{"1": {"fulltext": ".CtM", "height": "3636", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3494", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3504", "width": "1863", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "ANNALS\\nTOWN or coNCozm,\\nIS THE COUXTT OF ^CERRmACK, ASO STATE OF SEW-HAMPSHIRE,\\nFROM ITS FTRST SETTLEMiST, E\\\\ THZ YEAR 17J6.\\nTO THE YEAR 18\u00c2\u00bb.\\nWITH SEVERAt BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nTO WHICH IS ADDED,\\nn iHctnoir of tlic ^nacwik i:n^i5n.5.\\n8\\nBY JACOB B. 310 ORE.\\nLet ns read, and re\u00c2\u00abonect,\u00c2\u00abndunpre\u00c2\u00bbB on oar \u00c2\u00abBk, tke TievsaMd e\u00c2\u00bb*ir\u00c2\u00ab0ftre\\nathen. in\u00c2\u00abci^?u^*eirnaiiTee\u00c2\u00abma,yte\u00c2\u00bbireMT,iBfcB,KaUe\u00c2\u00bbaien\u00c2\u00bbe*BeeoB\u00c2\u00ab\\ntfcar unizms fomtude, tbeir Utter niferi^ I *e Iwiger. iteMfasd.ea, ite e-Id. ,fc^\\ntk^ partly endued the se,\u00c2\u00ab* lata, rf eie.riBf d\u00c2\u00abr p^^k^^ ttoi^\\n\u00c2\u00ab1 r\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abBgAe\u00c2\u00abpn,Ti,k\u00c2\u00bb, ai\u00c2\u00abktadMige\u00c2\u00abfett,adl\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abs\u00c2\u00abi\u00c2\u00ab,,^^^_^^;^\\nCONCORD\\nPUBLISHED BT JACOB B. MOORE.\\n1824.", "height": "3499", "width": "1879", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "suit tl JU\u00c2\u00bb*\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab*5WW", "height": "3494", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Whe5 the compflation af the fdlowmg bnef no-\\ntices was undertaken, the writer had no other inten-\\ntion than to preserve the facts which he might ob-\\ntain for his own particular use and amusement.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBut on examination, many things of an interesting\\nnature were found minded with the concerns of\\nthe town- which it was conceived might be usefiol\\nand entertaining to the inhabitants. The circ4im-\\nstances attending the first settlement, the hardships\\nendured by the settlers, and tiieir frequent expo-\\nsure to Indian warfare the massacre by the In-\\ndians, and their depredations upon the property of.\\nthe inhabitants and the tedious and perplexing\\ncontroversy with the proprietors of Bow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 were all\\ndeemed subjects of suf cient importance to interest\\nthe people of this town. The generation to whom\\nthese things were familiar, is rapidly passing away;\\nand there will ere long be no one. from whom\\nthese particulars could be collected. Even at this\\ntime, great difficulty has been encountered in con-\\nnecting the series of events, and reconciling con-\\ntradictory accounts. The want of records, for sev-\\neral vears, and the deficiency of a portion of those\\nwe have, were also evils not to be remedied but\\nby unwearied search and inquiry among the most\\nintelligent aged people of the town. The writer", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "U PREFACE.\\nhas devoted much time to the collection of the ma-\\nterials here embodied and though, from the nature\\nof things, and his own inabihty to give the narrative\\nany original attractions, he must be aware that er-\\nrors and deficiencies may be discovered it is be-\\nlieved the good citizens of Concord will find some\\nthings, embraced in the following pages, worthy of\\nperusal and of preservation.\\nFor the memoir of the tribe of Indians, who\\nonce inhabited this town and vicinity, the writer\\nacknowledges his obligations to John Farmer, Esq.\\nof this town. To the politeness of Charles Wal-\\nker, and Francis N. Fisk, Esquires, and the Rev.\\nDr. M Farland, he is also indebted for the use of\\nsundry records and papers in their possession, which\\nhave been of great service to him. And to the aged\\ncitizens generally who have cheerfully aided him\\nin completing this task, would he present the most\\nhearty thanks, with the hope that what they have\\nhelped to accomplish, will not be found so wholly\\nuninteresting as to be deemed unworthy of preser-\\nvation.\\nMarch 1, 1824.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-.-Si", "height": "3429", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ANNAZiS OF CONCORD.\\nM\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab9*4\u00c2\u00ab^\\nConcord, the seat of the state government, and\\nshire town of the county of Merrimack, New-\\nHampshire, is pleasantly situated on both sides of\\nMerrimack river, in latitude 43\u00c2\u00b0 12 N. 45 miles\\nN. 72r W. of Portsmouth, 62 miles N. 22\u00c2\u00b0 W. of\\nBoston, and 500 miles from Washington-City. It was\\noriginally known by the name of Penacook, from\\nthat of the tribe of Indians who once inhabited the\\nvicinity. It is bounded on the north-west by Can-\\nterbury and Boscawen, north-east by Loudon and\\nChichester, south-east by Pembroke and Bow, and\\nsouth-west by Hopkinton comprising an area of\\n40,919 acres.\\nAs the principal design of this little work is to\\npresent in a summary view the most interesting\\ncircumstances which can now be collected in rela-\\ntion to the history of Concord, further notice of its\\nlocal situation, topography, c. will be omitted in\\nthis place.\\nIn the settlement of new lands, emigrants have\\ngenerally been careful to select such as were fer-\\ntile, and well situated for their various pursuits.\\nHence alluvial valleys and the borders of rivers are\\nsooner settled than the highlands, which, though\\noften as productive, are less easy of cultivation.\\nThe Indians were not less sagacious in this partic-\\nular than the Avhites, for we find near our principal\\nrivers, remains of their fortifications, and other\\nmemorials of their residence there. The intervals\\nsituated on the river Merrimack early attracted\\nnotice and several parties, desirous of commencing\\nnew settlements, surveyed the lands a great dis-\\ntance from its mouth.", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "O ANNALS or CONCORD.\\nAbout the year 1720, Captain Ebemzer East-\\nman and several others, from Haverhill, Mass. ex-\\nplored the lands in this vicinity, and noticing the\\nrichness of the intei-vals, resolved to procure a\\ngrant and commence a settlement. Accordingly,\\nat the session of the General Court of the Prov-\\nince of the Massachusetts Bay, assembled at Bos-\\nton in May, 1721, a petition was presented for a\\ntract of land situated on the river Merry make, at\\nthe lower end of Penacook, to contain about eight\\nmiles square. The petitioners were unsuccessful\\nin their application until 1725; the governor dis-\\nsenting from all proceedings of the legislature,\\nthough they twice allowed the petition, in 1721\\nand 1722, and in 1724 appointed a committee to\\nview the lands. In the beginning of the year 1725,\\nupon the petition of Benjamin Stevens, Ebenezer\\nEastman and others, in behalf of the intended set-\\ntlers, a tract of land of about seven miles square\\nwas appropriated for a township, by the govern-\\nment of Massachusetts. The conditions of the\\ngrant were, that the tract should be divided into\\none hundred and three equal shares or lots that\\none hundred families should settle thereon within\\nthe space of three years that each settler should\\nbuild a good dwelling-house, comfortably to re-\\nceive and entertain his family, and break up and\\nfence in six acres of land for a home lot, within\\nthe term aforesaid; that the houses should be\\n1725. Jan. 18. At a meeting of tlu committee of tlie general court of Mas-\\nsachusetts, for bringing forward the settlement of a place called Penacook, on eacli\\nside of Merrimack river, to begin where Contaocook empties itself into the Mer-\\nrimack\u00e2\u0080\u0094 present William Tailor, Elisha Cooke, William Dudley, John Wain-\\nwright. Captain John Shapleigh, John Sanders, Eleazar Tyng, and Mr. Joseph\\nWilder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 reach admitted settler paid the committee 20s.\\nFeb. 7. Voted that the settlers shall well and truly fulfil the conditions and or-\\nders of the general court. And for the eftectual accomplishing the same, it is agreed\\nand resolved, that such and so many of the intended settlers as shall fail of fallowing,\\nfencing or clearing one acre of land within twelve months from the first of June\\nnext, shall each of them forfeit and pay the community or settlers, \u00c2\u00a35, to be appro-\\npriated by them to their own benefit. Pro. Records.", "height": "3469", "width": "1808", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 7\\nerected within twenty rods of each other on the\\nhome lots, and in a regular and defensible manner;\\nand that a convenient house for the public worship\\nof God should be completely finished within the\\ntime first mentioned. Each settler was to pay the\\nprovince \u00c2\u00a35 for his right; and as soon as one hun-\\ndred were admitted settlers, they were empowered\\nto hold proprietary meetings for the transaction of\\nthe business of the settlement. The remaining\\nthree rights were reserved, one for the first settled\\nminister, one for a parsonage, and one for the use\\nof the school forever. The requisite number of\\nsettlers having been admitted, a meeting was\\nholden at Haverhill, on the 7th of February, 1725,\\nwhen the following, among other regulations, was\\nadopted by the proprietors\\nAgreed and resolved^ That no alienation on any\\nlot shall be made without the consent of the com-\\nmunity. And if any of the intended settler or\\nsettlers shall alienate his or their lots or settle-\\nments to any person or persons, without the con-\\nsent of the community first had and obtained, such\\nsale shall be declared void of itself, and the\\nsettler that shall so pretend to alienate his lot,\\nshall forfeit the same to the community. t\\nThe object of this regulation undoubtedly was\\nto exclude Irish settlers, against whom a strong\\nnational prejudice existed, heightened perhaps\\nby zeal in differing religious opinions. There\\nis another evidence of this in the last petition,\\n1726. At a meeting of the intended settlers, at Andover, Feb. 8, it was agreed\\nand voted that a block house of 25 feet in breadth and 40 feet in length be built at\\nPenacook, forihe security of the settlers.\\nJune 28. Mr. Agent Dumtner, at London, was instructed, as it was ap-\\nprehended by the government of Massachusetts, that New-Hampshire might send\\nhome a complaint against the grant of Penacook lately made, to take care and an-\\nswer any complaint; and he was furnished with the necessary papers.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jlfasj.\\nRecords.\\nSee Appendix No. I.\\nt For the names of the original proprietors, see Appendix No. U.", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nby Stevens and others They state, that ma-\\nny applications have been made to the govern-\\nment of New-Hampshire for a grant of tlie said\\nland, (at Penacook) which, though it be the im-\\ndoubted right and property of this province yet\\nit is highly probable that a parcel of Irish people\\nwill obtain a grant from New-Hampshire for it,\\nunless some speedy care be taken by this great\\nand honorable court to prevent it.\\nIn May, 1726, a committee appointed by the\\ngovernment of Massachusetts, with surveyors,\\nchainmen, and a number of the admitted settlers\\nattending them, proceeded to Penacook, and laid\\nout 103 home lots or divisions on the river, in equal\\nproportion, according to the quantity and quality,\\nas near as the land would admit thereof, agreeably\\nto the order and direction of the great and general\\ncourf t This year considerable progress was made\\n*The jealousy prevalent at this period of the encroachments of settlers upon un-\\nappropriated lands, is also evinced in the following order of the general court of\\nMassachusetts, relative to the settlers of Nutfield, [Londonderry] passed Dec. 1,\\n1720:\\nWhereas it appears that several familys lately arrived from Ireland, and others\\nfrom this province, have presumed to make a settlement upon lands belonging to\\nthis province, lying westward of the town of Haverhill, (which they call Nutfield)\\nwithout any leave or grant obtained from this court Resolued^ that the said people\\nhe warned to move oflf from said lands, within the space of seven months, and if\\nthey fail to do so, that they be prosecuted by the Attorney-General by writts of tres-\\npass and ejectment.\\nExtracts from the journal kepi by John TVainwright, one of the committee.\\nMay 12, 1726. The committee left Haverhill, and proceeded as far as Amos-\\nkeag.\\nI3th. This morning we proceeded on our journey very hilly and mountain-\\nous land. About 3 o clock we passed by a fall called Annahookline, [Hooksett] in\\nMerrimack river, which is taken from a hill of the same name. About 10 er 11\\no clock, we forded Suncook river, which is a rapiil stream, and many loose stones\\nof some considerable bignesse in it, making it difficult to pass. About 1 o clock\\nwe passed Penacook river, [Soucook] pretty deep and very rocky. In a short time\\nafter, we came up as far as Penacook falls, [Garven s] and steered our course north\\nover a Invge pitch pine plain, three miles at least in length, and about 5 o clock af-\\nternoon arrived at Penacook, and encamped on a piece of intervale called Sugar-\\nBall plain, from a very large head or hill called Sugar-Ball hill, whereon was the\\nfirst Indian fort, as we were informed, which the Indians in old times built to defend\\nthemselves against the Mnquois [Mohawks] and others their enemies. This Sugar-\\nBall plain is a pretty large tract of land encompassed on all parts with very high\\nand mountainous land, as steep as the roof of an house ordinarily only where\\nt lie river runs round it, which encompasses the other parts of it. It is altogether\\nimpracticable for a team or even liorse-cartto get on the plain, the land is so moun-\\ntainous round it; and there is no spring on it as we could find.\\nlAth About 12 o clock this day, Messrs. Nathaniel Weare, Richard Waldron.\\njun. and Tlie.odore Atkinson, a counnittee appointed by the governor and council of", "height": "3469", "width": "1808", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 9\\nin the settlement, about fifty persons being em-\\nployed during the warmer season. A new path\\nwas cut through the woods from Haverhill to Pen-\\nacook, by the way of Chester, some portion of the\\ndistance on the same route now travelled. The\\nsame year the building of a block-house, for the\\ndefence of the plantation, and also to serve for a\\nplace of public worship, was commenced to be\\n^5 feet in breadth and 40 in lensjth.\\nNew-Hampshire,came up to our camp, (being attended with about lialf a score Irish-\\nmen, who kept at some distance from the camp) and acquainted us that the govern-\\nment of New-Hampshire, being informed of our business here, had sent them tude-\\nsire us that we would not proceed in appropriating these lands to any private or par-\\nticular persons, for that they lay in their government and our government s making\\na grant might be attended with very ill consequences to the settlers, when it ap-\\npeared that the lands fell in the N. H. government. And then they delivered\\na copy of an order passed by his honour the lieutenant governor and council of\\nNew-Hampshire respecting tlie settling of the lands at Penacook.to which we refer.\\nWe made them answer, that the government of the Massachusetts Bay had sent us\\nto lay out the lands here into a townsliip; that they had made a grant of it to some\\nparticular men, and that we should proceed to do the business we were come upon,\\nand made no doubt but our government would be always ready to support and justifie\\ntheir own grams; and that it was the business of the publick, and not ours, to en-\\ngage in, in order to determine any controversy about the lands. We sent our sa-\\nlutes to the lieutenant governor of New-Hampshire, and the gentlemen took their\\nleaves of us, and set homewards this afternoon.\\nI5th. Sunday. Mr. Enoch Coffin, our chaplain, performed divine service\\nboth parts of the day.\\n\\\\6ih. At sunrise this morning, according to notification, we chose a represent-\\native, new. con. viz. Mr. John Sanders.\\nISih. It may be observed, that divers rattlesnakes were killed by the several\\nsurveying companies, but, thanks be to God, nobody received any hurt from\\nthem.\\nThe committee in their report, (Jwrtc, 1 726) say, In May last, we proceeded\\nto the place, in order to lay out the whole township, and the lots directed in the\\norder of the General Court, beginning at the mouth of Contoocook river, where that\\njoins Merrimack river, and thence run a line east seventeen degrees south four\\nmiles, and so at right angles at the extremes of each of the aforesaid lines, seven\\nmiles southerly each, and thence from the termination of the seven miles which\\ncompletes the grant and is according thereto and upon view and strict survey of\\nthe lands on the east side of Merrimack, we find that there is little or no water,\\nthe land near the river extremely mountainous and almost impassable, and very\\nunfit for and uncapable of receiving fifty families, as the court has ordered more\\nespecially considering that near the centre of the town on the east side of the river\\nMerrimack, the Hon. Samuel Sewall, Esq. has a farm of five hundred acres of good\\nland, formerly granted by this court, and laid out by Gov. Endicott. The commit-\\ntee, therefore, with submi-ssion to the honorable General Court, tliought it advisable\\nand accordingly have laid out one hundred and three lots of land for settlements, oh\\nthe wei^side contiguous to each other, regularlj and in a defensible manner, as by\\nthe plot of theirs, and of the whole grant (which is hereby presented) will\\nappear; and inasmuch as the generality of the land answers not the grantees ex-\\npectation, and five hi\u00c2\u00abg|red acres laid out as aforesaid, humbly offer, that the\\nlike number of acres of the unappropriated lands adjacent to the township,\\nmay be made to the settlers as an equivalent therefor. The government of Mas-\\nsachusetts thereupon empowered the grantees to make settlements on th\u00c2\u00ab westerlj\\nside of the river at pleasure.", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 ANiVALS OF CONCORD.\\nTlie Indians who at this time inhabited the vi-\\ncinit}, were on terms of amity with the whites.\\nDuring the winter of this year, two or three per-\\nsons only resided in the block-house at Penacook.\\nThe snow was very deep, the cold unusually severe,\\nand their provisions m ere insufficient to support\\nthem through the season. The Indians saw\\ntheir situation, and as soon as possible journeyed\\nto Haverhill. They there called on the proprie-\\ntors, and represented to them the situation of the\\nfamilies, very seriously observing that they would\\nsoon come upon the totvn, unless they were assisted\\nA sleigh with stores soon after arrived at Penacook,\\nand rescued them from starvation.\\nOn the 20th May, 1727, the government of New-\\nHampshire made a grant to Jonathan Wiggin and\\nothers of the tract comprised within the following\\nbounds, viz beginning on the S. E. side of the\\ntown of Chichester, and running nine miles by Chi-\\nchester and Canterbury, and carrying that breadth\\nof nine miles from each of the aforesaid towns\\nS. W. until the full complement of eighty-one square\\nmiles are fully made up. This grant, covering the\\ngreater part both of Concord and Pembroke, and a\\npart of Hopkinton, gave rise to a serious controver-\\nsy between the claimants under each grant, which\\nwas continued in law for several years, and was not\\nfinally settled until 1762.\\nDuring the year 1727, the block-house was finish-\\ned considerable quantities of corn and hay were\\ngathered, and the wilderness reduced to some de-\\n1726. Dec. 20. The memorial of the Penacook settlers was piesented, respecting\\n500 acres of land on the E. side of the river, formerly granted to Gov. Endicott,\\nand praying for land instead thereof on the W. Voted unanimously to grant 500\\nacres on the west side. This grant was confirmed by governor Burnet, Aug. 6,\\n1728. Mass. Records.\\n1727. March G. Messrs. Joseph Hall and John Pecker were empowered to\\nto agree with a minister to preach at Penacook the year ensuing, to begin the ser-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2vice from the fifteenth of May next. The said committee are directed to act with\\nall prudence, and not assure the gentleman more than after the rate of \u00c2\u00a3100 per\\n^nnum for his service. Pro;?. Records.", "height": "3469", "width": "1808", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 11\\no-ree of cultivation. Several dwellings had previ-\\nously been erected and in the fall of this year the\\nfirst family, that of Ebenezer Eastman, moved into\\nthe place.*\\nAug. 6, 1728, the government of Massachusetts^\\nin consideration of a grant of 500 acres of land,\\nformerly made to governor Endicott, wliich fell\\nwithin the boundaries of Penacook, and was claim-\\ned by the heirs of judge Sewall, empowered the\\nproprietors by a surveyor and chainmen on oath,\\nto extend the south bounds of the township one\\nhundred rods the full breadth of their to\\\\\\\\Ti, as an\\nequivalent.\\nConsiderable improvements were made in the\\nsettlements in 1729 saw and gristmills were erec-\\nted by Nathan Simonds, with the assistance of the\\nproprietors and a ferry was established for the\\nconvenience of the settlers.t A substantial fence\\nwas this year built for the first time to enclose the\\ninterval on the river, at the common charge. A\\n1728. On the 15th of February this year, the first child was born at Penacook\\nDorcas, a daughter of Edward and Dorcas Abbot she died Sept. 28, 1797. The\\nfirst male ciiild was Edward, son of the same parents, born Dec. 27, 1730: he died\\nin Sept. 1801. John Hoit, the second male, was born Se|it. 10, 1732 and married\\na sister of Dr. Carter, Jan. 2, 1755. The elder Mr. Hoit was of Amesbury, Ms.\\n1729. Sept. 4. The proprietors and inhabitants of Penacook petitioned the gen-\\neral court of Massachusetts for the privileges of a town but no proceedings were\\nhad. March 6, 1730, the same petition was renewed, and referred to the consider-\\nation of a committee but no measures were adopted.\\nJacob Shute drove Eastman s team, the first that had crossed the wilderness\\nfrom Haverhill to Penacook. Shute s father was a native of France, and upon the\\nrevocation of tlie Edict of Nantz by Lewis XIV. fled into Ireland. His children\\nemigrated to this country.\\nTliougi; Eastman s was the first family of settleis, it is believed there were sev-\\neral individuals who settled previously. Dr. Rolfe wastiie first settler, and resided\\nnear the residence of the late captain Emery. He was father of Benjamin Rolfe,\\nEsq. The second settler was Richard Uran, afterwards of Newbury. They passed\\nthe winter of 1726 at Penacook, living mostly upon the fruits of the wilderness and\\nthe charities of the Indians.\\nt The gristmill stood near the present site of the factory of Messrs. I. J. East-\\nman, on the east side of the river the saw-mill about half a mile above, on the\\nsame stream. The mill-crank was brought upon a liorse from Haverhill. Soon\\nafter commencing operations, it was broken. How to remedy the evil they knew\\nnot, as there was no blacksmith nearer than Haverhill. But necessity is the mother\\nof invention. They collectetl together a quantity of pitch knots, fastened the\\ncrank with beetle-rings and wedges, and succeeded in their attempt to weld the dig-\\njointed parts The crank was afterwards used for many years", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nplank floor was also laid in the meeting-house,\\nor fort and the road from Penacook to Haverhill,\\nwas altered and improved under the direction of\\nMessrs. Ebenezer Eastman and John Chandler.\\nThe settlers of Penacook, like those of all the\\nolder towns, strictly observed the religious institu-\\ntions of their fathers. Mr. Enoch Coffin, of New-\\nbury, Mass. accompanied them on their first visits\\nto the new lands, and other clergymen occasionally\\npreached to them.* Measures were this year taken\\nto provide for the settlement of a minister and at\\na meeting of the settlers in October, it was voted\\nthat every proprietor or intended settler of Pena-\\ncook should forthAvith pay or cause to be paid into\\nthe hands of the treasurer the sum of 20*. towards\\nthe support of an orthodox minister to preach at\\nPenacook aforesaid, the same to be paid in propor-\\ntion to the preaching. At a previous meeting,\\nthey had appointed Deacon John Osgood, Messrs.\\nJohn Pecker, John Chandler, Ebenezer Eastman,\\nNathan Symonds, William Barker and Joseph Hall\\nto ca//t and agree with some suitable person to\\nbe minister of the town of Penacook and at the\\nsame meeting agreed to pay a salary of \u00c2\u00a3lOO law-\\nful money per annum to their minister when set-\\ntled-t\\nAt a meeting of the proprietors, at Bradford, Marcli 12, 1728, they voted to pay\\nMr. Bezaliel Toppan 30s. for preaching and performing divine service at Pena-\\ncook. j\u00c2\u00a34 was also voted to the heirs of Rev. Enoch Coffin, deceased, for like ser-\\ntices. Mr. Enoch Coffin, the first preacher in Concord, was born in Newhury,\\nFeb. 7, 1695, and died Aug. 7, 1727. He was second son of the honorable\\nNathaniel Coffin, and graduated at Harvard College. Nathaniel was son of\\nTristram Coffin, of Newbury, whose father Tristram Coffin was son of Peter Coffin,\\nof Brixton parish, 4 miles from Plymouth in Plympton hundred, and who came to\\nNew England in 1642, and brought with him his mother, two sisters, and four chil-\\ndren.\\ni The mode of calling and maintaining ministers in congregational societies,\\noriginated in an act passed during the reign of William and Mary, approved June\\n\u00c2\u00bb,U9Z.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Act IV. William f Mary.\\nX At the meeting of the grantees and settlers, October 14, 1730, it was Vottd,\\nthat Mr. Timothy Walker shall have \u00c2\u00a3100 for the year ensuing, and then rise 401-.\\nper annum, till it comes to \u00c2\u00a3120, and that to be the stated sum annually tor his\\nsalary, during his continuance in the ministry, together with the parsonage so long\\nas he carries on the whole work of the ministry. Provided, and it is hereby to be\\nunderstood, any thing to the contrary above mentioned notwithstanding, that if Mr.\\nWalker, by extreme old age, shall be disenabled from carrying on the whole ^wor^\\nof the ministry, that he shall abate so much of his salary as shall be rational.", "height": "3469", "width": "1808", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 13\\nThe inhabitants, at a meeting in March, 1730,\\ninstructed the committee before named to invite\\nMr. Timothy Walker, a graduate of Cambridge,\\nwho had just finished his theological studies, to\\nsettle with them. On the 14th of October, the\\nproprietors renewed this invitation and established\\nthe salary for the year ensuing at \u00c2\u00a3100, to be in-\\ncreased \u00c2\u00a32 yearly until it should amount to \u00c2\u00a3120\\nper annum, which, together with the use of the\\nparsonage, should thereafter constitute the emolu-\\nments of their minister. \u00c2\u00a3lOO were also voted as\\na settlement. To the invitation of the people,\\nMr. Walker returned the following answer\\nPenacook, Oct. 14, 1730.\\nTo THE ADMITTED SETTLERS OR GRANTEES OF PeNA-\\nCOOK.\\nWhereas formerly by a committee you have\\ninvited me to settle in the ministry in the said\\ntownship upon which invitation I have advised\\nwith learned, pious and judicious divines in the\\nministry, Avho have jointly advised me to take up\\nwith your invitation, provided you vote a sufficient\\nmaintenance for me and you having this day re-\\nnewed your invitation to me, and done what satis-\\nfies me upon the account of salary I therefore,\\nbeing deeply sensible of the importance of the\\ncharge, and my own insufficiency to discharge the\\nduties of the same, do accept your call, humbly\\nrelying upon the all-sufficient grace of God, which\\nalone can enable me suitably to discharge the same,\\nearnestly desiring your prayers, as well as all oth-\\ners of God s people, that such plentiful measures\\nof His grace may be affiarded to me, as may en-\\nable me to discharge the duties of so sacred a\\nfunction, to his acceptance and your edification\\n1730. Oct. 14.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Voted, that Mr. Cutting Noyes have fifty acres of land in the\\ntownship of Penacook\u00e2\u0080\u0094 provided the said Noyes shall do the blacksmith s work of\\nthe town ftom the date hereof.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Prop. Records\\n3", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 ANNALS OF CONCORB,\\nthat so both you and I may rejoice together in the\\nday of the Lord Jesus.\\nTIMOTHY WALKER.\\nThe ordination of Rev. Mr. Walker took place\\non the 18th of November following. The sermon\\nwas delivered by the Rev. John Barnard of An-\\ndover, Mass. charge by Rev. Samuel Phillips, of\\nAndover and right hand of fellowship by the\\nRev. John Brown, of Haverhill. The church was\\ncomposed of sober and industrious inhabitants\\nand during the whole course of Mr. Walker s min-\\nistry, we do not find that any dissentions or difficul-\\nties arose. The people were united in interests\\nand feelings, were educated in the same principles,\\nand generally adopted like habits and perhaps all\\nstrictly united in one mode of worship, and were\\nconstant in the observance of religious ordinances.\\nThe meeting-house was this year repaired and\\nthe first burial-place in Concord located and en-\\nclosed. The first bridge in the township was built\\nover Soucook river. By an order of the general\\ncourt of Massachusetts, founded upon a petition of\\nthe proprietors, they were empowered to exercise\\nthe privileges and immunitifss of a town in the as-\\nsessment and collection of taxes, c. But from\\nsome imperfection in the order itself, or some other\\ncause, it was not made use of.\\nJan. 31st, 1731, the petition of the inhabitants,\\nc. of Penacook was renewed, praying for town\\nprivileges, and representing that there were then in\\nthe settlement eighty families. February 1, a re-\\nport was made in favor of the petitioners, accepted,\\nand the act accordingly passed.\\nThe first legal meetina: of the inhabitants of\\nthe plantation of Penacook, was holding at the\\nmeeting-house, Jan. 11, 1732. Capt. Ebenezer\\nThere is lh\\\\s peculiar circumstance in your settlement,that i w in aplace,where\\nSatan, some years ago, had his seat, and the devil was wont to be Invocated by (or-\\nsa.kp.\\\\i Salnnges A Place which was the Rendezvous and Head Qwirten of our\\nIndian Enemies. Barnard s Sermon, p. 29.", "height": "3449", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 15\\nEastman was appointed moderator and the neces-\\nsary town officers were chosen to stand to tlie an-\\nniversary meeting in March following. This\\nmeeting was called by Benjamin Roife, by order\\nof the General Court. In the afternoon of the\\nsame day, after a notice for that purpose had been\\nissued b}^ the new authorities of Penacook, the in-\\nhabitants voted to raise \u00c2\u00a31 10 for the support of the\\nordained minister. At the next meeting, on the 6th\\nof March, besides choosing town officers, the in-\\nhabitants vcj^d a bounty of 20s. for every wolf\\nkilled T^hin the township also a bounty of 6d.\\nfor killing rattle-snakes, provided, that the des-\\ntroyer of such snakes shall bring in a black\\njoint of the tail or with the tail to the selectmen, or\\neither of them. A penny w^as also voted for\\nthe encouragement of killing of black-birds within\\nthe township for the year ensuing, the head being\\nbrought to the selectmen or any of them,and burnty\\nThe proprietors this year appropriated 100 acres,\\nincluding the privileges on Turkey river, to any\\nsuitable person who would build a grist mill.\\nIn 1733, the plantation of Penacook was in-\\ncorporated by the government of Massachusetts as\\na town by the name of Rumford^ it being satisfacto-\\nrily ascertained, as set forth in the preamble to the\\nact, that the plantation is competently filled with\\ninhabitants, who have built and finished a conven-\\nient meeting-house for the public worship of God,\\nand sometime since have settled a learned ortho-\\ndox minister among them, c. This name was\\ngiven from that of a parish in England. The town\\nat their several meetings this year, voted to give\\nRev. Mr. Walker \u00c2\u00a350, for building him a dwelling-\\nhouse, provided that he gave the inhabitants and\\nfreeholders a receipt in full for his salary until the\\n16th of January that year, in consequence of the\\ndepreciation of money, it not being equal to silver\\nat 17*. the ounce. \u00c2\u00a330 were appropriated of the\\nmonies in the town treasury for the purchase of am-", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "1 4\\nANNA 1.3 OF CONCORD.