iron Works,. . _. . Shoeing oxen, single, . Shoeing horse, — steel cork, .... Plough Irons, . Iron, — good bloome- ry £-2 Hoes, apiece, . per lb. 6 per lb. .3 6 per day. 3 per bush. per lb. per hund. Chains and yoke irons, 1 3 per lb. Carpenter's labor, . 4 per day. Joiner's labor, . . .36 " Tailor's labor, ..30 " Making a full suit, — woolen, . . .£14 Woman's common la- bor, .... 26 per week. Ferry, man and horse, 2 Boards, . . . .£1 2 per M. Plank, . . ..£200 " Hats, good wool, . 9 Saddles, . . ..£360 Bridles, 7 Mason's labor, ..46 per day. Boots, half boots, best, 13 6 per i)air. Tow Clotli, yard wide, 2 6 per yard. Best dressed wool cloth, ^^ yard wide, ..90 per yard. DOCUMENT No. 2, pp. 278, 281. NAMES OF MEN BELONGING TO CONCORD, WHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, WITH THE TIME AND PLACE OF SERVICE, SO FAR AS CAN NOW BE ASCERTAINED. In Capt. Joshua Abbot's company at Bunker Hill, 1775: Joshua Abbot, Capt. ; Abiel Chandler, 2d Lieut. ; Jeremiah Abbot, Sergt. ; Samuel Davis, Sergt. ; Nath'l C. Abbot, Stephen Abbot, Reuben Abbot, Amos Abliot, Jona- than Bradley, Ephraim Colby, Ezekiel Dimond, Moses Hall, Stephen Hall, William Mitchell, Richard Flood, William Straw, Peter Chandler. In Capt. Gordon Hutchins' company at Bunker Hill : Gordon Hutchins, Capt.; D:iniel Livermore, Ens.; Benjamin Abbot, Serg. ; Simeon Danforth, Corp. ; William Walker, Corp. ; Robert Livingston, Isaiic Johnson, Abraham Kimball, Thomas Chandler, Joseph Grace, Peter Johnston, Samuel Straw, Levi Hutchins, fifer; Michael Flanders, drummer ; Ezra Badger. In Capt. Aaron Kinsman's company at Bunker Hill ; Aaron Kinsman, Capt.; Ebenezer Eastman, Lieut. ; Samuel Thompson, Corp. Note. — Most of Capt. K.'s company were from other towns. Concord, Feb. 26, 1776. " A return of those men who were in the Continen- tal army last year and have engaged to tarry the present year," &c. Signed by Timothy Walker, jun., and Benj. P^mcry, selectmen, viz. : Jeremiah Abbot, Nath'l C. Abbot, John Kinkson, William Straw, Andrew Stone, William Walk- er, Nath'l Eastman, jun., Moses Hall. In Capt. Benjamin Sias' company, (of London,) 1776, of Col. David Gil- man's Regt., destined for New- York, and mustered by Col. Thomas Stickney, muster-master and pay-master of said company, were : Pliilbrick Bradley, Peter Blanchard, Amos Abbot, jun., Daniel Carter, Richard Flood and Stephen Sut- ton. The latter perhaps of Canterbury. In the Continental service, under Capt. Joshua Abbot, 1776 : Abiel Chand- ler, Lieut. ; Ephraim Colby, Ens. ; Timothy Hall, Jonathan Haseltine, Philip Page, Amos Barnes, Florence McCollcy, Bcriah Abbot, Stephen Hall, Peter Chandler, John Merrill, Seth Spring, John Blanchard, Benjamin Powell, Hezc- kiah Colby, William Walker, Phineas Stevens, .lonathan Johnson, Samuel Worthen, Moses Abbot, Moses Hall, Peter Carey, Jonathan Bradley, Ephraim Fisk. In Capt. Benjamin Emery's company, (Col. Nahum Baldwin's regiment, 752 HISTORY OF CONCORD. of which Gordon Hutchins was Lt. Colonel,) to reinforce the Continental army in Now- York, 1776 : Benjamin Emery, Capt. ; Aaron Kinsman, Ens.; Israel Glines, Ezra Backer, John Carter, Jonathan Currier, Simeon Colby, Ephraim Kinsman. William Stickney, Ezekiel Stickney, Jacob Carter, Solomon Gage, Benjamin Elliot, Bruce Walker. The following men served in Col. Timothy Bedel's regiment, and Capt. James Osgood's* company, and were at Eort Cedars, Canada East, May 19, 1776 — some of whom were taken prisoners, stripped of most of their clothing, and all their ccjuipments and utensils for the camp or field : John Webster, Lieut. ; Richard H. Osgood, Serg. ; Hubbard Carter, Serg. ; Joshua Danforth, Corp. ; Nathaniel C. Abbot, Nathaniel Walker, Joseph Lund, Joseph Giles, Ezra Abbot, Elias Al)bot, Philip Abbot, Benjamin Fifield, Ezekiel Eastman, Nathan Kinsman, Benjamin Kenniston, Daniel Chandler, Samuel Danford, William Simonds. In Capt. Ebenezer Green's company : Israel Glines, Ebenezer Hall, Joseph Chandler. Among those who were taken prisoners at Fort Cedars, were Elias Abbot, Ezra Abbot, Philip Abbot and Benjamin Fifield. In Capt. Daniel Livermore's company, 1777, 3d N. H. Regiment, who enlisted for three years, or during the war : Robert Livingston, Serg. ; Amos Flood, Corp. ; Abner Hogg, Phineas Stevens, Daniel Chandler, Philip Rowell, Samuel Worthen, Abiel Stevens, Solomon Fisk, Obadiah Kimball, Abner Far- num, Beriah Abbot, William Eastman, Jacob Eastman, John Straw, Ebenezer Farnum, Samuel Colby, who enlisted for one year. In Lt. Col Gerrish's regiment, raised in the town of Concord and towns adja- cent, which " marched July 5, 1777, for the relief of the garrison at Ticonderoga, on the alarm, and marched seventy miles when the news of the evacuation of the fort" arrived : were from Concord : Richard Herbert, Lieut. ; William Simonds, Timothy Bradley, John Chase, Richard Eastman, Simeon Danforth, Isaac Abbot, Joseph Eastman, Daniel Farnum, Elias Abbot, John Peters, Nathaniel Eastman', Ebenezer I'arnum, Eph-_ raim Fisk, Jr., Abiel Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, John Eastman,' Phineas Stevens, Stilson Eastman, Ezekiel Dimond, Benjamin Rolfc, Jacob Heath, (?) Stephen Haines, (?) John Cross, (?) Peter Blanchard. (?) This company marched July 5th ; were discharged the 12th.t In Gen. Stark's brigade, at Bennington, Col. Thomas Stickney, 1777. Richard Herbert, Lieut. ; Jesse Abl)ot, John Abbot, Timothy Johnson, Ephraim Abbot, Ezra Abbot, Steplien Abbot, Benjamin Ambrose, Philbrick Bradley, (was wounded ;) Simeon Danforth, Reuben Dimond, Benjamin Elliot, Theodore I'ar- num, Richard Flood, Elias Abbot, Abner Flanders, Samuel Kinsman, John Peters, Ephraim Fisk, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., David George, Solomon Gage, Israel Glines, Abial Hall, Anthony Potter, Phineas Stevens, W^illiam Symonds,* Si- mon Trumbull, Oilman West. A Return of the man's Names belonging to my Company, in Coll. Stickney's Regemcnt, wich have Enliested as Soders to sarve three mounth, agreable to a Late Act of the General Corte : Elias Abbot, Oilman Wast, Edward Wast, Ruben Blanchard, Epheram Fisk, John Dow, Joseph Blanchard, Keycs Bradley, Josier Flanders, Ebenezer Gray, Benjamin Bradley, Elisha Virgin, William Eastman. Aaron Kinsman, Capt. Concord, July 11, 1780. [Copied from the original.] Concord, July 17, 1781. We, the subscribers, do voluntarily Inlist ourselves as Soldiers in the service of New Hampshire for the Parish of Concord, for the term of three months * Capt. Osgood was, it is supposed, of Conway, f Army Rolls, vol. I., C. p. 78, 79. X Was wounded in the battle of the 16th of August, and drew a pension. DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 70d after our arrival at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged ; and we promise obedience to our officers, and to be subject to the Rules of tlie Anny during said terra. As Witness, our hand. Jeremiah Virgin, Jeremiah Chandler, Moses Read, PlIINEAS AtER, Joseph Blanchard, David Eastman, [Copied from the original.] Millen Kimball. At Ticondcroga, 1777, Col. Thomas Stickney's regiment, Capt. Ekenzer Webster's company. [Capt. Webster was the father of Daniel Wel)stcr.] Richard Herbert, Lieut. ; William Symonds, Timothy Bradley, Simeon Dan- forth, Isaac Abbot, Elias Abbot, John Abbot, Ezra Alibot, rhineas Stevens, Ezekiel Dimond, John Peters, Natlianiel Eastman,' Ebenezcr Farnum, Eph- raira Eisk, Jr., Abial Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, John