{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "2157", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "M\\nClass J.\\nBook., ,H lVV\\nGopyiight W\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT!", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HISTORT\\nTO^V^ OF HO I. LIS,\\nNEW IIAMTSHIRE.\\nroiii its irst Scttlenn)/! io t/ic I ear iHji;.\\nWITH MANY 1?IOC;i:AI 1IICAI. SKETCHKS ok its EAKI.V SK ITI.KKS\\nTH?:iH DESCKNDANTS, AXD OTHER RESIDENTS.\\nIl.I.r.STR ATKD WITH MaVS AND EnOR AVINflS.\\nBY SAMUEL T. WORCESTER.\\nIN MF.MOKIAM MAJOKl M.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Only tlif actions of the just\\n\u00c2\u00bbnicll sweet and hlossnm in the ilu*.!.\\nA W 1 Iv L I AMS cV: (M)\\ns \\\\V a s h i x g t o n S r k v v.\\n1879.\\n7/\\nT7\\\\ J^!", "height": "3280", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress April, 1879,\\nBY SAMUEL T. WORCESTER,\\nIn tlie office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.\\nPr,:^s of O. C. Moore, ynshiio. jV. Jl.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO\\nTHE INHABITANTS OF HOLLIS,\\nAND\\nTHE DESCENDANTS OF ITS EARLV SETTLERS\\nWHEREVER SCATTERED,\\nAND TO AI.I. WHO HA^ E RESIDED IN THE TOWN,\\nTHIS HISTORY\\nIS RESPECTFUM.V INSCRIBED,\\nRV THEIR FRIEND,\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIST AND PLACE OF ENGRAVINGS.\\n4.\\n(5.\\n7.\\n8.\\nf).\\n10.\\n11.\\n12.\\ni:5.\\nu.\\n15.\\n1\u00c2\u00ab.\\n17.\\n18.\\n10.\\n20.\\n21.\\n24.\\n2.\\nMap of Mollis, (facing title page)\\nMap of 01(1 Dunstable, Holies, Merrimack and Mouse\\nFirst and Second Meeting House\\nPortrait of Dea. Daniel P^merson\\nPortraits of Hon. Ralph E. Tenney and Wife\\nThe Tenney Homestead\\nPortraits of Jesse Worcester and Wife.\\nThe Worcester Homestead\\nThe Soldiers Monument\\nPortrait of Lieut. John H. Worcester\\nPortrait of Lieut. Charles H. Farley\\nPortrait of Rev. Eli Smith\\nPo/-trait of Rev. Pliny 15. Day, d. i\\nThe Third Hollis Meeting-House as Remodelled in 1840\\nThe High School House\\nPortrait of Miss Mary S. Farley\\nPortrait of Hon. Benjamin M. Farley\\nPortrait of Sanuiel T. Worcester\\nPortrait of Joseph E. Worcester, i,l. d.\\nPortrait of Rev. llalpli Emerson, d. d.\\nPortrait of Rev. Samuel Worcestei d. d.\\nPortrait of Rev. Calelj J. Tenney, d. d.\\nPortrait of Rev. Noah Worcester, d. i\\nPortrait of Hon. Henry G. Little\\nPortrait of faither Prcscott Hubbard\\nPage.\\n(U\\n200-\\n214\\n21.3\\n21 G\\n217\\n220\\n231-\\n238\\n240-\\n24.\\n281\\n282\\n202\\n20 f.\\n208\\n300\\n302\\n304\\n314\\n331\\n332", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TO THE READER.\\nAs this book \\\\vill be found to contain very many short biograph-\\nical personal sketches, it is hoped tliat it will not be looked upon\\nas a matter of unpardonable egotism should it be introduced to the\\ncharitable reader with tlie like brief sketch of itself. Though a.\\nnative of Ilollis, the home of an honored ancestry for a hundred\\nyears and more, and mv own. in ciiildhood and \\\\outli. it has not\\nbeen so for the last fiftv years and more. It was my fortune to begin\\nand spend a busy professional life of between thirty and forty years\\nin a distant western State.\\nI am not aware that while living in Hollis I gained more knowl-\\nedge of its earh- liistorv and people than would ordinarily fall to\\nthe lot of other voung persons in the like circumstances, and the\\nmany years of my absence from New England tended ratlier to\\nlessen than add to the little I had before acquiretl.\\nBut some vears after mv return to New Hampshire, having\\noccasion when on a visit to Ilollis to examine one or more volumes\\nof its early town records. I chanced to find in the same depository\\nwitli tlicm manv miscellaneous papers and documents, some scattered\\nand loose, and the rest in ill-assorted packages all relating to the\\nearly history of the town prior to or during the war of the Revolu-\\ntion. A cursorv examination of these ancient dociunents. in con-\\nnection with the older worn and mutilated volumes of the town\\nrecords, interested me. Ilavmg at the time some leisure at com-\\nmand, I said to the Town Clerk who had these papers in charge,\\nthat if he would entrust them for a time to me. I would put them\\nin a better condition for permanent preservation. ith this under-\\nstanding they were confided to me. Having procured for my pin-\\npose a large blank book, intended as a sort of supplement to the\\ntown records. I hatl it labelled Ilollis Historical Documents.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 TO THE READER.\\nInto this book I caused to be inserted and bound all those ancient\\ndocuments pertaining to the early history of the town. I also caused\\nto be copied into the same volume a large number of original docu-\\nments and records relating to its early history found in the offices\\nof the Secretary of State and Adjutant General, both in Boston\\nand Concord. There were also copied into the same book from the\\ntown records and methodically arranged, such other matters as\\nwere thought pertinent to its civil, ecclesiastical and educational\\nhistory.\\nIn the meantime, as 1 had leisure, I had written a number of\\narticles relating to the early settlement and Revolutionary history\\nof the town, some of which had been published in the New Eng-\\nland Historical and Genealogical Register, and several, in other\\nperiodicals. All this however had been done W ithout any purpose\\non my part of preparing for the press a connected history of the\\ntow n, but yet with the hope that the materials so gathered might be\\npreserved and some time used m the compilation of such history,\\nby some one more competent to the task and less a novice in this\\nkind of literary labor.\\nThese fugitive historical scraps, as they had l)een published from\\ntime to time, had been read by some of the people of the town,\\nand may have led to the insertion of an article in the warrant for\\nthe annual jSlarch meeting in 187^5 ^o see if the town would\\nauthorize the Selectmen to contract with some person to prepare\\nand publish the early history of the town at its expense. By invi-\\ntation I attended that meeting, and by request stated what had been\\ndone with the historical documents which had been entrusted to me.\\nI also expressed my concurrence in the sentiment, strongly expressed\\nby others, that a history of the town ought to be w^ itten, and also\\nstated that though I had no pm-pose or wish myself to undertake the\\ntask, yet if some other person, satisfactory to the town, would under-\\ntake it, I would cheerfully and gratuitously place in his hands such\\nmaterials for it as I had gathered, and also gi^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0e such further aid, if\\ndesired, as convenient to me. After some further discussion of the\\nquestion by others, the meeting unanimously voted to refer the\\narticle relating to the publishing the early history of HolHs to the\\nSelectmen, and that they be authorized to borrow money for the\\ncompletion of the object, if in their judgment they should think it\\nadvisable, and that they be authorized to employ a committee to\\nact with them.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "TO THE KEAnnR. 7\\nThe Selectmen chosen at that meeting were Messrs. Timotliy E.\\nFlagg, John A. Coburn and Charles \\\\V. Hardy, who shortly after-\\nwards appointed as a committee to act with them. Messrs. John N.\\nWorcester, Joseph E. Smith, John Farley and Charles S. Spalding.\\nIn tlie meanwhile, no one else having been found to prepare a his-\\ntory of the town as contemplated by the vote of the meeting, the\\nwish was strongly expressed by tlie Selectmen and committee, that\\nI would consent to undertake it. After one or more interviews\\nwith them, but without any specific proposals upon the subject on\\ntheir part, or promises on mv own. I set myself about gathering\\nadditional materials for the work, and putting in the shape and\\norder in which they now appear, such as I had before collected.\\nIt is needless tor mc here to speak of all the motives that led me\\nto wai\\\\ e mv objections to undertaking the task and going on with\\ntlie compilation of this history, as I have now done. But among\\nthose motives, I may be permitted to say, was a sincere filial regard,\\nnot to say veneration, for the memorv and character of the early\\nsettlers of the town as shown by the records of their doings, among\\nwhom, and its inhabitants afterwards, were three generations of both\\nmy paternal and maternal ancestors. I also participated in the sen-\\ntiment felt and expressed by many others that it was but doing tardy\\njustice to their memories, that their history should now be Avritten.\\naccompanied by the fear, also often expressed by those interested,\\nthat otherwise it might not be soon, if ever. done.\\nIn my iew it would also be needless, as well as tedious, here to\\nenumerate the many books and public documents which have been\\nconsulted in the collecting of the facts presented in this histoiy.\\nThe references to them, at least for the most part, will si ff ciently\\nappear to the patient reader in their proper connection. Suffice it\\nto sav that it has been mv aim to gather these facts from all such\\npertinent original documents as were at m\\\\ command, and from all\\nother sources that seemed to me authentic and trustworthy, whether\\nbooks, letters of correspondents or well-established traditicv\\nIt has been said by a late author. that one must write a book to\\nknow how courteous the world can be. It has been my fortune in\\nthe compilation of this history very fully and most cordially to\\nappreciate that sentiment, and I take unfeigned pleasure in expres-\\nsing my grateful acknowledgements- to the very many correspon.\\ndents who have aided me. and also to the librarians of the libraries\\nI have had occasion to visit, and to the custodians of the pul lie", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "S TO THE HEADEfJ.\\nI ccorcLs at Boston and Concord for their imiforni courtesy and kindly\\ns smpath V ith mv work. M\\\\ thanks arc also due to the Select-\\nmen of Hollis. and to the Publication Committee, for the active in-\\nterest the\\\\- have manifested in the undertaking^-, and likewise to the\\npeople of the town for their imanimity and good wishes in respect\\nto it. 1 further take leave to express my oblij^ations to ni}- brother\\nJohn N. Worcester, for the man\\\\ matters furnished by him pertain-\\nhig to the local histor\\\\ of the to\\\\vn. and also in respect to the per-\\nsonal history of many of its citizens, in regard to whom my own\\ninformation and memorv were at fault. The readers of this his-\\ntory, as well as myself personally, are also indebted to the town\\nfor the engravings it has furnished, and to the individuals who\\nhave gratuitioush pro\\\\ided the portraits with which the liook is\\nembellished.\\nFor the last four years, the gathering of the materials for this\\nwork, and its compilation, have Inisily, and for the most part pleas-\\nantly, emplo^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ed verv many of my leisure hours. Conscious as an\\\\-\\none need he of its incompleteness and shortcomings, yet hoping to\\nsome extent it ma\\\\- meet the reasonable expectations of the present\\ninhabitants of Hollis and the widely scattered descendants of the\\nearly settlers of the town, the work is respectfully dedicated to them\\nin the hope that the lessons of virtue, piety and patriotism taught in\\nthe lives, doings and example of their worthy ancestors will not\\nsoon fade from the memory of their posterity.\\nS. T. W.\\nNashua, N. H., April. 1S79.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER 1.\\nOLD DUNSTABLE.\\n1073 to 1739. Charters of the Plymouth aiul Massachusetts Companies;\\nGrants of New Hampshire to Capt. Johu Masou Charter of Okl Dun-\\nstable Grantees anil Proprietors Origin of the Name Compact of the\\nGrantees and Settlers; House Lots laid out; King Philip s War; First\\nMeeting House and Minister First Birth, Marriage and Death King\\nWilliam s War; Queen Anne s War; Capt. Lovewell s Fight; The Return\\nof Peace and its Effects; Population; First Dismemberments of Old\\nDunstable 17\u00e2\u0080\u009430.\\nCHAPTER n.\\nWEST DUNSTABLE.\\n1730 to 1739. Names of the First Settlers of West Dunstable, and where\\nthey Settled; Towns from which they came; First Petition for a Town\\nCharter Names of the Petitioners Second Petition for a Town Charter\\nNames of the Signers; liemonstrance against the Second Petition; West\\nDunstable Chartered as a Parish 31\u00e2\u0080\u009439.\\nCHAPTER in.\\nTHE PARISH OK WEST DUNSTABLE.\\n1739 to 174G. Its Area and Boundaries; The Tax of Non-residents; The\\nFirst Parish Meeting and First Parish Officers The First Meeting-\\nHouse and its Location The First Parish Tax; The Non-Resident Tax\\nand Disposal of It The District of Dunstable Settlement of the new\\nProvince Line Effects of the Decision Preaching, and the Manner\\nof Providing It; The Call to Rev. Mr. Emerson, the First Minister;\\nThe Settlement of Mr. Emerson, his Salary and how paiil: Old Tenor\\nCurrency -^0 56.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "lO CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nIIOLLIS.\\n174G to 1750. The Charter of Hollis; Charter of the new Towns of Dim-\\nstable, Merrimack and Monsou; Original Boundaries of those Towns;\\nName of Hollis and its Origin The First Town Meeting and First Town\\nOfficers The Second Meeting-House Petition for a Laud Tax Stocks\\nand Whipping Post; Pews and Pew Grouuil and to whom soUl Care of\\nthe Meeting-House; Singing u\\nCHAPTER V.\\nBORDER TROUBLES WITH DUNSTABLE.\\n174G to 1773. The One Pine Hill Controversy; First Petition for the Annex-\\nation of One Pine Hill to Hollis Second Petition foi the Annexation of\\nOne Pine Hill: Contest in the General Court; One Pine Hill Finalh An-\\nnexed to Hollis Second Border Controversy with Dunstable The\\nNashua Piver Bridge, and Dispute in rcs])ect to the Building and Sup-\\nport of it; Compromise and Final Settlement 74 84.\\nCHAPTER \\\\T.\\nHLSTORV OF .MONSON.\\n1740 to 1770. First Town Election in Monsou, and First Town Officers;\\nTown Officers from 174C to 1770; Petition to the General Court for\\nScouts and Guards Petition to be Believed from Taxation Unsuccess-\\nful Efforts to Maintain a School, to Support Preaching, Build a Meeting-\\nHouse or Find a Meeting-House place Bepeal of the Charter and Division\\nof the Town: The Mile Slip, Charters of Baby, Wilton. IMason. Duxbury\\nand Milford s.-,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (13\\nCHAPTER Vn.\\nMILITARY HISTORY.\\n174() to I7(;: The Provincial Militia Law: First Militia Company in Hollis\\nand its Officers; French and Indian War of 1744; Petitions for Garrisons\\nand Scouts: The French and Indian War of 1754; Hollis Officers and\\nSoldiers in the War of 1754 !\u00c2\u00bb4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 iOl-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CONTEXTS. ir\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nCOLONIAL SCIIOOL LAW AND SCHOOLS.\\nI74Gtol775. ScliooLs.iu llollis bclbre tlit Revolution School Taxes; School\\nS(|Uiulroiis or Districts The First School-Houses The Hollis Grammar\\nSchool Teacliers ol the Grammar School Names of Ilollis Graduates\\nof College, and of Ministers and Physicians not Graduates born before\\n1775; Letter of Gov. John Wentworth to Rev. Mr. Emerson 102\u00e2\u0080\u0094108.\\nCHAPTER TX.\\nEARLY COLONIAL LAWS.\\n174G to 1775. Town oflicers and their duties: Moderators of the Town\\nMeetings; Selectmen; Constables; Field-Drivers; Tithing-Mtn Hog-\\nReeves Deer-Reeves Wolves and Rattlesnakes Voters and tlieir Qual-\\nilications: Houses of Correction; The Stocks and Whipping-Post;\\nProfane Cursing and Swearing; Defamation; Insolence to Women;\\nPetit Larceny The I oor and their Support Warning out of Town\\nSlavery in New Hampshire before the Revolution Mode of Selling\\nNegro Slaves 109\u00e2\u0080\u0094117\\nCHAPTER X.\\nTHE NEW HAMI SIIIUE GENERAL COURT.\\n1741 to 1775. Members of the New Hampshire General Court from Hollis\\nand Dunstable before 1775. Justices of the Peace; Division of New\\nHampshire into Counties Organization of Hillsborough County; County\\nOtticers from Hollis: Tlie Pine Tree Law, its Unpopularity, and Trouble\\nin Enforcing It Riot at Weare and Trial of the Rioters Gov. John\\nWentworth; His Personal Popularity: Address to, from the people of\\nHollis; The First Trial for Murder in Hillsborough County: Pica of tl.e\\nBenetit of Clergy; Poi)Ulati()n of Hollis and other old Dunstable Towns\\nin. 1775; The Charter and t-CttUnient of I lyniouth by Emigrants from\\nHollis 118\u00e2\u0080\u0094127.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL.\\n1730 to 1754. Rrief Biographical Sketches of a portion of the Early Settlers\\nof Hollis from the year 17oU to the French and Indiar. AVar of 1754 Full\\nLists of the names of the Tax Payers on the Hollis Tax Lists, Jan. 1,\\n1 775, with the Last Tax Assessed by the Authority of the Kii g 128\u00e2\u0080\u0094108.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 CONTEXTS.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nTHE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION.\\n1774 aud 177.j. Ilollifs Town Meetings; I atriotie riesoliitious HoUls Militia\\nCompanies Tiie Alarm List Capt. Wright s Company Capt. Worces-\\nter s Company; First, Second aud Third County Congresses at Amlierst;\\nDelegates to; Hollis Company of Minute Men to Lexington and Cam-\\nbridge, April 19, 1775; Officers and Eoll of this Company: Wages Paid\\nby the Town 139_148.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nWAR OF THE RKX OLUTION.\\n1775. Hollis Company at the Eattle of Bunker Hill Company Eoll. Descrii)-\\ntive List Hollis Men in Other Companies Commission of Capt. ]:)ow\\nThe Battle of Bunker Hill The March from Cambridge under Col. Pres-\\ncott; Other Hollis aud New Hampshire Soldiers in Col. Prcscott s Regi-\\nment; Names of the Hollis Men Killed and Wounded at Bunker Hill;\\nLoss of Equipments of the Hollis Men in the Battle; The New Hamp-\\nshire Reinforcements in December, 1775; Desertion of the Connecticut\\nTroops Letter of Gen. Sullivan to the New Hampshire Committee of\\nSafe^.y; Capt. Worcester s Company to Cambridge in December: Num-\\nber of Hollis Soldiers the First Year of the War, and their Wages;\\nAmount Paid l)y the Town: The Military Coat oted as a Bounty: Story\\nof a Patriotic lluUis Woman U .t\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ir.2.\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nU AR OF THE REVOLUTION CONTINUED.\\n177G. Names of the Hollis Soldiers the Second Year of the War; Volun-\\nteers in the Continental Army; In Col. Wingate s Regiment to Ticonder-\\noga; In Col. Long s Regiment; In Col. Baldwin s Regiment to White\\nPlains; In Col. Gilman s Regiment; Names in the Return of Capt. Goss;\\nThe Hollis Tories 1G3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1G8.\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nTHE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR.\\n1777. Committee of Safety for 1777: The Town s Quota for the Continental\\nArmy: Names of the Thirty Continental Soldiers for 1777: Patriotic\\nPledges ol Forty-eight Hollis Minute Men The Ticonderoga Alarm\\nCompany of Capt. Emerson Its Marches to Walpole and Cavendish, Vt.\\nCompany of Capt. Goss Hollis Soldiers at the Battle of Bennington\\nWages of the Men, and Amount Paid by the Town in 1777; Depreciation\\nof the Continental Paper Money, and Law to Fix Prices 109\u00e2\u0080\u0094177.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. 13\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nTHE FOURTH AND ITKTH VKARS OF THE WAK.\\n1778 aud 1779. l)oiii;is of the Town ML etiiif:;s ami History of the War cou-\\ntinuod; Committees of Safety in 1778 and 1779; Continental Soldiers\\nfor 1778 and 1779, Names of the men engaj;ed, and Wages and Bounties\\npaid them; Volunteers to Khode Island in 177S: Capt. Emerson s\\nMounted Company; Wages; Soldiers Families; Leonard Whiting s\\nWar Tax; Volunteers for Khode Island and Portsmoutli in 1779; Capt.\\nEmerson s Commission Convention to fix Prices; Continued Deprecia-\\ntion of Paper Money Small Pox in llollis 178\u00e2\u0080\u0094187.\\nCHAPTER XVn.\\nTHE SIXTH AND SEVENTH YEARS OF THE WAR.\\n1780 and 1781. Votes and Kosolutions of -tlie Town Meetings llollis Con-\\ntinental Quotas in 1780 and 1781; their Wages and how paid Militia\\nfor West Point and the Northern Frontier in 1780; Names of the men\\nand their Wages Beef for the .\\\\rmy in 1780 and 1781, and how obtained\\nThe town divided into Classes Reduction of the New Hampshire\\nTroops aud of the llollis Quota; Rum for tlie Army in 1781 New Call\\nfor Soldiers 1S8 19:5.\\nCHAPTER XV HI.\\nTHE LAST YEARS OF THE WAR.\\n17^(2 and 1783. New Plan of Government; The New Hampshire Rangers in\\n1782; Last Soldier of the llollis Quota; Numl)er and Names of the llollis\\n.Soldiers Sentiments of the People in respect to the Return of the\\nTories; The last War Tax llollis Revolutionary Records and Docu-\\nments; Lists of the Committees of Safety; Names of Commissioned\\nOfficers, and of Hollis Soldiers lost in the War 194\u00e2\u0080\u0094202.\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nEIST OF THE HOLLIS SOLDIERS.\\n-Mphabetical List of the names of the Hollis Soldiers in the War of the\\nRevolution, showing in what Years they enlisted, and when, and how\\nlong thev were in the Service 203 20G.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "H\\nfo\\\\-i IS.\\nCHAI TIIK XX,\\nI!Io(;kai iii( Ar..\\nBricC I .iojinipiiicnl Skcldics olii I lul.ion ollhc llollis I. m nliiliniiiiry OOlccrs\\niiiul Soldiers 207 217.\\nciiAi* ri :i XXI.\\nWAI! ()V 1812. AND WAH Ol Mil, I, I! I.l.l .Ht N\\n1H]2 1() IHl.-,. Mollis Soldiers ill llie War oT |.h|l in llie i; 7;idiir y\\\\i my and\\nalso for Hie ri-ncc of rort-iiKnitli.\\nlo jflfiri. Soldiers I lirnislied Croni llie I ouii in Die Seveial Years of llic\\n\\\\Vai- Idi- I he Sii|)))ression oCtJie |{el)r-Hioii l{ev,inienls in vvliieh I hey Kll-\\nlisted, v\\\\illi Hie Dnii- of Kidistinent and I iine of Service and Diseliarae\\nasiiallies Soldiers Aid Sociely; Soldiers .Moiiiiini-nl apt. Natliiui\\nIVl. Ames: ],l. .|(,|iii II. Worecsler: M.CIiarles II, l- .-irlev J\\\\H--2 M.\\ncny\\\\i ri:i xxii.\\nIX I.ICSIAS IKAI. HIS I ()\\\\i\\\\\\n171:1 lo l.sT .t. llie oniiiejial ional Cliiireli and Society; I irsl Meinhers Of\\nI lie liiircii M ein Iters (iT the Inircli l)er(\u00c2\u00bbre 1 li i;e\\\\ olid ion Ministers oC\\ntlie Society; I{e\\\\ Mr. I-jner-on K ev. .Mr. Sinilli: l. ev. ,Mr. I crry j{ev_\\n.Mr. Aiken: l!e\\\\ M r. Oordfni K ev I )r. I )ay Kcs .\\\\1 r. Kelsey Kev. Mr.\\nSeoll De.ii ons d Hie liiir li, v\\\\iHi Hic |):il.- ol Hieir A|ipoiiit iiieiil and\\nDecease: Vouii^r iMeiis (liiislian Asso ial ion (iT tne Hundred V earH\\nA^o: Arlicles of Asso ialion Meinhersliiii I lie Third llollis Mectin;;-\\nIlonse: How and When I .nill, and IXMrij-lion of It: llollis I liilaii.\\nHiropic So iet\\\\: llollis ne\\\\ oleiil s^ iciiil ion Ladies l. e-ldili;^ Ulld\\nliarital)le Sociely Hdllis |i;iplisi Soeiel lis Miiii-^lers. Deacons uiid\\n.Vlcdiim-Ilollse 2:i.-i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2.\\nciiAi j i :i XXIII.\\nMIINTf II Ar. IIIS l OI{\\\\\\nIT; to l.s;.^. Parish Odiccrs of WesI, Diinslahle. 17: lo \\\\7M); Olllcers of\\nthe DisliicI of Dnnstaltle 171-Mo 174. iMdl l/isl.s ,,r Town (Xlicers in\\n174(1 and I7I.H: .Moderators ol lhe .Annual Town Meetings; Town Clerks,\\nJ reasiirers and Seleetinen fioni 1710 to lH7.-( (H.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "K)N riCN IS.\\nc ii.\\\\i im:k \\\\\\\\i\\\\\\nroll ricAi, iiiMom\\n\u00c2\u00bb5\\n17IIII Id Ih7 I)clc j;al( .s uiul Ikcprfsciitiilivos to tin (loiicnil C lXirt, roiivon-\\ntioiis, etc., IVoiii IT.l .t to IHT .i; Voles for Stutc J rcsltlriil IVom 1784 to\\n17 .tl. olcs for (lovcriioi IVoiii I7! to IS7H LT)!*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 263.\\nc ii.\\\\i n:K\\nt S lA I IS lie Al. IIISIOKN\\nArcii; Soil; I l-odiiction.s i\\\\ cis, I oihIs iiml iliooks; orcsl Trci I-iiiiiIkt\\nuikI oopfriii;^ l o|iiiliilioii liirllis mid Dt-atiis; I o.st l)l( r iiiiil Tost\\nMasters; I aveiii Keepers Iroiii l7!tL to ISiM .Iiistiees ol tlie reiiee\\nUilli;il IroilinK I lililie i;o;i(l llollis nsliraiice nlil|i;ni\\\\ L t! I J\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ii.\\\\i\u00c2\u00bb I i:k \\\\\\\\\\\\i.\\nICDlCAl l(\u00c2\u00bb.\\\\ Al. Ills I OKS\\nI77. i lo I,s7 .i. i li i lilijic Scliools School l-aws ami Sciiool Taxes School\\nDistricts; llollis Sixty Years Aj^o; Slate s Literary Fund; School\\nCoiiuintlees School Statistics in IH7:?; I lie llipli Scliool Miss Mary S.\\nl arley I he Social Library; llollis I,yceiiiii and rnl)lii Lectures; (Irad-\\niiatos ol ollei-e I roin I7. it to l.s7,s 27!?\u00e2\u0080\u0094 28\\ntii.\\\\i ri:K \\\\\\\\\\\\ii.\\nIIKX.K Ai in\\nnionraiiliic.d Skdrhrs of (liadiiates of Harvard :ind Vale L ulle^cs iVoiii 17r l\\nto Is7( 2S(i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 301.\\ncii.\\\\ri i:K xwiii.\\nIll( K.U AI IIV.\\nUiojiiaidiii id Skelches of (iraduales of Dartinontli. ,MiddlclMir_\\\\ IJrown,\\nAiiihersl. I nion. Mary\\\\ille and (In-einille Colleiic- IVoni I7!i. tf\\nIS7: .(12\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ;u;t.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "l6 CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\\nBIOGRAPHY.\\nBiographical Sketolie?; of Miui.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^tel\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^. Physicians ami Lawyers uot Graduates\\nof College 31+ 323.\\nCHAPTER XXX.\\nBIOGRAPHY.\\nPhysicians who have Settled in and Practised their Profession in HoUis. and\\nMiscellaneous Biographical Sketches, viz., of Nathan Thayer, James\\nBlood, James Parker. .Jnn., Henry G. Little, Lntlier P. Hubbard. Joseph\\nWheat, Dr. John Jones and Stephen Y. French :V2-i 340.\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\nLONGEVITY.\\nNames of Such Persons as have Deceased since the War of the IJevolutiou at\\nthe Age of Eighty Years or More, whose Ages with the Date of their\\nDecease have been ascertained 341 342.\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\\nMARRIAGE;\\n1743 to 1 77. Marriages to be found Eecorded in the Records of the District\\nof Dunstable In the First Three Volumes of the Original HoUis\\nRecords, and also in the other Hollis Records of Marriages from 1743 to\\n1^77 343\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3.;i.\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\n1739 to 1800. Family Registers of Bia-ths in Hollis from 1739 to ISOO, copied\\nmainly from the First Three Volumes of the Hollis Records, also pre-\\nsenting, when ascertained, the Date of the Marriage of the Parents, the\\nTime of the Death of the Father, and the Full Maiden or Family Name of\\nthe Mother 362.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF HOLLIS.\\nCHAPTER I\\nCharters of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Companies.\\nGrants ok New Hampshire to Capt. John Mason. Char-\\nter OF Dunstable, and history of that town from 1673\\nto 1739.\\nWhen North America was first discovered by European navigators,\\nthe foct of discovery, coupled with some act of possession, was re-\\ngarded by the common consent of European governments as giving\\na sufficient legal title to the sovereign or government in whose ser-\\nvice the navigator was employed to all lands so discovered. By vir-\\ntue of such discover} prior to the settlement of any part of New\\nEngland, the largest part of the continent of North America had\\nbecome, as was claimed, the property of the sovereigns of Great\\nBritain, and rightfully subject to their disposal, with little or no re-\\ngard to the possession and interests of the native inhabitants.\\nIn the exercise of this supposed right, King James I. in the year\\n1620, by his letters patent granted to the Council of Plymouth, a\\ncompany instituted for the planting, ordering and governing New\\nEngland, all that part of North America lying between the 40th\\nand 48th degrees of north latitude, and of the same breadth through-\\nout the main land from sea to sea.\\nIn the following year, (1621,) the Plymouth company granted to\\nCapt. John Mason, a merchant of London, and a member of this\\ncompany, all the land from the river Naumkeag round Cape Ann\\nto the river Merrimack and up each of those rivers to the farthest\\nhead of them then to cross over from the head of the one to the\\nhead of the other.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Holmes Annals, Vol. I, pp. 164, 165.\\n(2)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "l8 PROVINCIAL CHARTERS. [162O tO 1639\\n111 1629 Capt. Mason procured a new patent from the Plymouth\\ncompany. By this second patent that company conveyed to Mason\\nall the land from the middle of iMerrimack river, near its mouth\\nthence northward along the coast to the Piscataqua, thence up that\\nriver to its farthest head thence northwestward sixty miles from the\\nfirst entrance of that river also up the Merrimack to its farthest head\\nand so for\\\\vard up into the land westward sixty miles thence to\\ncross over to the end of the sixty miles from the mouth of the Pis-\\ncataqua river, with all islands within five leagues of the coast.\\nOn the 19th of jMarch, 163S, the Plymouth company, by their\\nletters patent, granted and sold to Sir Henry Roswxll and his asso-\\nciates all that part of New England lying between three miles to\\nthe northward of Merrimack river and three miles to the south^vard\\nof Charles river, and in length within the described breadth from\\nthe Atlantic Ocean to the South vSea. This grant to Sir Henry\\nRoswell and his associates was afterwards in the year 1629 confirmed\\nby King Charles I. by letters patent, incorporating these grantees\\nof the Plymouth Company by the name of the Governor and Com-\\npany of Massachusetts Bay in New England, with ^^erpetual suc-\\ncession, with the right to elect forever out of the freemen of the com-\\npany, a Governor, deputy Governor and eighteen assistants, and to\\nmake laws not repugnant to the laws of England. f\\nIt may be readilv seen that these several grants to JNIason and the\\nMassachusetts company conflicted, a large tract of the same territory\\nbeing embraced within the limits of each of them. As will appear\\nin the secj[uel, this conflict of boundaries many years afterwards be-\\ncame the occasion of much trouble and tedious litigation between\\nthe heirs of Mason and New Hampshire on one side and Massachu-\\nsetts on the other. Holding under this grant of the Plymouth Com-\\npany, confirmed l\\\\y the Royal Charter, the Massachusetts Company,\\nafterwards acting through the General Court of the Province, from\\ntime to time made grants of land to individuals, corporations and\\ncompanies, for Plantations and Townships. Such grants were made\\nupon petition for them to the General Court, and were usually coupled\\nwith such conditions as it was believed would promote the common\\ninterest of the province and the welfare of the settlers. In this man-\\nner townships were originally granted, and became organized in\\nMassachusetts without any more formal act of incorporation, and the\\n*IIolines Annals, Vol. I, p. 199.\\nfid, pp. 193, 195.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "1673] CHARTER OF DUXSTABLE. lO\\ngrantees named in the charter thus invested with the title to all the\\nland within the boundaries of the township, subject to such condi-\\ntions as might be imposed by the act making the grant.\\nFor many years prior to 1679, the Provinces of New Hampshire\\nand Massachusetts had been under the same government, but in that\\nyear, upon petition to the King, they were separated, and New\\nHampshire became a royal province, the King being represented\\nin its government by a Governor and Council of his own appoint-\\nment. After this scparatitju tlic like grants of tf)wn^llips and town\\ncharters were made in New Hampshire, as in Massachusetts, those\\nin Xew Hampshire being granted by the Governor and Council of\\nthe province in the name of the King, subject to such conditions and\\nlimitations as were expressed in the charters, and supposed to be\\napproved by the King.\\nCHARTER OF DUXSTARLE.\\nThe old township of Dimstable. of which the present town of\\nHollis was a part, was chartered by the General Court of Massachu-\\nsetts Oct. 16, 1673, O. S., corresponding to Oct. 27, 1673, X. S.\\nMore than one half of Dunstable, as chartered, was in the territorv in\\ndispute between the two provinces, but at the date of its charter, and\\nfor more than sixty years afterwards, it was supposed to be wholly\\nin Massachusetts, and formed a part of the count}- of Middlesex.\\nIt included within its chartered boundaries the present town of\\nTyngsborough, the east part of Dunstable, a narrow triangular gore\\non the north side of Pepperell, and a considerable tract in the north-\\neast corner of Townsend all still in Massachusetts. In the state of\\nNew Hampshire it embraced the towns of LitchHeld and Hudson,\\nthe south-west part of Londonderr\\\\- and tlie west part of Pelham, on\\nthe east side of Merrimack river and on the west side of that river\\nnearly all the present towns of Nashua and Hollis, all of Amherst and\\nMerrimack south of the .Souhegan river, and about two-thirds of each\\nof the towns of Milford and Brookline.\\nThe part of Dunstable west of the Merrimack was bounded north\\nby the Souhegan river, south by Chelmsford and Groton, as previ-\\nously chartered, and in part by country land (land not then in\\nany chartered town), and west by a line running due north from its\\nsouthwest corner to Dram Cup Hill, on the Souhegan, now in the\\ntown of Milford. The extreme length of the township from north\\nto south, from the north line of Litchfield to Chelmsford, following", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 CHARTER OF DUNSTABLE. [1^73\\nthe course of the Merrimack was about seventeen miles its least\\nlength from the north line of Groton to the nearest point of vSouhe-\\ngan river not far from ten miles. Its greatest breadth east and west\\ncoidd not have been less than sixteen miles, the whole comprising an\\narea of near two hundred square miles or 128,000 acres.\\nIt was still, at that time, a favorite home of the savage, covered\\nfor the most part with the dense native forests, abounding in game,\\nand its ri^-ers with fish, the Merrimack flowing from north to south\\nnear its centre, the vSouhcgan on its northern border, and the Nashua\\nand Nissitissit in the south and southwest. Besides all these beau-\\ntiful rivers it was watered by hundreds of crystal brooks and springs,\\nand cremmed anions: its hills and vallevs with scores of clear and\\npicturesque ponds.\\nFrom out this fair domain, between the years 1655 and 1673, many\\ngrants had been made l\\\\y the General Court of Massachusetts of\\nFarms, so called, to individuals and corporations, mostly along\\nthe Merrimack and Souhegan, varying in quantity from three hun-\\ndred to fifteen hundred acres, and amounting in all to fourteen thou-\\nsand acres or more. The last of these grants, bearing date October\\nII, 1673, O. vS., but a few days before the charter, was made to the\\nBoston Artillery Company, since known by the well-earned name\\nand title of the Ancient and Honorable. This last grant was of\\none thousand acres, and was laid out on the north side of the Nashua\\nriver, at its intersection with the Merrimack, extending north along\\nthe Merrimack about one and a half miles, and on the Nashua to\\nSpectacle meadow and brook, about two miles, and including all the\\ncomj^act part of the city of Nashua north of the river. It appears\\nfrom the history of the Artillery Company that about seventy years\\nafterwards the company sold this tract to Col. Joseph Blanchard, a\\ngentleman of much note in the early history of Dunstable. The re-\\nmembrance of this grant has been affectionately perpetuated to our\\ntimes in the name of a small basin of water on the North Common\\nin Nashua, near the central part of the tract given to the Artillery\\nCompany, and still known as Artillery Pond.\\nPETITION FOR THE CHARTER.\\nThe petition for this charter was dated Sept. 15, 1673, O. S., and\\nwas signed by Thomas Brattle, Jonathan Tyng, and twenty-four\\nothers, including a part of the owners of the Farms previously\\ngranted. The petitioners stated as reasons for granting the charter\\nthat the Land described in the Petition Was of little Capacity- as it", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "1673]\\nCHAKTKK OF DUNSTABLE.\\n21\\nthen was to do tlic country senice that a considerable number\\nof persons of sober and orderly conversation, who stood in great\\nneed of accommodations were ready to make improvement of this\\nvacant Land with whom the owners of the farms previously granted\\nwere ready to join and Encourage. The petition then concludes as\\nfollows: Yo Petitioners therefore Humbly request the favour of\\nthis Honored Court that they will please to grant the said Tract of\\nLand to vo Petitioners and to such as will Joyne witii tiicni in the\\nsettlement of the Land aforementioned so that those who have already\\nimproved their Farmcs there and others also Who speedily intend to\\ndoe tlie like mav be in a wav for the Enjoyment of the Publique or-\\ndinances of God ribr without which the greatest part of the yearc\\nthey will be deprived of; the farmes lying far remoat from any\\ntowns and farther that this Llonoured Court will please to grant the\\nlike Immunities to this Plantation as they in their favors have for-\\nmerly granted to other new Plantations. So shall your Petitioners\\nbe ever engaged to prav c.\\nTiios. Edwakds,\\nTuo. WiiEELEK, Senior.\\nPeter Bclkelev.\\nJohn Parkek.\\nJohn Morss, Senior.\\nSamuel Comhs.\\nJames Parker, Junior.\\nJosiAH Parker.\\nJoseph I arker.\\nNath. Blood.\\nKoh t Parkis.\\nJohn Jolliffe.\\nZafenea Eono.\\nThomas Brattle.\\nJonathan Tvnc;.\\nJosEi i! Wheeler.\\nJames Parker, Senior.\\nRob t Gibbs.\\nJohn Turner.\\nSampson Sheafe.\\nSa^^iuel Scarlet.\\nWilliam Lakin.\\nAbraham Parker.\\nJames Knai f.\\nRobert Proctor.\\nSimon Willard.\\nThe petition was granted, and the charter or act of incorporation,\\nas copied from the original manviscript record, is in the words fol-\\nlowing:\\nTlic .Mafifistrates Judpe it Meet to g-rant the Petitioners Request herein; Provided that a\\nfarnie of Five Hundred Acres of I pland Meadow be laved out for the Publick use, and that\\nthey so proceed in settling ye Plantation as to finish it out witliin three years procure niain-\\ntayne an able Orthodox minister amongst them the Magistrs have passed this, their brethren\\nthe Deputies hereto consenting.\\nEDWAIU) K.\\\\WSON, Secret.\\n16 October 1673.\\nThe Deputves consent hereto.\\nWII.I.IA r TORREV, Clericls.\\nvSuch. in those times, and for manv vears after, were the usual con\\nditions upon which the General Court of Massachusetts granted\\ncharters for towns. The procuring and maintenance of an able\\na id ortJiodox minister was an indispensable condition, and in case\\na Town should be destitute of such lazvful minister for six consecu-\\ntive months, it was made tlic dutv of the Court of Sessions, at the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "23 DUNSTABLE. L^*^73 ^739\\ncharge of the town, to procure and settle one that would answer the\\nLaw. Bv finishing, or finishing out the Plantation within three\\nyears, was undoubtedly meant, the procuring within that time of\\nsuch number of settlers as would be competent to the support of\\nsuch minister and the building of a meeting-house. That such was\\nthe meaning of the words finish out the Plantation within three\\nyears is more than implied in the action of the petitioners, and in\\nthe conditions upon which at the time, they made grants of House\\nLotts, so called, to actual settlers each settler being required by his\\ncontract to clear, fence, break up, build a house, and Live upon\\nhis Lot within three years from the date of the charter under the\\npenalty of forfeiture. By the granting of this charter, the Twenty-\\nSix Petitioners became the owners of all the ungranted Lands within\\nthe Boundaries of Old Dunstable, which, if equally shared, would\\nhave given to each of them not less than four thousand acres. About\\ntwelve years later, for the consideration of \u00c2\u00a320, as is said, the title\\nof the Proprietors was confirmed by the Naticook Wamesit In-\\ndians the Naticooks then living about Thornton s Ferry, the Wam-\\nesits near Pawtucket Falls.\\nGRANTEES AND PROPRIETORS.\\nMany of the grantees of the Farms as well as of the petitioners\\nfor the charter were at the time men of note in the Province.\\nAmong the former were John Endicott, Governor of Massachusetts,\\nand William Brenton, afterwards Governor of Rhode Island.\\nAmong the latter were William Brattle, whose name is perpetuated\\nin Brattle Street, Brattle Street Church, and Brattle s End, Dun-\\nstable Peter Bulkelev, a fellow of Harvard College and Speaker of\\nthe Provincial Assembly Sampson Sheafe, a member of the Provin-\\ncial Council of New Plam^^shire, and others of no less note.\\nPERAMBULATION AND SURVEY.\\nThe Spring next after its incorporation, Dunstable was perambu-\\nlated and the boundaries of the town established and marked by\\nJonathan Danforth of Billerica, who had laid ofi the grant to the\\nBoston Artillery Company the fiill previous, the towns of Chelms-\\nford and Groton some years before, and who is spoken of in Mr.\\nFarmer s biographical notice of him as one of the most eminent sur-\\nveyors of his time. In an elegy written in memory of Mr. Danforth,\\nit is said of him\\nHe rode the circuit; chained great towns and farms\\nTo good behavior; and by well marked stations\\nHe fixed their bounds for many generations.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "1673 to 1739] DUNSTABLE. 23\\nNAMi:, KTC.\\nThe name Dunstable is said to have been given to the new town\\nin compliment to Madam Mary Tyng, wife of Hon. Edward Tyng,\\nand mother of Jonathan Tyng, one of the grantees in the charter,\\nMadam Tyng having come from a city of the same name in Bed-\\nfordshire, in the southerly part of England. This charter of Dunstable\\nis older by near sixty years than that of any town in New Hamp-\\nshire west of the Merrimack, that of Rumford, now Concord, in-\\ncorporated in 1733, being among the next oldest.\\nCOMTACT OF THE GRANTEES.\\nBefore taking possession or making any division of their ample\\ndomains, the grantees, following the prudent example of the Pilgrims\\nof the Mayflower, entered into a social wrilteu compact regulating\\ntheir future polity in respect to the disposition and settlement of the\\ntown. In this compact, among other matters, it was agreed that\\neach accepted settler, as a personal right should have a house lott\\nof ten acres, one acre to be added to the ten for each \u00c2\u00a320 of estate,\\nbut no house lott to exceed thirty acres and all after-divisions of\\nthe common land to be apportioned according to house lots.\\nThese lots were to be laid out in the same neighborhood and ad-\\njoining each other, for convenience of defence in case of hostile at-\\ntack. If any settler should fail to pay his dues or taxes, his lot to\\nbe seized by the town and held till payment. To the end that\\nthey might live in peace and love with each other, every settler was\\nto fence his garden, orchard and cornfield with a sufficient fence,\\nfour rails in height and all land not fenced was to be free and com-\\nmon to all the cattle of the proprietors.\\nHOUSE LOTS LAID OFF AND SETTLEMENT BEGUN.\\nThese house lots, said to have been about eightv in all, were laid\\nout not long afterwards, contiguous to each other, beginning at the\\nNeck, so called, near the mouth of Salmon Brook, and extending\\nsoutherlv along tliat lirook. the Merrimack ri\\\\cr and the main road\\nin the direction towards the ancient burial ground near the present\\nstate line. Near by, and not tar from the site of the old school-\\nhouse in the present Harbor School District, the first fort or garri-\\nson house was built, to which the settlers could retire in case of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0danger.\\nIt is very evident that settlements had been begun on these house", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 DUNSTABLE. [^^73 tO 1 739\\nlots as early as the spring of 1674, as we find on the town records,\\nthat on the nth of May of that year, at a meeting of the Farmers,\\nProprietors under the charter, and township men or new\\nsettlers, it was voted that the first meeting-house should be built\\nbetween Salmon Brook and the house of Lieutenant Wheeler as\\nconvenient as may be for the accommodation of both.\\nThus was begun, in the wilderness, two hundred years ago, the\\ninfant settlement at Salmon Brook. For sixty years afterwards, it\\nstood there, solitary and alone, no town north of it tliis side of\\nCanada none east of it, in New Hampshire to the west of Exeter\\nfifty miles none to the south-east, south or south-west, nearer than\\nChelmsford, Groton and Lancaster, at the respective distances of\\nfourteen, fifteen and twenty-five miles.\\nKixG Philip s war.\\nThe next year, in the summer of 1675, the bloody war begun\\nby the crafty and cruel King Philip for the extermination of the\\nEnglish, broke upon the New England Colonies. The new towns\\nof Lancaster, Groton and Chelmsford were attacked and burnt, their\\ninhabitants murdered, carried into captivity or driven from their\\nhomes. With the exception of the brave Jonathan Tyng, every\\nsettler at Dunstable fled. Tyng alone refused to leave, and fortify-\\ning his house he resolved to defend it to the last. He petitioned the\\nGeneral Court of Massachusetts for a little guard of three or four\\nmen, saying in his petition that he was living in the uppermost\\nhouse on the Merrimack, lying open to the enemy, but so seated as\\nto be, as it were, a watch-house for the neighboring towns. The\\npetition was granted, and with this little Spartan band, Tyng stoutly\\ndefended his rude castle and held the town till the end of the war.\\nJonathan Tyng thus nobly and gallantly earned the honor of being\\nthe first permanent settler of Dunstable, and of all of that part of\\nNew Hampshire west of the Merrimack, and of having his\\nname perpetuated by a grateful posterity in that of the town of\\nTyngsborough.\\nIn 167S, peace came again the fugitive settlers at Salmon Brook,\\nor such of them as had survived the war, were at liberty to return,\\nand the same year it is said, the first meeting-house was built. At\\none of their town meetings, about this time, it \\\\vas voted that the\\nnumber of settlers might be increased but not so as to exceed eighty\\nfamilies in all. In 1679 the plantation \\\\vas at last \\\\fi)iisJicd onf\\nby the procuring and maintaining the Rev. Thomas Weld as", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "1673101739] DUNSTABLE. 25\\ntheir first learned and orthodox minister amongst them. Under\\nthe ministration of Mr. Weld, the settlement so increased and pros-\\npered that in 1685 it became necessary to build a larger meeting-\\nhouse, about the size of the one at Groton, as the town records\\nhave it.\\nBIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.\\nIn the ancient records of births, marriages and deaths, we find\\nthat the first recorded birth was that of William, son of Jonathan\\nand Mary Tyng, April 22. 1679. The first marriage that of John\\nSollendine, the Alichael Angelo of the first meeting-house, and the\\narchitect of the first bridge across Salmon Bnjok, Aug. 2, 1680.\\nThe first recorded death that of the Hon. Edward Tyng, Dec. 22,\\n1 68 1 aged 8 1\\nKING William s war.\\nAfter an unquiet peace for about ten years, the beginning of the\\nwar, known in history as King William s, was signalized in New\\nEngland by the treacherous and horrible murder of !Major Waldron\\nand twenty-two other inhabitants of Dover by the Penacook and\\nEastern Indians, and the carrying oft a still larger number as cap-\\ntives to Canada. The same party of savages had planned an attack\\nat the same time upon Dunstable, but its execution was prevented by\\na timely discovery of the plot. Two companies of mounted scouts of\\ntwenty men each, afterwards reinforced by fifty, were promptlv de-\\ntailed to patrol the woods from Lancaster to Dunstable. Hut these\\nprecautions diil not save the settlement at Salmon Brook from attack\\nand massacre. The town records tell in graphic words, said to be\\nin the handwriting of Mr. W^eld, their first minister, the sad tale of\\ntwo of these attacks.\\nAnno Domini 1691.\\nBenjamin Hassell Senior 1 -it- 1 u\\nAnna IhisscU his wife W ere sla.n hv our\\nBenjamin Hassell, their son, l J, tnem.es\\nMary Marks, Daughter of E^\\ni atrick Marks J\\nObadiah Perr^- and ha d of our In-\\nChristopher I^errv Enem.es Sept. 2S, 1691,\\nJ in llie morninu:^.\\nThere were at this time in the settlement at Salmon Brook, four\\ngarrison houses, two of them having four soldiers each, one six and\\nanother seven. Such garrison houses, as descril^ed bv Dr. Belknap,\\nwere surrounded with walls of timber built up to the eaves, with the\\ngates as well as the house doors secured h\\\\ iron b(jlts and bars. So", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 DUNSTABLE. [1^73 tO 1 739\\nmuch had the settlement been reduced by this war that in 1696 two-\\nthirds of the inhabitants had fled, and in 1699 there were but twenty\\nheads of families to contribute to the minister s wood rate. This\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2war lasted ten years. Cotton Mather, who wrote its history, calls\\nthem Decefi?u H?fi Luctiwsufn the decade of sorrows.\\nQLIEEN AXXE s WAR.\\nIn the year 1703, after a short truce, the war known as Qiie.en\\nAnne s, broke upon the colonies, and also lasted ten years. The\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2scholarly Penhallow, who, as a member of the New Hampshire\\nCouncil, was an actor in it, and who wrote the history of the Indian\\nwars, from 1703 to 1726, inscribes the title-page of his book with the\\n:6ad, classic words\\nNescio tu quibus es, Lector, lecturus ocellis\\nHoc scio, quod siccis, scribere non potui.\\n(With what eyes, O reader, you will read this tale,\\nI know not,\\nThis I do know, mine were not dry when writing it.)\\nThe Eastern and Canadian Indians again took part with the\\nFrench, and in the course of a few weeks more than two hundred\\n.settlers along our northern frontier were killed or captured and taken\\nto Canada. Terror itbique /rcvwcr, says Penhallow fear and\\ntrembling everywhere.\\nIn this war, the General Court, in retaliation of the example of the\\ngovernment of Canada, offered a bounty of JC40 each for Indian\\nscalps. Capt. John Tyng, of Dunstable, was the first to avail him-\\nself of this grim bounty, and went, in the depth of winter, says the\\nhistorian, to the Indian headquarters and got five, for which he was\\npaid \u00c2\u00a3200. Early in the war the garrison house of Robert Parris, in\\nthe south part of the settlement, was attacked, and himself, wife and\\none daughter killed.\\nIn 1706, the Weld Garrison, so called, then occupied by twenty\\ntroopers, was surprised bv the savages, and one-half of the soldiers\\nkilled. The same party murdered six of the inhabitants of the town.\\nThe story of this last massacre is thus told in the town records\\nNathan Blanchard 1\\nLydia Blanchard his wife Dyed July\\nSusannah Blanchard his daughter J- 3, 171x1, at\\nMrs. Hannah Blanchard niglit.\\nGoody Cumings wife of Jolin Cumings. J\\nRacliel Gahisha, Dved July 3, 170(3.\\nAt this time, including a lilock-housc built by the government,\\nthere were seven garrison houses in the settlement, each having one\\nor more soldiers, the town being still a Watch-house for the\\ninterior settlements.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "1673 to 1739] DUNSTARLE. 27\\nlovewell s WAU.\\nIn 1 713 the Peace of Utrecht put an end to Qiicen Anne s War.\\nA treacherous peace followed, till 1723, when the war was renewed.\\nDunstable, still on the extreme frontier, was attacked, two of her cit-\\nizens captured and carried to Canada by a party of the enemy. The\\nsavages were pursued by soldiers from the town, who were am-\\nbushed, eight of them slaughtered, and all buried in the same grave.\\nThe following epitaph in the ancient burial ground, spelt by the\\nunlettered Muse, tells the bloody tale.\\nMEMENTO MORI.\\nHere lies the body of Thomas Lund who departed\\nthis life Sept. 24, 1724, in the 42d year of his age.\\nThis man, with seven more that lies in this grave,\\nWas all slew in a day by the Indians.\\nIn the month of November after this slaughter, the worthy Cap-\\ntain Lovewell and his company of fearless and hardy men volun-\\nteered to range the woods full wide and fight the Indians for a\\nyear. I need not in this place repeat the story of the first, the sec-\\nond, or the last expedition of this band of daring backwoodsmen,\\nWhat time the noble Lovewell came\\nWith fifty men from Dunstable\\nThe cruel Pequot tribe to tame\\nWith arms and bloodshed terrible,\\nall familiar from our childhood as household words. From that day\\nto our own, in our sober histories, in works of fiction, in oral tra-\\ndition, in our most popular New England ballads, the names of\\nworthy Captain Lovewell and Dunstable have been joined to-\\ngether, as it were, in holy wedlock, never to be put asunder. Of the\\nseventy savages in the desperate conflict at Pequawkett, according to\\nPenhallow forty were killed on the field and eighteen mortally\\nwounded. Of the thirty-four men of Lovewell s company, in the\\nbattle fifteen were killed, including all the ofiicers, besides many\\nwounded. Well and worthily has a New Hampshire bard, upon\\nvisiting the battlefield one hundred years afterwards, sung of them,\\nAh! Where are the soldiers that fought here of yore!\\nThe sod is upon them, they ll struggle no more,\\nThe hatchet is fallen the red man is low.\\nBut near him reposes the arm of his foe.\\nThe names of the fallen the traveller leaves\\nCut out with his knife on the bark of the trees.\\nBut little avail his affectionate arts,\\nFor the names of the fallen are graved on our hearts.\\nSleep, soldiers of merit! Sleep, gallants of yore,\\nThe hatchet is fallen, the struggle is o er.\\nWhile the fir tree is green or the wind rolls a wave.\\nThe tear drop shall brighten the turf of tlie brave.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 DUNSTABLE. [^^73 tO 1 739\\nThough the combatants were so few, and this bloody conflict ap-\\njDarently a drawn battle (neither party being in a condition to pur-\\nsue the other) yet so far as related to New England it had all the re-\\nsults of a decisive and complete victory. It was the last battle of the\\nwar the power of the hoi^tile savages was forever broken, and such\\nof them as were left gradually withdrew from their ancient haunts\\nand hunting-grovmds in New England to the French settlements in\\nCanada. Peace followed the ensuing winter, and from that time to\\nthe present the little settlement at .Salmon Brook, so persistentlv and\\nbravely defended for the preceding fifty years, has never l)een inva-\\nded by a hostile savage. From the breaking out of King William s\\nWar to the making of this peace was a period of thirtv-seven vears,\\ntwenty-three of this savage warfare, and but fourteen of treacher-\\nous, uncertain peace. During all these sad vears the settlers in this\\nancient town, feeble and few in numbers, but always trusting in\\nGod, and literally keeping their powder dry, were yet ever firm\\nand defiant. Living for the most part in garrisons, felling the forests\\nand planting their fields with their arms ready at hand listening to\\nthe sermon on Sunday with their loaded muskets by their seats, or\\nstacked at the meeting-house door their bravest men waylaid and\\nslaughtered their wives and children massacred in their houses, or\\nhin^ried oft to a captivity often worse than death thev maintained\\nthis out-post of our modern Christian civilization with heroic courage\\nto the end.\\nWhen we turn our eyes backward to tlie bloody scenes, to the ter-\\nrors and sorrows of the past, and contrast those scenes and those\\nsorrows with the peace and blessings of the present, and call to mind\\nto what extent this quiet and these blessings are due to the sacrifices\\nand sufterings of the early pioneers of Dunstable, what heart not\\npalsied, can fail to throb with emotions of gratitude to our common\\nFather for so worthy an ancestry.\\nIt would l)e forgetfulness of a duty we owe alike to ourselves, to\\nthose who shall come after us when we are gone, to the institutions\\ncivil and religious they did so much to establish, and to our common\\nhumanity, should we neglect so far as in us lies to perpetuate the re-\\nmembrance of their worthy and noble deeds.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "1673 to 1739] DUNSTABLE. 29\\nPOPULATION\\nThe population of Dunstable at this period, as stated by Mr. Fox,\\nwas as follows\\n16S0, 30 families, or about I30 inhabitants.\\n1701, 35 100\\n1711, 13 S6\\n1730. SO 250\\nTHE EFFECTS OF THE RETURN OF PEACE.\\nWith the return of peace, both the town of Dunstable and all the\\ncountry round, begun to experience a degree of prosperity never en-\\njoyed before, and settlements were soon extended north and west of\\nthe Nashua, and east of the Merrimack. As we have already seen,\\nno town before that time had been chartered north or west of Dun-\\nstable, in what is now New Hampshire, for the preceding fifty years.\\nBut such was the benign influence of peace, that within sixteen\\nyears after Lovewell s Fight twenty-eight towns, now in New\\nHampshire, had been chartered or granted by the General Court of\\nMassachusetts, and more or less settled, extending north on the Mer-\\nrimack, to Stevenstown (now Franklin and Salisbury) about sixty\\nmiles, and on the Connecticut to No 4, now Charlcstown, near\\nseventy miles.\\nFIRST DISMEMBERMENTS OF DUNSTABLE.\\nAbout this period, or a little before, began the legislative dismem-\\nberments and mutilations of the body politic of the town of Dunsta-\\nble afterwards continued with more or less frequency for near a\\ncentury a treatment little less unkind and cruel in its way than that\\nsuflered by the early settlers from the savages. The first of these ex-\\ncisions was in the year 1722 when its north-east extremity was cut\\noff, to fill up a corner of the Town of Londondeny. The next, in\\n1731, when a small slice of it of about eighty acres, was taken from\\nnear its south-west corner to piece out a side of Townsend.\\nIn the year 1732, all the remainder of the old town on the east\\nside of the Merrimack, extending from the north line of Litchfield\\nto Chelmsford, was incorporated into a new town then called Not-\\ntingham.\\nIn the year 1734, the north part of the then new town of Notting-\\nham, and a part of the present town of Merrimack, south of the\\nSouhegan, at the junction of that river with the Merrimack, were\\nincorporated into a town then and still called Litchfield.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 DUNSTABLE. [.^^73 tO 1 739\\nBoth of these towns being incorporated by the General Conrt of\\nMassachusetts, were required within three years from the date of\\ntheir respective charters to be finished out by procuring and set-\\ntling in each of them a learned and orthodox minister of good con-\\nversation, and making effectual provision for his comfortable and\\nhonorable support.\\nIn 1739 that part of Dunstable lying west of the present east line\\nof Hollis and the Nashua river was incorporated as a parish, known\\nby the name of the West Parish of Dunstable. This charter of\\nWest Dunstable, as also that of Nottingham, authorized the assess-\\nment of a tax of two pence per acre upon all lands of non-resident\\nowners, within their chartered limits for the space of five vears for\\nthe building of a meeting house and the support of the ministry.\\nThe incorporation of West Dunstable was the last legislative act of\\nthe General Court of Massachusetts affecting that part of the old\\ntown now in New Hampshire.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "1730 to 1739-] SETTLEMENT OF WEST DUNSTABLE. 3I\\nCHAPTER II.\\nCHARTER OF THE PARISH OF WEST DUNSTABLE. ITS SETTLEMENT\\nAND HISTORY FROM I 73O TO I 739\\nUnder the Laws of the Province of Massachusetts, in force at the\\ntime, the twenty-six petitioners for the charter of Dunstable, with\\nsuch as might joyn with them in the settlement, became owners in\\nfee simple, as tenants in common, of all the ungranted land within\\nthe boundaries of the township. In the year 1682, shortly after the\\nclose of King Philip s war, a meeting of these proprietors was held,\\nwho formed themselves into an association for the purpose of settling\\ntheir several rights of making divisions of their lands from time to\\ntime among themselves in the modes and proportions mutually\\nagreed upon and also for the making of sales and setting oft the\\nlands disposed of to purchasers and actual settlers.\\nThe meetings of these original proprietors, and of those who suc-\\nceeded to their estates, afterwards continued to be held (sometimes at\\nintervals of many years,) for more than a century-, the last of them as\\nlate as 1816. The doings of this association, including the partitions\\nand sales of land made by the proprietors were carefully recorded in\\nbooks kept by them for the purpose, now worn and mutilated, but\\nstill to be found in the office of the city clerk of Nashua.\\nBefore the year 1729, most of the land of these proprietors lying in\\nthe present towns of Nashua, Hudson and Litchfield, N. H., and\\nTyngsborough and Dunstable, Mass., had changed ownership, and\\nmuch of it was then in the occupation of actual settlers. Previous to\\nthat year, no record of any sale or grant to any one of the early\\nsettlers of Hollis of land in that town is to be found in the books\\nkept by these proprietors. But in the month of Januarv, 1729-30,\\nO. S., as is shown by these records, the modest quantity of 37 1-2\\nacres was set oft by the proprietors to Peter Powers, in the right of\\nJohn Usher. The survey of it was made by Col. Joseph Blanchard,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 SETTLEMENT OF DUXSTABLE. [l730tO 1 739\\nan honored citizen of Dunstable, and a noted surveyor of the time,\\nand was set oft to Powers by Henry Farwell, Joseph French ami\\nWilHam Lund as a committee acting for the association. This tract\\nis described in the record as lying in that part of Dunstable called\\nNissitissit, which was the Indian name of Hollis. It was laid out\\nin an oblong i30 rods cast and west, and 50 rods from north to south.\\nSome years afterwards, as is shown by these records of the proprie-\\ntors there were set oft to Powers as purchaser and grantee, in a simi-\\nlar way several other tracts of land in Hollis, amounting in all to\\nnearly 1400 acres, among which was one tract of 1000 acres lying\\nbetween Long and Pennichuck ponds, but he is the only person\\namong the early settlers of Hollis whose name is found as a grantee\\nupon the books of that association.\\nMr. Powers, afterward known as Capt. Powers, and as a lead-\\ning and prominent citizen of Hollis, was born at Littleton, Mass., in\\n1707. In 173S he was married to Anna Keyes of Chelmsford, and\\nthe same year removed with his wife to that part of Dunstable now\\nknown as Nashua. During the summer and fall of 1730, he made\\nthe first clearing and built the first dwelling house in Hollis. In the\\nmonth of January, 1731, with his wife and two infant children he\\nmade his way through the then dense, unbroken forest to his new\\nhome and thus became the first permanent settler of the town. The\\nsite of this humble dwelling, no doubt built of logs, was about one-\\nhalf mile N. W. of the present Hollis meeting-house, but a short\\ndistance from the house formerly owned by Thomas Cumings, after-\\nwards by his son-in-law, Mr. John S. Heywood, now deceased, where\\nvestiges of the old cellar, as is said, may be still seen. For nearly\\ntwo years this family had no neighbor within about ten miles of\\nthem. On the 9th of March, 1732, their eldest daughter, Anna\\nPowers, was born, who was the first child of English descent born\\nin the town.\\nIn the summer of 1732, Eleazer Flagg from Concord, Mass.,\\nsettled in the S. W. part of the town, on or near the place after-\\nwards owned by his grandson, Capt. Reuben Flagg, and now by\\nTimothy E. Flagg, Esq., about two miles from Mr. Powers. The\\nhouse of Mr. Flagg is said to have been fortified against the attacks\\nof the Indians, and was used as a garrison house. Mr. F. was the\\nsecond settler. The third fiimily is said to have been that of Thomas\\nDinsmore from Bedford, Mass., who settled on the farm now-\\nowned by John Coburn, Esq., about one and a half miles south of the\\nmeeting-house, on the road from Hollis to Pepperell. In the year\\n1736 the number of settlers is said to have increased to nine fiimilies.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "1730 to 1739.] SKTTI.KMKXT OF WKST Dl NSTABLE. 33\\nThe whole of the township of Dunstable, as we have already\\nstated, from the date of the charter, till the new province line was\\nsettled in the sprinjjj of 1741, was believed to ])e in the county of\\nAlidillesex and a part of it. The office of the Register of Deeds for\\nthat coiuitv was and still is at Cainbridt^e, where, bv the province\\nlaw of the time, the deeds of all real estate within the countv wcreto\\nbe recoi ded. But no records of deeds of land in llollis, to persons\\nknown to have been early inhabitants of the town, are to be found in\\nthat office of a date prior to 1731.\\nSubsequent however to 1731 and l^efore the spring of 1741 it is\\nshown by these records that between those dates a very considerable\\nnumber of deeds of land now in llollis were made to the earlv set-\\ntlers of the town. iSIany of these deeds, in addition to their date, a\\ndescription of the land sold, and the name of the grantee, give also\\nhis occupation, and place of former residence. Among these deeds\\nof land in Hollis, made before i74i\u00c2\u00ab ^I c to be found the following\\nnames of the early settlers of the town as grantees, viz.. Thomas\\nDinsmore, weaver, David Nevins. carpenter, and widow Margaret\\nNevins. all of Bedford, Mass. William Xevins, of Xewton. Mass.,\\nhusbandman Jonathan Danforth and Joseph Farley, of J?illerica\\nEleazar Flagg and Jonathan Melvin, of Concord Enoch Hunt and\\nJames McDonald, of Groton Stephen Harris, of Littleton, and\\nSamuel Cumings, of Groton.\\nDunstable, as originally chartered, as we have seen, ^vas bounded\\non the south, in part, by the north line of Groton. As chartered in\\n1655. Groton lay on each side of the Nashua River, its north-\\neasterly corner being about two miles east of that river, at a place,\\nthen and still known as Buck ]Meadovv, now in the town of Nashua,\\nabout one half mile from the south line of tliattown. The original\\nnorth-west corner of Groton was in the line between the towns of\\nPepperell and Townscnd, Mass., about one mile south of the present\\nsouth line of New Hampshire. This corner is still marked bv a\\nstone monument now standing on the farm of Addison Wood. This\\nold north line of Groton crossed the Nashua river, and the present\\nstate line at a point very near the Hollis Depot on the Worcester\\nNashua Railroad.\\nIn the simimcr and fall of 173S, a few of the settlers then li\\\\ ing\\nhi the north part of Groton, and most of those residing in the west\\npart of Dunstable, became desirous of being organized into a new\\ntownship, and together with a considerable nimiber of non-resident\\n(3)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 SETTI.EMKN i OK WEST DUNSTABLK. I 73O tO 1/39.\\nproprietors, these settlers united in a petition tt) the JMassaelnisctts\\nGeneral Court for a township charter. The reasons for this appli-\\ncation for a township charter are very clearly and pertinently set\\nforth in the following petitions, the originals of which, with the\\ndoings of the General Coint in respect to them, have been preserved\\nin the office of the vSecretary of State at Boston.\\nPETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF DL NSTAULl-: AND (iROTON FOR\\nA TOWN CHARTER.\\nTo his E\\\\eellenc\\\\ jon Belcher. Escp, Captain (General and\\nGovernor In chief, S:c. The Hon the Council and House of\\nj^pptives jj-j Q,^.neral Court Assembled, at Boston. Xo\\\\ the 29th.\\n1738-\\nThe Petition of the subscribers. Inhabitants and Proprietors of\\nthe Towns of Dunstable and Groton. Humbly vSheweth.\\nThat your Petitioners are situatetl in the westerh side of Dun-\\nstable To\\\\\\\\ nship, and tlie northerlv side of Groton Township\\nthose in the Township of Dunstable, in general, theii Houses are\\nnine or ten miles from Dunstable fleeting House, snd those in the\\nTownship of Groton. none but what lives at least on or near six\\nmiles from Groton Meeting House b\\\\ wliich means xoiu Petition-\\ners are tlepri^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ed of the benefit of preaching the greater part of the\\nyear, nor is it possible at an\\\\- season of the \\\\ear f )r their families in\\ngeneral to get to meeting: under which Disadx antages \\\\()iu- Peti-\\ntioners ha\\\\ e this se\\\\ eral ^ears Lal)ored. excepting the Winter Sea-\\nson for the two AVinters past, in which thev have at their f)\\\\vn cost\\nand charges hired Preaching amongst themselves, which Disadvan-\\ntages has ver\\\\- much pre\\\\entetl Peoples settling Land there.\\nThat there is a Tract of good Land well situated for a Town-\\nship of the Contents of about six miles and a half scjuare. bounded\\nthus, beginning at Dimstable Line by Nasha\\\\\\\\ay Ri\\\\ er, so running\\nby the Westcrlv side of said River. Southerlv one mile in Gro-\\nton Land then rimning Westerh a parallel Line with (jroton\\nNorth Line till it comes to Townsend Line and then turning and\\nrunning North to Groton North-west Corner, and from (iroton\\nNorth-west Corner b\\\\ Townsend Line and In the Line of Groton\\nNew Grant till it comes to be five miles and a half to the North\\nward of Groton North Line from thence due East seven miles\\nfrom thence South to Nashua River, ami so bv Nashua River,\\nSouth-westerly to (iroton Line, the first mentioned bound. \\\\\\\\h\\nich", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "73 VJ\\ni ii{sr ri.iiiioN i(ii:\\n11 1\\\\\\\\ N-i II \\\\i; I Ki;,.\\ntlcscribcd Lamls can 1 no means be prcjndicial to the I owii of\\nDunstable or Gnjton. (it not coming witliin six miles or tliereabonts\\nof either of their Meetiny Houses at the nearest place) to be taken\\nofftVom them and elected into a separate Townshi]).\\nThat thers is alreaiK settleil in the bonn ls of the afore described\\nTract, near Fortv Families, and mam more read\\\\ to come on were\\nit not tor the difficulties and hardships aforesaid of getting; to Meet-\\ning. These with manv other Disailvantages we find very trouble-\\nsome to us. our Li\\\\ ing so remote from the Towns we resj^cctiveh\\nbelong to.\\nWheretbrc our Petitioners most luimbK pra\\\\ that xour\\ncellenc\\\\ and Honors would take the ]:iremises into our consideratiun\\nand make an .^Vct for the Greeting the aforesaid Lands into a sepa-\\nrate and distinct Towiiship. ith the Pow ers. Privileges and Im-\\nmunities of a distinct and seperate Township under such restrictions\\nand Limitations, as you in )ur great Wisdom shall see meet.\\nAnd whereas it will be a great benefit and advantage to the non-\\nresident proprietors owing Lands there, bv increasing the value of\\ntheir Lands or rendering Easy settling the same, your Pet alsoprav\\nthat they may be at their proportionable part according to their re-\\nspective interest in Lands therefor the building a meetinghouse and\\nsettling a minister and so much towards Constant Preaching, as in\\nyour Wisdom shall be tliought [)roper.\\nSETTLKKS OX IIIi: AIOHKSAIO I. .WHS.\\nObadiaii Pakkek\\nJosiAii Blood\\nJekeaiimael Clminos\\nKben k Pearce\\nWilliam Colhikx\\nStephen Harris\\nThomas Dinsmorf\\nPeter Powers\\nAhraiiam Taylor. Jiin\\nFJenj. I- arlev\\nMenry Barton-\\nPeter Wheeler\\nKohert Colhlrn\\nDavid Xevins\\nPhilip Woolerkii\\nNath l Blood\\nWilliam Adams\\nJoseph Taylor\\nMoses Proctor\\nWilliam Shattl-ck\\nTuos. Xevins\\n\\\\f)X-UESIDEXT PKOPPvIKTORS.\\nSamvel Browm.\\nW. Browne\\nJoseph Blanxhard\\nJohn Kowle, Jun\\nXath l Saltonstali.\\nJoseph Eaton\\nJoseph Lemmon\\nJeremiah Baldwin\\nSam l Baldwin-\\nDaniel Remant\\nJohn Malvin\\nJoNA. Malvin\\nJames Cimint.s\\nIsaac Karwell\\nEhen r Proctor.\\n()|!l)i:i! Ol I lll-: (WCNICKAL COIKT.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2In the House of Representatives Dec 12. IJV^-\\nRead and ordered that the Peiitioners seave the Tow ns of Groton\\nand Dunstable with Coppvs of tliis Petition.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 SECOM) PE J ITIOX FOR A CIIAKTER. [^739-\\n111 Council Jaiuiar\\\\ 4lh 1738-9.\\nRead and a_L;ain ordered that the further coiusitleiation of this Pe-\\ntition be referred to the hrst Tuesday of the next May session, and\\nthat James INIinot and John Hobson Esq with such as the Hon-\\norable Board shall joine be a Committee at the charge of the Peti-\\ntioners to repair to the Lands petitioned to be Erected into a Town-\\nship, first giving seasonable notice as well to the Petitioners as to the\\nInhabitants ami non-resident Proprietors of Lands ^\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ithin the said\\nTo\\\\\\\\ns of Dunstable and (irolon of the time of their going by caus-\\ning the same to be published in the Ijostou iazette That they care-\\nfully view the s.d Lands, as ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ell as the other parts of the s.d I owns\\nso far as may be tlesired by the Part\\\\s or thought proper; That the\\nPetitioners, and all others concerned Ite full\\\\ lieard in their IMeas and\\nallegations for as well as against the Pra\\\\er of the Petition and that\\nii] on mature consideration on the whole the committee then report\\nwhat in their opinion may be proper for the Court t(_) do in answer\\nthereto. Sent up for concurrence.\\nJ. C^uixcY. Speaker.\\nIn Council jan- cj 1738-9.\\nRead and concurred, aiul Thomas Berry Esq\\nis joined in the ail air.\\nSimon FitosT Dep vSec\\nConsented to. J. Beeciier.\\nA very large maiorit\\\\ of the settlers whose names ap])ear on the\\nabo\\\\e Petition liyed in the Avest part of Dunstable. Man\\\\- of the\\nsettlers resi^Iing at the time in the north part of (jioton were not\\nsatislied with this Petition, but wanted a much larger part of the\\nnew township to be taken from (irotou than as contemplated li\\\\\\nthe signers of this first Petition. ith this purpose in ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iew these\\nsettlers in Groton, with such of the residents of the west part of\\nDunstable as were willing to join with them, presented a second\\nPetition to the General Court for a tow nship to be formed from the\\ntwo towns. This second Petition liearing date Dec. 12, 1739, was as\\ntoUows\\nTo his Excellency Jonathan Belchei Escj.. Captain General and\\nGovernor-in-Chief, ccc. iKic.\\nThe Petition of Richard Warner and otliers, Inhabitants of the Tt.wns of (ircton and\\nDunstable, most humbly sheweth\\nTliat yonr Petitioners dwell verv far from the place of Pnblic Worship in either of said\\nrowns many of them cijjlit miles distant; and some more, and none less than diuv miles;\\nwhereof your Petitioners are put to great Diflficulties in Travelling on the Lord s Day with ou", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "1739-]\\nKKMONSTKAXCK AGAINST THE SIXONI) PKTrriO.N. 37\\nKiiniilics. Vour Pi-titioncrs IhcrefDrc pray your Kxcelk-iicy and Ilnnnrs to take llicir tircuin\\nstances into your wise and compassionate consideration, and that a part of tlie Town of Gro-\\nton, I cLrinning at tlie I^ine between Groton and Dvinstable, where it crosses Lancaster (Nash-\\nua) Uiver, and so up the said River until it comes to a place called and knfiwii hy tlic name of\\nJoseph Blood s Ford Way cui said River thence a West I oint till it comes to Townscnd Line,\\nvVc, with such a part anil so much of the Town of Dunstahle, as this Honorable Cf)url in their\\nji;^reat Wisdom shall think proper, with the Iidiahitants Ihereon, may be parceled into a separate\\nand distinct Township, that so they may attend the Public worshij) of (jod with more Ease than\\nat present they can by reason of the great distance they live from the places thereof as aforesaid.\\nAnd your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray, c.\\nINHAIUTANTS OF GUOTOX.\\nKkiiakd Wakner, Euenezkr Piekce, William Blood,\\nBenjamin Swallow, Samuel Fisk, Jekemiaii Lawrence,\\nWilliam Allen, John Greene, Stephen Eames.\\nIsaac Williams, Josiah Tcckek,\\nEuENEZER Cmlson, Zechariaii Lawkence, Jcn.,\\nINHABITANTS OF DUNSTABLE,\\nEnoch Hint, Gideon Honev, Samuel Farlev,\\nEleazek Fi.Ar.G, Josiah Blood, William Adams,\\nSamuel Ccminos. Samuel Parker, Philii Woolerich,\\nWilliam Blanciiard,\\nShortly after tlic presentation of this second Petition most of the\\nsettlers in Diinstal le united in a Remonstrance a ;ainst any part of\\nDunstable beinji^ set to Groton, and appointed Abraham Taylor, Jun.,\\nand Peter Powers to show forth their earnest desire that a Town-\\nsliip be made entirely of Dunstable Land.\\nThis Remonstrance was tlated at Dunstable. Dec. 21. 1739. and\\nwas as follows\\nWe the Sub rs Inhrdi ts of ye Town of Dunstable, and resident in lliat part of it called Xis-\\nsitisilt. Do hereby Authcirize and fully Empower Abraham Taylor, Jiui., and Peter Powers to\\nrepresent to the General Court our unwillingness that any part of Dunstahle should be sett to\\n(Jroton to make a Township or Parish and to shew forth our Earnest Desire that a Township be\\nmade entirely out of Dunstable Land, Extendino; Six Miles North from Groton Line which\\nwill bring them on the Line on ye Brake of Land and just include the present settlement; or\\notherwise as ye IIonoral le Committee Reported, and Agreeable to the teilour thereof, as the\\nHonorable Court shall see meet, and as in Duty bound, c.\\nI iiomas Dinsmore, James Whitinc, Peter Wheeler,\\nJerahmael CuMiNGs, James McDaniels, David Nevi.vs,\\nJoseph Whitcomh, Randall McDaniels, Thomas Nevins,\\nJonathan Mklvin, Joseph McDaniels, Nathaniel Blood,\\nWilliam Adams, W\\\\lliam Coliiurn, William Siiattuck,\\n\\\\yiLLiAM Wilson, Robert Coliiurn, Joshua Wright,\\nMoses Proctor, Stephen Harris, Henry Barton.\\nin:Pt)RT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BV THE GENERAL COURT.\\nThe committee appointed on the petition of the inhabitants and proprietors situated on the\\nwesterly side of Dunstable and northerly side of Groton, after notifying all parties, having\\nrepaired to the lands petitioned to be erected into a township and carefidly viewed the same,\\nfind a very good tract of land in Dunstable, west of Nashaway river, between said river and\\nSouhegan river, extending from Groton New Grant and Townsend line six miles east lying in", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "3^ WEST DUNSTABLE CHAHTEU. [l739-\\na very coiiiiniiiliuu loiin lor a townsliip, and (in said laiuU tliurc is now al)iiut twenty families\\nand many more ^rltliny. I hat nonu of tlu- inhabitants live nearer to a meetmg-house than\\nseven miles, and if lhe\\\\ l;(i t.) tlieir town ha\\\\e to pass over a ferry the greater part of the year.\\nWe also find in .rotnn a snffuient quantity of land aceonimodable for settlement, and a\\nconsiderable number of Inhabitants thereon, that in some short time, when they are well agreed,\\nmaybe erected into a Precinct oi- Parisli. and that it will be very inconvenient to erect a township\\nin the form prayed loi-.\\nThe committee are of o|iinion that the Petitioners in Dnnstalile are under such circnmustances\\nits necessitates them to ask relief which will be fully obtained by their being made a\\ntownship.\\nThe committee are further of the oijinion that it will be greatly for the good and interest of the\\ntownship that the non-resident proprietors have liberty of voting with the inhabitants as to the\\nBuilding and Placing a meeting-house and that the lands be ecpially taxed, and that lor the sup-\\nport of the Gospel ministry among them the lands of the non-resident Proprietors be taxed at\\ntwo pence per acre for the space of tive years.\\nAll which is humblv submitted in behalf of the committee.\\nTnoM.\\\\s BhKHV.\\nACTION OJ THE GENERAL COI:kT UPON THE UEPOUT OE THE\\nCOMMITTEE.\\nIn Council Dec. 27, 1730.\\nRead and ordered thai this report lie so far accepted lliat the lands mentioned and described\\ntherein with the inhabitants there be erected into a separate and distinct Precinct and the said\\ninhabitants are herebv \\\\ested with all such powers and privileges as any other Precinct in this\\nProvince have oi- by law ought to have or enjoy. And they are also em])oweied to assess and\\nlay a tax of two pence per acre per annum for the space of five years on all the uniniind\\\\ed\\nlands belonging to the non-resident proprietors to be applieil to the su] port of the ministry\\naccording to the said Report.\\nSent down for concurrence.\\nSimon I- kdst. Dep ty Sec ty.\\nIn the House of Reiiresentatives, Dec. zS, 17J0\\nRead and concmred. J Qt i.Nc v. Speaker.\\nConsenteii to. Helciiek.\\nSuch ;it that tla\\\\ was the motlc of procectlin^ and such tlie coikH-\\ntions under which townships and precincts or parislies were char-\\ntered b\\\\ tile (ieiieral Court of Ma.ssachusetts. parish was an\\necclesiastical tli\\\\ ision of a township. X ested with the powei% (liv the\\ntaxation of its iidiabitants) and charg ed with the duty of building a\\nmeeting-house, and niaintaining a learned and orthodox minister.\\nBy the foregoing act of the General Coinl. that part of the old town\\nof Dunstable, described in the report of the committee. iK^came a\\nparish, known for some vears after\\\\vards as Jl rs/ Dunstable. For\\nall municipal purposes, other than ecclesiastical, it still remained a\\npart of the old town. The new parish was bounded on the north by\\nthe vSouhegtm ri\\\\er, on the .South by Groton, and west b\\\\ the w-est\\nline of the old town. On the east it was boundetl in part bv the\\nNashua ri\\\\er. and in part by a north and south line extending from\\nthat river to the Souhegan somewhat farther to the east than the\\npresent east line of Ilollis, and in the records of the proceedings", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "^739*] SKTTI.KItS IN W KSI DINSTAIUJ; IN I 739. 39\\nhad some years afterwards, before the Governor and Council of\\nNew Hampshire for a chaiii^e of the eastern houndar\\\\ of Ilc^llis.\\nthe parish of West Dunstable is said to ha\\\\e contained an area f)f\\n70,000 acres.\\nAt the date of the charter the rude, primiti\\\\c dwellinj^s of the\\nsettlers who hail petitioned for it. with tlieir stump-covered embrvo\\nfarms, were widely and sparsely scattered o\\\\ er a larj^e part of the\\nnew parish. Robert and William Colbura. David, Thomas and\\n\\\\Villiam Xevins. Stephen Harris and Philip Woolerich liad located\\non the south side ot tlie extinct town of ]\\\\b:)ns()n. now the north part\\nof Hollis Samuel Farley, fames. Joseph and Randall McDaniels,\\nMelvin and Whitcomb. in the easterlv part of Brookline. formerly\\nthe west part of Hollis. The house of Abraham Ta\\\\!or was about\\n60 rods north of the present meetinj^-house in Hollis. on land now\\nowned bv Henrv Blood that of Samuel Cumin i^s about 30 rods\\nwest of the meeting-house on the place now owned by Levi Abbot;\\nthat of Benjamin Farley, the inn-keeper, on the road leading to the\\nsouth of the meeting-house, being a part of the same house now\\nowned b\\\\ Taylor G. Worcester; Jerahmael Cumings ^lived on the\\nsame road, with Farlev. about 1-2 mile farther south; Josiah l^lood,\\nalso on the same road, about 3-4 of a mile from Cumings, now\\nknown as the Fox place Joshua Wright about 1-2 mile east of\\nBlood on the farm now owned by the heirs of his grandson. Miles J.\\nWright: William Blanchard in the east part of the t nvn. near\\nF lint s hill William Shattuck still farther east, near the old east\\nschool-house.\\nThe farm of Peter heeler was in the north-^vest part of the town,\\nabout westerlv frcjm Long pond; Moses Proctor settled in the west\\npart, on Proctor hill. Henry Barton in the westerly part, on land\\nn(\u00c2\u00bbw owned bv John C. Jewett. The liouse of William .Vdanis is\\nsaid to have lieen upon the site of the present south-west school-\\nhouse, about 2 1-2 miles from the meeting-house. ^Samuel Parker\\nlived in the same neighborhod on the farm now owned by Daniel M.\\nSmith James Whiting on the road to Brookline, near Whitting s\\nhill: Nathaniel 151ood in the same part of the town on the present\\ntarm of Franklin Colburn, and Enoch Hunt in the extreme south\\npart, next to Pepperell. on the farm now owned by Luke Blood.\\nThus it may be seen that the settlers in the extreme north part of the\\nsettlement were from six to seven miles distant from those in the\\nsouth part and those living at the extreme east and west part were\\neven more remote trom each other.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 PARISH OF WEST DUNSTABLE. [l739 tO 1 746.\\nCHAPTER III.\\n1739 TO 1746. THE PARISH OF WEST DUNSTABLE AXD DISTRICT OF\\nDUNSTABLE. FIRST PARISH MEETING, AND FIRST MEETING\\nHOUSE. THE N^)N-RESIDENT TAX. SETTLEMENT OF THE\\nFIRST MINISTER.\\nThe report of the committee appointed to view the hintl.s in the\\nnorth part of Groton and west part of Dunstable was carefully\\npreserved by the grantees of the charter of the parish of AVest\\nDunstable, and is now to be found recorded at full length on the first\\npages of the first volume of the Hollis town records.\\nThese origiiial records, in what I have to say of the early history\\nof Hollis, will be my principal guide. Where I can consistently do\\nso, I shall press them into my service and let them speak for me in\\ntheir own simple and homely dialect. We may occasionally observe\\nin the manuscript, wide, and sometimes grotesque departures from\\nthe more modern orthograph}- of Walker, Webster and Worcester,\\nand also from the grammar and syntax of Lowth and Murray. Yet\\nin these respects, thev are less subject to unfavorable criticism than\\nmany of our to^vn records of a much more modern date. The style\\nof them is terse, plain, simple and direct, and the words well chosen\\nto express the ideas and matters to be recorded, and they contain the\\nmunicipal autobiography of our ancestors, commencing four genera-\\ntions ago, written down from year to year, and sometimes from\\nmonth to month, bv persons appointed for the purpose, while what\\nthey had ilone. or \\\\vhat they at the time proposed to do, was still\\nfresh in the minds of all.\\nBOUNDARIES AND AREA OF THE PARISH AND THE NON-RESIDENT\\nTAX.\\nThe west parish of the old town of Dunstal)le, as we ha\\\\ e seen.\\nextended north and south, from the Souhegan river to the south line\\nof the old town, a distance from 9 to 12 miles, and was not far from\\n10 niilesin width, and was said to have contained an area ot about", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "1739*01746.] PAUISll OF WHST DUNSTABLE. 4I\\n70.000 acres. iK iiiLC more llum three times as lari^a- as llollis now is.\\nIt included nearly all of the present town of IloUis, that part of\\nAmherst s(nith of the Souhegan. the most of Milford and BrooUline.\\nparts of the towns of Nashua and Menimack. in the state of New\\nHampshire, and a small part of Pepperell in Massachusetts. The\\ninhal)itants of the parish, as we have seen by their charter, had\\nauthority to assess zd. per acre on all the unimproved land of non-\\nresidents for the term of Hvc years ft)r the support of the ministry.\\nAt that time there were about 25 resident families. If each of these\\nfamilies owned, on an axcrage. 800 acres (an estimate quite larg^e\\neiK)uo;h), the resident settlers would have had 20,000 acres, leavin;^\\nupon these estimates 50.000 to the non-residents. ^V tax ot 2d. the\\nacre on this last quantity would have yielded an annual fund of\\n\u00c2\u00a3416 13s., or about $1380 in the currency of the present time, calling\\nthe poiuul $3.33. We shall soon see what importance the first set-\\ntlers of llollis attached to this right to compel non-residents to pay\\nfor the preaching and meeting-houses of the resident settlers.\\nTIIK FIRST PARISH MEETING AND ITS DOINGS, AND THE FIRST\\nMEETING-HOUSE.\\nThe Hrst parish-meeting, under the parish-charter, was held at\\nthe inn of Lieut. Benjamin Farlev. Jan. 22. 1739-40, O. S. Mr.\\nFarle\\\\ s inn was the place where the parish-meetings were com-\\nmonly held till the first meeting-house w as built, and is said to have\\nbeen upon the farm now owned bv Taylor G. Worcester, a short\\ndistance south of the present meeting-house. The warrant for this\\nmeeting, like all similar warrants, was entitled, in its margin,\\nMiddlesex SS.. meaning h\\\\ these words, count}- of Middlesex,\\n^lassachusetts. It was under the hand and seal of Joseph\\nBlanchard, Esq., of Dunstable, at that time one of his majesty s\\njustices of the peace of that countv. and was addressed to Abraham\\nTa}lor, as constable, to warn the meeting, who had been active in\\nobtaining the charter, and who was annually elected parish-clerk till\\nhis death, about four years after.\\nAt this first meeting Mr. Taylor was elected moderator and clerk\\nMr. Taylor, Peter Powers and Benjamin Farlev, assessors; Stephen\\nHarris, treasurer; Thomas Dinsmore. collector of the non-resident\\nmoney and Peter Powers and Benjamin Farle\\\\- a committee to\\nprocure preaching till the first of April following. .:\\\\lso it was\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2voted that Abraham Taylor, Peter Powers and Thomas Dinsmore\\nbe a committee to joyn with such Persons as the old Parish shall\\nappoint for to raise Bounds between cacli Parish. At this meeting", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42\\nPARISH OF WEST DUNSTABLE. [^739 to 1 746.\\nalso the following vote was passed in respect to a meeting-house\\nVoted to l)iiild a House for the Pulilic Worship of God: That\\nsaid House be Erected at or near Thomas Dinsmore s House Lot of\\nLand. I hat the House he 22 feet one ay and 20 the other 9 foot\\nstutl Avell-l)oarded and shingled One Fluor One Door 3\\nwindows and as many JSeats as may he thought conyenient the\\nHouse to he Erected l)y the last of April next.\\nThe house lot of Thomas Dinsmorc. as was said, was upon the farm\\nnow owned In John Cohurn, Esq. But no meeting-house was built\\nupon or near that site, the vote to that eflect having lieen reconsid-\\nered at a meeting in the following IVLnxli. After foiu or five other\\nsites had been proposed at various meetings and rejected, it was at\\nlast, at a meeting held Nov. 5, 1740: \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Voted that the Meeting-\\nHouse should be Erected on Abraham Taylor s Land, about Sixty\\nRods vSoutherly trom said Taylor s Dwelling-House, on the highest\\nKnoll of Land thereabouts, and that the Burying Place for the Par-\\nish l)e ajoining the Place now appointed for y^ JMeeting-House.\\nThis is the same pleasant and hallowed spot on which, a few\\nyears later, the second meeting-house was built, the same ^yhere the\\nthird, still standing, was erected more than sixty years after, the site\\nfor it and the bin ial-ground having been gi\\\\en by Mr. Tayloi who\\ndietl in the spring of 1743, and was the first adult person buried in\\nit. It appears that the new edifice was not wholly completed for a\\nyear or more after its location was fixed, as we find that it was voted\\nat a parish-meeting, Oct. 23. 1741. To have one (jlace A\\\\ inder in\\nthe ]Meeting-House and to have it under-Pind as soon as possable.\\nTHE IHRST PARISH TAX, WITH THE XAME:S OF THE TAX-PAVERS.\\nIn the month of November. 174O ^v vote of a parish meeting,\\nthe first tax was assessed upon the inhabitants for defra\\\\ing the\\nnecessary charges of the Parish, amounting to \u00c2\u00a316. 2s. 2d. This\\ntax list contains the names of 29 persons, viz.\\ny^Ac iiAKiAii Lawkence, Jr. Josiah Blood\\nPeter Powers\\nHen jamin Farley\\nJeraiimael Cumings\\nSamuel Farley\\nDavid Nevins\\nWilliam Xevixs\\nWidow Xevin.s\\nWilliam Shattuck\\nDaniel Kendall\\nnearly all of them faniily names, familiar to the people of HoUis\\nfrom that time to this.\\nEnoch Hunt\\nEleazer Flagg\\nSamuel Cuminc;.s\\nWilliam Blanciiakd\\nAbraham Taylor\\nStephen Harris\\nWilliam Colbl;rn\\nRobert Colburn\\nPeter Wheeler\\nN^athaniel Blood\\nPhilip M oolerich\\nMoses Proctor\\nJohn Butterfield\\nElnathan Blood\\nHenry Barton\\nThomas I ins:\\\\ioke\\nAmos Philips\\nGideon Bemoney,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "1739 l^** 74 5-] I AKIMI ol- WKST I)lNSTAni.I\u00c2\u00a3. 43\\nr a pr()\\\\incc law then in force, all male ix-rsons of the aj^c ol\\ncifjihtceii vcars aiul over, w ith tiic exception of the u^ovcnior, settled\\nministers, and a few others, were subject to a poll-tax. The above\\ntax-list mav be presumed to contain the names ot all male persons\\nabove that aj^e at tiiat time inhabitants of the parish. Six of the list\\narc chari^cd with a poll-tax only the remaining twenty-three, in-\\ncludinii^ the wido\\\\v Xevins. with 1)oth a poll and property-tax. Of\\ntile abo\\\\e tax of about t i6. very near t 13. or more than three-\\nfourths of it. were assessed on twenty-eight persons as a poll-tax.\\nand less than \u00e2\u0082\u00ac3 upon real and personal estate. The sum assessed\\nupon each poll was 9s. 2d., while the highest property-tax was only\\n6s. yd. I may have occasion, in another connection, to advert again\\nto this matter of taxation.\\nTIIK NOX-RKSIDKNT s MOXKV, OIJ NON-KESIDKNI 1 AX Ol 21). TlIK\\nACRK AND THE DISPOSAL Ol- IT.\\nAs this tax was a matter of much interest and some trouble to the\\nresidents of the parish, it is entitled to further notice as illustrating\\nthe laws and usages of the good people of that time, and especially\\nthe ways and means which w ere supposed to be lawful and right tor\\nthe raising of mone\\\\- for the support of learned, able and orthodox\\nministers.\\nThe warrant for the third parish-meeting, held in March. 1740.\\nwith other articles to be voted on. contained the following:\\nI St. --To see what Encouragement the People will give to any\\nPerson or Persons for Killing Rattlesnakes in this parish.\\n2d. To see if the Parish will agree to dispose of the Non-Resi-\\ndent moncv that shall be due and coming to this Parish tor the space\\nof five years from the first of January last to any Person or Person!^\\nwho shall agree to -Support the Gospel in this Parish.\\n.\\\\t the above meeting it was voted\\nI St. -That if anv person shall make it appear to the Committee\\nof the Parish that he has killed one or more Rattlesnakes in this\\nPrecinct, in this present year, he shall have paid to him one shilling\\nfor everv such snake so killed, out f)f the Parish Treasury.\\nAlso unanimouslv voted. That Peter Powers Abraham Taylor\\nshall ha\\\\ e the Total of all such sum or sums of money as is or shall\\nbe assessed on Land belonging to non-Resident Proprietors of this\\nParish for the space of ii\\\\e years from the ist of January last, on\\ncondition that the said Powers and Taylor shall vS: do oblige them-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 PARISH OF WEST DUXSTABLE. [^739 tO 1 74^\\nselves Heirs \\\\\\\\itli sufficient sccuvit} to maintain and constantly\\nsupport Preaching- in this Precinct for ye full term of ye said five\\nyears and Erect a Meeting House for the Public Worship of God\\nagreeable to the tenor of the vote of said parish and likewise fully\\nacquit and discharge said Parish from the cost charges that have\\nbeen expended in being set oft frcjm Dunstalile lieing erected into\\na separate Precinct and also from the cost and charges that has\\nbeen expended in getting Timber for a Bridge across Nashaway\\nRiver, and also to piw Mr. l^nderwood for his Preaching witli us in\\nthis Parish.\\nThe question was once asked. Of wliom do the Kings of the\\nEarth take custom or tribute, of their own children or of strangers?\\nThe answer was, Of strangers. It would seem from the doings\\nof the above meeting that the early settlers of the ^vest parish of Dun-\\nstable had taken lessons in finance from the Kings of the Earth.\\nWithin about a vear from the time of this meeting after a long\\nand angry controversy, the new province line between New-Hamp-\\nshire and Massachusetts was surA e\\\\ed and established where the\\n.State line now is. ]Much to the chagrin and disappointment of the\\ninhabitants, that part of the old town of Dunstable now known as\\nHollis, was found to l)e in New-Hampshire. In consec[uence of this\\ndecision, the charter of the west parisli in Dunstal)le. granted by the\\ngeneral court of Massachusetts, was \\\\ii-tuall\\\\- amiulled. that general\\ncourt having had at the time no power to grant it. With the cliarter\\nthe legal right to assess this tax of two ]:)ence the acre on the land of\\nnon-residents was also lost, and with the tax the Acrv thriftx bargain\\nwith Messrs. Powers and Taylor in respect to the disposal of it.\\nIn this dilemma, the inhabitants promptly met (Feb. 19. i 741-2.)\\nand voted to petition the Grate and General Court of N. Hampshire\\nthat the Parish be made a Township, and also that tlie Parish mav\\nhave power to ccdlect of delinquent persons, the se^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eral sums thev\\nmay have been assessed at agreealile to the Lawsof tlie Massachusetts\\nProvince.\\nBut instead of granting this petition for a toAvnship-charter and to\\nlegalize the non-resident tax. tlie general comt, in ^larch. 1742. or-\\nganized all that part of old Dun.stalile nortli of the new province line\\nand west of Merrimack ri\\\\ cr. into a District for the collection of\\nprovince taxes, with authorit\\\\ for tliat purpose onlv, to elect district-\\nassessors or selectmen, and a district-clerk and collectors of taxes.\\nThe first meeting for the election of District-officers, was lield umlcr\\nthe direction of a committee of the general court, probabh in the east", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "1739 74^-] I AKISII OF WKST DINSTAHLK. 4:;\\nparish, April 23. i/j-- Al this meeting^, Abraham Taylor was\\nchosen clerk .\\\\bruhaiu Taylor, Thomas IIar\\\\vood, Samuel Cum-\\nings and Jonathan L()\\\\ ewell selectmen. The record for the year\\n1743 is lost. In 1744, John Boynton was district clerk and John\\nBoynton, Jonathan Lovewell and Jerahmael Cumings, selectmen\\nor assessors. In 1745, John Boynton was district clerk; John Boyn-\\nton, Jonathan Lovewell, and Jefahniael Cuniings assessors or\\n.selectmen.\\nSKTTMiMENT OF THE NEW I KO\\\\lXCE LINE.\\nFor a long time prior t the year 1739 the boundary line between\\nthe provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts iiad liccn the\\nsubject of protracted and acrimonious controversy. Al)()ut seventy\\nvears before, Governor Endicott of Massachusetts had caused a mon-\\nimient to be fixed three miles northward of the junction of the two\\nrivers forming the ]SIerrimack in the present county of Belknap, and\\nMassachusetts claimed all the territory in the present state of New\\nHampshire south of an east and west line passing through that point,\\nand also all within three miles both east and north of the Merrimack.\\nOn the other hand. New Hampshire claimed all the territory Iving\\nnorth of a line running due east and west through a point within\\nthree miles of the Merrimack, on its north side near its mouth. At\\nlast a roval commission was appointed to settle this controversy,\\nwhich met for the purpose at Hampton Falls in this state in the year\\n1737, the General Court of each province attending the sittings of\\nthis commission. The Governor of Alassachusetts in his coach, and\\nthe memliers of the General Court of that Province mounted on\\nhorseback, formed themselves into a procession at Boston, and marched\\nin state to Hampton Falls to be present at the sessions of this tri-\\nbunal. A description of this cavalcade has^ome down to us. as told\\nbv a wit of the time to a son of the Emerald Isle, in the following\\npasquinade, which I present as illustrating the customs of the colo-\\nnial governments under the royal charters.\\nDear Paddy you ne er did heliold such a sifjht,\\nAs yesterday mornin r was seen before nis;ht;\\nVou in all your born days saw nor I didn t neither,\\nSo many fine horses and men ride together;\\nAt the head, the lower house trotted two in a row,\\nThen all the higher house pranced after the low,\\nThen the Governor s coach galloped on like the wind.\\nAnd the last tliat came foremost were tlie troopers behind;\\nBut I fear it means no good to your neck or mine.\\nFor thev say tis to fix the right place for the Litu.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 PARISH OV WKST Dl XsrABLE. [1739^0 1 746.\\nThe Comniissioii at Hampton Falls (lid not agree, and the ques-\\ntion as reserved for the King- in couneil. ^V decision was finally\\nmade in the year 1740. fixing the Province line where the State line\\nnow is. This decision took from the Massachuretts claim, and gave\\nto New Hampshire, not only all the tlispnted tract, but also a tract\\nof territory south ot that in controversy, fourteen miles m wiilth and\\nextending from the Merrimack ri\\\\er to the Connecticut, which New\\nHampshire had not before claimed, embracing all that part of old\\nDunstable north of the present State line.\\nThis was Tor Dunstable \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the most unkindest cut of all, being-\\ntor the old town almost as troublesome, not to say as fatal, a place\\nfor the line as his neck could ha\\\\ e been for the Padch cutting the\\nbody politic asuntler from sitle to side through its most tender and\\nvital parts, hard by the ancient meeting-house and burial ground.\\nThis new line was lun in 1741. lea\\\\ing in Massachusetts that part of\\nthe old town uow in Tyngsbftrough ami Dunstable in that State, and\\na narro\\\\y gore from the old parish of West Dunstable, now in Pep-\\nperell, and^severing from Groton a small triangular tract now in the\\nsouth part ^of Nashua along the .State line.\\nEFFECTS OF THE DECISION\\nThis decision came upon the settlers in Dunstable, north of the\\nnew line, with mingled surprise and consternatit)n. Dunstable was\\neminently and wholly a Massachusetts settlement. The settlers were\\nnearly all from the neighboring to\\\\\\\\ns in that Pro\\\\ ince, w ith whose\\npeople they were eonnected in sympathy, in business and by the ties\\nof marriage andj^blood. Their town and parish charters and the\\ntitles to their lands ami impro^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ements were all Massachusetts grants.\\nand their hole ci\\\\il ami ecclesiastical organizations under Massa-\\nchusetts laws. This decision of the King in Council left them\\nwholly out of the jurisdiction of that Pro\\\\ince, and in legal efiect\\nmade all their charters, the titles to their laiuls and im])ro^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ements.\\nand all statute laws regulating their civil and church polit\\\\- wholly\\nvoid. The decision of the King was final, and there was no ap-\\npeal. Though disappointed, embarrassed and indignant, there as\\nno alternati\\\\e but submission.\\nFortunately for them, in the course of a few years afterward*, a\\ncompromise was efiected ith the adverse claimants of their lands\\nand improvements, and their titles and possessions quieted, and they\\ngradual 1\\\\- became more reconciled to the chan- -e of their alleu-iance.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "1739 to 1746.] PARISH OF WEST DUXSTABI.E. ^7\\nBut this compromise and the qiiietiii}^ of tlicir titles to their laiuls\\nand improvements alVorded these people no relief in respect to the\\nsupport ot the ministr\\\\ and l)uildiu meeting-houses.\\nStill, however, the inhabitants ot West Dunstable continued to\\nhold public meetings, elect ofHcers and assess taxes much as before,\\nand in tlie records ot theii doings their communitx ^\\\\as st\\\\led a\\nparish or precinct. Notwithstanding their disappointment in\\nthe loss of their charter, and at finding themselves citizens of New\\nHampshire against their \\\\vishes, they were not vet al)le to forget the\\nXon-resident Money, or to abandon the hope of obtaining it.\\nWith this hope in view, at a public meeting held in Januarx 1744,\\nit was Voted that Peter Powers should have all the non-residents\\nmoney that is not Collected for the four years past and the year to\\ncome, and for the said Powers to pay all the Parish Debt for\\nPreaching and to any other Person for Sanis Don the Parish before\\nthe ordination and to pay the Parish \u00c2\u00a340, O. T. at the end\\nof the year. It is to be inferretl troni tiie doings of a parish meeting\\nin the following December, that these non-resident land-owners had\\nquestioned the right of Mr. Powers to collect this tax, and that it\\nwas not paid so cheerfully as the purchaser had hoped. .\\\\s a last\\nremedy for this trouble, it was voted at this meeting, that Capt\\nPowers represent the Parish at the General Court of Xew Hamp-\\nshire to get ye Massachusetts Act for taxing \\\\e land in said Parish\\nconfirmed if he will go at his own charges ot/icr-j:ise not to go.\\nThe record does not show whether Capt. Powers accepted the\\nhonor of the ofHcc, with its condition or not.\\nThe charter of Hollis as a town bore date April 3. 1746, and\\nembraced a territory- much less than one-half of that contained in the\\ncharter of West Dunstable. This town charter was wliollv silent in\\nrespect to the right to tax iion-residents for anv purpose. To suppl\\\\-\\nthis omission, at a town-meeting held on the 22d of December of the\\nsame year it was X oted to Raise two Pence per Acre Lawful\\nMone} on all the Land of Hollis for five years for v support of\\n(jospel and y arising charges of said Town, and to Petition the\\n(jrat and Generall Court for Streangth to Gather and Get the Monev\\nof Xon-Residents. Samuel Cimiings, Esq., was chosen a delegate\\nto present this petition, which he did in the following April. In\\nanswer to this petition the general court of Xew Hampshire passed\\nan act taxing all the land in Hollis for four years at two pence the\\nacre for the support of the ministry and finishing the second meet-\\ning-house, the frame of which had then lieen raised. All the lands", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 PARISH OF WEST DUNSTABLE. 1 739 tO 1 746.\\nin IloUis were taxed under this law for the next four years (as stated\\nin the town records), for the BuilcHng and Repairing a Meeting-\\nHouse and the vSupporting the Gospel INlinistry. This tax was\\nassessed in the old-tenor currency, \u00c2\u00a34 of which at that date appear\\nto have been of the value of \u00c2\u00a31. lawful or silver monev. In 1747\\nthis tax amounted, in the old-tenor currency, to \u00c2\u00a3394 17s. 8d. Of\\nthat sum, \u00c2\u00a32^6 6s. -Sd., or more than two-thirds of it, were assessed\\nupon 33 non-resident land-owners, and the residue, \u00c2\u00a3138 lis., on\\n48 residents. In 1748, \u00c2\u00a3506 3s. were assessed for the like purpose,\\nof which \u00c2\u00a3350 4s. Sd., again more than two-thirds of it, were\\nassessed on 31 non-residents, and the balance on 53 residents.\\nWhatever we may think of the justice of this law, it seems to have\\nhad the good etlect of lessening the number of non-residents, and also\\nthe quantitv of land in Ilollis owned by them, and of addnig to the\\nnumber of residents, antl to their proportion of the land. In I750\\nthe last vear of the law, the resident land-owners had increased from\\n48, in 1747. to 70. And the non-residents had fallen oil from 33 in\\n1747, to 24 in 17SO. and the amount of the land-tax paid by the two\\nclasses had become much more ecjual.\\nIt seems, however, that all these non-residents did not acquiesce\\nin the justice of this law so cheerfully as they might have done. As\\nan instance of their dislike to it, we find that in 1748 Col. Prescott s\\nheirs were taxed under it the considerable sum of \u00c2\u00a348 13s. 4d. for\\nthe support of preaching they could not hear, and that they had had\\nan article inserted in the warrant for the town-meeting asking for an\\nabatement of this tax. In response to this petition, as the record\\nstates it, It was put to vote to see if the Town would Ease Col.\\nPrescott s Heirs of ans- part of their Land Tax. and it was passed in\\nthe negative.\\nTo me, at least, as a native of the town, and one of the descendants\\nof these worthy people, their names and memories are sacred. All\\ntheir failings leaned to ^-irtue s side. Their ashes ha^e slept for\\nnear a centurv in peaceful and honored graves, and the foot of the\\nstranger who kn(nvs their worth wiould tread lightly upon them. I\\nhave made these extracts from their annals with no irreverent or\\nunfilial feeling, but to illustrate some of the diflerences between the\\nlaws, customs and sentiments that prevailed among good and Chris-\\ntian people in New-England one hundred and twenty years ago, and\\nthose upon the like subjects under whose iiiHuence the last two gen-\\nreations have been educated.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "1 7. ^y to 174 riticAt iiiNt; vkdm 1739 lo 174.1- 49\\nvi{K.\\\\(. iii.Nci iu:ioi{i: iiii: si:ttj,i;mi;n r or jiik iikst mimstkh,\\nAND rill-; M\\\\XNi:i{ oi I luninixc it.\\nI hc iHw parish had no settled minister till the spriiii; ct 1743.\\nmore than three \\\\ears after date of the charter. In the mean time\\nthe inhabitants had manifested a cry c jmmendal)le zeal in theii-\\netVort.s to compl\\\\ with the laws in respect to the support of the min-\\nistry. At their first jiarish meeting as we ha\\\\e seen, a committee\\nwas chosen to pro\\\\ ide Preachint^ till the followiiiLj April. In the\\nmonth of March ])re\\\\ lous. vSamuel Cumings and ICleazer I lat^^t;\\nwere ctjmmissioned \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0to provide Preachini^ and Entertainment for the\\nminister for the next three months. In July. 1741. it was voted\\nthat ^Vhraham Ta\\\\ lor and Peter Powers have the non-resident monev\\nfor the cui^renl year to pay Mr. l^nderwood and Mr. Tow le\\nand t(j procnre Preaching- till the first of Januar\\\\ next, if the monev\\nshall hold out. In September. 1741- the first article in the warrant\\nfor a meeting then held, was to see wdiethcr it be the minds of the\\nPeople to do an\\\\- thing towards the Bringing forward the vScttling of\\na Larncd and Orther I)ox Minister in this Parish. And in Feb-\\nruary. 174-- t was oted That any Person who shall hereafter\\nb^ntertain any Minister for this Parish shall have paid to him Eight\\nShillings for one Sabbath (la\\\\ and 20 a Week if he stay longer.\\nDOINGS OI Till-: PARISH PIJEPARATORV TO TIIK SETTLEMICNT OK\\nTill-: FIRST MINISTKR.\\nAt a parish meeting held in October. 1741. before it was ]oubliclv\\nknown that any part f)f the to\\\\vnof()ld Dunstable was on the wrong\\nsiile of the province line, it was voted.\\n1st. That Stephen Harris. Abraham Taylor iK: Peter Powers be\\njoyncd in Con m iittec with Benjamin Farle\\\\ and .Samuel Cumings to\\ntike some proper Measures to bring forward the settling of a Larned\\nand Orther Dox ^Minister in this Parish as soon as conveniencv will\\nalow.\\n2d. -That said Conuuillee be directed toobservethe following in-\\nstructions, vi/... That they wait upon the Rev. Mr. Trobridge. Mr.\\nllemmingway. and the Re\\\\ Mr. Bliss and Mr. Swan and desire\\ntheir assistance in keeping and solemnizing a I)a\\\\ of Fasting aiul\\nPrayer in this Parish and Seeking the Direction of Ileaxen in the\\naflair.\\n3d. That said Committee should make their .Vddress to said\\nMinisters for their achice and Direction what Ministers to apjiK our-\\nselves too to Preach with us on Probation.\\n(4)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 pREAcjiixt} FKOM J yj i 1743- [^739 74\\nAt a parish nicctinjj,- Dec. 28. 1741. among the acc junts prcscntcHl\\nand allowed were the following: 1\\noted to alow Abraham T;i\\\\ lor\\nFor Entertaining Ministers at the Fast t 3. oo\\\\ o\\nFor Entertaining Ministers Fi\\\\ e Sahhalhs t j. oo\\\\ o\\nThe warrant tor this meeting was the last in w hich the \\\\\\\\()r(ls\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jNIiddlesex ss. were Asritten in the top margin. It soon became\\nknown to them that the parish of West Dnnstable was not in the\\ncounty of Mitldlesex. that their charter, as a legal instrument, was\\nwortliless. and tliat there a\\\\ as no law Iw w hich the minorit\\\\ of the\\ninhabitants could l)e bound b\\\\- the Notes of a majorit\\\\ Embarrassed\\nbv the decision in respect to the new line and the loss ot their\\ncharter, our ancestors did not faltei in their effort to luring forward\\nand settle a Earned and Orther Dox Minister. With this end.\\nand others in lew. the inhabitants, as we haxe said betore. met in\\nFebruarN 1742. and petitioned the (ieneral Court of ew Ilamji-\\nshire for a townshi}) charter. No other public meeting of the in-\\nhabitants was held till the 17th of January. 1743. near a \\\\ear after,\\nwhen the\\\\ came together \\\\)y common consent, and b} mutual agree-\\nment in theii personal and indixidual ca])acit\\\\ in\\\\ itetl the Rc^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.\\nDaniel Emerson, the candidate of their choice, to become their min-\\nister. ^Vs I think the proceedings of this meeting and of that \\\\\\\\hich\\nnext followed, cannot fd! to interest others as well as myself. I ha\\\\e\\ntaken pains to transcribe the substance ot ihem trom the recoi d.\\nrjiE CALL OK riiK sociiirv. answ i-.i; 01 1111; eAM)ii A ri iiis\\nSETTLEMENT AM) SAEAin AXD IIIE WA^S AND MKAXS oh\\ni Ro\\\\iDi\\\\( rr.\\nAtt a meeting of the Inhabitants of the West I arish in Dunsla-\\nIde regularh- assendiled January 17. 174- 3. Aliraham d aylor\\nchosen moderator.\\nI nanimonsK oted and chose Mi Daniel Emerson toi their\\n(iospel Minister to take the Pastoral care of the Flock of Christ in\\nsaid Place. Also.\\nUnanimousK voted antl agreed to gi\\\\e said Mr. lilmerson (on\\ncondition of his acceptance) for and towaid his .Settlement 400.\\ncommon currenc\\\\ or t loo of the Alassachusetts last Emition. Also\\nUnanimoush \\\\oted to give said Minister for his yearly Sallcry.\\nDuring his MinistiA in said Place such a certain sum of 13ills of Credit\\nas will lie eciual to tift\\\\ Pounds of the Massachusetts last Emition\\n(new). Also,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ly^cj lo ly^G-l snTTLi: [KNT ok mh. i;mi:hson.\\notcHl to give Thirty Cords of l- irt Wood. C i rd WDoil Lfni;lli\\natt said Ministers Door yearK Also.\\nVoted and chose .Vbrahani ra\\\\ lor. Samuel IJrow n. l.iiocli\\nHunt, Eleazcr Flagg. Samuel Cumings. Peter Powers. William\\nColburn, Stephen Harris and Robert l^lood to wait u])on said Mr.\\nEmerson and communicate imto him tlie mintls and Pro])osa!s ot\\nsaid Parish and ilesire his answer therein in con\\\\enient time.\\nIn testimcjny w iiereot we have hereunto set our hands the Dav\\nabove said.\\nSa.mlki. Hrown\\nAbkaham Tavi.ok\\nEnoch Hint\\nWilliam Siiattcck\\nWilliam Coliuhn\\nStf.i-iien IIakkis\\nElea/ek Flagg\\nBenjamin Faki.ev\\nJekAIIMAEI. ClMINGS\\nSAMI-EL Cl MINGS\\nDavid Nevins\\nJoshua Wkigiit\\nJames Stewakt\\nSrEniEN Ames\\nRouEKT Blood\\nBenj. Blanchakd\\nZedekiah Dkikv\\nHeteh Powers\\nJonathan Dankorth\\nSamiel Farley\\nWilliam .Vdams\\nNicholas F rencii\\nZerlhhahei. Kemi\\nPeter Wheeler\\nJosiAii Brown\\nWilliam Blanchari\\nHenry Barton\\nN atiianiel Blood\\nF^lnatiian Blood\\nDavid Lowell\\nThomas Nevins\\nThomas Patch\\nNathaniel BLoiw.Err\\nMoses Proctor\\nJohn Brown\\nDaniel Kendall\\nJosiAii Blood\\nWilliam Nevins\\nSamcel DolC.LASS\\nJoseph McDanikls\\nJames Mc Daniels\\nJames Whiting\\nJoseph F arlkv\\nMakins; in all 4^ iiaiiies.\\nThe parish committee were ijrom]^! in communicatini^ the lore-\\ngoing call to Mr. Emerson, and on the 4lh ot the follow ino; March\\na meeting was called to consider his answer, which was entered u]:)on\\nthe record as follows\\nTo the Iidiabitants of the West Parish in nunstal)le.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Whereas it has pleased the C/reat (iod (wlio has llu- Hearts of\\nall men in his Hands) to disjjose and incline \\\\our hearts to in\\\\ite\\nme U) take the oversight of vou and to Laboiu among ou in Word\\nand Doctrine as appears bv a vote preferred to me Iw the Committee.\\nl)earing date Jan. ij. 174-. ,v 1 have fi^om thai lime takin that im-\\nportant matter into tiie most close consideration and ha\\\\e asked the\\nbest advice and am (after many and great difficulties in the wav)\\ncome to this conclusion without Hesitation \\\\i/.\\nIf you will fullfill your Promis as to the \u00c2\u00a3400 Settlement in old\\nTenor, only that the one part of it be in Fortv Acres of (Jood Land,\\nnear and convenient to the Meeting House, firmlv antl forever con-\\nvaied to me. and the other Part to be paid in Bills of Publique credit\\nwithin a year from the date of this Answer And that for mv\\nyearh Sallary you give me such a certain vSum of Bills of Publique\\ncredit Acarlv. as shall be equal to i :;o ounces of coined Sihcr. which", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "^2 SETTLEMENT O! MR. E.MEliSOX\\nis the sum .)U j^ropusc-\\n[1739 to 1746.\\n-together \\\\^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ith Thirt\\\\ Curds of oot!\\nCord Wood Length deli\\\\ercdat my Door And :it\\\\cr your Parish\\nTown or Distriet shall hy the Providenee oi Ciod lie inereascd to the\\nnumhcr of 100 Families (and not desired or expeeted till then) you\\nmake an addition to m\\\\ \\\\earl\\\\ vSa.Uary of ii\\\\ e ounees ot eoined vSil-\\nYcr per a ear till the same shall he equal to 200 Ounces of coined\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Silver th.ere to al)ide till the numher of your Families arise to 150\\nand tlien to Raise Five Ounces of Coined ,Sil\\\\cr per year till it\\narrives at 210 Ounces of Coined Siher and tliere to abide and\\nbe no more, which is equal to i 70. of the Massachusetts last\\nEmiti(. n Alwavs expecting the Thirty Cords of \\\\Vood And\\nthat these .Se\\\\er.d vSums oi Simi l)e continued to me, so long as T\\ncontinue a Ghospel Minister o\\\\-er m:)u Always and in an espetial\\n3Tiauner expecting th.at \\\\-ou will be Helpers with me by Prayer\\nNow if these before mentioned conditions be freely and \\\\-olun-\\ntarilv acted on and secured lo me as you promist in the call\\nthen 1 as frcch and willingh accept of the call and freely sul)scril)e\\nnivself \\\\()urs to ser\\\\ e in the work of the (ihospel AIinistr\\\\- During\\nLife.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Dunstable West Pi ecinct ?\u00c2\u00bbiLirch y qthi 1743.\\nDa\\\\ii:i. Emi:!;s()\\\\.\\nThe record continues. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2It was tliereupon oted and agreed to\\n-accept tb.e Terms Mr. Lmersf)n j)roposed in his answer l)outh as to\\nsettlement and sallar\\\\ Also Voted that Samuel l ro^,vn, Abraham\\nTavlor. Peter Pov\\\\ers. Eleazei Flagg and vSanuicl Cumings lie a\\ncommittee to consult with Mr. Emerson in the clioice of a council.\\nOn the same dav and at the same meeting, as it appears in the\\nI ecord. a mutual advhtional agreement was entered into by the tax\\npavers, and signed 1)\\\\ most of them, with a preamble setting forth\\ntlie reasons that made this new agi ecment !iecessar\\\\-. tlie important\\nparts of which are as follows\\nWhereas his maiest\\\\ b\\\\ the late detci minatioii of tlie Northern\\nBoimdarv of the ]\\\\Lissachusetts has left us the Snbscriliers. Inhalii-\\ntants of the Westerly part of Dunstable out c)f the Pro\\\\ince to\\nwhich we always supposed we belonged, and imder whose\\nLaws wc Exercised the Privileges of a Parish Init bv the said de-\\ntermination it is supposed by some that said Lihaliitants are Dis-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0(|ualitied to make any Act, Agreement or Determination b\\\\- a ma-\\njority of voters as they othei wise might ha\\\\ e done that should be\\nEffectual to compel Persons to pa\\\\- their honest Proportion of all", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "739^ i7-(6.] coNTKAcr wrni mk. icmi.msox.\\n53\\nMich R;itc s and ncccssar\\\\ clKirt^vs that shall arise in calliiiL;- settling\\naiul niaintainiii a minister.\\nXow therefore that we iiia\\\\ ICiiJdv the Henelit of the Ghospel\\nordinances anionj^st us we have come into the follow in^ aLCreemeut\\nand ohlij^ation viz.\\nThe contract w ith Mr. I merson is set lorlh in this new agree-\\nment, verl)atim. and the record then continues as tollows\\nAUso agreetl that in the Payment of the Ministers .Settlement Sc\\nSallary the assessors hereafter to be chosen Proportion such a cer-\\ntain part thereof to each Pole that when the Remainder thereof shall\\nbe levietl upon Each Persons Real and Personal Kstate, agreeable\\nto the Rules cjf the Massachusetts Province, that the highest Paver\\nupon Estates shall he equal to a single Pole.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2To the Performance of the aforewritten agreement we hereby\\ncovenant and oliligc ourselves in the Penal sum of i loo, till such\\ntime as this societ\\\\ lie incorporated a ilistinct Town or Parish.\\nThirty-se\\\\en names were signed to this agreement, some of which\\nwere not upon the call. This agreement, as w ill be readilv seen,\\nwas a voluntary compact, entered into by tJKJse who signed it as\\ntheir best expedient for the lack of a town or parish charter.\\nSome other matters suggested by this contract between Mr.\\nbZmerson antl his societ\\\\ are worthv of a few passing remarks, as\\nillustrating the laws, customs ancl prevailing sentiments of the times\\nas well in civil as in church aH airs.\\n1st. It was agreed in this contract that the new minister for the\\npresent should receive for his yearlv salarv i ^o ounces vii coined\\nsilver, or their equal value in bills of public credit, the paper monev\\nof that day, and also 30 cords of wood. lien the number of\\nfamilies in the societ\\\\ sliould reach foo. the ounces per \\\\ear were to\\nbe adtled, till the salar\\\\ should amount to ioo ounces. ;;nd it might\\nafterwards be increa.sed to 210 ounces.\\nThe oz. Tro\\\\ used in N\\\\eighing the precious metals, contains\\n480 grains. The ^Vmerican siher dollar contains .ji 2 1-2 of those\\ngrains, making the value of the oz. of silver coin $1 14 1^0 oz.\\nipi7i Joooz. =$.228: and 2 10 oz. =$239.40. in slanda id federal\\nMr. Emerson was ordained April 20. 1743. and he continued a\\ntaithtul. \\\\enerale(l and popular minister of that societ\\\\ till Nov. 27.\\n1793, a period of more than tlft\\\\ \\\\ears, without a change, or wish\\nto change his place. the latter date the Rev. Eli Smith, w ho", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54\\nLoxTi AC r WITH mi;. i-;.mi-:i!sox. [i739^ ^74\\nhad married his L;ra;id-daii;^htcr. was settled as his colleague. Mr.\\nEmersi)]! retaining one-half ot his sa]ar\\\\ till his decease. Sept. ^o,\\ni8c:)i. at the age ofS:^ ears.\\nDui ing that long period the salar\\\\- of the minister, in accordance\\nwith the tenor of their contract, was assessed upon the inhabitants of\\nthe town a.t the annual ?\\\\larch meetings, and al\\\\\\\\a\\\\s \\\\otcd. so fir as\\nappears fron-i the recorvl. without dissent or opposition. ^Vs we ha\\\\e\\nseen, in the acceptance ot the pro]:)osals made to him b\\\\ the societx\\nMl I ^merson closeil his answer with the words. oiu^s to ser\\\\e in\\nthe wori of the ihospel ministrx during life. e JKne in the pas-\\ntorate ol ^4r. I Lmerson. an a]5t illustration ot what was undei stood\\nIn our ancestors i _^c) \\\\ears ago. b\\\\ the settlement ot a ministei in a\\ncount) town in \\\\e\\\\\\\\ h^ngland. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(lui ing lite.\\n2(1. We ha\\\\e seen thai the societ\\\\ in their proposals to the candi-\\ndate agieed to gi\\\\ e him such a sum in bills of public cre(iitas would\\n])e e(iual to t ^o of the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Massachusetts last l mition. 