\\nmumtion for the use pf the inhabitants. It appears\\nnos tioTof Tt entertained of the hostU^ dis!\\nposition of the Indians, although no act of ajr^res-\\ns on had been committed. The sum of \u00c2\u00a3l6 was\\nalso voted for the support of a school duriL Jhe\\nwinter and spring ensuing; and the selectmen were\\nempowered to provide a school. It was also voted\\nin town meeting that the selectmen should find\\nbooks for the use of the inhabitants and freehold-\\neis ot the town or plantation, on the town s cost\\nso far as they shall think necessary. Mr. James\\nScales afterwards minister at Hopkintoiiwas em-\\nployed to teach the first school; and afte7him, Mr\\nJoseph Holt, of Andover, Mass.\\nFrom this period until 1739, the affairs of the\\ntown continued to prosper with little interruption,\\n^ome useful internal regulations were adopted--\\nimprovements on the lands were constantly mak-\\ning\u00e2\u0080\u0094the meetmg-house was further repaired\u00e2\u0080\u0094 md\\nincreased attention Avas paid to the school. In 1735\\nalso, a committee was appointed to i^etition ffov\\nernment for the establishment of a nev^ county\\nthe county of Essex then comprehending all the\\nnew grants made by Massachusetts north of Ha-\\nverhill.\\n1734. May 27.- 20,. for each grown wolf, and 1*. f\u00e2\u0080\u009er each rattlesnake.\\nwh.sh should be killed this year, were voted. At a meeting holden the 14t Nov\\nof the same year, Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and Heniy Rolfe, Esq. were chosen to\\npetition the General Court for an order of said Court for raising of money for de-\\nfrajhig the ministerial charge, and the other charges of this town for this year and\\nduring the court s pleasure.\\nAt the next town meeting, holden on the 2Sth day of Decemher,\u00c2\u00a3no were raised\\nfor said purpose. The town clerk was also empowered to ask and receive of\\n.To!m Wainwright.Esq. the clerk of the honorable committee of the Great and Gen-\\neral Court, appointed to bring forward the setUementof the township, the book of\\nthe proceedings of tlie said committee, and all the other papers belonging to the\\ntown and proprietors, and to receipt for them. Wainwright had for several years\\nbeen clerk to the proprietors of Penacook. Some disagreement arising they ap-\\npointed another in his stead, to whom he refused to deliver the records. Nor was\\nthe matter compromised until Wainwright received from the proprietors an entire\\nlot of land in the new township-upon which he gave up the records to his succes-\\nsor. The grant was made June 19, 1734.", "height": "3449", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 17\\nIn 1737, the controversy between Massachusetts\\nand New-Hampshire was heard before commission-\\ners appointed by the Crown. Many attempts had\\npreviously been made without success to settle it.\\nNew-Hampshire took its name from grants made\\nby the council of Plymouth to Capt. John JMason.\\nOf these there had been four or five, all containing\\nmore or less of the same lands. Exceptions be-\\ning taken to all of them, the controversy had turn-\\ned upon the construction of the Massachusetts\\ncharters. At a hearing before the king in council,\\nin 1677, the agents of Massachusetts, by advice,\\ndisclaimed jurisdiction beyond the three miles\\nnorth of Merrimack river specified in the original\\ncharter and it was determined they had right as\\nfar as the river extended but how far it did ex-\\ntend was not expressly mentioned. It seems, how-\\never, not to have been doubted and soon after the\\ngovernment was transferred from Old England to\\nNew, it was known by the name of Merrimack as\\nAt the meeting March 11, 1734, the necessary town officers were chosen, and\\nsome highway regulations adopted. The premiums on wolves and rattlesnakes\\nwere continued.\\n1735. At a meeting of the inhabitants and freeholders of the town of Rumford\\non the 19th of May, 1735, it was put to vote by the moderator, whether they would\\nchoose a representative or not, and it passed in the negative. Benjamin Rolfe,\\nEsq. was constituted attorney in behalf of the town to sue the treasurer, John\\nChandler, for monies not paid over to the town. At the next meeting, holden on\\nthe 22d Sept. of the same year, about j\u00c2\u00a362 were raised for schooling and build-\\ning part of a bridge over Soucook river, and defraying other expences of the town.\\nA committee was empowered to hire a school-master for four months the next\\nwinter and spring.\\nA meeting was called on the 10th of December of this year, and a committee ap\u00c2\u00ab\\npointed to superintend the building of the bridge over the Souco -,k, and see that\\nthe work was done v/ell and faithfully. At the annual meeting hoiden March\\n9, this year, \u00c2\u00a350 v/ere granted Rev. Mr. Walker to enable him to clear a pasture\\nand to bring it to English grass, 30Z. of which was to be paid in 1736, and the re-\\nmainmg 201. in 1737. 10*. bounty on wolves and the same sum on rattlesnakes,\\nconiinued. Henry Rolfe, E ^q. was chosen and desired to assist and join with\\nothers that are ur may hz chosen for to use proper means for to get the county of\\nEssex divided into two counties. The seats in the meeting-house were erdered to\\nrepaired, a door made for the pulpit, and the windows put up.", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nfar as Penacook. If the original charter of Mas-\\nsachusetts had continued, it is not probable any dif-\\nferent construction Avould ever have been started.\\nBut in the new charter, the boundary was different-\\nly expressed, and a construction was given which\\nmade the line to commence 3 miles north of the\\nmouth of the Merrimack, and run west to the\\nSouth sea, or the other possessions of the King.\\nAbout this time, the government of Massachu-\\nsetts made grants of several towns between Merri-\\nmack and Connecticut rivers amongst the rest,\\nPenacook, c. And the government of New-\\nHampshire supposed that Massachusetts was taking\\nthis step in order to strengthen their title by pos-\\nsession. After some delay, commissioners were\\nappointed to settle the line, and met at Hampton,\\nN. H. on the 1st of August, 1737. Mr. Livingston\\nof New-York, presided. After many weeks spent\\nin hearing parties and evidence, and having doubts\\nwhether the Massachusetts new charter compre-\\nhended the whole of the old colony, they made a\\ndecree, with contingencies, subject to the determi-\\nnation of the King. The agents of both govern-\\nments were active at the British court and a pa-\\ntient hearing was had, though the judgment of the\\ncommissioners was for some reason entirely laid\\naside. It was determined there that the northern\\nboundaries of Massachusetts should be a line three\\nmiles from the river as far as Pawtucket falls,\\nthence west to the New-York line.*\\n1736. At the annual meeting in March, the usual husiness was transacted, and\\nsome improvements in highwaj S, c. agreed upon. There was also a meet-\\ning holden May 18th, same year, called for the purpose of choosing a person to\\nrepresent them at the Great and General Court to be held at the town house in\\nBoston, on the-SGth next then following; but the people declined electing.\\n1737. It appears by warrants recorded that a town meeting was holden in March\\nof 1737, but its proceedings are not on record. At the meeting holden May 16th\\nfollowing, the town again declined sending a representative to the General Court-\\nIt does not appear that any other business was transacted.\\nHutch. Mass. vol. ii. p. 342\u00e2\u0080\u009435\u00c2\u00a9.", "height": "3449", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 1^\\nThe inhabitants at a meeting in 1739, ordered a\\ngarrison to be built around Rev. Timothy Walker s\\ndwelling-house. \u00c2\u00a35 were also granted Mr. Bara-\\nchias Farnum, tq enable liim to build a Hanker in\\norder to defend his mills, on condition that he\\nshould garrison his own dwelling-house. Their ap-\\nprehensions were now increasing of an attack\\nfrom the Indians, who inhabited the wilds on the\\nnorth and west, especially as strong parties of them\\nhad visited different places within a few days march,\\nand some offences had been committed. No disas-\\nters, however, happened to the inhabitants of Rum-\\nford until the fatal attack in 1746.\\nOn the 11th of June, 1740, in pursuance of a\\nprecept from the Government of Massachusetts,\\nthe first representative from the town of Rumford\\n{Benjamin Rolfe, Esq.) was elected. His instruc-\\ntions were to prefer a petition to his Majesty that\\nthe inhabitants may be quieted in their posses-\\nsions, and remain under the jurisdiction of the\\nMassachusetts Bay; also to petition the General\\nCourt to use their influence with his Majesty in\\nin that behalf. At a meeting in September, the\\ntown being informed that by the determination of\\nhis Majesty in Council respecting the controvert-\\ned bounds between the province of Massachusetts\\n1738. The annual meeting for 1738 was on the 29th March. Galleries to the meet-\\ning-house were ordered to he huilt, and otlier repairs to be made; also the burying\\nground to be fenced. Tlie town again, at their meeting 24th May this year, refused\\nsending a representative.\\n1739. At the meeting in March, it was voted that a school be kept within\\nthis town from the 20th Oct. till 20th of April 1740. A meeting was holden Nov.\\n7th this year; when it was voted that there should he a good and sufficient garri-\\nson built around the Rev, Mr. Timothy Walker s dwelling house as soon as may be\\ncon eniently, at the town s cost. 51. were also granted to Mr. Barachias Far-\\nnum to enable him to build a flanker in order to defend his mills, provided the said\\nFarnum shall give security to the town that in case he shall not keep a garrison at\\nhis dwelling house, t!ie town shall have liberty to take said flanker and convert it\\nto their own use. Another meeting was holden on the 23th Dec. of this year,\\nand a committee appointed to inform of all breaches and prosecute for viola-\\ntions of tiie aot for the preservation of Deer, :c.", "height": "3494", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 ANNALS OP CONCORD.\\nBay and New-Hampshire, they were excluded\\nfrom the former province, to which they always\\nsvipposed themselves to belong voted unani-\\nraously, to prefer a petition to the King s most\\nexcellent Majesty, setting forth their distressed\\nestate, and praying to be annexed to the said\\nMassachusetts province.\\nBy an act of tlie General Assembly of New-\\nHampshire, passed March 18, 1741-2, Rumford\\nwas made a distinct parish or district, and authori-\\nzed for six years to exercise certain necessary cor-\\nporate privileges.\\nThe first school-house in this town was erected\\nin 1742. About this time, the wife of Mr. Jonathan\\nEastman was taken prisoner by a party of Indians,\\nand carried to Canada. She was soon after redeem-\\ned by her husband, and returned to her family.\\nThe opening of the French war in 1744, caused\\na general anxiety throughout the colonies, and par-\\nticularly on the frontiers most exposed to Indian\\ndepredations. Gov. Wentworth, in his message to\\nthe General Assembly in May of this year, exhorts\\nthem to consider with great tenderness the dis-\\ntress the inhabitants on the frontiers are in at\\nthis juncture, and to make their unhappy situation\\ntheir own to consider them as every day expos-\\ned to a surprize from the enemy, and that if\\nprovisions for their safety were neglected, they\\nwould become an easy prey to a cruel and bar-\\nbarous enemy. Measures were accordingly\\n1742. The annual meeting this year was on the 31st March. Messrs. Edward Ab-\\nbot, John Merrill and Natlianiel Abbot were directed to take care and build a\\nschool-house for this town, as they shall in their best judgment think best the said\\nIiouse to be built between the widow Barker s barn and the brook by the clay-\\npits.\\n1744. On the 23th Marc h, the meeting for choice of officers, c. was holden this\\nyear. 20*. O. T. for each wolf, and 2.i. O. T. for each rattlesnake were voted to be\\nallowed for this year. A vots passed granting liberty for such persons as chose to\\nhire a mistress to nse the school-house^ until the town had occasion therefor. On\\nthe 21st Jan. B. Rolfe was elected to represent the distiict of Rumford in the Gem-\\nAssembly at Portsmouth.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORl). 2l\\ntaken for the safety of those towns most exposed,\\nand small detachments were ordered to the aid of\\nthe settlements at Canterbury and Contoocook, (now\\nBoscawen.) The inhabitants of Rumford were as\\nyet without military succour, and they empowered\\nBenjamin Rolfe to petition the legislature of New-\\nHampshire for such a mmiber of soldiers as\\nmight be sufficient with the divine blessing to de-\\nfend them against aU attempts of their enemies.\\nHis petition* was presented in June, of that year,\\nbut no detachment was ordered out. In December,\\nthe inhabitants again authorized Mr. Rolfe to peti-\\ntion the General Assembly of this province for aid\\nand also to represent to his Excellency the Gov-\\nernor and General Court of the province of the\\nMassachusetts Ba} their deplorable circumstan-\\nces, being exposed to imminent danger both from\\nthe French and Indian enemy, and to request of\\nthem such aids as to their great wisdom should\\nseem meet, and which might be sufficient to ena-\\nble them with a divine blessing vigorously to re-\\npel all attempts of their enemies. Like peti-\\ntions were also presented in 1745, and a detach-\\nment of men was stationed here from Billerica,\\nfor a few weeks, by direction of the government of\\nMassachusetts.\\nOn Friday, the 7th of August, 1746, a party of In\\ndians from Canada, to the number of about one hund-\\nred, came into this town, and meditated the destruc-\\ntion of the place on the Sabbath following. The in-\\nhabitants had for some time previous Ix^en expect-\\ning an attack, and had made an earnest application\\n1746. A meeting of the citizens was called on the ninth of February and Cap-\\ntain Ebenezer Eastman and Mr. Henry Lovejoy were appointed a committee to\\nrepresent the difficult circumstances of the inhabitants of Rumford to the great\\nand general couit at Portsmouth, respecting the danger we are exposed to both\\nfrom the French and Indian euemy, and request of them such aid and proiection as\\nthey in their great wisdom shall tliink meet.\\nSee Appendix No. III.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "2^\\nANNALS OF COx\\\\CORD.\\nto the Governor for mililary aid and fortunately\\nCapt. Daniel Ladd, with a company of forty men\\nfrom Exeter, arrived in town the same day. There\\nhad previously been a company stationed here from\\nBillerica, for a short time, and also one from Ando-\\nver. The inhabitants were aware that a considera-\\nble body of Indians was in the vicinit}-, but had as\\nyet discovered but few, who were out on scouts.\\nThe Indians themselves, hearing of Capt. Ladd s\\napproach, determined to lie concealed until Sunday\\nfsjlowing, when they intended to massacre the peo-\\nple assembled in the meeting-house. But the peo-\\nple on Sunday went armed to their devotions, and\\nplaced sentinels in different quarters to look out\\nfor the approach of the Indians, who had the\\nnight previous secreted themselves in the bushes\\nadjacent to the meeting-house, which stood nearly\\non the spot now occupied by the dAvelling of Mr.\\nJohn West. One party of them was concealed in\\na thicket of alders,then growing where Dr. Green s\\nhouse noAv stands, and another was hid in the bush-\\nes on the north, between the meeting-holise and\\nMr. Emery s, near the prison. Some few of them\\nwere seen by a little girl during the exercises, but\\nshe did not make known the discovery until the\\nmeeting closed, when the people marched out in a\\nbody and the Indians observing their arms, con-\\ncluded to abandon the attack. They then retired\\n1747. April 2. Capt. Eastman, from Penacook, came into the house, and mo-\\nved that the house would consider their circumstances at Penacook, with regard to\\nthe enemj and would grant them men to help them. Assembly Records.\\nipril 3. Voted, that there be allowed to John Osgood 12s. Gd. for expense\\nfor coffins, ;c. for the men killed at Kumford last year.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 76irf.\\nVoted, that his Excellency the Capt. General he desired to give orders for\\nenlisting or impressing 144 good effective men, to he employed under proper offi-\\ncers in defending the frontiers, guarding the people at work, and scouting, to be\\nposted as follows, viz.. 30 at Rochester, 6 at Barrington, 10 at r^ oUingham, 20 at\\nCanterbury. 20 at Contoocook, 24 at Penacook, fyc\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lb.\\ni^fov. 12. Phineas Stevens, Ebcnezer Eastman and Jeremiah Clough, in be-\\nhalf of the inhabitants of Contoocook. Rumford and Canterbury, petitioned for\\naid agaii-st expected attacks from the Indians. JV bt), 13, orders were issued for\\nenlisting 15 soldiers, five for each of said places.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ih.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCOllD.\\n23\\nto the woods on the west towards Hopkinton, with\\nthe desicrn to intercept Capt. Ladd and his men,\\nwho they supposed were to pass that way on the\\nfollowing morning.\\nOn Monday morning, the 11th, seven ot the m-\\nhabitants sat out for Hopkinton, two on horses, and\\nthe others on foot, all armed. They marched on\\nleisurely, and Obadiah Peters, having proceeded\\nsome distance forward of the others into a hollow,\\nabout one mile and a half from the street, sat down\\nhis gun and waited the approach of his friends.\\nThe Indians, thinking themselves discovered, rose\\nfrom their hiding-places, fired and killed Peters on\\nthe spot. At this moment, Jonathan Bradley and\\nthe rest of his party had gained the summit of the\\nhill. Bradley was deceived in the number of the\\nenemy, supposing the few whom he saw near Pe-\\nters to compose the whole party. He ordered his\\nmen to fire, and they rushed down among them.\\nThe whole body of Indians instantly arose, being\\nabout 100 in number. Bradley now urged his men\\nto iiy for safety but it was too late the w ork of\\ndestruction had commenced. Samuel Bradley was\\nshot through the body stripped of his clothing\\nand scalped. To Jonathan, they offered good\\nquarter, having been acquainted w^ith him but\\nhe refused their protection, his heroic spirit thirst-\\ning to avenge the death of his comrades. He\\nfought with his gun against the cloud ot enemies,\\nuntil they struck him on his face repeatedly with\\ntheir knives and tomahawks, and literally hewed\\nhim down. They then pierced his body, took off\\nhis scalp and clothes. Two others, John Bean and\\nJohn Lnfkin, attempting to fly, were killed by the\\nsame fire with Samuel Bradley. Alexander Rob-\\nerts and William Stickiiey fortunately escaped\\ndeath, but were made prisoners and taken to Can-\\nada. Immediately after the melancholy affair took\\nplace, an alarm was given from Walker s garrison\\nto the people on the interval, and elsewhere, at", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nsome little distance. They soon assembled and\\nconsulted on measures of safety. The soldiers sta-\\ntioned at the garrison, and several of the inhabi-\\ntants then repaired to the scene of slaughter. As\\nthey approached, the Indians were seen upon the\\nretreat. The bodies were brought away in a cart,\\nand Avere interred in the church-yard on the follow-\\ning day.* The number killed of the Indians was\\nunknown to the inhabitants until some time after,\\nwhen the information was obtained from Robert::,;\\nwho had made his escape from captivity. He stat-\\ned that four were killed, and several wounded, two\\nmortally, who were conveyed away upon litters,\\nand soon after died. Two they buried under a large\\nhemlock tree in the Great Swamp, about half a mile\\nsouth of the scene of slaughter. The other two\\nwere buried at some distance from them, near Tur-\\nkey river. Roberts found the two bodies under\\nthe log after his return from captivity. The head\\nof one was taken away, it was supposed by wild\\nbeasts. For the skull of the other, a bounty w^as\\npaid by the government.\\nStickney^ after about one year s detention in Can-\\nada, found means to escape with a friendly Indian,\\nand proceeded on his way home to w ithin about one\\nday s journey of the white settlements, when they\\nfell short of provisions. The Indian directed Stick-\\nney to light a fire and encamp, while he would go\\nin quest of game. After Stickney had prepared\\nhis camp, he went out to hunt, and in attempting to\\ncross a river on a log, fell in and was drowned.t\\nJonathan Bradley was an officer in Capt. Ladd s\\ncompan} from Exeter, and stationed here for the\\ndefence of the inhabitants. He was about thirty\\nvears of age when killed and was the elder broth-\\nMr. Reuben Abbot, lately deceased at the age of 100 years, was fixed upon by\\ntlie inhabitants to bring away the bodies of his slaiiffhteied townsmen. He pro-\\ncured an ox-cart at Eastman s fort, and brouglit away their bodies under tlir guard\\nof the soldiers and inhabitants. The writer was indebted to tliis venerable old\\nman for the particulars of the massacre.\\nt Tradition.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORI). 25\\ner of Samuel Bradley. He was a man of iimch\\ncoolness and decision; and his vigorous defence\\na2;ainst the overwhelming force Avhich crushed him\\nto the earth, is sufficient proof of his determined\\nbraver}.\\nSamuel Bradley was a citizen of this town, and\\nthe father of the Hon. John Bradley, who died in\\n1815. He was a most amiable and promising\\nyoung man and his wife, who afterwards married\\nwith Richard Calfe, of Chester, and survived both,\\nin the latter years of her life, used to speak with\\ngreat affection of the husband of her youth, and of\\nhis tragical end. She died Aug. 10, 1817, aged 98\\nyears.\\nObadiah Peters^ of Riunford, was probably a son\\nof Seaborn Peters, who lived in J. Eastman s fort.\\nIt appears that at the time of his death he belong-\\ned to a company under the command of Capt. Na-\\nthaniel Abbot. He had been out in the expedition\\nagainst Cape Breton, in 1 745, in the company com-\\nmanded by Capt. Eastman.\\nJohn Bean was from Brentwood, and Liifkin\\nfrom Kingston.\\nThe initials of those who fell were soon after\\nmarked on a large tree, standing near the fatal spot,\\nwhich stood the only monument of the sanguinary\\nconflict, until within a few years, some person\\ncut it down. It is, however, pleasing to learn that\\nthe descendants of Samuel Bradley are about to\\nerect a durable monument over the spot where\\ntheir worthy ancestor was killed.\\nThe Indians continued in the neighborhood, in\\nsmall parties, and on the 10th of November follow-\\ning, killed a Mr. Estabrooks, on the road between\\nthe street and the place of the former massacre.\\nEarly in February, 1747, the inhabitants empow-\\nered John Webster to apply to the Ceneral Assem-\\nbly for military assistance. In his ])etition, he\\nstates that there were upwards of eighty families\\nthen residing in Rumford, and that they raised aii-", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 AiWALS OF CONCOllD.\\nnualiy four times as much provision as was requi-\\nsite for tlieir own support. Having some reason to\\napprehend an attack from the Indians in considera-\\nble force, a petition was preferred to the Governor\\nin June, stating that traces of the enemy had been\\ndiscovered by the scouts that guns had been heard\\natlvumford and Contoocookat different times; that\\nfrom the situation of the inhabitants they were ex-\\nposed to attacks from the enemy, the experience of\\nthe whole war having taught them, that whenever\\nany smart attack was made upon the settlements\\non Connecticut river, the enemy had never failed of\\nsending a considerable number to visit their river,\\nthe Merrimack. The inhabitants at some seasons\\ncould work together in bodies, so as not to be so\\ngreatly exposed, but haying and harvesting now\\ncommencing, it was impracticable without vast\\ndetriment to the whole, and utter ruin to some.\\nA guard of twenty-four men was stationed here\\nfrom the middle of March to the beginning of Ma}-\\nand subsequently, by order of the Governor, thirty\\nsoldiers were detached for the assistance of the\\ninhabitants, who remained with them until they had\\nsecured their crops.\\nOctober 23d, Dr. Ezra Carter, in behalf of the\\ninhabitants of Rumford, represented by petition to\\nthe General Court, that they were destitute of\\nsoldiers, and very much exposed both to the French\\nand Indian enemy, and daily expect, by the experi-\\nence of the last year, invasions by them, by reason\\nof their killing one man on the 10th of November\\nlast, and on the 19tli of said November, they were\\ndiscovered by their tracks in a small snow, and pray\\nyour honors to consider our dangerous circumstan-\\nces, and grant us such protection as you in your\\ngreat wisdom shall think meet. In November,\\nanother guard of five men was ordered here, and\\nsimilar assistance was afforded the inhabitants of\\nCanterbury and Contoocook.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 27\\n111 the fall of 1747, a large party of Indians\\najvain made their appearance in the south-west part\\nof the town, and for several weeks continued rang-\\ning about the woods, and destroying the cattle,\\nho rses, c. of the inhabitants. Jeremiah Bradley\\nhad a fine field for fall grazing, and into this many\\nof the citizens had turned their slieep and neat cat-\\ntle. The reports from tlie guns of the Indians were\\nfrequently heard, and numbers of cattle were de-\\nstroyed. The inhabitants at length rallied in a\\nstrong party armed, and proceeded cautiously in\\ntwo divisions towards the enemy. In the woods\\nnear the field, one party foimd numerous packs, c.\\nbelonging to the Indians, and concluded to await\\ntheir approach in concealment. As they were ap-\\nproaching, one of the men, through accident, or an\\neager desire to revenge his losses, fired his musket,\\nand alarmed the wary Indians, who, observing the\\nsmoke of the gun, filed off in an opposite direction.\\nThe whole party then fired, but with little injury\\nto their tawny adversaries. The body of an In-\\ndian was, however, sometime aftervrards found se-\\ncreted in a hollow log, into which, it was supposed,\\nhaving been wounded by the fire of the party, he\\nhad crawled, and expired.\\nIn August of this year died Capt. Ebenezer\\nEastman, one of the wealthiest and most active of\\nthe early settlers. He was born at Haverhill, Ms,\\nin 1689. His father s house and buildings were de-\\nstroyed, with several others, by the Indians in their\\nmemorable attack upon Haverhill, March 15, 1698.*\\nYoung Eastman, at the age of 18, joined the regi-\\nment of Col. Wainwright in the expedition against\\nPort Royal. In 1711, when the British fieet under\\nAdmiral Walker arrived in Boston heft-bor, the land\\nforces were organizing with great despatch. East-\\nman now had the command of a company of sol-\\nThere is a tiadition n the family, that sometime previous to this. Eastman s\\nfather and a Mr. Abbot, from An lover. were iT.ade captives by a party of the Pen-\\nacnok Indians, and were carried to what was afterwards called Scwali s island ir\\nthe river in this town. No partirulars can lie collected.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "2i3 Al!. NALS OF CONCORD.\\ndiers, and embarked in one of the transports. The\\nfleet scon sailed up the St. Lawrence, and met with\\nno accident until they got up off the Virgin\\nMountains the weather then proving fosjgy,\\nand the wind freshening, the Admiral asked the\\npilots what was best to do who advised that as\\nthe fleet was on the north shore, it would be best\\nto bring to, Avith their heads to the southward.\\nThe Admiral obstinately refused and the awful\\nconsequence was the destruction of nine ships, the\\nloss of many lives, and the total failure of the ex-\\npedition, wliich was designed for the conquest of\\nCanada. The part which Capt. Eastman acted on\\nthis occasion, though noticed by none of the his-\\ntorians, is tluis related b}^ his grandson,! now living.\\nThe pilots, who were perfectly aware of their per-\\nil, being well acquainted with the river, could not\\nbut be panic-struck at the orders of the admiral,\\nwhich the captains of the transports seemed bent\\nto follow. Eastman, whose company was on board\\none of them, represented to the captain their im-\\nminent peril, and beseeched him to haul to wind-\\nward, that they might escape the breakers. The\\ncaptain was a true loyalist^ and exclaimed he\\nwould follow his commodore, if he went to h 11.\\nEastman then stated the circumstances to his men,\\nand informed them that if they would support him,\\nhe would assume the control of the vessel, and at-\\ntempt to shun the rocks. This he accordingly did,\\nby ordering the captain to his cabin, and the helms-\\nman to alter his course. They escaped wreck, and\\nwhen the following morning exhibited to the eyes\\nof the astonished crew, the bodies of the dead and\\nwrecks of the vessels which covered the St. Law-\\nrence, the humbled captain, on his knees, acknowl-\\nedged his deliverer, and desired his friendship. In\\nthe morning, Capt. Eastman appeared before the\\nAdmiral who abruptly asked Capt Eastman,\\nPenhallovv.\\nf Jonathan Eastman, Esq.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 29\\nwhere were you, when the fleet was cast away\\nI was following my commodore, replied he.\\nFollowing your Commodore (said the Admiral\\nin surprise.) You d d Yankees, are a pack\\nof praying devils you have saved your own lives,\\nand prayed my men all to h 11. Capt. Eastman\\nsoon after his return entered with zeal into the sub-\\nject of a new settlement at Penacook. And during\\nhis life, was a persevering, influential and useful\\ncitizen. He was at the reduction of Louisbourg\\nin 1745, and held a commission in the New-Hamp-\\nshire forces, under the intrepid Vaughan. He died\\nsoon after his return, in his house on the east side\\nof the river, which was then fortified against the\\nattacks of the Indians.\\nFrom this period, it is not known that any seri-\\nous mischiefs were committed by the Indians\\nagainst the inhabitants of Rumford, although they\\noccasionally suffered some losses in cattle and\\nother property, which the savages chanced to\\nmeet with, while ranging through the woods and\\nabout the farms of the settlers. They were indeed\\nin constant alarm, and for several years continued\\ntheir addresses to government for the means of de-\\nfence. The petition of Dr. Ezra Carter and anoth-\\ner, in 1756, states, that they had been subjected\\nto great loss of time, for several years past by dis-\\nturbances from the Indians, and particularly for the\\ntwo last years past, about one fourth of the inhabi-\\ntants had been driven from their settlements dur-\\ning the busy season of the year, and the whole obli-\\nged to divert their attention from husbandry to re-\\npair their garrisons, and provide for the safety of\\ntheir families.\\n1748. Capt. John Chandler was elected representative of the town of Rumford\\nto the General Assembly.on the 2d January. In March, th\u00c2\u00ab lines of the town were.\\nperambulated and marked.\\n5", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 ANNALS Op CONCORD.\\nIn January, 1749, Benjamin Rolfe, in behalf of\\nthe inhabitants of Rumford, preferred a petition to\\nthe Governor and Council for an act of incorpora-\\ntion.* The proprietors of Bow remonstrated\\nagainst the measure, and their influence prevailed.\\nA petition for the same purpose was also presen-\\nted July 14th, 1756, by Ezra Carter, in behalf of\\nthe citizens. An act was framed, and after being\\nread in the house of Assembly, was, through the\\ninfluence of members interested in the Bow lands,\\nrejected.