{"1": {"fulltext": "PROCEEDINGS\\nOIF THE\\nOF THE\\nPne J^\\nUNDREDTH rLNNIYERSARY\\nOF THE INCORPOEATION OF THE\\nAUGUST 20, 1873.\\nPKKPAHKI) FOR PUBLICATION BY THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.\\n1\\nW I X C H E N D O N\\nPRINTED BY F. W. WARD CO\\n18 78.\\n.S^^^", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Glass f 4Ar\\nRnnk J e. I a", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3365", "width": "1883", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0099\u00a6?^k^\\n:Pt^WM:.\\nIII- iHi.;\\n1 1 ITTF\\nOne Hundredth Annivei\\\\sap\\nOF THE INCORPORATION OF THE\\nWmn if Jafi i j^ JH,\\nML\\nAUGUST -20, 1873\\nPTIEPAUKTi FOi; I UIiLKJATION T.V J lTK ToMMITTHK dT AlIUA.\\nW I N C H E N D O N\\nI! r N T K Ii I\\n1 8 7", "height": "3383", "width": "1960", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "2:5222", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PJIELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS.\\n^JC^^^ ^^i^^\\nqB/V ^1 Town Meeting, March 8tb, 1870, pursnaiit\\n^ITTi to an article in the warrant, voted that John Fox, Josejih\\nff |if P. Frost, Addison Prescott, David C. Chamberlain and\\nRufus Case, be a committee to collect facts in reference to mak-\\ning preparations for a Centennial celebration August 17th, lS7o,\\nand said committee appointed, as assistants, one person in each\\nSchool District, viz Benjamin Cutter, Geo. A. Underwood,\\nAddison J. Adams, Ambrus W. Spaulding, Lewis L. Pierce,\\nFranklin 11. CHitter, Clarence S. Bailey, Joseph W. Fassett,\\nJohn S. Lawrence, John Frost, Benj. Pierce, Benjamin Prescott\\nand Lewis S. Jacpiith.\\nAt the annual Tom u Meeting, March 12th, 1872, consecpient\\nto an article in the warrant, a vote svas passed to celebrate the\\none hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the Town,\\nand chose John Fox, Addison Prescott, Benjamin Pierce, Lewis\\nS. Jacpdth, Julius Cutter and Franklin IL Cutter a committee\\nto carry the same into effect.\\nISovember 5th, 1872, the town voted that the committee chos-\\nen to mak( the necessary preparation for the approaching en-\\ntennial anniversary of the town, be authorized to fill all vacan-\\ncies which may occur in said committee.\\nSubsequently John Fox and Lewis S. Jaquith withdrew, and\\nthe vacancies were filled by George A. Underwood and Lewis L.\\nPierce.\\nThe committee organized by choosing LeAvis L. Pierce, corres-\\nponding Secretary and lerk; Franklin H. Cutter, C hairman,\\nand Jidius (hitter, TreasuitT; commencing their duties by en-\\ngaging an orator and poet.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4 JAI l KKY (KNTENNIAL.\\nAt the Annual Electing, March 11th, LSTo, the town voted\\nto celebrate its centennial anniversary at the centre of the town\\nalso, that the Committee of Arrangements and Selectmen be a\\ncommittee to determine in what way the collation should be pft o-\\nvided, said connnittce deciding it should be furnished gratuit-\\nously, and to carry the same into efi ect, the committee of ar-\\nrangements appointed Mr. Mrs. Joseph W. Fassett, ]Mr.\\nMrs. Alfred Sawyer, Mr. Mrs. .lohn A. Cutter, Mr. Mrs.\\nJohn S. Dutton, Mr. Henry Chamberlain, Mr. ^Irs. Frederic\\nSpaulding, Mr. Mrs. Addison J. Adams, Mr. Mrs. Ambrus\\nW. Spaulding, Mr. Mrs. Daniel V. Adams, :Mr. Mrs. Mar-\\nshall C. Adams, Mr. Mrs. T.evi E. Brigham, Mr. Mrs.\\nAbram B. Davis, Mr. Mrs. Bejamin F. Dawrence, ^Ir. Mrs.\\nJohn E. Baldwin, Mr. Mrs. Lucius A. Cutter, Mr. Mrs.\\nJoel H. Poole, Mr. .Mrs. Joseph Davis, .Mr. .Mrs. Henry .M.\\nStearns, Mr. Sanniel Jewell, Mr. Fred J. Ijawrence, .Mr. .Mrs.\\nMichael D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Mrs. Edward H. Cro\\\\\\\\-e, .Mr.\\nMrs. Selah Lovejoy, Mr. .Mrs. Rosea B. Aldrich, Mr. .Mrs.\\nDavid A. Cutler, .Mr. Mrs. Sylvester V. L owne, .Mr. Mrs.\\nOliver H. Brown, Mr. Mrs. Liberty .Mower, and .Mr.\\nMrs.Thos. Upton as a soliciting and table committee, who perform-\\ned their duties in a highly commendable manner, and the result\\nwas, the nudtitiide that came, were bountifully supplied with\\nsubstantial and delicate food,, with an abundance of ice-water.\\nTea, coffee, lemonadi foaming soda :c., were obtaini d l)y pass-\\ning into side tents.\\nThe committee of arrangements ap])ointed .lames S. Lacy,\\nAustin E. Spaulding and Benjamin Pierce to arrange a choir o/\\nsingers for the centennial day also made choice of Franklin H.\\nC/Utter, Esq., President Dr. John Fox, Peter Upton, Esq., Col.\\nSanuiel Kyan, Ex-Consul C has. H. Powers, Capt. John A. Cut-\\nter, Henry C. French, Alfrinl Sawyer, Ambrus W Spaulding,\\nCol. James L. Bolster, A ice-Presidents Capt. George A. I^n-\\nderwood, Marshal; he appointing Joseph W. Fassett, Jonas C.\\nRice, Henry B. Wheeler, Esq., Aids, for the day.\\nThe expenses of the celebration wt^n^ paid by subscription, as\\nwill herein ])e shown.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "JAFFKFA CE TEXNIAL. O\\nA letter of invitation was issued by the eommittce, printed on\\neight hundred Postal Cards, copied as follows\\nJ A F F K E Y C E N T E N N I A L.\\nThe One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of\\nthe Town of JaU rey, N. H., occiu s this year. It is proposed to\\ncelebrate the event on the twentieth day of August, with appro-\\npriate ceremonies. The Sons and Daughters of Jaffrey, and all\\nformer residents are cordially invited to be present and take part\\nin commemorating the day.\\nFRAMvLIN H. CUTTER,^\\nADDISON PRESCOTT,\\nBENJAMIN PIERCE, i ^^^^^ttle\\nJULIUS CUTTER, i a\\nGEO. A. UNDERWOOD, ^i i^^^^^^i^^ient^.\\nLEWIS L. PIERCE, j\\nJai-fkev, Jri.v 2(jth, 1873.\\nThis letter was, by the committee, sent to all parts of the\\ncountrv, to former residents of the town.\\nAs the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the\\ntown occxuTcd on Sunday, August 17th, it Avas decided to cele-\\nbrate on the Wednesday following.\\nThe day proved favorable. At an early hour, from all quar-\\nters, crowds assembled at the place of meeting to the number of\\nfive thousand or more. Many friendly and hearty greetings\\nwere passed between those who had long been separated, and\\nwere now permitted to take each other by the hand.\\nA mammoth tent covering 150 by 60 feet of ground, was\\nerected in close connection to the old town house. An am-\\nple platform, measiu-ing forty by fifteen feet, was covered by a\\nnice piano, large reporters table, and settees for one huntb ed\\nand fifty persons the auditorium proper having seats for\\nmore than three thousand people.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "b JAl-FREY CEXTENMAL.\\nTHE DAY S DOIXGS.\\nThe component parts of a long and eye-pleasing procession\\nCaptain George A. Underwood, Chief Marshal J. W. Fassett,\\nJ. C. Rice, H. B. Wheeler, Assistants formed at three different\\npoints. Having been brought together on time, it moved from\\nthe vicinity of J. T. Bigelow s store at 9 a. m., in the following\\norder: 1 Peterboro Cavaby Company, Capt. D. M. White,\\n55 men; 2 East Jaffrey Cornet Band, G. W. Capen, Leader,\\n20 pieces; 3 Contoocook Fire Engine Company, Liberty\\nTown, Foreman, 40 uniforms; 4 President of the day. Orator,\\nToastmaster, and Chaplain 5 The Vice-Presidents 6 Com-\\nmittee of Arrangements 7 Livited guests expected to respond\\nto sentiments; 8 C hoir, marshaled by J. S. Lacy, 30 strong;\\n9 Loyal Veterans, Lieut. Wm. Robbins, Commander; 10\\nFour horse wagon with four generations of the Rice lamilv, and\\na banner lettered Mrs. Dorcas Rice 104 yrs. the oldest la-\\ndy in New Hampshire; 11 23 young ladies (conducted by\\nJohn E. Baldwin) representing Cheshire County by carrying\\nelegant banners, each respectively inscribed with the name of a\\nsingle town; 12 Teachers and scholars of thirteen district\\nschools with handsomely mottoed and numbered standards; 13\\nCitizens generally. Having marched and counter-marched\\nperhaps a half mile, the procession (except the Cavalry which left\\nfor East Jaffrey depot to escort soon-to-arrive members of the\\nBoston city government) entered the tent which proved of insuf-\\nficient capacity for the occasion, many hundreds being obliged,\\nnolens vo/ais, to renuiin outside. Precisely at ten o clock. Chief\\nMarshal Underwood felicitously introduced Franklin H. Cutter,\\nEsq., President of the day, who forcibly eniinciatc d the subjoined\\nADDRESS OF WELCOME.\\nLadies and Gentlemen I congratulate you upon this event-\\nful occasion this celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversa-\\nry of the Incorporation of the Town of Jaffrey. I congratulate\\nyou at oiu re-union under so favorable circumstances here at the\\nfoot of old time-worn Monadnock. Since that incorporation day,", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "JAI-FREY CENTENNIAL. i\\none hiincli-ed years ago, Avhich bears the prominent place on the pag-\\nes of our town s history, this earth has made thirty-six thousand,\\nfive hundred and twenty-four daily revolutions, and oftimes has\\nthe morning sun kissed the brow of Grand Old Monadnock,\\nnature s pride, lighting up the hills with rosy glow, then beaming\\ndown into the valleys draped with shadows till nature has chang-\\ned her sable robe of night for that of the sini s molten golden light.\\nThen came the mid-day with all its meridian glory, and as\\nmany times that sun has cast its evening shades on the hill-sides\\nand left its last ray on that same mountain s brow, reflecting up-\\non the sky most gorgeous hues of flame-color and crimson, im-\\nperceptibly deepening into the purple tinge of evening.\\nTo the Sons and Daughters of those who have occupied these\\ngranite hills in days gone by the statesman, the lawyer, the\\npreacher, the doctor and to all, those in every station of life,\\ncoming from the colder climes of the North, from the South\\nwhere the orange trees in fragrance bloom, from the East where\\nthe angry Atlantic lashes the rock-bound shore with its turbu-\\nlent waters, from the broad prairies of the West, dotted here and\\nthere with mammoth fields of wheat, corn and other grain, on\\nto the shores of the mighty Pacific, we give you all a most\\ncordial welcome upon this festival day to our hearths where the\\nfire goeth not out and hospitality ever reigneth to the homes\\nof your ancestors, the places of your childhood about which so\\nmany tender recollections cluster, as we sing\\nHow dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,\\nWhen fond recollection presents them to view;\\nThe orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild-wood.\\nAnd every loved spot which my infancy knew\\nThe wide spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it,\\nThe bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell;\\nThe cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it.\\nAnd e en the rude bucket that hung in the well.\\nWe welcome you back to witness the beautiful scenery of Jaf-\\nfrey to look upon our mountain in all its magnificence and\\ngrandem- to follow its Avindiug streams and from their pure\\nwaters catch the spotted trout suited to the most fastidious taste\\nto walk ill the old grave-yard and gaze upon those tomb-stones\\nwhich denote the spot where oiu fathers rest. Our neighbors", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nJAFFKEY CENTENMAT,.\\nand friends we welcome you to participate in the festivities of\\nthis occasion. We give yon all a friendly grip of the hand, in-\\nvite you to take part in this Centennial Celebration and thank\\nGod that we are here to speak one to another of days gone by\\nand spend a short time together with the memories of Auld\\nLang Syne. May blessings rest npon this day and the town of\\nJaffrey, her sons and daughters, through all coming centuries.\\nApplause having subsided, the band played Keller s Amer-\\nican Hymn in good style, when Rev. Rufus Case, pastor of the\\nFirst Congregational Church at Jaffrey Centre, offered an excel-\\nlent prayer, after which the choir, led by Prof. Geo. Foster, of\\nKeene, harmoniously vocalized an original\\nS O N G F W E L C O M E\\nHY [ISS AI,:\\\\IKI)A M. SMITH.\\nBack froin the prairied West,\\nDear kliidrecl, welcome home;\\nTliis native soil you blest.\\nEre tempted far to roam.\\nWelcome to .lattVey s granite hills.\\nHer rocky vales and sparkling rills.\\nBack from the South s fair land,\\nBack from the holly s shade.\\nWelcome to join our hand.\\nFrom every hill and glade.\\nWelcome to JatFrey s granite hills,\\nHer rocky vales and sparkling rills.\\nO er ocean s waters blue\\nWe hid you come once more;\\nOur hearts are faithful, true,\\nAs in the days of yore.\\nWelcome to JaflVey s granite hills.\\nHer rocky vales and sparkling rills.\\nCome, join our festal throng,\\nNeath stern Monadnock s hrow\\nOur hearts to day are strong\\nIn friendship pure, I trow.\\nWelcome to JafiVey s grfinite hills,\\nHer rocky vales and sparkling rills.\\nA century ago\\nYour fathers trod this soil;\\nThe gray old rocks we know\\nBear witness of their toil.\\nWelcome to Jatt rey s granite hills,\\nHer rocky vales and sparkling rills.\\nWith thankful hearts we bow\\nTo God, our Father, Friend,\\nThat here we meet e en now.\\nAnd our glad greetings blend.\\nWelcome to Jaffrey s granite hills.\\nHer rocky vale and sparkling rills.\\nWe welcome you again\\nTo your dear native land\\nJoin in our sweet refrain\\nWith voice and heart and hand.\\nWelcome to JafiVey s granite hills.\\nHer rocky vales and sparkling rills\\nPresident Cutter then came forward and said. Ladies axd\\nGen ilemex It is with great satisfaction that I have the pleas-\\nure of introducing to you as Orator of the Day, a native of Jaf-\\nfrey. The venerable gentleman has lived nearly half a score of\\nyears more than the mimb( r allotted to man, and is thoroughly", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 9\\nacquainted with the early history of this toAvn. He has served\\nhis native State, jN^ew Hampshire, as Chief Justice for a series of\\nyears, and to him the jurists of our State have looked for counsel.\\nHe has also been a guiding star in the legal profession of oiu- sis-\\nter State where he now resides. Well can we afford to listen at\\nthis time to the Hon. Joel Pakker, of Cambridge, Massachu-\\nsetts, whom I now introduce to you.\\nCentennial Admess.\\nby hon. joel parker, of cambridge, mass.\\nFellow Citizens, Friends; Ladies and Cjentlemen\\nSome threescore years since, a favorite piece for declamation by\\nthe junior school-boys commenced with this couplet\\nYou d scarce expect one of my age.\\nTo speak in public on the stage.\\nWhen I received the invitation of the Committee of Arrange-\\nments, to deliver an Addi ess, at the close of a century, more than\\nthree-quarters of which I represent, so f^ir as years are concern-\\ned, in my own person, I Avas forcibly reminded of this school-boy\\nexercise, and strongly tempted, reversing its significance, to make\\nit the basis of my reply.\\nBut the after-thought was, that upon such occasions, reminis-\\ncences are generally acceptable, even if they are tj-ivial, and that,\\nperhaps, urged by such a complimentary requisition, I owed it to\\nthe Town of my birth, to waive my claim to exemption, make my\\nlast appeai ance on this occasion, and tell what I kno\\\\\\\\-, little\\nthough it may be, of its early history.\\nLittle enough it is, in fact, for the years of my early youth\\nwere passed in the remote seclusion of the ISortheastern cor-\\nner of the township, and with only a few intervening years\\nin the centre, my personal knowledge respecting its peo])le. and\\nits affairs, has been only tln-ough occasional visits.\\nIf, sixty years since I had had even a remot( susjucion,\\nthat I might stand here- today, to discourse^ res])c(ting tlie first", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 JAFFKEY ENTEXNIAL.\\ninhabitancy of this town, and its incorporation, I wonld have\\ncome to you this morning with a portfolio fidl of notations re-\\nspecting its ancient history. Having no such premonition,\\nmany of the incidents of its early days have escaped from my\\ngrasp, and the sources from which alone information respect-\\nins them could have been derived are gone forever. The Cen-\\ntury which is commemorated has, in the course of natui-e, car-\\nried away the Fathers who saw the inception of the settlement\\nhere, with those who immediately followed and were conversant\\nAvith things done and transacted within its borders.\\nEven in regard to a much later date a few only of that peri-\\nod seem to stand, somewhat like the servants of Job, who came\\nfrom different quarters and said, one after another, I alone\\nam escaped to tell thee; and doubtful upon Avhoni I should\\ncharge the dufij of having greater knowledge than I ought to\\nhave respecting the first half of the century, and thereby release\\nmyself from the conscription, by presenting a substitute, my con-\\nclusion, at last, led me, in obedience to the recjuisition, to come\\nbefore you at the present time, and ask your indulgence for the\\ndeficiencies which you will perceiAC in what I have to offer for\\nyour acceptau c.\\nThe great antiquitv of the Township where Ave arc assembled\\ndoes not admit of a doubt.\\nIt seems to be the better opinion, that in the creation of the\\nAvorld, granite was first formed. We are assured that granite\\nappears to be the fiuidamental rock of the earth s criist. and\\nthat Avherever we reach the base of the stratified rocks, avc find\\nthein resting i;pon granite.\\nThis being so, it follows that New Hampshire is entitled to\\nthe credit of being part of the earliest creation. And that Jaf-\\nfrev had a larger interest in that creation than any of her neigh-\\nbors, is shown bv the fact, that on the subsequent partition, the\\nlarger portion of the Monadnock was assigned to her.\\nIt is one of the jests about Father Sj)rague, as he was called,\\nlong the minister of Dublin, that discovu sing one day upon\\nfaith, and cjuoting the passage of Scripture respecting its power", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "JAFF15EY fENTENMAT,. 11\\nto reniovo mountains, he turned his eye, thiongh th( windoM\\nto the mass of granite in full view, and expressed a doul)t Mheth-\\ner that applied to the Monadnock.\\nIf there have been any very great changes in the structure of\\nthe earth here, since the period of creation, they are not clironi-\\ncled. The Monadnock exhibits no evidence of disturbance, bv\\nfaith, or by volcanic influences. The only fires have been upon\\nits exterior surface. At the settlement of the Townshij) it nnist\\nhave been covered, nearly to its summit, with a dense forest.\\nSome of my earliest recollections are of fires on its sidc s, which\\nfurnished pillars of smoke by day, and of fire by night, suflicient\\nto have guided the children of Israel, if their path to the prom-\\nised land had lain in this vicinity. These fires left a tangled\\nwindfall, and a bald rock, as it was called, at the top. ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hicll\\nwas perhaps bare before that time. Possiblv thcv arc responsi-\\nble, in some measure, for mv inability to hunt up a r^ spectable\\nbear story, as a part of the minor history of the town.\\nBut if the mountain has not changed its local habitation, the\\ntown has its geologic and historic problem, of a different charac-\\nter, in the meadow lying just east of this tillage. Some twenty\\nyears since, in one of my occasional visits to Jafi rey, I found\\nDr. Fox engaged in removing large pine stumps, witli roots of\\ngreat size and length, from his portion of the meadow, on th(^\\nwesterly side, and he showed me, at the distance of a rod or tMo\\nfrom the upland, small pieces of wood bearing evidence of hav-\\ning been cut bv the beavers, and supposed to be parts of a l^eav-\\ner dam, taken from a depth of some five feet below the surface.\\nThere were sticks of yelloAv birch and of alder about three or\\nfour inches in diameter, cut at the ends by a grooved instrument.\\nIt was not siu prising that the beavers should ha^e had a hab-\\nitation in that vicinity. In fact, recent inquiries show that\\nthis town must have been a favorite locality with them. But\\nit was a mystery how, in the present conformation of the land,\\nthere could have been a beaver dam in that spot.\\nRecently it was determined to have a further examination,\\nand it was soon ascertained that there had hvcn a beaver dam at\\nthe outlet of the meadow, on the Southeast, near Mr. Cutter s", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\ntannery, in the place which any sagacious beaver might have\\ndesignated for a dam, and the conclusion was readily reached,\\nthat what had been discovered by Dr. Fox was the remains of a\\nbeaver s cabin, on the Westerly shore of the pond which must\\nhave been formed by this dam. And so it proved. Selecting\\na spot a short distance from that opened by Dr. Fox, we struck\\nanother cabin, shown clearly to be such, by finding the beaver s\\nbed, composed of small twigs, leaves and grass, well constructed\\nin layers, the general color being of a light orange when taken\\nout, but becoming dark very soon, on exposure to the air. Many\\nof the leaves were of perfect form, so that the kinds could be\\ndistinguished; and a small beech-nut Avas foxnid betAveen the\\nsheets, probably not stowed away for use but taken up with the\\nleaves in forming the bed.\\nAll mystery about the formation of a beaver dam Avas solved,\\nbut there was a marvel remaining. The beaver s bed Avas about\\nseven feet beloAv the surface, and when made must have been in\\na dry position, and above the surface of a pond. By Avhat pro-\\ncess of accretion had this pond been filled, and some seven feet\\nof mud deposited above the bed On testing the depth of the\\nmud Avith a pole, it Avas found to be about thirteen feet. In the\\ncentre of the meadoAv it must be much more.\\nThe surrounding hills, at the present time, do not giA e evi-\\ndence that great aid in filling could have been derived from them,\\nindicating that the basin must ha\\\\ e filled itself, to a great ex-\\ntent, from its own resoiu ces. Sufficient material must perhaps\\nhave been Avashed in for the commencement of the process.\\nDr. Fox states, that in clearing his meadoAV of these stumps\\nand roots, he dug doAvn into the mud in some places to the\\ndepth of ten feet and that he found tlii ee tiers of large pine\\nstumps, perhaps none directly OA er the others, but on three dif-\\nferent levels, one at the sui-face, the second about a foot below\\nthe bottom roots of the first, and the third about the same dis-\\ntance beloAv the second, bringing the third about on the level\\nwith the beaA^er s cabin. The trees A\\\\ ere very large pines, gen-\\nerally three or foiu- feet in diameter, and similar in the scA^eral\\ntiers.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY f ENTENXTAI,. 13\\nThis statement is supplemented by Benjamin Cutter, Esq.,\\nwlio says, that in clearing liis part of the meadow, he dug cross\\nditches, and that at the intersection he found three large\\nstumps in a perpendicular line, the upper one directly above\\nthe other two, the two upper of pines, one to two feet in diam-\\neter, the lower apparently of birch and about one foot, and\\nthat th ere were pine stumps at the surface, near, or quite, foiu-\\nfeet in diameter, within, probably, ten rods.\\nThat trees grow and decay is no marvel. But three succes-\\nsive generations of them, so to speak, situated on the same spot,\\nand attaining th s gigantic size, and on such a wet soil, formed\\nto a great extent by their own decay, are not often seen or heard\\nof, never before to my knowledge.\\nCenturies seem to be comprised in this problem. Pine trees\\nfour feet in diameter do not grow in a short period, and when\\ngroAvn it requires some time to resolve them by a natural process\\nof decay, into good meadoAv mud, capable of sustaining another\\nlike growth.\\nI can hardly assign less than five htindred years, perhaps it\\nmay be a thousand, as a time when this beaver s cabin was\\nerected and his bed made. How much longer, and how many\\ntiers of pine trees there may have been below those discovered\\nis not very material.\\nIf any one is disposed to cavil about the exact period, T have\\nno objection to discount a century or so but I cannot consent\\nto give up any of the stumps, because as they stand, or rather\\nstopd, the town may stump all the towns in the i-egion round\\nabout, to show anything bigger, of that description.\\nIt needs not that I should say to you, that it Avas persevering\\nindustry and diligent hard labor which subdued the forest here,\\nand converted so large a portion of the township into reasonably\\nfertile fields.\\nIt must be admitted that the surface is some-\\\\\\\\hat uneven.\\nI should be unwilling to ap])lv the term /-o/zo-A to the township,\\nor to any body or thing connected with it. And there are some\\nstones scattered here and there, notwithstanding the heaps of", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 JAFFREY CEMEXNIAL.\\nem piled up in the fields, in times past, by the boys, somewhat\\nto their disgust when they wanted to go a fishing.\\nBut this is a world of compensations. Pure air, pure water,\\nand good drainage, are conducive to good health, and good mor-\\nals and it is but just to say, that this is a place Avhere a man,\\nunder ordinary circumstances, may expect to live out half his\\ndays, and even something more, if careful about his habits.\\nA party to ascend the Monadnock, after haying time, was\\none of the recreations many years since but who could then\\nimagine, that our beloved Town, with its uneven surface, would\\nbecome a celebrated resort for the seekers after health, and for\\nthe lovers of quiet and of the picturesque, and that the writers of\\nprose, and eke of poetry, would come hither, not merely to get\\na larger view ef the world than they ever had before, but to\\nmake it a dwelling, and a habitation, and a shelter against the\\nheats of summer, and perhaps the storms. of adverse fortune.*\\nRespecting the minor incidents of the early history of the town\\nlittle can now be known, for the reasons suggested.\\nIt is said that there were settlers here prior to seventeen hun-\\ndred and forty-nine. If so, they were occupants without even\\ncolor of title, and doubtless did not remain.\\nIf we desire to derive a title otherwise than from the orio inal\\ngranite, we may trace it through the Right in the Crown of\\nGreat Britian by Discovery. The grant of King James I, to\\nthe Council of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, in England.\\nThe grant of that corporation to Capt. John Mason. A\\ndevise by him to his grandson Robert Tufton, who took the name\\nof M ason. Thence as an entailed estate, through several de-\\nscents to his great-grandson John Tufton Mason, and after a re-\\ncovery his conveyaiice iii. 174(5, to Theodore AtkiiTSon and\\n*I note, however, that the iuducements to the traveller to stop over,\\nmay not, within the law, be in all respects quite as nnnieruus as those\\nheld out by a poetical landlord, who kept a tavern north ofKeene village,\\nsome three-quarters of a century since. They ran in this wise\\nWhy will j e pass by, both hungry and dry,\\nGood brandy, good gin, please to Wiilk in,\\nGood baiting, good bedding,\\nYour humble servant, Thomas Redding.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY rEXTEXXIAT.. 15\\neleven other persons, who afti^-rwards became known as the Ma-\\nsonian Proprietors.\\nActing under a vote of thesj Masonian Proprietors, passed\\nJune 16, 17-19, Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, as their agent,\\non the thirtieth of November of that year, conveyed to Jonathan\\nHubbard and thirty-nine others, all the liight. Possession and\\nProperty of the Proprietors, to this township, then called the\\nMiddle Monadnock, or Number Two, several of the grantees\\ntaking more than one share, the nund^er of shares being in fact\\nfifty.* The deed contained a provision by which the land\\nshould be divided into seventy-one shares, three shares being\\ngranted and appropriated, free of all charge, one for the first\\nsettled minister, one for the support of the ministry, and\\none for the school there forever, f the grantors reserving for\\nthemselves eighteen shares, acquitted from all duty and charge\\nuntil im])roved. And it Avas pro\\\\ided that each share contain\\nthree lots, equitably coupled together, and drawn for, at or be-\\nfore the first of July next, in some equitable manner.\\nOne of the provisions of the deed was that each of the grantees\\nshould, at the executing of the instrument, pay twenty pounds\\nold tenor, to defray the necessary charges arisen and aiising in\\nsaid township.^\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6See Appendix A.\\nfGrants of townships bj the Governor nnd Coimcil outside of the limits\\nof tlie Masonian Proprietors, sometimes contained jirovisions givino\\n(shau S to tlie Clnireli of England, and to the society for the propa ^a-\\ntion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, wilh a large share for his Excellency\\npersonally.\\nJThe actual amount to be paid was but a small proportion of the nom-\\ninal sum thus set down: the old tenor being a paper currencv issued\\nlong before by the Province, which, not having been redeemed aceordin\\nto its tenor, had greatly depreciated. Massachusetts had three emissions\\nof paper currency, which became known as old tenor, nuddle tenor, and\\nnew tenor. The old tenor had depreciated in 1758, so that twenty shil-\\nlings of it Avere worth only two shillings eight pence lawful money. It\\nmay be safely inferred that the currency of New Hampshire was not better.