44iis Alassa-\\nchuselts last emission was. at that dale, the latest issue of paper\\nmone\\\\ b\\\\ that ]iro\\\\ince. one pountl oi which, at that time, was\\nworth $3-3,^ in coin, but like all ]:)ape) mone\\\\ was \\\\er\\\\- liable to de-\\nj:)reciate. Xot intending tiiat the \\\\alue ol his pastoral ser\\\\ ices should\\ndepreciate, aspaper moiie\\\\ might. Mi b.mersonin accepting the call.\\ns\\\\ith ^omewhai ot worldK wistion.i. not to sa\\\\ an.i ee slirew dness-\\ntook occasion to ti anslate this f^o in papei mone\\\\ into its equixalent\\nat the time in hard cash. 1 this thoughtlul caution, he secured to\\nhimself loi the iollow ing tiftx \\\\ears and more. a. fixed hard nionex\\nl)asis fi t!ie \\\\alue of his parochi.il du.ties. a liasis e\\\\ ei ai terwards rc\\nsp^ected b\\\\ (he ])eoi)le of the town.\\nThe \\\\ariable and uncei tain alue ol the )a)~ier mone\\\\ in use in\\nXew llampsiiii-e. as show 11 lr\\\\ tlie town records, from 1741 till\\nnear the i-e\\\\oluti nary war. and also duiing that ar. is the Itest\\ncommentary u.pon the caution and foresight of Mr. b]merson in mak-\\ning his contract as he did. The General Coui t of Massachusetts\\nfirst issued bills of credit, as niouew in 1690. of \\\\-\\\\hich a fac simile is\\nto l)e foimd in the !!istoi-ical Collections of that state f r the \\\\-car\\n18O3. In the yeai- i 74S that ro\\\\ince h.ad its bills of credit In circu-\\nlation, issued at dilU i ent limes, to the nominal amount of A 200.000.\\nThese i)ills of ci-edii at that time had so de]: reciated that L l in siher\\nwas equal in \\\\alue lo i l 1 in papei Alxait ihat time this pai)er\\nnione_\\\\ as redeemed at that rate(ele\\\\en f)i one) in Spanish dollars,\\nwhicli hatl been recei\\\\-ed from lingland in paxment oi the ser\\\\ ices", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "739 ^74*^ I -^oi; i aim.k mom.n\\nol iIk M;i-- ;iclui^c tts tioo])^. ;U tile sic^c and ca|)UirL- ot Louisljiirj^-.\\nin 1/4^. I iit ill W w 1 lampshire. from \\\\J\\\\i to 176^. there ajjpcar.s\\nto have heeii \\\\er\\\\ little if any metallic nioiiL-x in use as a medium of\\nexchaii ^e. As shown by the town records, the taxes tor all pur-\\nposes, duriiit; that period, were assessed and collected in some sort ot\\nl^aper nK^ney. Even the names by w hicli the \\\\arious kinds and\\nissues of this currency were known at the time, are to most of the\\n])reseiit generation an unsohed riddle.\\n.\\\\mon54- these names we shall tind on tlie records: \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mamifactor\\\\\\nbills. Mass. old tenor. II. old tenor. Mass. new tenor.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2N. 11. new tenor. Mass. new emission. II. new\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0emission. lawful money. i\\\\:c.. \u00c2\u00bb.\\\\:c. all apparentU ditleriii^- in\\n\\\\alue as well as in name.\\nI rior to 1760 the number of t ainilies in Mr. ICmerson s sf)ciet\\\\ had\\nnot increasetl to one hundred. consequeiitlN he w as not et entitled to\\nan increase of his salarv bexond the \\\\alue of i:;ooz. of silver, or of\\nthat of the t ^o of the Massachusetts last emission, as it was at the\\ntime of his settlement.\\nVnv the payment of this sakiry (ecpial as we ha\\\\ e seen to $171 in\\nfederal mone\\\\). weHiultliat the inhabitants were assessed, in the\\nyears named below the followini^- sums in the pajicr mone\\\\ then in\\nuse. 1753- -777- lo^ I- 17(^10. t 404. 9\\\\ 8 Mass. T\\n1761. i 415. 6\\\\ X. II. X. Tenor. 1763. 1-447. 5~- I-\\n1770. t 67. 13 S L. M. or sihei- money. In the year last named\\npa])er money appe;irs to ha\\\\ e t^one w liolh out of use. The like\\n\\\\ariation in the \\\\alue of this currenc\\\\ is shown in the prices fixed for\\nthe tliiity cords of wood to be furnished vearl\\\\- to the minister. This\\nwood was commonb assessed upon the tax ]5a\\\\ers tVom \\\\ear to \\\\ear\\nin kiiul. each of them beiiiL; required to t urnish at the minister s door\\nii certain number of feet. If not delivered at the time fixed bv \\\\()te\\nof the tow 11. the (leiiiU|neiit was to pd\\\\ for it at a price xoted at the\\npre\\\\ ions March meetin;^-. The jirice of a cord of wood fixed in this\\nway for diflerent vears was: for 1748. t l.: 17SO. 2. 10 1760.\\n.iKi. 1770. T,\\\\ 6 htwful o|- siher money, ecpial to 1ift\\\\ -eii^ht cents.\\n3d. e shall also tind. Iw examination of these records, that the\\nmode of assessin 4 taxes at that time, and the wa\\\\ in which thev were\\napportioned between polls and estates, were radicalh dilVereiit from\\nour modern lews and iisaj^es.\\nW e lia\\\\ e seen, in the a ^reemeiil entered into amoii L; themselves\\nJ)\\\\ the members nl Mi laiierson s societx that b\\\\ mutual consent", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56\\nTIIK OI.D TEXOK PAPKK MO^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2E^^ [1/39 to 74\\nthey Hxcd upt^n a basis of taxation, as to polls and property, which,\\nas stated in that instrument, was agreeable to the rule ot the ]\\\\Ias-\\nsachusetts province. This rule was to the effect, that the tax tor\\nthe support of the minister should be so apportioned amon 4 such as\\nhad real and personal estate and those suliject to a poll tax only, in\\nsuch way that a single poll tax should be equal to the highest tax on\\npropert\\\\ In other \\\\vords. the hole amoimt of the propert^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 tax of\\nthe richest man in the town could be no more in amount than t\\\\vice\\nthe poll tax of the poorest who was taxed at all. Under the law of\\nAlassachirsetts, as \\\\ye ha\\\\e before seen, male persons w ere subject to\\na poll tax at eighteen, and the same law was at the time in force in\\nXe\\\\y Hampshire.\\nIn illustration of this rule of taxation. 1 will cite an example or\\ntwo. The fn-st tax after the ordination of Mr. h^merson was for \u00c2\u00a335,\\nassessed to pa\\\\ tor the entertainment of the ordaining council. Ot\\nthat sum, t 27. or more than three-foinths of it. were assessed\\nupon lifty-seyen persons as a poll tax. and the balance, less than f8,\\nupon propert\\\\\\nThe next tax was foi- \u00c2\u00a3635. 9s. 6(1. for Mr. h^merson s Ncttlement\\nand salary for the first year. Of that sum, 418. 9s. 6(1. were\\nassessed as a poll tax on sixt\\\\-t\\\\\\\\ o persons, or about t\\\\yo-thirds ot\\nthe whole.\\n^Vs in taxes assessed for other ])in poses. so in those tor the supi)ort\\nof the minislrw there was no law for the exemption of the person or\\npropert\\\\- (jf an\\\\ one except by xote of the town. The law in this-\\nrespect appears to haye been in full accord with popular sentiment,\\nand the majority of tlie people were su.fliciently tenacious ot their\\nlegal rights under il. As an instance of public sentiment upon ihe\\nquestion. e lind that as late as 1785. Mr. Edward SpaKhng had an\\narticle inserted in the \\\\varrant for the annual March iiieeting To^\\nsee if it were the minds of .the people to exempt his estate from min-\\nisterial tax. for the reason that he belonged to the Baptist denomina-\\ntion. This (|uestion being subnutted to the meeting, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the minds\\nof the people found expression in the tbllow ing clear and emphatic\\nterms: ole(b that tlie estate of Edward S])al(ling shall not lie\\ntreed from minister s tax for the time ]:)ast. present, or to come.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CHARTKK OK HOI. I. IS. 5/\\nC II A V T R IV.\\n1746 TO 1750. CIIAUTKR OF MOLLIS. ETC. ORIGIN OK TIIK NAME,\\nFIRST TOWN MEETING. SECOND MEETINf} rlOl SE. P1-:\\\\V\\n(JROUNO AND PEWS. CAKE OF THE M EIITINCJ-HOISE. LAND\\nTAX. SINGINC;. ETC.\\nThe district organization of all that part of old Dunstable lying\\nnorth of the new Prf)vince line, and west of the Merrimack river, con-\\ntinued unchani^ed from 1742 till the sjiring of 1746. This district\\norganization, as we have seen, was for the single purpose of assess-\\ning and collecting Province taxes. Earlv in the vear 1746. the\\nGovernor and Council, w ith a view to the di\\\\ ision of this district\\ninto townships, appointed ti\\\\e Commissioners to examine the ter-\\nritory :uul to report in hat way it could be I)est subdivided into\\ntownship corporations.\\nAt the last public meeting of the inhabitants of West Dunstable,\\nheld Feb. iS. 1746. John Boynton. Thomas Dinsmore. and Benja-\\nmin Parker were appointed a committee on the ])arl of the people\\nto meet those Commissioners and to represent to them the ^vishes of\\nthe settlers in West Dunstalde in respect to the proposed incorpor-\\nations. These Commissioners conxened at the East parish. Thev\\nwere waited upon there, as is said. b\\\\ the Committee from West\\nDunstable and recjuested to isit and iew the west part of the Dis-\\ntrict but the Commissioners declined going anv farther to the e^t.\\nIn pursuance of the report of this commission, the district of Dun-\\nstable was very soon tlivided and incorporated into the four to\\\\\\\\ nships\\nof Dunstable, Holies. Merrimack and Monsf)n. With the exception\\nof their boimdaries. the charters of these townships were siibstan-\\ntialb alike, those of Dunstable and Monson. being dated Apiil i,\\nthat of Merrimack. A])ril 2. and tliat of Ilollis. April t,. i 74", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "5S\\nCHARTKK IIOIJ,lS.\\n(.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiAiiri:!; oi iioi.r.is.\\n[174^ to 17^0.\\nProvince of XcAV Hanii:)sliiic. 1 ,1\\n^^_, (_TC()i gc the Secoiul. n\\\\ the\\nI Grace of God of Great l^rit-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0j Seal I ain. France and Ireland. Kiiii^-.\\nj I Defender of the Faith. c.\\nEnjow\\n^Vnd it appearing to ns to lie conducixe to the (Jeiieral (ioinl of\\nour said Pro\\\\ince as well as of said Inliabitants in particular. I)\\\\ main-\\ntaining- (jood order and I^ncouraging the Culture of the Lantl that\\nthe same shall he Done. Know ye therelore that Wee of our .Spe-\\ncial Grace, certain Know ledge and tor the Encouragement and Pro-\\nmoting the Good Purposes and luids afoix said B\\\\- and with the\\nad\\\\ ice of our trusty ant! l)elo\\\\ed P)enning entw n-t]i. I-2s(|.. (io\\\\--\\nad\\\\ ice of our trust\\\\- ant! l)elo\\\\ed P)em\\nernor antl Commandei- in Chief, and or\\n\\\\ince.\\nling ent\\\\\\\\ (U tli.\\n_ our Coimcil for said Pro-\\naAc erected, incoi-poi-ated and ordainetl. and Iw tliese Pres-\\nents ior us and our Heirs and Successors Do will and ordain that\\nthe Inhahitants of tlie Tract of Pant! af( resaid. hountled as t ollows\\n\\\\-i/.. l eginning at Xasliawa\\\\ Ri^ er where the Xoi therh- Bon!idar\\\\\\nLine of tlie Pro\\\\ince of Massachusetts ci-(.sses that Ri\\\\er:\\nTlien running Xoi th f^igiity Degrees est on said Line vSi\\\\ miles\\nand Xinety Six Kods: ThenXorthlw tJR- needle on Dunstahle An-\\ntient Dead Line four Jiles and one llundred and I \\\\)i-t\\\\- Ro(!s\\nThen South Eighty Degrees ICast by the Xeetlle to ]\\\\huldy iJrook\\nThen hy Muddy iJrool^ into Flint s Pont! Then In Flint s i5roolx to\\nXa.shaway Pi\\\\er; d hen by Xashawa\\\\ River to tlie Place Wdiere it\\nfirst began; And (the\\\\- who) sliall iidiabit the same be and 1)\\\\\\nthese Pi esents are dechii-etl and ord. lined to be a. I ow n Corporate and\\nare herein Erected an.d Incorporated into a l)odi\\\\- Corporate and Cor-\\nporation to ha\\\\e ct)ntinuance oi-e\\\\ er b\\\\ tlie name of I lollcs With\\nall the Powers antl Authorities. Prix ileges. Immunities and Fran-\\nchises hich other Towns \\\\vithin tjur said Pro^dnce or an} of them", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "fEl^f^^\\nCopy or a pian\\nOMnisACKOFJHc Originai Chahtch\\nTHIS 5 ~DAY or APftIL /746\\nJH\u00c2\u00a3OO0fi\u00c2\u00a3 AtHJMSON\\nSecr\\nOUNSTAILE.HOLLES.\\nM E R R I M A C K. \u00c2\u00b0M N S N.\\nA5 CH/SRTCR ED\\nApril, J 74^6\\nec-^ one s r^ acs^QAi", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "17|6.] t IIAIMI.Its ol 1)1 \\\\S I Al .ll.. MON.sON. i:if. 59\\nLaw lia\\\\L and l .ni()\\\\. To liaxi. and lo liold tin.- said Powers\\nand Aiilh )rilii. s. Iinniunities and l raneliises to llicni llic said In-\\nlial)ilants and ihoir Sulccssois Ioicnlt.\\n.l/zct7\\\\ s A cscrz /z/i; to us our J Icirs and Successors. \\\\ll W liilc\\n7 rccs i;ro-j.. ///i;a)/i/ c/i/i^\\\\ and wJiic/i shall hereafter i^roiv\\non said J ract of J^and fit for the //se of our Jioyal Xavy .Mso\\nthe Pow cr of Di\\\\ idiiii^ tlic Said I ow n to us our Ilcirs and Successors\\nw hen it shall appear necessar\\\\ or con\\\\enienl lor the henelit ot the\\nJidiahilants thereol\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-\\\\nd as the Sexeial Towns Within our said Pro\\\\ ince are 1)\\\\ the\\nLaw tliercof Enal)led and Authorized to Asseinhle and hy the Ahi-\\njoritv ot otes lo ehuse all such ollleers as are mentioned in Said\\nLaw. We do h\\\\ these Presents noininale Col. Joseph Blanchard to\\ncall the first meeting- ot the Said Inhahitants to he held within the\\nSaiil Town at an\\\\ time w ithin thirtx days from the date hereof.\\n(iiNiu L^ \\\\l- j;a\\\\ notice of the Time Place and Dcsi rn of Iloldin Said\\nMeetint;-. In Teslimon\\\\ Whereof We ha\\\\ e caused the .Seal of oiu\\n.Said Pro\\\\ ince to he hereunto afKxed.\\nWitness, Ik-nninn Wenlworth. lCs(|.. our (jo\\\\ernor. and Com-\\nniandcr-iii-Chief of our said Pro\\\\ince the third day of .Vj^ril. in the\\near of oiu Lord Christ. 174(1. and in the 19th year of oui^ Keij^u.\\nB. W kx r\\\\\\\\ oRTii.\\n1 his E\\\\cellenc\\\\ s Command with the adx ice of Council,\\nTiii:oi)OK]d .\\\\.-nN.iNS()N. Scct y.\\nBOL XDAiiii:s (\u00c2\u00bbi niNsrAr.i.i:. as ciiAirri:iii:i) aim;ii. i. 1746.\\nHc j^inninj^- at the Ri\\\\ er Merrimack at the Xorthern boundary\\nLine of the Proxince of Massachusetts Hay and runs from the Ri\\\\er\\nMerrimack. North. Ei^litv Dei^rees. West. I n e miles and t orty rods\\nlo Nashua River. Then b\\\\ said Ri\\\\er to Flint s lirook thence In\\nFlint s Brook into Flint s pond then In a run of water into Muddy\\n))r()ok. and dow n Mu(ld\\\\ brook into Peiuiichuck ]5ond then In\\nPennichuck hrook into Merrimack ri\\\\ er to the place where it hrst\\nl)C.ijun.\\nnOfNOAIlIKS OI MONSOX.\\nncLjinninn at the West Line of Dunstahle. old Town, four miles\\nand one hundred and forty rods north. In the magnet, ot the north-\\nern boiuularv line of the Pro\\\\ince of Massachusetts Ba\\\\ then south-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "6o\\nCHARTERS OV Dl XSTABI.E. ^[OXSOX, ETC.\\n[1746.\\nerl}- eighty degrees, east, to Miuldy brook then h\\\\ that lirocjk to\\nPeniiicluick p(jn(l and from the north end of saitl p(jnd. north. In- the\\nniagnet. to Sonhegan river; tlien ])v the saitl river to the liead hue\\non the west side of oUl Dnnstal)le tlien sonth, l^v the niagnet. on\\ntliat Hne lo llie phice where it begnn.\\nORIGINAL BOIXDARIES Ol MERRIMACK.\\nIk giiming at the Merrimack viwy where Pennichucl-: brook\\ncomes into that ri\\\\er then bv Peimichnck l)rook to Fennichnck\\npond: then due north, liy tlie magnet, to Sonhegan river: thenb\\\\-\\nthat ri\\\\er to ^lerrimack river then on the west side of derrimack\\nri\\\\er to th.e place vhere it Hrst Itegnn.\\nOn the 5tli (ki.y of June. 1750. that {)art of the present town of\\nMerrimack north of the Soulicgan. was ann.exed to that to\\\\vn 1)\\\\- an\\namendment of its original charter.\\n^Ay /////_^ 7/ :7w J/V.s-/. //c?u Iludsoii. on the east side of ]Men-imack\\nriver, being, as at first incorporated, wholh within ancient Dim-\\nstable, and rvlhaiii^ embracing its extreme eastern part were also\\niiicorporated as toxcus Iw the (TOAcrnor and Council of New Hamp-\\nshire, in 174 I.itchficld. as chartered b\\\\- the (General Coint of\\n^fassachuscLts. in 1 734- \\\\ve base seen. la\\\\- upon lioth sides of the\\n^Merrimack, was also within old Dunstalile. That part of Litch-\\ntieh! on the east side of the Merrimack was chartered as a town b\\\\\\nthe ro\\\\ ernor and Council of New Hampshire. June 17-J9.\\nAll these New Hampshire town charters, unlike those granted b\\\\\\nthe (ienerad Court of Arassacbusctls. \\\\\\\\ere wholh silent in respect\\nto the settlement aiid ma.intainance of able arid orth(.)dox minis-\\nters and the building of meeting-houses. IJeiming WeiUworth.\\nat that time the ro\\\\;d (jo\\\\ernor of New I lampshire. was an ICjjisco-\\npaban and a zealous adherent of the Church of England, and it\\nm;iy well be supposed that he h:id no special s\\\\-mpath\\\\ with the\\ncurrent orthodoxNof the times as taught in the Cambritlge Platfirni\\nand the AssembU s Catechism.\\nInstead of the like contlitions as in the Massachusetts charters\\nin respect to orthodox ministers and meeting-houses. (jo\\\\ernor\\nWentworlh in these New Hampshire charters expressh reserxecL\\nfor the use of the ro\\\\al nav^ all suitable white pine trees then\\ng rowing and being and which should afterwards grow in the towns\\nso chartered, thus I ix in\u00c2\u00abi for the use of His Maiest\\\\ s na\\\\ all such", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "i7-|6.] Tin; NAMi; oi mollis and n^ ork.in. 6i\\ntrees as were best adapted to tlie hiiildiiiy of ortliodox mectiiv^-\\nlioiises.\\nBy a Piovincc Law of New I Ianii:)shirc. passed in i/ij. il w ;i\\nenacted. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0That it should l)e hiwful for the free-hohlers of a town,\\nconvened in puhlie Town Meetinti^ to make choice of a minister for\\nthe supplv f)f said town, and to ajj^ree \\\\vhat annual salarv should\\nlie paid him, and it was made tiie duty of the selectmen to make\\nRates upon the Inhabitants of the town for the pavmcnt of the\\nSalary of the minister in the same manner as for other to\\\\vn\\ncharges. When a minister was chosen and settled under this law.\\nall the tax-jjayers in the town were liable to be taxed for his sup-\\nport, it making no tlitTerence. as it would seem, li^ to this liabilit\\\\\\nAvhcther the minister were a Calvinist. Episcopalian. Presbyterian.\\nBaptist, or New Light.\\nOr Li-ilit tli:it ^liiiics when few arc ni;rli,\\nlur .Si)iriui;il trades t cozen hv.\\nIn Alassachusetts, at that time, as hr.s been shown, no minister\\n.satisfied the law ludess able, learned and orthodox.\\nniL XAML Axn rrs oimgin.\\nitliin m\\\\ remembrance, there has bcju mucli controvers\\\\- upon\\nthe cjuestion whether the name of Ilollis should l)c spelt with the\\nJcttcr or c in the last syllable, and also as to the person in whose\\nhonor the town ^yas named. Mr. Farmer, in his Gazetteer of New\\nHampshire, spells it with an and tells us that the name was either\\nderived from the Duke of Newcastle, whose family name was Ilollis.\\nor from Thomas Ilollis. a distinguished licncfactor of Harvard Col-\\nlege iSIr. Farmer spelling both names //c///.s-. Hon. J, B. Hill,\\nin his history of Mason, says the name was derived tVom that of the\\nDuke of Newcastle, whose famil\\\\ name was Holies Mr. Hill using\\nthe letter c in the last syllable. Frcjm the best evidence at my com-\\nmand upon the c|uestion, I ha\\\\e no doidit that Mr. Hill is correct,\\nlioth in the orthography of the name and also in that of the j^erson\\nfor whom the town was called. In the original record of the tow n\\ncliarter. now at Concord, and in the copy of the charter on the\\nIlollis record, the name is spelt Holies. In the town records t or\\nthe twentv-ilve years and more before the war of the revolution tlie\\nname occurs hundreds of times, and. so far as I have seen, is uni-\\nformly spelt Holies as in the charter, and is so spelt in the New\\nHampshire Laws published as late as iSi^.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "6:\\nTIIK NAME OF irOLI.IS AND I lS OUIGIX,\\n[1746.\\nAt the time Ilollis was chartered. I^eiininti, W entwortli. as we\\nha\\\\ e seen, was u\\\\ernor. AJr. eiit\\\\\\\\orth was aj^pointed to that\\nottice m I 741. ar.d lield it till 1765. He \\\\vas imlebted to the Dvike\\nof Newcastle for this appointment, wlio was at the time, and for\\nsome years after, secretary of state tor the colonies, this commission\\ncostin!4 the friends of (jov. Wentworthi 300 in fees and expenses o^\\nsolicitation.\\nIn a work entitled Hurke s Extinct Peerag es of Great Britain,\\nno\\\\v in tlie lil)rar\\\\ of the New Enodand Historic, (jcnealogical\\nSociet\\\\ in [Boston. I fmd that the original name of this Did-:e of\\nNewcastle was Thomas Pelham. (an English baron). This Thomas\\nPelham hose mother was (irace Plolles) a\\\\ as a nephew and the\\nadopted son and heir of his nncle, the preceding Dnke of Newcastle,\\nwho was childless, and whose famih name was Holies. Upon the\\ndeath of the old dnke (his nncle). this nephew succeeded to his\\nestates and tules. and assnmetl his tamiK name and was afterward\\nknown as Thomas Pelham Holies.\\nIt was er\\\\ much a custom with (ton entworth to name towns\\nin NTav I lampshire. chartered 1 him. in honor ot his friends and\\npatrons connectetl Avith the home gxnernment. Tlie towns of Mon-\\nson. Hollis and Pelham were all chartered the same vear, 174^ i*^\\nwhile the Dnke of Ne\\\\\\\\ castle (Thomas Pelham Holies) was still\\nsecretar\\\\ of state tor the colonies. Moiison was the tamih name ot\\none of the hoard ot tlie Lords ot colonial trade, and that fact. I aj)-\\nprehend, accounts tor the name ot the extinct lo\\\\\\\\ n of ^Slonson.\\nPelham. the original famih name ot this Did e ot Newcastle, was\\nperpetuated in the name of the tow 11 of Pelham. in the same \\\\va^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\nand for the like reason that Holies, his name h\\\\ atloption. as in-\\ntended to he in that of the town of Hollis: the gratefid go\\\\ ernor.\\nbesides the \u00c2\u00a330(3. thus ]:)a\\\\ing his patron the double compliment.\\nmuch in the same wa\\\\ as Ids successoi (to\\\\-. John Wentworth.\\ncommemorated the maiden name of his wife. Frances r3eering. in\\nthe names of two of otu neighboring towns. Francestown and\\nDeering. as an expi ession of his gratitude for her acceptance of his\\nhand at the end of two sad. loneh weeks of \\\\vido\\\\\\\\hoo(l. Whate\\\\cr\\nma\\\\ ha\\\\ e been the special obligations of Penning Wentworth to\\nthe Duke of Newcastle, the ])eople of New lingland had very little\\nreason to think well of him. Mr. Bancroft, in his history, sa\\\\ s of\\nhim. that he was of so fee!)Ie a liead and so treacherous a heart that\\nSir Robert W alpole called his name Perfid\\\\ that Lord Halifax", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "1 74 J t 7SO-] i-iRsr TOWN i:i.iariON 63\\nuscil to revile him as a kna\\\\c aiul foul, and that he was so i ;iio-\\nrant of this continent, that it was said of him, that he addressed his\\nletters to the Island of New England.\\nThomas IloUis, the ii^eneroiis benefactor of Harvard Collcfrc, was\\nan eminent and wealthy merchant of London of \\\\ery exemplarv\\ncharacter, ami lil)eral in his political principles. Mr. Hollis died in\\n1731. ten vears before Mr. Wentworth was appointed (iovernor,\\nand I know of no reason for supposing that the ii^overnor was per-\\nsonallv acquainted with him. Mollis Hall at Camliridti^e. built and\\ndeilicated just before the rcNolution. was named ff)r this benefactor\\nof the college. The name of the London merchant, and also of\\nthis hall. ha\\\\e been alwa\\\\s spelt as the name of the t(nvn of Hollis\\nnow is.\\nThere can be no doubt that the people of Hollis. one hundred\\nyears ago. well understood the character of the Duke of Newcastle,\\nand also that of the w orthv London merchant, and it is ncjt strange\\nthat it should have been their choice that the name of the benefactor\\nof Harvard College shoidd be commemorated in that of their town,\\nrather than an\\\\ of the mam names of the Duke of Newcastle,\\nwhether original, adopted or bestowed bv those who knew him as\\nwell as did Sir Robert W alpole and Lord Halifax.\\n^Vccordinglv. about the vear 177^. when change and rexolution\\nwere the order of the da\\\\ in all their other important interests and\\naflairs. a slight orthographical revolution, as appears by their town\\nrecf)rds. was for the first time initiated in the name of their town by\\nchanging the c in the last syllable into During the re\\\\ olutionary\\nar. and afterward to the end of the century, and in man\\\\ instances\\nlater, the name was spelt in the records and other public documents\\nin both avs, according to the opinion or caprice ot the w riter. and\\nit continued so to be spelt, as we ha\\\\ e seen, as late as 1S15. But\\nfor the last fiftv vears. so far as I ha\\\\ e know n. it has with great uni-\\nformitv been spelt as it now is. Hollis. like that of the benefactor of\\nHarvard College, and that orthography appears now to be perma-\\nnently established both bv common usage and the will of the people,\\nwhile Holies, the name of the Duke of Newcastle, has passed into\\nmerited oblivion.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 THE SECOND MEETIXG-HOl .SE. [^74 to ^75*^-\\nTHE FIRST TOWN ELECTION.\\nThe iirst Town Election in Hollis, (as provided in the charter)\\nwas called In Col. Joseph Blanchard. April 2S. 1746. for the sole\\npurpose of choosing officers for the new to\\\\vn. At this meeting- the\\nfirst town officers were chosen as follow s\\nSamuel CuMiNGS, jModc-rator James Stewaht, T tli AI\\nSamuel CuMiNGS, Town Clerk Christopher Eovejo\\nSamuel Cumixgs. Jonathhn Dankorth.\\n-Cenjamix Farley, Selectmen Benjamin Blanchard, \\\\ie\\\\vei^\\nFrancis Worcester, Nicholas F rench,\\nThomas Dinsmore, 1 ^VILLIAM Adams, S^^\\nF rancis Phelps, Elias Smith, Pound Keeper,\\nNicholas French, J .Surveyors of llitcli -vysELiAS Smith, Scaler ol Wcit^hts ;m(l ]\\\\Ie:isures\\nJames McDaniels. .Samuel Brow.n, .Se;iler of I,e;ithei\\nSamuel P.\\\\kker^ J\\nTill SECOND MEETING IIOl SE.\\nIn the month of Alarch, 174^. as shown hv the Tax List, the\\ntaxal^le inhabitants of West Dnnstalile had increased to the numl)er\\nof 77. Thev liad had an acceptable and po]:)nlar minister for near\\ntwo years, and had begun to ha^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0e a \\\\cv\\\\ painful sense of the small\\ncapacity of their first meeting house 22 feet one way 20 feet\\nthe other 9 feet Studs and one Glass Windo\\\\v. This feeling\\nin respect to the dimensions of their meeting-house first Ibund public\\nexpression in the doings of a ]5arish meeting held at the fn\\\\st meet-\\ning-house Sept. 6, 174=;. while the inhabitants were still without a\\ntown or parish charter. At this meeting, as sho\\\\yn by the record\\nof it. it as A^oted unanimousb to Iniild a meeting-house ^o feet\\nlong 44 feet wide and 23 feet Posts in llight. Allso voted\\nunanimously to sett the next mecting-housc on y* Lott of Land v\\npresent house stands on. which was given for v use. Allso \\\\ot-\\ned y John Bovnton, Benjamin Farley. Elias Smith, Stephen Harris.\\nThomas Dinsmore and Zedekiah Drury be a committee to take the\\nwhole care in carr^-ing on y work, and recei\\\\ ing y money shall\\nbe subscribed for use, and employ faithful men y* shall appear to\\nfurnish Timlier and other materials as shall lie wanted for said\\nHouse.\\nIt will be observed that these doings of the inhabitants of West\\nDunstable, before its boimdaries were changed h\\\\ the town charter\\nof the next year, were entirely unanimous.\\nThe numl)er of names on the iirst Tax List in the town of Hollis\\nin 1746 was but ^3. 24 less than in West Dunstalile the year be-\\nfore a part of this last nimilier living on the east side of West\\nDimstable ha\\\\ ing lieen set off bv the acts of incorporation to the\\nnew town of Dunstable, and the rest of them on the north side to\\nthe town of INIonson.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "OUiUllLia, j.fi; uiu.ii\\nI ii;ST .^ii .i: 1 1.\\\\(- 1 1()( i..\\nMr 1 11 1 7\u00c2\u00bbi", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "174^ to 1750.] THK SKCOND MEETING-HOUSE. 65\\nAt the second town meeting in Ilollis, held May 20, 1746,\\nVoted unanimously to take on us the obligation to Mr. Emerson,\\nas it now stands in the covenant for his yearly Salary so long as he\\nremains our minister, and to raise \u00c2\u00a3200, O.T., for his Salery the\\nyear ensuing. Chose Jonathan Danforth and Benjamin P arlcy to\\nrun y Line between Holies and Monson. Also voted to peti-\\ntion y General Court of Massachusetts Bay for some Solders We\\nbeing in Grutt Danger from y enemy. Also voted that the\\nBook we have used for the Parish Records, be used for a Town\\nBook.\\nThe third meeting of the town was called June 13, 1746, for the\\nfollowing purposes To see if the town will build a House for\\nthe Public worship of God. To see if the town will Accept\\nthe Timber which is hewn and drawn together to build a House\\nwith, and chose a Committee to take charge of said Work. To\\nsee if the Town will accept the acre of Land that was given the\\nParish to Sett the Meeting House on and for a Burying Place.\\nTo see if the town will vote that the money due from Capt. Pow-\\ners shall be laid out in ammunition for a town Stock. To see\\nif the Town will provide a Pound and Stocks.\\nAt this meeting the Town voted as follows\\nI St, To build a House for the Public Worship of God.\\n2d, To accept the Timber that was prepared for said use to\\nbuild said House with.\\n3d, Chose Benjamin Farley, Benjamin Blanchard, and Capt.\\nPowers a Committee to take care and see that said House is\\nbuilt.\\n4th, To accept the Land that was given to the Parish to Sett the\\nMeeting House on and for a Burying Ground.\\n5th, That the Money due from Capt. Powers, shall be laid out\\nto buy Powder, Bullets and Flints for a Town Stock.\\n6th, To accept the old Pound for the present year and tliat the\\nSelectmen provide Stocks.\\nItappears from the doingsof a Town Meeting held tlKsamc year,\\na few months later, that Josiah Conant had been employed ])y the\\nSelectmen to make the Stocks for the town, and that his account for\\nmaking them was then accepted.\\nThe Pillory for the confinement of the head and hands of the\\noflender. Stocks for his feet, and the Whipping Post with the cat\\no fiific tails for his liack, were in common use with our ancestoi-s\\n(4)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66 IlIE SIX OM) MKE J IXCJ-HOUSK. [174610 I7SO-\\nof the last century, for the punishment of minor offences. A person,\\nfor instance, found guilty of profane swearing, for a first offence,\\nwas fined one Shilling if not able to pa} he was set in the town\\nstocks for two hours for more than one profane oath at the same\\ntime, or for a second offence, he was set in the stocks for three\\nhours.\\nThe lloUis Whipping Post, stanchng on the west side of the\\nHollis Common, was in practical use after the beginning of the\\npresent centin^y, and is still remembered by persons now Hying.\\nAfter the meeting of the 13th of June, such progress was made\\nwith the new meeting-house, that a special town meeting was called\\non the 38th of the following July, at which it was voted that v*\\nMeeting House be raised on the 13th of August next (1746).\\nAlso Voted that y* Com provide Victuals and Drink for y*^ Peo-\\nple on Raising Day. and bring it to the Fraim at noon. If they\\nCant Get it among our Friends to Provide it Themselves.\\nTo the doings of the last two meetings there \\\\vas a \\\\cv\\\\ earnest\\nand persistent oppositic^i in respect to the location of the new\\nmeeting-house, and the building and raising it at that time, by a\\nvery considerable number of settlers then living in the west end of\\nthe town, most of them in tliat part of Hollis, some years afterwards\\nset ofi to the present t wn of Brookline. Eight of these settlers\\nhad a written protest against the proceedings of these meetings en-\\ntered upon the town records, setting forth their objections. After\\nthe meeting of the 2Sth of Juh fixing the Raising Day for the\\n13th of August, thirteen of them united in a petition and complaint\\nto the General Court of New Hampshire, dated August 5, 1746.\\nstating their grie^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ance^. and pra\\\\ ing for the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Appointment of a\\nCommittee to view the situation and to fix upon a place for the\\nMeeting-House, and that the Raising of it might be postponed till\\nthis Committee could re])ort.\\nThis petition conceded that the proposed location for the Meet-\\ning-House was just and reasonable for the Parish of West Dunsta-\\nble, as incorporated seven years before by the General Court of\\nMassachusetts, but that it was unjust and unecjual for the town of\\nHolies as it then was. lliat by the late Act incorporating the town,\\nabove three miles uff of the east end of the old parish were set to\\nDunstable bringing the east line of Holies within a mile and one\\nhalf of the Meeting-House place. That the west line of Holies was\\nnear five miles from the Meeting-House jDlace. and some inhabitants", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "i74 i 75 ^i-\u00c2\u00bb^ Nn;i:riN(;-ii()i-sK. 67\\nalreacK sc-tlK-d at tlic outside. That tlu- ixtilioiicrs with otlicrs\\nhad aj^plicd to the Selectmen of Holies to call another nicetin\\nto consider the injustice of this location, hut that their applica-\\ntion had been refuseti. That if llie Meeting-House should i)e built\\nat the place jirojiosed it would discourage settlements in the west end\\nof the town, but that when further settlements should be made, the\\nhouse would have to be pulled down, many chanj^es made in the\\nHi ^hways thev loaded with j^reat changes. and room left for\\nmuch contention and disturbance.\\nThis Petition was signed by Stephen Ames. William Adams,\\nSamuel Douglas. Isaac Farrar, James, Joseph and Randall McDan-\\niels. John and Jonathan Mclvin, Samuel Parker, Moses Proctor,\\nJames Whiting, and Jasher Wyman. It was presented to the Gen-\\neral Court bv Stephen Ames as agent of the Petitioners, read, con-\\nsidered and dismissed by the House of, Representati\\\\es on the nth\\nof August, two days before Raising Day. so that the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Raising\\nwas not interrupted or postponetl.\\nAfterwards, while the work on the new meeting-house was in\\nprogress, at a special town meeting held on the 22(1 of Dec. 1746.\\nthe tow n\\nVoted to Raise two Pence per acre Lawt ul Money avearon all\\nthe Land in the Town of Holies for five years for y* support of the\\nGospel, and v* Arising charges of said town, and to Petition v*\\nGenerall Court for strength to Gather, and (jct v* money of Non-\\nResidents. And Allso Chose Samuel Cumings to prefer said Pe-\\ntition, and any other that may be thought proper and beneficiall\\nfor v* Tow n.\\nl-2arl\\\\ in the follow ing spring, Mr. Cumings, as agent tor the\\nt(\u00c2\u00bbw n. piesented to the General Court the following petition for the\\npassage o\\\\ the proposed law This petition may interest some of\\nus at the present dav. as clearly and forcibly setting forth the reasons\\nthat influenced the people of the town in asking for the law in\\nquestion, autl also as showing the popular sentiment of the limes in\\nrespect to the justice and policy of taxing the propertV of non-resi-\\niletit landholders for the support of ministers and building meeting-\\nhouses.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68 THE SECOXD MEETIXG-HOUSE. [1746 tO I75O.\\nCOPY OF THE PETITION\\n^1 To his Excellency Benning Went-\\nI worth. Esq., Gov., c.. The\\n-r, rx- TT Hon his Majesty s Council\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-rrovn-iceot ,e\\\\v Hampshire tt r -t.\\nI Mouse or Representatives m Lren-\\nAssembly convened. March 3i\\\\\\nJ 1747-\\nThe Petition of Sam Cumings in Behalf of the Town of Holies,\\nHumbly Sheweth, That the s Town has Lately settled A Minis-\\nter and are now building a Meeting-House for the Publick Wor-\\nship of God there.\\nThat the settlers of s Town have but lately entered thereon,\\nand altho a considerable progress in Agriculture has been made\\n(the only way we have for our support) vet find these charges very\\nburthensome.\\nThat a considerable part of the best Lands in s Town belong\\nto non-resident propri who make no Improvement.\\nThat by the arduous begining the settlement heavy charges\\nbv us alreadv paid has greatlv advanced their Lards and they are\\nstill rising in value Equal as the Resident propri tho the charges\\nhitherto and for the future must Lye on y- settlers only, unless we\\nobtain the assistance of this Hon^ court.\\nherefore vour Pef most humbly prays that y Excellency and\\nHon would take the Premises into consideration, and grant the\\nWhole of the Lands in s Township may be taxed annually for\\nfive years next coming two pence new tenor p. acre to be apply ed\\nfor the su Import of the minister and finishing y^ Meeting-House\\nand by Law Enabling us to collect the same y Pet as in Duty\\nBound shall prav c. Samuel Cumixgs.\\nThis petition was favorably considered by the General Court, and\\non the following 14th of May. 1747. an Act was passed taxing all\\nthe lands in Hollis at two pence per acre for the support of the min-\\nister and finishing the meeting-house, but limiting the law to four\\nvears.\\nIn the meanwhile the work on the new edifice went on. and such\\nprogress was aftenvards made with the enterprise, that in about two\\nyears after Raising Day, a plan of the Pew Ground, as it was\\ncalled, was made by a Committee appointed by the town and ac-\\ncepted by vote of a town meeting. The plan of this Pew Ground\\nembraced a space on the lower floor next the v.-alls, wide enough", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "1746 to 1750.] THE SECOND MEETING-HOUSE. 69\\nfor a single range of pews on each of the four sides, and this space\\nwas apportioned into sites or ground for about 20 pews. At a town\\nmeeting on the 12th of September. 174S. this Pew Ground was dis-\\nposed of bv vote of the town as follows\\nVoted that the highest in pay on Real Estate have the Pew\\nGround on their paving \u00c2\u00a3200, Old Tenor, to be applied towards fin-\\nishing the Meeting-House and the Pew men are to take their Pews\\nfor Themselves and Wives, the man and his wife to be seated ac-\\ncording to their Pay.\\nThat is, as I interpret this record, the men who at that time\\npaid the highest taxes on real estate were to have the luxurv* of own-\\ning and sitting in separate pews, the wife being indulged with the\\nprivilege of sitting in the same pew with her husband upon the con-\\ndition that the purchasers of the pew ground should build the walls\\nof their pews, and pay \u00c2\u00a3200 Old Tenor towards the completion of the\\nbuilding.\\nInDecember. 174S. this pew ground was disposed of bv lot those\\nentitled to do so drawing for choice. Down to this day the records\\nof the to\\\\\\\\ n sho\\\\v the amount of the premium paid for each pew. by\\nwhom it was paid, and the precise location of each pew in the\\nmeeting-house, with the man and his wife seated in it according to\\npav on Real Estate. can be as readilv understood from this record,\\nas from an ocular view. Mr. Enoch Hunt drew the first choice,\\npaid for it \u00c2\u00a314, O. T.. and chose the second pew at the right hand of\\nthe pulpit. Mr. Elias Smith drew the second choice, paid \u00c2\u00a314. O.\\nT.. and chose the seeond pew at the left hand of the pulpit. Capt.\\nPeter Powers, third choice, paid for it \u00c2\u00a313, O. T.. and chose the\\nfirst pew on the left hand of the front door. Lt. Benjamin Farley,\\neighth choice, and took the third pew at the right hand of the east\\ndoor, and paid for it \u00c2\u00a3n. O. T. Dr. Samuel Cumings. thirteenth\\nchoice paid for it \u00c2\u00a39. los., O. T.. and took the first pew at tlie left\\nhand of the west door. And so of the others.\\nThe pulpit was not yet built but at the annual To\\\\vn Meeting\\nin 1749 it was Voted to Bould the Pulpit and the Ministerial Pew\\nand Stars as soon as the Bords wold do to work. It was not told\\nhow soon the Bords wold do to work. yet it appears that when\\nthat part of the joiners work was first done, it was not thought so\\ngood as it -should have been, as I find at the annual meeting in 1754\\nthe town oted that the Pew before the Pulpit be taken down, if\\nthere ma\\\\ be a i;ood Hansom Pew for the town built, and a", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70 THE SliCOXD MliKTING-IUH SE. 1 74^ tO I J^O.\\nconvenient Deacons seat and good Hansom stairs to go to the\\nPulpit. At the above annual meeting in i 749 it was put to vote\\nTo see it the Town would build two Porches to y Meeting\\nHouse, and it passed in the Negative.\\nThe question in respect to the building of j^orches to the meeting-\\nhouse was many times discussed in the town meetings for the next\\ntwentv vears. But none were built till about the year 1772. when a\\nsmall one was erected on the sf)uth side of the meeting house, for\\npassing into the main building. One on the east side high and large\\nenough tor galler\\\\ stairs to the Women s (iallcrw and one on the\\nwest side for stairs to the Men s (Taller\\\\. with a bclfr\\\\- and\\nsteeple.\\nThis ancient second church edilice of llollis. as originallv com-\\npleted, long ago was tlust, and has passed awav among the things\\nthat once were but ;ire not. All th;it was mortal of the worthy\\npeople who built ami worshipped in it is also dust, and for nearlv a\\ncenturv has reposed iii the humble clun cli-\\\\ard hard by. Yet from\\nthe minutes and hints preserved by them in their town records it\\nwould not require the genius of a Cuvier or .\\\\gassiz to reconstruct\\nthis ancient ediiice. both as to its interior and exterior, and to pre-\\nsent in vivid perspective the old congregation of worshippers as it\\nwould have appeared to the eve of a looker-oii one hundred and\\ntwentv vears ago.\\nThe stumps of the sturdv forest trees that had grown jn the com-\\nmon before it, and in the burial ground behind, still stood firmly\\nrooted in their native soil. The roads that led to it, freshlv cut. and\\nlittle better than bridle paths, unfenced. except here and there ^vith\\nlogs or brushwood through the scattered and slump-co\\\\ ei ed clear-\\nings, wound their loneh \\\\\\\\a\\\\ through the dense, primeval forest.\\nThe building itself was a plain wooden structure, covered on its\\noutside with S2)lit clapboards, unpainted. except its doors, \\\\\\\\-indows\\nand water \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Troves, as vet withont porches, with a single outside\\ndoor on each of its south, east and ^vest sides with a suitable niuu-\\nber of horse blocks at convenient distances for the accommodation\\nof such of the congregation as rode to meeting upon the side saddle\\nor pillion, as well as of those who rode upon saddles with two\\nstirrups.\\nOn the insitle, upon the floor below, around next to the four\\nwalls, was a single row of pews, in which, from .Sabbath to Sal)-\\nbath were seated the })atriarchs and dignitaries of the town, the\\nhighest in pay on real estate, with their wives and families.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "1746 to 1750.] TlIK SKCOM* MKK ri\\\\ J-lIOLSK. 7I\\nA broad aisk- Icadinj^ from the south door to the pidpil and\\ndeacons scat divided the remainder of the lower Hoor intf) the east\\nand west sides, the east being the men s side, and the west the\\nwomen s side. This area was furnished with long seats for such as\\ncould not aflbrd or were not permitted to enjoy the luxury and dis-\\ntinction of pews yet in making and arranging these seats, the com-\\nmittee charged with their construction were directed by the town\\nmeeting to have them made and arranged according to pay. having\\nregard to age.\\nThe galleries were also divided bet^veen the sexes in the same\\nway with the lower floor the west gallery belonging to the\\nsterner, the east to the gentler sex, with separate flights of stairs in\\nthe southwest and southeast corners leading to each of them, with\\ntithing men above as well as below to note all graceless irreverence\\nand indecorimi especially in the youthful portion of the congre-\\ngation.\\nThe pulpit was at the entl of the broad aisle, on the north side,\\nnext the wall, \\\\vith a capacious souiuling board raised over it so high\\nthat in after years it was ordered by the town to be placed lower, if\\nthose who wished for the change would pay the expense of mak-\\ning it. B\\\\ the side of the pulpit, and leading into it. was a flight of\\nHansom stairs, such being the kind voted by the town. Imme-\\ndiately in front of the pulpit was the deacons seat, where, in ac-\\ncordance with the usages and established proprieties of those times.\\nDeacons Bovnton, Cumings, Patch and Worcester, in their small\\nclothes, long hose, knee and shoe buckles, took their seats as models\\nof gravity and decorum to all the lay members of the congregation.\\nCleanliness U- as said very long- ago to be next to Godliness\\nand cleanliness in respect to the care of their meeting-house was\\ncultivated by our worthy forefathers as diligently as if it ranked\\namong the Christian graces. At each annual tow^n meeting a\\nspecial officer was chosen to take care of the meeting-house for the\\ncoming 3 ear. The following extract from the town records of 1773\\nfurnishes an example f)f these appointments, and of the tluties ex-\\npected to be perfcnmed by that oflker Edward Carter, chosen\\nto take care of y* meeting-house he is to keep it well swept and\\nclean To open and shut the Doors in Good season, and shovell\\nthe snow from the Doors, and shovell Paths from the Doors to the\\nHorse Blocks, and clean the Horse Blocks well. He is to have\\neighteen shillings if done to the acceptance of the Town, if not, to\\nhave Nothing.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "^2 THE SECOND MEETING-HOUSE. [^74^ ^75\\nThls picture of this ancient edifice cannot be truthfully em-\\nbellished with stair or floor carpets, or with wood or coal stoves or\\nfurnaces, or with any other modern invention for warming churches\\nin winter. The only implement or convenience for a like purpose,\\nthen in use in country meeting-houses, was the little portable, tin foot\\nstove with its basin for coals and ashes, which the youthful members\\nof the congregation were educated to carry to meeting in their\\nhands for the use and comfort of their parents and seniors. Yet\\nthis was an indulgence that popular sentiment did not seem to favor,\\nas is evident from a vote of the town, at the March meeting in\\n1776, of which a record was made in the following words Voted\\nthat all Stoves that shall be left in the Meeting-House shall be for-\\nfeited to the Saxton Mr. John Atv/ell he may sell them if the\\nowner shall refuse to pay i-3 a Pistareen for the first oftence Doble\\nthat sum for the second oftence, and the said Atwell shall return the\\noverplus after he is paid for his trouble for the use of the Poor of the\\nParish.\\nNor are we able to garnish our picture with an organ, melodeon,\\nbass viol, or with duets, trios or quartettes, or with any choir of\\ntrained vocal singers. All these helps and accompaniments of mod-\\nern congregational worship were then unknown. Yet in the public\\ndevotional exercises of that day the use of hymns and spiritual songs\\nwas by no means omitted or neglected, and the singing was doubt-\\nless cjuite as solemn as other parts of the religious services either of\\nthose times or the present. When a psalm was selected from Stern-\\nhold and Hopkins, or a hymn from Dr. Watts, it was slowly read by\\nthe minister or senior deacon, one or at most two lines at a time,\\nand sung by the congregation as read from the pulpit or Deacons\\nseat. When the reader had read from the book, Hark frotn\\nthe tombs a doleful sound or, My drowsy poivers why sleep ye\\nso he was expected to take a rest till the congregation had sung\\nthose lines before reading the next. The congregation in this way\\nwould be quite sure to have some conception of the ideas intended\\nto be conveyed by the words of the hymn, a matter quite certain\\nnot to be true in the ordinary opera performances of the modern\\nquartette.\\nThe earliest reference to be found to a choir of singers in the\\ntown records is in the doings of the annual town meeting in 1767.\\nThe town then Voted that those Persons that had taken pains to\\ninstruct themselves in singing may have the two fore seats below on", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "174610 I 75\u00c2\u00b0-] SECOND MEETING-IIOUSE. 73\\nthe Men s Side. The next notice we find of singing and singers is\\nin the record of the annual meeting in 1784. It was then Voted\\nThat I 2 Feet of tlie hind Body Seats below next the broad Aisle be\\nappropriated to the Use of Singers on condition that a certain num-\\nber of them will give the Glass necessary to repair the windows.\\nLastly, in the year 17SS, it was Voted That the Ground now occu-\\npied In singers shall not be appropriated to any other use, and that\\nthe singers may be allowed to Sing once a Day Without Reading.\\nThis was a final and decisive triumph on the part of the choir.\\nThenceforth it not only secured toleration from the town meeting,\\nbut approved recognition as a fitting adjunct and help to public wor-\\nship, and also a place to sit and stand in the church without the\\ncondition of paying for it by mending broken windows. At length,\\nand before the end of the century, the choir was promoted to con-\\nspicuous seats in the front gallery where it might sing its pajans of\\nvictory, and its songs of devotion and praise might be heard till\\nthis venerable second meeting-house, having stood for nearly sixty\\nyears, at last fell before the hand of time and modern innovation,\\nand the church edifice now standing was erected upon the same hal-\\nlowed sfround.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74 I flE ONE PINE HILL CONTROVERSY.\\nCHAP T E R V.\\n1746 to 1773. THE ONE PINE HILL CONTROVERSY. ANNEXA-\\nTION OF ONE PINE HILL TO HOLLIS. SECOND BORDER CON-\\nTROVERSY. DISPUTE ABOUT BUILDING THE NASHUA RIVER\\nBRIDGE. COMPROMISE.\\nThe boundaries of the towns into which the parish of West Dun-\\nstable was divided do not appear to have been satisfactory to any\\npart of its early settlers. The boundary line between HolHs and\\nthe new town of Dunstable, as established along Flint s brook and\\npond and Muddy brook, soon became the occasion of a long, per-\\nsistent and l)itter controvers}-. The story of this controversy may\\nbe l)est told h\\\\ extracts from the original dcjcumcnts relating to\\nit still to be found in the office of the Secretary of State at Con-\\ncord. Before, and at the time of these Acts of incorporation into\\ntowns, there was a settlement of very worthy people, consisting of\\nabout fifteen families, near the east side of West Dunstable, and east\\nof the new town line, known as One Pine Hill. This settle-\\nment had constituted an important part of the religious society\\nof West Dunstable. The settlers there had aided in the settlement\\nand support of Mr. Emerson, in the building of the new meeting-\\nhouse, in fixing the site of it and their burial ground, and in the\\nlaying out and making the public loads. In this settlement, among\\nother worthv citizens, were William Ciunings anil Thomas Patch,\\ntwo of the deacons in the church of West Dunstable also the\\nbrothers David and vSamuel Ilobart. the first distinguished for his\\ngallantry as the colonel of a New Hampshire regiment at the bat-\\ntle of Bennington, and the latter as the first register of deeds of the\\ncounty of Hillsborough, and a member of the New Plampshire\\nCommittee of Safet\\\\ in the war of the Revolution. iMuch to their\\nvexation and disappointment, and also to the chagrin ot the peo-\\nple in Hollis, these settlers on One Pine Hill, found themselves on", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "1746101763-] I llH flM-; I IMC nil. I. CON rROVERSV. 75\\nthe wronrj side ol the town line aiul cut otl from their tbnuer civil.\\nsocial, and church relations with the settlers of West Dunstable.\\nThe only nieetinji^-house in Dunstable, originally built for the ac-\\ncommodation of the settlers south of the new province line, as well\\nas of those north (^f it. was from seven to eight miles distant from\\nthe settlers on One Pine Hill, while that in Ilollis was less than\\nhalf that distance. What \\\\vas a matter to them of still more im-\\nportance, the religious society in Ilollis was well united in their\\npopular and acceptable minister whose orthodoxy was without taint,\\nwhile the societv in Dunstable was distracted with bitter, chronic\\ndissensions, mainlv on account of the alleged heresy of their pastor,\\nthe Rev. William BinI, who was charged with being a New Light\\nand follower of Rev. George Whiteficid.\\nIn these troubles of their neighbors, and late fellow parishioners,\\nit was verv natural that the kindly sympathies of the good people of\\nH oil is should have been strongly with the settlers at One Pine PI ill.\\nThe first reference we find in this matter in the Hollis records is in\\nthe proceedings of a town meeting. Oct. 26, 1747^ it which the\\ntown Voted to request of Dunstable the People of One Pine Hill\\nwith their Lands to be set off to Hollis, and chose Capt. Peter\\nPowers. Thomas Dinsmore and Samuel Cumings to assist in that\\naffair, and Rais Bounds between the Towns. It is very evident\\nfrom the sequel of events that this very civil request of the people\\nof. Hollis was not hospitablv entertained by their neighbors of\\nDunstal)le.\\nNo further reference to tliis subject is to l)e fountl in tlic Hollis\\nrecorilstill the annual town meeting in 1756. when the town \\\\\\\\)ted\\nto jo\\\\ n with the One Pine Hill People, so called to get them set\\nofl from Dunstable to be annexed to Holies. Again in i759i the\\ntown \\\\oted \u00c2\u00a3^0 O. T. for the assistance of the People on tlie west-\\nerlv side of Dunsta1)le in their Petition to be annexed to Holies;\\nand lastlv. at the March Meeting in 1764. Voted to give the Peo-\\nple of One Pine Hill, so called, \u00c2\u00a3200 O. T. towards expenses in\\nGetting ort from Dunstable. The foregoing votes sufficiently in-\\ndicate the sentiments and wishes of the people of Hollis.\\nWe again recur to the documents already referred to, pertaining\\nto this controversv, to be found at Concord. It will be seen from\\nthese papers that the people of One Pine Hill, aided more or less by\\ntheir helpful allies in Hollis. were in almost constant rebellion\\nasrainst the ecclesiastical and civil authorities of their own town, for", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76 THE ONE PINE IIILI, CON I ROVERS^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2. [1746101763.\\nthe seventeen years from 1746 101763. These original documents\\nwill still be found interesting to many, not only as containing impor-\\ntant and unique matter of local town history, but also as showing the\\nmanner and spirit in which controversies of this sort were then con-\\nducted. They set forth very fully the questions in dispute, the ar-\\nguments on eacli side, and somewhat of the evidence. To such as\\nare curious in such matters, these papers may also be fvu ther inter-\\nesting as affording an insight into the temper that animated the\\nparties to this controversy and the sentiments which the good people\\nof Dunstable, Hollis and One Pine Hill mutually entertained of the\\nmotives, conduct and Christian character of each other.\\nIt appears from the town records of Dunstable, that the settlers\\non One Pine Hill, very soon after they found themselves, against\\ntheir wishes, inhabitants of that town, petitioned the people of\\nDunstable for their consent to be set off to Hollis. This petition\\nand all other amicable efforts on the part of the people of one Pine\\nHill were refused by the Dunstable town meetings.\\nThe oldest of the documents above referred to, as found in the\\noffice of the Secretary of State at Concord, is a petition to the Gov-\\nernor and Council in the spring of 1756, signed by fifteen of the\\nsettlers on the west side of Dunstable, and the Selectmen of Hollis.\\nIn this Petition these signers from Dunstable say to the Governor\\nand Council,\\nThat your Petitioners live in the west side of Dunstable and\\nso far from the Meeting-House, that it is almost empossable for\\nus to attend the Publick Worship of God there, for some of us live\\n7 1-3 miles and the nearest 5 1-3 miles from the Meeting-House so\\nthat we Can t and Don t go to IVIeeting there tor the\\\\-\\nhave set their Meeting-House to accommodate them Selves, and\\nseem not in the least to Regard us only to get our Money. Our\\nDifficulties are so exceeding great that make us Dispair of having\\nany comfortable reviving Gospel Priviledges unless we can obtain\\nthe aid of your Excellency and Honnors.\\nWherefore your Petitioners pray that \\\\our Excellenc\\\\ and\\nHonnors would so far Compassionate our Circumstances as to Re-\\nlieve us by setting us with our Land to Holies to which we once\\nbelonged and helped settei our Minister and now^ go to attend the\\nPublick Worship of God. The furthest of us from Holies is\\nnot more than 31-2 or 4 miles, and the bigest part about 2 1-2 or\\n3 miles to which we can go with some degree of comfort. W e", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "1746101763-] Till-: ONR PINF. Mil, I. CONTROVKRSY. 77\\ntherefore pray tliat you would he pleased to annex us to\\nHolies with about 2500 acres of Land which wee liave described in\\na Plan, which will greatly relieve us, and help us to a Com-\\nfortable Injoyment of Gospel Pri\\\\ iledges. And as in Dul\\\\\\nBound, c. Sijrned\\nJohn Willoi;oiiiiv Nicholas Voungman David IIohart\\nKlnatiian BLoon Geksiiom IIobaut Neiibmiah Woods\\nJohn PiiELrs Jonathan IIoiiart William Cumings\\nJohn Mooak Amos Phillips Joseph Farley\\nBenjamin Parkek, Samuel IIobart Anna Patch\\nSamuel Cumings\\nSamuel Goodhue Selectmen of Holies.\\nEnoch Noyes J\\nUpon beiiiij^ notified of this Petition, the people of Dunstable\\npromptly met in town meeting and Voted not to set otl the land\\nand inhabitants of One Pine Hill to Holies and appointed Col.\\nJoseph Blanchard, with two others, a committee to oppose the pe-\\ntition. Col. Blanchard at the time was a member of the N. H.\\nCouncil, and made the answer to the Petition on the part of Dun-\\nstable. In this answer he stated that About 1736, (9?) the old\\ntown of Dunstable was divided into two parishes. That what was\\nthen Holies Monson with a part of Dunstable and Merrymac was\\nthe West parish and contained about 70,000 acres. That they had\\nan annual tax of 2d. per acre for four years on the Land of non-\\nresidents to build a meeting-house and suppoit a minister, and an\\nafter tax of about the same amount. More than was needed for it,\\nbut they disposed of it all or divided it. That in 1741 the Province\\nLine was run leaving about 2-3 of the Inhabitants and Estates of\\nthe East Parish in Massachusetts.\\nOn examination we find that Holies is about eight miles\\nin length East and West and about four and a half miles North and\\nSouth settled at each end. Some time after their Incorporation\\nHolies set up a Meeting-House with a part of the money we and\\nothers paid for that use, and sett it about a mile and a half from their\\nEast line Regardless of the complaints of the Inhabitants on the\\nWesterly part, so that many of them are eight miles^from their\\nmeeting, as they must travil, much further than any in Dunstable are\\nfrom our meeting-house.\\nWee are sencible that this vexatious Petition is stirred up and\\nencouraged by Holies purely to prevent Justice to their Western In-\\nhabitants which they foresee will obtain unless they can Cloak it by\\nRuinine Dunstable.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 tup: one pine iiii.i. contkoversv. [1746101763.\\nWhat Genius gave them fro// f to mutter out this Motley Petition\\nit is Difficuh to guess.\\nThe Pretentions of ilolles and the Pet arc totally Groundless\\nWherefore we pray that their Petition may be dismissed.\\nSisrncd JOSEPH Blancuakd. 1\\nZacciikus Lovewei.l, Agts for Dunstahk\\nJoseph French J\\n1 do not Hnd in the rect)rds at Concord how or when the ah()\\\\e\\npetition was disposed of. It is evident however that it was not\\ngranted. It was said in the answer of Dunstable to a like petition\\na few years later, that when it was found that Dunstable would\\nanswer it, the petitioners were afraid or ashamed to appear in its\\ndefence. In the fall of 1760 the settlers at One Pine Hill again pe-\\ntitioned Dunstable tor permission to lie set ofi to Ilollis. at this\\ntime oflering to pay to Dunstable \u00c2\u00a31500, O. T., for the privilege.\\nA town meeting was called in Dunstable to consider this otler.\\nwhich was prompth rejected, the town ting at tiie same time\\nnot to change their jMeeting-House Place.\\nAfter this last defeat o})en hostilities were suspendeti till the\\nspring of 1763, when the contest was renewed and a second peti-\\ntion presented to the (General Court bv Col. Samuel Plobart as at-\\ntorney for the settlers at One Pine Hill.\\nIn this petition Col. Hobart says that \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2about the \\\\eai 1747\\n(1746). a Conimittee of five, two of them from Dunstable, was ap-\\nijointed bv the Governor c.. to view the Lands about Merrymac\\nRiver to see in what manner it was Best to Bound them in the In-\\ncorporations. that this Cf)mmittee went no Farther Westward\\nthan the Old To\\\\vn of Dunstable. That a Com came down from\\nHolies, and desired this Com to g(j and view the Situation at\\nHolies and One Pine Hill, and urged it hard. But the Com could\\nnot be prevailed on to go any fmlher that wa} (the opj^osition we\\njudge being made by Dunstable). vSoon after Dunstable was\\nIncorporated they got into Partys about .Settling Mr. I ird. Each\\nParty Courted Pine Hill s Assistance, ]:)romising to vote them ofl\\nto Holies as soon as the matter was settled and so Pine PI ill was\\nfed with Si/g-ar Plums for a number of years, till at length Dimsta-\\nble cast ofl the mask and now appears in their True Colours.\\nUnder the Government of Massachusetts we belonged to\\nHolies, and helpt Build a large Meeting-House and it was set to", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "1746101763-] IIIK ONE PINK IlILI. i:ONTRO\\\\KH.SV. 79\\niicconimodale us. and liclpt settle a minister not in the least Doubt-\\ning but wc should always belong tliere.\\nWe have ever since attencled the Public Oiship of God at\\nHolies and paid oui l\\\\ixes to the Minister there, tho. in the mean\\ntime we have been called on to pay Ministerial Rates with Dunsta-\\nl)le in full proportion, except some trifling abatement they made us\\nto keep us quiet. We know of no other Real objection that Dun-\\nstable has to our going ofV, but reducing them to too small a num-\\nber to maintain the Gospel. But if their Inclinations can be judged\\nby their practice it can t be tho t that they have any inclination to\\nsettle a minister Dunstable as it lyes noAv consists of about\\n100 Families All we ask to be set ofl is but about twelve.\\nSo that their opposition must arise from some other quarter to\\nkeep us as whips to drive out every minister that comes among\\nthem, for ihev are always divided and which side we take must\\ncarry the Da}\\nThe Selectmen of Dunstable, on being notilied of this petition, at\\nonce called a town meeting which voted to continue their defence,\\nand appointed a committee of three to answer the petition.\\nThis answer begun with the assertion that this Complaint of the\\nPeople of One Pine Hill was groundless and u7ircasonablc.\\nAs to Dunstable Meeting-House which Petitioners complain of as\\nbeing at so great a distance from them, it was owing to themselves\\nfor manv of them \\\\oted to have it where it is and none of them\\nagainst it. That they so acted and voted for fear it might be\\nmovcil to a place more just and equal and so they be prevented from\\nbeing set otVto Holies. As in Times past so they arc now\\nstired up by some Holies People to bring this petition in order to\\nuphold the unjust Proceedings of Holies in setting their meeting-\\nhouse where it is. And now Holies are endeavoring to have\\nthe south part of Monson anexed to them, and should that be don\\nand also the Westerly half of Dunstable then their meeting-house\\nwhere it now is will be aboute right. So could it now be obtained\\nto breake up and ruin two Towns it may hereafter be something of\\na cover to hide the inicjuity of Holies and help the private interests of\\nsome mercenary persons, but can t pos.sably promote the Public\\nGood nor help the Interest of these Towns.\\nThe case was argued on both sides, and the evidence and argu-\\nments convinced the General Court that One Pine Hill with its\\nInhabitants ought no longer to remain a part of Dunstable. Ac-\\ncordingly, on the 13th of December. 1763. an act was passed.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "8o THE ONE PINE HILL CONTROVERSY. [1746101763.\\nentitled, An Act Annexing One Pine Hill to Holies. This act\\nwas prefaced by a preamble in which it was stated That sundry\\ninhabitants of Dunstable had petitioned the General Assembly,\\nstating that they were more conveniently situated to belong to\\nHolies than to Dunstable That Dunstable is large, rich and able\\nto spare them which reasons and the arguments and objections\\nhaving been duly weighed, and it appearing reasonable to grant the\\nPetition. Therefore be it enacted, c.\\nThen follows a description of the part of Dunstable to be annexed\\nto Hollis, in accordance with a survey and plan made by Samuel\\nCumings, the surveyor for Hollis and now at Concord. In running\\nthis new east line of the town this survey begun at the Pine tree\\nstanding on the hill called One Pine Hill, thence south 13 1-2\u00c2\u00b0, west\\n373 rods to Nashua river. The line was then run northerly, begin-\\nning again at the same Pine tree, one mile and 335 rods thence\\nwestwardly one mile and 23 rods to the northeast corner of Hollis\\nas chartered in 1746 thus taking from Dunstable all that part of\\nHollis as it now is, east of Flint s l)rook and pond and Muddy\\nbrook.\\nThis once famous pine tree, thus made to mark the boundary of\\nthe belligerent towns, and which gave its name to One Pine Hill, is\\nnow no more. It is said to have been a tall, straight pitch pine, near\\na hundred feet high, with no other tree of its species near it, stand-\\ning solitary and alone on the summit of the hill. In early times, be-\\ning conspicuous in all directions for a long distance, it served as a\\nbeacon to mark a place of rendezvous for backwoodsmen and deer-\\nhunters, whose names in scores were cut in its bark, from its roots\\nmany feet upward.\\nThus at last ended by conquest the war between Dunstable and\\nOne Pine Hill and its ever faithful allies of Hollis, a war which had\\nlasted, with varied fortune, nearly twice as long as the siege of Troy\\nmore than twice as long as our war of the Revolution, and, sad\\nto tell, no Homer has yet sung its heroes no Marshall told its\\nhistory.\\nSECOND BORDER TROUBLE WITH DUNSTABLE, NASHUA RIVER\\nBRIDGE, COMPROMISE.\\nA second border trouble, in respect to the boundary between\\nHollis and Dunstable, began soon after the conquest of One Pine\\nPlill. This controversy grew out of a question in respect to the\\nsupport of an expensive bridge across the Nashua river, in the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "1746 to 1763.] SKCOND BOKDRK CONTROVKRSV. 81\\nsouth-east part of llollis, near the place, in the lloUis Records at\\nfirst called Lawrence s Mills, afterwards Jaquith s, antl in our\\ntimes known as Runnell s Mills. A bridge at this place was very\\nnecessary to the people of llollis, being on their main road to mar-\\nket but much less needed by Dunstable. So indispcnsal)lc was\\nthis bridge to llollis, that in 174O ^s we have seen, provision was\\nmade for building it out of the non-resident tax of 2d. per acre\\ngranted by the parish charter for the support of the ministry. ]Jut\\nthat tax being lost, with the parish charter, I do not find sufficient\\nevidence that any bridge was built at that place till many years after\\nthe charter of llollis and Dimstablc as towns. These charters, as\\nhas been seen, made the Nashua river from the Province line to\\nFlint s Brook the lioundary of the two towns the south line of Dun-\\nstable beginning at Merrimack river, and ruiming on the Province\\nline /o the Nashua, and the soutli line of llollis. beginning a/\\nthe Nashua, and running wcstwartlly on the Province line six miles\\nand ninety-six rods. A New Hampshire court in these times would\\nhave probably held that this charter descriptive of this boundary\\nwould have divided the river equally between the two towns, leaving\\nthe town line in the middle or ^/i! read of the stream, instead of on its\\nbanks, and each town under equal obligation to build the bridge.\\nBut we shall see by and by that the town meetings in Mollis and\\nDunstable did not take this view of the law.\\nIn the early Hollis records there are many references to this\\nbridge,, and to the troubles in respect to it. The first of these is\\nfound in the record of the March meeting, in 1751 when the town\\nvoted to help build a bridge across Nashua river near Dea. Cum-\\nings. From tliis vote it is evident that the bridge had not been\\nthen built, and that Dunstable was expected to help build it.\\nAt the annual meeting in 1756, Hollis chose Capt. Peter Pow-\\ners, Samuel Cumings and Benjamin Abbott a Com to see if Dun-\\nstable will joyn with Holies to bould a Bridge over Nashua river in\\nsome convenant Place where tlie Road is laid out from Holies to\\nDunstable. It seems that Dunstable did not accept tliis invitation\\nof the Hollis committee, for it is found that a special town meeting\\nin Hollis, in 1760, chose a committee to Petition the General]\\nCourt for a Lottery to Bould a Bridge over Nashua river if they\\nthink fit. But the Gencrall Court did not think fit to grant a\\nLottery, as it appears that at the annual meeting in 1761, the town\\nwithout calling on Dunstable for help Voted to have a Bridge\\n(6)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82 SECOND BORDER CONTROVERSY. [1746101763.\\nbuilt over Nashua ri\\\\cr near Lawrence s Mills. aud chose a com-\\nmittee to obtain subscriptions for it. The nevt year, 1762, the town\\nVoted to raise AJouev to pa\\\\- for the I uil(lin T of the Bridge over\\nNashua river the Money to be reduklcd out of the cost of the\\nBridge that was subscribed out of town. i^ rom this vote it is evi-\\ndent that as early as 1762 a bridge had been built across the Nashua\\nriver mainly, if nc^t wholly, by Hollis. In May, 1765, at a special\\ntown meeting, thetowii Voted to Rebuild or Repair the Bridge\\nover Nashua river, and that the \u00c2\u00a3Soo voted at the March Meeting\\nfor Making and Mending the Roads be laid out in Building and Re-\\npairing the Bridge. From the above vote I infer that the bridge\\nbuilt in 1762 was either washed awav wliolh in the spring of 1765,\\nor so much injured as to need costlv repairs. Though, in the lan-\\nguage of the law. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2often requested. the toAyn of Dun.stable, as it\\nseems, had given no aid in sup]iorting this ])ritlge. and the question\\nof the legal liability of that town to aid in it was allowed to sleep\\ntill the annual meeting in Hollis in March. 1772. At that meeting.\\nin pursuance of an article in the warrant, the town Voted to ap-\\npoint a committee to ask for and recover of Dunstable a share of\\nthe Cost of Building and Repairing the Bridge across Nashua\\nRiver near Jacjuith s Mills with power to prosecute if necessary.\\nTiiisrequest of the people of Hollis, upon being submitted by the\\ncommittee to a town meeting in Dunstable, in the month of Jime\\nfollovk ing, was curtl} rejected, and it was Voted that Dunstable\\nwould not do anvtliing towards building a bridge o\\\\ er Nashua\\nriver.\\nBut it fortunately so happened thai not far from this time, the\\nMills before known as Lawrence s Mills. had become the ])rop-\\nerty of Ebenezer Jaquith. This Mr. Jatiuith .nnd Ensign Daniel\\nMerrill lived in the bend of Nashua river on the Dunstable side,\\ntheir two farms containing about ^oo acres, and comprising all the\\nland in this bend. These men were nearer to the meeting-house\\nin Hollis tbali to that in Dunstable, and like the saintlvand sensible\\nsettlers on One Pine Llill. wished to be annexed to rL)llis and were\\nwilling to p-d\\\\ something for the privilege. VV ith these new facts\\nin view, and the long and costly contest for the conquest of One\\nPine Hill not yet forgotten, a special town meeting was called in\\nHollis in December, 1772, at which it was Voted that whereas,\\nthere is a dispute with respect to the Bridge over Nashua river be-\\ntween Holies and Dunstable, and whereas Messrs. Merrill and Ja-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "1746 to 1763.] SECOND UORDKR CONTROVERSY. 83\\nquith live more convenient to Holies than Dmistable, and arc wil-\\nling to pay something handsome towards the Building of said\\nBridge, and also considering the expense of Suits at Law in the\\nPremises now in order to an amicable settlement of the matter,\\nand for the Preservation and Cultivation of IIarmon\\\\ between said\\nTowns Voted to accept said Families with their Lands, Provided\\nDunstable shall lay them off to us and assist in an amicable man-\\nner to get them incorporated with us. Also Voted that Samuel\\nHobart, Dea. Noyes and William Nevins be a Committee to treat\\nwith Dunstable on Bridge Affairs. The Hollis Committee soon\\ncommunicated these amicable terms of peace to the Selectmen of\\nDunstable, who upon their receipt, summoned a town meeting of\\ntheir constituents, by whom these neighborly overtures were dis-\\ndainfully rejected and the meeting Voted that the people of Dun-\\nstable would not pay anything towards the Building of the Bridge,\\nnor would they consent to annex anv more Land to Holies.\\nIn the meanwhile the legal advisers of Hollis, learned in llie\\nlaw, upon the examination of the charters of the two towns, had\\nexpressed the opinion that Nashua river, where it flowed between\\nHollis and Dunstable, was not in any part in either town, and that\\nneither town was under any obligation to build a bridge across it.\\nThis opinion in respect to the law with the proposed remedy is set\\nforth in the following preamble and resolution, adopted at a town\\nmeeting of Hollis, Jan. 20, 1773^ called to consider the report of\\ntheir Peace Ambassadors to Dunstable.\\nWhereas it appears by the charters of Dunstable and Holies,\\nthat Nashua River is not in either town That it is highly necessary\\nthat a Bridge be erected over said River, but that neither Town\\nis obliged by Law to make or maintain the same and Dunstable\\nmanifesting an unwillingness to do anything respecting the Building\\nof a Bridge therefore, voted that William Nevins be agent of the\\nTown to Petition the Governor and Council and General Assemblv\\nthat Dunstable and Holies mav be connected so that a liridge nia\\\\\\nbe built over said River.\\nAgain at the annual town meeting in Hollis. in 1773, Col. Jt)hn\\nHale, William Nevins and Ensign Stephen Ames were chosen to\\nrepresent the matter in respect to the bridge, to the Governor and\\nCouncil.\\nThis proposal to appeal to the General Court, or Governor and\\nCouncil, very soon had the effect to render the people of Dunstable", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 SECOND BORDER CONTROVERSY. [1746101763.\\nmore placable, and more ready to accept the treaty of- peace\\noffered by Hollis the year before. The choice of evils now pre-\\nsented was another trial of their border troubles before the General\\nCourt or the acceptance of the proposed compromise, and it is\\nmanifest from the doings of a town meeting in Hollis on the ensuing\\ni8th of March, that Dunstable had voted to submit to the least of the\\ntwo evils. At this meeting Hollis voted\\nTo extend the easterly line of Holies so far east as to include\\nMessrs. Merrill and Jaquith with their Improvements, provided it\\nshall be done without expense to the Town, and that Dea. Boynton,\\nReuben Dow and Samuel Cumings be a committee to agree with\\nDunstable in respect to Boundaries.\\nAt a town meeting on the following 12th of April this committee\\nmade report as follows\\nWe have met the Dunstable committee and have mutually\\nao-reed that the Easterlv Line of Holies shall be extended Eastward-\\nly to the following Bounds To Begin at a Stake and Stones\\nfifteen Rods below Buck Meadow Falls, at the River, which is Mr.\\nJaquith s northerly corner Thence running southerly in a straight\\nline to a Pine tree on the River Bank which is Mr. Jaquith s south-\\nwesterly corner. April 8, i773-\\nThis report was accepted by the town, and afterwards, in the\\nmonth of May, 1773, at the joint request of Hollis and Dunstable,\\nthe General Court passed an act establishing the boundary line be-\\ntween the two towns as so agreed upon, where it has remained un-\\ndisturbed from that day to this. These terms of settlement, though\\nat first not willingly accepted by Dunstable, were exceedingly favor-\\nable to that town, and ought to have been ample satisfaction for the\\nloss of One Pine Hill. It is true that Dunstable came out of the\\ncontroversy short of 500 acres of territory, but in return for this loss,\\nthat town was relieved from the burden of aiding in maintaining\\nthis bridge in all future time a charge that has already cost Hollis\\nmuch more than the value of all the land so annexed.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MONSON. 85\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nHISTORY OK MONSON. TOWN OFFICERS. EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN\\nPREACHING AND BUILD A MEETING-HOUSE, ETC. REPEAL OF\\nCHARTER. THE MILE SLIP. CHARTERS OF RABY, WILTON,\\nMASON AND DUXBURY. MILFORD. I 746 TO I 794.\\nThe ancient, now extinct town of Monson, incorporated April i,\\n1746, was bounded, as we have seen, on the north by the Souhegan\\nriver, and south by Ilollis. Its corporate existence histed for twen-\\nty-four years, during which time it regularly held its annual town\\nmeetings, elected its moderators, town clerks, selectmen, tithingmen,\\nhogreeves, deerkeepers and other town officers, but I am pained to\\nsay that I find no evidence that it ever had a school, school house,\\nmeeting-house or a learned orthodox minister, or a minister not\\northodox. The only public structure ever owned by the town was\\na pound, built for the confinement of disorderly cattle. Its first\\ntown mcetmg was held May i, 1746, under the direction of Col.\\nJoseph Blanchard, as provided in the cliarter, Col. Blanchard being\\nmoderator. At this meeting town officers were chosen as follows\\nRobert Colburn, Town Clerk Samuel Lee.man, Surveyor of Highways\\nBenjamin Hopkins 1 Abraham Leeman, Hogrceve\\nRobert Colburn SL-lcctinei John Burns J\\nWilliam Nevins J James Wheeler j Viewers\\nThomas Nkvins, Constable\\nAt this meeting the town voted to build a pound, and also to\\nbuy a suteable Book to Record Votes in, and other things as the\\ntown shall see meet.\\nDuring the twenty-four and one-half years of the corporate exist-\\nence of Monson, I find from the record of votes kept in this sute-\\nable Book, that the persons named in the following lists were chosen\\nat the annual town meetings to the respective offices of moderator,\\ntown clerk and selectmen, the number of times set opposite their\\nnames. Moderator^ William Nevins, twelve times Benjamin", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OK MONSON. [^74*^ tO 1770.\\nHopkins, seven times Robert Colburn and Benjamin Kenrick,\\ntwice each Nathan Hntchinson, once. Toxvn Clerk Robert\\nColburn, thirteen times Benjamin Kenrick, nine times Archelaus\\nTowne, three times. Selcchncfi Robert Colljurn, fifteen times\\nWilliam Nevins, fourteen times Benjamin Hopkins and Benjamin\\nKenrick, ten times each Nathan Hutchinson, six times Josiah\\nCrosby, four times John Brown and Archelaus Towne, three times\\neach Daniel Kenrick and Samuel Leeman, twice each Thomas\\nBurns, Benjamin Farley, Joseph Gould, William Jones, Thomas\\nNevins and Jonathan Taylor, once each.\\nAt the time Monson was chartered, the French and Indian W^ar,\\n(begun in 1744,) was still raging. A petition dated May 13, 1747,\\npresented by the inhabitants of Monson to the New Hampshire\\nGeneral Court for soldiers for a guard, shows the extent and condi-\\ntion of the settlement at that time. This petition has fourteen names\\nappended to it, probably those of all the householders then in the\\ntown. In this petition they say\\nThat the town has just begim to settle, and but about fifteen\\nfamilies there That they are one of the FrontierTowns West of the\\nMerrimack River and the most northerly one already incorporated,\\nlying between Holies and the new Plantation called Souhegan West.\\nCould we be assisted by soldiers in such competent numbers as\\nmight enable us to Defend our Selves, we shall chcarfully endeavor\\nto stay there by which we shall serve as a Barrier in part to Holies,\\nMerrimack and Dimstable. That last year we were Favored by\\nSoldiers from the Massachusetts that prevented our Drawing ofl\\nIn answer to this petition, and one similar to it from Souhegan\\nWest, (now Amherst) the General Court gave orders for the raising\\nof fifteen good efiective men to scout and guard Souhegan W^est and\\nMonson till the 33d of the following October.\\nA petition of the selectmen of Monson to the General Court, six\\nyears later, dated April 25, 1753, asking that the inhabitants might\\nbe relieved from the payment of Province taxes, tells the story of the\\nsad financial condition of the settlers at that time. In this petition\\nthe selectmen tell the General Court that there were then in Monson,\\nBut thirty-six Poles in the whole, severall of them transiently\\nhired for a short space to Labor, without any Estate. But\\ntwenty-one Houses, chiefly small cottages only, for a present shel-\\nter, the charge of Building yet to come on. That they are all plain\\nmen Dwelling in these Tents Husbandry their employment, their", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "1746 to 1 770. J HISTORY OK MONSON. 87\\nImprovements very small, their Lands yet to Svibduc. The Prog-\\nress much retarded by the necessity to \\\\vork out of town the prime\\npart of the year to procure Provisions. Thefevyset-\\nlers are scattered all ah the Town. Much Laliour has must be\\nspent in making antl opening Roads and Bridges a burthen\\ntoo heavy for the small, weak nimiber that is there. They\\ntherefore apprehend themselves utterly unable to Bear any Portion\\nof the Publick Taxes, as yet, but hope that their small Be-\\ngining in Time may become usefull if the\\\\- ma\\\\ be nurssed and\\nfavoured now in their Infancy.\\nWhat, if anything, was done by the General Court in answer to\\nthis pathetic petition, in respect to nurssing the infant sujipliant,\\ndoes not appear in the Provincial records.\\nSCnOOI.S, I KKACHINO, M KKTING-HOISK .WD M KIC riNC.-HOUSK PLACE.\\nIt is shown In the records of the doings of tlie annual town meet-\\nings in Monson that the attention of the inhabitants was many times\\ncalled to all of these topics, but always in vain.\\nSc/wo/s. An article first appeared in the warrant for the annual\\ntown meeting in i7S3- To see if the town would raise a sinn of\\nmoney ibr a school Passed in the negative. The like articles\\nwere inserted in the warrants for the annual town meetings in 1756\\nand 1760, and in each year, as before, passed in the negative.\\nAfter 1760, I do not find that any eflbrt was made^for a tax either\\nfor a school-house or school.\\nPreaching-. In the year 1749, 1751- i75-- ^754 and 1757, the\\n(juestion of raising a tax for the support of Preaching amongst\\nthem was brought before the annual town meetings, and each year\\neither passed in the negative, or was not acted on at ail. But in\\n1763 the town Voted a tax of t 300, C). T., to support the Gos-\\npel, each person to pay here they hear. Yet it seems that this\\ntax was not collected, the town the next year having voted to\\nsink it. In 1764, at the annual meeting, a vote was passed To\\nRaise \u00c2\u00a3400, O. T., to make satisfaction to the Towns of Holies and\\nAmherst for tlie Privileges we Enjoy in attending Meeting with\\ntheni. But at a subseciuent town meeting, in 1767, Voted that\\nthe iu(\u00c2\u00bbne\\\\ Raised in 17( 4- d assessed for the Towns of Holies\\nand Amherst shall not l)e collected, so that it does not appear that\\nany tax was ever collected in Monson, to pay for preaching either\\nin the town or out of it.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF MONSON. [^746 tO 1 770.\\nBuilding a Meeting- House. Between the years 1753 and 1767^\\nan article several times was inserted in the warrant for the annual\\ntown meeting to see if the town will Vote to be taxed for the\\nBuilding of a Meeting-House and Settling the Gospel amongst\\nthem. And also To see if the Town will Petition the General\\nCourt for a tax on the Land of Residents and non Residents to\\nbuild a Meeting-House and setel the Gospel. These various pro-\\nposals all alike passed in the negative as also did a proposition,\\nintroduced in 1760 to build a Meeting-house at the most conven-\\nient place near the Center of the Town or \u00e2\u0080\u00a2pick a new one.\\nIn 1763, and again in 1765, Monson was coupled with Merrimack\\nin sending a Representative to the New Hampshire General Court.\\nIn the former year these towns were represented ])y Major Joseph\\nBlanchard, and in 1765, by Capt. John Chamberlain, both supposed\\nto live in Merrimack. At the census of New Hampshire taken in\\n1767, the population of Monson was 393.\\nPROPOSALS TO divide; the town, and final repeal of the\\nCHARTER.\\nThe people of Monson, like their neighbors of Hollis, do not\\nat any time seem to have been well content with their chartered\\nboundaries. Several expedients in different years came before\\nthe annual town meetings proposing changes in the chartered\\nlimits of the town, some of them favoring additions to its territory,\\nothers, a division of it in various ways. Among the rest was a pro-\\nposal adopted at the March meeting in 1760 To annex the Land\\non the south side of Monson to Holies, and to Petition the Governor\\nand Council for such part of Souhegan West to be added to the\\nRemainder of Monson as will be sufficient to maintain the Gospel,\\nand other incidental charges. Again in 1761, the town Voted ta\\nset oft one mile and a half on the south side of Monson to Holies.\\nThis last vote it would seem was passed to favor a petition of Hollis\\nto the General Court for the like purpose. After this date all ques-\\ntions looking t(j a change in the boundaries of the town seem ta\\nhave rested till the year 1770, when the people of Monson, having\\nbandoned all hope of maintaining preaching, or of settling the\\nGospel among them, or of building a meeting-house, or even of\\nfinding a suitable Meeting-house Place, petitioned the General\\nCourt to put a final end to their unhappy and troubled corporate\\nlife by a repeal of their charter. In their petition for this repeal.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "1769.] INCORPOHATION OF KAHY. 89\\nthey told the General Court as a reason for it, That the Land in\\nand about the Center of Monson is so very poor, Broken, Baron and\\nuneaven, as cannot admit of many Settlers, so that those Families\\nthat are in Town, are almost all planted in the Extreme parts of it.\\nW c have no prospect of ever Huildin a Meeting-House\\nin the Center or elsewhere, any ways to accommodate us, by which\\nDifficulties we think the Gospel will not be settled among us while\\nin the present situation. We therefore pray, c.\\nThe consent of Hollis to accept of two miles in width of the south\\nside of the suppliant town, and of Amherst all the residue, having\\nbeen first obtained, an Act was passed by the General Court, July\\n4, 1770, dividing Monson by an East and West line passing very\\nnear its centre, annexing the south part to Hollis and the north to\\nAmherst. In this way, and in answer to its own humble entreaties,\\nthis ancient town voluntarily surrendered its right to municipal life,\\nand for more than a century has been effaced from the map of Newr\\nHampshire, and all memory or tradition of it is now nearly lost to\\nthe present generation. Since the corporate death of Monson, its\\nremains have been subdivided into four fragments, the largest of\\nthem being in the body politic of Milford, the smallest in Brookline,\\nthe remainder about equally divided between Amherst and Hollis.\\nINCORPORATION OF RABY, WILTON AND MASON. THE MILE SLIP.\\nDUXBURY. MILPORD.\\nThe west line of Hollis and Monson, as chartered in 1746, as al-\\nready shown, was the original west line of old Dunstable, running\\ndue south by the needle from Souhcgan river to the new Province\\nline. The towns of Wilton and Mason, granted l)y tlie Masonian\\nproprietors in i749i were afterwards chartered with the same boun-\\ndaries as granted Wilton in 1763 and Mason in 176S. The east\\nline of these towns also run due south from the Souhegan river to\\n*he Province line, parallel with and about one mile distant from the\\nwest line of Hollis and Monson. thus leaving, in the intermediate\\nspace, a tract of unincorporated territorv, about a mile wide, and\\nextending from the .Souhegan river to the Province line. This tract\\nof land, at that time, and for some years later, was known as the\\nMile Slip but often in the old records called the Mile Strip,\\nand sometimes Strip tozvti. A considerable number of families\\nhad settled on the Mile Slip, who naturally felt the need of a town\\ncharter. Their near neighbors at tlie west end of Hollis. as has", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90 I fCORPORATION OF RABY. [^1^6^.\\nbeen seen, some years V)efore had felt themselves mnch aggrieved at\\nthe location of the Hollis meeting-house, so far from themselves and\\nso near to the east end of their town. Whether willing or not,\\nthese settlers in the west end of Hollis, as the Province laws then\\nwere, were taxable, both in person and estate, for the building of\\nthe meeting house and support of the ministry there, the same as\\nthe rest of the inhabitants. Tliey hail now, for many years, impa-\\ntiently borne this injustice. So long as the boundaries of Hollis re-\\nmained as fixed in the original charter of the town, these west end\\nsettlers doubtless cherished the hope that at some time in the future\\nbetter justice would be done them, either by the erection of a new\\nmeeting-house, or the removal of the one already built nearer to the\\ncentre of the town. But all hope of this sort forever vanished in\\nthe year 1763, on the annexation of One Pine Hill to the east end\\nof Hollis, thus bringing the centre (^f the town about two miles\\nnearer to the west end, and the meeting-house so much nearer to the\\ncentre. The people in the other parts of Hollis were doubtless de-\\nsirous of quieting the murmurs of their discontented and trouble-\\nsome townsmen at the west end, provided it could be done consis-\\ntently with the geographical symmetry and pecuniary interests of\\nthe old town. With this end in view, the expedient of forming a\\nnew town from this JVIile Slip, and the west end of Hollis, was\\nfirst brought to the attention of the people of Hollis at their annual\\ntown meeting in the spring of 1764, less than three months after the\\nconquest of One Pine Hill. At that meeting the town Voted To\\nmeasure East from the Meeting House to the Town Line and\\nthen to Measure J/V.v/ tVom the Meeting House the same Length of\\nLine And all West by a North and South Line to be set off to the\\nOne Alile Strip so called.\\nThe like vote was passed at the annual town niccling in 1768. In\\n1769, about ;i year after this last vote, the south part of the Mile\\nSlip and a tract of territory about one mile and one-fourth wide,\\nfrom otV the west of Hollis. were incorj^orated into a town by\\nthe name of Rabv, so called from a town of tiiat name, in the\\ncounty of Diuhani. in the north part of England, from which some\\nof its settlers llrst emigrated. It ap])ears from the documents and\\nrecords relating to Rab\\\\-. that the petitioners for the charter asked\\nfor and expected a tract of land two miles in width from the west\\nend of Hollis to be united with the Mile Slip. It is also evident\\nthat the people of Hollis were willing to spare the two miles,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "1776.] MILU-SLII AND DUXBUKY. 9I\\nprovided it could be done and still leave their meeting-house equally\\ndistant from the new east and west lines, otherwise they were not\\nwilling. I infer from the language used in the charter of Raby,\\nthat the Governor and Council tried to ilo their best to satisfy both\\nparties that is, to give to Raby the two miles, and also to leave the\\nHoUis meeting-house no nearer the new west line than it then was\\nto the east line. Accordingly, with this end in view, they described\\nthe south-east corner of the new town as being at a stake and\\nstones about two miles from the South West corner of Ilollis (as\\nMollis then was) thence North by the needle to the North line of\\nHoUis, leaving the meeting house in the middle between tliis line\\nand the East line of said Ilollis.\\nBut unfortunately the west line of Ilollis did not extend far enough\\ntowards the setting sun, bv three-fourths of a mile, to give to Raby\\nthe coveted two miles, and at the same time to leave the Ilollis\\nmeeting-house at equal distances from the east and west lines of the\\ntown. It not lieing possible to satisfy both conditions, the sur-\\nveyor who run the town line appears to have come to the conclu-\\nsion that it was of more importance that the Mollis meeting-house\\nshould be equally distant from the east and west lines of the town,\\nthan that the i^eople of Raby should have all the land they expected.\\nAccordingly the line was so established as to take from Mollis a tract\\nof land about one mile and one-fourth in width, instead of two miles,\\nand leaving Ilollis meeting-house the same distance from the east\\nline of Raby as it was from the west line of Dunstable. The people\\nof Raby were evidently disappointed with this result, and the\\nnext year, at the annual town meeting in Ilollis. an article was\\nmserted in the warrant, To see if the town would set olVto Raby\\nthe Families and Lands they expected. This question being sub-\\nmitted to the meeting, it was passed in the negative, and the\\nmeeting-house in Ilollis continued, for many years after, to divide\\nequally a straight line passing through it between the new west\\nand east lines of the town. The town of Raby, as at first chartered,\\nwas but about two and one-half miles wide, and contained not more\\nthan twelve square miles an area not much more than one-thirtl of\\nthat of Mollis. The people of that town were not content with\\nthese narrow limits, but the war and troubles of the Revolution\\nsoon coming on, this discontent was allowed to sleep till the war\\nwas well over. But in 1785, two years after the war was ended,\\nthe people of Raby presented their grievances to the General Court", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "93 MILE-SLIP AND DUXBURY. {.^11^\\nin a petition setting forth the small population and narrow limits of\\ntheir town, together with the alleged mistake in their boundaries\\nwhen chartered, occasioned as was charged by the wrongs or\\nsharp practice of Hollis, and asking for the annexation from\\nHollis of three-fourths of a mile more. Upon notice of this petition\\na town meeting was soon called in Hollis and resolutions adopted\\nto oppose it, and Capt. Daniel Emerson, at that time their Repre-\\nsentative in the General Court, was instructed to use his influence\\nagainst it. Notwithstanding the stout opposition of Hollis, the\\nGeneral Court decided that Raby was in the right, and passed an\\nact setting off from the west end of Hollis to Raby another tract of\\nterritory of the uniform width of three-fourths of a mile. This last\\nannexation to Raby left the length of the south line of Hollis four\\nmiles and eighty-five rods instead of six miles and ninety-six rods as\\nin the original charter. In 1796 the name of Raby was changed to\\nBrookline by an act of the General Court upon a petition of the in-\\nhabitants of the town.\\nIn the year 1776, upon application to the General Court of its in-\\nhabitants, the north part of the Mile S//p, including a tract of terri-\\ntory of about one thousand acres, known as the Duxbury School\\nFarm^ was invested with limited town privileges. In a census of\\nNew Hampshire taken in 1767, the Mile Slip had sixty-nine inhabi-\\ntants in that taken in 1775, it had eiglity-three. In the census of\\n1790 it was called Dnxbury^ and tlicn had a population of one hun-\\ndred and sixty-nine.\\nIn 1794 the town of Milford was incorporated. The act charter-\\ning Milford was entitled an act to incorporate the south westerly\\npart of Amherst the north-westerly part of Hollis theiMile Slip\\nand Duxbury School Farm, into a town. Milford, as incorporated^\\nincluded a small part of Amherst north of the Souhegan river, much\\nthe largest portion of that part of the old town of Monson, which\\nby the division of Monson in 1770 had been annexed to Amherst; _\\nall of the Mile vSlip not included in Raby, with the Duxbury School\\nFarm, and an area of from 1000 to 1 500 acres taken from the north-\\nwest corner of Hollis. It does liot appear that the people of Hollis\\nmade any opposition to this contribution to the territory of their\\nnew neighbor. The inhabitants living on the territory annexed\\nwere nearer to the village in Milford than to the meeting-house in\\nHollis, and probably, without objection, acquiesced in the transfer.\\nThis tract annexed to Milford is the last loss or gain in tenitory\\nwhich has fal|en to the lot of Hollis for the last three-quarters of", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "1776.] INCORPORATION OF MILFORD. 93\\na century and more. Diirinj^ that period the town has remained of\\nthe same shape and dimensions, as left at the incorporation of Mil-\\nford, without any encroachment from its nei 2jhbors since, or cflbrt\\non the part of its inliahilanls to extend their borders. According to\\na survey and plan of the town, (now at Concord), made in the year\\n1806 by Nathan Colburn, a IloUis surveyor, still remembered, IloUis,\\nas it then was, and still is, contains an area of 19,620 acres, or\\nabout 30 2-3 square miles, a territory not very much diHering in ex-\\ntent from that of the town as first chartered. In all these many\\nborder troubles and controversies, w hich I have taken occasion to\\nnotice, it cannot but be observed that the people of HoUis have uni-\\nformly had a wakeful eye to their own rights and interests, that they\\nat all times vigorously and vigilantly endeavored to hold their own,\\nand the present generation will find little i-eason to reproach the\\nmemory of their ancestors for not guarding and striving to perpet-\\nuate the rights and interests of those who should come after them,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "Q^ -I HK PROVINCIAL Mll.lTlA UAW. [^744\\nCHAPTER VII\\nTHE PROVINCIAI. MILl IIA LAW. FIRST MILITIA COMPANY IN\\nHOLLIS. IIOLI.IS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS OF 1 744\\nAND 1751^. PETITIONS FOR GUARDS. NAMES OF OFFICERS\\nAND PRIVATE SOLDIERS. I 744 TO 1 763.\\nA law enacted by the New Hampshire General Court in the\\nyear 171S, required all able bodied male persons between the ages of\\nsixteen and sixty, with the exceptions mentioned below, to do\\nmilitary duty. These exceptions included members of the Gener-\\nal Court, ministers, deacons, schoolmasters, physicians, justices of\\nthe peace, millers, ferrymen, and such persons as had before held a\\nmilitary commission. Each private soldier was required to be fur-\\nnished with a Fire Lock^ Snap Sac/;, CartoncJi Box. Worm\\na??d Pri?nitig Wire, i Potn/d of Gtm Pozvder, 20 Bullets. a??d\\n12 Blints. and to train four days in the year, and to muster once\\nin three years. It was also made the duty of each town in the Pro-\\nvince to keep on hand a stock of ammunition for the town s use,\\nconsisting of one barrel of good Gun powdei 100 ])ounds of\\nbullets and 300 flints, for every sixty .Soldiers, and also to provide\\narms and ammunition for such poor soldiers as were not able to sup-\\nply themselves. This law. with but little change, remained in force\\ntill the war of the Revolution, and it explains the reasons for many\\nvotes found in the records of Ilollis for the assessment of Rates\\nfor the town stock of ammunition.\\nIn May 1744, the General Court j^assed an Act organizing the\\n6th Regiment of New Hampshire militia. This regiment, of which\\nJoseph Blanchard of Dunstable was Colonel, embraced the mili-\\ntia companies of a large jiart of the territory acquired by the set-\\ntlement of the new Province line in 174I1 l)eing the towns and dis-\\ntricts then known as Dunstable, the West Parish of Dunstable,\\nRumford, (now Concord), Nottingham, (now Hudson), Souhegan\\n*Province Laws, pp. 92, 97.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "1744-J I IKST MIMTIA tOMi ANY. 95\\nEast, (now Bedford.) .Souhcijan West, (now Amherst), and some\\nothers, makin 2^ in all nine companies, of which that in West Dun-\\nstable was tlie ninth. Of this last company, Peter Powers was ap-\\npointed Captain by the Governor and Council.* As we find in the\\nIlollis records, shortly after the appointment of Captain Powers,\\nthe title of Li cjttcnani prefixed to the name of Benjamin Farley, of\\nItfisig n to that of Jerahmael Cumings, and of Sergeant io the name\\nof James Stewart, there can be but little doubt that those persons held\\nthe offices indicated, in the first militia company of West Dunsta-\\nble. In those times of peril, when it was necessary for the defence\\nof the hearth-stone and family from the midnight assault and scalp-\\ning knife of the savage, that each citizen should be a soldier,\\nmilitary titles, as in after times, had not become an empty compli-\\nment. Such titles as Captain, Lieutenant and Rnsign indicated\\nthat the persons known by them were distinguished among their\\ntownsmen for such qualities as were most useful and most needed\\nfor the conunon safetv. and for thai reason most valued and lion-\\nored. When once duly bestowed, thev virtuallv became a ])art of\\nthe name of such persons as were entitled to them, to be used alike\\nin social intercourse and in the public records.\\nFrom the year 1745 to January 26, 1775, we find no roll of the\\nIlollis militia company, nor have the names of its officers come\\ndown to us except as those names have been preserved in the Ilollis\\ntax lists, and other public documents, with their rank or title pre-\\nfixed. It appears from an original roll of the Ilollis militia com-\\npany of the last date, still existing, supposed to be in the handwrit-\\ning of the town clerk of the time, that inclusive of officers Ilollis\\nthen had 224 soldiers liable to do military duty, that being the num-\\nber of names on this roll. Of this company Joshua Wright was\\nCaptain, Reuben Dow Lieutenant, and Noah Worcester Ensign.\\nIn addition to the military officers alreadv mentioned, we find on\\nthe Ilollis tax lists and other puV)lic documents prior to 1775. many\\nnames of Ilollis men with militarv titles, most if not all of whom\\nmay be presumed to have held the commissions indicated h\\\\ their\\nseveral titles in the militia companv of Ilollis. Captains Benja-\\nmin Abbot, Zedekiah Drury and Leonard Whiting. Lieutenants,\\nRobert Colburn, Amos Eastman. vSamuel Farley. David Farns-\\nworth, Amos Fisk, Samuel Gridlev and James Taylor. Linsigtis\\nStephen Ames, Josiah Brown, Jonas Flagg, Daniel Merrill and\\nBenjamin Parker.\\n*Prov. Papers Vol. 5, p. 232.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "96\\nPETITION FOR GUARDS.\\nI744-]\\nTHE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR OF 1 744*\\nIn the month of March, 1744, the French and Indian war was\\nbeo-un, in which the Massachnsetts and New Hampshire troops un-\\ndertook the chivah-ous expedition for the capture of Louisburg.*\\nThis warhisted till October, 1748. As in former wars, the Canada\\nand Eastern Indians took sides with the French, who, coming in\\nlarge numbers from Canada and Nova Scotia, prowled around\\nour defenceless settlements, waylaying, murdering and scalping, or\\ntaking captive to Canada the settlers in the frontier towns, some of\\nwhich no farther oft than Peterborough, Lyndeborough and New\\nBoston, were wholly deserted. The inhabitants of Hollis, Monson,\\nSouhcgan East, Souhegan West, and other places west of the Mer-\\nrimack river, repeatedly petitioned the General Court for scouts and\\ngarrisons for their protection.\\nAmong the earliest of these petitions was one from the old Parish\\nof West Dunstable. On the iSth of June, 1744, about three months\\nafter war was declared, at a meeting of the inhabitants of West Dun-\\nstable, James Stewart was chosen their delegate to present this peti-\\ntion to the General Court. The Commission of Mr. Stewart for this\\npurpose was in writing, signed by all, or very nearly all of the\\nhouseholders then in West Dunstable, forty-five in number, and\\nwas in substance as follows\\nDunstable, June iS, 1744.\\nWee, the Inhabitants of the West Parish in the District of Dun-\\nstable, do hereby authorise and depute Mr. James Stewart in our\\nnames and behalf, to make proper application to the Government of\\nNew Hampshire, vSetting forth our being situated on the Frontier,\\nand exposed to the Enemy, and the Necessity wee are in of a Guard,\\nand Pray for a Sutable and Seasonable Relief there.\\nVoted to Request Six Garasons and twenty-five soldiers.\\nCapt. Peter Powers William Colburn\\nLieut. Benjamin Farley Samuel Comings\\nEnsign Jekahmael Comings Jonathan Danford\\nWilliam Adams\\nStephen Ames\\nHenry Barton\\nBenjamin Blanchard\\nBenjamin Blanchard, Jr\\nWilliam Blanchard\\nElnathan Blood\\nJ031AH Blood\\nNathaniel Blood\\nJohn BovNTON.Jun\\nJohn Brown\\nJosiAH Brown\\nRev. Daniel Emerson\\nSamuel Farley\\nJoseph Farley\\nNicholas French\\nStephen Harris\\nWilliam Hartwell\\nStephen Hazeltine\\nJosiah Hobart\\nEnoch Hunt\\nZerubbabel Kemp\\nJonathan Lovejoy\\nJames McDaniels\\nJoseph McDaniels\\nRandall McDaniels\\nJonathan Melvin\\nDavid Nevins\\nThomas Nevins\\nBenjamin Parker\\nSamuel Parker\\nThomas Patch\\nJohn Phelps\\nAmos Philips\\nMoses Proctor\\nJames Wheeler\\nPeter Wheeler\\nFrancis Worcester, Jr\\nJoshua Wright. t\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Holmes Annals, Vol. 3, p. 2\\\\. fProv. Papers, Vol. 9, p. 195.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "1744 747-] PETITIONS for cjuakds. 97\\nThe following extracts from the petition soon after presented by\\nMr. Stewart set forth tlic reasons for it and the conditir)n of the set-\\ntlement at the time.\\nTlie Memorial and Petition of James Stewart, in the name and\\nbehalf of the inhalntants of the West Parish of Dunstable, Humbly\\nsheweth. That said Parish has been settled about 14 years, and a\\nGospell Minister ordained above a year. That many Thou-\\nsand Pounds has been spent in clearing and cultivating the Land\\nthere, and some Thousands more in Building Houses, Barns and\\nFences. The breaking up of which Settlements will not\\nonly ruin the Memorialists, but greatly diserve his Majesty s\\nInterest.\\nThat it was by long and importunate Intercession of this Prov-\\nince (and not of the Memorialists seeking) that they are cast under\\nthe immediate care of this Government, which they conceive gives\\nthem so much the better right to its Protection. That as War is\\nalready declared against France, and a Rupture with the Indians\\nhourly expected, your Memorialists, imlcss they have speedy help,\\nwill soon be oblidged to leave their Settlements. Wherefore\\nyour Memorialists most humbly supplicate such seasonable\\nRelief as may enable them to subsist in the war, and (be) secure\\nagainst the Ravages and Devastations of a blood thirsty and Merciless\\nEnemy.\\nNear three years later, about one year after Hollis was chartered\\nas a town, (the war still raging) at a town meeting held in April,\\n1747, Samuel Cumings was appointed a delegate to present to the\\nGeneral Court a second petition for \u00e2\u0080\u00a2srouLs and ouards. The\\nsubjoined extracts from the petition of this delegate show the con-\\ndition and needs of the town at that time. He says to the General\\nCourt in this petition, That Holies is a Frontier town much\\nexposed to Danger from the Indian Enemy, and the number of\\nEffective men belonging tfi the same not exceeding fifty, who have\\nall or most of them Families to take care of and being mostly new\\nsettlers, have much Labour on their hands to subdue and cultivate\\ntheir Lands. That their situation is such that they dare not to ven-\\nture to work without a guard which if they cannot have they\\nmust spend their time in zi atchiiiir and ^vardiug. in which case\\ntheir families must sutler for want of the necessaries of life.\\nAnd they Humbly pray that they may be allowed a scout of ten or a\\ndozen men for the ensuing season till the Danger of the Summer\\n(T)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "98 FRENCH WAR FROM 1 754 l l7^3-\\nand Fall of tlie \\\\car*is o\\\\er and the haiAcst ])ast and as in duty\\nbound Sic. In reply to these and oilier like petitions from the\\nfrontier settlements and to\\\\vns ^vest of and near the Merrimaek in\\nsimilar perils, the General Coini at several different times detailed\\ndetachments of soldiers as patrols to scout through the woods Avest\\nof that ri\\\\ei and at one time voted a force of ninety scouts to patrol\\nthe forests from the mouth of the Contoocook ri\\\\ er to Holies.\\nDuring this war the grim government bounty for Indian scalps for\\nthe enc(jm agement of sct)uts and Indian hunters Avas increased by\\nvote of the General Court from t loo, paid for them in Lo\\\\eweir.s\\nwar, to \u00c2\u00a3.Jt^o, O. T., and at one time to \u00c2\u00a3400, O. T., for each Indian\\nscalp taken west of Nova Scotia, and produced to the Governor\\nand Council. Prol)abl\\\\ owing to the efforts of the government,\\nunited with the vigilance of the settlers, it does not appear that any\\nattack was made upon Ilollis or any of the adjoining towns. I do\\nnot find that Ilollis furnished any soldiers for the New Hampshire\\nregiments raised in this \\\\var, antl not more than two or three Ilollis\\nnames appear in the printed lists of New Hampshire scouts pub-\\nlished in the report of the Adjutant General for 1866. The pro-\\ntection of their own families and firesides Avas the first, and wt)ukl\\nseem the only military duty, in these years, asked or expected of the\\nsettlers in the towns on the extreme frontier.\\nTHE WAR ITS WHICH cy^UiBEC WAS lAKlCN AND CANADA CONq_UERED.\\nIn 1754^ about eight ears after the peace of Aix La Chapelle,\\nthe last French and Indian A\\\\ ar was begun, which endetl in the\\ncapture of C^^uebec antl the ihial concjuest of Canada.! Ilollis in\\nthis war was no longer on the extreme frontier, and Avas much less\\nexposed to the attacks of the sa\\\\ages than in the preceding war.\\nDuring the eight ears of peace, the popidation of the town had\\nvery considerably increased, and its soldiers seem to have done their\\nwhole duty in filling up the ranks of the New Hampshire regiments\\ncalled for by the (Tovernment. In the roll of a small detachment\\nof New Ilampsliire troops posted on the Connecticut river in the fall\\nof 1754, and to be found in the report of the Adjutant General for\\n1 866, above referred to, I find the names of John Cunrings, James\\nFrench. Jonathan Hubbard, (Ilobart) vSamuel Parker and James\\nWhiting, all names appearing on the Ilollis records and belie\\\\ed to\\nhave been HoUis soldiers.\\n*Pr()v. Rapers, A ol. 9, p. ^(X).\\ntHnlmes Aniuils, Vol. 2. \\\\k 5.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "I- RENCH WAR FROM 175.I TO I 763. 99\\nIn 1755. New Hampshire raised a regiment eommaniled \\\\^y Col.\\nJoseph Blanchard, to aid in the expedition against tlie French forts\\nat Crown Point on the west shore of Lake Champlain. Of this regi-\\nment. Rev. Daniel Emerson was Chaplain, Dr. John Hale, Sur-\\ngeon s Mate, and Jonathan Hubbard, (Hol)art) Adjutant, all of\\nHollis.*\\nNearly two-thirds of the Third Compau} of this regiment were\\nalso Hollis men. Of this company, Peter Powers was Captain.\\nBenjamin Abbot, Lieutenant; William Cumings, Ensign James\\nColburn, Clerk David Hubbard, (Hobart) and Samuel Cumings,\\nSergeants; Jonathan Powers, Enoch Noyes, Stephen Ha/eltineand\\nJames Brown, Corporals, and Samuel Brown. Drummer, all of\\nHollis. Among the private soldiers, or se?i////c/s, we recognize the\\nfollowing Hollis names, viz. Jacob Abbot, Ebenczer Ball. Samuel\\nBarrett, Jabez Davis, John Flagg, Jonathan Fowler, Josiah French,\\nJohn Goodhue, James Hill, George Lesley, Christopher Lovejoy,\\nLevi Pow^ers, Stephen Powers, Whitcomb Powers, Isaac Stearns, v\\nNathaniel Townsend, Daniel Wheeler. James Wheeler. Peter\\nWheeler and John Willoughby. making in all thirt\\\\-four Hollis\\nmen in this regiment.\\nIn August I757r after the capture of Fort William Henr\\\\ bv the\\nFrench and Indians, a battalion of two hundred and fiftv New\\nHampshire troops was raised for the defence of Fort Edward, near\\nLake George, commanded by Major Thomas Tash. In the first\\ncompany of this battalion there were eleven Hollis soldiers, viz.\\nBenjamin Abbot, Jacob Abbot, Stephen Ames, Ephraim Blood.\\nElnathan Blood, Robert Campbell, Timothy Emerson, John Hale.\\nSamuel Hobart, (Sergt.) Jonathan Hobart and John Willoughby.\\nIn 175S, a regiment of New Hampshire troops was raised, com-\\nmanded by Col. John Hart of Portsmouth, a part of which was\\nordered to join a second expedition against Louisburg, antl the\\nremainder to serve on the western frontier. Of this regiment Rev.\\nDaniel Emerson was Chaplain, and Dr. John Hale. Surgeon. Of\\nits Sixth company, Ebenezer Jaquith \\\\vas Second Lieutenant and\\nJosiah Brown, Ensign. Besides the foregoing, there were also in\\nthe same company sixteen Hollis soldiers, making in all twentx\\nHollis men in this regiment, viz. Nathaniel Blood, Joseph East-\\nerbrook, Jonathan Fowler, James French, Samuel Ilazeltine, James\\nHubbard, (Hobart), Thomas Nevins, Ebenezer Pierce, Whitcomb\\n*V ol. 2, Adjt. Gen. Rep. for 1SO6. pp. ifj, 120, i^i, 133.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "lOO FRENCH WAR FROM 17^4 TO 1763.\\nPowers, Thomas Powers, Isaac Stearns, Samuel wStearns, James\\nTaylor, Abel Webster, Peter Wheeler and John Willoughbv.\\nIn 17591 the year of the capture of Qiiebec, a New Hampshire\\nregiment was raised and put under the command of Col. Zaccheus\\nLovewell, of Dunstable, with its rendezvous at that place. With\\nthe exception of two companies, the rolls of this regiment are\\nlost, but as it was made up of drafts from the militia regiments of\\nthe whole province, and its headquarters being in an adjacent town,\\nthere can be no reasonable doubt that the Hollis soldiers were well\\nrepresented in it.\\nIn 1760. the year of the final conquest of Canada, New Hamp-\\nshire furnished its last regiment of eight hundred men for this war,\\nof which John Gofie was Colonel, having its headquarters at Litch-\\nfield. This regiment marched to its destination bv the way of Mon-\\nson, Keene, the Green Mountains, and thence to Crown Point. Its\\nadjutant was Samuel Hobart,and on the roll of one of its companies\\nI find the following names of Hollis soldiers: Joseph Taylor, Lieut.,\\nJames Taylor, Sergeant, and among the pris-ates, Jotham Cumings,\\nFrancis Powers, and Joshua Wright.*\\nIn the foregoing lists there will be found sixty-one different\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0names of men who as private soldiers or officers, in the several\\nyears of that war, went into the army from the territory now or at\\nthat time embraced in Hollis. How many other names of Hollis\\nsoldiers were on the lost rolls, cannot now be told. As no census\\nhad then been taken of which wc have any knowledge, we have no\\nmeans of learning the population of the towai during that war with\\nmuch approach to accm acy. The number of names on the Tax\\nLists, from 1754 to 1760, then v;\\\\ried fi om one himdred and eight to\\none hundred and seventeen, and the number of men furnished from\\nthe town in that war was equal to more than one half the number of\\ntax pa3ers, besides those that mav l^ne been on the lost rolls.\\nIn Februarv rjf by the treaty concluded at Paris, peace was\\nagain proclaimed. For thirteen of the nineteen years beginning\\nwith 1744 and ending with 1763, our ancestors were engaged in this\\nsavage and liloody warfare for the defence of their lives and fire-\\nsides, carried on by their enemies wdtlr the avowed purpose of\\ndriving the English from the country. We now look back upon\\nthe history of those years and the doings of our ancestors, with\\nfeelings of filial gratitude and admiration, knowing as we do that\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*Adjt. Gen. Kcp. for iS6. Veil. 2, pp. 191, 21,5, 2i.j, 333. 3.(.i.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "FRENCH WAR FROM 1 754 TO 1 763. lOf\\nit was to their courage, constancy and sufferings that we owe the\\nrich inheritance they have transmitted to iis. We would gUidly\\nknow much more than it is now possible to learn of the personal\\nhistory of these early pioneers of the town and State, Init knowing\\nas we do how soon the memorials of the dead fade from the recol-\\nlections of the living, we may well be grateful that even the names\\nof so many of these brave defenders of their country have come\\ndown to our times.\\nThe militia company in Ilollis, from the year 176S, formed a part\\nof the 5th Regiment of the New Hampshire militia till the begin-\\nning of the war of the Revolution. From 1768 to 1775, the field\\nofficers of that regiment were Edward G. Lutwyche of Merrimack,\\nColonel its Lieut. Colonel was Dr. John Hale, and Samuel Ho-\\nbart its Major. Col. Lutwyche was a loyalist or tory, and is said\\nto have left the country near the beginning of the war. Major\\nHobart was appointed Colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire Regi-\\nment of minute men, by the New ILimpshire Provincial Congress\\nin September 1775, and in November of the same year, Lieut. Col.\\nHale was elected Colonel of the 5th Regiment of New Hampshire\\nmilitia.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "COLONIAL SCHOOL LAW.\\nCHAPTER I I 1\\nCOLONIAL SCHOOL LAW. SCHOOLS IN HOLLIS BEFORE THE REV-\\nOLUTION. SCHOOL DISTRICTS. SCHOOL HOUSES. THE GRAM-\\nMAR SCHOOL. TEACHERS OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. COL-\\nLEGE GRADUATES, ETC., BEFORE iSoO. LETTER OF GOV. JOHN\\nWENTWORTH TO REV. MR. EMERSON. 1 74*^ ^775-\\nBy a Colonial law of New Hampshire passed in 17 19, and re-\\nmaining in force withont any important change till after the Revo-\\nlution, it was enacted that each Town in the Province having the\\nnumber of fifty house holders shall be constantly provided of a\\nschoolmaster to teach children to read and write, and when any\\ntown has one himdred families or house holders, there shall\\nalso be a Grammar School set up and kept. And some dis-\\ncreet person of good conversation, well instructed iu the to7tgucs^\\nshall be procmx d to be master thereof. Everv such school\\nmaster to I)e suitrdih encouraged and paid by the inhabitants.\\nAnd the .Selectmen of Towns are hereby Empowered to agree with\\nsuch school masters for Salary, and to raise money by way of Rate\\nupon the Inhabitants to pay the same. The law also provided that\\nIf any such Town should neglect the due obsenance of the Law\\nfor the space of six months, it should incur a Penalty of \u00c2\u00a320. In\\n1 731 this law was so amended in respect to towns having one hun-\\ndred families, as to subject the selectmen, instead of the town, to a\\nfine of \u00c2\u00a320, if their town for one month should be without a gram-\\nmar school.\\nThe above law was unlike the New Hampshire School Laws in\\nforce during the present century in many important particulars.\\nI St. It provided for a single school only for teaching children to\\nread and write, in towns having fifty families and less than one hun-\\ndred and for a grammar school in which the tongues or dead\\nlanguages were to be taught in towns having one hundred families\\nor more.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "17} 1 to I77=;-J SCItOOl, lAXKS. IO_^\\nJiid. It was wh()ll\\\\- silent as to school-houses, school districts\\nand school committees.\\n3(1. It contemplated the empIo\\\\meni of male teachers only,\\nSchool Masters\\n4th. The hirinjj^ of School Masters the whole management of\\nthe schools and the raisinoj of money by way of Rates was en-\\ntrusted wholly to the selectmen.\\n5th. It required, in its terms, both the school for teaching reading\\niind writing, and also that f(jr teaching the Tongues to be kept\\nconstantly.\\nThe foregoing suggestions in respect to the province school law\\ntend to explain many matters relating to schools to be found in the\\nearly Hollis records, otherwise not so readily understood.\\nThe first reference to public schools to be found in these records\\nis in the doings of the annual town meeting of March, i749-\\nfew days previous to that meeting, the old first meeting-house had\\nbeen oflercd for sale at public auction and bid oft at \u00c2\u00a349, O. T., and\\nit was then oted that the money the old meeting-house sold for\\nbe applied to the building of a school-house. Hut it afterwards\\nappears from the records that this i 49, O. T., was not paid, and\\nthat the old meeting-house still continued to l)elong to the tow^n.\\nIn tlie vear 17^0 there were eighty-nine names on the tax list, and\\nthe number of families then in the town was doubtless fitty or more,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0A number making it the duty of the town to provide a School\\nMaster to teach children to read and write. In that year the ftrst\\ntax was assessed for a public school amounting to \u00e2\u0082\u00ac50, T. I ^rom\\nthat time till the war of the Revolution and after, with the excep-\\ntion of the vears 1752, 53, 54. and 1756. the town at its aimual\\nmeeting continued to vote a yearly tax for a School or the\\nSchool, varying in amoimt from L 30. in silver or lawful money,\\nto \u00c2\u00a3800, O. T. In 1780. when the continental paper money had\\nbecome so depreciated as to be nearly worthless, the nominal amount\\nof the school tax in that currency was \u00e2\u0082\u00ac4.000.\\nI- rom 17=50 t i 1766. the school tax. like f)thcr taxes, was assessed\\nin the Old Tenor paper currency, and varied from t 50. O. T.. the\\nlowest amoimt in a year, to I Soo, the highest. During the war\\nthis tax as other taxes of the time, were assessed and payable in the\\nContinental paper money, varying in amount from \u00e2\u0082\u00ac50, in i775 ^o\\ni!4,ooo, in i 7S0.\\nIn 1753 the town Voted to give Lieut. Samuel Cumings \u00c2\u00a352,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "J04 SCHOOI, HOUSES AND SCHOOL SQUADRONS. [l753-\\nO. T., foi^ his house which was Dea. Worcester s, for a school\\nhouse, and he is to have the use of said house on Sabbath days.\\nBut in 1755 it was Voted to give Samuel Cumings one half of\\nthe old meeting-house for the use of the house the Town bought\\nof him for a School-house the three years they had it, and said\\nCumings is to have his house again. In 1760 an article was in-\\nserted in the warrant for the annual meeting, To see if the Town\\nwould build a School-house. The question upon this article com-\\ning up in the meeting, it was decided in the negative. From\\nthe doings of this meeting it is evident that the town owned no\\nschool-house in 1760.\\nTill the year 1771 it would be naturally inferred, from the lan-\\nguage used in voting the yearly school tax, that but a siiii^/c school\\nwas kept in the town at the same time this tax being uniformly\\nvoted for school, or Mr school, as if but one. the school\\nlaw in force at the time, apparently, contemplating but a single\\nschool in towns not having a sufficient number of families for a gram-\\nmar school. Still it appears from other votes and doings of the\\ntown, that there may have been several schools kept at the same\\ntime in different parts of the town.