\\nOn the 28th of April, 1752, Amos Eastman of\\nthis town, in company with John and William Stark\\nof Dunbarton, and David Stinson of Londonderry,\\nbeing on a hunting expedition near Baker s river in\\nRumney, were surprized by a party of Indians, ten\\nin number, of the St. Francis tribe. Eastman and\\nJohn Stark were made prisoners Stinson and\\nWilliam Stark, attempting to escape, were fired\\nupon. Stinson fell, was dispatched, scalped, and\\nstripped of his wearing apparel. His comrade\\nsucceeded in escaping. John Stark and Eastman\\nwere carried prisoners to Canada, and sold to the\\nFrench. They remained in captivity about three\\nmonths, were redeemed, and returned home. The\\nIndians now exhibited signs of hostility at Can-\\nterbury. Rev. Mr. Walker went up to confer with\\nthem, and a chief returned with him to Rumford.t\\nA short time after, two persons were taken away\\nfrom Canterbury by the Indians.\\nSee Appendix, No. IV.\\nf Rev. Mr. Walker, who was beloved by all his parishioners, was also esteemed\\nby the Indians, and when not in open war, they used to visit iiis house, where they\\nwere altvays well treated. At one time, they came to his liouse, complaining In\\nangry terms that the white people possessed their lands unju.stly. Mr. W. infor-\\nniod them that they were purchased of their chiefs, and that the deed, signed by\\nthem, was to be seen in Boston. He finally advised them to go and see it. To\\ntliis thev assented and on their return, called and took some refreshments, and\\nsaid tliat tliey liad seen the paper, and were perfectly salistied. This deed is the\\nfaninns instrument of Wlieelwrigbt, now generally lielii-vrd to be a forgery. Af-\\nter the peace, a number of warriors encamped near the minister s heiuse. Mr. W.\\nwas absent, and his wife was imder great apprehensions of iniury. The Indians\\nperceived this, and said to each other, minister s wife afraid. Upon this.one de-\\nlivered her all the guns, and said they would call for them the next day. This they\\ndid, and were to her kind and affable.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 31\\nFrom 1749 to 1766, the year after the incorpo-\\nration of the town by the name of Concord^ there\\nare no records of the proceedings of the town or\\nits officers. The town, in fact, existed only as a\\nparish of Boio. About this time commenced the\\nperplexing controversy between the proprietors of\\nBow and the inhabitants of Rumford. It is per-\\nhaps well known, that by the construction of the\\ncharter of Massachusetts, by King Charles II. in\\n1677, the jurisdiction of that state extended for\\nthree miles to the north of Merrimack river. The\\ngovernment of Massachusetts, in 1725, granted to\\nsundry petitioners the township, afterwards called\\nRumford and in 1728, made the grant of Suncook,\\nnow Pembroke, to the forty-seven soldiers, or their\\nlegal representatives, who were engaged with the\\ncelebrated Lovewell against the Indians at Pe-\\nquackett. These two grants comprised about thir-\\nteen square miles, all lying within the supposed\\nlimits of Massachusetts. At the time of survey-\\ning and laying out the lands at Penacook, it ap-\\npears that a committee was empowered by the gov-\\nernment of New-Hampshire, to proceed to Pena-\\ncook, and request the surveyors to desist fromlayin^\\nout the lands, as they were claimed by that gov-\\nernment. They, however, proceeded Co execute the\\nbusiness of their commission, a-nd the plantation\\nsettled with much rapidity. In May, 1727, two\\nyears after the ^rant by Massachusetts, the govern-\\nment of New-Hampshire granted to Jonathan\\nWiggins and others, a tract of eighty-one square\\nmiles, which included more than tAVO thirds of\\nberth Rumford and Suncook. No settlements were\\nmade, however, by the proprietors of Bow, nor\\ndid any difficulties arise in consequence of the con-\\nflicting grants, for about twenty years, during\\nTvhich time Rumford and Suncook had each set-\\ntled a minister of the gospel, and converted the\\nwilderness into fruitful fields.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nMeantime the controversy between this state and\\nMassachusetts, res}3ecting the boundary line, had\\nbeen carried before the King, and upon report of\\ncoaimissioners appointed to mark out the dividing\\nhne, he decided in 1740, that the northern bounda-\\nry of Massachusetts should be a curve line pursu-\\ning the course of the Merrimack river, at three\\nmiles distance on the north, beginning on the At-\\nlantic ocean, and ending at a point due north of\\nPawtucket falls thence due west to his Majesty s\\nother possessions. By this determination, all the\\nsettlements on the river above Pawtucket falls, fell\\nunder the jurisdiction of New-Hampshire. There\\nwas an express declaration, however, in the decis-\\nion of the King, that private property should be\\nrespected. The inhabitants of Rumford, immedi-\\nately after learning the determination of the King,\\npetitioned to be restored to the province of Massa-\\nchusetts but were unsuccessful. In 1750, the\\nproprietors of Bow commenced numerous suits for\\nthe ejectment of the settlers living within the lim-\\nits of their grant. The course which they pursued\\nwas extremely vexatious and calculated to prolong\\nthe dispute, if not utterly to ruin many of the set-\\ntlers, who hud made great and expensive improve-\\nments on the lands. Every action was commenced\\nfor so small a parcel of land, that, by a law of the\\nprovince, there could be no appeal^ home.* The\\ncourts and juries wore interested in the lands, or\\nprejudiced against the settler* and justice could\\nhardly be expected to result undf^r such circum-\\nstances. The actions were continued to successive\\nBut your petitioners greatest mistnrtune is, that they rannot Vave a fair, im-\\npartial trial, for that tlie Govenioi and most of the Council are pvoprievors of Bo%v,\\nand by them not only the judf^es are appointed, but also the officers thai-mpannel\\nthe jurors and tlie people are also generally disaffected to your petilionert on ac-\\neount of their deiivii tlieir title fiom the Massachusetts. And all the actions-Jiat\\nhave hitherto heen broutrhi are of so small value, and, as your petitioners apprt.\\nhend, designedly so, that by a law of the province there can be no appeal from the\\njudgments of the courts to your Majesty in Council and if it were otherwise, the\\ncharges that would attend such appeals would be greater than the value oi the\\nlaud, or than the party defending hi\u00c2\u00abtnle would be able to pay. Petition, of Rev\\nMr. H ^alker and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq. to the King.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 33\\nterms, but decided by both inferior and superior\\nCourts in favour of the plaintiffs. The defendants,\\nand also the inhabitants generally of botli Rumford\\nand Suncook, now petitioned to the King for an im-\\npartial trial, and commissioned Rev. Mr. Walker\\nto proceed to.England and lay all the circumstances\\nbefore his Majesty, empowering him to defend the\\nsuits at the Court of St. James.\\nIn 1753, upon the petition of the inhabitants of\\nRumford, the General Court of Massachusetts gran-\\nted \u00c2\u00a3100 sterling, towctrds the expense of defend-\\ning the suits brought against them by the proprie-\\ntors of Bow. The Massachusetts agent, Mr. Bol-\\nlan, was instructed to use his endeavors to obtain\\nsuch determination of his Majesty .in Council, as\\nshould quiet the grantees of lands from that prov-\\nince in their possessions. Mr. Walker went to\\nEngland in 1753, and again a short time after, and\\nsucceeded in obtaining a trial on appeal before a\\ncommittee of the Lords of the Council. Sir William\\nMurray, afterwards Lord Chief-Justice Mansfield,\\nwas his counsellor and advocate, with whom he\\nformed a particular acquaintance. After a patient\\nhearing of all the parties concerned, the commit-\\ntee of the Council reported, that the judgments of\\nthe courts of New-Hampshire in the case should\\nbe reversed, and the appellants be restored to\\nwhat they had lost by means of said judgments.\\nThis was approved by his Majesty in Council on\\nthe 29th December, 1762.*\\nThus ended the disagreeable controversy with\\nthe proprietors of Bow, during the continuance of\\nwhich, the inhabitants of Rumford had been with-\\nout town privileges or government, and were ha r-\\nrassed with numerous vexatious suits, and sul jec-\\nted to the expense of attending almost every term\\nof the courts, then exclusively holden at Ports-\\nmouth.\\nSee Appendix, No. V,", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nOn the 17th June, 1765, the government of this\\nState granted the charter of the town of Concord,\\ncomj3rising a part of the town of Bow, and some\\nlands adjoining thereto. The bounds, as descri-\\nbed in the charter, began at the mouth of Contoo-\\ncook river, which is the S. E. corner of Boscawen\\nthence S. 73\u00c2\u00b0 W. by said Boscawen 4 miles thence\\nS. 17\u00c2\u00b0 E. 7 miles 100 rods; thence N. 73\u00c2\u00b0 E. 4\\nmiles to Merrimack river, there crossing the river\\nand still continuing the same course to Soucook\\nriver; then beginning again at the mouth of Con-\\ntoocook river aforesaid, from thence running N. 73\u00c2\u00b0\\nE. 606 rods from the easterly bank of Merrimack\\nriver, or till it shall come to the S. W. line of\\nCanterbury thence S. E. on said line 2 miles 80\\nrods thence S. 17 E. to Soucook river aforesaid\\nthence down said river, till it comes to where the\\nline from Merrimack river strikes the Soucook riv-\\ner.\\nBy the provisions of the act, the first meeting\\nwas to be holden on the 3d Tuesday of August,\\n1765, and Samuel Emerson, Esq. was authorized to\\ncall the first town meeting but in consequence of\\nhis neglect, no meeting was notified and a special\\nresolve was passed by the Legislature on the 27th\\nNovember, of the same year, for calling a meeting\\nfor the choice of town officers, c. on the third\\nTuesday of January, 1766.\\n1766. At the first legal meeting of the inhabi-\\ntants of Concord^ Lt. Richard Hazeltine, who died\\nin 1818, was moderator; Peter Coffin was appoint-\\ned clerk, and Joseph Farnum, Lot Coib}^ and John\\nChandler, jun. selectmen. The meeting for the\\nchoice of officers for the year ensuing was holden\\nMarch 4th. On the 25th, another town meeting\\nwas holden, and measures taken to provide schools\\nin the different sections of the town there having\\npreviously been but one school in town. Every\\nman was taxed five days work on the highways\\nand pound this year.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 35\\nBr. Ezra Carter died Sept. 17, 1767, at the age\\nof 48. He was a native of South-Hampton, in this\\nstate studied physic with Dr. Ordway of Salisbu-\\nry, Mass. and settled in jthis place about 1740. He\\nwas a good scholar, though not liberally educated\\na skilful practitioner, and a man universally be-\\nloved. Soon after his removal here, he was hon-\\nored by the inhabitants with civil trusts, which he\\nexecuted with zealous fidelity. It is to be regret-\\nted that of Dr. Carter, as well as of others who\\nlived at a later day, so few particulars can be col-\\nlected. Enough, however, is known to warrant the\\nassertion that few men excelled him in a benevo=\\nlent spirit and good humored exertions to promote\\nthe peace and welfare of society. He was a man\\nof wit and pleasantry, and when called to visit the\\nsick and desponding, never failed to administer, with\\nhis remedies for the body, a cordial to the mind.\\nDr. Carter, though frequently menaced by the In-\\ndians, never suffered from their attacks. About\\nthe time of the Bradley massacre, he had gathered\\ninto winrows his hay then cut, on the plat of\\nground extending on the west of the street, near\\nthe site of the Capitol. During the night, several\\nIndians secreted themselves in the hay, intending\\nto surprise the Doctor on the following morning.\\nProvidentially, a storm of rain commenced early in\\nthe morning and continued for several days with\\nlittle abatement, during which the Indians retired.\\nAfter peace was restored, the Indians informed the\\ndoctor of their meditated attack, and that conceiv-\\ning the Great Spirit to have sent the rain for his\\nshelter, they dared not remain. On the 10th of\\nNovember, of the same year, (1746) a Mr. Esta-\\nbrooks came for the doctor to visit a patient.\\nThrough some difficulty in catching his horse, the\\ndoctor did not immediately follow Estabrooks. In\\na very short time, the alarm was given that Esta-\\nbrooks was killed, and a party proceeding on the\\nroad after him, found his body near the path. This", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nwas one of the last acts of Indian hostility in this\\nsection of the country. On a certain occasion, Dr.\\nCarter was called to visit a sicic family in Bow. Add-\\ned to their other sorrows, poverty had thrown around\\nthem her tatters and ra2;s. Disease is ever loth to\\nquit such company. The family were a long time\\nsick the doctor was their constant attendant and\\non their recovery, the poor man felt new troubles\\ncoming upon him. How, doctor, said the un-\\nhappy man, am I to pay you, for all your kind-\\nness, your attention and medicine You see here a\\nlarge family, destitute of every thing, save the bare\\nnecessaries of life. I have been faithful to you,\\nreplied the doctor, and am I not entitled to a re-\\nward You are, doctor, oh, you are said the\\ntrembling wife, but do wait a little we can t pay\\nyou now. I can inform you, my good friends,\\nsaid the inexorable physician, that I am knowing\\nto your having property enough to satisfy my de-\\nmands and moreover, that I shall have it before\\nleaving the house. The poor family were thunder-\\nstruck they knew that no friendly feelings subsist-\\ned between the proprietors of Rumford and Bow\\nbut had always heard the doctor applauded as a\\nman of benevolence and mercy. They knew not\\nwhat to do. At this moment, away scampered a\\nflock of kittens across the room, which the doctor\\nfleeing, caught one of them and put it in his pocket.\\nI told you I should have my pay, (said the doctor)\\nI have got it. Good bye, and God bless you\\nMany anecdotes of this kind are related of him\\nand one of the last acts of his life, was equally no-\\nble. Just before his decease, he looked over his\\naccounts, filled out receipts against all poor per-\\nsons, who were indebted to him, with directions\\nthat his executors should deliver them to those con-\\ncerned immediately after his death. This was ac-\\ncordingly done.\\n1771. On the 20th December, died Benjamin\\nRoLFE, Esq. who was one of the early settlers, a man", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD* !37\\nof talents and education, and for many years one\\nof the principal citizens. He was for some time\\nthe only magistrate m town, and in all its public\\ntransactions, we find him conspicuous. Associa-\\nted with the Rev. Mr. Walker, whose eldest\\ndaughter he married, he assisted in managing\\nthe defence of the inhabitants against the vexatious\\nproceedings of the proprietors of Bow. And in\\nthe various papers drawn up by him, and other me-\\nmorials he has left, are to be seen evidences of his\\ncare and ability. His widow subsequently married\\nBenjamin Thompson, a school-master of this place,\\nfrom Woburn, who was afterwards distinguished as\\nCount Rumford. Lady Sarah Thompson died in\\nConcord in 1792. Of her last husband, a more par-\\nticular notice will be given hereafter.\\n1772. At the annual meeting, \u00c2\u00a360 were raised\\nfor making and repairing highways. Hitherto no\\nspecific sum had been appropriated, but the inhab-\\nitants devoted each year a certain number of days\\nto that purpose. April 7, the parish voted to give\\n$500 for the meeting-house, then the property of\\nindividuals and raised $50 in addition, to be\\ngiven the proprietors of the meeting-house, in or-\\nder to complete the bargain. Messrs. John Kim-\\nball, Thomas Stickney and John Bradley were au-\\nthorized to provide materials and superintend the\\nrepairs of the house.\\n1773.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At the annual March meeting, A. M Mil-\\nlen, Esq. was authorized to present a petition to\\nthe General Court, requesting that the parish of\\nConcord may be annexed to the county of Hillsbo-\\nrough, provided that there might be an inferior and\\nsuperior court held annually in said parish.\\n1772. A meeting was holden tiie 7th of December this year, and Andrew M*^\\nMillen, Esq. empowered to petition the Hon. Gen. Court of the prorince (in be-\\nhalf of the town) for the privilege of laying out roads, as other towns have, and\\nalso that the boundaries of Concord might be as extensive as the township ef\\nRvmford formerly was.\\n6", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\n1774. The General Court of Massachusetts, in\\nconsideration of the difficulties and embarrass-\\nments which the grantees of Rumford had sustain-\\ned from the suits of the proprietors of Bow, orant-\\ned them a township in Maine, which was also cal-\\nled Rumford, and was settled by inhabitants from\\nthis town.\\n1775. The commencement of this year w^as a\\nperiod of deep anxiety and gloom. The repeated\\nacts of aggression, on the part of the mother coun-\\ntry, had driven the colonies into measures of re-\\nsistance, bold and decisive. The people were al-\\nmost universally inspired with the belief that a\\nstruggle must ensue, and the lovers of freedom\\nwere every where sounding notes of prepara-\\ntion. Every village, however remote from the\\nprobable scene of action, was filled with alarm, and\\ngroups of citizens were seen in almost every cor-\\nner, debating the cause of their country. The\\nalarm of the battle at Lexington spread with ra-\\npidity throughout the country. Immediately on\\nthe reception of the news here, a company of 30\\nmen, under the command of Capt. Chandler, volun-\\nteered and repaired to Cambridge, where they re-\\nmained a fortnight. Captains Abbot and Hutchins\\nhad now recruited companies for eight months ser-\\nvice and joined the American iorces. They were\\nin the engagement at Bunker s Hill. One person,\\nWilliam Mitchell, from this tow^i, was killed and\\na young man of the name of Peter Kimball, wound-\\ned.\\nA committee of the provincial congress, which\\nmet at Exeter in January, of this year, were direc-\\nted to address circulars to the several towns, to call\\nanother convention. The selectmen called a meet-\\ning of the inhabitants of Concord on the 1 1th of\\n1773. Lt. John Chandler was the first grand juror called from Concord, appoint-\\ned Feb. 23, 1773.\\n1774. At the March meeting, Peter Green, Esq. was directed to present a peti-\\ntion to the General Court for leave to send a representative.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 39\\niMay, and Timothy Walker, jim. was elected to\\nrepresent the inhabitants of Concord at the Gen-\\neral Convention of Deputies, from the several towns\\nin tliis government, to be held at Exeter, the 17th\\nof MajV and fully empowered to pursue such\\nmeasures as may be judged most expedient to re-\\nstore the rights of the colonies to serve for six\\nmonths. At the expiration of this period, he was\\nagain elected to serve for a year. The town at\\ntheir meeting in December, voted to pay Capt. A-\\nbiel Chandler and others, who went to Cambridge\\nupon the alarm in April, at the same rates allowed\\nother troops of the colony.\\nThere remained in almost every town some\\nstaunch friends of the government, who, viewing\\nthe attempt of the colonies to shake off their alle-\\ngiance as desperate and hopeless, preferred either\\nto retire within the acknowledged protection of\\nthe King s troops, or to remain inactive and neu-\\ntral. Benjamin Thompson had already adopted the\\nformer course and there were several others who\\nremained in town. But neutrality is esteemed lit-\\ntle better than treason in times like these. And\\nto the moral habits of the people, much more thaji\\nto their feelings, wounded as they were by any ap-\\nparent treachery or neglect of duty, were the op-\\nposers of the great cause indebted for their per-\\nsonal safety.\\n1776. Committees of safety were now appoint-\\ned in the several toAvns of the colony, whose instruc-\\ntions were derived from the general committee ap-\\npointed by the provincial Congress. Their powers\\nwere extensive the trust one of great responsi-\\nbility and none but the firmest whigs were ap-\\npointed. Messrs. Philip Eastman, Thomas Stick-\\nney, Timothy Walker, jun. Joseph Hall, jun. and\\nRichard Herbert, were appointed the committee of\\nsafety in Concord for this year.\\n1777. Measures were this year taken for the\\nremuneration of soldiers engaged iii the service of", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nthe country from this town and \u00c2\u00a3460 were raised\\nfor the purpose. The sum of 100 was also ap-\\npropriated for the use of the tow n, in the purchase\\nof ammunition, c. This year, several individuals,\\nsuspected of disaffection to the great cause of the\\ncountrj^, were arrested, and conveyed to Exeter, by\\na number of the citizens of this place. A short\\nimprisonment, or the public denunciation of the\\npeople in town meeting, who declared them to be\\nenemies to their suffering country, and unworthy\\nthe countenance of its friends had the effect to\\nsubdue their I03 al spirit and when the almost\\ncertain prospect of success filled the hearts of the\\npatriotic multitude with joy and gratitude, they too,\\ncould join in the general triumph.\\n1778. At a town meeting in January, Col. Tho-\\nmas Stickney w as instructed to use his influence\\nat the next session of the General Assembly, that\\na full and free representation of the people of this\\nstate be called as soon as conveniently may be, for\\nthe sole purpose of laying a permanent plan or sys-\\ntem for the future government of this state.\\nIn 1779, a convention, called for that purpose,\\ndrew up a Plan of Government, and sent it forth\\namong the people but so deficient were its gener-\\nal provisions, that it was rejected.\\nAnother convention was soon called, which had\\nnine sessions, and continued from June, 1781, to\\nOct. 1783. Their first plan of government was\\n1777. Commiltee of Safety.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Me.isxi. John Kimball, Thomas Stickuey, ReuLen\\nKimball, Benjamin Emery and Richaid Herbert.\\n1778. Col. Timothy Walker was elected a member of the convention whicli\\nmet at Concord this year. The convention met in the meeting- house. Meshech\\nWeare was chairman. In December, Mr. Nathaniel Rolfe was chosen to repre-\\nsent the parisli in the General Assembly to be holden at Exeter.\\n1779. The parish proposed to give up the pew ground to any number of persons\\nwho would finish the meeting house, and add a porch and the value of another\\nporch and to be at the expence of building the steeple. July 19th, the town\\nvoted to raise \u00c2\u00a31124 3 0, in addition to what had already been raised, for defraying\\nthe parish expenses of that year. Sept. 6, the same year, the adjourned meeting\\nvoted to raise \u00c2\u00a3500 more. The question was taken on the acceptance of the plan\\nof government offered to the people, and there were 26 in favor, and 25 against it.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 41\\nprinted and sent to every town and the inhabitants\\nwere requested to state their objections to any\\nparticular part.\\n1782.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At the tOAvn meeting in Concord, Jan.\\n21st, it was put to vote to see if the parish would\\naccept the plan of government, as it now stands,\\nand there appeared 48 against said plan, and none\\nfor it.\\nVoted, to have a town representation.\\nVoted, to have a Governor at the head of the\\nlegislative body.\\nVoted, that the Governor shall not have a privy\\ncouncil.\\nVoted, that the people at large shall appoint\\ntheir militia officers.\\nA second plan was sent out by the convention\\nassembled at Concord, which was most generally\\napproved, but was not completed when the new^s\\nof peace arrived. The old form, having expired\\nwith the war, was revived for one year by the votes\\nof the people in town-meetings.\\nA meeting of the inhabitants of Concord was\\nholden Nov. 29th, for the purpose of considering\\nthe second plan of goverament, proposed by the\\nconvention. A committee, consisting of Col. Tim-\\n1780. July. The town at a full meeting, voted to give the soldiers that had late-\\ngaged to serve in the Continental Army, ten bushels of corn per month, or\\nmoney equal thereto. In March, Col. Thomas Stickney was appointed agent to pe-\\ntition the General Assembly, for the extension of the limits of the town, to the ancient\\nboundaries of Rumford. Major Jonathan Hale, in Decefiiber, was instructed ta\\njoin in calling a convention to settle a plan of government for this State.\\n1781. In the beginning of this year, the General Court having called for sixteen\\nsoldiers, Capt. Aaron Kinsman, Lieut. Ezra Carter, Lieut. Asa Kimball, and Ensign\\nJames Mitchel, were appointed a committee to procure them. They were enlist-\\ned principally in this town. Feb. 6th, the town voted to raise 1000 Spanish\\nmilled dollars, in order to enable the parish to procuie the soldiers that are now\\ncalled for to fill up the Continental army. The selectmen were authorized to\\nlease all the interval lands, and the house lot belonging to the school right, for seven\\nyears. Timothy Walker was authorized to petition for a lottery ,to build a bridge over\\nMerrimack river also to support the petition for extending the bounds of the town,\\n1782. At the annual meeting this year, the inhabitants voted $0 for every\\ngrown wolf, and ,f2,50 for every whelp 2s. per day were to be allowed for labor\\non highways.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 ANKALS OF CO:\\\\CORDi\\nothy Walker, Col. Thomas Stickne} Capl. Benja-\\nmin Emery, Capt. Reuben Kimball, Lt. John Brad-\\nley, Dr. Peter Green and Mr. Henry Martin, were\\nappointed to take the subject into consideration,\\nand report tliereon. At the next meeting, Dec.\\n16th, there were 52 voters present, all of wliom\\nvoted to reject the new constitution, in its present\\nform but proposed the following amendments,\\nviz that the Governor and Privy Council be\\nleft out, and that there be a President, a Legislative\\nCouncil, and a House of Representatives and that\\nthe pov* ers which are vested in the Governor and\\nCouncil be vested in the Council and House of Rep-\\nresentatives. On the question of adopting the in-\\nstrument, with those amendments, there were 30\\nvotes in the affirmative.\\nOn the 2d September, 1782, died the venerable\\nTimothy Walker, the first minister, and one of the\\nfirst settlers, of the town of Concord. He was\\nborn at Woburn, Mass. in 1706; and after having\\ngraduated at Harvard college, in 1725, he pursued\\nthe usual course of theological studies. On the\\n18th of Noveml^er, 1730, upon the unanimous invi-\\ntation of the proprietors of the newly granted\\ntownship of Penacook, he was ordained their pas-\\ntor.* After his ordination, Mr. W. returned with the\\ncouncil, and soon came up with his wife, and other\\nsettlers, with four of their wives. These were the\\nfirst women that came into the town, excepting two\\nwho passed the previous winter in the block-house,\\n(itieeting-house.) Mr.W. erected his house on Horse-\\nshoe pond \\\\iv][\\\\ but after the Indians became hos-\\ntile, he removed his house into a fort which he erec-\\nted, and remained within its walls, with seven other\\nfamilies, until the wars, in which the Indians en-\\ngaged, were ended. During this time, the house\\nof worship stood without the walls of the garrison,.\\nSee notice of Mr. Walker s settlement, p. 13.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 43\\nwhere the inhabitants attended armed and in com-\\npanies.\\nMany anecdotes are related of Mr. W. which\\nprove him to have been a favorite with the Indians,\\nwho, even in times of danger and hostihties, were\\nhospitably entertained within the walls of his fort.\\nThe merciless cruelties of the Indians, exercised\\nmost frequently upon the v/eak and defenceless,\\nhad created a sentiment of hostility against them,\\nwhich now, as their extermination seemed rapidly\\napproaching, rendered these little offices of friend-\\nship very delightful to them. An Indian never for-\\ngets a benefit, and many of them regarded Mr. W.\\nas a father and friend.\\nThe years of Mr. W. until the dispute between\\nBow, (or rather the government of New-Hamp-\\nshire) and Concord, were passed in opening and\\nimproving his farm, and in the discharge of his\\nparochial duties. At this time, he was chosen agent\\nfor the town to defend their law suits, and for this\\npurpose made three voyages to England. Sir\\nWilliam Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, was\\nhis counsellor and advocate in the first cause. The\\nlast case detained him in England about two years.\\nDuring this period, he had frequent interviews with\\nLord Mansfield at his Chambers, who the year be-\\nfore, was his counsel, and the conversation was\\noften relative to the affairs of America. Mr. Kilby,\\nan eminent merchant of Boston, was at that time\\nin London, and introduced Mr. W. to many of the\\nMinistry. From the manner and spirit of their re-\\nmarks, when they spoke of America, he was con-\\nvinced, and observed to the late Dr. Chaun-\\nc\u00e2\u0082\u00acy, that nothing but the absolute submission of\\nthe colonies would satisfy Britain, and that, in the\\nend, we must have a war with Old England and a\\nleague with France. He was ever a firm advo-\\ncate for the rights of the colonies, and at the com-\\nmencement of hostilities in 1775, although far ad-\\nvanced in years, he encouraged the people to be", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\ndecided and persevering in their struggle for Inde-\\npendence. He was chosen by the town a dele-\\ngate to the first Provincial Congress, and evinced\\ngreat ardor in the American cause, and an un-\\nshaken conviction of its justice and success. He\\ndid not live, however, to see the truth of his predic-\\ntions, and the accomplishment of his most sanguine\\nwishes.\\nMr. Walker s zeal in the cause of his country\\nwas firm and untiring. When Capt. Jonathan\\nEastman returned from Bennington, bringing the\\nfirst intelligence of the victory, Mr. Walker came\\nrunning out to meet him, eagerly inquiring What\\nnews friend Eastman what news The cap-\\ntain related to him the joyful tidings and the good\\nold patriot exclaimed, Blessed be God the coun-\\ntry is saved I can now die in peace\\nIn his ministry, BIr. Walker was extremely tol-\\nerant. Firm in his own tenets yet to others of\\ndifferent persuasions, kind and charitable forcibly\\nrecommending to all, what he adopted himself, the\\nBible alone as the rule of their faith and practice.\\nUnder his ministry, for 52 years, the town was har-\\nmoniously united in one congregation, and he died\\nuniversally lamented by a people, among whom he\\nhad lived in honor and usefulness.\\nThe constitution of 1783 was accepted by f^e\\npeople, and introduced at Concord, June 2d, 1784,\\nby a religious solemnity.\\nUntil this period, the town had been styled and\\nrecognized in all its proceedings, as the parish\\nof Concord, being thus named, in the act of incor-\\nporation. January 2d, this year, by an act of the\\nlegislature, a gore of land lying at the north-east\\ncorner of Concord, consisting of about 1050 acres,\\nin Loudon and Canterbury, was annexed to the\\ntown of Concord.\\n1783. Labor on the highway, 45. per diem. At a meeting Sept. 29, tliis year,\\nvoted to receive the Constitution of Government as alwrcd in Juae last.\\nYeas 20. Nays 10.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 4^\\n1785. The main-street was laid out by a com-\\nmittee, consisting of Messrs. Benjamin Emery,\\nJoseph Hall, John Bradley, Reuben Kimball and\\nJoseph Farnum.\\n1786. Though the State had now recovered\\nfrom the anxieties and dangers of a revolution, a\\nspirit of disquietude still existed among the peo-\\nple. The large debt occasioned by the war threw\\nheavy burthens upon them, and the constant de-\\npreciation of the currency, aided by its frequent is-\\nsue, caused loud complaints. The call for a new\\nemission of paper was incessant and clamorous. In\\nalmost every town, meetings were holden and the\\nsubject debated with warmth. The citizens of\\nConcord, however, in town meeting, voted, that it\\nwas inexpedient for this state to make paper money\\non any plan whatever. Those who were zealous\\nfor paper currency, and against the laws which\\nobliged them to pay their debts, now became clam-\\norous against the cc ^s and lawyers they held\\nthem up as public nuisances, and wished to abolish\\nthe one, that they might impose a sufficient check\\nupon the exactions of the other. An attempt was\\nmade to call a convention at Concord, during the\\nsession of the legislature, who should petition the\\ngovernment in favor of the plan. It was thought\\nthat the presence of a large body of men, convened\\nunder such circumstances, would have great w eight.