{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3499", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "^aJt-^", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "g^;^^^:^!:^^ (;::^1^^^^^^^", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ciE^OYiDOisr, nsr. be., ises\\nPROCEEDINGS\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION,\\nON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1866.\\nA BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LEADING MEN\\nOF rnXEi F lRST CEPfTTJItY,\\nyVitli ^oriraits.\\nTOGETHER WITH\\nOF THE TOWN.\\nBY EDMUND WHEELER.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00aclavmont, :N. 3^.:\\nPEINTED BY THE CLAEEMONT MANUFACTUEIKG COMPANY.\\n1867.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "1= I^ E IP J^ O E\\nIt has been the purpose of the editor to gather up in this volume, the\\nproceedings at the Croydon Centennial Celebration and embody them in a\\npermanent form, for the benefit of all those interested in the town but\\nmore especially the very many who were unable to be present and for\\nafter generations.\\nSo far as was within his reach he has endeavored in the Sketches here\\npresented to give a brief account of all the leading men of the town\\nduring the first century. He has aimed to do equal justice to all, and if\\nin any instance he has done less it was because the requisite information\\ncould not be obtained. And for the same reason, doubtless, many others\\nequally worthy of honorable mention have been entirely omitted. He can\\nonly say he has done the best he could.\\nFor many of the facts contained in the Historical portion of the volume,\\nespecially the earlier ones, he is under obligations to John Cooper, Esq.,\\nwho has very kindly granted him a free use of his Historical Sketch.\\nIn relation to the Illustrations, he has endeavored to induce one at least\\nof the descendants of each of the old, prominent families to represent his\\nrace personally to the next centennial through the medium of a lithograph.\\nAnd his invitation to the one judged to be the representative man of the\\nfamily to make the contribution has in most instances been very promptly\\nand generously responded to. He would have liked more of the early\\nfathers, but unable to procure them he has given the sons. It is believed\\nthat the very considerable expense attending them will be more than\\nrepaid by the additional interest they will impart to the work.\\nThe editor would here express his obligations to the natives and residents\\nof Croydon, for the general sympathy and lively interest manifested in the\\nundertaking during its progress. May the result of his labors be the\\nmeans of awakening a thousand pleasant memories.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION,\\nJune 13, 1866.\\nThe one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of\\nCroydon was celebrated on Wednesday, June 13, 1866. It\\nwas a jubilee long to be remembered in the annals of\\nthe town. Invitations had been extended to all the\\nnatives and former residents of the town to be present and\\nmingle in the festivities of the day. At sunrise the boom-\\ning of the cannon, planted on the very spot where stood the\\nfirst dwelling, echoing and re-echoing among the hills, and\\nthe merry pealing of the bells announced that the day had\\ndawned, summoned all to be in readiness, and awakened\\nanew in a thousand hearts a long train of sweet, sad mem-\\nories-joyous when they thought of home, the unbroken\\ncircle, the innocent sports of childhood, and a mother s love\\nbut sad when they remembered how the destroyer had been\\nthere and the hearts that once made them so welcome are\\nnow still in death, and the loved forms are sleeping in the\\nvalley.\\nLong before the hour when the exercises were announced\\nto commence, an immense throng, numbering fully three\\nthousand persons, had assembled. At 10 o clock the proces-\\nsion was formed under the direction of Capt. Nathan Hall,\\nChief Marshal of the day, and escorted by the Croydon\\nBand, led by Baldwin Humphrey, marched to the stand.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Col. Otis Cooper, Chairman of the Committee of\\nArrangements, on calling the assembly to order greeted them\\nwith the following welcome si^eech.\\nMr. Cooper said\\nLadies and Gentlemen In behalf of the citizens of\\nCroydon I have the pleasure of bidding you aU a most hearty\\nwelcome to your dear old native town. I most cordially\\nwelcome you all to these green fields, these beautiful valleys,\\nthese charming hills, and these grand old mountains. I\\nwelcome you to the churches where you once worshiped, the\\nschool-houses where you were taught, and those sacred\\ninclosures where sleep the dear, honored dead. I welcome\\nyou to your dear old homes, and especially do I welcome\\nyou to this old family table, which has been so liberally\\nprovided for by the ladies.\\nWhat though the skies above us are Overcast with clouds,\\nall around us is sunsliine, and warmth, and joy. Let us\\nthen enjoy the greeting, the hand-clasp, and the interchange\\nof smiles. Again I welcome you all individually and col\\nlectively to all the innocent pleasures which this day is\\ncapable of affording.\\nLadies and Gentlemen I now have the pleasure of\\nintroducing to you the President of the day, the Hon\\nWilliam P. Wheeler of Keene.\\nThe President on taking the stand made the followino-\\nremarks", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "s\\ns^^^f^.^^.^^^^", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "7\\nHO^^. WILLIAM P. WHEELER OF KEEXE.\\nLadies and Gentlemen\\nIt was a happy thought on the part of that portion of\\nthe household abiding here at home, to take note of the\\nclose of the first hundred years in our family history and\\nto mark the transit from the old to the new century by a\\nholiday at the old homestead. And it was .especially kind\\nand thoughtful of them to recall, on the occasion, those\\nmembers of the Croydon family who from necessity or choice\\nhave been drawn to other fields of labor. That they have\\ncome with alacrity and in full force, is sufficiently evinced\\nbv what we here see. Some have come with increased\\nhouseholds while others whom we would gladly have wel-\\ncomed, have recently passed beyond the reach of an earth-\\nIv summons. Yet while we grieve for those who for the\\npresent seem to be lost to us, we may mingle our congratu-\\nlations and unite in commemorating what the first centu-\\nry has wrought for us.\\nWe are here to-day upon a stand-point where three gen-\\nerations are to pass in review before us. Their work is\\nfinished, but the lesson therein taught, remains to us and\\nto our children. And this day will not be lost if our minds\\nare refreshed, and stimulated to higher action in the future,\\nby what is most noble and heroic in the past. The dead\\ncentury is before us. Its history can not be changed. Let\\nus listen reverently to its teachings. The living century is", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8\\nalready beginning to unfold. Who will say that a recital\\nof what was suffered and achieved by the early fathers and\\nmothers, may not animate us with a spirit which shall leave\\nits impress on another generation Let us to-day rekindle\\nthe fires of patriotism on the altar of our forefathers.\\nThe wanderers have gathered at their native home to-\\nday, because it was not in their hearts to resist the kindly\\nsummons. They are here to renew ancient friendships, to\\nlisten again to voices once familiar to them, and to look\\nonce more upon the face of nature as she greeted them in\\nchildhood. Here truly are the streams and lakes, the hills\\nand valleys of our early days, unchanged by the lapse of\\ntime. And the grand old mountain, with its dark forests,\\nstill looks down upon us as of yore. Our country boasts of\\nmountain peaks which attract pilgrims from distant lands,\\nbut I have seen none which can for a moment compare\\nwith the familiar one under whose shadow we now stand.\\nThere may be little to attract to it the eye of the stranger\\nbut every true son of Croydon can testify that the sacred\\nmountains are those upon which the eye was accustomed\\nto rest in childhood.\\nThe strong love which involuntarily attaches one to the\\nhome of his youth may not be easy of analysis but it is a\\nfact everywhere existing and recognized. It is but slightly\\ndependent upon outward circumstances. The humble cot-\\ntage in the forest, or upon the bleak mountain side, has\\nattractions not surpassed by the lordly mansions of wealth\\nand luxury. The place of one s birth is not less dear be-\\ncause it is humble and the memory of it is not effaced by\\ntime or worldly cares. You may immerse one in business\\nor pleasure until his time and all his waking thoughts are", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "wholly absorbed in the present. Nature is still true to her-\\nself. There will be moments in that life, if at no other\\ntime, in his slumbers, in the quiet hours of night, when\\nthe visions of childhood and of the early home will return.\\nAgain the brothers and sisters are with him. Again he\\nmingles with his youthful playmates. He once more hears\\nthe voice of his sainted mother and he is again the gentle\\nand confiding child, unspoiled by the follies and vices of\\nafter-life.\\nThe query has sometimes arisen, what is it that entitles\\nCroydon to the distinction which she has always claimed\\namong her neighbors What has given her the position\\nwhich is generally conceded to her Her territory is small,\\nand her soil in the main unproductive. Her inhabitants are\\nfew in number and her mercantile and manufacturing\\ninterests are of small account. Her religious privileges have\\nnot been large, neither her schools numerous nor always of\\nthe highest order. Yet wherever you meet a Croydon boy,\\nyoung or old, you meet one who is proud of his native\\ntown. I have met them in the crowded city, and far up\\namong the sources of the great rivers of this continent\\nyet in their new homes I found them the same indomitable,\\nhard-working and well-balanced men as those who now\\ncultivate these hills and valleys. What then is their true\\nclaim to distinction It is not that they are men of great\\ngenius or extraordinary acquirements. A few have over-\\ncome the difficulties in their way, and have obtained a\\nliberal education while others with less school culture,\\nhave found positions of honor and usefulness abroad. But\\nit is not to these alone, or mainly, that the town owes her\\nposition.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10\\nAll the sources of her strength may not readily be com-\\nprehended or stated. But some of them are sufficiently\\nobvious. In the first place all accounts agree that the first\\nsettlers here were men and women of great nerve and\\nendurance and many of them of unusual size and physical\\nstrength. They found here a soil and climate which called\\nforth their best energies. They breathed a pure and invig-\\norating air. The breezes not always warm or mild\\nwhich swept the White or Green Mountains and came\\npouring over the rugged sides of our great mountain barrier,\\nbrought with them health and mental soundness.\\nThus from a noble ancestry, early accustomed to struggle\\nwith Nature in her sterner moods, and to take an active\\npart in public aifairs in the stirring times in which they\\nlived, a race of men has been trained and developed who\\nstill uphold the honor and dignity of their native town. As\\nwe have seen them in the present generation, they have\\nappeared to be men, not perhaps in all cases over-devotional\\nor religious, but self-reliant and ready for work men of\\nintegrity who could compete successfully with their neigh-\\nbors or rivals in whatever business or profession they were\\nengaged. Many of them still retain the stalwart forms of\\ntheir ancestors. The original types of the Bartons, Coopers,\\nHalls, Humphreys, Powers, Putnams, Whipples, and their\\ncompeers of a century ago, have not wholly disappeared.\\nAnd it is to be hoped that those who assemble here at the\\nclose of another century may find among them the physical\\nand mental peculiarities of those who began their work here\\nin 1766.\\nAs a township Croydon has, from the beginning, been out-\\nstripped by her more prosperous neighbors. To say nothing", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "11\\nof other flourishing towns about us, Claremont and New-\\nport, with their water-power and broad acres of interval,\\nhave grown in wealth and population until they may look\\nupon this little community as a humble tributary to the\\nstream of their prosperity. But Croydon points to her\\nsons and daughters not supposed to be numerous until\\nto-day as the tower of her strength and claims equality\\nof rank.\\nWe hope on this occasion to hear something of the history\\nof the founders of this town and of the later generations who\\nhave borne an honorable part in all our great struggles. In\\nthe war of the revolution Croydon sent her full share of men\\nof strong arms and resolute wills, to battle for independence.\\nThe sacrifices which were made to achieve what we have\\nso recently been called upon to defend our national unity\\nand independence never seemed greater to me than when,\\nas a boy, I listened to the recitals of my venerable grand-\\nfather, Nathaniel Wheeler, senior, of the toils and privations\\nendured by him and his companions in arms, and their\\nfamilies, during the dark days of the revolution. Truly,\\nthere was no lack of patriotism on the part of the man who\\ncould, at the call of his country, march to the field of battle,\\nwhile he left behind him in the wilderness his wife and\\ninfant children, dependent upon the good will of the neigh-\\nbors to scare the wild beasts from the cabin door, and to\\ncultivate the patch of cleared ground which was to furnish\\nthe scanty supply of bread for hungry mouths. Yet we have\\nthe concurrent testimony of many, that such instances were\\nnot rare in the early history of this town.\\nIn the second war with Great Britain Croydon sustained\\nher part nobly and I count it a thing to be proud of, that", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12\\nwhen a call was made upon the town for soldiers, the pro-\\nceedings commenced for a draft were at once set aside by\\nthe voluntary enlistment of its citizens and that the first\\nman to offer himself as a private soldier for the service, was\\nNathaniel Wheeler, jr., then holding a high commission in\\nthe State militia. And in the terrible ordeal through which\\nour beloved country has just passed, and from which she is\\nrising, purified, we trust, as by fire, it was not inappropriate\\nthat a later descendant of the same family should surrender\\nup his life, far from kindred and home, at the call of his\\ncountry. But the history of one family is the history of\\nmany and I would not give an undue prominence to the\\nservices of one, while so many family records have been\\nilluminated by the noble deeds of more than one generation.\\nLet us, at the risk of being egotistic, tell what we know of our\\nfathers that is worthy of record what we are doing or\\nstriving for ourselves, and what we hope of our children.\\nThen will this be a day long to be remembered by the sons\\nand daughters of Croydon.\\nA very able and appropriate prayer was then offered by\\nRev. Luther J. Fletcher of Maine.\\nThe following Greeting Hymn, written for the occasion\\nby Lizzie P. Harding of Croydon, was sung by the Glee\\nClub, led by Capt. E. Darwin Comings", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "13\\nGREETING HYMN.\\nWe welcome thee we welcome thee\\nWho long from us have strayed,\\nWith joy we grasp the hand where oft\\nIn childhood thou hast played.\\nOur granite hills unchanged shall stand,\\nThough distant ye may roam\\nLike them our hearts remain as true,\\nAnd kindly greet thee home.\\nBut there are voices, hushed in death,\\nWhose tones in other years\\nRang out with friendship s sweetest notes\\nUpon our ravished ears.\\nBehold them bending from the skies\\nTo watch thy coming feet,\\nList ning to catch our song of joy,\\nWith memory s incense sweet.\\nGreat God guide thou our wandering steps,\\nTo reach that blissful shore.\\nWhere loved ones wait, with star-gemmed crowns,\\nTo greet us evernftire.\\nThen welcome, welcome dearest friends,\\nWho from us long have strayed,\\nWith joy we clasp thy hand where oft\\nIn childhood thou hast played.\\nThe President. I am not unmindful of the one great\\nattraction which has brought you here to-day. You have\\ncome to listen to one who is everywhere heard with pleasure\\nand nowhere with more pride and satisfaction than here in\\nhis native town whose presence always calls forth love and\\nadmiration, and whose eloquent words and blameless life\\nhave exerted an influence which has been felt in a circle\\nwider than has been reached by any other son of Croydon.\\nThe Rev. Baron Stow, of Boston, who will now address\\nyou, needs no introduction to this audience.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14\\nBY BAKOTs^ STOW, D. D., OF BOSTON.*\\nHugh Miller of Scotland, says, The mind of every man\\nlias its picture-gallery scenes of beauty, or magnificence,\\nor quiet comfort stamped upon bis memory. And he\\nmight have added, that often a very small thing, or a very\\ntrivial incident, will serve as a key to open that gallery, and\\nlet in the light of day upon long darkened reminiscences.\\nSeven years ago about this time, I was in the heart of\\nEurope, in Munich, the capital of the kingdom of Bavaria.\\nOne bright, cloudless afternoon, wearied, with sight-seeing,\\nI walked into the countr} partly for physical refreshment,\\nand partly that I might turn away from the works of\\nhuman art, splendid and beautiful as they were, and con-\\ntemplate the richer beauties and. glories of Nature. The\\nair was balmy and charged with perfume from fields and\\ngardens in full bloom. When far enough away, I ascended\\na knoll and turned to view the landscape. It was one of\\nthe loveliest. Away at my right, on the slope of a ridge,\\nwas the famous national monument, the colossal statue of\\nBavaria, towering with its pedestal one hundred feet from\\nthe ground. Towards my left was the city, the gem of\\ncontinental Europe. In front along the south loomed up\\nthe serrated range of the Tyrolese Alps, snow-clad, and\\nglittering in the sunlight like burnished silver. The whole\\nscene was one of blended beauty and grandeur. There was\\nOwing to the rain that greatly incommoded the larger part of the andience, consiilorable\\nportions of the Address, as now published, were necessarily omitted in the delivery.", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "/O i:Z^ :ri,\\\\^^2!crz^\\\\j-^", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "15\\nmuch to remind me of God, and awaken feelings of adora-\\ntion.\\nBut soon a very small object changed, suddenly and com-\\npletely, the current of thought, and set it running in a new\\ndirection. Seated on the turf, I noticed at my feet a flower\\nwhich I had familiarly known, in my early childhood, as\\nyellow weed or butter cup. I remembered when the\\nfields of my native town, in the month of June, were golden\\nwith its bloom, and how the farmers classed it with the\\nhard-hack and the Canada thistle/ as a nuisance nof\\neasily abated. I had learned to regard it as a pest, but\\nthere, in the outskirts of Munich, I did not dislike it I\\nhailed it as an old acquaintance my heart sprang towards\\nit I read Croydon on its every petal it was suggestive\\nof a hundred fold more than I can now tell. In space, I\\nwas instantly transported nearly five thousand miles west-\\nward to my New Hampshire home, five degrees more south-\\nward than Munich, yet colder in climate and more rugged\\nin scenery. In time, I was taken back nearly sixty years,\\nand looking at things as they were when Thomas Jefferson\\nwas President of the United States, and our Government\\nwas quarreling, diplomatically, with England about Orders\\nin Council, embargoes, and non-intercourse laws and when\\nNapoleon I. at the zenith of his power, had the sympathy\\nof all in our country who wished to see the British Lion\\nhumbled and when party spirit in New Hampshire, Croy-\\ndon not excepted, was at fever heat. How vivid, how\\nminute, were my recollections all revived by the suggestive-\\nness of that little, unpretentious flower I stood, once\\nmore a boy of seven years, in that semicircle of high hills,\\nsweeping round from north-east to south-west, with slopes", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "16\\npartly wooded and partly dotted with small rocky farms,\\nand within which lay, not indeed a prairie, but an undulat-\\ning plain, having in its center a dark forest, the haunt of\\nnight-prowling animals, the terror of the cornfield, the hen-\\nroost and the sheepfold. Around that forest were cultivated\\nfarms, not very productive, but yielding to industry and\\neconomy support for a hardy yeomanry, not then disturbed\\nby visions of better acres in the opening West. Had I\\nactually been at the old homestead of Peter Stow, near the\\nwestern border of that black forest, hardly could I have seen\\nmore distinctly the outline and the filling up of that semi-\\ncircle, with its encompassing hills, than I then beheld them\\nin .the picture-gallery of the mind. What then to me\\nwere the magnificent Alps witli their lofty peaks and deep\\ngorges, and their thundering avalanches I had before me\\nCroydon Mountain, identified in the memories of child-\\nhood with my first ideas of elevation and greatness, and of\\nisolation from all that was beyond, a barrier separating\\nme, not from classic Italy, but from far off Cornish and\\nGrantham.\\nIt was midsummer in the memory, and the warm blue\\nsky was flecked with detached clouds that dappled with\\nshade the sunny landscape. The shadows of those clouds,\\nmoved by the lightest, softest winds, as they passed down\\nthe mountain side and crossed the plain aind the grass and\\ngrain waving in gentle undulations and the smoke curling\\naslant from the chimneys of farm-houses all these had\\ngiven me, notwithstanding Dr. Darwin s theory, my original\\nimpressions of natural beauty. Herds and flocks were graz-\\ning quietly in rocky pastures. The atmosphere was loaded\\nwith fragrance from clover blossoms, white and red, sweeter", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "17\\nthan any perfume from Araby the Blest. No sounds fell\\nupon the ear but the music of birds, or the hum of insects,\\nor, at the hour of twelve, the housewife s horn calling the\\nhungry men folks from the field of toil to her prepared\\ntable or, at night-fall, the hoarse cry of the night hawk and\\nthe inimitable hoot of the boding owl, both relieved by\\nthe plaintive notes of the hidden whip-poor-will. And that\\nhouse of my nativity, as innocent of paint as a Croydon\\nmaiden s face, very small, quite rustic, with few con-\\nveniences, yet the palace of an independent lord and his\\nwife and four children how particular were my recollections\\nof its exact structure, gable-end to the street of its every\\napartment, every article of furniture, every fireplace, door,\\nwindow, stairway of the floor and ceiling of the cupboard\\nand dresser of\\nThe family Bible that lay on the stand\\nyes, and especially of all the inmates, the permanent and\\nthe -occasional\\nFond Memory, to her duty true,\\nBrings back their faded forms to view;\\nHow lifelike, through the mist of years,\\nEach well-remembered face appears!\\nThere was on the one side the wood shed, in one part of\\nwhich was the platform for spinning, quilling, warping,\\nweaving, with all the implements of domestic manufactur-\\ning. On the other, through the stoop, was the well,\\nwith crotch, and sweep, and pole, and curb, and\\nold oaken bucket, and crystal water of arctic coolness.\\nThere was the garden, inclosed by a stone wall, with its\\nfringe of currant bushes, and a thrifty nursery, and patches\\nof vegetables, and in the center the large granite boulder\\nsmothered with roses. In the roadwav was a still lartjer", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18\\nboulder, the pulpit rock of the future preacher. A little\\nfurther down was a brook where cousins of two families met\\nand childishly sported. In front of the house was a row of\\nLombardy poplars, tall and luxuriant, never cropped for fagots\\nas I have seen them on their native plains in Northern Italy,\\nIn the rear was the apple orchard, laden with unripened,\\nand therefore, forbidden, fruit. At a suitable distance were\\nthe barns for the storage of farm products, and for the\\nhousing of stock. At the foot of a small declivity near\\nby was a swamp in which frogs, at certain seasons, gave\\nfree concerts batrachian types of certain classes of my own\\nspecies whom I have everywhere met peepers and croakers.\\nThe dwellings to be seen from that memorable stand-point\\nwere few, some of them hung on the sides of the ragged\\nhills, far apart, and, but for domestic affections, isolated\\nand lonely. I remembered not only the homes, but the\\nfaces and the employments and the habits and the tempera-\\nments and the reputed characters of all the neighbors\\nwithin the circle of a mile radius. I remembered the low,\\nflat-roofed school-house of the district, hidden in a small\\nforest nook, fringed with birches and briars and the names\\nand faces of m} teachers Grod bless their precious mem-\\nories and the name and face of every fellow-pupil. I\\nremembered nearly all the roads and fjirms in the town, and\\nmost of the residences of the nine hundred inhabitants, and\\nsuch family names as Metcalf, Wakefield, Stow, Ward,\\nFletcher, Town, Smart, Carpenter, Rawson, Straight,\\nPowers, Goldthwait, Marsh, Frye, Darling, Thresher,\\nWalker, Ames, Winter, Barton, Carroll, Putnam, Stock-\\nwell, Emery, Reed, Cutting, Loverin, Eggleston, Blan-\\nchard, Jacobs, Hagar, Wheeler, Crosby, Eastman, Dwinnell,", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "19\\nBreck, Hall, Kempton, Whipple, Ferrin, Nelson, Partridge^\\nCooper, Paul, Newell, Eider, Melendy, Haven, Durkee,\\nHumphrey, Clement, Sanger and of some of these names\\nseveral families. I remembered how common it was to\\nreduce discriminating names to convenient, familiar mono-\\nsyllables, as Sam, Ben, Jock, Tim, Joe, Bije, Ned, Jake,\\nJim, Pete, Sol, Nat, Tom, Nate, Steve, Dave, Josh, Zeke,\\nLem, Eias, Bill, Keub, Mose, Frank but I did not recall one\\nSammie, or Bennie, or Eddie, or Willie, or Johnnie, or\\nCharlie, or Freddie, or Joey, or Jamie, or Frankie or\\nG-eorgie, or Hezzie. Among the girls, not then styled\\nyoung ladies, were Patty, Judy, Tempo, Speedy, Peggy,\\nNabby, Lize, Sukey, Viney, Milly, Betsey, Fanny, Prudy,\\nEoxy, Sally, Polly, Cindy, Listy, Jinny but not, as I\\nrecollect, one Hattie, or Susie, or Nannie, or Josie, or\\nBessie, or Lillie, or Addie, or Tillie, or Celestie, or Lulu, or\\nKatie, or Minnie, or Eosie, or Libbie, or Maggie or Carrie.\\nCouples were married by priest Haven, not as gentlemen\\nand ladies, but as men and women. Father was not pa\\nor papa, but quite generally dad or daddy. Mother\\nwas not ma, but mammy. Brother was not bubby,\\nor sister sissy. The modern refinements in nomenclature\\nand terms of endearment had not then reached so far as\\nCroydon, Are they now here If they are, do you count\\nthem improvements Do they convey more heart than the\\nold styles of familiar address\\nI remembered the June training, and the one Croydon\\ncompany of militia and the muster days, and the thirty-\\nfirst regiment, and its field officers, and its troopers, and\\nSpringfield grenadiers, and its regimental flag, and its\\nsham fights, brave and bloodless. I remembered the town", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20\\nmeetings, and the spelling schools, and the squirrel hunts,\\nand the working on the highways, and the house-warmings,\\nand the huskings and the quiltings not all yet as I am\\ntold, quite obsolete institutions. And I remembered the\\none house of Christian worship, and also the one tavern and\\ntwo stores, the one carding machine and here and there a\\nsmithery, the one tannery and a few grist and saw-mills.\\nBut I remembered no lawyer or sheriif no law officers but\\ntwo justices of the peace and the tything-men, the latter\\nthe special terror of Sabbath-desecrating boys. Some of\\nyou, like myself, may recollect those keen-eyed detectives,\\nSamuel Metcalf and Sherman Cooper.\\nI remembered the burial place, Grod s Acre,\\nWhere the nide forefathers of the hamlet sleep\\nimperfectly inclosed, showing little of the hand of care,\\novergrown with mullens and briers, and far more repulsive\\nthan attractive. There were grassy mounds and significant\\nhollows, and an occasional headstone of blue slate, but not\\none of marble and fresh in my memory were names and\\nquaint inscriptions, closing with the monitory couplet,\\nDeath is a debt to Nature due,\\nWhich I have paid, aud so must you;\\nor with a fuller statement,\\nAs you are now, so once was I,\\nAs I am now, you soon must be\\nRemember, you are born to die;\\nTherefore, prepare to follow me.\\nSay not that all this was a waking dream or a reverie, for\\nit was neither it was a simple look into the j)icture-\\ngallery of the soul, and the key that unlocked the partic-\\nular apartment where the Croydon of my childhood was\\npermanently portrayed, was that little flower which had", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "21\\ndone for me what no other of all the flora of Europe could\\nhave done. The process was rapid. I sat not long on that\\ngrassy hillock, for the sun was declining, and a cold wind\\nwas setting in from the frozen Alps, and, plucking that\\nsuggestive flower, I hastened back to my lodgings. From\\nthat hour I hoped that you would, in 1866, do what you\\nare so effectively doing to-day, and that I might be permit-\\nted to join you in commemorating the worth and the deeds\\nof our ancestors who here made the first settlement, and\\ncommenced for the town the history you are passing in\\nreview.\\nBe assured, Mr. President and fellow-townsmen, I speak\\nwith intense sincerity I count it a special privilege to be\\nhere to-day. And why should I not Though long absent,\\nI return with memories fresh and vivid. I am living over\\nthe first eight years of my varied, eventful life. I have seen\\nmany parts of the world, the New and the Old but no\\nspot on either continent, in city or country, is so dear to me\\nas my native town. I stop not to analyze this feeling of\\npreference probably it defies all analysis and explanation\\nbut I know it to be a fixed fact in my being, and only by\\nthe annihilation of that being can it be dislodged. My spirit\\nis mellow and tender with reminiscences of the place and\\nthe people as they were when this was my home. What I\\nhave described as lying far back im my memory, is, 1\\npresume, but a representative of what is depicted with equal\\nclearness in the memories of others. The Wheelers, the\\nMetcalfs, the Halls, the Powers, the Whipples, the Havens,\\nthe Carrolls, the Putnams, and all the rest of you who have\\nlived fifty years and more, have your own picture-galleries,", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "22\\nopen to-day and filled with images of the past. You are\\nthinking of old homesteads, and parents, and neighbors, and\\nthe events of your early days. Some of you, natives of\\nCroydon, are older than myself, and can remember farther\\nback but none of you who have been long away, I am sure,\\nhave returned with a stronger love for our native hills, or a\\nheart warmer with gratitude that this was our birth-place,\\nor that here we were trained to commence life in earnest.\\nI join you fervently in these commemorative services,\\nand cordially lay on this altar of reunion my small contri-\\nbution.\\nOf those who, one hundred years ago, commenced here a\\nsettlement, all have long since passed away. Since I left\\nthe town, nearly two generations have come and gone. Were\\nthe first two children who were born near this spot Cath-\\narine Whipple and Joshua Chase now living, they would\\nbe ninety-nine years old. Very few born in the last century\\nare present to-day. As I visit other places where I have\\nresided, and inquire for old acquaintances, I am directed to\\nthe cemeteries. The same would be done, more or less, in\\nCroydon and yet fewer in number, in proportion to the\\npopulation, have closed their mission here, for more than\\ntwo-thirds of those born here have emigrated, and their\\ngraves are to be found in many States, all the way from\\nthe Penobscot to the regions beyond the Father of Waters.\\nI remember a few of the pioneers more especially Moses\\nWhipple, the veteran deacon, the man of large heart, and\\nupright character, the genial peace-maker, respected and\\nbeloved by all and Ezekiel Powers, the man of large\\nbodily proportions, whose inventive faculties and achieve-", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "23\\nments of muscular strength and sterling common sense\\nmade him the hero of many a tradition. The men of the\\nfirst half century were a hardy race, enterprising, adven-\\nturous, made robust by toil and exposure, with great powers\\nof endurance, and renowned for uncommon triumphs over\\nrugged obstacles. Nowhere else have I seen men of such\\nphysical frames and such executive energies as some whom\\nI remember. With what rapt interest and admiration I\\nlistened, as a child, by the hour to stories of their hardships\\nand exploits in land-clearing, river-bridging, road-making,\\nhouse-building, sugar-manufacturing, bear-hunting, otter\\nand beaver-trapping, snow-shoe- traveling How unpro-\\nductive was often the soil they cultivated how unfriendly\\nwere the late spring and early autumnal frosts how\\nobstructing were the terrific snow-storms how short and\\ncapricious were their summers, and long and rigorous their\\nwinters how difficult to protect their scanty crops and live\\nstock from the depredations of wild beasts how coarse and\\noften restricted were their means of sustenance how\\nstringent were their privations during the Eevolutionary\\nWar how great their sufferings from a depreciated cur-\\nrency, from the lack of groceries, clothing, and medical\\nsupplies What an unwritten history Traditions, once\\nfresh and thrilling, how faded already, and soon to be\\nwholly forgotten Young as I was, I listened eagerly, and\\nmy memory was charged to repletion with narratives,\\noriginal and second-hand, from my paternal grandmother,\\nfrom Samuel Powers, Sherman Cooper, Aaron Whipple,\\nand, may I not add, from that venerable spinster, aunt\\nLizzie Sanger. I was fond of the captivating detail of\\nJewish, Grecian, Eoman and English history but nothing", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24\\nthat I read struck roots so deeply in my inner being, and\\nfixed there so permanent a lodgment, as those oral narratives\\nheard by childhood s ear during the long winter evenings\\nnearly sixty y^ars ago. Often since have I coveted the\\ndescriptive powers of those strong-minded stalwart veterans,\\nsome of whom were actors in the rough scenes they graphi-\\ncally portrayed. They had the elements of first-class\\norators. And among those narrated marvels were not a few\\nof the heroic achievements of Croydon women, the great-\\ngrandmothers of many now before me of what they effect-\\nively did and bravely suffered, when their husbands, fathers,\\nbrothers, sons, were away contending for their country s\\nindependence. I remember some of those women, of\\nuncommon brain and muscle, giantesses and the mothers of\\ngiants and few of the sex have I since seen who equaled\\nthem in strength of intellect and executive accomplishment.\\nNone of them are here but memory holds in the picture-\\ngallery their forms and features and intonations of\\nspeech.