{"1": {"fulltext": "F 44\\n.K2 W5\\nCopy 2\\nAN\\nd9\\nDELIVERED IN\\nKEICNE, N. H,\\nJULY 4, 1876,\\nAT THE REQUEST OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT,\\nWILLIAM ORNE WHITE.\\nKEENE\\nSENTINEL PRINTING COMPANY. BOOK AND JOB PRINTEKS.\\n1876.", "height": "3463", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "AN\\ngistoricnl ^UmBB^\\nDELIVERED IN\\nKEENE, N. H.,\\nON-\\nJUJLY 4=, 1876\\nAT THE REQUEST OF THE CITY dOVEMMENT,\\nWILLIAM OME WPIITE.\\nKEENE\\nSENTINEL PRINTING COMPANY, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS.\\n1876.", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "8MI\u00c2\u00ab lUtaloWB", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "f\\nCITY OF KEENE.\\nIn the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.\\nA RESOLUTION in relation to printing tlie Historical Address of\\niT William O. White, July 4111.\\nct Besolved by the City Councils of the City of Keene, as follows\\nThat the thanks of the City Government be presented to the Rev-\\nr EREND William O. White, for the address deUvered by him on the\\n4th inst.\\nThat a copy of the same be requested for the Press, and that two\\nthousand copies, in pamphlet form, he printed for the use of the cit-\\nizens one copy of the same t0 l- e \u00c2\u00bbf^rwariMl^ to Wasliington, in ac-\\ncordance with the recommendation of the President, and one copy\\nto the clerk of the County Courts.\\nCHARLES SHRIGLEY,\\nPresident Common Council.\\nl;^ t^ E. FARRAR,\\nMayor.\\nA true copy. Attest\\nH. S. MARTIN,\\nCity Clerk pro tern.", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS.\\nWo are all an hundred 3 ears old to-daj. For this day, at\\nleast, we identify ourselves with our countr} and we know\\nthat it will not be the privilege of the youngest, any more\\nthan of the oldest among us, to lend our bodil}^ presence at the\\nnext centennial. So there is, indeed, a significant sense in\\nwhich, to-day, we are all of one age. I do not forget that\\nDeacon John Whitman, of Bridgewater, Mass., lived to be\\none hundred and seven years old but upon what conditions\\nHis son testifies that no matter what terrific events were occur-\\nring in the world, no matter what instances of depravit} were\\nreported in private life, the most vehement expression of dis-\\napprobation which he could recall hearing the patriarch use\\nwas, -Oh strange Now I think it may be conceded that the\\nYoung America of Keene will hardly be willing thus rigidly to\\nrule their spirits. We shall hardly find them bartering all\\ntheir interjectional exclamations for the mild regimen of\\nOh strange even to secure the hope of living past an hun-\\ndred 3 ears.\\nResigning, therefore, to the unborn the privilege of being\\neager and active participants in the next centennial, we stretch\\none hand to the shadowy forms of the past, and the other to\\nthe shadowy forms of the future, content to be, to-day, only\\na connecting link between the two.\\nThe pity is that this call of Congress and the President, for\\nsome glimpse of historical research to-da} on the part of the\\nvarious localities in our land, should not be more generally\\nheeded. In any one instance, there may not be much evoked\\nfrom the records of the past, to stir the sympathies of the\\nlisteners. But when we think of the country as a whole,\\nwhen we consider all our cities and villages, we are reminded", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\nof the coral reefs on the coast of Australia, a thousand miles\\nin extent, the combined work of innumerable myriads of mi-\\ncroscopic creatures, each one of which has performed his\\nindispensable part in this marvellous architecture. Thus each\\ncontribution, however humble, to the history of any village in\\nthe land, is so much added to that historic reef, into which,\\nwith microscopic eyes, the investigator of future centuries\\nwill be glad to pry. The time ma^ come when we of this\\ngeneration shall be laughed at for thinking ourselves so wise.\\nThey that come after us will wish that we had been more spar-\\ning of our theories, and had been more patient in recording\\nfacts. The theories which an Egyptian astronomer held five\\nthousand years ago, it may not greatly concern us to know,\\nbut his record of the appearance of the star Sirius, once more,\\nafter having been concealed by the sun, enables us, with one\\nstroke of the pen, to add seventeen hundred and sevent_y years\\nto the already venerable years of the third p3Tamid of Gizeh.\\nSo let us refresh our minds with a few of the incidents that\\nare connected with our own story as a frontier settlement, as\\na village, and subsequently as a city, assuring posterity, in\\nadvance, of our thanks, should it add brighter lustre to the\\nname of Keene than all which it has worn before.\\nYet it is hard to divert our minds even for a moment, from\\nPhiladelphia, to-day.\\nIn imagination, we are all under the shadow of Indepen-\\ndence Hall we hear the charge, as of yore Proclaim liberty\\nthroughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. We\\nsee its avenues re-peopled with those patriots of an elder day.\\nHow long will it all last? is the whispered prayer in their\\nminds, as they think of the germ of national freedom which\\nthey are patiently committing to the soil. We turn our eyes\\nawa^ for a moment, and, as we look again, behold their\\nprayer answered in the bursting from the soil of the Century\\nPlant of American Liberty, its petals wet with dew drops\\nfrom heaven, the oppressed from other lands, aye, even from\\nour own borders, all clasping hands exultingly beneath its\\nbeneficent shelter\\nIt was through the legislation of Massachusetts, in July\\n1732, that the proprietors of the Upper Ashuelot, (for thus", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "the tract was designated,) derived their rights. On June\\n26th. 1734, (one hundred and nineteen years before the ol)serv-\\nance of the town s centennial in 1853, which cele1)ration com-\\nmemorated, strictly, only the one hundredth anniversary of its\\ncharter under its present name,) we see these proprietors\\nmeeting in Concord, Mass., at the house of Mr. Jonathan\\nHall, inn-holder. In the following September, a very few of\\nthese proprietors reach the unfrequented wilderness of their\\nchoice, bv the way of Northfield, Mass., its nearest civilized\\nneighbor. In the year 1740, they find themselves, upon the\\nadjustment of the disputed boundary line between Massachu-\\nsetts and New Hampshire, -excluded from the province of the\\nMassachusetts Bay, to which they alwaies supposed themselves\\nto belong, and vainly beseeching the powers that be, that\\nthey may be annexed to the said Massachusetts Province.