\\nThe attempt was defeated in a manner singular aad\\nludicrous.\\nAt the first sitting of the assembly in June, when\\nonly five members of the proposed convention were\\nin town, some wags, among whom were several\\nyoung lawyers, pretended to have been chosen by\\nthe towns in which they lived for the same purpose.\\nIn conference with the five, they penetrated their\\nviews,and persuaded them to post an advertisement,\\nrequesting all the members who were in town to\\nassemble immediately, it being of the utmost im-\\n7", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 AKNALS OF CONCORD.\\nportance to present their petition as early in the\\nsession as possible. By this mean, sixteen pretend-\\ned members, witli five real ones, formed themselves\\ninto a convention, choosing one of the five their\\npresident, and one of the sixteen their clerk. They\\ncarried on their debates and passed votes with mnch\\napparent solemnity. Having framed a petition,\\ncomplaining in the most extravagant terms of their\\ngrievances praying for a loan of three millions of\\ndollars, funded on real estate for the abolition of\\ninferior courts, and a reduction of the number of\\nlaivyers to only two in each county and for a free\\ntrade with all the world they went in procession\\nto the Assembly, (some of whom had been previ-\\nously let into the secret) and with great formality\\npresented their petition, which was suffered to lie\\non the table. The convention then dissolved the\\npetition was withdrawn and when others, who\\nhad been I eally chosen by tl^ towns, arrived, they\\nwere exceedingly mortified on finding their views\\nfor that time so completely frustrated. The pro-\\nceedings of this mock convention were, for a long\\ntime, subjects of sport and ridicule.\\nThe public excitement, however, did not stop\\nhere. County conventions were called petitions\\npresented to the legislature and the ferment at\\nlast subsided in the arrest and punishment of the\\nrioters at Exeter.*\\nThe meeting-house was this year finished, and\\nthe pews disposed of. At a meeting in December,\\nthe town voted to give Mr. Jonathan Wilkins a\\ncall to the pastoral care of the church and a salary\\n(in case he accepted) of \u00c2\u00a3100, with the use of the\\nparsonage, excepting the meadow lot beside\\n\u00c2\u00a3200 as a settlement^ Mr. Wilkins did not accept\\nthe invitation.\\nAt their annual meeting in 1788, the town voted\\nto petition the legislature for a neio county. Col.\\nTimothy Walker was appointed agent, and directed\\nSee Belknap s account of the insurrection, c. vol. ii. ch. 27, Hist. N. H.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD. 47\\nto correspond with gentlemen in other towns upon\\nthe subject. Sept. 1, the inhabitants voted to give\\nMr. Israel Evans a call to the ministry, with \u00c2\u00a390\\nsalary, and the use of the parsonage, three acres\\nexcepted, which had been disposed of; and also\\n\u00c2\u00a313 addition to his salary annually, instead of a\\nsettlement\\nIn March, 1789, Mr. Evans accepted the call of\\nthe church and people, and his installation took place\\non the 1st July following. Introductory prayer, by\\nRev. Jeremy Belknap Discourse, by Rev. Mr.\\nEckley, of Boston Ordaining prayer, by Rev. Mr.\\nWoodman Charge, by Rev. Dr. Macclintock Fel-\\nlowship of the Churches, by Rev. Mr. Colby and\\nConcluding prayer, by Rev. Mr. Smith.\\nRev. Mr. Evans continued to preach unto the\\npeople of this place, until 1797. In April, of that\\nyear, he announced his intention of resigning to\\nthe town their pulpit, and of finishing his work of\\nthe ministry in the place on the first of July. The\\ntown signified to him their approbation of his in-\\ntention, and appointed a committee to wait upon\\nthe Ecclesiastical Council, and lay before them the\\nproceedings of the town in that respect. The Coun-\\ncil approved of their proceedings and as no formal\\ncharges had been exhibited against Mr. Evans,\\nthey recommended him to the churches, and to\\nthe work of the ministr}^, wherever God in his\\nprovidence might open a door.\\nMeasures were taken without delay to settle\\nanother clergyman, and on the 28th December, the\\ntown voted to invite Mr. Asa M Farland to settle\\namong them. A salary of $350, with the use of\\nall the improved lands of the parsonage, was voted,\\nwith liberty to cut what wood and timber on the\\nout-lands he might need. Jan. 27, 1798, Rev. Mr.\\nM Farland, in an affectionate letter to the church\\nand people, accepted their call to the pastoral care\\nof the church and his ordination took place on\\nthe 7th March following. The officiating clergy-", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48\\nANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nmen, were the Rev. Stephen Peabod}^ of Atkinson\\nRev. John Smith, of Hanover Rev. Josepli Wood-\\nman, of Sanbornton Rev. Zaccheus Colby, of\\nPembroke Rev. Frederick Parker, of Canterbury\\nRev. Jedidiah Tucker, of Loudon and Rev. Jo-\\nsiah Carpenter, of Chichester. Mr. M Farland wa\u00c2\u00bb\\na native of Worcester, Mass., born April 19, 1769\\nwas graduated at Dartmouth College in 1793, and\\nafterwards served as a tutor for two years. The\\ndegree of J). D. was conferred upon him by Yale\\nCollege, under the venerable D wight, in 1809, and\\nthe same year, he was appointed a trustee of Dart-\\nmouth College..,,. This latter appointment, he re-\\nsigned in 1821.*\\nOn the 21st June, 1798, died Major Daniel Liver-\\nmore, aged 49. He was an active officer during the\\nrevolution, ami in many of those important battles\\nwhich decided the fate of the contest. He was a\\nuseful citizen, and was repeatedly honored hy his\\nfellow^ toM^nsmen.\\nWith the public transactions of the town subse-\\nquent to this period, perhaps every citizen is well\\nacquainted. Its proceedings have been those\\nmerely which related to its internal affairs, and are\\ntoo recent, too fresh in the memory, to need recital.\\nIt is interesting, however, to glance at the rapid\\nimprovements in business and wealth which have\\nbeen made here within the last tventy years. In\\n1798, there were but two or three trading houses in\\ntown the settlements were thinly scattered and\\nthough there were then several enterprising and ac-\\ntive citizens, engaged in business, the village did\\nnot exhibit that outward show of prosperity\\nwhich it does at present. The grounds where the\\nThe ancestors of Dr. M Failand were among that colony of Scots, who, in\\nUie reign of James I., removed to the province of Ulster, in Ireland. His grand-\\nfather, Andrew M Farland, emigrated to this country, and settled in Worcester,\\nabout the time of the settlement of Londonderry, in this State. He left three sons,\\nWilliam, James and Daniel. William died at Worcester, and also James, the\\nfather of Dr. M F.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel removed to the western part of Pennsylvania, about\\nthe commencement of the revolution, and finally settled on the Monongahela,\\nwhere his descendants now live.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OP CONCORD. 49\\nlofty edifices erected by the State are situated,\\nwere then covered with bushes and trees and if\\nthe prophecy of a facetious legislator, who dread-\\ned some Eojyptian visiters, had no foundation, he\\nmight have stated that its thickets had afforded\\nshelter to far less musical animals.\\nThe pubhc buildings are the Capitol, the State\\nPenitentiary, the Court-House, and the meeting-\\nhouse.\\n4 The building of the Capitol was commenced m\\n^^81G and the legislature convened in its halls in\\nJ 819. It is situated in the centre of the village, up-\\non a gently inclined plane betwec^i^Aain and State\\nstreets, and has two regular fronts, east and west.\\nThe centre of the building is fifty feet in front by\\nfifty-seven in depth the wings are each thirty-\\neight feet in front by forty-nine in depth the\\nwhole making a parallelogram of one hundred and\\ntwenty-six feet in length by forty-nine in width,\\nwith the addition of a projection in the centre of\\neach front of four feet. It is two stories above the\\nbasement, which rises five feet above the surface\\nof the ground the first story is nineteen feet\\nthe second eighteen feet in the wing, and thirty-\\n1790. Aug. 30. The town voted one hundred pounds for building a house for\\nthe accommodation of the General Court, to be 80 by 40 feet, and 15 feet post,\\n1792. Oct. 11. The 11th regiment, for the first time paraded on Eastman s plain.\\n1794. Dec. 8th, The town voted to give, in addition to tiie Continental pay for\\nthe town s quota of minute-men, so much as shall make each one s pay eight dol-\\nlars per month, and one month s pay to be advanced to each man when they shall\\nbe called to march.\\n179G. The inhabitants voted to fioish the town-house, and appropriated \u00c2\u00a360 for\\nthat purpose.\\n1797. At a meeting in December, it was voted that the men that enlist, shall\\nhave ten dollars with what the Congress give, and if called into service to have\\none month s pay in advance. Also, voted that the selectmen give those persons\\nthat shall enlist, a handsome treat at the expense of the town.\\n1793. Thisyear,the lines between Concord and Loudon, vere perambulated and\\nfixed by the selectmen of the respective towns.\\n1800. Lines between Hopkinton and Concord, and Canterbury and Concord,\\nperambulated by the selectmen and again in 1808.\\n1805. Lines run between Boscawen and Concord by selectmen.\\n1813. Bye-laws adopted relative to extinguishing of fires.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 ANINALS OF CONCORD.\\none in the centre. The roofs of the wings are lev-\\nelled at the outer ends and rise ten feet against the\\nbody of the centre the roof of the centre rises\\nthirteen feet, presenting gable ends in front from\\nthe middle of which, the cupola rises, eighteen\\nfeet square, to the heiglit of fifteen feet above the\\nridge thence in an octangular form, thirteen feet\\nin diameter, seventeen feet, and is covered with a\\nroof in the form of an inverted acorn rising to the\\nheight of nine feet, and surmounted with a gilt\\nball, thirty-three inches in diameter, on which stands\\nan eagle six and a half feet in height, with its\\nwings partially, j^xpanded. Each front has in its\\nlower stoiy three doors and six windows, and in its\\nupper story, nine windows, with a semi-elliptical\\nwindow in each gable end four windows in the\\nsouth, and two in the north end. The outside walls\\nof the building are of granite stone, hammered, and\\nbuilt in a plain style the only ornament being a\\nTuscan frontispiece of stone work at each central\\nfront door. The roof and cupola are of wooden\\nmaterials. The roof is ornamented with a coving\\nappropriate to the Doric order, and a balustrade up-\\non the wings. The square part of the cupola is\\nornamented with twelve Ionic columns, three at\\neach corner, placed in a triangular position, with\\nan appropriate coving and balustrade. The octan-\\ngular part has one Ionic column at each corner,\\nsurmounted with an urn.\\nIn the second stoiy of the centre is the Repre-\\nsentatives chamber, with an arched ceiling rising\\nthirty feet from the floor, elegantly finished witli\\nstucco-work. The north wing contains the Senate\\nchamber, eighteen feet in height, with a beautiful\\nceiling of plaistering, ornamented with stucco-work,\\nsupported by four Ionic columns and an equal\\nnumber of pilasters. This room, for its neatness\\nand elegance of finishing, is not perhaps inferior to\\nany in the United States. In the south wing are\\ncontained the Council chamber and anti-chamber,", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\n51\\nboth of which are finished in a handsome style.\\nIn the same wing, in the lower story, which is di-\\nvided into two parts, are the Secretary s and Treas-\\nlu-er s offices, over which is a suite of committee\\nrooms. In the north wing, under the Senate cham-\\nber, is a spacious room intended for public hear-\\nings before committees of the legislature. Under\\nthe Representatives chamber, is an open area,\\nin which are eight Doric columns, supporting the\\nflooring above. This area, with the adjacent pas-\\nsages in the wings, cooled by the current of fresh air\\npassing through the spacious doors and windows^\\nopening into them, affords, in the warm month of\\nJune, a delightful retreat to legislators, when fa-\\ntigued by long attention to their arduous duties, or\\nheated by the ardor of debate, above stairs and\\nit is by no means an uncommon case to see them\\navaihng themselves of the benefits of this pleasant\\nretirement.\\nThe lot on which the State House stands con-\\ntains something more than two acres, enclosed on\\nits sides with a solid wall of hammered stone about\\nfive feet high the front fences are of stone posts\\nand sills and iron castings, with gates of the same\\nmaterial.\\nThe expences of building this house, including\\nthe fences, the lot of ground on which it stands and\\nthe furniture of the house, amounted to nearly\\neighty-two thousand dollars. Few public build-\\nings in the United States are superior to this in the\\nbeauty of its construction, or the convenience of its\\napartments. The architects were Messrs. Stuart\\nJ. Park and Levi Brigham the superintending\\ncommittee, Messrs. Albe Cady, William Low\\nand Jeremiah Pecker. The lot of land on which\\nthe building stands, the stone for the house, and\\ndrawing the same, were furnished the State by a\\nfew public spirited individuals, at an expense of\\nabout $4000.\\nThe State Prison was erected in 1812 and\\ncost, with the appurtenances, about ^37,000", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nsince which time nearly ^5000 have been drawn\\nfrom the public treasury to defray the expense of\\nadditional buildings, and a new work liouse, the\\nfirst one having been destroyed by fire in 1819.\\nThe prison is situated on State street, north of the\\nCapitol, and is three stories high, built entirely of\\ngranite. It is 70 feet in length, 36 feet wide, the\\nwalls of which are three feet in. thickness. It con-\\ntains in all 36 cells, the dimensions of which are 8\\nfeet by 9, with the exception of six in the upper\\nstor3^,for the accommodation of the sick, c. which\\nare 10 by 17. The yard is enclosed by a faced\\nwall of 259 feet by 192, fourteen feet high, sur-\\nmounted by a range of pickets ten feet in length.\\nConnected with the prison, is a house for the ac-\\ncommodation of the warden, his family, guards,\\nc., built also of granite, four stories high, exclu-\\nsive of the basement, and is 49 feet by 22. The\\nofficers, c. of this institution are a warden, phy-\\nsician, chaplain, deputy-warden, four guards, tAvo\\noverseers of the work-shops the v/hole of whom\\nreceive their pay directly from the proceeds of the\\nprison, with the exception of the warden, wliose\\nsalary, ^800, is drawn from the treasury. The\\nGovernor and Council, for the time being, consti-\\ntute the board of directors, or visiters. The con-\\nvicts are employed in stone-cutting, coopering,\\nsmithing, shoe-making, weaving, and tailoring.\\nThe meeting-house was erected in 1751. Pre-\\nvious to this, the inhabitants worshipped in the\\nbuilding, erected in 1727, for the defence of the set-\\ntlement In 1802, an addition was made to the\\nfront of the present house, consisting of a semi-\\ncircle, projecting thirty feet, and divided into seven\\nangles, with a gallery. This alteration makes the\\nhouse one of the largest and most convenient in\\nthe State.\\nThe county Court-House was originally the town\\nhouse, and was altered and repaired during the year\\n1823, expressly for the purpose of accommodating", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 53\\nthe courts, at the expense, partly of the town, and\\npartly of individuals. It is one of the most com-\\nmodious county buildings in the State.\\nThe Society of Friends have a meeting-house,\\nstanding near the Congregational church. And the\\nbuilding of a new brick church for the Baptists\\nwas commenced in the fall of 1823, a few rods\\nsouth of the Capitol.\\nAn act of the Legislature, passed July 1, 1823,\\nconstituting the county of Merrimack, established\\nthis town as the seat of justice. This measure, so\\nhighly beneficial to the people of the new county,\\nwill also prove a source of additional business to\\nhe town.\\nDuring the brief period which has elapsed since\\nthe commencement of the present century, many\\nestimable and useful men have departed. Nearly\\nall the children and grand-children of the first set-\\ntlers have left the stage and a new generation, ac-\\ntuated by different motives, enjoying superior ad-\\nvantages, are succeeding them, reaping the fruits of\\ntheir toils, their enterprize and watchfulness. It is\\nto be hoped they will imitate their virtues, their\\nstrict moral habits, and their persevering industry\\nin the common pursuits of life.\\nHiOQVsplmul Jtottcris.\\nIt will not be deemed impertinent, in closing\\nthese brief sketches, to notice some of the most\\ndistinguished citizens of this town, who have de-\\nceased. In doing this, the writer is actuated by no\\nother motive than a wish to perpetuate their good\\nfame, and with it, the salutary influence of their\\nexamples. The memory of great and good men,\\nwhatever may have been their sphere of action,\\nexalted or humble, should be warmly cherished, if\\na", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nnot for the delight with which we may contemplate\\ntheir character, and the lessons we may draw there-\\nfrom, at least for the rich impressions it may give\\nthe generations that are to come.\\nIf many names of worth and usefulness are left\\nunnoticed, the apology must be, not that the writer\\nwas unwilling to extend these notices, but that, af-\\nter a long period of diligent research, he has been\\nable to obtain no more.\\nSir BENJAMIN THOMPSON.\\nBenjamin Thompson, though not a native of this\\ntown, spent several years of usefulness in the place.\\nHe was born at Wobum, Mass. March 26, 1753.\\nHis father died while he was very young, leaving\\nhim to the care of a guardian. He received a com-\\nmon school education, and was placed first with\\nDr. Hay, a physician of Wobum, where during the\\nintervals of study, he amused himself in making sur-\\ngical instruments, c. which he finished in a hand-\\nsome style. He was next placed as clerk in a store\\nat Salem. His aversion to this business was soon\\nmanifested, and he was oftener found with a pen-\\nknife, file and gimblet under the counter, than with\\nhis pen and books in the counting-room. He was\\nfond of the study of chemistry, and enthusiastic in\\nhis devotion to mechanics and mathematics. At\\nSalem, he undertook to prepare some fire works, or\\nrockets. While pounding the ingredients, it was\\nsupposed a particle of sand, treacherously conceal-\\ned in the mass, caused a scintillation, and the whole\\nexploded in his face and bosom. The injury which\\nhe experienced was severe, and added to a tempo-\\nrary loss of sight, the skin of his face and bosom\\nwas taken away with the bandages. Such an ap-\\nprentice, it might easily be perceived, would not\\nanswer the purposes of a merchant.\\nYouns; Thompson continued his studies and phi-\\nlosophical inquiries with diligence. Among other", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.\\n55\\nthings, he attempted to solve that great desidera-\\ntum\u00e2\u0080\u0094 jserpe^wa/ motion. After residing at Salem\\nand Boston about two years, he returned to his\\nmother in Woburn, his friends receiving him with\\nunwelcome pity, impressed with a belief that he\\nwould never fix his mind upon any regular employ-\\nment, by which he could gain a support.\\nThrough the kindness of a friend, Thompson\\nwas admitted to the philosophical lectures com-\\nmenced at Cambridge about the year 1769; this\\nwas a rich feast to him, and he zealously improved\\nhis opportunity, making rapid advances in his fa-\\nvorite studies. In 1772, he commenced school-\\nkeepina; in Bradford, Mass. and soon after remov-\\ned to this town. He taught school here with suc-\\ncess and afterwards married Mrs. Sarah Rolfe,\\nwidow of B. Rolfe, Esq. and daughter of the first\\nminister of Concord, by whom he had one daugh-\\nter, lately living in France. Pleased with parade\\nand the beau monde, and enjoying from the good-\\nness of nature all the personal recommendations,\\nwhich attract the admiration of the world, he nev-\\ner appeared at public entertainments, or in fashion-\\nable circles, without being respectfully noticed.\\nIn an excursion, which he made from Concord\\nto Portsmouth, with his lady, to be present\\nat a military review or some holiday, his gen-\\nteel appearance and manly, impressive address at-\\ntracted the observation of many, and among others\\nhe was particularly noticed by the governor, Went-\\nworth, who invited him to his party, and never\\nspoke of Mr. Thompson but with delight. The\\ncivil and friendly manner, in which he had thus been\\ntreated by the Governor, was not mere etiquette,\\nas was sufficiently manifested a little time after-\\nwards, by having the offer of a Major^s commis-\\nsion. This mark of esteem and confidence was\\npeculiarly gratifying to Mr. Thompson, as he pos-\\nsessed a genius and taste for military operations.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56\\nANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nMr. Thompson lived with his wife about two\\nyears when the revolution commencing, and being\\na staunch friend of the government, he was obliged\\nto quit his family and rural residence and he re-\\ntired within the lines of the British army. In Oc-\\ntober, 1775, he went to Rhode-Island embarked\\nfor Boston harbor and in January following, sailed\\nfor England. On arriving in London, he was in-\\ntroduced to Lord Germaine, (afterwards Lord\\nSackville) then presiding at the head of the Amer-\\nican department, who conceived a warm friendship\\nfor him. In his office, he enjoyed an honorable\\npost, until, nearly at the close of the contest, he\\nwas sent over to New-York raised a regiment of\\ndragoons obtained the provincial rank of lieuten-\\nant colonel, and became entitled to half-pay, which\\nhe received till his death.\\nAfter his return to England, in 1784, the King\\nconferred upon him the honor of knighthood. This\\nevent was a prelude to public honors elsewhere.\\nSir Benjamin Thompson had become acquainted\\nwith the minister ot one of the most respectable\\nGerman princes. This, together with his growing-\\ngreatness, induced his Serene Highness the Elector\\nPalatine, reigning Duke of Bavaria, to invite him\\ninto his service, and honorable terms were propos-\\ned to him. He applied for, and obtained the King s\\npermission to proceed to Munich. Here he soon\\nobtained considerable iniluence in public affairs\\nwas instrumental in the introduction of various re-\\nforms in the police and enjoying the confidence\\nand patronage of the Prince, he had an opportunity\\nto reduce to practice his schemes of economy and\\n{public improvement. He was soon raised to the\\nlighest military rank, and created a Count of the\\nEmpire. The remembrance of his native land,\\nand of his youthful enjoyments in this town, induc-\\ned him to add to his title that of Rumford. Men-\\ndicity had become a public calamity in many of the\\nGerman cities, and threatened the most alarming", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 57\\neonsequences. Conceiving the project of applying\\na remedy, and having taken the proper measures,\\nCount Rumford, at a given day and hour, accom-\\npanied by several military officers, and a body of\\ntroops, issued orders for seizing all the beggars at\\nMunich and being determined to obviate the pos-\\nsibility of disgrace, attached to such a measure, he\\nbegan by arresting the first proper o! ject with his\\nown hands. No sooner had he done this, than the\\nofficers and men, without making any scruple or\\ndifficulty whatever, cleared the streets with prompt-\\nness and success but at the same time with all\\nimaginable good nature so tliat in the course of a\\nsingle day, not a beggar was to be seen in the wliole\\nrange of the metropolis. But to sweep away tiie\\nwhole mendicant tribe, would have done nothing\\neffectual, had not houses of industry been opened for\\ntheir constant employment, and wholesome viands\\nbeen procured them. His scheme succeeded ad-\\nmirably. By active exertions, he introduced vari-\\nous manufactures, and thus affording employment\\nto the poorer classes, prevented a renewal of for-\\nmer scenes of indolence, suffering, and vice.\\nWherever he went, his schemes for the public ad-\\nvantage were well received and his fame, as a phi-\\nlosopher and philanthropist continued to increase.\\nHe received many favors from the sovereigns of\\nthe continent. The Elector Palatine created him\\na Count, and procured for him the order of St. Stan-\\nislaus, from the King of Poland; made him a knight,\\nchamberlain, privy counsellor of state, lieutenant\\ngeneral in his service, as Duke of Bavaria, colonel\\nof his regiment of artillery, and commander-in-\\nchief of the general staff of his army. He w^as al-\\nso honored by all the learned societies of Europe,\\nand of his native country. But these high-sound-\\ning titles were mere baubles, when compared to\\nhis just fame as a philosopher. He made liberal\\nbequests to different institutions in his native coun-\\ntry and died at his country seat of Auteuil, France,", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 AiNNALS OF CONCOllD.\\nwhere he had spent the latter years of his hfe, in\\n1814. An eloquent eulogy on his character was\\nread before the Institute of France, by M. Cuvier,\\nJan. 9, 1815, in which a just view is taken of his\\nvarious discoveries in science, and of his personal\\nexertions and fame.\\nLittle did his friends, who witnessed with sorrow\\nhis juvenile pranks, his disregard of any regular\\nbusiness, anticipate his future fame. Little did the\\nscholars who attended to his instructions in this\\nvillage in 1 773-4, and who were sometimes amused\\nwith his athletic exercises, and his odd experiments\\ndream that their master was to be clothed with\\nthe stars of princes, and acquire a fame that should\\nbe lasting and honorable. While contemplating his\\ncharacter, we do not stop to inquire the motives\\nwhich induced him to abandon the cause of his na-\\ntive country but reflect, that, though driven from\\nher shores, and grown illustrious amongst her ene-\\nmies, he yet bequeathed to her institutions his es-\\ntate, to her citizens his fame.\\nHon. THOMAS W. THOMPSON.\\nOn the first day of October, 1821, died the hon-\\norable Thomas W. ThompsoxX. He was born in\\nBoston, Mass. in the m.onth of March, in the year\\n1765. His father, the late deacon Thomas Thomp-\\nson, was a native of Alnwick, in North-Britain.\\nHis mother, Isabella White, was born in Glasgow,\\nin ^Scotland. The period of their emigration from\\nEurope to Boston is not recollected. They remo-\\nved from Boston to Newburyport, when he was\\nquite young. He was fitted for college at Dum-\\nmer Academy, in the parish of Byfield, in Newbu-\\nry, Mass. by the venerable Samuel Moody, a Pre-\\nceptor, who was no less distinguished for talent at\\ngoverning his pupils, than for his thorough knowl-\\nedge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages.\\nHe entered the college at Cambridge in the year\\n1782, and received the degree of A. B. in 1786.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 59\\nSoon after he left college, the insurrection in Mas-\\nsachusetts, of which Daniel Shays was nominal\\nleader, broke out, and he entered into the army as\\nan aid to General Lincoln, commander of the army\\nof Massachusetts, and served during the whole\\ncampaign, in a severe winter, and until the insurrec-\\ntion was quelled. He afterwards pursued the study\\nof Theology, in order to qualify himself for the pul-\\npit. While engaged in that study, he was appointed\\na Tutor in the College at Cambridge he accepted\\nthe appointment, and was very much a favorite\\nwith the students, to whom he was rendered pecu-\\nliarly agreeable by the suavity of his manners, and\\nnative, easy, unaffected politeness qualities, at\\nthat day, too rare among the learned instructors of\\ncolleges. Leaving the office of tutor, he com-\\nmenced the study of law, under the tuition of The-\\nophilus Parsons, the giant of the law, who then\\nlived at Newburyport. Being admitted to prac-\\ntice at the bar, he came into New-Hampshire in\\nJune, 1791, and commenced practice near the south\\nmeeting-house, in Salisbury, where he remained\\nabout one year, and then removed to the river\\nroad, in Salisbury, where he continued in the prac-\\ntice of law until he went the first time to Wash-\\nington, a representative in Congress. He then\\nwithdrew from judicial courts, though he contin-\\nued through life to give advice as a counsellor at\\nlaw. Soon after he came into this State, his tal-\\nents, industry, integrity, and knowledge of the law,\\nintroduced him to a very extensive and lucrative\\npractice, and he became well known at the bar, in\\nmost of the counties in this State.\\nIn the year 1801, he became a member of the\\nboard of trustees of Dartmouth college, and con-\\ntinued such, until he resigned his seat a short\\ntime before his death. Of this board, he was an\\nactive and efficient member. He was, from 1 805 to\\n1807, a Representative, and once a Senator in the\\nCongress of the United States. He represented the", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "(JO ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\ntown of Salisbury once or twice in the Legislature,\\nAfter his removal to Concord, he was several times\\nelected a Representative of that town. He was\\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives of this\\nState at a time when party spirit was at its great-\\nest height and, even at that time, his political\\nopponents bore willing testimony to his candor,\\nability and impartiality in the discharge of the du-\\nties of that office.\\nIn the year 1 809, he removed from Salisbury to\\nConcord, where he ever after resided until his\\ndeath. In August, 1819, he sat out on a journey\\nto Quebec, and was on board the steam-boat Phoe-\\nnix, bound from Burlington to Canada, at the time\\nof its destruction by fire at midnight on lake Cham-\\nplain. The vessel was all on fire, and the people\\non board were leaving her in two small boats,\\nwhile he was left asleep. Waking, he saw the sit-\\nuation of the vessel, and that the last boat was\\nleaving her. He jumped into the boat, already filled\\nnearly to sinking, and was the last person who\\nescaped from the burning vessel. The terrors and\\nfatigue of that night probably produced the disease\\nwhich put a period to his life.\\nHon. TIMOTHY WALKER.\\nThe honorable Timothy Walker, son of the first\\nminister of Concord, was born in 1737, on the pa-\\nternal farm where he died, May 5, 1822. His ear-\\nlier year^ were employed in the pursuits of hus-\\nbandry, and the acquirement of an education he\\nwas a good farmer, and his reputation as a scholar\\nstood high in the class which graduated at Cam-\\nbridge in 1756. He at first designed to engage in\\nthe work of the ministry, and qualified himself for\\nthat purpose. But the increasing complaints of his\\ncountry were to him the premonitions of a mighty\\nstruggle, and convinced him that she would soon\\nneed active spirits on her side. He resolved to re-", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 61\\nlinquish his favorite design, and exert himself for\\nthe good of his country.