\\nMr. President, by some unaccountable process, I have\\nhad the misfortune to be announced for an ovation on\\nthis festive occasion. That is what j -oiir Committee never\\nasked of me, and what I never promised or contemplated.\\nI am here no more to pronounce an oration than I am to\\npreach a sermon. I consented, as one of the speakers, to\\ncontribute something in the way of reminiscences. Twenty\\nyears ago, I was more formal in a memorial service at\\nNewport, when there was a reunion, not of natives merely,\\nbut of past and present residents. And, nineteen years\\nago, at Sherburne, Mass., I addressed, in quite another style,", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "25\\nthe descendants of Henry Leland, some of whose posterity,\\nat an early period, settled in Croydon. But this is neither\\nNewport nor Sherburne it is my birthplace, the home of\\nmy progenitors, full to overflow of the tenderest associations,\\nand the affections here burn with an intensity that forbids\\nall intellectual elaboration.\\nTo say much of persons might be deemed invidious but\\nof a very few I may speak particularly without incurring\\nthe imputation of partiality.\\nForemost among those remembered, 1 mention Jacob\\nHaven, uniformly called Priest, as were all Congrega-\\ntional ministers in this region, while Baptist and Freewill\\nBaptist ministers were as uniformly known by the title of\\nElder. For more than half a century he was prominently\\nidentified with the history of the town. A native of Fram-\\ningham, Mass., he was here ordained in 1788, and here he\\ndied in 1845. He was called to the pastorate by the legal\\nvoters of the town, who determined his salary and, being\\nthe first minister settled, he was the recipient of the share\\nof land reserved for that purpose by the grantor. Governor\\nWentworth. In 1805, he ceased to be the minister of the\\ntown, and became the pastor of such as adhered to him by\\nsimilarity of religious views or affinity of personal feeling,\\nand were willing to support him.\\nYou who are not past forty do not remember the old\\nmeeting-house, a very plain structure, never finished, and\\ntoo cold to be occupied in the winter. I recollect how the\\nplates, beams and king-posts were exposed on the inside.\\nThe pews were square, with perpendicular partitions, and\\nwith turn-up seats which, at the close of the long prayer,", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26\\nwere let down with a famous clatter, sometimes before the\\nAmen. The seats were imcushioned, the aisles were\\nuncarpeted, and many panes in the numerous windows were\\nbroken. The pulpit, behind Avhich was the royal window,\\nwas very elevated, and contained a square block for a rest\\nto the shorter limb of the Priest as he stood at his work.\\nOverhanging was a clumsy canopy or sounding-board.\\nHalf way up the pulpit, at the first landing, were the\\nDeacon s seats, graced, as I well remember, by such\\nworthies as Moses Whipple, Stephen Powers, and Sherman\\nCooper. In the front gallery was the choir of singers, un-\\nsustained by organ or seraphine or even a big fiddle, but\\nconducted by Samuel Metcalf, who gave the key-note with\\nhis pitch-pipe, and then, in unison with the rest, sounded\\nout the initial fa-sol-la-mi-fa. In some of the old fugue\\ntunes, 0, how they raced in mazy confusion, all coming out\\nnearly together At one end of the house was a tower\\nsurmounted by a belfry, from which never a bell sent its\\npeals among these hills. Around the house was a profusion\\nof mayweed, milkweed, and huge thistles with fragrant\\nblossoms and sharp thorns. In my earlier years, no vehicle\\nwith wheels ever visited that sanctuary. Some of the\\npeople went on foot, others on horseback. Now and then\\nthere was a side-saddle but the pillion was the more\\ncommon convenience for the women. It was nothing\\nunusual for the husband and wife to arrive on one horse, she\\nbehind bearing an infant in her arms, and he an older child\\nupon a pillow on the pommel of the saddle. This various\\nburden was conveniently dismounted at the horse-block.\\nIn that house, with the exception of the winter months,\\nPriest Haven officiated from 1794 to 1826. He was a sood", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "27\\npreacher, not brilliantly rhetorical, but serious in manner,\\nclear in statement, logical in reasoning, and forcible in\\nappeal. A few weeks since, a gentleman from this vicinity,\\nspeaking of a lady of this town, said to me that she was\\nthe most intelligible lady in Croydon. It was not exactly\\nthe compliment he intended but of Priest Haven it was\\ntrue that he was both intelligible and intelligent. He made\\nhimself understood. That he was impressive, I have occasion\\nto know, for I remember well a sermon I heard him deliver\\nmore than fifty years ago, on a communion day, from the\\nwords, I loill wash mine hands in innocency so loill I\\ncompass thine altar, Lord He never had a liberal\\nsalary. When settled, the town voted him forty pounds, to\\nbe increased, in certain contingences, to sixty pounds the\\nsum to be paid in neat stock, equal to good grass-fed beef,\\nat twenty shillings per hundred weight, or good rye at four\\nshillings per bushel. He manifested a deep interest in the\\nschools, and was an earnest promoter of all efforts to\\nimprove the morals of tlie town. He solemnized, for a long\\nperiod, nearly all the marriages, and officiated at nearly all\\nthe funerals but he never grew rich by the compensation\\nfor such services, any more than by his scanty salary. For\\nthirty-two years he was Town Clerk, and few municipal\\nrecords will more creditably bear inspection. He died\\nbeloved and lamented.\\nI remember only one physician Reuben Carroll who\\npracticed here forty-seven years, and had largely the confi-\\ndence of the people. His personal appearance, and his\\nfigure on horseback, are distinct in my memory yes, and\\nthose large black saddle-bags, redolent of odors not all from\\nCashmere or Damascus. His physiognomy was peculiar,", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28\\nintensely medical, and, in my simplicity, I inferred that the\\nconfiguration of his facial muscles was influenced by his\\nsmelling his own drugs. He was physician, surgeon and\\napothecary, with a varied but not very lucrative practice.\\nOne cold winter day, as I returned from school, I was\\ninformed that I had a little brother in the house. Though\\nless than five years old, I loved knowledge, and earnestly\\ninquired as to the origin of the important stranger. My\\ngrandmother, who was sometimes a little waggish, for she\\nwas a Powers, bantered me with evasive answers. Not to\\nbe foiled, I pressed my inquiry, and she then told me, Dr.\\nCarroll brought him. Well, that was, for the time being,\\nsatisfactory, for it was definitive, and I had at once a solution\\nof the mystery as to the required capacity of those odorifer-\\nous saddle-bags. How wise was I in my reasoning that Dr.\\nCarroll kept a supply of the little folks ready-made, and\\ndispensed them about town, wherever wanted.\\nLet me mention one other individual who has a large\\nplace in my recollections the negro, Scipio Page, always\\non hand at town meetings and military trainings, grand\\ncaterer for the appetites of all who would pay their coppers\\nfor fruits, cakes and pastry. He was dismally black as if\\nright from Congo, and his name was freely used in family\\ndiscipline. Old Scip will catch you, was the climax of\\nthreats to refractory children, and planted in many a mind\\na prejudice against color that was all but ineradicable.\\nKeally, Old Scip was one of the most harmless of men,\\ndoing what many of his despisers did not honestly earning\\nhis own bread, and minding his own business.\\nI remember the schools as few, and not of a very high or-\\nder. How well do I recollect one, with short terms, summer", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "29\\nand winter, and with Vasliti Hagar and Ezra Gnstin as\\nteachers the former still living, in Illinois, and, at the age\\nof eighty-one, a correspondent whom I value for her deep\\npiety and vigorous good sense. The prejudice here against\\neducation, more advanced than the product of common\\nschools, was almost universal, and a desire for more was set\\ndown to the account of indolence or misdirected ambition.\\nThe boy who ventured to look towards a College, decHned at\\nonce in position among his fellows.\\nThe only public work of those days w^as the Croydon\\nTurnpike, and I remember how the share-holders, many of\\nwhom worked out their subscriptions to the stock by build-\\ning each a section of the road, and who were promised large\\ndividends, received their income mostly in the shape of\\nassessments for repairs and the support of turnpike gates.\\nThe politics of the town were then strongly Democratic,\\nof the Jeffersonian type, and party-spirit acrimoniously\\ndivided the men, women and children. I had an aunt,\\nliving with one of the meekest of husbands in yonder house,\\nwho could talk on public affairs more intelligently and\\nsmartly than some of the men whom we now send to\\nWashington.\\nAs we had no mails, newspapers were brought weekly by\\npost-riders from Concord and Walpole and, though few\\nwere taken, they were read with avidity, and loaned from\\nhand to hand, and their contents were talked over at Edward\\nHall s and James Breck s stores, and Benjamin Barton s\\ntavern, and sometimes at intermissions of Sabbath\\nservices.\\nThe first settlers were chiefly from Worcester County,\\nMass., and were decidedly, stringently puritanical. Tradi-", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30\\ntion has brought down many a fact, showing how severely\\nconscientious they were in the observance of the Sabbath,\\nand all this while they had no church, no minister, no gath-\\nering place for Christian worship. But most certainly the\\nnext generation, as I knew it, was more lax in morals.\\nKeligious dissensions and political bitterness had their influ-\\nence in the deteriorating process but the copious influx\\nand fearful consumption of New England rum did far more\\nin the work of degeneracy. Terrible was the havoc made\\nby that fiery agent among the bodies, minds, morals and\\nestates of the population. Some of you remember those\\ndays of declining industry, mortgaged farms, absconding\\ndebtors, and deplorable indifference to the Sabbath and\\nChristian proprieties. Many vices, such as horse-racing,\\ngambling, licentiousness, were among the natural concom-\\nitants of the radical evil. But, in the third generation,\\nthere was happily a change in the habits of the people the\\ntemperance reform wrought beneficent transformations and\\nthe favorable result was seen in their persons and their\\nmanners, in their dwellings and their farms in the general\\naspect of the town both physical and moral. What may\\nnow be the condition of things, I am incompetent to speak\\nbut I look to-day with delight upon your countenances, so\\ndifi erent from many that I remember, inflamed, bloated,\\nscarred with the furnace-fires of imbibed alcohol. God\\nbless you all my relatives and friends, and mercifully pre-\\nserve you from another such volcanic devastation\\nBut I must not trespass upon time that belongs to others.\\nThe representatives of many families are present, and their\\nreminiscences must be as full and as interesting as my own.\\nWe are here after a long separation, that we may have one", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "31\\nearthly reunion, and bring together the treasures of quick-\\nened memories and especially that we may garland the\\ngraves of the intrepid few who, on these hill-sides and along\\nthese water-courses, laid good foundations for the thrift of\\ntheir successors. I have, done what I could. You may do\\nimmensely better.\\nWhat now of the future Three generations have\\npassed away. What shall be the character and achieve-\\nments of the next three Who will gather here, in 1966,\\nand rehearse the story of two centuries Long ere that\\nsecond centennial, we shall all have joined the congregation\\nof the departed, and our dust will repose in stillness as now\\nreposes the dust of our revered ancestors. May we so live,\\nand so fulfill the trusts of life, as that we may have a joyous\\nreunion in the Better Land.\\nAfter the Address, and music by the Band, the procession\\nwas again formed under the direction of the Chief Marshal\\nand escorted to the table, which had been bountifully spread\\nby the people of the town, and was free to all. The Divine\\nblessing was invoked by the Rev. C. M. Dinsmore, of New-\\nport, and more than two thousand persons partook of the\\nrepast. The table, some thousand feet in length, was\\ndivided into seven sections. One section was entirely pro-\\nvided for by the liberality of the Hon. Lemuel P. Cooper,\\nand was most tastefully arranged and decorated by the\\nladies of his household. On its center was a fatted calf,\\nroasted whole. The town had been divided into six districts,\\nand as each district was to furnish one section of the table,\\nthere arose, at once, a generous rivalry, as to which should\\nsurpass the other in the amount and excellence of its sup-\\nplies and the beauty of its ornaments, and the result was", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32\\nmost happj^ and alike honorable to the liberality and taste\\nof the town. When all had been fed, many a basket was\\ntaken away unopened.\\nAfter dinner the procession was re-formed and marched\\nback to the stand. The assembly was called to order and\\nlistened to music by the band.\\nThe President. Althousjh much has been done since\\nwe left the stand, there are things yet to be said to which\\nyou will be glad to listen. I see before me one belonging to\\nwhat is supposed to be the talking fraternity, with whose\\nvoice and manly proportions I have long been familiar in the\\nCourt-Room, and who, I doubt not, can say something out\\nof doors. We expect to hear from the Bartons and Pow-\\ners in combination and separately and first in combination,\\nI now call for a speech from Levi W. Barton, Esq., of\\nNewport.\\nMr. Barton said\\nMr. President I could wish. Sir, that you had called\\nupon some other son of Croydon to speak, at this time, in\\nmy stead. The entertainment from which we have just re-\\nturned, which has so generously contributed to our physical\\ncomfort, has but poorly fitted me to take a part, however\\nhumble, in the exercises in which we are now to engage.\\nBesides, Sir, the scene before me, the remembrance of for-\\nmer days, and the sacred memories of the past, have so\\nwrought upon my feelings, that my tongue falters, and my\\neyes are in full sympathy with the weeping clouds over us.\\nGladly would I sit in silence, and yield myself to the re-\\nflections which the hour suggests. Though belonging to the\\nspeaking fraternity, as you have announced, I confess,", "height": "3393", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "C^^^^^i^^^?^", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "33\\nSir, that my best selected words are all too poor to express\\nthe deep emotion of my heart. Before me are the sons and\\ndaughters of my own native town, who scattered by the\\nevents of life have come back to isit the place of their birth\\nand the home of their childhood. Yes, like pilgrims we\\nhave come back with our wives, children and friends, to en-\\njoy mutual congratulations, and share with each other the\\nsacred associations of a place made dear to us by a thousand\\ntender recollections.\\nMany of us are standing upon the play-ground of our\\nchildhood. Here was the arena of athletic sports of ex-\\nciting games and innocent amusements. How distinct the\\nremembrance how fond the recollections. Around us, on\\nall sides, are the dear old hills and valleys fond remembran-\\nces of by-gone pleasures, for here we cherished many a\\npleasant dream of life, all unmindful of life s thorny road.\\nBefore us is the old, familiar river, along whose banks we\\nso often roamed and in whose waters we have so often sport-\\ned. Yonder is the spot where stood the old village school-\\nhouse, around which clusters the most interesting and abid-\\ning recollections. Beyond stands the same old wood, still\\nvocal with the sweet carol of the forest bird, which so de-\\nlighted our ear in school-boy days. How sweet in the warm\\nsummer days was the water which gushed, cool and spark-\\nling from yonder hill-side. How beautiful from the rocky\\nsummit above was the view below of the meandering river,\\nthe placid ponds where grew the pure, sweet-scented lily,\\nthe rich green meadows, and beyond all, my own sunny\\nhome where with brothers and sisters I was watched over\\nand cared for by my then youthful but now aged mother.\\nYou will pardon me, if I say that around all these haunts", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "34\\nof childhood there seemed to linger a brighter halo of light\\nthan shines upon any other spot which my eye has ever\\nbeheld. With the feeling which prompted the beautiful\\nsentiment of the poet, I would say\\nHow clear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood\\n\\\\yhen fond recollection presents them to view.\\nBut not all to whom these scenes and haunts are familiar\\nare permitted to see this historic day. Many have fallen in\\ntheir various fields of labor, far away from their early home\\nothers have here fainted by the way, and yonder church-\\nyard holds their sacred dust.\\nBut I am carried back to the storied past. Standing at a\\ncentury-point from the settlement of the town I seem to see\\nin panoramic view the scenes and events of those early days.\\nOne hundred years have passed away since our ancestors\\nthose hardy pioneers of civilization sought homes in the\\nunbroken wilderness where now we see smiling fields, and\\ncultivated farms. We seem to see them now, as they grap-\\npled manfully and resolutely with the hardships of pioneer life.\\nNo exposure, no danger or privation could detain them from\\nthe accomplishment of their high purpose. Relying upon the\\nGod of their fathers, they were hopeful amidst discourage-\\nments, and patient in tribulation. They were of the Puri-\\ntan stock and inherited thein love of justice, their devotion\\nto principle and their contempt of toil and danger. Such men\\nwere Whipple, Chase, Warren, Leland, Powers and others,\\nAvho one century ago laid the foundation of this town.\\nThey yielded up the endearments of homes and the associa-\\ntions of friends, to receive in exchange the hardships and\\nprivations incident to a new settlement. No friendly voice\\no-reeted their arrival, no kind hand was outstretched for\\ntheir relief The damp earth was their couch, the overhang-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "35\\ning branches of the trees their only roof. The woodman s\\naxe soon breaks the silence of the dense old forest. Soon\\nthe curling smoke of the rude log cabin is seen to rise above\\nthe tree-tops. Years of privation followed in which, though\\ndeprived of most of the physical comforts of life, they were\\nnot unmindful of the true element of a permanent prosper-\\nity. Here the church was erected, within the rude but con-\\nsecrated walls of which devout prayer and praise arose from\\nhearts of humble worshipers. Here, too, they erected the\\nschool-house the auxiliary of the Church and the nursery\\nof a true republican state. Thus did our fathers plant a\\nwild, uncultivated wilderness with Christian homes, Chris-\\ntian churches, and common schools.\\nBut the early settlers of Croydon were not more devoted\\nto their religious and moral obligations than to their claims\\nof country and the civil rights of man. From the battle of\\nLexington to the close of the war of independence, her\\nsons went promptly forth to battle for home and country.\\nThen, as in the war for the preservation of the Union, her\\nsons were found where duty called. She has never tolerated\\ntories and traitors upon her soil. How valuable the legacy\\nwhich has been bequeathed to us. How great our obliga-\\ntion to transmit it to posterity. This day forms a connect-\\ning link between the past century, with all its sorrows and\\njoys, its sad recollections and sacred memories, and the com-\\ning century with all its hopes of good and bright anticipa-\\ntions. By the veneration we entertain for our fathers by\\nthe love we have for posterity not less than a due regard for\\nour own welfare we are admonished that we occupy positions\\nof grave responsibility. The influence of individual life\\nextends far beyond the limits of our earthly career. The", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "36\\ncondition of generations which are to follow ns depends in\\nno small degree upon the acts we do and the lives we live.\\nHow fit the occasion for high and noble resolutions. Let us\\nsee to it that posterity have no occasion to reproach us, and\\nthat when they shall meet, as we do to-day, to mark anoth-\\ner century in the history of our town, they may be able to\\nrefer to our record, as we do to that of our fathers, with feel-\\nings of pride and veneration. May we then be counted\\nfaithful guardians and worthy stewards of the trust commit-\\nted to us.\\nMay this day form a golden link in friendship s chain,\\nbinding us by the sweet influence of association to each\\nother and to our native town. But, Mr. President, I am\\nfearful I have spoken too long and trespassed on time which\\nproperly belongs to others. My friends, in conclusion let\\nme say, that you have heard, though imperfectly I confess,\\nfrom the Bartons and Powerses in combination, I trust\\nthat you will not judge of the standing and strength of my\\nmaternal or paternal ancestors, by this hasty and immature\\neffort of mine. They deserve to be judged by a higher\\nstandard. Their history is interwoven most closely with\\nthe history of the town, from its earliest days. I trust I\\nshall not be charged with invidious boasting if I claim for\\nthem, as families, a somewhat leading position in the vari-\\nous walks of social and civil life. To say that they had\\nfaults is but to proclaim their common humanity.\\nLet us, their descendants, avoid their errors and emulate\\ntheir virtues, for in no way can we honor them so much as\\nby excelling them in virtue.\\nIn closing, allow me to present to the assembly the fol-\\nlowing sentiment", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ugc J\\nmn^^ L/t -i^", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "37\\nJohn Cooper, the Historian of Croydon While endeav-\\noring to rescue the names and deeds of his ancestors from\\noblivion, he has secured his own immortality.\\nThe President. The weather does not seem propitious\\nfor the muses this afternoon; but Croydon Poets are irre-\\npressible. You will listen to a Centennial Poem prepared\\nfor the occasion by Mrs. Augusta Cooper Bristol, of\\nIllinois.\\nThe following Poem was then read and sung by the Glee\\nClub\\nNo power has made secure or fast,\\nThe sepulchre with portal vast,\\nThat opens on the buried Past.\\nAnd Poesj^ puts forth her hand,\\nAnd group by group, and band by band,\\nThe dead years rise at her command.\\nNot freezing specters, chill and numb,\\nNor ghostly shadows, dim and dumb\\nBut crowned and glorified they come.\\nTheir step a song, their march a rhyme,\\nAlong the grand arcade of Time,\\nThe century-children tower sublime.\\nTitans, majestically tall,\\nThe ancient years rise first of all.\\nIn answer to my poet call.\\nGiants of sternest hardihood,\\nThey cleave a pathway rough and rude,\\nDefeating wrong, achieving good.\\nWhere Nature all unconquered stands.\\nThey lift their iron-sinewed hands.\\nAnd train her meek to their commands.\\nSeverely brave, because so pure,\\nThey fail not. Victory is sure\\nThey grapple, conquer, and secure\\nTheir code confronts Oppression s rod\\nAll men are kings upon the sod.\\nHeaven-vested Only God is God!", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "38\\nThey are unto themselves reward\\nThey hold the beauty of accord,\\nAud theirs the secret of the Lord.\\nThey pass and still a later throng\\nOf century-children sweep along,\\nUrged by the miracle of song.\\nThese bring the balmy bud of Peace\\nTheir calm eyes hold a blessed lease\\nOf homely comfort and increase.\\nSweet counterparts, in Time s refrain,\\nThey round the rich crescendo strain\\nOf Plenty, Industry, and Gain.\\nAnd Art ignores her doubtful pause,\\nAnd Science, trusty vassal, draws\\nThe veil from Nature s cryptic laws.\\nFor them Contentment wreaths her vine,\\nAud floods them with auroral shine.\\nAs slow they vanish, line by line.\\nAnd following them, the immortal few,\\nLast in the century review,\\nMove down the spirit avenue.\\nThe Christs among the ages Lo,\\nThe carmine drips across the snow\\nOf their pure vesture as they go\\nAnd all the blood-drops, purple-ripe,\\nAnd every symbol stain and stripe,\\nDivinest meanings stereotype.\\nTheir God-thought blossoms into deed\\nFreedom and brotherhood their creed,\\nTo right all human wrong and need.\\nThey thunder at the monarch s gate,\\nOne throne alone s inviolate\\nThe White Throne where the angels wait.\\nAround Oppression s grave they chant\\nTheir hallelujahs jubilant,\\nTill earth and heaven are reboant.\\nTheir martyr-brows are aureate\\nWith thought. Their lifted eyes dilate\\nWith visions of man s ultimate.\\nSublimest of the century name.\\nThey pass enwrapt in spirit flame.\\nAnd fade all-glorious as they came.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "39\\nDivinely wrought, and mission true,\\nFar in the silence and the blue.\\nFades out the hundred-year review.\\nOh raise for them a pean free,\\nMy friends to-day for unto thee\\nThey leave a royal legacy.\\nA power to smite Injustice down\\nTo give to Freedom s brow the crown,\\nThough kings demur and tyrants frown.\\nA will all human woe to heed.\\nTo seize ide.al thought at need,\\nAnd crystalize it into deed.\\nA hope to fill the heart with song,\\nThough Right should seem eclipsed by Wrong,\\nAnd life engloomed with shadows long.\\nA consciousness untrained and free,\\nThat spheres what Reason cannot see\\nFeels God through self-divinity.\\nAnd best of all the precious dower,\\nThe cheerful spirit-will and power,\\nThat waits on duty, hour by hour.\\nOh, close to all the heart reveres,\\nOur royal legacy adheres\\nBequeathment of a hundred years\\nMay the Almighty s record-page.\\nProve that the heirs of such an age\\nWere worthy of their heritage.\\nThen raise a pean full and free.\\nAnd in the sweets of jubilee\\nEmbalm the dear old Century.\\nThe President.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 You will next listen to a voice which\\ncomes back to us from the Empire State,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a man in whom,\\nif reports be true, are combined great professional skill\\nand princely munificence. When a son of Dea. Sherman\\nCooper speaks, you will all delight to listen. I call upon\\nDr. William F. Coopeu, of New York, for a speech.\\nMr Cooper responded as follows", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "40\\nMr. President, Gentlemen and Ladies\\nI did not know that I was expected to speak on this\\noccasion till since my arrival. I am not used to speaking\\nin public, the last forty years of my life having been spent\\nin the sick-room, where the hushed voice and muffled step\\nhave ill prepared me to appear before this vast assembly.\\nBut, after an absence of thirty-nine years, I am glad to re-\\nvisit the town of my birth and the place of my boyhood\\nand I am gratified that so many of my fellow-townsmen\\nand their descendants have given me and those that I have\\nbrought with me so cordial a reception.\\nI went out from you in my strength; I have returned to\\nyou in my weakness. I went to a section of country where\\nare no mountains nor are there any rocks except of second-\\nary formation. Your mountains and your vast bowlders of\\ngranite awaken in me feelings of sublimity and grandeur at\\nthe power of the Creator. Though your mountains and\\nrocks remain much the same, how altered are the inhab-\\nitants since I left you, and what vacancies do I see in the\\ncrowd around me I fail to see the manly form and counte-\\nnance of Abijah Powers, and the firm, military step of\\nSamuel Powers. I fail to see those Revolutionary patriots,\\nwho composed the heads of so many families. They were\\nmen that left their homes in the depth of winter, and\\nmarched on snow-shoes, under Arnold, amid cold and starv-\\nation, into Canada. 1 fail to see the noble men who, when\\none-half of the men in town, capable of bearing arms, were\\ncalled for to stop the progress of Gen. Burgoyne and his\\nwell-drilled army in their march from Canada to Albany,\\nresponded to the call, met and routed the enemy at Benning-\\nton, and afterwards at Saratoga, capturing the General and", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "41\\nhis wliole army, and tliereby forever rendering those battle-\\nfields classic ground.\\nEemember, Mr. President, that only ten years had elapsed\\nafter the first settler had found his way to Croydon, before\\nthe storm of the Kevolution swept over the scattered settle-\\nment. Where can another lot of such self-sacrificing men\\nbe found Your rugged soil and mountain air were well\\ncalculated to make patriots to make men; and well did\\nthey fulfill their mission. But those patriots are all gone.\\nNot one remains to tell us, as they often did on training and\\nelection days, of the hardships and suiferings which they\\nwent through, and of their love of General Washington.\\nMr. President I have visited the first cemetery of this\\ntown; and I have visited the last one. There I saw the\\nresting place, and read the epitaphs of your ancestors and\\nmine. I went alone the most fitting way of visiting the\\nCity of the Dead. There I saw the grave of the first\\none born in town. There I saw the graves of my school-\\nmates, the companions of my boyhood. There I saw the\\nresting place of my parents, whom I left in health, as I\\nwent to seek my fortune amongst strangers. They lived to\\na good old age, and their deaths were regretted by the com-\\nmunity in which they lived. In these grave-yards sleej)\\nthose who cleared up this rugged town, established these\\nschools and churches, and laid the foundation of all that is\\ncalculated to make true men and women of all within the\\nhearing of my voice. There those sleepers must lie till the\\nmorn of the resurrection. And, Mr. President, is it not a\\nthought calculated to make us better men and women, that\\nthe next Centennial Anniversary will find this vast crowd of\\nliving faces asleep with their fathers", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "42\\nMr. President I feel like indulging in some reminis-\\ncences of my own early personal history. Here I was born;\\nhere in your midst I went in and out; and here my character\\nwas formed for good or for bad. You are my witnesses\\nthat after the strictest sect I was brought up a Pharisee.\\nI visited yesterday the place where I attended the district\\nschool. The house was gone, but the foundation was there.\\nIt carried me back to the years of my boyhood, when Carl-\\nton Barton kept the school winter after winter. The stove-\\npipe that ran up almost perpendicularly, was oval in shape\\nand as large as my body. The house being poorly lighted,\\nthe area behind the stove was usually too dark to be used\\nfor study or recitation. There I often went to warm myself\\nand contrive to make the other scholars laugh. The teacher\\nwould call them up and punish them, while I always escaped\\npunishment except in a single instance. A man by the\\nname of Wood once taught the school. He saw me making\\nfaces at him, and pounced upon me so suddenly, that I was\\nmuch frightened. Although the school-house is gone, the\\nstream of water which ran beside it is there still and the\\nfurrows which the stream in past ages had worn in running\\nover the granite ledge, are also there. There we used to go\\nand drink the running water in summer and many a time\\nhave I cut the silver weed stems that were hollow, and gave\\nthem to the pretty girls, for them to put in their mouths\\nand draw up drink. I have no recollection of ever getting\\nany for the boys.\\nThe white birch is also gone. It was a crotched tree,\\nthe crotch having been used by me for a pulpit. There I used\\nto sit and act as minister to a little flock of girls and boys\\nthat would gather around me during the noonings. They", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "43\\nwould sing, and I would pray and preach. Those days, I\\nnow know, were my happiest days. I was then looking\\nforward to better days, but I have never seen them.\\nMr. President As I stand on this platform, I see the\\nfamiliar river that meanders through the meadow a few rods\\nbefore me. It brings vividly to my recollection an incident\\nof my first love. I was then ten years old, being about the\\nsame age of Patty Winter, my lady-love. We used to attend\\nthe same school and we read, and spelled and played together.\\nShe wore a red dress, and was thought by me to be a little\\nangel. Mr. Durkee, one of our neighbors, had hay dry enough\\nto be put in the barn and there were signs of rain. The\\nneighbors were called upon for help; and I, a ten years old\\nboy, was required to rake after the cart. Being a warm day,\\nJames Powers sent to Captain Whipple s distillery and got\\nsome potato whisky. They all drank, and gave to me.\\nHaving never tasted anything of the kind before, I drank\\nbecause others drank. The consequence was that I soon\\nbecame drunk; and, as I was raking on the bank of the\\nriver, I fell in, and was nearly drowned. I was rescued by\\nObed Whipple; and after I got over strangling so that I\\ncould speak, my first words were, Don t tell Patty Winter.\\nSo you see, gentlemen and ladies, that my love for the fair\\nsex, at that innocent age, was stronger than for either earth\\nor heaven. And there are some of my neighbors standing\\nhere, that can tell you if in that respect any change has\\ntaken place in me since.\\nMr. President I will draw my remarks to a close, as\\nothers are to follow me. But, before retiring, I wish to\\nspeak of the deep religious principles of some of the early\\nsettlers of this town, and of their strict adherence both to", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "44\\nthe letter and spirit of the Bible. Perhaps I cannot better\\nillustrate these than by citing the case of Ezekiel Powers, as\\na representative man of the first settlers of Croydon. Some\\nyears after the first settlement, a minister by the name of\\nBallard came into town, gathered a church, and established\\nrules for the guidance of members and the government of\\nthe church. One rule made it the duty of church-members\\nto keep the Sabbath day holy, and have their children do\\nthe same. It was, in an especial manner, enjoined on par-\\nents to prohibit their sons from going a courting, and their\\ndaughters from having sparks, as they were called, on Sun-\\nday nights. Another ordinance passed by the church was,\\nthat if a parent could not make his children obey him after\\nsuitable admonition and correction, he was to report them to\\nthe church, where by a vote they were to be thrown over\\nto the buffetings of satan.\\nEzekiel Powers, on his return from the meeting in which\\nthese ordinances were passed, called his family around him,\\nand told them of the ordinances of the church. Being an\\nindulgent parent, he told them that they should be indulged\\nin anything not forbidden in the Bible; but his commands\\nand the rules and regulations of the church must be obeyed.