{"1": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0%mmm^im^j^mim:mmm ^9;", "height": "3380", "width": "2205", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "5 0^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a- i*\\niv\\n,A^^ ^J\\ny V\\n_\\nvO\\no\\no\\nc\\n^0 0.\\no\\n00\\nV^\\nH -r.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^o\\n00^\\nc V", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF\\nHAVERHILL, N. H\\nREV. J. Q. BITTINGER.\\nIIAVKinill.l., N. II.\\n1888.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "J^6f\\n0/\\nPRINTED AT\\nCOHOS STEAM PRESS,\\nHAVERHILL, N. Jl.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "rilEFACE.\\nThis History luul its oriirin in a conversiition with the hite\\nN. B. Felton, Esij., who was imich interested in ha\\\\ina- the\\nliistory of the Town written, and suLjge.sted that I undertake\\ntlie work. At first declined, hut at h-ist a nndtitude of facts\\nand niiscelhineous material havinu incidentally aeeuniulated,\\nI concluded about five years a^t) to undei take the work in\\nearnest. The labor and expense have bdtli been large, yet I\\ndo not regret having })reser\\\\ed in i ernianent form the his-\\ntory of the Town which in interest in many respects is the\\nmost historic of any town north and west of Concord.\\nI have availed myself of all sources of knowledge which\\nwere within i-each. The Town and Proprietors Keeords,\\nTown Papers and State Pa[)ers, Keeords of Vermont Govcr-\\nnoi and Council, State Histories, private records, files of\\npa})ers, and whatever could throw light upon the history of\\nthe Town and I trust the record as now produced will be\\nfound trustworthy, though minor errors of date and in names\\nhave una\\\\()idably esca[)ed notice in some cases. I have not\\nencumbered the pages with citation of authorities.\\nSeveral of the cha[)ters are entirely biographical, which\\nhave been made (piite full on the theory that a few leading\\nand enterprising minds of every comnuinity make its history\\nvery largely. Much genealogy appears in these pages, but\\nit is merely incidental to the general history, and in no case\\nhas completeness been aimed at in this respect. The His-\\ntory is not a genealogical work.\\nI have been greatly aided in many matters bv others. To\\nthe late Hon. Sauuiel Swasey of I5el\\\\ iderc. 111., and Hon.\\n^Sathaniel A\\\\ ilson of ()i-ono, Mc, for a mass of information\\nwhich was kindly conununicated. To the late Hosea H.\\nBaker and Miss Eliza Cross for much early traditional mat-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4 PREFACE.\\nter. To Hon. A. B. Tliompson, Secretary of State, Isaac\\nW. Ilaimnond, M. D. librarian of New Hampshire Histori-\\ncal Society Hon. A. S. Initcliellor of Littleton Gen. A.\\nHarleigh Hill, author of Early Settlers of (Iroton, Vt.\\nHon. Hiram Huse, state librarian, Vt. J. J. Hazen, ]M.\\nD., York, jNIc. Henry K. Elkins of Chicago Prof. Lewis\\nPollens, librarian of Dartmouth College Kev. Henry A.\\nHazen of Boston, and others, for favors. Also to Ex-Gov.\\nCharles IL Bell of Exeter for important j)apers on the early\\nlawyers of Haverhill to Phineas S[)al(ling, AL I)., for a\\nlike service in regard to some of the doctors, and to Charles\\nB. Griswold, clerk of the court, for court matters.\\nI also am greatly indebted to Lieut. James A. Page for\\nso complete a list- of the names of soldiers wlio served in the\\nAVar of the Rebellion, and for the information which is at-\\ntached to many names to the Town authorities for access to\\nTown Records and pa])ers, and especially to Town clerk, PL\\nR. Weeks for his uniform w illingness to aid the work and\\nlast but not least to my neighbor, Mr. John l*latt, for carry-\\ning me to various localities to inspect historic points.\\nThe work is necessarily imperfect in some res})ects, the\\nrecords outside the Town and Proprietors Records are\\nmeager, and the time, 120 years, intervening between the\\nfoundation of the Town and the date of gathering material\\nso great, that nnich that would have enhanced the value of\\nthe work, had passed beyond recovery. The work was un-\\ndertaken none too soon, as all the older persons living and\\nfamiliar with the earlier traditions of the Town, when I be-\\ngan the work, have answered the roll-call to a new Empire.\\nJ. Q. B.\\nHaverhill, N. H., 1888.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTKR I. 17-111\\nINI KODrCTlOX.\\nAiitliorV ;iiin E.irly luatorial iiiii)orfoc t OOiciul acts sii])i\u00c2\u00bbI(MiK iitP(l\\nl)_y tradition, coiivcrsatioiis, ami fainil_v rcfonl:* -Eiicrijy, cour-\\najjc, and porscvcraiice of tlic founders liaiio; s in iili and\\nliahits.\\nCIlAPTKIi II. L U-28\\n(lEOCflJArilV OF THE TOWN.\\nXaiiic I ]xtont and value of I arni products liciundaiies Scenery\\nArea Population Villa*i;es Mountains I fivers and Streams\\nPonds Islands (ioology, Soil, and Arinerals Water-power\\nRoads.\\nCHAPTER JII. L !l-;U\\nDIsrON KKY AM) KX I LOR ATIOX OF TFIK COIIOS fOlXTUV.\\nEarly reports about it from liunters, traiijK-rs, and returned sdliliers\\nPlan to explore and take possession of tlie Country A doubt\\nProject failed An event that led to a careful survey A new\\nroute The expedition of 17 raj)t. Power s scoulin jiarty.\\n17. )4 ^Pissions of the Powers and Povewell i)arties.\\nCIIAPTKK I\\\\ ao-41\\nTin: ciiAinr.i; imjmoi).\\ninllnx of population I lie Charter Xanies of (Jrantees Four divi-\\nsions House lots Privileu ed \u00e2\u0080\u00a2pitchers (iovernor WentwortlTs\\nright Drawinj; Xundterinj^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xanies of meadows (irante( s\\ncommon to Xewl)ury and Haverhill (Jen. Jacol) P.ailey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ol.\\nJacob Kent Gen. Moses Hazen.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "b CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTP:R v. 42-56\\nearly settlement before the charter.\\nTwo remarkable men Michael -Johnston and John Pattie tlie first set-\\ntlers, 1701 Wuitered at Ox Bow Indians then in possession\\nJohnston and Pattie leturn to No. 4 A tragic end Capt. Ilazen\\ncomes to C ohos in 17()2 with men and material for saw-mill and\\ngrist-mill I.eading position Deatli\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Moses Hazen and John\\nIlazen confounded William llazen .Toshiia Howard .Tessie\\nIlarriman Simeon Stevens Thomas .Johnson Col. Timothy\\nBedel and family Capt. John Page and familj^ First Marriage\\nFirst Family First Birth First Death Morse Meadow.\\nCHAPTER VJ. .57-108\\nEARLY SETTLERS AFTER THE CHARTER.\\nCJiarter and energy of tlie men Their training and education Papid\\nsettlen)ent Jesse Johnson .Tohn White James Bailej Elisha\\nLock Jonathan Sanders .Tames ood\\\\vard Priah Stone\\nJonatlian Elkitis .Tohn Taplin Ezekiel Ladd Moses Tattle\\nHay wards Timothy I5arron Tames Abbott William Eastman\\nJohn Ilurd Maxi llazeltine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Josepli Ilutchins Simeon Goodwin\\nJonatlian Hale Tliomas Simpson Ei)hraim Wesson Charles\\n.Tohnston Asa Porter William Porter Andrew S. Crocker\\nNathaniel Merrill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Merrill .Joseph Pearson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel\\nBrooks The Morses Joseph Bliss .Toshua Young Amos\\nEimball\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Cross\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Osgood The Carrs The Swans\\nObadiali Swasej- Moor Pussell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlie Gookins Asa Boynton\\n.John Montgomery Poss Coon Glazier \\\\Vheeler Parker\\nStevens William Tarleton.\\nCHAPTER Ml. 10i\u00c2\u00bb-141i\\nSETTLERS FROM ISOO.\\nDivision-line between early and late Settlers- Piver and back Settle-\\nments Briar Hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Along Oliverian East Haverliill Woods-\\nville Biographical Sketches Noyses Websters Barstows A\\ncliaracter Wilsons Towles Ephraiin Kingsbury Merrills\\nI imotby A. Edsoii Bells Xoah Davis Morses Chester Far-\\nman Perley Ayer I lie Jellers I imothy Wilinot Michael\\nCarleton Woodwards Ilosea S. Baker StClairs The Pikes", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "f OXTKNTS. V\\nliiissL ll Kimball JaiiK s I ItiTwcr\u00e2\u0080\u0094Soulliaids (liailes Kim-\\nball Jos. B. Niles Mansons John McClary I ixes John L.\\nBunce Stowes Kedino; Brothers Jonathan Nicliois William\\nC. Marston Haywards Warrens .Tonatlian B. IJovvell Elliotts\\nTimothy K. Blaisdcll Cuttings Clarks Salmon Fish Smiths\\nAlonzo W. Putnam Cunnnings Brothers Caleb Hunt .laekson\\nBrotliers I iniothy IJ. Bacon Daniel Batelielder John Vose\\nBean Bailey Brothers Charles A. Gale Darius K. Davis Levi\\nB. Ham Currier Brothers Augustus Whitney The Stevenses\\nThe Weekses J. G. Blood William H. Nelson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Josepli Powers\\nHeaders Charles B. Grisvvold Andrew J. Edgerly Caleb\\nWells\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles II. Day\u00e2\u0080\u0094 K. D. Tucker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Woodsville settlers.\\nC^IIAPTEK Vlll. 150-8\\nTOWN AND IM!()IM;IKT0I{S RECOUDS FROM 17 TO ISdd.\\nFirst Town and Proprietors Meeting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Town Officers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Commit-\\ntee of Survey Laying out of Lots\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Drawing Lots First Annual\\nTown meeting First full List of Town Officers Town Expenses\\nPound Wages for Town Work Kecord Book Danger of AVild\\nAnimals Small Town Expenses First Treasurer Deer Reaves\\nGrant of ilill Privilege\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Taxes Abated\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Care of Imbecile-\\nCensus\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Burial Places Lawsuit Town meeting Places Waif\\nFirst Town-order for Aid\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Legal Tenders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Vote for Con-\\ngressman and Presidential Electors First Itepresentative First\\nVote for Governor and State Senator Troublesome Persons\\nSpecial Choice of Selectmen (Question of Conscience\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Traveling\\non the Sabbath Small Pox\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Old Debt Care of Poor.\\nCHAPTEK IX. ir)Il-l(;4\\nTOWN RECORDS FROM ISOO TO lt\u00c2\u00ab T.\\nTown in Relation to Condition of Country\u00e2\u0080\u0094 AVar of 1S12\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bounties\\nfor Soldiers Small-i)ox Sdiool Trouble Town Farm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Town\\nHouse Fire Proof Vault\u00e2\u0080\u0094 War of the Rebellion Money Voted\\nfor Soldiers Families\u00e2\u0080\u0094 bounties\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sum Total of ^loney Voted\\nduring the War for War I urposes Funded Debt Duty of Town\\nto Needy Soldiers Monument Party Struggles Character of\\nEarly Officers A ^Memorable Contest Improved Order.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "fS COXTEXTS.\\nCHAPTER X. IGo-Kin\\nHAVEKIIILL IN THE ItEVOLUTION.\\nI loiiiiiieiice in tlie Revolution Geographical Position Able Leaders\\nConii)ac-t Cohos well known to Enemy Col. Johnston s Let-\\nter Fui-ts in the Upper Cohos Rangers at Haverhill Haverhill\\ntlie Rendezvous for Troops and Scouting Parties Character of\\nthe Ranger Haverhill in constant Comnuinication with Exeter\\nand the Northern Armj^ Col. Wyman s Regiment Four Stock-\\nades Alarm from Indians in 1770 Retreat of our Army from\\nSt. Johns Great consternation at Cohos A Second Alarm in\\n1777 Again after the Fall of Ticonderoga Military Road from\\nCohos to St. Johns Block Houses The Alarm of 1780 Town\\nAuthorities wide-awake Frequent votes of Powder, Lead and\\nFire-arms Efficient Committee of Safety Men Conferences with\\nother Towns Vigilant eyes on Home-enemies The Conspiracy\\nof Col. Porter and others Strong feeling Persons who were ob-\\nnoxious to the British\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. Peter Powers Col. Johnson cap-\\ntured Geri. Bailey s Escape Dea. Elkins Alarm Quotas of\\nBeef and Flour Transportation of Grain from Cohos prohibited\\nMoney-Patriots Disastrous effects of the War Rapid increase\\nof Town Expenses Sale of Rights Decrease of Population dur-\\ning tlie War.\\nCHAPTER XL 176-84\\nEXTEHl RISES AXD BUSIXESS.\\nFirst Siiw-mill and (irist-mill General Progress Liberal Otl er for\\nBlacksmith First Saw-mill and Grist-mill at Hosmer Brook\\nSecond Saw-mill Other Mills Fulling Mill Side Light Flax\\nMill Water l*ower Rafting Lumber First Tannery Cloth and\\nCarding Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Potash Factory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Paper Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Other Mills and\\nShoi)s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pulp Mill Swasey Mills Other Factories and Shops\\nWoodsville Lumber Co. Marble Works Other Enterprises A.\\nF. Pike iMaiuifacturing Co. Stores and other business at Corner,\\nNorth Havei-hill. East Haverhill, Pike Station, Woodsville.\\nCHAPTER XH. 185-1)3\\nROADS AXD BRIDGES.\\nRoads and (ivili/ation First Roads little more than I ridle-j)aths\\nFirst ()x-t((ani from Haverhill to Plvmouth Course of tin- Road", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "rOXTKNTS. 9\\nRoad from I ortsiiiuuth to Colios\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fir. t niciitiou of Town Koads\\nlioad from the riain to Coventry line, the Earliest Town\\nKoad\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ingress to Cohos\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Su\u00c2\u00ab? ^estive Vote The Road from\\nPiermoiit to Bath\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alonj? the side-hill The Oliverian IJoad\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHi\u00c2\u00ab;h\\\\\\\\ay Taxes and Labor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Publie Ferry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 County IJoad\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IJoads\\nl)uilt l)ef()re ISOO\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ifoads extended and built as Population settled\\nin Eastern part of Town Character of Koads\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cohos Turnpike\\nCori)orators Improvement in I oads Poom for further improve-\\nment Permanent material Crades Poad Enjjineers Pail road\\nCanal I .rid^res.\\nCHAPTER XIII. l!)4-205\\nMAILS, STA(4ES, TAN EHXS.\\nEarly Communieation First ^lail Tohn Baleh State Pontes Pos-\\ntage\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haverhill Oftiee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 National Mails\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dutch Mall Wagon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Col.\\nSilas May Post Horn Express Bi-weekly Mail First stage\\nline William Snuirt Second stage line Robert Morse First\\nTrip Col. Silas May driver Entrance into Haverlnll Almost\\nan Accident Tii-weekly Mails Daily Extras The Drivers\\nHanover Route Six-horse Coaches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haverhill a great stage\\ncenter Travel Stage I/ines Famous Drivers Their Character\\nResponsible Positions Some Successful Men Drinking Habits\\nTaverns Bliss*, Coon s, Towle s, Exchange. Sinclair s, Second\\nCoon tavern, earliest tavern, Richardson s, Ladd s, Howard s,\\nMorse s, Cobleigh s, Swan s, Morse Hill tavern A great thorough-\\nfare Teams and Teamsters Provisions Lodgings Large Teams\\nCrouch Tavern A famous hostelry The old-time tavern\\nHaverhill s stage-tavern Xews Center Bar room Fire-i)lace\\nFlip Mental training The Landloid.\\nCUAPTEK XIV. \u00e2\u0096\u00a02(n]-2Hy\\nEDUCATIOX ACADEMY.\\nEarly Education School lots laid out School money Larlicst\\nSchool Districts and School Houses Second Class of School\\nHouses Re-districting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 District Schools increase with popula-\\ntion Town system First Board of Education Town liberal in\\nmaintaining Schools School Centres\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Corner and Woods-\\nville Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dartmouth College (irant Incidents Haverhill\\nAca lemv.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER XV. 217-23(1\\nKELICION AND riHUfll KS.\\nReligion and tlu foundors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early vote to call Kev. Teter Powers-\\nSalary Temporary proachino; First meetings at Newbury, Vt.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Parsonage Lot Extent of Parish ^Finister paid by Town\\nProtest Certain Persons excused Meeting House Meetings in\\nHouses and Barns Union Meeting House in Newbury Coming\\nof Mr. Powers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I eople worshipped part of time in Newbury\\nCrossing I iver Mr. Powers Parish I owu divided into two\\nParishes Propagating the (tospel Church organizations First\\nCongregational Church Pastors: Ethan Smith, .Tohn Smith,\\n(irant Powers, Henry AVood, .Toseph (Jibbs, Archibald Fleming.\\nSamuel Delano. Moses C. Searle, Edward H. Greeley, .Tohn 1).\\nEmerson. John P irtinger, Eugene W. Stoddard ]\\\\[ethodist\\nEi)iscopal Church: North Haverhill, Corner, East Haverhill\\nBaptist Church, North Haverhill Free Will Baptist Church\\nUnion Church Advent Church Protestant Episcopal Cliurch,\\nWoodsville\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Methodist Episcopal Church, Woodsville.\\nCHAPTER XVI. 237-253\\nIIAVETJTTILL IN WATJ.\\nHer honorable i)osition and olticers of highest rank Eistof Haverhill\\nSoldiers in the several Wars War of the Revolution War of\\n1S12 Mexican War War of the Rebellion Second 15egiment\\nFourth Regiment Sixth Regiment Ninth Regiment Eleventh\\nRegiment Fifteenth Regiment Eighteenth Regiment First\\nRegiment Heavv Artillerv First Cavalrv.\\nCHAPTER XVII. 254-286\\nTHE LAWYERS OF tIAVEKHILL.\\nMoses Dow Aldcn Sprague John I orter Moses Dow, Jr. George\\nWoodward Joseph Emerson Dow John Nelson Henry Hutch-\\ninson David Sloan Joseph Bell Samuel Courtland Edmund\\nCarleton Hale A. .Tohnston Edward R. Olcott Daniel Blais-\\nd(?ll Jonathan Bliss William H. Duncan Samuel C. Webster\\nNathan B. Felton David Dickey David H. Collins Jonas Da-\\nrius Sleeper John S. Bryant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Page Charles E. Thomp-\\nson\u00e2\u0080\u0094George W. Chapman\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles R. Morrison\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathaniel W.\\nW^estgate\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George F. Putnam Luther C. Morse Samuel T.\\nPage\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel B. Page\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William F. Westjrate.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "rOXTKNTS. 11\\nCHAPTEK XVIII. 287-309\\nDOCTORS.\\nSamuel White .Foliii I ortcr Siumu l llalc Martin IMi( ii)s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac\\nMoore Aiiiasa Scott Kdiiiuiul (arlotoii Kzia Uartlctt Ezra\\nBartlett, Jr. John Aii J:l( r .loei Anjjier Anson Urackct Simon\\nB. Heath Ilirani Morjian^IIenry Hayos Edward Mattot-ks\\nPhineas Spalding Henry B. I eonard Homer II. Tenny Samuel\\nP. (arbee Haven Palmer Moses 1). arl)ee Clarence H. (lark\\nEdward J. Brown Henry P. Watson Charles It. r;ii)son\\nOliver D. Eastman Charles Newcondi Myron S. Wetherhee\\nJames B. Clark, Dentist Mose? X. Howland, Dentist.\\nCIIAPTKK XIX. ;U0-3.-)3\\nIIAVKIMIILL AIUIOAI).\\nHaverhill s honorable careei Abroad Charles J. Adams J. Dorsey\\nand George Angier Eouisa Page Babcock Bacon Brothers\\nBarstow Brothers Alfred, Anson, Gardner\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ceorge Barstow\\nCharles W. lohn Barstow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Barstow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ha/en Bedel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John\\nBedel James W. Bell John Bell James P. Brewer Samuel\\nBrooks Edwin Brooks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward C. and George Burbeck James\\nA. Cutting Frederick Crocker Xoah Davis Moses Elkins D.\\nE. Farnsworth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles X. I landers- Eucien II. Frary Warren\\n(iookin- Michael (iray\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hunts: Caleb S., Horace, Prescott,\\nHelen Johnstons: Charles, Hannah\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joliii Kimball \\\\\\\\illiam H.\\nLeith\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Merrill Brothers John L., Benjamin, liarles 11.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^Villiam\\nMerrill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Arthur .Mitchell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Morse Brotliers: Pcabody A.. (Jeorge\\nW., Isaac S. IJobert Morse Joseph B. ^lorsc Thomas E.\\nXelson Niles Brothers: Alon/o F., Horace E. (Jeorge B..\\nX ellie and Clara Xichols\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Person Xoyes John A. Page Moses\\nS. Page\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James II. Pearson- Samuel P. Pike\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elizabeth Abbott.\\nMary Webster. Henrietta Mumford and (Jeorge Carrington Pow-\\ners John Peding\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kodgers Brothers: Eevi and M. Carleton\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJonathan II. and Chester Powell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Horace Sopcr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 l,yn)an D.\\nStevens Smiths: Lyndon Arnold. Stephen. Sanl ord, Carlos-\\nFrank .V. Smith \\\\Villiani I Stowe The Tarletons Towles\\nFrederick and James\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathaniel Wilson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward B. Wilson-\\nWilliam F. \\\\Vhitchrr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harvey H. \\\\ViliiioMt .lohn E. \\\\Voods\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFranklin P. Wood.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 CONTEXTS.\\nCHAPTER XX. 354-362\\nDOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE.\\nTime Chanj^es L ife Simple Two Classes come to Haverhill, the\\nWell-to-do and Enterprising, and the Dependent The first House\\nFrame Houses, two sizes The great Fire-place and Chimnej\\nThe Children and Popped Corn Lug Pole Trammels\\nCrane Frj?ing-pan Dutch Oven Spit The Goose Hangs\\nHigh Furniture Pots and Kettles The Dresser Pewter\\nDishes Wooden Dishes Two-tined Forks Hemlock Brooms\\nSanded Floors Carpets Pare Domestic Duties Wants Few\\nLife Happy and Virtuous Diet Tea and Cofl ee Drinks Flip\\nand Punch AVine Drinking Social Sugar Making Paring-bee\\nGames Huskings Muster-daj^ Social Character of Church-\\ngoing Society People Otticial Position and Moral Wortli The\\nCommencement of New Order I ebellion against forced payment\\nof ]\\\\[inisters Taxes Churcli-Going less Universal The Stage-\\ncoach Blinds, Pictures and Ornaments Wooden Plates, sanded\\nFloors, and Hemlock Brooms Yield First Four-wheeled Carriage\\nFirst Piano Cliaiscs Wagons Clocks.\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nMISCELLANEOUS. 362-417.\\nIndian Names, 3G2\\nIndians, 3G4\\nFairs and Makkkts, :um;\\nWild Animals, Gamk and Fish, 3G7\\nAn Egyptian Plague, 368\\nThe Pigeons, 3G9\\nThe Great Flood, 5G!\u00c2\u00bb\\nHouses of Eefuge, 370\\nA Noted Character, 371\\nHorse Meadow, 373\\nThe Poor, 37 1\\nHog Peeve, 374\\nTvTHiNG Man, 374\\nCourts and Court Houses, 375\\nTwo PIisTORic Farms, 379\\nThe GiJEAT Pines, 381\\nDrinking Haiuts, 382\\nPiERMONT BOUNDAUV DiSl UTE, 383\\nThe Vermont Union, 387", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "rOXTEXTS. 13\\nl.lltlv AKIKS, 390\\nXkwsi AI ek.s, 391\\nTwo Grkat Pi.AGi ss, 393\\nBanks, 394\\nHangings, 395\\nCyclone, 397\\nPowder House, 398\\nSteamboats, 398\\nMaking Cider, 399\\nTeaming, 400\\nTraining Day. 400\\nThe Great Accident. 403\\nThe Great Fire, 404\\nFirst Jersey Stock. 405\\na komance, 406\\nThe Clcumber Story, 407\\nLocal Names, 409\\nMasonry, 413\\nPine Grove Farm. 415\\nOdd Fellows, 416\\ni atriarchs militant, 417\\nGood Tem tears, 417\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nAi PF.XDix, 419-431\\nCoKlfECTlONS, 433\\nIxDEX, 435", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "DEDICATED\\nTO\\nTHE MEMORY\\nOF\\nHaverhill s most distinguished citizen,\\nBRAV1-; IX WAH. AVISK IX COl XCII., I lBLIC Sl IKlTEl) AXD\\nKXKMIM.AKV IN LIKK,\\nCOL. CHAKLES JOHNSTON.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "OUTLIXK MAP TOWN OF HAVERHILL", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HlSTOm^ OF HAVErJIILL.\\nCHAITKK I.\\nIXTUO DICTION\\nAuthor s aim Early iiusterial iiii|i( rfe t OtUcial acts siii)i)lciiifiiti il liy trailitioii,\\nconversations, ami family records Energy, coiira fe, and perseverance ot the\\nt ounilers Chancres in life and habits.\\nIt is my intention in tlie tollowing pa^es to write the\\nhistory of Haverhill from its Krst diseovery by tiie white\\nman down to the present time. The earlier years? of this\\nhistory, from the first occupaney of the Cohos Conntry,\\nwhen Johnston and Pattie spent the winter of 17()l-2 at\\nthe Ox Bow, must necessarily he somewhat ineom[)lete,\\nas both the records of the Proprietors, as well as the records\\nof the Town, are in some places imperfect and evvu when\\nthey are complete and uninterrupted they record only the\\npublic acts of the Proprietors and of the Town, and j:ive\\nlittle information, except incidentally, of the character of the\\npet)ple and the sph it of the times.\\nHowever, with this material at iiand, and with such other\\naids as I have been able to connnand, of family records,\\nwith the memory of the oldest inhabitants i-cachinu- back to\\ntiie close of the last century, and handin i- down from that\\n})eriod the fresh conversations and traditions of an e:irlier\\ngeneration, many of whom lived and died in the first (piartc r\\nof the present century, I hope to be able to present the\\nhistory of the Town as full and complete as possible. We\\nshall see how a brave and resolute people, coming into these\\nIndian wilds, laid the foundations of pros} erity, of hapjii-\\nness, and of social order how before their sturdy enterprise\\nand indomitable energy the massive and dense forests disaj)-\\npeared from the broad river intervals, and the rich soil bi-came\\nIn these pages Ox Bow stands for r.ittlc Ox Uow.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "IH msTOltV OF HAVEIMIILL.\\n;i garden of fVuitt iilne.ss, yo tliat in times of scarcity or famine\\nin tlie reg-ions around Haverhill was a granary of abundance,\\nan Egyptian storeliouse, for the hungry and destitute how\\ntlirough many perils and hardships mills were erected, water-\\npowers trained into the service of man, and machinery in the\\nabsence of roads was dragged by human exertion over lonjj:\\nreaches of bridle-path how in the earlier years of the new\\nsettlement they lived in rude huts and log cabins with few\\nconveniences and comforts, and suffered many self-denials\\nand dangers liow the school and the church, those twin\\nsup[)orts of all that is best and most ho[)eful in a community,\\nwere early established and maintained Avith praiseworthy\\nself-sacrifice and devotion how from scanty beginnings thev\\nrose to prosperity and riches, from dwelling in damj) and\\nuncomfortable homes to living in well-built houses, and\\nsurrounded with the comforts and conveniences of a better\\ncivilization how the In-idle-jjath and blazed way yielded to\\nwell-constructed and safe highways, and the tedious journey-\\nings on horseback were exchanged for the comfortable and\\nsocial conveyances of later times how sanded floors, and\\nrough benches, and bare walls, and simple table-ware gave\\nway to mats, and car[)ets, and pictures, and pianos, to china\\nand silver-service how the huge fire-place with pot-hooks\\nand tranmiels, the spinning-wheel and home-made fabrics,\\nwere dis[)laced by modern inventions and conveniences.\\nWe shall also see how in the long struggle between the\\nmother country and her colonies our forefathers were fired\\nwith earnest zeal and lofty j atriotism foi- the I ights of man,\\nand furnished both men and money beyond their means to-\\nadvance the cause of religious and political liberty how in\\nthe new demand which was laid upon their earlier descendants\\nmany of them ha\\\\ e a proud place in the history of our com-\\nmon country and later still how in the great War of the\\nRebellion when the Union was assailed from within and\\nthreatened with disiuj)tion, her citizens resjionded with", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "patriotic proinptncfis and to tlic lull oi tlicir ability to the;\\ncall of duty how i roin their loins a goodly company ot\\nnoble men and women have gone f ortli into other fields of\\nlabor and endeavor, and have won honor and eminence in\\n})rofessional life and in business enterprises, as teachers,\\nlawyers, doctors, ministers, leaders of society and of i)rog-\\nress as well as that larger number who, standing by the old\\nfire-sides, have achieved an honorable name and a well-\\nearned title to usefulness and esteem here.\\nWe shall also note that the transition from the simplicity\\nof life and habits of our forefathers to those of a later period,\\nhas its parallel in the contrast between the very general and\\nheroic and stronger virtues, and the more effeminate and\\nirresolute traits of their descendants. These and more than\\nthese we shall see in the unfolding of the Town s history as\\nrecorded in the following j)ages.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nGEOGKArHY OF THE TOWN.\\nXanie\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Extent and Viiluf of t arnipriiduet-s Boundaries Scenery Area I oiui-\\nlation Villages Mountains Rivers and Streams Ponds Islamls (ieol-\\nogy, Soil, and Minerals Water-power Koads.\\nThe Town of Hiiverhill took its nuuie t roiu Haverhill,\\nMass., from the fact that the first white })ersons who periiia-\\niiently oeciipied its territory eame from that town. It is one\\nof the richest and most important agricultural sections of\\nthe state, cutting ahout one thousand tons more hay per\\nannum than is cut in any other town, and whose farm prod-\\nucts are only exceeded in value by that of one other town in\\nthe state.\\nFrom its scnithern limit on the town of Piermont to its\\nnorthern limit on the Ammonoosuc is a distance of ahout ten\\nmiles and from the A ermont bank of the Connecticut river,\\nwhich winds in sweeping and tortuous curves through its west-\\nern borders, to its eastern boundary on the town of Benton,\\nit averages a breadth of about six miles.\\nThe geographical features of the To\\\\\\\\ n are of ^aried and\\npicturesque beauty, embracing within its limits the broad\\nand fertile intervals of the Connecticut the heart of the\\nfamous Cohos Country in Indian history with the uplands\\nstretching away to the east till they swell into the foot-hills\\nand outer bastions of grand Moosilauke, more familiarly\\nknown as Moose Hillock, whose broad shoulders and mas-\\nsive granite walls can be seen from all parts of the Town.\\nThe beauty and even grandeur of the scenery from many\\nlocalities in the Town is unsurpassed. One of the sons of\\nHaverhill, who has done honor to the Town in his profes-\\nsional career, now residing at the Golden Gate of the Pacific\\nCoast, writing of the magnificent scenery of that region,\\nsays, You have heard much of the Yosemite Valley and\\nits magnificence, but standing on some ele^ated [)oint in the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "GEOGRAPHY. 21\\nTown of Haverhill, and looking east toward Moosilaukc you\\ncan on any clear day t*ee a view which in beauty and grand-\\neur far surpasses that of the Yosemite. Longfellow once\\non a visit to ITaverliill, and walking down with a friend from\\nthe village to l\\\\)wder House Hill, after taking in the view fron^\\nthat point up and down the river, with the broad intervals\\ndressed in living green, and the river quietly and peacefully\\nwinding in beautiful sweeps and reaches through the twenty\\nmile valley in sight, said to his friend, a son of Haverhill,\\nI have seen the beauties of foreign lands, but the beauties\\nfrom this spot surpass anything I have ever seen. Others\\nhave spoken in similar language, and many are the expres-\\nsions of her loyal sons and daughters in writing to me, of\\ntheir fresh and loving remembrance of the beautiful scenery\\nof their childhood-home.\\nThese praises of the beauty and ])icturesqueness of the\\nscenerv and physical features of Haverhill are not exaggera-\\ntions, and their exactness can be verified from numerous\\npoints of observation. They are u{)on the lips of all who\\ncome here. The many roads through the Town furnish as\\ncharming and inviting drives as can be found any where in\\nthe state. Nothing can excel the bewitching and varying-\\nlandscape which meets the eye as you follow the road east-\\nward along tlie ()li\\\\ci-ian. On cithci side the littU xalicy\\nis hemmed in by hills and moiuitaiiis. Then spreading out\\ninto ample dimensions like a \\\\ast amphitheatre, with massive\\nMoosilauke standing guai l in the distance, Bald Face at\\nthe head of the broad Benton meadows, and the hills and\\nmountains like guardian sentinels encircling the snug little\\nvillage of East Haverhill, with cultivated fields running back\\nfrom the brook to the foot-hills, and farm houses and shady\\nways l)reaking the view into beauty and variety.\\nOn the wide exjjansc on which is built the ilhige of\\nNorth Haverhill the eye rests on an unsurpassed scene of\\nj)ictures(pieness and vwn grandi ur, with IMack Hill and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nHog BiK k. and again the broad trout of ^loosilauke to\\ncrown the view. The landscape any where from the Pier-\\ninont line along the road through Haverhill village and Ladd\\nStreet is a succession of surprises and charms that have\\ncalled forth from all whose eyes have ever lingered upon tlie\\nview tlie most enthusiastic expressions of delight. Here the\\nmeadows are broad and well cultivated, and the valley in\\nspring and summer resembles an immense floor of bightest\\nemerald, through whicli the river in great curves Avinds its\\ngleaming course. On the Vermont side is a line of high\\nhills walling in the valley from the west, whilst Mt. Gardner\\nwith its solid front looks down from the north. Xewburv,\\nAVells Eiver, Bradford, South Xewburv, are within sweep\\nof the eye, and grand Moosilauke stands perpetual watcli\\nover this charming landscape.\\nThe area of the Town is about o ),000 acres, nearlv\\ntwo-thirds of which is favorable to cultivation, and has\\nfor the most part been brought under fruitful and jirofit-\\nable tillage. The remainder is pasturage and woodland.\\nThe former furnishes in great abundance most excellent and\\nnutritious grass both for dairy and stock, whilst the latter is\\nsvell covered witli timber and wood, consisting chiefly of\\nbirch, beech, maple, and hemlock. The present standing of\\nAvood and timber, much of which is second growth, is estimated\\nb}^ persons of safe judgment to be greater in quantity than\\nthe wood and timber which was on the same area twentv\\nyears ago. The increase of growth, it is thought, has been\\nmore rapid than the loss by consumption and waste.\\nThe population when the census of 1880 was taken was\\n2452. The number of families at that time was about d 2d,\\naveraging nearly five persons to a family. The number of\\npolls of those present in the Town is not far from 600.\\nThe population has varied Aery little during the last tAvo\\ndecades, and is udw al)out stationai-y. It is chiefly nati\\\\e\\ncxce])t a small French element which the railroad has", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "GEOUKAIMIV. 23\\nl)rouoht in at U oodsville, but this is: not large enough to\\noffset the general American character of the population and\\ninfluence of the Town.\\nThere are four villages in the Town, the most historic and\\njirominent of these is Haverhill Corner which was early\\nscttlcd. within a year after of the first settlement at the Ox Bow\\nin 17iI2. It is tiie west county seat of Grafton County, and\\ncontains the court house, jail, county building for countv\\nofficers, the Academy, two churches, and the Exchange\\nHotel. In addition to these there are also business places\\ntwo good stores, a jeweller, druggist, fancy goods and millin-\\nery, shops, lawyers offices, and the C ohos Printing Press.\\nHere is also ])rinted and published the (xrafton County\\nRegister. The village numbers in all, including Ladd\\nstreet, over one hundred jjrivate residences, many of which\\nare large, subr^tantial, square houses of the olden times, and\\ngive an air of respectability and prosi)crity to t!ie place. In\\nthe center of the village is the large and beautiful Park\\naroimd which is a fine growth of elms and maples, and\\nfronting on thd Park are many of the best residences of the\\nvillage the Exchange Hotel is on tlic west side of the Park,\\nand the Congregational church and Academy are at the\\nnorth-east corner. The village except in court time is ideal\\nin its (juiet and rest. In summer time, however, it is quite\\na resort for tourists and visitors, especiallv with tJiose who\\nseek a restful and invigorating atmosi)here and pleasant\\nsocial surroundings. With entei-prise and well directed cayt-\\nital the place c(ndd be made one of the most [lopular and\\ninviting in all New England. There is every element of a\\nsuccessful sunmier resort, excellent societv, scenery unri-\\nvalled, air pure and bracing, di i\\\\cs of great varictv and\\ncomfort, two lakes within easy reach by carriage, lioating\\nand fishing, and frecpient trains sweep near by on either side.\\nFew houses have been built in the last forty years, and only\\none of marked niodcrn stvlc, that of Mrs. IJ. 1). Tiicki-r,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF HAVEUHILL.\\nwhich is a handsome Queen Ann structure. The vilhige\\nproper contains one ]SIain street running north and south,\\nand Court street on which are situated tiie court liouse and\\ncounty buikhng.\\nNorth Haverhill is a l)eautiful little village of some forty\\nhouses on the west end of a wide plain drained by Poole\\nBrook. It contains a number of substantial private houses,\\nseveral stores, a good sized hotel, shops, the Methodist\\nchurch, and the new Town house and re(;(^rds building. The\\nBoston and Lowell railroad runs close by the village, and\\nthe hotel has been generally well filled with visitors in sum-\\nmer months.\\nAt the extreme north end of the Town, at the Junction of\\nthe Ammonoosuc with the Connecticut, is the village of\\nWoodsville, named from John L. Woods who at one time\\nwas the owner of the land on which the village stands. For\\nmany years it was the terminus of the Boston, Concord and\\nMontreal railroad, but is now an important railroad junction.\\nThe village is a bright, active, growing place, and does a\\nlarge amount of business Avith the j)ros[)CCt of becoming a\\nprominent center in this section. The White Mountain,\\nMontpeher and Wells River, and the Passumpsic railroads\\nconnect at this point with the Boston and Lowell railroad.\\nWoodsville is of quite recent growth, and in the past few\\nyears has doul)led in size and population. Twenty-five years\\nago there was little more than the round-house and railroad\\nstation. Now there are a numl)er of substantial residences and\\nmany pretty cottage houses, two churches, an excellent grad-\\ned school building, two large hotels, stores, shops, a superior\\nwater supply, and the headquarters of the White Mountains\\ndivision of the Boston and Lowell railroad.\\nThese three villages are all on the western side of the\\nTown, Woodsville and North Haverhill near the banks of\\nthe Connecticut, whilst Ha\\\\erhill Corner is situated on a\\nhiii h bluff al)out two hundi ed feet above the river bed and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "GEOGHAPIIY. 25\\nnearly a mile back, overlooking the river and having a\\ncommanding view of the valley north and south.\\nThe other village is East Haverhill in the south-east part\\nof the Town on tlie Oliverian ahout a mile from tiie Benton\\nline. It is situated in the midst of the beautiful and wide\\nexpanse of meadow which is formed by the Oliverian and\\nthe ^.ol\u00e2\u0080\u00a2th Ih ancli. It contains pleasant and l)right houses,\\ntwo stores, shops, the ^Tethodist church, and a station on\\nthe Boston and Lowell railroad.\\nA little hamlet has grown up at Pike Static \u00c2\u00bbn in con-\\nnection with the wlu t-stone Avorks of the A. F. Pike\\n^Manufacturing Company, where there is also a store. The\\nroad from this point to East Haverhill is (piite thickly settled,\\nalmost forming a continuous village between the two points.\\nThe remaining area of the Town under tillage is nuich of it\\nsomewhat sj)arsely settled.\\nThere are no high mountains within the limits of the\\nTown. The highest points of land are in the southern\\nsection, Catamount Hill and Iron Ore Hill, the latter lying\\n})artly in Piermont. A range of well defined hills of con-\\nsiderable height, divided by Poole lirook, traverse the centre\\nof the Town from south to north, of Avhich IJriar Hill forms\\nthe highest elevation. There is also an irreguhu range or\\ncluster of hills in the north-western ]iart of the Town,\\ncommencing east of Horse Meadow and lunninir north to\\nthe Bath line. The surface of the Town may be described\\nin general as irregular and broken, excepted along the river\\nand in the plains already describid, that at Xorth Haverhill\\nand the other at East Haverhill.\\nThe \\\\ermont bank of the Connecticut lvi\\\\(r marks the\\nwestern boundary of Haverhill. The river flows in a very\\nwinding direction through the Town, traversing a distance\\nof about eighteen miles in its coiu se, and forming in the\\nnorthern pai t the famous )x Bow. The intervals or\\nmeadows, as they are usually called, are of great breadth", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 IIISTOKY OF IIAVEIilllLL.\\nand of rare fertility, and are unsurpassed by any lands in\\nthe entire eourse of the river. Here are some of the laro-est\\nand finest and most productive farms in the state, v\u00c2\u00bb hieh are\\nannually enriched by the Spring overflow of the Connecticut,\\nsometimes filling- the valley from side to side, and presenting\\nthe appearance of a large lake.\\nThe Ammonoosuc, which comes down from the White\\n]Mountain range, is a large branch of the Connecticut and\\nforms the boundary line at the exti-eme north-west end of\\nthe town. It furnishes excellent water-power. The Olive-\\nrian is the next most important stream in size and water-\\npower. It rises in the western slope of Moosilauke, enters\\nthe Town near the south-east corner, and pursuing a westward\\ndirection empties into the Connecticut a little north of\\nHaverhill Corner, after a rapid descent by a series of steep\\nfalls just above its mouth. This is a swift mountain stream,\\nand gathers the water fall in a few hours after rains. It\\nbecomes angry and of full volume in the Sjjring and in rainy\\nseasons, whilst in Summer months when the season is dry it\\nshrinks to the dimensions of a moderate sized brook. Its\\n])rincipal tributary is North Branch which comes in from\\nBenton, flows near the east line of the Town, and meets the\\nmain stream at Kast Haverhill.\\nPoole Brook with numerous small feeders has its spring in\\nthe north-east part of the Town, and running in a circuitous\\ncourse through the center, forming Deming Pond in its way,\\nreaches the Connecticut at the old Town farm. Its northern\\nbranch rises in French Pond. This brook thaverses the wide\\nand fertile plain at North Haverhill. The name of this\\nbrook was given to it from the fact that a man of that name\\nlived in the earliest settlement of Haverhill on the north side\\nof the brook not far from its mouth. Poole lost his life in\\nthe Connecticut at the Narrows as did his only child,\\nPolly, Avho was drowned at the Ox Bow.\\nAV^ithin the limits of Haverhill there are no ponds of any", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "(;EOGiiAriiv. 27\\nconsiderable, size, which are so |)r()inineiit a fcatiirt ot otlier\\nsections of the state. AVoods l^oiid in the southern part of\\nthe Town, f^onii- l*ond in the central, and French Pond in\\nthe northern are the oidy bodies of still water, and these are\\nquite limited in extent.\\nThe only island of any notable area is in the omiecticut\\nKiver north of Ox liow, known as Howard Island, and was\\nso named in honor of one of the earliest and most prominent\\nsettlers of the Town, Col. Joshua Howard, who livi d to the\\nag-e of ninety-nine years.\\nThe general geologic rock area of the Town, according to\\nProf. Hitchcock, is known as Bethleiiein gneiss, and in this\\narea is found the following varieties of stone protogcne,\\ncommon gneiss, granite beds, hornblende chist, soapstone,\\nand limestone. Along the Connecticnt River the soil is allu-\\nvial, in the plain at North Haverhill a clayey loam, and at\\nEast Haverhill there is also alluvial soil. The remainder of\\nthe Town is of the ordinary soil of New Hani[)shire u[)lands.\\nOres and minerals are found in the Town, iron in the\\nreoion of Iron Ore Hill, which was formerlv dug to some\\nextent and drawn to a smelting furnace in Vermont. Native\\narsenic, a rare mineral in the United States, and almost\\nwholly confined to New Ham[)shire, is found on Francis\\nKimball s farm. Soapstone was early discovered at the\\nNorth End, and a few years ago efforts were made in puir-\\nrving and bringing it into market, but the attempt proved a\\nfinancial failure. Tiic vein is from twelve to fifteen feet\\nwide, and the stone is said to be capable of a finer edge than\\nany other similar stone in the country. AVhetstone on Cut-\\nting Hill near the Piermont line, exists in immense beds\\nwhich have been worked for o\\\\cr a half century and manu-\\nfactured into all kinds of tool-sharpeners. There are granite\\n(piarries in the noi thern and southern parts of the Town.\\nThe stone of the latter is said to be of the \\\\cry finest\\nqualitv. Tjimestone is found along the xallcy of the North", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nBranch of the Oliverian, which has been quarried and burned\\nin years past in hirge quantities. It is bkie and gray, the\\nformer fine, the latter coarse. It is said lime can be made here\\nmuch cheaper than at Thomaston, Maine.\\nThe water-power of the Town, that at AVoodsville is\\nample enough to drive large machinery, whilst that of the\\nOliverian, which near its mouth makes a descent to the Con-\\nnecticut river of about eighty feet in the short space of\\nforty or fifty rods, furnishes sufKcient head in seasons of\\nordinary water, but the power is very uncei-tain in the sum-\\nmer months, and is greatly crippled at that season of the\\nyear. Water storage in large quantities, it is said, could\\neasily be secured by a comparatively small outlay on the\\nNorth Branch back of vSugar Loaf. Water-power is also found\\nat other points farther up the Oliverian and on the North\\nBranch, whilst Poole Brook at North Haverhill a part of the\\nyear is very available for such purposes.\\nThe Town is well provided with roads. Those rimning\\nthe length of the Town are the Kiver road from Haverhill\\nCorner through North Haverhill to Woodsville, the County\\nroad from I^add street to Swiftwater, and a road from East\\nHaverhill lunning in an irregular course near the Benton\\nline commonly called the Lime Kiln road. Cross-roads\\nconnect these at convenient jioints, the most important of\\nwhich are the road from Haverhill Corner, the Brook road,\\nalong the Oliverian, the Brushwood road, the road to the\\nCentre from North Haverhill, and another to Briar Hill and\\nSwiftwater, and one from the river to the Bath line, called\\nthe Butler road.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nDISCOVEUV AM) K\\\\ l L )I;ATI()X OF THE COIIOS COrXTUV.\\nEarly reports about it from Inmters, trappers, and returned soldiers Plan to\\nexplore and take possession of the Country A doubt Project failed An\\nevent that led to a earefulsurvey Anewroute The expedition of ITM- Capt.\\nPowers scouting party, 17o4 Missions of the Powers and Lovewell parties.\\nSome years before the foot of any white P^nglishinan or\\nAmerican had trod that part of the Connecticut Valley as\\na i)ermanent abode, which afterwards l)ecame famous as\\nthe Cohos Country, repoi ts of its great fertility and yalue\\nhad reached the settlements as far down on the Connecticut\\nriyer as Massachusetts, and these reports were known also\\nto the Proyincial authorities of New Hampsliire. They\\nwere brought by hunters and trappers who vyere accustomed\\nto go up to the head-watei-s of the Pemigcwasset and its\\ntributaries and beyond, and also it is said l)y returned\\nsoldiers and captives who at the close of the French and\\nIndian war came back from Canada by way of Lake\\nMemphremagog and the Passumpsic and Connecticut riyers.\\nGen. Jacob Bailey, it is stated in the Life of Gen. Stark,\\npassed fi-om Canada to his home in Newbury, Mass.. and\\nwas charmed with the Cohos meadows.\\nAs early as 17. )2 the General Court of New llauipshire\\ntook measures to exploiv and take possession of the country.\\nThe farthest northern settlement as late as 17(!0 in the\\nConnecticut Valley was at No. 4, now Charleston,\\nand there were only a few settlements south of that point\\nwithin the limits of the Proyince of New Hampshire.\\nThe original plan of 1752 was to take possession of\\nthe Cohos Country, and hold it as a military post\\nagainst the French and Indians. The goyernment\\nwas to grant two townships to fiye hundred picked men\\nwho were to occupy the territory, one on the A ermont\\nside of the Connecticut riyer, and the other on the New", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nHampshire side. In each of tliese townships a fort or\\nstockade was to l)e built and garrisoned. The enclosures\\nwere to contain fifteen acres each, laroe enouiih to (f we\\nshelter to the inhabitants and their cattle in case of an\\nattack from the French and Jndiiins. These enclosures\\nwere to be provided with ]\u00c2\u00bbul)]ic buildings and granaries.\\nCourts were to be established for the settlement of all civil\\nmatters, and a strict military discipline was to be maintained.\\nThe settlement in Cohos was also to be connected with\\nNo. 4 by a military road cut through the forest.\\nSuch was the general plan of occupancy as outlined\\nin a letter of Col. Atkinson in the secretary s office of Xew\\nHampshire. And in order to carry out the scheme a\\nconunittee was a[)p(\u00c2\u00bbintcd to examine the lands and to\\nlocate the townshi[)s. Tiie way of access at that time to\\nthe Cohos Country, wiis by way of No. 4, and the com-\\nmittee, it is said, after they had performed their duty, made\\na favorable report to the Provincial authorities, and four\\nhundred men were actually enlisted to take })Ossession of\\nthe Cohos Country.*\\nThis project, however, was not carried out, as the\\nal)origines wiio were in ])ossession of the country not only\\nas a hunting-gi ound, but had also cultivated some parts of\\nit on both sides of the river, made earnest remonstrance\\nand threats against the invasion of their territory by the\\nwhites.\\nMeantime, an e\\\\ent took place which led to an extensive\\nand careful exj)loration of the Cohos Country. A jjarty of\\nfour men whilst hunting on Baker s river in the spring of\\nIt has been held that the conunittee which was appointed in\\n1752 to examine and la,y out tlie two townships, did hot fj;o to the\\n(Johos Country, and that Capt. Powers and his party were tlie first\\nexplorers of this re;i^ion. This view is founded on these facts, first,\\nthat no account of the conunittee s work is recorded, and sei-ond.\\nthat in 1754 the (Jeneral Court in determining to send the Powers\\nparty to the Cohos Country, call it an liitiierto unknown i-egion.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DISroAEUV AM) KXl I.OKATION. 31\\n1752 was surprised by Indians. J wo of tlieni were taken\\nprisoners and carried away into Canada, one made his\\nescape ]w flight, and the other was killed in the jiffray.\\nOne of the ])ersons named was flohn Stark, wiio afterwards\\nbecame the brave and distinguished (Jen. Stark of the\\nKevolutionary War, and the hero of the battle of IJenning-\\nton. The Indians in taking their prisoners from Baker s\\nriver into Canada ))assed directly through the Cohos\\nCountry. Stark and his companion were soon released\\nfrom captivity, and returned in the summer of the same\\nyear in which they were carried away. Thev gave an\\naccount of the Cohos Country, and their description of it\\nAvas so favorable and enticing that the authorities Avere\\nanimated Avith ncAv zeal and determination to send an expedi-\\ntion to the Connecticut river at Cohos.\\nThe Indian trail from Baker s river ti) the C\\\\)nnecticut\\nvalley, over Avhich Stark and his fellow-prisoners were\\ntaken, and which Avas followed in their return from Canada,\\nsuggested to the authorities of Ncav Hampshire that the\\nmost direct and feasible Avay to reach the Cohos Country\\nAvas to go u[) the PemigcAvasset and liaker s iivci-s. and\\nthence into the Connecticut valley by the Indian trail. And\\nthis route Avas the one chosen by the party sent out for the\\npurpose of marking a road into Cohos, at the head of which\\nAvas Col. Lovewcll with flohn Stai k. the ictumcd prisoner,\\nas their guide.\\nThe pai ty started from Concoi-d, then called Iviimford.\\nMarch 10, IToo, and foUowt d up tlie Merrimack, I emige-\\nwasset, and Baker s rivers, using canoes whenever the Avater\\nAvould permit. The i)arty left Baker s river at the junction\\nof Pond Brook, the north-west branch of the main stream,\\nand reached the Connecticut river at Piernumt through the\\nnorth-east part of Avhat is now the toAvn of Orford. The\\nround journey, a distance of about one hundred sixty miles,\\nAvas made in twentA days. Col. LovcavcH and his partv", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nremained on the Connecticut river only one night, and the\\nnext day they began their return to Concord.\\nIn the folknving year, 17o4, an expedition or scouting\\nparty was organized under the command of Capt. Peter\\nPowers of Hollis. A detailed account of their journey is\\ngiven in a diary or journal which was kept at the time, by\\nCapt. Powers, and which was afterwards in possession of hi\\nyoungest son, Samson Powers.\\nThe expedition left Concord, June 15, 1754, and reached\\nContoocook the same day. The following day being Sun-\\nday, the Journal notes the fact that the })arty tarried and\\nwent to meeting. A week later Capt. Powers and his\\nassociates had got as far as the mouth of Pond Broiok on\\nBaker s river, Init perhaps on account of having penetrated\\nbeyond the limits of civilization and meeting houses, no\\nmention is made of tarrying the second vSabbath for devo-\\ntional ])urposes, and they marched on along Pond Brook.\\nAfter advancing a short distance the party was compelled,\\nby reason of the dark weather, to follow the path which\\nhad been marked by Col. Lovewell and his men in INIarch,\\n175o. The Connecticut river was reached on the 25th\\nof June, the eleventh day after the expedition left Concord,\\nat a })oint known as Aloose Meadow, afterwards owned\\nbp Maj. Nathaniel INIerrill, and now in possessic)n of Benja-\\nmin Hibbard, a descendant of his. Then skirting alone: the\\nAvide intervals of the Connecticut river the party encam[)ed\\non the banks of a large stream which came out of the\\neast, and which is described as furnishing the best falls\\nand conveniences of all sorts of mills. The march of this\\nday nuist have been about twenty miles, and the encam[)-\\nment on the night jof June 25th was, in all probability, on\\nthe south side of Oliverean on the hi^h plat of (ground a\\nlittle west of the Montgomery house, now owned by Capt.\\nJ. Leroy Bell. The river being much swollen by the\\nfrequent rains which are noted in the Journal, the explorers", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERY AM) KXI LOKATIOX. 33\\nafter a loni^ and toilsome journey would hardly venture to\\ncross.\\nIn the Journal of the next day Capt. Powers noticed the\\nfact of clear intervals on the Connecticut River. These\\nintervals now known as (irreat Ox Bow in Xewlniry, Ver-\\nmont, and Little Ox Bow in Haverhill, had been cultivated\\nat times by the Indians. The hills of coi-n though swarded\\nover and covered with a luxuriant growth of irrass were\\nvisible at latter date, 17G1, when Johnston and Pattie, the\\nfirst white settlers, came to the Cohos Country. On reach-\\ning the Ammonoosuc the river was so deep and wide that\\nthe party were compelled to tarry and build a canoe before\\nthey were able to cross the stream. Capt. Powers and his\\nmen, after leaving the territory of the lower Cohos, within\\nthe limits of what is now Haverhill, continued their explora-\\ntions as far as Lancaster. In their journey northward they\\npassed along the high ground between the Connecticut and\\nAmmonoosuc rivers. On the second day of July, finding\\ntheir stores much reduced, with little hope of going forward\\nwith success, Capt. Powers resolved to return, and at once\\nbegan preparations for the homeward journey. No Indians\\nbad been met by the exploring party in their long march,\\nbut on the day of their return A\\\\hilst the men were mending\\ntheir shoes, Capt. Powers with two others made a short\\nexcursion to the north of the encampment, in the course of\\nwhich they came to a place where Indians had been making\\ncanoes, and which apparently they had abandoned only a\\nshort time before.\\nThe last date in the Journal is July f)th, the expedition\\nhaving reached on that day on the homeward journey as far\\nas Haverhill, and on the night of that day the party encani[)-\\ned, according to the entry in the Journal, on the high\\nground near the Oliverian, which is described as the best\\nof upland, and covered by some quantity of large white", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\npine. This encampment was in all likelihood on the\\nground now covered by Haverhill Village.\\nThe Powers expedition as already stated was a scouting-\\nparty whose chief aim was a search for Indians. The\\nexploration of the country was only incidental to its main\\npurpose, and this was the first exploration of the Cohos\\nCountry unless the committee of 1752 actually went to\\nCohos. Col. Lovewell s party was sent to the Connecticut\\nRiver and reached it at Piermont where it remained only\\none night, and then returned to Concord, and the object of\\nthis expedition was to mark a road to Cohos over the Indian\\ntrail between the Connecticut and Baker s rivers.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nTHE niARTEll PERIOD.\\nInflux of population\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Charter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Names of Grantees Four divisions\u00e2\u0080\u0094 House\\nlots Privileged pitchers Governor Wentworth s right Drawing\\nNumbering Names of meadows Grantees common to Newhury and Haverhill\\nGen. Jacob Bailey Col. Jacob Kent Gen. Moses Hazcn.\\nAlthough the Cohos Country was now fully explored by\\nCapt. Powers and his party who gave a glowing account of\\nits wonderful fertility and great resources, there was no\\nimmediate influx of emigration into the country till some\\nyears later. But after the conquest of Canada by the Eng-\\nlish in 17G0, and when the frontiers were no longer ex[)Osed\\nto the dangers and incursions of the French and their Indian\\nallies, the spirit of emigration in the older settlements of\\nNew Hampshire and Massachusetts began again to revive,\\nand large numbers of hardy and enterprising emigrants\\npoured into the inviting openings of the Connecticut valley.\\nIn 1761 the Provincial authorities of Xew Hampshire made\\nnumerous grants of townships on both sides of the Connecti-\\ncut River. The territory on the west side of the river as far\\nas the Xew York line was at this time claimed as part of\\nXew Hampshire.\\nThe charter of the Townsliip of Haverhill bears date the\\n18th of May, 1703, and was granted to seventy-fi\\\\e jjcrsons.\\nIn addition to the seventy-five shares represented by these\\npersons, His Excellency, (iovernor Benning A\\\\ entwortii,\\nEsq., was to have five hundred acres which were to be\\ncounted as two shares. .Vlso, there was a share each for\\nthe Society for the l*r()[)agation of the Gos[)el in Foreign\\nParts, for a glebe for the Ciuirch of England, for the first\\nsettled minister of the gospel, and for the benefit of a com-\\nmon school. The charter witli the names of grantees is\\ngiven in the following pages, tlie document being printed\\nexactly as it was originally written, capitals, spelling.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nabreviations, and punctuations are left unchanged. This is\\ntlie only document which is so printed in this history all\\nother papers of the olden time, as far as used, are made to\\nconform to modern usage. This is printed as an example of\\nthe changes which have taken place in such matters since the\\ndays of the charter.\\nCHARTER.\\npuovixce of\\nNew Hampshire\\nJo 1 George The Third By the Grace of God of Grate Britean\\nseal I France and Irehmd King Defender of The Faith c c\\nTo all Parsons to whom These Presents shall [come] Greeting\\nKnow yee that we of our special Grace Certain Knowlige and mere\\nmotion for the Due Encouragement of Setting a New Plantation\\nwithin our said Province by and with the advice of our Trusty and\\nwell Beloved Benning Wentworth Esq Our Governor and Commander\\nin Chief of Our said Province of Nevvhampshlre in New England and\\nOur Council of the said Province, Have Upon The Conditions and\\nReservations herein after made Given and Granted and by These\\nPresents for us Our Heirs and Successors Do Give and Grant in\\nEqual Shares unto Our Loving Subjects Inhabitants of Our said\\nProvince of Newhampshire and Our Other Governments and thier\\nHeirs and assigns for Ever whose Names Are Entered on this Grant\\nto be Divided to and Amongst them into Eighty one Equal Shares all\\nthat Tract or Parcel of Land Situate Lying and being within Our said\\nProvince of Newhampshiie Containing by Admeasurement\\nAcres which Tract is to Contain more Than Six Miles Square Out of\\nwhich an allowance is to be made for high Ways and unimprovable\\nJjands by Rocks Ponds Mountains and Rivers One Thousand and\\nForty Acres free according To a Plan and Survej^ thereof made by\\nOur said Governors Order and Returned into the Secretary s Office\\nand here unto anexed Budtted and Bounded as follows viz. Begining\\nat a I ree marked Standing on the Bank of the Estern side of Connec-\\nticut river and on the southerly or south westedly side of the mouth\\nof the Amonuck River Opposite to the South westedly Corner of\\nBath* from thence Down Connecticut river as that runs Till it comes\\nto a marked Tree Standing on the Bank of the River and is about\\nSevn (7) Miles On a straight Line from the mouth of Amonusk River\\naforesaid from thence south Fiftey Three Degrees Eeast five Miles\\nand Three Quarters to a Stake and Stones Thence North Twenty Five\\nBath was incorporated in 1701, tliough not settleil till a few years later.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE CIIAKTKU PEKIOU. 37\\nDegrees East about Eijiht Miles Until it Corns upon a line with the-\\nLro [lower] Side Lino of Bath Thence North Fiftey Five Degress\\nWest as Bath Kuns to the Tree 1)\\\\- the River The Hounds licgan at\\nand that the Same be and hereby is Incorporated into a Touiidsliip by\\nthe Name of Haverhill and the inhabitants that Do or Shall hereafter\\ninhabit the said Toundship are hereby Declared to be Enfranchized\\nwith and Intitled to all and Every the Priviledges and Inununitie*\\nthat Other Tounds within Our Province by Law Enuse and injoy and\\nfurther tliat the said Tound as soon as thire Shall be Fiftey Families\\nResident and settled Thereon shall liave the Liberty of Holding Twa\\nFeares one of Which shall be held on the\\nand the Other on the\\nannually which Fairs are not too Continue Longer\\nthen the Respective Following the said\\nand that as soon as the said Tound shall\\nConsist of Fiftey families a Market may be Opened and Kept one or\\nMore Days in Each \\\\Veek as may be Thought most advantageous to\\nthe Inhabitants also that the first Meeting For the Choice of Tound\\nOfficers agreable to the Laws of Our said Province Shall be held on\\nye Second Tuesday in June Next.\\nWhich sd meeting Shall be Notif j^ed by Capt John Hazzen who is\\nhereby also appointed the Moderator of the said First Meeting which\\nhe is To Notify and Govern agreeable to the Laws and Customs of\\nOur said Province and that the Amiual meetings forever hereafter for\\nthe Choice of such otlicers for the said Tound Shall be on the Second\\nTuesday of ^larch annually\\nTo Have and To hold the said Tract of Land as above expressed\\ntogether with all Privileges and appurtennance to them and Thire\\nRespective heirs and assigns forever upon the following Considera-\\ntions viz\\n1. That Every Grantee his lieres or assigns shall Plank^and Culti-\\nvate Five acres of Land within the Term of F ive Years for Every\\nFiftey acres Contained in his or Thire Shares or Piopotion of Land in\\nsaid Toundship and Continue to Improve and Settle the Same by\\nadditional Cultivations on Penalty of Forfeiture of his Grant or\\nShare in the said Toundship and of its Reverting to us Our lieres and\\nSuccessors to be by us and them Regranted to Such of Our Subjects-\\nas shall ElTectually Settle and Cultivate the same\\n21} That all White and Other Pine Trees within the Said Tound-\\nship Fit for Masting Our Royal Navy be carefully Preserved for that\\nUse and not to be Cut or felled with Out our special Licence for so\\nDoing First had and Obtained upon the Penalty of the Forfeituie of\\nthe Right of sutch Grantee his Iliers and assigns to us Our hiers\\nand Successors as well as Being Subject to the Penalty of an act or\\nacts of Parliament that Now are or here after Shall be Enacted", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 mSTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\n31y That before any Division of the Land be made, To and among\\nthe Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the s [said] Tound-\\nship as the land will admit of: Shall be Eeserved and marked Out\\nFor Tound Lotts one of which shall be allotted to Each Grantee of\\nthe Contents of One Acre\\n41y. Yieldino; and Paying therefor to us Our heirs and Successors\\nfor the Space of Ten Years to be Computed from the date hereof the\\nrent of one Ear of Indian Corn only on the Twentey Fifth Day Decem-\\nber annually if Lawfully Demanded the First Paj ment To be made\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0on the Twentey Fifth Day of December 17G3.\\n51y. Every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield and pay\\nunto us Our Heirs and Successors j^early and Every Year forever\\nfrom and After the Expiration of Ten years from the above sad Twen-\\ntey Fifth Day of December Namely on the Twentey Fifth Day of\\nDecember which will be the Year of Our Lord 1773 One Shillings\\nProclamation Money for Every Hundred [acres he so owns Settles or\\nPossesses and So in Proportion For a Grater or Lesser Tract of the\\nsaid Land which money shall be Paid The Respective Parsons abov-\\nsaid tliire Hiers or assigns in Our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or\\nto sutch OfHcer or Officers as shall be appinted To Receive the \u00c2\u00abame\\nand This To be in Lieu of all Other Rents and Serviceses Whatsoever\\nIn Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of Our said Prov-\\nince to be hereunto affixed Witness Benning Wentworth Eqr Our\\nGovernor and Commander in Cheaf of Our said Province the I8th\\nDajM)f May in the Year of Our Lord Christ One Thousand Seven\\nHundred and Sixty Three and in the Third Year of Our Reign by\\nhis Excellencys Command With the advice of Council\\nB Went WORTH\\nT Atkinson Junr. Secry\\nProvince of Newhampshire May ye IS 17G3 Recorded in the Book\\nof Charters Page 397 398\\nT Atkinson Junr. Secry\\nThk Names of the Grantees of Haverhill.\\n.John Hazzen Jaasiel Harriman\\nJacob Bayley Esq Jacob Kent\\nEphraim Bayley Eleazer Hall\\nJames Philbrook Samuel Hubbart\\nGideon Gould John Haile Esq\\nJohn Clark Maxey Hazelton\\nJohn Svvett Thomas Johnson\\nThomas Emery John Mills\\nBenoney Colbourn John Trusial\\nReuben Mills Abraham Dow\\nJohn Ilazzen Junr Uriah Morse", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE CHARTER I ERH)!).\\n39\\nEdniond Coblej\\nDavid Hall\\nI.eniuel Tucker\\nEdmond Moores Escj\\nJolm White\\nBenjamin Moores\\nWilliam Hazzen\\nMoses Hazzen\\nRobert Peaslee\\nTimothj^ Bedel\\nJohn Spafibrd\\nEnodi Heath\\nWilliam Page\\nJoseph Kellej^\\nAaron Hosmer\\nJohn Harriman\\nJohn Lampson\\nStephen Knight\\nJohn Hall\\nDavid Hulbart\\nSimon Stevens\\nJohn Moores\\nWilliam Toborn\\nDavid Page\\nJames White\\nBenj Merrill\\nNathaniel Merrill\\nJohn Church\\nEnoch Hall\\nJacob Hall\\nBenoney Wright\\nJohn Page\\nJosiah Tjittlo\\nJohn Taplin Esq\\nJona Foster\\nJoseph Blanchard Escj\\nRichard Pettey\\nMoses Foster\\nThe Honorable\\nJames Nevin Esq\\nJohn Nelson P]sq\\nTheodore Atkinson Junr\\nNathaniel Barrel\\nCol William Symes\\nWilliam Porter\\nJohn Hastings\\nCapt George Marsli\\nMaj Richard Emery\\nCapt Nehemiah Lovell\\nHon Henry Shorbern Esq\\nMaJ John Wentworth\\nSaml Wentworth Esq of\\nBoston\\nBypeld Loyd Boston\\nAnd his Excellency\\nGovernor Barnard\\nHis Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq a Tract of Land to\\nContain Five Hundred Acres as Marked B W in the Plan which is\\nto be accounted two of the within Shares One whole Share for the\\nIncori)orated Society For the Propagation of the Gosi)el in Foreign\\nParts one whole Shaire for a Glebe for the Church of England One\\nShare for the First Settled Minister of the Gospel and one Share for\\nthe Benefit of a School in said Tound\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nProvince of New Hampshire May The 18th 1763 Recorded in tlie\\nBook of Charters Page 399 c T Atkinson Junr Secry\\nThe Proprietors at on(;e went to work to assi*;!! eacli\\nowner his riirht or share. The Town wasdivick^l into\\nsections. First, came the meadow lots of one hundred\\nacres each then the division of one hundred acre h)ts\\nnext, the eio;htv acre h:)ts, an l hist the north and .south", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ndivisions of forty acre lots. But before any division of the\\nland was to be made, a section in the centre of the Town\\nwas to be set apart for house lots of one acre for each\\ngrantee.* All shares were drawn by lot, except in the\\ncase of a few persons who were privileged to pitch their\\nrights, and several also were allowed to have their entire\\nright in meadow lots. Capt. Hazen and Col. Jacob\\nBailey were allowed such privilege, and a few others who\\ndoubtless had something to do in getting the cliarter. Gov.\\nWentwortlfs right of five hundred acres, rated as two\\nshares, was in the north-west corner of the Town, where\\nWoodsville is situated, and next south of him was the\\nright of his Secretary, Theodore Atkinson. All\\nnumbering of lots was from north to south, but the meadow\\nlots were numbered according to the meadow the lots were\\nin. For example, Upper meadow had nine lots which were\\nnumbered from one to nine as situated in that meadow\\nHorse jMeadow had twenty lots and were numbered from\\none to twenty in that meadow, and so on.f\\nSome of the grantees of Haverhill were also grantees of\\nNewbury, Vermont. Of many of the names given in the\\nlist little or nothing is known. Probably some became\\nProprietors simply as a matter of speculation. We learn\\nfrom the Proprietors records that quite early rights were\\nsold at public auction for the ])aymcnt of taxes. These\\nrights belonged to persons who in all probability did not\\ncome to the new settlement, and their lands remaininn- un-\\n*The object it would seem was to have a village street run through\\nthe centre of the town, on which the dwellings were to be built,\\nwitli each grantee s land running l)aek from the street. But the\\nhouse lots in Haverhill were laid out along the high ground of the\\nuieadows.\\ntThe names of the meadows beginning at the north were as\\nfollows: I pper Meadow, Horse Meadow, AVheeler Meadow, Ox Bow,\\nMorse Meadow, Bailey Meadow, Ollverian Meadow.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE CHAUTKK rKKIOl). 41\\nimproved gained little in value, and as a consequence were\\nallowed to be confiscated for taxes.\\nOf these grantees of prominence who were also grantees\\nof Newl)ury, and who^c interests were more in Newhurv\\nthan in Haverhill, foremost must be mentioned (ien. Jacob\\nBailey. He and aj)t. Hazen were warm friends, and acted\\ntogether in the settlement of the Cohos Country. (Ien.\\nBailey became a very conspicuous man in the history of this\\nrcy^ion, and held a hiy-li commission durinsf the Revolution-\\nary War, being Commissary General of the Xorthern Army.\\nThe Baileys of Xewbury and of Haverhill are descendants\\nof Gen. Bailey.\\nJacob Kent was also a prominent citizen of Xewbury, and\\nwas the ancestor of the Kents oi that Town. Hon. Henry\\nO. Kent, the present Xaval Officer at Boston, is a grandson\\nof Col. Jacob Kent.\\nMoses Hazen was a brother of C^ipt. John Hazen, but\\nwent to St. Johns, Canada, before the Kevolution. At the\\nconnnencement of hostilities, however, he joined tiic revolu-\\ntionists, and took a prominent [)art in the struggle for inde-\\njiendence, coming out of the contest with the rank of\\nBrigadier General. He died in Albany, X. Y., in 17(S5.\\nOf the grantees of Haverhill whose interests were more\\nparticularly with the develojnnent and progress of the Town,\\nnotice is taken in another place so far as anything could be\\nlearned of them.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nEARLY SETTLEMENT BEFORE THE CHARTER.\\nTwo remarkable men\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Michael Johnston and John Pattie the first settlers, 1701\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWintered at O^ Bow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Indians then in possession\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Johnston and Pattie return\\nto No. 4 A tragic end Capt. Hazen comes to Cohos in ITKi with men and\\nmaterial for saw-nilU and grist-mill Leading position Death\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Moses Hazen\\nand John Hazen confounded William Hazen-Joshua Howard-Jesse Harriman\\nSimeon Stevens\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Johnson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Col. Timothy Bedel and family Capt.\\nJohn Page and family First Marriage\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Family First Birth First Death\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Morse Meadow.\\nIn the early settlement of the Cohos Country there were\\ntwo men of remarkable energy and force of character.\\nThey were men of large experience in those stormy times,\\nand occupied prominent positions in the communities where\\nthey lived. One was Jacob Bailey of Newbury, Mass.,\\nand the other was John Hazen of Haverhill, Mass. Both\\nhad taken a leading part in the French and Indian war,\\nand were in excellent favor with those in authority. Their\\ngallant and brave services in the war which had just closed,\\nwould naturally give them special claim to consideration,\\nand when the tide of emiofration set into the Connecticut\\nValley, these men directed their energies to the Cohos\\nCountry, and took early steps for occupancy and possession.\\nThey worked in harmony. Capt. Hazen was the first to\\nsend forward men who took possession of the east side of\\nthe Connecticut river in the summer of 1761, two years\\nbefore a charter of the Town was granted. No doubt there\\nwas a good understanding between these leaders and the\\nauthorities at Portsmouth in reference to the occupancy of\\nthis part of the Connecticut valley. The names of Hazen\\nand Bailey stand at the head of the list of grantees of the\\nTownship of Haverhill.\\nThe men whom Capt. Hazen sent into the Cohos Country\\nin the early summer of 1761, were Michael Johnston\\nand JoNN Pattie, both from Haverhill, Mass. Thev were", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "EARLY .SETTLKliS. 43\\nthe first wliite persons who set ])ernianent foot on the soil of\\nILiverliill. They came first to Xo. 4 and then up the Con-\\nnecticut river, and hrouoht with them some cattle. Before\\nthe winter set in they built for themselves and their cattle\\nshelters at Ox Bow where they found clear intervals, as\\nCapt. Powers seven years before had stated in his Journal\\nwhen he and his party passed through the country. This\\ncleared land which at some time had been cultivated by the\\nIndians in raising corn, was now covered with a heavy\\njirowth of grass which the two white occuijants gathered in\\nthe tall and fed to their cattle during the winter. Indians\\nwere then dwellinn; on these intervals, but thev were friendly\\nand made no op[)Osition or threatening protests to the occu-\\npancy of these lands by strangers, as they had done in 1752\\nwhen; preparations Avere made at that date to take possession\\nof the country.\\nJohnston and Pattie after their long winter in the wilder-\\nness, embarked in a canoe on the Connecticut river in the\\nearly summer with the intention of returning to No. 4 and\\ntheir friends. In their journey they met with a sad accident.\\nA little above the mouth of White river, in an angry plunge\\nof the Connecticut over rocks at a point afterwards known\\nas Olcott Falls, the canoe was capsized and the two voyagers\\nwere thrown into the water, Johnston losing his life. The\\nbody was washed ashore on an island just below the Falls\\nwhere it was found soon after by a stranger coming up the\\nriver, and by whom it was buried in the sand. The island\\nnow bears the name of Johnston s Island. Pattie escaped\\nthe fate of his companion by superior skill in swimming, and\\nafterwards reached No. 4 in safety. Of his after history\\nnothino; is known. Michael Johnston was a brother of the\\ndistinjjuished Col. Charles Johnston who a few vears after-\\nwards came to Haverhill, and took a prominent part in the\\naffairs of the Town.\\nIn the spring of ITGi Capt. Ilazen joined Johnston and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nPattie with a new force of men, and with material for build-\\ning a grist mill and a saw mill which he erected on Poole\\nBrook, on the site where afterwards stood the Swasey mill.\\nJoHX Hazen was born in 1731, his fiitlier s name being:\\nMoses Plazen, and his mother s Abigail White of Haverhill,\\nMass. He was a man of great force of character and full\\nenergy and enterprise. The Township of Haverhill was\\ngranted to him and seventy-four others. By the charter he\\nw^as intrusted Avith the duty of Avarning the first Town meet-\\ning, and he was also named in tlie charter to be the first\\nmoderator. He was also moderator of the first Proprietors\\nmeeting. In Town affairs he took a foremost part, and held\\nvarious positions of trust, serving either as moderator,\\nselectman. Town-clerk during his residence in the Town.\\nPrevious to coming to Haverhill he was active, it is said,\\nin the settlement of the town of Hampstead, and at one-\\ntime he was a citizen of Plaistow, from whicli town he was\\nenrolled in the New Hampshire militia. He was a brave\\nand gallant soldier in the French and Indian war, and\\nfaced many dangers and saw hard service in the Canadian\\nexpedition especially before the walls of Quebec. He held\\na Lieutenant s commission in Col. Meserve s regiment in\\nthe expedition against Crown Point in 1757, and a Cap-\\ntain s commission in Col. Hart s regiment in 1758. He\\nalso had a like rank in 17(50 in Col. Goff s regiment for\\nthe invasion of C-anada.\\nAt the close of the war he returned to Haverhill, Mass.,\\nand soon after undertook with others the settlement of the\\nCohos Country. He was a large land-owner in Haverhill,\\nand built as above stated the first saw-mill and grist-mill in\\nthe Town.\\nCapt. Hazen s leading position in the early settlement\\nof the Town is indicated in tiie fact that he was allowed to\\nselect meadow lots Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in Ox Bow, and\\nhouse lots Nos. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. ^lill privileges were", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "KAULY SETTLEUS. 45\\nreserved for tlie use of the Pro})rietors. All other persons\\nwere required to draw for- their lots.\\nCapt. Hazen s name which appears repeatedly hoth in\\nthe Town and Proprietors records till 1773, suddenly\\ndisappears after that date, and he is supposed to have died\\nabout that time. No record is found of his death or burial,\\nbut he was undoubtedly buried in the fi^ra\\\\e-yard at Ox\\nBow. No stone marks the resting-place of the founder of\\nthe Town. John Hazen and Moses Hazen have been con-\\nfounded. The latter Avas a gallant officer of high rank\\nin the Revolutionary War. Capt. Hazen married .Vnne,\\ndaughter of John Swett of Haverhill, Mass., whose name\\nappears amongst the grantees of Haverhill, N. H. She\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0died in 1765. They had four children, Sarah, John, and\\ntwo who died in early life. John went with his imcle\\nWilliam to New Brunswick, and married Priscilla, daughter\\nof Dr. William McKinstry, and had a numerous family.\\nSarah became the wife of ]VIaj. Nathaniel Merrill, and was\\nthe mother of a fjimily of twelve children, eleven of whom\\nwere daughters. Capt, Hazen married a second time, a\\ndaughter of Kev. Josiah Cotten, and she after Capt.\\nHazen s death, became the wife of Henry Hancock of\\nLyman. This fact determines the date of Cajjt. Hazen s\\ndeath a})})ro\\\\imatcly. Ih^ was supposed to be a man of\\nlarge property, but it is said after his estate was settled\\nthere were only $12 left, which were given to his daughter\\nSarah, and with this money she bought a large family Bible\\nthat is now in possession of Benjamin Hibbard of Piermont.\\nCapt. Hazen was a man of great courage. One Oliver\\nillard according to Powers, undertook to thwart his plans\\nin regard to the grant of Haverhill, and for this purpose he\\nsent some men to take possession of the territory. But\\nHazen had anticipated them, and being in excellent favor\\nwith the jrovernor of the Pi()\\\\ ince, and having as his allv\\nGen. Jacob Bailey, a brave and resolute man, he had little", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ndifficulty in gaining a complete victory over his rival.\\nWillard was furions at his discomfiture, and threatened to\\ntake vengeance upon his opponent if he ever caught him\\noutside the settlement. The parties soon after met at No.\\n4 when the attem])t was made to carry out the threat, but\\nthe doughty Captain it is said was more than a match for\\nhis rash assailant.\\nWilliam, brother of John and ]\\\\Ioses Hazen, was a\\nproj^rietor in the original grant of the Town. He went\\nearly to New Brimswick, and had a family of sixteen child-\\nren, several of whom became connected by marriage with\\nsome of the first families of the Province, and some held\\nhigh official positions.\\nJoshua Howard. Of those who came with Capt.\\nIlazen in the s])ring of 17()2 to put up his mills and begin\\nthe settlement of the Cohos Country several afterwards became\\nprominent. (^ne of these was Joshua Howard, a young\\nman from Haverhill, Mass., wlio lived to the very advanced\\nage of 99, dying in 1839. He was one of the grantees of\\nNewbury, Vt., and was a townsman of Hazen s in Massa-\\nchusetts. With two others he was the first person that came\\ndirect from Salisbury to Cohos, the usual route being by the\\nway of No 4. This was in April, 17(52. His companions\\nwere Jesse Harriman and Simeon Stevens, with an old\\nhunter as guide who led them through the wilderness. They\\naccomplished the journey in four days, travelling up Baker s\\nriver and crossing the height of land into what afterwards\\nbecame the town of Coventry, now Benton, thence followed\\ndown the Oliverian. They Avere probably the advance force\\nof the men whom Ca])t. Hazen brought to Cohos as already\\nstated.\\nCol. Howard lived for some time on an island in the Con-\\nnecticut river which bears his name. At one time he kept a\\nhotel where the County Poor House now stands. He was a\\nleading man in the community in his day. In 1787 he was", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS. 47\\none of the selectmen of the Town with Charles fJohnston\\nand Ezekiel Ladd. He was also on the committee of safety\\nfor the Town in 177(1, and served as a lieutenant in a com-\\npany of rangers in the Kevolution. AVhen the Union C\\\\m-\\nvention met fit Windsor, Aermont, for the purpose of\\norganizing a state government that should include towns on\\nboth sides of the Connecticut river, Col. Howard was a\\nrepresentative from Haverhill in that convention. Little is\\nknown of his family. The oldest son, Joshua, died at the\\nhomestead on Howard s Island. Benjamin went to Ohio,\\nand a younger son, Rice, was a sporting man, and spent\\nmuch of his time away from home, chiefly in the South.\\nCol. Howard was a man of intelligence, energy, and strict\\nintegrity, and in religious sentiment would be called a\\nUniversalist.\\nJaasiel Harrimax, one of Howard s companions, came\\nfrom Haverhill, Mass. He was commonly called Jesse,\\nand was a grantee of Haverhill, Bath, and Newbury. He\\nremained in Haverhill only a few years and then moved to\\nBath. His was the first family that settled in that town.\\nA daughtci-, Nancy, married Jesse Carleton aud afterward\\nlived in Haverhill. She was the grandmother of Chester M.\\nCarleton.\\nSoiEOX Stevens, another of Howard s men, is probably\\nthe same jierson as Simon Stevens whose name appears as\\none of the grantees of Haverhill. A Simeon Stevens was\\nalso a grantee of Newbury. Simeon Stevens was a captain\\nin Col. Bedel s regiment in 1778. The Stevens family be-\\ncame quite prominent in Piermont in later days.\\nTwo other persons appear in company with Cai t. Hazen\\nin the early settlement of Haverhill, and afterward became\\nconspicuous in the history of Cohos. One of these was\\nThomas Johnson, a young man in the service of Gen.\\nBailey. He first lived in Haverhill for a short period, and\\nthen ])urchased land in Newbury and became a citizen of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthat town. The name of Johnson is found in the list of\\nNewbury grantees. Col. Johnson was an ardent patriot\\nduring the Revolutionary War, and made himself very\\nobnoxious to the British authorities on that account. He\\nwas at the taking of Ticonderoga, and acted as aid to Gen.\\nLincoln. Afterward in 1781 he was taken prisoner at\\nPeacham, Vt., by a party of British soldiers and carried to\\nCanada, but was allowed to return on parol to Newbury at\\nthe end of seven or eight months.\\nTimothy Bedel was the other person. He was from\\nSalem, and after remaining in the employ of Capt. Hazen\\nfor a year or two, he moved his family to the newly organi-\\nzed Town, and settled on Poole brook. He and his family\\nwere a valuable accession to the population, and added to\\nthe substantial character of the new settlement. Col.\\nBedel was one of the original Proprietors of Haverhill and\\niilso of Bath, and was a man of large influence and promi-\\nnence in the Town. Previous to the Revolution he lived\\nfor a short time in Bath. In ITTT) he was a member of\\nthe Provincial C^ongress of New Hampshire, which met at\\nExeter, but at the breaking out of the War of the Revolu-\\ntion, he entered the military service, first as captain of a\\ncompany of rangers, and afterwards as colonel of a regi-\\nment. Durinfj the lono- stiuffo:le he raised several regi-\\nnients, one of which he led to Canada in 1776 in the army\\nof Gen. Schuyler when that officer made the attack on\\nMontreal. In this campaign Col. Bedel s regiment which\\nwas stationed at a place called the Cedars, disgracefully\\nsurrendered to the enemy, and Col. Bedel suffered much in\\nreputation but subsequent revelation of the facts in the\\ncase completely exonerated him, as at the time he Avas on\\nhis way to Montreal for reinforcements, and his regiment\\n-was in command of Maj. Butterfield. The pay-roll of his\\nregiment for 177(5 is now in possessionof his grandson,\\nHon. Hazen Bedel of Colebrook. He was also in the armv", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS. 49\\nof Gen. Gates at the battle of Saratoga when Gen. Hiir-\\ngoyne and his army were captured.\\nThe first regiment Col. l^edel raised was fur the defence of\\nthe Cohos Country in 1775. This was a body of rangers.\\nAfterwards, in 1777, he was in command of a regiment for\\nservice in the Cohos Country and for the defence of the\\nwestern frontier on the Upper Connecticut river. He also\\nraised a regiment in 1778 for a like service when the time of\\nthe regiment of 1777 had expired, and he was for most of\\nthe time, after his return from Canada till the close of the\\nwar, in command of troops stationed in the Cohos Country\\nand vicinity. After the Revolutionary War he was a{)pointed\\nMajor-General of the Second Division of New Hampshire\\nMilitia.\\nHe was a man of large endowment and great force of\\ncharacter, and was admirably fitted to be a leader of men in\\nstirring times. A purer patriot did not engage in the Kevo-\\nlutionary struggle. He took a prominent part in the early\\nhistory of Haverhill, in the development of its resources and\\nin the advancement of its prosperity, and was a valuable\\ncitizen of the Town. He was repeatedly called by his fellow\\nmen to various trusts of honor and responsibility in Town\\naffairs.\\nCol. Bedel had a family of six children, of whom Gen.\\nINIoody Bedel was the oldest and most distinguished. One\\ndaughter, Euth, married Jacob Bailey, son of Gen. Jjicob\\nBailey of Newbury, Vermont. Anna became the second\\nwife of Samuel Brooks of Haverhill her first husband was\\nDr. Thaddeus Butler. Another was married to Dr. Isaac\\nMoore. Drs. Butler and ]\\\\Ioore were early physicians of\\nHaverhill. Col. Bedel died in 1787.\\nGen. Moody Bedel was born in 1764, and like his father\\nwas a very prominent citizen of Haverhill. He was married\\ntwice, first to Ruth Hutchins, and they had a family of nine\\nchildren, all of whom are now dead, but the descendants of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nsome of these are numerous in the northern section of the\\nstate. For his second wife he married Mary Hunt of Bath,\\nand hy this marriage there were also nine children, some of\\nwhom are still living. Moody resides in Peoria, 111., and\\nLouisa is the wife of Warren J. Fisher of Haverhill Hazen\\nand John Bedel (see Chap. XIX.) and Maria L. married\\nRufus Dow. Their son, Charles Dow, was in the AVar of\\nthe Rebellion, and now lives in Portage City, Mich., where\\nhe is post-master.\\nGen Bedel lived at one time in the old toll house at the\\nfoot of Powder House Hill, and also in a small brick house\\nhalf way up the hill near the old brick yard. He was a man\\nof excellent education. At the age of twelve he was present\\nwith his father, Col. Timothy Bedel, at the battle of Sara-\\ntoga, and later he enlisted as a private in Capt. Ezekiel\\nLadd s company in his father s regiment. When the War of\\n1812 broke out he commanded the Sixth Brigade of New\\nHampshire ^Militia, and was put in charge of the District\\nof New Hampshire for recruiting. Afterwards he was\\nLieutenant-Colonel of the 11th Regiment U? S. Infantry\\nand was stationed at Burlington, Vt., and Plattsburg, N. Y.,\\nbut for much of the time, contrary to his wishes, he was kept\\non detached duty on account of his great executive ability.\\nIn the memorable sortie at Fort Erie he led his regiment\\nwith conspicuous gallantry and success against the British\\nforces, and for his bravery on that occasion he was promoted\\nto be Colonel of the regiment.\\nAt one time he was the possessor of a large property,\\nowning not only some of the best meadows on the Connecti-\\ncut river in Haverhill, but also larn-e real estate in Bath, in\\nBurlington, Vt., and in^ Plattsburg N. Y. He with others\\nas early as 1798 purchased from the St. Francis Indians an\\nimmense tract of land in northern Xew Hampshire known as\\nthe Philip Grant, from the fact that an Indian called\\nKing Philip signed the deed. They began a settlement", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS. 51\\ncalled the Indian Stream Settlement, but the War of\\n1812 called Gen. Bedel away. After the close of the war\\nhe returned to the settlement, but the leo;islature throun:h the\\ninfluence of speculators refused to confirm the King\\nPhilip title, and he became greatly embarrassed, dying in\\n1841 a poor man, owning, as one who knew him well\\nsays, not an inch of land. Gen. Bedel, says the\\nAdjutant Generafs Report, had faced the camion s mouth\\nat the Sortie of Erie, but he could not successfully face the\\nspeculators and interested parties about the legislature.\\nWhilst Gen. Bedel lived at Pittsburg he and his family\\nendured many hardships. The mother with three of the\\nyoungest children returned to Haverhill, and after suffering\\nmuch privation, the family was once more united in one\\nhome in Bath.\\nGen. Bedel was one of the foremost citizens in Haverhill,\\nand took an active and leading part in tlie affairs of the\\nTown. He was distinguished for his enterprise, liberality,\\nand ability. The first bridge across the Connecticut river at\\nSouth Newbury was built by him, and the present bridge is\\nknown as liedefs Bridge. He also built a large brick\\nbuilding at the Brook which was afterwards used as a tavern.\\nJoHX Page came to Cohos in the early fall of 1762, and\\nl)rouglit with him only an ax and a small bundle of clothes.\\nBut he had what was more than gold, courage and industry.\\nHe boufjlit a tract of land Avhich has remained in the Pagre\\nfamily to the present time.\\nThe first winter he was in the employ of (Jen. Bailey at\\nthe (ireat Ox Bow in Xewbiny and continued in his service\\nimtil he coidd })ay for his tract of land. His first house was\\nbuilt of logs on a knoll on the meadows, which is still\\njtointed out. The house and barn were afterwards burnt,\\nand he built the frame house in which he lived to the close of\\nhis life. The house is now owned and occupied by Mrs.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nJohn Webster, and has been much changed from its original\\nstyle and form.\\nThe following memoranda, copied from the old family-\\nBible of Capt. Page, give the exact facts of his early\\nhistory\\nJohn Page born in Lunenburg, Mass., 1741, and moved with his\\nfather s family to Rindge, N. H., and helped to get a log house built,\\nand performed sutler s duty and thereby got a lot of land in said\\nEindge. He came to Coos meadows in September, 1762, wintered in\\nthe Great Ox Bow, took the charge of Gen. Bailej^ s cattle with one\\nother man and boj% worked for Gen. Bailej^ and paid for a right of\\nland in Haverhill, went to the Upper Coos [Lancaster], worked for\\nhis uncle David Page, and paid for another right in Haverhill. Came\\nback to Haverhill, built a log house on the meadow, married Abigail\\nSanders, daughter of Master Sanders of Haverhill, lived with her\\nabout twelve years. She died of consumption, without children.*\\nMarried a second wife, Abigail Hazeltiue of Concord, N. H., out of a\\ngood family, and an excellent woman, who died in child-bed of her.\\nfirst-born who also died, and both were buried in the same grave.\\nMarried a third wife, widow Hannah Green, daughter of Kev. Samuel\\nElce of Landaff unto whom were born four sons, viz., John, William\\nG., Samuel, and Stephen R.\\nCapt. Page belonged to a numerous fiimily. Two of his\\nbrothers older tlian himself lost their lives at the taking of\\nLouisburg in the French War. He was a man of medium\\nheight, but powerfully built. He lived on friendly terms\\nAvith the Indians of Cohos, over whom he seems to have had\\nvery great influence. When they were going to have a\\nhigh time on fire-water, they would put their weapons\\nin his hands, so as to avoid the danger of hurting each other\\nin their drunken revelries. They had the highest opinion of\\nhis })hysical strength and prowess which were taught them\\nby an incident that illustrates his keen mother-wit. On\\none occasion when he was cuttinsr wood the Indians chal-\\nThe marriage of John Page and Abigail Sanders is the first mar-\\nriage recorded in the Town records, and occurred Dec. 18, 1766.\\nJames Woodward and Hannah Clark were married Dec. 30, 1766,\\naccording to Town records, and were not, as Grant Powers says, the\\nfirst couple that were joined in wedlock at Cohos.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS. 53\\nlenf;ecl him to a trial of strength which he declined, but\\nshrewdly waiting his opportunity he cut off a log aa large as\\nhe could lift at one end, and then j)romptly and with appar-\\nent ease placed one end against his breast. Then he chal-\\nlenged any one of them to raise the other end, which of\\ncourse none were able to do. Their untutored minds did\\nnot understand that to raise the end on the ground whilst\\nthe other was resting against his breast was equivalent ta\\nlifting the weight of the entire log. It is said he could lay\\nhis hand on the back of one of his yoke of oxen and vault\\nover both at a single leaj).\\nMrs. Edward L. Page who owns and lives on the old\\nPage homestead has in her possession the gun which Capt.\\nPage used for protection the first winter he spent in the\\nCohos Country. Originally it was about six feet in length,\\nbut is now a little shorter, the barrel having been cut oft\\nseveral inches, and a cap-lock has taken the place of the\\nold flint-lock. Mrs. Page has also in her possession four\\nsilver spoons which came into the Pago family through Mrs.\\nHannah Green at the time of her marriage to Capt. Page.\\nThey are desert-size, and are said to have been made from\\nsome French coin and bear the initials W. G. H. the\\n(r. stands for Green, the sur-namc of her first husband, the\\nW. for William, his Christian nauu and II. for Hannah\\nher own Christian name.\\nA\\\\ hat little is known of Mrs. Hannah Green Page\\ndistinguishes her as a woman of great su{)eriority of mind\\nand character. Her influence in moulding the moral and\\nintellectual bent and habits of her children was an important\\nfactor in their training, and left its impress upon their lives\\nand cliaracter. In the early history of Haverhill, writes\\na worthy descendant of the family, I think my grand-\\nmother Page was a very im[)ortant member of that family,\\nand a very bright woman, exceedingly smart and energetic.\\nHer house, I have heard my father say, was the house of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthe educated people of those times. Her father was the\\nRev. Samuel Rice, and I believe the education and advan-\\ntages which her sons received were achieved mainly through\\nher influence and exertion. In religious belief she was a\\nBaptist, and a woman of great exemplariness of life.\\nOf Capt. Page s children two died in earl} life, John\\nand Samuel lived tO a jjood and honored old ai;:e. John\\nattended school regularly in his early years, but at the\\nage of fifteen his education was interrupted, and he was\\ncompelled to relinquish it. This was owing to the financial\\nembarrassment of his father, and it was a great disappoint-\\nment to the son, though he cheerfully aided his father in\\nredeeming the homestead from debt. He became a promi-\\nnent citizen in town and state, and held many places of\\ntrust and honor, selectman, representative, register of deeds,\\n?ouncillor, United States senator to fill ex-Gov. Hill s\\nluiexpired term, and governor in 183S)-41. Gov. Page\\nAvas engaged chiefly in farming, and took an active [)art in\\nsecuring the building of the Boston, Concord Montreal\\nRailroad. He married a daughter of jMaj. Nathaniel\\nMerrill, and they had a family of nine children. In the\\nWar of 1812 he held a Lieutenant s commission, and served\\nii short period on the northern frontier of Xew Hampshire.\\nHe was strongly attached to the Methodist church, and at\\nhis death he bequeathed the sum of $1000 for the use of\\nthe church at Haverhill Corner. Gov. Page died in 18(J5.\\nJohn A., second son of (jov. Page, (see Chap. XIX.)\\nSeveral of the sons moved to the West. Nathaniel M.\\nlives in Haverhill where the old Towle tavern stood. He\\nis the only representative in Haverhill of the Gov. Page\\nfamily. Edward L. lived till his death on the old home-\\nstead, and was a man of bright mind and of pleasing man-\\nners. He died of consumption.\\nThe only daughter, Sarah H., married Dr. Dickey of\\nJjvme, who died a few years ago. She was a woman of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "EARLY sp:ttleks. 55\\nmost noble and generous character, and an unselfish and\\ndevoted Christian. A younn; man from I^yme, a meml)er\\nof Dartmouth College, who was trying to work his way\\nalong, got discouraged and finally concluded he would quit\\nschool. ^Irs. Dickey heard of the case and sent for the\\ndiscouraged student. \u00c2\u00bbTohn, she said, I learn you\\nintend to quit college. AVhat is the reason? I have no\\nmoney. We have concluded that it is our duty to let\\nyou have what you need. The young man went thiough\\ncollege, and is now a most useful man, liaving taught w ith\\ndistinguished success for seventeen years in a western city.\\nSamuel Page, brother of Gov. Page, was born in 17 J3,\\nand lived and died in Haverhill. He was married twice.\\nHis first wife was a daughter of Maj. Nathaniel Merrill, and\\nby this marriage there was one child, Louisa M., now Mrs.\\nBabcock, (see Chap. XIX.) His second wife was Eliza\\nSwasey, daughter of Obadiah Swasey of Xorth Haverhill.\\nThey had a numerous family. William H., the oldest, has\\nalways been a citizen of Ha\\\\erhill, with the exccj)tion of a\\nfew years when he lived in Piermont. He is a man of excel-\\nlent business judgment, and has been very successful both as\\na farmer and as a merchant. He is now the senior member\\nof the firm of W. H. Page Son, which does a large\\ngeneral merchantile business. Mr. Page is one of the first\\ncitizens of the Town, thougli he has never taken a very\\nprominent part in public matters. Whilst living in Pier-\\nmont he re[)resented that town for four years in the legisla-\\nture, and was a member of the conunittee on finances. He\\nis a deacon in the Conirregrational church. His wife was\\nMary E. Poor of Piermont, and they have two sons, Charles\\nP. and Fred W., the former in business with his father.\\nOf Samuel Page s other children, Elizabeth, a large-\\nhearted and intelligent woman, married Jonathan S, Nichols,\\nand Samuel lives on the old homestead. Harriet marriid\\nSimeon C. Senter of Thetford, and is a woman of superior", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 HISTORY or HAVERHILL.\\nChristian character. One of the daughters, Josephine,\\nresides in Kansas. Hannah, who became Mrs. Bowen,\\ndied a few years after her marriage, and Ellen who married\\nMilo Bailey, is also deceased. Mary, a lady of attractive\\nmanners, makes Haverhill her more permanent home. The\\nyoungest daughter, Emily, is the wife of Rev. C. N. Flan-\\nders of Newport. The youngest son, Moses S., (see Chap.\\nXIX.)\\nMr. Samuel Page was a man of sterling integrity and\\npure character, unostentatious, and of plain manners. He\\nrepresented the Town in the legislature, and served a number\\nof years in the board of selectnien. He and Mrs. Page died\\nin 1877, only a day or two apart, and were biu ied at the\\nsame time.\\nThe first family that came to Cohos was Uriah Morse and\\nhis wife, in June, 17H2. They were from Northfield, Mass.,\\nand settled near the mouth of Poole brook. It was with\\nUriah and his wife that Capt. Hazen and his men boarded in\\nthat year, and their house may be considered the first tavern\\nin the new settlement, as it was the stopj)ing-place for\\nstrangers Avho came to Cohos. At this house in the spring\\nof 17(53 the first English child was born, but the little\\nstranger survived its advent only a few days. Here also\\noccurred the first death in the new settlement. It was that\\nof a Miss of eighteen summers, and it would seem that\\nPolly Harriman had made a very favorable impression on\\nthe sturdy pioneers of the Town, as her name comes down to\\nus in this fragrant eulogy her death was nuich lamented,\\na memorial worth more than granite shaft. Morse\\nmeadow got its name from that of Uriah Morse, who also\\nat a Proprietors meeting in 1703 was allowed to have\\npitch No. 1 in that meadow. This was probably due\\nto the double fact, first, being the head of the earliest\\nfamily in the new settlement, and second, because he made\\nhimself esj)ecially valuable in boarding Capt. Hazen s men.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CIIAPTEK I.\\nEAKLY SETTLERS AFTER THE CHARTER.\\nCharacter and energy of the men\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Their training and education\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Raind settlement;\\nJesse Johns in John White\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Bailey Elisha Lock\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Johathan Sanders\\nJames Woodward\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Uriah Stone Jonathan Elkius\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Taplin Ezekiel\\nLadil\u00e2\u0080\u0094 iNIoses Little\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ilaywards\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Timothy Barron\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .James Abbott\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William\\nEastman\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Iliird\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Max! Hazeltine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Ilutehins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Simeon Goodwin\\nJonathan Hale Thomas Simpson Ephraim Wesson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Johnston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Asa\\nPorter William Porter Andrew S. Crocker Nathaniel Merrill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William\\nMerrill\u00e2\u0080\u0094Joseph Peai-son\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel Brooks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Morses\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Bliss\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joshua\\nY(\u00c2\u00bbung\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Amos Ivimliall\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Williahi Cross John Osgood The CaiTs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Swans\\nObailiah Swasey Moor Kussell The Gookins Asa Boynton John Mont-\\ngomery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ross Coon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Glazier Wheeler I arker Stevens\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Tarleton.\\nAfter the charter of Haverhill was granted to Capt.\\nHazen and his associates, settlers poured into the territory,\\nand those who came were generally young and enterprising\\nmen. In this as in a former chaj)tcr I shall note such of the\\nmore prominent in regard to whom anything of j)uhlic\\ninterest can be learned. Of some only the name is j)rcserved,\\nwhilst of others a few facts or traditions haAC floated down\\non the tide of the years to tell their life and ciiaracter. As\\na class, the early settlers were picked men whom ambition or\\nlove of achievement brought into the new settlement. They\\nwere l)rave and sturdy men and Avomen, not afraid to\\nencounter liard labor and vexatious delays in their endeavor\\nto found new and prosperous homes. The opening was one\\nof the most inviting and promising in all the Connecticut\\nvalley, so that the C ohos wilderness was ra])idly settled.*\\nThe sketches are given, as far as can be learned, in the\\norder of time when these earlier settlers came into the Town.\\nJesse Johnson has the honor of standing at the head of\\nthe list of town-clerks. He was chosen to tiiat office in\\nPlaistow, June 18, ITGB. His name aj)pears in the list of\\nNewbury grantees.\\n*The population a S early as 17(57 was 172 persons, 09 males, 73 fe-\\nmales, 3 slaves, no widows, and only one person over (Kl years of age.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nJohn White was the first sekctman in 17G8, and was\\na grantee of the Town. He served as First Lieutenant in\\nCol. Bedel s regiment in tlie Revolutionary War.\\nJa^ies Bailey was also a selectman in the first board,\\nand took a very active and prominent part in the afiairs of\\nthe Cohos settlement. In 1763 he was one of the committee\\nto bound out the Town. He was the first treasurer\\nof the Town, and often aided in various positions in the\\nmanagement of Town matters. In the French and Indian\\nWar he was a brave and energetic officer, and held the rank\\nof major. He also took an active pai t in tlie llevolutionarv\\nstruggle, having charge of several scouting pai ties tliat were\\nsent out from Haverhill in the early ])art of the war. In\\n1777 he was a member of the Provincial Congress at Exeter,\\nand with Col. Johnston and others he served as committee of\\nsafety, and of correspondence for Haverhill.