\\nAt the commencement of the revolution, a peri-\\nod of much doubt and peril, when most men were\\nagitated, and many trembled for the fate of the colo-\\nnies Walker was found among the most judicious,\\n3 et determined supporters of the revolution. In\\nalmost every town of the country there were many\\nstill loyal to the British crown, and who, though in\\ncommon with their fellow citizens they felt its un-\\nhallowed oppressions, were yet willing to endure\\nthem. To counteract their exertions was required\\nthe utmost vigilance of ever}^ friend of liberty. At\\nthis critical moment, when the alternative presented\\nof abandoning the country, or arresting her inbred\\nenemies when personal friendships must be sacri-\\nficed at the altar of freedom, and the charities of\\nprivate life be broken off in watchfulness of public\\nenemies, Walker was eminently useful; and\\nthough he exerted himself to prevent unnecessary\\nriots or tumultuous proceedings, he was vigilant in\\npursuing the proper course to subserve the inter-\\nest* of the countr}^ He was entrusted with vari-\\nous duties by the government, and in 1776, was a\\nmember of the Committee of Safety for the State,\\nwho in the recess of Congress, exercised the pow-\\ners of that body. He commanded a regiment of\\nminute-men in New-Hampshire, was afterwards\\npaymaster of the New-Hampshire forces, and serv-\\ned a campaign at Winter-Hill under General Sulli-\\nvan. He was a member of the convention which\\nformed our excellent Constitution, was afterwards\\nfrequently elected a Representative and Senator to\\nthe State Legislature, and was ever found an unde-\\nviating advocate of the cause of his country. He\\nwas for several years chief-justice of the court\\nof common pleas, and was respected for his up-\\nrightness and candor.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nAt an advanced age, Judge Walker retired from\\nactive life to the enjoyment of his farm, and domes-\\ntic ease and affluence. In private life, he was\\namiable and sincere in his manners, frank and\\nhonorable and in his conversation, exhibiting the\\nagreeable powers of an independent and well cul-\\ntivated mind. To the aged, he was a cheerful\\nand kind companion to the young, a paternal\\nfriend and counsellor and both had before them\\nin his life a pattern of public and private rectitude.\\nDoctor PHILIP CARRIGAIN.\\nDoctor Philip Carrigain, was born in the city of\\nNew-York, A. D. 174C. His father, who was also\\na physician, emigrated from one of the British\\nports, to that city where he died after a short\\nresidence. From the little that has been preserv-\\ned of his history, it is known that he was for some\\ntime, a student, or an assistant, in one of the Hos-\\npitals in London and that he was in the service of\\nthe Pretender in Scotland, A. D. 1745 and from\\nmemorials he has left, appears to have been a fin-\\nished scholar. Doct. C. was brought in his youth\\nto Haverhill, Mass. where he studied physic with\\nthe late Doct. Bricket. He came to Concord in\\n1768, where he established himself as a physician\\nand surgeon. Tiiere were then but few of the fac-\\nulty, in this section of the country and as he dis-\\ncovered extraordinary skill and decision, in the\\nmanagement of tlie cases confided to him, he rose\\nrapidly to the highest eminence in his profession,\\nand for the greater part of his succeeding life, had\\na more extensive practice, than perhaps, any other\\nphysician of his time, in the State. He died in\\nAugust, 1806. His lady died the December pre-\\nceding. She was the daughter of the late Thomas\\nClough, Esq. of Canterbury, and was remarkable\\nfor tl^e strength and fortitude of her mind and for\\nher humanity and judgment, in attending and ad-\\nministering to the sick.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 63\\nRev. ISRAEL EVANS.\\nThe reverend Israel Evans, the second clergy-\\nman settled in Concord, was born in Pennsylvania\\nin 1747 received his education at Princeton col-\\nlege, where he graduated in 1772 was settled\\nhere July 1, 1789; resigned his pastoral charge\\nJuly 1, 1797. He was engaged previous to his set-\\ntlement here, in the capacity of chaplain in the rev-\\nolutionary army, and was the only chaplain, who\\ncontinued in service during the whole struggle.\\nHe was with Montgomery before Quebeck at the\\ncapture of Burgoyne accompanied Gen. Sullivan\\non his Indian expedition, and witnessed the surren-\\nder of Cornwallis at Yorktown. His zeal in the\\ncause of his country frequently led him to expose\\nhis life in battle particularly, in Sullivan s engage-\\nment with the Indians, where he acted as an aid to\\nthe general. He died on the 9th of March, 1807,\\nat the age of 60 years.\\nCol. THOMAS STICKNEY.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney died in this tOAvn on the\\n26th of January, 1809, in the 80th year of his age.\\nHe was a native of Bradford, Mass. and son of\\nLieut. Jeremiah Stickney, who settled in this town,\\nwhen the former was but two years of age, about\\nthe year 1731. In common with others of his fel-\\nlow-citizens, Stickney was exposed to the dangers\\nof Indian warfare, and was useful to the settlement\\nin forwarding active measures of defence. His\\nbrother, William Stickney^ was taken by the In-\\ndians at the massacre of the Bradleys, in 1746, and\\nwas accidentally drowned on his return from cap-\\ntivity. Thomas, at the dawn of the revolution, was\\nappointed to the command of a regiment of militia\\nand besides several local military services, he was\\nat the battle of Bennington, under the heroic Stark,\\nand acquitted himself as a man of bravery.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nCol. GORDON HUTCHINS.\\nGordon Hutchins was u, son of Epliraiin Hutch-\\nins, and born at Exeter in 1733. At about the age\\nof 13, he accompanied his father, who commanded\\na company in the expedition against Louisbourg, in\\nthe capacity of waiter but subsequently, held a\\nlieutenancy in the armj^ Returning from the war,he\\nmarried and settled in Harvard, Mass. from which\\nplace, in 1773, he removed to Concord. On hearing\\nof the battle of Lexington, Lt. Hutchins repair-\\ned to Cambridge and soon afterwards, enlisted a\\ncom})an3% which served an eight months campaign.\\nIn 1777, on learning the perilous situation of the\\nnorthern frontiers, Capt. Hutchins, who had again\\nbeen at Cambridge, returning on a Sunday morn-\\ning, entered the meeting-house addressed the\\nminister, (Mr. Walker,) and after briefly stating the\\nintelligence he had received respecting the situa-\\ntion of the northern armies, urged his fellow-citi-\\nzens to volunteer in defence of their country. The\\naj^peal was seconded by their worthy and patriotic\\npastor, and a company of about thirty men was en-\\nrolled, and with them, he sat out on the following\\nmorning. Before their arrival at Bennington,\\nStark had immortalized himself, and averted the\\nthreatened danger but they had the satisfaction to\\nwitness the surrender of Burgoyne and his army at\\nSaratoga. Previous to this, Capt. Hutchins had\\nbeen at White-Plains, where he was promoted to\\nthe rank of lieutenant-colonel. From Saratoga,\\nCol. Hutchins returned to domestic Ufe, and died\\nat Concord, December 8th, 1815, aged 82 years.\\nHe married two wives, and by them had twenty\\nchildren.\\nCapt. NATHANIEL ABBOT.\\nCapt. Nathaniel Abbot was one of the earliest\\nsettlers of this place, and a very efficient citizen.\\nHe was born in 1696, at Andover. At the com-\\nmencement of the French war, in 1744, he entered", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 65\\nthe service, and joined the Rangers under Major\\nRogef-s. He was at the capture of Cape Breton\\nin 1745 was subsequently in most of the san-\\nguinary conflicts on the northern frontiers and\\nendured almost incredible hardships* He held a\\ncommission in the corps of Rangers, and was in\\nevery station, a brave and useful officer. He died\\nin 1770.t\\nCapt. JOSHUA ABBOT.\\nCapt. Joshua Abbot, son of the preceding, ac-\\ncompanied his father during the latter part of his\\nstay with the array. At the commencement of the\\nrevolutionary contest, he entered with zeal into the\\npublic service, and continued a firm and un-\\ndeviating patriot to its close. He was a man of\\nfine constitution, enjoying uninterrupted health,\\nand he made every exertion in his power, in com-\\nmon with his compatriots in arms, for the achieve-\\nment of our independence. He died in this town\\nin 1815, aged 74.\\nHon. JOHN BRADLEY.\\nThe honorable John Bradley was a son of Sam-\\nuel Bradley, who was massacred by the Indians in\\n1746. He was about two years of age at the\\ntime of his father s death. He settled in his native\\ntown, and amongst her citizens Avas distinguished\\nas one of the most enterprizing and useful. Pos-\\nsessing a sound mind, and great dignity of charac-\\nA faithful picture has probably never yet been drawn of the species of warfare\\nprosecuted liy the Rangers or of the hardsliips and privations endured by the\\nsoldiery in the old French wars. Mr. JoitDf Shcte, now living in this town, at\\nthe age of 89 years, and whose memory and faculties are unimpaired, was asoldiei\\nunder Rogers in the ranging service and an hour sjjent in listening to his ac-\\ncount of tiiat service, arid his own sufferings and adventures, is by no one regretted.\\nMr. S. is a son of Jar-ob Shute, who came with the first family of settlers to\\nPenacook.\\nt George Abbot, the paternal ancestor of the families of that name, came out of\\nP\u00c2\u00ab5land, and settled at Andover, Mass. almut 1G45, where he died Oct. 5, 1681.\\nHe had 10 son\u00c2\u00bb and 3 daughters. JVa /iariieZ, his youngest son. was born July l.\\n1671; settled at Andover, and died Dec. 12, 1749. His son, JVathanid, born iu\\n1696, settled in Concord, and died in 1770. His iow, Joshua, was born at eon-\\ncord in 1741, and died in 1815. JVathaniel Abbot, his son, is now living in this\\ntown, anfi is of the fifth generation from Capt. George Abbot.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66\\nANNALS OF CONCORD.\\nter, as well as integrity of principle, he was\\nfrequently invited to public stations, and served in\\nboth branches of the legislature. In the discharge\\nof his official, no less than his private duties, he\\nwas firm and consistent, acting independently,\\nand according to his deliberate convictions of jus-\\ntice. He lived to a good old age, and died on the\\n5th day of July, in the year 1815.\\nDeacon JOHN KIMBALL.\\nDeacon John Kimball was a native of Bradford,\\nin Massachusetts, and born February 16, 1739.\\nHe settled here at an early period of his life, and\\nsoon became an active and valuable citizen. He\\ndischarged every official duty with promptness and\\nfidelity, and in his private walks, was a pattern of\\nchristian meekness and charity. He was a mem-\\nber of the church for nearly sixty years, and sus-\\ntained an office in the church in this place during\\nabout forty years. He died on the 31st of Decem-\\nber, 1817, aged 79. He had been married 52\\nyears, and reared a numerous family, during which\\ntime no death occurred beneath his roof. Mrs.\\nKimball, his wife, died March 5, 1819.\\nLt. RICHARD HERBERT.\\nLt. Richard Herbert died on the 17th July,\\n1823, aged 94. His father, James Herbert, a ship-\\ncarpenter, was a native of England,married his wife\\nin Rowley, ami settled at Salisbury, where Richard\\nwas born December 31, 1729. Mr. Herbert came\\nto this town in 1752, and purcliased the first lot of\\nland sold by the proprietors on the street.* He\\nwas industrious in business, and soon became a use-\\nful citizen. He was among the first volunteerst\\n*This lot consisted of about two acres, and was the giound owned b^ the late\\nCapt. Dearborn. Mr. Herbert gave $10 dollars for his land, then apparently a\\nsand-heap, and was frequently rallieci by his nci_^hbor land-holders lor his singular\\np urchase. He lived, however, to profit by its increase in value.\\nt The nrst person in Concoril v.-ho acceptpd a commission under the provincial\\ncongress, was Capt. Reuben Kimball. He was a zealous friend to the revolu-\\ntionary cause raised a company, and was at Saratoga, when the army of Bur-\\ngoyne surrendered to the Ameiicans. He died June 13, 1814, aged 84.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "RELIGIOtrS SOCIETIES. 67\\nfrom this town in 1775 was an officer under Stark\\nat the battle of Bennington, and proved himself a\\nbrave and useful man. After the victory, he re-\\nturned to Concord, and spent the remainder of his\\nlife in industry, inoffensiveness and peace.\\nCTiiurchcs anti mcU gtous Soctettcs.\\nIt will be perceived, that among the first objects\\nof the early settlers of Concord, was the settle-\\nment of a minister of the gospel. A church, con-\\nsisting of eight individuals,* was formed on the 18th\\nof November, 1730; at which time the Rev. Mr.\\nWalker was ordained. Their place of public wor-\\nship, was the log-house, erected in 1 727, and used\\nalso as a garrison for refuge, in times of alarm and\\ndanger. Mr. Walker was a man well fitted to meet\\nthe sufferings and privations of the wilderness, and\\nto build up, by sound precept and encouraging ex-\\nample, a united and prosperous church. He was a\\ngood farmer, an efficient citizen, and an exemplary\\nchristian. In common v/ith liis parishioners, he\\nshared the difficulties of their situation, and met,\\nwithout shrinking, every emergency of Vvant or\\ndanger. The troubles which the inhabitants ex-\\nperienced from 1730 to 1770, seemed to have pro-\\nduced an habitual union, which continued for a long\\ntime after these troubles had ceased. During a\\nperiod of more than eighty years, there were no\\nvisible differences among the people on religious\\nsubjects. For a few years previous to 1816, there\\nhad been a respectable society of Friends, who\\nworshipped separately. In 1818, societies of Epis-\\nJ\\\\ ames of those who formed the first congregational church in tiiis\\nplace^ embodied J^ov. 18, 1730.\\nTimothy Walker,\\nJohn Merrill,\\nSamuel Burbank,\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nDavid Barker,\\nAaron Stevens,\\nJohn Rnss.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 ANNALS OF CONCORD.\\ncopalians and Baptists were formed, the latter of\\nwhich is still in a prosperous state.\\nRev. Mr. Walker continued the pastor of the\\ncongregational church until his death in 1782.\\nFrom this period until 1 789, the church was with-\\nout a minister, though the ordinances were pretty\\nregularly administered and attended. Rev. Mr.\\nEvans was installed in 1789; continued to preach\\nuntil the summer of 1797, when his pastoral rela-\\ntion to the church was by mutual consent dissolved.\\nThe present incumbent. Rev. Dr. M Farland, suc-\\nceeded to the care of the church in 1798.\\nThis church is independent in its form its gov-\\nernment agreeing with the principles of those Avho\\nfled from persecution in England, to enjoy in this\\nthen inhospitable land their religious opinions. It\\nadmits the principle of a communion of churches\\naccording to the Cambridge platform but it has\\nnever yet had occasion to call in the aid of other\\nchurches to settle difficulties. No ecclesiastical\\ncouncil has been called here, except for the pur-\\npose of ordaining or dismissing a minister. The\\nchurch has a standing committee, whose duties are\\nto assist the pastor in examining candidates for ad-\\nmission, and in endeavoring to settle difficulties,\\nthat may arise between individuals, without an ap-\\npeal to the whole body of the church. Every\\nmember has a right to the judgment of the whole\\nbody and, as a last resort, each has a right of ap-\\npeal to a council of the neighboring churches.\\nThis church, if not the largest, is one of the\\nlargest in the state the number of communicants\\nat present being about 340.\\nDuring the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Walker,\\nthe recorded admissions to the church are 34 males\\n61 females\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Total, 95; but this undoubtedly falls\\nfar below the actual number. Mr. Walker died in\\n1782 and of the admissions to the church during\\nthe ministry of his successor, Mr. Evans, from\\n1789 to 1797, no record can be found. The", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "TOl\u00c2\u00bbOGRAPHY.\\n69\\nfollowing table, drawn from the records of Rev.\\nDr. M Farland, will shew at a glance the number\\nof baptisms, marriages, and admissions to the\\nchurch, since his ordination, in 1798.\\nYEARS.\\nCO\\nc- |co\\no\\nCD\\n0^\\no\\nCO\\nCO\\no\\n00\\no\\ncc\\nCO\\nO\\n00\\no\\noc\\nc\\nCD\\no\\nCD\\no\\nCO\\nOD\\nBaptisms,*\\n|34|2lll6in|24|l2|lG113ll4l20!\u00c2\u00ab4|21|15\\n92\\nMarriages,!\\n|Admissions,|\\n|131 61 8111112|22j23|22|17|26|26|20|23|14\\n51 41 31 2!15| II 81 31 1| 5|1U| 8! 8|59\\nYEARS.\\n|g-\u00c2\u00bb\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\n=0\\nCO\\nCO\\nCJ5\\nCO\\nO\\nCO\\nCO\\nG^ GO\\nG-J G^\\n00 CO\\nTOTALS.\\nBaptisms,\\n144120! 131 131 82|35|12|12|78134il8|15\\n715\\nMarriages,\\n1231141191211 20|14122| 9|ly|14|llil5\\n414\\njAdmisslons,\\n|36| 6|12| 41108|13| 6| 8|86| 9| 7| 9\\n435\\nThere is a vecord of about 90 baptisms during the ministry of Rev. Mi. Evans\\nbut probably imperfect.\\nThere are only 8 marriages by Rev. Mr. Walker, on record\u00e2\u0080\u0094 those previous to\\n1738.\\nt This includes those admitted in the usual form, and such as v.-er^ added by let-\\nters from other churches.\\nBeacons in the Congregational Church, since its organization in\\n1730.\\nJohn Merrill,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nDavid Hall,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nAbiel Rolfe,\\nThomas W. ThompsoD,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\n\u00c2\u00a9\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00a94^^\\nThis town comprises a tract of nearly 41 000\\nacres, of which 1800 are water. The surface is\\nuneven, though it presents none of the rude accliv-\\nities or deep valleys seen in some of the neighbor-\\ning towns. There are five ponds in Concord, two\\non the east of the Merrimack, and three on the\\nwest. Ihe largest is Turkey pond, iu the souths\\n10", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "*7(i\\nANNALS OF CONCOllD.\\nwest part of the town, containing about 700 acres j\\nthe waters of which form the Turkey river, a stream\\nof some importance, passing east into Bow. Long\\npond, in the west part of the town, contains about\\n500 acres, the waters of which pass into the Merri-\\nmack below Sewall s island. Turtle pond lies east\\nof Long pond, and near the line of Loudon it con-\\ntains about 200 acres, and its waters pass into the\\nMerrimack through the valley east of the river.\\nThe others are Snow s pond, north-west of Turtle\\npond, and Horse-shoe pond, near the meeting-\\nhouse. The river Soucook forms the south-east\\nboundary of Coneord, from Chichester to its junc-\\ntion with the Merrimack below Garven s falls.\\nThe Contoocook is a considerable river, entering\\nnear the west corner of the town, and uniting with\\nthe Merrimack on the north-west line, forming at\\nits junction the island celebrated as the spot where\\nMrs. Duston made a desperate escape from a party\\nof Indians, in 1698. The design below pre-\\nsents a tolerably accurate view of the island,\\nthough it rapidly changes in its appearance, from\\nthe action of the freshes of the river.\\nThe Merrimack is the principal river of this\\nregion, and is not oniy the ornament and beautifier\\nof the landscape, but the source of health and\\nprofit to the inhabitants. It meanders nearly\\nthrough the centre of the town, enriching the\\ntracts of interval on its borders. The intervals\\nhere are of considerable width, and of great value", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "TOPOGRAPHY. 71\\nto the town though perhaps inferior in extent and\\nbeauty to those on the Connecticut. Soon after\\nentering the town, the Merrimack passes over the\\nrapids called Sewall s falls, below which is situated\\nSewalPs island, thus called from an early propri-\\netor. The current of the river from this island is\\nnot rapid, and has no natural obstructions, until it\\nreaches Turkey and Garven s falls at the south-east\\nextremity of the town. Locks are here construc-\\nted, and the navigation of the river has been open\\nduring the boating seasons for several years. The\\nriver i s here about 100 yards wide, but occasionally,\\nthe spring and autumn freshes have covered the\\ninterval adjoining the principal village, presenting\\nto the eye a body of water of a mile in width.\\nThese freshes, though often destructive to crops,\\nfences, c. are of no disadvantage to the soil, on\\nwhich they deposit a rich sediment. During the\\ngreatest freshes, the river has risen nearly 20 feet\\nabove the ordinary level, but this is uncommon.\\nThere are two bridges thrown across the river in\\nthis town the Federal, or Upper Bridge, and\\nConcord, or Lower Bridge. At these bridges, are\\nsituated the store-houses of the Boating Company\\non the river. The intercourse with Boston, open-\\ned by way of the canals on the Merrimack, has\\nbeen of considerable advantage to the country.\\nThe navigation to this town was opened in 1815,*\\nand the quantity of goods annually brought up has\\naveraged 1000 to 1500 tons. The freight downward\\nhas been more extensive, consisting of the produce\\nof the country, lumber, and other iieavy or bulky\\narticles. For the first three years, the business on\\nthe river exceeded that for the three last but\\nthere is a prospect that it will hereafter be much\\nincreased. The principal village, and the seat\\nof most of the business of the town, extends\\nalong the western bank of the Merrimack nearly\\n*The first boat of the Merrimack company, arrived at the landing here, June 23,\\n1815, in 3 1-2 days from Bosto\u00c2\u00bb.\\nj.jlUU.\u00c2\u00bbAapmun-wt M*l)", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 ANNALS OP CONCORB.\\ntwo miles from south-east to north-west. It is vetf\\npleasantly situated, and from its convenient situation\\nhas become a place of considerable trade. The\\nstate-house,* state-prison, court-house and meeting-\\nhouse are situated in this village. There are 175\\ndwelling-houses, 20 stores, 8 taverns, several me-\\nchanic shops, 5 printing-offices, 5 bookstores and 2\\nbook-binderies. On the east side of the river, is\\nanother considerable village, very pleasantly situa-\\nted and a village is also forming in the west part\\nof the town. The soil of this town presents all\\nthe varieties common to this region, and is in some\\nparts fertile. The highlands extending back from\\nthe river are very productive, and were originally\\ncovered with oak,chesnut, maple, c. The plains are\\nalluvial, and covered with a growth of pine. Large\\nmasses of excellent granite are foiind in this town,\\nand the public edifices here, are erected of this\\nmaterial. This granite affords an admirable ma-\\nterial for building and large quantities, wrought at\\nthe State Prison, are annuaUy transported to Bos-\\nton for architectural purposes. It derives its supe-\\nriority over the granite of many other countries,\\nfrom the circumstance that it contains no sulphuret\\nof iron, which, by the action of atmospheric agents,\\nproduces an iron-rust stain, that destroys the beau-\\nty of the material. Iron ore is found here in small\\nquantities, near the Soucook river, and on the\\nbranches of the Turkey river. It was wrought by\\nthe inhabitants during the revolution but to no\\n\u00c2\u00ab;reat extent. Excellent clay abounds in several\\nplaces, and extensive potteries have for some years\\nbeen established.\\nSee descriptiou of public tmMdings, p- 49.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "jEemott of tne JJenacoofe KntrCan^.\\nWhatever relates to the aboriginals of our coun-\\ntry, those early proprietors of the soil which we\\ninherit, must be interesting to posterity. The\\nlands which we cultivate, the forests, the rivers\\nand mountains around us, once swarmed with a\\ndistinct race of the human family. They whose\\ncharacter once stood so lofty and independent, are\\nhardly seen among us, and if seen, are seen beg-\\no-ing the price of their perdition. They who\\nmight have exterminated the Europeans on their\\narrival, have themselves become exterminated, and\\nmost of their memorials have perished with them.\\nMuch is it to be regretted, that there has been no\\nhistorical account of the various tribes residing on\\nMerrimack river, and particularly of the one in-\\nhabiting the town of Concord, known at an early\\nperiod of our history as acknowledging allegiance\\nto the far famed sachem, Passaconaway. But\\nthere have been causes why this has not been done.\\nThe horror proceeding from the cruelties of their\\nwarfare, forbade the calmness of investigation. As\\nlong as they were formidable, curiosity was over-\\npowered by terror and there was neither leisure,\\nnor inclination to contemplate their character as a\\nportion of the human family, while the glare of\\nconflagration reddened the midnight sky, and the\\nyells of the savage, mingling with the shrieks of\\nbutchered victims, rode, as portentous messengers,\\non every gale. But that state of things has long\\nceased to exist. The white men of America have\\nbecome too numerous to fear any longer the effects\\nof savage barbarit}^, and the tales which once car-\\nried terror to the stoutest heart, are now scarcely\\nheard beyond the precincts of the nurser}. In the\\nroom of fear, there should now arise a sentiment\\nof pity.\\nRev. Dr. Jaxvis address before the New- York Hist. Soc.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 MEMOIR OF THE PENACOOKS.\\nWhen our fathers arrived in this country, they\\nfound within the confines of New England, five\\nprincipal nations of the Indians viz. the Pequots\\ninhabiting Connecticut the Narragansetts, who\\ninhabited Rhode-Island and the adjacent country\\nthe Pawkunnawkutts, who lived on Nantucket,\\nMartha s Vineyard, and in Plymouth colony the\\nMassachusetts, who lived about Massachusetts bay;\\nand the Pawtucketts, who constituted the fifth\\nand last great sachemship of Indians. Their\\ncountry lieth north and north-east from Massachu-\\nsetts, whose dominion reacheth as far as the Eng-\\nlish jurisdiction or colony of the Massachusetts,\\ndoth now extend.\\nTo this general division, belonged the Penacooks,\\nor those Indians, who inhabited Concord, and the\\ncountry for many miles above and below on Merri-\\nmack river. There were several smaller saga-\\nmoreships which were included under the nation-\\nal name of Pawtucketts such as the Agawams,\\nNaamkeeks, Pascataquas, Accomintas and some\\nothers. All these subordinate tribes formed orig-\\ninally but one great nation, and acknowledged sub-\\njection to Passaconaway, who was called the\\ngreat sachem of Penacook.\\nThe Penacooks were probably among the most\\nEowerful of these subordinate tribes, though their\\nistory is but little known, and at this distance of\\ntime, cannot be given with any degree of minute-\\nness. Passaconaway was the first sagamore of\\nwhom we find any account in our historians. If\\nthe Wheehvright deed be not a forgery, he was liv-\\ning as early as 1629, and it appears from Hubbard s\\nnarrative, that he was alive in J 660. In that year,\\nthe Indians had a great dance and feast, on which\\noccasion, this powerful sagamore, being groAvn old,\\nmade his farewell speech to his children and peo-\\nple, in which, as a dying man, he warned them to\\nGookin, in Coll. of Mass. Hist. See. Vol. 1, page 149, first series.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR OF THE PEXACOOKS. 75\\ntnlTP heed how they quarrelled with their English\\ntake heea now J 1 j.^; do them some\\nfha wnr Avith Philip commenced m lb7 ne wuu\\nd r:;h[mrelf with l^is people to some ren^ote j^^^^^^^^^^^\\nthit thev misht not be drawn into the quarrel.\\nThe Penicooks appear to have mamtamed a friend-\\nly disposition so Imig as they were under the con-\\niw tr y r 1684, Lieut. Gov. Craniield form-\\ned1he pro^ct of bringing down the Mohawksjrom\\nNew York in order to destroy the Penacook and\\nEastern Indians. This measure had once before\\nbeen resorted to, but proved very pernicious in its\\neffects, as that ferociou^s and warlike people made no\\ndistinction between those tribes which ^^eve at\\nJeace with the English, and those winch ^verea^\\nwar. Some of the Penacook Indians, who had been\\ntoAlbanvsoon after Cranfield made a journey to\\nthe province of New-York, reported on their re-\\ntm-n, that the Mohawks threatened destruction to\\nall the eastern Indians, from Narragansetm Rhode-\\nSand to Pechypscot in Maine.- The Penacooks\\nwere about this time under the government ot\\nHogkins, a sachem who succeeded Wonolanset.\\nFrom the articles of Peace between the English in-\\nhabiting the province of N. Hampshire and Maine,\\nand the Indians of these provinces, agreed upon\\nthe 8th day of September, 1685, it appears, that\\nKancamagus was his Indian name, and that nog-\\nFour Indians came from fort Alba.y to tl.e Fovt at P^nJ^-^^,-^^ ^tca^^ t\\nthemthatallthe Mokavvkesclulcieclarethey wonklkd aUI^\\nMount Hope to tbe eastward as fav as Pegypseut. Repm t to n aiier t j\\nEsq. and Council.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 MEMOIR OF THE PENACOOK9.\\nkins or Hawkins was the English name he had as-\\nsumed.\\nIn the spring of 1685, he informed Cranfield of\\nthe danger the Penacooks apprehended,* and\\nimplored assistance and protection, but was treated\\nwith neglect.\\nIn August, 1685, the Penacook and Saco Indians\\ngathered their corn, and removed their families,\\nwhich gave an alarm to their English neighbors, as\\nif they were preparing for war. Messengers be-\\ning sent to demand the reason of their movement,\\nwere informed that it was the fear of Mohawks,\\nwhom they daily expected to destroy them and\\nbeing asked why they did not come in among the\\nEnglish for protection, they answered, lest the Mo-\\nhawks should hurt the English on that account.\\nUpon this, they were persuaded to enter into an\\nagreement and accordingly the chiefs of the\\nPenacooks and of the Saco Indians being assem-\\nbled with the Council of New-Hampshire, and a\\ndeputation from the province of Maine, a treaty\\nwas concluded, wherein it w^as stipulated, that all\\nfuture personal injuries on either side should, upon\\nHis letter to Gov. Cranfield at this time will explain his situation and his\\nfears, and may be regarded as a curiosity Th\u00c2\u00ab original is preserved in the Recor-\\nder s office in N. H.\\nMay 15ih, 1685.\\nHonour gouemor my friend,\\nYou my friend I desire yotir worship and your power, because I hope you can do\\nsom great matters this one. I am poor and naked, and I have no man at my place\\nbecause I afraid allwayes Mohogs he will kill me every day and night. If your\\nworship when please pray help me you no let Moliogs kill me at my place at Mal-\\namake river called Panukkog and Nattukkog, I will submit your worship and your\\npower. And now I want pouder and such alminishon, shott and guns, becauae I\\nhave forth at my hom and I plant theare.\\nThis all Indian hand, but pray do you consider your humble servant,\\nJOHN HOGKINS.\\nPeter 3 Robin.,\\nMr Jorge -f Roddunnonukgus,\\nMr Hope X Hoth.\\nJohn Tonch,\\nJohn a Canowa,\\nJohn X Owamosimmin^\\nNatonill t Indian.\\nThese were probably some of the principal men of the tribe. Two other ki-\\nte ri from Hogkins to Cranfield are preserved in I. Belknap, 346.\\nSimon Detogkom,\\nJoseph X Traske^\\nKing J], Hary,\\nSam j^ Linis., [a\\nWapeguanal j^ Saguachuwash\\nOld Robin\\nMamanosgues q Andra^", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR OF THE PENAC60KS. 77\\neomplaint, be immediately redressed that infor-\\nmation should be given of approaching danger\\nfrom enemies that the Indians should not remove\\ntheir families from the neighborhood of the Eng-\\nlish without giving timely notice, and if they did,\\nit should betaken for a declaration of war and,\\nthat while these articles were observed, the Eng-\\nlish would assist and protect them against the\\nMohawks and all other enemies.\\nFrom this time, peace continued without inter-\\nruption till 1689, when a confederacy was formed\\nbetween the tribes of Penacook and Pequawkett,\\nand the strange Indians, (as they were called) who\\nwere incorporated with them, to attack the settle-\\nment at Dover. The Penacooks were among the\\nfour hundred Indians, w^ho were seized at Dover\\nby Major Waldron in 1676, and were dismissed\\nut that time, probably on account of the friendly\\ndisposition of Wonolanset Notwithstanding they\\nexperienced the clemency of Major Waldron, in be-\\ning permitted to depart in safety, they did not for-\\nget the conduct of the Major to their allies, and\\nwere easily seduced to join the confederacy by\\nthose, who had, for about thirteen years, cherished\\nan inextinguishable thirst of revenge against the\\nbrave, but unfortunate Waldron. The plot formed\\nagainst the inhabitants of Dover was disclosed by\\ntwo of the Penacooks to Major Hinchman, of\\nChelmsford, who immediately informed Mr. Dan-\\nforth, a member of the council of Massachusetts, by\\nthe following letter, the original of which is on file\\nin the Secretary s office in Massachusetts.