Eastman; Stilson Eastman, Benjamin Rolfe. In Capt. Joshua Abbot's company of volunteers that marched to reinforce the northern army, in September, 1777, were : Reuben Kimball, Lieut.; James Mitchell, serg. ; Moses Abbot, serg. ; Amos Abbot, corp. ; Jacob Carter, drummer ; John Earnum, Moses Eastman, Stil- son Eastman, Jonathan Eastman, Ezekiel Dimond, Phineas Virgin, Joseph Eastman, Daniel Farnum, Chandler Lovejoy, Enoch Coffin, James Johnson, Reuben Abbot, Ezekiel Stickney, Philip Abbot, Timothy Hall, John Peters, Michael Flanders, Isaac Dimond, John Sillaway, Benjamin Rolfe. In Col. Stickney's regiment, raised for the defence of Rhode Island, 1779; Peaslee Eastman, Jacob Flanders, Josiah Flanders, Josiah Chandler. New levies raised in 1780, and in service about six months. Joshua Graham, age, 17; Thomas Carr, age, 2.3; Daniel Stickney, age, 18; Aaron Eastman, age, 20 ; John Peters, age, 22 ; Jonas Wyman, age, 20 ; Benjamin Thompson, age, 18 ; Jonathan Moulton, age, — ; Peaslee Eastman, age, — . In Capt. Webster's company of rangers, for the defence of the frontiers, 1782: Abner Flanders, serg., engaged July 9; dismissed Nov. 11. Henry Eastman, priv., engaged July 9 ; dismissed Nov. 8. The following persons were also in the service : David Davis, fifer ; Moses Chase, Ebenezer Foss, Samuel Walker, Thomas or Benja. Powell, Salem Colby, negro, Eliphalet Caswell, Nathan Shead, Thomas Pitts, Jos. Hale, Eph- raim Hoyt, Nathan Stevens, Timothy Abbot, David Blanchard. Jonathan Chase, Peter Manual, Joshua Abbot, [of Hooksett,] Benjamin Chase, Enoch Badger, Moses Reed.* bounties paid to soldiers from concord. Men. Amount. Lexington, Capt. Abiel Chandler's company, 1775, . . 36 £32 3 6 Wingate and Wyman's regiments, in 1776,' .... 18 108 Continental, 1777, 29 442 14 6 Stark's Brigade, 1777, 28 252 14 6 Rangers, Cods, 1782, 2 33 14 6 Saratoga, 1777, 27 243 14 6 New Levies, 1780, 9 159 11 Nichols" regiment, 1780, 12 264 10 Frontiers, Coos, 1780, 2 45 12 Reynold's regiment, 1781, ■ . . 7 73 10 New Levies, 1781, 4 82 10 Continental, 1781, 5 191 18 Continental, 1782, 5 296 11 3 2244 1 9 * A part only of the above were citizens. Others were " hired " for Concord. 48 754 HISTORY OF CONCORD. Deduct for depreciation : Florence McCauley, paid Jan. 6, 1778, £4 17 6 John Merrill, paid Dec. 7, 1778, . . U 4 Both engaged in 1776. 19 1 £2225 NAMES OF SOLDIERS FROM CONCORD, TTVio were killed in battle, or died in service, during the Revolutionarij war. William Mitchell, killed at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Lieut. Abiel Chandler, died of small-pox at Crown Point, July 12, 1776* Peter Chandler, died June 25, 1776.* Abicl Stevens, died of wounds, Oct. 20, 1777. Phineas Stevens, died April 21, 1778. Obadiah Kimball, killed in battle, Oct. 7, 1777. Solomon Fisk, died of yellow fever at Horseneck, Aug. 10, 1778. Samuel Worthen, died Nov. 10, 1778. Timothy Hall, died of fever and dysentery. NAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO LIVED AND DIED IN CONCORD, Who served in the Revolutionary/ War, but belonged to other iownsA WHERE FROM. | DEATH. {age{ REMARKS. Ebcnezer Dow, Asa French, Nath'n Chandler, Joseph Iloit, Jedediah Hoit, Jonathan Uran, Jere'h Stickney, Andrew Willey, John Elliot, Jonathan Elliot, Josepli Runnels, Asa Hardy, Robt. Knowlton, Stephen Webster, Timothy Wales, Barn'd Sargeant, Nathan Ballard, David Hoit, Sam'l Jackman, John Weeks, Lt.R. B.Wilkins, Caleb Whitney.t Jona. Wheelock, Rev.Israel Evans Andover, Ms., Andover, Ms., Andover, Ms., Boscaweu, Boscawen, Boscawen, Haverhill, Ms. Nottingham, Newtown, Newtown, Boxford, Ms., Boxford, Ms., Cape Ann, Ms. Atkinson, 'I Deerfield, Wilton, Boscawen, Boscawen, Portsmouth ? Henniker ? Stow, Ms., Lancaster, Ms. Nov., July 30, Jan. 27, Ap. 17, April, Feb. 21, Oct. 6, Dec. 2, Jan'v, Dec." 18. Oct., Julv 2, Mar. 2 5 Dec'r, 1817, 1841, 18.37, 1839, 1840, 1840, 1837, 1847, 1842, 1813, 1843, 1818, 1836, ,1845, 1835, Jan. 14, 1835, Jan'y, 1818, Aug.20,1844, Apr. 6, 1837, Aug'st, 1832, Oct'r, 1822, Sept. 5, 1845, March, 1807, 80. 81. 1 94. 87. I '? 84. ! ? 77. 87. 75. I '' j90. 1 96 Sec biographical notice. Lived near Horse-hill bridge. Lived at Little Pond. Lived at Horse-hill. Lived at Horse-hill. Lived near Horse-hill bridge. Not of Col. Stickney's family. Lived at West Village. Lived at Horse-hill. Lived at Horse-hill. Lived at Dimond's hill. Father of Atkinson W., Esq. See Ballard flimily. Lived in District No. 13. Died in Boston. Father of Mrs. L. Downing. See biographical notice. *Tlie names marked with a star, as dead, were found on an old paper belonging to Capt. Joshua Abbot, together with the following, who were in his company, viz. : Moses Moul- ton d July 13, 1776; Waldron, d. Sept. 5, 1776; Moses Redman, d- Aug. 19, 17.6; Israel Shepard, d. Aug. 19, 1776 ; James Moor, d. Aug. 14, 1776 ; Jonathan Kier, d. Aug. 17, 1776 ; Samuel Bard, d. July 27, 1776. I There may have been others whose names are not ascertained. 1 He was a gun-smith in the army; married Sarah Tra.sk, of Bradford Mass , where he eettled for a while, and h^dfive children. Afterwards he moved to Haverhill, where he had four children. He then moved to Pembroke, where he lived ten years ; thence he moved to Concord, where he followed the trade of a blacksmith. He was the father of John, and of Miss Betsey and Hannah Whitney. DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 755 DOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER IX., OX FILE. No. 3, p. 287. Pews, as numbered and recorded. No. 4, p. 288. Settlement between Kiimford and Canterbury. DOCUMENT FOR CHAPTER X. No. 1, p. 304. Rev. Mr. Evans' answer to his call. This may also be found in town records, 1789. DOCUiAIENT No. 1, CHAPTER XII., PAGE 347. NAMES OE MEN FROM CONCOHD, AVHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1812-1815, MOSTLY STATIONED AT PORTSMOUTH. In Capt. Leonard's company of artillery, 1812, who served from Aufxust 17 to November 30, were : Keyes B. Powell, serg. ; Samuel Powell, corp. ; Sol- omon Mann, Ebenczer Flanders, musicians ; Jonathan Stevens, corp. ; James Foster, Abiel Bradley, Jona. E. Elliot, Jonathan Elliot, Jr., Benj. C. Waldron, Ebenezer Frye, Francis R. Powell. In Capt. Wm. Marshall's company, 1814, who were stationed at Portsmouth, and served from Au^. 6 to Nov. 11 : Nathan Carter, Frederick P^lliot, Ebenezer Flanders, serg. ; Jedediah Frye, Samuel Kimball, Josiah Robertson, Thomas B. Sargent, John Stevens, Benj. C. Waldron, John Whitney, William Shute, Lieut., from July 30 to Nov. 10. In Capt. Nath'l G. Bradley's companj-, 1814, who served from Sept. 1.5 to Nov. 12 : Nath'l G. Bradley, Capt. ; Amos Abbot, Benjamin Bradley, Enoch E. Bradley, llazen B. Elliot, Robert Hayncs, Joseph Hutchinson, Elijah Mun- sey, Keyes B. Powell, serg. ; Loammi Reed, Willey Taskcr. In Capt. Edward Fuller's company, 1814, who served from Sept. 29 to Nov. 18 : Ephraim Abbot, John Blanchard, Joseph F. IJow, Barnard C. Elliot, Joseph Glincs, William Hoit, Jr., Jeremiah N. Howe, David Knowles, Hazen Kimball, Reuben Osgood, corp. ; Ephraim Pettingill, Peter Powell, Isaac Run- nels, Joseph Tasker, Jerry Abbot, John Farnham. In Capt. Peter Robertson's company, artillery, volunteers, 1814, from Sept. in to Sept. 29, or twenty days. This company marched from Concord on the Sabbath. Peter Rol)ertson, Capt. ; Samuel Herbert, 1st Lieut. ; Chand- ler Eastman, 2d Lieut. ; Walter R. Hill, serg. ; Jacob