\\nIn 17^2, it was Voted that the school should be ///oz cd i ov the\\nbenefit of the town and in i755i \u00c2\u00a3100, O. T., were assessed as a\\nschool tax, and it was Voted that the School should be kept in\\nthe four quarters of the town Each quarter to draw \u00c2\u00a325, and to\\nkeep the school when and where they please. This was what was\\ncalled the iovabJc or perambtilatory school.\\nThe earliest approximation to any permanent local division of the\\ntown for school purposes is to be found in the records for i757-\\nThe town that year voted \u00c2\u00a3400,0. T. for a school, and that it\\nbe granted to every suitable number of persons that shall agree\\ntogether in any part of the town (to have) their proportion for\\nkeeping a school among themselves, and those tliat dont joyn, their\\nmoney is to be paid into the treasury for a school in the mitldle of\\nthe town. The like vote continued to be passed for many years\\nafter. These associations were wholly voluntary on the part o\\nthose who united in them, and are called in the records, School\\nC/assc s School Societies and sometimes School Squadron s.,\\nbut in no instance, in the early records, school districts. In 1760\\na connnittee was chosen to divide the town for schools, and to ap-\\nportion the money between the summer and winter schools.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "174610 775-] KAMMAR SCHOOL. I05\\nIn 1 761, Dca. Worcester, Bciijaiuin Abbot. James Jewett, Ste-\\nphen Ames and Samuel Cumings were chosen a committee to fix\\nphices for school-houses, and the next Near. 1762, the town voted\\nthat school houses should be built when there is a sufficient number\\nthat shall sign to any certain place to build the houses and each\\nparty is to build their own house. This is the last reference I iind\\nin the town records to school-houses, and 1 think there is no reason-\\nable doubt that such houses were built in accordance with that vote,\\nbut if so, how manv, when, in what ]:)arts of the town, and at what\\ncost, these records do not tell iis.\\nIn 1771 the town voted \u00c2\u00a336, in Lawful Mcjney, (or silver) for\\nschools to be laid out in the usual manner and that Mr. Emerson\\nkeep the Grannnar Sclujol for the t(nvn as usual, viz, to teach all\\nthose in the town that shall present themselves in the lan ^uages.\\nThe foregoin 2r vote is the earliest notice of the Ilollis Grammar\\nSchool to be found in the records. ])ut the words as ttsi/ar imply\\nthat such a school had been kept for some years before.\\nAccording; to the census of the town taken in 1767, Ilollis then\\ncontained S09 inhabitants, and then had 150 names on its tax lists,\\nand without doubt there were then in the tow n more than 100 fam-\\nilies. If so it was the duty of the inhabitants, under the existing\\nschool hnvs, as early as that year, and probably eai lier, to establish\\na gi ammar-school. In 1774 the town Voted that the grammar-\\nschool should be kept the whole year in tlie four southern sq7(ad-\\nro7is^ the other squadrons to school out their money as usual. As\\nthat part of the town north of the meeting-house was somewhat\\nlarger in extent than the part south of it. we may fairly presume,\\nthat in 1774. there were as many as eight \u00e2\u0080\u00a2School Squadrons in\\nthe town, and not luilikelv as many school-houses. In 1775 the\\ntown ()te(l that Mr. William Cumiii^s keep the grammar-school.\\nThe foregoing are all the minutes to be founil upon the town re-\\ncords relative to the Ilollis grammar-school, before the war of the\\nRevolution, and we infer from them that such of the Ilollis \\\\outh\\nas wished for instruction in the tongues. were taught by the Rev.\\nMr. Emerson, till the vear 177S Nvhen he was succeeded by Mr.\\nCumings. The name of tliis Mr. Cumings is found upon one of\\nthe Ilollis military rolls in 177s with the title of Schocd-Master.\\nHe was for many years a teacher in the Ilollis schools, and long\\nafter his decease was gratefulK and atlectionately remembered, as\\nMaster Cumings. In the two last ears of the war, and several", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "ro6 RE\\\\ MR. EMERSON. [^746 ^O 1775-\\nyears after it. he held the office of Town Clerk, and the IloUis\\nrecords of the time still exhibit abundant evidence of his neat and\\nelegant penmanship, and of his ability not only to write his mother\\ntongue correctly and in good taste, but also to garnish the produc-\\ntions of his pen with a somew hat pedantic display of his knowd-\\nedge of Latin.\\nIt is very evident from documents that yet exist, that the youth of\\nHollis, before the Revolution, were taught to read and write. as\\nrequired in the existing school law. I have seen and examined\\nmore than one himdred of the original signatures of the Hollis revo-\\nlutionary soldiers, all, with but rare exceptions, written in a fair,\\nlegil)le hand, and but two marksmen among them all, and these\\nsupposed not to have been born in the town. Judging from the\\npublished histories of many towns, which I have read, it is very\\ncertain that the schools in Hollis were better cared tor than in many\\ntowns both older and more populous. It was not uncommon, both\\nin New Hampshire and Massachusetts, for towns or their selectmen\\nto be indicted and fined for their neglect to ccMuph with the school\\nlaws. Other towns sometimes voted to indemnify their selectmen\\nfor such neglects. it costing less money to pay the fines than to\\nsupport the schools. But no such vote is to be foinul in the doings\\nof any Hollis town meeting, nor have I learned that any criminal\\ncomplaint was ever made against the town or its selectmen for vio-\\nlation of the school laws.\\nThis comparatively good condition of the public schools in Hollis\\nis imdcjubtedly due, in great measiu e, to the efforts of their worthy\\nminister, IMr. Emerson, and some of the prominent early settlers of\\nthe to\\\\vn, and the active interest they took in the cause of popidar\\neducation. l he good which men do, as well as the evil. lives\\nafter them, and there can be no doubt tliat the salutary influence of\\nMr. Emerson and his compeers, felt alike by parents and the youth\\nof Hollis, continued long after their decease.\\nSome of the good fruits of this influence were to be seen in the\\nimusually large luunber of the Hollis youth, born diu ing the life of\\nMr. Emerson, who sought the achantages of a collegiate and profes-\\nsional education. In the short biographical notices that I have read\\nof Mr. b^merson it was s:iid of him that he was a popular and suc-\\ncessful minister, antl that his praise was in all the churches.\\nThe youth of Hollis wdu were born and grew up under his ministry,\\nno doubt could say with equal truth, that his praise was in all the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "l746tOI77S-] COLI.KOK CKADl^ATES FiKFOUK iSoO.\\n107\\nschools. Mr. Emerson, as \\\\vc have seen, was setlletl ui the ministry\\nover his society m 1743, and his connection willi it as sole and asso-\\nciate pastor, continued till his death in 1801 a jieriod of fifty-sixyears.\\nIt will be seen from the lists of Ilollis graduates of colleges, and of\\nministers, physicians and lawvers, not graduates, that eleven of the\\nyouth of Ilollis, born before the war of the Revoluticjn, were gradu-\\nates of colleges, and an equal number, not graduates, also born be-\\nfore 1775, became ministers or physicians, It may also be seen that\\nHollis furnished twenty-eight graduates of colleges, born between\\nthe years 1775, and iSoo, during the pastorate of Mr. Emerson, a\\nnumber equal to more than one for each year during the last quarter\\nof the last centiny.\\nThe names of the HolUs Graduates of Colleges^ and of Minis-\\nters and Physicians., not Graduates^ born before 1773., are fre-\\nsetitcd in tlic foUoivifig Lists\\nGRADUATES OF COLLEGES.\\nRev. Peter Powers\\nborn\\n173S\\nJosiAH Goodhue\\n735\\nHenry CuMiNGS,\\nD.\\nD.\\n739\\nJoseph Emerson\\n1/59\\nDr. Samlel Emerson\\n1764\\nRev. JosiAH Burgk\\n1766\\nRev. Samuel Worcester, D. D. born 1770\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun. 1771\\nJacob A.CuMiNGS i77\u00c2\u00bb\\nDavid Jewett 1773\\nAbel Farle\\\\ 1773\\nMINISTERS AND PHYSICIANS NOT GRADUATES.\\nRev. Leonard Worcester born 1767\\nThomas Worcester 1768\\nDavid Smith 1769\\nDr. Joseph F.Eastman 1773\\nRev. David Brown 1773\\nDr. AnijAH Wright\\nborn\\n1746\\nPeter Emerson\\n749\\nRev. Samuel Ambrose\\n757\\nXoAH Worcester, D. D.\\n7SS\\nJoseph Wheat\\n759\\nDr. William Hale\\n1 76 J\\nThe )iaiiics of the Ilollis\\nthe years IJ7S and j8oo arc\\nJoseph Emerson, 2d born\\nMiGHiLL Blood\\nManasseh Smith\\nStephen Farley Jun.\\nCaleb J. Tenney\\nJonathan B. Eastman\\nNehemiah IIardv\\nBenjamin Burge\\nJoseph E. Smith\\nBenjamin M. Farley\\nJoseph E. Worcester\\nGrant Powers\\nFifield Holt\\nNoah Hardy\\nGraduates of Colleges born betzi.-een\\npresented belozv\\n1777 Daniel Kendrick\\n777 WiLLi.vM Tenney\\n1779 Eli Smith, Jr\\n1779 Ralph Emerson\\n17S0 Leonard Jewett\\n1750 John Proctor\\n1751 S.AMUEL E. Smith\\n1753 Luke Eastm.vn\\n1752 George F. F arlev\\n7S3 Wm. p. Kendrick\\nfjS.\\\\ D.vviD P. Smith\\n1754 Solomon Hardy\\n1784 Eli N. Sawtellk\\n1785 Taylor G. Worcester\\nborn\\n7SS\\n7SS\\n17S7\\n17S7\\n17S7\\n17S7\\n17SS\\n1790\\n793\\n794\\n79S\\n1796\\n799\\n799", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "I08 LETTER OF GOV. JOHN WENTAVORTH. [^77\\nI am indebted to my kind friend tlie late Rev. Dr. Bouton, for the\\nfollowing very sensible and graceful letter written to Mr. Emerson,\\nin 1770, by Gov. John Wentworth, upon committing to the tutor-\\nship of Mr. Emerson, a young orphan nephew. The letter is alike\\ncreditable to the head and heart of Gov. Wentworth, and is pleasant\\nand pertinent evidence that the good reputation of Mr. Emerson as\\nan instructor of youth and friend of education was well understood\\nbeyond the limits of Hollis.\\nWentworth House, Wolfeborough, j\\n28. July 1770. I\\n7^/ie Rev. ]\\\\Ir. Emerson at Hollis^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Rev. S/r Inconsequence of a letcer 1 have just received from\\nMajor liobart, who w^ ites me that \\\\ou are ready to receive my\\nnephew, Alark Wentworth, and to take charge of his Education, I\\nherewith send him and Earnestly beg your greatest care of his\\nhealth and instruction. lie is a fine boy, of great .Spirit, which\\nnaturall} leads him to playful negligence. He has also acquired\\nidle habits which will be easily reformed under a strict discipline,\\nequally removed from cruelty and levity. He must kno\\\\\\\\ that you\\nin all things are to be obeyed and never suffer any sort of dis-\\nobedience to your orders. This is moie peculiarly necessary for\\nhim, as he has to be brought up in the Navy, where implicit obe-\\ndience is necessarv for the service and for him. As to his diet, I\\nprefer simple, plain, and plentiful his tender age admits no other\\ninstruction than reading and writing. But no age is too tender to\\nreceive inculcations of practical neatness, honor and irtue. Witli\\nthese, enriched by a just habitual pietv, he caimot fail of being a\\ngood man, the first great object of Education. I hope hereafter to\\nhave opportunity to confer with a ou upon a future course of learn-\\ning adapted to Ids genius and profession. in the mean time 1 beg\\nleave to assure you, that 1 can never think any. expense too great\\nwhich he benefits by. and therefore gladl\\\\ commit him to your care,\\nnot doubting but 1 shall rejoice in making you the most grateful ac-\\nknowledgements for his improvement, wliich is the greatest and\\nmost earnest desire of Rev .Sir.\\nour most humble .Servant.\\nJohx Wentworth.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "EABI-V COI.ONIAI. LAWS. t09\\nC H A P T E R I X\\nEARKV COLONIAL LAWS. TOWN OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES.\\nMODERATORS. SELECTMEN. CONSTABLES. FIELD DRI\\\\ ERS.\\nTITIIINO MEN. HOGREEVES. DEER REEVES AND DEER. WOLVES\\nAND RATTLESNAKES. Ql ALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. HOUSES\\nOF CORRECTION. THE POOR AND THEIR SUPPORT. WARNING\\nTO LEAVE TOWN. SLAVERY tN NEW FFAMPSHIRE. I 74^ tO\\n775-\\nThe town officers authorized to be elected at the annual town\\nmeeting in March, before the Revolution, were a Moderator for\\nthe town meetings, Town clerk. Treasurer, Selectmen or Toiuns-\\nmen Constables, Fence viewers, Field Drivers or Haywards, Sur-\\nveyors of highways, Survej ors of lumber. Sealers of weights\\nand measures. Sealers of leather. Tithing-men, Deer-Reeves, I log-\\nreeves. Pound-keepers. Overseers of the poor, and Overseers of\\nhouses of correction.\\nThe Aloderator then, as now. was the presiding officer of the\\ntown meeting. Xo person was allowed to speak in meeting with-\\nout leave of that dignitary, nor \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2when any other person was\\nspeaking orderlv, and all persons were to be silent at the request\\nof the Moderator under the penalty of five shillings.*\\nThe number of Selectmen might be three, five, seven or nine.\\nBefore the Revolution the nimiber chosen in IloUis was either three\\nor five, the last inmibcr liaving been chosen in fourteen out of\\ntwenty-nine years from 1746 to 1775. The selectmen were paid or\\nnot paid for their services, as decided by vote of the town at their\\nelection the town sometimes voting to pay them for their time and\\nexpenses, sometimes their expenses only and occasionallv that\\nthey should have no pay for either. In respect to several matters\\nof public concern the Selectmen, under the colonv laws, had much\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cnl. L;nvs. ji.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "1 lO lOAV^N OFFICERS. [174610 1775-\\nmore power and a wider field of duty tliaii at tlie present day.\\nTlie law not providing for other assessors of taxes it was made the\\nduty of the .Selectmen to assess all the polls and estates of the inhab-\\nitants according to the known ability of each person for the support\\nof the ministry, schools, the poor, and for all other town e qDenses.*\\nThey also had the whole charge of the public schools, including the\\nproviding of suitable buildings or rooms for teaching, and the em-\\nployment and paying of teachers, j\\nConstables. One of the principal duties of Constables was to\\ncollect the taxes. Till the ear 1765, but one Constable was elected\\nin Ilollis who was charged with the collection of the taxes for the\\nwhole town. After that year two were chosen, one of whom was\\nfor the west side or west half of the town, the other for the east\\nhalf. Two corresponding tax lists were made, one for each con-\\nstable, the one list containing the names of the taxpayers in the\\nwestern division, the other those in the eastern.\\nPicid Drivers. This office in this state has long since grown\\ninto disuse. In colonial times it was the duty of these officers to-\\ntake up and impoimd neat cattle and other domestic animals found\\nunlawfully running at large in the highways or upon the common\\nland. For many years after the first settlement of Hollis, a very\\nlarge part of the imimproved land was unfenced, the rights of the\\nowners of such lands being in common. These conmion lands fur-\\nnished much valuable pasturage, and liy the Province law neat\\ncattle and other domestic animals were not permitted to feed upon\\nthem without the consent of the land owners. If such animals\\nwere found at large upon such lands without the consent of the\\nowners, it was the duty of the Field Driver to impound them, for\\nwhich service he was allowed one shilling each for horses and neat\\ncattle, and three pence each for sheep and swine, to be paid by the\\nowner of the animals.\\nAs early as i747 the town meeting in Hollis voted that the\\ncattle belonging to the town be booked within a week and go at\\nlarge upon the commons this year, and to proceed with cattle that\\ndont belong to the town according to the law of the Province.\\nThe next year it was voted that residents and non-residents turn\\nout cattle according to their rights, and that all otiiers l)e driven\\naway. The like votes for the protection of the commons contin-\\nued to be passed for man}- ears after.\\n*Col. I,:i\\\\vs, ji, 138.\\ntCol. I.aus. pi 1^3. 163.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "iy^6 U^ 77 TOWN OIIICKKS. Ill\\nTit/iim^- Men. I hc ancient olHcc of Tilliinn-Man lias also l)c-\\nconic obsolete, and the i/a/iic^ once a terror to riule and \\\\va\\\\\\\\var(l\\n\\\\()iitli, \\\\CY\\\\ nearly so. It was anionic the duties of these ollicers U)\\ninspect licensed houses, and to inform of all disorders in them. Also\\nto inlorm of all idle and disorderly persons, profane swearers,\\nand Sabhalh breakers, and to aid in their arrest and punishment.\\nThey carried as a badtje of their office a black staff tw(j feet long,\\ntippeil at one end for about three inches with brass or pewter.* It\\nwas customary in Hollis to choose four of these officers, two of\\nwhom were known as Tithingmen below., the other two as Tith-\\ningmen above. All of them were expected to attend meeting on\\nthe Sabbath the first two to ha\\\\ e their seats on the lower floor,\\nand to take note of all disorder and irreverence below, the other\\ntwo to be installed in the gallery, and to observe and report all dis-\\nturbances and breaches of decorum above.\\nHog-reeves. By a law of the Province passed in 1719, swine\\n\\\\vere not permitted to run at large, between the first day of Apri!\\nand the first dav of October, without being yoked and rung in\\nthe way described in the law, and two persons were required to\\nbe chosen at the yearly town meeting to enforce the Act. The\\nregulation hog yoke was to be of wood, to be in length ecjual to\\nthe depth o^ the swine s neck, above the neck, and half as long be-\\nlow. The ring was to be of strong flexil)le iron wire inserted in\\nthe to]) of the nose to prevent rooting, the ends of the wire being\\nso twisted together as to project one inch above the nose.t I the\\ncustom of the town all the young men of Mollis, married within the\\nyear next preceding the anruial elections, were entitled to the com-\\npliment of being cfiosen to this responsible office.\\nDeer ICeeves. The forests in most parts of New Ilampshi.e for\\nmany years after its first settlement abounded with deer. Both\\nthe flesh and skins of these animals being of great value to the\\nsettlers, laws were passed to punish the killing of them at such\\nseasons as would diminish their increase. By a Province law of\\n1 741 it was made a crime to kill deer between the last da\\\\ of\\nDecember ami the first day of August. An oil ender against this\\nlaw was liable to a fine of \u00c2\u00a310. If not able to pay he might be sen-\\ntenced to \\\\vork forty days for the Government, and fifty days if he\\nshould ofi end a second time. It was made the duty of the town at\\nthe annual election to choose two ofliccrs, known as Deer Reeves\\n*Col. Laws, p. sS.\\ntCoI. Laws, p. 173.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "113 VOTERS AND THEIR (QUALIFICATIONS. [1764101775.\\nor Deer Keepers^ to see that this law was obsened, with power to\\nenter and search all places where they had cause to suspect that the\\nskins or flesh of deer, unlawfully killed, was concealed. The first\\nDeer Reeves in Hollis were Samuel Farlev, Josiah Brown -.xwiX\\nWilliam Adams, chosen in i747-~thc last, John Cmnings and\\nElnathan Blood, in 1766.\\nWolves and Rattlesnakes. Wolves, the natural and incorrigible\\nenemies both of deer and man. also abounded at the early settle-\\nment of the town, as also did Rattlesnakes, and were the objects of\\nwholly different laws and policv from those adopted in regard to\\ndeer. By a province law passed in 1719, towns were empowered\\nto pay a bounty of 20s. per. head, (subsequently increased) for kill-\\ning grown wolves, and one-half of the like bounty for wolf\\nwhelps. In pin-suance of this law and its amendments, in the years\\n1760 and 1 761, the town voted to pay any Hollis man, who should\\nkill a wolf within the town a bounty of 40s. and in 1766 this bounty\\nwas increased to $10.00.\\nThe policy of extermination in respect to Rattlesnakes^ with\\nwhich parts of the town were then infested, was adopted earlier than\\nthat in regard to wolves. At tlie third parish meeting, held in\\nWest Dunstable, in \u00e2\u0096\u00a0March, 1740, it was oted that if any person\\nshould make it appear to the Parish Connnittee that during the yeai\\nhe had killed one or more rattlesnakes within the parish, he shall\\nbe paid from the parish treasury one .Shilling for each snake so\\nkilled.\\noters and their qualifications. Prior to the Revolution, tiie\\nqualifications for voting in town meetings varied with the objects\\nof the meetings. To l)e qualified to vote tor town otficers, the per-\\nson offering his vote was recjuircd to be a free holder in the town or\\nto have other taxable estate of the value of \u00c2\u00a320.*\\nIn the choice and settlement of a minister for a town or parish,\\nand fixing his salary, the right to vote was limited to the owners of\\nreal estate. t Nothwithstanding this restriction of the right to vote,\\nthe taxes for the support of the minister were assessed by the .Se-\\nlectmen on land, personal estate a/td polls in the same manner as\\ntaxes for other town charges. To be competent to vote for a dele-\\ngate to the General Court, the elector was required to be the\\nowner of real estate in the town of the value of \u00c2\u00a350, and the can-\\ndidate, in order to be eligible to that office, to be possessed of real\\nestate of the value of \u00c2\u00a3300.\\n*Co!. I.aw i;,;. \\\\\\\\h. p. 55.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "1746 tt 1775-] 1^- STOCKS AM) WIIII PING POST. ll^\\nHouses of Correction. A province law passed in 1719 provided\\nfor the erection and rej^adation of Hotises of Correction for the\\nkeeping, correcting and setting to work of rogues., vagabonds.,\\ncommon beggars and /^icv/and idle persons Such persons on con-\\nviction before the Court of .Sessions or a Justice of the Peace were\\nto be sent to the House of Correction and set to work under the mas-\\nter or overseer of that institution. Upon his admission, the unlucky\\nculprit was to be put in shackles or to be whipped, not to exceed\\nten stripes, unless the \\\\varrant for his commitment directed other-\\nwise. By an act of the General Assembly adopted in 1766, the law\\nfor the maintenance of Houses of Correction was extended to towns\\nwith the like powers and duties in respect to them.* It appears\\nfrom the following vote of a special town meeting, on the iSth of\\nMarch, 1773. that the people of Holiis had availed themselves of the\\nright to establish such an institution for the town. It was then\\nVoted that Capt. Joshua Wright be overseer of the House of Cor-\\nrection, and take all who may be sent there according to law.\\nThe foregoing vote is the only notice I find in the records of such an\\nasylum for rogues and vagabonds. Both the records and traditions\\nare alike silent in respect to the place of its location and the time it\\nwas continued, and also as to the names and numbers of its inmates,\\nsent to the overseer to be welcomed on their introduction with\\nshackles and stripes.\\nThe Stocks and M hipping Post. The punishment of malefac-\\ntors, by making their feet of the oficnder fast in the stocks, is as\\nancient as the da} s of Job,t and it is very evident from the recorded\\nexperiences of the Apostles Paul and Silas that neither the stocks nor\\nwhipping posts were imknown in their times. Sustained alike by\\nabimdant liiblical precedent as well as by the laws of the ])rovince,\\nour order-loving ancestors were not slow in j^roviding their town\\nwith both of these terrors of evil-doers. At a special town meeting\\nin June, 1746, about two months after the town was incorporated,\\nVoted that the Selectmen provide stocks and at a town meeting\\nin the month of January next after. Voted to Accept the Account\\nof Josiah Conant for making the Stocks. The town whipjjing-\\npost, the fitting companion of the stocks, held its place near the\\nfront of the meeting-house, not far from the west line of the common,\\ntill after the commencement of the present century, and was in use\\n*Col. Laws, pp. 74, 139, 202.\\ntjob, Chap. 13, V. ay.\\n(8)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 SIOCKS AND \\\\V1IIPIMN(; POST. [174610 1/75.\\nwithin the niemory of persons still living, with its inseparable asso-\\nciate, the cat o nine tails. The varied practical uses to \\\\vhich\\nthe stocks and whipping-post were applied may be readily inferred\\nby reference to a few of the cotemporary criminal laws for the pun-\\nishment of minor offen.ces. most of which were within the jurisdic-\\ntion of justices of the peace. vSomc of these punishments were as\\nfollows\\nProfane Cursi)ig and Sxvcariiig. For the first offence a\\nfine of one shilling. If not paid the culprit to be set in the stocks\\ntwo hours For more than one profane Oath at the same time a\\nfine of two shillings and to lie set in the stocks not more than three\\nhours.\\nDrKuhcniicss. For lirst offence, a line of 5 shillings if not\\nable to pay, the convict to be set in the stocks not more than three\\nhours.\\nDcfaiuatioii If tbimd guilty the oflender to be fined 20 shillings.\\nIf not paid to be set in the stocks not more than three hours.*\\nRobbing Gardens and Orchards. If the prisoner was not able\\nto pay his fine to be set in the stocks or whipped at the discretion of\\nthe Justice, t\\nInsolcnce^or Molcnce to Women on the Highway. For first\\noffence, whipping not exceeding ten stripes. For second offence, to\\nbe burnt in the haiid.f\\nPetit Larceny. The offender to forfeit treble the value of the\\nproperty stolen, and to be fined not exceeding \u00c2\u00a35, or whipped not\\nmore than twenty stripes. If not paid, the culprit to be sold for a\\nterm of time to be fixed at the discretion of the court.\\nThe following sentence of one Char/cs jVetvton, convicted of steal-\\ning property of the value of three shillings, is copied from the early\\ncoiu-t records of (jrafton County. It is here presented as illustrat-\\ning the state of the law in like cases in the times of King George.\\nThe person froiu whom the property was stolen, and who was\\ncharged with the duty of selling the culprit into servitude, was Dea.\\nyoJm WilloiigJiby, one of the many worthy emigrants from Fiollis,\\nto Plymouth just before the \\\\\\\\ar of the Revolution.\\nGrafton, ss. Superior Courts yii i Terni^ 774-\\nDominus Rex. Charles Newton. It is considered by the\\nCourt that the said Charles Newton pay a fine to his Majesty of\\n*Col. Laws. p. 31.\\nfCoI. Laws, p. 1S9.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "174610 lyZv] T11B.11: siiM ouT. 115\\nTen Shillings, or he whipped ten stripes on the naketl l)aek hy llie\\nhands of the common whippcr, hetwcen tlie hours of 1 1 o clock\\nA. M., and 2 o clock, P. M., to-morrow, heing the i6th day of\\nJune, A. D., 1774. Also that he pay t(^ John Willoughln nine\\nshillings, heing treble the value of the goods stolen and costs of\\nprosecution. That in want of the pa) ment of the saitl nine shil-\\nlings and cost, he be sold into senitude by the saitl W illoughby to\\nany of his Alajesty s liege subjects for the Term of wSix months\\nto commence on the 1 ^ih davof Jmie, A. I). i77Si- ^md that he\\nstand committeil till sentence be performed.\\nAttest, Geougk King, C/ X\\nTJie Poor a)id f/ict r Support. By a law of the province (jf\\n1 7 19. continued in force till long after the Revolution, all persons\\nhaving dwelt in a town for three months, without being legally\\nwarned to depart, became inhabitants, and in case of inability to\\nsupport themselves from sickness or other cause, were required to\\nbe relieved by the town. the same law the town could protect\\nitself from the risk of the liability for the support of all new-\\ncomers by warning them to leave town within the three months\\nafter their Hrst coming. By an Act passed in 1771- the time for\\nthis warning to leave was extended to one year. The warrant for\\nthis Warning out, as it was called, was issuetl by the selectmen\\nto a constable, commanding the new comer to depart from the\\ntown within a time fixed in the warrant, and in case of his neglect\\nto leave, the law authorized the issuing of a second warrant for hi:^\\nremoval to his former residence. If a person so remo\\\\ed after-\\nwards returned, he coidd be dealt with as a vagabonil, and sent\\nto the house of correction.\\nThe province laws of the times provided for the election bv\\ntowns of Overseers of the Poor, and in 1749, Capt. Peter Powers^\\nZedekiah Drinv. and Nathaniel Townscnd were chosen to that\\n(jflice. This is the only instance I find in the earlv records of an\\nelection to that office, and the instances were vcrv rare in which\\nany special tax was levied for the support of the j^oor. The care\\nof the poor as well as the protection of the town from the increase\\nof paupers by the Warning out of new settlers appear to have\\nbeen left wholly to the selectmen. It is very evident from the mauN\\nentries upon the records of the issuing and return of these notices\\nthat this harsh and invidious duty of warning new settlers to lea\\\\ e", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "Il6 AFRICAN SI.A\\\\ ERV. [174610x775,\\nthe town was verv diligently performed by the Hollis selectmen\\nand constables from its first settlement, till near the commence-\\nment of the present century.\\nThe first of these notices found in the records was in June, 17465\\nthe year of the charter, and was directed to Wid. Mary Blanchard.\\nThe next in time, now to be found, was dated Julv 6. i749- ^^nd\\nserved upon James Ferguson and John Thompson, requiring them\\nto depart from the town in 14 davs. Between 1746 and i797\\nthere are records of nearl}^ two hundred of the like warrants and\\nnotices, a part of them to single individuals, but much the largest\\nDortion embracing wdiolc families, giving the names of the husband,\\n^vife and children. All new comers, indiscriminately, appear to\\nliave been exposed to these inhospitable notices, whether likely to\\nbecome paupers or not. As evidence of this lack of discrimination,\\n1 find in these warrants between 1767 and 1774, the names of no less\\nthan seven persons wdio were afterwards Hollis soldiers in the Rev-\\nolution, and the like number who had been in the arrn^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2, and were\\n\\\\varned to leave after the war was ended. It is very evident, how-\\nover, that the persons so warned did not ordinarily obey this sum-\\nmons to leave, nor does it appear that they were expected to do so,\\nas we find in these warrants not only the names of so many Hollis\\nsoldiers, wdio did not go away, but also the names of many others,\\nwho were served with the like notices, and afterwards remained,\\nand became substantial freeholders and valuable and respected citi-\\nzens. It is but just to sa\\\\- that this odious and l)arbarous custom\\nhad the sanction of a general la%v of the province, and I find no\\nreason to believe that it was executed more oflensivel}- in Hollis\\nthan in other New Hampshire towns.\\nS/avcrv- African slaver}- existed in New Hampshire under the\\nsanction of the province laws till near the close of the war of the\\nRevolution. According to a census taken in 1767- whole pop-\\nulation of the province was 53,700. of w hich number 3S4 were\\nslaves, of whom there were two in Hollis. In i775 wdiole pop-\\nulation of New Hampshire had increased to 83,200. and the slaves\\nto 656, of wdiom foin- were in Hollis.\\nI am indebted to a granddaughter of Col. David Webster for\\nthe original deed of sale made to him of tw^o negro slaves. A copy\\nof this deed is presented below, showing the mode of transferring\\nthe supposed legal title to this kind of property in human flesh in\\naccordance with the laws then in force in New England. Col.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "1746101775-] AFRICAN SLAVERY. \\\\lj\\nWebster was a distinguished New Hampshire oHicer in the war of\\nthe Rcvokition, who tor some years before the war resided in\\nIloUis, and removed from IIolHs to Plymouth about the year ijS^.\\nKnow all Men by these Presents that I Jacob Whittier of Mc-\\nthuen in the County of Essex in tiie Province of Massachusetts\\nBay, Yeoman, in consideration of the Sum Sixty pounds lawful\\nmoney paid me by David Webster of Plymouth in the Province ot~\\nN. Hampshire, Gent, have sold and by these Presents do sell unto\\nthe said David Webster, one negro man namcil Cicero, and also one\\nNegro Woman, named Dinah, both being servants for life, and\\nnow in my possession. To have and to hold the said Negroes\\nduring the natural life of each of them Respectively to the said\\nDavid Webster, his heirs and assigns, according to the common\\nusage and Laws of said Provinces. In Witness Whereof I have\\nhereunto set my hand and seal the 13th day of December .Vnno\\nDomini 1769, in the loth year of liis Majesty s reign.\\nSigned Sealed and delivered in presence of us.\\nJacob Whittirr. -I Seal, i\\nEben V. Barker.\\nAniGAir, Barker.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "Il8 THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GENERAI, COURT.\\nC H A P r E R X\\nTHE \\\\EW HAMPSHIRE GENERAL COURT. MEMBERS EROM TTOELIS\\nAND THE OLD DUNSTABLE TOWNS BEEORE THE REVOI-UTION.\\nCONTESTED ELECTION IN 1762. DUTSION OE THE PROVINCE\\nINTO COUNTIES. ORGANIZATION OE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY,\\nCOUNTY OFEICERS EROM IIOLLIS. THE PINE TREP: LAW. ITS\\nUNPOPULARITY AND TROUBLE IN ENEORCING IT. RIOT AT\\nWEARE. GOV. JOHN WP:NTW0RTH. HIS PERSONAL POPU-\\nLARITY. ADDRESS EROM THE PEOPLE OE HOLLIS. JURORS\\nTO HOLLIS. THE FIRST TRIAL FOR MURDER IN HILLSBOROUGH\\nCOUNTY. POPULATION BEFORE 1775. I74I TO l77S.\\nTHE NEW HAMPSIHRE GENERy\\\\L COUR l\\nFrom 1741 1 (the year when the new province line was settled)\\ntill 1775 the New Hampshire General Coiut consisted of a Gover-\\nnor and twelve Councillors appointed bv the King, and a House of\\nRepresentatives varying in nimi1)cr from thirteen to thirty-one,\\nelected by the towns. The only member of the Governor s Council,\\nfrom the towns formed out of the territory of Old Dunstable, was\\nCol. Joseph Blanchard. a resident of the new town of the same\\nname, who was appointed in 1741- Hid held his ofHce till his death\\nin 1758.\\nMEMBERS Ol THE 7IOUSE FROM HOLLIS AND THE OLD DUNSTABLE\\nTOWNS.\\nThere was no member of the House of Representatives from\\neither of the old Dunstable towns till 1752. when Jonathan\\nLovew^ell was chosen for Dunstable and Merrimack. From 176210\\n1768 these towns were coupled together and represented as follows:\\n1762. Dunstable and Hollis Dr. John Hale.\\nMerrimack and Monson Joseph Blanchard, Esq.\\nNottingham West and Litchfield Capt. Samuel Greeley.\\n1768. Dunstable and Hollis Dr. John Hale.\\nMerrimack and Monson Capt. John Chamberlain.\\nNottingham West and Litchfield -James Underwood, Esq.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "1/4 to 1775.] A eONTKSTEi:) liLFXTIO.N. 119\\nI find the following scrap of characteristic political history in\\nrespect to the election for IloUis and Dunstable in 1762, in the New\\nHampshire Historical Collections (v. 1, p. 57) which is here pre-\\nsented as follows\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2What is now HoUis was formerly the West Parish of Dunsta-\\nble. For a number of years after Hollis was incorporated, the two\\ntowns were classed together to send a man to represent thein to the\\nGeneral Court. Dunstable being the older town, required the Elec-\\ntions to be uniformly held there, until Hollis became the most\\npopulous, when it was requested by Hollis that they should be held\\nin those towns alternately, that Each might have an Equal chance.\\nBut Dunstable did not consent to this proposal. Hollis feeling\\nsome resentment, mustered all its forces, leaving at liome scarcely\\nman or horse. Previouslv to this time the person cnoscn had been\\nuniformly selected from Dunstable. But on this occasion the peo-\\nple of Dunstable, finding thev were outnumbered, their town clerk\\nmounted a pile of shingles and called on the inhabitants to bring in\\ntheir votes for Moderator for Dunstable. The town clerk of Hollis\\nmoimted another pile and called on the inhabitants of Dunstable\\nand Hollis to bring in their votes for Moderator for Dunstable and\\nHollis. The result was that Lovewell, Esq., was declared\\nModerator for Dunstable and Dea. Francis Worcester Moderator\\nfor Dunstable and Hollis. Each Moderator proceeded in the same\\nmanner to call the votes for Representative. Jonathan Lovewell,\\nEsq.. was declared chosen to represent Dunstable and Dr. John Hale\\nwas declared chosen to represent Dunstable and Hollis. Accord-\\ninglv both repaired to Portsmouth to attend the General Court.\\nLovewell was allowed to take his seat, and Hale rejected. Hale,\\nbowever, instead of returning home, took measures to acquaint the\\nGovernor with what had transpired and waited the issue. It was\\nnot long before Secretarv Theodore Atkinson came into the House\\nand proclaimed aloud. I have special orders from his Excellency to\\ndissolve this House Accordingly you are dissolved. (iod\\nsave the King.\\nIt appears from the Journal of the House that the election of\\nboth Lovewell and Hale was set aside, and the House immediately\\ndissolved by the Governor. A very few days after, a second elec-\\ntion was held, and Hale was returned by the sherifl and at once\\nobtained his seat without further objection.*\\n*Prov. Papers, Vol. 6, p. 806.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "J20 ORGANIZATION OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. [l??!-\\nDr. Hale was afterwards re-elected and continued to represent\\nHollis and Dunstable till 1/68, when he was succeeded by Col.\\nSamuel Hobart, who, as appears from the Journal, represented\\nHollis oidy for the next six years till the Revolution. In 1767 Dr.\\nHale was Lieut. Colonel of the Regiment of Militia to which HoLlis\\nwas attached, and Col. Hobart, Major of the same regiment. In\\n1775, Hale was appointed Colonel of tliat regiment, and Hobart\\nColonel of the Second New Hampshire Regiment of Minute Men,\\nordered to be raised by the New Hampshire Provincial Congress in\\nSeptember, 1775.*\\nJUSTICES OF THE PEACE.\\nBefore the Revolution, Justices of the Peace as well as the (jov-\\nernor and Council held their commissions, as Magistrates, from the\\nKing. The only pej sons in Hollis known or supposed to have\\n1)een so commissioned were Samuel Cumiiigs, Sen., the first Tow u\\nclerk, his son Samuel Cumings, Jun., John Hale, Samuel Hobart\\nand L3enjamii\\\\ Whiting, the first sherifi of Hiilsliorough County.\\nSamuel Cumings, Jun., and Whiting were Loyalists or Tories, and\\nare supposed to have left the State early in 1777 and never after-\\nwards returned, and together with Thomas Cinuings, a brother of\\nthe former, were proscribed by an act of the A ew liampshire\\nGeneral Court passed- in 177S, forbidden to return and their\\nestates confiscated.!\\nORGANIZATION OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.\\nPreviously to 1771 there had been no division of New Hampshire\\ninto counties. Till that vear the province, in law. was Init a single\\ncounty, and the courts of law, as well as the sessions of tlie (jcn-\\ncral Court, were ordinarily held at Portsmouth, ne\u00c2\u00bbir the S. E. cor-\\nner of the province. That part of New Hampshire between the\\nMerrimack and Connecticut rivers had for many years been largely\\nsettled, and the settlers west of the Merrimack had for a long time\\nbeen greatly dissatisfied with the inconvenience, dela\\\\s and ex-\\npense incident to their being so remote from the courts of justice\\nand seat of government. As early as 1754 tlie people of Hollis,\\nwith a very large portion of the settlers west of the ISIerrimack.\\nunited in petitions to the General Court setting forth their grievances.\\nProv. Papers, Veil, i pp. (jo;, dji.\\nfBclkniip s Hist iiy of II., l ,5Si.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "177--] T i i iV: TRKK I.AW.\\n121\\naiul piayin for a division of the pro\\\\ iiicc into counties. But\\nno such division was made till 1771. On the 19th of March of that\\nyear the General Court passed an act dividing the province into the\\nlive original counties of Rockingham, StraiVord, Hillsborough,\\nGrafton and Cheshire. These counties were so named by Gover-\\nnor Wentworth in honor of some of his friends in England con-\\nnected with the English government.*\\nThe county of Hillsborough was organized the same year, with\\nthe county seat at Amherst. The town meeting in Hollis, held in\\nx\\\\ugust of that year, Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a3100, for a prison at Amherst,\\nprovided it should be built on the South side of the Souhegan\\nriver.\\nTwo of the Hrst Judges of the Court of Sessions for the county\\nwere Matthew Thornton, of Merrimack, and Samuel Hobart, of\\nIloUis. Benjamin Whiting, also of Ilollis, was the first high\\nSheriir, and Hobart the first county Treasurer and Register of\\nDeeds, his ofHce being kept in Hollis.\\nrilK PIXE TREE LAW, ITS UNPOPULARITY AXD TROUBLE IN\\nEXFORCIXG IT.\\nIt will be remembered by the careful reader of the town char-\\nter of Hollis that all IVkite Pi)ic Trees growing within the town\\nand fit for the I oyal navy were reserved to the King for that\\nuse. The same reservations of white pine trees for the like pur-\\npose were made in other New Hampshire town charters granted\\nby the royal governors. As early as 1722, the New Hampshire\\nGeneral Court passed an act making it a penal offence for any\\nperson to cut White Pine Trees of twelve inches in diameter and\\nover, a law that was continued in force till the Revolution. By this\\nlaw the fine for cutting such trees of 12 inches in diameter was \u00c2\u00a35,\\n12 to 18 inches in diameter, \u00c2\u00a310, from iS to 24 inches, \u00c2\u00a320,\\nexceeding 24 inches, \u00c2\u00a3^0, and all lumber made from trees unlaw-\\nfully cut was forfeited to the King.f\\nIt may \\\\yell be supposed that this law was not popular with the\\nNew Hampshire owners of saw mills, and farmers whose lands\\nabounded with those trees, which were quite as useful and needful\\nfor the dwelling-houses and meeting-houses of the inhabitants as\\nfor the King s navy. At the time Hillsborough County was\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Belknap, p. 344.\\nfCol. Laws, pp. 226, 229.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 PINE TREE RIOT AT WEARE. [iTT^-\\norganized, Gov. John Wentvvorth held the office of Surveyor oj\\nthe Ki?i^\\\\s ll^oods coupled with the iiuthority and duty of enforc-\\ning this hated law, and he had in different parts of the province his\\ndeputies to aid in its execution. It was among the duties of these\\ndebilities, at the expense of the land owner, to mark all of the\\nKi}ig s Pine Trees^ on land proposed to be cleared, before the\\nowner should begin his clearing. If lumber made from the\\nKing s trees, marked or unmarked, was found at saw-mills or else-\\nwhere, it was made the duty of the deputies to seize and sell it for\\nthe benefit of his Majesty s treasury-\\nPINE TREE RIOT IN WEARE.\\nIn the spring of 1773 an incident occurred in the town of Weare,\\nin the northerly part of Hillsborough county, that well illustrates\\nthe bitter and settled hostility of public sentiment to this odious\\nlaw. A citizen of that town of the name of jMitdgctt^ with others,\\nhad been charged In a deputy surveyor with unlawfulh cutting the\\nking s trees, the lumber made from which was then at one of the\\nsaw-mills in Weare. A complaint was made against the offender\\nand a warrant issued for his arrest, and put into the hands of Sherifl\\nWhiting for execution. The slieriti taking with him an assistant,\\nrepaired forthwith to Weare and made prisoner (jf the accused.\\nThe arrest being late in the afternoon, the prisoner suggested that if\\nthe officer would wait till the next morning he would furnish the\\nnecessar\\\\ bail for liis appearance to the next court. The sheriH\\nacquiesced in this suggestion, and he, with his assistants, went to a\\ntavern near bv to ])ass the night. I he coming of the sheritV, with\\nthe nature (jt his mission, to Weare. was very soon made known to\\nthe townsmen of the accused, wiio. to the number of twenty or\\nmore, met together, and during the night made their plans for bail\\nof a ditrerent sort from that understood by the sheriff the evening\\nbefore. Very earlv in the morning, while the sherifi was yet in\\nbed, he was roused from his slumbers by his prisoner who told him\\nthat his bail was \\\\vaiting at his door. Whiting complained at being\\nso early disturbed in Jiis slumbers. The ])roposc(l liail, however,\\nwitliout ^vaiting to listen t(j anv com})laints of tiiis kind, promptly\\nentered liis sleeping-ioom. each, lurnished with a tough, flexible\\nswitch, an implement better adapted for making his mark upon the\\nback of the sheriH than for writing the name of the bail at the\\nfoot of a bail bond. Without allowing their victim time to dress", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "177--] r lNK TREK RIOT AT WKARE. 1 23\\nhimself, one of the compam as is said, held him by his hands, and\\nanother by his feet, while the rest in turn proceeded to make their\\nmarks upon the naked back of the sherifl more to their own satis-\\nfaction than for his comfort or dcli jht. Having in this way, as they\\nsaid, squared and crossed out their pine tree accounts with the\\nprincipal, they afterwards settled substantially in like manner with\\nhis assistant. Having in this manner satisfied their accounts with\\nthese officials their horses were led to the door of the tavern, ready\\nsaddled and bridled, with their manes, tails and ears closely\\ncropped, and their owners invited to mount and leave. Being slow\\nto do so. thev were assisted upon their horses by some of the com-\\npany and in that plight rode awa\\\\- from Weare. followed by the\\nshouts and jeers of the rioters.\\nThe sheriff was not of a temper to overlook or forgive such gross\\nabuse and insults. He at once appealed to the colonels of the two\\nnearest regiments of militia, and with their aid called out the posse\\ncontitatus. who, armed with muskets, marched to Weare to arrest\\nthe offenders. The rioters for the time disappeared, but afterwards\\nsurrendered themselves, or were arrested, and eight of them were\\nindicted for assault and riot, at the. September Term of the Superior\\nCourt, 1773. At that term they were arraigned and all pleaded\\nthat they would not farther contend with our Lord the King but\\nwould submit to his Grace. Upon this plea the court fined them\\nthe very moderate sum of twenty shillings eacli with cost. This\\nvery slight punishment for such an outrage upon the high sherifl,\\nwhen executing the legal process of the court, would seem to indi-\\ncate that the symi: athies of the bench were quite as much with the\\nprisoners at the bar and popular sentiment, as with the sheriff and\\nthe Pine tree law. This law as it was enforced was more oppres-\\nsive and offensive to the people of those times than the .Stamp tax\\nand Tea tax, and there is little doubt that the attempted execution\\nof it contributed quite as much as eitlicr or both of those laws to\\nthe remarkable unanimity of the New Hampshire yeomanry in\\ntheir hostility to the British Government in the civil war that soon\\nfollowed.\\nCHARACTER OF GOVERNOR WENTWORTir.\\nNotwithstanding Governor Wentw^orth continued to hold this\\nodious office of Surveyor of the King s Woods, he was personally\\nverv popular with the people of New Hampshire till the out-break", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 ADDRESS TO GOV. JOHN WENTWORTH. [l772\u00c2\u00ab\\nof the war, when, still adhering to the cause of the King, he left\\nthe country. Mr. .Saliine, in his Biographies of the Tories of the\\nRevolution, says of him\\nThat his talents were of a high order, his judgment sound, and\\nhis views liberal. That he was a friend of learning, gave to\\nDartmouth College its Charter, did much to encourage Agriculture\\nand to promtjte the settlement of tlie province Zealously labored\\nto increase its importance, and at the last retired from his official\\ntrusts with a character uninipeached. and with the respect of his\\npolitical opponents.*\\nStill, in the face of this great popularity, Peter Livius, one of his\\ncouncil, having been disappointed in his ambition for office, became\\nhis bitter enemy, and in the summer of 1/7- iii ^lc complaint\\nagainst the governor to the home government, charging him, among\\nother things, with oppression in otfice and corrupt interference with\\nthe courts of justice.\\nCOMPr,IME.\\\\ TARV ADDRESS TO (k)VERNOR WENT W( )iirH.\\nIn reference to this attack upon Coveinor \\\\Vent\\\\\\\\()rth, the people\\nof Hollis, at their annual town meeting in 1773^ unanimously Noted\\na highly complimentan address to him, the most of which is copied\\nin the following extracts from the record oi the meeting:\\nA/ay il please voiir lixccllciicy\\nWe, the inhabitants of Holies, being assembled at our amuial\\ntown meeting, having been informed that Peter Li\\\\ius, Esq.. lias\\npresented a memorial to tlie Lords of Trade. wherein it is\\nsignified that vour Excellency, together with the Honorable Council,\\nhave obstructed the channels of Justice in this Province. c., c.\\nWe, the Inhabitants of Holies, being sensible of the many\\nobligations this county and Province are under to our Excellency,\\nfor the repeated and continued instances of oiu goodness to them\\nin all respects but more especiallv in }our unwearied endeav-\\nors that Justice might be didy and impartially administered\\nWe beg leave to assure your Excellency that we shall hold ourselves\\nin the greatest readiness to Iiear testimony against all such false\\naspersions of your Excellency s administiation. and think ourselves\\nin duty bound to give our \\\\(Mce publickly and we do it cheertully\\nand sincerely in favor of your Excellency s Administration\\n*Sabine, Vol. 2, 411.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "177--] FIRST IIIIAL lOH MIUDKK AI AM1IKR.ST. 1^5\\nand wo lVa\\\\ e no doubt that it lias been to the satisfaction of the\\npeople of this county and province We beg leave to add that\\nit is our earnest desire that the Divine Blessing may attend your\\nExcellency, and that you may be continuctl in the important place\\nyou now fill for many years to come.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Voted that Hon. Samuel Ilobarl and Col. John Hale, Esq..\\nwait on his Excellency with this address.\\nITHST JintOltS FROM lIOl.LIS.\\nThe names of the inst and onl\\\\- jurors from Hollis. to the courts\\nheld at Portsmouth, to be found in the records are underthe date of\\nJuly 24. 1769. when Ensign Stephen Ames was \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^chosen Grand\\nJuror and Noah Worcester. Petit Juror. The first Superior Court\\nfor Hillsborough Count} was held at Amherst in September, 1771-\\nThe Grand Jurors from Hollis for this court were Lt. Reuben Dow\\nand William Ncvins Petit Jurors. Capt. Joshua Wright and Dea,\\nStephen Jcwett.\\nriKST TmAI, FOR MIRDER AT AMHERST.\\nThe first trial for a capital crime in Hillsborough Countv was that\\nof Israel ilkins, Jun.. of Hollis, who was tried upon an indictment\\nfound against him by the Grand Jury in vSeptember, 1773. charging\\nhim with the murder of his father, Israel Wilkins, Sen., at Hollis.\\nNov 2, 1772. It appears from the proceedings and indictment that\\nthis homicide was tlie rcjsult of a sudden quarrel, in which the de-\\nceased was mortally wounded, by a blow upon the head with a\\ncertain billet of wood in the hand of the defendant of the value 3d.\\nthereby giving the said deceased upon his left temple, a mortal wound,\\nof the length of three inches and the depth of one inch, of which\\nmortal wound the said deceased, after languishing for the space of\\ntliree days, then and there died. So says the indictment.\\nThe jury upon the evidence found the defendant guilty of juan-\\nslaughtcr ow\\\\\\\\ that crime being at that time punishable with death,\\nthe same as premeditated murder. The record of the trial, after\\nreciting the arraignment and plea of the prisoner, the doings of the\\ncourt, and the verdict of the jury, concludes as follows: It being\\ndemanded of the said Israel Wilkins. Jun., Why sentence of Death\\nshould not be passed upon him. the said Wilkins prayed the bcncjit\\nof clergy, which was granted. Whereupon the prisoner, the said\\nWilkins, was burned with a hot iron in the form of the letter T. on", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "125 POPULATION. 77^-\\nthe brawny part ot the thumb of his left liaiul, and it is further con-\\nsidered that tlie said Wilkins forfeit all his Goods and Chattels t\\nthe King.\\nNot havino- space in this connection to speak of the n igin and\\nhistory of the ancient popish plea of the Benetit of Clergy. 1\\ntake lea\\\\ e to refer the reader, who is curious in such inc^uiries, t(\u00c2\u00bb\\nBlackstone s Commentaries on the Laws of England (vol. 4, p. 364.)\\nHe would most likely search in vain the New Hampshire court\\nrecords, as also those of any other American State, for any case in\\nwhich such a plea has been allowed for the last hundred years.\\nWithout further comment I leave the matter as I i]nd it to the curi-\\nosity of the bar. and for the benefit of the clergy of oiu times.\\nPOPL LATIOX BEFORE THE RE\\\\OLUTION\\nI do not find that an} census was taken of Hollis prior to 1767,\\nBefore that year the best approximation to the number of its inhab-\\nitants is to be found in the annual tax-lists. The number of names\\nin those lists in tiie years mentioned below as as follows\\nJ74 7.V 7fio A^ 755- 107. 17(0, 117. 1765, 131- 767. 161.\\nBy the Provincial census, taken in 1767. the population of the\\nold Dunstable towns was as below\\nDun.st;iMe, 520. Merrimack, 400. .Nottini;h:iin West, 583.\\nHolies, Sfx). Litchfield, 234. Mcinsnii, 29S.\\nAt that time Dunstable had four sla\\\\cs. Hollis and Nottingham\\nWest two each, Litchtield twelve, Merrimack three, Monson none.\\nIn 1775. in September of that year, a second census w^as taken\\nby the New Hampshire convention. The following statistics relat-\\ning to the old Dunstable towns are taken from that census\\nDunstable, whole pop., 705. Men in the aniiv. 40. Slaves, 7.\\nHollis, 1.255. w- 4-\\nLitchfield, 2S4. 13. 10.\\nMerrimack, 606. ig. i\\nNottingham West, 649. 22. 4.\\nTotal, vt* 154. 3S.\\nBefore the taking of that census, Hollis iiad lost eleven of her\\n.soldiers, of whom nine had been killed, and tAvo died of disease.\\nTHE SETTLEMENT OF PLVMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. A HOLLI.s\\nCOLONY.\\nThe war for the conquest of Canada ended in 1761. Many of\\nthe soldiers from Hollis wdio had been in that war, in their toilsome\\nmarches through the northern wilderness, had become acquainted", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "1765.] SKTTLKMENT AT PLYMOUTH. 12/\\nwitli the line country on the upper branches of the Connecticut and\\nMerrimack. They returned to tlicir homes with so favorable im-\\npressions of that part of New Hampshire, that in the fall of 1762.\\na party of eif^ht men from HoUis went to what is now Plymouth,\\nto explore the country with a view to settlement there. This ex-\\nploration, with their report of it, residtcd the next year in obtain-\\ning a charter of the town of Plymouth from Benning Wentworth,\\nthen Governor, dated July 16, 1763. Of about sixty jriantees\\nnamed in this charter, near two-thirds were Ilollis men. Emigra-\\ntion from Ilollis at once commenced, and within the next three\\nyears a large numlier of the former residents of Ilollis became set-\\ntlers in Plymouth, of whom many were afterwards known as in-\\nfluential and respected citizens of that town. Among them were\\nCol. David Ilobart, afterwards distinguished for his bravery and\\ngood conduct as the Colonel of a New Hampshire Regiment imder\\nGen. Stark at the battle of Bennington, and Col. David Webster,\\nwho commanded a Regiment of New Hampshire troops at the\\ntaking of Bin-goyne at Saratoga, and was aftei-vvards sherift of\\nGrafton County. Besides the foregoing, there were Dea. Francis\\nWorcester, for many years a deacon of the Hollis chiu ch and town\\ntreasurer, and afterwards a representative to the General Court from\\nPlymouth in the war of the Revolution also three Captains of\\ncompanies in the army, viz. Jotham Cumings, John Willoughby\\nand Amos Webster, the last of whom was killed at the battle at\\nSaratoga in the command of a company of infantry attached to Col.\\nMorgan s famous rifle corps.*\\n*New Hampshire Hist. Coll., Vol. 3, p. 374.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 EARLY SETTLERS OF HOLLIS. [l730tO 1 760.\\nC H A P T E R X 1\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF A PORTION OF THE EARLY SETTLERS\\nOF HOLLIS PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH WAR OF 1 754-\\nABBOT, CAPT. BENJAMIN\\nwas fi-oni Amli)vcr, Mass. His name was on the Hollis Tax\\nLists in 1750- I ^755 Lieutenant in Capt. Power s corn-\\npan} Col, l^lanchard s regiment, in the expedition to Crown Point,\\nand was again in the army in 1757. He was selectman in 1752,\\n53 and 54. 11 .s son Benjamin was a soldier in the Revolution.\\nDiedjaniiary5, 1776, ffit. 46.\\nADAMS, WILLIAM\\nwas in West Dunstable in 173S, and signed the petition for the\\ncharter of West Dunstable. Married INIary vSpears, Ma}- 29, 1744.\\nWas a town officer in 1746. His son William \\\\vas a soldier at Bim-\\nkcr Hill and Bennington. Died August 3. 17^7- ^^t. 39.\\nAMES. ENSIGN STEPHEN\\ncame from Groton, Mass. JNIarried Jane Robbins in Groton. in\\n1 731. Was in West Dunstable in 1739, selectman in 1747 and\\n1748, and was a soldier in the French war in 1757. Re2)resentati\\\\e\\nto the New Hampshire General Court, in 17/=;, 76 and 77. His\\nsons Jonathan and David were soldiers in the Revolution.\\nBALL, EBENEZER\\ncame from Concord. Mass. His name was on the Hollis Tax List\\nin 1749^ iiiifl he was a soldier in the French war in 17=5^, in the\\ncomjoany of Capt. Powers. His sons Ebenezer. Nathaniel, Wil-\\nliam and John were soldiers in the Revolution.\\nBAILEY, DANIEL\\nwas from Marlborough, Mass. Settled in the part of Hollis known\\nas Monson, al out the year 1754. Himself and three of his sons,\\nviz. Joel, Andrew and Daniel, Jun., were Revolutionary soldiers.\\nDied January 15. 1798, act. 69.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "1730 to 1760.] F.AFir. S SKTTLERS OF HOI.MS. I 29\\nIJAinoN, HKNKV\\nwas ill West Dunstable in 1738 and signed the petition for the char-\\nter. Was Pari sli Assessor in 1741 and Collector in 1743. Died\\nApril 20, 1760, a3t. 54.\\nBI.ANCIIARD, BENJAMIN\\nis supposed to have come from Dunstable, N. II. He was in West\\nDunstable, in 1743, and signed the call to Rev. Mr. Emerson.\\nMarried Kezia Hastings Dec. 31, 1744. Was tithing-man in 1747^\\nand selectman in 1750 and 1754.\\nULOon, KLNAIHAN\\nsupposed from Groton, Mass. His name is on the first tax list\\nfor West Dunstable, in 1740. Married Elizabeth Boynton in\\nGroton, in 1741. He was a soldier in the French war in i757 i ^l\\nselectman in i 773.\\nBLOOD, JOSIAIl\\nwas from Dracut, Mass. Was in West Dunstable in 173S and\\nsigned the petition for the charter was a soldier in the Revolution,\\nas was also his son Josiah. Jr.. and is suj^poscd to have died at Ti-\\nconderoga in September. 1776.\\nBLOOD. NATHANIEL\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2supposed from Groton. Mass. He was in West Dunstable in 173S\\nand signed the petition for the cliarter. and was a soldier in the\\nFrench war in 1758. Five of his sons, viz., Nathaniel. Francis,\\nDaniel, Timothy and Nathan, were soldiers in the Revolution, the\\nlast named of whom was killed at i3unkcr Hill.\\nBOVNTf)N, DEA. JOHN\\nsupposed from Newbury, Mass. Was in West Dunstable in 1743\\nparish clerk in 1744. Married Ruth Jcwett of Rowley in 1745.\\nChosen deacon in 1755, and selectman in 17^8. 1761. and 1762, etc.\\nHis sons John and Jacob were soldiers in the Revolution, the last\\nof whom was killed at Bunker Hill. Died Oct. 29, 17S7, xt. 67.\\nROVNTON, JR.. JOHN\\nsupposed also from Newbury. He was in West Dunstable in\\n1745. Married Lydia Jewett of Rowley, in May. 745- His sons,\\nIsaac and loel, were Revolutionarv soldiers.\\n(9)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 EARLY SETTLERS OK HOLLIS. [l7.SO to 1 760.\\nBOVXTON. JOSHUA\\nwas in West Dunstable in 174S town otHcer in 1747. Three\\nof his sons, viz., Joshua, |un.. Benjamin and Elias, were soldiers in\\nthe Revolution.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0BROWN, ENSKJN, JOSIAH\\ncame Irom Salem, Mass., and was in West Dunstable in 1.743.\\na town officer in 1747 iiUfl i74^- ensign in the French\\nWixr in 175S. Removed to Plymouth, N. H.. in 1764.\\nBKOWX, j(JJI\\\\\\nwas also from Salem, and was in West Dunstable in 1743 and\\nsigned the call to Rev. Mr. Emerson. Married Kezia Wheeler\\nOctober 9, 1744. Died May 6, 1776.\\nBURGE, EPJIKAIM\\nwas from Chelmsford, Mass. .Settled in HoUis about 1760. Was\\na soldier in Capt. Emerson s company in i777- oldest son\\nEphraim B., Jun., was for many vears a deacon of the Hollis\\nchurch, and his sons, Rev. Josiaii B. and Dr. Benjamin B., were\\ngraduates of Harvard College. (q. v.) Died July 3i, 17S4,\\n:pt. 46.\\nCONAXr. 1 OS I All\\nwas from Salem, Mass. Came to West Dunstable in 1744. Mar-\\nried Catharine Emerson, February, 1745. His two sons, Josiah,\\nJun., and Abel, were soldiers in the Revolution, and both deacons\\nof the Hollis church. Died December 14, 1756, ;et. 44.\\nCOLBUKX, LHtUr. KOBERT\\ncame from Billerica, Mass., was in West Dunstal)le in 1738, and\\nsigned the petition for the charter. Married Elizabeth vSniith in\\n1747. Settled in the part of Hollis known as Monson. His sons,\\nRobert, Benjamin and Nathan, were Revolutionary soldiers. Died\\nJuly 9, 1783. a?t. 66.\\nCl MINGS, ESq^.. SAMUEL\\nwas born in Groton, Mass., March 6, 1709; married Prudence\\nLawrence of Groton, July iS, 1732. Was in West Dunstable in\\n1 739 and signed the second petition tor the charter. He was the\\nfirst justice of the peace in Hollis and was chosen town clerlv\\nin twenty-two different years, between 1746 and 1770. He was", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "1^3^ to 1760.] KAIU.V SlCTTMir.S 01 IIOI.I.IS. I^I\\nsergeant in Capt. I oweis s coinpauN in the Freneli war in 1755-\\nTwo of liis sons. Saniutl aiul Tlionias. were lo\\\\aIists in the Revo-\\nhition, and Benjamin, his voungest sun. was a Continental sohlier.\\nDied January 18, 177.:. a-l. 62.\\nCl Ml.ViiS, JKRAIIMAKI,\\nwas a l)r ther oi .Samuel Ciuuings, and horn in Cjroton. Octolier 10.\\n1711. Married Hannah FarwcU in 1736; was in West Dunstable\\nin 1738, and signed the first petition for the cliarter. He was the\\nfather of Re\\\\ Henr\\\\ Cinnings, D. D.. the first minister of Bil-\\nlerica, and of Capt. Jotham Cumings, a soldier in the French w ar\\nof 1755- and an officer in the war of the Revolution. Died Octolier\\n25, 1747, ict. 36.\\nCUMINGS, DEA. WILLIAM\\nis supposed to have come from Groton. and was in West Dimstable\\nin 1744. and chosen Deacon of the Hollis cluuch in 1745. He was\\nensign in the French war in 17^^- in the company of Capt. Powers,\\nand all his three sons, Ebcnezer. W illiam and Philij). were soldiers\\nin the Revolution. Died vSeptember 9. 1758. ict. 46.\\nDANKOKTII, lONATlIAX\\ncame tVom Billerica. and was m West Dunstable in 1743. and signed\\nthe call to Rev. Mr. limerson. He was a grandson of the noted\\nMassachusetts siuveyor of the same name, and was a town officer iir\\n1746. Died March 3. 1747. ;et. 33.\\nDINSMOm:, THOMAS\\ncame from Bedford, Mass., was in W^cst Dunstable previous to 1736.\\nand was the third settler, and lived on the farm in Hollis now owned\\nby John Coburn on the road to Pepperell. Died December 10. 174S.\\nOKri;V, ZKOEKIAII\\nwas also trom Bedford, and by trade a blacksmith was in West\\nDunstable in 1743, and signed the call to Mr. Emerson. About the\\nyear 1765 he removed to Temple, N. H.\\nFARLKV, LIEUT. SAMIKL\\ncame from Bedford. Mass.. was in West Dunstable in i jyj- and was\\na petitioner for the charter. Married Hannah Brown October 7,\\n1744. His son Benjamin was a .soldier in the Revolution. Died\\nNovember 23. 1797. a-t. 79.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "IT,2 EAKLV SETTLERS OF IIOI.I.IS. [l730 to 1 760.\\nlAULKV. 1,1 EIT. r.EXJA.MIX\\nwas also from Ik-dtorcl. Was in West Dunstable in 1 73S and a\\n])etitioner tor the charter and was the tirst iini keeper in West Dun-\\nstable. He lived tirst on the tarni now owned by T. G. Worcester,\\nabout one-fourth of a mile south of the meeting-house. He was\\nparish assessor in 1740 and 1741. and selectman in 1746. Three of\\nhis sons. El)enezer. Christopher and Stephen, were Revolutionary\\nsoldiers. Died November 33, 1797- in his Soth vear.\\nFAIM.K^ JOSEPH\\ncame from 15illcrica. and was in West Dunstable in 1743. Killed\\nbv the fall of a tree. November 24. 1763. a t. 4().\\nii.Ac.c. i:i.K. \\\\zf:i;\\ncame from Concord. Mass.. and was the second settler in West\\nDunstable. lie li\\\\ed in the south-west pAV{ of the town, and during\\nthe P rench war of 1744 his house was tortilied as a guard house.\\nHe was parisii assessor in i74-- i John was a soldier in the\\nFrench war. i7S^- and his son lonas in that of the Re\\\\(4ution.\\nDied August 14. 17^7. ;i t. ^3.\\nilAl;l)^. i iii.\\\\i;as\\ncame to lloUisfrom Hradtord, Mass. Ilis name is lirst on thelloUis\\ntax lists in 17^2. lie was a soldier in the garrison at Poi tsmouth,\\nN. H.. in 1776. and his sons. I hineas. Thomas. Noah and [esse,\\nwere all sokliers in the army. Died March 7. KS13. a:;t. 86.\\nHARRIS. STEI IIEX\\nwas from Littleton. Mass.. and settled in what is now the north-\\npart of Hollis about 173s. He was a petitioner for the charter of\\nWest Dunstable in 173N. and first treasurer of A\\\\ est Dunstable in\\n[740. Died Se]:)tember 20. i77^- a t. 7^-\\nJEWETT, DEA. STEIMIEX\\nis sup]jose(.l to lia\\\\e come to Hollis from Ro\\\\\\\\le\\\\. Mass.. in 17SI1\\nand married Hannah (Farwell) Cumings. Axidow of Ensign Jcrah-\\nmael Cumings, in 17V-- He was chosen selectman in 1766. deacon\\nof the Hollis church in 1770. and a delegate to the Count\\\\ Con-\\ngress at Amherst in i774 and 1775. All of his three sons. Steph-\\nen, Jun.. Noah and Jonathan, were sokliers in the Revoluti(^n,\\nDiet! May 23. 1S03, ;rt. 75.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "1730 to 1760.] KARI.Y SKITLKHS IN IIOI.I.IS. 1^3\\nKKMl ZKIMBHABKI,\\nwas born in Groton. Mass., October 12. 1705. Married Abigail\\nLawrence, in Groton, November 23. 1737. N\\\\ :is in West Dunsta-\\nble in 1743. and a town officer in 174S.\\nM( DONAl.D. JAMES\\nalso came tVom (jroton and was in West l^unslalile in 1739. and a\\nsigner ot the seconil petition for the charter. lie was a town officer\\nin 174S and a soldier in 1777 in the company ot Capt. Goss. Died\\nApril I I i.Soi let. 83.\\nNK\\\\1NS. WILLIAM\\ni;ame from Xcwton, Mass.. and his name appears in the Hrst tax list\\nin West Dunstable in 1740. He was selectman in 1771 and 1^/2.\\nand moderator in 1773 and 1774. Five of his sons. viz.. illiam.\\nJoseph. Benjamin. John and Phineas. were Revolutionar\\\\ soldiers.\\nDied February 15. 17S5. let. 67.\\nm:\\\\ins. Dwin\\nwas from Bedford. Alass.. and was in West Dunstal)le in i 73S and\\nsigned the first petition for the charter. He was parish collector in\\n1741. Removed from Hollis to Plymouth among the first settlers\\nof Plymouth.\\nNOVKS. DEA. ENOCH\\ncame from Newbury, Mass. His name first appears on the Hollis\\ntax lists in i747- He was selectman in ij^i- and chosen deacon in\\n1755. His two sons, Enoch and Elijah, were soldiers in the Revo-\\nlution. Died Se])teniber 1796. ;et. 80.\\n1 All II. DKA. rilONfAS\\nwas from Groton. Married .\\\\.mia Gilson in 1741. in Groton. He\\nwas in West Dunstable in i743- and was chosen deacon in 1745.\\nHis sons. Thomas and Da\\\\ id. were soldiers in the Revolution.\\nDied May 1. 1754. a-t. 40.\\nrool.. W II.I.IAM\\nwas iVom Reading. Mass. Married Hannah XichoK. at Reading.\\nJune 19. 1751. and came to Hollis during the French war of 1754.\\nhis name being first found on the Hollis tax lists in 17^8. lie was\\nselectman in 1771. Dietl in H(dlis. October 27. 1795. a-t. 70. His\\noldest son. William W was a soldier in the Re\\\\(\u00c2\u00bblulion in 1 77^. and", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 KAUI.V SKTTLKliS IN HOLLIS. {_^7^0 to 1760,\\na^ain in 177^- James, the second son. settled in Maine, and be-\\ncame a successful merchant. His voungest son. Hon. Benjamin\\nPool, born January 17. 1771- settled in Ilollis. and was manv times\\nclioscn to important town offices. He was justice of the peace from\\nj8ioto 1822. and justice of the peace and cjuorum from 1S22 till his\\ntlecease. lie was also rej^resentativc to the New Hampshire\\nGeneral Court from 1804 to 1809. and wState senator in the years\\n1818. ic). 20 and 21. Beside these three sons. Mr. Pool had\\nele\\\\en daughters, ten of whom lived to adult age. and were all\\nmarried, and most of them became the mothers of large families,\\nlie died .\\\\pril 20. 1836. ;rt. 6=;.\\nPOWKKS. CAl T. I KriCIt\\n.\\\\a the first settler in Hollis. Was liorn in Littleton. Mass.. and\\nmarried Anna Keyes of Chelmsford in 1728. .Settled in West Dun-\\nstable in 1730. He was parish committee in 1740 and held many\\nother important parish anfl town offices. He was the first Captain\\not the West Dunstable militia, the commander of an expedition to\\nexplore the Coos country in 1754. and captain of the Hollis com-\\npany in the ex])edition to Crown P(jint in 17^^- Stephen. Whit-\\ncomb and Levi, three of his sons, were soldiers in the French war\\nin the same c(jmpany and four of them. viz.. vStephen. Francis.\\nXahum and Samson ^vere soldiers in the Re\\\\ oliition. Died August\\n22. 1757. ;et. 56.\\nPROCTOK. MOSES\\ncame trom Chelmsford. Mass. Was in West Dunstable in 1738.\\nand signed the first petition for the charter. Lie settled in the wx^st\\npart of the town on Proctor hill, \\\\vhich was named for him. His\\nname is found on the hrst West Dunstable tax list in 1740. and he\\nwas selectman in 1749. The life of ]\\\\fr. Proctor is said to have\\nbeen shortened by the bite of a rattlesnake, and he afterwards waged\\nso successful a war of extermination against those reptiles that no\\nrattlesnakes have been known in Hollis since his death. Died\\nMay 21. 1780. a-t. 73.\\nTAVLOK. ABRAHAM\\nwas born in Concord. Mass.. and came to West Dunstable pre\\\\ i-\\nously to 173S. and was agent of the inhabitants with Capt. Powers in\\nobtaining the charter. In 1740 he gave the land for the Hollis\\nmeeting-house, burial ground and commcMi. He was parish asses-\\nsor in 1740. 41. 42 and 43. Died June 3. 1743. it t. 36.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "l7;^Ot(\u00c2\u00bb 1760.] KAIU.^ SEiri.KKS IN MOLLIS. I3;\\nTEN\\\\\\\\, W II.I.IAM\\ncanic to Ilollis fnjin RdwIcv. ^liiss. His name iippears first t n the\\nHollis tax lists in 1747. He was selectman in 1769 and 1770.\\nHis son. Capt. William Tenny. was a soldier in the Revolution.\\nDied March 22. 1783. ict. 61.\\nWHEELER, PETEK\\ni said to have come from Salem, Mass.. and settled in the part of\\nHollis known as Monson. He was a petitioner for the charter of\\nWest Dunstable in 1738. and his name was on the first West Dun-\\nstable tax list in 1740. He is said to have been noted in his day for\\nhis exploits and success in hunting, especially of bears. He was a\\nsoldier in the French war in 1755. and his sons, Ebenezer and\\nLebbeus. were soldiers in the Revolution. Died March 28. 1772,\\nast. 67.\\nWILLOLGIIBV, JOHN\\ncame from Billerica. He was in West Dunstable in 1745 ind was a\\nsoldier in the French war. in the years 1755, i757- ^md i75^-\\nson, John W.. Jim., was a captain in the \\\\var of the Revolution in\\nthe regiment of Col. Webster. Died Februar\\\\ 2. 1793. a^t. 8v\\nW ORCESTER. REV. FRANCLS\\nwas born in Bradford, Mass.. June 7. 1698. Married Abigail\\nCarleton. of Rowley, in 1720. Was settled as a Congregational\\nminister in Sandwich, Mass., for ten years before coming to Hollis.\\nRemoved to Hollis in 1750. Afterwards preached as an evangelist\\nin New Hampshire, but was not again settled in the ministry. He\\nwas the author of a small volume of Meditations in verse, written\\nin his sixtieth year. Also of several moral and religious essays\\nreprinted in 1760, entitled A Bridle for Sinners and a Spur for\\nSaints. His oldest son was Dea. Francis Worcester. His second\\nson, Jesse, was a soldier in the French war, was taken prisoner,\\nand died at Montreal, in 1757. His youngest son was Capt. Noah\\nWorcester. Died October 14. 1783. a t. 85.\\nWORCESTER. DKA. K15ANCIS\\nwas the oldest son of Rev. Francis Worcester. Born at Bradford,\\nMarch 30, 1721. Married Hannah Boynton, of Newbury. Mass..\\nOctober 28, 1741. Came to W^est Dunstable in 1744. Was chosen\\ndeacon of the Hollis church in 1746. He was selectman in Hollis", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "r36\\nHOLLIS TAX LIST.\\n[\u00e2\u0080\u00a2775\\nsix years, moderator of the annual town meeting eleven years, and\\ntown treasurer twenty years, between 1746 and 1768. In 176S he\\nremoved to Plymouth, N. H., and was deacon of the church at Ply-\\nmouth representative to New Hampshire General Court in i777\\nand 1778, and State coinicillor in 1780. 1781 and 1783. Died Oc-\\ntober 19, 1800, ;et. 79.\\nWRIGHT, CAPT. JOSHUA\\ncame from VVoburn, Mass.. was in West Dunstable in i739- i^i^\\nsigned the second petition for the charter. He was selectman in\\n1749 and 1769. A soldier in the French war in 1760. and Captain\\nof the Hollis militia company, in i775i iii -l previously. His sons.\\nLemuel and Uriah, were soldiers in the Revolution. Died August\\n5. 1776. itt. 60.\\nIIOLI.IS TAX LISTS.\\nNAMES ON THE HOLLIS EAST SIDE AND --WESr SIDE rAX\\nLISTS IN JANUARY I, 1 775.\\nThe following lists, copied from the records, present all the\\nnames of the tax payers, January i, 1775. then on the Hollis tax\\nlists, with the amount of the province tax for 1774, assessed to each\\nin pounds, shillings and pence. This was the last tax collected in\\nHollis under the authority of the King. The names marked thus*\\nwill be found in the lists of the Hollis soldiers in the Revolution.\\nON THE EAST SIDE.\\nWd. EH^^abcth Abbot,\\nJeremiah Ames,\\nEns. Stephen Ames,\\n*jonathan Ames,\\nN.ithaniel Ball,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Nathaniel Ball, Jnn.,\\nWd. Abigail Barron,\\nPhineas Bennett,\\nJoshna Blancliard,\\n*Josiah Blood,\\n*Josiah Blood, Jan.,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Nathaniel Blood,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Francis Blood,\\nEbenezer Blood,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Nathan Blood,\\nCaleb Blood,\\nDca. John Boynton,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joshua Boynton,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Benjamin Boynton,\\n7\\n8\\n6\\n6\\n4\\n9\\n3\\n1 1\\nJohn Hoynton, Jnn.,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6William Brooks,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Brooks,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ephraim Burge,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Campbell,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Sam l Chamberlain.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6James Colbiirn,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Josiah Conant,\\nSam l Cumings, Esq.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Cumings,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Lt. Reuben Dow,\\nPeter Ends\\nLt. Amos Eastman,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Amos Eastman, Jnn\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Jonathan Eastman,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Christopher Farley.\\nLt. Sam l Farley,\\nBenjamin Farmer.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Minott Farmer,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "775-]\\nIK^M.IS TAX LISI\\n37\\n*D;ivicl Karnsworth,\\n*Ens. Jonas Flagg,\\nJames French,\\nJohn French,\\nJosiah French,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Timolliy French,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2John Goss,\\n*C )1. John Hale,\\n*Leinuel H;irdy,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Samuel Hill,\\n*IIon. Samuel Mobart,\\nShubael Ilobart,\\n*Farnietcr Honey,\\nKichard Hopkins,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ephraim How,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joseph How,\\nWd. Hannah Hunt,\\nJosiah Hunt,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ebenczer Jaquith,\\n*Thonias Jaqviith,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Jacob Jewett,\\nDea. Stephen Jewett,\\nDea. Nath l Jewett,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ebenezer Jewett,\\nEdward John,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Samuel Jewett,\\nZach h Kemp,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Israel Kinney,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nZach h I,awrence,\\nZach h Lawrence, Jun.\\nJoseph Lesley,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Jonas Lesley,\\n-Chris r Lovejoy,\\nDaniel Lovejoy,\\nDaniel Lovejoy, Jun.,\\nWid. Patience Martin,\\nEns. Daniel Merrill,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6James McConnor,\\nDea. Enoch Noves,\\ns.\\nd.\\n8\\n3\\nJames Nutting,\\n7\\nS\\nBenjamin Parker,\\n3\\ni\\nElea r Parker,\\n4\\ns\\nSam l Parker,\\n5\\n2\\nSam l Parker, Jun.,\\n3\\n*Ephraiin Pierce,\\n7\\n6\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Solomon Pierce,\\n4\\nz\\nBarzillai Pierce,\\n4\\n9\\nKichard Pierce,\\ni\\n3\\nSimon Pierce,\\n3\\nS\\nJona. Philbrick,\\n8\\n8\\nWd. Anna Powers,\\na\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Samson Powers,\\n2\\n8\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Stephen Powers,\\n2\\n3\\nWilliam Pool,\\n4\\n2\\nCyrus Proctor,\\nI\\n2\\nMoses Proctor,\\n4\\ns\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Moses Proctor, Jun.,\\n6\\n5\\nPhilip Proctor,\\n6\\n3\\nXehemiah Ranger,\\n7\\n5\\nWilliam Read,\\n8\\n5\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6James Rideout,\\nlO\\no\\nWilliam Searl,\\n4\\nEbenezer Shed,\\n2\\n6\\nAbel Shipley,\\n7\\nII\\nJoshua Simonds,\\nS\\n2\\nJacob Smith,\\n2\\n5\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joshua Smith,\\n14\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Isaac Stearns,\\n7\\nII\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Caleb Stiles,\\n3\\n6\\nEdward Taylor.\\nS\\n3\\nBenjamin Tenney\\n2\\n6\\nWilliam Tenney,\\n2\\n5\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6William Tenney, |un.,\\n6\\n3\\nDaniel Wheeler,\\ni\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ens. Noali Worcester,\\n1\\n6\\nCapt. Joshua Wright,\\nS\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Leniue! Wright,\\ni\\n3\\nTimothy Wyman,\\n7\\nS\\n2\\n9\\n6\\nS\\n3\\n9\\n4\\nS\\n6\\ns\\nII\\nI\\n6\\n2\\n3\\n6\\n2\\n4\\n3\\n2\\n3\\n4\\n9\\n2\\nII\\ny\\no\\n2\\nS\\n2\\n6\\n12\\n4\\nON THE WEST SIDE.\\nSamuel Abbot,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Atwell,\\nBenjamin Austin,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Daniel Bailey,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joel Bailey,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joseph Bailey,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Richard Bailey,\\nTimothy Bailey,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ebenezer Ball,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Eleazer Ball.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joshua Blanchard. Jun.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ebenezer Ball, Jr.,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Daniel Blood,\\n2\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Daniel Blood, Jun.,\\n7\\n3\\nEInathan Blood,\\n4\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Jonas Blood,\\n9\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Abel Brown,\\n3\\nJosepI: Brown,\\nlO\\nWilliam Brown,\\n6\\nEdward Carter,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Edward Carter, Jun.,\\n6\\nS\\n6\\nLt. Robert Colburn.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Robert Colburn, Jun.\\n3\\nWilliam Colburn,\\n2\\n1 1\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Conroy,\\n2\\n9\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Conroy. Jun..", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138\\nHOLLIS TAX LIST.\\n775-\\n*Sainuel Coiiroy,\\nTimothy Cook,\\n*Philip Cumings,\\nJonathan Danforth,\\n*Jacoh Danforth,\\n*Tliomas Emerson,\\n*Dan I Emerson, Jun.,\\nJoseph Estabrooks,\\n*CaIcb Farley,\\nEbenezer Farley,\\n*Ebenezer Farley, J uii\\n*Janies Fisk,\\nOliver Fletcher,\\nEphraim Frencli,\\n*Isaac French,\\n*Nehemiah Frencli,\\nNicholas French,\\n*\\\\Villiani Frencli,\\nJohn Goodhue,\\n*Samuel Goodhue,\\nSamuel Gridlev,\\nMoses Iladley,\\n*Aaron Hardy,\\n*Neheniiah Hardy,\\n*Phineas Hardy.\\n*Phineas Hardy, Jun.,\\nStephen Harris,\\nSamuel Hayden,\\n*John Hobart,\\nJonathan Hobart,\\n*jona. Hobart, Jun.,\\nJacob Jewett, Jr.,\\n*James Jewett,\\n*Edward Joiinson,\\n*Sanuiel Johnson,\\n*Daniel Kendiick,\\n*Abner Keyes,\\nAbra ni Lceniaii,\\n.Sam l Leenian,\\n*Sam l Leemaii, Jun..\\nIsrael Mead,\\n*James McDaniels,\\n*DanieI Mooar,\\n*Joseph Minott,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\n*\\\\Vin. Nevins, Jun.,\\n*Benj n Nevins,\\n*Joseph Nevins,\\nWhole number\\nmarked thus a.s\\ns.\\nd.\\nJ\\n3\\nBenj n Nurse,\\nJ\\n9\\nJosiah Parker,\\n8\\n*TIiomas Patch,\\nJohn Phelps,\\nS\\n1 1\\n*Nathan Phelps,\\n*John Philbrick,\\ns\\nThomas Powers,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\n3\\n*Thomas Pratt,\\n7\\nb\\n*Ezekiel Proctor,\\n6\\nBenj n Reed,\\n4\\n3\\n*Jacob Reed,\\n2,\\n5\\n^Jonathan Russ,\\ni\\n.S\\n*Benj n Saunderson,\\n2\\n5\\nRobert Seaver,\\n2.\\n3\\n*Jerem h Shattuck,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0z\\n9\\n*Wni. Shattuck,\\n,i\\n3\\nZach h Shattuck,\\n1 1\\n*Zach h Shattuck, Jun.\\n4\\n2\\nBenj n Simpson,\\n6\\n2\\nThomas Smith,\\n2\\n1 1\\n\\\\Vd. Mary Smith,\\n,5\\n2\\n*Joseph Stearns,\\n4\\nV\\nSam l Stearns, Jr.,\\nJ\\nh\\n[saac Stevens,\\n4\\n.5\\n*Isaac Stevens, Juu.,\\n^Jonathan Taylor,\\n4\\ns\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2*David Wallingford,\\nS\\nSolomon Wheat,\\n4\\n3\\n*Thomas Wheat,\\n6\\n3\\n*Thomas Wheat, Jun.,\\n2\\n3\\n*E;benezer Wheeler,\\n5\\nS\\n*Lebbeus Wheeler,\\nS\\n1 1\\n*Thaddeus Wheeler,\\n2\\ns\\nBenj n Whiting, Esq.,\\nJ\\nCapt. Leonard Whiting,\\n7\\n1 1\\n*Bray Wilkins,\\n3\\n9\\n*Jonas Willoughby,\\nJohn Willoughby,\\n_^\\n2\\nSam l Willoughbv,\\n2\\n_;\\n*Israel Wilkins,\\nI\\n5\\n*Ne!ieniiah Woods,\\n6\\n*Benj n Wright,\\n2\\n9\\nSam l Wriglit,\\n3\\n6\\n*Sam l Wright, jun.,\\nO\\n2\\n*Jesse Wyman,\\n4\\n1 1\\nTimo. W ym:ui, Jun.,\\n2\\n3\\n*Ebenezer Youngiiian,\\n9\\n*Nicholas Youngman,\\nof names on the above tax-li.sts, 239\\nhavint:^ l^een\\nin\\nthe army. 130.\\n2\\n6\\n6\\nS\\n4\\n11\\n7\\n2\\n2\\n3\\n3\\n9\\n4\\n2\\n3\\n2\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i\\n2\\n3\\n3\\n6\\n3\\nS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a02.\\n3\\n3\\n6\\nII\\n3\\n3\\n3\\ns\\n3\\n6\\n9\\n8\\n2\\n6\\n4\\n3\\n2\\nS\\n2\\ns\\n7\\n3\\n6\\n6\\n9\\n1 I\\n6\\n3\\n6\\n4\\n6\\n2\\n3\\n5\\n2\\n6\\n2\\n3\\n6\\n3\\n8\\nS\\n7\\n2\\n4\\n2\\n3\\n6\\n6\\n3\\n3\\n8\\n3\\ng\\nNumber", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE BH(:u\\\\M\\\\ oi iHK PkK\\\\ om tic)N. 139\\nC H A V T i: R XII.\\nTHE BEGINNING OK TMK ia:\\\\ OLITION. HOI, LIS TOWN MEETINGS.\\nPATRIOTIC UESOLl TIONS, HOLI.IS MILITIA. ALAKM LIST.\\nTHE COUNTY CONGRESS AT AMHERST. COMPANY OF MINUTE\\nMEN TO LEXINGTON AND CAMBRIDGE AI IML I9. OEEICERS AND\\nROLL OK THIS COMPANY. WAGES OI- 1 HE MEN.\\nWritten liistoiv as well as tradition, aiul the provincial and early\\nvState records, alike with the recortis of many of the older towns in\\nNew Hampshire, bear ample testimony to the unanimity, courage,\\nconstancy and sacrifices of the people of the then proyince in the\\ncause of our national independence. The town meeting; of those\\ntimes, the family gathering of a sturdy, giaye and thoughtful yeo-\\nmanry, was near of kin and the next door neighl)or to the family altar\\nand hearth-stone. It was an original New England invention the\\nrude, it may be, but fitting cradle of American Independence alike\\nthe admiration and despair of the friends of constitutional libert\\\\\\nthe world over.\\nStern rugged nurse, thy rigid lore\\nWith patience many a year she bore.\\nWhat sorrow was thou badst her know.\\nOne could hardly find or hope for a better or more perfect work-\\ning model of this novel political machinery than was to be met with\\nin the town meetings of Hollis from the year i775 to 1783- There\\nis abundant evidence that the like spirit and patriotism animated\\nmany of the other New Hampshire towns as were manifested in the\\ntown meetings and doings of the people of HoIIis. though it is be-\\nlieved that in but few of them were their revolutionary records and\\ndocuments, at the time, so carefully kept, and since then so well\\npreserved. In what I have to say of the doings of Hollis, in the\\nRevolution, it is not my wish or purpose to make any invidious com-\\nparison between those doings and what was done in the same cause\\nin the same vears bv other New Hampshire towns, but rather to", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "J4O WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. [^775\\npresent this sketch of Hollis as an ilhistration A the predoniinanee\\nof the public sentiment of the province. A6 idio disce omnes.\\nHollis (spelled Holies in the town charter as well as in all the\\nearly town records) was on the south line of the province, adjoining\\nPepperell, about fortv-fi^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0e miles northwest of Boston and twentv-\\nthree from Concord, Alass. Bv the census laken in Septembei\\n177!^, the whole number of its inhabitants was 12:;^. of whom 174\\nwere males between the ages of 16 and ^o. 71 males o\\\\er ^o, 60 of\\nits men then in the army, besides the rle\\\\ en wh(; had hei ore been\\nkilled in the seryice or died of sickness.* i here ere also in the\\ntown one hundred and thirty-one tire-arms, antl one hundred and\\neleyen pounds of powder, the property of private persons, but none\\nat that date in the town store, the ammunition ot the town lia\\\\ ing\\nbeen all exhausted the spring previous.\\nIn respect to what was done Ijv the town in the war that follov\\\\ ed.\\nthe coming evo/ts cast flieir sliadmss before in the resolutions\\nand doings of several town meetings held long before the iirst l)lood\\nwas shed at Lexington. The records of these tirst gatherings, and\\nof all other meetings of the town, foi the like purpose held till the\\nwar was ended, tell their o\\\\vn stor\\\\ in })laiu. blunt, terse Anglo\\nSaxon, and need no comment of mine to adtl force or point to their\\nmeaning, or to make them more intelligible. Where my limits\\nwill permit, it is my purpose to let them sj^tcak in tiuir own\\nlanguage.\\nIn the record of a special town meeting iieltl Xox ember 7. 1774.\\nmore than five months before the battle at Lexington, 1 c\\\\\\\\\\\\(\\\\ the tirst\\nrecorded allusion to the existing political troubles and forthcoming\\nconflict. This meeting was called to choose delegates for the town\\nto a County Congress (so-called) for Hillsborough Count\\\\ to be\\nheld the next day, (November 8,) at Amherst, this being the Iirst of\\nthree special Hollis town meetings called for the like purpose.\\nAfter having made choice of Dea. Stephen Jewett. Ensign\\nStephen Ames and Lieut. Reuben Do\\\\n to represent the town\\nat that Congress, the following preamble and resolution, with three\\nother resolutions of the like tenor, were adopted l)\\\\ tlie meeting:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Preamble. \\\\Ve, the iidiabitants of the town of Holies, having\\ntaken into our most serious consideration the precarious and most\\nalarming atiairs of our land at the present dav. ilo lirml\\\\ enter into\\nthe following resolutions:\\n*N. H. Hist. Coll.. V. I. p. 233.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "1775-] WAR Ol- TMK KKVOLl TION. I4I\\nist. That \\\\vc will at all times endeavor to maintain our lil)erl\\\\\\nand privilej^cs. both civil and sacred, even at the risque of our lives\\nand fortunes, and will not only disapprove, but wholly despise all\\nsuch persons as we have just and solid reasons to tliink even wish us\\nin anv measure to be deprived of them.\\nThis vear. (1774) it appears from the tax list, that the sum of\\n\u00c2\u00a327. i6s. 3d. was assessed upon the inhabitants for ammunition for\\nthe town, as a part of the annual tax.\\nThe next special town meeting was held December 30,1774 to\\nchoose delegates to a Provincial Congress at Exeter, called to advise\\nin respect to a Continental Congress. At this meeting, as show n\\nliy the record, tlie following votes were passed\\n1st. oted to send a tlelcgate to Exeter to meet the delegates of\\nthis province to consult on a Continental Congress, and John Hale.\\nEsq.. was chosen said delegate.\\nid. ()ted that we do cordially accede t(j the just statement of\\nthe rights and gric\\\\ances of the British colonies and the measiues\\nadopted and recommended by the Continental Congress for the res-\\ntoration and establishment of the former, and for the redress of the\\nlatter.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a23d. ote(i that Col. John Hale. Dea. Stephen Jewetl. Dea.\\nJohn Boynton. Ensign Stephen Ames. Dea. Enoch Noyes, Ensign\\nXoah Worcesfer. Daniel Kendrick. Jeremiah Ames, William\\n15rown and William Xevins or the major part of them, be a com-\\nmittee in behalf of the town to observe the conduct of all jiersons\\ntouching the association agreement.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a24th. oted to raise \u00c2\u00a316. 13s. Sd. as a donation to the poor of\\nBoston.\\nThere are still to be found among the revolutionary documents of\\nIlollis. three original rolls of militarv companies, all made in the\\nvear i775- The two oldest of these rolls bear date |anuar\\\\ 26.\\n1775. and the thirtl of them June 7. of the same year, ten davs be-\\nfore the battle of Bunker Hill. The heading of one of the two\\noldest rolls is -A List of. tin- Cotupaz/v nf Militio in Holies\\nunder t/ie comniai/J of Capt. ^foshna WrigJit^ made ya/n/ary\\nj6, rjys- Of this company, Reuben Dow was Lieutenant and\\nNoah Worcester. Ensign. There were also four Sergeants, viz.,\\nJohn Atwell, Jacob Jewett, Jun.. John Cumings and William\\nBrooks. Besides those officers, this roll contains the names of one\\nCorporal, one Drummer, one Filer, and -14. rank and tile 12\\\\ in", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "H-\\nWAK OF THE REVOLUTION. [l775\\nJill supposed to have been the names of all the able bodied men\\nin the town liable under the law to do military service.\\nThe caption of the second roll is the Alarm List made. Jan-\\nuary 26th, 177s- On this list are 100 names, and it is supposed to\\ninclude the names of all such able bodied men of the town as by\\nthe province law were exempt from military duty, either on ac-\\ncount of age or other cause specified in the law. The list contains\\nthe names of two millers, viz., Thomas Jaquith and Enoch Noyes\\nmillers then being excused from doing military duty. It also\\ncontained the names of twenty-seven persons who were designated\\nwith the title se/n or, indicating that each of the twenty-seven had a\\nson of the same name. For the purpose of exhibiting the character\\nof this roll as a curiosity of the times the first twenty-four names,\\ncopied from it in the order in which they stood upon the list, are\\npresented below with the several titles prefixed or appended to each\\nof them. Whether or not this order is intended to indica te the rel-\\native social rank and standing of these dignitaries is left to con-\\njectiu e.\\nCapt. Leonard Whiting, Ensign Daniel Merrill,\\nBenjamin Whiting, Esq., Ensign Jonas Flagg,\\nRichard Cutts Shannon, Esq.. Ensign Benjamin Parker,\\nSamuel Cumings, Esq., Rev. Daniel Emerson,\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun., Esq., Dea. Samuel Goodhue,\\nj^ieut. Benjamin F arlev, Dea. Nathaniel Jewett.\\nLt. Samuel F^arley, Rea. Enoch Noyes,\\nLt. David Farnsworth, Dea. John Boynton,\\nLt. Amos Eastman, Dea. Stei-hen Jewett,\\nLt. Robert Coldurn, William Cumings, Sch. Mastci-.\\nLt. Samuel Gkidley, John Hale, Physician,\\nEnsign Stephen Ames, Samuel Hosley, do.\\nThe title of the third of those rolls is as follows: 7V/c List of\\nt/ic present Mi/it/a Cavipany of Holies. Exchtsive of tJie Min-\\nute Men and all that have gone into the army June ye jth, J77J.\\nOf this Company Noah Worcester was Captain, Daniel Kendrick.\\nLieutenant, and Jacob Jewett, Ensign, and inclusive of these\\nofficers this roll contains \\\\22 names, 102 less than the militia com-\\npany roll made on the previous 26th of January.\\nIn the record of the annual town meeting of March 6, i775-\\nreference in any way as matle to the impending troubles, but on\\nthe 3d of April following, a special town meeting was summoned\\nto choose delegates to a second County Congress to be held at Am-\\niierst on the 5th of that month, and to see what method should be\\ntaken to raise monev for the Continental Congress at Philadelphia.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "1775] WAK TirK HKVOMJTION. 143\\nHaving made choice of Dea. Stephen Jewetl and Dea. Enoch\\nNoyes as delegates to that Congress, and voted such instructions\\nto them as the meeting thought prudent, it also Voted that all\\npersons who shall pay money by subscription to send fiozc to the\\nContinental Congress, shall have the same deducted out of their\\nProvince Rates.\\nThe next special town meeting was held April 23. 1775- upon\\nthe receipt of the following letter from Col. John Wentworth, writ-\\nten the day after the battle of Lexington, to the selectmen of Hollis,\\nin behalf of the New Hampshire Committee of Safctv. and which\\nforms a part of the record of the meeting\\nGcntleiuoi This moment melancholy intelligence has been\\nreceived of hostilities being commenced between the troops under\\nthe command of General Gage and our brethren of the Massachu-\\nsetts Bay. The importance of our exerting ourselves at this critical\\nmoment has caused the provincial committee to meet at Exeter, and\\nyou are requested instantly to choose and hasten forward a delegate\\nor delegates to join the committee and aid them in consulting\\nmeasures necessary for our safety.\\nJ. Wentworth.\\nIn behalf of the Committee of Safety.\\nProvince of T^ew Hampshire. Special town meeting. Aprij\\nHillsborough County, SS. J 23, 1775.\\nPursuant to the above notice and request, the inhabitants of the\\ntown of Holies being met, unanimously voted, that Samuel Hobart.\\nEsq., be and hereby is appointed to represent this town at Exeter,\\nwith other delegates, that are or shall be appointed by the several\\ntowns of this Province for the purpose above mentioned.\\nNoah Worcester, Town Clerk.\\nThe tollowing is a copy of the full record of a town meeting,\\nApril 28, 1775, called to raise soldiers for the army, nine days after\\nthe battle of Lexington\\nProvince of New Hampshire. 1 Special meeting April 28. i77S-\\nHillsborough County, vSS. I Col. John Hale. Moderator.\\nAt a meeting of the town of Holies called on a sudden emer-\\ngency in the day of our public distress.\\nI St. V^oted. that we will pay two commissionetl officers, four\\ntion-commissioned officers, and thirty-four rank and file, making in\\nthe whole forty good and able men to join the army in Cambridge.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 WAH OF THE REVOLUTIOX. [17\\nZ-^\\npaying said officers and men the same wages the Massachusetts men\\nreceive, and will also victual the same till such time as the resolu-\\ntion of the General Court or the Cong-ress of the Province of New\\nHampshire shall be known respecting the rai|iing of a standing\\narmy the ensuing summer.\\n3nd. Voted, that the selectmen provide necessaries for sundrx\\npoor families where the men are gone into the army till further\\norders, and the amoimt be deducted out of their wages.\\n3d. Voted, that what grain was raised for the poor of Boston\\nshall be one half sent to the army, and the other half to be dis-\\ntributed to the above families.\\nThe sequel of the doings of the town, both in the first and follow-\\ning years of the war, furnishes abundant evidence that tliis vote of\\nthe aSth of April ^v;ls not an empty boast, and that the patriotic\\npledges then made were amply and faithfully redeemed.\\n7^he extract presented below is copied from the proceedings of a\\ntown meeting. May ii. 1775. called to choose delegates to the Pro-\\n\\\\incial Congress at Exeter, to be holden May 17th.\\nVoted and chose Col. John Hale and Deacon Enocli Noyes\\nDelegates to the Provincial Congress to meet at Exeter on the 17th\\nof May inst. Also. Votetl and instructed our delegates to join the\\nother Governments in raising and ))aying their proportions in men\\nand monev in the defence of the Liberties of these Colonies.\\nNext l)elow is presented a copy in full of the record of the third\\ntown meeting, Mav 18. 1775, to appoint and instruct delegates to\\nthe third and last County Congress to be licld at Amherst, on the\\nfollowing :24th of May.\\nProvince of New Hampshire. 1 vSpeci l town meeting May 18, 1775,\\nHillsborough Coimtv. vSvS. Ensign Noah Worcester, moderator^\\nAt a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Holies, May the\\n1 8th. in the day of our public distress, occasioned by a letter from\\nMr. Daniel Campbell and Mr. Jonathan Martin, a connnittee for\\ncalling a C(mgress for this county, which Congress was called for\\nthe following purpose\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a21. To go into some measures for the better security of the inter-\\nnal policy of the comity to prevent declining into a state of nature.\\n2. To see if the Congress will appoint a committee of corres-\\npondence to wait on or join the Congress of Massachusetts Bay.\\n3. To enforce a strict adherence to the Association Agreement\\nof tiie Continentel Congress.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "1 775 MINUTE MKN ro CAMBRIDGE. I4\\nMr. William Ncvins, Mr. Jeremiah Ames and Lieut. Samuel\\nFarley, chosen delegates for the Congress which is to be holden at\\nAmherst on the 24th of May next. As to the article in the letter of\\nMessrs. Campbell and Martin respecting the sending a committee\\no the Massachusetts Congress,\\nVoted unanimously that as we have a Provincial Congress now\\nKitting, which will doubtless send to them therefore it appears to us\\nnf)t best for this county to take it upon them to send such a com-\\nmittee.\\nIt is very evident from the foregoing proceedings and vote that the\\npeople t)f H jllis were in no degree in sympathy with apart, at least,\\nof the supposed purposes of this County Congress. On the contrary\\nthey regarded some of the objects and doings of that Congress as\\niisurpatiiHis. and as tending to disunion. This view of the people of\\nthe town will more fully apj)car in an able and thoughtful memo-\\nrial of their Committee of Safet) (still preserved) and addressed to\\nthe County Congress in July of thaf year. A copy of this memorial\\nmay be found in the Xiw Hampshire Pr \u00c2\u00bbvincial Papers, vol.\\nVII. page 450.\\nIt is shown by the town records that the st) le Provhice of New\\nHampshire., was used in the margin of all warrants for town meet-\\nings till after the battle of Runker Hill, June 17, 1775. After that\\ndate, till July 4, 1776, the word Colony was used in those war-\\nrants, in the place of Province. After the Declaration of Independ-\\nnce the word State took the place of colony and province.\\nThe following is a copy of the record of the last Ilollis tow n\\nmeeting in 1775- ^md shows among other things how the right to\\nv jte of soldiers absent in the army was settled by our ancestors one\\nhundred years ago.\\nColony of New Hampshire. Special meeting, Dec. 12, 1775.\\nHillsborough County, SS. Col. John Hale, Moderator.\\nVoted and chose Ensign Stephen Ames a delegate to the Con-\\ngress or Assembly at Exeter for a year.\\nSoLDiKKs VoTKs. A dispute arose respecting some votes\\nwhich were brought in writing of persons gone into the army,\\nwhich being put to vote they were allowed as if tne men were\\npresent themselves.\\n(10)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 MINUTK MEN lO rAMBRlDOK. 775\\nTHE COMPANY OI- HOI, IMS MJTMUTE MKN FOK KKXINGTON ANI\\nCAMBKIDGK.\\nLate at ni^jlit nn the iSth of .Vpril the (ietachnient of British\\ntroops under comniaiul of Lt. Col. !-^in!t]i crossed over from Bos-\\nton common to East Cambridge on their march to Lexingtcni and\\nConcord. The distance from Hollis to Cambridge, by the roads\\nthen travelleil, was torty-two miles. The alarm of this expedition\\nwas at once spread through the country by mounted express. Ac-\\ncording to well established tradition the news of it was brought to\\nHollis about noon of the [9th, by Dea. John Boynton. who lived in\\nthe south part of the town, near the province line, and was one of the\\ncommittee of observation. Dea. Boynton came riding through the\\ntown at the top of in sliorse s speed, calling out to his townsmen, as\\nhe passed, the /\\\\con/ars arc coming and killiiTg mtr mcfi. Dea.\\nBoynton {as the tradition tells the story), riding at full speed, and\\nout of breath, announced his message at the door of Capt. Wor-\\ncester, another member of the same committee, living a little south\\nof the Hollis common, \\\\slio had just risen from his diimer, and was\\nthen standing at his looking glass with his face well lathered, and\\nin the act of shaving. Capt. Worcester, without stopping to finish\\nhis work, with his face still whitened for the razor, at once dropped\\nthat instrument, hurried to his stable, moimted his hor.se, and in\\nthat plight assisted in spreading the alarm. Other mounted mes-\\nsengers were soon despatched to the several parts oi the town to\\ncarry the news, and in the afternoon of the saiiie day ninety-two\\nminute men were rallied and met on the Hollis common, with\\ntheir muskets, each with his powder horn, and one pound ot\\n|)owder from the town s stock and twenty bullets.\\nA stor\\\\ is told in the same connection of five lirothers of the\\nname of Nevins, then li\\\\ ing in the nortli part of the toyvn, all of\\nwhom were afterwards in tlie army, which illustrates the spirit and\\npromptness with which these minute men met this alarm. Early in\\nthe afternoon of the 19th of April three of these brothers were at\\nwork with their crowbars in digging stone for a farm wall at a\\n.short distance from their home. At the coming in sight of the\\nmessenger, they had partially raised from its place a large flat stone\\nembedded in a fiirm roadway. -Seeing the messenger spurring\\ntowards them :it full speed, one of the brothers put a small boulder\\nunder the large stone to keep it in the position to which it had been\\nraised, and all stopped and listened to the message of the horseman.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab775-]\\nMINUTK MKN 1 C AM ItK I ix. I-..\\nH7\\nUpon liearint^ it, leaving the .stone as it was in the roacl\\\\sa\\\\, with\\nthe little boulder under it, they hastened to the house, and all three\\nof them, with their guns and equipments, hurried to the llollis\\ncommon to join their company. One of those brothers was after-\\nwards killed at Bunker Hill another, the spring following, lost his\\nlife in the service in New York. As a family memento of this inci-\\ndent, this large stone, with the small one supporting it, was per-\\nmitted to remain for more than seventy years afterward, in the same\\nposition in which the brothers had left it on the 19th of April.\\nHaving made choice, the same afternoon, of Reuben Dow as\\nCaptain, John (joss, first Lieutenant, and John Cumings, 2d Lieu-\\ntenant, this company on the evening of the [9th, or before day-\\nlight the next morning, was on its march from Hollis to Cambridge.\\nThe names of all the officers of the company, and also of the private\\nsoldiers, are presented in the list below, copied from an original\\ncompany roll, preserved by Capt. Dow, and now with the Hollis\\ndocuments, showing the date of enlistment, time of service, daily\\nwages of officers and privates, pay for travel from Hollis to Cam-\\nbridge, and back, and the amount of money paid to each of them\\nby the town. This document is entitled, A Muster KoU of Capt.\\nReuben Dow s Company of Minute Men who marched from Holies\\nthe 19th of April, 177^, and may be found in full, in the October\\nnumber of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.\\npp. 2S2, 283.\\nReuben Dow, Capt.,\\nJohn Goss, ist Lieut.,\\nJohn Cuinin ^s, 2d. Lieut..\\nNathan Blood, .Ser^.\\nJoshua Boynton,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nMinot Farmer,\\nSamson Powers, Corp l,\\nJames Mcintosh,\\nJames McConnor,\\nKphraim Blood,\\nDavid Farnsworth, drumnit\\nNoal) Worcester, Jr., Fifer,\\nBenjamin Abbot, Private.\\nDavid Ames,\\nJonathan Ames.\\nJohn Atwell,\\nEheiiezer Ball.\\nNathaniel Ball.\\nJob Bailey,\\nJoel Bailey,\\nJoseph Bailey.\\nRichard Bailey, Private.\\nDaniel Blood,\\nFrancis Flood,\\nJonas Blood.\\nBenj n Boynton,\\nKlias Boynton,\\nAbel Brown,\\nJohn Campbell,\\nJames Colburn,\\nNathan Colburn.\\nThomas Colburn,\\nSamuel Conroy,\\nBenj n Cuminjfs\\nJacob Danforth,\\nJames Dickey,\\nAmos Eastman,\\nJonathan Kastman,\\n-Benj n Farley,\\nKbenczcr Farley,\\nJames Fisk,\\nJosi.ah Fisk,\\nW illiam French,\\nEbcnczer (iilson. Private\\nManuel Grace.\\nAaron Hardy.\\nSamuel Hill,\\nSamuel Hoslcv,\\nEphraim How,\\nEbenezcr Jaquilh.\\nSamuel Jewe^,\\nEdward Johnson.\\nSam l Johnson,\\nThom. is Kemp,\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\bncr Keyes,\\nIsr.ael Kinney,\\nSamuel Leeman,\\nRandall McDaniels,\\nJoseph Minot,\\nBenjamin Nevins,\\nJoseph Nevins,\\nThomas Patch,\\nNathan Phelps,\\nJohn Philbrick,\\nEphraim Pierce,.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "$4^ MINUTE MEN TO CAMBRIDGE. [l775-\\nNahum Powers, Private. Amos Taylor, Private Bray Wilkins, Private,\\nThomas Pratt, Daniel Taylor, Israel Wilkins,\\nEzekiel Proctor. William Tenney, William Wood,\\nJacob Reed, David Walling^ford, Benjamin Wright,\\nJonathan Russ, Nathaniel Wheat, Benj. Wright, Jun.,\\nBenjamin Sanders, Thomas Whe.it, Uriah Wright,\\nRobert Seaver. Ebenezer Wheeler, Jesse Wyman,\\nJacob Spalding, Thaddeus Wheeler, Ebenezer Youngman, private.\\nIsaac Stearns. Lcbheus Wheeler,\\nThirty-nine of the privates of the company, after an absence of\\nfrom five to twelve day.s, returned to Hoilis. The remaining fifty-\\nthree, with but few if any exceptions, .stayed at Cambridge and\\nvohmteered in other companies to serve for eight months. Much\\nthe largest part of those who remained at Cambridge re-enlisted\\nfor eight months in a new company under Capt. Dow, of which\\nJohn Goss was al.so ist Lieutenant, and John Cumings, 2d Lieuten-\\nant. This company was afterwards mustered into the Massachu-\\nsetts regiment commanded by Col. William Prescott, the hero of\\nBunker Hill, who at the time lived near the north line of the ad-\\njoining town of Pepperell, a large part of his farm being in Hoilis.\\nThomas Colburn and Ebenezer Youngman, two of these minute\\nmen, enlisted in the company of Capt. Moor, of Groton, Mass., in\\nthe same regiment, and were both killed in the fight at Bunker Hill.\\n\\\\l Job Bailey, Ephraim How. and Samuel Leeman, three others of\\nthem, joined the company of Capt. Levi Spalding of Nottingham\\nWest, (now Hudson) in the New Hampshire regiment, that fought\\nat Bunker Hill under Col. Reed, and were all present in the battle.\\nSix others of them, viz., Joel Bailey, Richard Bailey, Nathan Col-\\nburn, Abner Keyes, David Wallingford, and Bray Wilkins, volun-\\nteered in the company of Capt. Archelaus Town, of Amherst,\\nNew Hampshire, afterwards mustered into the 27th Massachusetts\\nregiment, commanded by Col. Hutchinson. Of this company,\\nWallingford was 2d Lieutenant, and Wilkins, one of the Sergeants.\\nIt is shown by the original company roll of the Hoilis minute\\nmen, that the wages paid to the private soldiers of the company\\nwere one shilling and five pence per day, equal to about 24 cents in\\nfederal money. They were also paid one penny a mile each way\\nfor travel, making in all S4d. or 7s., the distance from Hoilis to\\nCambridge being 43 miles. The wages of the Captain were 4s.\\n6d., or about 75 cents per day; those of the ist Lieutenant, 2S.\\nlod. of the 2d Lieutenant, 2s. 6d. of the Sergeants, is. 8 3-4,\\nor some less than 30 cents per day. The full amount paid by the\\nown for the services of this company, as shown by this same roll,\\nwas \u00c2\u00a365. I 2s. 7d.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "1775-] MOLLIS MEN AT BUNKER HILL. I49\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\n1775 CONTINUED. HOLLIS COMPANY AT BUNKER HILL. ROI.I-r\\nAND DESCRIPTIVE LIST. CAPT. DOW s COMMISSION. BATTLE\\nOF BUNKER HILL. HOLLIS MEN KILLED AND WOUNDED. LOSS\\nOF EQUIPMENTS. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE REINFORCEMENTS.\\nCAPT. Worcester s company. number of hollis soldiers\\nIX 1775 AND their wages. MILITARY COATS. STORY OF A\\nPATRIOTIC HOLLIS WOMAN.\\nThe new company of Capt. Dow, enlisted at Cambridj^c. for\\neight months, including its officers, consisted of fifty-nine men, that\\nnumber making a full company under the law of Massachusetts\\nfor organizing the troops of that province. It is shown by an origi-\\nnal return roll of this company, dated October 6, 1775, presenting\\nthe names of the dead and wounded as well as of those then living,\\nnow in the office of the Secretary of vStatc. at Boston, that all the\\nmen were from Ilollis. This roll is preserved with the other com-\\npany rolls of the regiment of Col. Prescott. and it may be seen on\\ninspection of them that Capt. Dow s was the only company of the\\nregiment, in whicli all the officers and privates were from one and\\nthe same town.\\nThe names of the officers and privates of the company, as first\\norganized, are here presented, copied from an original roll pre-\\nserved in the family of Capt. Dow. Captain, Reuben Dow i si\\nLieutenant^ John Goss ZiS Lieutenant, John Cumings. Ser-\\ngeants^ ist, Nathan Blood: z Josliua Boynlon 3d. William\\nNevins 4tli, Minot Farmer. Corporals, ist, Samson Powers 2d,\\nJames Mcintosh 3d, James McConnor 4th, Ephraim Pierce.\\nLfrumtner, David Farnsworth. Fifer, Noah Worcester. Jun.\\n1 1UV.\\\\TES.\\nWilliam Adams, Jacob Boynton. Benjamin Cuniin^i,\\nDavid Ames, Abel Brown, Philip Cumings.\\nEbenczcr Ball, John Campbell, Peter Cumings.\\nFrancis Blood, Wilder Chamberluin. Evan Dow,\\nElias Boyoton, AbelConant, Caleb Eustman.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150\\nHOI. MS MEN AT BITNKER HILL.\\n[1775-\\nXehcmiah Pierce.\\nJohn Platts,\\nPeter Poor,\\nNalium Powers.\\nFrancis Powers,\\nJonathan Powers.\\nThomas Pn-itt,\\nEzckiel Proctor.\\nJacob Read,\\nJeremiali .Sliattuck.\\nJacob Spalding.\\nIsaac Stearns,\\nAmos Taylor,\\nDaniel Taylor,\\nMoses Thurston,\\nEbenezer Townsend\\nThomas Wheat,\\nLebbeus Wheeler,\\nWilliam Wood.\\nUriah AVrisrht.\\nWilliam Elliot.\\nJames F isk,\\nJosiah Fisk,\\nSamuel Hill.\\nIsaac Ilobart,\\nSamuel Hosley,\\nSamuel Jewett,\\nThomas Kemp,\\nIsrael Kinney,\\nPhincas Nevins,\\nNathaniel Patten,\\nFive members of the company, viz., the zd. Lieut., John Cuming.s\\nEbenezer Ball, Ephraim Blood, Jonathan Powers and Isaac Stearns,\\nwere soldiers in the last French and Indian war. l)cgun in the year\\n/754. and which resulted in the final conquest of Canada.\\nAn original descriptive roll of fifty of the non-commissioned\\nt)fficers and private soldiers of the company still exists, showing\\ntheir height, age and complexion. From this roll it appears that\\nJonathan Powers, who was of the age of sixty years, was the oldest,\\nand that Peter Cumings, a son of the zd Lieutenant, and but thir-\\nteen, was the youngest. The next youngest, was Noah Worcester,\\nJun., the fifer, who was sixteen the November previous. The four\\ntallest of the men were each six feet in height the shortest was the\\nboy, Peter Cumings, who was but i\\\\\\\\(i feet. Fourteen of the men\\nwere of dark complexion, the remaining thirty-six. light.\\nCOPV OF IHE DESCRIPTIVE ROLL.\\nWilliam Adams\\n.JO\\nLight,\\n5 ft-\\n5 in-\\nJ.ames McConnev\\n31\\nLight,\\nSft-\\n7 in.\\nEbenezer Ball\\n45\\nDark.\\n5 ft-\\n6 in.\\nJames Mclntosli\\ni^\\nSft-\\n6 in.\\nNathan Blood\\n28\\nLight,\\nft.\\nPhineas Nevius\\n17\\nsft.\\n6 in.\\nFrancis Blood\\n-7\\noft.\\nNathaniel Patten\\n4\\nDark,\\nsft.\\n6 in.\\nEpliraini Hlood\\n.W\\n5 ft.\\n11 in.\\nNehemiah Pierce\\n20\\nLia-ht,\\nsft-\\n7 in.\\nJacob Boyiiton\\n9\\nDark,\\nsft-\\n9 in.\\nJohn Platts\\n27\\nsft-\\n9 in.\\nElias Bnynton\\n20\\n.5 ft-\\n10 in.\\nPeter Poor\\n21\\n5 ft-\\nS in-\\nJoshua Boynton\\n30\\nLight,\\n5 ft-\\n6 in.\\nNahum Powers\\n35\\nDark,\\nsft-\\n9 in.\\nJohn Campbell\\n20\\nSft.\\nin.\\nFrancis Powers\\n33\\nLight,\\nsft-\\n6 in.\\nAbel Conant\\n19\\nSft.\\n6 in.\\nJonathan Powers\\n00\\nsft.\\n9 in.\\nPhilip Cumings\\n27\\n5 ft-\\n6 in.\\nSamson Powers\\n26\\nSft.\\n6 in.\\nBenjamin Cumings\\n9\\nS ft.\\n11 in.\\nThomas Pratt\\n35\\nsft-\\n10 in.\\nPeter Cumings\\n13\\nsft-\\nEzekiel Proctor\\n40\\nDark.\\nsft-\\n6 in.\\nEvan Dow\\n21\\n5 ft-\\n6 in.\\nJacob Read\\n4S\\nsft-\\nID in.\\nCaleb Eastman\\n22\\nDark,\\nsft-\\nS in.\\nJeremiah Sh.attuck\\n20\\nsft-\\nID in.\\nWilliam Elliot\\n30\\nLiglH,\\nSft.\\n7 in.\\nJacob Spalding\\n20\\nLight,\\nsft.\\n4 in.\\nMinot F armer\\n35\\nsft-\\n8iu.\\nIsaac Stearns\\n38\\nsft.\\n5 1-\\n8 in.\\nDavid Farnsworth\\n21\\n6 ft.\\nAmos Taj lor\\n27\\nsft.\\nJames Fisk\\n37\\nDark,\\n5 ft-\\nin.\\nMoses Thurston\\n48\\n.5 ft-\\n6 in.\\nJosiah Fisk\\n20\\nLight,\\n5 ft-\\nS\\nEbenezer Townsend\\n22\\nsft-\\n10 in.\\nSamuel Hill\\n21\\n6 ft.\\nThomas Wheat\\n24\\nDark,\\n5 ft-\\nS in.\\nIsaac Hobarl\\n19\\nSft.\\n6 in.\\nLebbeus Wheeler\\n23\\nLight,\\nSft.\\n6 in.\\nSamuel Hosley\\n23\\nSft-\\n7 in.\\nWilliam Wood\\n23\\nsft-\\n6 in.\\n.Samuel Jewett\\n9\\nDark,\\nsft-\\n6 in.\\nNoah Worcester, Jr.\\n16\\nsft-\\n10 in.\\nThomas Kemp\\n27\\nsft-\\n7 in.\\nUriah Wright\\n31\\nDaik,\\nsft-\\n6 in.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "1775 HOLI.IS MKN AT BUNKKl! IIII.I.. 151\\nBesides the fifty-nine eight months men in the company of Capt.\\nDow, Thomas Colburn, Samuel Conroy, Samuel Wright, and\\nEbcnezer Youngman, enlisted in the company of Capt. Moor, of\\nGroton, in the same regiment, and eight other Mollis soldiers, viz.,\\nAndrew Bailey, Job Bailey. Phineas Hardy, Thomas Hardy,\\nEphraim How, Samuel Leeman,Jun., Ephraim Rolfe, and Ephraim\\nSmith, enlisted in the company of Capt. Spalding, in the New\\nHampshire regiment under Col. Reed, and all of them were present\\nat the battle of Bunker Hill. Joel Bailey, Richard Bailey, Josiah\\nBruce, Nathan Colburn. Joseph French, ^Nehemiah French, Abner\\nKeyes, David Wallingford and Bray Wilkins. nine other HoUis\\nmen, enlisted for the like time in the company of Capt Towne of\\nAmherst, which, as appears from the company roll, still preserved,\\nafterwards joined the 27th Massachusetts regiment, which served at\\nthe siege of Boston under Col. Hutchinson. These several nuni\\nbers, added to the fifty-nine names in the company roll of Capt.\\nDow, make in all, eighty eight months soldiers who went from\\nHollis in the spring or early in the summer of i775-\\nThe original commission of Capt. Dow. dated May 19, i775\\nwith the autograph signature of Gen. Josepii Warren, president\\npro tem. of the Massachusetts Congress, who was killed at Bunker\\nHill about four weeks after, is now among the Hollis documents.\\nA copy of this commission is here presented.\\nTil K CoNHiKicss OF TifK Colon s ok MAssAcmrsK ris Bay.\\nTo Rkubev Dow, gentleman.\\nGreeting\\nWe reposing especial trust and confidence in your coinage and\\ngood conduct, do by these presents constitute and appoint you, the\\nsaid Reuben Dow, to be Captain in the company in the Regi-\\nment of foot commanded by William Pvescott, Esq.. Colonel,\\nraised by the Congress aforesaid for the defence of said colony.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Vou are. therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the\\nduty of a Captain in leading, ordering and exercising the said com\\npany in arms, both inferior oflicers and soldiers, and to keep them\\nin good order and discipline; and they are hereby commanded to\\nobey you as their Captain and you are, yourself, to observe and\\nfollow such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time\\nreceive from the General and commander in chief of the forces", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 HOLMS MEN AT BUNKKR HILL. 775\\nraised in the colony aforesaid, for the defence of the same, or any\\nother your superior officers according to military rules and discf-\\npline in war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.\\nBy order of tlie Congress,\\nJos. Warhkn, President P. T.\\nWatertown, the 19th of May, A. D.. 1775.\\nSam Freeman, Secretary P. T.\\nThe regiment of Col. Prescott, with other Massachusetts regi-\\nments, was stationed at Cambridge till the battle of Bunker Hill.\\nAbout nine o clock on the night of the i6th of June the companic;-;\\nof Captains Dow and Moor, with the regiment of Col. Prescott.\\nand detachments from twt) or three other regiments. b\\\\ orders of\\nthe Massachusetts Committee of Safety, with their arms, spades\\nand other intrenching tools, marched from Cambridge common to\\nCharlestown, and took possession of the heights upon which, the\\nnext day, was fought the battle of Bunker Hill. Col. Prescott was\\nat the head of the detachment, in a simple appropriate uniform,\\nwith a blue coat and three cornered hat. Two Sergeants carrying\\ndark lanterns were in front of him, and the intrenching tools in\\ncarts in the rear. The men had been ordered to take with them\\nin their knapsacks, one day s rations, but many of them neglected\\nto obey this order. After one or more halts, for consultation\\nof the officers, the detachment reached the hill to be fortified abt)ut\\nmidnight. Working with their spades and pickaxes the vs hole of\\nthe rest of the night and the next forenoon in the intense heat of\\n]une sun, without sleep and many of them suffering for the want\\nof food and drink, they threw uj) the redoubt, which their heroism\\nsoon made foreyer memorable. To inspire his men vyith coiu age\\nand confidence \\\\yhile busy with their intrenching tools, the gallant\\nPrescott, on the forenoon of the 17th, mounted the parapet of the\\nredouf)t, and continued to \\\\yalk leisurely around on the toj:) of it in\\nfull yieyy of the British .ships and troops, inspecting the works,\\ngiving directions to his officers and men, encouraging them by his\\nexample and approval, or amusing them by his humor. (ien.\\nGage, seeing through his spy glass, the tall, commanding form of\\nPrescott, asked of Willard, one of the Council, who he was?\\nWillard replied, He is my brother-in-law. VV ill he fight.\\nagain asked Gage. Yes, Sir; said Willard, -he is an obf\\nsoldier, and will fight to the last drop of blood in him.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "1 775-] HOLMS MEN AT BUNKER HIM-. 1 53\\nThe men, hungr}^^ and weary, having worked through the night\\nand till noon of the next day, without sleep, and many of them with-\\nout food or drink, some of their officers, in view of the impending\\nconflict, urged Col. Prescott to send a request to Gen. Ward, com-\\nmanding at Cambridge, that the men who had built the fort might\\nbe relieved and fresh troops might be sent over for its defence. Col.\\nPrescott fully understood the spirit and temper of his men many\\nof them were his neighbors, and he promptly said to tlie officers\\nmaking that request, that he would not consent to their relief.\\nThe men, said he, who have raised these woi ks will best\\ndefend them they have had the merit of the labor and should have\\nthe honor of victory, if attacked.\\nVery many histories of the battle of Bunker Hill have already\\nbeen written. It is not my purpose to add another, but simply to\\ntell, in few words, the share the town of Ilollis and HoUis soldiers\\nhad in it.\\nMOLLIS. ANO OTHER NEW HAMPSHIRE SOLDIERS IN COL. PRESCOTT s\\nREGIMENT.\\nBesides the company of Capt. Dow, and the four Ilollis soldiers\\nin the company of Capt. Moor, it is shown by the original return\\nrolls of Col. Prescott s regiment, now at Boston, that there were\\nfifty or more other New Hampshire soldiers in the same regiment,\\nmostly from towns in the vicinity of Hollis. Of these, eleven were\\nfrom Merrimack, eleven from Londonderry, seven from Raby (now\\nBrookline), others from Amherst, Mason, New Ipswich, and other\\ntowns, making in all between one hundred and ten and one hundred\\nand twenty New Hampshire men in that regiment. Yet, so far as\\nI am aware, no New Hampshire history of the battle of Bunker Hill\\nmakes any reference to the New Hampshire soldiers in the regiment\\nof Col. Prescott. It is said in Frothingham s Siege of Boston.\\npage 401, that not more than three hundred of Col. Prescott s\\nregiment marched with him to Charlestown on the night of the i6th\\nof June. If such was the fact, it is not improbable that one-fourth\\nof the three hundred were New Hampshire soldiers, and at least\\none-sixlli of them from Hollis.\\nCASUALITES.\\nJames Fisk and Jeremiah Shattuck, two of Capt. Dow s company,\\ndied of sickness, at Cambridge, on the 29th of May. Caleb\\nEastman was killed at Cambridge, two days after the battle, by the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "r54 CASUALTIES IN THE BATTLE. [l775-\\naccidental bursting of his gun. Nathan Blood, the ist Sergeant,\\nJacob Boynton, Isaac Hobart, Phineas Nevins, Peter Poor and\\nThomas Wheat, of Capt. Dow s company, and also Thomas\\nColburn and Ebenezer Youngman, two of the Hollis soldiers in\\nCapt. Moor s company, were killed in the battle, making eight in\\nall lost on the field, and a total loss of eleven. There were also six\\nof the Hollis company wounded in the battle, viz., Reuben Dow,\\nthe Captain, Ephraim Blood, Francis Blood, Francis Powers,\\nThomas Pratt and William Wood Dow and Wood, so severely\\nthat they were afterwards pensioners for life. The nvmiber of icilled\\nn Col. Prescott s regiment, (according to Frothingham, page 193,)\\nwas forty-two wounded, twenty-eight. Of the killed in that regi-\\nment, the loss of Hollis was nearly one-fifth, and more than that\\nproportion of the w ounded.\\nFrom a letter written by Col. Stark, to Matthew Thornton, two\\ndays after the battle, it appears that the loss of his own regiment in\\nkilled and missing was fifteen, that of the regiment of Col. Reed,\\nbut tour, making nineteen in all.* From tlie above statements, it\\nappears that the loss of Hollis, in killed, was fully equal to two-\\niifths of the killed and missing in the Iwo Ne\\\\\\\\ Hampshire regi-\\nments, and greater, as is belie\\\\ ed, than that of any other town in\\nNew Hampshire or Massachusetts. It is shown by the return rolls\\nat Boston, that the town of Pep])erell lost six in killed, which is\\nbelieved to be the next largest loss of a single town. Of the Hollis\\nmen, above named, who had died of disease or been killed, Fisk,\\nShattuck. J31ood and Wheat \\\\vcre married and heads of families.\\nBoynton. Eastman, Hobart. Yoimgman, Nevins and Poor, were\\nyoung, unmarried men. the oldest supposed to i)e 22, and the\\nyoungest but 17.\\nLOSS 01. iC(}Uii*MKNr.s. icix;.. IN 1111 j .Arri,!.;.\\nIt is shown l)y the rolls of Capt. Dow s comjjany, that liis uneii\\nfnrjiished all their own ccjuipmenls. and also their clothes, as did\\nthe soldiers generally, the tirst year of the war. The following\\nstatement, to which are appended the names of twenty-eight mem-\\nbers of the company, pi esent at tlic battle, not including the\\ncommissioned officers, or the killed, exhibits the articles lost by each\\nof them, with their estimated value.