* In the Pro-\\nprietors records he is styled James Bailey, Esq. Soon\\nafter the Revolution he removed to Newbury, Vt.\\nElisha Lock was one of the pioneer business men of\\nHaverhill, who early began to develope the I esourccs of the\\nTown. He built and owned mills at the Oliverian falls, and\\nwas associated in these enterprises with Col. Timothy Bedel.\\nHe was moderator in 1765, and also served as selectman and\\ntown-clerk. The records show that he was not a skilled\\npenman, but he was a man of enterprise and energy, and\\nexerted much influence in business matters.\\nJonathan 8andp:rs came from IIamj)ton in 17(i3, and\\nsettled on a tract which in after years was the late Sanuicl\\nPage place. His was the first settlement south of Capt. John\\nPage s. Mr. Sanders like his neighbor Eastman was\\ngreatly annoyed by the long controversy between the Town\\nand Piermont in regard to the disputed boundary. He\\nThese coainiittees were chosen in many of the towns, one for\\npurposes of safety, and the other to gather information concerning\\nthe situation of things during the period of tlie Kevolution.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLEKS CONTIMEI). 59\\ni^crved in the lioard of selectmen in 17GG. One of his\\ndaughters became the wife of Capt. John Page, and another\\nmarried a Mr. Fifield, and was the maternal grandniothcr of\\nDca. Grove S. Stevens. Two of Mr. Sander s sons enlisted\\nin the lievolutionary War. Mrs. Ethan Brock is a descend-\\nant of Jonathan Sanders.\\nJames AVoodwawd also came in 17 08 at the age of\\ntwentv-two, and was for a long term of years a very promi-\\nnent citizen of the Town. He was from Ilampstead. I lis\\nfirst house was built on the meadow near the river, and the\\nfoundations or stones which formed the foundations and\\nchimney, are still visible at low water, the bank of the river\\nhaving been carried away in flood-time in the course of years\\nof abrasion. The great flood of 1771 drove him back upon\\nthe hiiiii -round where he built his second house. This\\nhouse or part of it is still standing, and is the second north\\nof James Woodward s present residence, and is known as\\nthe old Judge AVoodward place. For several years he lived\\nalone in his primative house on the river s bank, clearing\\naway the trees and walking to what afterwards became the\\nDow farm where he took his meals. This, however, grew\\nmonotonous in time, and the young pioneer looked about for\\na companion to share with him his home. ^Marriageable\\nyoung women were not numerous in those frontier-days, but\\nWoodward s opportunity soon presented itself, and he was\\nsagacious and brave enough to acce[)t it.\\nIt was in this wise. A year after Woodward came to\\nHaverhill Judge Ladd moved into the same neighborhood,\\nand with him was a winsome young Miss whom Judge Ladd\\nbrought to the new settlement for a purpose of his own.\\nYoung Woodward in becoming acquainted with the fair new-\\ncomer also conceived a purpose of his own, which however\\nwas not the same as that of the Judge s, but which he never-\\ntheless on suitable occasions aimed to carry out. Hannah\\nClark and the gallant young farmer soon came to a tacit", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nunderstanding in the matter of their feelings, and the latter\\nwhen this became known to Judge Ladd s family, was given\\nto understand that his presence was not as agreeable to them\\nas his room. But for ways that are dark and tricks that\\nwere not in vain, the brave vouno; suitor and his bloomiu\\nlove were too many for the Ladd household. So on a\\nfine afternoon according to previous arrangement, just as the\\nsun was in his last hour before setting, Hannah and a friend\\ntook a walk down the path toward the river, and coming to\\nWoodward s little house they quickly turned in, and the\\nyoung lovers were immediately united in marriage by the\\nobliging clergyman from Newbury, who with a friend of the\\nhappy couple were awaiting the arrival of Hannah at that\\npoint. Immediately after the ceremony Hannah returned to\\nher home at Judge Ladd s, and continued in the service of\\nthe family, whilst the victorious husband kc}\u00c2\u00bbt on toiling at\\nhis work. But soon the secret got out, and Mrs. Ladd with\\nmotherly wisdom and kindly feeling told Hannah that she\\nmight go and live with her husband. So she made haste to\\nget to the little house on the river-bank.\\nJudge Woodward was married twice. His second wife\\nwas Elizabeth Pool of Hollis, who lived till 1846. Of his\\nlai ge family, all children of his first wife, one son was a\\nphysician in Barnstcad, and the other sons were generally\\nfarmers. Joshua remained on the old homestead, whose son\\nJames is now living on Ladd Street.\\nJudge Woodward was prominent in Town nuitters, holding\\npositions of trust and honor, and was the Town s first repre-\\nsentative to the legislature. He was appointed one of the\\njustices of the Court of Sessions, and held the ofi^ce a\\nnumber of years. He was a man of character and influence,\\nand left behind him an honorable record. He died in 182L\\nThe early setttlers on the meadows when they cleared their\\nlands drew or rolled the logs into the river as the easiest way\\nto get rid of them. Timber was valueless at that time, and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS CONTINUED. 61\\nburning logs did not seem to be the custom. Samuel Ladd\\nhad a lot a little away from the river, and spoke to Judge\\nWoodward of his perplexity about getting the logs off of his\\nground. The Judge engaged to do the job, and drew the\\nlogs into hea})s [)reparatory to burning them, but Mr. Ladd\\nnot understanding the object of piling the logs remonstrated\\nAvith liim, and told him that that was not the agreement he\\nmade. The Judge becoming impatient with Mr. Ladd s\\ninterference threatened to administer to him some birch bark,\\nwhereupon Mr. Ladd thinking discretion the better part of\\nvalor withdrew, and the Judge finished the job.\\nUriah Stone deserves mention not for any inthi-\\nential part he had in the history of the Town, for he\\nmoved away too soon for that, but because of his relation\\nto a subsequent prominent historical event. He witii his\\nyoung wife came to Haverhill from Ilampstead in 1763 or\\n1764 amongst the first settlers, and built himself a log\\ncabin not far from where Bedel s bridge now stands. This\\nhouse was washed away by high water, and L^riali went\\ndown the river to Piermont and built a log house just west of\\nthe present Benjamin Hibbard place. He was a German, and\\nhis original name was Stein, the German word for stone.\\nIn his youth he was a soldier in the old French War, and he\\nis said to have been a man of excellent character and of\\nmuch energy and activity. There were, of course, as yet no\\nbridges in those days over the Connecticut, and Uriah Stone\\nconceived the plan of running a ferry across the river at his\\nplace for the acconnnodation of the public. Saw-mills there\\nwere none near by to cut out the })lank for the boat, but the\\nenergetic and broad-shouldered German was equal to the\\nemergency, and with his own stout hands he hewed the logs\\nand built his boat, and here for years promptly answering\\nthe Fcrry-Ho, he lived and ferried people across the river\\nbetween Piermont, Haverhill, and Moretown, then the name\\nof Bradford.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 HISTORY OF IIAVEKHILL.\\nHe also cleared and cultivated a large farm and carried on\\na tannery. After a few years he built the present Hibbard\\nhouse which is now about a hundred years old. Meantime a\\nlarge family of thirteen grew upon his hands, and the years\\nrolling on this sturdy pioneer was carried in 1819 to his last\\nresting-place in the old Piermont grave-yard. On the stone\\nthat marks his grave is one of those quaint inscriptions whicli\\nwere common a century ago, and Avhich may be foimd in\\nmany an old grave yard,\\nYou may go home and dry your tears,\\nI must lie here till Christ appears.\\nMr. Stone Avas very ingenious and skillful. His wife\\nhaving broken the only sugar bowl she had, and not being\\nable to replace it in the new country, her husband carved her\\none from a knot, which is now in possession of a descendant\\nof the family, Mrs. A. P. AYebster of Plymouth, and is said\\nto be really beautiful in form and workmanship.\\nIn those earlier days the people depended a good deal on\\nwild game for their meat. The forests abounded in deer and\\nthe streams were alive with fish. One day a deer came\\ndown to the river on the further bank and quenched its\\nthirst, and then })lunging in swam to the opposite sliore just\\nin front of Uriah s house within easy reach of the rifle.\\nMrs. Stone Avho had been taught the use of the rifle by her\\nhusband, put her skill into ])ractice and shot the animal.\\nThe antlers of the deer are now in possession of the only\\ndescendant of the Stone family living in Haverhill.\\nAs illustrating the religious ideas of the times the follow-\\ning incident in the Stone family is given. The Sabbath was\\nkept with great strictness, and as the family was rather\\nnumerous it was necessary to divide the children into two\\nsections, each going to church on alternate Sabbaths. Those\\nremaining at home were solemnly commanded not to play\\nout-doors, nor hunt eggs in the barn, nor pick berries by the\\nroad-side, and in addition to these prohibitions they were", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS CONTIMEI). 63\\nrequired to commit portions of the catechism to memory.\\nl^ut the hours were long in tlie warm days of Sununer, and\\nwhen the children got througli on a certain Sal)l\u00c2\u00bbatli learning\\nthe parts assigned them, they set themselves to making\\nrhymes and parodies on some of the declarations of that\\nancient religious document. They were so highly pleased\\nAvith their success in this new departure of life that they\\nenthusiastically vociforated the parodies and rhymes in the\\nears of their reverent and devout parents on their return from\\nchinvh. This was such a sore grief to their pious hearts\\nthat thev sent for the minister to come and administer an ap-\\npro[)riate reproof to those yoinig sinners. J he good man\\ncame, and arrayed before him were the wicked rliymesters.\\nOne by one he read the parodies, but the (piick eyes of the\\nlittle culprits detected a lurking smile in the countenance of\\nthe benignant dominie, so that when he came to the couplet,\\nJob felt the rod\\nDown bj t apo Cod.\\nthe ludicrousncss of the thing was too much for even a\\ndecorous minister of the olden times, and bursting into an\\nopen laugh he dismissed the transgressors with a gentle\\nadmonition.\\nBut to return to the historical event.* One of Uriah s\\nsons, George Washington, a child of the Kcvolutionary age\\nas his name indicates, went to Canada, and a daughter of\\nhis, Melvina, became the wife of Rev. A\\\\ illiani Arthur, D.\\n1). and their son, Chester A. was the late Chester A.\\nArtlun-, President of the United States.\\nThere is still one person in Haverhill who is a lineal\\ndescendant of Maj. Uriah Stone, Miss Hattic C. Rogers of\\nCourt Street, in wdiose possession are the deer antlers above\\nmentioned, and she and the late President Arthur were in\\nblood second cousins.\\nJoxATiiAX Elkixs and family were a valuable ac(|uisi-\\ntion to the new settlement. They came from IIam[)stead in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\n17()4, and settled near the Dr. Carleton place. Mr. Elkins\\nremained in Town about ten years, and then moved to\\nPeacham, Vt. He has been called the father of that\\ntown. His wife, before her marriage, was Elizabeth Rowell\\nof Chester. They had a large family, and their son Harvey\\nwas the first white child born in Peacham. Theirs was also\\nthe first house which was built in that town. Owinrj to the\\ndisturbed condition of the Cohos Country, and the dangers\\nfrom Indians during the Revolution, the family was com-\\npelled to move back to Haverhill once or twice. At one\\ntime Dea. Elkins was a scout or pilot in Col. Bedel s regi-\\nment. He was a man of great excellence of character,\\ngood judgment, large ability, and influential and prominent\\nas a citizen both in Haveriiill and in Peacham. In the\\nformation of the Congregational church at Peacham he was\\na prime mover and its first deacon.\\nDea. Elkins son Jonathan had a prominent career. He\\nwas captured by the English and Indians in an attack upon\\nPeacham in 1781, and carried to Quebec, from whence he\\nwas taken to England, and with others cast into prison,\\nwhere he remained till near the close of the war, when he\\nwas exchanged and returned to his native country. Previous\\nto his capture he was a scout in Col. Hazen s regiment which\\nwas stationed along the military road from Haverhill to\\nPeacham\\nCol. Elkins after his return from capture lived in Peacham\\ntill 1836, when he moved to Albion, N. Y. He was\\nmarried twice. His second wife was JNIrs. Eunice\\nStoddard Sprague, the widow of lawyer Sprague of Haver-\\nhill, of whom the tradition comes down that she was a\\nwoman of elegant manners and brilliant mind, and of great\\nworth. Of the children by this marriage Henry who mar-\\nried a daughter of Obadiah Swasey of Haverhill, is a\\nprominent lumber-merchant of Chicago. A grandson of\\nDea. Elkins went to New Orleans and became very wealthy.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLEU S CONTINUED. 65\\nJohn Taplin was a grantee of Haverhill, and was town-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2clerk at a special meeting in 1765. He was active in the\\ndevelopement of the Tovvn in the first years of its settlement,\\nbut seems early to have gone to Newbury, Vt., where before\\nthe Revolution he held oflfioial position under the appointment\\nof the Governor of New York which at that time claimed\\njurisdiction over Vermont. During the Revolution he with\\nothers was involved in a conspiracy to hand the Colxis\\nCountrv over to the British. He was a man of standing,\\nnotwithstanding his sympathy with the royal cause.\\nEzEKiEL Ladd moved to the Cohos Country in 1764.\\nHe and his wife were from Haverhill, Mass., and were\\nin comfortable circumstances, with social standing, and\\naccustomed to the refinements of life at that day. Mrs.\\nLadd relates that on the first Sabbath after their arrival in\\nthe new settlement when they went to church at the Ox Bow,\\nshe and her husband thought it would be only proper that\\nthey should appear in their best clothes. But the people\\nwere rather plain in their dress and looked upon the new\\ncomers as aristocratic, whose presence was studiously avoid-\\ned. Appearing the following Sabbath in a plainer garb, she\\nand her hus})and found the people most cordial and sociable.\\nJudge Ladd s house was situated on the east side of I^add\\nstreet between the school-house and the Azro Bailey jilace,\\nwhere he lived for fifty years until his death in 1818, dying\\nat the age of eighty. He was one of the very earliest\\ntavern-keepers in the Town, was also engaged in the tannery\\nbusiness, and was a man of prominence in the settlement.\\nHe served as selectman for a number of years, and was also\\ntreasurer of the Town and one of the judges of the Court\\nof Sessions.\\nJudge Ladd s wife was Ruth Hutchins before her marriage,\\nand they had a large family. The oldest daughter married\\nJoshua Young, and another became the wife of Jacob Bailey\\nof Newbury. Ezekiel, Jr., who married Elizabeth Swan,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "6(5 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nwas the father of Caroline and of Horatio Xelson Ladd who\\ndied a few years ago. Moody Ladd lived in a house oppo-\\nsite Mrs. Azro Bailey s, which afterwards was moved and\\nbecame the kitchen of the Bailey house.\\nWith Judge Ladd, or soon after, came ^\\\\e of his brothers,\\nand later still a sister, all of whom settled on Ladd street.\\nSamuel Ladd lived Avhere James Woodward now resides\\nJohn Ladd who married into the Eastman family of Xorth\\nHaverhill, built the Henry Bailey house; David Ladd lived\\nin the Clifford house James Ladd lived across the road\\nfrom the Cross house, and \u00c2\u00abTonathan Ladd s house Avas the\\nold grist-mill house, and is part of the house now occupied\\nby Mr. A. W. Lyman.\\nOf the eighty or more Ladds whose names come down to\\nus, who either moved into Haverhill from Massachusetts, or\\nwho were born here, not one now remains of that name.\\nMiss Caroline and Horatio Xelson Ladd were the last of the\\nfamily in Haverhill.\\nSamuel Ladd, mentioned above, had a son Samuel who\\nli^ed in a house just south of James Woodward s residence,\\na little back of the large willow Avhich is standing at the\\nroad-side. Samuel, Jr., was a bright and handsome inn-\\nkeeper in 1790, and Avas in the early years of widowerhood.\\nThis willow has a very romantie story connected with it.\\nIn this same year Dr. J(mathan Arnold of St. Johnsbury,\\nwho was a lonely bachelor, went to Charlestown to spy out\\na wife, in Avhich mission after some entreaty lie was success-\\nful in winning the heart of Cynthia Hastings, and arrange-\\nments were immediately made fur their marriage and return\\nto St. Johnsbury. The journey was made on horse-back,\\nand on the morning of their start a roguish cousin of the\\nyoung bride handed her a willow stick with the request that\\nshe might use it to urge on her horse when his spirits needed\\nquickening, and after she got through with it for that pur-\\npose, she might plant it by the door of her second husband.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS CONTINUED. 67\\nThe last words were a sly hit at the Doctor s age which was\\nconsiderably above that of his young bride. The willow\\nstick, however, was acce})ted in good part, and the journey\\nwas begun. On the evening of the second day they arrived\\nat Haverhill, and stopped at the inn of Samuel Ladd, Jr.,\\nfor the night. The next morning as they were ready to\\nproceed on their way the gallant landlord presented j\\\\Irs.\\nArnold with a new stick, and the old one was left behind.\\nAfter Dr. Arnold and his bride had started out the willow\\nstick was planted in the door-yard, and came to be the large\\ntree now standing on the site of the Samuel Ladd tavern.\\nDr. Arnold died within a few, years, and his young widow\\non her way to Charlestown to visit her friends, had occasion\\nto spend the night in Haverhill at the Ladd tavern. Being-\\ninvited to make her home at the Ladd inn whenever she had\\noccasion to pass that way, she accepted the courteous invita-\\ntion, and afterwards became the wife of the friendly young\\nlandlord, and saw the willow stick which her cousin pre-\\nsented to her on the morning of her first marriage, grow to\\nbe a large tree, and his good natured mock-words turned\\ninto a prophecy.\\nCynthia Hastings Arnold by her first husband had t\\\\\\\\-o\\nchildren, Lenuiel Hastings and Freelove who came with tiieir\\nmotlier to Haverhill when she married Sanuiel Ladd, fJr.\\nLemuel Hastings Arnold in after life became prominent in\\nKhode Island, and Avas go\\\\ernor of the state and a mcml)cr\\nof Congress. Freelove married Xoah Davis of Haverhill,\\nand became the mother of tiie distinguished Judge Xoah\\nDavis of New York. She was tall and graceful whilst her\\nhusband was correspondingly short. Both the Arnold\\nchildren were educated at Haverhill Academy. hen\\nLemuel Hastings Arnold ran for governor of Khode Jshuid,\\none of the points made against him was that he was born in\\nVermont.\\nOne of Sanuiel Ladd s dauulitcrs bv liis marriaiic with", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nMrs. Arnold became the wife of Jeremiah G. Farman, son\\nof Dea. Chester Farman of Haverhill. Another daughter\\nwhose maiden name was Martha H., now Mrs. M. H. Goss,\\nis still living in Waterford, Vt., at the age of 87.\\nMoses Little. A person by this name took an active\\npart in the Proprietors matters. The name also appears\\namongst the grantees of Newbury. Whether the Moses\\nLittle of Haverhill was the same as the Col. Moses Little\\nof Newbury, Mass., a brave officer in the Revolution, is\\nnot clear but quite probable. Moses Little was one of the\\nprinciple grantees of Littleton and other towns. He pur-\\n;hased the Gov. Wentworth right of 500 acres on\\nwhich Woodsville is built, and which remained in the family\\nfor many years. He was appointed in 1773 one of the first\\njustices of the Court of Sessions for Grafton County, but he\\ndeclined the honor on account of other business out of this\\n[New Hampshire] Province. Indeed, it does not appear\\nthat he was a citizen of Haverhill for any considerable length\\nof time. He seems to have been a large land owner.\\nThe Haywards were active in the early history of the\\nTown, Joshua being a selectman. When the Courts were\\nestablished in Haverhill, 1773, he was one of the first jurors.\\nHe also did honorable service in the Revolutionary struggles,\\nand was Major of the 12th Regiment N. H. Militia. Jona-\\nthan Hayward s name appears as one of a committee of the\\nTown called the committee of inspection, and was\\nassociated with Col. Charles Johnston and other j)rominent\\ncitizens.\\nTimothy Barrox held a captain s commission in 1775 in\\nCol. Bedel s regiment, and took an active part in the Revo-\\nlution. He was one of a committee to see that the results\\nof the Continental Congress were observed in Haverhill,\\n-and was also on the committee of safety. He served as\\nselectman.\\nJames Abbott was moderator in 1767. He was active", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLEUS CONTINUED. 69\\nin public matters, and held various positions of trust and\\nhonor. In 1777 he was appointed one of a eonunittee by the\\nTown to confer with similar committees from other towns ins\\nreference to the safety of the Cohos region at that time.\\nAfter the Revolution he moved to Groton, Vt., and was one\\nof the first settlers in that town. His name appears in the\\nTown records of Haverhill as Dea. Abbott.\\nWilliam Eastman came to Haverhill about 1700, and\\nlived for a short season on Ladd street. Afterwards he\\nmoved to Bath. His mother, Harriet Eastman, was carried\\naway by the Indians to Canada when they made their attack\\non Haverhill, Mass., in 1GH7, and was kept there three\\nyears. Her husband found her with a friendly Erench\\nfamily in concealment from the Indians.\\nOf AVilliam Eastman s children, Obadiah lived for many\\nyears in Haverhill, but died in Littleton, and a daughter of\\nhis, Rebecca, married Nathaniel Rix, a prominent man of\\nthat town. James purchased the Maj. Merrill farm, and\\nlived to be 99 years old. His son Eber came into posses-\\nsion of a part of it after his father s death, and still resides\\non it living with II. L. AVoodward wiio now owns the farm..\\nHe relates that his father in the early history of the Town\\nhunted moose along the Ammonoosuc. Eber s brother Joel\\nhad an inventive turn of mind.\\nEber Eastman in early life devoted himself to teaching,,\\nand for six or eight years was su})erintendent of schools in\\nHaverhill. He also represented the Town in the legislature\\nin 1848\u00e2\u0080\u00944, and is at the age of S4 of bright and (|uick luind,,\\na man of gentle and refined manners, and a most estimable\\ncitizen. He published some years ago an account of his\\ngreat-grandmother s capture and rescue. He sent the author\\na few years ago the Lord s Prayer as a souvenir, written on\\na card about the size of a postage stamp, in a beautiful\\nhand, so fine that it can be read only with glasses, but each\\nletter is perfectly formed.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nFour of the sons of Williiim and Rebecca Eastman were\\nsoldiers in the War of the Revohition. James was the first\\none to bring the news of the surrender of Cornwallis to\\nHaverhill, on which occasion Col. Johnston brought out the\\nlittle field piece and fired a salute in honor of the great\\nevent. Mrs. Geo. E. Eastman and Herbert Eastman of\\nNorth Haverhill are ofreat-ffrandchildren of William and\\nRebecca Eastman.\\nJohn Hukd became a citizen of Haverhill at an early\\nperiod of its settlement, and lived at Horse meadow. He\\ncame from Portsmouth, and was a man of great prominence\\nand infiuence in all this section. Previous to his living in\\nPortsmouth he was a lawyer in Boston, and after he moved\\nto the former place he became secretary to Gov. Wentworth.\\nHis name was inserted in several of the charters in this\\nvicinity, and the county records show that he was much\\ninterested in lands in the new country, owning tracts in many\\nof the towns of Grafton county. It was through his influ-\\nence that the courts were brought to Haverhill. He acted\\nas agent of the Town in the matter, and was to receive\\nas compensation for his services if successful a tract of one\\nthousand acres in a square pitch of unoccupied land.\\nAfterwards some difficulty arose, and it would seem that he\\ndid not receive the full reward of his success in securing the\\ncourts at Haverhill. This doubtless had something to do\\nwith his leaving Haverhill, between whose citizens and him-\\nself there had sprung up mutual disaffi?ction.\\nCol. Hurd was a man of large public spirit. In 1774 he\\npetitioned tiie General Court for aid to complete a road\\nfrom the lower country to Haverhill. It would seem that\\nbefore that date a road had been granted, but had not been\\nfinished. This imfinished road is described in the petition\\nas expensive and dangerous to man and beast, miry,\\nrooty, and narrow, with bad pitches. And further it was", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLEIJS CONTINUED. 71\\ntedious and Imzardous for tlie judges to travel on to and\\nfrom ITaverhill.\\nHe took a deep interest in the Kevt)hitionary struo;ole, and\\nwas in command of a regiment, but on account of j)hysical\\ninfirmity he was prevented from taking an active part in the\\nfield, writing: in 1777 to the committee of safetv at Exeter,\\nthus: lam extremely chagrined that my infirm limbs\\nwill not permit me to share the toils and dangers of the field\\nwith my countrymen. However, he was an infiuential man\\nin advancing the cause of the patriots, and was in constant\\nconununication with Gov. Weare, the president of the Pro-\\nAincial Congress of New Hampshire. He had the general\\ncharge of troops a sort of war minister at Cohos, to fix\\nthem off for Canada, and was one of the Town committee\\nto direct scouting parties. Whilst a member of the Provin-\\ncial Congress he served on various important connnittees,\\nto draft a declaration of independence, to draw a plan for\\nthe government of New Hampshire, to prescribe an oath for\\nthe Provincial Congress, and was a prominent and influen-\\ntial member of that body.\\nHe also held other important official positions. When\\nthe Court of Sessions was organized he was ajjpointed one\\nof the justices of that court, and held that office till 1778.\\nHe was also Chief Justice of the Court of Conunon l*lcas,\\nthough this last court, on account of the Revolution, did not\\nhold sessions till the close of that struggle. In addition to\\nthese positions he was county treasurer and the first register\\nof deeds for Grafton county, a member of tiie governor s\\ncouncil, and receiver of quit rents.\\nCol. Hurd went from Haverhill to Boston at the chvse of\\nhis oflficial term as register of deeds, which was in 1778.\\nNothing is known of his characteristics except what can be\\ngathered from his public career. He was a man of\\nundoubted ability and great force of character, full of\\nenergy and enterprise, and exerted a wide influence in the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nearly history of this region. He was noted for his beautiful\\nhand-writing, and was a man of culture, having graduated\\nfrom Harvard College in 1747, and received the honorary\\ndegree of A. M. from Dartmouth College in 1773.\\nOf his family nothing is learned except that some of his\\nchildren went to Ohio, and it is a little singular that liev.\\nGrant Powers, in his History of the Cohos Country, says\\nnothing concerning Col. Hurd except that a valuable cow\\nwhich he brought from Portsmouth to Ha\\\\erhill, by way of\\nNo. 4, returned safely to her old home in a direct course\\nalone through the forest\\nMaxi Hazeltine was a grantee of Haverhill, and as\\nearly as 1770 a selectman. He took a prominent jtart in\\nTown affairs, and was on a committee whose duty it was to\\nsee that the results of the Continental Congress are duly\\nobserved in that [Haverhill] town. After the Revolution\\nhe moved to Bath.\\nJoseph Hutchins came to Haverhill at an early date,\\nand was a selectman for several years. He was also a\\nrepresentative of the Town for two terms, and in 1791 his\\nname appears in the records with that of Moses Dow as a\\nrepresentative for that year. He w:is one of a committee to\\nsee that the results of the Continental Congress were\\nobserved in Plaverhill, and was a member of the committee\\nof safety in 1775\u00e2\u0080\u00946. He also took an active part in the\\nRevolutionary War, being in command of a company of\\nrangers in 1780. In 1788 he was a delegate to the con-\\nvention that ado|)ted the Federal Constitution and voted in\\nthe negative, and in 1791 he was in the convention to revise\\nthe constitution of New Hampshire. Of his family nothing\\nis learned, and the Hutchins of Bath do not claim iunnediate\\nrelationship with it. He was evidently a man of affairs, and\\nwas often associated in public matters with the leading men\\nof Haverhill, and the fact that he was a member of the\\nconvention that adopted the Federal Constitution woidd seem", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "EAIU.Y SETTLERS CONTINUED. 73\\nto indicate his character and ability and impoitance a8 a\\ncitizen of the Town.\\nSimeon Goodwin s name aj)])ears early in the history of\\nHaverhill as a man prominent in affairs. He was repeatedly\\ncalled to posts of responsibility, and was on the committee\\nof safety, and on special committees of conference with other\\ncommittees for the protection of the Cohos Country during\\nthe Revolution. He was also appointed a coroner for Graf-\\nton County.\\nJonathan Hale took an active part in the Revolutionary\\nWar, and Avas a member of the committee of safety during\\nthat struffo-le. He with others was also in general charge\\nof the scouting parties which were sent out during the\\nRevolution from Haverhill. In the great alarm of 1776,\\nwhen the American forces were defeated at Ticonderoga, and\\nwhen it was thought that the enemy would take immediate\\npossession of the Cohos Country, Maj. Hale Avas sent to\\nExeter to give tlie alarm and to ask for aid. He also\\nsecured arms and powder for the Town on several occasions.\\nThomas Simpson was a captain of rangers in the Revo-\\nlution, and was prominent in that struggle. He was also\\nactive in Town affairs, and held positions of trust and honor.\\nHe was something of a rhetorician. In a petition for a\\npension on account of loss of eye and other wounds, he\\ncloses his request with these glowing words That he\\nmay express in strains of gratitude the lil)erality of that\\ncountry in whose service he had spent the best of his days,\\nand in whose defense he more than once shed cheerfully the\\ncrimson flood of life. Thomas deserved a pension.\\nEpiihaim AVesson came to Haverhill some time before\\nthe Revolution from Pepperell, Mass. He saw nuicli hard\\nservice in the Old French War. In 17 he was in the\\nexix ditioii against rown Point, entering the army as a\\nlieutenant. Subs{ (|uently he was at the taking of Louis-\\nburg and in the attack on Ticonderoua. and scrAcd in all the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nbattles of note at that period. During his residence in\\nHaverhill he was a very prominent citizen of the Town, and\\ntook a leading part in all public affairs. He was called to\\nmany positions of responsibility, being moderator and select-\\nman a number of times. He also was a member of the\\nPro^ incial Congress at Exeter, and a special delegate to that\\nbody for the procurement of arms for the settlers of Haver-\\nhill. In the Revolution he was intimately associated with\\nCol. Charles Johnston and others in the stirring events of\\nthat period, ser^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ing on the conunittees of safety and corre-\\nspondence for the Town. At the close of the Revolution\\nCapt. Wesson moved to Groton, Vt. His oldest daughter,\\nSally, married Capt. Edmund Morse, and their daughter\\nwas the first child born in Groton. Capt. Wesson was a\\nbrave and conscientious officer, and was highly esteemed and\\ntrusted by his superiors, a man of excellent character and of\\nPuritan mould and principles. He died in Groton at the\\nadvanced age of 93 yeai s.\\nCharles Johxstox was undoubtedly the foremost citizen\\nof HaAcrhill in point of character, ability, and influence,\\nand this too in view of the fact that he had as associates in\\nlife such marked men as Col. Bedel, Col. Asa Porter,\\nAndrew S. Crocker, Esq., Col. John Hurd, Gen. Moses\\nDow, and Alden Sprague, men who woidd have made them-\\nselves felt in any community. Pie came to Haverhill in\\n1761) and settled at the Corner, and at once took a leading-\\npart in all the affairs of the Town. He had a far-seeing\\nmind. When felling the trees on the Park which he gave\\nto the village, he would tell his wife ;n apparent jest that he\\nshould have a court house, an academy, and a church front-\\ning on tlic Park, and Haverhill would be a flourishing place,\\nall of which came to pass in his day. Haverhill was the\\nmost noted place north of Concord.\\nThe good people of Xorth Haverhill may never have\\nthought much about it, but it was the fine hand of Col.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "EAHLY .SETTLERS COXTIM EI). 0\\nJohnston that hrou 2;ht the court house and jail to the C\\\\jrnei\\nafter they had been located at the l*lain for nearly a quarter\\nof a century. To this end he with others of the more enter-\\nprising citizens of the Corner, erected the old Academy\\nbuildinjx and offered it free of charge for the use of the\\ncourts. A\\\\ ith the growing importance of the South End\\nami its easier access, the courts would hardly be disposed to\\ndecline such an offer, and aceordingly they were held in that\\nbuilding, and in its successor after the first one was burnt,\\ntill the present (Jourt house Avas erected on Court street.\\nMeantime a jail was also erected at the Corner. The excel-\\nlent water-power of the Oliverian contributed also largely to\\nthe more rapid building up of the South End, and when the\\nCohos turnpike was conistructcd to IIa\\\\erhill, and stage lines\\ncentered there, the early glory of the Plain was transferred\\nto the Corner. In all this no hand was more influentially\\nfelt than Col. Johnston s.\\nCol. Johnston was the owner of the land on which Haver-\\nhill stands, and the land which constitutes the beautiful Park\\naround which the village is built, was his gift to the place.\\nHe also gave the land for the old Court house and that of\\nthe Academy, evincing not only his generosity and public\\nspirit, but also his forethought and faitii in the future of the\\nTown. His guiding hand and wise counsels were every-\\nwhere seen. I nited with his confidence tliat Haverhill must\\nsome day be the center in these n(jrthern limits was the gift\\nof a genius to do. He was laborious and persevering in\\npushing on his plans. It was he that led in the building of\\nthe old Court house and the Academy, and toward the close\\nof his life he was a leading sjjirit and one of the incorj)ora-\\ntors of the old Cohos turnpike. He was also one of the\\nincorporators of the Social Library of Haverhill. In the\\nrecords of the Town his name appears repeatedly on com-\\nmittees for carrying out various enterprises. No man was\\n80 prominent in Town affairs. No one held more various", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "76 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\npublic positions of honor and responsibility. Twenty-four\\ntimes during his active life he presided in Town meeting.\\nHis military record is honorable, even conspicuous for\\nbravery. At the age of twenty-four he was commissioned\\nfor the Old French War, and was quarter-master sergeant in\\nCol. Gotf s regiment. This was in 1701. Afterwards he\\ntook an active part in the Revolution. He was Lieutenant-\\nColonel of the 12th Regiment N. H. Militia, and was\\nengaged in the battle of Bennington in 1777, in which he\\ngained prominence for distinguished bravery. Col. Johnston\\nwas detailed by Gen. Stark to carry an order from one divi-\\nsion of the American forces to another division. In order\\nto execute the task he was compelled to pass through a\\nwoods which was made dangerous by the enemy having his\\nscouts there in ambush. Col. Johnston pressed forward\\nwith only a stout staff which he had cut, when suddenly he\\nwas commanded to halt by a Hessian officer with drawn\\nsword. In an instant the sword was struck from the\\nenemy s hand and in Col. Johnston s possession, and point-\\ning it at the Hessian s breast he commanded him and his\\ncompanions to surrender as prisoners of war on peril of\\ndeath. The Hessian ordered his men to throw down their\\narms, which they did, and he and his scouts were led captive\\ninto the American lines. The sword was brought to Haver-\\nhill and presented to his son Capt. Michael Johnston, with\\nthe re(juest tliat it should descend in the line of the oldest\\nmale heir. It is now in the possession of Charles Sanfovd\\nJohnston of Ovid, N. Y., great-grandson of Col. Johnston.\\nThe following is a minute description of the sword by one\\nof the Johnston descendants, Edward Sanford Burgess of\\nWashington, D. C.\\nThe sword is adorned with a tassel, silvered and gilded, a brass\\nhilt, a silver corded handle with brass attaclnnents; the blade is\\ndouble-edged, and on one side bears the words, Dei Gkatia Dux\\nBkunsv ET LrxEB (By the grace of God Duke of Brunswick and\\nlAincburg.) These are engraved lengthwise of the sword, and sur-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS COXTINIEI). 77\\nTounded by gilt scroll-work, in which appeur casques, banners,\\nhalberd, a drum, trumpet, spear, etc. A warrior in armor completes\\nthe upper part of the figure, represented from tlie knees upward, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0clad in complete coat of mail, with plumes in the helmet; below,\\ntoward the hilt, is a crown; below that, an ornamental letter fol-\\nlowed by scroll-work, under which is engraved transversely and next\\nto the hilt the name Jkan Julion. From most of this engraved\\nwork the gilt has worn out.\\nNearly all of the preceeding figures and ornamentations are\\nrepeated on the other side, with the following diU erences the words,\\nA BuuNSVic, are engraved transverselj^ and the motto, Nlnquam\\nEetkorsi M, longitudinally. The same scroll-work is seen along its\\nsides as before, the same warrior above, the same crown below in\\nplace of the letter C is a prancing charger, mane and tail fiying,\\nfore-feet rearing.\\nThe blade of the sword is about three and a half feet long; it is\\naccompanied bj- a leathern scabbard and is provided with a steel tip.\\nHad Gen. Stark listened to Col. Johnston, it is claimed\\nthat the battle of Bennington would liave been more fruitful\\nin results than it was. In De Puy s Ethan Allen and The\\nGreen oSIountain Heroes, the historian says, We chased\\nthem till dark. Col. Johnston of Haverhill wanted to chase\\nthem all night. Had we done so, we might have mastered\\nthem all, for they stopped within three miles of the battle-\\nfield, but Stark saying he would run no risk of spoiling a\\ngood day s work, ordered a halt, and returned to quarters.\\nAfter the battle of Bennington Col. Johnston returned to\\nHaverhill and took no further active part with the armies in\\nthe field, but he was deeply interested in matters at Cohos,\\nwhich was a point of great importance during the Revolu-\\ntionary struggle, and constantly exposed to attack from the\\nBritish forces in Canada. In 1778 we liiid him a[)p()inted\\nto the command of two companies of sixty-five men each to\\nrendezvous at Haverhill for special service, and in the fol-\\nlowing year he commanded two companies of rangers. He\\nwas also active in the organization and direction of scouting\\nparties, and served on various Town committees during these\\nstirring years in providing for the safety of Cohos against", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nenemies from within and from witliont, and was untiring and\\npatriotic in the service of his country.\\nCol. Johnston s civil service in responsible positions\\nextended over a number of years. The connnission by\\nwhich he was appointed Judge of Probate for Grafton\\ncounty bears date Xov. 22, 1781, and from then till he was\\ndisqualified by age, a period of twenty-six years, he held\\nthat office and faithfully discharged its duties to universal\\nsatisfaction. He also w^as elected to the office of county\\ntreasurer in 171*5, and continued to be chosen for many\\nvcars without opposition. He was one of a commission\\nappointed by the governor to administer the oath of alle-\\no-iance and of office to civil and military officers within the\\ncounty of Grafton. His colleagues on this commission were\\nsuch well known persons as Samuel Livermore, Samuel\\nEmerson, Moses Dow, Elisha Payne, and Bezaleel Wood-\\nward. In 1784 he Avas commissioned a justice of peace for\\nGrafton county during good behavior, for the term of five\\nyears, and this commission was renewed from time to time,\\nthe last renewal being in 1810, a few years before his death.\\nAt that time the office of justice of peace was a more impor-\\ntant and responsible position than it is now, since the justices\\nconstituted a court called the Court of Sessions. He was\\nalso a councillor in 1780-2.\\nIn addition to these more prominent public duties he took\\nan acti\\\\e and foremost part in local matters, holding various\\noffices in Town and Church, and serving on various connnit-\\ntees, and his wise counsels and influential hand can be traced\\nin all the growth and progress of the community. An\\nobituary notice of Col. Johnston at the time of his death\\npresents his position and character as it was in the commu-\\nnity A rare assemblage of virtues concentrated in this\\nremarkable character. He was a colonel of militia, judge\\nof probate, comity treasui-cr. But his principal excellence\\nconsisted in professing and exemplyfying the religion of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLEHS CONTINUED. 79\\nJesus. lie enihraced the gospel in early life, and with\\nsingular eonstancy observed its precepts as his vu\\\\c of Hfc to\\nthe end. His liberality to the poor, his hosj)itaiity to\\nstrangers, and his aid to j)ubli{ institutions, will be long\\nremembered among his works of faith and labor of love.\\nNo death in Coos was ever more sincerely lamented. The\\npublic feeling was expressed by a very numerous and deeply\\naffected audience honoring his funeral with their jjresence on\\nan intensely cold day. ^Military officers from the adjacent\\ntowns on both sides of the river, in their uniforms, formed a\\npart of the procession. A sermon was preached by the Kev.\\nDavid Sutherland on the occasion, from the approi)riate\\nwords of the Psalmist, Mark the perfect man and behold\\nthe upright, for the end of that man is [)eace.\\nPhysically Col. Johnston was a very powerful man. On\\none occasion finding two men in a quarrel he se])arated them,\\nbut in turn for his kindness they both set upon him. Taking\\nthem by the shoulders with one hand hand each, he held\\nthem a[)art, and then bi-ought them violently together,\\nhandling them as if they were dolls. He was a man of\\ngreat kindness of heart, ever ready to give a helping hand\\nto the worthy needy, even though it cost him sacrifice and\\ninconvenience. At one time it is said he divided with a very\\npoor man and his distressed family his two cows. AVhen\\nremonstrated with by Mrs. Johnston who said they could\\nnot spare the cow, the Cohniel replied that they could do with\\none cow better than the poor man and his needy family could\\ndo without any, and so the cow was allowed to go. As\\njustice of the peace he had occasion to exercise his gift of\\npeace-making, and sometimes mounted his horse and rode\\nmiles to see parties Avho were intent on litigation, and coun-\\nseled with them if something could not be done to prevent\\nstrife amongst neighbors. He w^as a man of large and (juick\\nsympathies and generous impulses, united with the best of\\njudgment and good sense. Some of his neighbors, not as", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "80 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nbountifully endowed with these traits as he was, were annoy-\\ned by the depredations of boys upon their orchards, and\\nthese depredations were made more frequent from the fact\\nthat the owners of the orchards were selfish and stingy, and\\nif a boy was found looking over the fence at the tempting\\nfruit beyond, they were sure to be ordered off with harsh\\nand anffry words. Col. Johnston was not troubled in this\\nway. When he saw a group of boys near his orchard he\\nwould walk out and pick uj) a hat-full of the choicest fruit\\nand carry it to the fence, and in kind and winning words\\ninvite the boys to eat all they wished. The boys would take\\nthe apples with thankful hearts and go away, and whilst\\nthey wei e eating the Colonel s apples M ith many an enthusi-\\nastic praise of his kindness and generosity, they were sure\\nto lay })lans to raid the orchard of some snarling and stingy\\nneighbor.\\nIn the later years of his life when past labor, he was\\naccustomed to walk out in pleasant seasons to the Johnston\\nwoods for exercise and pastime. A small house by the way-\\nside had some beds of bright flowers in front of it, and he\\nwould stop to admire these and pass a friendly word with the\\ngood woman of the house. He was social and neighborly,\\nand enjoyed life all the more if he saw others in pros[)erity\\nand happiness.\\nIn those days books were scarce, and knowledge derived\\nfrom such sources was not very great, but Col. Johnston\\nwas a man of much intelligence for the times. He a])])reci-\\nated the value of knowledge, and was foremost in the\\norganization of a village library. His contact with the best\\nand most intelligent men of the times was large and fre-\\nquent, and his official position gave him many advantages\\nwith persons of culture and experience. He was also better\\ntrained and equipped by education than the aAcrage person\\nof his position in society, and was deemed qualified to take\\nthe charge of Haverhill Academy for a term during a", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLKUS COXTIXUED. HI\\nvacancy in the principalship. His hand-writing is a marvel\\nof beauty as it stands to-day on the Town and cotnity\\nrecords, and is ahnost as perfect as script.\\nProbably no ]):irt of Col. flohnston s character was more\\nmarked than his religious character. lie was the first\\ndeacon of the Cony-reuational church at its formation, and\\nwas a most steadfast friend of all that was good and true.\\nHis example was a daily call to duty and righteousness. Xo\\nman in the community exerted a greater influence as a\\nchristian. Arovmd his christian character grouped every\\nother trait, and shone through this as the light shines through\\na pure atmosphere. The kingdom of God was uppermost\\nin his thoughts. From a letter written by his grandson,\\nMichael Johnston Gray, dated Rotherham, Eng., Sept. 12,\\n1811, where he was studying for the ministry, we learn Col.\\nJohnston s deep interest in the cause of christian education\\nI am glad that the Academy of whicli\\nwe had thought is likely to be established.\\nI hope that by this time you will have procured a charter\\nto secure its safety. I am glad that the ministers object\\nto its being connected with Dartmouth College. I don t\\nthink that it would do at all. For my part, I never enter-\\ntained the least doubt but that a sufficiency for its support\\nmight be obtained in America, by subscriptions, donations,\\netc., etc. Christians in America have warm hearts as well\\nas christians in England and with a little exertion, nay,\\nwithout almost any, I was going to say, the Academy might\\nbe carried on and prosper. A few pence from each lover of\\nJesus would, I doubt not, be amjjly sufficient.\\nCol. Johnston s letter, to which this is a reply, is unfortu-\\nnately not preserved, but from the extract of Mr. Gray s\\nletter it would seem that there was a project at that time to\\nconnect with Hav(!rhill Academy, or enlarge its sco{)e, a\\nschool for the training of ministers. The endowment of\\nthis school was one of tlic things to 1)C secured.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "82 niSTOUY OF liAVKinilLL.\\nCol. Johnston s name has lingered more distinctly in public\\nmemory than that of any other man in the Town. He was\\nof Scotch origin, and was born in Hampstead in 1737, the\\nfifth child of Michael and Mary (Hancock) Johnston. He\\nmarried Kuth Marsh of Londonderry, whom tradition says\\nwas a person of delicate mould and of womanly diffidence.\\nThey had a family of eight children, two of whom died in\\nearly life. Michael was the oldest, and remained on the\\nhomestead. He was a captain of militia, and served for two\\nyears as a private in the Revolution. He also held civil\\noffice in the Town. His wife before her marriage was Sarah\\nAtkinson of Boscawen, and of their children Sarah married\\nCapt. Stephen Adams Charles and Hannah (see Chaj).\\nXIX). ]\\\\Iichael succeeded his father on the homestead,\\nand married Anna Atkinson of Boscawen George AMiite-\\nfield and a sister, Betsey, married Atkinsons of the same\\nplace. Hale Atkinson (see Chap. XVII).\\nOf Michael Johnston s fiimily, son of Michael, the only\\none living in Haverhill is Kate ]McK. Johnston, a cultivated\\nlady and an accomplished singer, as was also her sister,\\n]Mary, Avho died a few years ago. A son, Harry A., recently\\ndeceased, was a man of keen, bright mind and more than\\naverage intelligence. Edward P. lives in Washington, D.\\nC, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. The Johnston\\nhomestead was in the family till within a few years, when it\\npassed into the hands of Amos Tarleton who now lives\\non it.\\nlluth, one of Col. Johnston s daughters, married Eben-\\nezer Gray, and their son ^Michael (see Chap. XIX). .Vbi-\\ngail married Israel Swan, and Betsey married Lawson\\nDewey who became a judge of a county court in Ohio. The\\nother daughters were Polly and Sarah.\\nAsa PoKTP:it. The date when Col. Porter came to\\nHaverhill is not known, but early he appears as a man of\\naffiiirs and enterprise. Before 1772 he owned and operated", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLERS CONTINUED. 83\\na feny across Connecticut river at the Porter place. Owing^\\nto his position in the Kevolutionarv AVar he was never a\\nfavorite with his fcliow-townsincii, and it is said he had no\\nnear neighbors witli wlioni he associated. His syni{)athies\\nwere with the Tories, and a road at Horse meadow and the\\nwoods along it are still known as Tory road and 1 ly\\nwoods. In 177() he with others was charged a\\\\ ith con-\\nspiracy in giving information to, and asking aid of the\\nenemy, and Porter was taken to Exeter for trial. This con-\\nspiracy extended to Bath and Newbury and down the river,\\nand was discovered by a young Indian. Porter was tried\\nby the (xcneral Coiu*t and voted an enemy. Subsequently\\nhe made his escape, but was captured at Xewburyport,\\nMass., and afterward he was allowed to return to Haverhill\\non parole. In later years Col. Porter held official positions\\nin the Town. He lived in a large frame house at the south\\nend of Horse meadow. The farm, now owned ly Sanuiel\\nF. Southard, extended down the river to ]\\\\Iajor ^Merrill s\\nfarm and back toward Briar Hill. The ferry at his place\\nwas kept up till the Middle Bridge was built. He was\\nalso owner of large tracts of land in Corinth and Topsham,\\nVermont.\\nCol. Porter introduced the Lombard poplars into\\nHa\\\\( rhill. He had a field-nursery of these trees on his\\nfarm, and when they were large enough for transplanting he\\nset out two rows close to the fence on both sides of the road\\nthe entire length of the meadow. This road was called\\nHorse ^leadow street. The poplars soon grew to be\\ntall trees, straight and trim, and had the appearance of two\\nlines of soldiers with heads erect and arms close to their\\nsides. They did not fui nish nuich shade on account of their\\nslender shape, and after they attained their growth, which\\nwas quite ra])id, the limbs began to decay, and the trees\\nlooked ragged and ill-shaped, and soon died out, so that\\nthere is not one left to tell the tale of their t)rii;in and lifi*.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a084 HISTOltY OF HAVERHILL.\\nCol. Porter married a sister of Andrew S. Crocker, and a\\ndaii i;hter of theirs became the wife of Mills Olcott, Esq., of\\nHanover, a very influential and prominent man at that time,\\nand whose family, mostly daughters, attained distinction in\\ntheir marriages. One was the wife of Joseph Bell, the\\nfamous Haverhill lawyer, another married Rufus Choate,\\nthe great ad^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ocate, and a third was the wife of the late\\nWilliam H. Duncan, Esq., of Hanover, one of the most\\naccomplished men of New Hampshire. One of Col. Porter s\\nsons lived in South Newbury, John (see Chap. XVH). The\\nPorter family became early extinct in Haverhill.\\nCol. Porter was familiarly known as Migin Porter\\nfrom the habit he had, Avhen expressing his opinion, of say-\\ning, I migin, which was a shorter and perverted form of\\nI imagine. On one occasion when about to punish his\\nnegro girl, he tied a rope around her body, and then fastened\\nthe other end to himself, so that the girl could not get away\\nwhilst he laid on the lash. But the girl being a very large\\nand powerful person, and he being to an equal degree a\\nsmall man, ran down to the river bank intending to drag the\\nColonel in, but seeing his danger he called out frantically for\\nhelp, and on being delivered from the impending bath, he\\nsaid, I migined the creatur would drown me.\\nCol. Porter was a man of aristocratic and select tastes,\\nand belonged in his social haljits to the aristocracy of his\\nday. He had the advantage of a lil)eral education, being\\na graduate of Harvard College, and filled a large place in\\nthe early history of the Town.\\nWillia:m Pouter, a younger brother of Asa Porter,\\nlived near him at Horse meadow for a time and later he\\nmoved out on the Turnpike. Pointer Hill gets its\\nname from him. He was a selectman, and came to Haver-\\nhill about 1771). His wife s maiden name was Mary Adams,\\nand they had a large family of children, one of whom,\\nSarah, became the wife of John Osoood, the famous clock-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "EARLY SiyiTLEKS CONTINUED. 85\\nmakei* of Haverhill, whose daughter married the late Daniel\\nBlaisdell of Hanover. Mr. Porter s son William, familiarly\\nknown as Uncle Billy, lived on the homestead on Por-\\nter Hill, and a grand-daughter of his, Mrs. flohn C.\\nPurhank, is still living there. A sister of Mrs. Purhank\\nwas for many years the lady-like cashier of the ladies (le[)art-\\nment of the Parker House restaurant, Boston. A great-\\ngrandson of A\\\\ illiam Porter, Albert E., is an esteemed and\\nactive business man of Ashland.\\nAndrew Savage Crocker came from Hollis, and was\\namongst the earlier settlers of Haverhill. His name appears\\nin the Town records as early as 1771, when he was chosen\\none of the selectmen, and served in that position twelve\\nyears. He was also Town clerk for a nundjer of years.\\nIn the early development of the Town he took an active and\\nleading part, and was one of the most influential citizens of\\nits pioneer history. He bore a royal commission as justice-\\nof the peace from the British government in Colonial times,,\\nand went by the name of Squire Crocker. This commis-\\nsion was formerly in possession of his grand-daughter, Mrs..\\nHiram Carr of Boston, but is now in the keej)ing of Alvah\\nCrocker of Fitchburg, Mass. In 177G he was ai)[)ointed by\\nthe General Court coroner of Grafton county, but he\\ndeclined the appointn)ent on the ground that he was not\\nin sym[)athy with the form of government then in vogue.\\nThere is a hint in this lefusal to accept office of the differ-\\nence of ojyinion which pre\\\\ai]ed in tlios times. Men were\\ndivided into royalists and rc\\\\()lutionists, oftener called\\nTories and Patriots according as censure or praise\\nwas intended.\\nMr. Crocker s wife was Shua Thurston, and their home\\nw as at Horse meadow. Their only child, Kdwaid Pass,\\nmarried Elizabeth Gibson of Hillsboro and their six cliil-\\ndren were Andrew, (Jiles, l^dwai d, Moses, FriMh iick, and\\nMarv. One died in infancy, Andrew, (iiles, and l d\\\\vard", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL,\\ndied in the same year, 1840 Andrew in Cuba, Giles in\\nMobile, Ala., and Edward in New Orleans. Edward was a\\nlawyer, and read with Joseph Bell. Andrew was the only\\nson, except Frederick that married, and his wife s maiden\\nname was Sarah Carr of North Haverhill. Their only child.\\nMiss Hannah Crocker, is still living in Plainfield, N. J.\\njVIary, the only daughter of Andrew Crocker, married\\nHiram Carr and is now living in Boston. Frederick (see\\nChap. XIX).\\nMr. Crocker was a man of high character and social posi-\\ntion, and above the average of his townsmen in intelligence\\nand knowledge. He with others of that time constituted the\\naristocracy of the Cohos settlement. In stature he was of\\nmedium height with rather slender form, and he commanded\\nrespect and influence by his worth and ability.\\nNathaniel Merrill came to Haverhill quite early from\\nthe vicinity of Haverhill, Mass., and settled on a farm at the\\nPlain. The Merrill house is still standing, and is now occu-\\npied by Herbert Eastman, but has been changed. He Avas\\nborn in 1754, and married Sarah Hazen, daughter of Capt.\\nJohn Hazen. They had a family of twelve children, eleven\\nof whom were daughters, all of whom, tradition says, were\\ncomely, and some even handsome. The son died in early\\nlife. Sally mai ried Aaron Ilibbard of Bath, Eliza) )eth\\nmarried Moses Swasey, Polly married Nathaniel Runnels of\\nPiermont, Nancy married 01)adiah Swasey, Charlotte married\\nIsaac Pearson who lived at the Brook, Lucinda married\\nAbner Bailey of Newbury, lluth and Hannah were twins,\\nthe former married James Morse, the latter John Page.\\nThe grandchildren of Major Merrill were numerous.\\nMiss Priscilla Morse, who lived at the Corner for many\\nyears, was a daughter of Thomas Morse who married Hittie\\nMerrill, and Mrs. Babcock of San Francisco is a daughter\\nof the late Samuel Page who married Louisa Merrill.\\nMajor Merrill was a prominent citizen of the Town, and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "KAULY SKTTLKItS CONTIM Kl). 87\\nlield many puhlic position?!. He was selectman for many\\nyears, and represented the Town in the legishiture several\\nterms. He was a man of energy and public spirit, and is\\nsaid to have owned the first eliaise in Haverhill. In INK!\\nhe moved to Piermont, where he died in 1^2- He was a\\nman of strong character and influence and larf e conunon\\nsense, somewhat l)hmt, hut practical and honest, full of fun\\nand quite a favorite. He was also quite eccentric, writing-\\nreeei[)ts with a ([uaint humor, using in them the ])hrase,\\nfrom the beginning of the world up to this date. Kev.\\nEthan Smith said of him, He knew more than any man\\nwho hadn t more education than he had.\\nAs illustrating his character, a young man visiting one of\\nthe daughters, and staying as was the custom in those days\\ntill, if not broad day-light, at least early dawn, when\\nabout to mount his horse to ride away, Major ^Merrill st()i)])ed\\nhim and said, Abner, stay to breakfast and then go home.\\nThe bashful youth not wishing to ride home in day-light,\\nreplied, No, I ll go now. Well, was the unconditional\\nanswer, if you re ashamed to go home in broad day-light,\\nyou needn t come to see my daughter.\\nOn another occasion when two men were working for him\\nwhose honesty needed looking after, he observed that they\\nseemed disposed after work to linger around the j:r, mises till\\ndark. The lights were extinguished, and Maj. ]\\\\Ienill took\\na position at the w^indow f )r observation. Pretty soon the\\nloiterers approached the Uar window. Going to the win-\\ndow Maj. Merrill found one of the men holding a bag, who\\nat once beat a hasty retreat. When the other man came\\nwith his hands full of salt pork, Maj. Merrill was holding\\nthe bag, and after bringing several lots the man asked if he\\nhadn t about enough, to which ^Taj. Merrill in his usual\\nvigorous English, replied, I should think so. by\\nThe thief undertook to get out by the window, but was pre-\\nvented, and was conqx lled to go up through the house wliert-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthe Major met him. I want you ami the other man to\\ncome to my house to-morrow at twelve o clock and take\\ndinner with me. The man could do no more than promise.\\nAt twehe the two ap[)eared, and a most bountiful boiled\\ndinner awaited tliem. They sat down and were g;enerously\\nhelped, and the Major carried on a lively conversation with\\nthem. Dinner over he leaned back in his chair and said to\\nthe two men, When you want pork again come to my\\nhouse and you shall have all you wish, and then kindly\\ndismissed them. They were ever after Maj. MerrilFs most\\ndevoted friends.\\nWe do not wonder tliat beino; asked to give money to civ-\\nilize the heathen, he replied, I ll give $20 to civilize the\\nheathen within five miles of my house. Maj. Merrill in\\nphysical aspect was a man of more than medium size, broad\\nshouldered, strong head, and weighed al)out one hundred\\nseventy-five pounds.\\nMrs. Merrill was a woman of rare character and most\\namiable disposition. She came of gentle blood. One of her\\ngrandchildren says of her, ]My own remembrance of her\\nis one of the warmest, sunniest spots in my early life and\\nmemory. I was not more than five or six years of age when\\nI visited at her home in North Haverhill, and I yet seem to\\nfeel her soft hand upon my head, and to see anew her sweet,\\nsmiling face as she gave me, to my great satisfaction, a slice\\nof bread.\\nWilliam Merrill. A person by this name, tradition\\nsays, lived in Haverhill in its early history that a son,\\nJoshua, enlisted in tlie War of LS12 that after the war\\nJoshua went to Ohio, and that soon after that period he\\nendeavored to open correspondence Avith the Haverhill part\\nof the family, but received no answer, tiie family either\\nhaving moved to ])arts unknown, or may have become ex-\\ntinct by the fearful sj)otted fever that swept over this region\\nin 1(^15. A son of Joshua has risen to great prominence.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "EAKLY SETTLEKS CONTINUED. 89\\nbeing the distinguished Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, D.D.,\\nof the Methodist lOpiscoj);!! church, and now resides in\\nChicago. Some circumstances make it probable that Wil-\\nliam was either a brotlier of Maj. Nathaniel Merrill or\\nbelonged to the Warren Merrills.\\nJoSEi H Pearson was one of the earlier settlers, and\\ncame from lioseawen. The exact date is not known, but as\\nearly as 1779 he was the owner of a fulling mill at the\\nBrook. Later, he carried on the lumber business, and was\\na man of much energy and enterprise. He took a promi-\\nnent part in developing the resources of the Town and in\\nbuilding up its prosperity. He was an upright and worthy\\ncitizen, and highly esteemed. Physically he was large and\\nbroad shouldered. His wife s maiden name was Hannah\\nJohnston, daughter of Col. Charles Johnston, and they had\\na large family. One of their sons, Samuel A., was a grad-\\nuate of Dartmouth College in 1803, and studied law with\\nAlden Sprague. He ])racticed his profession in Lancaster,\\nbut did not gain special distinction. In his later life he\\nseems to have been unsuccessful. He held the ofhce of\\npost-master for many years at Lancaster. A daughter,\\nNancy, became the wife of Christopher ^Nlarsh, a clergyman\\nin Massachusetts.\\nMrs. Pearson was a woman of superior charac^ter, and was\\none of the original members of the Congregational church in\\nHaverhill. She possessed a bright and quick mind, and was\\nespecially attractive to the young, to whom she would tell\\nBible stories in a singularly entertaining and instructive way,\\nand won their love and esteem by her kindly and gentle\\nmanners.\\nIsaac was their oldest child, inheriting nuich of his father s\\nenergetic and enterprising nature, and became his successor\\nin the lumber business at the P rook. He owned large\\nmeadows on the ri\\\\er and also considerable land on the east\\nside (if Ladd street. He was gencrallv known as Major", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF IIAVEKHILL.\\nPearson, his fiither as Captain Pearson, and was a man\\nof esteemed character and g-ood standini;. lie married first\\nCharh)ttc, daughter of Maj. Nathaniel Merrill. They had\\ntwo children, INIerrill and Caroline. ]\\\\Ierrill Pearson who\\ndied recently in Bloomington, 111., married a daughter of\\nDea. Henry Barstow of Haverhill. Maj. Pearson s second\\nwife was Charlotte Atherton, and a daughter by this marri-\\nage, Mrs. James M. Chadwick, lives in Saginaw, INIich.\\nJames Henry (see Chap. XIX).\\nThis family illustrates the genius for business in one\\ndirection. Four of the sons of Maj. Pearson engaged in\\nthe lumber business, -James, George, Charles, Isaac, and\\nthis has been the principal occupation of the Pearson family\\nfor four generations.\\nNone of the Major Pearson family or their descendants\\nare now living in Haverhill. The old Pearson house is still\\nstanding on Ladd street on the left hand side of the road\\nafter leaving the Oliverian bridge.\\nSamup:l PiioOKS came to Plaverhill about the close of\\nthe Revolution a young man. His father was a pi osperous\\ncitizen of Worcester, Mass. His mother s name was\\nHannah Davis before her marriage. Young Brooks when\\nhe came to Plaverhill opened a store at the Corner, and was\\nalso the owner of an oil mill at tlu; Brook, but he was not\\nvery successful in these ventures. Later, he went to Quebec\\nand contracted with the governor of the Province for a tract\\nof land in the township of Chester, then an imbroken wil-\\nderness, aud two of his brothers began lumbering operations\\nin this forest. A year or two later, 1812, he took his\\nfamily to Canada, but owing to a change of governor in the\\nProvince the plans Avhich he had marked out were defeated,\\nand leaving Chester he came to Stanstead where he lived to\\nthe close of his life.\\nMr. Brooks during his residence in Haverhill was one of\\nthe most influential citizens of the Town, and took an active", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "EAItLY SKTTLEItS rOXTIXrEI). 91\\npart in all public matters. lie represented the Town in the\\nlegislature, was a selectman, and also Town clerk. Jiesides\\nthese positions of trust he also held the office of register of\\ndeeds for (Jrafton county for a nunihcr of years. lie is\\nrepresented as a man of gentle manners, and is said to have\\nbeen very ingenious and skillful.\\nHe married a daughter of Col. Timothy Bedi l, the widow\\nof Dr. Thaddeus liutler. Of their family one of the daugh-\\nters, Hannah, married for her first husband Capt. AVilliam\\nTrotter of Bradford, Vermont, and afterwards Col. illiam\\nBarron of the same place. Both, it is said, were famous in\\ntheir day for their fondness for the chase, and were accus-\\ntomed to hunt for deer back of ]Mt. Gardner. ]Mr. Barron\\nwas a gentleman of the olden school, tall, somewhat slightly\\nbuilt, and a cry dignified and commanding in person and\\ns[)cech. Another daughter married Asa Low of Bradford,\\nVermont, and a third became the wife of Judge Nesmith of\\nFranklin. These daughters were women of great excellence\\nof character, ornaments in home, church and society. Sam-\\nuel and Edwin (see Chap. XIX) (icorge AVashington,\\nanother son, is worthy of mention as bcfjueathing to his\\ncountry twenty children, and in this respect may be said to\\nbe the father of his country. He was rightly named.\\nThe old Brooks house in Haverhill stood on the South\\nPark near where the pum[) now is. The house and barn\\nwere afterwards moved to Court street, and remodeled, and\\nare now the residences of Jud ;e Wcstijate and the late Mrs.\\nBarstow.\\nThe Mokses have been numerous in Haverhill during\\nmost of its history.\\nStephex Morse came to the Town from Massachusetts,\\nprobably near the close of the Revolutionary War. He was\\nborn in 1757, and died in 1H43 at the age of ^1 His\\nAvife s name was Sally Kay. His lived on Morse Hill,\\non the old Coventrv road from Xorth Haverhill to Coventrv.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nnow Benton. By trade he was a blacksmith, and had a\\nfamily of twelve children, all sons. It is said he would ride\\non horseback from his home to Horse meadow and to the\\nCorner, and sleep most of the way. He was also very deaf,\\nand used a tin trumpet to aid his hearing.\\nOf his children, Bryan was the oldest, born in 1781, and\\nmarried Susannah Stevens, and like his father, he was a\\nblacksmith and also a cabinet maker, but afterwards he\\nbecame a Methodist clergyman and lived at the Corner in the\\nhouse opposite the Col. Johnston place till 1833, when\\nwith his family he moved to Lowell, Mass., where he\\nengaged in merchantile business for some years. Later, he\\nlived in Groveland, Mass., and died there in 18(53 at the\\nage of 82.\\nBryan Morse s family, some of them, became prominent\\nin professional and other walks of life. Horace B., the\\noldest, was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1823, and\\nlost his life by drowning at Portsmouth.\\nPeabody A., George W., Isaac S., (See Chap. XIX).\\nCaleb, the second son of Stephen Morse, lived on a farm\\nnear his father. One of his daughters, Ruth, inarried\\nCharles G. Sujith. C\\\\aleb Morse died at his home in 1842,\\nand during his life he was prominent in town matters, and\\nalso represented the Town in the legislature. John C,\\nfollowed the occuj)ation of his father, Stephen, and lived at\\nHorse Meadow. In his later life he kej)t a tavern in the\\nhouse now occupied by his son, John X. ^lorse, a prouiinent\\ncitizen of the Town.\\nKobert, another son of Stephen Morse, (See Chap. XIX).\\nJoshua was a merchant at North Haverhill, and then the\\n])roj)riet()r and keeper for many years of the stage tavern in\\nKumncy, a hostilery noted far and near under his and his\\nwife s care for its excellent service to the travelling pul)lic.\\nOne of Stephen ]Morse s children was a physician in North-\\nern Vermont Hiram lived on the old homestead, and Caleb s", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "EAKLY SETTLERS CONTINUED. 93\\nson Caleb is the only representative ot the Morse family\\noccupying the old ground.\\nEdmund Morse was a younger brother of Stej)hen\\nMorse, and was l)()rn in 17(54. He came to Haverhill about\\nthe time his brother did, but after a few years he moved to\\nGroton, Vt., and was the pioneer settler of that town. He\\nmarried Sally, daughter of Capt. A^ esson of Haverhill,\\nand their daughter Sally was the first child born in Groton.\\nHe was a man of excellent character. It is said his first\\nblacksmith shop in Groton consisted of a fire-place and a\\nstump to put his anvil on, and thus he began business. He\\nwas full of energy and enterprise.\\nA Deacon Morse lived on Briar Hill, and was for a\\nnumber of years tax collector. He was very persistent, and\\non this account he got the name of Pincher jNIorse.\\nThere was also a Stephen Morse, a deacon in the Congrega-\\ntional church at the Corner in 1813, and he may have been\\nthe same as the Briar Hill deacon.\\nJoseph Bliss took a leading part in the earlier history of\\nthe town. He was one of the numi)er that built the first\\nAcademy buildinfj. He lived in the house where Georofc\\nAV. Leith now lives, and for many years it was kept by him\\nas a tavern. It was the aristocratic head-quarters in its day\\nfor the judges and the lawyers. Mr. Bliss was a trustee of\\nthe Academy, a man of influence, but quite small of statui-e.\\nHe was the first post-master in Haverhill, being ajjpointed\\nunder Washington.\\nMrs. Bliss is spoken of as very much o{ a ladv, nf a\\nrefined and cultivated mind. She always observed the pro-\\nprieties of social life with great exactness. And she was\\nequally punctilious when at churcli. She was a woman of\\nmuch spirit, and there is a story that on one occasion whilst\\non a visit at her daughter s, INIrs. Judge Livcrmore in IIol-\\nderness, the Judge in his day being one of the prominent\\nlawyers in the state, he and Mrs. Bliss had a sharp passage", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94 HISTORY OF HAVEKIIILL.\\nof words just as they were going to leave Ilolderness for her\\nhome in Haverhill, and that they made the ride of forty\\nmiles without speaking a word. Mrs. Bliss after the death\\nof her husband kept a ladies store in the east room of the\\nold tavern.\\nJoshua Young came to Haverhill in the early history of\\nthe Town, and was the son of John and Susannah (Getchell)\\nYoung. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1755, and\\ndied in 1797. His parents Avere persons of high character\\nand social standing, who moved to Lisbon before or during\\nthe Revolutionary War, and afterwards to Hanover,, where\\nthe father died in 17 (S 5. Whilst in Lisbon, John Young,\\nthe father of Joshua, was prominent in civil and military\\naffairs. He married for his second wife a daughter of Pi es.\\nLleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College, and\\nhis daughter, Trypheua, married John Wheelock, the second\\njn-esident of Dartmouth College. Joshua Young married\\nAbiah, the oldest daughter of Judge Ezekiel Ladd, and of\\ntheir children, Stiva became the grandmother of Judge\\nCharles K. ]Morrison of Concord. Joshua Young was a\\nbright and capal)le man, and Avas, it is said, at one time on\\nGen. Stark s staff. In the late years of his life he was over-\\ntaken by a sad infirmity, the slave of appetite, which finally\\nended in a very tragic death. Tryphena Young who became\\nthe Avife of President John Wheelock, Avas noted for lier\\nbeautiful and SAveet voice, dying Avhilst singing the hymn\\nof Watts, Show pity, Lord, O Lord forgive. Joshua\\nYoung lived AA here Mr. Peter Flanders now lives, and part\\nof the present house Avas the original Young house.\\nAmos Kimball Avas one of the earlier settlers in Haver-\\nhill, and lived on Ladd street in a log house at the foot of\\nthe hill near the little brook that runs by George Wilson s\\nplace. His wife s maiden name Avas Abigail Corliss, and\\nthey had a lai-ge family of eleven children. Several of the\\nsons and daughters Avent to the West and to Canada. A", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "EAKLY SETTLEKS CONTlMEl). 95\\ngrandson, Francis D.-, living in Ohio, became quite promi-\\nnent as a lawyer and politician. lie was elected secretary of\\nstate on the ticket Avith the late Chief Justice Chase,\\nwhen the latter ran for governor of that state, and died\\nwhilst in office.\\nThe youngest son, Amos, li\\\\ed on the farm now owned\\nand occupied by Ezra S. Kimball. Amos Kimball was some-\\nwhat active in Town affairs, and was a selectman a number\\nof times.\\nJohn, the eldest son of Amos, was a prominent man in\\npublic and church matters. lie was a deacon of the Congre-\\ngational church at Horse meadow, and colonel of the 13th\\nRegiment State Militia. He also represented the Town in\\nthe legislature for several years, and served in the board of\\nselectmen for a number of years. Of his numerous family,\\nJohn (see Chap. XIX). Dudley C. died recently in Xew-\\nl)ury, Vt., Benjamin F. lives in Newbury, Vt.\\nIsaac B. resides in Concord. Only one of the seven\\ndaughters is living, Mrs. E. T. White of Washington, D.\\nC. Dea. Porter Kimball and ]\\\\Irs. Lyman Southard are\\nchildren of the late Dudley C. Kimball.\\nAViLLiAM Cross is worth} of mention, if for no other\\nreason, from the fact that he so well and faithfully filled a\\nposition in which few attained success. He was a brother-in-\\nlaw of Judge Ladd whose sister Abigail he married, and came\\nto Haverhill in 178 S, He was from Haverhill, Mass., and\\nlived in the house lately owned and occupied by Eliza Cross.\\nMr. Cross was for many years the faithful and trusty sexton\\nof the Ladd street meeting house, and was punctual all that\\ntime in ringing the nine o clock evening bell, the signal for\\nputting out the old candle lights and ])rej)aring for rest, as\\nwas the custom in early times in New Kngland. ^Ir. Cross\\nlived to the extreme old a ;e of one hundred vears and a few\\nmonths.\\nMiss Eliza Cross, his daughter, born in 1700, lived to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "96 HISTOKY OF HAVEllHILL.\\nnearly her father s age, ninety-seven, and was up to the time\\nof her death, in the enjoyment of remarkably good health\\nand of her reason. She was the last connecting link in\\nTown with the generation of earliest settlers, and has fur-\\nnished many a fact and incident for these pages, showing a\\nmost commendable interest in the progress of the work and\\nin the preservation of the earlier period of the Town s his-\\ntory. Miss Cross was at one time superintendent of the\\nSabbath school on Ladd street. In those days a bright\\ncolored card was g^iven to each scholar for conunittinii: to\\nmemory a certain number of verses from the Bible. iVfter-\\nwards a cent was paid for every ten verses committed. The\\nfirst library for the use of Sabbath schools in Haverhill, she\\nsays, was one hundred books each to the school on Ladd\\nstreet, at the Corner and at East Haverhill. Miss Cross\\ndied suddenly, Sept. 2, 1887, aged 97 years and some\\nmonths.\\nJeremiah Cross, brother of Eliza, was a man of more than\\nordinary ability, but of somewhat limited education, and was\\nvery prominent as a Free Mason, holding the very highest\\nposition in that order. He lectured all through the country\\non Masonry, and was regarded as the best authority on the\\npractical workings of the system. He died in 18()().\\nJohn Osgood Avas born in Andover, Mass., in 1770,\\nand became a citizen of Haverhill as early as 1795, dying\\nhere in 1840. He was a maker of the old style high clocks\\nwhich were common in those days, many of which are still\\nin use in this region bearin2^ his name. Thcv are now much\\nsought after by the lovers of the ancient, and command\\nfancy prices, such that if their maker had sold them origin-\\nally for the sums they now bring, he would have become a\\nmoney-king. Mr. Osgood was quiet and unobtrusive in his\\nmanners, and much esteemed by his felloAV citizens. For\\nseveral years he was a member of the board of trustees of\\nHaverhill Academy, and Jilso served as tOAvn treasurer and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "EARLY SETTLEIIS CONTIMKI). 97\\nclork for a immlier of years. He had an infirmity of\\nlameness. I le lived at one time in the west end of the\\nhouse where Mr. Nathaniel Bailey lives, afterwai ds in the\\nhouse now owned and oeeupied hy Dr. Watson. He\\nmarried Sarah, dau 2;hter of William Porter, and of their\\nehildren a dau j,hter, Charlotte, niai ried Daniel lUaisdell,\\nIvs(|., of IIano\\\\er, and of their two ehildren, Alfred, a\\nU raduate of Dartmouth Colleg-e, is head draftsman at the\\niirooklvn navy yard, and Charlotte married Prof. Knggles\\nof Dartmouth Colleue. ^Irs. Blaisdell lives at Hanover\\nwith her daughter.\\nThe Cakij.s. Capt. Daniel Carr and his brother, Dea.\\nfTohn Carr, came to Haverhill from Ncwburyport, Mass.,\\nneai- the close of the last century. John settled on a piece\\nof land now the farm of his son, Joshna. His wife was\\nHannah Work of West Newbury, Mass., and they had a\\nlarge family, flohn Carr s son, Joshna, was selectman in\\nl.S()l-():;?, and John E. Carr, a grandson, hlled the same\\n])osition in 1^^73-5-1), and was representative in 1878\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (SO\u00e2\u0080\u0094 81.\\nHe has also been a member of the state board of agriculture\\nfor Grafton county.\\nCapt. Daniel Carr settled on the farm where D. E. Can-\\nnow lives. He married Elizabeth Work, sister of Dea.\\nCarr s wife. He was a cajjtain in the state militia. His\\neldest son, Daniel, was a deacon in the BajVtist church at\\nNorth Haverhill, and was a selectman for several years.\\nThe Carrs have been prominent citizens of the Town tVom\\nthe first, and were connected by marriage with the Crocker\\nfamily, a son and daughter of Dea. John Carr married a\\ndaughter and son of Edward B. Crocker. The late ^laj.\\nSamuel Carr, an esteemed citizen of the Fown, was a select-\\nman in 1854\u00e2\u0080\u00945.\\nTllK SwAXs came to HaAcrhill at an (arly date, and were\\nmore or less prominent in the history of the Town.\\nJoshua was the oldest, being born in 17fi7. AN illiam", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 1II8TOKY OF HAVKPJIILL.\\nSwan, the Imtter, was connected, it is said, with Joshua.\\nAVilliani lived where the Exchanse hotel now stands, and\\nhis son, Col. Charles Swan, built the original hotel. After-\\nwards Col. Swan went West. He was an active, enterpris-\\ning and influential citizen. Joshua Swan was moderator in\\n1803.\\nIsrael Swax was born in 1768, and was a brother of\\nJoshua. lie married for his first wife Abigail Johnston,\\ndaughter of Col. Charles Johnston, and was one of the\\npetitioners for the charter of Haverhill Academy. He was\\nactive in Town matters, and held various positions of respon-\\nsibility. His son, Charles J. Swan, who married Elizabeth\\nLadd, moved to Ohio, where his family grew u[\u00c2\u00bb and held\\nhonorable positions in society. His wife is still living at\\nLeRoy, Ohio.\\nPhineas Swax came to Haverhill near the close of the\\nlast century. He was not related to the Swans named\\nabove. He first lived on Ladd street where Henry S. Bailey\\nnow lives. Afterwards he built a wooden house at the Buck\\nplace. His wife was a Miss Webster before her marriage,\\nand a daughter became the wife of Ezekiel Ladd, Jr.\\nBenjamin, their son, married Grace Carr of Piermout, and\\nof their children, Henry and his son and daughter are the\\nonly descendants of Phineas Swan now living in Haverhill.\\nObadiah Swasey was born in Haverhill, Mass., in\\n1775, and came to Newbury, t., near the close of the last\\ncentury. At first he lived with an older brother for a short\\ntime as an apprentice to the (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ar[\u00c2\u00bbenter trade. He married\\nXancy, daughter of ^laj. Merrill, and moved from Xewi)ury\\nto North Haverhill about 18()\u00c2\u00abS, and lived on the old Hazen\\nfarm till his death in 18H().\\nMr. Swasey was a prominent and successlul business man,\\nand built and owned the grist mill and saw mill known as\\nthe Swasey mills at North Haverhill, where for many\\nyears he was extensively engaged in the manufacture of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "EAHLY SETTI.EKS CONTIM El), 9i)\\nliiiuIxT and transporting: it to the towns and cities on tlic\\nConnecticut river in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He\\ndied at the aj^e of (il, liaviuL;; enjoyed the esteem and confi-\\ndence of his teUow townsmen.\\nOf the numerous family of ObacUah and Xancv (Mei-iill)\\nSwasey, Mary Ann nian-ied Joim L. A\\\\ oods Sanuiel in\\nhtter years lived in Belvidei e, 111., and died in 1887, at the\\nay,e of 82. He fitted for college at Haverhill Academy, and\\niiraduated fiom Dartmouth College in the famous class of\\n1 S2S. lia\\\\ing as classmates the late Prof. Ira oung, and\\nPres. Labaree of ^liddleburv College. He studied law and\\nwas admitted to the l)ar in ]*ortland, Me., but did not prac-\\ntice his profession. Soon after his admission he went AVest\\nwhere he remained a few years, and tiien returned to\\nHaverhill.\\nHe was chosen by his fellow citizens to represent the\\nTown in the legislature for five years in succession, and\\nduring this time of service he was elected speaker of the\\nHouse in 1842\u00e2\u0080\u00948. He again re[)resented the Town in\\nthe legislature in 1850, and was also the same year a\\nmember of the constitutional convention. For a number\\nof years he served as selectman and for ten years he was\\nRegister of Prol)ate for Cirafton county. During the\\nadministration of President Pierce he was ins[)ector of\\ncustoms at Portsmouth. At the close of his term of office\\nhe mo\\\\ed to Pehidere, III., where he continued to ]i\\\\e to\\nthe time of his death. ]Mr. Swasey married Kdith A.\\nHolmes of Petei borough. Of his surviving children\\nCharles J. is a merchant in Fort Worth, Texas, Edith A.\\nwho married Alson Keeler, resides at Cedar liapids, Iowa,\\nand Edward II. is a promising lawyei in Chicago.\\nMr. Swasey was a man of large ability, i)ut was not\\nvery ambitious. He was highly esteemed, a man of integ-\\nrity and high character, and was a [troiuinent citizen both\\nin his western home as well as in his nati\\\\e town.\\nL.ofC.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "100 IIISTOKY OF IIAVEinilLL.\\nJohn Ilazen Swasey began mercantile business in Port-\\nland, Me., and afterward moved to Boston where he now\\nresides Louisa l)eeame tlie wife of Ephraim Sprague\\nElkins of Kenosha, Wis., Nathaniel lives on the old home-\\nstead, and married a daughter of Dr. John Angier of\\nNorth Haverhill. Their only child, ]\\\\Irs. Brooks, lives in\\nMontpelier. Jane became the wife of Charles James, a\\nlawver of Wisconsin, and now lives in Chicago Nancy\\nmarried Dr. Leonard of North Haverhill Sarah married a\\nson of Dr. Angier and lives in Chicago, and Mehitabel\\nbecame the wife of Henry K. Elkins of Chicago.\\n]Moon liUSSELL came to Haverhill in 1792. In 1799\\nhe was elected a representative to the legislature and also\\nserved in other official positions, being selectman in 1800\\nand moderator in ISOl. He was born in Litchfield, then\\ncalled Dcrryfield, luit came to Haverhill from Plymouth,\\nand after a residence in the former |)lace of nine years, he\\nreturned to Plymouth in ISOl, Avhere he spent the remainder\\nof his life, dying at the advanced age of 94 years, the\\nresult of an accident. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary\\nWar, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. He\\nmarried Betsey, daughter of Col. Da^id Webster, and they\\nhad a large family. Only two of his cliildren, Catharine\\nand Eliza, were born in Haverhill.\\nThe oldest daughter, Nancy, married John Rogers, a\\nmerchant of Plymouth, and two of their sons, John P.,\\nand Walter M. are merchants in Boston, another, Edward\\nP., is a railroad man in Portland, Oregon, and a daughter,\\nCharlotte H., became the first wife of Prof. William J.\\nTucker of Andover, Mass.\\nDavid ]Moor Russell, second son of ]Moor Russell, married\\n]\\\\Iary Elint of Reading, Mass., and lived in Gainesville,\\nAla. They had two children, one a prominent business\\nman in Lawrence, Kansas, the otlier a large planter in\\nMississipi)i. The tliird child of Moor Russell, Catherine,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "KAliLV SKITLKKS C ON IIM Kl). 101\\nmarried Snniiicl Wohstor, a lawyer of IMyinoutli. Two-\\nof tlieir eliildren were iiicreliants in Plyinoutli, and two\\nothers were niercliants in Boston and New oi k. Kliza,\\nthe fourth child ot Moor Kussell, niarried l enjaMiin (i:\\nEdwards, and is still living- in Brooklyn, X. Y. William\\nAV., the fifth ehild, married Susan Carleton AVehster of\\nSalisbury, and of their children, Alfred is a j)rominent and\\nsuccessful lawyer in Detroit, Mich., and ;raduated from\\nDai-tmouth College in iSjO. Two of his brothers, A\\\\ illiam\\nW. and Frank W are enterprisinii; merchants in Plymouth,\\nmen of character and influence, successors of their father in\\nthe business which he carried on so extensively for many\\nyears, and which was established by their grandfather nearly\\na century ago. The other children of Moor Kussell were\\nMary, who married Eliza .M. Davis of Barnet, Yt. Walter\\nW. Avent South and died at (iainesville, where he was a\\nprominent merchant for nearh half a century; Jane A.\\nmanied Milo 1^. dewett of Plymouth, and is now living in\\nMilwaukee, A\\\\ is., where Charles J. also li\\\\es and has been\\nengaged for many years in mercantile life. He married\\nCatherine Wells Merrill of Plymouth. The youngest, dulia\\nA., married Dr. Samuel Long of Plymouth.\\ni he genius of merchandising was a marked character-\\nistic in the Ivussell familv. and all who enjraged in tliat\\nbusiness have been suc(\u00c2\u00bbessful in a more than usual degr( e.\\nMr. Moor Ilussell was a man of excellent character, who\\nhad gained the esteem and confidence of the conununity,\\nand possessed much energy and enter[)rise. He was promi-\\nnent in church and religious matters, and was a most uncom-\\npromising ten)))erance man. The story runs that he cut\\ndown his orchard because the fruit of the apple tree was\\nmade into cider and used as a l)evei age.\\nTin-: (iooKix Family. Samuel (Jookin was born in\\n1712 and VwvA in Dcdham and I oston. His business was\\nthat of a mci chant. Afterwards he mo\\\\ cd to Ilaxcrhill and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "102 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ndied in IS 28. His son Richard was a prominent man in\\nHaverhill, and was born in Boston in 1769. He came to\\nHaverhill in 17!)II, and with his brother Samuel was tiie first\\nperson, it is said, who manufactured watch and hair spriny;s\\nin America. For a time he was foreman in the first cut nail\\nfactoiy at Amesbury, Mass. Subsequently he and a ])erson\\nby the name of Standrin introduced from England the wool-\\ncarding machines into the United States, for the improve-\\nment of which Mr. Gookin obtained several patents, and he\\nand his partner manufactured in Boston the first wool-carding\\nmachines ever used in the United States. Previous to this\\nwool was carded by hand. Afterwards, 171)9, they moved\\ntheir business to Haverhill, and manufactured wool-carding\\nmachines which were sold in all parts of our country and in\\nCanada. He was interested in woolen factories in Bath and\\nother places, and was a man of imcommon energy and\\nenterprise. He li^ed on Ladd street, and with Obadiah\\nSwasey was owner of the famous \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Fisher farm. There\\nis a tradition thiit on account of the carding-machines being\\nbrought from Fngland, an attempt was made on the lives of\\nMr. Gookin and his partijer. A hat was sent the former\\narmed with a secret deadly s[)ring, but was discovered before\\nthe hat was worn. It was })Ut on a dog and instantly killed\\nthe animal. To his partner was sent a trunk that was in-\\ntended to explode when unlocking.\\nHe died at Haverhill in l S2(i. His wife s maiden name\\nwas Kebecca Denunan. ()ne of their (hiughters married\\nJohn L. Bunce, a son, Warren Demman (see Chap. XIX).\\nMr. Gookin left a strong impression on the community.\\nAsa Boyntox was a prominent and influential citizen of\\nHaverhill in the latter part of the last century and the first\\nof the present. The name also appears in the Piermont\\nrecords. He was a selectman in 1802-8-1), and modevator\\nin 1 S0(). He was one of the petitioners f)r the charter of\\nILncrhill Academv, and also at a later date, 1805, for the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "KAIILV SETTLKItS )NTIMEI). lO;)\\ncharter of tlie lii)s turnpike. It was said lie was tin-\\nkeeper of the tavern that afterwards hccanie the famous\\nTowlc tavern, at least his name apj)ears amonu st those\\nwho were licensed as a taverner to sell spirituous li(|uors.\\nlie went from Haverhill to Xew York where his desccnchints,\\nit is said, are active and enterprisini; ])eople.\\nJoux M()NT(; )MEi;v was of Scotch oriuin, and was horn\\nin 17()4. Ilis father came to America in 17411 and settled\\nin T^ondonderrv. The son it would seem moved to IIa\\\\er-\\nliill from Andover, ^lass., toward the close of the last\\ncentury. He was moderator of town meetinu as early as\\n1 79l), and was one of the pioneer merchants at the Brook,\\nlie took an active part in public matters, and was an iiiHu-\\nential and leadiuL; citizen of the Town, heinii, often honored\\nwith i)ositions of trust and responsibility. lie re|)resented\\nthe Town for three years in the legislature. A\\\\ hen the W ai-\\nof 1S12 broke out he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the l. ith\\nregiment X. H. ^Militia, was a[)pointed Brigadier-General of\\nthe X. II. Militia that were stationed at Portsmouth for the\\ndefence of the harbor. Afterwards he was promotcfl to be a\\n]Majoi--(iciicral. He married Betsey Iiing of IlaMThill, and\\nin the marriage record he is recorded as from Andovei\\n]Mass. Of his large family none are now li^ing in\\nll:i\\\\( rhill. )ne of the daughters became the first wife of\\nJonathan Nichols, and a randdauji liter is now Mrs. E. II.\\nRollins, whose husband was a representative in Congress\\nand also served a teiun as United States Senator. Gen.\\nMontgomery, it is said, was noted for his singing talents, and\\nin ai)pearance was a fine looking man. lie was highlv\\nesteemed, and had extensive influence in the northern section\\nof the state, and was a man of great energv and force.\\nThe old Montgomery place is still standing a large, sfpiare,\\ntwo-story house at the Brook.\\nRoss Coon was one of the characters of Ihncrhill, and\\non one occasion, in l ^()2, served as moderator. He lived in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "104 HISTORY OF HAVEinilLL.\\na wooden house whieli .stood wIutc the Bank house now\\nstands, and was kept as a tavern, called the Coon tavern.\\nThis liouse was moved awav afterwards, and it is said part\\nof it formed the house now lieloniiinji- to Mr. L. B. Ham,\\nand the other part was the hitney house. Coon was\\ncalled Doctor, and in addition to the duties of a landlord\\nhe added also those of a physician. He was quite illiterate,\\nand when prescribing for ])eople of a hilicuis state he would\\nsay the medicine was for elearini out the biiery dux.\\nHe afterwards ]i\\\\cd in a large brick house at the Brook,\\nwliich was also known as the Coon tavern. Tradition\\nsays he was a faithful practitioner at the Coon l)ar. Land-\\nlord and Doctor Coon, it is said, combined still another\\nprofessit)n. He preached as well as practiced. He was a\\nman in poor health and was confined to an arm chair, but of\\nimmense size, Aveighing about four luuulred pounds. He\\nwas famous for his mirth and storv-tclling, and did little else\\nthan laugh and grow fat, and made others laugh also.\\nPie was the author of the saying, A thousand lies are told\\neverv day and not half of them are true.\\nGlazieu AViieeleu was another cliaractcr of Haverhill.\\nHe vras a very skilled worker in the fine metals, and was\\nemployed, it is said, by certain j)eisons in Haverhill who\\nwere willing to make a cheap dollar go as far as a ti uc one,\\nto get up such a coin, in which there was only one-half as\\nmuch silver as in the genuine coin dollar. Wheeler got into\\ntrouble by his counterfeiting and sufiiji-ed the conse([uences\\nof his misdeeds. .Vccording to the customs of the times\\nhe had his ears cropped as a part of the ])enalty. He\\nafterwards told some of his customers, for whom he had\\nbeen- operating, that they were not satisfied with having\\ntwo dollars for one, but asked of him three and four for\\none, and in this wav their adulterated dollars were dis-\\ncovered. It is said he was subse(piently employed in the\\nmint at Philadelphia on account of his great skill.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "EAIILY SKTTI.KI. S rONTIMKI). 105\\nKiCHAiM) Fkexch, fanuliarly known in lii.s day as Dick\\nFrench, was an early settler in the direction (^f P iiar liill,\\nand was famous tor his skill as a ti-apjx r and a disciple of\\nIsaak AValton. ltat he did not know of the habits of\\nthe speckled trout and of wild animals was not worth\\nknowinii;. Pool hrook al)o\\\\t tiie S\\\\\\\\ asev mills was noted\\nfor its fine troutini;\\\\ and French pond, the chief source of\\nthe hrook, abounded in trout. Alas, that loni^ ago its\\nwaters should have been jjjiven over to the deadly j)ickerel,\\nso that now onl\\\\- a strav trout can be I ound. Descendants\\nof the famous hunter and trap[\u00c2\u00bber are still livini^- in the\\nneighborhood of French pond.\\nThere are two other persons with their families that may\\nappropriately be i!:iven a place in this cha])ter, since all\\ntheir business and social relations Avere with Haverhill,\\nalthough their homes were not witiiin t!ie limits of the Town.\\nPakkeu !Ste EXS came to Haverhill from Hamj)stead in\\n1787, and settled on a tract of land in Piermont on the\\nedge of Haverliill. This tract was the generous lot of\\nacies. lie brought with hiin a family of seven children. The\\nsons became farmers, and the original tract was ])arcellcd\\nout to them. The youngest child, Caleb, born in 17S2,\\nremained on the homestead till (piite late in life, when he\\nmoved to Concord and lived with his son, Lyman D.\\nSte\\\\ens, and died in 1 S7(). ]\\\\Ir. I*arker Stevens was an\\nenterprising man, of some force of character and soon\\nafter coming to Piermont he petitioned the General Coiut\\nto be allowed to run a ferry across the (\\\\)nneeticut river on\\nhis farn Caleb Stevens married Sally Dewey, daughter\\nof Dea. Dewey of I ici inont. and tliev had two children.\\nA daughter. Cynthia, married Is;iac II. llealey and li\\\\( d in\\nPicruiont. The son, Lyman D., (see Cha]). XIX.)\\nll,r,lAM Tai:lkt()N Wwd in Piermont on the Turnpike near\\nTarleton lake, a bcautifid sheet of water about two miles", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "10*) IIISTOUY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nlouii and nearly a mile wide at its greatest width, to wliich\\nlie gave name. The exact time when he came to the Cohos\\nCountry is not known, but earlier than 1774. He was a\\nyoung man just turned of twenty-one, but a man of force\\nand energy, and soon took a prominent pai-t in public\\nmatters. lie came from Newmarket or from that vicinitv,\\nat least the name is found in the Portsmouth and Xew-\\nmarket Town Pa[)ers, and his bearing was such as to\\nindicate })arentage of social standing. He was a man of\\nlarge ability, intelligence, and influence, and held many\\npositions of trust and honor in town, county, and state.\\nHe was also a man of high character and is saitl to have\\nbeen quite aristocratic in his tastes and ideas. He held a\\nca])tain s commission in Col. Bedel s I cgiment in the Revolu-\\ntion and subsequently he was appointed Col. ot the 13th\\nN. H. INIilitia. He was active in Town matters, and\\nrepresented Piermont and Warren in the legislature, and\\nwas one of the most widely known citizens of Grafton\\nCounty. He was also a member of the committee in\\n1701-2 to revise the Constitution of the State. In 1804 he\\nwas a Pi-esidential elector, and again in 1(S()S. He ran as\\na candidate for Senator in iSOo and in 1.S07, and was a\\nmember of the governor s council in 1 S() S. From ISOS to\\n18 K) he was high-sheriff of Grafton County. All these\\npositions at that time were the prizes of the first men of the\\nCoimtry, and rarely could a man without j)ossessing ai)ility\\nand character attain them.\\nWe find Col. Tarleton associated in various ways with\\nthe rominent men of this section of country in all matters\\nof enterprise. He was one of the leading spirits in [)rocur-\\ning the charter of and in [)ushing to an early completion\\nthe Cohos turnpike, and was one of the proprietors of that\\nthoroughfare.\\nFrom 1774 when travel was pouring into the Cohos\\nCountry he kept tavern at Tarleton lake, and gave fame to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "KAKLY SKTTI.ERS CONTIMHI). 107\\nthat early hostclrv wIutc the traAclliT was sure to tiiul\\nnot only excellent service, but a host who in intelligence\\njuid genteel hearing was the peer of his guests. The old\\nsign is still jtreserx cd. It is made of a single oaken hoard\\nbeautifully [)ainted. On the top on one side is tlu! name\\nWilliam Tarleton, at the bottom the date, *1774.\\nBetween the name and the date is a ])ainting of (ien. olf\\nAvith drawn sword and full uniform. .Washington had not\\nyet come into view. A^ oIf was the great hero. On the\\nother side was a representation of Plenty. The sign\\nis now in possession of Amos Tarleton of Haverhill, a\\nirrandson of Col. AVilliam. For two o-enerations it swung\\nin the free winds which swept over Tarleton lake, and\\ncould it s[)eak of all that took place during that time, what\\na strange tale it could tell of the days of old.\\nC\\\\)I. Tarleton was tallish, but not heavily built, erect in\\nbearing, and gave the impression, it is said, of superiority\\nand force. He wrote a beautiful hand. He was married\\ntwice. His first wife before her marriage was Betsey Fisk\\nof Piermont, a woman of excellent qualities of heart and\\nmind. Pjv this union there were five children. For his\\nsecond wife he married Polly Melville of Derry, and they\\nhad nine children. She outlived her husband some years,\\nand was remembered by the older peojilc as a woman of cul-\\nture and society. Of the large family of children, .Vmos,\\nthe eldest, succeeded his father in the old homestead. He\\nrepresented the town of Piermont for several years. Most\\nof the other children went South and AN est, (see Chap.\\nXIX.) Col. Tarleton died at his home in 1^18 at the age\\nof and his death is said to have been hastened by\\ntroubles which came upon him whilst sheriff, through the\\nunfaithfulness of some of his de[)Uties, but which in no way\\ntarnished his honorable reputation, for which he is said to\\nliave been very jealous. He lies buried in the Ladd Street\\nCemetery where a beautiful and appropriate monument", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "108 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nmarks his rcstino; place. AMicn the funeral procession\\nreached Haverhill Corner the coffin lid was renio\\\\ed, and\\nmany who could not go to the house were given an o})por-\\ntunity of looking in)on the face of one so well-known in\\nthe connnunity and who had filled so many and important\\nplaces of honor and trust.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nSKTTLKKS FROM ISOO.\\nDivision-line l)et\\\\voen early antl late Settlers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kiver and back .Settlements\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Briar\\nHill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alonjr Oliverian Kast llaverliill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Woodsville BiojrraiJhical Sketches\\nXoyeses\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\Vel)sters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tiarstows\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A character\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wilsons\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Towles\u00e2\u0080\u0094Kphraini Kings-\\nbury Merrills Timothy A Eilson Hells Noah Davis Morses Chester\\nFarnian Perley Aver The Jcfl ers Timothy AVilmot- Michael Carleton\\nWoodwards\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hosea S. Baker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 StClairs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Pikes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Russell Kimball\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James P.\\nBrewei-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Southards\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles C. Kimball Jo.s. B. Niles Mansons John McClary\\nRixes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John L. Bunee\u00e2\u0080\u0094Stowes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Reding Brothers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jonathan Nichols\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William\\nC. Marston Haywards\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Warrens Jonathan B. Rowell Klliotts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Timothy K.\\nBlaisdell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cuttings\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Clarks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Salmon Fish\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Smiths\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alonzo W. Putnam\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cum-\\nmings Brothers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Caleb Hunt Jackson Brothers Timothy R. Bacon Daniel\\nr.atchelder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Vose Bean Bailey Brothers Charles A. Gale Darius K.\\nDavis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Levi T Ham Currier Brothers Augustus Whitney\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Slevenses\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Weekses\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. G. Blood\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William H. Nelson Joseph Powers Meaders\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCharles B. Griswold\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Andrew J. Edgoly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Caleb Wells\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles H. Day\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. D.\\nTucker.\\nI li;i\\\\c made the division-line between earlv and later\\nsettlers at 1800, whieh in one sensd is piirelv arhitrarv, and\\nyet that date may be said to indicate a transition ])eriod.\\nThe early settlers were fast passin awav from the staiie of\\nactive lite at the be i,inniny; of the ])rescnt eentury, and a new\\ngeneration of men were stepping into their })laces. This\\ndate may also be the division-line between the period of the\\nriver-settlements and the settlements in the central and east-\\nern section of the Town. Up to ISOO population was\\nmainly along the river road, at North Haverhill and Ox liow\\nand at the Corner and the Oliverian falls. A i cw openings\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were early made in the direction of IJriar hill, and still fewer\\nto the east, and along the Oliverian, but for the most part\\nthe territory of the Town east of the river road was an\\nunbroken forest at the opening of the present century. As\\nlong ago as 1830 there were only two or three clearings at\\nI^ast Haverhill, and the expanse on whi h that village stands\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was covered with primeval forest. Indeed the })oj)ulation in\\nand around East Ha\\\\ei-hill village has chiefiv grown since\\nthe railroad came in. From IN. SO population mo\\\\ed in the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "110 HISTORY OF HAVEIiHILL.\\ndirection of tlie east and north-east sections of the Town,\\nthough prior to tliat date 0{)enings were made in all parts of\\nthe Town. The growth of A\\\\ oodsville has been quite recent,\\nmainly within twenty-five years.\\nAnd thus ith the growth and development of the Town\\nfrom 1800 on, I continue the biographical sketclies of those\\nwho were most active in its public history and in its moral,\\neducational and material advancement. Some names per-\\nhaps deserving a [)lace here may have escaped notice. Gen-\\nerally the line has run along those who have been active in\\ni)u!)lic matters, though others have been recognized on\\naccount of some special circumstance or characteristic.\\nTimothy Noyes came to Haverhill from Portland, Me.,\\nand lived near the old Isaac Pike place. The exact date is\\nnot known. He had a large family, fifteen daughters and\\none son. Timothy Xoyes and his son Person were the\\ndiscoverers of the whetstone on Cutting hill, and Avere the\\nfirst manufacturers of scythe-stones in Haverhill. One of\\nTimothy Noyes daughters married Capt. Henry Noyes, no\\nrelation, w^ho lived where Alonzo F. Pike now lives. Per-\\nson Noyes widow became the wife of Isaac Pike, and his\\nson Perstm, (see Chap. XIX), Horace E. and K. H. Xoyes\\nof East Haverhill are great-grandchildren of Timothv Xoyes.\\nBenjamin XV^yes came from Landafi in 1.S28. He was\\nborn in 1813, the son of David Xoyes, and his mother was\\na daughter of Col. Mark Fisk who connnandcd a regiment\\nin the War of 1.S12. He married Mary C. Wheeler of\\nHaverhill, and they had six children one, George, was\\nkilled at the battle of Gettysburg, and two sons are living in\\nCalifornia.\\nDavid AVeksteu was born in Plymouth, and was a son\\nof Col. Webster of that town. He was high-sherift of\\nGrafton county from al)out ITs; to ISOil. He lived in\\nHaverhill for a few vears about the beginning; of the\\npresent centin-y, and is said to have built the Samuel T.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "1{ECE^ SETTLERS. Ill\\nPage house. His sister lietsey married Moore Hussell.\\nlie was known as Capt. AN ehster.