\\nIt would be a great piece of historic treason, to imagine\\nour beautiful valley, as being first settled only a hundred years\\nbefore the commemoration in 1853, for it was in fact as early\\nas the year 1736 that Main street eularged its borders, the\\nfollowing vote being then passed Forasmuch as the Town\\nStreet is judged to be to narrow conveniently to accomidate\\nthe Propriators, That every Propriator whose Lotts Ly on the\\nWest side of the street, that will leave out of his Lott at the\\nfront, or next adjoining to sd street, four rods in depth, the\\nwdiole bredth of their respective Lotts. to accomidate the sd\\nstreet, shall have it made up in quantity in the Rear, or other\\nend of their Lotts. What would these wide-hearte l men\\nhave said of some of the streets laid out a century later by\\ntheir successors?\\nThere soon steps upon the scene a helpful man indeed,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the worthv Mr. Jacob Bacon, as he is designated the Clerk\\nand Treasurer of the Proprietors three months before May 1st,\\n1738, when he was chosen by every vote, as a suitable per-\\nson to settle in the ministry of this place.\\nIn his letter of acceptance, he says But, with this, I de-\\nsire your candor in attending upon my administrations, con-\\nsidering yt I am but a man Liable to ye Like passions, temp-\\ntations? faiUngs and imperfection with other men, and indeed,\\nmore in ve way of Satan s malice, than you or any else are,", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "but those who are engaged in ye hke cause against his publick\\ninterest, as ye ministers of Christ are. It is a firm, round\\nhand that worthy Mr. Bacon writes, a model for a Scribe.\\nNo wonder that he remained Clerk of the Proprietors, as long\\nas he remained their pastor. He appears to have continued\\nwith them until 1747, nine years after his settlement, when\\nthey were all on the eve of abandoning the place to the\\nIndians. He was one of a class numbering thirt3 -four, who\\ngraduated at Harvard College in 1731. Among the twelve\\nministers who belonged to the class, I notice the name of my\\nmother s great-grandfather. Rev. John Sparhawk of Salem,\\nMass. How different their lot! The First Church in\\nSalem, had been gathered more than a century before It is\\nnot hard to imagine Jacob Bacon as writing to his Salem\\nclassmate concerning his perils by heathen, and perils in\\nthe wilderness. Come over into Macedonia, and help us,\\nOh, John Sparhawk. may he not have written?\\nAnd after the discovery in 1745, of the lifeless body of\\nDeacon Josiah Fisher, near where the late Mr. Charles Lam-\\nson s bark-house is, we may imagine him writing thus Ah,\\nSparhawk, little can you dream what a sorrow has befallen\\nus here My right-hand man, Deacon Josiah Fisher, is gone\\nYou will scarce believe me, when I teU you hoiv. His lifeless\\nform was found on the road over which he was taking his cow to\\npasture, and I shudder to tell you that it had been also scalped\\nThere lay, now silent and cold, that face which had so often\\nbeamed upon us from the Sanctuary. It was but j^esterday\\nthat he had said Let us take courage Having put our\\nhand to the plough, let us not look back. And now the\\nLord hath gathered him, as ripened wheat, into his garner.\\nAnd again, hear him addressing his classmate, the following\\nyear, just after the tragedy, which culminated in the slaughter\\nof others of his flock. John Sparhawk, I can sa}- with\\nJeremy Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a\\nfountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the\\nslain of the daughter of m} people Again hath the Indian\\nenemy been let loose, like Satan, seeking whom he ma} de-\\nvour. He stealthily pursued good mistress M-cKenny, stab-\\nbing her in the back, as she, unconscious soul, was wearily", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "stepping toward her barn, to milk lier cow. And John Bullard^\\nmoreover, hath been fatally shot. Running from his barn, he\\nwas nigh to grasp the gate of the fort, when the cruel foe\\ntook deadly aim at his back, and he gave up the ghost. But\\nEphraim Dorman hath received from the Lord the mantle of\\nSamson, for he prevailed marvellously in a fierce wrestle with\\na stalwai-t savage, and went off victorious. Let me add that\\nwhenever these imaginary letters actually come into my hands,\\nthey shall surely find their way into the archives of Keene\\nAs worthy Jacob Bacon, walked from his church, near\\nwhere the Robinson farmhouse now stands, past the fort, near\\nwhere that courtly gentleman, the late Dr. Charles G. Adams,\\nso long resided that luckless fort, so succorless for John Bul-\\nlard, and as he glanced across the road to the McKenu}-\\nhouse on the sight of Mr. E. C. Thaj-er s mansion, as he\\nwalked over such a road, how vividly the imager}- of the Old\\nTestament must have occurred to hun With the Psalmist, he\\nmust have said, My soul is among hons, and he must have\\nalso rejoiced that /ie too could say to Jehovah, -Thou hast\\nknown my soul in adversities.\\nHow all this stern participation in the hardships of his flock,\\nmust have endeared this picturesque valle}- to him onl}- the\\nmore. And when, just after all the colonists had forsaken the\\nsettlement, he learned that scarce ami:hing was left behind\\nthem by the Indians, but smoking ruins even the church\\nturned to ashes, with its pulpit, and table and Deacon s\\nseat, built all completely workmanhke, his heart must have\\nsunk within him.\\nNor could his subsequent ministry in Plymouth, Mass., ter-\\nminating just a hundred j cars ago, and lasting twenty-seven\\nyears, have ever weaned him wholly from the exciting frontier\\nlife in which he was evidently so practical a helper. He died\\nin Rowley, Mass., in 1787, at the age of eighty-one, haAT.ng\\npreached a while after leaAing Pl3-mouth, in what is now the\\ntown of Carver.\\nTo his latest days, we can imagine how young and old gath-\\nered around him to hear him describe the discovery of Mark\\nFerry, the hermit, who in his terror of the Indians, had crawled\\nfrom his cave near the river-bank into the boughs of an over-", "height": "3364", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10\\nhangiug tree aud to listen to bis recital of the picturesque\\ncareer of Nathan Blake, who, resisting an impulse secretly to\\nstone his captor to death, was advanced to a vacant chieftain-\\nship among the Canadian Indians, gained at times the mastery\\nover them in athletic sports, and was at length released after\\ntwo gears ca])tivity, surviving until the year 1811, and faUing\\nbut seven months short of being a centenarian. A lad once\\ntold me in a sunilar case, that a man had become almost a cen-\\nturion Mr. Nathan Blake, both among Indians and white\\nmen, had certainly long enjoyed the honor of being a sort of\\ncentm-ion, even if he were not quite a centenarian.\\nAfter the three or four years vacation granted to the Upper\\nAshuelot settlers by the plots of their Indian enemies, we find\\nthese colonists returning in 1750 and 1751, and wearing in\\n1753 the coi-porate name of Keene, a name which the late Hon.\\nSalma Hale, in his terse, but invaluable Annals, conjectures\\nto have been borroAved l\\\\y Governor AVentworth from Sir Ben-\\njamin Keene, who at about this time, was Minister from\\nEngland to Spain.