'aynjx cy(ylyL^r^. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF JAFFEEY, NEW HAMPSHIE^E, From the Date of the Masonlvx Charter to the Present Tenie, 1749-1880; WITH A GENEALOGICAL REGISTER OF THE JAFFREY FAMILIES, AND AN APPENDIX Containing the Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration in 1873. BT DANIEL B. CUTTER, M. D. " The hills are dearest whicJi our childish feet Have climbed the earliest.^'' CONCORD, N. H.: PRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION I S8l. 4 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Such has been our field of labor, but we trust we have gathered from it much that will be interesting and valuable. In this enterprise the town has taken a deep interest ; raised money to aid in its completion, enabling us to furnish a valuable map of the town, a fine view of the mountain, the old church and school-house, and the portraits of individuals, which add much to the beauty and value of the work. And, while we feel proud of the liberality of our native town, we would not forget individuals who have contributed, with their pens and other means, efficient aid in the enterprise. Of these I would mention Benjamin Cutter, Esq., a vener- able citizen, now over 88 years of age, who has furnished much that is valuable from actual knowledge, being born and having always lived in town ; Joseph P. Frost, from whom I received the first invitation to write a history of the town ; Frank H. Cutter, Esq., who examined the state records ; George A. Underwood, chief-marshal at the Cen- tennial in 1773, for a complete history of the school-district in which he lives ; Mr. J. D. Gibbs, for a copy of his record of deaths since 1841 ; Peter Upton, Esq., for the presenta- tion of a fine view of the school-house at East Jaffrey, en- graved at his expense; Benjamin Pierce, Esq., for the pict- ure of the Granite State hotel, of which he is the worthy owner. To many others, too numerous to mention, who kindly furnished the genealogy of their families, we would tender our sincere thanks. We would also remember others, residents of other states and towns, who have gener- ously aided in the work : Hon. Frank J. Parker, of Boston ; Addison Prescott, Esq., of Topeka, Kansas ; Mrs. Elizabeth (Patrick) Lincoln, of Baltimore, Md. ; Lyman Spaulding, Esq., Medina, Mich. ; N. H. Cutter, Esq., Joliet, 111. ; Ezra S. Stearns, historian of Rindge ; C. A. Bemis, historian of Marlborough, N. H. ; Rev. Henry Shedd, Mt. Gilead, O. ; Rev. John M. Ellis, Oberlin, O. ; John W. Fyfe, m. d., Hart- ford, Conn. ; Rev. Andrew O. Warren, Montrose, Pa. ; and many others, who have in many ways aided and encouraged the enterprise. That the history may meet the expectations of all inter- ested in the town of Jaffrey is the hope and wish of your humble servant, d. b. c. CO N TEN TS. Page. CHAPTER I. Location — Boundaries — Climate — Soil — Productions 9 CHAPTER II. Masonian Proprietors — Grant of the Township — Survey — Report of the Surveyor 16 CHAPTER III. First Settlers — Report of Gilmore, Grout, and Hale 27 CHAPTER IV. Municipal History — Charter of the Town — Incorporation — List of Town and State Officers 38 CHAPTER V. Travel — Highway — County Road — Third New^ Hampshire Turnpike — Monadnock Railroad 50 CHAPTER VI. Ecclesiastical History — Meeting-House 59 CHAPTER VII. Ecclesiastical History 70 CHAPTER VIII. Education — Public Schools 81 CHAPTER IX. List of College Graduates of the Town of Jaffrey 90 6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Page. CHAPTER X. Military History — First Military Company — Officers — Roll of Soldiers — JafFrey and Rindge Cavalry Company — Ri- fle Company — Trainings and Musters 123 CHAPTER XT. Revolution — War of 1S13 — Mexican War — Civil War. . . . 131 CHAPTER Xn. Mills — Manufactories and Artisans 145 CHAPTER Xni. Miscellany — Hotels — Stores — Post-Office — Mail Stage — Banks — Sacred Music — Common — Sale of the Public Lands — Constitutional Convention — Delegates — Fires. . 149 CHAPTER XIV. Invoice, 1793, First on Record — Money Raised — Highest Tax-Payers 161 CHAPTER XV. Pauperism — Warning from Town — Board of the Poor sold at Public Vendue — Town Farm 167 CHAPTER XVI. Cemeteries — Accidental Deaths — List of Persons whose Age exceeds Eighty Years 171 CHAPTER XVII. Census of the Town, 1873, with the Location of the Inhab- itants 185 CHAPTER XVIII. • Conclusion 204 Genealogical Register 209-526 Appendix (Jaffi-ey Centennial) ... .527-643 ILLUSTRATIONS. Rev. Laban Ainsworth 75 Mrs. Mary Ainsworth • '^ " John Conant ^^ John Cutter ~i "i . . ^ ,. 25b ' Benjamin Cutter Calvin Cutter Daniel B. Cutter Leonard R. Cutter ^^o^ Frank H. Cutter 535 ^ John Fox ^^^ ;^ Abel Parker Mrs. Edith Parker ^°^^ Toel Parker 53 . 1-. i-i. .... 442 '^ Benjamni Prescott ^^ Samuel Ryan ^^ O. L. Spaulding 47^ Peter Upton ^03 v First Meeting-House 59 First School-House 59 ' East Taflrey School-House ^9 >'Monadnock Bank ^-> ^ Cutter Homestead ^ 5 vGranite State Hotel ^5° View of the Mountain ^° . Map of the Town. 'z-r^'^J ,-r^' HISTORY OF JAFFREY. CHAPTER I. LOCATION— BOUNDARIES— CLIMATE— SOIL— PRODUC- TIONS. THE town of Jaffrey is situated in the southern part of New Hampshire, and is one of the most easterly towns in the county of Cheshire, within one town (Rindge) of the state line of Massachusetts, in latitude 42° 49' north, and longitude 72° 3' west from London. It is bounded, north, 113 rods by Marlborough, and 2,408 rods by Dublin ; east, 730 rods by Peterborough and 988 rods by Sharon ; south, 1,898 rods by Rindge and 603 rods by Fitzwilliam ; west, 349 rods by Fitzwilliam, 806 rods by Troy, and 501 rods by Marlborough. It is fifteen miles from Keene, the shire town of the county ; forty-five from Concord, the cap- ital of the state ; and sixty-two from Boston, — seventy-eight by railroad. The form of the town is rhomboid, the boundary lines inclining about one and a half degrees east of north, and about eleven north of west. The area is about 22,000 acres : about 1,000 is covered with water, and the uninhabitable area of the mountain in Jaffrey is about 3,200 acres. The surface of the town is hilly and mountainous. The altitude 2 10 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. of the Centre is 1,057 feet above the level of the ocean, and East Jaffrey 1,032. The Grand Monadnock is situated in the north-west part of the town and south part of Dublin. Its highest peak is a little south of the line of Dublin, on lot 5, range i, in lati- tude 42° 51' 39" and longitude 72° 6' 30" from London, and has an altitude, according to Prof. Hitchcock, of 3,186 feet above the level of the sea, and 2,029 ^^^^ above the centre of the town. When the town was first settled, the mountain was covered to its summit with forest trees, prin- cipally spruce, excepting a small peak south-east of the top, which was called the "Bald rocks." This forest was blown down by the wind about the beginning of the present cen- tury, and was soon afterwards destroyed by fire. The pres- ent growth of trees around the sides of the mountains is mostly maple, beech, and birch. On the summit grow a few Alpine plants and dwarf spruces ; on the declivities, blueberries in great abundance. The mountain has become a great place of summer resort. In 1873, centennial year, the number of arrivals at the Half- way House was 12,000. This house was built in 1873. It is large and commodious, and is well patronized during the summer season. A good carriage-road connects it with the public highway, and a convenient foot-path with the sum- mit, a distance of about one mile. From this elevated peak the surrounding country has the appearance of an extended plain, whose surface is studded with ponds and villages. In the north and west may be seen the dim outline of the White and Green Mountains, and a distinct view of the Kearsarge and Ascutney ; in the south the Watatic and W^achusett in Massachusetts ; in the east. Pack Monadnock in Temple and Crotched in Francestown. The rocky form- ation of the mountain is a hard variety of gneiss, a species of granite. On the east side, the ascent is abrupt, steep, and precipitous, while on the west side it is more uniform and gradual. The rocks on the west side have the appearance o > D O O :x H MINERAL SPRING. II of having been made smooth by some grinding power, at- tributed to the effect of the vast mountains of ice which were driven over its surface during the glacial period. The inhabited portion of the town lies mostly east and south of the mountain. The surface is hilly, but none of the hills are of sufficient altitude to require any particular description. They are mostly large swells of land, arable on side and summit, on some of which are some of the best farms in town. The town is well watered. The numerous streams flowing from the mountain supply every farm with abundance of water. Those flowing from the east side unite in the south-east part of the town with a stream from Long pond, and form the Contoocook river, which runs north-east, and empties into the Merrimack above Concord. Those from the west side unite with the Ashuelot and Mil- ler rivers, which empty into the Connecticut. Most of the water-power in Jaffrey is on the Contoocook river. In East Jaffrey, on this river, are a cotton-mill, grist- mill, saw-mill, and a knife factory ; and on the road from there to Peterborough, a cotton factory and saw-mill. There are six ponds and part of another in this town. Three, — Thorndike, Frost, and Parker, — are in the north part ; and Gilmore, Hodge, Baker, and a part of Long pond, in the south part. The Thorndike pond is about 400 rods long and 140 wide, and contains an island of about ten acres. It is the largest in town, and is known in Dublin as the BuUard pond. This pond, like the others, received its name from families residing on its border, — Joseph Thorndike, in Jaf- frey, and Simeon Bullard, in Dublin. Hence the different names in those towns. MINERAL SPRING. South-easterly from the mountain, on the old turnpike road, is a spring known as the Monadnock Mineral Spring. Its water is impregnated with carbonate of iron and sul- 12 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. phate of soda, and was formerly considered a valuable rem- edy in many diseases. For a time it was quite a resort for invalids. Where the spring issues from the earth, yellow ochre exists in considerable quantities. The temperature of the water is high, and it never freezes. All the streams and ponds abound with fish. The most valuable are the trout and pickerel. The other fish are perch, shiners, suckers, eels, cat-fish or horned-pout, and minnow. Before the settlement of the town, wild animals were very numerous, consisting of the bear, wolf, catamount, wildcat, deer, and beaver, all of which have long since disappeared; while the fox, rabbit, woodchuck, a variety of squirrels, raccoon, mink, and muskrat, still remain. The otter and the porcupine are occasionally seen. Among the early settlers the wolf was the most trouble- some and rapacious. For a long time the farmer was obliged to herd his cattle and fold his flock during the night, and even then they were not always safe. At one time, during the night, a wolf crept through a crevice in the wall under the sill of the barn of Thomas Mower, killed a sheep, feasted thereon, and was there found in the morning. He received the penalty of death for his temerity. Mr. Spaulding lost sixteen killed by wolves in one night. Bears were common, troublesome in cornfields, and some- times destroyed young cattle. Phineas Spaulding had a calf killed by one. Catamounts are said to have been found, but not in large numbers. George A. Underwood has kindly furnished a very interesting account of one killed by Joseph Hogg and another man, on a hunting excursion, before his settlement in town. To prevent the destruction of deer, officers called deer-reeves were chosen annually by the town, till 1786, for their preservation. A bounty was offered for the destruction of wolves in 1792 ; the last one offered was in 1799. After the destruction of the mountain forest by fire, the most rapacious wild animals disappeared. The beaver also left : civilization was destructive to his FORESTS AND WILD FRUITS. 13 dams, the remains of which have been found in many places. A very interesting account of one is given by Mr. Parker in his centennial address. Birds were very numerous, much more so than they are now. The most troublesome were the crow and the crow blackbird. Very liberal bounties were offered at different times for their destruction, the last in 1799. The crow blackbird is now seldom seen. The crow remains, but no bounty is now offered for his head, as his destructive power among insects is believed to more than counterbalance his ravages in corn-fields. The diminution of birds has in- creased the ravages of insects, and laws for their preser- vation are much needed and should be enacted. When the first settlement was made the town was cov- ered with a dense forest. In the vicinity of the Contoocook river the growth of the white pine was very luxuriant ; the trees grew to an immense size, and had it not been for the Revolution the king of Great Britain would have had a large supply for His Majesty's navy. On the mountain and high- lands grew the spruce and the hemlock. Of the deciduous trees, the most numerous were the maples, beeches, birches, oaks, ashes, cherries, basswoods, and poplars. The rock or sugar maple was the most useful and abundant, furnishing an excellent quality of wood and timber, and a good sup- ply of sugar, — a great desideratum among the early settlers. The red and white maples were less common. The birches were the black, white, and yellow. Of the oak species, the red oak was the only kind in any degree prevalent. The altitude of the town would not admit of the growth of either the white oak or the chestnut. Of the ashes, the white grew on the hillsides, and the black in the swamps. The wild fruits, such as the blackberry, raspberry, straw- berry, checkerberry, high and low blueberry, and huckle- berry were found in many places very abundant. The low blueberry grew on the mountain and in some pastures around it ; the high grew in swamps. 14 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. The wild flowering plants were very numerous. They grew on the hillsides and in the valleys, in swamps and in meadows, in secluded spots and on roadsides, exhibiting every variety of color and beauty, making localities delight- ful that would otherwise appear forbidding and repulsive. The most beautiful of these flowers were the lilies, roses, and violets, of which there were many varieties. Situated on the Grand Monadnock plateau, at an elevation of 1,057 feet above the level of the ocean, the town of Jaffrey must have a climate of some severity in winter. In the neighborhood of the mountain the winds often blow with great power, and snow falls to a great depth, often remain- ing on the ground till late in spring. In summer the morning and evening breezes are cool and refreshing, mak- ing a very healthful and desirable location during that season. Jaffrey has always been regarded as the most healthy town in its vicinity, seldom visited by any epidemic. The longev- ity of its inhabitants has been great, as shown by the mor- tuary record of the state. By that it appears that more deaths of persons exceeding 100 years of age have occurred in this town than in any other in the state having the same number of inhabitants. Moses Stickney died 1852, aged 100 years, 7 months ; Rev. Laban Ainsworth died 1858, aged 100 years, 8 months ; Sarah Byam died 1866, aged 102 years, 2 months, 19 days ; Dorcas Rice died 1873, aged 104 years, 4 months, 5 days. SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS. The soil, although the surface is rough and uneven, was originally very productive, yielding large crops with little cultivation. The principal business of the early settlers was the felling and burning of the forest trees, sowing the seed, and gathering the crops. A descendant of Phineas Spaulding writes, that on his farm it was not uncommon for a quart of seed to yield a bushel of wheat, and for herds- grass to grow higher than a man's head. The first crop SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS. 15 raised on new cleared land was usually rye ; afterwards herds-grass and clover. When the stumps of the fallen trees became sufficiently decayed to admit of ploughing, Indian corn was raised in great abundance. The other cereals raised were wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat, &c. Of the vegetables raised, the potato was the most valuable, and most extensively used. The other vegetables were beets, carrots, turnips, onions, parsnips, pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, and cabbages. Flax was raised for th^ manu- facture of clothing. Around the base, and high on the sides of the mountain, the pastures were excellent, and afforded an abundance of feed for cattle during the summer season. Large numbers were driven from Massachusetts every year and pastured therein, and however lean their condition on arrival, they were sure to be returned well fattened in the fall. Stock-raising and wool-growing were a great source of profit, such products always finding a ready market. The raising of pork and the products of the dairy were also valuable sources of revenue. The nearest market was Bos- ton, and in December, the farmers with their own teams, loaded with pork, poultry, butter, and cheese, could be seen on the way there, in company with each other, in large num- bers, loading back with salt, sugar, and such other necessa- ries as their circumstances required. But the scene has now changed ; — the fertility of the land has disappeared ; the rich pastures no longer exist ; the growth of clover and herds-grass is changed to one of white-grass, hardbacks, and ferns, and even those are fast yielding to the growth of another forest, which may again in time renovate the soil, and make it a fit residence for another generation. CHAPTER II. MASONIAN PROPRIETORS— GRANT OF THE TOWNSHIP- SURVEY— REPORT OF THE SURVEYOR. THE town of Jaffrey was granted by the Masonian Proprietors under the name of Middle Monadnock No. 2, November 30, 1749, to Jonathan Hubbard and thirty- nine others, residents of Hollis, Lunenburg, and Dunstable, The Masonian Proprietors were residents of Portsmouth and vicinity, twelve in number, who purchased of John Tuf- ton Mason, great-grandson of Capt. John Mason, for;^i5oo, his right and title to a tract of land lying in New Hamp- shire, granted to said Capt. John Mason by the Council of Plymouth in 1629. The purchase was divided into fifteen shares, of which Theodore Atkinson had three shares, Mark H. Wentworth two shares, and Richard Wibbard, John Went- worth, John Moffat, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, George Jaffrey, Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel Meserve, Thomas Walling- ford, and Thomas Packer one share each. Nine additional members were afterwards admitted, and the shares increased to eighteen. The new members were John Rindge, Joseph Blanchard, Daniel Pierce, John Tufton Mason, John Thom- linson, Mathew Livermore, William Parker, Samuel Solly, and Clement March. The territory is described as " ex- tending from the middle of the Piscataqua river, up the same to the fartherest head thereof, and from thence north- westward until sixty miles from the mouth of the harbor were finished ; also, through Merrimac river to the far- therest head thereof, and so forward up into the land west- ward until sixty miles were finished, and from thence over- GRANT OF THE TOWNSHIP. 1/ land to the end of sixty miles accounted from the Piscataqua river, together with all lands within five leagues of the coast." Immediately after the purchase, the above described tract of land was divided by the proprietors into townships. Those around the Monadnock hills, as the mountain was then called, were named Monadnocks, designated by num- bers, beginning with Rindge, which was South Monadnock, or Monadnock Number One ; Jaffrey, Middle Monadnock, or Monadnock Number Two ; Dublin, North Monadnock, or Monadnock Number Three ; Fitzwilliam, Monadnock Number Four; Marlborough, Monadnock Number Five; Nelson, Monadnock Number Six ; Stoddard, Monadnock Number Seven ; Washington, Monadnock Number Eight. After the Revolution, a controversy arose concerning the western boundary of the Masonian Grant, between the proprietors and the state. A curved line was claimed by them, corresponding with the line of the sea-coast, while the state claimed a straight one. The state finally estab- lished a straight line extending from the south-east part of Rindge to a point near the south line of Conway, leaving the Monadnock townships, except a part of Rindge, beyond the limits of the Masonian grant. To make valid the grants of these townships, and others, the Masonian Proprietors purchased of the state the land in dispute for the sum of forty thousand eight hundred dollars. GRANT OF THE TOWNSHIP. Province of )^ Pursuant to the Power and Authority New Hamps^ ) Granted and Vested in me by the Proprie- tors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason Esq^ In the Province of New Hampshire by their Vote passed at their meeting held at Portsmouth in said Province, the 16"" day of June 1749 I Do by these Presents on the Terms and limita- tions Hereafter Expressed give and Grant all the Right Poses- sion and Property of the Proprietors aforesaid unto Jonathan Hubbard Oliver Farwell Tho^ March, Elias Eliot, James Stewart, John Kendall Joseph Blanchard Jun'' Barnabas Davis Will"' Rindge Peter Powers Eleaz"" Blanchard — Paul March 1 8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Tho' Parker Jim'' Benj. Bellows, Sampson Stoddard Daniel Emerson Josiah Brown, Stephen March — Benj'^ Winn, John Scott, Sam' Garish, John Hart, John Chamberlin, Joseph Winn Jun"^ Joseph Blodget Jun""' Sam' Cumings, Mathew Thornton, John Buttertield, Will'" Garish, Nath' Pierce, Jon- ath" Cumings, John Usher, Joseph French, Peleg Lawrence Isaac Williams, David Adams, David Willson Randall JVPDaniel, Robert Fletcher Jun% Joseph Emerson To the said Joseph Blanchard Jun"" Three shares, to the said James Stewart Two shares, to Peter Powers Four shares to Benj° Bellows two shares, to Jonath" Hubbard Three shares, to Josiah Brown two shares. The others aforenamed one share each, of in or to that Tract of Land or Township Called the Middle Monadnock or No. 3 — Bounded as followeth beginning at the South West Corner of Peterborough Slip So Called, from thence Running North Eighty deg' West Seven miles to a Hemlock Tree Marked, from thence Running North by the Needle five Miles to a Hemlock Tree marked, from thence Running South Eighty deg' East Seven Miles to a Beach Tree Marked, in the West Line of Peterborough, from thence South by the Needle to the first Bounds Mentioned To Have and to Hold to them their Heirs and Assigns, Excepting as afore- said and on the following terms and Conditions (that is to say) that the whole tract of Land be divided Into Seventy one Equall Shares, and that each Share Contain three Lotts Equi- tably Coupled together, and drawn for at Dunstable — at or be- fore the first day of July Next in Some Equitable Manner — That three of the aforesaid Shares be granted and appropriated free of all Charge, one for the first Settled Minister in Said Township one for the Support of the Ministry, and one for the School there forever — one lott for Each Said three Shares to be first laid out in the most convenient place Near the Middle of Said Town, and Lotts — Coupled to them. So as not to be drawn for — that Eighteen of the said Shares be Reserved for the Grantors of the Premises, their Heirs and Assigns forever and Aquited from all duty and Charge Untill improved by the Owner or Some Holding them Respectively, that the other Owners of the said Rights Make Settlement at their Own Ex- pense in the following manner Viz. All the Lotts to be laid out at the Grantees Expense, that all the Lotts in Said Town- ship be subjected to have all Necessary Roads lay'd out threw them free from Charge as Hereafter there Shall be Occasion — That within Four Years from the date hereof Forty of the Rights or Shares, belonging to the aforementioned Grantees Viz. Oliver Farwell Thomas March, Elias Eliot, John Ken- dall, Barnabas Davis, Paul March, Sampson Stoddard, Stephen March John Scott Sam' Garish John Hart John Chamberlain GRANT OF THE TOWNSHIP. I9 Joseph Winn ]un^ Joseph Blodgett Jun"' Samuel Cumings, Mathew Thornton VVill™ Garish Nathi Pierce Isaac Williams David Willson, Rand' JV'PDaniel, Robert Fletcher Jun" Jona- than Cumings John Usher Joseph French Peleg Lawrence, Joseph Emerson — One Settlement Each Josiah Brown two Shares, Benj" Bellows two vShares, James Stewart two Shares, Jonathan Hubbard three Shares, Peter Powers two Shares, Daniel Emerson & Thomas Parker one Settlement Each Be Enter'd upon and three Acres of Land at the Least Cleared inclosed and fited for Mowing or Tillage, and that within the term of Six Months then Next Coming there be on each of the Said forty Shares a House Built, the Room Sixteen feet Square at the least, fitted and furnished for Comfortable dwelling therein and Some Person Resident tiierein and Continue In- habitancy and Residence there for three Years then Next Com- ing with the Aditionall Improvement as aforesaid of two Acres Each Year for Each Setler. That Each of the Said Grantees at the Executing this Instrument pay twenty Pounds Old Ten"" to defray the Necessary Charges Risen and arising in Said Township to be deposited in the hands of Such Persons as the Grantees shall Chuse being a free holder and Resident in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid. That a good Conven- ient Meeting House be Built in said Township as near the Center of the Town as maybe with Convenience — Within Six Years from this date and Ten Acres of Land Reserved for Publick Uses. That the aforesaid Grantees or their Assigns by a maj"' Vote In Publick Meeting Grant and Assess Such further Sums of Money as they Shall think Necessary for Com- pleating and Carrying forward, the Settlement aforesaid. And any of the Grantees Exclusive of the three Publick Lotts, who shall neglect for the Space of three Months Next Coming after such assessment Shall be granted and Made to pay the Same, So much of vSuch Delinquents Right Respectively Shall or may be Sold as will pa}' the Tax and all Charges arising thereon — by a Committee of the Grantees appointed for that purpose. That all White Pine trees fit for Masting his Majes- tys Royall Navey Growing, on Said Tract of Land be and hereby are granted to his Majest}' his Heirs and Sucessors forever. And in Case any of the Grantees Shall Neglect or Refuse to perform any of the Articles aforementioned he shall forfeit his Share and Right in Said Township and every part and Parcell thereof to those of the Said Grantees that shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their Part herein Ex- pressed, and it shall and may be lawfuU for them or any Per- son by their Authority to Enter into and upon the Right of such Delinquent Owner and any and every part thereof in the name of the Whole of the Settlers that Shall fulfill as aforesaid, 20 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. and him to amove Oust and expell for their Use their Heirs and Assigns. Provided they settle or Cause to be Settled Each Such Delinquent Right within the term of one Year at the furthest from the Period that is by this Instrument stipulated to be done as the Condition of this Grant, and fully discharge and Comply with the whole duty such delinquent ought to have done, within one Year from time to time, after the Respective Periods thereof, and in Case the Said Grantees fulfilling on their part as aforesaid, Shall Neglect fulfilling as aforesaid the duty of any Delinquent Owner, nor he himself perform the same, that then such share or shares shall be forfeited Revert and belong to the Grantors their Heirs and Assigns to be wholly at their disposal, always provided there be no Indian War — within any of the terms and limitations aforesaid, for doing the Duty Conditioned in this grant and in Case that should happen the same to be allowed for tiie Respective Mat- ters aforesaid, after Such Impediment should be Removed. Lastly the said Grantors do hereby promise to the said Grantees their Heirs and Assigns to defend through the Law to King and Council if Need be, one Action, that shall or may be brought against them or any number of them, by any person or persons Whatsoever Claiming the said Lands or any part thereof by an3^ other Title than that of the said Grantors or that by which they hold and derive their's from provided the said Grantors are avouche'd in to defend the same and in Case on Finall Tryall the same shall be Recovered against the Gran- tors for the said Lands Improvements or Expense in Bringing forward the .Settlement, the said Grantees shall Recover noth- ing over against the said Grantors and further that the said Grantors will pay the Necessary Expense of time and Money, that any other person or persons shall be put to by any other suit or suits that shall or may be brought against them or any Number of them the said Grantees. For Tryall of the Title, before one suit shall be fully determined in the law, to which Premises Joseph Blanchard Agent for and in behalf of the said Grantors Have hereunto set my hand and seal tiiis 30"' da}' of November in the 23*^ Year of his Majestys Reighn Anno Domini 1749 Joseph Blanchard (seal). A True Copy of the Grant of the Middle Monadnock Township or No 2 attest Joseph Blanchard Jun. Prop. Clk. A true Copy examined attest Geo. Jaftrey Prop CI I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a Grant on the files of the Masonian Proprietors. J. W. Peirce, Prop. Clk. THE RANGES NUMBERED. 21 sSSTS^'""' 22 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. This is a plan of the Middle Monadnock No. 2 Township, The Ranges are i6o Rods Wide, and the Lotts, One hundred Rods Wide and finished laying out the lotts in May 17=50. Rob' Fletcher Jun'"Sur". A Coppy taken from the files of the Pioprietors of the above Township. Joseph Blanchard, Prop"" Clk. A true Copy Examined Attest Geo. JaftVey Prop'^ CI. A true Copy Examined Attest J. W. Peirce, Prop^ Clk. LIST OF THE PROPRIETORS OF MONADNOCK. A List of the Proprietors of the Monadnock Township. x; T aj range 10, and Davidson on lot 21, range 3. Grout was a prominent man. He made, with Gilmore, an early report of the settlement of the town to the proprietors. He died in 1 77 1. There is a tradition that he was buried where the meeting-house was afterwards built. John Davidson re- mained a permanent settler, and died in 181 1. It is also reported as true that his eldest daughter, Betsey, was the first white child born in Jaffrey. List of the pioneers of Jaffrey, per report of Gilmore > Grout, and Hale : John Borland, Joseph Caldwell, James Caldwell, James Caldwell, Jr., Thomas Caldwell, Chrysty, Daniel Davis, *Joseph Dunlap, *John Davidson, Thomas Davidson, Thomas Emery, Fitch, *Roger Gilmore, *John Gilmore, *John Grout, Glover, Enoch Hale, Hale, *John Harper, Wid. Henderson, *Joseph Hogg, *William Hogg, Robert Holmes, Jona. Hopkinson, David Hunter, Ephraim Hunt, John Little, Andrew McAlister, Alex"- McNiel, William Mitchel, Munroe, James Nichols, Organ, Jona. Parker, Russel, *WiIliam Smiley, John Swan, *Joseph Turner, *VVilliam Turner, Thomas Turner, Solomon Turner, Taggot, George Wallace, Thomas Walker, Robert Wier, *Mathew Wright, Leranus Wright. * Permanent settlers. EARLY SETTLERS. 33 The settlement of many of the first inhabitants was of short duration. They seemed to be a log cabin population, fond of living in a forest. Most of them were Scotch-Irish from Londonderry. Of those who became permanent set- tlers, of that race, were John and Roger Gilmore, William Smiley, Joseph Turner, Joseph Hodge, William Turner, and William Hodge. After the incorporation of the town, a large emigration from Massachusetts purchased their lands with all of the improvements, and became the perma- nent settlers of the town. Of the history of the settlers reported by Grout, Gilmore, and Hale, but little is known. Alphabetically arranged, we find the first on the list to be John Borland. He was the first settler in what is now East Jaffrey, and built the first mills in that place. In 1778 he sold his place to Deacon Eleazer Spofford, of Danvers, and left town. Four families by the name of Caldwell, — James, James, Jr., Joseph, and Thomas, — were among the first settlers. When the town was incorporated, the name of James Cald- well appears on a committee chosen to procure preaching, and Thomas Caldwell is represented in Hale's report as the owner of a saw -mill on lot number 22, range 5. Nothing more is known of the family of Caldwell. The name of Thomas Emery is found in Hale's report as the owner of the right of Nathaniel Pierce, which included the lot on which was built the Milliken tavern, afterwards the farm of John Felt, and now, 1873, Levi Brigham, and also the farm of Clarence S. Bailey. Solomon Grout settled on lot 13, range 9, — the Isaac Bailey farm, — and was road surveyor in 1774 and selectman in 1776. A Wid. Henderson, by Grout and Gilmore's report, set- tled on lot 17, range 3, now the farm of S. Garfield. Jonathan Hopkinson's place of settlement is unknown. Robert Holmes was from Londonderry ; his brother Abram settled in Peterborough. He settled on lot 12, 34 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. range 3, afterwards the farm of Joseph Thorndike, John Conant, and Frank H. Cutter. The first frame house in Jaffrey is reported to have been built on that farm, per re- port of Grout and Gilmore. David Hunter settled on lot 5, range 6, afterwards the farm of David Gilmore, Esq., now (1876) the farm of Mar- shal C. Adams. When the first military company was or- ganized he was chosen ensign. John Little settled on lot 15, range 4, now the farm of John Quin. He was highway surveyor in 1774. His suc- cessor appears to have been Simpson Stuart. Alexander McNeil settled on lot 12, range 5, and was, by tradition, the first inn-keeper in Jaffrey. From the town records he appears to have been quite a prominent man. In 1774 he was chosen one of a committee to procure preaching ; one of a committee to examine the accounts of the selectmen and constable ; and one of the committee to build the meeting-house. In 1775 he was one of the board of selectmen, and moderator of the annual town-meeting in 1776. In 1779, at the annual town-meeting, the town voted that Alexander McNeil should not keep tavern. He proba- bly left town soon after. William Mitchel settled on lot 12, range 4, afterwards the farm of James Gage, and his son Jonathan Gage. Present owner, Michael D. Fitzgerald. In 1774 he was chosen auditor of accounts and deer-reeve ; in 1775, surveyor of roads and sealer of leather; in 1776, surveyor of roads. He probably left town in 1777 or 1778. Andrew McAlister settled on lot 14, range 4, afterwards the farm of John Briant, now owned by Samuel D. Jewell. James Nichols settled on lot 17, range i, afterwards owned by Benjamin Cutter, Benjamin Frost, John Frost and John Frost, Jr. ; now uninhabited. John Swan was owner of lot 6, range 4; lot 5, range 5 ; and lot 21, range 6. On which lots he settled is not known. Thomas Walker was owner of lot 16, range 2; lot 7, EARLY SETTLERS. 35 range 6; lot ii, range i. On which he settled is not known. George Wallace, settlement unknown. Robert Wier settled on lot 6, range 5. In 1773, when the town was incorporated, he was chosen one of the audi- tors of accounts and highway surveyor ; in 1776 he was chosen town-clerk and first selectman. Leranus Wright settled on lot 14, range 8. His suc- cessor was Francis Wright, inn-keeper. When the town was incorporated, in 1773, the town-meeting was held at his place. The farm is now owned by Dana S. Jaquith. Most of the early settlers were born in the state of Massachusetts, some in Londonderry, N. H., some in England, and some in Ireland. David Bailey was born in England ; John Davidson and William Smiley in Ireland. They were a race of hardy adventurers, inured to toil and hardship, fit inhabitants for a new township. They were mostly young men, unmarried, in search of a future home. They made a purchase of land, cleared a few acres, built thereon a cabin or log house, returned to their original home, and there married and took with them their wives with their household furniture to the home in the forest, a bridal tour full of hope and expectation of a rich future re- ward — not only a reward of gold and silver, but one of a large progeny. In that they were not often disappointed, as the emigration from Jaffrey, in after years, to the states of Vermont, New York, Ohio, and most of the Western states, will abundantly verify. The sons and daughters of Jaffrey and their descendants may be found not only in town, but in most of the cities East and West, holding positions of wealth, honor, and trust. The life of the pioneer was one of hardship and toil. It had also its comforts and enjoyments. If it did not afford a life of ease, it did a life of health. If it did not furnish jewels or gold, it did, what was of more value in their esti- 36 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. mation, like the Roman matron, a family of hale and healthy children, A very interesting account, given by Mrs. Sarah (Law- rence) Eveleth, in a letter to her nephew, John S. Lawrence, centennial year, relating to the early habits of the first set- tlers, is here given, in her own language. Mrs. Eveleth was a school-teacher in her younger days, and is now (1873) nearly 80 years of age. She writes from her own recollec- tion as follows : The first settlers fared very hard, worked hard, and their living was coarse and short. It consisted of bean porridge, Indian bread, johnny-cakes, and a few potatoes. Pies and cakes were a great luxury if they could get them, but they were "like angels' visits, few and far between." Their dress was made of coarse material, homespun and wove. Ladies wore dresses made of tow and linen, tight waist, skirt made of wool, open iu front to the bottom and pinned behind. They wore a dress skirt, short loose gown, wool hats, and sometimes sun-bonnets, such as would cause a smile these good days. For church dress, they wore calico called chintz, wore mostly leather shoes, some had velvet. For an overdress, the ladies, if they had any, wore home-made cloth : some had silk. They wore skirts which came half way from the knee to the ankle, called long shorts, or cut shorts. The children, if they went to church at all, wore home-made cloth, with a handkerchief tied on their heads. Li cold weather they wore a striped blanket over their shoulders. The men wore striped frocks and trowsers, cowhide boots if they could get them, otherwise shoes, with leggings in win- ter to keep out the snow. They had an over-dress made of coarse wool cloth, called great coats, which came down to their ankles. Their dwellings were mostly built of logs, with a stone chimney at one end, and a large fireplace, large enough to re- ceive wood four feet in length. The cellar and attic, if they had any, was reached by a ladder. The seats were made of blocks of wood, and table of a large log two or three feet long. Their mode of travel was at first by marked trees, on foot, and afterwards by sleds drawn by oxen. In winter they ti'av- elled on what they called snowshoes when the snow was deep. A man would take a woman behind him on the same shoes. She would take hold of his shoulders and step every time as he did, and travel a mile or more in that way. After a while EARLY SETTLERS, 37 horses were used by those who were able to have them. By using a saddle and pillion, two could ride on the same horse. In this way they went to church, funerals, parties, and to mill. Schools were taught in private dwellings. The first school- house in the district was a rude aflair, built by Samuel May- nard, at the expense of the district, with a jackknife and gimlet. The first schools wei"e taught by Rufus Houghton and Sally Lowe. The first cider-mills in the district were built by Kendal Briant and Benj. Lawrence. Before they were built, cider was made by pounding the apples in a wooden bowl, and pressing them in a cheese-press. CHAPTER IV. MUNICIPAL HISTORY— CHARTER OF THE TOWN— INCOR- PORATION— LIST OF TOWN AND STATE OFFICERS. IN 1773 the number of inhabitants in Middletown, as the town of Jaffrey was then called, was 303 ; number of families, 52. A petition was signed that year by the inhab- itants for a town charter, and presented to the royal gov- ernor, John Wentworth, by Col. Enoch Hale, of Rindge, a man of high standing in official position, and previously a resident of the township. On the seventeenth day of August, A. D. 1773, a charter was duly granted by the said royal governor, with the advice of his council, at Ports- mouth, changing the original name Middletown, or Middle Monadnock Number Two, to Jaffrey, in honor of George Jaffrey, at that time a member of the governor's council, and one of the Masonian proprietors. Capt. Jonathan Stan- ley, father-in-law of Col. Hale, was authorized to call the first town-meeting within sixty days. After the incorpora- tion of the town the population increased with great rapid- ity. Large numbers, during and after the Revolutionary War, came from Massachusetts. In 1775, at the beginning of the war, the number of inhabitants was 351. In 1783, eight years later, it was 1,033; in 1790, 1,235 \ 1800, 1,341 ; 1810, 1,336; 1820, 1,339; 1830, 1,354; 1840, 1,411; 1850, 1,497; i860, 1,452; 1870, 1,256; 1873, 1,288; 1880, 1,267. CHARTER OF THE TOWN. 39 CHARTER. Province of New Hampshire. George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c. To all people to whom these presents come, Greeting: Whereas our loyal subjects, Inhabitants of a Tract of Land within our Province of New Hampshire, aforesaid, commonly called and known by the name of Middletown or Middle Mo- nadnock No. 2, Containing by estimation about six miles square. Having humbly petitioned and requested us that they may be erected and incorporated into a Township, and enfran- chised with the same Powers and Privileges which other towns within our said Province by law have and enjoy, And it ap- pearing unto us to be conducive to the General good of our said Province, as well as the Inhabitants in particular, by maintain- ing good order and encouraging of the culture of the land, that the Same should be done : Know ye, that we, of our special Grace and certain knowledge, and for the encouragement and promotion of the Good Purposes and ends aforesaid, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and well beloved John Went- worth Esquire, our Governor and Commander in Chief, and of our Council of the same, have erected and ordained and by these presents, for us, our Heirs and successors, do will and ordain that the Inhabitants of the said Tract of Land and others, who shall improve and inhabit thereon hereafter, the same being butted and bounded as follows viz : Beginning at the South West corner of Peterborough Slip so called, from thence running North eighty degrees West seven miles to a Hemlock Tree marked, from thence running North by the Needle five miles to a Hemlock Tree marked from thence run- ning South, Eighty degrees East seven miles to a Beech Tree marked in the West line of Peterborough, from thence South by the Needle to the first Bounds mentioned ; Be and they are hereby declared to be a Town corporate, and are hereby erected and incorporated into a body Politick and corporate to have continuance forever by the name of JaftVey ; with all the Powers and Authorities, Privileges, Immunities and Franchises, which any other Towns in said Province by Law hold and en- joy to the said Inhabitants, or those who shall hereinafter in- habit there, and their Successors forever, Alway reserving to us, our heirs and successors, All White Pine Trees, that are or shall be found being or growing within or upon said Tract of Land, fit for the use of our Royal Navy, Reserving also to us, our heirs and successors, the Right of dividing said Town, when it shall appear necessary and convenient for the Inhab- 40 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. itants thereof. Provided nevertheless and tis hereby declared that this Charter and Grant is not intended, and shall not in any manner be constrned, to aftect the private Property of the soil within the Limits aforesaid. And as the several Towns within our said Provence are by these Laws thereof enabled and authorized to assemble and by the Majority of the Voters pres- ent to choose all such offices and transact such affairs as in the said Laws are declared, We do by these Presents nominate and appoint Jonathan Stanley of said Town to call the first Meet- ing of said Inhabitants to be held within the said Town at any time within sixty days from the Date hereof, giving legal notice of the time and design of holding said meeting after which the annual meeting of said Town shall be held for the choice of said officers, and for the purpose afores'^on the last Thursday of March annually. In testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of said Prov- ence to be hereunto affixed. Witness our Governor and Com- mander-in-chief aforesaid, the seventeenth day of August, in the thirteentli year of our Reign Annoquedom 1773. John Wentworth. By his Excellency's Command, with Advice of Council. Theodore Atkinson, Sec. ORGANIZATION. Provence of \ New Hampshire > Pursuant to the Charter of the Town of Cheshire, ss. j Jaffiey in Said County of the seventeenth of this Instant August Consisting of that Tract of Land originally Called and Known by the Name of Middle Monadnock Number two in s'^ County. To me Directed by his Excellency the Governor and Com- mander in Chief in and over Said Provence, For calling the First meeting within sixty Days. These are therefore in his Majestys Name to Notify and warn all the Freeholders and otlier Inhabitance of s** town, Qiialified to vote in Common affairs, to assemble and meet at the house of Francis Wright in s*^ town, on Thisday the Fourteenth Day of September Next Insuing, at two of the Clock in the after Noon, then and there to Proseed on the following articles, as the Law Directs. jstiy 'Pq choose a Moderator to Govern s** meeting. 2^1^ "Yo choose a town Clark, Selectmen, Constable or Consta- bles, Tythingmen and all other officers. Required by Law of said Province to be Chosen in s^ town at the First meet- ing, All to be Sworn to the faithful Discharge of their Re- ORGANIZATION. 4I spective offices in all things to be Done and Performed by them as the Law of s** Province Directs. Given under my Hand and Seal at JaftVey Aug. 27, 1773- Jonathan Stanley. Jaffiey Sept. 14 1773- Then the Freeholders and Inhabitance of s** town being meet agreeable to the forgoing Warrant, I'"*' Choose Capt. Jonathan Stanley moderator to Govern s** meeting. 2'^ Choose mr W™ Smiley Town Clerk. Choose Capt. Jonathan Stanley, First Selectman, mr. W™ Smiley Sec*^ Selectman. mr. Phineas Spaulding third Selectman. Choose Mr. Roger Gilmore, Tythingman. Choose Hugh Dunlap and John Harper, Field Drivers. Choose John Davidson, Constable. Choose Roger Gilmore, Robert Wire and Samuel Sherwin a Committee to Count with the Selectmen and Constable. Choose David Allen W"" McAlister ; Robert Wire, Eph- raim Hunt, W'" Turner and John Gilmore Soyvors Choose Mr. W™ Hogg and Mr Joseph Wright Fence Vew- ers. The First meeting Sep* 14, 1773- Province of \ To John Davidson Constable for the town New Hampshire > of Jaffrey in the County of Cheshier and Cheshire, ss. j Province aforsaid. Greeting. You are hereby required, in his Majestys name, to warn all the Freeholders and Inhabitance of s"^ J^iffiey (Duly Qiialified to Vote) to meet at the house of Francis Wright, Innholder, on Tuesday the twenty eighth of this instant Sepf, at one of the clock in the afternoon, then and there to act on the Following Articles. i°* To choose a moderator to Govern s"^ meeting. 2'y To see if they will vote a Certain Sum of money to lay out on the Rodes in s*^ Town. 3'y To see what Method they will take to have the Gospel Preached among us. 4'y To See How much money they will Raise to support the Gospel And when you shall have Performed the service herein re- quired of this Warrant make return to us and of your Doings thereon, at or before the s*^ twenty eighth Day aforsaid. Given under our hands and seal this fourteenth Day of Sept, 1773- 4 42 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Cheshire ss. Sept. 28, 1773. In Obedi- f Jona. Stanley. ^ ence to the within Warrant, I have I W™ Smiley "n warned all the Freeholders and inhab- \ Phineas Spaulding g- itance of s*^ town to meet at time and J a Place within mentioned. (^ ^ Pr. Me, John Davidson Constable. Jaffrey Sep' 2S. Then the Freeholders and Inhabitance of s*^ town being mett agreeable to the Foregoing Warrant, i'^ Choose Capt. Jonathan Stanley moderator to govern s*^ meeting. 2'y Voted Eighty Pounds L : M : to be worked out on the Rods. 3^-'' Voted that Capt. Jona. Stanley, Alexander Mc-Neill and Jeames Caldwell be a Committee to Provide supplies of Preaching for s*^ town. 4'y Voted six Pounds Lawful Money to support the Gospel in said town. The second Town Meeting held in s'' Town Sept. 28, i773* The town was now duly organized, and had power to make provision for the public wants, and compel every citi- zen to share in the expense. Of what was done previous we have no record, and it is quite doubtful whether any was ever made ; quite certain it is that they had not met the requirements of the grant, so far as it related to the build- ing of a meeting-house, as none appears to have been built. The business requirements of the town at this time related to the making of roads, building of a meeting-house, and the establishment and support of a public school. The following persons appear to have been voters at the time of the organization of the town : David Allen, Jona. Blodgett, Wm. Fisher, John T. Anderson, George Clark, John Gilmore, Stephen Adams, Jeames Caldwell, Roger Gilmore, Thomas Adams, Henry Coffren, Robert Gilmore, Jethro Bailey, Joseph Cutter, Hiram Greene, Isaac Baldwin, Daniel Davis, Oliver Hale, John Borland, John Davidson, John Harper, John Briant, Robert Dunlap, John Hanley, Kendal Briant, Hugh Dunlap, Elias Hathorn, Alpheas Brigham, Thomas Emery, Eben' Hathorn, TOWN-CLERKS. 43 Elred Hetrech, Jason Hemingway, W™ Hogg,.. Joseph Hogg, David Hunter, Ephraim Hunt, Ebn"" Ingals, Jona. Jewett, John Little, Alex"- Mc-Neal, W™ Mc-Alister, Peter Mc-AIister, W"^ Mitchell, Samuel Milliken, W'° Miliken, Dennis Orgon, Samuel Pierce, Jacob Pierce, Oliver Proctor, Jona. Priest, Daniel Priest, Daniel Priest, 2<^, W'» Smiley, Jona. Stanley, David Stanley, Phineas Spaulding, Sami Shervvin, Joseph Thorndike, Joshua Thorndike, W" Turner, Joseph Turner, Nathaniel Turner, Simon Warren, Peter Warren, Isaac Wesson, Eph™ Whitcomb, Robert Wier, Mathew Wallace, Sam^ Woodbury, Mathew Wright, Francis Wright, Joseph Wright. List of the moderators of the annual town-meetings, from the incorporation of the town, 1773, to 1880. Jonathan Stanley, 1773. Henry CofFeen, 1774. John Gilmore, 1775. Alex"- McNiel, 1776. Roger Gilmore, 1777. W". Smiley, 1778, '80. Joseph Bates, 1779, '81-2, '86. Benj. Prescott, 1783-4, '97. Jed^^ Sanger, 1785. Abel Parker, 1 787-8-9-90-1, '93, '96, '98-9, 1 80 1, '08. Phineas Spaulding, 1792. Joseph Thorndike, 1794-5. Simeon Butters, 1800, '03. Adonijah Howe, 1802, '06, '09-10- 11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19. David Page, 1804-5, '07. TOWN-CLERKS. W™. Smiley, 1773-4-5, 'n, '83. Abel Parker, 1789. Robert Weir, 1776. Alex-- Milliken, 1790. Roger Gilmore, 1778-9, '95-6-7-8-9, David Smiley, 1803-4. 1 800- 1. David Page, 1805. Adonijah Howe, 1 780-1 -2, '04, '06- Samuel Dakin, 1806-7-8-9-10-11- 7-8, '91-2-3-4, 1802. 12-13-14-15. Jedediah Sanger, 1785. Oliver Prescott, 1816. Moody Lawrence, 1820-21. Edward Spaulding, 1822-3-4, '38, '41. Oliver Prescott, 1825-6, '32, '34, '39, '40. Luke Howe, 1827-8. W^. Ainsworth, 1829-30-31. Asa Parker, 1833. John Conant, 1835-6-7, '42-3, '47, '49-50-1, '53-4-5- Stillman Clarke, 1844. John Felt, 1845-6, '48. Alonzo Bascomb, 1852. Charles H. Powers, 1856-7-8-9-60- 1-2-3-4-5-6, '71-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-80. Fred W. Bailey, 1867-8-9-70. 44 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. W™. Ainsworth, 1817-18-19-20-21. Jonas M. Mellville, 1840-1. Henry Payson, 1822-3-4. John Fox, 1848-9 '50-1-2-3-4-5-6-7- Thomas Adams, 1825-6-7-8-9-30-1-2. 8-9-60-1-2-3. Benj. Cutter, i823-4-5-6-7-8-9,'42-3- Joseph P. Frost, 1864-5-6-7-8-9-70- 4-5-6-7. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-80. SELECTMEN, Jonathan Stanley, 1773. Wm. Smiley, 1773, ""JT, '79. Phineas Spaulding, 1773. Henry Coffeen, 1774. Roger Gilmore, 1774, '78-9. '92-3, '95-6-7, 1 800- 1. William Turner, 1774. John Gilmore, 1775, '82. Alexander McNiel, 1775. Peter Warren, 1775. Robert Wier, 1776. Solomon Grout, 1776. Joseph Turner, 1776. Joseph Thorndike, 1777, '94. Daniel Emery, 1777, '81. Alpheas Brigham, 1777, '87. Joseph Cutter, 1777, '93. John Stanley, 1778. Abraham Bailey, 1778. Hugh Dunlap, 1779. Eleazer Spofford, 1780. Joseph Bates, 1780. James Hay ward, 1780. Thomas Mower, 1781. William Pope, 1781. Benj. Prescott, 1782. James Stevens, 1782, 1800-1. Ebenezer Stratton, 1782. Adonijah Howe, 1785, '88, '92. Jedediah Sanger, 1783, '85. John Briant, 1783-4. Jereme Underwood, 1783, '90-1, '95-6-7. Thomas Adams, 1784, '89, '94, 1802, '17-18-19-20, '26-7. James Gowing, 1784. Joseph Perkins, 1785, '91, '94. Abel Parker, 1786, '89, '91-2-3. Samuel Emery. 1786-7, '89. Oliver Hale, 1786. Alexander Milliken, 1786-7-8, '90. Silas Marshal, 1786. Samuel Buss, 1788, '95, '98. Simeon Butters, 1790. Moses Worcester, 1796-7, 1802. Daniel Parker. 1798-9. John Joslyn, 1798-9. Benj. Haywood, 1800-1, '34-5-6. Rufus Houghton, 1802, '06-7. David Smiley, 1803-4. Roger Brigham, 1803-4-5, '07. Jona. Fox, 1803-4-5, '08-9-10-11- 12-13-14. David Page, 1805. David Page, Jr., 1806. Samuel Dakin, 1806-7-8-9-10-11-12- 13-14-15. David Gilmore, 1808, '17-18-19-20- 1-2-3. Joseph Joslin, 1809-10-11-12-13-14, '22. Oliver Prescott, 1815-16-17-18-19- 20-21, '28-9-30-1-2-3. David Jewett, 1816. Asa Parker, 182 1-2- 3-4-5. Levi Fisk, 1823-4-5, '28. Samuel Patrick, 1826-7, '29-30, '37- 8-9-40 . Oliver Warren, 1827, '35-6. John Conant, 1828, '31-2-3-4. TOWN TREASURERS. 45 Edward Spaulding, 1829-30-1-2-3-4-John A. Prescott, 2d, 1858-9, '60. 5, '41-2. Samuel Ryan, 1859-60-1. John Felt, 1836-7-8-9. John Frost, 1860-1-2. John A. Prescott, 1837-8-9,41, '52-James R. Stanley, 1861-2-3. 3-4. Benj. L. Baldwin, 1862-3-4. Labon Rice, 1840, '42-3, '05-6, '53-Frank H. Cutter, 1863-4-5. 4-5. James L. Bolster, 1864-5-6, '71- Nehemiah Adams, 1840, '42-3-4. Jos. W. Fassett, 1865-6-7, '73-4- Oliver Bailey, 1841. Alfred Sawyer, 1866-7-8, "73-4-5. Gilman Mower, 1843-4. Henry C. French, 1867, '70-1-3. David Spaulding, 1844. Benj. Pierce, 1868-9. Ezra Baker, 1845-6-7-8. Marshal C. Adams, 1868-9-70. Robert Ritchie, 1845-6-7-8. Oliver P. Hunt, 1869-70. Rufus Haywood, 1847, '49. John M. Wales, 1872. Jona. J. Comstock, 1848-9-50. Addison Prescott. 1872. Oliver Bacon, 1849-50-1. Jos. P. Frost, 1874-5-6. S. B. Lawrence, 1850-1-2. Henry A. Turner, 1875-6-7. Asa Baker, 1851-2 3. Clarence S. Bailey, 1876-7-8. Wm. Lebonveau, 1854-5-6. John A. Cutter, 1877-8-9. Daniel French, 1855-6-7. Oscar W. Bradley, 1878. John Fox, 1856-7-8, '71-2-3. George A. Underwood, 1879-80. A. W. Spaulding, 1857-8-9. TOWN TREASURERS. Wm. Smiley, 1778. Edward Spaulding, 1835. Adonijah Howe, 1781-2, '86-7, '89, Ethan Cutter, 1836-7-8. '90-1, '99- 1 800- 1 -2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9- J. M. Melville, 1839 to 1851, inclu- lo-i 1-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20. sive. Samuel Buss, 1783-4, '92, '93-4. John E. B. Jewett, 1858-9. Thomas Adams, 1795-6-7. Ebenezer Upton, i860. Oliver Prescott, 1821. C. H. Powers, 1861-2-3-4, '70-1-2-3 Wm. Ainsworth, 1825-6-7-8-9-30- 4-5-6-7-8-9-80. 31. Peter Upton, 1865. Asa Parker, 1832. Fred W. Bailey, 1866-7-8-9. Isaac J. Fox, 1833-4. List of representatives from the incorporation of the town to the present time, in the order in which they appear upon the record : 46 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Henry Coffeen, May ii, 1775, to third Provincial Congress at Exeter. William Smiley, 1784. John Gilmore, 1785, '86. Abel Parker, 1787, '91-2-3, '97, '99. Benjamin Prescott, 1790, '96, 1809, 10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17. Joseph Thorndike, 1794, '95, '98, 1 800- 1 -2-3. Adonijah Howe, 1804-5, '18-19-20-21 David Page, 1806-7. Laban Ainsworth, 1808. *01iver Prescott, 1822-3-4-5-6. *WiIliam Ainsworth, 1828-9-30. *Levi Fisk, 1831-2-3. John Conant, 1834-5-6. *Edward Spaulding, 1837-8-9. *Samuel Patrick, 1840. John Felt, 1841-2-3-4-5, '47. Laban Rice, 1846. Peter Upton, 1848-9-50. *John Fox, 185 1-2-3-4. *David C. Chamberlin, 1856-7. *John A. Prescott, 1858-9. Charles H. Powers, 1860-1, '78. Samuel Ryan, 1862-3. ♦Frederick W. Bailey, 1864-5, '68-9. *Addison Prescott, 1866-7. *Benjamin Pierce, 1870-1. *Frank H. Cutter, 1872-3. * Alfred Sawyer, 1874-5. Joseph W. Fassett, 1876-7. Thomas Annett, 1879-80. State senators, natives of Jaffrey : Asa Parker. 1826-7. Levi Fisk, 1835-6. Justices of the peace are appointed by the governor and council on recommendation of parties concerned. In 1785 Roger Gilmore was recommended by a vote of the town, and was commissioned by the governor. The following list is given in the order of their appointment : Roger Gilmore, Abel Parker, Benjamin Prescott, Joseph Thorndike, Joseph Cutter, Alexander Milliken, Samuel Dakin, Robinson Perkins, William Ainsworth, David Gilmore, Edward Spaulding, Samuel Patrick, Benjamin Cutter, Samuel Foster, Laban Price, Hiram Duncan, Jonas M. Mellville, Peter Upton, Amasa Kennie, Stillman Clarke, Roderick R. Perkins, John A. Prescott, Nehemiah Adams, George Briant, Luther Cutter, Asa Baker, John A. Prescott, 2d, J. E. B. Jewitt, David A. Wood, Spencer L. Bailey, Guerley A. Phelps, Oscar H. Bradley, Geo. W. Todd, Joseph P. Frost, James L. Bolster, Henry B. Wheeler, J. W. Fassett, Alfred Sawyer, H. B. Aldrich, L. N. Willoughby, J. P. Frost. * Born in Jaffrey. VOTE FOR GOVERNOR. 47 Justices of the quorum Asa Parker, Adonijah Howe, Oliver Prescott, Luke Howe, John Conant, Levi Fisk, Justices throughout the state : Abel Parker, Frederick W. Bailey, John Fox, Frank H. Cutter, John Felt, Alonzo Bascom, Addison Prescott. F. S. Pierce, F. B. Spalter. The chief magistrate of New Hampshire was styled president by the constitution adopted by the state in 1783, and governor by the constitution as revised in 1793. VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. Votes, Votes. 1784. Meshech Weare, 17 1788. John Sullivan, 2 1785. John Langdon, 6 1789. John Sullivan, 46 George Atkinson, 29 1790. John Pickering, 25 1786. John Langdon, 40 1791. Josiah Bartlett, 69 1787. John Langdon, 68 Joshua Wentworth, I John Sullivan, 13 1792. Josiah Bartlett, 81 1788. John Langdon, 52 VOTE FOR GOVERNOR. 1793- Josiah Bartlett, 41 1806. Jeremiah Smith, 64 John T. Gilman, 5 John Langdon, 24 1794. John T. Gilman, 57 Timothy Farrar, 9 1795- John T. Gilman, 61 Robertson Perkins, 9 1796. John T. Gilman, 62 Zacheus Witt, I 1797. John T. Gilman, 65 1807. Jeremiah Smith, 72 1798. John T. Gilman, 65 John Langdon, 26 1799. John T. Gilman, 72 1808. Jeremiah Smith, 51 1800. John T. Gilman, 100 John Langdon, 51 1801. John T. Gilman, 121 1809. Jeremiah Smith, 188 1802. John T. Gilman, 156 John Langdon, 23 . 1803. John T. Gilman, 145 1810. Jeremiah Smith, 219 John Langdon, 9 John Langdon, 45 1804. John T. Gilman, 168 1811. Jeremiah Smith, 200 John Langdon, 8 John Langdon, 40 1805. John T. Gilman, 223 1812. John T. Gilman, 203 John Langdon, 30 Wm. Plumer, 46 48 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1813. John T. Gilman, Win. Plumer, 1814. John T. Gilman, Wm. Plumer, Timothy Farrar, 18 1 5. John T. Gilman, Wm. Plumer, 18 16. James Sheaf, Wm. Plumer, 18 17. Jeremiah Mason, Wm. Plumer, 1818. Jeremiah Mason, Wm. Plumer, 1819. William Hale, Samuel Bell, 1820. Samuel Bell, 1821. Samuel Bell, 1822. Samuel Bell, 1823. Levi Woodbury, Samuel Dinsmoor, 1824. Levi Woodbury, David L. Morril, Jeremiah Smith, 1825. David L. Morril, 1826. David L. IVIorril, Benjamin Pierce, 1827. David L. Morril, Benjamin Pierce, 1828. John Bell, Benjamin Pierce, 1829. John Bell, Benjamin Pierce, 1830. Timothy Upham, Matthew Harvey, 1831. Ichabod Bartlett, Samuel Dinsmoor, 1832. Ichabod Bartlett, Samuel Dinsmoor, 1833. Samuel Dinsmoor, Arthur Livermore, 1S34. William Badger, I S3 5. William Badger, Joseph Healey, 207 1836. 35 224 1837. 47 I 1838. 237 1839. 43 221 1840. 48 221 48 1841. 191 48 138 1842. 21 35 no 95 1843. 91 49 45 20 1844. 65 148 no 1845. 76 1846. 64 63 64 1847. 63 63 148 1848. 90 n9 1849. 176 126 30 1850. n8 179 88 1851. Isaac Hill, George Sullivan, Isaac Hill, Scattering, Isaac Hill, John Page, James Wilson, Edmund Parker, John Page, Enos Stephens, Daniel Hoit, John Page. Enos Stephens, John H. White, Daniel Hoit, Enos Stephens, Henry Hubbard, Anthony Colby, Henry Hubbard, Daniel Hoit, John H. White, Anthony Colby, John H. Steele, Daniel Hoit, Anthony Colby, John H. Steele, Daniel Hoit, Anthony Colby, Jared W. Williams, Nathaniel S. Berry, Nathaniel S. Berry, J.W. Williams, Anthony Colby, Scattering, Jared W. Williams, Nathaniel S. Berry, Nathaniel S. Berry, Samuel Dinsmoor, Levi Chamberlain, Levi Chamberlain, Samuel Dinsmoor, Nathaniel S. Berry, Thomas E. Sawyer, 90 109 11 4 no 117 174 14 n3 152 23 99 142 26 39 94 80 92 78 34 4 127 97 40 115 32 23 127 n8 39 34 131 143 2 126 184 38 "4 145 128 lOI 42 120 VOTE FOR GOVERNOR. 49 Samuel Dinsmoor, 96 George Stark, 134 John Atwood, 42 1862. Nathaniel S. Berry, 197 1852. Thomas E. Sawyer, 119 George Stark, 122 Noah Martin, IIS 1863. Ira A. Eastman, 115 John Atwood, 33 Joseph A. Gilmore, 180 ^853- James Bell, 112 1864. E. W. Harrington, 114 Noah Martin, 96 Joseph A. Gilmore, 200 John H. White, 34 1865. Frederick Smyth, 178 1854. James Bell, 102 E. W. Harrington, IIS Nathaniel B. Baker, 94 1866. Frederick Smyth, 189 Jared Perkins, 42 John G. Sinclair, 123 1855. Ralph Metcalf, 127 1867. Walter Harriman, 189 N. B. Baker, 82 John G. Sinclair, 126 James Bell, 19 1868. Walter Harriman, 203 1856. Ralph Metcalf, 176 J. G. Sinclair, 133 John S. Wells, 107 1869. John Bedel, 104 Ichabod Goodwin, 12 Onslow Stearns, 179 Scattering, I 1870. John Bedel, 95 1857. William Haile, 176 Onslow Stearns, 186 John S. Wells, 116 Lorenzo D. Barrows, I 1858. William Haile, 175 1871. James Pike, 176 Asa P. Gate, 114 James A. Weston, 122 1859. Ichabod Goodwin, 191 1872. James A. Weston, 123 Asa P. Gate, 109 Ezekiel A. Straw, 210 i860. Ichabod Goodwin, 198 1873- James A. Weston, 104 Asa P. Gate, 133 Ezekiel A. Straw, 181 I86I. Nathaniel S. Berry, 187 CHAPTER V. TRAVEL— HIGHWAY— COUNTY ROAD— THIRD NEW HAMP- SHIRE TURNPIKE— MONADNOCK RAILROAD. PREVIOUS to 1800 the inhabitants travelled on foot, sleds, carts, and horseback. The sleds and carts were drawn by oxen. The men rode on saddles, and the women on pillions behind them. At a later period the side-saddle came into use by those who were able to own two horses. Phineas Spaulding, who lived in the west part of the town, brought his wife into town at the time of their marriage in a cart drawn by oxen. The Rev. Laban Ainsworth mar- ried Miss Mary Minot, of Concord, Mass., and performed his wedding tour on horseback. He was met on entering town by a numerous cavalcade of citizens, and escorted on the way to their future home. Wheel carriages drawn by horses were not in use till later than 1800. In 1804 the two-wheeled " shay," as it was then called, was taxed. The number taxed was five, owned by David Gilmore, Alexander Milliken, Robinson Perkins, Eleazer Spofford, and Joseph Thorndike : valuation of each carriage, from ^40 to $70. Horse wagons made their appearance in 18 13 or 18 14. The owners were Captain Eber Lincoln and Abel Marshall. In winter a rude wooden sleigh called a pung, drawn by horses, was used. In 1802, the town provided a hearse for the conveyance of the dead to the place of interment, pre- vious to which they were borne on the shoulders of men. Wagons at length came into very general use. Their form and size were much better adapted to family use than the COUNTY ROAD. 5^ square top chaise. The old cumbersome chaise has long since disappeared, and but few now living have any recollec- tion of them. They were no doubt well adapted to the nar- row, ill-constructed roads of those times. When the grant of the town was made, in 1749, the grantors, at a meeting held in Dunstable, Massachusetts, appointed Jacob Lawrence and William Spaulding a com- mittee to lay out a road from No. 2 (Wilton) to Mid- dle Monadnock No. 2, through Peterborough Slip (Sharon). When the town was incorporated, in 1773, a county road passed through the south-west part of the town, from Rindge to New Marlborough. Of the locahty and condition of other roads we have no knowledge. At the first town- meeting six road-surveyors were chosen ; and at a second meeting, held a few days later, ;^8o was voted by the town to be worked on the roads. At the annual meeting, 1774, nine road-surveyors were chosen and ^80 of money raised. In 1775, £130 of money was raised, and eleven surveyors chosen. Transcripts of roads were made by the selectmen, and presented to the town for acceptance immediately after the incorporation of the town. The first one presented was from the county road to Fitzwilliam line. Eleven transcripts of roads were presented and accepted during the year 1774. The most important ones were as follows : From Borland's mills (East Jaffrey) to the town line of Rindge. From lot 4, range 10, to the county road leading from Rindge to New Marlborough. From Roger Gilmore's house, lot 13, range 6, to Bor- land's mills. From Joseph Hogg's, lot 10, range 9, to the county road. From the town line of Sharon, lot 22, range 5, to Roger Gilmore's, lot 13, range 6. From the centre of the town northerly to Wm. Mitchell's (now Michael Fitzgerald's), from thence to Joseph Thorn- dike's, now Frank H. Cutter's. 52 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. ^^ 1775 the following transcripts were presented and accepted : From John Borland's mills, by Long pond, to Eaton's mills, now Squantum, From Joseph Thorndike's house, now F. H. Cutter's, to Dublin line. From the common south to the river bridge, south-east by John Gilmore's to Rindge line. 1778. From the meeting-house by the house of John Briant, east to John Davidson's (now Henry K. French's), to the town line of Peterborough, west of Thomas Turner's barn. From Oliver Proctor's house, on the line between lots 16 and 17, range 8, to Borland's mills. From the bridge near Joshua Thorndike's, lot 11, range 3, to the road leading to Joseph Cutter's, now the residence of Joel W. Poole. 1779. From Dublin line, lot 17, range i, by the house of Benj. Cutter, now John Frost's, to Elijah Goodale's house. 1781. From Joseph Turner's house, lot 21, range i, by the house of Abel Parker's, to the road leading from Joseph Bates's to the meeting-house. 1783. From the road leading by John Brian t's to Peter- borough, east of said Briant's, by James Gowing's and Moses Stickney's, to Dublin line. 1785. From Benj. Prescott's to Sharon line. 1799. From Jonathan Emery's house, south-east to the county road. 1 80 1. From the county road, near Alexander Milliken's, south 22° east to the county road near Daniel Priest's. 1803. From the Carey house south by Abel Parker's, Samuel Dakin's, and Samuel Adams's, to the county road. COUNTY ROAD. 53 HIGHWAYS. After 1800 but few new roads were called for ; some were discontinued, and new ones on better ground were substituted. After carriages came into general use, a necessity was created for better roads. In many cases hills could be avoided and other improvements made by chang- ing the locality of the road. In district No. ii,for many years the road to Dublin went over a very high hill, by the house of John Conant. In 1822-3, by the individual enter- prise of John Cutter, 2d, with a few others, the present fine level road by the residence of Joel H. Poole was built. Another, from the residence of William Hodge by Walter Carr's, lot 17, range 5, north to the road near the house of Roger Brigham, 1827; from Jacob Baldwin's, lot 18, range 5, to west of Zebediah Pierce's, now Elijah Smith's, to the road leading to Peterborough ; from Samuel Foster's to the road leading by Jacob Baldwin's to Zebediah Pierce's, 1824; from the road running north of Laban Rice's, lot 13, range 6, to the road that leads to John Briant's, "lot 14, range 4, 1838 ; from Calvin J. Parker's, lot 20, range i, to Dublin line, built 1834; from the old factory down to the Cheshire fac- tory, 1838; from Cheshire factory to Peterborough line, 1841. COUNTY ROAD. The old county road from Rindge, through the south- west part of Jaffrey to Marlborough, did not meet the wants of the town. The public good required one through the centre, from Marlborough to the county line of Hillsbor- ough. At a town-meeting, held May 16, 1785, an article was presented to see if the town " will petition the Quarter Sessions for a county road through the town of Jaffrey to the county line of Hillsborough, and act thereon as they think proper," The town chose a committee of three, — Jedediah Sanger, 54 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Benjamin Prescott, and Roger Gilmore, — to join a committee from Rindge to petition for said road. At the next annual town-meeting, March 30, 1786, Jedediah Sanger, Roger Gil- more, Benjamin Prescott, Wilham Pope, and Joseph Bates were chosen to meet the court's committee at Marlbor- ough. The town also voted to expend one half of the mon- ey raised for the benefit of roads on the county road, " if the said road should be laid out by the court's committee;" and Benjamin Spaulding and Benjamin Prescott were chosen surveyors to see the same expended. At a town-meeting, held Sept. 15, 1788, a committee of eleven were chosen to meet the New Ipswich committee, and view the county road through Jaffrey. At a town-meeting, August 27, 1792, the town voted to have all persons living on the county road, and south of it, work out their tax on the same. At a town-meeting, October 27, 1792, the town voted to raise a sum of money in particular, to be expended on the county road. Voted JCioo to' be laid out on the s** road. At the same meeting the town also voted to raise ;^200, to be laid out on the road from Marlborough line, by the meeting-house to Rindge line, on the road to New Ipswich. P'rom the acts of the town, it appears that the county road cost more for repairs than all the other roads in town, and even then it did not meet the requirements of the public travel. At a town-meeting held September 2, 1793, an arti- cle was presented, — To see what the town will do in regard of the bill of indict- ment found against this town, for the neglect of the repairs of the County road. Voted that the Grand Juryman be Directed to settle the bill of indictment at the next Court, It cost but little to accept of transcripts of roads as pre- sented, which required no money for building the road or for damages, when it was expected that the inhabitants , TURNPIKE. 55 living thereon would make such roads as suited their own convenience, and keep them in such repair as would meet their present wants ; but a county road, laid out for public travel, required a construction and condition based on different principles. TURNPIKE. The difficulty and wants attending a public highway probably gave rise to the building of a turnpike, to be sup- ported by toll. Accordingly a petition was presented, and a charter was granted December 25, 1799 ; the road was built the following year. Many of the inhabitants who had means, took stock in the enterprise, among whom was Col. Benjamin Prescott, who was a director and contractor. The road had a power in its operations highly beneficial to the interests of the town. It diverted the travel from the neighboring towns, and increased the same ; it increased the business of inn-keeping, and enabled the inhabitants to carry with their own teams the surplus products of their farms to market. After the road was built, it was the common practice for almost every one, when the first snow fell in December, with his own team to carry his products of pork, poultry, butter, and cheese to the Boston market. It was not un- common to see from twenty to forty teams in company, thus loaded, on their way to Boston, over the turnpike, from towns above. A line of stages was also established, by Dearborn and Emerson, from Boston to Walpole, through Jaffrey, in 1803; also a post-office in the winter of 1801, Peter Lawrence, postmaster. The enterprise was successful for a time, but its success encouraged other towns to get roads of like character char- tered, which divided the travel and ruined the stock. In 1822 it was practically abandoned, the town voting to keep the road in good repair, providing the said turnpike shall become a free road. This was the end of toll-gates on the 56 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Third New Hampshire Turnpike. At first the town voted to keep the turnpike road in repair, on the above conditions, for two years; and at the annual meeting in 1824 it voted to accept of the turnpike through Jaffrey, and keep the same in good repair without Hmitation of time. The town, from the beginning and ever afterwards, was unfriendly to the exist- ence of a turnpike. Its gates exacting a fee for travel were very distasteful. When the petition for a turnpike was first presented to the town at a meeting of the same, Nov. 18, 1799, by an article to hear and consider the substance of a petition and order of court thereon, respecting a petition of Frederick W. Geyer and others, concerning a turnpike road from Bellows Falls to Massachusetts line, and act thereon as should then be thought proper, the town voted to pass over the article. At a town-meeting, held Aug. 8, 1800, there was present- ed an article, — To see if the town will give up to the turnpike corporation in this State so much of the old road as is necessary to be used for s'' Turnpike road. Voted to pass over the article. Town meeting, Nov. 17, i8o3 : Art. 2. To see if the town will agree to move the gate that is erected across the River bridge or build a bridge across the river on the same ground where the old bridge stood on the road leading from JaftVey meeting-house to New Ipswich and act thereon. Voted that the gate be moved off the bridge south of Dea. Spofford's mills. Voted that the Corporation have thirty days to move s*^ gate Reconsidered and Voted that if s'' Corporation do not move off s*^ gate immediately after the tenth day of Jan. next, then the selectmen are directed to move s** gate. Town-meeting, March i, 1803: Art. 15. To see what order the town will take upon the gate that is erected across the dam near Dea. Spofford's. Wee the inhabitants of the town of Jaffrey, having taken into consideration the conduct of the Proprietors of the third N. H. turnpike road in fixing a turnpike gate on the public traveled TURNPIKE. 57 road, (being so before at the time s*^ Proprietors were incorpo- rated) at the bridge or dam across the river near Dea. E. Spof- ford's ; that s*^ gate was set upon s*^ road in violation of the act of incorporation, which expressly forbids them to erect any gate on or across any part of any road, which was at that time used and occupied as a public highway ; and as this town did at a public meeting in Nov. last vote that in case said Propri- etors should not remove s*^ gate by the tenth of Jan. then next, which was in our opinion showing great lenity to s'^ Proprie- tors, that then and in that case Lt Thomas Adams, Capt Rufus Houghton and Lt. Moses Worcester, being then Selectmen be directed to move s'^ gate oft' from said road or highway, who have shamefully neglected their duty therein, and have suffered said gate to remain to this present time tho in Justice to the said Moses Worcester the inhabitants do hereby declare that they are satisfied that he would have done his duty had he been assisted by the other Selectmen. The inhabitants of s'' town farther taking into consideration the pernicious consequences which will arise from any set of men having such influence that the laws of the State cannot be duly executed, do view it a duty incumbent on them to oppose the arbitrary power exer- cised by the Proprietors of the third N. H. turnpike road in their erecting and keeping s'' gate across the public road at the bridge or dam aforesaid ; therefore Voted the present Select- men (David Smiley, Roger Brighani and Jona. Fox) be direct- ed, and it is hereby solemnly enjoined upon them to re- move the gate aforesaid with everything apertaining to the same, which said inhabitants view to be a public nuisance within twenty-four hours from this time ; and again in case said Proprietors shall again have- the temerity to erect another gate on or across any part of the public road thro' this town which was used as such before s*^ Proprietors were incorpo- rated, then and in that case the said selectmen are hereby en- joned to remove the same as often as there shall be any gate erected as aforesaid ; and the s** inhabitants hereby pledge themselves that they will support and save harmless the Selectmen for doing their duty as prescribed in this vote, and to that end the inhabitants afor^*^ do hereby fully authorize and impow^r their Selectmen in case they should be prosecuted by s*^ Proprietors for removing s'^ gate or gates as directed by this vote to assess any sum or sums of money on the inhabitants aforesaid which they may deem necessary (not exceeding one thousand dollars, without farther directions from the inhab- itants of this town) to defray their expenses in defending them- selves against such prosecution or prosecutions, and commit said assessments to the collectors, with sufficient warrants to collect the same agreeable to law. 5 58 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. ' May 13, 1S03. Art. 3. To see if the town will give any directions in regard to the defence of the action of the Proprie- tors of the third N. H. turnpike against the Selectmen of Jaf- frey or act any thing relative to the same. Voted to pass over the s'' article. Jan. 27, 1S04. Received of the town of JaftVey forty-five dollars in full, for money expended by me in defence of the ac- tion of the Proprietors of the s'' N. H. Turnpike road against David Smiley, Roger Brigham and Jona. Fox for removing the gate near Dea. Spofibrds. David Smiley. Nov. 5, 1S04. Art. 5, to see if the town will quitclaim so much of the old County road as is covered by the turnpike to the Corporation of the third N. H. turnpike road. Voted to pass over the article. Aug. 39, 1S08. Art. 3. To see if the town will give liberty to the Proprietors of the third N. H. Turnpike Corporation to erect a gate on the Bridge by Dea. Spofibrds. Voted to pass over the article. The gate was erected in the town of Sharon, where it re- mained for many years, when it was removed to New Ips- wich, near Barrett mountain. RAILROAD. In 1864 the legislature enacted a law allowing towns and cities to make gratuities for the purpose of building railroads, by a vote of two thirds of the legal voters present at any town-meeting legally holden for that purpose. In accordance with that law, at a town-meeting, held March, 1867, the town voted a gratuity of five per cent, on the val- uation of the town for that year to the Monadnock Railroad Company, to enable them to construct a railroad from Win- chendon, through Jaffrey, to Peterborough. Vote for the gratuity, 207 ; against it, 79. The road was completed, and opened for business June 6, 1871. The first trip from Win- chendon to Jaffrey was on November 22, 1870. '^■^;«^v CHAPTER VI. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY— MEETING-HOUSE. THE Masonian grant or charter required that a good, convenient meeting-house be built within six years from the date of the charter, and made provision for that purpose by a gift of three hundred acres of land. No meet- ing-house appears to have been built when the town was organized. The next year after, on the 26th day of April, the matter of building a meeting-house was brought before the town. The town voted " to build one on the common, near the senter this and the ensuing year." Voted, s*^ house is to be forty feet wide, Fifty-five in Lenth. Posts twenty seven feet in Lenth. Roger Gilmore, William Turner Alex"" Mc-Neil a Committee to see the same affected, the above Committee to Vendue s*^ house to the last bider. At a meeting in July following, the town Voted " to Reconsider their vote in Building a meeting- house also their vote in Chose of Committee, then Voted s*^ meetinghouse Sixty feet in Lenth, Forty five wide, the Posts twenty seven feet in Lenth also Voted to have a Porch at each end of s*^ hous. Voted Mr. Roger Gilmore Mr. Will"i Turner, Mr. Mathew Wallace be a Committee to see the work affected in Building s*^ house. Voted that the Com'''' shall Expose s^ house to sail at Public Vendue by the first Wednesday of Sept next, also Voted that the Great timber of s*^ house be hewed by the first day of Decem'' next, also voted Fifteen Pounds L. M. towards build- ing s*^ house, to be Paid by the first day of December Next, also Voted that s'^ house shall be Raised by the Middle of June 60 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Next at the towns Cost. Voted sixty Pounds to be Paid by the middle of June next towards building s'' house. Also Voted that the whole cost shall be Paid by the first of June in the year 1776 as the afors'd house shall be Finished. That the Fraim be well under Pined with good stone and lime, and the outside all well Compleated, and Collored like Rindge meting- house, and lower floor lead Duble, and Pulpit like that in Rindge meting house all the above work compleated by the middle of June 1776-" At the next annual meeting, March 30, 1775, the town Voted to Sell Lot No. 4 in the 6"" Range, No. 12 and 20 in the first Range to Pay some of the Cost in Building the meet- ing house, and chose William Smiley, John Gilmore Roger Gilmore a Com"^ to make sail of the aforsaid Lots, also voted to sell the aforsaid Lots at Publick Vendue, to the highest Bidder, also Voted to sell the Pew Ground in the meeting- house in s'' town, to pay the first cost in Building the meeting- house at Public Vendue. Voted the building Com^*^ Provide all things necessary to rase s'^ meetinghouse at the town cost. In December of the same year the town Voted to sell Lot No 14 R 2 for the Benefit of a school in s*^ town. Voted to Hire the mony the afors'^ Lot shall be sold for, to Pay in Part the Charges in Building the meetinghouse and pay the use of s** money anuly to support a school in s** town. It would seem from the following vote that the committee chosen to sell the public lands had failed to do it. " Voted to Dismiss the Com""' chosen to sell the Public land, and choose Captjona. Stanley Mr Roger Gilmore Mr VV™ Turner a Com'^'^ to sell all the Publick Land Voted to be sold, at Private or Public sale as they think proper." In 1776 there is no record of anything being done in re- lation to the meeting-house. In 1777 the town voted " to finish the meeting-house this year." In 1778, April 2, — " Voted to build the Body Seats. Chose Simeon Stickney, Joseph Bats & Daniel Emery a Com*" to Effect the same." Apr. 20, Voted thirty Pounds to Build the Body Seats, also chosen Sam' Adams & Jonathan Stanley to lay out the meet- MEETING-HOUSE. 6 1 inghouse ground. Voted to have 12 pews on the South End of the two squares of the meetinghouse Ground. Nov. 26, Voted to finish the meetinghouse this year and next. Chose Eleazer Spoftbrd, Joseph Bates, Phineas Spauld- ing and John Cutter a Com'^'^ to effect the same. Voted to Finish the Pews and sell them. In 1779, Jan. 14, the town Voted to sell the Pews to the hiest Bidder that belongs to the town, Except them that do not belong to the Society, or that have been against paying anything towards building the house. Voted that the purchaser of the Pews shall pay one third part of the price down, another third in six months and the re- mainder when the Pew is finished. Chose William Smiley Vendue Master. Voted, that the Vendue of the Pews begin on Thursday the 21 of Jan. inst at nine of the Clock before noon and the Vendue Master deliver up what money he gits to the Committee. Voted to finish the Pews with Banisters, and to have one Pew less on the wall on the West side of the Pulpit. Voted that if any man Neglects to pay the first payment, his vote shall afterwards be taken no notice of, but the pew expos- ed to sale again, and if any man pay the first and second pay- ments and Neglect to pay the third, he shall forfeit all he has paid, and his Pew exposed to sale again. Voted eleven Pews to be on the south side of the gallery on the wall on the south side of the house and seven on each Gal- lery on the wall of the two ends of the house and two on each corner of the front Gallery. Voted to hang the seats with hinges. May 22, 1779, Notice is hereby given to the inhabitants of JaftVey that the sale of the Pews that remain unsold, likewise the sale of all such Pews as the former Purchasers thereof who have not fulfilled the articles of sale for the pews in the meet- inghouse, will be on Wednsday the ninth day of June next, at twoof tlie clock in the afternoon at the meetinghouse. W™ Smiley, Vendue Master. In 1780, Mar. 30, Art. 3 of the warrant, — To see if the town will make any allowance to Capt. Henry Cofteen for the Barrel of Rum that he paid for, which was ex- pended at the Raising of the meetinghouse. Voted that the Selectmen settle with Capt. Cofteen in behalf of the town. 62 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. PEW-OWNERS, 1780. 1. Roger Gilmore, Esq., 28. 2. Capt. Joseph Cutter, 29. 3. Ig" Joseph Wilder, 30. 4. Doct. A. Howe, 31. 5. Joseph Brooks, 32. 6. Capt. Benj" Spaulding, 33. 7. Lt. Moses Worcester, 34. 8. Oliver Bailey, 35. 9. Phineas Spaulding, 36. 10. Phin"* Spaulding, 37. 11. Capt. Jos. Perkins, 38. 12. John Davidson, 39. 13. Jos. Thorndike, Esq., 40. 14. Capt. Jona" Stanley, 41. 15. Lt. Joseph Bates, 42. 16. Eg" Alexander Milliken, 43. 17. Thorndike and Page, 44. 18. Lt. William Turner, 45. 19. John Gilmore, 46. 20. Isaac Bailey, 47. 21. Capt. Daniel Emery, 48. 22.' Dea. Daniel Emery, 49. 23. Thomas Mower, 50. 24. Robert Harkness, 51. 25. Lt. John Harper, 52. 26. Capt. Samuel Adams, 53. 27. Eleazer Spofford, Lt. James Stevens, Capt. James Gage, Benj° Nutting, Simon Warren, Oliver Proctor, Eleazer Spofford, John Briant, Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Abel Parker, Esq., Dr. A. Howe, Lt. Sam' Buss, Eleazer Spofford, Nathan Hall, Benj° Dole, John Kent, Lt. Jacob Pierce, Wid^' Lois Stanley, Joseph Turner, Samuel Pierce, Capt. Sam' Adams, Ebn'' Stratton, Eg" Francis Wright. Peter Jones, Dea. William Smiley, Nehemiah Green, Oliver Hale. PEWS IN THE GALLERY. I. Lt. Jereme Underwood, 14. Doct. A. Howe, 2. Ebn' Thompson, 15- Collins Hathorn, 3- Abram Ross, 16. Josiah Belknap, 4- Charles Davidson, 17- Nehemiah Green, 5- Doct. A. Howe, 18. Samuel Stanley, 6. Daniel Priest, 19. Daniel Priest, 7- Jona. Priest, 20. John Buckley, 8. Kendal Pierson, 21. Sam' Adams, 9- Capt. Joseph Perkins, 22. Isaac Bailey, ID. Lt Sam' Buss, 23- Abijah Carter, II. Benj. Whitmore, 24. William Emery, 12. Eleazer Spofford, 25- Lt. Thomas Adams. 13- David Cutter, Recorded August 30, 1791. by Ado'' Howe, Town Clerk. Width, MEETING-HOUSE. West Porch. 63 45 feet. 00 00 4^ ^ ^0 v« 4^ to 4^ 4^ East Porch. After the sale of the pews followed the payment for the same. We have no record of the price of pews sold at pub- lic vendue, and can only judge of their value by the record of the sale of a pew, — No. 16, Dunlap to Pope, — for ten pounds ($33.34) ; one, Arthur Taylor to Spofford, No. 39, and one, Jonathan Taylor to Robert Harkness, No. 24, for ten pounds each ; two pews, Adams to Thorndike and Page, one on the lower floor, No. 26, and one in the gallery, No. 2, for fifteen pounds, — probably ten pounds for the 64 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lower pew, and five for the one in the gallery. That there were some delinquent payers for pews bought at the vendue appears by a vote of the town, Sept. 17, 1789, "that the Com'^'^ appointed to Finish the meeting-house, post those pews that are unpaid for, for sale the first monday of Oct. next, unless paid for before." As we have no record to the contrary, it seems quite likely that payment was duly made. In 1 78 1, a committee of three, viz., William Pope, Dr. A. Howe, and Nehemiah Greene, was chosen " to recon with the building committee." In 1784 another committee, viz., Daniel Emery, John Gilmore, and James Cowing, was chosen for the same purpose, and quite likely met with the same result. In 1787, Sept. 3, the town Voted not to Except the finishing of the inside of the meet- inghouse. Voted to refer the settlement with Mr. Adams to the old Com'^'' chosen for that purpose. No settlement being made, in 1789, Dec. 21, the town again Voted not to Except of the meetinghouse as it is now fin- ished, and also Voted, to choose a Com''^ to settle with Capt. Adams if they can agree, and if not, to have power to Refer the matter to Referees. Chose Esq. Parker, Dea. Spoftbrd and Capt. Spaulding for said Committee. Voted that if Capt. Adams will not settle nor Refer the said matter that the said Com*"^ have power to prosecute his bonds to final Judgment and Execution. In 1792, August 27, the town Voted to have a box put to the meetinghouse with a glass door for the purpose of putting the town Notifications into. In 1796, August 29, the town voted two hundred dollars in part towards underpinning and repairing the meeting- house. A committee of three, — Dr. A. Howe, John Cough- ran, and Dea. E. Spofford, — had been appointed at a pre- vious meeting to ascertain what repairs were necessary ; among which a good underpinning of hewn stone, fifteen inches thick, and that the house be painted with a light MEETING-HOUSE. 65 stone color, was recommended by the committee and accepted by the town. A committee of three, — Dr. A. Howe, Jereme Underwood, and Roger Gilmore, — was chosen to repair the house. In 1798, March 6, the town voted to paint the meeting- house, and raised one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents for that purpose. The house was painted probably for the first time, as we have no record of any money having been previously voted for that purpose. The meeting-house was raised in 1775 and finished in I799) a period of twenty-four years. It was built after the style of the day, with square pews ; a gallery on three sides of the house, supported in front by fluted pillars ; a pulpit, built after the English style, high and dignified in appearance, reached by two flights of stairs, with a pew in front for the elders, and a slip for the deacons ; over the pulpit was a sounding-board of huge dimensions, suspended from the timbers above. The house was entered by two porches, one at each end of the house, and a front door. In the gallery was a tier of pews next to the walls of the house, twenty- five in number, in front of which on a lower platform oppo- site the pulpit were seats for the choir, and also free seats on the east and west sides, which were usually occupied by the younger portion of the congregation. The pews in the lower part of the house were divided into body and wall pews. The wall pews were raised one step higher than the body pews. They were all about five feet square, with a seat on two sides, and room for a chair in the centre, usually occupied by some elderly lady belong- ing to the family. The seats were hung on hinges, for the purpose of raising them during prayers, making the standing position less tiresome during their continuance. The only evil growing out of their use was the discordant noise occa- sioned by their fall at the close. In front of the pulpit, looking to the front door, the aisle was wider than the others ; hence it was called the broad 66 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. aisle. The pews on this aisle were considered more valua- ble than the others. Near the pulpit, in front of the body- pews, were free seats, usually occupied by poor and aged people. These were the first seats built in the house, and for a time were occupied by the congregation. The increase of population, however, created a want of more pews, and con- sequently the seats were removed and pews built in their places. The proceeds from the sale of the pews were used in the purchase of a bell in 1823. Cost of the bell in Bos- ton, $440.30. No provision was made for warming the house till about 1818 or 1820, when a stove was placed in the broad aisle, in front of the pulpit, and the heat carried by a funnel attached to the front of the galleries around the house. Previous to this no fire was used in the house except in foot-stoves carried by old ladies. At intermission, or noon-time, in winter, the female portion of the congregation retired to some neighboring house, where provision was made for their warmth by a good fire, from which they filled their foot- stoves for afternoon service. The men and boys went to the hotel, or tavern, as it was then called, and spent their noon-time in drinking flip and warming up for the afternoon service. The boys, if not allowed to drink, had the benefit of a good fire, which they carefully improved while the fathers were drinking. From this time (1800) but little appears on the town records relating to the meeting-house till after the passing of the toleration act in 18 19. Previous to the passage of this act the minister was settled and supported by the town. Every person, irrespective of his religious belief, was taxed for that purpose. After its passage each individual was taxed as before, but had the privilege of appropriating it for the support of the minister of any religious denomination. This condition of things gave rise to a question relating to the occupation of the meeting-house. This question was settled by a vote of the town, April 20, 1822, " to allow each MEETING-HOUSE. 6/ and every religious denomination in Jaffrey to have the use of s'^ house on sabbath days in proportion to the valuation of their property." The town also voted " to repair s'' house, and chose Dea. David Gilmore, W™. Hodge, Dr. A. Howe, W^ Dutton & Sam^ Patrick a Com*^® to examine the house, and report." May 6, 1822, the committee made the follow- ing report : " That in their opinion the s*^ house is worth re- pairing. That it will be necessary to strip the clapbords from the body of the house, and new clapboard, trim and paint the same." The report was accepted, and the sum of three hundred dollars raised to defray the expense in part of repairing the meeting-house, and the selectmen were author- ized to contract for the repairs and superintend the same. The town also voted " that individuals may have liberty to put up a belfry at the west end of the meeting-house and hang a bell in the same, provided, it does not enhance the expense of repairing said house." The belfry was built by subscription, and in 1823 the town furnished a bell. A't the same meeting the town voted " that each and every religious society in Jaffrey report to the selectmen the names of all those belonging to their society who pay taxes in Jaffrey." Also, voted " that each society of Chris- tians in Jaffrey may claim their right to the s'^ house, agree- able to the vote of the town, as soon as it shall have been repaired." In 1823, at the annual meeting, the following was pre- sented : These Certify that we the subscribers are of the Baptist de- nomination and mean to support the Gospel Ministry in that order and request the Town Clerk of JaftVey to record our sev- eral names on the town book as belonging to that denomina- tion as we wish not to be taxed for the support of the Rev. Laban Ainsworth. Abel Parker Nathan Hunt Thomas French Jr. Alpheas Crosby Benj" Prescott. Daniel Emory Benj Haywood Jr Joseph Joslin Azeal Cowing Eldad Prescott Thomas French Berzilla Stickney Simeon Blanchard Paul Hunt Moses Stickney 68 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Luther Guy Cummings French Rob' Goif. Wilder Joslin Moris Hunt Levi Johnson Paul Hunt Jr. W'" Walton Aaron Bolster Reuben Nutting Mark Morrell Joseph Joslin Jr. Recorded Mar. 27 1823 by Henry Payson < p. Town erk UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY OF JAFFREY, 1 823. Edward Perkins Daniel Adams, Jr. Benj. Prescott, Jr. John Stone Charles Witt Benj. Cutter Oliver Bailey Thomas Taylor Sam' Foster Isaac Jewell Sewal Gould Eliot Powers Oliver Jewett Daniel French Sam' Stratton Roger Brigham Gershom Twitchel William Dean Levi Fisk John Cutter James Ingalls Oliver Warren William Hodge Sam' Buss John Gilmore Daniel Adams Benj Lawrence, Jr. Cottcm Tufts James C. Smith Nath. Cutter Ithamer Lawrence Adams Fisk Elijah Wellman, Jr. Recorded by Mar. 31, 1823. Henry Payson i Town \ Clerk. Zimri Whitney says he is a Methodist and intends to pay for the support of their preaching. Jaftrey July 7, 1823. A Unitarian society was afterwards formed, under the leadership of John Conant, Esq., which had but a short duration, and he afterwards joined the Baptist church. In 1829 each society occupied the churcli as follows, viz. : Congregationalist 21 Sabbaths. Baptist 9 " Universalist 13 " Unitarian 9 " The division and occupancy of the church did not meet the wants of the religious societies ; consequently the Bap- tists, in 1830, built a meeting-house at East jaffrey, and in 183 1 the Congregationalists built one in the Centre. MEETING-HOUSE. 69 The Universalists having now the whole possession of the house, found it too large for their convenience, and in 1844 built one for themselves at East Jaffrey. From this time the old meeting-house was no longer used by the town for religious worship, but only for town pur- poses, till 1870, when the town voted to raise the sum of ;^ 1,000 to defray the expense of finishing a hall for the pur- pose of holding town-meetings, and a room for a high school, provided individuals would subscribe a sum sufficient to complete the same. The sum was raised and the house altered, and one term of the high school taught therein each year. In November, 1872, the town, by their vote, accepted the sum of ^944, the gift of John Conant, Esq., as a basis of a perpetual fund for the purpose of keeping the house in good repair. In case of failure or neglect on the part of the town to keep in good repair the said house, the said fund shall be given to District No. 7 for the same purpose. CHAPTER VII. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. PROVISION was made in the grant of the town for the settlement of a minister. Three hundred acres of land was reserved for the first settled minister by the Masonian Proprietors. Immediately after the organization of the town, at the second meeting of the town, six pounds lawful money was voted to support the gospel. A com- mittee of three, " Capt. Jonathan Stanley, Alex^' McNeil and James Callwell were chosen to Provide supplies of Preaching for s*^ town." The same amount of money was raised in each of the two following years. In 1776 and 1777 fifty pounds was raised each year, — a large increase, apparently, but not in reality, owing to the depreciation of the currency. Lt. Daniel Emery, Lt. William Turner, and Capt. Roger Gilmore were chosen a committee " to provide supplies of the Gospel this year." The town also voted that young men supply the pulpit. In settling a minister at that time it was a matter of interest for the town to settle a young man, as the first settled minister was to be the recip- ient of the three hundred acres of land granted as afore- said. In 1778 the town voted 100 pounds for preaching, and chose John Briant, Nehemiah Green, and Benj. Spaulding a committee to procure preaching. In June of that year the town Voted that the Com^'' of supplies of preaching should agree ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 7' with Mr. Jona" Allan to suply us, after he has preached six Sabbaths at Harvard, provided the above Com''^ should apply to him within four weeks after he goes away. In September an article in the warrant for a town-meet- ing was presented, — To see if the town will pass a vote to give Mr. Jona" Allan a Call to settle in the ministry in this town; and if voted, to Chose a Com'* to Effect the same, if not voted, to see if the town will agree to hear Mr Allan any longer. Voted, that so much of this article as included giving Mr Jona" Allan a call should be omitted at tlie present and that the Com'^'^ should pro- vide other supplys of preaching. Nothing more appears on the records relating to Mr. Allan, and nothing further is known to us of his history. In November, same year, the town Voted to hear Mr Reed until the next annual meeting, and instructed the Com*" to bring in their accounts at that meeting. In 1779 the town granted ;!{^200 for the support of preach- ing, and appointed William Turner, Daniel Emery, and James Gage, committee, and instructed them not to hire a candidate for more than one month without a vote of the town. In November, same year, the town Voted not to hear Mr Stearns for all the supplies we are to have this fall, also voted that the Com** use their discretion in procuring further supplys of preaching providing Mr Colby Cannot be had. Voted two hundred pounds to defray the Charge of further supplys of preaching. At an adjournment of the same meeting, the town voted to hear Mr. Colby for further supplys of preaching also voted to have Mr. Colby come here to preach by the first of March next, or sooner if he can be had. Voted to chose a Com** of foiu- to Treat with Mr Colby con- cerning further supplys of preaching. Chose James Haywood, Peter Mc-Alister, John Gilmore and Eleazer Spotford for said Com**. Voted that in Case Mr Colby cannot be had, the Com** should procure other supplies of preaching. 72 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. In 1780, March 30, the town raised p£^iooo for preaching, and appointed Roger Gil more, Thomas Mower, and John Gilmore, committee, and voted " that the s'^ Com^® do not employ one man more than one sabbath, without a vote of the town." In May a church was incorporated. INCORPORATION OF THE CHURCH, MAY 1 8, I780. The Church of Christ in New Ipswich, the Church of Christ in Rindge and Dublin b}- their Pastors and Delegates met at JaflVey in consequence of letters missive from the covenented Brethren in said town at the house of Adonijah Howe on May 18, A. D. 1780 for the purpose of assisting in forming a church in s** place. Upon enquiry made of the Covenenting Brethren present whether it was their desire, that the Churchs convened should form into an Ecleastical Council and proceed to the Business for which they were desired to engage. Voted in the affirmative. The Churches there present according to desire Voted they would form into an Ecleastical Council. Voted The Rev Mr Farrah Moderator of the Council and Rev. Mr Brigham scribe. The covenenting Brethren then presented to the Council the form of covenant which they had under consideration, to which covenent (for substance) they asserted to the Council they all agree''. Then Voted to adjourn the Council till after the pub- lic exercise. The Council then met according to adjournment when the form of the Covenant as it was Signed was read to the Cov- enenting Brethren to wdiich they voted their consent. The Council then voted their approbation of the covenant under Consideration. Previous to the signing of the Covenant the Covenanting Brethren exhibited their letters of dismission and Recommend- ation from the Churchs to which they respectively belonged which were voted satisfactory to the Council. And after ad- dressing the Father of Mercy and the fountains of Grace for his presence and blessing to attend the service transactions, the covenanting Brethren respectively set their names to the covenant, and were all acknowledged by the Council to be a regular church of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Counsil then dissolved A true Copy from the original Attest Benj. Brigham scribe to s'' Council ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 73 Members of the church May 1 8, 1780: at the time of its incorporation, and Wife Mary (Martin) Kendal Briant John Briant Daniel Emery Eleazer Spoffbrd John Combs James Gage Oliver Proctor Isaac Bailey Isaac Baldwin John Wood Nehemiah Greene James Haywood Jona" Priest Ephraim Whitcomb Jereme Underwood John Eaton William Slack The next candidate was Mr. Caleb Jewett. June I, an article was presented to the town, — Wife Jane " Mary (Flint) " Bathsheba " Sarah (Lamson) " Elizabeth " Susanna Wife Wife Wife Wife Keziah Heywoo( Wife Wife Elizabeth " Lucy (Wheat) In 1780, To see if the town will employ Mr. Jewett any longer than four sabbaths, that he is engaged for. The town Voted to hear Mr. Jewett more if he can be obtained. Voted that the Com^*^ treat with Mr Jewett to come to us again to Preach on Probation in Order to give him a call. Sept. 4. Art. 3. To see if the Town will Concur with the Church in giving Mr. Jewett a call to the work of the Gospel Ministry in this place. Voted to concur. Voted to Give Mr. Jewett for a salary seventy pounds L. M, for three years to come, then eighty pounds annually as long as he is the Gospel Minister of said town. Also voted to give him Lot No II in the 6*'' Range No. 3 in the 2^ Range and one hundred pounds instead of another Lot to which the first set- tled minister was by the Charter intitled and two acres of land west of the road and South of the Common provided he settles in town. Chose Daniel Emery, Elea"" Spoffbrd, Thomas Mower, Adoni'' Howe and John Gilmore a Com^" to Draught a Call and Lay it before the town and if Excepted to present the same to Mr. Jewett. 6 74 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. The meeting was then adjourned, and on meeting again according to the adjournment, the town Voted to Except the Call Draughted by the Com"'^ and sign the same in behalf of the town. Why Mr. Jewett did not accept the call does not appear on the records. Caleb Jewett, a. m., the son of James and Martha (Scott) Jewett, was born at Newbury, Mass., and died at Gorham, Maine, April i6, 1802, aged 49 years. He graduated at Dartmouth college, 1776; studied divinity; was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Gor- ham, Nov. 5, 1783 ; married Betsey Bacon, of Bradford, Mass., November, 1783. In 1 78 1, February i, the town voted " the Com*^** for hire- ing Preaching shall get it as soon as they can." In March the town Voted 2000 pounds for preaching, and also to hire Mr Walker this year, and Chose John Briant, Eleaz"' Spotibrd and James Cutter to procure preaching. At a town-meeting in August an article was presented, — To see if the town will hire Mr. Goodale any longer. Voted to hire Mr. Goodale two sabbaths more. Art 2, to see if it is the mind of the town that any Proper measures shall be used to give Mr. Goodale a call to the work of the ministry. Voted to dismiss the art. In December, same year, at a meeting of the town, an article was presented, — To see if the town Doth incline to hear Mr. Ainsworth any more. Voted to hear Mr Ainsworth longer. At the annual meeting, March, 1782, Mr. David Stanley, Capt. James Gage, and Mr. Thomas Adams were chosen a committee "to suply the Desk." In April, same year, the town " voted to hear Mr Ains- worth on probation ; in Order to give him a call." In July, the town Allierlype; Forbus Co., Boston. MARY (MINOT) AINSWORTH. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 75 Voted unanimously to Concur with the Church and Give Mr. Laban Anisworth a Call to the work of the Gospel Minis- try m this town. Chose John Gilmore, Joseph Bates, Eleaz-- Spoftbrd Moses Worcester and Abel Parker, Com- to Draw up articles con- ceinmg the encouragement the town will give Mr. Ainsworth to settle with us in the Ministry and report. Report. We the aforsaid Com- think the first minister should have thexMorthendofthetwo Sentre Lots, also the mountain Lot, \ ■• 3^ Range 2,) and in money thirty Pounds and to quit- cmim his right to Lots disposed of belonging to the first minis- Voted, that the Com*« report be given to Mr Laban Ains- wortli for an incoragement to settle with us in the ministry. Voted to give Mr Ainsworth as a Salary seventy Pounds while he supplies the Desk in this town. In September, the town Voted to grant Mr Ainsworth liberty annually to visit his l^nends twice each year of two Sabbaths at each time, if he ac- cept the call of the town. Voted to alter the sentence in a former vote, to as long as he IS the Gospel minister of s-^ town ; instead of while he supplies the Desk in s'^ town. ^ In November, 1782, the town Voted that the Ordination of Mr Ainsworth be the second Wednesday in December next. Chose Mr. E. Spoftbrd Lieut. Emery and Mr John Gilmore a com^'' to Provide for the Council on s-^ day. Chose Samuel Parce, Capt. Spaulding, Nathan Hall, Lt. i^uss and Samuel Emery, to take care of the meeting house on s" day. ° Result of the Ordaining Council 17S3, Dec. 10. . Newhampshirejeftiy Dec. lo"' 1782 At an Ecclesiastical Council being convened by letters mis- sive from the Chh of Christ in the town aforsaid to assistance in setting apart for the work of the gospel ministry, Mr Laban Ainsworth, their pastor elect, were present the following chh's. represented, The Chh. of Christ in New Ipswich, Fitzwilliam, Dublin, Keene, Woodstock (Con) Ashford (Con.) and Tem- ple. ^ ^ 1 Made choice of Rev. Mr. Farrar, Moderator of s** Concil. 2 rsoah Miles Scribe— having called upon God for direction- proceeded. 76 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1 Examined a copv of the procediiiiis of the Concil in forminij the Chh. ' 2 The call and oflers made to Mr. L. Ainsworth for his en- conragement by the Chh. and freeholders of s"* Town 3 His answer to their call. In the atfirmative. 4 His Confession of Faith. 5 He presented himself for examination to answer snch qnes- tions as might be proposed to him. He exhibited several pieces of his sermons. 6 Opportnnitv given for objections. 7 Adjonrned till Wednesdav ve. ii"' at 9 o'clock. S Weilnesday ye. 11*. Having met according to adjournment. I Mr Ainsworth received as a member of the Chh in conse- quence of a letter of recommendation from the Chh. of Christ in Woodstock. 3 Unanimously agreed to proceed to ordination. The Parts. The introductorv prayer to be performed by Noah Miles : the sermon to be delivered bv Rev** Mr Farrar : the ordaining prayer bv Rev'* Mr Hall : the charge bv Rev** Mr. Brigham : the right hand bv the Rev** Mr. Judson : the concluding prayer by the Rev** Mr. Spragne. Copied from an attested copy, signed. Xoah Miles. Scribe. Mr. Ainsworth continued in .*iervice for a period of nearly fifty years. In 1S31 Rev. Giles Lyman was ordained as a colleague, and preached in town till 1S37. when, on account of ill-health, he asked and received his dismission. He re- moved to Xew York ; afterwards preached in Ashburnham and Gardner, and in 1841 removed to Marlborough and preached there twenty-eight years ; then left on account of ill-health, and removed to Winchendon, where he died No- vember 16. 1872, aged 70 years. Mr. Lyman was born in Belchertown, Mass., March 16. 1S02 ; graduated at Am- herst 1827, and at Andover Theological Seminary. 1S30. He married. Dec. 14. 1S35. Louisa Whitney, of Winchen- don. Josiah D. Crosby was settled in 1S38, and dismissed in 1850. Leonard Tenney. settled 1S45. dismissed 1S57. BAPTIST SOCIETY. // John S. Batchelder, settled 1858, dismissed 1865. Rufus Case settled 1868, removed 1875. DEACONS. Daniel Emery, Eleazer Spofford, William Smiley, Jesse Maynard, David Gilmore, Abel Spaulding. Richard Spaulding, Gurley A. Phelps, In 1850 a second Orthodox Congregational Society was formed and a church incorporated the same year, and a meeting-house built at East Jaffrey. MINISTERS. Feb. 28, 185 1, Rev. J. E. B. Jewett preached, and was or- dained Sept. 26, same year; dismissed July 13, 1852. George A. Adams, F. D. Austin, Silas W. Allen. D. N. Goodrich, William H. Dowden, DEACONS. Liberty Mower, Isaac S. Russell. BAPTIST SOCIETY. The Baptist Society in- Jaffrey was formed in April, 1820, and in 1829, April 6, the following notice was published in the Keene Sentinel, viz. : We Benjamin Prescott, Alpheas Crosby, Paul Hunt, and others, have formed ourselves into a Religious Society, by the name of the First Baptist Church and Society in Jaffrey, and are hereby known by that name. Joseph Joslin, Clerk. The church was formed in 1814, May 28. Previous to this time the Baptists of Jaffrey, Rindge, New Ipswich, Temple, and Sharon belonged to a church of that order in Temple, which church voted. May 3, 18 14, to divide and form two churches, one in New Ipswich and one in Jaffrey. The Baptists of the towns of New Ipswich, Temple, and 7^ HISTORY OF JAFFREY. as many as chose in Sharon, became members of the church in New Ipswich ; and the Baptists of Jaffrey, Rindge, and such as chose in Sharon, became members of the church in Jaffrey. The members of the church in Jaffrey were as follows : Benjamin Prescott, Abel Parker, Moses Hale, Joseph Joslin, Thomas French, Alpheas Crosby, Isaac Kimball, Joel Adams, Rachel Prescott, Sybil Hale, Elizabeth Newell, Hannah Davis, Sally Stevens. On the 28th of May, 18 14, the above members met at the house of Joseph Joslin, and organized by choosing Benj. Prescott moderator, and Joseph Joslin clerk. It was then voted to hire preaching every third Sabbath during the year; to give ordained ministers $3 per day; Benj. Prescott and Thomas French to be a committee to procure preach- ing, and Abel Parker, treasurer. Fifty dollars was voted to be raised for that year, and that the church should hold its meetings in the school-house in District No. i. March 12, 1818, the church voted to employ Elder Parkhurst once in two months the ensuing year. April 14, 1825, it voted to have Brother Cummings two Sabbaths every two months. On Feb. 13, 1826, it was decided to have preaching twelve Sabbaths in the year; in March, 1827, two Sabbaths in that year ; and in March, 1830, it was decided to have preaching regularly, and a minister settled over them, and Calvin Greenleaf was installed pastor June 25, 183 1. The number of members of the Baptist church at the formation, 1814, was 13; in 1851, 165 ; in 1866, 113; in 1870, 91. Benjamin Prescott, Joseph Joslin, John Sanderson, Josiah Mower, DEACONS. William E. Goodenow, Levi Pollard, Oren Prescott, Joseph Joslin, Jr. David Chadwick, Oliver Prescott, MEETING-HOUSE. 79 PASTORS. John Parkhurst, 1818. A. E.Reynolds, 1866-1869. Elder Cummings, 1825. E. J. Emery, 1869-1871 ; settled Calvin Greenleaf, 1831-1835. in Swanzey. Appleton Belknap, 1835-1846. J. S. Haradon, 1873 ; d. Aug. 4, E. H. Bailey, 1846-1861 ; d. Jan. 1875. 4, 1868. Leonard J. Dean, 1875 ; a graduate Franklin Merriam, 1862-1865. of Newton Theological Seminary. Preachers licensed by the Baptist church of Jaffrey : Isaac Kimball, John Nutting, William Button. Wm. C. Richards, Joseph Pollard, MEETING-HOUSE. . The meetings of the Baptist church and society were held as voted, in the school-house in District No. i, till 1822. After the passage of the toleration act by the legislature in 18 19, the Baptists were no longer taxed for the support of the minister settled by the town, but had the privilege of using the same for the support of the one of their choice. The use of the meeting-house for public preaching was, in 1822, also divided by the town among the different denom- inations of Christians according to the valuation of their property. From this time the Baptists occupied the house their proportion as assigned till 1830. On the 5th of February, 1829, the church voted to build a meeting-house near the house of Mr. Melville, and chose Benj. Prescott, Joseph Joslin, and David Chadwick a com- mittee for that purpose. The house was raised on the 25th and 26th of June, 1829. The house was completed and ready for use June 12, 1830. June 30, 1830, the house was dedicated. The dedication sermon was preached by Elder Fisher, of West Boylston, Mass. In 1873 the house was repaired, with the addition of a vestry, and such other im- provements as were deemed necessary. 80 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. LEGACIES. John Conant, $i,ooo. Dea. John Sanderson, $900. Samuel Ryan, ;^ 1,000. UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY. The First Universalist Society, Jaffrey, N. H., was organ- ized Nov. 16, 1822. Capt. John Stone was chosen modera- tor ; Caleb Searle, clerk ; John Cutter, treasurer ; Mr. John Cutter and Col. Oliver Prescott, committee. Notice of the organization was published in the New Hampshire Sentinel, printed at Keene. PASTORS. Delphus Skinner. 1824. C. C. Clark, 1854, 1855. Warren Skinner, 1826. N. R.Wright and Andrew O. War- J. D. Williamson, 1830. ren, 1855, 1856. Robert Bartlet, 1833-1835 or 1836. E. W\ Coffin, 1857-1867. J. V. Wilson, 1835-1838. J. P. McCleur, 1869, Stillman Clark, 1839-185 1. W. J. Crosby, 1870, 187 1. S. W. Squires, 1852, 1853. James H. Little, 1875. A church was formed in 1858, and numbers at this time (1878) 48 members. A Sunday-school, organized in 1845, numbers 60 members. They have also a ladies' circle, for benevolent purposes. MEETING-HOUSE. The present meeting-house was built in 1844, and a bell placed in the belfry in i860, and one of superior tone in 1870. CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION— PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE system of free schools was early adopted in Massa- chusetts, and by it introduced into New Hampshire during her jurisdiction. New Hampshire, on becoming a state, adopted her laws for their support. In the grant of the town of Jaffrey the Masonian Proprietors made provi- sion for the support of a free school by a gift of three hun- dred acres of land. In 1775, two years after the incorpora- tion of the town, eight pounds was raised for a school, to be divided into five parts. In December of that year the town voted to sell one of the school lots, and to use the interest on the proceeds of the sale for the support of a school. In 1777 the town voted to pay the interest of ^lOO for two years for the use of a school ; in 1778, £,12 \ in 1779, ;^200 (depreciated currency); in 1781, ;^iooo; in 1783, ;^50 ; in 1785, ^50 ; in 1786, ;^30 ; in 1787, ^40 ; in 1788, £aP\ in 1789, ^50; in 1790, ^40; in 1791, ^60; in 1792,^65; in 1793, ;^8o; in 1794, ^80; in 1795, $200 Federal money ; afterwards the town raised what the law required. After the vote of the town in 1775 to divide the money into five parts, no other division appears to have been made till 1778, when it was voted to divide the town into eight districts ; in 1779, into ten districts. In 1786 it was again voted to divide the town into eight districts. In 1791 the town voted that the school-districts remain as they were at 82 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. first. No further alteration was made in the number of districts till 1795, when a district was taken from No. 7, and numbered 11. These districts were without metes and bounds till 1828, when a committee was chosen to effect- the same. The districts were numbered as they now are, beginning with the south-east district, which was numbered i. There were five districts on the south line of the town, three from the west through the centre, and three on the north line of the town, — eleven in all. School-houses were almost unknown to the first settlers. Their schools were taught in private houses ; — in district No. 3, in the house of James Stevens ; in No. 5, in the house of Phineas Spaulding ; in No. 10, in the house of Alpheus Crosby. No attempt on the part of the town was made to build school-houses till 1788. The town then voted that each school-district should build a school-house within eighteen months ; and in case of neglect on the part of any district the selectmen were authorized to build at the ex- pense of the district. The number built by this vote is not recorded : probably not many, if any : it was easier to vote than to build. In 1791 the town voted ;^I35, to be laid out in building school-houses, and chose a committee for that purpose ; but this committee was no more successful under this vote than the selectmen were under the other. But little was done by the town in building school-houses, but to vote and reconsider, till 1795, when the town voted that the selectmen assess the money to complete and finish the ten school-houses in town as soon as the committee ascertain the sum, and also the uncollected balance of the jCiSS formerly voted to build school-houses. In October of the same year the town voted that the selectmen be directed " to assess one half of the sum each undertaker is to have for building and finishing the school-house this year, and the other half next year." In 1796 the town voted to build a school-house in district No. 11, which cost $116.16. SCHOOL-HOUSES. 83 The job of building and finishing the ten school-houses was sold at public vendue for the sum of eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighteen cents. From the building committee's report, it seems that the cost of each house was about one hundred dollars, and if took from 1788 to 1797, a period of nine years, to build and finish them. They were small, rude affairs, about twenty feet square, with three small windows of fifteen lights each, of seven by nine glass- The seats extended across one side of the house, with a narrow alley between them, and a table for the teacher's desk, and warmed by an open fire-place. In the middle district the house was a little larger, with more seats and larger windows. The houses were built of the best material, as lumber was v^ery abundant, but the workmanship was coarse and rough. The houses were built by the side of the road, with no play-ground but the road itself. In some of the districts the location of the school-house was not easily made, as no road run through the centre, and consequently the house could not be built there : hence a controversy arose in relation to the location. To settle such matters of disagreement, the town appointed a committee of three, — Roger Gilmore, Adonijah Howe, and Samuel Buss, — for the purpose of locating houses. The committee made some locations, but none were satisfactory, and the houses in districts Nos. 6, 9, and 1 1 were settled by a vote of the town. In the centre district the location was made by a special committee chosen by the town. The location made was very near the south-west corner of the burying- ground. It was afterwards changed for one near the resi- dence of J. D. Gibbs. The old academy building was after- wards taken for a school-house. In district No. 9 the school-house was built in several locations, but none were satisfactory, which ultimately led to a division into two districts, now numbered 9 and 13. 84 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. SCHOOL-TEACHERS. Of the early teachers but little is known. Some of the early settlers had been engaged in the business of school- teaching previous to their settlement in town ; — in District No. 5, Phineas Spaulding ; in No. 9, Abel Parker; and others probably in other districts. The earliest record of money paid teachers was in 1790: Gave Reuben Briant two orders for keeping school in the Nortli East District, and Asa Bullard eight orders for keeping school. In 1793 we find the following receipts, given that year: March I, 1793. Received Seven Pounds four shillings in full for teaching school three months in the center District Pr me Luke Lincoln March 4, 1793. Then rec'' of the Selectmen of JaflVe}' three pounds in full for boarding school Master twelve weeks. Pr me Jacob Danforth March 4, 1793. Tiien rec"* of the Selectmen of JaftVey three pounds twelve shillings in full for my son Amos Parker keep- ing sciiool six weeks. Pr. me. Samuel Parker. Rufus Houghton was a teacher in districts Nos. 3 and 10 for many years. Samuel Litch was the most distinguished among the early teachers. He taught the school in his own district nineteen years, many years in the centre district, and in many other districts. His pupils not only feared but loved him, and always remembered his services with grati- tude. In the second generation were many distinguished teach- ers, who made it a business of teaching school in the winter for many years. Among them appear the names of Asa Parker, Edward Spaulding, and Thomas Adams. The distinguished female teachers were Sally Stevens, who taught fourteen summers in her own district; Hitty Brooks, who married Samuel Pierce ; Maria Blanchard J and Sarah Robbins, who has taught forty terms of school. SCHOOL-BOOKS. 85 SCHOOL-BOOKS. Samuel Litch, the most distinguished of the early school- teachers in Jaffrey, in lecturing on that subject at a public meeting, said that the first books in use by our public schools were the New England Primer, Psalter, and the New Testament, For the more advanced scholars the Bible was used. In 1720 the Youth's Instructor was introduced, a book of 144 pages, divided into three parts: Part I, Reading and Spelling; II, Letters and Punctuation; III, Arithmetic. The first arithmetics were those of Bonnycastle and Emerson ; also one called the Young Man's Companion. At a later period Dilworth's. Percy's, and Webster's spelling-books, Scott's Lessons, American Preceptor, Under- standing Reader, Columbian Orator, Pike's and Adams's arithmetics, Alexander's and Murray's grammars, Morse's and Cummings's geographies. The selectmen, previous to 1738, were ex officio the man- agers of the public schools. They received the money raised, and hired the school-teacher, subject to the vote of the town. In 1782 the town voted not to hire a master by the year. In 1786 the town voted that the selectmen pro- vide school-masters for the districts. In 1788 the town vot- ed to hire a master for one year. In 1792 the town voted to hire four school-masters for five months and one for six months the present year, to keep school three months in the middle district and two months in each of the other dis- tricts. In 1788 the town voted to divide the money among the districts according to poll and estate. In 1795 the town voted that the money be equally divided. In 1796 the money was divided among the school-districts according to the sums each district pays. This method continued in practice till 1828, when the selectmen were authorized to make the division of school-money. In 1798, at the annual town-meeting, agents, one in each district, were chosen by the town to receive the money and expend the same for 86 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. schooling, hire the teachers, and manage the affairs of the districts. In 1828 the metes and bounds of the districts were fixed, and each district became a body poHtic, and chose its own agents. Previous to 1808 their agents were subject to the supervision of the selectmen, agreeable to the vote of the town, passed May 28, 1801. Voted, That the several Agents or Superintendents of the several School-houses in the town for the time being be at all times amenable to the Selectmen for all the money or orders they may receive for the purpose of schooling, and if the same be not laid out tor the purpose of schooling according to law the Selectmen are hereby directed to call such money out of the de- linquents agents hand and to cause the same to be duly laid out for the benefit of the inhabitants for which it was originally de- signed, and in an}^ case any of the Agents or Superintendents aforsaid shall not do their duty faithfully, the Selectmen for the time being, on complaint made to them, are hereby authorized on considering all the circumstances, to abrogate any particular act or acts, of such Agents or Superintendents. The selectmen were by this vote ex officio superintending school committee. To this committee the Rev. Mr. Ains- worth was added, at the annual town-meeting in 1807. In 1809 a committee was chosen, — Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Samuel Dakin, Jonathan Fox, and Joseph Joslin, — who have the honor of being the first superintending school commit- tee. They were known at this time as inspectors of schools. Their first report was in 1820. The committee chosen that year were Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Samuel Litch, and Luke Howe. The law requiring a superintending school commit- tee was passed in 1808. The first report of the school committee on record was made in 1820. SCHOOL REPORT, 1S2O. To the town of JaftVey, their committee appointed to inspect their schools respectfully report. That we have visited generally the schools near the opening and close of each school, except those, of which we had no information at their commencement or ending. SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 8/ That Students in Geography have excelled and those in Arithmetic and Grammar have gone behind those who have studied tlie same sciences in former schools. In the art of reading and writing, we have observed many grades from many laudible specimens to those in which very little progress was cHscernable. From the great diversity of Books used in Schools Teachers are put to great inconvenience ; they are compelled to make as many Classes as there are ditierent authors brought to school or require the parents to purchase new books. To remedy this evil, a convention of teachers did unanimously recommend Scott's Lessons, Columbian Orator, and American Preceptor, with Cummings Geography and Atlass. While we have generally been gratified in observing com- mendable zeal and exertion in the Teachers for the benefit of their pupils, We have nevertheless thought it important that agents should cautiously avoid employing those of an oposite character. In visiting the schools, we could not avoid seeing, that intentional injury had been done to School-houses. We have seen where a house has not suffered by the injuries of time, yet have been rendered cold and uncomfortable by ill-intended violence. All of which is submitted by. Laban Ainsworth, vSamuel Litch, Luke Howe. Voted to accept the above report. SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Laban Ainsworth, till 1820. Stillman Clarke, 1839-40- 1-2-5-6-7- Thomas Adams, 1816-17. 