\\nProbably it was worse. Belknap, speaking of a controversv between\\nGovernor Benning Wentworth and the Assemblj, in 1749, respecting the\\nrepresentation of the towns, says The effect of this controversy was\\ninjurious to the governor, as well as to the people. The pui)lic hills of\\ncredit had depreciated since this administration began, in the ratio of thir-\\nty to tifty-six, and the value of the jjoveruor s salary had declined iu the\\nsame proportion.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 JAFFREY ENTEN MM.\\nThere air ioiuniiou respeetmg cleariuii, IniiUlinu,. and set-\\ntlement, to bo performed wirliiu eertaiu speeitied times, by the\\nseveral grantees, a eouditiou that a good couvmiieut meeting-\\nhouse shouki bo built, as ue;u- the eeutre as might bo with oouve-\\nnieuee, within six yoai-s liom date, and ten aercs of laud reserved\\nfor public use: another, that the grantees, or theii- assignees,\\nbv a major vote, in public meeting, should grant and assess such\\nfurther sums as they should think necessaiy for carrying for-\\nward the settlement, with a provision for the sale of so much\\nof any delinquent s right as should be necessary for the paynunit\\nofatax. bya committee appointed for that pmpose; and a\\nfiuther provision that if any of the grantees should neglect or\\nrefiise to pei form any of the ai-ticles, he should forfeit his share\\nand right to those of tbe grantees who shoidd have complied on\\ntheir part. with power to enter upon the right of the delin-\\nquent owner, and oust him, provided they should perform his\\ndutA as he should have done, within a yeiu-.\\nThere were provisions by which the grantors undertook to\\ndefend the title, to a certiun extent.\\nWe are interested in these conditions and provisions only as\\nmatters of histoiy, sex-A ing to show the measiues taken by the\\nMasonian Proprietoi s to seciu o the settlement of the towuships\\nwhich thev granted, this among othei-s.\\nIt seems probable that none of the conditions were strictly\\ncomplied with. They could not well bo at that time. But so\\nlong as there wore attempts, in good faith, to make settlements,\\nit was not for the interest of the grantors to enforce forfoitmes.\\nTheir shares became more valuable as the others were improved,\\nand the enforcement of forfeitui-es. when there wore att^^ inpts to\\nperform, woidd have injiued themselves.\\nI have procured from the Clerk of the Masonian Proprietors,\\ncopies of the documents on file in his office relating to this Town-\\nship. A few items may perhaps bo acceptable.\\nThe grantees held a meeting at Dunstable, January l(i. 17411-\\n50. at which a vote was passed that each right be laid out into\\nthree lots, and to couple them fit for cfrawiug. to be done bv the\\nlast day of May and that tAventy pounds old tenor be raised to", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "JAFFRKY CEXTENXIAL. IT\\nhe raised to each right, to defray charges incidental thereto.\\nA plan of th j township, seven miles long by five broad, laid\\nout into ten ranges, and twenty-two lots one hundred rods wide\\nto each range, was finished in May, 1750.\\nThe meeting in January was adjourned to the first Tuesday\\nin June, when it Avas again adjoiu ned to the second Tuesday,\\nat which time the lots were drawn.\\nIt is probable that some of the grantees abandoned their rights,\\nas six shares were sold at this meeting, and the money ordered\\nto be deposited with the Treasiu-er, to be paid to the first five\\nmen that goes on with their families in one year from this date,\\nand continues there for the space of one year.\\nThere was a vote also for a Committee to lay out a road from\\nanother Number Two (Wilton) through Peterboro Slip, to this\\ntownship.*\\nThe nueting was than adjourned to November 8th, at which\\ntime a vote was passed prescribing the method of calling futm-e\\nmeetings, the provision for notice being the posting of notices\\nat Dunstable, Lunenberg and Hollis. A further vote appointed\\nJoseph Blanchard, Benjamin Bellows, and Captain Peter Pow-\\ners, a Committee to manage the Prudentials for this Society.\\nThese last votes give us a clue to the residences of some of\\nthe grantees. They of coiu ss belonged to the toAvns where no-\\ntices were to be posted. Captain Peter PoAvers, who was the\\ngrantee of four shares, and the purchaser of four of the six sold\\nat auction at the first meeting, and who was one of the Com-\\nmittee to manage the Prudentials, must have been the first set-\\ntler of Hollis, in 1731; one of the soldiers under the cele-\\nbrated Capt. John Lovewell, who fell in the Indian fight at Pig-\\nwackett, in 1725.\\nAt a meeting of the grantees August 4, 1752, a formal vote\\nwas passed to accept the title with an acknowledgement that they\\n*NoTr.. Lviidpboro*. includino: the Northerly part of Wilton, was laid\\nout by Massachusetts under the claim of that Colony, and jrranted to certain\\npersons, mostly beloiitring to Salem, in consideration of their suflerings in\\nthe expedition to Canada. The residue of what is Wilton was granted\\nby the Masoniaii Proprietors, in 1749. and was called No. 2. Mason was\\ncalled No. 1. Peteriioro Slip comprised the towns of Temple and Sharon.\\nThis gives us the general course of the road.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 JAFFREY CEXTEXNIAL.\\nheld it under the conditions, and limitations, and reservations\\nby some of which there should have been clearings before\\nthat time.\\nCopies of the deed executed by Blanchard, and of the plan\\nand a list of the Proprietors, were filed in the office of the grant-\\nors September 4th, 1753.\\nIt is stated that a settlement was attempted in 1753 by Rich-\\nard Peabody, Moses Stickney and a few others, who remained\\nbut two or tlu ee years. The first native was a son of Moses\\nStickney, born in 1753.\\nThe fii st permanent settlement was made in 1758, by John\\nGrout and John Davidson.\\nThere is in the files a paper containing, First, a list of settlers\\non the free lots to the number of nine families. Second, a list\\nof settlers that abide constantly on settling rights, total 22.\\nThird, some beginnings on settling rights, number 10. Also\\na memorandum, no meeting-house built. This is certified as\\na true account of the settling rights carefully examined and\\nhumbly submitted by Jolin Grout and Poger Gilmore. There\\nis no date to it, nor any memorandum when it was received, but\\npinned to it is a paper signed John Gilmore and Roger Gilmore,\\ndated March 10, 1769, addi-essed to Gentlemen Grantors, set-\\nting forth, that they bought the right that was Paul ^larch s,\\nJanuary, sixty-eight, and the improvements which they have\\nmade and intend, and concluding Gentlemen, we beg the fa-\\nvor of you, as you are men of honor, that you will not hurt us in\\nour interest, for we have done everything in our power to bring\\nforward the settlement of this place.\\nRoger Gilmore is the only one of the earlier settlers that I am\\nsure of having seen. He lived on the hill east of the tannery of\\nJohn Cutter, was a man of large frame, and dignified deport-\\nment, Avas highly esteemed, and was much employed as Jus-\\ntice of the Peace, Surveyor and in town offices and affiiirs.\\nThere is also on file, an accompt of the settlements in Mo-\\nnadnock No. 2, certified by Enoch Hale, stating the names of\\nthe settlers on the several rights, and the number of the rights,\\n(ten in all), appearing to be delincpient. It is without date, but\\nwas Received March Sth, 1770, and was probably made up", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 19\\n-within a short time previously. From this it appears that there\\nwere settlements on thu-ty-four rights and twelve lots (addition-\\nal as I understand,) improved and that mills were erected on\\nRight 15, and a saw-mill on 41.\\nAnd here, near the close of its unincorporated existence, let\\nus pay a deserved tribute to the enterprise and energy of the\\nearly settlers.\\nStruggling against obstacles that were all but insuperable, and\\nthrough hardships which might well have daunted the most de-\\ntermined courage, they have, in a few years, brought the town-\\nship largely above the average of the settlements in the County,\\nand to a position exceeded only by towns of a longer existence,\\nall of which had much greater facilities for access.\\nThe particular obstacles M hich they encountered, and the de-\\ntails of the hardships which they endured, we cannot know. Of\\ntheir personal deprivations and sufferings, we fail to form an ad-\\nequate conception. It is difficult to gain even a general appre-\\nciation of them.\\nThere are, it is tnie, only forty miles intervening between the\\nhead-quarters, if we may so call them, at Dunstable, but twenty\\nor more of them are through a nearly trackless, dense forest,\\nover a rough, rocky surface, with occasionally a small natural\\nmeadow.\\nThe pioneers make their sIoav, painful way, much of it tlii ough\\nthe thick under-brush, the husband with an axe on his should-\\ner, and what he can carry of household appendages in a pack on\\nhis back, and his wife follows, somewhat similarly loaded, ex-\\ncept the axe. Cheap land, within the reach of their scanty\\nmeans, has tempted them to endiu ance. There may be a young\\nman with them. God be thanked we do not see any young-\\nchildren. Weary, worn in spirit, as well as in body, they reach\\nthe range and lot of their destination, and their first shelter is\\nconstructed of hemlock boughs, with the same material for a bed-\\nstead, and leaves for a mattress.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 JAFFREY CENTENMAL.\\nA rude log hut follows.* And then comes the hard strugo^lo\\nwith the forest, and with privation, with the winti r, its deep\\nsnows, and its intense cold. There is no communication with\\nthe outward world but by rackets, (snoAv-shoes), and pioneers\\nof longer duration are in other towns, miles away. It is not\\nnecessary to put wild beasts into this pictui-e.\\nIs it wonderful that the settlers of 53 found this too great an\\nendurance, even for their brave hearts, and strong arms, and\\nthat they abandoned the settlement, when remaining threatened\\ntheir lives Or rather is it not wonderful that they lived to\\nabandon it Surely it was not light difficulties which would de-\\nter persons who had the courage to begin such a work, from the\\nprosecution of their piu pose.\\nBut there is another attempt at settlement made under more\\nfavorable auspices.\\nWe may suppose that the few poiuids voted to be raised to\\nmake a road from No. 2 have been expended. I he underbrush\\nand some of the stones are cleared away, and trees are bhized\\nalong the route and another small party of settlers start, Avith\\noxen, not in yokes, but single file, with such loads as they can\\ncarry strapped upon their backs. And there is a cow there.\\nThe small patches of natural meadow furnish food for the ani-\\nmals, and the emigrants arrive with better means of establishing\\nthemselves. The trees fall, the logs are drawn, piled, burnt,\\na small space is cleared, a shelter is built, seed is sown,\\nand the vegetation, anxiously watched and tended, gives a scan-\\nty crop. But sickness conies. Exposure has produced its nat-\\nural result fever is in the household. There is no physi-\\ncian. The medicines are the few simple remedies brought in the\\nluggage. Acts of neighborly kindness would be cheerfully rend-\\n*The log hut must have been sin institution of short duration. So far as\\nI have heard, there is little tradition of loif houses in the town. A grist\\nand saw mill were erected in Peterboro as early as 1751. Another saw\\nmill near the place of the South Factory, in 1758. Rev. .John H. Morison,\\nin his very interesting Address at the Centennial Celi-ljration in Peterboro\\nsays at this period [1770] log huts were little used. Substantial fianie\\nhouses, many of them two stories higli, had been erected. .And mc have\\nseen, from Ihe return of 1770, that there were then two saw mills here.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CEXTEXXIAL. 21\\ncred, if there Avcre near neighbors, hut are of difficult procurement\\nin this forest of magnificent distances, and all the hours of at-\\ntendance by the sick bed are so much time withcb-awn from what\\nwould otherwise have been essentially necessary for labor and for\\nrest. Alas the kindest care, the unslnmbering watch, and the\\nfervent prayer, are unavailing, and the sufferer, no longer such,\\nis laid to final rest in some quiet corner of the clearing.\\nOut of this darkness comes a brighter cla-\\\\vn. Lumber can be\\nhad. The mills are miles distant, to be siu e, and the transpor-\\ntation difficult, but perseverance overcomes obstacles. The\\nroad has been improved. There is a horse upon the path.\\nThe rider has a young child in her lap, and one somewhat older\\nsits behind. Her husband drives the stock. The way is not\\nso toilsome, there are more articles of housekeeping in the\\nluggage, more of encouragement, more of hope, more of frui-\\ntion, more of happiness.\\nWe have reached 1770, and there are several families here.\\nThe settlement is established on a firm basis.\\nLet us never fail to do justice to the pioneers, men and women,\\nwho with such resolute courage, fortitude, patience and perse-\\nverance, established a civilized society in the midst of a trackless\\nwilderness.\\nWe should do ourselves a great Avrong, if we did not express\\nour deep admiration of them.\\nLi 1771, the Province was divided into Counties. Prior to\\nthis time all the public offices were in Portsmouth or the vicini-\\nty, and the Coi;rts were held there.\\nLi an Act for making a new proportion of public taxes, passed\\nMay 28, 1773, which incliided unincorporated places. Monad-\\nnock No. 2 is set down at \u00c2\u00a33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5s in the \u00c2\u00a31 The propor-\\ntion for Cheshire Covmty, which until 1827, included what is\\nnow Sullivan County, was \u00c2\u00a3117\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8s. There were twelve towns\\nin the County rated higher than Jaffrey, and seventeen towns and\\nplaces at less. This proportion of the taxation serves to show,\\nin some measui e, its relative importance, at that time.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 JAFFKEY CFNTENXIAI..\\nThe Masonian Proprietors had and cLaimed only a right of\\nproperty. Their title to the land passed by the deed authorized\\nby them, as a deed passes the title to land at the present\\nday but there was no right of town government granted. The\\nprovision for taxing the shares, and collecting the tax, could on-\\nly be made effectual through the laAvs of the Province. The ju-\\nrisdiction was in the Governor and Council, and the Assembly.\\nThe grantees of the lands acted like a corporation for the di-\\nvision and disposition of their lands, and the performance of\\ntheir duties as a Proprietary, but for nothing beyond. When\\nthose things were accomplished, the Proprietary was at an end,\\ndissolved. And this Avas true also of the townships granted\\nby the Governor, outside of the limits of the Masonian lines,\\nunless incorporated.\\nThere was no provision in the general laws by which an as-\\nsessment could be made upon the inhabitants of unincorporated\\nplaces, for which reason the Act apportioning the pid)lic taxes,\\nin 1773, contained a provision appointing persons, who were\\nnamed, to call meetings of the inhabitants of such places, and\\nrequiring the inhabitants at such meetings to choose the necessa-\\nry officers for assessing and collecting the tax, and giving author-\\nity for that purpose.\\nAnd so the time had come when the interests of the pc oplo\\nrequired corporate powers, of a general character, and on the\\n17th of August, 1773, an Act of Incorporation was granted,\\nnominally by His Majesty, George III, but in fact by the Iloyal\\nGovernor, John Wentworth, with advice of the Council, the\\ncorporate name being found in the name of one of the Masonian\\nProprietors, who was then Secretary.; and Joffrcij was installed\\ninto the great brotherhood of political and nuinicipal incorpora-\\ntions, called Towns which have been of such incalculable ben-\\nefit not only to New England, Avhere they originated, and of\\nwhich they are the glory and the pride, but through it to the\\ncountry at large.\\nThe centuries of which Ave usually speak, date from the com-\\nmencement of the christian era, occasionally from the period", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CEXTEXXIAL. 23\\nassigned hy Biblical Theology as the time of the creation of the\\nworhh\\nBut a century may have its beginning at any point of time.\\nThat of which Ave now witness the close had its inception with\\nthis incorporation. If the event be supposed to be one of com-\\npai-ative insignificance, it was one which has had a greater abso-\\nlute force, for the promotion of the happiness of those persons\\ninhabiting within the limits of the town, than any of the greater\\nones Avhich have astonished the world.\\nIf we should suspend, for a moment, the consideration of the\\nlocal interests attached to this incorporation, and which entitle\\nit to mark the commencement of a century, and its anniver-\\nsary to a grateful recognition and celebration, and shoxild turn\\nour attention to the general history of the century which has\\nfollowed, we should find that this century may challenge a com-\\nparison with any one which has preceded it, whatever date may\\nbe assigned for the commencement of the latter.\\nBut we must not undertake tlie centennial history of the world\\nto-day. On our recollection of it, however, we may surely be\\npardoned if we exclaim, Great has been the century which had\\nits commencement in the incorporation of the town of .Taffi-ey\\nThese incorporated towns had their origin in Plymouth, Dux-\\nbury, and Scituate, in the Plymouth Colony, followed by\\nCharlestown, Salem and Newton, (since Cambridge,) and Dor-\\nchester, in Massachusetts, and by Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter,\\nand Hampton, in this state.\\nIt has been suggested that the Town Organization had its ori-\\ngin in the Congregational Church polity, and in fiict the or-\\nganization of the church, in the earlier settlements of the Pil-\\ngrims and the Puritans, accompanied the organization of the\\ntown.\\nBut the town grew mainly out of the secular need, out of\\nthe democratic principle of self-government, as is shown from\\nthe fact that changes in the modes and forms of worship, and in\\nthe different church organizations, have not affected the Town-\\nships, and the Towns; Whereas Congregationalism had no ex-\\nistence outside of the portions of the country Avhere these Town-", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "ii4 JAIFUEY CENTENNIAL.\\nships existed. Instead of creating Townships and Towns, it has\\nnot itself been created to any extent, Avhere they have not\\nexisted. It cannot well exist without them. But they now ex-\\nist in the Western country, Avherc Congregationalism has as yet\\nlittle foothold, and but for them it Avould have been long since\\nmerged in Presbyteriauism, which has been the i)revailing form\\nof orthodoxy in all parts of thi country where these towns have\\nbeen unknown.*\\nConsidering the principles and objects of the emigrants, the\\ntown system may be said to have been a necessity, in tlu^ exist-\\ning state of things, in the early settlement of this part of the\\ncountry. It was the only organization by and through M hich\\nthe settlers could best provide for their wants, and haw the fiill\\nenjoyment of the liberty which they prized so highly; and\\nthey devised it accordingly.\\nThe early settlers of the Plymouth Colony discovered, that\\nthe grant of corporate powers to the small separate settlements,\\nand the passage of general laws giving them such powers and\\nprivileges as would enable them to provide for their local needs,\\nand subjecting them to the performance of such duties as might\\nbe required by the government of the whole Colony, was the\\nbest and fittest way for the transaction of the affairs of the\\ndifferent localities, and they so provided. This conclusion was\\nreached, not through any revelation which perfected the system\\nat once, but by degrees, thi ough their daily and yearly experi-\\nence and the system, inaugurated at Plymouth, commended it-\\nself to the Massachusetts Colony, so that it was adopted there\\nat the outset.\\nThe earliest settlements in this State A\\\\-ere commenced in a\\nslightly different manner, Portsmouth, Dover, and Hampton be-\\ning towns, independent of each other, Avith separate powers of\\ngovernment, exercised by agreement, without any act of Incorpo-\\nration. But when the government of the Colony of Ncav Hamp-\\nshire was organized, grants of townships were made and toAvns\\nincorporated.\\nIn this organization of toAvns, the settlements of New Eng-\\nland differed from those of Virginia, and other Southern States,\\n*Sef Appendix B.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "JAI FKEY- CEXTENMAL. 25\\nand to those towns, providing for local Avants, and performing\\nlocal duties, Now England owes much of the prosperity, of which\\nshe has had a reasonable share to this day.\\nThe early settlers in this place, like those of other towns,\\nwanted religious teachers and institutions. This is shown, not\\nmerely by the character of mankind, the natiire of society, and\\nthe particular character of the parties, but by the provisions in\\nthe grant of the township giving one share for the first settled Min-\\nister, and one for the support of the Ministry, and by the condi-\\ntion requiring that a good convenient meeting-house should be\\nbuilt near the centre within six years.\\nWhatever Aye may think respecting ourselves, at this later day,\\nwith our more dense population, and our enlarged means, Ave\\nmay Avell conclude, that at that period, it Avas for the benefit of\\nthe civil state, that the institutions of religion should be main-\\ntained through some organization having legal poAver to provide\\nfor the support of religious teachers. In fact the authority of\\nthe toAvns to provide for the settlement of ministers and their\\nsupport, remained until 1819, although the efficiency of the laAv\\nAvas much impaired, by religious divisions, at an earlier day.\\nThe clergyman had then no need to spend his summer in Eu-\\nrope, or the Adirondacks. His parish being the toAA^n, his\\nparochial visits furnished him Avith sufficient mxiscular Christian-\\nity for all practical purposes.\\nThey AA^anted schools, and of course they needed school-houses,\\nand for the erection of these, school districts. The inhabi-\\ntants of the toAvn, Avith a full Tinderstanding of the local needs of\\nall portions of the toAvn, could arrange these districts, the\\npeople of the several districts could then determine the situa-\\ntion and the size of the house required, Avith regard to their ac-\\ncommodation, and pecuniary ability and the tax voted In^ the\\ntown for the support of schools, being divided in an (X]uitable\\nmann( r, could then bo applied to th( purposes of education, in\\nthese districts AA ith the greatest possible efficiency. The poor\\nlittle school houses Avould not make a great shoAv by the side of\\nsome modern structures, but they did a Avork, perhaps quite as\\nuseful as if the seats had had cushions, and the desks had been\\nof mahoganA\\\\", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 JAFFKEY CEXTEXXIAL.\\nThey wanted highways. This need of faeilities for intercom-\\nmunication, and for intercourse with other portions of the coun-\\ntry, must have impressed itself upon them, by the inconvenien-\\nces which they suffered, in a manner to assure an energetic use\\nof their powers in this respect, and the town incorporation,\\nwith its power to divide into districts for this pui-pose, and by\\nthe appropi iation of money or hibor, to be expended under\\nsurveyors interested to do a good work, soon rendered travel\\nsafe, and even convenient. The great rocks have disappeared,\\none after another, under the persevering application of the high-\\nway tax, until the cbives have, as you know, become very at-.\\ntractive.\\nThe then existing modes of travel and transportation did not\\nrequire roads of the most perfect construction. Chaises had not\\nbeen introduced. ITie light Dearborn wagon had not been in-\\nvented. The single horse had no difficulty in picking his way,\\nand by skilful hawing and gceing, the oxen and cart were\\nenabled to avoid the more formidable obstructions. Personal\\ntransportation was mostly on horseback but the cart was made\\nthe carryall when several persons were to be conveyed. The\\nside-saddle fiu-nished a healthful means of locomotion for the\\nwomen, and when it became necessary to ride double, the pilli-\\non, no longer known alas, formed a very comfortable seat for\\nthe lady. As it was necessary in order to keep the scat proper-\\nly, that she should pass her arm arovnid the side of the gentle-\\nman, this was, in some cases, a very acceptable mode of trans-\\nportation to the junior portion of the community.\\nNo system of general legislation could provide for all these\\nlocal wants and necessities, according to the exigencies of partic-\\nular cases.\\nBut the general laws enabled these small communities, acting\\nas municipal corporations, to provide each for itself, in relation\\nto these and other matters, according to its own vicAvs of a\\\\ hat\\nit needed, and what it could perform it being premised that it\\nhad needs upon some subjects, to some extent, and must perform\\nto that extent, at least, Avith liberty to do more, which it usually\\ndid. Thiis it must raise a certain amount of money for the sup-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CEXTEXXTAL. 27\\nport of schools, and might raise more if deemed expedient.\\nThe powers and jirivilegcs which the towns possessed were\\nnot talents to be wrapped in a napkin, and buried in the earth,\\nnor did the people belong the class of slothful and unfaithful\\nservants who seek to escape from their duties.\\nThere were other duties and rights attached to these incorpo-\\nrations. The duty of supplying the needs of the aged, and in-\\nfirm, and incompetent, who were unable to supply themselyes\\nso that want and destitution should be alleviated, and starvation\\nunknown, was deemed a common duty of each community,\\nand could best be performed by these incorporations.\\nThrough them, also, the inhabitants were primarily to enjoy\\nsuch political rights as were conceded to the jieople in the days\\nof the Pro\\\\ince, and the more extended and exalted powers\\nwhich were conferred by the acquisition of Independence, the\\norganization of the State, and the adoption of the Constitution\\nof the United States. All the rights of suffrage were to be ex-\\nercised within the town incorporation, the electors being sum-\\nmoned thereto by its warrants for such purposes. Again,\\nthe meetings held for these purposes gave opportunity for the\\nfull consideration and discussion of the measiu cs recpiired for the\\npublic good, and for the exjiression of the opinions of the inhab-\\nitants respecting them. How many of the specifications of the\\nDeclaration of Independence originated in the Resolutions of the\\ntowns we cannot now know. Although no trace may be left,\\nwe knoAA- that there must have been arguments for and against\\nthe adoption of the Constitution of the United States, when the\\nDelegates Avere chosen to attend the Convention which ratified\\nit by a small majority, proposing divers amendments, most of\\nAvhich were adopted immediately afterwards. Some voted against\\nthe ratification, fearing that such amendments would not be\\nmade, perhaps so instructed by their constituents.\\nNothing could have been better adapted to the execution of\\nall these purposes than these little Democracies, as DeToc-\\nqueville has called them.\\nThe social privileges connected with the organization must not\\nbe overlooked. It made the inhal)itants of the small tract of terri-", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 JAFFRKY CENTHNMAI..\\ntory within its limits, a brotherhood. promoting the wclfai-e of\\neach other and of the whole community, by the meeting-house,\\nthe school-house, and the highway, and in tliese, and other\\nways, estabhshing good order, social intercoiu-se, and a kindly\\nfeeling towards each other.\\nThe To ttTi was the efficient means which secured the pixvsper-\\nitv of the household. The sevei-al families, farmers, mechanics,\\nlaborers, and professional persons, needed, for the dcAclopment\\nof their resoiu-ces. and the gi eatest enjoyment of their privileges,\\nsomething beyond theii* isolated households, something l^eyond\\neven the mutual support of each other in their various neighbor-\\nhoods, and they found it in the i own. It enlarged, while it\\nconcenti^ted. their sympathies, formed and moulded their opin-\\nions, and sjave expression to theu* united Avill. Lastly, the mil-\\nitai v companv organizations Avere mostly within the Towu.