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6New Hampshire Hist. Coll., Vol. 2, p. 145.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "1 775-] OSS OF EqyiPMENTS. 155\\nCambridge, Dec. 22, i775-\\nThis ma) certify that we the subscribers in Capt. Reuben\\nDovv s company, in Col. William Prescott s regiment, in the Conti-\\nnental army, that we lost the following articles, in the late engage-\\nment on Bunker Hill on the 17th of June last.\\nWilliam Adams i knapsack, is., value \u00c2\u00a3o is- d.\\nDavid Ames, i knapsack is. 4d. i tuinpline is. 3d., 26\\nEphraim Blood, i knapsack is. Sd. i tumpline is. 4d. i gun \u00c2\u00a33. 14s., 2 17\\nFrancis Blood, i knapsack is. 4d. 1 tumpline is. 2d., 26\\nElias Boynton, i gun \u00c2\u00a32, 3S., 22\\nAbel Brown, i tumpline is. 2., i gun iSs., 1 cartridge box 4s., 232\\nWilder Chamberlain, i knapsack is 4d., 4\\nAbel Conant, i knapsack is. 8d., i tumpline is. 4d.,\\nBenjamin Cumings, i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. 4d.,\\nMinot Farmer, i knapsack is. 4d., i tumpline is 4d., i sword los.,\\nDavid Farnsworth, i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. 2d.,\\nJosiali Fisk, i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. sd., i cartridge box 4s. Sd.\\nSamuel Hill, i knapsack is. 4d., 1 tumpline is. Sd.,\\nSamuel Jewett, i knapsack is. 8d., i tumpline is. 2 d.,\\nIsrael Kinney, i knapsack is. 4d., i tumpline is. 2d.,\\nJames McConnor, i knapsack, is. 4d., i tumpline, is. 2d. i gun \u00c2\u00a33, 2s. 1 hat 12s\\nJames Mcintosh, 1 knapsack i s. Sd., i tumpline is. 4d., i jacket Ss,\\nWilliam Nevins, 1 knapsack is. Sd., 1 tumpline is. 4d., i jacket \u00c2\u00a31, 4s.,\\nNathaniel Patten, 1 knapsack is 4d., i tumpline is 3d., 1 jacket i6s.,\\nNehemiah Pierce, i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. 4d., i hat iSs.,\\nKr..ncis Powers, 1 gun \u00c2\u00a33, 14s., i bayonet 6s.,\\nNalium Powers, i knaps k is. 4d., 1 tuinp e is, 3d., hat 3s., jacket Ss., bayonet 6s\\nThomas Pratt, i knapsack is. 4d., i tumpline is. 3d., i gun \u00c2\u00a31, 16s.,\\nIsaac Stearns, 1 knapsack is. 4d., i gun \u00c2\u00a32, 14s.,\\nLebbeus Wheeler, i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. 2d., 1 hat 6s..\\nNoah Worcester, Jun., i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. 3d., o\\nWilliam Wood, i knapsack is. Sd., i tumpline is. 2d., 1 gun \u00c2\u00a32, Ss.. 2 10 10\\nUriah Wright, i knapsack is. Sd., 1 tumpline is. 3d., 211\\nIt appears from the above certificate, that twenty-five of these\\nmen lost their knapsacks, twenty-three their tumplines,* eight their\\nguns, three their cartridge boxes, two their bayonets, and one his\\nsword; five of them their short coats or Jackets, and three\\ntheir hats.\\nHow many of Capt. Dow s company, besides the killed and com-\\nmissioned officers, were present in the battle and lost no part of\\ntheir equipments, cannot now be kno^vn doubtless some, and it\\nmay be most of them.\\nThe following copy of an original certificate in the hand writing\\nof Capt. Dow, and preserved by him, with other papers relating to\\nhis company, shows the loss of equipments of the six men belonging\\nto it, killed in the battle.\\n*A Tump-line was a strap to be placed across the forehead, to assist a man in carrying a pack\\non his back. Worcester s Quarto Dictionary.\\n3\\ns\\n2\\n10\\n7\\n8\\ni\\n2\\n10\\n2\\n6\\n16\\n6\\n3\\n7\\niS\\n1\\n6\\n10\\n6\\n18\\n6\\n15\\n4\\n8\\n10", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 LOSS OF EQUIPMENTS. 775\\nCambridge, Dec. 22. 1775.\\nNathan Blood, Isaac Hobart. Jacob Boynton.\\nThomas Wheat, Peter Poor, Phhieas Nevins.\\nThe men whose names are above written belonged to Capt-\\nDow s company, and Col. William Prescott s regiment and were all\\nkilled in the battle of Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June last, and\\nwere furnished each of them with a good gun, judged to be worth\\nEight Dollars apiece also were furnished with other materials, viz.\\nCartridge Boxes, Knapsacks and Tump-lines and were well\\nclothed for soldiers Also had each of them a good blanket.\\nNathan Blood had a good Hanger.\\nIt appears that the eight Hollis men in Capt. Spalding s company,\\nin the New Hampshire regiment of Col. Reed, were all present in\\nthe battle, and that each of them lost portions of his clothing or\\nequipments, as is shown from the returns of losses made after the\\nbattle, now to be found in the New Hampshire Provincial Pa-\\npers, Volume 6, page S92. These losses with their appraised\\nvalue were as follows\\nAndrew Bailey, i coat, i sliirt, trousers, stocking;,, value, \u00c2\u00a3i. 6s. SJ\\nJob Bailey, i cartiicijje box, knapsack, and shiit, 15\\nPhineas Hardy, 1 blanket, coat, shirt, breeches, 1 iz\\nThomiLS Hardy, i blanket, coat, jacket, stockings, 2 6 S\\nEphraim How, i gun, breeches and shirt, 151\\nSamuel Leeman, 3 coats and i bl.onket, j 3 1\\nEphraim Rolfe, i grun, blanket, shirt, stockings, 3 9 4\\nEphraim Smith, 1 knapsack, shirt, stockings, n 4\\nAt this late day it is difficult to ascertain all the reasons that may\\nhave induced the company of Capt. Dow to join the Massachusetts\\nregiment of Col. Prescott. But the following well established facts\\nundoubtedly had much influence. Col. Prescott at the time lived\\nupon his farm on the north side of Pepperell. adjoining Hollis,\\n(still the country seat of his descendants) a large pari of the farm\\nthen being in Hollis. Capt. Dow and Lieut. Goss lived in the\\nsouth part of Hollis, and were the neighbors and friends of Col.\\nPrescott. A very large part of the early settlers of Hollis were\\nfrom Billerica, Chelmsford, Groton and Pepperell and other towns\\nin Middlesex county in which most of the companies in Col.\\nPrescott s regiment were enlisted. It may be added to these reasons,\\nthat Col. John Hale, one of the leading friends of the Revolution,\\nin Hollis, was a brother-in-law of Col. Prescott. he having married\\nAbigail Hale, a sister of Col. Hale.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "775-] HAMPSHIRE REINFORCEMENTS. I57\\nTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE REINFORCEMENTS IN DECEMBER, 1775-\\nThe time of service of the men enlisted for eight months expired\\nin December. On the 30th of November an express was sent by\\nGen. Sullivan, then in command of the Continental troops at Win-\\nter Hill, near Boston, to the New Hampshire Committee of Safety,\\ninforming them that the Connecticut regiments had refused to\\nremain longer in the service, and urging for reinforcements from\\nNew Hampshire to supply their places.\\nLET! ER OF GEN. SUKI.IVAN TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMITTKK\\nOF SAFETY,\\nWixNTER Hill, Nov. 30, 1775.\\nSirs: Gen. Washington has sent to New Hampshire for thirty-\\njne companies to take possession of and defend our lines in room\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the Connecticut forces who most scandalously refuse to tarry till\\nthe 1st of January. I must therefore intreat your utmost exertions\\nto forward the raising those companies, lest the enemy should take\\nadvantage of their absence and force our lines. As the Connecticut\\nforces will at all events leave us at or before the loth of next month,\\npray call upon every true friend of his country to assist with heart\\nand hand in sending forward these companies as soon as possible.\\nSirs, I am in extreme haste your Obt. Serv t,\\nJohn Sullivan.\\nTo the Committee of Safety at Exeter.\\nIn answer to this call, New Hampshire, with patriotic and char-\\nacteristic promptness, sent to Cambridge 31 companies of 63 each,\\njf the New Hampshire Minute Men, numbering in ail 2000, or\\nmore. These troops continued in the service, till the middle of\\nMarch, 1776, when the British army evacuated Boston.\\nTwo-thirds or more of the 26th company of this force volun-\\nteered from Hollis. Of this company Noah Worcester was Cap-\\ntain, and Robert Seaver, 2d Lieutenant, both of Hollis, and Oba-\\nliah Parke:^ of Mason, ist Lieutenant.\\nNo roll of this company containing the names of all the men in\\nit is known now to exist. But there are now among the Hollis\\nRevolutionary papers two documents presenting the names of most\\nof the Hollis men who were in the service in the several years of the\\nyvar, with the amount of the wages and bounties paid to each of\\n*N. H. Prov. Papers, Vol. 7, p. 677.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "58\\nlAPT. VVOUCESrER S COMPANY.\\n[1775-\\nthem by the town. One of these documents entitled the Great\\nRetur7i was made out by the selectmen of the town about eight\\nyears after the war was ended, in obedience to a resolution of the\\nNew Hampshire General Court. The other was prepared by Capt,\\nJohn Goss, who was chosen by the town in the year i777: is a\\nmember of a committee appointed for that purpose, and who was\\nCaptain of the Hollis company at the battle of Bennington. These\\ndocuments together contain the names of forty-fovu Hollis soldiers.\\nThe name of the 2nd Lieutenant, Robert vSeaver, is not foimd on\\neither of them, though he was one of the company that marched\\nfrom Hollis to Lexington and Cambridge on the 19th of April, and\\nalso his name at the time and for many rears after was on the Hollis\\ntax lists as a resident tax payer.\\nIt appears from the Great Return that thirty-seven men of this\\ncompany were paid by the town \u00c2\u00a33 each, and two others \u00c2\u00a32, 5s.\\neach. The names of five others of the company, with the wages\\nsupposed to have been paid them, are found in the Return of\\nCapt. Goss, but not in the other document. The names of these\\nsoldiers, forty-five in all, are here presented\\nNoah Worcester, Cupt.\\nKobert .Scuvcr, ad Lieut.\\nSamuel Ambrose,\\nKleazer Hall,\\nDaniel Bailey,\\nJoshua Blanchard.\\nDaniel Hlooil,\\n\u00c2\u00bbJoel Boynton,\\nKliphalet Brown,\\nJ.imes Colburn,\\nRobert Colbuim,\\njosiah Conant,\\nJohn Conroy,\\nBenjamin Farley.\\nJo!^eph Farley,\\nStephen Farley,\\nIsaac French,\\nEbenezer Gilson.\\nNehemiah Hardy.\\nJonathan Hobart,.\\nJoshua Hobart,\\nParmeter Honey,\\nJoseph How,\\nHbenezer Jaquitli.\\nThomas Jaquith,.\\nJacob Jewett, Jun..\\nStephen Jewett,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nAsa Lovejoy,\\nJonathan Lovejoy,\\nEphraim Lund,\\nElijah Noyes,\\nDaniel Patch,\\nNatiian Phelps,\\nSolomon Pierce.\\nWm. W. Pool,\\nJohn Read,\\nJonathan Russ,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nZachariah Shattuck.\\nJacob Taylor,\\nJonathan Taylor,\\nWilliam Tenney,\\nNathaniel Wheat.\\nJames Wheeler.\\nNUMBER OF HOLUS SOLDIERS THK FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR.\\nMinute men who went to Cambridge in April, 92\\nEight months men In Capt. Dow s Company, 59 Capt.\\nMoor s, 4 Spalding s, 8 Towns, 9 in all, 80\\nIn Capt. Worcester s Company. 45\\nMaking in all, 217\\nThe names of 61 of the 92 minute men who went to Cambridge\\nin April will be found in the foregoing lists of men enlisted tor\\neight months, ^or in that of the Hollis men in Capt. Worcester s", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "I77 WAGES AND BOUNTIKS OF SOLDIERS IN 1 775- 59\\ncompany. Deducting the 6i from 217, there will remain a total of\\n156 different names of Hollis soldiers who were in the military ser-\\nvice of the country during a part of the first year of the war, a\\nnumber very nearly equal to one in eight of the whole population.\\nIt is shown by the Great Retm-n made by the selectmen above\\nrefen-ed to, that the town paid in the year 1775, for the wages or\\nbounties for these soldiers, the following sums\\nTo the eight months men at \u00c2\u00a312. per man, Ci res. s. d.\\nper month), 792. 00. 00.\\nTo the men in Capt. Worcester s company- 15. o. 00.\\nFor the 92 Minute men to Cambridge in April, 9-5. 07. 07.\\nMaking an aggegate of \u00c2\u00a31000. 17- 07.\\nWACiKS OK SOLDIERS IN 1775-\\nIn the common histories of the war of the Revolution, but very\\nlittle information is to be gleaned in regard to the wages paid to the\\nbrave men by whose valor and privations our national independence\\nwas won. Several of the original Hollis documents, still existing,\\nthrow much light upon this subject in respect to the pay of the\\nsoldiers who went from the town in 1775, and in tlie other years of\\nthe war. The pay roll of the first company of ninety-two minute\\nmen has already been adverted to, showing the daily wages paid to\\nboth the officers and privates of that company. It appears from a\\npay roll of the company of Capt. Dow, made in xA.ugust, 1775, after\\nthe men had been at Cambridge near four months, that the monthly\\nwages of the private .soldiers were \u00c2\u00a32, or $6.67, or about 24 cents a\\nday, reckoning twenty-eight days to the month. In addition to these\\nwages the men were credited wi*h id. a mile for travel. The\\nwages of the drummer, fifer and corporals appear to have been \u00c2\u00a32,\\n5s. per month those of the Sergeants \u00c2\u00a32, los.. the Second Lieut..\\n\u00c2\u00a33, the First Lieut., \u00c2\u00a34, and of the Captain, \u00c2\u00a36. or about $20.00\\nper month.\\nTHE MILITARY COAT VOTED AS A BOUNTY TO KIGHT MONTHS*\\nMEN.\\nFrom the following copy of an original certificate and receipt\\nnow in the office of the Secretary of State, at Boston, it is shown\\nthat the soldiers in Capt. Dow s company received a military coat,\\nvoted by the Massachusetts Congress in the spring of 1775. as a\\nbounty to men enlisted for eight months.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "l6o WAGES AND BOUNTIES OF SOLDIERS IN 1775- [*775-\\nCambridge, Nov. 20, 1775.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0To the Honorable Commtiiee of Supplies:\\nThis may certify that we who have hereunto subscribed our\\nnames do declare that we being under officers and soldiers enlisted\\nunder Captain Reuben Dow of Holies, in Col. William Prescott s\\nregiment, have received each of us a coat according to a vote of\\nthe late Congress held at Watertown, and provided by the com-\\nmittee of supplies, we say received of Lieutenant John Goss of said\\ncompany,\\nThe above certificate was signed by forty-seven members of the\\ncompany, being all the non-commissioned officers and privates,\\nexcept the nine of them who had been previously killed or died of\\nsickness. There was endorsed upon this certificate the receipt of\\nLieut. Goss, as follows\\nRec d of the committee on cloathing forty-seven coats for the\\nwithin mentioned soldiers as per Receipt on back, of this date.\\nNov. 20, 1775 John Goss, Lieut.\\nIt also appears from the three following certificates and vouchers\\nto be found in the same depository at Boston, that the heirs or\\nwidows of the nine deceased men received pay for these military\\nbounty coats.\\n1st Voucher. To the Honorable the Committee of Supplies of\\nMassachusetts Bay. Be pleased to pay or deliver to Capt. Reuben\\nDow the money due to the following men for their military coats,\\nviz., Sergt. Nathan Blood, Thomas Wheat, Isaac Hobart, Jacob\\nBoynton, Phineas Nevins, James Fisk and Caleb Eastman, in Capt.\\nReuben Dow s company, in Col. William Prescott s regiment,\\ndeceased, and this shall be your Receipt for the same, per us\\nWilliam Nkvins Enoch Noyes\\nJohn Boynton Abigaii, Wheat\\nAmos Eastman her\\nSmiBAEL IIOBAKT SaKAH X FiSK.\\nmark\\nWilliam Nevins, John Boynton, Amos Eastman and Shubael\\nHobart were respectively the fathers of Phineas Nevins, Jacob\\nBoynton, Caleb Eastman and Isaac Hobart Abigail W^heat and\\nSarah Fisk, the widows of Thomas Wheat and James Fisk, and\\nEnoch Noyes was the father-in-law of Sergt. Nathan Blood.\\n2d Voucher. We hereby certify that the widow Experience\\nShattuck is the proper person to receive the clothing belonging to", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "775 WAGES AND BOUNTIES OF SOLDIERS IN 1775- l6l\\nJeremiah Sluittuck who belonged to Capt. Reuben Dow s Company\\nin Col. Wm. Prescott s regiment and is dead.\\nNoah Worcestrr,\\nJacob Jewett,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nHolies, y i6th of March, 1776.\\nTo the Honorable Commltee of vSupplics of Massachusetts\\nBay. Gentlemen, Be pleased to pay to Capt. Reuben Dow, the\\nmoney due to Jeremiah Shattuck, deceased, who belonged to Capt.\\nReuben Dow s Company in Col. Wm. Prescott s regiment, and this\\norder shall be your discharge for the same, per me.\\nlior\\nExi EKiENCK X Shattuck.\\nmark.\\nHolies, March 14. 1776.\\n3d Voucher. We hereby certify that Capt. Reuben Dow is\\nthe only proper person to receive the clothing that is due to Peter\\nPoor, a transient person who enlisted in his Company, and last re-\\nsided in this Town and went away in debt. vSaid Poor was killed\\nin Bunker Hill fight.\\nNoah Worcester, Oliver Lawre.nce, k\\nStephen Ames, Jacob Jewett, I Selectmen^of\\nDaniel Kendrick. Holies.\\nHolies, Feb. 10. 1776.\\nSTORY OF A HOLLIS WOMAN. CAPTURE AM) SURRENDER OF A\\nHOLLIS TORY.\\nAmong the citizens of Hollis in 1775, were four known as tories,\\nwhose sympathies were strongly with the royal government.\\nThese four were Benjamin Whiting, the first sheriff of Hillsborough\\ncounty his brother, Capt. Leonard Whiting and Samuel and\\nThomas Cumings, two of the sons of Samuel Cumings, Sen., the\\nfirst town-clerk of Hollis. We copy the following notices of the\\ntwo Whitings from vSabine s Loyalists of the American Revolu-\\ntion, Vol. 3, p. 433.\\nWhitings Benja7ni?z^ vSherift of Plillsborough County, N. H.\\nHe was proscribed and banished and his property confiscated.\\nWhitings Leonard^ of Hollis, N. H. A noted Tory. In 1775,\\nWhiting was the bearer of despatches from Canada to the British\\nin Boston, and was arrested in Groton, Mass., under the following\\ncircumstances. After the departure of Col. Prescott s Regiment of\\nMinute Men, Mrs. David Wright, of Pepperell, Mrs. Job Shattuck,\\n(11)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "l6:2 CAITVmK OK A HOI, I, IS TOKY. ^^77^-\\nof Groton, and the neighboring^ women, collected at what is now\\nJewett s bridge, over the Nashua river, between Pepperell and\\nGroton, clothed in their absent husbands apparel, and armed with\\nmuskets, pitchforks, and such other weaj^ons as they could find, and\\nhaving elected Mrs. Wright their c(Mnmander. resolutely determined\\nthat no foe to freedom, foreign or domestic, should pass that bridge.\\nRumors were then rife that the Regidars were approaching, and\\nfrightful stories of slaughter flew rapidlv from place to place and\\nfrom house to house. vSoon there appeared Mr. Leonard Whiting\\n(the subject of this notice), on horseback, supposed to be treasona-\\nbly engaged in carrying intelligence to the enemy. Whiting, by\\ndirection of ISlrs. Wright in her assumed character of Sergeant of\\nthe Bridge Guard, was seized, taken from his horse, searched, and\\ndetained a prisoner. Despatches were found in his boots, which\\nwere sent to the Committee of vSafety, and WHiiting himself was\\ncommitted to the custody of the Committee of Observation of\\nGfoton.\\nThe maiden name of Mrs. David Wright was l*rudence Cum-\\nings, a sister of J amuel and Thomas Cumings. two of the HoUis\\ntories before mentioned, anil also of IJenjamin Cumings, a younger\\nbrother, who was in the company of Capt. Dow at Bunker Hill,\\nand was afterwards a soldier in the Continental army. It ajipears\\nfrom the llollis Records of Births and Marriages, that Prudence\\nCumings was 1)orn at the parish of West Dunstable, now Hollis,\\nNov. 26, 1740, and that she was married to l^axid Wright, of Pep-\\nperell, Dec. 28, 1761.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "1776.] WAR OF THK HENOLUTIOn. 163\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\n1776. MOLLIS SOLDIERS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR. THK\\nMOLLIS LOYALISTS OR TORIES.\\nCOMMITTEE OF SAFETY.\\nAt the annual March election of 1776 Capt. Reuben Dow,\\nCapt. Noah Worcester, Ensign Stephen Ames, Capt. Daniel Kcn-\\ndrick, Jacob Jewett, Oliver Lawrence, and Samuel Chamberlain,\\nwere chosen a Comjnittcc of Safety Noah Worcester, Stephen\\nAmes, Daniel Kendrick, Jacob Jewett, and Oliver Lawrence, Select-\\nmen and on the 26th of November, at a special election, Stephen\\nAmes was chosen Representative to the General Court for one year.\\nMOLLIS SOLDIERS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR.\\nIn the year 1776 the seat of the war was removed from the vicin-\\nity of Boston to Canada, and tlie States of New York and New\\nJersey. But a few of the company or regimental rolls of tiie troops\\nfurnished from New Hampshire the second 3 ear of the war are now\\nknow n to exist, or if in existence, some of the most interesting and\\nimportant of them, supposed to be in the office of the Secretary of\\nState at Washington, under the inhospitable rules of that office, are\\nnot accessible to the historical enquirer. 1 have examined the very\\nfew of them at Concord, but in these researches I have been\\nobliged to rely mainly upon the tow ii records and documents for\\nthe names, numbers, time of service and wages of the Hollis sol-\\ndiers for this year.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2It appears from these documents that four Hollis soldiers, viz,,\\nDavid Ames, Minot Farmer, David Patch and Eli Stiles, enlisted\\nin the detachment of troops, under Gen. Arnold, who with so\\nrjiuch privation and suffering, made their way, in the depth of\\nwinter, through the forests of Maine in 1775-6, by the way of Ken-\\n;T)ehec river, to Canada and Quebec. Minot Farmer, who had been", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "164 HOI.MS MEN IN THK CONTINENTAL AHMY. 776-\\na Serg eafit in Capt. Dovv s company at Bunker Hill, was taken\\nprisoner at the assault on (Quebec, and died in captivitx in the month\\nof May of this year.\\nIn 1776. and afterwards till near the end of the war. New Hamp-\\nshire I urnished three regiments or battalions of regular troops,\\nknoW H as the ist, 2d and 3d New Hampshire Continental regi-\\nments, commanded severally by Colonels Cilley. Hale and Seam-\\nmel. Dr. John Hale and his son-in-law. Dr. Jonathan Pool, both\\nof Hollis, were respectively Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon of the\\n1st New Hampsiiire regiment, from i// to 1780. Dr. Hale had\\npreviously been Colonel of the New Hampshire regiment of militia,\\nto which HoUis was attached, which t)fFice he resigned in the month\\n*)f June of the former year.\\nThe private soldiers in these Continental regiments were at first\\nenlisted for a single year. Besides the vSurgcon and ^Vssistant Sur-\\ngeon for the 1st regiment, Hollis t urnished tbr those regiments\\ntwentv-one men. a part of whom are said to ha\\\\-e enlisted in the\\nsixth comjxuiv of the ist regiment, commanded by Capt. John\\nHouse of Hanover, and a part in the iirst company of the 3d regi-\\nment under Capt. Isaac Frye of Wilton. Of this last company\\nSamuel Leeman, Jun., of Hollis, was Ensign. The history and\\ndoings of these gallant regiments are too well known to require or\\npermit special comment here. They were in the hard-fought bat-\\ntles of this year near New York city, and their bravery and good\\nconduct were conspicuous in the victories won at Trenton and\\nPrinceton in New [ersey. The wages of the men paid by the town\\nwere \u00c2\u00a324 for the year, or \u00c2\u00a32 each per month. Their names were\\nElias Boynlon, Thoma;- Hard} PCzra Proctor.\\nAbel Brown, Israel Kinney, John Read,\\nAbel Conant, Sam l Leeman, Jun., Stephen Richardson.\\nBenjamin Cuniings, William Nevins, Ephraim Rolfo,\\nStephen Conroy, Jonathan Parker, p^^phraiin Smith,\\nJacob Danforth, Thomas Pratt, Jacob Taylor,\\nW illiam Elliot, Ezekiel Proctor, Thomas Voungman.\\nWilliam Nevins is said to have been taken captive near New\\nYork city, and to have died while a prisoner, prol^ably in a British\\nprison ship. Ezra Proctor, as shown by the Hollis records, was\\ndrowned at New York on the 15th of May of this year.\\nHOLLIS MEN IN COL, WINGATE s REGIMENT.\\nAbout the middle of July of this year a regiment of New Hamp-\\nshire Volunteers was enlisted to re-enforce the army then in Can-\\nada and placed under the command of Col. Joshua Wingate of", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "1776.] HOLMS MKN IN OTHER REGIMENTS. 165\\nDover. In the third company of this regiment, of which Daniel\\nEmerson, Jan., of Ilollis was Captain, were twent3 -five Hollis sol-\\ndiers, supposed to have been in service about six months.\\nThe wages paid them by the town were \u00c2\u00a312 each. Inconse-\\nquence of the retreat of the Continental troops from Canada, this\\nregiment went no farther north than Ticonderoga. The names of\\nthese men were,\\nDavid Ames, Samuel Hill, Solomon Pierce,\\nJohn Ball, John How, Joseph Stearns,\\nDaniel Blood, Jun., Oliver Lawrence, Jnn., Isaac Stevens, Jvm.,\\nJosiah Blood, Elijah Noyes, Ebcnezer Townsend,\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun., Capt. Enoch Noyes, Jun., Jesse Worcester,\\nThomas Emerson, Tliomas Patch, Lemuel Wright,\\nRalph Emerson, Nathaniel Patten, John Youno;man,\\nBenjamin Farley, Jim., Sainnel Phelps, Nicholas Youngman.\\nJosiah Fisk,\\nIt appears from an inventory of the eqiiiptneiits and clothing of\\nJosiah Blood, one of these soldiers, now among the Hollis Docu-\\nments, dated at Mt. Independence, September 16. 1776, that he\\ndied in the army about that time.\\n.MEN IN COL. long s KEGIMENT.\\nEarly in August of this year, a small regimentof seven companies\\nwas organized by order of the New Hampshire Committee of\\nSafety, afterwards commanded by Col. Pierce Long, and stationed\\nat Newcastle, near Portsmouth. About the last of November, 1776,\\nthis regiment was ordered to tlie State of New ^Ork for the defence\\nof Ticonderoga. In the third company of this regiment, of which\\nTimothy Clements, of Hopkinton, was Captain, w ere t\\\\velve Ilollis\\nsoldiers, supposed to have served about a year, and weie paid by the\\ntown \u00c2\u00a312 each, and whose names were\\nEbenezcr Ball, David Krcncii. Is. iac Shattuck,\\nLarnard Cuniinj;s. Uichard Hopkins, Enoch Spauldint;.\\nCaleb Farley, Abner Keyes, Tiiomas Wheat,\\nChristoplier Farley, Stephen Powers, Samuel Worcester.\\nIsaac Shattuck, one of these soldiers, a son of Zachariah\\nShattuck. and a vomig, inunarried luan. died in ibis service.\\nMEN IN COI.. HALDWIN s RKGIMKNI\\nIn the month of Seplemlier. of this year, a regiment of New\\nHampshire troops was raised, commande*.! by Col. Nahum Baldwin,\\nof Amherst, to reinforce the Continental army, then at White\\nPlains, near New ork cit\\\\ In the second company of this", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "l66 I{OI,LIS SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS. [1776.\\nregiment of which William Reed was Captain, were twenty-one\\nHollis soldiers, who, with one exception, were paid by the town\\n\u00c2\u00a35 7^- c^ich, and supposed to have been in the service about three\\nmonths. It is shown by a roll of this conipany, now at Concord,\\nthat the men on enlisting were paid a bounty of \u00c2\u00a36 each, and\\nallowed a penny a mile for travel, and the same in lieu of a baggage\\nwagon. The names of these men were\\nDaniel Bailey, Jun., Stephen Dow, Asa Lovcjoy,\\nDaniel Blood, Isaac E rench, Ephraim Pierce,\\nTiniotliy Blood, /Stephen Goodhue, John Platts,\\nBenjamin Boynton, Noahjewett, Benjamin Sanderson,\\nJoel Boynton, Stephen Jewett, Jun., Joshua Smith,\\nEdward Carter, Thomas Kemp, William Tcnney,\\nNathan Colburn, Jonas Lesley, Ebenczer Wheeler.\\nMEN IN COL. GIL^rAN s REGIMENT.\\nIn the iiionth of Decemi)er of this year, another New Hampshire\\nregiment was enlisted to reinforce the army in New York, com-\\nmanded by Col, David Oilman. In the second company of this reg-\\niment, of which William ^Valker, of Dunstable, (now Nashua) was\\nCaptain, there were thirteen Hollis soldiers, as appears by the rolls\\nat Concord and Hollis documents, eight of whom were paid by the\\ntown \u00c2\u00a34 each, and are supposed to have been in the service for two\\nmonths. The names of these men are presented in the following\\nlist:\\nSamuel Chaniherlain, Jonathan Ilobart, David Sanderson,\\nWilliam Cumings, Samuel Johnson, William Shattuck,\\nAmos Eastman, Randall McDaniels. Benjamin Wright:,^\\nEbenezer Farley, James Rolfe, Jesse NVyman.\\nJohn Hale, Jun.,\\nIt is shown by the company roll at Concord, that the men were\\nallowed \u00c2\u00a33, each, being advanced pay for one month and \u00c2\u00a32 2S.\\neach for billeting or expenses to New York.\\nIt is also shown by the Great Return above referred to made\\nby the selectmen, that in 177^ Hollis soldiers sej ved in the\\ngarrison at Portsmouth, for about three months, (as is supposed)\\nthey having been paid by the town \u00c2\u00a34 los. each. The names of\\nthese men were John Atwell, Andrew Bailey, Phineas Hardy, and\\nPhineas Hardy, Jun.\\nOTHER HOLLIS SOLDIERS IN 1776 IN CAPT. GOSS S RETURN. i\\nIn. addition to the soldiers, for 1776, whose names appear in the\\nforegoing lists, I tind in the Return made by Captain Goss, the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "5776.] THE MOLLIS TOKIKS. 167\\nnames of twenty-five others who in his Return are crediteci\\nwith wages varying from \u00c2\u00a32 to \u00c2\u00a312, each, for services, as would\\nappear in another expedition to Ticonderoga under Capt. Emerson.\\nThe names of these men, with the amount credited to eacii of them,\\nappear in the list below.\\nN;ah.inicl IJall, \u00c2\u00a3o. Thomas Jaquilh, \u00c2\u00a32. Daniel Mooar, \u00c2\u00a3.5.\\nElnathau Blood, 3. Nathaniel Jcwett, 6. John Pl-elps, i2.\\nWilliam lirown, Jacob Jewetl, 6. Richard Pierce, 6.\\nEphraim Hurgc, 4. James Jewttt, 4. William Pool, 4.\\nDeacon Goodhue, 4. Stephen Jcwelt, 4. Edward Taylor, 3.\\nJohn Goodhue, U.y 4. Edward Johnson, 12. Solomon Wheat, 3.\\nLemuel Hardy, 6. Daniel Lovejoy, 3. Ensit;n Willoughby, 6.\\nJohn Ilobart, 3. Daniel Merrill, 4. Nehcmiali Woods, 4.\\nEbenezer Jaquith, 2.\\nFrom the foregoing lists it appears that 125 Ilollis men were in\\nthe army the whole or a part of the year 1776, a number nearly\\nequal to one in ten of the whole population. Tlie amount paid by\\nthe town in 1776, as wages and bounties, according to the Great\\nReturn, was \u00c2\u00a31018, 7s.\\nTHE HOLLIS TOIUES OK LOYALISTS.\\nAs has been, in another connection, already stated, there were in\\nIlollis, at the commencement of the war, four of its citizens, viz.,\\nBenj kmin and Leonard Whiting, and Samuel and Thomas Cumings,\\nwho were understood by their fellow townsmen to be loyalists or\\ntories and opposed to the independence of the colonies. To these\\nfour should probably be added Richard Cutts vShannon, a lawyer\\nfrom Portsmouth who had settled in Ilollis just before the\\nRevolution.\\nAbout the first of March, 1776, or it ma} be somewhat earlier,\\nthe four men first named were summoned for trial, upon a charge of\\nthe character referred to, before the Conmiittees of Safety of the towns\\nof Hollis, Dunstable, Merrimack and Litchfield. Upon the petition\\nof the accused, shortly after the first of jSlarch, the case was trans-\\nferred for hearing to the New Hampshire General Court then sitting\\nat Exeter. Capt. Reuben Dow. of Ilollis, as chairman of the\\nCommittees of Safety, appeared before the General Court and filed\\nhis complaint in their behalf with the evidence charging all the\\naccused as persons suspected of ])ciiig inimical to the Rights and\\nLiberties of the United Colonies. The accused appeared at the\\ntrial by their counsel and inade their defence, and at the final hear-\\ning on the 20th of June, following, it was decided that the testimony\\nwas not sufficient to sustain the complaint and all of them were", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "l68 THE MOLLIS TORIES. L ^77^\\ndischarged.* But events very soon proved that the suspicions and\\ncharges of the Committees of Safe t}) were well grounded.\\nIn the same month of June, as shown by tiie court records,\\nThomas Cumings was indicted before the Superior Court, and gave\\nbail for his appearance to the following September term of the\\nCourt to answer to the charge. In the meanwhile he left his family,\\nthe town and country, failed to appear, forfeited his bond and never\\nreturned. Some months later, Samuel Cumings and Benjamin\\nWhiting left the town and State, both leaving their families, and\\nremained absentees, and all the three died in exile. The names\\nof all of them, with those of seventy-three other New Hampshire\\ntories, were embraced in the Act of Banishment, passed by the\\nNew Hampshire General Court, in November, 177S the estates of\\nSamuel Cumings and Benjamin Whitiug were confiscated, all of\\nthem forbidden to return under the penalty of transportation, and in\\ncase of a second return, they were to suffer death. It is to be\\ninferred that Thomas Cumings and Wliiting both died within a\\nvery few years after leaving the country, Grace Whiting, the\\ndeserted wife of Sheriff Whiting, (as appears from the Hollis\\nrecords) having been married to Burpee Ames, of Hollis, May 28,\\n1782, and upon her dtfcease, which occurred shortly after this mar-\\nriage, Mr. Ames married for his second wife. Haimah Cumings,\\nthe deserted wife of Thomas Cumings.\\nCapt. Leonard Whiting did not leave the country, but ccMitinued\\nto reside in Hollis for many ^-ears after the way. Hut for a large\\nportion of the years i777 ^77^ imprisoned in the jail at\\nAmherst, with several other accused persons, ull under the charge\\nof being i)ii iical to tJie RigJits and Liberties of tlic United\\nCoiouies. It appears also that Richard Cutis Shannon, tiie Hollis\\nlawyer, at the time, for a part of the year 1777 imprisoned in\\nthe jail at Amherst, with Whiting and others under the like charge. J\\nYet it seems tliat the offence of Mr. Shannon, whate\\\\er it may have\\nbeen, was afterwards so far forgotten or forgiven by tlie people of\\nHollis, that in the year 1782 he was chosen Representative of the\\ntown to the General Court.\\n*Prov. P.-ipers, Vol. S, pp. 82, 106, 156.\\njN. H. Prov. Papers, Vol. S, p. 636.\\n|N. H. Prov. P:ipers, Vol. S, pp. (kji, 656.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "[777 WAK OF IHE KF.VOKUTION. 169\\nCHAP T E R X V\\n777- WAR OK THE REVOLUTION CONTINUED. COMMITTEE; OK\\nSAFETY FOR 1777- HOLLIS SOLDIERS THE THIRD YEAR OF\\nTHE WAR. PATRIOTIC AGREEMENT OF FORTY-EIGHT HOLLIS\\nMINUTE MEN. THE TICONDEROGA ALARM. COMPANY TO\\nBENNINGTON. DEPRECIATION OF CONTINENTAL PAPER MONEY.\\nHOLLIS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN L777-\\nFrom the 7\\\\nv?i Records. An. T. M. Marc// j, J77/.\\nVoted and chose for a Committee of Safety, this year, Capt. Noah\\nWorcester, Ensign Stephen Ames, Capt. Daniel Kendrick, Oliver\\nLawrence and Jacob Jewett, and also voted that we will stand by\\nthe Committee of Safety and defend them and do all we can to assist\\nthem in the cause of liberty. Chose Ca])t. Daniel Emerson Powder\\nkeeper, and Capt. Reuben Dow, Capt. John (ioss, Capt. Daniel\\nEmerson, Capt. William Read and Dea. John Boynton a committee\\nto make out a list of the men who have been in the army, in defence\\nof American liberty, and set a valuation on their services.\\nAt a town meeting held on the 25th of the following November,\\nthis committee, in respect to these services, made the following\\nreport which was then accepted by the town, including in the\\nreport the HoUis soldiers who afterwards, the same year, went to\\nBennington and Portsmouth.\\n1775. To Ciinibridgc, \u00c2\u00a31, los. per inontli, S nioiillis, \u00c2\u00a312, s.\\n1776. To New York and Canada for the year, 24\\n1776. To Ticonderojja, each lime, 12\\n1776. To New York witli Capt. Reed, S 7\\n1776. To New York with Capt. Walker, 4\\n1777. To Bennington with Capt. Goss, 7\\n1777. To Portsmouth i month, 1 10", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "ijo WAR OF THK REVOLUTION. [^777\\nTHE town s (^^UOTA FOH THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.\\nSpecial .Toxvn Meeting April 2^ ^777- Voted to give each\\nman that shall enlist for three years, or during the War to make out\\nour Qiiota of thirty men \u00c2\u00a346, including the Continental and State s\\nBounty and to raise the money by Tax, and also that the Selectmen\\nshall give Security to each man that enlists for the sum that is to be\\ngiven to the thirty men by the town.\\nTHE town s C^UOTA FOR THE CONTINENTAI. ARMY.\\nAdjcurned Special T ojvn Meetings May 4. Frofn the\\nrecords. The officers having received new orders to raise our\\nmen, (if they could not be got for three years, or during the war,)\\nfor eight or twelve months, if the town woidd supply their places\\nwith other men at the end of said time. Voted that the Committee\\nappointed at this meeting should agree with the men for eight\\nmonths. The Committee having reported that they had agreed\\nwith the men for eight months for \u00c2\u00a320, that sum was voted to them\\naccordingly, and also that the Selectmen give security to the men\\nto their satisfaction.\\nHOLLIS SOLDIERS IN 1777, ^J^ COntIN1:NTAL ARMY.\\nIn 1777 ^s year preceding, the State of New Hampshire,\\nunder the laws and resolutions of Congress, was required to furnish\\nthree regiments for the regular Continental army, commanded sev-\\nerally this year, as in 1776 by Colonels Cilley, Hale and Scammel.\\nThe men to be raised for these regiments were assigned by the New\\nFlampshire State autJKjrities to the respective regiments of the State\\nmilitia in proportion to their numbers and to the several towns, in\\naccordance with the number of the militia in each town. The\\nnumber so set to the town, was known as the town s ^^uota and\\nthe law made it the duty of the town to keep its \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Qj.iota constantly\\nfdled. The number set to Hollis, in this apportionment, was thirty^\\nand that lumilier continued to be the HolHs cjuota for the regular\\narmy, till near the end oi the war. It is sliown by the returns of\\nCol. Nichols, the commander of tlie regiment in 1777, to which the\\nMollis company of militia belonged, that i\\\\\\\\c thirty men whose\\nnames are in the lists below composed the Hollis quota for that\\nyear, antl were enlisted in the winter or spring of 1777. It appears\\nfrom the same return that twenty of these men enlisted for three\\nyears and the rest for eight months.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "777-]\\nCONTINENTAL SOLDIERS IN 1 777\\n171\\nFor thyee years.\\nDavid Ames,\\nDaniel Blood,\\nIsaac Boyntoii,\\nEbenezer Cumings,\\nEdward Carter,\\nWilliam Connick,\\nJacob Danforth,\\nRalph Emerson,\\nJohn Godfrey,\\nWilliam Hale,\\nFor three years.\\nSamuel Ilill,\\nAsa Lovejoy,\\nNathaniel Patten.\\nThomas Pratt,\\nStephen Richardson,\\nDavid Sanderson,\\nEbenezer Townsend,\\nLebbcus Wheeler,\\nJohn Youngman,\\nThomas Youngman,\\nFor eight months.\\nJohn Ball,\\nAndrew Bailey,\\nJoel Bailey,\\nJohn Brooks,\\nJohn Boynlon, 3d,\\nJames Colburn,\\nJonathan Parker,\\nNehemiah Pierce,\\nEli Stiles,\\nJacob Taylor.\\nTwenty of the men in the ahove lists enlisted in the sixth company\\nof the I St New Hampshire regiment, cominanded by Capt. John\\nHouse, of Hanover, the rest of them, with but one or two excep-\\ntions, in the first company of the 3d regiment of which Isaac Frye\\nof Wilton was Captain. Of this last named company Samuel\\nLeeman, Jun., of Hollis, was the Ensign, and was killed at one of\\nthe battles at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne and his army at Sara-\\ntoga in October, 1777. All three of the New Hampshire Conti-\\nnental regiments fought in these battles and acquitted themselves\\nwith their accustomed fidelity and heroism. After the capture of\\nBurgoyne and his army, the theatre of war was removed further\\nsouth to New Jersey and the vicinity of Philadelphia. The New\\nHampshire troops being formed into a distinct brigade, shared in all\\nthe services and hardships of the campaign in New Jersey and\\nPennsylvania. Kt the battle of Monmouth, a part of them, in-\\ncluding the 1st New Hampshire regiment, under Col. Cilley, be-\\nhaved with such gallantry, as to merit and receive the particular ap-\\nprobation of Gen. Washington.\\nPoorly shod, clad and fed, in the hard winter of i777~^ *^^^y\\npatiently shared with their companions in arms the privations and\\nsufferings at the ill-provided winter quarters in the huts at Valley\\nForge. The people of Hollis, at home, in the mean time, were\\nnot forgetful of the wants and sufferings of their townsmen in the\\nfirmy. 1 find from the Hollis documents still preserved, that about\\nthe first of January, 177S, there were collected by contribution, and\\nsent to them in the camp at Valley Forge, 20 Fairs of Good\\nMerchantable Shoes^ 20 Pairs of Good Wooleti Stockijigs^ 15\\nShirts made of Good Merchantable Cloth besides many other\\narticles for the use and comfort of these soldiers.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "1/2 AGREEMENT OF THE UOLI.IS MINUTE MI:n. 777-\\nPA IRIOTIC AGUEEMENr OK THE HOI. LIS MINUTE MEN.\\nEarly in May 1777, Gen. Burgoyne assumed command of the\\nlarge British army in Canada, composed of British Regulars,\\nHessians, Tories and Indians, collected and organized for the inva-\\nsion of the Northern States, in tlie hope and expectation of put-\\nting a speedy end to the so-called rebellion. At the same time a\\nformidable British fleet was cruising along the coast of New\\nEngland ready for an attack upon the sea-board. The whole north\\nwas in constant and fearful alarm, uncertain upon what points the\\ngathering storm would first break.\\nThe patriotic agreement below presented, drawn up at this crisis,\\nand in view of the impending perils, is in the hand writing of its first\\nsigner, Capt. Reuben Dow, and is still preserved. It has append-\\ned to it the original autograph signatures of forty-eight Hollis min-\\nute men, and tersely tells the manner and spirit with whicli they\\nwere ready to meet and to aid in welcoming the invaders. As the\\nnames of the signers merit honorable mention and grateful remem-\\nbrance, they are also presented.\\nHoEEES, May 15, 1777.\\nWhereas it appears that the enemies of the United States of\\nAmerica are laying every Plan in their power to ruin and destroy\\nus and it being hourly expected tiiat a Fleet and Army will arrive\\non some part of our coast in order to prosecute their wicked pur-\\npose we apprehend it to be the Duty of all the Inhaliitants of these\\nStates to be in the greatest Readiness and Preparation to exert them-\\nselves in defence of their country in this hour of danger.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Wherefore we whose names arc hereunto subscribed do\\npromise and engage to equip ourselves inmiediately, with Arms,\\nAmmimition, c., and to be ready at a minute s warning by night\\nor by day, to go and assist our Brethren wherever tliey may be\\nattacked that upon an alarnu* we will immediately appear upon\\nthe Parade at the Meeting House in Holies, and be under the com-\\nmand of such ofliccr and oflicers as we shall choose ourselves or the\\nmajor part of us, and that each of us will be pruvidetl with a good\\nHorse in order that we the sooner may get to the place attacked.\\nAn alarm war. thitc guns lired in quick succession.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "777-J\\nTHE TICONDEROGA ALARM.\\n73\\nReuben Dow,\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun.,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJonathan Ames,\\nBenjamin Austin,\\nDaniel Bailey, Jun.,\\nEleazer Ball,\\nWilliam Ball,\\nDaniel Blood, Jun.,\\nFrancis Blood,\\nJosiah Blood,\\nJoshua Boynton,\\nEliphalet Brown,\\nEphraim Burge,\\nBenjamin Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn, Jun.,\\nJosiah Conant,\\nJohn Cumingfi,\\nEvan Dow,\\nStephen Dow,\\nAmos Eastman, Jun.,\\nBenjamin Farley, Jun.,\\nChristopher Farley,\\nEbenezcr Farley,\\nStephen Farley,\\nJosiah French,\\nJacob Jewett, Jun.,\\nThomas Kemp,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nOliver Lawrence, Jun.,\\nNathaniel Leeman,\\nEnoch Noyes, Jun.,\\nSolomon Pierce,\\nNathan Phelp.s,\\nJohn Platts,\\nFrancis Powers,\\nAbel Shipley,\\nIsaac Stearns\\nJames Taylor,\\nWilliam Tenney, Jun.\\nMoses Thurston, Jun.\\nJoseph Wheat,\\nWilliam Wood,\\nNoah Worcester, Jun.,\\nBenjamin Wright,\\nLemuel Wright,\\nUriali Wright.\\nTHE TICONDEROGA ALARM.\\nAbout the 30th of June of this year, Gen. Burgoyne with his fleet\\nand army advanced up Lake Chaniplain, towards the important\\nfortress at Ticonderoga, and soon after arrived with his forces\\n-it Crown Point, within a few miles of it, where he halted for a\\nshort time. Upon the news of this advance, known as the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^Ticonderoga Alarw^ a company was at once enlisted and\\norganized at Hollis to aid in the defence of Ticonderoga. This\\ncompany consisted of fifty-eight men, inclusive of officers, fifty of\\nwhom were from Hollis. The commissioned officers of this com-\\npany were Daniel Emerson, Jun., Captain, Robert Seaver ist Lieu-\\ntenant, and David Wallingford 2d Lieutenant, all of Hollis. The\\ncompaiw started from Hollis on tlie 30th of June, (the same day\\nthe British troops took possession of Ticonderoga) made a rapid\\nmarch of sixty-five miles to Walpole, there had orders to return and\\nreached Hollis again on the 4th of July. The next day the com-\\npany received orders to march a second time for Ticonderoga,\\nstarted on the 5th of July, proceeded as far as Cavendish, Vermont,\\n(one hundred miles) and there met a New Hampshire regiment,\\nunder Col. Bellows, on their retreat, Ticonderoga having been\\nabandoned by its garrison. At Cavendish the company had orders\\na second time to return home, reached Hollis on the 15th of July\\nand was disbanded. The wages of the private soldiers on these\\nexpeditions were three shillings a day, and three pence a mile for\\ntravel", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": ".174\\nHOLLIS COMPAN\\\\ AT IJKNNINGTON.\\n[1777-\\nNAMES OF THE HOLLIS MEN IN THIS COMPANY.\\nDanici Emerson, Jun., Capl.\\nRobert Seaver, ist Lieut.,\\nDavid Wallingfoid, 2d Lieut.\\nJosliua Boynton, Ser gl,\\nEphraiin Huig^e,\\nIsaac Stearns, Corp.,\\nNoah Worcester, Jun., Fifer.\\nPrivates.\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJonathan Ames,\\nEleazer Ball,\\nWilliam Ball,\\nDaniel Bailey,\\nFrancis Bkx)d,\\nJosiah Blood,\\nReuben Blood,\\nOliver Bowers,\\nEliphalet Brown,\\nBenjamin Colburn,\\nStephen Conroy,\\nWilliam Cumings,\\nStephen Dow,\\nJoseph Farley,\\nJosiah Fibk,\\nNehemiah French,\\nLemuel Hardy,\\nNoah Hardy,\\nJohn Hobart,\\nJoshua Hobart,\\nSolomon Hobart,\\nEbenezer Jaquith,\\nEbenezer Jewett,\\nJonathan Jewett,\\nSamuel Jewett,\\nNathaniel Leeman,\\nEphraim Lund,\\nSamuel Merrill,\\nJoseph Nevins,\\nElijah Noyes,\\nEphraim Pierce,\\nMoses Proctor,\\nJacob Spalding,\\nMoses Thurston, Jun.,\\nEbenezer Townsend,\\nJoseph Wheat,\\nAbner Wheeler,\\nJonas Woods,\\nNehemiah Woods,\\nJesse Worcester,\\nLemvie! Wright,\\nUriali Wright.\\nHOLLIS SOLDIERS AT BENNINGTON.\\nUpon the news of the fall of Ticonderoga, the New Hampshire\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0General Court promptly met on the 17th of July, and, in a session\\npf three days, adopted the most decisive and vigorous measiu es for\\nthe defence of the country and to .stop tlie advance of Gen. Bur-\\ngoyne. An appeal was made to the New Hampshire militia and\\nminute men whicli was at once responded to with the like spirit\\nand patriotic devotion as in the years before. In th.e course of a very\\nfew days a brigade composed of three regiments of New Hampshire\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2volunteers was enlisted and organized, and placed under tlie com-\\nmand of the brave and popular Gen. Stark, two of these regiments\\nconsisting of ten conapanics each, and one of them of but five. These-\\nregiments were commanded severally by Colonels Nichols of\\nAmherst, Stickney of Concord, and David Hobart of Plymouth, to\\nwhich place he had removed from Hollis, a few years before. Of\\nthe 6th compam of Col. Nichols regiment, John Goss was Captain\\n^nd David Wallingford, 2d Lieutenant, both of Hollis. This coin-\\npany left Hollis on the 30th of Jidy, and was present and shared in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the honors of the brilliant and ever memorable battle and victory\\nfought and won at liennington, mainly by the New Hampshire vol-\\nuntcers, on the Jbllowing i6th of August. The company afterwaids\\nmarched as far west as Stillwater, N. and was discharged oii\\nthe zSth of Se))tember, having been in service two months and nir. i\\ndays. It is shcnvn by the Hollis documents and the ictui u of Capt,\\nGoss now at Concord, that in his company there were foitv-two rnoM", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab777-]\\nDEPRECIATION OF THE PAPEK CURHENCY\\n75\\nfrom Hollis, inclusive of ofticers, and that the wages paid the private\\nsoldiers were .\u00e2\u0082\u00ac4 los, per month, and 3d. per mile tor travel. The\\nnames of these men were\\nJohn Goss, C.ipt-, Thomas Kemp,\\nDavid Wallingford, Second lA. Archibald Mcintosh,\\nWilliam Adams,\\nSimeon Blood,\\nHenry Bowers,\\nEliphalet Brown,\\nJohn Campbell,\\nJohn Connick,\\nJonathan French,\\nTimothy French,\\nStephen Ilazcltinc,\\nJoshua Ilobart,\\nEphraim How,\\nJoseph How,\\ny\\nJames McDonald,\\nSamuel Merrill,\\nDaniel Mooar, Jun.\\nJacob Mooar,\\nBenjamin Messer,\\nBenjamin Nevins,\\nJohn Nevins,\\nEphraim Pierce,\\nFrancis Powers,\\nSamson Powers,\\nJames Rideout,\\nStephen Runnells,\\nJonathan Kuss,\\nICphraim Rolfe,\\nJonas Shed,\\nIsaac Stearns,\\nJoseph Stearns,\\nEbenc/er Townsend,\\nAbner Wheeler,\\nWilliam Wood,\\nJonas Woods,\\nNehemiah Woods,\\nNoah Worcester, Jun.,\\nBenjamin Wrif^ht,\\nSamuel Wright,\\nJesse Wyman.\\nTwo other IloUis soldiers, viz., Samuel Goodhue and Jesse Wor-\\n:cester, served a part of this year in the garrison at Portsmouth, and\\niwere paid by the town \u00c2\u00a31, los. each.\\nI do not find tliat any Hollis soldier, this year, died of disease in\\nthe service or was killed in battle, with the exception of Ensign\\nSamuel Leeman,Jun., killed at vSaratoga, at the taking of Gen.\\nBurgoyne and his army. He was the son of Samuel Leeman,\\nSen., and liorn in Hollis, Aug. 7, 1749, ait. 28 years at the time of\\nhis death.\\nIn the foregoing lists of the Hollis soldiers fourteen of the names\\noccur twice, the men having enlisted more than once. Making the\\nproper deduction, it will appear that tliere are in these lists one\\nhundred and ten different names a number equal very nearly to\\npnc in eleven of the population.\\nTHE AMOUNT PAID BY THI TOWN IN 1777 BOUNTIluS AND\\nWAGES WAS AS FOIAX^WS\\ns.\\nTo thirty Conlincnt. il Soldiers, \u00c2\u00a3.20 each, \u00c2\u00a3660,\\nTo men in Capt.Jiinergon s Company, Ticondcroga alarm, 38.4.\\nTo men in Capt. Goss Company to Bennington, S:c., 234,\\nTo two men to Portsmouth, 3,\\nf Making for this year \u00c2\u00a3875, 4.\\nDKI KlCCIA nON OF ITIE PAPEK CURKKNCV, AND THE LAW\\nKEGUEATING PRICES.\\nDuring most years of the war there was no money in circulation\\nas a medium of exchange, except the Continental paper money\\nifesued by Congress or the bills of credit of the States. This currency", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": ".76\\nUEPKECIATION OF THE PAPER CURRENCY.\\n[5 777-\\nwas issued in .such quantities, both by the State and Congress,\\nthat both from its excess and also from the f:ict of its lieing exten-\\nsively counterfeited, it begun to depreciate rapidly, and to an alarm-\\ning extent, as early as the second year of the war. This depreciation\\nis very plainly indicated in comparing the wages paid to soldiers in\\n1775 with those paid in 1777. In the former year the wages paid\\nto the Hollis soldiers who were at Cambridge and Bunker Hill\\nwere \u00c2\u00a32, or about ^G.S per month, and id. a mile for travel. In\\n1777 the wages paid to the Ilollis soldiers who went to Bennington\\nand New York in July of that year, were \u00c2\u00a34 los. per month, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^d. per mile for travel, nominally more than twice as much for wages\\nand travel as in 1775. Both the General Court and the people be-\\ncame greatly and justly alarmed at this condition of the only currency\\nthen in use, and in the hope of lessening or wholly arresting the evil,\\nthe New Hampshire legislature, early in the spring of 1777^ passed\\na law limiting and regulating the prices at which the common\\nnecessaries of life might be sold. A portion of the articles named\\nin this hiw w^ith the prices Hxed for them are presented below.\\ns.\\n1.1.\\ns.\\n(1.\\ns.\\nd.\\nWheat\\nper\\nbushel.\\n7.\\n6,\\nCheese\\nper\\nlb.\\n0,\\n6,\\nBeef per lb.\\n0,\\n3\\nRye\\n4.\\nt l\\nButter\\nP,\\nin,\\nTow Cloth per yard.\\n3,\\n3.\\nIndian\\nCorn,\\n3.\\n6,\\nCoffee,\\n1,\\n4.\\nFlannel\\n6,\\nOats,\\nz,\\n0,\\nCotton,\\n3.\\n0,\\nLinen Cloth\\n0,\\nPeas,\\ns,\\n0,\\nWool,\\na.\\nN. E. Rum, per .ijal..\\n10,\\nBeans.\\n6,\\nt\\nI-lax,\\n1,\\n0,\\nW. I.\\n8,\\nSalt.\\n10,\\n0.\\nPork\\n0.\\n^.1-2\\n.Molasses.\\n0.\\nDEPRI .CIA riON OK THE P.^P] ;R CURRENCY.\\nOn the second of June, 1777, a special town meeting in Hollis\\nw^as summoned to consider what should be done by the town in ref-\\nerence to this law, from the record of which meeting we make the\\nfollow^ing extracts Voted to choose a Committee agreeably to the\\nlate Act of the General Court, called An Act in addition to an\\nAct regulating Prices of Sundry articles therein etmmeratedy\\nand that Capt. Reuben Dow, Dea. Enoch Noyes, Capt. Noah Wor-\\ncester, Capt. Daniel Kendrick, and Capt. Daniel Emerson, be said\\ncommittee.\\nAt a subsequent special town meeting, on the ^Sth of Septem-\\nber of the same year, called to consider the same subject, the town\\npassed the following vote: Voted that we highly disapprove of\\nthe conduct of any persons in endeavoring to forestall or unrea-\\nsonably raise the prices of the necessaries of Life and that we will", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "I 777-] r^KPRKClATIOX OF TIIK PAPKR CUKKEN CV. 1 77\\nhold every such person inimical to our j^rescnt cause and that\\nwe will treat all such Persons with neglect and will have no Dcal-\\nhv^s with them, and tliat the Committee of Safety of the Town\\nshall judge and determine wdien any Person shall transgress the\\ntrue intent and meaning of this Vote, and shall post every such Per-\\nson s name in the Public Houses in town and in the Public I rints.\\nBut all these vigorous, well meant and patriotic efforts of the\\n(icneral Court, town meetings, and Committees of Safety, to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2check this growing evil, were wholly fruitless, and this paper cur-\\nrencv. from month to month, continued to lessen in value, so that\\nbefore the end of the war it became utterly worthless. The peo-\\nple of Ilollis. however, seem at last to have gained a sensible idea\\nof the only practicable remedy for this excessive issue of irredeem-\\nable promises to pay. as is shown by the doings and votes of a\\nspecial town meeting on the 27th of November of this year. At\\nthis meeting, as appears from the record, the town Voted, ist,\\nTo give our Representative, the following Instructions, viz., to use\\nhis Influence to s////^- our State moncv bv way of Taxes, and 3d,\\nalso Voted that it is our mind to pay a Tax of twelve double of\\nwhat it was last year.\\n(12)\\nV--", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 WAR OF THK RKVOJ.UTION. [^77^\\nC H A P T K R X J\\nDOINGS OF TlIK TOWN MEETINGS AND IllSTOKV OF THE WAR CON-\\nTINUED. COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 177S. SOLDIER s FAMI-\\nLIES. CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS IN 1778. VOLUNTEERS FOR\\nRHODE ISLAND.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C:0MMITTEF: OF SAFETY IN 1 779- CONVEN-\\nTION TO FL\\\\ PRICES. CONTINUED DliPRECIATION OF PAPER\\nMONEY. SMALL POX IN HOLLIS.\\nRESOLUTIONS AND X OTES OI THE TOWN MEETINGS IN 1 778.\\nAriicJcs of Confederation ami I liio)/. On the i^^th ofNovcnl-\\nbcr. 1777: the Continental Cons^ress adopted articles of confedera-\\ntion and per])etual nnion of the States, to be sidimitted to the State.^\\nseverally for their appro\\\\al. On the 19th of Jannarv. 1778. a town\\nmeeting in Ilollis was called to consider, aniong other things, these\\narticles of confederation, at which ihe toA\\\\ ii s appro\\\\ al of them was\\nexpressed as follows: oted vnumimousK our approbation of the\\narticles of confederation and per])etiial union recommended by the\\nContinental Congress to all the States.\\nThe 7\\\\i\\\\v)i s i^Kota for the Ariiiv. .\\\\lso at the same meeting\\nVoted that the Alilitia Othcers. Selectmen and Committee of\\n.Safety of the town agree ith the men to sui:\u00c2\u00bbplv the places of our\\neight months i neti as cheap as t!ie\\\\ can. and give the security of the\\nTown for their services in the Continental Army.\\nCoiumittee of Safety for fy/H. Aiiimat Tov:ii Meeting-^ March\\n2. 7778. Chose foi Committee of .Safety this year, Noah Wor-\\ncester. Est}.. Mr. Oliver Lawrence. AJr. Edward Taylor, Dea.\\nEnoch Noyes and aVIr. Nehcniiah Woods. Also \\\\^oted that the\\n.Selectmen take care of the Continental .Soldiers families if they\\nstand in need.\\nWar 7 ax. Special Yown Afeetlng- April 6, lyyS. Voted to\\nraise .\u00e2\u0082\u00ac830, to be levied by a ]\\\\ax on the Town to defray the chargen\\nof otu ten Continental men.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "1778.] WAR OF THE RKV()I,lIT]ON. I 79\\nSoldiers Pamilies. Voted that Capt. Daniel Emerson, James\\nJewett and Jonathan Taylor, be a Committee to provide for the\\nContinental Soldiers Families, and that thcv have the Necessaries\\nof life at the price stated in 1777- i^d that the o\\\\erplus be paiti oitt\\nof the To~jcn Treasury.\\nRepresentatives to Concord. Chose Noali Worcester, Esq.,\\nand Dea. Enoch Noyes to represent this Town in the General Con-\\nvention of the State to be held at Concord on the loth of June\\nnext.\\nThis convention was called in pursuance of a resolution of the\\nGeneral Court, to agree upon and present to the people for their\\nacceptance a system or Plan for a State Government. It ap^\\npears that the plan of government agreed upon and proposed by\\nthis convention, on being submitted to the people, was rejected.!\\nSoldiers for Rhode Islaiid. Special Toivn Meeting, yune\\n75, 1778. From the Tozvti Records. A* a meeting of the In-\\nhabitants of the town of Hollis, called on account of orders from\\nCol. Nichols for four men to be raised from this town to go to Prov-\\nidence to join Col. Peabody s regiment. Voted to give to each man\\nthat will enlist \u00c2\u00a33 3s. 6d. per month from the time thev shall en-\\nlist till discharged, and that if enough do not enlist, that the men\\nwho are drafted and go and serve shall receive the same sum and\\nalso voted that the Selectmen join with tlie commissioned officers\\nto draft men at all times when there is occasion.\\nSoldiers Families. Special 7\\\\nvn J\\\\/eetino\\\\ Oct. j. 1778,\\nVoted that the Committee appointed to take care of the Conti-\\nnental Soldiers families adhere strictly to the law of the .State, in\\nrespect to them, and that they take care of the families of the\\nWidows Cumings and Wheeler as if their husbands were alive.\\nThe deceased soldiers referred to in this vote were Ebenezer Cum-\\nings and Lebbeus Wheeler, both of whom enlisted for three years in\\nthe Continental army in the spring of 1777. Cumings had died in\\nthe army of small pox, leaving (as appears from the Hollis records\\nof births) a widow and eight children, among whom was Jacob\\nAbbot Cumings, born Nov. 2, 1772, afterwards a graduate of Har-\\nvard College, and the author of Cummings .School Geography and\\nother literary works. Wheeler was a son of Peter Wheeler, born\\nin Hollis. October 15. 1750, and died in the army of disease or\\nwounds, July 10, 1778, leaving a widow^ and one child.\\n*Prov. Papers, Vol. S, pp. 774 J.\\nt Belknap, p. 38.1.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "iSo KECRl lTS FOR THK CONTINENTAL ARMY. [^77^-\\nRcprcsoitativc to General Court. Special Toxcn Meetings\\nDec. 7. /yyS. Chose Capt. Reuben Dow to represent the town\\nin the General Assembly to he held at Exeter on the y\\\\ ednesdav\\not DeeenilKM next.\\ni;ilcruit.s for -riiE coxtinkxtal army.\\nIn the montli of J;innary. 177S, ten men were wanted to till the\\nIlollis Continental quota to supply the ])laces of the men who had\\nenlisted for eight months only. On the 19th of that month, as we\\nhaAe seen, a speeial town meeting was prompth ealled to supply\\nthis delieiency, and tlie vSelectmen, Committee of Safet\\\\ with the\\nmilitia ofHeers, were instruetedto engage the men and to pledge the\\n.security of the town for their services. It is shown l)v the returns\\nof Col. Nichols, (now at Concord) that these ten recruits were very\\n.soon engaged and that most of them were mustered into the com-\\npany of Capt. John House, in the 1st New Hampshire Continental\\nregiment. It appears from the Great Return of the Selectmen\\nof Hollis, that nine of them were paid from \u00c2\u00a340 6s. Sd. to ^0\\neach. Their names were\\nJoliii Aulil, Jolui Cnni-fiy.Jun., Jacnli Danlorth.\\nRculiLii IJloDcI, .Stcphun Oiiiroy, iVatlianicl Patten,\\n.Simeon Blood, William Cowen. Joel Proctor.\\nSamuel Boyd,\\nIt is stated in the return of Col. Nichols that Auld and Cowen\\nbelonged to Merrimack, and Boyd U) Goftstown. but that they were\\nall enlisted for and paid by Hollis. It appears from the rolls at\\nConcord, that John Conroy,Jun., died in hospital at Danburv, Conn.,\\nin September of this year. He was the oldest son of John Conrov,\\nSen., and born in Hollis, December 28, 1761. Daniel Blood,\\nanother Hollis soldier, who enlisted for three years, in the spring of\\n1777, died in the army of wounds or disease, November 38,\\n1778, making a loss by death this year of four of the Hollis\\nContinental cjuota.*\\nMen in Co/. Peadoc/y.s- Regiment. About the middle of June\\nof this year, a lirigade of New Hampshire troops was raised for\\nservice in Rhode Island, commanded by Brig. Gen. Whipple.\\nOne of the regiments of this brigade was commanded by Col.\\nSt ephen Peabody, of Amherst. In the Second company of this\\nregiment, of which Ezekiel Worthen of Kensington, was Captain,\\nwere three Hollis soldiers, viz., Jonathan Jevvett, Oliver Lawrence\\n*Kidder .s History of First N. H. Regiment, p. 1.54.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "177S.] VOLUNTEERS FOK RHODE ISLAND IN 177S. 181\\nand Enoch Spalding. The regiment was discharged June 3, 1779,\\nhaving been in the service six months and twenty-five days. The\\nwages of the men were ^\u00c2\u00a34 los. per month, and they were allowed\\nfor travel in going to Rhode Island 3d. per mile, and Sd. per mile on\\ntheir return home. The town paid the three llollis men a l)ounty\\nof \u00c2\u00a36 each.\\nHoUis Volunteers to Rhode Lsta/id in Ano /ist^ ^77^- i he\\nbrigade of Gen. Whipple was raised in the summer of 1778 to\\nreinforce the Continental army in Rhode Island in a proposed attack\\nupon the British troops then in possession of the island of Rhode\\nIsland. In this attack it was expected that a pow^erfid French fleet,\\nthen on the coast, under the command of Admiral Count D Estaing,\\nwould co-operate with the arm But the fleet having been dis-\\nabled and dispersed by a violent storm just before the time fixed for\\nthe intended attack, the expedition failed.\\nAbout the 6th of August of this year, a com]:)any cf volunteers to\\naid in this expedition was raised in Hollis. The company, includ-\\ning its ofiicers, consisted of forty-three men. It was commanded by\\nCapt. Daniel Emerson, and was the ist company of a regiment\\ncommanded by Col. Moses Nichols of Amherst. The men were in\\nthe service from the 6th to the 28th of August, and were then dis-\\ncharged, in consequence of the misfortune to tlie French fleet. The\\nwages of the private soldiers in this expedition were at the rate of\\n\u00c2\u00a35 per month, and 8d. per mile for travel, one hundred miles each\\nway, in going and returning. They were als(-) paid liy the town\\n.\u00c2\u00a31 3s. each. It is to be inferred also that the men were all mounted\\nand furnished their own horses, as it is shown 1)\\\\ tlic return of Col.\\nNichols that the company had forty-three horses, for w hicli they\\nwere allowed \u00c2\u00a310 each, making \u00c2\u00a3430. The roll below ])rescnts a\\nlist of this company with its officers, all from llollis.\\nDanitl Emerson, Ciipt., Xuthiinicl Bhioil, Jun.. Jacoli Jew i_u. ^d.,\\nCaleb Farley, Liout., riiuothy Rlooil, DankI Kiniln iU,\\nWilliam Brooks, Ensign, riionias Carter, Asa Law rciiif,\\nDaniel Bailey, Sergeant, Benjamin Colburii, Daniel Jlerrill, ]ini.,\\nJosiah Conant, Reuben Dow, Samuel Merrill,\\nStephen Runnells, josiah Fisk, Fi^lijah Noyes,\\nAbel Conant, Corporal, Jonas Flasrg, Joiuithan Parker,\\nElias Boynton, Jonathan F rencli, William W. Pool,\\nEvan Dow, Stephen CJooclhui,-, Epliraiin RoHe,\\nAndrew Bailey, FiK-r. David Hale, Jacob Spaldijii;,\\nPrivates. Jolm Hale, Jun., Joseph Wheat,\\nBenjamin Abbot, Noah Hardy, Jf;nas Woods,\\nDavid Ames, Joshua Hobart, Noah Worcestir, Sen.,\\nJohn Atwell, Solomon Hobart. Jesse Woreeili r.\\nNathaniel Blood, Jolm H(av.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "iSz CONTINENTAL Cy:jOTA KOK I779. 7/9-\\nIt may he seen from the forcj^oing data, that inckidiug the town s\\ncjuota of thh ty Continental soldiers, Ilollis in i77^ seventy-six\\nmen in the service, for the whole or a part of that year.\\nVOTKS ANO KESOLl TIONS OI TJIIC rOWN MliETlNGS IX I 779-\\nComniitfcc of Safety. Aunual 7^o~v/i Meetings March 7, ///p.\\nVoted and chose Noah Worcester, Esq., Mr. Oliver Lawrence,\\nMr. Jacob Jewett, Ensign .Stephen Ames and Mr. Edward Taylor,\\nCommittee of Safety, Correspondence, and Inspection.\\nSoldiers Faiiiilicf:. Voted that the Overseers of the Poor take\\ncare of the Continental Soldiers Families, and have particnlar\\nregard to the families of those that have died in the army.\\nCapt. Leoimrd \\\\\\\\7//fi//fs Ji ar Rafc. -Mr. Samnel Chamber-\\nlain, one of the constables of Hollis, having informed the town that\\nCapt. Leonard Whiting refnsed to pav his War Tax, Voted to\\ndefend saitl Cliamberlain and that he he indemnified in recovering\\nthe same, so far as he has acted according to law.\\nqifOJA OF CONTINKXTAI. SOLDIERS.\\nspecial 7 r5ti7/ Meeiiiio-. Marc// JJ Chose Noah Wor-\\ncester, Esq., Capt. Renben Dcnv. and Capt. Daniel Emerson, to\\ntake the method they shall think best and proper to get onr Qiiota\\nof Continental men.\\nSpecial l\\\\r,^-u Meeting, Juiy .f, I7l9- Voted that the Com-\\njiiittee chosen at the last meeting l)e joined with the vSelectmen, ami\\nMilitia officers to assist in getting our Continental jNIen. either by\\ndraft or otherwise as they shall think best for the town.\\nSpecial Toivii Meeting, fidy rg^ ^779- Voted ist, to raise\\nthe men called for to llll up the New Hampshire Battalions, being\\novu proportion of the CoiUinental Army, as a town for one year,\\nand chose Ensign Jeremiah Ames, Dr. Jonathan Fox, and Jacob\\nJewett, Jun.. a Committee to hire for one year our nine Continen-\\ntal Men.\\nZ(\\\\. Voted that said Committee be empowered to give the\\nTown s Security to each of said nine men for an}- sum of money\\nthat they may agree with them for. and the Town to be responsible\\nto said Committee iox said vSums, and the Committee s trouble in\\nraising said men, and that the Selectmen be empowered to assess\\nthe Polls and Estates of this town the sum of monev that it shall\\ncost to raise said men.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "79-]\\nCONTIXKNTAI, (^JL OTA KOJl I 779.\\nI S3\\nOn the 2(\\\\ of August, about two weeks utter this hist meeting, this\\ncommittee made their report in writing to tiie town showing that\\nthey had engaged eight of the nine men wanted, with their names\\nand tlie bounties agreed to be paid to each of them for the year s\\nservice.\\nA copy of this report is presented below us follows\\nThe Inhabitants of the Town of Holies to Jeremiah Ames,\\nJonathan Fox and Jacob Jewett, Jun., a Committee chosen by said\\nTown to agi ee with and hire nine men to go into the Continental\\nArmy for one year for said town. Dr.\\nAuff. 2, IJ/Q- To cash and our security given to Eight \u00c2\u00bbien\\nas a Boioity from said 7hzcn to ro into said service.\\nTo Caleb Stiles, Cash, \u00c2\u00a3300\\nCaleb Stiles, Jun.,\\n\u00c2\u00a3300\\nEphraim Pearce.\\n\u00c2\u00a3300\\nFrancis G. Powers,\\n\u00c2\u00a3300\\nJerathinael Bowers,\\n\u00c2\u00a3300\\nJacob Hobart,\\n\u00c2\u00a3300\\nJoseph Stearns.\\ni^ TT\\nSimeon Foster,\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nLawful Moniv,\\nHolies. Au\\nli.iS;.\\n10 Uushels of Rye.\\n10 Bushels of Rye.\\n10 Bushels of Rye.\\nID Bushels of Rye.\\n10 Bushels of Rye.\\n10 Bushels of Rye.\\n17 Bushels of Rye.\\n10 Bushels of Rvc.\\nS7 Bushels of Rvc.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\nJO Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n10 Do. of Ind. Corn.\\n90 Bushs. Ind. Corn.\\nJeremiah Ames.\\nJonathan Fox.\\nJ.\\\\coii Jewett, Jun.\\n779-\\nllie Return of Col. Nichols for the regiment shows that the\\nninth man enlisted for the town under this call was Joseph Wheat,\\n])ut it tloes not appear what boimt\\\\- was paid him.\\n\\\\()Ll rilKUS KOU RIIODK ISL.VND .\\\\ND PORTSMOUTH.\\nIn the spring or simimer of this year a regiment of New\\nHampshire troops was raised for service in Rhode Island, com-\\nmanded by Col. Hercules Mooncv. of Lee. In this regiment were\\nsix Hollis men, viz., Daniel Emerson. ]un.. wiio was captain of the\\n^th company, Dr. Peter Emerson, a brother of Captain Emerson,\\n(the surgeon of the regiment.) Daniel Bailey. Daniel Kendrick,\\nJohn Hobart. and Samuel Emerson, another l)rother of Capt.\\nEmerson, then in his fifteenth year, afteiwards a gi ;uliiate of Harvard\\ncollege, and an eminent physician. The men were tlischarged on\\nthe first of January. 1780. having been in the service near six\\nmonths. The wages of the private soldiers were \u00c2\u00a313 per month.\\nBounty paid by the town, \u00c2\u00a39. All owed fortravel to Providence\\n2s. per mile from Providence, home, 3s. per mile.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "184 CONTINENTAI, q_UOTA FOR 1 779- [^779*\\nTlic orit^niial commission of Capt. Emerson, as a Captain in this\\nregiment, signed by Meshech Weare, President of the New\\nHampshire Conncil, has been preserved in the family of a granci-\\nson, and a copy of it is presented below.\\nThe GovcrjiDioit a//d people of tJie State of Avv ria\u00c2\u00bbipsJiirc\\nto Daniel Emerson^ Rsq.^ Grcetiiii^.,\\nScal^\\nWe reposing especial trnst and conlidence in your courage and\\ngood conduct, do by these Presents constitute and appoint you the\\nsaid Daniel Emerson, Captain of a company in a regiment raised\\nwithin said State, for the defence of the .State of Rhode Island, of\\nwhich regiment Hercnies Mooiiev, Esq.. is Colonel, ou are there-\\nfore carefully and diligently to (.lischarge the duty of a Captain in\\nleading, ordering and exercising the saiil compan\\\\ in arms, both\\ninferior ofHcers and soldiers, and to keep them in good order and\\ndiscipline, and thev arc hereby required and commanded to obey\\nyou as their C aptain, and \\\\ov\\\\ are yourself to ()bser\\\\e antl follow\\nsuch orders and instructions as you shall from time to time receive\\nfrom the General and Commander-in-Chief of the Coitinental\\nForccSy or any other your superior officers according to Mditarx\\nRules and Discipline in war in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.\\nIn Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of said State to be\\nherevmto affixed.\\nWitness, Meshech Weare, Escp, the President of our Council.\\nat Exeter this 30th day of June, A. D., i77y-\\nM. \\\\Veaj;k.\\nE. Thompson, Secretary.\\nIt also appears from the Re\\\\ olutionary rolls. preser\\\\ ed in\\nConcord, that in the year 1 779, John (iloodhue. Joseph llarily and\\nSilas Ilarch all of Ilollis, enlisted in the company of Capt.\\nllezekiah Lo\\\\ejo\\\\, to serve for six months in the garrison at\\nPortsmouth.\\nAt a special town meeting Aug. 25th of this year, Voted to\\nallow Dea. Enoch Noyes \u00c2\u00a321 2s., and Xoah Worcester. Est[.. t 46\\n9s. for services in attending the Convention to agree upon and set-\\ntle a Plan of .State Government, also at the same meeting. chose\\nCol. John Hale to represent this town in tlic Coiuention to lie hchl\\nat Concord on the zt^A of Septembei next.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "1779-] PLAN FOR FIXING PRICES. 185\\nThis was a general convention of tlelej^atcs from the State, called\\ntogether in the vain hope of being able to devise some farther ex-\\npedients to arrest the rapid depreciation of the paper currency by\\nlimiting and regulating the prices of the necessaries of life. The\\nextent at this time of this alarming depreciation may l)e readily in-\\nferred by comparing the wages and bounties paid to soldiers at the\\nbeginning of the war, with those paid, as may be seen above, in the\\nmonth of August, 1779. In 1775, the wages paid by the town to\\nthe eight months men who went to Cambridge were \u00c2\u00a31 los. per\\nmonth, or at the rate of \u00c2\u00a3iS per year. In 1776, the men who en-\\nlisted for the year were paid in all \u00c2\u00a324 by the town, or at the rate\\nof \u00c2\u00a33 per month. In i779 there were paid by the tow n to the\\nHollis soldiers for a years service,* \u00c2\u00a3300 and 10 bushels of rye. and\\n10 bushels of corn.\\nThe Concord conventic^n, as appears, met as proposed, and\\nagreed upon a schedule f f ]:)i-ices of certain commodities and ne-\\ncessaries, leaving it for the towns to state and limit the prices of\\nothers. The convention having hnishetl its work, a town meeting\\nwas called on the following 3ist of October to consider the report\\nand proceedings of that body ami to determine what further should\\nbe done by the town. From the record of this meeting w e quote\\nas follows\\nPLAX OF IIXIXC; PRICKS BY rilE COXCORD COX\\\\FNTIOX.\\nspecial Vo Cii Meeting., Oct. 2r. J /y^). Voted unanimously\\nour entire approbation of the Proceedings of the Convention held at\\nConcord, in September last .Stating Prices, c. Voted to pur-\\nsue the Plan laid down bv the Comention for Stating Prices, and\\nto State the Prices for articles for this town, not stated by the Con-\\nvention to see the Plan carried into eflcct and to correspond with\\nother towns, anil chose Col. John Hale, Capt. Daniel Kcndrick,\\nDea. John Poynton, Capt. John Goss, Ephraim Burge, l ]benezer\\nRunnells, Jacob Jewett, Christopher Farley, Josiah Fisk and Lt.\\nEbenezcr Jewett, said Committee: .Vdjourned to Nov. 16.\\nAdjoiiriieit Toicii Meeting. iVov. j6. lyyg. Voted to accept\\nthe Report of the Conuuittee.\\nIn the mean time, previous to the i6th of Xo\\\\ember. the fore-\\ngoing committee prepared their report and submitted it to the\\nmeeting held on that day. The report was then accepted In the\\ntown as shown liy the record of the meeting as follows:", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "l86 DEPRECIATION OF FAl EK MONEY. [l779-\\nAdjourned TtKVit Mcciino-. Nov. i6. JJJQ- Voted to accept\\nthe Report of the Committee appointed on the 21st of October, and\\nthat each person in town govern himself accorchngly under the\\npcnaliy of being treated as an eneniv of //is Cou)itr\\\\. ami that\\ncopies of the same be posted up in the piil lic houses in town\\nattested by the town clerk.\\nAt this meeting a paper that had been set up at RunncU s\\n(Mills) by order of the town, attested by the town clerk, being-\\nbrought in and exhibited to the meeting much defaced, upon view\\nof which, the Town voted unanimously their resentment of the\\nmatter, and that the Committee shoidd enquire into the affair and\\nreport at the next meetmg.\\nZachariah Lawrence jfun.. a //d //is offence. It appearing from\\nthe reportof the committee to the next town meeting, held on the 9th\\nof December, that Zachariah Lawrence, Jun., was guilty of defac-\\ning the paper containing the list of prices set up by the town clerk\\nat Runnells. Voted that the Committee of vSafety be empowered\\nto settle the aflair with Zachariah Lawrence, Jun.. for his offence\\nin defacing a certain paper as they shall think proper, and that\\nif said Lawrence refuses to settle to their satisfaction to pursue him\\nin the law and make report to tlie town as soon as mav be.\\nSCAI.K OF DEPllECIATION OI PAl EIt .M()NE\\\\.\\nIn the vear 17S1. the New Hampshire General Court prepared\\nand adopted what was called an .Vutliorized .Scale of Depreciation\\nof Continental Paper Money. in accordance with vshich. contracts\\nmade at different dates during the war miglit be equitably settled\\nwith silver mones The follo\\\\\\\\i ng table c()[)ied from that scale\\nindicates the value of t loo in silver as compared ith its ecjuiva-\\nlent in Continental paj^ei monev in diHerent \\\\ears as tixed by tlie\\nGeneral Court.\\nJuiK-. 1777. .CiOd in silver i-cjual ti \u00c2\u00a3i Jn C iitiiH-nt;il p;\u00c2\u00bbpcr.\\n\u00c2\u00a357.*\\nillJIMXJ\\nAfter the last date Continental paper nionex became W(. rthless.\\nSMALL POX LN HOLLLS.\\nIt is stated by Re\\\\-. Grant Powers, in his Centeimial address,\\ntlelivered in 1830, That in the vear 1779 the small pox broke out\\n1777.\\n.CiOd i\\n.77S.\\n\u00c2\u00a3uxj\\n1771),\\nXlLX-\\ni7S(.,\\n\u00c2\u00a3icxj\\n17S1,\\n\u00c2\u00a3100", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "I 779-] SMALI. POX IN IIOM.IS. 187\\nin the town, supposed to have been communicated by the Enemy of\\nour Country, and two houses were improved as Hospitals. One of\\nthese houses was afterwards owned and occupied by Lemuel\\nWright, and the other by James Rideout. In the last named of\\nthese houses there were at one time more than one hundred\\npatients. About one hundred and fifty j^ersons were inoculated, of\\nwhom three died, and five others who took the disease from\\nexposure to the infection, also died.\\nIt appears from the town records that Col. John Hale was put in\\ncharge of these hospitals, with a supervisory committee, consisting\\nof Noah Worcester, Stephen Ames. Oliver Lawrence, Capt^- s\\nDaniel Emerson. Solomon Rogers, Dea. Stephen Jewett and\\nEdward Taylor, who were to take security of Col. Hale and place\\nhim luider proper restrictions.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "jS8 war of the revolution. [1780.\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\n1780 AND I 78 1. VOTES AND RESOLUTIONS. MOLLIS CONTINENIAI-\\nq_UOTA. WAGES OF SOLDIERS. MILITIA FOR WEST POINT AND\\nNORTHERN FRONTIER. THEIR WAGES AND BOUNTIES. TAXES\\nASSESSED TO PAY THEM. BEEF FOR THE ARMY IN 1 780, 17S1.\\n-REDUCTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TROOPS. REDUCTION OF\\nITIE HOLLIS Q_UOTA. TWELVE CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS CALLED\\nFOR AND ENGAGED. THEIR NAMES. BEEF FOR THE ARMY IN\\n1 78 1 AND HOW OBTAINED. THE TOWN DIVIDED INTO CLASSES.\\nNEW CALL FOR TWELVE SOLDIERS. RUM FOR THE ARMY.\\nREPRESENTATIVE IN I 78 1.\\nVOTES AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE TOWN MEETINGS IN 1780.\\nAnnual 7\\\\nv)i Meetings ^larch d, lySo. Chose Ephraim Burge,\\nLt. Ebenezer Jewett and Ebenezer Runnclls a committee to take\\ncare of vSoldiers Families, and voted that the Selectmen and com-\\nmissioned officers settle with the Rhode Island men for 1779 and\\nthe men who went to Portsmouth last Fall, as to what they shall\\nreceive on account of the fall of Money, agreeably to our agree-\\nment with tliem, and also voted that Ebenezer Runnells, Noah\\nWorcester and Jacob Jewett l)e a committee to procure the Grain\\nfor the last Continental men and settle with them and that the Select-\\nmen assess the amuimt on the Polls and Estates of the town.\\nNo new Connnittee of Safety was chosen this vear or after 1779.\\nRi;CRUITS FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY\\nSpecial Town Meeting, Jnnc 28, /jSo. It is shown b\\\\ the\\nrecord of a special town meeting held [une iSth of this \\\\ear, tliat\\nthere was then a deficiency of nine men in the Mollis Continental\\n(luota. \\\\t this meeting the town voted to hire nine able-bodied\\nmen to seive in the Continental Army till the last tlay of December\\niie\\\\t, and that Jonathan Fox, Jacob Jewett, Jun.. and Ephraini", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Niithaniel Patten,\\n\u00c2\u00a3510\\nAsa Lovcjny,\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nAbel Lovejoy,\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nJesse Worcester,\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nLemuel Blood,\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nReuben Blood,\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nNathaniel Blood.\\n\u00c2\u00a3210\\nLawful Money,\\n\u00c2\u00a32,190\\n17S0.] MILITIA TO WEST POINT. 189\\nBnrge be a committee to hire said men. and to give security in\\nbehalf of the Town in any way they think proper, On the 4th of\\nJuly, within a week after this meeting, this committee made the fol-\\nlowing report of its doings\\nThe Inhabitants of the Town of Hollis to Jonathan Fox,\\nJacob Jewett, Jun., and Ephraim Burge as a committee\\nchosen by said Town to agree with and hire nine men to go\\ninto the Continental Army for six months for said Town. Dr.\\nJiilv 4. 1780. To cash and our security given to nine men. Viz.\\nTo Jacob Danforth, Cash, \u00c2\u00a3210. 90 Bushels of Rye, 10 Bushels of liui Corn.\\nStephen Conroy, \u00c2\u00a3210 90\\n79\\n90 and one Blanket.\\n90 and one Blanket.\\n90 and one Blanket.\\n90 and one Pair of Shoes.\\n90 and one Pair of Shoes.\\ngo and one Pair of Shoes.\\n799 Bushels of Rye, 3 Blankets, 3 Pair of Shoes.\\nN. B. The wages of the nine si.x months men belong to the Town.\\nIt appears from the above note that the full amount of the wages\\nof these men was paid in advance by the town, the men being\\nunwilling, probably on account of the state of the currency, to give\\ncredit to tlie vState or Congress.\\nMILITIA TO WEST POINT.\\nIt is shown also by the Great Return of the Selectmen of\\nHollis before often referred to, that Abel BJood, another Hollis sol-\\ndier, enlisted at the same time with these nine, in the Continental\\narmy, and was paid the like amount of wages.\\nMILITIA FOR WEST POINT AND THE NORTHERN FRONTIER.\\nEarly in July of this year a further call was made upon the town\\nfor fifteen men for three months to aid in the defence of West\\nPoint, and for three others to serve for six months on the northern\\nfrontier. On the 3d of July a town meeting was called to act upon\\nthis subject, and also to raise money to pay the nine men who\\nhad enlisted in the Continental army.\\nSpecial Tozvn Meeting-, y^^h 3^- ^7^0. Extracts from t/ic\\nRecord, Voted that the Selectmen procure the money for the\\nnine men the committee have engaged the best wa} they can, and\\nthat Dr. Jonathan Fox, Jacob Jewett, Jun., and Ephraim Burge be\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a committee to assist in raising the eighteen men now called for.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 MEX FOR WEST POINT. [lySl.\\nWithin about two weeks after this meeting, this committee made\\nreport to the town that they had procured fourteen of the men for\\nthree months to go to West Point and tv\\\\ o of those to serve on the\\nnorthern frontier. The bounties agreed upon for the men to go to\\nWest Point were to be paid wholly in eitlier rye or corn, as follows\\nto one of them thirty-five bushels of rye to two others, thirty\\nbushels of corn each to another, forty-five bushels of corn to each\\noften others, fifty Inishels of corn. These fourteen men were all to\\nretain their government wages. To Simeon Blood and Thomas\\nYoungman, the two men engaged to serve for six months on the\\nnorthern frontier, the committee agreed to pay ninety bushels of rye\\nand \u00c2\u00a3310 each in money. tJic govcrnvicnt ivagcs of these tivo to\\nhelo7ig to the toivn It appears from the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Great Return, that two\\nothers, paid the like bounties with the fourteen, were engaged for\\nWest Point, making sixteen for that place, and the whole eighteen\\ncalled for from the town.\\nXAMES Ol THE MEN FOR WEST POINT.\\nAndrew Bailey, Jesse Hanly, Silas Lawrence,\\nRichard Bailey. Leirmel Hardy, Nathaniel Eeeman,\\nJosiah Blood, Lieut. Ebenezer Jewell. Daniel Merrill, Jun.,\\n[ohn Conroy, Jacob Jewett, 3d., Stephen Parker,\\nStephen Dow, Nicholas Lawrence. Francis Grant Powers.\\nJonas Flagg,\\nThese sixteen men were enlisted in the company of Cant.\\nWilliam Rarron, in a regiment commanded by Col. Nichols. It\\nis shown l)y the regimental rctiu ns now with the army rolls at\\nConcord, that these men were enlisted July 6, 17S0. and were dis-\\ncharged on the 32d of the following October, having been in the\\nservice three months and sixteen days. The wages paid by the\\ngovernment w^ere \u00c2\u00a3134 per month and 6s. per mile for travel. It\\nis stated in the Hollis Centennial address, that Francis Grant\\nPowers, one of these sixteen soldiers, was killed at Crown Poirrt.\\nHe was a son of Francis Powers, and a grandson of Capt. Peter\\nPowers, tlie first settler of Hollis. and was born January S. 1764.\\nPAY OR THE HOLLIS SOLDIERS.\\nSpecial Toxv)i Meeti ig. November 33. 17S0. Chose Dr.\\nJonathan Fox, Jacoli Jewett, Jun.. and Mr. Ephraim Burge a\\ncommittee to settle with the soldiers they have hired and report (o\\nthe town what sum of money to raise. Adjourned to December\\n5. Adjo7irncd Special Tovjn Meetings December 5, 17S0", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "1 781.] REDUCTION OV NEW HAMPSIIIUE QIJOTA, I9I\\nThe committee above appointed liaving reported in respect to the\\nsoldiers, Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a333,000 to pay the money borrowed for\\nsaid soldiers, and to procure the grain engaged to the three and six\\nmonths men, and that Capt. Daniel Emerson, Mr. Ephraim Burge\\nand T.ient. Ebcnezcr Jewctt be a committee to purchase said grain.\\nI5EEF FOR THE ARMY.\\nThe town in August of this year was called upon to furnish\\n16,000 pounds of beef for the army, and at a town meeting held on\\nthe 31st of August the town voted a tax of \u00c2\u00a325,000 for the purchase\\nof this 16,000 lbs. of beef, being at the rate of \u00c2\u00a31 lis. 6d., or some-\\nwhat more than $5 per pound. On the 23d of November, 1780,\\nCol. John Hale w-as chosen to represent the town in the General\\nCourt to be holden at Exeter on the 3d of the following December.\\nREDUCTION OK NEW HAMPSHIRE TROOPS IN 1 78 1..\\nBy an act of the General Court, passed January 12, 1 781, the\\nnumber of New Hampshire troops for the regular army was reduced\\nto one thousand three hundred and fifty-four, to be organized into\\ntwo regiments, and to serve for three years or during the war.\\nThe number of men to be furnished for this force l)y Hollis was\\nreduced from thirty, the old quota, to a new quota of but twenty.\\nAt that date, as appears from the army rolls, there were nine\\nContinental soldiers in the army, who had been previously enlisted\\nto serve during the war. The names of these soldiers were\\nSamuel Boyd, Stciihcn Richardson, Eli Stiles,\\nThomas Pratt, Lemuel Rogers, Joseph Wheat,\\nJoel Proctor, David Sanderson, Jabez Youngman.\\nBoyd, Pratt, Proctor, Richardson, Sanderson and Youngman\\nenlisted in the ist New Hampshire regiment, and were in that\\nregiment December 31, 1783, and afterwards, as supposed, till the\\nyegiment was discharged in 1783.*\\nThe time of the service of a large part of the Hollis quota having\\nexpired about this time, a town meeting was summoned on the 19th\\nof February, 1781, to supply such deficiencies as might exist in the\\nnew quota. At this meeting Capt. Daniel Emerson, Dr. Jonathan\\nFox and Mr. Ephraim Burge were appointed a committee to enquire\\ninto the subject, to engage the soldiers w^anted, and to make report\\nto the next town meeting. This committee afterwards, at the\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Kidder s Histarj- of tst N. H. Regiment, p. 162.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 COXTIXKXTAI. (^I OTA. [l7^\\nadjourned ajiniud town meeting held on the I2tli of March, made\\nreport, tliat twelve men were then wanted to complete tlie new\\nquota. Upon this report being made, the town, at that meeting,\\ninstructed this committee to engage the men, and to give security\\nin behalf of the town for such wages or bounties as they should\\nagree witli them for, and also \\\\oted a war tax of \u00c2\u00a3Soo for the war\\ncharges of the year, and appointed Noah Worcester, Esq.,\\nJonathan TaNlor and John Atwcll. a committee to hire the money\\ntill this tax could be collected.\\nliEEF VOR rilE ARAn IX 1781.\\nThe town also at the same meeting voted a tax of \u00c2\u00a3Soo, new\\nemission. to pmxhase the town s quota of beef for this year, and\\nappointed Capt. Daniel Emerson. Ephraim Burge and Jeremiah\\nAmes a committee to procure it. The report of the committee for\\nhiring these twelve men is not found, and is probabl} lost. But the\\nreturns and army rolls at Concord show that they all enlisted for\\nthree years, and the returns of the Ilollis Selectmen also show that\\nthe town paid each of them a bountv of \u00c2\u00a360, or $200. As the\\n:)ld Continental paper money had now l)ecome worthless these\\nliounties were doubtless paid in specie or its equivalent, amounting\\nin all to \u00c2\u00a3720, or $2,400. Instead of entailing this amount as a\\ndebt upon the town to be paid by posterity, as has been too often\\ndone in more modern times in like cases, our ancestors at their\\nannual town meeting assessed a war tax of \u00c2\u00a3800 or $2,666.67, to\\nmeet it, to be collected and pa\\\\d the same year. The names of\\nthese twelve itien were\\nlohn Bonner, Benjiiniin W. Grait SUphcn Parker,\\nElijah Clark, Isaac Ilobart, Ezekiel Proctor.\\nEdward Deanc, Jacob Ilobart. James Rolfe,\\nJohn Godfrey. John McHendley. Asahel Twiss.\\nAt a special town meeting held on the 14th of May of this year a\\nresolution was adopted, that for the purpose of engaging soldiers in\\nanswer to future calls, the town should be divided into Classes, and\\nthe Selectmen and ]Mr. Ephraim Burge were chosen as a committee\\nto class the town. It appears that in pursuance of this resolu-\\ntion the town was di\\\\ ided into eight classes.\\nTHE town s (^lO rA OF BEEF FX)K 17S1.\\nSprcial Joiv// Mccf/z/g., June 25, 17S1. At this meeting the\\ntown Voted that as the town is now divided into eight classes,\\nthe quantity of beef we have to get be divided to each class according", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "lySl.] NEW CALL FOR SOLDIERS. rc)^\\nto valuation, (except as to non-residents) and that the SLieciiaea\\nset down each man s portion of beef to his name and that if any\\nclass or person refuse to pay their or his proportion of beef the\\nsame shall be committed to the Constable to collect, and tl iat the\\nSelectmen shall set such sum in specie to such delinquent as will be\\nsufficient to pay for his proportion of beef.\\nNEW CALL FOR SOLDIEF\\nIn the month of July of this year a requisition was niaJe by the\\nState upon the town for twelve men to senx in the army for three\\nmonths. In consequence of this call a town meeting was held on\\nthe 19th of July, at which it was voted that the eight classes into\\nwhich the town was divided should be so coupled that each two\\nclasses should procure three good effective men. The Great\\nReturn shows that nine of these three months men were enlisted\\nand paid by the town. No record or other evidence is foimd in\\nrespect to the other three. A bount}^ of \u00c2\u00a315, or $50 each, was\\npaid to the nine men engaged. They enlisted in the company of\\nCapt. John Mills, in a small, incomplete regiment commanded by\\nCol. Daniel Reynolds of Londonderry. It is not known where this\\nregiment was employed, or that in fact it ever left the State. The\\nwar at this time was substantially at an end, and the regiment soon\\ndisbanded, and most probably for these reasons, the three remaining\\nHollls men were not engaged. The names of the nine men in\\nCapt. Mills company were,\\nCapt. William Brooks, Abner Keyes, B. Woods Parker,\\nAsa Chamberlain, Daniel Merrill, Thomas Powell,\\nRobert Connick, Jacob Mooar, Samuel Read.\\nIncluding the nine three months men and the twenty\\nContinentals, Hollis had this year in the service, in all, but\\ntwenty-nine soldiers, a number much less than that of any\\npreceding year.\\nRUM FOR THE ARMY.\\nOn the ist of October of this year a town meeting was called to\\nsee what method should be taken to procure ///e J^z/m required of\\nthe town for the army, and Robert McGaw was chosen agent of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^he town to provide it. The town s quota in gallons is not stated\\nin the record but at a subsequent town meeting, in December of\\nthis year a tax of \u00c2\u00a3100, or $333 was voted to pay for it, and the\\nnecessary charges of the town.\\n(13)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "194 WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. [1782.\\nCHAPTER XVIIl.\\n17S2-S3. i^lE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR. NEW PLAN OF GOV-\\nERNMEN). THE NEW HAMPSHIRE RANGERS IN 17S2. LAST\\nSOLDIER O ITIE IIOLLIS QUOTA. NUMBER AND NAMES OF\\nHOLLIS SOLDIERS. SENTIMENTS IN RESPECT TO THE RETURN\\nOF THE TORIES. LAST WAR TAX. HOLLIS RECORDS AND-\\nDOCUMENTS. NAMES OF THE COMMITTEES OF SAFETY AND\\nCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS. SOLDIERS LOST IN THE WAR.\\nNEW PLAN OF GOVERNMENT.\\nIn the month of June, 17S1, a vState Convention was held at Con-\\ncord to agree upon and propose a new Plan or system of State\\nGovernment. HolHs had no delegate in this convention, the town,\\nin the month of May previous, having voted not to elect. In the\\nmonth of September next afterwards the convention reported its\\nplan to be submitted to the people of the State at their town\\nmeetings. Early in January, 17S2, a town meeting was called in\\nHollis to consider this plan, at which a committee of sixteen was\\nchosen to examine it and make report of their sentiments in respec\\nto it at an adjoiu ned meeting on the i6th of January. Upon the\\ncoming in of the report of this comfnittee, the town voted as follows\\nrst, to accept the Bill -of Rights with an amendment reported by\\nthe Committee. 2d, To have a Governor under certain restric-\\ntions, but that the power of the Governor set forth in the Plan\\nis too large. 3d, That the present mode of representation be\\nadopted and that each town pay its own representative.\\nThis first plan reported by the convention was not accepted by\\na majority of the people of the vState and the convention again met\\nand made a second report in September, 1782. A town meeting\\nwas called on the i6th of December of this year to consider and\\nact upon this new report. The extracts from the record of the\\nmeeting presented l)elow exhibit the sentiments and doings of this", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "1782.] LAST SOLDIER OF THE MOLLIS tyjOTA. 1 95\\nmeeting. Voted to reject said Plan of Government as it stands,\\nyeas, lo, nays, 36. It then being submitted to the town what\\namendment they would have instead of a Supreme Head to be styled\\na Governor, Voted that we would choose to be governed similar\\nto what we now are by a council and assembly the President of\\nthe Coimcil to be the Supreme Head of the State and in the recess,\\nthe General Court to have a Committee of Safety to assist the\\nPresident.\\nIt is said that this new plan was generally approved in the State\\nbut was not fully completed at the time news of peace arrived. The\\nold form of government, having expired with the war, it was re-\\nvived by the votes of the people and kept in force for one year\\nlonger. In the year following the new form was finished, and the\\nname of Governor being changed to President it was printed\\na third time, and declared to be the civil Constitution of the State,\\nand continued in force till the adoption of the present Constitution\\nin September 1792.\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE RANGERS IN 17S2.\\nAlthough the danger was not supposed to be great, yet as a mat-\\nter of precaution, companies of New Hampshire Rangers were kept\\nin service on the northern frontier, known as the Coos Coun-\\ntry, in the summer and fall of 17S2, to protect the inhabitants from\\nthreatened raids of the Indians in Canada. On the 4th of Julv\\nof this year, Andrew Henderson of Hollis enlisted in a company of\\nthese Rangers, (in v\\\\diich he was a Sergeant) commanded l)v Capt.\\nJonathan Smith of Surry. Also on the 6th of July Jonas\\nWilloughby of Hollis volunteered in a company employed in the\\nsame service commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Webster of Salisbui-y,\\nthe father of Plon. Daniel Webster. These companies were dis-\\ncharged about the middle of November, having been in the service\\nabout four and one-half months.\\nTHE LAST SOLDIER OF THE HOLLIS CONTINENTAL QUOTA.\\nPreviously to the beginningof 1782, active hostilities between the\\ncontending armies had virtually ended, yet the Continental Con-\\ngress regarded it prudent that the ranks of the regular army should\\nbe kept filled. About the middle of July of this year, upon investiga-\\ntion being made by a committee of the town, one man was found\\nto be wanting in the Hollis quota. At a town meeting then held", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "196 NUMBER AND NAMES OF THE HOLLIS SOLDIERS. [lyS--\\nthe tcnvn voted unanimoiislv that one man more be raised by the\\ntown to serve in the Continental army and that the committee for\\nthat pnrpose procure him at discretion, immediately. It appears\\nfrom the regimental returns of Col. Nichols, that on the 15th ot\\nJuly 17S2, Jabcz Youngman had enlisted as a soldier for Hollis for\\nthree years, thus making the Continental quota of the town com-\\nplete. Youngman was the last soldier who volunteered for Hollis,\\nand the only one called for this }ear for the regular army. His name\\nis found on the roll of the ist New Hampshire Continental regi-\\nment, in December, 17^2, and he is supposed to have been in the\\nser\\\\ice till the regiment was discharged, the next year, at the con-\\nclusion of peace. The town paid him a bounty of \u00c2\u00a360 or $200,\\nthe same as paid to the Continental soldiers enlisted for three years,\\nin 17S1\\nM MBER AND N AMES OF THE IIOLLIS SOLDIERS.\\nIt will be found on examination of the various lists and rolls,\\nstill existing, of the Hollis soldiers in the Revolution, that most of\\nthem enlisted more than once, and many of them on three or more\\ndifferent occasions but counting each name but once, it will appear\\nthat Hollis, at different times during the war, as nearly as can now\\nbe ascertained, furnished, with but few exceptions, from its own\\ncitizens, more than three hundred soldiers who for a longer or short-\\ner time were in the military service a number but little less than\\none-fourth of its whole population.\\nOf these soldiers, there was one each of the names of Abbot,\\nAdams, iVmbrose, Atwell, Auld, Blanchard, Bonner, Boyd, Bruce,\\nBurge, Campbell, Clark, Cowen, Danforth, Davis, Deane, Dickey,\\nElliot, Farmer, Farnsworth, Flagg, Foster, Gilson, Godfrey, Goss,\\nHazeltine, Henderson, Hill, Honey, Hopkins, Hosley, Kemp,\\nKendrick, Keyes, Kinney, Lesley, Lund, McConnor, McHendley,\\n:Messer, Minot, Patten, Philbrick, Platts, Poor, Powell, Pratt,\\nRichardson, Rideout, Rogers, Runnells, Russ, Seaver, Shed,\\nStevens, Tenney, Thurston, Townsend, Twiss, Wallingford, Wood\\nand Wyman.\\nTwo each of the names of Ames, Brooks, Carter, Conant,\\nConnick, Fisk, Grace, Jaquith, Johnson, Leeman, McDaniels,\\nMcintosh, Mooar, Noyes, Pool, Rolfe, vSanderson, Smith, Spalding,\\nStearns, Wilkins, Willoughby and Woods.\\nOf the names of Bowers, Chamberlain, Dow, Eastman,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "1782.] SENTIMENTS IN RESPECT TO THE TORIES. I97\\nGoodhue, How, Merrill, Parker, Patch, Phelps, Read and Stiles,\\nthree each.\\nFour each of the names of Brown, Conroy, Hale, Lawrence,\\nLovejoy, Pierce, Proctor, .Shattuck and Worcester. Of the names\\nof Ball, Colburn, Emerson, Nevins, Taylor, Wheat, Wheeler,\\nWright and Yovmgman, five each. Six of the name of Powers.\\nOf the names of Bailey, Boynton, Cumings, Farley and French,\\nseven each. Eight of the name of Hobart, nine of Jewett, ten of\\nthat of Hardy, and. sixteen of the name of Blood.\\nRepresentative to the General Court. At a special town meet-\\ning held on the 28th of October of this year Richard Cutts Shannon\\nwas elected to represent the town in the General Court to be holden\\nat Portsmouth in December 1782.\\njySj. Annual Town Meeting. Increase of the State Tax.\\nAt the annual A larch meeting of this year the town Voted to\\nenlarge the State tax \u00c2\u00a3200 to defray the necessary charges of the\\nwar, and chose Dea. Daniel Emerson, Noah Worcester, Esq.,\\nCapt. Daniel Kendrick and Ephraim Burge a committee to assist\\nthe Selectmen in settling with the Continental soldiers.\\nTHE SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF HOLLIS IN RESPECT TO\\nTHE TORIES.\\nAs stated in the early part of this narrative, four of the citizens\\nof Hollis were known as loyalists or tories, one of whom for a time\\nwas imprisoned for disloyalty. The remaining three left the coun-\\ntry early in the war, and their names were included in the act of\\nconfiscation, passed in 1778, by the New Hampshire General\\nCourt, and tlie} witli many others, were forbidden to return to the\\ncountry under the penalty of death.\\nAfter the end of the war, the British Commissioners, in their\\nnegotiations for peace, were persistent in their eftbrts to provide for\\nthe return of the banished adherents of the crown, and the restora-\\ntion of their confiscated estates and this subject was widely and\\nwarmly discussed by the American press of the time, and in the\\nprimary assemblies of the peo23le. A special town meeting in\\nHollis was called to consider this subject in the spring of 1783,\\nand to see if the Town Would give their Representative any\\nInstructions in respect to the Absentees from this State and their\\nreturning. As will appear from the follow^ing extract, which we\\ncopy from the record of that meeting, the sentiments of the people", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "198 SEXTIINIENTS IN Rp:SPECT TO THE TORIES. [1783-\\nof the town upon this question found expression in language more\\nvigorous and emphatic than forgetful or forgiving, as follows\\nThe minds of the people being tried in respect to the Returning\\nof those Miserable Wretches imder the name of Tories, Absentees\\nor Conspirators,\\nVoted unanimously that they shall not be allowed to return or\\nregain their forfeited Possessions.\\nVoted that a Committee be chosen to give the Representative\\nof this Town j^articulhr Instructions which may convey to him the\\nunanimous sentiments of the people in respect to the Absentees\\nabove mentioned.\\nVoted that Col. John Hale, Noah Worcester. Esq., Master\\nCumings, Dea. Bo^^nton, Captains Dow, Goss and Kendrick lie a\\nCommittee to give the Instructions above mentioned.\\nRepresentative to tJie Genera/ Court. On the 26th of Decem-\\nber of this year Dea. Daniel Emerson was chosen Representative to\\nthe General Court to be held at Concord in June.\\nAinjual To v?/ Alceting ISIareh 7, 1184. At the annual town meet-\\ning of this year Dea. Daniel Emerson was again chosen Representa-\\ntive to the General Court to meet at Concord in June. At the same\\nmeeting the town Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a3210 to dcfrav the charges of\\nfoiu Continental soldiers, viz., Elijah Clark. John Godfrey, Jacob\\nHobart and Jalx z Youngman, and also that the selectmen should\\nassist the Continental soldiers in ]:)referring a petition to the General\\nCourt for a redress of Grievances in respect to their ^vages.\\nTHE EAST TOWN MEETING IN RESPECT lO THE CONTINENTAL\\nSOEDIERS, MAY 2, 17S5.\\nVoted that Noah W^orcestcr and Daniel Emerson. Esqrs., and\\nMr. William Cumings be a Ctimmittec to look into matters\\nrelating to the Continental soldiers and see how matters stand in\\nrelation to making them or any of them a consideration for their\\nservices, and report at a future meeting.\\nAt a special town meeting held afterwards on the 15th of Septem-\\nber this committee reported as follows: That the Town in\\nJustice ought to givey;vr_^rrt //V to Thomas Pratt, David Sanderson,\\nJoel Proctor, John Youngman and Thomas Wheat \u00c2\u00a318 to each of\\nthem, for their voluntary service in the Continental Army. This\\nreport was accepted by the town and a tax for the amount assessed\\nat the same meeting. Such was the honorable and characteristic\\nclose of the Ilollis war meetings.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "7^5-] IIOLLIS RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS. 1 99\\nTHE MOLLIS RECORDS AND REVOLUTIONARY DOCUMENTS.\\nIll the foregoing narrative it has been my aim to gather as far us\\npracticable, from authentic sources, and to present in as little space\\nas was consistent with perspicuity and historical accuracy, the\\nannual doings of the people of Ilollis in the seven years war of the\\nRevolution, and also somewhat of the sentiments and spirit which\\nanimated their efforts in the struggle for National Independence.\\nNotwithstanding all the care I have used in my researches, it may\\nbe that some errors have escaped me.\\nIn vievv of the lapse of one hundred years since our Revolution,\\nand the long time since the last of the actors in its story have\\npassed away, it would be passing strange if some mistakes have not\\nunwittingly found their way into this narrative, which, if detected,\\nI hope may be pardoned and corrected. But in the hope of avoid-\\ning important errors, I have in the main adhered closely to the\\nRevolutionary documents and records of the State and town.\\nThese records and documents of Hollis which I have so freely\\nused and copied, and which so fully tell of the doings and purposes\\nof the men who made them, I cannot but look upon as a precious\\nand sacred legacy to their posterity, and to the present and future\\ninhabitants of the town. We find in them all no sentiment of our\\nancestors which we would forget, no recorded act which does not\\ndo honor to their memories. The story as here told to some who\\nmay read it may seem needlessly prolix, and in some of its details\\ntedious, still I am conscious that very many matters have been\\nomitted, highly creditable to the actors in them, which interested\\nme to know, and which if told would doubtless interest others as\\nwell. Yet I trust that in this imperfect naiTative enough has been\\nsaid, to satisfy all who have curiosity in such inquiries, that upon all\\noccasions, from the beginning of the war to its end, our ancestors of\\nHollis did what at the time they believed to be their duty to their\\ncountry, their own generation, and to their posterity, intelligently,\\npromptl}-, and joati iotically, with unfaltering courage, and the hope-\\nful assurance of final success.\\nIn 17741 when that dark and portentous war cloud \\\\vas still in\\nthe horizon, undismayed by its threatenings. they proclaimed in the\\nface of it and inscribed upon their public records, lie xvill en-\\ndeavor at all times to mahttain onr liberties and privileges^ both\\ncivil and sacred, at the risk of 07/r lives and fortunes. When\\na few months later that cloud first burst at Lexington, the Hollis\\nminute men with full ranks hastened to the scene of conflict.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "20O MOLLIS RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS. [^7^5-\\nOn the night of the i6th of June the Hollis company, under the\\neye of the galhint Prescott, without sleep or food, were busy with\\ntheir spades and pickaxes upon the earthworks at Bunker Hill.\\nThey were a part of that force, worn and weary with the work of\\nthe night, of whom it was curtly said by their brave Colonel, on the\\nmorning of the battle, in answer to a proposal to relieve them, -md\\ncall fresh troops to the defence of the works they had built\\nT/ic 7Hcn who Iniilt tJiis fort xvill best defend it.\\nIn the fall after that battle, when the ranks of the army av\\nCambridge were thinned an^d weakened by the base desertion of the\\nConnecticut regiments, another company, mainly of Hollis volun-\\nteers, with the New Hampshire reinforcements, promptly marched\\nto the seat of war to supply the places of the mutineers.\\nIn 1776 we find Hollis soldiers with the army in Canada, at\\nTiconderoga, in the garrisons at Portsmouth, at White Plains, and\\nsharing in the l;)loody campaigns in New Jersey.\\nThe next year, when Gen. Burgoyne was on his march from\\nCanada to Ticonderoga, a company of fifty or more Hollis minute\\nmen is seen hastening to its defence. The same summer, after the\\nfall of that fortress, wx find a company, chiefly of Hollis soldiers,\\nunder the gallant Stark at the decisive battle and brilliant victory\\nat Bennington. In the hard winter of 1777-S, when their Conti-\\nnental soldiers were in the ill-suj^plied camp at Valley Forge, some\\nof them barefoot and in rags, the nimble fingers of their mothers\\nand sisters at home are seen busy for their relief.\\nIn the summer of 177^ when Rhode Island was threatened with\\ninvasion, a company of forty-three mounted Hollis soldiers marched\\nto aid in the defence. When in 17S0 West Point was endangered\\nby the base treason of Gen. Arnold, we have seen how readily our\\nancestors responded to the call for volunteers. And in 17S2, after\\nthe last battle of the war had been fouglit, when the Continental\\nCongress thouglit it prudent to keep the ranks of the regular army\\nfilled, this last call was at once cheerfully and promptly met.\\nIf we follow the campaigns of the regular army we shall find the\\nHollis Continental cjuota in the New Hampshire regiments with\\nVV^ashington at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and\\nGermantown with Gen. Gates at Stillwater and Saratoga with\\nGen. wSullivan in the war against the Six Nations, and again with\\nWashington at the final battles and surrender at Yorktown. The\\nNew Hampshire Continental regiments known as the Hampshire\\nBoys from the beginning to end of the war, were noted for their", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "1 785-]\\nIIOLUS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.\\n20I\\nfidelity to duty, their good conduct and intrepidity, and their\\ncommanders, the gallant Cilley, Poor and Scammell, could at all\\ntimes rightfully say with the Trojan Hector, in face of the dangers\\nof battle,\\nWhere heroes war the foremost phice we claim,\\nThe first in danger as the first in fame.\\nHOLLIS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN\\n1776.\\nCapt. Reuben Dow,\\nCapt. Noah Worcester,\\nEnsign Stephen Ames,\\n1777-\\nNoah Worcester,\\nStephen Ames,\\nDaniel Kcndrick,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nJacob Jewett,\\nCapt. Daniel Kendrick,\\nJacob Jewett,\\n177S.\\nNoah Worcester,\\nDea. Enoch Noyes.\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nNehemiah Woods,\\nEdward Taylor,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nSamuel Chamberlain.\\n1779.\\nNoah Worcester,\\nStephen Ames,\\nOliver Lawrence,\\nEdward Taylor,\\nJacob Jewett.\\nHOLLIS COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.\\nSamuel Ilobart, Colonel of 3nd N. II. regiment of minute men, and paymaster of N. H. troops:\\nin 1775.\\nJohn Hale, I ttei Emerson.\\nJonathan Pool.\\nRegimental Surgeons,\\nAssistant Surgeon,\\nCaptains.\\nReuben Dow,\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun.,\\nJohn Goss,\\nNoah Worcester.\\nFirst Lieutenants.\\nCaleb Farley,\\nEbenezer Jewett,\\nRobert Seaver,\\nDavid Wallinarford.\\nSecond Lieutenants\\nWilliam Brooks,\\nJohn Cumings,\\nSamuel Leeman, Jun.\\nHOLLIS SOLDIERS KILLED OR DIED IN THE ARMY OF DISEASE OR\\nJames Fisk,\\nJeremiah Sliattuck,\\nNathan Blood,\\nJacob Boynton,\\nThomas Colburn,\\nIsaac Hobart,\\nPhineas Nevins,\\nPeter Poor,\\nThomas Wheat,\\nEbenezer Youngman.\\nCaleb Eastman,\\nJosiah Blood,\\nMinot Farmer,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nEzra Proctor,\\nIsaac Shattuck,\\nSamuel Leeman, Jun..\\nEbenzer Cumings,\\nLebbeus Wheeler,\\nJohn Conroy,\\nDaniel Blood,\\nFrancis G. Powers,\\nWOUNDS.\\ndied at Cambridge,\\nkilled at Bunker Hill,\\ndied\\nMay 29, 1775.\\nMay 29, 1775.\\nJune 17, 1775.\\nkilled\\nSept.\\n1776\\nMay\\nMay 15\\nOct.\\n1777-\\n.77s.\\nJuly 10\\nSept.\\nNov. 28\\n17S0", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "202 nOI.LIS SOLDIERS KIM-El) OR DIED, [^ySS-\\nThe number of names in the list of deaths, is twenty-two. The\\nRev. Grant Powers, in his Centennial Address, states the loss of\\nHollis in the war, in killed or by disease, at thirty. He probably\\nincluded in that number eight 2:)ersons who in i779 tlied in Hollis\\nof the small pox, which he tells us was supposed to have been\\ncommunicated by the enemy. The eight who died of that disease,\\nadded to the twenty-two, woidd make the Ilollis loss of thirty as Mr.\\nPowers states it.\\nThe Hollis soldiers who received pensions from tlie Government,\\non account of 2:)ermanent disabilities sufl ered in the service, either\\nfrom wounds or disease, were Capt. Reuben Dow, Ensign William\\nWood, Thomas Pratt, (all wounded at Bunker Hill) Samuel Boyd\\nand .Stcplicn Richardson.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "1783.]\\nNAMES OF IIOI.I.IS SOLDIERS.\\n203\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nALPHABETICAL LIST OF IIOLLIS SOLDIERS, SHOWING IN WHAT\\nYEARS THEY ENLISTED WHEN AND HOW LONG THEY WERE IN\\nTHE SERVICE.\\n^775 L. deiiotcs enlisted^ April ig^ ^775^fo^ I^cxiiigtoii a?id\\nCambridge Cam. Cambridge B. at the Battle of\\nBunker Hill; C. Continental Artfiy Port., in\\nGarrison at Portsmouth. N. H. Wh. P., at White Plains\\n77., Tieonderoga 1777 Al. 7\\\\ Ticonderoga Alarm.,\\nJune., 1777; Ben in the co?npany of Capt. Goss., at Ben-\\nnington., jfuly lyy-/ W. Pt. West Point; 7?. Rhode\\nIsland G. P. //ames in the Returii of Capt. Goss, p. ^6/.)\\nAbbot, Bonjaniin, 75, L., 78, R. I., 22 d.\\n-Adams, William, 75, Cam., B. H., S m.\\nAmbrose, Samuel, 75, Cam., 3 mon.\\nAmes, David, 75, Cam., B. IL, 8 m., 76. C.\\nA. I y, 77 C. A., 3 y.\\nAmes, Jonathan, 75, L., 77 Al. T.\\nAtwell, John, 7S, L., 76, Port., 3 m., 78, R.\\nI., 22 d.\\nAuld, John, 78, C. A., 2 y.\\nBailey, Andrew, 75, Cam., B. IL.Sm., 76,\\nPort. 3 m., 77, C. A., 8 m. 78, R. I., 23 d.\\nBailey, Daniel, 75, Cam. 3 m., 77, Al. T., 78,\\nR. I., 22 d., 79, R. I., 5 m.\\nBailey, Daniel, Jun., 76, Wh. P. 5 m.\\nBailey, Job, 75, Cam. B. H., 8 m.\\nBailey, Joseph, 75, L.\\nBailey, Joel., 75, Cam., 8 ni., So, W. Pt., 3 m.\\nBall, Ebenezer, 75, Cam., B. IL, 8 ra., 76,\\nPort, and N. Y., 12 m.\\nBall, Eleazer, 75, Cam. 3 m., 77, Al. T.\\nBall, John, 76, Ti., 6 m., 77 C. A., 8 m.\\nBall, Nathaniel, Jun., 75, I-.\\nBall, William, 77, Al. T.\\nBlanchard, Joshua, 75, Cam. 3 m.\\nBlood, Abel, 80, C. A., 6 m.\\nBlood, Daniel, 75, Cam. 3 m., 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nBlood, Daniel, 2 d, 75, L., 76, Ti., 6 m.\\nPt.\\n8 m.\\nBlcxxl, Elnathan, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nBlood, Ephraim, 75, Cam. B. IL,8 mo.\\nBlood, Francis, 75, Cam. B. IL, 8 m.\\nBlood, Josiah, 76, Ti., 6 m.\\nBlood, Josiah, Jun., 77, Al. T., So W.\\n3 m.\\nBlood, I-emuel, So, C. A., 6 m.\\nBlood, Nathan, 75, I^., 75, Cam. B. IL\\nBlood, Nathaniel, 78, R. I., 22;!., So, C. A.\\n6 m.\\nBlood, Nathaniel, Jun., 78, R. L, 22 d.\\nBlood, Jonas, 75, I..\\nBlood, Reuben, 77, Al. J 7S, C. A., 2 y.,\\nSo, C. A., 6 m.\\nBlood, Simeon, 77, Ben., 78, C. A., 2 y., 80,\\nN. Frontier, 6 m.\\nBlood, Timothy, 76, Wh. P., 5 mo., 78, R. L\\n22 d.\\nBonner, John, Si, C. A., 3 y.\\nBowers, Henry, 77, Ben.\\nBowers, Jerathmael, 79, C. A., i y.\\nBowers, Oliver, 77, Al. T.\\nBoyd, Samuel, 78, C. A., 2 y., 80, C. A. 3 y.\\nBoynton, Benjamin, 75, L., 76, Wh. P., 5 m.\\nBoynton, Elias, 75, Cam. B. H., 8 ni., 76, C.\\nA., I y., 7S, R. I., 22 d.\\nBoynton, Isaac, 77, C. A. 3 y.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204\\nNAMES OF IIOI.LIS SOLDIERS.\\n[1782.\\nBoynton, Jacob, 75. Cam. B. H., 8 m.\\nBoynton, Joel, 75, Cam. 3 m., 76, Wh. P., 5 m\\nBoynton, John, 3 d., 77, C. A., S m.\\nBoynton, Joshua, 75, Cum. Ji. II., 8 m., 77,\\nAl. T.\\nBrooks, John, 77, C. A., 8 m.\\nBrooks, Lt. William, 78, R. I., 22 d., 81, 3 m.\\nBrown, Abel, 75, Cam. B. H., 8 m.\\nBrown, William, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nBrown, Eliphalet, 75, Cam. 3 m., 77, Al. Ti.,\\n77, Ben.\\nBrown, Joseph, 76, N. V., 2 m.\\nBruce, Josiah, 75, Cam. 8 m.\\nBurge, Ephraim, 77, Al. T.\\nCampbell, John, 75, Cam. B. II., 8 m., 77,\\nBen.\\nCarter, Edward, 76, Wli. P. 5 m., 77, C. A.\\n3y-\\nCarter, Thomas, 78, R. I., 22 d.\\nChamberlain, Asa, 81, 3 m.\\nChamberlain, Samuel, 76, N. Y., 2 m.\\nChamberlain, Wilder, 75, Cam. B. H., 8 m.\\nClark, Elijah, Si, C. A., 3 y.\\nColburn, Benj., 77, Al. T., 78, R. I., 22 d.\\nColburn, James, 75, Cam., 3 m., 77, C. A.\\n8 m.\\nColburn, N athan, 75, L., 75, Cam. 8 m., 76,\\nWh. P., 5 m.\\nColburn, Robt., 75, Cam. 3 m.\\nColburn, Thomas, 75, L., 75, Cam. B. JI.,\\nS m.\\nConant, Abel, 75, Cam. B. II., S m., 76, C.\\nA., I y., 78. R. I., 22 d.\\nConant Josiah, 75, Cam. 3 m., 7S, R. I., 22 d.\\nConnick, Robt., 81, 3 m.\\nConnick William, 76, Wh. P., 5 m., 77, C.\\nA., 3 y., So, C. A., 6 m.\\nCowen, William, 78, C. A., 2 y.\\nCumings, Benj., 75, L., 75, Cam. P II. S ni.,\\n76, C. A., I y.\\nConroy,John, 75, Cam. 3 m., So, W. Pt., 3m.\\nConroy, John, Jun., 78, C. A. 2 y.\\nConroy, Samuel, 75, L., 75, Cam. B. H., 8 ni.\\nConroy, Stephen, 76, C. A., 1 y., 78, C. A., 2\\ny., 80, C. A., 6 m.\\nCumings, Ebenezer, 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nCumings, En. John, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. 11.\\n8 m.\\nCumings, Larnard, 76, Port, and N. V., 12 m.\\nCumings, Peter, 75, Cam. B. II., S m.\\nCumings, Philip, 75, Cam. B. II., S m.\\nCumings, Wm., 76, N. Y., 2 m., 77, Al. T.\\nUanforth, Jacob, 76, C. A., i y., 77, C. A., 3\\ny., So, C. A., 6 m.\\nDavis, Joshua, 76, Ti. 6 m.\\nDcane, Edward, Si, C. A. 3 y.\\nDickey, James, 75, L., 77, Al. T.\\nDow, Capt. Reuben, 75, 75, Cam. IJ. I].,\\n8 mo., 78, R. I., 22 d.\\nDow, Evan, 75, Cam. B. II., 8 m,. 78, R. 1..\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a022 d.\\nDow, Stephen, 77, Al. T., 80, W. Pt., 3 m.\\nEastman, Amos, 75, L., 76, N. Y., 2 m.\\nEastman, Caleb, 75, Cam. B. H., 8 m.\\nEastman, Jonathan, 75, L.\\nElliot, William, 75, Cam. B. II., 8 m., 76, C.\\nA., y.\\nEmerson, Capt. Daniel, 76, Ti. 6 m., 77,\\nAl. T., 78, R. I., 22 d., 79, R. I., s m.\\nEmerson, Dr. Peter, 79, R. I., 5 m., Reg.\\nSurg.\\nEmerson, Ralph, 76, Ti., 6 m., 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nEmerson, Samuel, 79, R. I., 5 m.\\nEmerson, Thomas, 76, Ti., 6 m.\\nFarley, Benj., 75, L., 75, Cam. 3 m.\\nFarley, Benj., Jun., 76, Ti., 6 m.\\nFarley, Lt. Caleb, 76, Port, and N. Y., 12 in.,\\n78 R. I., 22 d.\\nFarley, Christopher, 76, Port, and N. Y.,\\n12 m.\\nFarley, Ebenezer, 75, L., 76, N. Y., 2 m.\\nFarley, Joseph, 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nP ailey, Stephen, 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nFarmer, Minot, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. II. S m.\\n76, C. A., I y.\\nFarnswiirth, David, 75, L., 75, Cam. B. H.,\\n8 m.\\nFisk, James, 75, L., 75, Cam. 8 m.\\nFisk, Josiah, 75, Cam. B. II., 8 m.\\nFlagg, Jonas, 78, R. I., 22 d., So, W.Pt.,3 ni.\\nFoster, Simeon, 79, C. A., 1 y.\\nFrench, David, 76, Port, and N. Y., 12 m.\\nFrench, Isaac, 75, Cam. 3 m., 76, Wh. P. 3 m.\\nFrench, Jonathan, 77, Ben., 78, R. I., 22 d.\\nFrench, Joseph, 75, Cam., S m.\\nFrench, Nehemiah, 75, Cam., S m., 77, Ai. T.\\nFrench, Timothy, 76, N. Y., 2 m.\\nFrench, William, 75, L.\\nGilson, Ebenezer, 75, L., 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nGodfiey, John, 77, C. A., 3 y., Si, C. A. 3 y.\\nGoodhue, Samuel, 77, Port. 1 m.\\nGoodhue, John, 79, Port. 6 m.\\nGoodhue, Stei^hen, 76, Wh. P., 5 m. 78 R. i.,\\n22 d.\\nGoss, Capt. John, 75 L., 75. Cam., 15. II., 8 m.,\\n77, Ben.\\nGrace, Benjamin W., Si, C. A., 3y.\\nGrace, Manuel, 75, L.\\nHale, Dr. John, Reg. Surgeon from 76 to So\\nHale, John, Jun., 76, N. Y 2 m., 78, R. I.,\\n22 d.\\nHale, David, 7S, R. I., 22 d.\\nHale, William, 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nHardy, Aaron, 75, L.\\nHardy, Jesse, 80, \\\\V. Pt., 3 m.\\nHardy, Lemuel, 77, Al. T., 80, W. Pt., 3 ni.\\nHardy, Joseph, 79, Port., 6 m.\\nHardy, Nehemiah, 75. Cam. 3 m.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "1782.1\\nNAMES OF MOLLIS SOLDIERS.\\nICJ\\nHardy, Noah, 77, Al. T., 7S, R. I., 22 d. Lesley, Jonas, 76, Wh. P., 5 m.\\nHardy, Phineas, 76, Port. 3 m. Lovejoy, Abel, So, C. A. 6 m.\\nHardy, Phineas, Jun., 75, Cam., B. 11. S m., Lovejoy, Asa, 75, Cam., 3 m., 76, Wli., P. J\\n76, Port., 3 m. m., 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nHardy, Silas, 79, Port., 6 m. Lovejoy, Daniel, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nHardy, Thomas, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m., 76, Lovejoy, Jonathan, Jun., 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nC. A., I y. Lund, Ephraim, 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nHenderson, Andrew, S3, N. Frontier, 6 m. McConnor, James, 75, Cam., B. IL, S m.\\nHill, Samuel, 75, Cam., B. II. S m. 76, Ti., 6, McDaniels, James, 77, Ben.\\nm. 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nHobart, Isaac, 75, Cam. B. H., 8 m.\\nHobart, Isaac, 3d., Si, C. A., 3 y.\\nHobart, Jacob, Si, C. A., 3 y.\\nHobart, John, 77, Al. T., 79, R. I., 6 m.\\nHobart, Jonathan, 75, Cam., 3 m., 76, N. Y.,\\n2 m.\\nHobart, Joshua, 75, Cam., 3 m., 77, Ben., 78,\\nR. I., 23 d.\\nHobart, Col. Samuel, 75, Paymaster.\\nHobart, Solomon, 77, AL T., 7S, R. I., 22 d.\\nMcDaniels, Randall, 75, L.\\nMcHendley, John, 81, C. A., 3y.\\nMelntosh, Archibald, 77, Ben.\\nMcintosh, Jiimes, 77, Cam., B. H., S m.\\nMerrill, Daniel, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nMerrill, Daniel, Jan., 78, R. I., 22 d. So, W.\\nPt., 3 m., 81, 3 in.\\nMerrill, Samuel, 77, Al. T., 77, Ben., 78\\n33 d.\\nMesser, Benjamin, 77, Ben.\\nMinot, Joseph, 75, L.\\nMooar, Daniel, 77 Ben.\\nR. I.\\nHoney, Parmeter, 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nHopkins, Richard, 76, Port., and N. Y., 12 m.l^looar, Jacob, 77, Ben., 81, 3 m\\nHosley, Samuel, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m. Nevins, Benjamin, 75, L., 77, Ben.\\nHow, Ephraim, 75, Cam. B.H., 8 m., 77 Ben. Nevins, John, 77, Ben.\\nHow, John 76, Ti., 6^^!., 78, R. I\\nm., 77\\n22 a.\\nHow, Joseph, 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nJaquith, Ebenezer, 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nJaquith, Thomas, 75, Cam., 3 ni.\\nJewett, Lieut. Ebenezer, 77, Al. T.\\n3 m.\\nJewett, Jacob, 75, Cam., 3 in.\\nNevins, Joseph, 75, L., 77, Al. T.\\nNevins, Phineas, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m.\\nNevins, William, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m.\\n76, C. A., I y.\\nSo, W. Pt., Noyes, Elijah, 75, Cam., 3 m., 76, Ti., 6m., 77\\nALT., 78, R.L, 22d.\\nNoyes, Enoch, Jun., 76, Ti., 6 in.\\nJewett, Jacob, 3d, 78, R. L, 32 d., So, W. Pt., Parker, Benjamin W., 81, 3 m.\\n3 m.\\nJewett, James, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nJewett, Jonathan, 78, R. I., 6 m.\\nJewett, Dea. Nathaniel, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nJewett, Noah, 76, Wh. P., 5 m.\\nJewett, Samuel, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m.\\nJewett, Stephen, Jun., 75, Cam., 3 m., 76,\\nWh. P., 5 m.\\nJohnson, Edward, 75, L.\\nJohnson, Samuel, 76, N. Y., 3 m.\\nKemp, Thomas, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m., 76,\\nWh. P., 5 m., 77 Ben.\\nKendrick, Capt. Daniel, 78, R. I., 32 d.\\nKeyes, Abner, 75, Cam., 8 m., 76, Port, and\\nN. Y., 12 111. Si, 3 m.\\nKinney, Israel, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m., 76, C.\\nA., ly.\\nLawrence, Asa, 78, R. I., 22 d.\\nLawrence, Nicholas, So, W. Pt., 3 m.\\nLawrence, Oliver, 75, Cam., 3 m., 78, R. I.,\\n6 in.