Hosman, serg. ; John Robertson, serg. ; William Bell, serg. ; Jeremiah Birch, corp. ; Nathaniel Par- ker,* corp. ; Jerera'h C. Elliot, corp. ; Wm. Moody, corp. ; Jerch. Glines, mus'n ; Samuel Hosmer, musician; Harmon Eastman' musician; Moses Bumford' private; Moses Eastman, Jonathan Elliot, Josiah Fernald, Cooper Frost] Thomas Greenleaf, Samuel Blanchard, Jacob Carter, Moses I^ickerman John Gould, Josiah Knowles, Robert Rogers, John Stanyan, John Wheeler, Charles Wait, Charles Whipple, Charles Herbert. DOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER XIII. No. 1, p. 369. Index to the " return of roads." This index shows where, in the town records, the laying out of a particular road is recorded. The documents referred to, page .547, containing a catalogue of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles and fishes, scientifically arranged by Dr. William Prescott, of Concord ; and page 550, a catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, by the same gentleman, I am compelled to place on file, except that containing a catalogue of fishes. They are a valuable contribution to the department of Natural His- tory, and with regret they are omitted. *In June, 1813, Nath'l Parker sailed from Salem, in the privateer sloop Polly and was taken prisoner and carried into Halila.x. He was released by e.xchange. ' 756 HISTORY OF CONCORD. The following is Dr. Prescott's catalogue and statement respecting fishes : Eev. N. BocTON, — Dear Sir : The following catalogue comprises all the fishes that inhabit the waters in this vicinity, so far as they have come to my knowledge. Two of these, the Lake, or Winni'pissaukre Trout, and the White Fish, are confined to the Winnipissaukee ; all the others traverse our streams and smaller ponds. There exist in these waters four nnv species of fislies, which I described and read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and which was published in Silliman's Journal for May, 1S51. These new species I described under the names of Salmo Symmetrica, the Winnipissaukee Trout, the Corn/onus Xov-Anglia-, the Shad Waiter, the Coregonus Neo-IIautoniensis, the White Fisli, and the Lota Brosiniana, a fish that has been generally, but erroneously, called the Cush. The Cnsk is a marine fish ; is much shorter in proportion to the weight, and has but one fin on its back, while the Lola has two dorsal fins. CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 1. The Common Perch. 2. The Common Pond Fish — Flat Side. .3. The Horned Pout. 4. The Common Sucker. 5. The Black Sucker. 6. Tlie Horned Sucker. 7. The New-York Shiner, or Grass Fish. 8. The Black-nosed Dace. 9. The Red-fin Dace. 10. The Silvery Dace. 11. The Shining Dace. 12. The Common Pickerel. 13. The Common Brook Trout. 14. The Winnipissaukee Trout. 1.5. The Red-bellied Trout. 16. The Shad- Waiter. 17. The White Fish. 18. The Common Shad. 19. The Lota, erroneously called Cusk. 20. The Salmon. 21. The Silver Eel. 22. The Common Eel. 23. The Lamprey. STATISTICS. Table showing the amount of money voted to be raised by the town to defray all current expenses at specified periods of ten years, with the estimated pop- ulation. YEAR. MINISTRY. SCHOOLS. 1 ROADS, 4C. OTHER EXp'n's. POPULATION. 1733~ £105=$136,50 £200 100 proprietors. 1743. £300* 350 inhabitants. 1766.t £100 750 1775. £ 47 = S1 56,66 £60 £53 1.052 1785. £ 90=$300,00 £ 40 £40 1.400 1795. £105=8350,00 £105 £20 1.900 1805. $450,00 $500 $ 400,00 2.225 " 1815. $450,00 SI. 000 $ 2.000,00 2.600 1825.t $1,250 $ 2.200,00 3.270 " 1835. $1..500 $4,000 $ 2.000,00 4.300 1845. $2,200 $4,000 $ 3.988,99 6.700 1853. $5,000 $4,000 $10,000,00 10.000 " Note. It appears by the Auditors' Report, March, 18'3, before the organization of the city government, tliat the " town owed for borrowed money," $17,239,16. * Old tenor, for ministry, school and other necessary cliarges. tFir-st legal meeting for raising money, &c., after the incorporation of Concord, 1705. "£100 lawful money" was " for Rev. Mr. Walker's salary, with other necessary charges of the parish"=$333,33. J At this time money for support of the ministry was raised by incorporated societies. DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. tOi A PART OF A RATE FOR PAYING REV. JIR. WALKER'S SALARY, FROM MAY 2ti, 1755 TO MAY 26, 1756. James and Amos Ahliot, Ensign Edward Abbot, James Abbot, jun., Lt. Natlianiel Abbot, ,Natbaniel Abbot, jun., Reuben Abbot, Jabez Abbot, Widow Elizabeth Bradley, Widow Mary Bradley, Capt. John Chandler, John Chandler, jun., Timothy Chandler, Ephraim Carter, Ezra Carter, Esq., Joseph Carter, Ezekiel Carter, Peter and William Coffin, 1 1 Ezekiel Dimond, Samuel and Robert Davis Benjamin Eastman, Dea. Ephraim Farnum, Zebadiah Earnum, The foregoing is interesting as showing the amount of rates assessed on the property of individuals named, for the salary of Rev. Mr. Walker, in the year ending May, 1756. It is also important as exhibiting the value of the "oWieno?-" currency compared with the " hpiv tmor" or hvi.]ful monpy. The rate is made in the " old tenor" currency. The " old tenor" was the cui-rency which consisted in " bills of credit" issued by the Legislature of the Provinces, having the nom- inal value of silver money at a given rate per ounce. These " bills of credit" were liable to depreciation ; but Mr. Walker's salary was " to be paid in the medium of trade for the time being in the Province, at silver, 17s. per ounce." The real value, however, of an ounce of silver was one English crown, or 6.s. and %d. The late John Farmer, Esq., therefore, reckoned £100 as equivalent in 1730 to $130,.37. The "old tenor" currency had been in use for many years ; but the " bills of credit" had so depreciated that it became important to estab- lish a new currency, or to reckon silver at a different rate per ounce. This change was made in Connecticut, in 1740,* and about the same time in Massa- chusetts and New- Hampshire. The new tenor was called " lawful money," be- cause it was by law made a " lawful" tender for paying debts. In 1750 " a cor- rect table" was published in Boston, " to brlnrj old tenor into laicful money at the rate of dollars, at six shillings per piece, from one penny to twenty shillings, old tenor."'\ According to this table, 2s. 6c?. old tenor, was equal to Os. Ad. Or/, new tenor. £ s. (/. £ .s. d. 13 10 Joseph Farnum, 8 18 4 13 6 8 Abner Fowler, 5 3 4 5 3 4 llczekiah Foster, 8 8 4 6 Richard Herbert, 3 3 4 4 18 4 Ileiny Lovejoy, 10 16 8 5 1 S Obadiah Maxfield, 3 3 1 8 James Osgood, 14 3 4 7 16 8 Samuel Osgood, 3 2 1 8 Jacob Potter, 3 12 15 Nathaniel Rolfe, 16 8 5 13 4 Nathaniel Rix, 3 8 4 3 Ezekiel Steel, 3 7 10 Aaron Stevens, 9 13 4 6 15 Lieut. Stickney, 13 1 8 4 Thomas Sticknej% 7 1 8 4 Lt. John Webster and \ 11 13 4 11 13 4 Enoch Webster f 6 1 8 Isaac Walker, 7 15 10 13 4 William Walker, 6 13 4 4 16 8 Lieut. I^dward West, 3 10 15 10 Nathaniel West, 4 5 8 18 4 Benjamin Woodwell, 3 3 7 6 9 12 15 20 4 3, 1 1 2 1 1 7 2 2 8 Whoever, then, is curious to make the cast, will find that the rate for Rev. Mr. Walker's salary reckoned as it was in " old tenor," which was long kept up, even after the currency was changed, was not very heavy on the inhabitants of Rumford. For example, James and Amos Abbot's rate was .£13 10s. " old tenor," which, reduced to " new tenor," was 36s., or $6,00. Lieut. Nathaniel Abbot's rate was £6 old tenor, equal to 16s., or .?2,67. Dea. Ephraim Farnum's rate was £15 10s., equal to £2 Is. id. new tenor, or $6,87 ^o. which was the high- est rate on the list. * Trumbull's History, vol. II., chap. 3. f N. H. Hist. Coll., vol. I., p. 273. 