\\ntwo Communities sometimes imiting to fiu-nish an exti*a article\\nin this line. From these companies the ranks of the army have\\nbeen recruited in time of war, being hable to draft if necessaiy.\\nIn the time of the Revolution, when the ordinary mode of\\nsupph ing the armv seemed hkely to fail, requsitions were made\\nupon the towns to furnish ammimition and proA isious, and were\\npromptiv answered. They were often fhe storehouses of am-\\nmunition.\\nIf any one who does not knoAv, wou d seek an exemplification\\nof the utility of the Town incorporations, let him look at Jaffrey\\ntoday, and study her history.\\nAn admirable result of the Town organization was, that the\\nRevolution, which followed almost immediately upon the incor-\\nporation of this Town, did not place the country in a state of\\ndisintegration. The Town organization remained, its efficien-\\ncy necessarily somewhat impaired, but the town officers, having\\nbeen elected by the people, still retained their confidence and\\nsupport. Such powers as could be exercised only in the name\\nof the king, or imder the royal authority, were at first suspend-\\ned, and then abrogated but the same powers were immediately\\nexercised under the authority of the people and the towns dur-\\ning all the time served to a great extent the purposes for which\\nthey were established.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CEN IEXXTAL. 29\\nA Eevolutioiiary Convention, called by the Committee of Cor-\\nrespondence, in 1775, recommended that those who had been\\nchosen into office in the usual manner should, as formerly, be\\nconsidered the proper officers, and that the town, selectmen and\\nother officers proceed in the usual manner in granting and col-\\nlecting monies, c., unless some particular direction Avas given\\nadding this significant paragraph\\nIf anv, inimical to their country, or inattentive to the ruin\\nwhich must ensue upon a contrary conduct, should refuse, we\\ntrust that all the friends of the country will effectually strength-\\nen the hands of the selectmen, constables and collectors.\\nIt is not supposed that any one here by his refusal rendered\\nit necessary, even to hint at a resort to the peculiar strengthen-\\ning plaster, thus indicated.\\nFebruary 13, 1775, the town voted unanimously to visit jNIr.\\nWilliams, of Keene, a very extraordinary civility on the face of\\nthe vote. illiams was a lawyer, but the call on him was not\\nfor professional advice. He was a tory, and this unusual dem-\\nonstration had reference to that fact. The fiu-thcr proceedings\\nin relation to the proposed visit are not of record. It is a fair\\npresumption that there was no tory in Jaffrey who might be\\nvisited with much less trouble.\\nNo other system could so Avell have supplied civil govern-\\nment, under such circumstances.\\nIt was more difficult to deal with matters of which the Courts\\nof Justice had jiuisdiction. The Courts, on recomuiendation of\\nthe Convention, adjourned.\\nJustices of the Peace could not ^^-ell issue compulsory process\\nunder the royal authority, in the existing circumstances. The\\ncollection of debts by suit was suspended, and the natural con-\\nsequences were, in one instance at least, exemplified here. In\\nthe files of the Convention of 1775, is a memorial, or represen-\\ntation, address to the Honorable Provincial Congress signed\\nby Jetlii o Bailey, William Turner and Roger Gilmore, Com-\\nmittee of Correspondence, setting forth that Benjamin Nutting\\nof Peterboro Slip, so called, had entered a complaint to them\\nagainst .lohn Davis, Junior, of Jaffrey, that u])(ui the second day", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 JAIIKKY CEXTEXMAT..\\nof October, instant, as he came to the house of John Eaton, on\\nsome business, he was assaulted by said Davis, and abused in the\\nmost soleni manner, as appears by sundry evidences, that not-\\nwithstandino- Davis was notified to attend and hear the evidences\\nexamined, he refused, that he had often been requested to\\nsettle the matter, but remained obstinate, and persisted in his\\nA-illainy, with insolence.\\nThe Committee enclosed the depositions and earnestly desired\\nthe Convention to take the matter into consideration, and either\\ndetermine it between them, or invest th^ Comnittee with a prop-\\ner authority to act, with instructions how to proceed in the case.\\nIt does not appear that any action was taken upon the subject.\\nOn the fifth of January, 1776, a Form or Plan of Civil\\nGovernment was adopted by a Convention, or Congress, which\\nmet for the purpose, under which the affairs of the towns were\\nasain transacted in legal form. The Form of Government was\\nlimited by its terms to continue dui-ing the present unhappy\\ncontest with Great Britian, but served as a State Constitution\\nfor many years, and has been said to be the first State Consti-\\ntution. S3Jit- thio 4o g miptialLe} Noi i tih Lliuli^i t Lnving foymerl\\nThis caused no change in the organization of the Town, or in\\nits proceedings, except that the latter were now conducted, once\\nmore, under what proved to be a sufiicient legal authority.\\nA few items in relation to the increase of the population, and\\nthe rate of taxation, may serve to show the comparative progress\\n^ith the other towns.\\nThe Convention of 1775, ordered a survey to be made of the\\npeople in the several counties, for the purpose of determining\\nthe ratio of representation in the Assembly, from which it ap-\\npears that Jafirey had 351 inhabitants. Of thu ty towns in the\\nCounty, ten or eleven had a larger number. She had sixteen\\nmen in the army. This is a very strong delegation for such a\\nsmall community, jvist organized, larger than any of the towns\\nnot having more inhabitants. Keene had 756 inhabitants.\\nChesterfield, Westmoreland and Richmond a still greater num-\\nber.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CEXTEXNIAL. 31\\nThe Census, in 1790, gives JafFrey a population of 1235.\\nThere were then only six towns in the County with a popula-\\ntion greater than this, and these, with the exception of Keene,\\nlay on the South border, or on the Connecticut River, and so\\nwere more easy of access. Keene had 1314 inhabitants.\\nIn 1800 the population was 1341. Eleven towns had a larg-\\ner population, mostly much more favorably situated. Keene\\nhad 1645.\\nBy an Act of the Assembly in 1777, determining the propor-\\ntion of each town for every \u00c2\u00a31000 of the State taxes, Jaftrey s\\nproportion was \u00c2\u00a35-9s.-5d. There were nine towns in the\\nCounty having a greater valuation, that of Keene being \u00c2\u00a310-\\n5s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9d., twenty-two having less.\\nWhen, in 1780, a requisition was made for a hundi-ed and\\ntwelve thousand weight of beef for the army, the proportion of\\nJafFrey was 7326 pounds; the proportion of Keene 11,309.\\nThe same year a new proportion of taxes gave JafFrey \u00c2\u00a36-10s.-\\nlOd., Keene \u00c2\u00a310-ls.-lld.\\nAnother proportion in 1789 shows a comparative increase, fa-\\nvorable to the prosperity of JafFrey, that is, supposing that the\\nduty to pay a larger proportion of taxes indicates in fact a larg-\\ner ability to perform the duty, which probably is not always\\nthe case. JafFrey is set at \u00c2\u00a37-12s.-5d., Keene \u00c2\u00a39-19s.-6d.\\nAnother proportion in 1794 gave for JafFrey \u00c2\u00a37-9s.-8d.,\\nKeene \u00c2\u00a39-14s.-6d. But in this year the valuation of Chester-\\nfield, Walpole and Westmoreland, lying on the Connecticut Riv-\\ner, each exceeded that of Keene.\\nIt is not my purpose to refer in detail to the proceedings ot\\nthe town, in the exercise of its rights and the performance of its\\nduties. This is the special province of the future historian, and\\nto him, whoever he may be, I remit it.\\nBut a few brief notes, having reference to some of the subjects\\nwhich have been mentioned, may find a place upon this occasion.\\nThe first meeting under the act of incorporation Avas for the\\nchoice of town officers only. It was called by Jonathan Stanley,\\nspecially authorized by the Charter, August 27, 1773, and was\\nheld September 14.", "height": "3363", "width": "2038", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 JAFFKEY CEXTEXMAL.\\nAnother meeting was held September 28, to raise money for\\nthe building of roads, and the support of tlu Gospel.\\nApril 26, 1774, it was voted to build a meeting-house and\\nJuly 6, to build one of larger dimensions, to let the building\\nat public vendue, that it should be raised by the middle of\\nJune next, at the town s cost, with several other votes on the\\nsubject.\\nIt was voted in March 1775, that the Committee to build,\\nprovide all things necessary to raise the house at the cost of the\\ntown. But March 30, 1780, there was a vote to make allow-\\nance to Captain Henry Coffin for the barrel of rum which he\\npaid for, to raise the meeting-house. The Captain it would\\nseem, intervened patriotically, to supplement the deficiency of\\nthe provision made by the Committee, and waited a long time\\nfor reimbursement.\\nThere is a tradition that the meeting-house was raised on the\\nday of the battle of Bunker Hill, and that the guns of that bat-\\ntle were heard here. But this must be a mistake. When the\\nmatter is examined, the probabilities are against it. It is hard-\\nly probable that guns fired at Charlestown could be heard here,\\nwith the New Ipswich hills and the forest intervening, even on\\na quiet day, when there was no meeting-house to raise. More-\\nover, the battle was on Saturday, which was as good a day lor a\\nbattle as any other day, but would hardly be selected as the\\ntime to raise a meeting-house, lest there should be some work\\nremaining which ought to be performed the next day.\\nThe conclusion to be derived from the improbabilities is forti-\\nfied by direct hear say evidence. I received a letter a few days\\nsince from Dr. Jeremiah Spofford, of Groveland, Mass., in which\\nhe says, My father, Jeremiah Spofford, as a master carpenter,\\nframed that church. He was employed to do it by Captain\\nSamuel Adams, whose wife was his sister. Jacob Spofford and\\nJoseph Haskell went up with him, to work on the frame.\\nMy father often related, seventy years ago, that they raised the\\nhouse, and that ending his job, they set out for home the next\\nday, travelling ride and tie, three men, with one horse to car-\\nry tools and ease the men in turn that coming doAvn through", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CENTENNIAL. 33\\nTowiiscnd, in the forenoon, they heard the roar of cannon, which\\nproved to be the cannon of Bunker Hill, and coming over the\\nWcstford Hills, in the evening, they saw the light of Charles-\\ntown burning. Captain Adams was one of the\\ncontractors to build the house, and was a carpenter himself.\\nIt may be objected that unlucky Friday, was as little like-\\nly as Saturday to be selected as the day to begin such a work.\\nBut the explanation seems easy. The town had voted to raise\\nby the middle of June. The contract would naturally specify\\nthat as the time of performance. There would be a desire, and\\ntime enough, for compliance. The fifteenth of June was Thurs-\\nday. If we suppose that to be the day selected, and that there\\nwas some unfinished work to be done on Friday, to complete\\nthe job, we shall have the carpenters on their homeward way\\non Saturday, in the localities in which Mr. Jeremiah Spofford\\nplaced them.\\nWe may give up the tradition without a sigh. Neither the\\nmeeting-house, nor the battle will suffer by the loss of it.\\nThere was some delay in settling a minister. Several candi-\\ndates were hired. There was a vote that young men supply the\\npulpit and some others indicating that the services of some of\\nthe candidates were not quite satisfactory. But .Tiine 1st, 1780,\\nit was voted to hear Mr. Caleb Jewett more, if he can be ob-\\ntained; and September 4th, a vote to concur vnth the church in\\ngiving him a call. Why he did not accept, does not appear.\\nPerhaps from the insufficiency of the salary offered. He was, I\\nthink, a graduate of Dartmouth, of 1T76, a native of Newbury,\\nMass., and afterwards settled in Gorham, Maine.\\nIn 1782, they settled the Rev. Laban Ainsworth, a native of\\nWoodstock, Connecticut; a graduate of Dartmouth College in\\n1778.\\nThe first vote for a salary was for \u00c2\u00a370 while he suijplies the\\n(lesk, which was afterwards changed to while he remains the\\nminister of the town. Choosing with deliberation, they are en-\\ntitled to the credit of having abided by their determination.\\nMr. Ainsworth lived to the age of more than a hundred years,\\nofficiated without a colleague until 1832, and remained as", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "84 JAFFKEY CENTENNIAL.\\nthe pastor of the ohuri- h until his eloath. but his hibors wore dis-\\ncontinued a few years earlier. As many of you kueN\\\\- him well.\\nI ueed not speak of his appeturauce or services. A withered\\nright arm was probably the reason why he did not write his ser-\\nmons. If, as has been said, he sometimes looked up his text on\\nSxmday morning, after breakfast, the fact will serve to show his\\nconfidence in his powers of discussion.\\nThe tales respecting the jokes, practical and otherwise, pass-\\ning between him and Father Spragne. tu-e numerous, many of\\nthem probably fictitious. But there was, unquestionably, a suf-\\nficient encounter of wits to lay a good foundation for some of\\nthem.\\nIn the infancy of such a settlement, the ditficulties of estab-\\nlishing and maintaining a school or schools would necessarily be\\nvery great. If the means of support had been abundant, the\\nfacilities for the attendance of the scholars must have been quite\\nlimited.\\nThe fii st appropriation of .t 8 was made April IS, 177-3.\\nSoon we find votes for the division of the money, indicating\\nschools in difl ereut parts of the township, then a division in-\\nto districts.\\nThat the interests of education ha-se received full support\\nhere, mav be inferred from the fact, that twenty-four young men\\nhave gradiuited at the ditierent colleges. Twenty of them at\\nPai-tniouth.\\nIt is not siu-prising that they deemed expendifiu-es upon the\\nroads as of the fii-st importance. AVill you think it strange\\nwhen I sav that they appropriated much larger sums for high-\\nways than they did for the support of the gospel and the schools\\nWill vou be astonished that at their second meeting they voted\\n\u00c2\u00a380, lawful monev. to be worked out on the roads, and only \u00c2\u00a3ti\\nto proc\\\\u-e preaching, and that this disparity increased so that\\nApril IS. 1775. when they voted \u00c2\u00a38 for the school, they again\\nvoted \u00c2\u00a36 foi- preaching, and \u00c2\u00a3130 for the roads\\nWe mxist recollect that the efficiency of their maintenance of\\npreaching depended upon theii* first mending their ways.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "JAFFHEY CENTENMAL. 35\\nit may hv said, that roads lay at the foundation of tlicir pros-\\nperty, spiritual, as aycII as temporal. Without roads the settle-\\nment could not succeed and if that failed, the support of relig-\\nious teaching, and the school failed with it. As the roads were\\nmade better, settlements were encouraged, the ability to support\\nthe institutions of religion Ayas enlarged, and the appropriations\\nwere enlarged also.\\nIt is with great regret that I refer again to my inability to giye\\nsome better account respecting the earliest inhabitants.\\nPerhaps my recollections of a later date may possess some in-\\nterest, and serye with those of others, to fill a page of local his-\\ntory.\\nIn the early part of the present Chi-istian century, there was\\nclustered in the vicinity of the meeting-house, which then had\\nno steeple, the house of Eey. Mr. Ainsworth at the Southeast\\ncorner of the Conuuon, Danforth s Tavern, where Cutter s Ho-\\ntel now stands, the store of Joseph Thorndike, Esq., and Da-\\nvid Page s store, on the East side, Cragin s Saddlery Shop on\\nthe Northeast corner, and on the North a large pile of buildings\\nbelonging to Joseph Cutter, Esq., of which only the main dwell-\\ning-house now remains. He kept a tavern, and had very ample\\naccommodations for his customers. He was, I think, much the\\nlargest landholder in the township, and had an ambition to set-\\ntle each of his niunerous sons on a farm, which he accomplished\\nto a great extent. At the Southwest corner of the burying\\nground was a school-house. East of Danforth s Tavern was his\\nblacksmith s shop, North of which Avas the dAvelling-house of\\nCapt. Samuel Adams.\\nCommencing at the Common, the road to the Northeast, lead-\\ning to Peterboro and to the Southeasterly part of Dublin, passed\\nby a small house on the corner, at the left, no longer there,\\nAvhich Avas occupied at one time by Mr. Cummings, afterAvards\\nl)y Dr. Johnson, and by Jonathan Lufkin, there tui-ning North\\nthe road extended, by the place Avhere the IMelville Acadenn\\nnoAv stands, less than a quarter of a mile, Avhere it forked, the di-\\nrect road proceeding Northerly toAvards Dublin, by the houses\\nof Mr. NcAvton and Thomas French, the Easterly fork, which", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "3(i JAFFKEY CENTEN MAI,.\\nwas the principal road, running ovor tlio hill by a housc^ occu-\\npied by David Smiley, Esq., Attorney at Law.\\nThis house has gone, and the road over the hill has gone with\\nit. The more modern route, Northeast, by Mr. John Cutter s\\ntannery, and Easterly of the meadow, entered this old road at\\nthe foot of the hill, on the East.\\nNearly a mile East of the village was the house of Widow\\nBryant.\\nThe road forked a few rods Easterly. On the Northerly\\nbranch, which branched again, lived Samuel Gary, Benjamin\\nLawrence, Deacon Jesse Maynard, Azael Gowing, Moses Stick-\\nney, Samuel Stickney, Silas Pierce, Jacob Jewell, Benj. Erost.\\nProceeding a short distance, the Easterly branch appeared\\nto run into a North and South road, but the Northerly part M^as\\nthe main road to the Northeast. A few rods to the South was\\nthe house of Alpheus Crosby. In front, that of Asa Sawyer.\\nPursuing the main road, at a distance of about half a mile,\\non the right side, was the house of Lieut. Thomas\\nAdams, which has disappeared. Another was built near,\\non the left side, many years since, occupied by Daniel Emery.\\nNot far beyond, at the place where a road now leads\\noff to the East village, there came into this road from the\\nWest a short branch road on which lived Mr. Bates. At\\nthis point came another fork. On the Northerly branch which\\nhas been slightly changed at its commencement, a quarter of a\\nmile brought the traveller to another fork, the Westerly road\\nbeing merely a local branch, terminating at the house soon after\\nowned by Samuel Pierce. On the Easterly or main branch, we\\ncame next to the school-house of the district of my early boy-\\nhood, and in the field some quarter of a mile Southeast was\\nthe house of Ebenezer Burpee.\\nINIiss Hitty Brooks was one of the teachers of the summer\\nschool, a most estimable young lady, whose kindness dwells in\\nmy memory. She afterwards married Samuel Pierce.\\nThe old school-house has disappeared, and a few years more\\nwill carry all its memories with it. A few of its inmates at a\\nlater date still remain.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "JAFFRET CEXTENXIAL. 37\\nStarting once more upon our Avay, we find next where was\\nthe house of Whitcomb Powers, at the base of the hill, on the\\nleft. It is no longer there. There was none a little onward,\\nM here the residence of my late friend Levi Fisk, Esq., has stood\\nfor many years. On the Northerly branch of a fork of the road\\na few rods further running to TAvitchell s mills, in the Easter-\\nly part of Dublin, -was the house of his father Thomas Fisk. At\\nthe fork last mentioned was formerly the shop of John Pushee,\\nof which nothing but the ruins remained so far back as I can re-\\ncollect. I have the impression it had been burned.\\nThence, pursuing the Easterly branch of the highway, next\\ncame the house of my father, who came here from Pepperell in\\nMay, 1780, settled in the unbroken forest, and cleared his farm\\nhimself, with such assistance as he coidcl obtain. Some of you\\nknow the place. I am not aware of the particular inducement\\nwhich led him to settle there. Probably a representation that\\nit was a nice bit of land, dog cheap; and cheapness was a\\nconsideration not to be despised.* It proved rough and rocky,\\nand admitted of any amount of hard labor. Twenty-five years\\nof patient, persevering industry had made a difference in the\\nappearance of things. There were rods of stone wall, requiring\\nsome knowledge of the mysteries of compound addition, to say\\nhoAV many. There were cattle and sheep, hay in the barn,\\na patch of flax in the field and a little wheel, and a great\\nAvlieel, and a great loom in the house. f The wood pile, would\\nhave deemed itself neglected if it had not extended a hundred\\nfeet, more and not less, along the wall, with an indefinite\\nbreadth, and a height which no one undertook to measure.\\nThe fire-place in the common working-room, received back losrs\\ntwo and a half feet in diameter. I am tempted to put on the\\nother half foot, but refrain. From the great brick oven, by the\\nside of fire place, there issued, from time to time, baked pulnp-\\n*Consicleriitioii 2G0 pounds, lawful money, 102 acres of land, part of\\nlot 20 in tVie lirst range.\\nfGirls hired themselves out to spin. When the cloth was fulled and\\ndressed, the tailoress of the neighborhood came, cut, and made up the\\nclothes. When the hides were tanned, the shoemaker, in his rounds,\\ncame once or twice in the .year, and made up a stock of boots and shoes\\nfor the family, staying perhaps a week for the purpose.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 JAFFRKV CENTEXNIAL.\\nkins, such as no cooking stove, invented or to be invented, can\\never produce, and there was no watering of the milk.\\nOn winter evenings apples were roasting and spluttering upon\\nthe hearth, and there was a mug of cider there. Checkers\\nand jack-straws were seen occasionally, and some card teeth\\nwere set.\\nMy brothers caught minks, and musquash, partridges and\\npickerel, rabbits and woodchucks, and in haying time, I took\\nup bumble bees nests, getting poor pay for my labor.\\nIn order to economise time, I give this brief sketch of a single\\nhousehold, instead of a more elaborate statement which I was\\npreparing respecting farming life generally in the town and\\nin the hojie that the personality may be excused, in considera-\\ntion of its brevity. Any one bv piu suing things to their natu-\\nral antecedents and conclusions, may jxidge somewhat of the\\nwhole from these fcAv jiarticulars. Exceptions of course.*\\nHalf a mile onward was the house of the Widow Turner.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0The widow relished a joke, and perhaps I may be pardoned for\\ntelling a short story, which she told herseif. She had taken her\\ngrist to be ground at the mills of Samuel TAvitchell. Esq., the\\nfather of the celebrated surgeon Dr. Amos Twitchell, just Avith-\\nin the limits of Dublin, nding, of course, upon the top of the\\nbags. The Squire who was somewhat of a humorist, had a hired\\nman named White, certainly not beautiful to behold. The wid-\\now s description of what occurred further Avas in this Avise\\nWhen I got there the Squire Avas in the yard, and I said to him,\\nhelp me off my horse, Scpiire Avhich he did. Then I said to\\nhim, now kiss me Squire; and he turned and called White,\\nWhite, White as if he was calling some great dog, and there\\ncame out of the mill the ugliest lookiny; critter that ever I set\\n*Tlio manufactures of eottou Avere those of the household. opHrated by\\nhand poAver. Edmund Snow, of Peterboro manufacturtd hand cards for\\ncotton and avooI, punching the holes in the leathers, and preparing the\\nteeth and distiibuting them among the ditlerent families in the rejiion\\nround about, to be set by the young people. Avho in that Avay put store\\npay in their purse. At the Peterboro Centennial in 183 J, my brother\\nIsaac gave some account of his achievements in setting these card teeth.\\nPerhaps it Avas in this way that lie was led to take an interest in the estah-\\nlisihment of cotton manufacturies in Peterboro and elseAvhere.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CENTENMAL. 3ii\\nmy eyes on, and the Squire said, Come here, White, and kiss\\nthis woman I always keep a man to do that drudgery for me.\\nA short distance farther, at the extreme Northeast corner of\\nthe town, was Samuel Saunders, a very good carpenter as well\\nas a farmer. Here the road turned short to the South, and pass-\\ning the house of Elijah Wellman, connected near the line oi Pe-\\nterboro with the Southerly branch, which was left soon after\\npassing Lieut. Adams s, A house has existed South of Well-\\nman s, occupied by Andrew Holmes, but I think of a later date.\\nTurning back to the Southerly branch, and taking the direc-\\ntion to Pcterboro there was near the fork the house of Eoger\\nBrigham. Then came the house of David SaAvtell, then Parker\\nMaynard, then Samuel Patrick, then Air. Snow.\\nSamuel Dakin, Esq., Attorney at Law, who afterwards re-\\nmoved to New Hartford, in the State of New York, purchased\\nland North of Capt. Adams, in the middle of the town, and built\\nthe house now occupied by Dr. Fox, about 1805. My father,\\nhaving bought a corner lot of Mr. Dakin, erected the house at\\nthe Northerly end of that street, and I became an inmate of the\\nschool-house at the corner of the burying ground. There is a\\nreminiscence of discipline connected with this house. The rules\\nof the school forbid whispering of course. Having a desire to\\nsay something to a young Miss who sat near me, I forgot the\\nrule I suppose, and she must have joined in the transgression,\\nfor the eagle eye of the teacher. Miss Maria Blanchard, detect-\\ning this violation of order, we were forthwith sentenced to sit\\neach with an arm around the other s neck. I do not give this\\nas an instance of the ordinary discipline. On the contrary it\\nwas an unusual, as well as a cruel punishment, and may there-\\nfore be regarded as unconstitutional. But to prevent misaj)pre-\\nhension, I have taken occasion to say, that I have since seen the\\ntime when I should have borne such a dispensation with a much\\ngreater degree of philosophy.*\\n*The school hooks were Webster s Spelling Book, with a grim frontis-\\npiece, supposed to represent that ambitious lexicographer, Webster s\\nThird Part, American Preceptor, The Columbian Orator, Young Ladies\\nAccidence, Murray s Grammar, Morse s Geography, and Pike s Arithmetic.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 JAFFREY CENTEXXIAL.\\nPursuing tlie road Northwesterly from the s;:hool-house, there\\nAvas at the foot of the hill, a house occupied by Widow Hale,\\nthen one occupied by Hugh Gragg, and a few rods Westerly, at\\nthe junction of the old road running Westerly to Marlboro and\\nthe road running Nortlierly to Dublin, there was in the corner,\\nthe house of Dr. Adonijah Howe the elder, the beloved physi-\\ncian. He afterwards built a much larger one just North, which\\nyou have known as occupied by Daniel Cutter. The place is\\nnow desi^ natcd as the Shattuck Farm. Jonathan Gasje lived off\\nNortheast froin this point, on a private road. A house has since\\nbeen built, farther on the Dublin road, by Joel Cutter, and be-\\nyond this point was another fork, the left hand, running to-\\nwards the mountain, led to the houses of Joseph Cutter, junior,\\nJohn Cutter, second, and Daniel Cutter who afterwards, occu-\\npied the house built by Dr. Howe.\\nAll those were sons of Joseph Cutter, Esc]^. A Southerly branch\\nturning off near Joseph Cutter, junior s, led to the houses of Jo-\\nseph Mead, Mr. Brooks, David Cutter and Jacob Hammond.\\nThe principal road, which turned to the right at the fork, led\\nNortherly over the hill to a house owned by Joseph Thorndike.\\nEsq., afterwards by John Conant, Esq., who has made himself\\nwidely and favorably known by his very liberal donations to di-\\nvers public objects. It is now owned by the president of the\\nday, who speaks for himself.\\nThe travel over the hill has since been diverted to the other\\nbranch, by a slight alteration, in consequence of the modern\\ndiscovery, (especially unknown to Turnpike proprietors in for-\\nmer days,) that in some cases it is no farther to go around a hill\\nthan it is to go over it, and that the larger load can be drawn on\\nthe level ground. Beyond, on the road to Dublin, were David\\nCorey, Mr. Bullard and Mr. Johnson.\\nOf the other highways in the town, and the persons living\\nupon them, my early recollections are of course less particular.\\nI have a note of most of the inhabitants of the different sections,\\nbut for the location and even the names of many of them, I am\\nindebted to J\\\\ir. Ethan Cutter, whose early opportunities for ac-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CEXTENMAL. 