\\nLawrence, Silas, 80, W. Pt., 3 m.\\nLeenian, Nathaniel, 77, Al. T., So, W. Pt.,\\n3 in.\\nLeeman, Ensign Samuel, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 Poor, Peter, 75, Cam., B. IL, 8 m\\nm., 76, C. A., I y., 77, C. A., 3 y. Powell, Thomas, Si, 3 m.\\nParker, Jonathan, 76, C. A., i y., 77, C. A., 8\\nm., 78, R. L, 22 d.\\nParker, Stephen, So, W. Pt., 3 m., Si, C. A., 3 v.\\nPatch, David, 76, C. A., i y.\\nPatch, Daniel, 75, Cam., 3 in.\\nPatch, Thomas, 75, L., 76 Ti., 6 m.\\nPatten, Nathaniel, 75, Cam., B. H.,8 m., 76,\\nTi., 6 m., 77, C. A., 3 y., 80, C. A., 6 m.\\nPhelps, John, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nPhelps, Nathan, 75, L., 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nPhelps, Samuel, 76, Ti., 6 in.\\nPhilbrick, John, 75, L.\\nPierce, Ephraim, 75, L., 76, Wh. P., 5 m., 77\\nAl. T., 77, Ben., 79, C. A., ly.\\nPierce, Nehemiah, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 m., 77,\\nC. A., 8 m.\\nPierce, .Solomon, 75, Cam., 3 m., 76, Ti., 6 m.\\nPierce, Richard, 76 Ti., G. R.\\nPlatts, John, 75, Cam., B. H., 8 in., 76 Wh. P.\\nSm.\\nPool, Dr. Jonathan, Assist. Surgeon, 76 to So\\nPool, William, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nPool, William W., 75, Cam., 3 m., 78, R. I.\\n23 d.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "2o6\\nNAMES OF HOLLIS SOLDIERS.\\n[178..\\nPowers, Francis, 7 5, Cam., B. II., Sm., 77, Ben.\\nPowers, Francis G., 79, C. A., i y., So, W.\\nPt., 3 m.\\nPowers, Jonathan, 75, Cam., B. H.Sni.\\nPowers, Nahum, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. II. Sm.\\nPowers, Samson, 75, 75, Cam., B. II. S in.\\n77, Ben.\\nPowers, Stephen, 76, Port, and N. Y., 12 m.\\nPratt, Thomas, 75, L., 75 Cam., B. H.Sm. 76,\\nC. A. I y 77, C. A., 3 y., 81 for the war.\\nProctor, Ezekiel, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. H., Sm.\\n76, C. A., I y. S^CA., 3y.\\nProctor, Ezra, 76, C. A., i y.\\nProctor, Joel, 78, C.A.,2 y., 81, tor the war.\\nProctor, Moses, 77, Al. T.\\nRead, Jacob, 75, I-., 75, Cam., B. II., S ni.\\nRead, Jolin, 75, Cam., 3 m., 76, C. A. i y.\\nRead, Samuel, 81, 3 m.\\nRichardson, Stephen, 76, C. A., i y., 77, C.\\nA., 3 y., Si, C. A. for the war.\\nRideout, James, 77, Ben.\\nRogers, Lemuel, 81, C. A., for the war.\\nRolfe, Ephraim, 75, Cam., B. II., S m., 77,\\nBen- 78, R. I. 2j d.\\nKolfe, James, Si, C. A. 3 y.\\nRunnells, Stephen, 77, Ben., 78, R. I., 22 d.\\nRuss, Jonathan, 75, L., 75, Cam., 3 m., 77,\\nBen.\\nSaunderson, Benjamin, 75, L., 76, \\\\Vh. P.,\\n5 m.\\nSaunderson, David, 76, N V., 2 m., 77, C.\\nA. 3 y., 80, for tlie war.\\nSeaver, Robert, 75, L., 75, Cam., 3 m., 77,\\nAl. T.\\nSliattuck, Isaac, 70, I ort. and N. V., 12 m.\\nShattuck, Jeremiah, 75, Cam. S ni.\\nShattuck, William, 75, Cam. 3 m., 76, N. S\\n2 ni.\\nShattuck, Zacluiriah, 75, Cam. 3 ni.\\nShed, Jonas, 77, Ben.\\nSmith, Ephraim, 75, Cam., B. II. S m., 76, C.\\nA., I y.\\nSmith, Joshua, 76, Wh. P., 3 m.\\n.Spantding-, Enoch, 70, Port, and X. V., 12 ni.\\n78, K. I., 6 ni.\\nSpanlding, Jacob, 75, L., 75, Cam. B. 11. S m.\\n77, ALT., 78, K. 22 d.\\nStearns, Isaac, 75, I^., 75, Cam., B. II., S m.\\n77, Al. T., 77. Ben.\\nStearns, Joseph, 76, Ti., 6 m., 77, Ben., 79, C.\\nA. I y.\\nStevens, Isaac, Jun., 7( Ti., o m.\\nStiles, Caleb, 79, C. A., i y.\\nStiles, Caleb, Jun., 79, C. A., i y.\\nStiles, Eli, 76, C. A., 1 y., 77, C. A., S m.. So,\\nC. A., for the war.\\nTaylor, Amos, 75, I^., 75, Cam. B. II., S ni.\\nTaylor, Daniel. 75, L., 75, C. B. 11., S ni.\\nTaylor .Edward, 70, Ti., (J. II.\\nTaylor, Jacob, 75, Cam. 3 m., 76, C. A., 1 y.,\\n77, C. A., S m.\\nTaylor, Jonathan, 75, Cam. 3 m.\\nTenney, Wm., Jun., 75, L., 75, Cam., 3 m.,\\n76, Wh. P., 5 m.\\nThurston, Moses, 75, Cam., B. II., S m.\\nTownsend, Ebenezer, 75, Cam., B. II., 8 m.,\\n76, Ti., 6 m., 77, C. A., 3 y.\\nTwiss, Asahel, Si, C. A., 3 y.\\nWallingford, Lt. David, 75, Cam., 8 m., 77,\\nALT., 77, Ben.\\nWheat, Joseph, 77, Al. Ti., 78, R. L, 23 d.,\\n79, C. A., I y., So, for the war.\\nWheat, Nathaniel, 75, L., 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nWheat, Solomon, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nWheat, Thomas, 76, Port, and N. Y., 12 m.\\nWheat, Thomas, Jun., 75, L., 75, Cam., B.\\nII., S m.\\nWheele_r, Abner, 77, Al. T., 77, Ben.\\nWheel er, Ebenezer, 75, L., 76, Wh. P. 5 m.\\nWheeler, James, Jun., 75, Cam., 3 m.\\nWheeler, Lebbeus, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. H., S\\nm., 77, C. A.,3y.\\nWheeler, Thaddeus, 75, L.\\nWilkins, Bray, 75, L., 75, Cam., S m.\\nWilkins, Israel, 75, L.\\nWilloughby, Jonas, 82, N. Frontier, 6 m.\\nWiUoughby, Samuel, 76, Ti., G. R.\\nWood, William, 75, L., 75, Cam. B. II., 8 m.,\\n77, Ben.\\nWoods, Jonas, 77, Al. T., 77, Ben., 78, R. I.,\\n22 d.\\nWoods, Nehemiah, 77, Al. T.\\nWorcester, Capt. Noah, 75, Cam. 3 m., 7S, U.\\nI., 22 d.\\nWorcester, Noah, Jun., 75, L., 75, Cam., K.\\nII.. 8 m., 77, Ben.\\nWorcester, Jesse, 76, Ti., 6 m., 77, ALT.,\\n77, Port. 1 m., 7S, R. I., 22 d., So, C. A.\\n6 m.\\nWorcester, Samuel, 76, Port, and N. Y., 12 m.\\nWright, Benj., 75, L., 76, N. Y., 2 m.\\nWright, Benj., Jun., 75, L.\\nWright, Lemuel, 76, Ti.. 6 m., 77, Al. T.\\nWright, Sannicl, 75, Cam., B. II., 8 m., 77,\\nBen.\\nWright, Uriah, 75, L., 75, Cam., B. II., 8 m.,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a277. Al. T.\\nWvman, Jesse, 75, L., 76, N. Y., 2 m., 77,\\nBen.\\nYoungman, Ebene/.er, 75, L., 75, Cam. B. H.\\n8 m.\\nYoungman, Jahe/, S2, during war.\\nYoungman, John, 76, Ti., 6 m., 77, C. A., 3\\ny., So, C. A., for the war.\\nYoungman, Nicholas, 76, Ti. 6 m.\\nA oungman, Thomas, 76, C. A., i y., 77t t,\\nA., 3 y., So, N. Frontier, 6 m.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAT. SKETCHES. 207\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE HOLLIS REVOLU-\\nTIONARY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS.\\nBLOOD, NATHAN\\nSOU of Nathaniel Blood, was born in Mollis April 4, 1747. Married\\nElizabeth Noyes, daughter of Dea. Enoch Noyes, April 16, 1772-\\nEnlisted April 19, 1775, and was First Sergeant in the company of\\nCapt. Dow at Bunker Hill, where he was killed June 17, i775-\\nBROOKS, LIEUT. WH.LIAM\\ncame to Hollis about 1757. Married Abigail Kemp, in Hollis,\\nMarch 39, 1759. Enlisted in 177S in Captain Emerson s company\\nto Rhode Island, in which he was Second Lieutenant. Enlisted\\nagain in 1781, in the company of Capt. Mills, regiment of Col.\\nReynolds. Removed from Hollis after the Revolution.\\nCONANT, DEA. JOSIAH\\nson of Josiah Conant. Born in Hollis, October 17, 1746. Enlisted\\nDecember, 1775, in the company of Capt. Worcester for Cambridge.\\nEnlisted again in 1778 in the company of Capt. Emerson for Rhode\\nIsland, in which he was Sergeant. Deacon of the Hollis church in\\n1787, till his death in Hollis, August 3i, 1807,\\nCONANT, DEA. ABEL\\nson of Josiah Conant, born in Hollis October 3, 1755. Enlisted\\nApril 19, i775r and was in the company of Capt. Dow at the battle\\nof Bunker Hill. Enlisted in 1776 in the Continental army for one\\nyear, and in 1778 in Capt, Emerson s company for Rhode Lsland.\\nMarried Pegga Jewett in Hollis, November 20, 1781. Chosen a\\ndeacon of the Hollis church in 1787. Removed to Hardwick, Vt.,\\nin 1813, where he died May 2, 1844,\\nCUMINGS, ENSIGN JOHN\\nborn in Groton, Mass., March 16, 1737. His name was on the\\nHollis tax lists in 1758. Enlisted April 19, i775i and was Ensign", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "2o8 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nor Second Lieutenant in the company of Capt. Dow at Bunker Hill.\\nRemoved after the war to Hancock, as is supposed.\\nCUMINGS, CAPT. JOTIIAM\\nson of Jerahmael Cumings, and a younajer brother of Henry\\nCumings, D.D.,of Billerica, ATass. Born December 19, 1741.\\nHe was a soldier in the French war in 1758- Married Anna\\nBrown, of Hollis, April 27, 1763. Removed from Hollis to\\nPlymouth, N. H., in 1764. Was Lieutenant in a company of New\\nHampshire Rangers in i775 for many years a deacon of the\\nPlymouth church. Died at Plymouth, April i, iSoS, vet. 66.\\nCUMINGS, WILLIAM\\nwas born in Groton, Mass., October 2, 1741. Came to Hollis about\\nthe year 1760. Married Mehitabel Eastman of Hollis, June 28,\\n1768. Was Master of the Hollis Grammar School in 177=^, and for\\nmany years after. Was Town Clerk and First .Selectman in Hollis\\nin 177^ ^77- again from 1782 to 17S8 inclusive. Enlisted\\nin the army in 1776 and again in 1777. About the year 1790 he\\nremoved to Hebron, N. H., where he died October 2, 1831, ret. 90.\\nDOW, CAPT. REUBEN\\ncame from Salem, N. H., and was in Hollis in 1761, and vSelectman\\nin 1769 and i77\u00c2\u00b0- Lieutenant of the Hollis Militia company in\\nJanuary, i775- Chosen captain of the Hollis company of Minute\\nmen to Cambridge, April 19, 177 Commissioned as captain of\\nthe Hollis company in Col. William Prcscott s regiment, May 19,\\n1775. Wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill and was afterwards a\\nUnited States pensioner for life. He was chairman of the Hollis\\nCommittee of Safety in 1776, and Representative to the New\\nHampshire General Court in 1778. His two sons, Evan and\\nStephen, were Revolutionary soldiers. Died February 11, 181 1,\\na^t. 81.\\nEASTMAN, LIEUT. AMOS\\nwas a son of Amos Eastman, Senior, born in Penacook, now\\nConcord, N. IL, April 28, i7 ^ii and came to Hollis with his\\nfather about the year 1759. Married Ruth Flagg, of Hollis,\\nJanuary 6, 1774. Enlisted April 19, 1775, and again in 1776 in the\\nregiment of Col. Gilman. He was for many years a Justice of the\\nPeace, and Town clerk and First Selectman in 1S06. Died August\\n2, 1832, set. 81.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "cy- Z- j _^", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 2O9\\nIn the year 1752, his father, Amos Eastman, Senior, then living\\nat Penacook, being on a hunting expedition, in the northerly\\npart of New Hampshire, with Gen. John Stark and others, was,\\nwith Stark, taken prisoner by the Indians, and both of them taken\\nto an Indian village in Canada. On their arrival at the village,\\nboth the captives were compelled to run the gauntlet between two\\nfiles of savages, each armed with a switch or club with which to\\nstrike them as they passed between the lines. Stark, as is said,\\nescaped widi but slight injury, but Eastman was cruelly beaten, and\\nwas afterwards sold to a French master, kindly treated by him and\\nsoon after redeemed and went home.*\\nEMERSON, CAPT. DANIEL\\nson of Rev. Daniel Emerson, born in Hollis, December 15, 1746.\\nMarried Ama Fletcher November 17, 1768. Chosen deacon of the\\nHollis church in 1775. Appointed Coroner and High Sheriff of\\nHillsborough county in 1776. He was Captain of the Hollis com-\\npany that went to Ticonderoga in July of that year, and was also\\nCaptain of the company enlisted in Hollis in June i777 upo^i the\\nTico)ideroga Alarm. He was also in i77^ Captain of a mounted\\nHollis company that went to Rhode Island in the summer of that\\nyear, and also of a company In Col. Mooney s regiment raised for\\nthe defence of Rhode Island in 1779. Capt. Emerson was Town\\nClerk and First Selectman in 1780 and 1781. A member of the\\nNew Hampshire Council in 1787 of the New Hampshire Con-\\nstitutional Convention in 179^1 i fl Representative to the New\\nHampshire General Court in nineteen different years, between\\n1780 and 1812, His two oldest sons. Rev. Daniel Emerson, Jun.,\\nand Rev. Joseph Emerson, were graduates of Harvard, his third\\nson. Rev. Ralph Emerson, D. D., of Yale v. His youngest\\nson, William, was Colonel of the regiment to which Hollis was\\nattached and was for many years a deacon of the Hollis church.\\nThe following epitaph is inscribed on the tomb stone of Capt\\nEmerson in the Hollis central burial ground.\\nIn Memoi-y of Daniel Emerson, Esq.\\nHaving faithfully and industriously served his generation\\nAs an officer of the Church\\nAs a Defender of Freedom\\nAs a Magistrate and Legislator\\nAs a friend of the Poor\\nAnd as a Zealous Promoter of the Redeemer s Kingdom,\\nHe rested from his lahors\\nOctober 4, 1S30, a;t. 74.\\n(14) *See Bouton s History of Concord, p. iga.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2IO BIOGRAPIIICAI- SKETCHES.\\nEMERSON, DR. PETER\\nf5econd son of Rev. Daniel Emerson, born in Hollis, November 30,\\n1749. Appointed Surgeon of the regiment of Col. Mooney, in 1779.\\nSettled as a physician in Hillsborough, N. H., and died at\\nHillsborough in 1827, \u00c2\u00a3Et, 78.\\nEMERSON, LIEUT. RAEPII\\nson of Rev. Daniel Emerson, born March 4, 1761. Enlisted July\\n1776 at the age of fifteen in his brother s company for the defence of\\nTiconderoga. In April, 1777 he enlisted in the Continental army\\nfor three years. Married Alice Ames, May 13, 1784. On his\\ntombstone in the Hollis burial ground is the following inscription\\nErected to the Memory of I^icut. Ralph Emerson\\nWho was instantly killed by the accidental discharge\\nOf a cannon wliile exercising the matross,\\nOctober 4, 1790, in the 30th year of his age.\\nWe drop apace,\\nBy nature some decay\\nAnd some the gusts of fortune sweep away.\\nFARLEY, CAPT. CALEB\\nwas born in Billerica, Mass., October 19, 1730. Married Elizabeth\\nFarley, October 11, 1754- He was a soldier from Billerica in the\\nFrench w^ar of 1755, and came to Hollis in November, 1765, and\\nwas Selectman in 1767- He enlisted in i77^ regiment of\\nCol. Pierce Long for New York and Canada, and in 177S he was\\nLieutenant in Capt. Emerson s mounted company, enlisted in Hollis\\nfor the defence of Rhode Island. Died in Hollis, April 5, 1833,\\naet. 1 03 years, 5 months.\\nFARMER, MINOT\\nson of Benjamin Farmer, born 1750. Enlisted April 19, 1775, in\\nthe Hollis company of minute men in which he was a Sergeant, and\\nhe was also a Sergeant in the company of Capt. Dow, at the battle\\nof Bunker Hill. Married Abigail Barron, September 15, i775\\nIn the fall or winter of i775 enlisted in Gen. Arnold s expedition\\nto Canada. Was taken prisoner in the attack on Qiiebec, and died\\nin captivity. May 9, i j6, a;t. 26. He is supposed to have held the\\nrank of Ensign.\\nGOSS. CAPT. JOHN\\nwas born at .Salisbury, Mass., February 13, 1739. His name first\\nappears on the Hollis tax lists in 1770. Married Catharine Conant,\\nof Hollis, February 10, 1774, and was Selectman in Hollis the same", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 211\\nyear. He was Lieutenant in the Hoilis company of minute men,\\nthat went to Cambridge April 19, i775 Hoilis\\ncompany at the battle of Bunker Hill. In the year i777\\nCaptain of the Hoilis company that went to Bennington. About\\nthe year 1805 he removed with his family to Hardwick, Vt., where\\nhe died September 26, 1831, set. Sz.\\nHALE, COL. JOHN\\nwas born in Sutton, Mass., October 24, 1731. Settled, as a\\nphysician in Hoilis, at the age of about 24. He was Assistant\\nSurgeon in 1755 in the regiment of Col. Joseph Blanchard, in the\\nFrench w^ar, and Surgeon in Col. Hart s regiment, in 1758 in the\\nsame war. He was Representative to the New Hampshire General\\nCourt from Hoilis and Dunstable from 1762 to 1768. In 1767 he\\nwas Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifth regiment of the New\\nHampshire Militia, and Colonel of the same regiment in I J JSf\\nthe same year he was Representative from Hoilis to the New\\nHampshire General Court, and also to the New Hampshire\\nProvincial Congress. He was Surgeon of the First New Hampshire\\nContinental regiment, from 177^ i J^o, and a member of the\\nNew Hampshire Council in the year last named. After the war\\nwas ended he continued in the practice of his profession in Hoilis,\\nin which he was distinguished, till his death in 1791. His three\\nsons, John, Jun., David and William were all soldiers in the war..\\nThe following epitaph is inscribed on his tombstone in the central,\\nburying ground.\\nErected to the Memory of\\nDr. John Hale,\\nWho was born October 34, 173J,\\nDied October 23, 1791.\\nHow soon our new born light attains to full agc d noon\\nAnd that how soon to gray haired night,\\nWe spring, we bud, we blossom, and we blast\\nEre we can count our days tliey tly so fast.\\nHALE, DR. WILLIAM\\nson of Col. John Hale, born in Hoilis, July 37, 1762. Enlisted for\\nthree years in the Continental Army, April, 1777, when in his\\nfifteenth year. After his discharge from the army studied medicine\\nwith his father and succeeded him in his practice. He was a man\\nof great energy, and had a large practice in his profession. Died\\nOctober 10, 1854, vet. 92, and he is said to have been the last\\nsurvivor of the 1 200 men whose names are found on the rolls of the\\nFirst New Hampshire Continental regiment.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "212 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nIIOBART, COL. DAVID\\nson of Peter Ilobart and grandson of Gershom Ilohart, the third\\nminister of Groton, Mass., born in Groton, August 21, 1723.\\nSettled in that part of Hollis known as One Pine Hill, about\\n1748, and was a Sergeant in the company of Capt. Powers in the\\nFrench war in 1755. He was one of the grantees of Plymouth, N.\\nH., and one of the first settlers of that town. His name last\\nappears on the Hollis tax lists in 1765. In i777 Colonel of\\nthe Twelfth New Hampshire regiment of militia and had command\\nof a New Hampshire regiment under Gen. Stark at the battle of\\nBennington, where he greatly distinguished himself for his gallantry\\nand good conduct, for which he received due commendation from\\nGen. Stark in his report of the battle. In that battle Col. Hobart\\nwith Col. Stickncy led the attack against the Tory breast-work on\\nthe right where the contest was most desperate the Tories it is said\\nfighting like tigers, and neither asking nor giving quarter. Col.\\nHobart having lost his wife, after the war removed to Haverhill,\\nMass., married a second wife and died soon after at Haverhill. The\\nname of this heroic officer is erroneously spelt Hubbard in\\nBelknap s Plistory of New Plampshire, as it also was said to have\\nbeen in Gen. Stark s report of the battle.\\nHOBART, COL. SAMUEL\\na younger brother of Col. David Hobart, born in Groton, August\\nII, 1734. Settled in Plollis during the French war of i755- Was\\na. Sergeant in that war in 1758. Adjutant of Col. GolTe s regi-\\nment in 1760, and an Ensign in 1761. In 1767 he was Major of the\\nFifth New Hampshire regiment of militia. Representative to the\\nGeneral Court from Hollis for six years, from 1768 to i774*\\nyear last named was appointed Colonel of the Second New\\nHampshire regiment of minute men, and was a delegate from\\nHollis to the New Hampshire Provincial Congress. Upon the\\norganization of Hillsborough county in i77^ appointed\\nRegister of Deeds, County Treasurer and one of the Justices of the\\ncounty court. In 1775 he was appointed Muster Master, and also\\nPaymaster of the New Plampshire regiments at Cambridge. In 1777\\nhe contracted with the State government to manufacture gimpowder\\nfor the State, and removed from Hollis to Exeter. Was represen-\\ntative to the General Court from Exeter in 1777 and 1778, and a\\nmember of the State Committee of Safety in 1779 and 1780. Anna\\nHobart, the first wife of Col. Ilobart, died in Hollis, May 20, i7;-3.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 213\\nAfter he removed from Hollis he continued to reside in Exeter for\\nseveral years after the war, married a second time, and finally\\nremoved to Kingston, N. H., where he died June 4, 17985 a^t. 63.\\nJEWETT, LT. EBENEZER\\nson of Dea. NatlianicI Jewett, born 1743, enlisted in June, 1777? i\\nthe company of Ca^ot. Emerson, on the Ticonderoga Alarm, and\\nin 1780 in the company of Capt. Barron, regiment of Col. Nichols,\\nfor the defence of West Point, in which company he was Lieuten-\\nant. Was Selectman in 1783. He married Mary Rideout in i793-\\nDied Oct. 6, 1826, a^t S3.\\nJEWETT, JUN., DEACON STEPHEN\\nson of Dea. Stephen Jewett, born in Hollis, October 4, 1753. En-\\nlisted in 1775 company of Capt. Worcester for Cambridge,\\nand in 1776 in the company of Capt. Reed for White Plains. Mar-\\nried Elizabeth Pool, November 16, 1778- Chosen deacon of the\\nHollis church, 1805. Died February 23, 1829, sat. 75.\\nKENDRICK, CAPT. DANIEL\\nborn 1736, son of Daniel Kendrick. Selectman in 1775, 76, and\\n77. Member of the Hollis Committee of Safety in 1776 and 1777-\\nEnlisted in CajDt. Emerson s moimted company for Rhode Island\\nin 1778. Married Mary Pool, February 13, 1782. His oldest son,\\nDaniel, was a graduate of Brown University. His youngest,\\nWilliam P., of Harvard, (f/. v.) Died May 20, 1/89, at. 53.\\nLEEMAN, JUN., ENSIGN SAMUEL\\nson of Samuel Leeman, born in Hollis August 7, 1749. Enlisted\\nApril 19, 1775. Was at the battle of Bunker Hill in tlie company\\nof Capt. Spalding, regiment of Col. Reed. Enlisted in 1776 in\\nthe Continental army, and again in the Continental army in i777\\nin the company of Capt. Frye, ist New Hampshire regiment, in\\nwhich he was Ensign. Killed at the battle near Saratoga, October\\n10, 1777, jet. 28.\\nNEVINS, JUN. ENSIGN WILLIAM\\nson of William Nevins, born in Hollis, July 26, 1746, married\\nRebecca Chamberlain, March 24, 1768. Enlisted April 19, 1775,\\nand was Sergeant, and also a Sergeant in the company of Capt.\\nDow at Bunker Hill. Enlisted in 177^ year in the Continen-\\ntal army. Died in New York, 1776, a^t. 30.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "214 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nPOOL, DR. JONATHAN\\nson of Eleazer Pool, born at Woburn, September 5, 1758. Studied\\nmedicine with Col. John Hale in Hollis, was Assistant Surgeon in\\nthe 1st New Hampshire regiment from 1776 to 1780. Married\\nElizabeth Hale, daughter of Col. John Hale, December 7, 1780,\\nand settled as a physician in Hollis, where he died July 25, 1797,\\nJEt. 38.\\nSEAVER, CAPT. ROBERT\\nborn 1743, name first on the Hollis tax lists in 1767. Enlisted\\nApril 19, 1775 Lieutenant in Capt. Worcester s company for\\nCambridge in 1775, and also in Capt. Emerson s company in June\\n1777. Died November 3, 1828, set. 85.\\nTENNEY, CAPT. WILLIAM\\nwas the son of William and Anna Tenney and was born in Hollis,\\nMarch 17, 1755. April 19, 1775, he enlisted in the company of the\\nHollis minute men and in December 1775 in the company of Capt.\\nWorcester, for Cambridge, and again in 177*^ Capt.\\nReed, for White Plains. Married Phcbe Jewett in 1776 by whom\\nhe had ten children, five sons and five daughters. His sons, Caleb\\nJewett, and William, were graduates of Dartmouth. v.) Died\\nJune 16, 1S06, a^t. 51.\\nHis youngest son, Hon. Ralph E. Tenney, born October 5, 179O1\\nsettled as a farmer in Hollis, upon his paternal homestead. He\\nwas for many years a Justice of the Peace and Qiiorum. and was\\nfrequently elected by his townsmen to offices of honor and trust.\\nFor his first wife he married Olive Brown, of Hollis, November 12,\\n181 2, by whom he had one daughter. After her decease, he mar-\\nried, August 14, 1818, for his second wife. Miss Phebe C. Smith,\\nborn in Dracut, Mass., June 2, 1790. At an early age Miss Smith\\nwent to IMerrimack, N. H., to reside with her step father, Simeon\\nCumings, Esq., upon whose decease she came to Hollis with her\\nmother to care for her, in her declining years. She was afterwards,\\nin her earlier years, widely known in Hollis as an excellent and\\npopular school teacher, and as an assistant of Mr. Ambrose Gould,\\nin his store.\\nShe had by Mr. Tenney a family of nine children, and upon her\\nmarriage became an honored wife and a devoted, faithful and\\nbeloved mother. vShe was also a kind neighlwr and an efficient\\nand cheerful helper in works of benevolence and charity, and a", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "4\\nJ\\nv^\\nVi\\n^^^f", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 215\\nconsistent and exemplary member of the church for more than half\\na century. Died February 17, 1864, set. 73.\\nIn addition to his other offices, Mr. Tenney was Representative\\nfrom Ilollis to the New Hampshire General Court, in 1832, 33, 34,\\nand in 1845, and a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1847\\nand 184S. Died October 19, 1854, set. 64.\\nWALLINGFORD, LIEUT. DAVID\\nson of Jonathan Wallingford, born in Bradford, Mass., September\\n25, 1744. Married Elizabeth Leeman, of Hollis, March 25, 1767.\\nHis name was first on the Hollis tax lists in 1770- He enlisted\\nApril 19, 1775. in the company of Hollis minute men, commanded\\nby Cajot. Dow. In 1775, he was afterwards Lieutenant in the com-\\npany of Capt. Town, in the Massachusetts regiment, under Col.\\nHutchinson. In June, i777 Lieutenant in the company\\nof Capt. Emerson, and again Lieutenant, in July, i777 com-\\npany of Capt. Goss, that went from Hollis to Bennington. Died in\\nHollis, March 12, 1791, itt. 46.\\nWEBSTER, COL. DAVID\\nson of Stephen Webster, was born in Chester, N. H., December\\n10, 1738. Removed from Hollis to Plymouth, N. H., among the\\nfirst settlers of that town in 1764, and is said to have driven the first\\nox team to Plymouth. He was a soldier in the French w ar, in\\n*757 again in 1760. He was Ensign in the militia company of\\nPlymouth enlisted in the army, and rose to be Colonel of a New\\nHampshire volunteer regiment which he commanded at the taking\\nof Gen. Burgoyne, in 1777. He was, after the war, High Sheriff\\nof Grafton county for thirty years. Died at Holderness. N. H.,\\nMay 8, 1824, set. 85.\\nWEBSTER, CAPT. AMOS\\nwas a brother of Col. David Webster, and also born in Chester, N.\\n11. He also removed from Ilollis to Plymouth among its earliest\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0settlers. He was Lieutenant in the Third New Hampshire Conti-\\nnental regiment in 1776, and a Captain in the same regiment in\\n1777, and was killed at the battle at Saratoga, in October of that\\nyear. Just before he expired, he asked: Which side gave\\nii ayF Being told, The British he replied is etwugh^\\nJ die in peace.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "2i5 BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nWOOD, ENSIGN, WILLIAM\\nenlisted April 19. i775- and was afterwards in the company of\\nCapt. Dow at the battle of Bunker Hill, at which he was so severely\\nwounded, that he became a United States pensioner for life. In\\n1777, he a-ain enlisted, and was in the company of Capt Goss at\\nthe battle of Bennington, August 18, i777- He nKirned Susannah\\nWri ^ht, daughter of Capt. Joshua Wright, by whom he had five\\nsons and nine daughters, all of whom, with the exception of one\\nson, lived to adult age and were married and had families. Died\\n1826, ait. 73.\\nWILLOUGIIBY, CAPT. JOHN\\nson of John WiUoughby, born in Billerica, Mass., in 1736. Capt.\\nWiUoughby removed from Hollis to Plymouth, among the first set-\\ntlers of that town, and was a Captain in Col. David Webster s reg-\\niment at the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga. He afterwards was\\ndeacon of theTlymouth church for 67 years, and died at I lymouth,\\nJune 22, 1834, let. 98.\\nWORCESTER, CAPT. IsOAH\\nyoungest son of Rev. Francis Worcester, born at SandwichMass.,\\nOctober 4, I73v married Lydia Taylor, daughter of Abraham\\nloi, rtbriu-y 22, X757- He was Captain of the Hollis mihtia\\ncompany in 1775. and of the Hollis company to Cambridge m De-\\ncember of that year. He eillisted in the Hollis company to Rhode\\nIsland in 1778. Was Town clerk and first Selectman in 1775, 7^^\\n77, 78, and 79; chairman of the Hollis Committee of Safety in\\n1777, 78 and 79; appointed Justice of the Peace in i777^ and held\\nthat office forty years chosen a member of the Constitutional Con-\\nvention of 1778 was moderator of the Hollis annual 1 own meet-\\nh.^s in fifteen difierent years, between I78-^ and 1801 and was an\\nactive member of the Hollis church for sixty years. H is two old-\\nest sons, Noah and Jesse, were soldiers in the Revolution and fou.\\nof them, viz., Noah, Leonard, Thomas and Samuel, became clei-\\ngvm.n. V.) Died at Hollis, August 13. 181 7- n his 82d year.\\nWORCESTER, JESSE\\n2d son of Capt. Noah Worcester, born in Hollis, April o,i7^^\\nEnlisted July. 1776, in the company of Capt. Emerson, for licon-\\nderoga: in 1777 in the garrison at Portsmouth; in 1773- i Capt.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "r^\\nVJ", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 21 7\\nEmerson s company to Rhode Island, and in 17S0 in the Continental\\nArmy. In June, 1782, he married Sarah Parker of Hollis, by\\nwhom he had nine sons and six daughters, who all lived to adult\\nage, and fourteen of whom became teachers in the pviblic schools or\\nacademies. In 1782, he removed to Bedford, New Hampshire,\\nand returned again to Hollis in 17945 ^tl settled upon his ancestral\\nhomestead, where he resided till his decease, Jan. 20, 1834, in his\\n73d year. Mr. Worcester was for many years a teacher in the pub-\\nlic schools in Bedford and Hollis, an occasional contributor to the\\npublic journals of the day, and was the author of an unpublished\\nwork called the Chronicles of JVlssltlsslL Seven of his nine\\nsons aspired to a collegiate education. The eldest, Jesse Worcester,\\nJuu., died after being prepared to enter the Junior class at Dart-\\nmouth. The youngest, David, after spending two years at Harvard,\\nleft college and became a teacher. Joseph E. and Henry A., were\\ngraduates of Yale; Taylor G., Samuel T., and Frederick A. of\\nHaiA ard. The third son, Leonard, was a machinist; John N., the\\nfifth son, settled in Hollis as a farmer, at first upon the paternal\\nhomestead, and v as chosen State Councillor in the years 185S and\\n1859.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "2l8 THE WAR OF l8l3. [iSlJ.\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nHOLLIS IN THE WAR OF I Si 2. AND IN THE WAR OF THE RE-\\nBELLION. HOLLIS SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF l8l2. SOLDIERS\\nFURNISHED FROM THE TOWN FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE\\nREBELLION. REGIMENTS IN WHICH THEY ENLISTED. DATE\\nOF ENLISTMENT, AND TIME OF SERVICE. CASUALTIES, ETC.\\nsoldier s AID SOCIETY AND SOLDIER s MONUMENT. CAPT.\\nAMES. LIEUT. WORCESTER. LIEUT. FARLEY.\\nThe Declaration of War by the United States against Great\\nBritain in iSi3 was not generally appi^oved in New England, nor\\nin this part of it was this war afterwards popular. Party feeling in\\nrespect to it was highly excited and violent, and but little was done\\nin the first years of the war to favor voluntary enlistments. A decided\\nmajority of the voters in Hollis shared strongly in this common\\nsentiment of disapproval. No special call is known to have been\\nmade upon the town for the regular army, either for drafted men or\\nvolunteers, and but few Ilollis men are known to have enlisted in\\nthe regular service, and of those few it is now dilhcidt to learn the\\nnames or number.\\nCapt. Jonathan B. Eastman, of Ilollis, was at the time a Captain\\nin the regular army and afterwards promoted to United States\\nPaymaster, and Capt. Levi Powers, a son of Samson Powers, was\\nemployed as a recruiting officer, and is said to have held a commis-\\nsion as captain in the army. In the report of the Adjutant-General\\nfor iS6S, I find the names of Jacob Ilobart and Benjamin Ranger,\\ntwo Ilollis soldiers, who enlisted in the regular army in 1812.\\nBesides Ilobart and Ranger, Abel Brown, William N. Lovejoy and\\nIsaac Hardy are known to ha\\\\e been in the regular service. Lovejoy\\ndied of disease in the service, and Hardy, who was in the navy, was\\nkilled in the naval batttle on Lake Erie, fought under Com. Perry,\\nSeptember 10, 1S13.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "l86l.] WAR OF THE REBELLION. 219\\nIn the summer and early in the fall of 1814, a powerful British\\nfleet was cruising along the north coast of New England, and an\\nattack w as apprehended upon Portsmouth. In consequence of this\\napprehension, Gov. Gilman issued a proclamation, calling for New\\nHampshire troops for the defence of that city, and a number of\\nregiments of Detached Militia, so called, was raised for this pur-\\npose some for sixty and the rest for ninety days, and ordered to\\nPortsmouth. The whole number of men assigned to Hollis not\\nhaving been obtained by voluntary enlistment, a draft was ordered\\nfrom the two Hollis militia companies to supply the deficiency. In\\nview of this draft at a special town meeting held October 17, 18 14,\\nthe town voted to each of the soldiers who had been drafted $15\\nper month, including their Continental pay.\\nIn the report of the Adjutant General for 1868, above referred to,\\nI find the following names of Hollis men who went to Portsmouth,\\nviz., William Emerson, who was an Ensign in the regiment of\\nLieut. Col. Foot, and Daniel Lawrence, Jun., and Phineas Cumings\\nwho served in a regiment of artillery. Besides the men above\\nnamed I find in that report credited to Hollis, the names of Leonard\\nBlood, Isaac Butterfield, John Butterfield, John Drew, Ilezekiah\\nKendall and David Powers. It is also known that Ephraini Burge,\\nJun., and Nathaniel Hobart, names not found in that report, were\\nalso soldiers from Hollis for the defence of Portsmouth. Some\\nof the men above named are known to have been volunteers, the\\nrest of them were drafted, or were substitutes for drafted men.\\nLISTS OF THE NAMES OF THE SOLDIERS FURNISHED BY HOLLIS IN\\nTHE WAR FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SOUTHERN REBELLIQN.\\nThere is not in this history space, nor is it pertinent here to speak\\nat length of what was done by the people of New Hampshire in aid\\nof the National Government in the war for the suppression of the\\nlate Southern Rebellion. Nor is it needful here to tell. The story\\nof the doings of the State in this war has been well, if not fullv told\\nin histories already written and now before the public. In addition\\nto these histories the names of the officers and private soldiers in the\\ntwenty or more regiments raised in the State, telling also of their\\ncampaigns and the parts of the country where they served and of the\\nmany battles in which they fought, have been published by authority\\nof the State in an official State record of the war. Suffice it here to\\nsay, that in this war to save the nation and to perpetuate the union\\nof the States, which the people of New Hampshire, one hundred", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "220 THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. [lS6l-\\nyears ago so freely and nobly shed their blood and lavishe.l their\\ntreasure to establish, the good name and fair fame of the State\\nsuflered no dishonor. In the war of the Rebellion as in that of the\\nRevolution, each call upon the State for enlistments and re-enforce-\\nments was promptly and cheerfully met, and in the war to save the\\nnation, as in that in w hicli its indejDcndence vas won, the New\\nHampshire regiments were distinguished for their intrepidity, good\\nconduct and devotion to duty. In most of the great and hard fought\\nbattles of the war, the blood of New liamj^shire men flowed freely\\nand mingled in full proportion with that of the brave soldiers from\\nall the other loyal States, and their graves are marked and numbered\\nb} thousands in the cemeteries about the battle-fiekls where they\\nfell and near the hospitals in which they pined and died.\\nThe people of Hollis in this fearful struggle for the nation s life\\nwere at no time forgetful of their duty to their country, or of the\\nmemory and example of their worthy and j3atriotic ancestors. As\\nin the war of the Revolution so in that of the Rebellion, the quota\\nof soldiers allotted b} the vState to the town, on the many calls for\\ntroops, was not only as then promptly filled, but it appears from the\\nofficial returns, that the numberactually furnished, as in many other\\nNew Hampshire towns, was in excess of the number required.\\nThe names of the Hollis soldiers, with the date of their enlistment\\nor mustering, time of service, and the regiments and companies in\\nwhich they served, are presented in the following lists.\\nHOLLIS SOLDIERS ENLISTED IN 1861, IST NEW HAMPSHIRE REG-\\nIMENT.\\nThis regiment was raiserl in answer to the call of President Lin-\\ncolh of April 15, 1S61, for 75,000 men for three nionths. This\\nregiment was commanded by Col. Mason W. Tappan of Bradford,\\nhad its rendezvous at Concord was mustered in that place on\\nthe 4th of May left for Washington and the seat of war on the\\n25th and upon the expiration of its term of service, returned to\\nand was mustered out at Concord on the following 9th of August.\\nThis first regiment, for most of its terni of service was on duty along\\nthe Potomac river, between Washington and Harper s Ferry. It\\nwas engaged in some skirmishes with the enemy, but in no mem-\\norable battle. All the other regiments raised in New Hampshire\\nin i86i,were enlisted under the call of the President, for three\\nyears. The Hollis men in this regiment were,\\nFrench, William F. Enlisttd, company F, May 3, 1S61. Mustered out August 9, i86\u00c2\u00ab.\\nJ.-iquiUi, Asa W. Enlisted, company F, May 3, 1S61, Mustered out, August 9, 1S61.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "l86lj THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 221\\nSECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGLMENT ENLISTED FOR THREE YEARS.\\nThis regiment had its rendezvous at Portsmouth, and was com-\\nmanded by Col. Gihiian Marston of Exeter. The men were en-\\nlisted in the months of May and June, and the regiment w^as mus-\\ntered in on the 4th of June and left Portsmouth for Washington and\\nVirginia on the 20th of that month. This regiment was present\\nat the first battle at Bull Run, at Gettysburg, and most of the great\\nbattles of the war fought in Virginia.\\nIIOI^LIS SOLDIERS IN THE SECOND REGIMENT.\\nBeard, Samuel J. Enlisted June 5, iS5i, company G. Wounded at Fair Oaks, Virginia, June\\n25, 1S62. Discharged for disability, December 9, 1S63.\\nWorcester, George. Enlisted, company C, June i, 1S61. Mustered out June 21, 1S64.\\nGreeley, George P. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, May 3,1861. Resigned June 3, 1861. Ap.\\npointed Assistant Surgeon Fourth New Hampshire Regiment, August i, 1S61. Promoted\\nto Surgeon October S, 1S62. Honorably discharged, October 33, 1S64.\\nTHIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT ENLISTED FOR THREE YEARS,\\nAUGUST, 1 86 1.\\nThis regiment was organized at Concord. Its first Colonel w^as\\nEnoch Q. Fellows of Sandwich, who resigned June 26, 1S62, and\\nwas succeeded by Col. John H. Jackson of Portsmouth, who upon\\nbeing honorably discharged, February 24, 1864, was succeeded by\\nCol. John Bedel of Bath. The regiment was enlisted under the\\nAct of Congress of July 22, 1S61, authorizing the enlistment of\\n500,000 volunteers for three 5 ears, and was mustered into the\\nUnited States service about the last of August. It left Concord\\nSeptember 3, for Long Island, thence on the 14th to Washington,\\nand from Washington, on the following 19th of October, it was or-\\ndered to the seat of war in South Carolina. It was on duty in\\nSouth Carolina and Florida till the spring of 1864, and in the mean-\\nwhile was present at nearly all the battles in those States, including\\nthe blood} assault upon Fort Wagner. Tlie regiment was ordered\\nto Virginia near the last of April, 1864, and was in most of the\\nbattles afterwards fought in that State till the end of the war.\\nThe Hollis soldiers, whose names appear below, enlisted in com-\\npany F., of this regiment, Aug. 23, 1861.\\nBlood, Stillman. Re-enlisted February 13, 1S64. Mustered out, May 15, iSfSc.\\nChase, Charles F. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, 3d Soutli Carolina Volunteer.s.\\nChase, James L. Wounded June ij, iS Sj. Re-cniisted February 13, 1S64.\\nConroy, Leonard. Mustered out, August 23, 1864.\\nDavis, Caleb. Wounded August 16, 1S64. Mustered out, August S3, 1S64.\\nDoherty, John O, Discharged for disability, September 15, iS6j.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "232 THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. [iS l.\\nFOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.\\nThis regiment was enlisted and organized at Manchester, was\\nmustered in at Manchester, September, iS6i, and left that city for\\nSouth Carolina, by way of Washington and Fortress Monroe, Sep-\\ntember 37, under command of Col. Thomas J. Whipple of Laconia.\\nIt was on duty in South Carolina and Florida till April, 1S64, when\\nit was ordered to Virginia, and was in service in that State and\\nNorth Carolina till the close of the war. Among the many battles\\nin which it fought was the assault on Fort Wagner, July, 1863, the\\nbattle of Bermuda Hundred, Va., May, 1S64, and in that at Fort\\nFisher, N. C, January, 1865. In company B, of this regiment,\\nwere two IloUis soldiers who enlisted September iS, 1S61, and\\nwhose names were\\nJewett, Perley J., who died of disease at Morris Island, S. C, December 3, 1863.\\nMansfield, William. Mustered out September 27, 1864.\\nSEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT, ENLISTED FOR THREE\\nYEARS.\\nThis regiment was also enlisted and had its rendezvous at\\nManchester and was mustered into the United States service Decem-\\nber 14, 1 86 1, under Col. Haldimand S. Putnam, of Cornish. Col.\\nPutnam was killed July i8, 1863, in the assault on Fort Wagner,\\nand was succeeded in the command by Col. Joseph C. Abbott, of\\nManchester. The regiment left Manchester, for Florida, by the\\nway of New York, January 14, 1862, and was in the service in\\nFlorida and South Carolina till April 1S64, when it was ordered to.\\nVirginia.\\nWhile in the two former States, among other battles in which this\\nregiment was engaged, it was present and lost heavily in the assault\\non Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, and also at the bloody and disastrous\\nbattle at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1S64. After coming north it\\nwas present and engaged in many of the battles near Richmond,\\nVa., and also in the capture of Fort Fisher, N. C. In company H\\nof this regiment were forty-one Hollis soldiers, mustered in for three\\nyears, December 14, 1S61, the survivors of whom not before (fis-\\ncharged or re-enlisted, were mustered out at the expiration of their\\nterm, at Manchester, December 22, 1S64. The names of these men\\nare presented in the following list:\\nAmes, Nathan M. Commissioned Captain of Company II, December 14, 1S61. Mustered out.\\nDecember 22, 1S64.\\nAustin, Mark J. Promoted to Fifth Sergeant December 14, iS6i. Mustered out December 83^\\n1864.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "l86l.] THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 223\\nBall, Henry. Accidentally killed himself at Beaufort, S. C, June 36, 1863.\\nBartemus, George H. Mustered out December Z2, 1S64.\\nBills, John P. Killed at Fort Wagner, July iS, 1S63.\\nBoynton, John F. Wounded at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864. Re-enlisted February 28,\\n1864. Promoted to Corporal January 26, 1S65. Promoted to Sergeant June 13, 1865. Mus-\\ntered out July 20, 1865.\\nBurge, Charles H. Discharged for disability at St. Augustine, Fla., January 4, 1863.\\nBurge, George A. Promoted to Coiporal May 25, 1862. Promoted to Sergeant December 9,\\n1863. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nCoburn, John A. Promoted to Fourth Sergeant December 14, 1861. First Sergeant Decemberi\\n28, 1863. Re-enlisted Veteran, February 28, 1864. Promoted to Captain Company E,\\nDecember 12, 1864. Mustered out July 20, 1S65.\\nColburn, Edward S. Transferred to Invalid Corps, March 29, 1S64.\\nColburn, Josiali. Wounded at Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 20, 1864. Mustered out December\\n23, 1S64.\\nColburn, Daniel W. Promoted to Corporal December 14, i86i. Died of disease, at Holliff\\nFebruary 28, 1862.\\nDay, Henry M. H. Promoted to Corporal December 14, 1861. Wounded at Olustee, Fla.\\nFebruary 20, 1864. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nDuncklee, Ebenezer P. Discharged for disability, February, 1S62.\\nFarley, Benjamin L. Discharged for disability at Fort Jefferson, Fla., June 26, 1S62.\\nFarley, Charles H. Promoted to First Sergeant, December 14, 1861. Second Lieutenant June\\n30, 1862. First Lieutenant August 6, 1863. Wounded, mortally, .at Olustee, Fla., February\\n20, 1864.\\nFletcher Charles H. Died of disease at Beaufort, S. C, August lo, 1S62.\\nHayden, Daniel W. Promoted to Corporal December 5, 1862. Wounded at Fort Wagner, July\\n18, 1863. Promoted to Sergeant February 3, 1864. Wounded at Olustee, February 20,\\n1864. Discharged for disability April 29, 1864.\\nHayden, John W. Promoted to Corporal December 14, 1S61. Died of disease at New York\\nCity, February 8, 1862.\\nHayden, J. Newton. Wounded May 14, 1864. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nHills, Albert F. Wounded at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1S64. Mustered out December 32, 1864.\\nHills, Alfred F., Mustered out December 22, 1S64.\\nHobart, Jonathan B. Died of disease at Morris Island, S. C, August 23, 1S63.\\nHood, Frank P. Wounded at Fort Wagner, July iS, 1863. Discharged on account of wounds\\nNov. 25, 1863.\\nHoward, James C. Wounded at Fort Wagner July 18, 1863. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nHowe, Norman R. Promoted to Corporal, December 14, 1S61. Died of disease at Beaufort,\\nS. C, Aug. 15, 1862.\\nJaquith, George D. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nLovejoy, Francis. Promoted to 3d Sergeant December 14, 1861. To 2d Lieutenant, August 6,\\n1863. Honorably discharged April 28, 1864.\\nLund, John. Discharged for disability at Fort Jefferson, Florida, June 26, 1862.\\nLund, William. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, March 29, 1S64. Mustered out\\nDecember 22, 1S64.\\nPrice, Stephen H. Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 14, 1861. Re-enlisted Veteran, February\\n28,1864. Mustered out July 20, 1865.\\nRideout, Charles G. Mustered out December 23, 1864.\\nSmith, Freeman H. Discharged for disability at Fort Jefferson, July 20, 1863.\\nSpalding, Wm. F. Promoted to ist Sergeant, December 14, 1S61. To ist Lieutenant, July\\n18, 1863, Company C. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nSpalding, Winslow J. Promoted to Corporal October 10, 1S62. Promoted to Sergeant. Cap-\\ntured at Fort Wagner July 18, 1863. Exchanged, January 21, 1864. Mustered out Decem-\\nber 22, 1864.\\nTruell, Nathaniel L. Promoted to Corporal December 14, 1S61. Mustered out December\\n33, 1S64.\\nWorcester, Charles H. Promoted to Corporal December 14, 1S61. To Sergeant, October 9,\\n1863. Wounded near Richmond, Virginia, October i, 1864. Mustered out December\\n^a, 1864.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "224 THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. [1862.\\nWorcester, John H. Promoted to 2d Lieutenant, December 14, 1861. To ist Lieutenant, June\\n30,1862, Mortally wounded, July iS, 1S63, at Fort Wagner. Died of wounds July 36,\\n1S63,\\nWorcester, William. Mustered out December 22, 1864.\\nWright, Ezra S. Mustered out December 23, 1S64.\\nWright, Mathaniel H. Died of disease at St. Augustine, Florida, November 37, 1863.\\nEIGHTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.\\nThis regiment \\\\vas;ilso enlisted at Manchester in tlic fall and early\\nin the winter of 1S61, and was mustered in at Manchester Decem-\\nber 23, 1861, commanded by Col. ITawkcs Fearing, Jun., of that\\ncity. It left Manchester Jan. 24, 1S62, for Ship Island, Mississippi,\\nby the way of Boston, and was afterwards in the service in Louisiana\\nand other States bordering on the Mississippi river till the expiration\\nof its term of enlistment. The Hollis soldiers named below enlisted\\nfor three years in this regiment in the fall or winter of 1861.\\nAustin, Albert S. Company E, enlisted December 30. Transferred to Veteran Reserve\\nCorps, April, 1S64.\\nConant, Andrew H. Company E, enlisted December 20. Promoted to Corporal, February\\n14, 1863 Re-enlisted, January 4, 1S64. Died atNatches, Miss., October 10, 1865.\\nElkins, Freeman. Company E, enlisted December 20. Discharged for disability, at Ship\\nIsland, Miss., April 10, 1S62.\\nJones, James, W. D. Company A, enli. ^tcd October 25. Died at camp Kearney. La., Octo-\\nber 26, 1862.\\nPatch, Joseph T. Company A, enlisted October 25. Discharged for disability. Died at\\nNashua, July iS, 1S63.\\nPrior to the month u( August, 1S62, no bounties to volunteers, to\\nfill the quota of Hollis in the war, had been ofiered or paid by the\\ntown. Till that date all the several calls upon the town for enlist-\\nments had been cheerfully and fully met by its patriotic young men.\\nBut owing in par*^^ to the large number of Hollis men then in the\\narmy, and in part also to a depreciation of the paper currency then\\nin use, the calls for enlistments after the first of August, 1S62, were\\nnot so promptly filled. In view of this state of focts, and to stimu-\\nlate enlistments, the town, at a meeting held on the 12th of August\\nof that year, voted to pay a bounty of $200 to any inhabitant of\\nHollis who would enlist for three years, or during the war, or\\nshould volunteer or be drafted for nine months, and be mustered\\ninto the United States service. In pursuance of this vote the town\\npaid as bounties to thirty tnen, between the first of September, 1862,\\nand July first, 1863, $200 each, amounting to ^6,000. Most of\\n-these men enlisted for nine months in the 15th New Hampshire regi-\\nment; the rest in other regiments for three years.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "l862.] THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 225\\nFIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.\\nThis regiment was raised for nine months, under the call of Pres-\\nident Lincoln for 300,000 men for that time. It had its rendezvous\\nat Concord, and was mustered into service at that place November\\n12, 1862, under the command of Col. John W. Kingman of Dur-\\nham. It left Concord the next day for New Orleans, and afterwards\\nserved, its time with the union army in Louisiana. The regiment\\nreached New Orleans on Christmas day, and was engaged in garri-\\nson and guard duty near that city till about the 3oth of May, 1863,\\nmany of the men in the meantime having suffered much from the\\ndiseases of the climate. About the last of May, it was ordered,\\nwith other regiments, to Port Hudson, and shared in the sanguinary\\nbut finally successful siege of that place, which ended in its uncon-\\nditional surrender on the 9th of July following. At the expiration\\nof its term of service the regiment returned to Concord, and was\\nmustered out on the 13th of August. In company E of this regi-\\nment, commanded by Capt. William E. Stearns of Manchester, and\\nof which Francis A. Wood of Hollis was 2d Lieutenant, were\\ntwenty-two Hollis soldiers, enlisted between October 9 and Novem-\\nber 2, 1862, all of whom, with the exception of John C. Smith,\\nreturned and were mustered out with the regiment. The names of\\nthese men are presented in the following list\\nAdams, Charles F. Hayden, Samuel F. Smith, John C. Died of disease\\nAnnis, George H. Hull, George S. at Hollis, August, lo, 1863-\\nChamberlain, Caleb W. Patch, Granville P. Tenney, George F.\\nColburn, Ai Pond, Aaron Vandyke, Isaac\\nHamblet, Charles S. Pond, Frank E. Willoby, Harvey M.\\nHanscom, Alfred A. Portwine, Rufus Willoby, Oliver H.\\nHardy, Isaac Rideout, David J. AVood, Francis A., 2d Lieu-\\nHardy, John H. Smith, Freeman H. tenant.\\nOTHER HOLLIS SOLDIERS ENLISTED IN 1 862.\\nCameron, Henry G. Enlisted company I, 13th regiment, September 20, 1S62. Promoted\\nto Sergeant. Discharged for disability at Falmouth, Virginia, January 14, 1863.\\nChickering, Frank N. Enlisted company B, 2d regiment Aug 21, 1S62. Promoted to Sergeant.\\nWounded June 3, 1S64. Mustered out June 9, 1865.\\nJaquith, John G. Enlisted company H, 7th regiment, March 14, rS62. Mustered out, April\\nai, 1S65.\\nRoby, David T. Enlisted company I, 13th regiment, September 20, 1S62. Wounded Septeni.\\nbcr 30, 1864. Mustered out June 21, 1S65.\\nSmithwick, Peter. Enlisted company E, 13th regiment, September 26, 1S62. Transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, March 31, 1864.\\nSullivan, Joseph. Enlisted company B, 10th regiment, August 25, 1862. Mustered out May\\n16, 1S65.\\nWoods, John L. Enlisted August 31, 1S62, company B, 2d regiment. Discharged for disabil\\nitv June 23, 1S63.\\n(15)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "326 THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. [1S63\\nMOLLIS SOLDIERS ENLISTED AND DRAFTED IN 1863.\\nBaker, Patrick. Enlisted December 7, 1863, company 11, 7th regiment. Mustered out July\\nao, 1865.\\nBuss, Joseph. Enlisted December 7, 1863, company A, 12th regiment. Died of disease at\\nFort Munroe, Virginia, October 13, 1S64.\\nBills, Jason W. Enlisted August 14, 1863, company A, heavy Artillery. Mustered out Sep-\\ntember II, 1865.\\nHale, Charles A. Enlisted May 18, 1863, company H, 7th regiment. Wounded July i8, 1863 1\\nat Fort Wagner. May 10, 1864, at Drury s Bluff, Virginia. June 16, 1864, at Bermuda\\nHundred, Virginia. Mustered out July 20, 1865.\\nHall, Harvey M. Enlisted November 4, 1S63, company C, 9th regiment. Died of disease at\\nWashington, D. C, September i, 1864.\\nKendall, Hiram R. Drafted September i, 1S63, company G, 8th regiment. Died of disease at\\nNatchez, Miss., November 3, 1864.\\nIn the month of July 1863, ten .soldiers were lacking to fill the\\nHollis quota, and for want of voluntary enli.stments, ten of the\\nHollis enrolled men were drafted, all of whom, with the exception\\nof Hiram R. Kendall, above named, furnished non-resident substi-\\ntutes at an average cost of about $500, of which the town paid\\n$300 as a bounty; the town at a meeting September 3, 1863,\\nhaving voted to pay that .sum as a bounty to every drafted man of\\nthe town or his substitute, after having licen for ten days mustered\\ninto the United vStates .service.\\nIn October of this A ear a further call was made upon the town\\nfor fourteen men to fill its quota, twelve of whom, (all non-resi-\\ndents) were engaged by the Selectmen, and who were paid boun-\\nties bv the town averaging about $235 each, in addition to a\\nState bount\\\\- of $300. Patrick Baker and Joseph Buss, two resident\\nvolunteer citizens, made up the tnimlK-r then called for, each of\\nwhom was paid a bounty by the town of $300 in addition to that\\npaid by the State.\\nHOLLIS SOLDIERS FURNISHED IN 1 864.\\nThree veteran Hollis soldiers, whose terms of service were aliout\\nto expire, rc-enlisted under a call made by the President in Feb-\\nruary of this year, viz., John F. kJoynton. John A. Coburn and\\nStephen II. Price, all of whom were mustered out in July 1S65.\\nThe town s cjuota being still deficient, about the first of March 1864,\\nsix other Hollis enrolled men were drafted, each of whom, at the\\ncost to himself of about $315, furnished a non-resident substitute\\nthese substitutes being also paid a bounty by the town of $300 each.\\nAt a town meeting held June ii, of this year, Enoch Farley,\\nEsq., one of the Selectmen for 1864. was appointed sole a^ent in", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "i86i to 1S65.] soldiers aid society. 227\\nbehalf of the town to engage men to fill all future calls. After-\\nwards, about the middle of July, a further requisition was made upon\\nthe town for twenty-eight additional men who were enlisted for\\nthree years. Only three residents of Hollis enlisted under this call,\\nviz., Charles S. Hamblet, September 6, 1864, in the heavy artil-\\nlery, and Aaron Pond, September 26, and Charles F. Chase, Dec.\\n28, 1864, in the Veteran Reserve Corps. These were the last resi-\\ndents of Hollis who enlisted in this war. The remaining twenty-\\nfive of the twenty-eight, all non-residents and most of them aliens,\\nwere engaged by the agent of the town, the whole twenty-eight\\nbeing paid bounties averaging to each about $680, including the\\nbounty paid by the State and that of $300 paid by the town.\\nsoldiers furnished in 1865.\\nAt a meeting held on the 5th of January of this year, the town\\nvoted to pay a bounty of $300 to any enrolled man of the town,\\nor citizen of the town who would himself enlist or furnish a sub-\\nstitute to fill the quota of the town in anticipation of future calls\\nto the amount of the town s quota for 500,000 men in addition to\\nthe present call for 300,000.\\nIn pursuance of this vote, sixteen enrolled citizens of the town\\nengaged substitutes at the average cost of about $816 each, of a\\\\ liich\\nsum the town paid as a bounty, $300, and the State also $300. In\\nthe foregoing recitals I have purposely omitted the names of all the\\nnon-resident substitutes who were engaged during the last years of\\nthis war. I am glad to be able to say that none of them were citi-\\nzens or residents of Hollis. With but few exceptions they were all\\naliens, belonging mainly to that class of worthless vagabonds,\\nknown at the time as Bounty Jumpers, of no service in the army\\na curse to the country, and a reproach to human natanc.\\nTHE HOLLIS SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY.\\nThe history of Hollis in the war of the Rebellion would be ini-\\npardonably incomplete should it fail to tell of the patient, faithful\\nand fruitful labors of the Hollis ladies. Like their grandmothers\\nin the war of the Revolution, they were at all times mindful of their\\nfathers, sons and brothers in the field, camp and hospital, and not\\nforgetful of those of them in the rebel prisons. In the year 1861.\\nnear the beginning of the war, a Ladies Soldiers Aid Society was\\norganized, and continued in active and successful operation till its\\nclose.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "338 soldiers aid society. [i86i to 1S65.\\nThe president of this society was Mrs. Taylor G. Worcester\\nits Treasurer, ]VIi s. Pliny B. Day and its Directors in different\\nvears, Mrs. James Ball, Mrs. Cyrus Burge, Mrs. Levi Abbot, Mrs.\\nWilliam P. Saunderson, Mrs John S. He3wood. and Misses\\nRoxana Read, Elizabeth Fletcher, and Martha Worcester.\\nIt had a numerous membership, but unfortunately for the histori-\\ncal chronicler, it preserved no written record of its members nor of\\nits very liberal contributions in various ways to the needs and com-\\nforts of the men in the army. A better and more fitting record of\\ntheir good works than that kept in day books and ledgers still\\nexists in the hearts and memories of the grateful recipients of tlicir\\nbounty.\\nBesides the work done for the soldiers, liy these ladies at their\\nown homes, thcv continued to meet during the war on the afternoon\\nof the first Tuesday of each month (and at times much oftener) to\\nfashion, make and provide articles of necessity and comfort, such\\nas lint, bandages, comfortable clothing and bedding, canned fruits,\\nwines, etc., for the sick and wounded in the hospitals, and neces-\\nsaries for the use, convenience and health of the men in the field\\nand camp, and al^ o for the relief of such of them as were doomed\\nto pine and sulVer in the infamous rebel prisons. The value of these\\no-ood deeds and kind offices is not to be estimated in greenbacks\\nor o-olcl. Still, Rev. Dr. Day in his anniversary New Years ser-\\nmons during the war. as well as before and after it, was accustomed\\nto present a statement of the amount of the contributions of the\\npeo]:)le of his society to the various benevolent enterprises of the\\ntime, including with the rest during the war the estimated ap-\\npraised value in money of the yearly contributions of the Ladies\\nSoldiers Aid .Societv to the comforts and wants of the men in the\\narmy.\\nUnfortunatelv these ainuial sermons of Dr. Day during the war,\\nwith but one or two exceptions, cannot now be found. But the true\\nestimated monev value of these contributions for the four years of\\nthe war may be proximately gathered from his annual sermon, still\\npreserved, delivered in January 1S64, from which it appears that\\nthese benefactions for the soldiers and freedmen for the year 1S63\\nwere appraised in cash, at somewhat more than v$ 1,500, and it may\\nbe added, that it is believed, by the late officers and members of\\nthe society most conversant with its doings, that the entire cash\\nvalue of its contributions during the war, including the money\\ndonated by its members, was not less than $4,000.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "S()i.i)ii:i;s \\\\io\\\\i \\\\ii,:\\\\ r\\ni-ni:rT..)()n\\\\n.\\\\\\\\()U(i-:-^Tn!\\nlVLl-:iT.(:iL\\\\.S.ll.KAHI.i;\\\\.\\nconi .\\\\\\\\T;i!STi:i n.{ ()i.i;n;\\\\\\nl N()K\\\\|.\\\\\\\\ l!.ll()\\\\Vi:\\nnKl ..l()H\\\\ W H.\\\\M)I N\\ntIKXl!Y DAM.\\n-JOHN mi.i.s\\n.lOSl.l H I- HUSS\\nHAFU.KS H FLKKHKH\\nTHOSE THAT FELL\\n1LVKV1:yM. ILM.l,.\\nJt)NATHAN l(iiUlUia-\\nPKHI.KY J .,1 KWKTT.\\nJA^IKSW.U-IONKS.\\nllllUM H.HTNDAJJ,.\\n.JOSl-niT.PATGU,\\n,1()HN CSMHH\\nS^l.NKSTh H TAVTihT-lEH.\\nX.AHLWIEL LTANTilC.HT", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "1 873-] soldiers monument. 229\\nthe mollis post of the grand army,\\nThe JoiLN II. Worcester Post of the Grand Army, having\\ntwenty-six members, was organized April i, 1875. The officers\\nof the Post then chosen were Capt. John A. Coburn, Commander,\\nFrancis Lovejoy, Senior vice Commander, Charles H. Worcester,\\nJunior vice Commander, and Daniel W. Ilayden, Adjutant.\\nthe soldiers MONUMENT.\\nNot very long after the end of the war of the Rebellion, the ques-\\ntion was brought before the people of the town of providing some\\nsuitable monument in honor of Ihe Hollis soldiers whose lives\\nhad been sacrificed in the service of the country in the war to save\\nthe nation, and also in that in which its independence was won.\\nThe interest felt in this subject shortly afterwards led to a volun-\\ntary subscription for this purpose on the part of the citizens of near\\n$800, and finally resulted in a vote of the town at its annual meet-\\ning in March 1872, to raise by tax a sum not exceeding $2,500, for\\nthe erection of a monument in memory of the IloUis soldiers, who\\nperished in the war of the Revolution, in that of 181 2, and in\\nthe war of the Rebellion. At the same meeting a committee,\\nconsisting of Dea. Noah Farley, Capt. John A. Coburn, George H.\\nBartemus, Henry G. Cameron, Isaac Vandyke, Levi Abbot, Charles\\nF. Chase, William E. Howe, and Nathaniel L. Truell, was ap-\\npointed to locate and contract for the monument.\\nThe action of this committee, in July following, resulted in the\\nselection of the site for the monument where it now stands, on the\\nHollis common, about five rods south of the meeting-house, and\\nafterwards in making a contract for its erection, with Moses Davis\\nof Nashua as architect and builder, in accordance with a plan made\\nby him and approved by the committee.\\nThis monument as it now stands is of the best Concord granite,\\nof four equal sides, all smoothly cut or polished, and its several\\nparts all artistically and symmetrically proportioned to each other.\\nIncluding its base, die and shaft, it is 22 1-2 feet in height, six feet\\nsquare at its foundation, its diameter gradually growing less from\\nits base to the vertex. On the east side of the die are inscribed the\\nnames of eighteen Hollis soldiers lost in the Rebellion. Uj^on its\\nwest side are the words, In honor of the Hollis soldiers who fell\\nin the wars of i775 1S12. The names of tliose lost in the\\nRevolution were not inscribed upon the monument at the time it", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "230 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nwas erected, for the reason that the committee had not then suc-\\nceeded in obtaining a complete list of them. But from careful in-\\nvestigation since made, it is believed that this list is now full, as\\npresented on page 201 of this history, and there seems no longer\\nsufficient reason for further delay in the inscription of their names\\non the monument, as originally designed.\\nThe entire cost of this monument, including the foundation and\\ncurbing, was $3120.77, of which sum $790.37 were paid by private\\nsubscription of the citizens, and the balance $1330.40, by the town.\\nThe dedication took place at the Hollis meeting-house, on the\\nafternoon of Decoration day, (May 30) 1873, the graves of the fallen\\nsoldiers having been first strewed with flowers, by the comrades now\\nbelonging to the (Hollis) John H. Worcester Post of the Grand\\nArmy, and the pulpit and windows of the church beautifully gar-\\nlanded with bouquets. The exercises consisted, first of music by\\nthe Hollis Brass Band, next of singing by choirs of children, then\\nprayer by Rev. Mr. Laird, followed by patriotic songs and hymns\\nby the Hollis church choir. The dedicatory address was delivered\\nl y Rev. Charles Wetherby of Nashua, in which he paid an elo-\\nquent and just tribute to the early settlers of Hollis, especially to\\nthe virtues, courage and patriotism of the Revolutionary fathers of\\nthe town, and to the Hollis soldiers in the war of the Rebellion,\\nwhose liravery antl good conduct had proved them worth} descend-\\nants of their Revolutionary ancestors not forgetting to commend\\nthe liberal and grateful spirit of the people of the town as mani-\\nfested in the erection of so chaste, appropriate and durable a mon-\\nument to perpetuate to future generations the memory and names of\\ntheir fellow townsmen who had thus given their lives for their\\ncountry.\\nAMES, CAPT. NATHAN M.\\n(ByJ.H. H.)\\nwas the only son of William Ames, Esq., and Lydia (Merrill)\\nAmes, and was born in Hollis June 4, 1827. Capt. Ames settled\\nin Hollis as a farmer and continued in that business till the breaking\\nout of the civil war in 1861. Naturally vigorous and active, he\\nmanifested great energy in all enterprises he undertook, and was\\nearnestly engaged in the promotion of the agricultural interests of\\nthe town.\\nAt the age of eighteen, he held a position in the staff of the\\nbrigade with which he was connected in the militia of the State,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "^-tryr i -y c^^j I\\n^-y", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 23 I\\nand in i860 he organized a temporary militia company in Hollis,\\ncalled the Hollis Phalanx^ of which he was first Lieutenant. This\\ncompany attended the Muster of that year at Nashua, and won\\ngreat praise for its soldierly appearance and discipline. Many of\\nthe members of this company formed the nucleus of the organiza-\\ntions that enlisted from Hollis in the civil war that soon followed.\\nWhen the war broke out Capt, Ames at once^begun the labor of\\nrecruiting a company for the service. His original purpose was to\\nhave his company mustered into the Fifth New Hampshire Regi-\\nment of infantry. But the ranks of that regiment having been filled,\\nbefore his company was complete, he concluded to have it united\\nwith the Seventh New Hampshire infantry.\\nHe was with his regiment during most of its period of service till\\nits discharge. In 1863, for a short time, he was Provost Marshal\\nat Fernandina, Florida, and in the summer of 1864116 was appointed\\nChief of Ambulance in the Tenth Army Corps, at Bermuda\\nHundied, Va. While in this position he was assigned to a place\\non the staff of Gen. Birney.\\nAt the expiration of the time for which his company had enlisted,\\nhe returned with it to New Hampshire, and resumed his former\\noccupation on his farm in Hollis. In 1870 he removed from Hollis\\nto Vineland, N. J., where he bought a farm and engaged in the\\ncultivation of fruits for the Philadelphia market. Although he\\nmade this change for the reason that from his experience of army\\nlife at the South, he believed that the climate of New Jersey would\\nbe better adapted to his health than that of New Hampshire, yet\\nearlv in 1872, he was attacked with bronchial consumption of\\nwhich he died September 5, 1873, ast. 45. Captain Ames was\\nmarried June 20, 1848, to Miss Asenath Hardy, of Hollis, who now\\nsurvives, and by whom he had three children, who survived him at\\nhis decease. He was a kind and affectionate husband and father,\\nand at all times, in whatever position in life he was placed, he was\\never ready to do his duty conscientiously, faithfully and promptly.\\nWORCESTEK, LIEUT. JOHN U.\\nson of John N. and Sarah (Holden) Worcester, was born in Hollis,\\nJanuary 18, 1839. boyhood he attended the public schools\\nin Hollis, and afterwards had the benefit of a good academic educa-\\ntion. Before the Southern Rebellion he had been a student at the\\nlaw school at Cambridge, and at the commencement of the civil", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "232 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nwar he was nearly ready to engage in the practice of his intended\\nprofession with flattering prospects of success. But when the nation\\nsummoned its young men to its defence, his love of country and\\nstern sense of duty found from him a prompt response.\\nIn the summer of 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in Com-\\npany H, of the Seventh New Hampshire regiment, and upon its\\norganization was chosen Second Lieutenant of his company. In\\nJune, 1862, upon the resignation of the First Lieutenant, (Potter,)\\nLieutenant Worcester was promoted to his place, and was after-\\nwards constantly in the service with his regiment, in Florida and\\nSouth Carolina, till his decease at Hilton Head, S. C, July 26,\\n1S63, ict. 24 years and 6 months.\\nThe vSeventh regiment was present and took part in the fearful\\nand bloody assault upon Fort Wagner, S. C, on the evening of\\nJuly 18, 1863. Lieutenant Worcester having succeeded, at the\\nhead of his men, in gaining the top of the parapet of the Fort,\\nwhile cheering them on, was severely wounded in his left leg, so\\nthat when the order to retreat was given, he was unable to leave the\\nfield. Having remained all night on the battle ground, he was\\ntaken prisoner, the next morning, carried into Charleston, his leg\\namputated, and on the 25th he was returned under a flag of truce,\\nsent to Hilton Head and put on board a vessel to be sent north with\\nother wounded men. But the following night the gangrene struck\\nhis limb, and before morning he breathed his last. When he found\\nhe could not live, he calmly resigned himself to his fate, and said to\\na wounded comrade lying at his side, Give my love to my wtv;,\\nand say to them that I shall be ivith them no more^ and tell my\\nfriends at home all you knozu of me. His remains were buried\\nat Hilton Head, under a military escort, and afterwards disinterred,\\ntaken to Hollis and buried in the family cemetery.\\nIn a tribute to his memory on the occasion of his funeral at Hollis,\\nRev. Dr. Day said of him, Lieutenant Worcester was just the man\\nthe country wanted. Firm in his convictions, active and forcible,\\nhe was a right arm of strength in her service. Nature had fitted him\\nfor a popular and successful ofhcer. His form was large and com-\\nmanding. He had a happy faculty of mingling with his men freely\\nand sociallv. and yet maintaining a complete command of them.\\nIt was a command, not common in the army that of respect and\\nlove. He endeavored to make the most of his men by increasing\\ntheir virtues. His covmsel and example were always against the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 233\\nuse of intoxicating drinks, tobacco, profanity and gambling, and he\\nknew how to urge his views upon others without giving offence.\\nDr. Boynton, the regimental Surgeon, wrote of him, No officer\\nin the regiment was before Lieutenant Worcester in promise. He\\nwas a general favorite with officers and men, and no one whose lot\\nit was to fall on that fatal night was more universally lamented.\\nLieutenant Potter, to whose place Lieutenant Worcester was pro-\\nmoted, in a short obituary notice says of him Lieutenant\\nWorcester in the discharge of every duty was faithful and persever-\\ning. No effort was too great for him if he could benefit the condi-\\ntion of a private soldier or sei ve a friend. Such honesty such\\nfidelity such energy and such kindness won for him the highest\\nesteem of all who knew him. His character was unexceptionable\\nhis habits strictly temperate his principles unwavering. His\\nservice short, faithful and earnest, is ended. But his example still\\nlives, and will be felt so long as a remnant of his company shall\\nsurvive.\\nThe John H. Worcester Post of the Grand Army, composed\\nof his sui viving comrades in the war, in and about Hollis, was so\\nnamed, on its organization, from an affectionate aud respectful\\nregard for his memory.\\nFARLEY, LIEUT. CHARLES H.\\nson of Dea. Leonard W. and Clarissa (Butterfield) Farley, was born\\nin Hollis July 31, 1835, Lake City, Florida, February\\n24, 1864, Eet. 28 years and six months. Calmly weighing the con-\\nsequences, and acting from .1 deep sense of duty, he was among the\\nfirst of the young men of Hollis to enlist in the service of his coun-\\ntry. Early in the fall of 1861 he volunteered as a private soldier in\\nthe 7th New Hampshire regiment, and on the organization of Com-\\npany H he was appointed Orderly Sergeant. June 30, 1862, he was\\npromoted to 2nd Lieutenant, and to ist Lieutenant August 6, 1863.\\nHe faithfully served with his regiment in Florida and South Carolina\\nthrough the years 1862 and 1863, and till mortally wounded at the\\nbattle of Olustee, Florida, February 20, 1864.\\nLieut. Farley was one of the gallant band who fought their way\\ninto Fort Wagner on the night of July 18, 1863. Wading the ditch\\nand scaling the parapet under a raking fire of the enemy, he stood\\nby the side of the brave and lamented Col. Putnam, when he fell,\\nfighting the enemy hand to hand with his revolver. He was twice", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "234 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nstruck with balls, one passing through his clothes, without serious\\ninjury, the other warded off by the testament in his pocket which\\nprobably saved his life. He remained till the fall of Col. Putnam\\nand the retreat ordered.\\nThe battle of Olustee commenced on the afternoon of February\\n30, and Lieutenant Farley was mortally wounded in the first part of\\nit. The Union troops were soon driven from the part of the field\\nwhere he fell, and he was taken prisoner, and carried by the enemy\\nto Lake City, about twenty miles distant. He was found the next\\nday in a confederate hospital by two ladies formerly from New\\nHampshire, taken to their own home and kindly cared for by them,\\nand also by the rebel Surgeon. But all eflbrts to save his life were\\nunavailing, and he expired four days after the battle. His funeral\\nwas attended by the Mayor of Lake City, his remains kindly in-\\nterred in the public burial ground, and afterwards removed for\\nburial at HoUis in the family burial lot. Rev. Dr. Day in a tribute\\nto his memory, delivered at his funeral at Hollis, says of Lieutenant\\nFarley, That at the early age of sixteen he made a public profes-\\nsion of religion and united with the Baptist church in Hollis, and\\never after till his death lived a consistent Christian life. He never\\nfell into any of the vices so common in the camp, never resorted to\\nthe gaming table, to the intoxicating cup nor to the fumes of the\\npoisonous weed. As an officer he was a universal favorite. The\\nsoldiers knew him so well, that for him to indicate his wishes, was\\nauthority. He never threatened, censured harshly nor spoke\\ndefiantly. His courage was never doubted, and no one ever saw\\nhim agitated, hurried or disconcerted on the eve of battle. He was\\ncalm, self-possessed and trustful in that Providence in which he had\\nbeen taught to believe,, and which was a cardinal point in his\\nreligious faith.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "BCCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 235\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nTHE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIETY. MEMBERSHIP.\\nMINISTERS. MR. EMERSON, MR. SMITH, MR. PERRY, MR. AIKEN,\\nMR. GORDON, DR. DAY, MR. LAIRD, MR. KELSEY, MR. SCOTT.\\nDEACONS. YOUNG MEN s ASSOCIATION. THIRD MEETING-\\nHOUSE. PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA-\\nTION. FEMALE CHARITABLE SOCIETY. BAPTIST SOCIETY.\\nIn a former chapter I have spoken of the efforts of the first set-\\ntlers of Hollis, while yet a parish, in providing for the support of\\nthe ministry of the building of their first and second meeting-\\nhouses of the call and settlement of Rev. Daniel Emerson, the\\nfirst and only minister of the church for some more than fifty years\\nof his character, public spirit, the high esteem in which he was\\nheld, and his favorable influence in the town through all its early\\nhistory.\\nThere is now to be found no existing record of the original forma-\\ntion of his church, and the well authenticated facts in respect to its\\nhistory for the first fifty years of its existence are but few. As Mr.\\nEmerson was ordained April 20, 1743, it is supposed that the\\nchurch was organized either at that time, or but a short time before.\\nIt is stated in a short historical manual of the church published in\\n1871, that its first sacrament or communion service, was celebrated\\nJune 5, 1743. It appears from the church records, that on the 31st\\nof July, 1745 i^ church covenant then rencxved and adopted,\\nwas signed by ten persons, besides the pastor, that number proba-\\nbly including all its male members at that date, viz.\\nDaniel Emerson, JerahmacI Cumings, Natlianiel Blood,\\nJohn Boyiiton, Benjamin Blanchard, Joseph Fletciier\\nHenry Barton, Elias Smith, Jonathan Danforth.\\nSamuel Brown, Enoch Hunt,\\nIt is shown by the same original records that on the 25th of De-\\ncember, 1745, William Cumings and Thomas Patch were chosen", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "336\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nits first deacons, and that February 17, 1747, Francis Worcester,\\nJun., was chosen the third deacon.\\nAs no confession of faith is mentioned or referred to in the\\nrecords previously to i794i it is supposed that none was formally\\nadopted before that time. A Creed or Confessioti of Faith\\nadopted in that year, and the covenant in previous use, were revised\\nin 1 83 1, and continued without change, (as is stated in the church\\nmanual), till 1871, when they were revised and adopted as they\\nnow are.\\nIt is said also in the same manual, that for the first fifty years, no\\nrecords were kept of the members admitted to the church, but that\\nincidental statements show that from the beginning, it enjoyed the\\nlabors of a faithful and successful ministry. In 1755, during the\\nlast French and Indian war, Mr. Emerson asked permission of his\\nchurch to be absent for a time, as chaplain to the regiment of Col.\\nJoseph Blanchard in the expedition of the army to Crown Point.\\nIn a meeting of the church to consider the request, it appears that\\nforty-seven members voted, a number nearly equal to one-half of the\\ntax payers at that time, the latter numbering that year but one Inm-\\ndred and seven.\\nThe following names of members of the church, copied from this\\nmanual, are found on the Ilollis tax lists, as resident tax payers be-\\nfore the war of the Revolution, viz.,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJohn Ahvell,\\nHenry Barton,\\nBenjamin Blanchard,\\nNathaniel Blood,\\nJohn Boynton,\\nJosiah Brown,\\nSamuel Brown,\\nEphraim Burge,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nWilliam Colburn,\\nJosiah Conant,\\nJerahraael Cumings,\\nJohn Cumings,\\nSamuel Cumings,\\nWilliam Cumings,\\nJonathan Danfortli,\\nThomas Dinsmore,\\nZedekiah Drury,\\nAmos Eastman,\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun.,\\nBenjamin Farley,\\nSamuel Farley,\\nAmos Fisk,\\nEleazer Flagg,\\nSamuel Goodhue,\\nJohn Goss,\\nJohn Hale,\\nPhineas Hardy,\\nDavid Hobart,\\nSamuel Hobart,\\nEnoch Hunt,\\nStephen Jewett,\\nEbenezer Jewett,\\nAbraham Lecman,\\nSamuel Leeman,\\nJonathan Lovejoy,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nEnoch Noyes,\\nThomas Patch,\\nPeter Powers,\\nMoses Proctor,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nZachariah Shattuck,\\nElias Smith,\\nJonathan Taylor,\\nNathaniel Townscncl,\\nJohn Willoughby,\\nFrancis Worcester,\\nNoah Worcester,\\nBenjamin Wright.\\nAt the close of JMr. Emerson s active ministry, in 1793, the resi-\\ndent members of the church numbered about two hundred.\\nRev. Dr. Davis, in his Centennial address before the HoUis as-\\nsociation of ministers in September, 1862, after short biographical\\nsketches of some other of the early members of that association, in", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 237\\nspeaking of Mr. Emerson, says of him, Of tVie Rev. Daniel Em-\\nson of HoUis we have more distinct notions derived from sketches\\nfurnished by his distinguislied grandsons. He was a man of\\nlarge and active intellect, a convert of Whitefield, and partaking\\nlargely of his spirit, he wa? uniformly evangelical, and often a very\\neloquent preacher. His chief excellencies in preaching were sound\\ndoctrine, deep feeling and zeal at times almost overwhelming. His\\nlabors were by no means confined to the pulpit. He was interested\\nin public affairs, serving as chaplain in the army^and accompanying\\nit to Crown Point.* An able counsellor, he was often called from\\nhome to aid feeble churches. Interested in the cause of ministerial\\neducation, and inuch blessed with revivals of religion, among his\\nown people, he animated a large number of young men to become\\npreachers of the gospel. Very assiduous in his attendance on the\\nmeetings of this association, he manifested an energy like that of\\nBaxter, whom in person he was said to resemble. From his talents\\nand position the Hollis minister was for man}^ years a leading mind\\nin the association.\\nIn, another connection I have spoken of the interest Mr. Emerson\\nmanifested in the cavise of popular education and of the indebtedness\\nof the youth of Hollis to him on that account.\\nUpon the monument erected over his grave in the Hollis central\\nburial ground is inscribed the following epitaph\\nBeneath this Monument lies the Mortal part ot\\nRev. Daniel Emerson.\\nHe was born at Reading, Mass., May 20, 1716.\\nGraduated at Ilan ard University, 1739\\nAnd was ordained April 20, 1743 to the Pastoral care\\nOf the Church and Congregation in Hollis\\nWhich then consisted of only 30 Families.\\nHe was an honest man, given to Hospitality;\\nAn affectionate Husband and tender Parent;\\nA faithful Friend and Patriotic Citizen;\\nAn Evangelical, zealous and unusually successful Preacher\\nOf the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\\nHighly Esteemed by his people, his praise was in all the Churche=;.\\nA. D. 1793, he voluntarily relinquished one-half his Salary\\nTo promote the settlement of a Colleague,\\nFrom which time his pious walk and occasional labors\\nEvinced an unabating love for the cause of Christ,\\nUntil natui-e failed and he fell asleep in Jesus,\\nSeptember 30, iSoi, aged 85 years.\\n*When at Crown Point it is said of him that when the men of his regiment Were ordered to\\npresent their arms for inspection, Mr. Emerson presented his Bible to the inspecting officer 3.S\\nhis weapon.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "238 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nUpon the same monument is also inscribed the following epitaph\\nin memory of his beloved and venerated consort.\\nHere are also deposited the remains of\\nHannah Emerson, wife of the above and\\nDaughter of Rev. Joseph Emerson of Maiden.\\nShe lived a pattern of filial obedience, respect and affection,\\nAnd an example of conjugal love and duty;\\nA most tender, indulgent and faithful Parent,\\nThe delight of her Friends and ornament of the Church\\nShe lived the life of a true Disciple of Christ,\\nIn the constant exercise of active faith in His promises.\\nAnd died is triumphant hope of everlasting life in tliose\\nRegions where Charity never faileth,\\nFebruary 38, i8i3, aged go.\\nMr. Emerson and Mrs. Emerson were the parents of thirteen\\nchildren seven sons and six daughters. Two of the sons, Joseph\\nand Samuel, were graduates of Harvard College. 7 Hannah\\nEmer.son, the oldest daughter, married Manasseh Smith of Hollis.\\nthree of whose sons were al.so graduates of Harvard College. v.)\\nSMITH, REV. ELI\\nsecond minister. On the 27th of November. 1793. Rev. Eli .Smith\\nwas settled as colleague pastor of the Hollis church with Rev. Mr.\\nEmerson. Mr. .Smith was born at Belcliertown, Mass., September\\n17, 17^9, and was a graduate of Brown University in 1792.\\nRev. Dr. Dav in a biographical sketch of Mr. .Smith, wiitten for\\nthe History of the New Hampshire Churches. .says of him\\nThat he was a man of strong natural talents, a firm and energetic\\ndefender of the trutli and a successful pastor. During his pastorate\\nof a little more than thirtv-seven years, between four and five hun-\\ndred persons were admitted to t!ie church. The great\\nrevival of his ministry was in tlie years iSoi and 1802. At thai\\ntime one liundred and torty-two new members were united to the\\nchurch. In iSii there was another re^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0al when thirty or fort\\\\\\npersons were added to the chiu ch. In iSi7there was still another,\\nof which about hftv more were mmde subjects. Mr. Smith was\\ndismissed, (at his own request.) in February. 1S31. and died in\\nHollis, May 11, 1S47.\\nMr. Smith, like his predecessor. Mr. Emerson, was an active and\\nzealous friend of the public schools, and such was the interest he\\ntook in them, that some vears after his settlement, the town mani-\\nfested its appreciation of his services by a cordial vote of thanks.\\nFrom 1S06 to 1S30, inclusive, he was annually elected chairman of\\nthe school committee, a position lie coi itinued to fill with much", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "t^{i", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 239\\nfidelity and advantage to the schools. He was settled upon an\\nannual salary of \u00c2\u00a390 and twenty cords of wood, which is not known\\nto have been materially changed during his pastorate.\\nThe following epitaph is inscribed upon his monument in the\\ncentral burial ground.\\nRev. Eli Smith.\\nBorn September 17, 1759. Graduated, 1793. Ordained, 1793.\\nWas Pastor of the Church in Hollis 37 years.\\nDied May 11, 1S47.\\nMr. Smith was distinguished for energy and decision of character,\\nfor piety, faithfulness and success in his ministry.\\nMr. Smith was twice married. His only son by Catharine Shel-\\ndon, his first wife, was Rev. Eli Smith, Jun., a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth college, v.). By his second wife, Ama Emerson,\\ndaughter of Dea. Daniel Emerson, he had six children four sons\\nand two daughters. The oldest of these died in childhood. Lu-\\nther, the third son, was a graduate of Brown University, v.).\\nJoseph E., the fourth, settled in Hollis, as a farmer, upon the pater-\\nnal homestead, who, beside being elected many times to important\\ntown offices, was chosen representative to the New Hampshire\\nGeneral Court in 1S38 and 1839. John R., the youngest son,\\nstudied medicine, and settled in his profession in Missouri. Ama,\\nthe oldest daughter, married Rev. Noah Emerson, of Baldwin, Me.\\nthe youngest, Catharine H., Rev. Darwin Adams of Camden, Me.\\nPERRY, REV. DAVID\\nthe third minister of this society, was born at Worcester. Mass.,\\nJuly 26, 1798, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1834, at the The-\\nological Seminary at Andover in 1837, and was ordained at Cam-\\nbridgeport, Mass., May, 1828. He was dismissed at Cambridgeport,\\nafterwards installed as ];astor of the church in Hollis. February 23,\\n1831. and dismissed, at his own request, June 13. 1S43, after a pas-\\ntorate of some more than ten years. During his niinistry not far\\nfrom one hundred and fifty persons were admitted to the church by\\nprofession or letter.* Mr. Perry died at Wareham, Mass., Aug.\\n27, 1876, set. 78. and was buried in Hollis, where he had resided\\nfor several years near the close of his life.\\nAIKEN, REV. JAMES\\nthe fourth minister, was born at Goftstown, New Hampshire, Nov.\\n14, 1 8 10, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839, Union\\nTheological Seminary in 1842. Mr. Aiken was ordained as pastor\\n*New Hampshire Churches, p. iS6.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "240 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nof the church and society in Hollis, August 30, 1843, retained\\nhis office as pastor near five years, in which time about sixty mem-\\nbers were added to the church. Dismissed July 3, 1848.*\\nGORDON, REV. MATTHEW D.\\nfifth minister, was born at Bhxntyre, Scothmd, Dec. 10, 1S12. He\\ncame to this country with his parents in 181 7, graduated at Middle-\\nbury College in 1S40, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1846.\\nMarch 21, 1849, he was ordained as pastor of the church at Hollis,\\nas successor of Rev. Mr. Aiken, and dismissed in consequence of\\nill health June 7, 1852. Died at Hoosic Falls, N. Y., August 21,\\n1853, set. 40.\\nDAV, D. D., REV. PLINY BUTTS\\nsixth minister was born at Huntington, Mass., April 21, 1806,\\ngraduated at Amherst college in 1S34, and at the Theological Semi-\\nnary at Andover in 1837. Day was ordained as pastor of\\nthe church at Derry, N. H., Oct. 4, 1837, dismissed at Derry in\\n1851, and installed as pastor of the church and society in H-ollis,\\nJuly 7- 1853. He received the honorary degree of d. d. from Dart-\\nmouth college in 1864, of which institution he was a trustee for\\nseveral yeai s previous to his death. Died at Hollis July 6, 1869.\\nlet. 63. The annual salary of the three ministers next preceding\\nDr. Day was $600. That of Dr. Day was at first $700. but after-\\nwards increased to $1000.\\nThe esteem in which Dr. Day was held by his brethren in the\\nministry, and also by the people of Hollis, is well expressed in the\\nfollow^ing resolution of the Hollis Association of ministers, adopted\\nAugust 2, 1869, at its first meeting after his decease.\\nResolved that while we humbly submit to the Divine Provi-\\ndence that has thus removed our greatly esteemed and beloved\\nbrother, we feel deeply pained and bereft at his departure. Rev.\\nDr. Day we received as a true. Christian gentleman courteous,\\namiable, possessed of superior mental endowments, judiciovis, wise\\nhis mind well trained and furnished with extensive, varied and\\nuseful knowledge a sound theologian, an able sermonizer an\\ne .rnest, impressive preacher a faithful teacher, pastor and spiritual\\nChristian; and an eminently discreet and useful minister of Jesus\\nChrist.\\n*Nl-vv H;imp ;hire Churches, p. i86.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 24!\\nWe record our deep conviction of the loss sustained in his death by\\nthis Association bv the church and people of which he w as so long\\npastor and teacher h\\\\ the Congregational churches throughout the\\nState by our State college of which he was an esteemed trustee\\nby the interests of education generally of patriotism of Christian\\nbenevolence of sound morals and of philanthropy.\\nThe published writings of Dr. Day are Letters frovi Eiiropc^\\n1851 T1V0 Sernioiis, the Sabbath after his installation, 1853\\nNe~v Year s Address^ 1S54; Sermons: at the funeral of Benjamin\\nF Nichols, 1854; at the funeral of John H. Cutter, i860; Farc-\\nivell to Soldiers. 1861 in memory of John H. Worcester, 1864;\\nVictory a?/d its Daz/g ers. 186^ in memory of Abraham Lin-\\ncoln, 1865 at the funeral of Benjamin M. Farley, 1865. Dr. Day\\nwas also a valued contributor to the Coiigregatiotialist and Con-\\ngregational yourjial.\\nLAIKD, KEV. JAMES\\nsevcntli minister, was born at Huntingdon, Canada East, Septem-\\nber 4. 1833. Fitted for college at Monson, Mass. Entered Amherst\\nCollege in 1857? P lssed the first two years of his college course at\\nAmherst, the last two at Oberlin College, Ohio, at which he gradu-\\nated in 1861. He afterwards entered the Theological Seminary at\\nAndover. Graduated at And()\\\\er in 1864. Was ordained as pastor\\nof the Congregational church at Guildhall, Vt., March 11^, 1866;\\ndismissed at Guildhall and afterwards installed as pastor of the\\nchurch at Hollis, May 25, 1870. Died at Hollis after a long and\\nlingering sickness, May 25. 1870. iet. 36. The animal salary of\\nMr. Laird was $1,350.\\nKELSEV, REV. HIRAM L.\\neighth minister, was born at Wheelock, Vt., August 31. 183s.\\nGraduated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown. Conn., 1861.\\nWas ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church,\\nApril 16, 1865. Mr. Kelsey was installed as pastor of the church\\nand society at Hollis, June i, 1875. and dismissed, (at his own re-\\nquest,) March I, 1878. About two months after his dismissal at\\nHollis he was installed as pastor of a Congregitional church at\\nBrockton, Mass., where he now resides.\\nAnnual salary of Mr. Kelsey at Hollis. $1,500 and use of the\\nparsonage.\\n(16)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "242\\nDEACONS OF THE CONGREGATION AE CHURCH.\\nSCOTT, REV. D. B.\\nfrom Milton, N. H., in the foil of 1S78, was engaged as minister of\\nthe society for one year and is now the acting pastor of the church.\\nDEACONS OF THE HOLLIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nWilliam Cuniings,\\nThomas Patch,\\nFrancis Worcester,\\nEnoch Noyes,\\nJohn Boynton,\\nStephen Jewett,\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun.,\\nJosiah Conant,\\nAbel Conant,\\nEphraim Burgc,\\nThomas Farley,\\nStephen Jewett, Jun.,\\nBenoni Cutter,\\nEnos Hardy,\\nPhillips Wood,\\nWilliam Emerson,\\nIsaac F arley,\\nJohn B. Hardy,\\nRev. Leonard Jewett,\\nRev. James D. Hills.\\nNoah Farley,\\nEnoch J. Colburn,\\nPerry M. Farley,\\nGeorge M. Bradley,\\nsen 174s,\\n745.\\n1747.\\n75\\n755.\\n770,\\n1775,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0787.\\n17S7.\\n1S03,\\n1S03,\\niSoS,\\niSia,\\nI Si 6,\\n1S20,\\n1S32,\\n1S32,\\n183S,\\n1846,\\nSS7.\\n1S60,\\n1S63,\\nS7S.\\nS75.\\nled .Septembe\\n9.\\niSsS,\\naged 46 ye;\\nMay\\nI,\\n754.\\n40\\nOctober\\n19,\\niSoo,\\n70\\n.September,\\n,7./,,\\nSo\\nOctober\\nM,\\n17S7,\\n67\\nMay\\n^3.\\n1S03,\\n75\\nOctober\\n4.\\n1S20,\\n74\\n.Vugust\\n21,\\n1S07,\\n01\\nMay\\n2,\\n.S44.\\nSS\\nMarch\\n3\\n1S43.\\n7S\\nMarch\\n17,\\n1S32,\\n03\\nFebruary\\n22,\\n1 820,\\n75\\nJanuary\\n17.\\nI Si 6,\\n44\\nMay\\n:S,\\nISS7.\\nS5\\nJanuary\\n14.\\n1858,\\n76\\nDecember\\n3,\\nS73.\\n$2\\nF ebruary\\n^5,\\n1S74.\\n90\\np ebruary i6, 1S02,\\n.\\\\pril\\n4, 1S70,\\n76\\nthe hollis young men s christian association of i he last\\nc?:ntury.\\nI think it pertinent to the History of the society and church, and\\nas some evidence of the moral and religious training and culture of\\nthe youth of Ilollis one hundred years and more ago, to present in\\nthis connection the following articles of association signed by nearly\\none hundred of them. The document was preserved among the pa-\\npers of Miss Mary S. Farley, the generous benefactor of the Hollis\\nHigh .School, and whose grandfather, Christopher Farley, was a\\nmember of the association. There is no date upon the paper, but\\nthe fact that two members of the association, whose names were\\nsigned to it, were killed at Bunker Hill, June 17, 177S1 Hitl o le ot\\nthem at Cambridge two days after, is conclusive evidence that the\\nassociation was organized before that time.\\nIt may interest some persons who belong to the ToiDigMen s\\nChristian Associations of the present day to know that the like\\nassociations existed in New Hampsliire three generations ago, and", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "YOUNG men s association. 245\\nalso to learn in what manner they were organized and comUicted.\\nThey niay also have some curiosity to know somewhat of the\\nqualijications iox membership in this ancient association of the\\nduties of its members to each other, as well as to the community at\\nlarge of its rtiles for the admission or expulsion of disorderly or\\nunworthy members and of the trust and confidence reposed by\\nthese young men in the pastor and deacons of the church, in making\\nthem the final arbiters in all matters that might disturb their\\nharmony.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Hoping that we are disposed b\\\\- the infiuence of the spirit of\\nGod to seek those things which are above and made in some measure\\nsensible of the dangei of bad compan}- by which many ha\\\\e fallen\\ninto temptation and the snare of the devil, and calling to mind\\nthat we are given up to God in holy baptism, as well as desiring to\\nremember our Creator in the days of our 3{)uth and become the\\nunfeigned servants of the Lord Christ, we determine to associate\\nin the following manner, viz.\\n1st. We will endeavor to spend aliout two hours every Sabbath\\nevening in praying, reading and singing in the ensuing order, first\\nasking God s presence and blessing, then reading a portion of sacred\\nScripture, then each one praying in his turn beginning with the\\noldest, then sing part of a psalm or h}mn, then read a sermon or a\\npart of some profitable book, then another prayer, then sing, then\\nask a question in the Assembly s Catechism to everv member bv the\\nperson ho prayed last.\\n3nd. By Christ strengthening us we will watch over each other\\nwith a spirit of love and concern not divulging one another s\\ninfirmities but lovingly inform them of wiiat we shall know or hear\\nto be a fault nor will w e manifest ourselves offended when we are\\ncharitably reproved, although the reproof be not administered iiT\\nsuch manner as we should wish, but endeavor immediate-\\nreformation.\\n3d. If any of our members shall fall into scandalous sin we will\\nadmonish and suspend him for a longer or shorter time, according to\\nthe natvne of the offence, nor will we receive him again without\\nvisible tokens of repentance and reformation.\\n4th. We will spend the evening of the fourth Lord s day in every\\nother month in pra3ier for the increase of the kingdom of our", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "244 VOUXG MEN S ASSOCIATIOX.\\nblessed Lord and Saviour through the world, especially for the con-\\nversion of the yoinig people where we li\\\\ e. and invite one or two\\nbrethren of the church to join with and lead us on said e\\\\enings\\nwhen these articles shall be audibly read.\\n^th. If am member shall absent himself for more than two eve-\\nnings successively without known reason we will send one or twt)\\nto enquire, and if no answer be given, but such as discovers apos-\\ntac\\\\ without reformation, in one moiitli his name shall lie exposed\\nbefore the society.\\n6th. Anv one who is desirous of joining w itli us shall be pio-\\npoimded In one t)f the members, one evening beforehand, and if\\nallowed shall present himself the next. when, hearing our articles, if\\nhe pleases to sign them, it shall be his admission into oiu nmnber.\\nyth. We will cheerfidK contrilnite each of our parts towanls tlie\\nnecessar\\\\ expenses of the society.\\nSth. If there arises an\\\\ diihcult\\\\ between an\\\\ of us which we\\ncannot heal among oursehes we will submit the whole alVair to our\\nRev. Pastor antl deacons of the church for the time being, and their\\njudgment shall l)e the final issue of the diihculty.\\nThere ere appended to the foregoing articles the names of\\nninet\\\\-four \\\\()uths and voung men. all supposed to have been resi-\\ndents of IloUis. and most of them sons of the earh settlers of the\\ntown. So far as can now be learnetl, the two \\\\()imgest of the mem-\\nbers were Ralph Emerson, a son of the minister, and Jesse\\nWorcester, a son of Noah Worcester, each of whom in June, 177^\\nwas in his fifteenth year. Among the oldest, were Daniel Emerson,\\nJun.. who was a Captain in the war. and Nathan Blood, who was a\\nSergeant in the llollis company at Bunker Hill, each of whom was\\nthen in his twenty-ninth year. Forty-eight, or more than one-half\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of the members of this fraternity were soldiers in that war. the most\\nof them having been in the service the first year oi it. The names\\nof these soldiers are presented in the following list, thirteen of\\nwhom marked thus. were in the Hollis companv at Bunker\\nHill. Two of the thirteen, viz., Nathan Blood, aged twentv-eight\\nand Jacob Boynton. aged nineteen, were killed in the battle.\\nSaimifl Ainhrosi Kvaii Pow, *]ainc Mc t oiiiicr,\\nJohn Atwell, Jun.. *Calch Eastman *VVilliani Nc\\\\ ins, Jun.,\\nAndrew Bailey, Jonathan Eastman, Elijah Jsoycs,\\nJohn Rail, *Wiiliani Elliot, Enoch Noycs, Jmi.,\\nNathaniel IJall, Daniel Emerson, Jun., Thomas Patch,\\nDaniel Blood, Christopher Farley, William W. T col,\\n*Nathan BliK d. *Josiah Fisk, John PliilbricK.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "TMiin) cox(;ina;,vri()NAL \\\\ii:i:ting iioisi:\\nucii.T i. U) I- i:i:(()NMiii ri :n \\\\Hvn.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING-HOUSK.\\n345\\nBenjamin Boynton,\\nJohn Boynton,\\nJoshua Boynton,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Jacob Boynton,\\njanies olburn,\\nJotham Cumings,\\n*PhiHp Cumings,\\nWilliam Cumings,\\nJoshua Davis,\\nJoseph French,\\nJacob Jewett, Jun.,\\nJonathan Jewett,\\nNoah Jewett,\\nStephen Jewett, Jun.,\\nAbner Keyes,\\nAsa Lovejoy,\\nJonathan Lovejoy,\\nEphraim I.und,\\n*Nahum Powers,\\n*Thomas Pratt.\\nEdward Taylor,\\nJacob Taylor,\\nWilliam Tenney,\\nAmos Webster,\\n*Noah Worcester, Jun.\\nJesse Worcester,\\nSamuel Worcester.\\nTHE THIRD IIOLLIS MEETINCJ HOUSE.\\nAt the annual town meeting in 1799, an article was inserted in\\nthe warrant 7 o sec if the tozvn would build a netv fleeting\\nHouse or repair the old one. At that meeting the town voted\\nto build a new Aleeting House in three years, and chose the fol-\\nlowing committee to decide where it should be placed, viz., David\\nDanforth of Amherst, Jeremiah Pritchard of New Ipswich, Jacob\\nBlodgett of Townsend, James l^razier of Pepperell and Frederick\\nFrench of Dunstable. The report of this committee was soon after\\nmade and formally accepted. At the same meeting Emerson\\nSmith, David Smith and Benjamin Wright were appointed a com*\\nmittee to report a Plan for the new house, which they did the\\nsame season this plan^ as appears, having been copied from that\\nof the meeting-house at Billerica, which with some modifications\\nwas accepted and adopted.\\nThe foregoing proceedings seem to have contemplated that the\\nnew meeting-house should l)e built at the expense of the town but\\nat a town meeting in May. iSoi, the town voted to proceed with\\nthe building provided it could be erected without a Town tax and\\nthen chose a committee to devise the means to effect it. and at the\\nsame time to pav the owners of pews in tlie old meeting-house the\\nappraised alue of their pews. This committee of ivavs and\\nmeans consisted of Daniel Emerson, Esq., Noah Worcester, Jere-\\nmiah Ames, Daniel Emerson, 3d, William Brown, Solomon W lieat,\\nEphraim Burge, Amos Eastman and Da^ id Smith.\\nIn the following September, this ct)mmittee made a report (which\\nwas adopted) to the effect that the tow n should choose a com-\\nmittee to sell the pews, as described in the plan, reserving a min-\\nisterial pew. and everv seventh pew bek)W ant! each Hfth pew in\\nthe gallery, till the rest should be sold. If tiie sales should fall\\nshort of the cost of the house the purchasers of the pews to make\\ngood the deficiencv^ if thev shoidd exceed the cost, tlie purchasers\\nto have the excess in proportion to the amounts se\\\\eral]v paid bv", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "346 THIRD MEETING-HOUSE.\\nthem. The committee afterwards chosen to make tliese sales con-\\nsisted of Dea. Daniel Emerson, Benjamin Wright, William Ten-\\naiey, Amo.s Eastman, and William Brown.\\nAfter the new plan was adopted, the town voted that the new\\nhouse should be finished on or before November ist, 1803, but af-\\nterwanls otcd to extend tlie time one year longer. At the annual\\ntown meeting in March, 1S04, the town instructed the building\\ncommittee to take down the old house at the expense of the pur-\\nchasers of the jiews in the new house, and also voted that the new\\nhouse might be finished with a tower and steeple if it could be done\\n\\\\vithout expense to the town. The foregoing was the last town\\nmeeting lield in respect to the building of the third meeting-house.\\nThis new meeting-house (Iniilt as is supposed) substantiallv after\\nthe model of that at Billerica, was Hnished in the fiill of 1S04. It\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2continued to l^e occupied, as originally constructed, without mate-\\nrial change outside or inside, till the vear 1S49. when its west end\\nwas turned around to the south its south side to the east, and the\\nwhole building remodelled, renovated, and altered substantiallv to\\nthe condition in which it now is.\\nHundreds of people still living have a vivid remembrance of it\\nas originally constructed and finished. It stood upon the same spot\\nwith the first meeting-house built in Ilollis more than sixty years\\nbefore, the main building being sixty-eight feet long, east and west,\\nand fifty-four feet wide north and south. It w^as two stories in\\nheight, well clapboarded and pairited white, with windows of\\ntwent\\\\ -four panes eacli of glass, nine inches liy twelve, on its sides\\nand ends, and porches on its Iwo ends and south side, with a wide\\ndoor in each porch opening into the main building or audience\\nroom. The east porch was of two stories with entrance doors on\\nthe east and south sides, with a stairway ascending to the east or\\nivomcii s gallery. The south porch was of but one stor} with out-\\nside doors on its east, south and west sides. The west porch was\\nalso of two stories, with stairs to the west or vioi s gallery, and sur-\\nmounted with a belfr}-, cupola and steeple. All of the outside\\ndoors of the porches had well finished steps or stairways of\\nhammered stone for ascent to them, and those at the east and west\\nporches were each furnished at one end with a neatly finished and\\nconvenient horse-block of the like hammered stone.\\nThe pulpit stood at the middle of the north wall of the audience\\nroom, facing south, with stairs on each side of it, and the seats for", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING-HOUSE. 247\\nthe four deacons, and the communion table hung on hhiges directly\\nbelow, in front, the central broad aisle leading to it from the inside\\ndoor of the south porch. There was in front of the deacons seat an\\naisle extending east and west across the audience room, separating\\nthe north wall pews, from two ranges of long free seats for the\\naged and dcaf\\\\ one-half of these free seats being east of the broad\\naisle, for xvo7nen the other half west of that aisle, for men.\\nThe pews were six feet long, east and west, and five feet wide,\\nneatly panelled and painted, the partitions between them being fin-\\nished at the top with a miniature balustrade. There were in al\\nninety-five of them, of which sixty-eight were below and twenty-\\nseven in the gallery. There was a single row of them next to the\\nwall on the lower floor, with a step or stair in. front of each pew,\\nall raised a foot or more above the outside aisles leading to them,\\nwhich with the wall pews, extended around on the two sides and\\nboth ends of the audience room. Of these wall pews there were\\nten, (including those in the corners,) on each of the north and south\\nsides of the lower floor, and six at each end. Of those on the sides\\nfive were on the east and five on the west side of the south door, and\\nfive on the right side, and five on the left of the pulpit. Of those\\niit the ends, three were on each side of the east and west doors.\\nThe intermediate space between the four outside aisles, (includ-\\ning the long seats for the aged.) was occupied with six rows of six\\npews each, all parallel with the broad or central aisle there being\\nthree rows on each side of it the east and west rows of the six be-\\ning separated from the others b}- a narrow alley leading from the\\nsouth aisle to the long seats for the aged.\\nThe gallery, supported by round, wooden, well painted Ionic\\ncolumns was finished in front with panel work, and a heavy cornice,\\nand extended around on the south side and east and west ends of the\\naudience room, with a range of pews next to the walls, eleven of\\nthem being on the south side and eight at each end, with aisles lead-\\ning to them. The front part of the south gallery was appropriated\\nto the singers. The front part of the east gallery, not occupied by\\npews, was furnished with long, unpainted free seats for women, and\\nwas known as the women s gallery. The corresponding portion\\nof that on the west end was provided with the like kind of free seats\\nfor men and known as the men s gallery.\\nThe pews were all provided with panelled and painted doors\\nhung on hinges, and with wide, hard uncushioned seats on the side", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "^4S PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.\\nfacing the pulpit, each about two feet long, and also with like seats\\nin the corners, all also hung on hinges. In those times, the wor-\\nshippers, as was the custom, stood during prayers. When they rose\\ntheir seats were all lifted up and turned back against the sides of the\\npews. At the close of each prayer the amen of the minister was\\nthe signal for carelessly dropping the seats again to their places with\\na noise and rattle not unlike a musketry salute of a raw, poorly\\ndrilled militia company. Some of these pews were supplied with\\nflag-bottomed arm chairs for tlic grand-parents, and most f)f them\\nwith long, narrow leaning boards, so called, to he placed lengtli-\\nwise of the pews in fnMit of the occupants as they sat, upon which\\nthey might rest their listless heads, when their drowsv powers\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ot the better of fheir interest in the services. The top ceiling of\\nthe audience room was slightly arched and painted of a light sky-\\nblue, with a dark, angry, portentous thunder-cloud in its north\\nwest corner. With but few if any exceptions, there were no blinds\\nto the windows on the outside to protect the patient audience from\\nthe heat and sun in summer, nor curtains nor shades on the inside\\nnor stoves nor furnaces to soften the cold of winter. The principal\\nsubstitutes in winter for these last modern luxuries, were warm\\nfur murt s and tippets for the hands, arms and necks of such of the\\ngentler sex as could aftbrd them, and thick socks of fur or wool for\\nthe feet, but mtn-e than all the small tin hand stove with Its little\\nbasin of bright coals and ashes carried in the hand to the pews by\\nthe younger members of the family and kindly and C}uietly slipped\\naround from one pair of cold feet to another.\\nNo sovmd of a church-going liell was ever heard from the belfry\\nof this meeting-house till 1821. In that ear a subscription was\\nraised by the people of the town of near v$740 for the purchase of\\none, and a bell weighing 1263 lbs. bought and hung the same year.\\nThis bell proved to be of a very tine tone, but about twenty years\\naftei wards it was unfortunately cracketl, and taken down and sold,\\nand the one now in use procured by a like subscription and hung in\\nits place.\\nTHK IIOLI.IS PIUI^AX rUlJOPIC SOCIKTV.\\nOn the 15th January, 1801, thirty or more of the citizens of\\nllollis, interested in the maintenance of the ministry in the Con-\\ngregational society, met for the purpose of devising a plan for its\\npermanent support without taxation. At that meeting, a preamb", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "FJHLANTIIROPIC SOCIETY.\\n249\\nwas reported, adopted and signed by them, expressive of tiieir\\nwishes and purposes, a substantial copy of which with the names\\nof the signers, is here presented, as foHows\\nConsidering the gospel of Jesus Christ the sole foundation and\\nsource of happiness to man, and that this gospel should be re-\\nspectably maintained and publicly taught in such way as will most\\nharmoniously tend to promote public tranquility and individual piet}\\nwe the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Hollis, do here-\\nby associate ourselves together under the name of the Hollis\\nPhilafit/iropic Society for the purpose of devising, according to\\nthe best of our ability, some plan for the perpetual support of the\\ngospel in the town in which we live, and although we dare not\\npromise ourselves a speedy accomplishment of our purposes, yet we\\nview it of such consequence to the well being of society that we\\ndeem it an object highly worthy of our attention, and that we can-\\nnot transmit to posterity a more valuable legacy. Signed,\\nNoali Wiircestcr,\\nDaniel Kmersiiii, Jan.,\\nStephen Jcwett,\\nEphraini Burge,\\nNathan Colhnrn,\\nThomas Farley,\\nNathan Holt,\\nDaniel Emerson, 3d,\\nSolomon Wheat,\\nDavid Smith,\\nDavid Burge,\\nJohn Ball,\\nHenoni Cutter,\\nWilder Chamberlain,\\nJesse Hardy,\\nJesse Worcester,\\nDaniel Lawrence,\\nJames Bradbury,\\nWilliam Merril!,\\nJosiah Conant, Jun.,\\nWilliam Brown,\\nDavid Hale,\\nWilliam Tenney,\\nBenjamin Wright,\\nDavid Ilolden,\\nAmos Eastman, Jun.\\nReuben Flagg,\\nEli Smith,\\nWilliam Ferguson,\\nAaron Bailey,\\nSamuel Smith,\\nEnos Hardy,\\nTimothy Lawrence.\\nAt that meeting a committee, consisting of Daniel Emerson, 3d.\\nNoah Worcester, Jesse Worcester, Stephen Jewett, and Ephraim\\nBurge, was appointed to prepare and report a plan and rides for\\ncarrying into effect the objects of the association. These proceed-\\nings, with the report of this committee finally resulted in procuring\\nfrom the General Court an Act of Incorporation, authorizing the\\nassociation to raise funds by donation and contri]:)ution. the income\\nof which (as contemplated) might permanently support the minis-\\ntry in this church and societv. The association began its operations\\nfor the objects proposed the same year, and has continued in exis-\\ntence, under its original and amended charters, from that time to the\\npresent.\\nThe original charter provided that when the funds of this asso-\\nciation should reach the sum of v$7,ooo, five-sixths of its income\\nshould be paid to the Selectmen of Hollis for the time being for the\\nsupport of the gospel in this church and society. In 1S31. tlie", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "350 BEXEVOLEXT ASSOCIATION.\\noriginal charter was altered, authorizing the association, when its\\nfunds should amount to $3,500. to pay to the standing committee of\\nthat society twelve-thirteenths of its yearly income. In the year\\n1S32 the invested funds of the association, having increased to\\n$3,536, the association that year paid $200 of its income for the\\nsupport of the ministry in that society, and continued to pay the\\nlike Sinn yearly till 1S49, from 1S49 to 1S54, $250 per year.\\nSince 1S54, t^^^ average annual amount so paid has been near $26 j.\\nIt appears from the annual report of the association, made in Jan-\\nuary 1S78. that its permanent fund, including interest, had increased\\nto $5,703.95.\\nTHE IIOLLIS BEXE\\\\ OLEXT ASSOCIATIOX.\\nIf the amoimt of tlie contributions in money of the Congrega-\\ntional society in Hollis in aid of the various charitable and reli-\\ngious enterprises of the day does not equal that of some other\\nlarger and more wealthy societies in the comity, still it is believed\\nthat in this respect its good name will not sutler in comparison with\\nmost of them. In January. 1S36. a charitable organization was\\nformed, composed of its leading members, which then adopted the\\nname, and has since been known, as the Hollis Benevolent As-\\nsociation. It appears from the written Constitution of this asso-\\nciation, that it was one of its main purposes, by means of a single\\norganization, in place of several, to furnish material aid to each of\\nthe charitable religious enterprises of the day, in which the members\\nof this association felt interested. These enterprises included the\\nBible Society. Foreign and Domestic Missions, the Tract. Educa-\\ntion, and vSabbath .School Societies. It is shown by the accoimts of\\nits doings, kept in the records of this association, that the amount\\nin money contributed to its objects for the first six years of its exis-\\ntence, was $3,644. being at the rate of $607 per year. It also ap-\\npears that tlie amount raised bv it from 1S53, 1869, (being six-\\nteen years of the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Dav) was very nearly equal\\nto an annual average of $500. and making an aggregate of $7,794.\\nTHE HOLLIS FEMALE READIXG AND CHARirABLE SOCIETY.\\nThis association composed of ladies belonging to the Congrega-\\ntional church and society was formed in the year 1829, and has been\\nin active operation from that year to the present. It appears from\\nits Constitution, then adopted, that its leading objects were the pro-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "FEMALE CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION. 251\\npromotion of social intercourse, mental culture and improvement,\\nand active and worthy charities. Its regular meetings were to be\\nheld during the entire 3 car on the first Thursday afternoon of eacli\\nmonth, and while listening to some usefid and instructive reading\\nby one of its members, the time of the rest was to be occupied\\nin working for some object of beneficence to ])e approved by a\\nmajority of them.\\nThe records of the doings this societ\\\\ have been, from \\\\ear to\\nyear, neatly written out and kept for near half a century. One of\\nthe primarv olijects of its charities seems to have been to aid tlie un-\\nfortunate, deserving poor at home. Init the amount of its benefactions\\nbestowed in this wav docs not appear in its records, nor in the early\\nyears of its existence was the animal report of its treasurer recorded\\nat all. vStill, though the record of its good works is thus incomplete,\\nyet it is shown by the report for 1S7S of its present secretary, Mrs.\\nJefferson Farle}-. that it appears from these records that more than\\n$1,000 have been received by the societv. mainlv from self-imposed\\ntaxes and fees for membership. Aside from its home charities and\\nwork, the objects of the bounty of the association have been many\\nand various, including in them. Home and Foreign Missions and\\nMissionaries, the Seaman s Friends Society, the Home of the\\nFriendless in New York citv. and the New Hampshire Orphan s\\nAsylum, at Franklin. As the fruits of the labors and beneficence of\\nthese busy and faithful workers, boxes filled with clothing, bedding,\\nand other valuable articles for household use have been made by\\nthem and from year to year forwarded to their destination in aid of\\nthe charitable enterprises above named, of the aggregate appraised\\nvalue of $3,305.\\nTHE HOLLIS BAPTIST SOCIETY.\\nIt appears from the published minutes of the 15oston and New\\nHampshire Baptist Association, that a Baptist church existed in\\nHollis as early as 1791. and that in the years iSio and iSii it num-\\nbered forty-nine members, but I do not find that the society then had\\neither minister or meeting-house. As those minutes contain no\\nreport of an)- Baptist church in Hollis between 181 1 and 1836 it is to\\nbe presumed that the church first formed, was dissolved soon after\\n181 1. But it is within the recollection of many persons now living,\\nthat between the years 1816 and 1823, Rev. Benjamin Paul, a very\\nworthy colored Baptist minister, had charge of a small Baptist", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "252 BAPTIST SOCIETY.\\nsociety composed of members living in part in the east part of\\nHollis and partly in Dunstable. No record of this society is known\\nto exist and it is supposed also to have been dissolved.\\nAfter 1823 no Baptist st)ciety is known to ha\\\\e l)een formed in\\nHollis till March 31. 1S36, when a ne^v society of that denomina-\\ntion was organized, and the following officers then chosen, viz.,\\nWilliam N. Bradstreet and Amos Ilagget, Directors William F.\\nBurrows, Clerk William N. Bradstreet, Treasiu er, and Asa\\nJacjuith, Collector. The church was formed June 6, 1837, then\\nconsisting of twent\\\\-eight members, and took the name of the\\nFirst Baptist Church in Hollis. The Deacons of the church\\nat that time chosen were Abraham Temple Hardy and Amos\\nHagget. In April 1841, on the removal of Dea. Hardy from the\\ntown, Dea. Leonard W. Farlev was electetl in his place. The\\nchurch from the time of its formation continued to increase, from\\nyear to year, till September 1S43, when it consisted of one hundred\\nmembers, with a .Sal^bath school of one hundred and twentv pupils.\\nAfter 1843, its numbers gradually diminished. The clergymen who\\nhave acted as pastors of the church have officiated in the following\\norder Rc\\\\ Phineas Richardson, Rev. Daniel P. Deming, Rev.\\nH. W. Dalton, Rev. Bartlett Pease and Rev. George B. Bills. In\\nthe year 1S3S this society built a con^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0enient and substantial meet-\\ning-house, on the east side of the Hollis common. ith Hftv pews,\\nand at a cost of $2,000.\\nRev. Mr. Richardson is saiil to ha\\\\ e begun to preach in Hollis\\nthe year before this societv was formetl, and was a popular, faithfid\\nand successfid pastor of the church for al out twelve \\\\ears. He was\\nl)orn in Methuen, Mass., February 2. 1787- ^1 ^vas self educated,\\nwith the exception of studying for a few months with Rev. Dr.\\nChaplin of Danvers. He was ordained to the work of the ministry\\nat Methuen. in 1S17. anti was for some years afterwards employed\\nas an evangelist, but for eighteen years next pre\\\\ ious to his coming\\nto Hollis he was pastor of the Baptist church in (7ilmant(jn, N. IL\\nMr. Richardson resigned hispastt,)rate in Hollis on accoiuit of feeble\\nhealth and removed to Lawrence, Alass. His last pastorate of four\\nyears was at New Hampton, N. H. Died at Lawrence. January\\n25, i860, in his 83d \\\\ear.\\nMr. Richardson was succeeded in the pastorate at Hollis by Rev.\\nAir. Deming who supplied the pulpit for about six years, till the\\nyear 18=54, ^vhen he removed to (jotfstown. and was pastoi of the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "BAPTIST SOCTETV. 253\\nBaptist church at Goftstown for the next four years. Upon liis re-\\nmoval from Goftstown he became the pastor of the Baptist church at\\nCornish, N. II. for the next seven years. Mr. Deming (1S79)\\nresides in Phiinfield, N. H. He vv^as succeeded in Hollis by Rev.\\nMr. Dalton, who officiated as pastor for about two years, and upon\\nhis removal the church was supplied for a short time by Rev. Mr.\\nPease, who was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Bills, the last minister\\nof the society, for about a year. For the last sixteen years, the\\nchurch has had no minister or stated preaching, and in the year\\n1869, in pursuance of a vote of tlie society, the meeting-house, l)uilt\\nin 1838, was sold, taken down and removed to Nashua.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "254 MUNICIPAL HISTORY.\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nPARISH OFFICERS OF WEST DUNSTABLE FROM I 739, TO 1746.\\nOFFICERS OF THE DISTRICT OF DUNSTABLE PROM 1 742 TO\\n1746. FULL LISTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF HOLLIS FOR\\nTHE FIRST AND THIRD YEARS. MODERATORS OF THE ANNUAL\\nTOWN MEETINGS. TOWN CLERKS. TREASURERS AND SELECT-\\nISIEN FROM 1746 TO 1 878.\\nPARISH OFFICERS OF WEST DUNSTABLE.\\nI^/rst Jl lectio II yainiary 2. jyjg-40. O. S.\\nAbraham Ta^ lor, Modci-ator. Ste])lien llariis, Treasiirer.\\nAbraham Taylor, Assessor. Benjamin Farley, Auditor.\\nPeter Powers, Moses Proctor,\\nBenjamin Farley, Abraham Taylor, Com. to run Parish li:)e\\nMoses Proctor, Collector. Peter Powers,\\nThomas Dinsmore, Collector non-resiilent Thomas Dinsmore,\\nTaxes.\\n.Scco//d Election, MarcJi^ 1740-1, O. S.\\nPeter Powers, Moderator. Thomas Dinsmore, Treasurer.\\nAbraham Taj lor, Clerk. Stephen Harris, Parish Committee,\\nBenjamin Farley, Assessor. Thomas Dinsmore,\\nWillam Colburn, Peter Powers,\\nJeralimael Cumintfs, Da\\\\ id Ne%ins, Collector.\\nThird Election. March IJ42-J., O. S.\\nAbraham Taylor, Moderator. Pllea/.er Flag-g, Assessor.