\\nThe late Eev. Aaron Hall writes: The inhabitants of\\nSwanze}- and Keene, after the} returned from their dispersion\\non account of tiie wars, desirous of having the gospel preached\\namong them, however they were few in number accordingly\\nthe two towns covenanted together to hire preaching in con-\\nnection. Rev. John L. Sible} the indefatigable librarian of\\nHarvard College, a rare and accurate antiquarian, writes me\\nthat on April 21, 1753, the churches of Keene and Swanzey\\nmet at the school house in Swanzey, and united in installing\\nRev. Ezra Carpenter, who had at a previous time been the\\nminister of Hull for twentj-five years. He was re-installed,\\n(and this re-instalhng. Rev. Aaron Hall alludes to) Oct. 4,\\n1753, when the two towns agreed to be one religious society,\\nbearing the expenses equally for three years. Afterwards the\\nunion was continued by annual assessments till 1760, when\\nKeene voted not to join with the people of Swanze} in main-\\ntaining the worship of God the minister having the choice of\\nplaces, preferred Swanze} The tradition, adds Mr. Sible}\\nis, that he was dismissed from Swanzey about 1765 (though\\nanother authority says 1769) at his own request, and the eccle-", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "11\\nsiastical council h;ul but just left the meeting house when a\\ntornado struck it mid turned it one-quarter round, so that it\\nfticed the East instead of the South.\\nWhat omen was attached to this right-about-face movement\\nfrom the skies, we do not learn. Mr. Carpenter died at Wal-\\npole, Aug. 26, 1785. When, in 1753, Eev. Ezra Carpenter\\nbegan to preach here, a rude fabric had been erected that sea-\\nson, where Mr. Reuben Stewart s house now stands, but in De-\\ncember the people voted to build a meeting house forty-five\\nfeet long and thirty-five wide, several rods West of Mr. Henry\\nColony s present residence on West street. In Januar}- it ap-\\npears to have been removed to a spot near where the Soldiers\\n^Monument now stands. The removal appears to have been\\nmade in consideration of the unfitness of the gi ound, and\\nthe exposedness to fire, and to the enemy, in case of war.\\nThe worthy Sir. Clement Sumner was ordained as minister\\nof Keene. June 11. 1761, remaining their pastor for eleven\\nyears. Kev. Dr. Barstow, in his Ilalf-ceutury Sermon says\\nthat he was a graduate of Yale College in 1758, and that in\\n1772, in consequence of difficulties, he was dismissed at his\\nown request, by an ecclesiastical council.\\nOn the 18th of February, 1778. Rev. Aaron Hall, a gradu-\\nate of Yale College in 1772, entered upon his thirty-six years\\nministr} of peace and joy, going in and out among his people\\nlike a brother beloved. The inhabitants have scarcely been\\nanchored twenty-one years after their return, when the cloud of\\nwar is again seen hea\\\\ily rising, this time over the whole country.\\nFrom the Pro\\\\incial papers published by the New Hampshire\\nHistorical Society, it appears that the population of Keene in\\n1775 was but 756, of whom 31 out of the 171 males between\\n16 and 50 years of age, were in the army. It is gratifying to\\nnotice that no negroes or slaves for life are reported from\\nKeene, while P^xeter reports 36. and Somersworth. wath a pop-\\nulation of but 965, reports 30, and Winchester And Walpole\\n10 each, and even Dubhn, 1. The town of Surrj-, according\\nto the Provincial papers, reports seven parsons as gone\\nin the ai-my, a liberal proportion of the cloth, one would think,\\nfor a population of 215, and suggesting the idea that the town\\nmight be willing to spare a few of them. But the enigma is", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12\\nsolved wheu we find Lancaster, Ilawke, and Boscaweu all\\nsending their parsons, and no persons.\\nThe Adjutant-General s Reports indicate that as earl} as\\n1775, Col. Josiah Willard, of Keene, was at the head of a reg-\\niment marching to Crown Point. William Ellis appears as\\nCaptain, and Benjamin Ellis, as 2d Lieutenant of the Third\\nN. H. Regiment, in 1777, both of Keene.\\nIt is a significant fact that the one hundred and thirty-three\\nnames which the State papers report as signing the agreement\\nto oppose with arms the hostile proceedings of the Brit-\\nish fleet and armies, reads as if it were copied from our pres-\\nent voting lists. We find ourselves in a wilderness of Blakes\\nand Metcalfs, and Ellises and Crossfields and Nimses and\\nWheelers and Wilders and Briggses, c., while the smaller\\nlist of thirteen who refused to sign, has scarcely a repre-\\nsentative among us. Captain Eliphalet Briggs, though dying\\nin Keene, of small pox, at the age of fort^ -one, in 1776, had\\nalready been in the army, and had been sent delegate from\\nKeene, on August 2d of that year, to consult at Walpole\\nwith delegates from other towns, concerning the public safet^y.\\nOur local antiquarian, (William S. Briggs, Esq.,) his gxeat\\ngrandson, tells me that he well remembers Eliakim Nims\\nCaptain, all called him) as he went the round of the streets,\\na ready rhymer. Seated, like a Turk, on the table, he would\\ntell the story of Bunker Hill over and over again, to the\\ncharmed ears of the children, his voice waxing pathetic, as\\nthese words came slowly forth But alas, our ammunition\\nfailed, and deepening in impressiveness as he added, When\\nwe went into battle, there stood m}- brother, close at my side,\\nbut after the firing began, m}- brother was to be seen never-\\nmore. This Eliakim Nims once resided in the cottage for-\\nmerly occupied by Mr. Lucien B. Page. And in this connec-\\ntion it may be interesting to know, that there is a well-supported\\ntradition, that Mr. Luther Nurse s barn, on Beech Hill, was\\nraised by one Wheeler, on tlie very day of the battle of\\nBunker Hill. There, then, towering far above us, is our mon-\\nument of that battle. Zach Tufts, known b}^ some per-\\nsons as Morgan Tufts, because he was one of Morgan s Rifle-\\nmen, is well remembered still a man, one blow from whose", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "13\\nbrawny fist, was long a terror to any interloper who dared tQ\\nplay any mischievous pranks when the removal of a building\\nwas going on. Ebenezer Carpenter, J. P. Blake and others,\\nare also recalled. *Mrs. Betsey Houghton now within less\\nthan ten j-ears of the full centuv} of years to which her mother,\\nMrs. John Leonard, attained, twenty-one ^^ears ago graphi-\\ncall} recalls Capt. John Houghton, her husband s father, as\\nhe was wont to tell of his march to Bennington, and the big\\ncheese at one ftirm bouse on the road, which he was fired with\\nan ambition to discuss, but which held siege, both against love\\nand mone} and 3 ielded only when he made signal for somq\\nof his soldiers to approach. Nathaniel Kingsbury and Dan-,\\niel Kingsbury and Aaron Wilson, were all Revolutionary sol-j\\ndiers and the}- all have descendants still among lis. Sila^\\nPerry, I met in 1851, and followed him to the grave in 1852.