41\\nquiring a full knoM-ledge of the different localites were of the\\nbest, and whose memory of them is of the same character. Were\\nthere no reason but lack of time, I must leave this part of the\\nsubject to others who may be heard today, craving indulgence\\nfor subjoining a few notes respecting the Third New Hampshire\\nTurnpike.\\nThis Tm-npike was incorporated in December, 1799, runnino-\\nfrom Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Ashby, Mass., fifty miles, and\\ncost, it was said, fifty thousand dollars. It occupied portions of\\nthe old road in various places, near the mountain, near the\\nmiddle of the town, and eastward of it. It struck off from\\nthe old road at John Cutter s tannery, and at Spofford s mills,\\nand run by Col. Benjamin Prescott s tavern, in the East part of\\nthe town, and tlii ough Tophet swamp into New Ipswich.\\nThe thi ee men just named were marked men in their day.\\nMr. John Cutter carried on a large tannery, for that time, and\\nmade it a profitable business, which has since been enlarged.\\nHis childi en were among my old school-mates, and I am pleased\\nto see some of them with us today. With the exception of\\nJoseph Cutter, Esq., he has probably more representatives in\\ntown than any other of his contemporaries.\\nDeacon Eleazer Spofford, who purchased of Mr. Borland, his\\nfarm and mills, in 1778, was a tall gentleman of a grave de-\\nmeanor, pleasant smile, and a kind heart, I think universally\\nbeloved. He led the singing for very many years. If he had\\nan enemy in the world, that enemy must have been an unrea-\\nsonable man. He lost a young son in the biu ning of Rev. Mr.\\nAinsworth s house, in 1786. His mills were complete for that\\nday. In the grist mill was a jack, which if it was not the pro-\\ngenitor, was the prototype, of the modern elevator in hotels and\\nstores. It was worked by water power, to carry the wheat, as\\nsoon as ground, to the bolter in the attic. A ride on it, with\\nhis son Luke, then miller, afterwards clergyman, was a treat to\\nthe boys who brought wheat to be ground.*\\n*Dr. Spofford saj S He had for many years the best flouring mills in\\nthat part of New Hampshire.\\nHe removed to Bradford, Mass., now Groveland, in 1821. and died there\\nin 1828.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 JAI MvKV f ENTEXXIAr..\\nA grandson of Deacon Spofforcl was Chief Justice of Louisi-\\nana at the time of the breaking out of the rebelUoa, and another\\nis now Librarian of the Congressional Library.\\nThere must have been some controversy respecting the loca-\\ntion of the tui-npike. In a poetical New Year s Address, sent\\nfrom Parnassus to New Ipswich, soon after, it was said that\\nthe muse could relate,\\nHow Prescott and Merriam made a staiul\\nAnd l)ent the road to suit their land.\\nBut she did not do it, and I can not.\\nCol. Prescott, as I remember him, was another of the ta-ll\\nmen of J affrey, of powerful frame, and an influential man\\nin the town. If any man could bend a turnpike, he might be\\nexpected to do it.\\nThe principal taverns on the turnpike were those of Sweetser\\nin Marlboro Millikeii, Danforth and Prescott, in Jaffrey,\\nand Merriam and Batchelder in New Ipswich, celebrated hous-\\nes in their day.\\nIt was one of the principal thoroughfares from Central Ver-\\nmont to Boston, and the transportation over it in the winter was,\\nof course, quite large, as the route thi ough Rindge was not then\\na great highway. This winter transportation was generally by\\ntwo horse teams, attached to square lumber boxes, so called,\\nloaded on the downward transit principally with pork, grain,\\nbeans, birtter, cheese, and other country produce and on their\\nreturn trip with iron, molasses, rum, sugar, codfish, and other\\ngroceries. The diy goods of that day were principally of home\\nmanufacture.\\nOccasionally a severe storm, blocking the roads badly, would\\ncompel these teams to stop at the nearest of the taverns named,\\nwhere the loggerhead was always in the fire in winter, and the\\nlandlord ready to make a good stiff mug of flip.\\nSome of my auditory may not have heard the name before.\\nIt was concocted of home made beer, well sweetened, a suitable\\nproportion of West India rum, and heated by the loggerhead\\nto a proper temperature. When an egg Avas beaten in, it was\\ncalled bellows top, partly perhaps from its superior quality.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CEXTENXIAL, 43\\nand partly from the greater quantity of white froth that swelled\\nup on the top of it.\\nWith ten or fifteen teamsters gathered together by one of\\nthese snow blockades, and a fair allowance of flip, of course the\\nmirth and fun grew fast and furious; and when the storm\\nwas over, and the road began to be broken out the long\\nline of teams, especially those ascending the hills to the West,\\nAvas something to see.\\nThe mail stage between Keene and Boston, for a long time,\\nrun over this road, once a week, twice, daily, except\\nSundays, then a despatch line, called the telegraph,* through\\nin twelve hours, superseded by the Railroad through Fitch-\\nburg so that the crack of the stage driver s whip, and the blast\\nof his horn, no longer echo among the hills.\\nThe wayside inn, for the accommodation of the passing trav-\\neller, has fallen from its high estate, through the introduction of\\nthe railroads and from the same cause, along with the introduc-\\ntion of other beverages, the institution of temperance societies,\\nand the passage of prohibitory laws, the glory of Flip has de-\\nparted, and its name is almost forgotten.\\nThe turnpike was not a source of great profit, and was finally\\nlaid out as a common high^vay, the towns paying the proprietors\\na moderate sum in damages.\\nThe beautiful and busy village of East Jaffrey, with its large\\ncotton factory, and divers other manufactures, its hotel, stores,\\nbank and dwellings, and with a railroad running thi ough it, is\\ncomparatively of modern creation.\\nA short time since, I summed up my recollections of its peo-\\nple and business, as I first knew it Dea. SpofFord, and his\\nmills, Abner SpofFord, and his blacksmith shop, and Joseph\\nLincoln, and his clothier s shop. William Hodge and his farm\\nconstituted a Northern suburb.\\nI must not omit to mention Amos Fortune. He was born in\\nAfrica, brought to this country as a slave, purchased his free-\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Tliis line was established b}^ Col. Freuch, then of Keene, now of Peter-\\nboro and Col. Shepherd, then of Boston, now of Manchester.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\ndom, purchased and then married his wife, came to this\\nplace in 1781, and lived subsequently about a mile Northeast\\nof Spoiford s mills, where he had a small tannery.\\nAt that time any person who had come to dwell within a\\ntown, and been there received and entertained by the space of\\nthree months, not having been warned to depart by some person\\nappointed by the selectmen, was reputed an inhabitant, and\\nthe proper charge of the town in case he came to stand in need\\nof relief. This power of warning out was given to the towns\\nthat they might protect themselves against pauperism and in\\nsome towns the selectmen were so careful of the interests of the\\ntown, that they warned all new comers to depart, so zealous,\\nthat in one instance, as I have heard, the town having settled a\\nminister, the selectmen forthwith warned him out.\\nSuch general warnings were not practiced in this town, but\\nFortune was warned out in Sept. 1781, doubtless from an appre-\\nhension that he might become a pauper. Like all other persons\\nsimilarly notified, he disregarded the warning, and he lived here\\nthe remainder of his life. Dying in 1801, without children, at\\nthe age of ninety-one, as stated on his gravestone, (which, as I\\nrecollect him, an active business man, seems to me doubtful at\\nleast,) he by his last will, after a provision for gravestones, an-\\nother for the support of his wife during her life, and a small\\nlegacy to an adopted daughter, empowered his executor Deacon\\nSpoffard, if there was any remainder of his estate, to give a hand-\\nsome present to the Chui ch of which he Avas a member, and the\\nremaining part, if any there be, to give as a present for the sup-\\nport of the school in School-House No. 8. The Church re-\\nceived under this bequest in May, 1805, $100, partly expended\\nin the purchase of a communion service, still in their posses-\\nsion and in September, 1809, the Judge of Probate ordered\\n$233.95, the balance in the hands of the executor, to be paid\\nover to the selectmen of Jaffrey, agreeable to a special act of\\nthe legislatiu-e of the state of Ncav Hampshire, passed on the\\n15th of June last, This act was passed because no person was\\nmentioned in the will to receive and apply the fund. It is still", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CEXTENXIAL. 45\\nheld by the selectmen in trust for the benefit of the District.\\nWe are aware that these sums represented much larger values\\nat that time, than like sums do at the present day.\\nWe have come together, with hearts full of thanksgiving to\\nthe Great Disposer of Events, that He has permitted us to as-\\nstnnble here, to commemorate the organization of civil institu-\\ntions and government in our beloved municipal homestead.\\nBut an occasion like this cannot be one of unmixed joy.\\nTime rolls his ceaseless course.\\nStill it creeps on.\\nEach little moment at another s heels.\\nTill hours, days, years and ages are made up,\\nOf such sniHll parts as these, and men look back\\nWorn and bewildered, wondering how it is.\\nWhen in this vale of years I backward look,\\nAnd miss such numbers, numbers too of such,\\nFirmer in health and greener in their age.\\nAnd stricter on their guard, and titter far\\nTo play Life s subtle game, I scarce believe\\nI still survive.\\nDeath has removed, not only all the early inhabitants, and\\nmany Avho were familiar with the history of a later date, because\\nprincipal actors therein, but many who, if less conspicuous, were\\nnot less dear to us and Ave pause a moment to dwell with a rev-\\nerential remembrance, with filial affection, with devoted\\nlove, on the memory of those whose animated faces would have\\ngreeted us at this time, had they been spared to this day. Alas,\\nfor them, time is no more.\\nThe sum of human joys and human sorrows, which have been\\nfelt within the limits of this town during the past century, can\\nonly be known to Omniscience. The jovs have passed, and are\\npassing, Avith little or no record of their existence. And so of\\nmany, perhaps most, of the sorrows. But there is a parcel of\\nground, of small extent, on the broAv of the hill, and adjoining\\nthe Common, Avhich contains records reminding us of the sor-\\nroAvs of ourselves and others, Avhich are of a more enduring\\ncharacter.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 JAI FHKY fKN I KXMAT.,\\nThere rest the remains of my beloved and venerated parents,\\nmy father dying at the age of seventy-eight, and my mother liv-\\ning until near ninety-seven. Other fathers and mothers, of like\\nages, are gathered there, shocks of corn fully ripe, and fit to be\\ngarnered; whom we must mourn, but with the consolation that\\nthey had done their duty in the community, had fought the\\ngood fight, had finished their course, had kept the faith.\\nBut these records tell other tales. I hero repose the husband\\nand father, the wife and mother, who fell by the wayside, in the\\nmeridian of life who appeared to have before them years of\\nhappiness and usefulness to themselves and others, upon Avhom\\nyoung children were dependent, and to whom friends looked for\\ncounsel and for guidance.\\nBrothers and sisters, young men and maidens, who were just\\nentering upon the threshold of existence, with a life of useful-\\nness and honor and prosperity in antici])ation, lie there sid( bv\\nside.\\nWhat agonies of grief, suppr( ssed and irrepressible, lia-\\\\e rent\\nthe hearts of survivors, as the mournful processions have passed\\nwithin the gate, and consigned the remains of the beloved objects\\nto their places of final rest.\\nHallowed be the spot Avhere the dust of the century is gath-\\nered together, and around whidi is clustered a century of th(^\\ngreatest of human sorrows.\\nWhatever of sadness may be in tlu^ retros]ject, it is iae( t that\\nwe should celebrate the hiuicb edth anniversary of an orgaiiiza-\\ntion fraught with so much of usefulness to the persons Avho have\\nlived within its limits.\\nWe are here on a clay that marks an era.\\nLet us rejoice that this town incorporation will be continued\\nfor the benefit and advantage of the generations who are advanc-\\ning to its possession.\\nLet us rejoice that we may go onward into the new century,\\nthough it be to some of us but for a short period, and to none of\\nus to its close and that space is yet granted us to do something,\\nnot only for the comfort and welfare of those who are dear to us,\\nbut of the community around us.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CENTENNIAT,. 4T\\nAnd iioAv, assembled here as the surviving representatives of\\nthe first century of our incorporation, and standing just within\\nthe threshold of its successor, let us dedicate this new municipal\\ncentury, in which the town and its in-dwellers are to do service\\nfor another hundred years, to the prosecution and extension of\\nevery good and beneficent work of its predecessor.\\nI feel assured that you will join with me Mdien T sav We\\ndedicate it to the promotion of Religion.\\nISTot a religion which leans upon the State for its support, and\\ndepends upon faith without works; but that religion Avhich\\nsustains the State bv the inculcation of truths which lie at the\\nfoundation of oro-anized and orderly society, and siipports the\\ngovernment by its works. Not that religion which has its great-\\nest regard for forms and ceremonies, and the washing of cups\\nand platters but that which sanctifies the heart and purifies the\\nlife. Not that religion, if such there be, which enters into em-\\nbittered controversies about dogmas, and disputes zealously about\\ntrifles; but that religion which being first pure, is then peace-\\nable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits\\nand which teaches the love of God with our whole heart, and\\nthe love of our neighbor as of ourselves.\\nWe dedicate it to education and sound learning.\\nNot that learnina: which attempts from metaphysical nothings\\nto make up a unit, the votaries of which, multiplying them-\\nselves by themselves, think that they sum up the infinite, and\\nsomething beyond; but that learning which leads to the belief,\\nin the language of the arithmetical aphorism of Parson Wiggles-\\nworth, of MaMen, that\\nNanerht inyti d to nfuisrlit can ne er make ana:ht.\\nNor rvphers malfP a enni.\\nNor finite to the infinite.\\nT?v mnltipl vina: come.\\nNot to that training which leads self-sufficient people to at-\\ntempt to magnify themselves, by multitudes of projects for mak-\\ning a new world different from, and thus better, than that which\\nGod made but to a system of education which has due regard\\nto the nature of things, and to the constitution of mankind, and", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "4S JAFTREY CENTENNIAL.\\nthe ends which the Creator hitended they should pursue; and\\nwhich seeks by measures consistent with creation, as it exists,\\nto perform the whole duty which the Creator requires, in the\\nworld as he has made it.\\nNot to that theory of education Avhich proposing that all per-\\nsons should be educated up to the utmost limit of Avhich they are\\ncapable, becomes a practical and mischievous humbug; but to\\nthat theory which shall provide an education of the highest char-\\nacter for all the members of the community, with reference to the\\nneedful discharge of the various employments and duties which\\nmust necessarily exist.\\nNot to that systtm of tducation which by raising the stand-\\nard, as it is called, subjects the young to such demands upon\\ntheir intellect, in the time of their immatimty, as to impair if\\nnot destroy the physical powers, and thereby render intellectu-\\nal acquisitions useless; but to that system which recognizes the\\nphysical as well as the intellectual, and seeks to develop both\\naccording to their necessities, and this not by subjecting first\\nthe one and then the other to an extraordinary strain, but by a\\nmoderation that shall be known in all things.\\nNot to that education Avhich casts odium upon labor, and in-\\nduces young men and women to endeavor to escape from its\\nwholesome, invigorating influences, by a resort to cities for the\\npurpose of begging for a situation, where ease shall lead to pov-\\nerty or which seeks, through political partisanship, for some\\npetty clerkship under Government, leaving the successful incum-\\nbent without occupation, or the means of an honest livelihood,\\nwhen the office falls into the hands of the next eager aspirant,\\nwho has pushed him from his official stool but that education\\nwhich dignifies labor, and seeks to improve its modes of action,\\nAvhich qualifies the recipient to occupy his place in life, whatev-\\ner it may be, and with cheerfiilness and alacrity to do the duty\\nwhich the State and the community demand of him.\\nMay I add a constitutional provision.\\nNot to that learning which endangers the compromises of the\\nConstitution by attempts to maintain that the United States were\\na Nation before thev were States, and that the Constitution was", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 49\\nformed by that Nation nor that other learning which Avonlcl\\nmake shipwreck of Constitutional rights and safeguards, by theo-\\nries which sophistically give to the War PoAvers of the President\\nand Congress a predominance? over Constitutional guaranties,\\nbut that learning which accepting the undisputed facts of history,\\narrives at the conclusion that the Constitution was adopted by\\nthe several peoples of the different States, whereby the peoples\\nof those States became a Nation for the piu poses manifested by\\nit, and that the war powers, designed to preserve, cannot be\\nrightfully exercised to destroy, the liberties of the people.\\nWe dedicate it to Philantlii-opy and Charity.\\nNot to that philanthi opy which consists in words and eschews\\nworks not to that charity which, beginning at home, ends in the\\nsame spot nor that charity which does hope things are not\\nquite so bad as they are reported, but is fearful that they may\\nbe worse but to that philan1;hropy which does the deeds of\\nthe Good Samaritan, and which is open-hearted and open-hand-\\ned within the limits of prudence; and to that charity Avhich\\nsuffereth long and is kind, which envieth not, is not easily pro-\\nvoked, thinketh no evil, hopeth all things, and endureth all\\nthings.\\nWe dedicate it to Ambition.\\nNot that ambition which seeks a seat in Congress by bribery,\\nor any other seat by the petty arts of the partisan politician\\nbut that ambition described by Lord Mansfield, when he said,\\nI wish popularity, but it is that popularity Avhich follows, nut\\nthat which is run after it is that popularity which, sooner or\\nlater, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by\\nnoble means.\\nWe dedicate it to rational Amusement.\\nNot to the games or pursuits which blunt the conscience, de-\\nprave the habits, enervate the mind, and vitiate the taste but\\nto the recreations which solace from care, stimulate the fancy,\\ndevelop the muscle, sustain the nerves, and give, through so-", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 JAFFKEY CENTFAXIAL.\\ncial intercourse, a relaxation from toil, a kindly regard for our\\nneighbors, and courtesy to our associates, whether within or\\nwithout the township.\\nWe dedicate it to the wise and just exercise of all the politi-\\ncal and municipal Eights conferred upon the Town and to the\\nfaithful discharge of all corresponding Duties.\\nFinally, as the sum of all, we dedicate it to Human Happi-\\nness, and the Glory of God.\\nAnd may His blessing rest upon it, and hallow it, from its\\ncommencement to its termination.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 51\\nI P TC ]vr D I X A.\\nNote to page 15. A portion of JafFrey was included in\\nthe original location of Peterborough.\\nThe township of Peterborough was granted by Massachusetts,\\nto inhabitants of that Colony, with power to the grantees to se-\\nlect the particular location. Under the erroneous supposition\\nthat the line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was\\nthat claimed by the former, the grantees made their location be-\\nyond the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and embraced within their\\nsix miles square a large portion of the valley between the\\nbase of the mountain on the east, (now known as Peterboro\\nmountain), and the IMonadnock,\\nWhen it was ascertained that the location was within New\\nHampshire, and fell within the purchase of the Masonian Pro-\\nprietors, Jos. Blanchard, as their agent, cut off a range and a\\nhalf on the western side, in order to provide for a tier of town-\\nships east of the Monadnock, and the portion thus cut off was\\nincluded in Monadnock Nos. 2 3, (Jaffrey and Dublin).\\nThe Masonian Proprietors not only released the residue of the\\ntownship to the grantees under Massachusetts, but gave them,\\nto make up their quantity, a strip of land on the East, of equal\\nextent to that taken off on the West. This however, being on\\nthe eastern mountain, was comparatively worthless. The grant-\\nees of Peterboro in grateful recognition of the kindness of the\\nMasonian Proprietors in confirming so much of their invalid ti-\\ntle, and in giving them an addition to make up their quantity,\\ngave the Proprietors several lots in the township, but they\\ntook care to locate them all in the new addition, on the east\\nEx rdadone Dr. Albert. Smith.\\nPPEISTDIX B.\\nNote to Page 24. Something more may be said upon this\\nsubject, and as I have no wish to recur to it again, I add here\\nThe compact made on board the Mayflower, which furnished\\nthe foundation of the first Town organization, at Plymouth,", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nwas occasioned, partly by the discontented and mutinous\\nspeeches of some of the strangers on board the ship, and part-\\nly by the reason that such an act by them done, (this theii*\\ncondition considered) might be as firm as any patent, and in\\nsome respects more sure. The matters which occasioned\\nthe compact had, therefore, no particular relation to the chiu ch\\npolity. It recited that they were loyal subjects of King James,\\nthat they had undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement\\nof the Christian faith, and honor of then- King and country, a\\nvoyage to plant a Colony, and by it they combined themselves\\ntogether, into a civil body politic, for the better promotion of\\nthose ends, and by virtue of it, to enact, constitute and frame\\nsuch just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and of-\\nfices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and con-\\nvenient for the general good of the Colony.\\nThere is nothing, either in the reasons given for the act, or in\\nthe purposes of the expedition as recited, or in the agreement\\nactually executed, which indicates that it was derived from the\\nchurch organization, or which in any way refers to the Con-\\ngregational polity, or to any particular administration of church\\ngovernment, and this, taken Avith the statements which are con-\\ntained in it, tends to show that the town organization in Ply-\\nmouth, which arose from it, was not even suggested by the cler-\\nical.\\nQuite consistently with this origin of the Town organization,\\nthere mignt have been a different chiurch polity previously, and\\nany church polity which the signers pleased, might have been\\nadopted afterwards. The church polity of the same people,\\nhad, as a matter of course, a similar foundation, that of self-gov-\\nernment, but that fact did not of itself originate or give rise\\nto the civil polity. It only accompanied it, each acting within\\nits own sphere.\\nThis organization of Plymouth became substantially a State,\\nas well as a town. But the State was for the purpose of general\\ngovernment, and did not derive its ideal from the chiu-ch; and\\nwhen, by reason of the extension of the settlements, other towns\\nwere organized, it was for the purpose of ordering and manag-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "JAFFEEY CENTENNIAL. 53\\ning their local affairs, the support of religious teachers, along\\nwith the making and mending of highways, the support of\\nschools, the preservation of the peace, thi ough the instrumen-\\ntality of the constable, and the prevention of of trespass by\\ncattle, thi ough the institution of pounds.\\nThe principle of self-government upon which the original\\nsettlement was founded, and upon which in reference to their\\nlocal affairs, the Towns were afterwards organized, was not on-\\nly a fundamental principle with the emigrants, but was a neces-\\nsity under the circumstances attending the emigration. No one\\nhad authority to rule, there were no means of government ex-\\ncept by agreement, or force, and they agreed upon a govern-\\nment for themselves, to be administered by themselves. It must\\nhave been the same if no church had then been organized among\\nthem. The same principle operated in regard to the chiu ch.\\nWhen the people broke from the authority of the bishops there\\nwas no authority in ecclesiastical matters, except their own, and\\nthus Congregationalism came into existence.\\nIt may be said, (and it seems to be the only argument which\\ncan be used in favor of the position), that the principles of the\\nchurches led to this form of government, that the church\\norganization was first, and that the Town coming after, adopted\\nthe same principle of self-government. To this Post hoc, sed\\nvon propter hoc, after, but not hy reason of the chiu ch oro-an-\\nization, is a sufficient reply. There must be something more\\nthan this, to sustain the assertion that it was a Congregational\\nChurch meeting, that first suggested the idea of a New England\\nTown meeting.\\nMeetings of subscribers to the Compact made on board the\\nMayflower, grew out of the Compact itself.\\nA P F E N 3D I X C.\\nNote to page 38. Attempts to maimfacture cotton, by ma-\\nchinery, were made in this country as early as 1787, and in sub-\\nsequent years in that century. The machinery was imperfect\\nand the results, of course, unsatisfactory. The first mill, in New", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nHampshire, was established in 1804, iu New Ipswich. The first\\ncotton mill in Peterboro was incorporated 1808. It spun and\\nsold yarn, but for years manufactured no cloth. For these dates\\nI am indebted to a small volume entitled, Introduction and\\nEarly prot^ress of the cotton manufacture in the United States,\\nwritten by vSamuel Batchelder, Esq., a native of Jaffrey, and\\npublished in 1863. Prior to the manufacture of cloth here, the\\ncheaper cotton cloth, in the market, was a sleasy fabric, manufac-\\ntured in India and England, the latter heavily starched, to\\nconceal its flimsy texture.\\nEnquiries in several directions enable rae to add some infor-\\nmation respecting the manufacture of Woollens.\\nIt appears that a mill, a fulling mill I presume, was erected at\\nRowley, Mass., as early as IG-to, but machinery for carding,\\nspinning, and weaving was of a much later date. Carding ma-\\nchines were introduced into this country about 1794, into\\nNew Ipswich in 1801, and probably soon after into this town.\\nThey had then been known in England twenty or thirty years.\\nSome of the first carding machinery used in this country was\\nshipped from England, as hardware, being exported contrary to\\nthe laws in force there. See Bulletin of Wool Manufacturers,\\nApril-June, 1873, page 193. Article by S. B.\\nT. Clapp, Agt., Pontoosuc Woollen Mill, Pittsfield, Mass.,\\nwrites under date of October 9th, that Arthur Schofield started\\nhis first carding machine there in 1801; that the first broad-\\ncloth made in this country was made by him, in that town, in\\n1804, and that in 1808 Schofield manufactured thirteen yards\\nof black broadcloth, which was presented to President Madison,\\nfrom which his inaugural suit was made. Fine merino sheep\\nwere introduced about this time into this toMu, and Schofield\\nwas able to select wool enough to make this single piece, and\\nPresident Madison Avas the first President who Avas inaugurated\\nin American broadcloth.\\nAn extended, and very interesting, article on the subject, ap-\\npears in the Boston Commercial Bulletin, of Nov. 15th, (as these\\nsheets are passing through the press), which states that Arthur", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CEXTEXNIAL. 55\\nand John Schofield came to this country from England in 1798,\\nand took up their residence in Charlestown, that after look-\\ning around a few weeks they determined to make a start in the\\nmanufacture of wollen cloth by hand, that John built the first\\nmachinery himself, and having completed a hand loom, spin-\\nning jenny, c., on the 28th of October he sold the first product\\nof this loom, 2^ yards of broadcloth for \u00c2\u00a316-16s., and 20\\nyards of mixed broadcloth for \u00c2\u00a312; that they removed to\\nNewburyport in that year, for the purpose of starting a factory\\nwith improved machinery, and built a carding machine, Avhich\\nAvas first put together in a room in Lord Timothy Dexter s sta-\\nble, and then operated by hand, for the purpose of showino- its\\noperation. This was in the year 1794, and was the first card-\\ning machine for avooI made in the United States and at this\\nplace were made the first spinning rolls carded by machinery.