\\nAbraham Taylor, Clerk. Enoch Hunt,\\nPeter Powers, Collector. Jonathan Danforth\\nAbraham Taylor, Assessor. Thomas Patch,\\nFourth Eiectioi/, March, iy4J-4, O. S.\\nSamuel Cumings, Moderator. Jonathan Danforth, Assessor.\\nJohn Boynton, Clerk. Jerahm.ael Cumings, Treasurer.\\nJohn Boynton, Assessor. .Sephen Harris, Collector.\\n.Samuel Cumings, Henry Barton,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "DISTRICT AND TOWN OFFICERS. 255\\nFifth Election, MarcJi 12, 77^^-5, O. S.\\nSamuel Brown, Moderator. John Boynton, Clerk.\\nJohn Boynton, Assessor. Elias Smith, Treasurer.\\nThomas Patch, Josiah Blood, Collector.\\nJerahmael Cuinings, Stephen Ames,\\nOFFICERS OF THE DISTRICT OF DUNSTABLE, FROM 1 743 TO 1 746.\\nThe district of Dunstal^le, as we have stated, (pp. 44, 45, ante.)\\nwas organized by tlie New Hampshire General Court in March, 1742,\\ntor the purpose of assessing and collecting province taxes, and com-\\nprised all the territory afterwards embraced in the towns of Dun-\\nstable, Hollis, Merrimack and Monson, as chartered in April, 1746.\\nThe meetings for the choice of district officers appear to have been\\nheld, alternately, in the East Parish of Dunstable, and at the old or\\nHrst meeting-house in West Dunstable. The district officers chosen\\nat these meetings were, a Moderator, Clerk, Assessors and Collec-\\ntors, and w^ere about equally divided in respect to residence, between\\nthe East and West Parishes. Of the officers named in the lists\\nbelow, Blanchard, Harwood, Lovewell, Lund and Parker lived in\\nthe East Parish, and Boynton, the two Cumings, Hunt, Proctor,\\nSmith and Taylor in West Dunstable, now Hollis.\\nFirst District Election^ April 2J, ^742.\\nJoseph Blanchard, Moderator. Abraham Taylor, Assessor.\\nAbraham Taylor, Clerk. Thomas Harwood,\\nEnoch Hunt, Collector. Samuel Cumings,\\nHenry Parker, Jonathan Lovewell,\\nSecond Election^ September 18, J 744.\\nJoseph Blanchard, Moderator. John Boynton, Assessor.\\nJohn Boynton, Clerk. Jonathan Lovewell,\\nJerahmael Cumings,\\nThird Election^ September ig, ^745-\\nElias Smith, Moderator. John Boynton, Assessor.\\nJohn Boynton, Clerk. Jonathan Lovewell,\\nMoses Proctor, Collector. Jerahmael Cumings,\\nJonathan Lund,\\nThe charter of Hollis as a town, as we ha\\\\e seen, was dated\\nApril 3, 1746, and the town officers chosen at the tiist and second\\ntown elections, are presented in the lists below.\\nFirst Town Election, April 28^ ^7\\\\^-\\nSamuel Cumings, Moderator. Thomas Dinsmore, Surveyor of Highways.\\nSamuel Cumings, Clerk. Francis Phelps,\\nSamuel Cumings, Selectman. Nicholas French,\\nBenjamin Farley, James Mc Daniels,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "256 DISTRICT AND TOWN OFFICERS.\\nFniiicis Worcester, Selectman. Samuel Parker, Surveyor of Ilig-liways.\\nElias Smith, Constable. Nicholas French, Hog- Reeve.\\nJames Stewart, Tithing man. William Adams,\\nChristo|)her Lovejoy, Elias Smith, Pound Keeper.\\nJonathan Danforth, Fence iewer. Elias Smith, Sealer of Weiglits and Mc-isures.\\nBenjamin Blanchard, Samuel Brown, Sealer of Leather.\\ny^Jiird Tov:ii Electio i^ March 7, iJi^S.\\nSamuel Cumings, Moderator and Clerk. Josiah IMood, Fence Viewer.\\nF rancis Worcester, Treasurer. Josiah Brown,\\nSamuel Cumings, Selectman, Samuel Farley, Field Driver.\\nBenjamin Farley, Wm. Blanchard,\\nSamuel Brown, Wm. Shattuck,\\nStephen Ames, Zedekiah Drury, Surveyor of Highways.\\nElias Smith, p-rancis Phelps,\\nBenjamin Blanchard, Constable. Benj. Blanchard, Jr.,\\nJosiah Conant, Tithing Man. James McDonald,\\nNathaniel Blood, Nathaniel Blood,\\nNicholas French, Hog Reeve. Sam l Brown, Sealer of Weights and Measure.^\\nD.ivid Nevins, William Tenney, Sealer of Leather,\\nZ jrubbabel Kemp, Zedekiah Drury, Deer Reeve,\\nElias Smith, Pound Keeper. Samuel Farley,\\nSuch as shown in the preceding list.s were the town officers,\\nchosen at the annual March meetings in HolH.s, in most years, from\\n1746 till the war of the Revolution and for some years afterwards.\\nUnder the Province laws in force before the Revolution, the number\\nof wSelectmen. as has been before said, might vary in different years,\\na town being at lilierty at its annual meeting to choose either three,\\nfive, seven or nine of these officers as might be decided at the time,\\nby vote of the town. Before the Revolution the nimiber of Select-\\nmen annualK chosen in Hollis was cither three or five, each of\\nthese numbers having been elected about an equal number of times.\\nThe following lists present the names of the persons who have\\nheld the several offices of Moderat(jr of the aiuiual town meetings,\\nTown Clerk. Treasurer and Selectmen from the year 1746 to 1S7S\\nwith the years in whicli they were respectively chosen.\\n.MODERATORS Ol THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS.\\nSamuel Cumings, 174 47, 4S, 40 and 55. Jonathan Danforth, 17S9.\\nFrancis Worcester, 1750, 51, 5- S.5 ,S4 5^ ^JO, Reuben Dow, 1791.\\n62, 63, 64 and 68. Daniel Emerson, 1798, iSoi, 02, 03, 04, an.i\\nSamuel Goodhue, 1756 and 57. ori.\\nlohn Hale, 1761, 65, (36, 67, 60, 70, 71, 72 and Amos Eastman, 1S05 and 1S06.\\n82. Samson Powers, 1807.\\nWilliam Nevins, 177;; and 1774. Benjamin W. Parker, 1808.\\nBenjamin Abbot, 1759. Stephen Jewett, Jun., i8ioand iSii.\\nStephen Jewett, 1776. Josepli F. Eastman, 1812, 13, 14, 15, 17, t i,\\nE loch Noyes, 1777, 7S, and 79. 19 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31 and 1834.\\nJohn Boynton, i7Soand Si. Ambrose Gould, 1816.\\nNoah Worcester, 1783, 84, 85, 86, S7, 88, 90, Benjamin M. Farley, 1S20, 24, 38 and 1S39.\\n93, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99 and iSoo. Jonathan B. Eastman, 1S21.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "MODERATORS AND TOWN CI.ERKS.\\n-?57\\nWilliam Emerson, 1827 and 1828.\\nBenjamin Pool, 1832, 33.\\nRalph E. Tenney, 183S to 1837, S40 to 1S44,\\n46, SI, 52.\\nStillmanSpauIding, 184S, 184710 1853, 56, 1861,\\nto 1S64, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78.\\nReuben Baldwin, 1854.\\nAmbrose II. Wood, 1855-\\nLuther Proctor, 1S57 to i860, 67, 70, 73.\\nTimothy E. Flagg, 1S65, 66, 76.\\nNathan M. Ames, 1868.\\nTOWN CLERKS FROM 1 746 TO 1 878,\\nSamuel Cumings, 1746 to 1770, except 1753,\\n54, and 66.\\nSamuel Goodhue, 1753, 54.\\nJohn Hale, 1766.\\nWilliam Cumings, 1771, 72, and 17S2 to 17SS.\\nSamuel Cumings, Jun., 1773, 74.\\nNoah Worcester, 1775 to 1779.\\nDaniel Emerson, 17S0, 17S1.\\nSolomon ^Vheat, 17S9 to 1793, iSoo, iSoi, and\\n1809 to 1816, except 1812 and 1S13.\\nJesse Worcester, 1799.\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun., 1S02 to iSoj.\\nAmos Eastman, 1S06..\\nBenjamin Pool, 1S07, 180S.\\nAmbrose Gould, 1812, 1813.\\nChristopher P. Farley, 1S17 to 1819.\\nBenjamin M. Farley, 1820 to 1S23.\\nAVilliam Ames, 1S23, 24.\\nJonathan T. Wright, 1825 to 29.\\nNoah Hardy, 1830, 1831.\\nJoi^eph E. Smith, 1832, 33, 42, 46, 47, and\\n1854 to 59.\\nMoses Proctor, 1834, 35-\\nWilliam P. Hale, 1S36, 37, 39, 40, 41, JO, Ji.\\nEdward Emerson, 1S3S and 1S52.\\nReuben Baldwin, 1843 to 45, 61, 62.\\nJohnCoburn, 1848.\\nWilliam P. Saundcrson, 1849.\\nLuther Proctor, 1S53 and 60.\\nWilliam A. Trow, 1863 to 65.\\nEbenezer T. Wheeler, 1S66 to 70.\\nIsaac Hardy, 1S71 to 74.\\nGeorge A. Burge, 1875 to 78.\\nTOWN TREASURERS FROM 1 746 TO 1878.\\nJohn Boynton, 1746, 47.\\nFrancis Worcester, 174S to 1767.\\nSamuel Cumings, 1768 to 1770.\\nNoah Worcester, 1771 to 1773.\\nDaniel Emerson, 1774 to 1779, 1\\nJosiah Conant, 17S0.\\nSolomon Rogers, 1781 to 1785.\\nChristopher Farley, 1786 to 1788.\\nBenjamin Wright, 1789 to 1797\\n1806.\\nPeleg Lawrence, 1S06 to 1S08.\\nJoseph F. Eastman, 1800 to 1817.\\nJosiah Conant, 1818 to 1S30.\\nBenjamin Farley, 1831 to 1849, except 1833.\\nMoses Proctor, 1S33.\\nEbenezer Baldwin, 1S50, 51, 52, 53.\\n98, 99. Joseph Gates, 1854.\\nChristopher F. Smith, 1855.\\nDavid W. Sawtell, 1856 to 1S60.\\nEdward Hardy, 1861 to 1S64.\\nand 1800 to Charles B. Richardson, 1865 to 1874.\\nHenry N. Smith, 1875.\\nGeorge A. Burge, 1S76.\\nSilas M. Spaulding, 1877, 78.\\nSELECTMEN FROM 1 746 TO 1 878.\\nSamuel Cumings, 1746 to 1770, except 1753,\\n1754 and 1766.\\nBenjamin Farley, 1746, 47, and 1748.\\nFrancis Worcester, 1746, 47, 48, 62, 63 and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0765-\\nStephen Ames, 1747, 48, 62, 67, 73, 75, 76,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a277, and 1779.\\nNathaniel Townsend, 1747 and 52.\\nSamuel Brown, 1748.\\nElias Smith, 174S.\\nEnoch Hunt, 1749.\\nJoshua Wright, 1749 and 1767.\\nMoses Proctor, 1749.\\nEnoch Noyes, 1749, 1751 to 1754, 1756 to 1760,\\n.778.\\n(17)\\n7S6-\\nSamuel Goodhue, 1750, 51, 53, 54, and\\nBenjamin Blanchard, 1750 and 1754.\\nZachariah Lawrence, 1754 and 1757.\\nJohn Cumings, 1751.\\nJosiah Conant, 175 1 and 1755.\\nBenjamin Abbot, 1732, 53, 54, 59, 60, and\\n1 761.\\nJohn Boynton, 1758, 61, 62, 66, 68, 80, and\\n.781.\\nJohn Hale, 1761, 64, and 1766.\\nAbel Webster, 1761.\\nStephen Webster, 1762, 63 and 1765.\\nSamuel Hobart, 1764 and 1766.\\n.Stephen Jewett, 1766.\\nJonas Flagg, 1766.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "258\\nSELECTMEN.\\nCaleb Farley, xy j.\\nJonathan Philbrick, 1767 and 1768.\\nNoah Worcester, 1769, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 79.\\nReuben Dow, 1769, 70, 7S and 178S.\\nWilliam Tcnney, 1769.\\nJames Jewctt, I7 i9.\\nWilliam Brown, 1771, 72, 05, and 1796.\\nWilliam Pool, 1771.\\nEbenezer Kendall, 1771, 72.\\nWilliam Cumings, I77i, 72, and 17S2 to 17SS.\\nWilliam Nevins, 1771 and 1772.\\nSamuel Cumings, Jun., 1773 and 1774.\\nJacob Jewctt, Jun., 1773, 75. 76.\\nNathaniel Ball, 1773.\\nKlnathan Blood, 1773.\\nAmos Eastman, 1772.\\nLeonard Whiting, 1774.\\nJohn Goss, 1774, 80, 85, 86, S7, 88.\\nDaniel Kendrick, 1775, 76 and 1777.\\nOliver Lawrence, 1775, 76 and 1770-\\nDaniel Emerson, 17S0, 81.\\nJonathan \u00c2\u00a5ox, 17S0 and 17S1.\\nWilliam Read, 1780.\\nSolomon Wardwell, 17S2 S3.\\nEbenezer Jewett, 17S2, 83, 84.\\nJereniiali Pritchard, 1784.\\nJeremiah Ames, 1785, 86.\\nThaddeus Wheeler, 1787, 8y, 90, 1806, 07 and\\niSoS.\\nNathan Colburn, 17S9, o, 91, 93, 94, and 97.\\nJonas Willouglihy, 17S9.\\nSolomon Wheat, 1789 to 179S, iSoo, 01, 09. 10,\\ni I, 14. 15 and 16.\\nJonathan Danforth. 17S9.\\nWilliam Tcnney, Jun., 1791, 92. 93. 94. 98.\\n99 and iSoo.\\nEphraim Burge, 1795 and 1796.\\nJesse Worcester, 1797, 99 and 1800.\\nBenjamin Wright, 179S, 99.\\nBenjamin Pool, iSoi to iSoS, 1833, 34.\\nStephen Dow, iSoi.\\nDaniel Bailey, iSn 03, 04. 05. 09, ici. 11.\\n12, and 1S13.\\nAmos Eastman, Jun., iHi/i.\\nSamson Powers, 1S07 and iSoS.\\nEnos Hardy, 1809, 10, 12 and 1S19.\\nDavid Hale, iSi i.\\nAmbrose Gould, 1812 and 1S13.\\nJonathan Saunderson, 1SJ3, 14, ij, i6and 17.\\nBenjamin M. Farley, 1S15, 16, 17, 18, 20,\\n21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29.\\nChristopher P. Farley, 1814, 17, 18, and 19.\\nKathaniel Jewctt, 1S18.\\nJonathan T. Whcckr, 1S19, 20 and 21.\\nWii;iam Ames, 1820, 21, 22, 23 and 24.\\nRalph W. Jewctt, 1S22.\\nThomas Cumings, 1823 and 1S24.\\nJonathan T. Wright, 1823 to 1829 and 1835.\\nWilliamEmerson, 1825.\\nRalph E. Tcnney, 1826, 27, 28. 30, 31, 3a.\\nBenjamin F arley, 1829.\\nNoah Hardy, 1830 and 31.\\nWilliam Hale, 1830, 31, 32.\\nJoseph E. Smith, 1S32, 33, 42, 46, 47. ijid\\n1854 to 1859.\\nWilliam Merrill, 1S33 and 34.\\nMoses Proctor, 1834 and 35.\\nLeonard F arley, 1835, 36, 39.\\nWilliam P. Hale, 1836, 37, 39, 40, 41, 50, 51.\\nAlmon D. Marshall, 1S36, 37.\\nPhillips Wood, 1837, 38-\\nJohn N. Worcester, 1S38.\\nEdward Emerson, 1838 and 52.\\nEzekiel M. Bradley, 1839, 40.\\nJames Wheeler, 1S40, 41.\\nSamuel Little, 1841, 43.\\nJohn Farley, 1842, 43.\\nReuben Baldwin, 1S43, 44, 45. 61, Oj.\\nJohn L. Pool, 1843 to 46.\\nWm. P. Saunderson, 1S47. 49-\\nAmos Hardy, 1844, 45, 46.\\nThomas Brown, 1847.\\nJohn Coburn, 1S4S.\\nDavid J. Wright, 184S, 49.\\nWm. N. Tcnney, 184S, 49.\\nLuther Proctor, 1850, 51, 52. 53, 60, 70, yi-\\nNeheniiah Boutwell, i8w.\\nNoah Johnson, iSsi.\\nNathan M. Ames, 1S52, 53, 54, 65.\\nStillman Spaulding, 1S53.\\nJames W. Wheeler, 1854, 56, 57.\\nDexter Greenwood, 1S55.\\nDaniel Bailev, 1S55.\\nWarner Read, 1856, 57.\\nEdward Hardy, 1S5S, 59.\\nEbenezer T. Wheeler, 185S.\\nJoseph D. Parker, 1S59,\\nDavid M. Farley, iS6 5.\\nJohn Mooar, 1861.\\nJefferson Farley, 1S61, 62.\\nEnoch F arley, 1862, 63, 64.\\nWm. A. Trow, 1863, 64.\\nOliver P. Eastman, 1863, 64.\\nCharles A. Read, 1865, (36, 67.\\nFrancis A. Wood, 1S65.\\nEnoch J. Colburn, 1866.\\nJohn Woods, 1S66 to 69.\\nFrederick A. Wood, 1S67 to 69.\\nCharles \\\\1. Worcester, 1S68.\\nGeorge Moore, 1S69, 70.\\nDaniel M. Smith, 1870, 71.\\nGeorge A. Burgc, 1871 to 73.\\nSilas ]SL Spaulding, 1872 to 7c;\\nJames E. Hills, 1872 to 1S75.\\nAdkins J. Turner, 1S74, 75.\\nTimothy E. F lagg, 1S76 to 78.\\nJohn A. Cobu n, 1876 to 78.\\nCharles W. Hardy, 187O to 78.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL HISTORY- 259\\nC H A P 1 E R X X I V\\nREPRESENTATIVES AND DELEGATES TO THE GENERAL COURT,\\nETC., FROM 1739 TO 1S78. VOTES FOR STATE PRESIDENT FROM\\n1784 TO 1792. VOTES FOR GOVERNOR FROM 1 792 TO 1 878.\\nDELEGATES.\\n1739. Abraham Taylor and Peter Powers, delegates ol the settlers\\nin West Dunstable to the Massachusetts General Courtupon\\ntheir petition for a Charter.\\n1744, James Stewart, delegate of the inhabitants of West Dunstable\\nto the New Hampshire General Court, to present their peti-\\ntion for Garrisons and Soldiers for protection against the\\nIndians.\\n1746. Stephen Ames, delegate of the settlers in the west part of\\nHollis to the New Hampshire General Court, upon their\\npetition for a committee to locate the new Meeting House.\\n1747. Samuel Cumings, delegate of the town to the New Hamp-\\nshire General Court, upon its petition for an act for taxing\\nthe /and of non-residents for the support of the ministry,\\nand also upon the petition of the town for seonts for frotec-\\ntiofi against the Indians.\\nREPRESEXTAri\\\\ KS TO THE GENERAL COURT BEFOKK ITIK\\nREVOLUTION.\\n1762 to 1768, Dr. John Hale, Representative to the New Hamp-\\nshire General Court, six years, from 1762 to 176S.\\n1768 to 1774, Col. Samuel Hobart, Representative to the New\\nHampshire General Court, six years, from 176S to 1774.\\nREPRESENTATIVES AND DELEGATES TO THE GENERAL COURT.\\nCONVENTIONS, ETC., DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.\\n1774, Stephen Ames, Reuben Dow and Stephen Jewett, delegates,\\nto the First County Congress, at Amherst. Nov. 8, i774-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "z6o KEPRESENTATIVES AND DELEGATES.\\n1775, Stephen Jevvett and Enoch Noyes, delegates to the Second\\nCounty Congress, held April 5, i775-\\nWilliam Nevins, Jeremiah Ames and Samuel Farley, dele-\\ngates to the Third County Congress at Amherst, held May\\n2h 1775-\\nCol. John Hale, delegate to the Provincial Convention at\\nExeter, January 35, 1775, to consult in respect to a Con-\\ntinental Congress.\\nCol. John Hale, Representative to the General Court at\\nPortsmouth, February 23, 1775.\\nCol. Samuel Hobart, delegate to the Provincial Congress at\\nExeter, April, 1775.\\nCol. John Hale and Deacon Enoch Noyes, chosen delegates\\nto the Provincial Congress to meet at Exeter, May 13,\\ni77v Col. Ilale not being able to attend, Col. Hobart was\\nelected in his place May 21.\\n1775, November 12. Stephen .Vmes chosen Representative to the\\nGeneral Court for one year.\\n1776, November 36, Stephen Ames again chosen Representative to\\nthe General Coiul for one year.\\n1777, November 25, Stephen Ames chosen Representative a third\\ntime to the General Court, for one year.\\n1778, December 12, Capt. Reid^en Dow chosen Representative to\\nthe General Court.\\nApril 6, Capt. Noah Worcester and Dea. Enoch Noyes\\nchosen delegates to the convention at Concord to form a\\nnew plan of government.\\n1779, Col. John Hale. August 12, chosen delegate to the convention\\nheld at Concord, September 23, 1779, to state prices.\\nDecember 2, Col. John Hale chosen Representative to the\\nGeneral Court.\\nI 7S0, November 23, Col. Hale again chosen Representative to the\\nGeneral Covu t.\\n1 78 1, November 31, Capt. Daniel Emerson chosen Representative\\nto the General Court.\\n1782, October 28, Richard Cutts Sliannon chosen Representative to\\nthe General Court.\\n1791, August 28, Capt. Daniel Emerson chosen delegate to the New\\nHampshire Constitutional Convention.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "VOTES FOR STATE PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR.\\n261\\nREPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL COURT, FROM 1 783 TO 1 778.\\nCupt. Daniel Emerson, 17S3 to 1791, 98, 99,\\niSoi, 02, 03, 09, 10 ind II.\\nJeremiah Ames, 1793 to 97 and iSoo.\\nBenjamin Pool, 1S04 to 1S08.\\nNathan Thayer, 1S12, 19, 20 and 21.\\nDaniel Bailey, 1S13.\\nBenjamin M. Farley, 1814 to 181S and 1824 to\\n1S29.\\nRalph W. Jewett, 1S22 and 23.\\nJonathan T. Wright, 1830 and 31.\\nRalph E. Tenney, 1S32, 33, 34 and 45.\\nMoses Proctor, 1835, 36 and 37.\\nJoseph E. Smith, 1S3S and 39.\\nLeonard Farley, 1S40, 4 i 42.\\nWilliam Merrill, 1S43 and 44.\\nWilliam P. Hale, 1S46, 47 and 48.\\nJohn L. Pool, 1S49 and 50.\\nAlmon D. Marshall, 1S51 and 1852.\\nJohn Farley, 1S53 and 54.\\nJohn S. Haywood, 1855.\\nMaj. James Wheeler, 1856 and 57.\\nJohn H. Cutter, 1858 and 59.\\nMinot Farley, i860 and 1861,\\nIwUther Proctor, 1862.\\nReuben Baldwin, 1863 and 64.\\nJohn Coburn, 1865 and 66.\\nTimothy E. Flagg, 1867 and 68.\\nCharles B. Richardson, 1869 and 70.\\nCharles H. Worcester, 187 1 and 72.\\nJohn Woods, 1S73 and 74.\\nCharles A. Reed, 1S7S and 76.\\nFranklin Worcester, 1S77 and 187S.\\nUnder the Constitution or Plan of Government in force in\\nNew Hampshire from 1784 to the adoption of the present Consti-\\ntution, September 5, 1792, tlie chief magistrate of the State had the\\ntitle of PrcsidenV instead of Governor^ and was elected in the\\nlike manner as the Governor now is under the present Constitution.\\nVOTES FOR STATE PRESIDENT FROM 1 784 TO 1 792\\n1784, Meshcch Weaie,\\nJohn Langdon,\\n1785, John Langdon,\\n17S6, John Langdon,\\n1787, John Langdon,\\nJohn Sullivan,\\nI78S, John Langdon.\\n|ohn Sullivan,\\n87 17S9, John Pickering,\\nI Josiah Bartlctt,\\n153 all cast. John Sullivan,\\n103\\n106\\n14\\nno\\nS\\nWoodbury Langdr\\n1790, John Pickering,\\n1 791, Josiah Bartlett,\\n1792, Josiah Bartlctt.\\nNCLUSIVE.\\n,iS\\n18\\n7\\n15\\n8S\\nall ca\\nist\\nI 3\\nVOTES I OR GO\\\\ ERNOR (eX CEPT SCATTERING) FROM 1 793 To 1878,\\nINCLUSIVE.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0793.\\n794.\\n795.\\n1796,\\n797.\\n.79S,\\n799.\\n1800,\\niSoi\\n1802.\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJosiah Bartlett,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nTimothy Walker,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Langdon,\\nJohn Taylor Gilman,\\nJohn Langdon,\\n75\\n^3\\n7S\\nS3\\n05\\n3\\n1S03, John Taylor Gilman. iio\\nJohn Langdon, 42\\nall cast. 1S04, John Langdon, 92\\nJohn Taylor Gilman. 79\\niSoj, John Langdon, 127\\nJohn Taylor Gilman. 105\\n1S06, John Langdon, 129\\nTimothy Farrar, 99\\niS07,John Langdon, 116\\nTimothy Farrar, 44\\niSoS, John Langdon, 122\\nTimothy Farrar. i\\n1809, Jeremiah Smith, 139\\nJohn Langdon, iiS", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "36:\\nVOTES FOR GOVERNOK.\\niSio, Jeremiah Smith,\\nJohn Langdon,\\ni8i I, Jeremiah Smith.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n1812, John Taylor Oilman.\\nWilliam Plunier,\\n1S13, John Taylor Oilman,\\nWilliam Plumer,\\n1814, John Taylor Oilman.\\nWilliam Plumer,\\n1815, John T.aylpr Oilman,\\nWilliam Plumer,\\n1816, James .Sheafc,\\nWilliam Plumer,\\n1817, James .Sheafe,\\nWilliam Plumer.\\n1S18, William Hale,\\nWilliam Plumer,\\n1819, William Hale,\\n.Samuel Bell.\\n1820, Samuel Bell,\\n1821, Samuel Bell,\\nDavid L. Morrill.\\n1522, Samuel Bell,\\n1523, Levi Woodbury,\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n1834, Jeremiah Smith,\\nDavid L. Morrill,\\nLevi Woodbury,\\n1825, David L. Morrill,\\n1S26, David L. Morrill.\\nBenjamin Pierce,\\n1827, Benjamin Pierce,\\nDavid L. Morrill.\\n182S, John Bell,\\nBenjamin Pierce,\\n1829, John Bell,\\nBenjamin Pierce,\\n1830 Timothj Upliam.\\nMatthew Harvey.\\n1831, Samuel Dinsmore,\\nIchabod Bartlett,\\n1832, .Samuel Dinsmore.\\nIchabod Bartlett,\\n1833, Samuel Dinsmore.\\nCharles H. Atherton,\\n1834, William Badger,\\n1835, William Badger,\\nJoseph Healey,\\n1836, Isaac Hill,\\n1837, Isaac Hill,\\n1838, James Wilson, Jun.,\\nIsaac Hill,\\n1S39, James Wilson, Jun..\\nJohn Page,\\n1840, John Page,\\nEnos Stevens,\\n133 1S41, John Page,\\nloS Enos Stevens,\\n138 1842, Henry Hubbard,\\nlaS Enos Stevens,\\n141 i8)3. Henry Hubbard,\\n107 Anthony Colby,\\n157 1844, John H. Steele,\\n105 Antliony Colby,\\n169 Daniel Hoyt,\\n105 1S45, John H. Steele,\\n167 Anthony Colby.\\nHI Daniel Hoyt,\\n134 iS.t6, Jared W. Williams,\\n107 Anthony Colby,\\n146 Nathaniel S. Berry.\\n102 1S47, Jared W. Williams,\\n142 Anthony Colby,\\n97 Nathaniel S. Berry.\\n137 84S, Jared W. Williams,\\n67 Nathaniel S. Berry.\\n96 1849, Samuel Dinsmore.\\n84 Levi Chamberlain,\\n17 Nathaniel S. Berrj\\n94 850, Samuel Dinsmore,\\n130 Levi Chamberlain,\\n65 851, Samuel Dinsmore,\\n100 Thomas E. Sawyer,\\n79 John Atwood,\\n50 1852, Noah Martin,\\n194 Thomas E. Sawyer.\\n176 John Atwood,\\n34 853, Noah Martin.\\n76 James Bell,\\ni^ John H. White,\\n195 1.S54, Nathaniel B. Baker.\\nSi James Bell.\\n159 Jared Perkins.\\n116 1S55, Ralph Metcalf,\\nISS Nathaniel B. Baker.\\n136 James Bell,\\n150 1856, Ralph Metcalf.\\n146 John S. Wells,\\n141 Ichabod Goodwin,\\n133 S57, William Haile,\\n17s John S. Wells,\\n)8 1858, William Haile.\\n133 Asa P. Cate,\\n134 1859, Asa P. Cate,\\n95 Ichabod Goodwin,\\n114 i860, Ichabod Goodwin.\\n99 Asa P. Cate,\\n16S 1S61, Nathaniel S. Berry,\\n135 George .Stark,\\n152 1862, Nathaniel S. Berry,\\n131 George Stark,\\n152 1863, Ira A. Eastman,\\n135 Joseph A. Gilmore.\\n\u00c2\u00bb6i\\n137\\n59\\nio3\\nIS7\\n83\\n81\\n33\\nJ38\\n66\\n*5\\n3\\n92\\n37\\n107\\n33\\n168\\nISO\\niji\\niiS\\n20\\n56\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a030\\nSi\\n107\\n43\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a257\\n126\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0S7\\n90\\n\u00c2\u00bb3\\n35\\n96\\n37\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a055\\n142\\n1 1\\n141\\ni6a\\n10\\n57\\n6S\\n171\\n168\\n97\\n171\\n14S\\n1S4\\n141\\n79\\n38\\nSO\\n164", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.\\n263\\n1864, Joseph A. Gilmore,\\n49\\n.S73,\\nEdward \\\\V. Harrington,\\n.56\\n1865, Frederick Smyth,\\n74\\nS73.\\nEdward W. Harrington,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a056\\n1866, Frederick Smyth,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a275\\n.874,\\nJohn G. Sinclair,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a047\\n1867, Walter Harriman,\\n1S9\\n87s.\\nJohn G. Sinclair,\\n144\\n186S, Walter Harriman,\\n179\\n1876,\\nJohn G. Sinclair,\\n58\\n1869, Onslow Stearns,\\n168\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0S77.\\nJohn Bedell,\\n44\\n1S70, Onslow Stearns,\\n54\\n1 878,\\nJohn Bedell,\\n36\\n1871, James A. Weston,\\n52\\n187S,\\nJames Pike,\\nS3\\nEzekiel A. Straw,\\nJames A. Weston,\\nEzekiel A. Straw,\\nJames A. Weston,\\nLuther McCutchins,\\nJames A. Weston,\\nPerson C. Cheney,\\nHiram R. Roberts,\\nPerson C. Cheney,\\nDaniel Marcy,\\nBenjamin F. Prescott,\\nDaniel Marcy,\\nBenjamin F. Prescott,\\nFrank A. McKean,\\n(Nov,) Natt Head,\\nFrank A. Mc Kean,\\n167\\n161\\n55\\n140\\n5\\n13a\\n160\\n43\\n7\u00c2\u00bb\\n\u00c2\u00ab4S\\n168\\n36\\n1 6a\\n148\\n57\\nI3", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "364 STATISTICAI, HISTORY\\nC H A P T E R X X V\\njVREA. son.. PRODUCTIONS. STREAMS AND I (JNDS. FOKESl\\nTREES. COOPERING. POPULATION. BIRTHS AND DEATHS.\\nPOSTMASTERS. TAVERN-KEEPERS. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.\\nBURIAL GROUNDS. PUBLIC ROADS. MUTUAL INSURANCE COM-\\nPANY.\\nAREA, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS.\\nllollis is ill latitude 42 degrees, 44 minutes nortii. 1 ing on the\\nsouth line of the State, and bounded north by Amherst and Milford,\\neast by Nashua, south by Pepperell, Mass., and west by 13rookline.\\nIt is forty-two miles ncMthwest of Boston, and thirty-six south of\\nConcord, and has an area of 19,620 acres or about 30 2-3 square\\nmiles. Its surface is much diversified with hills and alleys, but\\ngenerally more level than that of most towns in the counts there\\nbeing no mountains, and Flint s and Birch hills, its highest eleva-\\ntions, not exceeding about three hundred feet in height above the\\nsurrounding plains. The soil in ditlerent parts aries a small\\nportion of it being light and sandy, some of it in the north and\\nwest hard anil stony, but an unusual proportion of it in other sec-\\ntions, consisting of a rich, somewhat pebbly or slatv loam, well\\nadapted to pasturage, and the raising of hay, corn, small grains.\\nfruits, potatoes and other vegetables. It lias, for mam \\\\ears,\\nbeen noted for its abundance of good fruit, especiall} apples, the\\nproduce of its orchards, according to tlie returns of the census, being-\\nmore in value than that of any otlier town in the county. That\\nvery excellent and popular apple, known as the Nod head, some-\\ntimes called in fruit books, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Jewelt s iinered, originated in llollis.\\nabout one hundred years ago, in the orchard of I)ea. Ste}:)hen Jewett,\\nhence the last name. The town in all parts of it is well watered,\\nscarcely any of its farms being without perennial brooks or springs.\\nThe householders of the town, from its hrst settlement, have been", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "STATISTICAL HISTORY. 265\\nmostly farmers, with such numbers of traders, inn-keepers, black-\\nsmiths, carpenters, shoemakers and other mechanics as were needed\\nfor the wants of the other inhabitants. In the past, as now, the\\nfarms have been of moderate size, ordinarily varying from fifty\\nacres to one hundred and fifty. The New Hampshire Gazetteer of\\n1874 says of it, That Ilollis is one of the wealthiest towns in the\\ncounty, and that e\\\\ erything pertaining to the farms and farmhouses\\nbetokens an air of wealth and thrift. A compliment well deserved\\nas to many of them, but subject to exceptions.\\nIn 1783, as shown by the census then taken, there were in the\\ntown 1,393 inhabitants, 174 dwelling-houses and 144 barns. Num-\\nbers of those dwelling-houses are still standing, niany and it may\\nbe most of them of two stories, and of generous size. In 1800 the\\npopulation had increased to 1,557, il^out 500 more than at present;\\nand there can be no doubt that the number of farms and farm-houses\\nin the town, and of acres tilled, was quite as large then as now,\\nand also that the quantities of grain, and the numbers of oxen and\\nsheep were larger. Sixty years ago the hay raised in the town was\\nfed out on the farms where it grew. Now a large portion of it,\\nwith the other surplus agricultural and horticultural produce of the\\nfarms, finds its way to the neighboring markets. Then substantial\\nand thrifty farmers had each his fiock of sheep and j^atch of flax,\\nand the farmer s wife and daughters were skilled in the use of the\\ndistaft spinning-wheel and hand-loom, for making the family cloth-\\ning from the wool and flax furnished from the farm. Now such\\nimplements of female thrift and industry are known only as histori-\\ncal curiosities. Large quantities of excellent butler and also of\\ncheese, of a much superior quality to that which the markets now\\nfurnish from our modern cheese factories, were made in the family,\\nfirst for the family s use, l)ut with a generous surplus for sale.\\nNow this industry to a very great extent has been abandoned, and\\nin place of it, the milk produced in the town, to the amount, as\\nreported, of 350,000 quarts yearly, is sent to market. Formerly\\nlarge quantities of corn, rye and other grains raised in the town\\nwere also annually sent to market abroad now, to a considerable\\nextent, Ilollis itself has become a market for the purchase of the\\nlike products.\\nStill it may be that the aggregate wealth of tlie tcnvn, with its\\ndiminished population and lessened productions in some articles, is\\ngreater now than sixty years ago. In 1872 its assessed value for", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "266 RIVERS, PONDS AND BROOKS.\\ntaxation was $803,435, true value estimated at $1,205,152, money\\nat interest and stocks, $41,692, money in Savings Banks, $168,710\\nthese items being larger, with but one or two exceptions, than\\nthe like items in any other town in the county, mainly agricultural.\\nIt is shown by the United .States census of 1870 that there were\\nthen in the town 10,805 acres of improved land, 203 horses, 1,171\\nneat cattle, 123 sheep and 237 swine, of the aggregate value of\\n$72,425. Also that there were raised that year in the town 1,090\\nbushels of rye, 7,769 of corn. 6,844 barley, 26 of wheat,\\n320 of peas and beans, 11.368 of potatoes, and t;ii pounds of wool.\\nThat there were also made 25,5 10 pounds of butter, 4,505 of cheese,\\nand 2,370 of sugar. The value of the products of the orchard the\\nsame year was $10,436; of animals sold or slaughtered $16,183;\\ngallons of milk sold, 88,310; tons of hay raised, 2,575 the aggre-\\ngate value of farm products (including betterments) being $133,321.\\nAccording to the same census there were then in the town seven\\nsaw-mills, with a capital of $13,000, employing thirteen hands,\\nwith a pay-roll of $3,000. and sawing 1.400.000 feet of lumber, of\\nthe value of $21,000; also one grain mill. The whole amount\\nof capital then invested in manufactures of difl ercnt kinds was\\n$28,000, employing thirty-four men, with a pay-roll of $12,000,\\nand with a product for the year of the value of $43,000. In 1820,\\nas stated in Farmer s New Hampshire Gazetteer, there were in\\nHollis five grain mills, six saw mills, one clothing mill, one card-\\ning machine, one tannery, two taverns and four stores. In 1878 (as\\nappears) but one grain mill, no clothing mill, carding machine,\\ntannery or tavern, and but one store.\\nRIVERS, PONDS AND BROOKS.\\nAs has been said already, the town, in all parts of it, is well\\nwatered. Its south-east part is crossed by the Nashua river, and it.s\\nsouth-west by the Nissitisslt. Besides several smaller ponds, there\\nare in the town four large ones, viz.. Flint s pond in the east. Rocky\\nin the north-west, Pcnnichuck in the north-cast, and Long pond\\nnorth of the centre, varying in area from fifty to one hundred acres.\\nBrooks of considerable size form the outlet of each of these ponds,\\nviz., Flint s brook, flowing into the Nashua, of Flint s pond Pen-\\nnichuck, emptying into the Merrimack, of the pond of the same\\nname, and also of Long pond, and Rocky Pond brook, flowing\\ninto the Nissitisslt, of Rocky pond. Many other, smaller brooks flow", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "POPULATION. 267\\ninto these ponds and rivers, some of which, as well as the rivers and\\nthe other brooks, furnish eligible sites for saw and other mills.\\nFOREST TREES, LUMBER AND COOPERING.\\nSince its first settlement, the forests of Hollis have abounded in a\\nlarge variety of the most valuable forest trees, including white and\\nother species of Oak, Pine, Chestnut, Walnut, White and Sugar\\nMaple and many other kinds. The great abundance and good\\nquality of its oak and chestnut timber, early in the present century,\\nled many of the citizens of the town to engage in the manufacture\\nof barrels and other casks for the Boston market, very many of the\\nfarmers having a cooper s shop near the farm house. This busi-\\nness for many years was carried on to such extent that it was some-\\ntimes said by their neighbors of other towns, that all the Hollis\\nfolks were coopers, except their minister, and that he hooped his\\nown cider barrels The manufacture of casks of different kinds\\nis still carried on to considerable extent, but by a less number of\\npersons than formerly, pine lumber being now mainly used for this\\npurpose, in place of oak and chestnut.\\nPOPULATION.\\nNo official provincial census of Hollis, taken prior to 1767, has\\ncome down to us. The best means now available for approximat-\\ning to the number of its inhabitants before that year, are furnished\\nby the names of the tax payers, on the annual tax lists. The num-\\nber of names on the tax lists in West Dunstable, in 1740, was\\ntwenty-nine, in 174=^, seventy- seven on the Hollis tax list in 1746,\\nthe year of its incorpoiation, fifty-three. The nvmiber of names\\nfound on these lists from 1746 to 1783, was as below.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a274 S3- I7SS. 107- 76s- 3 775.(^1 the beginning of the war,) ^79.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a075\u00c2\u00b0! 77- 1760, 117. 77i 231. 783, (at the end of the war,) 393.\\nOne Pine Hill was annexed in 1763, and the south part of Mon-\\nson in 1770, which accounts in part for the increase of names on\\nthe tax lists in 1765 and 1771. The whole population in 1767 was\\n809, including one male and one female slave. In 1775^ whole\\npopulation 1,255, which four were slaves. According to the sev-\\neral censuses taken in different years since, the population was as\\npresented below.\\n7S3. 392- Soo, 1557. iSao, 1543. 1S40, 1333. i860, 1317.\\n1790, 1441. iSio, 1529. 1S30, 1501. 1S50. 1293. 1S70, 1079.\\nThe whole population of New Hampshire in 1767 was 52,880;\\nin 1775, 82,200.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "268 POSTOFFICE AND POSTMASTERS\\nBIRTHS AND DEATHS FROM 1 794 TO 181S.\\nIt appears from the Hollis church records, as kept by Rev. Eli\\nSmith from 1794 to 1818, that it was his custom to enter in those\\nrecords, the yearl_v number of births in the town, with the name\\nof the father of the several children born. It is shown by this re-\\ncord, that for the twenty-five years from 1794 to 1S18. the number\\nol births in the town annually was as follows\\n794. 41-\\n799. 3\\n1S04, 45.\\n1S09, 32.\\n1S14, 27.\\n795. 46.\\niSoo, 2g.\\n1S05, 40.\\niSio, 33.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Sis, 25.\\n1796, 50.\\niSoi, 55.\\n1S06, 37.\\niSii, 32.\\n1S16, 33.\\n1797. 57-\\niS03, 55.\\n1S07, 40.\\n1S12, 27.\\n1S17, iS.\\n1798, 41.\\n1803, SI.\\niSoS, 37.\\n1S13, 25.\\niSiS, II.\\nMaking in all 907 births in the twenty-five years. It is shown in\\nFarmer s New Hampshire Gazetteer, published in 1823, that the\\nnumber of dcatJis in Hollis for the same twentv-five years was 557.\\nbeing- an excess of births over deaths of 340.\\nPOSTOFFICE AND POSTMASTERS.\\nThe first postmaster appointed in Hollis was Major Ambrose\\n(iould in the ear 1818. Prior to that year, there had been no post-\\noffice in llolli.s, and letters and other matters sent by mail, ad-\\ndressed to Hollis people, were sent to the postoffice at Amherst.\\nThe following list, copied mainly from the New Hampshire Annual\\nRegisters, exhibits the names of the Hollis postmasters from 1818\\nto 1879, with the years in which they severally held the office.\\nAmbrose Gould, in\\nHenoni G. Cutter,\\nMoses Proctor,\\nWilliam Butterficld,\\nFranklin Wrig-ht,\\nJtdward Emerson,\\nIveuben l):ild\\\\vin.\\nIn the year i794- with a population in the vState of 141,885, the\\nnumber of postoffices in the State was but five. In 1802 pop-\\nulation of the .State, 183,858. Number of postoffices, twenty-eight.\\nIn 181 8 population. 214,460. Nimiber of postoffices, sixty-eight.\\n!n 1S60 population 326,073. Number of postoffices three hun-\\ndred and seventy-two. .Since i860 the number of postoffices in the\\nState is supposed to have considerably increased.\\n1A\\\\ EKN KEEPERS FROM I 792 TO 182I.\\nWitli but one or t\\\\vo exceptions, I have been unable to learn the\\nBamcs of the V^iveri/ Keepers in Hollis previously to i79\\niSiS to 1S30.\\nWilliam N. Ttiiiicy,\\n1S56\\ni?S*^.\\n1S30\\nS3S.\\nDavid W. Sawteil,\\niSsS\\n1S62.\\nS3S\\n1S36.\\nEbenezer T. Wheeler,\\n1S62\\n1867.\\ni?36\\n1S40.\\nWilliam A. Trc.w.\\n1867\\niS7S.\\n1S40\\niS45-\\nHenry N. Smith.\\n1S75\\n877-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0S4S\\n1^54.\\nGeorae A. Bnriie,\\nIS77\\ni87\\nS54\\n1S56.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 269\\nthat year the New Hampshire General Court passed an Act au-\\nthorizing the Selectmen of towns to grant licenses to keep tavern to\\nsuitable persons, having accommodations who might make\\napplication, with the right to sell by retail rum^ brandy^ -wine^ gin\\nand other spirituous liqtiors such license, unless renewed, to con-\\ntinue but one year. It appears from a record of their doings kept\\nby the Selectmen, that between the years 1792 and 1821, licenses\\nto keep tavern in Hollis were granted to the several persons named\\nbelow, and to most of them in several different years. In 1793? t^\\nWilliam W. Pool and to widow Sarah Eastman; 1794 to Capt.\\nLeonard Whiting; 1795 to Leonard Whiting, Jun. 1796 to Capt.\\nB. Woods Parker, and John Smith 1806 to Daniel Emerson, Esq.,\\nBenjamin Pool, Daniel Merrill and Ambrose Gould 181 2 to Ben-\\njamin Farley, Peleg Lawrence and Nehemiah Woods 1818 to\\nCharles Farley, Luther Parker and Joseph Patch; iSzi to Miss\\nMary Woods, Dr. Noah Hardy, and Samuel G. Jewett.\\nJUSTICES OF THE PEACE.\\nThe Justices of the Peace in Hollis, prior to the war of the Rev-\\nolution, have been spoken of in a former chapter. During the war,\\n(in the year 1777) Noah Worcester was appointed to this office and\\ncontinued to hold it afterwards till his death in 1S17. Also during\\nthe war, or soon after it, Dea. Daniel Emerson was commissioned\\na Justice of the Peace and Qiiorum, which office he continued to\\nhold till his decease in 1S20. From the close of the war till 1808,\\na period of near thirty years, with a population in Hollis averaging\\nnear i ^00, Messrs. Emerson and Worcester were the only Justices\\nof the Peace in the town. For the next twenty-two years, from\\n1808 to 1830, but seven other citizens of Hollis were appointed to\\nthat office, viz., in 1808, Benjamin Pool, Amos Eastman and Wil-\\nliam Ames; in 1813, Benjamin Farley; in 1816, Benjamin M.\\nFarley; in 1822, Nathan Thayer, and in 1830, Christopher P.\\nFarley.\\nIn the early civil history of our State, this office of Justice of the\\nPeace involved responsible and very important public duties and\\nalso implied capacity on the part of such magistrates to discharge\\nthose duties intelligently and acceptably. But in view of the num-\\nbers and frequency of such appointments for the last thirty years\\nor more, with the supposed reasons for many of them, one may be\\npermitted to doubt whether the office, in all cases, is now looked", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "270 niiRIAl. (JllOl NDS.\\nupon as involving .such tlutics to the pubHc, or conipetenc\\\\ lor their\\nperformance. In nianv, not to say in a niajoritv of instances, the\\ncommission of Justice with the title conferred by it, seem to be looked\\nupon as a matter of cheap fashionable ornament, intended for per-\\nsonal gratilication ami distinction, ratlier than as of an\\\\ important\\npractical use to the pid)lic. Such commissions, as is understood, add\\none dollar each to the revenues of the State, and the New Hamp-\\nsliire Governors and Coimcil have become exceedingly obliging and\\nliberal in the issue of ollicial compliments of this sort to their fel-\\nlow citizens in all parts of the State cspecialU to such of tliem as\\nwere kno\\\\vn to be of like politics with themselves, riiere is no\\nevidence that the good people of Ilollis have been more boimtifullv\\nfavored with these complimentarv commissions llian the citizens of\\nmost towns in other parts of the vState. et it appears from the sta-\\ntistics to be found in the New Hampshire Annual Registers, that\\nsince the year 1830, no less than fifty of the worlln citizens of\\nIlollis have been so favored, (an average of more than one a year),\\nand that no less than twelve of them hekl such commissions in 1878.\\nOf this last nmnber. four, as appears, were justices of the Peace\\nfor the State at large, having jurisdiction in all parts of it and one.\\nof the cjiiorum, all cx-ojfcio^ having the right to l)e addressed by the\\ntitle of k^scjuire. also to issue writs both in ci\\\\ il and criminal\\ncases holil courts and try causes am! in all-])roper cases to join\\nin Nvedlock, and read the riot act the number of these officials in\\nthe town, each ilh all these ])Owers and duties, being cc]ual li) one\\nfor each ninct\\\\ of the hole ol the present jiojiulation.\\nHLii;iAi. (;i{Oi \\\\i)s.\\nThere are now in the to\\\\\\\\n. in all. fi\\\\ e oi those sacred reposito.\\nries of the remains of the dead, the most ancient of them near the\\nmeeting-house, older in fad than the tow n charier the next oldest\\non the road to Andierst. in the north ])ari of the to\\\\\\\\ n. w ithin the\\nlimits of the extinct town of Monson one at Pine Hill in the east\\npart a fomth about a mile st)uth of the meeling-liouse. on the road\\nto Pe}:)perelk laid out about fifty ears ago the lifth near a mile\\nca.st of the meeting-house, which has been in use about sixteen\\nyears. All of these grounds are of mcnlerate extent, no one ol them\\ncontaining more than two or three acres. It may be that all of these\\nsacred repositories are ke])t in as good condition, antl the graves,\\nniommients and gravestones in th.em as well preserved and cared for", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "THE PUBLIC ROADS.\\n271\\nnfi in most like public liurial grounds in this part of the State, which\\nis saying but \\\\ery little in their favor. Still no one of these ceme-\\nteries in IloUis is now fenced, cared for and ornamented in a way\\nto do justice to the feelings and sentiments which the descendants of\\nits early inhabitants entertain of tlie moral worth of the many excel-\\nlent and patriotic men, and exemplary and virtuous women, whose\\nmortal dust reposes in them. If the attention of the people of\\nI loll is is once properly called to this subject, no doubt should be\\nindulged that in this matter, better justice would soon be done alike\\nto themselves and to the memories of an ancestry of which they feel\\njustly proud.\\nri\\\\E I UKLIC ROADS.\\nl hc pul)lic roads in llollis, now leading to Amherst, Pepperell,\\nNashua, Merrimack and Brookline, were originally laid out three\\nrods wide, most of them substantially on the lines where they still\\nrun. Previous to or at the time the town was incorporated in 1746,\\nit was divided into five road districts, and that number of Surveyors\\nof Highways was chosen at the first town election. Between that\\ndate and the end of the war of the Revolution, the number of road\\ndistricts was increased to twelve, with the like number of Surveyors\\nof Highways. At that time it was the custom to determine by vote\\nat the annual meeting, the amount of the yearly tax for making and\\nmending the highways (all to be paid in labor on the roads) and\\nalso to fix by the like vote, the sum to be allowed for a day s work\\nboth of men and oxen. The amount of the road tax, as also the\\nwages allowed for labor, varied in different years, according to the\\nstate of the currency. From 1746 to 1765, the money in circulation\\nwas mainly what was afterwards known, as the Old Tenor paper\\nmoney. This currency fluctuated in value from year to year, and\\nthe amount of the road tax, and wages, varied with the value of the\\ncurrency. For example, in 1752 the road tax was \u00c2\u00a3400 O. T.\\nallowed for a day s work for a man 30 shillings for a pair of oxen\\n10 shillings. In 1760, the road tax was \u00c2\u00a31000 allowed for a day s\\nwork for a man \u00c2\u00a35, do. for oxen, 30 shillings. In 1768, after the\\nOld Tenor paper had gone out of use, and lawful or silver money\\nhad taken its place, the annual tax for making and mending the\\nhighways, was \u00c2\u00a335 allowed for a man s days work, 2 shillings\\nand 5 pence, or about 40 cents, in Federal money for a pair of oxen\\n12 1-2 pence, or about 18 cents.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "272 HOM.IS INSUHANCE COMPANY.\\nDuring the war of the Revohition, when tlie taxes were assessed\\nand paid in tlie old Continental paper money, the amount of the road\\ntax, and the wages for a day s work, fluctuated from year to year in\\nlike manner as from 1746 to 1765. The public roads in Hollis, as\\nis evident from the town records, were an object of much attention,\\nand appear to have been uniformly well cared for from its first settle-\\nment, and during the present century, at least, they have been kept\\nwell graded, smooth and safe, and now afford pleasant drives,\\nwhether for business or pleasiu e, in all parts of the town.\\nTHE HOELIS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nSome more than thirty years since, many ot the citizens of Hollis\\nbelieving that they might secure themselves from losses by fire at\\nless expense than through the joint stock, or other fire insurance\\ncompanies then existing, resolved to try the experiment of a town\\norganization for their mutual protection from such losses. With\\nthis purpose in view, a pul)lic meeting was held April 7, 1846, at\\nthe hall of Truman I lardy, of which Dr. Oliver vScripture was\\nchairman, and resolutions (then reported upon tlie subject), adopted\\nand signed by fifty-three of their number. At the same meeting, a\\ncommittee of six of them, consisting of William P. .Saunderson,\\nJoseph E. Smith, Leonard Farley, David J. Wright. Joel Hardy\\nand Edward Emerson, was appointed to draft .a constitution and\\nby-laws, and also to take the proper steps to obtain a charter for the\\nassociation. These proceedings resulted in the procuring for the\\nassociation an act of incorporation at the June session of the General\\nCourt of the same year, by the name of the Hollis Mutual Fire\\nInsurance Company.\\nThe company was organized August 3, 1S46, with the following\\nofficers then chosen, viz. President, Ebenezer Fox vSecretary and\\nTreasurer, Edward Emerson Directors, Leonard Farley, David J.\\nWright, David W. Sawtell, William P. vSaunderson, Joel Hardy and\\nAmbrose H. Wood.\\nThe losses of this company for the thirty-two years of its existence\\nto December i, 1S78, have been $3,081.74 amount of property\\ninsured $216,202 amoiuit of premium notes now held by the\\ncompany, $13,174.95. The officers of the company the presentyear\\n(1879) are. President, Edward ILirdy Secretary and Treasurer,\\nEbenezer T. Wheeler; Directors, Edward Hardy, Jefferson Farley,\\nSilas M. Spaulding, Ira H. Proctor, Timothy E. Flagg, Joseph\\nGates and Isaac Vandyke.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAI. HISTORY.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Vo\\nCHAPTER XXVI.\\nTHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SCHOOL LAWS AND TAXP:S. SCHOOL\\nDISTRICTS. STATE LITERARY FUND. SCHOOL COMMITTEES.\\nTEACHERS, THEIR qLTALIFICATIONS TO TEACH, AND EXAMINA-\\nTION. THE HIGH SCHOOL. MISS MARY S. FARLEY. HOLLIS\\nLIBRARY. LYCEUMS AND PUBLIC LECTURES. GRADUATES OF\\nCOLLEGES.\\nIn a former chapter I have spoken of the school law in force in-\\nNew Hampshire prior to, and for some years after the Revokition,\\nand somewhat of the public schools in Hollis under that law.\\nIt was shown by that law, that each New Hampshire town having\\nfifty families was required to support a public school for teaching-\\nchildren in the town to read and write, and towns having one\\nhundred families or more, to maintain a Grammar school in which\\nthe tongues or dead languages should be taught. These schools,\\nas has been seen, were sustained by an annual tax, voted at the yearly\\nMarch meeting, and were wholly under the charge and control of\\nthe Selectmen. This school law remained in force without material\\nchange till 17S9.\\nThe following exhibit presents the yearly amount of the school\\ntax voted at the annual town meetings in Hollis, from 1750 for the\\nfollowing thirty-nine years. From 1 750 to 1 767, this tax was assessed\\nin the Old Tenor paper currency from 1767 inclusive, to 1776\\nin Lawful Money or silver; during the war, in Continental paper\\nmoney or New Hampshire bills of credit after the war, again in\\nlawful money or silver.\\nSCHOOL TAXES FROM 1 75O TO 17S9.\\nIn 1 75 1, \u00c2\u00a350, O. T. In 1752, 1753 and 1754, no school tax\\n1755, \u00c2\u00a3100, O. T. In 1756, no school tax. In 1757, \u00c2\u00a3200, O. T.\\n1758, \u00c2\u00a3300. In 1759, 1760. 1 761, 1762 and 1763, \u00c2\u00a3400, yearly. [j,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "274 SCHOOL DISTRICTS.\\n1764 and 1765, \u00c2\u00a3Soo, each year; 1766, \u00c2\u00a3600. In 1767, \u00c2\u00a335, lawful\\nmoney or silver. In 176S, 1769 and 1770, \u00c2\u00a330, lawful money each\\nyear. In 1771, 1772 and 1773, \u00c2\u00a330 lawful money, yearly. In 1774\\nand 1775, \u00c2\u00a350 lawful money, each year. In 1776 and P777, \u00c2\u00a350\\n^778, \u00c2\u00a3So 1779, \u00c2\u00a3300; 1780, \u00c2\u00a34000, all in \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Continental paper\\nmoney. In 17S1 and 1782, \u00c2\u00a350 each year,- lawful money, and in\\n1783, \u00c2\u00a365; 1784, \u00c2\u00a350, all in lawful money. In 1785, 1786, 1787,\\n1788 and 1789, \u00c2\u00a375, lawful money, yearly.\\nTHE SCHOOL LAW OF 1 789.\\nAn Act of the General Court passed in 1789, for the maintaining\\nand regulating the New^ Hampshire public schools, repealed the\\nschool laws till that time in force, and made it the duty of the Se-\\nlectmen, yearly to assess upon the inhabitants of each tovni \u00c2\u00a345\\nupon each 20 shillings of the town s proportion of the public taxes,\\nfor the teaching the children and youth of the town reading,\\nwriting and arithmetic. It may be seen that by the law of 1789\\nthat arithmetic was recjuired to be taught in the public schools,\\nin addition to reading and writing. Shire towns and half shire\\ntowns, by the same law, were required to maintain a Grammar\\nschool, for teaching Latin and Greek. This Act of 17S9 is\\nsupposed to have continued in force till 180\\nSCHOOL TAXES ASSESSED UNDER THE SCHOOL LAW OF I/Sg.\\nIn 1790, \u00c2\u00a390. In 1791, \u00c2\u00a385. In 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, \u00c2\u00a390\\nyearly. In 1796, $400. From 1797 to 1S03, inclusive, $450 yearly.\\nIn 1804 and 1805, $500 each year. In 1806, 1807 and 1808. $700\\nyearly.\\nSCHOOL DISTRICTS.\\nI find no statute school law, in New Hampshire passed, previous\\nto the year 1805, requiring or seeming in its terms to contemplate\\nthe division of towns, for school purposes into school districts. In\\nthat year an Act was passed by the General Court, conferring\\nauthority upon towns, at a legal meeting called for the purpose, to\\norganize school districts (should the inhabitants so choose), and\\ndefine their boundaries. This Act, a few years later, was so\\namended as to make this subdivision of the towns into school dis-\\ntricts i7nperatlve upon the town authorities.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 275\\nStill, as has been before stated, it appears from the town records\\nthat some years before the Revolution Hollis was, in fact, divided\\ninto local subdistricts for the support of its public schools. These\\ndivisions appear to have been wholly voluntary on the part of such\\nof the inhabitants as were affected by them, and as we have seen\\nwere called in the records, school classes, school societies, or\\nsquadrons, but I have not been able to find any record in respect\\nto their location or the manner in which they were organized. How\\nmany of these school classes or squadrons thei^e may have\\nbeen at the time the law was passed requiring towns to be divided\\ninto school districts, with fixed boundaries, cannot now be ascer-\\ntained with certainty, but probably there were not less than eight\\nor ten of them. It is shown by the town records that as early as\\nthe year i774 the town voted, that the Grammar school should be\\nkept the whole year in the four southern squadrons^ the other\\nsquadrons to school out their money as usual, except their propor-\\ntion of the Grammar school. As the part of the town north of the\\nmeeting-house was quite as large in extent as that south of it, and\\nprobably quite as populous, there can be but little doubt that before\\nthe Revolution there were as many as eight or nine of these school\\nsquadrons.\\nAfter the passage of the law requiring towns to be divided into\\nschool districts, with fixed boundaries, we find that as early as the\\nyear iSiS there were in Hollis as many as twelve of these districts,\\nand this number, by subdivision, was afterwards increased to\\nfourteen. These districts were designated numerically, from No. i\\nto No. 14, and were also familiarly known and called by the fol-\\nlowing names No. I, Middle^ or Centre; ^o. 2, Pool; No. 3,\\nPine mil No. 4, Corner; No. 5, White; No. 6, Southivest\\nNo. 7, Red; No. 8, North; No. 9, Beaver Brook; No. 10,\\nNorthwest^ or Bailey; No. 11, Willoughby ;^o. 12, East; No.\\n13, Brick; No. 14, Hardy.\\nThis number of districts continued till 1874, when Nos. i, 5, 9,\\n13 and 14, known as the Middle, White, Beaver Brook,\\nBrick and Hardy, were united and consolidated into a single\\ndistrict, since known as the Utiion School District^ thus reducing\\nthe whole number of districts in the town to ten. Upon the union\\nof these districts being consummated, the old school buildings in all\\nof those five districts were abandoned for school purposes and sold,\\nand the new Union district at once proceeded to purchase a beautiful\\nand sightly school-house lot on Main street, near the centre of the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "276 SCHOOL niSTHlCTS.\\ntown, and to erect upon it for the use of its schools, a spacious,\\ncommoclious, well-finished and furnished two-story school-house,\\nwith convenient and suitable out-buildings and fixtures at the cost of\\nabout $10,000, in which its schools have since been kept. In the\\nyear 1876, the Pine Hill and East districts were united into\\none, thus reducing the whole number of school districts in the town\\nto ninc^ the present number.\\nWith perhaps the exception of the school in the first or middle\\ndistrict, I am aware of no special facts of general interest, which\\nin any marked degree would distinguish the public schools in\\nHollis from the like country schools in most other New Hampshire\\ncountry towns. For the first twenty-five years of the present cen-\\ntury, all these schools, generally, if not uniformly, were kept by\\nmale teachers in winter, and by school mistresses in summer, and\\nfrom well ascertained facts which have come to my knowledge, I\\nam led to the Ijelief that the average attendance of pupils upon them\\nfifty years ago was more than double of what it has been for the last\\ntwenty-five years. During the period last named, many and it may\\nbe most of these schools have been taught by female teachers both\\nwinter and summer.\\nThe following somewhat curious and unique facts pertaining to\\nthe middle school district in Hollis are below presented, substan-\\ntially as published in the Nashua Weekly Telegraph about two years\\nsince. I am indebted for them to my brother, John N. Worcester,\\nwho has spent his life in Hollis, and has kept himself well posted\\nin its local history, and who, w ith myself, in our boyhood, was a\\nmember of tlie school in that district. With but slight changes the\\narticle, as it appeared in the Telegrapli, was as follows\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2HOLLIS SIXTY YEARS AGO.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2In the year 181 3, there were in the First or Middle school dis-\\ntrict in Hollis forty-two dwelling-houses, at that time occupied by\\nforty-eight families, including widowed mothers whose husbands,\\nthen deceased, had been residents of the district. Three of these\\nforty-eight families had no children the remaining forty-five of\\nthem had had, in all, three hundred and eighty-four, averaging eight\\nand eight-fifteenths to each fiimily. Nine of the forty-five families\\nhad six children each seven of them, seven each four of them\\neight each eight of them nine each four, ten each two, eleven\\neach three, twelve each two, thirteen each one fourteen, one\\nfifteen, and one sixteen.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "scnooi. TAXES. 277\\nOf these three hundred and eighty-four children, three hundred\\nand twenty-nine lived to adult age sixteen of the fathers of them\\nwere soldiers in the war of the Revolution and twenty-two of the\\nsons born in twelve of these families had the benefit of a collegiate\\neducation.\\nBoth the father and mother of one of these f.imilies of twelve\\nchildren are still living, (March i, 1879), the father in his 93d\\nyear, the mother in her SSth, they having been married November\\n21, 181 1, sixty-seven years ago. The several mothers of the rest of\\nthe three hundred and eighty-four children are all deceased. The\\nrespective ages of forty-two of these forty-five mothers, at the time\\nof their decease, are known.\\nThe sum of the ages of twelve of the forty-two was six hundred\\nand twenty-three years, making the average age of each of the\\nrwelve, fifty-one and eleven-twelfths years. The aggregate ages of\\ntwelve others of the forty-two were nine hundred and twenty-two\\nyears, making their average age seventy-six and ten-twelfths years.\\nThe sum of the ages of the remaining eighteen of the forty-two was\\nfifteen hundred and ninety years, making the average of the eighteen,\\neighty-eight and one-third years. The foregoing data have been\\ngathered from sources believed to be correct and reliable, and they\\nmay interest others as well as myself who take pleasure in recalling\\nmemories of\\nOlden Times.\\nschool taxes from 1808 to 1828.\\nIn 1808 the law relating to the amount of taxes to be raised for\\nthe public schools was so amended as to require each town to raise\\nfor its schools a sum equal to $70 for every one dollar of the town s\\nportion of the public taxes. In 1827 this per centage was increased\\nto $90 for each one dollar of the town s share of other public taxes.\\nThe amount of school taxes, annually assessed in Hollis under these\\nlaws from 1808 to 1828, was as follows In 1809, $500. In 1810,\\n181 1 and 1 81 3, $700 each year. In 1813, $500. From 1814 to\\n1828 inclusive, $700 each year.\\nTHE state s literary SCHOOL FUND.\\nIn the year 1828 a law was passed by the General Court in pur-\\nsuance of which all the banks in the State were taxed at the rate\\nof one-half of one per cent, on their capital stock for the support of", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "278 SCHOOL TAXES.\\nthe public schools. The tax so raised was known as the State s\\nLfiterary Fund^ and was required to be divided among the towns\\nin the proportion of each town s share of the public State tax. The\\nshare of Ilollis in this fund has greatly varied in the several years\\nfrom 1828 to 1878, amounting in some years to about $250, and in\\nothers to less than $100.\\nSince the year 1828 the law in respect to the amount of taxes to\\nbe assessed for the jDublic schools has been several times changed.\\nPreviously to 1S42, the percentage to be assessed on the town s pro-\\nportion of the State tax was increased from $90 to $100 upon each\\ndollar of the town s proportion of that tax and again in 1852 this\\npercentage was increased to $135. and at last in 1867 to $350 upon\\neach dollar of the town s share of other public taxes.\\nSCHOOL TAXES FROM 1 828 TO 187S.\\nIn addition to the Literary Fund, there were assessed for the pub-\\nlic schools in Ilollis in each of the years named below, the following\\nsums annually, viz., 1829 and 1830, $700; 1831, $660; 1832 and\\n1833, $700; 1834, ^35 1836, $800; 1837, $600; 1S38, 1839,\\n1840, $700; 1841, 42, 43. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 1849, $Soo\\n1850, $1000; 1851 and 1852, $Soo 1853 and 1854, $1000; 1855?\\n56, 57, s8, S9, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 1861^. the amount only\\nrequired by law. 1866. $300, in addition to the amount required\\nby law; 1867, G$ 69, 70, 71 and 1872, the amount only required\\nby law; 1873, v$i5oo; 1874, 75 and 1876, the amount required by\\nlaw 1877, $400 in addition 1878. $^00 in addition.\\nCOMMITTEKS lO VLSI r AND KXAMIXE SCHOOLS.\\nBy tlie law in force in New Hampshire for abc^ut twenty years\\nprior to 1827, each town in the State, at its annual meeting, was re-\\nquired to appoint thi^ee or more suitable persons to visit and examine\\nall the public scliools in the town, at such times as might be con-\\nvenient. The first appointment of committees for this purpose, to\\nbe found in the Ilollis records, was in the year 1806. This first\\ncommittee consisted of Rev. Eli Smith, Dea. Daniel Emerson,\\nEnsign Samuel Willoughby, Capt. Leonard Whiting and Mr. Amos\\nEastman. The powers and duties of these committees appear to\\nhave been limited to the visiting and examination of the schools\\nwithout any authority to examine teachers.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "SCHOOL COMMITTEES. 279\\nEXAMINATION AND QUALIFICATIONS OF TEACHERS.\\nIt was enacted by the school law passed in 1808, that no person\\nshould be deemed qualified to teach a public school in this State\\nunless he or she should produce to the Selectmen or School Com-\\nmittee a certificate from some able and reputable Grammar School\\nMaster, Minister of the Gospel, or President, Professor, or Tutor in\\nsome college, that he or she is well qualified to teach such school\\nand also a certificate of good moral character, from the Selectmen,\\nor Minister of the Parish to which the candidate belonged. Pro-\\nvided, (however) that the qualifications of School Mistresses be re-\\nquired to extend no further than that they should be able to teach\\nthe vari07is sozaids and poivcrs of the letters of tJic Ei/gUsJi lan-\\ngtiagc^ Readings Wi-iting and English Gravimar. It may be\\nobserved that this law did not require female teachers to be ex-\\namined at all in respect to their qualifications to teach Arithmetic.\\nIn the year 1827 this school law was so amended as to require\\nfemale teachers as well as male to be Cjualified to teach the rudiments\\nof Arithmetic and Geography and, again, some years afterwards,\\nit was so changed as to require all teachers in the public schools to\\nbe qualified to teach the elements of History and such other suitable\\nstudies as the School Committee should judge proper for the school.\\nEXAMINING SCHOOL COMMITTEES FROM lSo6 TO 1 827.\\nRev. Eli Smith, 1806, 08, co, 10. 12. and Ambrose Gould, iSi i, 15, and 1820.\\nfrom 1812 to 1S27. John French, 1S12, 13, 14, and 1815.\\nDea. Daniel Emerson, iSc6 and iSii. Abijah Gould, 1S15, 17, i8, 19 and 1S21.\\nEnsign Samuel Willougbby, iSc6 and 1810. Dr. Noah Hardy, from 1816 to 1827.\\nC apt. Leonard Whiting, i8c6. Nathan Thayer, 1S17, 18, 21, 22, 25 and 1S27.\\nAmos Eastman, 1806 and 1807. Dr. Peter Manning, 1S17.\\nNoah Worcester, 1S07. Capt. Jonathan B. Eastman, 1S17, 18, 19, 2t,\\nWilliam Brown, 1S07, oS, 09, 12, 13. and 22, and 1S24.\\n1S16. Dr. Joseph F. Eastman, 1S23 and 1S24.\\nDea. Stephen Jewett, 1S08. William Emerson, 1823 and 1S25.\\nDea. Ephraim Burge, 1S09. Capt. Jonathan T. Wright, 1S25 and 1S27.\\nBenjamin M. Farley, 1809, 12, 13, 14. 15, William Ames, 1S26 and 1827\\n16, and from 1819 to 1826. Ralph E. Tenney. 1S27.\\nJesse Worcester, iSii, 16, 20, and 1S26.\\nSUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEES.\\nIn the year 1827, this school law was amended in respect to\\nschool committees, making it the duty of towns at their annual\\nmeetings to elect or appoint a Superintending School Committee of\\nnot less than three in number, whose duty it should be to exam ine\\nall candidates for teaching in the public schools of the town, and", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": ".^8o SCHOOL COMMITTEES.\\nalso to visit and inspect each of the schools at least twice in each\\nyear. Under this law, the vSuperintending Committee in Hollis\\nvaried in number in difierent years, from three to seven.\\nSome years afterwards the law w^as so altered as to permit the\\ntown to elect by ballot for this committee so many persons only as\\nthe voters at the annual meeting might think fit. In pursuance of\\nthis law, so amended, the town at several of its annual meetings\\nelected but one person as Superintending Committee, the person\\nso elected being charged with the whole duty of examining candi-\\ndates for teaching, and visiting and inspecting the schools.\\nMEMBERS OF THE SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEES FROM\\n1827 TO 1878.\\nRev. Eli Smith, iSaS, 29 and 1830. Joseph F. Eastman, Jan., 1841 and 1842.\\nDr. Noah Hardy, 1828, 39, 31, 32, 37, .^8, William P. Hale, 1843 and 1844.\\n39, 40, 43 and 1S49. Rev. James Aiken, 1844.\\nWilliam Ames, 182S, 33, 34, i^, 36, 37, and William P. Saunderson, 1845 and 1846.\\ni84o. Nathan Willoughby, 1847 and 184S.\\nNathan Thayer, 182S, 29 and 1830. Dr. John L. Colhy, 184S.\\nJoseph Greeley., 1S29. Cyrus Burge, 1S49.\\nRev. Leonard Jewett, 1829, 45 and 1846. James Blood, iS49and 1850.\\nBenjamin M. Farley, 1830, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, Rev. Daniel P. Deming, 1850.\\n38, 39, 41, 42 and 1S43. Dr. Lockhart B. Farrar, 1850.\\nEdward Emerson, 1830, 31, 32, 36, 42, 47, Timothy E. Flagg, 1851 and 1852.\\nand 1854. Andrew Willoby, 1852, 53, and 1854.\\nJohn N. Worcester, 1S30, 31, 32 and 1847. Nathan M. Ames, 1852 and 1S5S.\\nRev. David Perry, from 1S31 to 1842, and Dr. Henry Boynton, 1855, 56 and 1857.\\n1871. Rev. Pliny B. Day, from 1854 to 1866.\\nDr. Oliver Scripture, 1S33. Dr. Henry W. Willoughby, 1855, 56, S7, jS,\\nMoses Proctor, 1833 and 1838. S9, 62, 67, 68, 69 and 1870.\\nJoseph E. Smith, 1S34, 35, 36, 43, 44, 51, and Dr. George P. Greeley, i860.\\n1852. Dea. James D. Hills, 1S61.\\nTaylor G. Worcester, 1834, 35, 36, 38, 44, 48, David Worcester, 1867.\\n60 and 1S71. Rev. James Laird, 1871 and 1872-\\nRev. Phineas Richardson, from 1S39 to 1S44. Levi Abbot, 1873, 74, 75 and 1S7S.\\nBenjamin F. Farley, 184S and 1846. Rev. Hiram L. Kelsey, 1876 and 1877.\\nSTATISTICS OF THE HOLLIS SCHOOLS IN 1 873.\\nAccording to the report of the State Superintendent of the New\\nHampshire Public Schools for 1873, the year previous to the for-\\nmation of the Union School District in Hollis, there were then in the\\ntown fourteen school districts, two hundred and sixty-two children\\nand youth of school age, with an average attendance of two hundred\\nand four value of school-houses, $3,000, or about $215 average\\nvalue amount of money for the year raised for schools, $2,245.36,\\nbeing $8.56 per scholar, for those of school age.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "ii\\nS IlKWI S(W1()()L.\\nKS lAliLlSHKI) 1(!77", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "HIGH SCHOOL. 30I\\nTHE HOLLIS HIGH SCHOOL.\\nIn several different years prior to 1S76, earnest efforts had been\\nmade by many of the friends of popular education in Hollis to estab-\\nlish a High School., as authorized by the law of the State, of which\\nthe youth in all parts of the town might enjoy the benefit, and a\\nnumber of town meetings had been held specially to consider the\\nquestion. But previously to the year above named all such efforts\\nhad wholly failed.\\nThis worthy and beneficent object has however been at last hap-\\npily accomplished by means of the generous bequest of Miss Mary\\nS. Farley, the only daughter and heir-at-law of Capt. Christopher\\nP. Farley, a grandson of Lieut. Benjamin Fai ley, one of the first\\nsettlers of the town. Miss Farley deceased July 27, 1875, leaving\\nby her will a legacy to the town of near $10,000, the annual interest\\nof which was to be used for the support of a High School for the\\nbenefit of the whole town, on condition that the town would accept\\nit by providing within two years from her decease a suitable site and\\nbuildings for such a school near the centre of the town, and also for\\nthe future would take proper care of her family burial lot in the\\nsouth burial ground. If the town should not accept the legacy with\\nthe conditions annexed to it, then it was to be paid to the Trustees\\nof the New Hampshire Orphans Home at Franklin.\\nOn the 14th of May, 1S76, a special town meeting was held to\\nconsider this bequest, at which the town voted to accept it, and at\\nthe same meeting voted to provide a school-house in compliance\\nwith the conditions of the will. At a subsequent town meeting, on\\nthe second day of September following, it was voted to organize the\\ntown into a High School District in accordance with the State law.\\nAfterwards, at a meeting of the Union School District in the\\nNovember following, that district voted for a nominal consideration,\\nto convey to the High School District one equal undivided half of\\nits school lot, and the whole of the second story of its school build-\\ning for the use and accommodation of the High School, with all\\nsuch appertaining rights and privileges as would be proper and\\nneedful for its occupation for school purposes. This vote on the 7th\\nof January, 1877, was consummated and made effectual by a deed of\\nthe premises made by the Union District to the High School Dis-\\ntrict, to the acceptance of the latter. A high school for the benefit\\nof the youth of the whole town has thus been fortunately provided\\nand made permanent, and now for near two years has been in\\nsuccessful operation.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "282 SKETCH OF MISS FARLEY.\\nMISS MARY SHERWIN F^ARLEY,\\n(By Gen.^T. S., her cousin.)\\ndaughter of Capt. Christopher P. and Mary (Sherwin) Farley, was\\nborn in Hollis, Nov. 2, 1813. Her iather was a grandson of Lt.\\nBenjamin Farley, one of the earliest settlers in Hollis, and followed\\nthe business of tanning, by which he acquired an ample estate,\\nand was justly esteemed for his uprightness and sound judgment.\\nJanuary 18, 1813, he married Mary Sherwin, daughter of David\\nSherwin, of New Ipswich, who died about two weeks after the\\nbirth of her daughter. Left so soon a widower, the aflcctions and\\nhopes of the father, perhaps, turned the more strongly to his child,\\nwhose life in her infancy seemed to hang upon the mo;4t slender\\nthread. In her early years she was most tenderly cared for by a\\nsister of her father. Her health, exceedingly frail and delicate from\\nher birth, was never vigorous. In her girlhood, she could rarely\\njoin in the pastimes of those of her own age, nor was she ever able\\nto attend regularly upon the school terms, though for one year,\\nwhen of the age of lifteen, she was placed in a boarding school.\\nWhile her father lived, the two were almost constant companions.\\nShe accompanied him in his walks and rides, became familiar with\\nhis interests and business in this way gaining practical knowledge\\nand habits of thought, which helped to form her character, and w ere\\nof great value to her. After the death of her father, July 22, 1848,\\n(a loss to her that few can realize), she continued to live at tlie\\npaternal homestead till her deatli, July 27, 1875.\\nOccupied with the care of her pleasant farm, busying herself in\\nthe culture of flowers, making occasional journeys to visit friends,\\nand oftener in the hope of gaining health and strength, she passed\\na life, though not eventful, yet marked through its whole course by\\nacts of kindness and charity. In matters of business she was me-\\nthodical and exact, manifesting more than usual insight and good\\njudgment in the management of her aflairs. But above all it was\\nher aim to be just to others. She was in the highest degree con-\\nscientious, and would at any time sacrifice her own interest rather\\nthan that another should sutler w rong.\\nHer memory of persons and events was uncommonly cjuick and\\nretentive. Matters of history gained from her reading were rarely\\nforgotten. Her recollection of dates and places was somewhat phe-\\nnomenal, and she often surprised her friends by recounting events\\nin their own lives, which had quite escaped the memory of all but\\nherself.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "y^^^-t^-y_", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "THE HOLLIS I.IBRARY. 283\\nFirm and sincere in her friendships, she attracted to herself all\\nthose of her acquaintance who knew her sufficiently well to appre-\\nciate the kindliness, generosity and purity of her character. No-\\nwhere could a more cordial hospitality be found than in her pleas-\\nant old fashioned homestead, standing amidst fertile, well cultivated\\nacres, and shaded by the huge buttonwood in the door yard.\\nShe had a strong affection for children and young people en-\\njoyed having them about her entered into their sports and plans\\nencouraged their eflbrts for improvement and often gave them sub-\\nstantial aid. She was at all times deeply interested in the prosj^er-\\nity and welfare of her native town, and especially in its public\\nschools, and besides her other benefactions for them, during life,\\nbequeathing by her last will, as we have seen, a fund of near\\n$10,000 for the endowment and permanent support of a High\\nschool. In addition to other charitable benefactions bequeathed by\\nher will, was a legacy of $5,000 to the funds of the New Hamp-\\nshire Orphan Asylum at Franklin.\\nTHE HOLLIS SOCIAL LIBRARY.\\nThe Hollis Social Library, so called, was incorporated by an act\\nof the General Court, June 11, i799i d is believed to be one of\\nthe oldest associations of the kind in the State. The corporators\\nnamed in the charter were Rev. Daniel Emerson, then in his 84th\\nyear, Rev. Eli Smith, Noah Worcester and Daniel Emerson, Jun.,\\nwho, with their associates, w^ere made a body corporate, with per-\\npetual succession, with power to establish and maintain a lil^rary,\\nand to make all needful rules and by-laws in respect to it. The\\noriginal capital was $1,000 since increased by an amendment of\\nthe charter to $50,000. The two last-named corporators were au-\\nthorized to call the first meeting, and under this chart r a small\\nlibrary of from one hundred to three hundred well chosen books\\nwas soon collected, which number has since been increased to\\nbetween nineteen hundred and two thousand bound volumes, besides\\npamphlets.\\nThe officers of the Association consist of a President, three Direc-\\ntors, Secretary, Treasurer and Librarian, chosen annually. Any\\ninhabitant of the town could become a member of the Association,\\nand entitled to the privileges of the library, upon paying an initia-\\ntion fee of fifty cents, being afterwards chargeable with an annual\\ntax of twentv-five cents, afterwards increased to fiftv cents. The", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "284 HOLLIS LYCEUM.\\nnumber of names now on the list of membership is one hundred and\\nsixty-seven. This library for many years after its establishment was\\nkept at the house of the librarian, elected from time to time, but\\nsince the year 185 1 it has been kept in a room, provided and fur-\\nnished for it liy its directors, in the Congregational meeting-house.\\nThe books furnished to the people of Hollis from this library have\\nbeen of great use to them, from the time of its foimdation, in the\\npromotion of useful knov^dedge and in cultivating and supplying a\\ntaste for reading among the inhabitants generally, the extent of\\nwhich may in some measure be seen from the fact stated in one of\\nthe last annual reports, that in the preceding year there had been\\ngiven out to be read between twenty-four hundred and twenty-five\\nhundred volumes, the same book, however, in many instances,\\nhaving been given out more than once.\\nTHE HOLLIS LYCEUM AND PUBLIC LECTURES.\\nDuring most of the winters since 185 1, either lyceums or courses\\nof public lectures have been maintained in Hollis for the intellec-\\ntual entertainment and improvement of its citizens. The constitu-\\ntion of the lyceum has commonly provided for a monthly election\\nof its officers, and also for its exercises, including select readings\\nand recitations, vocal and instrumental music, a discussion of some\\ntopic or question of general interest to its members, and a paper,\\nknown as the Lyceum Reporter, edited by some of its lady mem-\\nbers, appointed for that purpose. The exercises of this association\\nhave usually been public. Separate committees have ordinarily\\nprovided for the selection of the subjects for these exercises, and the\\nassignment and acceptance of their various parts, and when these\\nduties of the committees have been faithfully performed, the public\\ninterest in them has been so general as to insure a large attendance\\nat the meetings.\\nThe public lectures have commonly been provided for by volun-\\ntary subscriptions of the citizens, and have been free to all who\\nwished to attend them. They have embraced a great variety of\\nsubjects of interest, and some of the lecturers engaged have been\\npersons of distinction in this and other States. Also a club for the\\nrehearsal and acting of dramas has occasionally existed, and public\\nentertainments given by it, highly creditable to the performers, and\\nvery acceptable to the audiences. This club at present numbers\\nabout fifty members.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF COLLEGES.\\n285\\nGRADUATES OK COLLEGE FROM HOLUS, WITH THE YEARS OF\\nTHEIR GRADUATION.\\nGraduates of Harvard College.\\nPeter Powers,\\n754\\nJoseph E. Smith,\\ni8 H\\nJosiah Goodhue,\\n7SS\\nBenjamin Burge,\\n1805\\nHenry Cumings,\\n1760\\nSamuel E. Smith,\\n1808\\nJoseph Emerson,\\n774\\nJohn Proctor,\\n1813\\nSamuel Emerson,\\n17SS\\nGeorge F. Farley,\\n1816\\nJosiah Burge,\\n.787\\nWilliam P. Kendrick,\\n1816\\nDaniel Emerson, Jun.,\\n794\\nTaylor G. Worcester,\\n1823\\nJoseph Emerson, 2cl,\\n179S\\nJonathan Saunderson,\\n1828\\nManasseh Smith,\\n1806\\nSamuel T. Worcester,\\n1830\\nJacob A. Cumings,\\niSoi\\nFrederick A. Worcester,\\n.831\\nBenjamin M. Farley,\\n1S04\\nFrancis J. Worcester,\\n1870\\nGraduates of\\nTale College.\\nRalph Emerson,\\niSii\\nJoseph Emerson,\\n1830\\nJoseph E. Worcester,\\niSii\\nBenjamin F. Farley,\\n183a\\nHenry A. Worcester,\\n1828\\nRalph H. Cutter,\\n1858\\nGraduates\\nof Da,\\nrtmouth College.\\nSamuel Worcester,\\n1795\\nNoah Hardy,\\n1813\\nAbel Farley,\\n179S\\nLuke Eastman,\\ni8ia\\nMighill Blood,\\n1800\\nDavid P. Smith,\\n1823\\nCalebJ. Tenney,\\n1801\\nWilliam P. Eastman.\\n184a\\nDavid Jewett,\\n1801\\nCharles Cummings,\\n.842\\nJonathan B. Eastman,\\n1S03\\nCharles H. Mooar,\\n1848\\nNehemiah Hardy, Jun.,\\n1803\\nEdward F. Johnson,\\n.864\\nStephen Farley, Jun.,\\n18O4\\nJoseph B. Parker,\\n1869\\nWilliam Tenney, Jun.,\\n1808\\nJohn H. Hardy,\\n1870\\nEli Smith, Jun.,\\n1809\\nFranklin Worcester,\\n1870\\nLeonard Jewett,\\niSio\\nCharles L. Day,\\n1877\\nGrant Powers,\\niSio\\nGeorge W. Saunderson,\\n877\\nGradua\\ntes\\nof Middlebury College.\\nFifield Holt,\\niSio\\nSolomon Hardy,\\n1834\\nGraduates 0/\\nA\\nniherst College.\\nThomas A. Farley,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a083S\\nAmos F. Shattuck,\\n859\\nGradui\\nates\\nof Brown University.\\nDaniel Kendrick,\\n1810\\nLuther Smith,\\n1834\\nGraduates\\nof\\nMaryville College., Tenn.\\nPhillips W*ood,\\n.831\\nLeonard Wood,\\n1832\\nGreenville., Tettn. bnion^ N. T.\\nEli N, Sawtell, i8\u00c2\u00bb3 Benjamin F. Emerson, 1830\\nOf the sixty-two college graduates named above thirty-three\\nstudied Theology, four Medicine, twenty-three became Lawyers or\\nare now studying law, one an Author, one an Author and Book-\\nseller, and one an army officer.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "286 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nCHAPTER XXVII.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HOLLIS GRADUATES OF COLLEGES.\\nGRADUATES OF HARVARD AND YALE.\\nREV. PETER POWERS,\\nthe first Hollis college graduate, was the son of Capt. Peter Pow-\\ners, the first settler of Hollis, and Anna (Ke3 es) Powers, was born in\\nold Dunstable, November 39, 1728, and came with his father to\\nthat part of Dunstable, afterwards known as Hollis, in 1730. He\\ngraduated at Harvard College in 1754. Rev. Grant Powers, his\\nnephew, in his History of the Coos Country, sa3 s of his uncle,\\nthat in his early youth, he had a very strong desire for a college\\neducation, a wish in respect to which he had often spoken to his\\nparents. But his parents had other plans for their son, and, regard-\\ning his project for such an education as a vision of youth that\\nwould soon pass away, gave him no encouragement. Young Peter,\\nafterwards, for a considerable time remained silent in respect to the\\nmatter, till at length, one evening, he was found to be missing at\\nthe customary nine o clock family prayers, and remained absent the\\nwhole night. Early the next morning, the father upon going out\\nof the door saw his son just coming out of the woods. He, how-\\never, put off calling upon Peter for an explanation of his absence\\ntill the close of his family morning prayers, when in presence of\\nthe whole family the Captain asked his son, W/iere he had\\npassed the night. In the -voods^^ answered the 3-outh. And\\nwhat were yon doing i)i the wr^t*^/.?.^ asked the father. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Iwas\\npraying.^ said the son. And for zvhat were you praying?\\ncontinued the Captain. 7 hat I might go to college replied\\nPeter. And for xvhat do yojt icish to go to college added the\\nfather. That I may prepare 7nysclf to preach the Gospel re-\\njoined the youth.\\nCapt. Powers was so moved by these answers, that for the time\\nhe was unable to say more, but upon Peter s leaving the room he", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF COLLEGES. 287\\nsaid to his wife, Anna, I don t see but that we must give up the\\npoint, and let Peter go to college. The result was a collegiate\\neducation, and a life of eminent usefulness.\\nMr. Powers graduated at the age of twenty- two, and in June\\n1755, the year after he left college, he received his first call to settle\\nin the ministry at New Ipswich. After some negotiation this call\\nwas finally declined, and the next year he was settled as pastor\\nof the church in the parish of Newent, Connecticut, then a part\\nof the town of Norwich. He remained at Newent till 1764? when\\nhe was dismissed, and early the next year was settled as pastor\\nof a church and society in the towns of Haverhill, New Hamp-\\nshire, and Newbury, Vermont. His connection with this society\\ncontinued till 1784, when he was dismissed, and the year after was\\nsettled as pastor of the church in Deer Isle, Maine, where he died,\\nMay 13, iSoo, set. 71. In a biographical sketch of Mr. Powers, in\\nVolume II. of the New Hampshire Collections, it is said of him,\\nthat he was a faithful and discriminating preacher, and possessed\\nof superior talents.\\nPublications of Mr. Powers. An Installation sermon preached\\nby himself with the following title, A sermon preached at Holies,\\nFebruary 27, 1765, at the Installation of Rev. Peter Powers, A. M.^\\nfor the towns of Newbury and Haverhill, at a place called Coos^ in\\nthe Province of New Hampshire, b^^ myself^ published at the de-\\nsire of many that heard it, to whom it is Humbly dedicated. Also\\na sermon preached at the funeral of D. Bailey, 1772.*\\nREV. JOSL-VH GOODHUE,\\nthe second Hollis college graduate, was the son of Dea. Samuel\\nand Abigail (Bartlett) Goodhue, born 1735. His father was among\\nthe early settlers of Hollis, but his family register is not found in the\\ntown records. Allen in his American Biographies and Farmer in\\nhis New Hampshire Gazetteer speak of the son as having been\\nborn in Hollis. He graduated in 1755, at the age of 20, and was\\nfirst settled as pastor of the Congregational church in Dunstable,\\nMass., June 8, 1757, at the age of twenty-two. Dismissed by a\\nmutual council, September 28, 1774, and recommended by it as a\\nperson of conspicuous seriousness and piety. f He aiterwards\\nsettled as pastor of a church in Poultney, Vt., where he died Novem-\\nber, 1797? set. 62.\\n*See Allen s Am. Biographies, p. 625, and History of the Coos Country, hy Rev. G. Powers.\\njAllen s Am. Biographies, p. 3S6.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "288 BIOGRAPllICAJ. SKKTCHES.\\nREV. HENRY CUMMINGS,* D. D.,\\nwas the son of Ensign Jerahmael and Hannah (Farwell) Cummings,\\nand was born in Hollis, September i6, 1739. His father, Ensign\\nCumings, was from Groton, v. p. r3i.) and died October 25,\\n1747, leaving his widow with five young children, of whom the old-\\nest was ten years of age, and the youngest, an infant. He prepared\\nfor college in Hollis, with Rev. Mr. Emerson, and graduated in\\n1760 at the age of twenty-one.\\nIn Rev. Dr. Sprague s Biographies of the American Pulpit it\\nis said that the mother of Dr. Cummings was a woman of dis-\\ntinguished piety of great strength of character and greatly devoted\\nto her children. That some years after the death of her husband\\nshe received proposals for a second marriage which she accepted.\\nBut shortly before the contemplated wedding, the prospective\\nbridegroom intimated to her, that he did not expect her children\\nwould come with her to the new home, and asked her how she ex-\\npected to dispose of them To this questi )n the mother promptly\\nreplied If you do not take my children you cannot take me. I\\nhave a mother s duty to perform for them and by God s help I shall\\nperform it, and immediately gave her suitor leave to retire.\\nYoung Cummings early gave such indications of so vigorous a\\nmind as to attract the attention of his pastor. Rev. Mr. Emerson, and\\nto justify unusual efforts to gjve him a collegiate education, and so as\\nto induce Mr. Emerson personally to take charge of his preparatory\\nstudies. He entered college in 1756 and maintained a high rank\\nboth for scholarship and good conduct. As pleasant evidence of\\nthe esteem in which he was held at home, it is shown by the Hollis\\nchurch records that in the last year of his course, the Hollis church\\ncontributed \u00c2\u00a3^0 O. T. towards his college expenses.\\nHe left college at the age of twenty-one, and but a few months\\nafter was invited to preach in Boston, and elsewhere, and soon be-\\ncame one of the most popular preachers of the time. In the fall of\\n1762, at the age of twenty-two, he had a call to settle as pastor of\\nthe church in Billerica, Mass., which he accepted, and was ordained\\nat Billerica, January 26, 1763. The sermon at his ordination was\\npreached by his old friend and pastor, Rev. Mr. Emerson, from\\n*This name which very often occurs in the old Hollis records is in them uniformly spelt\\nwith but a single M, Cumings. The same name, for the last fifty years or more, ha*\\nbeen more commonly spelt Cummings, doubling the M.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 289\\nHeb. xiii 17. He was the only minister of Billerica from 1763 to\\n1814, fifty-two years, when Rev. Nathaniel Wliitman was settled as\\nhis colieagne.\\nAfter his ordination, Dr. Cummings devoted himself to his\\nstudies with great assiduity, became an excellent classical scholar,\\nand so well versed in the Hebrew, as not only to read, but also to\\nwrite it with ease. During the Revolution, he was an earnest\\nfriend of Independence, and as well as 0/// of the pulpit, labored\\nto difluse the spirit of patriotism and to give strength to the new\\ngovernment.\\nHe is described as having been a fine specimen of physical,\\nmoral and mental nobility. His countenance evinced a high order\\nof intelligence and dignity. His excellent social qualities rendered\\nhim a most agreeable companion, and he did not withhold his sym-\\npathy and kindness even from the unworthy. His public discourses\\nwere characterized with great boldness of style and delivered with\\na voice of much power. Among his published writings are the\\nfollowing: Thanksgiving Sermons 1766, 1775, 17S5 and 1799.\\nPublic Fast, iSoi. Sermon at the Anniversary of the Battle of\\nLexington, and also General Election sermon, 17S3. Sermons\\non Natural Religion, 1795, also in 1796. At the ordination of\\nRev. Caleb Bradley, iSoo. Eulogy on Washington, iSoi.\\nCharity sermon at Roxbury, iSo3. Half Century sermon at\\nBillerica, 1S13. Received the honorary degree of D. D. from Har-\\nvard College, iSoo. Died at Baltimore, Maryland, September 5,\\n1823. xt. 84 nearly.*\\nREV. JOSEPH EMERSON,\\nson ot Rev. Daniel and Hannah Emerson, born in Hollis, Septem-\\nber 28, 1759, and graduated at Harvard college in 1776, at the age\\nof seventeen. He studied for the ministry with his father in Hollis,\\nand died in Hollis, July zy, 17S1, in his twenty-second year. For\\nsometime previous to his death, he had preached as a candidate and\\nhad accepted a call to settle in the ministry as pastor of the Con-\\ngregational church and society in Temple, New Hamj^shire, but\\nwas taken sick and died but a short time before his expected ordina-\\ntion. It is said that the chmxh at Temple, in manifestation of their\\nesteem and affection for him, attended his funeral at Hollis in a\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Spragne s American Unitarian P\\\\ilpit. pp. 55, jfi. Allen s American Biography, p. i\\n(19)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "390 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nbody. The following tribute to his memory, expressixe of his\\ncharacter, is inscribed on his gravestone in Hollis.\\nJoseph Emerson,\\nSon of Rev. Daniel and Mrs. Hannah Emerson,\\nBorn September 2S, 17S9.\\nRcc d the degree of A. B. in 1776, and the degree of A. M.\\nat Harvard University in 1779.\\nPossessed of good mental powers and disposition.\\nSedate, Contemplative and Studious,\\nA dutiful son, an affectionate brother, a respectable scholar,\\nAn agreeable companion, a faithful and benevolent man.\\nAn Exemplary Christian, a solid and devotional preacher.\\nDied July 27, 17S1, in the 22d year of his age.\\nMuch lamented, not only by the family but by a numerous\\nCircle of friends and acquaintances, particularly the\\nCliurch and Congregation at Temple, who had given\\nhim an invitation to settle with them in the work of\\nthe Gospel Ministry. His mortal part here deposited\\nRests until it rises in glorv and immortalitv.\\nDR. SAMUEL EMERSOX\\nwas the 6th son of Dca. Daniel and Hannah Emerson, born in\\nHollis, vSeptember 6, 1764. In 1779, when in his fifteenth year, he\\nenlisted as a fifer in a company commanded by his brother, Capt.\\nDaniel Emerson, in the regiment of Col. Hercules Mooney. After\\nthe war he fitted for college with his father, and graduated at Har-\\nvard college in 17S5. He sul)sequently studied medicine, and set-\\ntled as a physician in Kenncbunkport, Maine. Dr. Emerson was\\nhighly educated, an excellent English and classical scholar, and is\\nsaid to have retained his taste and interest in classical literature till\\nhis death. He was also very fond of music, and played well on the\\nviolin, flute, clarionet and organ. He had a laborious and exten-\\nsive practice, and was much distinguished and very popular in his\\nprofession, but it is said of him that he could never lie persuaded to\\nsend a bill for his services to a poor man. Died at Kenncbunk-\\nport, August 7, 185 1, in his eighty-seventh year. Gecn-ge B. Emer-\\nson, A. A. vS.. a graduate of Harvard college in 1S17. an eminent\\nBoston teacher, naturalist, and author, and for several years Presi-\\ndent of the Boston Society of Natural History, was a son of Dr.\\nEmerson.\\nREV. JOSIAII BURGE.\\nson of Ephraim and Anna (Abbot) Burge, born in Hollis, April 15,\\n1766. Graduated at Harvard college, 1787, at the age of twenty-\\none. Studied for the ministry with the Rev. Seth Payson, D. D., at", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 29 1\\nRindge, N. H., and was licensed to preach; but after having\\npreached about nine months, his health failed, and he died at Hollis,\\nMarch 34, 1790, in his 24th year.\\nREV. DANIEL EMERSON, }vs.,\\nson of Dca. Daniel and Ama (Fletcher) Emerson, born in Hollis,\\nJidy 15, 177^ Graduated at Harvard college, i794- For several\\nyears after leaving college, he engaged in business as a merchant,\\nfirst in Charlestown, Mass., and afterwards in Hollis, and was\\nTown Clerk and First Selectman in Hollis in the years 1802, 1803,\\n1S04 and 1S05. He afterwards studied for the ministry with his\\nbrother. Rev. Joseph Emerson, at Beverly, Mass., and began to\\npreach in 1S06. He was ordained as pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch at Dartmouth, Mass., October 14, 1807, and died at\\nDartmouth. November 16, 1S08, a:;t. 36. Two of his sons,\\nBenjamin F. and Joseph, were college graduates. v.)\\nREV. JOSEPH. EMERSON, 3D.,\\nson of Dea. Daniel and Ama (Fletcher) Emerson, born in Hollis,\\nOctober 13, 1777, and graduated at Harvard college, 1798. After\\ngraduating, he was for a time college tutor at Harvard. He studied\\nTheology with Rev. Nathaniel Emmons, D. D., of Franklin, Mass.\\nWas ordained as pastor of the Congregational church at Beverly,\\nMass., September 21, 1803; resigned his pastorate at Beverly,\\nSeptember 31, 1816 removed to Byfield, Mass., in iSiS, and the\\nsame year established there a seminary for the higher education of\\nvoung ladies. In 1821 he removed to Saugus, Mass., and estab-\\nlished his seminar} at that place, and remained in vSaugus till 1824.\\npreaching in the meantime on the Sabbath. In the latter part of\\nthe year last named, in compliance with an invitation of the people\\nof Wethersfield, Conn., through his townsman and friend, Rev. C.\\nJ. Tenney, D. D., his seminary was removed to Wethersfield,\\nwhich he continued to conduct with great acceptance at that place,\\ntill about a year before his death. He was reputed an excellent and\\naccomplished scholar, and a faithful and popular teacher. His\\nseminary had a wide reputation, and is believed to have been the\\nfirst institution of the kind in New England. Mr. Emerson died\\nat Wethersfield, May 13, 1833, 55- interesting biography\\nof him by his brother. Prof. Ralph Emerson, vvas published in 1834.\\nMr. Emer.son was the author of several publications, among", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ZCJl BKXJRAlMtlCAL SKETCHES.\\nwhich was the E\\\\an ^clical Primer, iSio; Writings of Miss\\nFanny Woodbury, w ith Notes, 1814 Lectures on the Millen-\\nium, 1819; The Union Catechism, 1S21 Poetic Reader, 1S31.\\nMAXASSEH SMITH, JUX., ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nthe oldest son of Manasseh and Hannah (Emerson) vSmith, was\\nborn in Hollis, August 16, i779- Graduated at Plarvard college in\\n1800. Afterwarils read law and settled in liis profession in\\nWiscasset, Maine, where he tlied in 1823, ret. 43.\\nJACOB ABBOT CUMMIXOS, AUTHOR AND BOOKSELLER,\\nson of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Abbot) Cummings, was bora in\\nHollis, November 3, 1773. His fiither enlisted in the Continental\\nArmy in April, 1777, and died in the service the next year. Mr.\\nCummings graduated at Harvard college in iSoi. After leaving\\ncollege lie liecame a teacher for several years, and afterwards a\\nbookseller and publisher, and a member of the well-known Boston\\npulilishing liouse of Cummings and Hilliard. He was also the\\nauthor of several elementary educational works, among which were\\nNew Testament Qiiestion, published in 1817, and a Spelling\\nHook and vSchool (jeography Ancient and Modern, with an\\natlas. His publications for schools were highly esteemed, and his\\nindustry, useful labors, and amiable qualities procured him much\\nrespect.*\\nLJEXJAMIX M. FARLEY, ATTORXEV AT LAW,\\nson of Benjamin and Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, and grandson of Lt.\\nSamuel Farley, one of tlie first settlers of Hollis, was born April\\n8, 17S3, in that part of Hollis afterwards set olf to Brookline. Mr.\\nFarley prepared for college at the academy in New Ipswich grad-\\nuated at Harvard college in 1S04; read law with Hon. Abijah Bige-\\nlow in Leominster, Mass. admitted to the bar and settled in his\\nprofession in Hollis in iSoS. and continued to reside in Hollis till\\n1855, when he removed to Boston. Upon being established in his\\nprofession, he soon rose to a high rank in it, and for many years he\\nhad no superior at the Hillsborough liar, of which he was for sev-\\neral years president.\\nDistiiiguished for his legal ability, as well as for his iidelity to his\\nclients, he spared no pains in the pi eparation of their cases for the\\ncourt, and it is said of him that he made the cases of his clients so\\n^Allen s American Bi nor;i)iliif^", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "GHADUATES OF HARXART) COJJ.EG?:. 393\\nmuch his o\\\\\\\\ n, that he examined \\\\vitnesses. and adchessscd the jui\\nas if himself personally were on trial. In the popular acceptation\\nof the term, Mr. Farley was not noted for eloquence. He relied\\nmore for his eminent success upon a carefully arranged and lucid\\nstatement of the evidence to the jury, and a clear presentation of his\\npoints of law to the court, than upon figures of rhetoric, or appeals\\nto sympathy, and his presentation, both of the evidence and law,\\nwere made so clear and distinct that neither the jury nor court could\\nmisunderstand him.\\nMr. Farley was not onh industrious, faithful and prompt, but\\nwhat he undertook to do he did with his might. His temperament\\nwas not impulsive, but having once settled upon his course, he was\\nnot easily diverted from it. If it required loss of sleep or exposvu e\\nto heat or cold, he was ready to meet them, and he knew no such\\nthing as failure if by his personal efforts success were attainable.\\nHe had so trained himself to these habits from early life that he\\nseemed hardly conscious that advancing years had lessened his\\nstrength, and as he approached the age of fourscore it could hardly\\nbe perceived that his eye had become dim, or his natural force\\nabated. He was naturally conservative, and this trait of his char-\\nacter grew upon him with his years. He had accjuired an ample\\ncompetence by his profession, yet in his pecuniary investments he\\nmade no ventures, nor did he readily become a convert to new teach-\\nings in education, morals, or social changes. He does not in any\\npart of his life seem to have been an eager aspirant for political\\noffice or distinction. Though decided and outspoken in his political\\npreferences and optnions he had but little taste for party politics,\\nyet his standing and personal popularity with his fellow townsmen\\nare shown by the fact that between the years 1S09 and 1S44 he was\\ntwenty-five times chosen a member of the vSchool Committee, and\\nfrom 1S14 to 1S39 he was elected in fifteen difibrent 3 ears to repre-\\nsent the town in the General Court. As a member of the legisla-\\nture Mr. Farle\\\\- was highly respected, and, though in his political\\nrelations often in the minority, he ne\\\\er failed to exert an important\\ninfluence upon its deliberations. His ability as a lawyer was well\\nknown and felt, and being often on the judiciary committee of the\\nHouse, it is said that some of our important statute laws originated\\nwith him. Knowing himself but too well the evils and uncertainties\\nof litigation, as well as its expense, Mr. Farley was in the habit of\\ndissuading his own townsmen from engaging in it. Owing in great", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "294 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\npart to this cause, it is said that the people of HoUis were but sel-\\ndom represented in the courts. His wise counsel in this direction\\nrarely failed of success, he not wishing to add to his own fortune at\\nthe cost of the peace of his neighbors. Died at Lunenburg. Mass.,\\nSeptember i6, 1S65, iet. Sz.\\nJOSEPH E. SAHTH, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Manasseh and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, born in Hollis,\\nMarch 6, 17S2. Graduated at Harvard college 1S04. Read law\\nand settled in his profession in Boston. Mr. vSmith is reputed to\\nhave been well read in his profession, an al)le and successful advo-\\ncate, and highly esteemed for his integrity and moral worth. Died\\n1837, St. 55.\\nBENJAMIN BURGE, M. D.,\\nson of Ephraim and Anna (Abbot) Burge, born in Hollis, iVugust\\n5, 1782. Graduated at Harvard college in 1805. Was for a time\\na tutor at Bowdoin college, and received the honorary degree o^\\nA. M., at Bowdoin in 1S15. He studied medicine and settled in his\\nprofession in Vassalborough, Maine. Died in Hollis, June 11,\\n1816, ast. 33.\\nSAMUEL E. SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Manasseh and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, and grandson of\\nRev. Daniel Emerson, born in Hollis, March 13, 17SS. Graduated\\nat Harvard college in 180S. He held a high rank in his class, and\\ngraduated withdistinguished honors. He read law with the Hon.\\nSamuel Dana, of Groton, Mass., and with his brother, Joseph E\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nSmith, in Boston. He was admitted to the l)ar in Boston in iSi2?\\nand afterwards settled in his profession in Wiscasset, Maine. Mr.\\nSmith was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts in\\n1819, and of that in Maine in 1820, and was a Judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas of Maine from 1822 to 1830. He was elected\\nGovernor of Maine in the years 1831, 1832 and 1833 and was re-\\nappointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 183^, resigned in\\n1837, same year was appointed one of tlic Commissioners\\nto revise the vStatutes of Maine.\\nIn an obituary notice in the Harvard Necrology it is said of him.\\nthat he was unostentatious in his intercourse with his fellow citi-\\nzens honest in all his dealings exemplary in his habits and re-\\nspected by all who knew liim. Died at Wiscasset, March 3. 1S60.\\najt. 71.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 295\\nJOHN PROCTOR, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Cyrus and Sybil (Farnsworth) Proctor, was born January\\n28, 1787. Graduated at Harvard college in 1813. Read law and\\nsettled as an attorney at law in Rockport, Indiana. Died at Rock-\\nport in 1844, vei. 57.\\nGEORGE F. FARLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Benjamin and Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, was born April 5,\\n1793, and graduated at Harvard college in 1816. He read law in\\nthe office of his brother, Hon. B. M. Farley, of Hollis, and Hon.\\nLuther Lawrence, of Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the bar,\\nand commenced the practice of his profession at New Ipswich in\\n1821. In the year 1831, he was a member of the New Hampshire\\nGeneral Court from New Ipswich, and the same year removed to\\nGroton, Mass., and practised his profession, with distinguished\\nability and success till his death at that place, November 8, 1855,\\ntet. 62. Several years before his death, Mr. Farley established a\\nlaw office in Boston, and was regarded as one of the most eloquent\\nand able lawyers at the Massachusetts bar.\\nREV. WILLLYM P. KENDRICK,\\nson of Capt. Daniel and Mary (Pool) Kendrick, born June 20,\\n1794, graduated at Harvard college in 1S16, and at the Theo-\\nlogical seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1S19. He was\\nordained as a home missionary in 1823, and for many years after-\\nwards was employed as a home missionary or stated supply in\\nwestern New York, and at length removed to the .State of Illinois,\\nand became pastor of a church at Bristol in that .State, where he\\ndied November 5. 1S54, ivt. 50.\\nTAYLOR G. WORCESTER.\\nson of Jesse and Sarah (Parker) Worcester, born April 6. 1799.\\nGraduated at Harvard college in 1823, at Andover Theological\\nseminaiy in 1827, and was licensed to preach the same year. He\\nafterwards preached in several places in New HamjDshire and\\nMassachusetts, but was never settled in the ministry. He still 1S79)\\nresides in Hollis on the old ancestral homestead. While in college\\nand at Andover he became interested in the doctrines of the New\\nJerusalem church as taught in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg,\\nand was the editor of a revised translation of the work of that", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "396 RIOGRAPJllCAI, SKETCHES.\\nauthor, entitled the True Cluistiau Religion, and also aided in\\nthe revision of the translation of some of the smaller works of the\\nsame author.\\nJONATHAN SAUNDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Jonathan and Lucy (Pool) Saunderson, born December 30,\\n1S02, prepared for college at the academy at Westford, Mass., and\\ngraduated at Harvard college in 182S. Read law in Hollis with\\nHon. B. M. Farley and at the law school in Cambridge, ;ind\\nsettled in the practice of his profession in Philadelphia.\\nSAMUEL T. WORCESTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Jesse and Sarah (Parker) Worcester, born August 30, 1804,\\nprepared for college at the academies in Pembroke, N. H., and An-\\ndover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard college in 1830. After\\nleaving college, taught an academy for one year at Weymouth,\\nMass., and also for one year at Cambridge. Read law in the ofHce\\nof Hon. B. M. Farley in Hollis. and also at the law school in- Cam-\\nbridge, settled in his profession in Norwalk, Ohio, in 183 1;^ and\\ncontinued in the practice of the law in that place till the summer of\\n1867, when he removed to Nashua, N. H., where he still resides\\n(1879). May 13, 1S35, married Mary F. C. Wales, daughter of\\nSamuel Wales, Esq., of Stoughton, Mass., who deceased at Nashua,\\nApril 29, 1S74. Was a member of the Ohio Senate in the years\\n1S49 and 1850; elected district judge of the loth Ohio judicial\\ndistrict in October, 1S59, and while holding that office was elected\\na member of the United States Congress in the spring of 1861.\\nPublications 1831, Sequel to the Spelling Book 1833, Amer-\\nican Primary Spelling Book; 1 87 1, Revised Editions of Wor-\\ncester s Comprehensive and Primary Dictionaries; 1871, Old\\nand New, or the School Systems of Ohio and New Hampshire\\ncompared.\\nFREDERICK A. WORCESTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Jesse and Sarah (Parker) Worcester, born Januarv 38, 1807\\nprepared for college in part at the Pinkerton Academy, in Derry,\\nNew Hampshire, and in part at the Phillips Academy, in Andover\\ngraduated at Harvard college in 1S31. Read law with Hon. B.\\nM. Farley in Hollis and at the law school in Cambridge, admitted\\nto the bar and commenced the practice of law in Bangor, Maine,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "c/yc^/Lo^", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "GPvAI^UATES OF VALE COELEGK. 297\\nin 1S34. Soon afterwards removed to Townsend, Massachusetts,\\nwhere he still resides and yet continues (1S79) in the successful\\npractice of his profession.\\nKKAXCJS WORCESTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Taylor G, and Lucy (Bell) Worcester, born in Hollis, No-\\nvember I, 1848. graduated at Harvard college in 1870. Read law\\nin New York city, and was there admitted to the bar, and com-\\nmenced the practice of his profession in 1877, and still resides in\\nNew York.\\nGRADUATES OF iALE COLLEGE.\\nJOSEI II E. WORCESTER, L. L. D.,\\nson of Jesse and Sarah (Parker) Worcester, was born in Bedford,\\nN. H., August 24, 1784, and in 1794, when in his tenth year, came\\nto Hollis with his parents. His youth, till the age of majority, was\\npassed in agricultural labor on his father s farm in Hollis, but he\\nearly manifested an ardent love of knowledge and availed himself of\\nevery attainable means for mental improvement. After reaching his\\nmajority he prepared himself for college, partly at the academy in\\nSalisbury, N. H., and in part at Phillips Academy in Andover, and\\nentered the sophomore class at Yale in 1S09, and graduated at Yale\\nin 181 1. After leaving college he was for several years employed\\nas a teacher of a private school at Salem. Mass., he afterwards passed\\ntwo years at Andover, Mass., and in 1819 removed to Cambridge,\\nwhere he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and to the prepara-\\ntion for the press of his numerous and valuable publications, till his\\ndecease, October 37. 1865, a;t. 81. He was married June 29, 1841,\\nto Amy Elizabeth ISIcKean, (who still survives), daughter of Rev.\\nJoseph McKean. D. D., formerlv Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory\\nat Harvard college.\\nThe first literar}- work of Dr. Worcester was his Universal Ga-\\nzetteer, Ancient and Modern, in two volumes octavo, of near 1000\\npages each, published at Andover in 1817 the next a Gazetteer of\\nthe United States, one volume octavo, of 373 pages, published in\\n1818. This was followed in iSi9by his Elements of Geography,\\nAncient and Modern, with an Atlas, a work that was received\\nwith such favor that it passed through several stereotype editions.\\nIn 1823 this Geography was succeeded by an illustrated work in two\\nvolumes duodecimo, entitled Sketches of the Earth and its", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "298 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nInhabitants. In 182^ upon being elected a member of the\\nAmerican Academy, he communicated to that association an elabo-\\nrate essay, entitled, Remarks upon Longevity, which was pub-\\nlished with the memoirs of the academy. His Elements of\\nAncient and Modern History, witli an Historical Atlas, ap-\\npeared in 1S26, a work from that time to the present very exten-\\nsively used as a standard text book in our puldic high schools and\\nacademies.\\nHis first work in lexicography was an edition of Johnson s\\nDictionary, combined with Walkers s Pronunciation, an octavo\\nvolume of 1156 pages, first publishcti in 1S2S. In 1S29, against his\\nown Inclination, he was induced, through the persistent urgency of\\nthe publisher of Webster s Qiiarto Dictionary (who was his personal\\nfriend) to prepare an abridgement of that work, a task to which he\\nwas strongly averse, and at first refused, a refusal to which he after-\\nwards regretted that he did not adhere. This work appeared in\\n1S30, in an octavo volume of 1071 pages, into which he incorpo-\\nrated much valuable matter which he had prepared for his own\\ndictionaries. The same year he published the first edition of his\\nComprehensive Dictionary, a duodecimo volume of 420 pages.\\nThis work was the first of his own dictionaries, and at once had an\\nextensive sale and soon passed through many editions.\\nIn 1831 he made a voyage to Europe where he spent many\\nmonths in visiting places of interest, and in the collection of works\\nin the departments of philology and lexicography, for use in his\\nfuture publications.\\nUpon his return from Europe, he Ijccame the editor of the\\nAmerican Almanac, a statistical, closely printed, duodecimo\\nAnnual, each number containing about 350 pages, which he con-\\ntinued to edit for eleven years, with his accustomed care and fidel-\\nity. In 1S46, his Universal and Critical Dictionary was first\\npublished a large, closely printed royal octavo volume of 103 1\\npages, and also the sameyear, his Elementary School Dictionary.\\nIn 1847, Dr. Worcester was threatened with total loss of sight.\\nHis eyes had yielded to his long, unliroken intellectual labor, and\\nfor two years he was nearly blind. In the meanwhile, three op-\\nerations were performed on his right eye (which became wholly\\nblind), and two on the left eye, which was happily saved. After\\nthe partial recovery of his sight. Dr. Worcester published the fol-\\nlowing works", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE. 299\\n1850, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Primary Dictionary for Public Schools, i6mo, 3S4 pages.\\nRevised edition, i860.\\n1855, -Academic Dictionary for High Schools and Academies,\\nduodecimo, 565 pp.\\n1857, Pronouncing Spelling Book, duodecimo, 180 pp.\\n1859, Qi^iiiito Dictionary of the English Language, with 1000\\nillustrations, 12S4 pp.\\ni860, Elementary Dictionary, Revised edition, duodecimo,\\n400 pp.\\ni860, Comprehensive Dictionary, Revised edition, duodecimo,\\n612 pp.\\n1864, Comprehensive Spelling Book, duodecimo, 156 pp.\\nFrom a memoir of Dr. Worcester read before the American\\nAcademy, by Ezra Abbot, LL. D., Librarian of Hansard college,\\na few lines are here transcribed, presenting an estimate of his lit-\\nerary labors by one who was familiar with them. All the works\\nof Dr. Worcester, (says the author of this memoir,) give evidence\\nof sound judgment and good taste, combined with indefatigable in-\\ntlustry, and a conscientious solicitude for accuracy in the statement\\nof facts. The tendency of his mind was practical, rather than\\nspeculative.\\nAs a lexicographer, he did not undertake to reform the anom-\\nalies of the English language. His aim was rather to preserve it\\nfrom corruption. In regard to both Orthography and Pronouncia-\\ntion^ he took great pains to ascertain the best usage, and perhaps\\nthere is no lexicographer whose judgment respecting these matters\\nin doubtful cases deserves higher consideration.\\nDr. Worcester was a member of the Massachusetts Historical\\nSociety of the American Academy of the American Oriental\\nSociety, and an Honorary member of the Royal Geographical vSo-\\nciety of London. He received the honorary degree of LL. D.,\\nfrom Brown University in 1847, from Dartmouth college in\\n1856.\\nIn a biographical sketch of Dr. Worcester, by Hon. George S.\\nHillard, it is said of him, His long and busy life was passed in\\nunbroken literary toil. Though his manners were reserved, and his\\nhabits retiring, his affections were strong and benevolence was an\\never active principle in his nature. He was a stranger to the\\nimpulses of passion and the sting of ambition. His life was tran-\\nquil, happy and useful. A love of truth and a strong sense of (lut\\\\", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "300 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nwere leading traits in his character. Little known, except by name,\\nto the general pnblic, he was greatly hoiioi ed and loved by that\\nsmall circle of relati\\\\es and friends ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ho had constant opportunities\\nof learning the yarnith of his ailections and the strength of his\\nvirtues.\\nKK\\\\ ItALPH EMERSON, D. 1)..\\nwas a son of Dea. Daniel and Ama (Fletcher) Emerson, born in\\nHollis, August iS, 17S7. Graduated at Vale in 1811. and at the\\nTheological seminary at Andover in 1S14. He was tutor at Yale\\ncollege from 1S14 to 1816 ordained as pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch at Norfolk, Conn., 1S16, where he remained till 1S29. when\\nhe was appointed Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral\\nTheology in the Theological seminary at Andover. He continued\\nto discharge the duties of that professorship with eminent abilit\\\\\\nfor twenty-five years, till 1S54. when he resigned. He afterwards\\nresided in Newburyport, JSIass.. for about five years, and then\\nremoved to Rockport, 111., where he died Ma\\\\ joth. 1863. a t. 75.\\nPublications: Prof. Emerson was tlic autlior of an interesting and\\nappreciative \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Biography of his brother, Rev. Joseph Emerson, pub-\\nlished in 1834, and also of a translation of Wiggin s Angustinism\\nand Pelagianism, witli copious notes, published in 1S40. He \\\\yas\\nalso a freciuent and able contributor to the Bibliotheca Sacra\\nthe Christian Spectator. and to other theological publications.!\\nRE\\\\ HEXRV A. WORCESTER.\\nson of Jesse and .Sarali (Parker) \\\\W)rcester. born in llollis. Sep-\\ntember 32, 181 3 graduated at ale college in 1828 studied for the\\nministry at the theological seminary at New Haven, and was\\nlicensed to preach in 1833. ^i eester embraced the doctrines\\nof the New Jerusalem chinxh.as taught in the writings of Emanuel\\nvSwedcnborg, and commenced preaching to the New Jerusalem\\nsociety at Abington, Mass.. in 1833. After remaining at Abington\\nfor some months, he removed to Portland, Me., and was the acting-\\nminister of the New Jerusalem societies in Portland, Bath and Gar-\\ndiner, till his decease at Portland. ]Ma\\\\- 24. i84i,a t. 38. A small\\n\\\\()lume containing t\\\\\\\\elve of liis sermons, on xarious doctrinal sub-\\njects, was published in 1837. and he was also tlie author of a small\\nwork on the Sabbath, which has been reprinted since his death.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*See also Allibone s Dictionary of Authors, o\\\\. 3, pp. 2S3S-39.\\nfSee Allen s American Biographical Dictionary, p. 305.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0349.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0350.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "GUADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE. 3OI\\n111 ;in ()l)ituai y notice of Mr. Worcester, published soon after !iis\\nlecease, it was said of him tliat his amiable, frank and social qual-\\nties gained him many warni friends, and his character and acquire-\\nnents were such as to ensure to him universal esteem.\\nREV. JOSEPH EALERSON,\\n5on of Rev. Daniel and Esther (Frothingham) Emerson, was born\\nSeptember 4, 1808, graduated at Yale college in 1S30, and at the The-\\nological seminary at Andover in 1835. Ordained October 13, 1S36.\\nMr. Emerson was agent of the American Education Society from\\n1S36 to 1S39, agent of the Western College Society from 1849\\nto 1853. Settled as pastor of the Congregational church at Rock-\\nford, 111., from 1S54 to 1S59; District Secretary of the American\\nForeign Christian Union from 1S59 1S71, and District Secretary\\nof the A. B. C. F. M. from 1S71 to He now resides (1S79) in\\nAndover, Mass.*\\nBENJAMIN F. FARLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nson of Benjamin M., and Lucretia (Gardner) Farley, born Novem-\\nber 20, 1S08, graduated at Yale college in 1833, read law in the\\noffice of his father in Hollis, and for a time practised his profession\\nwith him. Afterwards he engaged in mercantile business, and also\\nin farming; now (1S79) resides in Worcester, Mass.\\nRALPH H. CUTTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW.\\nson of John H. and Susan (Poole) Cutter, born in Louisville, Ky.,\\nNovember 4, 1S35, came to Hollis with his parents in 1849, gradu-\\nated at Yale college in 1S5S, reail law in Nashua, N. H., and for\\nsome years practised his profession in that place, afterwards re-\\nmoved to the State of Georgia. His father, John H. Cutter, son of\\nDr. Benoni Cutter, was born in Hollis. August 16, 1S07, was settled\\nfor many years in business at Louisville, and afterwards returned\\nwith his family and .settled in Hollis.\\n*Andover Triennial Cataloafue.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0351.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "Vtl BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nCHAPTER X X I I I\\nGRADUATES OF DARTMOUTH, MIDDLEBURY, AMHERST AND\\nOTHER COLLEGES.\\nREV. SAMUEL WORCESTER, D. D.,\\nson of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester, was born in Hollis,\\nNovember i. 1770. He labored on the farm of his father in Hollis.\\ntill 1791. and after attaining to his twenty-first Near, prepared for\\ncollege, partly at the academy at New Ipswich, and in part with\\nRev. Dr. Wood in Boscawen entered Dartmouth college in\\n1792, and graduated in 1795. He was preceptor of New Ipswich\\nacademy in 1796; afterwards studied for the ministry with the\\nRev. Dr. Austin in Worcester, Mass.. and was ordained as pastor\\nof the Congregational churcli and society at Fitchburg, Mass.,\\nvSeptember 27, 1797- He was dismissed at Fitchburg. by mutual\\ncouncil. Septemlier S, 1S02 afterwards installed as pastor of the\\nTabernacle church in vSalem Mass.. April 20. 1S03. and chosen\\nProfessor of Theology at Dartmouth college June 1S04, which ap-\\npointment lie declined. In iSio, at the first meeting of A. B. C.\\nF. iSI.. he was chosen Corresponding Secretary of the Board, and\\npeformed the duties of that oftice with eminent ability and success,\\nin connection with the pastorate of the Tabernacle church, till July.\\n1S19. when he was relieved of a part of his duties as pastor by the\\nsettlement of a colleague. These relations with the /American\\nBoard and the Tabernacle church continued till his decease, at\\nBrainerd, East Tennessee, June 7, 1S21. in his fifty-first year. He\\nwas buried at Brainerd and a monument erected there by the Board\\nto his memory, with the following inscription from the pen of Hon.\\nJeremiah Evarts, his successor, as Corresponding Secretary\\nAs a minister of the Gospel, Dr. Worcester labored for more than\\ntvyenty years with zeal, fidelity and success. As a distinguished\\nagent in exciting and directing the missionary enterprise of the\\nAmerican churches, he displayed eminent talents, and was impelled", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0352.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "/ITCTV ce^FA^", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0353.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0354.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. 303\\nby an ardent desire for the salvation of the heathen. To the promo-\\ntion of this divine work he appHed all his faculties till exhausted\\nby his arduous labors he fell asleep in Jesus while on a visit of kind-\\nness to the Cherokee people. His remains were afterwards dis-\\ninterred and removed to vSalem in 1S44, and deposited in the Har-\\nmony Grove cemetery.\\nHe received the honorary degree of D. D. from Princeton college\\nin iSii. Very many of the sermons, public addresses and other\\nwritings of Dr. Worcester have been published, and among them\\nthe following: Orations, at Dartmouth college, July 4, 1795 at\\nNew Ipswich, July 4, 1796; On the Death of Washington, at\\nFitchburg, iSoo. Sermons. Six sermons on Eternal Judg-\\nment. iSoo; Farewell, at Fitchburg, iSo3 Dedication\\nsermon at Beverly, 1S03 Righteousness as conducive to Happi-\\nness, 1804 The Messiah of the Scriptures, iSoS Funeral of\\nMrs. Eleanor Emerson, 1S09 Ordination of Rev. E. L. Parker,\\niSio; State Fast. and at the Ordination of Rev. Henr}-\\nGriffin. iSii National Fast, 1S12 Before the Foreign Mis-\\nsionarvSocietv of Salem, 1S13 Funeral of Rev. Rufus Anderson,\\n1S14: Paul on Mars Hill, 1S15 At the First Anniversary of\\nthe American Education Society. 1S16 Before the Massachusetts\\nSociety for the Suppression of Intemperance, 1817 Posthumous\\nSermons, one volume duodecimo, pp. 500, 1833 Letters to the\\nRev. Thomas Baldwin, on Baptism. 1807 three letters to Rev. Dr.\\nChanning. on American Unitarianism. 1815 Christian\\nPsalmody. and Watt s Entire and Select Hymns, 1818.\\nHis letters to Dr. Channing, in connection with the Unitarian\\nControversy, have been considered as almost unrivalled specimens\\nof polemic theological discussion, and his published sermons are\\nrich in evangelical thought, logically and luminouslv presented.\\nREV. ABEL FARLEY.\\nson of Capt. Caleb and Elizabeth Farley, was born in Hollis, July\\n17, 1773, graduated at Dartmouth college, 1798, and studied for\\nthe ministry in Hollis, with Rev. Eli Smith. Ordained as pastor\\nof the Congregational church at Manchester, Vermont, February\\n6, 1805. Resigned at Manchester in 181 2; afteiAvards removed to\\nGoshen, ISIassachusetts, and was the acting pastor of the Congre-\\ngational church at Goshen, till his death at that place, March 23,\\n1817, et. 43.\\n*See Allibone s Die. of Authors, Vol. 3, p. 2839, and Spiague s Am. Pulpit, Vol. 2, p. 398.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0355.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "304\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nREV. -MICH ILL lU.OOD,\\nson of Daniel and Mary (Pntnani) Blootl, born in llollis, Decem-\\nber 13, 1777. Graduated at Dartmouth college, iSoo; ordained\\nas pastor of the Congregational church at Ruckstown, now Bucks-\\nport, Maine, May I3, 1S03 dismissed in 1S40. He afterwards re-\\nsided in Ellsworth, Maine, but subsequently returned to Bucks-\\nport, and there terminated an humble and valuable life, April 6,\\n1853, iet. 74.*\\nKKV. CALEB J. rEXN EV, D. D.