\\nHon d Sir,\\nThis day, two Indians came from Pennacook, viz.\\nJob Maramasquand and Peter Muckamug, who\\nreport that damage will undoubtedly be done with-\\nin a few days at Piscataqua, and that Major Wal-\\ndron, in particular, is threatened and that Juli-\\nmatt fears that mischief will quickly be done at\\n11", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78\\nMEMOIR or THE PBNACOOKS.\\nDunstable. The Indians can give a more particu-\\nlar account to your honor. They say, if damage\\nbe done, the blame shall not be on them, having\\ngiven a faithful account of Avhat they hear and are\\nupon that report moved to leave their habitation\\nand corn at Pennacook. Sir, I was very loth to\\ntrouble you, and to expose myself to the censure\\nand derision of some of the confident people, that\\nwould pretend to make a sport with what I send\\ndown by Capt. Tom, (alias Thomas Ukqucakussen-\\nnum.)\\nI am constrained, from a sense of my duty, and\\nfrom love to my countrymen, to give the informa-\\ntion as above. So with my humble service to 3 our\\nhonor, and prayers for the safety of an endangered\\npeople I am, Sir, your humble servant,\\nTHO:HINCHMAN.\\nJune 22.\\nHon. Thomas Danforth.\\nMr. Danforth was detained from the meeting of\\nthe council. He however, on the same day, com-\\nmunicated Major Hinchman s letter to Governor\\nBradstreet, who, with the council, ordered a mes-\\nsenger to be sent to Cochecho, with the following\\ndisclosure of the plot in a letter, written by Secre-\\ntary Addington.\\nBoston, 27 June, 1689.\\nHonble Sir,\\nThe governor and councill haveing this day\\nreceived a letter from Major Henchman of Chelms-\\nford, that some Indians are come in to them, who\\nreport that there is a gathering of some Indians in\\nand about Penecooke, with designe of mischiefe\\nto the English. Among the said Indians, one\\nHawkins is said to be a principal designer, and that\\nthey have a particular desig;ne against 3 ourself and\\nMr. Peter Coriin, which tlie councill thought it ne-\\ncessary presiiitly to dispatch advice thereof to give\\nyou notic^j that you take care of your own safe-", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR OF THE PENACOOKS. 79\\nguard, they intending to betray you on a pretention\\nof trade.\\nPiease forthwith to signify the import hereof to\\nMr. Coffin and others, as you shall think necessary,\\nand advise of what informations you may at any\\ntime receive of the Indians motions. By order in\\nCouncil!. ISA ADDINGTON, Sec y.\\nFor Mr, Richard Waldron and Mr. Peter\\nCoffin^ or either of them, att Cochecha\\nthese with all possible speed.\\nThis letter was despatched from Boston by Mr.\\nWeare but some delay he met with at Newbury\\nferry prevented its arrival in season. The same\\nday, after the mischief was done, the preceding let-\\nter fell into the hands of Maj. Waldron s son. Had\\nit been seasonably received, it would probably have\\nsaved the lives of twenty-three persons, who fell a\\nsacrifice to Indian cruelty, besides preventing the\\ncapture of twenty-nine others, and the destruction\\nof much valuable property.*\\nUpon the depredations at Dover, vigorous meas-\\nures were immediately adopted. A party under\\nCapt. Noyes was despatched to Penacook, to inflict\\nsummary punishment upon those who were con-\\ncerned in the affair at Cochecho but the Indians\\nall escaped. They, however, destroyed their corn.\\nIt appears that after this, the Penacooks continu-\\ned to exist as a distinct tribe for many years\\nthough as a separate tribe, they ceased to be for-\\nmidable after this event. We find that they are\\nmentioned in Penhallow s Indian Wars, (page 2,)\\nwhere there is an account of a conference held by\\nGovernor Dudley at Casco, in 1703, with delegates\\nfrom several tribes. The Norridgewocks, Penob-\\nscots, Pequawketts, Penacooks and Ameriscoggins\\nassured the governor, at this meeting, that as high\\nas the sun was above the earth, so far distant was\\nFor a particular account of the attack on Dover, see Belknap s nis. N. H. voU\\nI, page 198.", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 MEMOIR OF THE PENACOOKS,\\ntheir design of making the least breach of the\\npeace.\\nAt the same time they made this declaration, they\\nwere meditating hostilities, which commenced on\\nthe 10th of August, 1703. After this period, we\\nhear little or nothing of the Penacooks, as a sepa-\\nrate tribe. Those of them who were hostile to the\\nEnglish, probably mixed with the eastern Indians,\\nbetween whom and the Penacooks, was a close af-\\nfinity. As the governor of Canada had encouraged\\nthe Indians who inhabited the borders of New-\\nEngland, to remove to Canada, it is likely that\\nsome of tliem went thither, and were incorporated\\nwith the tribes of St. Francis. But those who con-\\ntinued friendly to the English, of which there had\\nalways been a small number, remained here until\\n1725, and were highly useful to the first inhabitants,\\nsupplying them with food when almost in astate\\nof starvation.\\nThe Penacook Indians were a more warlike tribe\\nthan the Pawtuckett, or Wamesit Indians, who liv-\\ned around Pawtuckett Falls, in Chelmsford. They\\nwere opposed to the introduction of Christianity a-\\nmong them, and obstinately refused to pray to\\nGod. Before the year 1670, a party of them went\\ndown the Merrimack, and built a fort at Pawtuck-\\nett. They also erected a fort on Sugar-Ball Hill,\\nso called, in Concord, as a protection against the\\nincursions of the Mohawks and other enemies. A\\nconsiderable number of them joined in an expedi-\\ntion against that formidable nation, and were prin-\\ncipally destroyed. Tradition says, that there was\\noiice a very obstinate engagement between the Mo-\\nhawks and Penacooks on the river in this vicinity,\\nbut the time, place and circumstances are imknown\\nto the present generation. The Indians of the most\\npeaceful character among the Penacooks, were the\\nRobin family, a part of Avhich lived in Clielmsford,\\nand owned a hill in that town, which, for almost\\ntv. o hundred years, has been known by the name of\\nRobin s Hill.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "[NO. 1.]\\nTHE ORDER OF THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT.\\nThe Committee appointed to consider what is proper for this.\\nCourt to do on the petition of Benjamin Stevens and others, are\\nhumbly of opinion, that it will be for the interest and advantage\\nof this Province that part of the lands, petitioned for by the said\\nBenjamin Stevens and company, be assigned and set apart for a\\ntownship provided, that the same be done in a good, regular and\\ndefensible manner, to contain seven miles square, and begin\\nwhere Contoocook river falls into Merrimack river, and thence\\nto extend upon a course east seventeen degrees south four miles,\\nto be the northerly bounds of the said township and from the\\nextreme parts of that line to be set off southerly at right angles,\\nuntil seven miles shall be accomplished from the said north\\nbounds. And that the petitioners may be encouraged and fully\\nempowered to prosecute their intended settlements Ordered,\\nThat the Hon. William Tailer, Esq., Elisha Cooke, Esq., Spencer\\nPhipps, Esq., William Dudley, Esq., John Wainwright, Esq.,\\nCapt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and\\nMr. Joseph Wilder, (any five of whom to be a quorum) be a Com-\\nmittee to take special care, that the following rules and condi-\\ntions be punctually observed and kept by all such as shall be ad-\\nmitted to bring forward the proposed settlements, namely\\nThat the aforesaid tract of land be allotted and divided into\\none hundred and three equal parts and shares as to quantity and\\nquality and that one hundred persons or families, such only as\\nin the judgment of the Committee shall be well able to pursue\\nand bring to pass their several settlements on the said lands\\nwithin the space of three years at farthest from the first day of\\nJune next. That each and every intended settler, t\u00c2\u00a9 whom a\\nlot, with the rights and privileges thereto belonging, shall be\\nassigned, shall pay into the hands of the Committee, for the use\\nof the Province, at the time of drawing his lot, the sum of five\\npounds, and be obliged to build a good dwelling house, fit com-\\nfortably to receive and entertain a family who shall inhabit the\\nsame and also break up and sufficiently fence in six acres of\\nland for their home lot within the term aforesaid. And that the\\nfirst fifty settlements shall be begun and perfected upon the east-\\nern side of the said river Merrimack, and the several houses shall\\nbe erected on their home lots not above twenty rods the one\\nfrom the other where the land will possibly admit thereof, in the\\nmost regular and defensible manner, the Committee, in their best\\nprudence, can project and order the houses and home lots on", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 APPENDIX.\\neach side of the river to be alike subjected unto the above men-\\ntioned conditions. That a convenient house for the public wor-\\nship of God be completely tinished within the term aforesaid,\\nfor the accommodation of all such as shall inhabit the aforesaid\\ntract of land,upon such part thereof as shall be agreed upon bj the\\nsaid Committee, for the ease of the community and that there\\nshall be reserved, allotted, and laid out for the first minister that\\nshall be lafvfuly settled among them, one full right, share, and\\nproportion of and in the aforesaid tract of land, with all rights\\nand privileges thereto belonging. His house lot to be laid out\\nnext adjoining to the land whereon the meeting house shall\\nstand. One other full right, share, and proportion of and in the\\naforesaid tract of land, to be appropriated for the use of the\\nschool forever and one other ministerial lot of equal value\\nwith the rest, the home lot appertaining thereto affixed near to\\nthe meeting house. And for the better enabling the intended\\nsettlers to perfect what they are hereby enjoined, and empower-\\ning them to remove all such lets and impediments as they may\\nmeet with in their progress and lawful undertaking, that when\\nand 60 soon as there shall be one hundred persons accepted and\\nallowed by the Committee to go on and improve those lands for\\nthe ends and uses above specified, upon application made to the\\naforesaid Committee, it shall and may be lawful for them to no-\\ntify the undertakers to meet at some convenient time and place,\\nthey being seasonably notified of such meeting, who, when as-\\nsembled, shall make such necessary rules and orders as to them\\nshall be thought most conducible for the carrying forward and\\neffecting the aforesaid settlement provided, that three-fourth\\nparts of the persons present at such meeting aie consenting to\\nwhat rules or orders shall be then proposed and agreed upon,\\ntwo or more of the Committee to be present at such meeting,\\nwho shall enter into a fair book, to be kept for that purpose, all\\nsuch rules, orders, and directions agreed on as aforesaid, and give\\nout copies thereof when required the whole charge of the\\nCommittee to be paid by the settlers. And that when they shall\\nhave performed the conditions above expressed, provided it be\\nwithin the space of three jears as before limited, that then the\\nsaid Committee for and in behalf of this Court execute good and\\nsufficient deeds and conveyances in the law, to all such settlers\\nfor the aforesaid tract of land, with all the rights, members,\\nprofits, privileges, and immunities thereon standing, growing, or\\nbeing for the sole use of them, their heirs and assigns forever,\\nwith a saving of all or any former grant or grants.\\nBy order of the Committee.\\nN. BYFIELD.\\nIn Council, January llth, 1725. Read and ordered that this\\nReport be accepted\\n^ent down for concurrence.\\nJ. WILLARD, Sec ry.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n83\\nIn the House of Representatives, January 17th, 1725. Read\\nand concurred.\\nWM. DUDLEY, Speaker.\\nConsented td^\\nWM. DUMMER.\\n[NO. II.]\\nNames of the Original Proprietors of the town of Ruinford.\\nNathaniel Abbot\\nJohn Austin\\nSamuel Ajer\\nJohn Ayer\\nJacob Abbot\\nObadiah Ayer\\nZebadiah Barker, alias Edw.\\nAbbot\\nThomas Blanchard\\nWilliam Barker\\nNathaniel Barker, alias Solo.\\nMartin\\nJoshua Bay ley\\nMoses Boardman\\nNathan Blodgett\\nJohn Bayley, alias Samuel\\nWhite\\nNathaniel Clement\\nJohn Chandler\\nBenjamin Carlton\\nChristopher Carlton\\nNehemiah Carlton\\nRichard Coolidge, aliae\\nSamuel Jones\\nJohn Coggin\\nEdward Clark\\nEnoch Coffin\\nThomas Coleman\\nNathaniel Cogswell\\nMoses Day\\nJoseph Davis\\nSamuel Davis\\nDavid Dodge\\nEphraim Davis\\nEbenezer Eastmau\\nJacob Eames\\nStephen Emerson\\nJohn Foster\\nEphraim Farnum\\nWilliam Foster\\nNathan Fisk, alias Zachariah\\nChandler\\nJohn Grainger\\nSamuel Grainger\\nBenjamin Gage\\nWilliam Gutterson\\nNehemiah Heath\\nEphraim Hildreth\\nJoseph Hale\\nMoses Hazzen\\nJonathan Hubbard, alias Daniel\\nDavis\\nRichard Hazzen\\nJoseph Hall\\nTimothy Johnson\\nJohn Jaques\\nNathanieUones\\nRobert Kimball\\nSamuel Kimball\\nDavid Kimball\\nNathaniel Lovejoy\\nEbenezer Lovejoy\\nThomas Learned\\nJohn Merrill\\nJohn Mattis\\nAndrew Mitchel\\nMinister\\nBenjamin Nichols\\nJohn Osgood\\nStephen Osgood\\nBenjamin Parker\\nThomas Page\\nRobert Peaslee\\nJoseph Parker\\nNathan Parker\\nNathaniel Page\\nSamuel Phillips\\nJames Parker", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84\\nAPPENDIX.\\nJonathan Pulsipher\\nI^athaniel Peaslee\\nJohn Pecker\\nJoseph Page\\nJohn Peabody\\nParsonage\\nSamuel Reynolds\\nHenry Rolfe\\nJohn Sanders\\nEbenezer Stevens\\nJohn Sanders, jr.\\nBenjamin Stevens\\nNathaniel Saunders\\nJames Simonds\\nZorobabel Snow\\nJonathan Shiplejr\\nNathan Simonds\\nSchool\\nSamuel Tappan\\nBezaleel Tappan\\nRichard Urann\\nEbenezer Virgin\\nJohn Wright\\nWilliam White\\nNicholas White\\nAmmi Ruhamah Wise\\nIsaac Walker\\nDavid Wood\\nWilliam Whitt er\\nThQmas Wicomb\\nEdward Winn.\\n[NO. III.]\\nTo His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. Captain General and\\nGovernor in Chief in and over his Majesty s Province of JSl ew-\\nHampshirc, in JVew-England.^ the Honorable the Council^ and the\\nHouse of Representatives., in General Court convened.\\nThe Memorial and Petition of Benjamin Rolfe, in the name\\nand behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Rumford, in said\\nProvince, humbly sheweth That the said town has been settled\\nby his Majesty s subjects about seventeen years, and a gospel\\nminister ordained there about twelve. That the settlers 1 ad an\\neye at enlarging his Majesty s dominions, by going into the wil-\\nderness, as well as at their own interest. That many thousand\\npounds have been spent in clearing and cultivating the lands\\nthere, and many more in erecting mansion-houses, out-houses,\\nbarns, and fences besides a large additional sum in fortifica-\\ntions, lately made by his Excellency the Governor s order. That\\nthe buildings are compact, and properly formed for defence, and\\nwell situated for a barrier, being on the Merrlmr.ck river, about\\nfifteen miles below the confluence of Winnipishoky [Winnepisi-\\nogee] and Pemissawasset [PemigewassetJ rivers. Loth which are\\nmain gang-ways of the Canadians to the frontiers of this Prov-\\nince. That the breaking up of the settlement will not only ruin\\nthe memorialists, but in their humble opinion, greatly disserve\\nhis Majesty s interest, by encouraging his enennes to encroach\\non his direlict dominions, and be all-hurtful to the Pr vince, by\\ncontracting its borders, and by dravvii! the war nearer to the\\ncapital. That it was by a long and iinijortunate intercession of\\nthis Province, (and not of the memorialists seeking) that they\\nare cast under the immediate care of this government, which,\\nthey apprehend, gives them so much the better right to its pro-\\ntection. That the memorialists have hitherto cheerfully paid", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n85\\ntheir proportionate part of the public taxes assigned them by\\nthe o-eneral court, even without being privileged with a repre-\\nsentative in said court. That, as war is already declared against\\nFrance, and a rupture with the Indians hourly expected, your\\nmemorialists, unless they have speedy help, will be soon obliged\\nto evacuate their town, how disserviceable soever it may be to\\nthe Crown, dishonorable to the government, hurtful to the Prov-\\nince, and ruinous to themselves. Y^ herefore your memorialists\\nmost humbly supplicate your Excellency, the Honorable Council,\\nand House of Representatives, to take the premises into your\\nwise and mature consideration, and to grant them such season-\\nable relief as may enable them to maintain his Majesty s domin-\\nions in so well situated a barrier, and so ancient and well regu-\\nlated a settlement, as well as to secure their own lives and for-\\ntunes against the ravages and devastations of a blood-thirsty and\\nmerciless enemy. And your memorialists, as in duty bound, ,c.\\n(Signed) BENJAMIN ROLFE.\\nPortsmouth, June 27, 1744.\\n[NO. IV.]\\nTo His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. Governor and Conv-\\nmander in Chief in and over His Majesty a Province of Neiso-\\nHampshire^ in JYew-England^ and to the Honorable His Majesty^s\\nCouncil of said Province.\\nThe Memorial of Benjamin Rolfe, in th name and behalf of\\nthe inhabitants of Rumford, in said Province, humbly sheweth,\\nThat your memorialists are settled on a tract of land granted by\\nthe General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in\\nNew-England, Anno Domini, 1725, and that the said tract of\\nland was erected into a township by an act of said General Court,\\nAnno Domini, 1733. The bounds of said township being as\\nfollows, viz. Beginning where Contoocook river falls into Mer-\\nrimack river, and thence to extend upon a course east seven-\\nteen degrees north three miles, and upon a course west seven-\\nteen degrees south four miles, which is the northerly bounds of\\nthe said township and from the other parts of that line to be\\nset off southerly at right angles until seven miles and one hun-\\ndred rods shall be accomplished from the said northern bounds.\\nAnd that his Majesty in Council taking the said act into consid-\\neration, Anno Domini, 1737, was graciously pleased to declare\\nhis approbation thereof; and by the late settlement of the\\nboundaries between the said Provinces, by his Majesty in Coun-\\ncil, the said township is within this Province. And by an act of\\nthe General Assembly of this Province, of March 18th, 1741-2,\\nRumford aforesaid was made a district, it not being incorporated\\nwithin any township or parish within this Province and by said\\nact your memorialists were subjected to pay a tax towards the\\n12", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 APPENDIX.\\nsupport of this government, which they have punctually and\\ncheerfully done every year since, pursuant to acts of this gov-\\nernment. And your memorialists, by power given them by the\\ndistrict acts, so called, for about six years last past, have annu-\\nally raised money for defraying our ministerial, school, and other\\nnecessary charges of said Rumford, and taxed the inhabitants ac-\\ncordingly but the district act expiring sometime last summer,\\nthere is now no law of this Province whereby your memorialists\\ncan raise any money for the year current, for the charges afore-\\nsaid. And your memorialists have abundant reason to think that\\nthe Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, who has been settled with us as\\nour minister for about twenty years, (unless we can speedily be\\nput into a capacity to make a tax for his salary) will be neces-\\nsitated to leave us, which will be to our great loss and inex-\\npressible grief for he is a gentleman of an unspotted character,\\nand universally beloved by us. Our public school will also of\\ncourse fail, and our youth thereby be deprived, in a great meas-\\nure, of the means of learning, which we apprehend to be of a\\nvery bad consequence. Our school-master, who is a gentleman\\nof a liberal education, and came well recommended to us, and\\nlately moved his family from Andover to Rumford, on account of\\nhis keeping school for us, will be greatly damaged and disap-\\npointed. And your memorialists, under their present circum-\\nstances, are deprived of all other privileges which a well regu-\\nlated town (as such) enjoy.\\nYour memorialists, therefore, most humbly pray, that your\\nExcellency and Honors would take our deplorable circumstances\\ninto your wise and mature consideration, and afford us relief by\\nincorporating us into a township by our ancient boundaries as\\naforesaid, and by endowing of us with such privileges as any of\\nthe towns in this Province by law do or ought to enjoy. And\\nyour memorialists as in duty bound shall ever pray.\\nBENJAMIN ROLFE.\\nPortsmouth, January 24, 1749.\\n[NO. v.]\\nDocuments relating to the Controversy between the Proprietors of\\nRumford and Bow.\\nTHE STATE OF THE CASE,\\nLately decided at the Superior Court of New-Hampshire., between\\nThe Proprietors of Bow^ P\\\\fs- and John Merrill, Def [1750.]\\nThe action was ejectment brought by said proprietors against\\nhiin for the recovery of about eight acres of land, situate in Bow,\\nand particularly described in their writ, with the buildings and\\nappurtenances thereof, to the inferior court of common pleas,\\niholden at Portsmouth, December, 1760, and at the defendant s\\nrequest continued to the next term of said court, he being a pur-", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 87\\nchaser of part of the land he holds, to vouch in his warrantor.\\nBut as he did not appear, the said John was obliged to defend\\nhimself, or give up the land demanded, on which some of his\\nbuildings stand. He therefore gave an issuable plea, and there-\\nupon obtained judgment, from which the plaintiffs appealed to\\nthe then next superior court, entered their appeal, and after\\nseveral continuances, parties had an hearing, and judgment was\\nrendered for the plaintiffs to recover the premises demanded.\\nThis judgment the defendant reviewed. But judgment was again\\nrendered for the plaintiffs. From which judgment he would have\\nappealed to the king in council, or to the governor and council\\nhere in a court of appeaJs but both were denied, as the premises\\ndemanded were not of sufficient value to allow either, according\\nto the province law in such cases. But as there is much more\\nthan what is of value sufficient to allow either of those appeals,\\ndepending upon the same title, the defendant is aggrieved at the\\ndenial as well as at the judgment he would have appealed from.\\nIt is proposed here to take notice of the most remarkable things\\noffered by each party. But as it is a known rule in these cases,\\nthat the plaintiff must recover (if at all) by the strength of his\\nown title, and not by the weakness or defect of the defendant s,\\nit may not be amiss more particularly to con ider the title of\\nthese plaintiffs and the objections made against it on the part of\\nthe defendant and then briefly to mention the defendant s title,\\nand the objections the plaintiffs offer to that, with what is said in\\nbehalf of the defendant in reply to those objections.\\nThe plaintiffs urge, that the right to all the lands in the prov-\\nince was originally in the crown. That by a special clause in\\nthe governor s commissions for this province, from time to time,\\nthey were authorised to grant these lands to the inhabitants, with\\nthe advice of the council, in order to the regular settlement\\nthereof. That in the absence of the chief governor, this power,\\nwith others contained in the commission, devolved upon the\\nlieutenant-governor. That under the commission to governor\\nShute, this happened to be the case. And in his absence the late\\nlieutenant-governor Wentworth, being commander in chief, on\\nthe 20th of May, 1727, at Portsmouth, with the advice of the\\ncouncil, by a charter of that date, granted to sundry of his Majes-\\nty s subjects, then inhabitants of the province, whose names\\nwere contained in a schedule annexed, a tract of land in said\\nprovince, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning on the south-\\neast side of the town of Chichester, and running nine miles by\\nChichester and Canterbury, and Crirrying that breadth of nine\\nmiles from each of the aforesaid towns south-west, until the full\\ncomplement of eighty-one square miles are fully made up, with\\nsundry privileges and limitations therein. That about twenty\\nmonths after the date of this charier, a committee of the grantees\\nentered, surveyed the land granted, and marked out the bounds,\\nas appears by a return under their hands, in what manner they\\nproceeded. And this transaction, they say, gave the grantees the", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 APPENDIX.\\nactual seisin and possassion of the whole. Though they also say,\\nthat this as to the purpose of giving them the seisin, is ex abiirt-\\ndanti^ for the grantees by operation of law, were seized imme-\\ndiately upon the executing their charter. But this entry and\\nsurvey were especially designed that they might know and dis-\\ntinguish their township from others. That as they were thus\\nseized of the whole by consequence of the premises demanded, as\\nthese are confessed to be within the aforesaid bounds. That\\nabout five years after this, they enclosed a parcel ri this land,\\non the easterly side of Merrimack river, by conjecture about\\nthree miles square. All which facts, they prove by sundry tes-\\ntimonies in the case. Four of which amount to nothing more of\\nany consequence than is declared in the return of the said survey.\\nBut take them altogether, the plaintiffs allege, they prove an ac-\\ntual entry on and possession of part, which they say is construc-\\ntively a possession of the whole, and that continued so tor the\\nterm of five or six years and from that time to this, (about a\\nyear) they have been improving of part of said land, which gives\\nthem a ri^ht to oust any person, who has enteied and possesses\\nany part within the bounds of their charter, in any other right or\\nclaim.\\nWhat they further offer, is either by way of reply to the defend-\\nant s objections, or as objections to the defendant s title.\\nNow to this title the defendant objects, and urges sundry con-\\nsiderations. In the first place he submitted, and would again,\\nupon a new trial, be glad to submit the point to be adjudged,\\nwhether the plaintiffs have proved their declaration. They de-\\nclare, that on the 12th day of June, 1727, they were seized of\\nthe premises, with others their common lands in said town of\\nBow, in fee, taking the profits thereof to the value, ic. and con-\\ntinued to be so seized thereof for one year then next ensuing,\\nand ought now to have quiet and peaceable possession thereof\\nyet the said John, within 23 years last past hath, without judg-\\nment of law, entered into the premises demanded, disseized the\\nplaintiffs thereof, .c. To say nothing of the peculiarity of this\\ndeclaration, the seisin which the plaintiffs allege they had, must\\nmean (if it has any meaning) a seisin in fact, for no person ever\\ntook the profits by virtue of a seisin in law only. Now they nev-\\ner sat a foot on the lands contained within the bounds of their\\ncharter, till the aforesaid survey, and how their seisin on the\\n12th of June is proved by an entry above twenty months after,\\nis ditTicult to conceive. Besides this, the settlers of the planta-\\ntion, called Pennicoke, wluch comprehends the lands in question,\\nhad been in possession of it above a year before the date of this\\ncharter, (as will appear beyond dispute, when we consider the\\ndefendant s title,) at present, only observe what is proved by\\nsundry testimonies produced by the deiendant, viz. That the\\nAprifand May before the date of Bow charter, there were fifty\\nmen at work on the said plantation, clearing land, hewing tim-\\nber for a meeting-house, and pursuing other measures, in order", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 89\\nto settle a town there. That they prosecuted the affair with\\nsuch viijor, as to have a minister ordained and a church gather-\\ned in tlie year 1730. But they were clearing the land there\\nalmost two years before any of the proprietors of Bow had seen\\ntheir land and all they did, when they entered, was only to run\\na chain, and mark some trees, at a great distance, round these\\nlaborers. They neA er so much as saw the land now demanded,\\nwhere the settlers of Pennicoke were at work. And it appears,\\nthat they began to clear the land in question, when they first en-\\ntered because it is one of their house-lots, or home-lots, as thc-y\\nare commonly called, and in the nature of the thiiig, that should\\nbe first done. This possession has been continued without in-\\nterruption to this day and indeed may well be computed (by\\nthe plaintiffs rule of possessing land by walking round it) from\\ntwo years before April above mentioned.\\nNow upon these facts, conccj;ning the manner of entry and\\npossession of these parties, it is easy to see with what propriety\\nthe plaintiffs could declare upon their own seisin; and with what\\nregard to truth it can be said to be proved.\\nBut to proceed. Upon supposition the lands which the plaii-\\ntiffs claim were the King s, at the time their charter was made,\\n(which was not the case in fact) yet the plaintiffs have not de-\\nrived that right to themselves, for this obvious reason The\\nGovernor s authority to grant the King s lands was limited by the\\nright of jurisdiction, and that, by the commission to that part of\\nthe province of New-Hampshire, lying and extending itself\\nfrom three miles northward of Merrimack river, or any part\\nthereof, to the province of Maine, (now the county of York)\\nwhich is the easterly boundary of the commission. The wester-\\nly boundary of which, is the line running three miles northward\\nof Merrimack as aforesaid. Now the land demanded by the\\nplaintiffs in this suit lies on the westerly side of Merrimack riv-\\ner, more than three miles without the Governor s jurisdiction,\\nby this commission, and consequently, he had no power to grant\\nit for if it should be supposed he might grant the King s lands,\\nout of his jurisdiction, where should he stop by what limits\\ncould he be restrained From the reason and necessity of the\\nthing, therefore, it must be allowed, that the right of govern-\\nment, and the granting of lands was limited to the same ter-\\nritory. And the words of the commission necessarily imply, it\\ndid not extend over o// that was called New-Hampshire. If it is\\nconceded, then, that these lands are within the province of New-\\nHampshire, and were so at the date of the plaintiffs charter,\\nyet that concession will avail the plaintiffs nothing in this case.\\nAnother objection to the plaintiff s demand arises from the\\nmanner of their running out the bounds of their township. By\\ntheir charter they were to begin on the south-east side of the\\ntownship of Chichester. lastead of that, they began on the\\nsouth-7iyes side, as their return sets forth. Now what could jus-\\ntify their proceeding in this manner If the land where they", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 APPENDIX.\\nwere to begin was appropriated before, that could not avithorize\\nthem to be their own carvers, to take what they are pleased to\\nestimate an equivalent, without a new grant, which they never\\nbad, nor did they ever make a return to the authority from\\nwhence they derived their title, for confirmation of what they\\nhad thus unwarrantably assumed for by their running, they take\\nin a considerable tract of land, really without their charter, and\\nwhich belongs to others. And if there was a mistake to their\\nprejudice in the bounds given them, that is no new thing the\\nKing himself is sometimes deceived in his grants. In such a\\ncase they should have applied to the grantor for redress. They\\nallege they could not begin on the south-east side of Chichester,\\nbecause it joined to Nottingham on that side but if it was so,\\nwhat necessity of going four miles on Chichester before they\\nbegan their measure Their return, indeed, says, they were\\ndirected to leave four miles, ,c. this is no more than their own\\ntale, for nothing appears to discover by whom, when, or where,\\nthis direction was given. But a verbal direction was not suffi-\\ncient in this case they should have taken their land according\\nto their grant and tis as probable as any thing they say as to\\nthis matter, the true motive for making this leap, (not in the\\ndark) was to get better land. Now the defendant avers it to be\\nfact, that if they had run as they ought, from the southerly cor-\\nner of Chichester, they would not have reached the land de-\\nmanded.