\\nA factory was started by them, and others, in Byfield, in 1795.\\nA single carding machine and two double ones were placed in it.\\nA coarse kind of flannel called baize was woven. What oth-\\ner cloth was manufactured is not stated.\\nThey established a factory at Montville, in Conn., about 1798.\\nIt appears further that in 1801, Arthur, having removed to\\nPittsfield, had a car ding_ machine there, advertised for wool to\\ncard, and built carding machines for other 2:\u00c2\u00bbersons.\\nIt is then stated, The first broadcloth made by Arthur\\nSchofield after his arrival in Pittsfield was in 1804. The cloth\\nwas a gray mixed, and when finished, was shoA\\\\ n to different\\nmerchants, and offered for sale but could find no purrhasors in\\nthe village. A few weeks subsequently, Josiah Bissell, a lead-\\ning merchant in town, made a voyage to New York, for the pur-\\npose of buying goods, and brought home two pieces of Scho-\\nfield s cloths, which was purchased for the foreign article. Scho\\nfield was sent for to test the quality, and soon exhibited to the\\nmerchant his private marks on the same cloth which he had be-\\nfore rejected.\\nThen comes the statement respecting the manufacture of broad-\\ncloth in 1808, which President Madison wore wlien inauo-urated.\\nConsidering all these statements the reasonable conclusion ap-\\npears to be, that the first broadcloth manufactured in this coun-", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\ntry was made in 1804, by Arthur Schofield, as stated by Mr.\\nClapp. It seems improbable that the cloth manufactured in\\nCharlestown in 1794 could have been broadcloth.\\nAt the period of which I speak, wool was carded partly by\\nhand, but the carding machines generally turned out the rolls,\\nwhich were spun upon the domestic great Avheel, and woven in\\nthe loom, like the cotton, and then fulled and dressed by the\\nclothier.\\nThe great wheel and the loom have disappeared before their\\ngigantic competitors and the linen wheel, which spun the flax,\\nhumble little machine, has gone along with its larger compan-\\nions, although large linen manufactures have not succeeded in\\nestablishing themselves here to any great extent. The prepa-\\nration of the ground, the seed and the sowing, the pulling,\\nrotting, breaking, swingling and hatchelling of the flax, with\\nthe spinning and weaving superadded, involved too great an\\namount of labor for a successful competition with the foreign\\nmanufactui er, as soon as the profit from other branches enabled\\nthe farmer to purchase the foreign article, manufactured where\\nlabor is so much cheaper. Besides, the manufacture of cot-\\nton cloth, by machinery, reduced the cost* of that, so that it su-\\nperseded the use of linen, in a very great degree.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CEXTEXXIAL. 57\\nResonant cheers were given as Boston men of high, degree\\nfiled in at 11.30 a. m., and took seats upon the platform after a\\npertinent introduction by President Cutter. The party included\\nMayor Henry L. Pierce, Alderman L. R. Cutter, (chairman of\\nthe board who bore the visitors expenses), Gibson, Brown and\\nSayward John A. Haven, president, and Nathaniel J. Bradlee,\\nex-president of Cochituate Water Board Alfred T. Turner,\\nauditor of accounts Joseph Davis, city surveyor H. A. Blood,\\nSuperintendent of the Boston, Clinton Fitchburg Railroad\\nPresident HoAve of the Bedford Taunton Railroad, and foiu-\\ncompanionable reporters representing the Boston Post, News^\\nGlobe and Adccrtiser.\\nThe President then said The breezes that plav around\\nold Monadnock, so like the elixer of life to the weary wander-\\ner, have called to us, among many others, a lady noted for her\\nvocal powers. She has kindly consented to favor us with a\\nsong. I now introduce to this audience, the sweet songstress\\nfrom the Old Bay State,\\nMRS. ANNA GRANGER DOW.\\nMrs. DoAV then sang The Heavens are Telling, with telling\\neffect.\\nThe President then introduced the Rea Ruft s Case, who\\nread\\nA P O E M\\nBY MISS MARY BEETLE FOX, OF JAFFKEY, N. H.\\nA hundred times has Autumn seen\\nHis forest branches stripped and bare\\nA hundred times, when winds blew keen,\\nWhite Winter s snows have tilled the air;\\nA hundred times Spring s magic wiles,\\nHave clothed with green the hillsides brown;\\nAnd now the last fair summer smiles\\nThat rounds the century of our Town.\\nYon mountain calls to us to-day,\\nAnd draws us with persuasive voice,\\nThis is your Town s memorial day,\\nM) children, keep it and rejoice\\nWhile waving tree, and rock, and hill.\\nWith silent voices manifold.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nGreet those who dwell among them slill.\\nAnd those who knew them well of old.\\nCome, stand, as on my breezy height,\\nAnd view the backward-swetiping past,\\nThen read your own deeds in the light\\nThe lives of others on them cast\\nAnd let old memories stir your hearts,\\nLike breezes whispering through my pines.\\nTill the unbidden tear-drop starts.\\nTo read time s half-eftaced lines.\\nAnd gladly we that call obey.\\nAnd gladly do we gather here,\\nTurning our faces toward that way\\nWhence shall the past s dim forms appear.\\nBut who can lift witli steady hand\\nThat misty curtain hanging low,\\nShrouding the half-forgotten land,\\nThat far, dim land of long ago?\\nNot one among us here can see\\nSo far adown the winding way.\\nAnd say, I do remember me\\nWhat was on our Town s natal day\\nWhen people cried, God save the King,\\nThough freedom s pulses stirred their breast;\\nThough swelled the seed about to spring\\nOf our great nation of the West.\\nA stalwart band of men were they.\\nThe early settlers of our Town,\\nLoud rang their axes day by day.\\nThat hewed the forest monarchs down.\\nMen not afraid of honest toil,\\nThey sought the wilds a home to win.\\nAnd gladly from the virgin soil\\nGathered their harvest treasures in.\\nThey built them houses large and plain,\\nWhere clustered their life s richest jojs;\\nW^here round them rose a numerous train\\nOf healthy, happy girls and boys.\\nThat children s minds have need of food,\\nThat they may grow, full well they knew.\\nAnd built the district school-house rude.\\nWherein rich fruit.\u00c2\u00ab of knowledge grew.\\nThey felt the goodness of the Lord.\\nWhose hand had led them all their days.\\nAnd gladly built with one accord,\\nA house where they his name might praise.\\nHere still that ancient building stands.\\nScarce changed in outward form appears.\\nUnharmed by the destructive hands.\\nOf near a century s changeful years.\\nTwas when they raised that frame-work strong.\\nOne fair June morning, calm iuid still,", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CENTENNIAL. 59\\nThey heard, or fancy led them Avrong,\\nThe far-ofTguns at Bunker Hill;\\nWhence rose that patriotic wave\\nThat o er the hind impetuous swept,\\nWaking in hearts of all the brave\\nThe love of freedom that had slept.\\nQuickly our fathers stirred them then\\nThey left their homes, and took the gun,\\nAnd bore their pai t, as valiant men.\\nIn that long strife that freedom won.\\nThen with clear shining after rain,\\nThe sun of peace dispersed their fears,\\nAnd in their quiet homes again.\\nPassed on their uneventful years.\\nWhere are they now The bell that swings\\nIn yon old tower the tale doth tell,\\nWhene er with solemn tone it rings\\nSome parted soul a funeral knell;\\nEach to the grave has journeyed on,\\nThere each in lasting quiet sleeps,\\nThe while his white memorial stone\\nThe door of his low dwelling keeps.\\nIn yonder city on the hill\\nThe blooming sod above their breasts.\\nWhere all is peaceful, calm, and still,\\nTheir pastor with his people rests.\\nLife held him here a hundred years.\\nAnd kept him from his heavenly crown,\\nTill weary with its griefs and fears.\\nHe laid the heavy burden down.\\n0, friends, who seek in vain to-day,\\nSome long-remembered, well-known face.\\nPerchance ye on yon marbles may\\nAn answer to your questions trace.\\nFor sleep our ftithers not alone.\\nFull many of their children too.\\nHave crossed life s boundary, one by one,\\nAnd paid the debt to nature due.\\nThere rest our sons in hallowed graves.\\nWho fell neath war s red, cruel hand\\nWho gave their brave young lives to save,\\nFrom traitor s foul designs our land.\\nO honored sires O household dead,\\nO soldiers true, sleep calm and sound\\nLife bears us on with steady tread,\\nOn to the rest that ye have found.\\nFull well we know that this, our town.\\nHas little worth in stranger s eyes.\\nWe love it, for it is our own.\\nAnd holds us by a thousand ties.\\nHere peace and plenty mark our lot.\\nNow, e en as in the good old time,", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nAnd Change and Progress question not\\nTo lay on us their hands sublime.\\nN er entered in our father s dreams,\\nSome changes that the years have wrought\\nOur locomotives rush and scream,\\nA fearsome thing they would have thought.\\nNo prophecy the housewife s wheel\\nSung to them of the jarring looms,\\nThat ply their giant frames of steel,\\nIn our tall factory s many rooms.\\nOur merry streams, that down the hills\\nGo leaping on their sea-ward way,\\nAre caught and held by busy mills,\\nWhom, willing subjects, they obey;\\nThere great stones crush the yellow corn,\\nThere clanging saws harsh tumult make.\\nWhere trees put oil their forest form.\\nAnd shapes for our convenience take.\\nHere nature s ever open book\\nDisplays its pictured pages too.\\nShowing to all who choose to look.\\nMany a goodly pleasant view.\\nNo lack of beauty, rugged hill\\nAnd rock-strewn field have need to own.\\nWhen o er them Summer s hand of skill,\\nA drapery of green has thrown.\\nSweet is the blooming orchard s breath.\\nRich glow their boughs through Autumn s care;\\nPleasant their shadowy trees, beneath\\nThe dwellings, scattered here and there.\\nSunny the pastures, sloping down\\nTo grassy meadows, cool and low\\nGrand the old woods, whose columns brown\\nThe golden sunshine sets aglow.\\nOur winding x iver brightly gleams\\nMid green, low banks its waters lave\\nAnd one clear, flowing mountain stream,\\nHolds gifts of healing in its wave.\\nOur ponds, like fretted silver shields,\\nDropped by some fabled gods of old.\\nWhen worsted on celestial fields,\\nThe woods, with leafy arms, enfold.\\nThere the sAveet water-lily lies.\\nAnd in the wave her beauty sees\\nThere many a timid, wild bird flies.\\nAnd sings in the encircling trees.\\nNear them, the pink Azalea breathes\\nHer sweetness on June s balmy air\\nAnd there the glossy Laurel wreathes\\nHer virgin blossoms, pale and fair.\\nBut what, Monadnock, shall we say\\nOf thee, thou dear to every heart", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 61\\nThat knew thee in its chikihuod s day,\\nEre life from nature grew apart?\\nThy silent eloquence, is fraught\\nWith meanings deep, and grandly true,\\nUncouciously, our young liearts caught\\nAnd held them, better than we knew.\\nFor always in our later years.\\nHowever far our footsteps roam,\\nOur mountain clear to sight appears,\\nWhen fancy paints our early home.\\nGrand mays t thou seem to stranger s eyes,\\nAnd strangers tongues tliy praises sing;\\nWe hold thee in our memories,\\nAnd love thee like a human thing.\\nGod of our fathers, unto Thee\\nWith humble gratitude, to-day,\\nWe bow the reverential knee\\nAnd at Thy throne our homage pay.\\nWe pray Thee, bless our native Town,\\nFrom henceforth, as Thou hast of old\\nAnd sliovver upon lier children down,\\nThv mercies, great and manifold.\\nThough, when the coming century s years\\nHave passed, a swift and cliangeful train,\\nNot one of all wlio gather liere.\\nShall on the shores of Time remain\\nMay we in Thine own blessed land.\\nWhere life and joy shall never cease.\\nBeneath Thy trees of healing stand,\\nAnd walk upon Thy hills of peace.\\nHYMN OF GRATITUDE.\\nUY MISS ERMINA C. CAMPBELL.\\nSung by the Choir.\\nWe come, God, a happy throng, With hearts that thrill with solemn\\nOur grateful hearts to raise.\\nWith glad accord, in swelling song.\\nIn sweetest notes of praise.\\nFrom out thy boundless store, God\\nAn hundred years have shed\\nTheir gift* on us who breathe to-day,\\nAnd on the slei ping dead.\\nawe.\\nWe pause upon our way.\\nTo view once more the shrouded Past,\\nAnd greet the new-born day.\\nThe piean of an hundred years\\nIs echoing in each heart;\\nIts grandly sweet and solemn strains\\n1 Will nevermore depart.\\nHow countless are the fragrant j\\nthoughts 1 We come, God to render thanks.\\nWhich cluster round those years l Our grateful hearts to raise,\\nWhat toiling hosts have shared their With fervent homage and with awe,\\njoys. In sweetest songs of praise.\\nTheir thronging hopes and fears.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nPresident Cutter took the floor for a moment and said\\nLndies and Gentlemen As oiu friends from Boston can re-\\nmain with us only a short time, we propose to defer dinner until\\nhalf past one, therefore i now introduce to you C. A. Parks,\\nEsq., of East Jaffrey, as Toastmaster of the day.\\nTOASTM ASTER PARK S REMARKS.\\nMr. F resident, Ladies and Geallemen Fellow Citizens of JaJ-\\nfretj 1 am grateful for the honor you have conferred upon me\\nin your selection of a Master for your Centennial feast. It is\\nan office the duties of which will afford me much pleasure and\\nimpose upon me little labor, for 1 regard it as my special prov-\\nince not to attempt any speech myself today, but simply to re-\\nintroduce to you some of your old friends and ac ^uaintances\\nwhose voices were familiar in the years past, and whose count-\\nenances you welcome here, where you have gathered in one\\ncommon brotherhood to celebrate the one hundredth natal day\\nof youi mother town.\\n1 am glad that i am privileged, thi-ough a right of adoption by\\nJ atirey, to be present on this occasion and to participate in these\\nexercises by proposing a few sentiments of an appropriate char-\\nacter for your consideration and 1 hope from the responses to\\nwhich we may listen, we shall be able to gather much of profit-\\nable entertainment, and that in the Avords of those whom Jaffrey\\nis happy to remember and honor on this day, there will come to\\nus all many fruitful lessons respectmg the reminiscences of the\\npast and many golden hopes for the future.\\nWe are honored today by Boston in the presence here of her\\nMayor and her Board of Aldermen, a body of gentlemen whose\\nposition distinguishes them as Boston s most worthy representa-\\ntives. A sentiment has been selected for the Honorable Mayor,\\nsuggestive not only of the geographical proximity of ISew Hamp-\\nshire to the city over which he presides, but also of that honest\\ngratitude and pride over Boston s high rank and increasing great-\\nness as a metropolis, in which Jattrcy may be permitted to share\\nthrough those of her sons she has given the great city to enroll\\namong her honored names, it is this .Jatfrey enjoys the hon-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY f ENTEXMAI.. 63\\nor of not being entirely outside that circle of which Boston is the\\ncentre and the Hub. And she is justly proud of the distinc-\\ntion which New England s largest city has in the past given to\\nmany of her sons. I have the honor of presenting to you the\\nHoNoKABi-E Henry L. Fiekce, M-iyor of Boston.\\nMAYOR PIERCE S RESPONSE.\\nLadies and Geteeaien T did not come up here today to\\naddress you, or indeed with any desire to do so. In fact I shrink\\nfrom making an address, but I came on the invitation of my\\nfriend Alderman Cutter, whom Boston knows and respects, to\\nmeet with you on this day so interesting to you and all of us.\\nThe close of a century in the history of the world, the close of\\npresent century is one of the most interesting and among the\\nmost eventful of any that have marked the progress of the race.\\nWhen Ave look back and see what has been accomplished in the\\nworld, and even in this country, and see that during that time\\nwe have separated from the British croAvn and observe the im-\\nprovements that have been made, and which affect the welfare of\\nthe world at large, we must look back upon it with the greatest\\nsatisfaction. But we must also look forward and hope that the\\ncentury to come will be crowned with equal results. Boston is\\nproud of being considered the metropolis of New England, and\\nshe desires to express her hearty thanks for the many good,\\nsound men who have been sent to her from New Hampshire,\\nand who have helped increase her prosperity. She hopes she is\\nworthy of what New England has made her in the past, and\\nshe hopes to be worthy of the support of New England in the\\nfuture, and now ladies and gentlemen, I will only say I thank\\nyou all and thank my friend the son of Jaffrey, the Alderman,\\nfor the great pleasure he has given me in inviting us to be\\npresent on this occasion.\\nSkntimext No 2 We welcome those who having gone\\nfrom \\\\is have aided in sustaining the charater of the noble sons of\\nNew Hampshire for integrity, enterprise and success in busi-\\nness, in every part of our land. Having read the above senti-\\nment, the J oastmaster introduced the next speaker:", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nI have the pleasure of presenting to you as a respondent to\\nthis sentiment a gentleman of Avhom nothing need be said by me.\\nHe his known to you all. His native town is Jaffrey, where he\\nis always warmly welcomed. In Boston where he has resided\\nfor a number of years, he is noted as a gentleman eminently\\nsviccessful in business and one whom his adopted city has de-\\nlighted to honor for his superior ability and sterling integrity.\\nI refer to the Hon. Leonard R. C iitter, Chairman of the Board\\nof Aldermen of Boston.\\nALDER.MAN CI^TTER S RESPONSE.\\nYou do me great honor, Mr. President, in asking me to re-\\nspond to the sentiment just read. I sincerely regret that I am\\nnot better qualified to do justice to the subject. I can truly say\\nthat whatever of success has attended the efforts of those sons\\nof New Hampshire who have sought fame or fortune in other\\nStates and other countries has been largely due to the honorable\\ndistinction in which their birth-place is held. The old-fashioned\\nstandard of morality and integrity has been so nobly maintained by\\nthose who have remained at home, that the wanderers carry with\\nthem a certificate of good character in the name of the State from\\nwhich they hail, and that goes a great way toward assuring them\\nsuccess even among the Philistines. While our State has not,\\nfor obvious reasons, increased so rapidly in wealth and popula-\\ntion during the last fifty years as some other sections ol the\\ncountiy, it certainly has not fallen behind any section in those\\nthings which tend to a higher state of civilization, good govern-\\nment and right living and in the mean time it has been furn-\\nishing in larger proportions, I believe, than any other New Eng-\\nland State, the intelligent enterprise which has, as it were, anni-\\nhilated time and distance and enabled us to do our missionary\\nwork in the far West, and at the same time keep good hours at\\nhome. There is one advatage, Mr. President, which we who go\\naway from home have over those who stay, and that is the plea-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 65\\nsure of letiu iiiug and we also acquire a keener appreciation of\\nthe natural beauties of our native place. Although I spent my\\nyouth here in the shadow of Old Monadnock, I never knew or\\nimagined the grandeur of the scenery I was daily looking upon\\nuntil I had an opportunity of comparing it with other places.\\nThere is something enobling in the presence of this scenery be-\\nyond the power of any works of man. And, living in these Pa-\\ncific llailroad times, it is a sort of satisfaction to reflect that the\\nworks of nature here are upon such a gigantic scale that the pro-\\nfaning hands of railroad contractors are almost powerless against\\nthem. But, Mr. President, the occasion on which we have met\\nbrings up other scenes and other events than those which are mere-\\nly amusing or ridiculous. We have, this day, together, turned\\nour eyes back upon the places that kncAV us in our infancy and\\nyouth. To us New Hampshire presents something other than\\nher granite hills yes, sir, and something more interesting even\\nthan the grassy vales or the pearly brooks, or the silvery water\\nsheets, that are associated Avith the past time of our early days.\\nDearer to us still than the imagery of those bright scenes is the\\nmemory of the friends that we first loved those who luirtured\\nus in infancy, who guided us in youth, who oj)ened to us the av-\\neniies of knowledge, who warned us of the miseries of vice, and\\npresented to us the indiu^ements of virtue, and who made us what\\nwe are. Perhaps they still live to greet otu occasional returns\\nto the paternal home or, perhaps we have been called to com-\\nmit them to the silent bosom of earth. Be that as it may, our\\nrelation to them is sacred, and while the poAver of thought shall\\nendure, the memory of their kindness will abide. In conclusion,\\nMr. President, I give you as a sentiment (and I do not expect\\nany one to respond to it unless the Old Man of the Mountain\\nshould happen to be present), The Hills of NeAv Hampshire.\\nIf Napoleon could incite his soldiers to greater deeds of valor by\\nthe thought that forty centuries looked down upon them from\\nthe pyramids, how much greater should be the inspiration and\\nthe achievement of the sons of New Hampshire from the thought\\nthat the centi;ries from the begining of time, looked down upon\\nthem from their native hills.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 .lAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nSentiment Xo. 3. The day we celebrate/\\nResponse by Rev. Moses T. Runnels, of Sanbornton, X. H.\\nMr. President, Sons, Daughters and Citizens of Jaffretj: I\\nconfess to a strong, inherent partiality for Centennial days, like\\nthis. The Centennial celebration of old Peterborough awakened\\nray childish enthusiasm, at the age of nine years, and I have\\nsince labored hard, as a resident of those places, to secure simi-\\nlar centennials at Orford in 1865, and at Sanbornton in 1871.\\nBut this, Mr. Chaiinnan, is the first Centennial Day I have ever\\nreally celebrated con amore. For I do love old Jaffrey, having\\nclaimed a residence here for twenty-five years from infancy.\\nI gazed upon that noble mountain, from under the old pine tree\\non the hill- top of my grandfather s farm, as one of my earliest\\nremembered acts and, having found it the chief outward attrac-\\ntion of my home the last eight years, that I could there view this\\nsame Grand Monadnock from garden walk or study window, at\\nthe distance of GO miles, it is not strange that the promptings\\nof my heart would not suffer me to be absent from this place to-\\nday that neither the most pressing engagements at home,\\nnor yet the appalling announcement that I might be called upon\\nfor a speech, could deter me from this family gathering of the\\nsons and daughters of Jaffrey.\\nAs we have listened, with so much interest, to the able histor-\\nical address, it has been your privilege and mine, brothers and\\nsisters, almost to exclaim with Virgil s hero, Quorum jnirsfair\\nof which I was a part, our individual life, our vivid\\nremembrance, sweeping back, as it does in my own case, over\\ntwo fifths of the century now passed. And I can tell you, sir,\\nfrom my experience here today, as compared with that on other\\nsimilar occasions, it makes a difference whether a man engages\\nin a celebration like this, as a mere spectator, or as an actor in\\nthe scene as a temporary resident, or as a son of the town whose\\nfestivities he enjoys. And while these rare entertainments for\\nmind and hod\\\\j (as I was about to say, expecting to speak after\\ndinner) have been spread before us, and 1 have felt that I might\\nturn to this presiding officer or to others of the committee of\\narrangements, and say to each, you and I, sir, were playmates", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "JAFI KEY CENTENNIAL. 67\\ntog-cthcr; or might add to many others in this vast assembly,\\nwith ijou, your brothers, or your sons I sported in artless child-\\nhood with yon, \\\\o\\\\\\\\x sisters or your daughters, I attended school\\nin the happy days of youth your children I remember as among\\nmy favorite pupils in that old red school-house under the hill\\nI can assure you, Mr. President and gentlemen, that I have found\\nmyself all the more ready to rise and at least repeat the senti-\\nment you have so kindly given me, if I did not respond to it,\\nThe Day icc Celebrate.\\nAnd what do we mean by the day we celebrate The actu-\\nal day of incorporation as it was Or this glorious day as it is\\nPerhaps we ought to claim that we are celebidting both days;\\nthe day that was, and the day that is. What i/ifif. day was, Ave\\ncan not know beyond what the distinguished orator of today\\nhas told us. It is like our birthdays in this regard; with the\\nimportant difference that we were not any of us there at that time\\nto sec Each one s imagination must help him to picture a scene\\nin Jaffrey 100 years ago and as the beautiful banner we have\\nseen borne before us today reminds us that Jaffrey was incorpo-\\nrated o-//s/ 77, 1773, I have thought that the few scat-\\ntered settlers then in town might have come together about\\nthree days afterwards, on the day exacthj corresponding with\\nthis, to hold a sort of congratulatory meeting The news of the\\nact of incorporation has just reached them Thev have\\ngathered in their rough suits of skins or home-spun from their\\nscattered log cabins, perhaps to some central cabin near this\\nspot. From how different scenes, and in what dissimilar appar-\\nel have we assembled, at our congratulatory meeting They\\ncame, on foot, or on horse back, at the rate of two miles an hoiu-,\\nthrough pathless forests or guided by scarred and jiunping over\\nfallen trees. fVc have come in oxw light pleasure wagons at the\\nspeed of six or eight miles an hour, or, upon the wings of steam\\nat the rate of 500 hundi ed miles per day\\nThose strong minded fathers, as they passed their- hearty con-\\ngratulations on the incorporation of their town, may also have\\nspoken together of those ominous mutterings of an approaching\\nrevolution of which they were hearing from week to Aveek, from\\nthe then distant city of Boston, perhaps of the late tea-party", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 JAFFEEY CENTENNIAL.\\nthere. We, their descendants, if we think of any centennial be-\\nsides our own, are perhaps letting our thoughts go forward to\\nthat grandest of all the days in our nation s history, if God per-\\nmit, the approaching hundredth anniversary of the Declaration\\nof her Independence. And of what surprising diirngcs are we\\nthus reminded, as occurring between these days we celebrate,\\nin the nation, in the town and in social life\\nBut on many other accounts is this day we celebrate inter-\\nestina; and valuable to us all.\\nIt affords an opportunity for the renewal oi old ussociafiu/is,\\nthe fondest and dearest of our earthly lives, in those scenes and\\ntimes of our earliest recollection when we could speak of joys\\nunmingled with sorrow. Who of us does not hasten to recall\\nthe loves and friendships of those early days, so pure so pro-\\nductive of a happy state so free from the alloy of selfishness\\nFor how many reunions of luter friends, long sejDarated from\\neach other, does this day also afford the glad occasion. It would\\nseem as if the orbits of our lives, having run for many years at\\na distance from and out of sio-ht of each other, were now brouoht\\ninto a mutual and delightful juxta-position or, like vessels at\\nsea, bound on the same voyage, after having, in separation, out-\\nridden many of the storms of life, we are today permitted to\\ncourse for a few hours within speaking distance of each oth-\\ner, to compare notes on all the way in which a kind Provi-\\ndence has led us, each in our several spheres of duty, to re-\\njoice in each other s prosperity, to sympathize with each oth-\\ner s griefs.\\nAnd this reminds us, again, of the dear ones not lost as Ave\\nfondly hope, but gone before, with whom we formerly took\\nsweet counsel together, and walked, it may be, to the house\\nof God in company. Does it not seem, my friends, as though\\ntheir spirits, if aught on earth can afford them happiness, might\\neven now be the unseen witnesses of this joyful re-union i At\\nleast, are not their countenances, their loved or venerated forms,\\ntheir winning voices all fresh in our recollections today Is not\\nour communion with them almost as palpable and as marked as\\nthat \\\\t\\\\\\\\ one another", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "JAFIKEY CENTEXMAT,. (39\\nOnce more the day we celebrate bespeaks our gical w-\\ndchtfjlneas to the ancestral fathers and guardians of the town in\\nall previous years.