\\nSamuel C. AVebsteu, son of the aho\\\\e, was aUo iii^li\\nsheriff of (Jrafton county. lie o^iaduated from Dartujouth\\nColleLje in 1 S()8, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth,\\nand practiced there for many years. It does not appear\\nthat he raeticed his profession after moving to llaverliilL\\nHe was Speaker of the House of Pepresentatives of Xew\\nHampshire in 1830, and was a man of a!)ility and iuHuence.\\nHe married (^itharine, daughter of Moore Pussell. He\\ndied in Haverliill in 1.S85.\\nSxEriiEX P. Weijstku became a citizen- of Haverhill\\nabout the beii inning of the ]\u00c2\u00bbresent century, and built the\\nIleiuy ^Merrill house. He was a graduate from Harvard\\nCollege and taught the Academy for a time. From 1805\\nto 1835 he was clerk of the court for (iralton countv, and\\nheld many other public positions. He was moderator for\\nmany years, selectman, representative, and councillor in\\n1-S2i). He was a man of nuich culture and urbaneness of\\nmanners, and of high character. Mrs. Webster was a\\nwoman of refinement, and was intimate, it is said, bv the\\nsecond marriage of her father, with ]\\\\Irs. President flohn\\nQuincy Adams. She was a most devoted Cln-istian, and\\ntradition says that she could always be seen going down\\nCourt Street on [jrayer meeting evening with her lantern in\\nhand. Literally, she let her light shine. She got up\\nthe Cent Society in Ibncrhill, and iusti-uctcd the collectors\\nto be sure and get tlie fifty-two cents, esjx cially the two.\\nShe knew the weakness of some very good people to cut off,\\nif they could, the two cents. She gave $500 as a perma-\\nnent fimd to Haverhill Academy, but the money, it is said,\\nwas lost throu h ncfi lin-ence of the trustees.\\nJames P. Wehstek was a son of Col. Moses and\\nSarah (Kimball) A\\\\ cbstcr. His father was a leading\\ncitizen of Landalf, and a biothcr of Stephen P. ebster.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF HAVEKIIILL.\\nHe was })r()ininent in puhlic afF;iir.s, servini:; twelve years\\nin sueeet-sion as moderator, for wliieh position, like his\\nfather, he had a natural talent. lie was a representative\\nfor two years. He married Kebeeea M. English. Their only\\ncliild is jMrs. Eliza W. Kelluni.\\nJoiix Webster, brother of James, was for many\\nvears engaged in business in Haverhill. He earried on\\na tannerv at the Brook in eonij)any with James A. Currier,\\nand afterwards was the agent of the Haverhill Paper Com-\\npany. He married Sarah Perkins of Lyme. Mr. Web-\\nster died a year ago. ]Mrs. David Quuiiby is a sister of\\nthe brothers AVebster, and the only survivor of Col.\\nMoses Webster s ten children.\\nCaleb Webster came to Haverhill from Gilmanton and\\nwas a merchant at Noi th Haverhill for a number of years.\\nHe married Hannah Peaselee. One of their sons, Sydney,\\nmarried the daughter of Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of\\nState under President Grant, and AVarren is a surgeon in\\nthe U. S. Army. ]Mrs. Webster is still living.\\nHenry Barstow Avas born in Campton in 1787, and\\ncame to Haverhill about the beginning of the present cent-\\niny- He married for his fii st wife Harriet, daughter of\\nCapt. David \\\\A\\\\ l)stcr, and their daugliter Lydia married\\nMerrill Pearson. His second Avife was Frances Pierce of\\nWoodstock, Vt., and of their family, Frances is now Mrs.\\nBenjamin F. Labaree of Hartland, Vt. Alfred, Anson and\\nGardner, (see Chap. XIX). Ellen married Henry ]M.\\nKetchum of Chicago. Dea. Barstow was prominent in\\ntOAVu and church, and was a man of sterling worth in the\\ncommunity. He was a deacon in the CongTCgational church\\nfor many years, and was one of the earlier merchants of\\nHaverhill. In 1840 he moved from Haverhill, going first\\nto Claremont, and a few years later to Lowell, Mass., where\\nhe died.\\n\\\\A illia:\\\\i Barstow, brother of Heni-y, was a clerk in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "KECP]N T SKTTLKRS. 113\\nGen. M()nt ;()inerv s store for a time, and then })eeame a\\npartner with his brother at the ohl Brick Block. He was\\nappointed postmaster in 1841. Of his lar^e family,\\nJames is the only one now living in this vicinity. George\\nW. and Charles W., (see Chap. XIX.) James represent-\\ned the town of Piermont in the legislature.\\nThomas Bakstoav, a younger brother of the above,\\nwas a clerk in their store. lie married a Miss Tarleton,\\nsister of Amos Tarleton, and a daughter of theirs, Mrs.\\nJesse R. Squires, is now living with her mother on the\\nCol. Johnston place.\\nEzEKiEL H. Bakstow became a resident of Haverhill\\nabout 1860, and died soon after. He had retired from the\\nactive duties of a minister and was engaged in teaching in\\nNewton, Mass., before moving to Haverhill. He was a man\\nof superior worth of character. Mrs. B. survived him some\\nyears, and was a woman of most gentle and winning man-\\nners, of trained mind and excellent Christian influence. Of\\ntheir children, Mary and John, (see Chap. XIX). Another\\nson, William, is in business in Nebraska, and a younger\\ndaughter, Sallie, is a teacher in Portland, Me.\\nAmos Hokx was a genius and a character, a shoe-maker\\nby trade, and lived where Dr. Moses Carbee s house stands.\\nHis shop stood near the side-walk on the opposite side of\\nthe street. He was fond of dispute, with strong likes and\\ndislikes, and was full of dry hiuiior. He went by the name\\nof Judge, and was in the habit of referring to his neigh-\\nbors by sarcastic epithets. He was heavy and fat. In\\nthose days the shoe-maker furnished none of the stock. Dr.\\nCarleton, after getting some shoes made at Horn s shop, sent\\nhis son for the waxed ends. Horn knowing the Doctor s\\ngreat carefulness in gathering up the fragments, and not\\nwilling to aid him in his economical purpose, unraveled the\\nbristles before handing the wa,\\\\ed ends to the boy,\\nsaying, Your father did not furnish the bristles. On", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nanotlicr occasion he bought some salt pork of the Doctor, and\\nwhen Horn s son went for it, the Doctor said, Tell your\\nfather this pork was killed on the full of the moon, and it\\nAvill swell in the pot. Horn sent the boy back to ask the\\nDoctor if he thought it Avould bust the pot. Horn came\\non the stage near the beginning of this century. He was\\nmarried in 1803.\\nNathaniel Wilson came to Haverhill in 1801 from\\nPelham at the age of twenty-four, and was the son of Jesse\\nand Ruth (^Merrill) AA ilson. His mother was a sister of\\nMaj. Nathaniel ^Merrill, from whom he was named, and he\\nwas the ninth of a family of sixteen children. His wife was\\nSai ah, the eldest daughter of Capt. Joseph Pearson, and\\nthev had three children, Isaac P., Ann Maria, and Nathaniel.\\nIsaac married Rhoda Brainard, and one of their sons is Geo.\\nL. Wilson of Ladd street, and another is Edward B., (see\\nChap. XIX). Nathaniel, the youngest son of Nathaniel\\nand Sarah (Pearson) Wilson (see Chap. XIX).\\nSimon Toavle was born in Hampton in 1759. He\\nafterwards moved to Chester, and married Eleanor Hall of\\nthat town, and came to Haverhill in 1805. Their children\\nwere Edward, Henry, Charles, Elizabeth, and Frederick.\\nFrederick (see Chap. XIX). Elizabeth married Samuel\\nBrooks and lived in Canada Charles married Lucy Bellows,\\na cousin of the late Chief Justice Bellows, and also lived in\\nCanada;- Henry married Susan Pierce, and lived in Haver-\\nhill, and of their children Antoinette became the wife of\\nHorace Hunt, Simon married first Rebecca Parkhill of\\nFlorida, and then Harriet Hunt; James H. (see Chap.\\nXIX). Susan Emily, the youngest, said to be a person of\\nunconnnonly lovely character, died early.\\nEdward, the oldest child of Simon Towle, was a select-\\nman in 18 li). He was a large man, of conunanding\\npresence, and for many years after the death of his father he\\nkept the famous Towle stage tavern, the headquarters of the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "RECENT SETTLERS. 115\\ncourt and lawyers after the days of the Joseph liliss tavern.\\nHe married Nancy ElHott of Chester, and of tlieir chihh cn\\nEHzabeth married Dr. Hiram Mori an, Eleanor II. became\\nthe wife of George AV. Cliaj)man, Ann E. married George S.\\nTowle, a lawyer and editor in Lebanon Cliarles S. died in\\nCanada. Emily II., like her cousin Susan Emily, died\\nvoung, and like her was said to be a person of rare\\ncharacter.\\nSimon Towle died soon after he came to Haverhill. He\\nwas a soldier of the Kevolution, a colonel of militia, and\\nrepresented the town of Chester for several years in the\\nlegislature before coming to Haverhill. He was a man\\nof unusual size, tall and of large frame, and weighed it is\\nsaid four himdred sixty pounds. His ancestors were persons\\nof massive size. Col. Towle was a much esteemed citizen\\nof the Town, and was the successor of Asa Boynton in\\nkeeping tavern.\\nEpiii;ai.a[ Kixgsju RV, called Squire Kingsbury, was\\na man of imj)ortance in the Town. He held numerous\\npublic positions, being town clerk and treasurer for a number\\nof years, and was also a selectman. He was a member of\\nthe board of trustees of Haverhill Academy, and at one time\\nj)rincipal of the school. He graduated from Dartmouth\\nCollege in 17117, and afterwards read law, but it does not\\napj)ear that he was in active practice whilst living in Haver-\\nhill. He moved from Town about l8o4, and went to\\nConnecticut and thence to New York where he died in iSoa.\\nHe was a man of nmch ability, but somewhat eccentric, and\\nwas noted for extravagant speech and conduct. Once whilst\\nthe Methodists were holding tent-meetings on the park, and\\nwere more than usually demonstrative, Kingsbury went to\\nthe tent door and read to the meeting the riot act. At\\nanother time when a piece of road on the Oliverian, which\\nhad some stone wall in its construction, was to be accepted\\nbv the Town authorities, he said in describing the character", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "116 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nof the st6ne used in the wall, I can put any three stone\\nin it into my eye and wink with perfect ease.\\nDavid Merrill moved to Haverhill in 1804, and settled\\non a tract of land north of Pool brook, which afterwards\\nwas the Town farm. He was at one time a selectman. He\\nhad a large family and one of his sons, David, was also a\\nselectman. The oldest daughter, Abigail, was the mother\\nof Chester M. Carleton, and Schuyler is still living at the\\nage of eighty-six. Two of the hitter s sons were in the War\\nof the Rebellion.\\nBexja:min Merrill came from AVarren in 1814. He\\nwas born in Plaistow, and married Sarah Haynes of Rumney,\\nwlio was distinguished when a young lady for her remarkably\\nfine voice. Capt. Merrill, as he was usually called, was a\\ncountry merchant in Warren before he came to Haverhill,\\nand continued in that business for many years after he moved\\ninto Town. He was a man of much sagacity and good\\njudgment, with a large amount of quiet humor, and could\\nbe very reticent. On one occasion when keeping store in\\nHaverhill, as he locked up to go home, he took a ham for\\nfamily use. After going a few steps he found he had for-\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0otten something, and laying the ham in a feed-box he went\\nback. AVhen he returned the ham Avas missing. He said\\nnothing, but some months after a man asked him in his store,\\nCaptain, did you ever find out who took your ham?\\nYes, you are the very fellow walk up and pay for it.\\nCapt. Merrill took an active part in public matters, was\\njustice of the peace, a director in the Grafton County Bank,\\na selectman for several years, and pension agent. Of his\\nchildren, Abel K. was the oldest. He fitted for college at\\nHaverhill Academy, and was a member of the class of 1828,\\nbut was compelled to quit his studies at the end of the junior\\nyear on account of his health. He intended to devote him-\\nself to the ministry. He was town clerk for some years, a\\ndirector of the Grafton County Bank, and was also eng.aged", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "RECENT SETTLEKS. 117\\nin nierchantile business. For nearly fifty years he was\\nsuperintendent ot the Sabbath sehool of the (,\\\\)n freyati()nal\\nchureh, and a deacon for nearly fifty years. He was a promi-\\nnent and influential eitizen of the Town, and one of its most\\nesteemed and well-known citizens. lie was also widely\\nrecognized in the county and state in chureh matters, and\\nwas a delegate from New Hampshire to the National Council\\nof Congregational Churches in 1855, which met in Boston.\\nHe was a man of great purity of character, and a most kind\\nand steadfast friend. Dea. Merrill was married twice, his\\nAvives being sisters, the Misses Leverett of Windsor, At.,\\nand their children, Lizzie and three brothers (see Chap.\\nXIX).\\nHenry ^Merrill was educated at Haverhill Academy and\\nalso spent one year at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.\\nHe was postmaster for thirteen years, beginning his term of\\nservice under President Lincoln. His first wife s maiden\\nname was Mary J. Weeks of Salisbury, Vt., and his second\\nwife was Helen C. Currier before her marriage. Three of\\ntheir children are living in Haverhill. Mr. Merrill is a\\nprominent citizen of the Town, and a member of the board\\nof trustees of Haverhill Academy. He is now engaged in\\nfarming.\\nArthur was educated at the Academy, and afterwards\\nwent to Jit)ston in the life insurance business. His health\\nfailing he afterwards returned to Haverhill, and died of con-\\nsumption. His wife was Sarah Merrill of Plymouth before\\nher marriage, and their children are all living in the e8t.\\nThe youngest, a promising young man, died in Montana a\\nfew years ago.\\nHarriet married Timothy K. Blaisdell. .Vnother daughter\\nbecame the wifi^of Kev. Alfred Cioldsmith. Louisa married\\nJohn L. Hunce. Ciiarlotte was the wife of Dr. Phineas\\nSpalding. William (see Chap. XIX).\\nJohn Meuuill was born in Warren, and was educated", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nat Haverhill Academy, He was a real estate broker in Bos-\\nton for nearly fifty years. He married Mary C. S. Wells\\nof Plymouth, and of their children three are living-, Mrs.\\nPreston of Mcdford, Mass., Charles H., a merchant in\\nBoston, and a son who lives with his mother in Haverhill in\\nthe Bell house. Mr. Merrill moved from Cambridge to\\nHaverhill in 1874, and died suddenly a few years ago in\\nBoston. He was of fine personal presence, and a most\\ncompanionable man.\\nDaniel F. Merrill was born in Stratham in 1812, and\\nfitted for college at Hampton Academy. He entered Dart-\\nmouth College in 1832, and graduated in course. After\\nlea\\\\ ing college he was princi[)al of Haverhill Academy for\\ntwo years, and then his health failing he went to ^Mobile,\\nAlabama, and was a successful teacher in that city for\\ntwenty years. During the last year of this time he was\\nsuperintendent of public schools of Mobile, and also for\\nseveral years he was school commissioner. iVfter his retire-\\nment from teaching he was superintendent of a copper mine\\nin northern Georgia. In 18(iO he returned to Haverhill,\\nand again was at the head of the Academy for several years,\\nand also filled the office of school superintendent for the\\nTown. He then went to Washington and Avas a clerk in\\nthe treasury department from 18G5 to 1886. He married\\nLuella B., daughter of Jacob and Laura (Bartlett) Bell, and\\nthey had a family of six children. INIr. Merrill is a man of\\nthe highest character, and has filled a most useful and honor-\\nable life.\\nTlaiothy a. Edsox was a leading citizen of Haverhill\\nin the earlier years of this century. He was a selectman in\\n1807, high-sheriff of Grafton county from 1813 to 1818.\\nIn 1824 he moved to Littleton where he died. His Avife is\\nsaid to have been a woman of much character, bright in\\nintellect and elejrant in manners. Mr. Edson was at one", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "ItECEXT SETTLEIiS. 119\\ntime tlu owner of tlic Hazen fanu iuid lived tliere for a\\nAvliile.\\nBell Bkotiiehs Joseph (see C liai). XVII).\\nJacob Bell eame to Haverhill In ISII, at first enjian-in\\nin teaching in the northern part of the Town, and then was\\na clerk in a store of (jen. ^Montiioinery, and with hif brother\\nJames, who came to Haverhill ahout 1S80, encfajred in nier-\\nchantile life, and did a very extensive business. They were\\nalso the owners of a large tannery and a potash factorv as\\nAvell as a saw mill and a grist mill. James was the financial\\nmanager of the firm. South American hides were brought\\nfrom Boston in hvrge quantities in exchange for leather and\\npotash. About 1840 James Bell moved to Bolton, Mass.,\\nand died there in 1 S()4. He was n)arried twice and had a\\nfamilv of thirteen children, seven of whom are livino-.\\nTwo daughters married McPhersons of Boston, distinguished\\ndecorators, who learned their art in London and K(linl)urgh.\\nJames AV. and John (see Chap. XIX).\\nMr. Jacob Bell continued to live in Haverhill till his\\ndeath. Of his children, J. Leroy Bell, lives in Haverhill,\\nand is a merchant. He enlisted in the War in 1N(;: and\\nsaw hard service in the campaign against Richmond from the\\nbattle of the Wilderness till the early autumn of 1SI)4. He\\nwas wounded several times, and was mustered out of service\\nat the close of the war with the raid of caj)tain, having\\nrisen to that ])osition from a private. Capt. Bell s [iresent\\nwife is the (huighter of Moses M. Weeks. The daughters\\nof Jacob Bell, one married Hon. Ellery A. Hil)bard of\\nLaconia, a prominent lawyer and formerly a Congressman,\\nand the other is Mrs. Daniel F. ^lerrill of Washington.\\nNoah Dwis was born in Connecticut about 17.^7, and\\ncame to Hanover where he was apj)renticed to a druggist and\\nlearned that business. Afterwards he settled in Haverhill,\\nand was engaged in selling drugs and medicines, and also\\ndry goods. He remained in Haverhill till 1 S2. when he", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nmoved to Albion, Xew York. Mr. Davis built the house\\nnow owned and occupied by George W. Chapman, Esq.,\\nand the little store where he sold goods stood on the south\\nside of the lot. He married Freelove Arnold, and had a\\nlarge family of children. Ilis eldest son, Noah, (see Chap.\\nXIX).\\nMorses. Two brothers, John and Daniel, came to\\nHaverhill about 1806 from Plymouth. A son of John is\\nRev. rroseph B. ]Morse (see Chap. XIX). A son of Daniel,\\nLafayette, lives on the homestead at Horse meadow an-\\nother Daniel, father of Luther C. Morse (see Chap. XVII),\\nlived at North Haverhill. The two Daniels were not related.\\nMr. Osgood Morse was the youngest son of John Morse of\\nHorse meadow. Charles O. and Edward B. are sons of\\nOsgood.\\nOther Morse Brothers came from Hebron in 1824,\\nand settled in the eastern part of the town which was then\\nan almost unbroken wilderness. It is said there were five\\nbrothers. Jacob is still livinfj, and was a selectman and a\\nrepresentative in the legislature. Isaac was also a select-\\nman and represented the Town several years. One of\\nJacob s daughters is the wife of George Wells of North\\nHaverhill.\\nStephen Adams was born in Lexington, Mass., and\\ncame to Haverhill in the early part of the present century.\\nHis second wife was the sister of the late Michael Johnston.\\nHis oldest son, Charles J. (see Chap. XIX). Another son,\\nStephen, was a Methodist minister, and Abbie married\\nHenry H. Wilder, a prominent business man of Lowell,\\nMass. Capt. Adams was a large man, tall and well built.\\nHe was captain of a horse company of militia, and was very\\nfond of having himself addressed by his military title. The\\nboys who were accustomed to go to his store to buy candies,\\nwould sometimes forget this point of civility, whereupon the\\nCaptain would disregard their wishes. When, iiowever.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "RECENT SETTLERS. 121\\nthey rciHOinbcrcd to call him by his proper military title, he\\nwas sure to reward their politeness with an extra sugar-plum\\nand a pleasant manner.\\nC liESTEii Fakmax came to Haverhill in 1 S10 from Straf-\\nford, Conn., and settled near Pool brook. lie was engaj;ed\\nin lumbering and mill building. In manners juid speech he\\nwas plain and unassuming, with a (piaint humor that agree-\\nably sj)ieed his conversation. He possessed great exeellenee\\nof character, and was a man of strictest integrity. For\\nmanv vears he was a deacon in the Conofreofational church,\\nand took an active and genuine interest in its welfare and\\nsupport. On one occasion the church being in financial\\ndistress, he said, I wish I was rich, I would do so and so,\\nand then repeated what the good Scotch woman said, but\\nI suppose the Lord don t trust me. He married for his\\nsecond wife Lucy Stearns of Haverhill. Their only son,\\nJeremiah (lordon, married Cynthia Hastings Ladd, and\\nlived in Haverhill till 1 S )2, when he moved to Ilartland,\\nVt., and afterwards to Claremont. The daughters of Dea.\\nFarman were Miriam Sargent, and Anne Watson. A\\ndaughter of the former is the wife of William 15. Stevens of\\nBradford, \\\\t. Of Jeremiah (lordon Farman s children, one\\nmarried Sheron Howard, a lawyer of St. Johnsbury, Vt.,\\nCynthia Hastings became Mrs. Fulton of Bradford, \\\\t.,\\nJ^linor Louisa married Leonard Cady of St. Johnsbury, Vt.,\\nand Samuel Ladd was for many years connected with the\\nClarcnioiit Paper Co., and is now li\\\\ing at A\\\\ hite Iviver\\nJunction engaged in the paper business. He is the last of\\nDea. Farman s descendants bearing the Farman name.\\nPekley Ayek was born in Piermont in ITDS, and came\\nto Haverhill in early youth. He was for many years the\\nowner of what is now the county farm. He moved to the\\nCorner in l i58. He married Mary K. Worthen. A son,\\nPhineas, graduated from Hartniouth Collcij e in 1S. )2. A", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 HISTORY OF HAVP]RHILL.\\ngrandson, Perley, is living with his aunt, Miss Eliza Ayer,\\non the homestead.\\nJeffers James, Josiah, John came to Haverhill\\nabout 1810, and settled in the eastern part of the town, A\\nneighborhood in that section is now known as the JefFers\\nneighborhood, where some of their descendants still live.\\nSeveral members of this family held public positions in\\nTo\\\\v\u00c2\u00bbu. They have been farmers, and Sylvester JefFers has\\nfor many years been a lumber manufacturer.\\nTimothy Wilmot came to Haverhill in 1815, and of\\nhis large family Harvey B. (see Chap. XIX). Haron lives\\nin Haverhill, Mary (Mrs. Daniel Sargent) in Cambridgcport,\\nMass., and Betsey (Mrs. Henry Tower), and Harriet (Mrs.\\nCharles Snow) in Hudson, Mass.\\nMichael Carletox was born in Newbury, Vt,, and\\ncame to Haverhill in 1812. He married Betsey Putnam of\\nNewbury. They both died within a year, in 187 5-(). The\\noldest child, Michael, is living in Haverhill, and married for\\nhis first wife Louisa B. Kodgers of NeM bury, Vt., and for\\nhis second Susan Cone of Guildhall, Xt. They had three\\nchildren, Charles, Annie, and Bessie. The daughters mar-\\nried, one as his first, the other as his second wife, Frank D.\\nHutchins, cashier of the national bank, Lancaster, and a\\ngraduate )f Dartmouth College. Sally Putnam married\\nWilliam H. J-^urbeck, and of their children, Edward C. and\\nGeorge (see Chap. XIX). \u00c2\u00bbJames lives in Concord;\\nWalter, who married \\\\bbie, daughter of Ezra S. Kimball,\\nlives in Binghamton, N. Y. Mary and AVilliam O. are\\nwith their parents. The latter married (^arrie A. Blanchard,\\nof Cumberland, Me., and was educated at Lancaster Acad-\\nemy. A daughter of William H. Burbeck by his first\\nmarriage lives in Boston. Mehitabel B. married Levi\\nRodgers of Guildhall, Vt., and their children are Levi and\\nMichael C. (see Chaj). XIX), and Harriet C. Betsey\\nmarried Stephen J. Roberts and lives in Clartmont. Mary", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "liECEXT SETTLERS. 123\\nand Martha were twins, the former dyins; in LS the\\nlatter marrying El)en L. Kowell of Xewport. Harriet\\nNewel died young. Horace D. married Mary P^liza ]\\\\Iahu-\\nrin, a woman of gentle manners and winsome character.\\nC. U. M. WooDWAKi) lived for the greater part of his\\nlife in Town, and was an esteemed and most worthy man.\\nIn the early part of his life he wns a Methodist minister, and\\ntook a deej) interest in temperance reform. In his later\\nyears he was engaged in the manufacture of patent medi-\\ncines. He married Sophronia Mudgett, a woman of superior\\nmind and worth. ]\\\\Ir. Woodward died a few years ago,\\nand ]\\\\Irs. \\\\yoodward is living with a dauu hter in Oransre,\\nMass. Another daughter married Dea. Samuel S. Shep-\\nherd, Salem, Mass.\\nGeorge Woodward came to Haverhill from Springfield,\\nVt., about 188r), and purchased a farm at Horse meadow.\\nHis wife s maiden name was Xancy .V. Lake. Of their\\nchildren George J. lives on the homestead, and Henry L. is\\na farmer at North Haverhill.\\nHosEA SwETT Baker was a young man less than twenty\\nyears of age when he came to Haverhill about IMT, and\\nwas a descendant on his mother s side of Capt. John Love-\\nwell the famous Indian warrior. His mother died when he\\nAvas an infant, and he came to live with an uncle in Pier-\\nmont. Before he was of age he attended Haverhill Academy,\\nearning money for that purpose, and fitting hin)self for\\nteaching which he pursued for several years in Haverhill and\\nin Rumnev. Afterwards he enfjaijed in the lumber business\\non the Oliverian. In 1825 he moved to the Corner and\\ncarried on for many years the meat business, and was also\\nenn-afjed in the shoe and leather trade and general merchan-\\ndisc with Blaisdell Co. The last thirty years of his life\\nhe followed farming at East Haveriiill.\\n]\\\\Ir. Baker was a man of excellent ability and good judg-\\nment, and of larrje intellif;encc. He was well known in all", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "]24 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthis section of Grafton county, and was noted for his genial\\nnature and love of conversation and anecdote. lie was\\nprobably the best informed man in Haverhill in its local and\\npersonal history, and took a deep interest in these pages, for\\nwhich he contributed many facts and incidents. Fie was full\\nof energy and entcr})rise, and was always ready to engage in\\nwhatever was for the good of the connnunity.\\n]Mr. Baker held many places of trust and honor, dcputy-\\nsheriiF, captain of militia, postmaster, justice of the peace\\nfor forty years, selectman, representative, and trustee of\\nHaverhill Academy. He helped to organize one of the\\nearliest Sabbath schools in Town, and was its superintendent\\nfor a time. He was also often in recpiisition in the settle-\\nment of estates, and in all these positions he acquitted himself\\nwith credit and fidelity. He was a member of the Masonic\\nfraternity, and in religion a Methodist. He died in 1 S S5 at\\nthe age of eighty-six years.\\nHe married Fanny Huntington of Hanover, and of their\\nsix children three are living. Peyton Randol[)h was a grad-\\nuate of Dartmouth College in 1848, and practiced his\\nprofession in ^Vlaine. He died in 1873. Oliver Randolph\\nBaker, a clothing merchant in Bradford, Vt., is a son of\\nPeyton Iiandol[)h. Solon H. lives at East Haverhill.\\nOliver is in business in Kansas, and the daughter is married\\nto Rev. Moses T. Runnels, a Congregational minister.\\nSt.Clairs sometimes pronounced Sinclairs. Jonathan\\nand Sa:muel came to Haverhill about 1818, perhaps earlier.\\nJonathan kept tavern very soon after moving to Haverhill in\\nthe three-story brick house now owned and occupied by Dr.\\nSpaulding. A daugiiter married Ezra Hutchins who became\\na prominent merchant in Boston.\\nSamuel Sinclair lived on the turnpike about one mile from\\nthe Corner.\\nMoses H. Sinclair was a nephew of Jonathan and Samuel.\\nHe was at one time jailor, and also served as moderator of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "^cc^\u00e2\u0082\u00acC", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "KECEXT SETTLERS. 125\\ntown-meeting, and was known as Major Sinclair. He\\nmarried IMary Burnliam of Runmey, and they had four\\nchildren, two of whom arc living in Concord, Henry and\\nNelson. As illustrating Maj. Sinclair s humor, a person\\nof rather large feet wanted a pair of shoes made, Maj. Sin-\\nlair was of that trade, and asked to know how soon he\\ncould have them. The Major replied, That ll depend on\\nthe weather. What, said his customer, has that to\\ndo with it? Why, was the waggish answer, I shall\\nhave to build them on the commons, as there is n t room\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acnough in the shop.\\nIsaac Pike was born in 1799 in Cockermoutli, now the\\ntowns of Hebron and Grafton, and was the fifth child of\\nMoses and Mary (Bell) Pike in a family of thirteen children.\\nThe Pike family came to this country as early as 1635, and\\nsettled on a ftirm in Salisbury, Mass., which is still in\\npossession of descendants of the name. jVu early member\\nof the family was a graduate of Harvard College, and was\\nthe first minister of the Con^reo-ational church in Dover.\\nNicholas Pike, author of the Pike arithmetic, very generally\\nused in schools fifty years ago, was also of this family. The\\nNew Hampshire branch of the Pike family, consisting of\\nseveral brothers, came to Coekermouth al)out 1785 from\\nDunstable, Mass, and the late Hon. Austin F. Pike, a sen-\\nator in Congress, was a grandson of the youngest of these\\nbrothers. A brother of tlie late senator lives at the Brook.\\nIsaac Pike came to Haverhill about 1818, and settled in\\nthe east part of the Town, where, at the age of twenty, he\\ncleared a ])iece of land and built himself a house. This\\nhouse is now owned by Ivoyal II. Noyes. ]\\\\Ir. Pike was\\nmarried twice. His first wife was Irene Dole, and a grand-\\nson, Samuel P. (see Chap. XIX). His second wife was\\nSally M. Noyes, and they had seven children, of whom four\\nare living, Mrs. John L. Ayer, Alonzo F., Isaac, and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0141.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nEdwin B. Sarah ]\\\\I. married Henry Smith, and a son,\\nFrank A. (see Chap. XIX).\\nMr. Pike was engaged in farming, lumbering, and in the\\nmanufacture of scythe-stones, and till near the time of his\\ndeath he was one of the most active business men in Haver-\\nhill. He also was a merchant, and at one time lived at the\\nCorner, keeping store in the building afterwards used for the\\nsame purpose by Samuel F. Hook.\\nIn early times the timber and lumber of the upper Con-\\nnecticut was taken down the river in rafts. Mr. Pike ran\\nlarge quantities of logs and lumber from Haverhill to Hart-\\nford, Conn. He also transported whetstones on his rafts,\\nand hauled large quantities of them to Burlington, Vt., and\\nthen shipped them to New York by water.\\nMr. Pike was a man of great energy and enterprise,\\nand was esteemed a strictly honest man. On several occa-\\nsions he became much involved financially, but lie always\\nrefused the oifer to settle for less than the full amount.\\nCourage, perseverance, and industry were prominent traits\\nof his character, and his impulses were kindly and generous.\\nHe gave the oround on which the first church in East Haver-\\nhill was built, and he was a willing and constant su])porter\\nof its services. In personal appearance he was somewhat\\nmore than medium in size, with dark eyes and thick, black\\nhair, broad shouldered, erect in form, and weiglied about\\ntwo hundred pounds. He died of apoplexy.\\nAlonzo F. Pike is the fourth child of the above, and was\\nborn in 1835. He is a self-made man, and early displayed\\nthe same business energy and courage of his father. Before\\nhe was of age he bought out his father s store and carried on\\nthe business for himself. At the time of Isaac Pike s death\\nthe whetstone business wa-fe in a very misatisfactory condition,\\nand the estate being very much entangled, ]Mr. Pike, at the\\nearnest solicitation of the mother and family, consented to\\nact as administrator of the property, and by careful and wise", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0142.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "RECENT SETTLEKS. 127\\nniiinafjement he succeeded in unravelin[f the entaiitrh ineiit,\\nand settlin tlie estate. Althoui^h his phins liad heen formed\\nto enrjage in l)iisiness in the city,* lie now abandoned his\\npurpose and entered into the business of his father. At that\\ntime the whetstone business was comparatively limited, but\\nby great energy and industry it has now grown to be one of\\nthe most extensive plants in the state. Mr. Pike has been\\nan earnest, indefatigable worker, and by close attention to\\nhis affairs, careful and prudent direction of his i)lans, and\\npunctuality and integrity he has risen from a meagre begin-\\nning, and in the course of twenty-five years of his business\\nlife finds himself one of the most successful business men of\\nthe state. He has a sound and trustworthy business judg-\\nment. He is president of the A. F. Pike ^Manufacturing\\nCompany, and one of its principal owners. He resides at\\nPike Station, in a beautiful and sightly home whieh looks to\\nthe east on one of the finest scenes in all this region, having\\nfor the fore-ground the charming valley through which the\\nOliverian Avinds, with the foot-hills of Benton beyond, and\\nback of these the grand outlines of ^Nloosilauke.\\nAir. Pike married Ellen M. Hutchins, and has a family\\nof five children living, and he owes much to a thoughtful and\\nfaithful wife for the large measiu c of his success. He takes\\na deep interest in all matters of public concernment, afid is a\\ngenerous and public-s[)irited citizen. He is a trustee of Ha-\\nverhill Academy, and a liberal sui)porter o\\\\ the chuirli. In\\nlooks he resembles his father, dark complexion, black eyes\\nand hair, stocky in build, sijuare shouldered, strong and firm\\nmouth, full head, the whole man in his j)hysique indicating\\nenergy and force of character. He is a most kindly and\\ngenial man, and hospitable in his home, still in tlie prime\\nof life, turned a little of fifty-three years.\\nIsaac and Edwin I are brothers of Alonzo E., and in\\nbusiness with him. Edwin P. lives at the Corner. His\\nwife, recently deceased, before her marriage was Addie A.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0143.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nMiner, and of their children two are living. Mr. Pike is a\\ncourteous and large hearted citizen, and a member of the\\nConffregational church.\\nCharles W., son of Samuel Pike, has been a selectman of\\nthe Town, and Bvn ns H., Charles J. and Oscar B. are sons\\nof Drury Pike.\\nA family of Pikes came to Haverhill in 1(S30, and were\\nengaged in the manufacture of bricks at North Haverhill.\\nNewhall was a selectman.\\nRussell Kimball was born in Kingston in 1799, and\\ncame to Haverhill about 1818. He served as a clerk in\\nCapt. Merrill s store for ten years and then became a partner\\nwith his employer. Their store was on Court street. He\\nmarried Louisa Bean of Lyman, a sister of Samuel V. Bean\\nwho was at one time principal of the Academy, and a niece\\nof Stephen P. Webster. Of their family only one child is\\nliving, Peabody AY. Mr. Russell Kimball gave himself\\nstrictly to his business and was successful in that direction,\\nhaving accumulated at the time of his death a large property.\\nHe Mas an esteemed citizen.\\nPeabody W., son of the above, was born in 1834, and\\nwas educated at Haverhill Academy and at Newbury Sem-\\ninary. He married Jane Pearson, and their two children, a\\ndauofhter and son, are living at home. Mr. K. was a clerk\\nin his father s store for some years and then became a partner\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2with him. After the death of his father in 1862 he retired\\nfrom active business. He is a man of excellent ability, safe\\njudgment, and sound sense. Being left with a large prop-\\nerty which he has carefully managed, he is now one of the\\nwealthiest citizens of Haverhill. His extreme diffidence has\\nstood in the way of accepting public trusts for which his\\nability and integrity especially qualify him. He was, how-\\never, a representative in the legislature for several terms,\\nand has been for many years a trustee of Haverhill Academy.\\nHe is a deacon in the Conirrefrational church and has been", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0144.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "KECEXT SETTLERS. 129\\nsuperintendent of the Sahbatli school, in both of which he\\nhas always taken a deep interest. As a citizen and neighbor\\nhe is highly esteemed, and though a man of ample fortune\\nhe is entirely free from pride or ostentation. AVith his more\\nintimate acquaintances and friends he is social and genial,\\nand has a quick sense of the humorous. He is thoroughly\\ndevoted to his family.\\nCiiAiiLES C. KiMHALL came to Haverhill in 1843, and\\nof his five children four are living in Town, John G., Geo.\\nF., Albert F., and M. E. Morris E. Kimball was post-\\nmaster at North Haverhill for twelve years. Charles M.\\nlives in Newbury, Vt.\\nJames P. Brewer (see Chap. XIX).\\nSouthards, Mosp:s and Aaron, came to Haverhill in\\n1822 from Walpole and settled on the Col. Porter farm\\nwhich was divided between them, and which has remained in\\nthe Southard name ever since. They are descendants of an\\nold familv that came to New Enjjland in the Mavflower.\\nThey were twins and were often taken for each other on\\naccount of their striking resemblance. Both were married\\nbefore they came to Haverhill. Lyman M. is the only one\\nof ]Moses Southard s family living, and he resides on the\\nwidow Currier farm. He married for his first wife Jane\\nBachup, and for his second a daughter of Dudley C.\\nKimball of Newbury, Vt.\\nAaron Southard s children were Samuel F., who occupies\\nthe old Porter homestead, .Foseph who died at nine years of\\nage, Eliza, Ann Jane, and Kate. Two of tlie daughters\\nmarried sons of Gov. Page, and one became INIrs. John N.\\nMorse. The mother of these children is said to ha\\\\e been\\na very superior woman.\\nMoses and Aaron Southard were very successful in Ijusi-\\nness, and were amongst the leading agriculturalists of\\nGrafton countv. They were hiirhlv esteemed citizens of the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0145.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nTown. Aaron was a Conofreofatioaalist and a jjenerous\\nsupporter of that faith.\\nSamuel F. was only nine years of age when his father\\nni\u00c2\u00abjved to Haverhill. He received part of his education at\\nHaverhill Academy, and is an intelligent citizen. He takes\\nlaudable pride in his beautiful and productive farm, and gives\\nto it his entire attention, and like his father before him, he\\nis a prominent agriculturalist. He enjoys the friendship) of\\nthe leading citizens of the Town, and is a man of integrity\\nand character.\\nJoseph B. Xiles lived in Benton before he moved to\\nHaverhill about sixty years ago. Two sons, Alonzo F. and\\nHorace L. (see Chap. XIX).\\nAlexander Manson came to Haverhill about 1825,\\nand was a blacksmith. Several of his sons followed the\\nsame trade. Two, Alexander and Charles, live in Exeter\\nMary and Lucy F. married Boswells, and Elizabeth, Mrs.\\nGeorge Kimball, lives in Black Kiver Falls, Wis. Mrs.\\nShepardson of East Haverhill is also a daughter. Mr.\\nManson had a brother die in California a few years ago who\\namassed a large fortune.\\nJohn Mc( lary came to Haverhill in 1882 from Bristol\\nwhere he was engaged in the tannery business with Gov. X.\\nS. Berry. He was born in Xewburyport, Mass., in 171*2,\\nand lived some years in Lisbon. Maj. Andrew McClary,\\nwho was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill, was an ancestor\\nof his. At the breaking out of the War of 1812 yoimg\\nMcClary enlisted for one year, and at the expiration of that\\ntime he enlisted for the war. In 1814 he was commended\\nby officers to the attention of the War Department as a suit-\\nable person to hold a commission in the regular army, having\\nbeen sergeant major in the 45th Keg. of Vols., where he\\nshowed himself an efficient and faithful soldier. At the\\nclose of the war he returned to Lisbon, and afterward moved\\nto Bristol. When he came to Haverhill he entered into", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0146.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "RECENT SETTLERS, 181\\npartnership for five years with the Bells at the Brook in the\\ntanning business, and before the expiration of that time he\\nwas elected register of deeds for Grafton county, which office\\nhe held for live consecutive years. He also served one year\\nby appointment of the county connuissioners to fill the\\nvacancy caused by the resignation of B, F. Dow. He was\\na representative in the legislature in 1834\u00e2\u0080\u00945, and took an\\nactive part in Town matters, being selectman and town clerk.\\nCol. McClary was of Scotch origin, and belonged to the\\nMcClarys who settled in Epsom before the Revolution. He\\nmarried twice, first liebecca Dodge of Lisbon, and after-\\nwards her sister. Mrs. Silvester Reding is a daughter by\\nthe first niarriao-e. He was colonel of the 18th Rei^iment\\nN. H. Militia, a man of intelligence, high character, jniblic\\nspirited, and much esteemed by his fellow-townsmen.\\nRiXEs. Maj. Rix, as he was called, moved to Haver-\\nhill about 1825, and was a man of strong will and vigorous\\nmind. He was noted for his facility in amplifying news,\\nand had a very imaginative conception of things.\\nJohn L., his son, was a prominent man in Town. In\\nbuild he was slender, but active and wide-awake. He was a\\nmerchant, and was regarded as a man of integrity. He\\nrepresented the Town in the legislature, and was a selectman,\\nand had nuich to do with local politics, of which he was a\\nshrewd master, and kept the run of details. He was also\\nintelligent in regard to j)olitical movements. He was foi*\\nmany years a member of the Repul)lican state committee.\\nAs a citizen he was public spirited, and of generous impulses,\\nfond of story, and a radical temperance man. Mr. Rix was\\na director in the B. C. t^c M. Railroad.\\nNathaniel Rix came from Littleton and was prominent\\nin that town, having been a representative in the legislature\\nfrom 1821 to 1827, and also a member of the governor s\\ncouncil in 1882-3. He moved to Haverhill about 1840.\\nand took an active part in public matters, serving as select-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0147.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 HLSTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nman and re[)resenting the Town in the legishiture. He was\\nalso register of deeds.\\nJohn L. Bunce came to Haverhill from Hartford, Conn.,\\nabout 1825 to take charge of the Grafton county bank as its\\ncashier. Previous to this he held a subordinate position in\\nthe Phoenix bank of that city. After a service in Haverhill\\nof some years he returned to Hartford as chashier of the\\nPhamix bank, and continued in that position for many years\\nuntil he retired and accepted the presidency of the bank in\\n18(50. He was a man of scrupulous integrity and a careful\\nfinancier. As a family man he was social and full of geni-\\nality, and fond of his friends. He had a special passion for\\nfishing, and after banking hours whilst he lived in Haverhill\\nhe often drove out to Tarleton lake to try his hand at the\\nrod and line for pickerel. He married for his first wife\\nLouisa Gookin, and for his second Louisa Merrill. His\\nchildren are living in Hartford, Conn., one son following the\\nbusiness of his father.\\nStowes. Amos Stowe came to Haverhill from Spring-\\nfield, Vt., in 1825. He was born in Concord, Mass., and\\nwas a Revolutionary soldier. He died in 1829, and is\\nburied at East Haverhill.\\nJoseph Stowe, son of the above, came to Haverhill at\\nthe time his father did, and married for his second wife\\nPriscilla Page of Landaff, and of their seven children\\nWilliam Page (see Chap. XIX). Joseph Stowe settled on\\nthe Xorth Branch of the Oliverian about a mile from East\\nHaverhill village, Avhere he built a saw mill. Quite a story\\nconnects itself with the latter. ]\\\\Ir. Stowe was a staunch\\ntemperance man, and refused to have rum at the raising.\\nAfter the first section of the frame was up the gang of men\\nwanted rum, and being refused they projiped the frame and\\nquit Avork. For several days the country round was scoured\\nbefore men enough could be o;ot to finish raising without\\nrum. A part of this frame was afterwards used for the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0148.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "KECENT SETTLEKS 133\\nbuilding where George W. Ricliardsoii keej)?? store at East\\nHaverhill. The class teacher remonstrated with ]\\\\Ir. Stowe\\nfor his fanaticism, telling him that he would ruin the\\nchurch and break up the Democratic party. Mr. Stowe\\nwas crier of the court and also a selectman, and whilst hold-\\ning this latter office he came near losing his life on account\\nof prosecuting the license law and posting the names of forty\\ncounnon drunkards in Town. lie moved from Haverhill in\\n1S42, and settled in Wisconsin.\\nKei)IN 4 Brothehs John K. Kedinc; was born in\\nPortsmouth in 1805, the son of a ship-master, and received\\nwhat school education he had in the common school. After\\nleaving school he served in a grocery store for a year and\\nthen entered the office of the New Hampshire Patriot, owned\\nand edited by Hon. Isaac Hill, to learn the art preserva-\\ntive, where he remained till l S2(i when he became foreman\\nin the Boston Statesman office, afterwards changed to the\\nBoston Post. He held that position for twcj years, and then\\ncame to Haverhill in 182 S. In July of that year he issued\\nthe first nundier of the Democratic Republican, and was its\\nsole proprietor and editor till 1S41. The jtapcr was vigor-\\nously edited and influential. In 184U ^Ii-. Reding was\\nelected to Congress, and served four years. He took his\\nseat in the extra session called by President Harrison at the\\nbeginning of his ])residential term. The Democratic Repub-\\nlican continued to be published by his brothers, ^Messrs.\\nAVarren and Silvester, till the ])a|)er was suspended in 1 S()3.\\nMr. Reding was ap})ointed ])ostmastcr in fSol, being the\\nfourth ])ostmaster of Haverhill, and held the office for ten\\nyears. He was also chosen to various town offices, serving\\nas selectman, overseer of the poor, and town agent for build-\\ning the Town house. In 1840 he was a delegate to the\\nNational Democratic Convention in Baltimore that nominated\\nMartin Van Buren, and in 1S.52 he served in th( same\\ncaj)acitv in the National Democratic Convention which j)laced", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0149.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "l )4 HISTOUV OF HAVERHILL.\\nin noinination Gen. Pierce. For five years he held the office\\nof naval store-keeper at Portsmouth, and in 18(50 he was\\nelected mayor of tliat city, but declined a second term. He\\nwas a memher of the legislature for three years from Ports-\\nmouth, and was chairman of the conunittee to select a site\\nfor the countv Ijuildinos and to Iniild the same for Kockino-\\nham county. He also engaged in farming, building, and\\nother lines of business, in all of which he displaved energv\\nand enterprise, and achieved large success.\\nMr. Reding moved to Portsmouth in 1853, where he now\\nresides at a green old age, erect, (piick of ste[), and with\\nmental powers unimpaired. He married Kebecca, the\\nyoungest sister of Hon. Isaac Hill, who died in Washing-\\nton. His second wife before her marriage was Jane Martin\\nof 8t. Johnsburv, Xt. They ha^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0e no children.\\nSilvester was engaged for many years in the publication\\nof the [)a})er his l)rother founded. He was register of deeds\\nand represented the Town in the legislature. He married\\nEllen I)., daughter (\u00c2\u00bbf Col. riohn McClary, and tiiey have\\nfour children. John (see Cliap. XIX). Mary K., Mrs.\\n(jeorge F. Putnam Kllen, Mrs. George Butler, and il-\\nliam, now a clerk in the Naval Office, Boston. Mr. Keding\\nwas an intelligent and esteemed citizen of the Town.\\nWarren was also connected with the Democratic Ke[)ub-\\nlican. He married Amelia C. Chandler, a woman of very\\nsu[)erior character, and their only child, Harry, is a graduate\\nof ashi)urn College, Kansas, to which state Mr. R. moved\\nabout ISTO. He was postmaster at Centralia, Kansas, at\\nthe time of his death.\\nJonathan S. Nichols came to Haverhill in LS^JS, and\\nengaged in the manufacture of carriages. He was also for\\ntwenty years agent of the Fairbanks Scale Company of St.\\nJohnsbury, Yt., and traveled mostly in the South and West.\\nPie married for his first wife Myra, daughter of Gen. Mont-\\ngomery. George E., Nellie P., and Clara I., (see Chaj).", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0150.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "UKCENT sp:ttlkhs. 135\\nXIX.) Mr. XiclioLs is one of IlaverhilTs most iiitclliui iit\\nritizons,\\nWilliam C Mahstox is the son of Ca})t. David Mars-\\nton who was a ])roniinent and energetic citizen of Benton.\\nillianl has l)een a selectman and a representative in the\\nh i:islatiire. A daughter, Mrs. P^dward Brainerd, lives in\\nPiermont.\\nIIaywoods, I)EN.iaml\\\\ and Xathamel. This is prol)-\\nahly the same name as Ilayward which a[ j)ear6 in the early\\nhistory of the Town. The IIaywoods came from ermont.\\n^lathanieFs son, Alvah K., married a daughter of James\\nJefters, and of their six children five went West, and one is\\n]\\\\Irs. Solon H. Baker. Alvah E. was selectman and town\\nclerk, justice of the ])eace, and captain of militia.\\nAVaurexs, LiTiiEi; and (tEOUCJE. The former was\\nlaruelv en ):aofed in the hind)er business. A daughter mar-\\nried a Congregational minister, and a son married a sister of\\nA. F. Pike. The daughter of George Warren is jjromi-\\nnent as a revivalist, and is a woman of mucli power and\\nsuccess as a speaker. She lives in Montana.\\nJoxathax B. Powell came to Haverhill about LSoO,\\nand was a prominent citizen of tlie Town, being selectman\\nfor several years. He was a man of much energy. In 1 S4\\nhe moved to Illinois, and of his large family some have made\\ntheir mark in the world. Jonathan II., Chester, (seeChaj).\\nXIX).\\nPoswell Elliott s great-grandfather was om- of tlu\\nfirst settlers in Benton, and signed the call for the first town-\\nmeeting of that town. Poswell Elliott was a selectman of\\nHaverhill in 1 S(;2.\\nTimothy K. Blaisdell was an uncle of the late Daniel\\nBlaisdell, and came to IIa\\\\erhill about is; He l uilt the\\ncottage parsonage house as it was before the recent altera-\\ntions, and was a merchant. He was town clerk in 1 S8 S,\\nand postmaster in 1841. Mr. Blaisdell married Harriet", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0151.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nMerrill, daughter of Capt. Benjamin ^Merrill, and they had\\nfive ehildren. A son, Timothy, served in the War of the\\nRebellion, and died at its elose. One of the daughters be-\\ncame the w\\\\i e of William Blanchard of Chicago, a success-\\nful lumber merchant. Another married Charles H. Cram\\nof Chi(;a \u00c2\u00a3o, a i raduate ol Dartmouth Colleo-e, and ;in\\naccomplished gentleman, and fond of literature and rare\\nbooks. He was engaged in the shoe trade, and died a few\\nyears ago. ]\\\\Irs. Cram lives in Haverhill. Her oldest son,\\nNathan, a graduate of Dartmouth College, is supervisor of\\na division of the public schools of Washington, D. C., a\\ndaughter, Bessie, has spent two years in Germany, [)ursuing\\nher education, a married daughter lives in Chicago.\\nCuttix(tS. James and Ahi.tah came to Haverhill in\\nl S34 from Hanover, and settled near Pike Station. Of\\nJames family John W. has been a selectman and a repre-\\nsentative in the legislature. Abijalfs family moved to Iowa,\\nand one of the sons, James A., (see Chap. XIX).\\nWiLLL\\\\.M R. Clakk married a daughter of Josiah Col-\\nburn who was an eccentric man. Being asked about his\\nrelio^ious hope, said, I ve nothin to brao; of. On another\\noccasion during his last illness, when a neighboring minis-\\nter called to see him, and after prayer at the bed-side,\\nremarked that he must put his ti-ust in the Saviour, Mr.\\nColburn replied, I d sooner trust Him than an Injun.\\nHenry H. Clark came to Haverhill from Bath, and\\nwas register of deeds four years. He was l)orn in Lyman.\\nHis education was piu sued at Bath and at Newbury and\\nMontpelier, Vt., fitting for college in 1871. Being pre-\\nvented by sickness from entering college, he took a special\\ncourse at Tilton Seminary. In 1 S72 he was a[)pointed\\nhead master of Seabiuy Institute, Saybrook, Conn., serving\\ntill 187( when he resigned on account of health. Later he\\nwas princi])al of Bath Academy. He also served for several\\nyears as supei intendent of schools in Bath, and was town", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0152.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "KKCENT SKTTLEKS. 137\\nclerk. He is now instructor in niatliematics in Dow Acad-\\nemy, Franconia. Mr. Clark has taught with nuich success,\\nand was one of the most efficient registers of deeds the\\ncounty ever had. He married Annie E. Babcock of Gran-\\nville, Vermont, and they have two children. Politically a\\nDemocrat, religiously a member of the Congregational\\nchurch.\\nSal:mon Fish came to Haverliill from Charlestown in\\n1838. His name was changed to Fremont. Of the four\\nchildren only one survives, Mrs. Osgood Morse. One of the\\nsons, Sewall Lawrence, was a graduate of West Point. His\\nearly education was received at Haverhill Academy. He\\nsaw military service in the Seminole War, and afterwards\\ntook part in the Mexican War, coming out of it with the\\nrank of captain. In 1855 he resigned his commission and\\nengaged in building railroads in North Carolina. During\\nthe Rebellion he held high position in the engineer depart-\\nment of the Confederacy. At the close of the war he en-\\ngaged in civil pursuits, and later he was employed by the\\ngovernment in superintending the construction of ])ublic\\nbuildings. He died suddenly a year or two ago whilst in\\ncharge of the buildings in Memphis, Tenn. Col. Fremont\\nwas a man of fine presence and high character.\\nSmiths Eleazek Smith was born in 171)7 in ash-\\nington, Vt. His father lived to be ninety-three years old.\\nEleazer moved to Haverhill m 1838, and was for twenty\\nyears tlie proprietor of Exchange hotel, but which under his\\nmanagement and that of his s(ni was known as Smith s hotel.\\nHe afterwards moved to Wentworth and kept a hotel there\\nfor thirty years. In early lite he was one of the drivers on\\nthe Concord and Haverhill stage line. He married Anna\\nPeters, whose father was a prominent and honored citizen of\\nBradford, Vt., having held the office of town clerk for over\\nforty years. They had two children, Charles (loudy and\\nilliam Peters. The latter was killed by the over-turning", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0153.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138 IIISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nof a stage coach. Charles G. lives in Haverhill. In boy-\\nhood days he spent several years in Lyndon, Vt., and also\\nfor a few years he was a clerk in a store in Charlestown,\\nMass., after which he retnrned to Haverhill and was associ-\\nated with his father in the hotel bnsiness. In 1853 he was\\nappointed a clerk in the Portsmouth Xavy yard, and held\\nthat position for three years, when he purchased the hotel of\\nhis father and continued in that business till 1881.\\nMr. Smith has taken a prominent and influential part in\\npublic afl airs in Town and county. At twentv-one years of\\nage he was chosen town clerk, and he was a re[)resentative in\\nthe legislature for two years. In 1868 he was ap[)ointed bv\\nthe legislature one of a committee of five to act in conjunc-\\ntion with the county commissioners in purchasing a county\\nfarm for (irafton county. Later, in a town meeting called\\nfor the purpose of relieving the Town from financial embar-\\nrassment, he advocated a plan for funding the Town debt,\\nwhich was adopted, and he was chosen trustee of the sinking-\\nfund to meet the bonds as they l)ecame due. He has repeat-\\nedly been chosen a selectman and moderator, and for six\\nyears he was county commissioner, during which time he\\nhad the immediate superintendence of rebuilding the poor-\\nhouse buildings which were burnt in the last term of his\\ncommissionershi[).\\nIn addition to these political positions of trust and honor,\\nhe was ;dso a trustee for twelve years of the Bradford\\nsavings bank, and for a time its president. He has been f()r\\nmany years a trustee of Haverhill Academy, and at onetime\\npresident of the board. In all these positions he has brought\\nto the discharge of his duties faithfulness, good judgment,\\nand commendable prudence. His manners are plain and\\nreserved, and his mode of life unostentatious. He is a man\\nof few words. In all ])roper matters for the improvement of\\nsociety he is j)ublic spirited and always ready to join his\\nfellow-townsmen in such matters. He is often called u[)on", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0154.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "HP:rKNT SKTTLKIIS. IHil\\ntor ;i(l\\\\ici hy tli( e who ilit^triLst their own jud^iuent in rcg itrd\\nto pnicticiil mattcrfi, and has proved himselt a safe and pru-\\ndent eounsellor. lie has the e(\u00c2\u00bbnfidenee of his fellow eitizens.\\nMr. Smith nian-ied for his tirst wife, Kuth Morse, a\\ndescendant of one of the early settlers of the Town. His\\nsecond wife was Charlotte S. Dow, a dauuhter of the late\\nB. F. Dow. There are two children hy the tirst niarriafje,\\nWilliam P., and Anna M.\\nAloxzo AV. PiTXAM came to, Haverhill from H;inover\\nin iSoD. He was an uncommonly active man. His son\\nParker and another son live in the AA est. The home farm\\nis now owned l)y Mrs. Putnam and two of the sons.\\nCr.M.MiX(is Pkotiieus William H. Cimmings was\\nhorn in IcSlT in New Hami)ton, and is a descendant of\\nthe old C unnniniis family of Dunstahle. He received his\\neducation in the conunou schools. For a few years he was\\na clei k in a store in New Chester, and later he hecame a\\npartner in the store. Afterwards he went to LisI)on and\\nAvas a clerk in a store for a year, and then ;d)out 1840 he\\ncame to Haverhill and was in company with flohn Ij. Rix.\\nHe lived in Ha\\\\erhill about ei iht years, and then returned\\nto Lisl)on, where he en^ agXMl in the business of merchan-\\ndising- and lunil)ering in the firm of Allen i!c Cununinirs,\\nand has lived there ever since, heinji closely identified with\\nthe ii rowth and conunercial interest of the place.\\nMr. CHimmin 2;s is a prominent citizen of Lisbon, and has\\nheld public ositions, Ijeinij a representative in the legisla-\\nture, a state senator, a delegate to the national convention\\nthat noininate(l (Jo\\\\-. Tilden for the presidency. He has\\ni)een |)resident of Wells Hiver national bank since 1(S7H, is\\na sound and careful financier, and has l)een very successful\\nin business. He is a man of industry and energy. He\\nmarried Harriet Sprague Kand, sister of the late fludge\\nKand, and of their three children a son is dead, and the\\ndaughters live at home.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0155.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nStephen H. Cummin(;s, brother of the above, came from\\nLigibon, as register of deeds in 1871, and held that position\\nfor three years. He was postmaster, town clerk, and super-\\nintendent of schools in Lisbon, and also selectman for five\\nyears in Haverhill. Only one of his own children is living,\\nMrs. Worthen of Brooklyn, N. Y. A son of his second\\nwife, Arthur ]\\\\Iitchcll (see Chap. XIX). An older son\\nwas eminent in his profession in the Sandwich Islands, and\\nphysician to the king and queen. He died a few years ago^\\nin Florida. Mr. Cunmimgs is an intelligent and esteemed\\ncitizen.\\nCaleb Hunt came to Haverhill about 1 S40. He was a\\nman of strong mind, but his educational advantages in early\\nlife were limited. He married a ]\\\\Iiss Poole, and they had\\nfive children. For Caleb, Horace, Prescott and Helen, (see\\nChap. XIX). Louisa married James Woodward of Ladd\\nstreet.\\nJackson Brothers moved to Haverhill from Coventry\\nabout 1840. Samuel Jackson, the grandfather, was a\\nsoldier in the Kevolution before tlie organization of that\\ntown, and was its first selectman. He was a well educated\\nman. Two of his grandchildren, Thos. B. and John W.,\\nsettled in Haverhill. Both were educated at Newbury Semi-\\nnary, and the former has represented Haverhill in the legis-\\nlature.\\nTimothy R. Bacon came to Haverhill in 1840. Aiii\\nolder brother, Asa, came earlier. Several of the former s-\\nchildren have been prominent in business, (see Chap. XIX)..\\nDaniel Batchelder was born in Corinth, Vt., 18()o,.\\nand lived for many years in Benton, where he was a pronn-\\nnent citizen, representing that town in the legislature for\\nseven years, from 1838 to 1881). He was captain of a com-\\npany enlisted for the ^Mexican War, but resigned before the\\ncompany went to Mexico. He was a captain in the\\n18th Res. N. II. Militia. About 1840 he came to Haver-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0156.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "RECENT SETTLERS. 141\\nhill, and was a deputy sheriff, and pursued the business of\\nan auctioneer, in which he displayed tact and talent, some-\\ntimes making; sharp hits at the expense of others.\\nJoiix VoSE Beax was Principal of Haverhill Academy\\nduring the time it was run as a ladies school in 1849. He\\nwas a oraduate from Dartmouth C^illeije in 183^, and was a\\nman of ability and high character. Whilst living in Haver-\\nhill he was a deacon in the Consrejjational church. His\\nAvite s name before her marriage was Caroline Graham, and\\nof their children Ellen (Mrs. Baker) alone is living. Isabel\\nmarried Hon. Otto Kirchner, a distinguished and able lawyer\\nof Detroit, ]Mich., who for four years was attorney general\\nof that state and also a lecturer for a time in the law school\\nof the University of Michigan. The oldest daughter of\\nthe Bean family, Caroline, married Dr. George Page, son of\\nGov. John Page. Mr. Bean moved from Haverhill in 1854,\\nand died in 18(51. Mrs. Bean survives him, and with her\\ndaughter, Mrs. Baker, lives in Detroit, J\\\\Iich.\\nBailey Brothers. Five brothers, descendants of Gen.\\nJacob Bailey of Newbury, Vermont, came to Haverhill,\\nthree of them about 1850, and two later. Albert and\\nNathaniel were merchants at the Brook and did a large\\nbusiness. They followed the same occupation at Topsham,\\nVt., before coming to Haverhill. Nathaniel afterwards\\neno-aoed in farming on Ladd street. Albert moved to Brad-\\nford, Vt., and became one of the most successful, and\\nprominent citizens of that town. He died suddenly in\\nBoston. He married Isabella Blake of Topsham, and their\\nonly living child is Mrs. Chamberlin of l)radford. Milo was\\nat first a clerk in the store of his brotliers and afterwards a\\npartner. He was also a merchant at the Corner. He mar-\\nried a daughter of Samuel Page. Azro and Allen came to\\nHaverhill later, and were ftirmers on Ladd street, the latter\\nafterwards enga ing in merchantile business with his brothei-\\nMilo. Nathaniel Bailev married the widow of his brother", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0157.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nAllen. Aznj inarried Hannah Lang of Bath, and of their\\nlarge family some remain in Haverhill, others have gone\\nWest, one of the sons lives in Boston, anil one is a railroad\\nengineer in ^Mexico. Nathaniel was a selectman and a re[)-\\nresentative in the legislature. Albert also was a representa-\\ntive. Mr. Xathaniel Bailey is a man of means and lives in\\nretirement, and is an esteemed citizen of the Town.\\nCharles A. Galp: came to Haverhill from Gilmanton\\nin 1850, and has lived on his present farm since that time.\\nHe was a representative from Haverhill in the legislature in\\n1875\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A son, Charles A., lives at Woodsville.\\nDarius K. Davis moved to J^ast Haverhill form Xorth-\\nfield in 185(k He was a partner in merchantile business\\nwith two of his brothers, and continued in trade with them\\nor by himself for over twenty-five years. At different times\\nhe was interested in stores at Warren, Tilton, Pike Station,\\nand at Indianapolis, Ind. He was a selectman in Benton\\nfor two years, and is now a member of the board of educa-\\ntion. He has been successful in the l)ee and honey business.\\nLevi B. Ham came to Haverhill in 1851 and was\\nengaged for about twenty-five years in the stove and tinsmith\\nbusiness. He has been deputy sheriff, representative in the\\nlegislature, town clerk, and selectman. He has two chil-\\ndren living, a son in Boston and a daughter at home.\\nCurrier I^rothers moved to Haverhill in 1852, and\\ncarried on the tanning business at the Brook. James A.\\nwas a selectman during the War. F. P. Currier has a\\nfamily of three daughters.\\nAugustus Whitney came to Haverhill as register of\\ndeeds about 1855. Afterwards he was mail route agent for\\neight years between Springfield, Mass., and Newport, Vt.\\nMr. Whitney was a professional vocal music teacher, and\\nwas one of the best drill masters in that art. He was a man\\nof intelligence, and catholic in his views. He married a", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0158.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "HECENT SETTLERS. 143\\nMiss Currier of Wentworth. A daughter lives iu AN innc-\\npeg, Manitoba, and devotes herself to music.\\nGrove S. Stevens came from Piermont to Haverhill in\\n1856. He is a deacon in the Congregational church, and\\nwas for ten years high sheriff of Grafton county, and\\nprevious to that he was deputy sheriff. Of his family of\\nfive children the son is a lawyer in Littleton, and three of\\nthe four daughters married lawyers Mrs. Charles A. Dole\\nof Lebanon ]\\\\lrs. J. L. Foster of Lisbon, whose husband\\nis a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Mrs. Morrill of\\nContoocook. A daughter, ]Mary, is at home. She was for-\\nmerly a successful teacher in Arlington, ^Nlass.\\nGeorge W. Stevens lived just south of the Piermont\\nline. He was a deacon in former years in the Congrega-\\ntional church in Piermont. His son George H., lives on the\\nhomestead, and a daughter married Luther Holt of Lowell,\\n]Mass., a retired iron manufacturer.\\nEnoch K. Weeks came from Warren about isli, and\\nhas been a merchant at North Haverhill. He has held the\\nposition of town clerk for a numl)er of years, and is now\\nj)ostmaster at that })lace. One of his daughters is Mrs.\\nCharles P. Page of the firm of W. H. Page Son.\\nMoses M. Weeks moved from Path in 1877. He\\nmarried Sally Minot of Path, and of their two children\\nliving one is ]\\\\Irs. J. LeRoy Pell, and a son carries on the\\nfarm. Another son, a yoimg man of most excellent traits,\\ndied a few years affo.\\nJ. G. Blood came to Haverhill about twenty-five years\\nago, and is engaged in the manufacture of pre})are(l lumber\\nand shingles at the old Swasey mill. He married Elizabeth\\nAVetherbee.\\nWiLLL\\\\.Ai H. Nelson first moved to Haverhill about\\n18(i0, and was a merchant at North Haverhill for ten or\\ntwelve years, Avhen he went to Lawrence, Mass., and en-\\ngaged in the same business there. After a few vears he", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0159.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nreturned to Haverhill, and carried on the business of general\\nmerchandising till his death about a year ago. He had a\\nlarge family of children, most of whom are married. Mrs.\\nW. H. Brock of South Newbury, Vt., was a daughter;\\nanother married Charles F. Bailey of INIinneapolis one\\nbecame Mrs. Scott Sloane of Wells Kiver, Vt. another,\\nMrs. Hazen of St. Johnsbury, Xt. a daughter married, and\\nnntil her recent decease, lived in the Sandwich Islands a\\nson is in California, and a younger son in Dartmouth Col-\\nlege. Mrs. Xelson now lives in Lawrence, jNIass., and is a\\nwomen of much ability and noble character.\\nJoseph Powers was born in Groton, the son of William\\nand ]Mary (Thompson) Powers. In early life he was a\\nteacher. Subsequently he mo^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ed to Plymouth, and whilst\\nthere he was appointed high sheriff of Grafton county. He\\nlived in Haverhill after he became sheriff. From 1 S71 to\\n1873 he was a member of the governor s council, and in\\nthat position he served wnth much acceptance. He was a\\nmember of the constitutional convention in 1876. He owned\\nthe farm at North Haverhill where his niece, Mrs. Filley,\\nnow lives, and on this farm the first Jersey cows in Haver-\\nhill were kept, and in later years the herd was one of the\\nfinest in the state. (See Chap. XXI.) He was a man of\\nstrong character and large ability, and was held in high\\nesteem by those who knew him. He was a staunch temper-\\nance man. He married Betsey Blood. Mr. Powers died in\\nLS71).\\nMeaders came from Warren where the family was nu-\\nmerous. Daniel W. went to Pennsylvania and was engaged\\nwith a brother in constructing railroads. Afterwards he\\nlived in California. He returned to Haverhill in 1865, and\\nenoao-ed in the manufacture of starch. He was a selectman.\\nCharles B. Griswold came to Haverhill as register of\\ndeeds in 1867, which office he held for five years. After the\\nexpiration of his term of office he was engaged for several", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0160.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "UECEXT SETTLEIIS. 145\\n3 ejirs in the cotton and lumber business in Texas. Since\\n1 S74 he has been the efficient clerk of tiie su[)renie judicial\\ncourt for Grafton county. He married Alzina M. Sawyer,\\nof Malone, X. Y. They have one child, a graduate of\\nDartmouth College, who has just been admitted to the bar.\\nAndrew Jacksox Edgekly was born in Barnstead in\\n1828, and worked on a farm till he was sixteen years old,\\nwhen he entered the Amoskeag manufacturing company s\\nAvorks at Manchester to learn the machinists trade. He\\nalso continued at this business in Boston, and in Biddeford,\\n]\\\\Ie., and then returned to Manchester. In 18G1 he enlisted\\nmen for the 3d liegiment X. H. Vols., and again for the\\n4tli Regiment, in which he was appointed second lieutenant\\nof Co. E. He was in the expedition against Port Royal,\\nS. C, and soon after was promoted to be first lieutenant.\\nWhilst inspecting the picket line he received a severe wound\\nby the falling of his horse, and was sent home on recruiting\\nservice. In March, I8G0, he was dishonorably dischai ged\\nfor circulating copperhead tickets and doing all in his\\npower to promote the success of the rebel cause in his state.\\nHe rested under this stigma for a number of years, l)ut the\\ncase being carefully investigated by the military committee of\\nthe House, a bill passed both branches of Congress fully\\nexonerating him, and giving him an honorable discharge\\nfrom March, 1863. Lieut. Edgerly was a representative in\\n1874, but declined a renomination. He also held the posi-\\ntion of adjutant general of the state under Gov. Weston.\\nHe married twice, first, Ann Eliza Williams of ^Mansfield,\\n]\\\\Iass., and then Sarah Crocker Carr of Haverhill. A\\ndaughter by the first, and a son by the second marriage, who\\nis a senior in Tufts College. Lieut. Edgerly secured his\\neducation at the common schools, is a Mason, and came to\\nHaverhill in 18(33.\\nCaleu Wells came to Haverhill from Benton in 1868,\\nwhere he held the position of school superintendent for", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0161.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nseventeen years. He was also a representative in the legis-\\nlature from that town, and served as selectman and as a\\njustice of the peace. He has been a selectman of Haver-\\nhill, and is now a member of the board of education.\\nCharles H. Day came from Bristol as register of deeds\\nin 1878. He held that office for four years. Before moving\\nto Haverhill he was deputy sheriff for a short time.\\nK. D. Tucker came to Haverhill in 1880, and the year\\nfollowing he built the handsome Tucker house on South\\n]\\\\Iain street. Before movin to Haverhill he was enaaired\\nin the manufactory of axletrees in Philadelphia, and previous\\nto that he was sujierintendcnt of the New York t^ Flushing\\nrailroad. He was a man of thorough business habits, and\\nAvas enterprising and puldic spirited. He died suddenly in\\n1888. His wife before her marriage to him was jNIrs.\\n^Morris Locke of Xew York.\\nThe influx of population at the extreme north-west corner\\nof the Town, Woodsville, has chiefly taken place since the\\nBoston, Concord Montreal railroad was built to tliat point,\\nand both population and valuation have rapidly increased\\nAvithin a few years. But as early as 1830 John L. Woods\\nl)egan the manufacture of lumber near the mouth of the\\nAnunonoosuc, and carried on an extensive business for many\\nyears. He married Mary Nancy, daughter of Obadiah\\nSwasey, and their son John L. (see Chap. XIX).\\nLuther Butler settled in this part of the Town about\\nthe same time. His early years were spent in Bath. He\\nwas a stone mason by trade, and worked on the Quincy\\nmarket, Boston. He also built the Anunonoosuc bridge at\\nWoodsville. He was a selectman and justice of the peace.\\nHis wife s maiden name was Abigail Chamberlain of Bath,\\nand three of their children are living Mrs. Maria Hibbard\\nof Brooklyn, Iowa, and a son, George C, lives on the\\nhomestead. Mr. Butler died in 1885. The youngest\\ndaughter, Alice, married and lives in Xew Jersey.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0162.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "KECEXT SETTLERS. 147\\nCiTAiiLEs B. Smith niamifactured shovel IijukUcs for\\niSome years, when in 1878 his phmt was carried away by a\\nfreshet. He ijave the lot for the Episco])al church, and ^vas\\npostmaster from 1878 till 1880. A son, George F., is a\\nrailroad conductor.\\nJoiix L. Davis was one of the builders of the Mt.\\nWashington railroad, and ran the first engine to the sununit.\\nHe built the Mt. Gardner house and ke[)t it for several years.\\nIka AViiitctieu came from Benton where he was a prom-\\ninent man in business and in town matters. He was a\\nrepresentative for six years, county commissioner for a like\\nterm, and a member of the constitutional convention in\\n1851. He has been extensively engaged in the lumber busi-\\nness since he came to AVoodsville, and has been a selectman.\\nHe married Lucy Royce, and of their four children a son\\n(see Chap. XIX), and a daughter, ]\\\\Irs. Chester .Vbbott of\\nWoodsville. David AVhitcher of Xorth Haverhill, and\\nDaniel AVhitcher of Bath are brothers of Ira.\\nC. M. Weeks came from Vermont about 1858, and\\ntook an active part in Town matters. He was a merchant;\\nrepresented the Town in 1868\u00e2\u0080\u00949, moderator a number of\\ntimes, county treasurer in 1883. He was a man of nuich\\nenergy and force. He now lives in Lowell, Mass.\\nEnoch G. PARKEPt came from Xewbury, Yt., in 1873,\\nand engaged in the hotel business. Air. Parker is an ener-\\ngetic man, and was selectman and moderator. He now lives\\nin AVells liiver, Vt.\\nOther active and enterprising men worthy of more ex-\\ntended notice have come into Woodsville from time to time,\\nand have given im[)ulse to the growth and business of the\\nl)lace.\\nEziiA B. AIanx has been a representative. Came from\\nBenton druggist.\\nEdward F. Manx, brother of the above, now assistant\\nsuperintendent of B. L. K. K. Has been a state senator", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0163.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nand represented Benton in the legislature passenger con-\\nductor on B. C. M. 11. R, for twelve years.\\nGeorge S. Cummings came from Ashland, druggist,\\nnow the oldest male resident in the place.\\nJoseph P. Kimball, Ezra S. Kimball, George C.\\nButler, and Henry F. King were born in Town. Mr.\\nButler has a stock farm of high grade Durhams. Mr.\\nJoseph P. Kimball has a large dairy of high grade Jerseys.\\nHenry F. King is a wool grower, and has been selectman.\\nBenjamin Dow came from Lyman, dealer in live stock,\\nstock breeder of cattle and Norman horses.\\nLangdon Bailey came from Lisbon, carriage maker.\\nGeorge A. Davison whose sudden death recently has\\nbeen such a sad loss to business and social circles, came from\\nSutton, Canada. He was station agent, and clerk and treas-\\nurer of Woodsville Water Co., a prominent Odd Fellow,\\nand w^as district deputy for this portion of the state.\\nSamuel B. Page (see Chap. XVIl).\\nGeorge F. Smith came from Belfast, Me., passenger\\nconductor.\\nDavid A. French came from Warren, teacher of music.\\nCharles R. Gibson came from Alstead (see Chap.\\nXVIII).\\nOliver D. Eastman came from Topsham, Yt. (see\\nChap. XVIII.)\\nChester Abbott came from Bath in Woodsville lum-\\nber company.\\nEdgar B. Miller came from Ryegate, Vt. merchant.\\nSeth p. Stickney came from Lyman merchant.\\nTruman W. Glover came from Newbury, Vt. mer-\\nchant.\\nGeorge Emeiiy came from Ashland assistant post-\\nmaster.\\nIsaac K. George came from Bristol proprietor of\\nHotel Brunswick formerly superintendent of county farm.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0164.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "KECENT SETTLERS. 14D\\nMelvin J. Mann came from Benton in employ of\\nrailroad for twelve years, passenger conductor for the last\\nfive years.\\nG. H. Mann in employ of railroad fifteen years, freight\\nand passenger conductor for last twelve years.\\nWill H. Moore came from Xorthfield one of the\\noldest engineers on the road.\\nGeorge E. Cummings, son of George S., passenger\\nconductor on B. C. M. R. R. for three years, wood agent\\ntwo years, agent for White Mountain Division B. L., and\\nnow train master at AVoodsville.\\nD. L. Hawkins came from Bath, leased the Parker\\nHouse in company with S. E. Nutting, and kept it for twa\\nyears. House is now owned by O. D. Johnson, and kept\\nby Johnson Hawkins.\\nA. H. Leigiiton Co. Albert H. Leighton and\\nQuincy A. Scott. Mr. Leighton came from Bath ]\\\\[r.\\nScott was conductor on Passumpsic railroad, rose from train\\nboy. Firm established 1875. With the exception of tiie\\ndrug store, the oldest store in the village. !Mr. Scott also\\nmanufactures society uniforms and regalias.\\nThe population of Woodsville is mostly composed of\\nyoung and middle-aged persons, wide-awake and full of push,\\nwho have given to the [)la( e its live and energetic character,\\nand placed it on the highway of still greater prosperity.\\nAnd with the s[)lendid water-power at this point, which is\\nunlimited, and the fine railroad facilities, few places in New\\nEngland are more hopeful of becoming great manufacturing-\\ncenters than AYoodsville. Her citizens are well deserving\\nthe gratifying success which has followed their enterprise and\\njniblic spirit.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0165.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nTOWN AXD PROPRIETORS RECORDS FROM 1763 TO 1800.\\nFii t Town and Proprietors Meeting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Town Officers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Committee of Survey\\nLayinj? out of Lots\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Drawing Lots First Annual Town Meeting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First f ul 1\\nList of Town Otlicers Town Expenses Pound Wages for Town Worlv\\nRecord Book Danger of Wild Animals Small Town Expenses First\\nTreasurer Deer Reaves Grant of Mill Privilege Taxes Abated Care of\\nImbecile Census Burial Places Law suit Town Meeting Places Waif-\\nFirst Town-order for Aid Legal Tenders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Vote for Congressman and\\nPresidential Electors First Representative First Vote for Governor and State\\nSenator Troublesome Persons Special Choice of Selectmen Question of\\nConscience Tra\\\\ eling on the Sabbath\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Small Pox Old Debt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Care of Poor.\\nThe first Town meeting was to be held on tiie second\\nTuesday of June, which as we learn from the Proprietors\\nRecords was June 13th. This date was fixed by the charter\\nwhich also directed that the meeting was to be notified by\\nOapt. John Ilazen who likewise was appointed to be its\\nmoderator. From the Proprietors Records it appears that a\\nProprietors meeting was lield at the same time and place.\\nThis meeting like the Town meeting was appointed by the\\ncharter, and was also to be notified and presided over by\\nCapt. John Hazen. The Proprietors chose Town oflficers as\\nfollows Jesse Johnson, clerk Stephen Knight, constable\\nand a])t. John White, James Bailey, Esq., and Maj. P2d-\\nmiind ]\\\\Iorse, selectmen. The only other business which\\nwas transacted at tliis meeting was the choice of a commit-\\ntee fully authorized to bound out the Town, and\\nlay (nit one lot to each j)roprietor s share in the interval,\\nand one other lot of upland, so as to commode [accommo-\\ndate] the settlers. This committee consisted of Capt. John\\nHazen, John White, James Bailey, Esq., Robert Peasley\\nand Benjamin Morse, and they were directed to enter ujion\\ntheir duty at once after the town of Xewbury was laid out.\\nFrom this it may be inferred that the committee had some-\\nthing to do with laying out Newbury as well as Haverhill,\\nwhich was quite likely the fact, as the two leading spirits in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0166.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "EAKLV TOWX KECOIIDS, 151\\nsecuring the cliartei s of the. se towns were apt. 1 la/en ami\\nGen. Bailey, and a nuniher of the proprietors of both towns\\nwere the same. Aeeordingly the same conunittce and sur-\\nveyor would answer ft)r both towns. At a subsecjuent meet-\\nino; the eonnnittee made their report which Avas acce} ted\\nby the l^roprietors, and wei learn that AA illiam hitin i-\\nwho seems to haNC Ijcen the surveyor, was voted 4\\nshillings per day for his services in laying out the Town of\\nHaverhill in Cowass. [Cohos.]\\nThe Proprietors subsequently ap])ointed a committee whose\\nduty it was to lay out 100 acre lots to each right, and\\nalso another committee for the piu pose of drawing these lots.\\nDuring the next few months there seems to have been some\\ndifficulty in transacting the business of the meeting, as\\nrepeated adjournments took place, and the records close with\\nthese despairing woids, At which time [Jan. 17()4] said\\nuieeting was drop})ed without any further transaction ever\\ndone at said meeting. The drawing as we learn from a\\nsubsequent record was not finished at the meeting when the\\nclerk entered the above note of des[)aii but was completed\\nafterwards, since we find in the records a list of the Pro-\\nprietors of Haverhill with the numl)er of their house and\\nmeadow lots annexed to each proprietor s name, as said lots\\nwere drawn at the several Proprietors meetings of the said\\nTown of Haverhill.\\nThe anmial meeting of the Town as well as the first meet-\\ning was also fixed by the charter, and was directed to be\\nheld on the second Tuesday in March. The first annual\\nmeeting of which any record is made, was held March 13,\\n1764, in, Plaistow at the house of John Hall, inn-holder.\\nJames Bailey was chosen moderator, after which it was\\nadjourned to Haverhill at Cohos, to the house of John\\nTaplin to June 13. Of this fJune meeting no record is\\npreserved.\\nThe first full list of Town officers, of which any record is", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0167.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nt oiind, was chosen at the annual meeting in 1765. These\\nfathers of the Town government were as folhjws, modera-\\ntor, Elisha Lock clerk, John Hazen selectmen, John\\nHazen, P^lisha Lock and Jonathan Elkins constable, Ed-\\nward Bailey surveyors of high-ways, James Woodward,\\nJoshua FLiyward fence-surAcyor, Jonathan Sanders hog-\\nreave, Uriah Morse; tithing-man, Jonathan Goodwin.\\nAccording to this list it would seem that the Jonathans were\\na popular class in the infant settlement of the Town.\\nThe Town records inform us that in 1766 \u00c2\u00a310 was voted\\nfor Town expenses. This was the first appropriation of\\nmoney by the Town, except that which was voted for preach-\\ning the [\u00c2\u00bbrevious year. It was also ordered that a pound\\nbe built, and John Ladd had the honor of headinji; the long\\nlist of pound-keepers for the little Reiniblic. The location\\nof this pound was most likely at the Plain, as afterward,\\n1793, the Town voted that two pounds be built, one at\\nthe North end at Col. Howard s, near where the County\\nPoor House now stands, and the other at the South end\\non land owned by ]\\\\Ioody Bedel, in the corner where the\\nroad leads to Maj. Joshua Young s. This road turned off\\njust south of the Eliza Cross house, and led to where Peter\\nFlanders now lives. The present pound opposite the\\nresidence of James Woodward was built in 1 SC)2. Also\\nat this meeting it was voted that all labor done for the\\nTown should be at fifty cents per day.\\nIn the following year a book of records for the Town was\\nbought, which fact may account for the imperfect condition\\nof the records in the first and second years of the Town s\\norganization.\\nThe exposed condition of the settlement is indicated by\\nthe fact that in 1769 an article was put in the warrant to see\\nif the Town would provide a stock of amnuinition. It\\nwas also voted at the same time that 20 shillings be paid\\nfor each wolf-head catched or killed. These bounties in the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0168.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "EAIJLY TOWN HECOHDS. 153\\ninterest of protection afjainst wolves were fre [uently renewed\\nin subsequent years, as well as bounties aijainst otber wild\\ndepredatory animals.\\nIn 1770 the amount of money voted for Town expenses\\nwas \u00c2\u00a36, and in the followini): year the first treasurer was\\nchosen, and James Bailey had the honor of being entrusted\\nas treasurer with the keeping and the disbursing the Town s\\nfunds. Previous to this time the selectmen discharged the\\nduties of that office.\\nOur fathers seem to have grown economical as the early-\\nyears rolled on for in 1772 only \u00c2\u00a34 were voted for town\\nexpenses. This small sum was doubtless for the ordinary\\ncharges of the Town, perhaps mainly expended for the\\nsalaries of officers. The selectmen received for their duties\\nand responsibilities three shillings per day.\\nIn the following year a new office was created, demanded\\nit would seem by a new emergency. The occupant was\\nstyled a deer-reave. When the country was first, settled\\ndeer were found in great abundance, and were the most\\nvaluable of all the wild animals of the forest. Being killed\\nin large numbers by the settlers it became necessary to\\nprotect them against an indiscriminate slaughter that\\nthreatened their early extinction. In Massachusetts before\\nthe close of the seventeenth century it was unlawful to kill\\ndeer between January 1st and August 1st. For this reason\\nan officer was chosen whose dutv it was to inform a i;ainst\\nthose who killed deer out of season. The first mention of\\nthis officer in the records of Haverhill is found as above,\\nand was designed for the protection of deer. This year,\\nalso, the one hundred acre lot reserved on Ila/.en (Poole)\\nbrook was given to John Fisher for a mill j)rivilege, if he\\nwould saw for the jjroprietors for one-half.\\nTaxes were abated in certain cases as early as 1771, and\\nin the same year the Town was asked to see what it would\\ndo in reference to David Swain, who is described as non", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0169.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "154 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ncompos mentis. What the Town did for the unfortunate\\nDavid does not appear. Also in this year Edward Bailer\\nwas voted o shillings for one day in numbering the people\\nin 171)7. The population at that time is given on page\\n57 in foot note.\\nAs early as 1774 the burial of the dead was cared for by\\nthe Town, and two ])laces for this purpose were set apart in\\nthat year for public use. Also a burial cloth was pro-\\nvided at the public exi)ense. Private corporations were as\\nyet unknown in tlie infant settlement. One of these burial\\nj)hices is the present cemetery at Ladd street, the other the\\nold graveyard at Horse meadow.\\nThe first ordained and settled minister in the Town, as\\nwas the custom in those times, was granted by the charter a\\nright of land. From the records it would seem that this\\nright was brought into controvei sy. One Kanna\\nCossit the name looks as if he thought he ought to be the\\nTown cosset seems to have been the person who wished to\\ndisturb the minister s right of glebe, and the authority of the\\nTown was interposed to defeat his unfriendly purposes for\\nin 1775 it was -^oted to defend the minister s right of land\\nagainst the said Kanna Cossit. It would seem from a\\ndocument entitled Haverhill and Xcwbury Covenant,\\ndated January 2 S, 1775, that Cols. John Hurd and Asa\\nPorter were the instigators of this plot, and were accordingly\\ncensured by their fellow citizens as acting contrary to the\\nsociety of Haverhill and Newbury, in trying to foist an\\nEpiscopal minister upon the conununity, and claiming for\\nhim the right of glebe, when they knew that Rev. Peter\\nPowers had been an ordained clergyiuan for a number of\\nyears. The affair stirred the comnuinity to its very depth,\\nand in the covenant Cols. Hurd and Porter were declared\\nto be public enemies to the good of the conununity. The\\nsigners of this covenant carried the war into Africa,\\nand pledged themselves not to have any comnumication", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0170.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "EAIJLV TOWX UKCOUDS, 155\\nwith either of them, not .so inueh as to trade, lend, borrow,\\nor hd)or with them and further, that they woidd not hohl\\nany eorrespondcnee, nor have any dealings with any that\\nhold with Cols. Hurd and Porter, until they shall willingly\\nmake public satisfaction for what they have done in the prem-\\nises. Evidently the boycott was abroad in those days.\\nIn early times the meetings both of the Town and of the\\nProprietors were held either at })rivate houses or at inn-\\nholders. The records of 1776 speak of a meeting which\\nAvas adjourned to the state house. This state house\\nwas the court house which yvus built a few years before.\\nAbout this time a child of Susanna Hadley was a constant\\ncare of the Town, and finally ten shillings were paid for a\\nsort of undercjround railroad service in reo ard to said\\nchild.\\nIn 178( the Town voted inianimously to emit a paper\\ncurrency as follows\\nThat one hundred thousand pounds be emitted, twenty thousand\\npounds to be in suitable bills to defray the charges of government,\\nand to exchange for such public securities as may be ottered at their\\ncurrent exchange, which is to be ascertained, and to carry no interest\\nbut to be receivable in taxes and all demands of government and a\\ntender in all cases equal to silver and gold, and to be called in by\\ntaxes annually, the residue to be made in ditierent bills expressing\\ntheir import, and to be loaned to individuals at tive per cent, on landed\\nsecurity of double the value, and to be paid into the treasury at\\nproper times, whieh shall carry an interest of two and a half percent.,\\nand so receivable in all demands of government and a tender in all\\ncases as above with the interest due on said bills at the time of\\npayment.\\nThe action of the Town, with similar action in other towns,\\nbeing brought before the legislature, it was voted that there\\nwas no authority to make paper bills of credit a tender to\\ndischarge priAate contracts made prior to the ])assing such\\nact. And thus this earlier greenback scheme to pay\\ndebts with irredeemable paper came to a sudden end.\\nThe Town cast its first vote for congressmen and presiden-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0171.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ntial electors in 1787. ]\\\\Ioses Dow, a prominent lawyer and\\ndistinguished citizen of Haverhill, was one of the persons\\nvoted for for congressman, and received the vote of Haver-\\nhill. This vote was a sort of popular nomination, and from\\nthe list of persons voted for, the legislature chose the three\\npersons who had the largest jiopular vote in the state as the\\nrepresentatives to Congress. Previous to this, in 1784, the\\nlegislature had appointed Mr. Dow a congressman, but he\\ndeclined the honor for reasons chiefly which do not now\\nburden men s minds.\\nAt a special meeting in 1783 the Town voted to send its\\nfirst representative to the General Court. The person who\\nreceived the honor of the first appointment to that office by\\nthe suffrages of his fellow townsmen was James Woodward,\\na prominent and worthy citizen, and the qualifications of the\\nperson who should be decreed fit to be chosen for this position\\nwere set forth in the warrant as follows A reputable free-\\nholder and an inhabitant of said Town, and qualified as the\\nlaw directs to represent said Town in the general assembly\\nof said state. Our forefathers had no friendly side for\\npolitical tramps. They believed in the best, and evi-\\ndently thought that a man who could not or would not\\nbecome a property holder was not a suitable person to have\\nthe care of the commonwealth. They were sound states-\\nmen and true patriots, who did not believe in committing\\nthe infant state to the nursing of doubtful persons. Also in\\nthis year the Town cast its first vote for governor and state\\nsenator, and Moses Dow received the vote of the Town for\\nthe latter office.\\nIn 1783 the warning of a special meeting had this article\\nTo pass some votes as said inhabitants [Town] shall see\\nfit concerning tories, absentees, or persons who had left the\\nUnited States of America, and voluntarily taken residence\\nwithin the lines of the enemies of said United States, and\\nhave returned or may return into this Town. And a com-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0172.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "EAKLY TOWN RECORDS. 157\\nmittee was appointed to execute this article, viz., That no\\nsuch persons be suffered to reside in this Town. Some of\\nthese persons it would seem returned after the war was over\\nto their homes, since the Town directed the constable to\\nwarn sundry persons that they must leave their country for\\ntheir country s good, under the pains and penalties of the\\nlaw in such case made and provided.\\nAt a later period the Town seems again to have been\\ntroubled with persons whose presence was not as agreeable\\nas tlieir room, and the records tell of two votes, one of\\nthii teen shillings to Capt. Ephraim AVesson for warning\\nthirteen of these unwelcome peo])le out of Town, and\\nanother of twenty-seven shillings for warning twenty-seven\\nothers of the same character.\\nAlso in the year after, the following episode garnishes the\\nTown records It was the first marriage in Town by a\\nmagistrate, and the parties were Jose])h Clowd and Xancy\\nFrazier. Those were the days of publishments, and\\nJoseph and Nancy were unfortunate, as their publishment\\nwas torn down, and the record is marked void. So\\nJoseph and Nancy had to ])ut off and be put up again,\\nbefoi-e they twain could be made one.\\nThe selectmen Avere chosen at a special meeting in 1700,\\nfor what reason does not appear, and in the year following a\\nquestion of conscience appears upon the records in a vote to\\nexcuse the selectmen from taking the oath of office so far\\nas it respects the Sabbath act. The act referred to here\\nrequired the selectmen to inform against all persons who\\ntraveled on the Sabbath between sun-rising and sun-setting,\\nexcept to attend to public worship, visit the sick, or do\\nworks of charity. This law was vigorously enforced, and\\nmany persons, it is said, who were found traveling on the\\nSacred day, Avere compelled by the vigilant tything-mun to\\nlie to. Capt. John Page once spent a quiet day in\\nWarren at the invitation of one James Dow who was very", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0173.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "158 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\njealous for tlie observance of the Sabbath. After paying\\nfines and costs the next day he was allowed to go home in\\npeace.\\nAnother article at this meeting, 1791, read, To see if\\nthe Town would consent to have the small-pox in said Town\\nby way of inoculation, which however was rejected at first.\\nWas it under the impression that tlie Town preferred not to\\nhave the small-pox at all But afterwards this vote was\\nreversed, and the Town took its small-pox homeopathically.\\nIn the interest of patriotism a long-standing debt Avas\\ndischarged in 175 8. In that year tlie Town Aoted to pay\\nCapt. Ebenezer Sanborn $10 for fetching two hundred\\npounds of balls, fifty pounds of powder and a quantity of\\nriint from Exeter. This service was rendered in 1775. A\\nvote was also passed to take care of the poor as the law\\ndirects. This was a vote to enforce the law which allowed\\ntowns to have houses of correction or work-houses in\\nwhich to set their poor to work and towns were also em-\\npowered to use these for the keeping, correcting, and setting\\nto work of rogues, vagabonds, common beggars, lewd, idle\\nand disorderly persons.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0174.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nTOWN KfXOHDS FROM ISOO TO ISSli.\\nTown in Relation to Comlition of Country War of 1812\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bounties for Soldiers\\nSmall-i)ox School Trouble\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Town Farm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Town House\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fire Proof Vault\\nWar of the Rebellion Money Voted for Soldiers Families Bounties Sum\\nTotal of .Money Voted during the War for M ar Purposes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Funded Debt\\nDuty of Town to Needy Soldiers Monument Party Struggles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Character of\\nEarly Officers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Memorable Contest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Improved Order.\\nAlready as early as 180!) eoniino: events were eastin i:\\ntheir shadovys before, and we find the Town, throngh a\\ncommittee appointed for the purpose, expressing its feeling\\nin regard to the condition of the country. Tliis committee\\ndeclared that the country was in a truly interesting and\\nalarming condition, and called upon the government to\\nabandon its policy in regard to the embargo laws.\\nAt a town meeting in 1812 the question iA bounties for\\ndrafted soldiers was considered, and a motion t(j vote such\\nl)ounties was defeated by a very decided majority. At the\\nsame time resolutions were passed condemning the national\\nauthorities on account of the war. A strong states\\nrights doctrine was assumed, and it is very evident that the\\npeace party of that day was largely in the ascendant in\\nour goodly Town. This meeting declared the War of 1812\\nto l)e unnecessary and impolitic, and expressed a willing-\\nness to join other towns in convention to secure the rights of\\ntlie people. A convention for this purpose was to be held\\nat Orford, and Jose])h IJell, (ieorge Woodward, and John\\nSmith were a[)[)ointed delegates to represent Haverhill in\\nthat conyention. Feeling ran high, and not only was the\\nl)etition for giving soldiers of the War of 1812 additional\\nbounty to that which was offered bv the fjenei al jjovernment\\npnjmptly voted down by the peace party, but also a\\n])roposition to allow militia men compensation for j)owder\\nand ball expended by them, was rejected by an c(pially", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0175.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "1(50 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nclecisi\\\\e vote. The Town was thoroughly in the liands of\\nthe Federalists.\\nIn 1822 the Town was attticted with the small-pox, and\\nDr. Simeon Woodward engaged to vaccinate the inhabitants\\nof the Town for thirty dollars, provided they would assemble\\nfor that purpose as far as possible in the school houses. The\\ndisease seems to have raged with much force and destruction,\\nas a committee appointed at that time in regard to the mat-\\nter reported one hundred sixty-nine dollars expense incur-\\nred in meeting this enemy of the people.\\nIn this same year we have revealed the school troubles of\\nMr. AVilliam Ladd, who was a resident of district No. 7,\\nbut who wanted to get into district No. 8. The people of\\nNo. 8, however, voted in the negative almost unani-\\nmously, and ga\\\\e as their reason that when said Ladd was\\nin No. 8, the district was kept in constant broil and dis-\\ncord, and when he was disannexed to No. 7, harmony\\nand unanimity prevailed. But the Town took compassion\\non ISIr. Ladd, and allowed him the opportunity of keeping\\nNo. 8 in constant- broil and discord, on conditit)n of\\nthe payment of fifteen dollars.\\nThe matter of a poor-farm first came up in town meeting\\nin 1831, but nothing definite Avas done till 1838, when a\\ncommittee was appointed to consider the question of buying\\na poor-farm. Subsequently a ])oor-farm was purchased, and\\nwas held I)y the Town till the county system was adopted in\\n1868. This form was the David ]\\\\Ierrill farm, situated\\nnorth of Poole brook west of the river road bridge which\\nspans that brook.\\nIn 1848 a committee of five was appointed to consider the\\ncost and expediency of building a town house. Up to\\nthat time town meetings were held at hotels or in churches at\\nthe north and S(Kith ends of the Town. This connnittee\\nreported at a subsequent meeting, and fifteen hundred dollars\\nwas voted for a town house. The place of location was to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0176.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "LATER TOWX RECORDS. 161\\nbe near the Union church, and a committee was appointed to\\nselect a site, John R. Reding being chairman of this com-\\nmittee. The house was occupied the first time in 1851.\\nThe building committee greatly exceeded the amount of\\nmoney appropriated for the town house, and there was a dis-\\nposition on the part of the Town not to accept the building.\\nThe matter, however, was finally adjusted by arbitration,\\nJohn R. Reding acting as agent for the Town. Another\\naccount of this aflfair is that pending the settlement of the\\ndispute between the Town and the builders, the selectmen,\\nwithout thinking of or knowing the consequences of their\\naction, posted a warrant for a town meeting on the door of\\nthe town house, and called the meeting at that place. This\\naction of the selectmen was a tacit acceptance of the building\\nat the hands of the committee, and made the Town liable\\nfor its cost. This house was a large stone building at the\\ncentre of the Town a little south of the Union church, and\\nwas used for town purposes till 1883, when it Avas voted to\\nbuild a new town house at North Haverhill in order to\\naccommodate the citizens of the Town more conveniently.\\nThis last building is a wood structure, neatly and well built,\\nand answers the purposes of the Town very well, though a\\nmore commodious edifice built of permanent material, with a\\nfire-proof vault, and of public architectural character, would\\nhave been more in keeping with the wealth and standing of\\nthe Town. The present building cost about two thousand\\ndollars. They also at a subsequent meeting Aoted twelve\\nhundred dollars for a vault to keep the records in, and which\\nhas since been built.\\nThe AVar of the Rebellion laid upon the Town heavy\\nburdens in men and money. The first money api)ropriated\\nfor war purposes was five hundred for soldiers families this\\nwas in 1861. In the following year eight thousand dollars\\nwas voted for bounties. There were two votes of money for\\nbounties in 1863, one of ten thoiisand dollars and the other", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0177.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "162 HiSTOKY OF iiavp:khill.\\nof fourteen thousand dollars. The large sums voted in the\\nyear following for the enlistment of soldiers, shows how\\nreluctant those Avere who were lial)le to do military duty,\\nto respond to the country s call without the stimulus of\\ntempting bounties, for in this year the extraordinary sum of\\nforty-five thousand dollars was voted for this purpose, making\\na total during the four years of the war for bonnties and\\nsoldiers families of seventy-seven thousand nine hundred\\ndollars. In 1864 the Town voted to fund the floatinjj: debt\\nin a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. The entire\\ndebt of the Town, or sixty-five thousand dollars of it, was\\nfunded to be paid in five, ten, fifteen, and twenty years,\\nand a sinking fund was provided to meet these obligations at\\nmaturity. The first jmyment of the funded debt was in\\n1875, the next 1880, and the third in 1885. The debt\\nreached its highest figures in 1870, and the Town was\\nentirely free from debt in 1885.\\nIn the trying struggle of the nation for integrity and\\npreservation, the Town pursued a })atriotic and liberal policy.\\nShe furnished her full quota of troops at every call, and\\nspared no means to put her sons into the field. Those who\\nwent forth to danger, hardship, and death, have been grate-\\nfully remembered by the Town, and the stigma should never\\nrest upon her fair fame that any of those who periled their\\nlives for the nation, should ever through old age or infirmity\\nbe allowed to come to want. The Town also owes it to her-\\nself may I be permitted to make the suggestion to erect\\na soldiers monument at some connnanding point, on which\\nshould be inscribed the names of all soldiers who fought for\\ntheir country from the Vsur of the KcAolution to the AA ar for\\nthe Union inclusive. The sum of twenty-five hundred or three\\nthousand dollars for such a monument would perpetuate to\\ncoming generations the memory and deeds not only of those\\nwho won our liberties, but also of those wdio were the\\npreservers of our goodly heritage. The time of the dedica-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0178.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "LATER TOWN KECOIMXS. 1()3\\ntion of siieli a monument mi i;lit he fitly in;i(le the oecasion\\nof a grand gathering of the sons and daiigliters of the Town\\nfrom far and near, a revi\\\\al of patriotic- feeling and fraternal\\ngood-will amongst all her citizens, and a deeper sense of\\nthe obligation of each one to the good of the country. Su(!h\\nan event would be an honor to her historic record and her\\nnoble founders.\\nIn all these years there have been some quite warm con-\\ntests when party feeling ran high and when good neighborly\\nrelationships were at times strained but generally these\\nearnest contests for political supremacy were waged in good\\npart, and when they were over they left little or no rankling\\nbehind. The Town has been held in turn by Jeffersonian\\nRepublicans, Federalists, Whigs, Democrats, Republicans,\\nand in the main has been well managed in its public affairs.\\nIn the earlier history of the Town men of imquestioned\\ncharacter and ability were as a rule called to official trust and\\nposition but a change has come in, and now there is danger\\nthat almost every one is tempted to think himself qualified\\nto manage the concerns of the Town. As a consequence\\nincompetency and assurance sometimes take the ])lacc of\\nmerit and capacity for public affairs.\\nA long contest in town meeting occurred in 1871). It was\\nchiefly for political control, and some warm blood was stirred\\nup on this occasion. This was the time when the Green-\\nbackers came into existence, and although not very munerous\\nthey were still strong enough to hold the bahuice of power\\nin many places. This Avas the case in HaAcrhill, and as a\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2((usequence they made terms for the offices to suit them-\\nselves. Over these the contest was waged for six successive\\ndays before the matter was ended. This contest served the\\noccasion for some smart and s})i( y s[)eaking, and it was said\\nthat soiled linen was freely aired. l ut the struggle\\nended in good nature, and soon })assed out ot the minds of\\nmost. Alfs well that ends well.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0179.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "164\\nHISTOKY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nTo the honor and o-ood name of the Town it ouo-ht to be\\nsaid that greater order and quiet has prevailed in later years\\nin town meeting than in former times. This is no more than\\nis due the time and place when every citizen is called upon to\\nexercise his highest and most sacred privilege and trust.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0180.