9-50. George W. Adams, 1854-6. Benjamin Cutter, 1835-6. Frank D. Austin, 1860-1-2. Samuel Dakin, 1809-11-13. E. K. Bailey, 1847-9-50-2-3-4-5-6- Enville J. Emery, 1872. 7-9- Jonathan Fox, 1809. Frederick W. Bailey, 1866-7-8. John Fox, 1830. John S. Batchelder, 1859-60-61-2-3. D. N. Goodrich, 1873. Appleton Belknap, 1838-9-40-5. Calvin Greenleaf, 1831-2. Rufus Case, 1869-70. Luke Howe, 1819, '20-25. David C. Chamberlin, 1855. J- S. Haradon, 1874. E. W. Coffin, 1859-60-1-2-3-4-5. J. E. B. Jewell, 1851-2. J. D. Crosby, 1838-39-40. Joseph Joslin, 1809. 88 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. F. Kendall, 1855. G. A. Phelps, 1858, Samuel Litch, 1813-15-17-19-20-6- Oliver Prescott, 1827. '41-2-5-6. Edward Spaulding, 182 1-5-6-7, Giles Lyman, 1832-37. David Spaulding, 1831-5-6, '41-2. Parker Maynard. 1825. S. W. Squire, 1853. Franklin ^lerriam, 1864. Leonard Tenny, 1846-7-9, '50-1-2- Asa Parker, 1835-6. 3-4-6-7. C.J. Parker, 1835-6. George A. L'nderwood, 1855. Samuel Patrick, 1826-7. J- V. Wilson, 1837-8. Clarence E. Parks, 1871. PRIVATE SCHOOL. In 1795 an attempt was made to establish a private school, and a bond given, signed by Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Eleazer Spofford, Roger Gilmore, Joseph Cutter, Adonijah Howe, Benj. Cutter, Samuel Adams, William Pope, and Joseph Thorndike for that purpose. Each individual was to pay ten pounds L. M. ($33.33) towards erecting a suitable house, and the town, at the annual meeting, March 3, 1795, voted to give them a lease of a location west of the meeting- house. No house appears to have been built, but a school was opened under the instruction of Joseph Dillon, which after a short time closed. ACADEMY. March 12, 1805, annual town-meeting. Art. 20. To see if the town will take any shares in the Acad- em}' to be built in this town or give any land on which to build a house. The town voted to give David Page, Jr., and others who are or may become Proprietors thereof, a piece of land southerly of Mr. Ainsworth's, not exceeding one acre and a quarter, and chose a committee of three to stake out the same and give a lease to the proprietors for a term not ex- ceeding 999 years, on condition that the proprietors will outlay and set up a school, and continue the same five years in seven. Chose Roger Gilmore, Abel Parker, and Benja- min Prescott, committee. '^'^C- >, \L , , , - n -r^ii _^_ t MELVILLE ACADEMY. 89 A school was taught by Josiah Forsaith, from 1807 to 1809, inclusive. He then went to Newport, N. H,, and the school closed and the land was not leased. MELVILLE ACADEMY. In 1832 the academy known by the above name was in- corporated. The grantees were Asa Parker, Luke Howe, and John Fox. It was named in honor of Jonas M. Mell- ville, who made a very liberal donation in aid of the enter- prise. In 1833 a suitable building was erected, which is now (1873) used for a school-house in District No. 7. The school was opened in the fall of 1833, under the in- struction of Horace Herrick, principal, and Miss Aurelia Townsend, assistant. He remained till 1836, The following individuals were afterwards employed as teachers : Roswell D. Hitchcock, William Eaton, Harry Brickett, Charles Cutter, David C. Chamberlin, Sarah French. The academy continued in operation till the es- tablishment of the Conant High School. In 1868, John Conant, Esq., of Jaffrey, gave the town the sum of $7,000, the interest of which is to be used for the support of a high school in said town. The town-house in the centre of the town was altered and repaired to meet the wants of the town. The lower story is used for the school, and the upper one for a town hall. In 1872 the school was opened for instruction. It has two terms in a year, — one at East Jaffrey, and one at the middle of the town. CHAPTER IX. LIST OF COLLEGE GRADUATES OF THE TOWN OF JAF- FREY. DAVID Smiley graduated at Harvard college in 1796. He studied law and opened an office in Jaffrey in 1801 : was the first lawyer who settled in that town. In 1806 he removed to Grafton, N. H., and continued in the practice of his profession till his death, May 19, 1845, aged 'jG. His son, Jas. R. Smiley, is now (1873) a medical practi- tioner in North Sutton, N. H. While in Jaffrey he held the offices of town-clerk, selectman, and others. Robertson Smiley, brother of David, graduated at Dart- mouth college in 1798. He studied divinity, and was set- tled in Springfield, Vt., Sept. 22, 1801 ; dismissed Oct. 26, 1827 ; remained in town, and died June 26, 1856, aged 80. He married and had several children. Has a son, David, who is now (1876) a resident of Springfield, and a daugh- ter, Sarah, who married Sawyer, and resides in Alton, 111. Abner Howe, son of Dr. Adonijah Howe, was born in Jaffrey, Oct. 14, 1780; graduated at Dartmouth college in 1801 ; studied medicine with Benj. Rush, at Philadelphia, Pa., and Prof. Nathan Smith, m. d.. of Dartmouth college, graduating M. B. 1803. He commenced practice at Jaffrey, but soon removed to Beverly, Mass., w^here he died May 18, 1826, aged 45. He was a man highly esteemed, both as a citizen and as a physician. COLLEGE GRADUATES. QI Edmund Parker graduated at Dartmouth college in 1803. He read law, and began practice at Amherst, 1807; repre- sented it in the New Hampshire legislature eleven years, — in 1813, 18 1 5, and from 18 17 to 1825 ; was its speaker in 1824; removed to Nashua in 1835 ; became agent of the Jackson Manufacturing Company, and afterwards president of the Nashua & Lowell Corporation ; represented Nashua in the New Hampshire legislature five years ; was also a trustee of Dartmouth college from 1828 to 1856, and a member of the Constitutional Convention, 1850. He was appointed Judge of Probate for the county of Hillsborough in 1830. William Pope Cutter, son of Nathan and Polly (Pope) Cutter, was born June i, 1785, and died at Shoreham, Vt, July 8, 18 1 5. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1805 ; studied medicine, and settled in Shoreham, Vt. ; married Prudence Evans, March 24, 1808. Henry Thorndike, son of Joseph and Sarah Thorndike, was born in Jaffrey, and died in Bromfield, Ohio, March 22, 183 1, aged 50. He was a graduate of Dartmouth college in the class of 1809. He read law with Hon. Caleb Ellis or Hon. George Baxter, of Claremont ; practised in Boston from 1812 to 181 3, then at Fitzwilliam ; removed thence to Thorndike ; pursued his profession there, and was also an iron-founder. He married Harriet Dustin, daughter of Dr. Moody Dustin, of Claremont ; married, 2d, Lucy, daughter of John H. Sumner, of Claremont, Aug, 3, 1826. William Ainsworth, son of Rev. Laban and Mary (Minot) Ainsworth, graduated at Dartmouth college in 181 1. He read law with Samuel Dakin at Jaffrey, and Judge Barnes, of Tolland, Ct. ; began practice at Jaffrey ; was its repre- sentative in the New Hampshire legislature three years, and in 1831 removed to New Ipswich, and was cashier of the Manufacturers' Bank in that place till his death, June 14, 1842. Mr. Ainsworth represented the town of New 92 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Ipswich in the New Hampshire legislature in 1841 and 1842, and died while attending the session at Concord. Mr. Ainsworth was a man whom the people delighted to honor. He loved his fellow-citizens ; and in the practice of his profession, he did all in his power to prevent litigation. He practised not so much for money as for the pleasure and happiness of teaching men how to settle their controversies without destroying friendship. Modest and unpretending in his manners, always exemplary in his conduct, strictly honest in his deal, he could not otherwise than secure in a high degree the love and respect of his fellow-men. He lived beloved and died lamented, and will long be remem- bered with love and gratitude by the inhabitants of his native town. Jonas Cutter, son of John and Abigail (Demery) Cutter, was born March 6, 1791, and died at Savannah, Ga., Oct. 7, 1820. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 181 1 ; studied medicine with Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene, and Dr. Na- than Smith, of Hanover, and at Yale Medical College, grad- uating M. D. in 1 8 14; began practice at Meadville, Pa. ; re- moved to Litchfield, Ct., and from thence to Savannah, Ga., in 18 1 5, where he was highly esteemed for his medical skill. On occasion of a fearful epidemic in Savannah, all the physicians save himself left the city. He fell a victim to his professional duty. Luke Howe, son of Dr. Adonijah and Sarah (Ripley) Howe, born March 28, 1787, graduated at Dartmouth col- lege in 181 1 ; read law with Samuel Dakin, of Jaffrey, Hon. Samuel C. Allen, of New Salem, Mass., and Hon. Nathan Dane, of Beverly, Mass. ; began practice in Jaffrey in 18 14 ; left his profession, and studied medicine at Boston and Dartmouth college, graduating m. d. in 1818 ; settled in Jaffrey, and became a distinguished physician in that place ; president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. He published essays on scientific subjects, and introduced COLLEGE GRADUATES. 93 many improvements in surgical instruments. As a citizen, he was interested in everything calculated to improve the condition of society ; was superintendent of public schools, and for many years post-master, Joel Parker, a. m., ll. d., son of Hon. Abel and Edith (Jewett) Parker, was born at Jaffrey, Jan. 25, 1795 ; gradu- ated at Dartmouth college in 181 1. Reread law with his brother, Hon. Edmund Parker, at Amherst ; went into practice at Keene. September, 1815 ; represented the New Hampshire legislature in 1824, '25, and '26 ; was afterwards associate justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, Jan. 8, 1833, and chief-justice thereof June 25, 1838 ; was a trustee of Dartmouth college from 1843 to i860, and its Professor of Medical Jurisprudence from 1847 to 1857; served as chairman of the commissioners to revise the New Hampshire laws, in November. 1840 ; was appointed Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University, Mass., Nov. 6, 1847. Judge Parker has published, exclusive of law reports and periodical essays, a charge to a grand jury, including brief memoirs of Chief-Justice Richardson, and an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of New Hampshire, in 1856. He married Mary Morse, daughter of Elijah Parker, of Keene, Jan. 20, 1848. Nehemiah Cutter, son of Joseph and Rachel (Hobert) Cutter, graduated at Middlebury college in 18 14, and M. D. at Yale in 1817. He commenced practice in Pepperell, Mass.; became a distinguished physician, and founded a private asylum for the insane, which continued in successful operation during his lifetime. In this enter- prise he was a pioneer, and his establishment was probably the first of its kind in this country. Dr. Cutter was an active member and a deacon of the Orthodox church, taking a deep interest in its prosperity ; he took a highly prominent part in the erection of a new ecclesiastical edifice. As a patron of education, he con- 94 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. tributed largely of his own means for the founding and sup- port of an academy in Pepperell. Self-possessed on all trying occasions, even in temper, social and affable to dis- tinction, he acquired a powerful and salutary influence over the minds of his patients. His interest in the public wel- fare rendered him greatly beloved, and his loss was sincerely regretted. Levi Spaulding, son of Phineas and Elizabeth (Bailey) Spaulding, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1815 ; studied divinity at Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1818 ; was ordained as a missionary at Salem, Mass., Nov. 4, 1818; sailed from Boston, June 8, 1819; arrived at Cey- lon, East India, Feb. 18, 1820 ; visited the United States in 1864, and was honored with the degree of s. t. d. by Dartmouth college, in 1864. He died June 18, 1873, aged 82 years. Luke Ainsworth Spofford, son of Dea. Eleazer and Mary (Flint) Spofford, graduated at Middlebury college in 1816; studied divinity at Andover, Mass.; settled in Gilmanton, and afterwards in Brentwood, Lancaster, and Atkinson ; was afterwards a missionary, and resided in the Western states. He died at Rockport, Ind., Sept. 27, 1855. He took a deep interest in the cause of Christianity, and labored with much zeal in his profession. James Howe, son of Dr. Adonijah and Sarah (Ripley) Howe, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1817 ; taught one year at Concord ; studied divinity at Andover, graduat- ing in 1821 ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Pepperell, Oct. 16, 1822 ; died July 19, 1840, aged 44. He was highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens, and greatly beloved by the church, whose membership, during his pastorate, was increased from about seventy to four hundred. Joseph Fox, son of Jonathan and Sybil (Jackson) Fox, graduated at Dartmouth college in 18 18. He was a teach- COLLEGE GRADUATES. 95 er, and a man of much promise. He died at Savannah, Ga., Sept. 23, 1820, aged 23. Henry Shedd, son of John Haskell and Susanna (White) Shedd, fitted for college at New Ipswich academy 1820-22, under the instruction of Amasa Edes ; graduated at Dart- mouth in 1826. While an undergraduate he taught school in the winter season in New Ipswich, Westminster, Mass., Hanover, N. H., and Springfield, Mass. ; completed his three years course of study in Andover Theological Semi- nary in 1829 ; was ordained as a Presbyterian Home Mis- sionary in Boston, Sept. 24, 1829. After he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Newburyport, he assisted Rev. N. Bouton, of Concord, N. H., in preaching. May and June, 1829; settled as a home missionary in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, December, 1829; was missionary and pastor in that place, in all, twenty years ; was pastor also eight years at Pleasant Valley, O., three years at Marysville, O., while supplying a number of other churches in connection with the three above mentioned. During the last fourteen years he has been without pastoral charge, residing in Mt. Gilead, and preaching considerably to vacant churches in the vicinity. Alvah Spaulding, son of Dea. Abel and Lucy (Pierce) Spaulding, fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, N. H. ; graduated at Amherst in 1832; studied divinity at Andover ; was settled pastor of the Congrega- tional church in Cornish, N. H., remaining there twenty- five or thirty years ; he then removed to Wethersfield, Vt., and was installed pastor of the Congregational church in that place. He died May, 1868, aged 61. He married, Nov. 17, 1835, Ambra Tower, of Fitzwilliam, who survives him. He was faithful in the discharge of his duty, and was much beloved by his congregation. Daniel B. Cutter, son of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter, fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield ; graduated at Dartmouth in 1833 ; studied medicine at Har- 9^ HISTORY OF JAFFREY. vard and Yale colleges; graduated m. d. at Yale, 1835 ; commenced practice at Ashby, Mass., in 1837; removed to Peterborough, N. H., where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. For the last four or five years he has been compiling a history of his native town. As a citizen, he has taken a deep interest in the affairs of the town ; was for many years superintendent of the pub- lic schools, moderator of town-meetings, and representative in the state legislature. Frederick S. Ainsworth, son of William and Mary M. (Stearns) Ainsworth, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1840 ; studied medicine at Harvard Medical school, grad- uating M. D. in 1844; was two years in Paris, France, pur- suing the same studies; began practice in Boston, and is now (1873) there ; was for a time Professor of Physiology and Pathology in Berkshire Medical school at Pittsfield, Mass., and a surgeon and physician in the U. S. service in the war of the Rebellion. David Chadwick Chamberlin, son of David and Abigail (Chadwick) Chamberlin, graduated at Amherst college in 1840; was principal of Mellville academy, and preceptor of the high school in Winchendon, Mass. ; represented the town of Jaffrey three years in the N. H. legislature. He is now engaged in farming in his native town. Charles Cutter, son of John and Betsey (Crosby) Cutter, was born Feb, 12, 1822; graduated at Dartmouth college in 1842. He was several years engaged in teaching in Jaffrey and Peterborough, and also in South Carolina, in Beaufort and Darlington districts ; then lived in Jacksonville, Fla., studying and teaching horticulture. He is now (1873) a proprietor of a public house at Campton, N. H. He mar- ried Sarah A., daughter of Joseph and Sarah D. Joslin, of Jaffrey. William Dutton, son of William and Nabby (Smith) Dut- ton, graduated at Brown University, Providence, R. I., 1842 ; COLLEGE GRADUATES. 97 taught in Kalamazoo, Mich., and died 1846, aged 30. He was a man of much promise, and highly esteemed. Edward Stearns Cutter, son of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter, graduated at Dartmouth college, 1844; was princi- pal of Peterborough academy, 1 844-1 846 ; read law with James Walker, Esq., of Peterborough, and Hon. Daniel Clark, of Manchester ; began practice at Peterborough in 1849; removed to Amherst in 1858; became clerk of the supreme judicial court for Hillsborough county, and is now (1873) a counsellor-at-law in Boston. He was popular as a teacher, stood high as a lawyer, and was highly esteemed as a citizen. John Millot Ellis, son of Seth B. and Lucy (Joslin) Ellis, was born in Jaffrey, May 27, 1831 ; graduated at Oberlin college in 185 1 ; was principal of ; filled the chair of Ancient Languages in Mississippi college for three years ; studied theology in New York city and Ober- lin, completing his course in 1857; was appointed Professor of Greek in Oberlin college, which chair he filled till 1866, when he was appointed Professor of Mental Philosophy and Rhetoric, which position he now occupies. Soon after completing his theological course he was ordained as a min- ister, and has preached more or less regularly ever since, supplying the pulpit of the Second Congregational church in Oberlin for several years, and churches in Cleveland, Painesville, and Austinbury for some months, and other churches in the vicinity for shorter times. He has been a member of the city council, and mayor ; is a member of the executive committee of the college. He has written some for periodicals, and published occasional addresses. Isaac Jones Cutter, son of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cut- ter, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1852 ; read law with his brother, E. S. Cutter, of Peterborough, and John Quincy Adams Griffin, of Charlestown, Mass. ; began practice in Boston in 1855, where he now lives. 98 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Samuel Horatio Ellis, son of Seth B. and Lucy (Joslin) Ellis, was born in Jaffrey, April 25, 1833 ; graduated at Oberlin college in 1853, and died while studying the profes- sion of medicine. Oliver L. Spaulding, son of Lyman and Susan (Marshall) Spaulding, was born in Jaffrey, Aug. 22, 1833 ; graduated at Oberlin college in 1855 ; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858 ; was elected regent of the State Univer- sity of Michigan for six years. In 1862 he was commis- sioned captain in the 23d regiment Michigan infantry in U. S. service ; he was soon made major, and subsequently held the commission of lieut.-colonel and brevet brigadier- general. He was mustered out of service July, 1865, and commenced the practice of law at St. Johns. In 1866 he was elected secretary of state; reelected in 1868. Frederick William Bailey, son of Edward and Sarah (Hayden) Bailey, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1862 ; taught in Richmond in 1862 and 1863 ; read law with Wheeler & Faulkner at Keene ; was two terms at the Albany Law School ; began practice in Jaffrey ; repre- sented the town in the state legislature 1864-5-8-9 ; was ad- mitted to the New York bar May 4, 1865, and to the New Hampshire bar in October, 1865 ; began practice at East Jaffrey in March, 1866; moved to Keene, and died April 27, 1870. He was a man of much promise, and no doubt would have taken a high stand in his profession. Melemas D. Stone graduated at Dartmouth college in 1870. John H. Fox graduated at Dartmouth college, studied law, and has opened an office at East Jaffrey. List of lawyers and ministers, natives of Jaffrey, not in- cluded among the college graduates, who settled in other towns : LAWYERS, MINISTERS, AND PHYSICIANS. 99 LAWYERS. Robert Gilmore. George Gilmore settled in Pittsburgh, Pa. MINISTERS. Adonijah Cutter studied divinity at Bangor Seminary, Maine ; settled in Strafford, Vt., Hanover, N. H., and Nel- son, where he died July 19, i860. Andrew O. Warren studied divinity, and settled in McDonough, Upper Lisle, and Southville, N. Y. ; now re- sides in Montrose, Pa. E. S. Foster studied divinity with Rev. O. A. Skinner, D. D., of New York ; settled in South Hartford, N. Y., Abington, Mass., Cuttingsville and Chester, Vt., Claremont, N. H., Middletown, Conn., and Winchester, N. H. PHYSICIANS. Natives of Jaffrey, not included among the college grad- uates, who settled in other places : Francis Smiley, son of Dea. William Smiley, studied medicine, and settled in Elba, N. Y. ; d. March 23, 1844, aged 85. Josiah Hale, son of Oliver and Mary (Wilder) Hale, stud- ied medicine, and settled in Brandon, Vt. ; married Rhoda Greene. Mark Snow, son of Samuel Snow, studied medicine in Rochester, N. Y. ; began practice in the state of Ohio. In 1820 he removed to St. Francisville, La., and, after a resi- dence of four years, removed to Jefferson county. Miss. In 1827 he removed to Hinde county ; was a pioneer set- tler, acquired a very extensive practice, and became a dis- tinguished physician. In May, 1844, while at Vicksburg for the purpose of obtaining a fresh stock of medicine, be- ing weary, he laid down at night-fall on a sofa in the parlor lOO HISTORY OF JAFFREY. of the hotel and fell asleep. While in that condition he was robbed, stabbed in the neck, and thrown from the window. The robber made his escape and was never detected. The doctor was maimed for life, and was ever after unable to endure the fatigue incident to his profession. He died May 12, 1866. Kimball Frost, son of Benj. and Rachel (Kimball) Frost, studied medicine with Dr. David Carter, of Marlborough, N, H., and completed his course of study at Dartmouth col- lege. To meet the expenses of his education he was from time to time engaged in teaching public schools, and took a high rank as a teacher. He began practice in Marlborough, and after remaining there several years he removed to Swanzey. While in Marlborough he was commissioned captain of the state militia. In 1834 he removed to Dela- ware county, Iowa, and in 1867 to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he died Nov. 23, 1870, aged 80. Calvin Cutter, son of John and Polly (Batchelder) Cutter, studied medicine with Dr. Nehemiah Cutter, of Pepperell, Mass., and attended medical lectures at Bowdoin, Dart- mouth, and Harvard colleges, and received the degree of m. D. at Dartmouth in 1832. He began practice at Rochester, N. H. In 1833 he attended a course of lectures in the Uni- versity of New York, and the next year settled in Nashua and remained there three years. He then removed to Do- ver, where he practised three years. He then became a public lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, and visited all parts of the United States. In 1847, he published a work on physiology, a text-book for schools, which was ex- tensively used for that purpose, not only in this country, but by the missionaries in Turkey, Syria, and India. In 1 86 1 he became surgeon of the 21st Massachusetts Infantry, and was in service three years, being twice wounded in the field. He was a man of enterprise and skill, and one who delighted in a life of well-doing. ^oo^^^^:^ ^^^%^^ PHYSICIANS. lOI John Fox, son of Jonathan and Sybil (Jackson) Fox, graduated m. d. at Dartmouth college in 1835. [See Gen- ealogical Register.] Thomas H. Marshall, son of William and Sarah (Cutter) Marshall, received his early education in the district schools in his native town. After studying two or three terms at New Ipswich academy, he commenced the study of medi- cine with Dr. Luke Howe, of Jaffrey. He attended medical lectures at Bowdoin college, at Dartmouth college, and at Harvard University. In 1835 he graduated m. d. at Dartmouth college, and began practice in Fitzwilliam. In 1837 he removed to Mason Village, now Greenville, and continued the practise of his profession with marked suc- cess till his death, Dec. 16, 1872, aged 66. Dr. Marshall was a man highly respected by his fellow-citizens, who hon- ored him with official trust. He represented the town in the state legislature, and was a member of the state senate. Orville P. Gilman, son of Daniel and Mary B. (Stickney) Gilman, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1837; settled in Salem, Vt., and died there in 1863. Benoni Cutter, son of John and Polly (Batchelder) Cut- ter, studied medicine and graduated at the Medical college at Woodstock, Vt., in 1838. He began practice in Webster, Me. He was extensively engaged in the business of his pro- fession, when his health failed, and he died Sept. 4, 185 1. He was a man of much promise, and left a wife and three children to mourn his loss. Frederick Augustus Cutter, son of Joel and Mary S. (Jones) Cutter, studied medicine, and was for many years engaged in active practice at MuUica Hill, N.J. He estab- lished a wide reputation, and died Dec. 28, 1869, leaving a wife and two children. Amos S. Adams, son of Thomas and Sarah (Sawtell) Adams, studied medicine, and settled in Lynn, Mass. 102 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Adonijah Woodbury Howe, son of Dr. Luke and Mary (Woodbury) Howe, studied medicine, and graduated m. d. at Dartmouth college in 185 1 ; began practice at Dunstable, Mass., where he now (1876) resides. Granville G. Corey, son of David and Betsey (Winship) Corey, studied medicine, and graduated m. d. at Dartmouth college in 1857, and was successfully engaged at Greenville in the practice of his profession till his death, Oct. 19, 1878. He was highly respected. John Conant Felt, son of John and Hulda (Conant) Felt, was a dentist ; settled in Orange, Mass., and died Jan. 28, 1874. RESIDENT LAWYERS OF JAFFREY. David Smiley removed to Grafton, N. H., 1806. Samuel Dakin came from Mason in 1801 ; removed to Utica, N. Y., 1815. William Ainsworth removed to New Ipswich, 183 1. Albert S. Scott removed to Peterborough, and died there. Clarence A. Parks removed to Boston, 1874. LIST OF PHYSICIANS WHO HAVE PRACTISED IN TOWN. Adonijah Howe (Dr.) was born in Brookfield, Mass., and came to Jaffrey in 1776, and was the only physician in town, with one exception, for a period of over thirty years. Of his early history and educational advantages we have but little knowledge, but from his success in practice and his popularity as a physician, we have no doubt he was well edu- cated for that day. He was also a farmer, and one of merit, and a man that was much employed in the business trans- actions of his day. He was for many years moderator of the town-meetings, town-clerk, assessor of taxes, and town treasurer. He represented the town in the legislature a number of years; was appointed justice of the peace, — an office of distinguished honor in those days. PHYSICIANS. 103 Willis Johnson (Dr.) was born in Sturbridge, Mass., Dec. 21, 1786. He studied medicine with Drs. Carroll, of Wood- stock, Ct., and Sethbridge, of South Brimfield, Mass. ; began practice in Jaffrey in 1807 ; removed to Peterborough in 1809, and Mason in 18 14, where he spent the remainder of his life in the practice of his profession. Abner Howe, m. d. [See College Graduates.] Adonijah Howe, m. b., son of Dr. Adonijah and Sarah (Ripley) Howe, studied medicine with his father, attended medical lect^ires at Hanover, and received the degree of M. B. in 18 1 2. He began practice in Jaffrey, and contin- ued the same till 181 5, when he died. He was a man of promise. Luke Howe, m. d. [See College Graduates.] Darwin C. Perry, m. d., born in Orwell, Vt., April 22, 1807 ; came to East Jaffrey about 1832 ; removed to Wood- stock, Vt., in 1836, and was connected with the medical college as a lecturer, when he died Nov. 22, 1837. He was a man of talent, and would have been a distinguished phy- sician if his life had been spared. Amasa Kennie (Dr.) came to Jaffrey soon after the death of Dr. Luke Howe in 1841, and remained there in practice till 1850, when he removed to Vermont ; married ; one child, Charles E., died Jan. 21, 1845, aged 2 years, 4 months, 6 days. Stephen L. Richardson (Dr.) settled in East Jaffrey as a physician about 1836; after a short practice his health failed and he left town, and died soon after ; last tax, 1841 ; married, Sept. 22, 1840, Mary Ann Bullard. Roderick R. Perkins (Dr.) was his successor at East Jaffrey about 1842 ; after a short time of practice he died, Feb. II, 1853, aged 36 years ; married Eliza Smith, daugh- ter of Samuel Smith, of Peterborough ; one child, Ida L., died Nov. 26, 1862, aged 11 years. 104 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, Dr. Andrew J. Gibson was in town in 1852-3-4. Gurley A. Phelps, m. d., a native of Vermont, grraduated from the Castleton Medical college in 1848. He began practice in Hancock, Vt. ; removed to Jaffrey in 1849, where he has since remained in the successful practice of his profession. He married, April 10, 185 1, Adaliza, daugh- ter of Benjamin Cutter, Esq., who died June 3, 1852, leaving one child, Grace Mina, born April 12, 1852 ; married, second wife, Nancy B. Stoughton, of Gill, Mass. ; — three children, Charles S., born i860; Mary E., born 1863; William S., born i! Oscar H. Bradley, m. d., was born in Vermont in 1826 ; studied medicine with Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene ; re- ceived the degree of m. d. at Dartmouth college ; settled in East Jaffrey about 185 1. He soon acquired an extensive practice, and has become a leading physician in this sec- tion. He has accumulated in his business a large amount of property, and is a prominent man in the town. He was an active leader in the railroad enterprise, and is one of the directors. He. is also a director in the Monadnock National Bank, and president of the Monadnock Savings Bank. DISTINGUISHED MEN. Extract from a sermon preached by Rev. Leonard Ten- ney, at the funeral of the Rev, Laban Ainsworth, March 20, 1858: The Rev. Laban Ainsworth was born in Woodstock, Conn., July 19, 1757. By his parents he was early consecrated to God in Christian baptism. When a mere child, by reason of a severe sickness, he lost the use of his right arm. It was ever after a weak and withered limb. As he was thus partially disabled from prosecuting the ordinary business of active life, his parents cheerfully consented to his obtaining a collegiate education. Accordingl}' he was fitted for college ; and, after remaining some weeks at Hanover, he entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth in 1775. At the end of three years he graduated, and then commenced the study of theology. DISTINGUISHED MEN. 10$ It was on Commencement day, in 1781, that a committee ap- pointed by this town met him in Hanover and engaged him to preach. Late in the summer of that year, he began to officiate in his sacretl calling with this people. The First Congrega- tional church in Jaflrey was then in its infoncy, it having been organized May 18, 1780. It is not difficult to understand how acceptable lie was at this early day to the citizens of the town, when we read the expressive language of their official acts. At a town-meeting, called December 17, 1781, it was " Voted, to hear Mr. Ainsworth longer." " Voted, to hear Mr. Ainsworth till he can conveniently go his journey and then return to this town." At another public town-meeting, held April 23, 1782, there is this record : " Voted, to hear Mr. Ainsworth upon pro- bation, in order to give him a call." At a town-meeting, July 8, 1782, '' Voted, unanimously, to concur with the church and give Mr. Laban Ainsworth a call to the work of the gospel ministry in this town." They pledged him "■ as a salary, annu- ally, £70 as long as he shall be the minister of this town." They also proffered him " liberty to visit his friends twice each year, of two Sabbaths each time, if he accepts the call that is given him." These were the final conditions of the settlement. On the loth of December, 1782, an ecclesiastical council was convened '* to afford assistance in setting apart " the candidate " for the work of the gospel ministry." After hearing the parties and examining the candidate, the council adjourned to the following day, when, upon reassembling, they proceeded with the ordination services. Thus it appears that in these in- troductory movements, neither the town nor the candidate was in haste. It was not till he had preached here three or four months that the hearers took any vote on the question of his staying. Nor was it till four months later that they expressed a desire that he should remain as a candidate for settlement. By this time they were cherishing a desire to retain him, so that when he had been with them almost a year, the differing sentiments of the people becoming more and more united, they were prepared to give him a unanimous call to become their pastor. Here is manifest a careful deliberation which gave promise of a permanent ministry. Nor was that promise un- fulfilled, for he has been the minister of this church more than seventy-six years and a half. During nearly half a century he was without a ministerial helper; but since that time three young men have been associated with him as colleagues, and been dismissed ; and now the senior pastor is dismissed, and called to his rest. Though I have not been summoned before you to-day to pro- nounce his eulogy, I should do injustice to my own sense of 8 I06 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. duty were I wholly to forbear speaking of his worth. In doing it very briefly, I must confine myself principally to what I have known of him during the last thirteen years. What impressed me first was his peculiarly venerable appearance. He was then 87 years of age. He had a full, muscular frame, a head slightly bald, with snowy white locks hanging over his shoulders, and a dress corresponding with his age, yet reminding one of a generation for the most part passed away. What I next observed was his afl'able and courteous man- ners. He was graceful in his movements, social in his nature, and always ready to make a fit reply to whatever might be said. Though he knew well how to utter the language of severity, how to administer a just rebuke, how to make a keen and sarcastic criticism, yet he greatly excelled in the power to please and instruct in the social circle. The gentle- ness of his manner of receiving company, of welcoming them to the hospitalities of his home, of taking leave of them at their departure, is what many of us delight to remember ; and to the young minister who labored by his side during these thirteen years, lie manifested the kindness of a father, with the forbear- ance and courtesy of a constant friend. I early noticed, also, his peculiar simplicity and propriety in the use of words. He rarely hesitated for a choice of language, and the very expression which was wanted came at his call. This gave him great ability to amuse, to inform, to impress, or to influence the human mind. Nowhere else was this perti- nence in the choice of language so observable as in his prayers, and conversations on the subject of religion. To this fact my attention has often been called by the aged people who long waited on his ministry. He was evidently a man of intellectual strength and sound judgment. Even amid the infirmities of age, there were per- ceptible distinct signs of a former greatness. It has been gratifying to notice that with the gradual weak- ening of his intellectual powers, he has steadily maintained a fondness for the doctrines and precepts of God's word. When incapable of taking any care of his temporal concerns, he would express a sensible opinion in what relates to the kingdom of God. And when his intellect became so enfeebled that he could not speak connectedly on ordinary topics, he would offer prayer with no wandering or repetition, and impart Christian counsel with correctness. And when his memory so failed him as to become wholly untrustworthy concerning passing events, he would repeat passages of Holy Writ without mistake. We have noticed that he was a man remarkably guiltless of affectation himself, and intolerant of it in others. In conversa- tion, he rarely alluded to what he had done, or to what he had DISTINGUISHED MEN. 10/ been. Whatever we learned from him of his personal history was the result of a direct effort to call him out. He was no egotist, nor was he so much inclined to speak of his own thoughts and emotions as would have been agreeable to his friends. Hence a stranger, or a visitor for the day, might find no direct access to his inner life and experience. Of his indi- vidual relation to God he always spoke with much caution. He discovered such perfect holiness in his Maker, and so much imperfection in himself, that he thought, should he ever be ad- mitted into the home of the holy, it would be through the infi- nite riches of divine grace, in Jesus Christ. I have seen him when lying so ill that both he and ourselves thought his re- covery doubtful. On such an occasion I once inquired of him, " Is the gospel which you have preached to others now pre- cious to you .?" He replied, "It is, and I hope to be saved through it." Last June, as the Cheshire County Conference of Churches was about to meet in Rindge, I inquired of him what message he would like to send to the good people at that meeting. After a little thought, he said, "Tell them I am going steadily down towards the end, but not without hope." We love to remember the tenderness of his affection towards his brethren in the ministry, and his strong desire that they should maintain in their ministrations the integrity of divine truth. He felt that we were in danger of setting too little value on the form of sound words, and of accommodating our style ot preaching to the standard of the age rather than to that of the Bible. He used to say, — " We want in the pulpit plain, sound doctrine, even if men scorn it. It is better than some pleasing error that shall lead the soul to ruin." The Bible has been his daily companion in the house of his pilgrimage. For years that book, in the French language, was the solace of his hours of solitude. Whenever it was not in his hand it always lay upon the table beside him. And when his eyes grew dim, he has felt the need of having members of his family spend hours each day in reading to him. During the last two years we have seen increasing evidence that he was approaching the end of his earthly course. But on the 19th of July he was able to meet us in this house, while we attempted to celebrate his one hundredth birthday. Since then, the decay of his faculties has been more rapid. His physical strength has failed, and his in- tellect become shattered ; and although, in his weakness, he durst not confide in the truest and most faithful of his earthly attendants, he never, for a solitary moment, lost confidence in God. And when his memory became so enfeebled that he could not recall the names of his nearest kindred, nor recognize the countenances of his most familiar friends, he did not forget I08 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. the name of Jesus, nor did he cease to speak of him in the lan- guage of affection. But the close, so long delayed, has at length arrived. The last struggle in his warfare is past, the last step in his pilgrimage has been taken, the last eflort to keep the faith in this world of trial is over. On Wednesday, the 17th of March, at the age of one hundred years, seven months, and twenty-e'ght days, he turned away from the scenes of his earthly conflicts, to take possession of the awards wliich the Lord, the righteous Judge, had prepared for him. His end was peace. On the Saturday before his death he led the devo- tions of the family in prayer. In this, his final audible petition at the throne of grace, he sought a special blessing on himself, and on her who has had the particular care of him for many years. The day before his decease he signified a desire that she should read to him, when he listened with eagerness to the 90th and 103d Psalms. From that time he remained in a state of perfect quietness through the following night, when, at six o'clock in the morning, without the least manifestation of pain, he fell asleep. " Life so sweetly ceased to be, He lapsed into eternity." ABEL PARKER, Hon. Abel Parker, son of Samuel Parker by his second wife, Mary (Proctor) Robbins, was born in Westford, Mass., March 25, 1753. At the age of fourteen he removed with his father to Pepperell, Mass., and was enrolled in 1774 in Capt. John Nutting's company of minute men, attached to the regiment of Col. William Prescott. On the 19th of April the alarm was given that the British troops were marching into the country, and Nutting's men were collect- ed as soon as possible to oppose them. Parker was plough- ing in the field about a mile from the house, and did not re- ceive the alarm in season to start with the company, but, on hearing it, he left his oxen in the field unyoked, ran home, seized his gun and Sunday coat and started upon the run, passed the Groton companies, and reached his own at Gro- ton ridges. The company was too late to share in the glory of that day; but on arrival at Cambridge, Parker ■nr n^^. '■%. "^. DISTINGUISHED MEN. IO9 enlisted in the same company, under Col. Prescott, until January following, and was stationed at Cambridge. On the evening before the battle of Bunker Hill, a de- tachment was ordered to take that place. Parker was not included ; but he was so desirous of participating in active service that he gave his ration of spirit to a comrade, and obtained by exchange a share in the battle, in which he re- ceived a severe wound in the leg from a musket-ball, which his descendants still possess. The ball passed between the bones of the leg without breaking either, and was flattened to nearly one half of its original diameter. He remained in the fort till orders were given to retreat, when, with the aid of two soldiers, he left the field amid a volley of bullets which killed a man on each side of him, and one passed through his shirt. With the aid of those men he continued his retreat till he reached the guard, who refused to let his men pass till persuaded of the impossibility of his going without aid, when he let one of them accompany him. On pursuing his way to Cambridge, he came to a chaise in which were two wounded men. He seated himself on one of the shafts, and in that way was carried to Cambridge, while the soldier who so faithfully assisted him returned. It was always a matter of regret that he did not learn the names of those men who so faithfully assisted him. In two months he recovered from the effects of his wound, served the remainder of the time for which he enlisted, and then returned to his farm in Pepperell. In July, 1776, he enlisted as a sergeant in Capt. Job Shattuck's company. Col. Reed's regiment, of Littleton, to serve at Ticonderoga. While there he formed one of a party for the purpose of storming a British fort at Putman's Point. But the British retreated, before their arrival, to Crown Point, and from thence to Canada. When his term of ser- vice ended he returned to his farm, and married Edith, daughter of Jedediah Jewett, of Pepperell, October 14, 1777, — a religious woman, of vigorous intellect and marked no HISTORY OF JAFFREY. character. After his marriage he again enlisted into mili- tary service in Rhode Island and New York, and held com- missions as ensign and lieutenant. On the 5th of May, 1780, he removed to Jaffrey, and set- tled on lot 20, range i,at that time an unbroken forest, and cleared his farm himself with such assistance as he could obtain. He resided on this farm till 1807, when he re- moved to the centre of the town, — leaving his son Asa the farm, — where he spent the remainder of his days, living to the age of yS years. He was a man tall and stately in appearance, dignified in his manners, grave in his deport- ment, and had a commanding influence that but few men possess. He held many offices of dignity and confidence in town and state ; represented the town several years in the legislature ; judge of probate twenty years ; sat in the convention which adopted the Federal constitution ; voted for John Quincy Adams in the electoral college of 1824. In 18 1 2 he was appointed post-master, and discharged the duties of that office for five years. He was also a re- ligious man, and in 1780 made an open profession of his faith ; was a life-member of the N. H. Bible Society, N. H. Missionary Society, Tract Society, and the Cheshire County Bible Society. ISAAC PARKER. Hon. Isaac Parker was born in Jaffrey, April 14, 1788, and died in Boston May 27, 1858. At the age of nearly 15, Jan. 31, 1803, he entered the country store of David Page and Luke Wheelock, at Jaffrey. After remaining there a period of three years, he removed, Aug. 29, 1806, to Middle- bury, Vt., still in the employ of the same firm. After the death of Mr. Wheelock the business of the store there was prosecuted under his immediate supervision until he attain- ed his majority in 1809. He was then established in busi- ness with Samuel Smith, in Keene. The firm name there DISTINGUISHED MEN. Ill was Parker & Hugh, his active associate being one Dr. Hugh, of Keene. The term of Mr. Parker's residence in Keene included the three years of the second war with England, and we might expect that the son of his father would feel moved by the military impulse of the times. Accordingly we find him connected with the Keene Light Infantry, an independent company, of which he was commissioned captain, June 7, 1813. Sept. 12, 1 8 16, he was commissioned brigade major and inspector of the 5th brigade N. H. M. It is said that his inspections were rigid and careful beyond precedent. Col. Marshall P. Wilder yet remembers that, on his first parade as a private soldier, Major Parker inspected the detachment. November 17, 181 2, Mr. Parker married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Laban Ainsworth and Mary (Minot) Ainsworth, by whom he had four sons and four daughters, two of whom were born in Keene. In 181 7 he left Keene, and -commenced his business life in Boston as a partner with Silas Bullard, under the firm name of Bullard & Parker, at 31 Central street, but soon withdrew, and, associating with himself Mr. Jonas M. Mel- ville, the firm of Isaac Parker & Co. was formed, for the transaction of a commission business for the sale of Ameri- can goods at 6 Broad street. As a clerk with Page & Wheelock Mr. Parker had ob- served the first germs of the American manufacturing in- terest, and a considerable part of his business at Keene had consisted of manufacturing and selling domestic goods. In 1810 he was present at the starting of the Peterborough Factory, of which he was then part owner, and in which he retained an interest through life. The embargo and the war which succeeded it gave a forced impetus to American manufacturing, and many factories which seem now exceed- ingly small, but which were then of considerable import- ance, sprang into existence. Until the close of the war the 112 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. demand for the products of these factories was sufificient to ensure their ready sale at the works ; but when foreign com- petition became possible, more efficient means were required to distribute these products. The Boston Directory for 1817 contains the names of two firms (Samuel Adams & Co. and Oilman Pritchard & Co.) described as dealers in American goods ; and that for 1 82 1, the next of which any copy is extant, contains the titles of five firms similarly described, including that of Isaac Parker & Co. The concerns that preceded them proved quite ephemeral; but that which Mr. Parker estab- lished in 1 8 19, under the style of Isaac Parker & Co., and continued as Parker & Blanchard (Abraham W. Blanchard), Parker, Blanchard & Wilder (Hon. Marshall P. Wilder), Parker, Wilder & Parker (William A. Parker), and Parker, Wilder & Co. (Samuel B. Rindge, Ezra Farnsworth, and Francis J. Parker), still continues under the latter title the business which he founded ; but the amount of the sales of one of those earlier years has often been exceeded by the business of a single day in the later history of the house. To sell by the single piece or " bolt " was the rule at the first, the sale of an entire package the exciting ex- ception. The space occupied for a salesroom on Broad street was not greater than that included by the counting- rooms of the present firm. Although devoting himself to business interests and fam- ily affairs, Mr. Parker did not refuse to bear his part in pub- lic duties when summoned to them. He was a member of the Common Council of the city of Boston in 1824-5-6, again in 1832, and yet again in 1838-9-40, serving on the Standing Committee on Finance, and in the last two years as chairman on the part of his branch of the Joint Commit- tee on the Introduction of Water, — a matter at that time of the highest interest in the politics of the city. Jonathan Chapman (mayor in 1840) was second on this committee in 1839. Mr. Parker served also three years as a repre- DISTINGUISHED MEN. 1 13 sentative from Boston in the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts legislature, 1830-1, 183 1-2, and 1842. He was a director in several business corporations, one of the original trustees of Mt. Auburn cemetery, trustee under the mortgage of the Sullivan Railroad in New Hampshire, and for the last sixteen years of his life president of the Traders' Bank. His death was the result of an accident, by which he was thrown from his carriage ; and thus, after a brief illness, and without any of that failing in faculties which often precedes and clouds the closing years of men's lives, he passed from earth into paradise, and is now with God. The Honorable Marshall P. Wilder, who knew Mr. Par- ker from early life, and who was associated with him as a partner for more than twenty years, in a note to the present writer thus sums up the character of his friend : As a merchant and citizen of Boston, the memory of Isaac Parker will be cherished by all who knew him. In all the I'elations of life, whether public or private, he had the reputa- tion of a high sense of honor and unbending integrity. His moral, political, and religious sentiments were matters of fixed and controlling convictions. He was always anxious to do right and to be just. He was very considerate, conservative, and cautious, but having come to a conclusion, he was as im- movable as the granite hills of his native state. He w^as very industrious, systematic, and punctual, and dispatched business with facility, but never without deliberation. He had at heart the best interests of humanity, and was ever ready to bestow his influence for the improvement of those around him. He was eminently a peace-maker, never having controversies, if possible to avoid them, and was anxious to do to others as he would have them do to him. Mr. Parker was remarkable for the uniformity of his character, and he will long be remem- bered in the annals of Boston as one of her distinguished mer- chants, as one of her pioneers in the traffic in domestic fabrics, and as one notable for his integrity, firmness, and good judg- ment, — in short, as an enlightened merchant and a Christian gentleman. F. J. p. 114 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. LEVI SPAULDING. The subject of this sketch, Rev. Levi Spaulding, was born in Jaffrey, Aug. 22, 1791. He was one of eleven children. His father, Phineas Spaulding, being one of the earliest set- tlers in the west part of the town, had originally built a log hut, but, at the time Levi was born, had removed from that into a frame house, consisting of two rooms and an unfin- ished attic. As the boys grew old enough, one half of this attic was appropriated to them as a sleeping apartment, and many were the jokes emanating therefrom. One particu- larly stormy night they tried their powers at rhyming, when Levi perpetrated the following, which was received with shouts of applause by the rest : "The howling blast sweeps o'er the roof While I 'm secure within, While in the bed I warm my hoof And out of bed my chin." He was early noted for fearlessness and determination. If his mind was made up, it was almost impossible to alter his decision or let any obstacle prevent the accomplishment of his plans. At the age of five or six, he with his father and brother Daniel was in the fields one day, when a young colt, that had never been broken either to harness or saddle, came near them. His father stood a few minutes rubbing the loose hair from the colt, when Levi begged to be put upon his back. Not thinking but what he could easily take him off, the father complied. No sooner did the colt feel the boy's weight upon his back than he sank nearly to the ground and coming up with a bound, started on a run round the pasture. Nothing daunted, Levi clenched his hand into the colt's mane and resolutely held on until he had run twice to the bars and back again, a distance of about a hundred rods, when, finding he could not throw the boy, he came to Mr. Spaulding's side (who stood pale with affright) DISTINGUISHED MEN. 115 and permitted him to take the child off. When about ten or twelve, his father slipped upon the door-rock while rolling in a large back-log for the fire, and broke his knee- pan. This, of course, disabled him for a long time. Ed- ward, the oldest brother who was at home, was at the time sheriff for the county, and consequently obliged to be away a great many days ; therefore the care of about twenty horned cattle, thirty sheep, five or six pigs, with two or three horses and colts, devolved upon Levi and his brother Daniel, neither over fourteen. In 1808 or 18 10 he was studying with Rev. John Sabin, of FitzwiUiam, preparatory to entering Dartmouth college, which took place about 181 1 ; he remained there four years, and graduated in 181 5 ; he graduated from Andover in 18 18. In May, 18 19, he was married to Miss Mary Christie, of Antrim, sister to Daniel M. Christie, one of his classmates, and since then quite a prominent lawyer in Dover, N. H. "June 8, 18 19, they embarked on board a vessel bound for Ceylon, where they arrived Dec. i, 1819; arrived at Oodooville, June 15, 1820; Manipay, Aug. 25, 1821 ; Tellipaly, Aug. 25, 1828 ; Oodooville, March 8, 1833 ; and commenced the American Ceylon Mission, Madura, in India, in the year 1834." In August, 1865, he writes, — "By the grace of God the marble at Brother Oliver's grave made a missionary of me" (refer- ring to an older brother who was drowned while in college at Dartmouth). In another letter, dated Jan., 1862, we find the following : Until Mr. Knight left us in 1838, I had considered myself a simple Tamil preacher. I had even then prepared the Village School Book series which were then and since in use. When Brother K. left, I was requested to compile a purely Tamil Dictionary. This was done in the short space of about three years, and published in 1842. I then worked day and night. As soon as that was through the press, I was requested to prepare the English and Tamil Dictionary, which I did with the same diligence and success. This left the press in 1843 ; and a new edition of this was prepared soon after my return in 1847, and left the press in 1852. Soon after this I was engaged II 6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. in revising our Tamil Bible. In the mean time I wrote tracts, as my preaching tours suggested, now about fifty in all. I then, from time to time, prepared the manuscript for a Tamil Union Dictionary ; — this is all but two or three sheets through the press, and will, I think, be the last great work I shall attempt of this kind. I have almost never lost a day by my own sickness since I have been in India. My great object is to keep unto the end my original consecration, and to live and labor and rest with those to whom I was sent by Him who called me. In May, 1872, he writes to his brother Daniel, — I still remember old times, when you and I were students under Father Sabins ; when you decided to provide for your- self, and I, a poor homespun boy, dreamed of filling Oliver's place at college. Had I known the world as now I know it, my heart would have failed me. I knew I had not his talent, but my love and respect for him stimulated me to try; so I worked my way through college. Then the Lord took me up, and his command, " Go teach all nations," sen^ me to Jafllia, Ceylon, among a people I had never heard of, a people of a strange speech and stranger customs. Idols, though a vanity and a lie, wei'e the objects of worship and superstition. Not a real Christian native in the land, nor a Christian book, and but one or two native women who could read. Here I have been ever since 1S19-20 (save the three years when on Mary's ac- count I visited America). When I came all our roads and highways were either foot-paths, or gutters for the waters to run in and ofl'. People were lazy, given to and fond of wick- edness and lawsuits, and the revenue was very little. Now the mud house is exchanged for stone or brick. Agriculture then was neglected, but now old fields are cultivated, and new wells dug, and new gardens occupied. Roads checkering the whole district are macadamized, so that the bandy wheel runs as smoothly as on an iron rail. Most of the men can read, and some hundred women have been educated. Now, we have dictionaries and a pretty good supply of common-school books, and a good stock of Bibles and tracts, with religious reading, all in Tamil. Hundreds can speak English, or, more probably, thousands. We have well educated native pastors, lawyers, doctors, engineers, interpreters, and overseers, besides many writers in courts and cutcheries. Now, Daniel, you need not think that I have done all this, but I have lived to see it, and have taken a part in some of these branches. In all I have done, dear Mary has been my right-hand man, both in counsel and in work ; has done more and suffered more than I. DISTINGUISHED MEN. 11/ Praised be God for the assurance that those who die in the Lord are not lost : " their works do follow them." They had two children, who were early sent to this coun- try to be educated. Their son, Edward M., found a home with his uncle on the old farm at Jaffrey, and eventually went South as a physician, where he died about the close of our War of the Rebellion. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was adopted by a Mr. Abbott, and finally married one of the Abbott family, who have written so many pleasant histories for the young. Many other letters, received from time to time, express the same interest in the cause to which he de- voted his life and all he had. On the i8th of June, 1873, he passed away, and we copy the following from a paper printed at Ceylon : It only remains that we should say a few words on the clos- ing scene. Mr. Hastings writes, — " You will be sorry to hear that Mr. Spaulding is no more with us. He died yesterday, the 18th, at about 10:30 A. M. He had been confined to his room for about two weeks, though he had been gradually fail- ing for months. His end was peace. He retained his faculties until about an hour before he breathed his last. His has been a wonderful life. For more than fifty-three years he has been laboring as a missionary. During that time he visited Amer- ica but once, and was absent about three years. If he had lived until August he would have been 82 years of age. Mrs. Spauld- ing is sustained in this affliction, is calm and resigned, patient- ly waiting for the summons to call her to join him, with whom she so long lived and labored, in the heavenly home." " He was buried in a coffin that was made of planks, kept by himself in his godown, since the year 1842, for the purpose, with his initial and date, showing his willingness and readiness to meet his Creator." Another correspondent writes, — " The good old man passed away with a smile on his face. The coffin was borne to the grave by twelve native ministers, and they, as well as the large attendance of their Christian countrymen present, are not likely to forget venerable Father Spaulding's last charge to them, delivered through Mr. Howland on that solemn occasion : ' Consecrate everything that is yours to Christ, and ask nothing in prayer which you will not devote to Him.' Truly, with such words before us, and in the face of the exam- ple left by Levi Spaulding, we may feel that ' he, though dead, Il8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. yet speaketh ' to all who may hear of him and his work, no less than to his missionary brethren and his adopted country- men." After his decease his wife resided with the family of Rev. E. P. Hastings, Batticotta, until her death, which took place Oct. 28, 1874, a little more than a year after that of her ven- erable companion. Extract from a memoir of Hon. Joel Parker, ll. d., by Emory Washburn, Bussey professor in Dane Law School : The subject of this notice was born in JaflVey, N. H., whose history he commemorated by an address on occasion of the cen- tennial celebration of its settlement, in 1S73. His birth occur- red Jan. 25, 1795- His father was an early settler in that town, having removed there from Pepperell, Mass. He was of that class of intelligent and independent farmers from whom have sprung so many of the leading and influential men of New Eng- land. He was himself a leading man in the county in which he resided, and, among other places of honor and trust, held the office of Judge of Probate for that county. One of his sons was a prominent lawyer in Amherst, N. H., and also held the office of Judge of Probate in that county. It was in his office that his brother Joel read law as a student. Joel Parker was graduated at Dartmouth college in 181 1, in the same class with Chief-Justice Shepley, of Maine. He was admitted to the bar in 1815, and established himself in practice of the law in Keene. The rank he early attained in his profes- sion may be inferred from his appointment to the bench of the Superior Court of New Hampshire in the year 1833. In 1838 he was promoted to the place of chief-justice of that court, and held the office until 1848, when he resigned it, and in the same year became a professor in the law school of Harvard Univer- sity. He resigned this place in 1868, and from that time till his death, August 17, 1875, he was actively engaged in the management of his own business affairs. These were the only offices of importance which he held at any time, except of that of a representative for two years in the legislature of New Hampshire, and of a commissioner for revising the statutes of New Hampshire, and a like service in Massachusetts ; though it should be added that he held the professorship of Medical Jurisprudence in Dartmouth college from 1845 to 1857, and a like professorship in the Medical College of New York, and gave one or more courses of lectures upon the Constitution in DISTINGUISHED MEN. II 9 Dartmouth college, and in the Columbian Law School in Wash- ington. His official honors, as well as duties, it will be per- ceived, were connected almost entirely with law and its admin- istration. His Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1837, and Harvard in 184S. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1859 was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which he held till his death. We have said that his life was a busy one ; and, though he left no one considerable work to indicate the extent to which he contributed to general literature, or that of the law, the number of his publications, if collected, would form several good-sized volumes. The number and extent of his judicial opinions, while occupying a seat upon the Bench, are in them- selves an evidence of his unwearied diligence in the thorough- ness of his investigations, and the fulness and clearness with which he prepared and published these opinions. Such was the case, also, while connected with the law school, as was shown by the number of special and occasional lectures upon subjects connected with the topics of which he was treating in his regular courses, which had assumed more than ordinary importance from the circumstances of the times. Several of these were afterwards published, and are valuable as able and original discussions of the matters of which they treat. So, as a member of the Historical Society, his contributions to its proceedings were able, interesting, and exact ; always thorough, and, as far as possible, exhaustive. His thoroughness of investigation rendered him a safe and reliable contributor to the resources of local history ; and among the last of his contributions to this class of literature was the address, of which we have spoken, on the occasion of the centennial celebration of his native town, in 1873, in which the freshness and playfulness of forty run through the pages which he penned when close upon the confines of fourscore. Nor do the publications mentioned embrace all the elaborate and well-considered productions of his pen. But they are sufficient to justify the qualities of diligence and thoroughness which have been ascribed to him, as characteristics of his habits of thought and life. A perusal of his published works, including his opinions as a judge, would enable one to go deeper into the character of his mind than can be done in a brief biography, and detect some of the sources of that power and efficiency which he brought to bear upon any subject in which his judgment and convictions were enlisted. As a judge, he listened patiently and courteously, and formed his judgments after careful, thorough, and impartial examina- 120 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. tion of the whole subject before hun. He borrowed no opinions upon doubtful matters at second hand, but went over the necessary processes of analysis and generalization for himself, till he came to a conclusion which satisfied his own understanding. And, when he had reached that point, he never stopped to ask how it chimed in with the present popu- lar sentiment, or the traditional notions of the past. If he believed, upon investigating for himself, that these were mis- taken, he did not hesitate to say so in terms of unequivocal significance. And when, in the performance of an official duty, it became necessary to act up to his convictions, it mat- tered little with whom or with what power he found himself at issue. He had too much self-respect to forget what was due to courtesy in the manner and language of a discussion, but it was not difficult to understand that he knew no compromise with right and duty. The numerous opinions which he has left in the published volumes of the reports of the court of New Hampshire, many of them calling for a high measure of sound learning and pro- found analysis, when taken in connection with the uniform testimony of the bar of that state, and of those who knew him in his judicial capacity, to his fairness and impartiality, leave little occasion to enlarge upon his eminent qualifications for that office, or the high reputation he earned during the fifteen years that he occupied the bench. Of his faithfulness and ability as a legal instructor in his office of Professor in the Law School, little need be said beyond the fact that he brought to it the same habits of diligence, careful preparation, and a thorough mastery of his subjects, which he had shown as a lawyer and a judge. As new sub- jects and questions of interest arose, he gave them the attention which their importance deserved, and not only gave his class the benefit of his research, but in several instances, as has already been stated, embodied his views in a printed form. The many hundreds who shared his instruction with that of the other teachers in the School, and are now scattered through the Union, would, I am confident, pay a willing tribute to his learning, his courtesy, and his generous sympathy in whatever concerned their progress and their ultimate success in life. The relation that has always subsisted between the students of that school and its instructors has been that of friendship and mutual respect, united to a desire to communicate and receive instruction ; and it lost none of its characteristics so long as Judge Parker held the office of Royall Professor in that institution. And the fruits of his long and active experience in the profession could hardly have failed to give an added DISTINGUISHED MEN. 121 value to the learning which he gathered from the books, in giving instruction to his pupils. His associates, moreover, in the instruction, found him an earnest and interested co-laborer in whatever tended to advance the interests of the school. Of his services as a member of the Historical Society, enough appears upon the pages of their Proceedings, and the printed volume of their Lowell Lectures, to justify a claim for him of having collected and preserved much valuable learning and sound philosophical thought. They give unmistakable evidence of the same thoroughness of research and preparation, and the same clearness of conception and statement, which distinguished whatever he undertook or accomplished. As a constitutional lawyer, while he did not belong to the school of strict constructionists, he had for the Constitution itself a profound veneration and respect. And when in the conduct of our civil war he saw what he regarded a departure from the true construction of that instrument, he did not hesitate to point out in their true light what he deemed would be the etlect and consequences of such departure. Among the subjects to which he devoted time and attention during this conflict were those of the Right of Secession, Habeas Corpus, and Martial Law, the Case of the Trent, and International Law, the Character of the Rebellion, and the Conduct of the War ; and upon each of these he has left publications which will long survive the causes and occasion which brought them out. They are full and exhaustive upon the subjects of which they treat, and deserve a place among the permanent constitu- tional literature of the country. Among the characteristics of Judge Parker's mind, which ought not to be passed unnoticed, was one which could hardly have been anticipated, when contemplating him as the cau- tious, critical, and exact lawyer and judge ; and that was his love of poetry, and his keen relish of the beautiful and tender in it, as well as of the heroic and descriptive. He was at home in Shakespeare, and had ready at his command a rich store of treasured poetical thought, which he had gathered from a frequent perusal of some of the choicest English and American poets. But it was only among his familiar friends that he indulged in any thing like a free use of what he had gathered from a department of literature which, apparently, lay outside of his ordinary line of thought and duty. Somewhat late in life he married Miss Mary M. Parker, a daughter of his former partner in business, who with two of their children, a son and daughter, survive him. In private life, his influence and example were always in a right direc- tion. In his benefactions, he was wise as well as liberal, and 122 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. many were the sharers in the aid and encouragement which he cheerfully bestowed upon such as deserved them. His home was to him a place of special and ever-growing attraction ; and he manifested his taste, as well as a desire to make it every thing tiiat a home should be, by the pains and money which he expended upon it. In his intercourse with others he was genial, free, ancl affable, and could unbend to playfulness and familiarity without compromising either dignity or self-respect. The cheerfulness and urbanity with which he always greeted his friends and associates added much to the pleasure of his society as a man of liberal culture and broad experience, and marked him out as a man whom it was a privilege to know, and one not easy to forget. His life was one of protracted usefulness and honor, and closed suddenly, at last, without any sensible decay of his active powers, or his lively interest in the events which were passing around him. And though, as has been said, such a biography can have but few salient points of attraction, it is eminently fitting that his associates of the Historical Society should record this simple tribute to his memory. CHAPTER X. MILITARY HISTORY— FIRST MILITARY COMPANY— SECOND COMPANY— OFFICERS — ROLL OF SOLDIERS — JAFFREY AND RINDGE CAVALRY COMPANY— RIFLE COMPANY- TRAININGS AND MUSTERS. IN the settlement of this country a military organization was an unavoidable necessity for mutual protection, not only against the native Indian, but in settling many con- troversies among themselves. Much has been written and said about peace on earth, and in our own days organizations have been formed to promote that condition of things, but all in vain ; the formation of a well-organized militia is found to be the most effectual in securing that desired con- dition. A military organization was formed in New Hampshire previous to 163 1, and was called into service that year. In 1635 a large amount of military goods was imported for military organizations. During the French and Indian wars every man became a soldier and every house a garri- son. In 1 71 8 the militia law required all persons from six- teen to sixty years of age, except negroes and Indians, to perform military service. In 1776 the soldiers were classi- fied : the able-bodied men from sixteen to fifty constituted a training-band, and those from fifty to sixty-five an alarm band ; one for active and continued service, and the other for sudden emergencies. The early military laws of New Hampshire required every male inhabitant from sixteen to sixty years of age to own a musket, bayonet, knapsack, car- tridge-box, one pound of powder, twenty bullets, and twelve 124 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. flints. Every town was required to keep, in readiness for use, one barrel of powder, two hundred pounds of lead, and three hundred flints, besides spare arms and ammunition for those too poor to own them. In the town of Jaffrey, previous to the Revolution, there was no military organiza- tion. In 1775, after the battle of Lexington, an order was received from congress to organize a company ; and on the 26th of June, that year, at a meeting of the town legally warned, a company was organized by the choice of the fol- lowing officers : Henry CofFeen, Captain, David Hunter, Ensign. Roger Gilmore, ist Lieut. Peter Warren, Clerk. John Stanley, 2d Lieut. This organization remained till 1785, when two compa- nies were formed by vote of the town, designated by the names of East and West companies, one belonging in the east and the other in the west part of the town. Their mil- itary coats were faced, one with red and the other with yel- low trimmings. This organization continued till 18 14, Previous to 1820 we have no military record, and what knowledge we have of the commanding officers has been obtained from the town record and gravestones. The first name on the town record dignified with the title of cap- tain was Jonathan Stanley, who warned the first town-meet- ing in 1773, before any company in Jaffrey had been formed. He was probably commissioned while a resident of Rindge. Captains. 1800. Daniel Emery. 1776. Henry Coffeen. John Joslin. 1778. Roger Gilmore, iSoi. Edward Perkins. 1781. Benj. Spaulding. 1803. Josiah Mower. 1781. William Pope. 1803. John Tilton. 1782. David Page. 1806. Samuel Dakin. 1786. Benjamin Prescott. 1806. Moses Cutter. 1787. Joseph Perkins. Rufus Houghton. 1790. Joseph Cutter. Eber Lincoln. 1793. James Stevens. Joseph Cutter, Jr. 1793. James Gage. ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 125 Captains, 3d Co., 12th Regt. 1820. Thomas Dinsmore. Isaac Jewell. Benj. Lawrence, Jr. John M. Maynard. Wilder Joslin. William Putman. Caleb Cutter. Orford Capron. Luther Cutter. Sylvester B. Lawrence. George Briant. Washington Davis. Charles A. Stearns. John Frost. Lieutenants. Nathan Blodgett. Aaron Sawtell. Daniel French, Jr. Charles Cutter. Albert Pierce. Jona. Page. Willard G. Jones. A List of the mens Names belonging to the Training Band In the town of JaftVey Jiuie ye 14, i7S4- Sarg. Eph'" Whitcomb, Sarg. Moses Woster, Sarg. Daniel Emory, Sarg. Elias Whitney, Cor. Jonath Taylor, Cor. Nathan Cutter, Fif. Vinton Barns, Fif. Gauden Davis, Jeams Gowing, Moses Stickney, Barnabas Wood, Thomas French, Daniel Wight, Jeams Hall, Benj'^. Frost, Elijah Goodale, Amos Boynton, John Pushee, Thomas Fisk, Benj. Gowing, Will™ McAlister, John Butters, Abel Parker, Jeams Turner, Jeams Davidson, John Davidson, Jun', Nathan Chamberlin, Joseph Chamberlin, John Wood, Whitcomb Powers, Simeon Butters, Jeams Haywood, John Chamberlin, John Davis, Jun'', Andrew Davis, Will'" Davis, Noah Emory, Philip Adams, Thomas Adams, Joseph Bates Jun', Simson Steward, John Briant, Nehemiah Green, Jacob French, Jonath Dean, Jesse Snow, Collens Hathorn, Collens Hathorn, Jun' Benja. Jaquith, Benja. Jaquith, Jun"", Samuel Stanley, Hugh Dunlap, Jeams Dunlap, John Joslen, Zebediah Densmore, Simeon Burt, Paul Fitch. Benja Haywood, Zacheus Witt, Jonath Esterbrooks, David Stratton, Oliver Gould, Jeams Cutter, Peter Davis, David Eaton, George Atridge, Jacob Pairce, John Hale, Samuel Pairce, Cotton Whiten, Oliver Hale, Asa Prieast, ^„„» Abijah Carter, ^ Isaac Baley, Jun'', Abner Jackman, Jun'', David Chadwick, Simeon Ingals, Bezelel Sayer, Jun"^, Rufus Sayer, Nathaniel Sayer, David Lasa, Eben'' Jaquith, Jun"", Samuel Jaquith, Ebenf Hathorn, Jun"", John Dun, Jeames French, Samuel Batcheldor, Robert Harkness, Ezra Stiels, Samuel Adams, John Bockley, Moses Peabody, Josiah French, Thomas Dutton, Joseph Hodg, Samuel Emory, Jun'', William Emery, Thomas Dunshee, Thomas Holt, Daniel Priest, Abraham Roos, Simeon Whitcomb, 126 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Simeon Warrin, Ezra Wilder, Silas Wilder, Thomas Emery, Joseph Horton, Alpheas Brigham, Will'" Marshall, Silas Marshall, Jonath Stanley, Jun' Sargent Page, William Woster, Didley Gifen, Phineas Spaulding, Aaron Rider, Moses Rider, Peter Nuss, Eben'' Ingals, Eben'' Thompson, John Osgood, Jun'', Asa Thompson, Jonath. Preast, John Whippel, Joseph Gumming, Richard Davis, Ezra Turner, Samuel Blood, Laban Ripley, Simeon Nutting, David Avery, Benj. Dole, Moses Stickney, Jun'', Samuel Ober, Nathaniel Hardy, Samuel Jewett, Abraham Hadley, John Stone, David Baley, Jun% Nathan Hall, Joseph Brooks, Isaac Proctor, Ephraim Adams, Seth Harrington, Joseph Gutter, Moses Gutter, Robert Gilmore, Joshua Thorndike, Mathew Davis, Nathan Boynton, Simeon Davis, Aaron Taylor, Jun'', Solomon Wood, Thomas Mower, Jun^ Oliver Baley, Levi Baley, Samuel Swett, Jonath" Emory, Peter Farmer, Thadeus Blodget, Jesse Jaquith, Barnabas Gutter, Jeams Smiley, John Henderson, Joseph Danford, Will"^ Orsgood. Eleazer Davis, Nath Turner, Jun^ Peter Bates, Robertson Perkins, Nathan Brooks, Jeams Hall, Jun'', Jacob Baldwin, Wright Brigham, Benj" Jewett, David Jewett, Samuel Stiles, Peter Beman, Jeams Gage. JAFFREY AND RINDGE CAVALRY. A company of cavalry, the members of which belonged to Jaffrey and Rindge, was organized previous to 1795, and the following persons were commissioned as captains, be- longing to Jaffrey : Alpheas Grosby, Asa Parker, Parker Maynard, Samuel Patrick, John Stone, Abijah Pierce, Moses Gutter, Calvin J. Parker, Reuben Pierce. RIFLE COMPANY. This company was organized by the consent and agree- ment of the officers and inhabitants of the town of Jaffrey, during the year 18 14. In February of that year the com- panies met and made choice of Oliver Warren, Thomas Adams, and Edward Bailey, as officers of the ist Rifle Company, 12th Regiment. Oliver Warren was chosen captain, Thomas Adams lieutenant, and Edward Bailey ROLL OF SOLDIERS, 127 ensign. Adams and Bailey were afterwards chosen cap- tains. From the organization of the company till 1820, no formal record of the proceedings of the company has been found, therefore the date of the commissions cannot be given. From that time a full record has been kept, with the dates of their commissions. CAPTAINS OF THE RIFLE COMPANY, 182O. Feb. 28, 1820. Sept. 6, 1824. Mar. 16, 1825. Apr. 16, 1827. July 30, 1830. Aug. 30, 1833. April 4, 1835. Aug. 4, 1836. Jan. II, 1839. David Chadwick. John Milliken. John A. Prescott. Abner Bailey, Jr. David H. Gilmore. Oliver Bailey. Gilman Mower. Liberty Movifer. Charles W. Pierce. Aug. 20, 1839. June 5, 1840. Apr. 19, 1842. Apr. 24, 1843. Apr. 20, 1844. Apr. 17, 1847. Mar. 30, 1848. Aug. 31, 1848. Feb. 26, 1851. John A. Cutter. John A. Prescott. Rufus Haywood. Charles Stevens. James L. Bolster. John Towne. Lewis L. Pierce. Geo. A. Underwood A. A. Marshall, This company had the honor of being considered the best drilled one in the 12th Regiment, and was always the first on the field muster-days. TWELFH REGIMENT. The 1 2th Regiment included the towns of Jaffrey, Rindge, Fitzwilliam, Troy, Marlborough, Dublin, Roxbury, and Nel- son It was one of the best regiments in the state, and was usually mustered in the town of Troy. This was done in the month of September. The regiment was inspected by the regimental inspector, and reviewed by the brigadier- general and staff. The following persons, residents of Jaf- frey, held the commission of colonel in that regiment : Benjamin Prescott, Josiah Mower, Oliver Prescott, Whilcomb French, Oliver Bailey, COLONELS. David H. Gilmore, Isaac J. Fox, Gilman Mower, Calvin J, Parker, Charles A. Jewell, Charles W. Pierce, George Briant, Wm. Lebourveau, James K. Stanley. 128 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. LIEUT.-COLONELS. John M. Maynard. Caleb Cutter, Sylvester B. Lawrence. Abner Bailey, The requirements for military service were all citizens, except negroes and Indians, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, to be completely armed and equipped at their own expense, and perform military duty without pay one half day in the months of May and September, and one day for a general muster in some place selected by the colonel of the regiment within its limits. The town fur- nished rations for that day, or paid each soldier fifty cents. On muster-days each soldier was required to furnish him- self with twenty-four blank cartridges for a sham fight. Trainings and musters were great holidays, and were hailed by men and boys with peculiar delight, especially the days of general muster. The displays of uniforms, implements of war, and the martial music, had their peculiar charms. The following poetic effusion, which years ago appeared in print, aptly describes an old-fashioned muster: INSPECTION GENERAL. Ere dawn of day the soldiers come, With horn and bugle, fife and drum. Bassoons and flutes, clarionettes, Harps, tabors, trumpets, and flageletts. Guns, belts, and bayonets, cartouches. Canteens and knapsacks, bullet-pouches, Spare flints and priming-wire. Cannon and cutlass, match and fire. Pistol and broadsword, all prepared For bloody fight or cautious guard. As their superiors directed. Armed and equipped, to be inspected. With every implement that might Be used in sham or 7-eal fight. And thus accoutred, until eight For further orders they must wait ; When, lo ! the Adjutant appears With warlike brow and powdered ears, Huge frizzled whiskers, and a phiz Which indicative surely is That martial courage is comprest Within his abdomen and breast. INSPECTION GENERAL. 1 29 At first his duty is to see The posting of each company Conformably to modern rules In vogue at military schools, Where warlike tactics are or should Be to perfection understood. Now to be formed to be inspected As is by statute late directed : In peace or war, for sport or fight, The mounted troops must have the right, And next to them the cannoniers. The light troops next, and grenadiers. And then the mighty floodwood force, The greencoats on the left, of course. And thus the Adjutant had placed 'em. Wheeled his way in front and faced 'em, Roared out. Present ! when there advanced Three horsemen ! Swift their chargers pranced, (And whether borrowed, or their own, Of little consequence if known, Are they but fleet, of carriage gay, And bear their burden through the day) To whom the courteous Adjutant Presented formed the regiment. 'Twas Col. Shell and Col. Bomb And Major Morter that had come. As law directs, with sword in hand, To show their boots and take command. To them the troops the whole extent From right to left their arms present. And thus await the Colonel's word To shoulder, hook, and handle sword. At length, like thunder from the cloud, The Colonel sounded long and loud, 'Tention the Whole ! The whole were still ; The mandate came most terrible. Next, Shoulder Arms ! was heard afar ; Bright gleamed each implement of war, As to the shoulder from Present, They moved throughout the Regiment. Twas Order, Ground, Take up, and then — Attention : Shoulder Arms again, With As You Were when a mistake He or a soldier chanced to make. But who comes dashing down the gap, With each a feather in his cap. With pistols armed, and swords of steel. And spur attached to either heel, To prick their steeds to bloodless fray, Or speed their flight to get away ? Ah ! 'tis, I ween, the Brigadier, 'Mid smoke and powder, void of fear ; 'Tis he, the General and his suite, 130 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Come down to number and compute Defects in those who are not equipt, And have delinquents fined or whipt, Review the troops, find fault, or praise, Just as they feel on muster-days. The Inspector now begins his work, To examine pistol, sword, and dirk, Peeps into every cartridge-box. Sees all their guns and tries their locks, A lusty shake gives each canteen, (To see what it contains, I mean,) Each knapsack's contents knows, and sees Each soldier's priming-wire and fuse : His duty well performed, and then Remounts old Rosinante again. When the inspection and review In hurly-burly has gone through, The General's Aid must bear his thanks In marshal word to all the ranks. The Aid advanced about a pace, In front the soldiers face to face, And thus with thundering voice addressed The troops, according to request : " Brothers in arms ! 'tis not expected. Nor has the General directed, That I should long harangue to you, Here for inspection and review, But, merely as good soldiers merit, For warlike discipline and spirit, Present the General's thanks sincere To every fellow-soldier here. He 's much delighted to review Troops so well disciplined as you. Nor doubts that, should a foreign band Invade by water, air, or land, Or e'en domestic factions rise To take the nation by surprise, You'd rise indignant, one and all, And fight and conquer, run or fall. 'Twas troops high spirited like you Got Boney down at Waterloo." He bowed, he closed, his filly wheeled, And with the General left the field. The soldiers now, through all the ranks, With cider, bread, and bullock shanks, To brace their stomachs up for fight, Are quickly served from left to right. And yonder see the bush-walled fort Prepared by men for boyish sport : Sure that of course must next be took 'Mid roar of cannon, fire, and smoke. The sham begins, which long ago You had a history of, you know. CHAPTER XI. REVOLUTION— WAR OF 1812— MEXICAN WAR— CIVIL WAR. SOON after the organization of the town, the controversy between Great Britain and her colonies culminated in open hostilities. On the 19th of April, 1775, a detachment of British troops, under the command of Col. Smith and Major Pitcairn, was sent to Concord to destroy some mili- tary stores in that place. The alarm was spread far and wide, and the people rushed from all sections to the scene of action. It did not, however, reach the town of Jaffrey in season to enable the inhabitants to be in the conflict. Many went, however, and afterwards enlisted into service. John Harper, Stephen Adams, Benj. Dole, John Dole, Dudley Griffin, Jacob Pierce, and Joseph Wright enlisted in Capt. Philip Thomas's company from Rindge, of which John Harper was lieutenant. Harper, Pierce, the two Doles, and Dudley Griffin were in the battle of Bunker Hill, and met with losses for which they were afterwards remunerated. Others probably enlisted into other companies, as sixteen were reported as being in service at that time. But little preparation on the part of the town appears to have been made previous to this time. There was no military organi- zation, and the town had but recently complied with the requirements of the provincial law in procuring a certain amount of powder, lead, and flints. The first act of the town relating to this controversy on record was in September, 1774. In the warrant for a town- meeting, Sept. 7, of that year, was the following article : 132 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. To take into Consideration what is Best to be Done in Regard of the Request sent to this town by the Committee of Correspondence from Portsmouth in Regard of our Charter Privileges. The town Choose Mr. Henry Coffeen, Mr. William Smiley, Mr. Roger Gilmore to Draw a Covenant to be Signed by all who Stand to Maintain the Priveleges of our Charter. Said meeting adjourned to the 27'^ day Sept Next at one of the Clock after Noon. No report of the action of that committee has been found on record. In January, 1775, at a town-meeting called for that pur- pose, an article was presented, — To See if the town will pass a Vote to Establish Certain Votes and by Laws Concluded and Resolved by Committees from a Number of towns Within this County assembled at Keene on Wednesday the 28"^ Day of December last, and if Voted to Choose a Committee to Officiate in Said Business and chose a Commissioner to attend the Sessions to have the above Resolves approved, also To Agree on a Method to Pay the Committee and Commissioner for their Service. The town Voted to Establish all the by Laws and Resolves made by the s*^ meeting and choose Mr. Jona. Stanley John Gilmore and Phineas Spaulding Com^'' to officiate in sd Busi- ness and Daniel Davis Commissioner to attend the Sessions s*^ Laws and Resolves approved, also Voted the Cost be paid by the town. What the by-laws and resolves were does not appear to have been publicly made known. In February, same year, the town Choose a Committee of Inspection agreeable to the articles of the Continental Congress, Viz : Henry Cofleen Roger Gil- more Daniel Twiss Jethro Bailey and William Turner At the same meeting the town Voted to Provide a towns Stock of Powder Lead and Flints according to Law. May II, the town Voted Capt. Henry Cofteen a Depatie to attend the Congress at Exeter. This congress was convened for the purpose of assuming the government of the state, and to make provision for the management of its affairs. It was called the " Provincial REVOLUTION. 133 congress" in distinction from the Continental congress. After the organization of this body, the royal governor, John Wentworth, prorogued the assembly and left the state. By it post-offices were established, the inhabitants enumerated, number determined allowing a representative, and commit- tees of supplies and safety appointed. The town of Jaffrey, not having the required number of inhabitants, was not again represented except in connection with other towns. June 26, 1775, a military company was organized by order of congress. August 21, the town voted to " bye a towns stock of salt for the present year." In 1776, at the annual meeting, the following town offi- ces were chosen : Alexander McNeill, moderator ; Robert Wier, town-clerk ; Robert Wier, Solomon Grout, and Joseph Turner, selectmen. Excepting the choice of officers no record has been found, consequently the acts of the town that year relating to the Revolution are buried in oblivion. To this time the terms of enlistment had been three months ; it was now changed to three years, or during the war. The state of New Hampshire was divided into seventeen regi- ments, and a colonel appointed over each regiment, and re- quired to furnish his proportion of soldiers. The towns of Jaffrey, Rindge, New Ipswich, Peterborough, Temple, Fitz- william, Dublin, Marlborough, Stoddard, Packersfield (Nel- son), Washington, and Sharon constituted the fourteenth regiment. The colonel of this regiment was Enoch Hale, of Rindge, appointed Nov. 2, 1775- In 1777 New Hampshire was required to raise three regi- ments for three years, or during the war. The commanders were Joseph Cilley of Nottingham, Nathan Hale of Rindge, and Alexander Scammel of Durham, all under the command of Brigadier-General Poor ; place of rendezvous, Ticon- deroga. The town of Jaffrey was required to furnish fourteen 134 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. men. A town-meeting was held on the 27th of March for that purpose, and the town Voted one hundred dollars to each man that will List into the service for three years viz : 14 men. The following persons enlisted per Col. Hale's report. Stephen Adams James Reed Thomas Wheelock Hart Balch William Redfield James Turner John Cox Michael Silk John Dole Peter Tozer For one Year John Lake Henry Thompson Nathan Fisk Francis Mason Isaac Wisson In May, Gen. Burgoyne arrived at Quebec with an army of over seven thousand men. With an addition of two thousand Canadians and Indians, he soon after advanced to Crown Point. The country was alarmed ; more men were called for ; twelve men were required of the town of Jaffrey for immediate service. On the 8th of May, at a meeting called for that purpose, the town Voted a bounty of four pounds per month, to each man that will go Volunteer to the number of twelve men, one half paid down. At a meeting held on the 15th of the same month, the town Voted that the Militia Officers hire the men required for ser- vice not to exceed 100 Dollars to each man or Draft as they think proper. The most important events of the year 1777 were the cap- ture of the army of Burgoyne, and the taking of Philadel- phia by the British. The capture of Burgoyne led to the acknowledgment of the independence of the United States by the French. A treaty of alliance was made on the 6th of February, 1778. In 1778, February 4, the town chose Daniel Emery, Capt. Gilmore, and Jonathan Stanley to be a committee to hire soldiers for the army. At the annual meeting Roger Gil- more, John Stanley, and Abraham Bailey were chosen REVOLUTION. 135 selectmen, and Daniel Emery, Roger Gilmore, Jonathan Stanley, Joseph Bates, and William Turner a committee of inspection. The military operations this year, of importance, were the battle of Monmouth, the expedition to Rhode Island, the massacre of Wyoming, and the taking of Savannah by the British. In 1779, March 25, at the annual meeting, Roger Gil- more, Hugh Dunlap, and William Smiley were chosen selectmen, and Eleazer Spofford, Joseph Bates, and Daniel Emery, committee of safety. June 17, William Turner, Adonijah Howe, and Daniel Emery were chosen to hire four men, at their discretion, for continental service. Five hundred men were required of the state ; four was the quota of Jaffrey. In August, at a town-meeting, the following article was presented : To see if the town will Come into some Method to Raise four men for Continental Service for one year, and Choose a a Com^" for that purpose, and grant Money if found Necessary. Voted to Come to an Everage, and chose William Smiley, Phineas Spaulding, James Cowing, Eleazer Spofford, and Abraham Bailey to bring the town to an Everage. The important events of this year were the taking of Stony Point by the Americans under Gen. Anthony Wayne, the defeat of the Indians by Gen. Sullivan, the burning of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Gosport, Va., by the British under Gen. Mathews, and Fairfield, Norwalk, and Greenwich, R. I., by Tryon. The British not only acted the part of marauders in destroying property, but counter- feiters in making money. Spurious bills of their make were scattered over the country, which destroyed the value of the paper medium. At the close of the year a dollar in specie was worth forty in continental bills. It could be used to pay debts, but not to buy provisions. Congress finally decided to allow them to pass for their market value, and they soon become worthless. 136 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1780 Annual Meeting Eleazei" Spofibrd, Joseph Bates and James Haywood, select- men Daniel Emery Eben"" Spoftbid and Roger Gilmore, com" of Saftey The paper medium having no longer any practical value, the government was obliged to make specie the medium of trade, or its equivalent in provisions at certain fixed prices. In July, 1780, the following article was presented to the town : To see what should be the most Proper Method for the Se- lectmen to Provide this towns Proportion of Beaf for the army. Voted that tlie Selectmen Provide the towns Proportion of Beaf with specie or money and assess the town for the same. The year 1780 was one of reverses. South Carolina was overrun by the invading armies. In May Charleston sur- rendered with the forces under Gen. Lincoln. In Septem- ber, Arnold committed treason. • 1 781. Feb. I Voted to Choose a Comittee to hire Soldiers. Chose James French, Moses Worcester and Zacheus Witt, the meeting was then adjovuMied to Next Monday. Then met. Com**" Reported No men. Voted, to class the town. Voted, that the selectmen class the town to hire Continental Soldiers. Chose William Smiley a Com"*^ to assist the selectmen. Annual Meeting Mar. 29. Daniel Emery, Thomas Mower, William Pope Selectmen. Voted to class the town to Hire Continental Soldiers. Voted that the assessors class the town according to the Precept from Court. Voted that the Classes be immedi- ately assessed to hire Continental men by Request and that the assessors do it. July 13. Voted that the selectmen assess the Inhabitants of sd. town a certain sum in silver money or grain equal thereto, to Purchase their Qiiota of Beaf for the army. Chose Capt. William Pope to Purchis s*^ Beaf. Voted 700. hard Dollars or 700. bushels of Rye to Purchs s* Beaf. Oct I Voted that the Selectmen Purchis the Rum sent for by the General Court for the use of the Continental army the best way they can, or get a man to Do. it. SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. 137 Voted to appoint two Places to Receive the Grain viz : Jon- athan Jevvetts and Eleazer Spoftbrds. The most important event during the year 1781 was the surrender of Cornwallis. Last call for Soldiers. 1783, Ap. 23, Art. 2. To see what the town will Do in re- gard of Procuring two men for the Continental army sent to this town for, by the General Court of the State. Voted, that the Selectmen hire one man for the Continental Army for three years or During the war. This neglect or refusal to furnish the required number on the part of the town subjected them to a fine of forty pounds, which was afterwards paid by the town in 1791. The important event of 1782 was the signing of a formal treaty of peace in November, and in 1783, Sept. 3, a defini- tive treaty of Versailles, by Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Laurens on the part of the Americans, and Oswald on the part of the British, by which the thirteen united colonies were admitted to be " Free, Sovereign, and Independent States." Soldiers of the Revolution, state report Ephraim Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Adams, George Atridge, Daniel Avery, Joseph Bates, Jona. Blodgett, John Briant, Alpheas Brigham, Asaph Brigham, Joseph Brooks, Simeon Burt, Joseph Cutter, Moses Cutter, Nathan Cutter, James Cutter, John Davidson, 10 Mathew Davis, Jona. Dean, Benj. Dole, John Dole, Hugh Dunlap, Daniel Emery, Daniel Emery, Jr., James French, Jr., Robt. Gilmore, John Gilmore, Dudley Griffin, Jacob Gould, Jr., John Hale, Lieut. John Harper, Daniel Harper, Eben'r Hathorn, James Haywood, Eben'r Ingals, Benj. Jaquith, - John Mathews, William McAlister, Samuel Ober, William Osgood, Benj. Prescott, Moses Peabody, Joseph Perkins, Jacob Pierce, Kendal Pierson, William Pope, Jona. Priest, Asa Priest, Oliver Proctor, James Reed, Abraham Ross, 138 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Bezaleel Sawyer, Jesse Snow, Michael Silk, William Smiley. Jr., d. in service, at Ti- conderoga, 1776. Phineas Spaulding, Benj. Spaulding, Jona. Stanley, Samuel Stanley, James Stevens, John Stone, Benj. Stone, John Taggart, Jona. Taylor, Peter Tower, Lieut. William Turner, Samuel Wier, Joseph Wilder, Ezra Wilder, Ephraim Whitcomb, Elias Whitney, Cotton Whiton, Francis Wright. Soldiers of the Revolution not included in the state re- port, who settled in town during or after the war : Stephen Adams, Lieut. Oliver Bacon, Isaac Bailey, Isaac Bailey, Jr., Hart Balch, Jacob Baldwin, Lieut. Saml Buss, John Cox, Thomas Button, William Emery, Samuel Emery, Nathan Fish, Thomas Fisk, Jonas Gerry, Thomas Goff, Nathan Hunt, John Lake, Lieut. Benj. Lawrence, Francis Mason, Lieut. Abel Parker, Whitcomb Powers, William Redfield, Joseph Robbins, Moses Stickney, Moses Stickney, 2d, Samuel Stickney, David Stratton, James Turner, Henry Thompson, Lieut. Jereme Under- wood, Isaac Wesson, Silas Wilder, Abel Winship, Ithamer Wheelock, Thomas Wheelock, Joseph Wright. WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN. In 1794 a war was apprehended between England and the United States. A controversy had for a long time ex- isted between the two nations, in relation to the confisca- tion of property belonging to the loyalists during the Revo- lutionary War ; the holding possession of forts on the fron- tiers by the English ; and their arrogant pretensions in re- gard to navigating the sea. Congress passed bills laying an embargo for thirty days for erecting fortifications, for rais- ing a provisional army, and for organizing the militia. In 1795, Jan. 9, at a town-meeting held on that day, an article was presented to see what encouragement the town will give, in addition to the act of congress, to the soldiers now called for, if they should be called into active service. SOLDIERS OF THE REBELLION. 1 39 Voted to give each Soldier, in addition to what Con^ -ess gives, three pounds per month as wages. Voted to give each Soldier two Dollars when he appears Completely eqiiiped and produces a Certificate from his com- mander to that eftect, to as many as is this towns proportion of the eighty thousand men, called for by Congress. Soldiers who enlisted : Samuel Buss, James Gowing, Samuel Stanley, John Coughran, Parker Maynard, John Stewart, Nathan Cutter, Josiah Mower, Amos Stickney, John Button, Edward Perkins, James Turner, Charles Davidson, Joseph Perkins, John Whipple. Robert Gilmore, Samuel Pierce, David Gilmore, Paul Ross, In 1795 a treaty was negotiated with Great Britain by Mr. Jay, which, against the will of the people, was accepted by the senate, and received the signature of the president, thus preventing a war for the present. w^AR OF 18 1 2. In 1812, June i8, war was declared against Great Britain by the United States. On the 14th of September of the same year, a town-meet- ing was duly called, and the following was presented for the action of the town : In order that the sense of the town might be obtained in re- gard to the present calamitous war with England, a motion was made and seconded, that all those who are against the present war, should go to the east side of the broad aisle and all those who are in favor of the present war should go to the west side of the same aisle. The vote was taken pursuant to this motion and the Inhab- itants by a great majority moved to the east side of the broad aisle, leaving only about ten or twelve on the west side, some of whom declared they did not vote at all; and it was judged that nearly or quite two hundred and twenty voters were present. 140 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. William Pope, Eleazer Spoffbrd and were chosen a Committee to nominate and report three persons who shall be a Com*" of Delegates on the part of tliis town in a County Convention, there to aid and assist in devising and adopting such constitutional measures in regard to the perilous situation of the Country as shall be deemed expedient. The Com*^* of Nomination reported the names of Laban Ainsworth, Benj. Prescott and Samuel Dakin, who were unanimously chosen Delegates for the purpose aforsaid, to whom were added by vote, Adonijah Howe, Benj. Kingsbury & W™ Stevens. Oct. 15, 1S14. At a town-meeting held on that day it was voted that, in addition to the sum allowed by Government to the soldiers who have volunteered and gone to Portsmouth, the town will mane up each ones wages fifteen dollars a month. Also voted that there be three hundred Dollars assessed on the inhabitants of this town, and collected for the above purpose. Soldiers who were in service at Portsmouth. Oliver Warren- -Captain Daniel Adams, rec $11.20. Robt Goff, rec $9.33 Thomas Chadwick, 10.69. Henry Hapgood, 16.12. David Chaplin, 11.20. Stacy Hodskins, 16.12. Ethan Cutter, 4.50. Moses Hunt, 16.12 Isaac Cutter, 20.78 Abel Nutting, 16.12, Samuel Dutton, 11.00 Philip Peak, 11.29. James Eaton, 11.20. Moses Pierce, 11.20, Walter Eaton, 11.20. David Savvtell, 11.20, Austin George 10.44. Samuel Stratton, 13-43 David Cutter, WAR WITH MEXICO, 1 846. SOLDIERS. George F. Cutter. CIVIL WAR. On the outbreak of the civil war in 1861, and during its continuance, the town of Jaffrey responded to the call for soldiers, and raised the following bounties : Oct. 24, 1 86 1, the town voted to furnish the families of volunteers from four to twelve dollars per month during the time they were in service. SOLDIERS OF THE REBELLION. I4I Sept. 13, 1S63, the town voted one hundved dollars bounty to all nine months men, and also voted to aid the families of such as belonged to the town. Sept. 18, 1S63, the town voted a bounty of three hundred dollars to drafted men, or those who furnished substitutes. March 8, 1S64, the town voted nine months men pay for ten months' service. June 23, 1864, the town voted three hundred dollars to all men who may be drafted into the service of the United States, on being accepted. March 12, 1S65, the town voted to pay any citizen of the town the sum of six hundred dollars, who will enlist into the service of the United States for one year or more, on being accepted. The number of men who enlisted, and were in service, was 151 ; the number killed in battle, 5 ; number who died in service, 23. Charles W. Webster, Ouartermas- Charles Baker. ter 14th Reg. John F. Berry. C. Frederick Webster, ist Lieut., Christopher Bartenback, 14th Reg., 14th Reg., promoted to Quarter- Co. G. master. Hiram Bennet, Troop B. Spencer L. Bailey, 2d Lieut., 14th John F. Briant, 2d Reg., Co. A. Reg. Edmund Brady, 9th Reg., Co. B. Charles W. Adams, 2d Reg., Co. James T. Brown, 14th Reg., Co. G. A. Samuel L. Bolles, Troop C, Lysander A. Adams, 6th Reg., Co. Alonzo Butterfield. F. Henry Buckwould, i6th Reg., Co. John Q. Adams, a marine, died at F. Portsmouth. Jacob Buckwould, 14th Reg., Co. Ben. Abanton, 9th Reg., Co. L G. Warren F. Allen, 6th Reg.. Co. F. Charles A. Carter, 14th Reg., Co. Henry A. Atherton, 6th Reg., Co. G. E. Oscar Eugene Carter, died. Calvin Bailey, 6th Reg., Co. F. John Caldwell, Sth Regt., died. Spencer L. Bailey, 14th Reg., Co. Daniel M. Colburn, 9th Reg., Co. F. L Almon W. Bailey, i6th Reg., died. Lysander J. Coudray, i6th Reg., Harvey N. Bailey, Troop D. Co. F. 142 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Edwin R. Cutter, 14th Reg., Co. G. Edward E. Cutter, 14th Reg., Co. G. Gustavus A. Cutter, 14th Reg. . John C. Cummings, i6th Reg., died. John W. Darling, died. Frank DeWier. Fred. Donaldson, Troop C. Charles W. Diamond, 2d Reg., Co. C. James Dadwell, 6th Reg , Co. E. Morty Downs, loth Reg., Co. K. James R. Douglass, Troop D. Charles D. Emery, 14th Reg., Co. G. Charles Farouch, nth Reg., Co. C. Luther W. Fassett, i6th Reg., Co. E. Danvers C. Fassett, Heavy Artil- lery. Joel E. Fassett, 14th Reg., Co. E. John Flynn, nth Reg., Co. C. John Frost, 14th Reg., Co. G. George Gilmore, 9th Reg. Wm. T. Gleason, 6th Reg., Co. I. Wm. H. Goodrich, 5th Reg., Co. H. Theodore Hanscomb, 6th Reg., Co. H., promoted to Captain. John S. Hartwell, 14th Reg. John H. Hartwell, 2d Reg., Co. A. John Hecker. Horace J. Hill, 3d Reg., Co. I. Peter Hogan. William Hoyt. nth Reg., Co. I. Andrew Johnson, 9th Reg., Co. K. Robert Jones, Troop. Joseph R. Joslin, 2d Reg., Co. H. Henry H. Joslin, 2d Reg., Co. H. Joseph H. Joslin, 2d Reg., Co. A. Albert N. Joslin, 5th Reg., Co. F. John F. Kidder, 6th Reg., Co. E. Charles D. Kimball, r6th Reg., Co. F. Elisha A. Kingsbury, 6th Reg., Co. E. Dexter B. Knowlton, i6th Reg. Joseph S. Lucy, 6th Reg., Co. F., died. David W. Lacy, i6th Reg., Co. L Charles D. Law, 14th Reg., Co. G. John Leathers, 14th Reg., Co. G. George F. Lowe, 14th Reg. , Co. G. Andrew Lindsay, i6th Reg., Co. F. George H. Long, Troop D. Jerome W. Leighton, 5th Reg., Co. F. Alvin H. Martin, 14th Reg., Co. G. Charles B. Merrifield, 14th Reg., Co. G. John McCunn, Troop B. Lawrence Montgomery. Troop H. Henry F. Morse, 14th Reg., Co. G. Nahum W. Mower, 14th Reg., Co. G. Thomas S. Mower, 14th Reg., Co. G. Barnard Mulligan, Troop A. Charles H. Nutting, 14th Reg. Edward N. Nutting, i6th Reg., Co. F. Jacob Newel, Jr., i6th Reg., Co. F. Henry C. Osburn, 14th Reg., Co. G. James E. Petts, 14th Reg., Co. G. Samuel Paine, nth Reg., Co. C. Albert S. Pierce, 14th Reg. Henry Pierce. Gurley A. Phelps, 14th Reg. Joel H. Poole, 14th Reg., Co. G. John W. Poole, 14th Reg. Ivers E. Pollard, 14th Reg., Co. G. Levi Pollard, 2d Reg., Co. A. SOLDIERS OF THE REBELLION. 143 Oren D. Prescott, 14th Reg., Co. G. George P. Preston, 6th Reg., Co. K. Leonard Rand, 14th Reg., Co. C. Jonas C. Rice, 14th Reg., Co. G. Herbert C.Richardson, 14th Reg., Co. G. George W. Richardson, 14th Reg., Co. G. Darius P. Richardson, 14th Reg., Co. G. Edmund F. Ritchie, 2d Reg., Co. A., died. Henry Ritchie, 6th Reg., Co. E., died. Darius Ritchie, i6th Reg., Co. I. George C. Ritchie, i6th Reg., Co. I. Abram Robins. William B. Robbins, 9th Reg., Co. G. Alfred Robbins, 14th Reg., Co. G. William H. Rolf, 14th Reg., Co. G. Benj. Sanford, 6th Reg., Co. D. Charles A. Sargent, nth Reg., Co. C. Grenville Shedd, 14th Reg., Co. G. Leonard E. Spaulding, 14th Reg., Co. G. Austin A. Spaulding, 14th Reg., Co. G. Leander Spaulding. Alfred Spaulding. Daniel W. Stevens. 6th Reg., Co. F. Henry A. Smith, 14th Reg., Co. G., died. Soldiers in service for other states : Clarence S. Bailey, Captain Massachusetts Cavalry. Henry H. Cragin, Ohio Volunteers. Wm. L. Cutter, Iowa Cavalry. Charles M. Smith, 14th Reg., Co. G. S-^niel A. Stratton, 6th Reg., Co. F. Ira Smith, i6th Reg., Co. I. Aaron Smith, 8th Reg. Henry Stevens, 6th Reg. , Co. C. Josiah Stebbins, i6th Reg., Co. F. George Steele, 6th Reg., Co. F. Philip Stedman, 6th Reg., Co. D. Levi E. Stedman, nth Reg., Co. D. Elbridge G. Tarbox, 4th Reg., Co. I. Jackson Taggart, died in prison. Martin Tehu, Troop C. Henry A. Thompson, wounded. Joseph S. Thompson, sth Reg., Co. K. Francis Thompson, 6th Reg., Co. F. Henry A. Turner, 14th Reg., Co. G. Albert S.Verder, 6th Reg., Co. E. Charles W. Verder, 14th Reg. Sylvanus W. Waters, 6th Reg., Co. K. Charles Wilson, 7th Reg., Co. D. John Wilson, nth Reg., Co. C. Frank Wetherbee, Sharp-shooters. George F. Wilbur, Troop B. Edwin F. Wheeler, i6th Reg., Co. F. John F. Wheeler, i6th Reg., Co. F. 144 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Benj. F. Lawrence, Massachusetts Battery. Lucius Upton, Massachusetts Battery (died). John R. Verder, Connecticut Volunteers. Number of soldiers in service, 151. Soldiers killed in battle : 2d Reg., Luther W. Fassett, at Evansport, Va., April 2, 1862. 6th Reg., Sylvanus C. Waters, at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1864. Sharp-shooters, Frank Wetherbee, at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1864. 2d Reg., Henry Ritchie, at Pegram House, Va., Sept. 30, 1864. 14th Reg., Charles Carter, at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. Number killed in battle, 5. Soldiers who died in service. 8th Reg., Joseph Caldwell, at Thibodeaux, La., 1862. 2d Reg., Joel E. Fassett, at JafFrey. 2d Reg., Edmund Ritchie, at Philadelphia, Oct. 2, 1862. 14th Reg., Charles D. Emery, at Washington, Nov. 14, 1863. 14th Reg., Henry A. Smith, at Poolsville, Md., Jan. 7, 1863. 14th Reg., Charles M. Smith, at Poolsville, Md., Jan. 12, 1863. i6th Reg., Almond W. Bailey, at New Orleans, June 7, 1863. i6th Reg., John C. Cummings, at Mound City, Oct. 23, 1863. i6th Reg., John W. Darling, at Butte la Rose, La., May 17, 1863. i6th Reg., Jacob Newell, Jr., at Baton Rouge, La., April 15, 1863. Cavalry, Hiram Bennet, at Point Lookout, Md., Sept. 11, 1864. 9th Reg., Daniel M. Colburn, Va., Nov. 29, 1864. 9th Reg., Charles A. Sargent, at Salisbury, N. C, Oct. 23, 1864. 14th Reg., Leonard Rand, at Camp Parapet. May 28, 1864. Henry H. Cragin, 1864, an Ohio volunteer. Cavalry, Jackson Taggart, at Andersonville, Ga., Sept. 21, 1864. Grave No. 9,460. John Q. Adams, at the Marine Hospital, 186-. Lucius Upton, Aug. 7, 1864, — Mass. Battery. 5th Reg., Albert N. Joslin. 6th Reg., John F. Kidder, at Alexandria, Va., Nov. 11, 1862. Grave No. 425. Cavalry, Harvey N. Bailey, at Westford, Mass., March 8, 1865. 5th Reg., Joseph S. Lacy, at Yorktown, Va., May 11, 1862. Oscar Eugene Carter, died. Number died of disease, 23. CHAPTER XII. MILLS, MANUFACTORIES, AND ARTISANS. DURING the early settlement of the town a report was made to the Masonian Proprietors relating to the set- tlers and improvements made, in which two saw-mills and one grist-mill are mentioned — one saw-mill on lot 22, range 5, now owned by O. J. and A. S. Raymond, and the other two in what is now called Squantum. In a report of Enoch Hale another saw-mill is mentioned on the same stream south of the Raymond mill, owned by Thomas Caldwell. The mill at Squantum was built by Ephraim Hunt, who removed to Rindge, and the mill afterwards had several owners, among which were John Eaton, James Cutter, Sewal Gould, and others. The mill on lot 22, range 5, was built by Thomas Davidson, afterwards owned by David Chamber- lin, Upton, and others. The next saw- and grist-mill was built by John Borland, at what is now East Jaffrey. In 1778 he sold the same to Deacon Eleazer Spofford, who was the leading man in that business till 181 3, when he sold his farm to Daniel Adams, and his mills and water-power to a company, who in 18 14 built a factory for the purpose of spinning cotton yarn. This yarn was made into a cloth by the hand-loom. The other mills were, one south of the meeting-house, built by William Davidson, and one at the spring village by Abram Bailey. On the site of the last mill there was afterwards erected a woollen mill by Edward Bailey, which, on being burnt, was supplanted by a wooden-ware establishment. 146 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. For 1833 a saw-mill was also built by John Hodge on a stream running from Hodge pond to the Contoocook river. It was burnt in 1836, rebuilt, and went into disuse in i860. A fulling-mill was built by Josiah Belknap at an early date, near the site of the Wm. Davidson mill. He removed to Springfield, Vt., about 18 18. A fulling-mill was built at East Jaffrey by Joseph Lincoln, and afterwards owned for many years by Samuel Foster. It is now used for a knife fac- tory. A mill was built by a corporation called the Chesh- ire mills, afterwards owned by Alonzo Bascomb, now used for the manufacture of paper pulp. On or near the site of the first cotton-mill built in Jaffrey, Alonzo Bascom built the present large brick mill now owned by White Brothers. A starch-mill was built at Squantum, and burnt Jan. 2, 1839, ^^th Samuel Abbot in it. Various kinds of business have been carried on in different parts of the town, independent of water-power, as will be seen by the following list of individuals engaged in the sev- eral operations : Axes. Jacob Danforth, Artemas Lawrence, John Saunders, John Stone. Baker. Samuel Batchelder. Baskets. James French. Blacksmiths. Daniel Adams, Jonas Adams, Henry W. Atherton, Erastus Benton, Samuel Briant, John Briant, Kendall Briant, James Butler, Orford Capron, David A. Coburn, Edward A. Coburn, Frank Coburn, Aaron Coburn, Joel H. Cutter, Jacob Danforth, John Fife, Ira Gardner, Benj. Haywood, Thomas W. Hale, Elijah Hathorn, Ebenezer Hathorn, Frank Hathorn, Collins Hathorn, Luther Hemmingway, Thomas Holt, Elijah Jaquith, Eliphalet Johnson, Artemas Lawrence, Moses Pierce, David Priest, Abel Pollard, John W. Poole, John Saunders, Joseph Smith, Frank Smith, Abner Spofford, John Stone, William Stearns, Isaac Whitney. Boxes. Thomas Annette, Daniel Emery, Edwin Mann, Gilman Mower. Brickmakers. John Cutter, James George, ARTISANS. 147 Roger Gilmore, Oliver Jewett, Abel Shedd, Jr., Thomas A. Stevens. Broadcloth . Edward Bailey, William Buckley. Brooms. William Mower, Solomon Rand. Brushes. Peter Phelps. Cabinet Makers. John Buckley, Eber Lincoln, Cotton Tufts. Carriages. Edward Bailey, Martin Blodgett, Charles Hanscom, William Kimball, Nahum W. Mower, Jonathan Stanley. Carpenters. Samuel Adams, Thomas Dinsmore, William Dutton, Seth B. Ellis, Jedediah Foster, Joseph P. Frost, Albert Frost, Henry C. French, David Gilmore, Benj. O. Hale, Joseph Hodge, Jr., Nath'l N. Laws, Samuel Patrick, Joel O. Patrick, Eliakim Reed, Samuel Sanders, Vryling D. Shattuck, Abel Spaulding, Jr., Richard Spaulding, Erastus Spaulding, Eri Spaulding, James Stevens, Amos Stickney, James Streeter, John Towne, John Towne, Jr., Liberty Towne, Sylvester Towne, George Towne, Levi R. Towne, Jereme Underwood, John Underwood. Carpet Cloth. Samuel Foster. Cloth Dressers. Josiah Belknap, Samuel Foster, Joseph Lincoln. Clock-makers. Peter Davis, Robinson Perkins. Clothes-pins. Perkins Biggelow, Edward Bailey, Hunt, Sawyer & Pres- cott. Chair-fnakers. Eber Lincoln, Paul Nelson. Coopers. Elbridge Baldwin, John E. Baldwin, Levi Fisk, Adams Fisk, Paul Hunt, Asa Sawyer, Uriah Sawyer, William Stevens, Abraham Wilkins, Jona. Wilkins. Comb-maker. Levi Johnson. Earthen-tvare. Samuel Dakin & Co. Hatters. Abel Ames, John Ross, Joseph Weeks, Richard Weeks. Hay Rakes. Josiah Ingalls. Linen Wheels. John Coughran. Malt. Benj. Prescott. Painters. Nath. Clark, Howard C. Hunt, Paul Nelson, Fred. J. Stevens, Frank P. Wellman. Potash. Samuel Adams, Isaac J. & John Fox, William Lacy, Henry Payson, Joseph Thorndike, Thorndike & Page. Printer. Salmon Wilder. Pumps. James Davis, Thomas Frost, Lyman K. Farnum, Freeborn Raymond. Saddlers. David Page, Simon Warren. Shoemakers. Abel Ames, John A. Allen, Simeon Blanchard, Nath. Breed, Hiram Borden, Samuel Buss, Jr., 148 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Thaddeus Blodgett, Nathan Blodgett, Lewis Carey, Josiah Carey, Elijah Carey, Luther Cutter, Caleb Cutter, Nath. Cutter, David A. Cutter, George Fairbanks, Charles Farnsworth, Thomas French, James R. French, Luke French, J. D. Gibbs, Nehemiah Green, Robert Harkness, Benj. Lawrence, Moody Lawrence, Almon Mower, Thomas Perry, Asa Jones, Joseph Joslin, Jr., Geo. W. Richardson, Laban Rice, Abel Smith, James C. Smith. Asa Snow, Joseph Snow, Amos Tenney, Nath. Thomas, Christopher C. Tracy, Daniel Twiss, John Wright. Shoe-pegs. Perkins Bigelow. Shingles. Orlando Cragin, George F. Gilmore, Eleazer W. Heath, John Hodge, Paul Hunt, Rufus Sawyer. Sleighs. Daniel Adams, Parsons Darling, Josiah Ingals. Steelyards. Ebn'r Hathorn, Hiram Dean. Potato Starch. Oliver and Eldad Prescott, Samuel Abbot. Stone-masons. James Butler, Jona. J. Comstock, David Gilmore, Joseph Joslin, Oliver Warren. Gunsmith. John S. Dutton. Tantiers. Samuel Foster, ist tanner in Jaffrey. 1789. John Cutter, 1818. John Cutter and son, 1834. Benj. Cutter, 1851. Julius Cutter, Amos Fortune, lot 17, range 6. Thomas Tyler, lot 17, range 6. Daniel Gilman. Trays. John Grout, Orlando Cragin. Wooden Shovels. John Briant. Wooden Ploughs. Daniel Adams, Jesse Maynard. Watches. Thomas French, Joseph Haywood, Laban Rice, Jonas C. Rice. CHAPTER XIII. MISCELLANY — HOTELS — STORES — POST-OFFICE — MAIL STAGE— BANKS— SACRED MUSIC — COMMON — SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS— CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION DELE- GATES—FIRES. PUBLIC houses, for Ae entertainment of travellers, were first known as inns. Alexander McNeil was, by tradition, the first inn-keeper in the town of Jaffrey. His house was located between the centre of the town and the house of Vryling D. Shattuck. The first town-meeting was held at the inn of Francis Wright, lot 14, range 8, now the residence of Dana S. Jaquith. License to keep tavern was granted by the town with the approbation of the selectmen. The first license on record was dated Sept. 18, 1792. This may certify that M'' Jacob Danforth has our aprobation and Lisence to keep a Tavern in the house he now occupies in Jaffrey. P"' Abel Parker \ Selectmen Adonijah Howe > of Roger Gilmore ) Jaffrey. Danforth tavern was one of the most prominent public houses in the town, and is now the only one among the early licensed ones in use. Jacob Danforth was the first proprietor. He left about 181 1, and David and Elias Pierce were his successors. About 18 14 Asa Brigham became the owner, and remained such till about 18 19. In 1816, Dec. 16, the house was burnt, and in 1817 a new one built. The same is now owned by Jonas Cutter. Since Mr, 150 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Brigham left, the tavern has been kept by Luke Sweetser, Joel O. Patrick, Ethan Cutter, and James Cutter. A tavern was kept north of the meeting-house from 1795 till 1798 or 1799, by Benjamin Cutter, and in 1802-3-4 by Joseph Cutter, his brother. A tavern was kept by Moody Lawrence and Isaac J. Fox, in the house now owned by Asa Nutting. The first noted tavern built west of the centre was that of Alexander Milliken, near the mountain ; afterwards kept by his son John, who left town about 1823. In 1796 Capt. John Joslin opened a public house near the Monadnock Mineral Spring, and remained its proprie- tor till 1805. Benj. Prescott (Col.) was a popular tavern-keeper in the house where his son Eldad afterwards lived. Oliver Prescott built a large brick tavern on lot 22, range 9, John H. Loring, proprietor. Kendall N. Davis, present owner. The first tavern at East Jaffrey was kept by Zadoc Chap- man about 1824; Abijah Pierce, 1830; N. R. Corning, 1859, who built the Granite State hotel, afterwards kept by Henry B. Wheeler, C. H. Brooks, and John M. Wales, when the house was burned. In 1877 the present house was erected by Benjamin Pierce ; proprietor, Rodney Brown. Many others were licensed, but were kept for only a short time, the list of which is as follows : David Sherwin, Jona. Fox, Peter Lawrence, Joseph Thonidike, Nathan Hunt, John Tilton, Levi Raymond, George Barrett, Benj. Kingsbury, Charles Davidson, Robinson Perkins, David Jewett, Aaron Rider, Samuel Minot, Ens'' Gilmore, James Mann, Edward Perkins, Isaac Jewell. MERCHANTS. There is a tradition that the name of the first merchant or storekeeper in the town of Jaffrey was Breed. POST-OFFICE. 151 The first names on record are Joseph Thorndike and Da- vid Sherwin, in 1793. Thorndike was taxed for stock in trade, amount, jC6o ; — Sherwin, amount, ;^30, that year. List of traders from 1793 to 1876, with the years of trade. Joseph Thorndike, 1793-1805. David Sherwin, 1793. Levi Raymond, 1794. Benjamin Cutter, 1795-97. George Barrett, 1799. Peter Lawrence, 1800. Samuel Alinot, 1801. Benj. Kingsbury, 1802-1806. David Page, 1803-1805. Daniel Emery, 1806-1807. Luke Wheelock, 1806-1807. James Henderson, 1807-1809. Goodell & Hosmer, 1808-1809, — (Abishai Goodell, Eben'r Hosmer. Francis Fletcher, firm of Fletcher & Smith, 1809-1812. Jonathan Wheelock, 1810-1812. John Gilmore, 1814-15, 1819-24. Henry Payson, 1815-1824. Asa Brigham, 18 16-18 18. Peter Clark, 18 16. Amos Tenney, 1817-1822. John Milliken, 1818-1820. Joel O. Patrick, 1821-1828. Caleb Searl, 1823-1827. William Lacy & Co., 1 827-1 834,— (Lacy, Cutter & Sweetzer.) John Wright, 1826-1835. Lacy & Cutter, 1 835-1 838. William Lacy, 1 839-1 856. Lacy & Son, 1857-1859. James Lacy, 1859. John AL Maynard & Co., 1827. L J. & John Fox, 1828-1831. Hiram Duncan, 1832-1840. Mellville & Howe, 1833. Charles J. Fox, 1834. Jason Moar, 1 834-1 835. Arad Adams, 1836. Perkins Biggelow, 1836. )Myrick, Smith & Co., 1836-1839, Joseph Myrick. 1840. Alvah J. Perkins & Co., 1837. Peter Upton & Co., 1841-1850. Joseph Wilson, 1841-1842. Richardson Biggelow, 1842. Samuel Smith, 1843-1846. Eleazer S. Foster, 1846. Foster & Brown, 1 047-1 849. Eben'r Upton & Co., 1851-1860. Charles H. Powers. W. L. Goodnow & Co., 1874. - Union Co. Joseph T. Biggelow, 1872. POST-OFFICE. Owing to the fire which burned the Department building at Washington, D. C, Dec. 15, 1836, in which the earliest books of this office were destroyed, the exact time of the establishment of the post-office in Jaffrey cannot be ascer- tained. The first quarterly accounts began April i, 1801. 152 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Peter Lawrence was the first post-master. The office was probably estabUshed during the winter of 1801. POST-MASTERS. Peter Lawrence, rendered accounts, April i, 1801. Samuel Dakin, " " July i, 1802. Abel Parker, " " April i, 1812. Luke Howe, appointed post-master, Dec. 5, 18 16. William Lacy, " " Jan. 24, 1842. In 1846, April i, the name of the office was changed to Factory Village, and located in that place. Alonzo Bascom was appointed post-master, April i, 1846, On the 8th of December, Factory Village was changed to East Jaffrey. Alonzo Bascom, appointed post-master, Dec. 8, 1846. Lewis L. Pierce, " " May 8, 1849. Ebenezer Upton, " " Dec. 20, 1849. Alonzo Bascom, " " April 11, 1853. Peter Upton, •' " April 13, 1861. The office at Jaffrey was reestablished Nov. 6, 1 846. Ethan Cutter was appointed post-master Nov. 6, 1846. Gurley A. Phelps, " " July 23, 1861. Upton and Phelps are the present incumbents (1880.) MAIL STAGE. The first mail stage. Dearborn & Emerson, proprietors, was established from Boston to Walpole and return once a week. The first day it went to New Ipswich, the second day to Walpole, and returned to Boston on the two fol- lowing days. It was a small coach, drawn by two horses. As the business increased more horses and a larger carriage were used, till a daily express line was established from Bos- < SACRED MUSIC. 153 ton to Keene. This line of staging did good business till the Cheshire Railroad was built, when the line was changed from Jaffrey to Winchendon, in a two-horse coach. The Monadnock Railroad obviated any further necessity for stage-coaches, and the business is done from East Jaffrey to the centre of the town in a two-horse wagon. BANKS. The Monadnock State Bank was incorporated in 1850; capital, $50,000. John Conant was chosen president and Peter Upton cashier. Directors, John Conant, Benjamin Cutter, Jonas M. Mellville, James Scott, Rufus Haywood, Samuel Ryan, Jr., Solomon Allen. In 1855, John Fox was chosen president, and in 1857, James Scott, of Peter- borough. In 1865 the Monadnock National Bank was incorporated; capital, $100,000. James Scott was chosen president ; Peter Upton, cashier. Directors, James Scott, Benjamin Cutter, Samuel Ryan, Arad Adams, James L. Bolster, Joseph T. Biggelow, John Conant. Benjamin Cut- ter was chosen president in 1870. Cashier, Peter Upton. Directors, Benjamin Cutter, James Scott, Samuel Ryan, Arad Adams, John Fox, Joseph T. Biggelow, John Conant. MONADNOCK SAVINGS BANK. Incorporated 1869. President, Oscar H. Bradley; treas- urer, Peter Upton. Amount on deposit (1880), $297,583.88. Trustees, Oscar H. Bradley, Benjamin Pierce, James S. Lacy, Zebulon Converse, Franklin H. Cutter, George A. Underwood, Benjamin L. Baldwin, Charles Cutter, John B. Shedd, Charles H. Powers, Joseph T. Biggelow, John Fox, Dexter Derby. SACRED MUSIC. Singing constituted a part of religious worship in the early settlement of New England. The Book of Psalms, by Henry Ainsworth, in prose and verse, published at Amster- dam in 161 2, was the one in general use among the Puri- II 154 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. tans. The singing was done by the congregation standing and facing the minister. The psahn was first read by him, and afterwards repeated line by line, and sung as read by the congregation. The deacon, instead of the minister, sometimes read or tuned the psalm ; hence it was called " deaconing the psalm," In 1778, before the incorporation of the church, or the settlement of a minister, the town chose William Smiley and David Stanley to read the psalm, and Jonathan Priest, Abraham Bailey, and Daniel Stanley to tune the psalm. In 1787 the manner of singing was changed. The sing- ers were seated in one place by themselves instead of being mixed with the congregation. The town at that time Voted to Grant the two middle body seats below, men and womens side, for the Singers. It also Voted to sing a Verse at a time, once in the forenoon and once in the afternoon after exercises. Voted that Jacob Baldwin assist Eleazer Spoftbrd to tune the Psalm, and in his absence or inability to set it. In 1 791 the singers were seated in the gallery, by vote of the town, March i, 1791, the town Voted to grant half of the Front Gallery for the Singers and take it out of the Senter, In 1792, March 6, the town Voted to annex the womans seats in the front of the Gallery to the Singers Seats, In 1802, March 2, the town Voted to raise forty dollars towards hiring a singing master for the purpose of nistrucling schools. Voted a committee of three to expend the same ; Chose Samuel Dakin, Rutus Houghton, and Cap' Pope Com*'=. PUBLIC COMMON. 