\\nHe lived to the age of 89. He came to Keene at about thq\\nage of 30, having enlisted in the war from Westminster, Mass..\\nHe was wont sadly to recount, how it fell to his lot to be one\\nof the guard at the execution of Major Andre. Once more\\nthe name of Bacon, gleams before us, as we find that thq\\nRevolutionary lieutenant, Oliver Bacon of JaSre} by thq\\ntestimony of our fellow citizen, Gen. James Wilson, who hap-\\npily helped him out of a law suit, was a son of our Rev. Ja-\\ncob Bacon, the well-beloved pioneer pastor of Upper Ash-\\nuelot.\\nThe exploit at the battle of Bennington, resulting in the\\ncapture, b} Josiah Richardson and Joshua Durant, of three\\nHessians, is familiar to those who have studied Hale s f Annal^\\nas faithfull} as they should. The most vivid incident, however^\\nconnected with our part in the Revolutionary war, is reported\\nin the same work, where Captain Dorman calls on Captain\\nIsaac Wyman, giving him the news from Concord, in April 75,\\nand adding, What shall be done? The inhabitants meet,\\nby Captain Wyman s direction, on the green; Capt. Wy-\\n*Mr. Abel Blake vividly recalls Lieut. Samuel Heaton, who lived on Marlboro\\nstreet, in the house below Mr. Cole s residence.\\nt The annalist himself died November 19, 1866, in his 80th year, leaving two\\nchildren, Hon. Geo. S. Hale, a successful and greatly iTusted advocate, in Bos-\\nton, and Mrs. Sarah, widow of the late Hon. Harry Hibbai-d, M. C, of Bath, New\\nHampshire.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14\\nman is chosen leader, and though far advanced in years,\\ncheerfully consents to go. Thirty volunteers are forthcom-\\ning. At sunrise next day, the} meet, too early to be cheered\\nbj^ the good word from Gen. Bellows and others of Walpole,\\nKeene has shown a noble spirit, as they hasten on in the\\ntrack of the Keene party.\\nBut of the hardships endured by the women and children\\nwho were left at home at tli\u00c2\u00a3 time of the Revolution, we, at\\nthis daj can form little conception. A lady once jrointed me\\nto the spot, in Winchester, which was the scene of her grand-\\nmother s hax-dships. Her mother had heard from her the story\\nfull often Your father, she would sa}-. left his hoe in the\\npotato hill, and was off for battle at once upon the sum-\\nmons. But what shall we do, the little children and I, who\\nare left behind, when winter threatens Kill the cow, and\\nhave it salted down, when cold weather begins. But when,\\nscarce a month afterwards, the cow was found dead on the\\nedge of the forest, the poor woman s heart was broken, and\\nas she sounded her lament in the ears of a friendl} neighbor,\\nhe rephed, as they walked through the woods to the spot where\\nhe buried the cow, It s no use. Ma am, crying for spilt\\nmilk. This loser of the cow was the great-grandmother of\\na much respected resident of this place, Mrs. Farnum F.\\nLane.\\nDo you remember about the Revolutionar} war? I said to\\nthe late Mrs. Dorcas Rice, of Jatl rey, three years since, she\\nthen being almost one hundred and four years old. \u00e2\u0096\u00a01 re-\\nmember it, she replied, because mother took on so bad when\\nfather went away to the war. Thus, we tind a child s remem-\\nberance of a mother s tears over her sacrifice to her country,\\nlasting well nigh an hundred years\\nWhen you are walking, for hours together, you know how\\nit feels, after climbing some craggy hill, or descending some\\nsharp ravine, to come out upon a long, dull, level stretch of\\ncountry, even although the fields on either side be fertile, and\\nthe road good. There is little to break the uniformity of the\\nview. And yet, travel over the level you must, if you would\\nget to your journe3 s end. So it is with me, friends be pa-\\ntient, we are coming out upon the level of our historical", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "15\\nsketch, but we must move forward upon it, or el6e we shall\\nnever get through with the century. But we have one comfort.\\nWe ma}- get OA^er the ground a Httle faster, even as we can\\ntake longer strides over the plains, than over the hill-tops.\\nThe embittered feelings engendered by the war did not soon\\ndie away, for in June, 1783, we find the town unanimously in-\\nstructing their representative, Daniel Kingsbury, to use his\\ninfluence that all who have absented themselves from any of\\nthe United States, and joined with, or put themselves under, the\\nprotection of the enemies of the United States, be utterly de-\\nbarred from residing within this State. And in 1784, one\\nElijali Williams, who, as early as 1773, had been compelled to\\nsto}) issuing writs in the name of George the 3d, (by his an-\\ngr^^ fellow-townsmen) is seized and threatened with running a\\ngauntlet of black beech rods and there is a violent riot oc-\\ncasioned b} this attempt to maltreat him. The Court ia\\nCharlestown, before which he appeared, next day, allowed him\\nto transact his needful business, and then peaceably to leave\\nthe State.\\nIn 1788, Rev. Aaron Hall sits, as the delegate from Keene,\\nin the Convention at Exeter, called for the discussion of the\\nproceedings of the Convention which framed the United States\\nConstitution, and his oration, delivered in Keene, on June 30,\\non which day Keene celebrated its ratification, is advertised in\\nthe New Hamj^sJiire Recorder. The same journal, upon Oct.\\n14, 1788, states that the dedication of the new meeting house\\nin this town, will be on Wednesday, the iDth, when a sermon,\\nsuitable to the occasion, will be delivered by Rev. Aaron\\nHall. This church stiU stands, although twice remodelled.\\nWe also find that some customs could be abandoned in the\\neighteenth, as well as in the nineteenth century, when we read\\nthat Isaac Wyman, begs leave to inform the public, that he\\nshall not in future vend any liquors, but would be glad to serve\\ntravellers with boarding and lodging, and the best of horse-keep-\\ning. To all the items in this last clause, Rev. Dr. Barstow\\nis understood, (as he at length occupied this very house) to\\nhave been faithful, horse-keeping included, although his guests\\nmay have been chiefly of a clerical cast. Did Isaac feel it in\\nhis bones that the soul of this staunch friend of Temperance", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Iff\\nwas marching on towards this planet, and so conclude thus\\nearly to set his house* in order for him?\\nThis Nev) Hampshire Recorder, to which allusion has just\\nbeen made, first appeared in 1787, being printed b}^ James D.\\nGriffith. The column nowadays headed Poetry, was de-\\nnominated by Griffith The Parnassian Packet, seeming\\nby its designation to challenge a lofty flight, on the part of\\nPegasus. Of this challenge he seems to have availed himself\\nin these stanzas, which I extract from a contribution to the\\nPacket about nine years iDefore the death of Washington^\\nto whose virtues it refers\\nAnd when lie drops this earthly crown,\\nHe s one in Heaven of high renown,\\nHe s deified, exalt him liigh,.