758 HISTORY OF CONCORD. TOWN RATES FOR THE YEAR 1T78. Dea. Geo. Abbot & Sons, Benjamin Abbot & Sons, Edward Abbot, Nathaniel Ciiandler Abbot Moses Abbot, Stephen Abbot, Nathaniel Abbot, Capt. Joshua 'Abbot, James and Amos Abbot, Nathan Abbot, Lt. Jeremiah Abbot, Jabez Abbot, Jesse Abbot, Reuben Abbot & Son, Daniel Abbot, Philip Abbot, Richard Ayer, John Austin, Robert Ambrose, Henry Beck, Lt. Timo. Bradlee, Abial Blanchard, Timo. Bradley, 2d, Jonathan Bradley, Philbrook Bradley, John Blanchard, " Caleb Buswell, Lt. John Bradley, Benj. Blanchard & Son, Samuel Butters, Jere'h Bradley, Ezra Badger, Samuel Bradley, Jonathan Badger, Daniel Chase, John Chase, Joseph Carter, Daniel Carter, William Curier, Joseph Clough, Lot Colby, Daniel Carter, 2d, Joseph Carter, 2d, Nathaniel Curier, Robert Carr, Ens. Ezekiel Carter, Ezra Carter, AVilliam Coffin & Son, Joseph Colby, Ens. Ephraim Colbv, Dr. Philip McCarrigain, Hezekiah Colby, Daniel Chandler, Capt. Peter Coffin, Lt. John Chandler, 7 John Colby, 3 Nath'i Clement & Son, 5 Jacob Carter, 1 Lt. Robert Davis, 8 1.3 14 4 6 1 5 3 5 7 12 19 1.3 19 9 1 12 13 15 3 4 14 11 12 10 5 10 10 6 6 18 16 10 3 6 9 14 6 9 17 9 4 12 10 10 2 1.5 11 1 7 19 Ebenezer Dow, S I Ezekiel Dimond, 7 I Ezekiel Dimond, 2d, 00 j Ruben Dimond, j Simeon Danforth, Capt. Joseph Eastman, Eben'r Eastman, j Joseph Eastman, 2d, Philip Eastman, Nathaniel Eastman, Lt. Moses Eastman, Ens. Stilson Eastman, Robert Eastman, Moses Eastman, 2d, Ens. Jonathan Eastman, Richard Eastman, Joiin Elliot & Sons, Capt. Benj. Emery, Benj. Eliot, Thomas Eaton, Benj. Eastman, Jonathan Emerson, Joseph Eliot, Joseph Farnum, Joseph Farnum, jun., Stcplien Farnum, Abner Farnum, Daniel Farnum, Epiiraim F"aruum, Benj. l\arnum, Zebadiah Farnum & Son Josiah F'arnum & Son, Josiah F\irnum, jun., Theodore l^irnum, Ephraim Farnum, 2d, Ephraim Fisk, Richard Flood, Zebuion Flanders, Asa Foster, Richard Flanders & Son, Richard Flanders, 2d, Abner F""landers, James Farnum, James Farnum, 2d, John Farnum, Benj. F'ificld, William Filield, Benj. Fitield, 2d, Jonathan Fitield, George Graham, Solomon Gage, Samuel Goodwin, Israel Glines, David Gage, David George, Daniel Gale, Nathaniel Green, Peter Green, Esq., Jacob Goodwin, 10 10 10 6 1 6 10 7 6 4 7 7 6 9 6 9 2 9 11 6 4 2 6 2 10 12 5 2 18 3 I 19 7 3 5 9 9 4 4 3 11 5 5 11 10 16 8 9 8 2 4 6 2 3 10 5 3 4 2 3 9 3 3 10 5 5 9 7 12 10 5 2 14 2 3 18 6 4 1 5 3 17 5 1 10 9 8 14 10 4 18 7 3 18 1 3 16 2 4 9 10 7 7 1 1 7 13 7 7 2 2 6 2 1 2 16 i 2 8 5 3 6 1 16 3 2 8 I 2 8 18 6 2 19 4 2 7 7 19 9 3 8 2 6 7 3 14 9 2 5 1 1 6 5 1 6 5 3 6 3 11 10 3 14 9 1 6 5 4 8 2 16 1 7 1 2 1 17 5 8 18 2 2 8 5 DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 759 Dr. Peter Green, Dr. Eben'r Harnden Goss, Benj. Hanford, Lt. Richard Harbert, David Hall, Samuel Hinkson, Col. Gordon Hutchins, Oliver Hoyt, Lt. Joseph Haseltine, Richard Haseltine, James Haseltine, Dea. Joseph Hall & Son, Ebenezer Hall, Obadiah Hall, Daniel Hall, Robert Harris, merchant, Amos Heath, Cornelius Johnson & Son, Jonathan Johnston, John Kimball, Stephen Kimball, Timo. Kimball, Nathan Kindsman, Capt. Aaron Kindsman, Philip Kimball, Cajit. Ruben Kimball, Asa Kimball, Phineas Kimball, Capt. Henry Lovejoy, Chandler Lovejoy, James Mitchel, Henry Martin, Henry Moulton, Wid. Hannah Osgood, Richard Hazen Osyood, Lt. Asa Petty, John Peters, Ephraim Potter, Richard Potter, Lt. William Phillips, Anthony Potter, Nathaniel Rolfe & Son, Nathaniel Rolfe, 2d, David Reed, Levi Ross, Wid. Anna Stephens, James Stephens, Thomas Chellis Shepherd, 5 I 4 11 6 2 1 2 6 8 5 23 10 4 2 11 2 4 1 8 4 4 3 8 18 5 4 3 6 6 5 1 1 6 6 1 2 2 1 1 6 11 1 1 3 1 17 15 00 13 17 16 19 8 17 8 15 13 11 18 11 6 19 4 9 7 18 19 17 19 00 12 14 10 10 19 2 16 6 10 17 16 6 12 14 7 6 15 £. s. d. Benj. Sweat, 1 16 3 John Stevens, merchant, 14 14 9 Aaron Stevens, Ii^sq., & Son , G 2 10 Ezekiel Stickney, 1 9 8 Col. Thomas Stickney, 14 U 6 Dan Stickney, 3 10 5 Lt. Jonathan Stickney, 11 12 10 Timo. Simonds, 4 3 Timothy Simonds, 2d, 2 12 5 William Simonds, 1 10 9 Ebenezer Simonds, 3 4 Jacob Shute, 2 7 3 Ens. John Shute, 6 16 5 Andrew Stone, 9 10 Simon Trumblc, 1 9 8 Wid. Mary Thompson, 6 7 Lemuel Tucker, 1 10 9 Mrs. Sarah Thompson, 10 11 Lt. Phineas Virgin, c 00 2 Lt. Ebenezer Virgin, 8 18 2 John Virgin, 3 13 8 William Virgin, 5 12 2 Jerc'h Whealler, 3 10 5 Isaac and James Walker, 8 5 Timothy Walker, Esq., 32 8 7 Gilman'West, 3 1 6 Noah West, 1 19 7 Wid. Sarah West, 4 5 Thomas Wilson, 10 3 7 Asa Parker, 11 Heirs of Rev. Sam'l Philip s, 1 14 2 Samuel Runnels, 1 15 2 James McHard, 1 3 Original right of Benj. Gage, 11 7 John Hoyt and Grossman, 11 Stephen Farrington, 1 3 Capt. Benj. Gale, 1 7 Oliver Peabody, 11 Thomas Merrill, Esq., 1 3 Lieut. Eben'r Hall 8 Jacob Hall, 11 John Farnum, 8 Abraham Kimball, 1 Heirs of Jno. Webster, 1 3 Capt. Timo. Walker, 8 Lieut. Darling, 11 Capt. Nalh'l Marsh, 11 760 HISTORY OF CONCORD. * pR la o < H pR O H cc P5 W H 12; t— 1 H P^ O !2; o 1— ( >^ H O O W 02 pa < en P Pi O o o H f=3 H !2; O Q w P3 H CO r 1—" — " •jsiicsaoAiuxi 5S3^ eo 00 to CO t^_^C! •Sao3 9iiiAJ9qsi^ to in 05 t^ t^ to' (-." in" in" Qo" '•^0 PS 8Il!Aa9qsij to CTS OT to__ ^•"co" ■gniA^qsij '^sijdt^a •*in-l'ina)co'7it^ coinininCTii-^inco ■*" to oo" en" — " -<" o" — " •jBa^SgaSuoQ jsug ocoooooin-tm— cto-t ■^ oo__ in__ oo_^ 05_ ^__ t^_ to__ co_^ r»__ oT cT -H*" in" oo" oo" oo" m" m" r>." •jspd^a Il!'^^93-'J CO -- to co" of co" O — O — ootMtomocto — oo t^__ O O^ -t •&_ 00__ 0_ CT>^ — t-.__ 00_^ tO_^ 0_ —i" r-T i-T (n" co" in" to" in" m" m" o" i^" r-T •pdoostdg 0,53 12,74 2,61 ■-t^.t^^^ootoin'— --r*t^^-a; 1 -._ oo__ r- co_^ —__ o_ c<_ f — " (n" oo" oo oo" oT t-" in" ^" •[tj,39a3uo3 njnog 35,87 47,02 60,25 o«C2C5ooeoa>-*»>.aioiooO'M '^- '^l "t, °'^_ '^^ '^ '''I "^ '^ '-V ^ " "^ CO o" r-* co" t-" co" r-T to" -^ to to" cf o" •*-) (N O) !■< C^ (?l — ji^totocooooin-*ino CO 00__ CO CTi, 00__ -t -t tD_^ t^ O Tt<__ CO — co" in" co" c-r to" go" oo" to" co" to" o" — " <>)" CO < CM r- (M CI IM •}s;poq}3j\[ to CO o CO CO ■* Ol C5 « — ■ to 00 .— 1 (?) 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The water of the Merrimack overflowed the whole interval ; came into my garden west of the Concord and Clarcmont railroad, and was four feet deep immediately east of the railroad. Mail. Nine and a'half inches of rain fell this month. June. Pour and a half inches of rain fell. Jtihj. Four and a half inches of rain fell. AxKjust. Very dry until the 25th, when two and three fourths inches of water fell. Sept. .30. First frost. Nov. 26. First snow for tlie season. Dec. 23. Eighteen inches of snow fell, and 40 inches during the month ; 31st, thermometer thirteen degrees l)clow zero — all the rest of the month above. 