\\nHe closed the interview with prayer praying that the Lord\\nwould cause his children to obey. But his oldest son Ezekiel,\\nsixteen years of age, went that same night a courting, and\\ndid not return home till the family were at breakfast. As\\nhe entered the room on Monday morning, his father seized\\nhim by the collar, cuifed and shook him, and whipped him\\nseverely, telling him at the conclusion, that if he ever trans-\\ngressed in the same way again, he would double the chas-\\ntisement. But the son told his father that he should go as", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "45\\noften as he had a mind to. The flither then thought\\nthat he had discharged his duty. Accordingly the next\\nSabbath, after brother Ballard had closed his sermon,\\nEzekiel Powers arose his manly form of six feet towering\\nabove the congregation and, with tears streaming down his\\nface, said to the brethren and sisters I arise to perform a\\npainful duty to my family, to the church, and to my God.\\nMy beloved son Ezekiel proves incorrigible, and went a\\ncourting Sunday night; and, however it distresses me to say\\nit, I consent by a vote to heave him over to the buffetings\\nof satan. Ezra Cooper, one of the brethren present, arose\\nabout half way up, and, with his arms extended horizontally\\nbefore him said, Heave my son Jonathan over with him,\\nhe having a son of that name, who went a courting the\\nSunday night before.\\nIt only remains for me, gentlemen and ladies, to thank\\nyou for the hospitality with which you have welcomed your\\nreturned sons and daughters. I feel proud of Croydon, the\\ntown of my birth. All that I am or ever expect to be,\\nrests on the foundation begun, laid and finished here. I\\nfeel proud of the ladies that have furnished the tables with\\nsuch taste and elegance; and I feel proud that the ladies\\nhave such good husbands, brothers and sons who have\\nprovided so bountifully to fill the tables to overflowing.\\nFinally, I feel proud that I was born in this town. Mr.\\nPresident, I feel proud that the talented Leland, the manly\\nPowers, and the honest Cooper blood runs in my veins.\\nAnd, when I see this vast multitude, the product of this\\nsmall town, I feel proud of you all, that you have obeyed\\nthe first and great command of the Bible, Multiply and\\nreplenish the earth.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "46\\nThe President. I have the pleasure of introducing to\\nthis audience a descendant of Moses Whipple, the father\\nof the town/ Thomas Whipple, Esq., of Charlestown,\\nwho can speak for himself\\nMr. Whipple said\\nM7\\\\ President\\nOne hundred years ago, Seth Chase and his companioh\\nstood gazing for the first time upon the same magnificent\\nscenery which surrounds us to-day. The grand outlines are\\nthe same, hut civilization has wrought changes in the details.\\nWhen they turned their eyes to the east there stood before\\nthem Pine Hill, not as now rough and jagged, but covered\\nall over with tall pines gracefully waving their beautiful\\nbranches in the breeze at their feet lay two miniature lakes\\nreflecting the beams of the rising sun, while at the west\\nloomed up Croydon Mountain. Nature had spread out all\\naround them only beauty and grandeur, yet how sad and\\nlonely must have been their condition. They were alone.\\nNo human voice to cheer, or heart to sympathize with them.\\nAll around them was a dark, howling wilderness. Fifteen\\ndays after, as we may well conceive, most gladly did they\\nwelcome Moses Whipple and David Warren, who arrived\\nwith their families.\\nIt has been my good fortune from my earliest boyhood to\\nbe much with the early settlers of this town, and listen to\\ntheir conversations, and hence, had I time I could relate\\nmany a thrilling or amusing incident connected with the\\nearly history of the town. I could tell you something of\\nthe grief that wrung our mothers hearts when Capt. Moses\\nWhipple was called to lead away to the war so many of", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "47\\ntheir husbands and sons, and with what ecstasy their return\\nwas hailed.\\nMy time will permit me to relate only one or two inci-\\ndents and first, I will tell you about a hoat-ride to which\\nan inhabitant of this town was once treated. Having refused\\nto pay his taxes, and secreted his property, the collector\\nwent with his posse to arrest him. Armed with a loaded\\ngun he defiantly threatened with death any one who should\\nattempt the arrest. Dea. Whipple calmly remarking that\\nhe was as well prepared to die as any one of the party,\\nsprang upon and disarmed him. He was placed upon horse-\\nback, to be taken to prison, but he rolled himself off as fast\\nas he was put on the rude saddle. The patience of the par-\\nty becoming exhausted, they improvised a stout stone boat,\\nto which he was firmly bound. A spirited horse was attach-\\ned to the boat. The collector mounted another, and started\\nfor Charlestown jail. Ordinary boat-rides often produce sea-\\nsickness,, and the track here led over rocks, stumps, and the\\nroots and trunks of fallen trees, which were not very care-\\nfully avoided; but he braced himself against all sensations\\nof the kind. Voyagers across the Atlantic to the North\\nAmerican coast are delighted, especially in winter, on\\napproaching the Gulf Stream. The warmness of the water,\\nand the balmy softness of the atmosphere are peculiarly\\nagreeable. But when our hero approached a gulf in the\\nsouth part of the town, through which ran an unbridged\\nstream, he shrank back, beat up a parley, paid the tax and\\ncosts, and returned a sadder and a wiser, if not a better man.\\nThe effect was most salutary; and it was long before anoth-\\ner, having the pecuniary ability, refused or neglected to jDay\\ntaxes with which he was legally assessed.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "48\\nAnd now let me tell you another story of how a husband\\nwas made ivell and a wife 7nade sick. The main wheel to\\nthe mill first erected in the town became deranged, and no\\none could be found to put it in order except the person that\\nbuilt it. Lame and almost helpless, he was carried to the\\nwheel-pit, where by accident he was precipitated into the\\nicy cold water. The suddenness of the immersion, and his\\nefforts to escape from the unwelcome bath, completely cured\\nhim for the time. The necessary repairs were made, and he\\nwalked homeward. His wife seeing him approach, and\\nimagining that he was killed and that she saw his appari-\\ntion, was overcome by the emotion and confined to her bed,\\nwhile the husband resumed his former labors.\\nYour President has alluded to the fact that I am a\\ndescendant of Moses Whipple. You will indulge me in a\\nfew words in relation to him. He was a proprietor and one\\nof the earliest settlers of the town. He descended in the\\nfifth generation from Matthew Whipple, who settled at\\nIpswich hamlet, Mass., in 1635. He was born in 1733.\\nHis early advantages for education were quite limited. He\\nwas by occupation a mill-wright and surveyor of land. In\\n1762, he was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts\\nan officer in the militia in the regiment whereof Artemus\\nWard was Colonel. At the organization of the militia of\\nCroydon in 1774, he was chosen Captain and commissioned\\nby John Wentworth, the last colonial goveinor of the\\nProvince. The next year he was appointed to the same\\noffice by Matthew Thornton, President of the Congress of\\nNew Hampshire. He was a representative to one of the\\nearly Conventions held at Exeter, and for several years\\nelected to the State Legislature. When the soldiers of", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "^J^. d^^^.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "49\\n1777 inarched to tlie war from this town, he commanded a\\ncompany composed mainly of men of gigantic stature, and\\nmany of them of herculian strength. Without tents, and\\ndestitute of baggage-wagons, they carried their arms, equip-\\nments and provisions across the Green Mountains on their\\nbacks. When the militia was re-organized at the close of\\nthe war, he was appointed Colonel of the 15th Eegiment.\\nIn 1786 he was appointed one of the Conservators of the\\nPeace to quell the insurrectionary spirit which had sur-\\nrounded our Legislature with an armed mob, and threatened\\nthe State with anarchy and ruin. In 1814, a year memora^\\nble for the success of the American arms in the second Avar\\nfor independence, he was gathered to the tomb like a\\nshock of corn fully ripe.\\nCatherine Forbush early became the wife of Moses Whip-\\nple, and shared with him all the toils and privations of the\\nearly settlement. The next summer after their arrival, she\\ncalled all the children to her house and established a school,\\nwhich she continued for a long time without money and\\nwithout price, and laid the foundation on which the old\\nschoolmasters, Stephen Powers, Martin Griswoldj and Elea-\\nzer Jackson built; and on which others of a later day have\\nreared a superstructure so eminent for usefulness. The\\nmother of fourteen children, she died in 1829.\\nThe Pkesident. You will now listen to a farmer, and\\na descendant of the honest Coopers the Hon. Lemuel P.\\nCooper, of Croydon, in whom it is to be presumed all the\\nvirtues of his ancestors still live.\\nMr Cooper said\\nLadies and Gentlemen\\nI am unexpectedly called upon to speak a word for the", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "50\\nCooper Family, and also a word for the farmers of\\nCroydon. As regards the race whose name I bear, a very\\nfew words will suffice. Since their first landing in this\\ncountry to the present time, I think their record stands\\nsecond to none for honesty and integrity of purpose. Esteem-\\ning others more highly than themselves they have never been\\naspiring. Being religiously inclined, they have ever labored\\nto sustain the institutions of the gospel, and to promote the\\nwell-being of the community in which they have resided.\\nMy father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and perhaps\\nstill further back, were deacons in the Congregational\\nChurch, and so far as I have been able to learn, they have\\nall been men of good reputation and ornaments to their\\nprofessions. My father, grandfather and uncles were among\\nthe early emigrants to this town, and shared largely in the\\nhardships and perils of the early settlement. They are all\\ngathered to their fathers. It is a pleasing reflection that\\nthey were numbered with that noble band, who, periling\\ntheir lives, marched shoulder to shoulder against the common\\nenemy during the Revolutionary struggle. Few can review\\ntheir family records with less fear of shame or more just\\npride and satisfaction than the Coopers. They have all\\nacted well their parts in life. Thus much for the Coopers.\\nYou will now indulge me in a word in relation to the\\nfarmers. I believe if there is any man since King David\\nafter God s own heart, it is the honest, steady, persevering\\nfarmer. For fifty years in succession I have been laboring on\\na farm, and gaining my bread by the sweat of my brow. I\\nknow something of its operations, but nothing of its hard-\\nships when compared with the pioneers of the town. I am\\nfilled with astonishment when I reflect upon the vast amount", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "51\\nof labor performed by our fathers during the first half cent-\\nury. Their farms were covered with a heavy growth of trees\\nthe soil was hard and forbidding; their implements were few\\nand rudely made; and their resources small, save their own\\nstrong and persevering wills and their resolute and contented\\nwives. During that time, houses were erected; the trees\\ndisappear; the stones are rolled up into fences; roads are\\nmade; bridges are thrown across the streams; school-houses\\nare built; churches are erected; a minister is settled and\\nwhat is more, is paid and large families are raised and edu-\\ncated. In short the wilderness is made to bud and blossom\\nlike the rose. And while the father and older sons were\\ndoing this, the mother and daughters were in-doors manu-\\nfacturing with their own hands the fabrics wherewith to\\nclothe the household. There was then no Lowell or Man-\\nchester with their mammoth factories throwing off their\\nthousands of yards a day. I remember the process the\\ncarding, the spinning, the twisting, the reeling, the sizing,\\nthe bucking, the spooling, the sleiding, the drawing in, and\\nthe quilling. Then the mother takes the loom-seat, and\\nthrowing the shuttle alternately with one hand and catching\\nit with the other, swinging the lathe with the liberated hand,\\nand springing the treadles with her feet, and thus she rolled\\nup from five to twenty yards a day; and thus was wool and\\nflax and tow converted into cloth for our fathers. It was\\na labor honorable to our sainted mothers. Poorly can the\\nyoung of our day appreciate their labors and sacrifices, and\\nhow much our fathers and mothers have done to promote\\ntheir comfort and happiness. Honorable mention might be\\nmade of many prominent and enterprising farmers that\\nhave passed away since my recollection. The Whipples,", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "52\\nthe Wheelers, the Stows, the Jacobses, the Putnams, the\\nRyclers, the Powerses, the Bartons, the Humphreys, and\\nothers equally worthy.\\nOne or two instances will serve to give us an insight into\\nthe actual life of the first settlers.\\nI see before me the descendants of a couple that early\\ncommenced life here. They had but just purchased them a\\nfarm and cleared up a small portion of land, when by acci-\\ndent the husband was disabled. He lingered a helpless man\\nfor three years, and then died. And now what shall the\\nwife with a sick husband, five small children, an unsubdued\\nfarm, and no apparent means of subsistence do What\\nbut call upon public charity or her friends for help She\\ndid no such thing. While the larger children took care\\nof the smaller ones she plied herself to her loom with an\\nassiduity which enabled her not only to furnish medicine\\nand advice to her husband, but to feed, clothe and educate\\nher children. Tliose boys grew to manhood, and were among\\nour most worthy and skillful farmers. That farm remained\\nin their hands for more than sixty years. And the name of\\nthe heroine, grandmarm Sanger, deserves to be cherished\\namong the dearest household words.\\nMrs. Fisher, another of the early matrons of the town,\\nwhile her husband who was necessarily much away labor-\\ning to procure the means of subsistence was gone, would\\ntie one child in the chair, while with her infant on the one\\narm, and her milk-pail on the other, she would wend her\\nway through the woods to her cow, a mile off in the nearest\\ngrass plot, milk it, and recrossing Sugar River (then a bold\\nand rapid stream) on a log, hasten back to her child.\\nOne more, Peter Powers, not yet twenty-one years of age,", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "^t", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "53\\npurchased his time, and was married to Lois Cooper, a lady-\\nstill younger than himself. An axe, a spinning-wheel and a\\nloom constituted their capital stock. At the end of twenty-\\nfive years they had cleared up three hundred acres of land,\\nand covered it with luxuriant grass, waving grain, and bleat-\\ning herds. They had erected three houses, two mills, a\\nnumber of barns and other buildings, and what is more,\\nhad reared and most thoroughly educated a family of six\\nchildren.\\nBut I must not dwell longer upon these reminiscences of\\nthe past. As I close, let us all remember how truly and\\nwisely it has been said, He that maketh two blades of\\ngrass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of\\nhis race.\\nThe President. We have been listening to the sons of\\nCroydon. I propose that we now listen to one of the sons-\\nin-law, I perceive we have among us an honored guest who\\nwas so unfortunate as not to be born in town, but who, nev-\\nertheless, has made the best amends he could by taking\\na wife who loas. You will listen to the Hon. Moses\\nHumphrey, Ex-Mayor of Concord.\\nMr. Humphrey said\\nMr. President, and Citizens of Croydon\\nIt is with pleasure that I meet with you on this occasion.\\nThis anniversary does not come often, and hence, when it\\ndoes occur, it is all the more pleasant for us to meet together\\nand recall past scenes and renew old acquaintances. In re-\\nsponse to the sentiment with which your President saw fit\\nto introduce me, I would say, I am happy to acknowledge\\nmyself largely indebted to the influence and advice of one", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "54\\nof your girls, who has shared with me the joys and trials of\\nlife for thirty-four years. Let me say to you, sir, that my\\nsuccess in life is in a great measure due to the good practical\\ncommon sense and right influence which has come to me\\nthrough my wife, who is a native of this good old town of\\nCroydon. In 1843 I became a citizen of this place, and\\nremained with you nine years. Coming from the old Plym-\\nouth Colony, down on the seaboard, 1 found your ways and\\nhabits widely different from those to which I had been ac-\\ncustomed. I found here a farming community. The one\\nwhich I left had but little of agriculture there the people\\nwere mainly engaged in commercial and mechanical pur-\\nsuits. I am greatly indebted to you for many valuable hints\\nwhich I received while here and which have been of great\\nadvantage to me in the various positions of trust and honor\\nto which I have been called since I left you. Another thing\\nwhich perhaps served still more strongly to attach me to\\nthis place, was the fact that then, as now and all along, our\\npolitical views have been in perfect harmony. In conclusion,\\nlet me thank you for the opportunity of being with you on\\nthis pleasant occasion. The remembrance of this day I\\nshall carry with me to my grave.\\nThe President. I think that we ought not to proceed\\nfurther this afternoon without the benefit of clergy. I\\nnow call upon one to whose voice we all listen with pleasure,\\na native of this town, and whose presence we are glad to\\nwelcome here Eev. Luther J. Fletcher, of Maine.\\nMr. Fletcher said\\nOur brothers and sisters, who have remained upon the\\nsoil where we all sported in childhood, but from which many", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "55\\nof lis have been induced to wander, have invited us all home\\nagain, that we may join them in congratulations to the dear\\nold Mother, who observes to-day her diamond loedding.\\nTheir invitations we heard from afar and with long-cher-\\nished fondness for the place which gave us birth, with broth-\\nerly and sisterly affection for those who sent us such friendly\\ngreetings, we gather here .from the North and the South,\\nthe East and the West, on the spot where the first settlers\\nwedded the bride of their choice, to deposit our gifts and\\nspeak our rejoicings.\\nI am sorry that Croydon receives us to-day with tears in\\nher eyes but aged mothers do this, sometimes, when as\\ntheir sons and daughters come home after a long absence,\\ntheir hearts overflow with gladness, and they weep for joy.\\nThere is something of sadness in such a welcome, yet none\\nthe less of love. Let us therefore accept these tears as the\\nbest welcome which, under the circumstances, we could ex-\\npect, and only hope that when, a hundred years from this,\\nwe come to her second Centennial, the good mother will give\\nus nothing but smiles.\\nI repeat that we have come to exchange the expressions\\nof an exalted friendship. That is most exalted which\\nis most pure, and the friendships formed in youth are\\nthe purest and most lasting of any we enjoy or exercise,\\nin this life. That they are lasting, we have, to-day,\\nmany demonstrations. Such friendships have lived, while\\nwe have been unconscious of their presence in the heart, and\\nthough thrust aside for a time, into some obscure corner, and\\nalmost forgotten, they have been awakened by the power of\\nassociation and made to act with such force as to sway all\\n*When the speech was made, the sky was overcast, and it began to rain.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "56\\nthe purposes of the soul. We have met with those, this\\nmorning, very dear to us in childhood or youth, but who, be-\\ncause of long absence, had not been present to our thoughts\\nfor many years yet our love for them had not expired, but\\nonly waited to be called into action, when we found it as\\nfresh, warm and gushing as in auld Lang Syne.\\nThis is a day of unusual re-awakenings, and as the past\\ngives back to us its treasures of long forgotten scenes, we\\nare rejuvenated and live once more in the long ago. 0, how\\nthe sight of a familiar face, changed, indeed, by twenty or\\nthirty years, yet still familiar, or the sound of a voice unlike\\nany other we have heard for a quarter of a century, has this\\nday taken us back to the scenes of our childhood, and flood-\\ned the soul with sweet remembrances There is one who\\nwas our schoolmate How many times have we striven to-\\ngether for the head of the class How many days, sitting\\nside by side in the old red school-house, have we conspired to\\nelude the vigilance of the teacher, and cheat him of a part\\nof the study he had required of us, little thinking that we\\nwere only cheating ourselves How we coasted, skated,\\nfished and swam together, from year to year He is not the\\nboy he then was. A young man at his side calls him father.\\nCan it be possible And have we changed, in his sight, as\\nhe in ours\\nAh there is one, who was a young man when I was a\\nboy. Many a time I listened to his voice as he sang with\\nmy father, now a member of the choir above, and though\\nhe has exchanged the red roses of blooming cheeks for the\\nwhite lilies of age, his countenance bears its familiar ex-\\npression, and his smile is the same as it was full thirty years\\nago How many scenes are revived by that smile How", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "57\\nmany faces appear in the halls of memory, summoned from\\nthe obscurity in which they have long been hanging, by the\\npresence of that well-remembered face Welcome, wel-\\ncome, old friends\\nShadowy as are many of your forms and faces, unsubstan-\\ntial as is the vision in which ye seem to rise before me, 1 bid\\nyou all welcome to this grand festival this renewal of old\\nfriendships this first Centennial of our native town\\nAnd may we not believe that those whom memory does\\nnot recall those who lived here before the days of our earli-\\nest years, the first settlers in this beautiful valley are with\\nus here to-day, though we see them not, smiling upon the\\nachievements of a century, more fully apparent to them than\\nto us, and happy in the thought, that like Old Mortality,\\nwe, their descendants, are relettering their tombstones, and\\nhelping by these ceremonies to give their name and fame to\\nanother hundred years If it be so, then happy are those\\nwho, standing in the presence of assembled generations, can\\nfee] that by noble efibrts and virtuous lives, they command\\nthe benedictions of their honored sires.\\nBut Croydon is, to-day, impartial in her favors to those\\nwho call her mother. Her invitation went forth to all her\\nchildren, and those who came home at her call are cordially\\nwelcome. She does not ask if all are equally worthy. She\\ndoes not admit us to seats of exaltation determined by the\\nmeasure of our intellect, or by our past good deeds. She does\\nnot inquire if we be orthodox or heterodox, rich or poor,\\ndemocrats or republicans. It is enough, if at our birth we\\nwere sealed as her children. Some may have been indolent,\\nsome unfortunate, some prodigals but the dear old mother\\nwelcomes all to-day as her sons and daughters, and the tears", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "58\\nslie may have shed for our past misdeeds are all forgotten in\\nthe joy that we have kept her in fond remembrance, and at\\nher call have all come home again.\\nOh, happy, suggestive thought We have all been wan-\\nderers from the home of youthful purity from a higher and\\ndiviner Parent than is the mother of whom I have been\\nspeaking and when the cycle of His century shall be com-\\nplete, and the jubilee of redemption shall come, will not his\\nimpartial grace extend invitations to all his children, and as\\nthe prodigals obey the summons and hasten home, will He\\nnot bid them welcome, and in the joy of their return,\\nremember their misdeeds no more forever\\nFor such a consummation let us both hope and pray and\\nin joyous anticipation of a universal re-union, cherish the\\nmemory of all our loved ones in the earth, that the joy of\\nour meeting in the spirit-land shall be enhanced by our\\nenlarged and ever-growing affection for each other in the\\npresent life.\\nAs I have looked on the assemblage of the sons and\\ndaughters of Croydon, and have felt the power of an unseen\\ninfluence attaching me to this place of my birth, as to no\\nother spot on earth, the question has more than once arisen\\nin my mind touching the cause of the sweet attraction, and\\njust now the satisfactory answer comes to me. It is not\\nthat Croydon is a town remarkable for its beautiful scenery,\\nclassic grounds or famous institutions, not that her fields\\nare richer, or her children nobler than those of other towns\\nin the dear old Grranite State, but chiefly, as it seems to me,\\nhtcaxise this was our cradle the place in which we first\\nknew the blessing of parental love in which, beneath the\\nfond nursings and unremitted watchfulness of father and", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "59\\nmother, we made our first essays in observation, opened onr\\neyes to behold the light of surrounding objects, and com-\\nmenced the development of our infant powers the place\\nwhere our feeble thoudits were first turned towards God,\\nand in which with little hands clasped and eyes uplifted, we\\nwere taught to say our infant prayers.\\nThere are no thoughts of a whole life so sacred as those\\nwhich go back to such beginnings, and they hallow every\\nthing associated with them. In our manhood and woman-\\nhood we sometimes overhaul the rubbish of our father s\\nback-chamber or the attic, until we come upon the cradle in\\nwhich we were rocked. It may be old-fashioned and out of\\nrepair it may be covered with dust and cobwebs the\\nsmoke of the old kitchen may be seen upon its paint and\\nits rockers, by much use, be worn almost flat but the sight\\nof it awakens fond and sacred recollections, and as we bring\\nit out into the light and sit down to gaze upon it, sweet\\nwords and loved faces are given us from the past, the song\\nof the mother s hushaby is in our ears again, and that old\\ncradle, not for what it is, but for what it has been to us, is\\nthe dearest thing on earth. So, in a certain sense, is this\\nold town to those who were born here. It is not in any\\nsense a splendid place. It has not been extensively mod-\\nernized. The dust of old usages clings to it, and some who\\nare being cradled here may think that it rocks hard yet the\\nsight of it brings back the days of our earliest recollections,\\nand we love it because it is our cradle.\\nImagination may have an undue influence in the processes\\nof my mind at the present time, but it seems to me that all\\naround us, floating on the breath of this June morning, and\\nechoing on these hills, are the words of her, now singing", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "60\\nwith the angels, words which we have sung to our own\\nchildren, or taught them as their evening prayer\\nor\\nHush, my dear, lie still and slumber,\\nHoly angels guard thy bed,\\nNow I lay me down to sleep,\\nI pray the Lord my soul to keep.\\nI believe there is a saving power in the associations which\\nflood the soul with such memories, and let me say, in con-\\nclusion, that those of us who carry the most of the spirit of\\nthis hour into the days and years of our future lives in the\\nearth, will best do justice to the past, and honor our native\\ntown in years to come.\\nGod bless the dear old cradle of our infancy May holy\\nangels watch its future destiny from the summits of the sur-\\nrounding mountain towers, that it may be beautiful, honor-\\nable, prosperous, when, in spirit if not in flesh, we assemble\\nhere again at the end of another hundred years\\nThe President. We have present a guest from the\\nqueen city of New England, and a son of Benjamin Barton,\\njunior, who I trust will give us some account of the Barton\\nfamily and their early adventures. You will hear Alexan-\\nder Barton, Esq., of Boston.\\nMr. Barton said\\nMr. President, Gentlemen and Ladies\\nUnder other circumstances I should ask to be excused\\nbut as you ask me to respond in behalf of the descendants\\nof Benjamin Barton, I will do so as briefly as I may. My\\ngrandfather Benjamin Barton, senior, lived at Sutton, Mass.,\\nentered the army of the Revolution, and died at Bunker\\nHill.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Vft O.V^ t\\ntrv", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "61\\nMy father Benjamin Barton, Jr., was born at Satton,Mass.,\\nin 1755 He had few early advantages, no opportunity for\\nschooling learned to write and cipher on birch bark. At\\nthe ac^e of eighteen he entered the Revolutionary army and\\nwas at Bunker Hill, Bennington, West Point and New\\nYork city. In 1779 he returned to Royalston, Mass., and\\nmarried Mehitable Fry. The next year he went to New-\\nbury Vt to look for a new home. After a vain search of\\nthr;e weeks, traveling by the aid of marked trees, he return-\\ned as far as Croydon, and here purchased him a farm. In\\n1783 he spent six weeks clearing up the land and makmg\\npreparations for a settlement, with a hollow log only for\\na shelter, and bears and wolves for his nearest and most\\nnumerous, if not most intimate neighbors. In March, 1784,\\nthey started for their wilderness-home. Behold the picture\\nA young wife, who had been as tenderly reared as any of her\\nday, seated on an ox sled, her three children with her,-on\\nthe one side, a daughter of four years, on the other, a lad of\\ntwo, and in her arms an infant son on that sled were all\\ntheir household effects, and behind was tied the cow. After\\nsurmounting many difiaculties they arrived at Unity. Here\\nthe roads were so drifted that they were obliged to make a\\nchange and harness their oxen tandem. They arrived at\\nCroydon on the ninth day, accomplishing a journey of sixty-\\nfive miles.\\nThey had occupied their log cabin but a short time, when\\na rude storm scattered the bark, of which the roof was com-\\nposed to the four winds and obliged them, through snow\\nwaist deep, with their children in their arms, to seek shelter\\nin a neighboring cabin three-fourths of a mile away.\\nMy father commenced public life in 1786, two years after", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "62\\nhis arrival. He was elected Representative a number of\\nyears, was Selectman some twenty, Moderator and Town\\nClerk a great number, and was Justice of the Peace from\\n1798 to the period of his death which occurred July 9, 1834.\\nCHILDRE^f OP Benjamin BAETOX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Phebe born Apr. 21, 1780. Benj. bora Feb. 22, 1782.\\nJohn born Feb. 17, 1784. Peter born May 17, 1785. Ruth born Aug. 6, 1788. Fry born\\nOct. 30, 1790. Susan born Sept. 16, 1792. Phila born Aug. 17, 1794. Cyrus born Dec. 25,\\n1795. David born March 23, 1800. Reuben born June 5, 1802. Alexander born June 14,\\n1804.\\nThe Pkesident. The name of Rev. Jacob Haven will\\nbe known and reverenced while these hills and valleys are\\ninhabited. For half a century he did not fail to speak the\\nwords of truth and soberness to this people. His voice is\\nnow silent, but you will be glad to listen to his son,\\nCapt. Moses Haven, of Plainfield.\\nMr. Haven responded\\n3Ir. President\\nNo spot on earth is so dear to man as the place where he\\nwas born and where were spent the hours of his infancy and\\nchildhood. In common with you all, ladies and gentlemen,\\nI partake most fully of this sentiment to-day. Here were\\nspent the hours of my boyhood. These hills witnessed my\\nchildish sports and pleasures. These fields and meadows\\nand ponds and mountains, seem almost my brothers.\\nIt was here that, at the age of sixteen, I entered the\\nmilitia and was shortly after elected sergeant, and by regular\\ngradations rose to be Captain, and thought I had achieved\\nwonders. When I was chosen chorister, a position which I\\nheld for a long time, I felt greatly honored; and when by the\\npartiality of my fellow-townsmen I was elected one of the\\nselectmen of the town, I felt I had reached almost the last\\nround in the ladder of my ambition.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "63\\nThese achievements in the eyes of the world may not\\nseem much, but to my young fancy it was far otherwise.\\nSince then I have been out into the world doing battle with\\nthe stern duties of maturer life, until the weight of years\\nnow presses heavily upon me and yet, I must say, no after\\nachievements have afforded me a pleasure like these. I\\nhave mingled in no other scenes so sweet, have found no\\nother spot so dear.\\nAround yonder hill, in the grave-yard, rests my reverend\\nand venerated father, that sainted mother who dandled me\\nin my infancy, two loved companions and many other cher-\\nished friends. It is a dear spot to me. And there, beside\\nthem, I have directed shall be my last earthly resting place.\\nI now close by thanking God that I have been permitted\\nto live until this day, so that I may meet so many of my\\nold companions, and mingle in these joyous scenes.\\nKeene, Aug. 24th, 1866.\\nDear Brother If, as you suggest, the Committee of\\nArrangements, who carried through the Croydon Centennial\\nCelebration so successfully, desire to have the fragments of\\nour Feast gathered up for preservation, I can see no objec-\\ntion to it. And I will furnish a sketch of what was said by\\nme in the opening. But the whole loaves should be saved,\\nas well as what remains of those distributed. And the\\nspeeches prepared by Dr. Whipple and yourself, and per-\\nhaps others, but not delivered on account of the inclemency\\nof the day, should be included, as well as the portions omit-\\nted by other speakers for the same reason. I shall set the\\nexample by sending what was said and what was omitted, at\\nthe outset.\\nVery truly yours,\\nWM. P. WHEELER.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "64\\nIn accordance with the foregoing suggestion from the\\nPresident of the day, and at the request of the Committee of\\nArrangements, I insert the following speeches:\\nSpeech of John Cooper, Esq., of Croydon.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen\\nAllusion in flattering terms has been made to my poor\\nefforts to rescue from oblivion the names, labors, and charac-\\nters of some of the first settlers of Croydon. What I have\\ndone in that direction, has brought its own reward with it\\nfor it has afforded me much pleasure to collect the facts re-\\nspecting your ancestors and mine. I venerate the memories\\nof those men and women who were the pioneers of civiliza-\\ntion in this town and the better I have become acquainted\\nwith their history, the more I have admired their courage in\\nleaving the older settlements of Massachusetts and coming\\nto this place then a howling wilderness for the purpose of\\nproviding for themselves a local habitation and a name.\\nTheir children and their children s children should, on this\\ncommemorative occasion, rise up and bless their memories.\\nBut I will leave it to others older than myself, to eulogize\\nthe Whipples, Powerses, Lelands, Halls, Bartons, Wheelers,\\nHavens, and others who came to this town nearly one hun-\\ndred years ago, while I confine myself to a few brief remarks\\nconcerning my paternal grandfather, one of the early set-\\ntlers of this town.