\\nHe s next unto the Trinit3^\\nI My language fails to tell his worth,\\nUnless in Heaven, he is the fourth,\\nThis tribute due to Washington,\\nExalt him, every mother s son!\\nIn the whimsical inteiTOgatory of our own day: How s\\nthat for high? In the Parnassian Packet the Father of\\nhis Country is evidently made to rank the angel Gabriel.\\nLiterature appears also not to have been neglected by\\nMr. Griffith, for we find (printed upside down to attract at-\\nte ntion) this advertisement That Ruby of inestimable value,\\nThe oeconomy of human life, translated from an Indian man-\\nuscript, written by an ancient Brahmin, will be put to press\\nwithin fifteen days. James D. Griffith. The same editor\\ndiscloses the prince of sextons, in furnishing the obituary of\\none of that guild in Derbyshire, who, during his sevent}^ years\\npf service, according to his own statement, had buried the\\nparish twice over. An illustration of some of the difficulties\\nwhich beset the craft in those daj^s, is afforded in the follow-\\ning paragraph from the same sheet As paper of the usual\\nsize could not be obtained at the paper mill for this day s pap-\\ner, our customers will excuse the present size.\\nOn March 11th, 1799, the first number of the Neiv Hamp-\\nshire Sentinel appears, Mr. John Prentiss, then twentj-one\\nIt was in this house that the Trustees of Dartmouth College held their first\\nmeeting.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "17\\nyears of age, being its editor, a post which he honorably held\\nfor about forty-nine years, surviving twent3 -flve years after\\nhis retirement. Payments, we read, must be made quar-\\nterly, to enable the editor to satisfy the demands of the paper-\\nmaker, the boarding-liouse, and various other necessary cred-\\nitors. Wood, butter, cheese, grain, and almost every article\\nused in a family, will be as acceptable as the cash, if brought\\nin season. The editor promises to use ever}- customer well\\nthat will use him well, We find this advertisement Want-\\ned immediately A Post-rider to circulate this paper in the\\ntowns of Surry, Alstead, Marlow, Washington, Stoddard,\\nSullivan, Packersfield, Hancock, Dublin, c. A steady,\\nactive person ma} find his account in immediately commencing\\nthis work.\\nAnd now, as men curiously scan the annual rings in some\\nvenerable and prostrate oak, let us glance at some of these\\nscars of time, as they give us occasional ghmpses into our\\nlocal history, and into what was going on in the minds of our\\npeople. IIow tame must sidewalk and post-office, discussions\\nhave been in a community, which, in 1799, gave to Governor\\nOilman one hundred and seven votes, while the opposition\\nrallied only two scattering votes But over the sea, for a\\nscore of years, matter was daily brewing for agitation, in our\\nNew England villages. No wonder that the Sentinel revelled\\nchiefly in the publication of foreign news. Sixteen years be-\\nfore the exile to Elba, we read, under date of March 18th,\\n1799 Confirmation of the death of Bonaparte. Seven ex-\\npresses from Egii^t, report Bonaparte and a number of French\\nofficers assassinated. Nine days afterwards, the same paper\\nsays Our readers will see that after report upon report,\\nand confirmation upon confirmation, of the death of this\\nmighty man, he still lives. We infer that once more there\\nwas suspense upon this subject, for in the issue of August 4,\\n1799, we read, of Bonaparte we hear nothing, whether he is\\ndead or alive. But, Mr. Editor, you zvill hear from him, and\\nhe will live to go crashing through your columns of foreign\\nintelligence for more than twenty years\\nA classic writer sa^^s, There lived brave men before the\\ntime of Agamemnon so, lest we should think that the\\n3", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "18\\nKeenites had not began, in days unblessed with all our modern\\neffulgence, to get at books, let us notice this advertisement\\nunder date of May 4, 1799 The Proprietors of the Social\\nLibrary Society are requested to attend punctualh to their an-\\nnual meeting, on Monday next, at the Court House, at 2 p. m.\\nAaron Hall, Librarian.\\nAnd see, this same year, to what flights of patriotism our\\nneighboring town of Swanze} rises, on her Fourth of Jul}- cele-\\nbration, sevent3 -seven years ago. Here are two of the toasts\\nThe ever-memorable Fourth of July may it be celebrated\\nwith tokens of joy and sentiments of gratitude, as the birth-\\nday of American Independence, until time shall be no more.\\nThe illustrious Washington ma}- his life be prolonged, and\\nhis sword abide in strength may fresh gems be added to his\\ncrown of glory, and he have a name better than that of sons\\nand daughters Ah, Swanze}-, Westmoreland, Keene, Wal-\\npole and Suny, each in your own borders, rejoice and be glad\\nwhile you raa} exalt your great leader and pray for his\\nlengthened ,life while you can. It is the last Fourth of July\\non which you will. The great patriot s life goes out with the\\nebbing tide of the eighteenth centur^^, in the waning da3-s of\\nDecember. Wliat a night it was in Keene, when men learned\\nthat all was over! Listen: Immediately- on receiving tlie\\nafflicting tidings in this town, on Thursday evening, the citi-\\nzens caused the bell to be tolled the doleful knell was heard\\nuntil morning. Yesterday-, at twelve o clock, the American\\nflag was hoisted in mourning and the bell again tolled until\\ntwo. But we ma}^ toll the bells with a deeper, heavier knell,\\nif the da^^ ever comes, when the pure, nnbril:\u00c2\u00bbed patriotism of\\nmen like Washington, exists only as a shadowy tradition of a\\nformer age\\nOn the following twenty-second of F ebruar}^, a more elabo-\\nrate observance of the occasion took place, reproduced in\\nMr. Hale s Annals.\\nWhat a man leaves, when he dies, is still sometimes a\\ntopic of discussion in the community. But in 1802, we find\\nthe record, in the Sentinel^ of the death of a patriarch whose\\naccumulated treasures are recorded, although somewhat of a\\ndiflferent character from an}- California Bonanza. At Al-", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "19\\nstead, Ml-. Joseph Hatch, aged 84, left one hundred niid\\ntwenty grand and great grand-children. How closel} bound\\ntogether the scanty villagers were in that early day, is affect-\\ningl} shown from the following incident For Avhat means, in\\nAugust 1803, this procession of five hundred people as they\\nmove toward the burying-ground Two little sisters, Roxana\\nand Mary Wright, mistaking the floating moss in the Ashuclot\\nRiver for solid earth, were swept away by the cm rent, and\\nMr. and Mrs. Phineas Wright find that the whole village are\\nmourners with them.