1851. Jannan/. Thermometer below zero on the 5th, 19th and 31st ; but ten inches of snow fell this month ; mild. THE "DARK Dx\Y," FRIDAY^ MAY" 19, 1780. BY GEOKGE ABBOT, ESQ. The circumstances and appearances which marked this memor.ablc day, as near as can he recollected by using the language of the old people who witnessed them, were as follows : The morning exhibited notliing remarkable, except a thick, smoky atmos- phere, and a pale glimmering of the eastern sky. About eight or nine o'clock smoke and clouds'obscured the sun. The heavens assumed a brassy appearance, something like that of the moon when she is totally eclipsed. About ten or eleven o'clock a gloomy and melancholy darkness involved all terrestrial objects. The domestic fowls and the birds and beasts repaired to the retreats of night ; consternation and horror seized the minds of mortals — they expecting that the final dissolution of all things was near. About noon the darkness was so great that it was necessary to light candles in the houses. The darkness and brassy color of the sky continued with little alteration during the remainder of the day, and the night was as remarkably dark as the day. 1794, May 18. Great Frost. In some places the rye and flax -were killed. The apples 'were as large as ounce balls, and were all killed in the West Parish, except two apples which Mr. Joseph Hoyt raised on his farm on Horse-hill! 1806, June 16. Solar Eclipse of the Sun. The shadow of the leaves resembled the moon in the first and last quarters. The domestic fowls went to their retreats of night. 1815, Sept. 23. A remarkable High Wind in the NE%y -England States. The wind was south-east, and v.as attended with rain. Buildings were unroofed and blown down, and also trees, and in some places acres of trees in the woods were blown down. Vessels were driven upon the coast, and much damage done thereby. 49* 774 HISTORY OF CONCORD. SNOW THAT FELL IX CONCORD FROM SEPTEMBER, 1840, TO JUNE, 1S53. Ft. In. I Sept., 1840, to June, 1841, 10 loi.;' June, 1848, to June, 1849, June, 1841, to June, 1842, 4 4 ~i June, 1849, to June, IS.^O, June, 1842, to June, 1843, 11 1 | June, 1850, to June, 1851, June, 1843, to June, 1844, 9 1 June, 1851, to June, 1852, June, 1844, to June, 1845, 6 lOi.v June, 1852, to June, 1853, June, 1845, to June, 1840, 6 9I4 June, 1846, to June, 1847, 7 S j Total, 101 10^^ June, 1847, to June, 1848, 6 10 | "From September, 1840, to June, 1853, there fell lol feet and lO^^^ inches of .«now in Concord, N. H., according to my record. George Abbot." January 23, 1854. ERRATA. The reader is respectfully reqiiested to turn to the errors noted below, and make the necessary corrections. On Map, for " Soucook Falls" read Penny Cook ; (see page 66.) Page 3a, filth and sixth lines, instead of " whom he names," read in tcliich lie names the bride, " Weetamoo." Page 34, eleventh line, instead of " Bridal" read Bride. Page 134, John Cliandler, instead of " died in 17^1," read 1740; and next line, instead of " grandson" read great-grandson. Page 253, fifteenth line, instead of " five" read twenty-five. Page 303, eighth line from bottom, instead of " pieces" read prices. Page 3]4, middle of page, after the word "candidate" add in 1799, 1800 and 1801. Page 325, last line, after " Alfred" add C. Page 337, note, for "2" read Document No. 4. Page 351, ninth line, instead of "Elizabeth Fuiness" read Brown, daughter of Rev. Arthur Brown. Page 366, note, for "miscellaneous" read introdnctorij. Page 382, third line from bottom, for "22" read 28. Page 411, seventh line from bottom, for " Benj. M." read George F. Page 430, middle of page, for " ]9" read 18. Page 441, note, for " iMcFarland family," &c., read Biography of Rev. Dr. McFarland. Page 494, fourteenth line from bottom, for "J S. Abbot & Co." read Downino- 4- Sons. Page 546, eighth line, to " Capt. Moses" add C. Page 569, eleventh line from bottom, for " 1774" read 1776. Page 617, note, " Furnished by Rev. Hiram Whiuher" belongs to the next paragraph. Page 623, second line, for " 177C" read 1776. In middle of same page read 3-Benianiin Abbot. Pago 624, for " 1. Thomas Abbot" read 3-Thomas Abbot. Page 645, five lines from bottom, for " d. 1832" read 1831. Page 654, middle, after Moses Elliot, jr., erase " Congregational preacher, son of Moses." (?) jVutc. — JIosos Elliot, the preacher, was son of 1-Jonathan. Page 669, seveiuh line, for " 1-04" read 1814. Page 720, fourth line from bottom, for " langam" read longatn. PROPRIETORS' RECORDS. Rev. Nathaniel Bouton — Dear Sir: At your request I have carefully examined the several extracts from the Pro- prietors' Records of the town of Concord, now in my possession, taken by you to be entered in your History of said town. I have found a very few mistakes, which you will please to have con-ected, and if so done, I can hereby certify to be correct. Jonathan Eastman, Proprietors' Clerk. Concord, December 4, 1855. ERRATA. 775 The following arc the " mistakes" or errors pointed out by Jlr. Eastman, in the Proprietors' Records : Page 70, eighth line of Records, omit " the" before " making." Page 71, fourth line from bottom, insert llieir, tieforo " giving." Page 70, first line, omit " and " before '' be laid." Page 80, read JVatlian Parker, instead of " N. Parker." Page 87, seventh line, fur " to," read " till.^' Page 89, nintli line, for " at,'" read "in." On same page, tenth line from bottom, insert First before " That." Pairo li)o, seventli line from bottom, read " for the calling," &c. Paue 107, fifth line from bottom, after " Mr. .Jeremiah Sticknoy" add Mr. .7=0, 1231-40 LeBosquet, Rev. John 606 Bouton, Nath'l, Rev. 168,201, 353.386,388,399,404, [Mrs. Harriet S., 404,] 406,4'i9, 412,414,416,418,436, [Mrs. JMary Ann P., 442,] 442, 446, 472, 476, 577, 480, 495, 501,516,649,593,604,005, 613 Bowers, Andrew 3(i7 Hannah, 250 Josiah, 250 Bowen, Kev. Nath'l 608 Boyd, John ('. 346 Brackett, Simeon 591 Bradford, (^ol. Benjamin 344 Bradley Family. 634-30 Abraham, 98, 103, 107, 108, 109,110, 111,112,113,116, 12'<-140,154,1S3,252,.574 Benjamin, 191,193 Cvnis P., 693 Daniel, 162 Mrs. Hannah, 374 Isaac, 162 Isaac C, 420 Jeremiah, 114, 155, 179, 180, 270 Jonathan, Lt., 157,167,184 John, (1) 164, 254, 270, 273 277, 295, 305, 307, 320, 323, 329, 337, 342, 348, 373. 528, 530,538,573,600 John, (2) 399 Joseph, 162, Joseph's wife, 162,163 Mehetaliel, 164 PliiU)ri'k,320,,323,343,444,G09 Richard, 121. 157, 17:i, 305, 363, .366, 368, 373,381, 392 393, 394, 397, 399, 426, 427, 431, 436, 453, 4; 8, 470, 471, 476,495,499,500,515, 528, 540,541 Robert, 89,299,323,599 Samuel, 154, 157,153.167,&c. 186,323,373 Samuel A., 1.57 Timothy, 119, 154, 183, 270, 235,299,320,333 Timothy jr., 270 Brewster, Amos A. 421 Brigham, Levi 365,433 Mrs. N. H., 43i Brockwav, E. F. 46'> Brodhead, Rev. John 609 Brown, Rev. Dairus R. 607 Enoch, 324 George W., 499,504 482,490,500,504 497 J. F., Joseph, John, (slave,) 251 H. H., 463,466 M. N., 483 Orlando, 367,424 Samuel F., 500 S. E., 485 Stephen, 168,433,463,480 Dr. Thomas, 394 Brown & Young, 490 Browne, Rev. Mr. 77,99 Bryant, Walter 206 Buck, Wm. D. 168 Buckminstor, Col. .5"> Buckley, Col. •'^13 Bullock, G. 490 Burliank, or Boibank, Samuel 54 Caleb, 176 Buibank, John, 176 Burbanks, Timothy 155 Burbccn, Joseph 231,579 Paul, 235,2.50 Burgess, Emei-y 482 Burgum, John .573 Burgin,Hall 436,461,465 Burgoyne, Gen. 274 Burnett, W. C5 Burnhain, Rev. Abraham 451 Burroughs, Rev. Charles 607 Busweil, Caleb 270 James, 121,342 James H., 500 Butters, Samuel 270,326 Butterfield, Samuel 476 William, 481,482 Buxtiui, Rev. Edward 583 Byfield, N. C3 C Cady, Albe 365,374,408,41], 433,436,607 0>ar, (Farnum,) slave, 252,249,950 Calfe, John 300-1,308 Widow Mary, 373 Rirliard, 373 Robert, 164 Call, Horace 452 Nathan, 482,.500 Stephen, 176 Gallon or Carlton, Benja- min 54,68,79,87,133 Christopher, 54,68,77,102, 123-140 Neheiniah, 54,G?,80,94,123- 140 Campbell, David 379 Capen, Rev. Mr. 406 Carlton, Rev. Mr. 401 Stephen, .544 Carpenter, E. D. 427 Rev. Josiah, 321 Carr, Bradbury C. 346 Samuel, 474 Carrigain, Philip Esq. .50,337 Dr. Philip, 259.271,272,282, 2-^4,306,376,3^^2,400,4.33, 435,514 Carroll, H. H. 457,476,477 Aiiond, 421 Carswell, Henry F. 483 John D., 457 Carter Family, 636- '8 Abigail, 1.57,178.519 Daniel, 2-22.271,286 David, 3-25,376 Ephraim, 155,174,323,383 Ezra, 270 (1) Dr. Ezra,1.53,1.55, 1.57,176, 177,186,209,217,234,235, 243,510,.553 (2) Dr. Ezra,394,397,424,427, 430,466,482,495.499,504, .526 Ezekiel, ' 271,538 Jacob, (1) 270,321,323,3-24, 330 Jacob, (2) 482,490 Col. John, 2-27,344,396,483, 563 778 INDEX TO NAMES. Carter, Joseph, 155,17I,.'i84 Nathan, 3S3 Natlianiel H., 584 ^Villiam M., 500 Tiinntl)}-, 323,348,3»i.s Cass, Gen. 415 Moseii, 49(1 Cathn, Rev. S. T. €17 Caverno, Rev. A. (il7 Caul, Philip 176 Chadbdiiine, Dr. Tlionias 13:), 15G,3tiC,393,3J(i,43li,4t;7, 51.T Cliadwick, Jona. 54 E. S., 477 Chamberlain, Mr. Vice 223 Chandler Family, 638-41 Capt. Ahiel, 155.160,175,185, 2aU,25S,259,2(i4,2G5,2t5l),304 Ahiel, Mr. 244,.599 Ahiel, 476 Daniel, 244,271 David, 18f) Lt. Isaac. 