\\nAVhat this age is especially deficient in, is a respect for the\\npast. But the celebration of this day is a practical application\\nof the noble sentiment of Burke, Those who do not treasure\\nup the memory of their ancestors, do not deserve to be remem-\\nbered by posterity; though by no means exposing us to the\\nquaint sarcasm of Sir Thomas Overbury, that those who rest\\ntheir chi iin to cons nhrdtion on the merit of their ancestry instead\\nof their own individual worth, are like a hill of potatoes, the\\nbest portion is under ground.\\nAnd how, in this connection, did time permit, avouIcI I love\\nto pay my humble tribute to the fathers of Jaffrey, whose very\\nimages are now so vividly before me, as having been upon the\\nstage. a third or half a century ago How many honored names\\ndo I recall The Ainsworths, the Parkers, the Spauldings, the\\nGilmores and the Howes the Cutters, the Baileys,- the Law-\\nrences and the Em( rys or in the other part of the town where\\nI lived, the Prescotts, the Spoffords, and the Joslins the Pierces,\\nthe Bacons, the Mowers, and many others all over town who might\\nbe mentioned with others still who hardly yet have passed\\nfrom our view and especially that prince among New Hamp-\\nshire farmers,* that prince among the benevolent benefactors\\nof the town and the State at large, to whom you and 1, Mr.\\nChairman, feel ourselves personally indebted for those habits of\\nindustry and that spirit of energy and enterprise which he ear-\\nIv instilled within us, tempered ever with the most excellent\\ncounsels and confirmed by a most laudable example.\\nIn view of all these noble men and women too, who have giv-\\nen character to the Jaffrey of the past, moulding her institutions,\\nestablishing her educational and religious privileges and adorn-\\ning her homes, we can only exclaim, what a rich legacy is here\\nWhat cumulative influences and forces for good have come down\\nto us from the record of the last centiu-y How should this\\n*The Hon. John C onant. who. from feeble healtli, was unable to be pres-\\nent.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "TO JAFFUEY CENTENNIAL.\\nstimulate our gratitude for what the fathers and the mothers\\nwert and for what they acamip/is/icd in oui- behalf! And how\\nzealous should we be to transmit what we have received, unim-\\npaired, to those who shall come after us.\\nFor, while to thn aged, and those who review the past, the\\nday we celebrate is so full of rich satisfaction, with how\\nmuch of value is it also freighted to the young even to these\\nlittle children who have formed, in many respects, the most at-\\ntractive part of our procession today How much useful infor-\\nmation may they gain from the day itself, its teachings and its\\nsuggestions How much, otherwise unknown, may they learn,\\neven respecting the fathers themselves. What insight will be\\nafforded them into the habits of life and social ways of periods\\nlong past And when they reflect upon the changes since ef-\\nfected, the new discoveries and inventions, the improve-\\nments in agricultural and mechanic arts and implements, the\\nincrease of books and other appliances for obtaining and diffus-\\ning knowledge, the improved facilities for travel and inter-\\ncommunication, the bringing together of the nations, and the\\nprogress and elevation of mankind, all of which have been lit-\\nerally crowded into the space of the hundred years now closing\\nlet them be encouraged to graft upon the moral and religious\\nprinciples the sterling virtues, the heroic qualities of mind and\\nheart which belonged to the fathers in the century past, to\\ngicft upon these, I say, all that is inspiring, hopeful, and health-\\nfully progressive in the new century of our local history now\\ncommencing.\\nWhich leads me to add very briefly in conclusion the day we\\ncelebrate is especially valuable to the town lihtoi ian. I rejoice\\nthat old Jaffi ey has one from whom we are to hear on this occa-\\nsion. This day may well afford to him a fresh neiiclcus, a new\\nstarting point, as it Avere and the success of our historical oi-a-\\ntor today may give. him waw aid, impulse and encouragement to\\npress forward in his noble work. Many are the difficulties\\nwhich beset the path of the town historian. Great the apathy\\nwhich broods over many minds surprising the iudiiference\\nwhich many manifest as to all, or aught that pertains to the past", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "JAI FTil .Y CE TEXNTAT 71\\nhistory of those locahties of those famihes, ev,en, in which\\nthey themselves should naturally take the deepest interest. The\\ndark clouds of mystery and uncertainty which are found hang-\\ning over the facts and records of the past are also quite disheart-\\nening at times but these will usually be found lifting and un-\\nveiling themselves before the patient persevering historian, as\\nhe plods along, and often from the most imexpected sources and\\nin ways before unthought of. The satisfaction and reward (not\\npecuniary) of the local historian s work are therefore very great.\\nIts importance cannot be over estimated.- It must be done\\nquickly or it will never be accomplished and Avhen oiice done\\nand well done, it is done for ever Let facts, therefore, respect-\\ning the. men and the things which ever belonged to this good old\\ntown be industriously collected and properly arranged. Let the\\ngenealogies of the old families be traced out, even into other\\ntowns and other parts of the country, so f;\\\\r as possible, for thxis,\\nmuch may be learned throwing light upon the history of the\\ntown itself. It will thus be known what an agsfregate amount\\nof influence the town has really exerted in building u]) other\\ncommunities and moulding society in other localities. The grati-\\nfication of all concerned will be great and ever increasing as\\nyears and generations in the future roll aAvay posterity will ap-\\nprove the sayings and the doings of the faithful annalist. The\\nstores of actual knoAvledge shall be increased different parts of\\nour country shall bo more effectually cemented together man-\\nkind shall be elevated, and the great God who has been our\\ndwelling place in all generations shall Himself be glorified.\\nSentimext No. 4. Jaffrey Her Scenes and her Scene-\\nry. Response by Rev. J. M. H. Smith, of East .TafFrey.\\nAn hour having been spent in social intercourse, and distribut-\\ning among the many from the inexhaustible store of ])rovisi()ns\\nuntil all were satisfied, the Tent Programme was r(\\\\sumed by\\nthe band s playing the Ella Polka, after which Prof. George\\nW. Foster sang a taking ballad\\nl )iniia forfret yer niither. Sandie,\\nwith brilliant succc ss, Avhen Tostmaster Parks ])roc(H ded to say", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "irZ JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nLiidies (Dul GcnfJcmcn After having partaken of the inn fe-\\nrial beiujils so bountifully provided for the inner man on this oc-\\ncasion, it is proposed that we resume again that ot\\\\\\\\idx JhiU bo gan\\nbefore dinner, to wit: The feast of reason and the flow of soul.\\nSentiment No. 5. The Orator of the day. We have hith-\\nerto been proud of his name and reputation as one of the great\\nlights of the legal profession he has today placed us under in-\\nfinite obligation for his interesting and eloquent address. Hon.\\nJoel Parker rose and expressing his gratitude for the honor be-\\nstowed upon him, said that another speech would not be expect-\\ned from him today. He asked leave to place in the hands of the\\nToastmaster the following Sentiment: The inhabitants of Jaf-\\nfrey Steadfast in their principles Untiring in their Indus-\\ntry.\\nSentiment No. 6. Our Common Schools.\\nResponse by Rev. D. N. Goodrich, Sup t School Committee,\\nJaffrey, Avho said that while he need riot remind a New Eng-\\nland audience how highly ttie Fatheks valued common school\\neducation, how they built the school-house close by the meeting-\\nhouse to show, that in their opinion, religion and education\\nshould go hand in hand, he would mention some facts which in-\\ndicat(^ that the people of this generation value these interests\\njust as highly as their fathers did, and are disposed to guard\\nthem with a jealous care. Among other things, the speaker re-\\nferred to the large number of schools in the town the amount\\nof money expended for their support, the average expense for\\neach scholar being |5,25 and in some districts $16,45 the whole\\nnumber of scholars being 3(30. He mentioned also the fact that\\nthe schools were so frequently visited by the people in the vari-\\nous districts that so much pains is taken to procure good teach-\\ners that the teachers employed have generally been so well\\nqualified, and that so many of them have received a large part\\nof their instruction in our schools. In conchision the speaker\\nthought the facts of the case and the views of the people might\\nbe expressed by offering the sentiments in the following form\\nOur Common School System a priceless legacy received from", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY EMF, 1AL. iu\\nthe fathers, perfected hy the wisdom and experience of succes-\\nsive generations, and supported by the intelligent patriotism of\\nour people our teachers thoroughly competent, efficient, and\\ndevoted to their- noble work; our school officers, assiduous;\\nly guarding the precious interests committed to their charge\\nour scholars, the good material out of which intelligent, useful,\\nand honorable niend)ers of society are to be made.\\nSentimf:nt No. 7. East Jaft rey Cornet Band They may\\nwrite Excelsior on their escutcheons. Music: Lepitit Pol-\\nka.\\nJ^ENTiMEiNT. No. 8. The Mothers and the Daughters the\\nJoy and Sunshine of our Homes and the Pride of the Century.\\nResponse by A. S. Scott, Esc|., of Peterboro N. H.\\nMr. Presitlent, L idies and Gentlemen When 1 accidental-\\nly read the a}inouncement in our village newspaper by ypur Jaf-\\nfrey correspondent, that I had been invited to respond on this\\noccasion to. a sentiment to the Ladies of Jaffrey, and had accept-\\ned the invitation, it A\\\\ as to me a matter of surprise, because it\\nseemed to me more fitting that to one of the sons of these Jaf-\\nfrey mothers, or one of the husbands or suitors of these fair Jaf-\\nfrey daughters should have been assigned the privilege to speak\\nto a sentiment so suggestive of all the sweet and dear remem-\\nbrances that cluster around your old family homes among your\\nhills.\\nThen, I should be c^xcused from speaking here today, because\\nof the acknowledged ability of these ladies, if this assembly could\\nbe resolved into a tea-party and they should once get their tongues\\nloose, to speak for themselves.\\nBut mothers and daughters of Jaffrey, discarding all empty\\ncompliments and fiattery, so repugnant to your good sense, you\\nwill permit me to say that in these old family homes among\\nthese hills, presided over Avith such matronly dignity by the\\nmothers, and made sunny and happy by the genial presence and\\naffectionate smiles of the daughters, has been nurtiu ed all that\\nis good and memorable and great in the history of the century\\nthat has passed.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "(4 JAIKKEV CENTENNIAL.\\nFor these New England homes watched over by pious and de-\\nvoted mothers are conceded to be the best manufactories of men.\\nBut there is now very serious danger that this Avork of grow-\\ning and training men must cease for lack of material. No one\\ncall have failed to observe the difference in the size of the fami-\\nlies of the early mothers and the families of the present day.\\nThe former luimbered from six to sixteen and the latt(u- from\\none to four.\\nIn yoiu school districts which were formerly densely popula-\\nted with scores of ruddy boys and girls, you now are indebted to\\nthe Irish emigrants for chikbren enough to make a school.\\nOne of yoiu- early settlers, who, on his bridal tour, about a\\ncentiuy ago, brought his wife to a log cabin in the wilderness in\\nan ox cart, with her spinning wheel and other marriage outfit,\\nraised in this cabin eleven childi en.\\nxVnd these large families were beehives of industry and no\\ndrones were allowed in the hive. Father, mother, sons and\\ndaughters worked and sometimes more than ten hours each day.\\nThere is not an honored descendant of these families here to-\\nday who does not in all sincerity ac-knowledge himself more in-\\ndebted for such measure of honor and success as has attended\\nhim on life s battle field, to the lessons and habits of industry\\nand frugality, inculcated in the ohl home than to all other caus-\\nes and influences combined.\\nJohn Conant, when, with matchless industry, perseAcrance\\nand economy, he was laying the foundations of that wealth which\\nhas enabled him to endow your High School, a Seminary and an\\nAgricultiu-al College so munificently, gaining for himself an hon-\\nored and illustrious name among the benefactors of his race,\\nwas largely indebted to the industry and frugality of his A^ife.\\nThere is not a good thing that marks your progress during the\\ncentury, a school, a chiu ch, a lil)rary, or a reform, that has\\nnot been largely fostered and helped onward by the labors and\\nsacrifices of the mothers and daughters. Now, the school -ludsleis\\nhaving mostly gone abroad, almost the entire education of yoiu\\nchildren is committed to the daughters and no one doid)ts that\\nthey will be faithful to th(Mr respousil^ility.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "JAFFKKY (JKXTKNMAI.. 75\\nThe mothers and daughters have not at any time in the cen-\\ntury been wanting in the exhibition of an exalted patriotism.\\nIn the Revohitionar}^ war they bravely sent their husbands to\\nthe front and remained at home faithful and devoted to their\\nfamilies, adding often to the labors of the household the labors\\nof the field.\\nIn the war of the RebL llion the mother heroicly severed the\\ntie that bound her to her son and sent him forth to the ser\\\\ice\\nof his country Avith her prayers and benediction, and side by\\nside with the recruiting station, organized the Soldiers Aid So-\\ncieties, the springs of the Sanitary Commission, the Good Sa-\\nmaritan of the war.\\nThere is not a son of Jaffrey who has come up here from his\\nhome in another State to revisit the scenes of his childhood and\\nlive over in imagination his boyhood days, who does not Ijring\\nin his heart some tribute of gratitude and respect for the mother\\nwho bore him, who cradled him in her arms, taught his in-\\nfant lips to lisp his morning and evening prayer, and, as he\\ngrew into boyhood, patched his trowsers, washed his face, comb-\\ned his hair and sent him to school on a week day, and bade him\\nmind the master, learn his lesson and l)ring home the medal\\nand on Sunday, took him with her to cliurch and made him read\\nthe Bible and say the catechism and later, as he ripened into\\nyoung manhood and manifested a love for learning, with gentle\\npersuasion, influence the jiater-fumilms to sell his cow, or yoke of\\noxen, to raise money to send him to college, then with assidu-\\nous toil carded with her own hands the rolls, spun and dyed the\\ntlxfead, and on the old hand-loom, located up in the old attic to\\nbe out of the way of interruption, wove the fabric and then fash-\\nioned and sewed the suit in which her son entered the Academy\\nor College.\\nAnd this is no fancy picture for the man still lives and ^vill\\naddress you here today who entered Dartmouth College in a suit\\nof home-spun manufactured entirely by his mother.\\nMany of these mothers still live to grace and lionor this as-\\nsembly with their presence, but many have passed away and\\nbeen borne to their resting ])]aces in your village cemetery, and", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Tti JAFFKEY CENTENMAl..\\nto many a son those beautiful lines of C owper, addressed to his\\nmother s picture, have come home with peculiar power.\\nMy mother, wheu I learned that thou wast dead,\\nSay, wast thou conscious ol the tears I shed?\\nHovered thy spirit over thy sorrowing son,\\nWi etch even then, life s journey just begun 1\\nI heard the bell tolled on tiiy burial day;\\nI saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,\\nAnd, turning to my nursery window, drew\\nA long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu.\\nMany a son of Jaffrey has wept a last adieu at the gra\\\\ c; of\\nhis mother, but her love and affection ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ill hallow his latest as\\nhis earliest memory.\\nBut I am admonished to close by the consciousness that the\\ntime of this occasion belongs to your own sons and not to me.\\nI give you as a sentiment in closing The Mothers of Jaf-\\nfrey Models of Industry, Piety and Frugality May their\\nDaughters emulate their Mothers A irtiu s.\\nSentiment No. 9. The Clergy of Jaffrey. Response by\\nRev. E. S. Foster, of Winchester, N. H.\\nComing ujdou the platform at the call of the Chairman, Mr.\\nF oster said: Every child, youth, man and woman, every set-\\ntlement, society, village, partnership and business, every family,\\ntribe, nation, country and government has a history. In the\\nlife-time of every individual, settlement, country and kingdom,\\nthere are various epochs of greater or less importance. Jaffrey,\\nas a town, has had various epochs, among which are the pioneer,\\nagricultural, ministerial, religious, educational, business and me-\\nchanical.\\nToday, in her history, this Celebration marks the one hun-\\ndredth epoch. In the work assigned, I am called to speak for\\nthe ministerial department in the life of Jaffrey s hundred years.\\nThe Clergy of Jaffrey. is my subject. Here allow me to\\nsay, I would that that the work assigned me in this important\\nand ever to be remembered occasion, had been given to other\\nand abler hands, that the lessons of our life may sink deeper in-\\nto the character of Jaffrey s coming children for devotion and\\nconsecration, than it is possible for me to impress and inspire.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CENTENNIAL.\\nBut the noble soldier puts on his armor and takes the place\\nassigned him thus I remark, First, from a competent person\\nI have an extract from the records of Jaffrey, which is as fol-\\nlows, viz: 28 Sept., 1773, Voted \u00c2\u00a36 La^vful money, to sup-\\nport preaching. 26 April, 1874, Voted \u00c2\u00a36 Lawful money, to\\nsupport the Gospel. 13 April, 1775, Voted \u00c2\u00a36 Lawful money,\\nto support the Gospel. 27 March, 1777, Voted \u00c2\u00a350 Lawful\\nmoney, to support the Gospel. 26 March, 1778, Voted \u00c2\u00a3100\\nLawful money, to support the Gospel. 10 June, 1778, the\\nCommittee agreed with Mr. Isaac Allen to supply us. 3 Sept.,\\n1778, the Committee omit giving Mr. Allen a call for the pres-\\nent. Sept. 3, 1778, Voted \u00c2\u00a350 for preaching. 11 Nov., 1778,\\nVoted to hear Mr. Reed until special meeting. 25 March, 1779,\\nVoted \u00c2\u00a3200, to support the Gospel. 1 Nov., 1779, Voted to\\nhear Mr. Stevens for all supply this fall. 1 Nov., 1779, Voted\\nto have Mr. Colby come by 1st March next. 7 June, 1780,\\nVoted to hear Mr. Jewett more on probation, in order to give\\nhim a call. 29 March, 1781, Voted not to hire Mr. Walker\\nthis year. 16 August, 1781, Voted to hire Mr. Goodale two\\nmore Sabbaths. 27 December, 1781, Voted to hear Mr. Ains-\\nworth. 8 July, 1782, Voted to give him a call.\\nForemost, longest, and fullest upon the ministerial record of\\nJaffrey, stands the labors of the long to be remembered Pastor\\nRev. Laban Ainsworth. This ministerial pioneer was born at\\nWoodstock, Conn., July 19, 1757. At about 7 years of age^an\\naccident resulted in his losing his right arm and hand. He was\\neducated and fitted for college under Nathaniel Tisdale, of Leb-\\nanon, Conn., a man of considerable pedagogical capability,\\nand of much petulant eracibility. These last facts modified by\\nthe last word, are from !Mr. Ainsworth s own language, in reply\\nto some questions presented by a friend. Mr. Tisdale fitted him\\nfor Harvard College, but his father said, to avoid the Btitish, go\\nto Dartmouth in the woods. He entered Dartmouth in 1775,\\nand graduated in 1778. He studied Theology with Rev. Ste-\\nphen West, D. D., of Stockbridge, Mass., and soon after,\\npreached about two years in Spencertown on the Hudson River,\\nthen served from four to six months as Chaplain in Maj. Mc-\\nKinistry s Corps.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nWe find from the record that the Chm-ch in JafFrey was or-\\nganized May 18th, 1780, and that a committee from the town\\nmet Mr. Ainsworth on Commencement Day at Dartmouth, in\\n1781, and engaged him to preach; and he began the same sum-\\nmer. He was ordained the first minister in the town of JafFrey,\\nN. H., December 10th, 1782.\\nOn December 4th, 1787, he married the daughter of Jonas\\nMinot, of Concord, Mass., with whom he lived happily and suc-\\ncessfully over fifty years, and labored as the minister of the First\\nCongregational Church and Parish of Jaftrey, for over half a\\ncentury.\\nOn the 11th of January, 1832, he received Rev. Giles Lyman\\nas his Colleague with whom he lived pleasantly for a number\\nof years. He died March 16th, 1808, after a life of an huncbed\\nyears, and a ministry of about seventy-five years in all. The\\nportraits which hang today in the parlor of his old home, are\\nexcellent representations of him and his wife when they were about\\nseventy-five years of age.\\nHis dress was thoroughly clerical black single breasted coat\\nand waist coat, black small clothes, black worsted stockings,\\nshoes, knee-buckles, and shoe-buckles. In his advanced years,\\nhis long white hair and his courtly manners, made him a perfect\\nrepresentative of his class. As a preacher he was very simple\\nin manner and matter his voice was remarkably strong, clear\\nand sonorus; his enunciation distinct, and his language pure\\nSaxon English. In his religious views he was dogmatic and\\nradical, and much of a doctrinal preacher, holding to the Cal-\\nvinistic Theology, as taught by Dr. Edwards.\\nHis sermons were seldom if ever written out in full; they\\nwere on paper, mere briefs, and very few of these remain. The\\nonly remaining one was here presented to the sight of the assem-\\nbly. Its subject was an argument against final restoration. His\\nsermons were very short; seldom exceeding 25 minutes. His\\npulpit services consisted of a hymn, a short prayer, reading of\\nScripture, hymn, the long prayer, the sermon and then the ben-\\nediction.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "JAFFRF.Y CENTENNIAL. 79\\nHis preaching and ministerial labors produced the usual\\namount of conviction and conversion. He must have attended\\nabout three thousand funerals the services of which consisted\\ngenerally of an address to the moiu ners, with an opening and\\nclosing prayer.\\nA wedding service he opened with prayer, then he gave the\\nlegal point, and lastly the address to the man and wife. As a\\npolitician, he was a Federalist, like Washington and Jefferson;\\nin a later day he acted with the Whig party. On Fast days he\\nusually gave his people something of a political discourse.\\nAs a friend of education, he usually appeared in most of the\\nDistrict Schools during their closing days but did not often\\nfraternise much with the children and youth of the town.\\nAs a man and minister, he commanded the respect and esteem\\nof all classes. As one of the Mystic Tie, he received this\\nItnnh-skin, or (here the original lamb-skin received at his initia-\\ntion as a Mason was exhibited,) wllite leathern apron, which is\\nan emblem of innocence, and a badge, more honorable than the\\nstar and garter, or any other order that can be conferred on the\\ncandidate at any time by king, prince, potentate, or any other\\nperson except a brother Mason. By this lamb-skin he was con-\\ntinually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is es-\\nsentially necessary to his gaining admission to the Supreme Tem-\\nple above. Thus, being born when George 2d Avas his King,\\nand in the time of Louis 15th, of France, Frederick the Great,\\nof Prussia, and Clement 16th, of Rome, his life covered volumes\\nof history.\\nSeverel anecdotes were here related of the worthy divine,\\nwhich extensively stirred the risibilities of the great assembly.\\nThe next ministerial record, and the first of Jaifrey s born\\nsons to the ministry, is that of Rev. Robertson Smiley, born at\\nJaftrey, graduated at Dartmouth, 1798. He was the settled\\nminister of the Frrst Congregational Chiu-ch of Springfield, Vt.,\\nfrom a very early date, and died at that place in 1856. after a\\nlong, laborious and noble ministry.\\nRev. Levi Spaulding Avas born at JafFrey, August 22, 1791\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College, 1815; studied Divinity at An-", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 JAFFUEY CENTENNIAL.\\ndover, Mass., and went as a Congregational missionary to Ceylon\\nin 1819. Here with one exception of a visit of three years to\\nthe U. S. he spent his life and labors in the Master s vineyard.\\nHe did much A aluable work in a series of school-books, the com-\\npiling of a Dictionary, and the translation of the Bible into the\\nnative tongue of Ceylon. He died June 18, 1873, after a long\\nlife of neble christian warfare.\\nRev. Luke Ainsworth Spoiford, born at Jaffrey, Nov. 5, 1786,\\nwas fitted for College under Rev. Laban Ainsworth, his pas-\\ntor, and Rev. Dr. Payson, of Rindge, N. H. He graduated\\nat Middlebury College, Vt., in IS 16. He studied divinity at\\nAndover, Mass. was first settled at Gilmantown, N. H., then\\nat Brentwood, Lancaster and Atkinson, then filled the office of\\nMissionary for some time, and afterward labored for years in the\\nmissionary field of the Western States, and died at Rockport,\\nInd., Sept. 27, 1855. Earnestly and devotedly he spent his\\nlife for man s salvation, and left an excellent record as a faith-\\nful minister of Christ.\\nRev. Abel Spaulding was born at Jaffrey, Aug. 22d, 1791\\ngraduated at Dartmouth, 1815 studied divinty at Andover,\\nMass. was settled at Cornich, N. H., where he died a few years\\nsince, much beloved by his denomination the Congregational,\\nand esteemed for his good ministerial record.\\nRev. James Howe was born at Jaffrey graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College in 1817 studied Divinity at Andover, Mass.,\\nand was settled at Pepperill, Mass., Av^here he spent his life as a\\nfaithful, devoted and esteemed minister of the Congregationalists,\\nand died in 1840, aged forty-three.\\nRev. Henry Shedd, born at Jaffrey graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1826; studied Theology at Andover, Mass., and has\\nspent nearly his entire life as a home missionary in the Western\\nStates as a Congreo-ationalist.\\nRev. Adonijah Cutter, born at Jafirey studied Divinity at\\nBangor Seminary, Me., and settled in the Ministry of the Con-\\ngregrtionalists at Strafford, VI., in June, 1840 here he spent a", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": ".lAFFKEY CENTENNIAL. 81\\nministry of ten years. Then for a time a minister at Hanover,\\nN. H., being dismissed in 1857. He was soon after settled at\\nNelson, N, H., where he died in a short time, leaving a life of\\ndevotion and faithfulness.\\nRev. Jaquith, born at Jaffrey became a self-taught\\nminister of the Baptist denomination in Maine, doing a good\\nwork, and is today on the field of missionary labor.\\nRev. Wm. Dutton, born at Jaffrey, in 1815 fitted for College\\nat Melville Academy, entered BroAvn s University at Providence,\\nR. I., in 1831), and graduated in 1842, with much honor. He\\ntaught school several years at Kalamazo, Mich., and dijd in\\n1846, aged 30 years. For this noble man and promising minis-\\nter for the Baptist denomination, too much cannot be said. In-\\ntensely industrious and studious, an honest and lively thinker, a\\ndevoted christian, he went down to an early grave, honored\\nand beloved by all who knew him. Many on earth held his\\nmemory above price, and in glory did he pass to the spirit-land\\nto receive the unfading (Jrown from the hand of the blessed Mas-\\nter.\\nRev. Andrew O. Warren, born at Jaffrey prepared for the\\nstudy of Divinity at Melville Academy, entered on his theology\\ncourse with J. V. Wilson in 1838, and completed it with Rev.\\nCharles Woodhouse of W^estmoreland, N. H., in 1840, and the\\nsame year entered the ministry of the Universalists. He has\\nbeen located at McDonough, Upper Lisle, and Smithville, N. Y.,\\nthen at Montrose, Pa., where, and in the region, he has been ac-\\ntively engaged in the ministry since 1849.\\nIn 1860 he began the study of Law was admitted to the Bar\\nof Susquehanna County Court in 1862, and to the Supreme\\nCourt in 1865. And yet he has been continually in the Mas-\\nter s vineyard saving souls, and on week-davs, in the world,\\nstoutly contending for the salvation of men s Avills from the\\nruins of avarice and self.