\\nA suggestive commentary upon legislation, is afl^brded thus\\nearly, as we read among the chronicles of 1803, the appeal of\\na Mr. Samuel Ewalt to his constituents in another State, that\\ninasmuch as he has fallen from his horse, and is rendered inca-\\nXidhle of business^ he thinks that he is just the man for them to\\nsend to the Legislature And wh}-, friends and neighbors, is\\nillness still found among us, and wh} do the Doctors still lin-\\nger within our borders, when, even seventy-three 3 ears ago,\\nso priceless a discover^ had been made as that of Dr. Jona-\\nthan Moore s Essence of Life, which we are assured is\\ngood in ahnost every case of disease, and will be the means of\\nsnatching thousands from the jaws of death. Whooping cough\\ncured in a week. Some persons, we are informed, will\\nbear double the dose that others will, a statement which\\nhas just enough of a tinge of m3stery and horror, to make\\nthe remedy more fascinating.\\nLi 1808, the following vote in town meeting gives us a\\nglimpse into the existing I elatious at that period between church\\nand State Voted, to grant fifteen dollars to purchase velvet\\nto cover the pulpit cushion. Under date of Februarj 17,\\n1810, we read of the beginning of Dr. Amos Twitchell s forty\\nyears career as a renowned surgeon and physician, in Keene,\\nthrough the following advertisement: Dr. Amos Twitchell\\nluis removed from Marlboro to Keene, and has taken a room\\nat the house of Albe Cady, Esq., where he will punctually at-\\ntend all commands in the line of his profession. What this,\\neminent man did while he lived, we all know. But now for a\\ntale to match what we hear of the marvels wrought beyond\\ntlie sea, by tlie relics of the Saints I A worthy matron once", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "said to me, upon her recoveiy I suppose they had doubts\\nabout my getting up, and I know I had doubts, myself. Well,\\nthey kept urging me to send for a Doctor, and at last I\\nalmost gave in to them. But just then, as I fixed my eyes on\\nthe likeness of Dr. Twitchell, all that he had said to me\\nabout my being no case for medicinerand Doctors, came back\\nto my mind. So, as I set my eyes firm on the picture, I got\\nstrength to say No. And finally, I may say, sir, that it was\\nDr. Twitcheir s pic^wre that cured me.\\nIn 1813, on June 7th, it appears that hailstones fell, one\\ninch and a quarter in diameter, in Keene, and that on the\\nnext morning the ground was covered with them to the depth\\nof three inches. In the procession that 3 ear, upon the fourth\\nof July, we find that there were forty boys, each with a por-\\ntrait of Washington suspended round his neck.\\nOn May 28, 1814, Rev. Aaron Hall writes to the town\\nSensible of m^ age, and often infirmities of body, it is my\\nearnest desire to have a colleague settled to help me in the\\nwork of the Gospel ministr} provided it can be a voluntarj\\nthing with church and town, and for the mutual liarmony and\\npeace of both. In this connection, how touching is the re-\\ncord which not long afterwards follows\\nSeptember 23, 1814. Voted, To give to the widow of\\nthe late Rev. Aaron Hall, all the minister tax from the time\\nof his decease (which occurred on August 12) till March\\nnext.\\nAs we shall soon see, the passing awaj at the age of sixty-\\ntwo, of this genial pastor, was a signal for contentions hith-\\nerto unknown among the people. Hon. Salma Hale testifies\\nthat he was much beloved; Rev. Dr. Barstow says that\\nhe was universally respected.\\nBut before these gi-aver contentions began, the following\\ntown vote indicates that there were two sides also upon lesser\\nquestions. What would we not all give to be present and\\nhear every word of the discussion which led to the follow-\\ning vote\\nDecember 8, 1815. Voted, not to suffer a stove put in\\nthe meeting house, provided it could be done without anj-\\nexpense to the town.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "21\\nThis vote makes only more probable, what is attested as a\\npositive occurrence, that a leading- man in the parish found\\nthe air so insupportable, (at a subsequent period) upon the\\nSunday after a stove had been introduced into the building,\\nthat he walked out of the church in hot rage, when a by-\\nstander, upon careful examination, discovered that whatever\\ninte^ nal fire had existed that morning, it was certainly not in\\nthe stove I\\nIn accepting a call to preside over the town, Mr. David\\nOliphant writes thus from Andover, March 28, 1815 It is\\na pleasing circumstance that amidst the tumults and convul-\\nsions, which, for a few years past, have shaken the political\\nworld to its centre, the Kingdom of the Redeemer has been\\ngrowing in strength, and graduall} advancing to its summit\\nof predicted glory. Alas, he little knew what tumults and\\nconvulsions would so soon centre around the Zion to which he\\nhad come. Hon. S. Hale simply records the fact of his ordi-\\nnation upon May 24, 1815, and there his Annals stop.\\nOn April 24, 1817, when scarce two years of his rainistr}\\nhad expired, we find the town summoned to vote upon the fol-\\nlowing article To see if the town will vote to dismiss the\\nRev. David Oliphant.\\nIn the course of a communication from a Committee of the\\nFirst Church to the town, dated Ma} 1, 1817, these words oc-\\ncur: Does not conscience advise you to refrain from this\\nman, and let him alone, lest haply ye be found to fight even\\nagainst God\\nUpon December 1, 1817, Rev. Mr. Oliphant writes, While\\n3 ou retain your present feelings towards me, I can neither en-\\njoy peace nor happiness among 3 ou, nor overcome your pre-\\njudices so as to be useful. Thereupon, not long afterwards,\\nthe relation is dissolved by aid of a council. An inspection\\nof the church records vindicates Dr. Barstow s statement in\\nhis Half-century Sermon, that there was not a union of the\\npeople in the settlement of Mr. Oliphant, and a remonstrance\\nagainst it was presented by the minority. Moreover, Mr.\\nOliphant, when addressing us all at the dinner upon our Centen-\\nnial Anniversary, in 1853, under the tent where Mr. George\\nW. Ball s dwelling now stands, on Main street, said in a", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "22\\ngraceful and cheerful way, that when he came here he was n\\nTcry young man, and that doubtless he should act differently in\\nsome respects, were he to begin over again. His personal\\ncharacter was alwa3 s regarded as unblemished. He was soon\\nafterwards, for sixteen 3 ears, pastor of a church in Upper\\nBeverlj Mass., and subsequently settled in Maine. He died\\nin 1872.