\\nThe ancestors of Dr. Tenney were from Rowley, county of\\nYorkshire, in the northerlv part of England, and came to New\\nEngland, antl settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, about the year\\n163S. His grandfather. William Tenne}-, came from Rowley,\\nMassachusetts, and settled in Hollis about the year 1746. Dr. Ten-\\nney was the son of Capt. William and Phebe Jewett) Ten.ney,\\nand was born in Hollis. ^fay 3, 17S0. He graduated at Dartmouth\\ncollege, in iSoi. with the Hrst rank and honors of his class, of\\nwhich Hon. Daniel Wel)ster was a member. He studied for the\\nministry, with Re\\\\ Dr. Burton. Thetford. Vt.. and Rev. Dr.\\nSpring of Newbur\\\\port. Mass.. and was ordained as pastor of the\\nCongregational church at Newport, R. 1.. September 12, 1S04.\\nMarried Ruth Channing of Newport. iSio. Resignetl his charge\\nat Newport, on account of ill health in Ma} [S14. He was af-\\nterwards installed as pastor of the Congregational churcii at eth-\\nerstield, Ct.. March 27. lSiO. lie received the honoraiA degree of\\nD. D., fron\\\\ ale. in 1S29. Resigned his pastorate at Wethers-\\nfield, in C()nsc([nence of imjjaired he.dth and failure of liis \\\\-oice,\\nJanuary LS41. In 1S42. he rcnioxed to Northampton, Mass..\\nantl in 1S43 was appointed agent of the American Colonization\\nSocietN and for the remainder of his lite, ga\\\\e himself wholly\\nto that work \\\\n which he had eminent success. His last ad-\\ndress in behalf of this societ\\\\- was delivered at North Amherst,\\nSeptember 19. 1847, hut nine days before his death, which took\\nplace at Northampton, September 28, 1S47, at the age of 67. In\\nDr. Sprague s Annals of the .Vmerican Pidpit, it is said of Dr.\\nTenney, That he was a learned theologian, and a useful preacher\\na judicious and faithful pastor, and a man of eminent and steady\\npiety amiable, just and generous and a true philanthropist.\\nCliapniun Alumni dT D:niiiioiith Collc-y^, p. ix).", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0356.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "NSf*\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f\\nc^", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0357.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0358.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "GRADl ATHS OF DAHTMOUTir COLLEGE. 305\\nRev. Dr. Tyler, late President of East Wiiuisor Theolooical sem-\\ninary, in a biographical sketch of Dr. Tenne\\\\ sa\\\\s ot him. that\\nhe was one of the most impressive preachers I e\\\\ ir hcaiti. Intt\\nexcelled more in the composition tlian in the deli\\\\er\\\\ of his ser-\\nmons. The^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 were characterized In a richness of matter, hicid\\narrangement, thorough discussion and a faithful ai;])ncati()n of thf\\ntruth.\\nAmong the pidjlished senuons of Dr. Tenne\\\\ were two ou\\nBaptism at the ordination of Rev. Ro\\\\ al Rolihins. 1816 on\\nthe -death of Rev. John Marsh. D. D., 182 1 --New England\\nDistinguished. A Thanksgi\\\\ing .Sermon. 1S27 at the Funeral\\nof Rev. vSamuel Austin. D. D.. 1S30. anti at tr.e Euncral of\\nRev. Alfred Mitchell. 1832.*\\ni;k\\\\ n a\\\\ id jewett.\\nson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cummings) Jewett. born ^Vugusi 16.\\n1773, and graduated at Dartmouth college in iSoi. Studied for tlie\\nministry with Rev. Dr. Emmons. D. D., of Franklin. Mass.. and\\nRev. Dr. Spring of Newburvport. ordained as pastor of the Con^\\ngregational church at Rockport, Mass., Oct. 30, 1805. lie con-\\ntinued in the pastorate of that church for thirty-one years, when he\\nresigned on account of impaired health. During his ministry his\\nchiu ch is said to have increased from a membership of ten to two\\nhundred and fiftv. Allen, in his American Biographies. sa s ot\\nhim, That he was a man of childlike simplicity and Christian\\ntenderness, but of an iron piu pose. resolute, fearless and immo\\\\\\nable. Died at Waltham, Mass., July 16. 1841. a t. 67.\\nAn interesting event in respect to Mr. Jewett was the Innial oi\\nhis remains at Rockport, July 13. 1856, fifteen years after his death\\na sermon being preached on the occasion bN his son. Rev. ^ViIliam\\nR. Jewett, then of Plymouth, N. II.. wlio also made an address at\\nthe grave, which was responded to on the part of tlie peo])le b\\\\ Dr.\\nBenjamin Haskell.\\nlAPT. JO.NATILVX I!. KAST.\\\\L\\\\X.\\nson of Jonathan and .Sarah (Fletcher) Eastman, horn in Ilollis.\\nJanuary 8, 17S0, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1803, enlisted\\nin the United States army, and was appointed Ensign the same\\nyear. Lieutenant in 1805, and Captain in 1813. .Soon after this last\\n*Sprague s American Pulpit. Vol. 2, pp. 47^, 474, 47:;. and Allen s Amfri(.;in Bir. g;rapliv\\nPP- 744, 7S.S-\\n(20)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0359.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "3o6 BIOGRAl HICAL SKETCHES.\\nappointment, Capt. Eastman left the army and retnrned to Hollis,\\nthere passed the rest of his life, and died in Hollis April 26. 1837,\\nset. 47. Capt. Eastman was with the American army in Canada, in\\n1S12, at the time of its snrrender l*y (ien. Ilnll. and was then\\nUnited States paymastei\\nXEHEMIAH HAKD^ jUX.. \\\\l fOltXEV AI LAW.\\nson of Nehemiah and Abigail IIard\\\\, born in Hollis. April 10,\\n1781. and ;^radiiated at Dartmonth college in 1803. Read law in\\nBoston, but did not practise his profession. Removed to Wilming-\\nton, North Carolina, in 1S07. and there engaged in mercantile pin^-\\nsuits and afteiwards, in 1S15. remo\\\\ cd to Tennessee and died at\\nWesley in that vState. August 26. i ^^f;. a t. ^S.\\nKi :v. sFEiMiKx i AI;I,l\u00e2\u0080\u00a2:^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2. rn.,\\n,on of Stejihen antl Mar\\\\ (Shnttuck) l^ulex l)orii in Hollis. Octo-\\nber 24, i779 gi i \u00c2\u00bbited at Dartmouth college in 1S04. Ordained\\nas pastor of the Congregational church at Claremont, New Hani]:)-\\nshire. December 24. 1S06. Dismissed Ajiril 21. iSic). Afterwards\\nhe was for several veais preceptoi- of the Acadcmv at Atkinson,\\nNew Hampshire, in the mean time supplving the pidpit of the\\nCongregational society in that town. He was reputed to be an ex-\\ncellent and accomplished scholar, a read\\\\ wi^iter. and was a volum-\\ninous contributor to the periodicals of the dd\\\\ Died at Amesburv,\\nMass.. Sept. 20. 1851. let. 71.\\nRE\\\\ El, I S.Mnil. R X..\\nson of Rev. Eli and Catharine (Sheldon) Smith, born in vSundei-\\nland. Mass., July 16, 1787, and came to Hollis with his fither in\\n1793. Graduated at Dartmouth college in 1809. Studied for the\\nministr\\\\ in Philadelphia, and as first settled as j^astor of a Pres-\\nbyterian church in Frankfort, K\\\\ He was pastor of the chuich at\\nFrankfort for about ten years, and was afterwards, in 1829, installed\\nas pastor of a Presbyterian church in Paris, K\\\\ It is said of him\\nthat his rank as a minister was mferior to that of no one of his\\ncotemporaries in Kentuck\\\\. Died at b^rankfort. Oct. 23. 1839,\\n;et. 52.\\nUlEiaAM TEX XE^-. RX.. AIIOliXEV AI EAW.\\nson of Capt. William and Phebe Jewett) TemKA born in Hollis,\\nSeptember 12, 1785- Graduated i8g8. reatl law at the law schc ol\\nof Judges Reeves and Gould in I itchfiel(l. Ct. as admitted to", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0360.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES 0(- DARTMOUTH COI.LEGE. 307\\nthe bar in Hoston in 181 1, and first settled in his profession in vSaleni\\nin 1813 removed from Salem to Newmarket, N. H., in 1815,\\nand practised his profession at that place till his decease, Septem-\\nber 13, 1S3S, lEt. t^^. Mr. Tenney was assistant clerk of the New\\nIlamjjshirc Senate in 1823.\\nREV. LEONARD JEWETT,\\nson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cummings) Jewett, born in Hollis,\\nOctobers, 1787. Graduated at Dartmouth college, 1810, and at\\nthe Theological seminary at Andover in 1813. Was licensed to\\npreach and employed for several years as a home missionarv in\\nthe vStates of New York and New Plampshire. He was afterwards\\nordained as pastor of the Congregational churcii at Temple, N. H.,\\nMarch 6, 1833. Resigned on account of impaired health in 1844,\\nand afterwards resided in Hollis till his decease. February 16, 1862,\\n:et. 74.\\nREV. (JRANT l OWER.S.\\n5on of Samson and Elizabeth (Nutting) Powers, and grandson of\\nCapt. Peter Powers, the first settler of Hollis, was born in Hollis,\\nMarch 31. 1784. and graduated at Dartmouth college in 1810.\\nStudied for the ministry witli Rev. Dr. Burton. Thetford, Vt. Or-\\ndained as pastor of the Congregational church at Haverhill, N. H.,\\nlanuary 4, 1815. Dismissed at Haverhill, April 28,1829. Installed\\nas pastor of the Congregational church at Goshen, Ct., August 27.\\nof the same year, and continued pastor of the church at Goshen\\ntill his death. April 10. 1841. a t. 57. In a biographical sketcli of\\nMr. Powers, it is said of him. That as a preacher he was able,\\ningenious, faithful and instructive. That he was endued with much\\npractical wisdom, with imcommon frankness and candor, and great\\ngenerosity, and that he was highly esteemed for his talents and vir-\\ntues, and his eminent and agreeable social qualities. He was a\\nready and popular writer, and an earnest and eloquent public\\nspeaker, and the productions of his pen display great good taste,\\nversatility, and literary ability. Publications, among his published\\nwritings are the following Sermon.s At the ordination of Rev.\\nE. J. Boardman, 1822 At the ordination of Rev. J. D. Farns-\\nworth. 1827; At the funeral of Rev. William Andrews, 1838;\\nCentennial Address at Hollis, 1830; Centennial Address at\\nGoshen. Ct., 1838 An Essay upon the Influence of the Imagina-\\ntion upon the Nervous System. 1828 Historical Sketches of the\\nCoos Country, 1S41.*\\n*Drake s Biog^riipliical Dictionary, p. 735. Allon .s Bioo^raphical Dictionary, p. 675.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0361.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "30S HIOGKAPIIK AI. SKKTCIIHS.\\nNOAH HAKin M.\\nson of Phineas ami Silnl (vShattuck) Hardy, was l)orn in llollis.\\nMarch 33. i/Sv (graduated at Dartmouth college. 1812: studied\\nniechcinc and settled as a physician in IloUis. almut the year 1S14,\\nand practised Ids profession there till his death at llollis, Dccemher\\n2=^, iS^^O. ;et. 6v He was nnich respected in his profession, and\\nalso for his andable and cxcmplar\\\\ character.\\nlA KE ICASTMAN. AI IOKXIA Ar LAW.\\nson of Lt. .Vnios and Ruth Fla i,g) Eastman, was hoiii in Hollis.\\nfune zz. 1790. and j^^raduated at Dartmouth collegx-. 1812. He\\nread law in Bcjston and conmienced the ]:)ractice of his profession\\nin that city in 1816. He afterwards in 1820. rcmoyed t Sterling,\\n^lass. thence to Dracut. and subsecjuentlv settled in Lowell, as a\\nteacher of niusic. for which he was distinguished. Died at Lowell.\\nFebi-uary 3. 1847. ;et. ^6.\\ni;k\\\\ 1) wii) i A(;k sMirii.\\nson of Rey. Da\\\\ id and Hepzihah (Worcester) Smitli. horn in\\nHollis. September 20. 1795. (Jraduated at Dartmouth College.\\n1823 Studietl tor the ministry with Rev. Dr. Wood of Boscavvcn.\\nN. H. ordained as pastor of the Congregational chuixh at Sand-\\nwich, N. H., ALiy 23. 1S27 dismissed, June 28, 1832 afterwards\\ninstalled as pastor of the Congregational church at Parsonslield, and\\nNewfiehb iSLiine, Jidy 11. [S32 dismissed in J839. and sul)se-\\ncpiently. AIa 8, 184^, was settled in the ministr\\\\ at (JreenHeld. X.\\nIL Died at (ireentield. October 11. 18^0. a t. 55.\\nKK\\\\ \\\\\\\\[1, 1,1AM 1 liASl MAN.\\nson of Alpheus and Elizabeth (Ames) Eastman, born in Hollis .Sep-\\ntember 20, 1813. Graduated at Dartmouth college in 1842. and at\\nthe Theological seminar\\\\ at Andoyer. in 184^ Ordained as pastor\\nof the Presbyterian church at Ne\\\\y Comerstown. Ohio, in 1846.\\nDismissed at New Comerstown, and after\\\\vards installed as a pas-\\ntor of the Presliyterian church in Lnion. Ohio, and still (1879)\\nresides in that State.\\nI;K\\\\ ClIAKLKS C UMMlXfJS.\\nson of Thomas and Mary (Woolson) Cummings, born June 7-\\n1817. Graduated at Dartmouth college, 1842, and at the Theolog-\\nical seminary at Ando\\\\er in 184^ Licensed to preach by the", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0362.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "OKADUATES DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. 3O9\\nAiuloNcf Association in 1846. and after preaching for a short time,\\n_!4a\\\\ e u]) his profession, on account of impaired health. For the\\nhist t\\\\vent\\\\- years or more he has heen principal ot the Higli school\\nin Medford. Mass.. where he still resides (1879)-\\nciiAiMJis H. .\\\\r()()Ait. .\\\\rrc)n\\\\i;\\\\ Ar law.\\nson of (iardner and ^Slary (Jrlard\\\\ Mooar. horn in llolhs. June l^.\\n1823. (irachiated at Dartmouth college, 1848. Read iawinCox-\\nington, Ky. admitted to the har in 1850, and settled in his profes-\\nsion at Covington. lie was judge of the Count\\\\ Court of Kenton\\ncount\\\\ Kv.. from 18^8 to 1862. Still resides at Co\\\\ington.\\nEDWARD E. JOHNSON. .XITORNKV AT LA^V,\\nson of Noah and Letitia (Claggett) Johnson, horn in Hollis, Octo-\\nber 21. 1842. Graduated at Dartmouth college in 1864. Read law\\nin Nashua, N. PL. settled in and now practises liis profession in\\nMarll)orough. Mass.. having also an office in Boston.\\nJOSEPH 15. PARKER, .ArrORXJiV AT LAW.\\nson of )o.seph D. and Lucretia (Smith) Parker, born in Mollis, Sep-\\ntember I, 1840. Graduated at Dartmouth college, 1869. For some\\nyears after leaving college he was a l)ookseller and stationer at Han\\nover, afterwards read law in Nashua. N. II., and settled in his pro-\\nfession at Nashua, where he now resides (1879)-\\nKlt.WKLlN WORCESTER. ATTORXEV AT LAW.\\nson of John N. and Sarah (llolden) Worcester, born in Hollis,\\n(October 27, 1845. Graduated at Dartmouth college in 1S70. Read\\nhiw at the law school in Cambridge, practised his profession for a\\nshort time at Cambridge, and afterwards engaged in mercantile and\\nmanufacturing business with his brothers at Cambridge, and at\\nHollis, N. H. He was Representative from Hollis to the New\\nHampshire General Court in 1S77 and 1878.\\nJOIl.N Jl. HARDY, ATTORNEY AV LAW.\\nson of John and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, born in Hollis. P ebruary\\n2, 1847. Graduated at Dartmouth college in 1870. Read law in\\nBoston and settled in the practice of his profession in that city.\\nCH.\\\\RI,ES L. DAY,\\nson of Rev. Pliny B. and Mary (Chapin) Day, born in Hollis, April\\n28, 1854, Graduated at Dartmouth college, 1S77. Now (1879)\\nI cading law in Iowa.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0363.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "3IO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nCEOKGE W. SAUNDERSON,\\nson of William P. and Hannah (Marshall) Saunderson. born in\\nHollis, April 22, 1854. Graduated at Dartmouth college in 1877.\\nNow (1S79) reading law in Nashua.\\nGRADUATES OF MIDDLEBURY COLI.EGE.\\n}{EV. FIFIELI^ IlOI/r,\\nson of FiHeld and Anna (Lakin) Holt, l)orn 1784; gratluated al\\nMiddlcbury college, 1810, and at the Theological seminary at\\nAndover, in 1813. He was ordained as pastor of the Congrega-\\ntional church and society at Bloomfield, Me., June 14 181^. where\\nhe remained till his decease, at Bloomfield. November i 1830.\\n:et. 45.\\nRF;V. SOLOMON I1AK1)\\\\\\nson of .Solomon and Mary (Bailey) Hard\\\\ born in Hollis, Septem-\\nber 37, 1796; graduated at Middlebury college, 1824, and at the\\nTheological seminary at Andover, in 1827. Mr. Hardy was\\nordained as a home missionary, at Andover, November 10, 1..S27.\\nHe afterwards preached, as stated supply or acting pastor, for a\\nnumber of years for several chinches and societies in Illinois and\\nMassachusetts, and died while so engaged at Eastham. Mass.. Sep-\\ntember 18, i842,;et. 4S.\\n(iRADUATES OF BROWX UX I KRSII\\nREV. DANIEL KENDRICK,\\nson of Capt. Daniel and Mary (Pool) Kendrick, born in Hollis.\\nMarch 30, 178s i graduated at Brown Universit\\\\ in iSio: stuilied\\nfor the ministry with Rev. Caleb J. Tenney. D. D.. at Newport.\\nR. I. Ordained pastor of the Congregational churcli and society\\nat Pittston. Me., November 28. 181 2. Died at Wilton. Me.. May.\\n1868, let. 83.\\nrf:v. LUTHER sMrrn,\\nson of Rev. Eli and ^\\\\ma (Emerson) Smith, boni in Hollis. An-\\ngust II, iSoo; graduated at Brown University. 1824: read law\\nwith Hon. B. M. Farley, in Hollis afterwards studied for the min-\\nistry with his brother. Rev. Eli Smith. Jniu. at Frankfort. Ky.\\nsubsequently established, and tor manv years conducted an acad-\\nemy in Bourbon county, Ky. June 8, 1874. he was settled in tlic\\nministry as pastor of the Presbyterian chvn-ch and society, at Zanes-\\nfield, Ohio, where he still resides.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0364.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "(jRADlTATES OF AMIIEKST COLLEGK. 3II\\nTHOMAS ABBOT FARLEY,\\nson of Dea. Thomas and Susannali (Burge) Farley, born in IloUis.\\nJuly 8. 1S13; graduated at Amherst college in 1838, and at An-\\ndover Theological seminary in 1841. Died in Hollis. August 26,\\n1841. a short time after graduating at Andover. mt. 28.\\nREV. AMOS K. SHATTUCK,\\nson of Amos and Margaret (Ball) Shattuck, born in llollis,Juiv\\n9, 1832. Graduated at Amherst college, 1S59, and at the Union\\nTheological seminary in New York in 1862, Preached for several\\nyears in Surry and Charlestown. N. H., and ordained as pastor ot\\na Congreg itional church at Durham. Me.. June 3, 1868. Dismissed\\nat Durham, and afterwards preached in Worcester, Vt.. and Hatch-\\nville, Mass., till April, 1872. when he ceased to preach on account\\nof ill health. Now resides in Hollis.\\nGRADUATES OF MAKY\\\\TELE COLLEGE. JEXX.\\nRE\\\\ I HILLIPS WOOD.\\nson of Dea. Phillips and Dorothy (Davis) Wood, born in Hollis.\\nJuly 12. 1801. Graduated at Maryville college in 1831. .Studied\\nfor the ministry at the Theological seminary at Alaryville. and was\\nafterwards ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Blounts-\\nville, Tenn. Subsequentlv removed to Piqua, Ohio, where he\\ndied June 11. 18^6. xt. 54.\\nLEONARD WOOD, NL D..\\nson of Dea. Phillips and Dorothy (Da\\\\is) Woocb l)( rn in Hollis.\\nOctober 22. 1805. Graduated at Maryville cc^Uege in 1832.\\nStudied medicine, and settled in his profession at Mary\\\\ iUe. where\\nhe died. August, 1S54, a t. 48.\\ni?i :.\\\\jAM!\\\\ y. i;Mi:K o\\\\.\\nson oi Re\\\\ Daniel and b^sther Frotliinghani ICnicrson. horn in\\nHollis. Juh 3. 1806. .(Jraduated at Union coUge. N. 1830.\\nRead law in Hollis, and .settled in his profession, first in Townsend.\\nMass.. and afterwards removed to Nashua. N. II.. wlicre he still\\nresides in tlie practice of liis piofession.\\nRE\\\\ ELI SAWTELL. D. D..\\nson of John and Martha (W allingford) Sawtell, was horn in Mil-\\nford, N. H., September 8, l799. and came to Hollis to reside when\\nof the age of ten years, his father being a fannei in erN moderate", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0365.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "^12 r.i()(;i;AiMiic Ai. sKiricniis.\\ncircumstaiRC N. In his carh boylioovl. youiiii,- Eli woi kcd upon tiic\\nfariii witli his lather in Ilollis. hut l)cin 4- then of feeble constitution,\\nfarm work was Ibum! to be too hard for him, and when about the\\nage of sixteen, lie was ajiprenticed to a shoemaker to learn his\\ntrade. In the fall of 1817. Rev. E\\\\\\\\ Smith. Jun.. then of Frank-\\nfort. K\\\\. made a \\\\isit to Ilollis. one purpose of which was. to\\nen^M^e a small companx of xoung- men. inclined to study for the\\nministr\\\\. to -o to Tennessee to be educatetl. with that \\\\iew. L pon\\nhearing- the public address of Mr. Smith u])on the subject, young\\nSawtell. then of the age of eighteen, anti t\\\\v other Ilollis young-\\nmen, of about the same age. made up their minds to go to Ten-\\nnessee the spiing following. Ihit when spring came, the courage\\nof the other two failed. Ihider the agreement, made with his\\nmastei one \\\\ear s serxice was still due on the contract ot appi en-\\nticeship. IIa\\\\ing made up his mind to go to Tennessee, he bought\\nof his master this last gear s time, by giving him his note for $90,\\nto be paid when he should return as a minister from Tennessee,\\nwdiich debt was promptly p;ud eight years after on his first return\\nto New lilngland.\\nOn the hrst of Ma\\\\. 1818. Dr. Sawtell. then in his nineteenth\\n\\\\ear. started for Tennessee, a distance of eleven hundred miles (a\\nlarge part of the way through the wilderness), on foot and alone,\\nwith his w hole w ardrobe. and library, consisting of a Bible, hymn-\\nbook and primer, tied up in a cotton handkerchief. In this plight,\\nand with $14 foi his expenses, he made his way to Maryville,\\nTenn., prepared for college at the school in that place, graduated\\nat the college in Greenville. Teim.. in 1823. and at the theological\\nseminarv at JNIaryville in 1825, and was licensed to preach the same\\nyear. After being employed for about a year in collecting funds\\nfor Maryville college, in the year 1826. he came on to New Eng-\\nland and spent two years or more, in various States, as an evan.\\ngelist. He afterwards returned to the west, and in 1829 was settled\\nas pastor of a Presbyterian church in Louisville, Ky.. where he con-\\ntinued till 1S36. In the year last named, he was appointed agent\\nof the American Seamen s Friend Society, and went to Havre in\\nFrance, where, through his efforts, a seamen s chapel was built\\nand a church established, of which he became pastor till 1843,\\nwhen he was appointed agent of the Foreign Evangelical Society,\\nin the service of which he was employed for several years. This\\nagency led to his travelling and preaching very extensively, in both", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0366.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "CiltADLATK ()l {jKEEWIIAA-: LOlA.KGli\\n;i3\\nEurope and the Liiitcd .Slates, in the diseliarj^e of hi*^ duties, he\\nhavin i, crossed the Athuitic. on his various missions, no less than\\neight times. His connection with that societ\\\\ liaxinjLj been dis-\\nsolved, he established a nourishing female academ\\\\ at Cleveland.\\nOhio, of which he was ])rinci])al till i S54. i^ he accepted a\\nsecond appointment to take charge of the seamen s chapel at\\nHavre, ^vhere he continued for the next nine \\\\ears. In 1863 he\\nagain returned to the United States, and for a vear or more ser\\\\ed\\nin the union army in the care of our sick and wounded soldiers.\\nIn March, iS6v he \\\\vas again settled in the ministr\\\\ in charge of\\nthe Congregational chinch and society in Saratoga. N. Y., where\\nhe continued for about lour years, when, by reason of impaired\\nsight and health, he resigned and remo\\\\ed to lirooklyn, N.\\nand after some ears to Newmarket. N. J., where he still resides.\\nWliile in Europe Di-. .Sawtell received the honorary degree of D.\\nD., from the college at Marv\\\\ ille. Tenn.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0367.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "3M\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKKTCliES.\\nC H A P T E R X X I X\\nMlNISTKns. IMI^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S1(.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0IANS AND LAW i KRS X(J T GllADrA IKS Or COI.l.KCE\\nI!KV. NOAH WORCKS TKi:. n..\\nSOU of Noah and Lvdia (Tavlor) Worcester, ^vas lioni No\\\\eml)er\\n28, j75 Thi; opportunities of Di-. W orccstei^ for attending school\\nwere limited to the short pu])lic schools in Ilollis. which, such\\nas they \\\\\\\\ere. ended with the winter of 17^4-;;. In the spring- of\\n1775 t the age of sixteen, he enlisted in the arrn\\\\ and was in the\\nIlollis compan\\\\ at the hattle of Bunker Hill. In 1776 he \\\\\\\\ent to\\nPlymouth, X. II.. where he taught his tirst school. ha\\\\ing (as he\\nsays in a short autobiograph\\\\ never studied (jeograplnor (gram-\\nmar, or e\\\\ en had the benefit of a dictionar\\\\ While at Plymouth,\\nhe says: After I became an inslructoi 1 lelt the importance of\\nlearning, and exeited m\\\\self to obtain it b\\\\ such means as were in\\nmy powei 1 fouml m\\\\self deficient in the art of writing, and\\nbeing at PKmouth w hei e. in the time of the ar. it was difficult to\\nprocure paper. 1 wrote o\\\\ei a quautit\\\\ if a\\\\ liite birch bark, in imi-\\ntation of some excellent copies 1 f nn(l at PKmouth.\\nAgain in 1777 i*- ;ii m\\\\ and was in the Mollis coni-\\n])anv at the battle of Pennington. heie. in his eighteenth \\\\ear. lie\\nwas fife majcv. In .September. 1778. ha\\\\ ing l)ought of his fathei\\nthe remaining fourteen months ot his miiioritx. he went again to\\nPKmouth with the expectation of spending his lite as a farmer.\\nexcept as he might occasionalK teach sciioi)]. The fall attei he was\\nmarried, on his twentv-first birthdax\\nIn lySz he remoxed with his famiK to Tliornton. II.. hei e\\nhe had a small larm. an l. while cair\\\\ ing on his farm there, also\\nworked at the trade of a shoemaker, which he had learned in his\\nboyhood. (J)bliged to ]:)ractisc the most rigid econom\\\\ in respect\\nto time, w hen at woi^k u])on his slioe bench, lie was in the habit til", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0368.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "^AJTo\\n(TV L^ f-f^C^\\n/j.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0369.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0370.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "MINIS IKUS N OT ORADIIATES. 315\\nkeeping pen and Ink l)y his side to note d(n\\\\ n an) important\\nthoughts as they occurred. In this way he accustomed himself to a\\nrigorous mental discipline, especially In the writing of dissertations\\non various theological subjects.\\nIn 1785 he addressed a letter, (which was afterwards published,)\\nto Rev. John Murray, the noted Universalist preacher of that day,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2On the Origin of Evil. This was Dr. Worcester s first publica-\\ntion, and soon brought him Into public notice, and prepared the way\\ntor his introduction into the ministry. Upon the recommendation\\nof the neighboring ministers he was licensed to preach in 1786, and\\non the iSth of Octol er of that year was ordained as pastor of the\\nCongregational church and society In Thornton. He liad lived in\\nI hornton for five years before his ordination, and in the meantime\\nhad been schoolmaster, selectman, town clerk, justice of the peace,\\nand representative to the general court. I rom 1S02 to 1S04 he\\nwas the first missionary (;f the New Hampshire Missionary So-\\nciety. In 1810 he remo\\\\eti to .Salisbury. N. H., and for three\\nyears was the assistant of Ids brother. I liomas Worcester, as min-\\nister of that place. While at Salisbury he publisheil his well-\\nknown work entitled Bible News. which afterwards passed\\nthrough many editions.\\nIn 1813. the monthly periodical called the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Christian Disciple\\nwas established by a number of the prominent clergymen of Boston,\\nand Dr. Worcester was invited to become its editor. On the\\nacceptance of this in\\\\itation he remo\\\\ ed to Brighton, Mass., and\\ncontinued to be the editor of thai periodical till 1818. While so\\nengaged his mind became \\\\erv deepl) interested In the cause ot\\nuniversal peace, and In 1814 he publlslied bis celebrated pamphlet\\nentitled A .Solemn Re\\\\Iew of tlie Custom of War. an essay\\nthat was many times republished in this coimtry and England, and\\nwas translated Into several foreign languages. The ]:)ublication of\\nthis pamphlet, not very long after, led to the formation of the Mas-\\nsachusetts Peace vSocietv, of which Dr. Worcester was elected Sec-\\nretary. In 1819 a quarterly periodical was established by this\\nsociety, entitled the Friend of Peace, of wlilch I)r. Worcester\\nwas the editor and principal contrlbulor till the vear 1S28. Avlien he\\nresigned on reaching his 70th year.\\nHis mind was afterwartls directed, with much earnestness, to the\\nexamination of fhe ([uestion of the connection of the Suflerings\\nof Christ with the sahation of men. and In 1829 he published a", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0371.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "3l6 KIOGRAPIIICAI. SKK l C-HKS.\\nsmall volume entitletl the Atoning Sacrifice a Display ot Lonc.\\nnot of Wrath. In 1S31 he also published a small work entitled\\nCauses and Evils of Contention among Christians, and in 1S33.\\nhis last work \\\\vith the title Last Thoughts on Important Subjects.\\nBeside the above works he also published the follo\\\\ving Sermon,\\nat the Ordination of Re\\\\ Thomas Worcester. and Friendly\\nLetter to Rev. Thomas Baldwin. 1791. Candid Discussion of\\nClose Communion. 1794; Ne\\\\v IIam]:)shire Election Sermon,\\n1800; Reasons for declining to adopt the Baptist Theory and\\nPractice. 1809; Appeal to the Candid or Trinitarian Review:\\n1814: Thoughts on the Personality of the ^V )rd of God anil\\nReview of Atheism, 1816. Receivetl the honorary degree of\\nA. M.. from Dartmouth college, in 1791. and that of D. D. from\\nHarvard in 1818. Died at Brighton, October 31, 1837. 79*^\\nvcar. Ilis monument at Alt. Auburn Ijears the follow ing inscription\\nTo XOAH WOKCESTER, I). I\\nErected by his Friend.s\\nIn conimemoriition of his Zeal and LalH is\\nIn the cause of Universal Peace,\\nAnd the consistency of his cliaracter\\nAs a Christian Phihmtliropist and Divine.\\nUEX LEONARD WORCESTER.\\nson of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester, born January i, 1767.\\nMr. AVorcester went to Worcester, Mass.. in his youth, and served\\nan apprenticeship to the printers trade in the office of Isaiah\\nThomas, Esq.. a distinguished printer and publisher of that time.\\nAfter reaching the age of majorit\\\\ he was, for several years, edi-\\ntor, printer, and publisher of the newspaper called the Massachu-\\nsetts Spv. In 1795, at the age of twenty-eight, he was chosen\\ndeacon of the first church in Worcester, of which Rev. Dr. Austin\\nwas pastor, and without any regular or systematic course of theo-\\nlogical studies he was licensed to preach by the Mendon Associa-\\ntion. March 12. 1799, and was ordained as pastor of the Congrega-\\ntional church and society in Peacham, Vt., October 30. 1799. He\\ndischarged the duties of his pastorate with much acceptance for\\nthirty-eight years, till 1S37, when he left Peacham on account of\\nimpaired health. He afterwards resided in Littleton, N. H.. and\\nSt. johnsbiiry. Vt., until his decease at the place last named, May\\n28, 1846, iet. 79.\\nPublications of Mr. Worcester. Letters to Rev. Dr. Bancroft,\\non the doctrine of Election, 1794; Oration on the Death of", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0372.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "MINISTERS NOT GRADUATES. 317\\nWashington, iSoo; Fast Day Sermon, 1S02 also Sermons on\\nthe following subjects The Highway and Way On the\\nAtonement; On Prayer; On the Determination of God:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2On the Trinity; Men their worst Enemies The Chris-\\ntian desirous to be with Christ A Defence of the Confession of\\nFaith of the church at Peacham at the Ordination of Rev.\\nElnathan Gridley and Rev. Samuel A. Worcester as Missionaries,\\n1835 On the Alton Outrage, 1837 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2At the close of his Min-\\nistry, 1S39. Besides the a1)ove publications, Mr. Worcester was\\na frequent contributor to several of the religious periodicals of the\\ntime. He received the honorary degi ee of A. M., from Middlc-\\nliurv college in 1804, and from Dartmouth college in 1827.*\\nREV. THOMAS WORCESTER,\\nson of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester, born November 22.\\n176S. Mr. Worcester studied for the ministry with Rev. Daniel\\nEmerson at Holl .s and was ordained as pastor of the Congrega-\\ntional church and society in Salisbury, N. H., November 9, 1791.\\nObjections were made at the time, (by some of the ordaining coun-\\ncil) to the ordination of the candidate, mainly, for the reason that\\nhe had not had the advantage of a college education. After\\nconsiderable delay in consequence of this opposition. Judge Eben-\\nezer Webster, the ftither of Hon. Daniel Webster, and a member\\nof the society, rose and addressed the council in an earnest and\\neloquent speech in which he said, Mr. Moderator., zve have\\nchosen this yoiiug vian for our ?ninister.. and zvc are satisjied\\nzvith him: we have invited this council to ordain him. Sir, but if\\nyoji do not sec ft to do it, (he added with determined emphasis)\\nzve shall call another council that xvill After this address the\\ncandidate was ordained without the call of a second council.\\nIn the year 1807, Hon. Daniel Webster, tlien a parishioner of\\nMr. Worcester, united with his church. At the time of so doing,\\nMr. Webster wrote out his own creed, or confession of faith, which\\nhe left with his pastor. The original document in the hand writ-\\ning of its author, after the decease of Mr. Worcester, was found\\namong his papers, by his executor, Judge George W. Nesmith, and\\nby him deposited in the library of the New Hampshire Historical\\nSociety at Concord, where it is still supposed to be.\\n*Sprague s American Pulpit, Vol. 2, pp. 455, 4^.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0373.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "318 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCMIKS.\\nSonic years after his settlement Mr. Worcester embraced the\\ntheological doctrines of his brother, Dr. Noah Worcester, as pre-\\nsented in his work, called Bible News. On this account and\\nalso by reason of his failing health, he was dismissed by a mutual\\ncouncil, April 24, 1823. lie afterwards remained in vSalisbur\\nwithout charge till his death, December 24. 1831. ;et. 63. Me\\nreceived the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth college\\nin 1S06. In Dr. .Sprague s biographical sketch it is said of Mr.\\nWorcester that he was highly gifted with the powc-rs of natural\\neloquence.\\nPublications: Oration, July 4, i 79S, and \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Thanksgiving .Ser-\\nmon same year, afterwards Sermons as follows, at the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ordina-\\ntion of Rev. Moses .Sawyer, 1S02 Little Children in Hea^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2en.\\n1803 On the Education of Children, 1804; C)n the Glorv of\\nChrist; On the Testimony by which the Son of (Jod honored\\nthe Father, and on the Sonship of Christ, 1810; Concise\\nview of the Glory of Christ, 181 i at the Funeral of Joseph\\nWardwell, 1814 Letter to Rev. Dr. Spring, 181 1 Eccle-\\nsiastical Usurpation Exposed, 1815 Candid Letters to a Trini-\\ntarian. 1817: I iendly Letter to a Trinitarian IJrother. 1819.*\\nkh;\\\\-. oavu) hkowx,\\nson of David and Rebecca Brown, born April 4, 1773. Studied\\nfor the ministrN in Ilollis, and was self-taught. Preached for a\\ntime in Ilollis antl vicinity as an li^vangelist. and was afterwards\\nsettled as a Raptist minister in western New ork.\\nKi;\\\\ SAML KI. AMI?i:()SK.\\nThe name of Mr. Ambrose is not found in the Ilollis records of\\nbirths. He was a meml)er of the Ilollis oung Men s Religious\\nAssociation before the Revolution, and of the Ilollis militia com-\\npany in January, I J^. and alsf) a soldier from Ilollis in the army\\nat Cambridge in the fall of tliat year. Married Mary Goodhue,\\ndaughter of Dea. Samuel Gootlhue, of Ilollis, February 20, 1776.\\nRemoved to Plymouth, N. 11. studied for the ministry, and was\\nsettled as pastor of the Baptist church in .Sutton, N. IL, April,\\n1782, and dismissed at .Sutton in March, 179S was afterwards\\nemployed as a missionary, and in preaching to vacant churches.\\nDied at .Sutton, May 30.1830. ;et. 77.\\n*Spr;i join s American I nlpit. Viil. S, 1Q3, io", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0374.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "MINISTERS NOT CiRADllATKS. 319\\nRK V. JOSEPH WHEAT,\\nson of Thomas and Mary (Bull) Wheat, born July i8, 1759. He\\nwas a soldier from Ilollis in the Continental army, and a brother of\\nThomas Wheat, Jun., wlio was killed at Bunker Hill. After the\\nwar he studied for the ministry, and was settled hs pastor of the\\nBaptist church in Grafton. N. H., in August. 1801. Dismissed in\\n815. Died at Canaan. N. II.. October 28. 1837. xt. jS.\\nREV. DANIl) SMiril.\\n^on of Emei son and Mary (Page) vSmitii, born September 38. ij(^(~)-\\nMr. Smith learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and for sev-\\neral vears carried on that business in Hollis, and aided in building\\nthe third Hollis meeting-liouse in 1804. He afterwards studied for\\nthe ministry with Rev. Eli vSmith in Ilollis, and was first ordained\\nas pastor of the Congregational church at Temple, Maine, Februarv\\n21. 1810. Dismissed Januarv 27. i8iy. Afterwards installed as\\npastor of the Congregational church at Meredith, N. II.. March\\n23, 1819. Died at Meredith. August 18. 1824. mt. 54.\\nRE\\\\ JACOK II \\\\KI)^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.\\nson of I^aac and Mehitable (Bovnton) Hardy, born November 14,\\n179V studied for the ministry at the Theological seminarv at Bangor,\\nMe., and graduated at I ang()r in 1824. Ordained as pastor of the\\nCongregational church at Strong, Me.. Julv 12, 1826. Died at\\nStrong. March i. 1833. a-t. 37.\\nHKX. IIKNKN II. SAl NDERSON.\\nson of Jonathan and Lucy (Pool) vSaunderson, born .September\\nI, 1810. Entered Ydlc college in 1828, and left in 1831, without\\ngrackiating. Studied for the ministrv at the Theological seminary\\nat Andover. and graduated at Andover in 1842. Supplied the Con-\\ngregational church at Ypsilanti. Mich., from October, 1845. to\\nOctober. 1846. Ordained as pastor of the Congregational church at\\nLudlow. Vt., April 20, 1848. Dismissed April, 18=53. Was pas-\\ntor of the Congregational church at Wallingford, Vt., from May i.\\n1853. to May I. 1862: at Ludlow. Vt., from 1862 to 1864: at\\nCharlestown, N. IL. from 1864 to 1S73. Now resides in Swanzey,\\nN. II. Publications of Mr. vSaunderson, Centennial address, at\\nW^allingford. Vt.. 1873 History of Wallingford, also an excel-\\nlent IIistor\\\\ of Charlestown.* N. H.. 1S77.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0375.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "320 lilOGRAlMIK AI. SK F.TClITiS.\\n1?E\\\\ EDWAIJI) JOIIXSOX. JL X.,\\nson ot Edward and ~^arah (l^nicc) Johnson, born Octol)er 13. 1813.\\nReceived an academical education at ^Vndover. Mass. In 1S36 he\\n^vent as a missionaiA school teacher to the .Sandwich Ishuuls. in the\\nemploy ot the A. B. C. F. M. While engaoed as a teacher there\\nhe studied tor the ministry, and was ordained as pastor of a native\\nchurch at VVaoli. in the island of Kauai, of which he was for\\nman\\\\ \\\\cars the minister. Died in iS6 S. ad. ^v\\nI inSK iAXS XOT (ilJAni AlES OF COLT.EGE.\\nAKijAii \\\\yi!ir,irr.\\nson of Ca])l. Joshua and Ahigail Wrij^-ht. born August 15. 1746.\\nRemoved from llollis to Hebron. II.. before the war of the\\nRevolution, and settled there as a phxsician. Died at Hebron in\\ni8:j8. :et. S2.\\nI KTEIJ EMEItSOX.\\nson of Rev. Daniel I Lmerson. (.Sec p. 210. a//fc.)\\nWir.MA.M IIALi:.\\nson of Dr. b li Hale. (See p. 211. af/fc.)\\nJOSEPH EASrMAX.\\nson of [onathan and .Sarah (Fletcher) Eastman, born January i^,\\n1772. Studied medicine in New Boston w ith Dr. W ni. Go\\\\ e. and\\nafter practising his ]ir(jfession foi- some \\\\ears in Xew Boston, he\\nrelinquished it. returned to Ilollis. and settled upon his farm near\\nthe middle of the tf)wn, where he continued to reside till his de-\\ncease, Se])t. 20. iS6;;. ;el. 93. Dr. Eastman was a man of much\\ngeneral intelligence, enterprise and public spirit. lie was the\\nModerator of the annual town iiieetings in llollis. in tifteen (lifer-\\nent vears. between 1812 and 183:;. and was a Coroner t or the\\ncounty from 1802 to 1849.\\nJOSEPH l:o^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Nl\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ox,\\nson of Al raham and Mar\\\\ (Hartshorn) Boynton. boin March 26,\\n1 7S9, studied .nedicine in llollis. and after\\\\yards removed to antl\\nsettled ni the State of New York.\\nI.L KE LAWREXC E.\\nson of Daniel and Folly (Johnson) Eawrence, born April 14. 1803.\\nSettled in his profession in Lunenburg. Mass. Died in ITollis,\\nJanuary 19. 1832. a t. 28.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0376.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "PlIVSICIANS NOT GRADUATES. 32 I\\nCALVIN WHEELER,\\nson ot Zebulon and Mary (Kendiick) Wheeler, born Jinic 7. iSo^.\\nSettled in his profession in Bristol, 111.\\nJOHN R. SMITH,\\nson of Rev. Eli and Ania (Emerson) Smith, born Febrnary 12,\\n1S07, stndied medicine in Paris, Ky., settled first in his profession\\nat Paris, and afterwards in Lexington, Ky. He now (1S79) re-\\nsides in the town of Vermont, Missonri.\\nHENRY \\\\V. WILLOUGHBY,\\nson of Washington and Lucy (Saunderson) Willoughby, born De-\\ncember 21, 1S16. Dr. Willoughby entered Amherst college in 1837.\\nand left college in his junior year, without graduating. He after-\\nwards studied medicine at the medical college in Philadelphia, and\\nsettled in his profession in Hollis, in 1855, where he still resides, in\\nthe practice of it (1879).\\nJOHN G. WOOD.\\nson of Moses and Submit (Plardy) Wood, born December 27. 1830.\\nstudied his profession in Philadelphia, and settled as a physician in\\nSalem, Mass.. where he died.\\nJACOB MOOAR.\\nson of John and Rebecca (Abbot) Mooar, l)()rn March 7. 1831,\\nstudied his profession at Hanover and Manchester. N. IL, and\\nsettled as a physician in Manchester.\\nJOSIAII M. BLOOD.\\nson ot Ebenezcr and Elizabeth (Abbot) Blood, born fuly 3, 1832,\\nstudied his profession in Hollis, and also at the University in New\\nYork, settled as a physician in Temple, N. H.. and afterwards in\\nAshby, Mass.\\nSAMUEL W. FLETCHER,\\nson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Corey) Fletcher, born September 18,\\n1831, studied his profession in Cambridge, Mass., New York city,\\nand also in Paris, France. Settled in his profession in Pcpperell.\\nMass., where he now resides.\\n(21)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0377.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "322 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nWILLIAM H. CUTTER,\\nson of John II. and Susan (Pool) Cutter, born July 17, 1S47,\\nstudied his profession at the medical school in Hanover, N. H.,\\nand settled as a physician in Hollis.\\nLAWVERS BORN IN HOLLIS NOT GRADUATES OF COLLEGE.\\nABEL CONANT,\\nson of Dea. Abel and Margaret ^Jewett) Conant, born June i, 1784.\\nRead law with Col. W. Hastings, in Townsend, Mass. Admitted\\nto the bar at Concord, Mass., in 1813. He practised his profession\\nin Townsend and New Ipswich, N. H., and in 1S34 I emoved to\\nLowell, Mass., and his health having partially failed he relinquished\\nhis profession, and afterwards turned his attention to the study of\\nChemistry and Mechanics, and became a useful and successful\\ninventor. At an early day he is said to have invented the seraphine\\nor parlor organ, and not long after the hollow auger, so much used\\nby wheelwrights. While he lived at Lowell, he invented and\\npatented the mortise door lock, now in common use, and the man-\\nufacture of which gives employment to so many persons. lie after-\\nwards discovered and patented the process of raising bread with\\ncream of tartar or other acids, also now in common use, but the dif-\\nficulty of preventing infringements upon patent rights deprived Mr.\\nConant. to a great extent, of personal advantage from liis inven-\\ntions. He is said to have made many other improvements of the\\nlike character, and, to the day of his death, was engaged in per-\\nfecting several new inventions whicli he cx2:)ccte(l [soon to make\\npublic. His habits were simple, retiring and exemplary, and his\\nmind and memory remarkably clear till his last hours. Died at\\nLowell, April 12. 1875. vet. 90.\\nDANIEL MOOAH,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0son of Jacob and Dorcas (Hood) Mooar, born May 11, 1S15. He\\nreceived an academical education at Milford, N. H., and Chester,\\nVt. Afterwards he went to Covington, Ky.. and read law at that\\nplace and at the law school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was admitted\\nto the bar in 1S43. He settled and practised his profession in\\nCovington for twenty-five years, and established a reputation as a\\nprofound lawyer, a safe counsellor for business integrity, and a\\nhigh sense of honor, and several times filled the office of District", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0378.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "LAWYER NOT GRADUATE. 323\\nJudge. His health having become partially impaired by too close\\napplication to business, and, having acquired an ample fortune, he\\nafterwards removed to Keokuk, Iowa, where he still resides, and is\\nthere engaged in extensive business.\\nIn a biographical sketch of Juclge Mooar, published in the His-\\ntorical Atlas of Lee county, Iowa, in December, 1S73, i* is said of\\nhim that he is now among the substantial and solid men of\\nKeokuk, and a man of decided ability and varied information.\\nSuch men are real ornaments to any community and Keokuk has\\nbeen fortunate in adding such an one to her citizens.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0379.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "324\\nBIOGRAPHICAT, SKETCHES.\\nC M AFTER X X X\\nPHYSICIANS WHO HAVE PRACTISED THEIR PROFESSION IN HOLMS,\\nAND MISCEM-ANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL SKICTCHES.\\nDR. JOHN HALE.\\n(See p. 311, ante.)\\nDR. JONATHAN FO.\\\\\\nwas from Dracut, Mass. Married Zerviah Jones. Settled in Mollis\\nas a physician in 1778, at the age of 24, and was regarded as a\\nyoung man of much promise, and soon gained the esteem and con-\\nfidence of the people. In the years 1779 and 17S0, he was several\\ntimes appointed a memher of the Hollis committee for raising men\\nfor the army, in which service he was very efficient and successful.\\nHe died in ITollis, nuich lamented, October 26, 1782, at the early\\nage of 28, his death \\\\)eing regarded ;is a public loss. His only\\ndaugliter Zerviah, born February 16, 1779, became the wife of Rev.\\nSamuel Worcester, D. D. His youngest son, Ebenezer. a man of\\ngreat industry and business ability, after iKnng for many years set-\\ntled in his business in vSalem, iVlass., afterwards removed to Hollis,\\nand became the owner of the farm now known as the Fox place.\\nwhere he died December 6, 1857, a-t. 74.\\nDR. JO A THAN POOL.\\n(See p. 214, a//f(\\\\\\nDR. WILLI AAf HALE.\\n(See p. 211, ante.)\\nDR. BENONI CUTTER\\nwas a son of John and Susannah (Ha.stings) Cutter, born in New\\nIpswich, N. II., in 1771. He settled as a physician in Hollis in\\n1799, and married Phebe Tenney, oldest daughter of Capt. William", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0380.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "[lOLLlS PHYSICIANS. 335\\nTenney of Hollis, May 30, iSoo. He was greatly respected, both\\nas a citizen and as a physician, and in the year 1814 was appointed\\nto the office of deacon of the Hollis church. Died in Hollis,\\nJanuary 17, 1816, a^t. 44.\\nDR. I ETER MANNING\\nwas born in Townsend, Mass. He settled in Hollis as a physician\\nin 18 14 or 1 81 5, and in 181 7 he was a member of the School Com-\\nmittee. He removed from Hollis to Merrimack in 1S18, and con-\\ntinued in the practice of his profession in Merrimack till 1S38, and\\nafterwards removed to Lunenburg, Mass., where he died.\\nDR. OLIVER SCRIPTURE,\\nson of Oliver and Jane Scripture, born in Mason, N. H., June 16,\\n1783. Married Eliza, the youngest daughter of Hon. Timothy\\nFarrar of New Ipswich. Dr. .Scripture settled in his profession in\\nHollis in the year 1S18, as successor to Dr. Manning, and continued\\nhis practice as a physician in Hollis till his death, November 7,\\ni860, xt. 77. The inscription upon his tombstone, in the Hollis\\ncentral burial ground, The beloved Physician, is expressive of\\nthe affectionate esteem in which he was held by the people of the\\ntown. His father-in-law, Judge Farrar, passed the last years of his\\nlife in the family of Dr. Scripture, and died in Hollis, February 3i,\\n1849, years, 7 months, i3 days.\\nDR. ORVaLEE M. COOPER\\nwas a native of Croydon, N. H., and graduated at the medical\\nschool at Hanover, in 1845. Dr. Cooper settled in his profession\\nin Hollis, in 1S46, and died in Hollis, February, 1847.\\nDR. JOIIX I,. COEBY,\\nsettled in Hollis as a physician in 1847, soon after the decease of\\nDr. Cooper, and in 1848 he was a member of the School Com-\\nmittee in Hollis. In 1850 he removed from Hollis to Manchester,\\nMass., and about two years afterwards to Harlem, N. Y., where he\\nis still supposed to reside.\\nDR. LOCKIIART B. FARRAR\\nwas born in Walpole, N. H., and was a graduate of the medical\\nschool in Castleton, Vt. Settled in his profession in Hollis, in\\n1850, upon the removal of Dr. Colby. In 1852 he also removed\\nfrom Hollis to Manchester, Mass., and afterwards to the State of\\nIllinois.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0381.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "326 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nDR. WILLIAM A. TRACY,\\nson of Elisha L. Tracy, was born in Tunbridge, Vt., May 3, 1826.\\nAttended medical lectures at Boston, Woodstock, Vt., and Hano-\\nver, N. H. Settled in his profession in Ilollis, succeeding Dr.\\nFarrar in September, 1S52. Removed from Hollis to Nashua, in\\nAugust, 1854, Appointed Surgeon of the 6th New Hampshire In-\\nfantry, October 35, 1S61. Resigned on account of ill health,\\nMarch it;, 1863, and returned to Nashua. Died at Nashua, March\\n15, 1S64, a;t. 37.\\nDR. HENRY BOYNTOX,\\nson of Isaac Boynton, l^orn in Pepperell, Mass. vStudied medicine\\nat the medical school in Woodstock, Vt, Settled in his profession\\nin Hollis in September, 1S54, as successor to Dr. Tracy. Prac-\\ntised his profession in Hollis till 1S58, when he removed to Wood-\\nstock, Vt., and was succeeded by Dr. George P. Greeley. Ap-\\npointed Assistant Surgeon of the 7th New Hampshire Infantry,\\nOctober 15, 1S61. Resigned January 34, 1S64, and returned again\\nto Woodstock.\\nDR. HENRY W. WILLOUGHBY.\\n(See page 331, ante.)\\nDR. GEORGE R. GREELEY,\\nson of Ezekiel Greeley, was born in Nashua, N. H. Attended\\nmedical lectures at Woodstock, Vt., Hanover, N, IL, and at the\\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, where he\\ngraduated in 1857. Settled as a physician in Hollis in 1858.\\niVppointed Assistant vSurgeon of the vSecond New Hampshire regi-\\nment, May, 1861 .Surgeon of the Fourth New Hampshire regi-\\nment, October 8, 1S63 honorably discharged, October 33, 1864.\\nAfter leaving the army, he settled in his profession, fir.st in Boston,\\nand afterwards, in 1873, removed to Nashua, where he still practises\\nhis profession (1S79).\\nDR. ELLERY CHANNINCi CLARKE.\\nwas a son of Rev. .Stillman Clarke, and was born in Winchester,\\nN. H., March 31, 1836; entered Harvard college in 1855, and left\\nin 1857. Studied medicine with Professor Albert Smith of Peter-\\nborough, N. II., and graduated at the medical college at Bur-\\nlington, Vt., in i860. Settled in Ilollis in the spring of 1861,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0382.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "XATHAN THAYER. 327\\nsucceeding Dr. Greeley. Appointed Assistant Surgeon of the\\nEighth New Hampshire United States Infantry, January i8, 1862\\npromoted to Surgeon, June 5, 1863 discharged for disability,\\nAugust, 1864; afterwards settled in Westfield, Mass.\\nDR. SYLV ANUS BUNTON\\nwas born in Allenstown, N. H. Graduated at Dartmouth college\\nin 1S40. Studied medicine in Baltimore. Settled in his profes-\\nsion in Manchester, N. H., where he continued till June, 1864,\\nand was then appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 7th New Hamp-\\nshire U. S. regiment, and in August, 1864, was promoted to Sur-\\ngeon. Mustered out July 20, 1865, and after leaving the army,\\nsettled in his profession in Hollis, where he remained about three\\nyears, and then removed to Mont Vernon, N. H.\\nDR. ADONIJAII W. HOWE,\\nson of Dr. Luke Howe, was born in Jaftrey, N. H., September,\\n25, 1825. Graduated at the medical college in Hanover in 1850.\\nSettled as a physician in Dunstable, Mass., in 1S51. Came to\\nHollis in March, 1861, Removed from Hollis in 1865, and now\\nin 1879, resides in Greenville, N. H.\\nDR. CHARLES G. COREY\\nwas born in Jaffrey, N. H. Graduated at the medical college in\\nHanover, N. H., in 1857. Settled in his profession in Hollis in\\n1867, where he remained from three to four years, and then\\nremoved to Greenville, N. H., and died at Greenville, October 19,\\n1878, xt. 54.\\nNATHAN THAYER,\\n(Contributed by Miss G. A. Bovtwell, a granddaughter.)\\nson of Elijah and Sarah (Robinson) Thayer, was born in Milford,\\nMass., July 6, 1781. He was a descendant of Thomas Thayer, who\\ncame to this country from England about 1630, and settled in Brain-\\ntree, which town is supposed to have been named by the Thajer\\nfamily in honor of their English birth-place. A son of Thomas\\nThayer settled in that part of Mendon, Mass., which is now known\\nas Milford, about 1665, and for successive generations, and for a\\nperiod of over one hundred and tifty years, the ancestors of Mr.\\nThayer were citizens of that ancient town. At the early age of", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0383.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "328 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nseventeen, Mr. Thayer came to Ilollis to seek his fortune. He\\nliad for his capital, a common school education, and a good knowl-\\nedge of the trade of house painting. His name appears first on the\\nHollis tax lists in 1S03. Mr. Thayer was so good a workman\\nthat he was called frequently to Peppcrell, Groton, and even as fur\\naway as Andover to pursue his trade. He took especial pleasure\\nin the society of those places, and on his return would tell his chil-\\ndren pleasant anecdotes of the Prescotts, Lawrences, and the\\nlearned professors of Andover. He was a welcome guest in many\\nhomes in those towns, and one of his daughters, who went to school\\nin Andover, recalls with pleasure the consideration which she re-\\nceived on her father s account.\\nFor thirty years, Mr. Thayer employed his leisure of the winter\\nmonths in teaching school. In the early part of this century,\\n.schools of the higher grades were almost unknown, and all those\\ninclined to study were dependent upon the district schools, and\\nmany young men, as well as the children, availed themselves of his\\ninstruction. He was an especially good grammarian, and by com-\\nmon consent all knotty questions in grammar were referred to him\\nby the other teachers.\\nHe was a member of the Hollis examining vSchool Committee in\\n1S17, 1S18, 1S21, 1822, 1S25, and 1S27; and of the .Superintending\\nSchool Committee, in 1S28, 1829, and 1830. He was also a Justice\\nof the Peace from 1822 to 1830, and a Representative to the New\\nHampshire General Court in 1812, 1819, 1S20, and 1821. April 2,\\n1807, he married Hannah Jewett, daughter of Dca. .Stephen Jewett,\\njun. .She died March 17, 1824. .She was the mother of six daugh-\\nters and one son, all but one (the fourth daughter) survived her.\\nMr. Thayer married ISlarch 27, 1S25, Mary Jewett, a sister of his\\nfirst wife. She was the mother of two children, both of whom died\\nin infancy. She died October 16, 1833. Thayer died October\\n21, 1S30, aet. 49.\\nJAMES BLOOD,\\nson of .Solomon and Priscilla (French) Blood, was born in Hollis,\\nMay 20, 1793, and died in Newburyport, Mass., June 27, 1S76, ast.\\n83 years. For the following obituary tribute to the memory of Mr.\\nBlood, I am indebted to the Merrimack Family Visitor, published\\nat Newburyport, of the date of July i, 1876. Mr. Blood came\\nto this city in the year 1S25, poor, respectable, industrious and", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0384.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "JAMKS rAUKER. JUN. 329\\nintelligent. His life was a success, and in all controllable events just\\nwhat he would ha\\\\ c it. Wc doubt if he would materially change\\nit if he had to live it over again. He enjoyed the most perfect\\nhealth till old age. lie was one of the most industrious persons\\nthat ever lived, and his happiness was in his business. He loved\\nto work for the sake of it, and would have continued to do so,\\nthough no gains should have come from it. But his business yielded\\nits profits till his estate grew to exceed all his early expectations. His\\nfellow citizens did not fail to appreciate his virtues, his integrity,\\nhis independent thought and straightforward action and they hon-\\nored him with a seat in the legislature, and many local offices,\\nwhile, without his own solicitation, he was made Collector of Cus-\\ntoms under two national administrations.\\nMr. Blood enjoyed life in his nature he was happy. Under the\\ngravity of his demeanor there vvas a quiet humor, and in the busiest\\nmoments of his most busy days, he was lively and witty to old age\\never seeing the bright side of events and the sunny spots of life.\\nHe was a man of firm convictions and religious faith which\\nnever deserted him. Life and death to him were equally natural\\nand desirable, and he had no wish to stay here when his mission on\\nearth was accomplished, nor any fear that he should not awake\\nfrom his last sleej? to renewed activities and joys. Death was not\\ntherefore shaded with fears, nor the grave with gloom. He went\\nnot like a cringing slave to punishment, but lay down quietly and\\nhojDefully as to pleasant dreams His funeral was from his residence\\non Friday mornings appropriate in time, for he was one of those to\\nsay, bury mc in the mornings ^vhen the sun vnll be upon my\\ngrave.\\nJAMES PARKER, JUN.,\\nson of James and Betsey (Wright) Parker, was born in Hollis,\\nApril I, 1815, and died in vSpringfield, IMass., Jan, 3, 1874, iet. 58.\\nThe following appreciative biographical sketch of Mr. Parker is in\\nsubstance to be found in the October number of the New England\\nHistorical and Genealogical Register for 1S74, p. 475.\\nMr. Parker was a native of Hollis. In 1833 he mounted the\\nstage box as a stage driver. In 1836 he became agent for Burt and\\nBillings stage line, between Worcester and Springfield, and con-\\ntinued in that capacity till the Western railroad was opened, when\\nlike Ginery Twitchell and others who had shown eminent ability in\\nmanaging the whip and ribbons, he was taken into the new service", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0385.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "330 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nof transporting passengers and freight. Mr. Parker had charge\\nof the first train of cars from Boston to Springfield, and his atten-\\ntion to passengers and gentlemanly bearing soon proved that he was\\nthe right man in the right place. His pleasant countenance and\\nnever-failing urbanity will long be remembered by the thousands\\nwlio had occasion to pass over that road during many of the earlier\\nyears of its existence.\\nThe first train from Boston to Springfield made the trip in\\nexactly six horns, and Mr. Parker received many compliments, not\\nonly for what was regarded as remarkable speed, but also for his\\naccurate observance of that old time table. The train bearing\\namong others, the directors of the road, left Boston at seven o clock,\\nA. M., and arrived at .Springfield at i o clock, P. M.,- September\\n27, 1839. T opening of the road was an event of such general\\nrejoicing that it was publicly celebrated in Springfield upon the\\narrival of the first train under the command of Mr. Parker. So\\nclosely did Mr. Parker attend to his new duties, that for nineteen\\nyears after he entered upon them, he had been west of the Con-\\nnecticut river but once, and it was jocosely said of him, that he did\\nnot know how the Springfield Armory looked, as he had seen only\\nits back side for fifteen years. When Mr. Parker resigned his posi-\\ntion as conductor, he was appointed superintendent of the sleep-\\ning cars, between Boston and New York, and in April, 1S73, he\\nwas made superintendent of all the sleeping, parlor, passenger and\\nbaggage cars of all the trains between the two cities. During the\\ntwenty-nine years of his service as conductor, he is said to have\\ntravelled in that capacity, without serious accident to life or limb of\\nhis passengers, more than 1,500.000 miles, a distance equal to\\nsixty times around the globe, and a greater distance, as is believed,\\nthan that of any other known railroatl conductor.\\nUpon Mr. Parker s retirement from office, an elegant gold w^atch\\nwas presented to him by his friends who had often travelled under\\nhis assiduous care, and the employees of the road gave him a val-\\nuable horse and carriage in token of their high appreciation of his\\nservices. In 1S71 and 1S73, he was elected a member of the Mas-\\nsachusetts House of Representatives. His house was filled w^ith\\ncuriosities, old books, rare drawings, and other specimens of hand-\\nicraft, which show that if he had devoted his life to art or to Archaj-\\nlogical pursuits, he would probably have liad but few superiors\\nin these departments of knowledge. By reason of his interest in", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0386.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0387.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "7^iyVi.^A^^y^/:2i^^", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0388.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "HENRY OILMAN LITTLE. 33 1\\nthese pursuits, he was admitted to a resident membership in the\\nNew England Historical and Genealogical Society, November 24,\\n1862, and he was also an honorary member of the New Hampshire\\nHistorical Society.\\nHENRY OILMAN LITTLE\\nwas the sixth of the thirteen children of Abner B. and Nancy\\n(Tenney) Little, and was born in Goflstown, N. H,, March 31,\\n1813. During his infancy, his parents removed to Hollis, where he\\nlived till his eighteenth year, enjoying such advantages for educa-\\ntion as were then aftbrded in the Beaver Brook district, viz., two\\nmonths of school in winter, and three in summer. In 1830, he\\nleft his paternal home- in Hollis, and spent the next six years in\\nWethersfield, Ct., partly in study and teaching, and in part in labor.\\nIn March, 1836, ne married Fidelia M. Stoddard, of Newington,\\nCt., and removed to the then new State of Illinois, and the next\\nyear settled in Henry county, where he passed thirty years of an\\nactive and busy life, engaged in agriculture, and filling various\\nimportant offices of public trust. During the first year of his resi-\\ndence there he took part in organizing the county, and was elected\\nJustice of the Peace, an office he held for twelve years and more.\\nIn 1850 he was High Sheriff and Collector of the whole revenue of\\nthe county at that time a position of great responsibility, there\\nthen being neither a safe, bank nor jail in the county. In 1S56 he\\nwas elected to the Illinois legislature, of which he was for two\\nyears a member. He was for five years President of the Henry\\nCounty Agricultural Society, which he had helped to organize.\\nHe was probably at no time free from public trust and duty, either\\nas an officer of State, the county, town, church or school board.\\nIn 1867 he removed to Grinnell, Iowa, on account of the educa-\\ntional advantages aftbrded by the college at that place. Here for\\nfour successive terms he has been elected Ma3 or of that city, and\\nfor most of the time has served as school director, and trustee of\\nthe church and society, and at Grinnell, (as in his former home),\\nmany substantial and tasteful improvements will long bear witness\\nto his skill and public spirit.\\nIn 1878 he was elected by the Iowa legislature one of the five\\ntrustees of the State Agricultural college, a post of high trust and\\ngreat responsibility, involving the care of the endowment fund of a\\nhalf million of dollars, together with the direction and management", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0389.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "332 BIOGRAPinCAI, SKETCHES.\\nof the flourishino- college of two hundred and fifty students with\\nits large faculty, and the college farni of eight hundred acres.\\nAt the age of sixtv-five Mr. Little remains with unbroken health,\\nunabated vigor, energy and usefulness. Though afflicted by the\\nloss of an only son at the age of sixteen, he has reared to woman-\\nhood a family of five daughters, of Avhom three have graduated\\nfrom college, and all are now married. lie has still, as always in\\nthe past, a cheerful, attractive and hospitable home, and as yet has\\nno thought of retiring from active life.\\nLUTHER PRESCOTT HUBBARD,\\nwas born in ilollis, June 30, iSoS, and was the oldest child of\\nLuther and Hannah (Russell) Hubbard. Mr. Hubbard, in his\\nchildhood and youth, attended the public schools in the Middle dis-\\ntrict in Hollis, and w as for a short time a pupil in the Pinkerton\\nacademy at Derry. He helped to l)uild tlie lirst cotton mill in\\nNashua in 1S34 afterwards the Bunker hill monument, and also\\nsuperintended the fitting of the granite for the Tremont hotel in\\nBoston.\\nHis views in respect to and against the use of tol)acco have been\\nwidely published b}- the American Tract vSocicty, by the religious\\nand secular press, and also in the vSailor s Magazine.\\nMr. Hubl)ard has been for twenty years a corresponding mem-\\nber of the Iowa State Historical .Society, and is an honorary mem-\\nber of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, and is the author\\nof a Genealogy, entitled Descendants of George Ilublnird from\\n1600 to 1S72, pulilished in tlie \\\\ear last named, and tracing his\\nfamily line ten generations. The last fortv-five years of his life\\nhave l)een zealously, and usefully devoted, mostly tf) the interests of\\nseamen. For many years he has been the financial agent of the\\nAmerican Seamen s Friend vSociety, and also Secretary of the New\\nEngland vSociet} of the city of New York, both of which offices he\\nstill holds and fills acceptably.\\nHe now resides in Greenwich. Connecticut, the State of his hon-\\nored progenitor, George Hubbard, one of the first settlers of eth-\\nersfield. Ct.. in 1634, but has his office in New York cit}\\nJOSEPH WHEAT, AN OI.D-Tl.ME STA(iE.I)R I VER.\\nJoseph Wheat, famous eighty years ago as a stage-dri\\\\er, came\\nto Ilollis in his youth, with his father, soon after the Revolution.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0390.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0391.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0392.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH WHEAT. 53^\\nHe was liy trade a cooper, and l)iiilt and owned tlie honse on the\\nmain road leading from Ilollis to Amherst, which, in 1796, he sold\\nto Dea. Enos Hardy, and which was for many years afterwards the\\nwell-known homestead of Deacon Hardy. .Soon after this sale,\\nWheat removed to Amherst and became interested in a line of\\nstages, both as owner aiul driver, the line rumiing from Concord\\nand beyond to Boston. 1 am indebted mainly to Rev. Dr. Bonton s\\nHistory of Concord for the following humorons anecdotes of this\\nprimitive stage driver.*\\nOf Joseph Wheat, who will be recollected as almost if not\\nquite the first driver of a stage into Concord, and whose ?wse will\\nbe remembered loiig I have two or three anecdotes. At one time\\nbeing complained of l)y the people of Amherst, (one of the towns on\\nhis stage route,) that he did not give the customary notice of his\\napproach by blowing a tin horn, he replied to this complaint\\nthrough the Amherst Cabinet, that he was too poor to buy a tin\\nhorn, but that, in the future, when they should see his nose they\\nmight expect the stage in ten minutes.\\nUpon another occasion, stopping for his breakfast one frosty\\nmorning, a somewhat dainty passenger, sitting at the table opj^osite\\nto him, and observing the effects of the cold coming from his nose,\\nrudely requested Wheat to wipe it. Wipe it yourself, coolly\\nanswered the driver, my nose is nearer to you than to me.\\nAgain, when driving his stage from Concord to Hanover, he\\nmet Rev. Dr. Wlieelock, president of the college, riding in his car-\\nriage. As he was about to pass the jiresident, Wheat took hold of\\nhis nose and, turning it one side, said, I think, Air. President, you\\ncan pass now.\\nTt seems that Mr. Wheat, among other gifts and graces pertaining\\nto his calling, had also that of verse 7naki}ig. As an illustration\\nof the commendable change in the tastes and hal)its of the patrons\\nof public stage coaches since the dram-drinking days of eighty\\nyears ago, we quote the closing stanza of one of Mr. Wheat s\\npoetic ctlusions, giving notice to the public of his having estab-\\nlished a new line of stages.\\nCome, my old Friends, ind take a seat\\nIn this new Line with Joseph Wheat,\\nAnd when to your journey s end you ve come,\\nYour friend will treat with gfood old Rum.\\n*Bouton s History of Concord, p. 577.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0393.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "334 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nAnother similar poetic effusion of his was the following adver-\\ntisement of his business as a cooper.\\nMy advice to farmers all\\nIs Pick v Hir apples as they fall.\\nAnd if your cider s pure and sweet,\\nPlease buy your casks of Joseph Wheat.\\nTHE HOLLIS HERMITS.\\nDR. JOHN JONES.\\nThere were two persons, formerly living in Hollis, somewhat\\nfamous in their day as Hermits, viz., John Jones, commonly\\ncalled Dr. Jones, and Stephen Y. French, better known as\\nLeather French. Jones, the first named, according to the tra-\\nditions of him, was the son of a wealthy British military officer of\\ngood family, born in England in the early part of the last century,\\nand came to this country while yet a young man. After coming to\\nAmerica he is said to have lived a solitary, wandering life, till he\\ncame to Hollis soon after the war of the Revolution.\\nUpon settling in Hollis, he bought for himself a patch of ground\\nof about four acres in the north part of the town, at a distance from\\nany public road, near Mooar s hill so called, and now a part of\\nthe farm of Lot Mooar. Here he built for himself a small humble\\ndwelling, which he called his Lone Cottage. He set out on his\\ngrounds an orchard of choice varieties of grafted apple and other\\nfruit trees, and also many kinds of shrubs, herbs and flowers, which\\nhe took great pains to cultivate, and it is said of him that he was\\nthe first person to introduce grafted fruit into Hollis.\\nIn his youth Dr. Jones was crossed in love, as a result of which\\nhis mind became vuisettlcd and distracted, and his disappoint-\\nment ended in his eccentricities and wayward mode of life. He\\nis reputed to have been educated for the pulpit, and at the early\\nage of twenty, had had and accepted a call to settle in the min-\\nistry, which was broken off by his disappointment and the untimely\\ndeath of his lady love. He was a person naturally of bright intel-\\nlect, of much humor and ready wit, reputed somewhat of a poet,\\nand some of his effusions in verse have come down to the present\\nday.\\nBefore coming to Hollis, he had written and published a long bal-\\nlad, of near forty stanzas, telling the sad story of his life and\\ntroubles, entitled the Major s only son and his True Love. My", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0394.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "THE HOLLIS HERMITS. 335\\nlimits do not allow me to copy but a few extracts from this ballad.\\nIn its first stanza, its author says,\\nCome all young people far and near,\\nA lamentation you shall hear\\nOf a young man and his True-Love\\nWhom he adored and prized above\\nAll riches.\\nThis ballad was learned by heart and sung sixty years ago by\\nhundreds of the young people of Hollis and the neighboring\\ntowns, and also was often sung by the doctor himself in loiid, sad\\ntones, when alone in his Lone Cottage. It appears from the\\nrecitals in the ballad that both the father and mother of the doctor\\nwere persistently and irreconcilably opposed to his marrying the\\nmaid of his choice, as he says,\\nBecause she was of low degree\\nAnd came of a poor family.\\nAngry at this opposition of the father and mother of the doctor,\\none day when Jones was visiting the young lady, her father said to\\nhim, as the ballad has it,\\nMy daughter is as good as you, and\\nTurned this young man without his door\\nAnd told him to come there no more.\\nAfter this enforced separation the young lady took to her chamber,\\nsickened, pined away and soon after died. Shortly before her death\\nshe sent her brother for the yoiuig man, to whom she told the\\nsad tale of her sickness and sorrow. Taking the engagement rings\\nfrom her fingers just before her death she gave them to him, saying,\\nKeep them for my sake\\nAnd always when these rings you see,\\nRemember that I died for thee.\\nTears down his cheeks as fountains run,\\nHe cried, alas! I am undone.\\nNo comfort ever shall I have,\\nWiiile I go mourning to my grave.\\nThe young man attended the funeral of his betrothed as chief\\nmourner, as the ballad has it,\\nDressed in black from top to toe\\nAnd after that distracted run,\\nAnd so forever was undone,\\nAnd wandered up and down, alone.\\nWhile living in Hollis Jones supported himself in part by raising\\nand preparing medicinal herbs, and various nostrums from them,\\nwhich he peddled in Hollis and other towns near, hence his title of", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0395.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "3^6 RIOGRAPIIK Al. SKETCHES.\\nDoctor. In his wanderings about the countjy he usually wore a\\nbroad brimmed hat with a mourning weed around it, and a long,\\nplaid dressing gown. In his thus going about, he carried with him\\ntwo baskets, one in each hand, the one of which he named the\\nCharity. the other the Pity basket. In these he carried for\\nsale and barter his herbs and nostrums, and also Liberty tea, so\\ncalled, and, in their season, juniper berries, and scions for grafting,\\nfrom his orchard, taking home with him, in the same baskets, the\\narticles he got in exchange. lie also kept for sale copies of verses\\nwritten by him, including tlic ballad telling the story of his\\ntroubles.\\nYears ago, and within my own remembrance, many anecdotes\\nwere told of his impromptu verses and rhymes, and of his humor and\\nwit. His age at his death, as inscribed on his gravestone, was sixty-\\nnine, though he was supposed to have been somewdiat older. But\\non this suliject he was very taciturn, and inclined to keep the secret\\nof his age to himself. At one time, an unmarried lady customer of\\nhis, to whom he had soJtl some of his Liberty tea, of the name\\nof Phebe (herself of uncertain age), took occasion to cjuestion him\\nupon this matter, in the hope of solving the mystery. The doctor,\\nin reply, told her that she might ask him just as many questions\\nas s/ic was years old. Nettled at this evasive answer, Phebe\\nreproachfully called him an old cracked hddle of one doleful\\ntune, and demanded of him to take back his Liberty tea and\\nreturn her m()ne\\\\ In rej^lv to tliis demand the doctoi said to her,\\nPliclif, my lU-ar, my i \\\\vii sweet honcv,\\nou vc L;ot your tea, ;itic1 I ve Ljot my nuiiuT.\\nIt was his habit, as a spectator, to attend the courts at .\\\\mherst.\\nwhere, as he used to sa\\\\ the lawyers would try to get a crumb of\\nsport out of him. i)\\\\\\\\ one occasion, having been l)antered h\\\\\\nthem for one of his impromptu stanzas, lie was afterwards invited\\nby the host to eat at a second ta])le, tVom which the judges and law-\\nyers had just risen from a dinner of roast poultry. Having finished\\nhis meal, on rising from the table, in place of his customary aftei\\ndinner grace, with one e^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0e upon the hnvycrs. he gave expression to\\nhis sentiments in respect to his dinner and tlie _^ 7/( .s7.s- at the first\\ntable in the tollowing terse couplet,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cursed he tlie owls\\nThat pieked tliese fowls;\\nAnil left tlie bones\\nKor Dr. [ones/", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0396.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "DR. JOHN JOXES. 337\\nFor the following anecdote of Dr. Jones, I iun indebted to my\\nfriend, Hon. J. B. Hill, who tells nie that it was told him his\\nfather, Rev. Ebenezer Hill of Mason, who was cotempcjrary with\\nDr. Jones, and for many years a member of the HoUis Association\\nof ministers. The doctor, as he savs of himself in his ballad,\\n(having been educated for the ministry) at the time he lived in\\nHollis, was in the habit of attending the meetings of this Associa-\\ntion of ministers, as well as the courts, not as a member^ but as one\\nof the persons styled companv \\\\n the records of the Associa-\\ntion. On such occasions, he sometimes proposed for discussion\\nquestions in theology, which interested him, and at one time the\\nfollowing, Was there ever a man that had a tongue which never\\ntold a lie, or a heart which never had an evil thought. This ques-\\ntion was promptly answered by all present with a decided negative\\nand nailed wi scripture. The doctor insisted on the affirma-\\ntive and said to them that he would prove that they were all\\nwrong, and at once went to the door, and brought in one of his\\nbaskets, and uncovering it showed them the head and heart of a\\nsheep, and pointing to them, exclaimed in triumph. there is a\\ntongue that never told a lie, and a heart that never had an evil\\nthought, and they are both mine.\\nOn another occasion, calling at a liouse where lie ished for din-\\nner, he said to the hostess, that if she would provide him one, he\\nwould write for her a suitable epitaph, two lines of which were to\\nbe composed before dinner, and two after. This l )argain being\\nstruck, he wrote for her the first two lines.\\nGood old Sarah died ot late,\\nAnd just arrived at Heaven s i;;ite.\\nThe good lady concluded that these lines would tit lier case, and\\nprovided the dinner. But the entertaiiuiient not having been wholh\\nto the taste of the doctor, on rising from the table, and with one\\nhand on the door latch, he added to the lirst two lines.\\nOld (jabriel met her with a club\\nAnd knocked her back to Beelzebub!\\nThere were at that time, in Hollis, three young men to whom the\\ndoctor was strongly attached, and whom he called Ids adopted sons,\\nviz., Thaddeus Wheeler, Jun., Timothy Emerson, and J. Coolidge\\nWheat, the last named, by trade, a stone cutter, and maker of grave-\\nstones. During the life of Jones, and under his eye and direction.\\nWheat had made for him a large, neatly finished gravestone. fuUv\\n(22)", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0397.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "33^ BlOCiKAPlIK AI. SKKTCIIKS.\\ncompleted ;\\\\nd lettered, except the date ot his death, with the epi-\\ntaph insovihe(l upon it, t urnishod by (ho doctor, and copioci from a\\nstanza ot his balhul. Hv liis will dated januarx i, i^oi. the little\\nestate that the doctor lott was i;i\\\\on to his three adopted sons, with\\nthe single conditiiMi. that Wheat shouUl linish and set up his grave-\\nstone. This gravestone i now to he t ouiul standing at the grave\\nv)t the dcHMor. near the north end ot the central Iniiial ground in\\nH( llis. with the loUow ing inscrijitic*!!\\nOr. 1 iin Jonkn,\\nOic i July 14, i7of\\\\ .rl. f Q.\\nIn yo(itli l\\\\o \\\\v.-\u00c2\u00bb scIkiUv hrijjlu.\\nIn lca!ninj lie look great deHght,\\nHe was A Majin s inly son,\\nIt was lov love l\\\\o was uiutor.e.\\nstkvhi:n ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^;MA\\\\ kukxcm\\nAnother soiiiew hat noted hermit, a native ot IliiUis. was Stephen\\nV. French, better kninxn by his acquired name o\\\\ Leather\\nFrench. a son ol Joseph French, a Hollis soldier 0I the Revolution,\\nand Mary ovu1gman) French, and was born in Ilollis. v^eptember\\n23. i^vSi. l-^arl\\\\ in life he wandered to I xeter in tlie v^tate ot\\nMaine, where t or many years he lixed in his little cabin as a her-\\nmit, solitary and alone. lion. John H. Hill, the author o\\\\ tlie\\nhistorv ot Mason, who was settle*! in his prolession as a lawxer\\nin Fxeter 1 or several xe.ns. an l was well acquainted with thi.s\\nrecluse. sa\\\\ s ol him. that he was harmless, simple mindcnl. poxertv\\nstricken, and ot feeble understanding. That it w as manitest that\\nFrench and work of all sorts had had a tailing out at an earlv la\\\\\\nand had parted company f orever. Being utterlx destitute o\\\\ l am-\\nil\\\\ or triends. he took up his abode upon a tract ol land in Fxeter.\\nknown as the Hinricane. t or the reason that all attempts to set-\\ntle it had been aba\\\\idoned. the t elled trees ha\\\\ ing been lel t on the\\ngrovmd to rot. o\\\\ er which fires had run. and the land itself left to\\nan overgrowth o\\\\ brushwood, brambles and weeils. I pon this\\ndesolate and l orsaken spot French built for himself a little hut.\\ncleared otV a small patch o\\\\ it t or coii\\\\ and vegetables, and there\\nlived a lonely, w eary and poverty-stricken life vmtil. in old age, he\\nt ound shelter and a comfortable home in the Fxeter alms-house,\\nwhere he died, at the age ol near eighty years. March S. 1S5S.\\nHis entire wardrobe was mainly of tanned sheepskins, hence hi*", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0398.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "I.I A I II I It I 1(1 N( II.\\nXV)\\n;tt.i|ii Ji il iiniiu- (il I.ciillici I lciiili. 111 ii;iiiic iiiid laiiit- liavc\\nllCCIl |)(l |)(lliat\u00c2\u00ab(l ill llic lollnw ill;/ |)l(;is;illl sl;ill/;r. I lli-^ II icl I H I V\\nwupic il Imiii ;i lilllc liiiiu- ut pucins li\\\\ I )a\\\\ ul I laiiui. I !si|., laic\\nt)( liaiifioi Mc. wild w A a iiati\\\\c I IlxcUi.\\nId I.I.A I lii.K I m.Ncll.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2N .ui liuw li.uiiilr.l llu- ihciiJi:, c,l my ^lcr|i, l.c-;itlifi irm jj,\\nVmi liiivf ii oiihlfti iiif ofiPii 1111(1 loiijj\\nAnd iiiiw to give- rest lo tin* waves of my soul,\\nl-futlxr I lriH li, Ifl iiif slug yoii ii tii)ii({.\\nI bii|i|i r llu mill wiiiltl limy siifpr, l.ciidicr l-rciich,\\nFor l( liiia iloiK an too til lcii lit- iViif,\\nWhen tile Iniiri iiiit^l tipiiit liiiei aniilclic d up iu luirp,\\nJiiHt lo slin\u00c2\u00bb(iVr ihf (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiivf III llif poor.\\nNever llliiul, let llleill liiii|{li, lei tliein aiieer, l.etltlier I ^rsilfll,\\nWe will not be illsturhed liy them ImiK,\\nI or we ll step iislile from the liiitlle of life,\\nWhile I ipieiitiiin iiihI \u00c2\u00bblng you iisoiii!;,\\nN lPii well- pimr when you lived here helnw, l.euther I lfiicli,\\nAiul you sullered iVoin hunger ;iiid cold,\\n.\\\\lld It wits well you eSLii|icd Iriini Ihe blomi :out the lil;c:.l\\n.\\\\l Ihe lime you nicw weiiiy iind dd.\\nll;l^ lliiit iild leather ({iirh tlliit you wore, I.eiither I Veiich,\\nThiit yiiu wore. In the diiyri Uuik; ago,\\nBeen exchiinged lor the rohe that you named in your prayer,\\nI- .11 a rohe that is whiter than tiiiow?\\n.Vnd that ilreary old hut where yon dwelt, Leather l- rench,\\nThat old hut on the llurrieane laiuU,\\nWas it bartered by you al the poilaU ol death\\nI or a house not erecieil with hands?\\nW h.ii llir toys Ihut I love heiimie stale, Leather \u00c2\u00bbrciiili.\\nAnd my life s (itl ul (ever is passed,\\nShall I biifely eross over the Jordan ol Death?\\nSliall I meet you in Heaven at last?\\nTell me iruc, ull me all, tell ine now, Leather I reiuh,\\nl- or Ihe tale you lan tell me ib worth\\nNtore to me than the wisdom, the pleasure, the t amr\\nAnd the riihes and honors ol earth.\\nShall I meet no response to my lall. Leather Lrenih?\\nTell ine (|uli lk for I cannot wait long,\\nI or I m summoned again lo the battle ol llfe,^\\nLealhir In-iuh, I ha\\\\e linl^luil my song:.\\nThe ptisoiial liio^iapliii al ski-ti. lii-s pi i-si-uU-d in (lillirciil I oiiiiec-\\ntioiis in lliis liistoi N it is l(elii-\\\\ cd. arc- more luiiiuniiis lliaii will he\\nreadily tniiiid in aii\\\\ other liUe t \u00c2\u00bb\\\\\\\\ii historx. Still it is not to he\\npresumed that these sketehes einhiaec- all llu- iiali\\\\fs or |)erniaiiei)t\\nresidents ol the low ii who^-c names tlc-sei\\\\i- hoiioiahle miiitioii.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0399.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "340 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCIIKS.\\nMany others of the descendants of the early settlers, neither\\ngraduates of college. nor known to the public as ministers,\\nlawyers. physicians, officeholders or politicians are, doubt-\\nless, equally worthy. Of these. man\\\\ emigrated to other States\\nor towns, and by their enterprise, intelligence and personal integ-\\nrity, became honored citizens in their new homes. More of them,\\nwdiose sober wishes never learned to stray, settled in theit\\nnative town, and. content to breathe their uaf/ vc air on theii\\nown ground, have creditably sustained the good name of a worthy\\n;ind lionored ancestrx", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0400.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "l.OXGEX ITY.\\n341\\nC 11 A PT E R XX X I\\nNAMES 01- SLiCtI PKRSONS AS J\u00c2\u00a3AVE DECEASED SINCE TI{E WAR\\nOE THE REVOEUTION. AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY YEARS OR\\nMOKE. WHOSE AGES WITH THE DATE OF THEIR DECEASE\\nHA\\\\ E BEEN ASCKRIA INED.\\n!783\\n178s,\\n17S6,\\n1787.\\n1789,\\n1790,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a279\\n793.\\n795.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2797.\\n.798.\\nj8oo,\\n1801,\\n1803,\\n\u00c2\u00bb8o8,\\n1809,\\n)8ii,\\ni8u,\\n813.\\n1S14,\\n81S.\\n1816,\\nMay i-,\\nOct. 14,\\nJuly 10,\\nNov. 7,\\nJune 2,\\nDec. 1.;,\\nMay 35,\\nOct. 5,\\nFeb. 2,\\nSept. i3,\\nMay 20,\\nSept. 21,\\nOct. 2,\\nSept. 30,\\nFeb. 7,\\nFeb. 13,\\nMar. 6,\\nMar. 6,\\nApr. 12,\\nJuly 27-\\nMar. 20,\\n,\\\\iig. 21\\nFeb. g.\\nFeb. 28,\\nApr. 261\\nMar. 7,\\nMay 24i\\nNov. 12,\\nSept. 24\\nJan. 10.\\nNov. S,\\nNot. 13.\\nWidow Martlia Il.irdy,\\nRev. Francis Worcester,\\nWid. Hannali Farr,\\nDea. Samuel Goodhue,\\nWid. Mary Harri.s,\\nLt. Benjamin Farley, in hi:\\nWid. Lydia Ulrich,\\nWid. Sarah Kemp,\\nMrs. Su.saana Jewctt,\\nDea. Nathaniel Jcwett,\\nJohn Willoughby,\\nWid. Lydia Taylor,\\nWid. Joanna Farley,\\nWid. Anna Powers,\\nWid. Hannah Hunt,\\nRev. Daniel Emerson,\\nEnsign Benj. Parker,\\nMrs. Margaret Jewett,\\nJames Jewett,\\nI^t. Amos Eastman,\\nMrs. Abigail Hardy,\\nWid. Ker.ia Taylor,\\nZachariah Shattuck,\\nWid. Catharine Thurston\\nCapt. Reuben Dow,\\nMr.s. Esther Scott,\\nWid. Abigail Wright,\\nWid. Hannah Emerson,\\nWid. Ruth Boynton,\\nPhineas Hardy,\\nSamuel Obcr,\\nWid. Mehitablc Eastman,\\nNicholas Youngman,\\nKehemiah Woods,\\nWid. Elizabeth Shattuck,\\nWid. Alice Parker,\\nS2yrs,\\n.1S17,\\nAug. 13,\\nss\\n181S,\\nJan. 2,\\n92\\n1S19,\\nApr. 27,\\n90\\nS33.\\nJan. 31,\\nSi\\n1825,\\nJan- 3.\\ns Soth y\\nFeb. 13,\\n104. 4 m\\nJune 7,\\n00\\n.I y 7.\\nhi\\n1826,\\nSept. 25,\\nSi\\nOct. 6,\\nss\\n1S27,\\nJan. 16,\\nS3\\nJan. 2S,\\nSo\\nMar. 7,\\n(10\\n182S,\\nNov. 7,\\n94\\n1829,\\nJan. 7,\\n5*5\\nJan. 29,\\nS2\\n1S30,\\nApril 7,\\nSa\\nOct. 2,\\n85\\n1831,\\nMay\\nSS\\nMay 24,\\n82\\nJuly 2,\\n86\\n1S32,\\nFeb. 28,\\n85\\nMay 7,\\n90\\nMay a,\\n81\\nAug. 2,\\n9\\nOct. 26,\\n833.\\nJan.\\n90\\nApril 5,\\n88\\n834.\\nOct. 10,\\n86\\nNov. 6,\\nSo\\nDec. 12,\\n88\\n1S36,\\nFeb. 19,\\n91\\nApril,\\nS3\\n.8.?7.\\nJan. 13,\\nSS\\n83\\nDec. 12,\\nNoah Worcester, Esq.,\\nAbijah Gould,\\nJonas Flagg,\\nWid. Susanna Pierce,\\nWid. Hannali Parker,\\nMiss Alice Powers,\\nWid. Martha Flagg,\\nWid. Lydia Dow,\\nI Benjamin Saunderson,\\nLt. Ebenezer Jewett,\\nWid. SaraJi Hardy,\\nLt. Ebenezer Farley,\\nSilas Spaulding,\\nThomas Patch,\\nWid. Miriam Dix,\\nDaniel Lovejoy,\\nWid. Sarah Ilolden,\\nWid. Elizabeth Hale,\\nWid. Sarah Lovejoy,\\nWid. Lydia Lovejoy,\\nWid. Hepzibah Worcester,\\nWid. Hannah Ames,\\nPhineas Hardy, Jun.,\\nSilas Marshall,\\nAmos Eastman, Esq.,\\nLt. Samuel Willoughby,\\nWilliam Ball,\\nLt. Caleb Farley,\\nJonathan Hobart,\\nWid. SIbbel Spaulding,\\nAbel Brown,\\nWid. Elizabetli Powers,\\nWid. Sarah Eastman,\\nStephen Farley,\\nBenjamin Abbott,\\nCapt. John Clapp,\\nSi yrs\\n82\\n87\\nss\\n95\\nSS\\n84\\n92\\n80\\n83\\n86\\nSo\\nSo\\n85\\n90\\n83\\n90\\n98\\n83\\n84\\n.85\\n81\\n81\\n86\\n3i\\n86\\n84\\n102, 5 U)\\n81", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0401.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "342\\nLONGEVITY\\n1838, Dec. 12, Wid. Abigail Ober,\\n1839, Wid. Hannah W. Shattuck,\\nNov. 1, Stephen Dow,\\n1S41, Jan. 4, Wid. Sarah Brown,\\nOct. 10, Wid. Priscilla Blood,\\nOct. 29, Wid. Betty Austin,\\n1842, Wid. Susannah Wood,\\nJune 30, Wid. Mary Bailey,\\nSept. 3, Mary, wife of Capt. D.\\nBaile)\\nDec. 5, Miss Eunice Marshall,\\n1543, Apr. II, Silas French\\nJune 3, Wid. Rutli Farley,\\nOct. 19, Wid. Abigail Kittridge,\\nDec. 8, Wid. Sibbel Proctor,\\n1544, Sept. 29, Moses Ames,\\nJS47, Jan. I, Capt. William Brown,\\nMar. 13, Capt. Daniel Bailey,\\nApril 1, Wid. Sarah Worcester,\\nMay II, Rev. Eli Smith,\\nNov. 25, Jonas Woods,\\n1848, Mar. 9, Wid. Mary Rockwood,\\nDec. 30, Wid. Abigail Runnells,\\n1849, Jan. 21, Enoch Jewett,\\nJune 4, David F renc!i,\\nOct. 5, Wid. Rebecca Ames,\\n1850, May 24, Wid. Mary jewett,\\nAug. 23, Jonathan Saunderson,\\n1851, Mar. II, Wid. Abigail Colburn,\\nMay 20, Wid. Rebecca Ball,\\nAug. 4, Wid. Dorcas Mooar,\\nSept. 24, James Jewell,\\n1852, F eb. 13, Wid. Sarah BI.khI,\\nMay II, Solomon Hardy,\\nSept. 25, Daniel Merrill,\\n1853, Oct. 22, Wid. Azubah Wheeler, i\\n1554, July 31, Daniel Dow,\\nOct. 10, Dr. William Hale,\\n1555, Mar. 25, Jonas Lawrence,\\nSept. 28, Wid. Abigail Hardy,\\nOct. 8, Samuel Smith,\\n1856, May 8, Phineas H. Holden,\\nDec. 13, Ruth Hall,\\nDec. 15, Wid. Betsey Burge,\\n1S57, Jan. 9, Wid. Rebecca Whiting,\\nMay 18, Dea. Enos Hardy,\\nN0V.24, Wid. Sybil Holt,\\nDec. 22, Capt. Isaac Parker,\\nDec. 32, Lt. Edward Johnson,\\n185S, Aug. 19, Wid. Olive Proctor,\\nOct. 10, Wid. Esther Hale,\\n1S60, Mar. 18, Simon Stone,\\nAug. 4, Wid. Ama Smith,\\nAug. 4, Wi l. Sarah Pcol,\\n93yrs\\ni860.\\n95\\n1861,\\n82\\n1S63,\\nS3\\n95\\n9\\n1S63,\\nSi\\n1S64,\\n90\\n1865,\\n84\\n93\\n1S67,\\nSi\\n1S68,\\nS7\\n1S69,\\n93\\n90\\nSo\\n1S70,\\nSo\\n1871.\\nss\\n,872,\\nss\\nS4\\n1S73,\\n84\\n90\\nS3\\nIS74.\\n84\\nIS77\\nSo\\nJ y 30\\n8S\\nSept. I.\\n82\\n1878, Feb. 6,\\nSo\\nMar.\\n86\\nApr. 3,\\n^3\\n1S79, Jan. 24,\\nNov. 3, Ebenezer Farley,\\nApr. 18, Capt. Thomas Proctor,\\nTan. 3, Wid. Olive Parker,\\nJan. 2, Wid. Fanny Lawrence,\\nOct. 18, Wid. Dorothy Wood,\\nJan. 26, Robert Colburn,\\nMiss Sarah F .arley,\\nSept. 16, Benjamin M. Farley, Esq.,\\nSept. 20, Dr. Joseph F. Eastman,\\nOct. 30, Nathan Colburn,\\nMay 13, Moses Truell,\\nApr. 25, Daniel Sliedd,\\nMar. 21, Wid. Hann;di Willoby,\\nJuly 25, Wid. Sally Hardy,\\nSept. 26, Jonas Woods,\\nFeb. Wid. Nancy Smith,\\nFeb. 26, Maj. Jaines Wheeler,\\nJune 21, Jonas Blood,\\nWid. Hannah Hubbard,\\nJan. 9, Thaddeus Wheeler,\\nApr. 7, Mary Holden,\\nApr. iS, Thaddeus Marshall,\\nMay 6, Wid. Abigail Clough,\\nAug. 29, Wid. Estlier Wheeler,\\nMay 22, Capt. Jonathan T. Wright,\\nSept. iS, Simon Saunderson,\\nFeb. 12, Asaph Spaulding,\\nFeb. 21, Benjamin Ranger,\\nMay 14, John Shedd,\\nJune 12, Wid. SarahW. Richardson,\\nOct. 26, lames Farley,\\nDec. 3, Dea. William Emerson,\\nFeb. 12, Mrs. Rebecca Baldwin,\\nFeb. 25, Dea. Isaac Farlev,\\nFeb. 26, Isaac Woods.\\nMay 17, Miss Polly Rockwood,\\nNov. 4, Wid. Susan Fox,\\nJan. 24, Wid. Lydia Colburn,\\nMar. II. Wid. Betsey H. Mooar,\\nMar. n, Wid. Bridget F rench,\\nJune 25, Wid. Rebecca Blood,\\nDec. g, Wid. Sally Hale,\\nJan. 31, Joseph Shattuck,\\nJan. 31, Wid. Susanna Blood,\\nMar. 24, Capt. Jeremiah Dow,\\nAjir. Wid. Nancy Wright,\\nWid. Ruth Farley,\\nOliver Willoby,\\nJesse Hardy,\\nEbenezer F arley,\\nWid. Abigail Smith,\\nWid. Elizabeth Woodward,\\nFell. 22. Wid. Hannah Russell,\\nMar. S. Wid. Sarah Austin,\\n86yrf\\nSi\\n89\\n87\\n84\\n86\\nS3\\nS\u00c2\u00ab\\n93\\nSo\\n84\\nS3\\n84\\n95\\nS7\\n86\\n84\\n96\\n90\\n97\\nSS\\n96\\nS2\\n84\\nS4\\nSi\\n93\\n80\\nSi\\nS4\\n82\\n82\\nS7\\n90\\nS2\\n89\\n84\\nSS", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0402.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES IX CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\n343\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\\nMARRIAGES TO BE FOUND RECORDED IN THE RECORDS OF THE\\nDISTRICT OK DUNSTABLE.\\n1743.\\nFeb.\\n7.\\n17+4.\\nOct.\\n9\\nDec.\\nHi\\n745-\\nJan.,\\n4.\\nFeb.\\n9.\\nMar.\\n2,\\nMay\\n6.\\nNov.\\nElias Dickey and Rose McDaniels.both of West Dunstable.\\nSamuel Farley and Hannah Brown,\\nJohn Brown and Kezia Wheeler,\\nBenjamin Blanchard and Kezia Hastings,\\nThomas Nevins of W. Dunstable and Bridget Snow of Nottingham.\\nJoseph Farley of W. Dunstable and Esther Spalding of Litchfield.\\nJosiah Conant of West Dunstable and Catharine Emerson of Reading.\\nRobert Colburn and Elizabeth Leeman, both of W. Dunstable.\\nJohn Bovnton, Jun. of W. Dunstable and Lydia Jewett of Rowley.\\nJacob Blanchard and Elizabeth Lawrence, both of W.Dunstable.\\nWm. Shattuck of W. Dunstable and Experience Curtis of Nottingham.\\nMARRIAGES RECORDED IN THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES OF THE\\nHOLLIS RECORDS.\\nJonathan Danforth and Anna Blanchard.\\nWilliam Adams and Mary Spear.\\nRev. Daniel Emerson and Hannah Emerson of Maiden.\\nJoshua Blanchard of Hollis and Sarah Burge, Chelmsford, pnblish d.\\nRobert Colburn of Monson and Elizabeth Smith of Hollis,\\nNathaniel Clement of Hancock and Wid. Hannah Cummings of H. pub.\\nJames Wheeler and Mary Rnttertield.\\nJonathan Melvin and Mary Brooks.\\nPeter Wheeler and Mehitabel Jewett.\\nOliver Lawrence and Marj Cummings.\\nEleazer Cumings and Martha Brown.\\nTimothy Cook of Hollis and Abigail Wheat of Concord.\\nSamuel Burge and Joanna Farley.\\nMatthew Wallace and Jean Lesley.\\nWhitcomb Powers and Mary Dolliver.\\nSamuel Whittemore and Olive Blanchard.\\nJosiah P isk and Sarah Colburn.\\nAaron Colburn of Dracut and Phebe Harris of Holli j.\\nJosiah Blood of Hollis and Sarah Hej wood of Chelmsford.\\nJohn Astin and Sarah Hastings, both of Hollis.\\nMoses Smith and Mary Boynton\\nSamuel Brown and Mary Glene\\nJoseph Bates of New Ipswich, and Phebe Powers of Hollis.\\nNehemiah Woods of Hollis, and Sarah Lakin of Groton.\\n74.^\\n.May\\nH\\n1744.\\n^9.\\n.\\\\ov.\\n7,\\n747.\\nSept.\\n12,\\nMar.\\n21,\\n74S,\\nAug.\\n12,\\n750.\\nNov.\\nI,\\nDec.\\n4.\\nI7S\\nMar.\\n9.\\n752.\\nDec.\\n27.\\n753.\\nApr.\\nI,\\n1754.\\nMay\\n1,\\n1754.\\nJune\\n3,\\n755.\\nMay\\n6,\\n20,\\n37.\\nJune\\n2|\\nNov.\\n6,\\n37.\\n175^.\\nJan.\\nI,\\n\u00c2\u00bb9.\\nMar,\\n.35.\\nr-\\nApr.\\n8,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0403.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "7St\\nNov. 10,\\n757.\\nJan. S.\\n.S\\nFeb. 2i,\\nJuly 11,\\nAug. 2,\\nSept. 1 3,\\nIS.\\n7.\\nFeb. 23,\\nApr. 20,\\nMay 30,\\nNov. 16,\\n759.\\nMar. 29,\\n21,\\nDec. 6,\\n1760,\\nF-eb. 7,\\nMar. 25,\\nApr. 24,\\nJuly i\u00e2\u0082\u00ac,\\n344 MARRIAGES IN CflRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\nEdward Taylor and Sarah Sanders, both of Hollis.\\nStqphen Powers of Hollis and Lucy Cuiiiings of Dun. table.\\nJohn Brooks and Mary Kemp, both of Hollis.\\nNoah Worcester and Lydia Taylor\\nJoshua Smith of Hollis and Hannah Baidwin of Townsend,\\nJames Whiting of Hollis and Mary Douglas of Pepperell.\\nNathaniel BlancJinrd and Elizabeth Rolfe, both of Hollis.\\nThomas Colbiirn of Pepperell and F-sther Flagg of Hollis..\\nEzekiel Jewett and Lucy Tcwnsend, both of Hollis.\\nApr. 20, Zerubbabel Kemp and Hannah Colburn, both of Hollis.\\nJacob Foster and Lydia Barrett,\\nJonathan Russ of Hollis and Lucy Kendall of Litchfield.\\nWilliam Brooks and Abigail Kemp, both of Hollis.\\nStephen Martin and Patience Worcester,\\nEleazer Stearns and Elizabeth Pierce,\\nCaleb Stiles and ElizabetliTownsend,\\nRichard Warner of Pepperell and Hannah Eastman if Hollis\\nJohn Campbell of Townsend and -Sarah Barton of Hollis.\\nJonas Willoughby and Hannah Bates, both of Hollis.\\nSept. I, James French and Sarah Brooks,\\nNov. ij, John Atwell and Bridget Cumings,\\n27, Josiah French and Sarah Astin,\\n1761, Ian. 22, Samuel Brown and Mary Wheeler,\\nApr. 2, William .Shattuck of Hollis and Zilpha Turner of Lancaster.\\nNov. 2. Francis Blood and Elizabeth Spalding, both of Hollis.\\nDec. 24, David Wright of Pepperell and Prudence Cumings id }folli*.\\n1762, Jan. 7, Ephraira Burge and Anna Abbot, both of Hollis.\\n27, James Hobart and Hannah Cumings\\nFeb. 23, Ebenezer Kendall and Lucy Cumings\\nMar. 18, Amos Fisk and Elizabeth Flagg\\nJune2i, Zachariali Paiker and Elizabeth Brown, both of Hollis.\\nWilliam Waters of Townsend and Mary Lesley of HoUis-\\nTimothy Astin and Elizabeth Ames, both of Hollis.\\nJonathan Fowler and Lucy Kemp,\\nI liomas Boynton and Abigail Elliot,\\nlileazer Parker and Dinah Farnsworth,\\nFrancis Powers and Fl^lizabeth Cumings, both of Hollis.\\nJoseph .Stearns and Mary Shattuck of Monson.\\nJotham Cumings and Anna Brown, both ot Hollis.\\nIsaac Powers and Abigail Sanders,\\nNathaniel Blood and Esther Hobart,\\n)ob Harris of Athol and Eleanor Harris of Hollis.\\nThomas Pratt and Caty Cumings, both of Hollis.\\nPeter Stearns and Abigail Wheat, both of Hollis.\\n(onathan Powers of Dunstable and Susannah Willoughby of\\nEzekiel Jewett and Anna Williams, both of Hojlis,\\nLevi Fletcher of Dunstable and Phebe Stearns of Hollis.\\nI homas Merrill of Pembroke and Abigail Ambrose of Hollis..\\nlames Gould and Mary Lovejoy, both of Hollis.\\nSilas Brown and Lucy Wheeler,\\nRichard Pierce and -Susannah Jewett, both of Hollis\\nTrueworthy Smith and Sarali Taylor,\\nElnathan Blood and Deborah Plielps,\\nEhenezer Farley and Betty Wheeler,\\nSwallow Tucker and Lucretia Carter,\\nIsaac Stearns and Rebekah Jewett,\\nDavid Wallingford and Elizabeth Leeinan. both of Monson.\\nChristopher Lovejoy and Hannah Kemp, both of Hollis.\\n1762,\\nJuly 1,\\nSept. 20,\\n1763.\\nFeb. 24,\\nMay 5,\\nJune 9,\\nApr. 27.\\n-Sept. 1\\n1764,\\nJan. 20.\\nFeb. 14,\\nSept. 27,\\nNov. 2S,\\n76.1.\\nFeb. 28,\\nApr. 1,\\n2,\\nAug. 27,\\nOct. S,\\nJ766,\\nMay 22.\\n29.\\nJune 5.\\nNov. b,\\n-!7.\\n767,\\nFeb. 26.\\nMar. 6,\\nJune 9,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0404.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "1767,\\nOct.\\n22,\\nNov\\n9.\\n9.\\n176S,\\nJan.\\n2S,\\nMar\\n24.\\nApr\\n21,\\nJuly\\n7\\nNov.\\n3i\\nMARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 345\\nJosliua Davis and Doroth) Wlieeler. Iiotli of Hollis.\\nDaniel Lovejoy and Sarah AVynian.\\nJoseph Pierce and Sarah Phelps,\\nWilliam Ciunings and Mehitable Eastman, hrith ot Hollis.\\nWilliam Nevins and Rebekah Chamberlain,\\nJames Taylor of Hollis and Lois Hutterfield ot Dunstable.\\nJohn Stearns of Hollis and Lucy Shedd of Dunstable.\\nSamuel Cumings, Jun., and Lydia Webster, both of Hollis.\\n15, Benjamin Shattuck and Marj Proctor,\\nj6, Emerson Smith and Mary Page of Hollis.\\n17, Daniel Emerson, Jun., of Hollis and Ama Fletcher of Dunstable.\\nBenjamin Astin and Betty Farley, both of Hollis.\\nAbel Shipley and Lucy Farley,\\nFrancis Blood and Abigail Conroy, both of Hollis.\\nJames Foster of Temple and Hannah Jewett of Hollis.\\nSolomon Blood and Priscilla French, both of Hollis.\\nJosiah Conant of Hollis and Elizabeth Elliot of Mason.\\nNahum Powers and Mary Wheat, both of Hollis.\\nEbenezer Nutting and Elizabeth Abbot, botli of Hollis.\\nThomas Kemp and Mehitable Lovejoy,\\nThaddeus Wheeler and Elizabeth Farmer,\\nJonathan Bates of Ashby and Mehitable Willouglibv of Hollis,\\nZachariah Lawrence, Jun., and Rebekah Powers, both of Hollis.\\nJonas Bancroft of Worcester and Sarah Blood of Hollis.\\nIsaac Pierce of Pepperell and Sarah Blood of Hollis.\\nJeremiah Wheelerof Concord and Kezia Blanchard of Hollis.\\nEbenezer Ball and Elizabeth Davis, both of Hollis.\\n6, John Pliilbrick and Sarah Jewett,\\nIsaac Stevens and Elizabeth Johnson, both of Hollis.\\nJames Fiske and Sarah Leeman,\\nJoseph French and Mary Youngman,\\nCyrus Proctor and .Sibbel Farnsworth,\\nSolomon Pierce and Lucy Parker,\\nTimothy French and Anna Willoughbv\\nAug. I, James Colburn and Kezia Tavlor.\\n29, .Solomon Wheat and Sarah Ball,\\nSept. 5, Amos Lamson and Mary .Stevens,\\nNov. 14, Edward Taylor and Mary Worcester,\\n21, Jerahmael Bowers and Martha Tennev,\\n2S, Zachariah Shattuck and Elizabeth Farley,\\nJesse Cluircliill of Plymouth, Mass., and Abigail Worcester.\\n1772, Jan. 14, Thomas Powell and Elizabeth Stevens, both of Hollis.\\n.Simeon Lovejo)- and Grace Lovejov,\\nJoseph Nevins and Sarah Powers,\\nEphraim Lund and Alice Wheeler,\\nApr. 16, Nathan Blood antl Elizabeth Noves,\\nBenjamin Farmer of Hollis and Sarah Emerson ol Nottingham West.\\nNoah Worcester and Hepzibali Sherwin, lioth of Hollis.\\nJonathan Ames and Frances Powers,\\nThomas Cumings and Hannah Pool,\\nZachariah Kemp and Sarah Townsend.\\nTimothy Wyman and Elizabeth Shattuck,\\nJohn Phelps, Jun., of Hollis and Mary Lakin of Groton.\\nJacot) Lovejoy and Elizabeth Baxter, both of Hollis.\\nLebbeus Wheeler and Elizabeth Carter\\nApr. 22, John Kendall of Amherst and Molly Boynton of Hollis,\\n2S, Joseph Brown and Lois Blood, both of Hollis.\\nJune 20, EJienezer Stearns and Rachel Ames,\\n(23)\\n24,\\n24,\\nDec\\n12,\\n15.\\nJan.\\n5\\n9.\\nFeb.\\n7i\\nJune\\n22,\\nOct.\\ns.\\n*7\u00c2\u00bb\\n19.\\nNov.\\n22,\\n23.\\nJjJn^\\nII)\\nFeb.\\nIS.\\nOct.\\niS,\\nDec.\\n6,\\nJan.\\n2,\\n22,\\nFeb.\\nI,\\nMar.\\n10,\\n19,\\nMay\\n3.\\nDec.\\n19.\\nJan.\\n14.\\n22,\\nFeb.\\n20,\\nMay\\nl2,\\nA pr.\\n16,\\nSept\\n6,\\n30,\\nNov.\\n11,\\nDec.\\n7\\n3.\\n17,\\n24,\\nFeb.\\n16,\\nMar.\\nI,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0405.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "34^ MARRIAGES IX CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\n773 J n^ 29- Joiuithan Emerson of Nottingham West and Sibbel Farmer ot Hollis.\\nSept. 8, Timothy Wlicoler of Plymoutli and Mary Nevins of Hollis.\\nOct. 7, Josluia Stile.sof Lyndeborough and Mehitahel Leenian of Hollis.\\nNov. 25. Tliomas Wakclield of Amherst and Elizabeth Hardy of Hollis.\\nDec. 2j, Levi Fletcher and Esther Rennet, both of Hollis.\\n30, Christopher Farley and Ruth Jewelt\\n177.1. Jan. 6, Amos Eastman and Kiitli F la.yt;\\n13, Jonas Leslev and Elizahetli Dow,\\n20, Jonas Blood and Molly Brown,\\nFell. 10, John Goss and Catharine Conant.\\n17, Manasseh .Sniitli and Hannah Emcr.^i.n,\\n34, Jolm Kneeland of Boston and Ann llobart of Hollis.\\nFeb. 24, Samuel Gcrrish of Boscawen and Lucy Noyes of Hollis.\\nS, Obadiah Eastman of Bath and Eliz;;beth Searle of Hollis.\\nJune 2S, John Willoughby of Hrsllis, and Elizabetli Sprake of Billeric.T.\\nAug. 4, Samson Powers and Elizabeth Nuttinsr, botli of Hollis.\\nSept. 15, Stephen Hazleton and Esther II ildreth\\n19, Samuel Cunningham and Sus;;nnali Carter,\\nNov. 22, Samuel Conroy and Alice Blood,\\n24, Neliemiah Hardy and Molly Taylor,\\nBenjamin Wright and Esther Taylor,\\nJohn Smitli of Nottingham W. and Sarali Merrill of Hollis.\\nEmerson Smith of Hollis and Abigail Avre.\\nJonathan Lovejoy and Rebekah Ball, both of Hollis.\\nBenjamin Nevins and Annis Moore, both of Hollis.\\nJoshua Blanchard, Jun., and Lucy French, both of Hollis.\\nTimothy Blood and Sarah Dix, both of Hollis.\\nCapt. Jonas Pollard of Westford and Mrs. Elizabeth Abbot oi H ollis\\nCaleb Blood and Rebecca Hopkins, lioth of Hollis.\\nDavid Hardy of Wilmington and Hannah Worcester of Hollis.\\nMinot Farmer and Abigail Barron, both of Hollis.\\nTimothy French and Hannah Wright, both of Hollis.\\nParmenter Honey and Sarah Hale, inith of Hollis.\\nNathaniel Ball and Martha Boynton, both of Hollis.\\nNathaniel Rideout and Susannah Spaulding, both of Hollis.\\nSamuel Andirose and Mary Goodhue, both of Hollis.\\nJae-ob Putnam of Wilton and M id. Patience Martin of Hollis.\\n1-, Ensign Daniel Merrill of Hollis and Jerusha A\\\\ ilHams of Pejjperell.\\n25, William French, Jun., of Hollis and Lucy Fletcher of Chelmsford.\\nAug. iS, Job Bayley and Mehitable French, both of Hollis.\\n.Sept. 10, Josiah Hobart of Groton and Lucy Kendall of Hollis.\\nNov. 3, Samuel Abbot and Susannah Hobart, both of Hollis.\\nDec. 25, Thomas Jaquith and Rhoda Spaulding-, both of Hollis.\\n,1777, Feb. 30, Ebenezer Melvin of Cockermouth and Joanna Bayley of Hollis.\\nMay. S, James Colburn and Elizabeth Blood, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 12, Daniel Mosher and Lydia Gilson,\\niS, Nehemiah Pierce and Mary Hobart,\\nDec. 4, John Ball of Temple and Hannah Farley of Hollis.\\niS, Moses Thurston and Catharine Conant, both of Hollis.\\niS, Jonathan Hobart and Alice Wright,\\niS, Joseph Farley and Bridget Powers.\\n177S, Mar. 31, Joseph Stearns and Abigail Wheat,\\nApril 9, Elijah Clark and Martha Runnells,\\nMay 26, Joshua Boynton and Mary Parker,\\nJune 9, William Ayers of Haverhill and Mary Runnells of Hollis.\\nAug. 16. John Warren of New Ipswich and .Sarah Eastman of Hollis.\\n23. William Wood and Susannah Wright, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 5, Samuel Worcester and Lois Boynton,\\nDec.\\n15,\\nJan.\\n3.\\nFeb.\\n9\\n16,\\nMar.\\n16,\\n.\\\\pr.\\n20,\\nMay\\niS,\\nSept.\\n5.\\niS,\\nNov\\n7-\\n30,\\nIan.\\niS,\\nI Vb.\\n20,\\nJuly\\n2.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0406.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "Jan.\\n2S,\\n2S,\\nMar.\\n17.\\nApr\\n7i\\n13.\\nMARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 347\\n1778, Nov. s, Benjamin Boynton and Deborah Parker, both of Ilollis,\\nNov. 16, Stephen Jewett, Jnn., and Elizabeth J ool,\\nJames Hopkin.s of Amherst and Mary Taylor of ilollis.\\n1779. Jan. 2S, Stephen Farley and Mary Shattuck, both of Hollis.\\nNatlian Colburn and Abigail Shattuck,\\nJonathan Dix of Raby and Miriam Kneeland of Harvard.\\nSamuel Lecman and Mary Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\nThomas Pratt and Anna Lawrence,\\nJune 10, Dr. Ebenczer Rockwood and Mary Emerson, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 25, Josiah Fisk and Mary Caldwell,\\nDec. 9, John Shattuck of New Ipswich and Mary Farley of Hollis.\\n17S0, Mar. 9, Stephen Wright of Westford and Sarah Carter of Hollis.\\n29, Nehemiah Hardy of Tewksbury and Wid. Abigail Hardy of Hollis.\\nApril David Truell of Amherst and Wid. Sarah Fisk of Hollis.\\nMay 31, Samuel Hill and Jemima Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\nJune 15, Simeon Blood and Rhoda Youngman,\\n15, Uriah Wright and Eunice Jewett,\\nJune iS, Benjamin Farley, 2d, of Hollis and Lucy Fletcher of Dunstable.\\nJuly 13, Ebenezer Wheeler and Azubah Taylor, both of Hollis.\\nAug. 24, Isaac Boynton and Mary Brooks,\\n24, Jonathan Parker and Naomi Parker,\\nOct. 9, Thomas Merrill of Conway and Wid. Elizabeth Cuniings of Hollis.\\n17, William W. Pool and Sarah Farley, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 21, Abraham Boynton of Pepperell and Mary Hartshorn of Hollis.\\nDec. 7, Dr. Jonathan Pool and Elizabeth Hale, both of Hollis.\\n7, Stephen Runnells and Chloe Thurston,\\n7, Benjamin Cumings and Bridget Pool,\\n17S1, Jan. Abijah Hildreth ofTownsend and Hannah Smith of Hollis.\\nFeb. 9, William Ball and Elizabeth Colburri, both of Hollis.\\nFeb. 9, Enoch Noyes, Jun., of Cockermouth and Zillah Fox.\\nMar. 6, Bray Wilkins of Deering and Wid. Lucy Blanchard of Hollis.\\nMar. 13, Lemuel Wright and Widow Mary Johnson, both of Hollis.\\n15, Aquilla Kimball of Bradford and Anna Tenney of Hollis.\\n22, David Ames and Anna Wright, both of Hollis.\\nApr. 10, William Elliot of Pepperell and Sarah Honey of Hollis.\\n12, Caleb Farley, Jun., and Abigail Phelps, both of Hollis.\\n26, Jonas Woods and Lydia Hobart,\\nNov. 19, Jacob Taylor and Betty Boynton,\\n19, Shubael Parker and Betty Brooks,\\n20, Abel Conant and Margaret Jewett,\\nDec. 27, Lt. Jeremiah Pritchard of New Ipswich and Elizabeth Smith of Hollis.\\n1782, (an. 9, Nathaniel Blood and Martha Spear, both of Hollis.\\n17, Jonathan Hobart and Elizabeth Lakin,\\nFeb. 4, .Stephen Childs of Upton and Priscilla Wheat of Hollis.\\n6, Abel Lovejoy and Sarah Fox, both of Hollis.\\n13, John Connick of Hollis, and Abigail Hartshorn of Dunstable.\\nFeb. Daniel Kendrick and Mary Pool, both of Hollis.\\nApr. 24, William Brooks, Jun., and Deborah Parker, both of Hollis.\\n24, John Ball and Mary Chamberlain,\\nMay 7, Oliver Lawrence, Jun., and Lydia Dow,\\n16, Solomon Hobart and Abigail Brooks,\\n23, Simon Pierce, Jun., and Sarah Bo}-nton,\\n27, John Fox and Sarah Worcester,\\naS, Burpee Ames and Grace Whiting,\\nJune Jesse Worcester and Sarah Parker,\\n13, Eliphalet Brown and .Sarah Wright,\\n13, Timothy Jones of Amherst and Elizabeth Kenrfck of Hollis.\\nOct. 10, William .Spear, Jun., of New Ipswich and Sarah Emerson of Hollis.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0407.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "SyS-\\nNov\\n7S3.\\nApr\\nMay\\nOct.\\nDec.\\nSc ])t\\nID,\\nDec.\\n2,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iS,\\n20,\\n348 .MARRIAGKS IN CIIKOXOLOGICAL ORDER.\\nStephen Bent ofDiil-.Iin and Elizalieth Darliy of Hollis.\\nJosiah Woodlniry of Ilollis and Wid. Aliigail Whipple of Mason.\\nLt. Sanniel Farley of Ilollis and Elizabeth Powers of Mason.\\nThomas Carter and Polly Foot, both of Hollis.\\nloseph Wheat and Wid. Bridget Farley,\\nJoel Proctor and Caty Blood,\\n2^. Phineas F letcher of Dunstable and Anna Burge of Hollis.\\n17S4, ]an. 1, Thomas Hardy of Dublin and Eucy Collnu-n of Hollis.\\n15, Jacob ^looar and Hannah Shattuck, bf tii of Hollis.\\nFeb. I- Fllisha Wright and Anna Sanders,\\nMar. -I, Daniel Bayley and Elizabeth French,\\niS. John Brooks and Elizabeth Woods,\\n.\\\\pr. 4. Burpee Ames and Vrid. Hannah Cumings, both of Hollis.\\nS, Rev. Isaac Bailey of Sterling and Elizabeth Emerson of Hollis.\\n15, Benjamin Stearns and Elizabeth Holt, both of Hollis.\\n27, Stephen Parker and Rachel Boynton,\\n.Mav 2, Henry Butterlield of Dunstable and Mary How of Hollis.\\n13, Ralph Emerson and Alice Ames, both of Hollis.\\n20, Nathaniel P.atten and Mehitable Blood,\\nlune 12, Ensign John Senter and Wid. Esther F arnsworth, l.ioth of Hollis\\n17, Stephen Dow and Abigail Jewett, both of Hollis.\\nElijah Xoyes of Cockermouth and Mary Lewis of Hollis.\\nMoses Proctor and Ruth Austin, both of Hollis.\\nDavid Sanderson and Larana Shattuck, both of Hollis.\\nGeorge Abbot of Hollis and Naomi Tuttle of Littleton.\\nF rancis Worcester of Plymouth and Hannah Parker of Hollis.\\nJames Ctdburn and Susannah Hardy, both of Hollis.\\nFROM THE JIOLLIS RECORDS OF ^LVRRLVGES.\\n1755. -May 12, Asa Baldwin and Rosalma Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\nph.ineas Ames of Hancock and Mehitable Jewett of Hollis.\\n17, Aaron Bailey and Elizabeth Wallingford, both of Hollis.\\n24, lonas Willoughby and Prudence Saunders,\\nJune 12, Levi Parker of Westford and Abigail Pool of. Hollis.\\n30. Capt. Samuel Douglas of Raby and Wid. Tabitha Fletcher of Hollis.\\nJuly 2S, Joseph Frost of Tewksbury and Abigail Leeman, of Hollis.\\nSept. 21, David Wright and Polly Lowell, both of Hollis.\\nOct. 25, Life Baldwin and Polly Holt,\\nNov. 24, Reuben Blood of Westminster and Lucy Ball of Hollis.\\nDec. 26, James Ridcout, Jun., and Sarah Spalding, both of Hollis.\\n1756, Jan. 16, Peter Cumings of Hancock and Sarah Pierce of Hollis.\\nFeb. :6, Silas Hardy and Mary Flagg, both of Hollis.\\nJohn Edwards and Elizabeth Holden, both of Hollis.\\nMar. S, Oliver Bacon of Jaft rey and Rebecca Jewett of Hollis.\\n21, John Goddard, Jun., and Lucy Stiles, both of Hollis.\\nJune 16, Silas Swallow of Dunstable and Lucy Emerson of Hollis.\\nStephen Youngman and Abigail Brown, both of Hollis.\\nOct. 26, John Bonner and Sarah Brooks,\\nDec. 7, William Ball and Rebecca Kinney,\\n1787, Jan. 31, Oliver Willoughby and Sarah Bailey,\\nFeb. 15, Benjamin Farley, 3d, of Hollis and Mary Blodgett of Dunstable.\\n23, James Grossman and Rebecca Proctor of Hollis.\\n1787, Apr. 26, John Goodhue and Rebecca Perham, both of Hollis.\\n]une 3, David Hale and Elizabeth Holden,\\nSept. 20, Capt. William Brooks and Hepzibah Powers, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 13, Joel Boynton of Hopkinton and Betty Wallace of Hollis.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0408.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "Jan.\\nFeb.\\nit\\n7\\nApr.\\nNov.\\n7\\n17,\\n9.\\n3i\\nDec.\\n.i,\\n16,\\nJan.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a029.\\nI,\\n16,\\n20,\\nOct.\\n9:\\nDec.\\nFeb.\\n9.\\nMar.\\n7\\nMARKIAGKS IX CIIKOXOI.OOICAL OKDKll. 349\\n;7SS, Jan. j, Jesse Hardy and Rebecca Bailey, botli ot rioUis.\\nReuben llobart of Cockermouth and Isabel Colburn of IloUis.\\nCaleb Stile-s, Jan., and Betty Pierce, both of Ilollis.\\nJosiah Wheat and Sarah Keyes,\\nBenjamin Woods Parker and Olive Pratt,\\nIsaac Hardy and Submit Wheat,\\nJonas Flag-g- of (jilnianton and Lucy |e\\\\vett of Ilollis.\\nThomas Kemp of Ilollis and Wid. Hannah Shattuck of Raby.\\nDea. Josiah Conant and Zerviah Foi, both of Hollis.\\n-Vsiihel Twiss and Wid. Isabel Pierce,\\n17S9, Jan. I, David Holden, Jun., and Bridget Atwell,\\nSolomon Manning of Billerica and Olive P rench of Ilollis.\\nJames Jewett and Lucy Farley, both of Ilollis.\\nWilliam Reed, Jun., and Betsey Burge, both of Ilollis.\\nDaniel Meriill and Phebe Dow,\\nMichael Carter and Rebecca Shattuck,\\n1790, Feb. 9, Jonathan Hale and Catharine Mosher,\\nJacob Wheeler of Deering and Betsey Dix of Hollis.\\nMay 6, Daniel Lawrence and Polly Johnson, both of Hollis.\\nJuly 3S, Shubacl llobart of Hollis and Wid. Prudence Parker of Groton.\\nXov. 9, Moses Hardy and Abigail Wheat, both of Hollis.\\n24, Isaac Baldwin of Amherst and Bethiah Pool of Ilollis.\\n35, Francis Blood and Wid. Abigail Farmer, both of Hollis.\\n30, Henry Wright of Ashby and Hannah Boynton of Hollis.\\n79 Jan. 6, Jacob Spaulding of Hillsborough and Mary Barker of Hollis.\\nFeb. 10, Jerathmael Bovvers and Hannah Danforth, both of Hollis.\\n15, Benjamin Jewett of Gilnianton and Rebecca Boynton of Hollis.\\nOliver Prescott, Jun., of Groton aud Nancy Whiting of Hollis.\\nNathaniel Shattuck, Jun., and Hannah Ke3-es, both of Hollis.\\nSamuel Shattuck and Lois Wheat,\\nThomas Hay, Jun., of Merrimack and Rebecca Pool of Hollis.\\nSolomon Wheelerand Hannah Farley, both of Hollis.\\nJotham Rohbins of Dunstable and Hannah Fisk of Hollis.\\nSamuel Runnells and Abigail Smith, both of Hollis.\\nOct. 18, Jonathan Saunderson and Lucy Pool,\\n24, Zebulon Wheeler and Wid. Mary Kendrick, both of Hollis.\\n1792, Jan. 31, Oliver Blodgett of Dunstable and Anna Shipley of Hollis.\\nMar. 15, Ebenezer Jewett and Polly Rideout, both of Hollis.\\nJuly 12, Abraham Leeman of Hollis and Wid. Olive Jaquith of Dunstable.\\nOct. 23, Joseph Whipple and Esther Pierce, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 15, Abijah Shed and Joanna Farley,\\nDec. 13, Jonas .Smith and Sally Pool,\\n1793, Jan. 24, Samuel Barron and Sally Lund,\\n38, Ephraim Burge and Patty Baldwin,\\n38, Leonard Whiting, Jun., and Betsey Conant, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 21, James Bell and Elizabeth Shattuck,\\n2$, John Powers and Hannah Brooks,\\nDec. 24, Joel Barker and Sally Foster,\\n1794, Feb. II, Solomon Wheat, Jun., and Hannah Cumings,\\n27, William Merrill of Hollis and Dolly Smith of Raby.\\nMar. 7, Moses Ames and Rebecca Hale, both of Hollis.\\nApr. 9, Solomon Wheelock of Leominster and Betsey Ball of Hollis.\\nMay 7, Rev. Eli Smith and Ama Emerson, both of Hollis.\\n20, Jacob Mooar and Dorcas Hood,\\nJune 9, Solomon Blood, Jim., and Hannah Kinney,\\nJuly 3 Isaac Hardy and Mehitable Boynton,\\n13, Benjamin Pool and Sally Fletcher,\\n20, Dr. William Hale and Esther Pool,\\n22,\\nApr.\\n28,\\nMay\\n5\\nAug\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^5\\nSept.\\n20,\\n20,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0409.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "350 MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\n1794, Aug. 20, Daniel Dow and Sally Lovcjoy, both of Hollis.\\n27, Samuel I.ovejoy and Elizabeth Willoughby, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 13, Nathaniel Shattuck of Hancock and Susannah Jewett of Hollis.\\nDec. 16, Thomas Farley of Hollis and Polly Jewell of Dunstable.\\n1795, ]an. I, David Smith and Hepzihah Worcester, both of Hollis.\\nFeb. 12, Aaron Hardy of Lempster and Sally Shattuck of Hollis.\\nApr. 16, Abel Shattuck and Sally Blood, both of Hollis.\\n24, John Butterfield of Dunstable and Sally Blood of Hollis.\\nMay 4, Stephen Lovejoy and Betsey Hood, both of Hollis.\\n30, James Bradbury and Catharine Conant,\\nNov. 29, John Jewett and Jane Ames,\\n1796, Jan. 5, Aaron Smith and Ruth Farley,\\n14, Jonathan Eads and Anna Holt,\\nFeb. 10, David Burge and Betsey Mcintosh,\\nMar. 4, Silas French and Sally Reed,\\n10, William Willoughby of Hollis and Rebecca Adams of Dunstable.\\n17, David Willoughby and Polly Wood, both of Hollis.\\nApr. 19, Daniel Blood, Jan., and Esther Rideoul,\\nWilliam Read of Hollis and Wid. Elizabeth Shed of Chelmsford.\\nBenjamin Barron and Sally Wood, both of Hollis.\\nTimothy French of Dunstable and Bridget Farley of Hollis.\\nNathaniel Jewett and Sally Blood, both of Hollis.\\nEbenezer Farley, Jun., and Abigail Farmer, both of Hollis.\\nDavid Powers of Dunstable and Polly Blanchard of Hollis.\\nWilliam Kemp and Sally Shattuck, both of Hollis.\\nEdmund Williams of Pepperell and Abigail Eee of Hollis.\\nJosiah Conant and Lucy Jewett, both of Hollis.\\nJacob Mosher and Mary Pierce,\\nJosiah Hayden and Polly Patch,\\nJohn Sawtell of Milford, and Martha Wallingford of Hollis.\\nJesse Danforth oi Amherst, and Sally Wheat of Hollis.\\nKendall Kittridge and Sally Whiting of Hollis.\\nAbel Spauldingand Susannah Marshall, both of Hollis.\\nRev. Samuel Worcester of Fitchbiu g and Zerviah Fox of Hollis.\\nJohn Shed and Wid. Lucy Jewett, both of Hollis.\\n10, Enos Hardy and Mary Lund,\\n10, Ebenezer Baldwin and Lucy Wheat,\\n26, Levi Nutting of Pepperell, and Persis Eastman of Hollis.\\nAmos Eastman and Wid. Deborah Woods, both of Hollis.\\nLuther Wright of Westford and Priscilla Reed of Hollis.\\nDaniel Bobbins of Dunstable and Betsy Hazelton of Hollis.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJames Atwell and Sarah Lawrence, both of Hollis.\\nJonas Blood and Priscilla Blood,\\nJune 15, David Woods and Patty Brooks,\\nNov. 2S, Uriah Reed and Betsey Shed,\\n1799, Jan. I, Eleazer Pierce and Sally Austin,\\n2, David French and Betsey Wheeler,\\n31, Pliineas H. Holden of Littleton and Betsey Jewett of Hollis.\\nNehemiah Barker and Elizabeth Wallingford, both of Hollis.\\nThomas Farley and Susannah Burge,\\n.SamueL Smith and Margaret Smith,\\nSolomon Pierce and Rebecca Austin,\\nNathan Holt and Sibbel Phelps,\\n23, Dea. Thomas Walker of Sudbury and Mary Hayden of Hollis.\\nlune 4, Eleazer Parker and .Susannah Flagg, both ol Hollis.\\n11. Robert Colburn and Kezia Wright,\\nOct. 1, Samuel Conroy and Betsey Dix,\\nII, Abel Spalding and Rebecca Ober,\\nJime\\n2,\\n9\\nAug.\\n17.\\nSept,\\n4-\\ni5\\nNov.\\n17,\\nDec.\\n2Z,\\n29,\\nJan.\\n1,\\niS,\\nApr.\\n9.\\n19.\\n24,\\nSept.\\n19,\\nOct.\\n20,\\nNov.\\nS\\nDec.\\n31.\\nFeb.\\n9i\\n5\\nMar,\\n4.\\n29.\\nMar.\\n17,\\nApr.\\n16,\\nMay\\n13.\\n16,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0410.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 35 1\\n1799, Oct. 20, William Teaney and Judith Reed, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 2S, Mose S. Boj nton of Hancock and Hannali Woodbury of HoUis.\\n2S, Ilezekiah Kendall of IloUis and Lucy Kidder of Amherst.\\niSoo, Jan. 2^, Peter Colburn and Rachel Patch, both of Hollis.\\nFeb. 24, Zachariah Alexander of Dunstable and Wid. Mary Messer of Hollis.\\nM;ir. 13, Leonard Whiting, Jun., and Wid. Rebecca Gilson, both of Holli.s.\\n13, Andrew Bunton of Pembroke and Lavinia Holden of Hollis.\\n19, Benjamin Austin and .Sally Jewett, both of Hollis.\\n26, Nathaniel Proctor and Olive Goddard,\\nApr. 2S, Minot Wheeler and Sally Farley,\\nMay 20, Dr. Benoni Cutter and Phebe Tenncy,-\\nJuly 23, Isaac Jewett and Polly Proctor,\\nOct. 2, Jacob Cobbett and Phebe Kinney,\\nNov. 13, Thaddeus Wheeler and Sibbel Spauldinsr,\\n13, Reuben Killicutt of Hillsborough and Sally Shipley of Hollis.\\niSoi, Jan. 2, Samuel Parker of Greenfield and Hannah Rideoul of Hollis.\\n12, Josiah Blood and Sally Spaulding, both of Hollis.\\nF eb. 3, Phillips Wood and Dorothy Davis,\\nMay 31, James Jewell of Dunstable and Sail} Hobart .of Hollis.\\nJ ly S Ebenezer Perkins and Henrietta Goddard, both of Hollis.\\nAug. 13, James Mosher and Hannah Pierce,\\nNov. 26, David Rideout and Kezia Wood,\\n27, George Whitefield of Plymouth and Lydia Ranger of Hollis.\\nDec. 7, Ebenezer Perkins and Betsey Austin, bothof Hollis.\\n24, Aaron Kinney and Sally Phelps,\\n1S02, Jan. 20, Abner B. Little of Salem, N. H., and Nancy Tenney of Hollis.\\nAmbrose Gould of Greenfield .and .Susan Farley of Hollis.\\nJoseph Evans of Marlow and Patty Boynton of Hollis.\\nJohn Ober of Hollis and Sally Peacock of Amherst.\\nCarshina Wood of Littleton and Betsey L. Lawrence of HoUis.\\nZachariah Ober and Abigail Hardy, both of Hollis.\\nNicholas How and Anna French, both of Hollis.\\nEbenezer Parkhurst of Dunstable, Mass., and Hannah Jewett of Hollis\\nNathan .Shattuck and Susanna Wood, both of Hollis.\\nJacob Pierce of Huntington, ,Vt., and Sarah Jewett of Hollis.\\nWilliam Marshall of Hudson and Polly Smith of Hollis.\\nEmerson Parker and Rebecca Blood, both of Hollis.\\nJonathan Parker of Lexington and Anna Hobart of Hollis.\\nJesse Farley and Mary Plielps, both of Hollis.\\nWilliam Farley and Elizabeth Bobbins, both of Hollis.\\nDaniel Merrill, 3d, and Abigail Colburn,\\nSept. 22, Phineas Lovejoy and Abigail Ober,\\n22, Aaron Brooks and Polly Austin,\\nApr. S, Charles Eastman and Rebecca Spaulding,\\nMay 16, Benjamin Fletcher and Abigail Kittridge,\\nAug. 30, Gould Bobbins of Dunstable and Sarah Johnson of Hollis.\\nOct. 10, Abijah Gould, Jun., and Mary .Shattuck, both of Hollis.\\nII, David Hardy and Anna Colburn,\\n29, David Roby of Dunstable and Ann Johnson of Hollis.\\nNov. ij, Timothy Colburn of Milford and Mary Lovejoy of Hollis.\\n1S05. Jan. 9, Thomas Richardson of Packersfield and Polly Holt of HoUis.\\n26, Abijah Shed of Pepperell and Catharine Goss of Hollis.\\nSept. Nathaniel Rideout and S.ar.ih Abbott, both of Hollis.\\n16, Nicholas Youngman and Wid. Lydia Hobart, both of Hollis.\\nSept. 16, Eleazer Hale of Dunstable and Sally Jewell of Hollis.\\nOct. 30, Theodore Wheeler of Hollis and Susannah Hamlet of Dunstable.\\nNov. aS, Benjamin W. Wright and Sarah Hardy, both of Hollis.\\nDec. 26, Eli Hunt of Peterborough and Lydia Rideout of Hollis.\\nFeb.\\n17-\\nI\\nApr.\\n4-\\n6,\\n10,\\nJune\\n10.\\nSept.\\n5\\n7-\\nNov.\\n25.\\n1S03,\\nJan.\\n19.\\nFeb.\\nIS.\\nAug.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0IS,\\nOct.\\n17,\\n1S04,\\nJan.\\n18,\\n26,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0411.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "352 MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER..\\niSo6, Jan. i, William I Rlielps and Sukey Farley, botli of Ilnllis.\\n22, Stephen Lund and Rachel Shed,\\n30, Daniel French of Ilardwick, Vt., and Lucy Gnss of llollis.\\nFeb. 12, Arteinas Thayer of Milford, Mass., and Elizabeth Jewett of Hollis.\\nSept. 24, Isaac Mooar and Mary Blood, both of Hollis.\\nOct. 30, Paul Davis of Mason and Lucy Pike of llollis.\\nNov. 2, Lt. Caleb Farley and Wid. Lucy Shipley, both of Hollis.\\nDec. iS, Luther Hubbard of Hollis and Hannah Russell of Carlisle, Mass.\\niS, Isaac Senter of Brookhne and Sally Ball of Hollis.\\n)So7, Apr. 2, Nathan Thayer and Hannah Jewett, both of Hollis.\\nMay 4, Foster Emerson and Ruth Proctor,\\nSept. 17, Isaac Shattuck of Washington and Hannal] Mooar of Hollis.\\n17, Abijah Gould of Hollis and Mary T. Sargent of Milford.\\nOct. 20, Samuel Jones, jun., of Sudbury and Lucy Phelps of Hollis.\\ni 20, Ebenezer Youngman and Thankful Phelps, lioth of Hollis.\\nNov. I, John Grover of Charlestown, Mass., and Rebecca Blood of Hollis.\\nJoel IIow of Milford and Dorcas Colburn of Hollis.\\niSoS, Jan. 14, Nathan Colburn, Jun., and Lydia Jewett. both of Hollis.\\nHenry Adams and Sarah Bradley,\\nJohn W. Kendall and Hannah Colburn,\\nDaniel Mooar of Hollis and Mai v Nevins of Amherst.\\nSamuel Hideout and Mary Lovejoy, both of Hollis.