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nHAVERHILL IX THE REVOLUTIOX,\\nProminence in the Revolution\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geographical Position Able Leaders Compact\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCohos well known to Enemj Col. Johnston s Letter Forts in the Upper\\nCohos Rangers at Haverhill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haverhill the Rendezvous for Troops and Scout-\\ning Parties Character of the Ranger\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haverhill in constant Communication\\nwith Exeter and the Xortliern Army Col. Wyman s Regiment Four Stock-\\nades Alarm from Indians in 177(i Retreat of our Army from St. Johns Great\\nconsternation at Cohos A Second Alarm in 1777 Again after the fall of Ticon-\\nderoga Military Road from Cohos to St. Johns\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Block Houses \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Alarm\\nof 1780 Town Authorities wide-awake Frequent votes of Powder, Lead and\\nFire-arms Etlicient Committee of Safety Men Conferences with other Towns\\nVigilant eyes on Home-enemies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Conspiracy of Col. Porter and others\\nStrong feeling Persons who were obnoxious to the British Rev. Peter Powers\\nCol. Johnson captured\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gen. Bailey s Escape Dea. Elkius Alarm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Quotas\\nof Beef and Flour Transportation of Grain from Cohos prohibited Money-\\nPatriots Disastrous efl ects of the War Rapid increase of Town Expenses\\nSale of Rights Decrease of Population during the War.\\nIn the stirring events of the Revohition Haverhill took a\\nconspicuous part. Her citizens were generally full of [)atri-\\notic zeal and enthusiasm for the cause of freedom, and\\nresponded Avith promptness and brave hearts to the calls of\\ntheir country. Some of the most eminent citizens held hon-\\norable rank in the patriot army. Her prominence in the\\ngreat struggle for independence was due to several causes\\npartly on account of the geographical position of the Town,\\nand partlv also to the fact that amongst her citizens were\\nthose who had taken active part in the French and Indian\\nWar, and being men of ability and character they were\\nespecially well qualified to assume im[)ortant ])arts in tiic new\\ndrama that was opening. Then, too, being the most popu-\\nlous town north of No. 4, she was able to send a large\\nquota into the service of the country.\\nBy the kindness of Gen. A. Harleigh Hill, who wrote\\nthe history of Groton, Vt., I give the following document\\nwhich presents in a very vivid light the war-like atmosphere\\nthat prevailed in Haverhill and in the neighboring towns at", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0181.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "l(i() HISTORY OF HAYEKHILL.\\nthe beg inning of the Kevohition, and which extendetl\\nthrough to the close of that struggle\\nHaverhill, May 2d, 1775.\\nWe, the subscribers, do soleinnlj^ declare by all the sacred ties of\\nhonor and relij^ion, that we will act at all times against all illegal and\\nunconstitutional impositions and acts of Parliament, made and en-\\nacted against the New England governments and the continent of\\nEnglish Xorth America. And we do believe that shutting up the port\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of Boston, Quebec bill, and sundry other bills and acts, to be illegal\\nand unconstitutional, and also the declaration wherein the Xew Eng-\\nland governments are declared in a state of rebellion, etc., are uncon-\\nstitutional and unjust; and we do engage to stand in opposition to all\\nforce come or coming against us, by order of the present rainistrj\\nfor supporting of the present measures, while our lives and fortunes\\nlast, or until those notorious unconstitutional acts are repealed and\\nthe American Colonies re-established in the privileges due to them as\\nEnglish subjects.\\nAt a meeting of the committee of the several towns. Voted for\\nLime [Lyme], Lieut. Charles Nelson; from Orford, Daniel Tillestou,\\nEsq. from Piermont, Lieut. Jona. Chandler, Lieut. John Weed from\\nHaverhill, James Bayley, Simeon Goodwin, Timo. Brown [Barron?],\\nand Charles Johnston; from Batli, Timothy Bedel, Esq., Capt. Oliver\\nSanders, William Eastman; from Gunthwen [Lisbon], Mr. John\\nYoung from Lancaster, Capt. Edward Bucknam from Northum-\\nberland, Joseph Peverly, Esq. Convened at the house of Lieut.\\nJoseph Hutehins, iim-holder of Haverhill, on Tuesday, the 2d daj of\\nMay instant, passed the following votes\\nFirst Chose Timo. Bedel chairman.\\nSecond Chose Charles Johnston clerk.\\nVoted Daniel Tilleston, Ebenezer Green, and Lieut. Charles Nelson,\\nbe a connnittee for Lime [Lyme] and Orford, to send men to Canada if\\nneed be.\\nVoted Lieut. Jonathan Chandler, Lieut. Jolin Weed, Lieut. Joseph\\nHutehins, Lieut. Ezekiel Ladd, and Charles Johnston, to be a connnit-\\ntee to send a scouting party^ to Canada, or elsewhere, as they shall\\nthink proper.\\nVoted; Captain Oliver Sanders, Mr. Nathaniel Hovey, Mr. John\\nYoung, Capt. Edward Bucknam, Joseph Peverlj^ Esq., be a connnit-\\ntee to send scouting partj to Canada or elsewhere as they shall think\\nproper.\\nVoted That the several towns in this county, within this regi-\\nment, shall choose their officers, namely captain, lieutenant and\\nensign, annually.\\nChose Timothj Bedel to be colonel of this regiment.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0182.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "KEVOLUTIOXAUV rEIMOI). 1()7\\nChose Charles Jolmston to be lieutonant-eoloiiel.\\nChose Jonathan Childs 1st major.\\nCliose James Bayley id major.\\nChose .Simeon Goodwin adjutant.\\nChose John Young quartermaster.\\nChose Samuel Hale, Esq., to be the surgeon of the regiment.\\nVoted; To adjourn this meeting until to-morrow morning at eight\\no clock.\\nMet on [according to] adjournment at time and place.\\nVoted; That tlie officers tliat shall be [appointed] b.y the several\\ntowns, see that their respective companies be equipped with arms and\\nanmiunition as soon as may be.\\nVoted; That the committee fi-om the several towns are empowered\\nto call the company together in those towns where there are no\\nofficers, in order lor the choice of officers.\\nVoted; That this committee do adjudge it absoluteljMiecessary as\\nrepresentatives for each particular town, that each and every person,\\nbelonging to our said towns do put themselves under command, and\\nsubn)it themselves unto such commanding officers as is and shall be\\nchosen by this committee, and each particular town.\\nVoted That a true cojjy of the proceedings of this committee be\\ntransmitted by the clerk of this committee unto the honorable\\ncommittee appointed bj^ the Provincial congress to be convened at\\nExeter on the seventeenth day of May, instant.\\nA^oted; That Ezekiel Ladd be a delegate to represent this commit-\\ntee in the Provincial congress.\\nVoted; To adjourn the meeting unto the first Tuesday in June\\nnext, unless the chairman think it necessary to meet before.\\nCharles Johnston, Clerk.\\nThe Colio.s ComitrN was well known to the enemy thi onii li\\nthe Freneli War. and being, as it were, the door-way of\\nentrance from the nortli to eastern New England, Ilaverliill\\nwas constantly in danger of ix ing attacked hy forces fi-om\\nCanada. The importance, therefore, of holding the Cohos\\nCountry was early seen, and was set forth in a letter from\\nCol. Charles Johnston to the New Hampshire congress June,\\n1775 Now, gentlemen, as to the situation of these parts,\\nhow near the borders of the enemy we are, everyone knows\\nAvho is acquainted with the boundaries of oiu* own Province.\\nAs to the position of di fence, we are in want of l)oth arms\\nand annnnnition, and innc not a suHicient nnmbci of men to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0183.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "168 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ndefend our frontiers without some assistance frojn the lower\\ntowns. The committee of safety at Exeter at once directed\\nCol. Bedel to proceed to Upper Cohos and erect a garri-\\nson at Nortliumbcrland, and to assist in building\\ngarrisons in such other places on the frontier as you [he]\\nshall judge most necessary.\\nOn this account troops known as rangers were early\\nstationed at Haverhill and in the Upper Cohos, also at New-\\nbury, and Morctown [Bradford], Yt., to keep a sharp look-\\nout toward the north and west. At one time two hundred\\nand fifty troops were ordered to Newbury. Col. Bedel was\\nin connnand of the first company of rangers in this section\\nin 1775, and from tliat time on to the close of the war\\nHaverhill was made a rendezvous of troops.\\nIn 17 7() the Provincial congress at Exeter voted that\\nthere be but one place of rendezvous in tliis [New Hamp-\\nshire] colony for the troops destined to Canada, and that it\\nbe at Haverhill on the Connecticut river. And in the same\\nyear Col. John Hurd was authorized to fix ofll^ all the\\ncompanies from Cohos [Haverhill] with ten da^s j)ro-\\nvisions.\\nAccordingly, from here scouting })arties were constantly\\nsent out towards St. Johns and Lake Cham])lain to ascertain\\nthe number and position of the enemy, and tliey often\\nbrought in s})ies and deserters in their long and swift\\nmarches.\\nThese scouting parties or rangers were composed of men\\nof great daring and bravery, who shunned no danger if need\\nbe, and declined no service however perilous and exacting.\\nThey adopted the Indian mode of warfare, and were trained\\nto wonderfully quick marches and secret movements. It was\\ntheir duty to ascertain the condition and intentions of the\\nenemy, and watch his motions. They hung upon his skirts\\nand harrassed his scouts, lying in ambush for days along\\nIndian trails to administer to the savages in the cnemv s ser-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0184.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "REVOLITIOXAKY I ERIOI). 169\\nvice the same cruel warfare which these savarres emphn cd.\\nThey swam swoHen streams, crept steahliily throui^ h tanj ;le(l\\nundergrowth, scak d ru i red mountains, and wa(U d through,\\ndangerous swamps, in order to aeconiphsli their purpose.\\nHaverhill, through her committee of safety was in daily\\nconnnunication with the Provincial congress at Exeter and the\\npatriot army acting against Canada. The Town was more\\nor less in constant alarm from invasion from Canada. In.\\nJune, 1771), a regiment under command of Col. Isaac\\nAA ynian of Keene was ordered to rendezvous at Haverhill\\non the Connecticut. Four stockade forts were l)uilt in 177(\\nto secure the peo[)le against sudden attacks. Two of these\\nwere at the Corner, and two at tiie Plain. One at the\\nCorner was built around the Col. Johnston place, and the\\nother was on Ladd street. On one occasion during this year\\nthe people north of Haverhill were gathered into these stock-\\nades in fear of an attack from the Indians. There was also\\nabout the same time great alarm from an antici])ated invasion\\nfrom Canada after our army retreated from St. Johns. The\\nconnuittces of safety of Ha\\\\-crhill and Xewhury sent messen-\\ngers to headquarters in Massachusetts and New Hamjjshire\\nto inform the authorities of the dangerous situation these\\nparts were in, and unless innnediately su})ported, the inhab-\\nitants would be compelled to aljandon this door-way to\\nCanada. Arms and ammunition were loudly called for, and\\nthe utmost anxiety })revailcd for the safety of Cohos.\\nIn Marcli, 1777, Cohos was threatened a second time\\nby an Indian invasion, and Col. Bedel was ordered by (len.\\nSchuyler to Haverhill to observe their motions, and get\\nwhat intelligence he could alxmt affairs in Canada. Through\\na scout sent to St, Francis it was learned that a large body\\nof Indians had engaged with the Ihitish troops, and that it\\nwas thought an early attack Avould be made upon Cohos.\\nCol. Bedel asked for inunediate assistance in ordei to guard\\nthis section from (le\\\\astation.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0185.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "170 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\n]n the .same vear. after the fall of Tieoiiderooa, the Cohos\\nCountrv was again thrown into the greatest consternation,\\nand was lionrly expecting- an attack from the victorious\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2enemy. Col. Hurd wrote from Haverhill, July 21, 1777, to\\nGov. AVeai e at Exeter Now we may most surelv expect\\na visit from the enemy and Gen. Bailey, of same date,\\nsays Sundry expresses have arrived from Windsor in-\\nforming of the enemies passing toward Xo. 4 and Cohos.\\nIn order to facilitate the easy and rapid movement of\\ntroops from Haverhill in the direction of St. Johns, whilst\\nour army was operating against Canada, a military road A\\\\as\\nbegun from the Cohos Country and was huilt as far as\\nPeacham, Vt., and various points on the line wei e garri-\\nsoned. The forts were called block houses, and were\\nsafe against an enemy carrying only small arms. Tin-; road\\nwas begun by Gen. Bailey in 177(), and Avas intended to\\nextend to St. Johns, but after the surrender of Biu goyne\\nthe war was transferred chiefly to the South. Afterwards,\\nin 1771), the road Avas com[)leted by Col. Moses Hazen to\\nMontgomery, Yt., about fii ty miles beyond Peacham, and\\nthe gap in the Green jVIountains through Avhich it passed is\\ncalled Hazen s Gap, and the road Avas known by his name.\\nCol. Haven s regiment Avas stationed along this road, and the\\nprincipal points Avere Haverhill and Peacham.\\nIn 1780 there Avas again general alarm in regard to the\\nsafety of the Cohos Country. A connnittee Avas called at\\nDresden [Dartmouth College] to consult Avhat is best to\\nbe done for the 2)rotecti()n of these frontiers. Gen. Bailey\\nof NcAvljiuy wrote to Goa Weare of Ncav Hampshire that\\nthe British forces Avere strongly })osted at Crown Point and\\non Onion riAcr, and an immediate attack on Cohos Avas\\nexpected. I Avish, he Avrites, you Avould give orders\\nthat the mightiest regiment in your state [avouIcI] come, so\\none [avc] might be in readiness. And again later This\\nfrontier is the onh one for five hundred miles AACst remainine:", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0186.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONAKV I EIilOI). 171\\n[exposed]. It is near tlie enemy. Jt is of iTeat importance\\nto you \\\\v IIanij)sliire] and the otlier New Enu land\\nstates.\\nThe T(^\\\\vn records during this period show that tlie author-\\nities and tlie people wei e wide-awake to tlie urgent de-\\nmands of the liour. Frequent votes are found for powder,\\nlead and fire-arms for the piu pose of arming the people and\\nfurnishing them with the means of defense. The spirit of\\nthe camp breathes all through these records from the begin-\\nning of the war till its close. As early as 1774 \u00c2\u00a320 were\\nvoted for ammunition for Town protection and at a special\\nmeeting in the following year it was voted that a committee\\nbe chosen to see that all the results of the Continental\\nCongress are duly observed in said Town [Haverhill].\\nIt was also voted to appropriate \u00c2\u00a310 to Capt. Ebenezer\\nSanborn for fetching 200 pounds of ball and 50 pounds of\\npowder and a quantity of flint from Exeter. Other ap[)ro-\\npriations of money were made from time to time for\\nfetching up ammunition for the Town, for running 90\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0weight of lead, ftu gunpowder for the Town, for the\\npayment of scouting parties and for furnishing horses for the\\nuse of the same. The Town also voted supplies to the\\nfamilies of those who were serving in the army.\\nVarious sums of money, too, were paid to the Town by\\norder of the Provincial Congress for supplies of ammuni-\\ntion and provisions to the troops stationed at Haverhill. In\\n1781 Timothy Barron received certain moneys for troops,\\n\u00c2\u00a349 for beef; and in the same year Col. Johnston was paid\\n\u00c2\u00a3363 for beef. In 1782 100 ])ounds powder, 200 pounds\\nballs, 300 flints and S2 pounds beef were furnished soldiers\\nat Haverhill.\\nDuring all this time energetic and able men were a[)i)oint-\\ned a connnittee of safety for the Town, whose duty it was to\\ncomnuuiieate with the provincial connnittee of safety at Ex-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0187.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "172 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\neter. Also special conferences were appointed to devise\\nways and means for the defence of the frontier.\\nIn 1777 the Town chose a committee to meet a com-\\nmittee of the several towns at Lebanon. The object of this\\nmeeting we learn in a subsequent town meeting, when 33\\nshillings were voted to Capt. AVesson, James Bailey and\\nDea. Abbott for the journey to Lebanon to converse with\\na committee sent by the General Court. The town com-\\nmittee of safety had the general direction of the scouting\\nparties, and to this committee the scouts reported on their re-\\nturn from their beats. Here were sent arms and ammuni-\\ntion for distribution to the troops coming and going.\\nOur forefathers in these stirring times were also vigilant\\nin regard to those whose sympathies were with the mother\\ncountry. We read of votes in town meeting of \u00c2\u00a39 to\\nDaniel Stevens for committing Edward Picket to jail as an\\nenemy to his country, and of \u00c2\u00a35 for warning five ])ersons\\nout of Town. Some of the leading men of the Town were\\nin a conspiracy to lietray tlie Cohos Country to the enemy.\\nCol. Hurd, Aug. 7, 177(), writes to Gov. Weare In\\nmy last I liinted to you that we had our eyes upon\\nthose persons who were })ropagating the notion of the expe-\\ndiency of sending into Canada for protection. The leading\\npersons in this plot Avere Col. Porter, Col. Taplin of New-\\nbury, Jacob ^yeeks of Bath, and Jacob Fowler of Newbury.\\nThe plan was divulged by a young Indian hunter, and Col.\\nPorter was secured and sent to Exeter for trial. It would\\nseem that the ])lot was known to the enemy in New York,\\nand those in Haverhill and vicinity who were in the conspir-\\nacy were in communication with })ersons in New York, and\\nwere only waiting for news from that ])oiut to make the\\nstrike. The i)arty which m as to go to Canada was to set out\\nunder the })rctence of moose hunting, and they were to\\nguide Burgoyne and his troops into the Cohos Coimtry, and\\naid him in taking possession of it.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0188.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIOXARY PERIOD. 173\\nThe feeling between this chiss and tlie patriots ran very\\nhigh, so that neighbors would not speak Avith each other.\\nIn a letter to the committee of safety at Exeter, 1777, the\\nconspirators weve referred to in this vigorous language\\nWe are entirely laid open to the sudden attack of our\\nBritish and savage enemy, and the more infernal race of\\nenemies amongst ourselves, who are secretly and unweariedly\\nplotting our destruction.\\nThere were those in Haverhill and Xewbury who had be-\\ncome especially obnoxious to the British authorities on\\naccount of their loyalty to the patriot cause. Rev. Peter\\nPowers, who came early from the Vermont side of the river\\nto Haverhill for safety, and Col. Johnson, who had taken an\\nactive and prominent part in the struggle, were in constant\\ndanger of their lives. Col. Johnson was captured in 1781\\nand cai-ried to Canada, and Gen. Bailey a year later only\\nescaped capture by a timely warning, and by crossing the\\nriver to Haverhill, Avhich on account of its position east of\\nthe river, was less exposed to sudden attacks of scouting par-\\nties from Canada.* Col. Johnson was captured at Peacham,\\nYt.. in the house of Dea. Elkins, and after the scoutins:\\nA British and Indian scout had come into the neighborhood for\\nthe purpose of capturing Gen. Bailey, and were lying in ambush\\nupon the heights back of Newbury. Col. Johnson, who was cap-\\ntured the year before, was now at home on parole, and according to\\nthe conditions of his parole he was under the directions of the British\\nofHcers. The officer in command of the scouting party signaled Col.\\nJohnson to come to their hiding place, which he did, and he was\\ninformed of their intention to capture Gen. Bailey in the evening.\\nJohnson was in great perplexity about his friend, but at last resolved\\nto inform Gen. Bailey of his danger. He wrote on a slip of paper\\nThe Philistines be upon thee, Sampson, and gave it to a trusty\\nperson who was to cross the meadow where Gen. Bailey was plowing,\\ndrop the slip as he passed near the General, and go on to the river.\\nAVhen Gen. Bailey came to the slip he carelessly picked it up and\\nread it, and then plowing around once or twice, said to his boj S,\\nTake care of yourselves, whilst he crossed the river to Ilaverliill.\\nThe attack was made that night.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0189.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "74 HISTOltY OF HAVERHILL.\\nparty had carried him to their camp, Dea. Elkins sent\\nan alarm to Gen. Bailey and to the inhabitant.s of Cohos that\\nthe British and Indians were on their way to the Connecticut\\nriver, and were threatening to burn the settlement at Cohos.\\nI copy Dea. Elkins letter, the original of which is in the\\npossession of the Historical Society of Vermont, and was\\nfoiuid amongst Gov. AVeare s papers in 1843. The John-\\nson mentioned in the letter was Col. Thomas Johnson of\\nNewbury, and must not be confounded with Col. Charles\\nJohnston of Haverhill\\nPeacham, 9 March, 1781.\\nSir AVe were surprised yesterday morning, about three hours be-\\nfore day, by four Tories the officer s name was Patterson one was\\nSmith, and two Crosses, who came in when we were all in a sound\\nsleep; had Daniel Davis for a guide. They called us all up, and told\\nus we were their prisoners, and ordered lines to bind us, but did\\nnot. They took Mr. Johnson, Mr. Page and ray two sons. They told\\nme they had burnt the upper block house, and that they had four or\\nfive hundred at the lower block house and at Mr. Davis and that\\nthere was another party at Onion Kiver, fifteen hundred in the\\nwhole, and that Cohos would be burnt the night following and that\\nthe road between my house and Cohos was waylaid, and that Mr.\\nBailey s fort had surrendered, and that I must keep clear or else\\nmyself and family would be killed by the savages. Daniel Davis\\nsaid that both their houses were full of men, and a great number\\nof Indians camping abroad. This is what account I can give.\\nJonathan Elkins.\\nTo Gen. Bailey or the inliabitants of Cohos.\\n(A true copy)\\nDuring these years of Revolutionary struggle the commit-\\ntees of safety in the several towns were directed to furnish\\ntheir quota of beef and flour for the troops in the field.\\nHaverhill with her rich and extensi\\\\e meadows was able to\\ndo much in this line. This was then a great wheat-growins:\\nsection, hundreds and thousands of bushels being harvested\\nannually. In 1780 a meeting was called to consult upon\\nmeasures to be taken about the transportation of grain from\\nthis place, [Haverhill,] and then the Town voted to take\\nefl cient measures to stop all the grain in said Town for the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0190.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "IJEA OLUTIOXAin I KIMOI). 175\\nuse of the public. Gen. Bailey was directed in 17711 hy\\nthe General Court to \\\\r.xy to C ol. Charles Johnston $2400\\nwhich he has in his hands, for f(\u00c2\u00bbrage su])])]icd on the fai ui\\nof John Fisher.\\nIt is also handed down in tradition that there were those\\nin this section, whether Haverhill made any contribution to\\nthe enter[)rising- company does not exactly appear, who Avere\\nwilling- to turn a ])enny in furnishing beef without too close\\na scrutiny as to where it was going or who n)ight eat it. In\\na quiet Avay cattle were brought from secluded pastures,\\nthrough the woods, and then after nightfall they were driven\\nto the mouth of the Jliverian, and at an opportune time, of\\nwhich these patriots were apprised, they swam the cattle\\nacross the Connecticut river and delivered them to British\\nguards who were in waiting to drive them to the enemies\\nlines in Canada.\\nThe disastrous effects of the Ivevolutionarv war are seen in\\nthe rai)i(l apparent increase of town expenses. In 176(5 the\\namount voted for this purpose was \u00c2\u00a310, whilst in 1780 it\\nrose to \u00c2\u00a31880, 10s,, and in the year following |34,150 was\\nvoted for the Town s quota of beef. The ti oubled state\\nof the settlement is also indicated in a vote in 1780 to re-\\nlease certain parties from fulfilling contracts for building\\nmills on account of the difficult times, and at the close of\\nthe lievolution there was a sale of original and other rights\\nbelonging to persons who were embarrassed. These rights\\nnumbered almost fifty. Population also increased very\\nslowly during this period, and at one time actually decreased.\\nIn 1773 the j)opulation of the Town was 387, whilst in\\n1775 it was only 3Go, many persons removing to more\\nsafe and central parts of the state, as the cloud of war\\nbegan to threaten. This was especially the case of such as\\nwere not land-owners. But after the close of the Revolu-\\ntion j)opulation again rapidly increased, and the Town be-\\ncame one of the most prosperous ones in the state.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0191.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XL\\nENTERPRISES AND BUSINESS.\\nFirst Saw-mill and Grist-mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 General Progress\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Liberal Offer for Blacksmith\\nFirst Saw-mill and Grist-mill at Hosmer Brook\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Second Saw-mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Other Mills\\nFulling Jlill- Side Light\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Flax Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Water Power\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rafting Lumbei-- First\\nTannery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cloth and Carding Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Potash Factory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Paper Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Other Mills\\nand Shops\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pulp Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Swasey Mills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Other Factories and Shops\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Woodsville\\nLumber Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Marble Works\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Other Enterprises A. F. Pike Manufacturing\\nCo. Stores and other business at Corner, North Haverhill, East Haverhill, Pike\\nStation, Woodsville.\\nThe Proprietors of the new settlement at Cohos went\\npromptly and vigorously to work to develop the resources of\\nthe country, and used diligently the facilities and means at\\nhand for this purpose. According to an early entry in the\\nPro})rietors records, 1764, Haverhill and Xewbury had\\njoined in interest in a ct)mmon ownership of some mills\\nwhich were situated on Poole brook. These mills were lo-\\ncated on the sites or prtvileges which were exempted when\\nCapt. Hazen was allowed to select his house and meadow\\nlots before any of the other proprietors drew theirs, and were\\nthe two mills which Hazen erected in the spring of 1762\\nwhen he came to Haverhill with his workmen. The joint\\nownership of these mills by the two Towns or Proprietors\\nwas of short duration, as within a year after their erection\\nthey were otlbred at public sale, March 13, 1764, agree-\\nable to the vote of the Towns of Haverhill and Newbury,\\nand were bid oiF by Hezekiah Hutchins for the sum of |520.\\nThis sale took place, no doubt, at Plaistow, as the date of\\nsale is the same as that of the town meeting which was held\\nat Plaistow, March 13, 17()4. Something, however, seems\\nto have been wrong about the matter, and the sale was ad-\\njourned to April 2d at Hampstead, when said mills were\\nset up anew, and bid off by Jesse Johnson, John Hazen\\nThis vote, although called a vote of the two Towns, was undoubt-\\nedly a Proprietors* vote.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0192.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS. 177\\nand Jacob Bailey for $297, After, as we are informed by\\nthe Proprietors clerk, very many bids were made.\\nThe general prosperity and the material interests of the\\nsettlement were also diligently looked after by the Proprie-\\ntors in another way. They offered liberal inducements to\\nindustry and capital in order to develop the resources of the\\nTown, and to turn its great natural advantages to speedy\\nprofit and usefulness. William Wheeler was voted, 1764,\\nOne right of land on condition that he would follow\\nthe business of blacksmithing for ten years, or some\\none else for him. And he was required to work for the\\npeople of Haverhill before any others, and sufficient\\nbonds were demanded of him as a guarantee that he would\\ncarry out his part of the contract. The Town s blacksmith\\nwas not given much time to turn around in, as he was to\\nbegin work on or before November of the same year, so that\\nhe had only about fifteen days in which to set up shop.\\nThis shop was at the Plain or Ox Bow.\\nThe Proprietors also had a meeting, 1764, and voted to\\ngive to Timothy Bedel and Elisha Lock the whole privi-\\nlege of the lower falls on Hosmer brook,* together with the\\nAvhole lands laid out for said privilege, provided they com-\\nplete two mills by the 20th of Xovember, 1765, or within a\\nyear. One of these mills was to be a saw-mill and the\\nother a grist-mill.\\nA perpetual privilege was given, 1768, to build a saw-\\nmill on one-half the land laid out for that purpose on Hos-\\nmer s brook, on condition that the owner should put up a\\nmill fit to saw boards by the 4th day of April, 17(J1) and\\nfor a term of five years he wjis to deliver 400 of boards\\nout of a 1000 to the man that draws the logs, after which\\nhe was to deliver one-half of the boards. Johnston\\nSanders were granted a privilege for a saw-mill at the Brook\\nin 1772, and in the following year the 100 acre lot, reserved\\n*Tliis was the name of the Oliveriau brook in earlj- times.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0193.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\non Hazen s (Poole) bi-ook for mill privilege, was voted to\\nJohn Fisher, Esq., on condition that he would build a grist-\\nmill and saw-mill, and would saw for half the boards for the\\nProprietors and keep the mill in good repair. Also, in the\\nsame year a privilege for a grist-mill and saw-mill was grant-\\ned Reuben Foster at the falls on Oliverian brook. This is\\nthe first mention of the Brook by that name in the records.\\nHere is a side light thrown upon the character of our fore-\\nfathers. They were practical and thorough men. A privi-\\nleo-e was wanted in 1779 to build a fullinc: mill, on con-\\nditi(m that the mill was to be put up to do work in six\\nmonths, and to do it in a workmanlike manner. Joseph\\nPearson was the man that pitched for this mill, the site\\nof which was designated as at the falls about three rods\\nabove the great bridge, and opposite a little island. A plan\\nof this privilege is found in Proprietors records. We also\\nlearn that a flax mill was erected at Hosmcr falls as\\nearly as 1779, as in a gi-ant of that year to Timothy Bedel,\\ngiving him the privilege of building two mills one of these\\nwas to be opposite the flax mill. Joseph Hutchins was\\nalso granted the same year a privilege to build a grist-mill on\\nHosmer brook.\\nThe Brook was from the first a busy place. Few clear-\\nings had been made at the beginning of the present century\\nalong the Oliverian, and its heavily-shaded banks in summer\\nshielded it against rapid evaporation, whilst the densely\\nwooded country served to hold in store the Avater-fidl. Asa\\nconsequence the water-power at the Brook was ample and\\nsteady. Here for many years Capt. Pearson, and afterward\\nhis son, Isaac, manufactured lumber and carried on milling.\\nThe manufiicture of lumber was easy in those days, as the\\nforests came close home to the mills. At first the logs were\\nrun down the Connecticut river, but in later years, from the\\nearly part of the present century, the lumber was sent in rafts\\nafter the river was equipped with a series of locks around the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0194.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS. 171\\nfalls. At an early date Samuel Brooks ran an oil factory at\\nthe Brook, and Richard Gookin made carding machiuery.\\nLater, Mr. Herbert also manufactured machinery. Ezekiel\\nLadd was the owner of a tannery in tlie last century, which\\nAvas continued by others to a recent date. Cloth and carding\\nmills were early established, and later the Bell potash factory\\ndid an extensive business. Uriel Ward was a hatter and quite\\na military man. Blumly Sturtevant ran a woolen mill.\\nPaper making- was begun by Hutchins Co., and continued\\nby the Haverhill Paper Co., till it passed into the hands of\\nP. F. Litchfield. Also, Joshua Blaisdell manufactured\\nshoes, with George W. ]Miner as head-workman. At pres-\\nent A. AY. Lyman runs the old Pearson grist-mill. Michael\\nCarleton has a carriage and repair shop, John L. Cook a\\nshingle and cider mill, and Pobert Jenkins, now a dealer in\\ncarriages, was formerly in the marble business. Archibald s\\nmarble works are here. Jonathan Nichols also manufactured\\ncarriages. Some fifteen years ago the Pulp Mill was built,\\nbut it was never successfully operated, and has recently\\npassed into the hands of P. F. Litchfield, who intends to\\nuse the lower part for a paper-mill, and has oft^ered induce-\\nments to the money-men of Haverhill to put into the two up-\\nper floors machinery for the manufacture of woolens, but the\\noflPer has not been accepted.\\nAlong the Oliverian, as clearings opened, saw-mills were\\nbuilt at several places, the first at a point now called Pike\\nStation, the only one at the present time in operation on the\\nOliverian above Brook village. The water-power is un-\\ncertain and in dry seasons inadequate for continuous work.\\nHowever, it is said that at v\u00c2\u00abry moderate expense a suf-\\nficient storage of water could be secured on the North Branch\\nto tide over the dry season and furnish ample supply for all\\nthe mills and shops on the Oliverian the new growth of\\nforest which is fast taking the place of the old that was cut\\naway in the earlier days of railroads, is increasing, it is", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0195.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "180 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthought, the steadiness of the water-power on the Oliverian,\\nso that in the course of years the okl-time water-power may\\nbe restored.\\nAt North Haverhill in early times, after the first saw-mill\\nand grist-mill were built by John Hazen, mills were operated\\nby Obadiah Swasey, chiefly in the manufacture of lumber, of\\nwhich large quantities were gotten out, as the plain at North\\nHaverhill was then covered with the finest of pines. This\\nlumber was mostly sent to Hartford, Conn. The old Swasey\\nsite is now occupied by J. G. Blood as a shingle and plan-\\ning mill. Here also are Sleeper Co. s bobbin mill, East-\\nman s carriage shop, Spencer s grist and flouring mill and\\nOetchell Co. s carriage manufactory. Mr. Sleeper is also\\nengaged in the manufacture of corn -planters.\\nWoodsville has always been a lumber point of consider-\\nable importance. It was first occupied by John L. Woods,\\nand since the incorporation of the Woodsville Lumber Co.,\\nlarge quantities of rough and dressed lumber have been\\nshipped from their plant. They do an extensive business in\\nlaths and clapboards. Smith s shovel-handle manufactory\\nwas here till 1 S78, when it was washed away by high water.\\nC C. Smart has a large brick-yard, and W. H. Hill s\\nmarble works are here.\\nIn addition to these business enterprises are the Jeflfers and\\nChase saw-mills. Bacon s carriage and wagon shop and Lewis\\nwood-pump shop. Few of these establishments are extensive\\nand they are so scattered over the Town as to make no great\\nshow, yet in the aggregate they do a large amount of busi-\\nness, and if concentrated at a single point would present\\nmuch outward activity.\\nBut there is one extensive plant in the Town that demands\\na more particular notice the A. F. Pike Manufacturing Co.,\\nwhich was organized in 1883, just sixty years after Isaac Pike\\nbegan the manufacture of wlietstones in Haverhill, and is\\nthe direct successor of A. F. Pike who continued the busi-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0196.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS. 181\\nness of his fiither from 18()0 to 1883. The company\\nconsists of A. F. Pike, E. B. Pike, Isaac Pike, Charles\\nJ. Pike, and Charles G. Smith. A. F. Pike is president\\nand general director, E. B. Pike is vice-president and haa\\nthe active management of the business outside the office,\\nIsaac Pike is treasurer and has the general oversight of the\\nmanufacturing at Pike Station, and Charles J. Pike is super-\\nintendent of the quarrying and cutting of the stone before\\nthey are taken to the mills to be ground. The capital of\\nthe company is seventy thousand dollars. They manufac-\\nture all kinds of scythe-stones and whetstones for sharpening\\nedge tools. Their principal quarries are in Haverhill, Pier-\\nmont, and Lisbon, and their ledges contain a stone which is-\\nbetter adapted, it is claimed, for sharpening scythes and edge\\ntools than anything else ever found. The stone is of a sharp^\\ngritty character, lying in rifts, and is broken out Avith the\\ngrain without impairing its strength, and makes a strong,\\ndurable sharpener, hard enough to cut any steel. These\\nwhetstones do not o-laze, the lavers beino; so thin that one\\nafter another wears off in using and a new, fresh surface is.\\nall the time exposed.\\nThe various kinds of whetstones and scythe-stones of thia\\ncompany are used in all parts of the United States and in.\\nCanada, and many car-loads are sent annually to Europe.\\nThe company also have quarries and mills in Vermont and\\nNew York, where they manufacture other grits of stone.\\nBesides these they receive and handle stones in large quanti-\\nties from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Arkansas, Nova Scotia,\\nEngland, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, and from other parts\\nof the world. They have their agents in New ork,\\nChicago, St. Louis and Baltimore. In their different (piar-\\nries and mills they employ a large force of workmen, and\\nare converting barren ledges into articles of indispensible\\nusefulness, which to them and to the Town of Haverhill are\\na constant source of revenue. Their business is annually", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0197.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "182 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2enlarging, and if capital, industry, energy, wise business\\nplans are I e warded with success, the A. F. Pike Manu-\\nfacturing Co. must stand at the front in this line of busi-\\nness. They are also largely interested in soap-stone both in\\nNew Hampshire and in A ermont.\\nStores were established in Haverhill as soon as roads\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2would permit the transportation of goods to the new settle-\\nment. This was not till about the close of the Revolution.\\nIn early times heavy goods were brought from No. 4 on the\\nice, and lighter articles found their way to Cohos on pack-\\nhorses. This continued till about 1790. From that date,\\nor perhaps a few years earlier, stores began to be introduced.\\nProbably the earliest store at the Corner was kept by Samuel\\nBrooks. Other merchants were the Barstow Bros., Stephen\\nAdams, Benjamin Merrill, Russell Kimball, Timothy K.\\nBlaisdell, Rix Cummings, S. F. Hook, William H. Page,\\nBailey Bros., Poor Westgate. Noah Davis kept a drug\\nstore about the beginning of the present century, and Mrs.\\nJoseph Bliss al)out the same time had a ladies store. The\\npresent drug store is kept by John W. Merrill, and Charles\\nN. Miner is jeweller. Henry Merrill preceded John W.\\nMerrill in tlie drug store, and also dealt in jewelry. The\\nearly jewellers were John Osgood and Henry Towle. The\\nformer also manufactured the old-fashioned high clocks.\\nMrs. M. D. Buzzell serves the ladies in bonnets and ftincy\\nsroods. Other business Georoe W. Leith is a merchant\\ntailor; James A. Page, harness maker; Edwin J. Facey\\ndeals in stoves and tinware as successor to L. B. Ham, and\\nprevious to that R. N. Brown was tinman, better known as\\nTinker Brown. Nathan H. Batchelder, manufactures\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0carriages and sleighs Moses B. Cai-penter has a wheel-\\nwright and repair shop John O. Gifford, carpenter and\\njoiner; W. R. Clark, repairer; W. E. Pike keeps a meat\\nmarket. The lawyers at the Corner are Geo. W. Cliapman,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0198.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS. 183\\nSainuel T. Page, A\\\\ illiam F. AVestgate. Tlie doctors,\\nSamuel P. Carbee, M. D. Carhce, Henry P. Watson.\\nAt the Brook the earliest merchants were John ^lontgom-\\nery, Bell Bros., afterwards Blaisdell Bros., Bailey Bros., A.\\nM. Bovven, W. H. Nelson. Also, quite early Mrs. Gookin\\nand ]\\\\Iiss Eliza Cross kept ladies stores later Mrs. Cook.\\nTlie present merchants are F. T. Kiernan Co., J. LeRoy\\nBell ]\\\\Iiss H. F. Morrison keeps fancy goods, and George\\nWhip})le is tailor.\\nAt Xorth Haverhill the merchants were John and Thomas\\nHall, Joshua Morse, the Hibbards, Caleb Webster, Morse\\nCelsey, Samuel B. liodgers, Joseph B. Cotton, W. H.\\nNelson, E. K. Weeks and at })resent, Morris E. Kimball,\\nN. C. Wright, C. H. Wetherbee and W. W. Millen.\\nThe merchants at East Haverhill were Wheeler Aiken,\\nDavis Abel, Arthur L. Page then later. Park Davis,\\nRichardson Merrill, G. W. Richardson, H. D. Gannett.\\nAt Pike Station, Isaac Pike was the first merchant, then\\nhis son A. F. Pike, Pike Davis, C. J. Ayer.\\nAt Woodsville the following have been or are now in\\nvarious branches of business.\\nJohn L. Wood, general merchandise; Edward Child,\\ngeneral merchandise; Ezra S. Kimball, general merchan-\\ndise John Hale, general merchandise for Hutchins\\nBuchanan C. M. Weeks, general merchandise Lewis\\nBarter, flour and grain C. B. Drake and G. S. Cummings,\\ndrugs and medicines A. H. J. Burton, general merchan-\\ndise E. B. Mann and G. S. C^unmings, drugs etc., AV. K.\\nWallace, jeweller S. L. Estabrook, groceries J. H. Cut-\\nting and Frank Smith, general merchandise E. B. Miller,\\ngroceries; A. II. Leighton and Q. A. Scott, clothing, boots\\nand shoes George Emery, tin shop and hardware H. E.\\nFletcher Co., flour and grain H. W. Ramsey and I. K.\\nGeorge, general merchandise Mrs. E. Battles, millinery\\nand fancy goods George A. Davison and Langdon Bailey,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0199.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "184\\nHISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nflour, grain, lime S. P. Stickney and T. W. Glover, gen-\\neral merchandise. Mulliken Davis, stoves, tin and hard-\\nware F. L. Moore, grain, coal, hair, cement.\\nOther business not mentioned Andrew Moulton, Dewey\\nYoung, house painters Ai AVilloughby, D. Mitchell,\\nmeat, provisions Chester Abbott, insurance George W.\\nLyons, Michael Stevens, masons Geo. A. Davison, western\\ntickets Geo. H. Newell, locksmith Jos. Martel, Kimball\\nMarshall, blacksmiths Joseph Willis, carriage and repairs\\nD. A. French, music teacher; T. H. Aulis, barber; L. E.\\nCollins, Woodsville Bottling Co., bottlers; AVoodsville\\nAqueduct Co. Page Shurtleff, lawyers C. li. Gibson,\\nO. D. Eastman, physicians.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0200.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nKOADS AXD BKIDGES.\\nRoads and Civilization First Roads little more than Bridle-patlis First Ox-teani\\nfrom Haverliill to I lyniouth Course of the Koad Road from Portsmouth to\\nCohos First mention of .Town Roads Road from the Plain, to Coventiy\\nline the Earliest Town Road Ingress to C^ohos A suggestive vote The Road\\nfi-om Piermont to Bath\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Along the side-hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Oliverian Road\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Highway\\nTaxes and Labor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Public Ferry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Count} Road\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Roads built before 1800\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Roads\\nextended and l)uilt as Population settled in eastern part of Town\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Character\\nof Roads Cohos Turnpike Corporators Improvement in Roads Room for\\nfurther Improvement Permanent material\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gra ties\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Road Engineers Rail-\\nroad Canal Bridges.\\nRoads are botli a sign and a necessity of civilization, ex-\\ncept where water-courses serve the purposes of roads. The\\nsavage uses only a trail which an8\\\\^ ers all his needs of travel\\nand transportation. His means of subsistence are either\\nnear at hand, or can be transported without roads to meet\\nthe limited necessities of his condition. But civilization has\\nnumerous demands, and draws her subsistence from near and\\nfar. Ancient Assyria had national highways reaching from\\none end of the empire to the other. Along these passed her\\nimmense traffic and war-chariots. Rome was like the centre\\nof a wheel, from which in every direction radiated her mag-\\nnificently-paved roads to all parts of her vast dominions.\\nOver these for centuries she marched her numerous legions\\nand by means of these she drew to herself the treasures and\\nproducts of remote provinces.\\nBefore the Revolutionary War there were few, if any,\\nroads in the Town that could be used except for horseback\\ntravel. Indeed, in the earlier years what were denominated\\nroads were little more than bridle-paths. Ingress into the\\nterritory was through unbroken forests, which were blazed\\nto indicate the direction of the path. Over these the pioneer\\nsettlers in winter-time dragged on sledges or carried on horse-\\nback at other seasons, the provisions antl whatever else was", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0201.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "186 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nnecessary for their living until land could be cleared and\\ncrops could be raised. Heavy goods were also brought from\\nNo. 4 on the ice. Judge Woodward and Mr. John Page re-\\nlated to Rev. Grant Powers how they, with others, dragged\\nfrom Concord on a sled the crank for a saw-mill for the new\\nsettlement in Cohos.\\nAccording to Mr. Powers, who had his information from\\npersons living at the time he wrote, the first ox-team that\\nwent through from Haverhill to Plymouth was some time\\nafter 1772, and the event excited a great deal of public\\ninterest. It was an expedition sent out by a company of\\npersons and was more like a construction party than an ox-\\nteam passing over a road already prepared. The people of\\nCohos had had little hope of a wagon-road being constructed\\nin the near future between these two points. Accordingly,\\nwhen the ox-team and the men in charge of it retiu ned to\\nHaverhill after accomplishing the trip to and from Plymouth,\\nthe citizens of Haverhill were so rejoiced at the event that\\nthey went out to meet them, and the men in charge of the\\nteam were conducted to their homes in state, whilst the oxen\\nwere rewarded with an extra feed for their part of a success-\\nful achievement.\\nThis was the original road from Plymouth to Cohos at the\\nCorner, and was at first only a bridle-path. The general\\ncourse of this road beginning at Haverhill was as follows\\nIt conunenced just south of the AVhitney place running east\\nto StClair hill, thence over the low part of the summit east\\nof Day s, keeping on the line of the turnpike till it bore off\\nsouth-east past Putnam s, thence east to Putnam mill and past\\nTarleton Lake, over the Height-o -Land to Warren. The\\npoints are giAcn as they now are. This road became a great\\nthoroughfare fi om Haverhill to down country, and traces\\nof it can still be seen.\\nAs early as 1765 Gen. Jacob Bailey petitioned the General\\nCourt at Portsmouth that a road might be built at public", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0202.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "ROADS AM) BKIDCES. 187\\nexpense from that city to Cohos, and an act tor that purpose\\nwas passed and signed hy the governor; and in 1774 Col.\\nJohn Hurd })ctitioned the governor to have the road leading\\nto Cohos improved and made safe. So that up to 1774\\nhighways in Haverhill were in a very imperfect and infant\\nstate.\\nThe first mention of Town roads appears in the Proprie-\\ntors records as early as 1703, when it was voted that the\\nProprietors of Haverhill join with tlie Proprietors of New-\\nbury to look out and clear a road through Haverhill. This\\nvote was reversed in the following year, and in the records\\nof that date this road is described as a road through Ha-\\nverhill so as to meet the road that leads to Portsmouth.\\nThis Portsmouth road was the bridle-path leading from\\nthe Plain to the Benton (Coventry) line. The road,\\ntherefore, which was to be laid out by the Proprietors of\\nHaverhill and Xewbury to meet the road leading to Ports-\\nmouth, was probably a road from the Upper meadow or\\nPorter place to the Coventry road at the Plain. After-\\nwards the Proprietors voted to cut out a road from North\\nHaverhill court house to Coventry line, which was merely\\nan enlargement of the bridle-path.. But it is doubtful if this\\nvote was carried out, since a few years later the Town records\\ninform us that the Town voted to lay out a road from the\\ncom-t house eastwaixl four rods wide. This vote was prob-\\nably intended to carry out the Proprietors vote above, after\\nthe Town assumed the care of the Coventry road. This road is\\nthe one that passes over Morse hill, and comes in upon\\nthe Oliverian brook a little east of the Benton (Coventry)\\nline. The Portsmouth road and the Coventry road\\nare one and the same.\\nThis road was undoubtedly the earliest road in the Town,\\nand was used by the first settlers in coming into the Cohos\\nCountry through Coventry, as this was the nearest course in\\nreachiniT the settlement at the Plain or Ox-bow. The", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0203.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "188 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nsettlement at this point was the earliest in the Town. It\\nwas here that Capt. John Hazen and his men built the grist-\\nmill and saw-mill in the spring of 17()3.\\nAn early mention of roads is found in the Town records in\\nconnection with a very suggestive vote. The road surveyor\\nwas directed not to call on those who had done the most\\nwork till the others had done their part. From this it would\\nseem that there were even in those heroic and self-sacrificino-\\ndays patriots to be found who were perfectly willing that\\ntheir wives uncles and brothers should do all the road-\\nmaking and road-mending of the Town.\\nThere was also another road described as runnins^\\nthrough Haverhill from the J3ath line to the Piermont\\nline. At a later date this road was given to the Town on\\ncondition that its course should not be changed from the\\noriginal road, or to use the Proprietors own language, the\\nroad was to be maintained as it is now trod. The grant\\nof this road to the Town by the Proprietors was made in\\nthese words To give the road, as it is now trod, from\\nthe Bath south line south-westerly to Lieut. Hayward s,\\nthence south to north side of ministerial house, thence south-\\neasterly to Capt. Hazen s, thence south-easterly a little over\\nMill [Poole] brook, thence in a general south-westerly line\\nto Piermont. At the time of the Town s assuming^ this\\nroad it was little more than a bridle-path, along which the\\nearly settlers had built their houses, and which it would\\nseem they did not wish varied from the original course on\\nthis account, so as not to be left off the road. This road\\nfrom Bath to Lieut. Haywai d s ran east of what is now\\nWoodsville, and was the original of the present river road\\nfrom Bath to Piermont.\\nThe section of road at the Corner between Col. Johnston s\\nand Bedel s skirted at first along the West side of Powder\\nHouse Hill, where the old Page log cabin stood, and crossed\\nthe Oliverian at Jonathan Ladd s house below the grist-mill.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0204.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "ROADS AND BRIDGES. 189\\nand thence ascended the hill from that point, traces of which,\\nit is thought, can still be seen on the Oliverian near Mr.\\nLyman s house. The change to the present road from the\\nCorner to the Brook was made in 1795.\\nIn 1789 the Town ordered the completion of a road on\\nthe south side of the Oliverian bridge in lieu of a road\\nbetween house lots Xos. Go and di], which was on the north\\nside, and this south side road was afterwards extended far-\\nther east along the Oliverian brook to the bridge. This\\nbridge was probably not far from the high railroad bridge.\\nHighway taxes were allowed in 1791 to be paid in labor\\nat three shillings per day, or other articles in proportion.\\nThe Town seems to have gone into a sort of produce ex-\\nchange business. Also, this year the public ferry at the\\nlower end of the Town was sold at auction to ]Moody Bedel\\nfor \u00c2\u00a330, who obligated himself to keep a good road from\\nthe main or river road to the ferry and at the same meeting\\nAvhich ordered the sale of the south ferry, a road was author-\\nized to be laid out to the upper ferry from the main or river\\nroad, at the convenientest place, without being very expen-\\nsive to the Town.\\nIn 1798 the Town ordered a road built from Green-\\nleaf s mill in a straight course as the land would admit, till\\nit strikes the south-w^est corner of James Woodward s 100-\\nacre lot, and to be in range line of said lot till it strikes the\\nroad to Horse meadow, thence by Ephraim Wesson s and\\nSamuel Gould s to Bath line. In the same year a road\\nAvhich is described as turning off at the mills on the Fisher\\nfarm, was ordered to be carried to the east boundary of the\\nTown, and each jx-rson along its course was directed to give\\nland on his premises.\\nFrom the first settlement of the Town till the beginning\\nof the present century the only roads of any extent that\\nwere built, were the river road running the length of the\\nTown, the original Coventrv road from North Haverhill over", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0205.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nMorse hill, and the road which came into the Corner from\\nPlymouth. The road along the Oliverian Avas pushed out as\\nfast as population settled in that direction, but until about\\n1818 there were few settlements beyond the old Pike mill,\\nthe present site of the A. F. Pike manufacturing company s\\nplant.\\nThe road described as leading from Greenleaf s mill to\\nthe Coventry road, 1798, is now called the county road, and\\nthe road from the mills on the Fisher farm, is probably the\\nsame as the road to the Centre from Xortli Haverhill.\\nOther roads w^ere built or old ones were enlarged from time\\nto time as the population settled back from the river\\nand filled up the east sections of the Town. Indeed, before\\nthe beginning of the present century few settlements were\\nmade away from the riAcr road, except in the direction of\\nBriar hill, and there were also several openings on the\\n]Morse hill road and on the Oliverian.\\nAt this date the roads were imperfect in places, as for\\nexample the road from Ayer s hill to Poole brook in 1810\\nwas ordered to be made passable. The river road origin-\\nally went by the Dow-farm house, and ran east to the foot\\nof the hill, a little south of the Powers place, now j\\\\Irs.\\nFilley s. When the road was voted to be changed, in 1810,\\nGen. Dow was much incensed at the contemplated move-\\nment, and carried the matter before the covn-t in a long\\nremonstrance, setting forth the inconvenience and injury\\nAvhich the change w^ould inflict upon him and his property.\\nIn matters of roads the most important as afi ecting the\\nprosperity of the ToAvn, though not a town road, was the\\nold Cohos Turnpike which took the place of the old Cohos\\nroad from Plvmouth through Warren to Haverhill above\\ndescribed. The Cohos Turnpike was chartered in 1805, and\\nwas built in a direct course from AA ^arren to Haverhill\\nCorner, so as to shorten the distance between these two\\npoints, and was mainly accomplished through the enter})rise", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0206.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "ROADS AXD RRIDGES. 19 1\\nand public spirit of Haverhill people. Alas, that this enter-\\nprise and publie spirit has so largely departed The road\\nwas surveyed by Gen. John DufFee, Avho in those days was\\nfamous for his accomplishment in that line of engineering.\\nThe corporation consisted of Gen. Moses Dow, Absalom\\nPeters, Joseph Bliss, David Webster, Jr., Asa lioynton,\\nCharles Johnston, Alden Sprague, Moody Bedel, C(d. W m.\\nTarleton, John Page, and Stephen P. Webster, all of them\\nmen of ability and large influence. The road Avas completed\\nin 1808, and for more than a generation was the great\\nthoroughfare for travel and teams in northern New Hamp-\\nshire, and made Haverhill during these years the most impor-\\ntant and lively town north of Concord.\\nThe roads of Haverhill will average in passableness and\\ncomfort with the roads of neighboring towns, and there has\\nbeen a steady improvement from year to year. There is,\\nhowever, yet nuich room in this direction. The theoiy\\nof road-making and road-mending is all wrong as now prac-\\nticed, and although the Town votes money liberally for\\nkeeping its highways in repair, and in altering them for the\\ngreater convenience of the public, it does not get the benefit\\nof the large yearly outlay. There is too much road-making\\nand road-repairing of such a superficial and shiftless charac-\\nter that the same work must be done over year after year at\\na cost that if doubled or trel)led at the start would give not\\nonly more j)ermanent results, but in the end would be far\\nmore economical. Bridges and culverts should be built with\\nscientific thoroughness and of the most durable material,\\nliome built bridges two thousand vears asfo that bid fair to\\nstand two thousand years longer. Stone or iron should in\\nall cases be used. Grades should be so made that little\\nchange would be wrought upon the road-bed by the most\\nviolent rain, and at unavoidable points of steep grade mac-\\nadamizing should supercede the })resent method of merely\\ndragging on earth to be washed ofl by the first June shower.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0207.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nAnd the present method of meeting hills by direct cuts should\\nin every case where practicable be aAoided. Hills should be\\nflanked as a rule. AVere this method pursued with engineer-\\ning skill and knowledge, at least seven miles out of every\\nten of what is now hill road, could be reduced to almost\\nlevel grade. The roads of Norway and Sweden are carried\\nthrough a hill country more abrupt than ours, but they are so\\nskillfully built, winding in and out, flanking steep barriers,\\nthat the carrol the Norway and Sweden stage coach, corre-\\ns])onding to our one-horse express is dragged over these\\nroads hour after hour at the rate of se\\\\ en to ten miles an\\nhour. They are kept as free from loose stones as a barn\\nfloor. Such roads when once built require little outlay to\\nkeep them in a high state of service. Thorough work is\\nalways cheapest in the end, and e^ery town should ha^e the\\nservice of a trained and scientific road engineer, as much as\\nrailroads have, whose business it should be to secure to the\\npublic the l)est and safest of highways.\\nHaverhill was favored with railroad facilities in 1852 the\\nBoston, Concord Montreal Avhich enters the Town\\non the east border, and runs west to the Connecticut ri\\\\ er,\\nand thence north to AVoodsville, traversing through the Town\\na distance of nearly fifteen miles, and having within that\\ncourse five stations Avhicli furnish convenient means for\\ntravel and freighting.\\nIn the time when canals were introduced into the country\\nthe project of a canal occupied the attention of the people of\\nNew Hampshire, and a highway of this sort Avas contem-\\njjlated to be built from Dover at the head of tide-water, to\\nthe Connecticut river. Its course was to be from Dover to\\nLake Winnepiseogee, thence from the head of the Lake to\\nthe Pemigewassett river, up Baker s river to Warren, and\\nthen across the summit to the head Avaters of the Oliverian,\\nand down that stream to the Connecticut. Elaborate surveys\\nwere made, but the project failed, it is said, on account of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0208.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "ROADS AM) BRIDGES. 193\\nthe difficulty ot getting sufficient water to su})})ly the canal\\nin crossing Warren summit except at enormous expense.\\nThe United States government sent an engineer to assist in\\nthe survey of the canal. Gen. John Duffi^c was the chief\\nengineer.\\nThe bridges of the Town have ncAcr been very expensive,\\nas the streams which are crossed by highways are not large.\\nThe brido-e at the Brook is the largest whollv owned bv the\\nTown, and Avas formerly an open bridge. A young man, it is\\nsaid, who was leaning against the railing which had become\\nvery rotten, fell off into the stream. In former times the\\nBrook bridge was farther up stream near where the Pulp mill\\nnow stands. The bridges across the Connecticut are owned\\nbv corporations. The middle bridge was built about\\n1795. A charter for Bedel s bridge was secured in 1802,\\nand the bridge was completed in 1806. This bridge has\\nbeen built four times, once being swept away by a violent\\nwind. Wells River bridire w^as chartered in 1803.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0209.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nMAILS, STAGES, TAVERNS.\\nEarlj Comniunication First Mail John Balch State Routes Postage Haverliill\\nOffice\u00e2\u0080\u0094 National Mails\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dutch Mail Wagon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Col. Silas May\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Post Horn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ex-\\npress Bi-weekly Mail First stage line William Smart\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Second stage line\\nRobert Morse\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Trip\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Col. Silas Maj driver\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Entrance into Haverhill Al-\\nmost an Accident. Tri-weekly Mails Daily E.vtras- The Drivers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hanover\\nRoute Six-horse Coaches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haverhill a great stage center Travel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Stage Lines\\nFamous Drivers Their Character Responsible Positions Some Successful\\nMen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Drinking Habits Taverns: Bliss Coon s, Towle s, Exchange, Sinclair s,\\nSecond Coon tavern, earliest tavern, Richardson s, Ladd s, Howard s, Morse s,\\nCobleigh s, Swan s, Morse Hill tavern A great thoroughfare Teams and\\nTeamsters Provisions Lodgings Large Teams Crouch Tavern A famous\\nhostelry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The old-time tavern\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haverhill s stage-tavern News Center\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bar-\\nroom Fire-place Flip Mental training The Landlord\\nCommunication of frontier settlements with the parent\\npopulations is one of the first things to be secured. At first\\nletters are sent back and forth by chance travelers going into\\nthe new settlements or returning from them. This for some\\nyears was the only means of communication between the\\nCohos Country and the towns in New Hampshire and\\nMassachusetts from which the early settlers came. At the\\nbeginning of the Kevolution the State Committee of Safety\\nappointed one John Balch a post-rider for the term of three\\nmonths, who was to start at Portsmouth and ride to Haver-\\nhill by way of Conway and Plymouth, thence down the\\nConnecticut river to Charlestown and back to Portsmouth.\\nThis service was to be performed every two weeks, and for\\nwhich the pioneer post-rider was to receive the sum of\\nseventy hard dollars, or })a})er money ecjui^ alent. This ser-\\nvice faithful John Balch performed during all the stormy\\nyears of the Revolution.\\nThe only United States mail service as early as 1791 was\\nthat of a post-rider along the sea-board. But in the same\\nyear the legislature of the state passed a law establishing\\nfour routes for posts, to be thereafter appointed to ride in\\nand through the interior of the state. These routes were per-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0210.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "MAILS, STAC.ES, TAVERNS. 195\\nformed once in two weeks, and the postage on a single letter\\nwas six pence or twelve and one-half cents for each forty\\nmiles, and four pence or eight cents for any number of miles\\nless than forty. Post-masters were also allowed two pence\\nor four cents for all letters that passed through their offices.\\nAmongst the inland post-offices established at that time was\\none at Haverhill. The national government assumed the\\ncarrying of the mails to Haverhill soon after 1793. Mails\\nwere light and consisted chiefly of letters, and the era of\\nnewspapers and periodicals had hardly yet dawned.\\nThis state of thino-s continued till the bcirinnino: of the\\npresent century, or indeed till the building of the turnpike,\\nwhen the post-rider was displaced by the Dutcli wagon in\\nwhich the mail was carried. Col. Silas May was the mail-\\nman then, and had been for some time before. As he drove\\nliis first mail wagon into Town he blew harder and oftener\\nhis old horn. It. was a great event, and marked also the\\nbeginning of a new business, the carrying of bundles for\\ntwelve and one-half cents, in fact an incipient express.\\nEvery house he passed on the route was awakened by the\\nblast of his horn, ^ivino- them warnino- of bundles to be left or\\ntaken. The mail was carried twice a week, and twice a week\\nCol. May was seen coming down over the long turnpike hill\\nleading into Haverhill, his old horn heralding the mail-car-\\nrier s approach, and equally often in the week he started out\\non the return trip.\\nBut this lasted only a few years. The s})irit of innovation\\nand ])rogress had taken possession of the Cohos settlement.\\nThe stajic coach was in fashion down below, and a stajxe\\nline was jjrojected as early as 1811. Col. AVilliam Tarleton\\nwas one of the owners but alas I good and faithful May,\\nj)ost-rider for many years, and the jolly driver of the Dutch\\nmail and express wagon, was not the Jehu of the new enter-\\nprise. The driver was William Smart, and the line soon\\ncame to grief, and it was not till 1814 that a permanent", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0211.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "196 HISTORY or HAVERHILL.\\nstage line ran into Haverhill. It was organized by Robert\\nMorse, a Haverhill boy then of Rumney, who afterwards\\nbecame famous as a stage proprietor, and enlisted the interest\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of all towns along the route between Haverhill and Concord.\\nThe first trip was made in the spring with Morse and some\\ninvited guests as passengers, and the faithful post-rider, Col.\\nSilas May, was the happy driver. He is said to have been\\na great horseman, and never did man see a prouder day than\\nCol. Silas did as he came down the long St. Clair hill with his\\nfour-in-hand, blowing his horn in wild blasts and wheeling\\nhis coach with its grand load of passengers up to the Towle\\ntavern. A great and eager crowd was in waiting when the\\ntrusty driver laid down his reins, and gave him a loud and\\nenthusiastic welcome. It is said that just before reaching the\\nCorner a linch-pin was lost from one of the wooden axles,\\nbut by May s skillful driving the wheel did not come off, and\\nthe coach reached its destination without serious accident.\\nSoon the trips were increased to three per week each way,\\nand next a daily coach was run, and in the height of travel\\ntwo or three coaches going and coming were necessary to\\nmeet the demands of the public. Other drivers were Caleb\\nSmart, Peter Dudley, Sanborn Jones, Eleazer Smith, James\\nr. Langdon, afterwards a large owner in this and other stage\\nlines, William W. Simpson, known better as Wash\\nSimpson, Seth Greenleaf who became also famous in the\\ndays when tiie great stages rolled in and out of Haverhill\\nCorner.\\nAbout the same time that the line from Concord to Haver-\\nhill via Plymouth court house was put on, another stage\\ncame into Haverhill from Concord via Hanover. This was a\\ntwo-horse coach at first, and connected with the stage line to\\nNew York. The driver was Wait Gould. Subsequently\\nsix-horse coaches were driven on all the important stage lines\\nthat centered in Haverhill.\\nHaverhill very early became the stage center in northern", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0212.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "MAILS, STAGES, TAVERNS. 197\\nNew H;im])shire. In the heinjht of travel and before the\\nraih-oad invaded these limits, there were six or eight stage\\nlines that brought the mails and passengers from all sections.\\nUsually they came in in the evening and took their de[)arture\\nin the morning, lieliable authority states that the number\\nof persons who were set down at the different taverns in\\nHaverhill ranged from seventy-five to one hundred fifty\\ndailv. Extra coaches were run on the main routes in order\\nto meet the urgent demands of travel. The chief lines were\\nthose to Boston, New York, and Stanstead, Canada; whilst\\nlesser lines came from the White Mountains, Montpelier,\\nand Chelsea, Yt., and other points. jSlost of these were\\ndailies, and used four and six-horse coaches of immense\\nstrength and capacity for carrying passengers.\\nSome of these stages had famous drivers. Dan Field,\\nwho drove in the Stanstead line, was noted for the wonderful\\nskill with which he blew his bugle announcing his coming as\\nhe entered the village, and would land his passengers after\\nmakinjx a irraceful curve with his team in front of the tavern.\\nAnother driver was Wash Simpson. He was a jolly old\\nEnglishman, a sort of Sam Weller, and had a proprietory\\ninterest in the line he drove in. Then there were the Morses,\\nfather and son, who also were large owners in the Boston\\nline Seth Greenleaf of the White Mountain stage, the two\\nSimonds brothers, Joshua and Jehiel the Henry brothers,\\nTimothy and Charles James F. I^angdon, better known as\\nJim, Bill Fuller, and many others who had wide fame as\\nskillful and experienced drivers. They were a hardy set of\\nmen, frequently exposed to perils, cold, and storm, and held\\nvery responsible positions. In their hands was the safety\\nof mails and passengers. In the fall and spring of the year\\nwhen the roads were heavy, and many points of danger were\\nto be ))asscd, these weather-beaten men with a rough exterior\\n])erhaps, and homely speech, were found true and faitliful t(v\\ntheir responsibilities. Often at such seasons they met with", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0213.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "198 IirSTOllY OF HAVERHILL.\\nmany delays, and brought in their fatigued teams and pas-\\nsengers at late hours. As a rule they were favorites and\\njustly popular with the traveling public. They were also\\nregarded, says a writer in a sketch of James F. Langdon,\\nas im])ortant men of the connnunity, and a nod of recog-\\nnition from the driver on the box was enough to make the\\nordinary man hap[)y through the day. They had a })leasant\\nword for the children, nnd were patient with and consider-\\nate of the ladies who happened to be put into their care, and\\nwere proud of the immense loads of passengers Avhich daily\\nthey set down at the taverns. Some of these drivers were\\nalso proprietors in the stage lines, and not a few of them\\nwere men of ability and enterprise, Avho, after the stages\\nwere displaced by the railroads, were successful in otlier lines\\nof business, like Nathaniel White and James F. Langdon.\\nIn those days of almost universal drinking habits the\\nstage-drivers were no exception to the general rule, and\\ntheir exposed life and exacting work were a constant temp-\\ntation for them to indulge their appetites. They usually\\noccupied rooms in the attic of the tavern for lodging, and\\nmany were the gay and lively times they indulged in as\\nthey got together and recounted the incidents of their trips,\\nfind not seldom did the marks of hilarity tell of these jolly\\nmen of the reins. Let their names be embalmed in history\\nas a strong feature of the olden times, when they Jfilled a\\nplace and did a service which is worthy of mention.\\nHaverhill, in the glory of the stage era, was full of tav-\\nerns. The Bliss tavern was one of the first that was\\nbuilt, and was owned and kept by Joseph Bliss, an early\\nsettler in the Town. This house is still standing and bears\\nmarks of its early construction in the finish and carving over\\nthe front entrances and in the wainscotting and panelling of\\nthe interior. It is now owned and occupied by Mr, George\\nW. Leith, and stands on the corner of Court street fronting\\nthe commons. This tavern was the aristocratic headquarters", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0214.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "MAILS, STAGES, TAVEUXS. 199\\nwhere the judi -es of the eourt and the hiwyers stopjKMl in\\nearly days.\\nAnother old tavern stood on the spot where afterwards\\nwas huilt the (ilrafton county bank house, now known as the\\nbank house. The tavern was called the Coon tavern,\\nand was kept by Koss Coon. It was cut in tvvo and moved\\nfrom the premises, one part forming it is said, the house in\\nwhich Mr. L. B. Ham lives, and the other part forming the\\nhouse owned and occu})ied by the late Augustus Whitney.\\nThe great stage tavern was owned and kept by Col.\\nSimeon Towle, and was known as the Towle tavern. It\\nstood where now Mr. Nat. Page s house stands. Col. Towle s\\nson P^dward succeeded his father, and later Mr. Edward\\nTowle s widow continuc^d to keep the house. This was a\\nlarge three-story house, the headquarters of the stage lines,\\nand was a famous hostelry known along all the stage routes\\nleading into Haverhill.\\nThe pi esent brick hotel was at first a private house and\\nthen enlarged for a tavern. It was kept by a Mr. Williams,\\nand afterwards by Eleazer Smith who was succeeded in its\\nownership and management by his son, Charles G. Under\\nthese last two proprietorships it was known as Smith s hotel,\\nand was kept by them for nearly half a century. It is now\\nowned and managed by Scott Fellows, and is called the\\nExchange hotel, which was its earlier name before the\\nSmiths kept it. Mr. Chas. G. Smith improved and enlarged\\nit by adding the present new wing. It has also undergone\\nchanges under the present management, and is and always\\nwas a well kept liouse.\\nThe large brick house on Court street, now the residence\\nof Dr. Phineas S})alding, was originally built for a tavern,\\nand Avas kept as such by Capt. Jonathan Sinclair for many\\nyears.\\nThere was also a brick tavern in early days three stories\\nhigh situated on the level plot between Mrs. Chandler s", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0215.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "200 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nhouse and the stone house at the Brook. This house was\\nburnt and was never rebuilt. It was kept by Ross Coon\\nafter he left the old Coon house.\\nBesides these taverns at the Corner there were taverns in\\nother parts of the Town. Probably the first tavern, or at\\nleast what served the purposes of a tavern, was Uriah\\nMorse s on Poole brook. Capt. Hazen was an inn-holder\\nas early as 176(3 in the same locality a little north, and\\nLuther Richardson kept a public house in 1774 at the\\nPlain. Another very early tavern was kept by Samuel\\nLadd on Ladd street. This house stood just south of where\\nMr. James Woodward lives, and the site is marked ])y a\\nlarge willow tree still standing, with which is connected a\\nAery romantic story. There was also a tavern in early times\\non Ladd street where Mrs. Osgood Morse s house stands.\\nCol. Joshua Howard ke|)t a tavern near the site of the\\ncounty poor-house. Also a little later there was a tavern at\\nHorse meadow known as the Morse ta\\\\ern, and was kept\\nby John Morse, and a mile north of this was the Cob-\\nleigh tavern, where the fast n)en of the day met and drank\\nand iiandled cards. This house is still standing though\\nsomewhat changed. The Buck house on Ladd street was\\nonce a tavern, known as the Swan tavern. Li later days\\nit was kept by Capt. Lyman Buck.\\nThe old Morse tavern on ^lorse hill was a famous\\nstopping place in earlier days for teams that came down from\\nnorthern Vermont and New Hampshire on their way to\\nPortsmouth and Boston. It was a one and a half story\\nhouse, [standing just east of the present Dearborn house,\\ntraces of its location are still visible, and contained four\\nlarge rooms below and two in the attic. One of the lower\\nrooms was used as the bar-room, and the other opposite was\\na sort of reception room. Back of these were the kitchen\\nand dining room. In the attic were rooms for the family.\\nThis was a common style of tavern-house in those days.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0216.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "MAILS, STAGES, TAYEKNS. 201\\nThe road from North Haverhill to down country was a\\ngreat thoroughfare, more than rivaling the road from the\\nCorner to Plymouth in the number of teams that jiassed over\\nit. Often long trains of pungs and })ods could be seen on\\nthis road, and the Morse tavern would house these teams\\nand their drivers over night, sometimes to the number of\\nthirty or more. The drivers generally carried their own\\nprovender and food. Few regular meals were got for these\\nteamsters, exce})t for the more well-to-do. Some took a cold\\nbite as it was called, but as a rule they s})ent little for\\nfood and oats on the trij). Their provisions consisted of\\ncold meats, sausages, bean porridge, brown bread, pies, cake,\\nand cheese. These in the cold winter days would freeze,\\nand when the driver, with the aid of the hostler, had seen to\\ntheir teams, they brought in their provisions and thawed\\nthem out by the great blazing fire in the bar-room, and thus\\nate their suppers, which they washed down with a glass of\\ncider or other drinks. Perhaps before lying down to sleep\\nthey indulged in the famous mug of flip. Their beds con-\\nsisted of robes which they spread on the bar-room floor, and\\nfor pillows they used their fin* coats, and then with their feet\\ntoward the fire they stretched themselves in a semi-circle\\naround the inunense hearth on which was piled great quanti-\\nties of wood. AN hen the number was too larffe for the l)ar-\\nroom the reception room was used for the overflow.\\nHere in the early hours of .the evening they told stories\\nand sang songs, and had a merry good time. In the morn-\\ning they took their breakfast very much as they did their\\nsupper, and after paying for their lodgings and indulging in\\nanother glass of cider or flip, they contimied their trip to\\nmarket with the same experiences at the next night ^s\\nstop[)ing place. For a lodging ten cents was charged, twelve\\nand a half cents for a bite, and twenty-five cents for a regu-r\\nlar meal, and with what was left at the bar, the landlords\\nmanaged to collect quite a revenue in those days.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0217.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "202 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nThe fjrade over Morse hill was too great for the large six\\nand eight-horse teams of a later day, and to avoid this long-\\nheavy pull tiiey went, after the road was built, by Brush-\\nwood road along the Oliverian. This was about 1838 or\\n40. A tavern was kept in the early part of this eentury at\\nEast Haverhill in the house now owned and occupied by A.\\nL. Warren. This house became the stopping place for\\nteams after they ceased going over Morse hill.\\nAnother tavern deserves mention here, perhaps the most\\nnoted tavern in the early history of Cohos. Though not\\nsituated within the limits of Haverhill, it properly belongs to\\nthe history of the Town. This was the famous Tarleton\\ntavern at Tarleton Lake on the old road from the Corner to\\nPlymouth, and was first kept by Col. William Tarleton as\\nearly as 1774, and afterwards by his son Amos. The stages\\nas they pulled out from Haverhill over the steep hills, or over\\nthe Height-o -Land from Warren, were sure to give their\\nhorses a breathing spell and a sip of water with a handful of\\nsalt in it, whilst the passengers were equally sure to make a\\nfriendly call at the landlord s well supplied bar of all kinds\\nof drink. The driver was always invited by the passengers\\nto take a drink, was the testimony of a famous driver and\\nproprietor James F. Langdon and if he was so disposed\\nhe could tjet driuik twentv times a dav. Tarleton s was\\nalso a great place for teams to stop at.\\nThe tavern of the olden time was distinguished for its\\nhome-like hospitality. Blazing fires l)urned in the open fire-\\nplace in the bar-room and in the reception room to welcome\\nthe weary traveler, and a substantial and appetizing meal\\nwas sure to greet him as he responded to the call of the din-\\nner bell. Many of these hostelries became famous for their\\nexcellent tables, and the traveler who had occasion to go\\nover the road often, looked forward with ])leasure to the hour\\nwhen the coach would draw up to their hospitable doors.\\nAt breakfast he was sure of a delicious cup of coffee, and in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0218.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "MAILS, STAGES, TAVERNS. 203\\nthe evening after a long and tetlious ride, often over rough\\nand heavy roads, he sat down to a tender and smoking steak,\\nsncli as would gladden the heart of an epicure.\\nAs the ixreat northern staoe center, Haverhill had its\\nfamous stage tavern which was knoMn far and near. Its\\nexcellent cheer and plentiful board went through all the\\nroutes, and mine host was an important personage. Many\\nhave been the, sighs of a generation of men fast passing\\naway for the good old days of the stage taverns. Modern\\ncooking may be more elaborate and artificial, and abound in\\ndelicacies and more numerous tid-bit dishes, but the aroma\\nof beef, and mutton, and fowl from tiie old-fashioned baking-\\novens, steaming before you in ample quantities and stimu-\\nlating the appetite, can never be excelled by the butter and\\ngrease of later times.\\nThe stajje tavern was the great center of attraction in\\nthose days, and when the stages came in from various points\\nbringing in their passengers and news, the tillage people\\nwere accustomed to gather at the tavern to learn what was\\ngoing on in the outside world. Here reputable citizens con-\\ngregated and talked over the happenings of the day. Xews-\\npa})ers were infrequent in those days, and the tavern with its\\nnew-comers became a sort of literary exchange where every-\\nbody that had any thing to relate could always find eager\\nlisteners. The bar-room, as it was then called, with its bot-\\ntles of whiskey and gin, was a large room Avith benches and\\nsettees on all sides. This was filled with a crowd of men and\\nboys who spent the greater part of the evening there. The\\nopen fire-place was a conspicuous feature, and the flip-iron\\nand mug were inseparable concomitants of the bar-room.\\nTreating was an universal custom in those days, and the mug\\nfilled with steaming flip was passed around amongst the\\ncrowd, and everybody took a sip of the favorite beverage.\\nWhen the news was all talked over, and the hom-s were\\nspeeding toward midnight, especially when the coach hap-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0219.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\npened to be late, the crowd dispersed for the night only to\\nrenew its gathering on the following evening. Those stage\\nvillages where the mails lay over night were busy little cen-\\nters, and manifested all the attributes of a small metropolis.\\nThese populations retired at night with a general knowledge\\nof the doings and happenings of the great outside world, and\\nawaited wnth undisturbed self-possession the coming of the\\nnext coach. And so life rolled on in those earlier days with\\na satisfaction and success which now to our swifter means of\\nlocomotion and faster Avays of living seem tame and abortive.\\nInformation and knowledge were gained then more by hear-\\ning and talking than by reading, but the people were quite\\nas intellifjent on oreneral matters as thev are to-dav, and the\\npeculiar discipline of those times developed many a hard-\\nheaded man of shrewd common sense and large experience.\\nThose attritions of mind and interchange of information and\\nopinion had a flavor of their own. What an educational\\nforce the old stage tavern was I\\nIn olden times the first families kept tavern, and it has\\noften been remarked why this was so. The explanation is\\neasy enough. Only those went away from home Avho as a\\nrule belonged to the wealthy and intelligent class, and the\\ntavern-keeper was brought into closer social relations to the\\ntraveling public than is the case at the present time. He\\nwas exjiected to entertain his guests not only with good eat-\\ning and drinking, but also it was expected of him that he\\nwould make himself agreeable and companionable by his\\nabilitv to eno-aoe in intelligent conversation. He was the\\ndepository of a vast amount of current information which\\nwas dropped at his house by the coming and going of guests,\\nand this he was exjiccted to pass over to each new-comer.\\nAs a consequence he was generally found to be a man of in-\\ntelligence and of social standino-, Manv of these tavern-\\nkeepers w^ere the most influential men of the times. They\\ncame into larger contact and closer relationship with the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0220.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "MAILS, STAGES, TAVERNS. 205\\nleading spirits of society, politics and business, and had\\nopportunities of mental growth and insight into the ways and\\ncharacter of men that made them exceptionally intelligent\\nand large minded. Mine host held a leading place in all\\naffairs and movements. This was especially the case along\\nthe great thoroughfares of travel and business.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0221.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nEDUCATION ACADEMY.\\nEarly Education\u00e2\u0080\u0094 School lots laid out School money Earliest School Districts and\\nScliool Houses Second Class of School Houses Ke-districting Districts and\\nSchools increase with population\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Town system First Board of Education\\nTown liberal in maintaining Schools School Centres The Corner and Woods-\\nville Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dartmouth College Grant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Incidents Haverhill Academy.\\nThe matter of education early engaged the thoughts of the\\nfirst settlers of the. Town. At the beginning probal)ly little\\nwas done in the way of schools except in individual families,\\nand as the inhabitants were largely composed of new families\\nand single persons, the school ])opulation did not come into\\nprominence in the first years of the settlement.\\nIn 1772 we find an article in the Proprietors warrant to\\nsee if they will lay out a tract of land for the use of the\\nschool in Haverhill, and a school was probably in existence\\nbefore that date. A few years later school money was\\nordered to be paid in specie. On the first page of the\\nTown records are found several receipts for money paid for\\nteaching, amongst these is one gi^en by Timothy Curtis for\\n\u00c2\u00a38, 19s., (xl. for teaching school five months and twenty\\ndays. This receipt bears date 1774.\\nAlthough money was appropriated for school purposes as\\nearly as 1774, no mention is made of school districts till\\n178(), when the Town was divided into four districts. The\\nfirst district extended from the Piermont line to the Oliverian,\\nthe second to the south side of the Fisher farm, the third to\\nCol. Howard s bridge near where now are the county poor-\\nhouse buildings, and the fourth to Bath line. In the follow-\\ning year four school houses were ordered to be built, and the\\nsum of \u00c2\u00a3100 was appropriated to carry this purpose into\\neffect. No. 2 was known as Ladd street district on account\\nof the number of persons of that name, who lived within its\\nterritory.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0222.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "EDUCATION. 207\\nAt a later period, 1805, one thousand dollars was appro-\\npriated for building school houses in the different districts.\\nThese houses were to take the place of those built about\\ntwenty years before, which were crude structures. In 1811\\nit became necessary to increase the number of districts, and\\naccordingly a vote was passed for that purpose, but it does\\nnot appear that this vote was carried into immediate effect,,\\nsince in 1815 the matter Avas brought up again, and a vote\\nwas passed to re-district the Town. A committee was\\nappointed to report upon the matter, and their recommenda-\\ntion that the Town should be divided into nine districts was\\nadopted. From that time on the number districts has nmlti-\\nplied as the increase of population and the settlement of the\\neastern section of the Town made it necessary. There was\\nno re-districting of the entire Town as on the two former\\noccasions, but new districts Avere formed by the division of\\nold districts, or by forming new ones out of })arts of old ones\\nas Avas most conAcnient for schooling, until the number rose\\nto twenty-one.\\n^Meantime as the graded system became l^etter understood\\nand more fully appreciated there Avas a growing demand,\\nespecially at the Corner, for better schools, and in 1875 the\\nmatter of realizing such a school beijan to be ajjitated in\\nNos. 1 and 17. There was much opposition to the move-\\nment on account of prejudice and misinformation, to Avhich\\nwas added a fear of cost, and it Avas only after several\\nschool meetings and the utmost exertions of the more public-\\nspirited of the community, that a vote Avas secured to unite\\nNos. 1 and 17 in one school district of two grades, primary\\nand grammar, for a single year. But notwithstanding, two\\nmost excellent teachers Avere employed for the year, school-\\ntime increased several Avceks, and by the adniission of all\\ngreat improvement of the schools was perceptible, tlie voters\\nof No. 17 refused to go on another year, and tlic [)eople of\\nthe tAvo districts Avere compelled to accept the old order of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0223.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "208 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthings for a little while longer. A plan, however, to\\nresuscitate the Academy having been suggested in 1880,\\nand the plan being favorably received, Nos. 1 and 17 were\\nby contract between the districts involved and tlie trustees\\nof the Academy, united into a single school with three\\ndepartments, academic, granunar, and primarv, and since\\nthat time the schools at the Corner have been in a most\\nprosperous condition, and have largely met the expectations\\nof the people.\\nIn Woodsville a graded school of two departments,\\nprimary and grannuar, has existed since 1872, and has\\ngreatly added to the efficiency and success of the schools in\\nthat village. In the same year the present school building,\\nwhich, affords convenient accommodations for the schools,\\nwas erected.\\nIn 1885 the Town system went into operation. The law\\nauthorizing a change from the old district system was intended\\nto reduce the number of districts and increase the efficiency of\\nthe schools. It provides a board of education which has\\ncharge of all the schools, and the Town constitutes a single\\nschool district with schools at such points as the board may\\nprescribe. Few changes were made in the old districts dur-\\ning the first year two of the new law Nos. 9 and 20 only\\nwere discontinued in that time but further changes were\\npromised as soon as the schools could be accommodated in\\nother places. The first board of education chosen under\\nthe new law consisted of Caleb Wells, Samuel P. Carbee,\\nM. D., and Darius K. Davis, and the opinion is expressed by\\na member of the board. Dr. Carbee, that the change has\\nworked well thus far in the interest of education, and that\\nthe law of 1885 has come to stay.\\nThe Town has always been liberal in the maintenance of\\nschools, and these have been as efficient, and have served\\ntheir piu-pose as well as could be expected under the difficul-\\nties of a sparsely settled population in parts of the Town", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0224.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "EDUCATION. 209\\nand the constant dimlnntion of school chil(h-cn. Usually\\nthe Town has voted a definite sum to be distributed equally\\namongst the several districts, and thus districts of less valua-\\ntion were enabled to have longer terms of schooling without\\nburdensome taxation.\\nIn the present distribution of centers of population,\\nwhich will not be likely to be changed in the near future, a\\nsystem of graded schools could very easily l)e established,\\nand the entire school population could be put into reasonably\\nconvenient communication with the centers. These centers\\nare four one at the Corner including Ladd street, another\\nat East Haverhill, a third at North Haverhill, and a fourth\\nat Woodsville. It might be necessary to establish at a few\\nintermediate points single schools for parts of the population\\ntoo remote from the centers, but for those more advanced in\\ntheir studies a system of graded schools, as above indicated.\\nis entirely feasible, and should be gladly welcomed by all\\nwho have the interests of our schools at heart. Adequate\\ncompensation could be made for instruction, thoroughly\\ntrained teachers could be secured, and the Town, at even less\\nexpense than under the present arrangement, would afford\\nits school population the means of an excellent education,\\nequal to that of large villages and cities.\\nAs an indication of the deep interest which our fore-\\nfathers felt in educatit)n, for many of them were men of\\nconsiderable mental training, an article was put into the\\nProprietors warrant of 1770 to see if they would gi^e\\nanything to Dartmouth College, Dr. Wheelock, or Col.\\nPhelps, or either of them, as an encouragement for said\\ncollege being fixed in said Township. And it was a wise\\nforethought and public spirit worthy the founders of the\\nTown that they voted to give to Revd. Elitzer [Eleazar]\\nWheelock, D, D., fifty acres of land in Haverhill lying on\\nCapt. John Hazen s mill [Poole] brook, where there is a\\nconvenient water-fall for a mill, provided Dartmouth", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0225.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "210 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nCollege should be erected in Haverhill. There is no\\nblame to be attached to the founders of the Town that\\nDartmouth College did not come to this fair spot.\\nFew controversies have sprung up in the history of our\\nschools, and none of these have left any serious marks\\nbehind. But there were those of a rather humorous side.\\nIn one of the districts the question whether to repair or to\\nrebuild the school house came up for discussion and decision.\\nThose in favor of I epairing the old house were in the major-\\nity, but the minority were not disposed to rest the matter in\\nsuch way, and resorted to violent measures, and tore down\\nthe old house. The matter became quite sei ious, and was\\nalready in the earlier stages of a law suit, but by the friendly\\nintervention of outside counsels, those who tore down the\\nold house were persuaded to put up a frame at their own\\nexpense, equal in value to the old house, and the district was\\nthen to complete the building. This compromise prevailed\\nand the matter was aniical)ly settled. One person, however,\\nwhose sense of justice was rather strongely tinctured with\\nvindictiveness, was not so easily mollified, and when coun-\\nselled with in regard to the plan of adjustment, said, No,\\nthey must be punished.\\nOn another occasion at a school meeting for the purpose\\nof uniting two districts into a graded school, those present\\nwere treated to an exhibition of a very ludicrous character.\\nThe people were nearly equally divided, and feeling ran\\n(|uite high. The debate on the proposition was warmly\\nconducted on both sides, sliarp hits were given and received,\\nand the fire flew. The chiefs in this discussion were two\\nof the most esteemed and respected citizens of the district,\\nof advanced age, and both happened to be school teachers\\nin their younger days. Both also claimed to bring superior\\nknowledge to the discussion of the question in debate, which\\nled to a challenge of their respective qualifications to be\\njudges. Mr. A. considers himself a proper judge of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0226.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "I\\nI\\nEDUCATION. 211\\nwhat is best tor our schools, but I wisli I could show you\\nhis letter to me asking for a school, and see the spelling.\\nThis was a dead shot, and the speaker s eyes flashed and an\\nair of satisfaction mantled his face, as the audience smiled\\naudibly. Then his opponent re})licd, Yes, I wish you\\ncould see a certain document which Mr. B. sent to\\nWashington, and Avhich was returned to have the bad\\nspelling corrected. This was too much, and the audience\\nbroke forth in A iolent demonstration. The combatants had\\neach fired a red-hot shot, and both were struck in a vulner-\\nable spot.\\nIn addition, however, to the provision which Avas early\\nmade Ijy the first settlers of Haverhill for the education of\\ntheir children, they also felt the need of furnishing facilities\\nfor more advanced studies than coidd be provided for in\\ncommon schools. Accordingly steps w^ere early taken for\\nthe erection of a building for the purpose of establishing an\\nacademy at a date previous to 1793. In June of that year\\nan edifice which the Proprietors styled a commodious build-\\ning was offered to the Court of Sessions and to the Court\\nof Common Pleas for their use and convenience free of\\ncharii-e, in which the owners, however, reserved the rit!;ht to\\nhold a j)ublic school at any time when the courts Avere not in\\nactual occupancy of the building. This building is described\\nas situated near the corner of the road leading from Haver-\\nhill to Plymouth, and was south of the spot where now\\nstands the present Academy building. The Academy was\\nincorporated in 1794 on petition of Chai les Johnston, Esq.,\\nand others, who state in their petition that they had employed\\na young gentleman of liberal education, eminently quali-\\nfied as a preceptor, and that about thirty pu})ils had already\\nengaged there in pursuit of an education in the arts and\\nsciences. The name of the institution was given in the\\ncharter as Haverhill Academy, and its object was set\\nforth to be to promote religion, ])urity, virtue, and mor-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0227.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF HAVEIIHILL.\\nality, and for teaching; the youth in English, Latin, anil\\nGreek languages in writing, music, and the art of speak-\\ning in geography, logic, geometry, mathematics, and such\\nother branches of science as opportunity may present and\\nthe teachers shall order and direct. The trustees who were\\nnamed in the charter were the Honorable Charles Johnston,\\nthe Kev. Ethan Smith, Messrs. John Page, Samuel Bliss.\\nThe number of the board Mas limited to ten, of whom a\\nmajority constituted a quorum. They were empowered to\\nreceive and hold in the name of, and for the use of the\\nAcademy, real, personal, and mixed property, but the net\\nincome of real estate should at no time be allowed to be in\\nexcess of seven hundred dollars, whilst the net income of\\npersonal and mixed property could not be made to exceed\\none thousand dollars. It was also provided that when the\\nreal estate amounted to more than $3,333.33^ all of such\\nexcess should be liable to taxation. The act of incorporation\\nwas approved February 12th, 1794, and bears the signature\\nof Josiah Bartlett who was the president or governor of the\\nstate.\\nAs is seen in the aim of the Academy, which is set forth\\nin the charter, our forefathers regarded religion and educa-\\ntion as inseparable, and in accordance with that sentiment\\nreligion and morality were made foremost features in the\\ntraining of the school. A belief in God and our obligation\\nto Him were considered prime articles of faith. The union\\nof religion and education was emphasized in the government\\nof the school in its requirement of teachers and pupils that\\nthey should attend public worship on the Sabbath and also\\ndaily prayers during term time at the Academy.\\nThe manners and deference Avhich the young of that day\\nwere expected to observe toward their superiors, is illustrated\\nby one of the earlier by-laws. It required students to\\nrespectfully notice their teacher when they pass him on the\\nstreet also the trustees of the Academy, and all public", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0228.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIOX. 213.\\ncharacters. It is feared that both tliese features in the early\\neducation of youth religion and politeness have somewhat\\nfallen into decay in these undeferential modern times.\\nThe Academy had its struggles in the earlier years of its\\ncareer, and sacrifices were demanded of our fathers to keep\\nit alive. The trustees and others were assessed for the sup-\\nport of the school. Trouble also seems to have come upon\\nit, as in 1807 a committee was appointed to investigate\\nthe situation of the school, and the freipient adjournments\\nof the board of trustees without accomplishing anything,\\nshow that its history was marked by many fluctuations and\\nuncei tainties.\\nIts endowment early occupied the attention of its friends,\\nand in 1803 a committee was chosen whose duty it was\\nto petition the General Court for a grant of land. It does\\nnot appear, however, that anything was accomplished in this\\ndirection, and with the exception of about five hundred d(^l-\\nlars, the gift of ^Nlary P. Webster, the school has never been\\nendowed, but has been maintained by tuition and the volun-\\ntary aid of interested friends. For this reason its career has\\nbeen less successful and prosperous than it otherwise would\\nhave been. Nevertheless it has filled an honorable and\\nserviceable place in the educational facilities of a large sur-\\nrounding country, and has been the educational home of\\nmany graduates w4io have filled stations of usefulness and\\nprominence in the various A\\\\alks of public and private life.\\nIts most distinguished raduate was the late Justice Xathan\\nClifford of the United States Supreme Court.\\nIn earlier years pupils in District No. 1 attended school at\\nthe Academy, and this district as well as No. 17 had certain\\nrights in the building. The county held an interest in the\\nAcademy building from 1793 for the use of the courts which\\nwere held in the second story. In 1841 an agent of the\\nboard of trustees was chosen with a view to transfer the\\nAcademy s interest in the building to the countv, and also to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0229.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "214 HISTOHY OF HAVEFJIILL.\\njbtiiiii from the state the hind on Powder House hill for a\\nsite for another biiildinfj for the Academy. But after the\\nnew court house was erected on Court street the interest of\\nthe county in the building passed into the hands of the\\ntrustees who are now the sole owners of it.\\nThe first Academy building was constructed of wood and\\nwas burned in 1814. It was voted to rebuild with stone\\nthe material of the old building was sold in 1816 to Israel\\nSwan except the stone and bell, and reservation of the old\\nbuilding was made till the new one could be finished, from\\nwhich it Avoidd appear that the destruction by fire was not\\ncomplete.\\nMoses P. Peyson, afterwards a prominent lawyer in Rath\\nand a very acconiplished gentleman, was the first principal of\\nthe Academy, 1794. The income of the school for that\\nyear was \u00c2\u00a378, which w^ould be about $375 of our money.\\nTuition for English branches was seventeen cents per week,\\nand for languages twenty cents per week.\\nIn 1801 the trustees fixed the salary of Stephen P.\\nWebster, who was the second principal, at $336.36. The\\nrecords show that he occupied this position until 1805, at\\nleast. They also inform us that Isaac Patterson was princi-\\npal in 1813, but how long before that time, if any, he filled\\nthe place is not known. Mr. Patterson was afterwards a\\nlawyer in Bath for many years, and Yned to an extreme old\\nage, dying in 1883. He was a very gallant man and was\\ndistinguished for his immense shirt collar.\\nJoseph Bell, the famous Haverhill lawyer, tauglit the\\nAcademy for one year after he graduated from college in\\n1807, and Col. Charles Johnston filled a vacancy later.\\nCyrus Grosvner was principal in 1819 but did not seem to\\nhave been successful either in teachinj; or in his government\\nof the school, and a committee was appointed to investigate\\nthe matter and to rectify the difiiculty if possible, or to dis-\\nmiss the principal as the committee should see fit. Jesse", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0230.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "EDUCATION. 215\\nKiniljall ijiiec ceded jVIr. Grosvncr, and in 1821 ]\\\\Ir. Mack\\nbecame principal, and continued so till 1828. Ephraini\\nKingsbury followed him. Peter T. Washbiu n was princi[)al\\nin 183(5. lie afterwards became a distinguished lawyer in\\nWoodstock, Yt., and was also governor of that state.\\nJoseph C. Bodwell followed next he afterwards as\\nprominent as a clergyman. He was succeeded by Daniel\\nF. jNIerrill who continued in that position for a number of\\nyears, afterwards going South, but again took charge of the\\nschool in 18()2 and continued to be its principal for some\\ntime, flohn P. IIum[)hrey taught the Academy from 1839\\nto 1841, and Hermon Pood was the head of the school for a\\nnumber of years pi evious to 1849, when he resigned. From\\nthis date John V. Bean opened a Female Seminary in the\\nAcademy building, which continued for several years. At\\nthe close of this school, however, there was more or less\\ninterruption until 1880 when it was reorganized under the\\ncharge of Joseph H. Dunbar, who taught the Academy for\\nfour years with much success.\\nWhen the school was reorganized in 1880 the Academy\\nAvas thoroughly repaired at an expense of about one thousand\\ndollars. The philosophical and chemical apparatus was en-\\nlarged at the same time, and since, and the school is now\\nwell equipped for furnishing a complete Academic education\\nin English and classical studies. There are also P^ncyclo-\\nptedias and other needed books of reference.\\nThe present principal is D. Otis Bean, a graduate of\\nDartmouth College, and the school is in a prosperous con-\\ndition. It has been an active force in the educational apj)li-\\nances of the Town and surrounding country, and offers to\\nall who are seeking an education excellent facilities at\\nreasonable cost. It pays s[)ecial attention to fitting the\\nyoung for college, and has regular classes organized for that\\npurpose. The school has a long and honorable history, and\\nis worthy of the patronage not only of Town, but of a wide", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0231.