\\nRev. Zedukiah Smith Barstow, was the last minister settled\\nb} the town. He was ordained on Jul} 1, 1818. In accepting\\nthe call, he sa^s, To whom shall an inexperienced advent-\\nurer on life s troubled and tremulous ocean look for counsel\\nand direction The ocean is tempestuous, while the voyage\\nfor eternity is hazardous beyond comprehension When the\\nadventurer had completed his fifty-five years residence\\namong us, Ms st^de had loug before become more compact and\\nvigorous. In 1824, six years afterwards, the Keene Con-\\ngregational Societ}^ known more familiarly as Unitarian,\\nwas organized, being chiefly composed of secqders from the\\nFirst Congregational Society. We might infer that a division\\nof theological sentiment, so naarked as was developed during\\nRev. Mr. OUphant s ministry, would not be quickly harmon-\\nized. Circumstances minutely recorded in pamphlets printed\\nat the time, led to the withdi-awal of the dissentients, to whom,\\nin 1823, the church is voted for five Sundays, and in 1826 for\\nthirteen, and in 1827 for seventeen Suuda3 s. But in 1828\\nthe First Congregational Society secures the full use of the\\nbuilding, upon certain conditions, the chief of which consist\\nin paying seven hundred and fifty dollars, to the seceders, and\\nagreeing to remove the church edifice to the rear, from the\\ncommon, and thus securing effectuaU}- the bounds of Central\\nsquare, as they now are.\\nAs an efficieut member of the School Committee for man}-\\nyears, as a life-long advocate of Temperance, as an indefati-\\ngable trustee of Dartmouth College, Dr. Barstow is remem-\\nbered; and especially as a friend and neighbor whose S3 mpa-\\nthies widened and deepened as his years rolled on. He died\\nMarch 1st, 1873, aged 2^ having for upwards of forty years\\nretained the sole charge of his Society. Upon the fiftieth\\nanniversary of his settlement, there was a dinner in his honor", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "3\\nat the town luiU, subsequently to the delivery of his appro-\\npriate historical discourse in the church.*\\nWe might gladly follow the fortunes of this church, since,\\nand the fortunes of the various churches in our city, six of\\nwhich have edifices of their own wherein to worship. But we\\nma} suppose them to be competent to make their own records\\nat an}- rate, the time will not permit us to pursue the thread\\nof our local ecclesiastical history- further than it is identified\\nwith the town as a corporation.\\nKeene was not slumbering in ^eare gone by, quite so much\\nas the youth of to-da} ma^ imagine. So early as October 6,\\n1819, upon the second anniversary of the Cheshire Agricul-\\ntural Society, three hundred and fiftj-six dollars wexe paid\\nout in premiums.\\nIn Faulkner Colony s office, whose woollen mill, founded\\nIn another generation of the same name, has so long giveu\\nemplo^ ment beneficial to so man} people, ma} be seen a piece\\nef the first water-wheel which was set up near that spot in\\n1776, by EUphalet Briggs.\\nIn 1814, the proprietors of the New Hampshire Glass\\nCompany are asked to meet at Salem Sumner s Tavern, b} John\\nElliot, clerk. Their factor} was on the common, at the upper\\npart of Washington street. Twenty-five years ago its even-\\ning lights gleaming through the windows and crannies of the\\nold building, still blazed upon the outer darkness.\\nIn 1817, Justus Perry advertises a complete assortment\\nof glass bottles at the Flint Glass Factory, in Keene, and at\\nmuch lower prices than the Hartford bottles. His stone\\nIniilding was on Marlboro street. About the year 1800, Abi-\\njah Wilder advertises that he has patented a new and useful\\nimprovement in sleigh-runners, and in 1813 A. A. AVilder\\noffer patent wheel-heads at twelve dollars a dozen. These\\nwere made, it appears, in the old wooden store-house, near\\nFaulkner Colony s saw-mill. The tan-yard on Main street\\nis an evidence that this industry is not a thing of yesterday\\nSeven weeks afterwards, (on August 19, 1868) occurred the Golden AVcdding\\nof Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Barstow, when numerous guests assenil)led at his homestead,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094the old Wvman Tavern already referred to. We may here add that the North\\nroom of this mansion, witnessed the consultMtion, in 1775, the evening previous\\nto the march of the conHKUiy hicli, under Capt. Isaac Wyman, set off for Lex-\\nington, from the green in front of this building.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "24\\namong us, being established by that man of enterprise, tne late\\nWiUiam Lamson, who died between forty and fifty years since.\\nIt is now a quarter of a eentuiy since our first steam-planing\\nmill was established. And if at an early period there was not\\nso much recreation afforded by the spectacle of the drill of\\nfire companies, the announcement, in 1815, by Isaac Parker,\\ncaptain, that the Keene Light Infantry meet for practice,\\nindicates that some sort of drill was going on here. It was\\nas the commander of this company-, that General James Wilson\\ndelivered the fourth of July oration more than forty years\\nsince, standing, as he tells me, in the pulpit of the old church,\\nin his militarj equipments.\\nIt may surprise some of us to read an advertisement so\\nearly as August 27, 1835, of the Keene Railroad Compau}\\nSalma Hale, Samuel Dinsmoor, Justus Perry, Phineas Han-\\nderson and John A. Fuller being Commissionei s. The\\nstockholders make choice of seven directors. It is stated that\\nthe road is expected to strike the Massachusetts Line in\\nthe direction of Lowell or Worcester. How different an as-\\npect, alread}^, has the Cheshire, actually completed thirteen\\nyears after that period, together with the Ashuelot Railroad,\\nnot long afterwards, given to Keene? And when we place by\\nthe side of this railroad gift, secured for us at so great a\\nsacrifice on the part of its projectors, our Goose Pond water,\\nwhich the people love so well that the} feel loth to coax it\\nto find any way out of town if it will only come in, we may\\nfeel that with the addition of gas and the telegraph, we of the\\nnineteenth century, can, on the whole, as regards the material\\ncomforts of life, keep rather more than abreast of our fathers.\\nAnd yet it did not cost these men as much to travel fifty years\\nago, as we might now suppose. Under date of July 2G, 1825,\\nwe read these words, Seats may now be had from Walpole\\nto Saratoga for the trifling some of one dollar and fifty cents.\\nIn 1834, appears the announcement, The North Star Line\\nof Coaches will take passengers from Keene to Boston for\\n$2.50, and to Lowell by the same price. B3 taking this\\nline, it is is added, 3 ou are but twelve hours on the way\\nThe first report made by any town committee on the subject of Water,\\nbears date April 14, 1860.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "25\\nfrom Boston to Keene. Try it Three 3 ears earlier, in\\n1831, appears this inviting programme, Connecticut River\\nValley Steamboat Company. Leave Bellows Falls, Walpole,\\nWestmoreland, for Hartford every Monday Putney, C-hester-\\nfield, Brattleboro, Vernon, and Hinsdale every Tuesday\\nNorthfield and Gill every Wednesda} Return Boats leave\\nevery Monday.\\nIn 1840, appears a notice of the annual meeting of the\\nKeene Thief Detecting Association. When it was formed,\\nand how long it lasted, we do not know. It is, at all events,\\nplain that Keene has not alwa3-s been slumbering as regards\\nits great moral interests.