155 Rec. of the Selectmen, forty dollars in full for teaching sing- ing school for the year 1803. Samuel Dakin. At what time instrumental music was brought into use does not appear on record — probably about 1800. The in- troduction of those instruments was not at first very favor- ably received by the older members of the congregation, but time and the influence of the younger portion overruled, and at length they became very acceptable. The flute, clarionette, bassoon, trombone, and violin were the first that came into use, followed by the bass-viol, by some called "Dagon," by others the " Lord's fiddle." The early singers, as appears in the records, were found among the families of the Stanleys, Baileys, and Priests, afterwards the Spoffords, Baldwins, and Dakins. Dakin, as it appears by the records, was the first teacher of a singing-school in the town. PUBLIC COMMON. Provision was made by the Masonian Proprietors, in the grant of the township, by a reservation of land, for a public common on which to build a meeting-house, enclose a pub- lic burying-ground, and also a place for military trainings and reviews. The common or public square included an area of about ten acres, measuring about forty rods on each side, situated on the north end of lot 12, range 6. On the north central part of the lot was the burying-yard, front of which were the meeting-house and public common. In 1791, Aug. 3, a survey was made, bounds established, and a transcript made, by John Gilmore, Roger Gilmore, and Samuel Buss, a committee chosen by the town for that pur- pose. TRANSCRIPT OF THE COMMON. We the Subscribers, being appointed a Committee to lay out the common in s*^ town, have proceded thus: Beginning at the north west corner of the common ; at a stake and stones on the west side of the Road in the line between the fifth and sixth 156 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Range in Lot No. 12, in the sixth Range of Lot- Jf ^ ^ aforesaid, from thence South one Deg west ^^^^^ ^ds f^^^^ seven links, to a stake and stones from thence Sou ^ e|^i^^^^^^^^^ Deg. and fifty min. East, forty rods to a stake '^^^^ °"^ '/^^^^ thpnre north one Deg. East forty rods to a Stake and Stones m t es4ni ebTweSfthe fifth and Sixth Range -from thence o'th et y one Deg. and fifty min. West, forty rods and seven nks to^a S^take and Stones being the Bounds first mentioned. John Gilmore \ Roger Gilmore > Com^* Samuel Buss ) JafFrey, Aug. 3, 1791. PUBLIC COMMON. Rev. L. Ainsworth's. In 1787 the town voted to sell the land lying east and west of the burying-ground, and appointed a committee for 1 870 JAFFREY MILLS EAST JAFFRKY, N.H. ^;339 1830. 500.25 1790. 40 1811. 800 1831. 500 I79I. 40 1812. 700 1832. 600 1792. 50 1813. 300 1833- 824 1793- 60 1814. 400 1834. 650 1794. 150 1815. 700 1835- 1,100 1795- $300 1816. 750 1836. 1,000 1796. 333 1817. 500 1837. 600 1797. 250 1818. 33^ 1838. 200 HIGHEST TAX-PAYERS. 165 1839. $800 1848. $1,000 1857. $1,200 1840. 600 1849. 450 1858. 700 I84I. 500 1850. 300 1859. 400 1842. 700 I85I. 300 i860. 800 1843. 700 1852. 200 1861. 800 1844. 1,000 1853- 200 1862. 1,000 1845. 900 1854. 200 1863. 1,000 1846. 800 1855. 350 1864. 1,000 1847. 300 1856. 1,200 1865. 3>52o The earliest invoice on record in the town of Jaffrey was that of 1793. The ten highest tax-payers were as follows: 1793- 1800. ^s. d. Joseph Cutter, $20.96 Joseph Cutter, 4-12- 4 Benj. Prescott, 17.71 Joseph Thorndike, 4-10- 4 Eleazer Spofford, 16.03 Eleazer Spofford, 4- 6- 6 James Stevens, 13-63 Benjamin Prescott, 4- 2- 2 Joseph Thorndike, 13-12 Aaron Rider, 4- I- I Jona. Fox, 10.44 Roger Gilmore, 3-17-10 Alexander Milliken, 10.24 Dudley Griffin, 3-16- 6 John Gilmore, 10.01 Samuel Maynard, 3-iS- 6 Joseph Perkins, 10.01 Benjamin Dole, 3-14- 4 Roger Gilmore, 9-95 Joseph Perkins, 3-14- 1810. 1820. Benj. Prescott, $40.86 John Cutter, $40.11 John Cutter, 36.88 John Conant, 27-33 Joseph Cutter, 31-57 David Gilmore, 24.22 James Stevens, 3049 Laban Ainsworth, 23.64 Eleazer Spofford, 30.38 John Wright, 23-48 Adonijah Howe, 29.07 Oliver Prescott, 23.28 Alexander Milliken, 27.97 Benj. Hay ward, Jr., 22.81 John H. Loring, 26.74 Eleazer Spofford, 22.68 Joseph Thorndike, 24.72 Edward Spaulding, 22.30 Edward Spaulding, 22.79 Oliver Bailey, 22.15 1830. Benj. Prescott, John Cutter, John Conant, Eldad Prescott, John Cutter, 2d, Daniel Cutter, John A. Prescott, Laban Ainsworth, Benj. Hay ward, Oliver Prescott. 1 66 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1840. Jonas M. Mellville, John Conant, Eldad Prescott, Benj. Cutter, Benj. Hay ward, Benj. Prescott, Daniel Cutter, Luke Howe, Laban Ainsworth, John A. Prescott, i860. Benj. Cutter, John A. Prescott, Samuel Ryan, John Conant, Asa Baker, Arad Adams, Peter Upton, Rufus Sawyer, William Lacy, A. P. Prescott, Benj. Pierce, Benj. Cutter, Peter Upton, James S. Lacy, Charles H. Powers, 1850. $77.02 John Conant, $45.06 46.16 Addison Monroe, 37.84 45-33 Benj. Cutter, 31.98 44.51 Eldad Prescott, 30-75 38.55 Jonas Pierce, 22.84 37-34 John A. Prescott, 22.45 28.98 Laban Ainsworth, 21.13 28.43 Gilman Mower, 20.04 27.74 Asa Baker, 19.74 26.12 Benj. Hay ward, 1870. 18.15 $69.74 Alonzo Bascom, $553-i8 65.46 Samuel Ryan, 151.25 63.65 Arad Adams, 124.03 52.00 Charles H. Powers, 109.73 46.12 Peter Upton, 108.26 38.65 Moses S. Perkins, 102.96 35-78 Henry B. Wheeler, 93-5° 32.92 Edwin C. Baker, 93-3° 28.81 Daniel P. Adams, 91.03 25.42 John Conant, 79-32 1880. S130.74 John Fox, $71-90 120.34 Hannah J. Ryan, 71.15 89.44 Ruby Adams, 59.56 87.09 Daniel P. Adams, 56.04 78.46 Aaron Perkins, 53-90 CHAPTER XV. PAUPERISM— WARNINGS FROM TOWN— BOARD OF THE POOR SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE— TOWN FARM. THE first act of the town on record, relating to paupers, was at a meeting held April 26, 1774, the year after the organization of the town. In the warrant for that meet- ing there was an article " To see if the town will Vote to Rais a sum of Money to Support the Poor of s'^ town." " Voted not to Rais Money for the Poor." The next act of the town was to take the benefit of a law enabling towns to remove their liability for the support of paupers by warn- ing from town all persons moving in for a settlement. At a meeting of the town, April 20, 1778, the town voted that the selectmen shall warn all persons out of town who come in to inhabit, or come any way into town. FORM OF THE WARRANT. State of \ To David Allan, Constable for the town of New Hampshire > Jaftrey, Greeting. Cheshire ss. j In the name of the Government and People of the United States, you are requested to notify and warn Lucy Geary to Depart out of this town forthwith or otherwise give the Selectmen sufficient bonds to keep the town from damage. Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with your doing thereon by the sixteenth of this May, inst. Given under our hands and seal this tenth day of May, 177S. Roger Gilmore 1 ^ 1 John Stanley Selectmen Abraham Bailey j ^Uaftrey 1 68 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, In obedience to the above Warrant, I have notified and warned the within person to depart out of the town of Jaftrey forthwith, otherwise to give the Selectmen Sufficient bonds to keep the town from damage. David Allan ) Constable ) for Jaftrey. The practice of warning persons from town was generally adopted by other towns. The object probably was to pre- vent the emigration of the poor from older townships. Lucy Geary appears to have been the first person warned from town, and as her name does not again appear, it is quite probable she left. In January of the next year, Han- nah Underwood was warned from town, and in June, John Gray and family. In January, 1781, Solomon Wood and family, Simon Perry and family, Benj. Stone, Abel Spauld- ing, John Pritchard, Wheeler Willard, Jennie Hunt, Eliza- beth Asa and son ; in March, John Gilson and family ; in September, Aaron Taylor and family, Amos Fortin, John Fitch, Francis H. Pitt. In 1784, May 9, John Pushee and family, from Westford, Mass ; Persis, Jesse, and Joseph Snow, from Woburn, Mass. ; John Dun and John Math- ews, from Peterborough ; John Wheat and Marshal Cutter. In 1786, May 27, Eleazer Green and wife, John French and family, Myron Dean and family, Peter Davis and family, Jonathan Holt and family, Sarah Philbrick, from Rindge, and Alpheas Crosby. In 1789, Dec. 21, Widow Hannah Robbins and daughter, from Stoddard ; Samuel Needham, from Billerica ; Asa Crosby, from Moultonborough ; Jonas Clark, Townsend ; Eunice Philbrick, Rindge; Jona. Mower, Billerica ; Betty Stiles, Bridgetown ; Samuel Parker, New Ipswich ; Asa Spofford, Rowley ; Lemuel Stickney and family, Londonderry ; Lucy Wilder, Winchendon ; Isaac Spofford, Townsend ; Eunice Thomas, Rindge ; James French and family, Rockingham ; Rhoda Russell and Jonas French, Jr., and family, Rockingham ; Joseph Cloyce, Con- cord ; Abigail Sanders, Gardner ; William Stacey and fam- ily, Townsend; wife of Benjamin Whittemore, Sterling; PAUPERISM. 169 John Russell, Rindge ; Anna Dunlap, Silas Houghton, Sterl- ing ; Nathan Taylor and family, Fitchburg ; Jonathan Blod- gett and family, from Rockingham. Many more were warned from town, whose names are not recorded, as we find re- ceipts on record of money received for warning persons from town of later date. The last on record was dated Sept. 9, 1799. Received of the Selectmen six dollars and ninety cents in full for warning thirty persons out of town the present year. Rufus Houghton. Notwithstanding the warrant, the town was from time to time called on to make provision for paupers. In 1783, Sept. 15, the town voted to give Hugh Gregg the use of a cow, to aid him in the support of his wife and child. In 1785, Oct. 7, the town made provision for the support of the family of Thomas Goff. In 1786 the expense of board and burial of a widow Hathorn was paid by the town. In 1787 the nursing and doctor's bill of a Mr. Combs, and provisions for the family. In 1791 Eleazer Spofford, Oliver Bacon, and John Joslin were chosen overseers of the poor, and Lieut. Underwood was paid for their board and care. In 1794 the town voted to vendue the support of the poor, and four paupers were disposed of in that manner that year. The practice of venduing the support of the poor continued till 1828, when the more humane way, as it was considered at that time, of hiring their board at one place was adopted. Proposals were made by Capt. Samuel Patrick to board them at his house for $500 per annum, for three years, which was accepted. In 1833 the town voted to purchase a farm on which to support the poor, and chose Oliver Pres- cott, John Conant, and Edward Spaulding a committee for that purpose. The farm of Capt. Patricks was purchased for the sum of ^2,500, and possession given April i, 1835. Jacob Adams was hired to manage the same for a salary of $200. In 1835 the house was burnt, and rebuilt in 1836. The paupers were supported on the farm till 1869. In 12 I/O HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1868 a law was enacted which so diminished the number of paupers to be supported by the town that it was thought advisable to sell the farm, and it was sold at public auction, by vote of the town, March 29, 1869, together with the stock, tools, hay, and provisions, in one lump, to P. Ring, for $6,000. CHAPTER XVI. CEMETERIES— ACCIDENTAL DEATHS— LIST OF PERSONS WHOSE AGE AT DEATH EXCEEDED EIGHTY YEARS. IN the early settlement of townships the location of a place for the burial of the dead was among the first re- quirements. It was customary to have the burying-yard in rear of the church, and it was often called the church- yard. In Jaffrey, before any settlement was made, a piece of ground was selected for a public common, on which to build a church and locate a burying-ground. The exact boundaries were not fixed till 1784, when the town, at their annual meeting, March 5, 1784, voted to lay out the burying- yard by a committee. TRANSCRIPT OF THE SAME, We the subscribers, by virtue of an appointment from the townofjaftrey for laying out the Burying yard (sometimes called the house appointed for all living) have laid out the same in manner following, viz : Beginning at a stake and stones on the North line of the Common and about ten or twelve rods West of the North East corner of said common, from thence North, 81 deg. West, 16 rods, from thence South i deg. East 17 rods, from thence North 83 deg. East 15 rods, from thence North 13 rods to the bounds first mentioned, containing one acre and 71 Square Rods ; also laid out an Alley through said yard, begin- ning at the middle of the yard on the South line at two stakes with stones about them from thence Running Due North across to the North line of the yard said alley is about twelve feet wide, JafTrey, Nov. 2, 1784. Roger Gilmore 1 Joseph Bates { ^ "K • 1 rr > Committee. Daniel Emery j Adonijah Howe J 172 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. In 1785, April 15, the town voted to fence the burying- place with stone wall 42 feet high, with a good gate, where staked out, said work to be sold to the lowest bidder at vendue. "Voted that Capt. Benj. Spaulding, Dea. Eleazer Spofford, and Lieut. Benj. Prescott, be a Com''^ to lett out said work. View and Excepct of the same." In the burials, but little use was made of order, except in placing the head of the deceased to the west. In other respects they were very irregular. Previous to 1800 but few gravestones were erected. The stone bearing the most ancient date is situ- ated in the north-east part of the yard, and has the follow- ing inscription over the engraving of an hour-glass : My glass has run and so must yours. Under the glass is the following : Erected in Memory of Mrs. Jean Harper, wife of Mr. Andrew Harper, who departed this Life Nov. ye. 29, 1777, in the 65th Year of her age. Death like an overflowing flood Doth sweep us all away The young, the old, the "middle age, To Death become a Prey. AINSWORTH. In Memory of Rev. Laban Ainsworth First minister Of the town of JafTrey Bn.July 19, A. D. 1757, At Woodstock, Cotm. Settled Dec. 11, A. D. 1782. He continued in that office until his death, which occurred Mar. 17, A. D. 1858. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. CEMETERIES. 1/3 In Memory of Mrs. Mary, Wife of" Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Who died Feb, 5, 1845, aged 84 years. She h'ved the cliristian full of gooti works and alms deed and her last words were Remember the Poor. The oldest person buried, previous to 1800, per headstone, was Mary, relict of Mathew Wright, who died August 27, 1795, aged 86. The oldest person buried in the yard is Rev. Laban Ainsworth. The form of the headstone and inscription varied at different periods. At first, a rude figure of the human face with wings was carved on the stone, and an hour-glass, as an emblem of the flight of time: then followed the urn under a Weeping Willow. At the present day, flowers and other emblems are common. The inscriptions commenced with "In memory of," "To the memory of," "Sacred to the memory of," and "Erected in memory of, " all of which are now dispensed with. Originally, military titles were inscribed, from the highest to the lowest, as a mark of dis- tinction and honor ; and in those early times, military distinction was more honorable than civil. The warrior was the hero ; the coward stayed at home. The man who enlisted into the service of his country, in defence of her rights and for the protection of her liberty, was the indi- vidual whom the people delighted to honor. The settlement of our country was a period of warfare. Every man must, from necessity, be a soldier, especially during the French an Indian wars. The same was true of the Revolution, and it was not uncommon to find on the headstone the inscrip- tion that he was a soldier of the Revolution. In 1792, the town authorized Dr. Adonijah Howe to have a pest-house in some remote part of the town, to inoculate 1/4 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. for the small-pox. It was considered more safe to have that disease by inoculation than by contagion, vaccination for kine pox not being in practical operation at that time. Quite a number died, and a place was selected for their burial. It is situated on lot 19, range 20, now owned by Benj. Pierce. The lot was fenced with stone wall, which for a time protected the premises; but time and neglect broke down the walls, and it is now (1873) used as a pasture, in common with the land adjoining. A tombstone was erected by Joseph Thorndike, in memory of his daughter Nancy who was buried there, the fragments of which alone remain. The names of the i)ersons who died of the small-pox and were buried in that yard, were Oliver Gould, Nancy Thorn- dike, Rebecca Danforth, of Jaffrey ; a Mr. Thurber, of Keene ; a Mr. Cambridge, of Rindge ; and Hon. Abel Wilder, of Winchendon. WEST BURYING-YARD. In 1797, a gift of a piece of land for burials was offered to the town by Hon. Samuel Phillips, on condition that the town should fence the same. At a town-meeting, held May 31, 1797, the town voted to comply with the require- ment, and build a gate with stone posts and put a lock thereon, and to place the yard under the direction of the selectmen. Oldest headstone, Jona. Stanley, 1789; old- est person buried, William Comstock, aged 94 years, 7 months. CUTTER CEMETERY. In 18 — , John Cutter built a family tomb, east of his house, on the road leading by his son Nathaniel's, and afterwards made an enclosure in the rear of the same for the purpose of burials. It is a very pleasant locality, and many have been buried therein. Oldest person buried, Mrs. Abigail Cutter, aged 97 years, 6 months, 1 1 days. CEMETERIES. 1/5 EAST JAFFREY CEMETERY. The growth of the village of East Jaffrey, and the limited area of the burying-yard in the Centre, made it necessary to have one in that place. In March, 1829, the subject was brought before the town, and the selectmen were instructed to examine suitable locations and report at a future meeting. October 24th, of the same year, the town voted to purchase a certain piece of land of Oliver Bacon, not exceeding three acres, for a burying-place. The land was purchased for the sum of forty dollars and fifty cents. The first burial was a son of John Farwell, died April 4, 1832, aged 12 weeks, 4 days. Oldest person, Mrs. Sarah Byam, aged 102 years, 2 months, 7 days. CONANT CEMETERY, This cemetery was a gift of John Conant, Esq., to the town of Jaffrey, in i860. The burials that year were Andrew Emery, Thomas Chadwick, and a child of Greenville Shedd. Oldest person buried (1876) is Margaret Turner, aged 92 years. ■ Previous to 1800, but few headstones were erected, and consequently the localities of the graves of many of the early settlers are not known. No stone was erected till 1777, a long period, probably, from the time of the first burial. Only thirty were erected previous to 1800. The first sexton chosen by the town to bury the dead was James French, in 1778. In 1785, Asa Chandler was chosen; in 1789, Joseph Crosby ; in 1793, Josiah Carey; in 18 — , Eber Lincoln ; in 18 — , Moody Lawrence; in 18 — , John A. Cutter; in 18 — , • Baldwin. The first sexton of the West burying yard was Phineas Spaulding. A hearse was not used by the town till 1802. Hearse- house built, 1804. In 1809, ^ tomb was built by Joseph Cutter and Benj. Prescott, in the Centre burying-yard. 1/6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Names of persons who died previous to 1800, per head- stones in Centre yard. 1777. Jean Harper. 1793- Ezra T. Mower. 1778. Son of John Gilmore. I794- Sarah, w. of Jos. Thorndike. 1779. Ann, wife of Roger Gihiiore. 1795. John Dutton. 1781. Son of John Gihnore. 1795' Mary, w. of Mathew Wright. 1784. A dau. of Abel Parker. I79S- Son of John Gihnore. 1785. A son of Abel Parker. I795- Samuel Parker. / 1787. Sarah, wife of Alex. Ames. 1796. Eliza, dau. of Sam' Jaquith. 1788. Thomas Mower. I797- Paul Powers. 1788. Isaac SpofFord. I797- Amos Parker. 1790. James Cutter. 1798. Polly, dau. Nathan Cutter. 1790. A son of Abel Parker. 1798. Ruth, dau. of Job Dodge. 1790. Two sons of Jos. Stewart. 1798. Elizabeth, w. of Jas. Stevens. 1790. Dau. or Isaac Bailey. 1798. Sally, dau. of Jas. Stevens. 1791. A son of Abel Parker. I799- Priscilla, w. of Abel Shedd. 1792. Samuel Stanley. I799- William Turner. 1792. Moses Spofford. DEATHS BY ACCIDENTS. The number of accidental deaths, so far as we have been informed, is 34. The first is recorded in Morse's History of Sherburne, — Arthur Clark, burnt in a dwelling-house which was destroyed by fire in 1785. Date of death. Age. Feb. 13, 1788. Isaac A. Spofford, son of Dea. Eleazer Spofford, burnt in the house of the Rev. Laban Ainsworth, which was destroyed by fire at that time, 8 Mar. 25, 1792. Samuel Stanley, killed by a falling limb, 50 Jan. 7, 1794. John, aged 10; Cena, aged 6; Polly, aged 4; and Maria, aged 2, — children of John and Elizabeth Butters, were burnt in his dwelling-house, while the parents were absent on an evening visit. July 10, 1794. Sarah, wife of Joseph Thorndike, fell dead while milking in the barnyard, 45 June 17, 1795. John Dutton, killed by a falling tree or limb, 22 Jan. 2, 1801. Oliver Bacon, son of Oliver and Rebecca Bacon, killed by lightning, 8 June 6, 1805. James Gowing, fell dead on the road near his house. 69 July 29, 1807. Oliver Spaulding, drowned in the Connecticut river, while a member of Dartmouth college, 22 SUICIDES. 177 Sept. 15, 1819. Oliver Carter, killed by falling from a road wharf- ing, 76 Oct. 2, 1822. George, son of Jerome Underwood, Jr., killed by an overturning cart, 9 July ID, 1825. Isaac Nutting, drowned while bathing in the Frost pond, 44 Aug. 21, 1826. Lucretia, wife of Joseph Joslin, killed by being thrown from a carriage while on a visit at Charl- ton, Mass. July 19, 1827. George Gilmore, son of John Gilmore, killed by be- ing thrown from a carriage, 4 Feb. 25, 1829. Jesse Butters died in a snowstorm, 45 1829. A child or David H. Gilmore, drowned in a well. June 29, 1838. Hannah Chapman hung herself accidentally, by the falling of a school-house window in District No. 2, 12 Jan. 2, 1839. Samuel Abbot, burnt in his starch factory, at Squan- tum village. Nov. 12, 1845. Richard Warren, killed in Bascomb's factory, 21 Jan. 2, 1853. James Butler, drowned. 11 Nov. 12, 1859. William Moore, killed by being thrown from a car- riage. 54 Apr. 27, i860. John Henry, killed in the Cheshire factory, 10 July 4,1864. A daughter of Charles Verder, drowned, 12 Sept. 14, 1864. Josiah Sawyer, killed by a runaway horse, 64 July II, 1864. George H. Marshall, killed by lightning, 19 July 4, 1865. Ellen Heald, drowned, 12 June 15, 1868. A child of Levi Brigham, killed by falling into a tub of hot soap, I Feb. 22, 1872. Abraham Whitney, killed by falling into the cellar, 68 Dec. 13, 1873. Mrs. J. W. Fassett, killed by a runaway horse, 52 Aug. 13, 1876. Frederick Hart, drowned, 17 July 28, 1879. Thomas A. Stearns, killed by being thrown from a carriage, 68 SUICIDES. May 7,1821. Mary, widow of Capt. William Pope, by hanging, 78 May 8, 1864. Ralph Emery, by hanging, 67 Feb. 27, 1862. Luther Durant, by hanging, 44 July I, 1878. Frank W. Mower, by drowning, 21 Aug. 19, 1880. James P. Clay, by hanging, 63 178 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. MORTUARY RECORD. In relation to longevity, the town of Jaffrey compares favorably with other towns in its vicinity. More persons have lived to an age exceeding one hundred years than any other town in the state of the same number of inhabitants. The town has always been remarkably free from epidemics, or any prevalence of malignant disease. The situation of the town, the character of the soil, its altitude, and its fresh mountain streams, furnish a salubrity of climate favorable to the health of its inhabitants. It has already become a favorite resort of the inhabitants of Boston during the summer season. No record of deaths has been found, except on the head- stones and in family Bibles, till 1841. From that time, one has been kept by Mr. J. D. Gibbs, which we have carefully examined. It is a valuable record, and should be recorded in the town book of the Record of Marriages and Births. From his record it appears that the average number of deaths, yearly, for a period of thirty years, is twenty-six : the largest number of annual deaths was forty-one, in the year 1865, and the smallest number, 14, in 185 1. From the above records, we have found one hundred and forty- three persons who lived from eighty to ninety years; twenty- seven, from ninety to one hundred years ; and three over one hundred years, making a sum total, of persons living eighty years and upwards, of one hundred and seventy-three. The number of aged persons living (1873) Centennial year was, — from eighty to ninety, twenty-two ; from ninety to one hundred, two ; and over one hundred, one ; sum total, twenty- five, — which sum, added to the above one hundred and seventy-three, would amount to one hundred and ninety- eight persons whose lives exceeded eighty years, in the town of Jaffrey, to 1873, inclusive. The number of males is eighty-nine ; females, one hundred and nine, — equalling one hundred and ninety-eight, — making the excess of females, twenty. LONGEVITY. 1 79 LONGEVITY, 80 TO 9O YEARS. Date of death. Place of birth. Age. Mar, 17, 1794. Mary (Martin), wife of Kendal Briant, Pepperell, Mass., 84 May 27,1795. Mary, widow of Matthew Wright, Londonderry, 86 May 7, 1795. Samuel Parker, 80 Kendal Briant, Pepperell, Mass., 88 David Bailey, England, 86 Oliver Proctor, 83 John Davidson (first settler), Londonderry, 85 Susannah, wife of Isaac Bailey, 80 Isaac Bailey, Lunenburgh, Mass., 82 John French, Billerica, Mass., 84 Mary, widow of Thomas Mower, 86 Samuel Patrick, Stoughton, Mass., 84 Margaret, wife of Moses Burpee, Sterling, Mass., 84 Dea. Daniel Emery, Townsend, Mass., 89 Mary (StockwelI),wid. of Oliver Gould, Petersham, xMass., 84 Capt. William Pope, 80 Esther, wife of Ebenezer Jaquith, Billerica, Mass., 87 Priscilla, wife of John French, Billerica, Mass., 81 Ebenezer Hathorn, 84 Lois (Moore), widow of Jona. Stanley, Andover, Mass., 8r Sarah Shipley, wife of Thomas Fisk, Pepperell, Mass., 82 Hepsibath (Hardy), wife of Moses Worcester, Tewksbury, Mass., 84 Jane (Wright), widow of William Turner, Peter- borough, 82 Zacheus Witt, Lunenburgh, Mass., 84 Moses Worcester, Tewksbury, Mass., 83 James Stevens, Andover, Mass., 85 Rachel (Hobart), wife of Joseph Cutter, Pepperell, 84 Daniel Priest, 89 Samuel Buss, Leominster, Mass., 87 Asa Parker, 81 Lucy Heselton, 82 Mary, widow of Reuben Pierce, Leominster, Mass., 85 Betsey, wife of David Priest, 88 Benjamin Prescqtt, Groton, Mass., 85 Nov. 30. 1797. Dec. 23- 1803. 1809. Jan. 18, 1811. Apr. 22 1811. June 7. 1812. May 20, 1815. Feb. 15. 1816. Aug. 6, 1817. Oct. 27, 1818. Aug. 22, 1819. June 8, 1820. Nov. 16, 1820. May 7, 1823. July 2, 1823. 1823. Dec. 9> 1828. Feb. 18, 1831. Jan. 16, 1832. Feb. 15. 1832. July -7 1833- Oct. 9. 1833- Mar. 3i> 1834. Jan. 20, 1835- May 6, 1835- Nov. 24, 1836. Apr. 13, 1838. Nov. IS. 1833- Aug. 22, 1839. Dec. 27, 1839. Apr. 28, 1839. l8o HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Mar. 31, 1840. Laban Ripley, Barre, Mass., 83 June 25, 1840. Joseph Cutter, Lexington, Mass., 88 June 28, 1840. Rachel (Kimball), widow of Benj. Frost, 86 July 16, 1840. William Emery, Townsend, Mass., 82 Aug. 31, 1840. Mercy, wife of Joseph Robbins, 86 Oct. 17, 1841. Hannah, wife of Uriah Keyes, 87 Nov. 13, 1841. Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Hodge, 84 Jan. 11,1842. Mrs. Hallet, 80 June 22, 1842. Joseph Robbins, 84 June 24, 1842. Molly (Farnsworth), widow of Thomas Adams, New Ipswich, 88 Jan. 23,1843. Mrs. Jaquith, 83 Mar. 3, 1843. Rebecca (Whitcomb), widow of Jacob Pierce, Lunenburgh, Mass., 89 June 25, 1843. Rebecca (Jewett), widow of Oliver Bacon, Hollis, 87 Dec. 14, 1843. Alice (Shedd), widow of Daniel Twiss, 86 Dec. 21, 1843. Mehitable, wife of Stephen Adams, 81 Mar. 5,1844. Abel Winship, 87 Mrs. Gould, 82 John Turner, Peterborough, 81 Ebenezer Jaquith, Billerica, Mass., 85 Jacob Baldwin, Billerica, Mass., 84 Lucy (Gould), wife of Abel Parker. 80 Mary (Minot), wife of Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Concord, Mass., 84 Sally (Wesson), widow of John Mathews, 84 Mrs. Chadwick, 87 Rufus Sawyer, 86 Alpheas Crosby, Milford, 83 Ebenezer Hathorn, 86 Esther, wife of Benj. Nutting, Groton, 88 Joseph Crombie, 82 Thomas French, Billerica, 82 Elijah Welman, 83 Mrs. Gary, 83 Rachel (Turner), widow of Moses Cutter, Jaffrey, 80 Ithamer Wheelock, 89 David Gilmore, Jaffrey, 82 Elizabeth, widow of Roger Brigham, 83 Daniel French, Jaffrey, 80 Dec. 19, 1852. Elizabeth (French), widow of Joseph Blodgett, 82 Apr. 30. 1852. Sally (Cutter), widow of William Marshall, New Ipswich, 86 Apr. 9, 1844. May 23, 1844. June 18, 1844. Oct. 13, 1844. Nov. 8, 1844- Feb. 3, 1845. Feb. 4, 1845. July 2, 1845. Sept. 29, 1845. Oct. 25, 1845. Jan. I, 1847. Jan. 22, 1847- Oct. 31, 1847. Feb. 21, 1848. Mar. 21, 1848. Nov. 29, 1848. Aug. 21, 1849. Feb. 12, 1850. Aug. 19, 1850. Sept. 3, 1850. Aug. 29, 1851. LONGEVITY. l8l May 5, 1852. Josiah Mower, Topsfield, Mass., 83 June 7, 1852. Paul Hunt, 87 Sept. II, 1852. Joseph Joslin, Leominster, Mass., 86 Mar. 27, 1854. Moses Perkins, Jaffrey, 85 May I, 1855. Hannah (Cummings), widow of Thomas French, 87 Aug. 31, 1855. Mrs. Chapin, 89 Dec. 8, 1855. Oliver Bailey, Andover, Mass., 88 Jan. 5, 1856. Edward Perkins, Jaffrey, 82 Oct. 23, 1856. Sarah (Nichols), wife of Levi Johnson, 83 Dec. 12, 1856. Levi Johnson, Leominster, 8g Apr. 7, 1857. Sybil (Jackson), widow of Jona. Fox, Newton, 88 Aug. 17, 1857. Levi Fisk, Jaffrey, 82 Dec. 31, 1857. Ebenezer Poole, 83 Jan. 12, 1858. Betsey (Litch), widow ot James Stevens, 86 Apr. 8, 1858. Samuel Pierce, Leominster, 82 Aug. II, 1859. Olive (Newell), wife of Jacob Hammond, 80 Dec. 3, 1859. Abraham Priest, 81 Jan. 4,1860. Polly (Pratt), widow of Moody Lawrence, 84 Feb. 9, i860. Mercy (Adams), wife of James Stephens, Jr., 81 Mar. 9, i860. Mrs. Lucy Jennings, 82 May 30, i860. Ruth, widow of Edward Perkins, 83 July 3, i860. Samuel Litch, Lunenburgh, Mass., 81 Aug. 25, i860. Jacob Hammond, Waltham, Mass., ' 85 Nov. 16, i860. Dea. Abel Spaulding, Townsend, Mass., 83 Nov. 20, i860. Joseph Cutter, Jaffrey, 83 July 22, 1861. Hannah (Mellin), widow of Levi Fisk, 86 Aug. 27, 1861. Joshua Nutting, Jaffrey, 80 Dec. 6, 1861. Nabby (Newton), widow of Edward Spaulding, Philipston, Mass., 81 Jan. 9, 1863. Lucy (Emery), widow of Samuel Buss, Dublin, 84 July ID, 1863. Mrs. Risby Wright. 83 Sept. 7, 1863 Ruth (Perkins), widow of John Stone, Jaffrey, 82 Oct. 4, 1863. Ruth, wife of William Comstock, 86 Jan. 7, 1864. Mrs. Tabitha Livermore, 85 Feb. 28, 1865. Mercy, wife of Moses Perkins, 85 Aug. 5, 1865. Hannah, widow of Moses Burpee, Jr., 87 Sept. 25, 1865. Abraham Garfield, 85 Oct. 10, 1865. Ketura (Mayo), widow of Sewell Gould, 83 Dec. 2, 1865. Elias Smiley, 82 Dec. 5, 1865. Abraham Ross, Jaffrey, 85 Dec. 14, 1865. Betsy, widow of Elias Smiley, 82 Dec. 23, 1865. William Comstock, 85 Dec. 27, 1865. James Leathers, Peterborough, 85 1 82 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Mary Reed, 83 Hitty (Brooks), widow of Samuel Pierce, Jaffrey, 88 Jerome Underwood, Jaffrey, 82 Samuel Foster, 82 Daniel Cutter, Jaffrey, 84 Mrs. Anna Pierce, Jaffrey, 88 Mrs. N. W. Beman, 86 Thomas French, Jaffrey,' 80 Mrs. Jabez Stratton, 84 Sally (Searle), widow of Benj. Prescott, Temple, 88 Phebe K., widow of Zebediah Pierce, 84 Abigail (Smith), widow of William Button, Fitz- william, 83 Mrs. Abba C. Harris, 82 Mrs. Darmaris Woodruff, 86 Abijah Pierce, Jaffrey, 83 Gabriel Beman, 87 Mrs. Betsy Smith, 86 Miss Mary Bacon, Jaffrey, 82 Abel Marshall, Jaffrey, 80 John Houghton, 80 Sarah (Poor), widow of John Briant, Dublin, 82 Mrs. Thankful Evans, 81 Sarah (Adams), widow of Dea. John Frost, 85 Hannah, widow of David Chadwick, 81 Luther Hemmingway, 85 Dolly Robbins, 80 Eldad Prescott, Jaffrey, 86 Keziah (Powers), widow of Jacob Newell, 84 AGE 90 TO 100 YEARS. Nov. 17, 180). Amos Fortune (colored), Africa, 91" Jan. 4, 1826. Lydia (Welman), widow of James Gowing, Lynn- field, Mass., 91 Nov. II, 1826. Moses Burpee, Rowley, Mass., 93 Aug. 5,1827. Susanna (Hastings), widow of John Cutter, Water- town, Mass., 96 Aug. 26, 1831. Joseph Hodge, Londonderry, 90 Oct. 27, 1832. Sarah (Lamson), widow of James Gage, Amherst, 93 Aug. 28, 1836. Mary (Flint), widow of Dea. Eleazer Spofford, Danvers, Mass., 92 Feb. 13- 1866. Apr. 7, 1866. June I, 1866. Oct. 26, 1866. Sept. 23, 1868. Jan. 28, , 1869. Feb. 21, 1869. May I, 1869. July 13, 1869. Sept. 7, 1869. Sept. 7. 1869. June 4, 1870. Aug. 3. 1870. Aug. 16, 1870. Oct. 23. 1870. Oct. 3i> 1870. Nov. 8, 1870. Jan. 4, 1871. Jan. 20, 1871. May 8, 1871. June I, 1871. June I, 1871." Aug. 13. 1871. Jan. 20, 1872. Feb. 13. 1872. Feb. 15. 1872. Apr. 23' 1872. Sept. 23. 1872. LONGEVITY. 1 83 Dec. 31, 1838. Thomas Button, Westford, 91 Oct. 25, 1840. Lydia, wife of Lieut. Samuel Buss, 92 May 13, 1841. Joseph Horton, 91 July 14, 1841. Abraham Russ, Bolton, Mass., 97 July 27, 1844. Mrs. Patch, 90 Sept. 5, 1846. Mary (Hastings), wife of Moses Stickney.Waltham, Mass., 90 June 3, 1847. Lois Burdov (colored), Lexington, Mass., 92 Sept. 23, 1848. Edith (Jewett), widow of Hon. Abel Parker, Pep- perell, Mass., 96 Jan. 18, 1853. Nathan Hunt, 93 Oct. 23,1853. Lucy (Robinson), widow of Joseph Kimball, 93 Nov. 26, 1857. Polly (Spofford), widow of David Cutter, Jaffrey, 92 Jan. 30,1858. Hannah (Frost), widow of William Worcester, 98 Aug. 27, 1861. Polly (Perkins), widow of Oliver Bailey, Methuen, Mass., 90 Mar. 23, 1863. John Wilder, 90 Mar. 4, 1866, Abigail (Demery), widow of John Cutter, Boston, 97 May I, 1867. William Smith, Peterborough, 94 Sept. 22, 1867. Rebecca (Cutter), widow of Josiah Mower, New Ipswich, 93 Dec. 30, 1867. Margaret Turner, Peterborough, 92 Feb. 17, 1868. Lucy (Wellington), widow of Dea. Daniel Gil- more, Watertown, Mass., 90 Dec. 6,1871. Phebe Gage, widow of Joseph Cutter, Jaffrey, 92 AGE 100 YEARS AND UPWARDS. Mar. 2, 1852. Moses Stickney, Boxford, Mass., 100 y., 3 mo., 9 days. Mar. 7, 1858. Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Wood- stock, Ct., 100 y., 7 mo., 28 days. Nov. 27, 1866. Mrs. Sarah (Heywood), widow ofjohr. Byum, 102 y., 2 mo.,7days. 1 84 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. PERSONS RESIDING IN JAFFREY OVER 80 YEARS OF AGE, 1873- IN Sarah Averell, 80 Sally B. Patrick, 82 Rebecca Bacon, 83 Jacob Priest, 82 Nathaniel Biggelow, 84 Dorcas Rice, 103 Perkins Biggelow, 82 Fanny Royce, 82 Crombie Chad wick. 80 Thomas Ryan, 84 John Conant, 83 John Sanderson, 81 Benjamin Cutter, 80 Isaac Stratton, 84 Mehitable Cutter, 82 Betsy Stratton, 85 John Grant, 90 Nancy Smith, 94 Sally Hemmingway, 86 Abby C. Tucker, 81 Joseph Hodge, 86 Mary Twiss, 84 John Hodge, 84 Abigail Wheeler, 80 Betsey Mann, 81 Mrs. Rice, widow of David Rice, was born in Oxford, Mass. ID. 1769; died April 15, 1874. Dec. CHAPTER XVII. CENSUS OF THE TOWN, 1873, WITH THE LOCATION OF THE INHABITANTS. T AKEN by the selectmen of Jaffrey, by a vote of the town, March, 1873. Alphabetically arranged. Name. Age. Place of Birth. Name. Age. Place of Birth. Adams, Addison J. 43. N. H. Adams, Susan E. 12, Mass. Mary R. 41. " Alice P. 6, N. H. Edgar A. 16, Mich. George A. 3, " Everett F. II, N. H. Willi am F. Newhall, 17, Mass. Elmer J. 9. 4l Lot 5, range 6. Charles H. Plummer, 19, " Aldr ich, Hosea B. 50, N. H. Resides on lot 5, 1 range ■7- Emily M. 45. i< Adams, Arad 61, N. H. Randall H. 23. Vt. Ruby H. 57, " Freddie L. 16. N. H. Maria R. 28, " Fanny M. 14, " Lot 17, range 7. Emily E. 8, (1 Adams, Austin 0. 35, N. H. Lot 17, range 7- Sarah A. 31. (1 Allen, Warren F. 35, N. H. Grace M. 2, '• Ellen J. 35, (1 Willie M. \h <; John F. 12, " Lot 15, range 8. Warren C. 7, Mass. Adams, Daniel P. 46, N. H. Lot 17, range 8. Emily L. 40, " Annett, Thomas 41, N. B. Olive Burpee, 71, " Mary H. 32, N. H. Joseph Flood, 60, " Maria J. 13- " Lot 2, range 7- Albert I. II, «' Adams, Marshal C. 46, N. H. Anna S. 10. «< Susan B. 45, Mass. Asahel S. 8, '« Sarah L. 14. " Arthur S. 6, <( 13 1 86 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, Maria S. Raymond, 72, N. H. Baker, Alvena i, N. H Lizzie S. Prescott, 22 " Lot 17, range 7. Henry A. Bancroft, 24, " Baker, Ezra 74, N. H Frank J. Boynton, 24, (( Caroline 68, Mass Lot 21, range 10. Milton 42, N. H Armstrong, Milton W. 41, N. H. Lot 7, range 8. Martha 47, " Baldwin, Benj. L. 61, N. H Charles M. II, " Rosaline 58, " Mary A. 5, " Lot 18, range 5. Lot 17, range 8, Baldwin, James A. 62, Mass Austin , George W. 34, Mass. Catherine W. 55, Va. Caroline A. 41, N. H. Charles A. 25, N. H Ella A. 12, Mass. James A. 17, " Mary K. 9, u Lot 12, range 6. George F. 7, " Baldwin, Elbridge 61, Mass Alice F. 4, " Mary F. 71, N. H Hattie M. 2, " John E. 30, '^ Edward J. Bryant, 24, " Hattie E. 30, " Lot 9, range 9- Charles E. 8, " Bacon Rebecca Lot 17, range 83, 7- N. H. Edwin P. 4, Almon A. 2, >. Bacon Oliver Stephen S. 61, 27, N. H. Carl F. 3^, Lot 12, range 6. " Adelia A. 19, " Ballou, Seth D. 50, N. H Willie C. 17, li Rebecca B. 48, " Lot 22, range 4. Hattie F. Boyse, 28, " Bacon Charles 58, N. H. Lot 9, range 7. Frances M. 36, " Balagaron, Charles 48, Can. Burt 22, " Sophia 42, " Hattie J. 17, it Charles 21, " Fred E. 14, " Sophia 17, " Carrie M. Bruce, 3, " George 16, " Lot 20, range 5- Lovell 13, " Bailey Clarence S. 42, N. H. Lena 12, " Sarah E. 34, Mass. Chan ID, " Carrie E. 6, N. H. Fred 2, '' Fannie E. I, " Lot 17, range 7. Abner 75, " Barker MarkT. 41, Me. Lot 7, range 5- Cynthia 35, " Baker, Frank 38, Can. Mary Estes, 75, *' Mary 34, " Lot 17, range 7. Hannah 10, " Bartlet , Byron E. 48, Mass Julia 7. " Mary J. 44, " CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 187 Laura B. IS. Wis. Biggelow, Perkins 82, Mass George H. 13' " Elizabeth C . 56, N. H Mary B. N. H. Lot 17, range 8. Sophia M. Waters, 55- Vt. Blodgett, Timothy 50, N. H. Lot 17. range 7- Fanny Salsbury, 68, " Bartenback, Christina 42. Ger. Lot 17, range 8. William 20, " Blood, Lafayette 48, Mass Henry II, N. H. Eliza T. 46. " Lot 18, range 3- Janett 18. " Bascomb, Roswell 67. N. H. Napoleon 21, " Lucie E. 39- " lola 15. " William H. 33^ " Bion 13, (( Nellie M. 6. " Alice II, << Lot 17. range 7- Edgar 10, " Bascom, George W. 30, N. H. Lizzie 7. " Sophia W. 30. Mass. Moses 5. " Bascomb, Marcellas M 28, N. H. Susan 3i <( Jenny S. 28, " Lot 5, range 7- Lot 17, range 7- Bolster, Aaron 77, Vt. Bascomb, Lucy 33, N. H. Betsey 67, (( Clara E. 10, " Lot r, range 4- Lot 17, range 7. Bolster, James L. 49. N. H. Bass, Albert 47. N. H. Phebe K. 48, Emily E. 45. " Nettie S. 19. (( Lot 21, range 9- Minnie C. Emery, 4. "■ Benjamin. George W. 62. N. H. Lot 18, range 7- Sarah F. 21, " Bradley, Oscar H. 47, Vt. George A. 27. •' Julia A. 42, N. H. Sarah J. 20, (i D. E. II, •' Wallace 9 " Mark F. 5, << Lot 21, range ID. Lot 17, range 7- Bemis, Alvin J. 51. N. H. Brigham, Levi E. 48, Mass. Mary G. 48, " Ann J. 46, " Emily S. 19. " Edwin L. 21, " Lot 17, range 6. Daniel W. 18, " Biggelow, Nathaniel 84, Mass. Ellen J. 16, «( Lot 18, range 8. Isadore 14, " Biggelow, Joseph T. 53. Mass. Dolly A. 12, (1 Mary C. 47, N. H. Lizzie J. 10, N. H. Carrie E. 17. " Lot 4, range c • Georgia A. 13, " Briant, Emeline C. 56, N. H. Josie M. 5, " Peter A. 22 '< Sarah Frost, 45, " Kendall I4t " Lot 13, range 6. Martha 16, (t 1 88 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Mary A. Porter, Briant, Edwin G. Clara C. Lester H. Lot 12, range Brown, Robert James T. Celina Edith J. George R. Lot ID, range Brown, Caroline M. Lizzie Nellie Lot 17, range Brown, Oliver H. Mary S. Frank H. Mary A. Lena L. Annie L. Lot 17, range Brodett, Ezra Lucy Charles Ellen Fred Lot 17, range Buckwold, Jacob Catherine Christina John Philip Emma Carrie Charles Edward H. Piper, Lot 17, range Burpee, Stilman Martha Ari T. Ella R. Lenhert, Burpee, Hugo 23. 25. '>2 32, 25. 3. 5 18, 16, 8. 45. 41. 16, 14, II, 5. 8. 42, 31. 1 1, 38, 15. 13. 1 1, 6, 22, 64, 60, 24, 29, 5. N. H. Burpee, Mattie " Lot 19, range 7. " Burton, James L. Ellen A. Eva M. N. H. Lot 17, range 6 Butler, Eliza J. Hattie G. " Flora T. Alfred Lot 17, range 7. N. H. Caldwell, Catherine Iowa. David P. Iowa. Alexander M. William D. Mass. Alonzo M. N. H. Lot 17, range 7, " Capen, Gardner W. Ellen M. " Carey, Edmond " Bridget John Can. Catherine " Thomas N. H. Bridget " Edmond " Mary Ann Margaret 2, " Ger. Lot 17, range 9. " Carter, William 56, " N. H. Catherine 56, " Lot 18, range 8. Carter, Luke 58, N. H. Lucy 54, Vt. " George A. 23, N. H. " Vina S. 20, " Mass. Emma 14, " Frank Hadley, 2, Mass. N. H. Lot 22, range 4. " Case, Rufus 62, Vt. " Melvina 60, Mass " Lot 12, range 6. Chadwick, Charles A. 47, N. H. 3, N. H. H^ Mass. 37, Me. 7, Mass. 54, N. H. 18, " 13. " 46, Scot. 21, N. Y. 18, " 15, N. H. 13. " 30, Mass. 20, " 47, Irel'd. 42, " 15, N. H. 13, " 12, " 9. " 7. " 5. " CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 189 Chadwick, Sarah A. 4S> Conant, John 83. Mass Abigail Stratton, 72, Mass. Sally 66 N. H Grota Nutting, 62, N. H. Lot 17, range 8. Lot 17, range 7- Condon, James 26, Irel'd Chadwick, Crombie 80, N. H. Joanna 68, " Z. Maria 61, " Lot 15, range 10. Lot 19, range 8. Cragin, Orlando 70, N. H Chamberlin, Henry 49. Mass. Emma 48, " Melvina 40, N. H. Helen II, "• Samuel L 12, " Alvira Pierce, 66, "■ Martha S. II. " Lot 17, range 7 Lot 12, range 9- Crombie, Joseph 68 N. H Chrisholm, Mary A. 43. N. H. Mary S. 49, " George C. 12, " Anna F. 12, " Lot 12, range 6. Lot 17, range 7. Clark, Austin F. 36, N. H. Crowe, John H. 55 Irerd Amelia 30. Can. Mary 55 " John H. A. 9' N. Y. Nettie F. 19, N. H James D. A. 5. N. H. David F. Hickey, 12 Mass Nellie M. 3. " Lot 14, range 10. Emma J. M. I, " Crowe, Edward H. 34, IrePd Ann Cook, ^1^ Mass. Anna M. 34 " Lot 17, range 7- John F. ID N. H Clark, Jonathan 64, Mass. Anna F. 7, " Catherine 28, " Mary L. 5, " Adelbert E. 7. N. H. John Haley, 14, Mass Lot 17, range 8. Lot 15, range 9 Clark, Nathaniel 34, Mass. Cummings, Cynthia E 68 Mass Henrietta 35. Me. Warren Brigham, 66, " Lot 12, range 6. Martha Adams, 72 N. H Coburn, David A. 59, Mass. Lot 17, range 7. Emeline W. 50. Me. Cutter, David A. 59. Mass Emma F. 20, Mass. Sarah E. 47, N. H Edward A. 16, N. H. Martha A. 26, Mass Flora G. 9, " Lot 17, range 6 Lot 17, range 7- Cutter, Benjamin 80 N. H Coburn, Frank H. 25. Mass. Julius 48, " Juliett R. 22, N. H. Caroline H. 43 Mass Lenora R, 2, N. H. Emma M. 19 N. H Lot 17, range 7. Alice E. 15, " Comstock, Jona J. 69, N. H. Ermina Campbell, 6, " Rohona 64, " Lot 13, range 6 Lot 5, range 7 Cutter, Ethan 78, N. H 1 90 HISTORY OF JAFFREV, Cutter, Jonas 39. N. H. Ella Butler. 14. N. H Valeria L. 41. Deborah Bailey, 67. " Mortimer E. 16, ' Lot 4, range 6. Lot 12, range 6. Davis , Abraham B. 57, Me. Cutter, Nathaniel 7Z' N. H. Mary 47. N. H Mary 70. Jennie E. 13. Mass Laura J. 32>- Charles W. 12, a Lucius A. 2,7^ Ella C. 21, '< Carrie E. 26, Allar 5, " Lucie B. I, Lot 8. range 6. Lot 14, range 6. Davis , Joseph 51, N. H Cutter, John A. 63. N. H. Martha 48. " Nancy W. 62, ' Frank F. II. " Lot 12, range 6. Charles B. 23. " Cutter, Charles 55. N. H. Clara 23. " Maria E. 54, " Willie B. I, " Lot 17, range 7. Lot 20, range 5. Cutter, Nehemiah 48, N. H. Davis Kendall 41. N. H. Emily A. 46. ' Lucinda A. 43- " Clara A. 19. Freddie K. 5- " Julia A. 8. Leonard Burton. 74. Vt. Lot II, range 4- Lot 22, range 9 Cutter, Franklin H. 45. N. H. David son, Almira 49, N. H Anna S. 41. Myra M. 28, " Florence E. 19. Lot 17. range 7 Henrietta S. 17, ' Donnelly, John 40. Ire. Lot 12, range 3- Bridget 30. •' Cutter, Charles A. 53- N. H. Joanna 8. N. H Philena L. 52, Vt Daniel 4. a Gustavus A. 26, N. H. Mary 65. Ire. Lucy A. 21, Lot 18. range 7 Willie M. 15, " Donnilly, Daniel 48, Ire. Lucy R. Kimball, 74. Margaret 40, " Lot 12, range 10. James, 16, N. H. Cutter, Lydia 66. M: iss. John 15- " Edwin R. 31- Michael '3- " Charles E. 25. ' Bridget 12, " Lot 17, range 7- Daniel II, " Cutter, Mehitable 82. Mass. Julia M. Farwell, Harriet E. 55- N. H. Lot 15. range 7. Lot 13, range 6. Donnilly, Michael 35, Ire. Darling, Person 65, N. H. Margaret 32. " Theodore W. 72,' ' John 7, N. H. CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 191 Donnilly, Mary 6, N. H. Fassett, Joseph W. 50, N. H William 5. " Sarah A. 5i> " Annie 2, u Charles W. 24. «( Lot 14, range 9- Abbie A. 22, Mass Dupray, Peter 3I' Can. Henry J. 9. N. H Selina 19. " Lot 2, range 4. Delia I, N. H. Fitzgerald, Michael 60, Ire. Durant, Maria E. 43- " Mary K. 38. " Julius C. 17, " Mary A. 7- Mass Lot 17, range 7- Edward C. Boyce, 14- Me. Button, John S. 53- N. H. Lot 12, range 4- Mary B. 48, Vt. Fisk, Adams 72, N. H Lot 10, range 8. Mary L. 68, " Emery, Amasa 69, N. H. Lot 19, range 2. Mary 26, " Follansbee, Mary C. 43. N. H Lot 16, range 8. IdaM. 15- Ohio Emery, Mary S. 64, N. H. George W. 20, " George S. n^ " Fred A. 17, " Lot 17, range 7- Lot 17, range 7- Emery, Sarah M. 28, N. H. Foster, Peter 38, Can. Gertrude 5. " Delied 33- " Charles H. I, " Peter II, " Lucy Sawtell, 70. It Mary 10, " Lot 17, range 7- Annie 9. " Erskine , John 33- Scot. Fred 2, N. H Sarah 33. " Parmelia t\' " Sarah 13. " Lot 17, range 7- Ellen II, Fox, John 69, N. H Gracie 9. it Isabel 53, " Jennie 7. " Mary B . 24, " Agnes 5- Mass. John H. 16, " John 2, " HattieW. 13. " Lot 17, range 7- George W. 42, " Fairban ks, George 47- N. H. Lot 12, range 6. Marietta 45, " French, Luke 65, N. H Charles H. 21, " Lucy 63, " Delos E. 12, N. H. Jane B. Newell, 52, " Emily S. 38, " Elizabeth C. Newell, 58, " Lot 1 1 , range 9- Lot 17, range 8. Johnson, Charles A. 28, N. H. Lacy, James S. 43, N. H Ann 30, " Dorcas C. 37, " Horace H. Gilmore, 53. " Mary F. Bailey, 5, " Lot II, range 8. Lot 17, range 7 Joslin, Joseph 75, N. H. Lacy, Betsey 74, Mass Sarah D. 70, Mass. Priscilla C. Foster, 43, Vt. Lot 17, range 8. Lot 17, range 7- Joslin, Wilder 72, N. H. Lacy, David W. 43, N. H Henry M. 32, " Emma S. 37, Vt. Lot 15, range 7- Harriet C. 7, " Joslin, Emily 67, N. H. NedM. 4, " Vashti Parker, 70, " Lot 1 6, range 7- Lot 17, range 7- Lacy, J. M. M. 41, Vt. Keyes, James E. 40, Mass. Mary J. 36, I( Delia 31, " Mary J. 16, " Elliot 10, (< Susie G. A. D. 6, a Walter A. 8, " Lot 15, range 9. Lot 4, range 7 Ladd, John A. 46, Vt. Kidder, Harvey 41. Vt. Martha A. 44, " Myra J. 39, N. H. IdaL 14, " Elwood E. 18, " Jennie E. 6, Laura E. 15, " Thomas Ryan, 84, Mass, Jeremiah 12, " Lot 17, range 10. Orlena A. 10, " Laport, George 25, Can. Lizzie 8, " Ann 25, " Harry 5, " Alfred Robinson, 13, " Lot 17, range 7- Sophia Savage, t\. N. H. Kidder, Henry 40, Vt. Lot 17, range 7- Mary 25> N. H. Lawrence, John S. 56, N. H. Lot 17, range 7- Sarah E. 50, " King, Joseph 55, N. Y. Fred J. 21, " CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 195 Lawrence, Rebecca 75, N. H. Fred W. Oaks, 12, " Charles W. Faulkner, 49, Mass. Lot 15, range 3. Lawrence, Benj. F. 35, N. H. Sarah E. 22, " Walter F. 2i, Elias S. Ball, 25, Mass. Lot 13, range 6. Lawrence, James G. 23, Mass. Abbie A. 24, " George H. 4, N. H. Ezra W. 2, " N. H. Law, Charles D. 40, Emily A. 40, George A. 14. Sarah 72, Lot 17, range 7. Leathers, Mary W. 46, Betsy J. Fitch, 44, Albert Fitch, 18, Alice Fitch, 14, Lot 17, range 7- Lemire, Octave 40, Julia 25, John 20, Mary 16, Henry \l Jane Sawin, 16, Lot 17, range 7. Libby, Edward B. 21, Charles C. 24, Adaline S. Whitney, 66, Lot 5, range 5 Lincoln, Betsey B. 66, Sarah A. 31, Sarah Jaquith, 65, Lot 17, range 7- Little, John 53, Margaret K. 38, Clara 26, Alfred 18, N. H. Can. Mass. Can. Mass. N. H. Vt. Can. Little, Jane 16, Can. Ellen 14, " Charles 12, " Alice 8, N. H. Henry 6, " Ella 5, " Josie 2, " Lot 17, range 7. Lovejoy, Selah 58, Adaline 49, Ann A. 13, Samuel C. 9, Flora M. 4, Catherine 51, Lot 20, range 10. Lowe, Francis 57, Sarah A. 51, Willie 16, Lot 15, range 5. Mann, John W. 42, Betsey 81, Lot 3, range 5. Martin, Caleb K. 57, Clara M. 55, Byron E. 19, Lot 15, range 6. Marble, Samuel 79, Tula, or Tyla 47, Deborah Newell, 52, Lot 17, range 7. Marule, Benj. F. 49, Lucy M. 50, Winifred 18, Florence 11, Lot 17, range 8. Merryfield, James A. 62, Sophronia 63, Lot 18, range 3. Miller, Charles 42, Jennie 39, Lizzie 16, Villia 12, Charles 8, N. H. Mass. N. H. N. H. Mass. N. H. Mass. N. H. N. H. Vt. N. H. Mass. Ger. 196 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Miller, Bonney 4, N. Y. Mower, Mary L. 13, N. H. Emma 2, N. H. Lot 17, range 7- Robert H. " Nutting, Alpheus 75, Mass. Lot 17, range 7. Mary 74, " Moors, Abner 71, N. H. Lot 17, range 4- William H. 26, " Nutting, Charles 55, N. H. Herbert F. 23, " Nancy S. 58, " Mary S. 19' " Martha C. 22, " Albert II. " Ella A. 16, " Lot 21, range 10. Fred H. 14, " Morse, Harland F. 29. N. H. Lot 16, range 8. Theoda A. 22, Vt. Nutting, Isaiac 54, N. H. Mary M. 4, N. H. Susan 51, " Emma M. 2, " Marcellus A. 22, " Lot 21, range 10. Charles Oun, 35. Morse, Henry F. 34, N. H. William Henebury, 24, Elizabeth R. 29, " Thomas Downey, 21, Etta E. 9, " Lot 17, range 8. Frederick S. 6, " Nutting, Asa 50, N. H. Ervin C. 3, " Ann M. 37, Mass, Lillian A. 2, " Maria A. 19, " Oliver H. T%. •' Lot 13, range 6. Elizabeth F. 17, a Nutting, Lucy 71, N. H. Lot 20, range 10. Polly Stevens, 76, " Mower, Josiah 7Z, N. H. Lot 13, range 6. Louisa 67, " Nutting, Luke H. 46, N. H Enos 35, " Mary Ann 44, " Lot 12, range 10. Frank H. 15, " Mower, Oilman 71, N. H. Fred H. 13, ♦' Oilman J, 40, << Mary E. 9, <( Lucy Carter, 35. (< Willie E. 8, " Sally B. Patrick, 82, Mass. Alice P. 3. " Lot 17, range 7. Lot 19, range 5- Mower, Liberty 70, N. H. Nutting, Alpheus 75, Mass Mary A. 55, " Mary 74, (< Ellen C. 25, " Lot 17, range 4- Samuel H. 24, " Page, Jonathan 57, N. H Willie J. 17, (( Lorinda 52, " Lot 15, range 7- Lydia 23, <( Mower, Nahum W. 44, N. H. Harvey 20, " Lydia A. 42, Mass. Harriet 17, " Clara A. 18, << Adeline 14, (( Frank W. 16, N. H. Lizzie 12, (i CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 197 Page, John 9. N. H. Phelps, William S. 5, N. I Clara M. 4, " Lot 12, range 6. Lot 4, range 10. Pierce, Samuel W. 64, N. I Parker, Lucy 74, N. H. Martha P. 55, " Eliza A. 69, " J. Plummer 22, " Abia C. 64, " Frank W. Sturtevant, 14, " Lot 17, range 7. Lot 16, range 6. Parker, Alva SO, N. H. Pierce, Frederick S. 50, N. I Amanda L. 5i> " Mary A. 52, " Merrill G. 17, " Angeline 9, " Flora J. 13, " Lot 17, range 7- Harriet 9, " Pierce, Reuben 64, N. 1 Lot 12, range 6. Cordelia J. 66, " Parks, Clarence A. 25, Mass. Eloisa M. 34, " Helen S. 23. N. H. Delia J. 23, " Grace M. h Lot 16, range 7- Perkins, Aaron S5, N. H. Pierce, Addison 56, N. 1 Maria 49> " Millie 60, " Lot 17, range 7- Clark M. 20, " Perkins, Moses S. 76, N. H. Carrie E. 18, " Cozby 72, " Lot 20, range 6. Cozby Tenney, 34, " Pierce, Benjamin 51, N. I Dora V. Tenney, 12, " Lucinda 49, " Lot 12, range 6. George A. 24, (( Peasley, John A. 27, N. H. Ada L. 15, " Alice M. 19, " Lot 19, range 7- Devans 17, " Pierce, Dexter 45, N. I Lot 17, range 8. Mary E. 42, " Perry, Thomas 67, N. H. James M. 21, " Cynthia 63. Vt. Loren D. 19, " Nancy 29, N. H. Willie B. 17, " Lot 12, range 6. Jessie G. 13, " Perry, John 65, N. H. Austin 0. II, " Almira 65, i( Myron E. 8, " Hattie 26, " Jane L. 4, " Edward Dillon, i5> " Lot 21, range 6. Alex'r Keller, 37, Scot. Pierce, Lewis L. 53, N. ] Lot 21, range I. Christina M. 53, Mas Phelps, Gurley A. 50, Vt. Xenophon 27, N. 1 Nancy B. 49, N. H. Lot 17, range 7- Grace 21, " Pierce Addison Jr. 27, Ma Charles S. 13, " Mary E. 25, N. ] Mary E. 10 n Lot 17, range ■7- 198 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Pollard, Levi 64, Mass. Prescott, Benj. F. 36, Mass. Sarah 66, N. H. Mary E. 36, " Lot 18, range 6. Hermon S. 14. N. H Poole, John W. 60, N. H. Mary A. 12, " Nancy H. 62, " Fred A. 9, <( Louis K. Howe, 22, " Henry M. 7, " Lot 13, range 6. Carrie 4, " Poole, Joel H. 3i> N. H. Helen T^^' " Lizzie 29. Mass. Lot 14, range 2. Arthur E. 4, N. J. Priest , Jacob 82, N. H. Lot 10, range 4- Eunice 72, " Potter, George S. 35. N. H. Lot 6, range 7 Mary L. 32, " Quin, John 35, Irerd George W. 5, " Ann D. 26, " Electa E. 3, " Patrick J. 6, N. H. Louisa M. f. " Henry 3, " Lot 13, range 6. John F. tV- " Powers, Charles H. 44, N. H. Mary Donnelly, 28, Irel'd. Eliza 40, N. Y. Lot 15, range 4- Fred S. 14. N. H. Rand Emeline E. 53, N. H. Amanda Bailey, 63, N. Y. Charles A. 24, " Mary Miller, 20, Mass. Albert H. IS, " Lot 17, range 7- George H. 12, " Prescott, Oren 50, N. H. Lot 17, range 7- Louisa 47, " Raymond, Orlando 43, N. H. Eliot 0. 18, " Hattie E. 32, " Julius E. 17, " Ernest 0. 6, " Carrie M. 14, " Lot 22, range 5- Willie E. 4, " Raymond, Asahel S. 40, N. H. Lot 17, range 6. Marietta A. 27, " Prescott, Addison 36, N. H. Lot 22, range 5- Mary A. 30, " Reard on, Michael 45, Irel'd. John A. 6, " Ellen 44, " Bessie 4, " Jane 15, N. H. Alice I, " Patrick 14, " Lot 21, range 9- Michael 12, " Prescott, Oren D. 30, N. H. Mary Ellen 9, " Ella M. 21, " Lot 8, range 5 Lot 17, range 7- Rice, Laban 72, N. H. Prescott, Charles F. 31, N. H. Esther C. 71, (( Mabel 6, " Jonas C. 40, " James E. Bemis, 48, " Nancy A. 40, (( Lot 17, range 6. Sophia 19. n CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 199 Rice, Fred 0. 15, N. H. Roberts, George 24, Mass Emily A. 13. " Sarah E. 20, N. H, Herman C. 6, " Lot 17, range 7- Grace E. I, «' Robertson, Samuel B. 55, Me. Dorcas 103, Mass. Mary A. 27, " Rice, George L. 32, N, . H. Lester S. 7, " Lucy H. 21, " Herbert A • 1%. " George L. 4, " Willis W. Fairbanks, 5, N. H. Lot 13, range •6. Lot 17, range 7- Rice, Ira 69, Mass. Rolf, William H. 31, N. H. Phylena 61, " Elizabeth A. 25, Mass. Otis G. 39' " Edward F. 5, " Lot 3, range 7- Walter F. I, N. H. Richardson, Geo. O. 36, M; ass. Lot 20, range 10. Frances 35. " Ryan, Samuel 62, N. H. Fred E. 9. " Hannah 61, " Mabel V. 5. " Lot 17, range 8. Phebe Lamb, 69, " Russel, Isaac S. 55, N. H. Rowena Bailey, 64, " Olive G. 52, " Lot 2, range 9. Sarah E. ID, " Ritchie, Robert 74, N. H. Nancy Smith, 94, " Mary 71, " Arthur H. Felt, 17, N. Y. John 46, " Lot 17, range 3- George C. 41. Rust, Leopold 36, Can. Adelbert 27. " Rosalie 32, " Sarah M. 30. Mary J. Pratt, 40, ■■' Sanderson, John 81, Mass. Willie H. Pratt, 12, " Lydia F. 54, N. H. Melinda H. Hutchinson, 74, Lot 17, range 7. Lot 18, range 7- Sawyer, Cunimings 48, N. H. Ripley, Eliza 78, N. H. Elizabeth 34, Mass. Lot 12, range 6. Albert C. 13, N. H. Robbins, Leonard E. 42, N. H. Emily J. 10, " Ellen M. 30, ■' Fred L. 7, " Ellsworth A. II, ■' Lot 22, range 8. Elvira Stiles, 63, ' Sawyer, Alfred 41, N. H. Lot 21, range ID. Lucy M. 43, " Robbins, Wm. B. 30. N. H. Mary A. 17, " Anna M. 25, ' Clifton A. II, " Jane W. 70, ' Margaret, 78, " Sarah E. 39, ' Marshal D. Jaquith, 45, " Charles B. 27, •' Lot 21, range ID. Lot 17, range 7- Sawyer, Leonard F. 33, N. H. Robbins, Nancy A. 66, N. H. Mary B. 26, " Lot 17, range 7- 200 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Sawyer, Etta M. 6, N. H. Sheehy, Edward 28, Ire. Ella M. 6, " Nancy 30. " Lot 1 8, range 9- Frank II, N. H Scholland, Patrick 45. Ire. John T. 6, " Maggie 42, " Jennie 4, " Patrick 16. u Edward J. 2, " Catherine 10, " Thomas 19, " Thomas 8, " Lot 17, range 7- Lot 17, range 7- Smith, Elijah 61, N. H Simeonough, Godfrey 33. Can. Rebecca 63, " Mary 25, " Almeda M. 33, " Napoleor 6, " Lot 19, range 4. Joseph 3. " Smith, J. M. H. 46, N. H Alice Savage, 13. " Elizabeth 39, " Lot 17, range 7- Mattie M. 12, Ga. Sharon, John 30' Can. Alonzo S. 9, S. C. Mary 24, " Anna T. 7, Ohio. Mary 6, " James H. 5, Me. Frederick 4, " George C. 2, Wis. Isaac I, " Lot 17, range 6. Gideon Bailey, 21, ' ' Smith, Joseph Eliza A. 45, 43, N. H Shattuck, Vrying D. 64, Mass. Frank L. 21, " Sal'ly M. 62, N. H. Lot 13, range 6. Lot 1 1 , range 5- Smith, Eliza 45, Mass Shattuck, Edmund P. 62, Mass. Ampudia 24, " Rachel R. 58. N. H. Wales 23, •' Lucy M. 24. Mass. Carrie 15, " Edmund C. 21, " Lot 17. range 7. Daniel C. 18, " Spaulding, Richard 68, Mass Lot II, range 5. Alvira 54, N. H Shedd, Nathan C. 49. N. H. Lot 13, range 6. Sally M. 41, " Spaulding, Frederick 36, N. H Xenophon B. 24, " Mary Ann 30, " Mark D. 4. " Emma L. 8, " Isaac Ryan, 37, " Edith B. h " Lot 17, range 7- Mary A. 60, " Shedd, John B. 47, N. H. Ann F. 33^ " Sarah J. 46, " Ermina M. 38, " Frank E. 16, >< Lot 7, range 7 Spaulding, Leonard E. 32. N. H Sheehy, John 73. Ire. Mary A. 32, Mass Ellen 70. i( Spaulding, Ambrose 53, N. H CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 20 1 Spaulding, Lizzie M. 51. Vt. Stoen, Alice 5, Can. Carrie L. 20, N. H. Lot 12, range 10. Minnie 9. " Stone, James F. 40, Mass. Clarence Crosby, 22, Rachel A. 35, " Lot 3, range S Lizzie M. 18, ( i Spaulding, Austin A. 29, N. H. Fred J. 13, " Vryland S. 29, Mass. Lot 3, range 7, . Lot II, range 5. Stratton, Isaac 84, N. H. Stanley, Alva 64, N. H. Betsey 85, " Lucy B. 61, " Lot 13, range 10. Henry A. 13, " Stratton, Jona. W. 59, N. H, Lot I, range 5 ;. Edna J. 40, " Stearns, Thomas A. 61, Vt. Lot 13, range 10. Almeda S. 59. N. H. Stratton, Fred G. 30, N. H. Henry M. 25, " Martha A. 29, " Mary C. 22, " Lot 21, range 10. Sarah A. 13. " Taggart, Esther 64, N. H. Sarah Averill, 80, " Charles W. 22, a Fred C. Emery, 10, " Lot 17, range 7. Lot 16, range 5- Tarbox, Edward B. 28, N. H. Stebbins, Josiah 49. N. H. Etta 22, Mass. Submit 46, Me. Susan B. 58, N. H. Etta E. 14, N. H. Lot 16, range 9- Mary L. 12, " Thayer, Joseph A. 53- N. H. Nettie S. 9' " Abbie 42, " Josiah C. 5. " George B. Hagget, 16, Mass. Lot 18, range 6. Lot 19, range 5- Stearns. Clarissa 67. N. H. Thomas, Eliza L. 26, Vt. Adaliza A. 36, " Lula B. 5, N. H, Lot 17, range 7. Lot 17, range 7. Stevens, William P. 66, N. H. Towne, Liberty 45, N. H. Mary E. 56, " Lizzie 37, " Sally 67, a Albert 18, " Charles 57, " Jennie 16, Mass, Lot 12, range 9- Willie K. II, N. H. Stevens, Albert 36, N. H. Sylvester 8, " Jennie L. 30. N. Y. Freelove 5, " Ida M. 6, N. H. Lot 16, range 7- Lot 17, range 7. Towne, Levi P. 47, Vt. Stoen, John 50, Can. Emily A. 45, N. H. Julian 47, " Carrie S. 16, " Joseph 19, Julia E. 6, " Hurd 16, Lot 10, range ID. Jane 14: 1 Towns, Sylvester A. 40, N. H. 202 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Towns, Sarah J. n^ N. H. Verder, Priscilla M. 41, N. H Lot 1 6, range 7- Lefy A. 15. " Towns, Polly 76, N. H. Lot 17, range 7- George A. 36, " Verder, Charles W. 35. N. H Mary L. 29, " Sarah E. 42, ti George M. 4, ' ■' Lot 17, range 7- Nola L. i, ' •' Wales, John M. 53. Vt. Lot 1 6, range 7- Cynthia A. 47. N. H Turner, Jona. D. (^1. N. H. Lot 17, range 8. Cynthia E., 59. " Warren, Richard 76, Vt. Lot 17, range 8. Maria 72, N. H Turner, Henry A. 32, N. H. Cornelius W. 41. " Lucy A. 30. " Edna W. 41. i( Lucy L. 6, ' " Lot 14, range 8. Eunice B. 4, ' " Waters, Sophia M. 55. Vt. Lot 17, range 8. Lot 17, range ■1- Underwood, Geo. A. 49. N. H. Webster, William T. 40, Mass, Mahala B • 39. " D. C. 37, " Geo. B. 18, C. Fred 12, t( Deborah IS. :( Lot 17, range 7- Abby A. 2, " Webster, Wilbur 34. Mass Lot 9, range 8 Lizzie E. 22, " Upton, Peter 56, N. H. Thomas Fitzgerald, 27. '• Sarah M. 39. ' " Lot 17, range 7- Mary A. 16, ' ■' Wellman, Elijah 78, N. H. Hiram D. 13. " Samuel 65. i( Alice W. 9. ' '■'■ Fanny Royce, 82, " Lot 17, range 7- Mary Wallace, 56, " Upton, Thomas 54. N. H. Lot 22, range 5- Sophia 42, ' ■•' Wheeler, Henry B. 39. N. H, Adelia 22, ' '' Mrs. B. 42, " Lot 17, range 8. F. H. 14. " Upton, William 52, N. H. E. W. 8, " Sally 48, " Abigail 80, " James M. 14. ' ■' Wilson S. 59, a Lot 22, range 5- Hattie C. 17, " Upton, Eliza 46, Mass. John T. Stone, 39, Mass, Frank r4, N. H. T. H. Curtis, N. H, Verder, John F. . 73. Mass. Elizabeth Houghton, 45. Mass, Sarah J. 66, N. H. Emily M. Towns, 23. N. H. Lot 17, range 7. Vesta Metcalf, 26, " Verder, Albert S. 41. N. H. Lot 17, range 7- CENSUS OF THE TOWN. 203 Wheeler, James A. Madeline P. Mary J. Rosira John F. Lot 16, range Whitney, Henry H. Caroline F. Lot 22, range Whitney, Thomas P. Harriet A. Whitney, John Alvira S. Elizabeth A. Lot 17, range Wilber, Le Prelett Hannah Lot 17, range Wilber, Lowell Amarantha Lot 17, range 24, 22 12, 59, 27. 7- 67, 62, 4- 56, 53. 50. 58, 24, 7- 69, 66, 29, 32, 7- N. Y. N. H. N. Y. N. H. Conn. Mass. Mass. N. H. Mass. Mass. a Mass. Willoughby, Nelson L. 40, N. H. Harriet 46, " Dora 25, " Eva 10, " Lillian 4, " Frank Sweetland, Mass. Winch, Caleb, 46, N. Y. Mary D. 48, N. H. Myra L 14, " Lot 17, range 8. Woodburn, Emma F. 27, N. H. Faith C. 2, Woodruff, John W. 57, N. J. Susan A. 52, " Anna M. 22, " Fred S. 15, " Abby C. Tucker, 81, " Lot 12, range 2. CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION— 1880. THE end of the period covered by this history has now arrived, — a period of 130 years. Tv\ro generations have passed and gone, and only a few are left of the third to tell the history of the first. The descendants of the early settlers are in the minority among the present inhabitants of the town. Very few are in possession of the original homesteads, and that number is fast diminishing. In the male line we find only the names of Clarence S. Bailey, Fred. J. Lawrence, John and Simpson Hodge, William and Charles Stevens, and Geo. A. Underwood. In the female line, Joel W. Poole, Jona. J. Comstock, and Jonas C. Rice. The early settlers now represented by their descendants are Oliver Bacon, David Bailey, Jacob Baldwin, Jona. Blod- gett, Moses Burpee, Kendall Briant, Joseph Cutter, John Cutter, Moses Cutter, James Cutter, David Chadwick, Jo- seph Chamberlin, Thomas Dutton, Daniel Emery, William Emery, Jona. Fox, Thomas French, Thomas Fisk, Benjamin Frost, Roger Gilmore, Thomas Goff, Joseph Hodge, Eben- ezer Jaquith, Jacob Jewell, Levi Johnson, Joseph Joslin, David Lacy, Benj. Lawrence, Thomas Mower, Benj. Nut- ting, Isaac Nutting, Jacob Newell, Joseph Perkins, Samuel Pierce, Ebenezer Poole, Benj. Prescott, David Sawtell, David Stratton, Jona. Stanley, James Stevens, Jereme Underwood, Elijah Wellman, and even these have probably more repre- sentatives in other places than in the town of Jaffrey. Wherever they are, I think, like the Romans of old, they will feel honored in being sons of Jaffrey. TOWN OFFICERS, ETC. 205 The census recently taken shows the number of inhabi- tants to be 1,267. The largest number in Jaffrey was in 1850, which was 1,497. Number of tax-payers in 1880, 468 ; valuation, including polls, $730,798. MONEY ASSESSED. For state tax, ;^ 1,868.00 county tax, 1,523.31 school tax, 1,634.50 town charges, 1,674.19 interest on town debt, 1,000.00 highway and bridges, 700.00 breaking roads, 300.00 deficiencies for 1879, 700.00 watering-troughs. 100.00 redeeming town bonds, 1,000.00=^10,500.10 Drawn from state, 1^2,400.00 Outstanding taxes, 300.00 Money in savings-bank, 1.300.00=^4,000.00 Five per cent, added, ), 500.00 325.00 ^ , 1^6,825.00 lax on dogs, ^ ' 49.00 SCHOOLS. Money assessed, ^^^^ Literary fund and interest, 272.98 ;^ 1,907.48 TOWN OFFICERS, ETC., 1880. Moderator— Charles H. Powers. Town-clerk— Joseph P. Frost 206 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Town treasurer — Charles H. Powers. Superintending School Committee — Wm. W. Livingston, Deputy sheriff — Fred. S. Pierce. Justices — State : Frank H. Cutter, Fred. S. Pierce, F. B. Spalter ; — County : G. A. Phelps, J. W. Fassett, Alfred Saw- yer, H. B. Aldrich, L. N. Willoughby, J. P. Frost. Postmasters — Centre, G. A. Phelps ; East Jaffrey, Peter Upton. Physicians — Centre, G. A. Phelps ; East Jaffrey, Oscar H. Bradley. Lawyer — East Jaffrey, John H. Fox. Ministers — Centre, Rev. Wm. W. Livingston ; East Jaf- frey, 2d Congregational, Rev. John C. Staples ; Baptist, Rev. Theodore C. Gleason ; Universalist, Rev. Fred. W. Bailey. Express agent — Aaron Perkins. Insurance agents — Pierce & White, F. S. Cutter. Hotels — Centre, Jonas Cutter, Jonas C. Rice ; East Jaf- frey, Granite State, Rodney Brown ; Mountain House, Batchelder & Newton. Merchants — Centre, J. T. Biggelow ; East Jaffrey, J. S. Lacy, C. H. Powers, Walter Goodnow & Co. ; meat, Kit- tredge & Robbins, Reuben Pierce. Millinery — Mrs. Prescott. Dress-makers — Centre, Miss E. R. Gibbs, Mrs. G. L. Rice ; East Jaffrey, Mrs. T. Hanscom. Hair-dresser — A. Caldwell. Banks — Monadnock National Bank, Benjamin Cutter, president, Peter Upton, cashier ; Monadnock Savings Bank, Oscar H. Bradley, president, Peter Upton, treasurer. Livery stables — Centre, Jonas Cutter ; East Jaffrey, Aaron Perkins. Manufacturers — Centre : leather, Julius Cutter ; chair stuff. Heath & Gilmore ; furniture, F. L. King ; shoes, Luke French ; — East Jaffrey : wooden ware, A. J. & J. E. Bemis ; blue drilling. White Bros. ; dry pulp, G. A. Shep- TO' N OFFICERS, ETC, 20/ ard & Co., Elijah Sturtevant, agent ; lumber, J. E. Bemis ; nest-boxes, Annett & Murdock ; shoes, G. Fairbanks ; shoe- knives, Wilbur Webster. Mechanics — Centre : blacksmiths, Joseph Smith & Son ; carpenters, J. P. Frost, Alvah Parker ; cooper, Elbridge Baldwin; printers, Livingston Bros.; wheelwright, John Dunbar ; — East Jaffrey : blacksmiths, D. A. Colburn, Ira Gardner ; carpenters, L. L. Pierce, Liberty Towne, G. A. Towne, Sylvester Towne, B. E. Bartlett, P. B. Robinson ; cooper, N. C. Shedd ; gunsmith, J. S. Button; brick-masons, I. C. Ryan, W. H. Ingraham ; watches and jewelry, J. S. Freeman. Genealogical Register, 15 GENEALOGY. Abbreviations: — a., aged; b., born; m., married; unm., unmarried; d., died; s., son; dau., daughter; ch., child — children; r., residence; re., removed. AINSWORTH FAMILY. lO II (5) 12 Daniel Ainsworth and his wife Alice, natives of England, settled in Roxbiny, Mass., where she d. in 16S5, childless. He sent to England for his nephew, Edward, and made him his heir. Edward Ainsworth appears to have been a sea-fering man. He m. Joanna Hemmingway, Jan. 11, 16S7-8. Children by Joanna (Hemmingway) Ainsworth: I. Joshua, b. Jan. 22, 16SS-9 ; lived only three days. II. Hannah, b. Jan. 21, 1689-90; m. John Green, of Brookfield, Mass. III. Edward, b. Aug. iS, 1693 ; m. Joanna Davis, of Roxbury, Mass. -|- IV. Elizabeth, b. Nov. iS, 1695 ; m. John Johnson, of Brookfield, Mass. V. Daniel, b. Oct. 7, 1697. VI. Joanna, b. 1699. VII. Joanna, b. Oct. 5, 1700; (.'') is this a second Joanna, or by error per the date of the first. VIII. Judith, b. Jan. 25, 1702-3 ; m. James Marcy. IX. Smith, b. March. 25, 171 2 ; a bachelor. Edward Ainsworth, Jr., m. Joanna Davis. I. Abigail, b. 212 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, 13 16 (16) 17 18 19 20 31 22 (17) 23 24 (24) 25 26 27 II. Daniel, b. III. Alice, b, IV. Edward, b. V. William, b. Nov. 14, 1805.4- -, 1728 ; m. Sybil Cbild. -. 1729; m. Mary Marcy ; d. William Ainsworth, of Woodstock, Conn. Chil- dren by Mary (Marcy) Ainsworth : I. Lahan, b. July 19, 1757; m. Mary Minot ; d. March 17, 1858. -f II. Marsylvia, b. Aug., 1759 ; m. Daniel Needham ; d. May 20, 1853. III. Louisa, b. ; m. Paul, of Newport, N. H. IV. Andrew, b. March 17, 1766, unm. ; d. July, 1796. V. Oliver b. VI. Luke, b. ; d. young. — Laban Ainsworth. The town records, which have been badly kept and badly transcribed, state his birth as of July 9, 17541 while authority says July 19, i757* He studied under Nathaniel Tisdale, of Lebanon, Conn., and entered Dartmouth college as sophomore in i775 ' graduated, 1778; studied theology with Rev. Stephen West, of Stockbridge. Preached for two years at Spen- certown, on the Hudson ; was for some months chaplain in Major McKinstry's corps. Ordained pastor of the churcli in Jaffrey, Dec. 11, 1782; m. Dec. 4, 1787, Mary Minot, dau. of Jonas Minot, of Concord, Mass. She d. Feb. 3, 1845. Their children were, — I. Sarah, b. March 23, 1789; m. Isaac Parker; d. May 29, 1857. II. William, b. Aug. 24, 1792; m. Mary Morse Stearns; d. June 14, 1842. -|- [See Coll. Graduates.] William Ainsworth. Children by Mary Morse (Stearns) Ainsworth : I. Frederick Smith, b. April 11, 1820; m. Mary Harris. [See Coll. Graduates.] II. Mary Minot, b. Feb. 26, 1822 ; m. Theodore P. Green, U. S. Navy. III. William Parker, b. Dec. 22, 1825. Killed in Battle at Port Royal, Va., 1862. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 213 28 I IV. Josiah, b. Aug. 14, 1832 ; d. Oct. 23, 1833. After these, the names in this branch are all extinct. ADAMS FAMILY. Many of the descendants of this fomily have been residents of Jaftrey; — Thomas and Stephen, previous to 1774; Ephraim, previous to 177S ; Samuel, 1778 ; Jonas, 17S5 ; and Silas, pre- vious to 1792. Thomas was a son of Dea. Ephraim and Lydia (Kinsman) Adams, of New Ipswich, a descendant of William Adams, who settled in Cambridge in 1635, and removed to Ipswich, Mass., previous to 1642. He m. Molly Farnsworth, and settled on lot 17, range 4; d. Oct. II, 1820, a. 69. His widow d. June 24, 1842, a. SS. They had no children. Mr. Adams was one of the prominent men in town, and held many offices of trust ; — was moderator, select- man, town treasurer, a militia officer, and a soldier in the Revolution. Ephraim Adams was probably a brother. He set- tled on lot 7, range 3, at the base of Grand Monadnock, afterwards the residence of Joseph Meeds, now un- inhabited. His name appears on the records for the last time, as highway surveyor, in 1789. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Stephen Adams settled in the west part of the town. His name appears in 1774 on a remonstrance, signed by the inhabitants of Jaflrey, against the annex- ation of a portion of the east part of the town to Feterboro' Slip, now Sharon. In 1775 he enlisted into Capt. Philip Thomas's company, of Rindge. This com- pany was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and lost three men, killed in that battle. In 1777 Stephen Adams enlisted for three years, or during the war, and was in service at Ticonderoga. It seems quite probable that he was the same man who enlisted for three months in Capt. Thomas's company in 1775. 214 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 5 6 7 8 9 lO II 12 H 15 16 17 18 19 20 Jonas Adams came from New Ipswich and settled on lot 11, range 4, previous to 17S5, and left town about 1798. He married Phebe , and left a birth record of six children. I. Lucy^ b. March 22, 1784, at New Ipswich. II. e/ere, b. Aug. 15, 1785. III. Jonas^ b. Aug. 25, 1787; d. Feb. 26, 1790. IV. Phineas^ b. Oct. 20, 17S9. V. Milley^ b. Sept, 2, 1791. \i. Nancy ^ b. Jan. 25, 1794. -, and left on record the Silas Adams m. Lois — birth of five children. I. Thirza^ b. July 7, 1792. II. Silas^ b. Feb. 6, 1796. III. Lois^ b. Oct. 29, 1799. IV. Gregory^ b. June 16, 1804. V. Asa, b. Oct. 3, 1805. Mr. Adams settled on lot 16, range 2, about i793» and left town about 1807. It was afterwards owned by- John Pierce. Thomas Adams, 2*^, son of Daniel and Sarah (Clark) Adams, and grandson of Dea. Ephraim Adams, of New Ipswich, was born at Fitzwilliam, May 9, 1785 ; became a resident of JaflVey in i8o6. He settled on lot 17, range 4, and m. Sarah Sawtell, of Jaflrey. Capt. Adams was highly esteemed as a citizen, and held many offices of trust ; was town-clerk, selectman, superintending school committee, and for many years a distinguished teacher in the jDublic schools. When the rifle company was organized, he was chosen one of its officers, and afterwards its commander. They had a family of ten children, none of whom are now residents of the town. He d. Sept. 11, 1841, a. 56. His wife d. Oct. 25, 1828, a. 40. I. Cynthia, b. Oct. 20, 1808; m. Orford Capron, q. V. II. Thomas, b. Jan. 27, 1810; d. Dec. 7, 1834. HI. Ephraim, b. Nov. 15, 181 1 ; m. Catherine Cal- lahan ; r. in Nashua. IV. David Saiotell, b. Dec. 11, 1813 ; d. at Canton, Oct. 15, 1834; unm. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 215 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 V. James, b. Feb. 8, 1816; m. and re. to Eliza- bethtown, 111. VI. George, b. March 3, 1818 ; re. to Dorien, Ga. VII. Moses, b. Feb. i, 1820; m. Fanny Howe; and d. at Nashua, Feb. 8, 1850, leaving a son, John Qiiincy, b. Aug. 21, 1847 ' afterwards adopted by Orford Capron ; d. Oct. 23, 1864, in the marine hospital at Portsmouth, N. H. VIII. Amos S., b. Jan. 30, 1823; studied medicine at Woodstock, Vt., and settled in Lynn, Mass. IX. Charles A., b. Aug. 17, 1824; r. in Lynn; is a teacher of music. X. Sarah 31., b. Sept. 18, 1826; r. in Nashville, N. H., 1S52. Capt. Samuel Adams was born in Boxford, Mass., Aug. 22, 1750. He was a son of Isaac and Mary (Wood) Adams. Removed with his father to Rindge, about 1772, and to Jafirey in 1778. The emigrant of this family was Robert, who resided in Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, afterwards in Salem and Newbury, and d. in 1682. In 17731 Ji'ly I? Capt. Adams m. Lucy, dau. of Col. Eliphalet and Lucy (Peabody) Spoflbrd, of Boxford. He built the first meeting-house in Jaffrey ; was a Capt. of the militia and a soldier in the Revolu- tion. He d. of typhus fever, Feb. 21, 1813 ; his widow d. Feb. 23, of the same disease, and both were buried in the same grave. They had ten children. The two oldest were born in Rindge. I. Eliphalet, b. Feb. 10, 1775. Emigrated to Upper Canada. II. Isaac, b. Nov. 18, 1776.-}- III. Sally, b. Jan 28, 1779. Emigrated to Upper Canada, and d., 1854. IV. Samuel, b. Aug. 16, 17S2.-I- V. Lucy, b. Jan. 23, 1785 ; m. Artemas Lawrence, q. V. VI. Polly, b. Jan. 5, 17S7 ; m. i'', Perley P. Burnam ; m., 2^, Joseph G. Swan, of Gilead, Me. VII. Israel, b. Jan. 27, 1790 ; m. Harriet Putnam ; r. in Danvers, Mass. ; d. Feb. 8, 1857. 2l6 36 37 38 (30) 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 (32) VIII. IX. HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Jacob, b. Sept. 25, 1 792 ; re. to Sacket's Harbor ; from thence to Upper Canada ; and d. Jan. 21, 1S67. Betsy, b. March 24, 1794; m. Eliphas Chap- man, of Bethel, Me. ; d. Oct. 15, 1S47. Daniel, b. Aug. 19, 1796; re. to Watertown, N. Y., and was drowned. Isaac Adams m., i^', Deborah Twitchell, of Dublin, N. H. ; re. to Gilead, Me. Mrs. Adams, with her in- fant, was drowned in the Androscoggin river. M., 2^, Olive Wright, of Dublin. He d. Nov., 1848 ; his wid., Olive, d. April 22, 1856, a. 79. Children by first wife : I. EKphalet, b. Feb. — , 1801 ; d. 1803. II. Infant^ drowned 1803. Children by second wife : III. Eliphalet, b. Feb. 23, 1804. IV. Darius, b. April i, 1805. V. Samuel, b. Dec. 19, 1806. VI. Deborah, b. March 23, 1808. VII. Lucy, b. Jan. 9, 1810. viii. Aphia, b. Oct. 3, 1811. IX. Isaac, b. July 23, 1813. X. Israel, b. May 26, 1815. XI. Olive, b. 1 818. Samuel Adams m., 1°', Sally, dau. of Francis Wright, of Jaftrey ; m., 2*^, Eliza Learnard, of Dublin ; r. Watertown, N. Y. He d. Dec. 18, 1S54, a. 72; his wife, Sally, d. Aug. 19, 1837, a. 47. Children by first wife : 1 Albertype— Forbes Co., Boston. ^y^fr^^^Uy/ ^yVo/^^ 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 (58) 6o 6i 62 63 64 65 (59) 66 67 68 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 21/ I. Jbhti Wright^ b. Nov. 5, 18 16; m., 1846, Ber- intha Gowdy. II. Israel^ b. Nov. 12, 1818; m. Harriet Boynton. III. Artemas Z., b. Jan., 1821 ; m., i'*, Delilah Hill ; 2"*, Mary J. Adams. IV. Zucy, b. Sept. 3, 1822 ; m. Pierson H. Thurs- ton. V. Caroline Elizabeth, b. July 21, 1S26 ; m. Henry Andrews. Child by second wife : VI. Sarah E., b. Aug. 31, 1843 ; d. Sept. 7, 1845. Stephen Adams came from Ipswich, Mass., about 1807 ; settled in school-district No. 5 ; m. Mehitable , and had children : I. Stephen^ b. at Ipswich ; m., Aug., 1813, Re- becca Chadwick, of Rindge. II. Isaac^h. 1794; m. Adelia, dau. of Capt. Ed- ward and Ruth Perkins, of Jaffrey ; d. May 18, 1852. She d. July 28, 1864, a. 63.+ III. Jesse, b. 1796; d. Dec. 15, 1S63.-I- IsAAC Adams and wife, Adelia, had, — I. Edward Francis, b. May 25, 1825. II. Daniel PerJcins, b. March 8, 1827 ; m. Emily L., dau. of Edmund and Olive Burpee. III. Lysander Alonzo, b. July 5, 1829. IV. Stephen A. V. Andreio J. VI. Adelia M., b. 1838; m. George G. Bailey, Oct. 21, 1859. Jesse Adams m. Ruth Perkins ; six children I. Joseph ^., b. 1830.-]- II. Sarah 31., b. 1832. HI. Alphofizo A., b. 1855. 2l8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 69 70 71 (66) (69) 73 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 So (75) IV. Austin 0., h. 1838; m. V. Roderick Ji., b. 1840. VI. Elizabeth A., b. 1846. Joseph A. Adams m., i^', Martha ; m., 2*^, Mrs. Roancy Pliimmer. (i) Edgar, b. 1857. (2) Everett F., b. 1862. (3) Elmer J., b. 1863. Austin O. Adams m. Sarah A. -. Two children (i) (^mce Ji:, b. 1871. (2) Willie 31., h. iS"] 2. Daniel Adams, b. at Cambridge, Mass., March 14, 1768, was a son of Dea. Joseph Adams, a descendant of Henry, who emigrated from Devonshire, Enghind, in 1630. He m. Phebe Britton, b. Jan. 25, 1778 ; came to Jatirey about 1813, and purchased the farm of Dea. Eleazer Spotlbrd, wliich now comprises a hxrge part of East Jartrey. He afterwards sokl the same, and bought a farm of Amos MiUiken, near the Monadnock Mineral Spring. In 1840, he re. to Springtield, Vt., and d. April 3, 1S57. ^^'*^ ^'^'^ <^'- ^'^'^y 20, 1847. I. Phehe, b. March 18, 1794. II. Cynthia, b. April 14, 1796. HI. Daniel, b. May 22, 1798.-]- IV. Hannah, b. May 30, 1801 ; d. V. Hannah, b. Feb. 18, 1804; m. Jonathan Adams ; r. Chester, Vt. VI. Eranklin, b. April 7, 1805. VII. Louisa, b. Dec. 14, 1806; m. Enos Holmes; d. at Bertrand, Mich., Jan. 25, 1776, viii. Harriet, b. Dec. 14, 1817; m. Amos E. Buss, r. Oneida, Ohio. He d. at Springfield, Vt., April 3, 1857. S'^^ *^'-' -^^'^y 2°' ^^47- Daniel Adams m., i^*, Elmira, adopted dau. of Will- iam and Sally (Searle) Hodge ; m., 2'', Betsey Holmes ; re. to Springfield, Vt., and d. there. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 219 81 82 84 85 86 I. ^arah, h. ; m. Rev. Eleazer S. Foster, q. V. II. Caroline, b. at JaftVey ; m. Daniel Brown, of Springfield, Vt. III. Cynthia, b. at Jaftrey ; m. John M. Wales ; d. 1874, a. 48. Nehemiah Adams came from Ipswich, Mass., about 1S20; settled in school district No. 5 ; m. Lydia Benja- min ; had eight children. He d. Aug. 10, 1853 a i-i Mr. Adams was a member of the state convention for the revision of the constitution in 1850. (i) Augustus A., b. at Hartford, Vt. in 1829 (2) George A b. Nov. 24, 1831 ; m. Josephine, dau. of Luther and Caroline Cutter, r Trov (3) Oscar JV., b. 1833. (4) Isaac M., b. 1835. (5) Helen Z., h. 1838. (6) Oren S., h. 1840. (7) Charles W., h. 1843. (8) Abbi/ F., b. 1845. Arad Adams, son of Israel Adams, who came from Andover, Mass., to Rindge in 1772, came to East Taf- fi-ey, and engaged for a time in trade. He m Ruby Hale, daughter of Emerson and Jemima (Foster) Hale and has two children. Mr. Adams d. at East Jaffrey! (i) Maria, b., June 35, 1840. (2) Lizzie, b. May 8, 1843 ; d. Jan., 1857. • Marshal C. Adams, son of Marshal Adams a de scendant of Oliver Adams, of Chelmsford, Mass' was b. at Rindge, May 23 1827 ; m., April 19, 1S53, Susan B. Patterson ; re. to Jaftrey, and settled on lot 1 range 6, the old Gilmore place. Four children ; (i) Sarah Z., b. 181^9. (2) Susa7i E., b. 1 86 1. (3) Alice P., b. 1867. (4) George A., b. 1870. 220 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. BACON FAMILY. (7) 9 lO II 12 13 Thomas Bacon emigrated from England to Ply- mouth, Mass. He d. April 11, 1749, a. 81 ; his widow d. April 17, 1759. His son, the Rev. Jacob Bacon, graduated at Har- vard college in 1731, studied divinity, and settled in Keene, N. H., Aug. 5, 1738. He was the first minister settled in that town. In i747 he was dismissed at his own request, without the usual formalities. A few days afterwards the town was abandoned by the inhabitants, through fear of the Indians, who soon burnt it. Mr. Bacon returned to Plymouth, and m., April 32, 1749, Mary , by whom he had five children : I. Mary, b. Aug. 18, 1750. II. Jacob, b. Aug. 25, 1751. III. Thomas, b. Feb. 15, 1753 ; d. Aug. 6, 1753. IV. David, b. Aug. 24, 1754. V. Oliver, b. Oct. 28, 1755. -f- VI. Hannah, dau. of Thomas, m. Nathaniel Wight; d. Oct., 1754, a. 58. He d. April 3' 1755- Oliver Bacon re. from Plymouth to Jaftrey, about . He first settled on lot 14, range 5, afterwards owned by Robert Harkness. He m. Mrs. Rebecca (Cummings), dau. of the Rev. Jewett, of Hollis ; d. March 25, 1835 ; his wid. d. June 35, 1843, a. 87. He was a lieutenant in the Revolution. They had five children : I. Jacob, b. Dec. 11, 17S6. -f- II. Mary, b. May 2, 17S8; d. Jan. 2, 1871 ; unm. III. Rebecca, b. May 20, 1790; d. March 23, 1876; unm. IV. Oliver, b. Dec. 2, 1792; killed by lightning, July 2, 1801. V. Jonathan Jewett, b. May 26, i795- (9) H 15 16 17 (13) 18 19 (H) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (16) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 221 Jacob Bacon m. Betsey Sawyer, of Boothbay, Me. They had 4 children : I. Olioer, b. March 15, iSii.-}- II. 3Iartha,h. Jan. 2, 1S13 ; m. Stihnan Burpee, q. V. III. Charles, b. Oct. 16, 1814.-]- IV. Eebecca, b. Oct. 9, 1816; m., i^ June 16, 1846, Faxon Rice ; 2**, Zervia M. Smith. Jacob Bacon d. March 18, 1866 ; his wife d. July 26, 1854, a. 72. 28 29 JoNA. Jewett Bacon m. Sally, dau. of Samuel Patrick, Jr. : re. to Canada. Children : (i) Sarah, b. Dec. 11, 18x8. (2) Oliver Jewett, b. Jan. 16, 1821 ; m. (3) Eliza A. (4) Samuel. (5) Caroline. (6) Abi- gail. (7) Relief. Oliver Bacon m., June 11, 1840, Mary Ann, dau. of Jared Pratt. Had eight children. His wife d. Jan. 18, 1867, a. 48 yrs., 11 mos., 16 dys. I. Henry, b. March 24, 1841. II. Frances A., b. Dec. 20, 1S43 ; d. June 23, 1865, a. 22 yrs., 6 mos., 5 dys. III. Stephen S., h. Dec. 31, 1844. IV. Sydney C, b. Oct. 10, 1846 ; d. March 12, 1848, a. 16 mos., 5 dys. V. C. Oliver, b. Sept. 13, 1848 ; d. Aug. 28, 1867, a. 18 yrs., 11 mos., 15 dys. VI. Clara A., b. Oct. 15, 1850; d. Feb. 3, 1871, a. 20 yrs., 3 mos., 18 dys. VII. Adelia J., b. Aug. 23, 1852. VIII. Willie, b. Sept. 4, 1855. Charles Bacon m. Eliza J., dau. of James Leath- ers, of Peterboro' ; she d. Feb. 9, 1871, a. 50; m., 2"^, Mrs. Frances Bruce, dau. of Goodyear Bassett ; b. at Hancock, May 6, 1836; had by first husband, French Bruce, i child, Cora Bruce, b. May 9, 1869.* Children by first wife : I. Frank, b. May 13, 1846; d. Sept. i, 1848. II. Ahhy E., b. March 16, 1849; m- Oct. 6, 1872, John G. Morse, of Worcester, Mass. 222 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 30 32 33 III. Burt^ b. Feb. 13, 1851. IV. Omar, b. Nov. 25, 1858; tl. Nov. 26, 1861. V. Hattie Jane, b. Nov. 7, 1855. VI. Fred. E., b. Sept. 2, 1858. BAILEY FAMILY. Jethro Bailey was the first man of the name who settled in town. His residence was south-west of Abra- ham Bailey's, near the road from Marlboro' to Rindge. At the annual meeting, 1774, he was chosen auditor of accounts ; in 1775, a member of the committee of inspec- tion. In 1777 ^^'^ name appears, for the last time, in the record of a transcript of a road running by his house. From whence he came or whither he went we have no knowledge. David Bailey, born in England, 17 16, came to this country with his brother Nathan and settled in Andover, Mass. ; married and had a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. His sons were Oliver, who died in service during the French War, Abraham, David, and Oliver. Abraham was the first one of the family who came to Jaftrey, settled on lot 7? range 5, on the east part of which he built a saw-mill, and sold the west half to his father, who, after the death of his wife at Andover in 1775? came to JaftVey with his youngest son, Oliver, and an unmarried daughter, and settled on the premises. He d. Dec. 23, 1803, a. Zd. Abraham remained in town till 1780, when he sold his premises to John M. Coughran and removed to Keene, from thence to Vt. and Brookline, N. H., and died there. He was auditor of accounts and highway surveyor in 1778? ^^d in i779 ^^^ ^"^ ^^' ^ committee to average service in the war of the Revolution. The birth of one child, Ephraim, b. Nov. 23, 1777, appears on the town record of births. David Bailey, Jr., settled in town, and was highway surveyor in 17S4-5-6. He re. to Windsor, Vt., from thence to St. Louis, and d. there. Oliver, on reaching his majority, m. Polly, dau. of Capt. Joseph Perkins. She was born at Methuen, Mass., in 1771 ; d. Aug 27, 1861, a. 90. He d. Dec. 8, 1S55, a. 88. The dau. of David, Sen'r, Sarah, m. Beterly, and settled in Brookline, N. H. ^ 9 lO II 12 13 (6) 15 16 iS GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 223 Oliver Bailey m. Polly Perkins, and settled on the homestead. Mr. Bailey was a successful farmer. He built a large mansion house on his farm, now in the possession of his son Abner, and grandson Clarence S. Bailey. They had eight children : I. Edward, b. Sept. 33, 1792.-I- II. Mary, b. May 8, 1794; m. Samuel Emery, Jr., q. V. III. Oliver, b. April 16, 1796.-}- IV. Abner, b. June 5, 1798. V. Almo?i, b. Jan. 31, 1801 ; m. Maria Stone, of Marlborough, and d. there Aug. 12, 1837; she m., 2^, . VI. Marinda, b. Oct. 30, 1804; m. David H. Gil- more, q. V. VII. Louisa, b. 1S09; e?werance, b. Dec. 4, 1789; m., 1°', Dec. 30, 1810, Tilly Reed. He d., 1836. M., 2^ Curtis, and d. in Utah Territory, 1871, a. 82. IV. Anna, b. July 5, 1791 ; m. Feb. 26, 181 1, David Symonds, who d. in 1869, at Peru, Vt. They had 11 children. V. Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1799, in Jaff'rey ; m., 1824, Harvey Gilmore. VI. Sophia, b. Dec. 12, 1S05 ; m. 1827, Eleazer, son of Isaac and Betsey (Hathorn) Nutting, of Jaffi-ey. 2 Children. (5) 12 H 15 16 17 18 19 30 23 24 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 247 CAREY FAMILY. Samuel Carey was a resident of JaftVey previous to 1793; paid taxes that year; m. Polly Smith, Feb, 18, 1791. He d. 1813, a. 45. His widow d. at Springfield, Mass., i860, a. 83. I. Sally, b. 1793. II. Edioard Smith, b. 1795 ; i*e. to Francestown. III. Polly, h. 1797; d. at Peterborough. IV. Samuel, h. 1799; r. in Peterborough. -j- V. Eliza, b. 1801 ; r. in Boston. VI. Finetty, b. 1803 ; m. Williams ; d. at Buf- falo. VII. Nobby, b. 1805 ; d. at Peterborough. VIII. Emily, b. 1S07 ; m. Peak. IX. Lucetta, b. 1S09; m. Murray, and d. at Peterborough. X. Luther, b. 1812; d. in New Jersey. Samuel Carey re. to Peterborough in 1814; m. Harriet Olcott, 1822. He has been an extensive farmer ; now (1S73) r. Centre Village. I. Jane, b. Oct. 20, 1822 ; m. Munro Johnson, of Hancock; d. Sept. 30, 1852, a. 29. II. Willard 0.,h. June 10, 1824; m., i'', Julia Ann Robbe ; m., 2*^, Emma T. Perry. One ch. first wife ; five ch. second wife. III. Eliza Ann, b. Sept. 22, 1826 ; m. Geo. Everett ; r. New Jersey. IV. Warren, b. June 11, 1828 ; d. June i, 1831. V. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 6, 1830; m. Elliot. VI. Samuel W., b. June 20, 1832 ; r. Iowa. VII. Harriet R., b. April 26, 1835. VIII. Almena, b. April 6, 1838. IX. John, b. Dec. 8, 1839; m. Annette; r. Nebraska. X. Charles A., b. July 6, 1842 ; d. Sept., 1852. Elijah Carey, taxed 1794 to 1798 inclusive: r. Sharon. JosiAH Carey, taxed 1795, '96, '97. Lewis Carey, brother of Samuel, Sen'r ; taxed 1802 to 1808 inclusive ; r. Francestown. 248 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 lO II (4) 12 (8) 16 00 CARTER FAMILY. Capt. Jonah Carter came from Leominster, where he was b. in 1773; m. Lucy Joslin, b. the same year and in the same town; settled in Jaffrey about 1792. In 1800 he re. to Rindge, where he d. Feb. 25, 1837. His widow d. Sept. 18, 1S46. I. Ijucy,h. March 20, 1794; m. Charles Smith; d. 1 866 in New York state. II. Susan, b. March 12, 1796 ; m. Nathan Stratton, 1816; d. New York, 1S69. III. Fordice, b. March 4, 1799.-]- IV. Orinda, b. Dec. 15, 1800; d. Sept. 3, 1841. V. Jonah, b. April 2, 1803 ; d. Feb. 15, 1819. VI. Grata,h.T)ec. 26, 1S04; m. Samuel Marble, q. V. VII. Charles, b. Oct. 26, i8o6.-|- VIII. Stillma^i, b. Sept. 6, 1S08; d. in Rindge, Mar. 25, 1814. IX. tTosiah,h. Dec. 2, 181 1; m. Jane Robbins, April 17, 1838; re. to Keene. X. Luke, b. Sept. 20, 1814; m. Lucy M. Roys, Nov. 3, 1839.+ FoRDicE Carter settled on lot 12, range 8 ; m. Jan. 30, 1825, Lucy Palmer, of Boston. She d. Jan. 21, 1846, a. 43. M., 2*^, Sally Byam. He d. July 16, 1862. Children by first wife : I. Emeline, m. - II. Lucy M., m. bymonds, of Peru, Vt. - Russell. Charles Carter m., Feb. 12, 1829, Eliza A. Rob- bins. She d. Jan., 1849, a. 37. He d. Sept. 24, i860. I. Charles Lyman, m. Anna, dau. of Ebenezer Bass ; is a tailor by trade ; r. in Winchendon. II. Frances E., m. Martin Day, of Winchendon, Mass. III. Oscar Eugene, d. in the Union army. IV. Adaline Victoria, m. Gilbert Stearns, of Win- chendon. Luke Carter, a manufacturer of wooden-ware, set- tled on lot 22, range 4 ; m. Lucy M. Roys, Nov. 3, 1839. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 249 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (26) 28 29 30 I. /SMsa/^ i^., b. 1S41 ; m. Osgood J. Hadley ; d. Sept. 17, 1 86 1, a. 20. II. Charles Albert, b. 1841 ; d. in the Union army. III. Lavina. IV. George J.., b. 1850. V. Vina xS'., b. 1853. VI. Emma, b. 1859. William Carter, son of Oliver Carter, b. 1786, m., I'', Mary, dau. of Phib'p Sweetzer, of Marlborough, Aug. 23, 1812; m., 2d, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Waite) Edes, of Peterborough. She d. Aug. 11, 1822, a. 23. His first wife d. Aug. 8, 1819, a. 27. He d. Nov. 17, 1821. He was a stage-driver from Jaftrey to Keene. I. Frances Maria, b. May 12, 18 14 ; d. at Charles- town, Mass., May, 1833. II. 'William, b. May i, i8i6.4- iii. Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 16, 1818. William Carter, Jr., m. Catherine Bigelow, of Marlborough; r. in Jaftrey till 1873, and then re. to Fitchburg, Mass. I. William Clarence, b. Aug. 7, 1843. II. Zephijr Bigelow, b. April 11, 1850; d. Oct. 3, 1 860. Abijah Carter, highway surveyor, 1786. CAPRON FAMILY. Orford Capron came to Jaffiey in 1831 ; was a blacksmith by trade ; r. East Jaftrey ; m., i^', April 5, 1832, Cynthia, dau. of Capt. Thomas and Sarah (Saw- tell) Adams; she d. March 10, 1840, a. 30; m,, 2^ Rachel, dau. of John and Mary Davis Turner, Oct. 14, 1840. He d. O'ct. 14, 1867, a. 57. She d. April 10, 1879, a. 6^. I. Cynthia A., b. April 23, 1833. II. Sarah Adeline, b. July 26, 1834; d. March 4, 1835- III. Mary Adeline, b. Nov. 23, 1835. IV. Susan Amelia, b. Jan. 26, 1837 5 ^' March 24, 1837- 250 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. V. Ellen Josephine^ b. March 23, 1835. VI. John Quincy Adams, b. Aug. 24, 1847 (an adopted son). His father, Moses Adams, d. Feb. 8, 1850, leaving a wife and one child, — J. Q. Adams. CHADWICK FAMILY. David Chadwick was b. in Andover, Mass. He was in Jaflrey previous to 1780; was chosen field-driver that year. He settled on lot 12, range 10, in the south part of the town. His brother Joshua settled in Rindge about the same time. He m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas and Molly (Kinney) Mower. He d. Dec. 30, 181 7, a. 60. His widow d. July 11, 1830, a. 73. 10 II 12 13 H 15 16 I. II. III. Hannah, h. David, b. - /Sally, b. — ; m. John Wood. -, 1 78 1 ; m. Hannah Stacy. -|- -, 1787; m. Samuel Stearns, of Temple, 2^ wife ; d. at Peterborough, Aug. 25, 1S75. 1. Charles Albert, b. May 5, 1819 ; m., 1°', Lucy Davis ; m., 2'', . 2. Almira, b. Jan. 3, 1821 ; m. Lovell Dodge ; re. to Maine. 3. Lucinda, b. Sept. 17, 1822 ; m. Horace Bruce, re. to Peterborough. 4. Hannah Marion, b. Aug. 27, 1824; m. Luke O. Forbush, r. Peterborough. 5. Betsy Chrystina, b. July 15, 1S27 ; m. Charles Baker and Daniel White ; r. in Manchester. 6. Abbie Adeline, d. . 7. Abbie Adeline, b. Dec. 6, 1829; m. John Pickering ; r. in Lawrence. IV. Mary,h. 1788; m. Joshua Towne, of Rindge ; d. Jan. 10, 1865. 1. Phebe, b. Jan. 21, 181 1 ; m. Solomon F. Towne. 2. Mary L., b. Sept. 30, 1813 ; m. Levi Russell, of Rindge. 3. Laura, b. Jan. 3, 1815 ; d. Oct. 30, 1850. 4. Sophrona, b. Nov. 10, 1818; m. Stephen P. Patch, of Ashby; d. 1846. 17 i8 19 20 31 22 (3) 24 25 26 27 28 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 2$ I 5. Sarah M., b. March 25, 1821 ; d. March 7, 1853. 6. Joshua C, b. July 29, 1823 ; m. Eveline J. Brooks. 7. Josiah T., b. April 5, 1S26; m. Sibel Boardman. 8. Caroline Rand, b. July 15, 1S30; d. July 18, 1S32. V. Abigail, b. , 1791 ; m. Daniel Chamberlin, q. V. VI. Thomas Mower, b. 1796; m. Sarah Chapin, dau. of Thomas Chapin. He d. Jan. 4, i860. His widow d. March 6, 1863, a. 64. I child : I. Eliza Ann, d. Sept. 9, 1821, a. 2 yrs., 4 mos. David Chadwick, Jr., m.. May 23, 1S09, Hannah Stacy. He was a deacon of the Baptist church ; and, in 1820, captain of the Jatlrey Rifle Company. He d. Nov. 12, 1858, a. 76. His widow d. Tan. 20, 1872, a. 81. J ^ i ^ I. William S., d. Sept. 8, 1839, a. 29; m, Hepse- bath, dau. of Moses and Jane (Harper) Fairbanks. 11. Charles A., b. 1826 ; m. Sarah A., dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Fife) Stratton. III. Calvin G., b. , 1830. IV. Appleton B., b. , 1838. V. William, H., h. , 1839- CHAMBERLIN FAMILY. Joseph, with his brother Nathan, came from Hop- kinton, Mass., and settled, first in Sharon, afterwards injaftrey, about 1807. They settled on lot 23, range 5, and carried on the business of sawing lumber. Jo- seph d. March 21, 1832, a. 80. Nathan m. Hannah . He d. Oct. 25, 1821, a. 67. His widow d. Nov. 4, 1822, a. 68. 3 David, b. 1784; m. July 7, 1813, Abigail Chadwick. -f- 4 Hacheliah, paid tax, 1813 to 1816, inclusive. 252 (3) (6) 8 9 lO II 12 13 H 15 16 17 18 19 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. David Chamberlin m. Abigail, dau. of David and Hannah (Mower) Chadwick. He d. April 15, 1844, a. 60. His widow d. Jan. 30, 1S70, a. 79. I. Augustus A. II. David C, b. 1817.-]- III. John Ji.,h. 1829. David C. Chamberlin m., i^', May9, 1848, Ermina, dau. of Benj. and Grata (Hunt) Cutter. I. Mary Augusta, b. May 25, 1S49 ; m. Albert S. Pierce, 1872 ; r. in Fitchburg. II. Ada J^rmina, b. June 24, 185 1. M., 2'^, Helen Marr, dau. of Nath'l and Mary B. (Averill) Cutter. III. JLucien Beecher, b. July 14, 1857; ^- J""^ ^5' 1S59. IV. Edxoard Woodbury, b. May 21, 1861. V. Allen Howard, b. April 3, 1868. Mr. Chamberlin graduated at Amherst college ; was a teacher in Melville academy, and in the high school in Winchendon, Mass. ; r. in JaflVey, 1780. Asa Chamberlin came from Mass. to Jaftrey in 1850, paid tax 1850 to 1864, inclusive. He was born in Mass., 1792. His wife, Sophronia O., b. in Vt., 1 801, settled on lot 10, range 6. Sumner Chamberlin, b. 1820, came from Holden, Mass., to Jaftrey in 1846; m. Cynthia ; had two children : I. Charles S., b. 1847. II. Mnogene, b. i8';o ; r. lot 21, range i. Jacob, a brother of Sumner, came to Jaftrey in 1848, settled on lot 17, range 6; left town about 1862; m. Ann ; had two children : I. Cyrus L., b. 184S. II. Mary B., b. 1850. 20 21 23 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 253 Henry, brother of Sumner and Jacob, came to Jaf- frey in 1846, and settled on lot t3, range 9; m. Mel- vina, dau. of Samuel and Ma; ha (Stevens) Litch, Aug. 1 8, 1859. I. Samuel Litch ^ b. Aug. 8, 1861. II. Martha Stevens^ b. March 4, 1862. COFFEEN FAMILY. Henry was a son of Michael, who emigrated from Ireland to this country at the age of sixteen. He m. at the age of twenty, and settled in Topsfield ; re. from thence to Lunenburgh, and subsequent!}' to Winchendon, Mass. He is represented as be- ing of wealthy and respectable parentage. Henry was b. in Lunenburgh, April 6, 1738' He settled first in Rindge ; was selectman there in 1770; re. to JaftVey soon after, at which place he became a very prominent man. At the first annual meeting after the organization of the town he was chosen moderator ; first selectman and moderator at two subsequent meetings the same year. In 1775 he was cho- sen deput}' to attend the Provincial Congress at Exeter ; and in June of the same year he was chosen captain of the military company that year organized, — the first one formed in JaftVey. He also gave his security that year for a town's stock of salt, and furnished a barrel of rum used at the raising of the meet- ing-house, for which he was paid by the town in 1780, about which time he removed to Acworth, N. H. He purchased a mill in that place, on Cold river, in the south part of the town, and was drowned, in 1785, bv a freshet which carried away his mill. He m., previous to 1765, Lucy, dau. of Moses Hale, of Rindge ; m., z^ . Mehitable Smith, of Acworth. Children by first wife : Henry ; Nathan, re. to New York state ; Moses ; David ; Lydia ; and Lucy. Children by second wife : Daniel, m. Folly Currier ; r. in Acworth for a time, and then re. to Johnson, Vt. : had a family of ten children, — five now living, Mrs. Lucy M. Tyler, of Cambridge, Vt., is the eldest. COMBS FAMILY. John Combs and wife, Bathsheba, were members of the church when incorporated in 1780; he d. in 1789- His widow d. 1797. One child : Sarah, m. Simon Whitcomb ; was a widow in 1806. 254 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, • 9 lO COMSTOCK FAMILY. William Comstock, b. in Lyme, N. H., settled in Sullivan; m., i"', March lo, iSoi, Martlia Jewett, dau. of Jonathan and Martlia (Belcher) Jewett. She d. at Sullivan. He in., 2**, Ruth ; d atjaffrey Oct. 4, 1863, a. S6. He d. Dec. 22, 1865, a. 94. Jonathan Jewett Comstock, son of William by first wife, came to J a fir ey about 1828; paid tax that year; settled on the Jewett farm, lot 5, range 7, where he now resides. Mr. Comstock is an extensive farmer, and one of the prominent men in town ; was for a number of years a member of the board of selectmen. He was b. in Sul- livan, May 30, 1S03 ; m., Oct. 4, 1S30, Roancy, dau. of William and Nabby (Smith) Dutton. I. Mary Roancy^ b. Aug. 16, 1831 ; m. Johnson Plummer, of Goft'stown, who d. Feb. 11, 1857 ' '^•' '^^1 Addison J. Adams, who now resides with his father-in-law on the same farm. 1. Edgar A., b. in Mich, 1857. 2. Everett F., b. 1862. 3. Elmer J., b. 1864. II. Freeman J. ^ b. Feb. 11, 1834; m. Abbie, dau. of Benjamin Heywood ; r. St. Louis, Mo. ; a prominent citizen of that place. III. William Dutton, b. May 19, 1839 ; m. Susan F. Gregory ; r. Sacramento, Cal. IV. David I., b. May 16, 1841 ; d. Oct. 19, 1841. V. Charles /S., b. April 28, 1843 ; d. Sept. 10, 1S49. CONANT FAMILY. John Conant, son of John and H^ulda Hobart Conant, was b. in Stow, Mass., Jan. 20, 1790. His grandfather, Samuel, m. Holman, and was also a resident of Stow. His mother was the dau. of Nehemiah and Rachel (Shattuck) Ho- bart, of Pepperell, Mass., a lineal descendant of Rev. Peter Hobart, the first minister of Hingham. His father was a de- scendant of the French Huguenots ; was twice married, and the parent of fifteen children. He was a large farmer, and a man of wealth ; at the age of 18 he gave his son John a mort- gage of $1,500 on a farm in Acton. He soon came into the 19 v^ ^^-7 €. '^n CJ^^^ GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 255 possession of the farin. It was covered with wood and timber, and with the aid of his labor in cutting and drawing the wood to the Boston market he doubled his capital. He then sold his farm, re. to JaflVey, and purchased the Thorndike farm, lots 1 1 and 12, range 3, then under a high state of cultivation. This was in 1S16, a year of very short crops. The price of hay was ex- tremely high, and the sale of the product of the farm that year was equal to a large portion of its valuation. With this income he was enabled to erect the large, elegant frame house now on the premises. At the time of his settlement in Acton, he m. Parmela Houghton, who d. in childbed in about eleven months after marriage. In 1S16, April i, he m. Mary Prescott Hos- mer, of Concord, Mass., an accomplished and educated lady, a few years older than himself. They had no chilchen. Situ- ated in affluent circumstances thus early in life, he had abun- dant means of procuring books, — publications of everything relating to scientific research and agriculture. Always on a farm from his youth up, early accustomed to its labors and management, induced him to apply science to practice, and thus perfect himself in its operations. In the management of his farm he did not expend his income in foolish and unprofit- able outlay, but in a way that greatly increased it. He was early associated with the Cheshire Agricultural Soci- ety, and for some time its president. He offered his farm to the society for the purpose of founding an agricultural school, which was accepted, but for some reason the school was never put in operation. In 1850 he sold his farm to Nehemiah Cut- ter, and soon after removed to East JaftVey, built a fine resi- dence, where he spent the remainder of his useful life, and died April 6, 1877, aged 87. His wife d. Aug. 9, 1858, a. 74. M., 3*^, Nov. 12, 1859, Mrs. Sally (Livermore) Kittredge, of Nel- son, b. at Alstead, 1S07. She d. Jan. 5, 1878. Mr. Conant has been much in public service. In the town where he lived he was for many years moderator of its town- meetings ; several years selectman ; represented the town in the state legislature in 1834, '35, and '36; trustee of the Asylum for the Insane at Concord ; first president of the board ; super- intendent of the erection of the building; president of the Cheshire County Agricultural Society ; and president of the Monadnock Bank, established at JaftVey in 1850. PUBLIC GIFTS. First, in the town where he lived, $7,000 for the support of a public high-school ; $3,000 for the aid of indigent families ; $r,ooo to the Baptist church, of which he was a member; 256 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. $1,000 to the Congregational cliurch ; and $1,000 to keep the town-house, formerly the meeting-house, in permanent repair. To the State Lunatic Asylum, $6,000 ; to the Academy of New London, $12,000 ; to the State Agricultural College at Hanover, $70,000 ; to each town in the county of Cheshire a scholarship of $i,ooo=:$23,ooo ; whole amount exceeding $100,000. COREY FAMILY. David Corey, son of Stephen Corey, was born in Flintstown, Me., Feb. 28, 1790. He came with his father to Dublin in 1797? ^""^^ settled on lot 12, range 2, in Jartrey, in 1S18 ; m., 1S17, Betsey, dau. of Abel Winship, of Hancock, Me. Corey was a good, practi- cal farmer, one of the best in his district. The farm he purchased was swampy and unproductive, and consid- ered of little value. By his labor and skill, the swamps were drained and made productive, and his other lands so improved that large products were the result; and he became a man of wealth and influence. He sold his farm, re. to the centre of the town, and in 1863 went to the residence of his sons, Yates City, 111., where he d., May, 1871, a. 81. I. Jesse, b. Oct. 21, 181S ; d. Oct. 3, 1827. II. f/o/m (A, b. March 20, 1820; r. Kentucky. III. Stephen, b. Nov. 22, 1822; d. June 26, 1851. IV. David, b. Dec. 17, 1824; r. Yates City, 111. V. Charles 6r., b. Aug. 28, 1826 ; studied medicine, and received the degree of M. D. at Dart- mouth college. Settled in Greenville, N. H., and d. Oct. 19, 1878. He was a successful physician, and highlv esteemed as a citizen. He m. Susan Maria Marshall, of Fitchburg, who now survives him. VI. James Monroe, b. Aug. 22, 182S; r. Maryland. CRAGIN FAMILY. John Cragin, the emigrant, was b., 1634, in the south part of Scotland. In early life he was pressed into the army, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Dunbar, 1650. The prisoners taken in that battle were brought to this country, himself with the rest, the fol- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 257 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 lowing year. He settled in Woburn ; m. Sarah Dawes b. in England ; and d. Jan. 27, 1708. They had eic^ht children, some of whose descendants settled in Temple Orlando, son of Moses and Lucy (Felt) Cragin, was b in Temple, Aug. 34, 1802 ; m., i^', Malinda G. Christie, of New Boston, Dec. 20, 1825. She d. Feb. ic, 1860 • m., f, Emily (Ware) Cragin, widow of Stephen U-agin. He r. Mason Village (now Greenville), Rindge, New Ipswich, and came to Jaftrey in 1S48 ; his name IS on the tax-list of that year. He settled on lot 18, range 9. 9 children : I. Orlando Bradford, b. at Mason, June 24, 1827 • m. Amanda T. Jaquith, Sept. 9, 18=52; r.' Gardner, Mass. II. Zucy Malmda, b. Nov. 2, 1828; m. Au^^nstus W. Joslin ; r. Fitchburg, Mass. ^ m. BenJ. F., b. Oct. 27, 1830; m. Harriet M. Spen- cer, Dec. 6, 1865 ; b. in Kingsbury, N. Y July 27, 1838. IV. Olwe A?i7i, b. March 4, 1833 ; d. March 8, 18^^. V. Abbi/ Rosilla, b. at New Ipswich, March 2^ 1834. ^' VI. George TF"., b. at Mason, Sept. 23, 1836. VII. John Christie, b. at Rindge, Feb. n, iS-^g VIII. Ifenrr/ If., h. -At New Ipswich, Dec. 24, 1840 • d. Dec. 27, 1863. IX. Robert Clark, h. at New Ipswich, June 6, 1844 Stephen Cragin, son of Capt. Francis and Sarah (Cummings) Cragin, of Temple, b. Aug. 2c, 1821 • m Emily M.Ware, of Hancock ; settled in East Taffrev* 1853 ; tl. Aug. 30, 1866, a. 45. One child : I. Emma Jane, b. May 9, 1853. CROSBY FAMILY. The Crosby family is one of the many distinguished English famdies who settled in New England. In their ranks are a arge number of literary men, graduates of colleges, and many who have distinguished themselves in the learned professions. The origin of the New England portion of the family has been traced to Simon de Crosby, of Laiicashire, England, 1220 T^ ^> • / 258 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II 12 13 H 15 16 biMON, the emigrant, at the age of 26, with his wife Ann and son Thomas, came to this country and settled in Cambridge in 1635. He d. in 1639, and his widows m. Rev. William Thompson, of Braintree, Mass. They had three sons, — Thomas, Simon, and Joseph. Thomas, b. 1635 ' gi'fiduated at Harvard college in 1653, studied divinity, settled in Eastham, and d. in 1702. He was the parent of twelve children. Simon, b. 1637 '■> settled in Billerica ; became freeman in 1668 ; reiDresentative in i692-'7-'S ; m., 1659, Rachel Brackett, and had a family of nine children. Joseph, b. 1639 ; m. Sarah Brackett, and had a num- ber of children. He represented the town of Braintree in 1689. Josiah, son of Simon Crosby, b. in Billerica in 1677 ; m. Mary Manning, and had eleven children. Josiah, his eldest son, b. 1730; m. Sarah Fitch, of Bedford ; settled in Milford, and had ten children. Two of his sons, Joseph and Alpheus, settled in Jaffrey. Joseph was b. Oct. 15, 1753, and Alpheus, b. Nov. 16, 1762, at Milford, N. H.-[- Joseph m. Esther Lane, and settled in Jaflrey about 1778. While he remained in town he held the offices of assessor of taxes, surveyor of roads, and fence-viewer, the last office in 1789. He was also a soldier in the Revolution, was in the battle of Bunker's Hill, and for many years received a pension. He removed from Jaftrey to Harvard, Mass., about 1790, and afterwards to Amherst, N. H., and d. Oct., 1842. His wife, Esther, d. Nov. 2, 1794. M., 2'^, Sarah Richardson, who d. Feb. 22, 1850. Eight children: I. Grace Head, h. at Jaflrey, Aug. 7, 1779; m. Nathaniel French, of Sandwich, and d., Jul}' 12, 1855. 6 children: II. t/ohti JLane, b. . in. Joseph, b. July 29, 1798; d. Sept., 1798. IV. Otis, h. in Amherst, April 22, 1800 ; m. Salona Whipple, of Barre, Vt., and d. Jan., 1870. V. Lorenzo Lowe^ b. ; d. Aug., 1805. VI. Sarah Aim, b. Oct. 15, 181 2; m. Langdon Smith, r. Amherst. VII. Zucy Maria, h. June, 1S14; m. Benj. T. Co- nant, of Milford ; d. June 12, 1865. VIII. Joseph Fitch, b. Sept. 16, 1819 ; m. Helen M. Averill, of Mont Vernon. (8) 17 i8 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 (22) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 259 Alpheus Crosby came to Jaftrey in 1786, and was warned from town that year. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Roger, Esq., and Ann (Hunter) Gihnore, Nov. 18, 1788. He settled on lot 15, range 4, was a prosperous farmer, and also, for a time, followed the business of teaming to Boston and other places. He held many town offices, and was captain of the Jaffrey and Rindge cavalry company. He was a man of industrious habits, a good citizen, and a member of the Baptist church. His wife d. Oct. 26, 1S39, a. 70. He d. Oct. 4, 1845, a. 83. He m., 2^, Mary Foster, of Amherst, wlio sur- vived him, and after his decease returned to her native town. Children by first wife : I. Betsy, b. Aug. 30, 1789; m. John Cutter, Jr., q. V. 10 children. II. Esther, b. April 5, 1791 ; m. vSamuel Burpee, ol New London, Oct. 5, 1820; r. Lima, N. Y. She d. Sept. 10, 1855. Had 4 children. III. Mary, h. Sept. 14, 1792 ; m. Loren Woodbury, q. V. 3 children. IV. Nancy Ann, b. July 6, 1794 ; m. Abner Boyden, Esq., of Marlborough, a man of wealth and distinction. She d. in Troy, in 1845. 2 ch., Charles and Maria, who re. to Rockford, 111. V. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1796; m., 1°', Moses Bush, April 3, 1832, r. Troy ; m,, 2"*, Abel Baker, a brother of Ezra Baker, of Jaflrey. VI. Alpheus, b. April 13, 1798. -|- VII. Asa, b. June 3, iSoo. + VIII. Franklin, b. April 2, 1802 ; 2 children, Alpheus and Darius. Darius d. in military service in the late civil war. IX. Porter, h.Yeh. 19, 1804; m. Sophia Fernald, re. to California, and d. in 1874. He was engaged in the roofing business. X. Josiah, b. May 28, iSii; d. at Somerville, Mass., Oct. 7, 1861. He was a merchant in Boston ; m. Lucy Lee, who, after the death of her husband, re. to Chicago. Alpheus Crosby m. Mary, dau. of Jonathan and Sibyl (Jackson) Fox ; settled in Troy, and was engaged in the business of blacksmithing ; re. to Rockford, 111., where he d. Dec. 16, 1873. His wife d. Oct. 19, 1868. 26o HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (23) 35 36 37 38 I. Infant^ b. in Jaffrey ; d. . 11. Mary Louisa^ b. in JaftVey ; d. young. III. Joseph Fox, b. in Troy, Dec. 25, 1S37 ; m. Priscilla Babcock, of Rockford, 1850. and d. there. IV. George Fox, b. Dec. 28, 1S29; m. May Wood, of New Milford, 111. ; was killed by a kick of a horse, Nov. 16, 1874. Children: (i)Charles Arthur. (2) Laura May. (3)Hattie. V. Mary F., b. Feb. 11.. 1832 ; m. John G. Pendle- ton, broker, Oct. 20, 1S56 ; r. in Rockford. Children: (i) Helen Maria. (2) Fannie Hunter. (3) Kate Crosby. VI. Fmma C. b. Jan. 7, 1842; m. Charles Cotton, jeweller, Aug. 14, 1862. He d. Sept., 1872. Children : (i) Roger Gilmore. (2) Mary Elizabeth. (3) William Boyden. (4) Helen Louisa. VII. Frederick L.^h. June 28, 1846; m. Elizabeth Larime, Feb. 20, 1868. 3 children : (i) Mary Elizabeth. (2) Clara Maria. (3) Ann Hunter. VIII. Ahhie Crocker, h. May 28, 1848; m. Norman Robinson, of Rockford, hardware dealer. I ch., Robbie, d. 1872. Asa Crosby m. Mary Wood, dau. of Dr. Adonijah and Fersis (Wood) Howe, of JaftVey, April 28, 1829. He was an English goods merchant in Boston ; re. to Rockford, and d. 1864. I. Harriet F., b. in Rockford, May 3, 1840; m. Noyes E. Babcock, 1865. Children: (i) Herbert M. (3) Cora Alice. II. Mary F., h. Sept. 6, 1844. HI. Caroline H., b. Oct. 22, 1847. JosiAH Davis Crosby, b. in Ashburnham, Mass., March i, 1807, was a son of Fitch and Rebecca (Davis) Crosby, a brother of Joseph and Alpheus Crosby. He graduated from Union college ; studied divinity at the Andover Theological Seminary ; was settled pastor of the Congregational church in Jaffrey, a colleague with Rev. Laban Ainsworth, in 1837 ; dismissed in 1844, and now resides on the homested in Ashburnham. He m. Elvira Willard, of Athol, April 16, 1839, a relative of President Willard, of Harvard University. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 261 CUMMINGS FAMILY. John Cummixgs, son of Asahel and Polly (Ames) Cummings, was b. in Hancock, June 18, iSii ; settled in JaffVey in 1S47 ; ^'^' ^^ Peterborough in 1S56; was a carpenter and joiner by trade. He m. Mary, dau. of Josiah and Nancy (Gilchrist) Wait, Oct. 28, 1833. Four children : I. David Angela, b. Aug. 9, 1834; m. Elizabeth Chesebro ; 3 children: (i) Frank. (3) Henry. (3) Roy. R. Wisconsin. II. John Addison, b. Jan. 16, 183S ; m., i^', Katie, dau. of James and Sarah A. (Wilson) Scott. She was drowned in the Potomac river, occasioned by a collision of the steamers West Point and George Peabody, Aug. 13, 1862; m., 2"^, Adeline J. Cummings, Nov. 15, 1866. Mr. Cummings was a lieutenant in the 6th Regt. N. H. V., Co. E., promoted to captain, and afterwards to Maj. of the i*' N. H. Cavalry, and was in service during the war. 7 children, 6 living: (i) Guy Pierson. (2) Leslie Wait. (3) Susie Ella. (4) Madell. (5) Clitibrd. (6) Nina. (7) John. R. Somerville, Mass. III. Ellen Jane, b. Sept. 6, 1S41 ; m., May 26, 1863, Wm. G. Livingstone. 3 children : (i) Fred. G. (2) Frank W. (3) Alice; a merchant, Peterboro'. IV. George Wait, b. May 11, 1844; m. Fanny P. Dane, March, 1866. i ch., George Dane. R. Francestown. CUTTER FAMILY. Richard Cutter, the progenitor of the Cutter family, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cutter, came from Newcastle-upon- Tyne, England, with his mother, and settled in Cambridge about 1640. His father d. previous to their emigration. He was probably under twenty years of age at the tiirie of his arri- val, and unmarried. June 2, 1641, he was admitted a free- man. The requirements for admission were to be '' orthodox member of the church, twenty years old, and worth £200." In 1643 he became a member of the Artillery Company, now known as the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery," of Boston. 262 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. He was also a member of Cambridge church, in full commun- ion. He was a cooper by trade, and became a large land- owner. About 1644 ^^^ ^- ^^'^ wife Elizabeth, whose surname is unknown. Her tombstone is one of the oldest now standing in the ancient burying-ground at old Cambridge. Here lyes y* body of Elizabeth Cutter wife to Richard Cutter aged about 43 Years died March 5, 166 1-2. Feb. 14, 1662-3, ^^^ '"• Frances (Perriman)Amsden, widow of Isaac Amsden, or Emsden, of Cambridge. She survived his decease. He d. June 16, 1693, and was buried near the grave of his first wife, Elizabeth. Here lyes y*" body of Richard Cutter, Aged about 72 Years dyed y* 16 of June 1693. ]{.ichard Cutter was the parent of fourteen children, — seven by each wife. By his wife Elizabeth he had five sons and two daughters ; by wife Frances one son and six daughters. Of his two eldest sons, Samuel and Thomas, but little is known ; the others, — William, Ephraim, Gershom, and Nathaniel, — are the progenitors of the Cutter fiimily of New England. William, b. 1649, m. Rebecca, dau. of John Rolf; had ten children, — five sons and five daughters. His oldest son, Rich- ard, settled in Woodbridge, N. J. ; John, William, and Samuel, in Cambridge. Ammi Rahamah graduated from Harvard col- lege in 1725, studied divinity, and was settled in North Yar- mouth, Me. William Cutter, Sen'r, d. 1723, a. 74; buried in Cambridge. Ephraim, b. 1651 ; m. Bethia Wood ; r. Charlestown and Watertown ; had eight children, — four sons and four daughters, (i) Ephraim, settled in Brookfield, Mass. ; (2) Jonathan and (3) George, in Watertown ; and (4) John, in Woburn and Lexington. Gershom, b. 1653 ; m. Lydia Hall ; r. Cambridge ; had four childi-en, — one son and three daughters. Gershom, his son, settled in Cambridge. Gershom, Sen'r, d. 173S, a. 85. Nathaniel, son of Richard Cutter by his wife Frances, was b. in 1663, m. Mary Fillebrown, of Charlestown, and had seven GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 26$ children, — five sons and two daughters ; r. Charlestown. His oldest son, Nathaniel, r. Cliarlestown ; Jacob, place of resi- dence unknown ; Ebenezer, r. Medford : Richard, d. young. Of the Cutter family in JaftVey, Joseph, Benjamin, Moses, David, and Nathan were descendants of Ephraim ; James, of Gershom ; and John, of Nathaniel. Fifth generation. Joseph Cutter, son of John, and grandson of John and Rachel Powers Cutter, the son of Ephraim, was b. May 13, 1752, at Lexington, Mass. ; re. with his father first to Waltham ; second, to Shrewsbury ; and from thence to New Ipswich, where his fother d. in 1771, in the forty-sixth year of his age. His father was the parent of eleven children. He left a widow, Susanna (Hastings), who m., 2"^, Simeon Gould, of New Ipswich, and d. at Jaftrey, Aug. 5, 1827, aged 96. She was a dau. of Joseph and Lydia (Brown) Hastings, of Waltham, son of Thomas, who settled in Watertown in 1634, and was admitted freeman in 1635. The name Hastings is of Danish origin. A portion of the county of Sussex was taken possession of by a Danish chief of that name, and the castle and seaport were held by his family when William the Conquerer landed in England ; and they held it from the crown for many generations. Several of the Hastingses were raised to a peerage. Sir Henry and George Hastings, grandsons of the Earl of Huntington, had sons who became Puritans and came to this country. Joseph Cutter and his brother John were appointed executors of their father's will ; and after the estate was settled, Joseph re. to Jaftrey, and settled on lot 17, range 3, afterwards the farm of Joseph Bates, now (1873) of Dea. Isaac S. Russell. After a short residence, he purchased a lot of land near the moun- tain, built thereon a log cabin, levelled the forest trees, and made from time to time additional purcliases of land till he be- came the largest landed proprietor in the town. On this tract he settled his sons, giving each one a farm, — his eldest son, Jo- seph, the homestead, who built the spacious mansion now the residence of Joel H. Poole, his great-grandson, — and purchased the tavern stand in the centre of the town of his brother Ben- jamin, and spent there the remainder of his days, living to the great age of 88 years. He was a farmer by vocation ; was born and resided on a farm till 1804, when he retired at the age of 52, having acquired an ample competence by his own industry from very small means in the beginning. From his early edu- cation and continued occupation in the business of f;\rming, he acquired a thorough practical knowledge of its requirements : consequently success attended his labors, and he became wealthy in its operations. In town affairs, the honor of holding 264 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. public office was secondary to his farming interest, and he de- clined serving. He, however, served a few times as selectman, and held occasionally other minor town offices ; was a military captain ; was appointed justice of the peace. He was a soldier in the Revolution, for which he was honored with a pension. In his domestic relations success marked his progress. He m. Rachel, dau. of Nehemiah and Rachel (Shattuck) Hobart, of Pepperell, a lineal descendant of the Rev, Peter Hobart of Hingham, Mass. She had all the requisite qualifications of a kind mother and a faithful wife. She was b. April 12, 1750: m. Dec. 5, 1776; d. Jan. 20, 1S35. They were the parents of ten children. In 1822 there was a family gathering at his resi- dence in the centre of the town. His children and grand- children, sons and daughters-in-law, were all present, and in addition, his aged mother. No death had occurred among them except a wife of Dr. N. Cutter, of Pepperell ; he, how- ever, had recently m. a second wife, who was present on the occasion. Of the invited guests present were the Rev. Laban Ainsworth and the Hon. Abel Parker, with their wives. Number of children present, ten, — six sons and four daugh- ters. Number of grandchildren, forty, — twenty of eacli sex. Sons-in-law, three; daughters-in-law, six. Whole number, including parents and grandparents, sixty-two. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Ains- worth, singing by the assembly, followed by remarks from the distinguished ones present. A collation was prepared, of which all partook. When that was over the first and second generations retired, giving the third a fine opportunity for amusement. Children : I. Joseph^ b. Aug. 23, 1777.+ II. Rachel^ h. y^n. 9, 1779; m. John Underwood, q. V. III. John^ b. Oct. 24, 17S0.-I- IV. /Swsaw, b. June 3, 17S2; m. Edmund Parker, q. V. V. Daniel^ b. Feb. 2, 17S4.-I- VI. Sabra^ b. Oct. 11, 17S5 ; d. unm., Feb. 4, 1S43. VII. Nehemiah^ b. March 30, 17S7 ; m. Lucy Ste- vens, of Middlebury, Mary Parker, of Pep- perell, and Eliza Jones, of Boston. No ch. [See Coll. Graduates.] VIII. Oldist^ b. May 14, 1790; m. Feb. 20, 1821, Oliver Barrett, of Mason ; d. March 30, 1838. Children, — George, Susan, Rachel, Joseph. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 265 10 II (2) 12 13 i5 16 IX. Abel, b. April 18, 179-?.+ ) ^ . X. Joel, b. April 18, 1793.+ J ^''''"'• Joseph Cutter, Jr., settled on the homestead, and erected the spacious mansion house now standing on that place. He m., June iS, 1804, Phebe, dan. of Capt. James and Sarali (Lamson) Gage, b. Dec. 15, 1779. He d. Nov. 20, i860, a. 83. His widow d. Dec. 6, i87i,a. 92. Early accustomed to a farmer's life, edu- cated in the business by a successful teacher, his father, he too was successful in the business, and left a lasting memorial of his spirit of enterprise in the stately struct- ure on the premises already alluded to. He was a man of untiring industry, strict integrity, unassuming man- ners, quiet and strictly sober habits. His opportunities for even a common-school education were extremely limited. Schools were few in number, and at that time short in duration. Feeling the importance of an education, he furnished his children with the advan- tages of a good common-school, and spared no pains in giving them an opportunity to attend it. He had at heart their good, and they will ever hold him in affec- tionate remembrance. Children : I. JVehemiah Hobart, b. March 12, 1805 ; m., Feb. 15, 1S38, Rebecca, dau. of Submit and Phebe (Rugg) Bailey, of East Hampton, Mass., b. April 15, 1S05 !— ''•' fiist, in New York state ; second, in Joliet, 111., where he has been a distinguished citizen, a man of note and influence. II. Phebe, b. Oct. 24, 1806; m., Dec. 29, 1S36, Joel Keyes, of Tyngsborough, Mass. ; r. Dunstable, Mass. He d. . 1. Darwin P., b. Dec. 5, 1837; m- Liz- zie Cheney, of Hollis. 2. J. Willard, b. Sept. 30, 1839; m. Ann M. Cooper, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; is a Universalist minister, and is now (1870) pastor of that church in Roches- ter, Minn. One child. Bertha A., b. April 18, 1S68. Sarah, b. Nov. 27, 1808; m., Jan. 29, 1S23, Darwin C. Perry, m. d., b. in Orwell, Vt., 1S07 ; r. Jaftrey ; in 1836 re. to Woodstock, Vt., and d. Nov. 28, 1S37. One child : HI. 266 17 ^9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. I. Sarah Electa, b. Feb. 24, 1837; m., Oct., 1853, Hon. Selucius Garfield, of California. He has held many impor- tant government offices, and r. in vari- ous places, and had several children. Mrs. Perry m., 2*^, Dec. 25, 1838, Moses Fairbanks, who d. in Fitchburg, July 24, 1874; shed. June 15, 1874. IV. Joseph Hastings, b. May 28, 1812; m.; had six children ; r. Milton ; now (1873) in Cal- ifornia. V. James Lamson, b. June 4, 1814 ; m. Amelia R. Hutchinson, of Hebron, Ct., March 13, 1S51 ; r. Utica, N. Y. Five children : 1. Lucinda Amelia, b. Fulton, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1852. 2. James Hutchinson, b. Sept., 1854. 3. Franklin Jewett, b. Utica, Sept. 22, 1858. 4. Mary Lauretta, b. Feb. 3, i860. 5. Harriet Fhebe, b. Dec. 4, 1S61. VI. Samuel Thomas, b. July 26, 181S; m., Dec. i, 1849, Harriet M., dau. of Dea. Amos Wood, who d. Nov. II, 1850; m., 2**, Mrs. Alidia Maria (Willard) Talmadge, May 4, 1856. Three children by second wife : 1. Harriet Majesta, b. May 14, 1857. 2. Freddie, b. Aug. 7, 1S5S. 3. Alida Arvilla, b. Oct. 7, 1859. VII. Eliza, b. Dec. 20, 1820; m., Aug. 18, 1846, Rev. Harry Brickett, son of John and Eliza- beth (Putnam) Brickett, b. at Newbury, Vt, Feb. I, 1815. Five children : 1. Joseph Cutter, b. Francestown, June 26, 1817 ; d. Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 25, 1S51. 2. Ellen Josephine, b. Sept. 2, 1S50. 3. Harry Leroy, b. Newburyport, Sept. 14, 1852 ; grad. Oberlin college. 4. Julia Eliza, b. Hillsborough, N. H., July 28, 1859. 5. Isabel, b. July 21, 1862. VIII. Lucinda, b. Feb. 17, 1824; d. April 18, 1849. (4) 36 37 3S 39 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 26/ John Cutter m. Mary, dau. of Daniel and Betsy Bachelder, of Wilton. He d. Jan. 15, 1S57. She d. June 3, 1S59, ^' 7^- He received the same education as his brothers, and was, like them, industrious in his habits, firm in purpose, decided in his opinions, and honest in his dealings. He was a successful farmer, and large wool-grower. He took deep interest in the education of his ciiildren, and many of them became distinguished scliolars. Two of his sons studied medi- cine, and distinguished themselves in the practise of the profession. Childi"en : Calvin, b. May i, 1S07; ^v i", Caroline Hall, of Milford ; she d. Aug. 24, 1842 ; m., 2^ Eunice W. Powers, Dec. 10, 1S43, of War- ren, Mass. He d. June 19, 1S73 ; had 2 ch. by each wife ;— Eliza, d. young. Carrie, b. in Milford, July 29, 1S42 ; d. atNewburn, N. C, March 24, 1S62. She was a lady highly educated, accomplished, refined, and patri- otic, and d. in the service of her country, a nurse in the army. John Clarence, b. July 10, 1S51 ; graduated at the Mass. Agricul- tural college, at Amherst; now (1S73) a student of medicine ; re. to Japan, and is a 40 professor in a medical institution. Walter Powers, b. at Warren, April 28, 1857 ; <^'- 1871. [See Medical Graduates.] 41 Luther Gutter, twin brother of Calvin, b. May 1,1807.+ 42 Rebecca, b. Aug. 5, 1S08; m. Ira Hastings, April 22, 1834, b. March 5, 1801, in Marl- boro'. Two children : 43 I- Martha A. Melissa, b. July 16, 1837; d. Sept. 28, 1S65. 44 2. Mary A. Malvina, b. Sept. 9, 1840; m. Josiah M. Darling, of Dublin, June, 1863. 45 IV. John Abbot, b. Jan. 7, 1810, -f 46 V. Caleb, b. Oct. 29, 1812; m., March 26, 1835, Susan A., dau. of Nealy and Anna (Belding) Norris; re. to Shirley, Mass., and d. Oct. 17, 1S73. Two children: 268 47 48 49 5° 51 52 53 54 55 56 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, 1. Ann Bachelder, b. Aug. 19, 1838; m., Jan. 2, 1859, Jo'^" ^- Roberts ; r. Boston. 2, Charles Lyman, b. Oct. 24, 1842; m., Nov. 26, 1864, Sarah Collins; is a flour dealer ; r. Boston. VI. Mary, b.' July 3, 1814; m., Oct. 14, 1836, Samuel McCoy, of Peterboro'. Three chil- dren : 1. Mary Elizabeth, b. Dec. 17, 1S37 ; m. Asa B. Clark, Jan. i, 1S61 ; r. Wilton. 2. Charlotte, b. Nov. 19, 1S39 ; "''•' -^"g- II, 1864, Rev. Frank G. Clark, a graduate of Amherst college, 1862 ; Andover Theological Seminary, in 1S69 ; and now (1876) pastor of the Evangelical church in Rindge ; in 1877, re. to Gloucester, Mass. 3. Caroline, b. Aug. 6. 1842 ; m.. May 2, 1 86 1, John O. Nay, of Peterboro'. One ch. VII. JBenoni, b. Feb. 14, 1816 ; studied medicine, and graduated from the Medical college at Wood- stock, Vt., 1838; settled in practise at Webster, Me., in which he was very suc- cessful till his death, Sept. 4, 185 1. He m. Olive S. Drinkwater, who d. ; m., 2*^, her sister, Jane B. Drinkwater, who survived his decease. Three children by i^'wife: 1. Winfield Benoni, b. Feb. 14, 1843; in service during the late war, 23 Regt. M. V. 2. John Edward, b. May 16, 1844; in service in the same Regt. with his brother ; reenlisted in the 29''' Regt, and was in service till the close of the war. Since that time he has been principal of Harrington acad- emy, Palermo, Me. 3. Charles Drinkwater, b. Sept. 7, 1845. In 1S69 he re. to Little Rock, Ark. ; was superintendent of the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute ; m., and d. 1874. SI 5S 59 (6) 60 61 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, 269 VIII. Charles, h. Sept. 11, 1817; m., April i, 1841, Maria E., dau. of Eben'r and Mary (Thomp- son) Hathorn, r. East JaftVey. They have no children. IX. /Sybil Bachelder, b. Oct. 14, 1819 ; m., i", March 7, 1S39, J°^^ ^- Cutter ; m., 2^^, John Ward Poole, Nov. 12, 1S40, q. v. X. George, b. May 23, 1821 ; d. Aug. 25, 1827 ; the first death among the descendants of Joseph Cutter. Daniel Cutter settled on lot 9, range 3, near the homestead of his father. To this from time to time he made large and valuable additions, till he became the proprietor of a large landed estate. He was a practical farmer, having learned the requisites of good farming by experience on the homestead in early life. He was a large wool-grower and dealer in stock. In 1S35, liaving disposed of his home farm, he purchased the home- stead of the late Dr. Adonijah Howe, near the centre of the town, where he spent the remainder of his days. In his early life he took a deep interest in the common district schools, and contributed much to their support. When the Melville academy was incorporated, he aided in the enterprise, and became one of its pro- prietors, and assisted in the erection of the house. He took a deep interest in the education of his children, graduated three of his sons at Dartmouth college, and gave his other children liberal academical advantages. He m., Nov. 18, 1S06, Sally, dau. of Col. Timothy and Rebecca (Bateman) Jones, of Bedford, Mass. She was a person well educated, and, for a time, a teacher in the public schools. She was b. at Bedford, Aug. 9, 17S6 ; d. July 7, 1S64. He d. Sept. 23, 1868. I. Daniel JBateman, b. May 10, 1S08 ; m., Dec. 8, 1835, Clementine P., dau. of Hon. Asa and Fanny (Jewett) Parker. She d. Aug. 28, 1870; m., 2"*, Dec. 5, 1872, Mrs. Tryphen T. Richardson, b. at Hillsborough, Feb. 9, i8i'9. [See College Graduates.] I. Lucia Antoinette, b. at Ashby, Mass., Sept. 7, 1836; d. at Peterborough, July 25, 1854. 2/0 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 62 2. Isabella Parker, b. at Peterborough, July 6, 1847; "''•'' ^^c- 3O' 1S6S, Albert W. Noone ; d. March 16, 1S71. 63 II. Sally Maria, b. April 16, 1810; m. Vryling D. Shattuck, q. v. 64 III. Susan Eliza, b. Nov. 4, 181 2; m. Charles J. Fox, q. V. 65 IV. Rachel Rebecca, b. April 8, 1815 ; m. Edmund P. Shattuck, q. v. dd V. Abigail Jones, b. Aug. 4, 1817; m., June 15, 1847, Benj. F. Fletcher; r. at Rockton, 111. One child : 67 1. Abbie Cutter, b. July 25, 1853 ; d. Dec. II, 1877- ^^^^ ^^^ ^ young lady of much promise, and d. as she was about being m., Dec. 11, 1877. 68 VI. Lucy Sylvania, b. Nov. 17, 1819; m. Elisha B. Banett, of Mason. One child : Frank Herbert, b. March 30, 1851 ; m. and r. Boston; d. May 29, 1879. 69 VII. EdiJoard Stear7is,h.Ma\. 27, 1822; m., i*'. May 27, 1850, Janette, dau. of Samuel and Ja- nette (Steele) Swan, of Peterborough. She d. Sept. 14, 1873. He m., 2^, Dec. 21, 1874, Sarah A. Lord, of Maine. [See College Graduates.] 70 I. Edward Jones, b. July 5, 1855 ; grad- uated at Harvard, 1877 ; studied medi- cine ; re. Boston. 71 2. Henry Arthur, b. Oct. 27, 1857 ; attor- ney-at-law, Nashua. 72 3. Annie Louisa, b. June 13, 1863 ; d. Aug. 31, 1877. She lived beloved and d. lamented. 73 4. Leonard Taylor, b. Nov. 3, 1S71. 74 VIII. Leonard Richardson, b. July i, 1S25 ; m. Mary Taylor, of Boston, April 15, 1852. He is an extensive real estate broker ; has accum- ulated by his own ability a large estate ; has been for several years a member of the Board of Aldermen ; was mayor of the city of Boston in 1874. kT'^-.^^^^^^^^ y^ C^ 75 76 77 78 79 (lo) 8o 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 2/1 1. Agnes Elizabeth, b. 1853; graduated at Vassar college, N. Y., 1874. 2. Emma Adelaide, b. Nov. 10, 1S57. IX. Isaac Jones^ b. May 31, 1830; m., Sept. 9, 1858, Maigarette, dau. of James and Rispah (Farmer) Wood, of Concord, Mass. [See College Graduates.] 1, Rose Margarette, b. May 20, i860. 2. Frank Edward, b. Aug. 20, 1861. Abel Cutter, like his brothers, was a successful farmer. He settled, first, on the farm of Kendall Goff; second, on the farm of David Cutter, near the Mineral Spring; third, on the farm of John Qiiinn. He m. Mary, dau. of Reuben and Polly (Pratt) Spaulding. She d. July 25, 1854, a. 58. After the death of his wife he re. to Boston, and spent the remainder of his life with his son, Abel P. Cutter, and his widow. He d. at Cambridge Jan. 9, 1878. Children : I. Edith ParJcer, b. Feb. 17, 1S16; m. John W. Poole, q. V. II. Abel Parker, b. June 14, 1818; m.. May 19, 1847, Louisa, dau. of Reuben and Joanna (Cox) Frost, of Boston; d. Nov., 1872. He was a provision dealer, and was success- ful in the business ; removed to Cambridge, and there d. Children : 1. Fannie Louisa, b. Sept. 8, 1848. 