\\nRev. E. S. Foster, born at Jaffrey, Sept. 1821 was a student\\nat Melville Academv, Lawrence Academv of (jj-oton, Mass.,", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nand closed his academic education at Keene, N; H., in 1843. From\\nthis time till 1849, he labored in the mercantile business. And\\nin September of this year, he entered the study of Divinity with\\nRev. O. A. Skinner, D. D., of New York completing the course\\nin about four years. After much sickness he was ordained\\nin June, 1855, at South Hartford, Washington Coiinty, N. Y.,\\nwhere he first settled. He has labored in Abington, Mass.,\\nCuttingsville and Chester, Vt., at Claremont, N. H., at Mid-\\ndletown, Conn., and is now an active minister of the Universal-\\nlist denomination at Winchester, N. U.\\nTlfUs much in brief of the history of Jaffrey s sons Avho have\\nfilled no ignoble place in the Chi istian Ministry as each has un-\\nderstood Christ and his scheme of salvation. I feel sure that\\nthey will compare favorably in body, talent and labor, with the\\nsame number of ministers selected from any town of equal pop-\\nulation in Now England.\\nHere allow me a few words for our calling, and I am done.\\nI believe it can be shown that the Ministry of Christian ty in\\nthe various Denominations, has done more to make JafFrey in\\nthe life and character of her citizens, than all other influences\\ncombined.\\nThink for a moment Here is the intellect, that a few years\\nago, in feebleness, and helplessness nestled in its parent s arms and\\ncould not utter the word Mother but today, can survey broad\\nacres, build and furnish the gorgeous home, rear and finish the\\nlofty temple, plan and perfect cities, make and defend empires,\\ngirdle the earth in a few moments with its thought, and leave\\ncharacter behind which shall be a missionary of blessed life.\\nWe, today are what our parents and the cloi istian ministry have\\nmade us.\\nHere fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters are our chil-\\ndren, which all the wealth and empires of earth cannot purchase,\\nand for whom you will give the last dollar, yea, and your life\\nalso, to defend from the grave. And they are in your hands,\\na id the christian ministry to mould and educate, to tune and\\ntone for nobleness and virtue in the world, and to prepare for\\nthe iu -flible scenes of the incorruptable life.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 83\\nWho among you can estimate the intellect of your child, its\\nprobabilities and its possibilities in the coming days of earth\\nRemember all history teaches us that depression, misfortune\\nand slavery cannot break it ambition, empire and enormous\\nriches and rule cannot conquer it and the longest life and the\\nbest culture cannot fill the compass of its desire, or satisfy its ca-\\npabilities.\\nThis restless spirit, this irrepressible mind of your child is to-\\nday for your shaping as clay in the potter s hand.\\nWhat stamp are you putting upon it Is it that of mortgage\\nbonds and government scrip, that will petrify the heart and\\ncurse with avarice and the long train of woes, the coming gener-\\nations Or is it the stamp of an honest and christian life of in-\\ndustry, that will charm the coming individuals in the grandest of\\nall characters the life that is Christ to live Oh what a gift\\nis your child What a gem of priceless value is its intellect,\\ngiven to you as the artist who is to set it And are you setting\\nit Are you setting it in the gilt of fashion and popularity, in\\ngame and Sabbath-breaking, vainly supposing that^the canker of\\nremorse will not consume it\\nAre you setting it in the rough of profanity and avarice, idly\\nassuming that the fires of reti ibution will not destroy it Or\\nare you setting it in virtue, cultivation and spiritual refinement,\\nand under ministerial toning, feeling assured that God renders\\nto every man according to his deeds\\nForget not I pray you, that a single man made the French\\nnation, nominally all infidel. And another made them all war-\\nriors. A Carthagenian General put his little boy of ten years,\\nupon the altar of his country and made him swear to be Eome s\\neternal enemy. And he was such until he sunk into the grave.\\nNow if such a mighty power lies dormant in your child,\\nmould it to make the coming Jaffrey, or some other town to war\\nfor ever against ignoble character and on the alter of humani-\\nty make that child to afiirm understandingly that it will be the\\neternal enemy of all sin, depravity an^ crime.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nKemcmber the fact, here is a common school teacher, the most\\nof Avhose students, as they went from his hands to the business\\nworkl, have been unfortunate in health and worldy matters.\\nHere is another, most of the students of whom were sent into\\npractical life, have been successful and happy, enjoyed much\\nhealth, and occupied high positions.\\nHow important then, to have the right education what a\\nneed to have the best instruction toned into your children by a\\nlive, consecrated teacher, inspired by an energetic ministry\\nMake the culture, Avhether from the school-room or the pul-\\npit, so perfect, so entertaining and instructive that all the fami-\\nlies around it shall be drawn to it as all the vegetable Avorld is\\ndrawn up into life, beauty and worth by the sun Into this\\ncaiise should we collect all the stores of human learning, and re-\\nduce them to one rational, charming and useful body of science\\nof active business, and of honest, ambitious character, that\\nshall be as light to those in darkness, as water to the thirsty, as\\nbread to the hungry, and as life to the dead.\\nAnd the whole should be put under an affectionate, social, and\\ninstructive ministiij that can fondh^ the darling chikl, stimulate\\nand tone heaven-ward the fiery youth, and inspire the young man\\nto cut his name on humanity in the noblest deeds of an honest\\ncalling. Then make its devotion in righteousness and labor so\\nintense and permeating, that it will assimilate or (innihiliitc the\\nworld of evil.\\nA celebrated painter of Italy was once asked by a friend,\\nWhy he spent so much time and labor in the study of the arts\\nnd sciences why he visited all Europe the halls and galle-\\nries of all nations, and studied all the best paintings, and then\\ncame home and toiled day and night in mixing, and applying\\ncolors so attentively to the canvas\\nHe replied, I am painting for eternity.\\nOh coidd every parent, teacher, and minister understand this\\nstatement of the Artist But his pictua-e from the long years\\nof study, toil, and suffering what is it, compared with your\\nchild i", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "JAFFKEY CENTENNIAL. S5\\nYet, Raphael could spend a life-time and a world of treasure\\non it And Michael Angelo could exhaust all his powers and\\nthe income of a nation to finish that picture.\\nCannot you spend a feAv years to educate that child Cannot\\nyou give your influence and income to have and aid an intense-\\nly anxious and vital ministry, and leave a few pictures in the\\ngalleries of that child s memory and spirit that will inspire many\\na lost one from sin and death, to redemption and peace, and so\\nleave your name where it will never die\\nPlutarch give us a learned Dissertation on the single Greek\\nword fr found inscribed on the Temple of AppoUo at Delphi.\\nIn the lo7iic dialect we are told that it means I Avish. This\\nperfectly expressed the state of mind of all who entered the tem-\\nple on the business of consultation. And an ancient scholar of\\ngreat worth assumes that it is the initial word of a celebrated line\\nin the 3d book of the Odyssey, and stands there as signifying\\nthe whole line which is thus rendered, viz: -Oh that the\\ngods would empower me to obtain my wishes\\nOh that there was some such inifinl word in our mother\\ntongue, that could be inscribed over every church-door the\\nrendering of Avhich should be this, viz Oh! that God would\\nempower me to obtain my wishes for my child\\nBut further. Back of all this needed culture, and around it,\\nlays the purpose and effort, the will and energy and learning of\\nthe clergy. And for years, as a town s committee, Mr. Ains-\\nworth held the school teachers in his hand and who shall say\\ntoday, how much of our life, capability, integrity and prudence,\\nenergy, and will-power, eminated from that noble and heroic\\nminister I may be presumptuous, but I firmly believe that the\\nclergy who are in this world, not to be ministered unto but to\\nminister, hold a position to which there is no other paramount.\\nAnd to stimulate you up to its importance, worth and influence,\\nI will enterrogate you. AVhere in barbary and in a servitude\\nworse then was Southern Slavery would be Avoaian s con-\\ndition, if the christian ministry had never existed If it\\nhad never existed, where would be our homes and children,\\nand our hopes of the life to come Without the Christian min-", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nistry, how conceive and support a free and enlightened govern-\\nment? without the ministry of the divine Word, how woukT\\nyou make, motikl and educate its legislators and judges.\\nYou study this subject, and it will be seen that our govern-\\nment the best this side of heaven and founded on God s im-\\npartial rule, could not carry out its principles, could not secure\\nlife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to man, without the min-\\nistry the preaching of the Gospel. Without the christian\\nClergy men could not b. qualified to respect constituti-d author-\\nities and administer laws. Without the ministry, man is not ca-\\npable of self-government. Without the ministry of the Gospel,\\nKingdoms and nations could not be kept from the inroads of\\npassion, taint, corruption and ruin. Sodom, and Gomorah, Nin-\\nevah and Babylon, Egypt and Jerusalem, Greece, Carthage and\\nKome, attest ^ith overwhelming evidence the awful consequen-\\nces, in their complete destruction, of rejecting the n^inistry of\\npatriarchs, and prophets, of Christ and the Apostles.\\nThus we see that the richest, proudest, and most cultivated\\nnations, with all their forts and navies, with all their schools,\\narts and sciences, have been swept from the face of the earth,\\nbecause they refused the preaching of the great and good who\\nwere sent unto them. Remove a nation s honor, justice and\\nvirtue, which are the results of preaching and sanctuary privile-\\nges, and you take away every band that can hold her together,\\nand remove all the elements of her life.\\nA christian Clergy educate into society, all her convictions\\nand understandings of moral obligations and accountability.\\nThey lift men to clear conceptions of duty to themselves, to\\nthose around them and to God and thus hold society in com-\\npact and contract. The christian Clergy are the conquering and\\naggressive forces on infidelity, and the absorbing army of all\\nidoliatry and its baleful eflects. The gospel ministry imparts the\\nneeded means, and grace required by all men to escape death\\nand acquire life, to pass from the ruins and woes of earth to the\\norders and joys of blessed character. Preaching b?ars away\\nour iniquity, absorbs all sin and evil, cleanses the spirit, renews", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTEXNIAT.. 87\\nthe afFcetions bears all men from darkness to light, and makes\\nman at-one-ment with God. Through ministering, Christ made\\nhis disciples the light of the world. And the Clergy have borne\\non that light which lighteth every man that cometh, and which is\\npressing every person with the necessity of repentance and re-\\ngeneration. They aid, increase, and vitalize the information\\nal^otit the resurrection, which inspires all men to a hioher life.\\nThe gospel ministry imparts the light and truth and intuition,\\nwhich cannot be read from books, cannot be discovered in the\\nbest composition, cannot be rendered by the ablest stenographer,\\ncannot be written by the most versatile genius possessed with\\nthe most copious vocabulary. Never forget then, that it was the\\nllaiig soul in what Demothenes said, that moved the Athenians\\nit was the immortal spirit in the utterances of Cicero, that thril-\\nled the Senate it was the flashing of undying light in the eye\\nand mien of Patrick Henry that held our Fathers spell-bound at\\nthe birth of Liberty; it was the soul of Paul in the intense, con-\\ncentrated, and burning truths, flashing out and shimmering in\\nlines of fire, by which the great Apostle entranced the wisdom\\nand learning of Pome and Athens And it is the eye, and the\\nspirit, and the light of the clergy which are required to combine\\nand concen trate, and intensify the doctrines, the precepts, and\\nexamples of Christ until you are swept into purity, into sympho-\\nny with peace, with spiritual passion and poAver, and the ener-\\ngies of everlasting life.\\nIn such an hoiu- of endless impressions, souls are born, aff ec-\\ntions renewed, hearts regenerated, and all of society moves up\\nfrom barbarism to God and Christ. In such an hour the Clero-y-\\nman is no longer a ;;yt7/rAe/- merely, but humanity itself, \u00e2\u0080\u0094train-\\npled, torn, bleeding, yet beautiful, starting one glorious mo-\\nment in her terrible jaiin, with herhand lifted to the blue heav-\\nens over her heroic dead, and affirming her Great Oath, in the\\nelemental life that is Cluist to live.\\nI would bear to you at last then, in the urn of remembrance,\\nashes from the fires of the wondrous dead, to intensify your\\nsense of the importance and worth of the christian cleryv of the\\npast and of todav.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 JAl FREY CENTENNIAL.\\nMay you work fur and ivifh them as you would wish to have\\ndone when you look back on earth and the loved ones you leave\\nbehind, then will you receive in some measure the glorious an-\\nswer of life s great prayer. And when you come to the congre-\\ngation of silence,\\nThey, who stand around your grave,\\nWill rank you ncjbly.\\nSentiment No. 11. Jaffrey Her Past and Her Pres-\\nent. Response by Dr. Daniel B. Cutter, of Peterboro N. H.\\nMr. President.: It affords me great pleasure to meet you\\nand my former associates, here today. Few indeed are our\\nnumbers, so few, that in this vast congregation here assembled, I\\nrecognize only here and there a familiar face. Time has made\\nsuch sad inroad into our numbers, that today I feel like a stranger\\nin my own native town. The old Church, the place where\\nour fathers worshiped, in gone by days, now stands a memo-\\nrial of its former greatness, but the sound of the gospel is there\\nno longer heard. Minister and people lie buried together in\\nyonder grave-yard, silent in the sleep of death. For ever sa-\\ncred be their ashes. To commemorate the doings of these men\\nis the occasion of our meeting here today. A little more than\\n100 years ago, the place, on which we now stand, and its sur-\\nrounding as far as the eye can reach, was an unbroken forest.\\nOn the banks of the Contoocook grew the lofty pine, while on\\nthe hills and in the valleys grew a variety of hard wood, fir and\\nhemlock; the mountain, which now presents a bare rock, was\\ncovered with spruce. From its side flowed numerous rippling\\nstreams, which, after passing through bog and swamp, united\\ntheir flowing waters and formed the Contoocook river. The in-\\nhabitants of this, then wild domain, was the moose, the deer, the\\nbear and the wolf, together Avith the Avild turkey and the pat-\\nridge. The streams were filled Avith trout, and the ponds with\\npickerel. Over this wild domain, in majestic grandeur, then\\nclad with fir, now bald with age, peered the lofty Monadnock,\\nSLU veying the vast territory around, watching the progress of\\nevents, as the white man, here and there, made inroads in his\\nAvild domain. Such was Jaffi ey, when in 1752, Moses Stick-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "iiey, Richard Peabody, and se\\\\cu otlicrs, niadi an attempt at\\nsettlement in the Southeast part of the town. Tlirough fc ar of the\\nIndians, they all soon left except one of their number, known as\\nCapt. Platts. During their stay, on Dec. 9th, IToo, Moses\\nStickney had a son born, whose name was Simon, who is sup-\\nposed to bq the first white child born in Jaffrey. He never after\\nresided there, but returned with his father to Boxford, ]Mass.,\\nand on matiu ity, settled in Holden, and afterAvards removed to\\nNew Haven, Vt., and died in 1791. He left three daughters.\\nThe next attempt at settlement was made bv a colony of hardy\\nadventurers from Londonderry, encouraged probably by their\\nbrethren, who had previously made a settlement in Peterboro\\nan adjoining township. But few of these however had the hard-\\nihood to remain as permanent settlers. After enduring the\\nhardships and privations of a pioneer life for a time, they sold\\ntheir rights to a Ahissachusetts colony, mostly from Essex and\\nMiddlesex Counties. These were the men, who on the 14th of\\nSeptember 1773, met and organized the town. This Avas done\\nby virtue of a charter grantev_l by his Excellency, .John Went-\\nworfh, then (Governor of the Province of New Hampshire, and\\nCouncil, at Portsmouth, August 17th, 1778, who changed the\\noriginal name. Middle Monndiiock Nu. 2, to Jaiirey, in honor\\nof George Jaffrey, Es([., one of the original proprietors. The\\nfirst town meeting was held at the house of Erancis Wright, Inn-\\nkee]ier, situated on Lot No. 14, Kange 8. A second meeting-\\nwas held at the same place, on the i^Sth of the same month, and\\nX SO L. M. wr.s voted for the repairing of roads, and \u00c2\u00a3u L. iSL\\nfor preaching. No church was then built. They had preaching\\nprobably, in some private house. 4 he next year, 1774, the\\ntown voted to bnild a meeting-house, oted to raise said house\\nin June, 17 7 This was the first year of the Revolutionary\\nWar, one battle had already been fought, another was pending\\n1() of their men were in the field, and \u00e2\u0096\u00a0while raising the church,\\nit is said, the sound of the cannon was heard from Bunker Hill.\\nActuated by a sense of duty, they did not despond, but readily\\nobeyed the call of their Country men, money, provisions, and\\nmunitions of AAar, were promptly furnished, and M hen we learn", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 JAIIKEY CEXTEXXIAL.\\nthat a town of only 3-)l inhabitants furnished 72 men during th(\\nwar, Ave cannot be surprised at their success in that Avar.\\nDuring seven long and pei-ilous years, they met the requir-\\nments of their country, and through the blessing of God, triumph-\\ned at last, and laid the foundation of her futiu e greatness. We,\\ntheir descendants, may well feel proud of such fathers, and moth-\\ners too, who, if they were not in the battle field, were in other\\nfields, doing no less glorious service for theii- God, and their\\ncountry. During all this period of war and suffering, the church\\nwas not only raised, but so far completed as to be made use of\\nfor public worship. With the men of that time, a neglect of re-\\nligious diity Avould have been fatal, in their minds, to their suc-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cess in battle. They relied on the God of heaven, and acted\\nunder a sense of His presence, feeling sure of victory only through\\n11 is aid and with His blessing.\\nIn 17 S0 a church Avas organized, and on December 10, 1782,\\nthe Rev. Laban Ainsworth Avas ordained their pastor Avho, dur-\\ning an extraordinary long life, administered to the Avants of this\\npeople, in all matters pertaining to religious duty. In person he\\nAvas of medium height, in appearance dignified, in deportment\\naffable, Avhich together with an intellectual superiority, enabled\\nhim to command the love and respect of his felloAv men. He\\nwas the ruling poAver of the church, the district school, and\\nI might say, the toAvn. For a I ong series of years he Avas the\\nSuperintending School Conuuittee, Avhose frequent visits and\\nsao-e counsel I Avell remember. In the early days of the toAvn,\\nthe education of their children Avas a matter of interest. In\\n1775, \u00c2\u00a38 lawfxd money Avas voted for a school. No school-\\nhouses Avere then built. Where the school Avas taught is a mat-\\nter of conjecture. School-houses, school-teachers and school-\\nbooks Avere rare things in those days. The Bible, the psalm-\\nbook, and the primer Avere almost the only books in their pos-\\nsession. With such means, it must have recjuired the ingenu-\\nity of a mother to teach their children to read.\\nThe Spelling-book, Reader and Arithmetic at length made\\ntheir appearance. With a determination admirable, and pa-\\ntience remarkable, they overcame every obstacle, established\\nschools, ediicated their children, furnished the Avorld with 2", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "JAF1-K1:Y CKNTEXMAl.. 91\\nCollege Graduates, besides many more Avho qualified themselves\\nfor a professional life by an Academical education. Jaffrcy has\\nfurnished Pastors for the Church, Counselors for the Bar, and\\nPhysicians for the sick. One of her sons, has been honored\\nwith the seat of Chief Justice in his own State, while another is\\na distinguished Missionary in Ceylon.\\nThe clouds of war at length pass away the sushine of peace\\nblesses the land. The farmer returns to the plough, the me-\\nchanic to his work-shop, the merchant to his counter, the swords\\nare beat into ploughshares, and bayonets into reaping hooks, and\\nthe people hope to learn war no more.\\nA new era has now commenced the foot-paths gradually be-\\ncome passable roads the rude cabin a framed house the thatch-\\ned hovel a commodious barn the forest falls, upon its ashes the\\nfertile field and the green meadows appear. The little school-\\nhouse is seen here and there, by the side of the road. Grist-\\nmills, saw-mills, stores and taverns showing trade and travel\\nare now becoming common. AVheel carriages take the place of\\nthe saddle and the pillion, the whole family can now ride to\\nchurch. The turnpike, the wonder of the age, is now built,\\nopening the way for a stage coach from Boston to Wapolcand\\nback, twice a wtiek, which in its turn, affords not only means of\\nconveyance for passengers, but for a mail also, which is estab-\\nlished, and a Post Office too letters can now be sent and re-\\nceived. The sons and daughters abroad, can exchange letters\\nwith their parents at home, and to cap the climax, they can now\\ntake a Newspaper, one being published at Keene, in 1799.\\nThe town is now in a healthy, thriving condition, all of the\\nnecessaries and conveniences of life are at command. The farm-\\ner can now sleep undistiu bed by the hoAvl of the wolf, prowl-\\ning around for the destruction of his flock, his herd and flock\\nare safe in the field by night as well as by day, no more herd-\\ning or folding necessary. He is indeed lord of his own domain,\\nindependent of all monopolies.\\nWe have now reached the ])resent century, the age of scien-\\ntific research, the age of invention, the age of high intellectual\\nculture and refinement, ^^he winds and the waves now obey", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "9^ JAFl KKY CKN 1 KNMAr,.\\nthe dictate of man, and are made subservient to his wislies.\\nThe lighning too at his command, carries intelhgenre at his bid-\\nding. Head Avork is the order of the day, and bodily labor dis-\\ncreditable. No means are spared in the culture of the intellect,\\nand hardly any used for the improvement of the moral and phys-\\nical organization. Greatness has left the seat of goodness, and\\nnow sits in the lap of ease and luxury. We are now showered\\nwith blessings, but like Rome of old, are we not in danger of the\\nGoths and Vandals Will not the extravagance of our times,\\nso destructive to our offspring, open Avide the door for the en-\\ntrance of another rac( that will supplant us Or do we look\\nforward, with the expectation of Abraham of old, that oiu* chil-\\ndren and our children s children are to be the possessors of this\\ngift of their fathers, through all coming generations f Do we rely\\non our intelligence so did Rome on her s. Do w-e rely on our\\nown goodness so did the children of Abraham on their s. Both\\nfell By obeying the precepts of the I^ord, our fathers were\\nblessed, and wc, their des?endants, can rec( iAethe same blessing,\\nonly by the same ob( dienee. May we then emulate their vir-\\ntues, and render due obedi uee to the precepts of our Heavenly\\nFather.\\nSe-NTI.mem So. \\\\t2. The Homes of Our ()uth. Re-\\nsponse bv Rev. Andrew arren, oi Montrose. I^i.\\nMr. Prc Siden/. Liid/cs mnl (iciitlcmcii Fe^lnv Ihirnsnicit.\\nI do not come forward to mak( a speech at this hour, for I have\\nnone written. But I did think this morning that possibly I\\nmight Hnd one her( already AAritten at my hands. If I were to\\nspeak at all, you would Hnd tliat T A\\\\as good in disuiTsing a\\ncrowd in that way.\\nBut allo\\\\\\\\ me to congratulate you, fellow to\\\\\\\\nsmeu, at this\\ntime, for the grand history of the past 100 years that is closed\\nby this anniversary, and for its grander prophc cy for the next\\ncentury.\\nI feel it to be one of the proudest days of my life, that I am\\npermitted to be here and to acknowledge this as my native place.\\nHere indeed are the dear homes of our youth. Here Ave be-\\ngan our Aery being and laid the foundation for evei A superstruct-", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "JAFFltEY CEXTENMAL. 98\\nTire, we have our record, morally, socially, intellectually and\\nspiritually. My native place was in School District No. 4, and\\nI hopa I never have, nor shall be permitted to dishonor it.\\nWell do I remember some of the old people in that section of\\nthe town, particularly one old Mr. Plorton, who was favored far\\nabove the most of his neighbors by the Divine Being if we can\\nbelieve his story. He said as he Avas working by his flat piece,\\nthe voice of the Lord came to him and said, go preach my\\nword to the people. At first he excused himself, but on the\\nrepetition of the call, he started out. Came to my fivther s houso\\nand talked to my good mother day after day. One Sunday he\\nmade an appointment at the school-house and I attended. Dur-\\ning his speech he said he should preach nothing that Avas not\\nfound between the lids of the Bible. But he soon began a ti-\\nrade of abuse upon the pocky cotton factories, and other cor-\\nporations in the land, and declared his conviction that they\\nAvould be the ruin of our country. But the country lives, the\\ncotton mills Uac and prosper, 1)ut Mr. Horton rests with his\\nfathers.\\nI remember particularly my first Sunday school-teacher, Levi\\nFisk, Esq., and I never shall forget one remark made by him.\\nHe was a man of good judgment in most matters, yet he had his\\nweak points. Speaking of Railroads, as one was then being\\ntalked of from Boston to Bellows Falls, one route might lay\\nacross some part of our town the old squire said he Avould rath-\\ner have three of the best farm buildings in tow n all destroyed\\nby fii e annually, to be replaced by taxes on the town, rather\\nthan have a Railroad in it. You of this hoiu- do not concur in\\nthat opinion. If it were to be said now, no more cars would\\never enter your town, you Avould seek and follow the cars Avher-\\nevcr they Avent.\\nBut I Avill not detain you. From the homes of our j outh,\\nmany of us have made a Avide departure. Yet it is no matter\\nAvhere avc may go in after time, Ave shall find no place around\\nAvhich cluster such halloAved memories as gather here. In mem-\\nory Ave see again the forms of our fathers and mothers, long\\nsince gone to their eternal rest, gliding in oiu- midst. Me hear", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "^4\\nJAFFREY CENTEN IAT,.\\ntheir voices saying to us here, we lived, toiled and died to sow\\nthe seeds, the fruit of which, you, our childi en, are permitted\\nthis day to gather.\\nMighty changes have marked the march of years that are past,\\nbut the record is good. Go forward still, with a stout heart and\\nmanly purpose, and yon shall have a grander history to conclude\\n100 years from today. Not one of us shall see that distant time,\\nsave in promise, the reality of which we cannot doubt.\\nThe whole field of my thought at this time is beautifully ex-\\npressed by the poet, if I am able to call the words to mind,\\nthus\\nLife is like a stately temple\\nThat is founded in the sea,\\nWhose uprising fair proportions\\nPenetrate immensity;\\nLove the architect who builds it,\\nBuilding it eternally.\\nTome, standing in the present,\\nAs one waits beside a grave,\\nUp the isles and to the altar\\nRolls the Past its solemn wave,\\nWith a murmer as of mourning.\\nUndulating in the nave.\\nPallid phantoms glide around me\\nIn the wrecks of hope and home\\nVoices moan among tlie waters,\\nFaces vanish in the foam\\nBut a peace, divine, nnfailiug,\\nWrites its promise in the dome.\\nCold the waters where my feet are,\\nBut my heart is strung anew.\\nTuned to Hope s profound vibration.\\nPulsing all the ether through,\\nFor the seeking souls that ripen\\nIn a patience strong and true.\\nHark! the all-inspiring Angel\\nOf the Future leads the choir;\\nAll the shadows of the temple\\nAre illumed with living lire,\\nAnd the bells above are waking\\nChimes of infinite desire.\\nFor the strongest or the weakest\\nThere is no eternal fall\\nMany graves and many monrners,\\nBiit at last the lifted pall\\nFor the highest and the lowest\\nBlessed life containeth all.