\\nBut now to come closer to this title, as derived from the\\nCrown, the defendant says that the right to all the lands the plain-\\ntiffs claim as contained in their charter, was long before granted\\nby the council of Plymouth, in whom the right of the Crown to\\nthem was vested, to Capt. John Mason, (if there had been no\\npreceding grant from said council) which was confix*med by King\\nCharles L, and has been recognized by every crowned head to\\nKing George I., from whose time till lately nothing was said of\\nit, by reason of the absence or minority of the heir. By all\\nwhich it appears that this right of Mason was always adjudged\\ngood. Now as the s iid lands were all waste or unimproved, ex-\\ncept what the settlers at Pennicoke had done upon that which\\nthey claimed of them, they, beyond all question, belonged (agree-\\nable to Queen Anne s orders and the concession of the Assembly\\nhere) to those who had Mason s right. And if this was the case,\\nthe Governor s grant could be of none effect as to these lands\\nfor the power of the Governor extends only to the right of the\\nCrown, of which the Crown was long before divested. Hence it\\nfollows, the plaintiffs title under the government cannot serve\\nthem, of which the defendant may take advantage for it is a\\nwell known rule that a defendant may plead any man s title\\nagainst the plaintiff.\\nAnd here the plaintiffs agree with the defendant, and allow the\\nright was Mason s, and that they cannot avail themselves of the\\noharter aforesaid, only as a description of what they claimed, and", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "JUTENDIX. 91\\nwere in possession of but say, they have that right, for that Mr.\\nMason s heir sold to Theodore Atkinson, Esq. and others, by\\ndeed, dated the 30th of July, 1746, and that the purchasers, by\\ntheir deed of release, dated 31st of July aforesaid, conveyed tlaeir\\nright to the plaintiffs, among others. And here the defendant,\\nnot willing to be in arrears, will in his turn at present agree\\nwith the plaintiffs, that they have Mason s right to their lands, and\\nmake no question whether the right of Capt. John Mason is now\\nin his heirs or Allen s. But then must que re how a right, ac-\\nquired in 1746, could give an actual seisin of the lands, the right\\nto which was then purchased, so long before the purchase as\\n1727 that is, whether a man, by virtue of a deed made to-day,\\ncould be in actual possession of the land conveyed by it nineteen\\nyears ago Moreover, the defendant must deny a right was con-\\nveyed by this release to the lands demanded, and whatever else\\nis within the bounds of Rumford, that is the plantation of Pen-\\nnicoke, for this reason. It is common learning on this subject,\\nthat a release operates only to those in possession, and the plain-\\ntiffs own declaration shows they have been out of possession\\nabove twenty years. What benefit then have the plaintiffs by\\nthis release as to the lands aforesaid\\nBut now if we look into the release, we shall find it is n ade as\\nmuch to the defendant as any person whomsoever. For he is an\\ninhabitant of Bow, as the plaintiffs themselves style him, and thi\u00c2\u00ab\\nrelease is made to the inhabitants as well as to proprietors, of\\nwhat they possess and as the defendant had possessed so long\\nin his own right, he must of necessity be quieted by this release,\\nif it has any effect at all, and it would be doing the greatest vio-\\nlence to the words of it, to give them any other construction as\\nto this point and if so, it is submitted whether the plaintiffs or\\ndefendant has Mason s right. But what may further be objected\\nto the plaintiffs on this head, and indeed is what first occurs, it is\\na well known point of law, a chose in action or a mere right\\ncannot be transferred, and Mason s title was no more, as to all\\nthe lands in the possession of those who were not parties at the\\ntime of making the said deed to Atkinson and others. The lands\\ndemanded, a? well as all the plantation of Pennicoke, had been\\nnear twenty years in the possession of entire strangers to that\\ntransaction. And then what title can the plaintiffs derive to\\nthemselves under this conveyance to the lands in question This,\\nand much more, the defendant conceives may well be offered in\\nhis defence, sufficient to defeat the plaintiffs action, upon sup-\\nposition he had no title. But that is not the case. We shall now\\nconsider the defendant s title.\\nIn the year 1725, upon the petition of Benjamin Stevens and\\nothers, a tract of land of seven miles square, at a place called\\nPennicoke, by the government of the Massachusetts Bay, was\\nappropriated for a township, the bounds of which were as fol-\\nlows, viz. To begin where Contoocoke river falls into Merri-\\nmack river, thence extending east seventeen degrees north\\nthree miles, and west seventeen degrees south four miles, which", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 APPENDIX.\\nis the northerly bound of said township and from the extreme\\nparts of that line southerly at right angles till seven miles are ac-\\ncomplished from the north bounds. Now it is agreed on all\\nhands, that within these bounds the lands demanded are contain-\\ned. And as the proprietors of Bow have run the bounds of the\\nlands they claim, they take in something more than two-thirds of\\nwhat is contained within the bounds above described. And, there-\\nfore, as they have recovered part, they expect to recover the\\nwhole that lies within what they are pleased to call their limits\\nfor other parcels of which there are several other actions now\\npending. And here it may not be amiss to take notice of the\\nvexatious method they take to recover what they claim, by\\nprosecuting a great number of actions, each for a small parcel\\nof land, that they may prevent an appeal home, and that they\\nmay have the advantage of the ignorance and prejudice of com-\\nmon juries. And with a view to weary out and dishearten the\\ndefendants, who live at a great distance from Portsmouth, where\\nall the courts are held, with the expense of charges occasioned\\nto them by such a number of suits. Whereas they might as well\\nhave taken an action for all that lies in common, in the name of\\nthe proprietors of Bow, against the proprietors of Rumford, as\\nwell as the action against the present defendant, and others of\\nthe like kind. But to return. Among those who were to settle\\nthis town, is the name of the defendant and one Nathaniel Page,\\nunder whom he purchased a part of what is sued for. In the\\nyear 1726, a division of lots of upland and interval was laid out\\nto the settlers, to hold in severalty, among which was the land\\ndemanded, part of which is that the defendant purchased of one\\nJoseph Davis. These settlers prosecuted the settlement with\\nsuch vigor, that in the year 1730 they had a minister settled,\\nand a church gathered in said township. And in the year 1733,\\nthey were incorporated into a town, by the name of Rumford,\\n(it not being the custom in this government to incorporate a tract\\nof waste land without an inhabitant, but tirst to seLlle the land,\\nand then make the settlers a corporation.) The act, by which\\nthis corporation was made, was contirmed by the King after-\\nwards, in the year 1737. And notwithstanding their distance\\nfrom other settlements, within, and none without them, the difli-\\nculties and hardships which necessarily attend those who first\\nset down upon land in a perfect wilderness, where there is not\\nthe least sign that ever English foot had trod the ground before\\nthem and especially the danger, expense, and fatigue of an\\nIndian war, which they encountered.* Notwithstanding all these\\nand other discouragements, these settlers have stood their\\nground ever since their first entry have persevered in their\\nresolution, have planted a tine town, supply themselves and many\\nBesides an actual war, they have l)een frequently ririven into garrisins, and\\nkept in continual fears for years togett)er, or at least the whole summer season,\\nwhich was occasioned ay,aiH the next, by the threats and surly temper of the\\nInciiaas.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 93\\nothers withia them with provisions, afford other places both de-\\nfence and sustenance, and are likely to be a great advantage to\\nthe province of New-Hampshire in general. Yet these are the\\npeople the proprietors of Bow would eject would oust, not only\\nof their all, but of that all they have thus dearly purchased. For\\nwhat the said proprietors claim takes in all (withia a very trifle)\\nof the said improvements, which they would now cruelly, (I may\\nsay) ravish from them, after they themselves, with folded arms\\nand indolence, have stood by a long time, and seen the others,\\nwith the greatest toil and expense, make these improvements.\\nAnd the only reason that can be given for it is, they want some-\\nthing of this kind, and having none, they have made of their\\nown they take this as the shortest way of obtaining it. For\\nto this day these proprietors of Bow have not settled five fam-\\nilies within their whole township and there is a great part of it\\nclear of any dispute, and that part too which is nearest to the\\nsettlements within, yet nothing is done there, but they must\\nneeds overlook that, to come at this, the mark at which their\\nwhole view was directed. In short, they have not in the run of\\ntwenty years done as much towards settling a plantation, as they\\nmight, and as the others did, in two years yet they are so par-\\ntial to themselves, so blinded by interest, as to think, that be-\\ncause they once run a line round this land, c. above twenty\\nyears ago, they have an indefeasible right to it, which yet they\\nare unwilling to have brought to the test, and decided fairly in\\nthe cheapest way, but endeavor, by piece meal, to destroy the\\npossessors. In tine, it seems they have set their eyes and hearts\\nupon this vineyard, and per/as aut nefas they must have it for\\nthe actions they have recovered (which are several) have beeu\\nagainst common right, the common known principles of law, and\\nplain common sense. So much do they find their account in,\\nand means to obtain juries, entire strangers to these things, or\\nunder the influence of a principle worse than ignorance.\\nBut the plaintiffs object to the defendant s title several mat-\\nters. That which they pretend to be very material is first\\nThe land called Rumford lies not within the bounds of what is\\nnow the province of the Massachusetts Bay, according to the last\\nsettlement of the line, the defendant himself will own and that\\nsettlement was not a new boundary now first made, but is to be\\nconsidered in this view, viz. A declaration of his Majesty, of\\nwhat was always the true boundaries of these provinces, that\\nthe province of New-Hampshire was always supposed to join to\\nthe Massachusetts, wherever the dividing lines should be fixed,\\nand the lands now under consideration, lying in New-Hampshire,\\nthe governnr.ent of the Massachusetts had no jurisdiction, or,\\nwhich amounts to the same, if these lands were out of their\\njurisdiction, and the right of granting of lands was limited to\\nthe right of jurisdiction their grant was void ab initio and\\ntherefore the settlers under them could derive no title to them-\\n13", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 APPENDIX.\\nselves, but must be looked upon as, or actually were, disseisors.\\nBut as their entry was recent when Bow was granted, the pro-\\nprietors might lawlirily enter upon them especially considering\\nthe government of New-Hampshire had forewarned and forbid\\nthe committee, who were on the business of beginning the set-\\ntlement of Pennicoke, to proceed in the name of the govern-\\nment of New-Hampshire. So there was really nothing in the\\nway of the proprietors of Bow, any more than if there had been\\nnobody there.\\nBefore notice is taken of the principal objection, it cannot\\nescape the most superficial observer, how weak it is for the\\nplaintiffs to lay stress on this forewarning, by order of the gov-\\nernment of New-Hampshire. uikI in the next breath, as it were,\\nto confess, that the government had nothing to do with it that\\nthe land was private property to which this related, an hundred\\nyears before. But as to the grand objection the defendant re-\\nplies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 When the land as appropriated as aforesaid for a town-\\nshii^ the government jf the Massachusetts had the jurisdiction\\nin faot. Suppose it not to be dc jtire^ to whom were they answer-\\nable for mal-administration not to the proprietors of Bow, nor\\neven the government of New-Hampshire, for that government,\\nby the commission then in force, did not reach to the place now\\nunder consideration, by several miles, as was hinted before\\nthen they could have nothing to do or say in the case. Who then\\nwas to correct this usurpation The King was so far from\\ncharging them with any imputation of that kind, that he approv-\\ned and confirmed the act by which the inhabitants of this planta-\\ntion were incorporated and as to the proprietors of Mason s\\nright, they were glad they had such good neighbors, for every\\nacre these inhabitants cultivated, doubled the value of as many\\nacres of those proprietors. Moreover, the government of the\\nMassachusetts exercised all the powers and authorities of govern-\\nment, both legislative and executive, over all places, to the line\\nthree miles northward of Merrimack aforesaid, till the said last\\nsettlement, which were never annulled, or declared to be void,\\nas must have been the case, had this notion been entertained,\\nwhich these plaintifls advance, that the said settlement of the\\nline was only a declaration of what was always the true bounda-\\nries of these provinces or that all which the Massachusetts had\\ndone in this regard, was a mere nullity. And if the King has\\nnot seen it proper to nullify all those acts of government, what\\nhave the plaintiffs to do in the case It seems necessary that\\nall should be deemed valid, or all void or by what rule can a\\ndistinction be fixed Besides, the settlement of this line, was on-\\nly to settle the jurisdiction, and not to affect private property\\nnor was it ever designed to furnish a rule whereby that should\\nbe determined. And the acts done by either government with-\\nin their respective limits, as exercised and used before the set-\\ntlement, must be held valid to all intents, to avoid that confusion\\nwhich the contrary notion would necessarily introduce, and", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n95\\nwhich arises from connecting ideas which have no necessary con-\\nnexion. Th=)t is, that the rights of government and the rights\\nof property are always united, or that the latter has a necessary\\ndependance on the former which, with respect to this very\\nline, has in fact stirred a multitude of suits. If this opinion was\\ntrue, the jurisdiction of a goverament ought never to be altered,\\nwithout first hearing all parties whose properties would be\\nthereby affected, which must be all those who have any real\\nestates between the old and new line. And in what case of this\\nnature was this ever done And yet if settled without it, that is\\nwithout hearing such parties and determining their respective\\nrights, this position would, in case of such alteration, (which\\nfrf^quently happens) be productive of the greatest mischief to\\nprivate persons, not only by exposing them to suits, but by the\\nruin of those who held under the government whose jurisdic-\\ntion should be contracted. Suppose the alteration in this cas\u00c2\u00ab\\nTas it might) had been, by fixing the line ten or twenty miles\\nfurther eastwards, would the notion that such a settlement was\\nonly a declaration of what was always, fee. then have prevailed\\nand that all the real estates lying westward of the line must be-\\nlong to the inhabitants of the Massachusetts, and the old posses-\\nsors be sent a grazing, or to look out and subdue new lands, and\\nperhaps by that time they should be well settled, the like event\\nmight happen. Besides, where shall we stop Many or most of\\nthe ancient inhabitants within the towns of the same govern-\\nment, have derived their estates from town grants, which aie\\nlaid out on any of the commons not beiore laid out in severalty,\\nor appropriated. And by this rule, upon an alteration of the\\nbounds of any two towns contiguous, there must arise the like\\ntransmutation of property and endless controversies for these\\ntowns are to many purposes distinct governments, and the gov-\\nernments are only larger corporations. Now the cases here put\\nare the same in kind, and differ only in degree. From all which\\nconsiderations, and many more that might be added, it follows,\\nthat ihe grants made by the government of the Massachusetts,\\nbefore the settlement of the said line, within the jurisdiGtion\\nthey then had in fact, as well as other acts of government, must\\nbe held good, and the grant under which the defendant holds\\namong the rest. Besides all this, with respect to the properly of\\nrtie soil, there is another matter to be considered. It appears\\nby the present charter of the Massachusetts, that the preperty of\\nthe soil from forty to forty-eight degrees of north latitude, was\\ngranted to the council of Plymouth, and is a fact so well known,\\nit is needless to offer evidence of it. It also appears by the re-\\ncital in said charter, that the said council by their deed, dated\\nthe 19th of March, the third of Charles 1. granted to Sir Henry\\nRoswell, and others there named, their heirs and assigns, and\\ntheir associates forever, all that part of New-England, c. com-\\nprehending the whole tract of land, which was called the Colony\\n0f the Massachusetts Bay, under the old charter. That about a", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96\\nAPPENDIX.\\nyear after, Kini* Charles confirtncdthis grrant by a double recital,\\nlirst by referring to the deed nuide by the council, and then by\\nthe particular bounds in that deed, and made the grantees and\\nothers their associates, a corporation on the place. That many\\nyears after this, in the latter part of the reign of King Charles II.\\nthis corporation was dissolved, by vacating the letters patent of\\nKing Charles I.\\nNoAv from these facts it may be observed, that the council\\nof Plymouth, having the fee, conveyed the same, of all the land\\nwithin the bounds of their deed of the 19th of March aforesaid,\\nto Sir Henry Rosv/ell, .c. as private persons, it being made a\\nyear before the corporation had existence, and had no relation\\nto any corporate capacity. That the confirmation of the Crown\\naforesaid admits that the grantees of the council had the fee oi\\nthe soil, which is the thing they designed to convey, and if it\\nhad not been done, there was nothing for the confirmation to\\nwork upon, for a confirmation of a void conveyance is also void.\\nThat the judgment, by which the corporation was dissolved, re-\\nlates wholly to the King s letters patent, by which the corpora-\\ntion was erected, and has no manner of reference to the deed\\nmade by the council of Plymouth. The quere here is then upon\\nannulling the charter of incorporation, what became of the fee\\nof the land purchased by some of the members of that corpora-\\ntion as private persons, before the corporation was in esse or\\nhow could the vacating or destroying a particular political rela-\\ntion, an ens rationis any wajs aft ect the right of property If it\\nis said, that the said judgment nullified those letters patent as a\\ndeed of confirmation Suppose it but what follows Nothing\\nas to this point. For the rule is, a confirmation is to bind the\\nright of him who makes it, but not to alter the nature of the\\nestate of him to whom made. Now if the grantees in the first\\ndeed had the fee by that, the confirmation, when in force, did\\nnot alter the nature of their estate, nor when annihilated, (if it\\ncould be so in that respect) did that affect it. Upon the whole,\\nas to this point, it is submitted whether the dissolution of the\\ncorporation aifected the right of property any more than it did\\nthe moral state of those who were the particular members. The\\nconsequence of all is, the right and property of ail the lands\\nwithin the bounds of that deed, was in those grantees, and still is\\nin those who bold under them. How far those bounds extended,\\nthe judgment of the King in council, according to the opinion of\\nthe Lords Chief Justices upon the complaint of Mason and Gorges,\\nin the year 1677, is an irrefragable determination. That as to\\nthat part of the bounds which relates to the lands of Rumford, it\\nwas to run parallel to the river at the distance of three miles\\nnorthwardly of it to the head, or as it is in the report, to the ut-\\nmost extent of the river, c. whereby it run a long ways bej^ood\\nthe said township of Rumford, so that (here can be no doubt\\nwhether it took in those lands. Now, supposing this right to\\nremain still in private hands, what have the government of New-", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 97\\nHampshire, or Mason either, to do with it And here again the\\napplication of the rule above referred to offers itself. The land\\nis neither the plaintiffs nor defendant s. How then shall the\\nplaintiffs recover Not by the known established rules of law,\\nbut by a new method the land the plaintiffs demand is not the\\ndefendant s, therefore they will have it. But here a question\\narises. Supposing all to be true with respect to this right that\\nhas been alleged, which way did it ever come to be the govern-\\nment s again And if the property still remains in private per-\\nsons, what have the government to do to parcel it out, and put\\nwhom they please in possession There is no doubt but the re-\\nincorporation restored the government to all they had before,\\nnot expressly excepted in the new charter and as they had the\\nKing s confirmation as a corporation, while that capacity con-\\ntinued, they must be supposed to hold by that but when that\\nwas annulled, they were remitted to their ancient right, which\\nthey had before the corporation was created. And it is submit-\\nted, whether by necessary operation of law, a corporation dis-\\nsolved, and afterwards incorporated by a new charter, either by\\nthe same or a new name, is not of course restored to all its old\\nrights and privileges, without express words in the new charter\\nfor that purpose and if it is, the question is answered. How-\\never the government has been in possession of, and has exercis-\\ned the right of granting the lands to the inhabitants more than\\nsixty years, and if any particular person or persons might once\\nhave claimed it, such right seems to be extinguished by non-\\nclaiming the possession or exercise aforesaid. The deed made\\nby the council of Plymouth is not in the case, nor is it to be\\nfound, nor any record of it, only by way of recital, it being; prob-\\nably consumed, and the record of it, with many other papers of\\na public nature, bj the violence of a fire that destroyed the\\nState-house, with a great part of the town of Boston, in the year\\n1711. But by the recital in the charter it may be depended\\nupon as undoubted fact, that there was such a deed.\\nThere is another objection made by the plaintiffs to the de-\\nfendant s title, which is, that the committee appointed by the\\nGeneral Court to have the care of settling these lands at Penui-\\ncoke, were to execute deeds to the settlers, which does not\\nappear to have been done, therefore they have no title.\\nThe answer to which is, there was no need of it, for the land\\nwas designed for those who would settle there the committee\\ndetermined who they should be, took a list of their names, then\\nthe lots severed were drawn in tlieir names, and sot off to them\\nand by the terms proposed, if they perfected the settlement, the\\nland was to be theirs. And by the act or law of the province, by\\nwhich they were incorporated, past the seventh of his Majesty s\\nreign, it appears that they had fully complied with the terms\\nthe General Court had fixed. So that the executing such deeds,\\nas it would have been a considerable trouble and charge, so it\\nwould have been ex abundanti, and was therefore omitted. 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Iidc Jiidt?* I d l\u00c2\u00bb\\n#rllitti iMid IMimmmI iiMr id IIm |Mi|ii r m|Mim \u00c2\u00ab\\\\ldi ti IImm MUliMUMoy\\niVliH itt\u00c2\u00bbi^|i1\u00c2\u00bb III imV: riiuMMlt I MMtldiMiddi ImiKlli. il \u00c2\u00abvlll Ii0\\nlldld \u00c2\u00abt\u00c2\u00abillM||l (U ltd |HMi|dit III Citiit Hid, will! \u00c2\u00ab^tll ItiM f* Hi f li t lt-\\nlll( DliiMMil Ml I Mjilttd liv IIma iinilltd l\\\\dl\\\\ I i\u00c2\u00ab|diMiMli *rii d\u00c2\u00abiid iloil\\nid lliit Uiii^y III i miiHtl llillMwa, widili, ili\u00c2\u00abMiHlir\u00c2\u00bbl^niM|i (m Mllt \u00c2\u00abi", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "APPKN1 IX. 99\\nMjipeulH, iH n[)pliciil)lo to Mic vyIioIp. Tlio cliHpulc, Iio\\\\v\u00c2\u00ab v\u00c2\u00ab*r, Wii\u00c2\u00ab\\nnot -.(\u00c2\u00bbii!i|\u00c2\u00bblel\u00c2\u00bb!l^ sellloti, tmlil the i\u00c2\u00bbru|iiicl()rH of \\\\Unv liiid rxiortcti\\nIiirj![\u00c2\u00ab; sums roin Um; inliahiluntH ol lliiiufonl, by \\\\\\\\i:\\\\y ol compio-\\ntniHf.|\\nAl llir \u00c2\u00bbiii( of S(. Jann H, the 2f)(li l:i^ ol DfctMuhor, 17() i.\\nI llKSKNT,\\nThe King s Most Excellent Majesty,\\nEiul of Ilmiliiif. loii, Visc.niinl I ^ihiionlh,\\nKill! of ll:ili(;ix, IVIr Vlcr hamlHTljiiii,\\nKjhI Northiu.ihorluiid, (ieoij^*-. (I renvillc, Vm([.\\nMiirl of Kj^n-iiionl, Henry I dx, Ks(|.\\nKarl Dcdawaic, Welhort! Mlliw, Km(|.\\nr |)oii reading al llie lioanl a l .4-|)(irl iVoiii tlie Hi ^hl lionoialilc\\ntin- LohIh of tlx Ci irunitl oi (yoiiiicil, lor li( arin a|)|M*aU\\nIroin th* laiita(ionH, dated th( I Ttli oC this instant, in lh\\nwords I oliowin}.^, viz.\\nYour IMajcsty liaviiij^ hecH |)U:as\u00c2\u00ab d, l y j/onrctrdcr in council\\nol Hk; l5tlio( I cluoary, I 7 to rfdei nolo this ,(unniilf\u00c2\u00ab tli\u00c2\u00ab\\nhuinhh [M litioii an l apinal of JtcnjariiiM KollW, Msij. Daniel ar-\\n(cr, Tiniolliy Sirnonds, .Icdni Evans, .lolio liaii llcr, Ahrahanii\\nolliy, and Aliraliaui Kindiali, sotting forth, amongst other thin);s,\\nthat in T il, I leiijaniin Stevens and others petitioned the (ieiieral\\nCourt or Asscnildj (\u00c2\u00bbf \\\\\\\\n- IVIassachusittlH Haj for a f^raid ol land\\nat I ennicook, upon the river IVlerriniark, which p( tition, havinjf\\nhe en referred to a committee! of Itoth J louses, and thej icporlod\\nin favor of the a|)plication, that it would h(; for the advantage of\\n(he province that |)art of the land pe.ttlioned for should hu us-\\nfligrn^d and t ajiart lor u township, to contain seven miles sipiarc,\\nand to he^in where Contoocook river falls into JMeiiiniack riv -r.\\nAnd they a|ipoint(Hl a omitiitl(;e to hrin*; i orward the siiid scl-\\nllerne?it, and laid down several special directions with re/j^arJ\\nthereto. AikI amonj .st otliers, that the Jatidfl slnnjld he divided\\ninto un(! hundred and three lots or shared and that one tiundied\\np(!r\u00c2\u00abonH or faniilien, aide to make their setlh nuMit, should he.\\nadmittfid, anrl each settler to pay for his lot live jHtunds for the\\nus(! (d t!ie province. and he ohlj^^ed to hnild a y;(UH\\\\ houscr f\u00c2\u00abi\\nthe faujily within three. y !urs, and hreuk up und tenc*; \\\\u a cer-\\ntaiiM|nanlily of lanrl, and the hoilNe.s ami lots to he on each sido\\nlh t river and that a mee,t(n;.V-liouse should he etrected and finish-\\ned, which was to he assi(^ned lor the uffr. of Ihr- mlninler and (iir\\nthe school, and the charge of the committee; was t(\u00c2\u00bb he home- hy\\nIhesetlhirs vvhi ;h Ite^port was af^ned io hy hoth Houses of the\\nonricil an\u00c2\u00abl Asue-rrddy of that province, ami concuricfl in hy the,\\n(Jovernor. J hat in 172(i, the town ol Penidcook was laid\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ul, and divided into IoIb umoji^^st the |)ropiietor!i(, who hegan", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 APPENDIX.\\nand carried on a settlement there with great difficulty and cost,\\nit beinj^ above twenty miles up into the Indian country, beyond\\nany Eng-lish settlement then made, and being a perfect wilder-\\nness, having not the least sign that human foot had ever trod the\\nground there, and notwithstanding the difficulties they were un-\\nder in establishing a new town in so remote a desert, they pur-\\nsued their undertaking with such industry and pains, clearing\\nthe land, building houses, sowing corn, c. that within a few\\nyears a town was erected, and the place capable of receiving\\ntheir families, who were then removed up there.\\nThat on the 6th of August, 1728, in consideration that five\\nhundred acres of land, which had prior to the aforesaid Pen-\\nnicook grant, been granted to Governor Endicott, fell within the\\nPennicook boundaries, tlie Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay\\ncame to a resolution, which was concurred in by the Governor\\nand Council, that the Pennicook settlers should be allowed and\\nempowered, by a surveyor and chain-men upon oath, to extend\\nthe south bounds of their township one hundred and thirty rods\\nthe breadth of their town, and the same was accordingly granted\\nand confirmed to them as an equivalent for the said five hundred\\nacres of land. And in a few years they had so far erected and\\nsettled a town, that in 1 733, the Governor, Council, and Assem-\\nbly of the Massachusetts Bay passed an act for erecting the said\\nplantation of Pennicook into a township, by the name of Rum-\\nford which act was confirmed by his late Majesty in council\\nand the said settlers having ever since, at great costs and labor,\\ngone on improving the lands within the said township of Rum-\\nford, by building, cultivation, and otherwise and having been i*a\\ncontinual possession thereof for above thirty years past, and the\\nsame is now become a frontier town on that part of New-Hamp-\\nshire.\\nThat on the 6th of August, 1728, David Melvin and William\\nAyer petitioned the General Court or Assembly ol the Massachu-\\nsetts Bay, for themselves and others, who had served as volun-\\nteers under Capt. John Lovewell, praying a part of the province\\nland migiit be granted to them for a township, in consideration\\nof the service they had done, and the great difficulties they had\\nundergone in the war which petition being read in the House\\nof Representatives, it was resolved, that six miles square of land,\\nlying on each side of Merrimack river, of *he same breadth from\\nMerrimack river .is the township of Pennicook, and to begin\\nwhere Pennicook new grant determines, and from thence to\\nextend the lines of the east and the west bounds on right angles,\\nuntil the six miles square should be completed, be, and it is there-\\nby granted to the forty-seven soldiers, and the legal represent-\\natives of such of them as were deceased, who marched with\\nCapt. Lovewell, (himselfincluded) when he engaged the enemy\\natPigwacket. That on the 9th of July, 1729, the said David\\nMelvin and others, petitioned the Assembly of the Massachu-", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 101\\nsetts Bay, setting forth, that they had caused the said tract of\\nland to be surveyed and platted, and praying a confirmation\\nthereof, and that the grantees might be empowered to assemble\\nand ch(^ose a clerk, pass votes, and be empowered to admit the\\npersons in Capt. LovewelPs first march, to be associated with\\nhim and the survey or plan of the said tract, which is annexed\\nto the petition, and mentions it to begin at the south-east corner\\nof the said other town of Pennicook, and from thence to run\\nout according to the grant. It was ordered, that the land describ-\\ned in the plan should be confirmed to the petitioners and their\\nassociates, and their heirs and assigns forever, provided it ex-\\nceeded not six miles square, nor interfered with any former\\ngrant. And the Assembly, on the 23d of September following,\\nordered a preference to be given to those soldiers who were ac-\\ntually with the Captain in the engagement when he killed sev-\\neral of the Indians, and the said resolutions of the Assembly were\\nconcurred in by the Governor and Council.