2. William Parker, b. Sept. 20, 1850; drowned July 28, 1S63. 3. Frederick Spaulding, b. Feb. 6, 1853 ; grad. Harvard coll., 1874. 4. Annie Frost, b. Oct. 5, 1855. 5. Harry Edward, b. Cambridge, May 22, 1861. III. Mariette,h. Jan. 26, 1820; m., Nov. 14, 1839, Thomas Upton, q. v. IV. Ruba Eveline, b. Dec. 20, 1821 ; m. Lyman R. Farnum, q. v. V. Sarah Eliza, b. Feb. 21, 1824; m. Joseph P. Frost, q. v. 2/2 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 VI. Reuben Spaulding^ b. Oct. 24, 1828; m. ; re. to California ; d. 1873. VII. Fidelia Stearns, b. July 9, 1830; m. William D. Mackay ; r. Oilman, 111. She d. July 31, 1871. VIII. Emily Frances, b. Sept. 20, 1833 ; m. Amasa F. S. Hodge, q. v. IX. Charles Edmund, b. Aug. 11, 1835 ; d. in San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31, 1863. X. Lucius Edwin, b. Aug. 12, 1837; ^- J^"* ^3' 1842. 103 Joel Cutter, twin brother of Abel, a farmer by vo- cation, was, like his brother, successful in tiie business. He m., Feb. 27, 1816, Mary Sylvania, dau. of Col. Timothy Jones, of Bedford, b. June 17, 1793; d. Oct. 3, i8'^3. He d. Sept. 6, 1871. Ten children: I. Joel Hohart,h. Nov. 23, 181 6; m., March 7, 1839, Sibyl B. Cutter, and d. Sept. 17, 1839. II. Timothy Jones, b. Aug. i, 1818; d. Nov. 28, 1843, before the completion of his medical studies. III. Mary Sylvania, b. Sept. 27, 1820; m., Sept. 16, 1841, Dea. Isaac Sylvester Russell ; d. in Mason, April 16, 1842. IV. Frederick Augustus, b. Dec. 28, 1822 ; m., i^', Dec. 28, 1848, Clara Tomlin, ofMullica Hill, N. J., and m., 2^, Rebecca Chattin, of Roch- ester, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1857. His first wife d. Dec. 28, 1851. He d. Jan. 3, 1869. He practised medicine about nineteen years, and established a wide reputation. Two children by second wife : 1. Albert Henry, b. Feb. 7, 1859. 2. Lillia Eda, b. June 4, 1864. V. Nehemiah, b. March 24, 1825 ; m., April 2, 18^0, Emily Adeline, dau. of Col. Oliver and Deborah (Perry) Bailey ; r. on the homestead ; a farmer by vocation. 1. Clara Augusta, b. June 14, 1852; m. Fred. J. Lawrence, q. v. 2. Julia May, b. May 2, 1864. I04 I05 io6 107 108 109 no III (40 115 116 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 2/3 VI. Franklin Horatio, b. May 26, 1827 : m., Sept. 12, 1S52, Rhoana S., dau. of Capt. James and Parna (White) Bennett, of Rindge. He settled on the Conant farm, and carried it on successfully for a number of years, and has now retired to East JaftVey to enjoy the fruit of his labors. He has held the office of selectman, county commissioner ; repre- sented the town in the state legislature, and is now justice of the peace and quorum throughout the state. Two children : 1. Florence Pearl, b. June 30, 1853; m. Rev. Leonard J. Deane, pastor of the Baptist church, East JaftVey. 2. Henrietta Sylvania, b. Sept. 3, 1855 ; d. May 28, 1875. VII. Richard Albert, b. May 15, 1830; d. at Mullica Hill, N. J., March 29, 1857. He was pro- fessor of penmanship, and had few equals with the pen. ^■iii. Henry Lyman, b. Nov. 11, 1832; d. at Phila- delphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1855, while attending medical lectures. IX. Elizabeth Rebecca, b. Oct. 9, 1834; m., Feb. 7, 1864, Rev. Charles Guild, of Meriden, N. H. 1. Laura E., b. May 16, 1865. 2. Mabel, b. Aug. 10, 1869. X. Ebenezer Bancroft, b. Oct. 30, 1837 ; m., March 20, i860, Ann J., dau. of Capt. James and Parna (White) Bennett, of Rindge, N. H., where he follows the occupation of a carriage- maker. Luther Cutter settled in his native town ; was a shoe manufacturer ; was also an auctioneer, deputy sheriflT, and justice of the peace. He m., Sept. 15, 1830, Caroline, dau. of Capt. Moses and Rachel (Turner) Cutter. She d. Dec. 26, 1861, a. 52. He d. Sept. 28, 1876. I. Caroline Pamelia, b. July 17, 183 1 ; m. Henry C. French, q. v. II. George Washington, b. May 18, 1833 ; d. Dec. 29, 1849. 19 274 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 117 118 "9 120 (45) 121 122 123 124 125 III. Josephine Maria, b. Oct. 10, 1S36; m., Oct. 5, 1S52, George A. Adams ; r. Troy ; ch. IV. Sarah Frances, b. Nov. 5, 1840 ; m. George N. Wheeler, of Royalston, Mass., May 24, 1S57. C)ne ch., Mary E. She d. June 10, 1S74, a. 34. V. William Everett, b. Oct. 29, 1846; d. Nov. 15, 1S46. VI. Willard Leverett, b. Oct. 29, 1846; d. Nov, 25, 1846. (Twins). John Abbot Cutter, Capt., an extensive farmer, and for many years the owner of the Ainsworth farm. He has now retired from the business, having accumu- hited by his own industry a good estate. He has taken a deep interest in town afl'airs, and is now (1S77) ^ member of the board of selectmen, and has been captain of the Rifle company. He m., Jan. 27, 1832, Nancy H., dau. of Emery and Sarah (Hill) Wheelock ; b. Jan. 20j I Si I. I. Martha Bachelder, b. Jan, 30, 1833 ! "^- Winsor F. Morse, March 28, 1852. She d. May 29, 1874. Four children : (i) Ella M., b. June 25,1852. (2) John A., b. Dec. 5, 1861. (3) Clara R., b. Sept. 20, 1863 ; d. May 24, 1867. (4) Winsor E., b. April 4, 1865. II. George Abbot, b. June 17, 1835; d. June 29, 1835- III. Jbh7i Emery, b. June 17, 1835 ; d. same day. IV. Mary Elizabeth, b. July 27, 1S36 ; m. Alphonso A. Adams, of Marlborough, June 20, 1857. Two ch. : Freddie Eugene, b. Jan. i, 1858. Lillie Jane, b. Sept. 24, 1859. ^'^^ ^• Benjamin Cutter, a descendant of Ephraim, and brother of Joseph, was b. in Shrewsbury, Mass., June 8, 1756 ; m. Catherine Farnsworth, who d. at Williams- town, Vt., Nov. 12, 1833, a. 73. He d. in Lashute, C. E., Feb. 7, 1820. He followed several callings, of a mercantile, agricultural, and mechanical character, and dwelt in various localities in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Canada. He was a man of enterprise, and, among his other pursuits, he was keeper of a tavern. He came from New Ipswich to JaflVey previous to 1781 ; was the owner of lot 17, range i, and afterwards of the GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 2/5 farm of Benj. Frost and his son John, now uninhabited. In 1782 or '3, he re. to Alstead where five of his chil- dren were born. In 1794 or '5, he returned to Jaffrey, and kept tavern near the meeting-house, afterwards the residence of Joseph Cutter, his brother. In 1798 or *9, he re. again to Alstead, and soon after to Wood- stock, and fiom thence to Lashute, C. E., where he d. Children : I. Moses, b. at Jaftrey, June 22, 1781 ; m. Hannah, dau. of Col. Christopher Webber, of Wal- pole ; d. in St. Louis, Aug. 23, 1858. He was a merchant in Royalton, Vt. ; after- wards in Cleveland, in company with his brother. Having accumulated a large estate, he re. to St. Louis, and spent the rest of his days with his children, located in business in that place. Four ch., sons. II. Catherine, b. in Alstead, Oct. 4, 1783 ; m. John S. Hutchins ; r. Lashute, C. E. Many ch. III. Betsy, b. May 12, 1785; m. William Powers; r. Lashute, C. E. IV. Benjamin, b. June 25, 17S7; m. Roxey Corn- stock; settled, i^', in Williamstown, Vt., 2^, Bloomfield, O. ; d. Feb. 23, 1867 ; a farmer. V. Tryphosa,\). K\)\\\ 2, 1789; m. Augustus L. Stone; d. 1864, at Winona, Wis. VI. Nawa, b. March 27, 1794; m. Miss Davis; d. at Royalton, N. Y. Two children. VII. Orlando, b. at Jaffrey, June 5, 1797 ; m. Phyana M. Phelps, of Painesville, O. She d. in Cleveland, O., Dec. 19, 1S30; m., 2^, Nov. 8, 1832, Sarah A. VVillard, of Cleveland, O. He was a merchant in Cleveland, in com- pany with Mack & Conant, and in 1825 engaged in the auction and commission business, and in 1868 relinquished it to his son Edwin. Twelve ch., 2 by i^' wife, 10 by 2^ wife, -f- VIII. Sarah, b. in Alstead, March 17, iSoo ; m. John D. Howe. IX. Adeline Davis, b. at Woodstock, Vt., Dec. 3, 1802 ; m. Mary Shepler Hemperly, b. at Beaver, Pa., Sept. 12, 1816. He d. in Cleveland, Sept. 11, 1852. He was a mer- chant, i^', in Wooster, O. ; re. from thence to Cleveland. Ten ch., 4 sons, 6 dau. 276 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (126) Moses Cutter, by wife, Hannah, had children : 135 I. Charles^ h. 1805, in Royalton, Vt. ; m. ; 2 ch. ; r. St. Louis. 136 II. George Webber, b. 1S09; m. Julia Rogers; d. 1837- 137 III. Norman, b. iSii ; m. Frances A. Harrington, of Hopkintoii, Mass. ; a merchant ; r. St. Louis. 138 IV. Amos, b. 1S15 ; m., 1840, Catherine M. Har- rington, of Hopkinton, Mass. Has been a merchant in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Bos- ton ; now r. in Arlington. Has one son, George Webber, b. in Cincinnati, March 10, 1843 ; graduated from Washington Univer- sity, St. Louis, 1864 ; a tutor in that institu- tion ; graduated Cambridge Divinity School, 1S6S ; ordained pastor of the First Congre- gational parish in Arlington, Mass., Jan. 26, 1870. Two ch. (132) Orlando Cutter, by i^' wife, Phyan M., had ch. : 130 I. Edicin Horatio, b. April 28, 1821, in Cleveland ; d. March 24, 1823. 140 II- Orlando Phelps, b. July 25, 1824 ; served in the war of 1 86 1. 141 III. Edwin, b. Oct. 21, 1827; m. Helen M. Earl. He is an auctioneer. 142 IV. Michard llillard, b. Aug. 16, 1833 ; m. Delphine F. Wilson. He was in service in the Rebel- lion. R. Cleveland. 143 V. William Lemen^ b. Feb. i, 1835; m. Caroline A. Pease ; is cashier of the Merchants Na- tional Bank, Cleveland. 144 VI. Nelson Patrick, h. Jan. 22, 1837; one of the first volunteers in the rebel war ; d. Dec. 6, 1861. 145 VII. George, b. Oct. 20, 1839; ^- ^^^- ^3' ^839. 146 VIII. John Farnsioorth, b. Sept. 10, 1841 ; m.. May 22, 1867, Josephine Kelsey. He entered the Union service as a private. May, 1861 ; pro- moted to a lieutenant, and became adjutant of the 53** Regt. O. V. ; was in the battle of Shiloh, Atlanta, Ga., was taken prisoner, and after six weeks' imprisonment was ex- changed ; marched with Gen. Sherman to \' GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 2^] Savannah, where he was discharged. R. Cleveland ; a banker. IX. Helen Phyan, b. Aug, 23, 1843 ; m. Henry J. Hoyt. X. Horace Long ^ b. Aug. 9, 1846; teller in the Ohio National Bank. XI. Norman Webber, b. Aug. 39, 1848 ; r. Cleveland. XII. Sarah Catherine, b. Feb. 12, 1851. Moses Cutter a descendant of Ephraim and brother of Joseph, was b. in Shrewsbury, Mass., March 26, 1760; m. Rachel, dau. of Lieut. William Turner. He d. at Bradford, April 10, 1S16. His wid. d. at Jaffrey. May 21, 1849, ^- ^o- ^^^'- Cutter came to Jaftrey pre- vious to 1787, settled on lot 7, range 4, now (1873) uninhabited. He was a soldier in service during the Revolution, and served for a time as one of Washing- ton's Life Guards. He afterwards held the office of captain in the 13"' Regt. N. H. Militia. Well versed in the manual of arms, he took high rank as a military officer. He re. to Bradford about 1808. I. Jane, b. Aug. 4, 17S7 ; m. Samuel Bates, of Jaffi-ey, June 21, 1810. He was b. April. 1786; d. June, 1854. She d. Oct. 14, 1838. 1. Sophia, b. at Bradford. Aug. 10, 1810; tl. July 13, 1851. 2. Moses Cutter, b. March 3, 1816 ; m. Martha Elliot. Three ch. 3. Samuel, b. Sept. 6, 1S21 ; m. Two ch. II. Susan, h. May 19, 1789; d. at Bradford, July 7, 1818 ; unm. III. Rachel, b. Oct. 31, 1792; m., Jan. i, 1815. Abel Nutting, of Groton, Mass., b. Feb. 13, 17SS; d. at Marlborough, N. H., June 10, 1863. She (1. Oct. 14, 1848. Five ch. IV. Mary, b. March 22, 1794; m. Richard Hovt, of Bradford ; d. at Albany, N. Y., 1832. V. Moses, b. Nov. 11, 1795. -\- VI. William Turner, b. March 5, 1798. -|- VII. Sarah, b. Nov. 13, 1801 ; m. Artemas Law, of Jaftrey. He d, Nov. 12, 1836, a. 34. I. George Gilmore, b. June 18, 1830; m. Rachel McGonn, Oct. 1, 1861. 2/8 1 63 164 165 166 167 (159) 16S i6g 170 (160) 171 172 173 174 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 2. Charles Darwin, b. June 5, 1833 ; m. Emily George, March 9, 1853. VIII. Pamelia, h. Aug. 8, 1S03; m., i'', Charles G. Gilmore, q. v. ; m., 2*^, Dea. John Sanderson, Sept., 1852. She d. Oct. 10, 1867. IX, Willard.) b. July 14, 1806. -|- X. Caroline, b. Oct, 26, 1809; m. Luther Cutter, q. V. XI. Jbhti, b. July 11, 181 2 ; d, at Jaffrey, March 12, 1842. Moses Cutter m., Dec, 28, 1826, Abigail, dau. of William and Jane (Wright) Davidson, of Peterborough, b. Jan. 27, 1802. He settled in Jaffrey, and while there was a distinguished commander of the JaftVey and Rindge cavalry company. In he re. to Princeton, Mass., and was there killed by a bull, Feb. 21, 1854. I. Calvin, b. in Jaffrey ; m, at Lowell, Mass. ; d. at sea, 1854. II. William Davidson, b. in Jaffrey ; d. at sea, 1854. III. Abigail Hunt, h. Jaffiey ; m. Luther G. Bemis, of Marlborousfh. William Turner Cutter m., March 7, 1832, Lydia, dau. of Micah and Lucy (Vose) Jennings, of Waltham, Mass., b. June iS, 1806. He was a farmer, and d, at East Jaffrey, June 4, 1866, I, Mary Vose, b. Feb, 12, 1833; m. John W. Perry, of Rindge, Feb. 15, 1S60; r. Den- mark, Iowa. One child, — Sarah L., b. Dec. 12, i860. II. William Lyman, b. March 15, 1838 ; r. Den- mark, Iowa. He served three years and six months in Co. C, First Iowa Cavalry, dur- ing the rebel war. III. Edwin Rice, b. Oct. 2, 1841 ; was a non-com- missioned officer and a member of Co, G., 14th Regt. N. H. Vols., in the late war. IV. Edxoard Everett, b. Oct. 2, 1841 ; m., Sept. 27, 1866, Lydia A., dau. of Silas and Louisa GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 279 (Lincoln) Whitcomb, of Marlborough, N. H., where he resides. He was a member of Co. G, 14th Reg't, N. H. Vols. Charles Elliot^ b. Sept. 22, 1847. WiLLARD Cutter m. Eliza, dan. of William and Rebecca (Moore) Shirley, of Waltham, b. Sudbury, Mass., Oct. 27, 1S06. He settled, first, in Waltham, Mass. ; re. to Meadville, Penn., 1837 ; d. Feb. 8, i860. He was a carpenter and joiner. Cli. : I. Catherine^ b. at Waltham, Mass., July 21, 1831 ; d. Sept. 26, 1832. II. William Shirley, b. July 7, 1833 ; m. Elizabeth Sheafnocker, of Meadville, Oct. 18, 1868. One ch., — Hattie Bell, b. July, 1869. III. Eliza Ann. b. Aug. 16, 1835 ; m. Wm. H. Lar- kin, Feb. 21, 1855. 1. Elizabeth Ann, b. Aug. 15, 1856. 2. Eva Jane, b. March 11, 1S58. 3. George Henry, b. June i, 1862. 4. Albert Lincoln, b. April 14, 1869. IV. Willai'd Ainsicorth, h. Sept. 18, 1837; m., Jan. 16, 1868, Mary M., dau. of Ethan and Eliza- beth (Warner) Greene. He is a carpenter by trade. V. Mary Jatie, h. at Meadville, Nov. i, 1S39 ; d. Aug. 9, 1844. VI. Harriet Adeline, h. July 5, 1842; d. Aug. 16, 1844. VII. George Henry, h. Feb. 15, 1845. 189 David Cutter was b. at Shrewsbury, Oct. 28, 1762 ; came with his father, John, to New Ipswich, and from thence to Jaftrey, and settled on the Wilder farm, near the Monadnock Mineral Spring. He m., Sept. 30, 1789, Polly, dau. of Dea. Eleazer and Mary Flint Spof- ford, and d. June 12, 1826. His widow d. Nov. 26, 1857, a. 92. 'Ch. : I. Isaac Ayer, b. July 24, 1793. He was an ex- cellent drummer ; served in the War of 1812 ; afterwards enlisted in the U. S. Army. II. David, b. June 9, i795.-f- 280 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 190 191 193 194 »95 196 197 1 98 199 200 201 202 (189) 203 204 205 III. 7*0%, b. Aiif^. 20, 1797; d. Aug. 14, iSoo. IV. John., 1). A])!'!! 29, 1800.-I- V. Luke, 1). April 6, 1802; d. Sept. 12, 1802. VI. Mary, b. March 2, 1803 '•> "^- I-'^'vi liijj;,i^el()vv, of Fitzwilliam, May 20, 1824; r. Oaklaiul Val- ley, Iowa. 1. Levi Spoflbrd. b. May 31, 1825; m. Ann E. Puringtou, April 25, 1849; r. Shrewsbury, Mass. 2. Horace, b. Oct. 8, 1827; d. Sei)t 22, 1828. 3. Horace, b. July 15, 1S30; d. June 18, 1 848. 4. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1831 ; ni. Eli A. Smith, Jiuie 25, 1858. 'I'wo children : (i) Minnie Rose, b. July 26, 1859; (2) Leslie Kirov, b. June 26, 1866. 5. Mary, b. Oct. 31, 1836; m. Willard Hartwell, Marcii 19, 1855. Four chil- dren. VII. lAike Hastings., b. April 28, 1805.-I- VIII. Nathan, b. Dec. 22, 1807 ; d. same ilay. IX. AdoniJah,h. Aug. 29, 1808; in., Nov. 27, 1840, Maria Wilson, of Fitzwilliam. X. Susan, b. Dec. 22, 1810; d. Dec. 33, 1810. David Cuttkk, Jr., m., i"', Jan. 5, 1824, Eliza, dau. of William and Mary (lirown) Tolman, of Winchen- don. She d. Oct. 14, 1825, a. 21. M., 2<', Dolly, dau. of Rev. Levi and Sarah (Packard) Pillsl)ury, of Win- chendon. He entered the U. S. Army, and served during the Mexican war. The time of liis death is uid ^'- ^^ Keene, July 2, 1865. Three ch. : (i) Ann Eliza, b, Jan. 29, 1849 ; m. Christopher Hathorn ; (2) Ella Maria, b. Nov. 4, 1851 ; (3) Frank Bailey, b. Feb. 22, 1865, IV. Sarah Pillsbury, b. Oct. 16, 1829 ; m. Dr. Wm. Lincoln, of Wabasha, Minn., Aug. 28, 1855; ^- ^^^' ^9' ^§59. One ch. : Willie H., b. June 2, 1S57. Luke Hastings Cutter m., March 20, 1832, Abi- gail, dau. of T. K. Ames, of Mason ; re. to Peter- borough, and from thence to New Ipswich, where he d. in a snow-storm, March 8, 1845. His widow d. Feb. II, 1854. Five ch. : I. Eliza. II. William Hastings, m. and r. in St. Louis, Mo. III. Henry P., a jeweller. IV. Lucy, deceased. V. Mary, m. Putman, and d. at Brattleboro', Vt. Nathan Cutter came from New Ipswich — where his father, Nathan, a grandson of Ephraim, d. March 6, 1778, a. 42 — and settled on lot 20, range 6, now owned by Addison Pierce. The time of his settlement 282 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 2l6 217 218 219 220 221 222 (217) 223 234 225 226 227 228 229 230 331 232 in Jaffrey is not precisely known, but some time previ- ous to 1785. He m. Polly, dau. of Capt. William Pope. About 181 2 he re. to Shoreham, Vt., and d. about 1S18. I. Polly, d. in Jaffrey, Dec. 29, 1798, a. 17. II. William Pope, b. in Jaffrey, June 13, 1785.+ [See College Graduates.] III. Rhoana, b. in Jaffrey ; m. Nicanor Needham, of Shoreham, Vt., pliysician ; died. IV. Orinda, m. Darius Cooper, farmer. V. Ahdilla. VI. Hosira, m. Leander Cass ; had a son and daugh- ter. VII. Nathan. William Pope Cutter (Dr.) m. Prudence Evans, March 24, 1808; d. at Shoreham, Vt., July 8, 1815. Ch.: I. Dorothy, b. Sept. 20, 1809; m. Daniel Abbot; d. Nov. 19, 1842 ; had one daughter. II. William Pope, b. Nov. 23, 181 1 ; d. 1822. III. Rhoana N., b. Hartford, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1814 ; m. Walter Robbins, of Leicester, Vt., Dec. 31,1838. Ch.: 1. Milo N., b. Dec. 9, 1840; m. Annie P. Whittier, Sept. 17, 1866; r. Boston ; one son, b. May 19, 1869. 2. Hannah M., b. April 15, 1843. 3. Emma R., b. Sept. 4, 1845 ' '^* Edwin H. Hubbard, Feb. 24, 1S64. 4. Thirza L., b. 7, 1849. 5. Mary J., b. Sept. 19, 1852. 6. Julia A., b. May 32, 1855. James Cutter, a descendant of Gershom, son of Richard, the emigrant, was the son of Gershom, Jr., and Anna, dau. of John and Sarah Fillebrown, of Cambridge, b, March 27-28, 1742; m. Catherine, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Hammond) Benjamin, of Wal- tham, Mass., b. March 6, 1745. They re., first, to Rindge, and Oct. 18, 1778, were dismissed from the church in Waltham to the church in that place. In he re. to Jaffrey, and settled in the village called GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 283 Squantum ; was a miller in that place, and d. there April 13, 1790, the first one by the name of Cutter who d. in Jafirey. His widow d. Feb. 12, iSiS. Ch. : 233 I. Polly, b. May 3, 1772 ; d. Feb. 28, 1773. 234 II. James, b. March 23, 1774; d. unm. at Boston, I iSoi. 235 III. Mary, b. April 14, 1776; d. April 24, 177S. 236 IV. Catherine, b. Sept. 16, 177S ; m. Ford ; d. 1S39, Charlestown, Mass. 237 V. Elizabeth, b, Jan. 24, 17S1 ; " Betsey Cutter " d. unm. in Jaffrey, Oct. 11, 1852. 238 VI. Stephen, b. Nov. 3, 1782.-}- 239 VII. Samicel, b. Sept. 7, 17S5; m, Susan Brown, of Groton ; r. West Cambridge, VVoburn, Lan- caster, and Watertown ; was a miller, and d. in Woburn, Nov. 3, 1843. His widow d. May 6, 1S61. Nine ch. (238) 240 241 242 2 13 244 245 (240) 246 247 24S 249 250 Stephen Cutter m. Mehitable, dau. of Joseph and Lucy (Robinson) Kimball, of JafFrey. He d. Aug. 15, 1S52, at Cuba, N. Y. His widow d. at JaftVey, July 26, 1879, a. 88. I. Stephen HAmhall, b. March 12, i8i5.-f- II. Harriet Eliza, b. Feb. 3, 181 7. III. Charles Americas, b. June 28, 1819.+ IV. Catherine Augusta, b. Jan. 21, 1821 ; d. July 19, 1842 ; unm. V. George Eranklin, b. Dec. 27, 1822 ; m. Mrs. Mary S. Scott, b. in Charleston, S. C, March 23, 1819. VI. Giistaviis A., b. April 16, 1825.-!- Stephen Kimball Cutter m. Eliza Daggett. July 15, 183S, b. at Westmoreland, Oct. 2, 1S17; is a car- penter ; r. Cuba, N. Y. Ch. : I. Frances Eveline, b. April 18, 1839 ; m. Veranus B. Colman, Sept. 14, 1859; re. in Belmont, N. Y. Three ch. Judson Charles, b. Cuba, N. Y., July 30, 1842. Addison Adol2)hns, b. April 20, 1845 ; d. June 26, 1S45. Addison Adolphus, b. Oct. 5, 1846. Ella Eliza, b. March 30, 1849. II. III. IV. V. 284 (242) 251 252 253 245) 254 255 256 257 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Charles Americus Cutter m. Philena Loveland, of Londonderry, Vt., June 2, 1846; r, Jaffrey. He d. Dec. 8, 1873. I. Gustavus Adolphus, b. Feb. 23, 1847, at Clare- mont. n, Lucy Ann, b. July 13, 1S51, at Marlow. HI. Willie Mark, b. Sept. 21, 1857, ^^ J'^^ffi'^y* Gustavus Adolphus Cutter m. Mary Vinton Lar- abee, of Melrose, Mass., Jan. i, 1851. She was b. Aug. 23, 1833. R. Newton, 111. He was impressed into the rebel army. Ch. : I. Mary Jane, b. at Melrose, Oct. 31, 1852 ; d. May 29, 1854. II. William (Jhanning, b. Oct. 28, 1854. III. Daniel Webster, b. at Nashville, Tenn , May 15, 1857. John Cutter was a descendant of Nathaniel, son of Richard, the emigrant, by his 2^ wife, Frances (Ferri- man) Amsden, the widow of Isaac Amsden, or Emsden, of Cambridge. Nathaniel m. Mary, dau. of Thomas and Anne Fillebrown, of Charlestown, b. May 5, 1662. They had seven children. John, their fifth child, m. Hepzebah Brooks, dau. of Jabez and Hepzebah (Cutter) Brooks, of W^oburn. They had two children — John and Nathaniel. Nathaniel m. Sarah, dau. of Benjamin and Esther (Richardson) Wyman. They had ten chil- dren — four sons and six daughters. John, the third son and fourth child, was b. at Woburn, March 16, 1765 ; m. Abigail, dau. of John and Rebecca (Corneille Demary, of Rindge, N. H., b. Aug. 21, 1768, and d. March 4, 1866, a. 97. Mr. Cutter d. Sept. 14, 1835, a. 70. John Cutter came to JaftVey in 1789, soon after his marriage, and commenced business as a tanner in the establishment afterwards occupied by his son, Ben- jamin Cutter, but since demolished. He was a person of singular energy of character, and by industry, frugal- ity, and strict honesty, acquired not only a comfortable subsistence, but a competency. He was among the first who openly avowed faith in God's impartial grace and salvation, and for many years was considered the pillar of the Universalist society in Jaffrey. His house vTc^-^V^ -(l^n/W^^T^ 258 259 26o 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 28$ was always the home for the ministers who came into town, where they ever found a welcome, both by him and his excellent companion. Mrs. Cutter was one of the excellent of the earth ; her whole life, long and useful, was characterized by strict integrity, virtuous principle, and a Christian walk. She retained her physical and mental faculties in a remarkable degree up to the close of her earthly pilgrimage ; patient, trustful, and hopeful, she met her death with calmness. She was the mother of twelve children, fifty grandchildren, and a large number of great-grandchildren ; six of her children, and twenty-six of her grandchildren were living at the time of her death. Mr. Cutter was the first person in Jaftrey who kept accounts in Federal money Children : I. John^ b. at Rindge, Oct. 31, 17S8. -|- II. Jonas^ b. at Jaftrey, March 6, 1791 ; d. in Sa- vannah, Ga., Oct. 7, 1820. He graduated at Dartmouth college, 181 1. [See Coll. Gr.] III. Benjamin^ b. Jan. 8, 1793-I- IV. Ethan^ b. April 11, 1795.-I- V. Ermina, b. Feb. 14, 1797 ; m. Levi Underwood, Sept. 7, 1819; d. in Goshen, Oct. 17, 1821. VI. Cyriis, b. May 17. 1798.-I- VII. Nathaniel^ b. March 2. i8oo.-|- VIII. Esther, b. Nov. 3, 1801 ; m. Laban Rice, q. v. IX. Mepsy, b. Dec. 24, 1803 ; m., June 30, 1S25, John Holmes; and d. in Springfield, Vt., Sept. 5, 1854. He commenced business in company with his brother, Enos Holmes, at Springfield, manufacturing cotton fabrics; and is largely concerned in the Black River Manufacturing Company. Children: 1. John Cutter, b. April 22, 1827; m. i^', Marcia A. Kimball, June 4, 1850; and, 2'', Rebecca Spoftbrd, March 8, 1859. ^^ '" ^ government office in Washington, D. C. Three Children: (i) Otto K. (2) Frank. (3) Harvey B. 2. Emeline Duncan, b. March 7, 1830; d. Sept., 1851. 3. Abigail Demary, b. Aug. 21, 1836; d. April 20, 1854. 286 272 273 274 275 276 277 (258) 278 279 28o 281 282 283 2S4 285 286 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. X. Emeline, b. Sept. 16, 1806; m. Hiram Duncan, merchant, July 21, 1S29 ; b. at Hancock, March 4, 1805 ; d. at Jatirey, Dec. 24, 1840. His widow d. Feb. 28, 1S76. One ch. I. Sarah Miller, b. July 8, 1833; m. Peter Upton, q. v. XI. Paulina^ b. Aug. 2, 1808; m. Hiram Spoftbrd, cotton manufacturer, Feb. 18, 1835, ^* ^'^ Weathersfield, Vt., Nov. 3, 1801 ; d. Spring- field, Vt., July 16, 1846. 1. Abbie Louisa, b. Oct. 25, 1S39. 2. Hiram Duncan, b. July 29, 1841 ; m. Georgiana Fowler, of Bellows Falls, Vt., June 4, 1867, b. Monroe township, Pa., Nov. 25, 1848. XII. Abigail, b. March 20, 1810; d. Feb. 7, 1S49 ; unm. John Cutter m., Feb. 7, 1811, Betsy, dau. of Capt. Alpheus and Elizabeth (Gilmore) Crosby. He was a leather manufacturer, and re. from JaftVey to Goshen, Feb. 25, 1829. He d. Feb. 5, 1829. His widow d. in Campton, N. H. Children : I. John Telestu^^ b. Aug. i, 1811 ; m. Elizabeth Hosley ; d. July 3, 1879. II. Laura, b. Dec. 10, 1S12 ; m. Lucius M. Howe, q. V. III. Clarissa, b. Aug. 19, 1814; m. Hon. William Clark, March 22, 1836. Mr. Clark was a member of the New Hampshire senate in i849-'5o. He d. in Boston. Children : I. Clarissa Cutter, b., Jaftrey, Oct. 8, 1838; m. Theodore Parsons, of Gloucester, Mass., April 13, 1869; r. Boston. Emeline Duncan, b. in Campton, April 4, 1841 ; d. Jan. 31, 1843. William Francis, b. Dec. 19, 1842; d. Dec. 20, 1862. Charles Elmer, b. Dec. 12, 1844. Emily Adams, b. Jan. 11, 1848. Ermina Demary, b. Sept. 3, 1852. 2. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, 287 2S7 288 289 290 291 292 294 296 297 298 299 300 IV. Emily, b. Feb. 24, 1816; m. Samuel Cunning- ham, of Peterborough, June 13, 1839; r. Rockford, 111. Children : 1. Laura E., b. April 6, 1847; ^- i" infancy. 2. James Ethan, b. Nov. 27, 184S ; d. Aug. 19, 1867. 3. John A., b. Aug. 27, 1S51 ; m., and d. 1879. V. ^rmma, b. Jan. 28, 1818; m. John Baldwin Tucker, May 5, 1S41, at Burlington, JMich., b. in Griswold, Conn., 1811 ; r. Mich. ; en- gaged in an extensive flour and saw^ mill business in Union City, Mich. Three ch. 1. Minnie Theresa, b. March 13, 1842. 2. Frances Amelia, b. May 5, 1846. 3. Charles Cutter, b. Sept. 9, 1848. VI. Elizabeth Crosby, b. March 3, 1820; m. Lucius M. Howe, q. v. vii. Charles, b. Feb. 23, 1822; m., March 27, 1850, Sarah Lucretia, dau. of Joseph and Sarah D. (Parker) Joslin, of Jaflrey. He grad. Dart- mouth college in 1843. [See College Grad- uates.] VIII. Abigail, h. May 17, 1834; m. Charles Sabin, Nov. 24, 1846. He is an apothecary; r. Fitzwilliam. One child : May. IX. Mary Woodbury, b. Aug. 13, 1826; m. John Clement, May i, 1844, at Campton. I. Lucius Howe, b. March 14, 1845; d. at Goldsboro', N. C, July 5, 1865 ; a soldier in the Union army. X. Benjamin Franklin, b. Dec. 14, 1828; m.,Oct. 28, 185 1, Emily Jane, dau. of Elijah and Eliza Pattee Mitchell, of Campton; in 1S63 re. to Maiden, Mass., where he keeps a liv- ery-stable. Ch. : 301 I. Jennie, b. Campton, Oct. 10, 1854. 288 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 302 (260) 305 306 307 2. , d. March 2, 1856; a. 14 days. 3. Fannie, b. Oct. 4, 1857. 4. Frank, b. Sept. 18, 1859. Benjamin Cutter m., Sept. 9, 1819, Grata, dau. of Nathan and Abigail (Hale) Hunt, of Rindge. [See Hunt family.] She d. Nov. 5, 1S71, a. 78. Benjamin Cutter has pursued the manufacture of leather in JaflVe}' ; first, in the original establishment erected by his father, and afterwards in the building now occupied by his son Julius for the same purpose. He has been a prominent leading man in town aftairs ; for many years town-clerk, justice of the peace, and is now (1880) president of Monadnock National Bank, East JaflVey. For several years he has been engaged in antiquarian research, and has a more extensive knowl- edge of the history of his native town than any other man living. Success has marked his career in every undertaking, and he is now highly respected and great- ly honored by his fellow-citizens. Ch. : I. Sarah Augusta^ b. Aug. 10, 1820: m. William Johnson Campbell, m. d., at Jaftrey, May 28, 1844; d. in Francestown, Dec. i, 1846. Dr. Campbell studied physic with Dr. J. C. Grow, of Boston, and received his degree of M. D. from Harvard University in 1842. He has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Francestown, Nashua, and Londonderry, N. H., where he now r. Ch. : 1. Sarah Frances, b. March 28, 1845 ; m. Henry Albert Shedd, of Sharon, Sept. 24, 1S70. 2. Ermina Cutter, b. Aug. 12, 1846. Mrs. Campbell left manuscripts, poetically written, that have never been published. She possessed a " philosophic mind, and though she wrote poetry it was with a philosophic expression." She had no educa- tional advantages beyond what the vicinity afforded. The following poems are selected by her friends a§ specimens of her composition : ^^^^^i^ J Albertypf — Fiiilio C'ci. Bustiii CIaa/^ZZ , GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 289 MY MOUNTAIN HOME. Oh ! how I love my mountain home — Each rock, each tree, each flower! The bleak wind, with its wildest tone, Can soothe my saddest hour. I 've gazed upon Monadnock's form. High-towering toward the sky, Bathed in the rosy light of morn. In sunset's purple dye. I 've looked and looked, and wondered how One soul could view it there. And yet refuse to humbly bow To the great God in prayer. When yet a tiny, tottering child I first the green earth scanned. Toward it I sprang with wonder wild, And stretched my infant hand. Not knowing but its feeble grasp Could span the mountain wide, And bring it, with one childish clasp, A plaything to my side. In after days I learned to climb Its steep and rugged rock. And wonder how it had sustained Time's devastating shock. The dear old Mount! — I love it well — The genius of my home ! How dear nor tongue nor pen may tell, Wherever I may roam. 'Tis the first sight that greets my eyes, Returning from afar ; And as it looms up toward the skies, It is my guiding star. It leads me to the sweet bright land Where my dear loved ones dwell, A laughing, joyous, happy band, Bound by a magic spell. Yes, 'tis a magic spell, that binds The heart to kindred heart ; And where are severed kindred minds The scalding tear-drops start ; — The fount of life seems gushing up. And flowing fast away : We deeply drink the bitter cup, Nor wish on earth to stay. My childhood's home ! my' mountain home ! Precious thou art to me ! And o'er the wide earth if I roam, My soul will yearn for thee. February 18, 1844. 20 290 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. HAPPINESS. Long as the wheels of time have rolled Their annual circuit round, So long has Happiness been sought, But sought and rarely found. Once on a time, when gentle sleep Had closed my weary eyes, With spirit's wing unbound I soared To find the far-off prize. First to a kingly court I went. Where all were glad and gay; And where, amid the festive mirth, They pass their lives away. Amid the splendor, I had thought That Happiness dwelt there ; But soon indeed I learned the truth, "Twas all as false as fair. I saw a miser count his gold, And thought I'd find it there; But on his furrowed brow I traced The marks of wasting care. Fame next allured, with syren tongue. And held the wished-for prize ; Thousands and thousands hurried on With wonder-gazing eyes. But when they reached it, 'twas not there ; Still farther on it flew, 'Mid gathering darkness and 'mid clouds Receding from their view. A beauty now had met my eye, — A being sylph-like fair : I thought my search was at an end ; But, ah ! it was not there. The rose is beauteous to behold, Beneath the dews of morn, — Its perfume floating on the air ; But it conceals a thorn. Once more I looked, ere hope had fled ; — My search was not in vain ! I found it in its only form : Religion was its name. December 11, 1841. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 291 Ermina, b. Nov. 17, 1821 ; m, David Chamber- lin, q. V. Adaliza, b. Jan. 21, 1823; m. Gurley A. Phelps, M. D., April 11, 1851. She d. June 3, 1852, leaving one child, — Grace Mina, b. April 12, 1852. Dr. Phelps is a native of Vermont, and graduated from the Castleton Medical Col- lege in 1848. He began practice in Han- cock, Vt. ; re. to Jaftrey in 1849, where he has since been successfully engaged in the business of his profession. Like her sister, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Phelps left poetical manuscripts, from which a published vol- ume was selected, forming a neat duodecimo of some 300 pages, embellished with her por- trait, and dedicated by the husband of the author to her parents, " in view of the great influence she ascribed to them in her educa- tion, and the formation of her general char- acter." The collection was published and oftered to the public at the earnest request of friends after her decease. The introduc- tory sketch, from the pen of her husband, describes her as one whose nature "was im- pulsive, and being moved with a restless fire, she burst forth in the poet's song, — a simple expression of what she lived, she felt." She wrote not " to be admired, but to be loved." She was joyful and happy in the midst of friends, when no danger was near, but felt "■ with keenest anguish a frown, or unkind look or word." She lived in smiles or in tears, and her love of whatever was noble and pure and worthy was only equalled by her resentment and abhorrence of whatever was impure, low, mean, or de- grading." Her most considerable poem, — " The Life of Christ," — is a work of much merit. Two of her fugitive pieces are here presented. The first is descriptive of her- self and sisters ; the other, — her last effort, — was written a few weeks previous to her early and lamented death. 292 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. THE THREE SISTERS. Three little girls ! — I see them still, As when, in happy years ago, They bounded o'er the green, green hill, Or by the silvery streamlet's fiovj. The eldest has a thoughtful mien, A deep, full, spiritual eye. That ofttimes earnestly is seen Turned upward to its native sky. The next one is a gentle girl. Mild as the summer evening air. With many a soft and golden curl Clustering around her forehead fair. The youngest is a careless child, Mocking the birds upon the tree : Birds that are not more gay and wild, Or bear more tender hearts, than she. Three little maidens !— there they stand, Revealed unto my spirit's gaze ; Heart clasped to heart, hand linked in hand. As in those joyous bygone days. The eldest — we should know her well. The thoughtful child, the pensive maiden: The classic brow, the bright eye, tell The wealth with which the soul is laden. The gentle girl who won the love Of all, with her sweet, winning grace. Is still the dearly cherished dove, With guileless heart and angel face. The youngest and the gayest one. Her merry laugh so silvery clear, From rising to the setting sun. Rings out like music on the ear. Three happy school-girls !— side by side I see them toiling upward now. Up where perennial waters glide, To lave their weary, burning brow. The eldest upward, upward still. Lured onward by some mystic finger, Tireless ascends the classic hill ; Below, below, she may not linger. While by her side that gentle creature Glides like a living thing of light ; With calm joy mirrored on each feature, She sips the bubbling waters bright. The youngest one is still all gladness ; Joy dances still in her blue eye. Oh ! it will need stern scenes of sadness To cause that bounding heart a sigh. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 293 Where are they now ? Alas ! they Ve parted — Those happy, loving sisters three. The youngest has grown sadder-hearted. Alone beneath the household tree. She misses them, and oh, how sadly! Her loved companions from her side : Vows that thrilled her soul so gladly. Like music on her ear have died. That middle star, so mildly gleaming, Has gone to light another hearth ; With eyes of love all gently beaming On one who knoweth well her worth. That pure, white brow is touched by sorrow, Which left a holy impress there ; And from the skies has seemed to borrow Looks which we dream the angels wear. The eldest — she, alas ! is lying, A tenant of the peaceful tomb ; She heedeth not the wind's low sighing, Or flowers that round her bud and bloom. She heedeth not the young bird singing His wild and thrilling roundelay, — The tide of music round her ringing From every green and dewy spray. She heedeth not the heart's wild anguish , Of those she left in sorrow here ; She knoweth not how oft they languish, And shed the bitter, burning tear. At morn, and when the day is done ; She knoweth not how much they miss her Or how she longs to sleep beside her, The youngest and the saddest one. MY CHILD. Sweet little blossom of my heart. Born with the April birds and flowers ! Tears of delicious rapture start To think that thou indeed art ours. Our own most precious gift from heaven, A living, breathing soul divine, A precious gem the Saviour's given, To fashion in his crown to shine. I look into thy soul-lit eye Just opened to my earnest gaze ; Soft as the blue of yonder sky. And mild as summer evening rays. 294 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. I gaze upon thy velvet cheek, Upon thy pure and spotless brow ; And joy no human tongue can speak I feel to be a mother now. A mother ! Oh ! what holy ties Now bind this trembling, happy heart : Aid me, O Saviour, from the skies, And faith and hope and love impart. O for a faith to lay my child. My precious treasure, at thy feet ; Pure as the snowdrop, undefiled, I feel she is an offering meet. O for a hope thou wilt receive. And bless the gift to thee I bring ; My treasure on thy breast I leave. Round her thine arms, O Saviour, fling. O for a love, a deathless love. To keep me ever by thy side; Hourly to look to thee above, For grace a mother's heart to guide. Husband and wife and child, we come ; To thy kind, sheltering arms we flee : Our hearts, our altar, and our home — We dedicate our all to thee. 310 (261) 312 3H 315 IV. Julius, b. Nov. 28, 1S24.-I- V. Beyijamin French^ b. March 17, i827.-[- Ethan Cutter m. Feb. 5, 1834, Nancy, dau. of Timothy and Elizabeth (Stiles) Blodgett, of Fitzvvill- iam. He r. in Jaffrey, where he has been keeper of a public house nearly forty years. Has been town treas- urer of Jaffrey several years ; was postmaster fifteen years, and has sustained other local offices with credit. I. Elizabeth Stiles, b. Dec. 24, 1827; m. George Frederick Lawrence, Nov. 29, 1S57, son of Ithamar and Rebecca (Mower) Lawrence. He is a fruit and provision dealer ; r. Bos- ton. Ch. : 1. George Ethan, b. May 29, 1S60. 2. Nancy Blodgett, b. March 13, 1S64. II. Jonas, b. Dec. 9, 1833.-]- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 295 (263) 316 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 (264) 326 327 328 329 330 Cyrus Cutter m., Aug. 30, 1S20, Eliza Jackson Chapman, of Jaftrey ; d. Orford, Jan. 12, 1S42, a. 40; m., 2**, Mary Lucretia Abbot, of Thetford, Vt., March 12, 1S43. He was an agriculturist and a leather manu- facturer ; was a major of militia ; served as selectman, and sustained other civil offices with honor and accept- ance. He d. at Orford, July 7, 1853. Children : I. Jonas, b. Aug. 17, 1821 ; d. May 27, 1843. 11. Cyrus Demary, b. June 3, 1828 ; m. Mary S. Williams, of Orford, Dec, 1853 ; d. May, 1857. Children: I. Charles, b. Cambridgeport, Sept. 13, 1855. in. Eliza Paulina, b. Feb. 28, 1831 ; d. June 29, 1831. IV. Mary Eliza, b. July 23, 1832 ; d. Sept. 2, 1844. V. Frances Ellen, b. June 5, 1834 ; d. at Thetford, Vt., Aug. 2, 1856. VI. Abigail Martha, b. March 27, 1836; d. Dec. 2, 1S53. VII. Rosamond Ermina, b. May 22, 1839 ; d. March 22, 1842. VIII. Nettie Paulina, b. Jan. 22, 1846; m. Edson S. Bartlett, of Norwich, Vt., Feb. 25, 1869. IX. John James, b. Jan. 31, 1850. Nathaniel Cutter m. Mary Bradford Averill, dau. of John and Anna (Woodbury) Averill, of Mont Ver- non, Oct. 12, 1827. He is a farmer, and lives respected in Jaffrey. I. Emeline,h. Sept. 7, 1828; m. John Holmes, Sept. 15, 1855, and d. in Springfield, Vt., Feb., 1857. One ch : I. Nathaniel Cutter, b. Jan. 26, 1857. II. Ophelia Ann, b. May 22, 1830; d. Oct. 30, 1854. III. Mary Frances, b. Nov. 26, 1831 ; m. Samuel Dexter Jewell, April 15, 1857. IV. Helen Mar, b. Jan. 8, 1S34; m. David C. Chamberlin, q. v. V. Luciics Averill, b. Dec. 30, 1835. 296 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 332 333 (278) 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 (310) 342 343 (311) 344 VI. Lucia Bradford, b. Dec. 30, 1835 ; d. Aug. 22, 1856. VII. Laura Isabel, b. June 13, 1838. VIII. Abhie Augusta, b. Feb. 27, 1841 ; m. Edward H. Bailey, July 23, 1865 ; r. JaftVey. John Telestus Cutter m. Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua and Betsy (Giles) Hosley, of Pepperell, Mass. He has been an active business man in Pepperell and Boston, Mass., and in Campton and Plymouth, N. H., where he has kept a public house and livery stable. I. Mary Elizabeth, b. Pepperell, April 20, 1836; d. Campton, Oct. 19, 1854. II. Laura Lucretia, b. Aug. 31, 183S; d. Sept. 4, 1839. III. Emily Frances, b. Jan. 16, 1840; d. March ir, 1841. IV. Martha Annette, b. Aug. 24, 1S42 ; m. Thomas B. Little, Sept. 7, 1864 ; r. Concord. One ch. — deceased. V. tTohn Telestus, b. April 6, 1846. VI. Charles Henry, b. July 9, 1848. VII. Ethan Allen, b. March 2, 1851 ; d. Plymouth, April 30, 1865. VIII. Ruth Alice, b. March 27, 1853 ; d. Oct. 31, 1854. Julius Cutter m. Caroline H. Felt, dau. of John and Huldah Hobart (Conant) Felt, and grand-daughter of John Conant, Esq., of Stowe, Mass. Mr. Cutter is a leather manufacturer in Jaflrey. Children : I. Emma Maria, b. Jaftrey, June 27, 1853 » visited Europe, 1879; now (1880) a teacher in the Southern states. 11. Alice Ermina, b. July i, 1857. Benj. French Cutter m. Mary E. G. Capen, April 27, 1852, dau. of Josiah and Mariette (Gridley) Capen, of Boston. He is of the firm of Cutter, Hyde & Co., Boston, importers, and dealers in foncy goods and toys ; r. on Jamaica Plain, which he has represented in the Massachusetts legislature. I. Annie Otis, b. Jamaica Plain, May 23, 1855. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 297 345 346 (315) 347 348 II. Maria Capen^ b. Feb. 20, 1S57. III. Harry Ilolden, b. Aug. 31, i860. Jonas Cutter m. Lydia V. Eveleth, dau. of Joseph and Seba (Barnes) Eveleth, of Dublin. Is proprietor of the "Cutter House" in JafFrey Centre, which offers peculiar attractions to strangers desiring a rural resort near Grand Monadnock. Children : I. Isabella Valeria, b. July 13, 1854; d. Aug. 31, 1869. II. Mortimer Eveleth, b. June 5, 1856. DAKIN FAMILY. Samuel, son of Dea. Amos and Sarah Thankful (Minot) Dakin, was b. in Mason, Nov., 1770. He was a descendant of Tliomas Dakin, who was a resident of Concord previous to 1650. He graduated at Dartmouth college in i797 • studied tiie profession of law ; opened an office in Jaftrey in 1801. He resided in the house now owned and occupied by Dr. John Fox, which he built soon after his settlement in town. He was an active business man, and, on finding the business of an attorney-at-law too limited in the town of Jaftrey, he, with others, attempted the manufacture of crockery ware, from clay found in Monkton, Vt. The enterprise failed, and Mr. Dakin left town. While in town he held the office of town-clerk from 1806 till he left in 1 81 5, and was a member of the board of selectmen during the same time. In 1801, when he first came to town, he was appointed post-master. He re. to Utica, N. Y., afterwards to Hartford, and d. there, Jan. 29, 1844. -^^ ™- Polly, dau. of the Rev. Stephen Farrar, of New Ipswich. She d. Aug. 24, 1854, ^- 1^- I. Samuel, b. July 16, 1802 ; d. Jan. 26, 1853. II. Mary, b. Jan. 4, 1804; m. Cyrus Ingalls, b. in Rindge ; r. Peterborough and Leominster, where she d. III. Charles, b. Aug. 27, 1806; d. Feb. 7, 180S. IV. Sophia, b. July 11, 1808; m. and re. West. V. Martha, b. Oct. 13, 1810; d. Feb. 20, 1863. VI. William, b. June 9, 181 2 ; d. Sept. 27, 1813. 298 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. DANFORTH FAMILY. Jacob Danforth was an early settler. In the tran- script of a load in 1780, is the name of Samuel Danforth, probably a brother. It seems quite probable that both settled in Jaffrey at about the same time. Jacob was the first proprietor of the Cutter House, and probably built the first building thereon. He also carried on the busi- ness of blacksmithing in the rear of the same, where Arte- mas Lawrence was afterwards engaged in the same business. His last tax was in iSii. He re. to Amherst, and settled in that part of the town known as Danforth's Corner. He m., i^*, Mehitable Lufkin, a sister of Jonathan ; she d. Feb. 24, 1S04, a. 37 ; m., 2'*, Mrs. Rebecca Fassett ; d. Oct. 2, iSio, a 32. Ch. : ; d. unm. — ; d. unm. ; r. Groton, Mass. I. Oliver, b. — II. William, b. III. Kimball, b. IV. Polly, b. Dec. 16, 1794; d. July 28, 1795. V. Emily, b. Nov. 11, 1795 ; r. Groton. VI. David, b. Aug., 1796; a blacksmith; r. Wal- pole. VII. Orpah, b, Oct. 16, 1800. DAVIDSON FAMILY. John Davidson and his brother Thomas were born in Ireland, came to this country when quite young, and settled with the Scotch-Irish colony in Londonderry. About 175S, John settled in JaftVey and Thomas in Peterborough. John settled on lot 21, range 3, known as the Patrick farm, afterwards owned by the town, and now (1873) by Henry K. French, of Peterborough. When the town was organized, in i773j J*^^^" Davidson was chosen constable, and warned the next town meet- ing held that year, and the annual meeting of the next year, held March 31, 1774. He afterwards held the offices of fence-viewer, surveyor, tythingman, &c., and was a soldier in the Revolution. He is believed to have been the first settler of the town of JaftVey. He m. a wife from Londonderry ; and a headstone in the Centre burying-yard bears the following inscription : Mr. JOHN DAVIDSON Died Jan. iS, 1811, Aged 85. 6 7 8 9 lO II 12 H 15 (6) 16 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 299 His children, so far as we can learn, were : I. Betsey, b. ; m. James Turner, 1789. II. John, b. ; m., Oct. 16, 1793, Widow Rob- bins ; last tax, i794- III. James, b. ; m. Betsy Bride. Oct. 2, 1793 ; last tax, 1800. John, Jr:, and James were enrolled soldiers in 1784. Thomas Davidson, Dea., settled near his brother's in Peterborough. He was also the owner of land in Jaftrey adjoining the farm of his brother ; built a saw-mill on lot 5, range 22, and afterwards built a saw- and grist-mill on lot 12, range 7, now owned by Heath & Gilmore. He m. Anna Wright in 1757, a dau. of Mathew Wright. He d. April 11, 1813, a. S6. She d. Jan. 4, 1823, a, 88. He was a man of enterprise, and accumulated a large fortune. Had ten children : I. Thomas, b. Dec. 20, 175S ; m. Betsy Pierce, wid. of Asa Pierce, of Dublin. She had two ch. by her first husband, — Asa and Jonas. -|- II. Charles, b. Sept. 10, 1760; m. Abigail Evans; d. Dec. 31, 1 83 1. III. Mary, b. May 2, 1762; m. Maj. Jotham Hoar. IV. Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1766; m. Samuel- Patrick, of JaftVey. V. William, b. Feb. 6, 1768; m., 1°', Abigail Hunt, and 2^, Jane Wright. -|- VI. Betsy, b. ; m. Dr. — <— Frisby ; r. Phelps- town, N. Y. VII. John, b. ; d. at Lewiston, N. Y. VIII. Robert b, ; m. Dolly Phelps; r. Canada. Nine children. IX. Anna,h. ; m. Capt. Alpheus Dodge; r. Derby, Vt. Eight children. X. Hannah, b. ; m. Dr. Ezra Clark ; re. West. Two children : Thomas Davidson, Jr., settled in Jaffrey on lot 22, range 4 ; m. widow Betsy Pierce, of Dublin. He d. April I, 1832, a. 73. His wid. d. Jan. 25, 1841, a 77. Children : I. Betsy, b. ; m. Jona. Woods ; re. to Whites- town, N. Y. 300 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 17 18 20 21 (10) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 (21) 31 32 33 34 35 36 (28) II. tfohn, h. Grass Lake, Mich. III. Robert^ b. ; m. IV. Charles, b. ; Wisconsin. V. Thomas Wright, b. ; m. Silvia Nay ; re. to and d. at 10 yrs., 8 mos., 4 dys. IX. Simeon Stilm,an, b. . -(- m. Emeline Lawrence ; r. ; d. Jan. 4, 181 1, a. William Davidson settled on the homestead ; m., I '^S Abigail Hunt; 2^^, Jane Wright, dau. of Francis, Nov. 115, 1798. He d. Jan. 29, 1838, a. 70. His wid. d. April I, i860, a. 82. I. Mathew W., b. Feb. 27, 1799; d. Sept. 35, 1835 ; unm. II. Abigail, b. Jan. 27, 1802 ; m.. i'', Moses Cutter, of Jaffrey ; 2'', Capt. Isaac Jewell ; re. to Mich. III. Thomas, b. Aug. 26, 1806; r. on the home- stead ; unm. IV. Francis, b. Sept. 6, 1808 ; d. Oct. 31, 1832 ; unm. V. William, b. Sept. 9, iSio ; r. Mich. ; unm. VI. John, b. Dec. 3, 1812 ; m. ; r. Holyoke, Mass. VII. Charles, b. Feb. 19, 1816 ; m. . -(- VIII. Calvin, b. Nov. 16, 1818 ; d. May 7, 1850 ; unm. IX. Jane, b. Jan. 25, 1821 ; m. Nichols; d. about 1848. Simeon Stilman Davidson settled on the homestead, and m. Rachel, dau. of Jacob and Sally (Turner) Bald- win in iS43or '4. He re. to Wisconsin ; d. in 111., 1S76. I. Elizabeth, b. ; m. ; r. Sutton, Mass. II. Sarah Ann; unm.; r. 111. ; killed, 1878, being thrown from a wagon. III. Rachel, d. in Sutton, Mass. ; unm. IV. Austress, m. Biggelow, attorney-at-law ; r. Galena, 111. : d. 1877. V. Adelaide, m. and r. Galena, 111. VI. Stilman W., d. June 17, 1S39, a. 3 mos., 1 1 dys. Charles Davidson m. Louisa -, who d. July 10, 1849, a. 27. He was u resident of Jaffrey, on the GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, 301 37 38 39 Wright place, from 1849 to 1853, when he re. from town. Children : I. Helen M.^ d. Aug., 1846, a. i yr., 11 mos. II. Charles^ b. 1847. III. Hubert H., d. April 24, 1853. a. 3 yrs., 9 mos. DAVIS FAMILY. The ancestor of the Davis family was Dolar Davis, who came from England, 1634; settled, first, in Cambridge; second, in Concord. 8 9 10 II 12 Daniel Davis was one of the first settlers. His name is in the report of Enoch Hale previous to 1770. In an earlier report by Grout and Gilmore is family Davis, probably Daniel Davis. He came from Bed- ford, Mass., settled on lot 32, range 10, in the south- east part of the town. In 1774 he was chosen by the town grand juror and highway surveyor. In i775 '^^ was chosen commissioner and a member of the com- mittee of inspection. He m. Susannah Lane, of Bedford, Mass. ; re., first, to JaftVey, and in 1775, to Rindge. Children : I. Susannah, b. in Bedford, Nov. 6, 1767. II. Sarah, b. in Jaftrey, Feb. i, 1770. III. Paul, b. 1771 ; d. young. IV. Hannah, b. April 5, 1773. V. Daniel, b. in Rindge, June 15, 1775- Richard Davis came from Lincoln, Mass., to Rindge. In 1777 he re. to Jaflrey, and settled on lot i, range 2, west of the mountain. He m., Nov. 19, i77i» Lois Whitney, of Weston, b. 1733 \ l^st tax 1803. I. Silas, b. Aug. i, 1772, in Weston; on tax-list, 1 795-1801. II. Solomon, b. April 24, 1774; paid tax 179S and 1799. III. ILois, b. March, 1775 ; m., June 4, 1800, Josiah Cobb. IV. Richard, m. Sally Garfield; last tax, 1S16. V. James, b. 1782 ; m. Eunice ; d. July 2, 1842, a. 6o.-|- 302 (12) H 16 17 18 19 20 21 32 23 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 24 25 26 27 28 29 VI. Jonali^ b. ; a shoe manufacturer ; r. Marl- borough ; had a son Edwin, who was a Universalist minister. James Davis m. Eunice . I. Elisha, b. March 4, 1813. II. Lois Whitney^h. Oct. 29, 1S15 ; m., 1S44, Wm. Learnard. III. James iSumner, b. July 12, iSiS; left town in 1846. IV. 3Iary, b. June 17, 1820. V. William X., b. March 15, 1823. VI. Augustus^ b, Dec. 4, 1826; d. Nov. 16, 1875; was a physician in Scranton, Pa. John Davis was in Jaffrey previous to 1779 '■> settled on lot 19, range 4 ; m. and had children, and d. previ- ous to 1783. I. John^ b. II. William, b. III. Andrew, b. ; on tax-list, 1793 ^iic^ ^794* ; settled on the homesteati of his father, and about 181 2 re. to Peru, Vt. Peter Davis, a clock-maker, came from Rindge to J a drey in 1786; m. Hannah, dau. of John and Mary (Mackintire) Eaton, of Jatlrey, Aug. 28, 17S3. She d'. May 20, 181S, a. 58. Three children : I. Hannah, b. 1784; d. Nov. 29, 1863, a. 79. She was a manufacturer of band-boxes. II. Jonas, b. . III. Peter, b. . IV. Mary, b, ; m. and r. in New Ipswich. Joseph Davis, b. in Dublin, Nov. 23, 1822; m., Sept. 23, 1847, Martha, dau. of Isaac and Sarah Howe Hadley, b. July 27, 1826; settled, first, in Peter- borough, and in 1870 re. so Jaffrey, and settled on lot 20, range 6, known as the Captain Pope and Robert Ritchie farm. Two children : GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 303 I. Charles B., b. July 8, 1S50 ; m., June 11, 1871 Clara Ames, of Peterborough. One child, — Willie B., b. May 7, 1872. II. Frank J., h. Aug. 14, 1861. Mathew Davis, on tax-list, 1 793-1806. T. Gordon Davis, on tax-list, 1793. Eliakim Davis, on tax-list, 1798-99. Solomon Davis, on tax-list, i798-'99. DEAN FAMILY. Jonathan Dean settled on lot 17, range 6; m. Nancy, widow of William Hogg, and had four chil- dren. I. Sarah, b. July 24, 1779. II. William, b. June 14, 17S3 ; d. Aug. 27, 1850. III. /Susamiah, m. John Lewis, of Temple. IV. Nancy, m. Reuben Robb, of Peterborough. Hiram Dean came from Groton, Mass., to Rindge in 1779; re. to Townsend, Mass., 1781 ; to Jaffrey in 1782. He was a manufacturer of steelyards; r. on lot 15, range 7, now the residence of Emily Joslin. He m. Eleanor , and had several children. I. Hiram, b. previous to 1779. II. Eleanor, h. ; m., May 21, iSoi, Thomas Wilson. III. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 17S0, at Rindge. IV. Molly, b. at Townsend, 17S1. V. Moses. VI. Dudley. VII. Amasa. VIII. Samso7i. IX. Polly. X. Sally. Rev. Leonard J. Dean, pastor of the Baptist church, East Jatirey, m., June 20, 1876, Florence Pearl, dau. of Franklin H. Cutter, Esq., of East Jaftrey. 304 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. DINSMORE FAMILY. Zebediah Densmore was enrolled in the military company, of JatiVey, 17S4. Capt. Thomas Dinsmore, b. Nov. 20, 1789, came from Montpelier, Vt., and settled in Jaflrey about 1S14, paying tax that year. His residence was on the turn- pike, on lot 10, range 6, now owned by James T. Brown. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade; m. Polly, dau. of John and Alinda (Bardwell) Moore, of Whate- ly, Mass., a brother of Dea. Nathaniel Moore, of Peter- borough. He d. Aug. 5, 1S39, ^- 5^' -^'^ widow d. at Peterborough, Feb. 15, 1875, a. 81. I. John, b. Oct. 6, 1810; m., Oct. 11. 1830, Roena M. Johnson, of Hancock ; r. in Peter- borough. Eight children. II. Austin, h. March 28, 1812; m. Louisa W. Blanchard, of New Ipswich ; he d. there March 19, 1838. Four children. III. Ja7ie, b. Jan. 7, 1814; m.,Dec. 27, 1835, Lewis Johnson, of Hancock ; r. Hancock and Peterborough. Three children. IV. Mary, b. April 10, 1816; m. Thomas Dodge; r. Augusta, Mich. One child. V. Lucy, b. Nov. 24, 1818; m., 1836, John H. Webber, of Mason ; d. at Peterborough, in 1843. One child. VI. il^r^Aa, b. April 12, 1820; m., 1840, Charles W. Hardy; d. at Peterborougli, Dec. 21, 1S44. One child. VII. Nancy, b. Feb. 17, 1822; m., 1841, Lorenzo S. Washburn, of Peterborough ; r. Alabama, New Orleans, and Louisville, Kentucky. Seven children. DODGE FAMILY. Job Dodge settled in Jaffrey, on lot 18, range 4, about 1796; was taxed that year. He m. Ruth, sur- name unknown, who d. 1806, a. 70. He d. Dec, 1814, a. 83. I. Ruth, d. July 24, 1798, a. 37. II. John. III. Lucy, m. Joseph Bates, Jr., April 7, i795- IV. Hannah. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 305 (^) John Dodge m., i'', Pollly, dau. of Moses Burpee, March i, 180S ; m., 2^ Nancy, dau. of John Paine, of Dublin, Jan. 7, 1813 ; re. to Goshen, 1S24. 6 7 8 9 10 I. Betsey, b. Sept. 25, 18 10. II. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 9, 1S13. III. Nancy, b. March 15, 1815. IV. Lucy, b. April 21, 1S17. V. Louisa, b. Jan. 16, 1819. II VI. Harriet, b. Nov. 30, 1820. 12 VII. John, b. Sept. 10, 1822. DOLE FAMILY. In 1775, April 23, Benjamin Dole and John Dole, both from Jaffrey, enlisted for three months' service in the company under the command of Philip Thomas, of Rindge, and were in the battle of Bunker Hill. 1 In 1777, John Dole enlisted for three years, or during the war. We have no further record of him. 2 Benj. Dole settled on lot 5, range 5, and was a resi- dent of the town till 1795, after which his name disappears from the tax-list. In i776-'7 h^ held the office of fence-viewer ; was for many years highway surveyor; field-driver in 17851 1856, a. 85. I. Polly, b. 1798; m. Edmond Burpee ; d. June 18, 1824. II. Sally, b. April 22, 1801 ; m. Loren Beckwith, of Lempster. She d. March 24, 1880. III. Thomas, b. 1803; d. 1805. IV. Eleanor, b. Aug. 2, 1806; m. Horace Evans, of Peterborough ; d. Feb. i, 1877. V. Elvira, b. Aug. 22, 1808; m. Leonard Stiles; r. Peterborough. He d. at Peterborough. William Dutton in. Nabby Smith, of Fitzwilliam ; r. on the homestead. He d. July 13, 1S44, a. 60. His widow m., 2^, Robert Goff; d. June 10, 1870, a. 88. I. Roancy, b. Feb. 2, 1809 ; m. Jona J. Comstock. q. V. II. Abigail, b. May 3, 181 1; m. Amasa Emery, q. V. in. Mary, b. April 4, 1813 ; m. Samuel W. Pierce, q. V. IV. William, b. Aug. 9, 1815 ; d. April 15, i8/|6. [See College Graduates.] V. An infant daughter, b. Jan. 29, 1818 ; d. VI. John Smith, b. Jan. 16, 1820; a farmer and gunsmith; r. on the homestead, 1873; m., 1°', Jerusha A., dau. of David and Olive (Emery) Howe, of Rindge, b. April 8, 1821, d. Jan 25, 1845 ; m., 2^, Jan. 8, 1846, Mary B. Davis, of Newfane, Vt., b. Feb. 22, 1825. 308 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (3) EATON FAMILY. John Eaton, son of Israel and Diademia Eaton, b. at Wobuin, Mass., March 12, 1727; m., Aug. i, 1749, Mary Mackentier, and d. about 1799- I. Diadetnia, b. May 18, 1750; m. Thomas Goff; d. 1S16. II. David^ b. Nov. 30, 1752.-]- III. 3fary, b. April 14, 1755. IV. Huth, b. Sept., 1758. V. Sarah, d. Aug. 27, 1765. He re. from Bedford, Mass., to Jaffrey in i774' ^^^" tied on lot 21, range 10; was the owner of a saw- and grist-mill in that locality ; re. to Pennsylvania. David Eaton m. Feb. 21, 1805, Hannah Stratton. (i) John, (2) Walter. (3) Sally. (4) Betsey. C5) Lucy. (6) James. (7) Reuhen. Joseph Eaton m. July 28, 1788, Ruhamah Snow. ELLIS FAMILY. Seth B. Ellis (Dea.), son of Millot Ellis, was b. at Keene, Feb. 4, 1792 ; m. Lucy, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Wilder) Joslin, July 2, 1818 ; r. in Water- ford, Vt., and Charlestown, Mass. ; settled in Jaftrey about 1825, on the farm of Samuel Joslin. In 1838 he re. to the centre of the town, and worked at his trade of carpenter and joiner till 1840, when he re. to Oberlin, Ohio, and d. Oct. 25, 1865. His widow d. May 9, 1874, a. 76 yrs., 3 mos. Dea. Ellis was one of the pioneers of Oberlin ; went there in a short time after the first tree was felled in that place, and took an active part in the founding of Oberlin college, and the promotion of its interests. With the aid of an amiable wife, he was enabled, with limited means, to give his children a liberal education. Two sons and two daughters completed the college course, one of whom has been for many years a teacher in the college. They were both highly esteemed, and greatly beloved for their devotion to the Christian wel- fare of others. Others' good was their delight. They " lived beloved and died lamented." Eleven children: GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 309 10 II 12 III. IV. V. Emeline Elizabeth, b. Jan. 12, 1S21 ; tl. July 24, 1850. She graduated at Oberlin in 1S74. and was principal of the young ladies' school in Oberlin. Maria Rebecca, b. April 3, 1S22 ; m., Aug., 1S43, G. W.Ellis. Lucy Amelia, b. Aug. 25, 1S24; m., May 13, 1851, Dr. W.S. Dumock; d. Sept. 25, 1853. Lucius Ransted, b. Feb., 1827; d. May, 1848. Mary Frances, b. Feb. 28, 1829; m. Rev. C. H. Remington. She was a graduate of Oberlin. VI. John Millot, b. May 27, 1831 ; m., Aug. 28, 1862, Minerva E. Tenney. Three children. [See College Graduates.] VII. Samuel Horatio, b. April 25, 1S33 ; d. Jan. 26. 1855. He graduated at Oberlin, 1S53 ; d. while a student of medicine, viii. Josephine M., b. July 18, 1835 ; d. Sept. 17, 1835- IX. Josephine M., b. Sept. 6, 1836. X. Ellen Sophia, b. July i, 1839; '""•' Nov. 26, 1863, Albert M. Bushnells. XI. Charles Brainard, b. July 3, 1843; d. Aug.. 1846. EMERY FAMILY. The name Emery is of Norman origin. It was introduced into England in 1066 by Gilbert D'Amory, of Tours, in Nor- mandy, a follower of William the Conqueror, and with him at the battle of Hastings. In 1635, John and son John, and Anthony, his brother, b. in Ramsey, in Nantes, embarked in the ship "James," Capt. Cooper, and landed in Boston, June 3, of that year. John settled in Newbury, Mass., and d. Nov. 3, 1683, a. 85. Anthony settled in Dover, N. H., afterwards in Kittery, Me. They were carpenters by trade. The first set- tler of that name in Jaftrey was Thomas Emery, who was the owner of lot 7, range 5 and 4, range 5 and 9. On one of these lots, the noted Milliken brick tavern, afterwards the farm of John Felt, was located, now (1873) in possession ot Levi E. Brigham, He settled in town previous to 1770; the last record of him was in 1790, when the town voted to abate his taxes. 310 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (3) Daniel Emery (Dea.) was a descendant of Anthony, the emigrant. He was b. in Chehnsford, Mass., May 5, 173O1 ^ son of Zachariah and Sarah Emery. His mother d. Oct, 8, 1732, and his father m., 2**, Rebecca Reddington, who d. ; m. 3**, Thankful Foster, who d. Aug. 31, 1785, a. 74. His father d. Aug., 1776. He m. Jane, surname unknown, about 1774; settled, i**, in Townsend, Mass., where the births of his children are recorded; and in 1776 he re. to Jaftrey, and settled on lot iS, range 3. He was a leading man in town and church aft'airs ; held in Townsend the offices of con- stable, tythingman, and selectman, and was a member of the committee of correspondence and inspection. In Jaffrey he and his wife were members of the church, when incorporated in 1780. He was chosen deacon of the same ; was one of the committee to procure preach- ing in 1779* •'■" town affairs he was one of the com- mittee of inspection in 1778, '79, and '80; moderator in 1677? '79i '80 ; selectman in i ^'j'j and 'Si; and was a soldier of the Revolution. His wife Jane d. June 7» 1803, a. 71. He m., 2*^, Esther, relict of Ebenezer Ja- quith, and d. Aug. 22, 1819, a. 89. Six childi'en. I. Jane, h. Feb. i, 1755. II. Daniel^h. Dec. 6, 1756. III. Betsey, b. April 9, 1759; m. Alexander Milli- ken, q. v. IV. Noah, b. Sept. 6, 1761. V. Jonathan, b. July 25, 1763; m. Hannah Ja- quith ; d. Nov. 19, 1824. She d. March 19, 1S40, a. 72, VI. Asa, b. Sept. 9, 1769. Daniel Emery (Capt.) came to Jaffrey, with his fa- ther, in 1776. He is supposed to have been in Captain James Horsley's company, of Townsend, at the time of the battle of Lexington, and was in service from April 19th to the 27th, in i775- He is supposed to have been the Daniel Emory commissioned April 24, 1776, as second lieutenant in Capt. Thomas Warren's company, of the Sixth Middlesex Regiment. On June 18, 17S0, he m. Elizabeth Farnsworth, of New Ipswich, sister of the wife of Lieut. Thomas Adams, by whom he had two children. I. Daniel, b. Feb. 13, 1782. II. An infant daughter, h. about Oct. i, 1783; d. young. 12 H 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 (5) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 3II Mrs. Emery d. Oct. 23, 1783. He m., 2d, June 6, 1786, Hannah Bates, of Jaffrey, and re. to Walpole, and by her had eleven children. III. Stephen^ b. Dec. 23, 17S6; m. and d. in Wis- consin. IV. Betsey, h. A\>\\\ 15, 17SS; m. Zachariah, son of Samuel and Mary Emery, b. March 4, 1785 ; r. Rockingham, Vt., and Belfast, N. Y., where he d. May 28, 1853. She d. Jan. 13, i860. They had four sons and two daugh- ters. V. Hannah, b. Oct. 10, 1789; m. White ; d. at Rockingham, Vt. VI. Sarah, b. April 14, 1791 ; re. N. Y. and d. VII. Nancy, b. Jan. 27, 1793; m., Jan. 20, 1815, Barber ; ten children. VIII. Joseph, h. May 24, 1794; m. ; r. Aurora, N. Y., and d. there. IX. Abner, b, April 27, 1796 ; re. West, and d. X. Jonathan, b. July 31, 1797; m. and d. West, about 1850. XI. Aaron,\). Feb. 24, 1799; m., April 20, 1824, wSusan Martin ; r., first, Walpole ; second (1832), Stockholm, N. Y. Ten children. XII. Ira, b. April 16, 1801 ; m., i'', Julia Fisher ; m., 2*^, Mrs. Rebecca Stearns, who d. Jan. 19, 1864. He d. July 29, 1859. One daughter, adopted. XIII. Achsa, b. July 30, 1802; r. Michigan. XIV. Fra7iklin,h. Feb. 7, 1S07 ; d. Nov. 26, 1826, at Walpole, N. H. XV. Cynthia, b. April i, 1809 ; r. Belfast, N. Y. XVI. Irene, b. June 16, 1810. Capt. Daniel Emery d. at Walpole, March 5, 1826. His widow d. about 1852, in N. Y. state. Noah Emery m. Elizabeth, surname unknown. He left town about 1804; not taxed 1S05. Five children: 24 I. Jean, b. May 23, 1784- 25 11. James, b. Aug. 23, 1785. 26 III. Betsey, b. Aug. 3, 1787. 27 IV. Eunice, b. Nov. 2, 1788. 28 I V. Asa, b. Dec. 23, 1789. 312 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, (8) 29 30 3^ 32 33 34 35 36 37 3S 39 40 Daniel Emery (Lieut.), at the request of his mother on her dying bed, was adopted by her sister, the wife of Lieut. Thomas Adams, by whom he was brought up, and inherited one half of the Adams estate. He m., April 3, 1804, Polly Felt, of Temple, b. Nov. 7, 1782. He d. Aug. 24, 182S. His widow d. June 22, 1862. Children : I. Adams, h. Dec. 4, 1804; m., March, 1833, at Fall River, Mass., Mrs. Dolly (Wiggin) Smith. He d. at Boston, July 13, 1841. II. Andreios (Dea.), b. May 12, 1806; m., i^', April 28, 1830, Lucy Powers, of Dublin. She d. Aug. 22, 1832 ; m., 2*^, July 2, 1833, Mary Smith, of Peterborough. He d. April 8, 1S60. Four children : (i) Jeremiah ; (2) George S. ; (3) Lucy M. ; (4) Charles D., d. Washington, D. C, 1S63. III. Daniel Farnsworth, b. Feb. 21, 1808 ; m., Dec. I, 1831, Catherine B. Brown, of Fall River, Mass. ; r. Michigan. IV. Mary Caroline, b. Jan. i, 1810 (on the first day of the year, the first day of the month, the second day of the week, and the first hour of the day); m.. May 17, 1827, James R. French; d. June 28, 1S29. Two children; died. V. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 6, 181 2 ; m. Daniel L. Rob- bins ; r. Fitchburg. George, b. May 5, 1816; d. Dec. 15, 1816. Harriet, b. Dec. 28, 1817; m., April i, 1847, Rev. Geo. F. Clark, of Dublin ; now r. in Mendon, Mass. jSo2)hro7iia , b. Jan. 11, 1821 ; m., June 7, 1S42, Geo. BuUard, of Dublin ; r. Gardner, Mass. IX. Ste'phen Felt, b. June 25, 1S23 ; m., Oct. 5, 1847, Sarah M. Pierce, of JaftVey, dau. of Josiah and Paulina (Erskins) Pierce ; r. in Mexico, N. Y. VI VII VIII Samuel and Mary Emery left a record of the birth of four children : I. Sarah, b. April 24, 1779. II. Samuel, b. June 3, 17S2. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 313 41 42 43-44 (43) 45 46 47 (44) 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 (46) III. Zachariah, b. March 4, 17S5 ; m. Betsey, dau. of Capt. Daniel and Hannah (Bates) Emery ; r. Belfast, N. Y. IV. Jbsiah, b. Aug. 30, 1787. Samuel and William Emery (twins), sons of Zachariah and Esther (Stevens) Emery, b. in Town- send, Mass., Oct. 23, 1758. Their father was an older brother of Dea. Daniel Emery.-j- Samuel Emery settled on lot 8, range 9 ; m. Olive, dau. of Ebenezer and Esther Jaquith, Jan. 31, 1789. He d. Jan. 12, 1836. She d. Oct. 8, 1832, a. 64. I. Esther., h. Nov. 21, 1792. II. Samuel, b. Sept. 7, 1794.-I- m. Olive, b. May 29, 1799; m., Feb. 20, 1821, David Howe, of Rindge. William Emery settled on lot 9, range 9 ; m., i^', Mary, dau. of Samuel and Sybil (Page) Stanley; m., 2**, Lucy . First wife d. June 2, 1827, a. 60. Second wife d. July 29, 1858, a. 66. He d. July 16, 1740, a. 82. I. Silly, d. young. II. Zachariah, b. Feb. i, 1790 ; m. Rebecca Mower ; d. March 26, 1836. Two ch.4- III. Polly, b. March 27, 1792; d. March 4, 1865; unm. IV. Sybil, b. March 25, 1794; m., April 27, 1S20, Josiah Bemis, of Dublin. V. Half, b. Sept. 26, 1796; m.-|- VI. William, b. March 29, i799> "">• Lucy Downs, Dec. 10, 1826; d. July 13, 1844. VII. Edward, b. May 3, 1801 ; m.. May i, 1836, Fanny, dau. of Isaac Nutting. VIII. Amasa, b. April 2, 1804 -j- IX. Nancy A., b. April 29, 1807 ; m. April 28, 183 1, Hervy H. Robbins, of Nelson. He d. Nov. 17, 1849, a. 42. X. tTohfi S., b. March i, 18 10, XI. Laura A., b. May 31, 1815 ; d. July 23, 1855 i unm. Samuel Emery m. Mary, dau. of Oliver and Polly (Perkins) Bailey, July 11, 1821. He d. July 27, i860. Eight children : 314 HISTORY OF JAFFREV. 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 (49) 65 66 (52) 67 68 69 70 71 (55) 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 I. Frederick A., b. Feb. 13, 1823 ; d. Nov. 6, 1850. II. Marrj L., b. Sept. 15, 1824. III. Ahnon S., b. March 21, 1S30. IV. Christopher F.^ b. April 10, 1832. V. Ermina M.^ b. March 25, 183 c;. VI. Oliver J?., b. March 4, 1839 ; \l. Feb. 17, 1840. VII. Elizabeth^ b. , 1841 ; d. Feb. 13, 1845, a. 4. Zachariah Emery m. Rebecca, dau. of Col. Josiah and Rebecca (Cutter) Mower. He d. March 26, 1836, a. 60. Children : I. Mary Rebecca^ b., 1821 ; m. Sylvester B. Law- rence, q. V. II. Sarah Eliza, b., 1823 ; m. John S. Lawrence, q. V. Ralph Emery m., i'', Susan Williams, of Danvers, Mass. ; m., 2^, Carrie Robbins, of Jaftrey. He d. May 8, 1864, a. 67. I. Henry, b. II. Charles, b. ; m. Carrie A. Spoftbrd, of Peterborough. III. Orren, b. ; r. and d. in Winchendon. IV. Amos,\). ; m., i'', Sarah Eddy; m., 2**, Mary Ballou. v. Loring B,., d. Feb. 19, 1845, a. 7. Amasa Emery m., Dec. 25, 1828, Abigail, dau. of William and Nabby Smith Button. She d. Aug. 21, 1871, a. 60. Children: I. Alonzo Amasa, b. Dec. 18, 1829; m., i^', Ellen Kennedy ; she d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1864 ; m., 2^, June 5, 1872, Jenny Wickoff; r. Somerville, N. Y. II. George Dutton, b. Dec. 4, 1831 ; m., Oct. 26, 1863, Theresa Vanardsdale, of Somerville, N. Y. ; r. Springfield, Mo. III. Paulina A., b. Nov. 2, 1836 ; d. May 2, 1845. IV. Eliza Ann, b. July 4, 1840 ; d. Aug. 26, 1858. V. Ellen Adelaide, b. Sept. 5, 1844; d. Nov. i, 1845. VI. 3 fary Frances, h. Jan. 26, 1847; d. March 27, 1879. VII. William Frederick, h. Jan. 26, 1847; m., Jan. 79 8o 8i 82 83 84 85 86 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 31C I, 1870, Frances J. Cressey. He d. at Peter- borough, April 13, 1873. One ch. Daniel Emory was the second son of John Emory, who came from Topsfield to Rindge in 1771, a descend- ant of the John Emery who settled in Newbury, before mentioned, in the history of Dea. Daniel Emery. The change in spelling the name is said to have been made by the Rindge family. Daniel was b. July 5, 1773 ; m. Betsey Curtice, b. in Boxford, Mass., July 14, 1773 ; d. in Jaftrey, April, 1S48. His business was the manufac- turing of nest-boxes. In 1806 he re. to Jaffrey, where he engaged in trade, at first in the Thorndike store; afterwards built one on the land of Mr. Ainsworth, which he occupied as a store, and for the manufacturing of nest-boxes and dry measures. He afterwards retired to a farm, and in 1835 went to Pennsylvania, and there continued the same business, and was for a time post- master. He d. in Mehoopany, Wyoming Co., Pa., in 1855. Children : I. Pamelia, b. Nov. i, 1794; d. unm., Ware, Mass. II. Prentice Burr, b. July 17, 1797; was a physi- cian ; d. in N. J. III. Alvah, h. June 11, 1799; a hatter by trade ; d. Sept. 24, 1851, in Leominster, Mass. IV. Ambrose, b. Nov. 13, 1S02 ; m. Mary Gadding ; r. Rindge. Two ch. V. Cynthia, b. ; m. Levi Joslin, of Rindge ; d. Two ch. VI. Daniel, b. Jan. 16, 1809 ; m. Susanna Pierce, of Lunenburg ; was a trader in Fitchburg, Mass. ; d. March 31, 1S5S. Nine ch. VII. Sophia, b. ; m. Jona. Ayers, of North Brookfield, Mass. FASSETT FAMILY. Joseph Fassett, b. in Fitzwilliam, came to Jaftrey, Jan. 7, 1836, settled on lot 3, range 4; m. Tabitha Wright, who d. Sept. 6, 1871. He d. Sept. 17, 1858, a. 63. I. Tabitha, b. Aug. 26, 1820 ; m. Edward Stewart, of Boston. 3i6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO (3) II 12 14 II. Joseph TF., b. June 7, 1822.-I- III. Lois B.^ b. Nov. 21, 1S23; m. Abel Thompson, q. V. IV. John B.^ b. Oct. 12, 1825. V. Joel K^ b. May 8, 1827; d. May 11, 1862; a member of Co. E., 2"* Regt. N. H. V. VI. Edward, b. Sept. 16, 1829; d. May 20, 1850. VII. Luther TT., b. Nov. 12, 183 1 ; m. Sarah E. Fassett. One ch. He was a soldier in Co. E., 2'* Regt. N. H. V. ; was killed by a Rebel scout, at Evansport, Va., April 2, 1862 ; the first man killed from Cheshire county. VIII, Danvers C, b. May 2, 1834; was a member of the I'' Regt. of Heavy Artillery, N. H. V. ; m. Hannah Hammon. Two sons. IX. Clarissa C, b. June 9, 1836 ; m. Samuel Wilber, Dec. 26, 1856. One son. Joseph W. Fassett m. Sarah A. Putney She d. Dec. 13, 1873, by being thrown from a carriage by a frightened horse, a. 52. He m., 2**, . Mr. Fassett is one of the business men of the town ; has been several years selectman, and is now (1876) rep- resentative in the state legislature. I. Charles W., b. Dec. 3, 1848. II. Abbie A., b. Jan. 14, 1851. III. Frank P., b. March 2, 1853 ; d. Oct. 22, 1853. IV. Henry, b. Dec. 19, 1863. FELT FAMILY. Aaron Felt, with his brother, emigrated from Wales, and settled in the vicinity of Salem, Mass. Aaron had six sons and one daughter. His sons Aaron and Peter settled in Temple ; Jonathan, Samuel, and Joseph, in Nelson ; and Joshua, in Keene. Polly m. John Breed, and settled in Nelson. John Felt, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (SppfTord) Felt, was b. in Nelson, Sept. 22, 1798. He m. Huldah Hobart, dau. of John and Maria (Houghton) Conant, of Stowe ; re. to JaftVey in 1825 ; settled on lot 4, range 5, formerly owned by Alexander Milliken, Esq. Mrs. Felt d. May 27, 1861, a. 57. Mr. Felt has been a prominent business man in town, in whose integrity and ability the people had entire con- 9 lO II 12 13 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 317 fidence. He held for a number of years the offices of moderator and selectman, was five years representative in the state legislature, and for many years justice of the peace. In 1850 he w^as assistant marshal for taking the census, which duty he performed in a manner satisfactory to the public, and highly creditable to him- self. In Oct., 1S60, he fell from a tree while gathering apples, and dislocated his spine and three of his ribs, broke two, and the humeral bone of his left shoulder. For five weeks he was in a helpless condition, requiring the aid of six men to move him. He gradually recov- ered, enfeebled and crippled for life. I, An infant daughter, b. June 13, 1826; d. the next day. II. John Conant, b. May 10, 1S27 ; m., Dec. iS, 1855, Sarah Almeda, dau. of Levi Howe, Esq., of Rindge. He d. at Orange, Mass., Jan. 28, 1874. He was a dentist by profes- sion. III. Sally Maria, b. Sept. 17, 1828; m., Dec. 29, 1862, Alfred Page, of Lunenburg, Mass. ; r. Shirley. One son : I. John Eli, b. May 8, 1864; d. Aug. 5, 1864. IV. Caroline Huldah, b. April 25, 1830; m. Julius Cutter, q. v. V. Joseph Alonzo, b., Oct. 11, 1831 ; m., Feb. 8, 1855, Mary Howe, of Harrisville, N. H. ; settled in Gardner, Mass. ; re. to Grand Rapids, Mich., and d. Aug. 3, i860. He was a pail manufacturer. Two children : 1. Arthur Hurlburt, b. Jan. 10, 1855. 2. John, b. June 16, 1859; d. VI. Albert Orlo, b. July 8, 1833 ; m., Nov. 8, 1857, Ladoria S., daughter of Joseph and Seba (Barns) Evleth, of Dublin. He was a chair manufacturer ; r. Gardner and Oshawa, Can- ada West. 1. Everett Orto, b. April 26, 1859. 2. Howard Albert, b. Aug. 2, i860. 3. Edith, b. July 19, 1857; d. 3i8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. H 15 VII. Martha Ward, b. Oct. 18, 1836; m., Sept. 28, 1S58, Clayton Evleth, son of Joseph ; r. in Philadelphia, Pa. ; a dealer in household furniture. He has now retired from busi- ness. viii. William Henry Jfarrison, b. April 5, 1841 ; d. Oct. 28, i860. 9 10 II 12 13 (3) FIFE FAMILY. John Fife, the third son of Dea. Silas Fife, came from Marlborough to Jaflrey, about 1799. His father was the second son of James Fife, who was b. in Fife- shire, Scotland, about the year 1700, and was a son of James Fife, a descendant of one of the most ancient families of Fifeshire. At an early age the younger James Fife emigrated to America, and, after visiting several other settlements, finally purchased a farm and settled in Bolton, Mass., where he m. Patience Butler, and reared a family of twelve children. His brother, William, also settled in the same place. I. James, b. Nov. 18, 1742; d. Dec. 16, 1742. II. Silas, h. Oct. 4, 1743.-I- III. Molly, b. Feb. 24, 1745 ; m. Robert Hudson. IV. Mobert, b. March 11, 1747 ; m. Hepsibath Bush, July II, 1776; d. 1785. V. Relief, h. '^?^n. 27, 1750; m. Jona. Whitcomb, June I, 1773. VI. Susanna, b. March 21, 1751 ; m. Capt. Samuel Woods. VII. Patience, b. Nov. i, 1757; m. Wm. Fife, Jr., Dec. 26, 17S6. VIII. James J., b. Aug. 24, 1760 ; d. Nov., 1790. IX. Deliverance, b. July 22, 1763 ; m. Isaac May- nard. X. Samuel, b. Aug. 16, 1764; d. young. XI. Sarah, b. March 9, 1766; d. March, 1782. XII. Martha, h. Oct. 2, 1767; m. James Britain ; d. Dec. 29, 1848. Silas Fife, his second son, removed to Monadnock No. 5, in the spring of 1765, and purchased a lot of land not far distant from Monadnock mountain, and includ- ing most of what was owned by Dea. Abel Baker in 1855, and became the first settler in the easterly part of the township, and the second within the territory now GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 319 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 (17) 24 25 26 27-2^ comprised in the town of Troy. Here he continued to labor year after year, gradually converting his wild lands into fertile fields, until he was the owner of a very fine estate, during which time there was born to him ten children, all of whom, with one exception, grew to maturity on the old homestead. He was a prominent and influential man in educational, chinch, and town affairs, and held various positions of responsibility and trust. He was b. at Bolton ; m. Abigail Houghton, Aug. 15, 1772 ; d. May 23, 1836. I. Samuel, b. June 27, 1773 ; m., i'', Anna Emer- son, Sept. 6, 1806; m., 2*", Sarah Thayer, April I, 1819; d. Oct. 15, 1851. II. Betsey, b. May 3, 1775 ; m. Wm. Tenney. in. Silas, b. April 21, 1777; m. Abigail Johnson ; d. April 12, 1834. IV. John, b. Feb. 6, 1779.-I- V. James, h. Nov. 14, 1780; m. ; d. 1840. VI. Abigail, b. Dec. 2, 17S2 ; d. in childhood. VII. Benjatnin, b. March 24, 1786; m. Betsey New- ton ; d. Nov. 24, 1842. VIII. Amos,h. Oct. 14, 1790; m. Nancy Ward ; d. Dec. 18, 1830. IX. Timothy, b. April 24, 1792; m. Mary Jones, Jan. 24, 1821 ; d. Dec. 12, 1871. X. Nathan, b. Feb. 22, 1795; m. Margaret Bird; d. Oct., 1834. John Fife settled in Jaftrey, on lot 4, range 5, now (1873) owned by John W. Mann. He kept a a public house there, which he called the " Mountain House," and for many years it was quite a popular resort for visitors to Monadnock mountain. He was also a farm- er. He m. Sarah Seward, and d. May 7, 1843, a. 64. His widow re. to Peterborough, and d. Aug. 24, 1858, a. 82. Of his wife, one who enjoyed her acquaintance for many years speaks as follows : " She was a noble woman, and one of the best housekeepers in this coun- ty." 1. Abigail, b. July 29, 1800; m. Samuel Stratton Oct. 12, 1823, q. v. II. William, b. Nov. 23, 1803. -|- III. e/oAn, b. Jan. 31, 1S07.-I- IV. Elmira, and v. Elvira (twins); b. Aug. 11, 1811 ; r. Peterborough. 3^0 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (25) 28 29 30 31 (26) 32 33 William Fife m., i°S Ruth Gott, April 27, 1S33 ; m., 2'', Sarah Sellers, Dec. 22, 1847. Soon after arriv- ing at man's estate he removed from Jaflrey to Isle-au- Ilaiite, Me., and engaged in mercantile business with his uncle, Nathan Fife. Several years later he estab- lished, a!id for many years carried on, a large mercan- tile business at Swan's Isle, in the same state. While residing here he was appointed trial justice, and ably performed the duties of that office for fifteen years. During his contiiuiance in that oflice he did almost the entire legal business within his jurisdiction, lie was a prominent citizen, and held many positions of responsi- bility In 1854, he removed to Ellsworth, Me., where lied., June 2, 1857- Children: I. Sarah Jane^ b. March 11, 1834. II. Almira Frances^ b. March 2, 1S36; m. Maurice R. Rich, Oct. II, 1853; r. Tremont, Me. He was b. in Mt. Desert, Me., Dec. 22, 1833. During the great Southern Rebellion, he was connected with the Signal Service of the United States army. They still re- side in Tremont, where he is engaged in ship-buiUling. Children: (i) Julia Ann, b. March 25, 1855. (2) Fred Judson, b. March 11, 1858. '(3) Mary Cora, b. Sept. 27, 1S60. III. John William^ b. Feb. 27, 1839.-]- IV. Nathan Judson, b. March 29, 1841 ; d. Jan. 9, 1863, at Belle Blaine, Va., in the service of his country. lie was a brave soldier. John Fife m. Caroline Stone, Nov. 4, 1830. He learned the blacksmithing business, removed to Peter- borough, and carried on the same with success, till 1854, when he removed to Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., where he engaged in farming. In 1S6S, he re. to New Hampshire, and settled in Swanzey ; but in 1 87 1 returned to Charlotte, where he now remains. One ch. Alfred A., b. in Peterborough ; m. Elizabeth, dan. of James and Sarah Hayward, Feb., 1856. In 1S54, he re. to Sinclairville, N. Y., and engaged in farming. One ch. : Anna, b. Sept. 28, 1865. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 321 (30) John William Fyfe, was b. at Swan's Isle, Me., Feb. 37, 1839. In 1853 he re. to Ellsworth, in the same state, where he learned the art of printing. He re- mained there for several years, and, after visiting many of the important New England cities, finally settled in Hartford, Conn., where, in 1S69, in company with another gentleman, he established a book antl job print- ing-office, but soon disposed of his interest in the establishment to his partner, and retired from the firm. He then studied medicine, and was graduated a doctor of medicine in 1878, when he received a diploma from the Eclectic Aledical College of Pennsylvania. From early youth he has been a frequent contributor to the columns of the press, on the subjects of temperance, laws of health, and other topics of the day. In 1868 he commenced the genealogical researches contained in his work entitled "James Fyfe and His Descendants." In 1S74 he was elected a member of the Hartford court of common council, and served the regular term of one year. His residence is still in Hartford. He m. Mary Elizabeth, dan. of Dr. Wm. H. and Mary T. Card, April 6, 1S62. She was b. in Utica, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1842. Her parents were natives of Newport, R. I., and were descendants of two of the oldest families of that city. At the age of three years they returned with her to Newport. Here she was educated, and most of her unmarried life happily spent. Children : 34 1. Florence Almira, h. Aug. 24, 1S67. 35 II. t/o/m William^ h. Nov. 27, 1873 ; d. July 14, 1874. FISK FAMILY. Thomas Fisk came from Pepperell, Mass., to Jaftrey in 1781 ; settled on lot 19, range i. He was a descendant of Samuel Fisk, who emigrated from England, and set- tled in Haverhill, Mass. His brother settled in Weston, Mass. Samuel, son of the emigrant, settled inGroton, Mass., about 1700. His son Thomas re. to Pepperell, m. Mary Parker, and d. April 3, 1854. His widow d. May 30, 17911 'I- 69. They hatl five children, one of whom, Thomas, m. Sarah, dau. of John Shipley (Scotch Irish), b. Dec. 25, 1748; d. at Jafirey, Feb. 18, 1831. He d. March 15, 1818, a. 73. Six children : 22 322 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, (2) 8 9 ID I I 12 H 15 16 (3) 17 18 (4) 19 20 21 22 23 T. Samuel, b. Nov. 28, 1768.-I- II. Asa, b. July i, 1771.-]- III. Zew«, b. Feb. 16, 1775. + IV. Sarah, b. March 22, 1779; d. April 21, 1844. V. Polly, b. Nov. 3, 17S2 ; d. June 14, 1804. \\. Joel, b. Jan. 14, 1787 ; m. Sally Pierce ; d. Jan. 19, 1823. Samuki- Fi.sk re. to Dublin ; m. Mary, dan. of Sam- uel Twitchell, Esq., of Dublin. I. Asa, b. May 8, 1794; d. Aug. 24, 1796. 11. Mary, h. Oct. 19, 1795; m. William Cogswell, of Peterborough. III. Samuel, b. April i, 1797; m. Betsey Gleason, who d. at Peterborough, Dec. 31, 1871, a. 72. He d. July 14, 1872, a. 75. IV. Asa, b. Feb. 16, 1799; m. Priscilla Ranstead. V. Alice Wilson, b. Sept. 16, 1800; m. Elias Hardy. VI. Betsey, b. Sept. 21, 1802; m. Ephraim Foster. VII. Louisa, b. Oct. 17, 1804. VIII. Julia, b. July 22, 180S; m. Edward Foster; d, Jan. 25, 1842 IX. Amos T., b. Jan. 22, 181 1 ; d. May 29, 1814. Asa settled in Dublin ; m. Cynthia Mann. I. Thomas, b. Dec. 29, 1802 ; m. Sophia Apple- ton. II. Cynthia M., b. Sept. 2, 1804; m. Calvin Learnard. One ch. Levi Fksk m., Nov. 10, 1799, Hannah Mellen, dau. of Daniel and Susan (Farwell) Mellen, of Fitzwilliam, He d. Aug. 17, 1857, a. 82. She d. July 22, 1861, a. 86. Mr. Fisk was a prominent man in town afl'airs, and a member of the state senate in i835-'6. I. Adams, b. May 3, i8oo.-|- II. Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1802; m. Elbridgc Baldwin, q. v. III. Polly, b. April 21, 1804; m. Eli Smith, of Dublin. IV. Parker, b. ; d. May, 1806, a. 26 dys. v. Air^ b. Sept. 23, 1808 ; d. Oct. i, 1825. 24 25 26 (19) 27 28 29 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 323 VI. Emily, b. May 12, 181 2 ; m. James Harvey, of Marlborough, and d. there. VII. Johh Shipley, b. July 18, 1814; m. Ann C. Clark, of Nelson. VIII. Lxike, b. Oct. 25, 181 7 ; d. Dec. 11, 1819. Adams Fisk resides on the homestead of his father ; m. Mary, dau. of John H. and Mary (Penny) Loring, of Rindge. Mr. Fisk has taken a deep interest in the History of Jaftrey, and furnished much valuable infoi*- mation. Three children : I. Mary Emeline, b. May 20, 1837 ' '^' Benj. F. Prescott, from Westford, Mass. ; r. Jaifrey. II. John Adams, b. Sept. 4, 1839. III. Henry Harrison, b. April 3, 1842 ; d. April 20, 1843. FITCH FAMILY. Paul Fitch was the son of John Fitch, who came from Bradford, Mass., to Ashby, where he was captured by tlie Indians in 1748^ 'in<^l taken to Montreal, Can. His family consisted of himself, wife, and five children, the youngest five months old. They were ransomed by their friends in Bradford. His wife d. on her return, Dec. 24, 1748, at Providence. He m.a 2'^ wife, resided for a time in Rindge, then returned to Ashby, and d. April 5, 1795. It is supposed that Fitchburg received its name from him, he being on the committee of incor- poration. Paul Fitch settled first in Rindge ; m. Mary Jaquith, of Billerica, Mass., April, 1767- .She was b. June 27, 17471 'iiid was the mother of his nine children. His wife d. Feb. 18, 1800; he m., 2'', Jan. 7, 1802, Joanna (Rice) Walker, widow of Samuel Walker. He re. to Rindge in i774' ^^^^ ^^ ]^^^'^y '" ^778- He after- wards, in 1805, re. to Marlborough, and d. May 2, 1818. I. Hannah, b. June 23, 1768; m. John Moore, of Sharon, son of David Moore. 3 II. t/oAw, b. Oct. II, 1770; m. ; d. in Cleveland, O., 1841. 4 111. Paul, b. June 21, 1773; m., Nov. 25, 1802, Sa- rah, dau. of Samuel and Joanna Rice Walk- er, of Rindge. She d. Nov. 14, 1814; m., 324 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II 12 13 15 16 2**, Dec. 21, 1S15, Sarah Davis. He r. in Marlborough and Claremont, and d. Dec. 18, 1S43. IV. Mary^ b. March 15, 1776; m., April 15, 1799, William Moore, of Sharon, son of David Moore. He d. Oct. 6, 1S23 ; she d. Oct. 23, 1825. Had eleven children ; five died young. 1. Nathan, b. Feb. 10, 1800; m. Sarah Russell ; r. Sharon. 2. Abner, b. July 21, 1802; m. Abigail Cook ; r. Jaffrey. 3. William, b. Feb. 14, 1S05 ; m. Rox- una Blodgctt ; 2**, Priscilla Blod;;ett ; he d. in Jartrey, 1S59. 6. Mary Fitch, b. April 20, 1807 ; m. Samuel Stearns, of Rindge, March 4, 1830. a prominent man in town attiiirs, and representative in the state legisla- ture. They had seven children, among whom is Ezra S. Stearns, the distin- guished historian of his native town, Rindge. She d. April 28, 1849. She m. 2^, Sept. 26, 1850, Almira, dau. of John and Betsey (Bennett) Hall, of Ashburnham. He d. April 6, 1871, a. 69 years. 8. Isaiah, b. May 3, 181 1 ; m. Mary Wheel- er ; r. Minn. 10. leremiah, b. May 10, 1815 ; m. Mar- garet Jewett; r. Lancaster, Mass. V. Alice, b. April 11, 1779; d. 1859, unm. VI. Abigail, b. Feb. 26, 1782 ; m. Joseph Piper, of Jaftrey. VII. Jacob, b. Feb. 20, 17S5 ; d. unm. VIII. Susan, b. Oct. 2, 17S9; m., i**', David Blood; m., 2^, Joseph Tolman. IX. Luther Jaquith, b. Sept. 8, 1792; m. Jane Hoyt ; r. Hopkinton, N. H. FORTUNE FAMILY. Amos Fortune, b. free in Africa ; a slave in America ; pur- chased his liberty; settled in Jaffrey, on lot 18, range 6; now (1873) in possession of Levi Pollard. He was an early settler, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 325 came to town about 177S; was a tanner by trade. He was a highly-respected citizen, member of the church, and made it a present of a silver communion service. He also left a school fund for the district in which he lived. He m. Violate, whose liberty he previously purchased. He had no children. The following inscription may be seen on their headstones in the old parish burying-ground : Sacred to the memory of Amos Fortune, Who was born free in Africa, a Slave in America. He purchased his liberty Professed Christianity Lived reputably died hopefuU}' Nov. 17, iSoi, a. 91. Sacred to the memory of Violate by Sale, the slave of Amos Fortune, by Marriage, his wife by her fidelity, his friend and solace. She died his widow, Sept. 13, 1802, a. 72. FOSTER FAMILY. Samuel Foster came to JalTrey about iSio; pur- chased the clothing-mill of Joseph Lincoln, situated in what is now East Jaftrey ; m., Oct. 9, 1S17, Sophia, dau. of Dea. Eleazer and Mary (Flint) Spofford. She d. Oct. 36, 1S66, a. 82. He d. Aug. 15, 1863, a. 78. I. Eliza J5., b. May 3, 1818 ; m., i^'. Dr. Thomp- son ; m., 2^, Mr. Lancaster, of Minden, La. II. Urania /S., b. Dec. 13, 1819; d. March 26, 1839. III. Eleazer SjMfford^ b. Sept. 24, 1S21 ; m., April 21, 1S45, Sarah Adams. [See page 99.] IV. Hannah A., b. Aug. 28, 1S23 ; m.. May 8, 1845, George H. Merrill. V. 3Iary Flinty b. May i, 1828 ; m., Jan. 11, 1849, Fortunatus Gleason, of Westmoreland. 326 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II VI. Jerome^ b. Feb. 24, 1831 ; d. Jan. 11, 1850, in California. Samuel Foster m. Lucy Boynton, Jan. 31, 1769; was a tanner by trade ; r. lot 13, range 6, now the resi- dence of Benj. Cutter, Esq. Obadiah Foster came to Jaffreyin 1806, and settled on lot 19, range 5, now the farm of Luke H. Nutting. His name was on the tax-list from 1806 to 1809. Jedediah Foster m., June 7, 1807, Lydia, dau. of Alpheus Brigham, settled on the farm of his wife's father, and remained there till 1836, when he left town. His wife d. May 21, 1859, '*• 77- His son, Alpheus -B., d. Jan. 13, 1819, a. 10 years. FOX FAMILY. Jonathan Fox, son of Timothy Fox, was b. at New Ipswich in 1769. Timothy, his father, son of John Fox, came from Littleton, Mass., and settled in New Ipswich in 1765. Jonathan came to Jaftrey about 1796, and settled on lot 3, range 7. In 1810 he re. to lot 5, range 7, where he spent the remainder of his days, and d. March 20, 1831. Mr. Fox was a prom- inent leading man in town affairs, was distinguished for his sound judgment and great financial ability, and held the office of selectman from 1803 to 1816 inclusive, a longer period than it was held by any other man in the town of Jaffiey. He m. Sibil Jackson, b. in Newton, Mass., and d. at Jaftrey, April j, 1857, a. 88. I. Joseph,\>. 1797; grad. Dart, college, 1818; d. at Savannah, Georgia, Sept. 16, 1820. II. J/ary, b. March 13, 1799; m., April 3, 1822, Alpheus Crosby, q. v. III. Isaac J. ^ b. Aug. 28, i8oi.-f- IV. Johyi, b. Aug. 2, 1803.-}- V. Harriet^ b. Jan. 6, 1806; was twice m. ; r. in Concord. VI. Abigail^ m. Crocker, and d. in Fitchburg. vii. Charles James yh.] an. 12, 1813.-}- (4) 9 lO II 12 H 15 (5) 16 18 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 3^7 Isaac Jackson Fox (Col.) m., i^ Sophia H. Wilder, of Leominster, Mass. She d. Oct., 1837 ; m., 2% her sister, Pamelia Wilder. He d. at Nashua, May 6, 1852. I. Henry JacJcson^ b. Aug., 1828. II. Ann 'Sophia, b. 1830 ; d. young. III. George Wilder, b. Jan. 24, 183 1. IV. Sarah Josephine, b. Dec, 1833 ; m. George D. Jaquith. V. Charles Joseph, d. young. VI. Eloisa Howe, b. Jan., 1837 ; m. Edward Gay, of Maiden. ' vii. Sophia, b. Dec. 25, 1844. John Fox, m. d., son of Jona. and Sibil (Jackson) Fox, was b. in Jaffrey, and was for a time a member of Dart- mouth college. He, however, left and engaged in trade in Jaffrey in copartnership with his brother. Col. Isaac J. Fox. After a time they dissolved their copart- nership, and his brother removed to Nashua, and he studied the profession of medicine with Luke Howe, M. D., and received the degree of m. d. at Dart- mouth in 1835. For a time he was connected with a hospital in Massachusetts, and on returning to Jaffrey commenced the business of farming as a more desira- ble occupation. The death of his father brought uito his possession a large amount of property, which was probably the principal reason why he left the profession of medicine. He has been a prominent man in town affairs, was for many years town-clerk and selectman, and represented the town in the state legislature for several years. He has also been one of the directors of the Monadnock State and National banks, and was president of the State Bank. He m., i^', Eloisa, dau. of Dr. Adonijah, Jr., and Mary (Woodbury) Howe. She d. Feb. 2, 1837, a. 29; m., 2^ Isabel W. Howe, dau. of Dr. Luke and Mary (Woodbury) Howe. Three children : I. Mary Isabel, b. Jan. i, 1S49. II. John Howe, b. June 14, 1856 ; graduated Dart- mouth college ; studied law ; r. East Jaf- frey. III. Kate Woodbury, h.]\.\\y 15, 1859. 328 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. S) ^9 20 21 23 24 25 Charles James Fox m., April 29, 1838, Susan Eliza, dau. of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter. He re. to Rockton, 111. ; was a large dealer in land. He died Jan. 30, 1873. I. Charles Edward, b. Nov. 7, 1840. In i860 he went to Boston, and was a clerk in a West India goods store. At the breaking out of the late civil war he enlisted in Co. D., ist Rhode Island Cavalry, Aug. 14, 1862, and was transferred to Troop C, new organiza- tion, as first sergeant, Dec. 31, 1864; mus- tered out at expiration of service June 6, 1865 ; served as a private in Co. D, First Battalion Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, from May 9, 1S73, to May 15, 1873; ser- geant-major of the battalion May 15, 1873, to March 31, 1875 ; first sergeant of Co. D, from March 31, iS75,to Jan. 12, 1S76, when he was elected second lieutenant. He also joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He was a member of Mt. Leb- anon Lodge and St. Andrew Royal Arch Chapter F. & A. M. and of the Boston Commandery K. T. He was also an hon- ored member of the Commonwealth Lodge, I. O. O. F. At the close of the war he en- gaged in the grocery business at the corner of West Newton and Tremont streets, and marked success attended his labors. He met with an accidental death by being thrown from his horse Jan. 29, 1878, leav- ing a widow to mourn his loss. II. Harriet Adelaide^ b. Feb. 10, 1844. III. Jones Cutter^ b. Julv 12, 1846; d. July 16, 1846. IV. Abbie Crocker^ h. ]\.\\y 14, 1848; d. Sept. 30, 1852. V. Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. iS, 1850. VI. John, b. Feb. 18, 1854. VII. Frank Cutter^ b. June 4, 1857. FRENCH FAMILY. The early settlers by that name were James, John, Thomas, and David,— James in 1778, John in 1786, and Thomas in 1788. David was a brother of Thomas, i He left town about GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 329 1794; re., first, to Andover, Vt. ; second, to Grafton, Vt., and d. there. Seven cliildren : ,^ James French settled on lot 13, range 5 ; was cho- sen sexton and highway surveyor in 177S ; on commit- tee to hire soldiers in 1781. He was a basket-maker. He re. to Rindge about 1793. He m. Sarah - — - — , and had five children, — James, Betsey, Polly, Burly, and Oliver. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 n 12 13 H 15 16 17 18 19 20 James French, Jr., m., i'', April 13, 17S1, Han- nah, dan. of Jabez and Hannah Russell, of Rindge. Shed. 1805. He m., 2**, July 12, 1809, Olive Sawyer. He re. to Rindge in 1793 ! was a basket-maker. Ten children, — 9 by first wife, i by second wife : I. Isaac, h. in Jaftrey, June 22, 1781. II. Hannah, b. Feb. 6, 1783 ; d. March 6, 17S3. III. Hannah, b. Jan. 24, 1784. IV. Sarah^ b. Feb. 17, 1786. V. James, b. Feb. i, 1789. VI. Samuel Brooks, h. May 2, 1791. VII. Betsey, b. May 18, 1793. VIII. Echcard Jewett, b. in Rindge, June 29, 1795. IX. Mahala, b. May 25, 1804. X. Frances Sawyer, b. July 12, 1809. John French came from Billerica, Mass., to Jaffrey, about 17S6; m. Priscilla . She d. July 2, 1823, a. 81. He d. May 25, 1S15, a. 84. I. John, b. - Gage.-f- II. Sarah, b. - ; m., March, 17S9, Abigail ; m., i"', Robert Harkness, 2*^, William Stevens. III. Benjamin, unm. IV. Priscilla, b. 1766; m. Abel Shedd, q. v. V. Daniel, b. 1771 ; m. Rebecca Fletcher, who d. Jan. 22, 1850, a. 71. He d. Aug. 30, 1S51, a. 80. 1. Roancy, b. Aug. 7, 1796; m. Martin Blodgett, q. V. 2. Daniel, b. 1803 ; m. Mary C, who d. July 5, 1850, a. 47. He d. Feb. 24, 1S58, a. 55. 330 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 21 22 23 24 (H) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 3. Rebecca, d. 1S06, a. i yr., 8 mos., 14 dys. VI. Elizabeth^ b. 1772 ; m. Joseph Blodgett, q. v. VII. Patty, m. Joshua Nutting. VIII. Jbsiah, m. Abigail, dau. of Samuel Stanley. John French m. Abigail, dau. of James and Sarah (Lamson) Gage ; re. to New Hartford, N. Y., and d. Feb. 25, 1S39. She d. Aj^ril 20, 1S60. Three ch. : I. /Sally, b. Nov. 19, 17S9; m. Leonard Kellogg. Five ch. II. John, b. Sept. 12, 1794; m. Almira, dau. of Robert and Phebe (Ingalls) Gilmore. Nine ch. III. Abigail, m. James Brockway. Two ch. Thomas French, b. Dec. 17, 1765, at Billerica, Mass. ; came to JaflVey about 1788, and settled on lot 13, range 4. He m. Hannah Cummings, dau. of Eleazer Cummings, of Londonderry, b. July 15, 1767; d. May 2, 1S55, a. 87. He d. Feb. 21, 1848, a. 82. He carried on the business of farming, and the manufacture of shoes. He was a great musician, and an expert on the fiddle, and spent most of his time in playing on the same. He married, and, as his family increased, found himself in rather straitened circumstances. Awakened by a sense of his danger, he concluded to drop the fiddle and follow the plough. Food immedi- ately became abundant, making his family happy ; — but Mr. French said the people did not like the ploughman half as well as they did the fiddler. I. Thomas, b. Jan. 26, 1789.4- II. Cummings, b. April 27, 1792.-I- III. Margaret, b. Dec. 18, 1795 ; m. Josiah Sawyer, q. V. IV. Lucy, b. May 18, 1797 ; d. Oct. iS, 1868 ; unm. V. Leonard, b. July 10, 1799; d. Feb. 3, 1771, at Milford, N. H. VI. Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1802; d. Aug. 11, 1818, unm. VII. James Rollins, b. July i, 1804; m. Caroline, dau. of Lieut. Daniel and Folly (Felt) Emery. She d. June 28, 1829, a. 19. Two children ; d. He re. to N. Y. state. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 331 36 37 (29) 38 39 40 (30) 41 42 43 44 45 46 (36) 47 48 49 VIII. Luke^ b. July 25, iSoy.-f- IX. Nancy ^ b. July 29, 181 1 ; m. Dea. Richard Spaulding, q. v. Thomas French m., March 20, 1816, Sophia, dau. of Jacob and Mary (Smith) Jewell. She d. June 9, 1840, a. 51. He d. May i, 1869, a. 79. I. Jacob Jewell, h. Aug. 24, 1817 ; re. to Buffalo, and d. there, n. Mary Sophia, b. July 3, 1823 ; m., Aug. 30, 1851, Joseph Crombie, of Jaffrey, q. v. III. TJiomas Dexter, b. May 11, 1827. CuMMiNGS French m. Sally, dau. of Capt. Abel and Priscilla (French) Shedd. She d. Nov. 2, 1862, a. 74. He d. Aug. 16, 1866, a. 74. I. Richard Harkness, re. to Fitchburg. II. Henry Citmmings, b. 1827 ; m., Oct. 8, 1850, Caroline Pamelia, dau. of Luther and Caro- line Cutter. She d. June 23, 1876, a. 46. 1. George Eaton, b. Jan. 26, 1856; d. June 20, 1856. 2. Edwin Henry, b. July 25, 1S61 ; a deaf mute. 3. Malcolm Shedd, b, Dec. 3, 1864. ni. Sarah, b. 1829; was principal of Melville academy ; re. to Minneapolis, Minn., from thence to San Jose, Cal. ; m. Luke French m., i^ Jan. 28, 1832, Nancy, dau. of Simeon Blanchard. She d. June 20, 1838. M., 2"*, Lucy, dau. of Dea. Abel and Lucy (Fierce) Spaulding, July 14, 1839. I, Susan Eliza, h. Jan. 28, 1833; m. March 14, 1855, Charles's. Briant, of Dublin, n. Richard, b. May 19, 1S34; m., i^', Dec. 25, 1859, Emily F. Ryder, of Wethersfield, Vt. She d. 1866. He m., 2^ Rosie H. Taylor, Jan. I, 1S69. m. Sarah 3Iarinda,h. Feb. 28, 1836; d.Jan. 12, 1842. 332 5o 51 53 54 55 56 57 5S 59 60 61 62 IV. IX. X. XI. HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Preston L., b. April 26, 1838 ; m., Dec. 28, 1S69, Mary C, dau. of George W. Benja- min, of Jaffrey. Sylaanus^h. May 11, 1840; d. Aug. 9, 1S62, iinm. Sarah Ermina, b. Feb. 20, 1842 ; m., March 28, 1S75, Otis G. Rice ; r. on lot 3, range 7. Evander-ih. April 7, 1843; m., Jan. i, 1868, Sophia Catherine Lane, of Cliarlestovvn, N. H., b. April 27, 1S42. Hannah Cximmings, b. Sept. 14, 1844; d. March, 1S45. An injxint, b. and d. Aug. 12, 1845. Abel Albert, b. Feb. 10, 1846; m., Jan. 31, 1872, Ella F., dau. of John S. Lawrence. Orford, h. Jan. 15, 1848 : m. Cynthia A. How- ard, of Acworth, June 7, 1874. Merrill, b. Oct. 5, 1850; m., Oct. 5, 1S71, Delia Maria, b. at Fitchburg, Mass., May 23, 1851. Emmons, b. April 23, 1853; m., Sept. 15, 1873, Frances M. Knowlton, b. Sept. 26, 1847 ' '• i'ewUsbury, Mass. Whitcomb French (Col.), son of Whitcomb and Sally (Patrick) French, and grandson of John, of Wo- burn, Mass., was b. in Dublin, July 9, 1794. He was a large stage proprietor; r. in JaflVey, Keene, and Fitzwilliam. lie ilisposed of his stage property and re. to Peterborough, 1S33, where he built a hirge and commodious hotel, which became under his manage- ment one of the best in this section. In 1S49, he re- tired to a farm, which he carried on successfully till age made it advisable for him to retire from labor, and he has since r. in the village. In Nov., 1867, their golden wedding was celebrated, at which were gathered five children and seven grandchildren. His descend- ants were eight children, thirteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, — in all, twenty-eight. His eight children were all living. He m., Nov. 27, 1817? Mary, dau. of Joel Kendall, of Dublin, b. May 25, 797- I. Eliza G., b. in Nelson, Sept. 2, iSiS ; m., Sept. 28, 1840, Jesse C. Little ; r. Salt Lake City, Utah. Eleven ch. II. Granville, b. in Dublin, July 2, 1820; m., April 26, 1843, Relief Walker ; b. Dum- 63 65 66 67 68 (64) 69 70 72 (66) 73 74 76 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 333 merstown, Vt., Sept. 15, 1817. One child, Fred W., b. July 19, 1847 5 ^- Epworth, la. III. 3Iary S., h. JaflVey, Dec. 4, 1S23 ; unm. IV. Jlenry , Kendall, h. in Jaftrey, Jan. 21, 1826. -|- V. 3Iarshall W., b. in Jaftrey, Sept. 4, 1827; m., Jan. 10, 1S55, 'L\x7.\e T. Wales, b. Sept 26, 1830 ; r. Palmer, Mass. VI. Charles Davidson, b. Keene, March 29, 1830; m., Jan. 23, 1851, Nancy L. Holbrook ; four children. -|- VII. Sarah T., b. Feb. 22, 1832, in Keene. VIII. William, b. June 4, 1841, in Peterborough ; m. Jan. 29, 186S, Helen A. Shearer, of Palmer, Mass., b. Nov. 2, 1841 ; two ch. Henry K. French succeeded his father in the pos- session of his hotel ; has remodelled and made large and valuable additions, every way improving the same, thereby making it a first-class public house. Mr. French has not only shown his spirit of enterprise in building a public house, but in the railroad enterprise, being one of the prime movers in that operation. He is now (1878) president of the Monadnock and Hills- borough railroads. He m., I'S July 9, 1S50, Harriet N. Gray, of Wilton, b. Aug. 21, 1829; d. Oct. 13, 1852, a. 23; m., 2*^, Nov. 20, 185s, S. Amanda Adams, b. Mason, July 10, 1834. I. Frank G., b. June 10, 1852. II. Charlie IL, b. Dec. 22, 1856. III. Ilattie A., b. Aug. 27, 1858. IV. George A., h. Sept. 22, 1S60. Charles D. French m., Jan. 23, 1851, Nancy L. Holbrook ; b. in Swanzey, Aug. i, 1827. He re. to Chickashaw and Deerfield, la. ; returned to Peter- borough in 1858. He was in the Union army. Four children : I. Charles W., b. Nov. 20, 1854; ^- ^eb. 26, 1856. II. 11. Edward, h. March, 1857; ^ medical student in 1877. HI. Minnie, b. June 17, 1861. IV. Katie H., b. Nov. 11, 1871. 334 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (3) 9 lO II 12 ^3 H 15 16 ^7 FROST FAMILY. Benjamin Frost, probably son of Thomas, b. in Dunstable, Mass., May i, 1748; settled (1783) in Jaf- frey, on lot 17, range i, which he purchased of Benja- min Cutter, brother of Joseph Cutter, Esq. He m., at Fitchburg, Rachel Kimball, b. Sept. 5, 1754. He died April 12, 1819, a. 71. She d. June 28, 1840, a. 86. Mr. Frost was a good farmer and a worthy citizen. They had seven ch. : I. Dorcas^ h. Sept. 3, 1774; m. Ebenezer Brooks; re. to Pittsford, Vt. ; was proprietor of a public hotel. She d. Aug. 25, 1843, a. 69. He d. Jan. 21, 1845, a. 70. II. Thomas, b. Aug. 30, 1776.--I- iii. Benjamin, b. Dec. i, 1778.-!- IV. John, b. Sept. 23, 1780.-I- V. Polly, b. at Jaffrey, Sept. 16, 1782 ; m. Simeon Gowing, q. v. Ephraitn Kimhall,\i . Dec. 17, 1790.-]- Oliver, b. May 18, 1795; m., i", Sept. 21, 1826, Elvira, dau. of Jonas Clark, of Dub- lin ; re. to McDonough, N. Y. ; m., 2", Lucinda Lines, of Charlestown, N. H. ; Feb., 1S34. He d. Aug., 1847. She d. 1872. Four ch. VI VII Thomas Frost (Capt.) m. Betsey, dau. of Simeon and Betsey Butters, of Jaffrey, Feb. 13, 1806. He set- tled on lot 19, range i. In March, 1814, he re. to Charlestown, N. H. He worked at firming and mak- ing wooden pumps. While in Jaffrey he was chosen captain of the state militia. He d. April 28, 1849, ^• 73. She d. Oct. 8, 1863, a. 76. They had thirteen children : I. Horace, b. in Dublin, May 2, iSo6.-f- II. Fermilla, b. in Jaffrey ; m. Carroll. III. Rufus, b. in JatlVey, Oct. 9, 1809.-!- IV. Thomas, b. July 15, 181 1 ; m. V. Alvin, b. Oct. 23, 181 2.-1- VI. Orincla, b. 1813. VII. George W., b. in Charlestown, N. H. ; m. VIII. Adeline, m. Gregg. IX. Caroline, b. at Charlestown, N. H. ; three times m., i'', Randall ; 2'^, Tim- othy Blodgett, of Dublin. 20 21 (4) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 335 X. Susan, b, at Charlestown. XI. He7iry, b, 1S26; d. March 3, 1829. XII. Cyrus, h. 1829; d. 1831. XIII. Roanna, b. ; m. Smith ; r. Charlestown. Benjamin Frost m. Annis, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Whitney) Pierce, of Jaftrey, Dec. 18, 1806. He settled in Dublin, on part of lot 5, range i, previ- ously owned by John Russell. He was a natural me- chanic, and could do the work of a carpenter, mill- wright, brick-mason, make bedsteads, spinning-wheels, and hand-rakes, besides carrying on his farm. He built a grist-mill, and the house in which he lived and died. He d. March 9, 1825, a. 47. She d. Oct. 28, 1834, a. 51 years. I. Cyrus, b. May 12, 1807.-}- II. Annis, b. Dec. 30, 180S ; m., i"', Dec. 10, 1834, Edward M. Lawrence, of Pepperell, Mass. ; m., 2**, Silas Sawyer, Esq., of Peterborough, N. H. Five children : 1. Eliza Ann, b. in Groton, Mass., Oct. 4, 1836 ; m. Abbot B. Burpee, of Dub- lin. Nine children. 2. Nancy L., b. April 6, 1841 ; m. John Shedd ; r. Upper Bedford, Can. Three children. 3. Samuel Henry, b. Jaftrey, May 13, 1844; m., April 28, 1869, Sarah H. Morse, of Leominster, Mass. One child. 4. Lydia M., b. Dublin, May 5, 1847 ; d. July 9. 1850. 5. Lydia M., b. Jaffrey, March 12, 1851 ; d. April 6, 1851. III. Eliza, b. Oct. 17, 181 1 ; d. April 14, 1835, unm. IV. Benjamin, b. June 25, 1813 ; m. Lydia M. White, of Pittsfield, N. H. ; a machinist; r. Nashua; d. Oct. 25, 1861. His widow m., 2^, Elbridge G. Wilson ; r. Nashua. I. Elvira D., b. Aug. 17, 1839; m. May 4, 1862, Charles A.Andrews; resides Nashua. 33^> IIISIOKV Ol'" lAM'KI.V. 3- 33 31 3S 3'» (.S) 37 3-^ 39 ■I' •12 •13 ■II •15 •1'' •17 •1'^ •ly 2. Mlmir;i I''., 1.. Scpl. iS, i,S,|7; d. Oct. 3, i.S.|.S. V. ,/(>.s'(y>// l'iSi7(is /'., I). I 'ell. (), iS.:(). j \in. ('(// W/iiliii'ij, li. i'"(li. (;, i.S.:.; ; in. Nov. 2<;, iM.jy, Mis. KIhxI.i 1). I'>iii;;iii, lumicrlyor Liiiu'.'r.lci , N. II.; I . I Jdsliin. John l''l(n.si III. M;iu li II, 1805, S;iil\, (l;iii. ol' D.iii- ii'l Mild SmimIi (('i.iik) AiImim,'., soli ol |)(M, l'",|)ill Mini AihiniK, of N<-\v Ip:, Willi. lie scllii'd on the lionic- '.IcMd ; WMs d( ;u(>n ol llic ( liiiu li, ,ind m \\<>i|Ii\' iiimii. lie d. Jiily.|, l.S.|y, M. (>'/. She d. An;;. \ \, iS7l,a. S5 yi'Mis. I. I>(ntiii A.. 1». Dec-, t;, iSo^. | II. l>(ini(l //iri/i(/n/iy/i,]). |'\i). i,|, iSoy. | III. Croi/iloii, ii. Mm\ II), iSoS; v.\.)y li. Nov. .;, iSoc;; in. I''ili. 15, iS;^5, SmimIi I'l. I IcmM, <.!" C'lirlisk". One tlilld, LcinncI roller, J). May jS, iS-^(), and d. jids .,, iS^(.. Ilc.l. May ^5, i.S;vS. His widow III. AluHT ( 'liMiidirr. lie was an ovt'l.scci in one ol llic lolloii mills Ml Low- ell, Mmss. ; WMS dcMeoii ol llie Haplist ilinieli Ml LowM'll, a leadei ol llii' elioil", and siipeiinlendenl ol llie SMiihalli-scliool. \'. /'afttii/ni, l>. An-.',. 10, iNii ; d. I'\'l>. 17, iN^'/* \ I. /:'/>/inii>)i h'iinhttll, h. An^. 10, iSi^. ) VII. Ltidid .{(/(tins, I). Mareli \\, iSi(); in., |nly i(), |S_^^, Asm lloi'den, ol l)iil»lin, second wile. Sli'e' d. Dee. Ji, iS^(>. One eliild : I. I ,\'(liM Jmiic, li |iine i^, iN VI ; in. C'Iims. C. Sloenni, ol I '01 Isinoiilli, K. I. I'Oiir c'liildieii : 1. ('Imim, 1>. I'"el). 1^, iSc,! ; Ml. (Jeoffjfo M. TMyloi, of I'lovideiue, U. I. One rliild, i.ydia I'^ianees, li. iS7_^. 2. M.iry n., 1). I)ee. <>, iSss ; '"■ <'i"<>. W. Sliei niMii, ol I'oi Ismonlli, U . I. ■^. KoweiiM A., I). Jan. .:(>, iS()i ; in. Win. |. C'liroiulicr, ol I'oi tsmuulli, K. I. .). JVlallie, I). Jan. i(>, i^Uij. 50 51 (7) 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 6o 6i 62 GENEALOGICAL RECORD, 337 In 1S37 Asa Borden re. to Portsmouth, R. L, from whence he came ; m., 3'', widow of Eleazer Perkins, of JalVrey. She d. at Ports- mouth, 1S73. VIII. John^ b. Dec. 5, 1S18. IX. Sarah Elmra^ b. May 7, 1S2S ; unm. ; r. in Jaf- frey. Ephraim K. Frost (Dr.) ; educated at Dartmouth college ; studied medicine with Dr. David Carter, of Dublin, a fellow-student with Dr. Amos Twitchell. He commenced the practice of his profession in Marl- borough, and afterwards re. to Swanzey. While in Marlborough he was commissioned by the governor a captain in the state militia. In 1834 he re. to McDon- ough, Chenmigo county, N. Y. In 1854 he removed to Delaware county, Iowa, and in 1S67 to Lincoln, Neb., where he d. Nov. 23, 1870, a. 80. He appears to have been a man of talent, and was successful in the practice of his profession. He m., Nov. 11, 1813, Persis Baker, of Marlborough, b. June 19, 1790. Seven children : I. Charles^ b. Sept. 3, 1814; d. Sept. 23, 1S14. II. Feronia^h. Dec. 26, 1816; m., 1835, George N. Sherwood, of McDonough. Two chil- dren : (i) George L., m. and lives in Wood- stock, 111. ; (2) Eugene, m. and r. Burling- ton, Iowa. III. Lyman, b. Feb. 10, 1820; m. Sept. 10, 1846, Laura A. Gray. He is a farmer ; r. Lin- coln, Neb. Six chilJ.ren. 1. Cornelia P., m. Henry D. Blakes- lie ; r. Nebraska. 2. Alice M., graduated at the Nebraska State University, June, 1876. 3. Charles Sumner ; r. Colorado. 4. Flora. 5. A. Lincoln. 6. Fremont. IV. Lafayette S., h. June 4, 1824; m. Betsey Phe- nix, 1845. Two daughters. V. Caroline, b. Jan. 12, 1829; d. July 3, 1830. VI. Emeline, b. Jan. 1-2, 1829; m., 1844, John J. S. Lee. Two children. VII. Franldin, b. April 14, 183 1 ; d. July 27, 1858 ; m. ; one child, Frank O. 23 33S (9) 63 64 65 66 6; (11) 68 69 7o 7' (13) 7- 73 74 (32) IllSTOKY OV jAKFKKY. IIouACK Fiutsr m., ];in. lo, iS^j, Mi-Iimhi LdcL. She il. March J^, iS;i. a. i^;. I. JJi/D-i/, h. Maicli 8, »8;>7, unni. ; r. Ni>ith Charlostown, 11. Kdiri/i, h. May 4, iS^c). 111. Mitrid /... b. Nov. .16, 1840. i\ . /.('iris, b. Sipt. 4, IVS4J. \ . t/iU/ns, b. July .'5, 1848. Ri'KUS Frost m., April 6, 1S40, ISlnria L. Tnnv- briilgo. of rittslbnl. Vt. She il. Aii.o-. iis, k^s;. Ho was ilopiity shtMitl'.it rittsf\>ril : now (187(0 lU-pol mas- ter at Rutlaiul. C'UiKiron : 1. Gtortye JJ.. h. Feb. 4, 1841 ; 111. Miiuiie Rigdoii, ^larch 18, 1870. One son. He is pass con- ductor on the Missouri. Kansas «.*s: Texas Raihoad ; r. Hannibal. Mo. 11. A/f'ti't /'.. b. Sept. H\ 1840; m. jnlia A. Hart. Jan. J4. 1807. One ch. : Oeoii^e R., b. Aug., 18(17 ; r. Pliiladelphia, Pa. 111. Jinnna Z., h. Dec. 2Zy 1848; m., r'. Jan. 10, 1871, Levi H. Gooiiricii, a book-binder ; r. C'hicai;o. 111. Two ch. : Charles A. aiul Alfred William. M.. J'', June 6, 1864, Ruth Stewart, Clarendon. N't. i\-. ( /itnttr JJ.^ h. )an. 10, i8(j8. Ai.xiN FuosT ni. — , and settleil in Charlestown. Has lollowetl the business of schoid teaching and farm- ing. He has been one of the selectmen, and is a justice of the peace. 1. Jselito) Ah'iu, b. — Hanover, N. 11. n. JJth/i Jitfit. III. Martha Ann, d. a jeweller ; m., and r. in Cyuv's Fkost m., i*', Nov., 1829, Cynthia Nay, of Sharon. She d. Jan. 20, 1837. M., J'', Hetsey McCoy, of Sharon, Nov. 9, 1837. She d. Sept. 3. 1858. He settled on the honiesteail, ami in 185- re. to Peter- borough, where he now resiiles. •c; I 1. Lydiii Ann, b. July }^o. 1831 ; unm. gkni':ai.()(;icai. ki'.(;i stick. 339 76 77 78 (33) 81 82 (34) «3 84 85 II. (Ihiirli'H MhiTl^ I). St'pt. (J, 1.S3S; m., jiiiu' 16, 1.S6S, Sar;ili A. (»:n field, ol" Chiieinoiil, dati. of Win. and Annis (VValUcr) (jarlicld, h. May 11, iS.| I. III. i^arah. Kl'ua^ h. Dec. 15, 1839; '"•■• May 27, 1S75, Milllin IJailey (2'' wife); r. 'rreinont, III. IV. (hjidldii, .1., I). Aiij;. 6, 18,^3; ni., May 22, 1876, Henry F. Mcars ; r. Nashua. JosiU'ii I'licitci': I'^nosr settled in Dublin; hnilt a lionse, saw- and grist-mill ; re. to JallVey in the spiinj^ of i8/j m^Feb. 18, 1866, Wm. H.Maxham. One child,— Etta R., b. May 10, 1870; r. Middlesex, Vt. V. Alvin L., b. June 12, 1849; "^•'' J"^y ^^' ^875, Ida J. Kellogg : r. homestead. One child, — Fannie Ida, b. Jan. 13, 1877. Ephraim Kimball Frost was a shoemaker by trade, resided in several places, and is now (1876) a resident of Pine Run, Genesee county, Mich. ; a druggist and grocer. He m., i'', Elvira Blackmer, of Dana, Mass., b. Sept. 28, 1S16; d. at Petersham, Mass., March 13, 1847. M., 2**, Harriet Blackmer, aunt of first wife, June 7, 1847, b. Sept. 30, I Sic. I. Mufina Amhra, b. at Peterborough, March 13, 1S37 ! ^'"- Frederick Hodkins, of Troy, N. Y., Nov, 3, 1S55 ; a shoemaker by trade ; d. in the army, at Washington, D. C, by a wound received in service ; buried on Ar- lington Heights. Three children . 342 109 no III 112 "3 114 "5 (50) 116 117 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1. Mary L., b. Aug. 20, 1S56; m. Chas. S. Giiswold ; r. Thetford, Mich. Two children. 2. Frederick K., b. Nov. 22, 1S58, at Lynn, Mass. 3. Hattie E.,b.Jan. 20, 1S62, at Orange, Mass. She m., 2"^, EHphalet Hartson, Jan. 19, 1873 ; r. Pine Run. 11. Hannah Elvira^ b. at Newmarket, Feb. 8, 1839 ' '^•' ^''' J^"- 2' ^^57, Joseph H. Boy- don, who d. in the army, at Vicksburg, Aug. 15, 1863 ; m., 2**, John A.Jackson, of Fine Run. By first husband, two children: (i) Rosa E., b. Oct. 7, 1857; (2) Joseph H., b. April 6, 1859. By second husband, (3) John Anson, b. June 26, 1869; (4) Rose Emily, m. Emory Rogers, of Pine Run, Sept. 36, 1876. III. Tryphena Emogene^ b. April 29, 1S44, at Pe- tersham, Mass. ; m., Oct., 1864, Thomas W. Briggs, a farmer and a merchant ; r. Watertown, Tuscola county, Mich. One child,— Hattie N. Belle, b. Dec. 5, 1866. IV. John Kimball^ b. at Petersham, Mass., Sept. 26, 1845 5 "^-^ Oct. 7, 1866, Helen F. Tinker, b. June 8, 1846, at Monroe, Ohio, a mer- chant at Pine Run. One child, — Walter, b. May 30, 1867. V. Edwin Blackmer^ b. Sept. 7, 1S52 ; d. Sept. 13, 1854. John Frost (Dea.) settled on the homestead. After- wards re. to lot 17, range 4, where he now (1876) re- sides. Mr. Frost is a worthy man, and a highly respected citizen. When the rebel war broke out he was one of the men who was ready to obey the call of his country, enlisted, and served in the 14th Regiment N. H. Vols, to the end of the war. In 1846, Jan. 22, he m. Amanda Simonds, b. at Peru, Vt., Aug. 23, 1820. Children : I. Mary Adaline, b. Jan. 13, 1847; m.,Jan. 2, 1869, John Rock wood ; r. Natick, Mass. II. John Simonds,h. July 17, 1849; d. Oct. 17, 1S50. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 343 ii8 119 1 30 III. Sarah Ann, b. Sept. 13, iSi;i ; d. Oct. 17, 1S57. IV. William Locke, b. Nov. 27, 1855. V. Eoa Amanda, b. Jan. 20, 1857 ; '^- Dwight Learnard, of Dublin. GAGE FAMILY. Thomas Gage, a descendant of John Gage, who settled near Boston in 1633, was b. at Bradford, Mass., March 10, 1700; m. Phebe Fry, of Andover, Mass. James Gage, his son, was b. Aug. 21, 1736; m., Sept. 29, 1 76 1, Sarah, dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Briant) Lanison, of Amherst, one of the first settlers of that place. He came from Amherst to Jaffrey about 1779, and settled on lot 12, range 4, now the farm of Michael Fitzgerald. He d. April 30, 1S15, a. 79. His widow d. Oct. 27, 1832, a. 93. He was a man highly respected, held many important oflSces of trust, was captain of the N. H. militia, and, with his wife, was a member of the church when incorporated in 1780. They had ten children : 7 8 9 10 II (5) I. Thomas, b. July 2, 1762 ; d. at Jaftrey, Dec. 16, 1 78 1, unm. II. Abigail, b. Aug. 20, 1764; m. John French, q. V. III. John, b. May 6, 1766; d. May 24, 1766. IV. James, h Aug. 5, 1767; d. at McHenry, 111., Jan. 24, 1S56.4- V. Sarah, h. ApxW 27, ij6^; m. Samuel Jewett ; d. Feb. 13, 1861. VI. Phebe, b. May i, 1771 ; d. Dec. 14, 1777. VII. Samicel, b. Nov. 17, 1773 ; d. April 3, i860, -f- VIII. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 4, 1776; d. June 6, 177S, IX. Phebe, b. Dec. 15, 1779; m. Joseph Cutter, q. V. X. Jonathan, b. Jan. 22, 1782 ; d. March 13, 1868. James Gage m., Sept. 10, 1773, Polly Drury, of Temple, N. H. ; settled in Litchfield, Herkimer coun- ty, N, Y., where his children were born. His wife d. Nov., 1840, a. 64. He d. Jan. 24, 1S56. 344 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 12 ^5 16 17 iS 19 20 21 22 23 (S) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (11) I. James, b. Nov. 26, 1794; d. June 20, 1796, II. 3fary, b. May 15, 179S; m., Jan. i, i82i,John Fay ; d. July 22, 1830 ; four children. III. James Lamson, b. Aug. 8, 1800; m., and d. at Lake, Lake county, 111., May 18, 1863. IV. John, b. Aug. 12, 1802 ; m., Oct. 4, 1830, Por- tia Kellogg. Eight children. V. Jared, b. Jan. 25, 1805 ; twice m. VI. Leonard^ b. June 23, 1807 ; m. ; wife not liv- ing. VII. Sally, b. Jan. 2, 1810; m. Edward Perkins, Sept. 22, 1834; d. at Chicago, 111., Feb. 8, 1S46. Four children. VIII. Maria, b. June 28, 181 1 ; m., Aug. 22, 1S36, Anson Cowles ; d. at Rockingham, Iowa, Aug. 7, 1839. IX. Eliza, b. Oct. 4, 1812 ; d. Oct. 26, 1812. X. George, b. Aug. 30, 1813 ; m. XI. Elijah, b. Nov. 28, 1816; m., and d. March 8, 1846. XII. Esther, b. Oct. 9, 1818 ; m., Sept. 22, 1840, A. R. Bartlett ; d. Aurora, 111., March 18, 1867. One child. Samuel Gage m. Lucinda Edgerton, Oct. 30, 1799. He d. April 3, i860. She d. Sept. 24, 1S32, a. 53. Eleven children : I. Phehe, b. Aug. 18, 1800; m. Messenger; one child. II. Emily, h. Oct. 22, 1802; m. Messenger; d. Nov. 7, 1865. III. Mansola Watson, b. Oct. 2, 1804; d. June 12, i8'56; three wives. IV. Thomas, b. Feb. 3, 1808 ; d. Feb. 7, 1808. V. Samantha, b. Sept. 3, 1S09 ; d. Nov. 30, 1810. VI. Mary An7i, b. July 4, 181 1 ; d. Feb. iS, 1812. VII. Cornelia, b. Jan. 11, 1815 ; m. VIII. Ann, b. May i, 181 7 ; m. Judd. IX. Sititha, b. June 28, 1819. X. John L., b. Feb. 28, 1822 ; m. XI. Samuel Addison, h. Sept. 10, 1824. Jonathan Gage settled on the homestead ; m. Han- nah, dau. of William and Hannah (Frost) Worcester. He removed to Fitzwilliam, and d. March 13, 1868, a. 86. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, 345 35 36 37 38 39 IL III. IV. 40 VI 41 VII 42 VIII 43 IX 44 X James, b. 1807 ; m. ; re. to Chailestown, Mass., and d. there. Jonathan, d. June 14, 1S13, a. 4. William, m. ; re. to Fitzwilliam, and d. there. Nancy, m. Ephraim Worcester ; r. Pittsfield, Mass. Ahier, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Oliver and Polly (Perkins) Bailey ; r. Fitzwilliam. Josejyh. Mary. Jonathan Alonzo, m. dau . of Harvey Gilmore, 2d. Sarah, m. Eliza. GIBBS FAMILY. Jonathan D. Gibbs was a son of Joseph Gibbs, a descendant in the fifth generation of Mathew Gibbs, who emigrated from Venton, or Fenton, in Darlington parish, England ; was a planter in Charlestown, Mass., where he sold his possessions in 1754. Jona, D. settled in Jaffrey on a part of the old Thorndike farm, in school-district No. 11. After a residence thereon of eleven years, he sold the same and removed to the cen- tre village, built a fine brick residence, and a shop where he carried on the business of manufacturing boots and shoes, till the infirmities of age warned him to retire. Mr. Gibbs has always taken a deep interest in the aftairs of the town ; published, in 1S50, a map of the same ; and since 1S40 has kept a list of the deaths in town, to the present time. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Edward and Rhoda Locke. She d. May 12, 1S34, a. 33, leav- ing one child : I. Rhoda Elizabeth, b. May 17, 1823. Married, 2*^, Dec. 29, 1S35, Sarah H. Wilson, of Mason. GILMORE FAMILY John Gilmore, with his brothers Roger and Robert, came from Londonderry and settled in JaftVey at an early date. He settled on lot 12, range 7, afterwards the residence of his son James, and now (1S73) in the possession of Harvey Gilmore, son of Roger. He and his brother Roger were the most prom- inent men among the early settlers. Roger Gilmore and John Grout made the first report of the settlement to the proprietors. 346 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. ID n 12 H 16 John Gilmore was one of the leading men ; held all the important town offices, and was the second repre- sentative chosen after the adoption of the constitntion in 17S4. He m. Alice FInnter, He d. April S, 1S13, a. 76. His widow d. March 14, 1S19, a. 78. I. David, b. Oct. 30, 1768.-}- II. Robert, b. May 26, 1770. III. John, b. Oct. 32, 1772 ; d. Oct. 12, 177S. IV. Mary, b. Sept. 11, 1774; m. Asahel Evleth ; r. Gotistown. V. James, b. Nov. 11, i776.-f- VI. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 29, 177S ; m. George Hen- ry ; r. Goflstown. VII. John, b. Sept. 24, 1780; d. Feb. 24, 17S1. Roger Gilmore, Esq., settled on lot 13, range 6. At his house most of the town-meetings were held, pre- vious to the erection of the meeting-house in i775* When the town was organized he was chosen tything- man, a very important office in those days, and auditor of accounts. He was for many years almost continually in the service of the town, and held, more or less, every important office. He was chosen delegate to the con- stitutional convention in 1791, and was the first justice of the peace appointed bv the state after the adoption of the constitution in 1784. When the first military company was organized, in 1775, he was chosen first lieutenant, and afterwards captain. He was in service during the Revolutionary war. He m., i"', Ann Hunter; m., 2'^, Molly, dau. of Jonathan and Molly (Fitch) Blodgett. His first wife d. Nov. 22, 1779, a 31. His second wife d. Jul}' 15, 1S19, a. 59. He d. Nov., 1807, a. 69. By first wife, 7 children; by second wife, 8 children : I. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1769 ; m. Alpheus Crosby, q. V. II. Robert, b. March 4, i77i.-(- III. David, b. Nov. 20, 1772.-I- IV. Jean, b. Jan. 3, 1775. V. Jonathan, b. Oct. 35, 1776 ; d. Sept. 4, 1777. VI. Ann, b. July 16, 1778; d. Aug. 14, 1778. VII. Jonathan, b. Aug. 18, 1779; ni. Betsey, dau. of Alexander Milliken, Aug. 28, 1803; re. to Potsdam, N. Y. 17 i8 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (2) 35 36 37 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 34/ viii. Nancy Ann H., b. April 2, 1782; m. James Henderson, q. v. IX. John, b. April 10, 17S4; d. April 8, 1785. X. Jo/m. b. July 20, 17S6.+ XI. Harriet, b. Nov. 14, 1788; d. Oct. 27, 1857, unm. XII. Polly, b. March 24, 1792; d. Aug. 11, 1846, unm. XIII. Hervey, b. Dec. 7, i795-+ XIV. Selina, b. March 3, 1799 ; m. Joseph Kelly ; re. to Hartford, N. Y. ; d. Sept. 22, 1869. Three ch. XV. Charles G., b. May 3, 1802.+ RoBERT GiLMORE, from Londonderry, settled on lot 10, range 3, afterwards the residence of John Cutter, 2 , now uninhabited. He left town about 1795 ; was taxed for the last time that year. He re. to Surry, N. H. He m. Elizabeth (surname unknown), and left recorded the birth of nine children : I. Jemima, h. March 6, 1778 ; d. Nov. 30, 1800. II. Jeremiah, b. Oct. 3, 1779. III. Anna, b. July 16, 1781. IV. Sarah, b. April 27, 1783 ; d. Aug. 7, 1786. V. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 4, 1785. VI. Sally, b. March 26, 1787. VII. Andrew, b. March 22, 1789. VIII. Aaron, b. June 20, 1791- IX. Asa, b. Dec. 26, 1793. David Gilmore, Esq., settled on lot 5, range 6, the place formerly owned by David Hunter, now the resi- dence of Marshall C. Adams. He was an active, leadino- man in town affairs ; a worthy man and a good citizen". He m., V\ Sally, dau. of Thomas and Mary Kenny Mower, of Jaftrey ; m., 2^ Merriel, relict of Paul Powers. His first wife d. June 8, 1805, a. 34. Second wife d. Oct. 13, 1842, a. 73. He d. Aug. 19, 1850, a. 82. I. John, b. April 30, 1795 ; d. May 2, 1795. 11. Sally, b. April 21, 1796; m. Samuel Stratton, q. V. III. David Harvey, b. .1797; m. Marinda, dau. of Lieut. Oliver and Polly Perkins Bailey. He 348 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 38 (6) 39 40 41 42 43 (11) 44 45 46 47 4S (12) settled on the homestead with his fatlier ; was an active member of society ; was command- er of the noted rifle company, and colonel of the 1 2th Regt. N. H. M. After the death of his father, in 1850, he re. to Fitchburg, and d. there 1S69. They had ten children. Olive 31., b. i8o2 ; d. at Fitchburg, Nov. 20, 1 868, a. 66 ; unm. James Gilmore m., Aug. 28, 1S08, Nancy, dau. of Lieut. Samuel and Lydia (Lincoln) Buss. He d. Sept. 2, 1850. His widow re. with her son, George Gilmore, Esq., to Pittsburgh, Fa. Mr. Gilmore settled on the homestead of his father ; was a worthy man and a good citizen. I. Caroline., b. 1804 ; m. Col. Abner Bailey, q. v. II. Sumner., b. 1806; d. Aug. 26, 1828. III. Samuel S., m. Almeda, a dau. of Benj. M. and Lydia (Spaulding) Stanley; d. Nov. 17, 1849, a. 43. One child, — George, d. Jnly I, 1 841, a. 4 days. His widow m. Thomas A. Stearns, q, v. IV. tlohn H., (]. June 7, 1820, a. 11 mos., 20 days. V. George, studied law ; r. Pittsburgh, Pa. Robert Gilmore m. Phebe, dau. of Josiah and Sarah (Bowers) Ingalls, Feb. 27, iSoi. He settled on the homestead, and about 1816 re. to New Hartford, N. Y. Children b. in Jaftrey : 1. Almira^h. Dec. 28, 1802; m. John French; 9 children. II. Robert A., b. April 4, 1S04. III. Adaline, b. Oct. 6. 1S05. IV. Sally Ann, b. Oct. 25, 1807. V. Lyman, b. March 26, 1815 ; d. March 28, 1815. David Gilmore (Dea.) m. Lucy, dau. of George Wellington. He was an active member of the church, and for many years deacon. He d. April 22, 1838, a. 66. His widow d. Feb. 17, 1868, a. 90. Three chil- dren : GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 349 I. Lucy, b. Sept. 30, iSoi ; m. John S. Ripley, q. V. II. Eliza Ann, b. July 24, 1S06 ; m. John H. Shedd, q. V. III. Emily, m., Oct, iS, 1S30, Joseph W. Allen; n Boston, and d. there. He m., 2*^, Mrs. Lucy Ripley, a sister of his first wife. John Gilmore was for a time engaged in trade at East JaftVey, He m., May 15, 1S22, Nancy, dau. of Joshua and Mary (Crombie) Chadwick, of Rindge. He d. Sept. 15, 1S33. She m., 2^, Arthur Taylor, and d. June 29, 1S45. I. George, killed by being thrown from a carriage, July 19, 1S27, a. 44. II. A daughter, d. young. She had one child by Arthur Taylor, second husband ; d. young. Hervey Gilmore m. Mary, dau. of John and Sarah (Haywood) Byam. He d. Jan. 12, 1S74, a. 7S. I. Mary Malvina, b. 1830 ; m. Eleazer W. Heath. Seven children : (i) Walter, b. 1S5S ; (2) Dora M., b. i860 ; (3, 4) Addie and Ellen, twins, b. 1864 ; (5) Lucien W., b. 1867; (6) Elton J., b. 1868; (7) Allen M., b. 1869. II. Fernando, b. 1832 ; went to sea and never was heard from. III. George F., b. 1840; m. Anna R. . Two children: (i) Bertha A. ; (2) Winnie. Charles G. Gilmore m., Dec. 25, 1829, Pamelia, dau. of Capt. Moses and Rachel (Turner) Cutter; d. May 12, 1S38, a. 36. She m., 2^, Dea. John Sander- son, Sept., 1852, and d. Oct. 11, 1866. I. Nancy Ami, b. June 27, 1832 ; m. Jonas Rice, q. V. II. Caroline 3Iaria, b. 1835 ; d. 1839. 350 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 59 III. Charles G., m , Oct., iS6o, Fanny M. Dicken- son, of Swanzey, and r. tliere. (2) (4) (5) 9 lO GOFF FAMILY. Thomas Goff was impressed into the British ser- vice in the time of the American Revolution. He came with the British troops to this country, and then desert- ed. His name appears on the town records as early as 17S5. He m. Diademia, dau. of John and Mary (Mack- entire) Eaton, b. in Bedford, Mass., May iS, 1750. He d. 1S13. She d. 1816. They had two children: I. Robert^ b. Feb. 27, 17S7.-I- II. Diademia^ m. Oliver Hathorn, son of Ebenezer and Lucy (Proctor) Hathorn, of Jaftrey. Robert Goff m., 1", Oct. 27, iSio, Sally, dau. of John and Lucy (Lawrence) Briant, of JatiVey. She d. July II, 1847. He m., 2'', Nabby, widow of William Dutton ; was a farmer, and r, on the farm now owned by his son, Kendall Goff. He was a soldier in the War ofi8i2. He d. July 15,1858. One son, — Kendall. -|- Kendall Goff, b. April 12, iSii ; m., Nov. 3, 1833, Mary Pratt. I. Thomas Kendall^ b. April 6, 1837.-J- II. Edxoard Pratt ^ b. Jan. S, 1S40. III. Mary^ b. March 19, 1841 ; d. Jan. 6, 1S70. Thomas Kendall Goff m., i", Louisa Farnum. She d. May 31, 1767. He m., 2^, Sarah Sprague. Had by first wife, one child ; second wife, two children. I. Charles E.