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "216 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nregion of territory which is poorly provided \\\\\\\\ith higher\\nschools of learning. All that is necessary to give it a still\\nwider usefulness, and place it upon a [)ar with the foremost\\nschools of the land, is an ample endowment. Xo spot in\\nNew England has so many facilities and advantages of pure\\nair, healthfulness of location, cleanliness of population, and\\nsafe social, and moral surroinidings as the village of\\nHaverhill in which the Academy is situated.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0232.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nRELIGION AND CHURCHES.\\nReligion and the founders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Karly vote to call Rev. Peter Powers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Salary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tempo-\\nrary preaching Firt^t meetings at Newbury, Vt. Parsonage Lot Extent of\\nParisli\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Minister i)ai(l by Town\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Protest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Certain Persons excused\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fleeting\\nHouse Meetings in Houses and Barns Union Meeting House in Newbury\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Coming of Mr. Powers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 People worshippe l part of time in Newbury\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cross-\\ning river Mr. Powers Parish Town divided into two Parishes Propagating\\nthe Gospel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Church organizations Kirst Congregational Church Pastors\\nKthan Smith, John Smith, Grant Powers, Henry Wood, Joseph Gibbs, Archi-\\nbald Fleming, Samuel Delano, Moses C. Searle, Edward H. Greeley, John I).\\nEmerson, John Q. Bittinger, PUigene W. Stoddard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch: Nortli Haverhill, Corner, East Haverhill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Baptist Church, North\\nHaverhill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Free Will Baiitist Church Union Church Advent Church Protes-\\ntant Episcopal Church, Wooilsville Methodist Episcopal Church, Woodsville.\\nOur fatliers being strongly impressed with the ini[)()rtance\\nof religion took steps early with reference to their needs in\\nthis res})ect. In IKi at a si)ecial town meeting, it was\\nvoted to join with Xewbury to give Mr. Peter Powers a\\ncall as their Gospel minister. Plaverhill s part of the\\nsalary was \u00c2\u00a335, Gs., d., and one-third part of Mr.\\nPowers instaHment.* In addition to this sum of money\\nMr. Powers was to have thirty cords of wood at his door,\\ncut and corded, a year. These were the days of innnense\\nfire-{)laces and large chimneys which consumed such generous\\n(piantities of wood.\\nThis was the first vote of money by the Town. The com-\\nmittee chosen to carry out this vote were Timothy licdel,\\nJohn Taplin, and P^lisha I^ock, who were also directed to\\nask the co-o})eration of the Proj rietors in what they were\\npleased to call this affair. It Mould seem from the Town\\nrecords of XcAvbury that each town was to be a se[)arate\\n])ai*ish, and afterwards Mr. Powers claimed that he was\\ninstalled pastor of Haverhill equally as of Xewbury.\\nBut previous to this, as early as 17(53, at a Pi oprietors\\nmeeting a (\u00c2\u00bbte was passed that the Proprietors of Haver-\\nhill join witli the Proprietors of Xewbury in jiaying for", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0233.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "218 HISTOKY OF HAVP:iniILL.\\npreaching for tAvo montlis this fall and again in tlie follow-\\ning year the Proprietors voted to join Xewhnrv in having\\npreaching for six months next ensuing. It was sti})ulated\\nthat the ])reaching was to be at Newbury. The meeting at\\nwhich this vote was taken was the last meeting of the Pro-\\nprietors that Avas held away from the settlement. Afterwards\\nthey met at Haverhill. The first of these meetings con-\\nvened at the house of Capt. John Hazen, where in the early\\ndays of the Town the ])ioneers were wont to gather, and\\ndevise ways and means for the government and j)r()gress of\\nthe settlement. At this meeting in Haverhill the first article\\nacted on was that two hundred acres of land be laid out as\\na parsonage [lot] for this parish, next to the river. This lot\\nwas at Horse meadow north of the Hazen fiirm. In early\\ntimes in New England the parish extended over the whole\\nTown, and it was customary for each town to set apart a\\nministerial right or lot of land for the first settled pastor.\\nIn colonial tinies imder a statute enacted in Queen Ann s\\nreign, towns were empowered to hire and settle ministers,\\nand pay them a stipulated salary from the public treasury.\\nEach town could employ a minister of such persuasion as it\\nchose, and every taxable citizen was compelled to contribute\\ntoward his su])])()rt, unless he could prove that he belonged\\nto a difierent persuasion and regularly attended worship on\\nthe Sabbath and this condition of things continued prac-\\ntically until the toleration act was passed in LSOT, notwith-\\nstanding the bill of rights declared that no person of any\\none particular sect or denomination shall ever be compelled to\\npay toward the support of the teacher or teaching of another\\npersuasion, sect, or denomination. The established church\\nof the early history of the Town Avas the Congregational\\nchurch, and all jiersons \\\\A ere taxed for the support of it.\\nAs already noted the ToAvn voted in 17()5 to unite with\\nNewbury in giving Mr. PoAvers a call, and appropriated\\nmoney for his support. Against this method of providing", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0234.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "KELIGIOX AND CIIUHCHES. 211)\\nfor the gospel there was at first no op[)ositi()n, at least it did\\nnot manifest itself in public but as diversity of religious\\nsentiment crrew more marked, and reli\u00c2\u00abi ious sects beu an\\nto nudtiply, an uneasy spirit gained possession of\\nmany minds and made itself heard in })ublic protest against\\nwhat was considered a hardship and an injustice. This\\nspirit was embodied in a notice wliich was served upon the\\nTown in 1805 and was in these words We are not of\\nthe same sect or denomination on matters of religion with\\nMr. Smith, the minister of the Town. AVe do not attend\\non his ministry or meeting, nor do we consider t)ur polls or\\nestates liable to be taxed or to pay any part of his salary.\\nThis notice was signed by sixteen persons.\\nIn the previous year ^Sloses Dow protested in town meet-\\ning against the payment of the minister s salary from the\\npublic treasury. Other persons about this period, showing\\nthat the toleration act of 1807 was the outgrowth of a general\\nprotest against the su])port of religion by taxation, were\\nexcused from paying minister s taxes in Haverhill, on the\\ngi ound that they belonged to other denominations and\\ncontributed for the support of the gospel in them. One\\nThomas Nichols was thus excused because he was senti-\\nmentally a Baptist,\\nThere was no meeting house in Haverhill for some time\\nafter the advent of the pioneer settlers, and the matter of\\nbuilding a place of public worship was first put into the\\nwarrant in 1761). The size of this building, according to\\na vote of the following year, was to l)e forty by fifty feet,\\nand it was ordered to be built within a year. But this\\nvote was not fulfilled, at least the building was not com-\\npleted, and the size was afterwards voted to i)c changed\\nfrom the above dimensions to that of thirty l)y thirty-six\\nfeet. This house was at Horse meadow and was afterwards\\nenlarged. It was taken down in 1882 and converted into\\na i)arn bv Lafavctte ^lorse.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0235.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "220 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nHowever, as early as 17(37, the Town voted to join\\nNewbury in building a meeting house in the center of that\\nTown on the road next to the river, and the house erected\\nat that point was long used by the people on both sides of\\nthe river for public worship. At first, meetings were held\\nin private houses or in barns. Even as late as 177(5 meet-\\nings were held in barns on the Haverhill side, for in that\\nyear the Town voted to pay Rev. Peter Powers \u00c2\u00a337, lOs.,\\nprovided he preached one-half the time in Haverhill, and\\nto meet the first six months in Mr. Kay s lower barn. It\\nwould seem from this vote that at that date the meetings\\non the Haverhill side were held half the time at the south\\nend.\\nRev. Peter Powers came to the New Settlement in 17(34\\nto look after the religious interests of the inhabitants. The\\nsettlers of Haverhill attended church in Newbury part of\\nthe time, and continued so until the organization of the\\nFirst Church of Haverhill in 1790. Those at the south end\\nof the Town crossed the river near where the middle bridge\\nnow stands, a path from Judge Woodward s led down to\\nthe ferry wdiich in the eai-liest days was a log canoe, and\\nafter crossing they followed a path along the Avest bank to\\nthe meeting house at the Great Ox Bow. Those living at\\nthe Plain or North Haverhill crossed the river at the Dow\\nfarm and at the Porter place. In those days everybody\\nattended church, and it was deemed disreputable without\\nvalid excuse to be absent from worship on the Sabbath.\\nSome of the inhabitants had to go five miles or more. Often\\nparents were seen carrying their children in their arms the\\nentire distance going and coming. The church was plain\\nand without the comforts of modern sanctuaries. The\\npeople sat on rude benches, joining reverently in long\\nprayers, and listening patiently to still longer sermons, and\\nat the close of the service they walked back to their homes.\\nThe church at the Great Ox Row was for some years the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0236.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "RELIGION AND CHURCHES. 221\\nonly church north of Charlestown, and Mr. Powers was\\nfrequently called upon to officiate at funerals and at weddings\\nup and down the river, going as far south as Hanover, and\\nnorth to AVells lliver. These journeyings were at first per-\\nformed in a canoe.\\nGrant Powers tells a story in connection with bringing up\\nRev. Peter Powers goods from No. 4, which illustrates the\\nsort of discipline that prevailed in the church at that time.\\nIt was in early spring. A person by the name of Way had\\ncharge of a sled, and at the mouth of the Pompanoosuc\\nriver the sled broke through the ice. Way, seeing the dan-\\nger he had escaped, exclaimed, That is a cussed hole.\\nMr. Powers admonished his parishioner for this misdemeanor,\\nbut Way, being somewhat eccentric, held to liis position,\\nsaying that he could prove what he said. How so?\\nasked the minister. Why, didn t God curse the earth,\\nand do you suppose he excepted that little hole\\nIn 1788 it was voted to divide the Town into two\\nparishes, and the line was to run on the south side of the\\nFisher farm, but this vote was not at once carried out,\\nand by a subsequent order of the Town the vote was re-\\nscinded. 8ome difficulty seems to have arisen, and a\\ncommittee Avas appointed to settle all disputes between the\\ntwo ends of the Town. It was not till 1815 that the Town\\nby vote of the legislature was divided into two parishes, and\\nSamuel Morey of Orford, Jonathan Merrill of Warren,\\nand Samuel Hutchins of Bath, Avere appointed a committee\\nto run the line. The second parish church was organized\\nat Horse meadow after the organization of the church at\\nLadd street.\\nBy the charter of the Town one share Avas to be laid out\\nfor the propagation of the gospel in foreign lands, but a\\nrecord of 1773 informs us that the Proprietors refused to\\nlay out the share.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0237.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "222 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nCHURCH ORGANIZATIONS.\\nTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nThe First Con2:re2:ational Cliurch of Haverhill was oro-an-\\nized Oct. 18, 1790, with an original membersliip of twenty-\\nthree. Previous to this nienil)ers of tlie cliurch in Haverhill\\nwere connected with the church at Newbury. The religious\\ncondition of the peo})le of Haverhill was much depressed at\\nthe close of the Revolution, and continued so for some years\\nafter, wdien a powerful religious interest was awakened, out\\nof Avhich grew the organization of the First Church. The\\nfirst church building was on Ladd street, and was occupied\\nabout forty years, when the present brick church was bought\\nfrom the Methodists in 1830.\\nPASTORS.\\nETHAN S.AIITH.\\nIn 17112 the church called Ethan Smith to be its pastor,\\nl orn in Belchertown, Mass., in 17 62, and a gi aduate from\\nDartmouth College in 1798, and he was ordained and\\ninstalled, 171)2, over the infant church, remaining till 1799.\\nFor some reason he was not settled by the Town. He was\\nafterwards pastor of the church in IIoj)kinton, Hebi on, N.\\nY., Poultney, Vt., and Haverhill, ]Mass., and ended his\\nministerial career as city missionary in Boston. He died at\\nthe age of 87, and during his life he was highly esteemed as\\na man and as a minister, and was unquestionably a person\\nof strong mind and character. AVhen he left Hopkinton\\nwhere he was pastor for many years, the whole town turned\\nout and escorted him several miles on his way. He was an\\nearly advocate of temperance, and a friend of the slave, and\\nwas progressive in all his thoughts and purposes. Daniel\\nWebster, who knew him well, their wives being intimate\\nfriends, regarded him as one of the ablest and most godly\\nmen in New England. ]Mr. Smith was an author, publish-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0238.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "KELKilOX AND flll RCIIES. 223\\ning works on the Prophecies and on Kevehition, also an\\ningenious book maintaining that the North American Indians\\nAvere the lost tribes of Israel, a work on l)aptism, and a\\nhand-book on the Trinity. .Vll these had wide sale in their\\nday.\\nHe married Bathsheba, daughter of Rev. David Sanford\\nof Medway, Mass., an uncle of ]Mrs. Alden S[)rague\\nof Haverhill. They liad ten children. The sons were\\nborn in Haverhill, and attained distinction, (see Chap.\\nXIX). The daughters were born in Hopkinton. Grace\\nFletcher and Sarah Towne became, one the first and the\\nother the second wife of Kev. J. H. Martyn, a well-known\\nminister in New York City. Sarah Towne was a gifted\\nwriter, and was elected one of the earliest principals of the\\nfemale department of Oberlin College. She wrote Women\\nof the Bible. Harriet married Rev. William H. Sanford,\\nand Ellen Chase was the first wife of Hon. C. B. Sedgwick,\\na member of congress from Syracuse, N. Y., during the\\nWar of the Rebellion, Mrs. Sanford of Worcester,\\nMass., is the only child of Mr. Smith now living.\\nJOIIX SMITH\\nAVas settled l)v the Town in 1802 and was dismissed and\\ndeposed in 1807. He afterwards continued to live in Haver-\\nhill, and pursued farming. Two of his sons, it is said, were\\ngraduates of Dartmouth College.\\nGIJANT POWERS\\nAA as born in Ilollis in 1784, fitted for college at Phillips\\nAcademy, Andover, Mass., graduated from Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1810, studied theology with Rev. Asa Burton, D.D.,\\nof Thetford, Vt., and was ordained and settled as pastor\\nover the church in Haverhill in 1 S15, where he remained till\\n1821). Afterwards he became the pastor of the Congrega-\\ntional church, Goshen, Ct., dying there in 1 S41. He was\\na successful minister, a man of strong mind, and left his", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0239.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "224 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nimpress on the Town. He wrote the History of the Coos\\nCountry.\\nHis wife s maiden name was Eliza Howard Hopkins, and\\nthey had eight children. Of these Elizabeth Abbott, Mary\\nWebster, Henrietta Mumford, and Georg-e Carrington (see\\nChap. XIX). Mrs. Powers died recently in Washington,\\nand was very active dnring the Kebellion in ministering to\\nsick and wounded soldiers. In Mr. Powers day Methodists\\nwere regarded by Calvinists as not orthodox, and Mr.\\nPowers, it is said, got into a controversy with Bryan ^Vloise.\\nBoth men were somewdiat pugilistic in their opinions.\\nHENRY WOOD\\nWas born in Loudon in 1806, and was one of eight children\\nof Eliphalet and Elizabeth (Tilton) Wood, His fiither was\\nfrom Boxford, ]\\\\[ass., and his mother from Chester. The\\nWood family came from the Isle of Wight early in colonial\\ntimes, and within thirty years after the arrival of the jVIay-\\nflower records of death are found in Boxford, Mass. His\\ngrandfather was at Bunker Hill and saw Warren fall Bur-\\ngoyne surrender; with Arnold at Quebec; at Trenton.\\nPrinceton, Valley Forge saw Andre hung, and was one of\\nWashington s life-guards.\\nMr. AVood s early education was in the counnon school,\\nat Gilmanton Academy, and in a printing office in Concord.\\nThen fitting for college at Meriden he entered Dartmouth\\nCollege, M orking his way by teaching, and graduated in\\n1822, beino; valedictorian of his class. He was a t ood\\nlinguist, and had mastered during life seventeen languages\\nwhich he read with fluency. Choate and Marsh were con-\\ntemporaries with him in college. After graduation he\\nremained one year as tutor in the college and then studied\\ntheology at Princeton Seminaiy. He was subsequently for\\ntwo years tutor and for a like time professor of Latin and\\nGreek in Hampton-Sydney College, Ya. Before coming to\\nHaverhill in 1835 he was settled at GofFstown, and after", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0240.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "EELIGIOX AXD CHURCHES. 225\\nleaving Haverhill he hecaine pastor of the college cliurch,\\nHanover. For a time he edited the Congregational Journal\\nat Concord, then in 1853 was appointed by President Pierce\\nconsul at Beirut, and aftervrards was a chaplain in the navy\\ntill his death in 1873 in Philadelphia. Whilst in China and\\nJapan he became much interested in missionary work.\\nHe married Harriet Frances McGaw of Bedford, and of\\neight children the eldest daughter, Ellen, became the wife ot\\nCapt. Thornton who commanded the Kearsarge when that\\nvessel sank the rebel cruiser Alabama. The eldest son was\\nat one time literary editor on the Philadelphia Xorth Ameri-\\ncan, and now lives in Washington. A younger daughter\\nmarried Prof. A. S. Hardv of Dartmouth Colleo-e. Mr.\\nWood Avas a man of ability and much independence of\\nthought. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of\\nDivinity from Hampton-Sidney College in 1867.\\nJOSEPH C4IBBS\\nW^as installed over the church in 1835. He was a Scotch-\\nman and educated in London. His ministry, on account of\\nill health, was brief, dying within two years after it began.\\nHe was a man of much promise.\\nARCHIBALD FLEMING.\\nArchibald Fleming settled in 1838, dismissed in 1841.\\nHe was also a Scotchman. It was in ]\\\\Ir. Fleming s pastorate\\nthat the anti-slavery feeling came into the church.\\nSAMUEL DELANO\\nBecame pastor of the church in 1842. He was a man of\\nimperious will, much vigor of mind, and quite eccentric.\\nBeing remonstrated with by one of the sisters of the church\\non this account, he replied in characteristic style I must\\nbe Sam Delano or nobody. He was a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth College in 1823, and a trustee of that institution for\\nthirty-two years. He died in 1877 aged 82. Mr. Delano\\nafter dismission from Haverhill was acting pastor of the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0241.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "226 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nSecond Church for a time, and then went to Harthind, and\\nafterwards to Strafford, Vt.\\nMOSES C. SEARLE.\\nMr. Searle was acting pastor from 1847 to 1849.\\nEDWARD IIANFOItD OREELEY,\\nSon of Edward and Hannah (Eaton) Greeley, was born in\\nHopkinton in 1817. He fitted for college at Kimball Union\\nAcademy, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1845.\\nFor one year after leaving college he was principal of Atkin-\\nson Academy, and then went to Andover Seminaiy, from\\nwhich he graduated in 1841 The same year he was\\nordained pastor of the church at Haverhill. After remain-\\ning nine years he was called to the Pearl Street Church,\\nXashua, then to Methuen, Mass., and afterwards, 1868, he\\nreturned to Haverhill. In 1874 he was elected secretary of\\nthe New Hampshire Home Missionary Society, which i)Osi-\\ntion he now holds.\\nHe married first Jane Jewett Richards of Eowley, INIass.,\\nwho lived only two years after marriage, then Louisa ^laria\\nWare of Xeedham, Mass. They have four children living,\\nthree sons and one daughter. The sons are graduates of\\nDartmouth College, and the daughter of Andover, Mass.,\\nFemale Academy.\\nMr. Greeley is a man of excellent judgment, of decided\\nability, and takes large views of things. He has filled the\\nposition of secretary of the New Hampshire Home ]Mission-\\nary Society with distinguished faithfulness and success. He\\nreceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from his\\nAlma ]Mater in 1884.\\nJOHN D. EMERSOX\\nWas born in Candia in 1828, educated in common schools\\nand at Pembroke Academy, and graduated in 1853 from\\nDartmouth College. For two years he was principal of\\nPembroke Academy and then studied theology at Andover,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0242.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "KKLUJION A\\\\D CIlUKCJlE.s. 227\\n]\\\\ra.ss. In l(Sr)8 he Avas settled over the ehureh at Haverhill,\\nremaining till 181)8, when he beeanie })a8tor of the Second\\nChnreh, Biddefoixl, ^Nle. Afterwards he was i)astor of the\\nehureh at Undcrhill, Vt., and also taught in tlie Academy\\nat that place, and since 1883 he has been pastor of the\\nSouth and North Churches, Kennebunkport, Me.\\n]Mr. Emerson married first, Surah Jane Dudley of C andia,\\nand their only child Edward D. is a graduate of Dartmouth\\nCollege second, ^Nlrs. Elizabeth French l ell of Chelsea,\\nMass., and a son, Ste[)hen Goodhue, is a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth College and a student now at Oberlin Seminary\\nthird, Leha Florence Kendall of Biddeford, jNIe., and by\\nthis marriage there were four children.\\n]Mr. Emerson has written nnieli, and published a number\\nof discourses and memorial addresses, of which History of\\nYork Conference, ^lemorial of the Pilgrims, History\\nof Second Church, Biddeford, Me., Ideal in Character,\\nare amongst the more important. His style is graceful and\\noriginal at times, and full of imagination and poetry.\\n-JOHX QUINCY lilTTIXGER\\nIs the eighth child of Joseph and Lydia (Bair) Bittinger,\\nborn in 1881 in Berwick township, .Vdams county, Penn.,\\nearly education in connnon schools and printing otHce, began\\nto fit for college at Oxford Institute, Adanis county, Penn.,\\ntwo years at Phillips Academy, Andover, ]Mass., graduated\\nfrom Dartmouth College and from Andover Seminary. Set-\\ntled at Yarmouth, ]Me., St. Albans, Vt., where health failed,\\none year supplied Broadway Church, Norwich, Conn., five\\nyears at Ilartland, Vt., twelve years at Haverhill, resigning\\nJanuary, 188(5, and editor of New Hampshire Journal two\\nyears and a half, resigning February, 1888.\\n]Mr. Bittinger has written much for the secular and relio-\\nious press, and has [)ublished Address on Ephraim Jewett\\nHardy, a classmate senior year in college Cairnes Slave\\nPower, North American Review Christian Miracles and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0243.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nPhysical Science, Presbyterian and Theological Keview\\nPreaching and Architecture, Congregational Review;\\nAddress on Benjamin H. Steele, a judge of the Vermont\\nvSupreme Court Address on Elias Bates; Centennial\\nDiscourse; History of Haverhill.\\nMarried Sarah Jones AVainwright of Hanover, and of\\ntheir children three sons and one daughter are living, two\\n\u00c2\u00abons being educated at Haverhill Academy and Dartmouth\\nCollege.\\nEUGENE W. STODDARD\\nWas born in Milford, Mass., in 1860, the son of Lorenzo\\nand Jane (Fisher) Stoddard. Was educated in the common\\nand high schools of Milford, graduated from Amherst College\\nin 1882, and from Andover Seminary in 1886. He Avas\\nordained and installed in 1886. His wife s maiden name\\nwas Lillie A. Mitchell, and they have one child.\\nMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NORTH HAVERHILL.\\nMethodism was introduced into north-western New Hamp-\\nshire about 1800, at which time the LandafF circuit which\\nincluded Haverhill was organized. The new doctrine spread\\nrapidly. One of the first to preach it was a Haverhill boy,\\nLaban Clark, born in 1778, but in his infancy his family\\nmoved to Bradford, Vt., wlien young Clark about the age\\nof twenty, being dissatisfied with the ways of Calvinism,\\nbecame intei-ested in the New Departure, of those days.\\nA year later, 1800, whilst on a visit to Wentwoi th, he went\\nwith a local preacher, John Langdon, on a preaching tour,\\nmaking two appointments in Landaff. Clark afterwards\\nbecame very prominent as a Methodist preacher in the de-\\nnomination and held many leading positions, including New\\nYork, Troy, Hartford, and New Haven.\\nThe exact time when ^Methodist preaching first commenced\\nin North Haverhill cannot now be ascertained. The old\\nLandafF circuit orio;inally embraced the Town of Haverhill,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0244.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "KELKiiox AM) ruiitniKs. 229\\nand probably Methodist preaching began in the Town as\\nearly as 1800.\\nIn the old minutes we find some historic names connected\\nwith LandafF circuit, such as E^lijah Sabin, Martin Kuter,\\nAsa Kent, John W. Hardy, Jacob Sanborn, Lewis Bates,\\nSamuel Kelley, Abram D. Merrill and Benj. li. Hoyt.\\nThese men were among the pioneers of ^Methodism in Xew\\nHampshire, and })robably the foundation of the Methodist\\nchurch in North Haverhill was laid by them.\\nThe oldest accessible records of church membership is that\\nof 1836. In 1842 at a camp-meeting held in LandafF under\\nthe superintendence of Kev. Chas. D. Cahoun, Presiding\\nElder of Haverhill District, a great revival l)egan, which\\nspread all over LandafF circuit. There were many additions\\nto the M. Vj. Church at North Havei-hil Up to this time,\\nthe ]\\\\Iethodists had no house of Avorship at North Haverhill,\\nbut meetingfs were held in the Congregational Church at\\nHorse meadow. This great revival so increased their\\nstrength, that they resolved to build a house of worship.\\nP]ber Eastman, Newhall Pike and James (Jlynn, were chosen\\na building committee. This house of worship was erected\\nin 184o, on the site now occu[)ied by the M. E. Church. In\\n18i) it was destroyed by fire.\\nIt was rebuilt in 18()(). John AV. Jackson, Hubert East-\\nman, X. P. Pideout, James Glynn, Jefferson Pennock were\\nthe building connnittee. Both houses were dedicated by*\\nKev. Elisha Adams, a former pastor. A year or two later,\\na fine parsonage pi opertv was added, located beside the\\nchurch.\\nThis church has not been without its trials and reverses,\\nmeeting with many losses by death and removals yet it has\\nexerted a great influence for good in this part of the Town.\\nIt has enjoyed the services of some eminent men, who have\\nfilled the ])ul[)its of our largest churches. Among the\\n))reachers stationed at North Haverhill the following have", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0245.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "230\\nIlISTOKY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nfilled the office of Presiding polder, viz. Benj. 1\\\\. Ilovt,\\nReuben Dearborn, Xewell Culver, Chas. R. Harding, John\\nCurrier, Silas (^uimby, Elisha Adams, Chas. U. Dunning,\\nM. T. Cilley.\\nThe following are the appointments of the Haverhill cir-\\ncuit, which included Xorth Haverhill, from 1830 to 1845\\n1830, Caleb Dustin, William Peck,\\n1831, Caleb Dustin, Chas. R. Harding, Jas. W. ]\\\\Io\\\\vry,\\n1832, N. W. Aspinwall, C. R. Harding, S. A. Cushing,\\n183)3, Caleb Lamb, Daniel I. Robinson,\\n1834, I). I. Robinson, C. Granger,\\n1835, M. G. Cass, R. Dearborn,\\n1836, J. Gould, D. Blodgett,\\n1837, S. Quimbv, J. Gould,\\n1838, S. Qaim!)y, J. Dow,\\n1839, E. P. Fletcher, W. Johnson,\\n1840, D. Wilcox, E. B. IMorgan,\\n1841, Geo. W. Stearns, C. W. Lovering, Elisha Brown.\\n1842, E. Adams, J. W. Wheeler,\\n1843, E. Adams, J. AV. Wheeler, T. P. Brigham.\\n1844, D. Lee, H. H. Hartwell.\\nAppointments at North Haverhill\\n1845, H. H. Hartwell,\\n184G, Newell Culver,\\n1847, Benj. R. Hoyt,\\n1848-9, Kimball Hadley,\\n1850, Charles H. Lovejoy\\n1851, D. W\\\\ Barber,\\n1852, Richard Newhall,\\n1853, O. H. Call,\\n1854, Nelson Martin,\\n1855, A. C. Dutton,\\n185r)-7, C. r. Dunning,\\n1858-9, A. K. Howard,\\n1860-1, Silas Quimby,\\n18()2-3, Geo. S. Noyes,\\nl.S(U-5, L. W. Prescott,\\n186(5-7, S. P. Heath,\\n1868-9, H. A. Matteson,\\n1,S70-1, W. C. Robinson,\\n1872-3\u00e2\u0080\u00944, John Currier,\\n1875\u00e2\u0080\u00946, Joseph Hayes,\\n1877-8, J. H. Knott,\\n1879, I. J. Tebbetts,\\n1880-1, James Cairns,\\n1882, S. P. Heath,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0246.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "UELIGIOX AND CHllICIIES. 281\\n880-4-0, J. 11. Brown, 18 S7, M. T. Cillcv.\\n1886, J. H. Ilillman,\\nMETHODIST El ISCOTAL CHIKCH, HAVEKIIILL.\\nThe date of the org anization of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch at the Corner is not certainly known, but is supposed\\nto be the year 1822, when the Rev. Mr. Bliss labored there.\\nAmongst the earlier prominent members of the church were\\nEx. -Gov. John Page, George AYoodward, the lawyer, Jona-\\nthan St. Clair, Samuel Smith, AVilliam Ladd, Abba Swift\\nand C. B. ]\\\\1. AVoodward. In 1828 the Methodists built the\\nBrick church, but soon after sold it to the Congregationalists,\\nand later, in 183(1, they erected the present church edifice,\\nthe o^round on which it stands beino- oiven bv Gov. Pao-e.\\nIt is a neat wood structure, and answers avcU the wants of\\nthe congregation. The present membership of the church is\\nfifty-four, and a flourishing Sabbath school of one hundred\\nis connected with it. A parsonage has recently been added\\nto the church property. It also owns a cottage at the A\\\\ eirs.\\nThe following are the names of the pastors from its organ-\\nization to the ])resent time\\n182(), Haverhill and Orford, Ebenezer Ireson, Nathan\\nHowe,\\n1827, Haverhill, E. Ireson, Moses Merrill,\\n1-S28, E. Wells, John J. Bliss,\\n1829, Schuyler Chamberlin,\\n1880, Orford and Haverhill, Caleb Dustin, Wm. Peck.\\n183 1, Haverhill and Orford, Caleb Dustin, C. R. Harding,\\nJas. \\\\V. iVIowry,\\n1832, Orford and Haverhill, X. W. Aspinwall, C. R.\\nHareling, Sanmel A. Cushing,\\n1833, Haverhill, C. Lamb, 1). L Robinson,\\n1834, D. I. Kobinson, C. (h-anger.\\n1.S35, M. (t. Cass, R. Dearborn,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0247.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "232 HISTORY OF HAVEinilLL.\\n183(), Haverhill, J. (Jould, L. D. Blodgett,\\n1837, S. Qiiiinl)y, J. Gould,\\n1838, Haverhill and P]ast Haverhill, S. Quimby, J. Dow,\\n1839, E. B. Fletcher, J.\\nAV. Johnson,\\n1840, Haverhill, D. Wilcox,\\n1841, Haverhill and East Haverhill, Geo. AV. Stearns,\\nChester W. Lovings, Elisha Brown,\\n1S42, Haverhill and East Haverhill, E. Adams, J. AY.\\nWheeler, T. B. Bingham,\\n1843, Haverhill, E. Adams,\\n1844, Haverhill and East Haverhill, K. H. Spaulding, D.\\nLee, H. Hartwell,\\n1845, Haverhill, East Haverhill, North Haverhill, Wm.\\nHewes, G. W. H. Clark, H. H. Hartwell,\\n184(), Haverhill, Piermont and Orford, AVm. Hewes,\\nGeo. 8. Dearborn,\\nL ^47, Haverhill, Mission and Piermont, Lewis Howard,\\n1S48, Haverhill, Mission and North Haverhill, Kimball\\nHadley,\\n1849, To be supplied,\\n1850, Haverhill and North Haverhill, Chas. H. Lovejoy,\\n1851, Haverhill and Piermont, to be supplied,\\n1852-3, Haverhill, Piermont and North Haverhill, E.\\nNewhall,\\n1854, Haverhill, East Haverhill and Piermont, A. C.\\nDustin,\\n1855, One to be supplied,\\n185(5\u00e2\u0080\u00947, Not mentioned.\\nFrom 1858 to the present time, Haverhill had pastors\\nalone, with the exception of one year, 187S, when Piermont\\nwas united with Haverhill.\\n1858, Chas. U. Dunning, 18()0, Geo. C. Thomas,\\n1859. Probablv 1861-2-3, Clias. H. Chase,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0248.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "i;i:i,i(!i()\\\\ AND ciiuucnES. 233\\n181)4, Kiehanl Ilaivourt, l S7r)-(), J. T. Davis,\\n1865-()-7, J. Rean, 1877, T. Winsor,\\n18(i8, John Gowan, 1878-0-80, G. N. Byrant,\\n18(UI, H. S. Ward, 1881, C. E. Kogers,\\n1870-1, II. A. Mattcson, 1882, A. C. Hardy,\\n1872-0, J. Hooper, 1883-4, Wm. Ivainsden,\\n1874, J. Hayes, 1885-G-7, J. H. Trow.\\n:METH0DIST episcopal CHURCFI, east HAVERHILL.\\nA ^Methodist society was organized at East Haverhill in\\nDecember, l8oo, by Henry Xoyes, ]Moses Mead, Caleb\\n^lorse and Ivoswell P^Iiiot. Long, however, before this time\\nthere was ^Methodist preaching- in this part of the Town, the\\nmeetino-s beini-- held in barns and houses. A church edifice\\nwas built in 1834, and has been remodelled several times\\nsince. The ground was given by Isaac Pike. There is also\\na neat parsonage near the church.\\nThe following are the names of ministers who preached at\\nEast Haverhill previous to 1838, some of whom were local\\npreachers, others were on the circuit\\nElder Pn-itten, D. AV. Barker,\\nCharles Baker, W. Hemcnway,\\nPolder Emory, J. N. Moffett,\\nCaleb Lamb, Daniel Wise,\\nCaleb Dustin, W B. Leighton,\\nXewell Culver, J. Englisli,\\nMoses Cass, Charles Harding,\\nReuben Dear[)orn. C. Granger,\\nJ. W. Mowry, Elder Smith,\\nJoseph Peck, X. W. Aspinwall,\\nDaniel Kobinson, Bryan Morse,\\nJ. Gould, Brazzilia Pierce,\\nSanuiel A. Cushing, ]Moses Merrill,\\nC. AV. Lovings, Elder Savage", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0249.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "234\\nHISTORY OF IIAVEKIIILL.\\nFrom 1838 the church had\\nS. Quimby,\\nJ. Dow,\\nE. P. Fletcher,\\nJ. W. Johnson,\\nE. P. Morgan,\\nElisha Brown,\\nCharles Lovejoy,\\nJ. W. Wheeler,\\nT. P. Brigham,\\nGeorge W. Stevens,\\nD. Lee,\\nH. H. Hartwell,\\nG. W. H. Clark,\\nC. L. McCurdy,\\nBenj. R. Hoyt,\\nGeorge W. Bryant,\\nThis church and society is\\nand has just raised $1,000 for\\ncottaofc at the Weirs.\\npastors as follows\\nKimball Hadley,\\nCharles H. Lovejoy,\\nJohn M. Blake,\\nRichard Xewhall,\\nOrick W. Watkins,\\nCalvin F. Bailey,\\n-Charles H. Chase,\\nH. Montgomery,\\nA. B. Russell,\\n\u00c2\u00bbTosiah Hooper,\\nA. W. Brown,\\nI. J. Tebbetts,\\nC. W. Dockrill,\\nL. W. Prescott,\\nC. E. Rogers,\\nW. A. Loyne.\\nnow in a prosperous condition\\na vestrv. It also owns a neat\\nBAPTIST CHURCH, NORTH HAVERHILL.\\nA Ba})tist Society was organized at North Haverhill, Dec.\\n22, 183(5, composed of Oliver Davidson, Asa Thing, Elijah\\nBlood, George Warren, Joshua Blaisdell, Jacob Morse, Asa\\nBaron, Aaron P. Glazier, Daniel Carr, Jr., George W.\\nBisbee, Zebulon Cory and Clark Baron. The following\\nyear the society built a brick church costing $1,533.87,\\nwhich is still standing. The first minister was Rev. D.\\nBurroughs, and from the society s records it does not appear\\nthat it had any other, and the organization does not seem to\\nhave existed long, as February, 184(i is the last entry in the\\nrecord of the society. Incidentally we learn that Oliver\\nDavidson and Daniel Carr, Jr., were deacons in the church.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0250.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "UELIGIOX AXI) CHUUCIIKS. 235\\nFiiEE WILL liAi TisT nuKrir.\\nA church of tliis order was organized in the eastern part\\nof the Town in 1831. There was a religious meeting hehl\\nin June of that year in the l)arn of Josiah JefFers, and a\\nnumber of persons being baptized, a church was organized\\non the occasion. EUIer George W. Cogswell preached to\\nthis church part of the time for a number of years, and then\\nAbel Wheeler, a member of the church, was ordained and\\nbecame pastor. But pi-evious to 1831 there was occasional\\nFree Will Baptist preaching by itinerants, the earliest being\\nElder John Coll)y, a noted Evangelist, and in 1820 Elder\\nJohn Davis of East Haverhill preached there and in adjoin-\\nino; towns. In 1842 there was a ijreat awakenim; in the\\nchurch, and the })reachers after that time were Stedman Cum-\\nmings, Alnion Shepard, Warren Stafford, L. D. Jeffers and\\nJ. D. Cross. There is now no Free AVill Baptist organiza-\\ntion.\\nUNION MEETING HOUSE, CENTER.\\nThe meeting house at the center was called the North\\nHaverhill Union Meeting House, and was built in the sum-\\nmer of 183(). There does not appear to have been any\\nchurch organization connected with it. Keligious services\\nhave been held more or less frequently by ^Methodists and\\nAdventists, and at the present time there is a Sabbath school\\ngathered there.\\nADVENT CHUKCII, IIAVEUIIILL.\\nThe Advent church at the Brook was built in 187.5 and\\nwas occupied regularly for religious purposes for a year or\\ntwo. Since 1880 no religious meetings have been held there,\\nand the house was afterwards sold. It is now the creamery\\nbuilding. There was no church or j:anization.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0251.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "23 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AVOODSVILLE.\\nSt. Luke s Protestant Episcopal Church was organized in\\n187(5 by lit. Rev. Bishop Xiles of the Diocese of New-\\nHampshire. The first rector was Rev. W. B. T. Smith.\\nFor several years services were held in the school hall, but in j\\n1879 steps were taken to build a church, and the sum of j\\n$1,87().00 Ijeing raised, a handsome wood structure was j\\nerected in 1881, Avith a seating capacity of two hundred j\\ntw^enty-five pei-sons. The entire church property is valued\\nat $7,900. The society has thirty-five communicants and a\\nSabbath school of fifty-three. Rev. H. A. Remick is the I\\npresent rector.\\nMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AVOODSVILLE.\\nThis church was organized in May, 1885, by Rev. George\\nW. Norris, Presiding Elder, and Rev. A. Twichell, wdth a\\nmembership of seventeen persons. In 188() the society\\nbuilt a beautiful church edifice at a cost of $2,500 and a\\nseating capacity of three hundred. Although the church is\\nstill small in numbers, it has a flourishing Sabbath school\\nof nearly one hundred. The present pastor is Rev. A.\\nTwichell.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0252.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI.\\nHAVERHILL IN WAR.\\nHer honorable position and officers of highest rank\u00e2\u0080\u0094 List of Haverhill Sokllers in\\nthe several Wars War of the Revolution War of 1812 Mexican War War of\\nthe Rebellion Second Regiment Fourth Regiment\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sixth Regiment Ninth\\nRegiment Eleventh Regiment Fifteenth Regiment\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eighteenth Regiment\\nFirst Regiment Heavy Artillery First Cavalry.\\nHaverhill has an honorable place in all the wars in which\\nthe country has been engaged. In the War of the Revolu-\\ntion and in the War of the Rebellion she has a conspicuous\\nplace and contributed her full share of soldiers. Gen. John\\nMontgomery and Gen. Moody Bedel were her officers of\\nhighest rank and served in the War of 1812. In the Revolu-\\ntion she contributed Col. Timothy Bedel, a brave and accom-\\nplished officer, and Col. Charles Johnston, one of the heroes\\nof the battle of Bennington. In the War of the Rebellion,\\nthough she had no office of high rank, she was bravely rep-\\nresented in minor positions and her sons were in the fore-\\nfront of the storm and hail of battle. Their names, as far\\nas can be ascertained, are recorded in this chapter and should\\nbe inscribed as suggested on a former page, in more worthy\\nand lasting form.\\nLIST OF HAVERHILL .SOLDIERS IN THE SEVERAL WARS.\\nThe following are the names of soldiers who enlisted irom\\nHaverhill in the several wars as accurately as can be ascer-\\ntained\\nWAR OF THE REVOLUTION.\\n1775.\\nTimothy Bedel, Captain.\\nNathaniel Wales, Second Lieutenant.\\nJoseph Fifield, Corporal.\\nJoseph Springer, John Sandburn,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0253.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "238\\nHISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nJohn Tayler,\\nGeorge Moors,\\nJohn Lovering,\\nJames Ladd,\\nJoseph Hadley,\\nJohn Haselton,\\nThomas Caprien,\\nTimothy Curtiss,\\nJohn Dodge,\\nThomas Simpson,\\nJoseph ]\\\\Ioulton,\\nDavid Ladd,\\nEbenezer Sanl )orn\\nMark Sanborn,\\nJoseph Sawyer,\\nJohn Rine,\\nWilliam Haseltine,\\nJohn Tayler,\\nThomas Simpson, Jr.\\n177().\\nCharles Johnston, Colonel.\\nTimothy Bedel, Colonel.\\nThomas Simpson, Captain.\\nNathaniel Wales, Seeond Lieutenant.\\nfTacob Kent, Corporal.\\nJonathan Sanders, Sergeant.\\nGeoi ofe Moors, Serjreant.\\nSamuel Allen,\\nJosiah Elkins,\\nIsaac Stevens,\\nThomas Manchester,\\nJohn Fifield,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nDavid Ladd,\\nJohn Hodgdon,\\nJoseph Hadley,\\nJesse Heath,\\nAsa Bailey,\\nWilliam Abbott,\\nJohn Sanborn,\\nRichard Sanbo.rn,\\nBenaiah Hall,\\nZebulon Hunt,\\nJames Adams,\\nAmos Heath,\\nMark Sanborn,\\nMoses Duty,\\nJoseph Sawyer,\\nJoshua Burnan),\\nHenry Morgan,\\nHenry Palmer,\\nPerley Rogers,\\nEbenezer Rice,\\nEphraim Wesson,\\nSamuel Lang,\\nAlexander Hogg,\\nSoloman Parker,\\nWilliam ]Minor,\\nJoshua Hay ward.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0254.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "AVAR KECOKDS. 239\\n1777.\\nJohn A\\\\ liite, First Lieutenant.\\nThomas Simpson, Second Lieutenant.\\nJonathan Sanders, Sergeant,\\nGeorg-e ]\\\\Ioors, Sergeant.\\nJoseph Fifiehl, John Loveri ng,\\nDavid Ladd, Daniel Stevens,\\nJohn Ilodgdon, Avery Sanders,\\nJoseph Hadley, Perley Rogers,\\nJesse Heath, Hezekiah Fuller,\\nMoses Duty, Henry Springer,\\nJolm Taylor, Timothy Curtiss,\\nFoster, John Bishop,\\nJoshua Burnam, Gains Niles,\\nSilas Wheeler, Antonia Foster,\\nHenry Palmer, liol)ert Simpson.\\n1778 1782.\\nOfficers and soldiers from 1778 to 1782, but in what year\\neach one served, cannot in e\\\\ery case be exactly determined\\nTimothy Bedel, Colonel.\\nWilliam Tarlcton, Captain.\\nSimeon Stevens, Ca])tain.\\nLuther Bichardson, Captain.\\nTimothy Barron, Captain.\\nEzekiel Ladd, Captain.\\nJames Ladd, Lieutenant.\\nGeorge Moor, Lieutenant,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2V Luther Richardson, Lieutenant.\\nWilliam Locke, ^Michael Sattcr, Drum,\\nAvery Sanders, Jonathan Piatt, Fife,\\nElisha Lock, Elisha Brown,\\nAVill Lock, Edward Clark,\\nCaleb Young, Ezra Gates,\\nDavid Ladd, Thomas Hazleton.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0255.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "244\\nHISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nWilliam Cross,\\nAndrew Martin,\\nJois [Gains] Niles,\\nAvery Sanders,\\nElisha Lock,\\nFrederick Zilgo,\\nJonathan Ladd,\\nJoseph Young\\nElisha Cleveland,\\nNoah Moulton,\\nJoseph Ladd,\\nAsa Ladd,\\nlieuben Page,\\nMichael Johnston,\\nJohn Page,\\nSmith Williams,\\nJoel Richardson,\\nHuo-h Barnett,\\nJonathan Pike,\\nDaniel Stevens, Jr.,\\nElisha Balcom,\\nJohn Lovering,\\nAmos Blood,\\nAVilliam Green,\\nEzra Abbott,\\nCaleb Younij,\\nJosiah Pratt,\\nWilliam Locke.\\nJonathan Pratt\\nElisha Brown\\nThomas Hazelton,\\nJonathan Sanders,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nJohn Hodgdon,\\nDavid Lail,\\nRobert Bartley,\\nJohn Brown,\\nJosiah Elkins,\\nJonathan Cooper.\\nObadiah Eastman,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nJames Eastman,\\nJohn Hackett,\\nJames Gould,\\nStephen Morse,\\nMoses Burns,\\nEleazer Danforth,\\nDaniel Doty,\\nEbenezer Whittaker.\\nSeth Flanders,\\nJonathan Morse,\\nMichael Salter.\\nPerhaps in justice to the Town, it ought to be noted that\\nin addition to the above soldiers who volunteered during the\\nRevolution, there were those who doubtless served with Col.\\nJohnston in the 12th Regiment X. H. Militia at the battle\\nof Bennington, as the 12th Avas made up of the militia\\nforces from Haverhill, Piennont, Orford, Warren and Cov-\\nentry.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0256.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "WAR KECOHDS.\\n241\\nWAR OF 1812.\\nJohn Montgomery, Major General.\\nMoody Bedel, Brig. General.\\nGeorge H. Montgomery, Aid-de-camp.\\nJohn Page, Jr., Lieutenant.\\nJohn McClarv, Sergeant.\\nWilliam AV. Bailey, Second Sergeant.\\nBenjamin Swan, Quarter Sergeant.\\nJohn Abbott, Drummer.\\nJoshua H. Johnston,\\nJonas Flagg,\\nArad Ford,\\nLevi Judd,\\nRobert McKeon,\\n\u00c2\u00bbJohn Stevens,\\nNathan Stevens,\\nSamuel Woodbury,\\nJacob Alls,\\nTimothy Goodwin,\\nWilliam Jones,\\nJoseph Pratt,\\nDaniel Perkins,\\nLevi Stafford,\\nCharles J. Swan,\\nWilliam Stevens,\\nUlysses Young,\\nFreeman P. Brown,\\nSamuel Smith,\\nAmos H. Jones,\\nIsaac Carleton,\\nElisha Hibbard,\\nJeremiah Goodwin,\\nUriah A\\\\ ard,\\nEzekiel Day,\\nilliam Stearns,\\nHenry Towle,\\nEthan S. Ladd,\\nJames AA oodward,\\nE. P. A^ oodburv.\\nMEXICAN WAR.\\nDaniel Batchelder, Captain.\\nEzra T. Pike, Third Sergeant,\\nHenry Albert, Asa llandall.\\nKinsman Avery, George W. Woods,\\nJohn Boudle, Nelson B. Woodward,\\nJohn W. Brewer, George Welch,\\nGeorge E. Barns, James Williams,\\nJohn F. Glynn, Albert Knapp,\\nWilliam Gould, Jr., Charles Ladd,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0257.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "242 HISTORY OF IIAVEEHILL.\\nJoseph E. Little, William W. AVelsh.\\nArthur L. Pike.\\nWAR OF THE REBELLION. S\\nHaverhill had soldiers in the tbllowino- reo iments durinof\\no o o\\nthe War of tlie Rebellion\\nSECOND REGIMENT THREE YEARS COMPANY G.\\nThe fii st enlistment from Haverhill in the War of the\\nRebellion was in the Second Reo iment. This rec-inient was\\ncommanded by Col. Oilman ]Marston till after the battle of\\nGettysbnrii-, a brave and able officer. It was in the fore-\\nfront of danger and service for three years, and participated\\nin twenty-seven battles and skirmishes, Bull Run, Siege of\\nYorktown, Williamsburg, Skirmish at Fair Oaks, Savage\\nStation, Peach Orchard, Glendale, First Malvern Hill, Sec-\\nond Malvern Hill, Bristow Station, Second Bull Run, Chan-\\ntilly, Fredericksburg, in 1862 Skirmish at Manassas\\nGap, Gettysburg, Wapping Hights, in 1863 Swift s Creek,\\nDrury s Bluff, First Cold Harbor, Second Cold Harbor,\\nSiege of Petersburg, Fair Oaks, Skirmish at Proctor s\\nCreek, Skirmish at Chesterfield, Skirmish at Darbytown,\\nSkirmish at Spring Hill, in 1864.\\nIn the battle of Gettysburg three hundred and thirty-one\\nofficers and men Avent into the fight. The regiment lost two\\nhimdrcd and fi^e men, and out of twenty-three officers,\\ntwenty-one were killed or wounded in that terrible contest.\\nThe following are the names of Haverhill men who en-\\nlisted in this Regiment\\nLieutenant, Hiram K. Ladd, died at Haverhill, second enlist-\\nment, 18th Reg.\\nHarry B. Casson, died in rebel prison, Andersonville, Ga.,\\nSanuiel Woodward, wounded in action,\\nWilliam E. Bancroft,\\nCurtis Hicks, woimded slightly,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0258.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "WAR RECORDS. 24^\\nln. G. Wolcott, t ocontl enlistment, Ist Keg. Heavy\\nArtillery,\\nJowell E. Hibbard, seetuid enlistment, 13th Keg,,\\nV. B. Glazier,\\nSamuel E. Merrill.\\nFOURTH REGIMENT THREE YEARS COMPANY I.\\nThis regiment was mustered into the service in September*\\n1861, and was commanded by Col. Thomas J. Whip[)le.\\nIts first actual war service was at Port Koyal, S. C., and in\\nFlorida. It was in the Battle of Pocotaligo Bridge, Oct. 2 2,\\nl S )2, and lost twenty-seven in killed and wounded. After-\\nwards it was stationed for a time on Morris Island near\\nCharleston. In 1864 the regiment was in the trenches in\\nfront of Petersburg, Va. It was engaged in the frequent\\nskirmishes, and was in the charge on Fort Gilmore, a strong-\\nearth-work on the lines of defence aroiuid Kichmond, in\\nwhich the loss Avas severe for the number engaged. Later\\nin 18()4 it was ordered to take })art in the expedition against\\nFort Fisher, N. C, where it skirmished successfully with the\\nenemy. Afterwards it returned to its old place before Ricli-\\nmond. Xo record is left of its subsequent movement, but\\ndoubtless it took part in the final struggle which caused the\\nevacuation of the Confederate cajjital.\\nThe following are the Haverhill soldiers who enlisted in\\ntlie Fourth Kegiment\\nLieutenant, Henry M. Hicks,\\nEben AVebb.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Andrew Jackson Edgerly.\\nSergeant, Jonathan Clark.\\nJohn W. Bemis.\\nCorporal, Dana Fifield.\\nCorporal, James -Wilson.\\nCorporal, John T. A^ olcott.\\nAlfred T. Hardy,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0259.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "244 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nJohn D. McConnel, killed in action, Petersburg, Va.,\\nJonus E. Haynes,\\nJoseph Ranney, killed in action,\\nDaniel C. Randall, died in hospital.\\nSIXTH IlEGIMEXT THREE YEARS COMPANY B.\\nThis reo-iment M^as recruited in 18()1, and left for the seat\\nof war in December, under Col. Nelson Converse. It was\\nunder Gen. Burnside in N. C, and saw its first hard service\\nat the Battle of Camden, and for distinguished bravery it\\nwas allowed to enscribe on its banner, Camden, April\\n19th, 1862. The regiment was afterwards in the follow-\\ning battles Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain,\\nAntietam, Annisville, AVhite Sulphur Springs, Fredericks-\\nburg, Vicksburg, Jackson, 1862. It also participated in\\nthe campaign under Grant against Richmond, from the Bat-\\ntle of the Wilderness till the close of the war, and was often\\nin the thickest of the fight. This was one of the regiments\\nthat suffered so heavily at the explosion of the mine at\\nPetersburg, July, 1864.\\nThe following are the names of those from Haverhill who\\nenlisted in this regiment\\nCaptain, Samuel P. Adams, died at Haverhill.\\nSergeant, H. L. Blanchard, killed by accident in the service.\\nSergeant, A. J. Randall.\\nE. L. Smith.\\nA. Stover, missing in action,\\nGeorge Cass, killed in action at Cold Harbor,\\nSumner Hardy,\\nHiram H. Pool, died at Lynn, Mass,\\nJohn Swift,\\nC. W. Sherwell, killed at Fredericksburg, Va.,\\nNathan W. Wheeler, died at Hatteras Inlet, N. C, ^March\\n15, 1862,\\nJohn Flavin,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0260.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "WAR KECOKDS. 245\\nHenry G. Taskcr, died in rebel prison,\\nHorace Holmes,\\nWest Pearsons, died in hospital,\\nEdward C. Holmes,\\nCharles P. Pattern, died at Soldiers Home in ]\\\\Iaine.\\nM. V. B. Randall,\\nIra Stowell, died in hospital,\\nGeorge H. Smith,\\nJoseph Weed, wounded, died of wounds.\\nXINTII REGIMENT THREE YEARS COMPANY A.\\nThis regiment left the state in 1862 in command of CoL\\nE. Q. Fellows, and within a month after its departure it\\nsaw stern war service in pursuit of Gen. Lee, when he in-\\nvaded ^Maryland, after the defeat of Gen. Pope s army. It\\nparticipated in the battles of South ]VIountain, Antietum,,\\nand afterwards enijased with distinguished valor in the Battle-\\nof Fredericksburg, where scores of its brave officers and men\\nfell dead or wounded on the field. The reginient went next\\nwith Gen. Burnside to Kentucky, and soon after joined the-\\nforces around Vicksburfj, thouofh it was not in the immediate-\\nassault upon that stronghold, joined the column in pursuit\\n(jf Gen. Johnston, and took part in the Battle of Jackson,,\\nMiss. The regiment was then ordered to Kentucky on pro-\\nvost duty, and later to Cumberland Gap in expectation of\\nj)articipating in Gen. Sherman s campaign in Georgia, but\\nit was unexpectedly ordered back to A^irginia to take part in\\nthe last march against Bichmond. It led the advance at\\nSpottsylvania Court House in storming the enemy s works,\\nand suffered a loss of more than two hundred in killed,\\nwounded, and prisoners. In this assault both its Lieu-\\ntenant-Col(jnel and Major were severely wounded. A few\\ndays later it stormed alone a strong rebel position, and at\\nCold Harbor in a brilliant charge it captured three pieces of\\nartillery and three hundred and seventy-five prisoners. The", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0261.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "^46 HISTORY OP^ HAVEUHILL.\\nregiment was in all the engagements before Petersburg, in-\\ncluding tlie explosion of the famous mine, and distinguished\\nitself for bravery and gallantry. Its subsequent history is\\nnot definitely stated, but probably it formed a part of that\\n^rand army that finally captured Kichmond and caused the\\nsurrender of Lee s forces.\\nScott Keyser,\\nWilliam Clark, died in hospital,\\nGeorge S. Humphrey,\\nHenry Chapman, died of wounds,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Charles T. Collins,\\nJoseph S, Willey.\\nELEVENTH REGIMENT THREE YEARS COMPANY G.\\nThe P^leventh regiment left Concord in September, 18 j2,\\nin command of Col. Walter Harriman, and joined the grand\\narmy of the Potomac under Gen. McClellan. The regiment\\nwent into camp near Falmouth, Va., and soon after was\\neno-ajjed in the Battle of Fredericksburo-, where it distin-\\nct O\\nfl^uished itself for gallant conduct in the hottest of the fioht,\\nlosing in killed and wounded, two hundred and one officers\\nand men. In February, 18()3, it went to Newport Xews,\\nVa., and soon after as part of the Ninth Army Corps, it\\nwas transferred to Kentucky, and thence to Vicksburg,\\nAvhere it was en paired in the trenches around that stronofhold\\nuntil the city fell. It was also in the Battle of Jackson,\\nMiss., and took a prominent part in the capture of that city.\\nAfter this, it returned to Kentucky, marching two hundred\\nmiles on almost trackless mountain roads to Knoxville, and\\nwas engaged in the siege of that city. It formed jiart of the\\narmy that pursued Gen. Longstreet till he left Tennessee\\nand then in 18^4 it again joined the army of the Potomac\\nasrainst Kichmond and was enfjafjed in all the battles of that\\ncampaign. In the Battle of the Wilderness it fought\\nbravely, losins; severely in officers and men, includinij in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0262.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "AVAi; ifECOUDS. 447\\nthe former its Lieuteiiiint-Colonel killed, and Col. Harriiuan\\ntaken ])risoner. It also lost heavily at Spottsylvania, and\\nAvas engaged at North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersbnrg, and\\nall the series of engagements till the fall of Kichmond.\\nThe Eleventh saw hard service and always bore itself bravely\\nin every battle in which it took part. By order of the V^nv\\nDepartment, for meritorious conduct in battle, it had sub-\\ncribed on its banner, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson,\\nEast Tennessee, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna,\\nCold Harbor, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Grove Cluuch,\\nHatcher s Run, Petersburg.\\nThe following are the names of Haverhill men, an unusu-\\nally large quota in the Ele\\\\ enth Regiment\\nCaptain, J. LeRoy Bell, wounded.\\nCyrus Alden,\\nLevi B. Bisbee,\\nFrank B. Carr,\\nD. J. Coburn,\\nM. V. B. C^ady,\\nAV. W. Coburn,\\nRobert W. Haney, died at Haverhill,\\nGeorge W. Miller, died in hosjiital,\\nHenry Merrill,\\nJ. C. Pennock,\\nCharles F. Carr,\\nJames W. Sampson, died in hospital,\\nGeorge C. Swift, killed in action,\\nGeorge AW Woodward,\\nJoseph Willis,\\nW. C. Wetherbee, died at North Haverhill,\\nLewis Bean,\\nBenjamin Bixbee,\\nThomas Baxter,\\nRiley B. Cady, died in hospital,\\nHiram S. Carr, died at Woodsville,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0263.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "248 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nIra B. Gould,\\nAmos Lund, Jr.,\\nMoody C. Marston, wounded,\\nElias Moulton,\\nMartin Kogers,\\nGeorge Southard, died in hospital,\\nSolon Swift, died at Clareniont,\\nAlbert H. Teft,\\nOrrin M. Whitman,\\nAlbert U. Willey, died of wounds in hospital.\\nAdion Pike, died of wounds in hospital.\\nFIFTEENTH REGIMENT NINE MONTHS, COMPANY B.\\nThis regiment was part of the three hundred thousand\\nnine months men called for by the President in 1H()2. It\\nwas nuistered into service in November of that year, and\\nassigned to Gen. Banks army. Its commander was Col.\\nJohn W. Kingman. The regiment sailed from New York\\nin December for New Orleans, disembarking and remaining\\nin the vicinity for a short time, and then went to Baton\\nRouge to form a portion of the forces operating against\\nPort Hudson. It took a gallant and distinguished part in the\\nreduction of that city, being in the hottest of the fight, and\\nmaking most heroic charges upon the entrenched city. The\\nsiege lasted over two months, when on July Uth the rebel\\nforces surrendered. The regiment soon after returned home.\\nThe following are the names of Haverhill men enlisted in\\nthis regiment\\nLieutenant, James A. Page.\\nSergeant, George W. Pennock.\\nJames Buckland, deserted,\\nKoyal F. Clark,\\nCharles Carpenter, second enlistment 1st Reg. Heavy Artil-\\nlery\\nR. C. Drown,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0264.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "AVAR UfX ORDS. 249\\nJames G. Olynn, died in ^linuesota,\\nEthan O. Harris,\\nJohn Hackett,\\nH. P. Kidder,\\nAiken Latherbush,\\nLewis Latherbush,\\nSylvester W. Marden,\\nGeorge C. Smith,\\nCharles G. Perkins, died in hospital New Orleans, La.,\\nCaleb Knight, died at Lowell, ]NLiss.,\\nJohn D. Brooks,\\nX. D. Brooks, died at Lisbon,\\nE. J. L. Clark,\\nD. C. Dunklee,\\nFrank Ferguson,\\nHylus Ilackett, died in hospital,\\nX. S. Hannaford,\\nGeorge F. Keyes, second enlistment 1st Keg. Heavy Artil-\\nlery,\\nGeorge W. Leith, wounded, second enlistment 1st Reg;.\\nHeavy Artillery,\\nCalvin Pen nock,\\nJohn C. Shelley, Avoundcd, died at Haverhill,\\nEIGHTEENTH REGIMENT ONE YEAR CO.MRANY E.\\nThe Eighteenth regiment was enlisted in July, 18(54,\\nunder a call for five hundred thousand volunteers. It con-\\nsisted at first of only six companies, and was under the com-\\nmand of Lieut. Col. Joseph ]\\\\L Clough till the spring of\\n18( 5, when the remaining companies were added, and Col.\\nThomas L. Livermore assumed command. It was stationed\\n;it City Point and on the James river for a time, and then\\nordered to the front. It took })art in the recapture of Fort\\nSteadman after that fortress fell into the hands of the enemy,\\nand was placed in the fort, a position of great importance", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0265.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "250 HISTOHY OF HAVEHIIILL.\\nand danger, as a constant fire was ke})t up on both sides.\\nLater the enemy again assaulted the fort, but was quickly\\nrepulsed by the Eighteenth, but with the loss of ^Nlajor\\nBrown who fell in the action. Afterwards the regiment was\\nordeix d to make a charge on the rebels in front of Fort\\nSteadman, but finding them in full force the attack was\\nabandoned. On the 3d of April after the fall of Petersl)urg\\nthe Eighteenth marched into the city of Richmond, and then\\nsoon after went to Washington, where it did (juard duty\\nduring the trial of the assassins of President Lincoln. The\\nregiment was mustered out at Concord in the summer of\\n18(i5. The career of the Eighteenth was short but honor-\\nable, and by order of the AVar Department the names of the\\nfollowing engagements were placed upon the colors of the\\nregiment\\nFort Steadman, ]\\\\Iarch 25, 1 S(35 attack on Peters-\\nburg, April 2, 18()5 capture of Petersburg, April 3,\\n1865.\\nSergeant, Harlan S. Blanchard, died at Haverhill.\\nFrank D. Davis, killed on railroad.\\nO. S. Hicks,\\nDon F. Willis,\\nLevi Bradish, died in Minnesota,\\nS. H. Butterfield,\\nJoseph Came, deserter at Concord,\\nSimeon E. Puffer,\\nPearson Wallace.\\nFIRST REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY ONE YEAR COM-\\nPANY L.\\nThis regiment began to be recruited in sections in 18()3.\\nAt first there was only two companies, then four, and after\\nten companies were raised they were organized into a regi-\\nment. Col. Charles H. Long was its commander. The\\nearly companies did garrison duty at Portsmouth before the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0266.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "WAU ItECOIIDS. 251\\nregiment \\\\vas i)laced on duty in the fortifications around\\nAVasliington. Two batteries returned to Portsmouth in the\\nfall and winter of 18(14-5. The remaining companies garri-\\nsoned a line of works ten miles in extent, and gained great\\n})roficiency in artillery drill. Tiie regiment was mustered\\nout of service in June, 18( 5. The history of this organiza-\\ntion is brief and not of startling interest, but it rendered\\nvaluable service at a critical time. ]VIost of the men had\\nseen from one to three years service in the earlier period of\\nthe war.\\nCorporal, Orrin Simpson,\\nEzekiel Day, died in hospital, Washington, I). C,\\nJoseph Deland,\\nHenry M. Miner, died at Haverhill,\\nJohn Stearns,\\nPatrick Baldwin,\\nJohn Day,\\nCharles Goodwin,\\nC. J. Pike,\\nGeorge AV. Woods.\\nFIllST CAVALRY THREE YEARS COMPANIES A, C, I.\\nThis regiment was raised in the spring of 1864. Four\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acomj)anies were formerly a part of the First Khode Island\\nCavaliy, and were raised in 18()1. The Xew Hampshire\\ncompanies forming a battalion, were commanded by Maj.\\nDavid B. Nelson. The winter was spent in camp at Con-\\ncord and at Pawtucket, R. I., and in March, 18(52, the I eg-\\niment was ordered to Washington and later to Warrenton\\nJunction to protect the Capital. Gen. Banks being driven\\nback in the Shenandoah alley the battalion was ordered\\nthere and did valoi ous deeds before Fort Poyal, capturing\\nmore prisoners than there were men in the battalion. It\\nwas also at Port Pepublic under Gen. Shields, when Gen.\\nPope s Army of Virginia was acting against Richmond by", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0267.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "252 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nway of Culpepper Court House, the regiment now united^\\nformed a part of his forces, and was conspicuous in all the\\nbattles of that disastrous campaign, South Mountain, Grove-\\nton, Second Bull Run and Chantilly, and in the retreat of\\nthe army it rendered valient service in protecting the rear,\\nand holding in check the enemy. Afterwards it was active\\nin Virginia, and took part in the engagement at Kelley s\\nFord, and was with Gen. Stoneman in his famous raid wherb\\nGen. Lee started on his Pennsylvania campaign, the regi-\\nment was sent to Thoroughfare Gap, where it defeated the\\nenemy, and then attacked Middleburg, but was forced to\\nI etreat after a brave and obstinate fight against superior\\nnumbers, cutting its way through the enemy s lines. The\\nregiment reached the main body of troojis a mere fragment.\\nIt was ordered to Gettysburg, and afterwards was in the\\nbattles of Bristow Station and Auburn.\\nIn January, 1864, the New Hampshire battalion was per-\\nmanently detached from the First Khode Island Cavalry, and\\nthe veterans of the battalion re-enlisting, formed the nucleus\\nof the First New Hampshire Cavalry. When organized, it\\nwas sent to Washington under command of Col. JohnL.\\nThompson, and took an active part in Grant s campaign\\nao^ainst Richmond. It was in Gen. AVilson s celebrated raid\\nalong the Welden railroad, in which it saw hard service.\\nAfterwards it was with Gen. Sheridan in Shenandoah Valley\\nand fought with great bravery in that campaign. The regi-\\nment was mustered out of service in July, 1865.\\nThe later recruits of this regiment were generally bounty-\\nmen, and as a class, were worthless, l)ut the first seven com-\\npanies were composed of the sons of Xew Hampshire and\\nwere brave and soldierly men who reflected honor upon the\\nState.\\nLieutenant, George Morrison.\\nSergeant, PI. H. Morrison.\\nCorporal, Hiram S. Kellum, died at Haverhill.\\ni", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0268.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "WAR KECOHDS. 253\\nXatt AVestgate, died in rebel prison Danville, Va., Jan. 7,\\n1865.\\nGeorge Cutting,\\nByron Carr, lost an arm in action,\\nJ. B. Davis,\\nEdwin St. Clair,\\nSimon Cutting,\\nSimon Elliott,\\nJerome Carr, died in rebel prison Danville, Va.\\nThe following Haverhill men enlisted in regiments in\\nother states\\nJohn Chapman, 17th Reg. Yt. Volunteers,\\nJames Boswell, 1st Reg. Vt. Cavalry,\\nHenry C. AVright, 12th lleg. Vt. Volunteers, died in hos-\\npital,\\nAVilliam Dean, 12th Reg. Vt. Volunteers,\\nAVesley Porter, Mass. Regiment, died in hospital,\\nLyford Bailey, 9th Vt. Volunteers, died in hospital,\\nJohn Copp, 9th Vt. Volunteers,\\nGeorge Copp, 9th Vt. Volunteers,\\nGeorge Perkins, 9th Vt. Volunteers,\\nRobert Arnold, 9th Vt. Volunteers,\\nSilas AVoodward, 9th A t. Volunteers, died in hospital,\\nJohn H. Day, 9tli \\\\t. Volunteers, second enlistment 1st\\nReg. X. H. Heavy Artillery,\\nChester M. Carleton, Missouri Regiment.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0269.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nTHE LAWYERS OF HAVERHILL.\\nMoses Dow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Allien Sprague John Porter Moses Dow, Jr. George M^oodward\\nJoseph Emerson Dow John Nelson Henry Hutchinson David Sloan Joseph\\nBell Samuel Courtland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edmund Carleton Hale A. Johnston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward 11.\\nOlcott Daniel Blaisdell Jonathan Bliss William H. Duncan Samuel C.\\nWebster\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathan B. Felton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Dickey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David H. Collins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jonas Darius\\nSleeper\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John S. Bryant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Page\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles E. Thompson George W.\\nChapman Charles R. MoiTison Nathaniel W. Westgate George F. Putnam\\nLuther C. IMorse Samuel T. Page\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel B. Page\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William F. AVestgate.\\nFrom the fact that Haverhill has been a shire town since\\n1773, she has held a more or less prominent position on\\naccount of her lawyers, some of whom have been amongst\\nthe ablest and most distinguished in the state. And as the\\nlegal profession has always exerted a powerful influence in\\nthe community, I have deemed it proper to sketch the lives of\\nall lawyers who have practiced their profession in the Town.\\nOf some only a few facts have been learned, whilst of others\\nof less note the biographies are necessarily brief. Of some,\\nhowever, the sketches have been made as full as the limits of\\nthe chapter would admit, and their character and fame is\\ngladly committed to this keeping.\\nMOSES DOW.\\nThe exact time when Gen. Dow came to Haverhill is not\\ncertainly known, but it must have been previous to 1774, as\\nin that year he was a})pointed by the Court of the General\\nSessions of the Peace to act as king s attorney in the absence\\nof the attorney-general. His native place was Atkinson,\\nand his father s name was John Dow. Of his early educa-\\ntion we have no information, but his academic course was\\npursued at Harvard College, from which he graduated in\\n1761). When and with whom he read law is also unknown.\\nHe began the practice of his profession in all probability at\\nHaverhill soon after his admission to the bar, and continued to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0270.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "LAWVEliS. 255\\ndo so till he was a[)pointetl a judge of the Court ot C oimnon\\nPleas, with an interru])tion of five years at Plymouth. He\\nwas also probably the earliest permanently settled lawyer of\\nCirafton county. He was unquestionably one of the strong\\nand leading lawyers in the early history of the Grafton\\ncounty bar, and held a prominent position not only in his\\nprofession, but also in popular esteem. His name occurs\\nrepeatedly in the town records as taking an active part in\\ntown affairs, and he filled various town offices from 17(So till\\ntoward the close of his life. In addition to these more local\\nplaces of service and honor, he was called into larger s})heres\\nof trust. For four years he was solicitor for Grafton county,\\nand from 1774, for a period of thirty years, he was I Cgister\\nof probate. In 1780-81 he represented the Town of Ha-\\nverhill in the legislature, and as early as 1790 he was a\\nmember of the state senate, of which body he was chosen\\npresident during his term of senatorial service. Previous to\\nthis he was a member of the governor s council. He was\\ninterested in military matters and was major-general of the\\nstate militia. In 1808 he was appointed a judge of the\\n(^ourt of Conunon Pleas for Grafton county, which office he\\nheld till the close of his life. Gen. Dow was also elected in\\n1784 to the Congress of the United States by the General\\nAssembly of New Hampshire, but declined the honor on the\\nground that he did not feel himself qualified for the high\\nresponsibilities of the position. In his letter to the governor\\nhe says As I have had no apprehension [no thought\\nof being called to so responsil)le a position] I had entirely\\nneglected every necessary preparation. Xhe pres-\\nent infirm state of my health, the real conviction of my ine-\\nquality to the business of the mission, render it extremely\\ndifficult, or rather impossible, for me to engage in a trust so\\narduous and interesting. The average congressman of\\nto-day would vote such modesty and patriotic conscientious-\\nness as l)lank idiocv.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0271.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "256 HISTORY OF HAVEIIHILL.\\nGen. Dow was the second postmaster of Haverhill. He\\ntook a deep interest in all local matters, and was active in\\nj)romoting the welfare of the Town. His name appears as\\none of the incorporators of Haverhill Academy, and he was\\na heavy subscriber to the stock, of a bridge company, for the\\npurpose of building a bridge across the Connecticut river at\\nHaverhill. He was the owner of the Dow form, so called\\nin local parlance, a tract of land two and a half miles\\nnorth of Haverhill Corner, where he resided during the early\\npart of his life, and after he moved to the Corner he lived\\nin the house now owned and occupied by Milo Bailey.\\nGen. Dow was a man of great independence of mind,\\nand early led oft in a protest against being taxed for the\\npreaching of the gospel. He was fond of discussion,\\nespecially the discussion of religious questions. In person\\nhe was tall and commanding, with dignified bearing and\\ncourtly manners. As a citizen he was enterprising, ener-\\ngetic, a true and earnest patriot, and a man of high charac-\\nter and fine literary attainments. His prominent standing in\\nhis profession, and his great abilities, made him not only a\\nforemost citizen of the Town, but eminent in the county and\\nin the state. Dartmouth College bestowed upon him the\\nhonorary degree of a. m. in 1785.\\nGen. Dow married Phebe Emerson, and they had four\\nchildren, two sons and two daughters. He died in Haver-\\nhill in 1811.\\nALDEN SPRAGUE.\\nAlden Sprague s ancestors came to Plymouth, Mass., from\\nPlymouth, England, in 1623, and were afterwards amongst\\nthe prominent people of Rochester, Mass. At what period\\nAlden came to Haverhill is not known, but it must have\\nbeen earlier than 1796, for in that year he was one of the\\nSelectmen of the Town. He is supposed to have pursued\\nhis professional studies in the oflfice of his half-ljrother, Hon.\\nPeleg Sprague, a prominent lawyer and a member of Con-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0272.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "LAWVEIIS. 257\\ngress in 1797\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1M ]\\\\Ii-. S[)rague married twice: first, a\\ncousin of liev. Ethan Smith s wife, said to have been a very\\nbeautiful woman. By this marriage there were two chikh en,\\nBetsy and Harriet. The former l)ecame the wife of James\\nI. Swan of Bath, a very able and distinguished lawyer whom\\nthe late Isaac Patterson said was the equal of Daniel Wel)-\\ngter in eloquence, both of whom on one occasion he heard in\\nan important case at Plymouth. Harriet married Hamlin\\nRand, father of the late Judge Pand of Lisbon, and Hon.\\nCharles W. Rand of Littleton. Mr. Sprague s second wife\\nwas Eunice Stoddard, said to have been a woman of remark-\\nable accomplishments, and they had five cliildren, two sons\\nand three daughters. The eldest, Xoah Paul, married Abiah\\nCarleton of Bath, and moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where he\\nengaged in mercantile life till his death. Only one of his\\nchildren survived infancy, Hon. E. C. Sprague who is now\\na prominent lawyer of Buffalo and author of the famous\\nSprague\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Clark letter in the Cleveland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Blaine campaign,\\nwhich refuted the Buftalo slanders against Mr. Cleveland.\\nMr. Sprague s second son, Alden, became a very eminent\\nphysician in western Xew York. C)f the daughters, ]Mrs.\\nEenton of Beloit, Wis., and Mrs. ^lartin of Peacham, Vt.,\\nare still living.\\nMr. Sprague was a distinguished member of the Grafton\\ncounty bar in its earlier days, and a man of prominence in\\nTown. He was a trustee of Haverhill Academy. In per-\\nsonal appearance he is describetl as tall and dignified, genteel\\nand manly in bearing, and was very fond of society, of which\\nhe was a great favorite, on account of his brilliant con\\\\ersa-\\ntions. He died at the ao-e of fortv.\\nThe following anecdote was related by one who knew ]Mr.\\nSprague. Col. Jonathan Tyler, one of the early settlers of\\nPiermont and a prominent man in its early history, having\\noccasion to consult jNIr. Sprague on some matter of law-\\nwent on to stale his case. The young lawyer paid no attcn-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0273.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "258 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ntion t(j him, but ke})t on writing. At length ]\\\\Ir. Tjlcr took\\nthe hint and put a doHar on the table, Avhen ]Mr. Sprague\\nrubbed his hands in satisfaction, and said he was now ready\\nfor business. Col. Tyler had a good memory. Some time\\nafter, Mr. Sprague made a bet with some one that he could\\nhunt more ])artridgcs than any other person. Col. Tyler\\nhad a famous hunting dog and Mr. Sprague secured his ser-\\nvices in the hunt, l)ut it was necessary for the Colonel to go\\nwith the doo- to direct him. Instead, however, of settinsT\\nthe dog on, he secretly by a motion of the hand kept the dog\\nback. After some trudging through the Piermont woods in\\nfruitless search of jiartridges, Sprague 1n-oke out, Tyler,\\nwhy don t he hunt? Whereupon Tyler dryly remarked\\nthat his dog never hunted until he got a dollar.\\nJOHN rOKTER\\nWas born in Haverhill in 17()9, and was the son of Col.\\nAsa Porter. He graduated from Dartmouth College in\\n17 S7, and read law in Chester. After [)ractising there for\\nsome years he returned to Haverhill about 17114 and re-\\nmained there till 1800, when he moved to Broone, Canada.\\nMOSES DOAV, .Til.\\nWas born in Haverhill and was the oldest son of Gen.\\nMoses Dow. He studied law with his father and was ad-\\nmitted to the bar in 1800, practising his profession from that\\ntime till 1838, In 1808 he was appointed register of pro-\\nbate, and continued to hold that office till l(So8. He was\\nalso for a munber of yeai s postmaster, but was removed by\\nGen. Jackson. He was not a man of much force of charac-\\nter, and took no prominent part in town matters. In the\\nfamous Dow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bell breach of j)romise case, Attorney Gen-\\neral Sullivan in speaking of Dow s testimony, said, Dow\\nappears pretty well, and generally has a ruffled shirt On, but\\nit isn t always clean.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0274.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS. 25S\\nGEORGE WOODWARD\\n\\\\Vas horn in Hanover in 1776, and was a grand. ^ou of the\\nelder President AViieeloek of Dartmouth College, from which\\ninsititiition he ra liiated in 17!)8. Ilis father was Judsre\\nlU zaleel Woodward of Hanover, and he began the practice\\nof law at Haverhill in 1(S()5, previous to which time he wfis\\ntreasurer of Dartmouth College for two years. He contin-\\nued at Haverhill till 1816, when he moved to Lowell, Mass.,\\nand resumed the practice of his profession in that city. He\\nwas married twice, his first wife being the daughter of Capt.\\nDavid AYebster of Plymouth, his second the daughter of\\nWilliam Leverett, a prominent citizen of AVindsor, Vt.\\nOne of his daughters by the last marriage is the wife of\\nJudge Warren Currier of St. Louis, ]Mo. .Vlso a son,\\nHenry, is living in St. Louis, and another, AVilliam, lives\\nin Brooklyn, X. Y. Mr. AYoodward was a man of promi-\\nnence and high character. He died in 1 S36.\\nJOSEPH E.AIEKSOX DOW\\nAYas the second son of Gen. Moses Dow, and was born in\\nHaverhill in 177 S. He studied at Haverhill Academy and\\nwas a graduate of Dartmouth College in 17!)U. His })rofes-\\nsional studies were pursued A\\\\ith his father, and he was\\nadmitted to the bar in 1802. It is not certain whether he\\nfirst began the practice of his profession at Haverhill or\\nStrafford, t., but in 1807 we find him located at Littleton,\\nthe pioneer lawyer of that town. He remained five year.s and\\nthen moved to Franconia. For a few years he lived in\\nThornton, and was postmaster in that place, but retin-ned to\\nFranconia in 1847, and died there in 18 )7. After leaving\\nLittleton he engaged in teaching, and faithfully discharged\\nthe duties incident to the office of a magistrate. It is\\nsaid when he was examined for admission to the bar the\\nonly question asked him was, AYhat is the best title a\\nperson can have in real estate? I don t know. Like", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0275.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "2 GO HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nhis brother he was noted more for negative than for positi^ e\\nquaUties. He was gentle and nnassuming in manners, and\\nwas averse to the turmoil and strife of business. He had\\nlittle standing in his profession, and practically abandoned it\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2after leaving Littleton.\\nMr. Dow married twice. His first wife was a woman of\\nhigh character and social standing, the daughter of Hon.\\nJonathan Arnold of liliode Island, at one time a member of\\nthe Continental Congress. Her father dying when she was\\nquite young, she was received into the family of Charles\\nMarsh of Woodstock, Vt., and thus became the adopted\\nsister of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, the eminent\\nscholar and diplomatist. One of their children was the late\\nMoses A. Dow of Boston, founder of Dow Academy in\\nFranconia.\\nMr. Dow married for his second wife Xancy Bagley of\\nThornton, who on one occasion, the story goes, when ]Mr.\\nDow was harrassed by the sherift stood her ground and\\nmade it too warm for the bailiff, introducing him to a sudden\\nbaptism of hot water.\\nJOHN NELSON\\nAVas one of the most prominent citizens of Haverhill dur-\\ning the early part of this century, and was a leading member\\nof the Grafton county bar. He was born in Exeter,\\nin 177S, but his parents moved when he was still a child\\nto Gilmanton. As a boy he early displayed talent\\nand was sent to Dartmouth College, graduating in 1830.\\nDaniel Webster was in college at the same time with him.\\nHe read law with Charles Marsh of Woodstock, Vt., and\\nlater in Boston, Mass., and then settled in Haverhill.\\nHe married twice, first, Susannah Brewster, daughter of\\nGen. Ebenezer Brewster of Hanover, and second Lois Burn-\\nham Leverett, daughter of John Leverett of AVindsor, Vt.\\nThe Leverett family came from England in 1G33, and was", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0276.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS. 2()1\\na leadinG* one in Boston, Mass., \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ivino; to the colonv a i ;ov-\\nernor and to the yonng college at Cambridge, a president.\\nMrs. Xelson Avas a woman of superior intellect, and of iiiiii-\\nsiial literary taste and culture. Of their large family, the\\neldest daughter, Mary Sewell, a woman of brilliant mind,\\nmarried Ira Perley of Concord, one of the most distin-\\nguished lawyers of New Hampshire and Chief Justice of\\nthe Supreme Court.\\nSusan Brewster became the wife of AVilliam C. Thomp-\\nson of Plymouth Martha and Frances, were the first and\\nsecond wives of William IJ. Hooper of Worcester, ^Nlass.\\nLois Leverett married David Dickey of Haverhill Sarah\\nmarried Samuel H. Goodall of Portsmouth, son of Ira\\nGoodall of Bath, and her sister Elizabeth became the second\\nwife of Mr. Goodall Anna Roby married William B. Fox,\\nand afterward George T. Kice, both of Worcester, Mass.\\nThomas Leverett, (see Chap. XIX) Ebenezer Brewster\\ndied in Texas, and AVilliam is living in St. Louis, Mo.\\nMr. Xelson was an able lawyer and ranked high at the\\nGrafton county l)ar, but his voice was rather feeble, and he\\ndid not possess the j)hysical power of Mr. Iiell. He was\\nassociated with Hon. Kichard Fletcher in the famous Dow-\\nBell breach of promise case. He was a man of j)ure charac-\\nter, most highly esteemed in the community, and of amiable\\n(lis[)osition. Both he and Mrs. Xelson were strongly anti-\\nslavery in their sentiments, and felt a lively interest in homo\\nand foreign politics. He was a man of few words, walked\\nwith measured step, so that he gained the title of Ad-\\nmiral, wore the old-time blue coat with brass buttons, and\\nwas tall and well-built.\\nIIENi;V m TCHINSOX\\nWas born in Lebanon in ITM and Avas the son of Aaron\\nHutchinson, a pioneer lawyer of Grafton county. Gi-aduat-\\ning from Dartmouth College in liS()4, he read law in the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0277.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "262 HISTOHY OF HAVEKHILL.\\noffice of his ththor, and was admitted to tlie bar in LsoT.\\nHe probably began the })ractice of his profession in Lel^anon\\nwith his fatlier, and in liSlO he went to Haverhill, remain-\\ning there till LSI when he moved to Hanover, where he\\ncontinued till 182, and then settled in New York. He\\nmarried a daughter of Judge Bezaleel AN oodward of Hano-\\nver. Mr. Hutchinson died in 183 S.\\nDA AID 8L()AX.\\nMr. Sloan was born in Pelham, Mass., in 1780, and\\ngraduated from Dartmouth College in 18()(). He worked\\nhis way through college, and earned some money by writing-\\ndiplomas. His professional studies were pursued with Judge\\nV\\\\\\\\ H. AVoodward of Hanover, and George AVoodward of\\nHaverhill, and he began the practice of his profession at the\\nlatter place, continuing to do so to the time of his death in\\n18()(). He did a large business, and is said to have been an\\nastute lawyer and a shrewd and practical business man.\\nHe acquired considerable property and was prudent in the\\ncare of it. In personal appearance he was somewhat indif-\\nferent, and was also quite eccentric in manners.\\nMr. Sloan married Hannah, daughter of Capt. Thomas\\nJohnson of Xewbury, At., and two of his sons Avere edu-\\ncated at Dartmouth College, but died early in life. Miss\\nLizzie Sloan, a daughter of David Sloan, is the only repre-\\nsentative of the family in Haverhill. Scott Sloan, P^sq., of\\nWells Iviver. At., is a grandson.\\nJOSEPH EELL\\nWas without doubt Ha-s erhill s most distinguished lawyer.\\nHe was born in Jk dford in 1787, the son of Joseph and\\nMary (Houston) Bell, and was of Scotch origin. He re-\\nceived his academic education at Dartmouth College, and\\ngraduated from that institution in 1807. For a year aftei-\\ng:raduating he was princi[)al of Haverhill Academy, and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0278.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "LAWVE1J8. 2i\\nthen j)iu ;uc (l lii.s law studies with lion. Samuel liell of\\nAmherst, Hon. Samuel Dana of Boston, and Judge Jeremiah\\nSmith of Exeter. He was admitted to the har and began\\nthe praetiee of his profession at Haverhill in 1811, and eon-\\ntinned there till 1^42, when he moved to Boston and entered\\nin partnershi[\u00c2\u00bb A\\\\ith the late Henry L. Durant. In his earlii r\\nprofessional career he was cashier of (xrafton Bank, and in\\nlater years he became its president. During his residence in\\nHa\\\\ erhill he held \\\\arious public positions, was solicitor for\\n(irafton countv, and also represented the Town for a num-\\nber of years in the legislature, and ran for Congress in is;},\\nAfter his remo\\\\al to Boston he was a member of the legisla-\\nture of Massa( husetts in l)()th branches, ami at one time lie\\nwas })resident of the Senate.\\nMr. Bell began his ])rofessional life in stiaightened circum-\\nstances, but by great industry, frugality, and careful invest-\\nment he amassed a large property. In tliis it is said he was\\naided by being the adn)inistrator of Col. Asa Porter s estate,\\nwho owned large tracts of land in To[)sham and Corinth. Vt.\\nThese lands were sold in 1)ulk and wei C bought up l)y a\\nsyndicate and afterwards sold out in small lots. The ti adi-\\ntion is still handed down that those who were in it made\\nlarge money.\\nHe was a close and industrious student, and early won a\\nfront place at the Grafton county bar, where for a long time\\nhe was its admitted leader. Practice became very extensi\\\\e\\nand hicratiM and reached into the neighboring counties.\\n.Vt forty years of age he had gained the full mastery of his\\npowers and as the leader of the Graftt)n county bar, he had\\nto defend this position against such able men in the profes-\\nsion as George Sullivan, Ezekiel Webster, Icabod Bartlett.\\nJoel Parker, Levi oodi)urv and Chief Justice Jeremiah\\nSmith. These contests drew forth all the powers of his\\nmind and his skill and leai-ning as a lawyer. He was distin-\\nguisluMl for the deliberate preparation of his cases and did", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0279.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "2 )4\\nHISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nni)t triLst to Others. In his knowledge of pleadings he was\\nvery particular, and did not allow his o|)ponents to escape\\nthe consequences of their mistakes or negligence. His great\\nability and learning in the law did not appear so conspicu-\\nously on great occasions as on questions that came up inci-\\ndentally in the trial of causes. His analysis of facts was\\nkeen and exhaustive, and he ]iossessed a wonderfully exact\\nlegal language. He was always a master of legal principles,\\nand could cite with great promptness the authorities and\\ncases that were pertinent to questions at issue. In argu-\\nment he was generally brief, and saw at a glance the strong\\nand salient })oints in an issue, and seized and dwelt upon\\nthese in presenting his case to the jury or to the court. His\\nexamination of witnesses was very direct, and he rarely dis-\\ncredited a witness. He was not diffuse and miscellaneous in\\nhis knowledge of law, Init thorough and exact, and there\\nwas little dis[)lay of his legal acquirements. He was always\\npromjit and orderly, all |)apei s were at hand and carefully\\nmarked, and when called for they could l)e furnished at once.\\nThe details of a case were carefully looked after, and nothing\\nwas left at loose ends. With clients and associate counsel\\nhe was patient and deferential, and listened attentively to all\\nthey had to say. Hon. Nathaniel A\\\\ ilson of Orono, Me.,\\nwho for a short time was in Mr. Belfs office sums up his\\nstanding as a lawyer Asa lawyer he was clear-headed,\\nkeen, discriminating, logical and thoroughly read. His in-\\nfluence with the court and with the jury was very marked,\\nand his services were always in demand.\\nIn manner ^Nlr. Bell w as somewhat severe and over-bear-\\ning. In the examination of witnesses and in his address to\\nthe jury he spoke in loud tones which was due, it is said, to\\nhis extreme diffidence, and by a singular mental constitution\\nhe seemed to gain confidence as his voice rose. He was less\\nsuccessful before the jury, however, than befoi-e the court.\\nThis was owing in part to the shock he gave the jury by his", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0280.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "I,A^\\\\ vi:i;s. 265\\nimpcnous nuiniu i and t orcctul 8[)eeeli. He wa.s not distin-\\nguished for his persuasiveness Avith a jury, gently iind kindly\\nleading them along over the difheulties of the ease, but his\\nmanner Avas such as rather to drive the jury before him by\\nmain force. As a consequence he was stronger as a lawyer\\nthan as an advocate. He was more learned than Moses\\nDow, though less brilliant than Alden Sj)raguc. With his\\nbrethren he was always honorable and high-minded, and was\\nfar removed from low tricks either to gain or to hold clients.\\n]Mr. Bell was a very exacting man and held everybody to\\nthe strictest account. He once discharged his butter-man\\nwho had agreed to furnish him butter for twelve and a half\\ncents a pound, but in looking over the bill he discovered that\\nthe man had carried out one pound at thirteen cents. He\\nsaid nothing, l)ut inf )rmed the man that he need not bring\\nany more l)utter, without, however, explaining to him the\\nreason. This was his method of treating all persons who\\npresented l)ills to him. He })romptly paid their face, but\\nwoe to the person ever after if he detected the slightest error\\nin their accounts. Once in a while he got treated to his own\\nmedicine to the great delight of those who knew his exacting\\nways. He was accustomed when he took gilt-edged paper\\nto file these away and let the interest do its work, whilst he\\nattended more closely to less reliable obligations. It so\\nhappened that he held a man s note in Kumney for a large\\nsum, and regarding the ])aper {)erfectly good, as was the fact,\\nhe overlooked the date of its out-law. Kunning over his\\njtajiers one day he discovered that this note had ])assed the\\nlimitation of statute. He got his brother-in-law Thom])Son\\nto go and see the man, and try if he could not ih some way\\nget him to acknowledge the note. lint the debtor was an\\nadroit person, knowing full well that if he was in Bell s\\nhands no mercy would be shown him, and after Thompson\\nhad felt his pecuniary pulse, he coolly remarked, Mr.\\nThompson, if I owe Mr. I ell anything, putting special", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0281.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "266 HISTORY OF HAAEUHILL.\\nein])hat5is on tlic word owe, I am alnindiintly able to pay\\nhim. As the money-king of the phice most [)ersons feared\\nMr. Bell, though many were compelled to seek his aid. He\\nalways did as he agreed, but he was sure to make a close\\nagreement in the start.\\nMr. Bell carried his imperious manner somewhat into\\nsocial life, but with intimate friends he is said to have been\\na most agreeable and companionable person. xVltliough he\\nrose from humble circumstances he was a natural-born aristo-\\ncrat. He was much alone, and rarely spent any time in the\\nsame I ooni with his students of whom he usually had two or\\nmore in his office, yet he was always ready to impart any\\ninformation which was sought l)y them, and was much grati-\\nfied to aid them in their studies. His office was his throne\\nof empire. He was accustomed to walk to church alone,\\napart from his family, with his hands folded under his coat\\ntails, and gave the impression of a proud and aristocratic\\nman\\nSpeaking of Mr. Bell being a pi-oud man the following\\nincident is told of him As he advanced in years his eyes\\nbegan to fail him, but he j)ersistently resisted the decline of\\nhis sight. So on one occasion in court he undertook to read\\na paper which was written in rather small style, and he had\\nto hold it out at arm s length. His keen opponent knowing\\nhis ])ride in resisting glasses, said to him Brother Bell,\\nyou ll either have to get glasses or a pair of tongs.\\nMr. Bell was finely connected by marriage, having for his\\nwife a very accom})lished woman, a daughter of one of the\\nfirst families of the times Mills Olcott s of Hanover. This,\\nhowever, ImAight him into serious trouble, and he was com-\\npelled to defend himself in court on a charge of breach of\\npromise, which was brought by Miss Dow, daughter of Gen.\\nMoses Dow. The case was tried twice, in the first trial the\\njury disagreeing, but in the second the jury gave a verdict in\\nhis favor.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0282.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS. 2G7\\nAfter Mr. BelTy unirriage he concliuled to iii;ikc Haverhill\\nhis life-home, but a.s years of pros])erity rolled on and his\\nmeans began to aceunuilate, a new pressure fired his heart.\\nlie became and)itious of political pi-eferment, in which it is\\nsaid his wife shared his feelings, and that it was largely due\\nto her urgency that he finally broke up and went to Boston,\\nwhere the political soil was more favorable to his aspirations\\nthan in iron-clad Democratic New Hampshire.\\nMr. Bell fought his way up over all obstacles to wealth\\nand distinction. He was a high-})riced lawyer for those\\ndays, but he is said to have l)een entirely honorable in his\\nprofessional conduct. He had just Aiews of the grounds and\\nelements which are necessary in order to give professional\\nsuccess. To his son he said Your standing at the bar\\ndepends entirely upon your industry, assiduity, and diligence\\nin your profession.\\nMr. Bel] had a family of five children, only one of whom\\nis now living, Mrs. Dr. U])ham of Keene. His son, Jose])h\\n]Mills, was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1844, and\\nread law with his father. He was a partner with Kufus\\nChoate whose daughter he married. During the Rebellion\\nhe served on the staff of Gen. Butler at New Orleans, and\\nwas afterwai ds appointed judge of the Recorder s Coui-t in\\nthat city. He is said to have been a man of fine ability and\\nlar^e lej^al culture.\\nMr. Bell came near losing his life from an attack of lock-\\njaw which was caused by ste])ping on a nail when the Acad-\\nemy building was burned, and he continued in feel)le health\\nfor some years after. He received the highest honors of his\\nAlma Mater, the degree of ll.d. in 1887. He died sud-\\ndenly at Saratoga, in 1851, of heart disease which had pur-\\nsued him for some years. Once whilst in Europe he suffered\\nso se\\\\ere an attack as greatly to alarm him. In ])hysi(|ue\\nAir. Bell was rather lai ge and strongly built, of command-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0283.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "26S\\nHISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ning presence, with over-hanging eye-brows beneath a well\\nformed and intellectual head.\\nSAMUEL CARTLAXD\\nWas a law^ cr in Haverhill from 188. to 1 S88, and came to\\nHaverhill from Lee, where he was born in 17*J7, and where\\nhe also received his earlier education. He graduated from\\nDartmouth College in 181(i. He was })rominent in political\\nlife, being a state senator in 1829\u00e2\u0080\u009480\u00e2\u0080\u009431 from the old\\nTwelfth district, and was president of the senate the first\\nand last vear of his senatorial service. He was also actino-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iovcrnor in 1881 for two davs, the governor havins; resio-ned,\\nthe president of senate became acting governor until a\\nsuccessor could be inauiiurated, and Mr. Cartland beinir\\npresident of the senate for that year, the honor of the\\ngovernorship fell to him for the short period named. He\\nwas also judge of probate. He stood high as a lawyer, and\\nwas a man of ability and character. Socially he was genial\\nand attractive, of accom[)lished and gentlemanly manners,\\nand most kindly feelings. His force and energy were not\\nas conspicuous as his intellectual ability, but his ambition\\nwas large and was never fully satisfied. He is said to have\\naspired to a seat in Congress, and failing in that he went\\nSouth for a time and afterwards to Maine, where he died at\\nthe age of forty-three. Tn physi(|ue he was of average build.\\nEDMUND CAIiLETOX\\nWas the son of Dr. Ednunid Carleton of Haverhill, a l)hy-\\nsician in his day of wide note, and was born in 171)7. He\\nreceived his early education at Haverhill Academy, and\\ngraduated from Dartmouth College in 1S22. After grad-\\nuating he taught in A irginia, and also read law with William\\nGarnett of Tappahannock. Returning to Haverhill he fin-\\nished his law studies with Jose[)h Bell, and was admitted to\\nthe l)ar in 1828. He began the jiractice of his profession at", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0284.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS. 21)9\\nHaverhill, and later t ettled in Littleton. As a lawyer he\\nwas averse to controversy, and preferred peaceful settlements\\nof difficulties. He was well e(|uipped for his profession, but\\nill health compelled him to abandon the law, and he engaged\\nin active business. He was noted for his stronjr abolition\\nsentiments, and was a man of strict conscientiousness. He\\nmarried in 1836 Mary Kilburn Coffin, and their son Edmund\\nis now living in Littleton.\\nHALE A. JOIIXSTOX\\nWas a grandson of Col. Charles Johnston, and was born in\\nHaverhill in 1801. His pai*ents were Capt. ]\\\\Iichael and\\nSarah (Atkinson) Johnston. He was educated at Haverliill\\nAcademy and at Dartmouth College, graduating from the\\nlatter institution in 1825. After leavino- colleo-e he taught\\nfor a while in an academy at Xorthumbcrland, Pa., and\\nthen read law for a time with Joseph ^NIcKeen of Xew York,\\nand finished with Joseph Bell, He was admitted to the l)ar\\nin 1829 at Haverhill, and began the practice of Ins profes-\\nsion there, but his career as a lawyer was brief, and he died\\nof consumption in 1831. He is said to have been a man of\\nhopeful professional prospects, and of a trained intellect.\\np:i)Waki) k. olcott.\\nEdward R. Olcott was the son of Mills Olcott of Han-\\nover, and Avas born in 1805. He was a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth College in 1825, and pursued his professional studies\\nwith Joseph Bell. After his admission to the bar he began\\nthe practice of the law in Hanover in 1828, continuing there\\nfor a few years, and then moved to Haverhill in 1830. Sub-\\nsequently he went South to Louisiana, and attained, it is\\nsaid, to the position of a judge of that state. He died in\\n1869.\\nDAM EL I .LAISDELL,\\nDaniel Blaisdell was born in Pittsfield in Lsod, and was", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0285.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "270 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthe son of Hon. Elijah B. and Xancy (Fogg) Bhiisdell.\\nHis academic education was pursued at Kimball Union\\nAcademy and at Dartmouth College, and he was graduated\\nfrom the latter institution in 1827. His law studies were\\n})ursued in the office of Joseph Bell, and he was admitted to\\nthe bar in 1S30. For a few years he practiced his profession\\nwith John Xelson of Haverhill, but afterwards, in 1882, he\\nmoved to Lebanon. He became treasurer of Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1835, and held that ])osition till the time of his\\ndeath. Meantime he continued in the practice of his profes-\\nsion, and was a constant attendant at court till near the close\\nof his life.\\nMr. Blaisdell was frequently called to places of trust and\\nhonor. He represented the town of Hanover in the legisla-\\nture in 1839-40\u00e2\u0080\u009441, and again in 18()5-(3, and was a state\\nsenator in 18(i3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4. He was also a })residential elector in\\n18 GO on the Republican ticket. In religious sentiment he was\\na disciple of Dr. Channing and a man of exemplary habits\\nand high character. He was conservative and cautious in\\naction, and deliberate and exact in speech. His manners\\nwere courteous and refined, and he was a gentleman of the\\nold school. As a lawyer he Avas painstaking and well read,\\nand judicious as a counsellor. In personal appearance he\\nwas dignified and attractive, of full medium mould, neat in\\nhis dress, with heavy eye-brows and firm mouth, and his\\ngeneral look was that of a scholarly and cultured man.\\nHe married Charlotte Osgood of Haverhill, and died in\\n1875. A son of Mr. Blaisdell is constructing engineer iu\\nthe navy yard at Brooklyn, and a daughter married Prof.\\nRuo-o-les of Dartmouth College.\\nJONATHAN BLI88.\\nJonathan Bliss was born in Randolph, Vt., in 1799. His\\nparents were Jonathan and ]\\\\Iaria (^Martin) Bliss, and he\\ngraduated from Dartmouth Colleo-e in 1824. His law studies", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0286.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "LA \\\\VVEKS. 271\\nwere pursued in the office of Joseph Bell, W. C. Thompson\\nof Plymouth, and at Xorthampton, ]VIass., and he began the\\npractice of his profession at Plymouth in 1828. In 1H82 he\\nmoved to Haverhill, and continued his profession there till\\n181)6, when he Avent to Gainsville, Ala., where he practiced\\nlaw to the close of his life in 1879. ]Mr. Bliss was success-\\nfid as a lawyer, and at one time had accunudated a large\\nproperty, nnich of which was swept away by the Rebellion.\\nHe was a man of business affairs, and a successful ad\\\\()cate.\\nAt the beginning of the war he was a Union man, but\\nyielded to the sentiment around him. In })hysique he was\\nlarge and well-built,- somewhat striking in looks and of com-\\nmanding presence. He married for his first wife Lucretia,\\ndaughter of William Leverett of Windsor, Vt., for his sec-\\nond, Mary, daughter of Dr. Samuel Kidder of Charlestown,\\n]Mass., and for his third, Maria Kidder of Medfield, ]N[ass.\\nWILLIAM II. Dl XCAN.\\nThis gifted person was born in Candia, then apart of Lon-\\ndonderry, in 1807, and was an only child. His father,\\nWilliam D., and liis mother whose maiden name was Mary\\nMcMm j)hy, Avere both Scotch Iiish. His early years were\\npassed in his father s store, for which, however, he had little\\ntaste and soon after he entered Pinkerton Academy, Derry,\\nto fit for college. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1830,\\nbeing amongst the more mature members of his class, and\\nhaving for his commencement part the valedictory. Three\\nyears later he gave the master s oration.\\nMr. Duncan s fascinating manners and brilliant talents\\nmade him a favorite with the young ladies of Hanover, one\\nof whose most beautiful and accomplished belles, Sarah\\nOlcott, daughter of Mills Olcott, a distinguished citizen and\\nlawyer of that place, he afterwards married. Two of ]Mr.\\nOlcott s daughters were already married, one toRufus Choate\\nand another to Joseph Bell, and he was tluis l)rought into", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0287.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "272 HISTORY OF HAVEUHILL.\\nintimate acquaintanceship with some of the leading men of\\nthe times. When he was a senior in college he visited Mr.\\nChoate in Salem, Mass., and heard Mr. Webster s argument\\nin the famous Knapp murder case.\\nAfter leaving college Mr. Duncan went South and en-\\no-a ied in teachinfj school for some vears. Meantime he\\nstudied law, and was admitted to the bar in Charleston, S. C.\\nHe returned to New IIani})shire in 1834 and was married to\\nSarah Olcott, and began the practice of the law at Havei hill,\\nbut in a few years, on account of Mr. Olcott s failing health,\\nhe returned to Hanover to assist his father-in-law in his mul-\\ntiplied business. The large practice which he soon acquired\\nwas interrupted by the health of his wife, which made it\\nnecessary for him to pass the winters in the South, and this\\nprofessional interruption was greatly aggravated by the set-\\ntlement of Mr. Olcott s large estate as well as that of Mrs.\\nOlcott, the former dying in 1845, the latter in 1848. Mrs.\\nDuncan died in 1850, which greatly broke him up, and in a\\nmeasure he withdrew from very active participation either in\\nprofessional business or in general matters. He led mean-\\ntime a quiet and lonely life in Hanover for thirty years,\\nhaving rooms and an office in a business block and boarding\\nat the hotel.\\nBut he was a landmark after all. Commencement day at\\nDartmouth College saw him in lively and pleasant chat with\\nthe returnino; ijraduates who knew him in years gfone bv.\\nHis life may be said to have been a failure for two rea-\\nsons. First, he was two sensative and retiring for the\\nrough-and-tmnblc work and competition of the world, and\\nsecond, the circumstances of his life diverted him from the\\nearnest and imtiinching pursuit of his profession, in which\\nwithout doubt his unquestioned ability would have })laced\\nhim amongst the foremost lawyers of the state, especially as\\nan accomplished and masterful advocate. He was a natural-\\nl)orn orator. Had he entered the walks of politics, which", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0288.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "LAWYEltS. 273\\nhowever were distasteful to his refined and sensitive nature,\\nhe would doubtless have risen to the highest positions of\\nhonor and trust. At one time he was prominently thought\\nof as a candidate for governor, but the matter received no\\nencouragement from liim.\\nAt another time he was put forward as a tentative candi-\\ndate for the United States senatorship, and it Avas arranged\\nfor him to speak at some of the more important points in the\\nstate on public issues. This was in incipient Know-Noth-\\ning time, and his political opponents were very anxious to\\nget hold of his first speech, so as to anticipate his appearance\\nin other parts of the state. The opening speech was at\\nHanover, his home, and a young man, a member of Dart-\\nmouth College, was engaged to take down the speech in\\nshort-hand. So when the time came, the short-hand writer\\nwas promptly in his place near the platform, but Mr. Duncan\\nhaving been apprised of what his political opponents were\\nattempting, in order to thwart their designs, spoke against\\ntime in a rambling Avay upon all sorts of subjects, interlard-\\nino; his remarks witli numerous anecdotes and laug-hable inci-\\ncidents, in the hope of wearing out the reporter. That\\ngentleman, however, was instructed to take down the speech\\nverbatim et literatim, and whatever dropped from the lips of\\nthe speaker was regarded as grist for the reporter s dio})-\\nper, and so down went incident and anecdote, sense and\\nnonsense, sober and light, and page after page were thrown\\noff, till at last, after telling a very absurd and most ludicrous\\nstory which of course the short-hand man took down, Mr.\\nDuncan turned to liim and with indescribable dramatic ex-\\npression and painfulness of countenance, showing his fine\\nsense of the fitness of things, For God s sake, ]\\\\Ir.\\nReporter, don t put that down\\nMr. Duncan was a gentleman of the old school, graceful\\nand elegant in manners, true in his friendships, of a gentle\\nand winning spirit, one of the most charming social persons", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0289.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "274 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nto be met with, and as a conversationalist could grace any\\npresence. In politics a conservative Democrat, in religion a\\nmost devout Episcopalian. He died in 1883 and was buried\\nat Hanover.\\nSAMUEL C. WEBSTER.\\nSamuel C. Webster was the son of David Webster of\\nPlymouth, and was born there about 1787. He graduated\\nfrom Dartmouth College in 1808, and read law with George\\nWoodward. After his admission to the bar he began the\\npractice of his profession in 1812 at Plymouth, where he\\nspent the chief part of his professional life, except the short\\ntime he lived in Haverhill, wlien he was high sheriff. There\\nis some doubt in regard to his practicing law at Haverhill.\\nHe was speaker of the house of representatives of New\\nHampshire in 1830, and was a man of ability and influence.