\\nDeacon John Cooper was born in 1725 he married Mary\\nSherman, of Grafton, Mass., in 1748, and the same year\\nsettled in Hardwick, Mass. While living there he divided\\nhis time between the cultivation of a farm and teaching the\\ntown school. During the French and Indian War,", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "65\\nfrom 1754 to 1763, he was also engaged largely in supplying\\nthe English and Provincial troops with beef. In 1769 he\\nremoved to Cornish, N. H., and the year following he came\\nto this place four years only after the first settlement of\\nthe town. His locating here added but little to the mate-\\nrial wealth of the place (for he was a man of a broken for-\\ntune), but he brought with him what was of more value than\\nmoney, namely, an intelligent and energetic wife and eight\\nhealthy children. He settled on a spot within sight of this\\nstand, where Otis Cooper, Esq., one of his lineal descendants,\\nnow resides. There he lived and there, in 1805, he closed\\nhis earthly labors at the ripe age of eighty years. His\\nremains now rest in the Old Burial Ground on the Hill.\\nTradition does not represent the character of Dea. Cooper\\nas perfectly well-balanced. He did not possess that courage\\nthat backbone, necessary to face danger of every kind\\nwithout flinching. But he was distinguished for honesty,\\nsobriety, love of order, and for full an average share of\\ncommon sense. As far as energy and decision of character\\nwere concerned, his wife was the better man of the two.\\nBut still his abilities were considered above the general\\nlevel, as the early records will show for he was chosen\\nrepeatedly Town Clerk, and was often elected one of the\\nselectmen, and several times chairman of the board.\\nHe ruled his own house well, and was in other respects\\npeculiarly fitted for the office of deacon. He held that\\nofiice forty-seven years twenty years in Hardwick, and\\ntwenty-seven years in this town. It is the concurrent testi-\\nmony of tradition that Dea. John Cooper was a faithful\\nand an efficient church officer.\\nIn conclusion, I will add that, in consequence of his chil-", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "ee\\n\u00c2\u00bbIren s iiitermariying with tlie families around them, the\\nCooper blood has become so intermingled with that of\\nalmost every other name, that standing here to-day and\\nlooking at the vast concourse before me, I can claim you\\nall as cousins.\\nSpeech of S. M. Whipple, M. D., of New London.\\n3fr. President\\nIt is with mingled feelings of diffidence and confidence,\\nthat I present myself before you on this joyous occasion to\\nrespond in behalf of the medical profession. It is with dif-\\nfidence when I recollect that the practice of medicine does\\nnot require the possession, or exercise, of those powers of\\neloquence which can arrest the attention of a large audience\\nand hold them spell-bound at will, and hence I might fail to\\ninterest you; but, on the other hand, it is with confidence\\nwhen I feel that we have all gathered around this old fami-\\nly altar, not to criticise, but to exchange friendly greetings,\\nand be happy, and hence that any voice is welcome, if only\\nit be the voice of a son, or daughter of Croydon.\\nFrom the first attempts to heal diseases, Medicine began\\nto exist as a profession. From the earliest antiquity it will\\ncompare most favorably with the other professions. Aristo-\\ntle, Lock, Hartley, Mackintosh and Brown all standing\\nhigh on the roll of fame were all physicians.\\nIt may not be inappropriate on this occasion to refer a\\nmoment to the profession as it has existed in this town.\\nTradition says that during the first third of a century,\\nCroydon had no regular bred physician, and that the prac-\\ntice of medicine was almost entirely in the hands of females.\\nOriginally, and for many years it was given to Mrs. Phineas", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "67\\nSanger to heal diseases and minister to the distressed.\\nAnd then came Mrs. Sarah Powers, wife of Amos Hagar, a\\nwoman of uncommon intellectual and physical po\u00c2\u00b0wers.\\nThat she had some weight in town is sufficiently evinced by\\nthe fact that she could make a scale of three hundred and\\nfifty pounds avoirdupoise, honest weight, kick the beam. On\\nher favorite steed she promptly answered all calls in storms,\\nin winter, and by night. True she was less skilled in the\\nbooks than the Crosbys and the Peaslees of to-day, yet\\nher strong common sense and ready judgment seldom failed\\nto do the right thing in the right way.\\nFirst among the trained physicians\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for I am old enough\\nto recollect him in his more advanced years\u00e2\u0080\u0094 comes the plain\\nstraight forward, practical Carroll, who, riding over these\\nhills, with his saddle-bags, on horseback, was a most welcome\\nvisitor in every sick room. And I have not forgotten the sad\\naccident\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the upsetting of his carriage on yonder hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 which\\nended his life. And I remember the more learned Gustin\\nthat followed him\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and Alden, and Cooper, and Leavitt, and\\nCoburn, and Hall. Of Marsh and Barton, now here, I need\\nnot speak, for you all know them better than I do.\\nCroydon has contributed more men to medicine than to\\neither of the other learned professions. Few towns in the\\nState have furnished comparatively so many eminent and\\nskillful physicians and so few quacks as this. Her Coopers,\\nher Wheelers, her Gibsons and her Powerses, in their pro-\\nfessional acquirements, rank deservedly high. And hence it\\nis that wherever they go you will find them enjoying the\\nconfidence and esteem of the community in which they\\nreside. Sir, I am proud of the medical profession, and I\\nam proud of the success that has attended those sons of\\nCroydon who have devoted themselves to so noble a callino-.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "68\\nSpeech of Edmund Wheeler, of Newport,\\nMr. President\\nI am happy to respond in behalf of the mechanics of\\nCroydon. I have always regarded the mechanic arts as\\namong the most useful and honorable occupations of man.\\nI have long regarded Franklin and Fulton and Morse, men\\nwho first harnessed the steam power and the lightning, and\\nothers like them, as among the greatest benefactors of our\\nrace.\\nWell do I remember the names and faces of those me-\\nchanics who flourished here some half century ago the\\nKemptons, the Humphrys, the Eastmans, the Fletchers,\\nthe Dodges and others. To-day I almost hear these hills\\nechoing back the hearty ring of their hammers, their lap-\\nstones and their anvils.\\nWe do not often consider how very much we are indebted\\nto the mechanic for all the ordinary blessings and luxuries\\nof life. For example, how very much it would detract from\\nthe dignity and elegance of this vast audience were we to\\ntake away from them the handiwork of the milliner, the\\ndressmaker and the tailor, and carry them back to the prim-\\nitive days when; fig-leaves only were worn in Eden. Nor are\\nthese outward adornings, charming though they be, all we\\nowe the mechanic but the tables around which we gather,\\nthe chairs in which we sit, the beds on which we sleep, the\\nbeautiful carriages in which we ride, and the grand old man-\\nsions which shelter our heads, and around which cluster so\\nmany thousand sweet memories, are also the work of his\\nhand.\\nTake away from the farmer his hoe, his shovel, his axe,\\nhis plow, and his cart, and you have robbed him of his\\nstrength and paralyzed his labors.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "69\\nTake away from the clergyman, the lawyer, and the phy-\\nsician those immense libraries of their s in which are garner-\\ned up all the wisdom of ages, and their light would be\\ncomparative darkness they would be no longer the learned\\nprofessions they now are.\\nLook also at the telegraph and the steam-press. That\\nthought of the philosopher which otherwise would have fall-\\nen almost still-born from his lips, or hardly have reached\\nbeyond the sound of his own voice, is seized upon by the\\ntelegraph and the steam-press and in twenty-four hours is\\ngiving joy and blessings to a million homes all over the\\nland. Yes, the press, that mighty engine of power, invent-\\ned and wielded by the mechanic, has gathered up the choice\\nworks of art, science, poetry, history, literature, and above\\nall of inspiration, and multiplied them a million fold and\\nscattered them abroad until the whole earth is literally flood-\\ned with light.\\nI might also point you to the mammoth factories which\\nhe has erected, and filled with machinery almost endowed\\nwith intelligence, and which are throwing off their thousand\\nvaried products for the benefit of man. But why need I\\nstop to enumerate\\nAs on the land so also on the water It is with his leave\\nthat the navies of the world are to-day so proudly walking\\nthe ocean; and it is by his permission that commerce\\nspreads her white wings and carries her countless treasures\\nall over the world.\\nBut I need utter no language in commendation of the\\nmechanic. His glory is proclaimed not by spoken words,\\nbut in the proud monuments of his skill and industry\\nevervwhere around us.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "70\\nAs I close, allow me to say that those sons of Croydon\\nwho have devoted themselves to the mechanic arts, have\\ndone their full share towards maintaining the honor of their\\nnative town.\\nA vote of thanks was passed to the Orator, the President,\\nthe Band, the Glee Club, and all others who had aided in\\nthe celebration.\\nThe audience then all rose and united in singing Old\\nHundred.\\nThree cheers were then given for the Old Century, three\\nfor the New, three for the Ladies, and three for the Coun-\\ntry. After which a vote to adjourn to June 13, 1966, was\\nunanimously carried amicHhe wildest acclamation.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": ",-A\\nr\\\\\\n-4\\np\\nc. K. vi-F.TcnF.r\\n11 uiMrnnF.Y.\\n0. codricu.\\np, Kiprn.\\nE. rOWF.RS.\\nr HALL.\\nR. c. winrrLF.\\nJ. COOFEF^", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "71\\nOfficers and Committees.\\nPresident of tUe Day,\\nHon. WILLIAM P. WHEELER, of Keene.\\nVice-Presidents,\\nHon. Moses Humphry,\\nAlexander Barton, Esq.,\\nLevi W. Barton, Esq.,\\nAdolphus Hall, Esq.,\\nCalvin Hall, Esq.,\\nCapt, Arial Hall,\\nHon. Orra Crosby,\\nFreeman Cutting, Esq.,-\\nOrlando Powers, Esq.,\\nElom Marsh, Esq.,\\nRuEL DuRKEE, Esq.,\\nSamuel Blanchard, Esq.,\\nWm. E. Melendy, Esq.,\\nElijah Gr. Ryder, Esq.,\\nCapt, Moses Haven,\\nWm. F. Cooper, M. D.,\\nHiram Smart, Esq.,\\nJonas C. Kempton, Esq.,\\nWarren M. Kempton, Esq.,\\nConcord.\\nBoston.\\nNewport.\\nGrantham.\\nLowell, Mass.\\nWilliamstown, Vt.\\nHardwick, Vt.\\nClaremont.\\nCornish.\\nWestmoreland.\\nCroydon.\\nCroydon.\\nSpringfield.\\nSunapee.\\nPlainfield.\\nKelloggville, N. Y.\\nNashua.\\nNashua.\\nConcord.\\nCUicf ITIarslial,\\nCAPT. NATHAN HALL.\\nAssistant Marshals,\\nWilliam W. Ryder, Martin A. Barton, Esqs.,\\nMajor Dexter Gr. Reed.\\nCommittee of Arrangements,\\nCol OTIS COOPER, BARNABAS C. WHIPPLE,\\nREUBEN COOPER, CYRUS K. FLETCHER,\\nCapt DANIEL R. HALL, JOHN COOPER,\\nDANIEL RYDER, Esq., NATHAN HALL.\\nCapt. WORTHEN HALL,\\nCommittee o\u00c2\u00a3 Ladies,\\nMrs. HUBBARD COOPER,\\nMes. OREAN LOVERIN,\\nMrs. INGALLS HEATH,\\nMrs. REUBEN COOPER,\\nMrs. NATHAN HALL,\\nMrs. JOHN HURD,\\nMrs. DANIEL IDE,\\nMrs. WORTHEN HALL,\\nMrs. wm. RYDER,\\nMrs. E. DARWIN COMMINGS,\\nMrs. JAS. BOYCE,\\nMiss THANKFUL RYDER,\\nMiss ANGENETTA HARDING,\\nMrs. GILMAN STOCKWELL.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "72\\nPERSONAL SKETCHES\\nThe following pages contain brief sketclies of the former\\nand present families of Croydon, arranged in alphabetical\\norder. They have been made as full as the data at hand\\nand the room at our disposal permits.\\nJacob Ames and Simon Ames settled on farms on the\\nnorth-east slope of the Pinnacle. The former had previous-\\nly been a saddler, at which occupation he had amassed quite\\na handsome little fortune. He married Sally, daughter of\\nDarius Hall, and died at Newport, leaving a large family.\\nEev. Jacob Worthen Hall Ames, son of Jacob Ames,\\nwas born May 7, 1838, and died at Middletown, Ct., June\\n12, 1866. He was married July 12, 1864, to Miss Tillie\\nMathison, of Middletown. He fitted for College at the New\\nHampshire Conference Seminary, and graduated at the head\\nof his class from Wesleyan University in 1864. He received\\nhis first regular appointment in 1864, and was stationed at\\nBerlin, Ct., where he remained one year. He was then\\ntransferred to the N. E. Conference and stationed at Chelsea,\\nMass., and at the end of the year was re-appointed to the\\nsame place. On account of ill health he resigned his pastor-\\nate in May, and spent some six weeks among his native hills\\nin vain search of health. He survived his return to his fam-\\nily at Middletown but twenty-four hours. As he had been", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "73\\na favorite at College, his sudden deatli cast a deep gloom over\\nthe place. He was buried with much honor. A most\\ntouching tribute, Farewell, my Husband written by his\\nwife, on the morning of his funeral, was sung in church by\\nProf. Harrington, and a beautiful Hymn, entitled Gather-\\ned Home, written by Prof H. for the occasion, was sung\\nby the students and faculty at the grave. Mr. Ames had\\nbeen invited to be present and invoke the Divine blessing\\nupon the assembled sons and daughters of his native town\\nat their centennial jubilee, but Providence had ordained it\\notherwise, he died on the evening before. His body was\\nquietly sleeping in its shroud in his much loved home, and\\nhis spirit was mingling with a nobler and brighter throng\\nabove.\\n.i^I_.ILiE3Sr.\\nJohn Allen came from Plymouth County, Mass., and\\nfrom him have descended the Aliens.\\nBazaleel Barton, Benjamin Barton and Peter Bar-\\nTON, brothers, came to this town during the Revolution, from\\nSutton, Mass. From these have descended the numerous\\nfamily in town bearing the name of Barton. As a family\\nthey are distinguished for their social qualities.\\nBazaleel Barton was one of the company that dis]3ers-\\ned the Mass. Legislature, then sitting at Worcester, at the\\ncommencement of the Revolution. They were away to din-\\nner. He stood at the door, and when they approached in\\nprocession, with royal gown and cap with loaded gun and\\nfixed bayonet bid them defiance.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "74\\nCarlton BartoN; only son of Bazaleel, has been a suc-\\ncessful teacher, and a man much in public business. He has\\na clear intellect, and is a wag when he will.\\nBenjamin Barton, (see speech of Alexander Barton.)\\nJohn Barton, son of Benjamin, born Feb. 17, 1784,\\nwas distinguished for his plain common sense. He kept an\\nextensive stock, a dairy sometimes of fifty cows, was a large\\nland-holder owned Croydon Mountain and left a fam-\\nily of boys, all industrious farmers.\\nFry Barton, son of Benjamin Barton, Esq., married Ju-\\ndith Powers, daughter of Samuel Powers, and removed to\\nLeon, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., where he has been a prominent\\nfarmer. He is the father of Ara Barton, a lawyer of fine\\nintellect, at St. Paul, Minnesota.\\nHon. Cyrus Barton, son of Benjamin Barton, Esq., was\\nborn Dec. 25, 1795. He commenced the Claremont Spec-\\ntator, at Claremont, in 1823, but in 1825 removed to New-\\nport and commenced the New Hampshire Spectator,\\nwhere he remained until June, 1829, when he removed to\\nConcord and took charge of the N. H. Patriot. He retired\\nfor a short time from the editorial chair and was engaged in\\nagriculture at Hopkinton, but in Jan. 1852, returned to Con-\\ncord and established the State Capital Reporter, a semi-\\nweekly paper, which he superintended during the remainder\\nof his life. He was Register of Deeds for Sullivan County in\\n1827 and 1829, and was appointed Aid-de-Camp of Gov.\\nPierce in 1829 chosen Secretary of the College of Electors\\nof President and Vice President in 1833, and again in 1836\\nand 1840 elected Senator from District No. 4 in 1833, and", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "75\\nre-elected in 1834 elected Councilor from Eockingham\\nDistrict in 1843 appointed by President Polk, U. S. Mar-\\nshal for the District of N. H. in 1845 was a member of the\\nConstitutional Convention, and President of the City Coun-\\ncil of Concord in 1845. He married Hannah Hale, sister of\\nthe late Hon. Salma Hale, of Keene. He was a man of\\nability, a ready, pointed and vigorous writer, and exerted a\\nwide influence in the State. He died Feb, 17, 1855, at\\nLoudon, while making a political speech,1falling into the\\narms of his opponent.\\nGeorge S. Barton, son of Hon. Cyrus Barton and grand-\\nson of Benjamin, graduated at Dartmouth College in ]851;\\nstudied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He open-\\ned an office at Burlington, Iowa, but the next year returned\\nto Newport. He was Clerk of the Senate in 1855 and 1856.\\nHe died July 24, 1857, aged 26 years. He was a supe-\\nrior draftsman, a fine writer and a ready poet.\\nCapt. Alexander Barton, son of Benjamin Barton, Esq.,\\nwas born June 14, 1804. After leaving Croydon he spent\\na few years at Ludlow, Vt., and from thence removed to\\nBoston, where, immersed in business, has been spent the\\ngreater portion of his active life. He is courteous and genial\\nin his intercourse with others, and hence was always quite a\\nfavorite. In his earlier days he was much in offi.ce. He was\\nRepresentative from his native town for the years 1836, 1837\\nand 1843, and was in 1850 a member of the Constitutional\\nConvention of Vermont.\\nMartin A, Barton, son of Peter, and grandson of Ben-\\njamin Barton, was born Aug. 22, 1813. He is a man of", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "76\\nmuch executive ability. He was formerly engaged in trade,\\nbut is now devoted to farming. He has been Eepresentative,\\nSelectman, and for many years Deputy- Sheriff.\\nPeter Barton settled on Winter Hill, east of East\\nVillage, and was the father of Peter who went to Ohio, of\\nAmos and Moses substantial farmers now living in town, and\\nof Aaron who removed to Piermont, N. H., where he has\\nbeen an honored citizen.\\nLevi W. Barton, son of Bazaleel Barton, 2nd, and\\ngrandson of Peter Barton, was born March 1, 1818. The\\nadvantages even of our Common Schools were in a great\\nmeasure beyond his reach until the completion of his eigh-\\nteenth year. He then prepared himself for a teacher, and\\nfor that purpose used his spare hours in study while engaged\\nas a day laborer in the field. He attended for a few terms\\nthe Academy in Unity. After attaining his majority he\\nconceived the purpose of obtaining a collegiate education.\\nHe pursued his preparatory studies at Kimball Union Acad-\\nemy, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1848. Dur-\\ning his senior year in College, he read law with Hon. Daniel\\nBlaisdell, of Hanover, Immediately after graduating he\\nentered the law office of Jonathan Kittridge, Esq., of\\nCanaan, afterwards Chief Justice of the court of Common\\nPleas, where he remained till January of 1851, when he\\ncame to Newport and finished his preparatory studies with\\nMessrs. Metcalf and Corbin, and was admitted to the bar in\\nJuly of the same year.\\nWhile in Canaan he taught the Academy in that place\\nfive terms, in addition to his full course of reading.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "77\\nSoon after being admitted to the bar he opened an office\\nin Newport, where he has since been actively engaged in the\\npractice of his profession. He was Eegister of Deeds in\\n1855, 1856 and 1857, and Solicitor of Sullivan County\\nfive years^ commencing in 1859 was Representative from\\nNewport in 1863 and 1864, and a member of the Judiciary\\nCommittee the latter year its chairman. In 1863 he was a\\ncandidate for the office of Attorney-general, and in 1866 was\\nchairman of a board of Commissioners appointed by the Gov-\\nernor to audit and report to the Legislature the war indebt-\\nedness of the several towns in the State. He was married to\\nMary Ann Pike, of Newport, in 1839, who died the year fol-\\nlowing, leaving an infant son five days old, now Lt. Col. I.\\nMcL. Barton, late of the N. H. Heavy Artillery, and now a\\nLieutenant in the regular army. He was again married to\\nLizzie Y. Jewett, of Nashua, in 1852.\\nWilliams Barton, M. D., son of Bazaleel Barton 2nd,\\nand grandson of Peter Barton, was born Aug. 6, 1820. He\\nreceived his literary training at Unity and Kimball Union\\nAcademies studied medicine with Drs. Coburn, Hall and\\nNichols; graduated at the medical department of Dartmouth\\nCollege in May, 1845, and soon after commenced practice at\\nCroj don, where he still resides. He was often chairman of\\nthe Superintending School Committee, and was three years\\nCommissioner of Common Schools for Sullivan County,\\nduring which time he was often employed as professor of\\nelocution, in teachers institutes, in different parts of the\\nState.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "78\\nIra W, Bragg, son of Ira Bragg, who came from Royals-\\nton, Mass., was born July 28, 1833. Fitted for college at\\nMeriden and studied medicine with Dr. Perkins, of Marlow,\\nN. H. He attended lectures at Dartmouth and Harvard\\nColleges, and graduated at the latter institution in 1859.\\nAfter spending a year in the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, he\\nwent -to Europe and passed several months in the hospitals\\nof Liverpool and London, endeavoring to still further qualify\\nhimself for his profession. Upon his return, after practicing\\na year at Chelsea, Mass., he was appointed Assistant Sur-\\ngeon in the Navy was on board the Minnesota at the\\ntime of its fearful engagement with the Merrimac, when the\\nCumberland went down, and the famous Monitor made its\\nfirst appearance. He was transferred to the San Jacinto, the\\nflag ship of the Bast Gulf Blockading Squadron, and was on\\nboard her during her pursuit of the Alabama among the West\\nIndies and at South America. He was ordered to the West\\nGulf Blockading Squadron, and from thence to the Naval\\nHospital at New Orleans, where, on the twenty-first of Octo-\\nber, 1864, worn down by excessive labor and anxiety for the\\nsick, he fell a victim to the yellow fever. In few men were\\nmore happily combined rare merit and graceful modesty.\\nSarah C. Bragg, sister of the above, a lady of much liter-\\nary merit and one of our most accomplished teachers, was\\nborn July 3, 1830. She graduated at Meriden with high\\nhonors, in the class of 1852. By her own industry and per-\\nseverance she defrayed the expenses of her education. After\\ngraduating she went to Georgetown, Mass., and taught a\\nyear and a half, she then became principal of the Young\\nLadies High School at Haverhill, Mass., which position she", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "79\\noccupied most acceptably to all for four years, until her\\nmarriage with Seth Littlefield, Jr.\\nBK.O VST nsr.\\nBriant Brown was a social man. He came from Wil-\\nliston, Vt., and married Abigail, daughter of Capt. Edward\\nHall. He resided at the Flat, was Kepresentative in 1827\\nand 1828, and was more or less engaged in public business.\\nHe died Feb. 18, 1854, aged 61 years.\\nEdward Brown, son of Briant Brown, a worthy farmer\\nand a man of good judgment, was born January, 1818.\\nHe has for a long time taken a deep interest in the agricul-\\ntural aifairs of the State and County. In 1866 he was one\\nof the Committee on the State Agricultural College, whose\\nduty it was to report to the Legislature a suitable plan,\\nlocation and other matters relatino- to the State Colleo;e.\\nSamuel Blanchard, son of Darius Blanchard, was born\\nSept. 17, 1790. He is a man endowed by nature with un-\\ncommon abilities, has much shrewdness and wit, and has\\nbeen the most successful teacher the town ever produced.\\nWould our limits permit we could relate many an amusing\\ninstance of how the ready genius of Black Sam has out-\\ngeneraled and conquered a large, turbulent, and to others\\nungovernable school, without a blow. He has devoted most\\nof his life to farming.\\nDarius Blanchard and John Blanchard were among\\nthe early settlers of the town. The former settled in the", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "80\\nvalley north of C, K. Fletcher s, and the latter on Baltimore\\nHill.\\nLestek Blanchard, son of John Blanchard, was born\\nJune 17, 1808. He has ever remained on the homestead.\\nHe was Kepresentative in 1848 and 1849.\\nJames Breck, a native of Boston, was for twelve years,\\nfrom 1804 to 1816, the leading merchant and one of the\\nmost influential men in Croydon. While here, he was Se-\\nlectman five years and Representative four. In 1811, he\\nmarried Martha Burr, daughter of Capt. Martin Burr, one\\nof the early settlers of the town. They had a large family.\\nMartin B., the oldest son, followed his father s calling.\\nWilliam and James, the second and third sons, graduated\\nat Dartmouth College and turned their attention to law.\\nThe former, appointed Consul to China, has been, with his\\nlady, for several years enjoying a residence in the Celestial\\nEmpire. The latter settled at Chicago. From this town\\nMr. Breck removed to Newport, where for a long time he\\nwas a leading man in all public enterprises, in trade, in poli-\\ntics and the religious society to which he belonged. He is\\nnow living at Rochester, N. Y., and, at the advanced age of\\neighty-seven yearSj still retains a vivid recollection of his\\nmany happy hours at Croydon, the birthplace of his com-\\npanion and the spot where were first developed those quali-\\nties which gave him so marked an influence and laid the\\nfoundation of his extensive fortune. In 1861 they had a\\nbrilliant golden wedding.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "s#i^\\ny^ 1^^^ cT*", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "81\\nMartin B. Breck, eldest son of James Breck, Esq., was\\nbora Oct. 15, 1812. He was educated at the district school\\nand Newport Academy, after which he turned his attention\\nto mercantile pursuits. He remained with his father at\\nNewport until he attained to his majority. He followed his\\nvocation at Croydon, at Newport, and at Boston until 1841,\\nwhen he removed to Kochester, N. Y., where his operations\\nhave been eminently successful, and where he now lives\\nenjoying all the blessings which affluence can afford. In\\n1838 he married Mary Faxon, of Newport, .who lived but a\\nyear and a half. In 1846 he married Miss Susan E; Waters,\\nof Rochester.\\nMargaret A. Brece, daughter of James Breck, Esq.,\\nwas born April 24, 1814. She was married to H. H. Per-\\nkins, Esq., at Newport, in 1837, and removed to St. Croix\\nFalls, Wisconsin, where he died in 1850, leaving three chil-\\ndren. The eldest daughter married W. D. Webb, an attor-\\nney at law at Minneapolis, Minnesota. The son, James\\nBreck Perkins, a member of the senior class in Rochester\\nUniversity, is now traveling in Europe. Mrs. P. is finely\\neducated, has a well balanced mind, and a decided taste for\\nliterature.\\nHenry Breck, now eighty-one years of age, was a native\\nof Boston. He came to Croydon in 1807, and was clerk in\\nthe store at the Flat, owned by his brothers, William and\\nJames. In 1815, he purchased their interest and continued\\nin trade there until 1818, when he removed to Four Corners,\\nwhere he continued in business until 1837, when he removed\\nto Cornish Flat. On the death of his brother William, in\\n1848, he removed to Claremont, and settled on the home-", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "82\\nstead where he now lives. Mr. Breck took an active part\\nin the erection of the Church at the Four Corners, assuming\\nto himself one-fourth part the entire expense of the edifice.\\nHe was an active business man, and held many offices. In\\n1818, married Keziah Marsh, who died in 1826. In 1828,\\nmarried Sarah Town, of Grantham.\\nJohn T. Breck, eldest son of Henry Breck, established\\nhimself as a merchant at Cornish Flat, in 1841. His integrity\\nand fine business qualities have secured to him a handsome\\nfortune, and an honorable reputation among his neighbors.\\nHis is a rare case of success in trade and universal esteem\\namong his neighbors and townsmen. After having been in\\ntrade 26 years, he cannot be said to have an enemy. He is\\na gentleman of fine literary taste and varied attainments.\\nHe fitted for college, but on account of a trouble with his\\neyes, abandoned the idea of a college course, and turned his\\nattention to mercantile pursuits. He retired from business\\nin 1866, and is now living upon a farm in Lebanon.\\nRobert Breck, the second son of Henry, is an active and\\nsuccessful merchant at Ascutneyville, Vt., where he has been\\nin trade for more than 20 years, and, like his brother John\\nT., has succeeded, by his skill and good judgment, in hand-\\nsome accumulations, and by his integrity and genial man-\\nners in securing the esteem and friendship of all who know\\nhim.\\nHenry Breck, Jr., third son of Henry Breck, has been\\na practical farmer and gardener in the vicinity of Boston\\nfor several years, and is well known for his skill in his\\nbusiness, and his integrity and intelligence. He now lives", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "//a.\\n(^V-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "83\\nat Watertown, Mass., where he has a very fine farming\\nestablishment.\\nWilliam Breck, son of Henry Breck, was horn Dec. 17,\\n1826. At the age of fourteen, he removed with his father\\nto Cornish. At eighteen, he went to Claremont, and was\\nAssistant Postmaster for two years at the expiration of\\nwhich time, on account of ill health, he returned to his\\nfather s roof at Cornish. At twenty-two, he went into\\ntrade with his brother John at Cornish, and continued there\\nfour years at which time, laboring under a severe attack of\\nasthma, he went to California, where he was in active\\nbusiness eight years, when, having regained his health, and\\nwon for himself an independent fortune, he returned to New\\nHampshire, with the intention of passing the remainder of\\nhis hfe in retirement from active business, among his many\\nrelatives and friends. He is a gentleman of unquestioned\\nintegrity, of most genial disposition and fine social qualities.\\nAs a family, the Brecks have been noted for their honesty,\\nintegrity and gentlemanly bearing.\\nB:R.ISTOI-i.\\nAugusta Cooper Bristol, daughter of Col. Otis and\\nHannah Powers Cooper, was born April 17, 1835. She was\\nearly distinguished for a vigorous intellect, great fondness\\nfor music, and a passion for poetry and literature. She\\ntaught school with decided success from sixteen to twenty-\\none. She gave much attention to music and her frequent\\ncontributions, both of poetry and prose, to some of the lead-\\ning journals and magazines of the day, commencing at the", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "84\\nace of fifteen, find many admirers. She was married to Mr.\\naustavus F Kimball, of East Canaan, N. H., m August,\\n1857 by whom she had one daughter, and from whom she\\nwas divorced after four years of wedded life. In January,\\n1866 she married Louis Bristol, a lawyer, and removed to\\nOarbondale, 111., where she now resides, and where her time is\\ndivided between her domestic duties and a free indulgence\\nin her favorite passion for literature and poetry.\\nDea John Coopek came to this town in 1770, and died\\nin 1805 (See speech of John Cooper, Esq.) From him\\nand his two nephews, Ezra Cooper and Samuel Cooper,\\nhave descended all those in this vicinity who bear the name\\nof Cooper John settled on the farm of Col. Otis Cooper\\nEzra on the Pinnacle west of the old church, and Samuel\\neast of Spectacle Pond. As a family the Coopers were relig-\\niously inclined, and distinguished for honesty.\\nDea Suerman Cooper, son of Dea. John and Mary\\nSherman Cooper, came to this town when he was ten years\\nof a.^e and six years after shouldered his musket and joined\\nthe Revolutionary army. He married Mary Powers, by\\nwhom he had ten children, six sons and four daughters. On\\nthe death of his father he was chosen deacon of tlie Congre-\\ngational Church, which office he held until his death. He\\nwas a farmer in moderate circumstances, honest in his deal\\nbenevolent in his disposition, temperate in his habits, and\\ndevoted to his religious faith. He was gifted, outspoken\\nand full of anecdote and good humor. He died m 18o0,\\naged 88 years.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "85\\nWilliam Freeman Cooper is the fourth son of the late\\nDea. Sherman Cooper, of Croydon. On his father s side he\\nis descended from the Coopers and Shermans and on his\\nmother s, from the Powerses and Lelands. His parents\\nhaving a large family and but little property, his early hfe\\nwas Tne of toil. While living with them his means of\\neducation were small. At the age of eighteen he\\nleft the paternal roof and was thrown upon his own\\nresources. After spending four years at the Newport Acad-\\nemy and in teaching school to improve the state of his\\nfinances, he, in 1824, commenced his professional studies\\nwith Dr. Elijah Cooper, of Newport. After completing\\nthe usual course of preparatory studies, and attending the\\nlectures at the medical school at Bowdoin College, he grad-\\nuated with honor from that institution, in 1826, receiving\\nthe degree of Doctor of Medicine. He returned immedi-\\nately to Newport, where he commenced the practice of his\\nprofession, and remained there about a year. In 1827 he\\nremoved to Kelloggsville, in the town of Niles and County\\nof Cayuga, N. Y. By the successful performance of a very\\ndifficult surgical operation he opened his way at once to\\nprofessional fame. He has ever since been engaged in an\\nextensive practice, in which he has amassed an ample fortune,\\nnotwithstanding his almost princely liberality. In 1850 he\\nreceived an honorary degree from Laporte Medical College,\\nIndiana,\\nCol. Otis Cooper, son of Dea. Sherman Cooper, was\\nborn in 1806. He worked on the farm during his minority,\\nand from seventeen to twenty-one taught school during the\\nwinter season with much success. He took a deep interest", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "S6\\nin milimiT affairs, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He was\\nunanimously chosen deacon of the Universalist Church of\\nCroydon at its organization in 1S53. He held the office of\\nJustice of the Peace for twenty years, and was one of the\\nboard of Selectmen. He resides on the old fiinn selected by\\nhis \u00c2\u00a3Tandfather in 1772. He married Hannah, daui^hter of\\nEzekiel Powers.\\nHoy. Lemuel P. Cooper, son of Dea. Sherman Cooper,\\nwas bom July 18. 1S03. He has been one of the most\\nsdentinc and thorough farmers in town. He was educated\\nat Isewftort and Claremont Academies, taught school for\\nmore than twenty winters, and was long intrusted with the\\ngeneral management of the schools through town. In 1S31,\\nhe was married to Laura VThipple, and had one son, Dr.\\nSherman Cooper, and two daughters, Maet and Ellen.\\nThe sisters were educated at Kimball Union Academy, and\\nstudied French at St. Marys, Canada East. They became\\nso proficient as to be able to read and write the French with\\nalmost the same readiness as their native tongue. Like\\ntheir father, they were successfnl teachers. Mary married\\nCoL Alexander G-ardiner, of the 14th Regt. N. H. Vols., an\\neloquent and promising lawyer. Since the death of her\\nhusband, who died in the army, she has turned her attention\\nto the study of the classics. EUen was invited to become\\nthe instructor of French at Brattleboro, Tt. Mr. Cooper\\nwas Selectman seven years, B.epresentative in 1S44 and 1S45,\\nand State Senator in 1862 and 1863.