^ b. 1S67. II. Henry. III. Mary. GOULD FAMILY. Oliver Gould was son of Capt. Jacob and Dorothy (Goodridge) Gould, of Lunenburg, who was a descend- ant of Zacheus Gold, one of the earliest settlers of that GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 351 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (10) II 12 13 H 15 16 (12) 17 iS part of Ipswich and Salem whicli was incorporated as tlie town of Topsfield in 1650. Zacheus is supposed to have come to this country in 163S, and settled in Tops- field in 1643. Oliver was b. in Lunenburg, Oct. 3, 1733; married, May 3, 1759, Mary Stockwell, of Petersham. They resided first in Lunenburg, where most of their children were born. At what time he re. to Jaftrey is not precisely known. He settled in what is now called Squantum, and d. of small-pox in 1792, a. 59. His widow d. Jan. 8, 1820, a. 84. I. Oliver, b. May 30, 1760 ; re. to N. Y. state. II. Sarah, b. Aug.' 16, 1762 ; m. McClintock. III. Lucy, b. Sept. 9, 1764; m. Asa, son of Samuel Parker, q. v. IV. Mary, b. Oct. 16, 1766; re. to Ludlow, Vt. V. Susannah, b. 1769; m. and re. to Shutesbury, Mass. VI. Mercy, m. Enos Mayo; d. Nov. 8, 1S44. VII. Sibel, m. Amos Temple, of Deerfield, Mass. VIII. Jesse, d. 1S56. IX. Sewall, b. 1786.-J- Sewall Gould was a miller in Squantum village ; m. Ketura Mayo; d. Dec. 29, 1S36, a. 50. His widow d. Oct. 10, 1865, a. S3. 1. Maria, b. 1801 ; m. Richard Warren, q. v. ^ II. Gilman, b. Dec. 25, 1802 -|- III. Eliza, m. Mathews ; r. Marlboro', Vt. IV. Emily, b. 1S08; m. John Garfield, q. v. V. Sarah Angeline, b. 1819; r. Jaftrey; unm. VI. Lucius A., m. ; r. in Pittsburgh, Pa. Oilman Gould m. Mersylvia Walton, of Temple ; settled in Peterborough, and in 1875 re. to Harrisville, where he now (1880) resides. I. Sewall A., b. Feb. 28, 1829 ; m. C. T. Clark, of Richmond, Va., May 26, 1857, by whom he had a son and a daughter. She was b. Sept. 25, 1833 ; d. at Richmond, Dec. 28, 1862. He m. again, and r. in Chicago. II. Gilman T., b. Nov. 24, 1S36; m Augusta G. Barnard, of Danvers, Mass., April 10, 1858. He w^as in service over three years in the 352 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Rebellion, in the Second Regiment, Co. G., . N. H. V. ; promoted to first lieutenant, Feb., 1865; d. March, 1S77. His wife d. 1S75. Two children, in. Daniel W., b. Aug. 10, 1S3S; m., Oct. S, 1S63, A. Maria Symonds, of Rindge, b. March 31, 1S34. On the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in the service of the United States, a member of Co. G., 2d Regt. N. H. V. ; was wounded in the battle of Williamsburg, and lost an arm. He represented the town of Peterborough in the state legislature in 1872 and '73, and was appointed inspector in the custom house, Boston, 1S75, which office he now holds. 20 IV. Sarah Eliza^ b. Jan. 10, 1841 ; m., Oct. 8, 1863, Winslow Royce ; r. in Harrisville. GOWING FAMILY. James Gowing came from Lynnfield, Mass., 1777. He settled on lot 16, range 2, now uninhabited. He was b. Jan. iS, 1736; m. Lydia Wellman, b. May 7, 1835. He d. June 6, 1S05, falling dead on the road near his house. His widow d. Jan. 4, 1S26. He was of Scotch and his wife of Welch descent. Mr. Gowing was a man of some note in town, held the offices of moderator, selectman, tythingman, &c. Twelve ch. : I. Lydia^ b. Aug. 13, 1760; m., 1794, Joab Ev- leth, who was b. in Princeton, Mass., 1764 ; settled in Dublin, and d. Aug. 29, 1847. She d. Sept. 30, 1830. Five children: (i) Joseph, m. Seba Barns. (2) William, m. Sarah Lawrence. (3) Oilman, m. Laura Pratt. (4) Lydia, m. Abraham Stanley. (5) Augusta, m. Isaac White, of Nelson. II. Samuel^ b. Jan. 6, 1762 ; r. Vt. III. James, b. April 16, 1763; settled in Dublin; m., i^\ 1792, Abigail Greenwood; m., 2"^, Mrs. Lucy Wilder. Thirteen children, — twelve by first wife: (i) Anna, m. Rufus Piper. (2) Elmira, m. Jackson Greenwood. (3) Moses G., m. Lucy Derby. (4) Alme- rin, m. Sarah Sanders. (5) Harriet and (6) Lyman, d. young. (7) Betsey, m. Sam- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 353 uel Tvvitchell. (8) James and (9) Jonathan, d. young. (10) Abigail, m. Charles W. Pierce. (11) James, d. young. (12) Har- riet, unm. (13) James R. 5 IV. JSenJamin, b. Jan. 4, 1765; m. Polly Emery; r. Vermont. 6 V. William, b. March i, 1767; m., i'', Abigail Miller; m., 2^, Lucy Adams. He d. Oct. 25, 1854. Three children: (i) Margaret, m. Daniel Chapman. (2) William II., m. Laura Hale. (3) Moses, m, Mary Jewett. VI. Azeal, b. June 10, i'j6^.-^ VII. Levi, b. May 16, 1771 ; m. Achsah Hill; r. Vermont. VIII. Rosanyiah, b. May 10, 1773 ; m. Oliver Hale, r. Vermont. 10 IX. Simeon (twin), b. July 3, 177^ ; m. Mary Frost.-f- 11 X. Thirza (twin), b. July 3, 1775; m. Samuel White, of Peterborough ; d. March 18, 1851. Two children : (i) Irene, b. 1808. (2) James G., b. 1810 ; m. Sarah S. Gibbs ; three ch. 12 XI. Joseph, b. Dec. 12, 1777; m. Hepsibah Fair- banks ; d. Jan. 26, 1838. Eight children: (i) Asa P., b. 1808; m., i'', Agnes Robbe, and 2'^, her sister, Catherine Robbe ; d. June 30, 1872 ; two children, — Lizzie R. ; Fred- erick, d. 1851, a. 3 mos. (2) Joseph M., m. Harriet Brown ; r. Batavia, N. Y. (3) Zaman A., m. iSIary Greenwood. (4) Louisa H., m. James Adams. (5) Anna A., m. Abel Wilder. (6) Charles W., m. Julia Foster. (7) Lavata L., d. 1851. (8) Lydia R., m. Joseph W. Powers. 13 XII. Esther, b. June 5, 1780; m., i'', Perley Fassett, and 2^, Josiah Burbank. (7) H Azeal Gowixg settled on the homestead, and in 1833 re. to New York state. He m. Mary, dau. of Capt. John Taggart, of Sharon ; m., 2'', Betsey Hazen, of Nashua. Five children : I. Roancy, b. June 5, 1803 ; m., Sept. 7, 1830, Benj. Law^rence. 24 354 15 i6 17 18 (10) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. II. Hodney^ b April 29, 1805 ; m. Rebecca Saw- telle ; re. to Batavia, N. Y., and to Indian- apolis, Ind. ; d. Jan. 9, 1877. Three ch. III. Hoxilana, h. April 12, 1807 ; d. Dec. 6, 181 1. IV. Hansom, b. Jan. 26, 1810; m. Lucy Ann Smith ; re. to Pembroke, N. Y. Eight ch. V. Hoswell, h. May 2, 1812; m. Jane Brooks, of Hancock ; re. to Hudson, Mich., and d. '' Oct. 7, 1874. Three ch. Simeon Gowi^'G m., Sept. 4, 1803, Polly Frost, dau. of Benj. Frost ; re. to Grafton, Vt. I. Simeon, h. March 20, 1804; d. Feb. i, 1805. II. /Simeon, b. Nov. 19, 1805 ; d. May 31, 1806, at Windham, Vt. III. Cyrus, b. July 10, 1807 ; d. at Brandon, Vt, Feb. 26, 1808. IV. Mary, h. May 15, 1809; m., Jan. 19, 1832, Elias O. Dart, of Weathersfield, Vt. Two children : 1. Mary E., b. Feb. 2, 1834, at Haverhill, N. H. ; m. Lovell B. Rowe, of Bethel, Vt. Two ch. : (i) Mary E., b. April 20, 1855 ; m. Augus- tus A. Newell, June 22, 1873, of Stockbridge, Vt. (2) Edgar C, b. Sept. 17, 1859. 2. Harriet M., b. April 14, 1841. V. J3enjami?i F., b. Oct. 13, 1810, at Brandon, Vt. ; m., Dec. 29, 1835, Sarah E. Hubbard, of Weathersfield, Vt. One ch. : I. George H., b. Feb. 24, 1837; d. Dec. I, 1853. She d. Dec. 18, 1872. He m., 2*^, Oct. 15, 1873, Mrs. Rosetta M. Shattuck, of Bethel, Vt. VI. Juliana, b. July 21, 1812; d. March 16, 1813. VII. Lorenzo, b. Aug. 30, 1814 ; d. March 9, 1815. VIII. Yerona, b Jan. 8, 1816 ; d. Aug. 19, 1818. IX. Cyrus, b. April 10, 1818 ; d. June 24, 1820. X. Henry W., b. April 24, 1821 ; d. Jan. 20, 1822. XI. Oliver K., b. July 26, 1823 ; d. in Boston, Oct. 25, 1847. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 355 33 XII. Lewis^ b.July 2, 1825; d. July 16, 1825. 34 XIII. Fanny, b. Dec. 12, 1829; m. Marion C. Rowe, of Bethel. He d. Nov. i, 1S76, a. 58. One ch,, — George E., b, July 23, 1S54. GRAGG FAMILY. Hugh Gragg was a resident of Jatlrey previous to 1780 ; d. 1S14; m. Lucy , and had eight children ; (i) Jenny, b. Feb. i, 17S0. (2) William, b. Aug. i, 1781. (3) Jerusha, b. April 9, 1783. (4) Fanny. (5) Polly, m. Charles Butters. (6) Stephen. (7) Betsey. (8) Levi. GREEN FAMILY. In 1774 Hiram Green signed a petition against the annexation of a portion of the town of Jaffrey to Peter- borough and Sharon. Nehemiah Green came, probably, from Mason to Jaffrey previous to 1778, and settled on lot 16, range 6, now owned by Samuel W. Pierce. He was chosen that year one of a committee to procure preaching. He was a shoe-maker by trade, as well as farmer. He was a member of Mr. Ainsworth's church ; and the baptism of a son, Amaziah, is on the church records. He re. to Cavendish, Vt., about 1795- Eleazer Green, and Sarah his wife, warned from town in 1786. Simeon Green came from Pepperell to Jaffrey about 1777; re. to Townsend, Mass., about i79i' He m. Mary Shattuck, of Pepperell ; d. Sept. 16, 1813, in his eighty-third year. She d. June 27, 1810, in her eightieth year. He settled on lot 13, range 4, now the property of Michael Fitzgerald. Solomon Green, son of Simeon, came to Jaffrey with his father, and re. with him to Townsend. He m. Sarah Hilton, of Lunenburg; and d. May 31, 1S03, a. 39. His widow d. Sept. 2, 1850, a. 82. Nine ch. : I. /Simeon, h. at Jaffrey, Aug. 5, 1788; m., Dec. 356 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO 12 13 H 16 14, 1814, Nancy, dau. of Calvin Eaton, of Lunenburg ; r., first, Townsend, then re. to Lunenburg. On the death of his youngest brother, lie went to Tallahassee, Florida, to settle his estate, and d. there, Jan. 18, 1842. II. Solomon^ b. atJaftVey, 1790; m. Emily Potter, 1S13 or '14; d. April 16, 1868, a 78; r. Townsend. III. Iial2yh, b. at Townsend, Sept. 21, 1791 ; m., i^*, Nov. 7, 1S20; m., 2*^, May 6, 1S30; d. May 23. 1 848, at Palmer, Mass. IV. Samuel^ b. May 24, 1793; m., i", March 9, 1820; m., 2^^, Dec. 3, 1S27; r., first, in Palmer, seconti, in Springfield, Mass. V. Sarah, b. Nov. 10, 1795 ; m., 1819, Robert Jefts ; r. Mason ; re. to Townsend, where he died. VI. Asahel^h. July 27, 1797; m. Nancy, dau. of Abijah Shattuck, of Pepperell, b. June 6, 1806; d. Feb. 10, 17S7; r. Lunenburg, Mass. VII. Asher, b. Sept. 29, 1799 ; m., i", Rebecca Hall, of Pepperell ; m., 2'', Mrs. Lucy (Hutchinson) Gay, of Pepperell ; r., first, in Fitchburg, second, in Townsend (where she d.), third, in Dorchester. VIII. Rebecca, b. March 5, 1801 ; m., Sept. 26, 1830, Andrew Shattuck, of Pepperell, son of Abi- jah ; r. Shirley nine years ; re. to Townsend Harbor, where he d. Oct. 5, 1S44, a. 42. M., 2**, Walter Russell, of Ashburnham, May I, 1845 ; r. Cambridgeport four years ; re. to Ashburnham, where he d. May 5, 1856, a. 66. M., 3'^, Hosea Green, of Ash- burnham, Feb. 15, 1858; r. Ashburnham. IX. Almn^ b. July 26, 1S03 ; a carpenter by trade ; re. to Tallahassee, Fla. ; was extensively engaged in the building of that city ; d. about 1S40, a. 36. Susannah Greene m. Rufus Sawyer, March 15, i793» q- V. Polly Greene m. Laban Skinner, Nov. i, i795- Isaac Green paid taxes in Jaffrey, 1806 and '7. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 357 GRIFFIN FAMILY. Dudley Griffin was an early settler in Jaffrey. He settled on lot 3, range 8, in school-district No. 5. He was among the first who enlisted in the Revolutionary war ; was in the battle of Bunker Hill ; sustained losses in the engagement, for which he was remunerated. He appears to have been a man of prop- erty, being one among ten of the highest tax-payers in town. He re. to Canada about 1803. M. Esther Bowers, of Groton, Mass., Nov. 24, 1773. Thirteen children: (i) David, b. Dec. 2, 1774; (2) Lucy, b. Jan. 29, 1776; (3) Hepsey, b. Feb. 14, 1779? d. Feb. 17, same year; (4) Joseph, b. Jan. 30, 1780; d. Feb. 17, 1780; (5) Jonathan,h. May 9, 1783; (6) Dudley, h. May 16, 1785; (7) Permason, b. July 23, 1787; (8) Silas, b. vSept. 8, 1789; (9) Sarah, b. March 3, 1791 ; (10) Daniel, b. Jan. 31, 1793; (11) Polly, h. Jan. 17, 1795 ; (12) Joseph; (13) Edxoard, b. Nov. 2, 1798 ; d. Aug. 3, 1800. GROUT FAMILY. John Grout, the first settler in Jaffrey, was born in Sudbury, Mass., Oct. 14, 1704. He was the son of Jonathan, the son of John Grout, who settled, first, in Watertown ; second, in Sudbury, where he d. in 1697, a. 81. He m. Joanna Boynton ; settled, first, in Lunenburg, where his children were born ; re. to Rindge, and from thence to Jaffrey, and settled on lot 20, range 10. He is represented as having received a classical education, and was a lawyer by profession. In connection with Roger Gilmore, he made the first report of the progress of the settlement to the Masonian Proprietors, at Ports- mouth. He d. in 1771, two years before the incorpora- tion of the town, and was buried, according to tradition, where the meeting-house was afterwards built, in 1775. He had thirteen children : 1. Hilkiah QA^].), b. July 23, 172S; m. Submit Hawks ; settled near Fort Hinsdale, where his wife and three children were taken by the Indians, and carried captive to Canada, in 1755- 3 II. Johanna, b. Jan. 8, 1730; m. Parker. 4 III. John, b. June iS, 1731 ; d., a lawyer, at Mont- real. 358 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 8 9 lO II 12 H IV. Elijah, b. Oct. 29, 1732; m. Molly Willard ; d., 1807, in Charlestown, N. H. V. Joel (Hon.), b. March 6, 1735 ; ni. Sarah Hud- son ; d. in Richmond, 1797. VI. Jonathan (Hon.), b. July 23, 1737; elected in 1789 member of congress ; m. Sarah Page ; had thirteen children. He d. at Dover, Sept. 8, 1807. VII. >SaraA, b. Nov. 28, 1738; d. Oct. 27, 1S17; m. Capt. Ephraim Stockwell. VIII. Patience, b. Aug. 23, 1740 ; m. Wm. Judevine ; r. Charlestown, N. H. IX. Peter, b. Oct. 9, 1743 ; r. West. X. Abigail, b. March 23, 1745 ; m. Col. Nathan Hale, of Rindge; d. Sept. 14, 1838. XI. Josiah, b. Nov. 28, 1748. XII. Solomon, b. June 27, 1751 ; m. Ruth Putman, of Charlestown, N. H. ; settled in Jaflrey, on lot 13, range 9 ; was road surveyor in 1774; selectman in 1776. XIII. Jehoshaphat, b. Aug. 7, 1753 ; m. Anna Parker ; d. at Keene, Sept. 6, 1S06. GUY FAMILY. LuTHKR Guy settled in Jaftrey about 1813 ; m. Olive ; d. Jan. 3, 1828, a. 41. Six children : (i)) Samuel ; (2) Johti, d. at sea ; (3) Olive ; (4) Marshall ; (5) Luke ; (6) Luther, d. Jan. 21, 1828, a. 8 mos. HADLEY FAMILY. Abraham Hadley r. in the Mineral Spring village, on the east part of lot 7, range 5. He left town about 1S06. M. Eunice , and had eleven children : I. William, b. April 9, 17S1. 3 II. Deborah, b. June 28, 1783 ; m. John Priest. 4 III. Eunice, b. May i, 1786; m. Oliver Wright. 5 IV. Abraham, b. March 31, 1788. 6 V. Isaac, b. March 18, 1790. 7 VI. Jacob, b. April 15, 1792. 8 VII. Elizabeth, b. May 28, 1794. 9 VIII. Peter, b. May 20, 1796 ; d. May 3, 1797 ' 10 IX. John, b. " twins. II 12 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 359 X. Peter, b. May 3, 1798. XI. Aaron^ b. July 17? 1801. HALL FAMILY. Nathan Hall, son of Dea. Nathan Hall, of Brad- ford, was b. Aug. 23, 1748 ; came to Jaftrey about 1775, and settled on lot 16, range 5 ; m. Eleanor , and left a birth record of five children : I. Mary^ b. March 31, 1771. II. Nathan^ b. March 28, 1773. III. Eleanor, b. " IV. Jonathan, b. May 2, 1775. V. Betty, h. Sept. 12, 1777. twins. HARDY FAMILY. Nathaniel Hardy m. Sarah ; settled on lot 4, range 6. I. Samuel, b. July 22, 1778. II. Sarah, b. Feb. 24, 1781. HI. Molly, b. Jan. 19, 1783. IV. John, b. June 7, 17S4. HALE FAMILY. Enoch Hale (Col.) was a descendant of Thomas Hale, b. at King's Walden, Herts, England, May 15, 1606. He was a resident of Newbury, Mass., in 1635 and 1682. He had a son, Thomas, who m. Mary Hutchinson, of Salem, and a grandson, Thomas, who m. Sarah Northend. The last Thomas had a son, Mo- ses, the father of Enoch, who was b. at Rowley, Mass., Nov. 28, 1733. Moses came to Rindge, with his fam- ily, in 1760. Enoch settled in Jaftrey in 1768, and in 1770 re. to Rindge, and was a resident of that town till 1784, when he re. to Walpole, and from thence to Grafton, Vt., where he d. April 9, 1813, a. 79. While in Jaftrey he made a report of the settlement of the town to the Proprietors. In the town of Rindge he was a very prominent man in town aftairs ; was magis- trate, town-clerk, and selectman, and was much em- ployed in the military and state affairs. He was coun- cillor, high sheriff", and colonel of the 14th Regiment, a 36o HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO II 12 «3 14 15 16 17 detachment of which, under his command, was sent for the defence of Rhode Island. He m. Abigail, dau. of Jonathan and Abigail (Gould) Stanley. Had eight children : I. Joshua^ b. Aug. 24, 1764; m. Sally Cutler; d. July 22, 1S25, at Wells River, Vt. II. Lxicy^ b. April 29, 1766; m., i^', Hezekiah Wetherbee ; m., 2**, Jona. Lake; d. 1S57. III. Daniel,h. in Jaflrey, July 19, 1768; d. Aug. 12, 1768. IV. Hannah^ b. in Jaffrey, June 10, 1769 ; m. Jon- athan Lake; d. 1838. V. Daniel^ b. April i, 1772 ; d. Jan. 6, 1773. VI. Sherbur7i,h. Dec. 30, 1773; m. Callia Cutler; d. June 18, 1S25, at Woodstock, Vt. VII. Enoch, b. May 30, 1777; d. June 16, 1777. VIII. Enoch, b. Feb. 24, 1779; m. Bathsheba Stone; d. 1 82 1, at Clarendon, Vt. Oliver Hale, or Hail, as first spelled in the town records, came from Leominster, and was in town when organized in 1773. He settled on lot 13, range 8. In 1774 he was chosen tj-thingman ; fence-viewer in 1783 \ and selectman in 17S6. He m. Mary Wilder. He d. about 1807. Eleven ch. : I. Luke, b. Aug. 17, 1773; m. Mary, dau. of Sam- uel and Sibel (Page) Stanley, March 12, 1796; re. to Brandon, Vt, and d. there in 1843. Three ch. II. Oliver, b. Sept. 18, 1775 ; m. Rosamond, dau. of James and Lydia (Wellman) Gowing, in 1801 ; re. to Southerland, Canada East, and d. there. III. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1777; m. Whitcomb ; r. Henniker. IV. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 14, 1779 ; m. Campbell ; r. Henniker. V. Sarah, h. Feb. 11, 1782 ; d. unm., in Brandon, Vt. VI. Josiah, b. Nov. 23, 1783 ; m. Rhoda Green ; r. Brandon, Vt. ; was a physician by profes- sion. VII. /Susannah, b. Jan. 23, 1786; m. John Gibson; r. Henniker. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 361 20 21 22 23 viii. Katherine^ b. Dec. 6, 17S7; d. unm., at Bran- don, Vt. IX. Hannah, b. April 11, 1790; m. Abel Whit- comb, of Henniker. X. Luther, b. March 3, 1792 ; d. in Charleston, S. C, unm. XI. Thomas, h. July 15, 1794; m. Julia, dau. of Joseph Lincoln ; re. to Sheftbrd, Canada East, and d. there. (Family) Hale was reported by Grout and Gilmore as one of the nine first families that settled in Jaffrey. John Hale came from Leominster with Samuel and Jacob Pierce and Ephraim Whitcomb ; settled with them in the south-east part of the town, and m. a sister of Ephraim Whitcomb. After a short residence he left town. HAMMON FAMILY. Jacob Hammon came from Waltham to Jaffrey in 182 1 ; settled on the farm of Jonas Brooks, lot S, range 4, now uninhabited ; was twice married ; had one child by first wife ; tw(? children by second wife. He d. Aug. 25, i860, a. 85. Olive Newell, his second wife, died Aug. II, 1859, ^' ^*^- I. Jacob, by first wife, b. 1801 ; settled on lot 6, range 5, formerly known as the Samuel Jos- lin farm, now without inhabitants ; m. Su- sannah , and had one child, — George H., b. Nov. 3, 1844 ; he re. from town about 1850. II. Sophia, m. and re. West. III. Jane, m. and re. West. ROBERT HARKNESS came from Lunenburgh to Jaffrey previous to 1793 ; paid tax that year; settled on lot 15, range 5 ; m. Sarah, dau. of John and Priscilla French. He d. Nov. 16, 1S07, a. 57. She m., 2"^, William Stevens, Esq., second wife. 362 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. HASTINGS FAMILY. Ira Hastings, from Marlborough, came to Jaffrey in 1S35 ' settled, first, on lot 9, range 3, second, on lot 5, range 5 ; r., 1S73, in East Jaftrey. He m. Rebecca, dau. of John and Mary (Batchelder) Cutter. Two children : I. Martha A. Melissa, b. July 16, 1837 ! ^- Sept. 2S, 1855. II. Mary A. Malmna, b. Sept. 19, 1840; m. Josiah M. Darling, of Dublin, June, 1863. HARPER FAMILY. Lieut. John Harper was one of the pioneer settlers of tlie town. His name appears in the report of Grout and Gilmore, and subsequently that of Enoch Hale. The headstone in the Centre burying-yard bearing the earliest date was erected in memory of Mrs. Jean Har- per, wife of Air. Andrew Harper, who " departed this life Nov. y" 29, 17771 in the 65 year of her age." The relationship is unknown. When the town was organized he was chosen field- driver, and afterwards constable. When the alarm reached the town produced by the advance of the Brit- ish from Boston, Mr. Harper was one of the first to tftke up the line of march to tke scene of conflict ; and soon after his arrival, April 23, he enlisted for three months, and was appointed lieutenant of Capt. Philip Thomas's company, from Rindge. He was in the bat- tle of Bunker Hill ; met with losses in that engagement for which he was afterwards remunerated. He settled on lot 9, range 7i which was afterwards in possession of his son, William Harper, now (1873) the farm of Seth D. Ballon. He m. Elizabeth Proctor, and had eleven children. He re. to Watertown, N. Y., and d. there. John, r. Whitestown. Oliver, r. Whitestown. Betsey, m. Hugh Smiley, q. v. Anna^ d. in Jafirey. Lucy, m. Jonathan Sawyer ; r. Whitestown. Polly, m. Joseph Sawyer; r. Whitestown. William, m. Mary Poor, of Dublin : d.-f- Sarah, m. Elijah Sawyer ; r. Whitestown. 2 1 3 11 4 HI S IV 6 V 7 VI 8 Q VII VIII GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 363 10 II 12 (8) 15 IX. Esther, m. Samuel Rogers ; v. Ohio. X. Jane, m. Moses Fairbanks, of Dublin; d. Oct. 5' 1S73. XI. Olive, m. Job Rogers ; r, Ohio, and d. there. William Harper m. Mary Poor, of Dublin ; d. Feb. 38, 1823, a. 38. I. Mary Ann, his dau., d. Dec. 26, 1818, a. i year. II. William, b. Feb. 23, 1819. III. 3fary Ann, b. Oct. 2, 1820. HATHORN FAMILY. The origin of the Hathorn family we have been unable to learn. In 1774 the names of Elias and Ebenezer Hathorn ap- pear on a petition signed by the inhabitants of Jaffrey at that time against the annexation of four hundred rods from the east part of the town to Peterborough and Peterborough Slip. His brother, Collins Hathorn, came soon after, as his name appears in the transcript of a road, March, i775- Ebenezer Hathorn was a soldier in the French and Indian war of 1755, and, after the surrender of Fort William Henry by the English, he was taken prisoner by the Indians, and afterwards made his escape by his strategy and fleetness. He was a blacksmith by trade ; settled on lot 18, range 7, and carried on the business with his brother Collins, and also manufactured steel- yards. He afterwards re. to lot 15, range 7, now the residence of Dea. Liberty Mower. In 1775 he was elected constable, and in 1777 and 1796 highway sur- veyor, and in 1796 was one of the auditing committee. We have found no record of his marriage or death, nor the birth of his children. Collins Hathorn settled near Ebenezer. He was an enrolled soldier in 1784, and also Collins Hathorn, Jr. He d., probably, previous to 1793. Elijah Hathorn was taxed 1794 to 1802, inclusive. Eleazer paid a tax in i795- Ebenezer, Jr., b. 1762; m. Lucy Proctor, dau. of Oliver and Ehzabeth Proctor; d. June 11, 1847, a. 85. His wife d. Oct. 13, 1824, a. 57. 3^4 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Francis, on the tax-list in 1S04, '5, and '6. Oliver paid taxes from 1S16 to 1821, inclusive ; he m. Diademia, dau. of Thomas and Diademia (Eaton) GofT; one child, — Sally, m. Rufus P. Smith ; r. Fitchburg. Ebenezer Hathorn, 3d, r. for a time on the home farm, now ow^ned by Dea. Liberty Mower ; he re. to the Mineral Spring village, where he d. Oct. 4, 1S65, a. 77. He m. Mrs. Mary Chapin, adopted her daus., Sophia M., Maria E., and Caroline. She d. April 10, 1S61, a 69. Henry, d. Dec. 23, 1S47, a. 24. MARRIAGES. Polly m., Aug. 28, 1788, Almond Bourdy. Sally m., 1788, Ebenezer Jaquith. Keziah m., 17S8, Jesse Jaquith. Anna m., Sept. 14, 1792, Elijah Ware. Hepsibath m., May 5, 1795, Moses Sawyer. Pamela m.. Sept. 19, 1797, Erastus Benton. Olive m., March 12, 179S, Eliakim Davis. Betsey m., May 22, 1803, Benj. Nutting. Peggy m., Nov. 8, 1809, Moses Stearns, of Lexington. Diademia m., Oct. 26, 1S2S, James Poor, of Am- herst. Sophia M. m., Sept. 11, 1838, Ceo. W. Waters. Maria E. m., April i, 1841, Charles Cutter. Caroline S. m., Oct. 13, 1S47, J°^^ Whittemore, of Fitzwilliam. Betsey m. Isaac Nutting. List of tax-payers in Jafirey belonging to the Hathorn family. Ebenezer was taxed till 1S18. Widow Sara, probably the wife of Collins, 1793" 1796. Elijah, 1794-1802. Eleazer, i795- Fi-ancis, 1S04-1806. Ebenezer, Jr., 181 1, 181 3. Oliver, 1816-1821. Elijah heirs, 1818-1820. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 365 DEATHS. Ebenezer Hathorn, Jr., d. Dec. 23, 1847, a. 85. Lucy Proctor, his wife, d. Oct. 3, 1824, a. 57. Henry Hathorn, d. Dec. 23, 1847, ^- ^4* Ebenezer Hathorn, 3d, tl. Oct. 4, 1865, a. 77. Mary Chapin, his wife, d. April 10, 1S61, a. 69. HAYWOOD FAMILY. James Haywood came to Jaftrey previous to 1779 ; was chosen highway-surveyor that year. In 1780 he was chosen selectman ; and was a member of the church, with his wife Keziah, when incorporated in 1780. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and in 1784 his name was enrolled in the company of militia belong- ing to Jaftrey. Benjamin Haywood was b. in Chelmsford, Mass., Oct. 22, 1753. He was the son of James, the son of Benjamin, a descendant of John, who settled in Con- cord, Mass., and was m. in 1656. He had a family of sixteen children, and d. in 1707. Benjamin, a descend- ant, settled in Billerica ; afterwards re. to Chelmsford, and settled on a farm which is now owned by his descendants. James, his son, b. Dec. 13, 1724? ni. Sarah Emery. Benj., his son, came to Jaftrey about 1780, settled on lot 21, and one hundred acres of lot 20, range 8, and eight acres of lot 21, range 9, on which he raised a frame house, June 7, 1782. He was a farmer and blacksmith, and for several years occupied a shop under the old elm tree on the Prescott farm. He after- wards built a shop on the ledge, across the road from the new house now (1S73) occupied by Alfred Sawyer. Benj. Haywood m., i", Jan. 21, 1783, Hannah Robbins, who d. July 26, 1783, a. 18 yrs., 3 mos., 7 dys. ; m., 2"^, Jan. 27, 1785, Sally Flag, of Concord, Mass., b. May 12, 1751, d. May 5, 1827. He d. Feb. i, 1829, a. 76. Five children : I. Benjamin^ b. Oct. 21, 1785.-!- II. Joseph^ b. Jan. 16, 17S7; d. Oct. 17, 1837; m. Jerusha Fairbanks. She d. Oct. 28, 1858, a. 6^. He was a goldsmith by trade. in. Timothy, b. Feb. 8, 1789; d. Nov. 28, 1S19, in Bloomfield, N. Y. ; m. Urana Durham, 366 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (3) 9 lO II 12 13 H (9) 15 16 17 18 19 20 N. Y. One dau., — m., and d. i860, in Rock- ford, 111. He was a blacksmith. IV. James, b. Oct. 7, 1790; d. in Brocton, Chautau- qua Co., N. Y. He was one of the first settlers in Stockton, and the first man who opened a store in that town. He was also a blacksmith. Had ten ch. V. e/o/m, b. Oct. 20, 1791 ; d. Fel . 22, 1792. Benjamin Haywood m. Polly, dau. of Josiah and Patty Sawyer, of Peterborough, Nov. 22, 1795. She d. July 33, 1842, a 46. M., 2'', 1843, Betsey W. Wright, of Westford. She d. May, 1875. He d. Feb. 3, 1853, a. 67. Seven children : I. Adeline^ b. Jan. 25, 1818 ; m. Harvey Sawyer, q. V. II. Jinfus, b. March 6, 1820.-}- III. JIary A., b. Sept. 26, 1823 ; d. Aug. 17, 1830. IV. Albert, b. Aug. 10, 1825.-}- V. Ijtike, b. March 2, 1831 ; d. Oct. 17, 1833. VI. Abbie, b. Oct. 23, 1S34; m., Oct. 23. 1862, Freeman F., son of Jona. J. Comstock, q. v. VII. Ellen, b. March 26, 1838; m'., Jan., 1859, G'^" man H. Avery ; r. in Peoria, 111. Three sons, — two living. RuFUS Sawyer Haywood m. Elizabeth, dau. of Oliver Prescott. May 6, 1841 ; r. Fredonia, N. Y. ; was paymaster in the war of 1866; served during the war, holding the rank of colonel by brevet. Three ch. : I. Oliver, b. April 19, 1843 ; d. Dec. 9, 1843. II. Oliver, b. Sept. 2, 1844; d. Sept. 3, 1845. III. Eddie A., b. Jan. 26, 1861. (11) Albert Haywood m. Frances, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Parker) Joslin ; r. in Fredonia, N. Y. Four children : I. Senjamin, b. May 14, 1844. II. Cassius jR'iifus, b. April 18, 1847. Two daughters, b. in New York. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 367 DESCENDANTS OF BENJ. HAYWOOD. Children, Grandchildren, Great-grandchildren, Great-great-grandchildren 5 18 8=61 9 10 HENDERSON FAMILY. James Henderson, b. 1769; re. from Boston to Westford, Mass., in 1S04. He re. to Jaftrey in 1S06, having, Sept , 1805, received a deed of a tract of land in lot 10, range 6, of Samuel Buss, on which he built a house and store the following winter and spring. He opened his store in 1806. In 1S18, after the death of his wife, he leased the same to William Ainsworth, Esq., and re. to East JaflVey. In 1833 he sold the same to a Mr. Robbins. The buildings were burned. He m., i^', Martha , who d. at Jaffrey, Oct. 12, 1816, a, 44; m., 2'', Nancy Ann H. Gilmore, dau. of Roger and Molly (Blodgett) Gilmore, Feb. 5, 1828. She d. April 15, 1832, a. 50. In 1S33 he took up his residence in Boston, and Marlborough, Mass., where he d. May 11, 1849, ^' ^°' Children by first wife : I. William Tlenry^ b. in Boston, April 18, 1800; r. Boston. II. Caroline^ b. in Boston, Nov. 11, 1801 ; m. Col. Wm. H. Wood, of Marlboro', Mass., now Hudson, Nov. 5, 1826. He d. III. Frederick A., b. in Boston, Aug. 14, 1803 ; a merchant ; r. Boston. IV. tfames, b. at Westford, June 17, 1805 ; d. Oct. 19, 1848, at Juliet, 111. V. Martha (twin), d. at Jaffrey, April 4, 1836, unm., a. 31. VI. Elizabeth^ b. at Jaffrey, March 19, 1807; m. John Holman, of Wilbraham. Mass. She d. Oct. 5, 1848. VII. Harriet^ b. June 11, 1809 ; m. Joseph Reynolds : r. Westfield, O. ; now (1873) a widow. VIII. j/wZta, b. Nov. 27, [811; m. Russell Reynolds (a brother of Jos.) ; r. in Clyde, O. IX. Moses lloofZ, b. in Peterborough, Dec. 27, 1814 ; graduated at Western Reserve College ; d. Sept. 6, 1843. 36S HISTORY OF JAFFREY. John Henderson, an early settler in the west part of the town. 5 6 7 S 9 lo n 13 13 14 15 (9) HODGE FAMILY. Three brothers from Lonilonderry, Scotch-Irish, settled, one in Peterborough and the other two in JatlVey. The original name was Hogg. The name was afterwards changed to Wilder antl Hodge. The JatVrev settlers, Joseph and William, assumeil the name of Hodge ; Simpson, who settled in Peterborough, that of Wilder. Joseph settled on lot 10, range 9, in the south part of the town ; and William, on lot 17, range 6, now East JartVev. In 1773, when the town was or- ganizetl, William Hogg was chosen tield-driver ; and in 1774, Joseph Hogg was chosen constable. William m. Nancy; had one son, — William, b. 1776; d. Feb. 2S, 1S27. He d. about 17S0. William, his son, m. Sally Searl, of Temple ; had one dan., — Elmina. He d. Feb. 28, 1S27. His widow m. Benj. Prescott, Jr. The widow of William Hodge, Sen'r, m. Jonathan Dean. Joseph Hodge m. Elizabeth Alexander, of Leomin- ster, Mass. ; d. Aug. 16, 1S31, a. 90. His widow d. Nov. 13, 1 84 1, a. 84. I. Polly, m. Ezra Wilder, Jr., of JatVrey ; re. to Vermont. H. Hetsei/, m. Oliver Wilder, brother of Ezra. HI. Agnes, m. Elijah T. Smith, of Fitzvvilliam. IV. t/erusha, d. in infancy. V. Jerusha, m. Ira Ingalls, son of Simeon. VI. Joseph, b. 1787.-}- VII. iSalh/, d., a. 26. VIII. Joanna, m. William Savage, of Greenfield. IX. WillUnJi, d. young. X. iSimpson, b. Feb. 19, 1797.-I- XI. John, b. Feb. 13, 1779.-}" XII. Eunice^! b. Sept., 1S02 ; m. Jacob Priest. Joseph Hodge m., i'*, Eunice Hutchinson, who d- Nov. 6, 1S28, a. 31. M., 3**, Nabby Twiss, who d- May 34, 1863, a. 71. He d. Aug. 11, 1874, a. 87. i6 '7 19 20 (13) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (H) 28 29 30 31 32 33 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 369 I. William, d. Oct. 20, 1844. II. Samuel, b. 1824; m. Mary B. J. Smith, Nov. 27, 1856. She (i. April 19, 1867, a. 31. Four ch. : (i) Charles S., b. 1859. (2) Mary A., b. 1861. (3) Eva E., b. Nov. 13, 1865. (4) Abbie F.,^b. 1867. III. Joseph Jackson, d. at Sherburne, Mass., Feb. 22, 1874, a. 46. IV. Almira L., b. 1833. V. Abigail E., b. 1836. Simpson Hodge m. Elmira, dau. of Levi and Sarah (Nichols) Johnson, Dec. 3, 1822. She d. May 8, 1861, a. 61. I. Harah A., b. 1824. II. Jonas F., b. 1827; m. Lydia F. April 6, 1876. Ch. : (I) Harlan F., b. 1849; m. Mary C .Streeter ; one ch., — Ger- tie, b. 1872. (2) Maria F., b. 1852; m. Charles A. Baldwin, (3) Lillie, b. 1861. III. Abner W., d. Aug. 23, 1831, a. 4. IV. T^ydia F., b. 1830. V. Andrew J., b. 1835. VI. Albert W., b. 1836. VII. Emily E., b. 1838. John Hodge m. Polly Page, of Rindge ; r. home- stead. I. Floira,h. 1826; m. Col. George Briant, q. v. II. George W., b. 1828 ; m. H. Augusta Knowlton ; d. June 1 1, 1857. III. Amasa F. /S.,h. 1830; m. Emily F., dau. of Abel and Mary (vSpaulding) Cutter. She d. March 18, 1872. M., 2'^, Mrs. Page, of Peterborough. Ch. by first wife: (i) Will- iam S., b. March 7, 1854. (2) Freddie A., b. Feb. 9, 1858. (3) Emma M., b. Oct. 26, 1864; d. March 3, 1866. IV. Jjemuel E., b. 1837. V. John, b. 1841. VI. Calista, b. 1843. 25 370 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. HOUGHTON FAMILY. Qiiite a number of persons by the name of Houghton appear on the town records, durhig the last part of the hist century and the first of the present. Silas Houghton, in 177S, from Sterling, Mass., was warned from town. 2 Polly Houghton, in 1791, m. Squire Britton. 3 James Houghton was a tax-payer from 1793 to 1804, inclusive. 4 James Houghton, Jr., in 1793, m. Polly Hall. 5 Houghton, Sept. 14, m. Lota Dole. 6 David Houghton, March 3, 1798, m. Ann Briant ; re. to Albany, N. Y., 1804. John Houghton, a brother of Capt. Rufus Hough- ton, settled in school-district No. 11, about 179S; paid taxes in 1799; 'i^tl was chosen school-agent that and the following year. He afterwards re. to district No. 6, and left town about 18 10. He was a brick-mason by trade Jonathan Houghton, a brother of John, was a highway-surveyor in 1802; was taxed in 1797, and for the last time in 1806. Rufus Houghton (Capt.) settled on lot 15, range 5, also in other places. He appears to have been a prom- inent man in the affairs of the town — a teacher of the public schools; constable from 1799 to 1801, inclusive; selectman in 1802, '6, and '7 ; grand juror in 1807 ; and one of the auditing committee in 1808 ; was taxed from 1795 to 1809, inclusive. He m. Dorothy , and left a birth record of six children : (i) Rufus, b. Sept. 19, 1796. (3) Dorothy, b. July 4, 1799. (3) Dmnaris, h.}v\\y 18, 1801. (4) Betsey, b. April 29, 1803 ; d. Aug. 8, 1804. (5) Abigail, b. March 22, 1805. (6) Betsey, b. Feb. 23, 1807. HORTON FAMILY. Joseph HoRTON came to Jaflfi-ey about i777' ^^^ chosen highway-surveyor in 1780; settled on lot 5, range 9 ; was twice married ; had several children ; and d. May 13, 1841, a. 93. On the same headstone, in addition to his death, is inscribed the name of his first wife, Hannah, and the names of three children, Joseph, Hannah, and Ebenezer, without the date of their deaths. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 371 In the town record of births, the following names are recorded : I. Hannah^ b. Aug. 25, i777- 11. Ebenezer^ b. March 28, 1779 ; m., Dec. 15, 1802, Ruth Foster, of Templeton, Mass. By second wife, Mary : III. Sarah, b. March 26, 1782 ; m., Sept. i, 1S03, John Buswell, of Rindge ; r. Mt. Holly, Vt. ; d. 1S65. IV. Asa, b. Sept. i, 17S3 ; m. Susan, dau. of Joseph Breed; re. to Mt. Holly, Vt., in 1S12. Nine ch. : (i) Susan ; (2) Cyrus ; (3) Asa ; (4) Louisa; (5) Joseph; (6) Mary; (7) Julia Ann ; (8) Vienna ; (9) Harriet. Cyrus Horton, son of Asa, b. iSio; m., I'S Sally Horton ; m., 2<*, Dolly Robbe. Thirteen children : (i) /Sara^^., b. 1837. {2) Cyrics E.,h. i^z^. (3) Wilber, b. 1839. (4) ^^<^«^2/ Louisa, b. 1840 ; m. George Potter, of New Ipswich. (5) Elizabeth, m. Dean ; r. Mt. Holly, Vt. (6) Nathaniel, b. 1842 ; m. Mary, dau. of Edmund and Polly Burpee. By second wife : (7) Ilona Rosette, b. 1844. (8) Ariel Andrews, b. 1S48. (9) Asa Kenny, b. 1849. (10) Susan Vienna. (11) Freeman Edward. {\z) Joseph Preston, (i^) Ada May. HOWE FAMILY. Adonijah Howe (Dr.), son of Abner and Sarah Howe, was b. in Brookfield, Mass., in i757 ' came to Jaftrey and settled there, as a physician, in 177^1 ^^ the age of 19. His brother James, and two sisters, settled in Lebanon. One m. Kendrick, and the other m. Allen. He also had another sister, who m. Storrs, and one who m. Arnold, and set- tled in Mansfield, Conn., and one who m. King, settled in Canterbury, Conn. His mother came with him to Jaflrey, and m. there a second husband, Samuel Parker, and d. Dec. 30, 1795, a. 59. Dr. Howe m., i^ Sarah, dau. of Noah and Lydia (Kent) Ripley, sister of Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley, of Concord, Mass., who d. Dec. 13, 1800, a. 40; m., 2"^, Persis Wood, of Concord, who d. Sept. 5, 1S34, a. 71. He d. July 31, 1832, a. 74. [See page 102.] Children : 372 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO (4) II 12 (5) 14 I. Abner, h. Oct. 14, 1780; m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph and Sarah Thorndike ; d. May 18, 1826. Nine children. [See Collejje Grad- uates.] II. Lydia., b. March 7, 17S3 ; m. Solomon Proctor ; r. Cavendish, Vt. Three children. III. Adonijah^ b. June 21, 1784. -|- [See page 103.] IV. Luke^h. March 28, i787.-f- [See College Grad- uates.] Sally ^h. July 8, 1789; d. Jan. 26, 1790. Sally, b. March 15, 1791 ; d. March 29, 1840; unm. Lticretia, b. Feb. 13, 1794; d. Jan. i, 1796. James, b. Aug. 13, 1796; m. Fanny Nason, ot Harvard, Mass., and d. at Pepperell, Mass., July 19, 1840. Six children. [See College Graduates.] Mary (second marriage), b. 1806; m. Asa Crosby ; r. Rockford, Illinois. Three chil- dren. V. VI. VII VIII Adonijah Howe m. Mary, dau. of Peter Woodbury, of Francestown, May 15, 1807. He d. Aug. 7, 1815, a. 31. [See page 103.] Two children : I. Mary Eloisa, b. 1808 ; m. John Fox, m. d., q. v. II. Elizabeth, b. 1813; d. July 31, 1837, ^- ^4 ' Luke Howe, m. d., m. Mary (Woodbury) Howe, widow of his brother, Adonijah Howe, Jan. 26, 1819 ; he d. Dec. 24, 1841, a. 54. His widow d. Jan. 18, 1875, a. 88. [See College Graduates.] Two children : I. Isabel W., b. Dec. 22, 1819; m. John Fox, m. D.,Jan. 3, 1843. II. Adonijah W., b. 1825 ; m. Martha Butterfield ; r., first, in Dunstable ; second, Lancaster, Mass. [See page 102.] Ten children : (i) Woodbury ; (2) Mary Dunster ; (3) Mary Elizabeth ; (4) Edward Dexter ; (5) Emma I. ; (6) Charles L. ; (7) Helen W. ; (8) Fanny B. ; (9) Fred- erick W. ; (10) An infant. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, 373 HUNT FAMILY. The families by the name of Hunt who settled in Jaffrey are descendants of William Hunt, who was born in England abeut 1605, emigrated to this country, and settled in Concord, Mass., in 1665. He was twice married, and d. in Marlborough, Mass., 1697. His eldest son, Nehemiah, m. Mary Toll, and had 12 children. His son, John Hunt, m. Mary Brown ; had 9 chil- dren. Dea. Simeon Hunt, of Concord, son of John, m. Mary Raymond. Ephraim, who settled in JafFrey, and Simon, who settled in Acton, were his sons. Ephraim Hunt m. Tabitha Raymond, and Simon m. Lucy Raymond. Ephraim was an early settler. In the report of Grout and Gilmore, Family Hunt is men- tioned, and in the report of Enoch Hale, at a later date, we find the name of Ephraim Hunt, owner of mills on lot No. 21, range 10, now known as Squantum village, now (1873) owned by Annett & Murdock. In 1791 he re. to Rindge, and d. Dec. 21, 1821. He was b. in Concord, May 28, 1736. III. IV. V. Tabitha^ b. July 3, 1757 ; m. Nathaniel Ingalls, of Rindge. Hepsiheth^ b. July 10, 1761 ; m. Nathan Page ; re. to Jackson, Me., and d. about 1840. James, b. April 10, 1766. I^aul Haymond, h. Nov., 176S. Ephraim, b. March 25, 1771 ; m. Fersis, dau. of John Perry; he d. Sept. 2, 1856; shed. Feb. 16, 1832. One child. Nathan Hunt, son of Simon and Lucy (Raymond) Hunt, of Acton, Mass., was b. July 17, 1760; m. Abi- gail, daughter of Moses and Abigail (Emerson) Hale, of Rindge, b. Feb. i, 1768; d. Sept. 13, 1842; he d. Jan. 18, 1853, a. 93. Ten children: I. Abigail, b. Nov., 1788; m. Reuben Streeter, a clothier ; r. Chester, Vt. Five children : (i) Rhoanna, d. young; (2) Nathan, m. Alice Parker ; d. in Boston ; (3) Alice, m. Whitington, r. Boston ; (4) Charles, a tailor, r. Boston; (5) Cora, d. Aug. 27, 1875. II. Nathan, b. April 17, 1791.-I- 374 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II 12 15 16 17 (9) iS 19 III. Grata^ b. June 26, 1793 ; m. Benj. Cutter, q. v. IV. Moses, b. Nov. 9, 1795 ; m. Maria Rouse ; r. in New York. Seven children : (i) Elizabeth A., b. 1826, d. 182S ; (2) John ; (3) Eliza- beth, m. Wm. B. Robinson, of New York ; (4) Moses ; (5) Frances, d. 1835 ; (6) Amanda, m. Edward Salmon ; (7) William Henry, d. in the Union army. V. Harriet, b. June i, 1798; m. Ezra Bennett, of Rindge. Seven children: (i) Harriet; (2) David ; (3) John ; (4) George ; (5) Maria ; (6) Mary Ann ; (7) Fanny, d. in Whately, Mass. VI. Sally, h. Sept. 3, 1800; m. David French; r. New Ipswich ; he d. in 1852. One child, — Pamela T., b. 1852. VII. Fanny, b. Dec. 3, 1S02 ; m. William H. Salis- bury, of Groton, Mass. ; d. Jan. 5, 1868, in Sharon, Mass. VIII. John Edioards, b, Nov. 24, 1805 ; m. Elizabeth White, of Boston. He kept a public house on Commercial street, and the Albion House, Tremont street, Boston ; re. to New York, and was the proprietor of Hunt's Hotel ; has been in the U. S. Custom House, New York. Four children : (i) Julia, b. and d. in Boston ; (2) Julia ; (3) John Edwards ; (4) Nathan Henry. IX. Elvira, b. March 24, 1S08 ; m. George A. Wil- lard, of Ashby ; a farmer ; r. in Ashburn ham. Nine children : (i) Elvira; (2) Ma- ria, d. ; (3) Catherine ; (4) George ; (5) Caroline ; (6) Lizzie ; (7) Abby Jane ; (8) Ann Maria ; (9) Sarah Frances. X. Raymond, b. May 18, 1810; m. Marie Antoin- ette, dau. of Zadoc Chapman, of Dublin and Jaftrey.+ Natiian Hunt m., Jan. 10, 1814, Violentia Hodg- man, of Scranton; d. April 23, 1869. She d. July 2, 1838, a. 38. I. Abigail, b. Dec. 11, 1821 ; m. Appleton ; re. 111. II. Emeline, d. April 24, 1832, a. 8 yrs. 20 21 22 (17) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 (35) 38 39 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 375 III. Julia Ann, b. May 2, 1S25 ; m. James Cogs- well, of Brighton. IV. Edward Pay son, d. April 4, 1832, a. 11 mos. V. William Sylvester, d. June 23, 1S48, a. 21 yrs. Raymond Hunt m. Maria A. Chapman, Nov. 25, 1S2S ; r. Boston. Eight children : I. Christiana Chapman, b. Sept. 20, 1830; d. in 1848. II. Helen 3Iar, b. Dec. 10, 1S32 ; m. Joseph W. Donett, of Boston. III. Marie Antoinette, h. Sept. 10, 1834 ; d. Sept. 12, 1838. IV. Eaymond B., b. Dec. 16, 1836 ; d. Sept., 1S37. V. Cynthia A., b. Aug. 3, 1838 ; d. Nov. 3, 1855. VI. Edwin Ruthven, b. Jan. 14, 1840 ; enlisted in the Union army. VII. Esther M. M. Chapman, b. Dec. 18, 1842. VIII. Benjamin Cutter, b. Sept. 4, 1845. Paul Hunt, son of Simon Hunt, of Acton, Mass., m., Nov. 17, 17S9, Betsey Parkhurst, of Chelmsford, Mass., who d. Aug. 24, 1839, a. 75. He d. June 6, 1852, a. 87. I. John Parkhurst, b. Sept. 27, 1790 ; r. Saratoga, and d. II. Clarissa, b. Oct. 15, 1791 ; m. Capt. Eldad Prescott, of Jaflrey, March 27, 1816, q. v. III. Betsey, h. ]\\\y ^, 1793; m. Capt. Eldad Pres- cott, q. v. IV. Paul, b. April 15, 1795. + V. Burocsy, b. 1799; m. William Pomeroy, of Winchester; d. 1876; r. Warren, N. Y. Three children, — one son, two daughters, all d. VI. Addison, b. Feb. 18, 1803 ; r. Saratoga, N. Y. ; m. and d. Paul Hunt m. Ann Jewett, of Temple, N. H. I. Lucy Ann, b. Sept. 27, 1827; m., April 17, 1850, David Barker, of Temple. II. Buth Augusta, b. 1829 ; d. May 9, 1829. 376 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, 40 42 43 44 III. Oliver ParJcJiurst, b. May 2, 1830, Sarah A. Up- ham, of Dudley, Mass. IV. Adoniram Judson^ b. April 25, 1832 ; d. May 19, 1S32. V. Samuel Augustus^ h. Sept. 15, 1834; d. Aug. 16, 1839. VI. William Pomeroy, b. Jan. 13, 1837; ^' Mary Upham, of Dudley, Mass. ; r. Detroit, Mich. ; re. to Minnesota. VII. Ruth Elizabeth, b. Nov. 8, 1843; ™- Morse. Five children: (i) Etta E; (2) Fred S. ; (3) Ervin C. ; (4) Lillian A. ; (5) Oliver H. INGALLS FAMILY. Edmond Ingalls, from Lincolnshire, England, settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1629; m., and had a family of nine children; d. 1648. Josiah, a descendant, settled in Rindge in 1760; was deacon of the church in that place ; m. Eunice ; had six children : Ebenezer Ingalls, his eldest son, settled west of the mountain in Jaftrey ; m. Mercy ; one son, Asa, b. Aug. 28, 1797. 9 10 Josiah Ingalls, second son, b. Oct. 31, i747' ^^^' tied in Jaftrey, on lot 7, range 10, in 17S7 ; m. Sarah Bowers, Jan. 25, 1750. Eleven children: I. John, b. at Rindge, Dec. 15, 1771 ; d. Feb. 23, 1772. II. James, b. March 5, 1773 ; d. July 24, i775- III. Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 1775 ; d. Sept. 25, 1777. IV. Phehe, b. Feb., 1778 ; m. Robert Gilmore, q. v. V. Josiah, b. April 5, 1780; m. Lois Capron, of Marlborough ; d. in Fitzwilliam, March 18, 1855. She d. March 20, 1855. No chil- dren. VI. James, b. Feb. 27, 1781.-I- VII. Sarah, b. Aug. 13, 1783 ; m. Moses Sawyer, of Sharon. She d. Nov. 16, 1771. VIII. Deborah, b. Aug. 27, 1785; m., i". May 9, 1816, Rev. Charles Mavery ; he d. Sept. 25, 1830, a. 38 ; m., 2**, Robertson Perkins, of Fitzwilliam ; he d., and she d. Feb. 16, 1872. One child : GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 377 12 H 15 16 17 (9) 18 19 20 21 22 23 I. Sarah Maria, b. Feb. 7, 1818 ; m. John Smith, of Rindge. IX. Flint, b. April 27, 1789; d. 1834. X. Simeon, b. Sept. 22, 1791 ; d. young. _ XI. Charles, b. Sept. 23, 1794; re. to Keene ; d. in Windsor, Vt., 1873. Simeon Ingalls, b. Aug. 24, 1749, third son of Jo- siah, settled in JaftVey ; m. Mercy \ d. ni Rindge, 1790. Two children : I. John, b. Feb. 24, 1779 ; d. June 2, 1806. II. Ira, b. Feb. 11, 1781 ; m. Jerusha, dau. ot Joseph Hodge. Tames Ingalls, m. Rebecca, dau. of Daniel and Alice (Shedd) Twiss, of Taffrey ; d. in Rindge, April 7, 1830. She d. April 9, 1868. Five children : I. Abigail, m. John Kendrick, of Dover, Mass. II. Caroline, m\ George Chessman. III. James M., r. Marlboro', Mass. IV. Amos, d. 1864. V. Lucy, m. James M. Small, Nov. 5, 1846; r. JaftVey. VI. Lois A., m. Sumner Deeth ; d. Rindge, 1870. 2 3-4 JAQUITH FAMILY. Benjamin Jaquith came to Jaffiey previous to 1779 ; settled on lot' 20, range 6 ; was field-driver in 1785, and highway-surveyor in 1787 ; m. Phebe , and left a birth record of three children : I. Lydia, b. Nov. 3, 1780. 11. Reuben, and (in.) Asa, twins, b. Aug. 15, 1783. Ebenezer jAqLiiTH, SOU of Abraham and Hannah Taquith, was b. Dec. 24, 1732; m., Jan. 19, 1758, Esther, dau. of Ebenezer and Esther French, b. f eb. 22, 1736 ; both of Billerica, Mass. ; came to Jaftrey, and settled on lots 13 and 14, range 9. He d. Dec. 29, 1S02, a. 70. She d. May 7, 1823, a. 87. i/ 378 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 lO II 13 H 15 (6) 17 18 19 (7) I. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 20, 175S.-4- II. Samuel^ b. Oct. 6, 1760.-]- III. Esther, b. Sept. 22, 1762 ; m. William Marshall, q. V. IV. tfesse, b. Nov. 27, 1764; m. Keziah Hathorn, 17S8. V. Hannah^ b. Nov. 12, 1766 ; m. Jonathan Emery, 17SS. VI. Olive, b. Oct. 19, 1768 ; m. Samuel Emery. VII. Abigail, b. July 31, 1773. VIII. Betsey, b. July 15, 1777 ; m. Henry Thompson. IX. liisjKih, b. Nov. 16, 1779; m. Joel Wright, of Troy; d. May 7, 1863, a. 84. X. Xevi, b. Dec. 11, 17S1. II. III. Ebenezer Jaquith m., June 23, 17S6, Sarah Hathorn, dau. of Collins Hathorn, b. Aug. 9, 1767 ; set- tled on the homestead ; d. June 19, 1844, a. 85. She d. May 19, 1834, ^' ^7- ^^ ^^^ ^ soldier in the Revolu- tion. Sarah, b. Nov. 13, 17S6; m. Luther Hemming- way ; d. Feb. i, 1S64, a. 78. Esther, b. Dec. 32, 1787; d. Nov 21, 17S9. Ebenezer, b. June 25, 17S9; re. to the state of Maine. Collins, b. March 4, 1791 ; m., Sept. 16, 181 6, Aliriam B., dau. of Whitcomb and Miriam Bond Powers ; a large shoe dealer ; r. Keene ; re. to Oakfield, N. Y. Eleven ch. Joseph, b. Oct. 8, 1792.-]- Luhe, b. Jan. 30, 1794 ; re. to Me. Asa, b. Aug. 38, 1797. John, b. Aug. 3, 1799 ; d. Aug. 5, i8o3. Ira, b. April 19, 1802 ; d. unm. Seth, b. July 13, 1S04.-I- 26 xi. Infant son, d. Aug. 26, 1805. 27 XII, Infant son, d. Feb. 14, 1807. Elijah, b. June 27, 1808; m., April 23, 1S33, Sarah Crosby. -|- Abigail, b. April 24, iSii. 20 V 21 VI. 22 VII. 23 VIII. 24 IX. 25 X. 28 XIII. 29 XIV Samuel Jaquith m. Lois, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Kenney) Mower; d. Sept. 5, 1803, a. 43. 30 31 32 33 34 35 (20) 36 37 3S 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 (25) 47 48 49 50 51 52 (28) 53 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 379 1. Olive, d. Oct. 2, 1S08, a. 19. 11. Eliza, d. Oct. 4, 1796, a. 5 yrs., 7 mos., 16 dys. III. Esther, b. March 9, 1794 ; m., i'', Silas Pierce ; 2*^, Joseph Pierce. IV. David, b. 1795.-]- V. Billy, d. Dec. 5, 1800, a. 3 yrs., 8 mos., 20 dys. VI. Samuel, d. Dec. i, iSoo, a. i yr., S mos., 19 dys. VII. Sally, d. May 6, 1803, a. i yr., 11 mos. Joseph jAQtiiTH m., Jan. i, 1822, Hannah Gleason, of Weston, 'Mass. He d. Feb. 3, 1859, a. 46. Ch. : I. Henry, b. Oct. 20, 1822 ; d. Sept. 2, 1867. II. William, b. Jan. 22, 1824; d. Nov., 1876, at Springfield, Mass. III. Sumner, b. Sept. 9, 1825. IV. Marshall, b. Sept. 10, 1827. V. Albert, h. March 2, 1829; m., April 8, 1856, Emily Wilder, of Hancock ; r. in Hancock. Children : 1. Walter A., b. March 27, 1857. 2. Lucetta E., b. Jan. 3, 1859. VI. Susan A., b. Dec. 30, 1830. VII. Mary, b. Oct. 21, 1832. VIII. George, b. Aug. 11, 1834; d. in the Union army, 1863. IX. Mary, b. Sept. 11, 1836. Seth Jaquith m. Anna, dau. of Asa Robbins, of Nelson ; d. March 27, 1866, a. 62. She d. Jan. 9, 1878. I. Levi. II. Sarah. III. Asa S., b. 1830; m. Ellen F. Wilber, of Ches- terfield. IV. Horace, d. June 4, 1837, a. 5. V. An iyifant son, d. April 6, 1835, a. 2 dys. VI. Azero. Elijah Jaquith m. Sarah Crosby; d. Nov. 19, 1866, a. 58. I. Lewis Sylvanus, b. Dec. 5, 1833 ; m. Abbie, dau. of Orlando Cragin ; d. May 31, 1873. 38o HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 (32) 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 II. Enieline Seraphine, b. May 19, 1835 ; m. David W. Lacy. III. Amanda Theresa^ b. Oct, 26, 1S37; '""-i Sept. 9, 1S52, Orlando B. Cragin ; r. Gardner, Mass.' IV. Jerome Bonaparte^h.'^ov. z^^ 1S39; '• Pbila- delphia. V. Lafayette Morton^ b. Aug. 28, 1841 ; d. Jan. 7, 1850. VI. Anna Josephine^ b. Dec. 7, 1844; m., and r. in Columbus, O. VII. Edvmrd Byron ^ b. Sept. 20, 1847; ''• Norwich, Conn. VIII. Walter Herbert, b. Oct. 22, 1S51 ; r. Boston. David Jaquith m., Dec. 29, 1817, Sally, dau. of Rufus and Susannah (Green) Sawyer. He d. June 25, 1859, a. 64. She d. July 4, 1853, a. 56. I. Samuel, b. Dec. ^9, 1818; m. Marv, dau. of Samuel and Polly (Felt) Nay, 'of Peter- borough, N. H. He d. 1879. Two ch. : 1. Emma, b. Sept. 17, 1S45. 2. Ella S.,b. Feb. 13, 1S56: d. at Wil- ton, May 22, 1864; r. Vineland, N. J. II. Rosyra,h. April 5, 1821 ; m. Feb., 1846, Aaron S. Libbey, of Maine; r. Boston. III. David A., b. June 7, 1826; m., i*', Lizzie Ty- ler; m., 2^, Eliza A. Tyler, of Boston. IV. Sally Augnsta, b. June 7, 1S26; m„ July 20, 1856, John Howland ; r. Boston. [David and Sally, twins.] V. Syrena Saioyer,h. June 29, 1828; m., Jan. 3, 1850, George W. Buss, of Peterborough. JEWELL FAMILY. Jacob Jewell was b. in Marlborough, Mass., Sept. 6,1767; came to Jaffrey in 1808; settled in school- district No. ID, on the farm of Silas Adams, afterwards owned by John Pierce. He was a descendant of Thomas Jewell, b. in England atout 1600; came to this country, and settled in Braintree, Mass., in 1639. 9 lO (6) (9) 13 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 38 1 Mr. Jewell was not only a farmer, but a large dealer in cattle, and drove large numbers annually to the Bright- on market. He re. to tlie Bates farm, now (1873) owned by Dea. Isaac S. Russell. He m. Mary Smith, who d. Marcli 10, 1S40, a. 74. He d. June 21, 1S44, a. 76. I. Mary, b. 1787; d. young. II. Sophia, b. Sept. 16, 1788; m. Thomas French, Jr., q. V. III. Betsey, b. Sept. 26, 1790; m. Itliamar Law- rence, q. V. IV. Abigail, h. ^\\\y 10, 1792; m. Shubael Cleave- iand. Twelve ch. V. Isaac, b. May 23, 1794.4- VI. Mary W., b. May 2, 1799; m. Ralph Jewett, of Pepperell, Mass., Nov. 4, 1S44. VII. Roxanna, b. Sept. 9, 1800; m. Col. Oilman Mower, q. v. VIII. Dexter, b. June 24, 1803.-!- IX. Almira, b. Dec. iS, 1805 ; m. John Perry, of Dublin, q. v. X. Cordelia, b. May 20, 1808; m. Reuben Pierce, q. V. XI. Charles A., b. Feb. 2, 181 1.+ IsAAc Jewell (Capt.) m., i'', Sally Nutting, Jan., 1820, who d. May 27, 1844, a. 46 ; m., 2"^, Abigail, dan. of William and Jane (Wright) Davidson, and widow of Capt. Moses Cutter, June, 1849 ; re to Medina, Mich., from thence to Hudson, where he d. Dec. 25, 1875. Seven ch. : (i) Fanny Parker, m. Asaph Pierce; (2) Isaac Parker, d. March 23, 1837 ' (3) ^^'^^'^'^ Jackson; (4) Mary W., m., and d. Oct. 11, 1855 ; (5) JElbridge G. ; (6) Sarah, b. 1840, d. 1841 ; (7) Adelbert. Dexter Jewell m. Sally, dau. of Col. Josiah and Rebecca (Cutter) Mower. He d. April 29, 1873, a. 69. She d. May 16, 1873, a. 65. I. Samuel Dexter, h. Jan. 18, 1831.-J- II. Liberty Mower, b. Nov. 9, 1836 ; m. Martha A. Lebourveau, 1862. 382 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 15 16 iS (12) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (13) 26 27 III. Sarah E., b. Dec. 27, 1839 ; m. Wilbur F. Whit- ney, of Ashburnham, Mass., 1S66. IV. Ellen E; b. March 28, 1842; d. Nov. 15, 1865. V. Jacob A., h. June 19, 1844. VI. Mary i?., b. July 19, 1848. Charles A. Jewell ni. Lydia Ann, dan. of Benja- min M. and Lydia (Spaulding) Stanley, of Jaftrey. I. Horace B., b. May 12, 1833. II. Ellen A., b. Aug. 18, 1835. III. Ann JZ, b. Sept. 6, 1837. IV. Charles J.., b. Sept. 8, 1839. V. Emily S.^ b. Aug. 20, 1S45. VI. George J/., b. May 7, 1847. VII. EalpJi Jewett, b. Jan. 20, 1852. Samuel Dexter Jewell m. Mary F., dau. of Na- thaniel and Mary B. (Averill) Cutter, April 15, 1859. She d. Oct. 5, 1873. I. Willis Bradford^ b. Aug. 9, 1857. II. Ernest S., b. April 19, 1S64. JEWETT FAMILY. The ancestors of the Jewett family, who settled in New England, were Maximilian and his brother Joseph. They came from Bradford, Yorkshire, England, about 163S. The name was written originally, Juet, Juit, Jewit. They settled in Rowley, Mass. Ezekiel, son of Maximilian, settled in the same place, and m. Faith Parrot, by whom he had ten ch. He was a deacon of the church, and representative. Thomas, his second son, m. Hannah Snow, and settled in Boxford ; had five children, — one son and four daughters. Ezekiel, his son, m. Martha Thurston, of Newbury, by whom he had twelve ch., three of whom settled in Rindge. Jonathan Jewett, son of Ezekiel, b. in Boxford, March 12, 1739, m. Martha Belcher, of Wrentham ; r. in Rindge ; re. to Jaffrey about 1772, and settled on lot 5, range 7, now the farm of Jona. J. Comstock, his grandson. He d. at sea, while on a voyage to Maine, April 28, 17S6. His widow d. March 19, 1S28, a. 94. They had nine children : 5 6 7 8 9 lO (3) II 12 H 16 17 iS 19 20 22 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 383 I. Benjamin^ b. Oct. 12, 1763 ; m. Ruth McBride ; r. Utica, N. Y. II. Samuel^ b. Nov. 17, 1765.-1- III. David, b. April 6, 1767; settled on the home- stead ; m. Lucy Clark, of Sullivan ; d. Aug. 27, 1S19. She d. Nov. 16, 1851, a. 77. IV. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 19, 1868; m. Artemas Cha- pin ; r. Oneida Co., N. Y. V. Jonathan^ b. April 19, 1770; d. Aug. 25, 177S ; r. Ohio. VI. Henry^ b. June 13, 1772 ; m. Martha Howe; r. Ohio. VII. Hannah (twin), b. June 13, 177*^ ' '^^- Joseph Osburn ; r. Sangerfield, N. Y. VIII. Martha, b. April 13, 1774; ni. Wni. Comstock, q. V. IX. 3£oses, b. July 2, 1777 ; ni. ; r. Ohio. Samuel Jewett m. Sarah, dau. of Capt. James and Sarah (Lamson) Gage ; r. New Hartford, N. Y. She d. Feb. 12, 1861, a. 92. Nine children : I. Samuel, b. Jan. 13, 1795 ; d. Aug. 4, 1S61. II. Sarah, b. May 9, 1797 ; unm. III. David L., b. Oct. 3, 1799 ; m. Ann. Kelley ; d. Aug. I, 1S55. IV. Abigail, b. April 2, 1801 ; d. Oct. 7, 1S45, unm. V. Betsey, b. Nov. 28, 1802; d. Dec. 29, 1833, unm. VI. Benj. F., b. Aug. 21, 1805 ; m. Sophia S. Hastings. VII. James, b. Aug. 17, 1807; m. ; d. Aug. 25, 1870. VIII. Mary An7i, b. Feb. 2, 1810; d. March 11, 1863, unm. IX. Phebe, b. Nov. 5, 1812 ; unm. Oliver Jewett came from Littleton, Mass., to Jaf- frey about 1798 ; settled on lot 10, range 5; a brick- maker by trade ; m. Mary, dau. of Lieut. William Turner. He d. June 13, 1842, a. 73. She d. July 26, 1841, a. 71. I. William Turner, b. Nov. 28, 1798; a school teacher ; d. in New York state. II. Ezra, b. Feb. 5, iSoo.-|- 384 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 23 24 25 26 27 (22) 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 (26) 36 37 38 III. Mary^ b. Jan. i, 1803 ; m. Abel Shedd, q. v. IV. Roxana, b. Dec. 5, 1804; d. Jan. 22, 1S42. V. Naomi^ b. Nov. 18, 1806; d. Nov. 14, 1S45. VI. Oliver^ b. May 27, 1810; m. Eliza Heming- way. -[- YU. George W.. b. Feb. 25, 181 2; m. Adeline Adams. He d. Nov. 5, 1857. Ezra Jewett m. Elvira Maynaid. He d. June 2, 1841. I. Eliza Ann, b. Feb. 6, 1827; m. George Mar- shall, of Dublin. II. Maria Elmra, b. Dec. 21, 1828 ; m. Luther W. ; . Dnrant,^ III. :Prttdenee Augusta, b. Jan. 30, 1830; m. Eli Hannaford ; r. St. Alban's, Vt. IV. Julius Clinton, b. Nov. 26, 1832 ; d. June 29, 1836. V. Amanda Emeline, b. May 22, 1833 ; m. Stillman A. Eaton, of South Reading. VI. An infant daughter, d. Jan. 18, 1836, a. i d. vii. Julixis Clinton, b. May 4, 1837 ; d. Oct. 4, 1861. VIII. Naomi Josephine, b. April 21, 1841 ; d. Oct. 2, 1 841. Oliver Jewett m. Eliza Hemingway, dau. of Capt. Luther and Betsey (Cummings) Hemingway, May 21, i8ti ; re., 1857, to Marlborough. I. Clara E., b. Oct. 23, 1847 ; m. Lavater M. Flint ; r. Marlborough, n. Otis E., b. Feb. 11, 1849; d. Aug. 2, 1850. III. Willie A., b. Dec. 27, 1851. JOHNSON FAMILY. Levi Johnson was b. in Leominster, Mass., Jan. 29, 1767 ; m. Sarah Nichols, of Leominster ; re. to Jaftrey in 1794, to Dublin, 1836. She d. Oct. 19, 1856, a. 83. He d. Dec. 12, 1856, a. 89. He followed the business of farming, and the manufacturing of horn combs. Fourteen ch. : I. Sally, b. Nov. 18, 1790; d. March 19, iSio. II. Levi, b. March 12, 1794; d. Sept. 4, 1796. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 38s 4 I III. A child, b. Feb. 2, 1795 ; d. Feb. 4, 1796. 5 IV. Sardis, b. April 26, 1796; m. Charlotte Good- rich, of Bedford, Mass. ; had two ch., d. in infancy ; r. in Mont Vernon, N. H. He d. April 22, 1865. 6 V. Cynthia, h. May 14, 179S; m. Mark D. Per- kins, of Mont Vernon. Shed. 1867. 7 VI. Elmira, b. June 23, 1800; m. Simpson Hodge, q. V. VII. Polly, b. June 29, 1802 ; d. March 19, 1810. 9 VIII. Betsey, b. July 20, 1804; d. March 19, 1810. 10 IX. Julia, b. July 17, 1806; m., May i, 1834, Will- iam Darricott, of Dublin. Ch. : (i) Sarah Jane; (2) Bessie M. ; (3) Julia; two ch. (twins), d. in infancy. 11 X. Azubah,h. July 20, 1808; m. John Powers, of Leominster. Ch. : (i) Sarah F. ; (2) Al- bert ; (3) Ellen S. ; (4) Charlie ; (5) George M. She d. June, 1869. 12 XI. Mary, b. Aug. 21, 1810; m. Charles Sinclair, of Leominster. Ch. : (i) Charles H. ; (2) George ; (3) Mary Frances ; (4) James ; (5) William ; (6) child, d. in infancy. She d. Sept., 1861. 13 XII. Sarah, b. Nov. i, 1813; d. Oct. 5, 1813. 14 XIII. Levi N'., b. Jan. 17, 1815 ; m., i'', Susan M. Pierce. She d. Dec. i, 1852, a. 37 ; m., 2*, Rebecca Farnum, of Peterborough. He d. March 12, 1858, a. 43. Four ch., three by first wife, one by second wife : 15 I. Frances A., b. April 3, 1843 ; d., a. 5 mos., 3 days. 16 2. Charles Addison, b. 1845 ; m. Ann Grossman. One ch., — Albert L., b. March 23, 1876 ; d. 17 3, George E., d. Nov., 1852, a. 14 weeks, I day. 18 4. Mary T., d. Sept. 22, 1854, a. 11 days. His second wife m. second husband, Elijah A. Robbins, of Peterborough. 19 XIV. Sarah J., h. July 18, 1820; m., Nov. 7, 1844, Jonathan Wetherbee, of Leominster ; r. in Princeton. Ch. : (i) George F. ; (2) Charles E. ; (3) Al- bert B. 26 386 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 20 Eliphalet Johnson, son of Isaiah, and grandson of Judge Johnson, of Biidgewater, Mass., was b. at Stoughton, Mass., March 14, 1758; m. Hepsibah, a descendant of Col. Oliver and Sarah Perkins i\ppleton, who came from England and settled in Ipswich, Mass. She was b. at Ipswich, Jan. 5, 1759 ; d. at Fitzwilliam, March 9, 184S. He d. at Fitzwilliam, Aug. 18, 1834. Nine children : 21 I. Thomas^ b. July 23, 1784; d. at St. Domingo, 1803, a. 19. 22 II. John, b. March 9, 1785 ; a merchant and chem- ist; r. Providence, R. I., and d. there. Two children. 23 III. Samuel, b. July 29, 1786; a merchant; r. Port- land, Me. ; d. May, 1S25, leaving a wife and son. 24 IV. Lucinda, b. Sept. 27, 1789; d. at JafiVey, Aug. 16, 1863. 25 V. Betsey, b. Dec. 13, 1791 ; d. 1793. 26 VI. James, b. Jan. 13, 1793 ; d. Oct. 15, 1821 ; r. in Marion Co., Miss. ; a tanner by trade, and one of the judges of the court. 27 VII. Olivia, b. June 11, 1795. For ten years she taught school in New York city, and a num- ber of years in Richmond, Va. She m. Rev. William Mylne. 28 VIII. Electa, b. at Jaftrey, May 4, 1801 ; m. Nathan Blodgett, q. v. 29 IX. Eliphalet, b. Aug. 28, 1803; a merchant; r. New Orleans. JOSLIN FAMILY. Two brothers by the name of Joslin came from England to this country, and settled in Lancaster, Mass. Joseph, one of their sons, settled in Leominster and d. there. Samuel Joslin, his son, came to JafTrey previous to 1793, and settled on lot 6, range 6, now uninhabited. He m. Betsey Wilder, and d. Nov. 17, 1815, a. 64. She d. Dec. 14, 1821, a. 63. Three children: Betsey, r. Oberlin, Ohio. Thomas, r. Oberlin, O. Lucy, m. Millot Ellis, q. v. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 387 John JosLiN (Capt.), b. in Leominster; came to Jaf- frey previous to 1787 ; settled on lot 8, range 5 ; kept a public house. At a later period he became the propri- etor of the Monadnock Mineral Spring House. In 1824 he re. to Marlborough, N. H., and spent the remainder of his life with his nephew, David Joslin. He was a man highly respected, held many town offices, and was a captain in the militia. He m., and d. Dec. 22, 1836, a. 78. His wife d. Aug. 22, 1841, a. 79. They had no children. Joseph Josi.in (Dea.), son of Joseph, was b. in Leominster, Mass., March 21, 1766; came to Jaffrey previous to 1793. He settled on lot 15,. range 75 now the farm of Caleb K. Martin. He was a very industri- ous man, deacon of the Baptist church, and held in high estimation by his fellow-citizens. He m. Lucretia Wilder, Feb. 14, 1788. Her death resulted from being accidentally thrown from a chaise while on a visit at Charlton, Mass., Aug. 24, 1826. She was b. in Leom- inster, Feb. I, 1769. He m., 2'', Mrs. Spear, of New Ipswich. He d. Sept. 11, 1852, a. 86. 1. /Sukey, d. April 23, 1791. II. Lucretia, b. Jan. 16, 1795 ; d. Jan. 15, 1864, a. 69 ; unm. III. Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1798.-J- IV. Wilder, b. Aug. 21, iSoo.-j- V. Vashti, b. Oct. 16, 1802 ; m. Amasa Wyman, of Woburn, Mass., Dec. 29, 1840 ; he d. June 16, 1857, ^' ^2 ; m., 2^, Samuel P. Parker, Oct. 29, i860; he d. March 18, 1870, a. 69. She now (1876) r. Jaffrey. VI. Emily, b. Nov. 16, 1805. VII. Austris, b. May 5, 1808 ; m. Dr. Willard Adams, son of Thomas Adams, of Marl- borough, N. H. Dr. Adams was b. in New Salem, Mass. : settled, first, in Wells, Me. ; re. to Woburn. and from thence to Swanzey, N. H. Joseph Joslin m. Sarah D. Parker. He was a man- ufacturer of boots and shoes, a finished workman, and had no equal in fashionable work in this vicinity. He d. Feb. 12, 1775, a. 77, much lamented. 388 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, H 16 18 (10) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 I. Francis. II. Sarah Lucretia, m. Charles Cutter, q. v. III. ^«n e/;, b. 1830; m. Alonzo Bascomb, Esq., q. V. IV. Ellen P., b. 1837 ; m., Feb. 22, i860, Charles Mason, of Sullivan. V. Joseph -£?., b. 1840; in service during the rebel war; d. Mi^y 9, 1866, a. 26. Wilder Joslin m., Sept. 24, 1827, Fanny Nichols, b. in Hopkinton, N. H., Feb. 4, 1803. She d. Oct. 16, 1853, ^' S^- ^^ settled in Massachusetts, and was for a time one of the workmen employed in the erection of the monument on Bunker hill. He afterwards re. to JaftVey, where he now resides. I. Augustus Wilder^ b. June 21, 1828; m., March 3, 1853, Lucy Malinda, dau. of Orlando Cragin. One child, — Herbert Augustus, b. Feb. 23, 1S58. II. Albert Nichols, b. Feb. 23, 1830; d. in the army. III. Otis Malcolm, b. Nov. 28, 1831 ; m. Mary A. Partridge, of Gardiner, Mass. One child, — Alfred Hutchinson ; b. in Somerville. IV. Theodore Cooledge, b. April 31, 1834; *""• Mary H. Ellsworth, Sept. 6, 1855, who was b. in Troy, N. Y., April 13, 1836. Four ch. : 1. Fannie Otis, b. Aug. 30, 1856. 2. George T., b. Oct. 22, 1859; ^- Sept. 22, i860. 3. Mary T., b. April 6, 1862 ; d. Oct. 26, 1862. 4. Willie Ernest, b. March 26, 1869; d. same day. V. Joseph Randolph, b. Nov. 14, 1835 5 "^m ^"^^ r. Union Square, N. Y. VI. Henry Harrison, b. July 8, 1840 ; d. VII. Levi Willard, h. Oct. 9, 1847 ; r. Fitchburg. KIMBALL FAMILY. Joseph Kimball became a resident of JafFrey in 1796. His name was on the tax-list that year. He set- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 389 tied in the south part of the town. He m. Lucy Robin- son, who d. Sept. 23, 1853, a. 94. He d. Oct. 9, 1813, a. 64. I. Mehitable, b, 1791 ; m. Stephen Cutter, q. v. II. Lucy,h. 1799; r. JaftVey. KINGSBURY FAMILY. Benjamin Kingsbury (Dea.), son of Benjamin and Jedediah Kingsbury, of Walpole, Mass., and grandson of Nathaniel Kingsbury, of Dedham, Mass., wash. Oct. 30, 1742; re. to Rindge, 1792; to Jaffrey, 1800; re. back to Rindge in i8i6. Late in life he studied divin- ity, and was afterwards a public preacher. He m., I'S Dec. I, 176S, Abigail Sawin, who d. Oct. 6, 1793 ; m., 2*^. Sept. 3, 1794, Lucretia Locke, who d. in Tem- ple, Nov. 6, 1843. He d. June 10, 1827. Children by first wife : I. Joseph, b. Oct. 29, 1769. II. Abigail, b. Aug. 17, i777- III. Senjarnin^ re. to N. Y. or Pa. IV. Nancy, m. Woolsoncraft. V. Jedediah, d. 1840, unm. Children by second wife : VI. Lucretia, b. Sept. 8, 1795; d. Aug. 12, 1839, unm. VII. Lucinda (twin), b. Sept. 8, 1795 ; d. Aug. 12, 1839. VIII. Nathaniel, b. June 28, 1798. He entered Mid- dlebury college, 1816, and Harvard Univer- sity, 1817; was there two years; was en- gaged in teacliing in Georgia and Massa- chusetts a few years ; studied medicine, and received his medical degree at Brunswick, Me., in 1829. He practised medicine first in Rindge, and re. to Temple in 1834. He became a distinguished physician, and as such had few equals. He was the leading physician in this section, and of wide influ- ence as a counsellor and man of business. He represented the town in the state legisla- ture, and was a member of the state senate. He m., I'', 1827, Catherine Sawin, who d. same year ; m., 2'*, Linda (Raymond) Ward, 390 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. widow, whod. Oct. 15, 1834 ? ^'^■■>3^^ Nov. 3, 1835, Lydia (Barnes) Patten, widow of Jesse Patten, who d. Aug. 10, 1837 ; m., ^^^. Nov. II, 1840, Ann Hazen, of Shirley, Mass. ; she d. He d. at Temple, March 3, 1S70, a. 72. Two children. 10 I. Catherine Sawin, b. March 28, 1834. 11 II. Benjamin B., b. in Temple, May 15, 1837; graduated at Bowdoin college, 1857. KNOWLTON FAMILY. Dexter B. Knowlton, b. Jan. 19, 1813 ; m., Dec. 2, 1834, Mary A. Newell, settled in Hancock, and af- terwards re. to East Jaffrey. Children : 2 I. George /)., b. Aug. 2, 1835 ; d. in the army, Co. I, 26th Mass. Regt. 3 II. Mary JS., b. April 30, 1837; m., Feb. 13, 1856, Chaplain Deeth ; d. at Sunderland, Vt. , July 24, 1805. III. Hannah jl, b. July i, 1839; '^' Chaplain Deeth. 5 IV. Charles X., b. Sept. 17, 1845. 6 V. William A.^ b. May 11, 1849; m. Mary E. Mansfield. VI. Katie E.^ b. and d. June 21, 1856. LACY FAMILY. David Lacy came from Andover, Mass., and settled in Jaffrey, on lot 14, range 8, previous to 1790. His name is among the list of highway-surveyors that year. He m. Charlotte, dau. of Jonathan and Molly (Fitch) Blodgett, Nov. 2, 1788. He d. Feb. 17, 1827, a. 68. Shed. July 6, 1834, a- 65. 1. ^eisey, b. July 30, 1789 ; m. Jonas M. Melville, b. at Nelson, May i, 1823. He came to Jaflrey in 1822. In 1859 he re. to Pepperell, Mass., where he d. She d. at Pepperell, May 30, 1863. Mr. Melville was a man of wealth and influence ; was a proprietor and benefac- tor of the Melville academy: a leading man 9 lO (5) II GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 39 1 in the formation of the Second Congrega- tional Church, at East Jaffrey, and con- tributed much towards the erection of the meeting-house ; built the elegant stone man- sion, now the summer residence of Leonard R. Cutter, of Boston. II. Charlotte^h. Aug. ii, 1791 ; d. at Pepperell, May 8, 1863, unm. III. Polly^ b. Sept. 13, 1793; m. Joseph Saunders, q. V. IV. William, b. Nov. 9, 1795.-I- V. David, b. Nov. 13, 1796.-I- VI. /S'a%, b. March 10, 1799; m. John Saunders, q. V. VII. Harvey, b. July 8, iSo2.-f- VIII. Tryphosa, b. May 24, 1S04; d. Nov. i, 1834. IX. An infant daughter, b. Nov. 2,- and d. Nov. 5, 1 80S. William Lacy m. Betsey Bronsdon, May 26, 1829; settled in Jaffrey, and engaged in mercantile business in the Ainsworth store, in company with Ethan Cutter and Luke Sweetzer. The copartnership was continued for several years, and, on dissolution, he continued the business in the Thorndike store, now the residence of Dr. Phelps. By diligence and economy, he found means to enlarge his trade, and, in the spring of 1854, he bought and stocked the Foster store at East Jaffrey, in which he placed his son James S. Lacy, who after- wards became a partner and remained as such till his death, June 20, 1869. In possession of unusual prudence, and never risking hazardous adventures, he slowly and surely accumulated a good estate, rendering comfort- able his declining years, and leaving behind him, as a legacy to his children, the name of an honest man. I. James Stone, b. March 3, 1830; m., July 22, 1856, Dorcas C, dau. of Moses and Cozby (Cooledge) Perkins. He is now extensively engaged in trade at East Jaffrey, and is a prominent man in town affairs. II. Sophia Ursida, b. Sept. 3, 1831 ; m., Jan. 8, 1857, William W. Slason ; r. in West Rut- land, Vt. Children: (i) Annette, b. Jan. 7, 1858. (2) Celia Frances, b. April' 12, i860. (3) William M., b. Oct. 18, 1861 ; 392 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (6) 13 15 16 (8) 17 18 19 (13) 20 21 (14) 22 23 24 (17) d. Dec. 23, 1864. (4) Ann Maria, b. Sept. 25, 1862; d. Oct. 8, 1862. (5) Charles Hiram, b. Sept. 26, 1863 ; d. Dec. 18, 1864. (6) Minnie Sophia, b. Oct. 23, 1864; d. Dec. 15, 1864. (7) James Lacy, b. Dec. 27, 1865 ; d. Nov. 8, 1866. David Lacy m. Phebe Melvin. Dec. 14, 1828. She d. April 19, 1861, a. 58. He d. May 20, 1870. I. Andrew M.^ b. Sept. 20, 1829; m. Caroline H. Baker.+ II. Jonas M. Melville, b. Sept. 17, i83i.-(- iii. Mary A. C, b. 1835 ; m. Ebenezer W. Mcin- tosh, of Peterborough. She d. Feb. 19, 1861. a. 26. IV. Joseph S., b. 1842 ; d. in the Union Army. Harvey Lacy m. Martha Whitney, 1828. He d. June 6, 1843. I. David TF., b. Sept. 26, 1829.-)- II. Frances //., b. Nov. 15, 1833 ; m. Rev. John E. B. Jev^^ett, Jan. 10, 1854. Children : (i) Mary Minot, b. March 15, 1857. (2) Mar- tha Frances, b. Jan. 27, 1859; ^^* Dec. 9, i860. (3) Ella Frances, b. July 4, 1862. (4) Bessie Melville, b. Nov. 19, 1871, at Pepperell, Mass. III. George, b. June 26, 1836.-I- Andrew^ M. Lacy m. Caroline H. Baker, Sept. 6, 1853- I. Ida Phehe, b. July 22, 1855, at Jaffrey. II. Elmer Euge7ie, b. March 29, 1869, at Rindge. Jonas M. M. Lacy m. Mary J. Tarbox, Oct. 4, 1855. I. Mary J., b. Nov. 13, 1856. 11. Effie, b. April 11, 1863 ; d. April 15, 1863. III. Susie G. P., b. March 9, 1867. David W. Lacy m. Emma L. Jaquith, Sept. 29, 1857- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 393 25 26 27 (19) 28 29 30 I. Everette C, b. Nov. 5, 1859; d. May 17, 1863. II. Harry 6'., b. Sept. 24, 1865. III. NedM., b. Nov. 17, 1868. George Lacy m. Sarah M. Hodkins. I. George E., b. June 20, 1865, at Winchendon. II. Nettie M., b. April 14, 1867', " III. Elton TF., b. June 19, 1870, " LAWRENCE FAMILY. John Law^rence, b. at Wisset, England, came to this coun- try, and settled in Watertown, Mass., about 1636. He was twice married, and had thirteen children by first wife, and two by the second. He d. in Groton, July 11, 1667. Benjamin Lawrence, fifth generation, was b. at Groton, Sept. i, 1746; m. July 3, 1778, Rebecca Woods, of Pepperell; re. to Jaftrey about 177S, and settled on lot 16, range 3, previously owned by Daniel White, and now in possession of Frederick J. Law- rence, a great-grandson. The Lawrence family is one of distinguished English origin. Robert Lawrence, of Lancashire, England, b. A.*b. 1 150, so distinguished himself in the war of the Crusades in the Holy Land, that he was knighted " Sir Robert of Ashton Hall," and obtained a coat of arms. Mr. Benjamin Lawrence was an oflScer, and served in the Revolutionary war. He was a strong man, bod- ily and mentally, and a successful farmer. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom reached the age of maturity, and in their turn became parents of a numerous progeny. He d. June 9, 1824, a. 77. His widow d. Sept. 30, 1830, a. 75. I. Ephraim, b. April 9, i779--f 11. Artemas, b. Feb. 13, 1781.+ III. Moody, b. Jan. 15, 1783.+ IV. Joshua^ b. Jan. iS, 1785- V. Ithamar, b. April 8, 1787.+ VI. Rebecca, b. April 8, 17S9; m., Sept., 1817, Stephen F. Warner ; r. Pembroke, N. Y. She d. Jan. i, 1848. Seven children: I. Sarah F., b. June, 1818; m. William Ellis ; r. Lafayette, Ind. 394 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 lO II 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (2) 2. Benjamin L., b. 1820; d. 1846. 3. Mary T., b. 1822 ; d. Nov., 1846. 4. Hannah L., m. Wm. Walters; r. Bat- tle Creek, Mich. 5. Stephen W., r, Springfield, Pa. 6. Isadore I., b. Jan., 1831 ; d. Nov., 1848. 7. Lucy A., b. June, 1833 ; m. Levant R. Brown, m. d., Lowell, Mich. VII. Milla^ b. Sept. 18, 1791 ; m. Cyrus Brown, Dec, 1810. He d. Oct., 1846, a, 61. She d. April 18, 1849, a. 57. Children: 1. Joshua L., b. Aug., 1812; m., i**, Eliza Ann Colby, 1835; d. 1836; m., 2**, Diana Osburn, b. 1842 ; r. Batavia, N. Y. ; attorney-at-law. 2. Abigail W., b. Dec, 1814; m. Daniel W. Noble ; d. in Pembroke, N. Y. 3. John W., b. May, 1817; m. Roxanna L. Noble ; r. in Pembroke, N. Y., 1835. 4. Harriet M., b. Aug., 1819 ; m. Joseph M. Gowing ; r. Batavia, N. Y. 5. Martha, b. March, 1821 ; m. Robert Durham ; r. Pembroke, N. Y. 6. Cyrus, b. 1824, d. 1849. 7. Sarah T., b. Sept. 3, 1827 ; m. Nathan W. Stowell ; r. Lancaster, N. Y. 8. Edward Dana, b. June, 1830; d. July, 1850. 9. Levant R., b. March, 1832; m. Lucy A. Warner, a physician ; r. Lowell, Mich. 10. George T., b. and d. Oct., 1834. VIII. Manasseth^ b. Jan. 21, 1794.-!- IX. Sarahs b. Nov. 2, 1796; m. William Evleth, of Dublin ; r. Gilsum, N. H., Alexandria and Pembroke, N. Y. She d. April 18, 1880. X. JSenjamvi, b. Dec, 1799; m. Roancy Gowing; r. Pembroke. Ephraim Lawrence m. Nancy Bruce, Sept., 1804, of Berlin, Mass. He d. in Windham, Vt., April 18, 1845. His widow d. Feb., 1849. Eleven children: GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 395 29 I. Sahra, b. 1805 ; m. Cobb ; d. Aug., 1856. 30 II. Rufus, b. Oct., 1S07 ; m., 1831, French ; r. Windham, Vt. 31 III. Mary, b. 1809; m. Mack; r. Windham, Vt. 32 IV. Joshua, b. 1811 ; m., 1831, Achsah Jewett ; d. 33 Nov., 1856. V. Eli, b. 1813; m. Hastings; r. Windham. VI. Artemas, b. 1S15 ; m. Woodward ; r. m Windham. VII. Harriet, b. 1817 ; d. 1834. VIII. Sarah, h. 1820; d. Oct., 1821. IX. Henry, b. 1821 ; m. Ann Gilbert; r. Ashburn- ham, Mass. X. George, h. 1823 ; m. Smith ; r. Grafton, Vt. XI. Albert, h. 1825 ; d. 34 36 37 38 39 (3) 40 41 (4) 42 43 44 45 46 Artemas Lawrence m., 1804, Lucy, dau. of Capt. Samuel and Lucy Spoftbrd Adams. He d. May 15, 1841. She d. Jan. 4, 1852, a. 67. He was an active business man, carried on the business of blacksmith- ing in JaftVey Centre, and was one of the company that built the Cheshire factory. Two children : I. Zucy S., b. April 8, 1805 ; m., i^', Henry Bar- rett, in 1823 ; m., 2'^, Smith Seymour; r. in Jamestown, N. Y. II. Mary Ann, b. Sept., 181 1 ; m. Richard Fen- ton ; r. Jamestown. Moody Lawrence m., i'*, Sept., 1805, Dorcas Briant; m., 2^ Mrs. Polly (Pratt) Spaulding. His first wife d. Aug. 3, 1810, a. 29; second wife d. Jan. 4, i860, a. 84. He d Dec. 29, 1856. He was an inn- keeper, auctioneer, sexton, and deputy-sheriff. He had five children by first wife : I. Lucy B., b. Nov. 29, 1806 ; m. Norman Jenks. He d., and she lives with a daughter in Van Buren, Ind. II. Grace, b. Aug. 25, 1808; m., 1828, Samuel Stearns ; he d. She lives in Lynn, Mass. III. Ayer,h. Feb. 15, 1810; m., 1830, John Felt; r. Woodstock, Me. IV. Calvin, d. March 10, 1812, a. i day. V. Luther, d. July 21, 1843, a. 30. 396 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (6) 47 48 49 50 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 (47) Ithamar Lawrence settled on the homestead ; m., 1°*, Betsey, dau. of Jacob and Mary Smith Jewell. She d. May 6, 1830, a. 39. Children by first wife : I. Sylvester B., b. Feb. 9, 1813.4- II. Mary Ann, b. June 16, 1814; d. May 7, 1841. HI. John S., h. May 23, i8i6.-|- M., 2**, Mrs. Rebecca Emery, dau. of Col. Josiah and Rebecca (Cutter) Mower, June 11, 1834, ^Y whom he had three children : IV. George F., b. April, 1832 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Ethan and Elizabeth (Blodgett) Cutter ; r. Boston. V. Elizabeth J., b. Jan., 1834: m., 1855, Lewis Glazier ; r. in Ashburnham, Mass. VI. Benjamin F., b. Feb., 1838.4- Ithamar Lawrence d. Jan. 27, 1S50, a. 63. C26) Manasseth Lawrence m., i^*, Dec. 14, 1819, Mary Morse; r. Alden, N. Y. She d. 1852. He m., 2^ Mrs. Mary Abbot ; r. Pembroke, N. Y. Eight chil- dren : I. Emily H., b. Nov. 24, 1820; d. March 23, 1841. II. Mary M., b. June 25, 1822 ; m. Abraham Thomas; d. Oct. 31, 1848. III. Rebecca IF., b. March 23, 1825 ; m., 1846, Hi- ram Root, Mount Morris, Mich. IV. William C.,h. March 12, 1827; m., April 6, 1856, Frances H. Smith ; r. Montrose, Iowa. V. Eunice J., h. Jan. 8, 1829 ; d. Feb. 15, 1852. VI. Cyrus B., b. Nov. 19, 1830 ; m. Nancy Derby ; r. Flint, Mich. VII. Ann E., b. June 19, 1832 ; m. John Torrey ; r. Flint, Mich. VIII. Ellen A., b. June 17, 1835 ; m. John Brookins ; r. Flint. Sylvester B. Lawrence m. Mary R. Emery ; r. Hudson, Mich., where they both d. Nine children : (i) Albert. (2) Charles. (3) Calvin. (4) Loren A. (5) . (6) Henry. (7) Clara F. (8) EffieB. (9) Mary B. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 397 (49) 6i 63 63 (52) 64 John S. Lawrence m Sarah E. Emery; settled on the homestead. He d. April 9, 1876. She d. July 2, 1S73, a. 50. I. Carra JE'., m. Lucius Cutter, q. v. II. Ella F., 111. Albert A. French, q. v. III. Frederick J., m. Clara A. Cutter, dau. of Nehe- miah and Emily Bailey Cutter ; r. on the homestead. One child. Benj. F. Lawrence m. Sarah E., dau. of James D. and Betsey P. (Livermore) Sawyer. One child, — Walter F., b. 1870. Peter Lawrence, b. in Ashby, Mass., May 26, 1768 ; came to Jaffrey about i779 i was appointed post- master in iSoo ; m. Mary Spaulding, of Townsend, Mass. ; re. from Jaftrey in 1801 ; d, April 16, 1827. Six children : (i) Mary, b. May 24, 1795. (2) Frances, b. Nov. 37, 1796. (3) Eliza, b. July 9, 1798. (4) Sumner, b. at Jaflrey, Aug. 27, 1800. (2) LITCH FAMILY. Thomas Litch was b. in L'eland, and came to this country when quite young; settled in Lunenburg, Mass. ; ni. Jane Kennedy ; d. Feb., 1802. He had three children, — Samuel, Betsey, and Samuel. Samuel, his son, m. Betsey . Four children : I. Samuel, b. in Lunenburg, July 9, 1779.-I- H. Betsey, b. March 10, 1781 ; m. Abner Spofford, q. V. in. Thomas, b. July i, 17S1 ; m. twice, and was the parent of a large number of ch., one of whom was a seaman. He d. in Charles- town, Mass. IV. Jonas, re. to Fredonia, N. Y. One ch., a son. Samuel Litch settled in Jaftrey, on lot — , range — , in 1S06 : m., June 13, 1808, Martha, dau. of Lieut. James and Elizabeth (Lacy) Stevens. She d. Dec. 3, 398 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 1841, a. 51 ; he d. July 3, i860, a. 81. At the age of two years he re. with his father to VVinchendon, Mass. When nine years of age, his father was killed by a limb while felling trees. He then went to Weathersfield, Vt. , and lived with his grandfather, and worked on a farm. His means of education were extremely limited. He had no opportunity to attend school, but few books, and no opportunity for study till his day's work was completed, and no light, even then, but the fire, or a torch-light of his own manufacture out of pine knots. With these limited means, by patience and perseverance he made such literary acquirements as to be enabled, at the age of eighteen, to become a public school-teacher. He taught his first school in Winchendon, under the following circumstances : For the first time in his life he attended a district school in Winchendon, and the teacher of that school, failing to give satisfaction, was dismissed, and Mr. Litch had the distinguished honor of being his successor by a vote of the scholars. He afterwards became a distinguished teacher, and was master of his profession. He had a power of govern- ment, and a knowledge of the branches then taught, that but few possessed. For many years he was the leading teacher in town ; taught the school in his own district nineteen years, and the one in the centre of the town a large number, besides schools in other districts. Many of the sons and daughters of JaftVey have attended his schools and received his instruction, and will long remember Master Litch. He was for many years an active member of the superintending school-committee. The first report of that committee on record was signed by Laban Ainsworth, Samuel Litch, and Luke Howe, 1820. We find, in the possession of the family, certifi- cates of his appointments on that committee till 1846. We find, also, a certificate dated, — Winchendon, Jan. 19, 1S03. Thiss may certify that, in the opinion of the sub- scriber, Ens. Samuel Liech is qualified to teach English Grammar, Arithmatic, and Writing, as taugh in com- mon English Schools. Levi Pilsberry, Pastor. Mr. Litch received the commission of ensign from Gov. Strong, of Mass., May 27, 1802. Mr. Litch took a deep interest in the public schools ; wrote many inter- esting essays relating to them, which were read in GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 399 lyceums and other public meetings, — one giving a full account of the early schools, books used, method of teaching, with a description of the early school-houses. He also published school-books, — a primary school geography, an astronomy, and a concise treatise on rhet- oric, a novel thing for that day. He also had a taste for poetic effusions, with which he spiced his essays. In early life he was troubled with an impediment in his speech, which made it impossible to pronounce many words. His father was a cooper ; and one day, while engaged at his trade, he placed him upon a bar- rel and requested him to say boot. He tried, but failed. His father then told him he would give him a pair of boots (a tempting offer in those days) if he would say boot He made the attempt, and, with the greatest effort, succeded ; and he not only obtained a pair of boots, but full power of speech. The impediment was entirely removed. He was the parent of five children: 6 I. Maria Josephine^ b. Sept. 11, 181 1; d. April 22, 1843. 7 II. Louisa Augusta^ b. July 16, 1814; d. Aug. 18, 1819. III. Caroline America^ b. June 23 ; d. Feb. 21, 1853. IV. Almira i., b. May 16, 1827 ; m. Fred. M. Hollingworth ; d. in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 4, 1S63. 10 V. Malvina A., b. March 18, 1833 ; m. Henry Chamberlin, of Holden, Mass., Aug. 18, 1859 ; r. on the homestead. Two ch. : 1. Samuel Litch, b. Aug. 8, 1S60. 2. Martha Stevens, b. March 4, 1861. MARSHALL FAMILY. William Marshall came from Tewksbury, Mass., during the Revolution, and settled on lot i, range 10; m. Esther, dau. of Ebenezer and Esther Jaquith. She d. June 29, 1803, a. 41. He m., 2^, Sarah, dau. of John and Susannah (Hastings) Carter, and widow of Isaac Kimball, of Temple. He d. April 5, 1828, a. 71. She d. April 28, 1852, a. 82. Mr. Marshall was a thrifty farmer, a worthy man, and a good citizen. Eight ch. : I. William, b. Sept. 28, 1783; m. Harring- ton, of Troy ; re. to Greenfield, Mass. ; d. May 19, 1834. Three ch. 400 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (5) 9 lO II 12 •4 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 II. Esther, b. Jan. 7, 17S5 ; m., Sept. 22, 1818, Naomi Spaukiing, of Temple. One son, — Jonathan Spaulding, living in Temple. She d. May 28, 18S0. III. Abigail, b. July 30, 17S7; m. Benj. Davidson; r. Fitzwilliam ; d. there Feb. 5, 1820. Two ch. IV. Abel, b. Aug. 17, 1789.-!- V. Betsey, h. Jan. 3, 1793; m. Winchendon, Mass. ; d. Nine ch. Children by second marriage : VI. Thomas Hastings, b. Dec. 2, 1806; m. Abigail S. Havvkes ; d. Dec. 16, 1872. [See Col- lege Giaduates.] VII. iSusan, b. Dec. 16, 1808 ; m. Lyman Spaulding, q. V. Phineas Ross, of April 20, 1874. Abel Marshall m., i*', Roxana Rice. She d. Nov. 5, 1841, a. 46. M., 2**, Laura A. Pratt, a widow. She d. Aug. 24, 1856, a. 49. He d. Jan. 27, 1871. Six children : I. Sarah a., m. Elisha Chaplin; r. Fitzwilliam. II. Addison A., b. 1827. III. Abby, m., Nov. 26, 1849, Moses Chaplin; r. Fitzwilliam. IV. Betsey, m. A. Haskell, of Troy, Sept. 10, 1852. V. Lydia Ann E., b. 1841. VI. George H., d. July 11, 1864, a. 19 — killed by lightning. VII. Mary, b. 1848. Silas Marshall, brother of William, came to Jaf- frey at an early date. He settled on lot i, range 8 ; was road surveyor in 1779, selectman in 1786, and consta- ble in 1789. It seems quite probable that he left town soon after. He m. Eunice , by whom he had nine children : 1. Silas, b. Aug. 6, 1769. II. Elsie, h. March 22, 1771 ; d. March 4, 1790. III. Mary, b. Jan. 24, 1773. IV. Thaddeus, b. Feb. 5, 1775. V. Hannah, b. Oct. 24, 1776. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 4OI VI. Elizabeth^ b. Nov. 16, 1778. VII. Rhoda, b. Feb. 29, 1780. VIII. Thomas, b. Feb. 16, 1782. IX. John^ b. Mai-ch i, 1785. MATHEWS FAMILY. John Mathews was impressed into the British ser- vice during the Revolution. On his arrival in this country he deserted and joined the American army. After the close of the war he received a pension for mil- itary service. He lived in East JaftVey ; m. Sarah Wesson ; d. June 26, 1822, a. 70. His widow d. Feb. 5, 1845, a. 84. I. John, b. Aug. 5, 1784. II. Isaac, b. Nov. 13, 1790. III. James, b. Feb. 19, 1792. IV. Stephen, b. Feb. 16, 1794. V. William, b. Feb. 24, 1796.-}- VI. Thomas, b. April 2, 1799; m., and r. in Peter- borough in 1844 ; re. West.-j- VII. Ar villa, d. unm. William Mathews m., 1°*, Phebe French ; she d. at Peterborough, Dec. 10, 1835, a. 39. Two infant ch. d. in Peterborough. M., 2"^, Elvira Russell, of Rindge, dau. of Simeon, June 7? 1836. She d. Aug. 12, 1842, a. 35, leaving four children. M., 3**, Sarah Craig, who d. Dec. 13, 1 85 1, a. 39. He r. first in Peterborough, and afterwards in New Ipswich. His three wives lie buried in Peterborough village cemetery, and five ch. : An infant son, d. Oct. 6, 1830, a. i day. A71 infant son, d. April i, 1834, '^- ^ ^'^Y- An iiifant son, d. April 12, 1837, a. 5 weeks. Edxoard, d. Dec. 14, 1840, a. i yr., 7 mos., 21 days. Henry, d. Feb. 24, 1842, a. 6 mos., 4 days. Eliza Jane, b. 1819; m. James Butler, who d. Sept. 6,1871,3.59. Three children: (i) Hat- tie G.,b. 1S55; (2) Flora T., b. 1S60; (3) Alfred, b. 1865. Thomas Mathews, a shoemaker by trade, r. in Pe- terborough till 1844, when he re. to Council Bluffs, la. 27 402 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. He m. Mercy . Four o f liis child ren d. in Peter- boroug h: 9 I. Horace W., d. Dec. 12, 1831, a . 3 yrs ., 6 mos. lO II. Lucy H., d. Sept. 26 , 1831, a. I y»' •'4 mos. II III. Francis W. , d. Apri 1 17, 1838, a. I yr . 12 IV. /Sally Eliza ^ d.July 25/1841,3. 2 yrs., 3 mos. MAYNARD FAMILY. John Maynard, the emigrant, with his son John, settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1630. John, Jr., was 8 years of age at the time of his arrival. He m., 1656, Mary Gates, and in 1660 settled in Marlborough, Mass., and became a leading man in that place. She d., and he m., 2*^, 1675, Sarah B. Keyes ; had ten children. David, his son, b. 1660, m. Hannah Nair ; had eleven chil- dren. Jesse, his son, m. Fhebe Fisk ; had three children. Lemuel Maynard, his son, m. Sarah Craig; settled first in Townsend, Mass. ; re. to JaflVey about 1785 > had eight children : I. Jesse^ settled on the homestead ; he wasb. Feb. 9, 1765. His father d. May 4, 1808, a. 65. In 1815 he re. to Burlington, Vt., where he d. His mother d. at the same place. While in JaftVey he was for a time deacon of the church. 3 II. e/b/m, re. to Springfield, Vt., and d. there. 4 III. Amos, re. to Madison, N. Y. 5 IV. Par^-er, b. July 31, 1769.-]- 6 V. Lemuel, b. May 10, 1773 ; a MethocHst minister ; lived and d. in Surry, N. H. VI. Moses, b. Oct. 10, 1775 ; re. to Madison, N. Y. Dr. Edward Maynard, of Washington, D. C, is his son. VII. Elias, b. Oct. 11, 1779; re. to Boston and d. there. VIII. Hannah, b. Oct. 11, 1779; married Ebenezer Thompson, and d. in Boston. (5) Parker Maynard (Capt.) settled on lot 19, range 3, now (1876) in possession of Philip Hahn. He m., GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 403 June 6, 1796, Peggy, dau. of Capt. John and Agnes (Miller) Taggart, of Sharon. Capt. Maynard was a highly-respected citizen, and for a time held the office of captain of the JafFrey and Rindge cavalry company with distinguished honor. He d. May 20, 1836, a. 66. She d. Nov. r i, 1S50, a. 75. They had eight children : 10 I. Sally, b. Oct. 4, 1799 ; m. Capt. Abijah Pierce, q. V. 11 II. John Miller, b. May 12, 1801 ; m. Harriet H, BuUard. of Mason. He d. at Lowell, Mass. He was a prominent railroad man. Five children: (i) John Edward, b. Nov. 22. 1829. (2) Julia Ann, b. June 21, 1832. (3) Ellen A., b. Feb. 2, 1834. (4) George P., b. April 29, 1838. (5) Harriet A., b. March 28, 1846. 12 III. Lucinda, b. Feb. 6, 1804; d. Aug. 6, 1811. 13 IV. Elvira, b. July 23. 1806; m., i'', Ezra Jewett. q. V. ; m., 2^, Capt. Abijah Pierce, q. v. 14 V. Jesse, b. Aug. 21, 1809; m., April 23, 1835, Augusta M. Marshall, of Dublin ; re. to Waukegan, 111. Children: (i) Sarah J. (2) John H. (3) Augusta M. (4) Mar shall P. 15 VI. Parker, b. May 27, 1812; d. March 10, 1847. 16 VII. Lucinda, b. June 2, 1816; m., Oct. 6, 1835, William E. Mansur, of New Ipswich ; re. to Chicago, 111. Children: (i) James P. (2) Helen M. (3) Abby L. (4) Maria E. (5) Frank R. 17 VIII. Eliza, b. May 9, 1818 ; m., Feb. 5, 1840, Edwin F. Perkins, of Jaffrey. Children: (i) Ade- line E., b. July, 1841. (2) Ella M. MELVILLE FAMILY. Jonas Minot Melville, son of Josiah and Sarah (Minot) Melville, was b. in Nelson, N. H., in 1791 ; re. to Jaffrey about 1822 ; was a tax-payer that year. He settled at Jaffrey village, now East Jaffrey, and built a house east of the river, and after- wards the stone mansion now the summer residence of Hon. L. R. Cutter, of Boston. The name of the family was origi- nally Melvin. In 1811 it was changed, by an act of the legisla- ture, to Melville. He was the eldest of four children, — Jonas M., Lydia, Josiah, and Henry. His father d. in 181S, Jan. 8, 404 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. a. 60. Mis mother d. July 30, iSii, a. 49. His father left a large estate to be divided among his chililren. This inheritance enaliletl him to become a man of power and inHuence, antl to engage in any important public enterprise that was presented. In the religions society he was an active member. He lent his aid in the erection of the brick church in the centre of the town ; was the principal leader in making an enlargement of the same. He also took a deep interest in the growth and pros])erity of the village now East JalVrey. He was instrumental in the erection of the Second Congregational meeting-house in that place, and the formation of that society and church. He was also an ac- tive leader in procuring a charter for an academy, and contributed very liberally in aid thereof, for which it was named Melville academy, in honor of the ilonor. He took a deep interest in the railroad enterprise, and was among the lirst who took stock in the Cheshire Railroad. He was one of the active men in procuring the Monadnock Bank charter, and was one of its directors. May i, 1S23, he m. Betsey, dau. of David and Charlotte (Blodgett) Lacy. ' In 1S59, ^^^ ^'*^' *^ Pepperell, Mass., and d. there. His wife d. Alay 30, 1S63, *^' 74- ■'^'^ children. MILLIKEN FAMILY. In 1774, Samuel and William Milliken signed a petition against the annexation of a part of Jatlrey to Peterborough and Sharon. They afterwards became residents — one of Peter- borough, and the other of Sharon. Alexander Milliken came from , and set- tled in JaftVey, on lot 5, range 5. He m. Betty Emery, dau. of Dea. Daniel Emery; d. Oct. 9, iSii, a. 56. His widow d. May 9, 1823, a. 64. He built the large brick tavern near the base of the Grand Monadnock mountain, — the first brick house, probably, built in town, — and was proprietor of the same till the time of his death in iSii. His son John remained in possession of the premises till the death of his mother in 1823. The property was then sold to Tilly Whitcomb, and by him, in 1825, to John Felt. They had ch. per town record : I. JoJm^ b. Dec. 27, 17S1 ; d. March 10, 17S3. II, Molly, b. April 24, 17S4; m. Moses Hill. III. Betty, b. Nov. 29, 1786; m., May 20, 1S03, Jona. Gilmore. (5) (3) lO II 12 H 15 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. ^^ IV. John^ b. Feb. 26, 1790.-I- V. Amasa, b. Oct. 20, 1792; m. Sophia Hill. Two children : (i) Arvilla. (2) Louisa. VI. Alexander^ d. 1796' VII. Nahhy. d. iSoo. viii. Nobby, b. 1S02 ; m. Edward Bailey, q. v. John Milliken (Capt.) m. Dolly Stevens, June, iSio. In 1825 he re. to Vermont; from thence to Mich, and 111. Three children : (i) James, b. 1816. (2) Charles S., b. 1819. (3) George, d. MOWER FAMILY. Thomas Mower came from Topsfield, Mass., to Jaf- frey, previous to 1780. He was one of a committee to procure preaching in 1780. He m. Mary Kenney, and d. Oct. 9, 1798, a. 62. His widow d. Feb. 15, 1816, a. 86. Children : I. Thomas, m. Phebe . One child, — Ezra T., d. July 16, 1793, a. 6 weeks. II. Josiah, b. 1769.4- III. Deborah, m., June 4, 178S, Hezekiah Chaplin. IV. Betsey, m., 1789, Towns. V. Lois, m., 1789, Samuel Jaquith. VI. Sally, m., May 18, 1794, David Gilmore. VII. Polly, m. May 28, iSoi, Joel Wright. VIII. Hannah, m. David Chadwick. JosiAH Mower (Col.) m. Rebecca, dau. of John and Rebecca (Browning) Cutter, of New Ipswich. He d. May 5, 1S52, a. 83. She d. Sept. 22, 1S67, a. 93. He was a captain in the militia, and colonel of the Twelfth Regiment. I. Rebecca, b. March 7, 1799; m. Zachariah Em- ery, q. v. M., 2**, Ithamar Lawrence, q. v. II. Josiah, b. May i, i8oo.-f- III. Gilman, b Feb. i, i8oi.-|- IV. Liberty, b. Jan. 21, 1803.-]- V. Watson, b. June i, 1806; drowned while bath- ing, near Boston. VI. Sally, b. April 7, 1808 ; m. Dexter Jewell, q. v. 406 (lO i6 17 iS 19 (12) 20 21 22 23 24 (13) 25 26 27 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. JosiAH Mower (Dea.) m. Louisa Severance. Four children : I. Nahum W., b. 1829; m. Lydia A. Three ch., (i) Clara A. ; (2) Frank W. ; (3) Mary L. II. Thomas S. III. Enos. IV. William H. Oilman Mower (Col.) m. Roxana, dau. of Jacob and Mary Smith Jewell. She d. Feb. 22, 1873, a. 72. I. Sophia JR., h. April 13, 1826 ; m. Amos E. Fer- ry, 1846. II. Sarah A., b. Jan. 20, 1829; m., i^', Joseph Whitney ; m., 2*^, Nathaniel Holmes. HI. Mary E., b, Sept. 4, 1830; d. March 14, 1842. IV. Oilman J.,h. Oct. 3, 1S32 ; m. V. Calvin A., b. March 23, 1834; d. March 14, 1842. Liberty Mower (Dea.) m., i^', Dec. 29, 1829, Emily, dau. of Samuel and Lucy (Emery) Buss, who d. July 14, 1845. a. 41; m., 2"^, June 3, 1846, Mary Ann, her sister. Children by second marriage: I. Ellen -£*,, b. May 16, 1847 ; m., Dec. 31, 1874, William Moore, of Peterborough. II. Samuel H., b. July 31, 1S49. III. Willie e/i, b. June 23, 1855. McNEE FAMILY. William McNee was b. in Ireland, 1711 : m. Mary Esless Brownly, and emigrated to this country ; settled in Peter- borough, and d. Dec. 23, 1789, a. 78. His wife d. Oct., 1759, a. 48. He m., 2"^, widow Sarah Smith Bell, who d. Jan. 31, 1814, a. 98. Four children by first wife. His son, William, m. Betsey Russell ; settled in Dublin ; re. to Peterborough in 1765 or '66; settled on the homestead, and, like his father, was elected deacon of the church. He d. April 13, 1810; shed. 1815 ; nine children. The name McNee was changed to Nay, as it appears on the records. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 407 William Nay (third gen.), b. Ma , 1763 ; m. Lydia Sawyer. In 1798 lie i"^- to JaftVey, and settled in the south part of the town ; paid taxes there from 1798 to 1804, inclusive. Two or three of his children were b. there. He returned to Peterborough, and d. June i, 1S13, a. 50. She d. Aug. 28, 1850, a. 82. I. William^ b. 17SS; m. Rebecca Foster; re. to Indiana ; twelve ch. II. Ly(Ua,h. July 15, 1791 ; m. Walter Gilbert; d. N. Y.;i856, a. 65. III. Samtiel., b. Feb. 24, 1794; m. Mary Felt. IV. Asdal, b. March i3, 1797; m. Polly Milliken ; re. to N. Y., and d. Oct., 1830, a. 33. V. Cynthia^ b. Feb. 5, 1799; m. Cyrus Frost, q. V. VI. Gardner, b. Aug. 9, iSoi ; m. Amelia Symonds ; r. 111. VII. Arvilla, b. Nov. 28, 1804; m. N. B. Buss; d. vni. Jefferson, b. May 26, 1S08 ; m. Sally Loring ; he d. 1837. Samuel Nay (Maj.) settled in Sharon ; was a promi- nent leading man in that place ; was moderator of their town-meeting, town-clerk, six years representative to the General Court, a member of the Constitutional Con- vention in 1850, was county commissioner, and justice of the peace. He m., i^', April 13, 1815, Mary, dau. of Oliver Felt, who d. Dec. 24, 1861, a. 69. He m., 2**, April 2, 1863, Mrs. Elizabeth (Flint) Gray, b. in Han- cock. L Harriet, b. Dec. 24, 1815 ; m. Horatio N. Por- ter ; one child, — Samuel N. Porter, d. d. s. ; r. Peterborough. M., 2*^, John Bullard ; one child; d. II. Samuel, b. May 19, 1818 ; m. Nancy Vose ; r. Antrim. III. if/ary, b. July 10, 1820; m. Samuel Jaquith, q. V. IV. Marshall, b. April 2, 1823 ; m. Sarah Wells. V. Sarah, b. June 20, 1827 ; m. S. I. Vose ; d. Oct. 25, 1875. VI. Henry H., b. Sept 4, 1832 ; m. Mary J. Shedd, dau. of George Shedd ; d. Aug. 23, 1858, a. 26. She d. March 6, 1867, a. 28.' 4o8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 lO 12 NEWELL FAMILY. Jacob Newell was b. in Scituate, Mass. ; came to JaftVey, and m. Keziah L., dau. of Whitcomb and Keziah Loring Powers. Before marriage lie led a sea- faring life, and was taken prisoner by the British in the War of 1S12. He d. March 4, 1834, ^- 74- ^^'s widow d. Sept. 22, 1872, a. 84. Children : I. Mary A.^ b. May 8, 1814; m. Dexter Knowl- ton, q. V. II. Elizabeth, r. Jaftrey. III. Hannah, m. Timo. G. Temple ; r. Milford. IV. George, d. Dec. 9, 1S36, a. 18. V. Jane, b. Jan. 17, 1820; m. John Stone; r. in Peterborough. VI. James, m. Elizabeth Wheeler ; r. in Sharon. VII. Jacob, m. Deborah Emery, of Rindge ; d. in the army, at Baton Rouge, La., April 5, 1863, a 40. Children : (i) George. (2) Frances H., d. April 6, 1856, a. 6 w., 4 days. (3) Henry C, d. Nov. 6, 1865, a. 8 years, 8 mos. VIII. Josiah P., m. Catherine Porter; d. IX. WilUatn, m. Jane Deeth ; re. to Vermont; in Co. H., U. S. Sharpshooters ; pro. to cap- tain. X. Harriet A., d. Sept. 19, 1854. ^- ^S- James Newell, a brother of Jacob, d. Dec. 2, 1830. His daughter m. Dea. Nathan Moors, of Sharon, N. H. NUTTING FAMILY. Simeon Nutting, an early settler, was road survey- or in 1779; he settled on lot 22, range 8, afterwards owned by Benjamin Nutting, Benjamin came from Groton, Mass., previous to 1 781 ; was chosen field-driver that year. He settled first on lot 13, range 10 ; sold the same to Isaac Bailey, and re. to lot 22, range 8, where he lived till his death, about 1804. ^^ "''•' ^''' Lucy Wyman, who d. about 1791 ; m., 2**, widow Nathan Boynton, Oct. 14, 1792. She d. Jan., 1847, a. 89. 9 lO (4) (5) (6) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 4O9 Children by first wife : I. Benjamin^ m., May 22, 1803, Betsey Hath- orn. II. tTonas, b. 1775.-I- III. Joshua^ b. lySi.-j- IV. Iteuben.-\- V. Betsey, b. 1789; d. Nov. 14, 1809, ^- ^o yrs., 2 mos. Children by second wife : VI. Jeremiah, b. March 7, 1795 ; d. Aug. 17, 1857. VII. Sally, b. May 27, 1798. VIII, Lucinda, b. June 12, 1800. Jonas Nutting settled on lot 17, range 5 ; m. Jane, dau. of Lieut. William and Jane (Wright) Turner. She d. Nov. 13, 1814, a. 41. M., 2**, Nancy Kittredge, who d. Jan. 19, 1847, a. 66. He d. Feb. 26, 1822, a. 47. Children by first wife : (i) Lvcy. (2) Rachel. (3) William T. (4) Eliza Jane. (5) Joshua. (6) Emily. (7) Jonas. Children by second wife ; (8) Charles. (9) John. (10) Harriet. (11) Hosea. Joshua Nutting m. Martha French, who d. Aug. 27, 1861, a. 80. He d. March 10, 1844, a. 63. Five children : (i) Martha. (2) Mary Ann., m. Dexter Patrick; d. Oct. 28, 1845, a. 28. (3) Sally. (4.) Lo- rinda, b. 1822. (5) Buke II., b. 1827. Reuben Nutting m. Dec. 4, 1808, Sarah Walton, of Rindge, b. July 13, 1788; settled on the homestead of his father; re. to New Ipswich about 1836. Chil- dren b. in Jaftrey : (i) Isabella, b. Sept. 28, 1809. (2) Benjamin, d. Sept. 6, 181 2, a. 9 days. (3) Rebecca IF., b. June I, 1818; d. Sept. 29, 1819. (4) Sarah R., b. April 4, 1821. 4IO HISTORY OF JAFFREY. II 13 H 15 William Turner Nutting, son of Jonas, m. Grata . He tl. Sept. 8, 1869, a. 67. She d. May 6, 1879, a. 68. (i) Caroline, b. Jan. 12, 1834; m. Oren Prescott, q. V. (2) Cordelia, b. 1835 ; d. March 22, i860. (3) Hannah, d. Nov. 9, 1839, ^' ^4 mos., 8 chiys. (4) Alonzo, d. Jan. 25, 1843, a. 140105. (5) Alonzo, b. 1844; d. Nov. 12, i860, a. 16. (6) Jonas, b. 1848; d. April 6, 1852. Charles Nutting, son of Jonas, m. Nancy S. Towns, b. 1815. (i) Adeline M.,h. 1839; d. 1867. (2) Charles ZT., b. 1841 ; d. April 24, 1875. (3) Adaliza X., b. 1843 ; m. Roderick R. P. Adams, Sept. 25, 1 86 1. (4) Edward, b. 1S44. (5) George^ b, 1847. (6) Arabella, \i. 1848; m. Edwin J. Russell, of Rindge, July 3, 1866. (7) Martha C, b. 1851 ; m. Xenophon Shedd, Jan. 5, 1S74. (8) Ella A., b. 1857. (9) Fred H.,h. 1859; d. Nov. 30, 1875. Luke H. Nutting, son of Joshua ; m. Mary Ann Upton. {\) Frank n.,h. \^^^. {2) Fred H.,h. 1^60. (3) Mary E., b. 1864. (4) Willie E.,h. 1865. (5) Alice P., b. 1870. Isaac Nutting came from Groton, Mass. ; paid taxes. in 1803. He settled on lot 20, range 6, which he purchased of Nathan Cutter ; sold the same to Jonas Pierce, and bought the farm of Josiah Priest, lot x8, range i. He was drowned in the Frost pond while bathing, July 10, 1825, a. 44. He m. Betsey, dau. of Ebenezer Hathorn, who d. May 18, 184^^, a. 63. Nine children : I. Ebenezer, h. May 22, 1806; m. Sophia Byam Gilmore ; d. in Worcester, Mass. ; two chil- dren. i6 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 (18) 24 25 26 27 28 29 (21) 30 31 32 33 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, 4I I II. Hepsey Elizabeth, b. July 22, 181 2; m., i'', Charles Blodgett ; m., 2^ Lyman Percival. He d. at Peterborough, Aug, 10, 1877, a. 78. Four children, III. Mary, b. Aug, 23, 1813; m, Jacob Bohonnon ; r. Danbury ; d, Dec. 4, 1866, IV. Abel, b. March 13, 1815.-4- V. Frances, b. June 13, 1817 ; m. Edward, son of Ralph Emery. VI. Susan, b, Dec. 30, 1S18; m, Patrick Daly, VII. Isaac, b. May 25, 1820; m. Susan Marvle.-|- VIII. William, b. Sept, 4, 1S22, IX. Asa, b. Feb. 23, 1824; m. Maria Moore. One child, — Marian A., b, 1S54 ; m,, Nov. 3i, 1878, Wallace Clarke, of Peterborough. Abel Nutting m, Mary A, Turner, of Peterborough. He d, March 8, 1848, She d, Aug, 8, 1S47, a, 33. Six children : I. 3fary (7., b, Aug. 13, 1835; m., i'*, Benjamin Swan; m,, 2'^, Joseph Holliston. II. DcMd, b. 1837. III. Sarah Jane, b. Feb. 20, 1839 ? "''•' ^"j James Merrill ; m., 2^, George Prescott. IV. Edward D., d. Jan, 20, 1864, a. 21. V. Abby Ann, m. John Miles. VI. Abel. Isaac Nutting m. Susan Marvle. He d. Sept. 18, 1875. Four children : I. Sarah C, b. 1844. II. George II., h. 1S46. III. Adelbert. IV. Marcellus, b. 1849. OBER FAMILY. Samuel Ober was an inhabitant of Jaffrey during the Revolution, and was a soldier in that war. He r. in District No. 6. In 1784 his name was on the roll of the miHtia, and he was highway surveyor the same year. He m, Hannah , and left a birth record of four children : 412 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 2 I 3 II 4 III 5 IV Hannah, b. April 17, 1779. Saninel, h. Jan. 26, 17S1. Jxindal, b. Feb. 15, 17S3. Po/Zy, b. April 30, 1787. OSGOOD FAMILY. William Osgood was a soldier of tlie Revolution ; on the roll of the militia in 17S4; held town office in 17S6. OAKS FAMILY. Beriah Oaks, b. in Massachusetts in 1797 ; came to JaflVey about 1849; paid tax that year. He re. on the Davis place, lot 1, range 2, west of the mountain ; left town 1853 or '54. He m. Polly , and had chil- dren : I. Appleton, b. in Vermont, 1S27. 11. Joel, b. in Vermont, 1832. III. J/trrj/, b. in Mass., 1835. IV. Amanda, h. in Mass., 1837. OLMSTEAD FAMILY. Henuv Olmstead paid poll tax in 1S52, '53, and 54- O'BRIEN FAMILY. Pktkr O'BiuEN paid tax in 185 1 ; Edmund in 1S57. John O'Neal, Patrick Osha, 1S57. PAGE FAMILY. David Page was b. in Bedford, Mass., Feb. 7, 1766 ; came to JatVrey about 1S02. He was a merchant, and kept a store in Jat^rey in 1S03, '4, and '5. It was on the site of the brick church in the centre of the town, and was burnt in 1S05 or '6. In 1808 he re. to Middle- bury, Vt., and in 1828 to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he d. April 5, 1S56, a. 90. While in JafVrey he was a very 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 413 prominent leading man ; was moderator of their town- meeting, town-clerk, selectman, and representative. He also held the office of major in he Twelfth Regi- ment N. H. Militia. He m. Elizabeth Minot, dau. of Minot, of Concord, Mass., by whom he had I. Elizabeth, b. March 16, 1792. II. Abigail, b. Sept. 26, 1793. III. David, b. July 8, 1795. IV. 3Iary Minot, b. Aug. 19, 1796; d. Nov. i. 1796. V. William, b. Sept. 16, 1798. VI. An infant son, d. March 27, iSoo. . VII. Thomas B., b. March 30, 1S02, VIII. Christopher, b. Jan. 13, 1804. Jonathan Page, son of Elias, b. in Rindge, March 6, i8i6, m. Lorinda H. Porter ; settled in Jaftrey, on lot 4, range 10, in 1839. Ten children : (i) Mary Ann, h. 1845. (2) Olive M.,h. 1847. (3) Jane A., b. 1848. (4) Lydia M., b. 1850. (5) Harvey, b. 1853. (6) Harriet, b. 1856. (7) Adeline, b. 1859. ^^) Lizzie, b. 1861. (9) John, b. 1864. (10) Clara M., b. 1869. PARKER FAMILY. Abraham Parker, a native of Marlborough, in Wiltsclaim, England, came to this country and was a resident of Woburn, Mass., in 1644. Nov. 18, in that year, he m. Rose \\'hitlock. He was admitted a free- man in 1645 ; re. to Chelmsford, Mass., about 16153, with three brothers, Jacob, James, and Joseph, and d. there, Aug. 12, 1685. His wife survived him, and d. Nov. 30, 1691. Children: I. Anna, or Hanna, b. at Woburn, Oct. 29, 1645 ; m. Nathaniel Blood. II. John, b. Oct. 30, 1647 ; m. Mary Danforth ; d. April 14, 1699. 4 III. Abraham, b. March 8, 1650; d. Oct. 20, 1651. 5 IV. ^i.bi'aham, b. Aug., 1652 ; m. Martha Lemmons. 6 V. Mary, b. at Chelmsford, Nov. 15, 1655, m. James Parker. 414 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II (7) 12 H 15 16 17 18 (14) 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 VI. Ifoses, b. about 1657 ' """• Abigail Hildreth ; d. Oct. 12, 1732.4- VII. Tsaac,h. Sept. 13, 1660; in. Esther Fletcher; d. Feb. 22, 1 688 or '9. VIII. Elizabeth^ b. April 10, 1663 ; m. James Pierce ; d. March 5, 1688. IX. Jjydia^ b. Feb. 7, 1665 ; m. John Kidder. X. Jacob, b. March 24, 1669. Moses Parker m. Abigail Hildreth. Children: I. Abigail, b. May 8, 1685 ; m. Benj. Adams. II. 3Ioses, d. July 28, 1702. III. Aaron, h. April 9, 1689; m, i", Abigail Adams ; 2*^, Dorothy Fletcher ; d. Dec. 19, I775-+ IV. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 26, 1691 ; m. Ebenezer Par- ker. V. Joseph, b. March 25, 1694; d. April 22, 1738. He was lieutenant of a snow-shoe company, formed in 1724 to operate against the Indians ; and was the father of Lt. Col. Moses Parker, who was mortally wounded at Bunker Hill, and d. a prisoner in Boston. VI. Benjamin, b. Ajiril 14, 1696. VII. Mary, b. Sept. 6, 1698 ; m. Benj. Chamberlain. Aaron Parker m. Abigail Adams. Children by i'' wife : I. Aaron, b. Aug. 19, 1713 ; m. Mary ; d. Sept. 30, 1762. II. Samuel, b. Jan. i, 171 7 ; m., i'', Sarah Fletcher ; 2^, Mary (Proctor) Robbins ; 3'^, Mrs. Fletcher; d. Aug. 7, 1795.-}- III. Moses, h. May 16, 1718. IV. Abigail, b. Oct. 17, 1720; m. John Senter. V. Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1723 ; m. Oliver Proctor. VI. Lucy, b. Jan. 1 1, 1725 or '6 ; m. Stephen Corey. VII. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 8, 172S; m. Gershom Proc- tor. VIII. Isaac, b. May 20, 1731. IX. Joseph, b. Jan. 2, 1735. Ch. by 3*^ wife, Dorothy Fletcher: X. Esther, b. July 4, 1738. (20) 29 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 (36) 39 4o 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 (41) 48 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 415 Samuel Parker m. Sarah Fletcher. Children by I'' wife : I. Samuel, b. Feb. 27, 1739; d. in Maine. II. Sarah, b. Oct. 23, 1740; m. Solomon Button. III. Joseph, b. May 20, 1742 ; m. Susanna Fletcher ; d. Sept., 1807. IV. Silas, h. Jan. 23, 1743 ; d. at Mt. Desert. V. Leonard, b. Nov. 10, 1745 ; d. at Holland Pur- chase. Children by 2^ wife, Mary (Proctor) Robbins. VI. Jfary, b. Feb. 14, 1749; m. Thomas Wright; d. July 16, 1823. VII. Jonathan, b. March 28, 175 1 ; unm. ; d. March 20, 1820. VIII. Ahel, b. ISIarch 25, 1753 ; m. Edith Jewett. He d. May 2, 1831. Slied.Oct. 23, 1848, a. 96. IX. Elizabeth, b. May 9, 1755 ; m. Tenney. X. Lydia, b. July 13, 1757 ; unm. ; d. Feb. 7, 1774. Abel Parker m. Edith Jewett. Nine children : I. Edith, b. July 20, 1778; d. Feb. 23, 1784. IL Ahel, b. Sept. 18, 17S0; unm. ; d. Oct. 28, 1807. III. Edmund, b. Feb. 7, 1783 ; m., i^', Susan Cut- ter ; she d. July 28, 1826. M., 2^, Sarah King Leland Boynton. He d. Sept. 5, 1856.-!- [See Coll. Graduates.] IV. Silas, b. Feb. 11, 1785 ; d. March 21, 1785. V. Asa, b. March 12, 1786; m. Fanny Jewett.-|- VI. Isaac^ b. April 14, 1788 ; m. Sarah Ains- worth.-|- VII. Calvin, b. July 23, 1790; d. Aug. 17, 1790. VIII. Luther, b. Oct. 10, 1791 ; d. Oct. 25, 1791. IX. Joel, b. Jan. 25, 1795 ; m. Mary Morse Parker; d. Aug. 17, 1875. Three ch., two living. [See Coll. Graduates.] Edmund Parker m., i^', Susan, dau. of Joseph and Rachel (Hobart) Cutter. Ch. by 1^' wife : I. Charles Edmund, b. Aug. 14, 1813 ; graduated at Dartmouth college in 1834 ; m. d. at Yale college in 1837; '^•' ^*'' Sarah E. Parker; 2**, Anna Pierce ; r. Beardstown, 111. 4i6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 49 51 (43) 52 53 54 55 56 II. Mary Ann m. John Prentice ; r. Chicago, III. III, William d, at Amherst, Jan. 4, 1840, a. 19. IV. One ch. by 2**, wife ; d. young. Asa Parker m. Fanny, dau. of Dr. Stephen and Nancy Colburn Jewett, of Rindge, b. March 6, 1788. He settled on the homestead of his father. On his death he re. to the centre of the town ; and d. Oct. 15, 1833. His widow d. Jan. 4, 1866. Mr. Parker was a prominent man. In his early days he was a distin- guished school-teacher; held the commission of captain in the Jaflrey and Rindge cavalry company ; held many important town offices ; was a member of the state senate in i826-'7- He was afterwards appointed reg- ister of probate for the county of Cheshire, which office he held till the time of his death. He was a man highly esteemed and respected by his fellow-citizens. Five children : I. Calvin Je^cett, b. Jan. 18, 1809; m. Abigail Kendall, of Dublin. She d. He d. in Bos- ton, April 4, 1859. Children: (i) Joel K., m. Clara C. Willard ; one ch. (2) Adaline S. (3) Mary L., m. Joel Bullard, May, 1866 ; d. Sept. 23, 1866, at Worcester, Mass. (4) Flora E., m. Worcester, 1865 ; d. July 25, 1866. II. Clem€7itine, b. Jan. 4, 181 1 ; m. Daniel B. Cut- ter, M. D., q. V. III. Adaline, b. Sept. 15, 1S15 ; m., 1835, Milton Kilburn, of Fitzwilliam. He d. Feb. 16, 1863. Children: (i) John Wood, b. in Rockford, 111. ; d. Oct. 22, 1851. (2) Sarah Frances, d. 1858. (3) George. (4) Henry. (5) Adda. (6) Clara A. (7) Charles. (8) Asa. IV. George /S., h. Feb. i, 1820; d. in the army at Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 18, 1862. Two children : (i) Charles F. (2) Theodore H. V. Columbus C, b. Oct. 24, 1833 ; m., 1853, Fran- ces, dau. of James and Chloe (Murdock) Wilson, of Royalston, Mass. ; settled, first, in Rockford, 111., second, in Winchendon ; a merchant in that place. Two children : (i) Ida Frances, b. at Rockford, June 3, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 417 1855; graduated at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, i8'j^\ has since '^een a teacher in Wellesley Female College, Wellesley, Mass. (2) Mary Edith, b. June 12, 1S64. Isaac Parker m., Nov. 17, 181 2, Sally, dau. of Rev. Laban and Mary (Minot) Ainsworth. She d. May 27, 1857. He d. May 27, 1858. They had eight children, — four sons and four daughters. I. Sarah M. m. Dea. Ezra Farnsworth, of Groton, Mass. ; r. Boston, where she d. 11. William M. m. and d. III. -£(?WJarf?^ graduated at Dartmouth college in 1S46 ; M. D., Jefferson Medical College. IV. Edith, m. Ellery wStedman, m. d. V. Henry 31., d. ; was a lawyer by profession ; r. Boston. VI. Isabel m. Rev. George A. Oviat. VII. Francis J. was a colonel in the rebel war. VIII. Mary Samuel Parker was an early settler; b. in Groton, Mass. ; came from New Ipswich to Jaffrey ; settled on lot 19, range 3, afterwards the fiirm of Capt. Parker Maynard. He m., i^ Abiah Cook ; m., 2\ Mrs. Sarah Howe, April 15, 1792, mother of Dr. Adonijah Howe. She d. Dec. 30, 1795, a. 59. He d. Nov. 26, 1806, a. 77- Ch. by first wife : I. Samuel m. Sarah Bullard, of Dublin. II. Abigail m. Ebenezer Champney, of New Ips- wich. III. Asa, b. 1757 ; m. Lucy Gould, dau. of 01iver.+ IV. Eunice m. Eli Ames, of Groton. V. Ebenezer m. Lydia Richardson, of Groton ; left town in 1800. VI. Phebe m. Benj. Bancroft, of Rindge. Four ch. VII. Daniel m. Jenny Cochran, of Peterborough ; re. to Waifsfield, Vt., thence to Brookfield, Vt. ; left Jaffrey in iSoo. VIII. Amos m. Ruth ; d. Feb. 27, 1797, a. 26. IX. Nathan, unm. X. Mercy m. Benj. Champney, of New Ipswich. XI. Lucy d., a. 19. 28 4i8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, (68) ! Asa Parker m. Lucy, dau. of Oliver and Mary (Stockwell) Gould. He d. April 13, 1838. She d. Nov. 8, 1844, a. 80. 77 I. Asa, b. at Jaftrey ; re. to Cuba, W. T. ; d. 1819. 78 II. Oliver, b. ; re. to Baltimore, Md. 79 III. Nathan, b. 1794; re. to Baltimore; d. 1851. 80 IV. Abner Howe, b. 1796 ; re. to Guiana, S. A. 81 V. Lncy, b. 1798; r. Jaffrey, 1873. 82 VI. Abigail Champney, b. 1797 ; d. 1859. 83 vii. Mary Stockwell, b. 1801 ; d. 1841. 84 VIII. Eliza, b. 1S03 ; r. Jaffrey, 1873. 85 IX. Abiah CooJc, b. 1808; d. 1873, 86 X. Edxoin Lewellyoi, b. iSii ; m. Cassandra Lews- dale ; re. to Baltimore, Md. ; d. 1868. HENRY PAYSON. Henry Payson, son of Rev. Seth Payson, d. d., of Rindge, was b. March 22, 1792; m., Jan. 20, 1821, Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel and Sarah (Wyman) Cutter, b. at Bolton, Mass., Nov. 5, 1792. He came to Jaffrey in 1815 ; opened a store under the firm name of Wilder & Payson, in the building then known as the Thorndike store, now the dwelling-house of Dr. Phelps. Li 1817 the firm was changed to H. Payson & Co., which con- tinued in trade till 1824, when he re. to Boston. He was highly esteemed as a citizen, and was the leading trader in town. He was for many years town-clerk. While in Boston he was elected deacon of the Old South Church. He re. from Boston to New York city ; d. June 14, 1859, a. 67. Mrs. Payson r. with her dau., Mrs. Ayers, at Galesburg, 111., in 1871. Two ch. : 2 I. /Sarah Cutter, b. July 2, 1822 ; m. Nelson Ayers, of Galesburg, 111. 3 II. George Phillips, b. March 29, 1827 ; m. Abbie Harris ; r. in Brooklyn, N. Y. PERKINS FAMILY. Joseph Perkins (Capt.) came from Methuen, Mass., to Jaffrey in 177^ i settled on lot 2, range 9 ; m. Ruth He d. Jan. 28, 1821, a. 77. She d. Oct. 23, 1815, a. 74. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 419 I. Moses, b. 1769; m. Rhoda Spoftbrd.-j- II. Polly, b. 1771 ; m. Oliver Bail^^y, q. v. III. Robinson m. Peddy. Children: (i) Jared, b. Feb. 12, 1793; (2) Lucinda, b. June 14, 1796; (3) John, b. Sept. 16, 1801. IV. Edward, b. 1777.-I- V. John. VI. Elizabeth. VII. Joseph. vm. Ruth, b. Nov, 16, 1782 ; m. John Stone. Moses Perkins m., i'', Rhoda, dau. of Dea. Eleazer and Mary (Flint) Spoftbrd, Nov. 6, 1793. She d. at New Ipswich. He m., z^, Mercy , who d. Feb. 28, 1865, aged 86. He d. at Jaffrey March 27, 1854, a. 85. Eleven children : I. Mary, b. March 24, 1795 ; d. Oct. 29, 1S31. II. Moses S., b. Feb. i, 1797.-)- III. Rhoda, b. Dec. 26, 1798; m. March 10, 1851, Aaron Hodkins. IV. Harriet, b. Aug. 23, 1800; d. Nov. 17, 1802. v. Eleazer, b. Jan. 25, 1803 ; m. Mary A. Law- rence ; d. March 11, 1837. VI. Harriet, b. June i, 1805; i^- Lucius Crone ; d. June, 1834. VII. Ruby W., b. April 27, 1807 ; m. Cyrus Trull and John Mead ; d. July 9, 1852. VIII. Aphia, b. July 10, 1809; d. Sept. 30, 1812. IX. Mercy, h. June 14, 181 1 ; m. Ezekiel Blake, Sept. 10, 1833 ; r. Chicopee Falls. X. Aphia, b. July 4, 1S15 ; m. John H. Smith ; r. Chicopee Falls. XI. Aaron, b. June 16, 1817; m. Maria, dau. of David Howe, of Rindge; r. EastJafFrey. Edward Perkins settled in Jaffrey, and m. Ruth He d. June 5, 1856, a. 82. She d. May 30, i860, a. 83. Ten children : I. Adelia, b. Feb. 14, 1801 ; m. Isaac Adams. II. Daniel G., b. Nov. ii, 1802 ; d. Jan. 3, 1827. III. Phebe, b. Oct. 33, 1804; d. Feb. 7, 1810. IV. Hannah W., b. Nov. 26, 1806; m., June i, 1824, Abraham Corey ; ten children. 420 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 25 26 27 28 29 30 (lO 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 V. Ruth (?., b. Feb. 3, 1S09. VI. Phebe, b. Jan. 23, iSii ; d. Feb. 7, 1S13. VII. Joseph^ b. Dec. 16, 181 2 ; d. June 25, 1866. VIII. Mary tTane^ b. Nov. 20, 1815. IX. Edward 6'., b. March ii, 1818. X. Ira, b. Jan. 11, 1821. Moses S. Perkins m. Cosby Cooledge. Mr. Per- kins was highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens ; was a worthy member and chief supporter of the First Con- gregational Church in JaftVey at the lime of his death, Feb. 27, 1875. Seven children : I. Sarah, b. Sept. 7, 1S22 ; m. M. P. Farrar ; d. 1854. II. Phehe, b. Nov. 17, 1824; m. James L. Bolster. III. Hart, b. Sept. 26, 1828; m. Paulina P. Flow- ers. IV. Charles, b. Oct. 27, 1833 '■> i^' Sarah R. Evleth. V. Dorcas, b. June 24, 1835 ; m. James S. Lacy. VI. (Jozbie, b. June 28, 1828; m. John V. Tenney. VII. Mercy, b. May 24, 1840; m. Fred W. Bailey ; d. Dec. 8, 1867. One child,— Mary F., b. 1868. Freeman Perkins was b. in Sterling, Conn., Jan. 28, 1 791. He m. Susan A. , by whom he had five children. She d. Aug. 10, 1836, a. 43 yrs. I. Alvah J., b. in Killingly, Conn., July 9, 1815. II. Edwin F., b. June 13, 1817. III. Gustavus Erastus, b. Feb. 24, 1820, at North- borough, Mass. ; d. Nov. 28, 1837. IV. Henry G., b. at Framingham, Mass., Oct. 13, 1823. V. Susan A., b. at Jaffrey, Oct. 22, 1825, PIERCE FAMILY. Daniel Pierce, a descendant of John Pierce, the emigrant who settled in Watertown, was b. in Lunen- burg, 1713; d. May 13, 175S, a. 45. Sarah, his wife, 1717 ; d. April 13, 1795, a. 78. Seven children: GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 421 I. Daniel, b. Oct. 3, 1742. II. Reuben, b. March 17, 1747. III. Samuel, b. May 21, 1749,-!- IV. Jacob, b. Aug. 3, i75i.-(- V. Sarah, h. Aug. 3, 1754. VI. Abigail, b. April i, 1756. VII. Regia, b. May 13, 1758. Samuel Pierce came from Lunenburgh with his brother Jacob, John Hale, and Ephraim Whitcomb, — Samuel in 1773, Jacob in 1777, — and built a log cabin on what was called Whitcomb hill, and their settlement was known as the Leominster district. Samuel was the owner of a horse, the first one in the district, if not in town. Jacob Pierce and John Hale m. sisters of Eph- raim Whitcomb. Samuel m. Abigail Carter, b. 1751, who d. Feb. 28, 1777, while on a visit at Leominster. He m., 2^, 1778, Elizabeth Whitney. He d. Dec. 27, 1824, a. 75. She d. Oct. 23, 1S23, a. 72. Ten children: I. Asaph, b. July 9, i776.-(- II. Sarmiel, h. May 9, 177S.-I- III. Betsey, b. March 29, 1779; m. Jacob Pierce, q. V. IV. Caleb, b. Jan. 30, 1781 ; m. Dec. 20, 1805, Lucy Gale; r. Alstead, Lyme, N. Y., and Mich. V. Annis, b. April 12, 1783; m. Benjamin Frost, q. V. VI. Abigail, b. Oct. 4, 1785 ; m. Jude Carter; r. in Rindge. In 1818 re. to Pennsylvania. VII. Sarah, b. Sept. 3, 17S7 ; m., i"', Joel Fisk, who d. Jan. 19, 1823'; m., 2^, James Bridges, Sept., 1825 ; d. in Wilton, Feb. 20, 1836. One child, d. young. VIII. Lucy, b. Nov. 28, 1789 ; d. same day. IX. Joseph, b. March 23, 1792.-I- X. Silas, b. Jan. 4, 1794; m., May 7, 1818, Esther Jaquith ; d. July 29, 1819. Jacob Pierce (Lieut.) was a man of integrity, firm in his religious belief, a member of the church, and a constant attendant on religious meetings. Afflicted with the infirmity of deafness in the latter part of his 422 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 (9) life, he was seated in the pulpit with the minister, where, with the aid of a hearing-trumpet, he was ena- bled to hear his sermons. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He m. Rebecca Whitcomb, and d. Aug. 9, 1826, a. 75. She d. March 3, 1843, a. 89. I. Jacobs b. April 28, 1778; m., i'', Nov. 27, 1800, Mary Sawtelle, of Rindge ; re. to Alstead ; she d. Oct. 7, 1812. He m., 2**, Electa Evans, of Alstead; she d. April i, 1817. He m., 3 ^* III. James Edwin^ b. July i, 1839 ; d, IV. Asaph Webster, b. Sept. 28, 1840; d. in the army. V. Harriet Almira, b. Oct. 6, 1842 ; m. John E. Baldwin ; r. Jaftrey. VI. Almon Gowing, b. Oct. 29, 1843 ; d. in the army. VII. Rufus Piper^ b. May 11, 1846 ; r. Dublin. VIII. Eudora Fraticina, b. Oct. 31, 1847 ; d. IX. Willard Holt, b. Feb. 5, 1849 ; r. Dublin. X. Clara Cleason^ b. March 23, 1851. XI. Frank Elmer ^ b. Feb. 3, 1853. Mary, widow of Reuben Pierce, d. Aug. 22, 1839, 85. Zebediah Fierce d. March 12, 1848, a. 43. Phebe K. Tyler, his wife, d. July 13, 1869, a. 83. Miss Sally Pierce d. .Sept. 29, 1S37, ^- 5^- Reuben Pierce, b. 1S09 ; m. Cordelia, dau. of Jacob and Mary (Smith) Jewell. Two children : (i) Eloiza^ b. 1839. (2) ^^Hct, J"., b. 1850. Abijah Pierce (Capt.) wash, in Leominster, Mass., Oct. 7, 1788; came to Jaffrey about 1812; settled in school-district No. 9 ; m., i"', March 13, 1817, Sally, dau. of Parker and Peggy (Taggart) Maynard, who d. Oct. 6, 1840; m., 2**, Mrs. Elvira (Maynard) Jewett, a sister of his first wife. In 1830 he purchased the tavern stand of Zadoc Chapman, and afterwards sold the same to N. R. Corning; d. Oct. 23, 1870, a. 82 yrs., 16 days. Ch. by first wife : III. IV. V. VI. Abijah A., b. March 9, 181S ; a carpenter. Lewis Lorenzo, b. March 20, 1820; a carpenter and joiner.-|- Reuben P. Pierce, b. Feb. 19, 1823 ; d. Aug. 2, 1827. Sarah, h. June 3, 1826 ; d. Dec. 27, 1829. Mary E., b. Sept. i, 1828; m. George Follens- bee, Aug. 29, 1846. Reuben P., b. June 4, 1831. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 427 (99) 104 106 108 109 IIO III 112 114 "5 Lewis L. Pierce m. Christine M. Billings, dau. of Paul H. and Rachel Billings, May 2, 1841. Children : I. Sarah E., b. Sept. 4, 1S43 ; m. Charles M. Caldwell, of Methuen, Mass., Dec. 7, 1S65. II. Xenophon Judson, b. April 9, 1846. III. Mlerij Channing, b. Aug. 12, 1848; d. Nov. 14, 1S64. John Pierce came to Jaffrey about 1816 ; paid taxes that year. He settled on lot 16, range 2, formerly owned by Silas Adams. He m. Sally ; April 28, 1853, a. 67. She d. Feb. 28, 1S73, a. 82. d. Jonas Pierce, son of Asa and Betsey (Pike) Pierce, was b. in Dublin, April 8, 1788. His father came from Weston, Mass., and settled in Dublin about 1786. After a few years he d., leaving a widow and two sons,— Asa and Jonas. July 29, 1790, his widow m. Thomas Davidson, and re. to Jaftrey. Jonas, his (second) son, m. Lucinda, dau. of Benjamin Bailey, of Taftrey, Sept. i, 181 1. She was b. July 22, 1791 ; d. Feb 3, 1838. He m., 2% Mrs. Polly Bowers, Sept. 11, 1S38, who d. March 2, 1S75, a. 85. He d. May 28, i8s7. He was one of the prosperous farmers of Jaf- frey, and the parent of a large and respectable family of ch. I. Asa, b. July 17, 1812 ; m., Dec. 5, 1839, Lodisa Dike ; r. Maine. He d. Oct. 21, 1874. II. Abigail, b. Nov. 10, 1815 ; m. Fuller Dike, June 13, 1838; r. Me. III. Addison, b. March 14, 181 7 ; m., Oct. 25, 1838, Millie Prince. 4" IV. Jonas, b. April 28, 1819; m. Sarah W. Briant, May 4, 1843; d. in Livermore, Me., April 12, 1S64. V. Be?tjamin, b. July 11, i82i.-|- VI. ^mos, b. May 31, 1824; m., March 11, 1845, Susan Whittemore ; d. in Canton, Me., Nov. 20, 1862. VII. Dexter, b. Sept. 4, 1827; m., Feb. 6, 1851, Mary C. Buswell. He d. Aug. 19, 1875. She d. June 18, 1876. 428 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Il6 117 (III) 118 119 120 121 122 (113) 123 124 (115) VIII. Betsey, b. Aug. 30, 1829; m. Orlando B. Bus- well, vSept. 26, 1849; d. April 17, 1856. IX. Emily, b. March 6, 1833 ; d. March 24, 1834. Addison Pierce m. Millie Prince, of Thompsonville, Conn. ; r. on the homestead. I. Myron X., b. Aug. 3, 1840 ; d. Sept. 9, 1842. II. Addison, b. Sept. 8, 1S44; m. Ella M. Follans- bee, March 30, 1869. III. Caroline Elizabeth, h. March 8, 1847; d. May 8, 1855. IV. Clark Myron, b. Jan., 1853 ! '"• V. Caroline E., b. Jan. 9, 1855. Benjamin Pierce m. Lucinda, dau. of Isaac and Betsy (Bailey) Stratton, May 12, 1846. He settled in Boston ; accumulated a large estate ; re. to his native town, JaftVey, and purchased the Shedd place, lot 19, range 7, where he has since resided. In 1877 lie built the present Granite State hotel, a valuable addition to East JaftVey, and a great convenience to the travelling public. Mr. Pierce is a prominent man in town aft'airs ; has held many positions of trust; represented the town in the state legislature in i87o-'7i ; and is now one of the directors in the Monadnock National Bank. I. George A., b. 1849. II. Ada L., b. 1852. Dexter Pierce m. Mary C. Buswell, and settled on lot 21, range 6. He d. Aug. 19, 1875. She d. June 18, 1876. Eight children : (i) James M., b. 1852. (2) Loren D., b. 1854. (S) Willie B.,h. 1856. (4) Dora, d. May 19, 1858, a. 16 dys. (s) Jessie C, b i860. (6) Austin 0., b. 1862. (7) Myron E., b. 1865. (8) Jane X., b. 1869. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 429 ^ PATRICK FAMILY. The head of the family in this country was Thomas Gill or Kill Patrick (he was called by both names), a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian. In the centuries of earl}' Christianity, and up to the ninth or tenth century, the nortli of Ireland and the Scottisli shores were peopled by the same race, virtuall}', northern Ireland being known to primitive history as " Scotia." The name Patrick was equally common on both sides, and it is to this time. It is known that about the ninth century one of these Patricks built a church, from wliich he took the name " Kirk " or " Kill Patrick." Those bearing the name "Kirk" in the south, of "Kill" in the north of Scotland, of Kill " or " Gill " in the north of Ireland, are all regarded as descendants of the same branch — of the Kirk Patrick of Dumfries, Scotland, who built the church. Cille, Kill, or Gill, signifies, in the Celtic and Gaelic, a place of worship. Kirk, also, has the same significa- tion. The Kill or Kirk Patricks recognized tlieir fealty to the crown of Scotland as late as the days of Bruce, fighting under the banner of their chief until he won his crown. When Bruce wounded the Red Comyn, at Gra}' Friar's Church, Dumfries, in 1306, one of his followers, Sir Roger Kirk Patrick, or Kill Patrick (half the historians of that day wrote it "Kill "), who would have no doubt on such a matter, said, " I mak sikar " (I make sure), and slew the man outright. The crest in the Kirk Patrick arms is a hand holding a dagger in pale ^ distilling drops of blood, and their motto is, " I mak sikar." The suc- cessors of the Closeburn, Dumfries, estates are baronets, and the present head of the house is Sir Thomas Kirk Patrick. Dumfries was tlieir original home. During the troublous times in the early part of the seventeenth century, some of the fami- lies known as Covenanters crossed the Mull of Cantyre to An- trim in 162S, and were active in tlie wars terminating with the siege of Derry. One family of this Dumfries branch of Kirk or Kill Patricks was among them, and from this family descended Thomas Gill or Kill Patrick. A member of this Scotch fam- ily (Carl Kill Patrick) separated himself from them in the English interest, and became Lord of Osraighe. Thomas Kill or Gill Patrick was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, b. 1674, who came from Coleraine, county Antrim, Ireland, in 1718, with nine sons and one daughter, who was drowned. They came first to Boston, thence to Wells, York county, Maine, where he did not long remain, but, leaving some of his family there, removed with five sons to Biddeford, Maine, where afterwards he was known to be an active member of the church. He died 430 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. in Biddeford. 1762, aged 88 years. His descendants are scat- tered over the United States, known as Gill Patricks, Kill Pat- ricks, Patricks, and some drop the suffix " Patrick," and are known as the "Gill" family. We learn, from Eaton's "His- tory of Fort St. George," that on April 18, 1735, twenty- seven men, vScotch-Irish Presbyterians, from Biddeford, Saco, and Wells, entered into a contract with Col. Waldo to set- tle upon his lands. Among these men were Thomas, John, and Andrew, sons of Thomas Kill Patrick, of Biddeford. In 1745, on account of the war, the Waldo settlers, many of them, left St. George, and went to Boston and neighboring towns. Andrew removed to Dedham. Elizabeth, the married sister left in Ireland, sailed for this country, and landed at Pem- aquid in 1732. She ever after kept house for her brother Thomas (a bachelor), who left his estate to her son. Thomas commanded the Provincial militia from about 1745 until his death, 1770. From an old record in Stoughton, Mass., this is gleaned : " Samuel Kill Patrick, b. 1733, was apprenticed to Joseph Billings at 14 years of age. Says he is the son of Andrew Kill Patrick, late of St. George, Knox county, Me. He lived in Stoughton as late as 1765." Andrew Kill Patrick, son of Thomas Kill Patrick, b. in Coleraine, Antrim Co., Ireland ; came to this country in 1718; and tradition says he was seven or eight years old when he crossed the water. He prob- ably d. in Dedham, Mass., for John Patrick, second (father of General Marsena R. Patrick, N. Y.), visited him there, soon after the battle of Bunker Hill. Six children : I. Samuel, b. 1733.