\\nHe married Catharine, daughter of Moor Russell, and died\\nin Haverhill in 1835.\\nNATHAN B. FELTON.\\nNathan B. Felton was born in Pelham, Mass., now Pres-\\ncott, in 17U8. Of his early years nothing is known until he\\nbegan to fit for college at Chester, Vt., where he remained\\nabout a year and a half, and then entered the junior year at\\nMiddlebury College, Vt. After graduation he immediately\\nentered the office of Gen. Charles W. Field of Newfime, Vt.,\\nand was admitted to the bar at that place in 1824. In the\\nsame year he began the practice of his profession at Leb-\\nanon, where he remained about ten years, holding in the\\nmeantime the position of postmaster under President Jack-\\nson. Mr. Felton came to Haverhill in 1834, and continued\\nto live here till the time of his death in 1876, the greater\\npart of the time in the full practice of the law. He was\\nclerk of the court for ten years, and also held the office of\\nregister of probate. He served the Town for some time as", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0290.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "LAAVYEKS. 275\\ntown clerk, and was also a representative to the Icgislatiu c\\nfor several years.\\n]Mr. Felton was slightly below medium stature and of\\nslender frame, with l)ushy head and shaggy eye-brows, firm\\nmouth and thoughtful face. Intellectually he was am})ly\\nendowed, with large capacity of acquisition. He fitted for\\nthe junior class in college in eighteen months from the time\\nhe began to study Latin and Greek, an extraordinary feat\\neven in those days when the requirements were not so exact-\\ning as they are now for entering college. He was fond of\\nhis books, and took great pleasure in following out in^-estiga-\\ntions to the end, as far as his means of knowledge would\\nallow. This habit made him a thorough lawyer, whose opin-\\nion was desirable and trustworthy for such as wished to know^\\nthe law in a given matter. One who knew him well, and is\\neminently qualified to judge in the matter, pays this high\\ntribute to his legal standing and acquirements, Mr. Felton\\nAvas a careful, painstaking and learned laAvyer. The late\\nWilliam H. Duncan once remarked to me that Chief Justice\\nPerley said to him that in knowledge of court procedure,\\nMr. Felton had no superior in the state, and that he himself\\non several occasions while holding court, had called in ]Mr.\\nFelton s aid in reference to such matters. Plis mind was\\neminently judicial.\\n]Mr. Felton Avas a man of marked integrity, in whose\\ntrustw^orthiness the entire community had the fullest confi-\\ndence, and his death was sincerely mourned by all who knew\\nhim. He Avas a man of fcAV Avords, but always Avcighed well\\nAvhat he said, quiet in his manners and of a subtle humor,\\nand is said rarely to have carried to his home the cares and\\nper])lexities of his professional Avork. He Avas a man of\\ngreat kindness of heart, and Avas a genuine friend of the\\npoor and dependent, and the services Avhich he rendered this\\nclass of the community Avas no inconsiderable item in his long\\nprofessional career. He Avas far above the average of even", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0291.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "276 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\neducated persons in intellig cnce, and had always within reach\\nboth at his office and at his home a standard encyclopedia.\\nHe lived a plain and unostentatious life, and was one of the\\nmost esteemed members of the l)ar and of the community.\\nMr. Felton married Ann jVI. Keding, sister of Hon. John\\nR. Reding and of the late Silvester Reding.\\nDAVID DICKY.\\nDavid Dicky came to Haverhill from Epsom about 1838-9,\\nbut he did not remain there many years. He was born in\\n1806, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1835,\\nrather late in life. He is said to have beeji a man of good\\nability, but lacked ambition and pur})Ose in his profession,\\nand was rather given to money-making. He married a\\ndaughter of John Nelson of Haverhill.\\nDAVID H. COLLINS.\\nDavid H. Collins was a lawyer in Haverhill from 1839 to\\n1843. He was born in Deerfield in 1812, and received his\\ncollegiate education at Dartmouth College, graduating from\\nthat institution in 1835. He held the office of register of\\nprobate for several years, and Avhilst in that position did ex-\\ncellent service in arranging the papers and making an index,\\nso that the Grafton county office was one of the best ordered\\nin the state. He was a man of nuich literary taste, and\\npossessed a fund of wit and humor. He stood high in college\\nas a scholar, and gave considerable attention to the study of\\nliterature and political science in his. short life. His letters,\\nit is said, show a fresh, keen and observing mind, and his\\nstyle is pure and polished. He was esteemed by those who\\nknew liim best as a man of fine intellectual ability, even\\nbrilliant, and was considered one of the most jn-omising\\nvounof men in the state. In manners he was gentlemanlv\\nand refined, tending to a trifle of singularity, and was re-\\ngarded as a little reserved by casual acquaintances, but with\\nhis intimate friends he was always the center of interest and\\nI", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0292.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "LAAVYEUS. 277\\nsociability. In person he was tall and slender, with strong^\\nfeatnres, and Avithal a man of most worthy character.\\nOwing to poor health he went from Haverhill to his native\\n[)lace, and died there of consumption at the age of thirty-\\none. He was an Episcopalian in religion, and left the larger\\npart of his property to religious purposes. The last winter\\nof his life he spent in the South.\\nJONAS DAKIUS SLEEPER.\\nJonas Darius Sleeper, son of Jonas and Sally (Bean)\\nSleeper, Avas born in Gilford in 1814, and came to Haverhill\\nin IS-IS. In that year he was appointed clerk of the court\\nfor Grafton county, and held that position till 1860, Avhen\\nhe accepted the cashiership of the State Capital Bank of\\nConcord. This last trust he held only one year, and was\\nthen appointed clerk of the court for Merrimack county, the\\nduties of which he continued to perform to the close of his\\nlife. He was a director in the State Capital Bank from 18(51\\nto 1865, and continued such after the bank was changed to the\\nNational State (J a[)ital Bank.\\n]\\\\Ir. Sleeper was a thoroughly trained man, and received\\nhis academic education at Gilmanton Academy and at New\\nHampton, and afterwards graduated from Brown s Univesity,\\nR. I., in 1836. After leaving college he entered the office\\nof Hon Josiah (^uincy of Rumney, wdiere he remained three\\nvears pursuing his professional studies, and was admitted to\\nthe l)ar in 1843. Soon after he began the practice of his\\nprofession at Hill, and remained there about six years.\\nMr. Slee[)cr was elected a state senator for Grafton county\\nfor two terms, and was a man of utmost integrity and unim-\\npeachable character. His abilities by nature and l)y training\\nwere of a high order, and in the discharge of the various\\nduties, which important positions placed upon him, he was\\nscru[)ulously faithful and trustworthy. He is descrilx d by\\none who knew him well, as a gentleman in his dejiortment", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0293.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "278 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nat all times, an honest man, one of the best of citizens, a\\nvery able, faithful and popular clerk of the court, and a\\nfriend to everybody and everybody a friend to him.\\nMr. Sleeper was a singularly social man and a very genial\\ncompanion. His life was most exemplary, and his habits\\nwere ah\\\\ ays correct. He was a man of generous impulses\\nand actions, and was cordially helpful in a quiet and unob-\\ntrusive way in all deserving endeavors. In 1845 he married\\nMartha Grace, daughter of Hon. Josiah Quincy, and died in\\nPlymouth whilst engaged in a referee case in 1858.\\nJOHX 8. BRYANT.\\nMr. Bryant was born in Meredith in 1800, and after leav-\\ning his native place he lived in Bristol till 1839, and then\\nmoved to Haverhill. He was deputy sheriff for Grafton\\ncounty for a number of years, and pursued also the business\\nof a surveyor of lands. During these years he devoted his\\nleisure hours to the study of Latin and the law, and was\\nadmitted to the bar at Haverhill in 1846, where he practiced\\ntill his death in 1873. Mr. Bryant was a self-made man.\\nand from the time he was thirteen years old he took care of\\nhimself. He was full of energy, industry and perseverance,\\nand enjoyed a good practice. In his early life he was inter-\\nested in military matters, and was a captain of volunteers.\\nHe was a man of agreeable and cheerful manners, and was\\nfond of conversation. Knowing the thorny path of those\\nwho rely upon themselves for an education, he was kind and\\nhelpful in aiding many during his lifetime in this direction.\\nHe was a constant attendant at church.\\nMr. Bryant married Hannah P. Edwards, and had a\\nfamily of three children. The son, George Franklin, died\\nwhilst a member of Dartmouth College, Ann became oNIrs.\\nGardiner Elliott, and lived for many years in the South, and\\nLouisa married Hon. George AV. Burleigh of Great Falls.\\nMrs. Elliott has a son, Georije Frank, an officer in the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0294.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0295.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "AZA-i-fi^\\n^r^^sf-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0296.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS. 279\\nUnited States navy, who was in the expedition in search of\\nthe Long exploration paity which was lost some years ago\\nin the Arctic regions.\\nDAVID PAGE.\\nMr. Page was born in Haverhill, Mass. in 1 S(II), and\\ncame to Haverhill in early life. He was educated at the\\ncommon schools and at the Academy, and read law witli\\nJames W. Wood of Burlington, Iowa. He was admitted\\nto the bar at Haverhill in 1844, and began the practice of\\nlaw there. Previous to his study of the law he was engaged\\nin teaching in Groton, Orford and Haverhill. At one time\\nhe was clerk in a store at Groton, and also enf :ao:ed in busi-\\nness in Haverhill, aside from his profession. He was a\\njustice of the peace, moderator of a town meeting in Groton,\\nselectman of Benton, auditor for Haverhill a number of\\nyears and was captain of militia. In all these places he was\\nfaithful and competent. He was a member of the Congre-\\ngational church.\\nHe married Margaret Taylor (jf Derry, and they had four\\nchildren. The oldest son died in infancy, Samuel T. (see\\ninfra), one of the daughters married Hon. Alvin Burleigh, a\\nprominent member of the Grafton county bar and speaker of\\nthe house of representatives in 1887, and the youngest\\ndaughter, Martha, died soon after her marriage to Mr.\\nAVhitney of Keene.\\nMr. Page was a kind hearted and peaceful citizen, unam-\\nbitiously })ursuing his profession, of gentle muincrs and\\nslender in person.\\nCIIAULES E. THOMPSOX.\\njNIr. Thom[\u00c2\u00bbson was born in 1802, was a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth College in the class of 1828. He practised law in\\nHaverhill till 185. and then went to Chicago. He married\\nMary Olcott oi Hanover. He was a man of ability, suave\\nin manners, and a favorite in societv. Xothini; stood be-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0299.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "280\\nHISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ntween him and professional success except enslavement to\\nappetite. He died in Xew Jersey in 1882, at the home of a\\ndaughter. Mrs. Thompson is still living, a charming old\\nladv in Washington.\\nGEORGE AV. CIIAPMAX\\nCame to Haverhill in 1858 from Hill, where he had been\\nengaged in the practice of his })rofession for several years.\\nHis academic education was pursued in Cleveland, Ohio, and\\nat Xorthfield and Hill Academy, and he read law for a time\\nAvith J. 1). Sleeper of Hill, and also with Xesmith and Pike\\nof Franklin, and was admitted to the Ijar at Plymouth in\\n1849. A large practice has rewarded his professional life,\\nand he is one of the older and more prominent lawyers at\\nthe (Irafton county l^ar. He has been Town superintendent\\nof school, a member of the board of trustees of Haverhill\\nAcademy, and is now president of the board. He is also\\npresident of the Bi adford Savings Bank, Vt. He is a man\\nof generous impulses, and of most cordial and hospitable\\ndis})osition, is fond of social life, and abounds in story and\\nanecdote, especially of the bar and court. ]\\\\Ir. Chapman\\nhas been successful in the accunudation of an am})le fortune,\\nand now lives in ease and somewhat retired from hard pro-\\nfessional duty. He married P^leanor Towle of Haverhill.\\nCHARLES R. .MORRISON.\\nJudge ^Morrison was of Scotch origin, and his ancestors\\nwere persons (_ f rominence. He was born in l-Sl J in Bath,\\nthe son of William and Stiva (Young) ^Morrison. His\\nmother was the daughter of Joshua and Abiah (Ladd)\\nYoimg, and a granddaughter of fludge Ezekiel Ladd of\\nHaverhill. He received his academic education at Newbury,\\nVt., and pursued the study of the law with Goodall\\nWoods of Bath. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and\\nfor a few years practiced his profession in partnership with\\n]\\\\Ir. Goodall. In 1845 he moved to Haverhill and continued", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0300.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0301.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "Ery -hi: S.B.JnaU s Son.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0302.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS. 2H1\\nti practice there till 1S )1, when he was appointed judge of\\nthe court ot oonunon pleas, which i)()siti( n he held tor four\\nyears, when the coiu ts were reoriianized. From IS to\\nl S()2 he practised his profession in Nashua, and in Manches-\\nter from 18()4 till he moved to Concord a few years ago. In\\nlH(i2 he Avas appointed adjutant of the 11th Regiment,\\nII. AOl., and served gallantly in the Wai of the Ke-\\nI)eUion till near its close, when he was compelled to leave his\\npost on account of a dangerous wound which he received at\\nSpottsylvania in the campaign against Kichmond. He was\\nalso in the battles of Fredericksburg, Vicksbiu-g, fJackson\\nand Knoxville.\\nJudge Morrison is one of the most learned lawyers in the\\nstate, with an acute and ci itical legal mind. He is the\\nauthor of several well-known law books, Digest of the\\nXew Hamjjshire Reports, New Hampshire Town Officers.\\nHe has also given much attention to literatin-e, especially to\\ntheological studies, and wrote a book Proofs of Christ s\\nResurrection from a Lawyer s Standpoint, a work which\\nhas been very highly spoken of by students in that line of\\nthought and favorably received by the theological mind. He\\nis a man of high character and a most excellent citizen. In\\nhis religious views he is a Congregationalist. He married\\nSusan F. Fitch of Littleton.\\nXATIIAXIKL W. WKST(;ATE.\\nJudge Westgate was born in Plaintield in 1. SOI, the son\\nof a farmer. His early education he received in the common\\nschools, and later he attended Kimball s Union Academy,\\nfrom which he graduated in 1820. After graduation he\\ntaught school during the winter, and his health not admitting\\nof his going to college, he entered the office of Hon. Charles\\nFlanders of Plaintield, and was admitted to the bar at Xew-\\n))ort in l S27. He began his })rofessional career at Enfield,\\nand remained there till lS Whilst at Kntield he held the", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0305.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "282 HISTORY OF HAVEIilllLL.\\noffice of school superintendent, Avas town clerk, and also\\npost-master a term of years. On several occasions he was\\nthe Repid:)lican candidate for state senator, but owing to the\\nstrong majority against his party he failed of an election.\\nIn 1(S56 he was appointed register of probate, and since that\\ntime he has lived in Haverhill. He held this office for five\\nyears, and was then appointed judge of probate, a position\\nwhich he filled till he was disqualified by constitutional limit-\\nation. He was also representative from Haverhill in 1861.\\nIn all these positions of trust and honor Judge Westgate\\nwas a faithful and trustworthy officer, bringing to his public\\nduties a i)atience, fidelity and integrity that made him justly\\nesteemed in the community in which he more immediately\\nlived, as well as by the larger public which he so long and\\nhonorably served. Before his appointment to the office of\\nregister of probate he had built up a successful professional\\nbusiness at Enfield, and after coming to Haverhill he con-\\ntinued the practice of his profession as far as his official\\nduties would admit, till within a few years. He has always\\nfelt a deep interest in all ])ublic matters, and shared with his\\nfellow citizens in all biu dens for the advancement of society.\\nHe is a man of much kindness of heart, an excellent neigh-\\nbor, a good citizen and enjoys the society of his friends.\\nJudge Westgate married for his first wife Lydia J.,\\ndaughter of Dr. Prentiss of Springfield. His second wife\\nLouise was the daughter of Hon. Austin Tyler of Claremont.\\nOf their children, Tyler was educated at Kimball s Union\\nAcademy, and has been clerk of the state senate, register of\\nprobate, postmaster, and is now engaged in mercantile life\\nWilliam F. (see infra) two of the children, Jennie and\\nGeorge, are at home, and a son, Nathaniel, was a soldier in\\nthe War of the Rebellion, and died in prison at Danville,\\nVa.\\nGEORGE F. PUTNAM.\\nGeorge F. Putnam was born in Crovdon in 1841. His", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0306.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "LAWVEltS. 283\\nfather s name was John Putnam and liIs mother s Ahnira\\n(French) Putnam. He was educated at Thetford Academy,\\nand at Norwich University, Vt., and studied hiw in the office\\nof the hite X. B. Felton and with Judge C. 11. Morrison of\\nManchester. He was admitted to the bar at the latter place\\nin 1867, and began the practice of his profession at Haver-\\nhill, but subsequently he moved to Warren and remained\\nthere seven years. During this time he was solicitor for\\nGrafton county in 1874-(i, represented the town in the\\nlegislature for two years, was a member of the constitutional\\nconvention in 1876, and was also school committee. When\\nMr. Putnam represented Warren he was the Democratic\\ncandidate for speaker of the House. He also represented\\nHaverliili in the legislature in 1868-1), and was school com-\\nmittee of the Town. For several years he served as chair-\\nman of the Democratic state connuittee, and was a delegate\\nto the Democratic national convention at St. Louis which\\nnominated Gov. Tildcn for the presidency.\\nIn 1877 Mr. Putnam returned to Haverhill and took the\\noffice of the late ]Mr. Felton, where he continued the prac-\\ntice of the law with much success till 1882, when he moved\\nto Kansas City, Mo. He at once took a prominent position\\nat the bar of that city, and one of his earliest cases there\\nwas the defence of a man indicted for nuu der, whose ac-\\n(juital he secured. He lias withdrawn from general j)ractice\\nbefore the courts, and now confines himself chiefly to the\\nmana :ement of the National Loan and Trust Association of\\nKansas City. His election to tliis large moneyed institution\\nshows how deeply he had won the confidence of business\\nmen in his ability and integrity.\\nMr. Putnam is of medium iieight, somewhat stoutly built,\\nquick and energetic in his gait, of a healtliful and Horid com-\\nplexion, of superior abilities and well-trained. As an advocate\\nhe argued causes with fluency and case, was forceful rather\\nthan elegant, always courteous to his brother lawyers and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0307.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "284 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ndeferential to tlie court, a genial companion, though hardly\\na society man, as that term goes. He is regarded as an able\\nlawyer, of great force of character, full of energy and ca-\\npacity for work, public-si)irited, of exemplary deportment\\nand of generous impulses. He is a man of strong convic-\\ntions, sometimes these border on the confines of pi-ejudice, of\\na keen sense of justice which is apt to find expression in\\nunornamented English, enjoys a good story and is quick to\\nsee the wit of things. Dartmouth College conferred upon\\nhim the honorary degree of master of arts in 1870. He\\nmarried ]\\\\Iary, daughter of the late Silvester Reding.\\nLUTHER C. 3IORSE\\nWas born in Haverhill in 1834, the son of Daniel and L.\\n(Colby) Morse. He was educated at Newbury, Vt., and\\nat Xew Hampton, and graduated from Dartmouth College in\\n18()0. His professional studies were pursued with Oliver A.\\nLull and with Hon. Nathaniel W. Westgate, and he was\\nadmitted to the bar in 18G3. He began the practice of the\\nlaw at Haverhill, and was in partnership with Judge West-\\no-ate. He was reiiistcr of })r()bate from 18()0 to 1870.\\nPu])lic service and a careless life l)arred his professional ad-\\nvance, and in later years he has lived in the West. In his\\naccount of himself he mentioned as the most important event\\nof his life that he put in a substitute during the war.\\nHe is a man of humorous and genial nature.\\nSAMUEL T. PAGE\\nIs tlie son of David and Margaret (Taylor) Page, and was\\nborn in Haverhill in 1849. Pie was educated at Kimball s.\\nUnion Academy, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College in\\nthe class of 1871. He studied law with his fiither, and with\\nC^ross Burnham of ^Manchester, and was admitted to the\\nliar at Amherst. Since that time he has practised his profes-\\nsion at Haverhill. His professional life has been much in-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0308.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "LAAVYEKS. 285\\ntciTiipted by official duty. He was private secretary to Goy.\\nWeston in 1874, and has held the office of register of pro-\\nbate for eight years. In l(S77-8 he represented the Town\\nin the legislature, and again in the prolonged session in 1887.\\nHe spent some months in California as attorney in the in-\\nterests of legatees to a large estate. He was also for seyeral\\nyears superintendent of schools. He married Frances Maria\\nEaton of Manchester, and they haye two children.\\nMr. Page is a gentleman of affable and genial manners,\\nand of quick mind.\\nSAMUEL 15. PAGE.\\nMr. Page was born in Littleton in 1838, and received his\\neducation at Kingston and Exeter, at Mclndoes Falls, and\\nLyndon, Vt., and at Union College, N. Y. He read law\\nwith Woods and Bingham of Bath and at tlie Albany Law\\nSchool, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1861 in Ver-\\nmont. He Avas also admitted to practice in the L^nited\\nStates district and circuit courts in 1869. He began the\\npractice of his profession at Wells IJiver, Vt., and afterwards\\nfor a number of years he continued his practice at Warren\\nand Concord. He is now at Woodsville. AVhilst at AVar-\\nren he represented the Town in the legislature from 1863 to\\n1869, and also was a representative from Concord in 1874.\\nHe was a member of the constitutional convention in 1876\\nfrom Haverhill, and represented the Town in the legislature\\nin 1887. This was the session of the great railroad contest.\\nMr. Page was the parliamentary leader on one side during\\nthat controversy, and conducted the fight with marked skill\\nand ability. He has also been a trustee of the State Xormal\\nSchool, and school superintendent for Haverhill. He is a\\nman of talents and an able lawyer, affable in manners and\\nof good presence. He married jNIartha C. Lang of Bath,\\nwho died recently, and they had four children. In 1868\\nDartmouth College conferred u[)on him the honorary degree\\nof master of arts.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0309.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "286 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nWILLIAM F. AVESTGATE\\nIs the son of Hon. Nathaniel W. and Louisa (Tyler) West-\\ngate, and was born in Enfield in 1852. He was educated\\nat Haverhill, Meriden and New London Academies, and at\\nthe Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth College. He\\nread law with his father and with Hon. Geo. F. Putnam,\\nand was admitted to the bar in 1880. Since his admission\\nhe lias practised his profession in Haverhill. He has been\\nsuperintendent of schools and was a representative in 1883.\\nIn 1884 he was elected register of probate, and re-elected in\\n188fi, which position he now holds. He is also a surveyor\\nof lands and is en^ajxed in insurance business. Mr. West-\\ngate has taken an active interest in politics, and is a leader\\nin the counsels and actions of his party.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0310.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVIII.\\nDOCTOKS.\\nSamuel White John Porter Samuel Hale Martin Phelps I.saa(; Moore\\nAniasa Scott Edmund Carleton Ezra Bartlett Ezra Bartlett, Jr. John\\nAugier\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joel Angier Anson Brackett Simon B. Heath Hiram Morgan\\nHenry Haj es Edward Mattocks Phineas Spalding Henry B. Leonard\\nThomas Tenny\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel P.Carbee Haven Palmer INIoses D. Carbee Clar-\\nence H. Clark Edward J. Brown Henry P. Watson Charles R. Gil)son\\nOliver D. Eastman Charles Newcomb Myron S. Wetherbee .James B.\\nClark, Dentist Moses N. Howland, Dentist.\\nDoctors like lawyers exert a large influence in the com-\\nmunity in which they live. They are generally men of\\ntrained minds, often of the larg-est mental endowment, and\\nrank favorably Avith any class of educated persons. Tlieir\\nrelation to the conmiunity under peculiar circumstances sfives\\nthem a strong hold on the aftections and confidence of indi-\\nviduals and families. The doctors of Haverhill from the\\nfirst will compare fiivorably with those of other country\\ntowns, whilst there are names in the list which for hiirh\\ncharacter, professional skill and large ability, have more than\\na local renown. Of some of the earlier physicians not nuich\\nhas come down to our time, l)ut through the care of the late\\nDr. W. H. Carter of Bradford, who knew him well, a\\nminute accoimt of probably the first physician that practised\\nmedicine in Haverhill is perserved.\\nSAMUEL WHITE\\nWas this first physician, and began the practice of medicine\\nin this region in 1773. He was born in Plaistow in 17.50,\\nand studied medicine with a prominent physician in Haver-\\nhill, Mass., Dr. Brackett. After completing his studies he\\npractised his profession in his native town for one or two\\nyears, and then came to Cohos, where a brother and sister,\\n]Mrs. Jacob Kent, were living, and concluded to try his for-\\ntunes in the infant settlement. He was avcII qualified by", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0311.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2288 H18TOKY OF IIAVEUHILL.\\nsound knowledge and self-reliance for the duties of his pro-\\nfession, notwithstanding his early advantages of education\\nwere somewhat limited. Although living in Xewbury, he\\nwas in reality the physician of Newbury and Haverhill, since\\nboth settlements were as one community at that time. In-\\ndeed, he was for a while the only physician in all this region,\\nand often was called long distances to see patients, going on\\nfoot or on snow-shoes over untrodden ways. Thei e was no\\nphysician north of him, and he went as far as Lancaster on\\nprofessional duty. During the Kevolution he acted as sur-\\ngeon to the soldiei s stationed in this section, and on one\\noccasion he accompanied troops to western ermont. He\\nhad the confidence of the people, and Avas successful in treat-\\nment of diseases. He Avas fond of story, and abounded in\\nwit and humor, remarking on one occasion that he had\\npoor luck with his patients in their last illness. Two of\\nhis book accounts, 1773 to 171)0, Avere in existence a\\nfew years since, and glAS an insight into the medical practice\\nof that day. For an ordinary A isit the charge Avas a shilling,\\nabout tAventy-fiAC cents to Haverhill, from two to six shil-\\nlings. Medicine Avas always charged extra. Dr. AVhite\\nused few remedies as a rule, although he mentions one hun-\\ndred and fifty remedial agents in the two book accounts men-\\ntioned above. Some sort of physic stands first, being used\\none thousand six hundred and thirty times. Bleeding Avas\\ncommon, five hundred and four times. Surgical operations\\nwere few and confined mostly to minor cases ten arms and\\nthree legs Avere set during the period covered by the two\\nbook accounts. He mentions during the same period only\\nseven confinements, due probably to the greater employment\\nof inid-Avives in those days. Alcohol took the place of 0})i-\\nates. Dr. White had a large family of children, consisting\\nof several pairs of tAvins.\\nJOHX rORTER\\nIs spoken of as Dr. Porter as early as 1776 in connection", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0312.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 2 Si\\nAvith tlic preliiuinarv evidence in regard to Col. Asa Porter s\\nconnection with the cons])iracy to hand the Cohos country\\nover to the British. Ikit whether he was a |)ractisin phy-\\nsician of Haverhill is not certain. Nothing is known ot him\\nexcept that he was probably a brother of Col. Asa Porter.\\nTHADDEUS BUTLER.\\nDr. Butler was one of the earlier physicians of Haverhill,\\nbut of whom little is learned. He probably came to the\\nCohos Settlement in the closing years of the Revolution, as\\nhe was married before 1783, and he died within a few years,\\nas his widow, who Avas a daughter of Col. Timothy Bedel,\\nmarried Samuel Brooks in 1787 or 1788.\\nSAMUEL HALE.\\nSamuel Hale s name is mentioned in the Proprietors record\\nas a physician, and in 1778 he is voted eighteen shillings for\\ndoctoring Ezekiel Chapman s family, but whether he was a\\nsettled physician in Haverhill is not certainly known.\\nMARTIX PHELPS.\\nIt is not certain when Dr. Phelps came to Haverhill, but\\nit was as early as 1782, since in that year he acted as attend-\\ninof suro-eon to the soldiers at Haverhill under Col. Charles\\neTohnston. His name appears as one of the original mem-\\nbers when the First Congregational church was organized in\\n1790, and he was chosen a deacon in the church. Nothing\\ncan be learned of his early days, and little is perserved con-\\ncerning his life in Haverhill, except that tradition comes\\ndown that he Avas a man of great excellence of character,\\nand was regarded as a competent physician in those days\\nA\\\\hen medical science Avas crude as compared Avith its present\\nadvanced position. He lived on Ladd street Avhere ]Mrs..\\nOsgood Morse now lives. He married a dauo-hter of Sam-\\nuel Ladd. Dr. Phelps moved from Haverhill in 1792, and\\naccordiner to tradition Avent to Keene.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0313.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "290 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nISAAC MOORE\\nWas a practising physician in Haverhill as early as 1787.\\nHe was of Scotch origin, and was born in Worcester, Mass.,\\nin 1765 and came to this region in early life. He was\\ntrained in a rugged atmosphere, and saw when only fifteen\\nyears of age the sacking of Royalton, Vt., by the Indians\\nand British. He remained in Haverhill only a few years, and\\nthen, 1790, moved to Bath. By a vote of Bath in 1789\\nDr. Morse was directed to set up a house of inoculation\\nin that town, but the prejudice against the project was so\\nstronof that the buildinf; was torn down before it was finished.\\nThe next year, however, he renewed the project and com-\\npleted a small-pox hos[)ital, and advertised the same in a\\npaper in Windsor, Vt., for the accommodation of those\\nwho wished to take the small-pox by the easy and safe\\nmethod of inoculation. During his residence m Bath he\\nalso was the attending physician to many people in Littleton,\\nand finally moved to the north part of the town in 1806,\\nbut remained only a few years and returned to Bath. He\\nw^as somewhat prominent in town matters, and kept a public\\nhouse in his closing years, which it is thought had some rela-\\ntion to his early death in 1818. His wife was a daughter of\\nCol. Timothy Bedel, and was quite young at the time of her\\nmarriage. They had a family of thirteen chikh^en. Dr.\\n]\\\\Ioore is reported as a man of much natural talent, and as\\nhaving a jjenius for medicine and the treatment of diseases,\\nthough his knowledge of books was not large. He was\\nnoted for his humor, and is said to have been somewhat\\nrough in manners and speech which shocked those of refined\\ntastes.\\nAM AS A SCOTT.\\nDr. Scott came to Haverhill as the successor of Dr. Phelps\\nand lived in the Phelps house on Ladd street, which he kept\\nas a sort of hospital tavern for invalids. Of him even less\\nis known than of Dr. Phelps. He moved from Haverhill at", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0314.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 291\\nthe beginning of tlie present century, probably went to Han-\\nover at least he lived in Hanover in 1815, for in that year\\nhe went to Warren to attend spotted fever patients, which\\ndisease raged with such fury and destructiveness in that town,\\nand is said to have had excellent success in treating such\\ncases, when other physicians seemed entirely to have failed.\\nDuring Dr. Scott s residence in Haverhill he served as mod-\\nerator in l S00-l-2.\\nEDMUND CARLETON.\\nDr. Carleton was born in Ha:\\\\erhill, Mass., in 1771, and\\nstudied medicine in Dover. He came to Haverhill in 1796,\\nand [)iirsued the practice of his profession for over forty\\nyears, dying in 1838. He was a prominent man in the com-\\nmunity, and especially took an active part in the work of the\\nchurch, in the history of which he was a large and influen-\\ntial factor, and held the office of deacon for nearly a quarter\\nof a century.\\nIn his profession he stood high, being perhaps the leading\\nphysician in this region, and he enjoyed a large and lucrative\\npractice. He was nuich in demand for consultation Avith\\nneighboring doctors. He was regarded as a progressive\\nphysician in his day. Even as long ago as in his earlier\\npractice, it is said, he used the more diminutive doses in the\\nadministration of medicine, and maintained that he found\\nbetter results than could be secured by the customary method\\nthen in vogue. In this he simply anticipated a change that\\nhas now become the rule, and the fact distinguishes him as a\\nman of an inquiring and scientific turn of mind.\\nDr. Carleton lived at first in a small house which stood a\\nlittle south of the large house he afterwards built and which\\nfor many years was the residence of his son Arthur. Dr.\\nCarleton had a family of seven children. Edmund, the\\noldest son, (see Chap. XVII) two sons moved to Indiana,\\nand Arthur remained on the old homestead. He married", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0315.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "292 HISTORY OF HAVEllHILL.\\nSarah A. Atherton, a woman of much intelligence and of\\nnoble character. One of Dr. Carleton s danghters, Joanna,\\nbecame Mrs. Wilder, now living in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and\\nis the only survivor of Dr. Carleton s family. Mrs. Charles\\nAdams of Windsor, Vt., is a granddaughter of Dr. Carle-\\nton,\\nDr. Carleton died of cancer, and for several years before\\nhis death he had retired from ])ractice. He was a quiet but\\ngenial man, with a spicing of quaint and subtle humor.\\nThough undemonstrati\\\\ e in manner and conversation, he\\nwas full of animation when he got interested in a subject, and\\nhad a habit of enforcing his argument with the phrase, fact\\nis. He had a shrewd mind and a keen insight into men\\nand things, and was a man of great good nature, whom every\\nbody esteemed and loved, and he combined with this, kind\\nwords and acts with dignity of deportn)ent. He was pre-\\neminently a good man, and was the friend of the church and\\nof the minister. His life illustrates the words, the good\\nwe do lives after us.\\nEZRA BARTLETT.\\nDr. r)artlett was a ^ery prominent person both as a physi-\\ncian and as a public man in Grafton county. He was born\\nin Kingston in 1770. His father was Josiah Bartlett, gover-\\nnor of the state in 1790, and also one of the signers of the\\nDeclaration of Independence. Dr. Bartlett before moving\\nto Haverhill in 1812 was a practicing physician for some\\nyears in Warren, where he had gained a wide reputation as\\na skilful physician and surgeon. He was in active practice\\nin Haverhill for thirty-six years, and was during that time a\\nleading phvsician in this region, sharing the field part of the\\ntime with Dr. Carleton. He Avas frequently called for con-\\nsultation in neighboring towns. Dartmouth College con-\\nferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in\\n1829.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0316.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 2tl3\\nIn addition to his duties as a physician he hehl many posi-\\ntions of public trust and honor. During his residence in\\nWarren lie represented that town in the legislature. In\\n1822 he was a nieniher of the governor s council, and was\\nat one time a presidential elector and a state senator. He\\nalso held judicial positions, though not a professional lawyer,\\nas in early times ])ersons were elevated to such [)la( es, Avhose\\nknowledge of the law was not a prime quali^cation. Clergy-\\nmen, physicians and merchants wore the ermine, and it is\\nsaid they made better judges than professional lawyers did.\\nDr. Bartlett was an associate judge of the court of Common\\nPleas, judge of the Circuit court, and chief justice of the\\nCourt of Sessions, and all these places he filled with credit\\nto himself and with fidelity to the public.\\nDr. Bartlett had a large family of children, and of the\\nseven sons, five adopted the profession of their father, some\\nbecoming quite eminent as physicians. One of the sons,\\nJosiah, was a skillful practitioner in Straiford, and lost\\nhis life in the great draw-bridge disaster at Xewalk, Conn.\\nanother son, Levi, was a physician in Syracuse, X. Y.\\nEzra, (see infra.)\\nDr. Bartlett was a man of character and hif h standina\\nand exerted a strong infiuence, not only as a jn-ofessional\\nman, but also in a general way on tiie connnunity. lie dit d\\nin- 1S4 S.\\nEZRA r.AUTLETT, JR.\\nDr. Ezra Bartlett, Jr., son of the -above, was born in\\nA\\\\ arren in 1811, and came Avhen a year old with his parents\\nto Haverhill. His early education was received in the com-\\nmon schools and at Haverhill Academy, where he fitted for\\ncollege, but did not enter. After studying medicine witli his\\nuncle, Dr. John French of Bath, and with his fatiicr, lie at\\ntended lectures at the medical department of Dartmouth\\nCollege, and graduated in 1882.\\nHe went to irginia and began the practice of medicine", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0317.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "294 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nin Warminster, but remained only one year. Being called\\nto Haverhill on account of his father s illness, he entered into\\npartnership with him. He practised his profession, however,\\nonly a few years in Haverhill, and then went to South Ber-\\nwick, Me., where he continued fifteen years. After this he\\nwas a physician in East Boston for four years and then moved\\nto Exeter, where he has continued to live and to practice\\nmedicine till within a few years, when he retired from active\\nprofessional duties.\\nDuring the last two years of the War of the Rebellion he\\nwas a contract surgeon, and was assigned wherever his\\nservices were most needed. He was for the greater part of\\nthe time on duty with the armies operating in Tennessee and\\nin Georgia. After Gen. Sherman s march to the sea, he\\nwent to Hilton Head, S. C., and soon after returned home.\\nDr. Bartlett married twice first, Sarah Calef of Saco,\\nMe., and second, Mrs. Eleanor Augusta Tucker, widow of\\nJohn Hubbard, a lawyer of South Berwick, ]\\\\Ie. By the\\nfirst marriage there is one surviving child, Josiah Calef\\nBartlett.\\nDr. Bartlett has been a very successful and skillful ])hysi-\\ncian, and has always enjoyed a large and lucrative practice.\\nHe is fond of social life and enjoys the society of his friends.\\nJOHN ANGIER.\\nDr. Angier was born in Fitzwilliam in 1784. Of his\\nearly education nothing is known. He first began the prac-\\ntice of medicine in Alstead, but very soon after that he went\\nto Maine for a short time, and then returned to Alstead. In\\n1827 he came to North Haverhill, and was, it is said, the\\nfirst physician that lived in that part of the Town. He is\\nreported to have been a good physician with quite an exten-\\nsive practice. He died in 1836, losing his life by being\\nthrown from a buggy whilst on a visit to Weathersfield, Vt.\\nHe was a lariic man, over six feet hii h, well built. He took", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0318.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 2\\\\)5\\nan active part in })ublie matters, and was a man of energy\\nand ability. In looks he resembled, it is said. Gen. Jack-\\nson, so much so, that when the hero of New Orleans came\\nto Concord during his presidency, Dr. Angier who was a\\nmember of the legislature and one of the marshals when\\nGen. Jackson was escorted to the State House, was taken\\nfor the old hero by the throng which was present on that\\noccasion.\\nMrs. Nathaniel M. 8wasey is a dauglitcr of Dr. Angier.\\nand two sons, J. Dorsey and George W., (see Chap. XIX.)\\nJOEL ANGIEH.\\nDr. Joel Angier was a ne})hew of Dr. John Angier, and\\ncame to Haverhill in 1840 from Acworth. He was a physi-\\ncian at North Haverhill for five or six years, and then moved\\nto Swiftwater and later to Bath, ])ractising his profession in\\nboth places. He is said to have been a good physician.\\nFrom Bath he went into the western country.\\nAXSOX BKACKETT.\\nDr. Anson Brackett was born in heel()ck, Vt., and pur-\\nsued the study of medicine with Dr. Alexander of Danville.\\nYt., and took his degree of M. D. from the Medical College\\nof Burlington, Vt. He began the practice of medicine in\\nNorth Danville, Vt., but in a few years he moved to Lyons,\\nN. Y., where he gained much success in his profession.\\nAfterwards he came to Haverhill and remained here about\\nsix years, and then moved to Gainsville, Fla., where he\\nlived till his death. Dr. Brackett married twice first, ^Nlarv\\nChamberlain of Ijvndon, At., and second, a lady in Massa-\\nchusetts. He had no children.\\nDr. Brackett was a man of more than ordinary ability,\\nand with his natural talents he combined great energy and\\ndecision of character, which made him a leader in his profes-\\nsion. Though not a lil)erally educated man in academic\\nstudies, he was well-read in the science of medicine, and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0319.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "29( HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nwas not only one of tlie leading; phy.sician of the vicinity\\nwhilst he lived in Haverhill, but after g oing to Gainsville,\\nFla., he rose to be one of the first physicians and suro;eons\\nin that State. He displayed in early practice an aptitude\\nand skill in siirg-ery, and performed whilst in Haverhill some\\nvery important operations. He amputated the leg of Frank\\nP Palmer, who afterwards became famous as the inventor\\nof a world-renowned artificial limb. I iie case was a very\\ncritical one, the leg being torn in a bark mill in Bradford,\\nVt., and the patient was much exhausted before the opera-\\ntion was performed. Dr. Brackett was an uncompromising\\ntemperance man, and would allow no stimulants to be admin-\\nistered to the young man, but after the liiiib was taken off,\\nand being appealed to l)y his assistant physician, he con-\\nsented to a strong cup of tea being given the patient. Those\\nwho knew Dr. Brackett and had an oji})ortunity to estimate\\nhis abilities and learning, give it as their opinion that had\\nhe passed his professional career in one of our larger cities,\\nhe coidd ha^e gained a foremost rank as a skilled physician\\nand surgeon. He was a man of high character, devoted as\\na husband, true as a friend, and fiithful to all his })ublic\\nduties.\\nsniox B. mf:ath.\\nThe record of this person is brief and his life may be said\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0to have been a failure. He was a man of considerable nat-\\nural ahility, but as is so often the case, it was sadly misused.\\nDr. Heath studied medicine with Dr. Brackett, and when\\nthe latter moved to Florida, he took his place as a practi-\\ntioner in Haverhill. In a year or two he associated with\\nhimself Dr. Hiram Morgan, but the partnership did not\\nprove hai)py, and was soon dissolved. In 1842 Dr. Heath\\nleft ILnerhill and moved to Groton, \\\\t. His besetting in-\\nfirmity was intemperance.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0320.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 297\\nI II RAM MORGAN\\nDr. M()r i:an was horn in Rochester, Vt., in 1804, and\\nrecei\\\\C(l his early C(hication in the common schools of his\\nnative [ilace. He was a bi-ig-ht-niinded l)oy, and pive early\\n])romise of fntnrc usefulness and success. He beg an the\\nstudy of medicine witli Dr. Page of Bethel, Vt., and gradu-\\nated from the niedical school of Woodstock, Vt., in 1833.\\nHe first practised his profession in Hancock, and afterwards\\nin Corinth, Vt., and then came to Haverhill and was for a\\nshort time in partn(M-shi[) with Dr. Heath, After a profes-\\nsional career in Haverhill for ten. or twelve years, he went to\\nXew York and attended a course of lectures in that city, in\\n(n der to prosecute his work more successfully, but soon after\\nhis return he was striken with a severe disease and was so\\nbroken in health that he relinquished the practice of medicine\\nduring the remainder of his life. Dr. Morgan was a man of\\nnatural ability, and but for his health he would undoubtedly\\nhave risen to a very high position in his })rofession. Soon\\nafter coming to Haverhill he married Elizabeth, daughter of\\nCol. Edward Towle, a woman of most gentle spirit and of\\nrefined tastes and culture, of whom the late AVilliam H.\\nDuncan said, The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Towle Morgan\\nhas taken away from the refined and intelligent society of\\nHaverhill one of its most valued members.\\nHENRY HAYES.\\nDr. Hayes was a Scotchman, and came to Haverhill from\\nStanstead, Canada. He pursued his {)rofessional studies\\nwith Dr. Colby of that place and was highly comnicnded to\\nthe peoj)le of Haverhill by his preceptor. When he began\\nthe })ractice of medicine in Haverhill his prospects were\\ng(jod, and he was em[)loyed by many of the best families\\nwho became warm friends of his. But at that time there\\nwas a super-abundance of physicians in Haverhill, and the\\ncomj)etition was so sharp, that Dr. Hayes moved to Brad-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0321.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "298 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nford, Vt. and practised his profession there for a time. He\\nafterwards went to Irisburg, Vt., and remained several\\nyears, and then settled as a physician in Hartland,\\nVt., and later in Massachusetts where he died. Dr. Hayes\\nwas a well-read physician, but he did not seem to stay long\\nin any one place, or take deep root.\\nEDWARD MATTOCKS.\\nDr. Mattocks was a son of Governor jNIattocks of\\nVermont, and came to Haverhill about the same time that\\nDr. Hayes did, but he failed in securing business, and soon\\nleft for Lyndon, Vt. He died young and was unsuccessful\\nin his profession.\\nPHINEAS SPALDING.\\nDi Spalding easily ranks amongst the ablest of the physi-\\ncians who practised medicine in Haverhill. He also is\\namongst those who practised their profession here for a long\\nterm of years. He was born in Sharon, Vt., in 1799, and\\nis the son of Reuben and Joshua (Car})cnter) Spalding.\\nHe is the seventh in descent from the first American ances-\\ntors of that name. His father at the age of fourteen, with\\nan older brother, came from Connecticut to Vermont before\\nthe Revolution, and settled in Sharon. He was a man of\\nstreng character and sterling worth, prominent in civil and\\nreligious matters, a deacon in the church for fifty years, and\\na soldier in the Revolution. He lived to be nincty-tlu-ee\\nyears old. His wife was a woman of excellent character,\\nand was devoted to the interests of the family.\\nThe early years of Dr. Spalding were passed on the farm,\\nand his educational advantages were somewhat scanty, Imt\\nby diligent application to study at night, after the work of\\nthe day was over, and with a strong desire to enlarge the\\nrange of his knowledge, he managed to lay the foundations\\nof a good education and was enabled to teacli school, both\\nin his native town and also in Montpelier, where he taught", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0322.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "Q Lat Aj ua^L-dL-ori^a M.\u00c2\u00a3^^", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0325.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0326.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 2{)9\\nfor four years. He was very successful as a teacher, and\\nthrew into his work the full force of his natural energy and\\nenthusiasm. Meantime he read medicine and pursued the\\nstudy of Latin with his brother James. Afterwards he at-\\ntended two courses of lectures at the medical school of Dart-\\nmouth Colleo;e, and o-raduated from that institution in 1823.\\nHe began the practice of medicine at Lyndon, Vt., where\\nfor fifteen years he enjoyed a successful and prosperous pro-\\nfessional career, and was one of the leading citizens of that\\ntown. In 1835 he received the honorary degree Master of\\nArts from the University of Vermont. Dr. Spalding moved\\nto Haverhill in 1839, but the year before* he settled there he\\ntook a course of lectures at the Harvard Medical College\\nand then went to Brooklyn, N. Y., with the intention of\\npractising his profession in that city, but owing to the deli-\\ncate health of his wife he abandoned his plan and returned\\nto Lyndon and soon after moved to Haverhill, where he has\\nsince lived, in the enjoyment of an honored position in his\\nprofession and of a large and successful practice, till advanc-\\ning age admonished him to lay down a calling which he loved\\nand adorned.\\nDr. Spalding has always taken a deep interest in his pro-\\nfession, not only as a practitioner, but also in the advance-\\nment of medical science. He attended regularly the various\\nmedical associations of which he was a member, and con-\\ntributed both to the papers which came before these bodies\\nand also to their discussions. He has been a member of the\\nWashington county and the Caledonia county Medical Socie-\\nties of Vermont, and was the originator of the Moosilauk\\nMedical Society of Xew Hampshire and its president for\\nmany years. He was a delegate on several occasions to the\\nAmerican Medical Society and a frequent contributor of arti-\\ncles and reporter of numerous cases to medical journals.\\nOne of these was of special interest, a case of intcr-ca[)su-\\nlar fracture of the thi^h-bone. This case he had success-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0327.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "oUO HISTORY OF ]IAVEKHILL.\\nfully treated, though at that time a cure of such had been\\ndenied by the highest authority. The case was first reported\\nin the Xew England Medical Journal for 1827, and after-\\nwards an autopsy verified the cure. This verification was\\nreported in the Boston Medical Journal. He also was a\\nlecturer in 1841 on surgery in the Woodstock (Vt.) Medi-\\ncal College, and had as associates in the faculty such well-\\nknown men as Drs. H. H. Childs, Alonzo W. Clark, B. B.\\nPalmer and S. W. Thayer. He has been a positive factor\\nin the advancement and achievement of his profession, both\\nwhere he lived and through his contributions. His mind is\\nboth practical and scientific, and he is instinctively thorough.\\nIn addition to his medical acquirements he has been a well-\\nread man in general subjects of history, religion and phil-\\nosophv, and has been by no means a mere technical student-\\nHe has also written much for the secular and religious press,\\nand within a year or two he is now in his 90th year he\\nhas written for the interest and pleasure and instruction of\\nhis family and intimate friends, Spalding Memorial, a\\nvolume of three hundred and fifty pages, which discloses a\\nwonderful tenacity of memory and use of his mental powers.\\nDr. Spalding has always taken a deep interest in public\\nmatters, and whatever concerns the well-being of society.\\nHe was an early advocate of temperance, and organized in\\n1828, it is supposed, the first temperance society of Ver-\\nmont, and was president of the Caledonia County Yoimg\\n]Men s Temperance Society when he moved from that state.\\nHe has always discarded the use of alcohol as a beverage,\\nand also the use of tobacco. He has taken a prominent\\nleading part in church matters, being a deacon in the Con-\\ngregational church in Lyndon, Vt., also chosen to the same\\noffice in the church at Haverhill, which however, he declined,\\nand has l)een one of the most active, valuable and liberal\\nmembers of the church. In all matters of public interest,\\nwhether of town, church or state, he has been an energetic", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0328.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 301\\nand ])ubli( -!?pirite(l Iciider. Tlie first meeting in this reaion\\nin rct erenfc to the B. C c c M. raih oad svas held in Ilaver-\\nliill, and was called by him and Harry Stevens of Barnet,\\nAt. He has also been a warm friend of education was the\\nprime mover in securing Lyndon Academy, took an active\\ninterest in Haverhill Academy, was one of its trustees for\\nmany years, gave to it time and money, and served for two\\nyears as sujierintendeut of schools in Town.\\nDr. Spalding would ha\\\\e been a remarkable man in any\\ncomnmnit} His intellectual endowment is large, and his\\ncommon sense is a conspicuous trait of his make-u[). His\\nsense of humor is the least prominent feature of his mental\\ncharacter. His reasoning is direct and mathematical, and\\nhe always sees things in the concrete, and not as an abstrac-\\ntion, though he is not wanting in a certain poetical turn of\\nimagination. ^Morally, his ideal is high, and his sense of\\nright and wrong is keen. His religious nature is de^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eloped\\nmore throuo-h his intellect than throug-h the emotions, thou\u00c2\u00a3 h\\nhis kindness and sympathy are tender and deep. He takes\\nlarge views of things, though a strong partisan in church\\nand politics, and is never trivial in the treatment of questions\\nof duty and action. What he does he does intelligently and\\nfrom a conviction of what he sees is right. He is social,\\nhospitable, fond of company, loves argument, and is entirely\\nfree from demagogism. He is a staunch friend of all that is\\ngood, and steadfast in purpose full of hope, courage,\\nenergy.\\nDr. Spalding married twice first, Caroline B. Lathrop.\\nand they had two children, Caroline A., Mary G., jNIrs. Jas.\\nH. Towle. Mrs. S[)alding died Avithin three years after\\ncoming to Haverhill, and was a woman of superior worth.\\n.For his second Avife he married Charlotte ^Merrill, and their\\nchildren are Frank M., living in Kansas, and Ada L. who\\nmarried Henry D. Janes of New York. Mrs. Spalding\\ndied rccentlv and was a woman of marked excellence of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0329.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "302 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ncharacter and of womanly grace and refinement. Miss Car-\\noline A. Spalding lived at home all her life and died a few\\nyears ago. She was a woman of superior ability and highly\\ncultivated, and had gained an honorable position in literature,\\nespecially in poetry, a collection of which is })ublished in the\\nSpalding Memorial volume. She was Haverhill s lit-\\nerary woman.\\nHENRY B. LEONARD.\\nDr. Leonard was the son of Gains and Eunice (Spalding)\\nLeonard, and was born in Sharon, Vt. His early days were\\npassed on a farm, but by perseverance he acquired a fair\\nacademic education, and commenced the study of medicine\\nwith his uncle, Dr. James Spalding of Montpelier, Vt., and\\ngraduated from the Medical College at Woodstock, Vt. He\\nbegan the practice of his profession at North Haverhill in\\n1842, and continued to do so till his death. He married\\nNancy Swasey of North Haverhill. They had no children.\\nDr. Leonard acquired a good reputation as a physician, and\\nhad quite an extensive and successful practice. He was a\\nman much respected by his fellow citizens, and represented\\nthe Town in the legislature for several years.\\nHOMER H. TI:NNY.\\nDr. Tenny became a practising physician in Haverhill in\\n1858, but on account of ill health he did not remain long in\\nTown. He moved to Kansas where he practised his profes-\\nsion for a number of years till his death. He was a man of\\nexcellent character, and gained an honorable position in his\\nprofession. He married Sarah Johnston of Haverhill.\\nThey had no children.\\nSAMUEL p. CARBEE.\\nDr. Carbee is the youngest son of John H. Carbee, and\\nwas born in Bath in 1836. In his youth he attended the\\ncommon schools in his native town and afterwards pursued", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0330.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0333.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0334.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 303\\nhis studies at Newbury Seminary, where lie fitted himself to\\nbecome a teacher in the public schools and followed that\\noccupation for a time. In 1850 he began the study of medi-\\ncine Avith Dr. Albert H. Crosby of AVells River, and con-\\ntinued his studies with Drs. Dixi and A. B. Crosby of Han-\\nover, but these were interrupted in 1892, when he enlisted\\nas a private in the 12th Regiment N. H. Vol. He was sub-\\nsequently commissioned an assistant surgeon, and served in\\nthat capacity till the close of the war. He was with his\\nregiment at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,\\nGettysburg, and Avas Avith the Army of the Potomac from\\nthe Wilderness to the capture of Richmond.\\nAfter his discharge at the close of the war he at once re-\\nsumed his medical studies at Dartmouth College, from which\\ninstitution he graduated in 18B6. He began the practice of\\nmedicine at Haverhill as the successor of Dr. Tenny.\\nDr. Carbee has pursued his profession with enthusiasm\\nand success, and has built up a large and lucrative\\npractice. He is a man of energy and force, and wields a\\nlarge influence. On a visit to the West several years ago he\\nwas prostrated with illness, and since his return he has\\nsomewhat withdrawn from the extensive practice of former\\nvears. In the sick room he is a i eneral faAorite, has a larffe\\ncircle of Avarm friends, and is a man of generous impulses\\nand cheerful disposition. He is a member of the AVhite\\n^Mountain and Xcav Hampshire ^Medical Societies, and for\\nmany years he has been medical examiner of leading life in-\\nsurance companies. He also served for tAvelve years on the\\nexamining board for pensions Avith Dr. AVatkins of NcAvbury\\nand Dr. Nelson of Wells River.\\nDr. Carbee has ahvays been interested in public matters.\\nHe has been a delegate a number of times to county and\\nstate political conventions. In 1884 he Avas elected county\\ncommissioner on the Republican ticket and re-elected in\\n188(3. He is public-spirited and gives cheerful aid in all", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0335.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "304 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nmatters for the progress of society. FIc is a member of the\\nthe board of education under the town-system. Dr. Carbee\\nmarried X. Delia Buck, daughter of tlie late Lyman Buck.\\nHAVEX rAL:\\\\rEi{.\\nDr. Haven Palmer, son of Lewis and Susan H. Palmer,\\nwas born in Jefferson in 1843. His early education was\\nacquired in the public schools and at Lancaster Academy.\\nHe began the study of medicine with Dr. Barney of Lancas-\\nter, and attended lectures at Bowdoin ^Medical College, from\\nwhich institution he graduated in his profession. He first\\npractised medicine at Went worth, remaining a little over a\\nyear, and then went to Haverhill in 1872 and was in partner-\\nship with Dr. Samuel P. Carbee for a year or two. After-\\nwards he settled in Meredith where he continued till 1883.\\nHe is now a practising physician in Plymouth. Dr. Palmer\\nis a successful practitioner and stands high in the profession,\\nand is a man of high character. Being asked on occasion of\\na critical consultation to take something, he declined,\\nwhereupon his brother physician said, You are one in a\\nthousand. So be it, was the firm temperance answer.\\nDr. Palmer mai-ricd Lucy J. Ellis of Lancaster.\\nMOSES D. CAr.EEE.\\nDr. Moses D. Carbee was born in Newbury, Vt., in 1847,\\nthe son of Thomas H. and Olive L. Carbee. He pursued his\\nacademic studies in the Academy at Lancaster, and studied\\nmedicine with Dr. Frank Bugbee of that Town. He at-\\ntended lectures at the medical department of the University\\nof Vermont, and graduated from that school in 1873. His\\nfirst practice Avas at Lunenburg, Vt., but he remained there\\nonly a short time, and then coming to Haverhill in 1874 he\\nentered into partnership with Dr. Samuel P. Carbee, Avhich\\ncontinued till 1882. Since then he has been in practice by\\nhimself. He was post-master under President Hayes admin-\\nistration. Dr. Carbee also at one time was engaged in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0336.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "DOCTOKS. oOo\\nteaching. lie married Mary F. Dexter of Xew York. The\\nwinter of 1^8(3-7 he s])ent in California, on account of his\\nhealth. He is sympathetic and faithfid in his professional\\nduties.\\nCLARENCE 11. CLARK.\\nDr. Clark s professional career was short. He came to\\nHavei hill in 1879, and began the })ractice of medicine. He\\nwas born in Newbury, Vt., and studied with Dr. Watkins\\nof that })lace. His early school advantages were limited.\\nHe graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1878, and\\nthen went to ^Montreal as a subordinate officer in tlie hospital\\nof that city, meantime attending lectures in his profession.\\nHe was well equipped for his duties as a physician, and was\\nenthusiastically and studiously devoted to his profession. He\\nremained in Haverhill only a few years, when on account of\\nhis health he was compelled to seek a warmer climate, spend-\\ning one winter in Colorado, but the disease under which he\\nlabored had gone too far in its fatal work, and he return(?d\\nonly to die in early manhood. During his short professional\\ncareer in Haverhill, he won the esteem of a large circle, on\\naccount of his amiability and noble traits of character. He\\nentered his professional life with bright prospects of the\\nfuture. Dr.* Clark died of consum})tion.\\nEDWARD J. BROWX.\\nDr. Brown was born in Burke, Vt., in 1851, the son of\\nDr. Ira and Emily (Clark) Brown. His early schooling-\\nwas received in his native place and at Wells River. He\\nfitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, ]\\\\Ieriden, and\\ngraduated from Dartmouth College in 1874. After leaving\\ncollege he taught for several years in the AVest, and then\\nbegan the study of medicine with his father, and graduated\\nfrom the medical department of Dartmouth College in 1878.\\nHe then continued his studies in Xew York, and settled first\\nin Littleton, remaining onlv one vear, and then came to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0337.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "306 IIISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nHaverhill in 18^0. Dr. Brown went to Minneapolis in\\n1882, where he has since lived. He has been largely en-\\ngaged for the state and city boards of health in quarantine\\nduty as physician and inspector. He is a member of the\\nstate medical society, and also of that of the city of Minne-\\napolis, and is professor of chemistry, toxicology and pi-even-\\ntative medicine in the jVIinneapolis College of physicians and\\nsurgeons. He is the founder of the society for the preven-\\ntion of vice in Minneapolis.\\nDr. Brown is well-equipped in his professional studies,\\nand to a mind naturally acute and fond of investigation, he\\nadds the advantage of thorough training. He is self-reliant\\nand independent, and is fond of literary pursuits. He is a\\nman of high character and honor.\\nHENRY P. WATSOX.\\nDr. Watson s American ancestry settled early in the his-\\ntoric town of Salisbury, and belonged to the Society of\\nFriends. He is the son of Hon. Henry L. Watson, M. D.,\\nand was born in Guildhall, Vt., in 1845. His early educa-\\ntion was pursued in the common schools of his native town\\nand the Essex county grammar school, and he fitted for col-\\nlege at Newbury Seminary, Vt. He began the study of\\nmedicine with his father, continuing under the instruction of\\nDrs. Dixi and A. B. Crosby of Hanover, and attended lec-\\ntures at the Dartmouth ]\\\\ledical College from which he grad-\\nuated in 1800. He first practised his profession in\\nGroveton, but in a year or two he moved to North Haverhill\\nand continued there in the practice of medicine for about fif-\\nteen years, when he came to Haverhill Corner.\\nDr. Watson came by a genius for medicine from his father\\nAvho w^as a prominent practitioner in Vermont, as Avell as a\\ncitizen of public position, liaving been a state senator in\\nVermont for two terms, and then candidate of his party for\\nspeaker in 175G and 57, when a representative, besides hold-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0338.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "DOCTORS. 307\\ning otlier })laccs of public responsibility and trust. The son\\nhas devoted himself almost exclusively to his profession, in\\nwhich he is a close and thorough student, and is in the enjoy-\\nment of a large and successful practice. He is also widely\\nknown as a skillful and successful sin-geon. He is now a\\nmember of the examining board for pensions at St. Johns-\\nbury, Vt.\\nDr. AVatson is a man of undoul)ted ability, and is closely\\ndevoted to his calling, and stands high witli his brethren in\\nthe profession. Pie is social and genial, and takes a deep in-\\nterest in all matters of jniblic concernment. He has been\\nschool superintendent and health officer and is also a justice\\nof the peace.\\nHe married Evelyn ^Marshall of Northumberland, and\\nthey have three children the oldest son is a member of the\\nFreshman class in Dartmouth College.\\nCHAELES R. GIBSON.\\nDr. Giljson Avas born in Alstead in 1852, the son of Reuel\\nand Emily (Barnard) Gibson. His father was a farmer,\\nand his early education was acquired at the common schools.\\nFitting for college at Appleton Academy, Xew Ipswich, he\\ngraduated from Bowdoin College in 1872. He read medi-\\ncine with Dr. S. T. Smith, and attended lectures at Bowdoin\\nMedical College. After graduation he was a subordinate\\nofficer for a year and a half in ]Mainc General Hospital,\\nPortland, Me. He began his professional life at Woods-\\nville in 1877, and is a skillful and successful practitioner,\\nand a man of standing. He married Jennie Park of Ply-\\nmouth in 1880. They have no children. Dr. Gil)son is a\\nmember of the local board of health, and a member of the\\nWoodsville high school board of education. He is also sec-\\nretary of the White ^Mountain Medical Society.\\nOLIVER D. EASTMAN\\nWas born in Sonora, California, and his father dving, he", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0339.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "308 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nwent to li^e with grand-parents in Vermont. His early edu-\\ncation Avas received at the common schools, and he fitted tV)r\\ncollege at Newbury Academy, Vt., and graduated from Dart-\\nmouth Colleo-e in 1882. He read witli Dr. H. P. AVatson\\nand in Dartmouth private course, attending lectures at Bur-\\nlington, Yt., and Dartmouth Medical Colleges. He began\\nthe practice of medicine at Piermont, X. H., and came to\\nWoodsville in 1884. He married Addie D. Davis of Pike\\nStation in 1882, and they have three children. Dr. East-\\nman is a careful and painstaking physician, and enjoys a\\nlarge })ractice.\\nCHARLES NEWCOMB.\\nDr. Xewcomb was born in Montpelier, Vt., in 1858, the\\noldest son of Luther Newcomb, who for over twenty years\\nwas clerk of the court for Washington County, Vt. His\\nmother s name before her marriage was Amanda Thomas,\\ndaughter of Gen. Stephen Thomas of West Fairlee, Vt.\\nHis grandfather Newcomb was one of the pioneer pliysicians\\nof northern Vermont, and settled at Derby in that state.\\nDr. Newcomb was educated at Montpelier and is a graduate\\nof the Washington County grammar school of that place.\\nHe read medicine with Dr. C. M. Chandler of Montpelier,\\nand attended lectures at Dartmouth JNledical Collcire and at\\nthe medical school in the University of Vermont. He took\\nseven courses in both institutions, and graduated from the\\nlatter school in 1880. He began the practice of his profes-\\nsion at West Fairlee, and was one of the physicians to the\\nminers at Ely mines. In 1883 he moved to Washington,\\nVt., and in 1887 he came to North Haverhill. Dr. New-\\ncomb is well equipped for his profession, and has won a good\\nshare of success in the short time of his practice in Town.\\nHe married Elmira J. Hunt of Washington, Vt. They\\nhave one child.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0340.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "DOCTOIJS. 809\\nMYUOX S. WETHERBEE.\\nDr. Wetherbee was born in East Havcrliill, and his par-\\nents were Charles and Abigal (Woodward) Wetherbee. He\\nreceived his education at the common schools, and has prac-\\ntised medicine at North Haverhill for twenty-five years. He\\nis an eclectic physician, a school of doctors that take what\\nthey consider the best in other systems of practice. Dr.\\nWetherbee is also engaged in farming. He married Eliza\\nA. George and they have two children.\\nDEXTISTUy.\\nHaverhill has little history that belongs to this profession.\\nSome of her })hysicians may have combined dentistry with\\ntheir other professional duties, but the fact is not mentioned\\nin our memoranda of that })rofession.\\nJAMES B. CLARK.\\nDr. Clark was born in Bath in 1825, and came to Haver-\\nhill when a boy about twelve years of age. He has been a\\ndentist in Town for nearly twenty years, and resides at Hav-\\nerhill Center. Dr. Clark has lived away from Haverhill a\\npart of the time. He combines farming with his profession.\\nHe married Drusilla INI. Bisbee of Haverhill,\\n:\\\\IOSE8 N. HOWLAXI).\\nDr. Howland is a settled dentist in Lisbon, Inxt for about\\nten years he has had a branch office in Haverhill. At first\\nhe was in his office at Haverhill each week, but at jjrescnt\\nhe comes once a month. Dr. Howland married a daughter\\nof the late Elder Shipman of LisI)on.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0341.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIX.\\nHAVERHILL ABROAD.\\nHaverhill s honorable career Abroad Charles J. Adams J. Dorsey and George\\nAngler- Louisa Page Babcock\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Baeon Brothers Barstow Brothers Alfred,\\nAnson, Gardner George Barstow John Biirstow Mary Barstow Hazen\\nBedel John Bedel James W. Bell John Bell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James P. Brewer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel\\nBrooks Edwiu Brooks Edward C. and George Burbeck James A. Cut-\\nting\u00e2\u0080\u0094Frederick Crocker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Noah Davis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Moses Elkins D. L. Farnsworth\\nCharles N. Flanders Lucien H. Frary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Warren Gookin Michael Gray-\\nHunts Caleb S., Horace, Prescott, Helen Johnstons Charles, Hannah John\\nKimball William H. Leith Merrill Brothers John L., Benjamin, Charles\\nH. William Merrill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Arthur Mitchell Morse Brothers .Peaboiiy A., George\\nW., Isaac S. Robert Morse Joseph B. Morse Thomas L. Xelson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mies\\nBrothers Alonzo F., Horace I^. George B., Nellie and Clara Nichols Person\\nNoyes John A. Page Moses S.Page James H. Pearson Samuel P.Pike\\nElizabeth Abbott, Mary Webster, Henrietta Mumford and George Carrington\\nPowers John Reding Rodgers Brothers: Levi and M. Carleton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jonathan\\nH. and Chester Rowell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frank A. Smith\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lyman D. Stevens Smiths Lyn-\\ndon, Arnold, Stephen, Sanford, Carlos William P. Stowe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Tarletons\\nTowles Frederick and James Nathaniel Wilson Edward B. Wilson Wil-\\nliam F. Whitcher\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harvey B. Wilmont\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John L. Woods Franklin P. Wood.\\nA coniniimity or family shows the vigoi- and activity of its\\nlife in the fact of its perpetuation and progressive tendency.\\nWhen the tide is full it o\\\\erliows and spreads out into new\\nlimits. This tendency to spread al)r()ad has been a marked\\ncharacteristic of New England, from whose populations a\\nconstant stream has flown out into other parts of the coun-\\ntry. Haverhill has been no exception to the general fact,\\nInit has contributed her full share of sons and daughters who\\nhave gone out from the old hive, making their mark and\\ncontributing an active factor in the growth and progress of\\nother comnumities. It will, therefore, be the aim of this\\nchapter to chronicle the life of this overflow as being a legiti-\\nmate part of the history of the parent communit}-. This\\nrecord of the Town in this respect may not be as brilliant as\\nthat of some other towns. A numerous host of great names\\nmay not be found in the sketches given in this chapter,\\nstill the record is such as to reflect honor upon the Town and\\nto show that in usefulness, success, influence and worthy en-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0342.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "IIAVEHTIILL AHHOAD. 311\\ndeavor, the Town has no cause to Ijlush for her sons and\\ndaughters abroad, many of whom if not great, as the worhl\\niroes, arc amonu st the noblest snhits of the ao c. Doubtless\\nthere are names that rightly deserve a place in this eha[)ter,\\nbut which have escaped attention or fallen from memory in\\nthe dinnning years of the past. The sketches cover the lives\\nof such as have gone forth, and who by their energy,\\npush, enterprise and devotion to duty, have been a positive\\nfactor in advancing the interests of society and have given\\nstrenoth and usefulness to human life.\\nCIIAIJLES J. ADAMS\\nAVas born in Haverhill, and is the oldest son of Stephen\\nAdams. AVith his three brothers, ]\\\\Iichael, Horace and\\nEzra, he went to Lowell, Mass., where they became exten-\\nsively engaged in the furniture business, the firm name now\\nbeinof Adams Co., and is the lariicst in that citv. Charles\\nJ., whilst he lived in Lowell was city marshal for a number\\nof years, and he was also for a time deputy sheriff of ]\\\\Iid-\\ndlesex county. He afterwards moved to Cambridge, ]Mass.,\\nand had charge of the jail and house of correction for thirty-\\nthree years. He is still living in that city, at the age of\\nseventy-seven.\\n.T. DORSEY AXI) GEORGE W. AXGIER.\\nSons of Dr. Joiui and Xancy (Mann) Angier, were born in\\nNorth Haverhill. Very early in life they went to northern\\nPennsylvania and carried on the lumber business Avith nnich\\nsuccess. AVhilst thus engaged they observed on a mill-jjond\\nor pond of water oil floating, and Mr. Dorsey Angier after\\nthinking the matter over, made up his mind that the oil could\\nbe turned to use if it were gathered, and suggested the dig-\\nging of pits three or four feet s([uare, into which the water\\nwas allowed to flow, and then the oil was caught by woolen\\nblankets and wrung out. The process was slow, but as oil\\nat first connnanded a high price, it proved suflficiently remu-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0343.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "312 HISTORY OF HAVEilHlLL.\\nnerative. ^Meantime, he insisted that tlie oil could l)e pro-\\ncured by sinking wells, maintaining that as the oil comes\\nwith the water from the earth, there must be pools of oil in\\nthe earth. This idea was put into execution, and a well\\nwas sunk near the mill-dam or pond above mentioned, and at\\nthe de})th of sixty-nine feet, oil was reached. This gave im-\\nmense impulse to the oil search, and one hundred wells were\\nsunk in that section of the country. The Angiers made\\nhandsome fortunes, and are now living in Titusville, Pa.\\n3IRS. LOUISA PAGI-] BA15COCK\\nIs the oldest daughter of Samuel and Louisa (^Merrill) Page,\\nand was born in Haverhill in 1820. She attended the\\nAcademy in Haverhill in lier girlhood years and with her hus-\\nl)and was amongst the earliest emigrants who went to C^ali-\\nfornia after tlie gold fever broke out in 49. With a strong\\nand energetic spirit she took hold of the pioneer life of those\\ndays, and by industry, first in making rough clothing for the\\ngold diggers, and then in taking boarders, she laid the foun-\\ndation not only of enlarged usefulness in later life, but of\\nfinancial success to an unusual degree. With excellent busi-\\nness judgment she wisely invested her careful earnings in\\nreal estate in San Francisco, where she now resides sur-\\nrounded with the easy comforts of her industry, energy and\\nforethought. ]Mrs. B. is a person of strong mind and\\nwomanlv character and has made herself felt in christian and\\nphilanthropic work. In religious sentiment she is an Episco-\\npalian, and has taken an active part in supporting the church\\nof which she is a member. Her first marriage name was\\nEvans and then Xason, before she became Mrs. Babcock.\\nBACOX BROTMEKS ELMER C. AND SUMNER V.\\nThe former lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a wholesale\\ndealer in lightening rods. The latter is engaged in the iron\\nbusiness in the same city.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0344.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "IIAVEiniILL ARIJOAI). 313\\nalfi:ed BAi;sT(nv\\nIs the son of Dea. Ilenrv and Frances (Pierce) Barstow,\\nand was born in Haverhill in 182I He lived there till he\\nwas eleven years of age, when his father moved to Clare-\\nmont. AVhilst in Haverhill he attended the district school\\nin his earlier years, and afterwards the academy of which he\\nwas the young janitor, taking care of the rooms and building\\nthe fires for his tuition. At Claremont he continued his\\nstudies till his father moved to Lowell, Mass., in 1844,\\nwhere for four years he worked part of the time in the mills,\\nand })art of the time he was a student at the grammar and\\nhigh school. At the age of nineteen he entered the law\\noffice of his cousin, (ieorge Barstow of ]\\\\Ianchester, remain-\\ning there for about a year, and when the California gold\\nfever swept over the country he joined the Argonauts in 1849.\\nHe afterwards finished his law studies with the famous firm\\nof Halleck, Billings iSc Park of San Francisco, and was ad-\\nmitted to the bar in 18. S in that city. In 18 S he was\\nadmitted to the [)ractice of law in the United States Su-\\npreme Court. From 1859 to 18(i5 he was connected with\\nthe post office department as special agent and as assistant\\nsuperintendent of railway mail service. Mr. Barstow was\\nalso a justice of the peace of San Francisco for two years,\\nan office ^here of great responsibility and honor, there be-\\ning only six justices in the whole city, with a salary of\\n82,400 peramium. Meantime, he was interested in growing\\ngrapes in Santa Clara Valley, having now over one hundred\\nacres under successful cultivation. He married in 1868 the\\ndaughter of his law partner, ex-Judge A. L. Phodes of the\\nsupreme court of California. His home is in Oakland, Cal.,\\nand his office in San Francisco. The firm of Rhodes t^c P)ar-\\nstow is prominent and successful.\\n^Ir. Barstow is a man of ability and force of character, a\\ngenial companion, of an inquiring mind, somewhat specula-\\ntive and unti aditional.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0345.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "314 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nANSOX BAR8TOW,\\nJBrother of the above is a grain merchant in Oakhmd, C al.\\nGARDNER BARSTOAV,\\nAlso a brother, is engaged in grain business in Chicago.\\nGEORGE BARSTOAV\\nWas the son of William Barstow of Haverhill. He was\\neducated at the Academy and at Dartmouth College, but did\\nnot graduate from the latter institution. He read law with\\nthe distinguished Robert liantoul of Boston, and began the\\npractice of his profession in that city. He afterwards moved\\nto Hillsboro, and later to Manchester, and then to San Fran-\\ncisco, Cal., where he died. Mr. Barstow was a man of\\nability and chai-acter, and gained success in his pi ofessional\\ncareer. He became interested in politics, and was a member\\nof the California legislature, being honored with the speaker-\\nshi}) of the house of representatives of that body. He also\\nwrote a history of New Hampshire before leaving the state,\\nand was a man of literary tastes and culture. He mai ried\\nEmily Shepley of Saco, ]\\\\Ie.\\nCHARLES W. BARSTOW,\\nBrother of the above, Avas educated at the Haverhill Academy\\nand Avas a devoted and successful INIoravian minister. He\\nnow lives at Ames, Iowa.\\nJOHN BARSTOAV\\nIs the son of the late Ezckiel H. and Eunice (Clark) Bar-\\nstow, and Avas born in 1858. He fitted for college at St.\\nJohn sbury, Vt., and graduated from Dai tmouth College in\\n1888. He afterwards studied theology in Hartford, Conn.,\\nand completed his theological studies at Andover, Mass.,\\nand is now settled at Groton, Mass. During his theological\\ncourse he spent one year in Europe and the East in traAcl.\\nHe has the promise of success.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0346.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "HAVEIJHILL ARIIOAI). ol5\\nJIARY BAKSTOW,\\nSister of the above, was born in 1850, and was educated at\\nBradford Academy, Mass. After graduating, she was ap-\\npointed teacher of music in her ahiia mater, and has held\\nthat position with eminent success for over eighteen years.\\nHAZEX JiEDEL\\nWas born In Haverliill in 1818, and received his education\\nat the common schools and at Haverhill Academy, quitting\\nschool at the age of twelve years. It was in his early child-\\nhood that his father. Gen. iSIoody Bedel, became financially\\nembarrassed and was reduced to poverty. During this time\\nhe lived for five years in a family by the name of Jacob\\nWilliams, on the corner opposite the Bliss Tavern, who\\nkindly cared for him and sent him to the Academy for four\\nyears. This sunny episode in his childhood experience has\\nalways given Haverhill a warm place in his heart. The\\ngood we do lives after us.\\nMr. Hazen leax ned the shoemakers trade, but quit that for\\na clerkship in a store at Lancaster and at Colebrook, which\\nhe held till he was of age. He has often been called to pub-\\nlic positions, being early commissioned a justice of peace,\\nand at the age of twenty-six he was appointed colonel of the\\n24th Regiment, N. H. militia, serving in that position four\\nyears. He was a member of the constitutional convention\\nof 1850 and also of that of 187(5, has represented the town\\nof Colebrook in legislature, was a councillor for two years,\\nwhen Walter Harriman was governor, judge of probate for\\nCoos county, county commissioner, a state commissoner for\\nlaying out appropriations for highways and postmaster for\\nsixteen years. In addition to these he has been repeatedly\\nentrusted with the management of town atfaii-s, and has been\\nmany times appointed a referee in the adjustment of causes.\\nHe has also been in nmch request in settling estates.\\nMr. Hazen beffan mercantile life in Colel)n)()k in l S44", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0347.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "310 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nand continued in that l)usiness for about thirty years, when\\nhe retired from it for the purpose of engaging in the manu-\\nfacture of hunber and starch. lie also has interests in starch\\nmills in Aroostook county, Maine. He has lived in Cole-\\nbrook since he began business there, and has been a success-\\nful, enterprising, influential and highly esteemed citizen of\\nthe Town and county. He married Ann 8. daughter of Dr.\\nLyman Loml)ard of Colebrook, and of their six children\\nthree are living, a son and daughter in Colebrook, and a\\ndaughter is studying medicine in Washington, D. C. Mr.\\nHazen belongs to the order of Masons, and has held high\\ndegrees in that fraternity.\\n.TOHX BEDEL,\\nA younger brother of the above, was at tiie time of his death\\none of the most honored and esteemed citizens of Bath. He\\nwas born in 1823, whilst his father for a time was li\\\\ing in\\nIndian Stream, in Coos county. He received his education in\\nthe common schools in Bath and at Xewbury Seminary, Vt.,\\nand had the honorary degree of A. ]M. conferred upon him by\\nDartmouth College in 1869. He pursued his law studies\\nwith Hon. Hprry Hibbard of Bath, but before he was ad-\\nmitted to the bar he volunteered in the jNIexican war, and\\nwas a lieutenant under Gen. Pierce. After the close of that\\nwar he finished his law studies, and was admitted to the bar\\nin 1850, and at once began the practice of his profession in\\nl ath. In a few years he was a])pointed to a special service\\nin the treasury department in adjusting the claims of govern-\\nment agents who had made ex jmrte settlements with Uncle\\nSam. When the civil war broke out he resigned his duties\\nat Washington, and offered his services to his country. He\\nwas appointed major of the 3d lieg. N. H. Vol. and soon\\nafter he was ])romoted to be lieutenant colonel, and whilst in\\nprison at Columbia, S. C, he was made a colonel. He\\nwas taken prisoner in one of the assaults on Fort AVagner,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0348.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "IIAVEHTIILL ABROAD. ol7\\nCharleston HarI)or, and remained such for over a year, en-\\nduring much suffering and privation. After he was paroled\\nhe at once went to Washington, and laid before the authori-\\nties the sufferings of our soldiers in Rebel prisons. There\\ncan be no doubt that his earnest presentation of the necessity\\nof an exchange of prisoners brought about that result.\\nSoon after his return tcj liis regiment he was promoted to be\\na briofadier oencral of volunteers. When the war ended he\\nreturned to Bath, and enjxaoed extensivelv in the manufac-\\nture of starch. He represented Bath in the legislature for\\ntwo years, and was tlie Democratic candidate for governor in\\n1869 and again in 1870. On both occasions, notwithstand-\\ning his S])lendid service in the Avar, he failed of an election.\\nGen. Bedel married ]Mary Augusta, daughter of Hon. Jesse\\nBourns of Nashua. Only three of their seven children are\\nliving. Gen. Bedel died in 1875.\\nJAMES W. 15ELL,\\nSon of the late James Bell of Bolton, was born in HaAcr-\\nhill. He received his early training at Haverhill Academy.\\nHe followed the business of a decorator in Boston, and was\\nassociated with his brothers-in-law, ]\\\\IcPhersons, in that pro-\\nfession. He gained large success in his business, and during\\nthe administration of President Grant he was decorator of\\nthe White House, and was widely and prominently known.\\nHe is now retired on an ample fortune.\\nJOHX BELL,\\nBrother of the aboNC, was born in Haverhill, and received\\nhis education at the Academy and at Bolton, jNIass. He is\\na prominent and successful dentist in Boston, and pursued\\nhis professional studies in that city. He lives at Chelsea,\\nMass.\\n.JAMES r. BREWER\\nWas born in Claremont in 1818, and came to Haverhill with\\nhis parents when only a few months old, and may, therefore,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0349.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "318 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nbe properly claimed as a Haverhill boy. He lived in Haver-\\nhill till nearly eighteen years of age, and then went to Clare-\\nniont, where he carried on the business of a merchant for\\nover a quarter of a century. The trade of the store was\\nvery large. On one occasion, before the times of railroads,\\nhe bought 40,000 bushels of wheat in Michigan, which he\\nhad ground into flour, and then shipped to Whitehall, N.\\nY. by water, from whence it was carried across the Green\\nmountains by teams, to Claremont, and sold for $4.00 and\\n$4.50 a barrel. Subsequently he moved to Pittsburg, Pa.,\\nand was engaged very extensively in the lumber business for\\na number of years. For the last ten years he has lived in\\nCleveland, Ohio, and has in a great measure retired from\\nactive business life. Whilst in Pittsburg he was chiefly en-\\nofaixed in the cutting: of box-boards for the manufacture of\\no-lass boxes. The mill was a very extensive one, running\\nday and night with fifty-three circular saws, and two uprights\\nfor sawins: loi^s of immense thickness. The sale of saw-dust\\nmore than defrayed the cost of coal for steam-power, whilst\\nthe coarse dust from the upright saws was consumed with the\\ncoal\\nMr. Brewer has been eminently successful in all avenues of\\nenterprise in which he has engaged. He is a man of great\\nenergy and force of character, of superior business ability,\\nand has justly amassed a large fortune in the forty years of\\nhis active business life. In his earlier days he had to strug-\\ngle with poverty, and received only a common school educa-\\ncation, with the exception of a single term in Haverhill\\nAcademy, the tuition for which he paid out of his earnings\\nafter he left the school. At the age of about sixteen he\\nmade every mortice and tenon in the old part of the little\\nhouse his parents lived in next north of the Methodist church.\\nHe is entirely self-made and owes little to circumstances,\\nand is a man of large intelligence and careful observation,\\nwhose conversation on the many practical questions of busi-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0350.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "MAVEKIIILL ABROAD, 81^\\nness and finance is instructive and entertaining. lie has\\nbeen in every part of our country. In manners he is agree-\\nal)le and dignified, with a frank and kindly nature, and is a\\ngood example of the best type of American character. In\\nphysique he is tall and well built with a strong and winning\\nface.\\n]\\\\Ir. Brewer married Mary C. Bingham of Claremont,\\nwhose father was a college class-mate and the room-mate of\\nDaniel Webster. Paran Stevens, the great hotel man, was\\nan uncle of hers. Her mother s maiden name was Poole,\\nfrom which j\\\\Ir. Brewer gets his middle name, and was the\\ndaughter of Gen. Poole of Hanover. They have no child-\\nren. The immediate occasion of their mo vine; to Pittsburo;\\nwas Mrs. Brewer s health, who was a oreat sufferer from\\ncatarrh and bleeding of the nose, and tlie change proved a\\nperfect cure.\\nSAMUEL IJKOOKS\\nWas born in Haverhill in 1798 and was the oldest child of\\nSamuel and Anna (Pjcdel-Butler) Brooks. He married\\nEliza Towle of Haverhill, and for a short time lived in New-\\nbury, Vt. Afterwards he moved to Canada and became\\nprominent as a merchant in Stanstead. Later he lived in\\nLennoxville where he was extensively interested in trade and\\nagriculture. In l So7 he was sent as a delegate by leading\\ncitizens of the eastern townships to London, for the purpose\\nof enlisting capitalists in the development of the resources of\\nthat region. Being successful in his mission the British\\nLand Company of London was formed in the following year,\\nand he was appointed agent of the company. He changed\\nhis home to Sherbrooke which was the central point of the\\ncompanys operations. He was also manager of a branch of\\nthe city bank of ^Montreal. During all these years he took\\nan active and prominent part in every enterprise, and repi c-\\nsented his county most of the time till his death in the pro-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0351.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "320 HISTORY OF HAA EinilLL.\\nvincial legislature. He was an active promoter of the Grand\\nTrunk railroad from Montreal to Portland, and was a man\\nof large liberality and warmly devoted to all endeavors for\\nthe upbuilding of society in every good and worthy way,\\nand the church found in him a staunch and true friend.\\nTwo of jNIr. Brooks sons, William and Charles have been\\nsuccessful in business, and now reside in Chicago. For\\nmany years they lived in Lennoxville and Sherbrooke, Can-\\nada. Samuel Towle is a graduate of Dartmouth College in\\nthe class of 1874, and of ]\\\\IcGill University in medicine and\\npractised his profession for a number of years at Sherbrooke,\\nCanada. Aftervvai ds he moved to St. Johnsbury, Yt.,\\nwhere he has since lived in the successful pursuit of his pro-\\nfession, and is a Avell-known physician and a man of high\\ncharacter. Edward Towle is also a graduate of Dartmouth\\nCollege, and became prominent as a lawyer. lie Avas for\\nseveral years a senator in the Dominion GoAernment at\\nOttawa, and is now one of the judges in the Canadian\\ncourts. The only daughter became the wife of Justice John\\nSewell Sanl)orn, a prominent man in Canadian politics and\\ngovernment, and a brotlier of the late Prof. Sanljorn of\\nDartmouth College.\\nEDWIX BROOKS\\nIs the youngest son of Sanuiel and Hannah (Bedel-Butler)\\nBrooks. He Avas liberally educated and practised law in\\nNew York Avith success for many years. Afterwards he Avent\\nto California and continued the practice of his profession in\\nSan Francisco. He is distinguished as a linguist as Avell as\\na lawyer, and bears the multitudinous name of Edwin Luke\\nBrown Brooks. He is still living.\\nBURBECK BROTHERS EDAVARD C. AND GEORGE,\\nSons of William H. and Sally Putnam (Carleton) Burbeck.\\nThe former Avas born in Hanover in 1846, fitted for college\\nat Meriden, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1871.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0352.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "IIAVEKIIILL AlJUOAl). 321\\nAfter leaving college he was principal of the high schools at\\nEast Abington and at Winchendon, ]\\\\Iass., and of ]Mt.\\nPleasant graninier school, Nashua, where he remained four-\\nteen years, and is now principal of the Danvers (Mass.)\\ngraramer school. He married Luella Carleton of AVest\\nNewbury, Vt.\\nC4EORGE BURBECK\\nAVas born in Haverhill in 1850, fitted for college under Rev.\\nE. H. Greeley and at New London, and is a graduate of\\nDartmouth College in the class of 1875. Immediately after\\nleaving college he went to California, and was a clerk in the\\npost office at Oakland for several years, and is now teller in\\nthe first national bank of that city. He married Ella B.\\nGiffbrd, and is deacon in the First Congregational church of\\nOakland.\\nJAMES A. CUTTING\\nAVas the son of Abijah Cutting, and was born in Haverhill.\\nHe was noted for his inventive genius, but was not always\\nsuccessful in his plans. At one time he Avas a pension agent\\nin Boston, and accumulated a handsome property. He de-\\nvised the Aquarial Garden in Boston, and invented a loco-\\nmotive spark extinguisher. He was also the inventor of the\\nambrotype. He Avas a man of undoubted genius in his line\\nof work, and had a name for integrity. He died in Boston\\nmany years ago.\\nFKEDEKICK CROCKER\\nIs the youngest son of Edward Bass and Elizabeth (Gibson)\\nCrocker, and was born in 1811 on the Isle of Orleans about\\nfive miles below Quebec, where his father lived in the earlier\\nyears of this century, but at the breaking out of the war of\\n1812 he returned to North Haverhill, his native })lace.\\nFrederick lived in Haverhill and in Bath till 1842, when he\\nwent South and eniiaijed in business with uuich success. In", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0353.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "322 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\n1840 he returned North, and soon after married Hannah\\nB. Dodge of Bath. Of tlieir family of twelve children only\\ntwo sons are living. ]Mr. Crocker and others from this sec-\\ntion went to north-western Pennsylvania and engaged in the\\nlumber business, which however did not prove a fortunate\\nventure, and the accumulations of former years in the South\\nwere swept away. Afterwards he moved to Olean, N. Y.,\\nand entered into business again, this time with better success.\\nWhilst on a trip to Pittsburg with lumber in 1859, he heard\\nof the discovery of petroleum on Oil Creek, and at once\\nhastened to the fields of discovery and engaged in the oil\\nbusiness. Whilst studying the surface-indications of petro-\\nleum in that section he remembered that he had seen similar\\nindications in northern Alabama and near the mouth of the\\nSt. Lawrence river, and formed the theory that the oil lay in\\na belt running from the mouth of the St. Lawrence river to\\nthe western side of the Gulf of Mexico, a theory which is\\nnow accepted as the correct one in regard to the trend and\\nlocality of the oil belt.\\n]Mr. Crocker has made and spent hundreds of thousands\\nof dollars in search of oil-deposits. A few years ago he\\nwith others organized a company to operate in Washington\\ncounty, Penn., in the search of oil on the theory which he\\nhad previously formed. Numerous wells Avere drilled in that\\nregion, and although little oil was found these wells furnished\\nan unlimited quantity of gas of very great value, which was\\nconveyed to Pittsburg in pipes many miles away, and so\\ngenerally has this gas come into use for fuel in manufactur-\\ning, that the use of coal is now almost entirely done away\\nwith, and the once smoky and sooty city of Pittsburg is, in\\nthe words of Mr. Crocker, a clean city. The company\\nto which he belongs owns wide tracts of leased oil-lands in\\nthat section of the country, and petroleum is found in large\\nquantities in all directions. ]Mr. Crocker is still an active,\\nenterprising man at the advanced age of 79 years.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0354.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABROAD. 323\\nXOAII DAVIS\\nIs the son of Noah and Freelove (Arnold) Davis, and was\\nborn in Haverliill in 1818. He was seven years old when\\nhis father moved to Albion, N. Y., and received his educa-\\ntion in the connnon schools of that state, with the exception\\nof a single term at the Weslyan Seminary, Lima, X. Y.\\nAfter pursuing his law studies the requisite time, he was ad-\\nmitted to the bar in 1841, and began the practice of his pro-\\nfession at Buffalo, where he remained only a short period,\\nand then moved to Albion and formed a partnership with the\\nlate Sanford E. Church, who afterwards was chief justice of\\nthe court of a})peals of New York. This partnership con-\\ntinued until 1857, when Judge Davis was appointed to the\\nsupreme court l)ench of New York to fill a vacancy, and in\\ntlie following fall of that year he was elected for the fall term\\nof eight years, serving the last of the eight years as a judge\\nof the court of appeals. He was elected for a second term,\\nbut before the expiration of the time he was compelled to\\nresign on account of failing health. In 1869 he was elected\\nto congress from the Rochester District, but only remained\\nin that position till the close of the long term, when he was\\nappointed United States district attorney for the southern\\ndistrict of New York, which office he held for about three\\nyears, and then took his seat on the supreme court bench in\\nthe city of New York, to wliich he was elected for a term of\\nfourteen years.\\nJudge Davis is a man of the highest character and of\\ngreat ability, and is esteemed one of the ablest jiu ists in the\\ncountry. He is one of the foremost citizens of New York,\\nand sat in the famous trial of William ]M. Tweed, the arch-\\nl)lundcrer of that city.\\n.JOSEPH J5. :morse\\nIs the son of John and P^unice (Willoughby) ]Morse, and\\nwas born in Haverhill in 1S14. He fitted for college at", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0355.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "324 HISTOltY OF HAVERHILL.\\nHaverhill Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College\\nin iJS^cS, at the age of thirty-four. He taught successfully\\nfor eighteen years as principal in the Harvard grammar\\nschool, Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Morse is a Univei salist\\nclergyman, and now resides at Hanover on a farm on ac-\\ncount of impaired health.\\nMOSES ELKIX\\nWas born in 1802, received his education at Hampton Acad-\\nemy, was very successful as a teacher in New York and Wis-\\nconsin, and also preached as a Methodist minister.\\nD. L. EARNS WORTH\\nIs the son of Stephen and Mary Ann (Locke) Farns worth,\\nand was born in Haverhill in 183(S. His education was re-\\nceived at East Haverhill. He was always full of energy,\\nand went to California in 1858 to seek his fortune in that\\nstate, a young man of only twenty summers. At first he\\nworked on a farm, and then drove a team at the mines.\\nAfterwards he went to San Francisco and engaged in the\\nmilk business, at first with twenty cows and at last with one\\nhundred. Changing from this to draying he has become the\\nlargest drayman in San Francisco, employing over one hun-\\ndred horses and sixty men. In 1884 he was elected super-\\nvisor, and was chairman of the street committee. He mar-\\nried Fannie P. Locke, and they have two children, Silas B.\\nand Lottie P.\\nCHARLES NELSOX FLANDERS,\\nSon of Peter and Mary E. Flanders, was born in 1845.\\nHe is a graduate from Dartmouth College, 1871, Andover\\nSeminary, 1874, was ordained and settled at Westmoreland\\nthe same year, afterwards acting pastor at Wapping, Conn.,\\nand is now installed pastor at Newport. He married Emily\\nPage of Haverhill, and they have three children. At West-\\nmoreland and Wapping he was school committee, and is now", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0356.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "HAVEUHILL AIJKOAD. 325\\na trustee of Kimball Union Academy. ^fr. Flanders has\\nbeen an efficient minister, of thoroughly manly character\\nand ability, and has always been most highly esteemed.\\nLUCIEX HASKELL FKAKY\\nA\\\\ as born in Haverhill in 1830, and is the son of Chai les S.\\nand Abigail (Haskell) Frary. His early education was pur-\\nsued at Haverhill Academy, and at the age of fourteen he\\nentered the Democratic jRepiiblican office in Haverhill,\\nwhere he remained till he was of age. Fitting for colleo-e\\nunder private tutors he entered Dartmouth College in 1862,\\nand graduated in course. He worked his way through col-\\nlege without aid from any source, excejit his own industry\\nand energy. After graduating he studied for the ministry at\\nAndover Theological Seminary, and graduated from that in-\\nstitution in 1869, when he Avas ordained and settled as pas-\\ntor of the First Congregationalist church, ]Middleton, Mass.,\\nwhere he remained five years, and then became pastor of the\\nCongregationalist church, AVaymouth, Mass., continuing\\nthere over eleven years, when on account of the health of\\nhis only child, he was compelled to resign, and is now pastor\\nof the Congregational church. Sierra Madre, California.\\n]Mr. Frary has been singularly successful as a minister, gain-\\ning not only a deep hold upon the churches which he served,\\nbut also upon the communities in which he lived. On leav-\\ning Weymouth the church made a most complimentary rec-\\nord of their feelings toward him, and also gave expression to\\ntheir deep regard in a handsome pecuniary token. During\\nhis ministry at Weymouth he received several very flattering\\ncalls t j other churches, First Church, Minneapolis, Minn.,\\nand College Street church, Burlington, Vt. He has de-\\nvoted himself entirely to the duties of the church, giving his\\nbest time and brain, and is a most interesting and effective\\n})rcac!u r, an l a man of talent. Some years ago he made an\\nextensive tour of southern Europe, going as far east as Pales-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0357.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "326 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\ntine and Egypt, and wrote his impressions for a local pai)er.\\nHe also allowed by request several sermons to be published.\\nHe has a hopeful and sunny heart, is thoroughly true in his\\nfriendships, and catholic in opinion. He married first,\\nSusan E. True of Meriden, who lived only a few years, and\\nthen Louise Parker of Dunbarton. They have an only child,\\na daughter in frail health.\\nWAltUEX D. GOOKIX\\nBorn in 1810, was the son of Richard and Rebecca (Dem-\\nman) Gookin. He was educated at Haverhill Academy and\\nDartmouth College, o-raduatino- from the latter institution in\\n1830. The early part of his life was passed in Cuba, where\\nhe was interested in a sugar plantation. He also devoted\\nsome time in travel. Finally, he came to New York and\\nwas extensively engaged as a shipping merchant, in which\\nbusiness he gained large success. He died in Brooklyn in\\n1874. A scholarship in Dartmouth College, known as the\\nGookin Scholarship, was founded by him. A daughter\\nof Mv. Gookin married Edwin S. Waterman, and lives in\\nBrooklyn.\\nMICHAEL GKAY\\nWas the son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Johnston) Gray. He\\nwas born in 1789, and received his early education at Hav-\\nerhill Academy. He then went to Scotland and graduated\\nat Ruthersham Seminary. After graduation he returned for\\na short period to his native place, and then went to England,\\nand was settled over a Congregational church in London in\\n1813. Of his subsequent history little is known, except\\nthat he is reputed to have been a very eloquent preacher and\\na man of large influence.\\nCALEB S. HUNT\\nWas the oldest son of Caleb Hunt. He graduated from\\nDartmouth Colleo:e in 1832. and read law in the office of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0358.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "HAVEKHILL A]il{()Al). 827\\nLieut. -Gov. Read of ^Massachusetts, whose daughter he mar-\\nried. For a number of years he lived in New Orleans en-\\ngaged in the cotton-gin business, and then coming to Brook-\\nlin he carried on tlie manufacture of cotton-gins.\\nHORACE HUNT\\nGraduated from Dartmouth College in 1 S47, and afterwards\\nstudied law in Detroit. Soon after his admission to the l\u00c2\u00bbar\\nhe relinquished his professional aims and returned to Haver-\\nhill and bought the Towle farm. After a short residence in\\nHaverhill he Avent to Boston and eno-ao-ed in business. He\\norganized the Boston Machine Company, and was also its\\ntreasurer. He was successful in Ijusiness and amassed a\\nlarge property, but a few years ago he met with some finan-\\ncial reverse on account of endorsements. He married An-\\nnette Towle of Haverhill.\\nPRESCOTT HUXT\\nWas educated at Haverhill Academy, and then went to Bos-\\nton in the employ of the Boston Iron Company as a clerk at\\nfirst, and afterwards he became a partner. These works\\nwere largely engaged during the war in casting immense\\nguns and in the manufacture of plates for the iron-clads.\\nHe was also president of one of the national banks in Bos-\\nton. Like his brother, he endorsed heavily for others, and\\nthrough the financial embarrassment of some of these, he\\nmet with heavy losses. He has two sons in business in\\nBoston.\\nHELEX HUXT,\\nThe youngest daughter of Caleb Hunt, and sister of the\\nabove, married Hon. Stoddard Colby, a prominent lawyer of\\nMontpelier, Vt., who died some years ago, and at one time\\nwas register of the United States treasury. ]\\\\Irs. Colby\\nwas a leader in AVashington society, and is a verv accom-\\nplished lady. She now lives in New York. They had two\\nchildren.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0359.