\\nSherman Coopee, son of Hon. Lemuel P. Cooper, was\\nbom Aug. 20, 1833. He received his academical education", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "87\\nat Meriden, N. H., studied medicine in New York City,\\nand graduated at the New York Medical College in 1856.\\nThe following year he was deputy resident physician of\\nBlack well s Island Hospital. He settled at Claremont in\\n1858. He entered the army in 1861, as Assistant Surgeon\\nof the 6th Regt, N. H. Vols., but was promoted to the rank\\nof Surgeon in March, 1863. At the end of three years, in\\n1864, he returned to Claremont and resumed the practice of\\nof his profession.\\nJohn Cooper, son of Dea. John Cooper, came to Croydon\\nin 1770, and died March 20, 1832. He was a soldier in the\\nEevolutionary army, and was active in the affairs of the\\ntown for nine years one of the selectmen.\\nJohn Cooper, son of John Cooper and Lydia Dodge\\nCooper, and grandson of Dea. John Cooper, one of the first\\nsettlers of Croydon, was born in Croydon, June 15, 1806,\\nand was educated in the common school and at the domestic\\nfireside. He is a farmer, but has devoted a portion of his\\ntime to teaching and other literary pursuits. He has been\\nelected or appointed Superintending School Committee of\\nCroydon sixteen times.\\nIn 1839 he prepared An Historical Sketch of Croydon,\\nwhich was published in the 6th Vol, of the Collections of\\nthe New Hampshire Historical Society; and in 1852 he\\nrevised the same and published it in pamphlet form. His\\nother publications are his annual School Eeports and contri-\\nbutions for the periodical press.\\nAlanson L, Cooper, son of Barnabas, and grandson of\\nDea. John Cooper, was born Oct. 16, 1804. He possessed", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "88\\nintellectual powers of the highest order. He studied medi-\\ncine and graduated at Brunswick, Me., in 1827, after which\\nhe went to Europe, and during his absence spent several\\nmonths attending hospital practice at Paris. He commenced\\npractice at Auburn, N. Y,, where he died in 1841. As a\\npoet, the few gems that have been preserved from his pen\\nindicate a rare genius.\\nOrville M. Coopeb, son of Joel, and grandson of Dea.\\nSherman Cooper, was born July 28, 1821. He studied\\nmedicine and graduated at Hanover in 1845. He com-\\nmenced practice at HoUis, N. H., where he died in 1847.\\nAlanson Cooper, son of Silas and great-grandson of\\nDea. John Cooper, a Methodist clergyman of much talent\\nand influence, is a Presiding Elder in the Montpelier Dis-\\ntrict, Vt., and is one of the Commissioners to locate the\\nMethodist school.\\nElijah Cooper, an intelligent physician, was son of Hora-\\ntio Cooper, and grandson of Nathaniel Cooper, the oldest\\nson of Dea. John Cooper. He graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege. After completing his studies, he practiced for a\\nwhile with decided success at Newport, N. H., but subse-\\nquently removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he had an\\nextensive practice for two years, when he removed to New-\\nark, in the same State, where he also had a practice extend-\\ning over a large section of country, but which so wrought\\nupon his health that he abandoned it altogether in 1833,\\nentered into a large mercantile business, and amassed a con-\\nsiderable fortune. He married the eldest daughter of Nicho-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "89\\nlas Farwell, of Claremont, by whom he had seven children.\\nShe died in 1847, and h\u00c2\u00ab married her sister, the second\\ndaughter of Nicholas Farwell. In September, 1854, Dr.\\nCooper, his wife, a daughter four years old, and a servant in\\nhis family, died of cholera. The second daughter of Dr.\\nCooper married Maj. John L. Farwell, Cashier of Claremont\\nNational Bank.\\nKeuben Cooper, son of Reuben, and grandson of Ezra\\nCooper, one of the first twelve settlers of the town, was one\\nof the Committee of Arrangements, and is a thriving and\\nindustrious farmer. Married Cynthia, daughter of Joel, and\\ngranddaughter of Dea. Sherman Cooper.\\nNathaniel Cooper, son of Ezra Cooper, married Phebe\\nBarton, eldest daughter of Benjamin Barton, Esq., and\\nremoved to Leon, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., where he occu-\\npied a prominent position, for a long time, doing the larger\\nshare of public business. His son John has many of the\\ncharacteristics of his father,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 has been Eepresentative,\\nSupervisor, and held other of ces.\\nDr. Reuben Carroll, a native of Sutton, Mass., came\\nto. Croydon in 1792, and settled near the Four Corners. He\\nwas the first physician in town, and for more than forty\\nyears was a successful practitioner. In 1840, he was thrown\\nfrom his carriage and killed. (See Oration of Dr. Stow.)\\nAlbert Carroll, son of Charles, and grandson of Fol-\\nlansbee Carroll, one of the early settlers, is a physician now\\nin practice at South Boston, Mass.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "90\\nCTJTTIIsrO-\\nJoNAS Cutting, Benjamin Cutting and Jonathan\\nCutting, sons of Francis Cutting, came early to this town\\nfrom Worcester, Mass., and settled on the banks of Sugar\\nRiver, near the Newport line. From them have descended\\nthe Cuttings.\\nFrancis Cutting, son of Benjamin Cutting, has been an\\nextensive dealer in cattle, sheep and horses. He was born\\nMay 14, 1793. He is one of the largest tax-payers in town\\nand has raised up a large family of prosperous boys, all of\\nwhom have settled near him.\\nFreeman Cutting, son of Francis Cutting, was born\\nJuly 19, 1821. He was one of the Vice-Presidents on the\\nday of Celebration, has raised up a large family, and been\\none of the most energetic and jirosjierous farmers in Sulli-\\nvan County.\\nFrancis M. Cutting and Shepherd H. Cutting, broth-\\ners of the above, both married daughters of Dimmick Baker,\\nEsq., of Plainfield, and are among the most thriving farmers\\nof Newport.\\nJonathan Cutting, son of Jonathan Cutting, early in\\nlife removed to Newport where he was extensively engaged\\nin town business, and was an active and worthy deacon in\\nthe Baptist church. He was a man of infinite jest. I will\\nrelate only one of the many anecdotes told of him. Once\\nlaboring for a man whose love of gain required his hands to\\nbe up, eat breakfast, and be miles away to the woods with\\nan ox team before lisht, he wished to nve him a jrentle re-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "./:rt^ ^L^ -^6t.\\n^oCui-x,", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "91\\nminder that he was asking too much\u00e2\u0080\u0094 which was done in this\\nwise When asked to pray one morning, he commenced thus\\nWe thank thee, Lord, that thou hast brought us in\\nsafety thus far through the night, and if in thy providence\\nwe are permitted to see the light of another day, may we go\\nforth to its duties with a cheerful heart and in thy fear, c.\\nThe next morning he was permitted to eat his breakfast\\nby daylight.\\nJonas Cutting, LL. D,, son of Jonas Cutting and Betsey\\nEames Cutting, and grandson of Jonas, senior, was born in\\nCroydon, on the 3d of November, 1800. He prepared for\\ncollege, principally under the tuition of Otis Hutchins, then\\nPrincipal of Kimball Union Academy in Plainfield, and\\nentered the Freshman Class at Dartmouth College in 1819.\\nHe graduated in 1823, and subsequently read law, first with\\nthe late Hon. Henry Hubbard, of Charlestown, and the third\\nyear with Hon. Reuel Williams, at Augusta, Maine, where\\nhe was admitted to the bar in 1826. Thence he removed to\\nthe town of Orono, in Penobscot county, where he remained\\nin the practice of his profession until October, 1831, when\\nhe removed to Bangor, the shire town of the same county.\\nIn 1833 he was married to Lucretia H., daughter of John\\nBennoch, Esq., of Orono. They had three daughters and\\none son, the eldest, Rebecca D., died in infancy; the\\nsecond, Elizabeth J., at the age of 15, and his son, Frederick\\nH., in his 21st year. His only surviving child is Helen A.,\\nwho is married to Dr. Augustus C. Hamlin, only son of Hon.\\nElijah L. Hamlin, brother of the late Vice-President.\\nHis wife, Lucretia, died in 1842. In 1843 he was again\\nmarried to Ann R., youngest daughter of the late Hon.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "92\\nSamuel Tales, of Taunton, Mass., with whom he now lives\\nand resides in the city of Bangor.\\nIn 1854 Mr. Cutting was appointed Judge of the Supreme\\nJudicial Court of his adopted State, and at the end of seven\\nyears, the duration of the judicial tenor, was re-appointed,\\nwhich office he now holds. In 1858 his Alma Mater confer-\\nred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The\\nfollowing is his letter to the Committee of Arrangements\\nBangor, May 7, 1866.\\nOtis Cooper, Esq.\\nMy Dear Sir:\\nYour letter, extending an invitation to\\nme to be present at the Centennial Celebration of the one\\nhundredth anniversary of the settlement of my dear old\\nCroydon, has been received.\\nI cordially thank the Committee of Arrangements for their\\nkind remembrance of one who will be present on that occa-\\nsion, unless his official duties should call him elsewhere. A\\nfew of the committee I know personally, and the fathers of\\nthem all. The person selected to address you on that occa-\\nsion I well know. He was a Samuel in his youth, and is a\\nSt. Paul in his maturity, without these bonds. And how\\ncould it be otherwise He was born at the base of Croydon\\nmountain, he on one side and the present Chief Justice of\\nthe U. S. Supreme Court on the other. There is no such\\nmountain in New Hampshire. To say nothing of other\\nnatives whose eyes first opened to behold its grandeur and\\nbeauty, those two individuals do less to immortalize the\\nmountain, than the mountain to immortalize them. Dear\\nold mountain had you been originally selected for the\\ngarden of Eden, man would never have fallen.\\nYours truly,\\nJONAS CUTTING.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "93\\nAdolphus Cutting, a younger brother of Hon. Jonas\\nCutting, of Maine, studied medicine, and after graduating\\nwent West, where a decided success has attended both his\\nprofessional and pecuniary efforts.\\nSolomon Clement married Lucy, daughter of Dr. Reuben\\nCarroll, and was for a while a successful merchant at the Four\\nCorners, and a prominent citizen. He removed to Spring-\\nfield, N. H., where he occupied a leading position, was\\nchosen Representative. He subsequently engaged in manu-\\nfacturing business at Springfield, Vt. He died at Plainfield,\\nN. H., in 1866.\\nCapt. Nathan Clark, a joiner by trade, came to this\\ntown from Franklin, Mass., with a pack on his back, in 1787,\\nand purchased him a farm on Baltimore Hill, and in 1788\\nmarried Sabrina, eldest daughter of Samuel Metcalf of Fram-\\ningham. He made the first panel -door and window-sash in\\ntown. He gave much time and labor towards erecting the\\nchurch in 1794, and was ever an active and liberal suj)port-\\ner of the gospel. He died in 1855, at the advanced age of\\nninety years. Nathan, his second son, married Zelinda,\\ndaughter of Louis Yickery, an Italian, having much of the\\nmusical skill of his countrymen and in 1824 erected the\\nWoolen Factory at the East Village. Amanda, only daugh-\\nter of Nathan, Jr., married Oscar F, Morril, a native of Deer-", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "94\\ningj N. H., a man possessed of much inventive genius. He\\nhas taken out twenty patents, embracing nearly one hundred\\ndistinct claims.\\nCapt. Prince Crosby, the father of the Crosbys, came to\\nthis town early, from Sturbridge, Mass., and settled near\\nNewport line, south of the Flat.\\nHon. Orra Crosby, son of Prince Crosby, was bom Nov.\\n14, 1793. He was the eldest of seven sons. Atsixteen he\\nwas apprenticed to Nathan Hurd, of Newport, to learn the\\ncloth-dressing trade. At the expiration of his term of ser-\\nvice, having attained his majority, he started on foot, with\\nhis pack on his back, for Hard wick, Yt. After laboring\\nthere at his trade for three years, he bought out the establish-\\nment and commenced business for himself At which time,\\nApril 28, 1818, he married Miss Julia Stevens. By indus-\\ntry, frugality and integrity he prospered in business and laid\\nthe foundation of a large fortune. He has been Representa-\\ntive, Justice, Judge of the County Court, and a Director of\\nthe Danville Bank, a-nd is now President of the National\\nBank of Caledonia. As a financier, Judge Crosby has few\\nequals.\\nHis eldest son, a much respected citizen, was engaged to\\nsome extent in public business, was a sheriff of the county,\\nand died in 1866, deeply lamented. His third daughter\\nmarried S. L. Wiswell, a physician of note at Cabot, Vt.\\nHis fourth daughter married A. J, Hyde, also a physician,\\nwho is doing a successful business in her native village.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "95\\nFreeman Crosby, son of Capt. Prince Crosby^ is a sub-\\nstantial farmer, residing at the Flat, was Kepresentative in\\n1855 and 1858, and Selectman in 1842. He married Betsey,\\ndaughter of James Whipple, of Newport.\\nDr. William W. Darling, son of William Darling, was\\nborn Nov. 20, 1834. He obtained his education at Kimball\\nUnion and Thetford Academies; studied medicine with Dr.\\nThos. Sanborn, of Newport, and graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege, Nov. 9, 1859. Located at Sutton, N. H., April 9,\\n1861, and removed to Goshen, N. H., Sept. 26, 1863. On\\nthe 21st of March, 1860, he was connected by marriage with\\nSalona A. Pike, of Newport, N. H.\\nLucius Wesley Darling and Eli Darling, sons of\\nElijah Darling, a soldier in the war of 1812, and descendants\\nof James and Huldah Cooper Hall,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the former residing at\\nNewport and the latter at Hanover, now in the prime of\\nlife,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 are among our most enterprising and prosperous\\nfarmers.\\nWilliam Dodge, son of Perley and Helena Cooper\\nDodge, and grandson on the mother s side of Dea. Sherman\\nCooper, was born in 1814. He was for a long time a Dep-\\nuty Sheriff and Postmaster at the East Village. He re-\\nmoved to Claremont in 1854, where he now resides.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "96\\nAmasa H. Dunbar, son of Sylvester and Hannah Powers\\nDunbar, born in 1807, early in life removed to Moravia,\\nN. Y., where we have the amplest testimony of his neigh-\\nbors showing he has been a most successful and popular\\nteacher, and is a respected, and influential citizen. He has\\nalways taken a deep interest in educational matters, and has\\nlong been the director in the Moravian Institute. He is\\ngifted with fine intellectual powers, is a good scholar, social\\nand humorous. He became connected by marriage with one\\nof the best families of his adopted village, and has two sons.\\nHis eldest son, George Ward Dunbar, graduated at Ho-\\nbart College, Geneva, N. Y., and at the General Theological\\nSeminary, N. Y. City, and is a successful clergyman of the\\nEpiscopal Church. The younger son is a trader in Buffalo,\\nN. Y. Mr. D. is now engaged in improving text-books for\\nthe schools.\\nOtis Dunbar, fifth son of Sylvester, born in 1812, is a\\ntalented clergyman at Holderness, N. H. Married Julia M.\\nTrue.\\nidtj:e?.:ec:b:e].\\nKuFUS DuRKEE, from whom have descended the Durkees,\\nwas son of Robert Durkee, and came from Brimfield, Ct.\\nHe married Polly, daughter of Thomas, and granddaughter\\nof Moses Whipple, the early settler. He was a tanner by\\ntrade, and an original genius.\\nEuEL DuRKEE, SOU of Rufus and Polly Whipple\\nDurkee, and a descendant of Moses Whipple, Esq., was", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "97\\nborn in Croydon, July 14, 1807. He has ever resided in his\\nnative town. His early years were spent in obtaining an\\neducation in the common school, and in assisting to carry on\\na tannery. Later in life he has carried on extensive farming-\\noperations, besides attending to much other business.\\nIn addition to the management of his own private con-\\ncerns, he has acted a conspicuous part in the affairs of the\\ntown, and in the politics of New Hampshire. His native\\nshrewdness and knowledge of human nature render him a\\nvaluable counselor among his neighbors and townsmen. He\\nhas represented the town twice in the State Legislature;\\nand has been elected Selectman eighteen times, fifteen of\\nwhich he has been chairman of the board. During the\\nrebellion, the financial affairs of the town were managed\\nwith so much success by him and his associates, that the\\nwar expenses of Croydon were comparatively less than those\\nof any other town in the State. In 1846 he was elected\\nRoad Commissioners, and in 1864 he was appointed Messen-\\nger to carry the electoral vote of New Hampshire to Wash-\\nington.\\nAs a politician he is known far beyond the limits of his\\nnative town. His opponents give him the credit of possessing\\na large share of sagacity; and they ascribe to him a controll-\\ning influence with the political party to which he belongs.\\nAnd it will be admitted by all that for years his influence\\nhas been very sensibly felt in the councils of the Republican\\nparty of New Hampshire.\\nPaine Durkee, son of Rufus, was born on the 7th day of\\nOctober, 1817. He followed the vocation of his father, that\\nof tanner, at the East Village until 1852, when he went to", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "98\\nCalifornia and worked in the mines one year. In March,\\n1861, he was elected Representative of Croydon, and in\\nSeptember of the same year enlisted into the military\\nservice; was chosen First Lieutenant, and stationed at\\nFort Constitution in Portsmouth Harbor, He was detailed\\nas Quarter Master, and acted in that capacity until May,\\n1862, when the illness of his family obliged him to leave the\\nservice. In 1864 he again entered the service, enlisting into\\nthe First Regt. Heavy Artillery. He was chosen First\\nLieutenant of the 11th Co., and was stationed in the\\ndefenses of Washington; where he was again detailed as\\nQuarter-Master, the duties of which office he performed\\nwith fidelity until the close of the war. In April, 1866, he\\nwas appointed Inspector of Customs at Portsmouth, N. H.,\\nwhich office he now holds.\\nLavina Durkee, feister of the foregoing, married John B.\\nStowell, Esq., and removed to Newport, where he became a\\nprominent and influential man, and held many important\\noffices. He afterwards removed to Manchester, N. H.\\niD wi:sr:N Erji_..\\nAmos, Ira and Cyrus Dwinnell were in the early days\\nmechanics at the Flat.\\nStephen Eastman was a cloth-dresser by trade, resided\\nat the Flat, and for many years took a conspicuous part in\\nthe affairs of the town. He was for a long time a leading\\nJustice, for a dozen years Selectman, and Representative in", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "101\\nGen. Nathan Emery, an active and successful farmer,\\nwas noted for his public spirit, and more especially for his\\nzeal and interest in the militia. He passed through all the\\nvarious grades from private to Major General, and contrib-\\nuted liberally both of time and money to maintain the\\nhonor of the institution. He married Esther Hagar, a lady\\nof excellent judgment. He died at the Flat whither he\\nhad removed to spend his declining years in 1857, aged 65\\nyears.\\nHerschel Foster, clergyman at Fairlee, Vt., born in\\n1801, is son of Lemuel and Chloe Powers Foster, and on\\nthe mother s side grandson of Ezekiel Powers.\\nDavid Frye, the father of the Fryes, came to this town\\nfrom Worcester County, Mass., and settted in the west part\\nof the town, near the Mountain.\\nJohn Ferrin married Hannah Jacobs, daughter of\\nWhitman Jacobs, and after devoting several years to farm-\\ning in Croydon, removed to Morristown, Vt., where he\\ncarried on a successful mercantile business, and where he\\noccupied a prominent position in town. He was Represent-\\native two years, and an active justice until his death. He", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "102\\nwas a man of large physical and mental endowments. His\\neldest son, Whitman W., is a distinguished lawj er at\\nMontpelier; and his second son, Harrison, a worthy\\nfarmer, has been a Representative from Morristown.\\nRev. Luther Jacobs Fletcher, son of David Fletcher,\\nwas born Nov. 25, 1818. His father was a blacksmith by\\ntrade, and he, the youngest son, was the heir apparent to\\nthe bellows and the anvil; but his love for books was stronger\\nthan the paternal decree. He pursued his preparatory stud-\\nies at Unity Academy, and graduated at the Norwich Uni-\\nversity, 1841. In 1842 he was settled as pastor of the\\nUniversalist church in Surry, N. H. The year after, he was\\nchosen Principal of the Mount Cfesar Seminary at Swanzey,\\nbut the duties of his two-fold office proving too severe for\\nhim, after three years service he removed to Brattleboro,\\nA^t.; from thence he was called to Cambridge, Mass., and\\nsoon after to Lowell, where he labored for four years.\\nHere pecuniary considerations induced him to turn his\\nattention to the law. In this profession also he was quite suc-\\ncessful. His clear head, ready talent, and eloquent tongue,\\nmade him quite popular. At the end of three years he was\\nappointed Commissioner of Insolvency, and soon after eleva-\\nted to the position of Judge. When this court was united\\nwith that of the Probate, he re-entered the ministry, and\\nreturned to his old society at Lowell. He remained there\\nbut three years, when he was called to settle in the city of\\nBrooklyn, but the health of his son induced him to remove\\nto Bath, Me., where he is now settled over a large society.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "103\\nHe has published a Service- Book and a series of text-books\\nwhich are quite popular, and is now publishing a work enti-\\ntled, Gloria P atria, consisting of Prayers, Chants and\\nLiturgical services for public worship. He was a member of\\nthe House of Representatives of Massachusetts, in 1856, in\\nwhich body he took an active and leading part.\\nCyiius Kingsbuky Fletcher, second son of Timothy\\nFletcher who was for a long time a worthy, gifted and zeal-\\nous deacon of the Baptist Church at Newport was one of\\nthe Committee of Arrangements, and is a most worthy and\\nexemplary farmer. He married Rachel Jacobs, daughter of\\nLuther, and resides on the old Jacobs Farm, so long occu-\\npied by her grandfather. Whitman Jacobs.\\no-iBsonsr.\\nWilliam Gibson, one of the early settlers of the town,\\nmarried Abigail Sanger, a daughter of Isaac Sanger. They\\nhad eight children. The following includes those of the\\nfamily, in part, who have tui-ned their attention to literary\\nand professional pursuits.\\nWiLLARD P. Gibson, son of William, born September 2,\\n1798, studied medicine and graduated at Castleton, Vt., in\\n1822; spent fifteen years in the practice of his profession at\\nNewport and elsewhere, and then turned his attention to\\ntheology. He died October 23, 1837, four days after his\\nordination.\\nOtis Gibson, son of William, was born June 8, 1807;\\nstudied medicine, graduated at Woodstock, Vt., in 1830,\\nand settled at Wellsboro, Pa.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "104\\nAlanson, son of Gardner, and grandson of William, was\\na clergyman. Is now deceased.\\nAustin, sou of Samuel and Susan Gibson Putnam, clergy-\\nman. (See Sketch.)\\nBusHKOD Rice and Gardner Winslow, sons of Will-\\niam Gibson, were both physicians. The former died at\\nPomfret, Vt., many years since; the latter entered the army\\nas an officer, and was killed at Cold Harbor.\\nOf the children of Winslow Gibson, Otis is a missionary\\nat Fuh Chau in China; Henry graduated at the New York\\nMedical College and went to China, where he died; Gard-\\nner, clergyman, resides at Moira, N. Y.; Franklin, clergy-\\nman, died in Connecticut.\\nLizzie and Mary W. F., daughters of Willard P. Gibson,\\nmade literature a profession. The latter has for several\\nyears past resided in Europe, where, besides publishing sev-\\neral books, she has contributed much both of prose and\\npoetry to the magazines.\\nWillard Putnam and Otis Lloyd, sons of John Gibson,\\nare both clergymen.\\nLewis W., a clergyman, and Otis, a physician, are sons\\nof Otis Gibson.\\nCB-OI-.IDTIIAAT ^IT.\\nSamuel Goldthwait came to this town from North-\\nbridge, Mass., in 1780, and settled in the north-westerly\\npart of the town; was an extensive and wealthy farmer;\\nwas a Representative and Selectman, and took an active part", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "105\\nin the construction of the Croydon Turnpike. He died\\nat the advanced age of 93.\\nCapt. Zina GrOLDTHwAiT, SOU of Samuel, was born Nov.\\n6, 1787, commenced on the homestead, and was an extensive\\nand tidy farmer, kept a dairy of fifty cows. He was a high-\\ntoned, exemplary man, gentlemanly in his bearing, and quite\\na favorite. While in town he held many offices. He removed\\nto Newport, where he has been elected to many important\\ntown offices, and been a leading member of the Baptist\\nChurch. He married Anna, daughter of Col. Henry\\nHoward.\\nC3rCDCDlD^WXJ T.\\nIsrael Goodwin, remembered by many for his clear\\nintellect and social qualities, resided at the Flat, and in his\\nearlier days worked at cloth-dressing. He married Miss\\nBetsey Melendy, and about the year 1824 removed to Plain-\\nfield, Vt., where he occupied a prominent position; was\\nRepresentative two years, and State Senator two years.\\nHe was appointed Judge and removed to Montpelier, where\\nhe died. He exerted a wide influence, and was esteemed\\none of the most correct and competent business men in the\\ncounty.\\na- crsTi:sr.\\nDr. Ezra Gustin, son of Ezra Gustin, studied medicine\\nwith Dr. Elias Frost, of Plainfield, and after three years of\\nmost successful practice in his native town, died November", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "106\\n29, 1818, aged 30 years. As a teacher he was much beloved.\\nAs a man he was possessed of superior judgment, self-reliant,\\nenergetic, and much a favorite. He married Anna Hold-\\nbrook, daughter of David, who survived him but one year\\nleft one child, the late Mrs. Lewis Richardson, who died in\\n1858.\\nLieut. Edwaed Hall came to town during the Revolu-\\ntion, bringing with him seven sons Ezekiel, Abijah, James,\\nEdward, John, Darius and Ezra and settled on the flat,\\nsouth of the farm of J. Nutting. From this family and\\nRev. Samuel Read Hall have descended the Halls. The\\nfamily were shrewd, and fond of amusements.\\nAbijah Hall, remembered for his capital jokes and un-\\nfathomed resource of fun and anecdote, was drowned near\\nthe Glidden Bridge.\\nCapt. Amasa Hall, son of Abijah Hall, was born Feb.\\n7, 1789; married Rebecca L. Melendy in 1811. He was an\\nactive business man and one of our most successful farmers.\\nHe was distinguished for energy and decision of character,\\na clear head and ready judgment. He belonged to that\\nportion of Croydon which was subsequently set off to Gran-\\ntham. He was a Captain in the war of 1812; was Select-\\nman of Grantham for eight years; Representative from\\nCroydon in 1824 and 1825, and from Grantham in 1832,\\n34, 35, and 36; Road Commissioner in 1841, and a Direct-\\nor in Sugar River Bank from its first organization until\\n1861. He was an influential member of the Congregational\\nChurch. In 1858 he retired from active business.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "107\\nAdolphus Hall, only son of Amasa Hall, was born\\nDecember 7, 1811; married Sally Leavitt, daughter of Dud-\\nley, and sister of Dr. Nathaniel Leavitt. Like his father\\nhe was a successful business man. He was bred a farmer,\\nbut since 1861 has been engaged in mercantile business.\\nHe was Selectman of Grantham in 1859 and 1862, Kepre-\\nsentative in 1860 and 1861, and County Treasurer in 1865\\nand 1866.\\nDaniel R. Hall, son of Abijah Hall, and grandson of\\nLieut. Edward Hall, was born July 3, 1802. He took\\nmuch interest in the militia; was an efficient officer in the\\nCroydon Eifle Company; was Colonel of the 31st Regi-\\nment, and Brigade Inspector under Gren. Nathan Emery.\\nHe was Town Clerk ten years. Selectman in 1855, and\\nRepresentative in 1862 and 1863. He is a Director in the\\nFirst National Bank at Newport. As a Justice he has for\\nmany years done most of the business in his section of the\\ntown. He married Martha, daughter of James Perkins.\\nHorace P. Hall, son of Col. Daniel R. Hall, was born\\nAugust 5, 1827. He fitted for college at Marlow and Kim-\\nball Union Academies. After spending two years at Mid-\\ndletown College, Ct., and another at Amher^ College, Mass.,\\nhe abandoned his studies on account of ill health, and went\\nWest. He was for two years Principal of Marshall Academy,\\n111., for seven a Professor of Latin in Union College at\\nMerom, Indiana, and is now Principal of the Academy at\\nPendleton, Indiana. He was for a time connected with the\\narmy. In 1863 the Asbury University conferred on him the\\nhonorary degree of Master of Arts.\\nJames Hall, son of James and Huldah Cooper Hall, was\\nfor many years an enterprising farmer and merchant in", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "108\\nOroydon, but removed to Newport, where he now resides,\\nand where lie has been elected to many offices, and has\\nexerted a wide influence.\\nJohn Hall, son of James Hall, Esq., and grandson of\\nJames Hall, Sr., was born in October, 1813; studied medicine\\nwith his uncle Albina Hall; graduated at Brunswick, Me.,\\nand commenced the practice of his profession at Newark,\\nOhio, where he died. His two daughters, Julia and Mary,\\nare both well educated and accomplished teachers.\\nAlbina Hall and Lyman Hall, sons of James Hall,\\nafter spending most of their minority in town, turned their\\nattention to medicine. The former married Livia Powers,\\nand after practicing awhile in Maine and New York has\\nreturned to Croydon. The latter followed his profession at\\nCornish Flat until his death, which occurred but a few years\\nsince.\\nAhira Hall, son of James Hall, removed to Chau-\\ntauque County, western New York, where he was an active\\nJustice. His soji John, a wealthy lawyer, has been a mem-\\nber of the Assembly of the State. James, a physician, was\\nsurgeon in the army, and died in the service. Albina, a\\nclergyman, is settled at Girard, Pa.\\nCapt. Edward Hall, son of Lieut. Edward Hall, opened\\nthe first store of note in town. It was situated on the top\\nof the swell of land between East Village and Four Cor-\\nners. He is remembered as a shrewd, prosperous trader.\\nHe died March 14, 1817, aged 57 years.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "109\\nCalvin Hall, son of Capt. Edward Hall, a popular man\\nand extensive farmer, after enjoying many honors in his\\nnative town, removed to Lowell, Mass., where he now resides.\\nNathan Hall, son of Edward Hall, Jr., is an independ-\\nent farmer residing at the Flat. He was Chief Marshal at\\nthe Celebration, has been many years elected to town offices,\\nand is now a Commissioner for Sullivan County.\\nGeorge Hall, son of Edward Hall, Jr., was on board\\nthe Cumberland during its fight with the Merrimac, and\\nswam to the boat when it went down. The British and\\nFrench ships were by, as witnesses of the conflict. The\\nCaptain saw what the result must be, and inquired of his\\nmen, Shall we strike colors and save life, or fight on\\nThe gallant crew replied, We can be shot, or sunk in the\\nocean, but surrender never.\\nPliny Hall, son of Martin, and grandson of Capt.\\nEdward Hall, was born Sept. 21, 1817. At the age of\\nseven, on the death of his father, he went to live with his\\nuncle Calvin Hall, and labored on the farm until he was\\ntwenty-one. In 1842 he entered the store of Euel Durkee,\\nEsq., where he was principal clerk for nine years, and was\\nchief clerk to his successor for three years. He then return-\\ned to farming, which occupation he has since followed. He\\nwas appointed U. S. Assistant Census Marshal in 1850\\nw-as elected Eepresentative in 1851 and 1852, and County\\nTreasurer in 1855 and 1856. He was appointed one of the\\nCommittee on the Apportionment of the Public Taxes, in\\nJune, 1852, and U. S. Enrolling Officer in 1864.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "no\\nCapt. Ariel Hall, son of Darius Hall, married Ase-\\nnalh, daughter of Capt. John Humphry, and after operating\\nawhile in town removed to Williamstown, Vt., where he\\nnow resides and is carrying on extensive farming business.\\nCapt. Worthen Hall, son of Darius, and grandson of\\nLt. Edward Hall, was born July 11,1802. He had few\\nearly advantages until he was twenty-five years of age he\\nstruggled against all the embarrassments which a deficient\\neducation, poor health, poverty and ill-luck, could throw in\\nhis pathway. In 1827 he went to sea in a whaling vessel,\\nbefore the mast, as a common sailor. He was adapted to\\nthe business, and was regularly promoted at the end of each\\nsuccessive voyage, until the fall of 1837, when he became\\nMaster of the ship, which position he held for eighteen\\nyears, until he left the sea. He has circumnavigated the\\nearth twice, doubled Cape Horn six times, and the Cape of\\nGrood Hope as many more has killed five hundred whales,\\nand brought home more than twenty-two thousand barrels\\nof oil. Aug. 1, 1837, he was married to Polly D. Lovewell,\\nwho was with him some ten years at sea, two of which she\\nspent at the Sandwich Islands. He was elected a Director\\nof the Sugar River Bank, and is now a director in the First\\nNational Bank at Newport, and was chosen Representative\\nfrom his native town in 1866. He was generous to his con-\\nnections, and retired with a fortune. His present affluence\\nand luxury presents a pleasipg contrast with his early pover-\\nty, and affords to the young another example illustrating\\nthe truth that early indigence and embarrassments are no\\ninsurmountable barrier to success in after-life.\\nWhile at sea, a most thrilling incident occurred Mary,\\nhis darling and only daughter, while at play, fell overboard.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "4P V", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "112\\nSamuel Eead Hall, son of Rev. Samuel R. Hall, was\\nborn Oct. 27, 1795. He was educated at home, and at the\\nAcademies of Bridgeton, Mc., and at Plainfield, N. H. He\\nstudied theology, was licensed to preach in 1822, and was\\nordained over the church at Concord, Vt., in 1823. In 1830\\nhe was appointed principal of the English Department in\\nPhilips Academy at Andover, Mass. In 1837, took charge\\nof the Holmes Plymouth Academy at Plymouth, ]!Sr. H.,\\nand in 1840 was installed pastor of the Congregational\\nChurch at Craftsbury, Vt. He has been an extensive au-\\nthor, having published some fifteen or twenty volumes on\\nvarious subjects. In 1838 the degree of M. A. was conferred\\non him by Dartmouth College.\\nRev. Jacob Haven, son of David Haven, was born at\\nFramingham, Mass., April 25, 1763. He graduated at\\nHarvard College in 1785, studied theology with Rev. Mr,\\nKellogg of his native town, and was ordained and settled at\\nCroydon, June 18, 1788. As a preacher, his sermons were\\nalways terse and logical, and his oratory solemn and impressive.\\nHe was Town Clerk thirty-one years. He died March 17,\\n1845, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. As he was the\\nfirst, and for more than half a century almost the only clergy-\\nman in town, he is, and will long continue to be recollected\\nwith much interest and few men have a better claim to\\nthe remembrance of their townsmen. (See also speech of\\nDr. Stow.)