-I- II. William, b. 1741 ; killed in battle. May 30, 1778, a. 37. He m. Deborah Smith, of Dedham, soon after which he re. to Stough- ton, which was his home until his death. On the church records of Dedham, where the marriage is recorded, his name is writ- ten "Kill Patrick," and in early life he was called "Kill Patrick," but in 1777 he some- times signed his name "Patrick." In 177^ he was captain in Col. Alden's Fourth Mass. Regt., and was killed in the engagement with the Tories and Indians, at Cherry Val- ley, on the 30th of May, that year. He had a son, Andrew. (2) lO II 12 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 43 I III. John, b. 1739; d. in Barre, Mass., 1S07, a. 68.-|- IV. Robert, had twelve ch. V. Jacob. Samuel Kill Patrick was apprenticed to Joseph Billings, in Stoughton, Mass., when fourteen years of age, and worked seven years to learn a trade. He m., i'', Jerusha Harris. He afterwards re. to Fitchburg ; thence, in 1773, to Fitzwilliam. His house was there destroyed by fire, and the town records were burned with it, for he was town-clerk at that time. His wife d. in 1780. M., 2^, Mrs. Relief Oakes, Winchendon, Mass. He professed the religion of his fathers, and was a man of good sense and Christian character. He was reserved and distant in his maimers towards his children, and trained them strictly to observe the Sab- bath, — as one daughter remarked, not allowing them to enter the orchard, on Sunday, for apples. He drop- ped the prefix "Kill" before removing to Fitzwilliam, and was known, ever after, as "Patrick." He re. to Jaffiey, Dec, 1809, and d. Aug. 6, 1817, a. 84. Eight children : I. Samuel, h. at Stoughton, Mass., April 29, 1 764.+ II. Jiufi(S,h. May 4, 1766; r. in Fitzwilliam; re. to JaftVey ; d. Sept. 10, 1797, a. 31. He had a son, William. III, Betsey, b. Dec. 22, 1770; m. Edward Calley ; re. to Windsor, Vt., and d. Had a son, Samuel. IV. Daniel {t-w'in), b. Nov. 6, 1772; m. Susannah McLane : r. Hinesburg, Vt. ; d. Nov. 6, 1842, a. 70. Children : John, Rufus, Eliza- beth, Susan, and Daniel. V. Sally (twin), b. Nov. 6, 1772 ; m., Oct. 9, 1793, Whitcomb French ; r. Dublin ; re. to Marl- borough, where he d. July 30, 1865, a. 92. Children: Whitcomb, Daniel, Jerusha H., Sumner, Stillman, Betsey G., Malancy B., Abigail, and Leander. VI. Hannah, b. Feb. 22, 1774; m. John McLane; r. Lyme, N. H. ; re., in 1851, to Loveland, Ohio; d. Dec. 17, 1831, a. 57. Children: Susannah, Hannah, Stevenson, Thomas, Robert, Dolly, David, and Mary. 432 H (4) 15 16 17 (7) HISTORY OF JAFFREY. VII. Dolly ^ b. Aug. 23, 1776 ; m., i", David Goodell, of Lyme ; m., 2**, Asahel Gilbert. She d. Jan. 30, 1856, a. 79. VIII. Abigail^ b. Oct, 23, 1778; d., a. 7 weeks. John Patrick (Lieut.), b. 1739; m., i", Sarah -, b. 1738. She d. April 28, 1799, a. 61 yrs. M., 2**, Mrs. Lilley ; r. in Barre, Mass. In tlie commission (still preserved) given him, Feb. 5, 1776, by the gov- ernor and council of the province of Massachusetts Bay, he is styled "John Patrick, Gentleman." He was known by the name of "Patrick" in Barre, where he d. March 6, 1807, ''•• ^S yrs. I. Anna m. Elihu Beaman, of Wendell, Mass. ; d. II. John, b. 1766; d. He had children; one is living. III. Marsena R. Patrick (Gen.), b. in Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 15, 1811 ; graduated at West Point, 1835. Joining the Second Inf., he became first lieutenant in 1839 ' captain, Aug. 22, 1847; brevet-major in 1849, "for meritorious conduct in Mexico;" resigning June 30, 1850, he retired to his farm. In iS59-'6i, was president of the State Agri- cultural College. When civil war broke out, he was made inspector-general of the N. Y. militia ; brigadier-general of volun- teers, March 17, 1862. In Dec. he com- manded a brigade in Doiibleday's division, first army corps, with which he took part in the battle of Antietam. Provost marshal general, Army of the Potomac, Oct. 6, 1862, to March 17, 1S65 ; resigned June 12, 1865. President of New York Agricultural Society since Feb. 14, i86t ; r. at Manlius, N. Y. Samuel Patrick m., i", Sarah Davidson, of Peter- borough, Dec. 27, 1792. She d. Jan. 25, 1824, a. 58. M., 2"*, Ann Wright, who d. Oct. 24, 1853, a. 77. He was a merchant in Fitzwilliam, and was also a carpen- ter and joiner by trade. He purchased a farm in JaftVey, of James Davidson, in 1799, where he resided i8 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 (18) 29 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 433 until death, Jan. 10, 1S33, a. 68. He was prosperous for the tunes in which he lived, and was a member ot the Congregational Church. He was called an odd man, doing things in his own peculiar way, regardless of the opinion of others. Many years before his death he gave his farm to his son Samuel, 3d. Children : I. Joel Oakes, b. in Fitzwilliam, Nov. 8, 1793. -|- II. Samuel., b. in Jaftrey, Dec. 30, i795-~h III. William Wright, b. Dec. 24, 1797.-I- IV. Sally, h. Ma.y 5, 1800; m., 1819, Jona. Jewett Bacon, q. v. V. Relief, b. Dec. 6, 1803 ; m. Perkins Biggelow, q. V. VI. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 24, 1809 ; m. David Hall ; d. March 20, 1880 ; r. Waltham, Mass. Five children : I. Wright P., b. April 26, 1835 ; r. Cali- fornia ; clerk of the county, and a large dealer in cattle and horses ; m. ; four children. 3. Davis C, b. Aug. 7, 1836; m. M. J. Parker ; r. in California ; a public offi- cer in the place where he lives. 3. Samuel R., b. May 6, 1841 ; r. Cali- fornia. 4. William H., b. April 29, 1843 ; m. ; owns mills ; r. Cal. ; one son. 5. Edwin, b. Oct. 18, 1848; r. Waltham. 30 Joel Oaks Patrick m. Dec. 11, 181 7, Sally Brig- ham, b. Sept. 9, 1790. He was a merchant, hotel- keeper, and a carpenter and joiner by trade. He d March 31, 1870. She d. March 3, 1879, a. 8S. I. Dexter, b. Dec. 9, 1818; m., i", Mary Ann Nutting, July, 1845; she d. Oct., 1845. M., 2'^, Eliza J. Wentworth ; r. Waltham, Mass. Two children : (i) Mary E,, b. July 19, 1848 ; m., April 7, 1867, Leroy Brown; r. Waltham ; two children. (2) Dexter B., b. April 2, 1 85 1 ; m. Rosella Biggelow ; r. in Waltham, Mass. ; i child. II. Joel, b. Oct. 31, 1S20. 29 434 31 (19) 32 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Sarah, b. Jan. 26, 1825 ; m., May 8, 1859, David A. Cutler ; r. East JaftVey. Samuel Patrick m,, June 9, 1822, Mrs. Abigail, widow of Samuel Twitchell, of Dublin, a brother of Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene. She had two daughters, — Maria W., b. April 29, 1815 ; m. Jan., 1S38, Lewis Thorpe, a merchant; r. Athol, Mass. ; d. Dec. 31, 1850, a. 35. Caroline, b. Aug. 3, iSiS ; m. Dec. 24, 1845, Rev. Simon Barrows; r. Templeton, Mass.; d. Dec. 25, 1852, a. 34. One child, d. in infancy. Mrs. Patrick d. Sept. 16, 1S39, ^' 44- ^^ "''•' 2"^, Dec. 30, 1S40, Mrs. Eliza Bailey, who d. Aug. 10, 1877. He d. March 6, 185 1, a. 55. Eight children, — six by first wife, two by second wife. In 1818 he joined a colony from Middletown, Vt., which made a settlement in Ohio. His uncle, Dr. Ezra Clark, was among them, and the doctor persuaded him to commence the study of medicine. He purchased land and returned East to marry. The idea of a home in the far West (as it then seemed) away from kindred and friends, did not please his wife ; therefore he re- mained on the farm until the death of his father, soon after which he sold the farm, and purchased mills in the village now called East Jaftrey. He was a very social man, and exceedingly enjoyed the intercourse of his fellow-townsmen. They often conferred upon him their best town offices, and once he was sent to the state legislature as their representative. He was a member of the Congregational church. He was fond of books, and was well read in law, but financial suc- cess was not his fate. He took advantage of the bank- rupt law in 1840, and soon after re. to Bolton, where he survived his misfortunes but a few years. I. Elizabeth, b. in Jaffi-ey, March 31, 1823; m., June 21, 1849, William ■^' Lincoln, b. April II, 1818. He was thirty-six years superin- tendent of reformatory institutions for boys. He commenced in Boston, Mass. He aided in planning the Massachusetts State Reform School buildings in Westboro', and was their first superintendent. He was the first su- perintendent of the Maine Reform School, and for seventeen years was at the head of a GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 435 similar institution in Ba.timore. He de- signed the plans of the Maine and New Hampshire Reform School buildings ; also, the Maryland Deaf and Dumb Inst, and other public buildings. He is now in mer- cantile business in Baltimore, Md. Ch. liv- ing: M. Lizzie, Flora M., and William R., Jr- 33 II. Samuel C, h. in Jaffrey, March 31, 1S25 ; m., March 7, 1853, Mrs. Harriet R. Marsh, of Woodstock, Vt. ; b. Feb. i, 1S17, He was b. on the form where three generations of Samuel Patricks had lived before him. He left town in 1S41, and entered a cigar man- ufacturing establishment in Bolton, Mass. He afterwards went to Salem, Mass., thence to New Ipswich, N. H., where his health failed, and a sea voyage was advised. He sailed from New Bedford, for the north-west coast, in 1S45,— doubling the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage, and Cape Horn on his return. He took with him about seventy volumes of reading matter, and Bowditch's Navigation. He kept the ship's reckoning, and a journal, during the voyage. After being absent nearly three years, he re- turned to his former occupation. He would have followed the sea, probably, had he not received a permanent injury during the voy- age. He r. in Lowell, Mass., and is now a manufacturer of and dealer in cigars and tobacco. 34 III. Abigail, b. in Jaffrey, Dec. 15, 1S29 ; d. Dec. 36, 1830, a. I yr. 35 IV. George, b. in Jaffrey, Nov. 16, 1831 ; d. July 25, 1834, a. 2 yrs., 8 mos. 36 V. mnry, h. in Jaffrey, Nov. 8, 1836; d. Dec. 31, 1843, a. 6 yrs. 37 VI. Mary Abbie, h. in Jaffrey, June 28, 1839; m., July 31, 1865, Frederick D. Morrison, of Md., b. Sept. 30, 1837. He is superintendent of white and colored "Institutions for the Listruction of the Blind," in Baltimore, Md. Ch. living, — George, Clarence. 38 VII. Miza, h. in Bolton, Mass., Sept. 30, 1S41 ; d. July 18, 1S42, a. 9 mos. 436 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 39 (20) 40 VIII. George Henry ^ b. in Bolton, Mass., Sept. 28, 1S43 ; received academic education in Bolton high school, Clinton grammar school, Lan- caster academy, and Westbrook seminary, Me. ; entered the Union army as sergeant 53** Mass. Vol. Militia, Sept. 6, 1S62 (at the age of 19), serving in the campaign of the Red River, Port Hudson, &c., of iS62-'3, where he was wounded ; afterwards joined the 36"' and 56"' Mass., serving in the campaign of iS64-'5, of the Army of the Potomac. Re- tained in service, after mustered out of regi- ment, by special order of the secretary of war, July 14, 1865 ; appeared before exam- ining board, Washington, D. C, Aug. 7, 1S65 ; mustered out of volunteer service, and Aug. 15, 1865, commissioned second lieuten- ant 20'" U. S. C. T. ; Sept. 19, 1865, com- missioned second lieutenant 82*^ U. S. C, T. ; Nov. 6, 1865, appointed A. D. C, and Act. Asst. Adj. Gen, Dist. Middle, Northern, and Southern Florida, Staft' of Brig. Gen. John Newton ; Feb. 10, 1866, appointed A. D. C, Start" of Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, com- manding Dept. Fla. ; April 26, 1866, ap- pointed first lieutenant 82"^ U. S. C. T. ; May 2, 1866, appointed judge advocate, Dept. Fla. ; June 21, 1866, appointed adju- tant 82'' U. S. C. T. ; Sept. 7, 1866, mustered out of service ; March 17, 1867, re. to Montgomery, Ala., where he has since resided as a practising lawyer ; m., April i, 1869, in Montgomery, Jennie M. Todd, of Hyde Park, N. Y., b. May 27, 1844. Ch. : Henry Ewing, b. July 3, 1870; Ruth Stoughtenburg, b. March, 1872; a son, b. Aug., 1877. William Wright Patrick m. Caroline Davidson ; r. Canada West; re., 1841, to Sun Prairie, Wis., where he d. April 6, 1867. His wife d. Aug. 16, 1855. Five children : I. William Wright, b. Jan. 29, 1828; m. Lidoma Winsor ; r. Brigham's Lane, Cottonwood Co., Minnesota. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 437 II. Mary Ann, b. July 6, 1S31 ; m. Wm. Hunter; r. Lowell, Dodge Co., Wis. III. Sarah Dorothy, b. Aug. 6, 1S34; m. David J. Munroe ; r. Prescott, Grape-vine Co., Arizo- na Territory. IV. Irene Caroline, b. Nov. 21, 1S39; '''^- Thomas A. Hawkins ; r. St. Paul, Minn. V. Eliza A?m, b. Sept. iS, 1S45 ; m. Otis P. Bar- rett ; r. Central City, Col. PERRY FAMILY. John Perry, son of John and Esther Emery Perry, was b. in Dublin, Aug. 39, 1S07. His grandfather, Ivory Perry, came to Dublin from Sherborn, Mass., previous to 1767, and m. Kezia Broad. He m., 2'^, Nov. 16, 1837, Elmira, dau. of Jacob and Mary Smith Jewell, b. at Jaffrey, Dec. 18, 1807. Mr. Perry fol- lowed the business of farming, first in Dublin, after- wards in JaftVey, on the farm formerly owned by Judge Abel Parker. He is now (1880) a resident of Peter- borough. Seven children : I. Catherine E., b. Jan. 20, 1838; m. Munson McClenning ; r. Peterborough. One child : Mabel Harris. II. Harriet, b. May 16, 1839; ^- Oct. 10, 1839. III. Mary S., b. Aug. 17, 1842 ; m. Henry McClen- ning ; r. Worcester, Mass. IV. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 9, 1834. V. Harriet, b. Aug. 24, 1846. VI. Edwin, b. Aug. i, 1848 ; d. PHELPS FAMILY. Francis Phelps d. in the reign of Edward VI. John dwelt on Nether Tyne, Eng. William m. Mary Dover, and came to this country, and landed at Hull, Mass., May 30, 1630; settled in Winsor, Ct, of which he was the founder, in 1635. Timothy, b. Sept. i, 1639 ; m. Mary Griswold. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 27, 1677 ; m. Hannah Bissell. Solomon, b. July 29, 1716 ; m. Temperance Barker. 438 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. ID II 12 13 BissELL (Capt.), b. Feb. 16, 1754 ; m. Lovina Skinner. Alexander, b. Oct. 6, 1780; m. Rachel Steele, dau. of John and Sarah (Cobb) Steele, b. in Tolland, Ct., June 12, 1780; a descendant of George Steele, who came from England ; settled, first, in Cambridge, Mass., afterwards in Hartford, Ct. GuRLEY Artemas Phelps, m. d., b. in Waitsfield, Vt, June 30, 1822 ; came to Jaffrey in 1849 5 i^-' April 10, 1851, Adaliza, dau. of Benjamin and Grata (Hunt) Cutter. She d. June 3, 1852. One child : I. Grace Mina^ b. April 12, 1S52. He m., 2**, Nov. 2, 1858, Nancy Priscilla Stoughton, b. Jan. 23, 1824, dau. of Asa and Anna (Stevens) Stoughton, of Gill, Mass. Three children : II. Charles Stoughton, b. Dec. 23, 1859. HI. Mary Eliza, b. July 7, 1862. IV. William Steele, b. July 12, 1867. POLLARD FAMILY. Levi Pollard, b. at Harvard, Mass., April i, 1809; m. Sarah Bassett, of Westmoreland ; settled on the Fortune lot, in Jaftrey. 2 I. Sarah E., b. Nov. 22, 1834 ; d. March 31, 1866, unm. 3 II. Lem,\). Sept. 16, 1837; "^- Louisa Leach, of Westmoreland. 4 III. Joseph, b. Feb. 23, 1840 ; d. May 30, 1868. 5 IV. Andrew, b. June 29, 1845 ; m. Louisa M. Cole, Sept. II, 1878. POOLE FAMILY. Ebenezer Poole came to Jaffrey about 1803 ; settled on lot 4, range 6 ; m. Olive Ward, who d. Oct. 9, 1846, a. 72. He d. Dec. 31, 1857, ^- ^3- I. Ifary 31., h. Aug., 1802 ; r. Brookline ; unm. II. Catherine, b. Sept. 17, 1803. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 439 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO II (9) 13 13 15 III. Samuel C, b. Oct. 23, 1804. IV. Hannah C, b. March, 1805. V. Martha iS., b. July 11, 1807. VI. Caroline, h. Nov. 19, 1808 ; m. Parsons Darling ; d. Jan, 13, 1858. VII. Ebe7iezer, b. July 5, iSio. VIII. John TF., b. Aug. 13, i8i3.-|- IX. William J/., b. May 10, 18 14. X. Olive E. B., b. June 10, 1830. John Ward Poole m., i^', Edith, dau. of Abel Cut- ter ; 3**, Dorothy Holt, of Fitzwilliam ; 3^^, Sybil, dau. of John and Polly (Batchelder) Cutter, widow of Joel H. Cutter; and 4*, Nancy Witt, widow of James Howe. First wife d. July 33, 1839 ; second wife d. ; third wife d Aug. 31. He was a blacksmith third wife 1S65. He d. Jan. 7, 1875, a. 63. r. Jaftrey Centre. Three ch. by I. Joel Hohart, b. Jan. i, 1843 ; m. Feb. 35, 1868, Elizabeth P., dau. of Edmund and Rachel R. (Cutter) Shattuck. One child : I. Arthur Eugene, b. March i, 1S69. II. John Ward, b. March 31, 1846; m. III. Mary Cutter, b. July 9, 1S56 ; m., July 35, 1875, Lewis K., son of James and Nancy (Witt) Howe, widow of John W. Poole ; re. to Ply- mouth, Wis. ; and d. Sept. 7, 1877. One child. POPE FAMILY. William Pope (Capt.) came to Jaffrey at an early date, and settled on lot 30, range 6, now owned b}' Joseph Davis. He was in service during the Revolution, and on committees to procure provisions for the army ; member of the board of selectmen ; and held other offices of honor and trust. Of his origin we have no knowledge. He m. Mary , who d. May 7, 1831, a. 73. He d. Nov. 16, 1820, a. 80. One ch. : 440 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Polly, m. Nathan Cutter, of New Ipswich, q. v. POWERS FAMILY. 8 9 lO II 12 H 15 16 Whitcomb Powers came from Hollis, and settled in school district No. 9 ; re. to Peterborough about 1809. He m., I*', Keziah Loring, of Lexington, Mass., b. April 19, 1761 ; d. March 6, 1790. M., 2*^, Miriam Bond, of Dublin, April 21, 1791 ; d. Dec. 20, 1839, ^• 76, He d. at Peterborough, Nov. 19, 1826. Four ch. by first wife, and ten by second wife. I. Joseph, d. II. Whitcomb, d. in. Frajicis, d. IV. Keziah, b. 1786 ; m. Jacob Newell, q. v. V. Polly D., b. Jime 29, 1793; m., Nov. 3, 1830, Riley Goodrich, of Peterborough ; d. June 12, 1S70. He d. Sept. 8, 185 1, a. 56. VI. Miriam P., b. Nov. 17, 1795; m., Sept. 17, 1816, Collins H. Jaquith. VII. Nabhy, b. IVIay 22, 1798 ; d. Nov. 9, 1800. VIII. Petsey, b. June 21, 1800; m., Dec. 11, 1823, Charles M. Howe. IX. Mehitahle P., b. Sept. 2, 1802 ; d. Nov. 2, 1873, unm. X. Lydia A., b. April 28, 1805 ; m., 1", Hugh Smith, and 2**, James Williams. XI. Francis TF. G., b. June 27, 1S08; m. Elizabeth Hunt ; d. May 31, 1871. XII. William 3f., h. July 28, 1811 ; m., Sept. 10, 183S, Mary Clark. XIII. /Stephen F., b. July 11, 1814 ; d. April 20, 1815. Paul Powers settled on lot 7, range 7 ; d. Dec. 6 1797, a. 38. His widow, Merriel Powers, m. David Gilmore, and d. Oct. 13, 1842, a. 73. Peter Powers settled in JaffVey, on lot 11, range 8, about 1S08 ; was a tax-payer for the last time in 1S29. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 441 17 Charles Henry Powers was the son of Cyrus and Lucretia (Pierce) Powers, and grandson of Asa and Rachel (Cutter) Powers, of Temple. He was b. in Newmarket, April 14, 1828. His mother d. Sept., 1833, and his father m., 2*^, Mary J. Hilton, of New- market, re. to Pittsfield, and d. Nov. 9, 1834, when his son Charles was a little more than six years old. After the death of his father he went to Dublin, and lived with an uncle till 1847, when he went to work in a store in Jaftrey, and has since been engaged in trade there, except while in Canada as consul. He received his education at the common-school, and there, b)^ his own industry and application, qualified him- self for the many important public stations which he has since held. In the town of his adoption he has been chosen moderator of their town-meetings for a longer period than any other man since the incorpora- tion of the town ; has for many years been town-treas- urer, member of the state legislature in i860, '61, and '79 ; was bank commissioner four years, — i86i-'2-'3-'4 ; elected railroad commissioner in 1875 for three years; and appointed United States consul to Coaticook, Can- ada, by President Lincoln, Oct. 14, 1864, and remained in office till July i, 1869. During 1861 and '62 he was clerk for a military committee of the state to raise troops ; and was four years master of Charity Lodge, No. 18, of Free & Accepted Masons in the town of Jaftrey. In 1 85 1 he m. Eliza A. Bailey, dau. of Rev. E. K. Bailey, of Jaffi^ey, by whom he has one son, Fred L., b. 1858. PRESCOTT FAMILY. The Prescott family is of English origin. James was a resi- dent of Standish, in Lincolnshire, England, about 1564. He m. a dau. of Roger Standish, Esq., by whom he had six chil- dren. His second child m. Ellen Shaw, of Standish. They had four children, the youngest of whom, Ralph, m. Ellen , of Shovington. The youngest of their five ch., John, m. Mary Platts, of Wygan, in Lancashire, Jan. 21, 1629, and in 1640 emigrated to New England, and settled in Watertown, Mass., but afterwards re. to Lancaster. They had nine ch., four b. in America. His youngest child, Jonas, b. at Lancaster, June, 1648, m. Mary, dau. of John and Mary (Draper) Looker, of Sudbury, by whom he had four sons and eight daughters. 442 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Among their descendants was William Prescott, the historian, who m. Susan Amory, of Boston. The grandfathers of this couple had been engaged on opposite sides, during the war for independence, and even in the same battle. Col. Prescott was the American commander at the battle of Bunker Hill, while Capt. Linzey was commander of the sloop Falcon, in Charles river, and cannonaded the Americans, under Prescott, on Bun- ker Hill. The swords, worn on that occasion by the soldier and sailor, came down, in their respective families, until they met in the family of the historian. James, the oldest son of Jonas and Mary Looker, b. Oct. i6, 1678, m., i^'. Thankful Wheeler, of Concord. She d. ; and he m., 2*^, Mary Page. They had six children. The oldest, Ebenezer, b, July 19, 1700, m. Hannah Farnsworth. He d. Dec. I, 1771. His second son, Oliver, b. May 5, 1725, m., June 8, 1779, Bethia Underwood. He was a farmer in West- ford, Mass. ; d. Jan. i, 1S03. Benjamin Prescott (Col.) and his brother Oliver were among the early settlers of Jaftrey. Oliver m. Keziah Haywood, Nov. 15, 1788, and re. to Whites- town, N. Y. Benjamin re. to Jaftrey, and settled on lot 21, range 9, in 1774, living in a log house until 1775* At the raising of his frame house, a party from Rindge, on their way to the defence of Charlestown, assisted. Mr. Carlton, one of their number, was killed on Bunker Hill, While acting as a spy, on the day previous to the battle, he was taken prisoner by the British, and made his escape the same day. Col. Prescott was a man of gigantic power, bodily, intellectually, and mor- ally. He was an active, energetic, and influential man ; highly esteemed for his integrity, uprightness, and sound judgment. He represented the town in the state legislature for a period of eleven years, nine in succession — a longer period than any other man in the town of Jaftrey. He was early appointed by the gov- ernor a justice of the peace, and continued in that oflice for many years, during which he was much employed in public business. He was a director and contractor for building the third New Hampshire turnpike. He was also a deacon of the Baptist church, v/hich he was active in forming, and prominent in its support until his death, which occurred March 7, 1839 ' ^"<^' ^* '^'^^ ^S^ °^ 85 he went down to the grave ''like a shock of corn fully ripe in its season." In his own business affairs, in connection with his farm, he was for many years the 7 8 9 lO II 12 (4) H GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 443 proprietor of a public house, which was well patronized by the travelling public. Benjamin Prescott m. Rachel Adams, of Chelms- ford, Dec. 5, 1775- She was b. Aug. 19, 1757; d. March 9, 1S26, a. 68. He d. March 7, 1839, a. 85. I. Benjamin^ b. Sept. 2, 1773; d. Sept. 16, i777- II. Benjamin^ b. Sept. i, 1778; was a machinist and farmer ; r. East Jaftrey village ; m. widow Sally (Searle) Hodge, May 17, 1830. She was b. in Temple, Nov. 26, 1781 ; d. Sept. 7, 1869. He d. Sept. 14, 1852. III. Oliver^ b. Feb. 9, 1781.-}- IV. Rachel^ b. Aug. 30, 1783 ; m. James, son of James and Betsey (Warner) Clay, of Putney, Vt., 1815. He was b. Dec. 16, 1783; d. Jan. 4, 1838. She d. He was a farmer ; r. in Rindge : 1. James P., b. April 7, 1817 ; a farmer; r. Rindge. 2. Rachel, b. April 15, 1819; d. Nov. 20, 1867. 3. Susan B., b. Feb. 23, 1S26; r. Rindge. V. Eldad, b. Nov. 13, 17S6.4- VI. Nabby^ b. Sept. 13, 1789; d. Aug. 24, iSoo. VII. John A., b. Nov. 7, i793.-f- VIII. Susannah^ b. Sept. 8, 1797 ; d. Aug. 30, 1800. IX. Bethia, b. April 2, 1800; d. June, 1807. Oliver Prescott (Col.) was a farmer and inn-keep- er ; erected the large and commodious public house on the turnpike, east of his father's. He was a prominent, leading man; held many positions of honor and trust; was moderator, town-clerk, selectman, representative, justice of the peace, and colonel of the Twelfth Regt. N. H. militia. He m. Mary, dau. of James and Betsey (Warner) Clay, May 23, 181 1. She was b. at Putney, Vt., March 12, 1782 ; d. March 31, 1839. M., 2'', Mrs. Phebe (Coffin) Brown, Jan. 7, 1S41. She was b. April 14, 1795 ; d. Aug. II, 1S44. M., 3^, Mrs. Mary (Bon- ner) Stratton, March 27, 1845. She was b. June 23, 1789, now (1876) living in Fredonia, N. Y. He d. Nov. 25, 1850, a. 61. I. Oren, b. May 17, 1813; d. Sept. 23, 1816. 444 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 15 16 17 (9) 18 20 21 22 24 (lO 25 26 27 (15) II. III. IV. Daniel J b. July 11, 18 15.4- Elizabeih^ b. Aug. 21, 1817; d. April 25, 1818. Elizabeth^ b. June 20, 1819; m. Rufus Hay- wood, q. V. Eldad Prescott (Capt.) was a farmer ; settled on the homestead of his father ; was a captain in the state militia; m. Clarissa, dau. of Paul and Betsey Hunt, of Jaftrey, March 27, 1816. She was b. in Acton, Mass., Oct. 4, 1791 ; d. Sept. 20, 1826. M., 2^, Betsey, sister of Clarissa, June 10, 1829. She was b. in Acton, July 5. 1793 ; ^' Oct. I, 1852. He d. May 23, 1872. I. Eldad A., b. Feb. 22, 181 7.+ II. Benjamin, b. Dec. 21, i8i8.-[- III. Oliver P., b. Jan. 22, 1821.-}- IV. Oren^ b. March 24, 1823.-}- By second marriage : V. John A., b. Aug. 19, 1S30; d. April 28, 1863. VI. Henry, b. Aug. 11, 1832 ; d. Aug. 19, 1852. VII. Addison, b. June 9, 1836. -|- JoHN A. Prescott was a farmer and manufacturer, and lived in Squantum village until about 1850, when he re. to East Jaffrey. He was captain in the JaftVey rifle company ; county commissioner ; represented the town in the state legislature, i858-'9 ; and was justice of the peace. He m. Martha, dau. of Samuel and Patty (Wyman) Ryan, of Sharon, April 10, 1828. She was b. June i, 1806. He d. at East Jaftrey, Oct. 7, i860. She d. May 19, 1879, in Fredonia, N. Y. I. George H., h. Nov. 12, 1833 ; d. Dec. 25, 1834. II. Martha C, b. Nov. 20, 1835 ; m. Spencer L., son of Rev. Ephraim K. and Amanda Bai- ley, Jan. 28, 1855. She was b. March 13, 1829 ; r. Fredonia, N. Y. One ch. : I. Annie, b. July 20, 1857. Daniel C. Prescott, b. July 11, 1815 ; a farmer; settled on the homestead of his father. Col. Oliver Pres- cott. In 1866 he re. to Fitzwilliam. He m. Abigail, 38 29 30 31 32 33 34 (i8) 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 (19) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 445 dau. of Benj. Davidson, of Fitzwilliam, Sept. 12, 1844. She was b. July 2, 1814. He d. July 18, 1866. 1. Oren D., b. April 29, 1843; enlisted, Sept. 23, 1862, in the Fourteenth Regt. N. H. V., and served during the war. He m. Ella, dau. of Wm. E. Boynton, of Sharon ; was a merchant in East Jaftrey ; d. Dec. 31, 1875. II. George 0., b. Feb. 24, 1845.+ III. Mary^ b. Sept. 21, 1847; '""• Jobn W. Poole, q. V. IV. Susa?i X., b. July 25, 1850; m. Charles B. Robbins, May 2, 1875. V. Martha, b. Sept. 13, 1852. VI. Marshall J)., b. April 9, 1854; ^^- J^"-' 1866. VII. Freddie H., b. Feb. 23, 1859 ; d. Jan. 29, i860. Eldad a. Prescott was a deaf mute. He was educated at the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, Conn. ; was a cabinet-maker, and r. in Squan- tum village. He m. Frances P., dau. of Elisha and Phebe Hammond, of West Bradford, Mass., Nov. 2, 1843. She was b. Sept. 5, 1819 ; d. Sept. 20, 1853. He m., 2*^, Mrs. Sarah Greenleaf Smith, of New Boston, Nov. 29, 1855. She was b. July 4, 1831 ; r. in Glou- cester, Mass. He d. Oct. 9, 1865. I. Charles E., b. March 13, 1845. II. Datiiel TF., b. July 13, 1S47 ' '^* ^'^^ same day. III. Caroline F., b. Nov. 18, 1848 ; d. Sept. 9, 1852. IV. Thomas H. 6r., b. Oct. 26, 1851 ; d. Sept. 5, 1852. By second marriage : V. Annie, b. Dec. 23, 1857 ; r. Topeka, Kan. VI. Addie F.^ b. March 23, 1861 ; d. Dec. 6, 1861. VII. Eliza ilf., b. March 16, 1864; r. Gloucester, Mass. VIII. Austin E.^ b. Nov. 30, 1865 ; r. Topeka, Kan. Benjamin Prescott, a farmer and starch manufac- turer, m. Lovina, dau. of Joseph and Martha (Wilder) Brown, Oct. 21, 1846. She was b. at Winchendon. In 1856 he re. to Prairie City, 111., and in 1875 to Topeka, Kan. 446 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 43 44 (20) 45 (21) 46 47 48 49 50 (24) 51 52 53 54 (29) I. Mary E., b. April 25, 1844; d. March 7, 1846. II. Francis J/., b. April 23, i8,|8; m. AUie, dau. of Wm. P. McClure, of Topeka, Kan. Oliver P. Prescott m. Addie L., dau. of Josiah Biggelow, Dec. 8, 1846. She was b. in Framingham, Mass., March, 1827; d. Jan. 7, 1S49. M., 2**, Susan M., dau. of Josiah and Mary (Bonner) Stratton ; r. in Fredonia, N. Y. I. Ellery B.^ b. Nov. 22, 1848; m., and r. in Fredonia. Oren Prescott is a farmer in JaftVey ; m. Martha L., dau. of Jacob and Martha Adams, of Rindge, June 16, 1846. She was b. April 10, 1827; d. June 25, 1850. He m., 2*^, Caroline A., dau. of Wm. T. and Grata Nutting, of JaftVey, June 8, 1852. She was b. Jan. 12, 1834; ^' -^piil 30? 1S61. He m., 3'*, Louisa J., dau. of Jesse T. Plummer, of Goftstown. I. Martha E., b. April 27, 1850; d. March 3, 1853- II. Elliot 0., b. Sept. 7, 1854, by second marriage, in. Julius £"., b. March 7, 1856, " IV. Carrie M., b. July 14, 1858, " V. Willie E., b. Feb. 10, 1869, by third marriage. Addison Prescott m. Mary A., dau. of Harvey and Adeline (Haywood) Sawyer, March 14, 1865. She was b. in Sharon, N. H., Nov, 16, 1841. He represented the town in the state legislature, in i866-'7 ; r. on the old Prescott farm, in JaftVey, until 1872 ; and is now in the real estate loan business, in Topeka, Kan. I. John A., b. Oct. 2, 1866. II. Bessie A., b. Dec. i, 1868. III. Alice, h. Aug. 21, 1871. IV. Witmi/red S., b. Sept. 16, 1880, in Topeka, Kansas. George O. Prescott m. Electa, dau. of William and Lona Lennox, of Elroy, N. Y. ; r. Minneapolis, Minn. 55 56 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 447 I. Freddie A., b. Jan. 7, 1869; d. Aug. 14, 1S71. II. Lillian G., b. Aug. 4, 1873. RICE FAMILY. Laban Rice, son of David and grandson of Abra- ham, was b. in Fitzwilliam, March 23, iSoi. His father, David, was b. in Framingham, March 19, 1769 ; m. Doi'cas, dau, of Philip and Eunice (Shumway) Amsden, b. at Oxford, Mass., Dec. 10, 1769; r. in Fitzwilliam. After the death of her husband she spent the remainder of her life with her son in JaflVey, where she d. April 15, 1874, a. 104 years. Laban Rice m., Oct. 14, 1827, Esther, dau. of John and Abigail (Demary) Cutter. He d. Dec. 3, 1S73. Mr. Rice was the proprietor of the Cutter homestead. He fitted up the house for summer boarders, which has been well patronized by many of the citizens of Boston. He represented the town in the state legislature in 1S46. Eight children : I. Paidina, b. Sept. 28, 1828; m., Dec. 26, 1850, Ebenezer Upton, merchant. East JaftVey ; she d. Jan. 15, 1S57. -^^ ^' J"-'"^ ^Sj 1S60, a. 41. One child, — Paulina C., d. Aug. 15, 1857, '*• 7 f^ios. II. Ellen Maria, h. June 14, 1830; d. June 26, 1846. III. Jonas Cutter, h. Sept. 2, 1832; m. Nancy Ann, dau. of Charles and Pamelia (Cutter) Gil- more. IV. Emily Adelaide, b. Oct. 31, 1834; d. Oct. 24, 1859. V. Esther Louisa, b. June 3. 1837; ^- ^"g- i» 1852. VI. John Cutter, b. Feb. 12, 1839; ^'^' Judith A. Butts, of Mass. VII. George Laban, b. March 25, 1841 ; m. Lucy H. Baldwin. VIII. William Kimball, b. Feb. 14, 1843 ' d. Oct. 8, 1854. RITCHIE FAMILY. Robert Ritchie, a descendant of William Ritchie, an early settler of Peterborough, was b. July 27, 1798 ; 448 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 lO II 12 13 re to Jaffrey about 1835 ; settled on lot 20, range 6 ; m. Mary Hutchinson, of Wilton, March 4, 1823, b. March 20, 1S02. I. James, h. Jan. 11, 1824; went West. II. Samuel, h. July 19, 1825 ; ni. Caroline Jackson ; r, Charlestown, Mass. III. John, b. June 21, 1827. IV. William, Robert, b. April 16, 1829; r. Califor- nia. V. George C, b. May 5, 1831. VI. Mary Jane, b. Jan. 20, 1833 ; m. W. H. Pratt. He d. in the war of the Rebellion. One child, — William H., b. Sept. i, i860. VII. Alvin, b. Feb. 24, 1S35 ; supposed to have d. in service. VIII. Darius, b. Aug. 12, 1836; d. at Buffalo, on his way home from the war. IX. Henry, b. Nov. 7, 1837 ! k'^ed in battle, Sept. 30, 1864. X. Edmund F.,h. Dec. 10, 1839; d. in service, Oct. 2, 1862. XI. Sarah M., b. May 27, 1842. XII. Adelbert, b. Feb. 13, 1846. ROBBINS FAMILY. Qiiite a number of families by the name of Robbins have at different times been residents of Jaffrey. Of their origin and early history but little is known. The first tax-payer of the name was David Robbins, who paid taxes in 1824, '25, and '26 ; Lyman Robbins from 182S to 1833, inclusive; and Samson Robbins, who settled in town in 1826 ; m. Chloe , and d. Oct. 22, 1859, ^' 59- -^^^ widow d. June 12, 1852, a. 71. Harvey H. Robbins, b. 1807 ; m. Nancy A. , b. 1807. He d. Nov. 17, 1849. Children: (i) Eliza, d. April 14, 1839, a. i yr., 10 mos. (2) Mary S., b. 1832. (3) Luther G., b. 1833. (4) Susan C, d. April 14, 1855, ^' ^9- (5) Laura A., d. March, 1851, a. II. (6) Lucy A., b. 1843. (7) Albert E.^ b. 1845. (8) Paulina A.,h. 1847. 9 lO II 12 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 449 Daniel L. Robbins m. Elizabeth . Children: (i) Caroline E.^ b. 1844. (2) Edxoin E.^h. 1845. (3) Mary A., b. 1S48. (4) Emma J/., d. July 29, 1849, ^' ^4 iiios., 2 days. Jacob Robbins, b. in Peterborough, came to Jaftrey in 1831 ; m. Jane W., dau. of Jacob and Sarah (Turn- er; Baldwin. He d. Dec. 4, 1855, a. 49, Children: I. Sarah Eveline, b. Nov. 24, 1834. She is one of the most distinguished school-teachers in Jaflrey, and has taught probably more terms than any other teacher in town ; is now (1880) still engaged in teaching at East Jaf- frey. II. Alfred Jacob, b. May 20, 1836; d. Tune 21, 1868. III. Joseph H., b. Aug. 20, 1S39; ^- J^"- ^O' 1858. IV. William B., b. May 31, 1841 ; m. Anna M. , b. 1848; is now (1880) one of the selectmen of Jaffrey. V. Charles Benjamin, b. Aug. 20, 1846. Leonard E. Robbins settled in Jaffrey in 1S69; m. Ellen M., dau. of Leonard and Elvira (Dutton) Stiles, of Peterborough. ROSS FAMILY. Abraham Ross came from Bolton to Jaffrey previous to 1777 ; was road-surveyor that year. He was in ser- vice during the Revolution. He settled on lot 4, range 7 ; m., and had several children. He d. July 14, 1841, a. 97, Children : I. Betsey, b. 1775 ; m. Jonathan Stanley. II. Paul, re. to Barre, Mass. III. Abraham,h. 1781 ; settled on the homestead; m. Nancy, b. 1798. He d. Dec. 5, 1865, ^• 85. Two children: (i) John, b. 1832; (2) Jonas W., b. 1835. IV. Jonas, b. 1784.-}- 30 450 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (5) V. VI. VII. John m., May 8, 1804, Nabby Merriam. He was a hatter by trade, and d. about 1S44. One child : Nabby. Prudence m., July 11, 1S09, Jedediah Stanley. Persis m., Jan. 22, 181 2, Thomas Browning, of Barre, Vt. Jonas Ross m. Abigail Worcester; settled on lot i, range 9, and d. May 31, 1861, a. 77. His widow d. Nov. I, 1865, a. 79. Five children: Martin, b. Nov. 9, 1807 ' ^- Sept. 11, 1825. Persis W., b. Jan. 26, 1809; d. Oct. 11, 1839. Abigail, b. Sept. 7, 181 1; m. Benj. Fay; d. Dec. 7, 1839. Jonas, b. Sept. 7, 181 1 ; d. April 14, 181 2. Jonas TF., b. June 19, 1815 ; d. March 20, 1816. 9 I. 10 II. II III. 12 IV. 13 V. (4) RYAN FAMILY. Daniel Ryan, m. d., came from Ireland, as surgeon of a vessel, about 1750? ^^^ settled in Marblehead, Mass. He afterwards re. to Tewksbury, where his son Samuel was b. Aug. 26, i^^i' Samuel Ryan, m. d., in 1790 came with his parents to Sharon, N. H., and in 1802 m. Mrs. Patty Sawyer. Children : I. Abigail. II. Martha, b. June i, 1S06 ; m. John A. Prescott. III. Samuel, b. Aug. 6, 1810. IV. Daniel. Samuel Ryan settled in Sharon ; was a farmer, dealer in lumber, and the principal owner of the famous Ryan steam mills. He was a leading man in town affairs ; — held most of the important offices in the gift of the town; and was colonel of the 22*^ Regt. N. H. militia. In the autum.n of 1854 he re. to East JaftVey, and became a prominent man in that place ; was several years a selectman, and represented the town of Jaffrey in the state legislature in 1863-4. He was also for many years, till his death, a director in the Monadnock National Bank. He m. Hannah, dau. of George and ^^-^^^^^^^ GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 45 I Alice (Sawyer) Shedd, of Peterborough, b. July 14, iSii. He d. at Brookline, Minn., at the residence of his son, May 5, 1876. Three children : I, George, b. Nov. i, 1833 ; d. young. II. Samuel W. m., 1858, Hattie Joslin, of Lynd- borough, N. H. ; r. Brookline, Minn. ; is a distinguished farmer in that place. III. Martha Louisa, b. Nov. 30, 1845 ; m., Jan. 6, 1865, John H. Cutler, m. d., son of Charles and Melinda Wright Cutler, of Rindge, b. Feb. 16, 1834. S^ received his early edu- cation in the common and high schools of his native town, the Merrimack Normal Institute at Reed's Ferry, and at the West- minster seminary, Vt. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. O. H. Bradley of East Jaffrey ; attended medical lectures at Pittsfield and Burlington, at which latter place he received the degree of m. d., June 9, 1861. He commenced the business of his profession in New Ipswich and Mason Vil- lage ; joined the army as assistant surgeon in the spring of 1864, and remained till the close of the war. In 1865 he settled in Peterborough, and has since been engaged in an extensive practise. Children : 1. Samuel Ryan, b. April 29, 1866. 2. Charles Henry, b. Sept. 9, 1867. 3. Costella Melinda, b. Nov. 21, 1869. 4. Martha Evangeline, b. Oct. 20, 1875. 5. Anne Louise, b. Aug. 22, 1877. Thomas Ryan d. April 7, 1874, a. 85. SANGER FAMILY. Jedediah Sanger, son of Richard, a descendant of Richard Sanger, the emigrant who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1646, re. to Watertown, and d. Aug. 20, 1690. Was b. in Sherborn, Mass., Feb. 29, 1751 ; came to Jaffrey previous to 1783, and settled on lot 3, range 7. He was a man of great business talent, and held the most important offices in the gift of the town, and was 452 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. the first man in town who held the title of colonel. In 178S he re. to New Hartford, Oneida Co., N. Y. The settlement was commenced that year, and he built the first mill in that place. He became a large land pro- prietor, and a tract of his land was formed into a town- ship in 1795, named Sangersfield, in honor of Colonel, subsequently Judge Sanger. In I'J^i he m. Sarah Rider. She d. Sept. 26, 1813, a. 66. M., 2^, Mrs. Sarah Betts. She d. April 25, 1825, a. 48. M., 3*^, Mrs. Fanny Deuch, Washington, D. C., Oct. 3, 1827. She d. May 17, 1842, a. 65. He d. June 6, 1829, a. 78. Children by first marriage : I. Sarah, b. March 8, 177S; m. Eames : d. Aug. 12, 1 861. II, Walter, b. March i, 1781. III. Zedekiah, b. April 26, 1783; d. Sept. 27, 1786. SAUNDERS FAMILY. (4) Samuel Saunders, a carpenter and farmer, came from Fitchburg, Mass., where he was b. July 15, 1762. He settled on lot 22, range i, and m. Rachel, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Scott) Turner. He d. Oct. 16, 1841, a. 79. She d. March 13, 1836, a. 71. I. Samuel, b. Oct. 19, 1787 ; m. Rachel Turner. II. Joseph, b. Dec. 9, 1789; m. Mary, dau. of David and Charlotte Lacy. III. John, b. Dec. 13, 1791.-I- IV. £Jlisha, b. Oct. 16, 1794. V. jRachel, b. May 26, 1796; m. Asa Jones, of Rindge. VI. Nancy, b. Aug. 16, 1802 ; m. Joseph Hayes, of Dublin. VII. Sally, b. Aug. 9, 1806 ; m. Almerin Gowing, of Dublin. John Saunders was a blacksmith by trade, and carried on the business, at difl'erent times, in Jaflrey, Dublin, and Peterborough. He m., i", Ruth Jones. M., 2^, Sally, dau. of David and Charlotte Lacy. She d. June 21, 1840, a. 41. M., 3"^, Sarah Ann Ward, of Peterborough. M., 4*^*, Lucretia Hastings. She d. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 453 Dec. 5, 1S61, a. 65. M., 5% Louisa Greenwood, of Dublin. He d. in Rindge, Aug. 29, 1877. Ch. by first wife : I. Caroline A., b. Dec. 6, 181 2 ; m. Asa Morrill ; r. Boston. II. Samuel^ b. May 6, 1814; d. May 20, 1814. III. Harriet C, b. Sept. 14, 1815 ; m. Edwin W. Buswell. IV. Mary L.,h. Aug. 31, 1817; m. John Clough ; d. Nashua. V. Susan^ b. Feb. 18, 1820; m. Lemuel W. Page. VI. Emily, b. July 20, 1822; m. Charles Moulton. VII. Elvira, b. Dec. 5, 1S24; m. Jedediah Truman. Ch. by third wife : VIII. Sally, b. Jan. 31, 1842 ; d. May 6, 1842. David Saunders paid taxes i794-'5-'6-'7-'8. SAWTELL FAMILY. Daniel Sawtell came from Athol, Mass., pre- vious to 1793 ; settled on lot 18, range 3 ; m. Rebecca , who d. Dec. 31, 1832, a. 67. He d. Nov. 16, 1841, a. 78. Nine children I. Sarah, b. 1788; m. Capt. Thomas Adams, q. v. II. Betsey, b. Jan. 11, 1792; d. Nov. 19, 1859; unm. III, Aaron, b. Nov. 13, i793'-h IV. Polly, b. Dec. 9, 1795. V. David, b. Dec. 6, 1797.-]- VI. Warren, b. April 29, 1800. VII. Henry, b. May 8, 1802. VIII. Rebecca, b. Jan. 2, 1805 ; m. Rodney Gowing. IX. Amos, b. March 15, 1809. Aaron Sawtell m. Lucy Davis, of Dublin, Feb. 25, 1827. He d. March i, 1859. I. Aaron W. R., b. Sept. 30, 1828. II. Warren J., b. May 29, 1832. III. John F., b. Aug. 24, 1834. 454 HISTORY OF JAKKKF.Y. ''1 1 5 IV. (k:orf/c Jl. 71/., li. Dec. 17, 1S3S. V. Awcy yl., 1). iS,|3; d. Nov. 1, 1S80. VI. tSdrah .A'., d. Mny iS, 1854,21. 9. (6) '7 •9 21 David Sawtkt.t. m. Abip.-iil Cnproii, A\\^. 27, 1.S34. lie (1. July 16, 1870. 1. Mitry A., d. Nov. 2, 1859, a. 24 yrs., 4 mos. II. /SuKdu Ji., (1. Sept. 30, 1870, Jl. 32 yrs., 10 mos., H) (lays. III. (hpithid yl . , 1 ) . 1 84 1 . IV. At/ioK, (1. April 4, 1845, a. II mos., 14 days. V. /Sylvia Ji.^ b. 1849. Solomon Savvii;i.i. p.iid taxes 1 N^T), '27, '28, '29, '30. M()si;s Sak 1 nil. d. \'\]). 16, 1857, a. 6,|. RosiNA Sartell d. Oct. I, 1870, a. 33. The Olds. Rufus, .7S4. the latr (6) 8 9 sawyi<:r tamily. name of Sayer (now Sawyei) ajjpears on the early lec- lU'zalcel was a sohherofthe Revolution. He/.aleel, Jr., and Nathaniel Sayer belonged to the trainin^-haiKl in Thiy lived near the (iilmore pond, on lot 11, range 9, residence ol Riifiis Sawyei, a desceiulanl. Rdi'Us Sawvicii, Sen'r, m., l"', Susannah (ireeii, who d Oct. 15, 1810, a. 40. M., 2'', ICunice Darliiifj;, who <1. July 2'J, 1834, a. 62. lie d. Sept. 29, 1845, a. 87. I. fSuxitn, 1). 1794; d. May 13, 1868, imni. 11. !^yrai.a, d. l'\'l). 13, 1800, a. 4 yrs., 1 mo. III. /Sii/fi/^ m. David )a(|uith, (j. V. i\'. h't/iritnl^ (1. Oct. II, 1829, a. 29. V. h'lt./'itH, m. IClmira .-|- VI. Janict, 1). 1813; m, IJctsey 1*. Livcrmore ; last lax, 1867. ' Kni'Us SawvI'H in. Idmiia . lie d. Sept. 10, 1869, a. 60. His widow d. Au^. 31, 1872, a. 71. h'mili/, 1). 1835; m. VVm. Jevvett, ol" Nelson. William X., b. 1838; in. lO II 12 13 M 18 19 20 21 (17) 22 23 (20) 24 25 26 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 455 UiuAii Sawykh, origin unknown, came to JaHrey al)Out 1S03, paid tax that year; his hist tax was in 181 7. lie settled on lot 12, ranj^e 2, now owned by Susan A. Woodruff. We have no knowledf^e of wliom lie married or the number of his children. He re. to Ohio. Asa Sawykk r. on lot 16, ranj^e 4; paid taxes in 1803 to 1817. Moses Sawyer m. Hepsey Ilathorn in i795- JosiAil Sawykj<, son of Josiah and Patty Wyman Sawyer, b. in Sharon, July 9, 1800; m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas and Hannah Cummings French, Dec. 30, 1823 ; came to Jaflrey in 1836, and settled on the IJenj. Nutting farm, lot 22, range 8. He was killed by a run- away horse. Sept 14, 1864. I. fjwm.minga^ b. Nov. 26, 1824; m. Elizabeth .' Children: (i) Albert, b. i860; (2) Emily J., b. 1863 ; (3) Fred L., b. j866. 11. Emily (J., b. April 19, 1827. III. Georr/e W.^ b. June 2r, 1829; d. Nov. 23, 1830. IV. Alfred^ b. Aug. 12, 1831.-!- V. Jjijdia Ann, b. Dec. 2, 1833. VI. Adeline //., b. Feb. 3, 1836. VII. Lemi/ird, b. Aug. 8, 1839.4- viii. Levi, b. Oct, 12, 1841. Aij XKD Sawykk m. Lucy M. I. Mary A. II. Clifton A. Leonaiuj F. m. Mary Ji. I. EUo, M. II. EUaM. Harvey Sawyer, b. in Sharon ; came to Jaffrey in 1854; m. Adaline Haywood, and settled on the Hay- wood farm. 456 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 7 8 9 lO II 12 13 SHATTUCK FAMILY. Vryling D. Shattuck was b. in Pepperell, Mass. ; April 21, 1836, came to JaftVey, and settled on lot 11, range 5 ; m. Sally M., dau. of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter. Four children : I. Josephine M.^ b. April 3, 1837; m. Edwin R. Spaulding, q. v. II. Edward Cutter^ b. July 30, 1839 ; d. April 4, 1842. III. Henry Yryling, b. Nov. 20, 1841 ; m. Clara Mixer. She d. Oct. 26, 1874. IV. Jjucy Vrylena, b. Feb. 10, 1844; m. Austin A. Spaulding, Oct. 19, 1871, q. v. Edmund F. Shattuck, brother of Vryling D., came to Jaffrey, and settled on the farm formerly owned by Dr. Adonijah Howe; m. Rachel R. Cutter, dau. of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter, May 18, 1837. Seven children : I. Mary Abhie,h. Sept. i, 1840; m. Leonard E. Spaulding, Feb. 25, 1868, q. v. II. Sarah Jones, h. Sept. 4, 1842; d. Sept. 17, 1872. in. Elizabeth Parker, b. Feb. 20, 1844 ; m. Joel H. Poole, Feb. 25, 1868, q. v. IV. Susan Maria, b. March 19, 1846 ; d. March 26, 1848. V. Xucy Maria, h. May 21, 1848. VI. Edmund Cutter, b. April 20, 1851. VII. Daniel Cutter, b. April 29, 1854; m. Deborah M., dau. of George A. and Mahala (Baker) Underwood, Oct. 19, 1S80. SHEDD FAMILY. The Shedd family came from England, and settled in Groton, Mass. Abel was b. there ; m. Ruth Haskell ; re. to Rindge about 17S0, and d. Sept. 21, 1819. He was the son of Jona- than and Sarah (Barron) Shedd, who were m. April 13, 1722. (i) Abel ; (2) Samuel; (3) John H.; (4) Henry ; (5) Josiah; (6) Timothy; (7) Ebenezer. lO GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 45/ Abel Shedd was b. in Mason, Aug. 15, 1769 ; settled in Jaffrey in 1793, and in iSoo re. to Rindge. He m., i'', Priscilla, dau. of John and Piiscilla French, of Jaftrey, Oct. 23, 1793. She d. Sept. 27, 1799. He m., 2"^, July 20, 1802, Rebecca, dau. of Ephraim and Lydia (Kinsman) Adams, of New Ipswich, sister of Prof. Ephraim Adams, of Dartmouth college. He d. Sept. 17, 1819. His widow d. Sept. 11, 1823. 1. Ruthy, b. Aug. 15, 1794; m. William Kimball. II. Sally (twin), b. Aug. 15, 1794; m. Cummings French, q. v. III. Abel, b. May 11, 1797 ; m., June 16, 1825, Mary, dau. of Oliver and Mary (Turner) Jewett. IV. Charles, b. Oct. 21, 1802 ; graduated from Dart- mouth college, 1826 ; was eight years an instructor in Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. ; from 1834 to 1S41, princi- pal of the Appleton academy. New Ipswich. In 1842 he was ordained pastor of the Con- gregational church in Campton, N. H., where he remained fifteen years, when he re. to Minnesota ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. J. Rowell, of Cornish, N. H. V. James Adams, b. Feb. 25, 1S04; ^- Augusta Adams, of New Ipswich. M., 2^ Carrie Brown. He practised law in Detroit, Mich., and Dayton, O., and farming in Denmark, Iowa. VI. Curtis, b. Feb. 2, 1809 ; m. Sophronia Taylor ; re. Denmark, Iowa. VII. George, b. May 13, 1810 ; graduated from Dart- mouth college, 1839; settled, as a physician, at Denmark, Iowa. VIII. Rebecca, b. March 20, 1813 ; m. Dr. William Gallup, who settled in New Ipswich ; re., in 1836, to Concord, Mass., where she d. Dec. 17, 1838. John Haskell Shedd was b. March i, 1771, in Ma- son, N. H. ; re. to Rindge with his parents about 1780 ; carried on the blacksmith trade ; exchanged the home farm in Rindge, with his brother Abel, for his farm in Jaftrey; m., Nov. 30, 1800, Susannah, dau. of Josiah and Tabitha Carter White, b. in Leominster, Mass., Oct. 21, 1783 ; re. to Jaftrey, Dec, 1800 ; was a thrifty 458 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. II 12 15 16 17 (") farmer; d. July 17, 1819. His widow m., Sept. 24, 1822, Abel Kendall, of Leominster, Mass., a farmer, b. Nov. 13, 1770, who d. at New Ipswich, Aug. 13, 1846. She d. in Derby, Vt., July 27, 1852. Eight ch. by first marriage : I. Alvin, b. Sept. 7, i8oi.-|- II. Henry^ b. May 16, 1803. -f- [See College Graduates.] III. John Haskell^ b. March 19, i8o5.-(- IV. A danghter, b. and d. May 26, 1S06. V. Susan Maria, b. Oct. 27, 1807 ; m. Charles Adams, son of Benj. and Olivia (Everett) Adams, of New Ipswich, b. Dec. 21, 1802 ; was a tanner in that place. In 1834 he re. to Derby, Vt. ; was a farmer there. In 1869 he re. to Ann Arbor, Mich., where they now reside. Three children : 1. Susan Augusta, b. March 29, 1826; d. d. Nov. 19, 1S38. 2. Charles Kendall, b. Jan. 24, 1835 ; graduated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1861 ; teach- er and assistant pi-ofessor in the University, i862-'7 ; spent a year in travel and study in Europe ; now professor of history in the University; m, Aug., 1863, Mrs. Abigail (Disbro) Mudge, of Ann Arbor. 3. Emily Maria, b. Sept. 10, 1840; m., July 20, 1859, James Stanton ; d. Jan. 25, 1862, while her husband was in the army, leaving one son, now, with his father, living in Ne- braska. VI. A son, b. and d. Dec. 26, 1S09. VII. A so?i, h. and d. Dec. 10, 181 1. VIII. A son, b. and d. April 10, 1813. Alvin Shedd settled in New Ipswich ; was a tanner ; re. to Derby, Vt. ; afterwards to Salem, Vt., and carried on the business of farming. He m. Laurinda Smith, of HoUis, Dec. 27, 1825 ; d. at Salem, Oct. 13, 1842. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 459 19 I. ZiaicriJida, h. Oct 17, 1S26; m. Darius Good- win ; r. in California. Two sons. 20 II. Lewis^ b. Nov. 16, 1827 ; m. Mary Jane Hun- toon ; r. in Salem, Vt. Two ch. 21 III. Josiah, b. July 9, 1S29 ; m. Ann E. Durgin ; r. in Derby, Vt. Two ch. 22 IV. Alvm, b. July 6, 1831 ; m. Alice Salmon, d. ; r. Cal. 23 V. George Henry ^ b. Feb. 8, 1833 ; r. Cal. 24 VI. Mary Jane, b. June 11, 1S34 ; d. 1842. 25 VII. John Haskell, b. April 11, 1836 ; r. Cal. 26 VIII. Amos Farley, b. July 24, 1838 ; d. 184S. 27 IX. Abel Kendall, b. April 4, 1840; d. 1842. 28 X. Lydia Jane, b. Aug. 7, 1841 ; m. Zebbord T. White; r. in Winchester, Mass. The widow of Alvin r. in California with her ch. (12) 29 30 31 32 Henry Shedd m., Sept. 28, 1829, Mary Gerrish, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Chandler) Gerrish, of Can- terbury, N. H. His wife d. in Mt. Gilead, March 12, 1835. M., 2^, Sept. 13, 1838, Lucretia C. George, dau. of James and Hannah (Church) George, of Dunbarton, N. H. I. Charles, h. in Mt. Gilead, O., June 23, 1830; m. Caroline E. Mateer ; r. Mt. Gilead ; in the shoe and leather business ; have had five ch. II. John Haskell, b. in Mt. Gilead, July 9, 1833; graduated at Marietta college, 1856 ; Andover Theological Seminary, 1859; was a mis- sionary to Persia eleven years ; now profes- sor in Biddle Institute (for the education of colored young men), Charlotte, N. C. ; m. Sarah Jane Dawes, of Marietta, O. Eight ch., — six b. in Persia (three not living), and two b. in Charlotte. Ch. by second wife : III. Mary Lucretia, b. in Mt. Gilead, Oct. 26, 1840; graduated at the Western Female Seminary, Oxford, Ohio, i860; now assistant teacher in the high school of Mt. Gilead. IV. James G., b. in Pleasant Valley, O., June 23, 460 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 33 34 35 (13) 36 37 38 39 40 41 1842 ; graduated at Western Reserve Col- lege, O., 1865 ; was tutor one year in that college ; is now a professional teacher in Illinois ; m. Helen Lescure, of Danville, 111., where they now reside. V. Henry Oilman, b. in Delaware Co., O., Sept. 25, 1S45 ; enlisted in the 26*'' Regt. O. V. I., Feb., 1S64 ; discharged Nov., 1865, and d. April I, 1S67, from disease contracted in the army. VI. William Edgar, b. in Marysville, O., Aug. 18, 1847 : enlisted into the 15th Regt. O. V. I., March, 1864; was taken prisoner May 27; held in Andersonville prison four months, also in Millen six weeks ; released Nov. 25 ; continued in service till Dec, 1865 ; m. Alice M. Scott, of Kansas City, Mo. ; r. in Danville, 111. ; a hardware merchant. VII. Ambrose White, b. in Marysville, O., June 14, 1851 ; d. May 31, 1852. John Haskell became a merchant in the store of Henry Payson, in Jaffrey for some years, also in Hart- land, Vt. ; m., April 28, 1829, Eliza Ann, dau. of Dea. David and Lucy (Wellington) Gilmore ; settled in Bos- ton. She d. Jan. 29, 1844. He m., 2'', Susan Flint, of Lincoln, Mass., June 26, 1845. She was b. Jan. 30, 1825. He d. in Lynn, April 18, 1865. Three children : I. Henry Ripley, b. in Cambridgeport, Sept. 16, 1830 ; d. Dec. 19, 1831. II. Lyman Munson, b. Dec. 8, 1835 ; r. Newport or Derby, Vt. III. John Henry, b. Sept. 18, 1838 ; d. Nov. 13, i860 ; was in a jewelry and silverware store. Reuben Shedd was b. in Billerica, Mass., Nov. 24, 1781 ; m., Dec. 25, 1819, Lucy Cummings, b. Oct. 13, 1782; r. Sharon, N. H. He d. Jan. 12, 1868, a. 86. She d. Oct. 30, 1S69, a. 87. Three children : I. James Parker, b. May 14, 1820; m. Martha Nichols ; r. Chautauqua, N. Y. II. Nathan Cummings, b. Sept. 2, 1823.-I- 42 43 (40 44 45 46 47 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 461 III. John Brooks^ b. April 20, 1829; m. April 12, 1853, Sarah Jones, dau. of John and Sarah Jones (Smith) Verder, b. April 20, 1825. Child, — one son. I. Frank E., b. July 18, 1856. Nathan Cummings Shedd m. Sally M., dau. of Lot Nichols, of Sharon, b. April 19, 1832 ; r. Jaftrey. I. Zenophon Brooks, b. April 20, 1849 ; m. Mar- tha, dau. of Charles Nutting; r. Fitchburg, Mass. II. 3ferick Nichols, b. Jan. 18, 1852 ; d. July 13, 1852. III. Frederick Elery^h. July 3, 1859; d. Aug. 10, 1S62. IV. Mark Dane, b. Oct. 2, 1869. SHERWIN FAMILY. Samuel Sherwin was chosen one of a committee to count, with the selectmen and constable, at the meeting for the organization of the town in 1773. It seems quite probable that he afterwards went to Rindge, as his name does not again appear on the town records. David Sherwin, son of Jonathan, who came from Boxford and settled in Rindge, was b. March 28, 1764; m., Nov 28, 1786, Hannah, dau. of Paul and Hannah (Ferley) Pritchard, from Boxford, then of New Ips- wich, b. March 28, 1864. Mr. Sherwin r. Rindge till 1790, when he re. to Jaftrey, and occupied the mills in that place. In 1795 he left JaftVey, and afterwards re- sided in Westmoreland, New Ipswich, and Temple. While in Rindge he held the offices of town-clerk and selectman ; was in the Revolution, and at the battle of Bennington. His wife d. in Temple, Oct. i, 1806. Eight children : I. Sally, b. in Rindge, Nov. 20, 1787; m., Aug. 8, 1822, Abram Mead, and d. in Littleton, Mass., March 30, i860. II. Mehecca, b. Nov. 16, 1789; d. young. 462 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. III. Mary, b. in Jaftrey, Aug. 25, 1791 ; m. Chris- topher P. Farley, and d. in HolHs, Nov. 23, 1S13. IV. Hannah, b. May 21, 1795 ; d. in New Ipswich, Sept. 21, 1S19. V. Thomas, b. in Westmoreland, March 26, 1799; graduated Harvard college, 1821 ; tutor of mathematics in 1827 ; elected master of the Englisli high school in 1837, and in 186S a member of the New England Historic-Gen- ealogical Society. In addition to many val- uable communications, he published two valuable works on algebra, now in extensive use in the schools of the United States. He m., June 10, 1S36, Mary King Gibbens, of Boston. He d. July 23, 1869, leaving three sons: Henry, a merchant, N. Y. Thomas, breveted brigadier-general for distinguished service in the late war ; now city collector in Boston. He m. Isabel Fiske, dau. of Hon. Thomas M. Edwards, of Keene, N. H. Edward, paymaster in the navy during the war, now agent of the Philadelphia Coal and Iron Co. VI. Betsey, b. in Westmoreland, April 16, 1801 ; d. u n m . VII. Anna, b. in New Ipswich, Nov. 5, 1803. SMILEY FAMILY. William Smiley (Dea.) was b. in Ireland, in 1727? of Scotch-Irish origin. He was one of the earliest set- tlers. His family was one of the nine reported by Grout and Gilmore to the proprietors of the township. He settled on lot 13, range 8, on the eastern borders of the Gilmore pond, and resided there till he left town, about the year 1810. This pond was first known as the Smiley pond. The place is now uninhabited. Dea. Smiley was one of the prominent men. When the town was organized he was chosen town-clerk and one of the board of selectmen. He was the first town treas- urer, and the first representative chosen under the state constitution, in 1784. He was also a delegate to the state convention in 1781, for the formation of a constitu- tion. He appears to have held almost every office in the gift of the town. He was one of the first members lO 11 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 463 of the church, and deacon of the same. Two of his sons, David and Robinson, were the first college gradu- ates from the town of Jaftrey. David graduated at Harvard and Robinson at Dartmouth. David was a lawyer, the first one who opened an office for that busi- ness in Jaftrey. In iSio Dea. Smiley removed, with his son Robinson, to Springfield, Vt., and d. March 4, 1813, a. 86. He m. Sarah Robinson, of Boston, who d. Nov. 14, 1815, a. 86. Ten children : I. Joh7i, b. Aug. 21, 1754; d. in the state of New York at a great age. II. Agnes, h. Dec. 8, 1755; m. Robert Smith, of Peterborough; d. Oct. 10, 1791. Two ch., William and Fanny. HI. William, h. July 13, 175 1 ; d. in the service of his country at Ticonderoga, Oct. 14, 1776. IV. Francis, b. Feb. 21, 1759; re. to Elba, New York, and d. March 23, 1844. He was a physician. V. David, b. Nov. 16, 1761 ; d. Feb. 27, 1763. VI. Sarah, b. Oct. 5, 1763; m. Josiah Belknap. They re. to Springfield about 1818 ; d. Feb. 20, 1846. He d. April 27, 1845, a. 85. He owned a fulling-mill near the Davidson mill, south of the centre of the town, now owned by Heath and Gilmore. VII. James, b. May 7, 1766; re. to Buford, Canada West; d. Sept. 27, 1845. He m. Hannah Hathorn. One ch., — James, b. in Jaftrey, April 15, 1795. VIII. David, b. March 16, 1769 ; graduated Harvard ; studied law; practised in Jaftrey till 1807, when he re. to Grafton, N. H., and d. May 19, 1845. He m. Mary ; had one ch., b. in Jaftrey, — Mary, b. and d. June, 1S04. IX. Bohinson, b. April 12, 1771 ; grad. Dartmouth college, 1798; studied divinity; settled in Springfield, Vt, and d. there June 26, 1856, a. 85. X. Efiigh, b. March 29, 1793 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Lieut. John and Elizabeth (Proctor) Harper ; a farmer ; settled on the home- stead in or about 1810; he re. to Pennsylva- nia and d, there. 464 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 12 Elias Smiley, son of Dr. David Smiley, of Peter- borough, N. H., b. July 10, 1783; m. Betsey Bowers, ofRindge. He d. Dec. 2, 1865, a. 82. Shed. Dec. 14, 1S65, a. 82. No children. SNOW FAMILY. Jesse Snow was a soldier in the Revolution from Jaftrey, as reported by the state. Asa Snow was a tax-payer in 1793 ; resided on lot 10, range 6, now owned by James T. Brown. JosiAH Snow was a tax-payer in 1796 and 1797. Samuel Snow came from Sterling, Mass. ; settled on lot 16, range 5 ; was taxed in Jaffrey for the last time in i793- H^ le- to Dublin and d. there; was buried in Jaftrey. He m. Dorothea Richardson. They were both members of Mr. Ainsworth's church soon after its incorporation. I. Samuel, re. to New York state, n. Ezra, b. Aug. 19, 1785 ; re. to Dublin. -f- III. Tilly, re. to Boston. IV. Dorothea, m., 1S12, Jas. Phelps; r. New York state. V. Mark studied medicine in Rochester, N. Y. ; commenced the practice of his profession in the state of Ohio. In 1820 re. to St. Francis- ville, La., and r. there four years ; re. to Jef- ferson county, Miss., and re. there two years ; re. to Hinde county. Miss., and was a pioneer settler in that place ; became a distinguished physician in that section. In May, 1844, while in Vicksburg for the purjDOse of pur- chasing medicine, he was stabbed in the neck, robbed, and thrown from a window at the Glidden House in that place. The as- sassin made his escape ; the doctor was maimed for life, and obliged to retire from the practice of his profession, and d. at Au- burn, Hyde county, May 12, 1866, having been an esteemed citizen of that vicinity for a period of thirty years, and a resident of GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 465 Mississippi forty-two years. He m. Aman- da Wliittaker, and had six children, — Olivia C. ; Marcus, d. ; Abram, d. ; Gertrude ; Mary ; Frank. Ezra Snow settled in Dublin ; a farmer ; m., Dec. 15, 1807, Mary, dau. of Moses and Mary (Twitchell) Rider, b. Aug. 13, 17SS. He d. Feb. 4, 1S50. She d. at Peterborough, Dec. 4, 1872, a. 84. I. 3Iary, b. March 3, 1809 ; d. July 4, 1844. II. Dorothea H., b. May 2, 181 1 ; m. Rev. Augus- tus Berry, of Pelham, Mass., a distinguished minister of that place. She d. March 15, 1873, a. 62. III. Edward^ b. May 29, 1813 ; d. Feb. 14, 1861. IV. Ezra 6r., b. Dec. 9, 1815 ; d. Oct. 3, 1839, while practising medicine with his uncle, Mark Snow. V. Elizabeth^ b. Aug. 25, 1818 ; r. Boston. VI. JuUa^h. Ozi. 5, 1S20; d. Peterborough, Feb. 20, 1S77. VII. Harriet aS'., b. March 22, 1823 ; m. Aaron B. Grant, who d. Sept. 29, 1850, a. 33. One child, d. M., 2*^, John Wilder, a merchant in Peterborough. VIII. Emma A., b. July 4, 1825. IX. Francis Jf., b. March 2, 1829. In 1848 re. to Buffalo, N. Y. ; was employed by the firm of Howard and Whitcomb, importers and dealers in dry-goods ; became a partner of the firm in 1S54. I'"" 1S56 he m. Julia F Miller, youngest dau. of James Miller, one of the oldest residents in the place. He d. of typhoid fever, Sept. 28, 1861, leaving a widow and two children. I. Albert F., b. March 2, 1858; fitted for college and entered the University of Rochester. His health failed at the close of his junior year, and he went with his mother to Colorado Springs, Col., where he now (1880) resides. II. James Miller, b. Jan. 23, i860; grad- uating with credit at the high school, and after a partial course at Rochester 31 •i^r. 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(■iii|>li'\ I'd III li(-iitd mtii ll Kilid iilioiil llu- lull iiiid U-ililr lillld.-i ill on I III I lie ( ilillld Moiiildliot Iv. I lir. iiidllt cd III Ml lo vihil lliiil loi'idilv. 'llu- tippriiiiiiii I :iil'., mtlllKcd liir\ Im yllidt' lioiudfi, iMid lol dr. lol ImuI^CS, 1 1 icy slUllcd on lliril lont i nol in ti coiu h oi kii, IiuI in an o\-cSVm/A, b. Jan. 20, 17S0; m. Al)raham Spcjflbrd, q. v. V. Edward, b. Oct. 19, 1781.-I- VI. Lydia, b. Sept. 20, 1783 ; m. Henj. M. Stanley, q. V. VIJ. Oliver, h. Aug. 10, 1785; drowned in tiie Con- necticut river while a member of Dartmouth college, July 29, 1807. VIII. Daniel, b. Dec. 26, 788 ; m. Lucinda Perkins. Five children. \- 468 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II 12 (3) 13 (6) 15 (9) i6 17 i8 19 IX. Zeyi, b. Aug. 22, 1791,-!- X. Bhocla^h. May 22, 1793; d. Dec. 11, 1856; unm. XI. David^ b. May 17, 1795.+ Phineas Spaulding m. Sally, dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Shipley) Fisk^ of JaftVey, He settled near the hometead of his father, afterwards re. with his son Ly- man to the farm now owned by Thomas Stearns, where his wife d. April 21, 1844. After her death he and his son re. to Medina, Mich., and d. there. I. Lyman^ b. Aug. 27, 1803.4- II. Sarah Elizabeth, m. Thomas Stearns, q. v. Edward Spaulding settled on the home farm. For many years he was quite a prominent man in Jaffrey, filling the offices of town agent, deputy sheriff', select- man, representative, and justice of the peace with marked ability. He was one of the distinguished school- teachers, and held the commission of captain in the state militia. He m. Nabby Newton, of Fhillipston, Mass., and d. Jan. 20, 1843. His widow d. Dec. 6, 1861, a. 81. One child by adoption. I. Ambrose TPi, b. 1818; m., i^*, Caroline, dau. of Levi and Mary (Jewett) Benjamin. Had one son, Charles. She d. Oct. 12, 1849, a. 28. He m., 2*^, Elizabeth Robinson, of Royalton, Vt., and has two daughters, — Carrie L., b. 1853, and Minnie, b. 1864. He d. March 5, 187S. Daniel Spaulding m. Lucinda Perkins, dau. of Robertson Perkins, of Fitzwilliam ; r. Fitzwilliam ; had five children : I, Mary Elizabeth d. Oct. 9, 1848, a. 26. II. Jar ed Perkins d. Aug. 25, 1827, a. 2 yrs. III. Daniel Robinson d. Oct. 26, 1875, a. 47. IV. Julia Ann, b. March 5, 1831 ; m. Oscar Holmes Bradley, m. d. Dr. Bradley was b, in the city of Louisville, state of Kentucky, Feb. 10, 1826. His mother was the daughter of GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 469 Jonathan Holmes, of Londonderry, N. H., an officer who served under Gen. Stark at Bennington, and under Washington through the dark and memorable winter at Valley Forge. His ancestors were of Scotch-Irish extraction, and among the number of those who early settled at Londonderry. His parents were poor, with a family of six chil- dren, and, in those early days in the south- west, found it a stern and laborious task to obtain the means of their support. When the subject of our sketch was about four years of age, he re. with his parents to the western part of Vermont, where he lived until he reached the age of seventeen. The means of obtaining an education in that sec- tion of the state were very meagre at that time, but every advantage within his reach was improved, and, by dint of perseverance and application, teaching the district school in the winter months, and afterwards as an assistant instructor in the Black River acad- emy, at Ludlow, Vt., he succeeded in grad- uating with honor from that institution in the autumn of 1847. ^^ taught school at Mt. Holly, Vt., in the following winter, and in the spring of 1S48 entered the law office of Hon. D. E. Nicholson, of Rutland, where he pursued the study of law for several suc- ceeding months. Not finding the law con- genial to his tastes, he abandoned it, and in the autumn of 1848 commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Amos and George B. Twitchell, of Keene, N. H. He found here his favorite science, and began at once, by diligent application, to lay the foundation of that successful career as a practising physi- cian and surgeon, which has so notably crowned his subsequent life. He studied medicine with the Drs. Twitchell about two years and six months, at the same time sup- porting himself by teaching the high school , in the adjoining towns of Troy, Fitzwilliam, and Stoddard. He also attended medical lectures at Woodstock, Vt., under the in- struction of such eminent professors as Alon- 470 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. zo Clark, of New York ; Prof. Childs, ex- lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts ; Prof. Moore, of Rocliester, New York ; Prof. Bartlett, from Yale college ; Prof Benj. R. Palmer, of the Louisville Medical Col- lege ; and afterwards graduated, with the first honors of his class, from the Castleton Medical College, in the foil of 1S51. In January, 1852, Dr. Bradley settled in Jaffrey, where he has ever since pursued the practise of his profession. Nov. 29, 1853, he m. Julia A. Spaulding, dau. of Daniel Spaul- ding, Esq., a prominent citizen of Fitzwill- iam, N. H., by whom he has two sons, — Daniel Edward, b. May 16, 1861, and Mark Spaulding, b. Jan. 16, 1S6S, — both now liv- ing, and at present pursuing their educa- tional studies, the elder son being in Dart- mouth college. Almost every family, within a radius of twenty miles from JatiVey, is, either professionally or otherwise, familiar with the genial face of the "Doctor." No physician or surgeon in southern New Hampshire is better known, or more gener- ally employed in difficult and serious cases, than he. In the medical profession he is particularly noted for keenness and accuracy of perception in the diagnosis of disease, and for positiveness of judgment and a self-reli- ance that rarely err. As a surgeon, with the scalpel he is quick and skilful, and he inspires the patient with hope and courage b}' the manifest calm and steady nerve of a self-reliant hand. In all branches of medical practise he is frequently called into consul- tation by other practitioners, and is often called to attend upon patients in distant towns and cities in other states. In 1868 the Dartmouth Medical College expressed its recognition of his high attainments and skill, as a medical practitioner, by presenting him with the honorary degree of m. d. Dr. Bradley has always been a public-spirited citizen, and has largely aided in the material improvement and growth of his adopted town. He was one of the first advocates of GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 471 20 (10) (12) the incorporation of the Monadnock Raih'oad Co., and has been, from its inception, a director in its management Through his influence, largely, the Monadnock Savings Bank was established at Jaff^rey, of which he has been the president from its incorporation. Tills institution has become well known in New Hampshire as one of the safest and best managed savings banks in the state. The doctor has always aided liberally the industrial enterprises of JaflVey, and has in- vested his means, when the interests to be established or benefited were commended by his judgment. His influence in the public aflairs of the town has always been marked, and has been invariably exerted in behalf of advancement and progress in all worthy public movements or objects. He has done much for Jaflrey, toward keeping her in the front rank of temperate, progressive, and prosperous communities Endowed with a fine personal presence and an excellent voice, and possessing refined and scholarly attainments, he is a very attractive public speaker, and when speaking upon public oc- casions, at home or elsewhere, he is always listened to with attention. He is at this time in the prime and vigor of life, and much employed in the duties of his profes- sion, and the cares of large business and financial interests devolving upon him, in connection with the two banks in Jaflrey, and the railroad passing through the town. c. A. p. V. Lucinda Viola, b. Jan. 30, 1S34. Levi Spaulding, d. d., m. Mary Christie, of Antrim. Two children, — Eclward and Elizabeth, b. in Ceylon, East India ; were sent to this country for an education. Edward studied medicine, went South, m., and d. at Florence, Alabama, leaving one child, — Frank. Eliza- beth m. a Mr. Abbott, from Conn. David Spaulding settled on a place near the home- stead ; m. Hannah Foster, of Fitzwilliam ; re. to Min- eral Spring village, and d. Feb. 11, 1869, a. 74. His wife d. Jan. 8, 1865, a. 65. 472 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 21 22 23 24 25 26 (13) 27 I. Laura M., b. March 15, 1S26. II. Elvira A., b. Oct. 29. 1829. III. Levi, b. March 26, 1832 ; d. Aug. 20, 1848. IV. Mary 31., b. Dec. 19, 1833. V. Alfred F., b. Sept. 11, 1S36 ; a soldier in the Rebellion. VI. Leatider, b. Jan. 3, 1839; served in the Rebel war ; m. ; re. South. Lyman Spaulding m. Susan, dau. of William and Sarah (Cutter) Marshall, Sept. 13, 1831. She d. at Medina, Mich., April 13, 1874. He settled first on the homestead, in School District No. 5. In 1839 ^^^ ^^• to the place now owned by Thomas W. Stearns, and in 185 1 he re. to Medina, Mich. Mr. Spauldingwas an active business man, of sound judgment, and met with success in all of his business operations. He is the parent of an interesting family of children, one of whom has highly distinguished himself in public life. I. Oliver L., b. Aug. 2, 1833, fitted for college at Melville academy, Jaffrey, N. H. ; entered Oberlin college in 1851 ; graduated in 1855. After teaching a short time he settled at St. John's, Michigan, studied law with James W. Ransom, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In the fall of that year he was elected regent of the State University from the eighth judicial district, for the term of six years. In July, 1862, he entered the U. S. service as captain in the 23d Regt. of Michigan Infantry. He was soon made major, and subsequently held the commis- sion of lieutenant-colonel and brevet briga- dier-general. He was mustered out of ser- vice, July, 1865, and returned to the practice of law at St. John's, Mich. In 1S66 he was elected secretary of the state of Michigan, and was reelected in 1868. He is now of the firm of Spaulding & Cranson, attorneys- at-law, St. John's, Clinton county, Michigan. In iSSo, Nov. 2, he was elected member of congress from Michigan. He m., i^\ Mary Jane Mead, of Hillschde, Mich., who d. Nov. 9, 1 85 7. M., 2**, Martha Minerva 28 29 32 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 473 Mead, April 12, 1859 (sister of first wife), who d. Nov. 20, 1861. M., 3"^, Mary Cecilia Swegles, of St. John's, Mich. II. Eliza Sophia^ b. Aug. 30, 1835 ; m. Franklin Gallup, Dec. 16, 1855 '•> ^- Medina, Mich. III. Susan Maria, b. Oct. 28, 1837 5 ^' J^^^es W. Lewis, June 15, 1865 ; r. Morenci, Mich. IV. Thomas Hastings, b. Jan. 26, 1S40; d. Jan. 11, 1861. V. Edward Marshall, b. May 5, 1842 ; enlisted in Co. G, 23d Regt. Mich. Vols., Sept. 2, 1862, as fifth sergeant. In 1863 he was promoted to first sergeant ; went to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and d. Feb. 10, 1863. VI. Hattie Jane, b. April i, 1844; d. at Jaff'rey, April 27, 1S47. (4) 13 14 SFAULDING FAMILY. Benjamin Spaulding (Capt.) was an early settler, and his name was on the tax-list in 1793, the oldest list extant. He was highway surveyor in 177^5 ^"d held other important town offices ; on committee to procure preaching, captain of the militia, and a soldier in the Revolution. He settled on lot 11, range 8, now (1873) the farm of Charles A. Johnson. He m. Sarah , who d. Oct. 9, 1796, a. 57. After the death of his wife he re. to Marlborough, m. and d. I. Susanna, h.^?in. i, 1760. Willard, b. Dec. 27, 1761. JBenjamin,h. vSept. 5, 1763 ; m. Sarah French.-|- Sai-ah, b. Sept. i, 1765 ; d. Dec, 1765. William, h. Aug. 24, 1766. Meicben, b. March 21, 1768.-I- Moses, b. Feb. 2, 1770; re, to Cavendish, Vt., about 1809. Jesse, b. Sept. 20, 1772. Peter, b. Jan. 20, 1774; d. March, 1776. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1778; m. William Bond, of Dublin; r. Cavendish, Vt. William, b. Dec. 24, 1780. 2 I. 3 II 4 III 5 6 IV. V. 7 8 VI VII 9 VIII IX I X. Benjamin Spaulding m. Sarah French. I. Rebecca, b. May 9, 17S4. II. Asa, b. Jan. 23, 17S6. 474 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. (7) 15 16 17 18 19 Reubf,n Spaulding m. Polly Pratt; d. June 23, 1805. His widow m. Moody Lawrence, and d. Jan. 4, i860, a. 84. I. Mary^ b. March 21, 1796 ; m. Abel Cutter, q. v. II. Sarah, b. March 24, 1798. III. Benjamin^ b. July 27, 1800. IV. Eliza^ b. June 17, 1S03. V. Reuben, b. May 3, 1805. SPAULDING FAMILY. 8 9 10 Abel Spaulding (Dea.) came from Townsend to Jaftrey about 1808 ; was taxed the following year. He settled on lot 7i 'ange 7i now (1873) in possession of Frederick Spaulding, his grandson. He was a man who possessed, in a remarkable degree, all the requi- sites of a good neighbor, a good townsman, and a consistent Christian. He was an exemplary member of the Orthodox Congregational church, antj for many years one of its deacons. He m. Lucy P. Pierce, Oct. 4, 1S02, who d. July 18, 1856, a. 72. He d. Nov. 16, i860, a. 83. They were the parents of eleven ch. : I. Ahel, b. Sept. 14, 1803.4- II. Richard^ b, Oct., 1804.-J- III. Alvah, b. Sept. 9, 1807; m. Ambra Tower, of Fitzwilliam. [See College Graduates.] IV. Ziucy, b. July 14, 1809 ; m. Luke French, q. v. V. Mariel, b. Feb. 3, 1812; m. Benj. O. Hale, b. in Rindge, Jan. i, 1841, son of Benj. and Miriam (Pierce) Hale. She d. July 20, 1849. VI. Erastiis^h.yiny 31, 1815 ; m. Mahala Baker, Nov. 5, 1839. She d. Nov. 18, 1S47. ^•■> 2*^, Mary Bush, of Cambridge, Mass. ; r. in Troy and Keene. VII. EH, b. Nov. 4, 1816; d. March 20, 1817. VIII. Lydia, b. May 22, 1818; m. Benj. O. Hale, Dec. 13, 1849; ^- J"ly 7' 1854- IX. EH J., b. Oct. 17, 1821 ; m. Betsey Holt, of Troy. She d. Aug. 8, 1847. M., 2^ Lucy Ann Jones, of Dublin, May 23, 1848. She d. Feb. 14, 1861. M., 3^ Miss Ellis, of Wakefield, Vt.,Jan., 1868. II 12 (2) 13 (3) 26 27 28 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 4/5 X. Hannah -£'., b. Feb. i, 1823; m. Samuel Stoughton, of Gill, Mass., Jan. 15, 1842. XI. Benj. jP., b. Dec. 30, 1824; d. May 23, 1836. Abel Spaulding m. Mary Templeton, of Boxford, Mass., June 4, 1S33. She d. Oct. 30, 1833, a. 23. M., 2^ Mary Ann Stoughton, of Gill, Mass., Dec. 3, 1835. He d. June 11, 1850. He was a carpenter by trade, and a worthy and exemplary man. I. Frederick, b. Dec. 11, 1836; m. Mary A. E. Eddy, of Rindge, Feb. 10, 1864. Two children : 1. Emma Louisa, b. Feb. 12, 1865. 2. Edith Belle, b. Jan. 14, 1871. II. Mary T., b. March 20, 1838; m. James Rob- bins, June 9, 1864; r. in Rindge. Four children : 1. Frank White, b. March 20, 1865. 2. Arthur James, b. July 13, 1866. 3. Minnie A., b. Jan. 30, 1871. 4. Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1872. Anne S., h. July 11, 1839 ; d. Louisa i>., b. March 16, 1841 ; d. Feb. 14, 1861. Nancy E., b. Sept. 10, 1843 ; d. Oct. 5, 1855. Elmina, b. Oct. 18, 1844; d. Sept. 9, 1847. Ermina, b. Oct. 18, 1844. H 15 16 II 17 18 19 20 21 III 22 IV 23 24 25 V VI VII Richard Spaulding (Dea.) m. Nancy, dau. of Thomas and Hannah (Cummings) French, Feb. 17, 1833. She d. Sept. 18, 1856, a. 45. M., 2^ Elvira, dau. of Isaac and Betsey (Bailey) Stratton, Feb. 4, 1857. I. Nancy E., b. Sept. 4, 1834; "^•' J""^ ^9i ^^7°' G. A. Blood, of Mason. Three ch. II. Edwin R., b. Feb. 17, 1837 ; m. Nov. 24, 1864, Josephine, dau. of Vryling D. and Sally M. (Cutter) Shattuck. One ch. III. Leonard E., b. May 20, 1840; m. Mary A., dau. of Edmund P. and Rachel R. Shattuck, Feb. 25, 1863. One ch. 47^ HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 39 IV. Austin A., b. Oct. 28, 1843 ; m. Vrylena S., dau. of Vryling D. and Sally M. Shattuck, Oct. 19, 1871. One ch. SPOFFORD FAMILY. Eleazer Spofford (Dea.) was a descendant of John Spoftbrd, who came from England and settled in Row- ley, Mass., in 1638. He m. Elizabeth Scott, of Ipswich. His son John m. Sarah Wheeler, of Rowley. His son, Capt. John, m. Dorcas Hopkinson, of Rowley. Dea. Abner, his son, m. Sarah Colman, of Byfield ; and his son, Dea. Eleazer, m. Mary Flint, of Danvers, and re. to Jaftrey ini77S, and purchased of John Borland that tract of land, with the mills thereon, which is now known as East Jaftrey. On it at that time was a saw- and grist-mill, which, under the management of Dea. Spof- ford, became the largest business mill in the vicinity. On the same stream a fulling-mill was built by Lieut. Joseph Lincoln, afterwards owned by Samuel Foster, who m. a dau. of Dea. Spoftbrd. In 1813 he sold his mills to a company, who built a factory for spinning cotton yarn. In 18 — he sold his farm to Daniel Adams, of Cambridge, Mass.; and in 1821 he re. to Bradford, Mass ; d. 1S28, a. 89, and was buried in Groveland cemetery. His widow d. at Jaft'rey, Oct. 28, 1836, a. 92. Dea. Spoftbrd was an active business man ; a prominent leader in town and church aftairs, and held many of the town offices. When the church was incorporated, in 1780, he and his wife were members, and he was made a deacon of the same. He was also distinguished for his musical talent, and was for many years leader of the choir. His sound judgment, strict integrity, and strong conscientiousness could not fail to command the love and respect of his fellow-citizens. They were the progenitors of ten children and sixty-one grandchildren : I. Polhj, b. Oct. 21, 1765 ; m. David Cutter, q. v. II. Jfoses, b. Jan. 14, 176S; d. Feb. 28, 1792. III. Abraham, b. Aug. 10, 1770.-}- IV. Hhoda, b. Aug. 7, 1772; m. Moses Perkins, q. v. V. Miriam, b. June 6, 1775 ; m. Isaac Morse, of Winchendon. She d. Aug. 21, 18 19. He d. Aug. 21, 1850. Eight children : GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 477 lO II 13 7 \ I. Eliza, b. Jan. 9, 1802; m. Asahel D. Shiitleff, M. D., Dec. 9, 1823. 2. Sophia, b. Jan. 9, 1805 ; m. Ephraim Murdock, Nov. 24, 1S25. 3. Milton S., b. Nov. 12, 1S06 ; m. Eliza- beth Cogswell, Oct. 16, 1S36; d. Oct. 29, 1859. 4. Roanah, b. Sept. 4, 1808 ; m. Elisha Murdock, Nov. 29, 1S32. 5. Edward, b. Aug. 15, 1810; d. Aug. 19, 1810 (twin). 6. Edmund, b. Aug. 15, 1810; d. Oct. i, 1810 (twin). ^3 7. Miriam C, b. Oct. i, 1812; m., June 4, 1840, Dr. Joshua Tucker. H 8. Mary B., b. Jan. 10, 1819; d. Feb. 27, 1819. 15 VI. Abner, b. Jan. 5, 1778 ; m. Betsey Litch.-f 16 VII. Isaac, h. April 22, 1780 ; burnt in the house of Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Feb. 13, 17SS. 17 VIII. Sophia, h Jan. 7, 1783 ; m. Samuel Foster. 18 IX. Zuke Ainsworth, b. Nov., 17S5.+ 19 X. llary Ayer, b. Sept. 29, 1789; m. Jeremiah Spoftord, M. D., of Groveland, Oct. 14, 1813. He was a distinguished physician, and was engaged in the practice of his pro- fession for more than fifty years. He has published a history of the Spoftbrd flunily, and a Gazeteer of the state of Massachusetts in 181 7. Nine children: 1. Laura Ayer, b. Sept. 28, 1814; m. Moses P. Atwood. 2. Charles Whiton, b. Nov. 20, 1816; a physician in Groveland. 3. Charlotte E., b. Feb. 8, 1819; m. George W. Chaplin, of George- town. ^3 4. Herschel Ainsworth, b. July 19, 1821 ; m. Sarah Stickney. ^4 5- Mary Putman, b. Nov. 20, 182^ ; d. Feb. 5, 1856. ^5 6. Celia Peabody, b. Aug. 5, 1826 ; m. Wm. G. Downie. 7. Morris, b. Sept. 30, 1829 ; m. Martha J. Nichols, of Haverhill. 20 31 22 26 478 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 27 28 (4) 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 (15) 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 8. Lucy Tenney, b. Nov. 25, 1831 ; d. July 2, 1833. 9. Aphia Tenuey, b. Aug. 10, 1834. Abraham Spofford m. Sally, dau. of Phineas and Elizabeth (Bailey) Spaulding, of Jaffrey ; r. in Bane, Mass., and Moretown, Vt. ; d. 1850. I. Sally, h. Feb. 19, iSoo; m. Joseph Freeman, 1836. II. Polly, h. Nov., 1 801 ; m. Lyman Fiske, Oct., 1S28. III. Betsey, b. June 30, 1803 ; m. John Taylor, 1830. IV. Ayer, b. Jan. 15, 1805 ; m. Harvey Olmstead ; r. Elmore, Vt, V. Moses, b. Nov. i, 1806; m. Dorcas Parker, 1S39. VI. Rhoda, h. Aug. 12, 1S08 ; m. Ira Carpenter; r. in Moretown. VII, Grata, b. July 27, 1810; d. Aug. 17, 1S33. VIII. Miriam, b. July 22, 1812; d. at Lowell, Mass. IX. Luke, b. June 19, 1814; m. Laura Wood, Sa- lem, Vt. X. Aaron, b. July 31, 1816; d. Aug. 28, 1833. XI. Abraham, h. ^u\y 2d>, 1818; m. Caroline Fisk, of Swanzey. XII. Isaac, b. April 30, 1821. XIII. Harriet, b. Nov. 19, 1823 ; m. Alexander Con- ner. Abner Spofford m. Betsey Litch ; r. New York, Mich , and Wisconsin. Eight children: I. Eliza, b. 1804; m., 1820, D. Pitman. II. Samuel Litch, b. March i, 1806; m. Maria Hall. III. Sumner Flint, b. May 11, 1808; m. Emeline E. Bixby. IV. Cynthia 3Ieriam, h. May 16, 1810; m. Theo- dore Bissell, 1827. V. Luke Ayer, b. Nov. 21, 1813 ; m. Mary Niblar, 1836; d. 1867. VI. Harriet 3Iaria, h. Jan. 16, 1816 ; m., i", Milton Hoag ; 2^ A. B. Webster. VII. Americus McKenzia, b. April 20, 1820; m. Maria Glass, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 479 49 VIII. Mary Augusta^ b. March 9, 1823 ; m. Dr. Armstrong, 1848; cl. July 24, 1S58. (18) Rev. Luke Ainsworth Spofford m. Grata, dau. of Col. I>Avid_ and Susannah (Hemenway) Rand, of Rindge, Nov. 12, 1816. He d. at Rockport, Ind., Sept. 27, 1S55. She d. at Williamsburg, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1851, a. 57. 50 I. Richard Cecily b. Dec. 22, 1817; graduated at Amherst college; studied divinity; d. at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, May 25, 1843. 51 II. Mary Susan^ b. Feb. 12, 1820; m. John R. Wiltsie. 52 III. Henry Martin, b. Sept. 8, 182 1 ; m. Ophelia Martin, of Pulaski, Tenn. 53 IV. MlizahethJane^h. Sept. 19, 1823. 54 V. Ainsioorth Rand.h. Sept. 12, 1S25 ; m. Sarah Patridge. 55 VI. Ann Matilda, b. Sept. 22, 1S27; d. July i, 1843- STANLEY FAMILY. Capt. Jonathan Stanley, son of Samuel and Mary (Kinney) Stanley, and great-grandson of Matthew Stin- ley, who settled in Lyme about 1646, was b. at Tops- field, ]\Iass., May 2, 171 1 ; m. Abigail, dau. of Thomas and Marcy (Sumner) Gould, descendant of Zacheus Gould, the emigrant, Aug. 2, 1737; r. first in Lunen- burg, JMass., where most of his children were b. ; re. to Rindge about i754- He was a prominent man in that town till 1773, when his name appears in the rec- ords of the town of JaftVey. calling a meeting for an or- ganization of the town under the charter of incorpora- tion. He settled on lot 19, range 5, north of the vil- lage of East Jafirey, afterwards owned by his son Sam- uel, and now the residence of Luke H. Nutting. He not only called the first town-meeting, but was chosen moderator of the same, and chairman of the board of selectmen. He was also chosen moderator of the sec- ond town-meeting, and chairman of a committee to pro- cure preaching. In 177^^ '^^ \wdi chosen one of the com- mittee of inspection. He was a purchaser of a pew in the meeting-house vv^hen they were sold at auction in rj 48o HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO (4) 13 H 16 17 18 19 20 1780. His name again appears as highway surveyor in 1786. Soon after the organization of the church in 1780, Abigail, wife of Capt. Jonathan Stanley, was admitted a member of the same. No record of his or his wife's death has been found. He was living in Jaf- frey in 1791, and probably d. soon after. In the Centre burying-yard is a headstone erected in memory of Sam- uel Stanley, the only one bearing the name of Stanley in that yard. I. Abigail^ b. March 20, 1739 ; m. Col. Enoch Hale, q. V. II. Mary, b. April 20, 1740; m., probably, Samuel Sherwin. in. Samuel, b. March 15, 1741.-!- IV. John, b. Jan. 29, 1743.--I- V. Joseph, b. Dec. 16, 1745 ; d. young. VI. Jedediah, b. Jan. 31, 1747. VII. Joseph, b. Jan. 17, 1749; m. Lucy Hosmer, of Acton ; r. Rindge ; six children. VIII. Hannah, b. Dec. i, 1751 ; m. Jonathan Parker, IX. Elizabeth, bap. July 14, 1754. Samuel Stanley m. Sybil, dau. of Lieut. Nathaniel and Mercy (Gould) Page; re. to Jaflrey about 17S0; was highway surveyor that year ; settled on lot 19, range 5, with his father. He was a soldier in the Rev- olution. He met with an accidental death from a fall- ing limb while felling trees, March 27, 1792, a. 50. They had eleven children : I. Samuel m. Candace Arnold, of Clarendon, Vt. ; paid taxes in Jaftrey from 179S to 1S05 in- clusive ; re. to Hubbardston, Vt, and d. in 1845. II. John, ) . III. Jonathan, \ IV. Sybil vs\.,yi9.xz\\ 20, 17S8, Johnson Richardson. V. Mary m. William Emery, q. v. VI. Abigail m. Josiah French, son of John and Priscilla French. VII. Hannah. VIII. Charlotte. IX. Sarah m. Parker. X. Betsey m. James Thurber. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 48 1 XI. Mercy, m. March 12, 1776, Luke Hale, son of Oliver Hale. John Stanley m. Sarah ; r. Rindge; was in Jaftre\' in 1775 ; chosen second lieutenant in a military company organized that year, and was selectman in 1778- Six children : (i) Ellen, b. 176S; (2) Jedediah, 1770; (3) Jonathan ^•' 1773; (4) J^iinieU 1775; (5) Sarah, 1779, and (6) Susannah, I'J']^, twins. David Stanley, son of David and Sarah (Button) Stanley (a descendant of Mathew Stanley), was b. at Topsfield, Mass., and settled in Jaffrey about 1774; was highway surveyor that year. In 177S he was tyth- ingman and auditor of accounts. At a town-meeting held June 16, the same year, David Stanley and Will- iam Smiley were chosen to read the psalm ; likewise Jonathan Priest, Abram Bailey, and David Stanley to tune the psalm. His name does not again appear on the town records. Jonathan Stanley, a brother of David, came to Jatirey from Rindge, and settled on lot i, range 9, about 1776. He came to Rindge from Acton, Mass. He m. Lois, probably a daughter of Benjamin Moors, of Rindge. In 1779 he was chosen highway surveyor. He was a soldier in the Revolution. He d. July 12, 1789, a. 41. She d. Dec. 9, 1828, a. 81. I. Jonathan, b. in Rindge, July 16, 1774; m. Bet- sey Ross. -I'- ll. John. III. Benjamin Moors m. Lydia Spaulding.-f- IV. Jedediah m. Prudence Ross, July 11, 1*^09. V. Nathan. VI. Sarah. VII. Abiah, m., 1801, Oliver Warren, q. v. VIII. Keziah. IX. Abiier. Jonathan Stanley m. Betsey Ross, dau. of Abra- ham Ross. He d. Nov. 4, 1S52, a. 78. His wife d. Feb. 10, 1842, a. 67. 32 482 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 33 34 35 36 37 3S 39 (26) 40 41 42 43 44 I. Abraham m. Lydia Evleth ; r. Chester, Vt. II. Abner. III. Benjamin lloors^h. 1S06; m. Abigail Sibley; d. at Newport, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1S79. Three children : (i) Benjamin B. ; (2) Betsey R. ; (3) Eva H. IV. Alvah^h. 1807; m. Lucy B. Cutting, who d. March 14, 1875, a. 63. V. James Moss (Col.) m., June 7, 1850, Abby Cut- ting ; r. in Troy ; one son. VI. Persis, m. ; r. Sterling, Mass. vii. Jonathan, m. ; r. Brookline. Benjamin Moors Stanley m. Lydia, dau. of Phin- eas and Elizabeth (Bailey) Spaulding ; r. on homestead till 1845 ; re. to Harrisville, and d. there March, 19, 1852, She d. Sept. 22, 1853. I. Lydia Ann, b. June 16, 181 2 ; m. Col. Charles Jewell ; r. Adrian, Mich. Lois Almeda, b. Feb. 24, 1814; m., 1°', Sam- uel Gilmore, who d. ; m., 2^, Thos. Stearns ; r. Jaflrey. Elizabeth Bailey, b. Nov. 3, 1815. Mary Christina, b. Aug. 27, 1822. Louisa Ay er, b. Nov. 1, 1826; m., April 18, 1S48, Moses K. Perry, of Dublin ; r. Harris- ville. II. III. IV. V. STEARNS FAMILY. John Stearns, b. July, 1768, m. Chloe, eldest daughter of Benjamin Phinney, of Lexington, Mass., May, 1794. She was b. at Falmouth, Me., in 1770. Settled in Waltham, Mass., where all of his children but Elizabeth were b. Li 18 10 he re. to Jaftrey, and settled on the farm now (1873) owned by Samuel W. Pierce. He d. June 28, 1S40. His wife d. Oct. 19, 1833. They had nine children : I. Mary Morse, b. Feb. 9, 1795 ; m. William Ains- worth, q. v. II. Caroline, b. Nov. 23, 1797 ; m, Moses T. Run- nels, of Cambridge, Vt. One son, — Rev. Moses T. Runnels, b. Jan. 5, 1830, a dis- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 483 guished minister, settled at Sanbornton, N. H. She d. at Sanbornton, April 17, 1S76. HI. Fidelia, b. Oct. 35, 1799; m., Feb. 26, 1828, Dr. Albert Smith, of Peterborough, a well known physician of that place. He d. Feb. 22, 1878, a. 76. Three children: 1. Frederick Augustus, b. June iS, 1S30; graduated at Dartmouth college in 181^3 ; M. D. 1855 ; d. Dec. 20, 1856, at Leom- inster, Mass. 2. Susan S., b. Feb. 4, 1832; d. April 20, I S3 6. 3. Catherine, b. Dec. 5, 1S37 ; m. Moses P. Smith, Dec. 6, 1S69. Five children. IV. Josiah Phinney, b. May 22, i8oi ; unm. ; r. in La Harpe, 111. V. Chloe Frances, b. March 16, 1803 '■> ^- Oct. 4 1825. VI. Margaret, b. March iS, 1805 ; m. William S. Smith ; d. Bellville, Upper Canada, March 20, 1S51. Five children: (i) William A. ; (2) Samuel G. ; (3) Josiah P. ; (4) Sydney S. ; (5) Elizabeth E. ^ VII. Biademia, b. Aug. 17, 1807; '^- Martin Wiers, Cambridge, Vt. ; d. VIII. Susa7i, b. May 30, 1809; m. Dea. John Smith, of Peterborough ; d. Jan. 9, 1870. Seven children : (i) Mary Frances ; (2) John S. : (3) Jonathan ; (4) Jonathan ; (5) Susan P. ; (6) Caroline; (7) Jeremiah. IX. Elizabeth, b. in Jaflrey, March 14, 1813 ; m. William Smith ; r. La Harpe, 111. He d. Oct. 25, 1873, a. 72. Four children,— Will- iam H., Jonathan, Albert, Elizabeth. Thomas A. Stearns, a farmer and brickmaker, came from New Ipswich to Jaffrey in 1847, settled on lot 16, range 5 ; m., i^ Sarah E., dau. of Phineas and Sally (Fisk) Spaulding, by whom he had three children. She cl. Feb. 26, 1855, a. 37. He m, 3^ Mrs. Almeda S. Gilmore, dau. of Benjamin M. and Lydia (SpauldinP-) Stanley. He d. July 28, 1S79, a. 66. I. Harri^^t E., b. 1844; m-, April 12, 1849, Geo. F. Lowe. 484 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 17 II. Henry 31., h. 184S; m. Mary C. Lowe, Feb. 20, 1S71. 18 III. Mary C, b. 1851. 19 IV. Sarah A., b. i860. (2) 9 10 II STEVENS FAMILY. James Stevens (Lieut.) came from Andover, Mass., to Jartrey about 177S; settled on lot 12, range 9, now occupied by his grandsons, — William P. and Charles Stevens. He m. Elizabeth Lacy, of Andover, a sister of David Lacy. She d. Jan. 25, 1798, a. 45. M., 2*^, Betsey Litch, of Lunenburg, in 1800. She d. Jan. 12, 1858, a. S6. He d. March 31, 1834, a. 85. Seven chikhen : I. Janus, b. Aug. 11, 1779.-)- II. Betsey, b. x^pril 9, 1781 ; d. Dec. 20, 1801. III. Billy, b. March 5, 1783 ; d. Sept. 3, 1786. IV. Sally, b. Aug. 27, 1787 ; d. Feb. 4, 1798. V. Patty, b. Oct. i, 1790; m., 181 1, Samuel Litch, q. V. VI. Dolly, b. March 25, 1793 ; m. Capt. John Mil- liken, June, 1810, q. v. VII. Polly, b. Aug. 15, 1796. James Stevens m. Mercy, dau. of David and Phebe (Spoftbrd) Adams, of Rindge ; settled on the home- stead ; and d. Feb. 5, 1837. She d. Feb. 9, i860, a. 81. Three children : I. Sally, b. April 15, 1806; d. Aug. 22, 1S79. II. William P., b. March 19, 1807 ; m. Mary E. Stralton, 1850. III. Charles, b. Jan. 4, 1816. STICKNEY FAMILY. Moses Stickney was b. in Boxford, Mass., Nov. 21, 1 75 1. He was a descendant of William Stickney (fifth generation), who came from England to Boston about 1638. His father, Moses, with Richard Peabody and seven others, made a settlement in the south-east part of Jaffrey, in 1752. The settlement was of short GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 485 duration. The appearance of Indians created an alarm, and they soon left. One of their number, known as Capt. Platts, had the courage and hardihood to remain. He was probably Abel Platts, the distinguished pioneer of Rindge. Moses Stickney returned to Boxford ; afterwards resided in Holden, Mass., Temple, N. H., and Springfield, Vt., where he d. Aug. 10, 1S19. His wife, Abigail Hale, d. at Temple, June 30, 179I) ^- 59- While in Jaffrey his son Simon was b., Dec. 9, 1753? supposed to be the first white ch. b. in Jaffrey. He settled in Holden, and afterwards re. to New Haven, Vt., and d. there in 1791, leaving a wife and three daughters, one of whom settled in Athens, Vt., one in the state of New York, and the other in the state of Maine. Moses Stickney, Jr., m. Mary Hastings. HIS BIBLE RECORD. Princeton, Mass., Sept, 9, 1797. I then entered into marriage Covenant with Mary Hastings, the daughter of Jonas Hastings and Mary Benjamin, his wife, of Waltham, Mass., then resident of Princeton. Mass., and I a native of Boxford, then resident of Princeton, we were married by Dr. Wilson, of Prince- ton, Mass. We arrived at our farm in Jaflrey, N. H., Sept. 10, 1777. We had 8 children born to us. We lived together 70 years lacking 4 days, then Mary my wife died Sept. 5, 1846, aged 89 years 4 months and 14 days. He was a soldier in the Revolution. His daughters, Lois and Charlotte, living with him on the farm, com- posed and read the following verses, on the day their father was one hundred years old : Behold the man with whitened locks, With firm but wrinkled brow, Who was a helpless infant born One hundred years ago. Think on that Httle band of nine, Who to this wild woods came, To find a sheUer and a home, One hundred years ago. Amidst the howhng wilderness. They reared the cottage up : The savage foe was all around ; The wild bear roamed their lots. 486 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. But firm they stood, with glowing hearts, And felled the lofty trees. Until the savage foe they viewed. Which caused them all to leave. Their wives and children to them clung. While tears did fill their eyes ; Their friends with anxious care did plead For them to leave and fly. But now no savage foe we view ; No wild bear roams these lots ; But youthful hearts, with ardor filled, Now range these ancient lots. May the same God those fathers armed, Our firm protection be ; And may we meet, when time is past. In blest eternity. A gentleman from JaftVey visited Mr. Stickney, Dec. 13, 1S51, and writes, — " He lives at the foot of Grand Monadnock ; was 100 years old on the 21st of Nov. last. The old gentleman enjoys better health than most people younger than himself. His appetite is good, and he can relish and digest as hearty a meal as any one. He has always been an early riser, and tells me that he is the first one up in the house. He attended the annual meeting, and cast his vote the present year. He walks sometimes as many as 4 or 5 miles a day, and takes most of the care of his cattle ; yokes his oxen, and goes into his wood-lot with his team. During the past season, he has taken the chai'ge of his own planting and harvesting. He has mowed half a dozen acres or so, and some of it a second time. Mr. Stickney's sight is growing dim, but he says he can see to pick up potatoes if the sun shines upon them, and he sees white ones better than any other color. His hearing is so good that it is not at all diffi- cult to converse with him. His memory seems quite tenacious, and he entertains his visitors with any amount of stories of the Revolution and long ago. He takes quite an interest, of late, in having his trees grafted, supposing the grafted fruit will be a source of profit to him in the course of a few years. May he live to see the fruit of his labors." He d. of paralysis, March 3, 1S5; mos., and 9 dys. 100 yrs., 3 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 4^7 2 1 I. Moses, b. July 23, 177S.+ 3 II. Mary B., b. July 29, 17S2 ; m. Daniel Oilman, of Exeter. She d. at Salem, Vt., 1853. Orville P., b. Sept. 15, 1805, m. Almira Butler ; had eight children ; d. at Sa- lem, Vt., 1S63. [See Medical Gradu- ates.] Mary S., m. David Felton ; r. Mason. 4 III. Susan J/., b. Sept. i, 1784; m. Norman Stick- ney. 5 IV. Jonas, b. Dec. 20, 1787 ; m. Nancy Ripley, of Rockingham. -)- 6 V. Theophilus, b. Sept. 2, 1790; m. Euta Cook.-f 7 VI. Barzilli, b. Nov. 13, 1792.-I- 8 VII. Lois IL, b. April 5, 1795; d. Nov. 16, 1869; unm, VIII. Charlotte, b. Feb. 26, 1797; d. Nov. 11, 1869; unm. (2) 10 II 12 (5) 13 H 16 17 18 19 Moses Stickney m. Mary Puffer ; r. Athens, Vt. ; d. Jan. 17, 1832. I. Mercy, b. Feb. 20, 1S14; r. Brookline, Vt. II. liases, b. May 27, 1815 ; m. Cynthia Brown. III. Israel, b. Jan. 2, 1817; d. Sept. 14, 1831 ; unm. Jonas Stickney m. Nancy Ripley ; d. in Goshen, Vt., Feb. 8, 1861 ; had ten children; re. from Jaffrey about 1S13. I. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 5, 1812; m. Cyrus Aber- nethy. II. Augusta, b. Feb. 2, 1814; d. March 5, 1820. III. Jonas Ripley, b Jan. 5, 1815 ; m. R. E. Wa- ters and P. Sulling. IV. Sarah Adeline, b. Jan. 5, 1815 ; m. Daniel Mead. V. Shuhael, b. June 2, 181S; d. July 15, 1819. VI. Warren Hastings, b. Dec. 14, 1820; d. Jan. 27, 1848. VII. Nancy, b. Jan. 27. 1827; m. James Carson. 488 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 20 21 (6) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (7) 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 IX. eTawe E.^ b. July 29, 1830; m. Lucius R. Al- len. X. Boswell, b. Sept. 7, 1833 ; d. Jan, i, 1834. Theophilus Stickney m. Euta Cook ; r. Rodman, N. Y. ; d. Feb. 14, 1842, a. 52. I. Charlotte^ b. Aug. 14, 1817; m. Edwin P. In- galls. II. Elmira^ b. Nov. 29, 1819; m. David Cady. III. Orrm Cook^ b. Sept. 25, 1822 ; d. March 26, 1823. IV. Oringe H.^ b. June 28, 1824; d. July 4, 1824. V. Mary J?., b. Aug. 23, 1S26 ; m. Constant Wood- ard. VI. Chloe A., b. Nov. i, 1829 ; m. Asaph Hall. VII. Ruth C, b. Dec. 3, 1833 ; m. Benjamin F. Woodard. Barzilli Stickney m. Sarah Ferham, of Athens, Vt. ; r. Brookline, Vt. I. Nancy P. H., b. Aug. 19, 1830; d. 1839. II. Warren Ji., b. Dec. 2, 1S37 ; m. Olive B. Darling. III. Charles P.,h. Oct. 10, 1840; m. Martha F. Gorham. Simon Stickney, first white child b. in Jaftrey, son ot Moses and Abigail Hale Stickney, was b. Dec. 9, 1753 ; m. Zerviah, dau. of Elijah Itice, Dec. 12, i77^- She was b. Aug. 6, 1760. He settled first in Holden, Mass. ; was a private in Capt. James Davis's company. Col. Doolittle's regiment, at the battle of Lexington. He afterwards re. to New Haven, Vt., and d. in 1791- I. Retsey, m. Rufus Chafty ; r. Athens, Vt. Five children. II. Lettuce, m. Daniel Griswold ; re. to New York state. III. Abigail, m. Thomas Brown ; r. Maine ; six children. Samuel Stickney, b, in Rowley, Mass., May 25, 1736, m. Nane Wilson, of Haverhill, Mass., who d. 37 38 39 4o 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 (37) 48 49 50 51 52 (47) 53 54 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 489 April 14, 1815 ; r. Haverhill, Andover, Leominster, and Jaffrey, where he r. thirty years ; then re. to Dub- lin, and from thence to Windsor, Vt., where he died March 20, 1829. His last tax in Jaflrey was in 1S02. Eleven children. I. Moses, b. Jan. 31, 1759. II. Eimice, b. Oct. 11, 1761 ; m. Ebenezer Thomp- son. III. Jonathan, h. Feb. 14, 1764; unm. IV. Mary, b. March 28, 1766 ; m. ; d. Feb. 4, 1824. V. Susannah, b. July 23, 176S ; m. VI. Sally, b. July 8, 1770; m. Nath. Cummings, of Westford. VII. Phebe,h. April 23, 1773; m. VIII. Hitty, b. April 23, 1775 : m. IX. Samuel, b. May 16, 1777 ; m. ; re. to Maine. X. William, b. Feb. 28, 1779; d. Nov. 7, 1821 ; unm. XI. Jerem^iah, b. Feb. 4, 1781 ; m. Esther Meeds, Feb. 20, 1806.+ Moses Stickney m. Mary Bailey, of Andover, Dec. 9, 1786; r. in Jaffrey till 1792, when he re. to Litch- field, Herkimer county, N. Y. In 1810 he re. to Sara- toga Springs, where for two years he kept the principal hotel. In March, 1S12, he bought a farm in Northum- berland, and d. there Feb. 5, 1838, a. 79. I. Moses, b. in Jaffrey, Feb. 23, 1788; m. Hannah Rice. II. Mary, b. Aug. 5, 1790, at Jaffrey; m. Philip Hodges. III. Samuel, b. Oct. 13, 1796; d. 1798. IV. Jeremiah, twin, m. Sarah J. Steele. V. Erastus*JB., b. Aug. 23, 1800 ; m. L. Lawrence, Jeremiah Stickney m. Esther, dau. of Joseph and Meeds, of JaffVey. In 1808 he re. to Northum- berland, N. Y. ; from thence to Hope, Hamilton coun- ty, where his wife d. April, 1835. He d. in Lima, Adams county. 111., Sept. 26, 1839. Five children: I. Jonathan, d. unm. II. David, b. Feb. 27, 1807. 490 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 55 56 S1 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 72 III. Nancy Jane ^ b. June 15, 181 1 ; m. 1833. IV. Joseph Meeds, b. June 26, 181 7 ; m. V. Alonzo, b. Oct. 5, 1819 ; m. Lemuel Stickney, b. in Boxford, Feb. 7, 1745, m. Rebecca Kimball, Nov. 16, 1769, of Andover, Mass. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and is said to have been in the battle of Bunker Hill. He lived in Derry, Pembroke, and Jaffrey ; re. to Berlin, Vt., in 1791. He d. May 10, 1824. Eight children : I. Phebeh. Feb. 29, 1770; m. John Wallace; r. Thornton, N. H. II. Hannah, b. Dec. 24, 1773; m. Joseph Pierce, 1797. III. Isaac, b, March 31, 1778; m. Hannah Smith, 1815. IV. Rebecca, b. May 18, 1781 ; m. Moses Batchel- der. V. Polly, b. June 16, 1783; m. Safford Cum- mings. VI. Lucy JSr., b. April 28, 1787; d. 1791. VII. Lemuel, b. in Jaftrey, April 8, 1790; m. Mary Dodge ; r. Berlin, Vt. VIII. Lucy, b. July i, 1792 ; m. Asa Hyde, 181 2. Amos Stickney, b. at Boxford, June 19, 1749, m. Elizabeth Thomas ; re. to Jaflrey and settled on lot 17, range 8, previous to 1793. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and held the commission of lieutenant in the militia. I. Amos, m. Vina Amsdale ; re. to Pa. II. John, m. Phebe Gregg ; r. in Rindge and Rox- bury. • III. Hannah, r. in Unity. IV. Clarissa m. Daniel Newell. V. Rebecca m. Warner Butters ; r. in Antrim. STONE FAMILY. John Stone came from Leominster, Mass. ; m. Lydia Byam, of Templeton. She was b. Oct., 1760 ; d. April 20, 1849. ^^ ^' Nov., 1813, a. 62. Re. to Dublin in 1792. 9 lO II 12 13 14 15 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 49 1 I. Lydia^ b. Oct. 10, 1779 ; m. William Robbins ; r. Landgrove, Vt. II. Samuel, b. Oct. 3, 17S1 ; d. III. Johyi, b. Nov. 16, 1783 ; m. Lucy Colburn ; d. 1851 ; r. Nelson. IV. Oliver, b. Dec. 20, 1786 ; m. Charlotte Kittridge, of Nelson. V. Samuel, b. June 15, 1790; m. Alona More; d. Aug. 15, 1832. VI. Silas, b. Sept. 12, 1792; d. 1813. VII. Betsey, b. Oct. 11, 1794; m. Calvin Hastings; d. June 13, 1832. VIII. Asa, b. March 14, 1796; d. 1803. IX. Asenath, b. Oct. 6, 1799; m. Silas Stone, of Dublin. X. Eunice, b. Dec. 28, 1802 ; d. Dec, 181 1. XI. Asa, b. Oct., 1807 ; d. Nov., 181 1. John Stone came from Swanzey to Jaffrey in 1799 '■> paid taxes that year ; was a blacksmith by trade, and carried on the business at the Spring village. He was an active business man ; was captain of the Jaffrey and Rindge cavalry company. He m. Ruth Perkius. He d. May 3, 1853, a. 76. She d. Sept. 7, 1863, a. 81. Nathan Stone was in Jaffrey in 1850. From the census taken that year, we find his age to be 31 yrs ; and his wife, Mary L., a. 28 ; both b. in New Hamp- shire ; and children, — Albert G., a. ^, Flora E., a. 4, and Mary L., a. 2 ; paid taxes in 1846 to 1S51, inclu- sive. Joel Stone, a blacksmith, paid taxes in 1827-8. 16 1 Jonas S. Stone paid taxes in i85i-'2-'3. STRATTON FAMILY. The name of Stratton appears on the town records in 1780. Ebenezer Stratton was b. in Rutland, Mass., Nov. 2, 1 75 1 ; was chosen auditor of accounts in 1780; 492 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 ID 12 13 H 16 (13) 17 18 19 20 highway surveyor in 1781. In 1784 he re. to Rindge ; became a man of distinction there; was many years a selectman, and an active member of tlie Baptist church. He m. Tabitha Davis, who d. Feb. 13, 185 1. He d. March 27, 1837, a. S6. Children : I. Ebenezer, b. in Princeton, July 15, 1778; d. Oct. 8, 1785. 11. Asa, b. in JaftVey, July 25, 1778 ; r. in Ashby. III. tTosiah, b. in Jaffrey, Feb. 34, 1781 ; m. Hepsi- bah Earl ; d. Nov. 30, 1856. IV. Tabitha, b. in Jaffrey, March 18, 1783 ; d. Oct. II, 1786. v. Polly, b. in Rindge, May 4, 1785 ; d. May 20, 1857- VI. Ebenezer, b. March 12, 1787; m. Betsey Hil- dreth ; d. Jan. 4, 1864. VII. Raymond, b. April 6, 1790 ; r. in New Ipswich. VIII. Tabitha, b. June 22, 1793. IX. Samuel, b. April 13, 1795 ; m. Louisa Gilson ; d. Aug. 31, 1840. David Stratton, a brother of Ebenezer, was b. in Rutland, Mass., April 30, 1756; came to Jaffrey, and settled on lot — , range — . He m. Polly Leland, who d. April 3, 1846, a. 79. He d. March 8, 1837, ^- 79- I. Samuel, b. 1787 ; m., i**, Sally Gilmore ; m., 2**, Abigail Fife.-f II. Isaac, b. 1789 ; m. Betsey Bailey. III. Nathan m. Susan Carter. IV. Jabez. V. Polly, b. 1797 ; m. John Towns. Samuel Stratton m. Sally, dau. of David and Mary (Mower) Gilmore. She d. Jan. 2, 1822, a. 25. M., 2"^, Oct. 12, 1823, Abigail, dau, of John and Sarah (Seward) Fife, by whom he had seven children. He d. Feb. 20, 1S47, a. 60. I. George Washington, b. May 6, 1824, II. Samuel Augustus, b. Sept. 5, 1836. III. Sarah Ann, b. Oct. 35, 1837 ; m. Charles A. Chadwick. XV. Mary Abbie, b. July 35, 1829 ; d. July 25, 1834. 22 (13) 24 25 26 27 28 29 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 493 V. Martha Ward, b. Sept. 15, 1832 ; d. July 7, 1S34. VI. Julius, b. July i, 1S39 '■> ^' ^"g- ^' 1868. ) rp . ai. Jw^m, b. July i, 1S39. ] -L^ms. VII Isaac Stratton m. Betsey, dau. of Isaac and Bet- sey (Wheelock) Bailey, who d. April 9, 1873, a. 85. Children : I. Jonathan W., b. March 3, 1814 ; m. Edna Par- ker, of Nelson. II. Mary Elizabeth, b. May 25, 1816; m. Wm. P. Stevens. III. Elvira, b. Aug. 8, 1818; m. Dea. Richard Spaulding. IV. Charles, b. 1S21 ; m. ; r. Cambridge, Mass. V. Lucinda, b. Aug. 24, 1823 ; m, Benjamin Pierce. VI. Isaac Bailey, b. April 14, 1828 ; drowned Jan. 4, 1853, at Yuba, Cal. 9 10 II STUART FAMILY. Joseph Stuart came from Leominster, Mass., and settled in Jaftrey at an early date. He m. Beatrix , and d. May 5, 181 1, a. 54. His widow m., 2*^, Samuel S. Parker, of Mason, Nov. 3, 1813. They had nine children : I. An infant, d. Sept. 3, 1783. II. Joseph, b. Jan. 2, 1785. III. Benjamin d. Aug. 2, 1790, a. 3 mos., 17 dys. IV. Elijah d. Aug. 5, 1790, a. 3 mos., 20 dys. (twin). V. Benjamin, b. April i, 1791 ; m. Susan Thomp- son, Dec. 23, 1812. VI. Prudence, b. Jan. 31, 1793. VII. Polly, b. March 10, 1795. VIII. Elijah, b. March 3, 1797. IX. John, b. July 20, 1801. Simpson Stuart, an early settler, was road surveyor in 1787 ; settled on lot 15, range 4, now owned by John Quinn. His last tax was in 1795 ; m. Hannah , and left a birth record of five children : 494 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 12 I 13 II 14 III I'; IV 16 V Ephraim H., b. Jan. 2, 17S1 ; d. Nov. 7, 1783. William^ b. May 17, 1783. Ephraim H.^ b. April 13, 17S5. Betsey^ b. Jan. 5, 178S. Luther^ b. Jan. 6, 1790. 9 10 (7) II 12 13 15 16 17 TAYLOR FAMILY. Jonathan and Arthur Taylor were early settlers in Jaftrey. Jonathan was highway surveyor in 1780, field-driver in 1784, and a soldier in the Revolution. He settled on lot 3, range 5, now owned by John W. Mann. M., 17S9, Joanna Lacy. Arthur Taylor was a resident of the town in 1780; settled on lot 18, range 8 ; m. Rebecca Wilder, who d. June 22, 1848, a. 78. He d. Feb. 26, 1826, a. 67. Nine children : 1. Arthxir^h. Nov. i, 1788; m. Nancy had one child, — Eliza, d. July 29, 1838, a. eight months. Li 1856 he re. to Springfield, Vt., and d. March 22, 1868, a. 79 years, 5 months. II. /Susanna,h. Sept. 22, 1789. III. Jiebecca, b. Nov. 18, 1791. IV. Calebs b. Dec. 27, 1793 ; d. at Springfield, unm., Oct. 6, 1871. V. 3fary, h. ISIarch 7, 1796. VI. Elias, b. Dec. 7, 1797; last tax in Jaftrey, 1848.+ VII. Joseph Wilder^ b. Sept. 14, 1801 ; d. Feb., 1802. VIII. Samuel^ b. May 5, 1803 ; d. Aug. 15, 1803. IX. Luke, b. March 17, 1804; d. in Springfield, Vt., Feb. 13, 1873. Elias Taylor m. Abigail Brooks Bullard, of Mason. I. Mary An7i, b. Dec. 23, 1831. II. Ellen M., b. July 22, 1834. III. Anna A., ) . ■ it ^ o /- IV. Abba J., ] t^>"^' ^- J""^ 2^' ^^36. V. George H. JS., b. March 21, 1842, VI. Frances, b. May 3, 1845. VII. Emma Isabel, b. May 25, 1847. 19 20 21 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 495 Nathaniel Taylor was taxed in 1793. Phineas Taylor, taxed from 1793 to 1800 inclusive. Aaron and Jacob Taylor warned from town 1784. Aaron Taylor m. Hannah Dunlap, 1784. TENNEY FAMILY. Amos Tenney came to JaftVey about 1809. He was a slioemaker by trade. In 1S17 he opened a store at JafiVey village, now East Jaffrey, and continued in trade till 1823, when he left town. He m. and left a birth record of four children : I. Amos «/"., b. July 31, 1808. II. -Benjamin £., b. June 37, 1810; d. May 6, 1S13. III. J^ucy A., b. Oct. 26, 1812. IV. JEveline E.^ b. Dec. 16, 1814. Rev. Leonard Tenney was settled as a colleague of the Rev. Laban Ainsworth in 1845, and held that position till 1857, when he re. to Thetford, Vt. He m. Melvina Barker. Alice i., b. Nov. 22, 1846. William., b. June 17, 1849. THOMPSON FAMILY. William Thompson came from Rindge to JafFrey about 1778 ; m. Dorcas , and had three children : I. William,, b. May 30, 1774; m., and d. in 1800. II. Tim,othy, b, in Rindge, Jan. 13, 1777. III. Dorcas, b. in Jaffrey, July i, 1779. Ebenezer Thompson was in Jaffrey about 17S1. He settled on lot 5, range 5 ; m. Rachel , and had a son, — Henry. 496 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 7 8 9 lO II 12 H (12) 15 16 17 19 20 21 Henry Thompson, b. March 28, 17S2, settled on the homestead, and m. Betsey, dau. of Ebenezer and Esther Jaqiiith. He d. Feb. 18, 1837, ^- 55- ^'S widow d. March 3, 1840. I. Betsey, b. May 9, 1807. 11. Nabby, b. Dec. 31, 1808; d. Aug. 27, 1814. III. Rachel, b. Aug. 24, 1810; d. June 23, 1836. IV. Hannah, b. March 10, 1812; d. June 23, 1836. V. Aphia, b. Oct. 23, 1813 ; m., Oct. 18, 1836, Avery Jones, of Billerica, Mass. VI. Abel, b. Dec. 13, 1815.-I- vii. Mispian, b. July 22, 1818. VIII. Cyrus, b. April 22, 1820. Abel Thompson settled on the homestead and m., i'', Lois Fassett, dau. of Joseph and Tabitha (Wright) Fassett, who d. Oct. 7, 1846 ; m., 2^, Fassett. I. Elbridge J., b. Aug. 10, 1842; d. Sept. 27, 1842. II. Alfred J., b. Jan., 1844. III. Henry A., twin, b. Jan., 1844; lost his arm in the battle of the Wilderness. IV. Loren J., b. Aug., 1846. Isaac Thompson was chosen field-driver in 1777- Asa Thompson lived west of the mountain ; taxed from 1793 to 1818 inclusive; m. Fletcher. Asa Thompson, Jr., m. Sophia Cooledge, Dec. 10, 1813. THORNDIKE FAMILY. Joseph Thorndike came from Beverly, Mass., and settled in Jaffrey, on lot 12, range 3, about 1774. The first settler on that lot was Robert Holmes, from Lon- donderry, and it is now known as the Conant farm, the former residence of John Conant, Esq. He was a man of wealth and influence, a prominent leader in town af- fairs, represented the town in the state legislature, and was for many years justice of the peace. In addition to his farm, he built a store in the centre of the town, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 497 and was for many years engaged in trade. He m., i", Sarah , who d. July 10, 1794, a. 45 ; m., 2^*, Mrs. Lydia Blanchard, of Cambridgeport, who survived him. He d. June 35, 1814, a. 65. I. Joseph, on the tax-list 1795, '96. II. Atidreto, b. March 19, 177S; m. Mary Bixby, of Dublin; re. to Livermore, Me., where she d. Nov. 2, 1833. III. Nancy d. of small-pox, 1792. IV. Henry, b. 1781 ; graduated at Dartmouth col- lege, 1S09. V. Mary m. Dr. Luke Lincoln ; one child ; d. in Jaftrey, 1S04. VI. Sally m. Dr. Abner Howe, q. v. VII. Luke (captain of a vessel) d. in the West In- dies. VIII. Timothy. IX. Israel re. to Ohio. X. Mercy. Joshua Thorndike, a relative of Joseph, m. Rebec- ca -; ; had one son, Jonathan, b." 1781, whose last tax in town was in 1S05. His wife Rebecca d. in 1823. He d. in 1825. He was a man highly respected for his honesty and integrity. His wife, equally meritorious, was beloved by all. TILTON FAMILY. John Tilton (Capt.) came from East Sudbury, Mass., with his son Joseph, and settled in the south-west part of Jaftrey about 1802; paid taxes that year, and was a resident of the town till 18 12. John, his son, paid taxes in 1804 ; last tax in 1810. Ephraim Tilton, first tax was in 1810, last tax in 1819. Joseph Tilton was b. in 1779 ; m. Abigail Brooks, dau. of Joseph B'ooks, of Jaftrey. He re. from Jaftrey to Michigan, and purchased a farm near Coldwater, where he d. Nov. 26, 1838. His wife d. July 10, 1864, They had nine ch., five b. in Jaft'rey : 33 498 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. I. William TF., b. July 31, 1S03 ; was twice ni. ; r. Teciimseh, Mich. II. Joseph J)., h. Nov. 15, 1804. 7 in. Elbridye Gerry, b. April 4, 1S06. S IV. Abigail Sroo/cs, b. Feb. 12, iSoS. V. Mary Nichols, b. March 12, iSio. 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 18 TURNER FAMILY. Joseph Turner, son of Joseph and Rachel Turner, was b. in Ireland, and emigrated to this country with his parents and two brothers, Thomas and William. Thomas settled in Peterborough, and Joseph and Will- iam in JatlVey. His parents died in Peterborough. Joseph, Sen'r. died June 10, 17S3, a. 77- Rachel, his wife, d. Dec. 33, 17S7, a. 87. Joseph, Jr., settled on lot 21, range i, now uninhabited, and m. Alary Scott, July 21, 1760. He was a selectman in 177^) constable in 17S0; d. about 1791. She d. 1813. I. James, b. July 25, 1761 ; m. Betsey Davidson. II. Margaret, b. Oct. 25, 1762; d. III. Rachel, b. Dec. 10, 1764; m. Samuel Sanders, q. V. IV. Elizabeth, b. July 17, 1766; m. Chapin. V. Jean, b. May, 1768 ; m. Albro ; r. N. Y. VI. Mary, b. April 15, 1770; m. Moore; r. JSIaine. VII. Sarah, b. Feb. 24, 1772; m. Wm. Robbe ; r. N. Y. VIII. Agnes, b. Nov., 1773 ; m. John Davidson, Jr. IX. Milla, b. Sept. 5, 1775 ; d.' X. David, b. May 3, 1777 ; r. N. Y. ( ^^^^.^^^ XI. Joseph, b. May 2, 1777 ; r. N. Y. ) XII. John, b. Jan. 27, 1779: r. Bolton, N. Y. XIII. Milla, b. April 5, 17S1 ; m. Mathew Mitchell; sixteen ch. XIV. Lyclici^ b. Jime i, 1782 ; m. James Wilder. XV. SusannaJi, b. May i3, 1784 ; m. Joseph Wilder. XVI. Joanna, b. May 14, 1786; m. Simpson Wilder. W^iLMAM Turner (Lieut.), a brother of Joseph, was one of the earliest settlers of Jaflrey ; settled on lot 16, range 5. He was one of the prominent men ; held 19 20 21 22 23 24 35 26 27 (25) 28 29 31 32 (28) 33 34 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 499 many offices of trust, and was an officer in the Revolu- tion. He m. Jane, dau. of Mathew Wright, and d. Jan. 5, 1799, a. 60. She d. Feb. 15, 1S32, a. 82. I. Sarah, b. 1766 ; m. Jacob Baldwin, q. v. II. Rachel, b. Sept. 30, 1769; m. Moses Cutter, q. V. III. Mary, b. 1770; m. Oliver Jewett, q. v. IV. Jane, b. 1773 ; m. Jonas Nutting, q. v. John Turner, son of Thomas and Jenny (McCoy) Turner, b. at Peterborough, Sept. 9, 1763; m., June TO, 1803, Mary Davis, b. in New Ipswich, June 3, 1769 ; settled in Jaffi-ey, on lot 21, range 4, about 1803. He d. May 22, 1844. His wife d. Nov. 29, 1836. I. Sarah, h. SQ\>i. 22, 1804; m., April 24, 1834, H. W. Green, of Merrimack, N. H. II. Jonathan D., b. March 15, 1806 ; m.-^- III. John, b. March 5, 1809; d. Feb. 11, 1810. IV. Rachel, b. Nov. 18, 1811 ; m., Oct., 1840, Orford Capron, q. v. Jonathan D. Turner m. Cynthia E. Ames, of Swan- zey, Sept. 18, 1834 ? '"• °" ^^e homestead till , when he re. to East Jaffrey, where he now resides. I. Henry Alanson, h. May 5, 1837 ; d.-|- II. Sarah M., b. Aug. 19, 1839; m. Greenville Shedd ; three ch. III. Henry A., b. May 12, 1841. IV. Clara A., b. April 27, 1847 ; m. Sydney Reed ; one ch. V. Julia R., b. June 15, 1850; m. Frank H. Co- burn ; one ch. Henry A. Turner m., Dec. 6, 1865, Lucy A. Rob- bins, dau. of Harvey Robbins ; r. East Jaffi-ey. He is an active business man, and chairman (1877) of the board of selectmen. I, Lucy L., b. 1867. II. Eunice R.,h. 1S69. 500 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 35 Solomon Turner, an early settler on lot 17, range 6, was highway surveyor in 1776; re. to New York state. 36 Nathaniel Turner came to JaftVey from Rindge in 1773 ; settled in school district No. 5, on lot 2, range S ; was in town in i774- TUFTS FAMILY. Cotton Tufts came to JaflVey in 1816 ; was taxed that year; was a cabinet-maker by trade. In 1828 he re. to New Ipswich, and afterwards to Warsaw, 111., where he d. He m. Abigail Tarbell, of Mason ; had four children : I. JSenry^ b. April 18, 1818; .n., :'*, Susan Mans- field, of New Ipswich, by whom he had two ch. ; m., 2'', Lydia Wood, dau. of James and Betsey (Jones) Wood, of Alason, by whom he had one son ; r. Denver City, Col. n. Lucius^ b. Feb. 75, 1831 ; d. unm. III. Na7icy, b, Jan. i, 1824; d. Jan. 21, same year. IV. Abigail, b. Jan. i, 1S24, d. Jan. 28 (twin). TWISS FAMILY. Daniel Twiss came to Jaflrey, and settled on lot 8, range 10. He m. Alice Shedd, who d. Dec. 14, 1S43, a. 86. He d. Jan. 35, 1S24, a. 66. I. Louis d. July 11, 1828, a. 45. II. Rachel, b. 1787; m. Samuel Howe, of Peter- borough, May I, 1823 ; d. Jan. 22, 1852, a. 65. He d. Sept. 18, 1S72, a. Si. Had two sons. III. Daniel, b. April 6, 1788. IV. Rebecca, b. June 8, 1790. V. N^abby, b. March 6, 1792 ; m. Joseph Hardy. VI. Timothy, b. Feb. 7, 1794; m., i'', Almira , who d. Feb. 2, 1820, a. 28; m., 2^, Mary Wilder; d. Feb. 9, 1856. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. S^^ 8 VII. Luther^ b May 14, 1795; d. in Tewksbury, Mass. 9 VIII. Lydia, b. June 29, 1797 ; d. July 15, 1875. 10 IX. Asenath, b. April 28, 1S02. UNDERWOOD FAMILY. Joseph Underwood was an early resident of Massa- chusetts, b. in 1681 ; m. Susannah Parker, b. in 1689; d. Feb. iS, 1769. He d. Jan. 19, 1761 ; had thirteen children : 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 H (12) 15 16 (15) I. Joseph, b. March i, 1708 ; d. April 4, i745i a« 37- II. Thomas, b. Oct. 7, 1709; d. Oct. 20, 1732, a. 23. III. Mary, b. Oct. 28, 171 1 ; d. Nov. 26, 1803, a. 92. IV. Elizabeth, h. Feb 2, 1714. V. Jonathan, h. Jan. 22, 1716 ; d. at Marlborough, N. H. VI. Amy, b. Oct. 16, 1717 ; d. May 23, 1770, a. 53. VII. Ruth, b. Jan. 20, 1719 ; d. Sept. 4, i775i a. 56. VIII. Phineas, b. Jan. 3, 1722; d. Sept. 24, i757' ^• 35- IX. Timothy, h. April 11, 1724. X. Susannah, b. Dec. 26, 1725 ; d. Dec. 26, 1729, a. 4. XI. John, b. Sept. 15, 1727 ; d. Jan. 3, 1756, a. 29.4- XII. Bethia, b. Sept. 27, 1729. XIII. James, b. Dec. i, 1731. John Underwood m. Hannah Wright, dau. of Dea. Henry and Esther (Adams) Wright, of Westford, Mass. ; settled in Westford ; d. 1756. I. Jereme, b. Westford, July 21, 1750.-}- II. Hannah. 17. iii. A son. iS. iv. John, b. 1755- Jereme Underwood m. Lucy Wheat, b. at Con- cord, Mass., July 28, 1750. They were m. at Lincoln, Mass., Feb. 17, 1774. In 1777 he re. to JaffVey, and settled on lots 8 and 9, range 8, now in possession 502 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 19 20 21 23 23 (20) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 (23) of George A. Underwood, his grandson. Mr. Under- wood was a distinguished man in town and church affairs. When the church was incorporated, in 1780, he and his wife were members. He held, from time to time, most of the pubhc offices in the gift of the town ; was member of the board of selectmen six years, five in succession. He was also a lieutenant in the military service and a soldier in the Revolution ; was at West Point in 1780, when Arnold sold that impor- tant post to the British officers, and being an artificer by trade, was ordered by Washington to open the traitor's trunk after Arnold's escape to the English lines. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he returned to Jaflrey, where he spent the remainder of his days at work on his farm and at his trade, as business required. He d. Oct. 27, 1837, a. 77. His wife d. June 16, 1S24, a. 74. I. John^ b. March 34, 1775 ; d. Oct. 9, 1776. II. John, b. Feb. 16, i777--j- III. An infant son., b. and d. March 2, 1779. IV. Infant daughter, b. and d. April 33, 1780. V. Jereme, b. Aug. 24, 17S1.-I- JoHN Underwood m., June 38, 1803, Rachel, dau. of Joseph and Rachel (Hobart) Cutter, of Jaftrey. Mr. Underwood was a carpenter and joiner, and built the first cotton factory, in what is now East JafiVey, in 1814. He was also lieutenant in the state militia. I. Lucy Wheat, b. Sept. 16, 1S05 ; r. 111. II. Myra, b. May 17, 1S07; d. June 16, 1846; m. III. John Curtis, b. Jan. 33, 1810; m., and d. 1874- IV. Rachel Hobart, b. Nov. 12, 1811 ; d. Aug. 31, 1839. V. Sahra, b. June 15, 1815 ; m. and d. VI. Rohanna, b. Nov. 38, 1817 ; m. and d. Mr. Underwood m., 2**, Sophia Morrison, cf Lowell, b. Aug. 3, 17S6. He d. June 16, 1845 ; buried at Jaf- frey. His first wife d. Sept. 3i, 1835. Children by second wife : VII. Joseph M., b. Sept. 10, 1838. Jereme Underwood m., Nov. 23, 1S07, Nabby, dau. of Daniel and Sarah Gage, of Marlborough, N. H. He d. Sept. 14, 1859, ^' 7^- She d. June i, 1866, a. 81. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 503 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 (.31) 39 40 41 I. At, b. April 26, 1809 ; m. Mary Thing, of Waterbury, Me., Sept. 9, i860. He d. June 3, 1867, a. 58. II. Sophia^ b. Feb. 19, 181 1 ; m. Rev. Andrew O. Warren, May 6, 1840; r. Pa. III. George, b. March 16, 1S13 ; killed by an over- turning cart, Oct. 24, 1822. IV. Sally, b. Sept. 12, 1815 ; m. Seneca Partridge, June 9, 1S44, of New York city. V. Melissa, b. Dec. 3, 181 7 ; m. Adams Partridge, Dec. 25, 1848, of Smithville, N. Y. VI. Ahby i.,b. May 30, 1821 ; m. Isaac N. Bul- lard, July 4, 1S52, of Montrose, Pa. VII. George Augustus, b. Jan. 16, 1824. -|- VIII. Priscilla Gage, b. Jan. 26. 1826. George A. Underwood m., Sept. 9, 1851, Mahala, dau. of Ezra and Caroline (Adams) Baker. Mr. Un- derwood r. on the homestead of his father and "rand- father ; is an enterprising and thrifty farmer, and one of the leading men in town. He was captain of the distinguished rifle company, and chief-marshal Centen- nial day. I. George B., b. Oct. 29, 1854. II. Deborah M., b. March 12, 1858, m. Daniel C. Shattuck, q. v. in. Abby A., b. May 9, 1870. UPTON FAMILY. Peter Upton, son of Jonathan and Nancy (Whitte- more) Upton, was b. in Tyngsborough, Mass., Oct. i, 1816. He came to Jaftrey in October, 1837, ''^"'^' ^"" tered the store of Hiram Duncan as clerk, in which capacity he served until March, 1840, when he was ad- mitted by Mr. Duncan into equal partnership, and the business conducted under the firm name of Duncan & Upton, continuing thus until the death of Mr. Duncan in December of the same year. This event left the whole business of the concern in the hands of Mr. Upton, then but 24 years of age, but in addition to taking charge of that, he settled the es- tate of Mr. Duncan, and also completed the settlement of one other quite large and complicated estate, which 504 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Mr. Duncan had in charge at his decease, accomplish- ing this in a manner so satisfactory as to receive the hearty approval of all those interested, some of wliom had had a large experience in such business. He continued the store business successfully, under the firm name of P. Upton & Co., and in March, 1847, admitted to one fourth interest his brother Eben, who had served him as clerk for two years, having previous- ly been in the employ of William Lacy, in the store at the Centre village. In 1 85 1 the firm name was changed to E. Upton & Co., and Charles H. Powers, who had been their clerk for two years, was admitted to one fourth interest, the business continuing thus until the death of Eben in i860. Mr Upton settled his brother's estate, and sold out his (Eben's) share in the store and his own to Mr. Powers and J. L. Bolster in 1861. They continued to- gether only one year, when Mr. Powers bought out the whole, and has since continued it. January 6, 3851, the Monadnock Bank went into operation, with a capital of $50,000. Mr. Upton was chosen cashier at the beginning, and has held that posi- tion ever since (December, 1880), though the style of the bank was changed in 1865 to the Monadnock Na- tional Bank, and the capital increased to $100,000. During the early part of its existence the bank suf- fered severe losses by the bad management of its first president, but, notwithstanding this, the shareholders under the old organization received an average annual dividend of about seven per cent. Mr. Upton, having a large pecuniary interest at stake in the success of the bank, gradually assumed almost entire control of its aftairs, having for the past quarter of a century made all, or nearly all, the loans, during which time the losses from bad paper will not exceed $500, nearly all of that being from forged paper. Since 1S65 the bank paid dividends of eight per cent, for about four years, and ever since then of ten per cent., without passing an}-, and has accumulated a cash sur- plus of 25,000, and in addition has lost by fire at least $10,000. From the beginning, in 185 1, the office was in Mr. Upton's house until their first building was completed, in November, 1873. This edifice cost about $15,000, was conveniently arranged, well built, and nicely fin- GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 505 ished. It was burned March 21, 1875, together with the Granite State hotel. The second building was similar to the first, built on the same foundations, and cost about $11,000, over and above what was saved of the ruins of the other. This, too, was burned, March 23, 18771 the fire doubtless being the work of an incen- diary. Each building was insured for $8,000. After being thus tried by fire, it was decided to build only large enough for the business of the bank. Accord- ingly the old site, with the brick walls still standing and the nice hammered stone-work remaining uninjured, was sold to Mr. Benj. Pierce, who erected the present Granite State hotel thereon. The former hotel site was secured by the bank, and a building erected second to none in the state in architectural beauty, convenience of arrangement, and elegance of finish. All three of these buildings were planned and ar- ranged by Mr. Upton, and the contracts made and every detail looked after by him, while their whole construction received his personal supervision. In this connection should be mentioned the Monad- nock Savings Bank, which went into operation in Jan- uary, 1870. In April following Mr. Upton was chosen treasurer, which position he still holds, though he has not had the almost exclusive control of its affairs which he has had of the other bank. Its deposits have accu- mulated in eleven years to about $350,000, and its de- positors received up to 1875 an average of six per cent., and since that time five per cent., while its losses have been small and unimportant. During the whole time which Mr. Upton has been in town, he has been actively interested in all public measures, and closely identified with every important enterprise. He represented the town in the legislatures of 1S48, '49, and '50. At the first session he obtained the charter for the East JaftVey Fire Engine Co ; at the second, the charter for the Monadnock Railroad ; and at the last, for tlie Monadnock Bank. He served as town treasurer during 1S60 and '61, declining a reelection in '62. He was one of the incorporators of the Monad- nock Railroad, of the Monadnock Bank, and later of the Monadnock Savings Bank. To Mr. Upton and Dr. Bradley, perhaps more than to any other two men, is due the credit of pushing through our railroad. They both devoted a great amount of time and labor to this work, beside con- 5o6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. tributing liberally to its treasury. The town voted to aid the enterprise to the extent of five per cent, of its valuation, wfhile our citizens contributed to an amount even larger. To the credit of our town, we take pride in remembering that the voted aid was all paid prompt- ly and willingly, without opposition from any source. Mr. Upton was chosen one of the directors of the Mo- nadnock Railroad at its first meeting, and still holds the position. The amount of the five per cent, gratuity voted by the town was nearly $35,000, and towards the payment of it $30,000 bonds were issued, bearing six per cent, in- terest, and Mr. Upton was chosen agent for selling them, in which work he was very successful, as he placed them all at par, while some other towns were selling theirs at less than par. Later, in 1879, when the town had decided to call in their then outstanding bonds and re-fund them at a lower rate, he got up the new bonds, and sold the whole amount, bearing four per cent., at par. But in building up and improving the East village Mr. Upton has been especially conspicuous. The older residents will remember the condition of things in 1S37. '^^^^ houses were tew, and mostly small, while some of the other buildings were, seemingly, located in the worst possible manner, among them the old black- smith-shop and coal-house on the corner ; the old red tin-shop on the common, under the elm ; and the long string of old hotel buildings, standing almost in the street, and the stable quite. The village school was half a mile away, out of sight of every house, and no good water nearer than the village ; and there was no post-office. There was no " River road " to Peterbor- ough, and the only road to Cheshire Factory was down the turnpike and over the Bacon hill. The road to Rindge was even worse, being outrageously crooked, and leading over such eminences as the Tyler, Carter, and Davis hills. Mr. Upton was largely instrumental in changing these roads to their present locations. In 1S43, after many unsuccessful efforts in previous years by others, the district, at last, voted to move the village school, the decision being brought about, large- ly, by the personal efforts of Mr. Upton. The building then erected is now known as the " Caldwell house," and, while a great improvement over the old one, was soon found to be inadequate to the wants of the district, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 507 it having been built in a manner very inferior to what its friends desired owing to the fierce opposition, the whole matter having been finally left to the select- men. In 1853, after a great amount, of lively agitation, the district passed the vote which resulted in the present handsome brick structure — at that time, and perhaps now, the best village school-house in the country. Mr. Upton was one of the prime movers in this matter, and alone was the means of selecting the site of the building, undoubtedly the best in the village. As a consequence of this location, the town laid out and built "School street" for its accommodation, which has now grown to be one of the best streets in the village. Until 1845 every attempt to establish a post-office at East Jaffrey had been defeated by the stubborn opposition of interested parties at the Centre village. At length, de- termined to get a fair hearing at the post-office depart- ment, Mr. Upton and Alonzo Bascom, jointly, paid the expenses of an advocate to Washington. This quickly decided the case, and the office was at once established, and, by a curious mistake of the authorities, the office at the Centre was discontinued. This error, however, was soon after corrected, and the name of "Factory Village" changed to East Jafirey. The administration being at that time Democratic, Alonzo Bascom was appointed post-master, though the office was kept in Mr. Upton's store. To accommodate the public, Mr. Upton fitted up a set of post-office boxes — quite an innovation at that time, and in marked contrast with the dingy old show-case in use at the Centre. In 1S49, on a change of administration, L. L. Pierce was ap- pointed post-master, and the office located in the store of Foster & Brown, now owned and occupied by J. S. Lacy. A few months later, however, Eben Upton was appointed post-master, and the office was returned to its first location, where it remained several years, until, on another change of administration, Alonzo Bascom was a second time appointed, and the office removed to his " counting-room." In 1861, at a meet- ing of citizens to nominate a suitable candidate for recommendation to the department, Mr. Upton was chosen, receiving every vote cast but one, and was ac- cordingly soon after appointed post-master, which posi- tion he still holds. 