\\nNehemiah Ranger and Esther Symonds,\\nIsaac Farley and Charlotte Woods,\\nWilliam Lovejov and Susannah Rideout,\\n]S09, Jan. 4, Timothy Colburn of Milford and Rebecca Ball of Hollis.\\nJoshua Wright and Rebecca Willoughhy, both of Hollis.\\n.Solomon Hobart of Hebron and Hannah Farley of Hollis.\\nFeb. 5, Daniel French of Hardwick, Vt.. and Sarah Worcester of Hollis.\\nII, Lester Holt of Lyme and Lydia French of Hollis.\\n21, James Rideout, 3d, and Edah Kinney, both of Hollis.\\n2S, lonas Blood of Buckstov.-n, Me., and Eliza Rideout of Hollis.\\nApr. 26, Samuel Runnells of Bradf ird and Elizabeth Lovejoy of Hollis.\\nJune 7. Jonathan T. Wheeler and p:sll)er Spaulding, both of Hollis.\\n23, Isaac I rcnch, Jun., and Abigail Farley,\\nJuly 10, Abraham Boynton of Pepi)erell and Mary Adams of Hollis.\\nSept. 28, Jonas French, Jun., of Dunstable and ^Martha Jewett of Hollis.\\nNov. 26. leremiah Sanderson of Salem and Lucy French of Hollis.\\nDec. 7, Lemuel right, Jun., and Mary Farlev, both of Hollis.\\n17, Ralph Nutting of A^^estford and Hannah Wright of Hollis,\\nly, Josiah Kidder of Amherst and Hannah Nevins of Hollis.\\nRev. Stephen Chapin of Mt. Vernon and Sally Mosher of Hollis.\\nSamuel French and Naomi Abbot, both of Hollis.\\nBenjamin Austin and Wid. Sarah Rideout, both of Hollis.\\nSamuel Chapin of Pepperell and Elizabeth Farley of Hollis.\\nJonathan W. French of Hardwick, Vt., and Catharine Conant of Holli\\nMar. 14, John French and Ama Nevins, both of Hollis.\\nMay S, Alfred Hutchinson of Milford and Lydia Foster of Hollis.\\n14, William Colburn and Rebecca Hardy, both of Hollis.\\nAug. 12, Charles W. Knowlton of New York and Sally Wood of Hollis.\\nSept. 12, Stephen Lund of Merrimack and Elizabeth Ober of Hollis.\\nNov. 22, James Davis and Bridget Wheeler, both of Mollis.\\nDec. iS, Benjamin Messer and Abigail Holt,\\nJan. 19, Andrew Willoughby and Hannah Davis\\nJan. 23, Richard Clough of Merrimack and Abigail Proctor of Hollis.\\nFeb. 4, Zachariah Kemp of Groton, N. H., and Elizabeth Powers of Holli--.\\n]6, Amos Blood and Susannah Phelps, both of Hollis.\\nJune 20, Oliver Willoughby, Jun., and Martha Hardy, both ot llollis.\\n26,\\nJan.\\n14^\\n20,\\nFeb.\\n25.\\nMar.\\n16,\\n2S,\\nAug.\\n.27,\\nDec.\\n.V\\n2S.\\nJan\\n4-\\n4.\\niS,\\n21,\\nJan.\\nFeb\\niS,\\n20.\\n20,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0412.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "MAKKIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\n35S\\niSii, Oct. 24, Jesse Hardy and Wid. Mary Smith, botli cit IIdIHs.\\nNov.ii, Ralph Lovejoy and Abigail Phelps,\\n181a, May 10, Jabez Chapin of Dorchester, Mass., and Mary Wood ot Hollis.\\nJune 28, Caleb Brown, Jun., of Milford and .Sarah ^yillollg;hlly of Hollis.\\nAug-. 18, Simeon Stearns and Lydia Bailey, both of Hollis.\\nSept. 24, William E. Kockwood of Wilton and Abigail Conant of Hollis..\\nOct. 6. Timothy Colburn of Milford and Betsey Ball of Hollis.\\nNov. 1, David Mooar, Jun., of Hollis and Patty Merrill of Dunstable,\\n12, Ralph E. Tenney and Olive Brown, both of Hollis.\\nDec. 24. Isaac Kimball of Mason iuid Lucinda Tenney of Hollis.\\n1S13, Jan. 20, Samuel Hamlet and Rebecca Conroy, both of Hollis.\\nMar. 7, Rev. Walter Chapin of Woodstock, Vt., and Hannah Moshcr of Holli\\nII, Elienezer Butterfield of Dunstable and Lucy Hobart of Hollis.\\n18, C.hristopher P. Farley and Mary Shcrwin, both of Hollis,\\nJames W orcester and Alary Lawrence,\\nEbenezer Duncklee of Amherst and Salome Wright of Hollis.\\nStephen Lund, Jun., of Alerrimack and Mary Hadley of Hollis.\\nJuly iS, Barnabas Sanders and St)phia Bush, both of Hollis.\\nWilliam Youngman and Martha Mooar,\\nAmos Wheeler -.uid Mary Rideout,\\nThomas Hamlet and Anna Rideout,\\nAmos Foster of Tewksbury and Rhoda Foster of Hollis.\\nTimothy W\\\\inan of Hillsborongli and Abigail Dow of Hollis.\\nJames Parker and Betsey W right, both of Hollis.\\n1814, Mar. 2, Daniel Campbell of Townsend and Susan Colburn of Hollis.\\nJonathan Stevens and Abigail Foster, both of Hollis.\\nWilliam Emerson and Sarah Jewelt, both of Hollis.\\nJacob McGilvrey ot Medford and Betsey Brown of Hollis.\\nJonathan Mclntire of Wilton and Sibbel Reed of Hollis.\\nJacob Blanchard of Dunstable and Mary Hazelton of Hollis.\\nJonathan Hale and Lydia Lawrence, both of Hollis.\\nKendall Cheney of Dunstable and Martha Blood of Hollis\\nBenjamin Smith and Nancy Jewett, both of Hollis.\\nThomas W. Stearns and Sally Neviris,\\nDaniel Mooar, Jun., and Mary K. Wheat,\\nJohn Shipley and Wid. Susannah Lovejoy,\\nBenjamin Farley, :;th,, and Rachel Foster,\\nNathaniel Paul and Elizabeth Lauison,\\nI^evi Kemp and Lydia Hobart,\\nTh(jinas Mooar of Dunstable and Lvdia Patch of Hollis.\\n27, Crista Duncan of Hancock and Lois Dow of Hollis.\\n27, Samuel Smith of Brookline and Sallj Dow of Hollis.\\n1815, Apr. 13, William Brown, Jun., and Hannah Farlev. both of HoUis,\\n13, Abijah Shed and Sophia Blood,\\nDaniel Blood and Wid. Rebecca Chamberlain,\\nLevi Pierce and Esther .Vdams,\\niSiO. Feb. 22, William Willoughby and Mary A. Powers,\\nWashington Willoughby and Lucy Saunderson, both of Hollis.\\nLemuel Snow of Worcester, Ma.ss., and Abigail Worcester of Hollis\\n15, John Gutterson, Jun., of Milford and Martha Sawtell of Hollis.\\niS, James Hardy and Mary Smith, both of Hollis.\\niS, Jeremiah K. Needham of Milford and Olive Parker of Hollis.\\n-S, Jeremiah Preston of Mason and Anna Proctor of Hollis.\\nJune 6, Eleazer Pierce and Betsey Proctor, both of Hollis.\\nJuly 74, Mather Withington aud Nancy Gilson,\\nSept- 7, Thomas Davis and Deborah Hobart,\\nOct. 17, Jonathan Foster and Leefy French,\\nNov. 12, Jon.athan T. Wright and Elizabeth Colburn, both ot Hollis.\\nm)\\nApr.\\nii\\n22.\\nJune\\nJuly\\niS,\\nOct.\\n17,\\nNov.\\n17.\\n23.\\nDec.\\n2S.\\n2.S,\\n.Mar.\\n2,\\n.Apr.\\n4.\\nApr.\\nIS,\\nMay\\nI,\\nJune\\n2,\\n6,\\n13,\\n28,\\nJuly\\nSept.\\n6,\\n22,\\nOct.\\n10,\\nNov.\\n10,\\n24,\\n28,\\nDec.\\nI,\\nJune\\n8,\\nDec.\\n28,\\nFeb.\\n21,\\nMar.\\niS.\\nApr.\\n15.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0413.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "554 MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\n1816, Nov. 14, Oliver Stearns ot Mil ford and Mary \\\\Villougliby of Hollis.\\n14, Christopher Farley and Constantina Cumings, both of HoUis.\\n1817, Mar. 13, Nathaniel Dow and Mary Ames,\\n13, John Armstrong and Rebecca Hobart,\\nApr. 10, Andrew Shattuck of Dunstable and Phebc Jewctt of IloUis.\\n33, James Wheeler and Dorcas Mooar, both of Hollis.\\nMay 6, Loammi Spauldingof Temple and Esther Wright of HoUi*.\\nJuly 10, Amos Shattuck and Mary Ball, both of Hollis.\\nAug. 4, Paul Davis of Mason and Martha Shed of Hollis.\\n5, Ebene^er Shed and Elizabeth Duncklee, both of Hollis.\\nSept. 16, Ebenezer Farley, 3d, and Leafy Duncklee,\\nNov. 9, Dr. Noah Hardy and Betsey Farley,\\nNov. iS, Isaac Butterfield of Brookline and Abigail Pierce of Hollis.\\n20, Jonathan Lovejoy of Milford and Sarah Willoby of Hollis.\\n33, Amos Hardy and Mary Cumings, both of Hollis.\\nDec. 2j, Ebenezer Blood and Betsey Abbott,\\n35, Daniel Walker of Marlborough, Mass., and Mary Hayden ot HoUis.\\niStS, Jan. I, Daniel Dow and Charlotte Farley, both of Hollis.\\nFeb. 5, Asa Jaquith and Esther Phelps,\\n36, Jeremiah Dow and .Sarah Eastman,\\nMar. 6, John P. Gilson ot Dunstable and Rebecca Spaulding of Hollis,\\nApr. 3, Capt. Daniel Bailey and Wid. Mary Lawrence, both of Hollis.\\nWilliam Brown, 3d, and Hannah Boynton,\\nRalph E. Tenney and Phebe C. Smith,\\nBenjamin Farley, 4th, and Mehitable Blood,\\nBenjamin Wright and Wid. Emma Bradley,\\nBenjamin Carter of Wihr.ington and Mary Farley (.if Hollis.\\nMoses Kendall of Tyngsborough and Mindwell Reed ot Hollis.\\nJoseph Patch and Sally Johnson, both of Hollis.\\nTS19, Apr. I, Moses Boynton, Jun., and Emma Lawrence, both of Hollis.\\nFrancis E. Fuller of Hardwick, Vt., and Martha Worcester of Hollia.\\nJesse Hardy and Eliza Mooar, both of Hollis.\\nAmos B. Minot of Westniister, Mass., and Mary Hardy of Hoiii.\u00c2\u00ab.\\nIsaac French, Jun., and Rebecca Bush, both of Hollis.\\nLeonard Bailey and Mary French,\\nS, Gardner Mooar and Mary Hardy,\\nNov. 5, Jonas Lawrence and F anny Lawrence,\\n9, Minot Farley and Zeraiah Phelpfe,\\n1S21. Jan. 4, Freedom French and Sarah Mooar,\\n35, Thomas W. Hardy and Mehit^able Blood,\\n30, Benjamin Farley, Esq., and Wid. Susannah Smith, both of HoUis.\\nFeb. 22, Joseph Rideout, Jun., and Sukey Ranger,\\nMaj-. 15, Dea. Stephen Thurston of Bedford and Sarah Burge of Hollis.\\nAsa Beverlyof Amherst and Roxiina Lovejoy of Hollis.\\nAmos Eastman and Wid. Lydia Mooar, both of Hollis.\\nJeremiah BuUard of Rindge and Priscilla Reed of HoUi.s.\\nSamuel L. Hardy and Roxana Duncklee, both of Hollis.\\nJonathan P. Woods and Lucinda Baker,\\nRoyal Woods and Catharine Lovejoy,\\nJoel Barker of Milford and Wid. Catharine Lovejoy of Hollis.\\n1833, Jan. 3, Daniel Greenwood of Dublin and Ribecca Hardy of Hollis.\\nDaniel Iloltof Milford and Olive Proctor of Hollis.\\nPhineas Cumings and Lucinda Lovejoy, both of Hollis.\\n1813, Apr. 31, Luther right and Hannah Lillis,\\nCalvin Willoughby and Lucinda Wheeler,\\n17, Louis Cochran of Andover and Mary Abbott of Hollis.\\nMay 3\u00c2\u00bb, Stephen Lovejoy, Jun., .and Lucy Hobart, both of HoUiB.\\nJune 8, Ebenezer Beard of Boston and Anna Patch of Hollis.\\n34,\\nAug.\\n14.\\nOct.\\nI,\\n39.\\nNov.\\n33,\\nDec.\\n^9.\\n3\\nApr.\\nI,\\nSept,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a030,\\nNov,\\n9\\n^5,\\nDec.\\nJune S,\\nJune\\n36,\\nJuly\\n4.\\nAug.\\n13,\\n9.\\nOct.\\niS,\\n21.\\nNov.\\n37.\\nJan.\\n3,\\n33,\\nFeb.\\n24.\\nApr.\\n31,\\nMay\\n1,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0414.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 35\\n18^3, Oct. 30, Joel Hardy and Eliza Johnson, botli ot Hollis.\\n1S24, Feb. 4, Benjamin Wheeler and Rhoda Rideout, both of Hollis.\\n!Mar. 23, Abel Ball and Sally F rench,\\nApr. 29, Noah Farley and Ruth Lawrence,\\n29, William Kittredge of Harvard and Lucy Sauaderson oi HolUs.\\nMay 13, Samuel Colburn of Groton and Sarah Woods of Hollis.\\n30, Benjamin Austin, Jun., and Hannah Pierce, both of Hollis.\\nJuly II, Jefferson Rockwood and .Sarah Lovejov,\\nOct. iS, ^Villiam S. Bradbury and Elizabeth Emerson,\\n23, Leonard Blood of Hollis and Hannah Hale of Dunstable, N. H.\\nDec. S, Timothy Patch and Hannah Burns, both of Hollis.\\n2S, Ehenezer White of Boston and Susan Hale of Hollis.\\n1S25, Jan. 5, John Minot of Westminster, Mass., and Wid. Mary Minol of Hollis.\\nMar. 27, Nathan Thayer, Esq., and Mary Jewett, both oi HolUs.\\nApr. 5, Benoni G. Cutter and Lucy Pool,\\nMay I, Joel Parker and Eliza Crawford,\\n26, Daniel Lawrence of Hollis and Sarah Fletcher of Peppere II.\\nOct. II, Francis E. F~uller of Hai-dwick, Vt., and Hannah Worcester ot Hollis.\\niS, Andrew Dean of Dunstable and Sarali Hale ot Hollis.\\nNov. 17, Abel Farley and Elizabeth F arley, both of Hollis.\\n24, Samuel C^uaid and -Sarah Boynton.\\n25, Jonathan Cragin of Clareinont and Marv Wright, 3d, of Hollis.\\nDec. 14, Ralph W. Jewett and Betsey Farley, both of Hollis.\\n16, Willard Blood of Dunstable and Sally Blood of Hollis.\\n27, Alvin Shed of New Ipswich and Laurinda Smith of Hollis.\\n1526, Jan. 19, Dea. Stephen Thurston of Bedford and Hannah Worcester ot Hollis.\\nFeb. 14, Washington Willoughby and Elizabeth Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\nJune 28, Gilbert Brooks of Medford and Martha Burge of Hollis.\\n29, Silas Hardy of Westminster, Vt., and Abigail Hardy of Hollis.\\nSept. 26, Ebenezer Sargent of Henrietta, N. Y., and Mary Wright of Hollis.\\nNov. 12, George Sherburne and Susannah Runnells, both of Hollis.\\n15, Ichabod W. Saunderson Lind Hannah Ball,\\nJohn N. Worcester and Sarah Ilulden,\\n1527, Feb. 13, Timotliy Hodgman and Charlotte Willoughby,\\nOliver Conroy of Hollis and Miranda Fisk of Dunstable.\\nEleazer T. Merrill and Susan Bro\\\\\\\\ii. both of Hollis.\\nJames Parker and Susan Woods,\\nLeonard Chafin of Groton, Mass., and Mary Wright of Hollis.\\nWilliam Conant and Sarah Hale, both of Hollis.\\nCalvin Wright of Hollis and Eunice Shattuck of Dunstable.\\nWilliam Gilbert of Francestown and Mary Ranger of Hollis.\\n1S2S, Apr. S, Henry Woods of Groton, Mass., and Hannah M. Thayer of Hollis.\\n17, John Parker and Mary Ann Gould, both of Hollis.\\nMay II, John L. Rix of Haverhill, N. H., and Elizabeth Hale of Hollis.\\n26, Alpheus Eastman of Hollis and Sally Williams of Warwick, Mass.\\nJune 5, David Hoyt of Charlestown, :Mass., and Sarah N. Pool of Hollis.\\nOct. 9, Rev. Darwin Adams of Camden, Me., and CatharineN. Smitli of Hollis.\\n2S, Hiram Wood and Annis S. Jewett, lioth of Hollis.\\nDec. 30, Ebenezer Runnells and Wid. Lydia Hale,\\n1829, Jan. 19, Charles Gilson of Pepperell and Mary Colburn of Hollis.\\n.\\\\pr. 7, Asahel Reed of Merrinuick and Priscilla R. French of Hollis.\\n9, Obadiah T. Eaton of New Ipswich and Clarissa Farley of HoUis.\\n9, Leonard Shipley of Dunstable and Sibbel Spalding of Hollis.\\nAug. 10. John B. Hill of Exeter, Me., and Achsah Parker of Hollis.\\n13, Alpheus Rideout and Lydia S. Powers, lioth of Hollis.\\n13, Mark Webster of Lowell, Mass., and Eunice Wright of Hollis.\\nNov. 24, Capt. Leonard Blood. and Lucy Dow, both of Hollis.\\n1S30, Feb. 2, Leonard Hideout and Wid. Mary Davis.\\nDec.\\n26,\\nFeb.\\n13.\\nMar.\\nS,\\n16,\\nJuly\\n13.\\nNov\\n16,\\n19.\\nDec.\\n4.\\nApr\\ns,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0415.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "Apr.\\n3.\\nDec.\\nI\\nMar.\\nID,\\n3\\nApr.\\nr^\\nMnv\\n17.\\nJune\\n0.\\nAug.\\n4.\\nSept.\\nJ2,\\nOct.\\n3.\\nNov.\\ni7-\\n356 MAKKIAGKS IN L IIKON O I.OGICAI, ORDKft.\\nsSjo, Feb. 10, Rev. Noah Kmer.son of Jiiildwin, Me., and Ama Smith of Hollis.\\n22, Luther Hardy and Hannali W. Sawtell. both of Hollis.\\nElias Colburn and Thankful Rideout.\\nMark Dow and Cliarlotte BU)od,\\nlJ)aniel Wyman of Hillsborough and Louisa Mooar of Hollis.\\n18,^1, Mar. 10, Abijah Fletcher of Westford and Louisa I^awrence of Hollis.\\nEbenczer Baldwin and Rebecca Bailey, both of Hollis.\\nAVinslow Reed and Mary Pierce,\\nTimothy U. Patch and Mary Proctor,\\nIra Beaman of Westminster, Mass., and Kezia Colburn of Hollis.\\nP ranklin Abbott of Milford and Indiana Proctor of Hollis.\\n.Sullivan Howard of Mason and Elizabeth B. Little of Hollis.\\nDouglas R. Patterson of Amherst and Dolly Ann Wood of Hollis.\\nAsa Farley and Sibliel C. Holt, both of Hollis.\\nFrancis (ewett and Louisa Rideout,\\nSilas Spalding: and Lucinda Wood,\\n2-u David W. Sawtell and Sarah P. Farley,\\nDec. 22, David oods of Hancock and Esther Wheeler of Hollis.\\nJ3. William Bowers of Dunstable and Mary Ann Hubbard of Hollis.\\niSji. Jan. 19, Daniel Shattuck and NLiry Ann Shatlr.ck, lioth of Hollis.\\nFeb. 27, Bradley Colburn and Naomi Boynton,\\nLar. 19, Jesse Templeton and .Sarah F oster,\\nApr. 5, Nathaniel Hobart and Hannah Colburn,\\nMay 17, Daniel Abbott of Dracut, Mass,, and Elsie Marshall of Hollis.\\nNov. 2S, Nathaniel Hardy and Hannah K. P.Trkcr, both of Hollis.\\n1533, M 3, John IT. Cutter and Susah F. Pool,\\n.11, Daniel I arlev and PoUv F arley,\\nApr. 2, Jacob D. Austin and Lucv S. Wright,\\n9, William Wlicelcr of Milford and Xanty C. M. Utile of Holli.-.\\n25, .Moses Proctor and Indiana Don, both of Hollis.\\nMay 22, Joseph Ober and Khoda C. Colburn,\\nJune 26, Natlianiel F\\\\ Howand Alniira Ridecuit,\\nAug. 27, Ambrose H. Wood and Mary Ann Colbni ri, both of Hollis.\\nJonathan W. Lovejov and Elizabeth Colburn.\\n1534, Feb. 20, John L. Pool and Mary Boynton,\\nEzekiel M. Bradley and Lvdia Dow,\\nGeorge W. Hubbard of Pepperell and Emma Burge of Hollis.\\nMark W. Merrill of Dunstable and Catharine Hale of Hollis.\\nD.tniel Edgcrly of Sanbmnton, and Mary H. Ste\\\\ens ot Hollis.\\nMark F arley and Mary S. Crosby, both of Hollis.\\nIsaac Jewctt of Nashville, Teiin., and Lydia C. Cillnirn of Hollis.\\n30, Luke Hale and Mary Morrison, lioth of Hollis.\\nNov. 6, Benjamin G. Searles of Rowley, Mass., and Phchc C. Cutter of Hollis\\n16, Joel Blood and Rachel Lund, both of Hollis.\\n27, Charles F. Hall and Martha Willoby,\\n1S3S, Jan. 4, George Worcester of Hudson and Wid. Rachel Colburn of Hollis.\\nFeb. 26, Luke Putnam of Dunstable, N. IL, and Rebecca J. Hale of Hollis.\\nMar. 5, En -Spalding of Chelmsford, Mass., and Ahara Spalding of Hollis.\\nApr. 12, William Adams and Sarah Ann Adams, both of Hollis.\\n19, Ebenezer Ranger and Maria Tozer,\\n20, Charles Walker of New Ipswich and Hannah Walker of Hollis.\\nMay 7, Alfred Knight of Lancaster and Mary Butterfield of Hollis,\\n21, Mark Mooar and Charlotte Wright, both of Hollis.\\nSilas French and Esther Saunderson,\\nJames Burgess of Dunstable, N. H., and Caroline HoUlcn of Hollis.\\nStillman Spaulding and Ann Holden, both of Hollis.\\nDaniel Livingston of I^owell and Sophronia Lund of Hollis.\\n1S30, Jan. iS, .\\\\rtemas Hale and Mary Ann Wheat, both of Hollis.\\nOct.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a224.\\nFeb.\\n20,\\nApr.\\nS,\\nMay\\nII,\\n-9-\\nJune\\n1.\\nAug.\\n-5\\nOct.\\ns.\\nJvuie\\n-3\\nNov.\\n^4.\\nHt\\nDec,\\n3\\nJan.\\niS,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0416.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "Mar.\\n,Vi\\nJune\\n2,\\nJ l y\\nI,\\nOct.\\n13.\\n13.\\nNov.\\n10,\\nDec.\\nzS,\\nApr.\\n6,\\n(1\\nJune\\nAu-.\\n3\\nSept.\\n-I.\\nOct.\\n4\\nMARRIAGES IN CHRONOI.OO ICAI- ORDER. 357\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iS.50, M:ir. ,v, Joseph D. Parker and Eucretia Smith, hoth of llollis.\\nVarnuin Wheeler and Mary Wood,\\nGains Wrig^ht, Jun., and Naomi Parker,\\nElbridge Livingston of Lowell and Irene Lund of HoUis.\\nChristopher F. Smith and Rachel R. F arley, both of Hollis.\\nJoseph Brown of Chester and Wid. Patty Patch of Hollis.\\nCharles G. Clapp of Nortliainpton, Mass., and Sarah Lawrence of\\nHollis.\\nGeorge W. Parker and Mary Woods, both of Hollis.\\n1S37, Apr. 6, Thomas Lund of Hollis and Bridget French of Nashua.\\nWarner Read and Louisa Wright, both of Hollis.\\nJohn Kjirley and Hannah Blood,\\nAlfred Farley and Lydia Farley,\\nWilliam Parker of Pepperell and Martha Patch of Hollis.\\nWilliam Flagg of West Boylston and Louisa Hardy of Hollis.\\nij, Rev. Dudley Phelps of Groton and Lucretia G. Farley of Hollis.\\n2b, Enoch Jewett and Wid. Sarah Willoby, both of Hollis.\\nNov. 7, Jonas W. Jaqiiith and Mary J. Austin,\\n21, Freeman Wallace of Bethel, Vt., and Jane Farley of Hollis.\\n1S3S, Mar. 19, Eri McDaniells of Brookline and Ann Farley of Hollis.\\nApr. 5, Isaac R. Lawrence and Marinda Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\n17, James Farley, Jun., and Martha T. Mooar,\\nj6, Capt. Josiah Blood and Wid. Dorcas Spaulding, both of Hollis.\\nRev. Joseph Warren and Lydia Dale,\\nEthan Willoughby of Hollis and Julia Marshall of Hudson.\\nAmos Wheeler of Nashua and Rebecca Wheeler of Hollis.\\n.Samuel Bancroft of Pepperell and Hannah E. Hardy of Hollis.\\nAbial Steele of Milledgeville, Ga., and Betsey Hardy\\nMoses Proctor of Boston and Elizabeth Conant of Hollis.\\n1S39, Mar. 7, Harvey A. Powers of Pepperell and Sarah Colburn of Hollis.\\nCharles L. Colburn and Emeline Wright, both of Hollis.\\nCyrus Whitcomb of Fitchburg and Esther Ann Nichols of Hollis.\\nEH Spalding of Pepperell and Harriet Eastman of Hollis.\\nDavid J. Weight and Sarah J. Colburn, both of Hollis.\\n1840, Jan. 14, Theodore Wheeler, Jun., and Charlotte Wetherbee, both of Hollis\\nJacob Sinilding and Jane Ranger.\\nCharles A. Wood of Hollis and Hannah A. Washer of Nashua.\\nS, Josiah Hayden and Submit Swallow, both of Hollis.\\nS, Leonard Swan of Nashua and Sabrina Hale of Hollis.\\niS, Phineas Hardy and Wid. Rebecca C. Hardy, both of Hollis.\\nNov. ly, Reuben Hardy of Hollis and .Vhigail Stearns of Merrimack.\\n1841, Mar. iS, Benjamin N. Stearns and Susan E. Colburn. both of Hollis.\\n1S43, Aug. iS, Ezra Shed and Lydia Reed,\\nSept. 15, W illiani A. Colburn of Hollis and Mary Hardy of Hudson.\\n15, Jefferson Farley and Charlotte M. Farley, both of Hollis.\\n1543, Jan. 31, Charles B. Fletcher of Lyndon, Vt., and Lucy F. Farley of Hollis.\\nMar. 13, Daniel D. F.Johnson and Fidelia Kemp, both of Hollis.\\nApr. 4, William Hardy of Salem, Mass., and Ann M. Richardson of Hollis.\\nMay 9, Daniel M. Smith of Hollis and Hannah Newton of Nashua.\\n10, Nathan Willoughby and Elizabeth A. Marshall, both of Hollis.\\nJune 29, Charles O. Wood and Luella P. Hardy,\\nNov. I, Leonard Lyon of Cambridge, Mass., and Mary D. P arley of Hollis.\\n9, Reuben F. Foster of Concord, N. II., and Sarah E. Ames\\nDec. 7, Horace Field and Sarah E. Farley, both of Hollis.\\n12, Silas S. W^heeler and Irene Wyman,\\n1544, Feb. 6, Andrew J. Spalding and Mary Ann Wheeler, both of Holli\\n22, John Coburn and Wid. Naomi Colburn,\\nJune 13, John C. Bell and Sarah .A.. Dow, both of Hollis.\\nJune\\n20,\\nJuly\\n7t\\n8,\\n19.\\nNov.\\n4-\\n.Mar.\\n22,\\n7-\\nApr.\\nAug.\\nI,\\nOct.\\n7-\\nJan.\\n4.\\nMay\\n12|\\nSept.\\n16.\\nOct.\\ns,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0417.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "35^ }k4ARKIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDEr/\\n)844, Nov. 13, Edwartl Emtrson of }lollis ;ind Hannah Cuniings Pierce of Boston.\\n19, Benjamin G. Searles and Alniira Buttertield, botli of Hollis.\\n1 4S, Jan. I, John Hardy and Hannah Farley,\\n29, Rufus N. Walling ford of Milford and Susan Farley of Hollis.\\n29, Nathaniel G. Fcrnald of Lowell and Harriet Farley of Hollis.\\nMar. 6, Luther Proctor of Hollis and Frances P. Wallace of Pepperell.\\nAjir. S, George Bancroft of Boston and Sarah G. Farley of Hollis.\\n16, Adolphus Stevens of Pepperell and Nancy J. Wallace of Hollis.\\nAug. 5, William S. Young- of Fitcliburg and Sarah A. Wright of HoUisi.\\nOct. 16, Calel Brown of Nashua and Mary Ann Reed of Hollis.\\n16, James S. Rideout and Harriet M. Hartshorn, both of Hollis.\\n21, James Little and Emeline Colburn,\\nDec. 4, Charles Hale and Nancy Ranger, 11..\\n9, Benjamin Whiting and Esther S. Wriglit,\\n1846, Jan. I, Mansfield Senter of Nashua and Mury Ann Willoby of Hollis. I\\nMar. 26, Jonas Blood and Wid. Susannah Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\nMay 12, Frederick Blood and Mehitabel Rideout,\\nSept. 24, Charles P. Wood and ]Iarriet Mooar,\\nNov. 5, Ebenezer T. Wheeler and Mary Ann Blood,\\nNov. 16, Benjamin F. Steele of Wilton and Rachel Colburn of Hollis.\\n1S47, Apr. 25, Nehemiah Woods and Mary Ann Woods, both of Hollis.\\nMay 5, William P. Saunderson and Hannah C. Marshall, both of Hollis.\\n6, Ralph J. Holden and Eliza Ann ILirdv,\\nNov.iS, James Blood and Emeline Wheeler,\\nSimeon A. Spalding of Hollis and Catharine P. Sawtell of Brooklinf.,\\nDavid W. Sawtell and Sarah J. Rideout, both of Hollis.\\nMinot Wheeler of Hollis and Sarah Ann Hardy of liudson.\\nJohn C. Foster of Milford and Sophia P. Farley of Hollis.\\nJoseph Gates and Susan E. Lovejoy, both of Hollis.\\nJacob R. Bagley and Dorcas C. Woods, both of Hollis.\\n5. Oliver L. Dow of Hancock and Mary Ann Eastman of Hollis.\\n11. Thomas S. Patch and Lucy A. Newton, b ith of Hollis.\\nJune 4, James W. Wheeler and Kezia A. Wheeler,\\n20, Nathan M. Ames and Ascnath Hardy,\\nNov. 30, Dexter Greenwood and Mary Holden,\\nDec. 14, John B. Perkins and Sophia A. Little,\\n1850, Jan. I, Samuel W. Fox and Abigail A. Lovejoy, both of Hollis.\\nJuly 4, Benjamin L. Farley and Elizabeth R. Howe,\\n1851, Apr. 2, George Moore and Susan AL Butters,\\n10, James Willoughby of Milford and Lucretia L. Wood of Hollis.\\nJuly 15, Rev. Daniel P. Deming and Abby A. Hardy, both of Hollis.\\nOct. 29, Asa Jaquith and Lucy Frencli,\\nNov. 25;, Charles Marsh of Bethel, l., and Susan E. Farley of Hollis.\\nDec. 17, Joseph E. Smith of Hollis and Charlotte Richardson of Pembroke.\\niS52, May 13, Enoch J. Colburn of Hollis and Elmira Steele of Wilton.\\nJune 3, Oliver Willoby of Hollis and Fanny Nichols of Amherst.\\nJuly 27, Thomas Proctor, Jun.. and Susan R. Pool, both of Hollis.\\nOct. 20, Stephen T.Ellis of Walden, Vt. and Elizabeth N.B. Colburn of Hoi\\n26, Luke M. Blood and [osephine E. Woods, both of Hollis.\\nEbenezer Ranger and Sarah Ball,\\n1553, Feb. 15, (Jrant P. Saunderson and Harriet Bl.Kid. botli of Hollis.\\n24, Augustus R. Lovejoy of Hollis and Jane AL Boutwell of Antrim.\\nMar. 14, Rodney J. Hardy of Boston and Sarah E. Tenney of Hollis.\\nJune 2, Alfred M. Hardy of Hollis and Elizabeth J. Sweet of Lowell.\\nAug. 7, Addison E. Winch of Westminster and Rosette Rideout of Hollis.\\n1554, Feb. 2. James Farley, 3d, of Hollis and Mrs. Abby Taylor of Nashua.\\n9, Benjamin W. Rideout and Susan Ranger, both ot Hollis.\\n.Mar. 12, Ichabod F. Lund of Hollis and Emily A. Corliss of Nashua.\\nDec.\\n31,\\n23.\\nFeb.\\n1\\n5-\\nMar.\\n2,\\nApr.\\n4-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0418.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "3-\\n^5-\\nMar.\\n^7-\\nApr.\\n3-\\nMay\\nS,\\nDec.\\n30,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S57.\\nJan.\\nI,\\nFeb.\\n5\u00c2\u00bb\\n2?.\\n.$53.\\nJan.\\nFch.\\nMar.\\ni4\\nMARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 359\\n1S55, Apr. II, Truman Ilurd of Nashua and Emeline Ridt out of Mollis.\\n11, Noah Dow and Mary J. Patch, both of Mollis!.\\nSt pt. 5, Thomas Lund and Betsey Blood,\\nOct. 3, Lutlier Cheney of Nashua and Lydia C. Winn of Mollis.\\n1555, Mar. 31, John R. Parker of Mollis and Cornelia M. Sawyer of Merrimack.\\nApr. 5, Perry M. Farley and Sarah Farley, both of Mollis.\\nJune 38, Samuel K. Rich of Boston and Frances A. Spauldinef of Mollis.\\nSept. 13, Jabez A. Sawyer of Roxbury and Sarah C. Worcester of Mollis.\\nDec. 13, Miram G. Felton of Amherst and Mrs. Jane Austin of Mollis.\\n1556, [an. I, Harvey N. Willoby of HoUis and Mary M. Pease of Weston.\\nI, Abel .Spencer of Nashua and Melissa Willoby of HoUis.\\nAlbert S. Powers of Milford and .Sophia A. Spalding of HoUis.\\nIsaac Fletcher of HoUis and Phebe J. Draper of Lyndeborough.\\nD.avid M. Farley and Elvira Wheeler, both of HoUis.\\nSamuel B. Blood and Sanih Wheeler,\\nCaleb Farley and Sarah M. Patch,\\nJosiah Colburn of HoUis and Rebecca Wood of Litchfield.\\nWarren K. Lovejoy and Mary A. Wright, both of Mollis.\\nAsa Noyes of Danvers and Mrs. Rebecca C. Hardy of HoUis.\\nLevi Abbot and Matilda Abbot, both of HoUis.\\nFrancis Lovejoy and Ellen M. Hardy, both of HoUis.\\nCharles Moses of New York and Susan Fox of IloUis.\\nNathaniel Pierce and Hannah M. Wheeler, both of HoUis.\\nApr. S, James T. Willoby of HoUis and Cornelia L. Pierce of Brooklinc.\\n3Q, Charles F.Chase of Nashua and Susan A. Blood of Mollis.\\nNov. 24, Josiah Ilayden of HoUis and Mahala Millard.\\nMark L. Willobj- of HoUis and Maria A. Wentworth of Chelmsford.\\nJeremiah K. Needham of HoUis and Eliz.ibeth H. Carlton of Merrimack\\nDaniel F. Runnels and Sarah E. Farley, both of HoUis.\\nOliver P. Eastman and Lucy A. Hardy,\\nCharles H. Wright and Hattie E. Stratton,\\n1S59, Apr. 5, Milton J. Hardy of Decatur, 111., and Susan E. Cutter of Hollis.\\nWilliam Hale, Jun., and Mehit.able G. Blood, both of Hollis.\\nAsa B. Eaton of Manchester, and Roaniia S. Farley of Hollis.\\nStephen W. Moore of Nashua and Julia Rideout of Hollis.\\ni860, Mar. I, Timothy E. Flagg and Susan A. Proctor, both of HoUis.\\nCharles Richardson of Marlborough and Rebecca F. Hardy of Hollis.\\nJohn F. Smith and Mrs. Sarah Smith, both of HoUis.\\nJune 28, Francis Tubbs and Mrs. Mary F. Lund,\\nNov. 29, Albert Shedd and Mary A. Farley,\\n29, William li. Gerrish of Boston and Eliza R. Willoby of HoUis.\\n:S6i, Nov. 19, Alpheus Rideoift of Hollis and Hannali Russell of Lawrence.\\nDec. 5, John R. Parker and Susan H. Farley, both of Mollis.\\n1S62, Apr. 7, Henry Smithwick of Hollis and Mary A. Smithwick of Nashua.\\nMay 6, Silas M. Spalding and Louisa D. Bradley, both of HoUis.\\nOct. 9, William F. Spaulding and Mary E.Farley,\\nDec. ti, Dexter L. Blood of Hollis and Cornelia A. Lovejoy of Amherst.\\n1863,. Feb. 28, Albert H. Brooks of Townsend and Mary J. Hardy of Hollis.\\nMay 19, Charles P. Ober and Louisa W. Hart, both of Hollis.\\nJune 30, Charles S. Spaulding of Mollis and Mercian Barton of Lowell.\\nNov. 4, Alfred Boynton of Pepperell and I.,ucy A. Colburn of Hollis,\\nNov. 14, John H. Pool of Boston and Ellen L. Runnells of Hollis.\\n1564, June J, Hale Gage and Jane E. Patch, both of Hollis.\\nOct. II, E. C. Frost of Nashua and M. Elizabeth Hills of Hollis.\\n1565, Feb. 5, Waldo E. Hill and Elvira A. W x)d, both of Hollis.\\nJune 10, Benjamin L. Farley of HoUis and Persis D. Plummer of Goffstomm.\\nSept 30, Curtis H. Bill of Albany, Vt., and Mary J. Worcester of HoUIs.\\nOct. 19, Alfred Farley of HollU and Mary W. Eastman of Milford.\\nSept.\\n9,\\nDec.\\n2,\\nDec.\\n9,\\n9.\\n27.\\nApr.\\n5,\\nJune\\n3,\\nJuly\\n9,\\nNov.\\n34,\\nMar.\\nI,\\nMay\\n14-\\n25.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0419.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "360 MARRIAGES IN CllRONOLOGICA]. ORDER.\\n1S65, Dec. 7, Ru.s.sell S. Putnam of Maiden, Mass.. and Sarali 1 Colburn of Holli?\\n1866, Jan. 7, Charles O. Whittemore of Merrimack and Emma II. Hardy of HoUis.\\nApr. 24, George W. Pierce of Brookline and Emma A. Wood of Jlollis.\\nOct. 15, Gustavus S. Moore and Harriet Wright.\\nFrank Dennis and Christene E. Davis.\\nEyman W. Willouglihy and Harriet F. Willouuliliy.\\nA\\\\ illiam II. Parsons and Susan M. I^eacli.\\nHorace Goodwin of Marblehead and Mary S. ilkin.s of HoUis..\\nCharles S. Runnells and Fidelia A. Wheeler, both of HoUis.\\nFrancis M. Lund and Eliza J. Wheeler,\\nPerlev I-. Pierce of Brookline and Mary Ann Wood of Hollis.\\nJames C. Hildreth and Mary S. Colburn, both of Hollis.\\n1. H. Bond of Walthani and Ella J. Proctor of Hollis.\\nAugustus B, Wheeler and Ellen Wheeler, both of Hollis.\\nHenry Moore ol and Letitia A. Hardy of Hollis..\\nFrancis A. Wood and Abbie J. Coburn, both of Hollis.\\nGeorge II. Messer and Sarah E. Whiting.\\nJohn A. Coburn of Hollis and Mary E. Bills of Townsend.\\np;dward H. Wood and Esther Benson, both of Hollis.\\nWilliam P. Cutter and Clara riglit.\\nHenry G. Hildreth n{ Xeulou. Mas.^.. ;iiul Elizabeth J. Spalding of H.\\nSamuel \\\\V. I letcher of Pepperell and .Martha Worcester of I lollis.\\nWilliam E. box and Eunice T. Hanger, both of Holli\\nClinton .Sco\\\\ille of Conesville, N. V.. and Eytiia l ields of Hollis..\\n]osiah N. llayden and Clara E. Farley, botli of Hollis.\\nAlonzo It. Wilson and Eva Shedd.\\nWilliam E. Howe of Hollis and Hattie Lund of .Millord\\nAbel Colburn and Anna L. Ileywood, both of Hullis.\\nDavid McKean of Amherst and Sarah M. Hodgeman of HoUis.\\nEugene A. Flagg of Worcester, Mass., and Katie F. Spaulding.\\n.Nathaniel Wliitetield of l raiu estrnvn. and Mrs. Laurinda Fowler ui:\\nMollis.\\nWilliam Worcester and Nellie IJ. Kead, both of Hollis.\\nCharles A. L-ivejoy and I Jlen M. Day, both of Hollis.\\nIsaac W. Pierce of Pepi erell and Lucy A. Blood of Holli,-,.\\n1S70. [an. o. William H.Jc.rdan of Glouce-ter, Mass.. ajid Harriet K. Worcester of.\\nIh.llis.\\n20. Samuel A. Woreesier aTul Li/./.ic 15. Day, b,.tli of Hollis.\\n.Albert Wheeler of Uolli;- And .\\\\delia S. Hubbard of Nashua.\\n]ames K. Hills and Sarah letcher. both of Hollis.\\nGeorge M. Bradlc o! Hollis and Maria L. Colburn of Hudson...\\nAmos Fletcher of Hollis a.nd Maria K. Lee of Nashua.\\n.Vliert J. Farley and Etta Wheeler, botli of H(dlis.\\nHenry .S. Spaulding and liva I.Wheeler.\\nLevi r..c ra)ie of New Bedford and Julia Willoughby of Hollis.\\nNorman V. Blood of (nnlon and Helen A. Smith of Hollis.\\n15, Isaac F. Fletcher of Lyndon. t., and Elizabeth Merrill ol Hollis.\\nAug.i. v John H. Hardy of Hollis and Jennie A. Conant of Littleton. Mass,\\nNov. 30, .\\\\lbert V. Shipley of Nashua and Miriam B. Truell of Hollis.\\n1872, Feb. 5. David S. Drajjer of Lyndeborough and Cornelia H. Hall of Hollis.\\n2S, CharlesA.Hale.il Mollis and l-lniogene Tlunnas of Hudson.\\n2S, George Dou of Mollis and Le\\\\ey Draper of .Nashua.\\nAlbert Lovejoy of Hollis and Charlotte S. Barrett of Nashua.\\nHorace Kideout and Ellen N. Hideout, both of Hollis.\\nEdward S. Colburn, 2d, of Hollis and Abby J. Barnaby.\\nRobert Morse and Grace Burnham, both of Hollis.\\nAlbert C. Meady of Bostcm and Carrie S. Pearse of Hollis.\\nRamsav C. Houtwell if Hollis and Lucv A. Clark of Lvndeboi-ouy.li,\\n20,\\n-5\\n-iS.\\nNov. 21,\\n^y-;.\\nI- eb. f..\\n0.\\nMar. 31,\\nApril 2.\\nInlv\\nJUl) 2.\\nOct. 2,\\nNov. 2S,\\n2S.\\nDec.\\n86S,\\nFeb. 10,\\njVIar. 30,\\nOct. 27,\\nNov. 25,\\nDec. 1\\nS6\\nJan. 24,\\nMar. 11,\\n20,\\nApr. 20,\\nMay 19,\\n.!7.\\nJune 24,\\nJuly\\nSept. 14,\\nNov. iS,\\nDec. ,i.\\nApr.\\n4.\\nMav\\n2S,\\nNov.\\n15-\\n24,\\nDec.\\nS.\\n14,\\nAi.r.\\n20.\\nAug.\\n7-\\n21\\nSept.\\n4-\\nNov.\\n20,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0420.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.\\n361\\n1873, Feb. 13\\nJune 26\\nAug. 5\\nSept. 22\\nOct. 29\\nNov. 26;\\n1S74, Mar. 18,\\nJune 2;\\nJuly 14\\n14,\\n20\\nAug. 21\\nSept. 24\\nNov. 15\\nDec. 24\\n1875, Jan. 21\\nFeb. 17\\nMar. 8\\nII\\nApril 4\\nJune 2\\nAug. 3\\niS,\\nSept. 9\\n29,\\nDec. 14\\n1876, Jan.\\niS^\\nFen. 2\\n2\\nJune 10\\nAug. 25\\nNov. 29\\nDec. 8\\n1S77, Jan. I\\n23\\n25\\nFeb. 3,\\nApr.2S:\\nMay 30\\nSept. 3\\nNov. 14\\n(25)\\nJohn L. Boynton of Pepperell and Josephine L. Fletcher of Ilollis.\\nWilliam D. Trow and Nellie A. Hale, both of HoUis.\\nNathan F. Abbott of Hartford, Ct., and Caroline A. Hills of Hollis.\\nAlphonso H. Powers of Hollis and Frances H. Tufts of Litchfield.\\nRalph E. Tenney and Sallie A. Cutter, both of Hollis.\\nAmos N. Truell and Clara M. Twiss,\\nSamuel R. Merrill and Mary L. Smith,\\nLeonard Butterfield and Rebecca Noyes,\\nWellington A. Hardy of New York and Mary C. Cutter of Hollis.\\nWilliam B. Wliitney of Columbus, Ind., and Lucy F. Cutter of Hollis.\\nStephen J. Smith and Mary E. Bradley, both of Hollis.\\nWalker H. Blake of Hollis and Augusta E. Jones of Amherst.\\nHenry T. Stimson of Boston and Nellie M. Woods of Hollis.\\nWillard E. Wright and Nellie B. Gates, both of Hollis.\\nJudson J. Willoughby of Hollis and Annie C Shattuck of Pepperell.\\nB. F. Swan and Frances E. Longley, both of Hollis.\\nFrank E. Nichols and Sarah A. Twiss,\\nCharles H. Bills of Hollis and Lizzie Mooar of Haverhill.\\nTheodore Brown of Portland, Me., and Clara A. Spaulding of Hollis.\\nHiram B. Fletcher of Hollis and Cora E. Vaughan of Providence.\\nGeorge H. Blood and H. Augusta Hills, both of Hollis.\\nElbridge J. Farley and Georgiana Hall,\\nCharles E. Gates of Hollis and Adelia A. Peacock of Amherst.\\nJames Moore of Nashua and Henrietta L. Hardy of Hollis.\\nGeorge H. Lovejoy and Ella F. Lovejoy, both of Hollis.\\nHenry L. Smith of Hollis and Fannie E. Frost of Arlington.\\nCharles F. Holmes and Nellie M. Bills, both of Hollis.\\nRalph J. Holden and Loinda Colburn,\\nLuman C. Drake of Framingham, Mass., and Annie E. Pierce of H.\\nyames W. Woods of Hollis and Sarah E. Parker of Pepperell.\\nLewis G. Woods of Hollis and Nellie M. Plummer of Goffstown.\\nEdward N. Brown of Merrimack and Lizzie M. Holden of Hollis...\\nGeorge F. Hale of Hollis and Addie L. Ruston of Cambridge..\\nHenry Parker of Hollis and Sarah Butterfield of Pelham.\\nThomas T. Hobart of Hollis and Fannie Woods of Nashua,.\\nCharles F Adams and Sarah M. Pierce, both of Hollis.\\nJohn N. W. Spaulding and Hattie M. Wheeler, both of Hollis..\\nMilton A. Parker and Nellie M. Nichols,\\nNathaniel H. Proctor of Hollis and Lizzie S. Billings of Acton..\\nJohn B. Calderwood and Abbie J. Cameron, both of Hollis.\\nFrederick M. Hill and Ella L. Colburn, both of Hollis.\\nGeorge H. Stearns of Hollis and Laurinda E. Corliss of Hudson.\\nGeo. A. Burge of Hollis and Anna W. Chickering ot Somerville, Mass.\\nAlbert Kemp of Groton and Clara M. Truell of Hollis.\\nGeorge A. Newton of Hollis and Mary l^ Swett of Brookline.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0421.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "362 FAMILY REGISTERS.\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\\nFAMILY REGISTERS FROM 1 739 TO iSoO, COPIED MAINLY FROM\\nTHE IIOLLIS RECORDS.\\nThe following lists of Family Registers have been carefully com-\\npiled, mainlv from the first three volumes of the Hollis records, in\\n^vhich they were originally entered, (without order or method,) for\\nthe most part on the margin, of the pages or fractional blank leaves,\\nfrom the beginning to the end of each volume. In some cases a\\npart only of the births in the family registers here presented were\\nrecorded at all in tl^iese thi ee volumes the rest ot them, in the\\nsame family in another book, known as the Record or Book of\\nBirths. In such cases the names of the other children, not found\\nin the first three volumes, have been copied from the Book of\\nBirths. The recorded births of a nimiber of the early Ilollis\\nfamilies have also been copied from the original records of the old\\nto-wn of Monson, and a few others, have been transcril)cd from\\ncarefully preserved private family records.\\nIn these family registers, as entered on the Hollis records, only\\nthe first or Christian names of the mothers were recorded, not\\ntheir full maiden names. In these lists, such family names of the\\nmothers as were found in the Ilollis records of marriages have\\nbeen added to their Christian names. The full maiden names of\\nmany others of these mothers, not ibund in the records of marriages,\\nare also embraced in these lists, when obtained from sources believed\\nto be correct. When not so obtained, the names of the mothers\\nare left as found in the original recoixls.\\nIt is not to be presumed that? the family registers recorded in these\\nfirst three volumes of the Hollis records embrace the families of\\nall the early settlers of the town, or that the lists of births in all\\nthe families so recorded and here presented are zvholly complete.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0422.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n363\\nIt is known that the births in some of these early families were not\\nso recorded, and it is also known that there were errors and omis-\\nsions in some and probably in many of those that were recorded.\\nStill it is believed that the Hollis records, in respect to the gene-\\nalogies of its early settlers, are more full and better preserved than\\nthe like records of most of our older towns, and the information\\nthey furnish upon this subject is invaluable to such of their descend-\\nants as are interested in preserving the pedigree of their families.\\nIt has been the aim of the compiler to exhibit a faithful and accu-\\nrate transcript of these family lists in a condensed and methodical\\nform, and in such way as would be most convenient to the enquirer,\\nwithout the toilsome and often fruitless task of a search through\\nthe hundreds of pages of the original documents.\\nThe whole number of family registers embraced in these lists, is\\n337, the aggregate number of births in them, 2161, making an\\naverage of nearly six and one half to each family, exclusive of such\\nbirths as may have been omitted in the records.\\nIn thirteen of these families as here presented there was but one\\nbirth each in twenty-four of them but two each in thirty-six of\\nthem but three each in thirty-four but four each in thirty-four\\nothers, five each in forty-two of them, six each in thirty-six of\\nthem, seven each in twenty-seven,. eight each in thirty-four, nine\\neach in twenty, ten each in fifteen, eleven each in six, twelve\\neach in five, thirteen each in eight, fourteen each in two, fifteen\\neach and in one, sixteen.\\nBIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.\\nAbbot, Capt. Benjamin* and Elizabeth.\\nBenjamin, born April 13, 1749.\\nElizabeth, Feb. 22, 1751.\\nSamuel, Apr. 15, 1753.\\nMary, born Dec. 31, 1754, died Jan. 2, 1755.\\nGeorge, born Dec. 29, 1755-\\nJoel, Dec. 4, 1757.\\nJacob, Apr. 12, 1760.\\n*Died Jan. 5, 1776, a;t. 46.\\nAdams:, William, Jiin., and Esther.\\nEsther,\\nborn Apr.\\nlo,\\n.7S4\\nMary,\\nAug.\\nI,\\n:7S6\\nWilliam,\\nJune\\n3.\\n.7S7\\nLevi,\\nJan.\\n22,\\n17S9\\nSarah,\\nJan.\\ns,\\n1 791\\nSamuel,\\nJan.\\ns.\\n793\\nJohn,\\nJan.\\n9.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0795\\nLucy,\\nAug-.\\n14.\\n1797", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0423.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "3^4\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nAbbot, Benjamin, Jun., ;md Sarah\\n^VIllGHT.\\nBenjamin,\\nDaniel,\\nJacob,\\nSarah,\\nTiniotliy W.,\\nStephen,\\nBetsey,\\nAbigail,\\nBenjamin,\\nJohn,\\nAbial,\\nborn Dee. i, 177S, d\\nAug. 2$, T7S0.\\nOct. 4, 17S3.\\n.Tul.v 3, 17SS-\\nMay 4, 17SS.\\nDec. 15, 1790.\\nJune 23, 1793.\\nJ;in. 9, 1796.\\nOct. 22, iSoo.\\nJuly 2, 1S03.\\nDec. 29, 1807.\\nAbbot, George and N.\\\\omi Tuttle.\\nMarried Dec. 29, 17S4.\\nborn Oct. 17, 17SS.\\nGeorge,\\nNaomi,\\nBetsey,\\nPolly,\\nWilliam,\\nHarriet,\\nFeb. I, 1790.\\nJan. 1 1, 1792.\\nMar. u, 1796.\\nJune 14, 179S.\\nJuly 21, 1S02.\\nAdaiM.s, William* and Mary Spear.\\nMarried May 39, 1744.\\nMary,\\nLydia,\\nMartha,\\nLucy,\\nSarah,\\nWilliam,\\nborn Oct. 31, 1745.\\nOct. 14, 1747.\\nJune 2S, 1749.\\nAug. 17, 1751.\\nFeb. 19, 1754.\\nApr. 15, 1756.\\n*Died Au\\ng-3. I\\n7S7\\n.net.\\n9-\\nAmes, Ensign Stephen\\nan\\nd Jane Robbins.\\nMarriec\\nApr.\\n14\\n731-\\nJane,\\nbo\\nrn\\nDec.\\n6.\\n1733-\\nHannah,\\nA])r.\\n2S,\\n1737-\\nStephen,\\nMar\\n4.\\n1739-\\nElizabeth\\nFeb.\\n10,\\n1742.\\nRachel,\\nDec.\\n12,\\n1744.\\nJonathan,\\nApr.\\nII.\\n747-\\nDavid,\\nMay\\n30,\\n1749.\\nAmes, J\\njnathan\\nand Frances\\nPowers.\\nMarried Nov.\\nII.\\n1772.\\nFrances,\\nJonathan,\\nAnna,\\nborn Sept. 5, 1773.\\nJuly ^3. 1775-\\nDec. I, 1776.\\nAmes, Ensign Jeremiah and Jane.\\nJane, born Sept. 28, 1770.\\nAmes, Burpee* and Grace Whiting.\\nMarried May 28, 1782.\\nBurpee, Jun., born Nov. 14,1782.\\nAmes, Burpee and Hannah Cumings.\\nMarried April 4, 17S4.\\nJeremiah, born Oct. 25, 17S4.\\nWilliam, Mar. 3, 1786.\\nBetsey, June 9, 1787.\\nNathan, Oct. 29, 17SS.\\nPoole, Feb. 12, 1791, d.\\nJoseph, Feb. 29, 1793, d.\\nMary, April 13, 1795.\\nJoseph, April 10, 1797.\\n*Died Nov. iS, 1S36, xt. 78.\\nAsTiN, Thom.\\\\s and Beulah.\\nRuth,\\nPhineas,\\nThomas,\\nEbenozer,\\nBeulah,\\nRebecca,\\nMary,\\nJacob,\\nAbner,\\nSarah,\\nborn Sept. 27, 1752\\nJan. 2S, 17SS\\nJuly II, 1758.\\nAug. 16, 1760,\\nNov. 16, 1762\\nApril 16, 1765\\nAug. iS, 1767\\nApril 6, 1770\\nAug. 26, 1773\\nJan. 26, 1775\\nAsTiN, John and .S.\\\\r.\\\\h Hastings.\\nMarried Jan. i, 1756.\\nSarah,\\nJohn,\\nAndrew,\\nMary,\\nMartha,\\nBenjamin,\\nAaron,\\nEldad,\\nAndrew,\\nborn April 3, 1757.\\nJuly 39, 1758.\\nDec. 10, 1759, d.\\nJune 12, 1761\\nMar. I, 1763.\\nJan. 25, 1765.\\nJuly 19, 1766.\\nApril 29, 1768.\\nApril 12, 1770.\\nAsTiN, Benj.\\\\min and Betty Farley.\\nMarried Nov. 24, 176S.\\nBetty,\\nBenjamin,\\nStephen,\\nborn Mar. 22, 1770.\\nJuly 22, 1773.\\nSept. 2, 1775.\\nAtwell, John and Bridgett Cumings. 7\\nMarried, Nov. 13, 1760.\\nJohn, Jun.,\\nWilliam C,\\nNathan,\\nJonathan,\\nborn June 6, 1761.\\nMay 7, 1763.\\nJune 15, 1766.\\nFeb. 31, 1768.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0424.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "FAMILY RECxISTERS.\\n365\\nBridget,\\nEbenezer,\\nJosiah R.,\\nJames,\\nBecca,\\nborn May 34, 1770\\nNov. 22, 1772\\nMar. 27, 177s\\nFeb. 3, 1777\\nJan. 28, 17S7\\nBall, Ebenezer and Sarah.\\nEbenezer,\\nNathaniel,\\nSarah,\\nWilliam,\\nMehitable,\\nJohn,\\nLucy,\\nborn Feb. 26, 1749-\\nJan. 24, 1751.\\nMay 26, 1753.\\nApril 13, 1755.\\nAug-. 3, 1757.\\nJ^m- 7. 1759-\\nBall, Ebenezer, Jun., and Elizabeth\\nDavis.\\nMarried Oct. iS, 1770.\\nEbenezer,\\nElizabeth,\\nAbigail,\\nDaniel,\\nSarah,\\nDavid,\\nLucy,\\nPhineas,\\nPrudence,\\nborn Oct. 14, 1771.\\nNov. 7, 1773.\\nNov. 12, 1775.\\nMar. 12, 1777.\\nDec. 12, 1779.\\nSept. 14, 17S2.\\nJuly 22, 1785.\\nJuly 24, 1788.\\nB,\\\\LL, Eleazer and Mary.\\nEleazer, born Jan. 12, 1770.\\nMary, Dec. 3, 1771.\\nSubmit, born Mar. 27, 1777, d. Oct. 30, 17S1.\\nSamuel, Sept. 2S, 1779.\\nLevissa, June 26, 17S1.\\nBall, John and Mollv Chamberlain\\nMarried April 24, 1782.\\nborn Jan. 21, 1783\\nMolly,\\nSarah,\\nJohn,\\nLucy,\\nSubmit,\\nJesse,\\nEbenezer,\\nSubmit,\\nSamuel,\\nCalvin,\\nLucretia,\\nMarch 3, 1785\\nApril 21, 17S8\\nJan. 24, 1790\\nMay 23, 1792\\nNov. 16, 1794\\nMay II, 1796,\\nApril 10, 1798\\nAug. 10, j8oo\\nJuly, 1802\\nApril 7, 1804\\nBall, William and Elizabeth Colburn.\\nMarried Feb. 9, 1781.\\nWilliam, born Nov. 23, 1781, d.\\nBall, William* and Rebecca Kinmkv.\\nMarried Dec. 7, 1786.\\nAbel,\\nAmos,\\nRebecca,\\nAbel,\\nMargaret,\\nJames,\\nHannah,\\nborn Sept. S, 1787, d.\\nNov. 15, 1789.\\nApril I, 1791.\\nMarch 2, 1794.\\nJuly 9. 1796-\\nJu y 4. 1799-\\nNov. 15, 1804.\\n*Died Jan. 25, 1832, a;t. 76.\\nWilliam,\\nDec. 23, 1782.\\nBarron, Samuel and Sally Lund.\\nMarried Jan. 24, 1793.\\nSally,\\nAlice,\\nSamuel\\nborn Nov. 29, 1793.\\nJune S, 1796.\\nSept. 4, 1799.\\nBarton, Henry* and Sarah.\\nSarah, born Oct. 3, 1734.\\nMary, Jan. 6, 1736.\\n*Died April 20, 1760, a;t. 54.\\nBayley, Daniel* and R^bekah.\\nJoel, born Dec. 11, 1751\\nJan. 4, 1754\\nAndrew,\\nDaniel,\\nJoanna,\\nRebecca,\\nSarah,\\nAaron,\\nMary,\\nDec. 8, 17SS\\nJan. 30, 1758.\\nJuly 24, 1760\\nMay 21, 1763\\nJune 38, 1765\\nNov. 16, 1768\\nDied Jan. 15, 1798, a;t. 69.\\nBaylby, Rich.\\\\rd and Hannah Shattuck.\\nHannah,\\nEleazer,\\nDaniel,\\nJob,\\nborn .May 27, 1778.\\nFeb. 30, 1779.\\nJuly I, 1781.\\nAug. 5, 17S2.\\nBayley, Joseph and Abigail.\\nSpencer,\\nSamuel,\\nAbigail,\\nJoseph,\\nElizabeth,\\nNathaniel,\\nDolly,\\nborn Feb. 2,\\nI77S-\\nSept. 7,\\n1776.\\nOct. 14,\\n1779-\\nDec. S,\\n1781.\\nAug. 26,\\n17S4.\\nDec. 24,\\n1786.\\nFeb. 21,\\n1789.\\nBayley, Timothy and Hannah.\\nHannah,\\nIsaac,\\nborn Feb. 22, 1776.\\nJuly S. 1777-", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0425.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "366\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nTimotliy,\\nSusannivli,\\nJohn,\\nLeonard,\\nborn Jan. 13, 17S0.\\nFfb. 6, 178^.\\nJuly 7. 1784-\\nJune 19, 17S7.\\nBayley, Daniel,* Jnn., and Elizabeth\\nFrench.\\nMarried Mar. 4, 17S4.\\nElizabeth, born Sept. 25, 17S4\\nRebecca, July 12, 1786,\\nLydia, April 21, 1789\\nDaniel, Dec. 31, 1793\\nMary, Aug. 28, 1797\\n*Died Mar. 13, 1S47, a;t. 91.\\nBennet, Phineas and Mary\\nElijah,\\nTabitha,\\nElizabeth, twin,\\nEphraim,\\nIthamar,\\nMary,\\nEphraim,\\nborn Mar. 24, 1753.\\nAug. 2, 1756.\\nMay 3, 1758.\\nMay 3, 1758, d.\\nAug. 31, 1759.\\nFeb. 10, 1762.\\nApril 13, 1765.\\nBennett, Phine.\\\\s, Jun., and Elizabeth.\\nEde,\\nElizabeth,\\nEzra,\\nborn Sept. 7, 17S0.\\nNov. 3, 1782.\\nNov. 21, 1784.\\nBlanchard, Jo,shu.\\\\ and Sarah Burge.\\nSaiah,\\nJoshua,\\nDavid,\\nMolly,\\nJohn,\\nLucy,\\n^Married Sept., 1747.\\nborn Nov.\\nOct.\\nNov.\\nAug.\\nSept.\\nJune\\n8, 174S.\\n21, 1750.\\n10, 1752.\\nSO. 1754-\\nID, 1757-\\n4, 1760.\\nBlanchard, Benj. and Kezia Hastings.\\nMarried Dec. 31, 1744.\\nBenjamin,\\nKezia,\\nAbial,\\nJonathan,\\nAbial,\\nIsaac,\\nDorcas,\\nPeter,\\nDorcas,\\nJoel,\\nborn Nov. 15, 1745.\\nMar. 26, 1747.\\nJ; i- 9 749, 1\\nJune 28, 1750.\\nDec. I, 1751.\\nApril 14, 1753.\\nFeb. 25, 175s, d.\\nAug. 17, 1756.\\nFeb. 25, 1757.\\nAug. 27, 1759.\\nAbel,\\nReuben,\\nBetty,\\nSimon,\\nborn Feb. 17, 1761.\\nFeb. I, 1763.\\nJan. 21, 1765.\\nApril 10, 1766.\\nBlanchard, Jacoh and Rebekaii\\nLawrence.\\nJacob,\\nJacoh,\\nborn Aug. 9, 1750, d,\\nFeb. 16, 1753.\\nBlanchard, Joshua Jun., and LucY French,\\nMarried Feb. 16, 1775.\\nJoshua M., born July 26, 1775.\\nBlood, JosiAH and S.\\\\rah.\\nJosiah,\\nEbenezer,\\nSolomon,\\nSarah,\\nCaleb,\\nJacob,\\nElizabeth,\\nborn July 18, 1743\\nMay 26, 174S\\nApril 17, 1747\\nMay ig, 1750,\\nMay 21, 1752\\nJuly 24, 1762\\nMar. 27, 1766\\nBlood, Nathaniel* and Sarah.\\nNathaniel,\\nDaniel,\\nSarah,\\nNathan,\\nFrancis,\\nWilliam,\\nTimothy,\\norn Mar.\\n23,\\n1741\\nMar.\\n4.\\n1743\\nMar.\\n18,\\n74,\\nApril\\n4,\\n1747\\nJune\\n16,\\n1749\\nNov.\\n12,\\nI7.SI\\nOct.\\nS,\\n754\\n*Died Nov. 11, 17S2\\nBlood, E\\nlnathan\\nar\\nd Elizabeth Boynt\\no\\nM\\nirried Nov\\n26,\\n1741.\\nElizabeth\\nborn Oct.\\n20, 1742\\nd\\nEInathan,\\nDec.\\n4, 744\\nElizabeth\\nMay\\n22, 1747\\nDaniel,\\nJuly\\n23, 749\\nJonas,\\nOct.\\n2S. 75\\nAbel,\\nJuly\\n3- 754\\nCaty,\\nOct.\\n20, 1760\\nMehitabel\\nMar.\\n76s\\nBlood, Daniel and Priscilla.\\nMolly, born May 9, 1767.\\nSarah, July 24, 1769.\\nDaniel, Feb. 2i 1771.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0426.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n367\\nBlood, Eimiraim and Mary.\\nReuben,\\nAmos,\\nEphniini,\\nDavid,\\nEnoch,\\nMarv,\\nborn Aug. 10, 1761\\nMar. 10, 1763\\nApril 2?, 1764\\nDec 15, 1765\\n1769\\nSept. n, 1771\\nBlood, Fkancis and Abigail Conroy.\\nMarried Dec. 12, 176S.\\nAbigail,\\nHannali,\\nFrancis,\\nSarah,\\nPolly,\\nFrancis,\\nEliz.-ibeth,\\nNathan,\\nDaniel,\\nborn Aug. 25, 17139\\nI^ov. 12, 1771\\nFeb. 15, 1774\\nMay 10, 1776,\\nFeb. 21, 1778,\\nJan. 30. 17S0\\nJan. S, 1783\\nJan. 26, 17S4\\nMar. 27, 17S7\\nBlood, Solomon* and Priscilla French.\\nMarried Jan. 5, 1769.\\nSolomon.\\nSarah,\\nToseph,\\nMary,\\nborn Oct. 7, 1769.\\nDec. 22, 1771.\\nBlood, Daniel, 2d, and Sarah.\\nSarah,\\nDaniel,\\nMighiU,\\nSarah,\\nborn Jan. 4, 1775, d.\\nFeb. s, 1776.\\nDec. 13, 1777.\\nSept. iS, 1779.\\nBlood, Elnatilvn, Jan., and Deborah\\nPhelps.\\nMarried June 5, 1766.\\nNathan,\\nRebekah,\\nElizabeth,\\nHannah,\\nMartha,\\nborn F eb. 9, 177S\\nMay 14, 1780\\nJune- 6, 1783\\nAug. S, 17S5\\nApril 6, 17S9\\nBlood, J vcoB* and Rachel.\\nElizabeth\\nSus.annah\\nRachel,\\nRhoda,\\nNancy,\\nSarah,\\nborn Aug. 14, 17S5\\nAug. 2S, 17S6\\ntwins.\\nApril 14, 17SS\\nAug. 27, 1790\\nDec. II, 1791\\n*Died Sept. 11, iSoo, a^t. 38.\\nBlood, Abel and Sarah.\\n*Died Dec\\n6, iSo2, let. 5;;\\nBlood\\nJosi.vii* and Abigail Pierce.\\nMarried\\nMay 24, 1770.\\nJoel,\\nborn Blare\\n1 7-\\n1 771.\\nMary,\\nJuly\\n10,\\n1773-\\nEbenczer,\\nMar.\\niv\\n1775-\\nJosiah,\\nApr.\\n33.\\n777-\\nSarah,\\nApril\\nI,\\n779-\\nAnna,\\nApri\\n23-\\n!7S3-\\nBlood, Josiah\\nand Sar.aii F\\nrench.\\nBenjamin\\nborn Mar.\\n16,\\n1789.\\nAbigail,\\nApri\\n.i.\\n1791.\\nLuther,\\nMar.\\n3\\n1793-\\nA ma,\\nApr.\\n14.\\n797-\\n*Died Jan\\nIS, iSi6, a;t. 73.\\nBlood,\\nNathan*\\nand Elizabeth N\\noyes.\\nMarried\\nApril 16, 1772.\\nNathan,\\nborn Apri\\n11.\\n1773-\\nElizabeth\\n*Kil!ed\\nFeb.\\nJune 17, 1775.\\nI3-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a077S-\\nMehitable\\nAbel,\\nborn Dec. 11, 1788.\\nMay S. 1791.\\nBlood, Solomon, Jun., and Hannah\\nKinney.\\nMarried June 9, 1794.\\nHannah,\\nbo\\nrn Nov. 28,\\nI79S-\\nSukey,\\nSept. 3,\\n1798.\\nBoynton\\nJOS^HUA*\\nand Martha.\\nJoshua,\\nborn Nov. 28,\\n1743-\\nMartha,\\nAug. 29,\\n74S-\\nBenjamin,\\nFeb. 21,\\n747-\\nMary,\\nJune 10,\\n1749.\\nAmos,\\nJune II,\\n175\\nSarah,\\nJuly 12,\\nI7S3-\\nElias,\\nFeb. 24,\\n7SS-\\nElizabeth,\\nApril 4,\\n17S7-\\n*Died Feb\\n4\\n763-\\nBoY NTON, John, Jun., and Lytjia Jewett.\\nM.irried May 17, 1745.\\nMargaret,\\n[emima,\\nSamuoi,\\nborn Dec. 6, 1745.\\nNov. 10, 1747.\\nMar. 20, 1750.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0427.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "368\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nLydia,\\nJohn,\\nIsaac,\\nBalo,\\nSarah,\\nJoel,\\nborn Sept. 12, 1751.\\nOct. iS, 1753.\\nApril 3, 1755.\\nSept. 26, 1756.\\nDec. 26, 1757.\\nMar. 22, 1759.\\nBoYNTON, Dea. John* and Ruth Jewett.\\nJeremiah, born April 29, 1753\\nJohn, Aug. ]i, 1754\\nJacob, Dec. 12, 1756\\nRuth, Sept. 10, 1758,\\nMehitable, Jan. 21, 1761\\nMoses, Sept. 25, 1763\\nRebekah, Nov. 20, 1765\\n*Died Oct. 29, 17S7, xt. 67.\\nBoYNTON, Benjamin and Deborah Parker.\\nMarried Nov. 5, 177S.\\nSarah, born May 29, 1779.\\nDeborah, July 33, 17S1.\\nBenjamin, Dec. 21, 17S3, d.\\nBenjamin, Aug. 4, 17S6.\\nMartha, Oct. 12, 17SS.\\nBoYNTON, Joshua, Jun., and Mary P.^rker.\\nMarried May 26, 177S.\\nMary, born May 14, 17S4.\\nJoshua, Mar. 19, 17S6.\\nJosiah, Dec. 33, 17S7.\\nSamuel, Aug. 9, 17S9.\\nBoYNTON, Moses and Hannah Lund.\\nHannah,\\nMoses,\\nRebekah,\\nSarah,\\nNaomi,\\nMary,\\nLucy,\\nJohn,\\nEliza,\\nJacob,\\nborn Feb.\\n2,\\n1 70s\\nMar.\\n3,\\n179S\\nApri\\n,S\\niSoi\\nMav\\n20,\\n1S03\\nJ iy\\n14.\\niSos\\nJuly\\nIS.\\n1S07\\nApri\\ni\\niSio\\nSept.\\n9.\\n1S13\\nJune\\n21,\\n1S15\\nDec.\\n17.\\niSiS\\nBradbury, James and Catharine Conant.\\nMarried May 30, 1795.\\nJames, born Jan. 4, 179(5\\nCatharine, Mar. 25, 179S.\\nWilliam S., Feb. 14, 1800.\\nCharles, July 4, 1S02\\nElizabeth, Sept. iS, 1S04,\\nSamuel F Dec. 25, 1S06\\nJosiah C, Feb. 21, iSog\\nMary Ann, May 17,1811\\nBradley, Ithamar and Mehitable.\\nNehemiah\\nborn May 17,\\n1779.\\nEzekiel,\\nApril 27,\\n17S1.\\nMehitable\\nSept. 8,\\n1784.\\nIthamar,\\nJune 22,\\n1790.\\nBrooks, John and Mary Kemp\\nMarr\\ned Jan. 5, 1757.\\nMary,\\nborn Dec. 3,\\nI7S7-\\nJohn,\\nFeb. 24,\\n1760\\nNathan,\\nAug. 26,\\n1767\\nAbigail,\\nDec. 6,\\n1770\\nHannah,\\nAug. 20,\\n1772\\nRuth,\\nJan. 15,\\n1775\\nBrooks, Capt.\\nWilliam and Abigail\\nKemp.\\nMarrie\\nd March 29, 1759.\\nWilliam,\\nborn May i,\\n1760.\\nAbigail,\\nJuly 19,\\n1762\\nBetsey,\\nJuly 33,\\n1764\\nSarah,\\nJuly 6,\\n1766\\nIsaac,\\nOct. 28,\\n176S\\nMarah,\\nFeb. 15,\\n1771\\nSamuel,\\nMar. 3,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0774\\nMartha,\\nAug. 2i,\\n1776\\nLeonard,\\nJan. 29,\\n1779\\nJohn,\\nNov. n.\\n17S1\\nSusannah\\nFeb. 13,\\n7S3\\nBrown\\nJosiah and Anna.\\nElizabeth\\nborn Oct. 14,\\n1742.\\nAnna,\\nOct. 23,\\n1744-\\nJosiah,\\nSept. 24,\\n1746, d.\\nMollv,\\nSept. 4,\\n1748.\\nJoseph,\\nNov. S,\\n1750.\\nOlive,\\nNov. 1,\\n1752-\\nSusannah\\nAug. 20,\\n1754-\\nSarah,\\nJan. 3,\\n1757-\\nJosiah,\\nJan. 31,\\nI7S9-\\nBrown, Samuel and Mary Glene.\\nMarrit\\nd March 26, 1756.\\nMary,\\nborn Jan. 1,\\n1757-\\nWilliam,\\nNov. 13,\\n1758, d.\\nHannah,\\nNov. 13,\\n1760.\\nBrown\\nSamuel and Mary Wheeler.\\nVlarriec\\nJanuary 32, 1761.\\nBridget,\\nborn Dec. 31\\n1761.\\nSamuel,\\nJan. 11,\\n1764.\\nWilliam,\\nJan. 4,\\n1766", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0428.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n3^9^\\nIJrown, John* and Kezia Wheeler.\\nMarried Oct. 9, 1744.\\nborn Aug. 11, 1745\\nJan. 27, 1747\\nSilas,\\nJohn,\\nKezia,\\nAbigail,\\nPhineas,\\nRebekah,\\nElizabeth,\\nMartha,\\nSarah,\\nDec. 23, 1749.\\nJune 10, 1754\\nNov. 14, 1756.\\nSept. 21, 1758\\nSept. 10, 1760\\nApril S, 1762\\nMar. 24, 1764\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Died May 6, 1770, aet. 43.\\nBrown, D.wid and Rebek.vh.\\nRebekali, horn Dec. 13, 1769.\\nDavid, April 4, 1773.\\nBrown, Willi.\\\\m and Elizabeth Nevin\\nWilliam, born Mar,\\nBetsey, Oct.\\nSukey, Nov.\\nNathan, Aug\\nLucinda, Sept\\nII, 1790.\\n8, 1 791\\n5. 179s\\n22, 179S\\nII, 1801\\nBuRGK, Ephraim* and Anna Abbot.\\nMarried Jan. 7, 1762.\\n.\\\\nna,\\nEphraim,\\nJosiaJi,\\nJacob,\\nSusannah,\\nSusannah,\\n.\\\\bial,\\nSarah,\\nSamuel,\\nBenjamin,\\nborn Nov. 20, 1762.\\nJune 7, 17O4.\\nApril 15, 1766.\\nJan. 7, 1768.\\nDec.\\nJuly\\nMay\\nMay\\nMar.\\nAug.\\nS, 1769, d.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a021. 773-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i?. 775-\\n1777-\\n23, 1779.\\nS. 1782.\\n*Died July 21, 1784, set. 46.\\nBuRGE, Dea. Ephraim* and Patty Baldwin.\\n.Married Jan. 28, 1793.\\nEphraim, born Nor. S, 1794.\\nPatty, May 9, 1796.\\nAnna, July 13, 179S.\\nClarissa,\\niCyrus, Sept. 7, 1804.\\nEmma, Nov. 5, 1807.\\n*Died March 3, 1843, set. 78.\\nBuKPEi, Nathaniel and Ruth.\\nNabby, born June 5,1780.\\nSally, Jan. ji, 17S3.\\nNathaniel, Nov. S, 1785.\\nBenjamin D.. Dec. 30, 17S8.\\n(26)\\nCarter, Edward and Mary.\\nMary,\\nElizabeth,\\nSusannah,\\nThomas,\\nSarah,\\nborn Nov.\\n9.\\ni/S\\nMar.\\n12,\\ni7. ;4-\\nJune\\n6,\\n1756-\\nSept.\\nS.\\n1758.\\nJune\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a05.\\n1762.\\nCarter, Edward, Jun., and Esther.\\nEsther,\\nCaty,\\nIsaac P.,\\nMary,\\nBetsey,\\nEdward,\\nThomas,\\nSusannah,\\nJonathan,\\nLoainmi,\\nborn Nov.\\n8,\\n1766.\\nJuly\\n8,\\n176S.\\nApril\\n27.\\n1770.\\nMay\\n27.\\n1772-\\nSept.\\n30.\\n1773\\nAug.\\n8,\\n77S-\\nJuly\\ni3\\n1777-\\nOct.\\n3,\\n1779-\\nMar.\\n24,\\n1782.\\nDec.\\n21,\\n1784.\\nClark, Elijah and Martha Runnells,\\nMarried April 9, 1778.\\nHannah, born Mar. 6, 1779-\\nElijah, Mar. 18, 17S1.\\nMartha, Feb. 19, 17S6.\\nJohn R., Dec. 14, 17S9.\\nColburn, Lieut. Robert* and Elizabeth\\nSmith.\\nMarried 1747.\\nRobert, born April 9, 174S.\\nElizabeth. Oct. 22, 1749, d-\\nBenjamiu,\\nNatlian,\\nBenjamin,\\nPeter,\\nElizabeth,\\nLucy,\\nAnna,\\nMay II,\\n1 75 1, d.\\nNov. 6,\\n1753-\\nMay s,\\n755-\\nNov. 14,\\n175\\nApril 27,\\n1759-\\nJan. 12,\\n1761.\\nNov. 27,\\n1763-\\n17S3, oet. 66.-\\nColbur**, William* and Abigail.\\nIsabel,\\nPaul,\\nWilliam,\\nborn Aug. 16, 1758-\\nOct. 4, 1761-\\nJun\u00c2\u00ab S, 1764.\\nDied April 3, 1789, a-t. 79.\\nCoLBUKN, Thomas and Esther Flagg.\\nMarried Sept. 15, 1757.\\nborn 1759-\\nJames,\\nRuth,\\nJohn,\\nThomas\\nJune 12, 1763.\\nSept. 14, 1765.\\nNov. I, 1767.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0429.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "370\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nCoLBURN, Robert, Jun., and Dorcas.\\nDorcas,\\nRobert,\\nPeter,\\nTimothy,\\nHannah,\\nAnna,\\nElizabeth,\\nWashington,\\nVV illiam,\\nborn Oct. la, 1773.\\nApril 4. 1775-\\nOct. 3:, T776.\\nAug. 10, 177s.\\nApril ID, 17S0.\\nAug. 31, 17S1.\\nJan. 16, 17S3.\\nApril 30, 17S6.\\nMarch 3. 17S9.\\nCOLBURN, P.\\\\LL anil Meiiitable.\\nMehitable, born Aug. 16, 17S2.\\nElizabeth, Jan.\\n1784.\\nCoLBiKN, Benjamin and E ther.\\nEsther, born May 39. 1779.\\nMary, May 5, 17S3.\\nLucy, Feb. ic, 17S5.\\nElizabeth, June 2^, 17S7.\\nMehitablc, May 16, 17S0.\\nHannah, Mar. 31, 1791.\\nJoseph, May 30, 1793.\\nJohn, Jan. 34, 1795.\\nElias, Feb. 15, 1797, d.\\nElias, Oct. 15, iSoo.\\nCoLBLKN, N.VTH.\\\\N*and Abigail Sii.\\\\ttuck.\\nMarried Jan. 3$, r779.\\nAbigail, born Nov. i, I7?3.\\nNathan, Mar. 31, 17S5.\\nRachel, Dec. 11,1787.\\nSusannah, Feb. 19, 1790.\\nElizabeth, Nov. 19, 1791.\\nNathaniel W July 17, 1794.\\nDaniel, Oct. S, 1796.\\n*Died Feb. 17, 1831, a-t. 78.\\nCoLBURN, James* and Susannah Hardy.\\nMarried Feb. 14, 17S5.\\nJames, born Mar. 13, 17S6.\\nSusannah,\\nSally,\\nHannah,\\nEsther,\\nRutli,\\nSally,\\nJohn,\\nBradlee,\\nAmos,\\nMary,\\nAlmira,\\nLouisa,\\nDec. 30, 17S7.\\nOct. 7, 17S9, d,\\nDec. 37, 1791.\\nFeb. 36, 1794.\\nApril 34, 1796.\\nMay 3, 179S.\\nAug. 33. 1799.\\nJuly 38, iSoi.\\nJan. 13, 1S04.\\nNov. 30, iSoj.\\nOct. 38, 1S07.\\nFeb. 6, iSii.\\nCoNANT,* Jo.siah and Cath.\\\\rine Emerson.\\nMarried Feb. 9, 1745.\\nJosiah,\\nCatharine,\\nCatharine,\\nAbel.\\nborn Oct. 17, 1746.\\nDec. 33. 1748, d.\\nNov. 13, 1753.\\nOct. 3, ms-\\n*Died Dec. 14, 1756, ;et. 44.\\nCoNANT, Dea. Josi.vii* and Elizabeth\\nElliot.\\nMarried Jan. 9, 1769.\\nlosiali.\\nElizabeth,\\nCatliarine,\\nWilliam,\\nMary,\\nAbigail,\\nRuth,\\nElias,\\nborn Feb. 5, 1770.\\nNov. 10, 1771.\\nNov. 38, 1773.\\nIan. 16, 1776.\\nJa 7. 1778-\\nAug. 30, 17S0.\\nDec. 31, 17S3.\\nSe]it. 1785, d\\nCoNA.NT, Dea. Josi.^H and Zekviaii Fox.\\nMarried Dec. 16, 17SS.\\nSar;;h,\\nJoseph,\\nElias,\\nHannah,\\nSophia,\\nF.li/.abcth,\\nrn Se])t. 34, 17S9\\nJ y 4. 1791\\nSept. II, 1793\\nFeb. 39. 1794\\nFeb. 16, I jc/t\\nJuly 4, 1800\\n*Died August 31, 1807, xi.\\nl ona.s:t, Dea. Abel* and ALvkgaret Jevvett\\nMarried Nov. 30, 1781.\\nMargaret,\\nAbel,\\n[ames,\\nCatharine,\\nborn Aug. ^o, 1782\\nJune I, 17S4.\\nApril 7, 17S6.\\nDec. 39, 1787.\\nCon.\\\\nt, Dea. Abel and Lvdia Thurston.\\nSusannali,\\nJoseph,\\nDaniel,\\nLydia,\\nRebekah,\\nMoses T.,\\nJohn C,\\nborn May 36, 1791\\nNo% 34, 1793\\nDec. II, 1794\\nApril 26, 1796\\nNov. 3.8, 179S\\nFeb. 3, iSoi\\nJan. 30, 1S03\\n*Died May 2, 1844, a;t. 88.\\nCoNROV John and Lvdia.\\n*Died Feb. 14, 1830, .-ct. 70.\\nhn,\\nSarah,\\nLydia,\\nThomas,\\nborn Dec. 38, 1761.\\nSept. 13, 1764.\\nJan. 29, 1766-\\nApril 3, 1769.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0430.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n371\\nWilliam,\\nWilliam,\\nMary,\\nborn Aug. 3, 1771, cl.\\nSept. 26, 1775.\\nNov. 6, 1777.\\nCoNROY Samuel and Alice Blood.\\nMarried Nov. 32, 1774.\\nborn July 9, 1779.\\nMay 27, 17S1.\\nSamuel,\\nAlice,\\nJonas,\\nMartha,\\nSarah,\\nDavid,\\nNov. 7, 17S3.\\nDec. 7, 1785.\\nAug. 23, 1788.\\nMay 23, 1791.\\nCoNROY Stephen and Rebecca Blodgett.\\nMarried Dec. 13, 1781.\\nborn Feb. 25, 17S2.\\nCuMiNGS, Lieut. John and Rebecca.\\nBetsey,\\nEuniceJ\\nJohn,\\nRebekah,\\nIsaac,\\nOliver B.,\\nFeb. 13, 17S4.\\nJune 13, 17S7.\\nApril 26, 17S9.\\nFeb. 9, 1795.\\nAug. 28, 1S02.\\nCuMiNGS, Samuel* Esq., and Prudence\\nLawrence.\\nMarried July iS, 1732.\\nMary,\\nborn April 22,\\n734-\\nSibbell,\\nNov. I,\\n736-\\nPrudence,\\nNov. 26,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0740.\\nSamuel,\\nDec. 10,\\n1742.\\nThomas,\\nAug. 21,\\n.74S.\\nBenjamin,\\nNov. 25,\\n1757-\\n*D\\ned Jan. iS, 1772, a:t. 63.\\nCUMINGS,\\nJerahmael* and Hannah\\nFarwell.\\nHannah,\\nborn July 13,\\n737-\\nHenry,\\nSept. 16,\\n1739-\\nJotham,\\nDec. 29,\\n1741.\\nCaty,\\nFeb. 38,\\n744-\\nBetty,\\nJuly 17.\\n1746.\\n*Died Oct. 21, 1747, xt. 36.\\nCuMiNGS, Ebenezer* and Elizabeth,\\nAbbott.\\nElizabeth,\\nEbenezer,\\nAbigail,\\nBridget,\\nLucy,\\nMary,\\nJacob A.,\\nSarah,\\n*Died 1778.\\nborn Nov.\\n^3.\\n7.i9\\nSept.\\nIS.\\n1 761.\\nJuly\\n9.\\n1763-\\nJune\\n16,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0765-\\nJuly\\n9.\\n1767.\\nOct.\\n23.\\n1769.\\nNov.\\n2,\\n1772.\\nFeb.\\n38,\\n77^\\nPeter,\\nRebecca,\\nSarah,\\nJohn,\\nRebecca,\\nAbigail,\\nAsahel,\\nHenry,\\nBenaiah,\\norn Nov.\\n12,\\n1 761.\\nMar.\\n2,\\nP764, d.\\nOct.\\ns.\\n1766.\\nMar.\\n8,\\n1769.\\nAug.\\n28,\\n1771.\\nFeb.\\nII)\\n1774-\\nJan.\\n13.\\n1777-\\nNov.\\nI,\\n1779-\\nMar.\\n21,\\n17S2.\\nCuMiNGS, Samuel Jun. and Lydia Webster\\nMarried Nov. 3, 176S.\\nLydia,\\nSibbel,\\nborn Aug. 21, 1769.\\nMay 17, 1771.\\nSamuel,\\nMay 30,\\n773-\\nPrudence,\\nJan. 24, 1\\n77S-\\nCuMiNGs, Philip and Mary.\\nPhilip,\\nborn Sept.\\nI,\\n770.\\nThomas,\\nAug.\\n7i\\n1772.\\nEdward,\\nNov.\\n17.\\n774-\\nCUMINGS\\nWiLLi.\\\\M* and Mehitable\\nEastman\\nMarried Jan. 28,\\n176S.\\nWilliam,\\nhorn Jan.\\n17.\\n1760.\\nJonathan,\\nAuff.\\n2.\\n1770\\nDaniel,\\nJuly\\n6,\\n1772\\nLeonard,\\nApril\\n19.\\n1774\\nCaleb E.,\\nJan.\\n9.\\n1776\\nSarah,\\nDec.\\niS,\\n1777\\nElizabeth,\\nApril\\nIS.\\n17S0\\nMolly,\\nM.iy\\niS,\\n17S2\\nBradley,\\nApril\\n13,\\n17S4\\nHannah,\\nJuly\\n17.\\n1786\\nLuther,\\nMay\\n6,\\n17S9\\nDied Oct. 2, 1S31\\nxt. 90.\\nCUMINGS,\\nLieut. Benjamin and\\nBridget\\nPool.\\nMarried Dec. 7\\n17S0.\\nBenjamin,\\nborn Aug.\\n24,\\n1782.\\nBtidget,\\nFeb.\\n3.\\n.7S4.\\nCUMINGS\\nLieut. Benjamin an\\nd S\\narah\\nH olden\\nSarah,\\nborn June\\n7.\\n1787.\\nSamuel,\\nNov.\\n9\\nI7S8.\\nThomas,\\nSept.\\niS,\\n1790.\\nDavid,\\nOct.\\n13.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0792.\\nPhineas,\\nMar.\\nIS.\\n1795-\\nBetsey,\\nApril\\n10,\\n1797-\\nWilliam,\\nApril\\n25,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0799", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0431.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "372\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nCuMiNGS, Thomas and Hannah Pool.\\nMarried Nov. 17, 1773.\\nHannah,\\nSarah,\\nThomas,\\nborn April i, 1775.\\n1774.\\nNov. I, 1776.\\nDanforth, Jona.* and Anna Blanchard.\\nMarried May 24, 174,1.\\nAnna,\\nJonatlian,\\nPavid,\\nhorn Feb. 7, 17.44.\\nJuly 2 745-\\nJan. 24, 1747.\\n*Died March 3, 1747, xt. 32.\\nDanforth, Jonathan, Jun-i and Hannah\\nHannah,\\nJonathan,\\nElizabeth,\\nLeonard,\\nDavid,\\nLuther,\\nAnna,\\nAsa,\\nRebecca,\\nborn May 5, 1770.\\nJuly 27, 1772.\\nMay 10, 1774.\\nApril 9, 1777.\\nMay 15, 1779.\\nOct. 23, 17S1.\\nJuly 19, 17S3.\\nOct. 14, 17SS.\\nMar. 23, 17SS.\\nDanforth, Jacor and Anna.\\nJacob,\\nTimothy,\\nAnna,\\nborn Mar. 30, 1769.\\nJune 2, 1771.\\nM- 9- I77.V\\nD WIS, Joshua and Dorothy heeler.\\nMarried Oct. 22, 1767.\\nSimeon,\\nHannah.\\nborn Mar. 4, 17S4.\\nMay 23,1786.\\nDiNSMORE, Abraham and LvniA.\\nAbraham,\\nZebadiah,\\nLydia,\\nHannah,\\nPhebe,\\nTliomas,\\nborn Jan. 17, 1753.\\nJan. 17, 1755.\\nJan. 24, 1757.\\nMar. 2, 1759.\\nMay 17, 1761.\\nAug. 14, 1763.\\nDow, Capt. Reuben* and Lydia Jones.\\nEvan,\\nStephen,\\nLydia,\\nPhebe,\\nDaniel.\\nLois,\\nborn F eb. 4, 1754.\\nDec. 30, 1757.\\nMay iS, 1762.\\nJune 22, 1765.\\nDec. 10, 1769.\\nJi ne 24, 1773.\\nDow, Stei hen* and Abigail Tewett.\\nMarried June 17, 17S4.\\nborn Feb. 2, 17S6\\nJuly 14, 17S7\\nLois,\\n.Stephen,\\nHannah,\\nNathaniel,\\nJeremiah,\\nAbigail,\\nElizabeth,\\n*Died Nov. i.\\nApril 28, 1790\\nAug. 21, 1792\\nJan. S, 179s\\nApril 22, 1797\\nDec. 24, iSoo\\na-t. 82.\\nDrury, Lieut. Zedekiah and Hannah\\nGershom,\\nZedekiah,\\nJon.athan,\\nEbenezer,\\nThomas,\\nNatlian.\\nHannah,\\nElizabeth,\\nMary,\\nDavid,\\nJohn,\\nSamuel,\\nborn Dec. 31, 1739\\nMar. I, 1742\\nAug. 4, 1743\\nApril 36, 1747\\nNov. 23, 1748\\nAug. 29, 1750\\nAug. 27, 1752\\nFeb. 8, I7S7\\nMay IS, 1759\\nFeb. 28, 1761\\nJuly 10, 1763\\nEastman, Lieut. Amos* and Mehitable\\nBradley.\\nMehitable,\\nJonathan.\\nAmos,\\nCaleb,\\nSarah,\\nHannah,\\nborn June 25, I74 5.\\nJuly 19, 174S.\\nApril 28, 1751.\\nOct. 3, 1753.\\nMar. 5, 1756.\\nJan. 6. 1759.\\n*Died Feb. 9, i8ii, a;t. Si.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Died March 6, iSoS, X t. 8S.\\nEastman, Jonathan* and Sarah F letcher.\\nMarried Sept. 13, 1770.\\nJoseph F., born Jan. 14, 1772.\\nJonathan B., Jan. 8, 1780.\\n*Died Dec. 29, 1790, net. 42.\\nEastman, Amos* and Ruth Flagg.\\nMarried Jan. 6, 1774.\\nRuth,\\nPersis,\\nPersis,\\nAmos,\\nCaleb,\\nCharles,\\nHannah,\\nAlpheus,\\nLuke,\\n*Died August 2, 1S32, .xt. Si.\\nOct.\\n^4.\\n1774-\\nDec.\\n1,\\n1775. d-\\nOct.\\n27.\\n1776.\\nAug.\\n4.\\n1778.\\nMay\\n4.\\n17S0.\\nFeb.\\n4.\\n1782.\\nJune\\n2.S.\\n1783-\\nOct.\\n9,\\n1787.\\nJune\\n22,\\n1790.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0432.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REOrSTERS.\\n373\\n3EMKRSON, R\\nev. Daniel* and Hannah\\nEmerson.\\nMarried Nov. 7, 1744-\\nHannah,\\nborn Sept. 30, 1745-\\nDaniel,\\nDec. 15, 1746.\\nMary,\\nSept. 19. 1748, d.\\nPeter,\\nNov. 7, 1749.\\nLucy,\\nOct. 29, 1751\\nMary,\\nNov. 14, 1753\\nKlizabeth\\nMay S, I7SS\\nEbenezer,\\nAug:. 14. I7S7\\nJoseph,\\nSept. 2S, 1759\\nRalph,\\nMar. 4, 1761\\nRebecca,\\nJuly 5. \u00c2\u00ab762\\nSamuel,\\nSept. 6, 1764\\nWilliam,\\nDec. II, 1765\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Died\\nSept. 30, iSoi, St. 85.\\nEmerson\\nDea\\nDaniel* and Ama Fletcher\\nMarried Nov. 17, 176S.\\nAma,\\nborn Aug. 20, 1769.\\nDaniel,\\nJuly IS. 1771\\nHannah,\\nDec. 7, 1775\\nJoseph,\\nOct. 13, 1777\\nRalph,\\nAug. iS, 17S7\\nSamuel,\\nWilliam,\\ntwins, Nov. 9, 1791.\\n*Died Oct. 4. 1S20, st. 74.\\nEmerson, Thomas and Judith.\\nJames,\\nborn Aug. 7, 1770.\\nThomas,\\nNov. 27. 1774\\nW^illiani,\\nMar. 28, 1777\\nDaniel,\\nJune 12, 17S0\\nJohn S.,\\nAug. 12, 17S3\\nAsa,\\nSept. 20, 17S5\\nEmerson,\\nTimothy and Huldah.\\nTimothy,\\nborn Dec. 11, 1776.\\nAaron,\\nJune 1 1, 1779.\\nStephen,\\nMar. 29, 17S1.\\nHuldah,\\nApril I, 1783.\\nJesse,\\nMay 15,1785-\\nEmerson,\\nDr. Peter* and Molly.\\nSusannah,\\nborn Dec. 10, 17S1.\\nRebecca,\\nMay 29, 17S4.\\nMary,\\nJune 7, 1786.\\nDaniel,\\nSept. 16, 17SS.\\nHannah,\\nJune 25, 1 791.\\nJohn,\\nApril 7, 179S.\\nDied 1S27, a;t. 78.\\n1\\nEmerson, Ralph* and Alice Ambs.\\nMarried May 13, 17S4.\\nElizabeth,\\nAlice,\\nborn Jan. 27, 1785.\\nOct. 4, 1790.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Died Oct. 4, 1790, a;t. 29.\\nEasterbrook, Joseph and Lydia.\\nMary,\\nElizabeth,\\nLydia,\\nJoseph,\\nborn April 20, 1751.\\nNov. 2, 1753.\\nJan. 24. 1761.\\nMar. 28, 1764.\\nFarley, Lieut. Samuel and Hannah\\nBrown.\\nMarried Oct. 9, 1744.\\nEbenezer,\\nSamuel,\\nHannah,\\nBenjamin,\\nAnna,\\nborn Oct. 9, 1745\\nMar. 14, 1747\\nJan. 27, 1749\\nMar. II, 1756\\nFeb. 19, 1768\\nF.\\\\RLEY, Lieut. Benjamin* and Joanna\\nPage.\\nJoanna,\\nRebecca,\\nBenjamin,\\nMolly,\\nBetty.\\nLucy,\\nEbenezer,\\nHannah,\\nChristopher,\\nStephen,\\nHannah,\\nSarah,\\nborn April 21, 1733\\nApril 29, 1735\\nJune 21, 1737\\nNov. 25, 1739\\nJune 23, 1742\\nFeb. 13, 1744\\nSept. 19, 1747\\nFeb. 8, 1750,\\nApril I, 1751\\nJan. 28, 1754\\nJan- 31. 1757\\nSept. 28, 1761\\n*Died Dec. 23, 17S9, a:t. 79.\\nFarley, Capt. Caleb* and ELiz.\\\\BETit\\nFarley.\\nElizabeth,\\nJoseph,\\nCaleb,\\nJames,\\nBenjamin,\\nJohn,\\nThomas,\\nAbel,\\nborn Aug. 24, 1755\\nMay 1,1757\\nApril 3, 1759\\nApril 12, 1761\\nJune 27, 1763\\nMay 1765\\nDec. 28, 1769\\nJuly 7. 773\\n*Died April 5, 1S33, ret. 102 years, 5 mo.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0433.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "374\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nFarley, Ebenezer* :ind Betty Wheeler.\\nMarried Nov. 6, 1766.\\nBeiijaniin,\\nLucy,\\nJoanna,\\nBetty,\\nEbenezer,\\nHannah,\\nJohn,\\nDaniel,\\nJesse,\\nSarah,\\nRebecca,\\nSusannah,\\nJames,\\norn Feb.\\nI,\\n1707.\\nSept.\\n3.\\n176S.\\nMar.\\n23,\\n1770.\\nMar.\\niS,\\n1773.\\nMar.\\n4.\\n1774-\\nDec.\\nI,\\nI77S-\\nDec.\\n13.\\n1777-\\nOct.\\n2S,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0779-\\nJune\\n36,\\n17S1.\\nApri\\n23.\\n7S3-\\nDec.\\n13.\\n17S4\\nFeb.\\n4.\\n17S7.\\nMay\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a021)\\n1791\\nDied Jan. 28, 1S27, a;t. So.\\nFarley, Chklstopher* and Rltii Jewett.\\nLirried Dec. 30, 1773.\\nRuth,\\nAmos,\\nChristopher P.,\\nSusannah,\\nJames J.,\\nJames J.,\\nElizabeth,\\nChristopher,\\nborn Sept. 19, 1774.\\nJune 6, 1776.\\nJan- 30. 1778.\\nJan. 9, 17S0.\\nMay 4, 17S2, d.\\nJan. 12, 17S4.\\nJuly 28, 17S6.\\nOct. S, 17SS.\\nAbigail,\\nborn July 2js, I jSO-\\nWilliam,\\nOct. 21, 1787-\\nNathan,\\nMar. 16, 17S9.\\nHenry,\\nJuly 9, 1790.\\nElizabeth,\\nSept. 14, 1791, d--\\nIsaac,\\nFeb. 15, 1793.\\nLucy,\\nApril 16, 1794.\\nHannah,\\nJuly 17. 795-\\nSukey,\\nDec. 2, 1796.\\nElizabeth,\\nOct. 10, 1799.\\nOilman,\\nJan. 13, 1S02.\\nFarley, Lieut\\nBenjamin and Maf.\\\\\\nB\\nlodgett.\\nMarri\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0d Feb. 15, 17S7.\\nMary,\\nborn July 27, 1785\\nBenjamin,\\nMay 3, 1790.\\nSarah,\\nMay 5, 1793, 0,\\nNoah,\\nApr. 13, 1794, d-\\nLeonard,\\nSept. 23, 1796, d.\\nCharlotte,\\nOct. 22, 1797-\\nNoah,\\nFeb. 10, iSoo.\\nAbel,\\nSept. 19, iSo2\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nLeonard W.,\\nAug. 9, 1S05-\\nSarah,\\nAug. II, 1S07.\\nCaleb,\\nJuly 16, iSii.\\nFarley, Benjamin and Lvcy Fletche\u00c2\u00bb.\\n*Died June 21, 17SS, X t. 37.\\nFarley, Josefii and Bridget Powers.\\nMarried Dec. iS, 1777.\\nBridget, born Mar. 4, 1778.\\nJoseph,\\nFeb. 7, 1780.\\nFarley, Stephen* and M.\\\\ry Shattuck\\nMarried Jan. 28, 1779.\\nStephen,\\nMary,\\nIsaac,\\nElizabeth, twin, 1\\nJoanna, d.,\\nHannah,\\nChristopher,\\nJoanna,\\nborn Oct. 24, 1779\\nAug. 13, 17S1\\nAug. 21, 17S3\\nSept. iS, 1 785\\n1787\\nOct. 19, 17S9\\nAug. 10, 179!\\n*Died Jan. 13, 1837, xt. 84.\\nFarley, Caleb, Jun., and Abigail Phelp;\\nMarried April 12, 17S1.\\nCaleb,\\nJames,\\nJohn,\\nborn April 15, 17S2.\\nSept. 27, 17S3.\\nFeb. 15, 1785.\\nMarried June 18, 17S0\\nSarah,\\ntwins,\\nBetsey,\\nBenjamin Mark,\\nborn June\\nLucy,\\nLuther,\\nCharles,\\nBenjamin,\\nGeorge Frederic,\\nPercy,\\nClarissa,\\nAug. 8, 1783.\\nDec. 26, 17S4-\\nDec. 25, 17S6..\\nOct. 13, 17SS.\\nFeb. 20, 1 791,\\nApr. S, 1793.\\nSept. 13, 179S.\\nNov. 12, iSoi.\\nFarley, Benj., Jun., and Anna Merrili-\\nBenjamin,\\nAnna,\\nPolly,\\nRebckah,\\nEnoch,\\nLucy,\\nMerrill,\\nEdward P.\\nborn Oct. 3, 17S9-\\nJune 30, 179!.\\nFeb. iS, 1794.\\nAug. 17, 1796.\\nJuly 22, 179S.\\nOct. iS, iSo3\\nMay 0, 1806-\\nDec. 26, 1808,\\nFarmer, Minot* and Abigail Barrok,\\nMarried Sept. 15, 1775.\\nAbigail, born Dec. i, 1775.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^Died May lo, 1776, xt. 26.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0434.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n375\\nFi.sk, Lieut. Amos and Eliz.\\\\betu Fl.vgg.\\nM.irried March iS, 1762.\\nScUy.\\nHannah,\\nSarah,\\nborn Jan. 17, 1763.\\nJ:i 21, 1765.\\nApr. 7, 1767.\\nFrsK, Josi.vir and Mary C.vldwell.\\nMarried Nov. 35, 1779.\\nJosiah, born Nov. 14, 17S1.\\nFletcher, Oliver and Tabith.a..\\nThankful,\\nSibbel,\\nTabitha,\\nBetty,\\nStephen,\\nRebecca,\\nborn July iS, I7t56,\\nJan. 15, 176S\\nFeb. 5, 1770,\\nFeb. 3, 1772\\nDec. 1, 1773\\nOct. 19, 177s\\nP l.vgg, Eleazer* and Hannah.\\nFo.\\\\, Dr. Jonathan* and Zerviah Jones.\\nborn Feb. :6, 1779.\\nMay 17, 17S1.\\nApril 6, 17S3.\\n*Died Oct. 26, 17S2, a;t. 2S.\\nFrench, Nichol.vs and Pkiscilla.\\nZerviah,\\nJonathan,\\nEbenczer,\\nTimothy,\\nPriscilla,\\nNicholas,\\nIsaac,\\nLucy,\\nSarah,\\nJonathan,\\nSarah,\\nDavid,\\nborn July 6, 1745.\\nOct. 3, 1747.\\nJune 30, 1750.\\nSept. I, 1752^\\nApril 21, 1755.\\nAug. 3, t7SS, d.\\nAug. 21, 1759. _\\nApril 22, 1762.\\nOct. 3S, 1765.\\nF rench, John and Mary.\\nAbigail,\\nborn Apr. 16, 1735.\\nEsther,\\nJan. 20, 1737.\\nJohn,\\nMay I, 1739.\\nMary,\\nJune 16, 1741.\\nJerusha,\\nFeb. I, 1744.\\nElizabeth,\\nMay II, 1745.\\nRuth,\\nOct. 1746.\\nJoseph.\\nJ\u00c2\u00bbne 3. 1750.\\n*D\\ned A\\nigust\\n14, I7S7, a;t. 53.\\nFl.\\\\gg, C\\nipt. J\\non AS\\nand Martha Knight.\\nMartlia,\\nborn Feb. 3, 1760.\\nJonas,\\nMar. 10, 1762.\\nJerusha,\\nApril 27, 1764.\\nMary,\\nFeb. 23, 1766.\\nReuben,\\nAug. 10, 176S.\\nJoseph,\\nSept. ID, 1772.\\nFlagg,\\nJoseph and\\nHannah Boynton.\\nHannah,\\nborn Dec. 3, 1795.\\nFoster,\\nEdw.vrd and Phebe.\\nSusannah,\\nborn Feb. 3, 1777.\\nElizabeth,\\nApril 25, 1779.\\nPatty,\\nMay 19, 17S1.\\nBridget,\\nApril 26, 17S3.\\nNoah.\\nDec. 13, 17S4.\\nWilliam,\\nDec. 5, 1786.\\nbenjamin,\\nDec. 4, I7SS.\\nMary,\\nHepzibali,\\nWilliam,\\nJohn,\\nElizabeth,\\nJonathan,\\nAbigail,\\nWhitcomb,\\nRebekah,\\nEbenczer,\\nJoseph,\\nborn July 12, 1750\\nJan. 31, 1752\\nMay 19, 1754\\nApril S, 1757\\nAug. 23, 1759,\\nJan. 9,1762\\nMar. 26, 1764\\nOct. 26, 1766\\nNov. 3, 176S\\nMay 7, 1771\\nJuly 23, 1773\\nFrench, Josiah and Sar.\\\\h Astin.\\nMarried Nov. 27, 1760.\\nSarah, born Aug. 27, 1761.\\nRebekah, July 31, 1763, d-\\nJosiah, June 27, 1765.\\nLucy, Aug. 9, 1767.\\nDaniel, Feb. zS, 1771.\\nWilliam, May 25, 1773.\\nNathan, Feb. 9, 1778.\\nRebekah, May 14. 17S0.\\nFrench, J.\\\\mes and Sar. Vh Brooks.\\nMarried Sept. i, 1760.\\n[ames, born June 6, 1762.\\nSarah, Nov. 21, 1766.\\nElizabeth, Mar. 8, 1769.\\nMary, May 19, 1771.\\nFrench, Timothy- and Ann.v Willoughby.\\nMarried May 3, 177 1.\\nrimothy, born May S, 1772.\\nAnna, May 8, 1774.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0435.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "376\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nFrench, Nehemiah and Submit.\\nSubmit,\\nborn Sept. 22,\\n1771.\\nNehemiah,\\nDec. II,\\n1774-\\nAbraham,\\nJan. 21,\\n1777-\\nFrench\\nIsaac\\nand Lucy Wilkins.\\nLucy,\\nborn Sept. 30,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0779-\\nPriscilla,\\nSarah,\\ntwins.\\nMar. 6,\\n17S1.\\nIsaac,\\nOct. 30,\\n17S2.\\nSusannah,\\nFeb. 10,\\n17SS.\\nMark,\\nJuly IS.\\n1791. d.\\nMehitable,\\nAug. 7,\\n1793-\\nDavid,\\nMar. 3:,\\n1794-\\nPolly,\\nJuly 18,\\n1795-\\nLefa,\\nMay 26,\\n1797-\\nMark,\\nDec. 12,\\n1798.\\nFrench, Joseph and Mary Voungman.\\nMarried Feb. i, 1771.\\nborn June S, 1772\\nJoseph,\\nMary,\\nEbenezer,\\nTabitha,\\nStephen Y\\nMittc,\\nMartha,\\nMar. 14, 1774,\\nOct. 14, 1776\\nMar. 20, 1779\\nSept. 27,, 17S1\\nJune 20, 17S4\\nOct. 14, 17S6,\\nGiLsoN, Eben r and Elizabeth Lawrence.\\nMarried August 24, 17^19.\\nBetty, born Aug. 16, 1775.\\nSarah, May 19, 1779.\\nGoodhue. John and Olive.\\nJohn, born April 4, 1763.\\nSamuel, Apr. 30, 1765.\\nJonathan, Oct. i, 1767.\\nEphraim, July 11,1770.\\nJoseph, Jan. 9, 1774.\\nMary, Dec. 3, 1776.\\nGoss, Capt. John* and Catharine CoNA^,T\\nMarried Feb. 10, 1774.\\nJohn, born Jan. 7, 1775.\\nGoodhue, John, Jun., and Rebecca Perham.\\nMarried April 26, 17S7.\\nSarah, born Apr. 13, 17SS.\\nJoseph A., Sept. 5, 1789.\\nJosiah, Mar. 19, 1792.\\nGould, James and M.\\\\ry Lovejoy.\\nMarried May 27, 1765.\\nJames, born Dec. 18,1765^.\\nPhineas, July 18,1767,\\nRalph W., June 19, 1769.\\nHale, Col. John* and Elizabeth Hall.\\nJohn, born Sept. 8, 1756.\\nDavid, June 8, 1758.\\nElizabeth, Sept. 28, 1760.\\nWilliam, July 27, 1762,.\\nRebekah, Mar. 26, 1765.\\n*Died Oct. 32, 1791, xt. 60.\\nHardy, Phineas* and Abiga\\nElizabeth, born at Bradford July 22\\nMartha, born June 34-\\nPhineas, June 25,\\nThomas, June 11,\\nNoah, Sept. 17,\\nJesse, Dec. 19,\\nIsaac, July 9,\\nMoses, May 17,\\nSolomon, Aug-, i,\\n*Died March 7, 1S13, a;t. 86.\\nXL.\\n7S0\\n7S2\\n1754\\n756\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0758\\n1760\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0763\\n1765\\n1767\\nHardy, Lemuel and Hannah Jewett\\nSilas, born Mar. 13, 1763\\nHannah,\\nSusannah,\\nRebekah,\\nMary,\\nDavid,\\nSarah,\\nMay II, 1765\\nJuly 17, 1767\\nSept. 10, 1769\\nFeb. 10, 1772\\nJune 19, 1775\\nMar. 24, 1777\\nSamuel,\\nAbel,\\nCatharine,\\nLucy,\\nAnna,\\nMark,\\nLu .e,\\nElizabeth,\\nNov. 29, 1776.\\nOct. 23, 17S0.\\nOct. II, 17S2.\\nDec. 30, 17S4.\\nAug. 15, 17S7.\\nOct. 10, 17S9.\\nJune 13, 1792.\\nNov. 19, 1795.\\n*Died Sept. 26, 1821, a:t. 82.\\nHardy, Aaron and Ai:igail Dutton.\\nAaron, born Oct. 24, 1771.\\nReuben, Aug. 28, 1773.\\nAbigail, Oct. 12, 1775.\\n*Died Dec. 26, 1775, xt. 33.\\nH.\\\\rdy, Nehemiah and Abigail.\\nMarried March 29, 17S0.\\nNehemiah, born Apr. 10,1781.\\nKendall, Apr. 30, 1785.\\nJohn, Sept. 27, 17S7.\\nMary, May 9, 1792.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0436.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n377\\nHardy, Isaac and Submit Wheat.\\nMarried Nov. 13, 17SS.\\nIsaac,\\nAbraham T.,\\nborn Sept. 9, 1789.\\nMay 7, 1794.\\nHakdy, Isaac and Mehitable Boynton.\\nMarried July 3, 1794.\\nJacob,\\nJohn B.,\\nborn Nov. 14, 1795.\\nNov. 6, 1797.\\nHardy, Phineas* and Sibbel Shattuck.\\nIsaac,\\nNoah,\\nSibbel,\\nHannah,\\nJames,\\nSubmit,\\nSamuel L.,\\nElizabeth,\\nJohn G.,\\nborn Nov. 17, 77S2.\\nMar. 23, 1785.\\nAug. s, 17S7.\\nSept. 29, 17S9.\\nSept. 7, 1793.\\nMay 13, 1795.\\nMay iS, 1798.\\nApril 13, 1S03.\\nApril 7, 1805.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Died May 7, 1835, a;t. Si\\nHardy-, Enos* and Mary Lund.\\nMarried Nov. 10, 1797.\\nMary,\\nEphraim L.,\\nAlvah,\\nLevi,\\nLouisa,\\nSarah Ann,\\nDec. 3, 179S.\\nOct. 14, 1801.\\nSept. 16, 1S03.\\nSept. 16, 1807.\\nFeb. 10, iSii.\\nMar. 21, 1816.\\n*Died May iS, 1857, a;t. S5.\\nHardt, Moses\\nand Abigail Wheat.\\nMarrie\\nd Nov. 9, 1790.\\nMoge\u00c2\u00bb,\\nborn April 1, 1791, d.\\nThomas W.,\\nJ-in. 6, 1794.\\nMoses,\\nSept. 4, 1795.\\nJohn,\\nSept. 24, 1797.\\nReuben,\\nSept. 12, 1799.\\nAbigail,\\nOct. 3, iSoi.\\nPhineas,\\nMay I, iSoj.\\nLeonard,\\nJan. 30, 1806.\\nNathaniel,\\nJune 27, 1808.\\nJoseph W.,\\nJune 31, iSij.\\nHardy, Jessk and Rebekah Baylby.\\nMarried Jan. 3, 1788.\\nRebekah,\\nMartha,\\n(27)\\nborn Feb. 6, 17S9.\\nAug. 16, 1790.\\nHardy, Jesse\\nand Rhoda Wood.\\nJesse,\\nborn July 20, 1794.\\nJoel,\\nFeb. 16, 1796.\\nAmos,\\nAug. 12, 1797.\\nEli,\\nSept. 16, 1799.\\nLuther,\\nDec. 20, 1S02.\\nPhineas,\\nApril 29, 1805.\\nDaniel,\\nSept. 8, 180S.\\nHarris\\nJob\\nan\\nd Eleanor Harris.\\nMarried\\nFeb. 14, 1764.\\nJoseph,\\nborn May 16, I764-\\nMary,\\nMay 2, 1767.\\nSimon,\\nMar. 26, 1770.\\nHaskell,\\nJoseph and Anna.\\nBetsey,\\nJoseph,\\nJane,\\nJeremiah,\\nDavid,\\nborn Sept. 20. 1778.\\nFeb. 6, 17S0.\\nSept. 27, 17S1.\\nAug. 31, 1784.\\nMar. 21, 1786.\\nHazelton, Stephen and Mary*.\\nStephen,\\nMary,\\nJohn,\\nborn May 25, 1749.\\nDec. 31, 1754.\\nJune 8, 1757.\\nHazelton, Samuel and Molly\\nBenjamin,\\nMary,\\nRebecca,\\nborn Feb. 25, 1762.\\nFeb. 23, 1764.\\nNov. 27, 1765.\\nHazelton, Stephen, Jun., and Esther\\nHildreth.\\nMarried Sept. 15, 1774.\\nborn Feb. 7, 1775.\\nAug. 20, 1777.\\nEsther,\\nStephen,\\nElizabeth,\\nRebekah,\\nAnna,\\nOct. 24, 1779.\\nOct. S, 17S3.\\nApril 30, 1785.\\nHoBART, Col. David and Sarah.\\nborn Jan. 15, 1745.\\nDec. 22, 1747.\\nFeb. s. 1749-\\nHobart, Gershom and Alephia.\\nMary,\\nAlephia,\\nborn Oct. 16, 1754.\\nDec. 29. 1755.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0437.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "37S\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nHoBART, Jonathan and Lydia.\\nJonathan, born May 24, 1753\\nJoshua, Dec. 6, 1754\\nJeseph, May 7, 1757\\nLydia, Feb. 24, 1760\\nJacob, May 24, 1763\\nIsaac, June 13, 1764\\nRuth, April i, 1767\\nAsa, Aug. 10, 1769,\\nSarah, Sept. 27, 1771\\nHor.AKT,\\nJonathan,\\nJun.,\\nand Elizabeth\\nLakin.\\nM\\nirried J\\nin. 17,\\n17S2.\\nElizabeth\\nborn\\nKov. 24, 17S3.\\nSarah,\\nOct. iS, 17S4.\\nSusannah\\nSept. 3, 17S6.\\nPolly,\\nOct. 23, 17SS.\\nJonathan,\\nSept. 37, 1793.\\nJoshua,\\nJuly 13, 1796.\\nHoLDEN, David, Jun., and Bridget Atwell.\\nMarried Jan. i, 17S9.\\nDavid, born July 31, 17S9.\\nCumiiigs, Aug. 16, 1790.\\nPhincas 11., i\\\\Iay 6, 1792.\\nHoTKiNs, Richard and Makv.\\nMary, born Oct. S, 1763.\\nRichard, June 12, 1765.\\nHannah, April 4, I7 9.\\nElizabeth, Aug. 7, 1773.\\nAchsah, June 20, 1775.\\nHow, Ephr.\\\\im and Marv.\\nNicholas,\\nEphraim,\\nMary,\\nBetsey,\\nJohn,\\nJoseph,\\nSarah,\\nIsaac,\\nSamuel,\\nborn May 12,\\nApril 19,\\nJune 26,\\nMay 30,\\nOct. II,\\nFeb. 16,\\nJune 16,\\nDec. 2S,\\nAug. 25,\\n17S1\\n17S3\\n7SS\\n17S7\\n17S9,\\n1792\\n794\\n1797\\n1799\\njACti^iTH, Thomas and Rhoda Sfaulding.\\nMarried Dec. 25, 1776.\\nborn Nov. aS, 1777.\\nSept. s, 1779.\\nJaouith, Ebenezer and Rl th.\\nEbcnczer, born Feb. 6, 1777.\\nRhoda,\\nThomas,\\nEnoch,\\nDaniel,\\nRebekah,\\nAsa,\\nIsaac,\\nApril 9, 17S1\\nMar. 9, 17S3\\nApril 12, 17S6,\\nDec. 31, 178S\\nApr. 25, 1791.\\nJewett, Samuel* and Sarah.\\nSarah, born Mar. 7, 1749\\nMary, April 22, 1751\\nRuth, May 10, 1753\\nSamuel, Jan. i, 1756\\nEsther, June 29, 1758\\nJacob, Oct. 30, 1760\\nJohn, April 4, 1763\\nLucy, April 2S, 1766.\\n*Died Dec. 29, 1791, aet. 65.\\nJewett, Dea. Stephen* and Hann.\\\\h\\n(F.\\\\rvvell) Cumings.\\nStephen,\\nRebekah,\\nNoah,\\nJonathan,\\nLois,\\nborn Oct. 14, 1753.\\nJan. 14, 1756.\\nFeb. II, 175?.\\nJuly 25, 1760.\\nMay 21, 1763.\\n*Died May 23, 1S03, ret. 75.\\nJewett, Ezekiel and Lucy Townsend.\\nMarried Feb. 23, 175S.\\nSusannah,\\nNathaniel,\\nIsaac,\\nborn Dec. 11, 175S.\\nApril 27, 1760.\\nJuly s. 1763-\\nJewett, Ezekiel and Anna Williams.\\nMarried Feb. sS, 1765.\\nEzekiel, born May i, 1766.\\nWilliam, Sept. i, 176S.\\nJewett, James* and Margaret.\\nRuth,\\nMargaret,\\nEunice,\\nborn Sept. 3, 1755.\\nOct. iS, I7SS.\\nSept. 24, 1761.\\n*Died April 9, 1S08, aet. 85.\\nJewett, Lieut. Ebenezer* and Mary\\nRideout.\\nMarried March 15, 1792.\\nEbenezer, born Feb. 13, 1793\\nPolly,\\nNathaniel,\\nJames,\\nFrancis,\\nSusannah,\\nLydia,\\n*Died Oct. 6, 1S2\\nSept. 1 1794\\nJuly 21, 1796\\nMar. 29, 1799\\nMay 26, iSoi\\nDec. 16, 1S03\\nApril 36, i3o6\\na:t. 83.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0438.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n379\\nJewett, Jacob* and Mehitable Mitchell.\\nAbigail,\\nMehitable,\\nSuEannah,\\nHannah,\\nDaniel,\\nRuth,\\nNathaniel,-\\nSarah,\\nElizabeth,\\nJacob,\\nborn June 14, 1763.\\nMar. 9, 1765.\\nFeb, 14, 1767.\\nJuly 20, 1770.\\nJuly 20, 1772.\\nSept. 27, 1774.\\nJan. I, 1777.\\nMar. 27, 1779.\\nJune 2S, 17S1.\\nMar. 7, 17S4.\\n*Died April 23, 1S13, xt. 76.\\nJewett, Jacob, Jun., and Elizabeth\\nCl vings.\\nJames,\\nJohn,\\nJacob,\\nDavid,\\nElizabeth,\\nLucy,\\nRalph W.,\\nLeonard,\\nborn Aug 22, 1767.\\nJuly 2, 1769.\\nJune 14, 1770.\\nAug. 16, 1773.\\nOct. IS, I77S-\\nAug. 9, 1777.\\nDec. S, 1779.\\nOct. 2, 17S7.\\nJewett, James, Jun., and Lucy\\nFarley.\\nMarried June 16, 17S9.\\nJames, born Sept.\\n13, 1789.\\nCumings, Mar.\\nI. 1793-\\nJohnson, Jonathan and Sakah.\\nJewett, Dea. Stephen, Jun., and Elizabeth\\nPool.\\nMarried Nov. 16, 1778.\\nElizabeth,\\nStephen,\\nNancy,\\nHannah,\\nWilliam P.,\\nWilliam P.,\\nSarah,\\nPolly,\\nNoah,\\nSamuel G.,\\nborn June iS, 1779\\nJu y 7. 17S1\\nMay II, 17S3\\nFeb. 17, 17SS\\nFeb. 26, 17S7\\nFeb. 4, 17S9,\\nFeb. 24, 1790\\nJuly S, 1792,\\nDec. 17, 1794\\nOct. 29, 179S\\n*Died Feb. 22, 1S29, xt. 75.\\nJewett, John and Jane Ames.\\nMarried Nor. 29, 1795.\\nJohn,\\nJeremiah A.,\\nborn Sept. 13, 1796.\\nMay 2, 179S.\\nElizabeth,\\nSarah,\\nMary,\\nJonathan,\\nHannah,\\nDavid,\\nborn Aug. 4, 1754.\\nMay 30, 1756.\\nApril 29, 1758.\\nJune 14, 1760.\\nJune 4, 1762.\\nJuly 4. 1764-\\nKemp, Zekubbabel and Abigail\\nLawrence.\\nMarried Nov. 23, 1737.\\nZerubbabel,\\nZechariah,\\nborn Feb. 24, 174S.\\nJuly 26, 1750.\\nKemp, Zerubbabel and Hannah Colbibn.\\nMarried April 20, 1758.\\nSarah, born Jan. 30,1759.\\nJohn,\\nMay 26, 1761.\\nKemp, Thomas and Mehitable Lovejoy.\\nMarried Oct. 5, 1769.\\nMehitable,\\nThomas,\\nAsa,\\nWilliam,\\nZerubbabel,\\nJohn,\\nAaron,\\nM indwell.\\nborn Jan. 28, 1771.\\nM; y 21. 177s\\nApril iS, 1777\\nJuly 26, 1779\\nJan. 20, 17S1\\nApril 13, 1785\\nJuly 10, 17S7\\nKemp, Thomas and Hannah Hobart\\nLevi,\\nRalph,\\nborn Sept. 6, 179,\\nMar. 28, 1796.\\nKendall, Ebenezer and Martha.\\nEbenezer,\\nMartha,\\nJohn W.,\\nIlacy,\\nborn May 11, 1765.\\nJune 26, 1767.\\nDec. 16, 1769.\\nJune 2, 1772.\\nKendall, Hezekiah and Abigail.\\nAbigail,\\nLuther,\\nLucy,\\nWiliard,\\nWalter,\\nborn Aug. 26, 1793.\\nMay 15, 1S02.\\nMar. 15, 1S04.\\nJan. 7, 1S06.\\nJuly 1 1, iSoS.\\nKe.ndrick, Capt. Daniel and Mary Pool\\nMarried Feb 15, 17S2.\\nDaniel,\\nWilliam P.,\\nborn Mar. 30, 1785.\\nJune 20, 1794.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0439.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": ";So\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nKeyes, Abner and Mary.\\nSarah,\\nMary,\\nHannah,\\nAbigail,\\nEsther,\\nAnna,\\nWilliam,\\nRebekah,\\nAbner,\\nElizabeth,\\nRuth,\\nborn Sept. 3, 1764.\\nAug\\nJulv\\nJuly\\nAug.\\nSept.\\nOct.\\nJ iy\\nAug.\\nDec.\\nFeb.\\n14, 1766.\\n14, 176S.\\n2, 1770.\\n24, 1772.\\n15. 1774-\\n12, 1776.\\niu 177S.\\n2, 1780.\\n9, 17S2.\\n21, 1785.\\nKinney-, Isr.\\\\el and Hannah.\\nRebekah,\\nIsrael,\\nHannah,\\nPhebe,\\nMoses,\\nAaron,\\nPolly,\\nSusannah,\\nEdah,\\nborn Sept. 19, 1766.\\nSept. 14, 176S.\\nMay\\nFeb.\\nOct.\\nJan.\\nJan.\\nJan.\\nNov.\\n3. 1771-\\nH. 773-\\nis, 1775-\\nID, 177S.\\n22, 17S1.\\n5. 1783-\\nI, 1755-\\nLawrence, Z.\\\\ch. and Sarah L.wvrence.\\nMarried Dec. 5, 1734.\\nPeter, born Aug. 20, 1745, d.\\nZachariah, July 12, 1747.\\nTonas, Oct. 19, 1751.\\nPeter, Oct. 8, :7S3.\\nJosiah, Nov. 2, 1756.\\nLawrence\\nLIVER*\\nand Mary Clmings\\nMarried D\\nEC. 27, 1752.\\nMary,\\nborn Nov. 4, 1753.\\nOliver,\\nOct. 7, I7SS.\\nPeleg,\\nAug. 17, 1757.\\nNoah,\\nNov. 30, 1760.\\nDaniel,\\nApril 26, 1762.\\nSilas,\\nJune 19, 1764.\\nMolly,\\nMay 25, 1767.\\nAmos,\\nAug. 6, 1769.\\nEben,\\nOct. 25, 1771.\\nAaron,\\nMay s, 1774.\\nSarah,\\nOct. 4, 1777.\\n*D\\nied\\nApril 2\\n1797, xt. 68.\\nLawrence, Zachariah, Jun., and Rebecca\\nPowers.\\nMarried Nov. 22, 1769.\\nDaniel, born Oct. 13, 1772.\\nZachariah, July :S, 1777.\\nSarah, Oct. 10, 1779.\\nRebecca, June 13, 17S4.\\nL.\\\\wrence, Daniel and Polly Johnson.\\nPolly,\\nBetsey,\\nCharlotte,\\nRuth,\\nDaniel,\\nAI)igail,\\nMark,\\nLuke,\\nLouisa,\\nCaroline,\\nMarried May 6, 1790.\\nborn June\\nOct.\\nSept.\\nNov.\\nApril\\nJune\\nAug.\\nApril\\nJune\\nMar.\\n16, 1791\\n20, 1792\\ns. 1794\\n21, 1796\\n7. 179S\\n10, iSoo.\\n20, iSoi\\n14, 1S03\\n14, 1S07\\n23, iSio\\nLee.\\\\i.\\\\n, Abraham and Eliz.\\\\beth\\nElizabeth,\\nMary,\\nHannah,\\nHannah,\\nSubmit,\\nAbraham,\\nEsther,\\nAbigail,\\nDorcas,\\nHastings.\\nMarried Jan. 30, 1745.\\nborn Feb. 24,\\nJune 3,\\nJuly 26,\\nOct. I,\\nJune 4,\\nSept. 8,\\nAug. 8,\\nMay 8,\\nJuly\\n13.\\n1746.\\n174S.\\n1750, d.\\n1751-\\nI7S3-\\n1754-\\n1756.\\n7SS.\\n1760.\\nLeeman, Samvel and Love Wheeler.\\nISIarried Nov. 7, 1746.\\nMehitable,\\nSamuel,\\nLove,\\nMary,\\nHannah,\\nNathaniel,\\nLydia,\\nSarah,\\nAbraham,\\nLesley Jonas and Eliz.\\\\beth Dow.\\nMarried Jan. 13, 1774.\\nElizabeth, born Nov. 5, 1774\\nJonas, Mar. i, 1776\\nSamuel, Feb. 23, 1778\\nSarah, Feb. 25, 17S0\\nJoseph, April 7, 1782\\nGeorge, Feb. 2, 1785\\nAug.\\n7,\\n/4/\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0749\\nNov.\\nI,\\n1753-\\nNov.\\n9.\\n1754\\nJuly\\n2,\\n17S7-\\nAug.\\n1759-\\nDec.\\n9.\\n1 761.\\nAug.\\n31.\\n1764.\\nMay\\n13.\\n1769.\\nLovEjoY, CHRiSTorHER and Anna.\\nAnna, born May 26, 1743\\n22, :74s\\nChristopher,\\nAbial,\\nMehitable,\\nBenjamin,\\nObadiah,\\nJohn,\\nOct\\nApril 28, 1749\\nMar. 10, 1751\\nDec. 25, I7S3\\nJune 13, 1756\\nMay 2, 1758,", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0440.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n381\\nLovEjOY, Jonathan and Mary.\\nJonathan,\\nPhineas,\\nDaniel,\\nMary,\\nSimeon,\\nJacob,\\nJonathan,\\nAbial,\\nAsa,\\nAbel,\\nElizabeth,\\nborn May 23, 1743, d.\\nNov. 23, 1744.\\nFeb. 23, 1746.\\nSept. 27, 1747.\\nJune 6, 1750.\\nFeb. 17, 1752.\\nJuly 3. 754-\\nAug. 3, 1756.\\nJan. 2S, 1758.\\nMay 6, 1760.\\nMar. 34, 1762.\\nLovEjOY, Daniel and Sarah Wy man\\nMarried Nov. 19, 1767.\\nborn Aug. 2, 176S\\nJuly 4. 1770\\nDaniel,\\nSamuel,\\nStephen,\\nSarah,\\nPhineas,\\nPolly,\\nRalph,\\nMay 22, 1773\\nJune 36, 1775\\nNov. II, 1778\\nOct. 16, 1784\\nJan. 3, 1788\\nLovEjOY, Asa and Lydia Nevins.\\nL,ydia,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nElizabeth,\\nPolly,\\nRebecca,\\nborn Nov. iS, 17S3\\nAug. 17, 1785\\nJuly 28, 17S7\\nNov. 8, 1789\\nSept. 13, 1793\\nLund, Ephraim and Alice Wheeler.\\nMarried May 12, 1772.\\nborn Sept. 7, 1772.\\nMar. S, 1774.\\nHannah,\\nSarah,\\nAlice,\\nMary,\\nEphraim,\\nStephen,\\nEbenezer,\\nApril 19, 1776.\\nMay 21, 1778.\\nAug. 14, 1780.\\nOct. 29, 1783.\\nJuly 10, 1786.\\nMcDonald, James* and Susann\\nRoxanna, born July 19,\\nRandall,\\nSusannah,\\nLucy,\\nMary,\\nElizabeth,\\nJames,\\nJohn,\\nApril 14,\\nJan. 18,\\nFeb. 8,\\nApril s,\\nNov. 10,\\nJan. 19,\\nJune 5,\\n1752-\\n1754-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a07S6.\\n1758.\\n1.760.\\n1 761.\\n1764.\\n1766.\\n*Died April 11, iSoi, a;t. 83.\\nMartin, Stephen and Anna.\\nStephen, born Sept. la, 1749.\\nJesse, Aug. i, 1754.\\nMartin, Steph n and Patience Worcester\\nMarried May 21, 1759.\\nborn Mar. 3, 1760.\\nAnna,\\nJirah,\\nElisha,\\nPeter,\\nJune II, 1762.\\nSept. 32, 1764.\\nMay 27, 176S.\\nMelvin,\\nJonathan\\nand Mary Brooks.\\nMarried Dec. 4, 1750.\\nJonathan,\\nborn Jan. 14, 1752.\\nMelvin, E\\nbenezer and Susannah.\\nEbenezer,\\nborn Dec. 28, 1753.\\nNathan,\\nNov. 20, 1755.\\nEunice,\\nFeb. 9, 1759.\\nDaniel,\\nSept. 8, 1761.\\nSusannah,\\nOct. 23, 1764.\\nSeth,\\nApril 38, 1767.\\nEnoch,\\nAug. 20, 1769.\\nMesser, Benjamin and Mary.\\nBenjamin, born Mar. 27, 17S4.\\nMerrill, Daniel and Mary Smith.\\nMargaret,\\nSamuel,\\nDaniel,\\nHenry,\\nMary,\\nRuth, i\\nBetty,\\nWilliam,\\nAbigail,\\nMargaret,\\ntwins.\\nborn Nov. 15, 1756. d.\\nJan. I, 1759.\\nMar. 31, 1761.\\nJuly 17. 1763-\\nDec. 7, 1765.\\nApril 17, 176S.\\nFeb. IS, 1770.\\nMay 13, 1772.\\nFeb. I, 1776.\\nMerrill, Samuel and Mary.\\nDaniel,\\nSamuel,\\nIsaac,\\nMary,\\nElizabeth,\\nborn July i, 17S0.\\nAug. 16, 17S2.\\nJune 15, 17S4.\\nMar. 14, 17S7.\\nJune II, 1791.\\nMerrill, Daniel* and Phebe Dow.\\nMarried Oct. 19, 17S9.\\nborn Sept. i, 1790\\nJune 10, 1792\\nDaniel,\\nWilliam,\\nLydia,\\nMary,\\nEvan,\\nMark,\\nNov. 9, 1794\\nSept. 13, 179S\\nSept. 24, 1S02\\nSept. 30, 1S06\\nDied Sept. 25, 1852, a2t. 91.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0441.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "382\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nMerrill, Lieut. William and Dolly\\nSmith.\\nMarried Feb. 27, 1794.\\nHannah, born Feb. 9, 1795.\\nWilliam S., Sept. 24, 1797.\\nMiranda, Mar. n, iScx).\\nMoOAR, Daniel and Anna.\\nAnna, born Dec. 2S, 1751.\\nMartha, Nov. 2, 1753.\\nDaniel, July 23, 1757.\\nJacob, April S, 1761.\\nSarah, Mar. 11, 1764.\\nMooAK, Daniel, Jun., and Lydia Xevins.\\nMosHER, Abijah and Hannah.\\nDaniel,\\nIsaac,\\nDavid,\\nPatty,\\nNathan,\\nEphraim,\\nSally,\\nborn Mar. 23, 17S1.\\nFeb. 14, 17S3.\\nOct. 6, 1785.\\nJune 12, 17SS.\\nFeb. 19, 1791.\\nApril 26, 1794.\\nJuly IS. 1797-\\nMoo.\\\\R, Jacob* and Hannah Shattuck.\\nMarried Jan. 15, 17S4.\\nJacob, born July 29,1784.\\nAbel, Jan. 25, 17S6.\\nHannah, Oct. 21, 17S7.\\nNathan, Aug. 12, 17S9.\\nMoo.\\\\R, Jacob and Dorc.\\\\s Hood.\\nMarried May 20, 1794.\\nGeorge,\\nHannah,\\nSally,\\nHannah,\\nborn Feb. 19, 1777.\\nOct. 6, i7Si,d^\\nSept. 12, 17S3.\\nMar. 12, 1786.\\nNevins, Thomas and Bridget Snow.\\nMarried 1745.\\nBridget, born Dec. 21, 1746.-\\nThomas, May 25, 1748.\\nNevins, Willi.^m* and M.\\\\ry.\\nWilliam,\\nJoseph,,\\nBenjamin,\\nMary,\\nJohn,\\nPhineas,\\nLydia,\\nElizabeth,\\nborn July 26, ,1746.\\nJuly 20, 174S.\\nAug. IS, 1750.\\nAug. 2, 1752.\\nFeb. 26, 1755.\\nFeb. 23, 1758.\\nJuly 16, 1760.\\nOct. 1762.\\n*Died Feb. 15, 1785, xt. 66.\\nNevins, D,\\\\vid and Lois P.\\\\Tcn.\\nTohn,\\nMargaret,\\nLois,\\nJohn,\\nDavid,\\nborn Oct. 12, 1748, d.\\nFeb. 3, 1752.\\nSept. i6, 1753.\\nApril 18, 1755.\\nJu y 7. 175S.\\nNevins, Ensign Willi.\\\\m* and Rebecca\\nCh.^mberl.-mx.\\nGardner,\\nborn\\nJan.\\n4.\\nI79S-\\n^Married Lirch 2.\\n176S.\\nJohn,\\n.1\\nAug.\\nIll\\n1796.\\nSusannah, born Dec. 2.\\n1776.\\nDorcas,\\nAug.\\n21\\n1798.\\nBetsey,\\nSept.\\n7\\niSoo.\\n*Died 1776, ret.\\n30-\\nDavid,\\nApril\\n15.\\n1802.\\nJason,\\nJan.\\nI,\\n1804.\\nNevins, Joseph and Sarah Pow\\nERS.\\nLouisa,\\nJ- iy\\n28,\\n1S06.\\nMarried Feb. 20,\\n1772.\\nLuke,\\nJuly\\niS,\\n1 80S.\\nSally,\\nJuly\\n8,\\n1810.\\nSarah, born\\nDec. 3,\\n1772,\\nd\\nMark,\\nFeb.\\n23.\\n1S13.\\nJoseph,\\nJune 10,\\n1774.\\nd\\nDaniel,\\nMay\\nII.\\n1815.\\nPhineas,\\nSarah,\\nMay 5,\\nDec. 17,\\n1776.\\n1777-\\n*Dicd Feb\\n2,\\n1S2S\\na;t. 66\\nHannah,\\nHepzibah,\\nJune 13,\\nJune 6,\\n1779-\\n1 781.\\nMosher, Iames\\nan\\nd E\\nL JN ICE\\nBlood.\\nNevins, Joseph and Lucy Sawtell.\\nMarried May 7\\n1770.\\nLucy, born\\nDec. 30,\\nI7S3-\\nCatharine\\nborn Mar.\\n9.\\n1772.\\nPou y,\\nJ y 4.\\nI7S6.\\nJacob,\\nJune\\n3.\\n1774-\\nAma,\\nIMar. 23,\\n1789.\\nSarah,\\nApri\\n3.\\n1777-\\nGardner,\\nF eb. iS,\\n1792.\\nd\\nJohn,\\nMay\\n31.\\n1779-\\nMitte,\\nMar. 16,\\n1794.\\nMary,\\nJan.\\n23l\\nI7S3-\\nGardner,\\nFeb. 6,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0797-\\nBetty,\\nSukey,\\nApril 12,\\n1799.\\nEunice, 1\\ntwins,\\nSept\\n25.\\n17S6.\\nJcteph,\\nApril 8,\\niSoi.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0442.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n383\\nNbvins, Benjamin and Annis Moore.\\nMarried Feb. 9, i77S-\\nPatty, born Dec. 7, 1775.\\nBenjamin, Oct. J, 1777.\\nLydia, April 7, 17S0.\\nSarah, May 25, 1782.\\nWilliam, Mar. 5, 17S6.\\nNOVES,\\nDea.\\nEnoch* and Eliz.\\\\beth.\\nElizabeth\\nborn Jan. 30, 1749.\\nLucy,\\nFeb. 16, 1752.\\nEnoch,\\nAug. 31,1754.\\nHannah,\\nOct. 24, 1756.\\nElijah,\\nOct. 3, 1758.\\nBenjamin\\nDec. 12, 1760, d.\\nJane,\\nAug. I, 1762.\\nRebecca,\\nApril 23, 1765.\\nBenjamin\\nOct. 6, 1767.\\n*Died\\nSept.,\\n1796, set. So.\\nParker\\nSamuel and Mary.\\nSamuel,\\nborn April 7, 1740.\\nEleazer,\\nMar. 30, 1744.\\nLemuel,\\nMar. 4, 1747.\\nLucy,\\nMar. 29, 1750.\\nMary,\\nMar. 27, 1753.\\nEsther,\\nMay 21, 1755.\\nParker, Benjamin* and Alice Woods.\\nSarah, born Dec. 3, 1763.\\nBenjamin Woods, Sept. 27, 1765.\\nPatience, Feb. 5, 1769.\\nEbenezer, July 5, 1772.\\n*Died Feb. 7, 1S02, a;t. S2.\\nParker, Stephen and Rachel.\\nParker, Benjamin Woods and Deborah\\nGetchell.\\nMary B.,\\nJoseph D.,\\nborn July 7, iSii.\\nApril 17, 1S14.\\nJane,\\nJohn B.,\\nborn Nov. S, 1781.\\nAug. 4, 17S6.\\nParker, Benjamin Woods* and Alice\\nPratt.\\nMarried Nov. 9, 17SS.\\nBenjamin W.,\\nOlive,\\nCalvin,\\nJohn Manly,\\nLuther,\\nLucinda,\\nIliram,\\nGeorge W.,\\nborn Mar. S, 1789\\nNov. 4, 1790\\nJuly 20, 1792\\nMar. 31, 1794\\nMar. 19, 1796\\nJuly 16, 1797\\nApril 6, 1799\\nFeb. 37, iSoi\\nParker, Capt. Isaac* and Olive Abbott\\nOlive, born June 27, 1795\\nHannah, May 29, 1797\\nAchsah, June 24, 1799\\nIsaac, April 12,. iSoi\\nJohn, July 30, 1803\\n*Died Dec. 22, 1857, a;t. 88.\\nPatch, Dea. Thomas* and Anna Gilson.\\nMarried March 25, 1742.\\nAnna, born Nov. 20, 1742.\\nTliomas,\\nSarah,\\nJoseph,\\nDavid,\\nDaniel,\\nJan. 17, 1745.\\nMar. 9, 1746.\\nAug. 24, 1749.\\nAug. 2, 1751.\\nOct. 9, 1753.\\n*Died May i, 1754, set. 40.\\nPatch, Thomas,* Jun., and Molly\\nThomas,\\nMolly,\\nLydia,\\nRichard,\\nDavid,\\nRachel,\\nSarah,\\nDaniel,\\nJoseph,\\nborn Oct. 10, 177 1\\nMar. I, 1773\\nSept 21, 1774\\nMay 26, 1776\\nOct. 6, 1778\\nMay 27, 1780\\nAug. 21, 1783\\nSept. 7, 17S4\\nMar. 4, 1791-\\n*Died Nov. 7, 1S2S, ajt. 85.\\nPhelps, Francis and Phebe.\\nFrancis, born Aug. 15, i743-\\nTimothy, Sept. 10, 1745.\\nJoseph, June 19, 1748.\\nPhebe, May 6, 1750.\\nPhelps, John and Deborah.\\nJohn, born April 30, 1744-\\nSarah,\\nNathan,\\nHenry,\\nJuly 31, 1746.\\nSept. I, 1749.\\nApril iS, 1751.\\n*Dicd Jan. 2, 1S30, st. 64.\\nPhelps, John and Mary Lakin.\\nSimeon Lakin,\\nSally,\\nLuther,\\nBetsey,\\nborn Mar. 4, 17S3.\\nJune 5, 1785.\\nJune 17, 1787.\\nSept. 7, 17S9.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0443.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "384\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nPhelps, Nathan and Mary Fletcher.\\nNathan,\\nWilliam p letcher,\\nMary,\\nLucy,\\nThankful,\\nSusannah,\\nLeonard,\\nZeruiah,\\nborn Feb. i, 17S0.\\nSept. 16, :7Si.\\nSept. 14, 17S3.\\nJan. 12, 17S6.\\nSept. 27, 17SS.\\nJuly 24. \u00e2\u0096\u00a0792-\\nOct. 12, 1795.\\nMay 10, iSoo.\\nPhilbrick, Jonathan and Beulah.\\nJonathan, born July 3,1763.\\nThomas, Dec. 1, 1765.\\nMary, Feb. 16, 176S.\\nBeulah, Mar. 22, 1770.\\nIsaac, Sept. 3, 1773.\\nJames, May 7, 177S.\\nPhilbrick, John and Sarah Jewett.\\nMarried Dec. 6, 1770.\\nJohn, born Sept. 3, 1771.\\nSarah, Sept. 16, 1773.\\nMary, Aug. 10, 1777.\\nSamuel, Aug. 22, 1779.\\nJoel, April 24, 17S1.\\nPierce, Ebenezer and Elizabeth.\\nDaniel, born April 3, 1755.\\nMary, June 5, 1757.\\nPierce, Ephraim and Esther Stone.\\nMarried March 11, 1766.\\nBetty, born Sept. 26, 1766.\\nJan. 26, 176S.\\nMary,\\nEsther,\\nSusannah,\\nSarah,\\nDeborah,\\nEphraim,\\nRebekah,\\nJohn,\\nMay 19, 1770.\\nApril 23, 1772.\\nAug. II, 1774.\\nApril II, 1776.\\nApril 12, 177S.\\nJuly 26, 17S1.\\nMay 8, 1784.\\nPierce, Richard and Susannah Jewett.\\nMarried May 22, 1766.\\nWarner,\\nNathaniel,\\nEbenezer,\\nJacob,\\nSusannah,\\nIsaac,\\nEunice,\\nAbraham,\\nAbigail,\\nDaniel,\\nborn June 22, 1767.\\nJan. 12, 1769.\\nFeb. iS, 1771.\\nSept. 16, 1772.\\nJuly 23, 1774.\\nJune 15, 1776.\\nSept. 25, 1778.\\nNov. 14, 17S0.\\nJuly 24- 1783.\\nTec. 2S, 1788.\\nPierce, Solomon and Lucy Parker.\\nMarried March 19, 1771.\\nSolomon,\\nLemuel,\\nEleazar,\\nLucy,\\nMary,\\nHannah,\\nSamuel,\\nSimon,\\nLevi,\\nEphraim,\\nborn Sept. 2, 1771.\\nJune 13, 1773.\\nApril 4, 1775.\\nJan. II, 1777.\\nJan. I, 1779.\\nMar. II, 17S1.\\nMay 30, 1783.\\nNov. 16, 1785.\\nJuly S, 17S9.\\nMar. 29, 1792.\\nPierce, Nehemiah and Mary-. fJ-y^ p}l\\\\ f\\nNehemiah, born Feb. 5, 177S.\\nIsaac, Miir. 19, 17S0.\\nWilliam, 1\\nMarv i Mar. 2S, 17S2.\\nJames, May 9, 17S4.\\nPool, William* and Hannah Nichols.\\nMarried June 19, 1751.\\nHannah,\\nElizabeth,\\nMeh liable,\\nWilliam Welsted,\\nJames,\\nAbigail,\\nSarah,\\nBridget,\\nMary,\\nRebekah,\\nLucy,\\nBenjamin,\\nBethiah,\\nSarah,\\nborn Dec. 20, 1751.\\nJuly 18, I7S3\\nFeb.\\nMay\\nDec.\\nJuly\\nDec.\\nAug.\\nFeb.\\nMar.\\nSept.\\nJan.\\nAug.\\n12. J7SS\\n6, 1756\\n2, 17S7\\n3 I7S9\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S. 76o,\\n5. 762\\n4. 1764^\\n29, 1766/1\\n6, 176S\\n17. 77\\n3. 1772\\nSept. 20, 1774\\nd.\\n*Died Oct. 27, 1795, set. 70.\\nPowe^rs, Capt. Peter* and Ann. Keyks.\\nPeter,\\nStephen,\\nAnna,\\nWhitcomb,\\nPhebe,\\nAlice,\\nLevi,\\nNahum,\\nFrancis,\\nFanna,\\nPhilip,\\nSamson,\\nFanna,\\nborn Nov. 29, 172S.\\nOct. 28, 1729,\\nMar. 9, 1732.\\nOct. 10, 1733.\\nFeb. s, 1735.\\nDec. 30, 1736.\\nJune 3, 1739..\\nApril 1 1, 1741\\nJuly 15. 1742-\\nApril 19, 1744, d.\\nMay 20, 1746.\\nMar. 12, 174S.\\nMar. 22, 17S0.\\n*Died August 27, 1757, xt. 56.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0444.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n385\\nPowers, Stephen and Lucy Cumings.\\nMarried Jan. 5, 1757.\\nLucy,\\nStephen,\\nRebecca,\\nPeter,\\nBridget,\\nCaleh,\\nWilliam,\\nCatharine,\\nborn Oct. 20, 1758.\\nApril 13, 1761.\\nApril 30, 1763.\\nApril 29, 1765.\\nSept. s, 1767.\\nSept. IS, 1769.\\nDec. aS, 1771.\\nMay I, 1775.\\nPowers, Whitcomb and Mary Dolliver.-\\nMarried May 20, 1755.\\nWhitcomb, born April 17, 1756.\\nPowers, Francis and Elizabeth Cumings.\\nMarried May S, 1763.\\nFrancis Grant,\\nElizabeth,\\nAnna,\\nPhilip,\\nAnna,\\nFrances,\\nLucy,\\nLucy,\\nJames,\\nPhebe,\\nFrancis,\\nLevi,\\nborn Jan. S, 1764.\\nMarch 5, 1766.\\nFeb. 3, 176S, d.\\nAug. 17, 1769.\\nApril 13, 1771.\\nApril 4, 1773.\\nJune I, 1776, d\\nMar. 13, 1779.\\nSept. 15. 1781.\\nJ-in- I. 7S4-\\nApril 3, 17S7.\\nMar. 19, 1791.\\nPowers, Samson* and Elizabeth Nutting.\\nMarried August 4, 1774.\\nMary A.,\\nSamson,\\nPeter,\\nJoel,\\nGrant,\\nLevi,\\nAnna,\\nLTrsula,\\nborn Oct. 16, 1774.\\nJan- 17. 1777-\\nFeb. 24, 1779.\\nAug. S, 17S1.\\nMar. 31, 1784.\\nMar. 20, 1786.\\nSept. II, 17S9.\\nOct. 3, 1791.\\n*Died Jan. 2, 1S22, xt. 73.\\nPratt, Thomas and Caty Cumings.\\nMarried Sept. 27, 1764.\\nborn June 2, 1765.\\nMay 9, 1767.\\nDavid,\\nCaty,\\nHannah,\\nJerahmael C,\\nBetty,\\nMolly,\\n(28)\\nJuly 29, 1769.\\nApril 12, 1772.\\nJan. 13, 1774.\\nJune 10, 1776.\\nPratt, Thomas and Anna Lawrence.\\nMarried April 13, 1779.\\nAnna, born Sept. 25, 1779.\\nStephen, i\\nSusannah, t Oct. 24, 17S4.\\nJohn, Feb. iS, 1791.\\nProctor, Moses* and Mary Byam.\\nMary,\\nRebekah,\\nCyrus,\\nMoses,\\nPhilip,\\nborn Dec. 31, 1741.\\nApril IS, 1744.\\nSept. 13, 1745.\\nNov. 25, 1747.\\nMar. 16, I7S0.\\n*Died Aug. 21, 17S0, a-t. 73.\\nPhoctor, Ezekiel and Elizabeth.\\nAbijah,\\nHannah,\\nEzra,\\nHannah,\\nEsther,\\nborn Aug. 13, 1772.\\nDec. 16, 1774, d.\\nMay IS, 1776.\\nOct. s. 777-\\nJan. 7, 17S1.\\nProctor, Cyrus and .Siubel Farnsworth.\\nMarried March 10, 1771.\\nCyrus,\\nTimothy,\\nSibbel,\\nNathaniel,\\nThomas,\\nMary,\\nElizabeth,\\nHannah,\\nJohn,\\nAbigail,\\nAmos,\\nAnna,\\nMary,\\nSusannah,\\nborn Jan. 16, 1772.\\nMar. II, 1774..\\nMay 13, 1776.\\nF eb. 16, 1778.\\nJan- 3 17S0.\\nJan. 10, 17S2, d.\\nOct. 2S, 17S3.\\nJune iS, 178s.\\nJan. 25, 1787.\\nDec. S, 17S8.\\nJune 12, 1 791.\\nSept. 7, 1793..\\nFeb. 8, 1796.\\nJune 18, 1799.\\nProctor, Moses, Jun., and Ruth Austin.\\nMoses,\\nRuth,\\nAaron,\\nborn Sept. 15, 1786..\\nAlar. iS, 17SS.\\nMay 7, 1791..\\nProctor, Joel and Katy.\\nJoel, born June 38, 1784.\\nJonas, May 24, 1786.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0445.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "i86\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nRanger, Nehemiah and Lydia.\\nSamuel, born Oct. 24, 1773.\\nLydia, Oct. 20, 1779.\\nAsahel, Aug. 11, 17S1.\\nNehemiah, Nov. S, 17S4.\\nReuben; June 19, 1791.\\nBenjamin, Mar. 22, 1794.\\nReed, Capt. William* and Pkiscilla\\nEmekv.\\nborn Feb. S, 1763, d.\\nDec. 2, 1764.\\nJuly 2}, 1767.\\nSamuel,\\nPolly,\\nWilliam,\\nAbel,\\nSila\\nPriscilla\\nAsa,\\nSarab,\\nUriaii,\\nSamuel,\\nAbiirail,\\nRlnnells, STEriiE.\\\\ and Chloe Thurj^ton.\\nMarried Dec. 7, 17S0.\\nborn Aug. 4, 17S1.\\nSept. I, 17S5.\\ntwins, Dec. 10, 17S7.\\nMary,\\nStephen,\\nHannah,\\nChloe,\\nMa\\n33, 1709.\\nJan. 27, 1771.\\nJune 5, !773-\\nNov. 27, 1775.\\nNov. 30, 1777.\\nNov. 13, 1779.\\nDec. 19, !7S3.\\nFeb. I, 17S6.\\nDied July 13, .S17, a-t. 77.\\nRekd, Jo.siiL.v\\nElizabeth,\\nJosliua,\\nIlaur.ali.\\nAnna,\\nJudith,\\nJohn,\\nThomas,\\nand Elizabeth.\\nborn Mar. 9, 176S.\\nMar. 23, 1770.\\nJune 21, 1772.\\nFeb. 3, 1774.\\nOct. 2S, 1776.\\nSept. 13, 177S.\\nJan. 7, 17S1.\\nJames,\\nPolly,\\nJoseph.\\nEsther,\\nJoseph,\\nHannah,\\nDavid,\\nBetsey,\\nLvdia,\\nRide JUT, J.wiei and Makv.\\nhorn April 20, 1765.\\nNov. 12, 1767.\\nIan.\\n7,\\n1771, d.\\nMar.\\n0)\\n1772.\\nMar.\\n37.\\n177-1-\\nNov.\\nI,\\n1776.\\nMav\\n3.?.\\n779-\\nJu y\\nI,\\n1 7-^3\\nJuly\\n1,\\n!7?7-\\nRiDEouT, Nathaniel and Susanxaii\\nSrAfLDING.\\nMarried Jan. iS, 1776.\\nRuN.NELLS, Samuel and Abigail Smith.\\nMarried Sept. 20, 1791.\\nNathaniel,\\nAsa,\\nSamuel,\\nJonathan,\\nSusannah,\\nDiadema,\\nNathaniel,\\nGardner,\\nTT ij 1 I twins,\\nHuldah,\\nJohn,\\nborn May 2, 177S, d.\\n^ept. S, 1779.\\nOct. 14, 17S0.\\nSept. 17, 17S2.\\nOct. iS, 17X4.\\nSept. 20, !7S i.\\nMar. S, 17S?.\\nJune\\nJan.\\n9. 793-\\nFrederick,\\nEbenezer,\\nHannah,\\nPersis,\\nJosiah,\\nSusannah,\\n.Samuel,\\nborn June 2S, 1793.\\nJ^ -Iy S- 1794-\\nJuly 27, 1796.\\nAug. 39, 179S.\\nDec. I, iSoo.\\nJan. 2S, 1803.\\nJune 23, 1S05.\\nRuss, Jo.n.vtiian and Lucv Kendall.\\nMarried Nov. 16, 17^?.\\nLucy,\\nJonathan,\\nTtadiel,\\nSarah,\\n.Nathan,\\nHannah,\\nborn May 9, 1760.\\nMar. 17, 1763.\\nMay 30, 1764.\\nDec. 25, 1766.\\nMav 34, 1760.\\nTan. 20, 1772.\\n.Sander.son, Benja^vjin and Esther.\\nDavid.\\nHenjamin.\\nJeremiah,\\nIchabod,\\nSubmit,\\nRichard W.\\nSimon,\\nEsther,\\nJohn,\\nIchaliod W\\nborn Jan. 25. 1773.\\nMar. 24. 1777.\\nAug. 31, 1770.\\nJuly 21, 17S3,\\nJune 7, I7?4.\\nAug. 2S. 17SS.\\nMar. 20, 1790.\\nJune 22, 1795.\\nJ; 23. i7qS\\nDec. S, 1S02.\\n*Dicd Sept. 25, 1S26, xt. So.\\nSaun dersox, Ton athan* and Lucv Pool\\nMarried Oct. iS, 179!.\\nLucy,\\nAlmira,\\nMarinda,\\nJonathan,\\nJonathan,\\nAlmira,\\nWilliam P.,\\nHenry H.,\\nborn Nov. 3^, 1793.\\nMar. 29, 1796, d.\\nMar. 1, 179S.\\nDec. 21, iSoo, d.\\nDec. 30, 1S03.\\nDec. 33, 1S04.\\nFeb. II, 1S07.\\nSept. 13, iSio.\\n*Died August 23, 1S50, a-t. S4.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0446.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n387\\nSanderson, David and Laurana Siiattlck.\\nMarried Dec. 2S, 17S4.\\nPeter, born July iS, 17S7.\\nSarll, William and Hannah Dinsmore.\\nMarried August 6, 1747.\\nElizabeth,\\nWilliam,\\nHannah,\\nJoseph,\\nSarah,\\nMary,\\nJohn,\\nJonathan,\\nHannah,\\nLucy,\\nborn July 16, 174S.\\nMar. 22, 1750.\\nApril 19, 1752, d.\\nMay 13, 1755.\\nJan. 7, 1758.\\nMar. iS, 1760.\\nAug. 6, 1762.\\nMay 29, 1765.\\nJune II, 1767.\\nAug. 26, 1769.\\nShannon, Richard Cutts and Elizabeth.\\nJames N.,\\nElizabeth,\\nMary Ann,\\nAbigail,\\nJohn Langdon,\\nSo])hia,\\nborn Aug. 16, 1774.\\nJune 12, 1776.\\nAug. 12, 177S.\\nOct. 21, 17S0.\\nJ y 4. i/Ss-\\nJune 4, 1786.\\nShattick, Zechariah* and Elizabeth\\nFiSK.\\nMarried March 3, 1747.\\nZechariah, born Nov. 24, 1747.\\nElizabeth, May 15, 1750.\\nMary, TS.v\\nAbigail, June 10, 1755.\\nIsaac died in the army, 1776.\\nSamuel,\\nSibbel, March, 1760.\\nDaniel, Feb. 24, 1767.\\nAbel, June 3, 1769.\\nNathan, June 9, 1774.\\n*Died March -20, 1809, a;t. 85.\\n.SiiATTVCK, William* and Ruth.\\nRutli,\\nWilliam,\\nMary,\\nborn Nov. i, 1739.\\nFeb. 26, 1741.\\nMar. I, 1743.\\nShattuck William and Exif.riem e\\nCurtis.\\nMarried Nov. 26, 1745.\\nNathaniel,\\nExperience,\\n*Died March 13, 1761, aet 47..\\nShattuck\\nWilliam and Zilpha Turner.\\nMarried\\nApril 2, 1761.\\nLaurana,\\nborn May 12, 1762.\\nRebekah,\\nMay 6, 1764.\\nPriscilla,\\nOct. 7, 1766.\\nSarah,\\nMay 28, 1770.\\nWilliam,\\nAug. 20, 1772.\\nLemuel,\\nFeb. 12, 1776.\\nShattuck, Zechariah and Elizabeth\\nF\\narlev.\\nMarried\\nNov. 28, 1771.\\nElizabeth,\\nborn I773-\\nSarah,\\nMay 4, 1774.\\nMary,\\nMar. 9, 1776.\\nIsaac,\\nApril 9, 177S.\\nZechariah,\\nJuly 23, 17S1.\\nAbel,\\nSept. 21, 17S2.\\nJoseph,\\nJan. 20, 1785.\\nAmos,\\nJ-in- 11. 179.V\\nSii.\\\\ttuck, Samuel and Lois Wheat.\\nMarried\\nMay 5, 1791.\\nSamuel,\\nborn Mar. 25, 1792.\\nLois,\\nOct. 20, 1793.\\nNathaniel,\\nJune II, 1795.\\nIsaac,\\nJ;i 35, 1799.\\nWilliam,\\nFeb. 2, 1S02.\\nS\\nhed, John and Rachel.\\nJohn,\\nborn June 17, 1791.\\nJulia,\\n^^sr. IS, 1793.\\nEbenezer,\\nJan. 24, 1796.\\nSued, John\\nand Lucy Jewett.\\nMarrie\\nd Nov. 5, 1707.\\nGardner,\\nborn Oct. 9, 179S.\\nLuther,\\nApril I, 1800.\\nShipley, Abel\\nand Lucy Farley.\\nMarried\\nNov. 24, 1768.\\nAbel,\\nborn Oct. 28, 1769.\\nLucy,\\nMar. 15, 1772.\\nAnna,\\nSept. 26, 1774.\\nJohn,\\nJune 4, 1776.\\nSarah,\\nJune 3, 177S.\\nAmos,\\nMar. 5, 17S0.\\nBenjamin,\\nSept. 9, 17S2.\\nBetty,\\nSept. 26, 17S4.\\nPage,\\nMar. 20, 1787.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0447.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "iSS\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nSmith, MosEb,* and Mary Boynton.\\nMarried Jan. 39, 1756.\\nMary,\\nElizabeth,\\nMoses,\\nborn July 2, 1757.\\nApril IS, 1759.\\nJune 22, 1761.\\n*Died August 25, 1761, act. 31.\\nSmith, John and Sar.\\\\h Merrill.\\nMargaret, born April 22, 177S.\\nSarah, April 25, 177S.\\nBenjamin, April 27, 17S0.\\nJerusha, Oct. 4, 17S2.\\nDaniel, Aug. 13, 1786.\\n*Died Nov. 8, 1S07, xi. 59.\\nSmith, Manasseh and Haxn.\\\\h Emerson.\\nMarried Feb. 17, 1774.\\nHannaii,\\nMary,\\nLydia,\\nManasseh,\\nJoseph E.,\\nLucy.\\nSamuel E.,\\nborn Oct. 17, 1774.\\nFeb. 1, 1776.\\nDec. 15, 1777.\\nAug. 16, 1779.\\nMar. 6, 17S2.\\nSept. 22, 17S3.\\nMar. 12, 17SS.\\nSmith, Rev. David* and Hepzibah\\nWorcester.\\nMarried Jan. i, 1795.\\nDavid Page, born Sept. 20, 1795.\\nNoah, Sept. 7, 179S.\\nHepzibah L., Sept. 7, iSoi.\\nEmmons, Dec. 7, 1S02.\\nMartha, July 14, 1S04.\\nMary, Sep. 19, 1805.\\nHannah, Sept. 10, 1S06.\\nLydia, Aug. i, 180S.\\n*Dicd Aug. iS, 1824, xt. 54.\\nSmith, Rev. Eli* and C.vtharine Sheldon.\\nEli, born July 16, 17S7.\\nSmith, Rev. Eli and Ama Emerson.\\nMarried May 7, 1794.\\nDaniel E., born April 1, 1796.\\nAma, Mar. 29, 179S.\\nLuther, Aug. 11, 1800.\\nCatharine II., Aug. 13, 1802.\\nJoseph E., Dec. 24, 1S04.\\nJohn R., Feb. 12, 1S07.\\n*Died May 11, 1S47, a;t. 87.\\nSmith, Emerson and Mary Page.\\nMarried Nov. i6, 176S.\\nDavid.\\nSamuel,\\nborn Sept. 2S, 1769.\\nMar. 13, 1772.\\nSmith, Emerson and Abig.vil Ayre.\\nMarried Jan. 4, 1775.\\nJesse,\\nJohn,\\nApril 12,\\n1777\\nMary,\\nOct. IS,\\n1779\\nBetty,\\nAug. 20,\\n1782\\nAbigail,\\nDec. 12,\\n17SS\\nHannah,\\nApril 6,\\n17S7\\nRalph,\\nAug. 13,\\n1 791\\nRebekah,\\nJan. 28,\\n795\\nJoel,\\nJune 13,\\n179S\\nSpalding, Jacob and Esther Shed.\\nMarried 17S2.\\nborn Sept. 3, 17S2, d.\\nMay 12, 17S4.\\nEsther,\\nAbigail,\\nEsther,\\nAbraham,\\nRachel,\\nIsaac,\\nRebekah,\\nSally,\\nBetsey,\\nJacob,\\nSybel,\\nJuly S, 1786\\nJuly 17, 17S8\\nAug. 28, 17S9\\nOct. 13, 1791\\nJan. iS, 1794\\nApril 17, 1797\\nApril 17, 1799\\nMar. 8, 1S03\\nJuly 14, iSoS\\nStearns, Isa.\\\\c and Rebecca Jewett.\\nMarried F eb. 26, 1767.\\nRebekah,\\nSarah,\\nAnna,\\nIsaac,\\nborn Dec. 16, 1767.\\nNov. 9, 1769.\\nMar. 10, 1772.\\nFeb. 17, 1773.\\nSte.vrns, Joseph and Abigail Whe.\\\\t.\\nMarried Mar. 31, 177S.\\nJoseph,\\nThomas \\\\V.,\\nDaniel,\\nAbigail,\\nborn Mar. 21, 1779.\\nNov. IS, 17S2.\\nMar. 22, 17S5.\\nSept. 12, 17S9.\\nStevens, Isaac, Jun., and Eliz.\\\\beth\\nJohnson.\\nMarried Jan. 2, 1771.\\nElizabeth, born Mar. 7, 1773.\\nIsaac, July i, 1774.\\nHannah, April 19, 1776.\\nSarah B., Dec. ,2, 1777.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0448.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTERS.\\n389\\nStewart,\\nJames and Mary.\\nTenney, W\\nLLiAM* and Anna Jewett.\\nJames,\\nborn Oct. 15,\\n1742.\\nBenjamin,\\nborn Oct. 38, 1746.\\nThomas,\\nSept. 29,\\n1744.\\nMartha,\\nApril 13, 1749.\\nPeter,\\nJune 13,\\n1746.\\nW^illiam,\\nMar. 17, 1755.\\nJerathmael,\\nMar. 14,\\n174S.\\nAnna,\\n*Died\\nJan. 17, 1759.\\nMarch 32, 1783, aet. 61.\\nStiles, Caleb and\\nMarried F\\n\\\\T R To w IV w T? v r\u00c2\u00bb\\nITl A K 1 X u vv r*\\nsb. 7, 1760.\\nTenney\\nBenjamin and Ruth.\\nLucy,\\nborn Dec. 21,\\n1762.\\nRuth,\\nborn Dec. 2, 1772.\\nCaleb,\\nFeb. 17,\\n1765-\\nBenjamin,\\nJuly 7. 1774-\\nGeorge,\\nJan. 20,\\nJuly 17,\\nDec. 14,\\nMay 30,\\nOct. 12,\\n1767.\\n1769.\\n1770.\\n1773-\\n177S-\\nSamuel,\\nNatlianiel,\\nJonathan,\\nBenjamin,\\nTenney, C;\\nPhebe Jewett,\\nAnna,\\nCaleb Jewett,\\nNancy,\\nipt. William* and Phebe\\nJewett.\\nborn Oct. 12, 1777.\\nFeb. 21, 1779, d.\\nStiles,\\nEli\\nand Sarah.\\nMay 3, 1780.\\nJan. 29, 1782.\\nSarah,\\nEavry \\\\V.,\\nWilliam,\\nRachel,\\nDavid,\\nborn Oct. 6,\\nAug. 27,\\nOct. 12,\\nApril II,\\nOct. 27,\\n176S.\\n1770.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0773-\\n177S-\\n1777-\\nWilliam,\\nWilliam,\\nSally,\\nBenjamin G.,\\nRalph E.,\\nLucinda,\\n*Died\\nMar. 20, 1784, d.\\nSept. 12, 1785.\\nOct. 22, 1786.\\nDec. 8, 1788.\\nOct. s, 1790.\\nJuly 16, 1793.\\nJune 16, 1S06, xt. 51.\\nTaylor\\nAbraham* and Lydia.\\nborn Jan. S, 1732, d.\\nOlive,\\nThurston, Moses* and Hannah.\\nLydia,\\nLeonard,\\nOlive,\\nAbraham,\\nSarah,\\nSubmit,\\nOct. II,\\nOct. 20,\\nAug. 20,\\nAug. II,\\nOct. 24,\\nJune 13,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2733-\\n1735-\\n1737.\\n1739-\\n1741.\\n1743-\\nHannah,\\nMoses,\\nChloe,\\nOilman,\\nMary,\\nLydia,\\nborn Sept. 10, 1744.\\nJuly II, 1746.\\nJuly IS. 74S.\\nJuly 19, 1750.\\nJuly 29. 753-\\nJuly 6, 1756.\\n*Dicd June j.\\n1743. wt. 36.\\n*Died\\nApril 6, iSoo, set. 79.\\nTaylor, Edward and Mary.\\nWallingfore\\nLt. David* and Elizabeth\\nDaniel,\\nborn Mar. 24,\\n1749.\\nLeeman.\\nJoel,\\nAug. 23,\\n752.\\nMarried March 6, 1767.\\nMary,\\nJacob,\\nAnna,\\nJune 19,\\nAug. 21,\\nAug. 2S,\\n754-\\n1756.\\n757-\\nJonathan,\\nSarah,\\nMartha,\\nDavid,\\nborn Sept. 10, 1770.\\nJuly s. 1772.\\nMar. 26, 1774.\\nNov. 26, 1776, d.\\nTaylor,\\nJonathan* and Kbzia.\\nDavid,\\nOct. 12, 177S.\\nKczia,\\nAzubah,\\nEsther,\\nborn June 29,\\nNov. 12,\\nFeb. 19,\\n749-\\nI7SI-\\n17S4-\\nEbenezer,\\nBenjamin,\\nJoel,\\nHannah,\\nOct. S, 17S0.\\nJan. 24, 1782.\\nJan. 22, 17S4.\\nJune 29, 1785.\\n*Died\\nAp\\nHI 7.\\n17S9, ret. 69.\\nAbigail, Jan. 4, 1790.\\n*Died March 12, 1791, a;t. 45.\\nTaylor, Ja\\nMai\\nlES\\nanH T.r\u00c2\u00bbTG \u00e2\u0096\u00a0RiTT-rc-Dt\\nlELD.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ried April 21, 176S.\\nWardwell\\nSolomon and Bethiah.\\nJames,\\nborn April 16,\\n1769.\\nAmos,\\nborn July 25, 1779.\\nLois,\\nJune 4,\\n1770.\\nBethiah,\\nFeb. 2, 1782.\\nMolly,\\nJan. 31,\\n1772.\\nDaniel,\\nJan. II, 1784.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0449.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "390\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nWebster, Abel and Hannah.\\nHannah,\\nNathaniel,\\nAbel,\\nMehitable,\\nMoses,\\nElias, I\\nSarah,\\nLydia,\\ntwins,\\nborn April 26, 1750\\nNov. 23, 1753\\nDec. 7, I7S5\\nAug. 31,1757\\nAug.2S, 1759\\nMar. S, 1762,\\nMar. 30, 1764\\nWheat, Thomas and Mary.\\nMary,\\nAbigail,\\nThomas,\\nSarah,\\nPrisciUa,\\nNathaniel,\\nJoseph,\\nJosiah,\\nLois,\\nHannah,\\nborn Oct. 29, 1746, d.\\nAug. ij, 174S.\\nJ ly 7 750-\\nApril 23, 1752.\\nJ iy 3. 1754-\\nJan. 20, 1756.\\nJuly iS, 1759.\\nDec. iS, 1761.\\nJune 22, 1765.\\nFeb. 16, 1767.\\nWheat Thomas and Sarah.\\nSubmit,\\nAbigail Temple,\\nSarah,\\nMary,\\nborn July 27, 1769.\\nJune 29, 1771.\\nJ iy s, 1773.\\nMay 7, 1775.\\nWheat, Thomas,* Jun., and Ahigail.\\nBenjamin,\\nBenjamin,\\nLucy,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Killed at Bunker Hill June i\\nborn Jan. i, 1771, d.\\nJan. I, 1772.\\nJ;i 17. 177-t-\\net. 24.\\nWheat, Solomon and S.\\\\rah Ball.\\n!^Iarried August 29, 1771.\\nSolomon,\\nJosiah Coolidge,\\nSarah,\\nIiornjuly 7,1773.\\nJ ln- iS, 1775.\\nJune 1 1, 1777.\\nWheat, Joseph and Bridget (Powers)\\nFarley.\\nMarried Oct. 10, 17S3.\\nNathaniel, born April 11, 1784.\\nWheat, Josiah and Sarah Keyes.\\nMarried April 17, 17SS.\\nSarah,\\nRuth,\\nMary,\\nborn Mar. 14, 17S9.\\nApril 24, 179!.\\nDec. 29, 1792.\\nWheat, Solomon, Jun., and Hannah\\nCUMINGS.\\nMarried Feb. 11, 1704.\\nWilliam,\\nJames,\\nHannah,\\nElizabeth,\\nAlary Ann,\\nCaroline,\\nborn June 13, 1794.\\nOct. 10, 1796.\\nF eb. 13, iSoo.\\nNov. 19, 1S02.\\nAug. 29, 1S06.\\nOct. 27, 1809.\\nWheeler, Peter* and Hannah.\\nLucy,\\nAlice,\\nEbenezer,\\nLebbeus,\\nJemima,\\nborn June i, 1744\\nDec. I, 1745\\n.T iy 5. 1748\\nOct. IS, 1750\\nAug. 15, 1756\\n*Died Mar. 2S, 1772, a;t. 67.\\nWheeler Peter and Mehitable Jewett.\\nMarried March 19, 1751.\\nWheat, Solomon and Deborah Kimball.\\nPolly Kimball,\\nSamuel,\\nborn May 10, 1787.\\nFeb. S, 1790.\\nWheat, Solomon and Elizabeth Rogers-\\nJonathan,\\nTimothy,\\nBenjamin,\\nElizabeth,\\nJoel,\\nDaniel,\\nborn Oct. iS, 1795.\\nMar. 25, 1797.\\nAug. 10, 179S.\\nJ y S Soo.\\nOct. 2, 1S02.\\nApril 7, 1S04.\\nMehitalile,\\nPeter,\\nSamuel,\\nEsther,\\nHannah,\\nBenjamin,\\nJoseph,\\nJonatlian,\\nNathan,\\nborn Feb. 29, 1752.\\nAug. 31, 1753\\nJuly iS. 7SS\\nJi 7. 75S\\nOct. 12, 1760,\\nJuly 29, 1763\\nNov. 15, 1766,\\nJuly 2, 176S\\nSlur. 19, 1774\\nWheeler, James and Mary Bltterkield.\\nMarried Nov. i, 1750.\\nJames,\\nReuben,\\nMary,\\nJohn,\\nLevincey,\\nAbiezer,\\nZebulon,\\nborn Jan. 29, 175\\nJan. 30, 1755\\nNov. 2S, 1756\\nJuly 2. 175S\\nAug. 20, 1760\\nFeb. 2, 1765\\nJan. 20, 1768", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0450.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "FAMILY RECtISTERS.\\n39\\nWheeler, Timothv and Mary Nevins.\\nMarried Sept. 8, 1773-\\nTimothy, born Jan. 12, 1774.\\nMary,\\nSimon,\\nOct. 2, 1775.\\nJuly 23, 1777.\\nWheeler, Lebbeus* and Elizabeth\\nCarter.\\nMarried Mar i, 1773.\\nLucretia, born April 3, 1774.\\n*Died July 10, 177S, aet. 27.\\nWheeler, Th.\\\\ddeus and Elizabeth\\nFarmer.\\nMarried Oct. 17, 1769.\\nElizabeth, born July 22, 1770\\nThaddeus, Oct. 10, 1773\\nMinot, May i6, 1777\\nTheodore, Jan. 7, 17S0\\nAmos, July 13,1783\\nJames, Aug. 6, 17S5\\nBenjamin, Oct. 16, 1790\\nWheeler, Ehexezer* and Azubah\\nTaylor.\\nMarried July 13, 17S0.\\nKc/.ia, born Sept. 17, 17S3.\\nJonathan Taylor, Sept. 6, 17S7.\\n*Died March 15, 1817, ast. 6S.\\nWhiting, James and IIepzibah.\\nIlcpzibah, born July 8,1741.\\nWhiting, James and MxVitY Dougl.\\\\s.\\nMarried Aug. 2, 1757.\\nJames, born May 17, 1758.\\nDavid,\\nMar. 18, 1760.\\nWhiting, Benjamin and Grace.\\nFrances Wentworth, born April 19, 1771.\\nMartha, Sept. 10, 1772.\\nGrace, April 16, 1775.\\nSarah, Nov. 23, 1776.\\nWhiting, Capt. Leonard and Ann.\\nAnn,\\nLeonard,\\nMary,\\nGrace,\\nAbigail.\\nStephen,\\nborn Aug. 12, 1763.\\nAug. 25, 1765.\\nAug. 25, 1767.\\nSept. !2, 1769.\\nMar. 25, 1772.\\nFeb. 20, 1774.\\nWiLLOUGHBY, JoHN* and Anna\\nChamberlain.\\nSamuel, born Feb. 13, 1745.\\n*Died Feb. 2, 1793, a;t. 8$.\\nWiLLOUGHBY JONAS and HaNNAH BaTES.\\nMarried Jul) 10, 1760.\\nJonas,\\nOliver,\\nDavid,\\nWilliam,\\nborn May 19, 1761.\\nJune 2, 1764.\\nApril 4, 1770.\\nJune 17, 1774.\\nWiLLOUGHBY Samuel* and Elizabeth.\\nElizabeth,\\nSamuel,\\nborn Aug. 27, 1774.\\nMar. I, 1776.\\nW lLLOUGHBY SaMIEL and M.YRY Gol ld.\\nMary,\\nEthan,\\nSarah,\\nBeriah,\\nRehekah,\\nAnna,\\nLuther,\\nCalvin,\\nWashington,\\nJohn,\\nJoseph,\\nborn Aug. 3, 1777\\nFeb. 26, 1779\\nMar. 31, 1781\\nFeb. 20, 1733\\nMay II, 17S5\\nMay 1 8, 17S7\\nApril 14, 1789\\nMar. 14, 1791\\nApril 13, 1793\\nDec. 23, 1795\\n^ov. 19- 1797\\n*Died Oct. 26, 1832, aet. 86.\\nWiLLOLGHBY, JoNAs.Jun., and Prudence\\nSaunders.\\nMarried May 24, 1785\\nPrudence,\\nJonas,\\nHannah,\\nAnna,\\nborn Oct. 29, 17S7.\\nMar. 15, 1790.\\nMay 7, 1792.\\nMar. 22, 1795.\\nWiLLOUGHBY, OLIVER and Sarah Baylev.\\nMarried Jan. 31, 17S7.\\nAndrew,\\nOliver,\\nborn Aug. 3, 17S7.\\nJuly 17, 1789-\\nWiLLOUGHBY, WiLLIAM and ReBECCA\\nAdams.\\nMarried March 10, 1796.\\nRebecca,\\nSamuel,\\nWilliam,\\nborn Dec. 12, 1797.\\nOct. 2S, 1798.\\nApril 12, i8oi.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0451.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "39-\\nFAMILY REGISTERS.\\nWhipple, Joseph and Esther Pierce\\nMarried Oct. 23, 1792.\\nborn Maj 6, 1793\\nFeb. 19, 1795\\nJoseph,\\nJohn,\\nBetsey,\\nAmos,\\nCharles,\\nRowena,\\nIrena,\\nNov. I, 1796\\nSept. 12, 179S\\nMar. 7, iSoo\\nFeb. 26, 1803\\nAug. I, iSo6\\nJonas,\\nLydia,\\nSally,\\nIsaac,\\nDavid,\\nAsa,\\nBetsey,\\nWoods, Jonas and Lvdia IIobart.\\nMarried April 26, 1781.\\nborn Feb. 22, 1782\\nAug. 31,1784\\nFeb. S, 17S7\\nFeb. 16, 1792\\nJuly 21, 1794\\nAug. 20, 1796,\\nJune 8, iSoi\\nWood, Ensign William* and Susannah\\nWright.\\nMarried Aug. 23, 1778.\\nSusannah,\\nWilliam,\\nKezia,\\nEbenezer,\\nHenry,\\nAbigail,\\nSally,\\nBetsey,\\nHannah,\\nPolly,\\nMark,\\nGrace,\\nMark,\\nHarriet,\\nborn Dec. 28, 1779\\nSept. 24, 17S1\\nFeb. j6, 1783\\nSept. 22, 1784\\nJune 9, 17S6\\nOct. 4, 17S7\\nApril i:, 1789\\nOct. 1, 1790\\nJan. 19, 1702\\nOct\\nJan.\\nOct\\n*Dicd 1826, .-ct. 73.\\n1-2. 1793\\n22. 1795\\nOct. 21, 1706\\nFeb. II, 1799\\n12, 1S05,\\nWorcester, Dea. Francis* and IIannah\\nBOYNTON.\\nMarried Oct. 28, 1741.\\nborn Nov. 5, 1742.\\nAbigail,\\nFrancis,\\nJemima,\\nHannah,\\nSarah,\\nBeulah,\\nMary,\\nLydia,\\nJohn,\\nHannah,\\nFrancis,\\nBathsheba,\\nWorcester, Rev. Francis* and Abigail\\nCarlton.\\nJune 16, 1744, d.\\nJan. 22, 1746.\\nJan. 3, 174S, d.\\nJune iS, 1749.\\nOct. 29, 1750.\\nDec. 13, 1751.\\nApril 26, 1753.\\nDec. 31, 1755.\\nJan. 3, 1757.\\nOct. 27, 1758.\\nApril 21, 1763.\\nMarried April iS, 1720.\\nFrancis,\\nJesse,\\nHannah,\\nSamuel,\\nNoah,\\nborn Mar. 30, 1721.\\nSept. 5, 1722.\\nOct. 7, 1724.\\nMay 7, 1731.\\nOct. 4. 1735.\\n*Died Oct. 14, 17S3, xt. 85.\\nWorcester, Capt. Noah* and Lvdia\\nTaylor.\\nMarried Feb. 22, 1757.\\nNoah, born Nov. 25, 1758.\\nJesse, April 30, 1761.\\nLydia, Nov. 8, 1762.\\nSarah, Mar. 24, 1765.\\nLeonard, Jan. i, 1767.\\nThomas, Nov. 22, 176S.\\nSamuel, Nov. i, 1770.\\nWorcester, Capt\\nSh\\nNoah\\nERWIN.\\nand Hepzibah\\nMarried Sept. 30, 1772.\\nHepzibah, born June 12, 1773.\\nWilliam, Dec. 11,1774,4.\\nWilliam, Nov. 29, 1775.\\nAbigail, June 29, 1777.\\nDavid, April 30, 1779, i_\\nEbenezer, April 30, 17S1.\\nHannah, iVLar. 17, 1783.\\nDavid, Mar. 25, 1785.\\nJames, Feb. 23, 17SS.\\n*Died Aug. 13, 1S17, a-t. 81.\\nWorcester, Jesse* and Sarah P.\\\\rker.\\nMarried June, 17S2.\\n*Died Oct. 19, iSoo, a;t. 79.\\nJesse,\\nJoseph Emerson,\\nSarah,\\nLydia.\\nAbigail,\\nHannah,\\nLeonard,\\nDeborah,\\nMartha,\\nTaylor Gilman,\\nJohn Newton,\\nHenry Aiken,\\nSamuel Thomas,\\nFrederick Augustui\\nDavid,\\n*Died Jan.\\nborn Nov. 30, 17S2\\nAug. 24, 17S4\\nMar. 12, 1786\\nFeb. 22, 1789\\nDec. 15, 1790\\nJune 22, 1792\\nMar. 22, 1794\\n^ray 22, 1796\\nOct. 24, 1797\\nApril 6, 1709\\nFeb. 7, iSoi\\nSept. 25, 1802\\nAug. 30, 1804\\nJan. 28, 1S07\\nApril 13. iSoS\\n20, 1S34, a-f. 72.\\nA", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0452.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "FAMILY REGISTEUS.\\n393\\nWorcester, Samvei. and Lois lioYNTON.\\nMarried Nov. 5. 177S.\\nI^ois, horn Dec. 11, 1779.\\nMary.\\nSamuel,\\nSept. iS, 1781\\nWright, Capt. JosHfA* and Abigail.\\nlosluia,\\nEsther,\\nAbigail,\\nAbijali,\\nI.emiu-l,\\nRuth,\\nLemuel,\\nUriah,\\nTimothy,\\nSibbel,\\nSusannah,\\nSarah,\\nborn Jan.\\nNov.\\nNov.\\nAuii-\\nOct.\\n9, 1741.\\n6, 1742.\\n10, 1744.\\n15, 1 74(1.\\n2. 174*^.\\nFell. 13, 1751.\\nDec. 30, 1752.\\nDec. S, 1754.\\nSept. S, 1756.\\nFeb. 13, 1759.\\nXov. 25, 1 761.\\n^LiV 6, 1763.\\n*Died Aui;-. 5, 1776, :ct. 60.\\nWright, Hkniamin and Maky.\\nHenjamin,\\nAbel,\\nEbenc/.cr W.\\nMary,\\nNoah,\\n|o. eph,\\nMary,\\nHannah,\\nSibbel,\\nliorn Mar. 2S,\\nSept. 3.\\nSept. S,\\nFeb. II,\\nDec. 13,\\nFeb. q.\\n1752-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0754-\\n1756.\\n1 760.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0763.\\nSept. 10,\\n-Arav o.\\n769.\\nWright, Benjamin, Jun., and Esthek\\nTaylor.\\nMarried Dec. 15, 1774.\\nKezia Taylor,\\nBenjamin Winckol,\\nEsther,\\nJonathan,\\nSalome,\\nJonathan Taylor,\\nSalome,\\nMary,\\nMary,\\nWright, Uriah and Eunice Jewett.\\nMarried June 15, 17S0.\\nL riah,\\nEunice,\\nJoshua,\\nJames Jewett,\\nMargaret,\\nTimothy,\\nJosliua,\\nJean,\\nborn June 3, 17S1.\\nMar. 19, 17S3.\\nMar. 9, 17SS, d.\\nMar. 25, 17S7.\\nJ l.v 5. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2789-\\nApril 13, 1791.\\nApril 21, 1793.\\nMay 26, 1795.\\n\\\\\\\\rigiit, Samuel and Molly\\nSamuel,\\nAlice,\\nStepjien,\\nPage,\\nJane,\\nBetsey,\\nLutiier,\\nCalvin,\\nborn Sept. 24, 177S.\\nMar. 5, 17S1.\\nSept. 19, 17S3.\\nApril 30, 17S5.\\nMar. 24, 17SS.\\nSept. 19, 1789.\\nJan- 7. 792-\\nOct. iS, 1794.\\nWright, Ei,isn.\\\\ and Anna Saundeks.\\nMarried Feb. 12, 17S4.\\nborn Feb. 20, 1776.\\nJuly 14, 177S.\\nApril 15, 17S1.\\nJniy 24. 1783. fl.\\nXov. 2S, 17S4, d.\\nAug. 19, 17S7.\\nMar. 2S, 1790.\\nAug. 31, 1792, d.\\nApril 29, 1794.\\nAnna,\\nHannah,\\nRachel,\\nElijah B.,\\nMary,\\nMary,\\nElisha Winckol.\\nWilliam W.,\\nLeonard H.,\\nRalph S.,\\nborn Feb. 26, 17S5.\\nMay 5, 1787.\\nMay 20, 1791.\\nMar. I, 1794.\\n.Tu V 13. 1796, d-\\nFeb. 14, 1799.\\nJan. 32, 1802.\\nOct. 1S05.\\nDec 31, 1S07.\\nAug. 30, iSio.\\nYouNciM AN. Jauez and Susannah Powers.\\nMarried March 34, 17S5.\\nJabez,\\nNoah,\\nDavid,\\nSusannah.\\nHannah,\\nborn June 36, i7Srt.\\nSept. 14, 17SS.\\nDec. 19, 1790.\\nMar. 18, 1793.\\nApril 4, 1795.\\nWright, Lemuel and r\\\\RV Johnson.\\nMarried March 13, 1781.\\nYoungman, Stephen and Abigail Brown.\\nMarried June 16, 17S6.\\nEhenezer,\\nWilliam,\\nhorn April 4, 17S7.\\nOct. 30, 17SS.\\nLemuel,\\nJoshua,\\nNoah,\\nMiles Johnson,\\nlicnianiin,\\nborn Mar. iS, 17S2.\\nI- eb. 29, 17S4.\\nJan. 13, 17S7.\\nMar. 13, 1790.\\nMav 14, 1702.", "height": "3280", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "historyoftownofh00worce_0453.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "EKRATA AND COIIRECTIOXS.\\nTlic iTudcr will please note and cfirrccl liic lollowiii-i errors r\\nPaae i;U, liiK 11. Cor He read Hon. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Mienjainin Tool.\\n1. line Cor L apt. Moor read \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Capl. 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