174,176,1^1 John, (I) 54,67,68 John, Ens., 75,77,80,f3,91, 92,94.98,100,101,102,103, 105,106,107,108,109,110 John, Lt., 111,113,114.116, 118,123.140,143,145 John, Capt., 152,1,53,154,174, 176,182,189,200,217,226, 928,234,244,246,556 John, [Boscauen,] 369 John, (2) Lt. or jr., 201,243, 278,2N7,303,338 John B., 355,445,515,1 05 Henry, 349,389 Henry, jr. 349 i\athan, 500 Pomp, 329 Samuel, 54 Timothv, Capt., Maj., 3i3, 323;32 4 ,3 lS,349,352,3f<8, 390,395,397,4n3,4r8.427, 436,514,532,533 Zechariah. 79,123-140,285 Chase, Bariich 338 Daniel, 120,156,176,183,228, 270 Daniel, jr. 156 Eunice, 235 Kev. riiarle?, D. D. 60-! Rev. .Mr., 443 Jonathan, 191,243 JoliM, 258,271 Rev. Moses B., 607 Pratt, 265 Stephen, 489 Chickerinp, Ebenezer 37-1 Citisen, Isaac 155 Cheever, Rev. Geo. B. 4.36 I Cheiney, John 52 j Cheney, B. P. 449 Nathan, 270 Clark, Daniel 348,401,445,-593 Edward, 54,68,77,123-130 Jonathan, 54 Mary, 170,401,419,445 Samuel, 54 Rev. William, 605 Clement, Zenas 453 Clement or demons, Na- thaniel, 54,t;8,78,123-140 William, 'J76 Timothy, 104,107,108,109, 110,111,113,116,155,] Hi Clifford, Samuel 125,497 Clough, Abner l."7 Jacob, 443 Capt. Jeremiah, 1.53,176,273 John, Joseph, Miss, Thomas, Cochran, .Mrs. Sally, Coffin Family, Benjamin, jr. Enoch, 242 271,338 299 176,219 421 703 500 306,339,3^9, 514,548 Rev. Enoch, 59,70.7o,84.92, 94,123-140 Col. John, 548 John, 213,492 (1) Peter, 35,36,39.52,135 (2) Peter, 209,227,243 Samuel, 252,326,388,390,408, 429,453,464,548 Tristram, 134 William, 135,250,270 Cofran, Capt. Joseph 388 Coker, Rohard 52 Coggin, John 68,77,87,123- 140 Cogswell, Nathaniel 68,79, 123-140 Colbey or Colbee, Abra- ham 15H,182,222, jr. , 184 Colby, Dr. Elijah 394,408 Ephraim, 323,536,549,569 John, 233.342 Joseph, 271 Lot, 156,185,243,244.247, 250,270,285,511 Marshall B., 491 Nathan, 244 Sampson, 155,176,186 Rev. Zaecheup, :i21 Colman,Thomas 68,79,90,123- 140 Cooke, E.sq. Elisha 58 and Prop. Rec. Cook, Lossing R. 4r9 Coolidge, Richard 68,78,122- 140 Daniel, Cooley, Abraham, Connell, (ieorge Cop, Josiah Copps, David Ebenezer, Corser, John Cotton, William Couch, Harrison Coues, ?>amuel E. Cowdry. Matthias Coult, William Crantield, Gov. agg, David Crawford, Robert Crehore, Bowen Crockett, Charles P, Crocker, Elezar Crosby, Dr. Josiah Cross & Warren, Criimpton, Francis Cuniore, Nancy Cummings, Rev. E. E. Curtis, Nathaniel 421 Curtice, Rev. Jona. 446 Cashing, Caleb 482 Rev. James, 232 Joseph, 601 Thomas, 141 Cushman, [Chief M irsh an 415 Cutis, Esq. Samuel 267 Cuvier, 572 606 54 342 67 190 191 17 David, 1.56,191,194,560 Rev. Israel, 303,304,308,309, 319,327,512,513.516,525. 531,567,594 John, 222,.560,562 Nathaniel, jr., 490 Samuel, 426,433 Ewer, Nathaniel 487 Nathaniel, jr., 438 F Fales, James 54 Falmouth, Viscount 222 Farlev, Geo. H. 411 Farley, Henry 441 Luther, 476 ■ Fanner, Esq. John 316,407, 445,58«,.592 Farnum Family, 655-61 Farnon or Farnum, Bara- chias 111,119,120,151,183 Benjamin, 270,486,545,1)05 Ephraim, Dea. 54,1)8,79,103, 106, lOS, 110-114, 119, 120, 12:i-140, 144,155,17.5,176, 183. Officers, 233, 251- 270,605 Ephraim, jr. 255,270 George E., 486 Francis, 492 James, 182,191,226 John C, 492 Joseph, 155,175,180,184,243, 246,270,^^,525,529 Josiah, jr. 270 Moses H., 252,545,549 Me|)heii and John, 256 Theod(jre, 270 Zebediah, 155,183-191,255, 271 Farrington, Jacob 193 Jerry, 235 Samuel, l.)0,l?0,232 Stephen, 102,10.5,140,1.56, 174,176,180,154,231,516 Farrand, Daniel 438 Farrai, Cyrus 201 Timothy, 277 Fellows, (apt. William 206 Ferrin, Charles 456 Isaac, 255 Philip, 456 Fessenden, Hosea 156,453,567 Fernald, Josiah 339 Filield, Benjamin 176,270 Jonathan, 190,191 William, 270 Rev. Winthrop, 616 FisK Family, 661-62 Ephraim, 271 Francis N. 325,364 ,427,4J9, 432,453,465,468,470,481,482 Henry, 408 Nathan, 79,123,140,285 Theophilus, 421 Fisk & Norcross, 482,491 Flagg, Rev. Ebenezer 232 Master, 532 Flanders, Abner 270,275 Capt., 345 Jacob, 176 John, 176 Rev. Mr., 501,612 Oliver, 320 Philip, 176 Richard, 256,270,298 Fletcher, Arthur 463,480 Rev. Elijah, 563 Samuel, 306,396,408,426, 434,451, [Mrs. Nancy B., 4.i0,] 533,5;4,605 Fogg & Wiggin, 490 Folsom,-Joha 266 C. A. W., 482 Fovvie, John 259,270 Fowler, Asa 464,467,468,470, 476,477,499 Paul, j;)i Esq. Samuel, 201 Foster, Aaron 54 Abrah'm,68,79,86,9I, 123-140 '80 INDEX TO NAMES. Foster, Dnvid 155 Isauc, 182 John, 54,08,78,9 ,123-140 Moses, 213,217 Ohadiah, 154,174 Reiilxn F., 515 Stephen S., 445,4:3 William P., 457 Forest, John 17G ■ Wiliiaiii, 176 William, jr. 176 Fox, Charles J. 439 Col., 482 Esq. Ilenrj', 222 Nathaniel, 265 Preem in, Rev. Hiram 61G French, Kev. Henry S. G. f>n!i Theodore, 436 Frost, .lohn 20G Frohavvk, Thomas 266 Frve, Ehenezer 346 Fii"ller, D. G. 482,515 Fliirbiir, \A'ilIiatu 52 G Gage, Benjamin 54,G?,77,153- 140 C, 490 Charles P., 4G7,-17G,.500 Gen., 263 Jonathan, 54 John, 270 Rev. Mr., 406 Solomon, 270 William, 346 Gale Family, 602-64 Beni'n, 177,322,323,:M1,342, ■3i'l,:!84,:;96,427 ,4:jU,515 570 Daniel, 226,270 Moses, 320 Perkins, 482 Gallaiidct, Rev. Mr. 383 Game, Esq. Samuel 141 Gannett, Rev. Mr. 4or, Gannell, Kmma 573 Gardner, C. W. 490 Garvin, John 339,348 Patrick, 1.55 Gass, John 489,494 John P., 400,41 l,493,.'i4G Gault, Jolm A. 612 Will., 229 William, 403,409,411,43G, 612 Patrick, 250 Genealogy names, G20-717 George, David (1) 270 David, (2) 311,329,369,.'3in, 549 John, 380 John H., 471,47G ,482,500 True, 496 Gerrish, Enoch 326 Col., 273 Joseph, (1) 90,.5.53 Joseph, (2) 4.54 Moses, 226 Paul, 206 Stephen, 17n,'227 228,230 Gibson, John 176,490,493 | Giddinge, John 259 Gill, F.benezer 54 Gilman, Daniel 158 Gov. J. T., 314,347 John, 206 Capt. John, 206 Gilman, William, 491 Gilniore & Clapp, 475 Joseph A., 430,482 Mitchell, jr. 480,.500 Gipson, James 176 Givcns, John 4,38 Gleason, P.enjamin 254 Zehediah, 392,393 Glines, Rev. Jeremiah 605 Glover, Jtdin 427 Graduates — names, 729-737 Green, Beiija. 