5o8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. The most important village improvement was the remodelling of the old hotel in 1859, '^ having been pur- chased the previous fall by Mr. N. R. Corning, ot Boston. As before stated, the old buildings stood almost in the street. Mr. Corning was intending to repair them where they stood, but Mr. Upton, fearing that they would in that case always remain there, pro- posed to Mr. Corning to move them back and enlarge them. Accordingly, plans were drawn which provided for almost entire new buildings, and required a large outlay. A subscription of about $i,Soo was collected by Mr. Upton in aid of the enterprise, and, at the request of Mr. Corning, he took entire charge of the work until finished, and advanced the balance of the money necessary for its completion, declining all compensation for his services in connection with it, considering himself as amply repaid by its improved appearance and the business it soon drew to the town, making the enterprise, from the start, a complete suc- cess, contrary to the predictions of many that " such a great house would never pay." '' The Granite State hotel," thus built, would have been a credit to any town in the state, while the business of taking " summer boarders" has grown, from that as a beginning, to be one of the most important and lucrative occupations in which our people are engaged, and has made our town quite a popular " resort." This house was burned March 21, 1S75, as already stated, causing the destruc- tion of the Bank block. It was owned and occupied, at that time, by Joseph S. Wells, formerly of Keene, having cost him, the April previous, about $20,000. It was insured for $12,000. The ruins remained undis- turbed until the summer of 1S77, after the burning of the second Bank building, when, chiefly by the efforts of Mr. Upton, an arrangement was efiected by which Mr. Benj. Pierce bought the ruins of the bank building, and the hotel lot secured for the bank. A subscription of about $1,100 was raised by his efforts, to aid Mr. Pierce in the erection of the present " Granite State hotel," and to grade off' the ground in front of the hotel and bank into a common, extending the whole distance from School street to North street, forming as fine a square as any village can boast. This arrangement of the buildings and common was brought about princi- pally by the active efforts of Mr. Upton, and to him are the people doubtless indebted a second time, in great GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 509 measure, for a fine hotel. During the whole time, over forty-three years, that Mr. Upton has been in town, he has never lost a whole day from business by sickness, and even now retains his vigor and activitv very little impaired, though, of necessity, showing some evidences of approaching age. He was m., in Townsend, Mass., by Rev. Stillman Clarke, June 28, 1S53, to Sarah Miller Duncan, b. July S, 1833, dan. of Hiram and Emeline (Cutter) Duncan, of East JaftVey, N. H. Their ch., all b. in East Jaflrey, are, — I. Mary Adelaide, b. Nov. 4, 1S56 ; m., Dec. 25, 187S, Walter L. Goodnow, son of William E. and Abigail (Beaman) Goodnow. Thev have one child, — Jessie Emeline, b. Nov. 10, 1879. II. Hiram Duncan, b. May 5, 1S59, '^-^ Oct. 14, 1879, Annie E., dau. of Dr. Marshall and Harriet A. (Fiske) Perkins, of Marlow, N. H. He graduated from Dartmouth col- lege in June, 1S79. III. Alice W hittemore, b. July 5, 1863. Ebenezer Upton, son of Jonathan and Nancy (Whittemore) Upton, was b. in Tyngsborough, Mass., March 17, 1819. He came to Jaffrey in 1843, as a clerk in the store of \^'illiam Lacy, where he remained a year or more, when he became a clerk in the store of his brother Peter in East JaftVey, remaining in this capacity till 1S47, when he became a partner with his brother, remaining such as long as he lived. He was post-master under the administration of Gen. Taylor, and town treasurer at the time of his death, June 25, i860. He m., I"*', Paulina Cutter Rice, dau. of Laban and Esther (Cutter) Rice, Dec. 26, 1850, by Rev. Still- man Clarke. She d. Jan. 15, 1857. M.," 2**, by Rev. E. W. Coffin, Eliza (Smith) Perkins, widow of Dr. R. R. Perkins, and dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Burt) Smith, of Winchendon, Mass., b. in Barre, Mass., Oct. 7, 1826. Children: I. Paxdina Cutter, b. Jan. 15, 1857; d. Aug. 15, 1857- By second wife : II. Frank Burt, b. March 7, 1859. 510 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II 12 13 H William Upton, third son of Thomas Upton, of Peterborough, a descendant of John Upton, the emi- grant, was b. Dec. 31, 1792 ; m. Mary, dau. of James Taggart, of Sharon : settled in Jatlrey, on lot 22, range 5 ; was the owner of a farm and saw-mill, where his son William now lives; d. June 2, 1862. She d. June 17, 1S67, a. 73. I. William, b. June 7, 1S20 ; m. Sally Upton, dau. of Jacob Upton. One child, — James, b. Nov. 28, 1858. She d. Nov. 16, 1874. II. Mary Ati7i, b. Oct. 24, 1829 ; m. Luke H. Nut- tin<4-, q. V. III. Priscilla R., b. Nov. 23, 1837 ; m. Charles Cor- ser ; r. Fitchburg. Thomas Upton, son of Eli, a brother of William, b. Aug. 31, 1S18, in Peterborough ; m., i^', Nov. 14, 1839, Marietta, dau. of Abel and Mary (Spaulding) Cutter, who d. Feb. 16, 1857, ^- 37 ' "^ ' 2^*, July 14, 1857, Lucinda Sophia, dau. of Salmon Allen, of Rindge. I. Lucius, b. May 19, 1843 ; enlisted in the 44th Mass. Regt. ; afterwards in the i6th Mass. Batterv ; d. at Washington, D. C, Aug. 7, 1864. ■' II. Adelia Parker, b. Jan. 14, 1847. VERDER FAMILY. John Verder, b. 1800, m. Sarah Smith, b. 1807. Six children : I. Sarah J., h. 1826; m. John B. Shedd. One child, — Frank E., b. 1S67; a graduate of Dartmouth college. II. John R., b. 1828. III. Mary C, b. 1S30. IV. Albert S., b. 1831 ; m. Priscilla ; b. 1831. One child,— Sofy A., b. 1868. V. Myra J., b. 1834. VI. Charles W., b. 1838; m. Sarah E. , b. 1831. lO 12 13 H GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 5II WAKEFIELD FAMILY. Thomas Wakefield, b. in Reading, Mass., Jan. 12, 1751. He was a descendant of Josepli Wakefield, of Welch descent, and a resident of Boston in 1727' He m., in 1773, Elizabeth Hardy, of Hollis ; settled in Am- herst, and in 177S re. to Dublin, and in 1S08 to Jaftrey. He paid taxes from iSoS to 1812, inclusive. He d. in 1839. Hi^ '^'^'^ ^^' "^ 1S32. I. Thomas, h. Aug., 1773 ; m., 1S05, Olive Hart; re. to Maine. II. Othaniel, h. April 25, 1775 ; d. Sept. 5, 1800, in Seneca, N. Y. III. Betsey, b. March, 1777; m., 1802, Timothy Wakefield, of Reading, and d. 1848. IV. Cyrus, h. Sept. 16, 1779; m., 1S03, Sally Ma- son ; d. 1810. V. James, b. Sept. 9, 1782; m. Oct. 11, 1803, Hannah Hemmingway ; re. to Roxbury. His son Cyrus, b. in 1811, by his own efforts in business rose from obscurity, built a large rattan manufactory in South Reading, accumulated a large estate, and was held in such high esteem by his fellow-citizens that the name of South Reading was, to his honor, changed to Wakefield. VI. Abigail, b. June 3, 1784; m. Jan., 1807, Rev. Amos Fetingal ; re. to Champlain, N. Y. ; d. 1810. VII. Peter, b. April 16, 1786; m., 1809, Esther Whitcomb ; re. to N. Y. state. VIII. Martha, h. April, 1788; m., 1810, Rev. Peter Sanborn, Reading, Mass. ; d. 1849. IX. Dorcas, b. March 11, 1790; m. Horace Rudd ; re. to Ohio. X. Joseph, b. July 7, 1792; m. Sarah Sawyer, 1813 ; re. to Ohio ; d. 1828. Amasa Wakefield was a resident of Jaflrey from 1813 to about 1819 ; m., and had a son, George. Peter Wakefield was taxed in 1808. 512 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. WARREN FAMILY. (2) Peter and Simon Warren were residents of the town when organized, in 1773? oi' soon after. In 1775 Peter Warren was chosen a member of the board of selectmen, and clerk of the military company organized that year. Simon came from Littleton, Mass., to Jaffrey, and settled on lot 6, range 8. He was b. Nov. 21, 1750 ; m. Martha Harper, b. in Harvard, Mass., Sept. 11, 1749. He was in service as teamster during the Revolutionary war. He d. Nov. 22, 1S03. His widow d. Aug. 2, 1S25, a. 76. Children: I. Oliver, h. April 26, 1776; re. to McDonough, N. Y., 1S3S.4- II. John^ b. Sept. 3, 1779 ; r. in Brookline, Mass. ; had five ch. III. Simon, b. Nov. 7, 17S1 ; m. Dolly, dau. of Caleb Brown. He was a saddle- and harness- maker ; re. to Chesterfield, and from thence to Woodstock, Vt., where he d. IV. Martha., b. June 8, 1788 ; m. Boynton ; re. to Stow, Vt., and d. there. Oliver Warren m., Sept. 17, 1801, Abiah Stanley, dau. of Jonathan and Lois (Moore) Stanley. He was an active business man ; was a farmer and a stone-cut- ter ; built the granite mansion-house of Jonas M. Mell- ville, Esq., now the summer residence of the Hon. Leonard R. Cutter, of Boston. In the war of 1812, he held the commission of captain, and when the rifle company was organized, in 1814, he was chosen first in command. In the spring of 1838 he re. to McDonough, N. Y., and d. April 12, 1842, a. 66. Children : I. Abiah Stanley, b. May 11, 1805 ; m. Wm. Hil- ler, of McDonough, N. Y., May iS, 1842 ; d. Nov., 1863. They had two ch., — Phebe A., and Josephine. II. Almeda Lois, b. Sept. 16, 1811 ; d. Oct. 8, 1811. III. Andrew Oliver, b. June 5, 1817. He qualified himself for the study of a profession at Mell- ville academy, and commenced the study of divinity in 1838, with Rev. J. V. Wilson, of Jaffrey, and completed it with Rev. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 513 Charles Woodhouse, of Westmoreland, N. H., in 1840. He was first located at McDon- ough, Upper Lisle, and Smithville, N. Y., and in 1849 at Montrose, Pa. In 1S60 he commenced the study of law, and was ad- mitted to the bar of Susquehanna county court in 1S62, and to the supreme court in 1865, and has been successfully engaged in the practice of both professions. He m., May 6, 1S40, Sophia, dau. of Jereme and Nabby (Gage) Underwood, and had four children : r. Ella S., b. April 14, 1841 ; m. Milo J. W. Cram, attorney-at-law, Scran- ton, Pa. 2. Jane M., b. Feb, 36, 1843 ; m. George L. Zerpes, a turner by trade. 3. Charles A., b. Sept., 1846 ; an attorney- at-law, in company with his father at Montrose, Pa. 4. Fred S., b. Nov. 25, 1853 ; a clerk in a store. Richard Warren, from Ludlow, Vt., b. 1797; m.. June 19, 1833, Maria, dau. of Sewall and Ketura (Mayo) Gould ; settled in JaftVey about 1836. Ch. : I. Prescott. II. Lydia C., b. 1838, III. Susan E.^ b. 1830. IV. Cornelius W., b. 1831. V. tTohn A., h 1833. VI. Sally M., b. 1837. VII. Edgar F.^ b. 1839. VIII. Ann A., b. 1S46. I X . Richard P . , b . 1 849 . W^ATERS FAMILY. Geokge W. Waters, b. in 1809. His father dying at an early age he was bound out to service in the family of John Conant, Esq., with whom he lived till lie attained his majority. His means of education were very limited, having the privilege of attending only the 34 514 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. district school, the terms of which were of short dura- tion. On attaining his majority he followed the busi- ness of farming, and m. Sophia M., dau. (by adoption) of Ebenezer and Mary (Thompson) Hathorn, of Jaftrey. Mrs. Waters's father was Sylvanus Chapin, of Windsor, Vt. After his death, his widow, her mother, m. Mr. Hathorn, and she, with her sister, Mrs. Charles Cutter, adopted his sir-name. Mr. Waters settled in the south part of the town, on the farm of the late Charles A. Cutter. He d. Aug. ii, 1847, a. 38. His widow r. at EastJafiVey. They had four children: I. Jonas C. II. Martha S. III. Sylvanus C. d. Sept. at Antietam, Pa. IV. Frances M. 17, 1S64 — killed in battle WELLINGTON FAMILY. George Willington was b. in Watertown, Oct* 21, 1749. He was a descendant of Roger Willington, from England, an early settler in Watertown, Mass. He m., Dec. 24, 1772, Lucy, dau. of Ephraim and Lydia White Pierce, of Waltham. He re. to Jaflrey about 1796, and settled on lot 16, range 6, now owned by Samuel W. Pierce. In 1801 he re. to Cavendish, Vt. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Children : Ephraim, b. Sept. 29, 1773. Lydia, b. Nov. 28, 1775 ; m. Richard Weeks, July 14, 1799; r. to Royalston, Mass. He was a hatter by trade. Lucy, b. Sept. iS, 1777; m., Nov. 15, 1800, David Gilmore, son of Roger Gilmore, Esq., of Jaffrey, q. v. Leonard, b. March 5, 1780; m., i*^ Dec. 4, 1805, Eunice Earle, who d. 1808 ; m., 2^, Sept. 6, 1809, Dorcas Priest, who d. 181 7; m., 3'', Jan., 1818, Lucinda, dau. of Abijah Page, who d. 1847. He d. May 22, 1849, in Rindge, N. H., where he settled in early life. He was the parent of fourteen chil- dren, — by first wife, two ; by second wife, four ; by third wife, eight. V. John. VI. George, Jr. 2 I. 3 II. 4 III. 5 IV. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 515 Enoch Wellington settled in Jaffrey on lot 20, range 5, in 1799; m., i^', a dau. of Aaron Colman ; m., 3^ Sally, dau. of John Wood. He d. 181 7. I. Charlotte. n. Ahby m., Aug., 1813, Daniel Wood, of Jaffrey. III. Thomas., re. to Ashley, Mass. WELMAN FAMILY. Elijah Welman came to Jaffrey at an early date. He settled on lot 32, range 2, and m. Jenny, dau. of Thomas and Jenny (Miller) Turner. He d. March 21, 1848, a. 83. She d. June 4, 1837, ^- ^^^ I. Elijah, d. Oct. 12, 1876, a. 81 ; unm. II. Louisa., d. Nov. 13, 1867, a. 69; unm. III. Thomas., d. Nov. 19, 1870, a. 69; unm. IV. Samuel T., b. 1808; m. Mrs. Mary J. (Butler) Wallace, May 3, 1877. V. Jane., d. May 17, 1839, ^' ^6 ; unm. VI. Robert, date of birth unknown ; left town. WESSON FAMILY. Thomas and Eleanor Wesson; ch. birth record in Jaffrey. I. Isaac II.., b. Nov. 15, 1804. II. Sylvia, b. Jan. 14, 1805. wheelock family. Luke Wheelock was an early resident of Jaffrey. He m. and had children : I. Lucy. II. Esther,, m. Nathaniel Thomas, Jr., of Rindge ; re. to Jaffrey, and settled on lot 16, range 6. He afterwards re. to Hartford, Vt, where he d. Feb. 19, 1849, a. 74. He left a son, Harvey, buried in the Centre burying-yard, who d. Dec. 4, 1801, a. i yr., 1 1 mos., 20 dys. 5i6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO I I 12 13 in. LuJce, a merchant in JaflVey in 1806 and 1807; store burnt. IV. Jonathan^ ?L merchant in Jaffrey in 1810, '11, and '13, in the Thorndike store, now owned by Dr. Phelps ; left town in 1816. Emery Wheelock, b. in Hubuardston, Mass. ; m. Martha Hill ; settled in Peterboiough, and re. to Jaf- frey in 1S12 ; settled on lot 14, range 6, and afterwards re. to lot 10, range 6, where he d. May 2, 1841, a. 65 ; his widow d. Oct. 21, 1858, a. 73. I. John m. Miranda Divoll, of Winchendon ; d. in Boston. II. Stephen Franklin m., i^\ Eliza Snow, of Win- chester, N. H. ; m., 2**, Augusta Capron, of West Swanzey, and d. there. III. Elizabeth^ b. Feb. 2, 1809; m., i'', Ashley Lor- ing, of Peterborough ; re. to Medina, Ohio, where he d. ; m., 2d, Austin Badger, of Medina. IV. Nancy ^ b. Jan. 29, 181 1 ; m. John A. Cutter, q. V. V. George Boyden., d. June 9, 1822, a. i month, 13 days. Timothy Wheelock, in JaflVey from 181 2 to Jan. 14, 1814. Ithamer, a brother, and a Revolutionary soldier, d. Feb. II, 1850, a. 90. His wife, Sukey Tucker, d. Feb. 21, 1844, a. 73. WHIPPLE FAMILY. John Whipple was a resident of Jaffrey from 17S1 to 1794- He m. Phebe , and left a record of the births of seven children : I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. John^ b. March 14, 1781. Sarahs b. Sept. 2, 1783 ; d. Sept. 27, 1783. Sarah^ b. Sept. 15, 1784. Jeremiah^ b. June 21, i7S7' Joseph, b. May 14, 1790. Anne, b. June 12, 1793- Jonathan, b. March 17, 1796. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 517 WHITCOMB FAMILY. Simon Whitcomb was chosen fence-viewer March 30, 1775. He m. Sarah, dau. of John and Bathsheba Combs, of JaftVey. He d. in Jaftrey. His widow was living in 1813. Ephraim Whitcomb, from Leominster, settled in Jaffre\', on lot 17, range 9. In 1777 he was chosen auditor of accounts, and in 1781, highway surveyor. He m. Elizabeth Carter, of Leominster; had eight ch. His last tax was in 1797. I. Elizabeth, b. March 8, 1776. II. Abigail, h. ]v\\y 7, 1777; m. Abraham Priest, of Stow, brother of Daniel Priest, Sen'r, of JaftVey. III. Ephraim, b. May 28, 1779; m., Feb. 10, 1803, Lucy, dau. of John Leland ; r. from Jaftrey in 1S04.-I- IV. Dorothy, b. Sept. 14, 1782 ; m., May 17, 1S08, John Wilder, from Winchendon ; settled on lot 22, range 3. V. Oliver, b. Nov. 5, 17S4; re. to the state of Maine. VI. Esther, b. Oct. 8, 1786; m., Feb. 27, 1810, Peter Wakefield. VII. Sally, b. Oct. 22, 1788; m., May 25, 1809, Nathan Hale, of Rindge ; had thirteen chil- dren, viii. Relief, b. Dec. 20, 1792. Ephraim and Lucy (Lealand) Whitcomb had chil- dren : I. George, m., i*', Sarah Smith, who d. Aug. 26, 1S30; m., 2**, Betsey Rolfe, who d. about 1851; m., 3^, Betsey, dau. of Abel Smith, Children : 1. Mary Ann m. N. P. Cummings. 2. Rosina m. Peaslee. 3. George L. m., and r. in Gardner, Mass. 4. Charles S. m., and r. first in Rindge ; second in Orange, Mass. 5l8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. i6 I 5. Henry C. m. Angeline (Ward) Bald- win, of Winchendon. 17 6. Albert H., b. 1S42 ; m., 1863, Matilda Crouch ; r. Westminster. 18 7. Julius, b. March 3, 1848. 19 II. Irene m. Emery Carroll, of Winchendon ; he. d. in 1865. 30 III. John m. and r. in Winchendon. WHITNEY FAMILY. John Whitney, in 1635, with his wife and five sons, emigrated from Ipswich, England, and settled in Wa- tertown, Mass. ZiMRi Whitney, of the fifth generation, was b. in Lunenburg, May 14, 1776 ; m., May 28, 1801, Susanna Sanderson; re. to Rindge in 181 2, to Jafirey in 1814, to Peru, Vt., in 1826. He settled in JaftVey, on lot 13, range 8, the previous residence of Dea. William Smil- ey, now (1876) uninhabited. He d. at Peru, Aug. 24, 1862, a. S6 ; his widow d. about 1S65. Ten children : I. Isaac /S'., b. April 7, 1S02 ; m., 1822, Maria Ovington, of Dublin ; r. in Jafirey ; was a blacksmith by trade ; re. to Bethel, Maine ; eight children : II. Abraham^ b. Jan. 19, 1S04; m. Adeline, dau. of Rufus Sawyer, Nov. 23, 1829; r. Boston. In 1867 he re. to Jafirey ; settled on lot 12, range 6 ; re. from thence to lot 5, range 5, where he met with an accidental death by falling into the cellar, Feb. 22, 1872, a. 6S. He was a resident of Boston thirty- nine years, a police-oflScer twenty-one years ; kept a provision store several years. Ch. : 1. Edward Sawyer, b. Oct. 17, 1831 ; d. 2. Frances Adaline, b. May 5, 1832 ; m., Nov. 22, 1S51, Daniel W. Farr, of Bos- ton. She d. Feb. 6, 1867. He d. Mav '3' 1875- III. Charles^ b. March 2, 1806; m. Adeline Strong. He d. in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 26, 1S51. Ten children. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 519 IV. Alvah, b. June 27, 1S08; m., April 26, 1838, Caroline Geer. He d. in Cambridge, Mass., 1873. Three children. V. Susannah P., b. Aug. 22, 1810; m. Benjamin Penfield, of Gorham, Me. Seven children. VI. Jlosea, b. in Rindge, March 17, 1813 ; m. Char- lotte Sawyer, 1837; d. in Charlestown. Mass., July i, 1861. Four children. VII. Thomas P., b. in Jaflrey, Aug. 29, 1816; m., April 26, 183S, Harriet A. Benjamin ; six children ; r. in Jaftrey. VIII. George S.,h. in Jaftrey, April 17, 1819 ; m^., 1844, Eveline Barnard. He d. at Glen's Falls, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1863. IX. John /S., b. in Jaftrey, May 21, 1822; m. Val- issa P. Johnson ; five children ; r. in Jaf- frey. X. Richard B., b. in Jaftrey, June 18, 1825. WHITTEMORE FAMILY. Benjamin and Sarah Whittemore. I. Rufus, b. May 28, 1778. II. Eusche^ b. Feb. 28, 1780. WILDER FAMILY. Joseph Wilder w^as chosen highway surveyor in 1780, and purchased a pew in the meeting-house the same year. He settled on lot 8, range 6, now owned by Abraham B. Davis. He m. Rachel , by whom he had four children : I. Elizabeth^ b. March 9, 1782. II. Joseph, b. Feb. 28, 1784; m. Susannah Turner. III. John, b. Feb. 12, 1786, IV. Rachel, b. March 31, 1788. His wife d. May 6, 1788, a. 33 ; m., 2^, 1789, Lucy Saf- ford. The last tax paid by Ensign Joseph Wilder was in 1798. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Silas Wilder was paid for three months' service in the Revolution in 1782; re. to Rindge; m. Abigail Page, and was taxed there till i797* 520 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. I Ezra Wilder was highway surveyor in 17S2, and by I the state record was one of the men furnished by Jaf- 1 frey in the Revohition ; m. Jerusha Welch Alexander; re. to Peterborough; m., 2*^, Oct. 15, 1S04, Jerusha Hogg, of that town. His last tax was in 1S09. Ezra Wilder, Jr., m. Polly, dau. of Joseph Hodge; last tax 181 2. Oliver, a brother, m. Betsey, dau. of Joseph Hodge ; taxed iSoo. John Wilder came from Winchendon, Mass., and settled on lot 22, range 3 ; paid tax in 181 2 ; m.. May 17, 1808, Dorothy, dau. of Ephraim and Elizabeth Car- ter Whitcomb. His dau, Laura m , Sept. 27, 1829, George T. Betterly, of Brookline. His wife d. Feb. II, 1855, a. 73 ; he d. March 23, 1863, a. 90. Salmon Wilder, from New Ipswich, carried on the business of printing in Jaffrey in 1S14, '15, and '16. 9 William Wilder was agent of the Cheshire cotton mill in 1822. WINCHESTER FAMILY William and Sally Winchester, birth record in Jaffrey. I. Stephen, b. Oct. 3, 1792. II. Cynthia, b. April 26, 1794. III. William, h. May 6, 1796. WITT FAMILY. Zacheus W^itt, b. in Stow, Mass., 1757, m. Han- nah Sawtelle, of Townsend, about 1779; re. to Fitz- william, from thence to Jaffrey; first tax in 1793- He settled on lot 22, range 8. Children : I. Charles, b. Jan. 24, 1783.-1- II. William, b. Feb. 14, 1784. III. Sewall, b. 1785. (2) lO II (8) 13 H 15 16 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 52 1 IV. Samuel, b. 1787. V. F'rederick, b. 1789. VI. Elisha, b. 1790; m. Diademia Alexander, of Shs iron. Charles Witt m.. Dec. 4, 1805, Huldah Wood, dau. of Solomon and Lucy Wood ; d. Nov. 29, 1S4S. His widow d. July 16, 1S59, a. 78. I. Luther, b. July, 1807.-I- II. Nancy, b. 1809; "i-i i", James Howe, of Peter- borough, by whom she had two children. M., 2^ John W. Poole, of JaftVey. He d., and she re. with her son to "Wisconsin. III. Eoamia, b. 1S12 ; m. Loren Woodbury, second wife. He d., and she re. to the West. IV. Mary d. 1831. Luther Witt m. Betsey, dau. of Henry and Mary (Jaquith) Thompson ; settled, first in Jaffrey, second in Unity ; re. to Jatirey, and afterwards re. to Plymouth, Wis. I. JRoanna, b. at JaflVey, 1832. II. Charles Granville, b. at Unity, 1833. III. Juda E., b. at Jaflrey. IV. Alpha. V. Sophira. WOOD FAMILY. Barnabas Wood was chosen highway surveyor in 1782 and in 1785, and Solomon had his taxes abated in 1784. John Wood was fence-viewer in 1780, tythingman in 1782 and 1796, and highway surveyor in 1787. On a headstone in the Centre burying-yard is the record of the death of John Wood, who d. July 5, 1799, a. 55. Kimball, his son, d. Oct. 12, 1804, a. 31. Mary Ann, his dau., d. Oct. 19, 1810, a. 33, also four young chil- dren of Jonathan and Sally Wood. Wilkinson d. June 35, 1806, a. 6 yrs., 7 mos. Moses W., d. Sept. 23, 1S05, a. 13 mos, 27 days. John W. d. March 26, 1801, a. 38 days. A dau. d. Aug. 15, 1806, a. 23 days. 522 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO 1 1 12 15 16 17 Solomon Wood settled on lot 18, range 7 ; m. Lucy , and had I. Solotnon. II. Hxdda^ b. 1786 ; m. Charles Witt, q. v, III. John, b. 1788. IV. Lucy, b. 1786; census 1850. Solomon Wood, Sen'r, d. Feb. 25, 1790. In the record of marriages of date Sept. 29, i799? is the marriage of Isaac Jaquith to Hepsy Wood. John Wood settled on lot 21, range 6; m. Sarah , and had children : I. Sally m., Dec. 18, 1799, Enoch Wellington, q. V. II. John m., Feb. 21, 1804, Hannah, dau. of David Chadwick ; re. to N. Y. state. III. Kimball d. Oct. 12, 1S04, a. 21. IV. Ebenezer T. m., Feb. 3, 1808, Rebecca Boyn- ton, dau. of Nathan. -[- Jonathan Wood m. and had children : I. Jonathan and a brother. II. Jeremiah, r. to Galena. III. Daniel m., Aug. i, 1813, Abby, dau. of Enoch Wellington. Ebenezer T. and Rebecca Wood, birth record I. Miriam, b. Feb. 23, 1S09. II. Artemas, b. March 16, 181 1. WOODBURY FAMILY. Samuel Thorndike Woodbury came from Beverly, Mass., and settled on lot 11, range 4, now^ ow^ned by Nehemiah Cutter, about 1778. He m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth (Martin) Lawrence, b. at Groton, Mass., Sept. 14, 1756; had six children, four sons and two daus. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 523 I. Betty, b. Aug. 8, 177S. II. *S'aZa, b. Nov. iS, 1779. III. Jacob, b. April 23, 17S1, IV. Samuel^ b. at Beverly. V. Eher^ b. at Beverly. VI. Loren^ b. at Beverly. + LoREN Woodbury came from Beverly to Jaffrey about 1821, and settled on lot 15, range 3, now owned by Peter Hogan. He m., i^', May 29, 1S22, Mary, dau. Capt. Alpheus and Elizabeth (Gilmore) Crosby, who d. Aug. 28, 1850, a. 58. M., 2^ Roanna Witt. He d. Feb. 38, 1862, a. 73- Four children: I. Mary E., d. Jan. 22, 1826, a. i day. II. Loren Ehei\ d. March 26, 1831, a. 3 mos., iS days. III. George A., b. 1832 ; left town 1S66. IV. Clara, b. 1852 ; m. Churchill ; r. in Ply- mouth, Wis. ; d. in 1874, a. 22. WORCESTER FAMILY. Moses Worcester re. from Tewksbury, Mass., to Jaffrey about 1776 ; settled on lot i, range 8. He was a descendant of the Rev. William Worcester, who emi- grated from England and settled in Salisbury, Mass., about 1634. He m. Hepsibath Hardy, who d. Jan. 16, 1732, a. 84. He d. Oct. 9, 1S33, a. 83. Mr. Worcester was a leading influential man. He held most of the important town offices, and was al- ways prompt and reliable in the discharge of his duty. They had nine children : I. Hepsibath, b. March 4, 1777; m., March 12, 1 801, Moses Rider ; r. Grafton, Vt. II. Molly, b. Dec. 31, 1778; d. Feb. 23, 1790. in. Moses, b. Jan. 22, 1781. IV. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 28, 1783. V. Abigail, b. March 2, 17S5 ; m. Jonas Ross, q. V. VI. /SaraA, b. March 12,1787; m. Josiah Patten, of Fitzwilliam. VII. John, b. March 26, 1789.-1- 524 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. 9 lO (8) II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 (12) 32 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 (30 33 VIII. Jesse^ b. Feb. 12, 1792; d. Oct. 29, 1792. IX. Jesse, b. May 2, 1795. John Worcester m., Nov 24, 1S15, Sally, dau. of Isaac and Sally (Cutter) Kimball ; re. to Medina, Mich., 1854. Twelve ch. : I. Sally Maria, b. Dec. 22, 1S16. II. tTohn, b. Dec. 15, iSi8.-|- III. George, b. Nov. 17, 1820; d. Dec. 6, 1820. IV. A daughter, b. Oct. 4, 1S21 ; d. Oct. 5, 1821. V. A daughter, b. Oct. 4, 1S21 ; d. Oct. 12, 1821 ; twin. VI. Harriet, b. Jan. 10, 1823 ; d. June 9, 1832. VII. 3Iary Ami, b. June 19, 1825. VIII. Lydia Ayer, b. June 3, 1827. IX. A son, b. May 5, 1829. X. Sylvander, b. Nov. 28, 1S30. XI. Harriet B,., b. Dec, 1834; d. May 27, 1837. John Worcester, Jr., m. Lucretia D. Medina, Mich. ; d. Dec. 13, 1879. I. Ly Sander, b. 1S36. II. Jane S.,h, 1838. III. Helen M. d. May 6, 1S49, a. i yr., 8 inos. William Worcester, a brother of Moses, came to JaflVey about 1776, settled on lot i, range 9; m. Han- nah Frost. He d. Nov 5, 1828, a. 72. She d. Jan. 30, 1858, a. 90. I. 'William, b. May 31, 1783; d. insane, Oct 10, 1835- II. Hannah, b. Aug. 25, 178=? ; m. Jonathan Gage. III. Anna, b. Nov. 16, 1787. IV. Nancy, b. 178S or '9 ; d. unm. V. Joshua, b. March i^, 1791. VI. Joel, b. June i, 1793.-I- VII. alidad m. Rebecca Stone ; r. Mass. Joel Worcester m. Louisa One child 1. Joel F. d. Dec. 9, 1837, a. 7 yrs., 7 mos. (3) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 525 WRIGHT FAMILY. Mathew Wright came from Londonderry, with Thomas Davidson, who m. his dau. Anna in 17^7, and settled in Peterborough — the precise time unknown, probably 1757 or '8. Of his death no record has been found. In the Centre burying ground is a headstone bearing the name of Mary, relict of Mathew Wright, who d. Aug. 37, 1785, a. 86. Mr. Wright was a man of great mental power ; of Scotch-Irish origin, in whom the char- acteristics of that race were strongly marked. Firm in his religious belief, and actuated by a strong sense of duty, he felt it enjoined upon him not only to rebuke but punish the offender for every neglect of Christian duty. An anecdote of him, illustrating this character- istic, was related by a neighbor of Iiis, Mr. Jos. Horton, from his own experience. On his way home on one July afternoon, as he was passing by the house of Mr. Wright, he was overtaken by a thunder-storm, and he took refuge in his house. The storm continued : night came, and he was invited to spend it with him. Before retiring to rest family prayers were offered, and, in ac- cordance with their custom, the f;imily knelt during their continuance. On closing the prayer Mr. Wright observed his neighbor standing, not having -knelt. From a keen sense of duty he reprimanded him in the following strong terms, viz., "You are worse than a Papist, and if it did not rain so hard I would Urn ye out of my house this very night !" Of his ch., Anna m. Dea. Thomas Davidson, of Peterborough, had a family of ten ch. ; Francis settled in Jaftrey ; and Jane m. Lieut. William Turner, q. v. Francis Wright settled on lot 14, range 8. When the town was incorporated he was an inn-keeper, and the first meeting of the town was held at his house. The farm has long been known as the Wright farm, and remained in possession of the family till 1S35. It is now (1879) in possession of Dana S. Jaquith. He m. Anna . He d. Nov. 2, 1807, a. 65. His widow d. May 27, 1S15, a. 70. I. Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1773; m., May 19, 1794, Joseph Crumble, of Rindge, who d. at Jaf- frey, Oct. 31, 1847, a. 82. She d. July i, 1849. Eleven ch. 526 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. lO II II. u4wi, b. i^^6; m. Samuel Patrick, Jr., q. v. III. Jane, b. Nov. i8, 1777; m., Nov. 15, 1798, Willium Davidson, of Peterborough. Nine children. IV. Francis d. Dec. 35, 1S31, unm., a. 50. V. John d. Nov. 28, 1S49, unm., a. 64. Capt. Wright was an active business man ; was at different times engaged in farming, manu- facturing card-boards, boots and shoes ; was a merchant at Jaflrey Centre, Hartland, Vt., and East Jaftrey. Was highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens, and was a distinguished commander of the JaftVey rifle company. VI. Sally, b. 1790; m. Samuel Adams, Jr., of Jaf- frey ; re. to W hitestown, N. Y., q. v. Leranus Wright was the owner of the farm after- wards owned by Francis Wright, lot 14, range 8. Joseph Wright was chosen fence-viewer when the town was incorporated in i773- -^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ mem- ber of Capt. Thomas's company, of Rindge, in 1775. APPENDIX. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL PROOEEDi:N'aS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF JAFFREY, N. H., AUGUST 20, 1873, PREPAKKD FOR PUBLICATION BY THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS 36 PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS. AT the annual town-meeting, March 8th, 1870, pur- suant to an article in the warrant. Voted, That John Fox, Joseph P. Frost, Addison Prescott, David C. Cham- berlain, and Rufus Case be a committee to collect facts, in reference to making preparations for a centennial celebration August 17th, 1873. And said committee appointed, as assist- ants, one person in each school district, — viz., Benjamin Cutter, Geo. A. Underwood, Addison J. Adams, Ambrus W. Spaulding, Lewis L. Pierce, Franklin H. Cutter, Clar- ence S. Bailey, Joseph W. Fassett, John S. Lawrence, John Frost, Benj. Pierce, Benjamin Prescott, and Lewis S. Jaquith. At the annual town-meeting, March 12, 1872, consequent to an article in the warrant, a vote was passed to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, and chose John Fox, Addison Prescott, Benjamin Pierce, Lewis S. Jaquith, Julius Cutter, and Franklin H. Cutter a committee to carry the same into effect. Nov. 5, 1872, the town voted that the committee, chosen to make the necessary preparation for the approaching cen- tennial anniversary of the town, be authorized to fill all vacancies which may occur in said committee. Subsequently John Fox and Lewis S. Jaquith withdrew, and the vacancies were filled by George A. Underwood and Lewis L. Pierce. 532 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. The committee organized by choosing Lewis L. Pierce corresponding secretary and clerk, Franklin H. Cutter chairman, and Julius Cutter treasurer. — commencing their duties by engaging an orator and poet. At the annual meeting, March ii, 1873, the town voted to celebrate its centennial anniversary at the Centre of the town ; also, that the committee of arrangements and select- men be a committee to determine in what way the collation should be provided, — said committee deciding it should be furnished gratuitously ; and to carry the same into effect, the committee of arrangements appointed Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Frost, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Fassett, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cutter, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Button, Mr. Henry Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. Addison J. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrus W. Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Levi E. Brigham, Mr. and Mrs. Abram B. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius A. Cutter, Mr. and Mrs. Joel H. Poole, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stearns, Mr. Samuel Jewell, Mr. Fred J. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Crowe, Mr. and Mrs. Selah Lovejoy, Mr. and Mrs. Hosea B. Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. David A. Cutler, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester P. Towne, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Lib- erty Mower, and Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Upton, as a soliciting and table committee, who performed their duties in a highly commendable manner ; and the result was, the multitude that came were bountifully supplied with substantial and delicate food, with an abundance of ice-water. Tea, coffee, lemonade, foaming soda, &c., were obtained by passing into side tents. The committee of arrangements appointed James S. Lacy, Austin E. Spaulding, and Benjamin Pierce to arrange a choir of singers for the centennial day ; also made choice of JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. C33 Franklin H. Cutter, Esq., President ; Dr. John Fox, Peter Upton, Esq., Col. Samuel Ryan, Ex-Consul Chas. H. Pow- ers, Capt. John A. Cutter, Henry C. French, Alfred Sawyer, Ambrus W. Spaulding, Col. James L. Bolster, Vice-Presi- dents ; Capt. George A. Underwood, Marshal, — he appoint- ing Joseph W. Fassett, Jonas C. Rice, Henry B. Wheeler, Esq., Aids, for the day. The expenses of the celebration were paid by subscription, as will herein be shown. A letter of invitation was issued by the committee, print- ed on eight hundred postal cards, copied as follows : "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. " The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the town of Jaffrey, N. H., occurs this year. It is pro- posed to celebrate the event on the twentieth day of Auo-ust, with appropriate ceremonies. The Sons and Daughters of Jaffrey, and all former residents, are cordially invited to be present and take part in commemorating the day. vRANKLIN H. CUTTER,^ ADDISON PRESCOTT, BENJAMIN PIERCE, I <-ommittee JULIUS CUTTER, f of GEO. A. UNDERWOOD, LEWIS L. PIERCE, Ja^: xvEY, July 26, 1873." Arrangements. This letter was, by the committee, sent to all parts of the country, to former residents of the" town. As the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town occurred on Sunday, August 17, it was decided to celebrate on the Wednesday following. The day proved favorable. At an early hour, from all quarters, crowds assembled at the place of meeting, to the number of five thousand or more. Many friendly and hearty greetings were passed between those who had long 534 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. been separated, and were now permitted to take each other by the hand. A mammoth tent, covering 150 by 60 feet of ground, was erected in close connection to the "old-town house." An ample platform, measuring forty by fifteen feet, was covered by a nice piano, large reporters' table, and settees for one hundred and fifty persons, — the "auditorium" proper having seats for more than three thousand people. "THE DAY'S DOINGS." The component parts of a long and eye-pleasing proces- sion, — Captain George A. Underwood, chief-marshal ; J. W. Fassett, J. C. Rice, H. B. Wheeler, assistants, — formed at three different points. Having been brought together on time, it moved from the vicinity of J. T. Bigelow's store at 9 A. M., in the following order: i. Peterborough cavalry company, Capt. D. M. White, fifty-five men ; 2. East Jaffrey Cornet Band, G. W. Capen, leader, twenty pieces ; 3. Con- toocook fire engine company. Liberty Town, foreman, forty uniforms ; 4. President of the day, orator, toast-master, and chaplain; 5. The vice-presidents ; 6. Committee of arrange- ments ; 7. Invited guests expected to respond to sentiments; 8. Choir, marshalled by J. S. Lacy, thirty strong ; 9. Loyal veterans, Lieut. Wm. Robbins, commander; 10. Four-horse wagon with four generations of the Rice family, and a ban- ner lettered "Mrs. Dorcas Rice, 104 yrs., the oldest lady in New Hampshire ;" 11. Twenty-three young ladies (conducted by John E. Baldwin), representing Cheshire county by carry- ing elegant banners, each respectively inscribed with the name of a single town ; 1 2. Teachers and scholars of thirteen district schools, with handsomely mottoed and numbered standards ; 13. Citizens generally. Having marched and countermarched perhaps a half mile, the procession (except the cavalry, which left for East Jaffrey depot to escort soon- to-arrive members of the Boston city government) entered w Jt^^--^^. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 535 the tent, which proved of insufficient capacity for the occa- sion, many hundreds being obHged, nolens volens, to remain outside. Precisely at ten o'clock Chief-Marshal Underwood felicitously introduced Franklin H. Cutter, Esq., president of the day, who forcibly enunciated the subjoined ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Ladies and Gentlemen : I congratulate you upon this eventful occasion — this celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Jaffrey. I congratulate you at our re-union, under so favorable circum- stances, here at the foot of old time-worn Monadnock. Since that incorporation day, one hundred years ago, which bears the prominent place on the pages of our town's history, this earth has made thirty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-four daily revolutions ; and ofttimes has the morn- ing sun kissed the brow of Grand Old Monadnock, nature's pride, lighting up the hills with rosy glow, then beaming down into the valleys draped with shadows, till nature has changed her sable robe of night for that of the sun's molten, golden light. Then came the mid-day, with all its meridian glory, and as many times that sun has cast its evening shades on the hillsides, and left its last ray on that same mountain's brow, reflecting upon the sky most gorgeous hues of flame-color and crimson, imperceptibly deepening into the purple tinge of evening. To the sons and daughters of those who have occupied these granite hills in days gone by, — the statesman, the lawyer, the preacher, the doctor, — and to all those in every station of life, coming from the colder climes of the North, from the South, where the orange-trees in fragrance bloom, from the East, where the angry Atlantic lashes the rock- bound shore with its turbulent waters, from the broad prairies of the West, dotted here and there with mammoth fields of wheat, corn, and other grain, on to the shores of 536 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. the mighty Pacific, — we give you all a most cordial welcome upon this festival day to our hearths, where the fire goeth not out, and hospitality ever reigneth, — to the homes of your ancestors, the places of your childhood about which so many tender recollections cluster, as we sing, — " How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view ; The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood. And every loved spot which my infancy knew ; The wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it. The bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell ; The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it. And e'en the rude bucket that hung in the well." We welcome you back to witness the beautiful scenery of Jaffrey ; to look upon our mountain in all its magnificence and grandeur ; to follow its winding streams, and from their pure waters catch the spotted trout suited to the most fas- tidious taste ; to walk in the old graveyard and gaze upon those tombstones which denote the spot where our fathers rest. Our neighbors and friends, we welcome ^c'w to participate in the festivities of this occasion. We give you all a friendly gripe of the hand, invite you to take part in this centennial celebration, and thank God that we are here to speak one to another of days gone by, and spend a short time together with the memories of Auld Lang Syne. May blessings rest upon this day and the town of Jaffrey, her sons and daughters, through all coming centuries. Applause having subsided, the band played *' Keller's American Hymn " in good style, when Rev. Rufus Case, pastor of the First Congregational Church, at Jaffrey Cen- tre, offered an excellent prayer, after which the choir, led by Prof. George Foster, of Keene, harmoniously vocalized an original JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 53/ SONG OF WELCOME. BY MISS ALMEDA M. SMITH. Back from the prairied West, Dear kindred, welcome home ! This native soil you blest, Ere tempted far to roam. Welcome to Jaffrey's granite hills. Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. Back from the South's fair land, Back from the holly's shade, Welcome to join our band, From every hill and glade. Welcome to Jaffrey's granite hills. Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. O'er Ocean's waters blue We bid you come once more; Our hearts are faithful, true, As in the days of yore. Welcome to Jaffrey's granite hills. Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. Come, join our festal throng, 'Neath stern Monadnock's brow ; Our hearts to-day are strong In friendship pure, I trow. Welcome to Jaffrey's granite hills. Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. A century ago Your fathers trod this soil; The gray old rocks we know Bear witness of their toil. Welcome to Jaffrey's granite hills. Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. With thankful hearts we bow To God, our Father, Friend, That here we meet e'en now. And our glad greetings blend. Welcome to Jaffrey's granite hills, Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. 538 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. We welcome you again To your dear native land ; Join in our sweet refrain With voice and heart and hand. Welcome to JafFrey's granite hills. Her rocky vales and sparkling rills. President Cutter then came forward and said, — Ladies and Gentlemen : It is with great satisfaction that I have the pleasure of introducing to you, as orator of the day, a native of Jaffrey. The venerable gentleman has lived nearly half a score of years more than the number allotted to man, and is thoroughly acquainted with the early history of this town. He has served his native state, New Hampshire, as chief -justice, for a series of years, and to him the jurists of our state have looked for counsel. He has also been a guiding star in the legal profession of our sister state where he now resides. Well can we afford to listen at this time to the Hon. Joel Parker, of Cambridge, Mass., whom I now introduce to you. CENTENNIAL ADDRESS. BY HON. JOEL PARKER, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Fellow-Citizens, Friends, Ladies, and Gentlemen : Some threescore years since, a favorite piece for declama- tion by the junior schoolboys commenced with this couplet: " You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." When I received the invitation of the committee of ar- rangements to deliver an address at the close of a century, more than three quarters of which I represent, so far as years are concerned, in my own person, I was forcibly re- minded of this schoolboy exercise, and strongly tempted, reversing its significance, to make it the basis of my reply. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 539 But the afterthought was, that upon such occasions remi- niscences are generally acceptable, even if they are trivial ; and that, perhaps, urged by such a complimentary requisi- tion, I owed it to the town of my birth to waive my claim to exemption, make my " last appearance " on this occasion, and tell what I know, little though it may be, of its early history. Little enough it is, in fact, for the years of my early youth were passed in the remote seclusion of the north- eastern corner of the township ; and with only a few inter- vening years in the Centre, my personal knowledge respect- ing its people and its affairs has been only through occa- sional visits. If " sixty years since " I had had even a remote suspicion that I might stand here to-day to discourse respecting the first inhabitancy of this town and its incorporation, I would have come to you this morning with a portfolio full of nota- tions respecting its ancient- history. Having no such pre- monition, many of the incidents of its early days have escaped from my grasp, and the sources from which alone information respecting them could have been derived are gone forever. The century which is commemorated has, in the course of nature, carried away the fathers who saw the inception of the settlement here, with those who immedi- ately followed and were conversant with things done and transacted within its borders. Even in regard to a much later date, a few only of that period seem to stand, somewhat like the servants of Job, who came from different quarters and said, one after another, " I alone am escaped to tell thee ;" and doubtful upon whom I should charge the duty of having greater knowledge than I ought to have respecting the first half of the century, and thereby release myself from the conscrip- tion by presenting a substitute, my conclusion, at last, led me, in obedience to the requisition, to come before you at the present time, and ask your indulgence for the deficien- 540 HISTORY OF JAFFREV. cies which you will perceive in what I have to offer for your acceptance. The great antiquity of the township where we are assem- bled does not admit of a doubt. It seems to be the better opinion that, in the creation of the world, granite was first formed. We are assured that granite appears to be the fun- damental rock of the earth's crust, and that "wherever we reach the base of the stratified rocks we find them resting upon granite." This being so, it follows that New Hamp- shire is entitled to the credit of being part of the earliest creation. And that Jaffrey had a larger interest in that creation than any of her neighbors is shown by the fact, that on the subsequent partition the larger portion of the Monadnock was assigned to her. It is one of the jests about Father Sprague, as he was called, long the minister of Dublin, that, discoursing one day upon faith, and quoting the passage of Scripture re- specting its power to remove mountains, he turned his eye through the window to the mass of granite in full view, and expressed a doubt whether that applied to the Monadnock. If there have been any very great changes in the struct- ure of the earth here since the period of creation, they are not chronicled. The Monadnock exhibits no evidence of disturbance, by faith or by volcanic influences. The only fires have been upon its exterior surface. At the settle- ment of the township it must have been covered nearly to its summit with a dense forest. Some of my earliest recol- lections are of fires on its sides, which furnished pillars of smoke by day and of fire by night, sufficient to have guided the children of Israel, if their path to the Promised Land had lain in this vicinity. These fires left a tangled windfall, and a "bald rock," as it was called, at the top, which was perhaps bare before that time. Possibly they are responsi- ble, in some measure, for my inability to hunt up a re- spectable bear story, as a part of the minor history of the town. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 54 1 But if the mountain has not changed its local habi- tation, the town has its geologic and historic problem of a different character, in the meadow lying just east of this village. Some twenty years since, in one of my occa- sional visits to Jaffrey, I found Dr. Fox engaged in remov- ing large pine stumps, with roots of great size and length, from his portion of the meadow, on the westerly side ; and he showed me, at the distance of a rod or two from the up- land, small pieces of wood bearing evidence of having been cut by the beavers, and supposed to be parts of a beaver- dam, taken from a depth of some five feet below the surface. There were sticks of yellow birch and of alder, about three or four inches in diameter, cut at the ends by a grooved instrument. It was not surprising that the beavers should have had a habitation in that vicinity. In fact, recent inquiries show that this town must have been a favorite locality with them. But it was a mystery how, in the present conformation of the land, there could have been a beaver dam in that spot. Recently it was determined to have a further examination, and it was soon ascertained that there had been a beaver- dam at the outlet of the meadow, on the south-east, near Mr. Cutter's tannery, in the place which any sagacious beaver might have designated for a dam ; and the conclu- sion was readily reached that what had been discovered by Dr. Fox was the remains of a beavers' cabin, on the west- erly shore of the pond which must have been formed by this dam. And so it proved. Selecting a spot a short distance from that opened by Dr. Fox, we struck another cabin, shown clearly to be such, by finding the beavers' bed, composed of small twigs, leaves, and grass, well constructed in layers, the general color being of a light orange when taken out, but becoming dark very soon on exposure to the air. Many of the leaves were of perfect form, so that the kinds could be distinguished ; and a small beech-nut was 542 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. found between the sheets, probably not stowed away for use, but taken up with the leaves in forming the bed. All mystery about the formation of a beaver-dam was solved, but there was a marvel remaining. The beavers' bed was about seven feet below the surface, and when made must have been in a dry position, and above the surface of a pond. By what process of accretion had this pond been filled, and some seven feet of mud deposited above the bed ? On testing the depth of the mud with a pole, it was found to be about thirteen feet. In the centre of the meadow it must be much more. The surrounding hills, at the present time, do not give evidence that great aid in filling could have been derived from them, indicating that the basin must have filled itself, to a great extent, from its own resources. Sufllicient material must perhaps have been washed in for the commencement of the process. Dr. Fox states, that, in clearing his meadow of these stumps and roots, he dug down into the mud in some places to the depth of ten feet ; and that he found three tiers of large pine stumps, perhaps none directly over the others, but on three different levels, — one at the surface, the second about a foot below the bottom roots of the first, and the third about the same distance below the second, bringing the third about on the level with the beavers' cabin. The trees were very large pines, generally three or four feet in diameter, and similar in the several tiers. This statement is supplemented by Benjamin Cutter, Esq., who says that in clearing his part of the meadow he dug cross ditches, and that at the intersection he found three large stumps in a perpendicular line — the upper one directly above the other two — the two upper of pines, one to two feet in diameter — the lower apparently of birch, and about one foot — and that there were pine stumps at the surface, near or quite four feet in diameter, within, prob- ably, ten rods. That trees grow and decay is no marvel. But three sue- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 543 cessive generations of them, so to speak, situated on the same spot, and attaining this gigantic size, and on such a wet soil, formed to a great extent by their own decay, are not often seen or heard of — never before, to my knowl- edge. Centuries seem to be comprised in this problem. Pine trees four feet in diameter do not grow in a short period, and when grown it requires some time to resolve them, by a natural process of decay, into good meadow mud, capable of sustaining another like growth. I can hardly assign less than five hundred years — perhaps it may be a thousand — as a time when this beaver's cabin was erected, and his bed made. How much longer, and how many tiers of pine trees there may have been below those discovered, is not very material. If any one is disposed to cavil about the exact period, I have no objection to discount a century or so ; but I cannot consent to give up any of the stumps, because, as they stand, or, rather, stood, the town may stump all the towns in the region round about to show anything bigger of that description. It needs not that I should say to you that it was perse- vering industry and diligent hard labor which subdued the forest here, and converted so large a portion of the township into reasonably fertile fields. It must be admitted that the surface is somewhat un- even : I should be unwilling to apply the term rough to the township, or to any body or thing connected with it. And there are some stones scattered here and there, notwith- standing the " heaps of 'em " piled up in the fields, in times past, by the boys, somewhat to their disgust when they wanted to "go a-fishing." But this is a world of compensations. Pure air, pure water, and ^ood drainage are conducive to good health and good morals ; and it is but just to say that this is a place where a man, under ordinary circumstances may expect to 544 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. "live out half his days," and even something more, if careful about his habits. A party to ascend the Monadnock, after " haying time," was one of the recreations many years since ; but who could then imagine that our beloved town, with its uneven surface, would become a celebrated resort for the seekers after health, and for the lovers of quiet and of the picturesque, and that the writers of prose, and eke of poetry, would come hither, not merely to get a larger view of the world than they ever had before, but to make it a dwelling and a habi- tation, and a shelter against the heats of summer, and per- haps the storms of adverse fortune.* Respecting the minor incidents of the early history of the town, little can now be known, for the reasons suggested. It is said that there were settlers here prior to seventeen hundred and forty-nine. If so, they were occupants without even color of title, and doubtless did not remain. If we desire to derive a title otherwise than from the original granite, we may trace it through the Right in the Crown of Great Britain by Discovery ; the grant of King James I to the Council of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, in England ; the grant of that corporation to Capt. John Mason ; a devise by him to his grandson, Robert Tufton, who took the name of Mason ; thence as an entailed estate, through several descents, to his great-grandson, John Tufton Mason ; and after a recovery, his conveyance in 1746 to Theodore Atkinson and eleven other persons, who afterwards became known as the " Masonian proprietors." Acting under a vote of these Masonian proprietors, passed *I note, however, that the inducements to the traveller to "stop over" may not, within the law, be in all respects quite as numerous as those held out by a poetical landlord who kept a tavern north of Keene village, some three quarters of a century since. They ran in this wise : "Why will ye pass by, both hungry and dry? Good brandy, good gin, please to walk in ; Good baiting, good bedding, — Your humble servant, Thomas Redding." JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 545 June 1 6, 1749, Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, as their agent, on the thirtieth of November of that year, conveyed to Jonathan Hubbard and thirty-nine others all the right, possession, and property of the proprietors to this township, then called the Middle Monadnock, or Number Two, — sev- eral of the grantees taking more than one share, the number of shares being in fact fifty.* The deed contained a provi- sion by which the land should be divided into seventy-one shares, three shares being " granted and appropriated, free of all charge, one for the first settled minister," "one for the support of the ministry, and one for the school there forever,"! the grantors reserving for themselves eighteen shares, acquitted from all duty and charge until improved. And it was provided that each share contain three lots, equitably coupled together, and drawn for, at, or before the first of July next, in some equitable manner. One of the provisions of the deed was, that each of the grantees should, at the executing of the instrument, pay twenty pounds old tenor, to defray the necessary charges arisen and arising in said township.^ *See Note i, at the end of this address. fGrants of townships by the Governor and Council, outside of the limits of the Masonian proprietors, sometimes contained provisions giving shares to the Church of England, and to The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, with a large share for His Excellency personally. :j:The actual amount to be paid was but a small proportion of the nominal sum thus set down, — the old tenor being a paper currency issued long before, by the Province, which, not having been redeemed according to its tenor, had greatly depreciated. Massachusetts had three emissions of paper currency, which became known as old tenor, middle tenor, and new tenor. The old tenor had depreciated, in 1753, so that twenty shillings of it were worth only two shillings eight pence lawful money. It may be safely inferred that the currency of New Hampshire was not I^etter. Probably it was worse. Belknap, speaking of a controversy between Governor Benning Wentworth and the Assembly, in 1749, respecting the representation of the towns, says, — "The effect of this controversy was injurious to the governor as well as to the people. The public bills of credit had depreciated since this administration began, in the ratio of thirty to fifty-six, and the value of the governor's salary had declined in the same proportion." 36 546 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. There are conditions respecting clearing, building, and settlement, to be performed within certain speciiied times, by the several grantees, — a condition that a good, conven- ient meeting house should be built, as near the centre as might be with convenience, within six years from date, and ten acres of land reserved for public use ; another, that the grantees, or their assignees, by a major vote, in public meet- ing, should grant and assess such further sums as they should think necessary for carrying forward the settlement, with a provision for the sale of so much of any delinquent's right as should be necessary for the payment of a tax, by a committee appointed for that purpose ; and a further provi- sion, that if any of the grantees should neglect or refuse to peform any of the articles, he should forfeit his share and right to those of the grantees who should have complied on their part, with power to enter upon the right of the delin- quent owner, and oust him, provided they should perform his duty as he should have done, within a year. There were provisions by which the grantors undertook to defend the title, to a certain extent. We are interested in these conditions and provisions only as matters of history, serving to show the measures taken by the Masonian proprietors to secure the settlement of the townships which they granted, this among others. It seems probable that none of the conditions were strictly complied with. They could not well be at that time. But so long as there were attempts, in good faith, to make settle- ments, it was not for the interest of the grantors to enforce forfeitures. Their shares became more valuable as the others were improved, and the enforcement of forfeitures, when there were attempts to perform, would have injured themselves. I have procured, from the clerk of the Masonian proprie- tors, copies of the documents on file in his office relating to this township. A few items may perhaps be acceptable. The grantees held a meeting at Dunstable, January 16, JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 547 1749 or '50, at which a vote was passed that each right be laid out into three lots, and to couple them fit for drawing, — to be done by the last day of May ; and that twenty pounds old tenor be raised to each right, to defray charges incidental thereto. A plan of the township, seven miles long by five broad, laid out into ten ranges, and twenty-two lots one hundred rods wide to each range, was finished in May, 1750. The meeting in January was adjourned to the first Tues- day in June, when it was again adjourned to the second Tuesday, at which time the lots were drawn. It is probable that some of the grantees abandoned their rights, as six shares were sold at this meeting, and the money ordered to be deposited with the treasurer, to be paid "to the first five men that goes on with their families in one year from this date, and continues there for the space of one year." There was a vote also for a committee to lay out a road from another Number Two (Wilton), through Peterborough Slip, to this township.* The meeting was then adjourned to November 8, at which time a vote was passed prescribing the method of calling future meetings, the provision for notice being the posting of notices at Dunstable, Lunenburg, and HoUis. A further vote appointed Joseph Blanchard, Benjamin Bel- lows, and Captain Peter Powers " a Committee to manage the Prudentials for this Society." These last votes give us a clue to the residences of some of the grantees. They, of course, belonged to the towns where notices were to be posted. Captain Peter Powers — who was the grantee of four shares, and the purchaser of * Lyndeborough, including the northerly part of Wilton, was laid out by Massachusetts under the claim of that colony, and granted to certain persons, mostly belonging to Salem, in consideration of their suilerings in the expedition to Canada. The residue of what is Wilton was grant- ed by the Alasonian proprietors in 1749, and was called No. 2. Mason was called No. i. Peterborough Slip comprised the towns of Temple and Sharon. This gives us the general course of the road. 548 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. four of the six sold at auction at the first meeting, and who was one of the Committee to manage the Prudentials — must have been the first settler of Hollis, in 1731, — one of the soldiers under the celebrated Captain John Lovewell, who fell in the Indian fight at Pigwackett in 1725. At a meeting of the grantees, August 4, 1752, a formal vote was passed to accept the title, with an acknowledgment that they held it under the conditions and limitations and reservations, by some of which there should have been clearings before that time. Copies of the deed executed by Blanchard, and of the plan, and a list of the proprietors, were filed in the office of the grantors, September 4, 1753. It is stated that a settlement was attempted in 1753 by Richard Peabody, Moses Stickney, and a few others, who remained but two or three years. The first native was a son of Moses Stickney, born in 1753. The first permanent settlement was made in 1758, by John Grout and John Davidson. There is in the files a paper containing, first, a list of settlers on the free lots, to the number of nine families ; second, a list of settlers that abide constantly on settling rights, — total, twenty-two; third, "some beginnings on set- tling rights, number, ten ; also a memorandum, "no meet- ing-house built." This is certified as a true account of the settling rights, "carefully examined and humbly submitted" bv John Grout and Roger Gilmore. There is no date to it, nor any memorandum when it was received, but pinned to it is a paper signed John Gilmore and Roger Gilmore, dated March 10, 1769, addressed to "Gentlemen Grantors," set- ting forth that they bought the right that was Paul March's, January, '68, and the improvements which they have made and intend, and concluding, — "Gentlemen, we beg the favor of you, as you are men of honor, that you will not hurt us in our interest, for we have done everything in our power to bring forward the settlement of this place." JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 549 Roger Gilmore is the only one of the earher settlers that I am sure of having seen. He lived on the hill east of the tannery of John Cutter ; was a man of large frame and dig- nified deportment; was highly esteemed ; and was much employed as justice of the peace, surveyor, and in town offices and affairs. There is also on file "an accompt of the settlements in Monadnock No. 2," certified by Enoch Hale, stating the names of the "settlers on the several rights, and the number of the rights (ten in all) appearing to be delinquent. It is without date, but was "received March 8th, 1770," and was probably made up within a short time previously. From this it appears that there were settlements on thirty-four rights, and twelve lots (additional, as I understand) im- proved; and that mills were erected on right 15, and a saw- mill on 41. And here, near the close of its unincorporated existence, let us pay a deserved tribute to the enterprise and energy of the early settlers. Struggling against obstacles that were all but insuperable, and through hardships which might well have daunted the most determined courage, they have, in a few years, brought the township largely above the average of the settlements in the county, and to a position exceeded only by towns of a longer existence, all of which had much greater facilities for access. The partic- ular obstacles which they encountered, and the details of the hardships which they endured, we cannot know. Of their personal deprivations and sufferings we fail to form an adequate conception. It is difficult to gain even a general appreciation of them. There are, it is true, only forty miles intervening between the head-quarters, if we may so call them, at Dunstable ; but twenty or more of them are through a nearly trackless, dense forest, over a rough, rocky surface, with occasionally a small natural meadow. The pioneers make their slow, painful way, much of it through the thick underbrush,— 550 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. the husband with an axe on his shoulders, and what he can carry of household appendages in a pack on his back, and his wife follows, somewhat similarly loaded, except the axe. Cheap land, within the reach of their scanty means, has tempted them to endurance. There may be a young man with them. God be thanked we do not see any young chil- dren. Weary, worn in spirit as well as in body, they reach the range and lot of their destination, and their first shelter is constructed of hemlock boughs, with the same material for a bedstead, and leaves for a mattress. A rude log hut follows,* and then comes the hard strug- gle with the forest and with privation, — with the winter, its deep snows, and its intense cold. There is no communica- tion with the outward world but by " rackets " (snow-shoes), and pioneers of longer duration are in other towns, miles away. It is not necessary to put wild beasts into this pict- ure. Is it wonderful that the settlers of '53 found this too great an endurance even for their brave hearts and strong arms, and that they abandoned the settlement when re- maining threatened their lives .'' or, rather, is it not won- derful that they lived to abandon it .^ Surely, it was not light difficulties which would deter persons who had the courage to begin such a work from the prosecution of their purpose. But there is another attempt at settlement made under more favorable auspices. We may suppose that the few pounds voted to be raised to make a road from Number Two have been expended. The underbrush and some of * The log hut must have been an institution of short duration. So far as I have heard, there is little tradition of log-houses in the town. A grist- and saw-mill were erected in Peterborough as early as 1751 ; another saw-mill near the place of the south factory in 1758. Rev. John H. Morison, in his very interesting address at the centennial cel- ebration in Peterborough, says, — "At this period [1770] log huts were little used. Substantial frame houses, many of them two stories high, had been erected." And we have seen, from the return of 1770, that there were then two saw-mills here. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 551 the stones are cleared away, and trees are blazed along the route ; and another small party of settlers start, with oxen, not in yokes but single file, with such loads as they can carry strapped upon their backs. And there is a cow there. The small patches of natural meadow furnish food for the animals, and the emigrants arrive with better means of es- tablishing themselves. The trees fall, the logs are drawn, piled, burnt, a small space is cleared, a shelter is built, seed is sown, and the vegetation, anxiously watched and tended, gives a scanty crop. But sickness comes. Exposure has produced its natural result : fever is in the household. There is no physician. The medicines are the few simple remedies brought in the luggage. Acts of neighborly kind- ness would be cheerfully rendered if there were near neigh- bors, but are of difficult procurement in this forest of "mag- nificent distances ;" and all the hours of attendance by the sick-bed are so much time withdrawn from what would otherwise have been essentially necessary for labor and for rest. Alas ! the kindest care, the unslumbering watch, and the fervent prayer are unavailing ; and the sufferer, no longer such, is laid to final rest in some quiet corner of " the clearing." Out of this darkness co^ les a brighter dawn. Lumber can be had. The mills are miles distant, to be sure, and the transportation difficult, but perseverance overcomes obstacles. " The road " has been improved. There is a horse upon the path. The rider has a young child in her lap, and one somewhat older sits behind. Her husband drives "the stock." The way is not so toilsome: there are more articles of housekeeping in the luggage, more of en- couragement, more of hope, more of fruition, more of hap- piness. We have reached 1770, and there are several families here. The settlement is established on a firm basis. Let us never fail to do justice to the pioneers, men and women, who, with such resolute courage, fortitude, patience, and 552 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. perseverance, established a civilized society in the midst of a trackless wilderness. We should do ourselves a great wrong if we did not express our deep admiration of them. In 1 77 1 the province was divided into counties. Prior to this time all the public offices were in Portsmouth or the vicinity, and the courts were held there. In an act for making a new proportion of public taxes, passed May 28, 1773, which included unincorporated places, Monadnock Number Two is set down at ^C"^ S^- i" ^^^s ;!^i,ooo. The proportion for Cheshire county, which until 1827 included what is now Sullivan county, was ;£i 17 S.y,. There were twelve towns in the county rated higher than Jaffrey, and seventeen towns and places at less. This pro- portion of the taxation serves to show, in some measure, its relative importance at that time. The Masonian proprietors had and claimed only a right of property. Their title to the land passed by the deed authorized by them, as a deed passes the title to land at the present day, but there was no right of town government granted. The provision for taxing the shares and collect- ing the tax could only be made effectual through the laws of the province. The jurisdiction was in the governor and council and the assembly. The grantees of the lands acted like a corporation for the division and disposition of their lands and the performance of their duties as a proprietary, but for nothing beyond. When those things were accomplished, the proprietary was at an end, — dissolved. And this was true also of the town- ships granted by the governor, outside of the limits of the Masonian lines, unless incorporated. There was no provision in the general laws by which an assessment could be made upon the inhabitants of unincor- porated places, for which reason the act apportioning the public taxes, in 1773, contained a provision appointing per- sons, who were named, to call meetings of the inhabitants of such places ; and requiring the inhabitants at such meet- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 553 ings to choose the necessary officers for assessing and col- lecting the tax, and giving authority for that purpose. And so the time had come when the interests of the peo- ple required corporate powers of a general.character ; and on the 17th of August, 1773, an act of incorporation was grant- ed, nominally by His Majesty George III, but in fact by the royal governor, John Wentworth, with advice of the council, the corporate name being found in the name of one of the Masonian proprietors, who was then secretary ; and yajfrey was installed into the great brotherhood of political and municipal incorporations called towns, which have been of such incalculable benefit, not only to New England, where they originated, and of which they are the glory and the pride, but through it to the country at large. The centuries of which we usually speak date from the commencement of the Christian era, occasionally from the period assigned by Bibical theology as the time of the crea- tion of the world. But a century may have its beginning at any point of time. That of which we now witness the close had its inception with this incorporation. If the event be supposed to be one of comparative insignificance, it was one which has had a greater absolute force for the promo- tion of the happiness of those persons inhabiting within the limits of the town, than any of the greater ones which have astonished the world. If we should suspend, for a moment, the consideration of the local interests attached to this incorporation, and which entitle it to mark the commencement of a century, and its anniversary to a grateful recognition and celebration, and should turn our attention to the general history of the cen- tury which has followed, we should find that this century may challenge a comparison with any one which has pre- ceded it, whatever date may be assigned for the commence- ment of the latter. But we must not undertake the centennial history of the world to-day. On our recollection of it, however, we may 554 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. surely be pardoned if we exclaim, Great has been the cen- tury which had its commencement in the incorporation of the town of Jaffrey ! These incorporated towns had their origin in Plymouth, Duxbury, and Scituate, in the Plymouth colony, followed by Charlestown, Salem, and Newton (since Cambridge), and Dorchester, in Massachusetts ; and by Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, and Hampton, in this state. It has been suggested that the town organization had its origin in the Congregational church polity ; and, in fact, the organization of the church, in the earlier settlements of the Pilgrims and the Puritans, accompanied the organization of the town. But the town grew mainly out of the secular need, — out of the democratic principle of self-government, — as is shown from the fact that changes in the modes and forms of wor- ship, and in the different church organizations, have not affected the townships and the towns ; whereas Congrega- tionalism had no existence outside of the portions of the country where these townships existed. Instead of creating townships and towns, it has not itself been created to any extent where they have not existed. It cannot well exist without them. But they now exist in the Western country, where Congregationalism has as yet little foothold, — and but for them it would have been long since merged in Presbyterianism, which has been the prevailing form of orthodoxy in all parts of the country where these towns have been unknown.* Considering the principles and objects of the emigrants, the town system may be said to have been a necessity, in the existing state of things, in the early settlement of this part of the country. It was the only organization by and through which the settlers could best provide for their wants, and have the full enjoyment of the liberty which they prized so highly ; and they devised it accordingly. *See Note 2, at the end of this address. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 55 5 The early settlers of the Plymouth colony discovered that the grant of corporate powers to the small separate settlements, and the passage of general laws giving them such powers and privileges as would enable them to provide for their local needs, and subjecting them to the perform- ance of such duties as might be required by the government of the whole colony, was the best and fittest way for the transaction of the affairs of the different localities ; and they so provided. This conclusion was reached, not through any revelation which perfected the system at once, but by degrees, through their daily and yearly experience ; and the system, inaugurated at Plymouth, commended itself to the Massachusetts colony, so that it was adopted there at the outset. The earliest settlements in this state were commenced in a slightly different manner, Portsmouth, Dover, and Hampton being towns, independent of each other, with separate pow- ers of government, exercised by agreement, without any act of incorporation. But when the government of the colony of New Hampshire was organized, grants of townships were made, and towns incorporated. In this organization of towns, the settlements of New England differed from those of Virginia and other Southern states, and to these towns, providing for local wants and performing local duties. New England owes much of the prosperity of which she has had a reasonable share to this day. The early settlers in this place, like those of other towns, wanted religious teachers and institutions. This is shown not merely by the character of mankind, the nature of soci- ety, and the particular character of the parties, but by the provisions in the grant of the township giving one share for the first settled minister, and one for the support of the ministry, and by the condition requiring that a good, con- venient meeting-house should be built near the centre with- in six years. 556 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Whatever we may think respecting ourselves, at this later day, with our more dense poi)ulation and our enlarged means, we may well conclude that at that period it was for the benefit of the civil state that the institutions of religion should be maintained through some organization having legal power to provide for the support of religious teachers. In fact, the authority of the towns to provide for the settle- ment of ministers and their support remained until 18 19, although the efficiency of the law was much impaired by religious divisions at an earlier day. The clergyman had then no need to spend his summer in Europe or the Adi- rondacks. His parish being the town, his parochial visits furnished him with sufficient " muscular Christianity " for all practical purposes. They wanted schools, and of course they needed school- houses, and for the erection of these, school-districts. The inhabitants of the town, with a full understanding of the local needs of all portions of the town, could arrange these districts ; the people of the several districts could then de- termine the situation and the size of the house required, with regard to their accommodation and pecuniary ability ; and the tax voted by the town for the support of schools, being divided in an equitable manner, could then be applied to the purposes of education in these districts with the greatest possible efficiency. The poor little school-houses would not make a great show by the side of some mcKlern structures, but they did a work perhaps quite as useful as if the seats had had cushions and the desks had been of ma- hogany. They wanted highways. This need of facilities for inter- communication, and for intercourse with other portions of the country, must have impressed itself upon them, by the inconveniences which they suffered, in a manner to assure an energetic use of their powers in this respect ; and the town incorporation, with its power to divide into districts for this purpose, and by the appropriation of money or JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 557 labor, to be expended under surveyors interested to do a good work, soon rendered travel safe and even convenient. The great rocks have disappeared, one after another, under the persevering appHcation of the highway tax, until the '" drives " have, as you know, become very attractive. The then existing modes of travel and transportation did not require roads of the most perfect construction. Chaises had not been introduced. The light Dearborn wagon had not been invented. The single horse had no difficulty in picking his way, and by skilful " hawing and geeing " the oxen and cart were enabled to avoid the more formidable obstructions. Personal transportation was mostly on horse- back, but the cart was made the carryall when several per- sons were to be conveyed. The side-saddle furnished a healthful means of locomotion for the women, and when it became necessary to ride double, the pillion — no lon^-er known, alas ! — formed a very comfortable seat for the lady. As it was necessary, in order to keep the seat properly, that she should pass her arm around the side of the gentle- man, this was, in some cases, a very acceptable mode of transportation, to the junior portion of the community. No system of general legislation could provide for all these local wants and necessities according to the exigen- cies of particular cases. But the general laws enabled these small communities, acting as municipal corporations, to provide each for itself, in relation to these and other mat- ters, according to its own views of what it needed and what it could perform, — it being premised that it had needs upon some subjects, to some extent, and must perform to that extent, at least, with liberty to do more, which it usually did. Thus, it must raise a certain amount of money for the support of schools, and might raise more if deemed expedi- ent. The powers and privileges which the towns possessed were not talents to be wrapped in a napkin and buried in the earth, nor did the people belong to the class of slothful 558 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. and unfaithful servants who seek to escape from their duties. There were other duties and rights attached to these incorporations. The duty of supplying the needs of the aged, infirm, and incompetent, who were unable to supply themselves, so that want and destitution should be allevi- ated and starvation unknown, was deemed a common duty of each community, and could best be performed by these incorporations. Through them, also, the inhabitants were primarily to enjoy such political rights as were conceded to the people in the days of the province, and the more extended and ex- alted powers which were conferred by the acquisition of independence, the organization of the state, and the adop- tion of the constitution of the United States. All the rights of suffrage were to be exercised within the town incorporation, the electors being summoned thereto by its warrants for such purposes. Again : the meetings held for these purposes gave opportunity for the full consideration and discussion of the measures required for the public good, and for the expression of the opinions of the inhabi- tants respecting them. How many of the specifications of the Declaration of Independence originated in the resolu- tions of the towns we cannot now know. Although no trace may be left, we know that there must have been arguments for and against the adoption of the constitution of the United States, when the delegates were chosen to attend the convention, which ratified it by a small majority, proposing divers amendments, most of which were adopted immediately afterwards. Some voted against the ratifica- tion, fearing that such amendments would not be made, — perhaps so instructed by their constituents. Nothing could have been better adapted to the execution of all these pur- poses than these "Little Democracies," as de Tocqueville has called them. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL, 559 The social privileges connected with the organization must not be overlooked. It made the inhabitants of the small tract of territory within its limits a brotherhood, — promoting the welfare of each other and of the whole com- munity, by the meeting-house, the school-house, and the highway, — and in these, and other ways, establishing good order, social intercourse, and a kindly feeling towards each other. The town was the efificient means which secured the prosperity of the household. The several families, farmers, mechanics, laborers, and professional persons needed for the development of their resources and the greatest enjoy- ment of their privileges something beyond their isolated households, something beyond even the mutual support of each other in their various neighborhoods ; and they found it in the town. It enlarged while it concentrated their sympathies, formed and moulded their opinions, and gave expression to their united will. Lastly, the military com- pany organizations were mostly within the town, two communities sometimes uniting to furnish an extra article in this line. From these companies the ranks of the army have been recruited in time of war, being liable to draft, if necessary. In the time of the Revolution, when the ordinary mode of supplying the army seemed likely to fail, requisitions were made upon the towns to furnish ammunition and pro- visions, and were promptly answered. They were often the storehouses of ammunition. If any one who does not know would seek an exemplifi- cation of the utility of the town incorporations, let him look at Jaffrey to-day, and study her history. An admirable result of the town organization was, that the Revolution, which followed almost immediately upon the incorporation of this town, did not place the country in a state of disintegration. The town organization remained, its efficiency necessarily somewhat impaired ; but the town 560 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. officers, having been elected by the people, still retained their confidence and support. Such powers as could be exercised only in the name of the king, or under the royal authority, were at first suspended, and then abrogated, — but the same powers were immediately exercised under the authority of the people ; and the towns, during all the time, served to a great extent the purposes for which they were established. A revolutionary convention, called by the committee of correspondence, in 1775, recommended that those who had been chosen into office in the usual manner, should, as formerly, be considered the proper officers ; and that the town, selectmen, and other officers proceed in the usual manner in granting and collecting moneys, etc., unless some particular direction was given, — adding this significant para- graph : " If any, inimical to their country, or inattentive to the ruin which must ensue upon a contrary conduct, should re- fuse, we trust that all friends of the country will effectually strengthen the hands of the selectmen, constables, and collectors." It is not supposed that any one here, by his refusal, ren- dered it necessary even to hint at a resort to the peculiar strengthening-plaster thus indicated. February 13, 1775, the town voted unanimously to visit Mr. Williams, of Keene — a very extraordinary civility on the face of the vote. Williams was a lawyer, but the call on him was not for professional advice. He was a tory, and this unusual demonstration had reference to that fact. The further proceedings in relation to the proposed visit are not of record. It is a fair presumption that there was no tory in Jaffrey, who might be visited with much less trouble. No other system could so well have supplied civil govern- ment, under such circumstances. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL, <,6l It was more difficult to deal with matters of which the courts of justice had jurisdiction. The courts, on recom- mendation of the convention, adjourned. Justices of the peace could not well issue compulsory process under the royal authority, in the existing circum- stances. The collection of debts by suit was suspended, and the natural consequences were, in one instance at least, exemplified here. In the files of the convention of 1775 is a memorial or representation address to the " Honorable Provincial Congress," signed by Jethro Bailey, William Turner, and Roger Gilmore, committee of correspondence, setting forth that Benjamin Nutting, of Peterborough Slip, so called, had entered a complaint to them against John Davis, junior, of Jaffrey ; that upon the second day of Octo- ber, instant, as he came to the house of John Eaton on some business, he was assaulted by said Davis, and abused in the most "solem"' manner, as appears by sundry evi- dences ; that notwithstanding Davis was notified to attend and hear the evidences examined, he refused ; that he had often been requested to settle the matter, but remained ob- stinate, and persisted in his villainy, with insolence. The committee enclosed the depositions, and earnestly desired the convention to take the matter into consideration, and either determine it between them, or invest the com- mittee with a proper authority to act, with instructions how to proceed in the case. It does not appear that any action was taken upon the subject. On the fifth of January, 1776, a "form, or plan, of civil government" was adopted by a convention, or congress, which met for the purpose, under which the affairs of the towns were again transacted in legal form. The form of government was limited by its terms to continue "during the present unhappy contest with Great Britian," but served as a state constitution for many years, and is said to have been the first state constitution. This caused no change in the organization of the town 37 562 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. or in its proceedings, except that the latter were now ccm- ducted once more under what proved to be a sufficient legal authority. A few items in relation to the increase of the population and the rate of taxation may serve to show the comparative progress with the other towns. The convention of 1775 ordered a survey to be made of the people in the several counties, for the purpose of deter- mining the ratio of representation in the assembly, from which it appears that Jaffrey had 351 inhabitants. Of thirty towns in the county, ten or eleven had a larger number. She had sixteen men in the army. This was a very strong delegation for such a small community, just organized, — larger than any of the towns not having more inhabitants. Keene had 756 inhabitants; Chesterfield, Westmoreland, and Richmond a still greater number. The census in 1790 gives Jaffrey a population of 1,235. There were then only six towns in the county with a popu- lation greater than this, and these, with the exception of Keene, lay on the south border, or on the Connecticut river, and so were more easy of access. Keene had 1,314 inhabi- tants. In 1800 the population was 1,341. Eleven towns had a larger population, mostly much more favorably situated. Keene had 1,645. By an act of the assembly, in 1777, determining the pro- portion of each town for every ;!^ 1,000 of the state taxes, Jaffrey's proportion was ^^5 gs. ^d. There were nine towns in the county having a greater valuation, that of Keene be- ing jQ'i^o 5J-. 9^., twenty-two having less. When, in 1780, a requisition was made for a hundred and twelve thousand weight of beef for the army, the proportion of Jaffrey was 7,326 pounds ; the proportion of Keene, 11,309. The same year a new proportion of taxes gave Jaffrey jQ6 \os. \od., Keene, /^lo is. iid. Another proportion, in 1789, shows a comparative in- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 563 crease favorable to the prosperity of Jaffrey ; that is, sup- posing that the duty to pay a larger proportion of taxes indicates in fact a larger ability to perform the duty, which probably is not always the case. Jaffrey is set at ^'j 12s. $d., Keene, ;^9 iqx. 6d. Another proportion, in 1794, gave for Jaffrey £y gs. 8d., Keene, £g 14s. 6d. But in this year the valuation of Ches- terfield, Walpole, and Westmoreland, lying on the Connec- ticut river, each exceeded that of Keene. It is not my purpose to refer in detail to the proceedings of the town in the exercise of its rights and the perform- ance of its duties. This is the special province of the future historian, and to him, whoever he may be, I remit it. But a few brief notes, having reference to some of the subjects which have been mentioned, may find a place upon this occasion. The first meeting under the act of incorporation was for the choice of town ofificers only. It was called by Jonathan Stanley, specially authorized by the charter, August 27, 1773, and was held September 14. Another meeting was held September 28, to raise money for the building of roads and the support of the gospel. April 26, 1774, it was voted to build a meeting-house, and July 6, to build one of larger dimensions, to let the building at public vendue, that it should be raised by the middle of June next at the town's cost, with several other votes on the subject. It was voted in March, 1775, that the committee to build provide all things necessary to raise the house at the cost of the town. But March 30, 1780, there was a vote to make allowance to Captain Henry Coffin for the barrel of rum which he paid for, to raise the meeting-house. The captain, it would seem, intervened patriotically to supplement the deficiency of the provision made by the committee, and waited a long time for reimbursement. There is a tradition that the meeting-house was raised on 564 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. the day of the battle of Bunker Hill, and that the guns of that battle were heard here. But this must be a mistake. When the matter is examined, the probabilities are against it. It is hardly probable that guns fired at Charlestown could be heard here, with the New Ipswich hills and the forest intervening, even on a quiet day, when there was no meeting-house to raise. Moreover, the battle was on Satur- day, which was as good a day for a battle as any other day, but would hardly be selected as the time to raise a meeting- house, lest there should be some work remaining which ought to be performed the next day. The conclusion to be derived from the improbabilities is fortified by direct hearsay evidence. I received a letter a few days since from Dr. Jeremiah Spofford, of Groveland, Mass., in which he says, — "My father, Jeremiah Spofford, as a master-carpenter, framed that church. He was em- ployed to do it by Captain Samuel Adams, whose wife was his sister. Jacob Spofford and Joseph Haskell went up with him to work on the frame. * * * My father often related, seventy years ago, that they raised the house, and that ending his job, they set out for home the next day, travelling " ride and tie," three men, with one horse to carry tools and ease the men in turn ; that coming down through Townsend, in the forenoon, they heard the roar of cannon, which proved to be the cannon of Bunker Hill, and coming over the Westford hills, in the evening, they saw the light of Charlestown burning. * * * Captain Adams was one of the contractors to build the house, and was a carpen- ter himself." It may be objected that "unlucky" Friday was as little likely as Saturday to be selected as the day to begin such a work. But the explanation seems easy. The town had voted to raise by the middle of June. The contract would naturally specify that as the time of performance. There would be a desire and time enough for compliance. The fifteenth of June was Thursday. If we suppose that to be JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 565 the day selected, and that there was some unfinished work to be done on Friday to complete the job, we shall have the carpenters on their homeward way on Saturday, in the localities in which Mr. Jeremiah Spofford placed them. We may give up the tradition without a sigh. Neither the meeting-house nor the battle will suffer by the loss of it. There was some delay in settling a minister. Several candidates were hired. There was a vote that young men supply the pulpit, and some others indicating that the ser- vices of some of the candidates were not quite satisfactory. But June i, 1780, it was voted to hear Mr. Caleb Jevvett more if he can be obtained, and September 4, a vote to con- cur with the church in giving him a call. Why he did not accept does not appear : perhaps from the insufficiency of the salary offered. He was, I think, a graduate of Dart- mouth, of 1776, a native of Newbury, Mass., and afterwards settled in Gorham, Maine. In 1782, they settled the Rev. Laban Ainsworth, a native of Woodstock, Conn., a graduate of Dartmouth college in 1778. The first vote for a salary was for jQyo " while he sup- plies the desk," which was afterwards changed to "while he remains the minister of the town." Choosing with deliber- ation, they are entitled to the credit of having abided by their determination. Mr. Ainsworth lived to the age of more than a hundred years, officiated without a colleague until 1832, and remained as the pastor of the church until his death, but his labors were discontinued a few years ear- lier. As many of you knew him well, I need not speak of his appearance or services. A withered right arm was probably the reason why he did not write his sermons. If, as has been said, he sometimes looked up his text on Sun- day morning, after breakfast, the fact will serve to show his confidence in his powers of discussion. The tales respect- ing the jokes, practical and otherwise, passing between him and Father Sprague, are numerous, many of them probably 566 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. fictitious. But there was, unquestionably, a sufficient en- counter of wits to lay a good foundation for some of them. In the infancy of such a settlement, the difficulties of establishing and maintaining a school or schools- would necessarily be very great If the means of support had been abundant, the facilities for the attendance of the scholars must have been quite limited. The first appropri- ation of £8 was made April 13, 1775. Soon we find votes for the division of the money, indicating schools in different parts of the township, then a division into districts. That the interests of education have received full support here may be inferred from the fact that twenty-four young men have graduated at the different colleges, twenty of them at Dartmouth. It is not surprising that they deemed expenditures upon the roads as of the first importance. Will you think it strange when I say that they appropriated much larger sums for highways than they did for the support of the gos- pel and the schools.'* Will you be astonished that at their second meeting they voted ;^8o, lawful money, to be worked out on the roads, and only £6 to procure preaching, and that this disparity increased so that April 13, 1775, when they voted £8 for the school, they again voted /^6 for preaching and ;^I30 for the roads.'* We must recollect that the efficiency of their maintenance of preaching de- pended upon their first mending their ways. It may be said that roads lay at the foundation of their prosperity, spiritual as well as temporal. Without roads the settlement could not succeed ; and if that failed, the support of religious teaching, and the school, failed with it. As the roads were made better, settlements were encour- aged, the ability to support the institutions of religion was enlarged, and the appropriations were enlarged also. It is with great regret that I refer again to my inability to give some better account respecting the earliest inhabi- tants. Perhaps my recollections of a later date may possess JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 56/ some interest, and serve, with those of others, to fill a page of local history. In the early part of the present Christian century, there was clustered in the vicinity of the meeting-house, which then had no steeple, the house of Rev. Mr. Ainsworth, at the south-east corner of the common ; Danforth's tavern, where Cutter's hotel now stands ; the store of Joseph Thorndike, Esq., and David Page's store, on the east side ; Cragin's saddlery-shop, on the north-east corner ; and on the north, a large pile of buildings belonging to Joseph Cutter, Esq., of which only the main dwelhng-house now remains. He kept a tavern, and had very ample accommodations for his customers. He was, I think, much the largest land- holder in the township, and had an ambition to settle each of his numerous sons on a farm, which he accomplished to a great extent. At the south-west corner of the burying- ground was a school-house. East of Danforth's tavern was his blacksmith-shop, north of which was the dwelling-house of Capt. Samuel Adams. Commencing at the common, the road to the north-east, leading to Peterborough, and to the south-easterly part of Dublin, passed by a small house on the corner, at the left, no longer there, which was occupied at one time by Mr. Cummings, afterwards by Dr. Johnson and by Jonathan Lufkin ; there turning north, the road extended by the place where the Melville academy now stands, less than a quarter of a mile, where it forked, the direct road proceed- ing northerly towards Dublin, by the houses of Mr. Newton and Thomas French, — the easterly fork, which was the principal road, running over the hill by a house occupied by David Smiley, Esq., attorney-at-law. This house has gone, and the road over the hill has gone with it. The more modern route, north-east, by Mr. John Cutter's tannery, and easterly of the meadow, entered this old road at the foot of the hill, on the east. $68 iiisroKv oi'' |ai'I'KI';y. Ml-. Illy ;i mile i';ril ol llic xill.iju- \v;is llu; Iioiisc of Widow HiVMiil. 'I'lu' lo:i(l loikctl ;i lew rods c'lisl I'lly. ( )ii 1 lie iioi I lici ly 1)1.1111 li, \vlii( li 1)1 :iiii lied ;i!',iiii, lived SiiliiiU'l C'mi')', Hen |,iiiiiil Lawiciuc, I)i';k'oii Jchsc M;iyn;ird, A/;u'l (iovvinj;, Mosos Stickiicv, SaimiL'l Slifkney, Silas Adams, Jacob jcvvi'll, In-iijaiiiiii I'losl. I'rorcfdiii^' a slioil dislaiK c, I In- caslci l\' braiu'h appeaK-d lo run into :i iioilli .md mhiIIi lojd, htil tilt- norliu'rly pail was llic iiiaiii load lo llic iioilli ca.sl. A lew lods lo llic soiilli was llic house ol Alplieiis ( "I'oshy ; in lioiil, llial ol Asa Sawyer. riirsninj.; llic niain road, al adislaiKcol ahoiil hall a mile, on llic ii;',hl side, w.is llii: house ol l.ieiil. riiomas Adams, which has disappcii ed. Anolhei was luiill ncai, on llic Icll side, manv yeais siiu'e, occupied by l).iiii(l I'liieiy. Nol l.n bi')'ond, .il llic place ulieii- a load now leads oil |o llic i'.asl villaiH', llnac c:iiiie into lliis load, lioiii liie west, a slioil br.iih li load, on w hn li lived Ml. Hales. Al Ihispoinl i ame .iiiol hci lork. ( )n llu' liorllu'ily bi.uuh. which has been sli;dillv chaiij'.cd :il its eoliimcncciiieiil, .i (jiiaiN i ol .i mile bioiijdil llic ti.ivcllci to aiiolhei loik, the westerly load bciii;; incicly a Im ;il biaiuli, lermiualiii}'; al the house soon .iltci owned by .Samuel rieri'c. ( )n the oa.sterly oi" main bianch, wc- came iic.\t to the S( hool house ol the disliii 1 ol ni\' early boyhood, .ind in the licld some (|ii,iilci ol a mile south east was the hoii'.c ol ICl)CIU'/.i-l liiii pec. Miss llilly Ihooks w.is oiu- ol llic leaclici.s ol the sum- mer school, a most estimable yotiiij', l.id\, whose kindness dwells in my memory. She altci'waids maiiicd Samuel Pic ICC. The ohi school house has disappi-ared, and a lew years inoic will caii\' .ill its niemorii's with it. A lew ol its iiimat(-s at a l.ilci d.ile si ill i em.im. Starting oiiee luoic upon our way, we lind iie\t where was the house ol Whilcomb I'oweis, at the b.isc ol the hill, on lli(" lelt. It is no loiu'ci tlu-ic. 'I'licrc was none ,i lillle JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 5O9 onward, where the residence of my late friend, Levi l*"isk, Esq., has stood for many years. On the northerly branch of a fork of the road a few rods further, running to Twitch- ell's mills, in the easterly part of Dublin, was the house of his father, Thomas Fisk. At the fork I'ist mentioned was formerly the shop of John Pushee, of which nothing but the ruins remained, so far back as I can recollect. I have the impression it had been burned. Thence, pursuing the ea.st- erly branch of the highway, next came the house of my father, who came here from Pepperell in May, 1780, settled in the unbroken forest, and cleared his farm himself, with such assistance as he could obtain. Some of you know the place, I am not aware of the particular inducement which led him to settle there : probably a repre.sentatioii that it was a nice bit of land, dog cheap ; and cheapness was a consideration not to be despised.* It proved rough and rocky, and admitted of any amount of hard labor. Twenty- live years of patient, persevering industry had made a dif- ference in the apj^earance of things. There were rods of stone wall, requiring .some knowledge of the mysteries of compound addition to .say how many. There were cattle and sheep, hay in the barn, a patch of flax in the field, and a little wheel and a great wheel and a great loom in the house.f The wood-pile would have deemed itself neglected if it had not extended a hundred feet, "more and not le.s.s," along the wall, with an indefinite breadth, and a height which no one undertook to measure. The fire-place in the common working-room received back-logs two and a half feet in diameter: I am tempted to put on the other half foot, but refrain. From the great brick oven by the side of the fire- ♦Consideration 260 pounds, lawful money ; 102 acres of land, — part ol lot 20, in the first range. f Girls " hired themselves out" to spin. When the cloth was fulled and dre.ssed, the tailoress of the neighborhood came, cut and made up the clothes. When the hides were tanned, the shoe-maker, in his rounds, came once or twice in the year, and made up a stock of boots and shoes for the family, staying perhaps a week for the purpose. 570 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. place, there issued, from time to time, baked pumpkins, such as no cooking-stove, invented or to be invented, can ever produce ; and there was no v^atering of the milk. On winter evenings apples were roasting and sputtering upon the hearth, — and there was a mug of cider there. Checkers and jack-straws were seen occasionally, and some card teeth were set.*t My brothers caught minks, musquash, partridges, pick- erel, rabbits, and woodchucks, — and, in haying time, I took up bumble-bees' nests, getting poor pay for my labor. In order to economize time, I give this brief sketch of a single household, instead of a more elaborate statement which I was preparing, respecting farming life generally in the town, and in the hope that the personality may be ex- cused in consideration of its brevity. Any one, by pursu- ing things to their natural antecedents and conclusions, may judge somewhat of the whole from these few partic- ulars ; exceptions of course. Half a mile onward was the house of the Widow Turner, The widow relished a joke, — and perhaps I may be pardon- ed for telling a short story which she told herself. She had taken her grist to be ground at the mills of Samuel Twitch- ell, Esq., the father of the celebrated surgeon. Dr. Amos Twitchell, just within the limits of Dublin, riding, of course, upon the top of the bags. The Squire, who was somewhat of a humorist, had a hired man named White, certainly not beautiful to behold. The widow's description of what *The manufactures of cotton were those of the household, operated by hand power. Edmund Snow, of Peterborough, manufactured hand cards for cotton and wool, punching the holes in the leathers and prepar- ing the teeth, and distributing them among the different families in the region round about, to be set by the young people, who in that way put "store pay" in their purse. At the Peterborough centennial, in 1839, my brother Isaac gave some account of his achievements in setting these card teeth. Perhaps it was in this way that he was led to take an interest in the establishment of cotton manufactories in Peterboro' and elsewhere. f See Note 3, at the end of this address. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 5/1 occurred further was in this wise : " When I got there the Squire was in the yard, and I said to him, 'Help me off my horse, Squire;' which he did. Then I said to him, ' Now kiss me, Squire; and he turned and called 'White, White, White ! ' as if he was calling some great dog ; and there came out of the mill the ugliest looking critter that ever I set my eyes on, and the Squire said, ' Come here, White, and kiss this woman. I always keep a man to do that drudgery for me.' " A short distance farther, at the extreme north-east cor- ner of the town, was Samuel Saunders, a very good carpen- ter as well as a farmer. Here the road turned short to the south, and passing the house of Elijah Welman, connected near the line of Peterborough with the southerly branch, which we left soon after passing Lieutenant Adams's. A house has existed south of Welman's, occupied by Andrew Holmes, but I think of a later date. Turning back to the southerly branch, and taking the direction to Peterborough, there was, near the fork, the house of Roger Brigham. Then came the house of David Sawtelle, then Parker Maynard, then Samuel Patrick, then Mr. Snow. Samuel Dakin, Esq., attorney-at-law, who afterwards re- moved to New Hartford in the state of New York, pur- chased land north of Capt. Adams's, in the middle of the town, and built the house now occupied by Dr. Fox about 1805. My father, having bought a corner lot of Mr. Dakin, erected the house at the northerly end of that street, and I became an inmate of the school-house at the corner of the burying-ground. There is a reminiscence of discipline con- nected with this house. The rules of the school forbade whispering, of course. Having a desire to say something to a young miss who sat near me, I forgot the rule, I sup- pose, and she must have joined in the transgression, for the eagle eye of the teacher. Miss Maria Blanchard, detecting this violation of order, we were forthwith sentenced to sit each with an arm around the other's neck. I do not give this 572 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. as an instance of the ordinary discipline. On the contrary, it was an unusual as well as a cruel punishment, and may therefore be regarded as unconstitutional. But to prevent misapprehension, I here take occasion to say that I have since seen the time when I should have borne such a dis- pensation with a much greater degree of philosophy.* Pursuing the road north-westerly from the school-house, there was, at the foot of the hill, a house occupied by Widow Hale, then one occupied by Hugh Gragg, and a few rods westerly, at the junction of the old road running westerly to Marlborough and the road running northerly to Dublin, there was in the corner the house of Dr. Adonijah Howe, the elder, the beloved physician. He afterwards built a much larger one just north, which you have known as occupied by Daniel Cutter. The place is now designated as the Shattuck farm. Jonathan Gage lived off north-east from this point, on a private road. A house has since been built farther on, on the Dublin road, by Joel Cutter, and be- yond this point was another fork. The left hand, running towards the mountain, led to the houses of Joseph Cutter, Jr., John Cutter, 2d, and Daniel Cutter, who afterwards occupied the house built by Dr. Howe. All these were sons of Joseph Cutter, Esq. A southerly branch turning off near Joseph Cutter, Jr.'s, led to the houses of Joseph Mead, Mr. Brooks, David Cutter, and Jacob Hammond. The principal road, which turned to the right at the fork, led northerly over the hill to a house owned by Joseph Thorndike, Esq., afterwards by John Conant, Esq., who has made himself widely and favorably known by his very lib- eral donations to divers public objects. It is now owned by the president of the day, who speaks for himself. The travel over the hill has since been diverted to the * The school-books were Webster's Spelling-Book, with a grim fron- tispiece supposed to represent that ambitious lexicographer, Webster's Third Part, American Preceptor, The Columbian Orator, Young Ladies' Accidence, Murray's Grammar, Morse's Geography, and Pike's Arith- metic. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 573 Other branch by a slight alteration, in consequence of the modern discovery (especially unknown to turnpike propri- etors in former days) that in some cases it is no farther to go around a hill than it is to go over it, and that the larger load can be drawn on the level ground. Beyond, on the road to Dublin, were David Corey, Mr. Bullard, and Mr. Johnson. Of the other highways in the town, and the persons living upon them, my early recollections are of course less particular. I have a note of most of the inhabitants of the different sections, but for the location and even the names of many of them I am indebted to Mr. Ethan Cutter, whose early opportunities for acquiring a full knowledge of the dif- ferent localities were of the best, and whose memory of them is of the same character. Were there no reason but lack of time, I must leave this part of the subject to others who may be heard to-day, craving indulgence for subjoin- ing a few notes respecting the Third New Hampshire Turn- pike. This turnpike was incorporated in December, 1799, run- ning from Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Ashby, Mass., fifty miles, and cost, it was said, fifty thousand dollars. It occu- pied portions of the old road in various places, near the mountain, near the middle of the town, and eastward of it. It struck off from the old road at John Cutter's tannery, and at Spofford's mills, and ran by Col. Benjamin Prescott's tavern, in the east part of the town, and through " Tophet swamp " into New Ipswich. The three men just named were marked men in their day. Mr. John Cutter carried on a large tannery, for that time, and made it a profitable business, which has since been enlarged. His children were among my old school- mates, and I am pleased to see some of them with us to- day. With the exception of Joseph Cutter, Esq., he has probably more representatives in town than any other of his contemporaries. 574 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, Deacon Eleazer Spofford, who purchased of Mr. Borland his farm and mills in 1778, was a tall gentleman, of a grave demeanor, pleasant smile, and a kind heart, I think univer- sally beloved. He led the singing for very many years. If he had an enemy in the world, that enemy must have been an unreasonable man. He lost a young son in the burning of Rev. Mr. Ainsworth's house, in 1786. His mills were complete for that day. In the grist-mill was a "jack," which, if it was not the progenitor, was the prototype, of the mod- ern elevator in hotels and stores. It was worked by water- power, to carry the wheat as soon as ground to the bolter in the attic. A ride on it with his son Luke, then miller, afterwards clergyman, was a treat to the boys who brought wheat to be ground.* A grandson of Deacon Spofford was chief-justice of Louisiana at the time of the breaking out of the Rebel- lion, and another is now librarian of the congressional library. There must have been some controversy respecting the location of the turnpike. In a poetical New Year's ad- dress, sent from Parnassus to New Ipswich, soon after, it was said that the muse could relate " How Prescott and Merriam made a stand, And bent the road to suit their land" — but she did not do it, and I cannot. Col. Prescott, as I remember him, was another of the tall men of Jaffrey, of powerful frame, and an influential man in the town. If any man could bend a turnpike, he might be expected to do it. The principal taverns on the turnpike were those of Sweetser in Marlborough, Milliken, Danforth, and Prescott * Dr. Spofford says, — " He had for many years the best flouring- mills in that part of New Hampshire." He removed to Bradford, Mass., now Groveland, in 1821, and died there in 1828. ~~ JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 575 in Jaffrey, and Merriam and Batchelder in New Ipswich, celebrated houses in their day. It was one of the principal throughfares from Central Vermont to Boston, and the transportation over it in the winter was of course quite large, as the route , through Rindge was not then a great highway. This winter trans- portation was generally by two-horse teams, attached to square lumber-boxes, so-called, loaded on the downward transit principally with pork, grain, beans, butter, cheese, and other country produce, and on their return trip with iron, molasses, rum, sugar, codfish, and other groceries. The dry goods of that day were principally of home manu- facture. Occasionally a severe storm, blocking the roads badly, would compel these teams to stop at the nearest of the tav- erns named, where the loggerhead was always in the fire in winter, and the landlord ready to make a "good stiff mug of flip." Some of my auditory may not have heard the name be- fore. It was concocted of home-made beer, well sweetened, — a suitable proportion of West India rum, — and heated by the loggerhead to a proper temperature. When an egg was beaten in, it was called "bellows-top," partly, perhaps, from its superior quality, and partly from the greater quan- tity of white froth that swelled up on the top of it. With ten or fifteen teamsters gathered together by one of these snow blockades, and a fair allowance of flip, of course " the mirth and fun grew fast and furious ;" and when the storm was over, and the road began to be "brok- en out," the long line of teams, especially those ascending the hills to the west, was something to see. The mail-stage between Keene and Boston for a long time ran over this road once a week, — twice, — daily, ex- cept Sundays, — then a despatch line, called the telegraph,* * This line was established by Col. French, then of Keene, now of Peterborough, and Col. Shepherd, then of Boston, now of Manchester. 