\\nWhipple Haven, a brother of the above, married Judith\\nStow, an aunt of Baron Stow; was a cabinet maker at the", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "i/^^r^.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "113\\nEast Village^ and is remembered as a worthy man and good\\nmechanic.\\nHannah Haven, daughter of Rev. Jacob Haven, and\\nsecond wife of Simeon Wheeler, was born April 28, 1795, and\\ndied at Newport, Dec. 20, 1842. She was an intelligent and\\nwell educated lady, and much beloved by her associates. She\\nwas the mother of several children, some of whom survived her\\nand partake of the mental and moral qualities which distin-\\nguished her. Jacob W., a young man of much promise, and\\na printer and editor by profession, died in 1853. Lucy P.\\nmarried Frederick Stevens, Esq., and resides with her husband\\nand young family in Minnesota. Hannah, her youngest\\nsurviving daughter, married Austin Corbin, Esq., for-\\nmerly of Newport. He was for some years a successful law-\\nyer and banker in Iowa, and is at present a banker in the\\ncity of New York. The family resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.\\nMiranda Haven, youngest child of Eev. Jacob and\\nAsenath Haven, was born March 8, 1799, married William\\nArmes, Esq., of Stanstead, Canada East. They afterwards\\nremoved to Sherbrook, C. E., where he died and where his\\nwidow still remains. They had six children. Adeline\\nAsenath married Samuel Tusk, of Sherbrook. Miranda\\nmarried Thomas Goldsmith, a successful goldsmith at Troy,\\nN. Y. Adelia married John McNeil, and Calista Lem-\\nuel Farewell, both residing at Sherbrook. William, the\\nson, went to California.\\nAmos Hagar married Sarah Powers and settled on the\\nHagar place, opposite the C. K. Fletcher farm, and was the\\nman from whom have descended the Hasars.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "114\\nLeander Hole rook, son of Peter, and grandson of David\\nHolbrook, was born April 11, 1815. The family came from\\nUpton, Mass. His father, a merchant at the East Village,\\ndied in 1822. Owing to a want of proper management in\\nthe settlement of his estate, the son was left penniless. At\\nthe age of seventeen, he left the fiirm and prepared for col-\\nlege, defraying his expenses by teaching, after which he\\nstudied law. He attended the Law School at Harvard\\nCollege, Mass. Was admitted to the bar in 1846, and\\nsoon after opened an office at Milford, Mass., where he now\\nresides.\\ns:-cr3v/::ps:i^.ir.\\nJohn Humphry came to this town early from Hingham,\\nMass., and settled on the east slope of the Pinnacle on the\\nfarm now occupied by his son Piam. He was a substantial\\nfarmer. Of his children, Nathaniel and Piam, both excel-\\nlent farmers, remain near the homestead, while Leavitt, a\\nblacksmith, John and George removed to the Flat. Susan\\nwas a noted tailoress. Many a boy with shining morn-\\ning face, has tripped to school with a lighter heart for\\nthe new spencer which Aunt Susan has made him.\\nLydia married the Hon. Moses Humphry, of Concord, and\\nAsenath married Capt. Ariel Hall, of Williamstown, Vt.\\nMoses Humphry was born at Hingham, Mass., in 1807.\\nAt the age of twenty-four he was married to Lydia Hum-\\nphry, daughter of John Humphry, one of the early settlers\\nof Croydon. At fourteen he commenced going to sea, and", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "115\\nat nineteen was appointed Master of a vessel, which posi-\\ntion he held until he left the sea at the age of twenty-five.\\nHe was the first man that commenced the manufacture of\\nmackerel kits by machinery, which business he has pursued\\nwith ever-increasing energy since, at Hingham, at Croydon\\nnine years, and now at Concord. In 1853, when Concord\\nadopted the city charter, he was elected to the City Council,\\nand was re-elected in 1854, of which body he was President.\\nIn 1855 and 1856, he was elected one of the Aldermen; in\\n1857 and 1858 was Representative; in 1861 was elected\\nMayor and held the office two years; was again elected to\\nthe same office in 1865, and declined a re-election the\\nfollowing year. In 1865 he was appointed one of the\\nTrustees of the State Reform School, which office he now\\nholds.\\nDenison Humphry, son of Leavitt, one of the Commit-\\ntee of Arrangements, is a farmer and trader at the Flat,\\nand has been Selectman, and a Representative two years.\\nLike his father and other members of the family, he was\\nnoted for superior mechanical skill.\\nStillman Humphry, son of John Humphrj^, Jr., was\\nborn November 15, 1833; worked on the farm until he was\\nseventeen years of age, three years in a cooper s shop, three\\nyears as a clerk in a store at West Concord, and two years\\nas clerk in a hardware store at Concord, N. H. In 1858 he\\nformed a business connection with Mr. David A. Warde,\\nunder the style of Warde Humphry, and commenced the\\nhardware trade at Concord, where he has since remained,\\nproving one of the most popular and thriving merchants in\\nthe State. In 1857 he was married to Miss Virtaline C.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "116\\nHall, of Maine. Like many of the sons of Croydon, his\\nparents were poor, but honest and respectable. Their pray-\\ners and blessings, added to his own resolute will, constituted\\nhis origrifial stock in trade.\\nWilliam Henry Hurd, oldest son of Henry and Abigail\\nGibson Hurd, was born at Croydon on the 30th of August,\\n1829. Fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy;\\nstudied medicine with Dr. McQuestion, of Washington, and\\nDr. Justus Hurd, of Mississippi; attended lectures at\\nCincinnati Medical College, and graduated from Hanover in\\n1854. He commenced practice at Wells River, Vt., but\\nremoved to Ashton, Canada West, where he remained until\\n1858. He then removed to Carleton Place, Canada West,\\nwhere he now resides. He was married May 10, 1859, to\\nMiss Rosalind Rosamond, daughter of James Rosamond,\\nbanker of Almonte, Canada West.\\nWiLLARD Otis Hurd, son of Henry Hurd, was born\\nDecember 7, 1838. Studied medicine with his brother. Dr.\\nW. H. Hurd, at Ashton, Canada West, and graduated at\\nthe Albany Medical College in 1860. He was connected\\nwith his brother in practice at Carleton Place, Canada West,\\nuntil July, 1863, when he enlisted into the U, S. Army;\\nwas commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the 83d Regt. N. Y.\\nVols., and on the mustering out of that regiment in 1864,\\nwas transferred to the 97th N. Y. Vols. In the autumn of\\n1865, he commenced practice in Grantham, N. H., where he\\nnow resides. In August, 1866, he was married to Miss\\nRandilla W. Howard, of that place.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "117\\nCharles Eugene Hurd, son of Henry Hard, was bom in\\nCroydon, June 15, 1833. He became connected editorially\\nwitli the Tribune, a semi-weekly journal published at\\nYarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1856. At the end of two years\\nhe returned to Boston and devoted himself mainly to report-\\ning and writing for the press. In 1864 he became connected\\nwith the Leader, a Sunday morning paper published in\\nBoston. In September, 1865, he became city editor for the\\nErie Dispatch, at Erie, Pa., and now occupies the chair of\\nAssociate Editor on the same journal.\\nJosiAH Ide, son of Daniel Ide, one of the early settlers,\\ndeserves a remembrance as one of the most worthy and\\nrespected farmers in town.\\nCr^OOBS.\\nWhitman Jacobs, son of Kev. Whitman Jacobs, of\\nKoyalston, Mass., came to Croydon about the year 1777,\\nand settled near the south line of the town, south of C. K.\\nFletcher s farm, but subsequently built where Mr. Fletcher\\nnow lives. From him have descended the Jacobses. He was\\na shrewd financier, and died possessed of a large estate.\\nHis son Luther settled on Stow Hill, and left quite a\\nfamily. Eli married Jerusha Whipple and removed to\\nVermont, and was a worthy deacon and valuable citizen.\\nHannah married John Ferrin.\\nPaul Jacobs, son of Whitman Jacobs, was born in 1783.\\nHe married Prudence, daughter of Jonah Stow. He was", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "118\\na man of great energy of character, and was eminently\\njiractical in his views. He was one of the largest and best\\nfarmers in town, often kept a dairy of thirty cows, and other\\nstock in proportion. He brought to town several choice\\nbreeds of cattle and sheep. He was the main instrument in\\ngetting the river-road through from the Flat to the East\\nVillage a deed that entitles his memory to the respect of\\nall after-generations of his townsmen. He built a factory at\\nthe Flat for the manufacture of potato starch. The same\\nyear in which he died not living to quite complete the\\nwork he built the church at the Flat, at his own expense,\\nat a cost of some two thousand dollars, and gave it to the\\nUniversalist Society thus attesting both his religious faith\\nand his generosity. He was Selectman in 1832, and Eepre-\\nsentative in 1831 and 1835. He died September 16, 1854,\\naged 71 years.\\n:ke:m::f toi^.\\nEphraim Kempton, the father of the Kemptons, came\\nearly to Croydon and purchased some four hundred acres of\\nland, covering all the grounds where the Flat is now situa-\\nted, and built near the residence of Capt. Nathan Hall. He\\nnever attained to great wealth, and was unassuming in his\\nmanners.\\nRollins A. Kempton, fifth son of Col. Calvin Kempton,\\nwas born Oct. 29, 1826. In addition to the district school,\\nhe received the instructions of his father at home, who was\\nan experienced and most faithful teacher, and had been for\\nthirty years Superintending School Committee of the town.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "^vS\\n,^^^^^u^ ...^^^^^.-.^^r", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "119\\nHis early life was full of poverty and discouragements. At\\nthe tender age of nine years he followed his mother to her\\ngrave, and was thus deprived of her guardian care and sym-\\npathy. His father had been a large farmer and extensive\\nwool-grower, but the revulsions of 1837 swept away his for-\\ntune and left him a poor man, with a large family, and hard\\nlabor and few privileges was the lot of the son. At twenty-\\none, with a coarse freedom suit, a five-dollar gold piece, and\\na father s blessing, he started out in the world. He first\\nwent to Lowell, but here his utmost labor would barely pay\\nhis board. So, one pleasant morning, with seventy-five\\ncents in his pocket all the money he had left after paying\\nhis bills he started for Lawrence, and his trip to the new\\ncity represents most graphically the discouragements which\\nsometimes beset a young man while starting out in the\\nworld Arriving there he found he had no friends, no\\nmoney, and no employment. For two days he sought most\\nearnestly for something to do, battling against rain, and\\ncold, and hunger, and every step had been a failure, and\\nhe had been to Methuen and met there the same result. At\\nthe end of that time however, nothing daunted, he returned\\nto Lowell full of pluck, determined to be somebody\\nyet. He subsequently learned the joiner s trade. In 1851,\\nhe married Maria J. Reed, of Northfield, Vt,, and com-\\nmenced business at Lawrence. At the end of eleven years\\nhe owned eight double tenement houses, and a steam mill,\\nand had been a member of the city government. In 1862\\nhe removed to Boston, where he now resides, and is a part-\\nner in three dry goods stores, with an estimated property of\\nnearly one hundred thousand dollars illustrating in his life\\nthe truth of the old maxim that, A bad beginning makes\\na good ending.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "120\\nWiLLARD C. Kempton, son of Col. Calvin Kempton,\\nwas born Oct. 13, 1840. He labored on the farm at home\\nuntil 1858. He then attended school at Newport and Kim-\\nball Union Academies until 1861, when he commenced the\\nstudy of medicine with his uncle, Dr. W. Clough, of Pitts-\\nfield, Mass. He attended lectures at Berkshire and Hano-\\nver Medical Colleges. He went to the war as a hospital\\nsteward, but was subsequently appointed successively As-\\nsistant Surgeon of a colored regiment, of the second Reg.\\nN, H. Vols., and of the Freedmen s Bureau. He married\\nElvira M. Johnson, of Springfield, N. H., and is now in the\\npractice of his profession at Mansfield, Kansas.\\nSilas Kempton, son of Jeremiah, and grandson of\\nEphraim, the first settler after carrying on a successful\\ntanning and shoe business at the Flat, removed to Newport,\\nwhere he is now engaged in farming.\\nJonas C. Kempton, son of Ephraim^ and grandson of\\nEphraim senior, the early settler of the town, removed to\\nNashua and became a confectioner. He has amassed a for-\\ntune and been twice honored by his adopted city with a seat\\nin the Legislature.\\nWm. Wallace Kidder, son of Amos and Lucinda Bar-\\nton Kidder, was born Aug. 11, 1845, studied medicine with\\nWilliams Barton, M. D.; was with Capt. Ira McL. Barton,\\nas orderly in the 5th Reg. N. H. Vols., and also in the 9th\\nRes. N. H. Vols.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "121\\nLO VEiE^.insr.\\nJohn Loverin came to this town from Springfield,\\nN. H.; married a sister of Capt. Edward Hall, settled on\\nthe Gr. W. Cain place, and died a wealthy farmer.\\nKimball Loverin, son of John, has been a successful\\nfarmer.\\nSamuel Marsh, from whom have descended the Marshes,\\ncame early to town and settled near the Four Corners. His\\nwife, who had long lived in the family of a physician, and\\nhad become skilled in the healing art, kept the first prim-\\nitive Apothecary s Shop in town. Besides her knowledge\\nof medicine she was noted for her mechanical ingenuity.\\nThe old dies, with which she used to print the ladies\\ncalico dresses, are still in being, as also the pillion on\\nwhich she visited her patients. The husband died in 1832,\\naged 94; the wife in 1834, aged 90 years.\\nSamuel Marsh, Jr., was father of Elom, one of the\\nVice-Presidents at the Celebration, a successful farmer at\\nWestmoreland, N. H., of John L. who moved to Jefferson\\nCounty, N. Y., where he has been elected a Kepresentative\\nand exerted much influence, and Orren who was educated at\\nNorwich University and went to Oregon.\\nDellavan D. Marsh, son of William, and grandson of\\nSamuel, was born May 8, 1818. He studied medicine with\\nWillard P. Gibson, of Newport, and John S. Blanchard, of\\nCornish; attended lectures at Woodstock, Yt., and at Han-\\nover, N. H., and graduated from the latter institution in", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "122\\n1834. He commenced practice at Mount Desert, Me., the\\nsame year, but in 1837 returned to Croydon, where he has\\nsince remained in the practice of his profession. He has\\ntaken a deep interest in agriculture. He introduced the\\nNorth Devon cattle, and in 1848 was Treasurer of the Coun-\\nty Agricultural Society. He has been often elected to town\\noffices, and in 1839 and 1840 was elected Treasurer of Sul-\\nlivan County. His daughters are graduates from Meriden.\\nWm. H. Maesh, a brother, is a merchant in Boston.\\niivnEijEnsri:)\\nEbenezer and John Melendy, twins, came to this\\ntown from Worcester County, Mass., and were among the\\nearliest settlers.\\nWilliam E. Melendy, son of Sibley, a soldier in the\\nwar of 1812, was born Jan. 2, 1819. In 1845, he removed\\nto Springfield, N. H., where he shared in a good degree the\\nconfidence of the community. He was Postmaster six\\nyears, Selectman two, and Eepresentative two. Since 1853,\\nhe has been engaged in mercantile business. In 1863, he\\nmoved to West Andover, N. H., where he now resides. He\\nmarried Martha P., daughter of Ziba Cooper.\\nElbridge and Alonzo Melendy, sons of John, after\\nstruggling against all the embarrassments of early poverty,\\nsettled at Cohoes, N. Y., where they have met with a deserv-\\ned success. Alonzo carried off the medals at scliool, and\\nfitted himself for a successful teacher studying by the\\nlight of pine knots gathered in the woods.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "123\\nSamuel Merrill, the father of the Merrills, married\\nFannie Bancroft, a great-aunt of George Bancroft the his-\\ntorian. She is still living. He died in 1827, leaving a large\\nfamily of small children.\\nJoshua B. and Sherburn Merrill, sons of Samuel\\nMerrill, spent the earlier part of their lives at the homestead,\\neast of Spectacle Pond. To their early struggles with pov-\\nerty they owe much of those resolute wills, which have\\nenabled them to make after-progress in the business world.\\nThe former has for several years represented Barnstead in\\nthe Legislature, and the latter has represented Colebrook.\\nSeneca Merrill, a younger brother, connected with\\nSherburn in business at Colebrook, where they have become\\nwealthy, has held several county offices. One of the daugh-\\nters married William B, Leavitt, a scientific man and\\nastronomer at Grantham.\\nSamuel Metcalf, after serving in the French and Eev-\\nolutionary armies for seven years, came to this town from\\nFranklin, Mass., and settled at Brighton, and was the pro-\\ngenitor of the Metcalf family in town.\\nDea. Abel Metcalf, his oldest son, settled in Newport,\\nand was the father of Kev. Kendrick Metcalf, Episcopal\\nclergyman at Geneva, N. Y., and Professor in the Geneva\\nCollege, of Silas, a successful farmer and man of political\\nnote at Newport, and of Theron, a popular merchant in\\nBoston.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "124\\nCapt. Obed Metcalf, his second son, was active in town\\nand church affairs, was father of Stephen, a prominent\\nfarmer at Haverhill, N. H., and grandfather of Henry H.,\\na lawyer, and Carlos G-., physician, sons of Joseph.\\nSamuel Metcalf, his third son, was father to Alexan-\\nder, a wealthy farmer and justice at Northfield, Min., who\\nmarried Anna, eldest daughter of Col. Nathaniel Wheeler,\\nand grandfather of Samuel Metcalf Wheeler, a distin-\\nguished lawyer at Dover, N. H.\\nSamuel Morse, Esq., a native of Dublin, N. H., grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College in 1811, and studied law with\\nHon. Geo, B. Upham, of Claremont, He came to Croydon\\nin 1815, and opened the first and only law office ever in\\ntown. He was Eepresentative for the year 1834, and a\\ndelegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1850. He\\ndied Jan 1, 1865, aged 81 years.\\nisTELSonsr.\\nJohn Nelson, one of the early settlers, lived on the\\nturnpike north of Four Corners; was intrusted to some\\nextent with the management of town affairs, and has many\\ndescendants.\\nnsTE^WTonsr.\\nPhineas Newton, one of the early settlers, lived in the\\nfamous Old Stone House, on the glebe lot south of the\\noriginal Whitman Jacobs place.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "125\\nJeeemiah Newell, one of the early comers to Croydon,\\nsettled at Eyder Corner, .and was an extensive farmer, tidy,\\nenergetic and proud. His Each, the first in town, was\\nan object of great interest to the little folks. He was\\nfather to Jeremiah, who was for a long time a popular\\nsheriff at Newport, of Parker N., merchant at Newport,\\nand now at Princeton, 111., of Benjamin, merchant\\nand speculator, also at Princeton, 111., and grandfather of\\nThankful M., daughter of David, a lady of uncommon\\nenergy and business talent late wife of Shepherd L. Bow-\\ners, Esq., of Newport.\\nElisha and Simeon Partridge came from Franklin,\\nMass., and were among the first settlers. The former married\\na sister of Timothy Winter and settled on Winter Hill.\\nThe latter settled on the B. Brown place, near the Flat.\\nThey were valuable citizens, and occupied honorable posi-\\ntions in town.\\nElisha Partridge, son of Elisha, is a farmer, and has\\nmuch musical talent.\\nLuke Paul, son of Daniel, came into Croydon at twenty-\\ntwo years of age, and married Sally Cooper, daughter of\\nSamuel Cooper, and settled on the old Gibson farm, on\\nBaltimore Hill, and was an enterprising and prosperous\\nfarmer.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "126\\nMarshall Perkins, son of James Perkins who came\\nto Croydon from Leominster, Mass., in 1815, and built the\\ngrist-mill, saw-mill and carding-machine at the Flat, and\\nwho was for many years a successful business man was born\\nMay 13, 1823. He studied medicine and graduated at\\nCambridge Medical College, in 1850, at the head of his\\nclass. He soon after settled at Marlow, N. H., where he\\nnow resides, and is doing a successful business. He married\\na daughter of Amos Fisk, Esq., the leading merchant of\\nMarlow. He was for three years during the war Assistant\\nSurgeon in the 14th Kegt. N. H. Vols.\\nDavid Putxam and Caleb Putnam came to this town\\nfrom Sutton, Mass., among the early emigrants, and settled\\non the south-east slope of the Pinnacle, in a locality long\\nknown as the Salt Box. They were noted for a hardy\\nconstitution and great industry.\\nSolomon Putnam, son of Dea. David Putnam, and\\nPeter Putnam, son of Caleb Putnam, though not much in\\noffice, were among our most worthy farmers.\\nCharles Putnam, son of Solomon, remained on the\\nhomestead, and is an extensive and thriving farmer.\\nJohn Putnam, son of Dea. David Putnam, one of the\\nearly settlers of the town, and a Kevolutionary soldier, was\\nborij November 11, 1797. He is one of the most intelligent,\\nrespected, industrious and energetic farmers in town. He", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "127\\nhas reared a large and one of the most thoroughly educated\\nfamilies in Croydon, He has always remained at the old\\nhomestead he has been Selectman and Representative.\\nJohn Woodbury Putnam, eldest son of John Putnam,\\nEsq., born April 6, 1819, is a man of excellent judgment\\nand decision of character. After operating as a farmer in his\\nnative town, and going to the recent war, where he held the\\nposition of Captain, he has sold out and removed to New\\nYork. He is located on the Hudson River about sixty\\nmiles above the city of New York, on a large farm belonging\\nto his brother-in-law, Timothy C. Eastman.\\nJames W. Putnam, son of John Putnam, Esq., was\\nborn December 15, 1822. He pursued his preparatory\\nstudies at Kimball Union Academy, and graduated at\\nNorwich University. He received his theological training\\nat Clinton Seminary, Clinton, N, Y., then under the direc-\\ntion of Rev. T. J. Sawyer. In 1848 he received the fellow-\\nship of the Universalist denomination at the New Hampshire\\nState Convention, and in 1849 was ordained as pastor of the\\nfirst Universalist society of Danvers, Mass., where after a\\nlife of much usefulness and ever-increasing popularity, he\\ndied November 3, 1864. He had charge of the public\\nschools in his town for many years, and was several times\\nelected a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, in which\\nbody he took a very prominent and honorable stand.\\nFranklin Putnam, son of John Putnam, Esq., was born\\nSeptember 8, 1833; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1859;\\nstudied law with- Brown Sewell, at Bath, Me., and com-\\nmenced the practice of his profession at Kansas City, Mo.,\\nin 1861, where he died November 3, 1865.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "128\\nNathaniel French Putnam, fourth son of John Put-\\nnam, Esq., was bora February 2, 1839. He graduated at\\nBowdoin College in 1863; entered the General Theological\\nSeminary, New York, November, 1863, graduated June,\\n1866; was ordained Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal\\nChurch at Claremont, May 27, 1866, by the Kt. Eev.\\nCarlton Chase, D, D., Bishop of New Hampshire, and took\\ncharge of St. John s Church, Poultney, Vt., July 1, 1866.\\nGrEORGE FREDERICK PuTNAM, yOUngest SOU of Johu\\nPutnam, Esq., was born November 6, 1841; received his\\nliterary training at Norwich University, and studied law\\nwith N. B. Felton, Esq., of Haverhill, N. H., and was\\nadmitted to the bar in 1866.\\nEllen Putnam, youngest daughter of John Putnam,\\nEsq., a fine scholar and successful teacher, married N. B.\\nWhite, Esq., a lawyer at Omaha, Nebraska.\\nAustin Putnam, M. A., son of Samuel and Susan\\nGribson Putnam, and grandson of Caleb Putnam, was\\nborn March 6, 1809. After pursuing his studies in the\\ndistrict school and at Newport Academy, he entered Dart-\\nmouth College in 1825. At the close of his second year,\\ncircumstances led him to relinquish his plan of a full colle-\\ngiate course, and he soon after commenced the study of law\\nin the office of Hon. F. A. Tallmage and Charles F. Grim,\\nEsqrs., of New York City, and completed it in the\\noffice of Hon. John P. and J. Newland Cushman, Esqrs., of\\nTroy, N. Y., and at the Law School at Litchfield, Conn.\\nHe was admitted to the bar at Utica, in July, 1831. He\\nimmediately commenced practice at Troy, N. Y., with highly", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "^\\\\j^\\\\Xx^^ \\\\j \\\\^XX\\n^Vv^\u00c2\u00ab^W v-", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "129\\nencouraging prospects. But after spending a short time in\\nhis profession, he experienced a total change in his views\\non the subject of religion. At what he conceived to be the\\ncall of duty he left the profession which he had chosen, and\\nwhich he loved, and commenced the study of theology, under\\nthe instruction of Rev. Nathan S. S. Beman, D. D., of Troy.\\nHe was ordained at Lowville, N. Y., in 1834. After a few\\nyears of successful labor in New York City and at New\\nHaven, he was, October 31, 1838, installed as pastor of the\\nCongregational Church at Hamden, Conn., where he is now\\nliving. In 1843 he was married to Caroline W. Northop,\\ndaughter of Gen. Joseph A. Northop, of Lowville, N. Y.\\nIn 1844-5 he spent a year in Europe, traveling over the\\ndifferent countries. In 1839 he received the honorary\\ndegree of Master of Arts from Yale College. He has long\\nbeen refrarded as a man of rare endowments.\\nProctor Putnam, son of Hiram, and grandson of Caleb\\nPutnam, was born July 8, 1814. From eighteen to twenty-\\neight years of age he followed the occupation of mason\\nthe last four years was superintendent in building the locks\\non the Glens I^alls Feeder Canal, and Black River Canal,\\nN. Y. In 1842 he removed to Lake County, Illinois, and\\npurchased the farm on which he now lives. The following\\nbrief statement of his affairs will be of interest to all those\\nwho remember the once penniless boy of Croydon He has\\nsix hundred acres of choice land valued at sixty dollars per\\nacre, six hundred of the finest merino sheep, seventy head\\nof cattle, and thirty hogs, besides much other property. In\\n1842 he married Rosilla Sargent, of Grantham, N. fl.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "130\\nEzEKiEL Powers, son of Lemuel and Thankful Leland\\nPowers a lady of uncommon intellect was born in Graf-\\nton, Mass., March 27, 1745; was one of the party who came\\nto Croydon in the spring of 1766, for the purpose of survey-\\ning land and making other preparations for a settlement,\\nand settled here the following year. He was conspicuous\\nprincipally on account of his great physical strength and\\nhis inventive genius. Among his many other inventions, he\\nfirst introduced the practice of ridging green-sward for the\\npurpose of raising Indian corn, and the looped sled so\\ngenerally used since by the lumbermen of Croydon, and the\\nsheet-iron pans of our sugar-makers of to-day are of his\\ninvention. He purchased some six hundred acres, covering\\nthe land of the East Village and the meadows above.\\nDavid Powers and Samuel Powers, brothers of Ezekiel,\\nwere also among the earliest settlers. They were worthy\\ncitizens, and among the most popular and influential men\\nin town, and both died of the spotted fever in 1813.\\nKey. Lemuel Powers, also brother of Ezekiel, was one\\nof the early settlers of the town. He waS born at North-\\nbridge, Mass., in 1756; married Abigail Newland, and died\\nat Stillwater, N. Y., in 1800 leaving four children. His\\neldest son Cyrus married Lydia Stow, and settled at Sem-\\npronius, N. Y. In 1804 he was appointed a Justice of the\\nPeace for Cayuga County, and in 1806 received the appoint-\\nment of Judge of the County Courts, which office he filled\\nwith much ability for twenty-five years. He died in 1841.\\nAbigail, his youngest daughter, was born in 1798. In\\nFebruary, 1826, she married Millard Fillmore, late President", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "131\\nof the United States. She is a lady highly respected toi\\nher intelligence, dignity and many Christian virtues. She is\\nnow a widow, and resides at Buffalo, N. Y.\\nStephen Powers, Benjamin Powers and John Powers,\\ncousins of Ezekiel, were also .among the first settlers. From\\nthe foregoing have descended most of those in town who\\nbear the name of Powers. The Powerses were the most\\nnumerous family among the first settlers, and were distin-\\nguished for giant frames, great physical strength and vigor-\\nous intellects.\\nEzekiel Powers, son of Ezekiel and Hannah Hall\\nPowers, was born in 1771, and was the first male child born\\nin town. At the age of nineteen he married Susan Eice,\\nand subsequently Lydia Lane and Lois Barden, and had\\ntwenty-one children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 four sons, and seventeen daughters;\\nfifteen of the latter grew to womanhood, and were charac-\\nterized by those quahties which distinguish the Powers\\nfamily. Like his father he was remarkable for great phys-\\nical power. At the age of eighty he weighed 265 pounds.\\nHe had a great memory, and was a lover of fun.\\nMaj. Abijah Powers, son of Ezekiel Powers, one of the\\nearliest settlers of the town, was a man instinctively inclin-\\ned to leisure and social enjoyments. He was a Major in the\\nwar of 1812. He was well educated, and had a ready judg-\\nment, and hence was enabled to fill the ofiices of Justice,\\nSelectman and Representative with much credit to himself.\\nHe was the greatest story-teller the town ever prodticed,\\nwith the exception perhaps of his uncle, Abijah Hall, the\\nfather of Capt. Amasa Hall. With him, as with James", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "132\\nand other members of the family, in his last days his mem-\\nory was remarkably clear and retentive. He could recall\\nwith the utmost vividness all the incidents of his life, and\\nafter reading a book could repeat it word for word.\\nElias Powers, son of the jDreceding, one of the Com-\\nmittee of Arrangements, is a man of intelligence, a respect-\\ned farmer, and has many of the characteristics of his\\nfather.\\nJames Powers, son of Ezekiel Powers, senior, was an\\nextensive dealer in stock and other property; was a sheriff,\\na ready wit, and a natural j)oet.\\nObed Powers, son of Col. Samuel and Chloe Cooper\\nPowers, was born April 20, 1788. Like most boys in\\nthose early days, he received only from three to four weeks\\nschooling each winter. At the age of twenty-two he remov-\\ned to Cornish. In addition to being an active and thriving\\nfarmer, he has been extensively engaged in stone masonry\\nsuperintending in New York and Vermont, as well as his\\nown State, some of the largest and most difficult under-\\ntakings. February 10, 1814, he was married to Cynthia\\nCummings; and in 1864 was celebrated their golden wed-\\nding. They had five children, all thoroughly educated at\\nMeriden, and all successful teachers. The youngest daugh-\\nter, Marion W., has a decided talent for poetry, was\\nassistant teacher at Meriden, and is now at the head of the\\nfemale department of an institution at Sydney, Ohio.\\nSolomon L. Powers, brother of the above, after following\\nthe business of stone-mason at Baltimore and elsewhere,", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "133\\nfinally became an extensive farmer at Gettysburg, Pa.; and\\nduring the famous battle a portion of the rebel army was\\nstationed in his yard. His brothers, Ara and Larnard, were\\nsuccessful farmers. The former died at Charlestowu in 1865,\\nleaving quite a fortune.\\nSamuel Powers, son of Col. Samuel Powers, a merchant\\nand practical surveyor, had much native talent. He was\\none of the most successful teachers; had a clear intellect and\\na decided military genius, which was much improved by a\\nthorough training at Norwich University. Few are the men\\nwho have more of the elements of popularity about them,\\nor who have been more a favorite with their tov/nsmen.\\nFull of promise, he died in 1828, at the early age of thirty-\\nthree.\\nErastus B. Powers, son of Larnard and Kuby Barton\\nPowers, and grandson of Samuel Powers, fitted for college\\nat Meriden; graduated at Dartmouth College, and at the\\nLaw School at Cambridge, Mass., and was admitted to the\\nbar in 1866. As a scholar he ranked high in his classes.\\nMerritt, Lemuel and Henry Powers, sons of Zadock,\\nand grandsons of Ezekiel Powers, were clergymen in Ver-\\nmont.\\nHaven Powers, son of Cyrus and Lydia Stow Powers?\\nand grandson of Rev. Lemuel Powers, was born in 1817.\\nAfter spending several years with his friends on a farm in\\nCroydon, he studied law and settled at Milwaukie, Wis.\\nTimothy Gilman Powers, son of Timothy, and grand-\\nson of Dea, Stephen Powers, is an intelligent farmer and", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "134\\nman of influence, residing at the East Village. Married\\nEliza Winter, daughter of Adolphus Winter. He has been\\nSelectman several times, and held many other offices.\\nDennis Powers, son of David Powers, was born May 24,\\n1808; graduated from Amherst College, Mass., in 1835, and\\nfrom Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., in 1838. He\\nwas ordained and settled over the Congregational church\\nand society of East Kandolph, Mass., December 5, 1838.\\nAt his own request he was dismissed from this church and\\npeople April 15, 1841. On the 29th of September, 1842,\\nhe was installed as pastor of the church and society of\\nSouth Abington, Mass., and remained there until 1850,\\nwhen he accepted an appointment to an office under Presi-\\ndent Fillmore, and removed to the city of. Washington.\\nHe was for a time Agent, and an eloquent advocate of the\\nColonization Society. He is now laboring again with the\\npeople of Abington, Mass.\\nOrlando Powers, son of Capt. Peter Powers, and on\\nthe mother s side descended from Dea. John Cooper, was\\nborn May 5, 1810. He was educated mainly at the district\\nschool. At eighteen he was apprenticed as clerk to Hiram\\nSmart then only merchant of Croydon where he remained\\nuntil April, 1832, when he removed to Cornish Flat where\\nhe now lives and commenced trade. In 1837 he was\\nmarried to Cynthia L. Smart, daughter of Joseph Smart\\nof Croydon. He has been Town Clerk of Cornish seven\\nyears, was Eepresentative in 1844, and County Treasurer in\\n1849 and 1850. He was for a long time Postmaster, and\\nhas been frequently Administrator of valuable estates. He\\nhas an active temperament, and a ready business talent, is", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "(pT-^Cc-^;^^ /^crzyo^-^^y^Ji^", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "135\\nsocial and gentlemanly. On the breaking out of the re-\\nbellion he devoted all his means and energies to the raising\\nof men and furnishing supplies for their families. No other\\none in town did so much as he for the cause.\\nDavid Cooper Powers, third son of Peter, and grandson\\nof David Powers, was born June 30, 1822. When eight\\nyears of age he removed with his father to Cayuga County,\\nN. Y. He received his academical education at Aurora;\\nstudied medicine with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Leavitt,\\nD., and graduated at Berkshire Medical College at Pitts-\\nfield, Mass., in 1848. He then went to California, and\\nremained until 1850, when he returned, was married to a\\ndaughter of Samuel Ledyard, Esq., of Wayne County, and\\nsettled in the practice of his profession, at Auburn, N. Y.