\\nO thou fair unfinished temple\\nIn unfathomed sea begun.\\nLove, thy builder, shapes and lifts thee\\nIn the glory of the sun\\nAnd the builder and the builded\\nTo the pure in heart are one.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "J A F 1 H E Y K N I K N N 1 Al.\\nyd\\nPARTING HYMN.\\nBY MISS HENRIETTA S. CUTTER.\\nAir Ai ld Lang Syne.\\nTlie Bund, Choir and audience unitedly .swelling; the tide of soug along.\\nThe sha ^es of night are gathering fast,\\nKound old Monadnock s brow,\\nWhile we must say the parting word,\\nWith friendship s hand clasp now\\nWhile we must break the golden links\\nTliat bind reunion s chain\\nYet often memory II bear us back\\nBack to this day again.\\nAmong the many gathered here\\nAre those of sterling worth,\\nUpon whose brows the impress rests\\nOf the great and good of earth\\nAnd with those passing down life s hill,\\nJust coming up are some,\\nWhose laurel crown for worthy deeds\\nIn th future must be won.\\nMid .ioys of this Centennial day,\\nA silent tear we shed,\\nFor parents, brothers, si^ters, friends,\\nNow sleeping with the dead\\nThey ve left to us the well-worn paths\\nOn life s great harvest field\\nMay we the seed full early sow.\\nThat th grain may heavj yield.\\nOne century hence that future day\\nIs only known to God\\nBut M E shall rest all peacefully\\nBeneath the flowering sod.\\nWe ve met today, and now we pnrt\\nNow we must say good-bye\\nMay Heaven s rich blessings on all rest\\nWe 11 meet again on high.\\nPeter Upton, Esq. moved that this meeting adjourn for one\\nhundred years, and it was unaninumsly oted. Tlii-ee cheers\\nfor The One Hujidredth Anniversary of the Town of JafFrey\\npreceded a quiet dispersal of home-seeking strangers and towns-\\npeople from the soon deserted canvass.\\nNote. We are indebted to George Wilder Fox for a portion of this,\\n(copied), as reported by him for the New Hampshire Sentinel.\\nThe following letters were received from the absent sons of\\nJaff rey, who could not, for reasons therein specified, unite in\\nthe centennial exercises.\\nPittsburgh, Pa.. July 2.S, 1873.\\nTo Jnlli/s Cutter and Others. Cummittee\\nGentlemen I have the liouor\\nto acknowledge the receipt of your letter inviting mo to be pres-\\nent at the Centennial Anniversary of the incorporation of the\\ntown of Jafirey. It would give me great pleasure to be thereon\\nan occasion of such interesl to all natives of the dear old town;\\nbut the state of my health will not permit it. Wherever its sons\\nand daughters may wander, or wdierever dwell, their thoughts\\nmust frequently turn back with kindly regards, as mine do, to\\nthe home of childhood and we are always glad to know that", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "9(1 .lAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\ntlic friencl.s we left behind us there still enjoy the thril t and com-\\nforts that come by industry and skill, in the useful arts. God\\nbless old JaOVey, and its people.\\nSituated near the geographical centre of New Euglund, that\\ntown Avell represents New England character and life; and its\\ngranite hills and towering mountain as well represent the old\\nGranite State. It is New England in its purity and its charac-\\nter is strongly impressed upon its children. Wherever we may\\nbe, we are Americans and patriots; attached to the homes of our\\nadoption; but Yanhees f\\nA Century is a long time. Yet the first settled minister of the\\ntown lived in honor and esteem to see his centennial birthday.\\nBut how many events have occui red in that time A Century\\nago considerable portions of the thirty Indian tribes thai once\\ninhabited New England, were still within its borders. Now,\\nnone remain and even th(Mr languages are all dead, oi- exist\\nonly on the silent pages of the Eliot Bible. A wide region has\\nbecome a fruitful land, distinguished for industiy and intelli-\\ngence, and out from among you have gone very many, to peo[)lo\\nnew regions towards the setting sun.\\nA Century hence, let Jaffrcy again call together her children,\\nand out from among a hmidi ed and fifty millions people, stretch-\\ning quite across a continent, they will come; and will rejoice to\\nfind. old Jaftrey still prosperous and happy.\\nWishing you a large and pleasant meeting,\\nI am, Youi-s very truly,\\nGEO. F. GILLMORE.\\nOberlin, Ohio, August 15, 1873.\\nF. H. utter, and OtJtcrs\\nDear Sirs: The card of invitation to the\\nJaffrey Centennial was duly received. I do not know of any-\\nthing that would give me more pleasure than to attend this cele-\\nbration, if I could afibrd the journey. Jaffrey is my birth-place,\\nand the birth-place of my mother, and all my brothers and sis-\\nters but one. It is just a third of a century since my father,\\nwith nine children, removed to this place. With us came my\\nlather s father, and a brother and sister of my mother, Thomas\\nand Betsey Joslin. Of the fourteen, only my mother and three\\nyounger sisters and myself remain.\\nI have repeatedly visited Jaffrey, and renewed the impress-\\nions of early boyhood, i here is no spot on earth so full of in", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": ".TAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 97\\nteresting associations and touching memories, as that mountain\\ntown. Every object, from the cloud capjjed Monadnock, to the\\nold school-house and blacksmith shop at the middle of the town,\\nis full of suggestions and tender interest. The very changelcss-\\nness of the upper part of the town, is a gratification. It still\\nstands as it appeared to my nine years old cyes^ a third of a\\ncentury ago and I can but hope that it will remain so. I should\\ndelight to bring the greetings of my mother and our family to\\nthe friends of our childhood, and join in celebrating the birthday\\nof the dear old towi:. If she is poor in soil, she is rich in the\\nbeauty and grandeur of her scenery, and rich in her children and\\ngj-and-childien, scattered over all the land. May your commem-\\noration be one worthy of the venerable mothers, and a satisfac-\\ntion to all the sons and daughters who may gather from near\\nand far. If any printed record is prepared, please send two or\\nthree copies to me, with my share of the expense.\\nYours ti uly,\\nJOHN M. ELLIS.\\nCanandaigua, Michigan, Aug. 14, 1873.\\nJoffrey Centenjiial Commit fee of Arrangements\\nGentlemen: Your kind invitation for\\nme to be present at the Centennial gathering of my native town,\\nleachcd me in due time. It would give me great pleasure to be\\nwith you on that occasion to meet friends from whom I have been\\nlong separated, and whom I may nevei see elsewhere. But niy\\npresent surroundings and duties will compel me to decline your\\ninvitation and lemain at home. If tiadilion be not at fault, it is\\njnst one liundied ycai S since my grand-father,Pliineas Spauiding,\\nin the Southwest part of the town, broke the forest that after-\\nwards made him a pleasant home. Then, the only highway was\\na footpath through the tangled wildwood, and trees that had\\nbeen marked and scathed by the woodman s axe or hatchet; the\\nonly guide to those denizens of the forest, from one point to an-\\nother, to meeting and to mill. Then, too, the slow footed ox,\\nyoked and hitched to the old two-wlu^eled cait in summer, and\\nthe heavy sled in wintei-. was the only pleasuie carriage for\\nweek-day oi for Sunday, and the only mode of conveyance from\\nneighbor to neighbor^ or IVom town to town. Horses were few,\\nand mostly used for riding on the back. It was no uncommon\\nthing for man and wife to be seen riding both on one beast; he\\nin front on the j^addle and she behind on the pillion. Young", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "OS JAFFREY CENTENNIAL.\\nladies with their beaux would thus ride for recreation and for\\npleasure, till tlie pillion o-ave place for another horse and side-\\nsaddle, and then they traveled side by side. Sixty years ao-o,\\non the spot now f^ccupied by your commodious Hotel, stood the\\ndwelling-house of Dea. Eleazer Spofford, which, with outbuild-\\nings, and grist and saw mill down by the river, were about all\\nthat could be seen for buildings, where your pleasant village\\nnow stands. Spofford s mills were known for their superiority\\nof workmanship over everything else of the kind, foi- many miles\\naround. Dne little anecdote as touching the old sa\\\\v niill I can\\nI enicmber in ni} boyhood days.\\nWhen it was fir^t in operation, as one gate shut and another\\nopened, moving the heavy carriage with its ponderous log to and\\nfrom the saw, a colored man standing by in amazeujent, ex-\\nclaimed Massa Spoflfoid, don t you think you could invent a\\nmachine to lioe corn\\nThose wei-e primitive days; times when our grand-fathers and\\ngiand-mothers had to toil for tlieii- daily food, and right glad\\nwei c they, if they could bring the two ends of the year to meet,\\nwith a few spare dollars for de{)Osit against the time of need.\\nIn those ear:y days, ahnost every house held its instrument not\\nthe modern piano, but the old fashioned spinning wheel, and\\nwhile the foot pressed the pedal, the fingers instead of gliding\\nover keys of ivory to the tune of Yankee Doodle, or God save\\nthe King, or perchance the more solemn strains of Old Hundred\\nor SfMarUn s, wcie busy in drawing the thread from the pine\\ndistaff, to be Avi ought into cloth for the clothing of the house-\\nhold. I will venture the assertion that \\\\ou cannot in your town\\ntodav, lind a young lady under twenty years of age, that can\\nspin a skein of line linen, or in her grand-mother s old hand loom\\nweave a yard f cloth. I ay this, not by way of disparagement\\nto any one, for 1 well know that modern improvements and ma-\\nchinerv have done away with most of that kind of labor. To-\\nday you have your pleasant homes, your good roads, your car-\\nriages of comfort and of ease, and instead of the lumbering stage\\ncoach that used daily to pass through your village, from Keen.e\\nto Boston, is seen the iron horse, puffing and blowing on his feed\\nof tire, and drawing in his wake a burden that many stage teams\\ncould not move an inch.\\n1 have hastily gleaned at a few things in the century that has\\npassed, but who among your gathering today will be present to\\nread the history of the century to come? It would be no pre-\\nsumption to answer not one.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAT.. 99\\nIn conclusion, I will offer the following sentiment: Old Jaf-\\nfrey May her virtue and mora^ty keep even pace with her\\ninternal improvements for a hundred years to come.\\nVery respectfully yours.\\nLYMAN SPAULDING.\\nBarre, Vt., August 18, 1873.\\nMr. Julius Cutter\\nMy Dear Sir: Evei since the reception of\\nyour invitation to be present and participate in the celebration\\nof the Centennial Anniversary of the incorporation of the town,\\nI have hoped to meet you there. But the debility from which I\\nam just now suffering, reminds me that quiet is better suited to\\nmy condition.\\nYou mav know that during ten years and a half I was en-\\ngaged in examining the teachers and caring for the children of\\nyour Common Schools, I knew all the young people of school,\\nage; and, before I left town, I copied all their names and ages\\nfrom the registers. Were it permitted, I should like to respond\\nto the sentiment, Our Common Schools. We have been nur-\\ntured there, and we are all the alumni or alumuce of that insti-\\ntution. You meet as graduates from the people s college.\\nThough you differ in your religions and political preferences,\\nhere you are bi cthren.\\nThe early inhabitants of Jaflfrey so recognized the necessity\\nof schools, that, ninety-eight years ago last April, at the second\\nannual town meeting that was holden under the charter, an ap-\\npropriation of eight pounds was voted for the support of a school.\\nEver since that time, it is known that the town has every year,\\nexcept one, voted a sum of money for a like purpose. The first\\nschool-house was built at the expense of the town, in the year\\n1778. It stood just across the road from father Ainsworth s\\nhouse, and remained there till the year 1809. Within twelve\\nyears after this first house was put up, there were nine others in\\ntown.\\nCould you examine a catalo::ue which contained the names of\\nall who have shared in the advantages of your schools, and could\\nyou read tiieir history also, you would see a record of which you-\\nmight justly be pi oud.\\n1 remain, Very truly yours,\\nLEONARD TENNEY.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100 jaffrey centennial.\\nAmherst, July 18, 1873.\\nDear Sir: Yours of the 28th ult. giving me notice of the Cen-\\ntennial Celebration at Jafirej on the 20th prox. and of a senti-\\nment to which I am invited to respond, has been received.\\nI have delayed answering hoping to be able to so arrange my\\nbusiness engagements, that I might be present on that occasion,\\nbut I find it will not ])e possible for me to attend 1 have an\\nengagement which takes me to Chicago, at that time, which can-\\nnot be postponed. I regret very much that 1 cannot ^lave the\\nj)leasure of meeting the good citizens of my native town on that\\nday, and enjoying the festivities of the occasion, but my time be-\\ning previously engaged, is not at my own disposal.\\nWishing you a successful and pleasant Celebration on the day\\nappointed, I am,\\nV^ei-y truly, your obedient servant,\\nE. S. CUTTER.\\nF H. Cutter, Esq., Jeffrey, N. H.\\nYates City, Knox County, Illinois, Aug. 8, 187S.\\nTo the Committee of Arrangements\\nDear Sirs Your kind favor, invit-\\ning me to be present with you upon the occasion o( your Cen-\\ntennial, has been received, but it finds me engros-^ed in business\\narrangements, such that 1 cannot conveniently accept your invi-\\ntation a piivilege which I should most dearly love to enjoy.\\nThis being the case, I tru-t you will allow me to express a\\nthought that seems full in my mind, and thus add my mite to\\nyoui (estivitres.\\nMore than twenty-five years have passed since 1 broke bands\\nwith the dear old town and friends, and launched out upon the\\nunknown future to pursue my journey through life yet I have\\nnot forgotten the spot that gave me birth. The broad prairies\\nand boundless harvests, fill my soul with gladness and my heart\\nwith thanksgiving, but my mind continually runs back with de-\\nlimit to rav old native New Hampshire hills, with Jaflfi-ev for its\\ncentre, and the gray old Monadnock for its chief coi-ner stone.\\nOh Memory What volumes fill thy space as I contemplate\\nthe past. I live over again the days of my youth I think of\\nthe sports of No. 1 1 of the achievements in Melville I won-\\nder at my efforts in No. 6, and feel sui-prised at my success in\\nNo. 3; I contemplate the pleasures of our social and religious", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 101\\npi ivilcges our lyceum and singing schools our annual trainings\\nand musters and 4th of July celebrations, and wonder if it took\\nthem all to help make me a man Aye, and I answer to my-\\nself, yes! and more too, for it requires the determination to be\\na man. In the days of the Caesars, it was the height of ambition\\nto become a Roman citizen. How much more for every one\\nborn upon American soil, to be in truth an American citizen.\\nReflecting upon the efforts that were made use of to fit us who\\nare upon the present drama of life, by oui- fathers and mothers\\nwho have mostly gone to their I cward, let it remind us of our\\nduty to those whom Pr n-idence has placed in our charge, the\\nyoung of the land.\\nHonored as old Jaffrey has always been for the virtue and\\ngeneral intelligence of its citizens, with how much pleasure can\\nyou turn to your young and youth and feel that a brighter future\\nis before them than we enjoy. The generous munificence of one\\nof your townsmen, has placed greater privileges and biigliter\\nprospects before you, and as the town has so far already hon-\\nored itself, what may not the most sanguine expect hereafter?\\nThe sun never shone upon lovelier hills; man was never\\nfanned by purer breezes; streams never rattled down pi-ecipiccs\\ntreer than do thse in your own. my own native town. The arts\\nand sciences lend their aid, and your old men and your old wo-\\nmen, your young men and your young women, yes, and your\\nyouth, may, if they will, be honored and praised throughout the\\nland.\\nPermit me then, to close by offering this sentiment The\\ngood old town of Jaftrey Wherever her sons or daughters rove,\\nmay her memory to them be as bright as her waters are pure\\nand their honor as lasting as Monadnock itself.\\nYours with much respect,\\nD. COKl^V. Jli.\\nCampt()xmi,i,e, N. H., Aid. loth, 1873.\\nGf nth /IK II of the CoiinnUtcc.\\nYour invitation to attend thr CeutLUiiial\\nCelebration at Jaffrey, on the 2()th iust., has been received. I\\nregret that engagements at lionie \\\\y\\\\\\\\1 pre\\\\ ent my attendance up-\\non that interesting occasion.\\nThough not a native of Jaffrey, I went then- to reside at so\\nearly a period of my life, that whatever is pleasant in youthful\\nrecollections of home and early friends are centered there.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 JAFFT^EY CEXTENNIAI,.\\nMy acquaintances with JafFrey commenced in that transition\\nperiod when it was changing from an ahnost exckisivcly agricul-\\ntural town, to one of manufacturing and educational facilities as\\nwell.\\nThe early fathers of the town, such as the first Col. Prescott,\\nthe first Dr. Howe, Judge Parker, Capt. Joseph Cutter, John\\nCutter, tanner, I remember as silver haired men at that tijne,\\nwho soon passed away, and gave place to their descendants of\\nthe second generation, who worthily carried forward the town\\nin its career of prosperity and literary advancement. To men of\\nthis generation the town was indebted for the establishment of\\niMelville Academy, an institution which exerted an extensive\\nand abiding influence for good, and carries to a high degree the\\nstandard of education among the sons and daughters of Jaff rey.\\nAnd, although this institution has ceased to exist, it is a matter\\nof congratulation that the munificence of one of her citizens has\\ncontinued to Jaff rey the means of a good High School education\\nto all her youth in the future.\\nI have been pleased to note in occasional visits, the rapid pro-\\ngress of Jaffrey in material prosperity, and hope she may con-\\ntinue in her onward march of improvement.\\nIn conclusion, I would say that I have dwelt for a time in the\\nfar South, where the Orange blooms, and the Fig and the Pome-\\ngranate put forth leaves and fruit I have resided in the middle\\nregion of our Country, where the Grape and the Peach and the\\nNectarine flourish, I have traveled Westward to the centre of\\nthat great valley where the Mississippi rolls its vast volume of\\nwaters, where waving fields of grain furnish food for a conti-\\nnent, but I have yet to see the land which on the whole, the\\ndAvellers rotuid the base of the xMonadnock, need envy its pos-\\nsesion as a home.\\nWith best wishes to the Committee personally, and hope that\\nan auspicious day may render the Celebration a success,\\nI remain, yours veiy truly,\\nCHARLES CUTTER.\\nTo Y. H. Cutter and others.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "jaffkey centennial. lo-s\\nMansfield, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1873.\\nCommilfee of Arrangements Gentlemen I received your\\ncard of invitation to attend a Celebration of the One Hundredth\\nAnniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of JafFrey.\\nLiving in what was called the far Went when I left my New\\nHampshire home, I can only send my regrets at not being able\\nto be present on that interesting occasion, and visit\\nTlie land where a father dwells,\\nAnd that holds a mother s grave.\\nMy mind reverts to many scenes of youthful days, since re-\\nceiving your card. I often think of the daily labor of New\\nEnglancl Farmers boys, who, from my experience, go into the\\nfield at an early age, and get permission to go fishing only when\\nit rains too hard to work out of doors, and there is no corn to\\nshclL This, with brown bread and milk for supper, gives a boy\\na good constitution with which to fight the battle of life.\\nI often think of the days, when, for the want of something to\\nread, I walked four miles to the old church to attend the Sab-\\nbath School, get a Library book, and hear the good old man\\npreach, who then dressed in the fashion of our revolutionary\\nfathers. On my last visit to JaflE rey, I was glad to see that an-\\ncient edifice in so good a state of preservation. May it stand\\nanother century, a monument to religion, morality and education.\\nDuring the late strife for the preservation of our glorious\\nUnion, there was talk, even in Ohio, of our Country being di-\\nvided the East from the West, as well as the North from the\\nSouth. I thought of my admiration of the great West, the\\nCountry of my adoption, and my love for New England, the land\\nof my nativity, and often found myself repeating a verse I had\\ncut from -some paper about the time of leaving my native State,\\nwhich I will offer as a sentiment\\nNew England, dear New England,\\nMy birth-place prond and free\\nA traitor s curse be on my head.\\nWhen I am false to thee.\\nPlease remember me kindly to all the friends of my youth, in\\nin the good old Town of JafFrey.\\nerv trulv vours,\\nP. BIGELOW.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104: jaffrey cextexxial.\\nCambridge, Avgi st, LSTo.\\nDear Sir I tliank you for the invitation to your Centen-\\nnial festival. If my health would have permitted, it Mould have\\ngiven me much pleasure to have joined in the celebration. I\\nhave been told that I was born in Jaffrey, but it was so long-\\nago, 1784, that none of the present inhabitants could testify to\\nthe fact but as it would be equally difficult to produce any evi-\\nidence to the contrary, I may as well, on this occasion, claim the\\nhonor. 1 understand that my parents removed from Jaffrey to\\nNew Ipswich when I was about a year old, and the most that\\nI recollect of Jaffrey, relates to my being sent there to school,\\nabout seventy-eight years ago. The school was kept by a for-\\neigner, by the name of Dillon, who had a great reputation for\\nteaching penmanship, and was about as much celebrated for the\\nuse of the rod as the pen, and I dare say tradition may have\\npreserved some anecdotes of his severe teachings in that line,\\nwhich were of a nature to be remembered as long as any of his\\nother lessons. At this school 1 was a class-mate with General\\nJames Miller, who got his education rather late in life, and we\\nstudied our English Grammar together, in the same seat, he at\\nthe age of twenty-one, and I at the age of eleven. I think Dillon\\nnever attemptecl to use the rod upon Miller if he had, the fu-\\nture warrior might have commenced his campaign somt years\\nbefore the war of 1812. Among the school-mates that 1 re-\\nmember, were Dr. Abner Howe and his brother Dr. Adonijah\\nHowe, who are, no doubt, Avell remembered and much respected\\nby many of the present inhabitants of Jaffrey. Andi ew Thorn-\\ndiiie was one of the fcirailiar names of that day, though consider-\\nably older than my school-mates.\\nSome vears after my school boy days, I recollect climbing to\\ntlie tuj) of Monadnock, and finding on the highest pinnacle, a\\n(.late, and what appeared to be the initial letter of three or lour\\nnames, rudely pounded out, with much labor, on the solid ledge\\napparently by the use of no better implement than a stone. This\\nmay probably still be found there, though not without careful\\nsearch, as the inscription though deep is rather indistinct. It\\nmay probably be a record of the first visit to the mountain after\\nthe settlement of the country, and would be a very interesting\\nitem in the history of your Centennial, if it had not already been\\npublished. I took a copy of it at the time, but have not been\\nable to find it.\\nWith best wishes for the continuance of the prosperity of my\\nnative town.\\nour hiunble servant,\\nL. L. Pierce. Esq. SAMUEL BATCHELDEK.", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTEXXIAL.\\n10/\\nThe following is a list\\nto pay the expenses of\\namount paid by each.\\nJohn Fox,\\nGurley A. Phelps,\\nEthan Cutter,\\nJoseph P. Frost,\\nAsa Nutting,\\nTimothy Blodgett,\\nLaban Rice,\\nJonas C. Rice,\\nEdwin R. Cutter,\\nBenjamin F. Lawrence,\\nGeo. F. Potter,\\nEdmund C. Shattuck,\\nThomas K. GofF,\\nLucius A. Cutter,\\nNathaniel Cutter,\\nJulius Cutter,\\nJonathan D. Gibbs,\\nLuke French,\\nRufus Case,\\nJohn A. Cutter,\\nLyman K. Earn urn,\\nEleazer W. Heath,\\nCharles A. Baldwin, 1\\nCharles C. Libby, 1\\nGeorge F. Gilmore, 1\\nJohn Conant, 20\\nArad Adams, 10\\nFranklin H. Cutter, 15\\nJohn AV. Woodruff, 2\\nNehemiah Cutter, 4\\nJames R. Harrington, 1\\nEdmund P. Shattuck, -3\\nHenry C. French, 5\\nJoseph W. Fassett, 5\\nGeo. A. Underwood, 15\\nEzra Baker, 5\\nMilton Baker, 5\\nJohn Heckcr, 5\\nLevi P. Towne,\\nCharles A. Cutter. 2\\nof the names of those who subscribed\\nthe Centennial Celebration, with the\\n$25\\n1\\n5\\n5\\no\\nO\\n10\\n5\\n10\\n5\\n10\\n1\\n2\\n1\\n5\\n5\\n15\\n1\\n1\\n4\\n10\\n1\\no\\nOOlWilliam P. Stevens,\\n00 Charles Stevens,\\n00 Henry Chamberlain,\\nOOlAnson W. Jewett,\\n00:Gustavus A. Cutter,\\nOOjJohn S. Button,\\n00 Frederic Spaulding,\\n00 Otis G. Rice,\\nOOlLevi E. Bri^ham,\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\nJonathan J. Comstock,\\nL E. Keeys,\\nAmbrose W. Sjjaulding,\\nJ. F. Stone,\\nOOjDaniel P. Adams,\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\nAddison J. Adams,\\nE. G. Bryant,\\nJonas Cutter,\\nJoseph T. Bigelow,\\nRichard Spaulding,\\nVryling D. Shattuck,\\nAustin A. Spaulding,\\nMichael D. Fitzgerald,\\nLeonard E. Spaulding,\\nClarrence S. Bailey,\\nLafayett Blood,\\nMarshall C. Adams,\\n00 John S. I^awrence,\\nOOJPeter Hogan,\\n00|Francis Lowe,\\n00:Benjamin Cutter,\\n(H) Joseph Davis,\\n00 C. B. Davis,\\n00 Dexter Pierce,\\nOOiCharles Bacon,\\nOOlloseph A. Thaver,\\n00 Luke Nutting,\\n00 Benjamin L. Baldwin,\\nOOJLevi Pollard,\\nOOlWilliam Upton,\\n00 Samuel T. Wellman,\\n2 00\\n3 00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\nS 00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n3 00\\n2 00\\n10 00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n20 00\\n2 00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106\\nJAFFREY CENTEXNIAI,.\\nStephen F. Bacon,\\nLuke Carter,\\nElijah Smith,\\nJohn Frost,\\nIsaac S. Russell,\\nSamuel Hoclge,\\nBenjamin F. Prescott,\\nJohn Perry,\\nThomas A. Stearns,\\nAddison Pierce,\\nSamuel Marble,\\nOren Prescott,\\nJoseph Joslin,\\nT. H. Curtis,\\nRobert Ritchie,\\nSamuel Ryan,\\nCharles H. Powers,\\nAddison Prescott,\\nHenry F. Morse,\\nHerbert F. Moors,\\nGeorge A. Benjamin,\\nFrank P. Wellman,\\no\\n5\\n5\\n5\\n5\\n10\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n00 1 John M. Wales,\\nOO Albert Bass,\\n00 Miss A. Parker,\\n00 Peter Upton,\\n00 Mrs. S. H. Rand,\\n00 Leonard F. Sawyer,\\n00 Edward Gary,\\nOOjJosiah M. M. Lacy,\\n00 Miss Rebecca Bacon,\\n00 Cummings Sawyer,\\n00 E. H. xMower,\\n00 Mrs. E. C. Duncan,\\n00 Oliver Bacon,\\n00 Charles L. Clark,\\n00 Jonathan Page,\\n00 Charles E. Cutter,\\nOOAlvah Stanley,\\n00 Alfred Sawye r,\\n00 Mrs. Amos Buss,\\nOOElbridge Baldwin,\\n00 Benjamin Pierce,\\n00\\n2 00\\n2 00\\n2 00\\n5 00\\n2 00\\n2 00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n10 00\\n1 00\\n2 00\\n2 00\\n5 00\\n1 00\\n2 00\\n5 00\\n1 00\\n1. 00\\nJvLius CuTTEK, Treasurer of the Centennial Committee, Dr.\\nXo amount of subscriptions, $502 00\\npaid by F. W. Tracy, for use of Common, 25 00\\n$527 00\\nCr.\\nBy paid Geo. W. Foster, $25 00\\nfor nails and loss on lumber, 27 12\\nEast Jaffrcy Cornet Band, 50 00\\nfor Postal Cards and printing, 22 99\\nfor use of tent and expenses on same, 115 6-t\\nTable Committee, 127 70\\nfor express, postage and stationery, 8 26\\nfor keeping Cavalry Horses, 16 52\\namount of subscriptions unpaid, 1 00\\namount in hands of the treasurer, 132 77\\n$527 00", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "JAFFREY CENTENNIAL. 107\\nThe Committee voted that twenty-five per cent, of each per-\\nson s subscription be returned, the balance of the surplus to the\\nTreasurer, for extra services.\\nThe Committee of Arrangements tender thanks to Henry C.\\nFrench, Joseph W. Fassett, and Alfred Sawyer, Selectmen of\\nthe town, and to the Table Committee, for theii- co-operation in\\nmaking the celebration a success. Also, to the Peterborouo h\\nCavalry Company and the East Jaftrey Fii-e Company, for the\\nvery satisfactory manner in which they performed the escort\\nduty.\\nThe Table Committee unite with the Committee of Arrano-e-\\nments in offering thanks to the citizens of Jaffi-ey for providing\\nfunds to defi-ay the expense, and provisions for a free collation.\\nTo H. B. Wheeler, Esq., who furnished us with rooms and\\nlights for our meetings without charo-e.", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "(X..", "height": "3385", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3363", "width": "1981", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3349", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00jaff_0120.jp2"}}