430 Jacob, 270,272 Nathaniel, 271,272 Capt. Nathaniel, 322 Dr. Peter, 477,549 Peter, 227,270 Esq. Peter, 270,272,273,283, 285,2b7,300,3C5,3ao,365, 513,535 Samuel, 326,342,343,388 William, 545 Godard, Esq. Edward 141 Gotre, Capt. John 191 Goodell, Rev. Mr. 489 Goodwin, Jacob 271 Luxf'ord, 196 Samuel, 271,320,529 Gookin, Daniel 25 Goss, Dr. E. II. 25^ Goterson, John 54 Gould, John G. 473 Matthew G., 4HG Gove, Charles F. 411 Graham, Asa 320,348 George, 171 Granscr,John 54,68,76,123-140 Mr." Samuel, .54, 68, 79, 123- 140 Gray, Samtiel 150,185 Mr. DeGrcy, 220 Grcelev, Joseph 482 Oliver, 494 GreenleaC, Daniel 340 Stephen, 270 Greenville, Esq. George 222 Griflin, John 85,92,94 Grisw(dd, Bishop 607 Grover, Benjamin 463,476,4^^2, 487,489,490 Guttcrson, William .54,123-140 Guinhui, Patrick 258 Guthrie, George N. 584 II Haddock, Prof. 480 Hadlov, John L. 500 Havnes, Abbot 492 Charles G.. 3.52 John, 463 Thomas, 481,490 Hall Family, 707-708 Charles, 179 Daniel, 270,312 IMrs. Deborah, 511 David, 270,277,285,305 Dea. David, 513,605 Ebon'r, 155, 180,228,247,270 Eben, 491 James, 340 Jeremiah, 295,511 John, 54 Dea. Joseph, (1) 08,80.80, 95.98, 118, 119, lC'3-140, 1.55,174,182,209,228,251, 270,51 1,513,514,515,5.56, 605 Hall, Joseph, jr., (2) Dea. or Lt., 247,21.9,270,276,277, 278,295,300,306,308,323, 371,391,511,532,605 Moses, 414 Mr., 142 Ohadiah, 270 Richard, 54 Sarah, 476 Sime7 McC'utcheoii, 492 McCoy, 344 McClintock, Samuel D. D., 288,411 McDaniel, John 482 McFarland, AeaD. D . 168,312, 320 :f2 1,325,354 , 355,3(i3, 36G,3r,9,372.3d0,381,385- 6,388,440,510,582, Mrs. Eliza belh, 440 Capt. Asa, 408,440,469,480 McFarland & Jenks, 490 McGregor, Robert 283 McMillan, Andrew 226, 232, 247,249,250,2.57,259,304, 5G4,565,579,.591 Gilbert, 566,583 Hannah, 250 McNeil, Col. 377,415 McPlieadres. Archibald 2ii(i Malloon, Nath. 176 Man, Joseph 176 Maun, Subininn 351,3.52 Manly, William 5G4 Manning, Thomas 302 Mansur, E. 457 M^cph, 54, f^8,78,12 1-1411 Laban, :i'J4 Nath'i, 54,(i8,T7,95,lQ4 Onesiphorus, l:!4 Thomas, 54,08,77,124-140 Paige, C. W. 550 Palmer, Col. Dudley S. 39i, 408,4iifi Capt. John, 479 Samuel, 478 Park, Stuart J. 313,365,493 Parkkr Family, Gs1-8J Asa, 323 Benjamin, (I) 08,77,104-140 Benjamin, {•/) 408,430,474, 542,543 Caleb, 463,5(10 David, 201 Edward 11., 495 Rev. Frederick, 301,327 Rev. Henry E., 4H(i,i;i5 James, 54,08,73,124-140 James D., 500 Joel, 439 Joseph, 54,68,79,91,124-140 Capt. Joseph, 394,545 Nathan, CSj'JOjrai-l-lO Nathaniel, 346 Noah, ■ 259 Capt. Thomas, 210,272 Parkman, Rev. Mr. 407 Partridge, Capt. 380 William, 327,3i9 Parris, Mr. 148 Parsons. Uev. Joseph 232 Parsonage, 124-140 Patch, David 34') Patten, Rev. William A. GOli Patterson, Alexander 205 Payne, Thomas 35 Peabudy, John 08,76,86,124- 110 Col. Stephen, 415 Rev. Stei)hen. 321 & Daniell, 477 Pearson, Joseph A. 457 Joseph 11., 550 Peaslee, or Pesloy, Charles H. 430,439,458,475,481, -iS-), 483,552 Ebenozer, 337 & George, 4'M Nathaniel, 54,08,79,124-140, 552 Eobard Pesley, 54,08.78,124- 140 Pecker, Jeremiah 40,348,305, 370,387,403,455,538 Jeremiah, jr. 405 John, 54 1.8,77,80,91,92,94, 95,90,98,99,100,101,124-140 Robert E , 344,5!;8 William, 403,500 & Lang, 477 Pohaungun, 48 Peorrauiirrah, 47 Perkins, Rev. J. 413 Hamilton, 244,.599 Perloy, Ira 457,4.58,408,495 TlKunas. 08,79,127.140 Pettee, Zephaniah 271 Pettengill, Dea. 309 Ephraim, 417 John, 482 Peters, James 155 Peters, John 275 Obadiah, 158,101,1.52,104 Seabnrii, 15.i,175,'70 William, 170 Peverly, James 490 Phillips, J(din 01 Samuel, Rev. 54,59,01,08, 70,98,124-140,220 Lt. William or "Bill," 199, 201 Philbrick, Edward 320 I IraR., 457 [ Phipps, Spencer Esq. 58 Physicians — names, 724-729 Pierce, Gen. Benjamin, 305, 377,38J,400,.525 Benjamin, (2) 495,490 Es(i. Daniel, 911 Franklin, 431,4.-,2,453,454, 458,408,473,470,481,482, 484,480,494,495,525 John, 299 Pierpont, Rev. John 108 Pike, Ezra F. 457 Jiilin, 52 Pillsberry, Jacob 155,181 Pillsbury, Amos 417 George A., 492, .500 John C, 501 ftioses C, 540 Plaistead, John 200 Roger, 52 Plumer, Gov. William 308,304 Hon. Will., 308 Polk, James K. 463 l'(uiipey, (slave,) 104,254 Pomroy, Rev. Dr. 489 Potter Family, 083-85 Potter, Anthony (1) 201 Anthony, (2) 4.59 Mrs. Aiina, 4ri0 Chandler E., 18,21,200,453 Ephraim, 270,280,306,514 Jacob, 150,190 Jacob A., 340,470,4t2,522, 591 Lt. Joseph n., 479,481 Joseph, 201,324,460 - Richard, 201,256-7,271,283, 522 Samuel G., 459 Thomas D., 250,474,479.500 Poor, Col. '207 Gen., 507 Daniel, 482 Poore, John .'.2 Powell, Ainasa 439 Pratt, CaleU 405 Prince. Daniel 487 Slave, 252-;( Prentice, Mr. 514 Proscott, Abraham 421,453, 487,489,49 1,612 James, 450,470 J. Ik. Co , 490 Dr. William, 337,476,477, 482,540 Preston, Mrs. Ruby B., 400 Pudney, Henrv 155 John, jr. ' \5*)>i87 Joseph, 154,155, \70,179 Samuel, I,.i0,i82 William, 155 Putney, John , 402 Pulsipher, Jonathan 68,80,113, 124-^40 Putnam, Rev. John M. 442, 451 j Q Cluailos, Samuel 305 Cluincv, Edmund 148 J., ■ 121 Cluinn, 485 John, 492 R Randolph, John 597 Kawscui, Edward 50 Reid, Cid. 207 Reed & .'Stanley, 490 Renton, Dr. Peter 394.421,452 Restieau.x, William 408,429 Revere, Col. 401 Rice, Harvey 403 Ricli, Rev. Ezekiel 379 Richardson, Edward .52 Noah 329 "William 404 Ridgeway, Ebenezer 441 Ripley, Rev. Erastus 404 Ri.v, Nathaniel 150, 180, 191 Roach, J(din 251,323,351,515 Riiberts, Ale.xander 1.58,107 Robertson, Peter 340,342,347, 365,376,493 Robmstiu, Cyrus 392 Josiah " C85 Joseph 434,458,482 Justin L. 401,474 & iMorrill, 92,492 Rev. Mr. 401 Roby, Luther 428,429,403,484 545,540 Rodgers, Jan.es 15G Samuel J5G Rogers, Arthur 515 G. W. 347,353 Josiah 341,000 N- P. ' 473,474 Capt. Richard J33 Maj. Robert 52,1.3.3,189 195,351 Samuel 245 Rolande, Jonathan 54 RoLKE Family, 685-86 Abiel 306,388,389,605 Benjamin, Esq. 100,102,104, 107,113,143,144,145,146, 149,1.50,153,155,1.50,175, 1 82,2i 19,2 13,21 0,220,222, 22;:,227 ,243,240,247 ,252, 513,5I5,554,.555 Jlr. Benjamin (1) 236,270, 306 Mr. Benjamin (2) 300 Daniel 140 Capt. or Esq. Henrv, 08,76, 83,87,89,9 1,94,95,96 97,98, 99, 102,102-5,108,109.115, 124,140,141,144,553,505 Henry 389 Paul .309,326,339,.556 Nathaniel (1) 154,184,270, 339,563 Nathaniel (2) 466,408,482 Rollins, E. H. 489,490 Rowell, Christopher 392,529 Ira 408,409,544,005 Ross, Levi 270,525 Reynolds, or Rnnnells, Isaac 529 aMr. 378 Samuel 54,08,78,124-140 784 INDEX TO NAMES. Runnells, Capt. Samuel 348 ivunlef, L. 4SO Russ, John 182 Elizabeth 258 Russell, Edward 241 Elijah 311,323 Jason 484 Rev. Joshua T. CDS Mary 393 Rutter, Rev. Mr. 3.",2 Ryder, Rev. W. H. C16 S Safford, W. B. Saleiri, slave, Sampson, slave, Sanborn, B. W. Henian, James John Sullivan H. 47G 250 252 490 499 393, R06 20G 494 Sanders, Nathaniel 54,68,79, 90,124-140 Sargeant, Dorcas Eppes James VV. Jonathan, Esq. Philip Saunders, John [See Prop. Rec] John, jr. GOO 600 510 500 482 54,58 C4 08,71,78 o4,G7,f;8,77,88, 105,134-14) Savory, C. E. & Co. 490 Sawyer, Joshua 408 David 402 Scales, 478 Rev. James ]44,176,G05 Rufus D. 500 Scihigar, Thos. 54 School lot, 80,112,122,124 Searle, Rev. Addison 377 Seavey, Shadrach 463,514 Sewall, Rev. Jothani 591 Esq. Samuel, 63,83,440,553 Sliannon, George 2C5 Sliapley, Hannah 353 Shattuck, E. 457 Doct. Geo. C. Ill Shepard, John 432 Col. 256 Shepperd, Capt. John 191 Samuel 176 Sherburne, Capt. John 4.32 Sherman, (.'apt. John 49 Rev. John 404 Roger 404 Shipley, Capt. John 55, 58,64, Prop. Rec. Jonathan 67,68,78,124-140 Shields, John 476 Shirley, Alex. 266 John a^lG Shurd, of Pemaquid, .33 Shute Family, 687 Aaron 151 Isaac 200^570 Isaac, jr. . 440 Jacob 88,99,1.56, 18?-lb7, 210,22-',27 1, 560,565 John 191, 196,199,258,271,529 Moses 199,453,4.')8,463.4G8, 471,I81,500,.504,54I Gov. Samuel 53,206 Sihiev, John L. 204 Silshy, Geo. H. H. 457,4''3 Simonds, Ebenezer 191,270 I James 68,79,113,124-140 Simonds, Nathan 68 78,80,99, 94,97,98,109,110,124-140,.545 Reuben 191 Timothy 222,270,271 Simpson, Samuel 420 Skinner, Rev. Otis A. 447 Smart, Charles 430,432,492 J- li. 500 Smetli, Benjamin 54 Smith, Rev. A. D. 617 Ale.\ander 2G6 Eleazer 500,609 Elder Hezebiah .5.')9 Isaac 346 James .54 Rev. John 321 Joseph 353 Nathaniel 1.55 Zehulon 500 Snow, Zerobbabel 68,78,124, 140, .543 Souther, John 3u'3 Spaldinir, Isaac .593 Sparhawk, Samuel 338,347, 368,3C9,372,5I8 Spooner, Alden 588 Stanley, Mathew 156 Stark, Caleb .fS? John 189,192,195,2.5, £67,274,275,283 1.