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "328 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nCHARLES JOHNSTON,\\nSon of Capt. Michael Johnston, born 1789, graduated from\\nDartmouth College 1813, studied theology with Rev. Grant\\nPowers and Dr. Lyman Beecher, labored as an evangelist in\\nConnecticut and New York with Dr. Xettleton, and was\\npastor of a Presbyterian churc]i, Otisco, N. Y. He was a\\nman of much force of character.\\nHANNAH JOHNSTON,\\nSister of the above, was born in 17iJ3, and received her ed-\\nucation at Haverhill Academy. She Avas married to Rev.\\nSilas ^SIcKeen, D. D., in 1821, and of their four children,\\nPhilena, the oldest, was carefully trained in scholastic studies,\\nand also in the fine arts, especially music, and has been suc-\\ncessfully engaged in teaching in the Ohio Female College,\\nand in the Western Female Seminary, Oxford, O. For many\\nyears she has been the accomplished principal of Abbott\\nAcademy for ladies, Andover, Mass. Her sister Catherine,\\nwas at one time a teacher in Mount Holyoke Ladies Semi-\\nnary, Mass., and died in West Virginia. A son, George\\nW., was a graduate of Dartmonth College and died in early\\nmanhood, and is said to have been a young man of much\\npromise. The youngest daughter, Phebe Fuller, was asso-\\nciated in teaching with her eldest sister both in Ohio and at\\nAndover, and died a few years ago in Baltimore.\\nThe mother of these children was a woman of rare chris-\\ntian character and graces, Avhose price is far above rubies,\\na devoted wife and mother, wise in speech and discreet in\\naction, and a friend of tlie poor and needy. She was super-\\nintendent of the first Sabbath school organized in Haverhill\\nabout IS 18.\\nJOHN KIMBALL\\nWas the eldest son of John and Mehitabel (Carleton) Kim-\\nball of Haverhill. He pursued his early education at tlav-\\nerhill Academy, and graduated from Dartmoutli College in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0360.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABKOAD, 329\\n1822. He read law and successfully practiced his profession,\\nfirst in Claremont, and then in Putney, Vt., where he lived\\ntill his death. For several years he represented the latter\\ntown in the legislature, and was also a state senator from\\nWindham county. During* his senatorial service he was\\nchosen president of the senate. He was a man of high char-\\nacter and influential in the state.\\nAVILLTAM H. LEITH\\nWas born in Haverhill in 1859, and is a son of George W.\\nand Evelina (Frary) Leith. His early education was pur-\\nsued at Haverhill and Plymouth, and was completed at\\nBraintree, Mass. He began the study of medicine under\\nDr. Samuel P. Carbee of Haverhill, and in 1883 he gradu-\\nated from the medical department of the University of Ver-\\nmont amongst the first in his class. After a competitive\\nexamination for the place of home surgeon to the ^Nlary\\nFletcher Hospital at Burlington, Vt., he was appointed to\\nthat position which he held for one year, and on leaving he\\nwas presented with the special thanks of the trustees for\\nprofessional and fiiithful service. He began the practice\\nof medicine at Guildhall, Vt., remaining there two years,\\nand then moved to Lancaster, where he has met with Matter-\\ning success. Dr. Leith is a young man of ability, a careful\\nstudent in his profession, of pleasing manners and has. a\\nlarge share of professional enthusiasm. If his life is spared\\nhe can hardly fail of an honorable name in his profession.\\nMEUKILL 15ROTHER8 .lOHX L., BENJAMIN AND CHARLES H.\\nChildren of Dea. Abel K. Merrill. John L. was born in\\n1833, and received his early education at Haverhill Academy\\nand fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. He grad-\\nuated from Dartmouth College in 185(5, and studied for the\\nministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. His first pas-\\ntorate was over the Presbyterian church in Chanceford, York\\ncountv. Pa. Afterwards he settled at Acworth and Marlbo-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0361.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "330 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nroug-h, remaining in the latter place about eighteen years,\\nand is now the pastor of the Congregational church at\\nliindge. He was for a time principal of the high school,\\nLancaster, Pa., after leaving Chanceford. During his min-\\nistry at Acworth he wrote the history of that town. Mr.\\nMerrill is a man of high character, and a safe and judicious\\ncounsellor, and has been eminently successful in his profes-\\nsion. He married Mary L. Murpliy of Chanceford, Pa.,\\nand of their tlu ce children two are living.\\nBenjamin, born in 1835, received his early education at\\nHaverhill and at Kimball Union Academy, and afterwards\\ngraduated from the scientific department of Dartmouth Col-\\nleo-e in 1858. He studied theologv at Princeton Seminarv,\\nand began his ministry as a missionary amongst the miners\\nof Barton, and also preached at Piedmont, W. Va. After a\\nfew years he became pastor of the Congregational church at\\nPembroke. Later, he was settled over the Presbyterian\\nchurch at Ausable Forks, N. Y., and at the present time he\\nis ministering to the Congregational church in Swanzey. He\\nmarried Joanna Walker Gildersleeve, and of their three\\nchildren only one is living. INIr. ]Merrill has published sev-\\neral sermons.\\nCharles H., born 1845, fitted for college at Kimball\\nUnion Academy, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College in\\nthe class of 1867. He pursued his theological studies at\\nAndover Theological Seminary, and was first a pastor at\\nMankato, Minn., where he was ordained, and then at AVest\\nBrattleboro, Vt., remaining in the latter place for over four-\\nteen years, when he was a[)pointed field secretary of the Ver-\\nmont Domestic Missionary Society, and is now living in St.\\nJohnsbury, Vt. He has published several sermons and ad-\\ndresses, is a very scholarly man, and has been a successful\\nand esteemed pastor. He married Laura B. ]Merrill, daugh-\\nter of Daniel Merrill of Washington, D. C, and they have\\nfour children.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0362.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL AHUOAI). 331\\nWILLLVM MERHILL.\\nIs the youngest son of Capt. Benjamin and Sarah (Haynes)\\njVlerrill, and was born in Haverhill in 1827. He was edu-\\ncated at Haverhill Academy, and also attended school at Ply-\\nmouth. After teaching for a short time he went to Boston\\nas a clerk in a dry goods mercantile house, and a few years\\nlater he engaged in the cloth and woolen jobbing business in\\nXew York, at first as a clerk and afterwards as a partner,\\nand was for some years the foreign buyer of the house.\\n]Mr. jNIerrill withdrew from mercantile life and engaged\\nin banking and brokage, from which, however, he was com-\\npelled to retire on account of his health. He has lived in\\nBrooklyn since 1850, and has taken an active interest in city\\nand church matters. He is a member of Rev. Dr. Storr s\\nchurch. His wife was Julia Wri2:ht before her marriaofe,\\ndaughter of John Wright of Brooklyn, at one time collector\\nof the port of Buffalo.\\nMr. Merrill is a gentleman of refined manners and tastes,\\nof high character and intelligence, and greatly esteemed by\\nall who knew him. He is the generous giver of the Dea.\\nMerrill Memorial Chapel, Haverhill.\\nAUTIIUK MITCHELL,\\nSon of David and Salome (Davis) Mitchell, was born in\\n1864. His education was })ursued at Haverhill Academy,\\nand he entered Dartmouth College in 1882, but remained\\nonly one year, when he was compelled to leave on account of\\nhis eyes. Subsequently he studied medicine in Boston, grad-\\nuating from the medical department of Boston University in\\n188fi, and is now practicing his profession in Medfield, Mass.\\nHe is enthusiastic in his work, and has a promising future.\\nPEABODY A. MORSE,\\nSon of Bryan and Susanna (Stevens) Morse, was born in\\n1805, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1.S3().\\nAfter leaving colle2;e he went to Fredericksburg, Xa., and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0363.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "332 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nacted as tutor in the family of Judge Brooks of the supreme\\ncourt of Virginia. Meantime, he pursued his legal studies\\nunder that gentleuian s direction until he was admitted to the\\nbar. In 1833 he went to Louisiana, and settled in Natchi-\\ntoches, where he engaged in the practice of the law for many\\nyears. For a long period from 1 S38 he was a member of\\nthe Louisiana Legislature, and served with great usefulness,\\nprominence and distinction in that body. In 1843 Gen.\\nMorse moved to California, and at once took high and re-\\nsponsible position, filling many offices of importance, honor\\nand trust, amongst others that of judge of the court of San\\nFrancisco, and commissioner of the funded debt. In 1854\\nhe returned to Lousiana with his family and resided there till\\nhis death in 1878. At the time of his decease the bar of\\nNatchitoches took special notice of the event, passing very\\ncomplimentary resolutions, and apj)ointed a delegation to at-\\ntend the funeral. Judge Morse married Miss Sampayrac.\\nWhen in college being asked what his father s business was,\\nhe returned this characteristic answer, Now, my friend,\\nyou ve got me. If you had inquired what it was not, I\\ncould very easily have answered.\\nGEORGE AV. 3IOKSE,\\nBrother of the above, was born in 1812, and at the time of\\nhis death was a resident of Washington, D. C, though for\\nmany years previous he lived in Lousiana. He was edu-\\ncated at Haverhill Academy, developing at an early period\\nof life wonderful mechanical and inventive skill. At the\\nao^e of eio:hteen he invented a gun with a masfazine lock,\\nby which the gun coidd be fired sixty times without priming.\\nHe is the real inventor of the metallic cartridge case\\nwhich alone has made breech-loading small arms a success,\\nbut unfortunately on account of the imperfect manner in\\nwhich his lawyer drew his patent, he lost his claim to being\\nthe first inventor of the metallic cartridge. Mr. Morse,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0364.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL AI5i;OAI). 388\\nhowever, conscious of the great wrong which had been done\\nhim in being denied priority of invention by which others\\nhave probably amassed fortunes, brought his chiim before\\nCongress and petitioned that body that some compensation\\nmight be granted him for the use of his invention in the\\narms of the government service. The matter was considered\\nin 1(S84, and the committee to whom ]Mr. Morse s claim was\\nreferred, after giving the matter the most careful considera-\\ntion, aided by an expert from the Patent Office and by offi-\\ncers in the Ordnance Department, closed the report on the\\nmatter with the recommendation that the claim be allowed.\\nAccordingly, a bill was introduced appropriating $25,000.\\nBrig. -Gen. Benet, chief of ordnance to whom the report of\\nthe committee was referred, uses this language. In my\\nopinion Mr. jNIorse fairly and justly deserves this much at\\nthe hands of Congress, and I strongly recommend the pas-\\nsage of the bill. And this recommendation of the chief of\\nordnance was concurred in by the Secretary of War, Hon.\\nRobt. T. Lincoln. The metallic cartridge was invented\\nin 1856.\\nThe name of Morse is connected with two of the most im-\\nportant inventions that have been given to the world. One\\nof these is the electric telegraph Avhich has revolutionized the\\nmethod of transmitting news rapidly from all parts of the\\nworld, so that in a few hours the nations of the earth can be\\nput in comnumication with each other, and the state of com-\\nmerce and industry and markets of one day may be read at\\nour breakfast tables the next day. The other invention is\\nthe metallic cartridge case for breech-loading guns, which\\nhas created an equal re\\\\ olution in the fire-arms of the world.\\nThe honor of this last invention belongs to a son of Haver-\\nhill, according to the judgment of those who have the best\\nmeans of information, including not only ordnance officers in\\nour own army and experts in the Patent Office, but also ac-\\ncording to the highest army and naval opinion of Great Brit-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0365.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "334 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nain. In conversation with officers of all nationalities,\\nwrites an English officer to ]Mr. ]\\\\Ior8e, I have always said\\nthat you are the inventor of the metallic cartridge case.\\nTardy justice has been done Mr. Morse s name, and only a\\n])artia] renumeration has been i-endered him for his great in-\\nvention in fire-arms.\\nMr. Morse died in 1888 in Washington.\\nISAAC S, MORSE,\\nThe youngest son of Bryan and Susanna (Stevens) Morse,\\nwas born in 1817 and received his education at Haverhill\\nAcademy. When his father moved to Lowell, Mass., in\\n1833 to enofaofe in mercantile business, the son entered his\\nstore as a clerk, but in 1837 he began the study of law in\\nLowell, attended afterwards the law school at Cambridge,\\nand was admitted to the bar in 1840. He and Gen. B. F.\\nButler were admitted at the same time, and for many years\\nfought the law-battles in Lowell. He was for a time\\ncity solicitor of Lowell. He married Eloise La Barte and\\nthey had a family of four children, two of whom, daughters,\\nare living. Emma married B. F. Hosped, a paper manu-\\nfacturer of Holyoke, Mass., George A. was a lawyer and a\\ndauo-hter is livins^; with her father.\\nMr. Morse moved to Cambridge in 1861, and has resided\\nthere ever since. He served in the board of aldermen of\\nthat city, and also represented it in the legislature. He has\\nfor many years been a prominent citizen of Massachusetts,\\nand has gained a wide reputation as an able and accomplished\\nlawyer. His success in his profession would easily satisfy\\nany reasonable ambition. Soon after moving to Cambridge\\nhe was elected district attorney for jNIiddlesex county, and\\ncontinued in that office from 1855 to 1871, an unusually\\nlong period of service, and which is an honorable tribute to\\nhis capacity as a lawyer and his fidelity to the trust com-\\nmitted to his care. While servinsx in this office it fell to his", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0366.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABROAD. 385\\nlot to conduct the case of the government in the famous Kal-\\nhich trial. Mr. Morse was then in his prime, about forty\\nyears of age, and the trial created great interest not only in\\nMassachusetts but in all New England and the country, on\\naccount of the heinousness of the crime and the prominence\\nof the accused. Mr. Morse was at his best during; the Ions:\\ncontest. A journal of that date, speaking of his conduct of\\nthe case and his argument to the jury, said, Every great\\noccasion is apt to bring forth great men. Men never display\\nall their energies and talents except upon great emergencies,\\nand this truth was never more clearly shown than in the case\\nof ]\\\\Ir. ^Vlorse, ])rosecuting attorney for the county of ]Mid-\\ndlesex. The trial of Mr. Kalloch has had the effect of\\nbringing him before the public in a prominent position, and a\\npermanency he never would have attained, had he dug for\\nyears into the ordinary criminal cases under his jurisdiction.\\nMr. ]Morse declining a re-election retired from the office of\\ndistrict attorney in 1871, and the members of the Middlesex\\nbar with other distinguished gentlemen gave him a compli-\\nmentary dinner at Young s Hotel. Amongst those present\\nwere such prominent persons as Gen. Banks, Dr. George B.\\nLoring, Col. Daniel Xeedham and many others. Gen.\\nBanks in his remarks on this occasion said that the district\\nattorney was eminently a judicial officer, whose primary duty\\nit was not to convict all who were brought before him, but\\nto find out whether conviction was deserved. In this resjject\\nMr. Morse had demonstrated in his own career the true dis-\\ntrict attorney. At the close of the dinner, greatly to the\\nsurprise of Mr. jMorse, he was [)resented by his friends with\\nan elegant service of silver plate. Since then he has de-\\nvoted himself with industry and fidelity to a large and lucra-\\ntive law practice.\\nThe following anecdote is related in a Boston paper of\\nrecent date, and illustrates Mr. Morse s quick wit and keen\\nmind. Robert ^Morris was a prominent colored lawyer at", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0367.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "336 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthe Suffolk bar, and on one occasion was defending a colored\\ndress-maker who Avas charoed with stealino- silk from her\\ncustomers and substituting for it poorer material. A lady\\nwitness against the dress-maker testified that she could tell\\nthe value of silk within twenty-fiAC cents per yard. Mr.\\nMorris on cross-examinino the witness, takino; advantao-e of\\nthe common o})inion that colored persons are hard to distin-\\nguish from white persons, asked the witness if she could\\nrecognize a colored man who had In ought a bundle to her.\\nNo I think that colored folks all look pretty much alike\\nto me. Oh, they do, do they? was lawyer Morris\\nquick reply. AVe ll see. Then turning to the court\\nroom, where many interested colored spectators were seated,\\nhe requested several gentlemen of color to stand, and then\\nasked the witness Now, look at me and these other gent-\\nlemen, and tell the court whether you could tell us apart.\\nI don t see much difference, she replied. Perhaps by\\nstudying you all I could, but your heads are all shaped alike\\nand except that some are darker than others, I should find it\\ndifficult to distinguish.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Now, madam, said Mr. Morris with an air of oppressed\\nhumanity, do you mean to swear, after telling the jury that\\nyou can judge of the value of silk within twenty-five cents a\\nyard, that you can t tell the difference between Mr. Johnson\\nhere and me\\nAVithout waiting for the witness to reply, jNIr. ISIorse\\nbroke in She claimed to be a judge of silk, not a judge\\nof wool.\\nSquire Morris took the retort in the best of humor, but\\nnevertheless it broke the force of his cross-examination.\\nIn 1857 Dartmouth College conferred upon jNIr. Morse\\nthe honorary degree of Master of Arts.\\nROBERT MORSE,\\nA son of Stephen and Sally (Kay) Morse, Avas born in", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0368.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "HAVEKHILL ABROAD. 337\\nIlaverliill in 1792, and afterwards lived in Rumncy. He\\nwas the organizer in 1814 of the first permanent stage line\\nbetween Concord and Haverhill, and in the spring of that\\nyear, he with a party of invited guests, came over the route\\nin the first stage. Subsequently, he became noted as one of\\nthe great stage proprietors and mail carriers Ijctwecn Concord\\nand Haverhill, and he was also intei ested in other lines.\\nHe was a man of great force and energy in pushing enter-\\nprises.\\nJOSEPH B. MORSE,\\nSon of John and Eunice (Willoughby) Morse, was born in\\nHaverhill in 1814. He fitted for college at Haverhill Acad-\\nemy, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1848, at the\\nage of thirty-four. He was principal of Howard Grammer\\nSchool in Charlestown, Mass., for eighteen years. Mr.\\nMorse is a Universalist minister, but in later years, on ac-\\ncount of impaired health, he has lived in Hanover on a farm.\\nHe married Sarah M. Ripley.\\nTHOMAS LEVERETT NELSOX,\\nThe oldest son of John and Lois (Leverett) Nelson, was\\nborn in Haverhill. He entered Dartmouth College in 1842,\\nand graduated from the University of Burlington in 1846.\\nAfter his admission to the bar he began the practice of law\\nin Worcester, INIass., and soon rose to be one of the leading-\\nmembers of the Worcester county bar. He is now United\\nStates Circuit Judge, and lives in Worcester, Mass. Judge\\nNelson is a man of ability and a learned jurist.\\nALOXZO F. NILES\\nIs the oldest son of Joseph B. Niles, and received his educa-\\ntion at Haverhill Academy. His first start in life was as\\ncook on a raft to Hartford, and then he went to Springfield,\\nMass., where he has been in business for nearly forty years.\\nHe is the founder of the Avell-known wholesale and retail", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0369.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "338 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nhouse of that city, first for twenty years under the name of\\nA. F. Niles, and afterwards A. F. Niles Son. They are\\ndealers in groceries, fish, provisions and fruit, and have also\\na meat market connected with their establishment which is\\none of the best equipped in the city, and their business is one\\nof the largest in their line in S})ringfield. In a volume,\\nMassachusetts Industries, the firm is thus spoken of:\\nThe founder of this wide-awake house, Mr. A. F. Niles,\\nis a native of New Hampshire, and a gentleman possessing\\nthe most commendable business characteristics, being enter-\\nprising, energetic, industrious, liberal in methods and the\\nsoul of integrity. His son, Mr. O. W. Niles, was born in\\nSpringfield, and is now in his twenty-ninth year. He is a\\nyoung man of exceptional busmess capacity, prompt and re-\\nliable, pushing, popular and praiseworthy, and commands\\nhosts of friends. There is no business house here more\\npopular or more deserving of its success, and the host of\\npatrons who have entered into business relations with it is\\nincreasing.\\nMr. Niles married a sister of Dr. Wetherbee of North\\nHaverhill, and they have three children. He is a deacon in\\nthe Memorial church, Springfield, and a prominent citizen of\\nof that city. He is intelligent, genial, and devoted to his\\nfamily.\\nHORACE L. NILES,\\nBrother of the above, also lives in Springfield and was for\\nmany years in business with Alonzo F. He served in the\\nwar, and was taken prisoner at Ball s Bluff, being confined\\nin Libby prison three months. For several years he lived in\\nNebraska, and carried on farmins;. He is now enijao-ed in\\nmercantile business in Springfield.\\nGEORGE B. NICHOLS,\\nThe son of Jonathan S. and Myra (Montgomery) Nichols,\\nwas born in Haverhill. He was educated at Haverhill and", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0370.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL AHROAD. 339\\nKimball Union Academies, and graduated from Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1864, Since leaving college he has been engaged\\nin teaching at Webster, Nantucket and Somerville, Mass.,\\nin whicli profession he has gained praiseworthy success.\\nNELLIE P. NICHOLS,\\nSister of the above, received her education in Haverhill\\nAcademy and at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. She has been a\\nsuccessful teacher since graduation.\\nCLARA I. NICHOLS,\\nDaughter of Jonathan S. and Elizabeth (Page) Nichols,\\nwas educated at Haverhill Academy and at State Normal\\nSchool, Plymouth. She has devoted herself to music, and\\nhas gained much success in that profession. She has recently\\nmarried John Donovan, a civil engineer of talent and enter-\\njH ise.\\nPERSON NOYES\\nWas born in 1827. His father was the only son of Timothy\\nNoyes. At the age of eighteen he went to Lowell, Avhere\\nhe has since resided. For a while he worked in the mills,\\nand tlien for fourteen years he was in the furniture business,\\nand since then he has been the head of the Noyes jNIanufac-\\nturing Co., makers of mill and railroad specialties. He\\nmarried Adelaide Closson of Lyme, and of three children,\\nthe daughter is a teacher in Hartford, Conn., two sons are\\nat home, and one in Pennsylvania. Mr. Noyes modestly\\nsays he has been fairly successful.\\n.JOHN A. PAGE\\nIs the second son of Gov. John and Hannah (Merrill) Page,\\nand was born in Haverhill in 1814. He received his educa-\\ntion at Haverhill Academy, and served for a short time as a\\nclerk in a store in Portland, Me. Returning to Haverhill,\\nhe engaged in mercantile business at the Brook, and con-\\ntinued to do so, until at the resignation of Mr. Bunce he was", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0371.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "340 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nchosen cashier of Grafton County Bank. Afterwards he\\nbecame cashier of the bank of Danville, Vt., and continued\\nin that position for some years, when he was called to be\\nsuperintendent of the Passumpsic railroad. Later he was\\nchosen cashier of a bank in Montpelier, Vt., and has lived\\nthere to the present time. He is now largely retired from\\nactive business, but continues as president of the National\\nBank of Montpelier. Mr. Page was state treasurer of Ver-\\nmont for sixteen years in succession, and proved an able and\\nfaithful public officer. He has addressed himself to business\\nfrom tlie first with diligence, prudence and good judgment,\\nand has accumulated a handsome fortune. He has been one\\nof the leading and influential citizens of Vermont, and is\\nheld in high esteem by his fellow citizens. ]Mr. Page mar-\\nried iVIartha Ward of Haverhill, and their only child, a son,\\nis engaged in stock-raising in the west.\\nMOSES S. PAGE\\nWas born in 1838, and is the youngest son of Samuel and\\nEliza (Swasey) Page of Haverhill. His education was\\nacquired in the common schools until he was old enough to\\nattend school away from home, when he was sent to St.\\nJohnsbury Academy, Vt, and also to the seminary at New-\\nbury, Vt. At the close of his school years he entered the\\njewelry store of Henry Towle of Haverhill, as an apprentice\\nin that business, and remained there a little over two years.\\nAfterwards he went to Boston and got a situation with a\\njewelry firm there, and though he began at the low wages of\\nfour dollars })er week, he soon had his wages advanced on\\naccount of his industry and strict attention to business.\\nLater he was offered a place in the management of a loan\\noffice, but was somewhat in doubt as to his ability to make\\nan honest living. Being assured, however, that he was at\\nliberty to manage the business to suit himself, he entered\\nupon its duties. After a few years he in company with\\nanother person bought out his employer, and they continued", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0372.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "HAVElilllLL ABROAD. 341\\nthe loan business for eleven years at the old stand on Salem\\nstreet, Avhen ]Mr. Page assumed the entire ownership and\\ncontrol of the concern, and has remained in the business at\\nthe same place till the present time. Near the close of the\\nWar of the Rebellion he served one hundred days in the )th\\nKeg. ]Mass. Vol.\\nMr. Page has gained much success in business and has\\nbeen a careful and wise financier. He is largely interested\\nin real estate in ]Melrose, and also is a stockholder in the\\nFarmers Trust and Loan Company of Anthony, Kansas, of\\nwhich he is the vice-president. He is a man of intelligence\\nand close observation, and has travelled extensively both at\\nhome and abroad. AVhere he resides he has always taken\\nan active and praiseworthy interest in all matters pertaining\\nto the public, and is a public-spirited and enterprising citi-\\nzen. He is prominent in church and })hilanthropic matters,\\nand is a deacon in the Congregational church of Melrose.\\nMr. Page married in 1869 Harriet E. Hibbard of Concord,\\nVt., and has a familv of two children livinfj, havino- lost a\\nson a iew years ago by a tragic death.\\nJAMES HENRY I EARSOX\\nWas born in Haverhill in 1820, and is a son of Maj. Isaac\\nand Charlotte (Atherton) Pearson. He received his educa-\\ntion at Haverhill Academy, and afterwards was engaged with\\nhis father in the manufacture of lumber. In 1851 he moved\\nto Chicago and cast in his life and fortunes with that young\\nand growing city where he still resides. ]\\\\Ir. Pearson has\\nbeen very successful as a lumber merchant, inheriting Ijoth\\nhis father s and grandfather s genius in that line of trade, and\\nis one of the prominent business men of that city. Besides\\nhis large yards at Chicago, he has extensive mills and lum-\\nber tracts at Saginaw, Mich. He is also connected with\\nbankinij institutions both in Chicago and in Saginaw. And\\nthough a very busy man, he has always taken a very deep", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0373.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "342 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ninterest in the moral and relirjious welfare of Chicago, aiv-\\ning freely of his time and means for the advancement of all\\nthat is good and worthy for society. He is a man of great\\nexcellence of character, full of kindness and good will, and\\nof a genial spirit. He married Sarah Elizabeth With-\\nerell, and they have a family of four children. His only\\ndauglitcr is married to Prof. Scott of the Chicaa^o Theoloa i-\\ncal Seminary and lives in that city. Two sons are in busi-\\nness with their father, one in Chicago, the other at Saginaw,\\nand the remaining son is in Paris pursuing art-studies. ]Mr.\\nPearson is a worthy representative of the sturdy, energetic\\nand noble New England stock.\\nSAMUEL 1 riKE\\nWas born in Haverhill, 1854, son of John D. and Jane\\n(Poor) Pike. His early advantages were limited, and his\\neducation was obtained in the district school in winter, whilst\\nin sunnner, from the age of ten to eighteen, he worked on a\\nfarm. At the latter period he went to Tilton on a milk\\nfarm for one year, and then at Lowell, jNIass., where he\\ndrove a milk waoon. Later, he bouo-ht the route and ran it\\nfor one or two years, when he engaged in the provision busi-\\nness which he still continues. Air. Pike has been a most\\nsuccessful man, and does a very extensive business, not only\\nin Lowell, but also has a branch store in Manchester, selling\\nin both places $250,000 worth of goods. He married Jean-\\nnette W. Hart and they have five children. His residence\\nis on a fine farm four miles from Lowell, at Wamesit,\\nTewksbury. He is public-spirited, full of energy, and\\ngreatly esteemed where he lives.\\nPOWERS ELIZABETH ABBOTT, MARY AVEBSTER, HENRI-\\nETTA MUMFORD, AND GEORGE CARRIXGTON,\\nAVere children of Rev. Grant and Eliza Howard (Hopkins)\\nPowers. All are filling or have filled important positions.\\nElizabeth A. became the wife of Joseph D. Foot of Amboy,", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0374.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL AIHtOAI). 343\\nN. J. Afterwards, she moved to Buffalo, X.. Y., and was\\nprincipal for twenty-four years of a ladies seminary. She\\nnow resides in j\\\\ irginia. Mary W. married Tracy Kobin-\\nson of Panama, and now resides there. Henrietta ]\\\\1. mar-\\nried Rev. John Kelley of Patterson, X. J., and now lives in\\nAVashing ton, D. C. George C is a wholesale grocer in\\nBoston, Mass.\\nJOHX KEDIXG\\nIs the son of Silvester and Pollen D. (^NlcClarv) IJeding.\\nHe received his earlier education at Ha\\\\erhill Academy,\\nafter which he serNcd as a clerk for one year in Went-\\nworth and Bradford, Vt. He then entered the Commercial\\nCollege at Poughkeepsie, X^. Y., and pursued a commercial\\ncourse of study. He commenced Inisiness life in Boston,\\nand is now a member of the firm of Moore, Smith Co.,\\none of the oldest Boston houses. Mr. Reding is a courte-\\nous and agreeable gentleman. He married Laura C. Wol-\\ncott of Quechee, Vt.\\nKODGEK8 BKOTHERS LEVI AXD M. CAKLETOX,\\nBoth children of Levi and ]\\\\Iehitabel B. (Carleton) Rodgers.\\nThe former was born in Guildhall, At., in 184o, and at the\\nage of nine came with his mother to live in Haverhill. He\\nfitted for college at Haverhill and Kimball L^nion Academies,\\nentered Dartmouth College in 1862, graduated in course,\\nand for several years after was principal of a granunar school\\nin Cleveland, O. He studied theology at Andover, gradu-\\nating in 1(S71, and became pastor of the Conu rcirational\\nchurch, Claremont, where he remained nine years as a suc-\\ncessful pastor. He was then settled in Georgetown, Mass.,\\nthe successor of Rev. Charles Beecher, and is now there.\\nHe married Ellen S. Dimick of Quechee, Vt., a woman of\\nsuperior worth and accomplishment. She died in 1883.\\nMr. Rodgers has been successful as teaclier and pastor.\\nM. Carleton was born in 1847, fitted for coIIcltc at Kim-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0375.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "344 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nball Union Academy, and graduated tVoni Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1871. He taught in Tingloro, AValpole and Xew\\nBedford, Mass., remaining in the latter place nine years and\\nthen moved to Virf^^inia and enijao^ed in farming for several\\nyears. He is now in business in Bridgeport, Conn. He\\nmarried Laura J. Chamberlain of jMcIndoes Falls, Vt.\\nJONATHAN H. ROWELL s\\nParents were Jonathan B. and Cynthia (Abbott) Rowell,\\nand he was born in 1833, their second son. He left Haver-\\nhill with his father in 184(3, at the ao^e of thirteen, and has\\nlived in McLean county. 111. Losing their father a year\\nafter he moved west, the family having to care for itself, as\\nMr. Rowell had met with financial reverses before leaving\\nHaverhill. Jonathan H. taught school and worked on the\\nfarm till he was twenty-one years old, when he entered\\nEureka (111.) College, of which he is a graduate. After\\ngraduation he was professor in mathematics in his Alma\\nMater till the AVar of the Rebellion broke out, when he en-\\nlisted in the 17th 111. Infantry and seiwed three years as\\nlieutenant and captain, and took part in the principal battles\\nfought by the Army of the Tennessee, which was Gen.\\nGrant s original command. At the close of the war Capt.\\nRowell entered the law school of the luiiversity of Chicago,\\nand graduated from that institution in 18(i.5. Since then he\\nhas practised his profession in Bloomington, 111. He was\\nfirst state s attorney of his district four years, and served six\\nyears on the board of education of Bloomington. Two years\\nhe was a master in chancery for that county. In 1882 he\\nwas chosen to Congress, and has held his seat since that\\ntime. He was a Garfield and Arthur elector in 1880, and\\nhas taken an active and prominent part in all the political\\ncampaigns since the close of the war, and is one of the lead-\\ning men of the state in the councils of his party. In Con-\\ngress he has actively engaged in all the more im])ortant meas-", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0376.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABROAD. 345\\nures of legislation before that body, and has served on the\\ncommittee of war claims, District of Columbia, and elections.\\nHe represents the most wealthy district of the state outside\\nof Cook county which includes the city of Chicago.\\nCapt. Kowell is an able and successful lawyer, well known\\nnot only in his own district, but throughout the state. His\\nrecord both in civil and military life is most honorable and\\nsuccessful. His wife is a native of Illinois, but her parents\\nwere from Xew England, and of their children, a son and\\ndaughter are graduates of the university of Michigan.\\nCHESTER ROWELL,\\nBrother of the above, is a distinguished physician in Fresno,\\nCalifornia, and has also taken an active and prominent part\\nin politics.\\nHORACE O. SOPER\\nWas a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1825 and belonged\\nto the Soper fomily of Haverhill. He lived in New York\\nand Avas a lawyer. In 18-47 he was appointed a county\\njudge and continued in that position till 1851.\\nLYMAN D. STEVENS\\nIs the son of Caleb and Salley (Dewey) Stevens, and was\\nborn in Piermont in 1821, meeting with an accident in boy-\\nhood, which disabled him for manual labor, he was trained\\nfor a professional life. He received his early education at\\nHaverhill Academy, and afterwards entered Dartmouth C^)l-\\nlege, from which he graduated in the class of 1848. After\\nleaving college he taught the academy at Stanstead, Canada,\\nfor two years, and in the mcjuitime he pursued the study of\\nlaw under the direction of E. C. Johnson, Esq., of Derby\\nLine, Vt. In the fall of 1845 he went to Concord and con-\\ntinued his professional studies with the late Chief-Justice\\nPerley, and was admitted to the jNIerrimac county bar in\\n1847. He at once opened an office in Concord and began\\nthe practice of liis profession in that city, and continued to", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0377.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "346 HISTORY or haverhill.\\ndo so until 1880, when he retired from professional life and\\nsurrendered his business to his son.\\nMr. Stevens has been married twice, first to Achsah Pol-\\nlard French of Concord, and his second wife s maiden name\\nwas Frances Childs Brownell of New Bedford, Mass. There\\nare two children by each marriage. Henry Webster, the\\noldest son, is a rising young lawyer in Concord.\\nMr. Stevens at the time of his retirement, was one of the\\nprominent members of the Merrimac county l)ar, and had\\ngained large success, both in his profession and in other busi-\\nness, and retired with an am})le fortune and an honorable\\ncareer. During the years of his more active life he was fre-\\nquently called to positions of honor and trust. He Avas ap-\\npointed by Governor Gilmore to settle the war claims of\\nNew Hampshire against the general government arising\\nj^revious to 1863, and represented with two others as com-\\nmissioners the state at the dedication of tlie national ceme-\\ntery at Gettysburg in 1863. For four years he was a repre-\\nsentative in the legislature from the city of Concord, and\\ntwice he was elected mayor of that city. In 1872 he was a\\npresidential elector when President Grant was re-elected.\\nAfterwards, 1880-1 he served for two years as a member of\\nthe executive council, and was chosen a state senator in 1884.\\nMr. Stevens has also been intimately connected with busi-\\nness and money interests, having been president of the Mer-\\nrimac County Savings Bank from its organization, and a\\ndirector in the National State Capitol Bank since 1865. In\\naddition to these he has been called to otlier positions of trust\\nand responsibility. He served many years as a trustee of\\nBoscawen and Kimball Union Academies, and since 1881 he\\nhas also been a trustee of the New Hampshire College of\\nAgriculture and Mechanic Arts. In religious and benevolent\\nmatters he has taken an active and prominent part. He has\\nbeen vice president of the New Hampshire Home Missionary\\nsociety, and since 1871 its careful and trustworthy treasurer.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0378.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABKOAD. 347\\nHe is also treasurer of the Ministers and Widows Charitable\\nFund. Mr. Stevens is connected with the South Con frenja-\\ntional church and society, and is one of its most efficient\\nuseful members, and is a man of high character and integ-\\nrity. He is a warm and steadfast friend, and a most cordial\\nand courteous gentleman.\\nSMITH BlJOTHERy LYNDOX ARNOLD, STEPHEN SANFORD,\\nAND CARLOS,\\nWere sons of Rev. Ethan and Bathsheba (Sanford) Smith,\\nand were l)orn in Haverhill near the close of the last century.\\nLyndon Arnold was fitted for college at Hanover Academy,\\nand graduated from Dartmouth College in I. ^IT. He mar-\\nried a daughter of President (iriffin of Williams College,\\niind gained a prominence in his profession as a skillful l)hysi-\\ncian in Newark, N. J.\\nStephen Sanford Smith was a minister of large usefulness,\\nand was pastor of a church in Chicago during his last years.\\nCarlos Smith was a graduate of Union College, a success-\\nful minister, and was honored with the title of D. D.\\nFRANK A. SMITH\\nWas born in Haverhill in 1855, son of Henry and Sarah M.\\n(Pike) Smith. At the age of sixteen he engaged as a clerk\\nin a store in Biddeford, Me., where he remained five years\\nthe last year a partner in the house. Afterwards, he was a\\nmerchant at Woodsville, in the firm of Cutting Smith, but\\nin a year or two he began a course of study at New Hamp-\\nton, and at the close of his academic course, he read medi-\\ncine with Dr. D. W. Hazeltine of Sprhigfield, Vt. He at-\\ntended one course of lectures at Burlington, Vt., and two\\ncourses at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New\\nYork City, graduating from the latter place in 1884. He\\nbegan the ractice of his profession at Heading, Vt., where\\nhe still continues, and in the few years of his professional\\nlife he has met with nuich success and is in possession of a", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0379.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "348 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nsteadily growing business. Dr. Smith is a risin man. He\\nmarried Martha Alice Warren, a native of Haverhill, and\\ndaufjliter of Charles P. Warren.\\nWILLIAM PAGE STOWE\\nIs the son of Joseph and Priscilla (Page) Stowe, and was\\nborn near Sugar Loaf, East Haverhill, in 1831. The\\nStowes are of Puritan stock. Dr. Stowe left Haverhill with\\nhis parents when quite young, and went to Wisconsin, then\\nan almost unbroken wilderness. He pursued his academic\\neducation at Lawrence University, from which he graduated\\nin 1858, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episco-\\npal church, filling several of the most important pulpits of\\nthe Conference, and was presiding elder for eight years of\\nthe Milwaukee district. He was chosen in 1880 by the gen-\\neral conference agent of the AVestcrn Methodist Book Con-\\ncern, which position he now holds. He has been a member\\nof the last three general conferences, and also of the Centen-\\nnial Conference. In 1884 he received the honoary degree of\\nD. D. During the Rebellion he was chaplain of 27th Reg.\\nWis. Vol. He married Grace H. Bond of Buifalo, N. Y.,\\nand they have three children, Hester P., a graduate of Buf-\\nfxlo Female College, and now connected with a German\\nKindergarten in Berlin, Germany Bond, a student in\\nChicago Medical College and a graduate of Northwestern\\nUniversity, and Will C. a member now of the same univer-\\nsity. Dr. Stowe is a man of ability and much force of char-\\nacter, and has won an honorable place.\\nTARLETONS.\\nThe following are children and grand-children of CoL\\nWilliam Tarleton\\nJOSIAII BRADLEY\\nLived in Chillicothe, Ohio, Avas high slierifF of the county\\nand an associate judge, and was successful in business.", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0380.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABROAD. 349\\nGEORGE W.\\nLived ill Concord for a time after the death of his father,\\nand then went to ^Mobile, Ala., and became ^ery weakhy.\\nTHOMAS J.\\nAlso lived in jNIobile, and was a man of very supreme ability\\nand excellence.\\nALBERT\\nWas engaged at one time in the iron business at Krysville,\\nN. Y., and died in Alabama.\\nJAMES M.\\nWas a merchant in Alabama, a warm personal friend of the\\nlate Ex-President Pierce, by whom he was appointed consul\\nto Australia.\\nHORACE,\\nA grandson of Col. Tarleton, and son of Amos, went South\\nand was there during the early part of the war. He mar-\\nried a Miss Barstow of Piermont. He now lives in Brook-\\nlyn, New York, and is engaged in the business of compres-\\nsing cotton.\\nAMOS TARLETOX,\\nBrother of Horace, is the only son ot the second generation.\\nexcept Henry, that now lives in this section of country. He\\nwas educated at Haverhill Academy, and then went to Bos-\\nton as clerk in a store. Health failing him, he was advised\\nto spend some time at the sea-shore at Shirley Point. He\\nremained there several years in a hotel, meantime getting an\\nidea of that business, and soon after became the proprietor\\nof the Ocean House, Chelsea Beach, which he kept for\\nthirty-one years with very great success, enlarging the house\\nto its present size. He retired from the business in 1880.\\nHe now resides in Haverhill in the Col. Johnston i)lace,\\nwhich he has fitted up in convenient and attractive style.\\nMr. Tarleton is a gentleman of intelligence arid wide expe-\\nrience, and large acquaintanceship with men and things, of", "height": "3381", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0381.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "350 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ngentle manners and an agreeable companion. He has never\\nmarried.\\nTOWLES FREDERICK AND JAMES.\\nThe former was the son of Col. Simon and Susan (Hall)\\nTowle, and spent the larger part of his life in Tallahassee,\\nFla. where he carried on successfully the business of a jew-\\neler. He died in Xew York in 1857.\\nJames H. is the second son of Henry and Susan (Pierce)\\nTowle. His father was a jeweler, and carried on that busi-\\nness in Haverhill for many years. James H. was a clerk in\\nhis father s store. Afterwards he went to New York, and\\nengaged in the same business, and for a number of years he\\nwas a member of the firm of Fellows Co,, Maiden Lane,\\nN. Y. He retired from active business a few years ago.\\nHe married Mary G., daughter of Dr. Spalding of Haver-\\nhill, and they have one child, a daughter. Mr. Towle is a\\no-enial and social gentleman.\\nNATHANIEL WILSON\\nWas born in Haverhill in 1808, and is the youngest son of\\nNathaniel and Sarah (Pearson) Wilson. He fitted for col-\\nlege at Haverhill Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1829. After leaving college he taught the acad-\\nemy at Lancaster for two years, and was a popular and suc-\\ncessful teacher. He was also at the head of the Hig-h school\\nin Augusta, Me., for one year. After the close of his ser-\\nvice as teacher he began the study of the law with Hon.\\nGeorge Evans of Gardiner, Me. He was also for a short\\ntime in Mr. Bell s office before he taught at Lancaster. In\\n1834 he was admitted to the bar in Kennebec county. Me.,\\nand immediately began the practice of his profession at\\nOrono, Me., where he has continued to live till the present\\ntime. He married Sarah H. Boardman of Lancaster, a\\nmost accomplished and beautiful woman, who died two years\\nafter their marriage. Afterwards, he married Abbie Ann", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0382.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABROAD. 351\\nColburn of Orono, and of their children the oldest son served\\nin the War of the Rebellion in the expedition against New\\nOrleans. Two are graduates of Bowdoin College, one a\\nsuccessful lawyer at Orono, and the other a popular and tal-\\nented Congfreffational minister in Mass. He has also a son\\nwho is a physician, and two who are enterprising business\\nmen. One of the daughters is the wife of Prof. Jordon of\\nOrono, and another lives in Kansas, where her husband is a\\nrising lawyer.\\nMr. Wilson has been prominently identified with all the\\nleading interests of his adopted home, taking a leading part\\nin all matters for the moral and religious upbuilding of the\\ncommunity. For thirty years he served on the school board\\nof Orono, and was largely instrumental in securing the loca-\\ntion in that place of the State College of Agriculture and\\nthe Mechanic Arts, and was also for a time in its board of\\nti ustees. He has held at diflferent times most of the various\\ntown offices, and whilst a member of the legislature, where\\nhe served with honor, he was a member of the judiciary\\ncommittee, and made a very able speech in favor of a bill to\\nincrease the salaries of the supreme court judges, which\\nplaced him amongst the ablest and most influential members\\nof that body. He has taken a deep interest in temperance,\\nand at one time Avas Grand Worthy Patriarch of the order\\nof Sons of Temperance. As a lawyer, he has been highly\\nsuccessful and trusted, and has done a large business, win-\\nning a full share of closely contested cases. In politics ]Mr.\\nWilson was originally a Henry Clay Whig, but when that\\nparty went to pieces he became a national Democrat, and\\nwas an earnest advocate of Gov. Tilden for the presidency.\\nIn religious sentiment he is a Congregationalist. He is now\\nin his eightieth year, and with the cxce})tion of his hearing\\nhe enjoys excellent health, and still retains a lively interest\\nin his native town. He feels a just pride in his children.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0383.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "352 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nEDWARD B. WILSON\\nIs the youngest son of Isaac P. and Rhoda (Brainard) Wil-\\nson, and was born in Haverhill in 1840. His wife was\\nLuella E. Woodward of Haverhill. He received his edu-\\ncation at the common schools and Haverhill Academy. Pre-\\nvious to attending school at the Academy he was a clei k at\\nNorth Haverhill for one year and also a clei-k in the post-\\noffice at Haverhill for two years. After leaving the Acad-\\nemy he was for two years in the registry of deeds office\\nunder Mr. Augustus Whitney, and then at the age of nine-\\nteen he went to Boston, and for six years he was in the em-\\nploy of Houghton, Sawyer Co. When the house of\\nMorse, Shepard Co. started he entered their employ, and\\nrose to be a partner in the firm of Morse Shepard, and is\\nnow at the head of the firm of Wilson, Lanaler 6c Co., in\\nthe wholesale dry goods business. Mr. Wilson is an active,\\nenergetic man, and has won honorable success in life. He\\nlives in Newbury, Mass.\\nWILLIAM FREDERICK WHITCHER\\nIs the son of Ira and Lucy (Roger) Whitcher, and was\\nborn in Benton in 1845. He received his early academic\\neducation at Tilton Seminary, and graduated from Middle-\\ntown, Conn. He at first entered the ministry, but after-\\nwards devoted himself to journalism, and is now editor-in-\\nchief of the Boston Evening Traveller.\\nHARVEY B. AVILMOT s\\nFather came to Haverhill in the early part of the present\\ncentury. Haran Wilmot is a brother and Frank L. a\\nnephew. Harvey has been a very successful business man\\nin the clothing trade in Boston.\\nJOHX L. WOODS,\\nThe only son of John L. and Mary Ann (Swasey) Woods,\\nwas born at Woods ville. He went A\u00c2\u00a5est quite early in life,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0384.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL ABROAD. 353\\nand when the War of the Rebellion broke out, he became\\nQuarter-Master in the army. At the close of the war he\\nAvas put in charge of government property, to dispose of it.\\nBefore the war he was in the railroad business at St. Louis.\\nHe is now in the service of the Pullman Car Company, and\\nresides at Pullman, 111.\\nFRANKLIX p. WOOD\\nWas born in Enfield, lb 44, but came early to Haverhill.\\nHe fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, and grad-\\nuated from Dartmouth College in 1868. For a time after\\ngraduation he was a teacher in Kimball Union Academy,\\nand then spent two years in Union Seminary, New York,\\nand finished his theological studies at Andover, JSIass. He\\nmarried Abby O. Drew of Waterbury, Vt., and they have\\nfour children. He was pastor of the Congregational church,\\nActon, Mass., from 1871\u00e2\u0080\u009484, and now resides there. He\\nhas been a successful pastor.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0385.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XX.\\nDOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE.\\nTime-Changes Life Simple Two Classes come to Haverhill, the Well-to-do and\\nEnterprising, and the Dependent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first House\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frame Houses, two sizes\\nThe great Fire-place and Chimney The Children and Popped Corn Lug\\nPole Trammels Crane Frying-pan Dutch Oven \u00e2\u0080\u0094Spit\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Goose\\nHangs High Furniture Pots and Kettles The Dresser\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pewter Dishes\\nWooden Dishes Two-tined Forks Hemlock Brooms Sanded Floors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Car-\\npets Rare Domestic Duties Wants Few Life Happy and Virtuous\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Diet\\nTea and Coffee Drinks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Flip and Punch Wine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Drinking Social Sugar\\nMaking Paring-bee Games Huskings Muster-day Social Character of\\nChurch-going Society People (Jfficial Position and Moral Worth The Com-\\nmencement of New Order Rebellion against forced payment of Ministers\\nTaxes Church-Going less Universal The Stage-coach\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Blinds, Pictures\\nand Ornaments Wooden Plates, Sanded Floors, antl Hemlock Brooms Yield\\nFirst Four-wheeled Carriage First Piano Chaises Wagons Clocks.\\nA century and a quarter makes great changes in the\\ndomestic and social habits of a people. In intervals of a\\nfew years we hardly notice such changes, but after a consid-\\nerable lapse of time the difference between the Xow and the\\nThen is very marked. Our fore-fathers would be surprised\\nindeed, were they to come back and see things as they are,\\nin comparison with things as they were, and we were to be\\ntransferred to their modes of living, would be equally sur-\\nprised. Life in those earlier days was simple. The range\\nof experience was much narrower than it is now, and the\\nmeans and facilities of life were far fewer and less varied.\\nWhat was luxury then, is only comfort now, and the luxu-\\nries of to-day was not even a dream to our hardy ancestors,\\nwhilst the poverty and denials of those times would be con-\\nsidered unendurable now.\\nTwo classes of people came to Haverhill, as they came to\\nall other frontier abodes, those of means and enterprise, and\\nthose who had little of these. The former were men and\\nwomen of large ability and force of character, who were\\nleaders where they came from, and were willing to found\\nnew homes and enlarge their opportunities and fortunes. Of", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0386.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE, vi55\\nthis class, Haverhill had more than her full share, as here\\nwas the garden of the Northern Connecticut valley, with its\\nhopefulness and prosperity inviting to enterprise. The\\nother class was much the more numerous, and being without\\nmeans and without much energy and thrift, they were de-\\npendent and with little influence in the new settlement.\\nThey were the hewers of wood and the drawers of water.\\nWhen the Revolutionary struggle came on, they were the\\nfirst to take alarm and to desire safety and shelter away from\\ndanger. They had no great interests to fight for here, and\\nconsequently they were easily tempted to hasten back to their\\noriginal homes. Some did go back, and others were pre-\\nvented from going by the commanding influence of the leaders\\nof the settlement and the prompt measures which they took\\nin furnishing arms to the dependent class.\\nThe earliest settlers, even those that possessed property\\nand had the enjoyments of refined life in their former homes,\\nbuilt and lived in log houses the first years of their Cohos\\nlife. These of course wei e small, with conveniences and\\ncomforts the most primitive, but in the case of the well-to-do\\nthey were only temporary, to be displaced by the earlier\\nfarm houses which began to be built about 1773. These\\nwere of two sizes, the half house about twenty-five feet\\nsffuare, small and low, some of which are still standing, and\\nthe double house, twenty-five feet one way and forty feet the\\nother. The former satisfied the aims of the unamlntious,\\nwhilst the latter were an indication of thrift and progress in\\nworldly attainments. This latter house is still to be met\\nwith, either in its original form, or somewhat modified in\\nthe course of improvement, with two rooms front and a\\nlarge room back of these, used chiefly as the living-room, and\\na small bed-room oft from this main room. The old Col.\\nJohnston house is of this style. Shutters or blinds were un-\\nknown in the earlier days, and the windows and wiiulow-\\nii lass of a Q-reenish shade were small.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0387.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "356 History of haverhill.\\nFrom the family room was built an immense chimney with\\nfire-place large enough to receive huge logs, and sufficiently\\nroomy to accommodate the whole family of children, who in\\nthe long: winter evenings were seated on wood blocks at\\neither end of the fire-place. The large stick back was called\\nthe back-log, from three to six feet long sometimes, and\\nwould last several days. On this was placed a top-stick,\\nand in front the fore-stick. Between these were the bed\\nof coals and the fire wood. Much of the heat went up the\\nimmense chimney, but the mass of burning wood and coals\\nand the heated bricks furnished generous warmth for the in-\\nmates. The ample flue carried off the dense volume of\\nsmoke that arose from the blazing fire, whilst the stars on\\nclear nights could be seen by the prattling children in the\\nchimney corner. Many were the good times they had in the\\nolden fire-place, roasting green corn in the husk on chill and\\nlowry days, crunching apples in the long fall and winter\\nevenings, and popping corn in the ashes.* Back of the\\nfire-place was the old brick oven, and in one corner of the\\nchimney hung the dim Roman oil lamp with its bird-like\\nbeak.\\nThe chimney place served another purpose as well as for\\nwarming and amusement. Here the meals were prepared.\\nOver head was the lug-pole, as it was called, made of a\\ngreen stick of wood, and placed far enough above the fire so\\nas not to become ignited by the heat and flames. From this\\npole hung the trammels. These were long straight pieces\\nof iron punched with holes into which the pot-hooks were\\nset, so tliat the pot or kettle could be lowered or raised at\\npleasure. The crane was a later contrivance and served\\nthe same purpose as the trammels and pot-hooks. The\\nThe hot ashes were drawn out aud little wells or trenches made,\\nand then a handful of corn was thrown into these and quickly covered\\nup. In a few moments the corn would pop out into the fire-place or\\nroom.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0388.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "DO-AIESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE. 857\\nfrying-pan was set directly on the coals which the good\\nhouse-wife drew out from the back-log, or it had long legs\\nwhich straddled the embers, and was easily shifted by the\\nlong handle. There were also in use the Dutch oven and\\nthe spit for roasting meats. The Dutch oven was\\nmade of iron, shaped something like a deep covered dish,\\nand had short les^s. The cover with ^nard around the rim\\nwas filled with live coals, so as to aid the cooking by heating\\nfrom above. The s])it was a tin oven with dripping-pan,\\non which the meat or food was placed, shaped like a fire-\\nblower, and was open on the fire side. On the side from\\nthe fire it had a door, through which the meat was turned\\non the spit. Another way of roasting was by suspend-\\ning the fowl from a ])oint in the chimney by a string, and\\ngiving the fowl a rotary motion so as to bring each part to\\nthe heat. This is said to have been an epicurian mode of\\ncooking the goose.\\nFire was kept over night by covering up the embers with\\nashes. Sometimes when it went out a few coals or a brand\\nwere borrowed from a near neighbor. But our fore-fathers\\ncould always strike fire with the steel-ring, fiint and\\ntinder.\\nThe houses were fitted up with furniture made of wood\\nfrom the neighboring forests. Pots and kettles were of iron,\\ncopper and tin. In the kitchen was the dresser, a sort of\\nopen cupboard, containing the pewter dishes, which in all\\nwell-regulated families were highly polished, and the mugs\\nand knives and forks. In the houses of the poor, wooden\\ndishes were foimd instead of the pewter. Three-pronged\\nforks were unknown. Hemlock brooms were in conuuon\\nuse, and the flo(,^rs were sj)rinkled with clean white sand.\\nThe tinder was a soft, dry, spongy substance called punk.\\nfound in wood. It was shaved in thin slices and laid on the flint, and\\nthen when the latter was struck with the steel tlie si)arks would\\nio;nite the tinder. Everv family had this tire outtit.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0389.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "358 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nCarpets had not yet come into use, except in rare cases, till\\nthe early part of the present century. Every thing was\\nhome-made. House-wives spun and wove, and also did the\\nknittinif, and sewino; and mendinjj. The walls were bare of\\npictures and ornaments, and the era of pianos, and laces,\\nand Venetian blinds were a generation in the future. If the\\nwork of our ffreat-cjrandmothers was hard with their few\\nconveniences as compared with our ample facilities and larger\\nmeans, their necessities were far less exacting, and they were\\nsatisfied with a simple mode of life, out of which they man-\\naged to extract many a sweet, and gave to the world an ex-\\nample of contentment, industry, and moral purity.\\nThe better class were good livers, though the luxuries of\\nlife were few and sparingly used. Meat was eaten in large\\n(juantities, both that which was obtained from domestic ani-\\nmals and that which was secured by hunting and fishing.\\nWild animals abounded in these times, and the forests wei-e\\nhunted for bear, moose, deer, and smaller game, whilst the\\nwaters swarmed with fish, which were caught in large quanti-\\nties and used as food. Wheat was not much in use at first,\\nbut in families of easy circimistances when company was en-\\ntertained, the table was usually served with white or wheaten\\nbread. Barley-cake was a common article of food, but\\nbuck-wheat was not much in favor. The most general kind\\nof bread was that which was made of rye and Indian meal,\\nand this appeared on the table at each meal. The Indian\\npudding was a great favorite if we may judge from the fre-\\nquency with which it made its appearance at meal time.\\nPotatoes were not much in vogue in the earlier days, but\\nturnips and parsnips were common vegetables for the table.\\nCommon yellow corn was used in the green state. Sweet\\ncorn was not then known. Pumpkins also were a common\\narticle of food, and were prepared by cutting a hole in one\\nend and removing all the seeds and soft parts, and being\\nfilled with milk, thev were baked in a hot oven for six or", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0390.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE. 359\\neight hours. Tliis was a favorite dish. S([iiash was not\\nmuch in use amongst the early settlers.\\nTea was a rarity in these times, and coffee was made from\\ncorn, rye, beans and wheat, roasted. There were other\\ndrinks. Punch was one of the most conunon, and was made\\nin large bowls and passed around to the company, each per-\\nson drinking from the bowl in which the beverage was pre-\\npared. Flip was another popular drink, made in mugs of\\nbeer and later of cider, and heated by the flip-iron or\\nlogger-head, or even by the fire-poker. After orchards\\nbegan to bear, and when cider was plenty, the juice of the\\nforbidden fruit was taken straight and freely. Wine\\nwas seldom used and was confined entirely to those who\\nformed the aristocracy or the society of the settlement. All\\ndrinking was of a social character, and generally the same\\nmug or bowl was passed from mouth to mouth.\\nSugar-making was a social event. Everything was primi-\\ntive, no large pans or evaporators, but old fashioned iron\\nkettles hung on green poles over cracking fires, to reduce the\\nsap to syrup, and then a kettle hung on a pole to sugar off\\nby. The boys and girls had jolly times over their syrup and\\nsnow and birch paddles made sweeter by ruby lips, and the\\ngallant beaux would blister their tongues to see if the syrup\\nwas cool enough for their sweethearts. And so with sonu-\\nand many a silver laugh, the sugar [)arty went on into the\\nlate evening.\\nQuite an incident was the [)aring-bee in i)ringing the young\\nfolks together. The larg-e bovs and vouno: men mounted the\\nparing machines and peeled the ap})les, whilst the larger girls\\nand young ladies (juartered and cored them, and the watch-\\nful mothers with the smaller boys and girls, did the string-\\ning, and hung them in graceful festoons over the kitchen\\n})oles. Then came the supj^er, bountiful and a[)petizing, and\\nfurther on in the evening blind-man s buff and turn the\\nplate, with forfeits willingly given and quickly taken, and", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0391.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "360 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nSO chasing the squirrel, and passing the handkerchief,\\nand Simon says hands up, the midnight hour drew on,\\nand the boys went home with the girls in the wee hours of\\nthe night.\\nThen, also, the huskings in the bright October evenings,\\nwhen the air was crisp and the stars over head jeweled the\\nsky. These were common in early times, and the company\\nwas often large. The unhusked corn was piled in a heap in\\nthe centre of the great kitchen, and the buskers, men,\\nwomen, boys and girls, sat around the fire on the floor.\\nFrom the immense fire-place supplied with pitch knots and\\nwood, came abundant light, casting a spectral hue over the\\nroom and its occupants. The hours were varied with song\\nand story, and the red ear, the eager search of all, was awaited\\nwith many a laugh and joke and guess. When the pile was\\nhusked, cider was passed around, and the young people in-\\ndulged in a little dancing. Later, came the supper of baked\\nbeans and Indian pudding, pumpkin pies, doughnuts, cake\\nand cheese, and afterwards a renewal of the dance, the gay\\ncompany singing, We won t go home till morning, and\\ngenerally they didn t.\\nMuster-day also had its social feature, and was a great\\nevent in early times. Every body saw every body far and\\nnear on that occasion.\\nThe social character of church-going was stronger then\\nthan now. The people generally went to church. Meetings\\nwere held mornino; and evening, with an hour s intermission\\nbetween the services. Those from a distance took a bite of\\ncheese and bread. Sabbath schools there were none, and the\\nhour was spent by the women in social chat about domestic\\naiiatters, and the latest neighborhood news was served up for\\nthe week. The men talked over the news and events of the\\nouter world, if any thing more than ordinary came to hand,\\nas well as the home news. To many this was the only time\\nwhen they learned what was going on in the outer world.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0392.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE. 361\\nPapers were a rarity, and the leaders of society woukl he\\nsurrounded by groups of men and hoys, listening to what\\nwas said. Sometimes a little business was initiated, incipi-\\nent steps taken toward purchases and trades, or what could\\nhe had or done that was needed. The hour was a sort of\\nexchange time, when seller and buyer, like the good deacon,\\nwould talk, saying, If it was to-morrow, what and so.\\nThis was generally done in a quiet way, and was known as\\nhorse-shedding. Our fore-fathers were not especially\\nwicked in this. It was not greed that made them use holy\\ntime for the initiation of such matters, but they were gov-\\nerned by circumstances, sometimes well-nigh by necessity,\\nand it may be doubted if their walk and conversation was\\nnot fully as exemplary as that of ])e()ple to-day who go to\\nchurch.\\nSuch was the general domestic and social life in Haverhill\\nto the early quarter of the present century. The rich and\\nsociety people of that day had of course their little gather-\\nings, and were a class by themselves distinct from the great\\nmass of the people. It is said, and it is quite true, I think,\\nthat the society people of early Haverhill were generally in\\nbetter circumstances of property and education than the same\\nclass in the surroimding towns. There was a genuine aris-\\ntocracy which gave character and influence to the Town, and\\nthis class was composed of men and women of superior en-\\ndowment. Official position in those days represented moral\\nworth and capacity.\\nBut the ways and customs of old have changed. The\\nfirst quarter of nineteenth century marks the commencement\\nof a new order of things. Rebellion against forced payment\\nof taxes for support of the gospel begins to show itself.\\nChurch-going, though still regarded as an item of respecta-\\nbility, is less universal. The advance line of modern social\\nand domestic civilization is coming apace. The stage coach\\nis heard in the near future, and horse-back riding begins to", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0393.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "362 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ndecrease. Blinds, })ictures and ornaments appear here and\\nthere. Wooden plates give way about 1815, as do also\\nsanded floors and hemlock brooms. I am told that the first\\nfour-wheel carriage was brought to the Cohos Country in 1814\\nand belonged to Benjamin Sweat of Piermont, and much\\nlater the first piano appeared in Haverhill. Chaises were in-\\ntroduced in 1805 and wagons a little later. Stoves were\\nnot known at the close of the last century. Cook stoves\\ncame into use about 1815 and clocks a little earlier. The\\nlarge fire-place gave way to the iron frame, and the Frank-\\nlin stove succeeded this. Paring-bees and huskings are still\\nfeatures of secluded country life, but not as of yore, and\\nmany of the customs and ways of the olden times are dim\\nshadows of the past, or so changed that they are hardly\\nrecognized. No longer the curfew tolls the evening bell,\\nand the olden lights glimmer only in memory.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0394.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXI.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nINDIAN NAMES.\\nThe Indian names which were given to the teiritorv of\\nHaverhill and its rivers have been retained in part. The\\ncountry was known in earliest times as Cowass, Kohass and\\nCohas or Cohos, all different spellings of the same name.\\nCowass appears only once in the Town records. But\\nsoon after the country began to be settled it was almost al-\\nways called Cohos. In later years, however, the h has been\\ndropj)ed, and it is now almost invariably written Coos. This\\nis unfortunate, as it is misleading as regards to the proper\\npronunciation of the name, sometimes pronounced as if oo\\nwere one long o. In this volume the spelling has been\\nuniformly Cohos, as probably the most correct. Cohox it\\nis said means crooked, and was borrowed from the Cohas-\\naukes, a part of the 8t. Francis tribe, uch or auke meaning\\nriver or place, and was applied to the territory of Haverhill,\\non account of the crooked course of the river and the conse-\\nquent large bends of the land, the immense bows, the most\\nstriking of which are the Little Ox-Bow in Haverhill,\\nand the Big Ox-Bow in Newbury, Vt. A similar geo-\\ngraphical condition of the tei-ritory pi-esents itself at and\\nabove Lancaster, and hence that territory in early times was\\nknown as Up[)er Cohos, whilst the territory of Haverhill\\nand Xewbury, Vt., was known as Lower Cohos.\\nA.m77ionoosuc means the Jish j^iace or river. The Indian\\nway of spelling or pronouncing the word wa\u00c2\u00ab JVcimaos Auke,\\nin which can easily be detected the word Ammonoosue. This\\nword by many of the best authorities is written with only\\none m and a k at the end.\\nConnecticut means the long-deer-place or river, and the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0395.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "364 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nIndian spelling or pronunciation of the word was Quinne-\\nAttiich- Alike. Here also may be readily traced the word\\nConnecticut. The word long in the Indian name most\\nlikely refers to the large range of territory in which the deer\\nwere found.\\nIn a map of the Cohos Country published in London in\\n1768 for his Majesty, the Indian name for the Oliverian is\\ngiven as Umpammonoosuck, composed of the two Indian\\nwords in Ammonoosuc (Namaos Auke), and following\\nthe analogy of that word, the former would mean some-sort\\noj-a-jish-place or river.\\nINDIANS.\\nWhen the Power s expedition passed through the Cohos\\nCountry as far north as Lancaster, there were no Indians then\\noccupying the territory, although as he reports in his Journal\\nof that expedition, there were cleared intervals at what is\\nnow Ox-Bow, and when Page and Pattie came to Ox-Bow\\nin 17(U, the hills of corn though grown over with grass,\\nwere still visible, showing that the Indians had been in some\\nkind of occupancy of the territory till within a few years.\\nThe Indians who occupied the Cohos Country were a part\\nor branch of the St. Francis tribe, whose head-quarters were\\non the St. Francis river, where they had an extensive settle-\\nment. Whether they occupied the country permanently may\\nperhaps be a question of some doubt, especially the Xew\\nHampshire side, though there are reasons for believing that\\nat least for a time they had a permanent settlement in the\\nCohos Country, and cultivated the cleared intervals in\\nraising corn, the hills of which could still be seen in 17(il by\\nthe first white settlers.\\nThere are marks of a permanent Indian settlement on the\\nVermont side of the river, which were still visible when the\\ncountry was first settled by the white man. Traces of an", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0396.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 305\\nold Indian fort were to be seen, and various kinds of Indian\\nim})lenients were found, such as stone mortar and pestle,\\narrow heads, flints, etc. Also ash-heaps and human bones\\nwere torn up by the plow.\\nIt is however quite probable that in the later years before\\nthe country was discovered and occupied by the white man,\\nIndians did not abide in this region as their permanent set-\\ntlement, but only occupied the country temporarily for pur-\\nposes of hunting and raising corn. This seems to be\\nprobable from the fact that when Powers passed through the\\nCohos Country in 1754, no Indians were there in occupancy\\nof the territory, nor were there any fresh traces of such\\noccupancy. There were also no fresh traces of Indians be-\\ning in permanent possession of the country when the first\\nwhite settlers came in. Grant Powers in his History of the\\nCohos Country makes the statement that Page and Pattie\\nwere surrounded by Indians in the winter of 1761, which\\nthey spent at Cohos, but this is not conclusive that a per-\\nmanent settlement of Indians was at that date there. The\\nold fort spoken of had trees growing within it as thick as a\\nman s thigh, and this would indicate an abandonment of the\\nterritory as a permanent home of the Indians.\\nIndians, however, continued to abide at Cohos after the\\ncountry was settled by the white man, and their presence at\\nthat time and in previous years may be explained in this\\nway. This country abounded in game, and if ever perma-\\nnently occupied by the St. Francis tribe, which is quite prob-\\nable, such occupancy may have ceased on account of the\\nIndian wars. Indeed, there is a tradition that after the\\nfight with Lovewell the Indians said they would have to\\nabandon Cohos.* But thougli it may have been abandoned\\nThis can hardly be called a figjht. Capt. Lovewell surprised a\\ncamp of Indians in the night and killed them all in their sleep but\\nit struck terror to the hearts of the savages, and may have caused the\\nCohos branch to abandon this region. The scene of Capt. Lovewell s", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0397.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "366 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nby the Indians as a permanent home, they still held it as an\\nout-post, a hunting-ground, and as especially well-fitted for\\nraising corn. And marks of the latter, as above stated,\\nwere found both by Powers and the first settlers.\\nAn interesting fact in my possession may throw light on\\nthis matter. The late Mr. Hayes of Windsor, Vt., who\\nwas mail agent between Springfield, Mass., and Newport,\\nVt., once told me that the first ripe corn between Springfield\\nand Newport, was usually found on the meadows at New-\\nbury, this being the earliest ground between the two points.\\nThis may explain the relation of the St. Francis tribe of\\nIndians to the Cohos Country. Years after it may have been\\nabandoned as a permanent abode, it was occupied as a hunt-\\ning ground and sure spot to ripen corn, and in this way it\\ncontinued to be a feeder to the large and permanent settle-\\nment of the tribe on the St. Francis river.\\nFAIRS AND MARKETS.\\nIn the charter of Haverhill as in the charters of all other\\ntowns, certain provisions were made which in these days\\nwere rather deemed as privileges. One of those provisions\\nwas for the establishment of a fair twice a year as soon as\\nthere were fifty families resident and settled in the town.*\\nThis idea of a fair was brought from England and Ireland,\\nand fairs still continue in some places in the old coimtry.\\nRussia and the East have their great annual fair on the\\nVolga at Nijni Novgorod, lasting several months. These town\\nfairs were seasons for trafllicking. It is however not known\\nwhether a fair was ever inaugurated in the Town indeed, st)\\ngood authority as Hon. A. S. Batchellor, gives it as his\\nopinion that only one town in the state ever begun, and con-\\nexploit was in the town of Wakefield, and the pond near by i^ now\\ncalled Lovewell s pond.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0398.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 3()7\\ntinned the custom of a fair, and that was the Scotch-Irish\\nsettled town of Londonderry, where a fair in olden times\\nwas held for a week in October.\\nThe other provision was that for a weekly market day.\\nTiiis idea also came from the mother country, and the market\\nwas held one or more days in each week. It may also be\\ndoubted whether the observance of this privilege was ever in\\nvogue, at least more than nominally.\\nAVILl) ANIMALS, GAME AND FISH.\\nWhen the early settlers came into the Cohos Country, and\\neven long after, the region abounded in wild animals and in\\ngreat variety of game and fish. The Connecticut was plen-\\ntifully stocked with the finest of salmon, and the brooks\\nfurnished abundance of trout. Otter, mink and beaver in-\\nhabited the banks of the rivers and streams in large numbers,\\nwhilst bear, wolves, moose and deer filled the forests. Capt.\\nPowers party shot a moose on Baker s river on their way to\\nthe Cohos Country. Even as late as 1769 moose yarded in\\nthe winter on the meadows, and bears came into barn-yards\\nand destroyed sheep and small cattle. Grant Powers tells\\nhow Mrs. Col. Kent of Newbury was surprised one Sabbath\\nmorning, whilst her husband had gone to church, by three\\nmonster bears that came and looked into the open door of\\nthe room where she was sitting. An article in the warrant\\nfor town meeting in 1769, to see if the Town would jirovide\\na stock of anmnmition, indicates the exposed condition of\\nthe settlement to the attacks of ferocious animals. At the\\nsame meetino; 20 shillinfjs were voted for each wolf\\ncaught or killed, and votes of bounties for the destruction of\\nwolves, were frequent in subsequent years.\\nBut although wild animals were numerous in this rejiion\\nin early times, tradition hands down no striking adventure\\nor death struirgle with bears or wolves, such as arc recorded", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0399.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "368 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nof Other towns in their early settlement. Doubtless Haver-\\nhill had her numerous exciting hunts of various sorts. Deer\\nwere pursued for the food they furnished, and bears were\\nslain for a like purpose and for their skins, and no doubt the\\nmoose that yarded on the meadows as late as 1769 were not\\nleft in absolute possession of their camping ground, but\\nnone of these that are worth recording, have come floating\\ndown the tide of tradition, so that Grant Powers was com-\\npelled to go out of Town for the bear story that garlands his\\nhistory.\\nAN EGYPTIAX PLAGUE.\\nIn 1770 the Connecticut valley from Lancaster to Xorth-\\nfield, Mass., was invaded by an army of worms. They\\ncrossed the country from west to east, making their appear-\\nance in the latter part of July and literally covered the\\nland. In general color they were brown with a black stripe\\non either side running lengthwise, and in size they were from\\none to three inches in length, and moved rapidly, only paus-\\ning when they took food. They filled the houses and in-\\nvaded the dough-troughs of the people. In solid masses\\nthey crawled up the sides and over houses, so that the boards\\nand shingles were hid from view. Entire fields of wheat\\nand corn were drowned by them, but pumpkin- vines, peas,\\npotatoes and flax were left untouched. They climbed the\\nwheat-stalks and cut off the head which was quickly eaten.\\nCorn almost man high and standing thick in fields, was so\\nthoroughly consumed that only the bare stalks Avere left,\\nafter the army of worms passed through the fields. Sud-\\ndenly about the first of September they disappeared, and not\\na trace of their dead bodies could be found. Where they\\nwent or what became of them no one ever knew. They\\nappeared again in 1781, but in small numbers, and did very\\nlittle injury. But in their first invasion they left the country", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0400.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOl S, 3()1\\nhy their havoc in a destitute condition, and liad it not been\\ntor tlie immense croj) of pumpkins \\\\vht)se vines the worms\\ndid not touch, and the abundance ot pi 2;eons that filled the\\nforests that season, great distress, if not actual starvation,\\nmust have come to multitudes of families in the neighboring\\ntowns that were not so well provided with a surplus of pro-\\nvisions as the people of Haverhill were. Col. Tyler of\\nPiermont said his father drew hay from Xewbury in a hand-\\nsled on the ice, to feed his cattle the winter after the Avorm-\\ninvasion, and the people of Piermont at the request of Haver-\\nhill and Newbury, floated down the river in cribs made of\\nlogs, immense numbers of pumpkins, that town being left\\nespecially destitute by the destroyer.\\nTHE riGEOXS.\\nIn the autumn of the same year of the worm-invasion,\\nthere was an unparalled flight of pigeons into the Cohos\\nCountry. The forests and fields were black with these\\nfeatheiy adAcnts. They came immediately after the Avorms\\nso suddenly disappeared, and their coming was a timely aid\\nto the people in the new settlements. They were especially\\nnumerous on the meadows of Haverhill, and were captured\\nin immense quantities. It is related that Col. Jonathan\\nTyler and tw o of his brothers took in the course of ten days\\nover four hundred dozen of these birds. The people picked\\nand dried tliem in large quantities for their winter meat, as a\\nsubstitute for other meats of which they were depriAcd by\\nthe ravages of the worms in the destruction of crops on\\nwhich hogs and cattle could be fed. The feathers, too,\\nserved as useful material for beds and pillows.\\nTHE GREAT FLOOD.\\nThe early settlers pitched, as they termed it. their homes", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0401.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "370 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\non the meadows. In those days floods were not so sudden\\nand j)recipitous as they have since become. Forests were\\nthen dense and the ground was covered with thick under-\\ngrowth, so that the water was held in reserve and more\\no^raduallv declined to the river channel. But the river had\\nits high waters then as now. Probably the greatest flood in\\nthe history of this region since its settlement, occurred in\\n1771. In that year the inhabitants were driven from their\\nhomes on the meadows, and afterwards built new houses on\\nthe high ground. The river rose to such a height that the\\nground in many places was covered with sand to the depth\\nof two and three feet, and the inhabitants not only lost their\\ncrops for the season, l)ut in some places the soil was torn up\\nby the powerful current and carried away. A horse it is\\nsaid, happened to be tied to a log in a stock-yard at Great\\nOx-Bow, and was carried down the river as far as Hanover,\\nwhere he was taken out alive, his head l)eing supported above\\nthe water by the log. Other animals were swept away by\\nthe flood, and much damage was done to property. It does\\nnot appear that any lives were lost, though there were some\\nnarrow escapes.\\nHOUSES OF REFUGE.\\nIn the earliest days of the settlement when only a blazed\\nroad led into and from the Cohos Country, transportation in\\nsummer was by pack-horses and in winter on sleds drawn by\\nmen. In this way the first mill-crank w\\\\as brought into this\\nregion. The party had hard work in the long journey from\\nConcord to Cohos, a distance of nearly seventy miles. Judge\\nWoodward and John Page were of the party, and they came\\nnear perishing in crossing Xewfound lake, but finding them-\\nselves growing drowsy from exhaustion and cold, they made\\none strenuous effort to reach a camp in tlie woods. Xow\\nthis camp or retreat was one of a series which the earliest", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0402.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "mi8Cellan p:ois. 371\\nsettlers had built through the blazed forests from Haverhill\\nto Salisbury, ten or twelve miles apart, and they were furn-\\nished with fuel and means of kindling a fire, so that if par-\\nties or individuals were overtaken by fieree storms and piti-\\nless cold whilst on their way to or from Cohos, they eOuld at\\nleast find temporary shelter from tlie cold and a protected\\nplace to lodge in.\\nA NOTED CHARACTEK.\\nI am indebted to the kindness of my friend, Rev. Henry\\nA. Hazcn,-who has done most valuable service in antiquarian\\nresearch, for the following sketch of a noted person who\\ncame to Haverhill, it is said, before the Revolution, and who\\nalways seemed to be something of a mysterious character.\\nWhat follows may throw some light upon the man and the\\nmystery. The account is taken from the Introduction, pp.\\n125-28, of a book published in Boston in 1884, entitled\\nTea Leaves, by Francis S. Drake.\\nCaptaix Mackintosh was a tradesman of Boston, who\\nacquired great prominence in the local disturbances of the\\ntown, prior to the outbreak of the Revolution, but who dis-\\nappears from her history after that period. He first came\\ninto notice as the leader of the South End pafty in the cele-\\nbration of Pope Day which took jdace on the 5th of Novem-\\nber in commemoration of the discovery of tlie (lunpowder\\n[)lot. In 17(i5 the two factions of the North ;ind South\\nEnds harmonized, and after a friendly meeting in King, now\\nState Street, marched together to Liberty Tree. The lead-\\ners, ]Mackintosh of the South, and Swift of the Nortii End,\\nappeared in military habits, with small canes resting on their\\nleft arms, having nuisic in front and Hank. All the propcrtv\\nused on such occasions was afterwards ])urnt on Co[)ps Hill.\\nMackintosh was a ring-leader in tlie riot of Aug. 2(i, 17(i5,\\nwhen Lieut-Gov. Hutchinson s liouse was destroved, and", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0403.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "372 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nwas arrested in King Street next day, Init was immediately\\nreleased by the sheriff, on the demand of a number of mer-\\nchants and other persons of character and property.\\nFrom the diary and letters of Thomas Hutchinson, we\\ntake the following passage\\nThe Governor had even moved a council, the day after the\\nriot. The sheriff attended, and upon inquiry, it appeared\\nthat one Mackintosh, a shoemaker, was among the most\\nactive in destroying the Lieut. -Governor s house and furni-\\nture. A warrant was given to the sheriff to apprehend him\\nby name, with divers others. ]\\\\Iackintosh appeared in King\\nStreet, and the sheriff took him, but soon discharged him\\nand returned to the council-chamber, AvheVe he gave an ac-\\ncount of his taking him, and that J\\\\Ir. Nathaniel Coffin and\\nseveral other gentlemen came to him and told him that it had\\nbeen agreed that the Cadets and many other persons should\\nappear in arms the next evening as a guard to security\\nagainst a fish riot, which was feared and said to have been\\nthreatened, but not a man would appear, unless Mackintosh\\nwas discharged. The Lieut, -Governor asked, but did you\\ndischarge him? Yes. Then you have not done your\\nduty. And this was all the notice taken of the discharge.\\nThe true reason of this distinguishing JNLackintosh, was that\\nhe could discover who employed him, where as the other per-\\nsons apprehended were such as had collected together with-\\nout knowing of any previous plan.\\nMackintosh was styled the First Captain-General of\\nLiberty Tree and had charge of the illuminations, hanging\\nat effigies, etc. Long afterward, on speaking of the tea\\nparty, he said, It was my chickens that did the job. INIy\\ninformant, Mr. Schulyer INIerrill, then a boy of ten, remarks\\nthat it was a mystery to him, at that time, how chickens\\ncould have any thing to do with a tea party jNIackintosh is\\ndescribed by Merrill as of slight build, sandy complexion,\\nand nervous temperament. He died in extreme poverty at\\nNorth Haverhill, N. H., about the year 1812, at the age of\\nseventy. His unmarked grave can be pointed out by Mr.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0404.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "f\\nMISCELLANEOUS. 373\\nMorrill, who still resides in North Haverhill at the ajje of\\neighty-two.\\nSueh is the aecount given of the person who came to\\nHaverhill at an early date by the author of The Leaves.\\nTradition has handed down the fact that he claimed to have\\nbeen the leader of the Tea-party that threw overboard the\\ntea in Boston harbor, and being a bold leader who may\\nhave got himself into trouble in the local disturbances of\\nthe town [Boston], he left his old abode and came into the\\nCohos Country.\\nIIOKSE AIEADOW.\\nGrant Powers gives the origin of the name. In 17(33\\nsome soldiers who had enlisted in Pennsylvania in the British\\narmy at the beginning of the French war, and Avho were de-\\ntained after peace was declared, deseiled and made their way\\nthrough the woods to the head waters of the Connecticut,\\nand then down the river. Coming to Haverhill nuich fam-\\nished and finding a horse loose on the interval now known as\\nHorse meadow, they killed the animal and satisfied their\\nhunger, not knowino; that there were Enalish settlements\\nnear by. And this incident, it is said, gave origin to the\\nname of Horse meadow. Nearly a century afterwards a\\nlad, working on the farm now owned by the county, was\\npassing along the road, when a gentleman and a lady in a\\nfine carriage drove up and stop[)ing, asked what place it was.\\nThe name being given, the gentleman asked the origin of it.\\nand was told the story as related by Mr. Powers. hv I\\nexclaimed the gentleman, I shall have something to tell\\nmy old mother when I get home. My grandfather was one\\nof that party and ate of that horse. Many a time I heard\\nthe story, but I never sup})osed I should see the place.\\nKey. Levi Rodffers.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0405.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "374 HISTORY OF HAVEIiHILL.\\nTHE POOR.\\nIn early times before town poor-houses were appointed,\\nthe poor were taken care of bv individuals. They were })ut\\nup at auction and struck off to the lowest bidder. Thus in\\n1798 the sum of 22\u00c2\u00a3, ()s, 2d, was allowed Ezekiel Ladd for\\nthe care of the poor for the fiscal years 17H7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8. A poor-\\nfarm was bouLi ht in 1888.\\nHOG-REEVE.\\nThis in the early years of the settlement of the Town was\\nan ofHce of much usefulness, and the most respectable citi-\\nzens were called to fill it. It was known under se^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eral\\nnames, as hay-wards, field-drivers. In those days the\\nfields were exposed to stray hogs, and it was the duty of the\\nhay-wards or field-drivers to take care of these in-\\ntruders. The method of treatment was to insert a piece of\\nwire in the hog s nose and twist the ends together. In this\\nway rooting would be prevented. In later times the oflfice\\nfell into disrepute, and was often voted as the humor hap-\\npened to take the town-meeting, to some one as a joke, more\\ngenerally to some young man who had married during the\\nyear. The office seems to have dropped out entirely.\\nTYTHING-MAN.\\nThe office of the tything-man has also come and gone. It\\nwas peculiar to the times of the early settlement of the Town,\\nand was an affair of great importance as our forefathers\\nviewed things. The duty of the tything-man was at first to\\ninspect licensed houses and to give information of all dis-\\norders to a justice of the peace. That duty afterwards\\npassed to the constable, and the tything-man s functions were\\nrestricted to keeping order on the Sabbath, and was more of", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0406.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "MISCELLAXEOrS. 375\\na religiouf! office. Taverns^ were prohibited on the Sabbath\\ntVom entertaining inhabitants of the town likewise all labor,\\nrecreation, travelling and rudeness at places of public wor-\\nship were forbidden on that day, and the tything-man was to\\nsee to the enforcement of tiiese re((uirenients. He also at-\\ntended to the duty of observing order in church and enforc-\\ning a proper regard to the services of the sanctuary. Tiie\\ntything-nian sat near the minister, and sometimes among the\\naudience, with his ])ole in hand to see that everybody be-\\nhaved and kept awake. It is said he would often stand u\\\\)\\nand with his long wand punch some one in the side or back,\\nwho chanced to be overcome with drowsiness, whilst the boys\\nwho hap})encd to drop into any misdemeanors were admon-\\nished in the same wav.\\nCOURT AND COURT HOUSES,\\nSoon after tiie organization of Grafton county, wliich was\\nin 1771, some of the more energetic citizens of Haverhill,\\nchief of whom was Col. John Hurd, took steps to make\\nHaverhill the western county seat, and accordingly in 1773\\nthe courts were brought to Haverhill, a superior and an in-\\nferior court. The former was called the Court of Conmion\\nPleas, the latter the Court of Sessions. Col. John Hurd\\nwas chief Justice of the Conmion Pleas, witli Col. Asa Porter\\nof Ha\\\\erhill, Daniel Hobart of Plymouth, and P)ezaleel\\nAVoodward of Hanover as associate justice. Col. flohn Fen-\\nton of Plymouth was clerk. These were all men of mark.\\nThe (Jourt of Sessions was om[)Osed of the justice of the\\npeace. The Common Pleas does not seem to have organized\\ntill the close of the Kcbellion, and the stirring events of\\nthose times in the Cohos Country seem to have closed the\\ncourts of justice, and law was administcri d cither by local\\ncommittees or by the military.\\nThe Court of General Sessions of the Peace met the first", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0407.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "376 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\ntime in Haverhill in 1774, and the records of its first ses-\\nsion are as follows At His Majesty s Court of General\\nSessions of the Peace begun in and held at Haverhill in and\\nfor the county of Grafton, on the 3d Tuesday in April, be-\\ning- the 19th of the same month, in the l-lth year of the\\nreign of George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great\\nBrittain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.,\\nAnnoque Domini, 1777. At this first meeting the justices\\npresent were John Fenton, Bezaleel Woodward, Israel\\nMorey and John Whealley. Subsequently, the number of\\njustices was much greater, on one occasion the records note\\nthe presence of twenty -two. The Gourt of Sessions con-\\ntinued till 1794, when by act of legislation it was changed\\ni v merged into the Court of Connnon Pleas with four judges.\\nAfterwards, l-SOo, as the records show, the court consisted\\nof three judges, a chief justice and the associates.\\nIt was in 1772 that the Proprietors first moved in the\\nmatter of briuiiino; the courts to Haverhill. Col. John Hurd\\nwas chosen agent of the Town to [)etition the General\\nAsseml)ly in regard to the matter, and for this service he\\nwas voted 1, acres of land in the undivided land in\\nthe town-shij) of Haverhill, with liberty to pitch it in a\\nscjuai-e form, upon condition that he should succeed in\\nsecuring the holding of one lialf the inferior courts and one\\nsuperior court in Haverhill. A coj)y of this vote was to be\\nsent by Col. Asa Porter to Portsmouth by the easiest\\nmeth(jd. What this easiest method was we are not in-\\nformed, l)ut it Avas not liy mail, as no post-route was estab-\\nlished at that early day. Quite likely the said Col. Porter\\nwas to watch his chance to send the vote by some one who\\nmight be journeying that way. But although Col. Hurd\\nwas fortunate enough to persuade the Provincial Authorities\\nto accede to the wishes of the Proprietors, he was not so\\nsuccessful in coming into his pitch of 1,000 acres of\\nland. Tlie Proprietors refused to share with Asa Porter,\\n1", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0408.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOT S. 877\\nJohn Hazen, and others, their proportion of the 1, acres\\nwhich were voted. And still later, 1771), the Projjrietors\\nvoted to lay out the land said to be claimed by Col. John\\nHurd into lots, and to be drawed as other lots. AMiat the\\ndifficulty was, is not known, but this may be a hint to ac-\\ncount for the fact that between Col. Hurd and the citizens of\\nHaverhill, there had sprung up mutual disaffection.\\nAfter the courts were appointed to be at Haverhill, the\\nProprietors immediately made provision for the location of\\nthe building, and a piece of land 200 rods square, and a\\nroad 2 rods wide and 200 rods long, were voted opjiosite\\nGreat Ox-Bow to accommodate the court house and jail.\\nThe location was a little north of North Haverhill village on\\nthe west side of the road. The coiu t house and jail were\\nbuilt of wood, and Asa Porter acted as agent. Some ex-\\ntravagance seems to have been indulged in, an l the court\\nordered a committee to investigate Porter s account, and this\\ncommittee reported that the account was a very extrava-\\ngant one. Col. Charles Johnston and Jonathan Haley\\nwere added to the committee to complete the buildings, and\\nthey recommended that they l)e finished in the plainest\\nand most frugal manner. The court also directed that\\nstocks and a whipping-post be erected.\\nThe building of the court house and jail was (piitc an\\nevent in the new settlement, and was achieved, besides the\\nexpenditure of lal)or and material, with considerable spirit,\\nsince the amount of rum used on that occasion was over sixty\\ngallons. Col. Porter s account for l)uil(ling the court house\\nand jail was \u00c2\u00a3o.S(;, ).s, 2(1, or about $1,1)31, which in those\\ntimes was, in the language of the investigating conunittee, a\\nvery extravagant sum. The shingles used were some of\\nthem sixteen inches wide, and were, it is said, perfectly\\nsound when the building was taken down over a half century\\nafter it was built. It was a large structure, about SOx )(J\\nfeet, and two stories high. The up[)er story was used as the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0409.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "378 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\ncoiu t-room. At the west end was the jail, and at the east\\nend were rooms for the sheriff and jailer. After it was\\nabandoned as a Court House it was used as a dwelling. The\\nbuildino- had a lonely and desolate look, and the children on\\ntheir way to school did not dare to enter it. The windows\\nwere glazed with small green glass, at which the boys would\\nthrow stones or clubs as they passed. They finally succeeded\\nin breakin them all in, thouo-h as one of these bovs remarks,\\nit took a pretty stoutly-thrown club to demolish them as\\nthe panes were made of thick glass.\\nEarly there was a mo\\\\ement to make the south end of the\\nTown the important point. Here was ample water-power,\\nbesides enterprise and })ublic spirit which \\\\Aere [)rompt in\\nutilizin adyantag^es. In 1783 the remoyal of the Court\\nHouse to the Corner was agitated, and a committee consist-\\ning of Moses Dow, Ezekiel Ladd, and James Woodward,\\nrecommended the building of a court house and jail on an\\neminence a little south of the Brook on land of John\\nLadd. A year later another committee was chosen for the\\nsame purpose, and the composition of the committee,\\nCharles Johnston, Moses Dow, Timothy Bedel, James\\nWoodward, shows the fine hand at work in shaping things\\nfor the ])re-eminence of the Corner. Afterwards, 1793, cer-\\ntain citizens of Hayerhill, at the head of whom was Charles\\nJohnston, erected a building near the site of the present\\nAcademy building, and offered the same to the county for\\nthe use of the courts. The court-room was in the second\\nstory, and the courts were held there and in its successor\\nafter the original building was built till about 1S43, when\\nthe present Court House on Court Street was built.\\nIn earlier days eminent lawyers rode the circuit, as it was\\ncalled, and conducted the trial of causes in the courts all\\noyer the state. Grafton county courts had the full share of\\nthese yisiting: attorneys, amomrst whom were such well-\\ned\\nknown persons as Jeremiah Smith, Ezekiel Wel^ster, George", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0410.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "MISCELLAXEOrs. 379\\n8ulli\\\\aii, Kichard Fletclicr, Parker Noyes, Levi ()()lllJllrv,\\nIchabod Bartlett, and Joel Parker, men eminent in the pro-\\nfession and known far and near, not only for their learning;\\nand al)ility, but some of them as eloquent advocates and\\nthe mute walls of the Academy building were they to speak,\\ncould tell of many a !)attle of these legal giants, of the fire\\nof intellect and tiie flash of wit. People gathered in crowds\\nto listen to the great leaders of forensic eloquence. And in\\nthis old court-room, too, Haverhiirs greatest lawyer, Joseph\\nBell, maintained the honor of the Grafton county bar in con-\\nflict with some of these noted lawyers.\\nIn earlier days, too, the court terms were longer thau they\\nare now, and the lawyers, their clients, sheriff and deputies,\\njurors and witnesses, came to stay till the business that called\\nthem here was finished. Tiiey came in their own teams\\nlargely. The great lawyers and judges travelled in their one\\nhorse shay, and as Mr. Duncan relates in his reminiscence\\nof the late Mrs. iVIorgan whose acquaintanceship with the\\nolden bar was so extensive, and the ta\\\\erns were crowded for\\nweeks with the legal fraternity and tiieir clients. The court\\nand the bar had a room and table set apart for themselves,\\nand to this elect company no layman was aduiitted, iiowever\\nhigh in infiuence and social standing. And on the Sabbath,\\nit is said, the judges and the great lawyers were accustomed\\nto go down to Piermont in the old meeting house with its\\nhigh-back pews, on the top of the hill just south of Mr.\\nBrainard s house, to hear the Rev. Kobert Blake, a Scotch-\\nman of eloquence and power. A pew was set a[)art as the\\njudges })ew. Haverhill was a noted point iu those days, and\\nthe influence of the court and bar upon tiie place was a\\nconsiderable factor in her historv.\\nTWO IlISTOltlf FAUMS.\\nThe Hazex Fau:\\\\i. John Hazen, the founder of the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0411.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "380 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nTown, was accorded the privilege of choosing his pitch\\nbefore tlie other \u00e2\u0080\u00a2rantees were allowed to draw their shares.\\nHe accordingly selected his five shares in Ox-Bow meadow\\nall in one plot, and the farm was always known as the\\nHazen Farm. It was about one mile square, and is noAv\\nin possession of Nathaniel M. Swasey of North Haverhill.\\nThe old buildings on the farm are supposed to be the original\\nbuildings which were erected after tiie temporary huts were\\nput up, and if that is the fact they are over a hundred years\\nold. The farm has been in the Swasey family for about\\nthree-fourths of a century. High Sheriff Edson owhed it\\nbefore it came into the possession of Gookin and Swasey.\\nThe Fisher Far:\\\\i. The Fisher Farm several times\\nmentioned in these pages was a famous tract of land extend-\\ning from the Ox-Bow to the eastern part of the Town. It\\nAvas a mile wide and between five and six miles long and\\ncontained over 2,400 acres. The Hazen Farm bounded\\nit on the west. This tract was covered with the finest of\\npine, and was an unbroken wilderness till the beginning of\\npresent century, when it passed into tlie hands of Gookin\\nand Swasey, who manufactured vast quantities of lunil)er\\nfrom it.\\nHow this tract came into the possession of ]\\\\Ir. Fisher is\\nnot known, except that as was common in the chartering of\\ntowns at that time, certain persons who stood near the\\nthrone of power, were given the privilege of reserved\\nland, perhaps as compensation for their services in securing\\nthese charters.\\nJohn Fisher was an Englishman who was royal na^al\\nofficer at Portsmouth, and afterwards assistant secretary of\\nstate in England. He was connected by marriage with Gov.\\nWentworth, and at the breaking out of the Revolution, his\\nsympathies being with the royal party, he was compelled to\\nleave the country. His lands in Haverhill were confiscated\\nduring the Revolution and the tillable j)ortion was farmed", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0412.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 381\\nfor the benefit of the troops who were stationed at Cohos at\\nthat time. Afterwards an act was [)assed by the legishiture\\nby which these lands were restored, and he and his agents\\nwere ofranted the rig^ht of selling and of ffivingr a lejjal title.\\nHe died in England about 1805. All his children except a\\ndaughter, Mrs. Shafter of Portsmouth, also went to Eng-\\nland. To Mr. Fisher was granted in 1772 a township which\\nwas called Danzick for some time, and afterwards Fishersfield\\nuntil it was changed to Newbury in 1837. A plan of the\\nFisher Farm is found in the Proprietors records drawn\\nbv John McDuffee.\\nTHE GREAT PINES.\\nThe territory constituting the Town of Haverhill was\\nfamous for its immense pines, especially the plain at North\\nHaverhill, where may still be seen the marks of these giants\\nof the primitive forests, whose half-decayed trunks blackened\\nliy fire are lying on the ground here and there east of the\\nvillage, and in the huge stump fences which are found in that\\npart of the Town. jNIany of these pines grew to an extra-\\nordinary size, towering into the sky, from which was manu-\\nfactured the finest lumber. One who remembers well these\\ntall trees along the brook above the Swasey mills, tells of\\none cut near Briar hill, seventy feet of which was hauled to\\nSwasey s mill, the butt-end measuring foiu feet and the\\nsmaller end over two feet, and which cut 4,000 feet of lum-\\nber, 2,500 of which was clear stuff. I remember,\\nsays this same person, seeing and pacing off tlie length of\\na pine that grew near the head of the Swasey mill-pond,\\nwhich had long been felled by the axe, and had gone to de-\\ncay, especially the top, but it measured then ten rods in\\nlength upon the ground. How much of the top had rotted,\\nso as not to be visible, I could not say, but fifty or sixty feet\\nmust have disappeared. This pine with others, it was said", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0413.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "382 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nby old men, was cut for the King s masts before the-\\nRevolution. However, whether any masts were ever cut in\\nHaverhill for His Majesty s Royal Navy may be a question,\\nbut the charter provided that all white pine and other })ine\\ntrees within the said township fit for masting our [the King s]\\nroyal navy may be carefully preserved for that use, and not\\nto be felled without our [the King s] special license for so-\\ndoing. Later, masts in large quantities were floated down\\nthe Connecticut from the pineries of Haverhill, and found a\\nmarket on Loni^ Island Sound.\\nDRINKING HABITS.