5/6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. through in twelve hours, — superseded by the railroad through Fitchburg; so that the crack of the stage-driver's whip and the blast of his horn no longer echo among the hills. The wayside inn, for the accommodation of the passing traveller, has fallen from its high estate through the intro- duction of the railroads ; and from the same cause, along with the introduction of other beverages, the institution of temperance societies, and the passage of prohibitory laws, the glory of flip has departed, and its name is almost for- gotten. The turnpike was not a source of great profit, and was finally laid out as a common highway, the towns paying the proprietors a moderate sum in damages. The beautiful and busy village of East Jaffrey, with its large cotton factory and divers other manufactures, its ho- tels, stores, bank, and dwellings, and with a railroad run- ning through it, is comparatively of modern creation. A short time since I summed up my recollections of its people and business as I first knew it, — Dea. Spofford and his mills, Abner Spofford and his blacksmiths' shop, and Jo- seph Lincoln and his clothiers' shop. William Hodge's farm constituted a northern suburb. I must not omit to mention Amos Fortune. He was born in Africa, brought to this country as a slave, pur- chased his freedom, purchased and then married his wife, came to this place in 1781, and lived subsequently about a mile north-east of Spofford's mills, where he had a small tannery. At that time, any person who had come to dwell within a town, and been there received and entertained by the space of three months, not having been warned to depart by some person appointed by the selectmen, was reputed an inhab- itant, and the proper charge of the town in case he came to stand in need of relief. This power of " warning out " was given to the towns that they might protect themselves JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 5/7 against pauperism ; and in some towns the selectmen were so careful of the interests of the town that they warned all new-comers to depart, — so zealous, that in one instance, as I have heard, the town having settled a minister, the select- men forthwith warned him out. Such general warnings were not practised in this town, but Fortune was warned out in September, 1781, doubtless from an apprehension that he might become a pauper. Like all other persons similarly notified, he disregarded the warning, and he lived here the remainder of his life. Dying in 1801, without children, at the age of ninety-one, as stated on his gravestone (which, as I recollect him, an active business man, seems to me doubtful, at least), he, by his last will — after a provision for gravestones, another for the support of his wife during her life, and a small legacy to an adopted daughter — empowered his executor, Deacon Spofford, if there was any remainder of his estate, to " give a handsome present to the church of which he was a mem- ber, and the remaining part, if any there be, to give as a present for the support of the school in school-house No. 8." The church received, under this bequest, in May, 1805, $100, partly expended in the purchase of a communion ser- vice, still in their possession; and in September, 1809, the judge of probate ordered $233.95, the balance in the hands of the executor, to be paid over to the selectmen of Jaffrey, " agreeable to a special act of the legislature of the state of New Hampshire, passed on the 15th of June last." This act was passed because no person was mentioned in the will to receive and apply the fund. It is still held by the select- men in trust for the benefit of the district. We are aware that these sums represented much larger values at that time than like sums do at the present day. We have come together with hearts full of thanksgiving to the Great Disposer of Events, that he has permitted us to assemble here to commemorate the organization of civil 38 578 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. institutions and government in our beloved municipal home- stead. But an occasion like this cannot be one of unmixed joy. " Time rolls his ceaseless course. " Still it creeps on, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back, Worn and bewildered, wondering how it is. " When in this vale of years I backward look. And miss such numbers, — numbers, too, of such. Firmer in health and greener in their age, And stricter on their guard, and fitter far To play Life's subtle game, — I scarce believe I still survive." Death has removed not only all the early inhabitants and many who were familiar with the history of a later date, be- cause principal actors therein, but many who, if less con- spicuous, were not less dear to us ; and we pause a moment to dwell, with a reverential remembrance, with filial affec- tion, with devoted love, on the memory of those whose animated faces would have greeted us at this time had they been spared to this day. Alas ! for them time is no more. The sum of human joys and human sorrows which have been felt within the limits of this town during the past cen- tury can only be known to Omniscience. The joys have passed, and are passing, with little or no record of their existence. And so of many, perhaps most, of the sorrows. But there is a parcel of ground, of small extent, on the brow of the hill and adjoining the common, which contains records reminding us of the sorrows of ourselves and others which are of a more enduring character. There rest the remains of my beloved and venerated par- ents, my father dying at the age of seventy-eight, and my mother living until near ninety-seven. Other fathers and mothers of like ages are gathered there, shocks of corn fully ripe and fit to be garnered, whom we must mourn, but with JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 579 the consolation that they had done their duty in the com- munity, — had fought the good fight, had finished their course, had kept the faith. But these records tell other tales. There repose the hus- band and father, the wife and mother, who fell by the way- side in the meridian of life ; who appeared to have before them years of happiness and usefulness to themselves and others ; upon whom young children were dependent, and to whom friends looked for counsel and for guidance. Broth- ers and sisters, young men and maidens, who were just en- tering upon the threshold of existence, with a hfe of useful- ness and honor and prosperity in anticipation, lie there side by side. What agonies of grief, suppressed and irrepressible, have rent the hearts of survivors, as the mournful processions have passed within the gate, and consigned the remains of the beloved objects to their places of final rest. Hallowed be the spot where the dust of the century is gathered to- gether, and around which is clustered a century of the greatest of human sorrows. Whatever of sadness may be in the retrospect, it is meet that we should celebrate the hundredth anniversary of an organization fraught with so much of usefulness to the per- sons who have lived within its limits. We are here on a day that marks an era. Let us rejoice that this town in- corporation will be continued for the benefit and advantage of the generations who are advancing to its possession. Let us rejoice that we may go onward into the new century, though it be to some of us but for a short period, and to none of us to its close; and that space is yet granted us to do something, not only for the comfort and welfare of those who are dear to us, but of the community around us. And now, assembled here as the surviving representa- tives of the first century of our incorporation, and standing just within the threshold of its successor, let us dedicate this new municipal century, in which the town and its 580 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. indwellers are to do service for another hundred years, to the prosecution and extension of every good and beneficent work of its predecessor. I feel assured that you v^ill join w^ith me when I say, — We dedicate it to the promotion of rehgion. Not a religion which leans upon the state for its support, and depends upon faith without works ; but that religion which sustains the state by the inculcation of truths which lie at the foun- dation of organized and orderly society, and supports the government by its works. Not that religion which has its greatest regard for forms and ceremonies, and the washing of cups and platters ; but that which sanctifies the heart and purifies the life. Not that religion, if such there be, which enters into embittered controversies about dogmas, and dis- putes zealously about trifles ; but that religion which, being first pure, is " then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits," and which teaches the love of God with our whole heart, and the love of our neighbor as of ourselves. We dedicate it to education and sound learning. Not that learning which attempts from metaphysical nothings to make up a unit, — the votaries of which, multiplying them- selves by themselves, think that they sum up the infinite, and something beyond ; but that learning which leads to the belief, in the language of the arithmetical aphorism of Parson Wigglesworth, of Maiden, that " Naught joyn'd to naught can ne'er make aught. Nor cyphers make a sum ; Nor finite to the infinite By multiplying come." Not to that training which leads self-suf¥icient people to attempt to magnify themselves by multitudes of projects for making a new world different from and thus better than that which God made ; but to a system of education which has due regard to the nature of things, and to the JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. CSl # constitution of mankind and the ends which the Creator intended they should pursue, and which seeks, by meas- ures consistent with creation as it exists, to perform the whole duty which the Creator requires in the world as he has made it. Not to that theory of education which, proposing that all persons should be educated up to the utmost limit of which they are capable, becomes a practical and mischievous hum- bug ; but to that theory which shall provide an education of the highest character for all the members of the commu- nity, with reference to the needful discharge of the various employments and duties which must necessarily exist. Not to that system of education which, by "raising the standard," as it is called, subjects the young to such de- mands upon their intellect, in the time of their immaturity, as to impair if not destroy the physical powers, and thereby render intellectual acquisitions useless ; but to that system which recognizes the physical as well as the intellectual, and seeks to develop both according to their necessities, — and this not by subjecting first the one and then the other to an extraordinary strain, but by a moderation that shall be known in all things. Not to that education which casts odium upon labor, and induces young men and women to endeavor to escape from its wholesome, invigorating influences by a resort to cities for the purpose of begging for a situation where ease shall lead to poverty, — or which seeks, through political partisan- ship, for some petty clerkship under government, leaving the successful incumbent without occupation or the means of an honest livelihood when the office falls into the hands of the next eager aspirant who has pushed him from his official stool ; but that education which dignifies labor, and seeks to improve its modes of action, — which qualifies the recipient to occupy his place in life, whatever it may be, and with cheerfulness and alacrity to do the duty which the state and the community demand of him. 582 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. • May I add a constitutional provision : Not to that learning which endangers the compromises of the constitution by attempts to maintain that the United States were a nation before they were states, and that the constitution was formed by that nation ; nor that other learning which would make shipwreck of constitutional rights and safeguards by theories which sophistically give to the war powers of the president and congress a predom- inance over constitutional guaranties ; but that learning which, accepting the undisputed facts of history, arrives at the conclusion that the constitution was adopted by the several peoples of the different states, whereby the peoples of those states became a nation for the purposes manifested by it ; and that the war powers, designed to preserve, can- not be rightfully exercised to destroy, the liberties of the people. We dedicate it to philanthropy and charity. Not to that philanthropy which consists in words and eschews works ; not to that charity which, beginning at home, ends in the same spot ; nor that charity which does hope things are not quite so bad as they are reported, but is fearful that they may be worse ; but to that philanthropy which does the deeds of the Good Samaritan, and which is open-hearted and open-handed within the limits of prudence ; and to that charity which suffereth long and is kind, which envieth not, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, hopeth all things, and endureth all things. We dedicate it to ambition. Not that ambition which seeks a seat in congress by bribery, or any other seat by the petty arts of the partisan politician ; but that ambition described by Lord Mansfield, when he said, "I wish popu- larity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after ; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." We dedicate it to rational amusement. Not to the games JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 583 or pursuits which blunt the conscience, deprave the habits, enervate the mind, and vitiate the taste ; but to the recrea- tions which solace from care, stimulate the fancy, develop the muscle, sustain the nerves, and give, through social in- tercourse, a relaxation from toil, a kindly regard for our neighbors, and a courtesy to our associates, whether within or without the township. We dedicate it to the wise and just exercise of all the po- litical and municipal rights conferred upon the town, and to the faithful discharge of all corresponding duties. Finally, as the sum of all. w^e dedicate it to human happi- ness, and the glory of God. And may his blessing rest upon it, and hallow it, from its commencement to its termi- nation. [Note i — See p. 545. A portion of Jaffrey was included in the original location of Peterborough. The township of Peterborough was granted by Massachusetts to inhabitants of that colony, with power to the grantees to select the particular location. Under the erroneous supposition that the line between Massachusetts and New^ Hampshire was that claimed by the former, the grantees made their location beyond the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and embraced within their "six miles square" a large portion of the valley between the base of the mountain on the east (now known as Peterboro' mountain) and the Monadnock. When it was ascertained that the location was within New Hampshire, and fell within the purchase of the Masonian proprietors, Jos. Blanchard, as their agent, cut oft' a range and a half on the western side, in order to provide for a tier of townships east of the Monadnock ; and the portion thus cut oft" was included in Monadnock Nos. 2 and 3 (Jaftl-ey and Dublin). The Masonian proprietors not only released the residue of the township to the grantees under Massachusetts, but gave them, to make up their quantity, a strip of land on the east, of equal extent to that taken oft" on the west. This, however, being on the eastern mountain, was comparatively worthless. The grantees of Peterborough, in grateful recognition of the kindness of the Masonian proprietors in confirming so much of their invalid title, and in giving them an addition to make up their quantity, gave the proprietors several lots in the township ; but they took care to locate them all in the new addition, on the east. Ex relatione Dr. Albert Smith.'\ 584 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. [Note 2 — See p. 554. Something more may be said upon this subject, and, as I have no wish to recur to it again, I add here, — The compact made on board the Mayflower, which fur- nished the foundation of the first town organization, at Ply- mouth, was " occasioned partly by the discontented and muti- nous speeches of some of the strangers" on board the ship, and partly by the reason that " such an act by them done (this their condition considered) might be as firm as any patent, and in some respects more sure." The matters which " occnsioned " the compact had, therefore, no particular relation to the church polity. It recited that they were loyal subjects of King James ; that they had undertaken, for the glory of God and advance- ment of the Christian faith, and honor of their king and country, a voyage to plant a colony, — and by it they combined them- selves together, into a civil body politic, for the better promotion of those ends, and by virtue of it " to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony." There is nothing, either in the reasons given tor the act, or in the purposes of the expedition as recited, or in tlie agree- ment actually executed, which indicates that it was derived from the church organization, — or which, in any way, refers to the Congregational polity, or to any particular administra- tion of church government ; and this, taken with the state- ments which are contained in it, tends to show that the town organization in Plymouth, which arose from it, was not even suggested by the clerical. Qiiite consistently with this origin of the town organization, there might have been a difi'erent church polity previously, and any church polity which the signers pleased might have been adopted afterwards. The church polity of the same people had, as a matter of course, a similar foundation, — that of self- government ; but that fact did not, of itself, originate or give rise to the civil polity. It only accompanied it, each acting within its own sphere. This organization of Plymouth became substantially a state as well as a town. But the state was for the purpose of gen- eral government, and did not derive its ideal from the church ; and when, by reason of the extension of the settlements, other towns were organized, it was for the purpose of ordering and managing their local aff'airs ; the support of religious teachers, along with the making and mending of highways ; the support of schools ; the preservation of the peace, through the instru- men^tality of the constable ; and the prevention of trespass by cattle, through the institution of pounds. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL, 585 The principle of self-government upon which the original settlement was founded, and upon which, in reference to their local affairs, the towns were afterwards organized, was not only a fundamental principle with the emigrants, but was a necessity under the circumstances attending the emigration. No one had authority to rule ; there were no means of govern- ment except by agreement or force ; — and they agreed upon a government for themselves, to be administered by themselves. It must have been the same if no church had then been organ- ized among them. The same principle operated in regard to tlie church. When the people broke from the authority of the bishops, there was no authority in ecclesiastical matters except their own, and thus Congregationalism came into existence. It may be said (and it seems to be the only argument which can be used in favor of the position) that the principles of the churches "led to this form of government;" that the church organization was first, and that the town, coming after, adopt- ed the same principle of self-government. To this "^ Post hoc^ sed 71071 propter hoc" — after but not by reason of the church organization, is a sufficient reply. There must be something more than this to sustain the assertion that "• it was a Congre.- gational church meeting that first suggested the idea of a New England town-meeting." Meetings of subscribers to the compact made on board the Mayflower grew out of the compact itself.] [Note 3 — See p. S7o- Attempts to manufacture cotton by machinery were made in this country as early as 1787? '^'"x^l "i subsequent years in that century. The machinery was imper- fect, and the results, of course, unsatisfactory. The first mill in New Hampshire was establislied in 1S04, in Nev»' Ipswich. The first cotton-mill in Peterborough was incorporated in 1S08. It spun and sold yarn, but for years manufactured no cloth. For these dates I am indebted to a small volume entitled '' Intro- duction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States," written b}' Samuel Bacchelder, Esq., a native of JaftVey, and published in 1S63. Prior to the manufacture of cloth here, the cheaper cotton cloth in the market was a sleazy fabric, manufactured in India and in England, — the latter heavily starched, to conceal its flimsy texture. Inquiries in several directions enable me to add some infor- mation respecting the manufacture of Woollens. It appears that a mill (a fulling-mill, I presume) was erected at Rowley, Mass., as early as 1643 ; but machinery for carding, spinning, and weaving was of a much later date. Carding- machines were introduced into this country about 1794? ii''to New Ipswich in 1801, and probably soon after into this town. 586 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. They had then been known in England twenty or thirty years. Some of the first carding machinery used in this country was sliipped from England as hardware, being exported contrary to the laws in force there. — See Bulletin of Wool Manufacturers, April — June, 1S73, page 193. Article by S. B. T. Clapp, Agent Pontoosuc Woollen Mill, Pittsfield, Mass., writes, under date of October 9, that Arthur Schofield started his first carding-machine there in iSoi ; that the first broad- cloth made in this coimtry was made by him, in that town, in 1S04 ; and that " in iSoS Schofield manufactured thirteen yards of black broadcloth, which was presented to President Madison, from which his inaugural suit was made. Fine Merino sheep were introduced about this time into this town, and Schofield was able to select wool enough to make this single piece ; and President Madison was the first president who was inaugurated in American broadcloth." An extended and very interesting article on the subject ap- pears in the Boston Commercial Bulletin of Nov. 15 (as these sheets are passing through the press), which states that Arthur and John Schofield came to this country from Englantl in 1793, and took up their residence in Charlestown ; that after looking around a few weeks, they determined to make a start in the manufacture of wollen cloth by hand ; that John built the first machinery himself, and, having completed "a hand loom, spinning jenny, &c., on the 2Sth of October he sold the first product of this loom, — 24^ yards of broadcloth (.''), — for £16 i6s., and 30 yards of mixed broadcloth for £12 ; " that they re- moved to Newburyport in that year for the purpose of starting a factory with improved machinery, and built a carding-ma- chine, which was first put together in a room in Lord Timothy Dexter's stable, and then operated by han^ for the purpose of showing its operation. " This was in the year i794' '^•I'^l was the first carding-machine for wool made in the United States ; and at this place were made the first spinning-rolls carded by machinery." A factory was started by them and others, in Byfield, in 1795. A single carding-machine and two double ones were placed in it. "A coarse kind of flannel called baize" was woven. What other cloth was manufactured is not stated. They established a factory at Montville, in Connecticut, about 179S. It appears further, that in iSoi, Arthiu", having removed to Pittsfield. had a carding-machine there, advertised for wool to card, and built carding-machines for other persons. It is tlien stated, — " The first broadcloth made by Arthur Schofield after his arrival in Pittsfield was in 1S04. The cloth JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 58/ was a gray mixed, and, when finished, was shown to different merchants, and ofiei"ed for sale, but could find no purchasers in the village. A few weeks subsequently, Josiah Bissell, a lead- ing merchant in town, made a voyage to New York for the purpose of buying goods, and brought home two pieces ot Schofield's cloths, which were purchased for the foreign arti- cle. Schofield was sent for to test the quality, and soon exhib- ited to the merchant his private marks on the same cloth which he had before rejected." Then comes the statement respecting the manufacture of broadcloth in 180S, which President Madison wore when inau- gurated. Considering all these statements, the reasonable conclusion appears to be, that the first broadcloth manufactured in this country was made in 1S04 by Arthur Schofield, as stated by Mr. Clapp. It seems improbable that the cloth manufiictured in Charlestown in 1794 could liave been broadcloth. At the period of which I speak, wool was carded partW by hand, but the carding-machines generally turned out the rolls, which were spun upon the domestic great wheel, and woven in the loom, like the cotton, and then fulled and dressed by the clothier. The great wheel and the loom have disappeared before their gigantic competitors, and tlie linen wheel, which spun the flax, — humble little machine, — has gone along with its larger com- panions, although large linen manufactures have not succeeded in establishing themselves here to any great extent. The prep- aration of the ground, the seeding and the sowing, the pulling, rotting, breaking, swingling, and hatchelling of the flax, with the spinning and weaving superadded, involved too great an amount of labor for a successful competition with the foreign manufacturer, as soon as the profit from other branches ena- bled the farmer to purchase the foreign article, manufactured where labor is so much cheaper. Besides, the manufacture ot cotton cloth by machinery reduced the cost of that, so that it superseded the use of linen in a very great degree.] Resonant cheers were given as Boston "men of high degree" filed in at 11.30 a. m., and took seats upon the plat- form, after a pertinent introduction by President Cutter. The party included Mayor Henry L. Pierce, Aldermen L. R. Cutter (chairman of the board who bore the visitors' expenses), Gibson, Brown, and Sayward ; John A. Haven, 588 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. president, and Nathaniel J. Bradlee, ex-president, of Cochit- uate Water Board ; Alfred T. Turner, auditor of accounts ; Joseph Davis, city surveyor ; H. A. Blood, superintendent of the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad; President Howe, of the Bedford & Taunton Railroad ; and four com- panionable reporters, representing the Boston Post, Nezus, Globe, and Advertiser. The president then said, " The breezes that play around old Monadnock, so like the elixir of life to the weary wan- derer, have called to us, among many others, a lady noted for her vocal powers. She has kindly consented to favor us with a song. I now introduce to this audience the sweet songstress from the " Old Bay State," MRS. ANNA GRANGER DOW. Mrs. Dow then sang " The Heavens are Telling," with telling effect. The president then introduced the Rev. Rufus Case, who read A POEM, BY MISS MARY BELLE FOX, OF JAFFREY, N. H. A hundred times has Autumn seen His forest branches stripped and bare ; A hundred times, when winds blew keen. White Winter's snows have filled the air; A hundred times Spring's magic wiles Have clothed with green the hillsides brown ; And now the last fair Summer smiles That rounds the century of our town. Yon mountain calls to us to-day, And draws us with persuasive voice : "This is your town's memorial day; My children, keep it, and rejoice, — While waving tree, and rock, and hill. With silent voices manifold. Greet those who dwell among them still, And those who knew them well of old. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 589 " Come! stand, as on my breezy height. And view the backward-sweeping past, Then read your own deeds in the light The lives of others on them cast ; And let old memories stir your hearts, Like breezes whispering through my pines, Till the unbidden tear-drop starts. To read Time's half-effaced lines." And gladly we that call obey. And gladly do we gather here. Turning our faces toward that way Whence shall the past's dim forms appear. But who can lift with steady hand That misty curtain hanging low, Shrouding the half-forgotten land. That far. dim land of long ago? Not one among us here can see So far adown the winding way. And say, " I do remember me What was on our town's natal day ; When people cried, ' God save the King !' Though freedom's pulses stirred their breast ; Though swelled the seed about to spring Of our great nation of the West." A stalwart band of men were they. The early settlers of our town : Loud rang their axes day by day, That hewed the forest monarchs down. Men not afraid of honest toil. They sought the wilds a home to win. And gladly from the virgin soil Gathered their harvest treasures in. They built them houses large and plain. Where clustered their life's richest joys ; Where round them rose a numerous train Of healthy, happy girls and boys That children's minds have need of food. That they may grow, full well they knew, — And built the district school-house rude. Wherein rich fruits of knowledge grew. 590 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. They felt the goodness of the Lord, Whose hand had led them all their days, And gladly built, with one accord, A house where they his name might praise. Here still that ancient building stands. Scarce changed in outward form appears, Unharmed by the destructive hands Of near a century's changeful years. 'Twas when they raised that framework strong. One fair June morning, calm and still. They heard — or fancy led them wrong — The far-off guns at Bunker Hill, — Whence rose that patriotic wave That o'er the land impetuous swept. Waking in hearts of all the brave The love of freedom that had slept. Quickly our fathers stirred them then ; They left their homes and took the gun, And bore their part, as valiant men. In that long strife that freedom won. Then with " clear shining after rain," The sun of peace dispersed their fears. And in their quiet homes again. Passed on their uneventful years. Where are they now? The bell that swings In yon old tower the tale doth tell, Whene'er with solemn tone it rings Some parted soul a funeral knell. Each to the grave has journeyed on. There each in lasting quiet sleeps, The while his white memorial stone The door of his low dwelling keeps. In yonder " city on the hill," The blooming sod above their breasts. Where all is peaceful, calm, and still, Their pastor with his people rests. Life held him here a hundred years. And kept him from his heavenly crown. Till, weary with its griefs and fears. He laid the heavy burden down. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 59 ^ O friends ! who seek in vain to-day, Some long-remembered, well-known face, Perchance ye on yon marbles may An answer to your questions trace. For sleep our fathers not alone : Full many of their children, too, Have crossed life's boundary, one by one, And paid the debt to nature due. There rest our sons in hallowed graves. Who fell 'neath war's red, cruel hand ; Who gave their brave young lives to save From traitors' foul designs our land. O honored sires ! O household dead ! O soldiers true ! sleep calm and sound : Life bears us on with steady tread. On to the rest that ye have found. Full well we know that this, our town. Has little worth in strangers" eyes ; We love it, for it is our own, And holds us by a thousand ties. Here peace and plenty mark our lot. Now, e'en as in the "good old time ;" And Change and Progress question not To lay on us their hands sublime. Ne'er entered in our fathers' dreams Some changes that the years have wrought : Our locomotives' rush and scream, A fearsome thing they would have thought. No prophecy the housewife's wheel Sung to them of the jarring looms. That ply their giant frames of steel In our tall factory's many rooms. Our merry streams, that down the hills Go leaping on their seaward way. Are caught and held by busy mills. Whom, willing subjects, they obey. There great stones crush the yellow corn. There clanging saws harsh tumult make, Where trees put off their forest form. And shapes for our convenience take. 592 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Here nature's ever-open book Displays its pictured pages too, Showing to all who choose to look, Many a goodly, pleasant view. No lack of beauty, rugged hill And rock-strewn field have need to own. When o'er them Summer's hand of skill A drapery of green has thrown. Sweet is the blooming orchard's breath. Rich glow their bouglis through Autumn's care ; Pleasant their shadowy trees ; beneath, The dwellings, scattered here and there. Sunny the pastures, sloping down To grassy meadows, cool and low; Grand the old woods, whose columns brown The golden sunshine sets aglow. Our winding river brightly gleams 'Mid green; low banks its waters lave ; And one clear flowing mountain stream Holds gifts of healing in its wave. Our ponds, like fretted silver shields Dropped by some fabled gods of old When worsted on celestial fields, The woods, with leafy arms, enfold. There the sweet water-lily lies. And in the wave her beauty sees ; There many a timid wild bird flies. And sings in the encircling trees. Near them the pink azalea breathes Her sweetness on June's balmy air; And there the glossy laurel wreathes Her virgin blossoms, pale "and fair. But what, Monadnock ! shall we say Of thee, thou dear to every heart That knew thee in its childhood's day, Ere life from nature grew apart? Thy silent eloquence is fraught With meanings deep, and grandly true ; Unconsciously our young hearts caught And held them, better than we knew. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 593 For always, in our later years. However far our footsteps roam. Our mountain clear to sight appears, When fancy paints our early home. Grand mayst thou seem to strangers' eyes, And strangers' tongues thy praises sing : We hold thee in our memories, And love thee like a human thing. God of our fathers ! unto Thee, With humble gratitude to-day, We bow the reverential knee. And at Thy throne our homage pay. We pray Thee, bless our native town From henceforth, as Thou hast of old ; And shower upon her children down, Thy mercies, great and manifold. Though, when the coming century's years Have passed, a swift and changeful train. Not one of all who gather here. Shall on the shores of time remain, — May we, in Thine own blessed land. Where life and joy shall never cease. Beneath Thy trees of healing stand. And walk upon Thy hills of peace. HYMN OF GRATITUDE. BY MISS ERMINA C. CAMPBELL. Simg by the Choi?-. We come, O God ! a happy throng. Our grateful hearts to raise, With glad accord, in swelling song, In sweetest notes of praise. From out thy boundless store, O God ! An hundred years have shed Their gifts on us who breathe to-day, And on the sleeping dead. How countless are the fragrant thoughts Which cluster round those years ! 39 /4«C? 594 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. What toiling hosts have shared their joys, — Their thronging hopes and fears ! With hearts that thrill with solemn awe, We pause upon our way, To view once more the shrouded past, And greet the new-born day. The paean of an hundred years Is echoing in each heart ; Its grandly sweet and solemn strain Will nevermore depart. We come, O God ! to render thanks, Our greatful hearts to raise. With fervent homage and with awe, In sweetest songs of praise. President Cutter "took the floor" for a moment and said, — Ladies and Gentlemen: As our friends from Boston can remain with us only a short time, we propose to defer din- ner until half past one; therefore I now introduce to you C. A. Parks, Esq., of East Jaffrey, as toast-master of the day. TOAST-MASTER PARKS'S REMARKS. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow-Cit- izens OF Jaffrey : I am grateful for the honor you have conferred upon me in your selection of a master for your " centennial feast." It is a'n office the duties of which will afford me much pleasure, and impose upon me little labor, for I regard it as my special province not to attempt any speech myself to-day, but simply to re-introduce to you some of your old friends and acquaintances whose voices were familiar in the years past, and whose countenances you welcome here, where you have gathered in one common brotherhood, to celebrate the one hundredth natal day of your mother town. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 595 I am glad that I am privileged, through a right of adop- tion by Jaffrey, to be present on this occasion, and to par- ticipate in these exercises by proposing a few sentiments of an appropriate character for your consideration ; and I hope from the responses to which we may listen we shall be able to gather much of profitable entertainment, and that, in the words of those whom Jaffrey is happy to remember and honor on this day, there will come to us all many fruitful lessons respecting the reminiscences of the past, and many golden hopes for the future. We are honored to-day by Boston, in the presence here of her mayor and her board of aldermen, a body of gentle- men whose position distinguishes them as Boston's most worthy representatives. A sentiment has been selected for the Honorable Mayor, suggestive not only of the geograph- ical proximity of New Hampshire to the city over which he presides, but also of that honest gratitude and pride over Boston's high rank and increasing greatness as a metropolis, in which Jaffrey may be permitted to share through those of her sons she has given the great city to enroll among her honored names. It is this: "Jaffrey enjoys the honor of not being entirely outside that circle of which Boston is the centre and the ' Hub.' And she is justly proud of the dis- tinction which New England's largest city has in the past given to many of her sons." I have the honor of presenting to you the Honorable Henry L. Pierce, mayor of Boston. MAYOR PIERCE'S RESPONSE. Ladies and Gentlemen : I did not come up here to-day to address you, or, indeed, with any desire to do so. In fact, I shrink from making an address; but I came on the invita- tion of my friend Alderman Cutter, whom Boston knows and respects, to meet with you on this day so interesting to you and all of us. The close of a century in the history of the world — the close of the present century is one of the 596 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. most interesting and among the most eventful of any that have marked the progress of the race. When we look back and see what has been accomplished in the world, and even in this country, and see that during that time we have sep- arated from the British crown, and observe the improve- ments that have been made and which affect the welfare of the world at large, we must look back upon it with the greatest satisfaction. But we must also look forward, and hope that the century to come will be crowned with equal results. Boston is proud of being considered the metropolis of New England, and she desires to express her hearty thanks for the many good, sound men who have been sent to her from New Hampshire, and who have helped increase her prosperity. She hopes she is worthy of what New England has made her in the past, and she hopes to be worthy of the support of New England in the future ; — and now, ladies and gentlemen, I will only say I thank you all, and thank my friend, the son of Jaffrey, the alderman, for the pleasure he has given me in inviting us to be present on this occasion. Sentiment No. 2 : " We welcome those who, having gone from us, have aided in sustaining the character of the noble sons of New Hampshire for integrity, enterprise, and success in business, in every part of our land." Having read the above sentime'nt, the toast-master introduced the next speaker : I have the pleasure of presenting to you, as a respondent to this sentiment, a gentleman of whom noth- ing need be said by me. He is known to you all. His native town is Jaffrey, where he is always warmly welcomed. In Boston, where he has resided for a number of years, he is noted as a gentleman eminently successful in business, and one whom his adopted city has delighted to honor for his superior ability and sterling integrity. I refer to the Honorable Leonard R. Cutter, chairman of the board of aldermen of Boston. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 597 ALDERMAN CUTTER'S RESPONSE. You do me great honor, Mr. President, in asking me to respond to the sentiment just read. I sincerely regret that I am not better qualified to do justice to the subject. I can truly say that whatever success has attended the efforts of those sons of New Hampshire who have sought fame or fortune in other states and other countries has been largely due to the honorable distinction in which their birth-place is held. The old-fashioned standard of morality and integ- rity has been so nobly maintained by those who have remained at home, that the wanderers carry with them a certificate of good character in the name of the state from which they hail, and that goes a great way toward assuring them success, even among the Philistines. While our state has not, for obvious reasons, increased so rapidly in wealth and population during the last fifty years as some other sections of the country, it certainly has not fallen behind any section in those things which tend to a higher state of civilization, good government, and right living ; and in the mean time it has been furnishing, in larger proportions, I believe, than any other New England state, the intelligent enterprise which has, as it were, annihilated time and dis- tance, and enabled us to do our missionary work in the far West, and at the same time keep good hours at home. There is one advantage, Mr. President, which we who go away from home have over those who stay, and that is the pleasure of returning ; and we also acquire a keener appre- ciation of the natural beauties of our native place. Although I spent my youth here in the shadow of Old Monadnock, I I never knew or imagined the grandeur of the scenery I was daily looking upon until I had an opportunity of comparing it with other places. There is something ennobling in the presence of this scenery beyond the power of any works of man. And, living in these Pacific Railroad times, it is a sort of satisfaction to reflect that the works of nature here 598 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. are upon such a gigantic scale that the profaning hands of railroad contractors are almost powerless against them. But, Mr. President, the occasion on which we have met brings up other scenes and other events than those which are merely amusing or ridiculous. We have, this day, to- gether turned our eyes back upon the places that knew us in our infancy and youth. To us New Hampshire presents something other than her granite hills ; yes, sir, and some- thing more interesting even than the grassy vales, or the pearly brooks, or the silvery water-sheets, that are associ- ated with the past time of our early days. Dearer to us still than the imagery of those bright scenes is the memory of the friends that we first loved, — those who nurtured us in infancy, who guided us in youth, who opened to us the ave- nues of knowledge, who warned us of the miseries of vice, and presented to us the inducements of virtue, and who made us what we are. Perhaps they still live to greet our occasional returns to the paternal home ; or perhaps we have been called to commit them to the silent bosom of earth. Be that as it may, our relation to them is sacred ; and while the power of thought shall endure, the memory of their kindness will abide. In conclusion, Mr. President, I give you a sentiment (and I do not expect any one to respond to it unless the Old Man of the Mountain should happen to be present) : " The hills of New Hampshire. If Napoleon could incite his soldiers to greater deeds of valor by the thought that forty centuries looked down upon them from the pyramids, how much greater should be the inspi- ration and the achievement of the sons of New Hampshire from the thought that the centuries from the beginning of time look down upon them from their native hills." Sentiment No. 3: "The Day we Celebrate." Response by Rev. Moses T. Runnels, of Sanbornton, N. H. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 599 Mr. President, Sons, Daughters., and Citizens of Jaffrey : I confess to a strong, inherent partiality for centennial days like this. The centennial celebration of old Peter- borough awakened my childish enthusiasm at the age of nine years, and I have since labored hard, as a resident of those places, to secure similar centennials at Orford in 1865 and at Sanbornton in 1871. But this, Mr. Chairman, is the first centennial day I have ever really celebrated con amore. For I do love old Jaffrey, having claimed a resi- dence here for twenty- five years from infancy. I gazed upon that noble mountain, from under the old pine tree on the hill-top of my grandfather's farm, as one of my earliest remembered acts ; and having found it the chief outward attraction of my home the last eight years, that I could there view this same Grand Monadnock from garden-walk or study-window at the distance of sixty miles, it is not strange that the promptings of my heart would not suffer me to be absent from this place to-day ; that neither the most pressing engagements at home,. nor yet the appalling announcement that I might be called upon for a speech, could deter me from this family gathering of the sons and daughters of Jaffrey. As we have listened with so much interest to the able his- torical address, it has been your privilege and mine, brothers and sisters, almost to exclaim, with Virgil's hero, "Quorum pars fiii r — "of which I was a part" — our individual life, — our vivid remembrance sweeping back, as it does in my own case, over two fifths of the century now passed. And I can tell you, sir, from my experience here to-day as compared with that on other similar occasions, it makes a difference whether a man engages in a celebration like this as a mere spectator, or as an actor in the scene, — as a temporary resi- dent, or as a son of the town whose festivities he enjoys. And while these rare entertainments for mind and body (as I was about to say, expecting to speak after dinner) have been spread before us, and I have felt that I might turn to 600 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. this presiding officer, or to others of the committee of arrangements, and say to each, — " Vou and I, sir, were play- mates together ;" or might add to many others in this vast assembly, " With j/ou, your brothers, or your sons, I sported in artless childhood ;" " With jfoit, your sisters, or your daughters, I attended school in the happy days of youth ;" " Vour children I remember as among my favorite pupils in that old red school-house under the hill," — I can assure you, Mr. President and gentlemen, that I have found myself all the more ready to rise, and at least repeat the sentiment you have so kindly given me, if I did not respond to it, — " The day we celebrate." And what do we mean by "the day we celebrate"!' — the actual day of incorporation as it zvas, or this glorious day as it ts? Perhaps we ought to claim that we are celebrating both days, — the day that was, and the day that is. What ^/mt day was we cannot know, beyond what the distin- guished orator of to-day has told us. It is like our birth- days in this regard, with the important difference that we were not any of us there at that time to see ! Each one's imagination must help him to picture a scene in Jaffrey one hundred years ago; and as the beautiful banner we have seen borne before us to-day reminds us that Jaffrey was incorporated "August 17, 1773," I have thought that the few scattered settlers then in town might have come to- gether about three days afterwards, on the day exactly corresponding with this, to hold a sort of congratulatory meeting. The news of the "act" of incorporation has just reached them. They have gathered, in their rough suits of skins or homespun, from their scattered log-cabins, perhaps to some central cabin near this spot. From how different scenes, and in what dissimilar apparel, have we assembled, at our congratulatory meeting ! They came on foot or on horseback, at the rate of two miles an hour, through pathless forests, or guided by scarred, and jumping over fallen, trees. We have come in our light pleasure- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 601 wagons at the speed of six or eight miles an hour, or upon the wings of steam at the rate of five hundred miles per day ! Those strong-minded fathers, as they passed their hearty congratulations on the incorporation of their town, may also have spoken together of those ominous mutterings of an approaching revolution of which they were hearing, from week to week, from the then distant city of Boston, — per- haps of the late tea-party there. We, their descendants, if we think of any centennial besides our own, are perhaps letting our thoughts go forward to that grandest of all the days in our nation's history, if God permit, — the approaching hundredth anniversary of the declaration of her indepen- dence. And of what surprising changes are we thus re- minded as occurring between these " days we celebrate," in the nation, in the town, and in social life! But on many other accounts is tJiis "day we celebrate" interesting and valuable to us all. It affords an opportunity for the renewal of old associa- tions, the fondest and dearest of our earthly lives, in those scenes and times of our earliest recollection when we could speak of joys unmingled with sorrow. Who of us does not hasten to recall the loves and friendships of those early days, — so pure, so productive of a happy state, so free from the alloy of selfishness ! For how many reunions of later friends, long separated from each other, does this day also afford the glad occasion. It would seem as if the orbits of our lives, having run for many years at a distance from and out of sight of each other, were now brought into a mutual and delightful juxta- position ; or, like vessels at sea, bound on the same voyage, after having, in separation, outridden many of the storms of life, we are to-day permitted to course for a few hours within " speaking " distance of each other, to compare notes on all the way in which a kind Providence has led us, each in our several spheres of duty, to rejoice in each others' prosperity, to sympathize with each others' griefs. 602 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. And this reminds us, again, of the dear ones "not lost," as we fondly hope, "but gone before," with whom we for- merly " took sweet counsel together, and walked," it may be, "to the house of God in company." Does it not seem, my friends, as though their spirits, if aught on earth can afford them happiness, might even now be the unseen witnesses of this joyful reunion ? At least, are not their countenances, their loved or venerated forms, their win- ning voices, all fresh in our recollections to-day ? Is not our communion with them almost as palpable and as marked as that with one another ? Once more : " the day we celebrate " bespeaks our great indebtedness to the ancestral fathers and guardians of the town in all previous years. What this age is especially deficient in is a respect for the past. But the celebration of this day is a practical application of the noble sentiment of Burke, — " Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity," — though by no means exposing us to the quaint sarcasm of Sir Thomas Overbury, that "Those who rest their claim to consideration on the merit of their ancestry instead of their own individ- ual worth are like a hill of potatoes : the best portion is under ground." And how, in this connection, did time permit, would I love to pay my humble tribute to the fathers of Jaffrey, whose very images are now so vividly before me, as having been upon the stage a third or half century ago ! How many honored names do I recall ! The Ainsworths, the Parkers, the Spauldings, the Gilmores, and the Howes ; the Cutters, the Baileys, the Lawrences, and the Emerys ; or, in the other part of the town, where 1 lived, the Prescotts, the Spoffords, and the Joslins ; the Pierces, the Bacons, the Mowers, and many others all over town who might be men- tioned ; with others still who hardly yet have passed from our view, and especially that prince among New Hampshire JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 603 farmers,* that prince among the benevolent benefactors of the town and the state at large, to whom you and I, Mr. Chairman, feel ourselves personally indebted for those habits of industry and that spirit of energy and enterprise which he early instilled within us, tempered ever with the most excellent counsels, and confirmed by a most laudable example. In view of all these noble men — and women, too — who have given character to the Jaffrey of the past, moulding her institutions, establishing her educational and religious privi- leges, and adorning her homes, we can only exclaim. What a rich legacy is here ! What cumulative influences and forces for good have come down to us from the record of the last century ! How should this stimulate our gratitude for what the fathers and the mothers were, and for what they accomplished in our behalf ! And how zealous should we be to transmit what we have received, unimpaired, to those who shall come after us ! For, while to the aged, and to those who review the past, "the day we celebrate" is so full of rich satisfaction, with how much of value is it also freighted to the young, — even to these little children, who have formed, in many respects, the most attractive part of our procession to-day. How much useful information may they gain from the day itself, its teachings, and its suggestions. How much, otherwise unknown, may they learn, even respecting the fathers them- selves. What insight will be afforded them into the habits of life and social ways of periods long past. And when they reflect upon the changes since effected — the new dis- coveries and inventions, the improvements in agricultural and mechanic arts and implements, the increase of books and other appliances for obtaining and diffusing knowledge, the improved facilities for travel and inter-communication. * The Honorable John Conant, who, from feeble health, was unable to be present. 604 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. the bringing together of the nations, and the progress and elevation of mankind, all of which have been literally crowd- ed into the space of the hundred years now closing — let them be encouraged to graft upon the moral and religious principles the sterlin'g virtues, the heroic qualities of mind and heart, which belonged to the fathers in the century past — to graft upon these, I say, all that is inspiring, hopeful, and healthfully progressive in the new century of our local history now commencing. Which leads me to add very briefly, in conclusion, "The day we celebrate " is especially valuable to the town histo- rian. I rejoice that old Jaffrey has one, from whom we are to hear on this occasion. This day may well afford to him a fresh nucieiis, — a new starting-point, as it were ; and the success of our historical orator to-day may give him new aid, impulse, and encouragement to press forward in his noble work. Many are the difficulties which beset the path of the town historian ; great the apathy which broods over many minds ; surprising the indifference which many mani- fest as to all or aught that pertains to the past history of those localities — of those families, even — in which they themselves should naturally take the deepest interest. The dark clouds of mystery and uncertainty which are found hanging over the facts and records of the past are also quite disheartening at times ; but these will usually be found lifting and unveiling themselves before the patient, persevering historian as he plods along, and often from the most unexpected sources and in ways before un thought of. The satisfaction and reward (not pecuniary) of the local his- torian's work are therefore very great. Its importance can- not be over-estimated. It must be done quickly or it will never be accomplished ; and when once done and well done, it is done for ever. Let facts, therefore, respecting the men and the things which ever belonged to this good old town be industriously collected and properly arranged. Let the genealogies of the old families be traced out, even into JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 605 Other towns and other parts of the country, so far as possi- ble, for thus much may be learned throwing light upon the history of the town itself. It will thus be known what an aggregate amount of influence the town has really exerted in building up other communities and moulding society in other localities. The gratification of all concerned will be great, and ever increasing as years and generations in the future roll away ; posterity will approve the sayings and the doings of the faithful annalist. The stores of actual knowledge shall be increased ; different parts of our country .shall be more effectually cemented together ; mankind shall be ele- vated ; and the great God who has " been our dwelling- place in all generations " shall himself be glorified. Sentiment No. 4 : " Jaffrey — Her Scenes and Her Scene- ry." Response by Rev. J. M. H. Smith, of East Jaffrey. An hour having been spent in social intercourse, and dis- tributing among the many from the inexhaustible store of provisions until all were satisfied, the tent programme was resumed by the band's playing the " Ella Polka," after which Prof. George W. Foster sang a taking ballad, — " Dinna forget your mother, Sandie," with brilliant success, — when toast-master Parks proceeded to say, — Ladies and Gentlemen : After having partaken of the material benefits so bountifully provided for the inner man on this occasion, it is proposed that we resume again that other feast, began before dinner, to wit, " The feast of rea- son and the flow of soul." Sentiment No. 5 : "The Orator of the Day. We have hitherto been proud of his name and reputation as one of the great lights of the legal profession. He has to-day placed us under infinite obligation for his interesting and eloquent address." Hon. Joel Parker rose, and, expressing 6o6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. his gratitude for the honor bestowed upon him, said that another speech would not be expected from him to-day. He asked leave to place in the hands of the toast-master the following sentiment : " The inhabitants of Jaffrey, — stead- fast in their principles ; untiring in their industry." Sentiment No. 6: "Our Common Schools." Response by Rev. D. N. Goodrich, sup't school commit- tee, Jaffrey, who said, that, while he need not remind a New England audience how highly the fathers valued common school education ; how they built the school-house close by the meeting-house, to show that, in their opinion, religion and education should go hand in hand, — he would mention some facts which indicate that the people of this generation value these interests just as highly as their fathers did, and are disposed to guard them with a jealous care. Among other things, the speaker referred to the large number of schools in the town ; the amount of money expended for their support, the average expense for each scholar being ^5.25, and in some districts $16.45, — the whole number of scholars being 360. He mentioned, also, the fact that the schools were so frequently visited by the people in the various districts ; that so much pains is taken to procure good teachers ; that the teachers employed have generally been so well qualified ; and that so many of them have received a large part of their instruction in our schools. In conclusion, the speaker thought the facts of the case and the views of the people might be expressed by offering the sentiments in the following form : " Our Common School System — a priceless legacy received from the fathers, per- fected by the wisdom and experience of successive genera- tions, and supported by the intelligent patriotism of our people ; Our Teachers — thoroughly competent, efficient, and devoted to their noble work ; Our School Officers — assid- uously guarding the precious interests committed to their charge ; Our Scholars — the good material out of which JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 607 intelligent, useful, and honorable members of society are to be made." Sentiment No. 7 : " East Jaffrey Cornet Band — they may write ' Excelsior' on their escutcheons." Music: " Lepitit Polka." Sentiment No. 8 : " The Mothers and the Daughters — the joy and sunshine of our homes, and the pride of the cen tury." Response by A. S. Scott, Esq., of Peterborough, N. H. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Whe. I ac- cidentally read the announcement in our village newspaper, by your Jaffrey correspondent, that I had been invited to respond on this occasion to a sentiment to the ladies of Jaffrey, and had accepted the invitation, it was to me a mat- ter of surprise, because it seemed to me more fitting that to one of the sons of these Jaffrey mothers, or one of the husbands or suitors of these fair Jaffrey daughters, should have been assigned the privilege to speak to a sentiment so suggestive of all the sweet and dear remembrances that cluster around your old family homes among your hills. Then, I should be excused from speaking here to-day be- cause of the acknowledged ability of these ladies, if this assembly could be resolved into a tea-party and they should once get their tongues loose, to speak for themselves. But, mothers and daughters of Jaffrey, discarding all empty compliments and flattery, so repugnant to your good sense, you will permit me to say that in these old family homes among these hills, presided over with such matronly dignity by the mothers, and made sunny and happy by the genial presence and affectionate smiles of the daughters, has been nurtured all that is good, and memorable, and great in the history of the century that has passed. For these New England homes, watched over by pious and de- voted mothers, are conceded to be the best manufactories 6oS HISTORY OF JAFFREY. of men. But there is now very serious danger that this work of growing and training men must cease for lack of material. No one can have failed to observe the difference in the size of the families of the early mothers, and the fam- ilies of the present day. The former numbered from six to sixteen, and the latter from one to four. In your school-districts, which were formerly densely populated with scores of ruddy boys and girls, you now are indebted to the Irish emigrants for children enough to make a school. One of your early settlers, who, on his bridal tour about a century ago, brought his wife to a log cabin in the wilder- ness in an ox-cart, with her spinning-wheel and other mar- riage outfit, raised, in this cabin, eleven children. And these large families were bee-hives of industry, and no drones were allowed in the hive. Father, mother, sons, and daughters worked, and sometimes more than ten hours each day. There is not an honored descendant of these families here to-day who does not in all sincerity acknowledge him- self more indebted for such measure of honor and success as has attended him on life's battle-field, to the lessons and habits of industry and frugality inculcated in the old home, than to all other causes and influences combined. John Conant, when, with matchless industry, persever- ance, and economy, he was laying the foundations of that wealth which has enabled him to endow your high school, a seminary, and an agricultural college so munificently, gaining for himself an honored and illustrious name among the benefactors of his race, was largely indebted to the in- dustry and frugality of his wife. There is not a good thing that marks your progress dur- ing the century, — a school, a church, a library, or a reform, — that has not been largely fostered and helped onward by the labors and sacrifices of the mothers and daughters. Now, the school-masters having mostly gone abroad, almost the entire education of your children is committed to the JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 609 daughters, and no one doubts that they will be faithful to their responsibility. The mothers and daughters have not at any time in the century been wanting in the exhibition of an exalted pat- riotism. In the Revolutionary war they bravely sent their hus- bands to the front, and remained at home faithful and de- voted to their families, adding often to the labors of the household the labors of the field. In the war of the Rebellion the mother heroically sev- ered the tie that bound her to her son, and sent him forth to the service of his country with her prayers and benedic- tion, and side by side with the recruiting-station organized the Soldiers' Aid Societies, the springs of the Sanitary Commission, the Good Samaritan of the war. There is not a son of Jaffrey, who has come up here from his home in another state to revisit the scenes of his child- h^orl -nd live over in imagination his boyhood days, who does not bring in his heart some tribute of gratitude and respect for the mother who bore him, who cradled him in her arms, taught his infant lips to lisp his morning and evening prayer, and, as he grew into boyhood, patched his trowsers, washed his face, combed his hair, and sent him to school on a week-day, and bade him " mind the master, learn his lesson, and bring home the medal;" and on Sun- day took him with her to church, and made him read the Bible and say the catechism ; and later, as he ripened into young manhood and manifested a love for learning, with gentle persuasion, influenced the paterfamilias to sell his cow or yoke of oxen to raise money to send him to college ; then, with assiduous toil, carded with her own hands the rolls, spun and dyed the thread, and on the old hand-loom, located up in the old attic to be out of the way of interrup- tion, wove the fabric, and then fashioned and sewed the suit in which her son entered the academy or college. And this is no fancy picture, for the man still lives, and will 40 6lO HISTORY OF JAFFREY. address you here to-day, who entered Dartmouth college in a suit of homespun manufactured entirely by his mother. Many of these mothers still live to grace and honor this assembly with their presence, but many have passed away and been borne to their resting-places in your village ceme- tery ; and to many a son those beautiful lines of Cowper, addressed to his mother's picture, have come home with peculiar power: " My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu." Many a son of Jaffrey has wept a last adieu at the grave of his mother, but her love and affection will hallow his latest as his earliest memory. But I am admonished to close by the consciousness that the time of this occasion belongs to your own sons and not to me. I give you as a sentiment in closing, — "The Mothers of Jaffrey — models of industry, piety, and frugality; may their daughters emulate their mothers' virtues." Sentiment No. 9 — " The Clergy of Jaffrey." Response by Rev. E. S. Foster, of Winchester, N. H. Coming upon the platform at the call of the chairman, Mr. Foster said, — Every child, youth, man, and woman ; every settlement, society, village, partnership, and business ; every family, tribe, nation, country, and government, has a history. In the lifetime of every individual, settlement, country, and kingdom, there are various epochs of greater or less impor- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 6l I tance. Jaffrey, as a town, has had various epochs, among which are the pioneer, agricultural, ministerial, religious, educational, business, and mechanical. To-day, in her his- tory, this celebration marks the one hundredth epoch. In the work assigned, I am called tp- speak for the ministerial department in the life of Jaffrey's hundred years. " The clergy of Jaffrey" is my subject. Here allow me to say, I would that the work assigned me, on this impor- tant and ever-to-be-remembered occasion, had been given to other and abler hands, that the lessons of our life may sink deeper into the character of Jaffrey's coming children for devotion and consecration than it is possible for me to impress and inspire. But the noble soldier puts on his armor and takes the place assigned him. Thus I remark, first, from a competent person I have an extract from the records of Jaffrey, which is as follows, viz.: "28 Sept., 1773, Voted £6 Lawful money, to support preaching. 26 April, 1774, Voted £6 Lawful money, to support the Gospel. 13 April, 1775, Voted £6 Lawful money, to support the Gospel. 27 March, 1777- Voted ^50 Lawful money, to support the Gospel. 26 March, 1778, Voted ;^ioo Lawful money, to support the Gospel. 10 June, i^JJ^, the Committee agreed with Mr. Isaac Allen to supply us. 3 Sept., 1778, the Committee omit giving Mr. Allen a call for the present. Sept. 3, 1778, Voted ^50 for preaching. 11 Nov., 1778, Voted to hear Mr. Reed until special meeting. 25 March, 1779, Voted ;i^200, to support the Gospel, i Nov., 1779, Voted to hear Mr. Stevens for all supply this fall, i Nov., 1779, Voted to have Mr. Colby come by ist March next. 7 June, 1780, Voted to hear Mr. Jewett more on probation, in order to give him a call. 29 March, 1 781, Voted not to hire Mr. Walker this year. 16 August, 1781, Voted to hire Mr. Goodale two more Sabbaths. 27 December, 1781, Voted to hear Mr. Ainsworth. 8 July, 1782, Voted to give him a call." 6l2 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Foremost, longest, and fullest upon the ministerial record of Jaffrey stand the labors of the long-to-be-remembered pastor, Rev. Laban Ainsworth. This ministerial ])ioneer was born at Woodstock, Conn., July 19, 1757. At about seven years of age an accident resulted in his losing his right arm and hand. He was educated and fitted for col- lege under Nathaniel Tisdale, of Lebanon, Conn., " a man of considerable pedagogical capability, and of much petulant erascibility." These last facts, modified by the last word, are from Mr. Ainsworth's own language, in reply to some questions presented by a friend. Mr. Tisdale fitted him for Harvard college; but his father said, "To avoid the British, Sfo to Dartmouth, in the woods." He entered Dartmouth in 1775, and graduated in 1778. He studied theology with Rev. Stephen West, d. d., of Stockbridge, Mass., and soon after preached about two years in Spencertown, on the Hudson river; then served from four to six months as chaplain in Major McKinistry's corps. We find from the record that the church in Jaffrey was organized May 18, 1780, and that a committee from the town met Mr. Ainsworth on commencement day at Dart- mouth, in 1 78 1, and engaged him to preach ; and he began the same summer. He was ordained the first minister in the town of Jaffrey, N, H., Dec. 10, 1782. On December 4th, 1787, he married the daughter of Jonas Minot, of Concord, Mass., with whom he lived happily and successfully over fifty years ; and labored as the minister of the First Congregational church and parish of Jaffrey for over half a century. On the nth of January, 1832, he received Rev. Giles Lyman as his colleague, with whom he lived pleasantly for a number of years. He died March 16, 1858, after a life of an hundred years, and a ministry of about seventy-five years in all. The portraits which hang to-day in the parlor of his old home are excellent representations of him and his wife when they were about seventy-five years of age. His JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 613 dress was thoroughly clerical black, single-breasted coat and waistcoat, black small-clothes, black worsted stockings, shoes, knee-buckles, and shoe-buckles. In his advanced years his long white hair and his courtly manners made him a perfect representative of his class. As a preacher, he was very simple in manner and matter ; his voice was remark- ably strong, clear, and sonorous, his enunciation distinct, and his language pure Saxon-English. In his religious views he was dogmatic and radical, and much of a doctrinal preach- er, holding to the Calvinistic theology as taught by Dr. Edwards. His sermons were seldom if ever written out in full. They were on paper, mere briefs, and very few of these remain. [The only remaining one was here presented to the sight of the assembly. Its subject was an argument against final restoration.] His sermons were very short, seldom exceeding twenty-five minutes. His pulpit services consisted of a hymn, a short prayer, reading of scripture, hymn, the long prayer, the sermon, and then the benedic- tion. His preaching and ministerial labors produced the usual amount of conviction and conversion. He must have attended about three thousand funerals, the services of which consisted generally of an address to the mourners, with an opening and closing prayer. A wedding service he opened with prayer, then he gave the legal point, and lastly the address to the man and wife. As a politician, he was a Federalist, like Washington and Jefferson. In a later day he acted with the Whig party. On Fast days he usually gave his people something of a political discourse. As a friend of education, he usually appeared in most of the dis- trict schools during their closing days, but did not often fraternize much with the children and youth of the town. As a man and a minister, he commanded the respect and esteem of all classes. As one of the " Mystic Tie,'' he re- ceived this lamb-ski?i [here the original lamb-skin received at his initiation as a Mason was exhibited] or white leather apron, which is an emblem of innocence, and a badge more 6 14 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. honorable than the star and garter, or any other order that can be conferred on the candidate at any time by king, prince, potentate, or any other person except a brother Mason. By this lamb-skin he was continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is essentially neces- sary to his gaining admission to the supreme temple above. Thus, being born when George lid was his king, and in the time of Louis XVth of France, Frederick the Great of Prussia, and Clement XVIth of Rome, his life covered vol- umes of history. [Several anecdotes were here related of the worthy divine, which extensively stirred the risibilities of the great assem- bly.] The next ministerial record, and the first of Jaffrey's born sons to the ministry, is that of Rev. Robertson Smiley, born at Jaffrey ; graduated at Dartmouth, 1798. Ke was the settled minister of the First Congregational church of Springfield, Vt., from a very early date, and died at that place in 1856, after a long, laborious, and noble ministry. Rev, Levi Spaulding was born at Jaffrey, August 22, 1791 ; graduated at Dartmouth college, 1815 ; studied divin- ity at Andover, Mass. ; and went, as a Congregational mis- sionary, to Ceylon in 18 19. Here, with one exception of a visit of three years to the United States, he spent his life and labors in the Master's vineyard. He did much valuable work in a series of school-books, the compiling of a diction- ary, and the translation of the Bible into the native tongue of Ceylon. He died June 18, 1873, after a long life of noble Christian warfare. Rev. Luke Ainsworth Spofford, born at Jaffrey, Nov. 5, 1786, was fitted for college under Rev. Laban Ainsworth, his pastor, and Rev. Dr. Payson, of Rindge, N. H. He graduated at Middlebury college, Vt., in 18 16. He studied divinity at Andover, Mass. ; was first settled at Gilmanton, then at Brentwood, Lancaster, and Atkinson, N. H., then filled the office of missionary for some time, and afterwards JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 6l$ labored for years in the missionary field of the Western states, and died at Rockport, Ind., Sept. 27, 1855. Earnest- ly and devotedly he spent his life for man's salvation, and left an excellent record as a faithful minister of Christ. Rev. Alvah Spaulding was born at Jaffrey, Sept. 9, 1807 ; graduated at Amherst, 1832 ; studied divinity at Andover, Mass. ; was settled at Cornish, N. H., where he remained from twenty to thirty years ; was then installed at Weath- ersfield, Vt.; and died May, 1868. Rev. James Howe was born at Jaffrey ; graduated at Dartmouth college in 1817; studied divinity at Andover, Mass., and was settled at Pepperell, Mass., where he spent his life as a faithful, devoted, and esteemed minister of the Congregationalists, and died in 1840, aged forty-three. Rev. Henry Shedd, born at Jaffrey ; graduated at Dart- mouth college in 1826 ; studied theology at Andover, Mass., and has spent nearly his entire life as a home missionary in the Western states, as a Congregationalist. Rev. Adonijah Cutter, born at Jaffrey ; studied divinity at Bangor Seminary, Me., and settled in the ministry of the Congregationalists, at Strafford, Vt., in June, 1840. Here he spent a ministry of ten years. Then, for a time, minister at Hanover, N. H., being dismissed in 1857. He was soon after settled at Nelson, N. H., where he died in a short time, leaving a life of devotion and faithfulness. Rev. Jaquith, born at Jaffrey ; became a self- taught minister of the Baptist denomination in Maine, do- ing a good work, and is to-day in the field of missionary labor. Rev. William Dutton, born at Jaffrey, in 1815 ; fitted for college at Melville academy ; entered Brown University, at Providence, R. I., in 1839, ^.nd graduated in 1842, with much honor. He taught school several years at Kalamazoo, Mich., and died in 1846, aged thirty years. For this noble man, and promising minister for the Baptist denomination, too much cannot be said. Intensely industrious and studi- 6l6 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. ous, an honest and lively thinker, a devoted Christian, he went down to an early grave, honored and beloved by all who knew him. Many on earth held his memory above price, and in glory did he pass to the spirit land to receive the unfading crown from the hand of the blessed Master. Rev. Andrew O. Warren, born at Jaffrey ; prepared for the study of divinity at Melville academy ; entered on his theology course with J. V. Wilson in 1838, and completed it with Rev. Charles Woodhouse, of Westmoreland, N. H., in 1840, and the same year entered the ministry of the Uni- versalists. He has been located at McDonough, Upper Lisle, and Smithville, N. Y., then at Montrose, Pa., where, and in the region, he has been actively engaged in the min- istry since 1849. In i860 he began the study of law : was admitted to the bar of Susquehanna county court in 1862, and to the supreme court in 1865. And yet he has been continually in the Master's vineyard saving souls, and on week-days in the world, stoutly contending for the salvation of men's wills from the ruins of avarice and self. Rev. E. S. Foster, born at Jaffrey, September, 1821 ; was a student at Melville academy, Lawrence academy of Grot- on, Mass., and closed his academic education at Keene, N. H., in 1843. From this time till 1849, he labored in the mercantile business, and in September of this year he en- tered the study of divinity with Rev. O. A. Skinner, d. d., of New York, completing the course in about four years. Af- ter much sickness, he was ordained in June, 1855, at South Hartford, Washington county, N. Y., where he first settled. He has labored in Abington, Mass., Cuttingsville and Ches- ter, Vt., at Claremont, N. H., at Middletown, Conn., and is now an active minister of the Universalist denomination at Winchester, N. H. Thus much, in brief, of the history of Jaffrey's sons who have filled no ignoble place in the Christian ministry, as each has understood Christ and his scheme of salvation. I feel sure that they will compare favorably, in body, talent, JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 617 and labor, with the same number of ministers selected from any town of equal population in New England. Here allow me a few words for our calling, and I am done. I believe it can be shown that the ministry of Chris- tianity in the various denominations has done more to make Jaffrey, in the life and character of her citizens, than all other influences combined. Think, for a moment ! Here is the intellect that, a few years ago, in feebleness and helplessness, nestled in its par- ent's arms, and could not utter the word " mother," but to- day can survey broad acres, build and furnish the gorgeous home, rear and finish the lofty temple, plan and perfect cities, make and defend empires, girdle the earth in a few moments with its thought, and leave character behind which shall be a missionary of blessed life. We to-day are what our parents and the Christian ministry have made us. Here fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, are our children, which all the wealth and empires of earth cannot purchase, and for whom you will give the last dollar, yea, and your life also, to defend from the grave. And they are in your hands, and the Christian ministry, to mould and educate, to tune and tone, for nobleness and virtue in the world, and to prepare for the ineffable scenes of the incor- ruptible life. Who among you can estimate the intellect of your child, — its probabilities and its possibilities in the coming days of earth .-• Remember, all history teaches us that depres- sion, misfortune, and slavery cannot break it ; ambition, em- pire, and enormous riches and rule cannot conquer it ; and the longest life and best culture cannot fill the compass of its desire, or satisfy its capabilities. This restless spirit, this irrepressible mind of your child, is to-day for your shaping as clay in the potter's hand. What stamp are you putting upon it ! Is it that of mort- gage bonds and government scrip, that will petrify the heart, and curse with avarice and the long train of woes the com- 6l8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. ing generations ? or, is it the stamp of an honest and Chris- tian Hfe of industry, that will charm the coming individuals in the grandest of all characters, — the life that is Christ to live ? Oh ! what a gift is your child ! What a gem of priceless value is its intellect, given to you as the artist who is to set it ! And are you setting it ? Are you setting it in the gilt of fashion and popularity, in game and Sabbath- breaking, vainly supposing that the canker of remorse will not consume it ? Are you setting it in the rough of profan- ity and avarice, idly assuming that the fires of retribution will not destroy it ? or, are you setting it in virtue, cultiva- tion, and spiritual refinement, and under ministerial toning, feeling assured that God renders to every man according to his deeds ? Forget not, I pray you, that a single man made the French nation nominally all infidel, and another made them all warriors. A Carthaginian general put his little boy of ten years upon the altar of his country and made him swear to be Rome's eternal enemy ; and he was such until he sunk into the grave. Now, if such a mighty power lies dormant in your child, mould it to make the coming Jaffrey, or some other town, to war forever against ignoble character ; and on the altar of humanity make that child to affirm understandingly that it will be the eternal enemy of all sin, depravity, and crime. Remember the fact : here is a common-school teacher, the most of whose students, as they went from his hands to the business world, have been unfortunate in health and worldly matters. Here is another, most of the students of whom were sent into practical life, have been successful and hap- py, enjoyed much health, and occupied high positions. How important, then, to have the right education ! What a need to have the best instruction toned into your children by a live, consecrated teacher, inspired by an energetic min- istry ! JAFFREY CENTENNIAL, 619 Make the culture — whether from the school-room or the pulpit — so perfect, so entertaining and instructive, that all the families around it shall be drawn to it, as all the vege- table world is drawn up into life, beauty, and worth by the sun. Into this cause should we collect all the stores of human learning, and reduce them to one rational, charming, and useful body of science, of active business, and of hon- est, ambitious character, that shall be as light to those in darkness, as water to the thirsty, as bread to the hungry, and as life to the dead. And the whole should be put under an affectionate, so- cial, and instructive ministry, that can fondle the darling child, stimulate and tone heavenward the fiery youth, and inspire the young man to cut his name on humanity in the noblest deeds of an honest calling. Then make its devo- tion in righteousness and labor so intense and permeating that it will assimilate or annihilate the world of evil. A celebrated painter of Italy was once asked by a friend why he spent so much time and labor in the study of the arts and sciences ; why he visited all Europe, the halls and galleries of all nations, and studied all the best paintings, and then came home and toiled day and night in mixing and applying colors so attentively to the canvas. He re- plied, " I am painting for eternity." Oh ! could every parent, teacher, and minister understand this statement of the artist ! But his picture, from the long years of study, toil, and suffering, — what is it comipared with your child } Yet Raphael could spend a lifetime and a world of treasure on it ! And Michael Angelo could ex- haust all his powers and the income of a nation to finish that picture ! Cannot you spend a few years to educate that child } Cannot you give your influence and income to have and aid an intensely anxious and vital ministry, and leave a few pictures in the galleries of that child's memory and spirit that will inspire many a lost one from sin and death to 620 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. redemption and peace, and so leave your name where it will never die? Plutarch gives us a learned dissertation on the single Greek word " er" found inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi. In the Ionic dialect, we are told, it means " I wish." This perfectly expressed the state of mind of all who entered the temple on the business of consultation. And an ancient scholar of great worth assumes that it is the initial word of a celebrated line in the third book of the Odyssey, and stands there as signifying the whole line, which is thus rendered, viz., " O that the gods would em- power me to obtain my wishes !" O that there was some such initial word in our mother tongue, that could be inscribed over every church door, the rendering of which should be this, viz., O that God would empower me to obtain my wishes for my child!" But further. Back of all this needed culture, and around it, lie the purpose and effort, the will and energy and learn- ing, of the clergy. And for years, as a town's committee, Mr. Ainsworth held the school-teachers in his hand ; — and who shall say to-day how much of our life, capability, integ- rity and prudence, energy and will-power, emanated from that noble and heroic minister ! I may be presumptuous, but I firmly believe that the clergy who are in this world, not to be ministered unto but to minister, hold a position to which there is no other paramount. And to stimulate you up to its importance, worth, and influence, I will interrogate you. What, in Barbary and in a servitude worse than Southern slavery, would be woman's condition, if the Chris- tian ministry had never existed.'' If it had never existed, where would be our homes and children, and our hopes of the life to come .-' Without the Christian ministry, how conceive and support a free and enlightened government ? Without the ministry of the divine word, how would you make, mould, and educate its legislators and judges .-• You study this subject, and it will be seen that our gov- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 621 ernment — the best this side of heaven, and founded on God's impartial rule — could not carry out its principles, — could not secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to man, — without the ministry — the preaching of the gos- pel. Without the Christian clergy, men could not be qual- ified to respect constituted authorities and administer laws. Without the ministry, man is not capable of self-gov- ernment. Without the ministry of the gospel, kingdoms and nations could not be kept from the inroads of passion, taint, corruption, and ruin. Sodom and Gomorrah, Nine- veh and Babylon, Egypt and Jerusalem, Greece, Carthage, and Rome, attest, with overwhelming evidence, the awful consequences, in their complete destruction, of rejecting the ministry of patriarchs and prophets, of Christ and the apos- tles. Thus we see that the richest, proudest, and most culti- vated nations, with all their forts and navies, with all their schools, arts, and sciences, have been swept from the face of the earth, because they refused the preaching of the great and good who were sent unto them. Remove a nation's honor, justice, and virtue, which are the results of preach- ing and sanctuary privileges, and you take away every band that can hold her together, and remove all the elements of her life. A Christian clergy educate into society all her convictions and understandings of moral obligations and accountability. They lift men to clear conceptions of duty to themselves, to those around them, and to God, and thus hold society in compact and contract. The Christian clergy are the con- quering and aggressive forces on infidelity, and the absorb- ing army of all idolatry and its baleful effects. The gospel ministry imparts the needed means and grace required by all men to escape death and acquire life, — to pass from the ruins and woes of earth to the orders and joys of blessed character. Preaching bears away our iniquity, absorbs all sin and evil, cleanses the spirit, renews the affections, bears 622 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. all men from darkness to light, and makes man at-one-ment with God. Through ministering, Christ made his disciples the light of the world. And the clergy have borne on that light which lighteth every man that cometh, and which is pressing every person with the necessity of repentance and regeneration. They aid, increase, and vitalize the informa- tion about the resurrection, which inspires all men to a higher life. The gospel ministry imparts the light and truth and intuition which cannot be read from books, can- not be discovered in the best composition, cannot be ren- dered by the ablest stenographer, cannot be written by the most versatile genius possessed with the most copious vo- cabulary. Never forget, then, that it was the living soul in what Demosthenes said that moved the Athenians ; it was the immortal spirit in the utterances of Cicero that thrilled the senate ; it was the flashing of undying light in the eye and mien of Patrick Henry that held our fathers spellbound at the birth of liberty ; it was the soul of Paul in the intense, concentrated, and burning truths, flashing out and shimmer- ing in lines of fire, by which the great apostle entranced the wisdom and learning of Rome and Athens. And it is the eye and the spirit and the light of the clergy which are required to combine and concentrate and intensify the doc- trines, the precepts, and the examples of Christ, until you are swept into purity, into symphony with peace, with spirit- ual passion and power, and the energies of everlasting life. In such an hour of endless impressions souls are born, affections renewed, hearts regenerated, and all of society moves up from barbarism to God and Christ. In such an hour the clergyman is no longer a preacher merely, but humanity itself, — trampled, torn, bleeding, yet beautiful, — starting one glorious moment in her terrible ruin, with her hand lifted to the blue heavens over her heroic dead, and affirming her great oath in the elemental life that is Christ to live. I would bear to you at last, then, in the urn of remem- JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 623 brance, ashes from the fires of the wondrous dead, to inten- sify your sense of the importance and worth of the Christian clergy of the past and of to-day. May you work for and with them, as you would wish to have done when you look back on earth and the loved ones you leave behind : then will you receive in some measure the glorious answer of life's great prayer. And when you come to the congregation of silence, — " They who stand around your grave Will rank you nobly." Sentiment No. 1 1 : " Jaffrey — Her Past and Her Present." Response by Dr. Daniel B. Cutter, of Peterborough, N. H. Mr. President : It affords me great pleasure to meet you and my former associates here to-day. Few indeed are our numbers, so few that in this vast congregation here as- sembled I recognize only here and there a familiar face. Time has made such sad inroad into our numbers, that to-day I feel like a stranger in my own native town. The old church, the place where our fathers worshipped in gone- by days, now stands, a memorial of its former greatness, but the sound of the gospel is there no longer heard. Minister and people lie buried together in yonder graveyard, silent in the sleep of death. Forever sacred be their ashes ! To commemorate the doings of these men is the occasion of our meeting here to-day. A little more than one hundred years ago, the place on which we now stand, and its sur- roundings as far as the eye can reach, were an vmbroken forest. On the banks of the Contoocook grew the lofty pine, while on the hills and in the valleys grew a variety of hard wood, fir, and hemlock : the mountain, which now pre- sents a bare rock, was covered with spruce. From its side flowed numerous rippling streams, which, after passing through bog and swamp, united their flowing waters and formed the Contoocook river. The inhabitants of this then wild domain were the moose, the deer, the bear, and the 624 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. wolf, together with the wild turkey and the partridge. The streams were filled with trout, and the ponds with pickerel. Over this wild domain, in majestic grandeur, then clad with fir, now bald with age, peered the lofty Monadnock, survey- ing the vast territory around, watching the progress of events as the white man, here and there, made inroads in his wild domain. Such was Jaffrey, when, in 1752, Moses Stickney, Richard Peabody, and seven others made an at- tempt at settlement in the south-east part of the town. Through fear of the Indians they all soon left, except one of their number, known as Captain Platts. During their stay, on Dec. 9, 1753, Moses Stickney had a son born, whose name was Simon, who is supposed to be the first white child born in Jaffrey. He never after resided there, but returned with his father to Boxford, Mass., and, on ma- turity, settled in Holden, and afterwards removed to New Haven, Vt., and died in 1791. He left three daughters. The next attempt at settlement was made by a colony of hardy adventurers from Londonderry, encouraged probably by their brethren, who had previously made a settlement in Peterborough, an adjoining township. But few of these, however, had the hardihood to remain as permanent settlers. After enduring the hardships and privations of a pioneer life for a time, they sold their rights to a Massachusetts colony, mostly from Essex and Middlesex counties. These were the men who, on the 14th of September, 1773, met and organized the town. This was done by virtue of a charter granted by His Excellency John Wentworth, then govern- or of the province of New Hampshire, and council, at Portsmouth, August 17, 1773, who changed the original name, Middle Monadnock No. 2, to Jaffrey, in honor of George Jaffrey, Esq., one of the original proprietors. The first town-meeting was held at the house of Francis Wright, inn-keeper, situated on lot No. 14, range 8. A second meeting was held at the same place, on the 28th of the same month, and ;^8o L. M. was voted for the repairing of roads, and £,6 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 625 L. M. for preaching. No church was then built. They had preaching, probably in some private house. The next year, 1774, the town voted to build a meeting-house. Voted to raise said, house in June, 1775. This was the first year of the Revolutionary War : one battle had already been fought, another was pending. Sixteen of their men were in the field, and, while raising the church, it is said the sound of the cannon was heard from Bunker Hill. Actuated by a sense of duty they did not despond, but readily obeyed the call of their country. Men, money, provisions, and muni- tions of war were promptly furnished ; and when we learn that a town of only 351 inhabitants furnished seventy-two men during the war, we cannot be surprised at their success in that war. During seven long and perilous years they met the requirements of their country, and, through the blessing of God, triumphed at last, and laid the foundation of her future greatness. We, their descendants, may well feel proud of such fathers, and mothers too, who, if they were not on the battle-field, were in other fields, doing no less glorious service for their God and their country. Dur- ing all this period of war and suffering the church was not only raised, but so far completed as to be made use of for public worship. With the men of that time a neglect of re- ligious duty would have been fatal, in their minds, to their success in battle. They relied on the God of heaven, and acted under a sense of his presence, feeling sure of victory only through his aid and with his blessing. In 1780 a church was organized, and on December 11, 1782, the Rev. Laban Ainsworth was ordained their pastor, who, during an extraordinarily long life, ministered to the wants of this people in all matters pertaining to religious duty. In person he was of medium height, in appearance dignified, in deportment affable, which, together with an in- tellectual superiority, enabled him to command the love and respect of his fellow-men. He was the ruling power of the church, the district school, and, I might say, the town. 41 626 mS'l'OKY Ol' lAI'I'KKY. I'*()r ;i loti^' scries of yiMis \\c was I In* suix'riiitciuliiip; scliool coiiuiiillcc, whose li('ol house is seen heii" and tlu-re hy the side of the road. ( Ji ist-mills, saw-mills, stores, and tav- erns, showing trade ami tia\i>l. aie now heeomiu;; ('otnmon, Wheel eaniaj.<,es take the plaee ol thesaildh- .md the pillion; tlu- whole l.imilv ean now ride to ehureh. The turnpike. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 627 the wonder of the age, is now built, opening the way for a stage-coach from l^oston to Walpole and back, twice a week, which, in its turn, affords not only means of conveyance for passengers, but for a mail also, which is established, — and a post-office, too : letters can now be sent and received. The sons and daughters abroad can exchange letters with their parents at home, and, to clap the climax, they can now take a newspaper, one being j)ublishcd at Kcene in 1799. The town is now in a healthy, thriving condition ; all of the necessaries and conveniences of life are at command. The farmer can now sleep undisturbed by the howl of the wolf, prowling around for the destruction of his flock ; his herd and flock are safe in the field by night as well as by day, — no more herding or folding necessary. He is indeed lord of his own domain, independent of all monopolies. We have now reached the present century, the age of scientific research, the age of invention, the age of high in- tellectual culture and refinement. The winds and the waves now obey the dictate of man, and are made subservient to his wishes. The lightning, too, at his command, carries in- telligence at his bidding. Head-work is the order of the day, and bodily labor discreditable. No means are spared in the culture of the intellect, and hardly any used for the improvement of the moral and physical organization. Great- ness has left the seat of goodness, and now sits in the lap of ease and luxury. We are now showered with blessings, but, like Rome of old, are we not in danger of the Goths and Vandals .-• Will not the extravagance of our times, so de- structive to our offspring, open wide the door for the en- trance of another race that will supplant us .-' Or do we look forward, with the expectation of Abraham of old, that our children and our children's children are to be the pos- sessors of this gift of their fathers through all coming gen- erations.? Do we rely on our intelligence!' — so did Rome on hers. Do we rely on our own goodness .-" — so did the chil- dren of Abraham on theirs. Hoth fell ! By obeying the 628 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. precepts of the Lord our fathers were blessed, and we, their descendants, can receive the same blessing only by the same obedience. May we, then, emulate their virtues, and render due obedience to the precepts of our Heavenly Father. Sentiment No. 12: "The Homes of our Youth." Re- sponse by Rev. Andrew O. Warren, of Montrose, Pa. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow- Townsmen : I do not come forward to make a speech at this hour, for I have none written. But I did think this morning that possibly I might find one here already written at my hands. If I were to speak at all, you would find that I was good in dispersing a crowd in that way. But allow me to congratulate you, fellow-townsmen, at this time, for the grand history of the past one hundred years that is closed by this anniversary, and for its grander prophecy for the next century. I feel it to be one of the proudest days of my life that I am permitted to be here, and to acknowledge this as my native place. Here, indeed, are "the dear homes of our youth." Here we began our very being, and laid the foundation for every superstructure : we have our record, morally, socially, intellectually, and spiritually. My native place was in school-district No. 4, and I hope I never have, nor shall be permitted to dishonor it. Well do I remember some of the old people in that sec- tion of the town, particularly one old Mr. Horton, who was favored far aboye the most of his neighbors by the Divine Being, if we can believe his story. He said as he was work- ing by his flat piece, the voice of the Lord came to him and said, "Go preach my word to the people." At first he ex- cused himself, but on the repetition of the call he started out, came to my father's house, and talked to my good mother day after day. One Sunday he made an appoint- ment at the school-house, and I attended. During his speech he said he should preach nothing that was not JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 629 found between the lids of the Bible. But he soon began a tirade of abuse upon the " pockey cotton-factories" and other corporations in the land, and declared his conviction that they would be the ruin of our country. But the coun- try lives, the cotton-mills live and prosper, but Mr. Horton rests with his fathers. I remember particularly my first Sunday-school teacher, Levi Fisk, Esq., and I never shall forget one remark made by him. He was a man of good judgment in most matters, yet he had his weak points. Speaking of railroads, as one was then being talked of from Boston to Bellows Falls, — one route might lay across some part of our town, — the old squire said he "would rather have three of the best farm-buildings in town all destroyed by fire annually, to be replaced by taxes on the town, rather than have a railroad in it." You of this hour do not concur in that opinion. If it were to be said now that no more cars would ever enter your town, you would seek and follow the cars wherever they went. But I will not detain you. From " the homes of our youth " many of us have made a wide departure. Yet it is no matter where we may go in after time, we shall find no place around which cluster such hallowed memories as gather here. In memory we see again the forms of our fathers and mothers, long since gone to their eternal rest, gliding in our midst. We hear their voices saying to us, " Here we lived, toiled, and died to sow the seeds, the fruit of which you, our children, are permitted this day to gather." Mighty changes have marked the march of years that are past, but the record is good. Go forward still, with a stout heart and a manly purpose, and you shall have a grander history to conclude one hundred years from to-day. Not one of us shall see that distant time, save in promise, the reality of which we cannot doubt. The whole field of my thought at this time is beautifully expressed by the poet, if I am able to call the words to mind, thus : 630 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. " Life is like a stately temple That is founded in the sea, Whose uprising fair proportions Penetrate immensity ; Love the architect who builds it. Building it eternally. " To me, standing in the present, As one waits beside a grave. Up the aisles and to the altar Rolls the Past its solemn wave. With a murmer as of mourning Undulating in the nave. " Pallid phantoms glide around me In the wrecks of hope ai\d home; Voices moan among the waters. Faces vanish in the foam ; But a peace, divine, unfailing. Writes its promise in the dome. " Cold the waters where my feet are. But my heart is strung anew, Tuned to Hope's profound vibration. Pulsing all the ether through, For the seeking souls that ripen In a patience strong and true. " Hark ! the all-inspiring angel Of the Future leads the choir ; All the shadows of the temple Are illumed with living fire. And the bells above are waking Chimes of infinite desire. " For the strongest or the weakest There is no eternal fall ; Many graves and many mourners. But at last the lifted pall ! For the highest and the lowest, Blessed life containeth all. " O thou fair unfinished temple. In unfathomed sea begun ! Love, thy builder, shapes and lifts thee In the glory of the sun ; And the builder and the builded To the pure in heart are one." JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 63 I PARTING HYMN. BY MISS HENRIETTA S. CUTTER. Air : ' 'A 2i!d Lang Syne." The band, choir, and audience unitedly swelling "the tide of song along." The shades of night are gathering fast Round Old Monadnock's brow. While we must say the parting word, — With friendship's hand clasp now ; While we must break the golden links That bind reunion's chain, Yet often memory '11 bear us back — Back to this day again. Among the many gathered here Are those of sterling worth. Upon whose brows the impress rests Of the great and good of earth ; And with those passing down life's hill. Just coming up are some Whose laurel crown for worthy deeds In th' future must be won. 'Mid joys of this centennial day, A silent tear we shed For parents, brothers, sisters, friends, Now sleeping with the dead. They've left to us the well worn paths On life's great harvest field ; May we the seed full early sow, That th' grain may heavy yield. One century hence — that future day Is only known to God, But we shall rest all peacefully Beneath the flowering sod. We've met to-day, and now we part ; Now we must say " Good-bye ;" May Heaven's rich blessings on all rest : We'll meet again on high. 632 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Peter Upton, Esq., moved that this meeting adjourn for one hundred years, and it was unanimously voted. Three cheers for " The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Town of Jaffrey" preceded a quiet dispersal of home-seeking strangers and towns-people from the soon deserted canvas. [Note — We are indebted to George Wilder Fox for a por- tion of this (copied), as reported by him for the New Hamp- shire Sentinel.] The following letters were received from the absent sons of Jaffrey, who could not, for reasons therein specified, unite in the centennial exercises : Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23, 1873. To yulius Cutter and Others^ Committee : Gentlemen : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter inviting me to be present at the centennial anni- versary of the incorporation of the town of JaflVey. It would give me great pleasure to be there on an occasion of such inter- est to all natives of the dear old town, but the state of my health will not permit it. Wherever its sons and daughters may wander, or wdierever dwell, their thoughts must frequently turn back with kindly regards, as mine do, to the home of childhood ; and we are always glad to know that tlie friends we left behind us there still enjoy the thrift and comforts that come by industry and skill in tlie useful arts. God bless old Jaflrey and its people ! Situated near the geographical centre of New England, that town well represents New England character and life ; and its granite hills and towering mountain as well represent the old Granite State. It is IVeiv Engla7id in its purity, and its character is strongly impressed upon its children. Wherever we may be we are Americans and patriots, attached to the homes of our adoption, but T'ankees still. A century is a long time. Yet the first settled minister of the town lived, in honor and esteem, to see his centennial birthday. But how many events have occurred in that time ! A century ago considerable portions of the thirty Indian tribes that once inhabited New England were still within its borders. Now none remain ; and even their languages are all dead, or exist only on the silent pages of the Eliot Bible. A wide re- gion has become a fruitful land, distinguished for industry and JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 633 intelligence ; and out from among you have gone very many, to people new regions towards the setting sun. A century hence, let JaHVey again call together her children, and out from among a hundred and fifty millions of people, stretching quite across a continent, tliey will come, and will rejoice to find old JatlVey still prosperous and happy. Wishing you a large and pleasant meeting, I am 3'ours very truly, GEO. F. GILLMORE. Oberlin, Ohio, August 15, 1S73. I^. H. Cutter and Others : Dear Sirs: The card of invitation to the J aftrey Centen- nial was duly received. I do not know^ of anything that would give me more pleasure than to attend this celebration if I could afford the journey. Jaftrey is my birth-place, and the birth- place of my mother, and all my brothers and sisters but one. It is just a third of a century since my father, with nine chil- dren, removed to this place. With us came my father's father, and a brother and sister of my mother, — Thomas and Betsey Joslin. Of the fourteen, only my mother and three younger sisters and myself remain. I have repeatedly visited Jaffrey, and renewed the impres- sions of early boyhood. There is no spot on earth so full ot interesting associations and touching memories as that moun- tain town. Every object, from the cloud-capped Monadnock to the old school-house and blacksmith-shop at the middle of the town, is full of suggestions and tender interest. The very changelessness of the upper part of the town is a gratification. It still stands as it appeared to my nine years old e^'cs a third of a century ago, and I can but hope that it will remain so. I should delight to bring the greetings of my mother and our family to the friends of our childhood, and join in celebrating the birthday of the dear old town. If she is poor in soil, she is rich in the beauty and grandeur of her scenery, and rich in her children and grandcliildren, scattered over all the land. May your commemoration be one worthy of the venerable mothers, and a satisfaction to all the sons and daughters who may gather from near and far. If any printed record is prepared, please send two or three copies to me, with my share of the expense. Yours trul}^, JOHN M. ELLIS. 634 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, Canandaigua, Michigan, Aug. 14, 1873. yciffrey Centennial Committee of Arrangements : Gentlemen: Your kind invitation for me to be present at the centennial gathering of my native town reached me in due time. It would give me great pleasure to be with you on that occasion ; to meet friends from whom I have been long sepa- rated, and whom I may never see elsewliere. But my present surroundings and duties will compel me to decline your invita- tion and remain at home. If tradition be not at fault, it is just one hundred years since my grandfather, Phineas Spaulding, in the south-west part of the town, broke the forest that afterwards made him a pleasant home. Then the only higliway was a foot-path through the tangled wildwood ; and trees that had been marked and scathed by the woodman's axe or hatchet the only guide to those denizens of the forest, from one point to another, to meeting and to mill. Then, too, the slow- footed ox, yoked and hitched to the two-wheeled cart in sum- mer and the heavy sled in winter, was the only pleasure-car- riage for week-day or for Sunday, and the only mode of con- veyance from neighbor to neighbor, or from town to town. Horses were few, and mostly used for riding on the back. It was no uncommon thing for man and wife to be seen riding, both on one beast, he in front on the saddle, and she behind on tlie pillion. Young ladies with their beaux would thus vide, for recreation and for pleasure, till the pillion gave place to another horse and side-saddle, and then they travelled side by side. Sixty years ago, on the spot now occupied by your com- modious hotel, stood the dwelling-house of Deacon Eleazer Spoftbrd, which, with out-buildings, and grist- and saw-mill down by the river, was about all that could be seen for build- ings where your pleasant village now stands. Spoftbrd's mills were known for their superiority of workmanship over every- thing else of the kind, for many miles around. One little anecdote, as touching the old saw-mill, I can remember in my boyhood days. When it was first in operation, as one gate shut and another opened, moving th.e heavy carriage with its ponderous log to and from the saw, a colored man, standing by, in amazement exclaimed, — " Massa Spoftbrd, don't you think you could invent a machine to hoe corn.?" Those were primitive days, — times when our grandfathers and grandmothers had to toil for their daily food ; and right glad were they if they could bring the two ends of the year to meet, with a few spare dollars for deposit against the time of need. In those early days, almost every house held its instru- ment, — not the modern piano, but the old-fashioned spinning- wheel ; and while the foot pressed the pedal, the fingers, instead JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 635 of gliding over keys of ivory to the tune of Yankee Doodle or God save the King, or, perchance, the more solemn strains of Old Hundred or St. Martyn's, were busy in drawing the thread from the pine distaff, to be wrought into cloth for the clothing of the household. I will venture the assertion that you cannot in yoiu* town to-day find a young lady unfler twenty years of age that can spin a skein of fine linen, or in her grandmother's old hand-loom weave a yard of cloth. I say this, not by way of disparagement to any one, for I well know that modern im- provements and machinery have done away with most of that kind of labor. To-day you have your pleasant homes, your good roads, your carriages for comfort and for ease, and instead of the lumbering stage-coach, that used daily to pass through your village from Keene to Boston, is seen the iron horse, puf- fing and blowing on his feed of fire, and drawing in his wake a burden that many stage teams could not move an inch. I have hastily glanced at a few things in the century that has passed, but who among your gathering to-day will be present to read the history of the century to come.'' It would be no presumption to answer. Not one. In conclusion, I will offer the following sentiment: "Old Jaffrey — may her virtue and morality keep even pace with her internal improvements for a hundred years to come " Very respectfully yours, LYMAN SPAULDING. Barre, Vt., August 18, 1873. Mr. jftdius Cutter: My Dear Sir : Ever since the reception of your invitation to be present and participate in the celebration of the centen- nial anniversary of the incorporation of the town, I have hoped to meet you there. But the debility from which I am just now suffering reminds me that quiet is better suited to my condi- tion. You may know that during ten years and a half I was en- gaged in examining the teachers and caring for the children of your common schools. I knew all the young people of school age, and before I left town I copied all their names and ages from the registers. Were it permitted, I should like to respond to the sentiment, "Our Common Schools." We have been nurtured there, and we are all the alumni or alumnae of that in- stitution. You meet as graduates from the people's college. Though you differ in your religious and political preferences, here you are brethren. 636 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. The early inhabitants of Jaffrey so recognized the necessity of schools, that ninety-eight years ago last April, at the second annual town-meeting thjtt was holden under the charter, an ap- propriation of eight pounds was voted for the support of a school. Ever since that time it is known that the town has, every year except one, voted a sum of money for a like pur- pose. The first school-house was built at the expense of the town, in the year 1778. It stood just across the road from Father Ainsworth's house, and remained there till the year 1809. Within twelve years after this first house was put up, there were nine others in town. Could you examine a catalogue which contained the names of all who have shared in the advantages of your schools, and could you read their history also, you would see a record of which you might justly be proud. I remain, Very truly yours, LEONARD TENNEY. Amherst, July 18, 1S73. Dear Sir: Yours of the 28th ult., giving me notice of the centennial celebration at JaftVey, on the 20th prox., and of a sentiment to which I am invited to respond, has been received. I have delayed answering, hoping to be able so to arrange my business engagements that I might be present on that occasion ; but I find it will not be possible for me to attend. I have an engagement which takes me to Chicago at that time, which cannot be postponed. I regret very much that I cannot have the pleasure of meeting the good citizens of my native town on that day, and enjoying the festivities of the occasion, but my time, being previously engaged, is not at my own disposal. Wishing you a successful- and pleasant celebration on the day appointed, I am, Very trulv, vour obedient servant, E. S. CUTTER. F. H. Cutter, Esq., Jaffrey, N. H. Yates City, Knox County, III., Aug. 8, 1873. To the Committee of Arrangements : Dear Sirs : Your kind favor, inviting me to be present with you upon the occasion of your centennial, has been re- ceived, but it finds me engrossed in business arrangements. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL, 637 such that I cannot conveniently accept your invitation, a privi- lege v^^hich I should most dearly love to enjoy. This being the case, I trust you will allow me to express a thought that seems full in my mind, and thus add my mite to your festivities. More than twenty-five years have passed since I broke bands with the dear old town and friends, and launched out upon the unknown future to pursue my journey through life, yet I have not forgotten the spot that gave me birth. The broad prairies and boundless harvests fill my soul with gladness and my heart with thanksgiving, but my mind continually runs back with de- light to my old native New Hampshire hills, with Jaftrey for its centre, and the gray old Monadnock for its chief corner-stone. O Memory ! what volumes fill thy space as I contemplate the past! I live over again the days of my youth ; I think of the sports of No. 11, of the achievements in "Melville;" I wonder at mv efibrts in No. 6. and feel surprised at my success in No. 3 ; I contemplate the pleasures of our social and relig- ious privileges, our lyceums and singing-schools, our annual trainings and musters and Fourth of July celebrations, and wonder if it took them all to help make me a man. Aye, and I answer to myself, Yes, and more too, for it requires the deter- mination to be a man. In the days of the Caesars, it was the height of ambition to become a Roman citizen. How much more for every one born upon American soil to be in trudi an American citizen. Reflecting upon the efibrts that were made use of to fit us who are upon the present drama of life, by our fathers and mothers, who have mostly gone to their reward, let it remind us of our duty to those whom Providence has placed in our charge — the young of the land. Honored as old Jaftrey has always been, for the virtue and general intelligence of its citizens, with how much pleasure can you turn to your young and youth, and feel that a brighter fu- ture is before them than we enjoy. The generous munificence of one of your townsmen has placed greater privileges and brighter prospects before you ; and as the town has so far al- ready honored itself, what may not the most sanguine expect hereafter .'' The sun never shone upon lovelier hills ; man was never fan- ned by purer breezes ; streams never rattled down precipices freer than do those in your own, my own, native town. The arts and sciences lend their aid, and your old men and your old women, your young men and your young women, yes, and your youth, may, if they will, be honored and praised through- out the land.* Permit me, then, to close by offering this sentiment: " The good old town of Jaftrey — wherever her sons or daughters 6^8 HISTORY OF JAFFREY, rove, may lier memory to them be as bright as her waters are pure, and their honor as lasting as Monadnock itself." Yours, with much respect, D. COREY, Jr. Campton Vill., N. H., Aug. 15, 1873. Gentlemen of the Committee : Your invitation to attend the centennial celebration atjaf- frey, on the 20th inst., lias been received. I regret that engage- ments at home will prevent my attendance upon that interest- ing occasion. Though not a native of Jaffrey, I went there to reside at so early a period of my life that whatever is pleasant in youthful recollections of home and early friends is centred there. My acquaintance with Jaftrey commenced in tiiat transition period when it was clianging from an almost exclusively agri- cultural town to one of manufacturing, and educational facilities as well. The early fathers of the town — such as the first Col. Prescott, the first Dr. Howe, Judge Parker, Capt. Joseph Cutter, John Cutter, tanner — I remember as silver-haired men at that time, who soon passed away, and gave place to their descendants of the second generation, who worthily carried forward the town in its career of prosperity and literary advancement. To men of this generation the town was indebted for the establishment of Melville academy, an institution which exerted an extensive and abiding influence for good, and carried to a high degree the standard of education among the sons and daughters of Jaf- frey. And although this institution has ceased to exist, it is a matter of congratulation that the munificence of one of her cit- izens has continued to JafiVey the means of a good high-school education to all her youth in the future. I have been pleased to note, in occasional visits, the rapid progress of Jaflrey in material prosperity, and hope she may continue in her onward march of improvement. In conclusion, I would say that I have dwelt for a time in the far South, where the orange blooms and the fig and the pomegranate put forth leaves and fruit ; I have resided in the middle region of our country, where the grape and the peach and the nectarine flourish ; I have travelled westward to the centre of that great valley where the Mississippi rolls its vast volume of waters, where waving fields of grain furnish food for a continent; but I have yet to see the land which, on the whole, the dwellers round the base of the Monadnock need envy its possession as a home. JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 639 With best wishes to the committee personally, and hope that an auspicious day may render the celebration a success, I i"e- main, Yours very truly, CHARLES CUTTER. To F. H. Cutter and others. Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. ii, 1873. Committee of Arrangements: Gentlemen : I received your card of invitation to attend a celebration of the one hiuidredth anniversary of the incorpo- ration of the town of JaflVey. Living in what was called the far West when I left my New Hampshire home, I can only send my regrets at not being able to be present on that inter- esting occasion, and visit The land where a father dwells, And that holds a mother's grave. My mind reverts to many scenes of youthful days, since re- ceiving your card. I often think of the daily labor of New England farmers' boys, who, from my experience, go into the field at an early age, and get permission to go fishing only when it rains too hard to work out of doors, and there is no corn to shell. This, with brown bread and milk for supper, gives a boy a good constitution with which to fight the battle of life. I often think of the days when, for the want of something to read, I walked four miles to the old church to attend the Sabbath-school, get a library book, and hear the good old man preach, who then dressed in the fashion of oiu' Revolutionary fathers. On my last visit to JaftVey, I was glad to see that an- cient edifice in so good a state of preservation. May it stand another century, a monument to religion, morality, and edu- cation. During the late strife for the preservation of our glorious Union, there was talk, even in Ohio, of our country being divided, — the East from the West, as well as the North from the South. I thought of my admiration of the great West, the country of my adoption, and mv love for New England, the land of my nativity, and often found myself repeating a verse I had cut from some paper about the time of leaving my native state, which I will offer as a sentiment: " New England! dear New England ! My birth-place proud and free ! A traitor's curse be on my head When I am false to thee." 640 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Please remember me kindly to all the friends of my youth in the good old town of JaflVey. Very truly yours, P. BIGELOW. Cambridge, August, 1873. Dear Sir: I thank you for tlie invitation to your centennial festival. If my health v^rould have permitted, it would have given me much pleasure to have joined in the celebration. I have been told that I was born in Jaftrey, but it was so long ago (17S4) that none of the present inhabitants could testify to the fact ; but as it would be equallv difficult to produce any evi- dence to the contrary, I may as well, on this occasion, claim the honor. I imderstand that my parents removed from Jaflrey to New Ipsv^ich when I was about a year old, and the most that I recollect of Jaftrey relates to my being sent there to school, about seventy-eight years ago. The school was kept by a for- eigner by the name of Dillon, who had a great reputation for teaching penmanship, and was about as much celebrated for the use of the rod as the pen ; and I dare say tradition may have preserved some anecdotes of his severe teachings in that line, which were of a nature to be remembered as long as any of his other lessons. At this school I was a classmate with General James Miller, who got his education rather late in life ; and we stutlied our English Grammar together, in the same seat, he at the age of twenty-one, and I at the age ot eleven. I think Dillon never attempted to use the rod upon Miller ; if he had, the future warrior might have commenced his campaign some years before the War of 181 2. Among the schoolmates that I remember were Dr. Abner Howe, and his brother. Dr. Adonijah Howe, who are no doubt well remem- bered and much respected by many of the present inhabitants of Jaftre}'. Andrew Thorndike was one of the familiar names of that day, though considerably older than my schoolmates. Some years after my school-boy days I recollect climbing to the top of Monadnock, and finding, on the highest pinnacle, a date, and what appeared to be the initial letters of three or four names, rudely pounded out, with much labor, on the solid ledge, apparently by the use of no better implement than a stone. This may, probably, still be found there, though not without careful search, as the inscription though deep is rather indistinct. It may probably be a record of the first visit to the mountain after the settlement of the country, and would be a very interesting item in the history of your centennial, if it had JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 641 not already been published. I took a copy of it at the time, but have not been able to find it. With best wishes for the continuance of the prosperity of my native town, Your humble servant, SAMUEL BATCHELDER. L. L. Pierce, Esq.. The following is a list of the names of those who sub- scribed to pay the expenses of the centennial celebration, with the amount paid by each : John Fox, $25.00 Nehemiah Cutter, 4.00 Gurley A. Phelps, 1. 00 James R. Harrington, 1. 00 Ethan Cutter, 5.00 Edmund P. Shattuck, 5.00 Joseph P. Frost, 5.00 Henry C. French, 5.00 Asa Nutting, 3.00 Joseph W. Fassett, 5.00 Timothy Blodgett, 10.00 Geo. A. Underwood, 15.00 Laban Rice, 5.00 Ezra Baker, 5.00 Jonas C. Rice, 10.00 Milton Baker, 5.00 Edwin R. Cutter, 5.00 John Hecker, 5.00 Benjamin F. Lawrence, 10.00 Levi P. Towne, 3.00 Geo. F. Potter, 1. 00 Charles A. Cutter, 2.00 Edmund C. Shattuck, 2.00 William P. Stevens, 2.00 Thomas K. GoiT, 1. 00 Charles Stevens, 3.00 Lucius A. Cutter, 5.00 Henry Chamberlain, 3.00 Nathaniel Cutter, 5.00 Anson W. Jewett, 5.00 Julius Cutter, 15.00 Gustavus A. Cutter, 3.00 Jonathan D. Gibbs, 1. 00 John 8. Dutton, 3-00 Luke French, 1. 00 Frederic Spaulding, 5.00 Rufus Case, 4.00 Otis G. Rice, 5.00 John A. Cutter, 10.00 Levi E. Brigham, 3.00 Lyman K. Farnum, 1. 00 Jonathan J. Comstock, 3.00 Eleazer W. Heath, 2.00 L E. Keyes, 1. 00 Charles A. Baldwin, 1. 00 Ambrose W. Spaulding, 5.00 Charles C. Libby, 1. 00 J. F. Stone, 1. 00 George F. Gillmore, 1. 00 Daniel P. Adams, 5.00 John Conant, 20.00 Addison J. Adams, 3.00 Arad Adams, 10.00 E. G. Bryant, 2.00 Franklin H. Cutter, 15.00 Jonas Cutter, 10.00 John W. Woodruff, 2.00 Joseph T. Bigelow, 5.00 42 642 HISTORY OF JAFFREY. Richard Spaulding, 5.00 Vryling D. Shattuck, 2.00 Austin A. Spaulding, i.oo Michael D. Fitzgerald, 5.00 Leonard E. Spaulding, 2.00 Clarence S. Bailey, 3.00 Lafayette Blood, 3.00 Marshall C. Adams, 3.00 John S. Lawrence, 5.00 Peter Hogan, i.oo Francis Lowe, i.oo Benjamin Cutter, 20.00 Joseph Davis, 2.00 C. B. Davis, i.oo Dexter Pierce, i.oo Charles Bacon, 2.00 Joseph A. Thayer, i.oo Luke Nutting, i.oo Benjamin L. Baldwin, 2.00 Levi Pollard, i .00 William LTpton, i.oo Samuel T. Wellman, 5.00 Stephen F. Bacon, i .00 Luke Carter, i .00 Elijah Smith, 2.00 John Frost, 3.00 Isaac S. Russell, 5.00 Samuel Hodge, i.oo Benjamin F. Prescott, i.oo John Perry, 3.00 Thomas A. Stearns, 5.00 Addison Pierce. 2.00 Samuel Marble, 2.00 Oren Prescott, 2.00 Joseph Joslin, 5.00 T. H. Curtis, 5.00 Robert Ritchie, 5.00 Samuel Ryan, 5.00 Charles H. Powers, 5.00 Addison Prescott, 10.00 Henry F. Morse, i.oo Herbert F. Moors, i.oo George A. Benjamin, i.oo Frank P. Wellman, i.oo John M. Wales, 2.00 Albert Bass, 2.00 Miss A. Parker, 2.00 Peter Upton, 5.00 Mrs. S. H. Rand, 2.00 Leonard F. Sawyer, 2.00 Edward Cary, i.oo Josiah M. M. Lacy, 2.00 Miss Rebecca Bacon, 2.00 Cummings Sawyer, 2.00 E. H. Mower, 2.00 Mrs. E. C. Duncan, 10.00 Oliver Bacon, i.oo Charles L. Clark, 2.00 Jonathan Page, 2.00 Charles E. Cutter, 5.00 Alvah Stanley, i.oo Alfred Sawyer, 2.00 Mrs. Amos Buss, 5.00 Elbridge Baldwin, i.oo Benjamin Pierce, 15.00 Julius Cutter, treasurer of the centennial committee, Dr. To amount of subscriptions, . . . $502.00 " paid by F. W. Tracy, for use of common, 25.00 $527.00 jaffrey centennial. Cr. By paid Geo. W. Foster, " for nails and loss on lumber, " East JaBVey Cornet Band, . " for postal cards and printing, " for use of tent and expenses on same, " table committee, '' for express, postage, and stationery, " for keeping cavalry horses, . " amount of subscriptions unpaid, . imount in hands of the treasurer, 643 $25.00 27.12 50.00 22.99 115.64 127.70 8.26 16.52 1. 00 132.77 $527.00 The committee voted that twenty-five per cent, of each person's subscription be returned, the balance of the surplus to the treasurer, for extra services. The Committee of Arrangements tender thanks to Henry C. French, Joseph W. Fassett, and Alfred Sawyer, select- men of the town, and to the Table Committee, for their co- operation in making the celebration a success. Also, to the Peterborough Cavalry Company and the East Jaffrey Fire Company for the very satisfactory manner in which they performed the escort duty. The Table Committee unite with the Committee of Ar- rangements in offering thanks to the citizens of Jaffrey for providing funds to defray the expense, and provisions for a free collation ; to H. B. Wheeler, Esq., who furnished us with rooms and lights for our meetings without charge. INDEX Academy, Melville 89 Altitudes 10 Monadnock Mountain 10 Jaffrey Centre 10 East Jaffrey 10 Animals 12 Artisans 1 46 Bakers 146 Banks 153,206 Monadnock 153 Monadnock National 153 Savings 153 Birds 13 Brick-makers 146 Blacksmiths 146, 207 Cabinet-makers 147 Carriage-makers 147, 207 Carpenters and Joiners. .. 147, 207 Casualties 176 Chair-makers 147 Celebration, Centennial 529 Cemeteries 171 Jaffrey Centre 171 West 1 74 Small-Pox 173 East Jaffrey 175 Cutter 174 Conant 175 Page. Charter of the Town 39 Churches 'n Baptist ']^ First Congregational 72 Second do. TJ Universalist 80 Clergymen 206 Congregational 76 Baptist 79 Universalist 80 College Graduates 90 Common, transcript of 155 Clock-makers 147 Deacons 78 Baptist 78 Congregational 'j'j Dress-makers 206 Deaths of aged persons 179 Education 81 Public Schools 81 Academy 89 High School 89 Fires 1 59 Fishes 12 Grantors of the Town 16 Grantees do. 17 Hatters 147 Hearses 175 646 INDEX. Hotels 149 Danforth's 149 Milliken's 150. Prescott's 150 Cutter's 150 Joslin's 150 Lawrence's 150 Granite State 150 Highways, transcript of 51 County Roads 53 Turnpike 55 Railroad 58 Highest Tax-Payers 165 Invoice, first on record 1793. . 161 Justices of the Peace 46 Judges of Probate no Lawyers 102,206 Linen Wheels 147 Livery Stables 206 Masonian Proprietors 16 Masonian Charter 17 Mail Stage 152 Manufacturers 145, 206 Mills 145 Merchants 150,206 Military, first company 124 Officers 124 Roll of Soldiers in 1784 125 Jaffrey and Rindge Cavalry 126 Rifle Company 126 Colonels of the 12th Regt. . 127 Trainings and Musters 128 Music, Sacred 153 Physicians ro2, 206 Paupers 1 67 Ponds II Painters 147 Printers 147 Pumps 147 Potash 147 Potato Starch 148 Post-Office 151 Post-Masters 152,206 Population 38 Plan of first Meeting-House. . 63 Pew Owners 62 Registers of Probate 416 Settlers, early list of 27 Soil 14 Senators 46 Shoe-makers 147 Shingles 148 Sleighs 148 Shoe Pegs 148 Steelyards 148 Spring, Mineral 11 Shovels 148 Tanners 148, 206 Town, boundaries of 9 Officers 41 Moderators 43 Clerks 43 Selectmen 44 Treasurers 45 Representatives 46 Delegates to Convention. . . 158 Travel 50 Vote for Governor 47 Wars 131 Revolution 131 Warofi8i2 139 Mexican War 140 Civil War 140 GENEALOGICAL INDEX, Page. Page. Page. Ainsworth 211 Combs 253 French 328 Adams 213 Comstock 254 Frost 334 Bacon 220 Conant 254 Gage 343 Bailey 222 Corey 256 Gibbs 345 Baker 226 Cragin 256 Gilmore 345 Ballou 226 Crosby 257 Goif 35° Baldwin 227 Cummings 261 Gould 350 Bascom 230 Cutter 261,297 Gowing 352 Batchelder 230 Dakin 297 Gragg 355 Bates 231 Danforth 298 Green 355 Belknap 232 Davidson 298 Griffin 357 Biggelow 233 Davis 3°^ Grout 357 Billtngs 234 Dean 303 Guy 358 Blodgett 234 Dinsmore 304 Hadley 358 Bradley 236,468 Dodge 304 Hall 359 Briant 236 Dole 305 Hardy 359 Brigham 238 Dunlap 3^5 Hale 359 Brooks 239 Dutton 306 Hammon 361 Brown 240 Eaton 308 Harkness 361 Buckley 241 Ellis 308 Hastings 362 Burpee 241 Emery ; . . . 309 Harper 362 Buss 243 Emory 315 Hathorn 363 Butters 245 Fassett 315 Haywood 365 Byam 246 Felt 316 Henderson 367 Carey 247 Fife 318 Hodge 368 Carter 248 Fisk 321 Houghton 370 Capron 249 Fitch 323 Horton 37° Chadwick 250 Fortune 324 Howe 37i Chamberlin 251 Foster 325 Hunt 373 Coffeen 253 Fox 326 Ingalls 376 648 GENEALOGICAL INDEX. Jaquith 377 Jewell 380 Jewett 382 Johnson 384 Joslin 386 Kimball 388 Kingsbury 389 Knowlton 390 Lacy 390 Lawrence 393 Litch 397 Marshall 399 Mathews 401 Maynard 402 Melville 403 Milliken 404 Mower 405 McNee 406 Newell 408 Nutting 408 Ober 411 Osgood, 412 Oaks 412 Olmstead 412 O'Brien 412 Page 412 Parker 413 Payson 418 Perkins 418 Pierce 420 Patrick 429 Perry 437 Phelps 437 Pollard 438 Poole 438 Pope 439 Powers 440 Prescott 441 Rice 447 Ritchie 447 Robbins 448 Ross 449 Ryan 450 Sanger 451 Saunders 452 Sawtell 453 Sawyer 454 Shattuck 456 Shedd 456 Sherwin 461 Smiley 462 Snow 464 Spaulding 466 Spofford 476 Stanley 479 Stearns ... 482 Stevens 484 Stickney 484 Stone 490 Stratton 491 Stuart 493 Taylor 494 Tenney 495 Thompson 495 Thorndike 496 Tilton 497 Turner 498 Tufts 500 Twiss 500 Underwood 501 Upton 503 Verder 510 Wakefield 511 Warren 512 Waters 513 Wellington 514 Welman 515 Wesson 515 Wheelock 515 Whipple 516 Whitcomb 517 Whitney 518 Whittemore 519 Wilder 519 Winchester 520 Witt 520 Wood 521 Woodbury 522 Worcester 523 Wright 525 ERRATA. 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