^9,192 477,514 346 100 191 439 54-7,67,G--\ ,85,91,124-140 William Stearns, Chas. H Nathan Stedman, Mrs. Steel, Ezekiel Steele, John H. Stephens, Benj [Prop. Rec] 7 , Or, Stevens, Aaron J 13,1.55 176,182,I51,27t) David 54 Ebenezer 54,fi8,78,*^0,87 9i 92,96,98,100,I24-140,20(; •James .54,271,409 John 244,270,272,273,277, 279,563 John, [Steven] 270 Josiah, jr. or Col. 427,428, 444,453,480,481 ,482,499, 500,,504 Nathan 154,176,187 Phineas 176,270 Philip 409,424 Col. Simeon 405 Gen. Simeon 349 Theodore 244 Thomas G. 341 Stickney Family, 6&7-i-8 Dan 2.58,270 Rev. E. 413,609 George 533 Jeremiah (1) 102,105, 1(6, 107,108, 114,116,140, ]55,174,i76,18\209,219, 228,510,538 Jeremiah (2) ,549 John 397 Lt. Jonathan 2.58,270, 312,4,30 155,394,409 515,538,549 476,490, 491,492,-549 Nathan 306,468,480,521 ,522 Col. Thomas 1.55,247,2.57, 269,270,271,275,276,278 280,293,304,305,r!23,'444' 510,021, . 52.5,549 j Joseijih P. Ms. Mary Ann Stickney, 7'homas, jr. 323, 532,.533,549 William (1) 1.56,158,165 VAilliam (2) 305,306,;i27,340, 342,348,303,370,403,521 Stinson, David 192 Stone, Andrew 282,298 Capt. 367 T. D. P. 170,414,433 Storan, Michael 486 Storey, Daniel 294 Stovvell, John C. 4.57,483 Storrs, Rev. G. 4l:j Straw, Jonathan .5t;o John 191 Sullivan, Gen. John 300,302 John L. Ksq. 376 Swain, Richard 610 Sweat, Benjamin 271 JMoses 322,.323 Sarah 606 Swett, Benia 52 Stephen 354 Stephen S. 549 Sylvester, S. G. 4^2,490 Symmes, Ebenezer 4^2.484 Rev. Wiiliam, '2 2 Symonds, David 491 J.G., 438 T Taggart, James 3 16 Tahanto, 20,34,37,48 Tailer, Hon. Wm. 58,64,6^,80 Tallant, John L. 177,482,499, 504 Tandy, Calvin L. 488 David 4s8 David, jr. 488 Taylor, Rev. William 381,610 Tarlton, James M. 446 Ten Broeck, Rev. Mr. 443, 607,608 Tennant, John 492 Tonney, Rev. Asa P. 451.452, 500,613 Eldad, 466 Rev. Samuel G. 605 Thatcher. Henry S. 47 Thomas, Rev, (VIoses G. 40(), 409,416,421, 450, [Son George M.. 450,] (13 Thompson, Abiel E. 424 Benjamin, or Count Rumtiu-d, 227. 242, 248, 2.57,263,513,556,5 Mrs. Thompson, 5()3 Sarah, Countess, 563,572 Benjamin, Mr. 372 Charles, 270 Francis, 355 fieorge, 434,438 James, 500 John, jr. 403 Joshua, 323,327 Samuel, 270 Thomas W., 338,343,355, 3C6,368,372,373,5]5,5o5,605 Thorndike, Dr. 323 Thomas W. 606 Thornton. Eben 54 Matthew, 226,277, 57() Tibbetts, Benjamin 411 Satnuel, 206 Tilden, Rev. Mr. 613 Titcomb, William 52 Tomlinson, John, Esq. 148 INDEX TO NAMES. 785 Toppan, Abraham 52 Rev. Bezalee!, 59,68,80,93, 124-140 Rev. Christopher, .■9,i";0 Samuel, 08,80,124-140 Torrey, Win. 50,52 Towle, Eben'r S. 157,282,427, 4«0,514 John, 17G Towne, Joseph 3.t8 Treadwell, Thog. P. 458,482 Tripp & Osmond. 490 True, Mrs. Anna 461 Truair, Rev. Mr. 380 Truiiilile, Joiin 271 Judah, 154,185,191 Simon, 071 Tucker, Eliphalet 320,328 Rev. Jedediali, 331 Rev. Jolin, ajo Lemuel, 271,293 Seth, 348 Turner, Ruth 606 Tuttle, Jesse C. 590 Tvler, Rev. Dr. 381 Gen. J. S., 483 Tyng, Esq. Eleazer 55,63,64, Prop. Rec, i^O Tytus, Timothy J75 u Upham, Ephraim 400 Nathaniel G., 410,421,426, 4.0,^58,408,470,614 Urann, Jonathan 346 John, 346 Richard, 68,70,83,108,124- 140,182 V Vail, Prof. Stephen M. 548 Van Buren, Vice-Pres. 415,602 Vesper, Thomas, 330 Virgin Family, 71.i-lG Ebenezer, 47,60,68,77.98, 103,109,110,11:1,1 17,124- 140,154,170,182,191,209, 245,519 Ebenezer, jr., 184, .'58,270 Isaac, 500 Jonathan, 320,339 John, (1) 47,270 John, (2) or "old John," 47, 396,490-7 Leavett C, 442,607 Phineas, 189,245,270,275 .Simeon, 444 William, 270 Violet, slave, 253 w Wainwright, John Esq. .58,64, Prop Rec, 80-87,88, 102, 112,113,131,143 Waldron, Isaac 155,170,186 i or Walderne, Maj. 25 Richard, 35,.52,67,79 Richard, jr. 81 Walker Families. Abiel, 244,323,363,373,388. 389,390,395,397,426,482,548 Admiral H., 5.52 Charles, (1) 249,343,348,369, 372,397,456,516,518,545, 550 Wnlker, Charles. (2) 450 Charles Rumford, 573 Charles VV., 440,457 Ezekiel, 103,.548 Isaac, 68,77,109,124-140,150, 184,191,271,501 Isaac, jr. 154 James, 257,270,277,278,3''6, 321 Rev. James, 005 Jo.seph, 250 Capt. Joseph, 387,4i.'2,536, 570 Joseph!?., 121,153,470,471, 472,477,480, 481, 482,.-514, 542,540,548,573 Lucretia P., 518 Lyman .'\., 440,500 Samuel, 258 Rev. Timothy, (1) 95,96.97, 98, 100,102,111,120,142, 143,144,151,1.52,154,174, 213,22;>,23i, 234,239,244, 246,258,270, 275,277,283, 284,380, (.Mrs. Sarah, 511,) 51 3, .5] 4, 5 1 9, 52.5, 531, 547,-555,550,604 Timothy, jr. 150,17.5,18.% 217,549 Timothy, (2) jr., E.sq., Col., Jud<;e, &c., 228,232,233, 246,247,249,258, 2.59,264, 267,269,270,272, 273,276, 277,279,283,285, 287,299, 300,392,304 305, 308,:il4, 320,323,327,329, 3:i7,338, 352,373,514,528, 530,532, .547-9, 556, 563, 579, 605, see " Officers." Timothy, (3) 390,512,537. 548 Timothy, [of Maine,] 249 William. 155 William, jr. 449,450,452, West, Edward 155 Frank .■>., 4.57 Gilman, 259 Hazen R., 484 Jonathan, 277 John, (1) 306,323 John (2) 607 John .\1., 4.57 Nancv, 477 Nathaniel, 150,185,282 Parker, 482 Westbrook, Col Shad 201; Westilow, Rev. Mr. 608 Wheat, Joseph 354,577 ^Vlieeler, Renjamin 396 Jeremiah, 271,320 Mercy, 524 Zenas, 564 Wheelwright, A r. 192 Wheelock, Jona than 473 John, (Pres.) 577,59s Wliipple, B. Plumniei 493 Walton, Col. Thadd., Esq. 482,490 206 78 Wanuchus, "the Bridal of Penacook," 30,34 Washington, Gen. George 309 Wattanuminon, 40.42 Watrous, Charles 437 Watson, B. F. 457 Philip, 23.'>,375,393,438,47n Wayne, (Jen. 309 Weare, Nathaniel 52,67,79,81 Mesheck 209,288 Peter, 206 Webster, Atkinson 403,4.=J3, 482,500,536 Daniel, 421,494,594 Enoch, 2it4 Ezekiel, 41)5 Lt. John, 154,18.3-191,228, 512,537.5.57 Nathan, ' 91 Mrs. Susan, 473 Weeks, B. H. itjs John, 323 Welch, Samuel 245 Weld, Rev. Thomas 134 Wenlworth, Gov. Penning, 1M,175,2I2 Lt. Gov. John. 77,78,206, 225,245,248,257,263,265 Paul, 476,504 West, Charles 484 Charles E.. 484 I Ji'lin, 433,457,477 White, Capt. John 67 Nathaniel, 449 Nicholas, 68,80,94,95,124, 130,140 Samuel, 54,68,79 William, 54,68,79,124-140 Whitcher, William 68,70,90, 122,1-J4,140 Rev. Hiram, 447,017 Whiitier, John G. 434 Wliitnoy, [of Henniker,] 346 Whittemore, J. R. 435 James C. 461,492 Whittle, William '337 Wibird, Richard 78,206 Wickar, William 54 Wicombe, Thomas 68, 78, 90, 124-130 Wiggin, Andrew 200 Jonathan, gg Joseph, 200,407 Sherburne. 342 Wilco.x, Le(mard 422 Wilder, Jos. 58,04, Prop. Rec Willard, J. 55,03,85,121 Mnses T , 433 Capt. Simeon, 49 Willey, .Andrew 483 Dea., 314,422,610.012, Mrs. Anna, 422 William, 266 Williams, Charles 4.57 Isaac F., 417,470,490 Rev, Nath'l W., 388, 401, 404,612 Owen, 268 Willis, Richard 268 Wilkins, Dea. Jonathan, 251, 294,337,396,605 Wilks & Partridge, ]4S Wilson, John C. 457 Mrs. .Mary, 511 Thomas, 271,277,280,308 Winn, Edward 08,78,124-140 Winkley, David 490 Winslow, Mr. 55 Winter, C. R. 435 Winthrop, (historian,) 23 Wise, Ammi Ruhamah 68,79, 124-140 Witherell, Rev. J. F. 616 Witherspuon, Alexander 346 ^V(dcott, John 52 Wonalancet, 20,22,26,30,169 Wood, Amos 426 4^15 ic 86 INDEX TO NAMES. Wood, David C8,79,l-24-l'!0 Gecree, 458,-}94 Rev. Henry, 606 Historian, 21 Rev. Samuel, 327 AVook. Henr.v 54 VVoodburv, Kcv. Augustus 491,C0-1/,13 Woodburj', Ebeiiezer Judge, Woodman, Edward Rev. Josepl), Woolson, James Work, Jo~e|ili Worth, Ediiiiind Jonathan B., 34G 415 52 321 477 54 346 Wright, John .54,68.77.124-140 Wvman, W. H. 482 R. G., 482 Yates, Elizabeth Yorke, Mr. COfi 221 THE END.