\\nIn earlier times the habits and usages of the people were\\nin some res})ects different from what they are now. The use\\nof spirituovis liquors as a beverage was universal. It was\\nnot then regarded either as contrary to health or inconsistent\\nwith morals or respectability to drink liquor. Drunkenness,\\nhowever, for various causes, such as the greater vigor of our\\nfore-fathers, their simpler ways of living, their greater free-\\ndom from the excitement ^f business and enterprise, and the\\npurer quality of the liquor, was not as prevalent then as it\\nbecame in later years. When the Sinclair tavern was built\\nand the sign-pole raised, the whole crowd, it is said, was\\ndrunk, and one of the prominent citizens on Ladd street,\\nwho aided in raising the sign-pole, went home so far to\\nwindward that he tied his hoi se up by the tail. Xeither\\nwas drunkenness considered as specially disgraceful. The\\nmost reputable citizens took their daily drink, and even\\nclergymen were patrons of the social glass. I well remem-\\nber when a lad forty-fi^ e years ago, that the superintendent\\nof the Sabbath school in my native place, a man who was\\nuniversally esteemed as one of the most devout and exem-\\nplary citizens of the connnunity, was the proprietor of a\\nlarge brewery, to which nndtitudes flocked daily for their", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0414.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 883\\nmug of ale. In such a condition of society it is not strange\\nthat tlie foremost citizens were inn-holders and venders of\\nintoxicating litjuors. The records give scores of names of\\npersons who had ap})lied for the privilege of selling licjuor.\\nSuch well-known persons as Luther Kichardson, the Ladds,\\nJoseph Bliss, Joshua Howard, James Woodward, Joseph\\nHutchins, John Page, Moody Bedel, A. J. Crocker, Samuel\\nBrooks, Nathaniel Merrill, John Montgomery, Asa Boyn-\\nton, and many others took out licenses as taverncrs and ven-\\nders of spirituous liquors. From 17 Ho to 17^7, a period\\nof four years, the records show that thirty persons were\\ngranted this privilege.\\nIn the Proprietors records are numerous entries of votes\\nto pay liquor bills contracted for their use, or for the use of\\npersons in their employ. In 1774 money was voted to })ay\\nfor four and one-half gallons of rum expended in laying-\\nout the 100 acre lots. At another time it was ordered to\\npay Charles Johnston for one gallon rum, and Asa Porter\\nfor two gallons rum expended for the use of the Proprie-\\ntors. This last looks as if these fathers were in the habit\\nof taking something, when they met for consultation for\\nthe advancement and [)rosperity of the new settlement.\\nVarious other entries of the payment of rum-bills are\\nfound, and on occasion of the building of the first court house\\nit took sixty gallons of the ardent to complete the temple\\nof justice.\\npiek:m(jxt imuNDAin disi itk.\\nKarly in the settlement of the Town a dispute ai-osc iu\\nregard to the boundary between Haverhill and Pieiniont.\\nThe lines of Haverhill as described in the charter arc un-\\nbroken, and the southern boundary of the Town ran in a\\nstraight course from the Connecticut river in a south-easterly\\ndirection jtarallcl with north line. A reference to the pres-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0415.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "384 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nent map of the Town shows that this south line is broken at\\na point about two and a half miles from the river. The jog\\nin the Town occurs at Porter s Hill, and was occasioned by\\nthe settlement of a long controversy between the two towns.\\nA map of the Town drawn on the Proprietors record book\\ndoes not contain the jog as it now appears on the Town\\nmap.\\nThe dispute arose in this way. In 17(iO the government\\nof Xew Hampshire ordered a survey of the Connecticut rner\\nfrom Xo. 4 northward, and at the end of e^ ery six miles on\\na straight line, to mark a tree or set a boundary on each side\\nof the river for a township. This survey was made on the\\nice in March, and extended northward to the north-west\\ncorner of Haverhill. When Capt. Hazen took out the\\ncharter for the Town a new survey was made, beginning at\\nthe north-west corner of the Town, and the first boundary,\\nthat of 1760, was found to be distant a little over seven\\nmiles from the northern starting-point, about a rod south of\\nwhere Bedel s bridge stands. The surveying party, however,\\ndid not stop here, but went a mile and some rods further,\\nand set the stake at this last point. In 1808 Blanchard and\\nChamlierlain who made the first survey, were brought on the\\nground to determine the original bound, and they testified\\nunder oath that the boundary was at the point near Bedel s\\nbrida c. It has been suau ested that the fraud was instigated\\nI)y the Pro})rietors of Haverhill and Newbury, and that the\\nsecond surveying party acted under their direction. But of\\nthis there is nothing at all reliable. Two things are doubt-\\nless true the original survey was not very accurate, and the\\nsecond surveying party, for some reasons saw fit to carry the\\nsouth stake of Haverhill and Newbury down something over\\na mile, and as a consequence Ijoth Piermont and Bradford\\nare short towns.*\\nThe survey of 1760 it is said was made under the direction of Gen.\\nJacob Bailey. If this is the fact, we may have a clue to the enlarge-\\nment of the Haverhill and Newbury boundaries.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0416.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 385\\nThe first mention of this dispute is in the Pro})rietors\\nrecords of 1770, at which time a committee was appointed\\nto wait on the g overnor [and] council, to petition them to\\nsettle and determine the bounds between the towns of HaA\\nerhill and Piermont. Col. James Bailey was appointed to\\nthat service, and three others were chosen, John Hazen,\\nJonathan Sanders and Maxi Hazeltine, whose duty it was to\\ninstruct Col. James Bailey as they shall think proper in\\nrelation to the matter intrusted to his care.\\nThis controversy which was irritating and expensive to\\nboth parties, extended over a period of about twelve years\\nbefore it was finally settled. Jonathan Sanders and William\\nEastman were especially afflicted by the dispute, and against\\nthem the Town of Piermont entered suits of ejectment for\\noccupying lands which were claimed under the charter of that\\ntown. But the Proprietors of Haverhill had a common in-\\nterest with Sanders and Eastman, as the loss of these lands\\nwould entail upon them a redistribution of shares in compen-\\nsation to Sanders and Eastman. Accordingly, at an early\\ndate, 1770, they came to the aid of the distressed occupants\\nof the disputed territory, and voted to pay Messrs. San-\\nders and Eastman for any charge or costs which hath [arisen]\\nor may arise to said Sanders and Eastman in defending them-\\nselves against any action or actions which the Proprietors of\\nPiermont have commenced against them or either of them.\\nThe year following a proposition was made at a Proprietors\\nmeeting to submit the- disputed boundary to referees, but the\\n})roposition was ].)romptly voted down, and John Hazen, Asa\\nPorter and Charles Johnston were appointed agents to assist\\nSanders and Eastman in carrying on the suits which were\\ncommenced against them by the town of Piermont.\\nFour years later the boundary question again came up at\\na 1^ oprietors meeting, and a committee was ap[)ointed with\\nfull powers to act with a committee of Piermont to settle the\\ndisputed boundary either by themselves or by leaving it", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0417.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "386 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nout to men. No definite progress seems to have been made,\\nsince at a Proprietors meeting in 1779 a committee of five\\nwas appointed to meet Col. Moulton and others of the\\nProprietors of Piermont, agreeable to a letter received from\\nJonathan Moulton and others, at Col. Webster s at Ply-\\nmouth on the 15th day of September, 1779, in order to\\ncome into some agreement to settle the boundary line be-\\ntween Haverhill and Piermont. From which it may be in-\\ninferred that between the years 1775 and 1779 some corre-\\nspondence had been carried on in reference to the matter in\\ncontroversy. However, nothing conclusive was achieved at\\nthe Plymouth conference, and another committee was chosen\\nsoon after, 1781, which was more successful in its work, and a\\nfinal settlement was reached on the 18th of September, 1781.\\nOn the 11th of October following, at a Proprietors meet-\\ning, it was voted to \u00e2\u0096\u00a0confirm and make valid in law the\\nagreement made and entered into the 18th day of September\\nlast by and between Jonathan Moulton of Hampton and\\nRichard Jenness of Rye, Esqs, who represented the Propri-\\netors of Piermont, and Asa Porter, Charles Johnston, Moses\\nDow, James Woodward, John Page, Amos Fisk, John\\nRich, who acted for the Proprietors of Haverhill. The\\nconditions of the agreement are in these words All the\\nmeadow-lots, all the house lots, and all the first division of\\n100 acre lots as laid out and bounded by the said Proprie-\\ntors of Haverhill, shall be and remain unto the said town-\\nship and Proprietors of Haverhill, and that all suits at law\\nalready commenced relative to the premises, and now pend-\\ning, shall cease and be no further prosecuted than is neces-\\nsary to carry this argument into execution. The eastern\\nline of the 100 acre lots is near the Union school house on\\nPorter Hill.\\nThus ended this long and perplexing controversy between\\nthe two towns. At one time it was suggested by some of\\nthe proprietors that they apply for a new charter, as the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0418.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 387\\neasiest way of a solution of the difficulties, but a majority\\nfirm in the conviction of their rights and resolute in their\\npurpose to maintain the southern line as they understood it,\\nrejected the suggestion. The river lands were a great prize\\nand by far the most valuable part of the grant of Haverhill\\nand at no point on the river were the intervals wider or more\\nfertile than on a part of disputed territory, and the fathers\\nof Haverhill stuck to their treasures with a tenacity worthy\\nof human- nature.\\nThere is a vague tradition come floating down to the pres-\\nent time that the commissioners from Haverhill in settling\\nthe dispute, were more than a match for the commissioners\\nwho acted for the town of Piermont. However, the im-\\nmense whet-stone ledges which have since been develoj)ed in\\nthis disputed territory, and out of which greater dividends\\nhave been made than from the rich meadows on the river,\\nmay be a compensation for the disadvantages which Pier-\\nmont is supposed to have suffered in the settlement of the\\nboundary question.\\nIn this settlement certain persons in Haverhill were\\ndivested of their 80 acre lots which were in the 3d Division,\\nbut they were re-embursed l)y lots given them in the 4th\\nDivision. In order to do so, the 100 acre lots of the 4th\\nDivision were reduced to 70 acre lots, so as to make u[) to\\neach share-holder who lost by the settlement, an equal por-\\ntion of land with the rest.\\nTHE VEimONT UNION.\\nAt one time the territory now constituting the state of\\nVermont Avas claimed both by New Hampshire and by Xew\\nYork. The governor of the Province of Xew Hampshire,\\nunder a royal commission, was given power to make grants\\nof unoccupied lands within his government, and claiming the\\nterritory west of the Connecticut river, he granted a charter", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0419.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "388 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nof the town-ship of Bennington, [Vt.,] to sundry individu-\\nals. This was in 1749. Although the governor of New\\nYork protested against the action of Gov. Went worth, tlie\\nhitter continued to grant charters as late as 17 64, and the\\nnumber of these charters up to that year was 138. The\\nmatter of jurisdiction between the two Provinces being sul\\nmitted for decision to the crown, resulted in favor of New\\nYork. New Hampshire withdrew^ her claim after this ver-\\ndict, but the attempt of New York to deny the rights of\\nthose to whom grants had been given by New Hampshire,\\naroused great opposition and finally resulted in the organiza-\\ntion of Vermont into an independent state. A constitution\\nhaving been formed and adopted in 1778 by the townships\\nw^hich received their charters from the governor of New\\nHampshire, their representatives assembled in the same year\\nat Windsor, Vt., for the enactment of laws for the govern-\\nment of the new state. The legislature was immediately\\nwaited upon by a committee from sixteen towns in New\\nHampshire, representing that their towns were not con-\\nnected with any state wdth respect to their internal police,\\nand asking that they might be admitted to become part of the\\nnew state. These towns extending along the river from\\nCornish to Dalton and including several towns back from the\\nriver, were as follows Cornish, Lebanon, Dresden [Han-\\nover] Lyme, Orford, Piermont, Haverhill, Bath, Lyman,\\nApthorp [Littleton], Enfield, Canaan, Cardigan [Orange],\\nLandaflf, Gunthwaite [Lisbon] Morristown [Franconia]\\nA union was formed and the delegates from the sixteen New\\nHampshire towns took their seats with the delegates from\\nVermont. James Bailey was the representative from\\nHaverhill.\\nThe reason for the application of these towns for admis-\\nsion to the Vermont assembly at Windsor, was disaffection\\nwith the Provincial Government of New Hampshire, so that\\nfor the years 1777-8, Grafton county refused to send a rep-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0420.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "MIS^CELLANEOUS. 389\\nresentative to the Council oi- General Committee of Safety.\\nBut an event occurred soon after the Union was formed\\nwhich led to its speedy dissolution. The sixteen towns east\\nof the river requested that those towns be erected into a\\nseparate county. This the assembly refused, and as a con-\\nsequence the towns east of the river withdrew.\\nAt this junction a new plan was developed. This was the\\nformation of another imion whicli sliould also include the\\ntowns on both sides of the Connecticut river. This project\\nwas favored by what was known as the Dartmouth College\\nparty which was ambitious, it is said, to make Hanover the\\ncapital of a new state which was to include the Connecticut\\nvalley. A committee of representatives from towns on both\\nsides of the river met at Cornish. Thirty-foiu* towns on\\nthe east side were in this new movement. ^Matters looked\\nserious and there was danger of violent collision between\\nNew Hampshire and Vermont in regard to the river towns.\\nCongress at last intervened and laid down the boundaries of\\nVermont Connecticut river on the east and on the west a\\nline drawn twenty miles eastward of Hudson river to Lake\\nChamplain. Vermont finally accepted the boundary of the\\nstate as thus laid down, and the representatives from the\\neast side of the Connecticut river withdrew from the Ver-\\nmont Assembly with indignation. (len. Washington also\\nthrew his influence into the scales against the formation of a\\nstate in the Connecticut valley. This last Union ended in\\n17-^3. Col. Timothy Bedel and Joshua Howard were the\\ndelegates from Haverhill in the second Union.\\nDuring all this time of conflict in regard to the disputed\\nterritory, Cols. Charles Johnston and Joim Hurd stood\\nloyally by the Xew Hampshire authorities, and exerted them-\\nselves, after the luiions were broken u[). in bringing back the\\nrevolted towns of (irafton county into harmony with and\\nallegiance to the Xew Hampshire authorities.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0421.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "390 HISTORY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nLIBKAKIES.\\nThe history of Haverhill libraries is neither brilliant nor\\nlong, thoufjli the endeavor of individuals to secure these\\nneedful means of an intelligent community are deserving of\\nmention. The earliest attempt in this direction was in 1801,\\nwhen a charter was secured for the incorporation of a library.\\nIt was called the Social Library, and Charles Johnston\\nwas the chief mover in the matter. AVith him were associ-\\nated John Osgood, Israel Swan and John Page. Of the\\n*iubsequent history of this library nothing is definitely known,\\nbut it would seem that it was afterwards, 1812, changed to\\nAurelian Social Library. Again, 1829, there were two\\nlibraries chartered, one called the North Social Library,\\nthe other the South Social Library, and these it is quite\\nlikely were continuations of the original Social Library.\\nThere was ao ain a lilirarv which came into existence about\\n1845, which also was called the Social Library, but in-\\n(juiry fails to show that this last was a re-organization of that\\nof 1829, though it is more than probable that it was, as the\\nname would seem to indicate, and possibly some books be-\\nlonoinfr to the earlier librarians, may have formed the nucleus\\nof this last at least there are some books in it which were\\n])rinted near the beginning of the present century.\\nThis last library contained about 250 volumes. The num-\\nber of books in the others cannot be learned, but })robably\\nit was not large.\\nIn 1880 a library was organized known as the Haverhill\\nLibrary Association, and had its origin in the idea of furn-\\nishing useful and attractive reading for the young. Mrs.\\nAugustus Whitney was the person who started the idea.\\nAlso, a reading-room was considered in the plan, but that\\nwas afterwards abandoned, and only the library was matured.\\nThe library opened with 90 volumes of new books, to which\\nwere added about 150 volumes from the defunct Social\\nLibrary of 1845. Any person could become a member of", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0422.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 31)1\\nthe ;issociatic\u00c2\u00bbn and continue so, by the payment of one doUar\\nas the initiation tee, and a yearly tax of fifty cents. The\\noriginal officers were Mrs. Charles B. Griswold, president\\nMrs. George F. Putnam, vice-president Miss Kate McK.\\nJohnston, librarian Mrs. (Iriswold, Mrs. Stephen Cuni-\\nmings, ]Mrs. Whitney, Miss Johnston, committee on books.\\nThe librai-y has steadily grown from its foundation, about\\n50 volumes being added each year, and much interest has\\nbeen taken in its care and progress, until now it contains\\nwith the 150 volumes from the Social Library, about 750\\nvolumes of generally well and carefully selected books, many\\nof them being standard works in different lines of knowl-\\nedge. The library is an assured institution, and has a\\nhopeful future of good .and usefulness to the community that\\nsustains it.\\nBut its present great need is a library building, which at\\none time it was hoped might be su})plied before now, but\\nwhich has not yet been realized. But this idea is not relin-\\n(juished, and the friends of the library do not despair of see-\\ning a suitable home for this most praiseworthy institution.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nThe newspaper made its appearance in Haverhill at the\\nclose of the last century. A small pa[)cr was published here\\nfor six months l)efore 1800 by Daniel Coverly, and Mosely\\nDunham also printed a magazine for a short time. These\\nincipient endeavors to found the ])opular educator of our\\ntimes was followed by the Coos Courier in INOS, but it\\nwas short-lived. The next attem})t was in IcSlH, when Syl-\\nvester T. Goss started tiie New Hamj)shire Intelligence,\\nwhich was really the first permanent newspaper printed in\\nHaverhill and had a life of about seven years. He also\\nprinted the Evangelist, a religious paper. The material and\\npress of the Intelligence afterwards passed into the hands of", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0423.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "392 HISTORY OF HxWERHILL.\\nJohn Kedinpf, Avho was the founder of the Democratic Repub-\\nlican in 1828, and which was published with success and\\nedited with ability by him till he went to Congress in 1840,\\nwhen it passed into the hands of his brothers, H. W. and\\nSilvester Keding, who continued its ])ublication till 18()o.\\nThis was by far the most influential paper ever j)ublished at\\nthe western county-seat. Meantime, other attempts were\\nmade at printing newspapers at Haverhill. The Masonic\\nCabinet, designed for the benefit of Free and Accepted\\nMasons, was established in 1824, but it lived only about\\ntwo years. In 1827 the New Ham})shire Post and Grafton\\nand Coos Advertiser was begun. This paper continued till\\n1848. It was first owned by Atwood Wool son. After-\\nwards Atwood withdrew and John L. Bunce became })art\\nproprietor, and later George S. Towle bought the paper and\\npublished it with much spirit till it was moved to Leba-\\nnon in 1848, the name being changed to Granite State\\nAVhig. Other })apers were the Whig and Argus, Haverhill\\nHerald Woodsville,) afterwards called Advertiser and\\nBudget of Fun, the AVoodsville Enterprise, and the Olive-\\nrian. All these were of short duration except the Enter-\\n})rise which was established in 1883, and is now owned and\\npublished by Bittinger Bros., who also are the owners of the\\nCohos Steam Press from which the Grafton County Register\\nis issued. This last paper made its first appearance Jan. 1,\\n1886, and is now the only paper })ublished at the weslern\\ncounty seat. The paper is clean, bright, and carefully\\nedited and has a good field to work in.\\nThe outfit of the Cohos Steam Press is of the best mate-\\nrial and machinery, and the oflice has a large and yearly\\nincreasing patronage. The pi oprietors are college trained,\\nunderstand the art 2)reservative, and are sending off work\\nwhich speaks for itself. Previous to the establishment of\\nthe Register, W. Cone ]\\\\Iahurin bought the material of the\\nDemocratic Republican, and began the publication of the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0424.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 393\\n(Irafton County Signal after two years he sold to fIosc})h\\nW. Dunbar who continued the paper at Haverhill for about\\na year, then had it printed at Hanover, next at Littleton,\\nwhen in a short time it was merged in the Littleton flour-\\nnal. The history of newspapers in Haverhill is marked by\\nvarietv and numbers at least.\\nTWO GKEAT TLAGIES.\\nTwo great disease-plagues fell upon the Town in its early\\nliistory. The first as near as can be learned Avas in 1(S()3.\\nThis was the small-pox plague, and was very general and of\\na severe character. Two hos})ita]s, or pest-houses, as they\\nwere called, were built for the care of those who were at-\\ntacked with the disease. One was located near the Oliverian\\non the north side at the foot of the high ground south of\\n]\\\\Ir. Flanders house. The other was farther north, near\\nwhere Mr. Jewett now lives. Both were remote from any\\ndwelling, and were only visited by nurses and the doctor.\\nDr. Carleton was the physician at that time. Miss Cross\\nrelated to me an amusing incident of her brother AVilliam\\nwho was an inmate. He became convalescent amongst the\\nfirst, and was able to be around. On one occasion he got\\non the roof of the little hospital, and waved the red Hag and\\nbegan to crow, so as to make his fellow ])estites feel jolly.\\nHis j)ranks were (juite anuising to his sicker companions.\\nIn Cijusequence of the severity of the disease many died.\\nHmall-pox has visited tlie Town since in general form on\\nseveral occasions, when the whole po[)idation was vaccinated,\\nl)ut the disease of subsequent years was not as severe as that\\nof 1S03. This is due no doubt to tlie discovery of vaccina-\\ntion which took place in ITiMi.\\nThe other })higue was in ISI mid was known :is the\\nspotted fever or black plague. It prevailed in other", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0425.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "394 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nplaces, notably in Warren, where the death-rate was fear-\\nful, almost whole fiimilies and neighborhoods being swept\\naway, and the disease seemed to baffle all medical skill and\\ntreatment. When the plague fell upon Warren, people\\ncalled to mind many omens the year before of a sad coming,\\nbut this was due more likely to an alarmed imagination under\\nwhich tlie people suffered in the presence of the dread enemy,\\nthan to any real signs or wonders of its advent. The dis-\\nease in Haverhill was of a milder form, and little seems to\\nl)e known of it, except the fact that it was somewhat preva-\\nlent, l^ersons taken with the disease were seized with chills\\nand fever, and their bodies were covered with spots, so that\\nthe disease was called spotted fever from this fact. Death\\noften followed soon after the disease came on. After death\\nthe bodies turned black, and this gave the name of black\\nfever. Burials took place immediately after death, as the\\ndisease was thought to be very contagious, and often in the\\nnight when no one was around but the undertaker and some\\none to assist him. The people were awe-stricken by the\\nsuddenness with which persons were seized, seemingly in the\\nenjoyment of good health. It began in the early autumn\\nand did not cease till the severe winter weather. Dr. Well-\\nman, a very prominent physician of Piermont, went to War-\\nren to aid the sufferers and fell a victim of its ravages.\\nBANKS.\\nThe first bank in Haverhill was chartered in 1803, and\\nwas called the Coos Bank. It had a capital of $100,000,\\nand Cieorge Woodward, the lawyer, was the first cashier.\\nThe charter was renewed in 1821, but the name of the bank\\nwas changed to Grafton Bank from January 1st, 1822.\\nThe charter was renewed again in 1846, and extended in\\n1857, but the bank was not continued after the latter date.\\nThe Grafton County Bank was incor|)oratcd, with a", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0426.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 395\\nciipitiil of $1()(),0()0,) but the bank never went into opera-\\ntion. There was also a charter in I^IU for a savings bank,\\ncalletl the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Grafton County Savings Bank, but the bank\\nwas never organized. The Cohos Bank and its continuation\\nunder the name of Grafton Bank, was the only l)ank in the\\ncounty for many years, and was a strong and influential\\nmonitary institution. The Lebanon Bank was not incorpo-\\nrated till 1828, and the Lancaster Bank till 1832.\\nHANGINGS.\\nHaverhill as the shire-town has been the scene of several\\nexecutions for capital crimes. The first person hung in\\nHaverhill was a mulatto, Thomas Palmer of Lebanon, con-\\nvicted in May, 17! n, on a charge of rape, and ordered to be\\nhung on July 8th, but a reprieve was granted until July\\n28th, when the execution took place. David AVebster was\\nsherif! Hangings then were in public.\\nThe next execution was that of Josiah liurnham, who\\nkilled Kussell Freeman, Esq., and Capt. Joseph Stark-\\nweather. Burnham and his victims were in prison for debt,\\nand occupied the same room. The cause of Burnham s\\nmurderous assault is not known, as the prisoners had con-\\nducted themselves with general mildness and submission\\nwhilst confined together. Burnham in his speech from the\\ngallows says, I was carried away with my passions, from\\nwhich it may be inferred that the prisoners had got into a\\ndispute which led to the fatal act. The deed was done with\\na double-edged knife which Burnham, it seems, had con-\\nconcealed on his person when he was put in jail, and the\\ncrime was committed in the evening of the 17th of Decem-\\nber, 1805. Both victims died of their wounds on the 18th.\\nIndictments were found in both instances at the May term,\\n180G, and Burnham was tried, convictel, and sentenced to\\nbe huns: on the 15th of Julv between the hours of 12 m.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0427.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "396 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nand two p. m. But application being made to the Governor\\nfor a postponement of execution, on the ground that the\\nprisoner may have a further time to prepare for death,\\nthe application was granted, and the 12th day of August\\nnext between the Iiours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. was set for\\ncarrying the sentence into effect. Da^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2id Webster was\\nsheriff.\\nThe hanofino: of Burnham was a o;reat occasion. It is\\nestimated that fully 10,000 people gathered on the west side\\nof Powder House hill, where the execution took place.\\nThey came from near and far, in carts and in wagons, on\\nhorse-back and on foot, old men and young men, beaux and\\nlassies, mothers with babes in their arms, and even invalids.\\nThe event took place with much ceremony. A military\\nguard escorted the prisoner from the jail to the scaffold, and\\na long sermon, preceded by singing and prayer, was preached\\nby the Rev. David Southerland of Bath to the inunense\\nconcourse of peo[)le who listened with deep emotion to the.\\npreacher. After these were ended Burnham was given an\\nopportunity to address the multitude, which he did in a fal-\\ntering and broken speech, the substance, however, of which\\nwas a confession of his crime and the justice of his punish-\\nment. One suggestive thing he mentions in his speeclu\\nwhich illustrates the ])eculiar theological bias of the times,\\nvis., that he had been a believer in the doctrine of universal\\nsalvation, and but for this he would not have committed the\\ncrime for which he was about to suffer, and he admonished\\nhis hearers to beware of this doctrine. He was entirely un-\\nmoved during all the ordeal at the gallows, evincing not the\\nslightest feeling at the eloquence and impressive words of\\nthe preacher, which melted the vast audience into tears and\\nsobbing.\\nThe next execution was that of Enos G. Dudley for the\\nmurder of his wife. Dudley was from Grafton, and was a\\nMethodist minister. He committed the crime in ]\\\\farc]i,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0428.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "MrscELLANp:ous. 397\\n184y, was tried and convicted in Januarv, l^i-id at a special\\nterm, and sentenced to be hung- in May, 1849. He was\\nhung in the jail yard. Joseph Powers was sheriff.\\nThe other capital punishment was that inflicted on Samuel\\nMills, an Englishman who was at work in the mines at Lis-\\nbon. He was indicted in March, 1867, for the murder of\\nGeorge Maxwell at Franconia in December, 1866, convicted\\nin March, 1867, and sentenced to be hung on the first\\nWednesday in May, 1867. Grove S. Stevens was sheriff.\\nMills is said to have been a desperate fellow, and at one\\ntime during his confinement in the county jail he broke loose,\\nbut was re-taken, and finally suffered the penalty of his\\ncrime. The execution was not in public.\\nCYCLONE.\\nDuring the history of the Town the usual number of more\\nthan ordinarily severe storms has visited its borders. One,\\nhowever, surpassed all others in its fierceness. It struck the\\nsouth-east part of the Town on Sunday, Sept. 9, 1821, be-\\nginning at a point a little eastward of the late Alonzo W.\\nPutnam place, and moved in a north-east direction across the\\nunbroken forest, reaching the high land just south of where\\nthe East Haverhill depot stands, and then passed to Owls\\nHead beyond. The gale was so violent that a path was cut\\nthrough the forest, prostrating every thing before it, as a\\nscythe would cut grass through a field. The marks of this\\ncyclone remained visible for many years in the immense hem-\\nlocks which strewed its pathway, even after the undergrowth\\nhad obscured its course. No lives were lost and no houses\\nor barns were destroyed, as the path of the cyclone was\\nthrough unknown forest.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0429.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "398 HISTOKY OF HAVERHILL.\\nPOWDER HOUSE.\\nThis land-mark stood on a high knoll on the left hand side\\nof the road leading from the corner to the Brook, and gave\\nname to the eminence on which it stood, Powder House\\nhill. It was built in 1812, and was a magazine stone-house\\nduring the War of 1812. This section then, as during the\\nRevolution, was a point of exposure, and troops were sta-\\ntioned on the frontier north. It was built of massive slabs\\nof granite about twelve feet square, and was a landmark for\\nthree-quarters of a century, when it was taken down and the\\nstones used in the construction of a receiving vault at the\\ncemetery on Ladd street. It was an unfortunate thing that\\nthis ancient land-mark was not allowed to stand and to be\\nrestored to its primitive condition. This the more so, as\\nthere are very few monuments of any sort that link the pres-\\nent with the past. The first churches are gone, and only a\\nfew of the earlier houses that are at all historic are left,\\nthe old Bliss (Leith) house, the Col. Johnston house, and a\\nfew others so changed in outward appearance as hardly to be\\nrecognized. Powder House, built of solid granite, the last\\nto disappear, yielded to the behest of utilitarianism. I fear\\nthe Town is not as deeply imbued with a sentiment for the\\npast, as ought to inspire her, in view of her historic charac-\\nter. We have truly been iconoclasts.\\nSTE a:\\\\iboats.\\nHaverhill at one time enjoyed the convenience if not the\\nluxury of steam-navigation. In 1830 the first steamboat\\nascended the Connecticut river as far as Wells River. The\\nname of the boat was Ledyard. An attempt was made\\nto go u}) further, but just above the Narrows the boat\\nstrvick a sand-bar which could not be got over. The boat\\ncame from Hartford, Conn., and made only one trip. Two\\nyears later the Connecticut River and Transportation Com-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0430.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 81*9\\npany put on five boats to run between Hartford, Conn.,\\nand Wells River, Vt. These boats made trips during the\\nsummer of 1832, and were then taken oft and the project\\nof navigating the up})er waters of the Connecticut by steam\\nwas abandoned. The water was found to be too uncertain,\\neven at that day, and the great bends in the river at arious\\npoints made the channel unstable on account of the shifting\\nsands.\\nMAKING CIDER.\\nCider-making was not an institution peculiar to our fore-\\nfathers, but it Avas nuich more of an occasion than it is now,\\nespecially with the young Avho looked forward to tlie day\\nwith liveliest anticipations. The girls had no part in this\\nwork, unless perhaps it was picking up the apples before\\nthey were carried to the mill, as it was called. But this fell\\nmostly to the boys. ]\\\\Iaking cider was hard work with all\\nthe fun there was in it for the younger folks. The farm\\nhands started out early on crisp October mornings. The\\napples were crushed by large cog-wheels driven by a ci-ank,\\nto which a horse was hitched, walking around in a circle,\\nand the apples in passing through these wheels made a\\npeculiar didl groan, as if protesting against being so unmer-\\ncifully squeezed. One or two boys, with wooden paddles,\\nsat on a board lying across the tank into which the apple-\\npulp fell, to scrape out the i)ulp between the large cogs.\\nThe grinding usually consumed the greater part of the morn-\\ning, after which began the building ot the cheese on a plank-\\nbed, near the edge of which was a canal to conduct tlie cider\\nas it oozed from the cheese to the receiver at one side. The\\ncheese was perhaps three or four feet square, and built in\\nthis way a twisted rope of clean bright rye-straw, two or\\nthree inches thick, was laid down inside the canal and the\\nj)ulp was filled into above the level of this, and then another", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0431.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "400 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nrope of straw was laid on the top of the first, and so on,\\ntier after tier of straw and pulp, till the cheese rose to the\\nheight of three or four feet. Later, a crib took the place of\\nthe straw-cheese. The earliest press was a powerful frame\\nwitli an immense log twenty or more feet long, fastened be-\\ntween two large upright pieces. The cheese was at the\\nfastened end of the log, while the other end was let down\\non the cheese, the latter acting as a fulcrum and the log as an\\nimmense lever. Long before the log was let down on the\\ncheese the cider began to flow in rivulets by the pressure of\\nthe cheese as it grew in height, and as the boys were through\\nat the cog-wheels, and there was little for them to do now,\\nthey had armed themselves with rye straws and like busy\\nbees were hanging on the edge of the canal sucking the\\nsweet cider as it flowed along. Oh, the jolly fun of sweet\\ncider sucked at the press through a straw It was a joy\\nalmost for ever, for a boy could manage to put himself\\noutside of an immense quantity of apple juice, and for an\\nindefinite time. His stomach took on an elasticity which\\nwould discourage the most yielding gutta percha, and sue:-\\nfjested the thouo:ht of a bottomless reservoir. Then later\\nin the afternoon, often in the twilight, tlie tired company\\ndrove home, hard to say which was fullest, the boys or the\\nbarrels. But a glorious time was cider-making on a dreamy\\nOctober day.\\nTEAMING.\\nEarly roads were rude and diflicult to draw loads o^er,\\nbut as the years rolled on they were improved, so that teams\\nwent back and forth from the Cohos Country to Boston,\\nPortsmouth, Salem, Newburyport, and wherever they could\\nfind a market for the products of the soil and the forests, and\\nl)rought back on the return trip such articles as were needed\\nin the new country. In summer great teams of six and", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0432.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "MISCELLAXKOUS. 401\\neiglit horses witli ooverecl wagons passed over the roads,\\nmany of which came down from Vermont.\\nThere were also numerous teams of pods and ])ungs, one\\nand two horse sleighs in winter, with tlieir bells that made\\nthe cris}) air jingle with music mingled with the shouts of the\\ndrivers. The road from Haverhill to Warren was the -reat\\nthoroughfare to down below from the Cohos Country, so\\nthat these caravans or trains of pungs and pods were often a\\nhalf mile or more in leno-th. Frozen hoes, butter, cheese\\nand poultry, mink, fox, sable and bear skins, sheep-pelts,\\nand all articles of country produce was carried in this way\\nto market. Taverns were numerous along the way, and\\nwere filled in the night with teams and travelers, many of\\nwhom carried with them their own food of cold meat and\\nfowl, pies, cake, and cheese, and only took lodgings and drink\\nat the tavern. jNIany also carried their oats for the teams.\\nThey made the country lively along the route, and the trips\\nwith now and then an accident or dismal few days of thaw,\\nwere full of jollity and incident. The children at home\\nwould listen with wonder at the recitations of what was seen\\nin the jxreat towns below.\\nTRAINING-DAY.\\nThe annual muster was the great day of the year in former\\ntimes, when the colonel who led his regiment in the march\\nwith flying colors and stirring strains of music, felt prouder\\nthan a French marshal under the First Emperor. The com-\\npanies Avere not indeed the truest and steadiest that ever\\nwere, nor were they exactly Falstaff s miscellaneous crowd,\\nbut they presented a somewhat pictures([ue and striking ap-\\npearance all ages, all sizes, hump-back and bow-legged,\\nthick and slender, tall and short, erect and bent, but all\\ninspired with a true military spirit. Who of those still liv-\\nino; of a former ijeneration does not call to mind trainini;-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0433.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "402 HISTORY OF havp:khill.\\nday with vivid recollections None were prouder of their\\nposition on such occasions than tlie drummers and fif ers,\\nsome jf whoui were remarkably skillful and adept, and could\\nawaken music in the dullest breast. It Avas this music that\\nso filled the hearts of the boys and quickened the blood in\\nthe veins of the old men.\\nAnd everbody went to the general muster. Bright and\\nearly the entire population was on the move, over hills and\\nalong valleys, on foot, on horse-back, in shays and wagons,\\nyoung and old, women and children, peddlers, showmen,\\nvictuallers. All around the parade-ground were tents and\\nbooths, where could be bought ginger-bread, nuts, candy,\\ncider, beer, and something more tonic. Here peddlers\\nshouted themselves hoarse in their frantic efforts to sell their\\nwares to the hundreds that thronged the i)arade-ground.\\nThe showman s tent was well patronized by the curious and\\neager, and country beaux led their sweetliearts from place to\\nplace, to see the sights and to watch the maniruvers and\\nmarches and sham fight of the proud soldiers. At the close\\n()f the nuister, after feasting on the attractions of the booths\\nand tents, and drinking in to the fill the unabated excite-\\nments of the day, the multitude turned their foot-steps home-\\nward, tired and with less elastic tread than it came in the\\nmorning, and with a feeling almost akin to disgust that so\\nmuch was endured for the short fun and pleasure they got,\\nbut next year found tliem just as eager as ever, and the same\\ngreat crowds thronged the muster-field. INIany were the in-\\ncidents of these times that were told over in the long autumn\\nand winter evenings by those who went to muster. When\\nthe muster came to Haverhill the parade-ground was at\\nHorse meadow, or in the field east the of Ladd street ceme-\\ntary. The soldiers wore white pantaloons and dark coats,\\nand were furnished with arms. Officers Avere in full uniform.\\nMarching and counter-marching, in companies, in battalions,\\nin full regimental ranks was the drill of the day, the whole", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0434.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "MISCKLLANKOIS. 40H\\neiKlin j with a ^hain fiijht Aviiich \\\\va.s attended with the ifreat-\\nest excitement, and filled the crowds as well as the soldiers,\\nwith the utmost enthusiasm and military zeal. Every l)ov\\nIonised impatiently tor the day when he coidd [)articipate in\\nthese scenes and have his sweetheart watch his martial ste[\\nwith swelling heart. Oh, the muster-days that were and are\\nnot I\\nTHE (JKEAT ACCIDENT.\\nIn the year 1844, during the Polk and Clay canij)aign,\\nthere was a mass meeting at Haverhill on the 4th of July ot\\nthe followers of Gallant Harry of the West. Distin-\\nguished speakers were invited to address the crowds that\\ncame in from the surrounding country both in Xew Hamj)-\\nshire and Vermont. In the evening there was to he a LCreat\\ndisplay of fire-works. In those times such things were more\\nof a novelty than they are at the present day. Cannon\\nboomed morninii noon and evening, and when the curtains\\nof night had sufficiently shut out all signs of day, every\\nthing was in readiness for the pyi otechnic display. Immense\\ncrowds gathered in the vicinity of the Columbian Hotel,\\nwhere the fire-works were to be set off. This hotel stood on\\nthe site where Mr. Nathaniel M. Page now lives. The bal-\\nconies of the hotel which reached to the third floor were\\npacked with a mass of eager persons who had ciowded there\\nto see the fire-works. Just as the first rocket was to be set\\noff, the crowd in the balconies lurched forward to see, when\\ncrash down came the upper balcony with its living freight\\nof men, women and children, and all were jtrccipitatcd into\\none promiscuous mass of ruin. A death-silence reigned for\\na moment as the mass came down, and then a fearful cry of\\ndespair aroSe from the wounded and living. One person, a\\nyoung girl, was instantly killed by a falling timber, and\\nmany others were borne away helpless and wounded. Se^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0435.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "404 HISTORY OF HAVEUHILL.\\neral died from injuries which were then received, whilst\\nothers never recovered from the effects of the disaster, and\\nthe village was a hospital for some weeks. And so ended\\nthe great Claj rally of 1884.\\nTHE GREAT FIRE.\\nHaverhill has had her great fire which in proportion to the\\nsize of the village, was as disastrous and extensive as the\\ngreat fires of large cities whose losses mount into the mil-\\nlions. This was in 1848 when the stage lines were still in\\nfull tide of operation. The number of buildings burnt were\\nseven, and these were amongst the largest and most valuable\\nproperties at the Corner. Two were private dwellings stand-\\ning south of the Brick Block, and owned and occupied by\\nJohn R. Reding and Col. John McClarey. One was the\\nlarge and famous Towle tavern, and the others were business\\nplaces which were situated on the ground which the Brick\\nBlock now occupies. The four houses were separated by\\nnarrow alleys. The fire caught in the Towle tavern by de-\\nfective flue, and before the fire-engine could be got ready or\\nwater secured, was beyond control. The wind was from the\\nnorthwest, and but for that circumstance the Smith hotel and\\nall of north INIain street would have been at the mercy of the\\ndevouring flames. As it was, jNIilo Bailey s house caught\\nfire, but by the most super-human exertion the house was\\ndeluged with water and the flames were stayed from going-\\nfurther north. A double line of men being formed from the\\nburning building to a large reservoir on the south park, and\\npails of water were rapidly passed to and fro and dashed\\nupon the burning roof and sides. But in the other direction\\nbuilding after building fell a prey to the devouring element,\\nwith no hope of arresting it, till by the intervention of a\\nwider space between the old Dea. Barstow place and the\\nGrafton Bank building, which the flames did not leap, the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0436.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANK Ji;s. 405\\nfire was hnnight to a stand and t nrthei destruction was ar-\\nrested. The Brick Block took the j)hice of the tour huild-\\ninji s which stood on the uround. These l)uihlings were\\nowned and occu})ie(l l)v William C ununings, general mer-\\nchandise W. S. Thomj)son, merchant Henry Towle, jew-\\neler K. X. Brown, tin-smith: John R. Keding, ])rinter.\\nThe post-office was in the Keding building. The loss was\\nheavy and severely felt hy the place, from which it only par-\\ntially rallied with utmost difficulty. This great calamity\\ntaken in connection with the sto[)))ing of the stage lines in a\\nfew years, marked the [)oint where Haverhill saw her proud-\\nest day ended, and the glory of former times departing for-\\never, unless her citizens become imbued with a larger\\npublic spirit, and open her natural advantages to the flow of\\ntides of enterprise which are coursing along these valleys and\\nsweeping up to the foot-hills and mountains.\\nFIRST .lEIlSEY STOCK.\\nHaverhill has the honor of being first in this region, if not\\nin Grafton county, as regards the introduction of Jersey\\nstock. The first animal of this famous breed I)rought to\\nHaverhill was a full blooded bull calf from Belmont, Mass.,\\nand was owned by K. A. Filley of St. Louis. This was in\\nJanuary, 18()(), and the animal was i)laced on the farm of\\nthe late Hon. Joseph Powers. Afterwards several full\\nblooded Jersey heifers were added, and the stock was in-\\ncreased from time to time by purchase and ])roducti()n, until\\nit became famous in (irafton county and in ei-mont, and\\ntVoiu which for a number of years full bloods were sent to\\ndiffi-rent parts of the surrouniling country. When the fJer-\\nscys were first brought to Haverhill, Mr. Filley was blamed\\nfor introducino such lookin f cattle, but their ureat value for\\nthe dairy were soon learned, and now flerscy cows either\\n])ure or mixed are the rule with fai mers. The herd of -lei-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0437.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "40 HISTOKY OK HAN KKHILL.\\nsey COW* now on the Powers farm owned by JNIrsi. Filley, is\\none of the choicest in all this section.\\nA ROMANCE.\\nElsewhere is mentioned the fact of a famous willow, hut\\nin the biographical chapters, is in (huiger of being overlooked\\nby the majority of readers, just as the average Bible reader\\nskips the books of Kings and Chronicles because they seem\\nlittle more than a catalogue of names. 80 I give the story\\na new lease of life amongst the miscellaneous, which are sure\\nto be read by everybody.\\nThis willow stands on Ladd street near James Wood-\\nward s. It measures over seventeen feet in girth, and gives\\nevery evidence ot having been a mute witness to a century\\nof Ladd street history. It has lost much of its top, and the\\ntrunk is now in a state of considerable decay. The year of\\nits ])lanting was 17^10, and Samuel Ladd, Jr., was a bright\\nand liandsome inn-keeper of a hotel just back of where the\\nwillow stands.\\nThis willow has a veiy romantic story connected with it.\\nIn this same rear Dr. flonathan Arnold of St. Johnsbury,\\nwho was a lonely bachelor, went to C harlestown to spy out\\na wife, in which mission after some entreaty he was success-\\nful in winning the heart of Cynthia Hastings, and arrange-\\nments were inuiiediately m;vde foi tln ir marriage and return\\nto St. .Tohnsburv. The journey was made on horse-back,\\nand on the morning ot their start a roguish cousin of the\\nyoung l)ride handed her a willow stick with the request that\\nshe might need it to urge on her horse when its s[)irits needed\\nquickening, and after she got through with it for that [)ur-\\npose, she might plant it by the door of her second husband.\\nThe last words were a sly hit at the Doctor s age, which was\\nconsideral)ly al)ove that of his young bride. The willow\\nstick, however, was accepted in good part, and the journey", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0438.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "MISf ELLAVF.Ors. 407\\nwas ht iiiin. )n tlie evenini: of the second day they aiTi\\\\ed\\nat Haverhill, aiid stoj)[)ed at the inn of Sauiuel Ladd, fir.,\\nfor the night. The next morning as they were ready to\\nproceed on their way the gallant landlord presented Mr,s.\\nArnold with a new stick, and the old one was left behind.\\nAfter Dr. Arnold and his hride liad started out, the willow\\nstick was planted in the door-yard, and came to be the large\\ntree now standing on the site of the Samuel Ladd tavern.\\nDr. .Vrnold died within a few years, and his voung widow\\non her way to Charlestown to visit her friends, had occasion\\nto spend the night in Haverliill at the Ladd tavern. Being\\ninvited to make her home at the Ladd inn whenever she had\\noccasion to pass that way, she accepted tiie courteous invita-\\ntion, and afterwards became the wife of the friendly young\\nlandlord, and saw the willow stick which her cousin pre-\\nsented to her on the morning of her first marriage, grow to\\nbe a large tree, and his good natured mock-words turned\\ninto a prophecy.\\nTIIK nCl.MHKR STOIIY.\\nThe story of a maunnoiith cucumber \\\\\\\\liich grew in IIa\\\\-\\nerliill in the sunuuer of 1^21), 1 get from the late John L.\\nBunce of Hartford, Conn., through his daughter. Miss Alice,\\nwho often heard her father relate it. Mr. Bunce was at that\\ntime living in Haverhill, and was president of the (rrafton\\nbank. The cucinnber gi-ew in the garden back of the bank-\\nliouse, and reached the extraordinary length of over ten feet.\\nIt was taken to Orford to a fair, and unfortunately when the\\ncuciunbi r perished, none of the seeds were saved. riie\\noriginal seed, it is said, came from Rutland, t. TUc box\\nin which it was carried to the fair was afterwards u vd in a\\nhotel stable in )rfbrd to run oats from a bin in the l)arn to\\nthe stables below.\\nThe storv of the cucumber was also told me l)v the Hon.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0439.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "408 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nJohn K. Kediii and the eorroberation of the truthfuhiess\\nof the story is so striking, that T give it in his own words as\\nnear as I recall them. Mr. Reding went to Congress from\\nthe fifth district in 1841, and was then living in Haverhill.\\nWhen members got tired in the routine duty of the House,\\nthey were accustomed to gather in social groups in the smok-\\ning room or lobby below, and amuse each other with stories,\\nsome of which were very extravagant. One day ]\\\\Ir. Red-\\ning ventured to put on the market tlie Haverhill cucum-\\nber story, and after he got through, all his brcjther-members\\nin the smoking-room gathered around him and good naturedly\\nproffered him their hats in token of his l)eing the cham-\\npion liar, and for some days after they asked him to repeat\\nthe story, as it seemed so apparently to be made of whole\\nclotli, which was rather annoying to Mr. R.\\nBefore long, however, ]\\\\Ir. Reding ha[)[)ened to be s[)cak-\\niiiii: with Mr. Herrick of Maine, who was in Congress with\\nhim, when the latter said, I believe, Mr. Reding, your\\nhome is in Haverhill. Yes, sir. ^Vell, a good many\\nyears ago I was engaged in surveying a canal route from\\nLake Champlain to the sea, and I passed the greater part of\\nthe sunnner in Haverhill, and have many i)leasant recollec-\\ntions of the place. Pray, what year was it? Tliat\\nwas in l(S2(i. Mr. Reding at once thought of the cucum-\\nl)er story, and this might be his chance. Well, Mr, Her-\\nrick, while you were in Haverhill did you ever hear any\\nthing about a monster cucumber that grew there about that\\ntime? Oh, yes it was the summer I was in Haverhill.\\nEvery body went to see it. I went to see it myself one day,\\nand as I passed the tailor s sho[\u00c2\u00bb, I stej)[)ed in to get some\\npaper-ta{)e which tailors then used for measuring, to measure\\nthe cucumber with. It grew in a garden l)ack of the bank-\\nhouse. I forget who was president of the bank. Mr.\\nBunce? Yes, that s the name. The cucumber measured\\nten feet and ten inches. You re sure of that, Mr. Her-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0440.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": ":\\\\IIsrELLANKOUS. 4011\\nrick V Yes, I lu perfectly sure, tor a few days before 1\\nleft for AVashington I was looking over some [)aj)ers, and\\namong them I found the identical paper-tape ineasiire, and\\non it iva.s written, the length of the cKcnmber^ as I meas-\\nured it,\\nShortly after, Mr. Keding was again in tiie smoking-room,\\nwhen his bi other-members, calling him, said, Reding, tell\\nus that cucumber story. He said nothing, but beckoning to\\nhis side a page, he directed him to go u[) to the House, and\\ntell Mr. Herrick from ^Nlaine, tiiat a gentleman wished to see\\nhim in the smoking-room. In a few moments Mr. Ilerrick\\nmade his a})pearance, when ]\\\\Ir, Keding said, Mr. Herrick,\\nI want you to tell these gentlemen the story about the mon-\\nster cucumber that grew in Haverhill, in my state. Mr.\\nHerrick, entirely ignorant of what had been going on, told\\nthe story to his fellow congressmen exactly as he had told it\\nto Mr. Reding a little while before. When he got through,\\nthe members by unanimous vote transferred the clianqjion\\nliarship from Mr. Reding to the gentleman from Maine.\\nBut one wag remarked, Mr. Reding, you have got New\\nHam})shire out of the scrape pretty well, but the story sticks\\nto New Enirland.\\nLOCAL NAMES,\\nDifferent sections and neighborhoods of the Town were\\ndesignated by different names which were early given to\\nthem, and which had their origin in various circumstances.\\nBeginning at the south end of the Town, there is tiie locality\\nknown as the Corner. This name was given to it from\\nthe fact that in the settlement of the boundary (piestion be-\\ntween Piermont and H;nerhill, a jog was formed in the dis-\\nputed territory which was known as the Corner. V\\\\\\\\v\\nname which at first was aj)plied to the territory, was ai tcr-\\nwards o-iven as a local name to the villaii e of Haverhill, so", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0441.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "410 HISTOIIY OF HAVEKHILL.\\nthat the vilhige is often called Haverhill Corner. The\\nterritory lying east of the village, and forming part of the\\njog in the Town, was early known as Out-on-the turn-\\npike, and extended somewhat indefinitly from the village\\neastward, and got its name from the old Cohos Turn[)ike\\nwhich passed through it. From the foot of the hill nt)rth-\\nward of Haverhill village, to beyond the Oliverian as far as\\ncemetery road, Avas called 01i\\\\erian Village. In later\\ntimes this localitv has been generally known as The\\nBrook. Beginning at the cemetery road and extending to\\nthe foot of the hill beyond James AVoodward s, to this sec-\\ntion was given the name of Ladd street, so called from\\nthe fact that at one time a number of j)ersons by the name\\nof Ladd lixcd in this [)ai t of the Town. Xo one of that\\nname is now living there the families have either died out\\nor moved away. Dow Plain is a locality where (xen.\\nJNIoses Dow, a prominent lawyer and citizen of Haverhill,\\nowned a large farm and is still often called by his name.\\nThis })lain is situated south of Pool brook, where the River\\nroad going north turns sharp to the east after crossing a deep\\nravine. The road formerly ran along the hluifs overlooking\\nthe river, but has lonsf since been chanj^ed, leavinsr the Dow\\nFarm buildings a little north-west of the present road.\\nAt the foot of the hill descending from the Dow Plain, is a\\nlocality on the right hand of the road, which was known by\\nthe bibulous name of Toddy Brook. A little stream of\\nclear, fresh water runs close by the road, at which in former\\ndays horses used to l e watered. The name Toddy Brook,\\ntradition says, was given to it from this circumstance. Many\\nyears ago some one was coining down the hill from Dow\\nPlain with a barrel of rum in his wagon, when the barrel got\\nloose and rolled from the wagon into the brook and was\\nbroken, mingling its contents with the water. Slab City\\nwas a name early used to designate North Haverhill and the\\nplain on whicii the village is built, and is said to have origi-", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0442.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "MIsCKLLANEOrs. 411\\niKitetl ill this wav. It was tlu fashion years aui when Swa-\\nsey s saw-mill was tnrninu- out laruc (|uaiitities of liunijer, for\\nthe peuj)le in that section to use the slahs in building their\\nfences and in hattoning the roofs of tlieir houses and barns.\\nThe slabs were furnished at \\\\ery little cost, and this was an\\ninducement for their ueneral use, and so gave rise to the\\nlocal name of the [)lace. The locality on the Kiver road\\nnorth of Xorth ILiverhill village, is km)wn as Horse\\nmeadow, a section of territory about a mile long. This\\nname was given to it as noted in the ;u ticle headed Horse\\nmeadow in this cha[)ter. Next north of this is the Kim-\\nball neighborhood, so called on account of several families\\nof that name that li\\\\ed there. )nc of these was Col. John\\nKiniliall who was a prominent man in the Town and deacon\\nof the church at the Xorth End. Woodsville, which has\\nnow passed the stage of a mere local name, got its name\\nfrom fJolm L. oods, an extensive lumber dealer years ago,\\nwho lived in that neighborhood, and was the owner of the\\nmills and lands near the north of the Ammonoosuc. East-\\nward of oods\\\\ ille some two miles is Sanborn Hill. a\\nlocality which was so called becau-^c a man by that name\\nowned a farm on that hill. He was known as Uncle\\nArgy, the 7 being pronounced hard, and this name was\\ngiven to him from the fact that in expressing his ideas or\\nopinions al)out any matter, he was accustomed to say, I\\nargy, meaning I ariiue. liriar Ilill is the local nanu;\\nof a se(;tion in the north-eastern j)art of the Town, a farm-\\ning region of considerable extent, occu[ ied early by several\\nfamilies by the name of Carr, whose descendants still con-\\ntinue there, i his region was very proliHc in i)lackbcrry and\\nras[)berrv bushes which were called briars, from which cir-\\ncumstance the neighborhood was called Hriar Hill. To\\nthe south of Vivhiv Ilill is the Wilson neighborhood,\\nwhich took its name from two brothers that lived there.\\nThe Centre is a name given to the central i)art of the", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0443.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "412 HISTORY OK HAVERHILL.\\nTown, which is also blessed with another name, Bangers-\\ntown, and which had its origin in the following incident.\\nA company of shingle-makers were engaged in manufactur-\\ning shingles in the })ine woods in this part of the Town.\\nNear by lived a family by the name t\u00c2\u00bbf Hildreth. One of\\nthe sons, P^phraim, had a notorious re})utation for his extrava-\\ngant stories, though he was not a malicious person, and was\\nnot known to tell these to the injury of any of his neighbors.\\nUsually, he was the hero of his (jwn wild tales. On one\\noccasion the story-teller, whilst making a visit to the camp of\\nthe shingle-weavers, as they were famili;irly called, was\\nentertaining them with his pretended travels in York\\nState, which was in those days the far West of the ci\\\\ ilized\\npart of the country. Taking it for grantc l that no one of\\nhis hearers had been as far west as he claimed to have been,\\nhe told them of a number of places which he said he had\\nvisited, and to which without the least hesitation he gave\\nfictitious names. One of his amused auditors, knowing his\\n})ropensity, asked him if in his journey he had gone to\\nBangerstown. Oh, yes, was the j)rompt reply, and then\\nhe went on with a full description of the [)lace. Meantime,\\nthe uicn had given to each other the knowing wink, and\\nwere enjoying the joke which had been played on him, when\\nEphraim seeing that he had been caught at his own game,\\nowned up and declared that there was no such place. The\\nstory of course got round, and the region was thereafter\\nknown as Bangerstown. North of The Centre is the\\nSwiftwater road and French pond neighborhood. The\\neastern j)art of the Town on the Oliverian was early known\\nas P]ast Haverhill, but that name is no longer a local\\n(inc. The North Benton road is a name which desig-\\nnates a neighborhood along that road. The Bath road,\\nas it was more generally called in former times, leading from\\nHaverhill depot north-east to Swiftwatei was also used as a", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0444.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "MISCKLLAXEOUS, 413\\nlocal name tor the region throuiih wliicli the road runs.\\nAnd so of Brush-wood road.\\nSome of these names are more local and Hmited in tlieir\\nuse, whilst others pass current amongst the people all over\\nthe Town, and are employed in common speech to designate\\nlocalities which are as well understood as the name of the\\nTown itself.\\nMASONRY.\\nA lodge of Free jMasons was organized in June, 1799.\\nGen. Moody Bedel and others had petitioned for a lodge in\\nJanuary previous, and their request was granted by the\\nGrand Lodge. The time appointed for the inauguration of\\nthe lodge was June, 1790, and Grand Master Nathaniel\\nAdams of Portsmouth was present to organize the same and\\nto install the officers. Who the officers were the records do\\nnot show, but in all probability they were among those\\nnamed in the charter, and perha[)s in the order named. The\\nnames in the charter are Michael Barron [of Bradford, Yt.,\\nprobably] John ^Montgomery, Moody Bedel, William Wal-\\nlace, [Bradford, Vt.] Arad Stebbins, [Bradford, Yt.]\\nAndrew B. Peters, [Bradford, Vt.] Joseph Bliss, William\\nCross, Artemus Nixon, John Haley, AVilliam Lambert, and\\nAmasa Scott. The services were public and were held,\\nprobably in the meeting house, as Grand Master Adams\\nwrote the connnittee of arrangement to request of Mr.\\nSmith j)ermission to use his meeting house for the services.\\nHe also suggested that they invite some minister to preach a\\ndiscourse on the occasion. ^Nlr. Forsitii of ()rfor(l, who had\\nofficiated at a similar service before, preached the sermon,\\nthough it is not certain whether he was a member of the\\norder or not.\\nThe name of this earliest lodge at Haverhill was Union\\nLodge, No. 10, and had in its list of membership many of", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0445.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "414 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nthe leadincr nien at that time. In 18011 the Lodo;e was re-\\nmoved to Orford, and was held there under its original name\\nuntil about 18l 0, when it was changed to Mount Cube\\nLodge. The members of Union Lodge, Xo. 10, who\\nlived at Haverhill, did not find themselves sufficiently accom-\\nmodated by the removal of the Lodge to Orford, and accord-\\ningly were organized into a new lodge called Grafton\\nLodge, No. 46. This Lodge continued until 1844, when\\non account of a failure to make returns, its charter was de-\\nclared forfeited by the Grand Lodge.\\nThe present Lodge in Haverhill, called Grafton Lodge,\\nis the renewal of the Lodge of 182(i-44, and was re-habi-\\ntated in October, 1857, by having its charter restored.\\nThe communications or meetings of the old Union\\nLodge, were held at Newbury and Bradford, Vt., as well\\nas at Haverhill, according to convenience. Amongst the\\nearlier officers of Union Lodge was Micah Barron, master in\\n1802; Koss Coon, treasurer: and William Lambert was the\\nfirst secretary. The latter was master in 180o. John Mont-\\ngomery was master in 1804.\\nTlie present Lodge is in a fiourisliing condition, has a neat\\nhall for its meetings, and includes many of our leading citi-\\nzens in its membership. The present officers are, H. V.\\nWatson, worshipful master Tyler AVestgate, senior war-\\nden A. J. Randall, junior warden John Farnham. treas-\\nurer AV. P. Smith, secretary; F. ]\\\\I. Tucker, senior dea-\\ncon C. J. Pike, junior deacon C J. Ayer, seni(n-\\nsteward; C. N. Miner, junior steward; A. F. Thomas,\\ntyler E. W. Stoddard, chaplain and representative to\\nGrand Lodge.\\nWhen the brick church was built, the corner stone, it\\nwould seem, was laid under Masonic ceremonies, at least the\\nchurch whose corner stone was laid l)y D. D. G. M., Cjdvin\\nBenton of Lebanon is described as a new Methodist", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0446.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 4 If)\\nEpiseopel chapel/ Calvin Benton soundt? sufficiently\\northodox to lav the corner .stone of any church.\\nPLNE (iKOVE FARM.\\nBoth correspondence and a visit to the farm ha\\\\-e failed\\nin securing all the information which is desirable in regard\\nto this Avell-known stock farm. The farm is historic, aside\\nfrom its present history and fame, being owned in the early\\nsettlement of the Town by Gen. Moses Dow, a distinguished\\nlawyer of Haverhill, and was known as the Dow farm,\\nand is sometimes still called by that name. It was l)ought\\nmany years ago by Hon. Henry Keyes, of Newbury, Vt.,\\nand has been in the Keyes family since that time. At pres-\\nent the farm is owned liy Harry Keyes of Newbury, Vt.,\\nwho continues it as a stock farm. Mr. Keyes is a graduate\\nof Harvard University, and takes a dee[) interest in the farm\\nand its stock, fully ap})reciating the importance of such farms\\nin maintaining high-grade stock. Holstein and \u00c2\u00bbTersev have\\nbeen the chief lines of cattle which Pine Grove Farm l)reeds\\nand of these it has some of the finest in the country. At\\nl)resent the number is one hundred twenty-five head, and\\nthese cattle are sold far and near. Also, the farm breeds\\nCotswold sheep and Norman horses. ,\\\\.t state and other\\nfairs Pine Grove Farm has taken the highest remiums on\\nvarious occasions, and has a wide and well deserved fame.\\nThe buildings are large, airy, and thoroughly adapted to the\\nj)in poses of a stock farm, and nothing is spared to secure the\\nbest results of breeding. Mr. Keyes is a gentleman of\\nmeans, and is able to add to or improve his herds in what-\\never way will increase their value and perfection. The farm\\nconsists of (SOO acres, part on the river, the rest lying back,\\nand the tillage portion is in the highest state of cultivation.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0447.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "41(5 HISTORY OF HAVERHILL.\\nODD FELLOWS.\\njNIoosehillock Lodge, Xo. 25, I. O. O. F., was instituted\\nat Haverhill Corner in 1848 by Grand Master J. C. Lyford.\\nThe lodge grew in members, but never became very large,\\nand contained in its membership some very prominent names.\\nEx-chief justice, eT. E. Sargent, Hon, Ellery A. Hibbard,\\nJ. D. Sleeper, Esq., Chas. G. Smith, and others. After a\\nuseful mission of about ten years it ceased to exist. The\\ncause of the decline of the lodge is said to have been due to\\nthe general decline of Haverhill after business was di\\\\erted\\nby the advent of the railroad.\\nThe lodge was resuscitated at Woodsville in 1874 through\\nQuincy A. Scott and Joseph Kidder, with the following\\ncharter members M. H. Parker, G. A. Davison, Q. A.\\nScott, K. Marshall and M. V. B. Perkins. Fifteen new\\nmeml)er8 were admitted the first month, and the lodge has\\nhad a steady growth since its re-constitution, having received\\n190 members in all. Its present membership is 130. It\\nheld its meetings for a time in a hall in the Mt. Gardiner\\nhouse, but in 1882, having outgrown its quarters, it pur-\\nchased tlie Tabor property and erected a three story building,\\n60x40, with stores on first fioor, tenements on the second,\\nand the lodge hall on the third. The lodge holds property\\n^alued at about $5,000, and has been wonderfully successful\\nunder the wise, prudent and zealous care of those who have\\nhad the management of its affairs. Growth, thrift and\\n])rogress have marked its history from the first, keeping full\\nabreast of the enterprise and progress of the active and stir-\\nring village in which it is located. Its membership includes\\nmany of the best and most prominent citizens of Woods\\\\ille\\nand vicinity, and its infiuence is exerted in the line of moral\\nand honest and conservative life.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0448.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS. 417\\nI ATIJIAKCHS MILITANT.\\nGrand Canton Albin, Xo. 4, Patriarchs Militant, I. O.\\nO. F., of Woodsvillc, was mustered in 1 S87 with seventy-\\nfive members, by Lt.-(Jen. John C Underwood connnand-\\ning tlie army, P. ]M., and is composed of Patriarchal Odd\\nFellows who are niend)ers of the different lod ;cs and en-\\ncampnients in this vicinity, and has components at Bradford,\\nVt., and Littleton.\\nThis body is a military branch of Odd Fellowship and is\\norganized and officered the same as the United States Army.\\nCapt. fJohn E. Bisson was its first commandant. The\\nthree components are organized as a Battalion under the\\nconnnand of ]Major Q. A. Scott. The Canton was named\\nin honor of Hon. John II. .Vlbin, a leading lawyer of Con-\\ncord and a prominent Odd Fellow.\\nGOOD TEMPLAKS.\\nBluff Lodge ^so. 47 of Good Templars was charteretl in\\n18*)(!, and instituted the year following. The first officers\\nwei-e Rev. J. ^L Bean, worthy chief; Mrs. N. H. Batch-\\nelder, vice chief ^l. B. Carpenter, secretary A. F. Thomas,\\nmarshal Fannie IMorrison, deputy marshal Horaec Mor-\\nrison, past worthy chief Frank Morrison, chaplain Josej)!!\\nWeed, outside guard Alice Woodwaid. inside guard. The\\nmeetings were held in a liall on the second fioor of the build-\\ning now owned and ()ccu[)ied by the Cohos Steam Press.\\nThe lodge met on Thursday of each week, and was prosper-\\nous for some time, and its membership was composed of\\nladies and gentlemen. The object of the lodge was to pro-\\nmote the cause of temperance, and it achieved some success\\nin that line. It is to be regrette l that it did not have a\\nlono-er lease of life.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0449.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXII.\\nAITEXDIX.\\nPflticljxd Town Ojficars find llejjfttityitativeii frotn 1763\\nto 1888.\\n310DEHAT0KS.\\n1763. Juhn Ilazen, IT^SO.\\n17(54. Jacob Bailey,\\n17(55. Elislia Lock,\\n17(i(i. John Hazen,\\n17()7. James Abbott, 17.S1.\\n17(5^. Timothy Bedel, 17,sa.\\n17(il). John Hazen, 17.S2.\\n1770. John Hazen, x f\\nJames Bailey,\\n1771. Charles Johnston, 17.S4.\\n1772. John Hazen,\\n1773. Charles Johnston,\\n1774. Ephraiift Wesson, 1785.\\nCapt. Wesson, s 17 S(i.\\n1775. kSimeon Goodwin, v 17(S7.\\nJames Bailey,\\n177(5. James Bailey n 17 S ,S\\nThomas Simpson,\\n1777. Capt. Wesson, x\\nTliomas Simpson, 1781).\\n1778. Thomas Simpson, n\\nThomas Simpson,\\n177!l. Charles Johnston, 17iH).\\nJames Abljott, n\\nTimothy Bedel, .s-\\nTimothy Bedel,\\nTimothy Bedel, v\\nTimothy Bedel,\\nMoses Dow,\\nTimothy Ik del,\\nCharles Johnston, n\\nCharles Johnston, .y\\nTimotliy Bedel,\\nCharles Johnston, x\\nDaniel Stevens, .s\\nCharles Johnston,\\nMoses Dow,\\nAsa Porter, .s\\nMoses Dt)w,\\nMoses Dow, s\\nCliarles Johnston,\\nCharles Johnston, s\\nCharles Johnston, s\\nCharles Johnston,\\nCharles Hntchins. n\\nCharles Johnston,\\nTown officers for this year, except niodenitor. were appointed by\\nthe Proprietors, as is learned from their records.\\nt Officers with attached to tlieir names held their positions at\\nspecial meetings.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0450.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "ArrEXDix.\\n171)0.\\nMosos Dow,\\n1804,\\n171)1.\\nAk)sc.s Dow,\\nCharles Johnston, .s-\\n1S()5.\\nAsa Porter, t\\nObadiah Eastman, s\\n171)2.\\nAsa Porter,\\nCharles Johnston,\\ni8on,\\n1798.\\nCharles Johnston, .s-\\nAndrew S. Crocker,\\n171)4.\\nCharles Johnston,\\nMoody Ik del, .V\\n171)5.\\nCharles Johnston,\\nAsa Porter, .s\\nISO 7\\nA. S. Crocker, .v\\n1808\\n17 Do.\\nC^harles Joluiston,\\n.John Monto oniery, s\\n171)7.\\nharles flohnston.\\nMichael flohnston, .s-\\nISOI)\\n1798.\\ndiaries Johnston,\\n171)1).\\nCharles Johnston,\\n1800.\\nJohn Mont i(\u00c2\u00bbniery,\\nAniasa Scott, .s-\\nDaniel Stevens, .s\\nISIO\\nCharles .lohnston, x\\nIS 11\\n1801.\\nAniasa Scott, .s\\nMoor liussell, s\\nMoody Bedel, .s-\\nJohn Montgomery\\n1812\\nDaniel Stamford, x\\n1802.\\niVmasa Scott, .s-\\nRoss (\\\\)on.\\n1818\\n1808.\\nAsa Porter,\\nCharles Jolmston, .s\\nMoses Dow,\\n1814\\nJoshua Swan, s\\n41i)\\nS. P. Wehster,\\nCapt. J. Pearson,\\nSam l A. lY arson, n\\nStephen P. Webster\\nAmos Chapman, s\\nIsaac Pearson, .s\\nS. P. Webster,\\nJno. Montgomery,\\n]M()ses Dow, .s\\nJohn Osgood, .v\\nAsa Boynton, .s-\\nMoody P edel,\\nSimeon Towle, .s-\\nS. P. Webster,\\nKichard (lookin, .s-\\nMoody Bedel,\\nJ. Montgomery, .s-\\nS. P. Webster,\\nAlden Sprague, s\\nCharles Johnston, .s-\\nS. P. Webster,\\nMoody Bedel, .s-\\nCharles flohnston, .v\\nS. P. Webster,\\nfTohn Kimball, s\\nCharles flohnston,\\nJohn Smith, .s-\\nE. Kingsbury,\\nfTacob AMlliams,\\nIsrael Swan, .v\\nS. P. Webster,\\nS. P. Welister, s\\nIsrael Swan, .v\\nE. Kingsbnry, s\\nE. Kingsbury,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0451.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "420\\nHISTOltY OF IIAVEimiLL.\\n1814. Israel Swan, .v 1S 2S.\\n1815. E. Kingsbury, 182!l.\\nDavid Webster, n\\nXoah Davis, .v 1830.\\n18 1(). E. Kingsbury,\\nIsrael Swan, x\\n1817. Moody Bedel,\\nIsaac Pearson, s-\\nE. Kingsbury, 18ol.\\n1818. S. P. Webster,\\nE. Kingsbury, .v\\n181 S\u00c2\u00bb. S. P. Webster,\\nJona. Sinclair, .v 1832.\\n1820. S. P. Webster,\\nBenjamin Merrill, s-\\nTim. A. Edson, .s 1833.\\n1821. Joseph Bell,\\nThomas Morse, .s\\n1822. Joseph Bell,\\nEzekiel Ladd, 1834.\\nEzra Bartlctt, s-\\n1823. Joseph Bell,\\nS. P. Webster, x 1835.\\n1824. Ezra Bartlctt,\\nEzekiel Ladd, n\\n1825. Joseph Bell, 183(i.\\nJohn Smith, s-\\n1820. Joseph Bell,\\nEzekiel Ladd, .v 1837.\\nJonathan Pool, n\\n1827. Joseph Bell,\\nP^zekiel Ladd, x 1838.\\nJohn Smith, x\\n1828. Joseph Bell,\\nJohn Kimball, x l,S3i\\nJohn Nelson, x\\nJoseph Bell,\\nIsaac Pearson, x\\nJohn Smith,\\nJohn Xelson, x\\nJoseph Bell, x\\nCalel) Morse, s\\nEzekiel Ladd, x\\nJohn Page,\\nE. N. Powers, x\\nMoses Dow, X\\nBryan Morse, s\\nJolm Angier,\\nJohn L. Rix, s\\nJolm Angier, s\\nJohn Angier,\\nEzra Xiles, x\\nMoses Dow, X\\nJohn L. Rix, s\\nJoseph Bell,\\nSam l Cartland, x\\nJohn Xelson, x\\nJohn Page,\\nE. Kingsbury, x\\nJonathan Bliss, s\\nJohn Page,\\nJonathan Sinclair, x\\nMoses H. Sinclair, x\\nJohn Page,\\nJ. B. Kowell, X\\nJona. Sinclair, s\\nJohn Page,\\nCaleb Morse, x\\nXehemiah Woods, s\\nJohn Page,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0452.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "APrKNDIX,\\n421\\n1830.\\n1.S40.\\n1841.\\n1842.\\n1843.\\n1844.\\n1845.\\n184G.\\n1847.\\n1848.\\n184!).\\n18f)().\\n1851.\\n1852.\\n1853.\\n1854.\\n1855.\\n185(5.\\n1857.\\n1858.\\n1859.\\nJaeol) Williams, x\\n^Nloset* II. Sinclair, s\\nJohn Pa^c,\\nDavid IL Collins, .s-\\nSamuel Paije, v\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nA. M. Brown, .s\\nIlosea S. Baker, v\\n.John Pai e,\\nJohn Carr, fli\\\\, s\\nSamuel Swasey, .v\\nJohn S. Bryant, n\\nHenry W. Redinp;, x\\nChandler Cass,\\nSamuel Swasey, x\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nDaniel Morse,\\nNathaniel Kix, n\\nD. C. Kimball, .s-\\nDaniel iNIorse, 2d\\nSanniel Swasey, -s-\\nDaniel Morse, 2d\\nJ. D. Sleeper,\\nfl. 1). Sleeper,\\nJoseph Powers,\\nJ. D. Sleeper,\\nflohn K. Kedinu v\\nJames P. Webster.\\nJames P. Webster,\\nJames P. el)ster,\\nflames P. Wel)ster,\\nJames P. Webster,\\nJames V. ^Vebster,\\nisco.\\nl.sci.\\nls(;2.\\nl.s(;3.\\nisiu,\\n1 S(;5.\\nl.siid.\\nISlw.\\n18()-s.\\n18(511.\\n1870.\\n1871.\\n1872.\\n1873.\\n1874.-\\n1-S75.\\nl.S7(;.\\n1877.\\n1878.\\n187!\u00c2\u00bb.\\nisso.\\nissi.\\n1882.\\n1883.\\n1884.\\nJames P. AVebster,\\nJames P. ebster,\\nSanuiel Carr, .v\\nflames 1*. Webster,\\nflames 1\\\\ Wel)ster,\\nD. C. Kimball, .s-\\nXatiri M. Swasey, .v\\nJames P. AVebster,\\n(r. A\\\\ Chapman,\\nA. J. Edgerly, n\\nfl. P. AVebster, s\\nfl. P. AVebster, s\\nSamuel Carr, x\\nDaniel Batehelder,\\nDaniel liatchelder,\\nChas. (i. Smith,\\nChas. G. Smith,\\nChas. G. Smith,\\nChas. M. AVeeks,\\nChas. M. AVeeks,\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\nHenry P. AAatson,\\nChas M. AVeeks,\\n(;has. M. AVeeks,\\nChas. M. AVeeks,\\nCMias. M. AVeeks,\\nEnoch i. Paiker, s\\nEnoch i. Parkci\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\ndias. M. AVeeks, .s-\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\nChas. M. AVeeks,\\nChas. M. AVeeks, s\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\nChas. AI. Weeks.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0453.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "422 HISTORY OF HAA ERHILL.\\n1885. C;ii08. (I. Smith, 1887. Samuel B. Page,\\n188(5. Chas. B. Smith, 1 S8,S. Samuel B. Page.\\nCha.s. (t. Smith, .s-\\nTOWN CLPfUKS.\\n1763.\\nJesse Johnson,\\n181i)-20.\\nEzra Bartlett,\\n1764.\\n(No record,)\\n1821-1).\\nE. Kingsbury,\\n1765.\\nJohn Taplin,\\n1830.\\nJ. ood\\\\var(l.\\nJolm Hazen,\\n1N31-3.\\nHenry Barsto^v,\\n176()-7.\\nEli.sha Lock,\\n1S34.\\nJohn L. Chapin,\\n1768.\\nTimotliy Bedel,\\n1835-6.\\nHenry Barstow,\\n176l)-7().\\nJames Abbott,\\n1837.\\nX. b Felton,\\n1771.\\nCharles Johnston,\\n1838.\\nT. K. lilaisdell,\\n1772-3.\\nJames Abbott,\\nLS31)-40.\\nJohn McClary,\\n1774-.S2.\\nC. Johnston,\\n1841-42.\\nJolm A. Page,\\n1783-4.\\nMoses Dow,\\n1843.\\nX. P,. Felton,\\n1785.\\nJoshua Young,\\nl S44-4\\nX. :\\\\1. Swasey,\\n1786.\\nA. S. Crocker,\\n1847.\\nA. E. Haywood,\\n1787.\\nCharles Johnston.\\n184 s-l).\\nJ. T. Barstow,\\n1788-1)0.\\nA. S. Crocker,\\n1850.\\nChas. G. Smith,\\n1791-5J3.\\nMoody Bedel,\\n1851-2.\\nJ. T. Barstow,\\n171)4-5.\\nSanniel Brooks,\\n1853.\\nChas. (t. Smith,\\n17!)6.\\n:\\\\Ioody Bedel,\\nGeo. AV. Aiken,\\n171)7-.s.\\nflohn Osgood,\\nl S54-7.\\nXatiri liailey.\\n1791).\\nJose])h Ladd,\\n1857.\\nJacol) Bell,\\nlS()()-()3.\\nJoseph Ladd,\\n1858-63.\\nA. K. Merrill,\\n1804.\\nJohn Osgood,\\n1863.\\nMichael Carleton,\\n1805-6.\\nJoseph Ladd,\\n1864.\\nA. K. Merrill,\\n1804-8.\\nDavid .Mitchell,\\n1.S65.\\nAlbert P ailey,\\n1808-11.\\nE. Kingsbury,\\nA. K. Merrill,\\n1812.\\nJohn Page, Jr.,\\n186(;-73.\\nJ. L. Ham,\\n1813-15.\\nIL n. Goodman,\\n1874-88.\\nEnoch 11. Weeks\\n1816-18.\\nJohn Osgood,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0454.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nselb:ctmi:x.\\n1763.\\nJohn White.\\n1774.\\nJanu 8 liailcy,\\n177,\\nEdinond ]\\\\Iortse,\\n1764.\\n(No record.)\\n1765.\\nJolin Ilazcn,\\nP^lislia Luck,\\nJonatlian Klkius,\\n1776.\\n1766.\\nTnnothy edel,\\nJonathan Elkiny,\\nJonathan Sandery,\\n1777.\\n1767.\\nJames Abbott,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nEdward Bailey,\\n1778.\\n1768.\\nTiniotliy Bedel,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nXatlianiel Wesson,\\n177l\u00c2\u00bb.\\n17611.\\nJose])li Ilntchins,\\nJames Woodward.\\nSimeon Goodwin,\\n1780.\\n1770.\\nJames Bailey,\\n]Maxi Ilazeltine,\\nharles Johnston,\\n1781.\\n1771.\\nA. 8. Croeker,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nJames Bailey,\\n1782.\\n1772.\\nEphraim Wesson,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nSimeon Goodwin,\\n178;;.\\n177;;.\\nChai les Johnston.\\nE[)hraim A\\\\ esson,\\nA. S. (^rocker.\\n1781.\\n1774.\\nEphraim Wesson.\\nJames Bailey,\\n1785.\\n423\\nCharles Johnston,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nJames Bailey,\\nEphraim Wesson,\\nThomas Simpson,\\nCapt. Ladd.\\nSimeon Goodwin,\\n(^i[)t. Ladd,\\nJames A\\\\ oodward,\\nCharles fJohnston,\\nMaj. Hale,\\nJohn Page,\\nAlaxi Ilazeltine,\\nfJoslma I lay ward,\\nDaniel Stevens,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nCharles J(jhnston,\\nI^^phraim Wesson,\\nTimothy Barron,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nTimothy I3edel,\\nJames Woodward,\\n(^has. Johnston,\\nTimothy liedel.\\nJames Woodward,\\nJames A\\\\ ^oo(l\\\\\\\\ ard,\\nMoses Dow,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nCharles Johnston.\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nNathaniel ^Merrill,\\nCharles Jolniston,\\nA. S. Crocker,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0455.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "424\\nIirSTOllY OF HAVERHILL.\\n1785.\\n1786.\\n1787.\\n1788.\\n1789.\\n1700.\\n1791,\\n17-92.\\n1793\\n1794.\\n179.1.\\nXathanic l Merrill,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nJoshua Howard,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nNathaniel Merrill.\\nCharles Johnston,\\nA. 8. Crocker,\\nJoseph Hutchins,\\nMoses Dow,\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\nAmos Kimball,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nAmos Kimball,\\nJoseph Hutchins,\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\n!Moody liedel\\n]\\\\Ioo(ly 13edel,\\nAmos Kimball,\\nMoses Porter,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nMoody I edel,\\nSamuel Brooks,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\nSamuel Brooks,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\n1795.\\n1796.\\n1797.\\n1798.\\n1799.\\nl.S(H).\\nl.SOl,\\n1802.\\n1808,\\n1804.\\n1805.\\n1 son\\nDaniel Stamford,\\nAlden Spraguc,\\nNathaniel ^Merrill,\\nMoody r edel,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nAmos Kimball,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nAmos Kiml)all,\\nCharles Johnston,\\nNathaniel ^Merrill,\\nWilliam Porter,\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\nINIoor Kusscll,\\n]\\\\Iichael Johnston,\\nA. S. Crocker,\\nAmasa Scott,\\nRoss Coon,\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\nMoody Bedel,\\nAsa Boynton,\\nStephen ]Morse,\\nAsa Boynton,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nS. P. Webster,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nS. P. Webster,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\nAsa Boynton,\\nflohn Kimball,\\nThis second list of Selectmen wus chosen at a special meeting, for\\nwhat reason is not stated.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0456.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "APPEXDIX.\\n425\\n1806.\\n1807.\\n1808.\\n1801)\\n1810.\\n1811.\\n1812.\\n1813.\\n1814.\\n1815.\\n1810.\\n1817.\\n1818.\\nXathaniel Merrill, I.SIS.\\n.Moody Bedel,\\nJohn Kimhall, 18i;\u00c2\u00bb.\\nTim. A. Edson,\\nSimeon Towlc,\\nRichard Gookiii, 1820.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nRichard Gookin, 1^21.\\nMichael Johnston,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nEzekiel Ladd, Jr. 1822.\\nMichael Johnston,\\nJohn Kiml)all,\\nEzekiel Ladd, Jr. 1823.\\nJacob Williams,\\n8. P. AVebster,\\nJohn Kimball, 1824.\\nUriah AA ard,\\nJohn Kiml)all,\\nDavid .Alerrill, 1825.\\nIsrael SA\\\\ an\\nDavid Webster, Jr.\\nIsrael Swan, 1826.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nIsrael Swan,\\nJohn S. Sanborn, 1827.\\nE. Kingsbiuy,\\nIsrael Swan,\\nChester. Farman, 1828.\\nEnoch Chase,\\nJohn Page, Jr.\\nJohn Kimball, 1821).\\nBenj. Merrill,\\nJohn Pcure, Jr.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenj. Merrill,\\nJohn Page, Jr.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nEdward Towle,\\nJohn Page, Jr.\\nBenj. Merrill,\\nTim. A. Edson,\\nJohn Page, Jr.\\nObadiah Swasey,\\nBenj. Merrill,\\nJohn Page, Jr.\\nBenj. Merrill,\\nObadiah Swasey,\\nE. Kingsbury,\\nJacob Williams,\\nJonathan Wilson,\\nE. Kingsbury,\\nJacob Williams,\\nJonathan Wilson,\\nE. Kingsbury,\\nJonathan Wilson,\\nJacob Williams,\\nJohn Page,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nCaleb Morse,\\nJohn Page,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nCaleb ^Nlorse,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nCaleb Morse,\\nJohn Nelson,\\nJolin Nelson,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nCaleb Morse,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0457.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "426\\nHISTORY O:^ HAVERHILL.\\n1830. John Page,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJoshua Woodward,\\n1831. John Page,\\nSimon Stafford,\\nJonathan Wilson,\\n1832. John Page,\\nSimon Stafford,\\nJona. B. Rowell,\\n1833. John Page,\\nSimon Stafford,\\nJona. B. Rowell,\\n1834. John Page,\\nJonathan Wilson,\\nSimon Stafford,\\n1835. Jonathan Sinclair,\\nJona. B. Rowell,\\nJohn L. Corliss,\\n1836. Jona. B. Rowell,\\nJona. Sinclair,\\nJohn L. Corliss,\\n1837. Jno. B. Rowell,\\nSamuel Page,\\nJacob Morse,\\n1838. Joshua Woodward,\\nCaleb Morse,\\nMoses Southard,\\n1839. Samuel Page,\\nJacob Morse,\\nDaniel Carr, Jr.\\n1840. Samuel Page,\\nDaniel Carr, Jr.\\nJoseph Stowe,\\n1841. Samuel Page,\\nJoseph Stowe.\\n1841.\\n1842.\\n1843.\\n1844.\\n1845.\\n1846.\\n1847,\\n1848.\\n1849.\\n1850.\\n1851.\\n1852.\\n1853.\\nDaniel Carr, Jr.\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nNathaniel Rix,\\nJohn Page,\\nNathaniel Rix,\\nNewhall Pike,\\nAlvah K. Haywood,\\nAlvah E. Haywood,\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nDudley C. Kimball,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nAlvah E. Haywood,\\nJohnMcClary,\\nIsaac F. Allen,\\nJosiah Jeffers,\\nDudley C. Kimball,\\nSamuel Page,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nDudley C.Kimball,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nW. W. Simpson,\\nDudley C.Kimball,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nW. W. Simpson,\\nJohn R. Reding,\\nIsaac F. Allen,\\nItham Howe,\\nDudley C. Kimball,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nNathaniel Kimball,\\nSamuel Page,\\nLuther Colby,\\nNathaniel Kimball,\\nJohn R. Redinf;,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0458.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n427\\n1853. N. M. Swasey, 1865.\\nN. S. Davis,\\n1854. Samuel Page,\\nSamuel Carr, 18()().\\nNathaniel Kimball,\\n1855. James P. Webster,\\nSamuel Carr, 18G7.\\nRosea S. Baker,\\n185G. James P. Webster,\\nIlosea S. Baker, 18G8.\\nLuther Butler,\\n1857. Samuel Page,\\nLuther Butler, 1869.\\nDavid Merrill,\\n1858. Luther Butler,\\nRussell Kimball, 1870.\\nStephen Metcalf,\\n1859. Stephen Metcalf,\\nJohn L. Rix, 1871.\\nSolon S. Southard,\\n1860. Stephen Metcalf,\\nJohn L. Rix, 1872.\\nSolon S. Southard,\\n1861. Stephen Metcalf,\\nJames A. Currier, 1873.\\nJoshua Carr,\\n1862. James A. Currier,\\nJoshua Carr, 1874.\\nRosvvell Elliott,\\n1863. Dudley C.Kimball,\\nDaniel Merrill, 1875.\\nN. M. Swasey,\\n1864. Dudley C.Kimball,\\nHarry A. Albee, 1876.\\nEdward L. Page,\\nEdward L. Page,\\nRosea S. Baker,\\nNathaniel Bailey,\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\nLangdon Bailey,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nCharles M. Weeks,\\nLangdon Bailey,\\nJacob Morse,\\nEzra S. Kimball,\\nCharles Fisher,\\nJohn W. Cutting,\\nEzra S. Kimball,\\nCharles Fisher,\\nJohn W. Cutting,\\nCh.arles G. Smith,\\neTames L. Bisbee,\\nCalvin Merrill,\\nCharles G. Smith,\\nCalvin Merrill,\\nSamuel R. Crocker,\\nCharles G. Smith,\\nSamuel R. Crocker,\\nSylvester Jeffers,\\nCharles G. Smith,\\nSylvester Jeffers,\\nJohn E. Carr,\\nCharles G. Smith,\\nSylvester Jeffers,\\nRenry F. King,\\nJohn E. Carr,\\nWm. C. Marston,\\nRorace E. Noyes,\\nJohn E. Carr,\\nWm. C. Marston,", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0459.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "428\\nHISTORY OF IIAVEEIIILL.\\n1876.\\n1877.\\n1878.\\n1879.\\n1880.\\n1881.\\n1882.\\nHorace PL Noyes, 1888.\\nHorace E. Noyes,\\nA. ^Y. Thomas,\\nDaniel ^X. Meader, 1884.\\nDaniel W. Meader,\\nS. H. Cummin o;s,\\nEzra B. Mann, l SS5.\\nN. P. Ridout,\\nGeorge C. Jeft ers,\\nEhoch G. Parker, 1886.\\nEzra B. Mann,\\nS. H. Cummings,\\nNathan P. Ridout, 1887.\\nEzra B. Mann,\\nS. H. Cnmmings,\\nHorace Eaton, 1888.\\nS. H Cummings,\\nHorace Eaton,\\nCaleb Wells,\\nCaleb AVells,\\nIra Whitcher,\\nCharles ^Y Pike,\\nCaleb Wells,\\nIra Whitcher,\\nCharles W. Pike,\\nCharles W. Pike,\\n\\\\A m. C. ]\\\\Iarston,\\nSeth P. Stickney,\\nCaleb Wells,\\nIra Whitclier,\\nLevi B. Ham,\\nHenry F. King,\\nLevi B. Ham,\\nW. W. Col)urn,\\nD. L. Hawkins,\\nW. W. Coburn,\\nE. C. Kinnev.\\nTREASURERS.\\n1771.\\nJames Bailey, 1\\n1793-4.\\n1.\\nCharles Johnston,\\n1772-3.\\nSimeon Goodwin,\\n1795.\\nDaniel Stamford,\\n1774-5.\\nJames Bailey,\\n1796.\\nMoody Bedel,\\n1776-9.\\nSimeon Goodwin,\\n1797.\\nJ. Woodward,\\n1780-2.\\nJ. Woodward,\\n1798.\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\n1783-4.\\nSimeon Goodwin,\\n1799.\\nMichael Johnston,\\n1785-6.\\nMoses l)ow.\\n1800-0(5\\nJohn Osgood,\\n1787.\\nJ. Woodward,\\n1807.\\nDavid Mitchell,\\n1788.\\nEzekiel Ladd,\\n1808.\\nCharles Johnston,\\n1789-92.\\nMoses Dow,\\n1809.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nEesigned and Stephen II. Cummings was iippointod.\\nt The treasurer was chosen this year for tlie tirst time. The duties\\nof the office before this date were performed by the Selectmen.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0460.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 429\\n1810-11. Ezekicl I.iidd, ,Ir. l,S41-2. AiAm A. V:\\\\crc,\\n1812-1;}. John L. Corliss, 184;). (Xorecord.)\\n1814-l.T. H. II. (ioodmnn, l S44-\u00c2\u00bbi. N. M. Swasey,\\n181fJ-l8. John ()su(.()d, 1847. I). C. Kinihall,\\n1819-20. Ezra Bartlctt, 1848-49. J. T. Barstow,\\n1821-130. E. Kingsley, 1850. Chas. G. Smith,\\n1831-3;3. Henry Barstow, 1851-2. J. T. Barstow,\\n1834. John L. Chapm, 1853. Chas. G. Smith,\\n1835-(!. Henry Barstow, 1854-7. Nathaniel Bailey,\\n1837. X. B. Felton, 1858-()5. A. K. Merrill,\\n1838. T. W. Blaisdell, 18GG-73. L. B. Ham,\\n1839-40. John ^IcClarv, 1874-88. Enoeh K. Weeks.\\ni;i:pi;i:sK\\\\TAri\\\\Ks.\\n1783.\\nJ. Woodward,\\n180().\\nNath l Merrill,\\n1784.\\nT. Bedel,\\n1807.\\nMoody Bedel,\\n1785-7.\\nChissed with other\\n1808-12.\\nS. P. Webster,\\ntowns. 1\\nI8i;3-i4.\\nJohn Kimball,\\n1788-9.\\nJ. Hutchins,\\n1815.\\nEzekiel Ladd, .Jr.\\n1790-1.\\nMoses Dow,\\n181(k\\nS. P. Webster,\\n1791.\\nJ. Hutchins,\\n1817-18.\\n^Nloody Bedel,\\n1792.\\nSamuel Brooks,\\n1819-20.\\nJohn Page, Jr.\\n1793.\\nMoses Dow,\\n1821.\\nJosepli Bell,\\n1794-().\\nXathaniel M(M-rill\\n1822-4.\\nJohn L. CN)rliss,\\n1797-8.\\nMoody ]^,edel.\\n1825.\\nSamuel Cartland,\\n1799.\\nMoor Kussell,\\n182(5-7.\\nJohn L. Corliss,\\nIS 00.\\nMoor Kussell.\\n1828.\\nJoseph Bell,\\n1801.\\nMoody liedel,\\n182.S-30.\\nGaleb Morse,\\n1802.\\n(None.)\\n1831.\\nfTona. ilson,\\n1803-5.\\nJ. Montgomery,\\n1831-2.\\nSamuel Page,\\nFirst roprt Poiitativo soiit this j-i iir.\\nThis j oar and the two foliowinoj years the n-iirosontativc was\\neithor from Pionnoiit or Coventrj as the towns wore classitifii uitli\\nIlaverhill, and formed our representative district.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0461.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "430\\nHlSTOliY OF HAVERHILL.\\n1833.\\nJohn Angier,\\n1854-5.\\nIsaac Morse,\\n1834.\\nEzra Bartlett,\\n1856.\\nJohn L. Rix,\\n1835.\\nJohn Page,\\nIsaac Morse,\\n1836.\\nJohn McClary,\\n1857.\\nNath l. Bailey,\\nJohn Angier,\\n1857-8.\\nRussell King,\\n1837.\\neJohn McClary,\\n1859.\\nJ. P. Webster,\\nJona. Wilson,\\n1859-60.\\nGeo. S. Kelsea,\\n1838.\\nHosea 8. Baker,\\n1861.\\nDaniel Morse, 2d\\nJohn S. Sinclair,\\nN. AVestgate,\\n1839.\\nJacob Williams,\\n1862.\\nAlbert Bailey,\\nSamuel Swasey,\\n1862-3.\\nM.W.Nelson,\\n1840.\\nSamuel Swasey,\\n1864.\\nP. W. Kimball,\\n1840-1.\\nSamuel Smith,\\nJ. B. Cotton,\\n1842.\\nN. B. Felton,\\n1865.\\nP. W. Kimball,\\n1842-3.\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nJohn N. Morse,\\n1843-4.\\nEber Eastman,\\n1866.\\nChas. G. Smith,\\n1844-5.\\nDaniel Morse, 2d\\nII. B. Leonard,\\n1845.\\nD. Batchelder,\\n1867.\\nChas. G. Smith,\\n1846.\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nII. B. Leonard,\\nNathaniel Rix,\\n1868.\\nG. F. Putnam,\\n1847.\\nSamuel Swasey,\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\nIsaac Morse,\\n1869.\\nChas. M. Weeks,\\n1848.\\nSamuel Swasey, f\\nG. F. Putnam,\\n1849.\\nDaniel Morse, 2d\\n1870.\\nL. Bniley,\\nSamuel Page,\\nJ. W. Cutting,\\n1850.\\nSamuel Swasey,\\n1871.\\nHenry Holt, 1\\nT. B. Jackson,\\nJ. W. Cutting, 1\\n1851.\\nD. C. Kimball,\\n1872.\\nN. M. Swasey, i\\n1851-2.\\nC. G. Thompson!,\\nSilvester Reding,\\n1853.\\nN. B. Felton,\\n1873.\\nN. M. Swasey,\\nJacob Morse,\\nSilvester Reding,\\n1854.\\nJohn L. Rix,\\n1874.\\nn.\\nLevi B. Ham,\\nOnly\\none representative chose\\nt Only\\none sent.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0462.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n431\\n1874. A. J. Edgcrly,\\n1875. Levi. B. Ham,\\nClias. A. Gale,\\n187(i. Ezra B.Mann,\\nChas. A. Gale,\\n1877. Ezra B.Mann,\\nSanuicl T. Page,\\n1878. John E. Carr,\\nSamuel T. Page,\\nwere ehosen in November, bi-\\nannually.\\n1880. John E. Carr,\\nW. C. Marston,\\n1882. W. W. Coburn,\\nW. F. Wcstgate,\\n1884. Geo. H. Mann,\\n188ti. Samuel B. Page,\\nSamuel T. Pajre.\\n(After 1878 representatives\\nI", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0463.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0464.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "CORRECTIOXS.\\nPage 29, Kcad Charlestoum, for Charleston.\\n41, Moses Hazen died in Albany, N. Y., in 1785.\\nAnother account gives 1803.\\n55, liead Moses Stoasey of J^eiubury, 17., for Oba-\\ndiah Swasey of North Haverhill.\\n59, Read Mr. Ethan Brock for ]\\\\Irs. Eithan Brock.\\n()8, Moses Little as justice of the Court of Ses-\\nsions, is credited to Cainj)ton. Whether\\nthe Campton and the Haverhill Little were\\nthe same person is not clear.\\n70, John Hard died in Boston in 1809, and was\\nprobably buried in the old Germany grave-\\nyard, where his wife and i^n arc buried.\\n72, Jose[)h Hutchins also, it is said, led an indepen-\\ndent company at the time of Burgoyne s Sur-\\nrender.\\n108, To the synopsis of Chapter VII add AVoodsville\\nsettlers.\\n131, May Rix was probably Timothy Rix.\\n151, Read Jacob Bailey for James.\\n157, Read It iras an earlier marriage for it was the\\nfirst marriage.\\n191, Read Gen. John McDuffee for Gen. John\\nDuflfee.\\n193, Same as above.\\nU)3, Read 1834-5 for 1795.\\n324, Read Moses Elkins for Moses Elkin.\\n375, Read Courts and Court Houses for Court and\\nCourt Houses.\\n393, Read Joseph II. Dunbar for Joseph W. Dun-\\nbar.", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0465.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0466.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAcademy, 211\\nAdams Stephen and family, 120\\nArea of Town, 22\\nA Great Accident, 403\\nAppendix, 41S\\nAn Episode, 157\\nAim of Author, 17\\nAyer Perley and family, 121\\nAnimals, danger of 152\\nwild, 367\\nAngier, John 2i)4\\nJoel 2S\u00c2\u00bb5\\nJ. Dorsev311\\nGeo. W. 311\\nAbbott, James 68\\nChester 148\\nArnold, Jonathan 66\\nCynthia Hastings 67\\nLemuel 67\\nA Noted Character, 371\\nA Romance, 406\\nAuthor, material of 1 7\\nAppendix, 434.\\nB\\nBaiUy, Jacob 41, 42, 173\\nJames 58\\nAlbert 141\\nNathaniel 141\\nMilo 141\\nAzro 141\\nAllen 141\\nLangdon 14K\\nBarron, Timotny 68\\nWilliam 91\\nBlaisdell, Daniel 26JJ\\nTimothy K. andfamily\\n135\\nAlfred !t7\\nBarstow, Henry 112\\nWilliam 112\\nJames 113\\nI homas 113\\nEzekiel H. 113\\nMrs. 113\\nAlfred 313\\nAnson 314\\n(ieorge 314\\nharles W. 314\\nBarstow, John 314\\nMary 315\\nBaker, Hosea S. and family, 123\\nPeyton 124\\nOliver R. 124\\nSolon H. 124\\nBacon, Timothy R. 140\\nAsa 140\\nSumner P. 312\\nElmer C. 312\\nBatchelder, Daniel 140\\nBanks, 3i 4\\nBartlett, Ezra 292\\nEzra, Jr. 293\\nBabcock, Mrs. Louisa P. 312\\nBracket, Anson 295\\nBedel, Timothy and family, 48\\nMood J and family 49\\nHazen 315\\nJohn 316\\nBell, Jacob and family. 119\\nJames, 119\\nLeRoy 119\\nJoseph 262\\nJames 317\\nJohn 317\\nBean, John V. and family, 141\\nBrewer, James P. 317\\nBirth, lirst 56\\nBridges, 193\\nBliss, Jonathan 270\\nJoseph 93\\nMrs. 93\\nBittinger, Rev. J. 227\\nBryant, John S. 278\\nBoundaries, 20\\nBounties to Soldiers, 1.59, 102\\nto Families, 161\\nBrooks. North Branch 26\\nPool, 26\\nSamuel and faniilj 90\\nGeorge W. 91\\nSamuel 319\\nEdwin 320\\nBovington. Asa 102\\nBlood, J. G. 143\\nBrown, Edwin J. 305\\nBunce, John L. 132\\nBurbeck, Wm. H. and family,\\n122\\nBurbeck, Edward C. 320", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0467.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "43\\nINDEX.\\nBurlieck Georj^e 821\\nButler, Luther 146\\nGeo. C. 148\\nThaddeus 289\\nBurial places, 154\\nChanges in Life and Habits,\\n19,3G1\\nCharter, Date of 35\\nCarr, Daniel 97\\nJohn 97\\nSamuel 97\\nCarleton, INlichael and family 122\\nMichael Jr. and family,\\n122\\nCarleton, Horace D. 123\\nEdmund 268\\nClark, James B. 309\\nWm. K. 136\\nHenry H. 136\\nClarence H. 305\\nCare of imbecile, 154\\nCanal, 192\\nCartland, Samuel 268\\nCar bee, Samuel P. 302\\nMoses D. 304\\nChapman, Geo. W. 280\\nCensus, 154\\nCohos Country, Reports of early\\ndiscovery and exploration 29\\nCohos Countiy, Measures to ex-\\nplore 29\\nCohos Country, original plan to\\ntake possession of 29\\nCohos Country, Marking road to\\n31\\nCohos Country, Indians at 42\\nRapid Settlement\\nof 57\\nCohos Turnpike, 190\\nCorrections, 433\\nCoon, Boss 103\\nCrocker, A. S. and familj 85\\nFrederick 321\\nCollins, H. D. 276\\nCommittee of safety and corre-\\nspondence, 58\\nCross, Wm. and familj-, 95\\nEliza 95\\nJeremiah 96\\nCourts and Court Houses, 375\\nCurrier, James A. 142\\nF. P. 142\\nCutting, James 136\\nCutting Abijah 136\\nJolin W. 136\\nJames 321\\nCummings, Wm. H. 139\\nStephen H. 140\\nGeorge S. 148\\nGeorge E. 149\\nChurch, Congregational, 222\\nChurch, Methodist Episcopal,\\nNorth Haverhill 228\\nChurch, Methodist Episcopal,\\nHaverhill Corner 231\\nChurch, iNfethodist Episcopal,\\nEast Haverhill 233\\nChurch, Methodist EpiscoiDal,\\nWoodsville 236\\nChurch, Baptist, Xorth Haverhill\\n234\\nChurch, Freewill, East Haverhill\\n235\\nChurch, Union, Centre 235\\nAdvent, 235\\nEpiscopal, Woodsville\\n236\\nCucumber story, 407\\n(Jhurch-going, 360\\nCyclone, 397\\nDartmouth College, 209\\nDavis, Noah 119\\nJudge Noah, 323\\nDarius K. 142\\nJohn L. 147\\nDay, Charles H. 146\\nDavidson, Geo. A. 148\\nDeath, First 56\\nDeer, Beave 153\\nDelano, Eev. Samuel 225\\nDentists, 309\\nDisputed boundary, 383\\nDrinking habits, 382\\nDow, Benjamin 148\\nMoses, 254\\nMoses, Jr. 2.58\\nJoseph E. 259\\nDoctors, 287\\nDuncan, Wm. H. 271\\nEast Haverhill, 25\\nEastman, Wm. and family, 69\\nEber, 69", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0468.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "TXDEX.\\n437\\nEastman Oliver 1). :U)7\\nEarly Settlers, doinestie habits\\nof3:)4\\nEarly Settlers, Houses of\\nFurniture of ^57\\nLiviiiii of iit\\nEdj^erlj Andrew .F. 145\\nEmerj Georije 14S\\nEmerson, John I). 22t)\\nElliott, Roswell loo\\nElkins, Jonathan (i;^\\nCol. Jonathan (54\\nMoses 824\\nHenry (54\\nEgyptian Plag^ue, 3(58\\nEdson, J imothv A. 118\\nMrs. EdsonllS\\nEducation, 20(5\\nFamily, First 5(5\\nFamilies, Number of 22\\nFlanders, Chas. N. ;-J24\\nFairs and .Markets, 8(;(5\\nFarm Products, 20\\nFarnian, Chester 121\\nJeremiah 121\\nSamuel L. 121\\nEarns worth, T). L. 324\\nFrary, Rev. Eueien H. 325\\nFleming. Kev. Archibald 225\\nFelton, Xathan B. 274\\nFew early Clearing on Oliverian.\\n178\\nFrench, Richard 105\\nDavid A. 148\\nFish, Salmon 137\\nFish. 3(57\\nFii-st Jersey Stock. 405\\nFirst ote for President and (iov-\\nernor, 155\\nFirst Representative, 15(;\\nFirst Saw mill at Hosmer Brook.\\n177\\nire proof Vault, 1(51\\nFounders, Character of 17\\n(irantees. Names of 3S\\n(jrantees common to Haveihill\\nand Newbuiy, 40\\nGale, Charles A. 142\\nGray, Micliael 32(5\\n(Janie, 3(57\\nGranite (Quarries, 27\\nGreat Flood, 3(1!)\\n(Jreat IMnes, 381\\n(Jreat Fire, 404\\n(ireat Accident, 403\\n(ireele_y, Rev. Edward H. 22(5\\nGeorge, Isaac K. 148\\nGibbs, Rev. Joseph 225\\nGibson, Chas. R. 307\\nGriswold, Chas. B. 144\\n(joodwin, Simeon 73\\nGookin, Samuel 101\\nRichard 102\\nAVarren D. 32(5\\nGood Templars, 417\\nGlover, Truman W. 148\\nH\\nHarrimau, Jaaseel 47\\nHawkins, D. L. 141)\\nHangings, 395\\nHale, Jonathan 73\\nSamuel 89\\nHazeltine, Maxi 72\\nHayward, (58\\nHayward, Beniamin 135\\nNathaniel, 135\\nA hall 135\\nHam, Levi B. 142\\nHazen, John 40, 42. 43\\nMoses 41\\nWilliam 45\\nHayes, Henry 297\\nHaverhill, oriier 23\\nAcademy 81\\nPi ominence of 1(55\\nF xposure of 1(5\\nTroops at 1G8\\nScouts from 1(58\\nThreatened in 177(5 1(59\\nS(M oiid threatening of\\nKill\\nHaverhill, Military road I l-om 17(1\\nPeople of, wide awake\\n171\\nHaveiliill. Beef for troops at 171.\\n174\\nHaverhill, Ammunition for troops\\nat 171\\nHaverhill. DouKV-tii- enemies at\\n172\\nHaverhill, Alarm of 17S1 at 174\\nF^lt ects of War on 175\\nStage Center 197", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0469.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "488\\nINDKX.\\nHaverliill in Wm: 237\\nof devolution, 237\\nof 1812. 241\\nof Kebellion. 242\\nHaverhill, Lawyers of 250\\nDoctor? of 287\\nHaverhill Abroad, 310\\nHeath, Simon B. 296\\nHistoric Farms, 37!)\\nHoward, Joshua, and family 4()\\nHowland, Moses N. 309\\nHorn, Amos 113\\nHouses, The lirst 3o,t\\nFurniture of 3o7\\nHouses of Kefuge, 370\\nHorse Meadow. 373\\nHog Reeves, 374\\nHuskings, 360\\nHurd, John 70\\nHutchins, Joseph 72\\nHunt, Caleb 140\\nCaleb Jr. 326\\nHorace 327\\nPrescott 327\\nHellen 327\\nIsland, Howard s 27\\nJohnston s\\nIntervals, 25\\nClear 22, 43\\nIndians, 31, 364\\nSurprised by 31\\narried away by 31\\nIndian Trail, 31\\nNames, 363\\nJ\\nJackson, Samuel 140\\nThomas B. 140\\nJohn W. 140\\nJefters, James 122\\nJosiah 122\\nJohn 122\\nSylvester 122\\nJohnston, Michael 42\\n(has. and family, 74\\nMichael 1st and family\\n82\\nJohnston, Michael 2nd and fam-\\nily, 82\\nJohnston, Hale A. 269\\nHannah 328\\nJohnson, I homas 47, 173\\nJesse 57\\nK\\nKent, Jacob 41\\nCol. Henry 41\\nKimball, Amos and family. 94\\nJno. and family, 95\\nC. C. 129\\nIlussell 128\\nPeabodv W. 128\\n(has. C. 129\\nJoseph P. 148\\nEzra S. 148\\nJohn 328\\nKingsbury, Ephraim 115\\nKing, Henry F. 148\\nLand, Division of 35\\nClearing of 60\\nLadd, Ezekiel and fanuly, 65\\nEzekiel Jr. 65\\nSamuel 66\\nJohn 66\\nDavid 6()\\nJames 66\\nSamuel Jr. 66\\nLaw-suit. 1.54\\nLeighton. Albert H. 149\\nLeith. Wm. H. 329\\nLeonard, Henry B. 302\\nLittle, Moses 68\\nLiberal ofter for Blacksmith, 177\\nLibraries, 390\\nliimestone, 27\\nLovewell s exploring party, 31\\nLovewell, Aim of 34\\nLot, Meadow 30\\nPrivileged 40\\nGov. Wentworth s 40\\nNumbering of 40\\nLaying out of 151\\nDrawing of 151\\nLock, Elisha 58\\nLocal Names, 409\\nLombard poplars, 83\\nM\\nMarriage. First 52\\nMails, 194", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0470.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n439\\nMakiiitj; Cider.\\nMansoii, Alexander and faiiiilv\\nMeClary, .John 130\\nMarston, Wni. 1.{.t\\nMann, Ezra B. 147\\nEdward F. 147\\nMelvin .1. 14!)\\nGeo. H. 14!)\\nMattocks, Edward 298\\nMasonry, 413\\n^Meadows, Names of 40\\nMeader, Daniel W. 144\\nMemorable contest, l(j3\\nMerrill, Nath I and family, S(!\\nDavid IK)\\nychuyler 116\\nBenjamin 116\\nAbel K. 116\\nHenry 117\\nArthur 117\\n.John 117\\nDaniel F. 118\\n.John L. 329\\nBenjamin 32!)\\nCharles H. 329\\nWilliam 329\\nMill at North Haverhill, 180\\nat Brook, 178\\nFirst Saw and Grist 44, 176\\nMill l rivileo;e first granted, 177\\nMountains, 2.\\nMorse, Caleb 92\\nLafayette 120\\nIsaac 120\\nIsaac S. 334\\n.Jacob 120\\nDaniel 120\\nStephen and family,\\nDea. Morse 93\\n(ieo. VV. 332\\nTeabody 331\\nJohn N 92\\nJohn 121\\nJoshua 92\\nRobert 336\\nJoseph B. 323\\nEdmund 93\\nLuther C. 284\\nBryan and family, !I2\\nMuster dav, 360\\nN\\nNewconib, Charles .308\\nNelson, William JL 143\\nJohn 2(iO\\nThomas L. 337\\nNiles, Joseph B. 130\\nAlonzo F. 337\\nHorace L. 338\\nNichols, Jonathan S. 134\\nGeo. B. 338\\nNellie P. 33!)\\nClara I. 33!)\\nNorth Haverhill, 24\\nNoyes, Timothy and family, 110\\nPerson 110, 339\\nBenjamin 110\\nHorace E. 110\\nKoyal H. 110\\nOres and Minerals,\\nOdd Fellows, 416\\nOsgood, John 96\\nOld Debt, 158\\nOlcott Edward. II.\\n269\\nName, Origin of ,20\\nNewspapers, .391\\nPattie, John 42\\nPage, John and family. .51\\nHannah Green .^2\\nDavid 27!)\\nSamuel 5.\\nSamuel T. 284\\nSamuel B. 284\\nWilliam H. .55\\nMoses S. 340\\nJohn A. 339\\nPalmer, Haven 304\\nParker. Enoch G. 147\\nPaper Currency, 1.5.5\\nParing bee, 3.5!)\\nPatriarchs Militant, 417\\nPearson, Joseph and family, 89\\nIsaac and family, 89\\n.Tames H. 341\\nI helps, Martin 289\\nPike Station, 25\\nPike Isaac and family, 125\\nAlonzo F. 126\\nA. F. Mfg Co. 180\\nIsaac Jr., 127\\nEdwin B. 127\\nChas. W. 128\\nBurns H. 128", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0471.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "440\\nI-XDEX.\\nPike, f has. J. 128\\nOsL-ar B. 128\\nSamuel P. 342\\nPigeons, 369\\nPierinont Boundary dispute, 383\\nPine Grove Farm, 415\\nPond, French 27\\nr ong, 27\\nWoods 27\\nPorter, Asa 82\\nWilliam 84\\nJohn 258\\nPolls, Numl)Pr of 22\\nPowers Explorino; Paity, 32\\nPowers, Aim of 34\\nJoseph, 144\\nEev. Peter 173, 220\\n(4rant 223\\nElizabeth A. 342\\n.^larv VV. 342\\nIleniielle M. 342\\n(ieo. C. 342\\nPopulation, 22\\nInflux of 35\\n!n 17(;7, 57\\nPoor, The 374\\nCare of 158\\nPoor Farm, IGO\\nPowder House. 308\\nPutnam, A. W. 139\\nGeo. F. 282\\nQuestion of Conscience, 157\\nR\\nKeding, Jno. P. 133\\nSilvester 134\\nWarren 134\\nJohn 343\\nPeligion and hurches, 217\\nin Coloniarrimes, 218\\nProtest against, 219\\nRecord Book, 152\\nRiver, Connecticut 25\\nAmmonnsuc26\\nOliverian 20\\nRixes, Major 131\\nJohii L. 131\\nNathaniel 131\\nRoads and Bridges, 28, 185, 194\\nFirst, only l)ridle-paths, 185\\nFrom Plymouth, 186\\nRoads. Portsmouth. 187\\nFirst mention of in Propri-\\netors Records, 187\\nFirst into Town, 187\\nRiver, 188\\nChange of, 188\\nImperfect, 190\\nCharacter of, 191\\nGrades of, 191\\nRail, 192\\nRodgers, Fevi .343\\nCarleton 343\\nRowell, Jno. 13. 135\\nJonathan H. 344\\nChester 345\\nRussell, :Moor and family, 100\\nDavid Moor lOO\\nWm. W. andfamilv, 101\\nAlfred 101\\nWilliam 101\\nFrank W. 101\\nWalter W. 101\\nCliarles J. 101\\nStark, John. 31\\nSprague, Alden 256\\nSanders, Jonathan 58\\nSwasey, Obadiali and family, 98\\nSamuel 99\\nCharles J. 99\\nNathaniel 100\\nJohn Fl. 100\\nSwan, Joshua 97\\nWilliam 97\\nCharles 98\\nIsrael 98\\nCharles J. 98\\nPhineas 98\\nHenry 98\\nSpalding, Phineas 292\\nSabbath, Obsci vance of 02\\nI raveling on 157\\nStages, 195\\nStage Drivers, 197\\nDrinking: habits of\\n198\\nSettlements, River 109\\nBack 109\\nSettlers, First White 42\\nLiving of 358\\nDrinking habits of 382\\nScener_y, 20\\nI-ongfellow s view of 21\\nStevens, Simeon 47\\nI", "height": "3366", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofhaverhi00bitt_0472.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n441\\nStevens. Parker 105\\nCaleb lOr)\\nGrove 8. 148\\nGeorf^e W. 143\\nLjMiian D. 315\\nSpecial Choice of Selectmen, 157\\nSearle, Moses C. i^O\\nSleeper, Jonas D. 277\\nSteamboats, 3!i8\\nSimpson, Thomas 73\\nSmith, Eleazer 137\\nCharles G. 137\\nChas. B. 147\\nKev. Ethan 222\\nRev. John 223\\nLj ndon A. 347\\nStephen S. 317\\nCarlos 347\\nFrank A. 347\\nStlckney, Seth P. 148\\nSouthards, Moses 129\\nAaron 12i)\\nLyn)anM. 12!)\\nSamuel F. 130\\nStowe. Amos 132\\nJoseph, 132\\nWilliam P. 348\\nStoddard, Eugene W. 228\\nSoil, 27\\nSloan, David 202\\nStone, Uriah 61\\nScott, Amasa 290\\nQuincy A. 149\\nSoap Stone, 27\\nSoper, Horace O. 345\\nStore at Corner, 182\\nat Brook. 183\\nat Xo. 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