\\nIn 1853 he again went to California and remained two\\nyears, when he returned and removed with his family to\\nColdwater, Michigan, where he now resides, and is in the\\npractice of his profession. At the breaking out of the\\nrebellion he was appointed Surgeon of the 9th Michigan\\nInfantry, and acted in that capacity some three years.\\nJ. WoODwORTH Powers, brother of Orlando, is an exten-\\nsive farmer in western New York.\\nJacob Haven Powers, youngest son of Peter, is a\\nthriving merchant in western New York.\\nOf the sisters, Mary C. married Nathaniel Leavitt, a\\nphysician, and Cemantha married Daniel Frye, also a physi-\\ncian at Deering, N. H.\\nDr. Horace Powers was the son of Urias and Lucy\\nPowers, and was born Oct. 27, 1807. His early education", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "136\\nwas obtained in the common schools of his native town and\\nthe Academy at Newport, after finishing which he studied\\nmedicine with Dr. J. B. McGregory, of Newport, and having\\nattended two full courses of Lectures at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege under the noted and lamented Dr. Muzzey, he received\\nhis diploma of M. D. at the Medical College at Woodstock,\\nVt., in the spring of 1832. He was married Oct. 22, 1833,\\nto Miss Love E. Gilman, of Unity, N. H., and settled in\\nMorristown, Vt., where he has since resided. He has one\\nson now living, H. Henry Powers, Esq., a graduate of the\\nUniversity of Vermont, and at present a leading lawyer m\\nhis county, residing in his native town. Another son,\\nGeorge R. Powers, died in the army in Feb., 1862.\\nThe Dr. was a Justice of the Peace in Morristown twenty-\\nfive years in succession was a Deputy Sherifi many years,\\nand in 1844 and 45 High Sheriff of Lamoille County\\nin 1850, represented his town in the Vermont Constitu-\\ntional Convention, and in 1853 and 54, represented\\nLamoille County in the Vermont State Senate. He has also\\nbeen a Director in the Lamoille County Bank for many\\nyears in 1865, being out of health, he retired from the most\\nextensive and lucrative practice in his county.\\nUrias Powers, son of Urias Powers, was born May 12,\\n1791; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1818; pursued a\\ntheological course at Andover, Mass. ordained in 1823; and\\nafter preaching in South Carolina and Virginia, he became\\nconnected by marriage with the family of a wealthy planter\\nand settled at Big Lick, Va. He voluntarily emancipated\\nhis slaves. The rebellion dealt harshly with his once large\\nfortune. He was the first native of Croydon who received a\\ncollegiate education.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "137\\nJosiAH W. Powers, son of the late Urias Powers, was\\nborn June 19, 1799. He entered Dartmouth College, but\\nbefore completing the full course, he left and entered the\\nTheological Institution at Andover, Mass., where he grad-\\nuated. After being ordained, he preached at Kingston,\\nMass. and at Kennebunk, Me. In 1839 he accepted an\\nagency of the American Bible Society, and soon after reach-\\ning Ohio, the field of his labor, was called to his rest.\\nGershom Powers, son of the late John Powers, was born\\nJune 11, 1789. His early advantages were quite limited\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094denied even the advantages of a common school. His\\nparents being too poor to furnish other means, his books were\\nread and pondered by the uncertain light of the fore-stick.\\nA lameness iu his right arm induced him to leave the farm\\nand turn his attention to law, the study of which he com-\\nmenced at Sempronius in 1810. After completing his\\ncourse, he opened an office at Auburn, and was popular and\\nsuccessful in his practice. He was appointed Assistant Jus-\\ntice of the Cayuga County Court, and after three years ser-\\nvice in that capacity was elevated to the position of County\\nJudge. Jan. 30, 1826, he was appointed to the control of\\nthe Prison at Auburn, and under his management the\\nAuburn System of Prison Discipline became famous\\nthroughout the United States and Europe, as second to\\nnone on the globe. In 1829, he was chosen Representative\\nto Congress, and declined a re-election on account of feeble\\nhealth. He died Jan. 25, 1831. He was kind to his indi-\\ngent relatives, beloved by all, and died a Christian.\\nWilliam Powers, an elder brother of the preceding, was\\nborn in 1786, and his means of education were similar to", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "138\\nthose of his brother. He was assistant keeper of the prison\\nat Auburn, N. Y. Having drawn a superior plan of a pris-\\non, he was employed by the government of Canada West to\\nsuperintend the erection of a penitentiary at Kingston, and\\nin May, 1835, was appointed Deputy Warden of said prison.\\nHe is now an extensive farmer in western New York.\\nJohn Rawson, from whom have descended the Rawsons,\\nsettled under the mountain, near the P. Barton place.\\nMoses Reed, the father of the Reeds, was among the\\nearly settlers, and was a cloth dresser at the Flat.\\nHon. Charles Rowell, son of Lemuel Rowell, remov-\\ned from Ryder Corner to Allenstown, N. H., where he\\ndied Jan. 11, 1867, aged 82 years. He was intrusted with\\nmany civil offices. He was Selectman of his town twenty-\\nfour years. Justice of the Peace about the same number of\\nyears, a Representative to the State Legislature four j ^ears.\\nCounty Treasurer two years, and State Senator two years.\\nHe had been an earnest and consistent member of the Meth-\\nodist E. Church for fifty-eight years.\\nEdmund Rowell, a brother of the preceding, studied\\nmedicine and settled in Merrimac County, where he died\\nyoung.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "139\\nFranklin Rowell, and Christopher Eowell, sons of\\nDavid Rowell both men of decided genius are among the\\nmost successful artists in Boston.\\nEdmund Rowell, son of Sherburn Rowell, is a success-\\nful trader at New London, Conn.\\nElisabeth Rumble, a spinster, was noted for her great\\nage a hundred years and her many eccentricities. At the\\ntrout-brook she was the rival of the famous Isaak Walton.\\nJoTHAM Ryder came early to Croydon, and settled in\\nthe south-east corner of the town, and from him and his con-\\nnections the place has always since been known as Ryder\\nCorner.\\nAsa Ryder, son of Jotham Ryder, studied medicine with\\nAlexander Boyd, of Newport, graduated at the medical\\ndej^artment at Hanover, and settled at Alstead, N. H., where,\\nafter two years of practice, he died.\\nDaniel Ryder, son of Jotham Ryder, was born Dec. 29,\\n1803. He married Sarah George, and remains under the\\npaternal roof, at Ryder Corner. He has long been noted\\nfor the excellence of his stock and produce. He is one of\\nthe most prosperous and worthy farmers in town, and is\\nesteemed a man of superior judgment. He was one of the\\nCommittee of Arrangements, and is the father of William\\nW. and David E. Ryder.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "140\\nElijah Ryder, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Cele-\\nbration, son of Jothani Ryder, Jr., is a worthy farmer, and\\nhas attained quite a celebrity as a teacher, both of schools\\nand penmanship.\\nIsaac, John, Phineas, Lydia, Elizabeth and Phebe\\nSanger came to Croydon in 1770, and were regarded as an\\nimportant accession to the town. The brothers had families,\\nthe sisters were unmarried. Their descendants are charac-\\nterized by a great fondness for books and the remarkable\\nfacility with which they acquire literary and scientific knowl-\\nedge. Very many of the distinguished sons of Croydon are\\nproud to trace their lineage from the Sangers. John and\\nPhineas left town. Isaac died of the heart disease, while\\ncrossing Croydon Mountain in 1780, leaving three daughters\\none of whom married Barnabas Cooper, and another\\nWilliam Gibson.\\nLydia married John Powers, and Phebe married a Mr.\\nNoyes. Elizabeth, or, as everybody called her, Aunt\\nLizzy, remained single, and was really one of the best speci-\\nmens of an old maid the world has ever produced. Turning\\ninstinctively away from all allurements to matrimony, she\\npreferred to remain,\\nIn maiden fancy free.\\nShe was an angel of mercy, and went about doing\\ngood. She seemed to be everywhere present when needed\\nchiding the erring, comforting the sick, helping the needy,\\nand cheering the desponding. The memory of that good\\nwoman is cherished with lively interest by all the early set-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "141\\ntiers of Croydon. But tradition says slie had her one fault\\nshe was a firm believer in witches. Many an urchin has\\nfeared going to bed alone, after listening to her wonderful\\ntales of ghosts and hobgoblins. She lived to a good old age,\\nand went to her rest with many benedictions. God bless\\nher.\\nAlvin Sargent, son of Capt. John Sargent, is a clergy-\\nman of the Baptist order, now living at Holderness, N. H.\\nHe has been several times a member of the Legislature.\\nJoseph Sargent, a brother of the above, married Lucin-\\nda, daughter of Benj. Skinner, Esq. For a while he was\\nengaged as high-school teacher. He studied theology, and\\nbecame a Universalist clergyman was quite talented. He\\nwas Chaplain in the army, and died in the service.\\nWilliam Sherman came to Croydon from Barre, Mass.,\\nin 1797, and died Feb. 19, 1855, aged 79 years, leaving a\\nlarge family. He is remembered as an upright farmer. Of\\nhim it might be said, as of one of old: Behold an Israelite\\nindeed, in whom there is no guile.\\ns:m:^i?.t.\\nHiram Smart, son of Caleb Smart, for a long time a lead-\\ning man and popular merchant in town, married Harriet,\\ndaughter of Capt. William Whipple, and he subsequently\\nremoved to Nashua, N. H., where he died.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "142\\nHiKAM Smart, son of the preceding, lias been a Repre-\\nsentative from Plaistow in the Legislature, a School Commis-\\nsioner, and Register of Deeds for Rockingham County, and\\nis now in the Boston Custom House.\\nGardner Stewart, son of John Stewart an early set-\\ntler on Winter Hill married Sarah, daughter of James\\nPowers. He has been a successful financier. He now\\nresides at Plainview, Min.\\nSTiusrsoitT.\\nRev, Robert Stinson, a Universalist clergyman of most\\nblameless life, was connected with the society in Croydon at\\nthe time of his appointment as Chaplain of the Sixth Reg.\\nN. H. Vols., and died much lamented, soon after his return\\nfrom the army.\\nDavid Stockwell was born in 1748. He came from\\nSutton, Mass., to Croydon, in 1772. He was a farmer,\\nserved honorably in the Revolutionary war, and died July\\n16, 1824. All by the name of Stockwell, who have origin-\\nated in Croydon, have descended from him.\\nStillman Stockwell, son of Giles, and grandson of\\nDavid Stookwell, removed to the West, where he has become\\na wealthy farmer.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "143\\nSTO W\\nJonah Stow, from whom have descended the Stows,\\nmarried Lydia Powers, and came early to this town from\\nStockbridge, Mass., with his four sons, Peter, Asaph, Solo-\\nmon and Jonah, and long occupied Stow Hill, now\\nBrighton. His eldest daughter, Judith, married Whipple\\nHaven, a brother of Eev. Jacob Haven; his second, Lydia,\\nmarried Hon. Cyrus Powers, a brother of Mrs. President\\nFillmore, and his third daughter, Prudence, married Paul\\nJacobs, Esq., of Croydon.\\nPeter Stow, a sterling farmer, married Deborah Nettle-\\nton, of Newport, and was the father of the Eev. Dr. Stow,\\nof Boston, and Pvoyal P. Stow, former Clerk of the U. S.\\nHouse of Representatives. While in town he held many\\nimportant civil and military offices.\\nBaron Stow, D. D., eldest son of Peter and Deborah Stow,\\nand grandson, by his father s side, of Jonah and Lydia Stow,\\nand by his mother s, of Jeremiah and Love Nettleton, was\\nborn in the westerly part of Croydon, June 16, 1801. In\\nSeptember, 1809, his parents removed to Newport, where\\nfor a few years he had the advantages of a good common\\nschool, under the tuition of such excellent teachers as\\nBenjamin Cummings and William R. Kimball, of Cornish;\\nAustin Corbin, William A. Chapin, Moses Chapin and\\nCarlton Hurd, of Newport, and Samuel Blanchard, of\\nCroydon. In December, 1818, he became a member\\nof the Baptist Church in Newport, and soon com-\\nmenced preparation for the work of the Christian min-\\nistry, pursuing classical studies, at first with the Rev.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "144\\nLeland Howard, of Windsor, Vt., but mainly at the\\nNewport Academy, defraying his expenses by teaching\\nwinter schools. The state of his health requiring a milder\\nclimate, he went, in 1822, to Washington, D. C.,and joined\\nthe Columbian College, entering the Freshman Class eight\\nmonths in advance. The funds for the expenses of his\\ncollegiate course were supplied in part by the generosity of\\nothers, and the remainder by giving private instruction.\\nAmong his pupils were two sons of Commodore Porter, one\\nof whom is now Admiral David D. Porter, of the U. S.\\nNavy. After graduating with the first honor of his class, in\\nDecember, 1825, he edited for a year and a half a religious\\nnewspaper in Washington, called The Columbian Star.\\nIn September, 1826. he married Miss Elizabeth L. Skinner,\\nof Windsor, Vt. In the summer of 1827, he returned to\\nNew England, and on the 24th of October of the same year\\nwas ordained as pastor of the Middle St. Baptist Church,\\nPortsmouth, N. H. After five years of service in that place,\\nhe accepted an invitation to the pastoral care of the Bald-\\nwin Place Church, Boston, and was there installed, Novem-\\nber 15, 1832. In the spring of 1848, compelled by impaired\\nhealth, he resigned that position, and, in the autumn,\\naccepted the less onerous charge of the Rowe St. Church, in\\nthe same city, of which he is still the pastor.\\nIn 1846, Brown University conferred on him the honorary\\ndegree of Doctor of Divinity, and, in 1854, Harvard Uni-\\nversity rej)eated the honor.\\nAt three different times in twenty-three years, he was\\nelected Corresponding Secretary of the national organization,\\nnow styled the American Baptist Missionary Union; but,\\nfrom a clear conviction that he had a vocation from God to", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "145\\nbe a preacher and pastor, he in every instance declined the\\nappointment. The same conviction has restrained him\\nfrom listening to urgent propositions to accept positions in\\nColleges, either as President or Professor,\\nNotwithstanding imperfect health, he has performed, in\\nthirty-nine years of ministerial life, a large amount of\\nservice, not only in his ecclesiastical relations, but in various\\nBoards of Colleges and Benevolent Iiistitutions. He is the\\nauthor of several books and pamphlets, and has written\\nmuch for the periodical press.\\nIn 1840, and again in 1859, his people, at their own\\nexpense sent him to Europe for the benefit of his health,\\nand for mental improvement.\\nDuring his ministry, he has preached nearly 4,500 ser-\\nmons, baptized nearly 1,000 persons, married nearly 1,200\\ncouples, officiated at more than 1,300 funerals, and made\\nmore than 21,600 parochial visits. His correspondence, for\\nmany years, has averaged 1,000 letters per annum. In\\nforty-five years, his travels at home and abroad have exceed-\\ned more than 100,000 miles. His private journal extends\\nthrough nineteen volumes of manuscript, making more than\\n4,000 pages. Such an amount of labor would have been\\nimpossible but for a rigid economy of time and a tenacious\\nadherence to system.\\nHis father, born in Grafton, Mass., June 21, 1771, died\\nin Newport, N. H., in 1816 his mother, born in Killing-\\nworth, Conn., February 11, 1775, died in Potsdam, N. Y.,\\nin 1846.\\nAsaph Stow removed to Sempronius, N. Y., where he\\nenjoyed in a good degree the confidence of the community", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "146\\nand was intrusted with much public business. He was one\\nof the messengers to carry the Presidential Vote to Wash-\\nington.\\ns^wiisrnsrEiE^TOisr.\\nBenjamin Swinnerton, one of the early settlers, once\\nquite a favorite in town, was drowned at an early age while\\nattempting to swim across the Connecticut River in com-\\npany with an Indian.\\nJohn Town, son of John Town, was born Aug. 17, 1805.\\nHe was educated at Newport Academy. In June, 1840, he\\nwas appointed Deputy Secretary of State, which office he\\nheld for four successive years, often doing the duties of the\\nSecretary. He was elected Register of Deeds for Sullivan\\nCounty, in 1851, and was re-elected in 1852, 1858 and 1854.\\nHe was often elected to minor offices. He was a teacher by\\nprofession, and in it was quite successful.\\nVashti Town, sister of the above, was educated at the\\nKimball Union Academy, and connnenced teaching in her\\nnative town. She was soon called to take charge of the\\nfemale department of the Norwich Institute, at Norwich,\\nVt., where she remained three years. She was then invited\\nto Portsmouth, Va., and after nine years of successful labor\\nin that place, removed to the city of Washington, where she\\nhas been mainly occupied in teaching for the last fifteen\\nyears. Her occasional contributions to the press indicate a\\nready .pen, and a high degree of literary merit.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "147\\nPolly Wakefield, now 95 years of age, the oldest\\nperson now li\\\\qng in town, is the widow of Maj. Josiah\\nWakefield, of Newport, and daughter of Phineas Newton,\\nwho came to Croydon in 1772, from Worcester, Mass.\\nAmos Wakefield, son of Amos and Chloe Cooper Wake-\\nfield, and grandson of Dea. Sherman Cooper, is a Methodist\\nclergyman at the West.\\nMoses and John Walker, the former living in the west\\npart of the town, and the latter on the turnpike, were the\\nprogenitors of the Walkers.\\nJosiah Ward came to this town from Henniker, N. H.,\\nand settled in the south-west corner of the town. He had a\\nlarge family.\\nDavid Ward, the eldest son of Josiah Ward, a physician,\\nafter practicing awhile in New York, and at Adrian, Mich.,\\nremoved to Illinois, where he died. Josiah, Jr., a lawyer,\\nafter studying his profession, went first to Adrian, Mich.,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2where he held an honorable position in his calling, but after-\\nwards removed to Nevada, where he died in 1865. He was\\nDistrict Attorney. Alfred married Kandilla, daughter of\\nCol. Samuel Powers, remains on the homestead and is a\\nworthy and successful farmer. He was Representative in\\n1853 and 1854. Daniel was born June 10, 1810. He", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "148\\nturned his attention to medicine; graduated at Castleton,\\nVt., in 1834. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Capt.\\nZina Groldthwait, and settled at Marseilles, 111., where he\\nhas been higlily successful in his professional and pecuniary\\nendeavors.\\nDavid Warren, the head of one of the three families\\nthat came to town in 1766, was born in Grafton, Mass., in\\n1742. He married Prudence Whipple, sister of Capt. Moses\\nWhipple, and also to the mother of Rev. Jacob Haven. Not\\nlong after their arrival, a most trying incident occurred:\\nMr. W. went away to work, the wife leaving her infant on\\nthe bed and two little ones running about the house, took\\nher pail and went out a little way to the spring for water;\\nin attempting to return, she lost her way, and the more she\\nsought to regain it the more she became bewildered. Fear-\\ning she might wander away and be lost, she sat down upon\\na log and there remained until her husband s return at night-\\nfall, when his loud outcry soon restored the lost, anxious,\\naching-hearted mother to her sacred little charge.\\nPrudence Warren, daughter of David, married Dea.\\nAbel Wheeler, of Newport, and has several noted descend-\\nants.\\nDaniel Warren, son of David Warren, Jr., a Congrega-\\ntional clergyman, was settled at Waterbury, Vt. died at\\nLowell, Vt.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "149\\nDea. Nathaniel Wheeler, son of Nathaniel Wheeler,\\nwas born in Sutton, Mass., in 1753. He married Mehitabel\\nHaven. He came to Croydon in 1775, and died in 1840, at\\nthe age of eighty-seven years. He settled in the wilderness\\nand cleared up what was long known as the Wheeler farm\\nin the southerly part of the town, since occupied by H,\\nJacobs. He was an extensive and thriving farmer, and a\\nsoldier in the Kevolutionary war. He was mainly instru-\\nmental in building the once flourishing Church at North ville,\\nin Newport, and was a consistent and worthy deacon of the\\nsame for many years. He was decided in his religious views,\\nand gave much time and money for the support of the gos-\\npel. His strict integrity, singleness of purpose, and devo-\\ntion to a religious life, gave weight to his word and example.\\nDea, Seth Wheeler, brother of the preceding, came to\\ntown at the same time and settled on the M. C. Bartlett\\nfarm, but subsequently removed to New York, where he\\ndied.\\nCol. Nathaniel Wheeler, son of Dea. Nathaniel\\nWheeler, was born May 10, 1781. He married Huldah\\nWhipple, daughter of Aaron Whipple, and granddaughter\\nof Moses Whipple, the honored father of the town. She\\ndied in 1833, leaving seven children. He subsequently mar-\\nried Lucy F. Freeman, of Lebanon, whom he survived but a\\nshort time. There were no children by this marriage. His\\nfarming operations were extensive, and his farm and stock\\nwere always well cared for and in good condition. For\\nmany years he kept one of the largest and best dairies in a\\ntown of good dairies. He took an active part in military", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "150\\nand political affairs; and in the war of 1812 was the first\\nman in town to volunteer as a private soldier, though hold-\\ning a commission at the time. He was Kepresentative in\\n1816, and Selectman for a large number of years. For half\\na century he was a devoted and worthy member of Masonic\\nFraternity. He died July 13, 1864, at Lebanon, where he\\nhad resided for a number of years. His intelligence, and\\nclear, calm judgment, were among his most marked charac-\\nteristics*\\nDr. Griswold Whipple, Wheeler, eldest son of Col.\\nNathaniel Wheeler, was born at Croydon, Feb. 22, 1808, and\\ndied at St. Louis, Mo., June 7, 1865. He pursued his studies\\nat Kimball Union Academy; studied medicine with Willard\\nP.Gibson, M. D., of Newport, and graduated at the Medical\\nDepartment of Dartmouth College. After spending about one\\nyear at Hopkinton and one at Covington, Ky., lie settled at\\nPerryville, the county seat of Perry County, Mo., where for\\ntwenty-five years he was extensively engaged in the prac-\\ntice of his profession, and was the leading physician and\\nsurgeon for a large section of country. While attending to\\nhis professional duties he found time to master the German\\nand French languages, and gave much attention to the\\nnatural sciences, especially Chemistry, Geology and Botany,\\nto which he was passionately devoted. His clear and\\nlogical mind, and love of study and observation, com-\\nbined with his great industry, justly gave him a high\\nposition as a professional and scientific man. His attach-\\nment to country life was so strong that no solicitations\\ncould induce him to remove to the city, and he declined a\\nprofessorship proffered him in the St. Louis Medical College-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "151\\nHe was never married. A large share of his time and earn-\\nings were devoted to deeds of benevolence. He was a pa-\\ntriarch in town, beloved and respected by all, and died firm\\nin the Christian faith.\\nWilliam Plummer Wheeler, son of Col. Nathaniel\\nWheeler, was born at Croydon, July 31, 1812. He lived\\nat home on the Wheeler place in the south part of the town\\nuntil he was about thirteen years of age, when he went to\\nreside with his uncle James Wheeler at Newport. He re-\\nmained there until 1836; and, after the death of his uncle,\\nwas for a time engaged in the harness making business. He\\npursued his studies at the Academy in Newport, and after-\\nwards at Kimball Union Academy, where he remained\\nnearly three years. He left there in 1839, and commenced\\nthe study of law, which he pursued at Keene, at the Law\\nDepartment of Harvard University, and in Boston. In\\n1842, he was admitted to practice in this State, and soon\\nafter opened an office at Keene, where he has since been\\nactively engaged in the practice of his profession. He re-\\nceived the degree of LL. B. at Harvard University, in\\n1842; and in 185C, that of A. M. at Dartmouth College.\\nHe was Solicitor of Cheshire County for ten years and in\\n1851 was appointed a Justice of the Court of Common\\nPleas, which he declined. He has several times since been\\ntendered a seat upon the bench of the Supreme Court of\\nthis State. In 1855, and again in 1857, he was a candidate\\nfor Congress in the third district. He was married in 1849\\nto Sarah D. Moulton, of Kandolph, Vt. He is a Trustee of\\nthe State Reform School, and of the State Agricultural\\nColleo-e.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "152\\nEdmund Wheeler, son of Col. Nathaniel Wheeler, was\\nborn Aug. 25th, 1814. He was educated at Kimball Union\\nAcademy. In 1833 he commenced the harness business at\\nNewport, with a brother; and in 1839 bought the establish-\\nment and began for himself. He carried on extensive and\\nsuccessful operations until 1866, when he sold out and\\nretired from business. He took an active part in the move-\\nment to uphold the state militia prior to its abandonment\\nbefore the rebellion, and was for two years a member of the\\nstaiF of Gov. Williams. He was a member of the Legisla-\\nture from Newport in 1851 and 1852, and in the latter year\\nwas chairman of the committee on Incorporations. He was\\nalso a member of several important special committees, and\\ntook an active part in the discussion of the leading measures\\nbefore the house. In 1863 and 1864 he was candidate for\\nCounty Treasurer. He was a Director in Sugar Kiver\\nBank. In 1858, he erected Wheeler s Block at Newport,\\nthe effects of which may be seen, in part, in the improved\\nstyle of architecture in the village since that time. In 1851\\nhe was married to Miss S. C. Kossiter, of Claremont, who\\ndied in 1856. He was married in 1863 to Miss Augusta L.\\nSawyer, daughter of Joseph Sawyer, Esq., of Newport.\\nJohn Wheeler, youngest son of Col. Nathaniel Wheel-\\ner, was born July 1, 1818. He had a clear intellect and\\nscholarly turn of mind, but died young. Once taking a\\ndecided dislike to a dissipated, ugly Captain, on board whose\\nship he had embarked for his health, he ran away and spent\\na long time on the Island of Juan Fernandez, subsisting as\\nhe could,\\nAnd with Selkirk immortal could say,\\nI am monarch of all I survey.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "153\\nLucy P. Wheeler, youngest daughter of Col. Nathan-\\niel Wheeler, was educated at Norwich Institute and Kim-\\nball Union Academy; married Edward Ingham, Esq., a man\\nof superior intellect and business tact, and died at Newport\\nill 1852.\\nJames P. Wheeler, son of Morrill, and grandson of\\nCol. Nathaniel Wheeler, a boy of uncommon *courage and\\ndaring, was for eight months with Gen. Sickles as dispatch\\nbearer. He was for a long time an inmate of the Libby\\nPrison, and shared with others in the famous black bean\\nsoup. He re-enlisted and died a prisoner at Danville, Va.\\nHannah Wheeler, eldest daughter of Dea. Nathaniel,\\nmarried Nathan Nettleton and removed to Delaware, near\\nColumbus, Ohio, and is the mother of James an eloquent\\ndivine of the Methodist order, and Albert the able editor\\nof The Review, and who has recently been appointed\\nGeneral in the U. S. army,\\nMehitabel Wheeler, a younger sister, married Israel\\nPeck, and is the mother of Nathaniel W. Peck, clergyman,\\nwho graduated at Middlebury College in 1843.\\nMajor Simeon Wheeler, son of Simeon and Lucy\\nPutnam Wheeler, and grandson of Dea. Nathaniel Wheeler,\\nwas born at Newport in August, 1815, and died at Demop-\\nolis, Alabama, in February, 1864. He graduated at Nor-\\nwich University in 1840, and for some time after was en-\\ngaged in teaching at the South. He pursued his legal stud-\\nies at Charlottesville, Va., and practiced law with success for\\na number of years at Portsmouth, in the same State. He", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "154\\ntook an active part in the political discussions of the day,\\nand was a delegate to the Greneral Assembly of the State.\\nHe was married to a lady of Portsmouth, who had estates\\nin Alabama, which required his personal attention, and soon\\nafter he removed to Demopolis in that State, where he was\\na successful planter until the time of his death. He was\\ngenerous, ardent and impulsive. With a clear intellect,\\nactive temperament, good scholarship, and decided opinions,\\nhe had great influence over those with whom he associated.\\nHis wife survives him.\\nLucy Miranda Wheeler, daughter of James and Kuth\\nPutnam Wheeler, and granddaughter pf Dea. Nathaniel\\nWheeler, married Rev. Josiah Swett, an Episcopal clergy-\\nman, now residing in Burlington, Vt.\\nMoses Whipple, son of Jacob Whipple, was born at\\nGrafton, Mass., in 1733, and came to Croydon in 1766, bring-\\ning three sons, Thomas, Aaron and Moses, and one daughter,\\nJerusha. His was one of the first three families that came\\nto town. Having a complete mastery of his passions, well\\neducated, intelligent, distinguished for energy and decision\\nof character, warm-hearted, hospitable and generous to all,\\nhe was well calculated to be what he indeed was 2i father\\nto the town. It is said of him that, so great was the respect\\nentertained for him by his townsmen, his word was law\\nin all local matters. He was elected to more offices than\\nany other man wlio has ever belonged to Croydon. He was\\na Captain of the militia, and chairman of the Commit-", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "155\\ntee of Safety through the Revolutionary struggle. It was\\noften remarked of hhu by his contemporaries, that he was\\na Washington in the si^here in which he moved. He was\\na deacon for thirty years. In 1809 he removed to Charles-\\ntown, N. H:, where he spent, with his eldest son, the\\nremainder of his life. He died in 1814, aged 83 years. (See\\nalso speech of Thomas Whipple, Esq.) From him and\\nSamuel Whipple have descended the Whipples.\\nThomas Whipple, son of Moses, married Thankful\\nPowers, and settled at Charlestown, N. H., and raised up\\na large family. Aaron married Matilda Cooper and settled\\nin the south part of the town, near Coit Mountain, on the\\nfarm so long and so well occupied by his son Moses Whip-\\nple previous to his retirement to his present life of com-\\nparative leisure at the Flat. Aaron,\\nIn fair round belly, with good capon lined,\\nrelished a joke.\\nBenjamin, eleventh child of Moses Whipple, now living\\nat Berlin, Vt., is nearly ninety years of age,\\nThomas Whipple, son of Daniel Whipple, and great-\\ngrandson of Moses Whipple, an intelligent farmer and prac-\\ntical surveyor, has long taken a deep interest in the cause of\\n.education, and for many years has had the general charge of\\nthe schools in Charlestown, N, H., his place of residence.\\nHe has a well-educated family, some of them graduates at\\nMeriden. He is a correct business man was a candidate\\nfor County Treasurer in 1856, receiving the full vote of his\\nparty.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "156\\nDavid Whipple, son of Aaron, was a farmer and man of\\ngood judgment. He had an excellent memory, and retain-\\ned his faculties almost unimpaired until the period of his\\ndeath, at nearly eighty years of age. To him the editor is\\nindebted for many facts relating to the fathers and mothers\\nof the town.\\nSolomon M. Whipple, M. D., son of David Whipple, and\\ngreat-grandson of Moses Whipple, one of the first settlers\\nand original proprietors of the town, was born July 28,\\n1820. By the home-lamp, and a few terms at Unity and\\nLebanon Academies, he prepared to enter the collegiate\\ndepartment of Norwich University, where he graduated in\\n1846. He pursued his medical studies at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege and at Woodstock Medical School, and graduated from\\nthe latter institution in 1849. The same year in which he\\ngraduated he commenced practice at New London, N. H.,\\nwhere he still resides, and where he is enjoying a full tide of\\nsuccessful business. The occasional contributions from his\\npen to some of the popular medical and political journals of\\nthe day, attest to his literary merit. Jan. 4, 1851, he was\\nunited in marriage to Miss Henrietta K. Hersey, daughter\\nof Amos K. Hersey, Esq., of Sanbornton, N. H.\\nBarnabas C. Whi pple, one of the Committee of Ar-\\nrangements the youngest son of David, and grandson of\\nAaron Whipple, was born in 1822. He married Sarah\\nWhitney, He is an industrious farmer, and resides with his\\nfather at the homestead.\\nGiLMAN C. Whipple, son of Moses, and grandson of\\nAaron Whipple, was born March 18, 1837. He is a most", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "157\\npopular and successful merchant at Lebanon, N. H. Mar-\\nried in 1864, Clara, daughter of Samuel Wood, of Lebanon.\\nCapt. William Whipple, son of Samuel Whipple, was\\nan extensive farmer and the largest wool-grower in town\\nat times kept a thousand sheep. He married Judith,\\ndaughter of Caleb Putnam, and lived on the farm since\\noccupied by T. G. Powers, Esq. He died Dec. 5, 1852,\\naged 84 years.\\nWilliam M. Whipple, son of William, was born Aug.\\n9, 1 817. His early life was passed at the homestead and\\ndevoted to agriculture. He subsequently engaged in mer-\\ncantile business. He was Eepresentative from Croydon in\\n1856. He removed to Sheffield, Bureau Co., 111. in 1857,\\nwhere he has been engaged in successful trade and farming\\noperations. He is a man of fine intellect and agreeable\\nmanners, and has been the recipient of many public honors.\\nLynda Whipple, third daughter of Capt. William\\nWhipple, married Dudley Leavitt, a successful physician at\\nWest Stockbridge, Mass., whose son Wm. Whipple Leavitt\\nhas been a Surgeon in the army and is now physician at\\nStockbridge.\\nLucy B. Whipple, the youngest daughter of William,\\nmarried Wm. W. George, of Canaan, N. H., a prominent\\nbusiness man and sheriff, and who has been a member of\\nthe Legislature for a number of years.\\nTimothy Winter came to Croydon from Northbridge,\\nMass., and settled near the Edward Hall i^lace. His three\\nsons, Ebenezer, Thaddeus and Timothy, settled on Winter\\nHill.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "158\\nHISTORY\\nCroydon, in Sullivan County, N. H., situated on the highlands between\\nConnecticut and Merrimac rivers, is bounded on the north by Grantham,\\neast by Springfield and Sunapee, south by Newport, and west by Cornish.\\nArea 26,000 acres. Distance from Concord, the capital of the State, 44 miles,\\nnorthwest. Its surface is uneven. Much of its scenery is wild and pic-\\nturesque. Croydon Mountain, extending across the western part of the\\ntown, the highest elevation in the county, commands an extended and\\nbeautiful prospect. The town is well watered. Besides the north branch\\nof Sugar Kiver, which crosses it in a southwesterly direction, dividing\\nit into two nearly equal parts, it has several ponds, among which are Long\\nPond, Rocky Bound, Governor s and Spectacle. The soil is diversified,\\nthat bordering on Sugar River is rich and productive as we rise gradu-\\nally back upon the hills it produces excellent grass, wheat and potatoes,\\nwhile as we ascend still higher up the mountain-sides we find only pastur-\\nage and forests, and these are overtopped with lofty piles of granite.