\\nThat the Suncook proprietors carried on their said settlement\\nwhich adjoined to Pennicook, otherwise Rumford, in like man-\\nner as the Pennicook or Rumford settlers had done and in 1737,\\nhad a minister settled there, and by their industry, labor, and\\ncharges, it became a good parish, filled with inhabitants.\\nThat some years since, upon a dispute about the boundary\\nline between the provinces of the Massachusetts Bay and New-\\nHampshire, his Majesty was pleased to issue a commission to\\nmark out the dividing line between the said province of New-\\nHampshire and Massachusetts Bay, but with an express de-\\nclaration, that private property should not be affected thereby.\\nAnd upon he-iring the Report of the commissioners appointed to\\nsettle the said boundary, his Majesty was pleased, by his order\\nin council, made in 1740, to adjudge and order that the northern\\nboundary of the said province of the Massachusetts Bay are and\\nbe a similar curve line, pursuing the course of Merrimack river\\nat three miles distance on the north side thereof, beginning at\\nthe Atlantic ocean, and ending at a point due north of a place\\ncalled Pautucket falls, and a strait line drawn from thence due\\nwest cross the said river, till it meets with his Majesty s other\\ngovernments by which determination two-third parts at least\\nof the said river Merrimack, v/ith the lands and settlement*\\nthereon, and among the rest, the said towns of Pennicook or\\nRumford, and Suncook, would lay upon the said river consider-\\nably above the said Pautucket falls, were excluded out of the\\nsaid prorince of Massachusetts Bay, in which they. had before\\nbeen thought and reputed to be, and thrown into the said other\\nprovince of New-Hampshire. That notwithstanding his Majesty\\nhad been pleased, at the time of issuing the said commissioa\\nto fix the said boundary, to declare the same was not to affect\\nprivate property. Yet, certain persons in New-Hampshire,\\ndesirous to make the labors of others an advantage to themselves,\\n14", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102\\nAPPENDIX.\\nand to possess themselves of the towns of Pennicook, otherwise\\nRumford, and Suncook, as now improved by the industry of the\\nappellants and the said first settlers thereof, whom they seek to\\ndespoil pf the benefit of all their labors, did, on the first of Nov-\\nember, 1 759, by the name of the proprietors of the common and\\nundivided lands, lying and being within the tov/nship of Bow,\\nbrought an ejectment in the inferior court of common pleas,\\nholden at Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, against the appellants,\\nby which ejectment the respondents, under the general denomi-\\nnation aforesaid of the proprietors of Bow, demand against the\\nappellants the possession of about one thousand acres of land,\\nalleging the same to lie in Bow aforesaid, and to be described\\nand bounded as therein mentioned and set forth in the eject-\\nment, their grant of the town of Bow, dated the 20lii of May,\\n1727, from John Wentworth, Esq. lieutenant-governor of P^Tew-\\nHampshire and that by force thereof they were seized in fee\\nof the lands thereby granted, to the extent of eightj^-one square\\nmiles, and they had afterwards entered thereon, pursuant to\\ntheir grant, and were seized thereof, and alleged they were\\nentitled to the one thousand acres of land sued for, as part of the\\nsaid eig]it3r-one miles square of land, and that the same lay with-\\nin the said town of Bow but that the appellants had entered\\ntherein and ejected the respondents, and withheld the same\\nfi om them. To which action the appellants severally pleaded\\nnot guilty, as to so much of the lands sued for as were in their\\nresp*;;ctive possessions.\\nThat on the 2d of September, 1 7C0, the cause was brought on\\nto trial in the said inferior court, v/hen the jury gave a verdict\\nfor the respondents, and judgment was entered up accordingly\\nwith costs, from which the appellants prayed, and were allowed\\nan appeal to the next superior court. And on the 2d Tuesday in\\nNovember, 1760, the cause was brought on again to trial in the\\nsuperior court, when the jury gave their verdict for the respond-\\nents, and the judgment was thereupon entered up, affirming the\\nsaid judgment of the inferior court with costs. That the appel-\\nlants conceiving themselves to be thereby greatly aggrieved,\\nprayed, and were allowed an appeal therefrom to your Majesty\\nin council, and humbly pray, that both the said verdicts and judg-\\nments may be reversed, and that they may be otherwise reliev-\\ned in the premises.\\nThe Lords of the committee, in obedience to your Majesty s\\nsaid order of reference, this day took the said petition and ap-\\npeal into their consideration, and heard all parties therein con-\\ncerned, by their council, learned in the law, and do agree hum-\\nbly to report as their opinion to your Majesty, that the said\\njudgment of the inferior court of common pleas of the province\\nof New-Hampshire, of the 2d of September, 1760, and also the\\njudgment of the superior court of judicature of the 2d Tuesday\\nin November, 1760, affirming the same, should be both of them\\nreversed, and that the appellants should be restored to what\\nthey have lost by means of said judgments.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n103\\nHis Majesty this day took the said Report into consideration,\\nand was pleased, with the advice of his privy council, to approve\\nthereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said\\njudgment of the inferior court oV consmon pleas of the province\\nof New-Hampshire, of the 2d of September, 17^0, and also the\\njudgment of the superior court of judicature, of the 2d Tuesday\\nin November, aflirmh g the same, to be both of them re-\\nversed, and that the appellants be restored to what they may\\nhave lost by means of the said judgments, whereof the Governor\\nor commander in chief of his Majesty s province of New-Hamp-\\nshire, for the time being, and all others whom it may concern,\\nare to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.\\n[No. VI.]\\nHEALTH, LONGEVITY, C.\\nSynopsis of the Bills of Mortality for the town of Concord, from\\nthe year 1798 to 1822. By Th\u00c2\u00a9mas Chadbourne, M. D.\\n1798\\n1799\\n1800\\n1801\\n1802\\n1803\\n1804\\n1805\\n1806\\n1807\\n1808\\n1809\\n1810\\n1811\\n25, 2w. 17 70, 4m, 4. 2. 1. 40, 53 38, 7 67 7. 4m.\\n49, 2.0.8. 2. 16 0. 43,\\n3. 5. 57 81 51 1. 80 8ra. 8. 60 30, 32, lOd. 21 60,\\nlOw. 20 50 83 78 88 13. 18m. 46, 8m. 18m. 2. 2.\\n4. 60 0. 91 7. 9. 4.1. 0.0.\\n4d. Id. 31, 0. 82, 21 18m. 18in. 80 21 4d. 20d. 49,\\n22, 6m. 70 45, 20 49, 97, 2. 37, 28,\\n70, 37, 56 48, 24, 0. 73, 83, 1. 5. 2. 3 53, 3. 3. 18m.\\n4. 2. 5. 9. 19 82,\\n86, 80 63, 60, 85 2. 6. 0. 55, 65, 3. 2.3, 28, 4. 6. 0.\\n67 43 65 0. J 8m. 30 3. B3, 80 0. 18m. 69 19 2.\\n29 0, 0. 0. 0. 53\\n70 40 3. 19 0. 0. 72 1. 0. 6-5 53, 68 2. 65 25, 1.,\\n1. 89 2. 1. 45 88, 0. 0.\\n71, 50, 36 68 0. 0. 22, 0, 90, 64 0. 20, 1. 8. 45, 22\\n22 1. 45 10. 64 0. 67, .57, 10. 0. 92,\\n79 2. 66 0. 0. 0. 69 22, 32 24, 57, 92, 63,\\n18, 76 0. 18, 60 20, 0. 66, 84 70 0. 35 0. 10. 86\\n0. 0. 83, 5. 14,28, 3.\\n0. 0. 80 2. 16, 58, 53, 35, 20, 17, 0. 18m. 27 5. 40,\\n0. 50 45 95\\n80 2. 8. 0. 0, 0. 82, 29 4. 70 71, 22, 2. 27, 2. 1.0.\\n0. 41,30,65,\\n9 65, 33, 45 2. 14, 31, 92 32 0. 22, 17, 65, 63\\n41 82, 1. 11. 4. 74 86, 19, 0. 32 74 31 27 64 74\\n5. 0. 37 70 3. 31, 25, 0. 46 0. 3. 0. 0. 32 0. 70, 3.\\n25 59, 50 0. 47, 73, 82 11, 33,\\nFrom December 1811, to January 1819, inclusive,\\nthere were 250 deaths there is no record of the ages\\nto be found.\\nTot.\\n26\\n15\\n25\\n24\\n22\\n23\\n27\\n13\\n19\\n21\\n14\\n41\\n250\\nTotal,", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104\\nAPPENDIX.\\nDiseases and Casualties during the years 1819, 1820, 1821 and\\n1822.\\nAngina Maligna\\nConsumption\\nCancer\\nApoplexy\\nInfantile Fever\\nFits\\nInflammation of\\nthe Brain\\nSpina Bifida\\nScrophuki\\nDropsy\\nOld Age\\nPetechia sine\\nFebri\\nDrowned\\nFerer Pulmonia\\nTyphus\\nPuerperal\\nInfantile disea-\\nses\\nQuinsey\\nDelirium tremens\\nIntemperance\\nScalded\\nAbdominal In-\\nflammation\\nDysenteria\\nSudden\\nUnknown\\nr\\n40, 27, 22 37, 28, 51 40 32, 29 51, 16,\\n34, 25, 28 15 months, 30, 28,46 30.\\n19 30, 28, 30, 23,\\n84 65,\\n54\\n18m 6w 6m 12w 8w 3y. 18m,\\n59 2 6d\\n19, 27\\n6w\\n16 51,\\n52 74 1 46, 30 71, 3 10\\n68, 78, 80 91, 86 69, 78 81 85, 96,\\n78, 88 70, 81 85, 80 77, 75 96 82\\n78^ 85 72, 85 99 76 70^ 86 77, 73\\n76 80, 70,\\n30\\n20 35\\n20, 30 69\\n26- 18 18 35 66 30 47 25, 68 40 32\\n40, 30, 27\\n1 3w 2d 6w 3d 6w 2d ly 4m Im 2ni\\n2 3.\\n1 8 V 2 6d\\n49 27\\n40 60 51\\n3\\n55 50, 19, 17\\nPOm\\n73 43\\n61 2 32 0, 0, 2 17 8 0, 0 28,\\n24\\n2\\n1\\n7\\n3\\n33\\n2\\n3\\n11\\n3\\n13\\n5\\n2\\n3\\n1\\n1\\n2\\n11\\nTotal 150\\nIt is ascertained that from Jan. 1792, to Dec. 1797, there were\\n1 1 7 deaths, which makes the whole number of deaths during the\\nlast thirty years, 803.\\nThe above table is correct as to the number of deaths, but is\\nvery imperfect in other respects. In many instances in the re-\\ncord of infants, there is no distinction of the sex, and in some\\ncases, the age of infants is not inserted. Such are distinguished by\\na cypher thus, 0. A comma after the age denotes the females, and\\nthe inverted comma the male sex. Those cases where no record\\nof sex was made are distinguished by a point.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 105\\nFrom the above abstract of the diseases and deaths, for the\\nlast thirty years, it is reasonable to infer that the inhabitants en-\\njoy an unusual exemption from disease. Scarcely any infectious\\ndisease has ever been known in this town and very few cases of\\nconsumption, in comparison with other low situated places, occur\\nhere. Each morning in the summer season the land contiguous\\nto the river is covered with a thick tog- this fog in frosty sea-\\nsons prevents the destruction of vegetables and is supposed to\\ncleanse the air of impurities, which ai e swept to the ocean by\\nthe current of the Merrimack.\\nAbout the commencement, and during the war of the revolu-\\ntion, the Small Pox often appeared in different sections of the\\ncountry, owing, probably, to the frequent communications with\\nCanada,where the disease then prevailed to the free intercourse\\nthat was necessarily held by the people with the soldiers and ar-\\nmy, and in some instances it was supposed to have been sent into\\nthe country as a means of annoyance by the enemy.\\nIn July, 1775, Dr. Carrigain visited a patient in a neighboring\\ntown, who proved to be sick with the Small Pox. He took it the\\nnatural way. The nature of his disease was not discovered, un-\\ntil John, the son of Mr. Nathaniel West, who lived on the oppo-\\nsite side of the street from Dr. C. also took the disease. The\\nDoctor inoculated his own family, then consisting of five mem-\\nbers, who all recovered. Mr. West s family consisted of nine,\\nsix of whom had the disease the natural wa} the others escaped.\\nMr. West, aged 58, died. It was first known on Saturday that the\\nSmall Pox was in the town so great was the alarm, that the next\\nmorning (Sunday) the inhabitants assembled, en masse^ and com-\\nmenced the erection of a Pest House in a retired grove west\\nof the late residence of Capt. Benjamin Emery, and such was the\\nzeal and activity with which they applied themselves to the\\nwork, that by night a convenient house to consist of four rooms\\nhad been hewed, framed, and raised, and the boards for covering,\\nand brick for the chimney were drawn on to the ground. Dr.\\nCarrigain and his family remained at their own house opposite\\nto where Charles Walker, Esq. now resides fences were run a-\\ncross the street lo cut off all communication, and a road was open-\\ned through the fields. Mr. West s family was conveyed to the\\nPest House. None of the inhabitants were inoculated. The\\nhouse afterwards served occasionally for the reception of transient\\nsoldiers of the army, who either had or were suspected to have\\nthe disease.\\nThe question naturally arises, why were not all who were ex-\\nposed to the infection iaimediately inoculated A law was then\\nin force for the prevention of the spread of the Small Pox,\\nwhich forbid under a penalty any person inoculating without\\nleave from court, and the people in those days were brought up\\nin the belief that laws were made to be obeyed.\\nIn 1793, the Small Pox again appeared in a family in the west-\\nerly part of the town. The family consisted of thirteen m^ra-", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 APPENDIX.\\nber?, all of whom had the disease without inoculation. Mr.\\nJonathan Stickney, the father, and an infant child, died. The\\nmanner in which the infection was conveyed to this family nerer\\nhas with cei-taioty been ascertained.\\nIn the winter of 1812-13, when the disease known by the dif-\\nferent appellations of Malignant Pleurisy. Spotted Fever. Bilious\\nPneumonia. k,c. spread go generally through the N. E. States,\\nthis town was rijsited in common with others. TTie character of\\nthe disease wa\u00c2\u00ab that of a Typhoid Pneumonia^ not alarming at\\nfirst, but in iu^ progress- discovering a malignancy that too often\\nrendered ineffectual all the boasted remedies of our profession.\\nIt was, however, confined principally to the soldiery, then quar-\\ntered in the town but few of the citizens tell victims to it.*\\nIn the winter of 1816-17, the disease appeared again in the\\nwesterly section of the town, preceded by a season, remarkable\\nfor its coldDes.?, long droughts and frequent frosts, that almost de-\\nstroyed the hopes of the husbandman. It now assumed a charac-\\nter different from its appearance in other places. Its accession\\nin the worst cases was by an erysipelatous inflammation of the ex-\\ntremities, that soon ran iato gangrene, and generally destroyed\\nthe patient.\\nThe summer \u00c2\u00a9f 1816 was uncommonly cold throughout the\\nUnited States, and throughout Europe, except some of the most\\nnorthern parts of it. Vegetation was very materially affected\\nby this state of the weather. The small grains generally were\\nin abundance, and very good, but the crops of hay were deficient,\\nand Indian corn, by the frosts in August, was almost lost. But for\\nthe inclemency of the season, the inhabitants were compensated\\nwith a greater share of health than had ever been known since\\nthe settlement of the town.\\nThose who are in the habit of noting the effects of the varia-\\ntions of the weather on the human coo-stituticn will recollect that\\nhot and dry summers are uniformly unhealthy hot and wet sum\\nmers less so. This season, which was cold aitd dry was the most\\nhealthy throughout the United States of any in the recollection\\nof the oldest physicians.\\nThe number of inhabitants in this town in 1767, was 752\\n1062 in 1775; 1747 in 1790; S()62 in 1800; 2393 in 1810;\\n2838 in 1820. The average number of deaths for the last thirty\\nyear* has been 27. Of the whole number of death? about one\\n1 2th part have lived to the age of 80 years and upwards seve-\\nral to nearly 100. The names of 85 aged persons, are found a-\\nmongthe records of deaths kept since 1708, whose ages amount\\nto 6634 yearf. In the year 1815, there were living in this town\\n60 persons, whose ages amounted to the sum of 4320 years.\\nThe Spotted Fever, in 1813. made its appearance Marcli 10, auJ continued ub-\\ntj! the middlf of May.\\nCasus of the inhabitant 93 deaths 6\\nRegular Soldiers, 49 7\\nVolunteers, .100 U\\na47 24", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 107\\n[NO. yii.]\\nA arnes of the Physicians^ Attorneys and Justices of the Peace who\\nhave resided in Concord.\\nPHYSICIANS.\\n1. Dr. Ezra Carter, from South-Hampton, settled here in\\n1740 died in 1161.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See page 35.\\n2. T)v. Emery, who afterwards settled and died at Frye-\\nbnrg-h. Me.\\n3. Dr. Ebenezer H. Goss, son of the Rev. Thomas Goss, of\\nBolton, Mass. He married a daughter of Rer. Mr. Walker, and\\nnow resides in Paris, Maine.\\n4. Dr. Philip Carrigain, born in New-York, settled here la\\n1768, and died in 1806.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5W page 62.\\n5. Dr. Peter Green, A. M., M. M. S. Hon. Soc. was bom at\\nLancaster, Mass. in 1745 graduated at Harvard Coll. 1766 re-\\nmoved to Concord in 1772, and has practised successfully more\\nthan half a century.\\nG. Dr. Samuel Adams, M. D. from Lincoln, Ms. practised here\\na short time.\\n7. Dr. Zadok Howe, M. D. from Franklin, Ms. practised here\\nseveralyears removed to Billerica, in 1814.\\n8. Dr. Thomas Chadbournk, M. D. commenced practice here\\nin 1814 and is one of the present physicians.\\n9. Dr. MosEs Long, from Hopkinton, practised in this town\\nseveralyears, and removed in 1823.\\n10. Dr. MosES Chandler settled here in 1816, and is a prac-\\ntising physician.\\n1 1. Dr. Henry Bond, M. D. practised a few years, and remov-\\ned to Philadelphia, in 1820.\\n12. Dr. Samuel Morril, from Epsom, removed into this town\\nin 1820 and is in practice.\\n13. Dr. Peter Renton, from Scotland, settled in this place in\\n1822, and is in practice.\\nattorneys at law.\\n*Pcter Green,\\n*E!dward St. Loc Livermore,\\ntSamuel Green,\\nCharles IVulker^U. 1793.\\n|Philip Carrigain, D. 1794.\\n\u00c2\u00a7fVilliam Pickering, H. 1797.\\nSamuel A. Kimball, D. 1806.\\nSamuel Fletcher, D. 1810,\\nGeorge Kent, D. 1814.\\nRichard Bartlett, D. 1815.\\n*Thomas W.Thompson, H. 1786.l.2mo\u00c2\u00ab A. Parker, D. 1019.\\nMoodij Kent, H. 1801. j\\n*Deceaseil. fNow Associate Justice of the Superior Court. |jRemoved to\\nCliichester. ^^Slaio Treasurer.\\nJUSTICES OF THE PEACE,\\nIn Concord, since the adoption of the constitution in 1784, with the\\ndate of their appointments.\\n*Peter Green, Dec. 25, 1784.\\n*Timothy Walker, Dec. 25, 1784,", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108\\nAPPENDIX.\\n*Aaron Kinsman, Jan. 4, 1787.\\nWilliam Duncan, May 16, 1791.\\n*John Bradley,* May 16, 1791.\\nWilliam A. Kent, June 18, 1796.\\nrhomas W. Thomi)son, Dec. 1, 1796. (1)\\nJacob Mbot,* June ^20, 1797. (2)\\nSamuel Green, Dec. 6, 1800.\\nStephen Ambrose, Dec. 8, 1800.\\nJoiiathan Wilkins^ June 19, 1802.\\nAlbeCa.ly, June 19, 1802. (3)\\nPhilip Carrigaia, June 12, 1806.\\nIsaac Eviery^ Dec, 12, 1808.\\n*Peter C. Farnum, Dec. 13. 1808.\\nTimothy Carter^ Dec. 13, 1808.\\nSamuel Morril, Dec. 12, 1808. (4)\\nCharles Walker,* June 15, 1805.\\nBallard Hasdtine, May 31, 1809.\\nJonathan Eastman^ Sept. 20, 1810.\\nWilliam Pickering, Sept. 20. 1810. (5)\\nSamuel Sparhawk, May 30, 1811.\\n*Paul Rolfe, June 15, 1812.\\n.John Odlin, Juae 18, 1813.\\nSamuel A. Kimball, Sept. 17, 1813.(6)\\nMoody Kent, Jan. 31, 1814.\\nIsaac Hill, Nov. 5, 1819.\\nAmos A. Parker, 1819.\\nIsaac Dow, June 22, 1821.\\nRichard Bradley, June 28, 1821.\\nJonathan Eastman, Jr. do.\\nSamuel Fletcher, June 29, 1821.\\nRichard Bartlett do. 1821.\\nGeorge Kent, do. 1821.\\nJohn Farmer, May 16, 1823.\\nRobert Davis, Nov. 1823.\\n(1) Then residing in Salisbury,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (2) Now of Brunswick, Me.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (3) Then residing\\nin PlainfieW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (4) Then of Epsom.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (5) Then of Greenland \u00e2\u0080\u0094(6)Then of Dover.\\nThosepreceded by a are dead those in Italicks are not in commission; those\\nfollowed by a were afterwards Justices of the Peace and Qivorum, and those with\\nII were Justices throughout the State.\\n[NO. VIII.]\\nMatnes of Town-Clerks ^Selectmen and Representatives., since tfie ycnr\\n1732.\\nTOWN CLERKS.\\n1732 Benjamin Rolfe, Jan. to March. 17G6 1769 Benjamin Rolfe.\\nTimothy Clement, from March. 1769-1778 Timothy Walker, jr.\\n1733\u00e2\u0080\u00941745 Benjamin Rolfe. 1778-1787 John KitTibaH.\\n1746\u00e2\u0080\u00941749 Ezra Carter. 178?\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ]79f Caleb Chase.\\n1749 to 1766 Interregnum\u00e2\u0080\u0094 no town offi- 1796\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1819 John Odlin.\\ncers. 11819 to Francis A Fiik.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "APPENDfX\u00c2\u00bb\\n10\u00c2\u00bb\\nSELECTMEN.\\n1732.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jan. to March, Ebenezer Eastman, John Merrill, Edward Abbot.\\nnSi.\u00e2\u0080\u0094M .irch. Ebeaezer Eastman, John Chamilei, Jeieaiiah Stickney, Joseph\\nEastman, EJvvard Abiiot.\\n1733. Eben^zer Eastman, Benjamin Rolfe, Epbraim Farnum.\\n1724. BcKJamin Rnlle, Jeremiah Stickuey, John Merrill.\\n1735. Benjamin Rolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, Jeremiab Stickney.\\n1736.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjaniin Rolfe, James Osgood, Joseph Hall.\\n1737. Benjamin Ri- lfe, J J^iu Chandler, Richard Hazeltine.\\n17,J8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1739. Ebenezer Eiis-tman, Benjamin Rolle, Barachias Farnum.\\n1740 1711.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Rolfe, John Chandler, El)enezer Eastman.\\n1742 1743. Benjamin Rolfe, Ebenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Stickney.\\n1744 Benjamin Rolfe, Barachias Farnuni, John Chandler,\\n1745._Beniamin Rolle, John Chandler, Jeremiah Stickney.\\n1746. Johii Chandler, Ebenezer Eastman, Richard Hazeltine.\\n1747 1748. Ezra Carier,Johu Chandler, Richard Hazeltine.\\n1749^John Chandler, Ezra Carter, Jeremiah Stickney, Ebenezer Virgin, Henry\\nLovejoy.\\n[From 1749 to 1766, there were no town officers appointed.]\\n1766\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Rolfe, Joseph Farnum, John Chandler, jr.\\n1767. Richard Hazeltine, Philip Eastman, Amos Abbot.\\n1768. Benjamin Rolfe, Ebenezer Hall, Reuben Kimball.\\n1769. Reuben Kimball, Ebenezer Hall, Timothy Walker, jr.\\n1770. Timothy Walker, jr. Reuben Kimball, Benjamin Emery.\\n1771. Philip Eastman, Timothy Walker, jr. Benjamin Emery.\\n1772. Timothy Walker, jr. Joseph Hall, jr. Phinehas Virjjin.\\n1773. John Kimball, Amos Abbot, Timothy Walker, jr.\\n1774. Timothy Walker, jr. Reuben Kimball, Tiiomas Stickney.\\n1775. Timothy Walker, jr. Reuben Kimball, Benjamin Emery.\\n1776-1777. Reuben Kimball, Amos Abbot, John Kimball.\\n1778. \u00e2\u0080\u0094John Kimball, Joshua Abbot, Joseph Hail.\\n1779. Timothy Walker, Ezekiel Dimond, John Kimball.\\n1780. John Chandler, James Walker, Thomas Wilson.\\n1781. Timothy Walker, John Kimball, Jihies Wiilker.\\n1782. Timothy Walker, Be.njainin Emrty, Tisomas Wilson.\\n1733-1786.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Timothy Walker, Reuben Kinfball, Thomas Stickney.\\n17,S7. Joseph Hall, Henry Martin, Tnouoas Wilson.\\n1788. Timothy Walker, Benjamin Emery, Chandler Lovejoy.\\n1789-1790.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Reuben Kimball, Timothy Walker, Asa Herrick.\\n1791-1793. Timothy Walker, Reuben Kimball, Berjarain Emery.\\n1794.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Timothy Walker, Reuben Kimball, John Bradley.\\n1795-1796.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Timothy Walker. John Bradley, Henry Martin.\\n1797-1798.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Odiin, Richard Ayer, John Eastman.\\n1799.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Timothy Walker, John Odlin, Heniy M.irtiu.\\n1800. John Odlifi, Jonathan Wilhins, Henry JVlMtin.\\n1801. Jonathan WUkiiis, John West, Stephen Ambrose.\\n1802. Timothy Walker, John West, Stephen Ambrose.\\n1803.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jonathan Wilkins, John West, Stephen Ambrose.\\n1804-1805. Jonathan Wilkins, John West, Amo.- Abbot, jr.\\n1806-1807. Ebenezer Dustin, Enoch, Coffin, Edmund LeaTitt.\\n1893. Enoch Coffin, Samuel Butters, Timothy Carter.\\n1809. John Odlin, Amos Abbot,jr. Nathaniel Abbot.\\n1810. Nathaniel Abbot, Edmund Leavitt, Sherburne Wiggin.\\n1811. Nathaniel Abbot, Edmund Leavitt, Abiel Walker.\\n1812. Nathaniel Abbot, Amos Abbot, jr. Abiel Walker.\\n1813.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathaniel Abbot, John Odlin, Amos Abbot.\\n1814. Nathaniel Abbot, Nathaniel A mbroj;e. Nathan Stickney.\\n1815. Nathaniel Ambrose, Joshua Abbot, Richard Bu-Jley.\\n1816-1817. Joshua Abbot, Richard Bradley, Samuel Runnels.\\n1818. John Odlin, Nathaniel Abbot, Nathaniel Ambrose.\\n1819. Abiel Walker, Joseph Walker, Jeremiah Pecker.\\n18*20. Richard Bradley, Isaac Farnum, Jeremiah Pecker.\\n1821. Riciard Btadley, Isaac Farnum, Jeremiah Pecker.\\n1822 Alba Cady, Isaac Farnum, Isaac Dow.\\n1823. Jeremiah Pecker, Isaac Farnura, Isaac Dow.\\n16", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "ilO\\nAlPPENDIX.\\nRepresentatives.\\n1775. Jlfay 11. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Timothy Walker, jr. elected delegate to the provincial coa-\\ngrek*. He was one of the coinuiiitec who ia 1776, drew up a declaration\\ni Indept^Bdence by this State.]\\n1777. Gordon Hutchins. [Col. H. being absent tliis year in the array, Col. Thom-\\nas Stickiiey was appointed.\\n1778. Timothy Walker, jun.\\n1779. Natiianiel Kolfe. Jonatlian Hale and Timothy Walker, jr. delegates to\\nconTention in bept.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thontas Stickuey delegate in December.\\n1730. Jiin.ithan Hale.\\n1781. Jlpril. Tiniotliy Walker, delegate to convention for forming constitution.\\n1702\u00e2\u0080\u00941734. Timotny Walker.\\n178.5. PtterGrepn.\\n1736, 7. John Bradley.\\n1788. Peter Green.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Emery, delegatfl to convention for adoption of coa-\\nstitution.\\n1739. Peter Green.\\n1790. John Bradley.\\n1791. Timothy Walker.\\n1792. John Bradley.\\n1793. William Duncan.\\n1794. 5. Daniel Livermoro.\\n1796. John Braiiley.\\n1797. William A. Kent.\\n1798\u00e2\u0080\u00941800. Jacob Abbot.\\n1801. William A. Kent.\\n1802. Jolm Bradley.\\n1803\u00e2\u0080\u00941305. William A. Kent.\\n1806-1808. Samuel Green.\\n1809, 10. Stephen Ambrose.\\n1311 1813, Stenken Ambrose and Thomas W. Thompson.\\n1814. Thomas W. Tliompson and Richard Ayer.\\n1315. Richard Ayer and George Hougji,\\n1816. George Hoogli and John OdlinP\\n1817. JolmOdlin and William A. Keifl.\\n1318. William A. Kent and Thoma? W. Thompson.\\n1S19. Ahiel Walkpr and Nathan Ballard, jr.\\n1820, I. Stephen Anbroseand Nathaniel Abbot.\\n1322. Steohen Arabrose and Sarnuel Morril.\\nId2i. Stephen Ambrose and Samutl Fietcher.\\n[NO. IX.]\\nMISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.\\nGarrisons in 174G.\\n1. On the E. side the river, at Capt. Eastman s.\\n2. At Rev. Mr. Walker s, near Horse-shoe pond.\\n3. At Capt. Lovejoy s, where L. Hutchins now lives.\\n4. At Mr. Edwdrd Abbot s, where the Souther house utandg.\\n[In this ancient building, now owned by Porter Blanchard, the\\nfirst male and female children were born, viz. Edward and Dor-\\ncas Abbot.]\\n6. At Capt. Stickney s.\\nG. At James Osgood s near the site of BuUard Waterman s\\nstore.\\n7. At Capt. Timothy Walker s.\\n8. At Deac. Joseph Hall s the Wilkins place.\\n9. At Jonathan Eastman s, on the mill-road.", "height": "3464", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. Ill\\n10. There was subsequently a garrison at Deac. Abbot s, near\\nthe late residence of Mr. Thompson.\\nIt is said, these were the only garrisons, or fortified honses,\\n^erected in this town during the Indian wars.\\nT^ewspapers published in Concord.\\nThe first newspaper published in this town was the Courier of\\nNew-Hampshire, commenced by George Hough, Jan. 6, 1790 and\\ndiscont .nued Oct. 30, 1805.\\n2. The Mirror, by Moses Davis, was commenced Sept. 6, 1792\\nand discontinued in 1799.\\n3. The J^ew Star, by Russell and Davis, was commenced in\\nApril, 1797. It was published in an octavo form weekly about\\nsix months.\\n4. The Republican Gazette, by Elijah RuSsell, was commenced\\nFeb. 5, 1801; and discontinued in 1802. [Mr. Russell died at\\nWashington, Vt. May 25, 1803.]\\n6. The Concord Gazette, by William Hoit,jr. and Jesse C. Tut-\\ntle,was commenced July 6, 1806 and its publication continued un-\\ntil 1819 during which time several changes took place in its pro-\\nprietors.\\n6. The American Patriot was commenced Oct. 18, 1808, bj\\nWilliam Hoit, Jr. and published until April, 1809 when Isaac Hill\\npurchased the establishment, and altered the name of the paper\\nto the JVew- Hampshire Patriot. It was published from 1811 to\\n1814, by Isaac and Walter R. Hill; and from 1819 to 1823, by\\nIsaac Hill Jacob B. Moore. It is now published by Isaac Hill,\\nunder the name of Neisc-Hampshirt Patriot and State Gazette.\\n7. The Concord Observer, by George Hough, was commenced\\nJan. 1, 1819, and continued to April 1, 1822; when John W, Shep-\\nard purchased the establishment, and the paper is now published\\nby him under the name of New-Hampshire Repository.\\n8. The JVew-Hampshire Statesman was commenced by Luther\\nRoby, Jan. 6, 1823; and is still published by him for Amos A.\\nParker, the editor and proprietor.\\nConcord Musical Society.\\nIn 1801, Deae. Joseph Hall, from a desire to encourage \u00c2\u00bbnd promote the prae.\\ntice of sacred musick in Concord, made a donation to this Society, which had\\nbeen previously incorporated,* of $500 in the U. S. six per cent, stock. The orig-\\ninal sum was to be kept entire, and the interest accruing to be applied to the benefit\\nof said society, in such manner as a majority 6baU direct.\\n*Jntorpor(ded June 15, 1799,", "height": "3444", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "annalsoftownofco00moor_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 APPENDIX.\\nNoUs on the Weather^ fyc.\\n{No regular journal of the weather has ever been kept by any\\nperson in Concord, and it is impossible therefore to give an ac-\\ncurate account of the extremes of heat and cold. The follow-\\ning notices are copied from a blank leaf in an old account book\\nbelonging to Mr. Benjamin Kimbaix, who lives near the river\\non the eastern shore.]\\n1762. The winter of this 3 ear was very gercre. Snows were frequent, and so\\nJeep as to prevent passing in any direction for two months\u00e2\u0080\u0094 being nearly 6 feet on\\nthe level.\\n1772. In January, occurred a great flood. Thick masses of ice passed dovk-n the\\nriver and were left upon the intervals.\\n1789. Uncommonly pleasant winter grain \u00c2\u00bbowed in December and boating\\ncontinued until 29th Jan. 1790.\\n1795. Boating across tue river 17th January.\\n1796. The last boating 30tb November.\\n17b7. Nov. 25, passing on the ice.\\n1798. First bolting April 2.\\n1799. First boating April 6. Spring very baekwari\u00e2\u0080\u0094 May scarcely exhibiting\\nthe usual mildness of April.\\n1800. First boating April 3 last boating Dec. IG, and immediate passing on the\\nice.\\n1801. First boating March 12.\\n1302. April 4, good passing on the ice with horses.\\n1804. First boating April 7.\\n1805. Ditto March 7.\\n1810. Considerable frost July 18.\\n1812. ApriM3, snow fell to the depth of 6 inclie\u00c2\u00ab. May 4th and 5th, cold snow\\nstorm. June 5, appletrees in full bloom.\\n1815- Snow fell fust week in December, and it continued good sleighing until\\nMarch following, without rain. Sept. 23d of tliis year will long be remembered for\\nthe violence of a gale, which extended over the whole of New-England, and wa\u00c2\u00ab\\nTcry destructive.\\n1816. Cold season the hopes of the fanner cut off.\\n1817. First passing on the ic\u00c2\u00ab with horses, Dec. 23.\\n1818. March 1, commenced a heavy fall of rain, and on the 3d, the water rose\\nabove the banks of the river.\\n1819. Mild winter jouraeying with v/aeons, c. the whole season.\\nApril 5, great fresh, and Federal Bridge swept away by the ice.\\nMay 19, extraordinary high fresh, the intervals entirely flooded, and\\nlooking like an inland sea.\\n1820. May 26, apple-trees in bloom a celd storm of hail and rain hail two\\ninches deep.\\nOct. 17, the highest fresh for 36 years.\\n1824. Feb. 10 and 11, great thaw and rain. On the Ittb the river suddenly\\nrose about 15 feet, the ice being very thick, and swept away the Federal and Con-\\ncord Bridges, in part. 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