\\nCharter. The charter of Croydon, signed by Benning Wentworth, and\\ncountersigned by Theodore Atkinson, is dated May 31, 1763. The town-\\nship was divided into seventy-one shares of which, two were reserved as\\na farm for Gov. Wentworth one, for the propagation of the gospel in\\nforeign parts one, as a glebe for the Church of England one, for the first\\nminister who should settle in town one, for the education of youth and\\nthe remaining sixty-five were granted to the individuals whose names are\\nannexed. Their first meeting was held at Grafton, Mass., June 17, 1763;\\ntheir first meeting at Croydon, Jan. 17, 1798 and their last meeting Jan.\\n17, 1810.\\nSamuel Chase,\\nEphraim Sherman,\\nJames Wellman,\\nAntipas Ilollan,\\nEnoch Marble,\\nJonathan Chase,\\nThomas Dana,\\nJohn Stow,\\nMoses Chase,\\nSeth Chase,\\nStephen Hall,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nEphraim Sherman, Jr.\\nJohn Temple,\\nSamuel Chase, Jr.\\nEbenezer AVaters,\\nDudley Chase,\\nGershom Waite,\\nMarch Chase,\\nPhineas Leland,\\nLuke Drury,\\nThe. M. Cleninsr,\\nSolomon AUlridge,\\nDaniel Chase, Jr.\\nJonathan Aldridge,\\nJames Taylor,\\nJoseph Whipple,\\nSilas Warring,\\nSolomon Chase,\\nBenjamin Wood,\\nCaleb Chase,\\nMoses Whipple,\\nBenjamin Leland,\\nMoody Chase,\\nDaniel Marsh,\\nSamuel Ayers,\\nJoseph Vinson,\\nTimothy Darling,\\nJones Brown,\\nDavid Sherman,\\nEbenezer Rawson,\\nSamuel Sherman,\\nJames Richardson,\\nDaniel Putnam,\\nSamuel Dudley,\\nAVilliam Dudley,\\nAbraham Temple\\nBenjamin Morse,\\nJames Whipple,\\nBenjamin Morse, Jr.\\nJoseph Mirriam,\\nJohn Whipple,\\nWillis Hall,\\nBenjamin Wallis,\\nSilas Ha/.cltine,\\nJonuthaii Hall,\\nRichard Wiljird\\nJohn Downing,\\nDaniel Warner,\\nStephen Chase,\\nParsons,\\nDavid Temple,\\nSolomon Leland,\\nJohn Holland,\\nAVilliam AVaite.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "159\\nSettlement. In the spring of 1766 Moses Whipple, Seth Chase, David\\nWarren, Ezekiel Powers and others, came to Croydon from Grafton, Mass.,\\nand made some preliminary prepai-ations for a settlement. Soon after\\ntheir return, Seth Chase, with his wife and child, started for this place,\\nThis was the first family established in town. They arrived June 10, 1766\\nand three days after, June 13, commenced the erection of their log cabin.\\nOn the twenty-fourth of the same month, Moses Whipple and David War-\\nren arrived with their families. The next year Moses Leland and Ezekiel\\nPowers came to town. In the autumn of 1768, four more families arrived.\\nAnd in 1769, the tide of emigration setting this way, soon made them\\nrespectable for numbers. The first town meeting was held March 8, 1768.\\nMr. Chase erected his cabin about one half mile S. W. from Spectacle\\nPond, on the farm now owned by Moses Barton Mr. Whipple on the\\nswell of land between Four Corners and East Village, on the farm of W.\\nSmith long known as the Edward Hall place Mr. Warren on the\\nnorth side of the Pinnacle, near the cemetery Mr. Powers on the T. 0.\\nPowers farm near the East Village, and Mr. Leland in the north part of the\\ntown, on the farm of Kimball Loverin.\\nRevolution. The sympathies of the first settlers of Croydon were\\nearly enlisted in the Revolutionary struggle. Soon after the battle of Lex-\\nington they sent Eleazor Leland and Abner Brigham to join the Provincial\\narmy enrolled a company of twelve minute men raised eight pounds\\nto purchase a town stock of ammunition and chose Moses Whipple, Ste-\\nphen Powers, Phineas Sanger, Abner Brigham and Joseph Hall a Commit-\\ntee of Safety. In 1777, nine men from Croydon joined a company of\\nmilitia commanded by Capt. Solomon Chase, of Cornish, and marched to\\nTiconderoga. Eight men from this town joined the company of Capt.\\nHardy, of Hanover, and united with the forces of Gen. Stark, at Charles-\\ntown. Capt. Moses Whipple, with a company composed partly of men\\nfrom Cornish, turned out to stop the progress of Burgoyne. Croydon\\nmaintained its interest and contributed its full share of men and means\\nuntil the close of the war. The following is an imperfect list of those cit-\\nizens of Croydon who served in the Revolutionary army\\nBazaleel Barton,\\nBenjamin Barton,\\nAbner Brigham,\\nCornel Chase,\\nJohn Cooper, (Jr.)\\nJoel Cooper,\\nSherman Cooper,\\nEzra Cooper,\\nBenjamin Cutting,\\nJonas Cutting,\\nJohn Druce,\\nAmos Dwinnell,\\nEnoch Emerson,\\nDaniel Emerson,\\nTimothy Fisher,\\nEzra Hall,\\nEdward Hall, Jr.,\\nAnio.s Hagar,\\nBazaleel Gleason,\\nJames How,\\nAbijah Hall,\\nJames Hall,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nSamuel R. Hall,\\nEleazer Leland.\\nRufus King,\\nRnfus Kempton,\\nPhineas Newton,\\nStephen Powers,\\nUrias Powers,\\nDavid Powers,\\nSamuel Powers,\\nCaleb Putnam,\\nDavid Putnam,\\nJacob Hall,\\nBenjamin Sherman,\\nEzekiel Rooks,\\nDaniel Rooks,\\nDavid Stockwell-,\\nPliineas Sanger,\\nJohn Sanger,\\nIsaac Sanger,\\nRobert Spencer,\\nBenjamin Swinnerton,\\nBenjamin Thompson,\\nGershom Ward,\\nAaron Warren,\\nMoses Warren,\\nMoses Whipple,\\nThomas Whipple,\\nAaron Wliipple,\\nIsaac ^V oolson,\\nNathaniel Wheeler,\\nSamuel Whipple,\\nSeth Whoeler.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "160\\nWar of 1812. The following is an imperfect list of those sons of Croy-\\ndon who served in the war of 1812\\nMajor, Abijah Powers, Tyler Walker,\\nEnsign, Amasa Hall, Samuel Powers,\\nNathaniel Wheeler, Elijah Darling,\\nCharles Cutting, Sibley Melendy,\\nLevi Winter, Abijah Dunbar.\\nIsaac Cooper,\\nTHE IlEBELLI03Sr_\\nThe following is an imperfect list of those citizens who served in the\\nUnited States Army during the Rebellion\\nChaplain, Robert Stinson,\\nAnthony C. Hardy.\\nCaptain, John W. Putnam,\\nE. Darwin Comings.\\nLieutenant, Paine Durkee,\\nAlbert Miner, wounded at Fair Oaks.\\nSergeant, Oscar D. Allen, wounded at Antietam, killed at Gettysburg.\\nLloyd D. Forehand, wounded at Fair Oaks,\\nJohn Blanchard, wounded,\\nHiram K. Darling,\\nWilliam D. Angell, died in the service.\\nCorporal, George E. Frye, killed at Chancellorsville,\\nAlvah K. Davis,\\nHenry H. Haynes,\\nIrving D. Tobie,\\nEphraim Plimpton.\\nPrivates, Alonzo Allen, wounded at Fair Oaks,\\nThomas Ames, died in service,\\nGeorge Angell, Jr.,\\nSanford T. Barton, wounded at Fair Oaks,\\nHenry Barton, killed in battle,\\nFrederick J. Burge,\\nWilliam Bushy,\\nCharles Baggatt,\\nCharles L. Bryant,\\nRufus W. Clark,\\nAlonzo C. Crooker,\\nJohn Cabner,\\nJames P. Darling, wounded,\\nWarren K. Darling,\\nWalter Darling,", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "161\\nPrivates, George S. Davis, died,\\nRobert Dinsmore,\\nLeroy Forehand,\\nStephen G. Ford,\\nGeorge H. Goodhue,\\nJeremiah H. Haynes,\\nCharles C. Howard, wounded,\\nFranklin J. Hersey, killed at Fair Oaks,\\nPhilip Harding, killed at 2d Bull Run battle,\\nEdward Hall,\\nHiram C. Hall,\\nCharles N. Harridon,\\nHeman Jacobs,\\nAmbrose Jerome,\\nCharles K. Jackson, died,\\nJohn A. Johnson,\\nW. Wallace Kidder,\\nThomas Mack,\\nAbraham Nutting,\\nElias F. Powers, died at Poolsville, Md., Feb. 17, 1863,\\nCharles S. Patridge,\\nTheodore H. Payne,\\nNathan Peyton,\\nIsaac P. Rawson,\\nGeorge H. Ross,\\nAlbert F. Robbins,\\nJohn Riley,\\nHenry H. Stockwell, killed at Fair Oaks,\\nJohn G. Stockwell, died at Harper s Ferry,\\nHenry H. Squires,\\nCharles L. Stockwell, mortally wounded,\\nGeorge N. Smith,\\nGeorge Tasker,\\nAustin L. Whipple, died in service,\\nEmille Warren, died at Andersonville, Ga.\\nNote. A few of the above were substitutes, and not actual citizens of\\nthe town. Twenty-five of them enlisted in the early part of the war, and\\nreceived but ten dollars bounty. They were all volunteers. The highest\\nbounty paid by the town was $100 per year. No citizen of Croydon is\\nknown to have deserted from the army during the war. Many of them\\nre-enlisted and served two terms.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "162\\nThe following are a few of the many natives of Croydon who enlisted\\nfrom other places during the war\\nJoseph Sargent, Chaplain, died in the service,\\nIra W. Bragg, Naval Surgeon, died in the service.\\nSherman Cooper, Surgeon.\\nDavid C. Powers, Surgeon.\\nMarshall Perkins, Assistant Surgeon.\\nWillard 0. Hurd, Assistant Surgeon.\\nWillard C. Kempton, Assistant Surgeon.\\nWalter Forehand, Captain.\\nEdward Dow, Lieutenant of Sharp Shooters.\\nWalter P. Blancha^d, Sergeant.\\nLeonard Barton, mortally wounded in battle.\\nPeter Barton.\\nHiram E. W. Barton.\\nJldward W. Collins, Jr., wounded at 1st Bull Run battle.\\nDavid R. Eastman.\\nMarshall P. Hurd, killed at Antietam.\\nHenry Humphry, died in the service.\\nOrren Marsh.\\nSimeon Patridge.\\nDexter Stewart.\\nStephen M. Thornton.\\nJohn Thornton.\\nGeorge H. Thornton, died in the service.\\nHorace P. Hall.\\nCongregational. The first church in Croydon was Presbyterian. It\\nwas organized Sept 9, 1778. The following are the names of its members\\nMoses Whipple, Stephen Powers, Isaac Sanger, John Cooper, Joseph Hall,\\nJacob Leland, John Sanger, Catherine Whipple, Rachel Powers, Mary\\nCooper, Anna Leland, Lydia Hall, Hannah Giles and Lucy Whipple.\\nThe first meeting-house was built in 1794. It was taken down and con-\\nverted into a Town Hall in 1828. The present church was erected in 1826.\\nRev. Jacob Haven, the first minister, was settled June 18, 1787. He was\\nminister of the town and church until Nov. 5, 1805, when he became min-\\nister of the church only. He retired Jan. 6, 1834. Rev. Eli Taylor was\\ninstalled pastor in his stead June 10, 1834 and was dismissed Dec. 27,\\n1837. Aurelius S. Swift was ordained May 16, 1838, and left in 1841.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "163\\nFreewill Baptist. In 1810, some thirty individuals united and form-\\ned a Freewill Baptist church, with Elijah Watson as Elder Eli Davis and\\nDavid Putnam were appointed deacons. It continued to flourish for some\\ntime. At length, it was given up and a larger portion of its members\\nunited with a then flourishing church at Northville, in Newport.\\nUniveesalist. In 1832, a Universalist society was formed comprising\\nsome fifty members. Their meetings were held in the town hall, until 1854,\\nwhen Paul Jacobs, Es(|., built them a house of worship at the Flat.\\nCalvinist Baptist. Many individuals of this town have connected\\nthemselves with the Calvinist Baptist society at Newport Village.\\nMethodist. Itinerant preachers of the Methodist order had frequently\\nlectured in town and formed classes, but it was not until 1853 that a\\nchurch was formed. At that time a society, comprising some thirty-six\\nmembers, was organized with C. H. Lovejoy as preacher. In 1854, they\\nerected their meeting-house at the East Village, in which their services\\nare now held.\\nRevivals. In 1810 there was an extensive revival in town, during\\nwhich some one hundred and twenty individuals professed the Christian\\nfaith. In 1835 a protracted meeting was held, under the direction of\\nRev. Joseph Merrill of Acworth, and some seventy persons acknowledged\\na change of heart.\\nSEOBSSION\\nIn 1778 a number of towns on the east side of Connecticut River re-\\nnounced their allegiance to New Hampshire, and formed a connection with\\nthe new State of Vermont. This led to a long and heated contention be-\\ntween the seceding towns and the government to which they formerly\\nbelonged. In the incipient stages of the controversy, Croydon took no part\\nbut when, towards the close of the year, a convention of delegates assembled\\nat Cornish, Moses Whipple, Esq., was appointed a delegate by -this town.\\nFrom that time until quiet was restored, the proceedings of Croydon were\\nidentified with the eccentric movements of the revolted district. In 1782,\\nMoses Whipple, Esq., was chosen to represent this town in the Vermont\\nLegislature. But, before his arrival at the seat of government, the Ver-\\nmont Assembly, brought to their senses by a letter from General Washing-\\nton, had resolved that the western bank of the Connecticut river should\\nbe the dividing line between Vermont and New Hampf3hire so that Whip-\\nple and the other delegates from the eastern side of the river, on their\\narrival, found themselves excluded from a seat in the Assembly. This step\\nof the Legislature tended to close the controversy. The disaffected towns\\nreturned to their allegiance, and domestic quiet was restored.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "164\\nList of Representatives, from 1800 to 1866, inclusive\\n1800, Benjamin Barton,\\n1823, Abijah Powers,\\n1845, Lemuel P. Cooper,\\n1801, Samuel Powers,\\n1824, Amasa Hall,\\n1846, Pmel Durkee,\\n1802,\\n1825,\\n1847,\\n1803, Benjamin Barton,\\n1826, Carlton Barton,\\n1848, Lester Blanchard,\\n1804, Samuel Powers,\\n1827, Briant Brown,\\n1849,\\n1805,\\n1828,\\n1850, none.\\n1806,\\n1829, Zina Goldthwait,\\n1851, Pliny Hall,\\n1807,\\n1830, Ciu-lton Barton,\\n1852,\\n1808,\\n1831, Paul Jacobs,\\n1853, Alfred Ward,\\n1809, Peter Stow,\\n1832^ Hiram Smart,*\\n1854,\\n1810, James Brack,\\n1833, Zina Goldthwait,\\n1855, Freeman Crosby,\\n1811,\\n1834, Samuel Morse,\\n1856, Wm. M. Whipple,\\n1812, Samuel Goldthwait,\\n1835, Paul Jacobs,\\n1857, Martin A. Barton,\\n1813, James Breck,\\n1836, Alexander Barton,\\n1858, Freeman Crosby,\\n1814,\\n1837,\\n1859. no choice.\\n1815, Obed Metcalf,\\n1838, Joseph Eastman,\\n1860,\\n1816, Nathaniel Wheeler, Jr.\\n1839,\\n1861, Paine Durkee,\\n1817, Stephen Eastman,\\n1840, John Putnam,\\n1862, Daniel R. Hall,\\n1818,\\n1S41, Calvin Hall,\\n1863,\\n1819,\\n1842, none.\\n1864, Denison Humphry,\\n1820, Abijah Powers,\\n1843, Alexander Barton,\\n1865,\\n1821,\\n1844, Lemuel P. Cooper,\\n1866, Worthen Hall.\\n1822, Obed Metcalf,\\nNote. Prior to 1800, Croydon was classed with other towns in the\\nchoice of Representatives. Benjamin Barton was chosen in 1795, and\\nEdward Hall, Jr., in 1797.\\nThe following is an imperfect list of those who have been called to\\ntowns, and who received their political training in\\nrepresent other\\nCroydon\\nSolomon Clement,\\nOrra C. Howard,\\nAra;\u00c2\u00aba Hall,\\nAdolphus Hall,\\nAVilliam Melendy,\\nJamea Breck,\\nJohn B. Stowell,\\nJames Hall,\\nZina Goldthwait,\\nEdmund Wheeler,\\nLevi W. Barton,\\nPaul J. Wheeler,\\nHenry Breck,\\nOrlando Powers,\\nHorace Powers,\\nJohn L. Marsh,\\nSpringfield, N. H.\\nGrantham,\\nSpringfield,\\nNewport,\\nCornish,\\nMorristown, Vt.\\nJefferson Co., N. Y.\\nMoses Humplu-y,\\nAaron Barton,\\nHiram Smart, Jr..\\nOrra Crosby,\\nLuther J. Fletcher,\\nJoshua B. Merrill,\\nSherburne Merrill,\\nAlvin Sargent,\\nCharles Rowell,\\nJohn Ferrin,\\nHarrison Ferrin,\\nNathaniel Cooper,\\nAlexander Barton,\\nJonas C. Kempton,\\nJames W. Putnam,\\nConcord, N. H.\\nPiermont,\\nPlaistow,\\nHardwick, \\\\t.\\nLowell, Mass.\\nBarnstead, N. H.\\nColebrook,\\nSanborn to n,\\nAllenstown,\\nMorristown, Vt.\\nLeon, N. Y.\\nLudlow, Vt.\\nNashua, N. H.\\nDan vers, Mass.\\nThe following is a list of the Selectmen of Croydon, from 1768 to 1866,\\ninclusive:\\nMoses Leland,\\n1768 Moses Whipple,\\nDavid Warren.\\nMoses Leland,\\n1769 Moses Whipple,\\nStephen Powers.\\nIsaac Sanger,\\n1770 Moses Whipple,\\nStephen Powers.\\nMoses Whipple,\\n1771 Stephen Powers,\\nDavid Warren.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n1772 Moses Whipple,\\nStephen Powers.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n1773 Moses Whipple,\\nBenjamin Swinnerton.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "165\\nMoses Whipple,\\n1774 John Cooper,\\nStephen Powers.\\nMoses Whipple,\\n1775 Stephen Powers,\\nPhineas Sanger.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n1776 Moses Whipple,\\nBenjamin Swinnerton.\\nMoses Whipple,\\n1777 Stephen Powers,\\nPhineas Sanger.\\nStephen Powers,\\n1778 Benjamin Swinnerton,\\nJoseph Hall.\\nMoses Whipple,\\n1779 John Cooper,\\nStephen Powers.\\nMoses Whipple,\\n17S0 John Powers,\\nBenjamin Powers.\\nStephen Powers,\\n1781 Phineas Sanger,\\nDavid Putnam.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n17S2 Moses Whipple,\\nStephen Powers.\\nEdward Hall,\\n1785 Stephen Powers,\\nPhineas Sanger.\\nJohn Cooper\\n1786 Edward Hall,\\nMoses Whipple.\\nStephen Powers,\\n1787 Benjamin Barton,\\nSimeon Partridge.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1788 Jesse Green,\\nDavid Putnam.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n1789 Benjamin Powers,\\nEzra Cooper.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1790 Abijah Hall,\\nJohn Cooper, Jr.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1791 David Putnam,\\nJohn Cooper.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1792 David Putnam,\\nSamuel Powers.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1793 David Putnam,\\nSamuel Powers.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n179-t John Cooper, Jr.,\\nNathaniel Wheeler.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1795 John Cooper, Jr.,\\nDavid Putnam.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1896 Tliomas Whipple,\\nDavid Putmim.\\nSamuel Powers,\\n1797 Simeon Partridge,\\nPeter Stow.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1798 John Cooper, Jr.,\\nThomas Whipple.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1799 Samuel Powers,\\nSimeon Partridge.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1800 John Cooper, Jr.,\\nSamuel Powers.\\nJohn Cooper, Jr.,\\n1801 Peter Barton,\\nJohn Nelson.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1802 Peter Barton,\\nJohn Nelson.\\nSamuel Powers,\\n1S03 Peter Stow,\\nPeter Barton.\\nPeter Stow,\\n1804 Peter Barton,\\nBarnabas Cooper.\\nPeter Stow,\\n1805 Samuel Goldthwait,\\nPeter Barton.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1806 John Nelson.\\nStephen Eastman.\\nPeter Stow,\\n1807 Obed Metcalf,\\nStephen Eastman.\\nPeter Stow,\\n1808 John Cooper,\\nAsaph Stow.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n1809 .Tames Breck,\\nAsaph Stow.\\nJohn Cooper,\\n1810 James Breck,\\nStephen Eastman.\\nJames Breck,\\n1811 Stephen Eastman,\\nJohn Humphry.\\nJames Breck,\\n1812 Stephen Eastman,\\nAbijah Powers.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1813 Stephen Eastman,\\nAbijah Powers.\\nJohn Humphry,\\n1814 Obed Metcalf,\\nSolomon Clement.\\nJames Breck,\\n1815 Benjamin Barton,\\nNathaniel Wheeler, Jr.\\nBenjamin Barton,\\n1816 Obed Metcalf,\\nStephen Eastman.\\nStephen Eastman,\\n1817 Abijah Powers,\\nEzra Gustin.\\nJohn Humphry,\\n1818 Nathaniel Wheeler, Jr.,\\nElisha Partridge.\\nNathaniel Wheeler, Jr.,\\n1819 Edward Putnam,\\nZiua Goldthwait.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "166\\nStephen Eastman,\\n1820 Nathaniel Wheekr, Jr.,\\nHenry Breck.\\nNathaniel Wheeler,\\n1821 .Tolin Humphry,\\nObed Metcalf.\\nNathaniel Wheeler, Jr.,\\n1822 John Humphry,\\nObed Metcalf.\\nStephen Eastman,\\n1823 Samuel Morse,\\nEdward Hall.\\nStephen Eastman,\\n1824 Abijah Powers,\\nEdward Hall.\\nAbijah Potvers,\\n1825 Stephen Eastman,\\nCarlton Barton.\\nN.athaniel Wheeler, Jr.,\\n1826 Ziua Goldthwait,\\nDavid Whipple.\\nAbijah Powers,\\n1827 Carlton Barton,\\nEdward Hall.\\nAbijah Powers,\\n1828 Carlton Barton,\\nHiram Smart.\\nCarlton Barton,\\n1829 Benjamin Barton,\\nJohn Barton.\\nHiram Smart,\\n1830 Briaut Brown,\\nJohn Barton.\\nHiram Smart,\\n1831 Carlton Barton,\\nMoses Eastman.\\nCarlton Barton,\\n1832 Paul Jacobs,\\nZiua Goldthwait.\\nHiram Smart,\\n1833 James Hall, Jr.,\\nLemuel P. Cooper.\\nHiram Smart,\\n1834 Zina Goldthwait,\\nMoses Eastman.\\nHenry Breck,\\n1835 Zina Goldthwait,\\nMoses Eastman.\\nCarlton Barton,\\n18-36 Lemuel P. Cooper,\\nCalvin Hall.\\nLemuel P. Cooper,\\n1837 Calvin Hall,\\nJohn Putnam.\\nNathaniel Wheeler, Jr.,\\n1838 John Putnam,\\nSherburne B. Rowell.\\nLemuel P. Cooper,\\n1839 Calvin Hall,\\nPeter Barton.\\nCalvin Hall,\\n1840 William C. Carroll,\\nSherburne B. Kowell.\\nHiram Smart,\\n1841 Ruel Durkee,\\nCalvin Kempton.\\nWilliam C. Carroll,\\n1842 Ruel Durkee,\\nFreeman Crosby.\\nHiram Smart,\\n1843 Lemuel P. Cooper,\\nJohn C. Loverin.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1844 John C. Loverin,\\nTimothy G. Powers.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1845 Timothy G. Powers,\\nWilliam Darling.\\nJohn Putnam,\\n1846 Josiah Ide,\\nMoses Haven.\\nTimothy G. Powers,\\n1847 Moses Haven,\\nAriel Hall.\\nLemuel P. Cooper,\\n1848 John Putnam,\\nMartin A. Barton.\\nRuel Durkee,\\nISi^ Paul J. Wheeler,\\nEdmund Rowell.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1850 Dellevan D. Marsh,\\nDenison Humphry.\\nMartin A. Barton,\\n1851 Ruel Durkee,\\nPaine Durkee.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1852 Dellavan D. Marsh,\\nHiram C. Brown.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1853 Hiram C. Brown,\\nLemuel P. Cooper.\\nJohn Putnam,\\n1854 Dellavan D. Marsh,\\nCaleb L. Barton.\\nDaniel R. Hall,\\n1855 Otis Cooper,\\nElias Powers.\\nHiram C. Brown,\\n1856 E. Darwin Comings,\\nMartin C. Bartlett.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1857 Martin C. Bartlett,\\nWelcome P. Patridge.\\nE. Darwin Comings,\\n1858 Dellavan D. Marsh,\\nAlbert G. Biu-ton.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1859 Nathaniel P. Stevens,\\nHiram P. Kempton.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1860 Nathaniel P. Stevens,\\nHiram P. Kempton.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1861 John W. Putnam,\\nMartin C. Bartlett.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1862 Nathan Hall,\\nDavid E. Ryder.\\nRuel Durkee.\\n1863 Nathan Hall,\\nAVilliam W. Hall.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "167\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1864 William W. Hall,\\nDaniel Ide.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1865 William W. Hall,\\nElias Powers.\\nRuel Durkee,\\n1866 Elias Powers,\\nOliver C. Forehand.\\nThe following is a list of Town Clerks, from 1768 to 1866, inclusive\\n1768, Moses Whipple,\\n1769,\\n1770,\\n1771,\\n1772,\\n177.3,\\n1774,\\n177q.\\n1776,\\n1777,\\n1778,\\n1779,\\n1780.\\nJohn Cooper,\\nMoses Whipple,\\n1782* I town Records.\\nStephen Powers,\\n1\\n1783,\\n1784,\\n1785,\\n1786,\\n1787,\\n1788,\\n1789,\\n1790,\\n1791,\\n1792,\\n1793,\\n1794,\\n1795,\\n1796,\\n1797,\\n1798,\\n1799,\\n1800.\\nJesse Green,\\nJacob Haven,\\nReuben Carroll,\\n1801, Reuben Carroll,\\n1802,\\n1803,\\n1804,\\n1805, Benjamin Barton,\\n1806, Reuben Carroll,\\n1807, Jacob Haven,\\n1808,\\n1809,\\n1810,\\n1811,\\n1812,\\n1813,\\n1814,\\n1815, Stephen Eastman,\\n1816, Jacob Haven,\\n1817,\\n1818,\\n1819,\\n1820,\\n1821,\\n1822,\\n1823,\\n1824,\\n1825,\\n1826,\\n1827,\\n1828,\\n1829,\\n1830,\\n1831,\\n1832,\\n1833,\\n1834,\\n1835,\\n1836,\\n1837,\\n1838,\\n1839,\\n1840,\\n1841,\\n1842,\\n1843,\\n1844,\\n1845,\\n1846,\\n1847,\\n1848,\\n1849,\\n1850,\\n1851,\\n1852,\\n1853,\\n1854,\\n1855,\\n1856,\\n1857,\\n1858,\\n1859,\\n1860,\\n1861,\\n1862,\\n1863,\\n1864,\\n1865,\\n1866,\\nJacob Haven,\\nBenjamin Skinner,\\nDaniel R. Hall,\\nNathan Hall,\\nDaniel R. Hall,\\nDellavan D. Marsh,\\nNathan Hall,\\nDellavan D. Marsh,\\nAlonzo Allen.\\nOTJSTICES OF GiXJORTTlv^,\\nBenjamin Barton, Jr.,\\nLemuel P. Cooper,\\nJohn Cooper,\\nDaniel R. Hall,\\nPaul Jacobs,\\nAbijah Powers.\\nJXJSTIOES GF THE I E,A.CE-\\nBenjamin Barton,\\nJohn Barton,\\nMartin A. Barton,\\nSolomon Clement,\\nIsaac Cooper,\\nOtis Cooper,\\nJohn Cragin,\\nRuel Durkee,\\nPaine Durkee,\\nWilliam Dodge,\\nStephen Eastman,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nLyman Hall,\\nNathan Hall,\\nWorthen Hall,\\nHenry Hurd,\\nSamuel Morse,\\nDellavan D. Marshj\\nStephen Powers,\\nElias PowerSj\\nJohn W. Putnam,\\nSherburne B. Rowell,\\nBenjamin Skinner,\\nHiram Smart,\\nAllen Town,\\nMoses Whipple,\\nNathaniel Wheeler, Jr.,\\nPaul J. Wheeler,\\nWm. M. Whipple.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "168\\nCroydon has furnished to the militia the following Officers Major\\nGeneral Nathan Emery. Colonels Jarvis Adams, Otis Cooper, Freeman\\nDunbar, Daniel R. Hall, Calvin Kempton, Samuel Powers, Nathaniel\\nWheeler, Jr., and Moses Whipple. Majors Abijah Powers, Peter Stow,\\nLemuel P. Cooper.\\nPopulation. The population of Croydon at different periods was as\\nfollows: In 1765, 143; 1790,537; 1800,984; 1810, 863 1820, 1060; 1830,\\n1057 1840, 956; 1850, 861 1860, 765.\\nValuation.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1864, $264,931.\\nTable showing the annual number of births in Croydon, from 1790 to\\n1800, inclusive\\nYears. Male. Female. Total. Years. Male. Female. Total. Years. Male. Female. Total.\\n1790\\n1791\\n1792\\n1793\\n20\\n13\\n33\\n1794\\n17\\n17\\n34\\n1798\\n26\\n18\\n15\\n19\\n34\\n1795\\n21\\n25\\n46\\n1799\\n16\\n16\\n21\\n14\\n35\\n11796\\n26\\n15\\n41\\n1800\\n18\\n16\\n21\\n12\\n33\\nIl797\\n24\\n21\\n45\\n44\\n32\\n34\\nTotal,\\n225\\nRemarks. The first birth in Croydon occurred May 13, 1767. It was\\nof Catherine, daughter of Moses Whipple, Esq. The second was of Joshua,\\nson of Seth Chase, born October 29, 1767. The probable number of births,\\nfrom 1790 to 1851, inclusive, is nearly twenty-five hundred, of which more\\nthan half were of males.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "169\\nbiIjL of i^oh.t-a.lix S foe. cuo sriDOKr.\\nThe following table exhibits the annual number of deaths, commencing\\nJanuary 1, 1790, and ending January 1, 1867. Average deaths one to\\nseventy-five.\\nYi-R. Chiltl n. Adults. Total. Yrs. Child n. Adults. Total. Yrs. Child n. Adults. Total.\\n7\\n12\\n1790\\n1791\\n1792\\n1793\\n1794\\n1795\\n1796\\n1797\\n1798\\n1799\\n1800\\n1801\\n1802\\n1803\\n1804\\n1805\\n1806\\n1807\\n1808\\n1809\\n1810\\n1811\\n1812\\n1813\\n1814\\n1815\\n7\\n1\\n8\\n1816\\n9\\n3\\n12\\n4\\n2\\n6\\n1817\\n4\\n4\\n8\\n4\\n2\\n6\\n1818\\n5\\n4\\n9\\n3\\n6\\n9\\n1819\\n13\\n6\\n19\\n10\\n1\\n11\\n1820\\n10\\n6\\n16\\n23\\n1\\n24\\n1821\\n6\\n4\\n10\\n11\\n3\\n14\\n1822\\n10\\n12\\n22\\n4\\n4\\n8\\n1823\\n4\\n3\\n7\\n8\\n1\\n9\\n1824\\n2\\n8\\n10\\n2\\n6\\n8\\n1825\\n7\\n9\\n16\\n6\\n1\\n7\\n1826\\n8\\n8\\n16\\n4\\n3\\n7\\n1827\\n17\\n4\\n21\\n5\\n5\\n10\\n1828\\n2\\n7\\n9\\n14\\n5\\n19\\n1829\\n4\\n7\\n11\\n10\\n4\\n14\\n1830\\n5\\n2\\n7\\n6\\n5\\n11\\n1831\\n4\\n15\\n19\\n14\\n6\\n20\\n1832\\n19\\n9\\n28\\n11\\n6\\n17\\n1833\\n2\\n10\\n12\\n12\\n5\\n17\\n1834\\n10\\n8\\n18\\n4\\n5\\n9\\n1835\\n4\\n9\\n13\\n7\\n3\\n10\\n1836\\n4\\n5\\n9\\n5\\n5\\n10\\n1837\\n3\\n7\\n10\\n6\\n4\\n10\\n1838\\n8\\n7\\n15\\n12\\n18\\n30\\n1839\\n5\\n10\\n15\\n3\\n2\\n5\\n1840\\n16\\n12\\n28\\n5\\n6\\n11\\n1841\\n4\\n12\\n16\\n1842\\n1843\\n1844\\n1845\\n1846\\n1847\\n1848\\n1849\\n1850\\n1851\\n1852\\n1853\\n1854\\n1855\\n1856\\n1857\\n1858\\n1859\\n1860\\n1861\\n1862\\n1863\\n1864\\n1865\\n1866\\nTotal,\\n1\\n6\\n1\\n11\\n2\\n1\\n4\\n5\\n8\\n7\\n10\\n6\\n8\\n7\\n7\\n1\\n11\\n1\\n6\\n1\\n6\\nCf\\n5\\n12\\n1\\n12\\n5\\n7\\n7\\n15\\n9\\n3\\n13\\n2\\n6\\n3\\n7\\n12\\n4\\n12\\n11\\n3\\n14\\n2\\n3\\n461\\n511\\n5\\n13\\n17\\n14\\n14\\n12\\n7\\n7\\n8\\n17\\n13\\n12\\n7\\n24\\n16\\n8\\n10\\n12\\nIH\\n11\\n17\\nLongevity. An incomplete list of the names of those who have\\nattained to ninety years and over\\nWidow Marsh,\\nMrs. Benjamin Cutting,\\nWidow Clement,\\nMrs. Jotliam Ryder,\\nSamuel Metcalf,\\n90 Widow Giles,\\n90 Samuel Marsh,\\n93 Widow A. Stockwcll,\\n94 Capt. Nathan Clark,\\n93\\n9-t Thomas Blanchard,\\n94 Widow Rumble,\\n95 Samuel Goldthwait,\\n90 Lydia Leland Powers,\\n100\\n93\\nEducation. Early, the wife of Moses Whipple, an intelligent and\\nworthy lady, called the children of the first settlers to her house, and for\\nyears taught them without charge. The first school-house, a small struct-\\nure twenty feet square, was built in 1772, and eight pounds was raised for\\npurposes of education. The second district was formed in 1780, and one\\nhundred and fifty dollars assessed for school purposes. From the begin-\\nning, Croydon has paid due attention to mental culture.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "170\\nLiBKARY. The Croydon Social Library was established in 1806. It\\ncontained many standard works of great merit. They were mainly select-\\ned by the Rev. Jacob Haven, who was, for a long time, librarian. This\\nlibrary has had a decided influence in moulding the character of the young\\nmen of the town. The inhabitants of Croydon have been a reading people.\\nCasualties. In 1770, Caleb, son of Seth Chase, the first settler in town,\\nwandered into the forest and was lost. The mother, rendered frantic by\\nthe loss of her son, had she not been prevented, would have rushed into\\nthe trackless forest and been lost. On the morrow all the inhabitants\\nturned out and searched the woods through and through, but no trace of\\nthe darling boy could ever be found.\\nIsaac Sanger and one of the other early settlers of the town, perished\\nwhile attempting to cross Croydon Mountain.\\nAlexander Metcalf, son of Alexander Metcalf, senior, was killed by the\\nfalling of a tree. He was to have been married the next day to a lady in\\nFranklin.\\nAbijah Hall was drowned at the Glidden Bridge in 1812. -A son of\\nThomas Whipple and a son of Giles Stockwell, senior, were drowned in\\nSpectacle Pond.\\nOn the 19th of April, 1828, the dwelling of Mr. Charles Carroll was con-\\nsumed by fire and two children perished in the flames.\\nDr. Reuben Carroll was thrown from a gig, in 1840, while going down\\nthe hill between Four Corners and the East Village, and killed.\\nSon of Nathaniel W. Brown was killed near the Bridge at the East Vil-\\nlage, in 1863, by the horse stumbling and falling upon him.\\nIn 1846, wife of Paul J. Wheeler met a terrible death by burning her\\nclothes taking fire as she stood warming herself before the stove.\\nMr. Cummings, an old gentleman, went out from the Flat towards Coit\\nMountain, and the next day was found dead.\\nA son of Simeon Ames fell from a load of hay upon the handle of apitcli-\\nfork which penetrated his body, from which accident he soon after died a\\nmost painful death.\\nSon of Ira Bragg fell from the cart-tongue while riding, and the w^eel\\nrunning over him killed him instantly. Another son was supposed to be\\nmurdered. He went West with money to buy a farm, a man went out with\\nhim to show him his land, and neither of them ever returned.\\nZiba, son of John Cooper, was killed by the kick of a horse which he was\\ndriving to tread out clover seed.\\nA daughter of Foster Hall fell into the river, at the East Village, and\\nwas drowned.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "171\\nA child of Rev. Jacob Haven was scalded to death by falling backwards\\ninto a pail of hot water.\\nAsa Kelsey, residing in the south-east corner of the town, fell from a\\nbuilding and was killed.\\nA son of Leonard N. Kempton was drowned in the mill-pond at the\\n,Flat.\\nSon of John Melendy was killed by the falling of the stone chimney of\\nhis father s dwelling.\\nA daughter of Robert Osburn, in the north-east corner of the town, fell\\ninto a brook, was carried under the causeway and drowned.\\nA son of James Perkins was drowned by falling into the brook near his\\nfather s dwelling at the Flat.\\nA son of Ezekiel Powers was caught between two logs, while peeling\\nbark, and crushed to death.\\nWillard, son of Urias Powers, fell from the Glidden Bridge while on\\nhis way from school and was drowned.\\nA son of Jotham Ryder was killed by a cart-body blowing over and fall-\\ning upon him.\\nWife of David Rowell killed by lightning. Her infant sleeping on her\\narm escaped uninjured and lived to manhood.\\nJoseph Smart went out to catch his horse one Sabbath morning, was\\nsoon after found dead.\\nGriswould, son of Aaron Whipple, killed by running under an axe\\nwhich was thrown from the frame of the house, at the raising.\\nIn 1861, Edwin, son of Moses Whipple, while returning from the Post-\\noffice, at the Flat, one dark, rainy night, the string-piece being jarred in\\ntowards the middle of the bridge, walked off and met a sad death amid the\\nrocks and angry waves below.\\nEpidemics. In 1795, the Canker Rash prevailed to an alarming\\nextent among the children. Of twenty-four deaths that year, twenty were\\nunder fourteen years of age. In 1813, the Spotted Fever made its appear-\\nance in a most malignant form, defying all remedies and cutting down the\\nstrong men almost without warning. Of thirty deaths in town that year,\\neighteen were from that disease.\\nFour Cornees. Being in the center of the town and on the Croydon\\nTurnpike the great thoroughfare, and having a church, tavern, store, and\\noffices and shops, the Four Corners was once the center of trade; but rail-\\nroads diverting the long travel, and the want of water power, has caused\\nits decline.", "height": "3322", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "172\\nA Wolf Stoby. Benj. Cutting, a poor man, away after provisions, was\\ndetained over night and the next day. The wife and children were nearly\\nfamished, with nothing in the house to eat. She waited until the shades of\\nevening approached, and still he came not. She then went down to the\\nnearest neighbors to beg something that should keep them from starvation-\\nShe had hardly reached the house when she heard the wolves, and\\nthought of her two little ones at home. She started, and impelled by all the\\nardor of a mother s love Hew towards home. A pack of hungry wolves\\nwere after her. She was barely able to reach the door, rush in and slam\\nit in the face of her enemy. She secured the door. They mounted\\nthe roof, which was covered with bark. There was no chimney, and she\\nexpected every moment they would come down through the open space\\nthrough which the smoke escaped. She caught the poker and stirred the\\nfire with such violence as to fill the space with sparks and flames. The\\nterrible howling and biting of the wolves made the night hideous. When\\none of them showed his teeth through an open space in the roof, she would\\ngreet it with the burning poker. If they grew desperate she would throw\\non the contents of her straw bed and thus increase the flames. The con-\\ntest was kept up until the straw and wood were nearly exhausted, when\\nthe wolves, despairing of success, beat up a retreat and left our heroine\\nmistress of the field.\\nAmos Hagar, a man of great p)hysical strength, once going through the\\nwoods on the east part of the Wheeler farm, met a bear and threw a hem-\\nlock knot at it with such violence as to knock it over and enable him\\nto capture it.\\nAnecdote. In April, 1766, the party which came to Croydon for the\\npurpose of laying out land, discovered, soon after crossing Sugar River,\\nin Claremont, that the plan of the town had been left behind. As the\\nriver, swollen by rain and melted snow, was unfordable, and as the impet-\\nuous current had already borne their temporary raft beyond their reach,\\nthey hardly knew what course to take. At length, Ezekiel Powers crossed\\nand re-crossed the river by swimming, bringing the parchment between\\nhis teeth. For this feat the company paid him a pistareen.\\nPear Teee. A pear tree, brought to town by Dea. Nathaniel Wheeler\\nninety- one years ago, now over one hundred years old, is still alive and in\\na good bearing condition.", "height": "3348", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "croydonnh186600whee_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "173\\nBear Story. A bear once took a hog from a yard near what is known\\nas the Peter Barton place. The neighbors gave chase, but they were a\\nmile away before they were overtaken. The hog was so lacerated it was\\nnecessary to kill it. When dressed its weight was found to be two hun-\\ndred pounds. This feat exhibits the strength of the bear.\\nDairies. Croydon Dairies have long ranked among the finest in market.\\nNegroes. Early in the history of the town a colony of negroes planted\\nthemselves on Coit Mountain and its eastern vicinity. Among them were\\nSalem Colby, Kobert Nott and Scipio Page. 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