\\nLook at the subject of Temperance. Let us abundantly\\nrejoice at the existence of a Reform Club, organized in our\\ncity during this centennial year, and numbering more than\\ntwenty-4ve hundred, strong, which has aroused us from our\\ntransient lethargy. Rev. Dr. Barstow used to say that when\\nhe came hither in 1818, he found the custom existing, of pro-\\nviding spirit at funerals, for the bearers, and that he\\nsteadfastly resisted it. Under the date of 1820, the Town\\nRecords contain this vote In order to remove a principal\\ncause of pauperism. Voted, that the. Selectmen be requested\\nto see that the laws relating to licensed and unlicensed houses\\nbe strictly enforced, and to take such other measures for the\\nsuppression of intemperance, as to them may seem advisable.\\nIn 1829, the New Hampshire State Temperance Society\\nwas formed. The late Hon. Thomas M. Edwards was choos-\\nen vice president of this Society in 1835. In 1831 we find\\nin Keene, the Society for the promotion of Temperance, with\\nDr. Amos Twitchell for president, and Rev. T. R. Sullivan\\nsecretary. In 1836 we perceive a notice of the meeting of\\nthe Young People s Association for the Promotion of Tem-\\nperance.\\nUpon October IGth, 1841, the Keeuc Total Abstinence\\nAssociation is formed, with six hundred signers, Hon. Salma\\nHale, president. This Society continued its existence more\\nAt the centennial dinner Rev. Dr. Barstow alluflefl to Mr. S. as The distin-\\nguished Thomas Russell Sullivan. He died near Boston, in December, 1862, aged\\n6.3. While in Keene he edited The Liberal Preacher.\\n4", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "26\\nthan ten years. The Cheshire Count} Washington Total\\nAbstinence Society, of which the late Dr. Amos Twitchell\\nwas president, held meetings until within about ten ^^ears, and\\nhas never been formally dissolved. From 1852 to 1855,\\nthere were numerous lectures upon this subject delivered\\namong us but after the enactment of the desired law, there\\nwas too great a disposition to lean too hea\\\\-ily upon their new\\nally. Yet the Sons of Temperance, the CTOod Templars,\\nthe Keene Temperance League and the Keene Temperance\\nAlliance, have been sending forth gleams of hght, at inter-\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0als, into the moral wilderness of Intemperance.\\nOn March 15, 1848, some eight years before the enactment\\nof a prohibitory law, a ballot was taken in town meeting upon\\nthis question Is it expedient that a law be enacted b}^ the\\nGeneral Court, prohibiting the sale of wine or other spiritu-\\nous liquors, except for chemical, medicinal, or meciianical pur-\\nposes The Town Records show that the vote stood yeas\\n183, nays 95.\\nIn 1764, it appears from Hale s Annals, that the town voted\\nsix pounds sterling to defray the charges of a school, and in\\n1766, it is voted that the securit} for the money given to\\nthe town by Captain Nathaniel Fairbanks, deceased, the in-\\nterest of which was for the use of a school in this town, be\\ndelivered to the care of the town treasurer, and his successors\\nin office for the time being. Judge Daniel Newcomb is cred-\\nited by Josiah P. Cooke, Esq., in Hale s Annals, with having\\nfounded a private school about 1793, mainl} at his own ex-\\npense and as the best friend of good learning that the\\ntown had. In 1821 the Town Records state that it is voted\\nthat the town will, at their annual meeting, in each year,\\nchoose five or more suitable persons to constitute a committee\\nof examination, whose duty it shall be to examine those per-\\nsons who shall offer themselves as instructors of the public\\nschools within the town; and in 1823, it is voted that Zede-\\nkiah S. Barstow, Aaron Appleton, John Elliot, John Prentiss\\nand Thomas M. Edwards, be a committee to examine teach-\\ners, agreeably to the vote of the town.\\nIn 1828, we find from the Town Records, that there was an\\nendeavor to establish a high school. Rev. Z. S. Barstow, Rev.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Thomas Russell Sullivan, pastor of the Keene Congregafioiv\\nal (Unitarian) Society, Gen. Justus Perry, Aaron Hall (son\\nof the deceased minister of that name) and Azel Wilder, being\\na committee on that subject. It was also voted that the\\ninstructor of this school shall not endeavor to inculcate, in\\nschool, doctrines peculiar to an} one religious sect, nor dis-\\ntribute to his scholars any religious publication. It was\\nagreed that the school might be kept during the first year,\\nseven, and during the second year, eight months, which, il\\nwas urged, is at least three and four months longer than a\\nschool has usually been kept by a master. It appears from\\nminutes kept by the late Dr. Barstow. (secretary) that after\\ntwo or three months spent in writing to the presidents of\\nDartmouth, Amherst, Middlebuiy, and Yale Colleges, Mr.\\nEdward E, Eels, a graduate of Middlebury College, was en-\\ngaged as high school teacher for two months, at $25 a month,\\nindependent of board. His term expired Januar} 29, 1829.\\nSubsequently, Mr. A. H. Bennett was the instructor for three\\nmonths, at $40 a month, including board. So short-lived\\nwas this school.\\nThe next time we hear of a high school, it has leased, in\\n1853, the Keene Acadenn- building, erected about sixteen\\nyears previous, and taken its i)rincipal, the efficient William\\nTorrance, with ]Miss Louisa P. Stone, of Newburyport, as as-\\nsistant. Mr. Torrance, two 3 ears afterwards, died. The pur-\\nchase of this Academy edifice was afterwards secured by pro-\\ncess of law. Wliat would the persons, who, forty-seven j cars\\nago, found it so hard to raise $300 dollars a year for a high\\nschool teacher, have said, could the} have seen, in vision, our\\nnew and spacious high school building, completed this j ear, at\\na cost of about $50,000?\\nWe find that at the State Common School Convention at\\nConcord, June 0th, 1843, the meeting was called to order by\\nHon. Salma Hale, of Keene, and that the committee for\\nKeene were Hon. S. Hale, Rev. A. A. Livermore (who suc-\\nceeded Rev. T. R. Sullivan, in 1836) and Mr. Isaac Sturte-\\nvant. *Mr. Livermore s services to the town in behalf of edu-\\n*Mr. Livermore was the author of a Commentary upon the Gospels, Acts,\\nand Romans; of a Prize Essay, solicited by the American Peace Society, and\\na volume of Sermons.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "28\\ncation and temperance were unstinted. He was a man made\\nto be loved. On May 11th, 1843, an address Avas delivered\\nat the annual meeting of the Cheshire Common School Asso-\\n^ciatioii, at Marlboro by William P. Wheeler, which appears\\nto have been published. Thus early did this lamented advo-\\ncate, whose loss is so fresh, seek to identif^^ himself with the\\nwell-being of the community. Mr. W. .S. Briggs has shown\\nme The Keene Directory for 1831, from which it appears\\nthat the number of scholars that year was seven hundred\\nand sixty-eight. In 1875, the number was one thousand four\\nhundred and forty-seven.\\nIn 1845, and for a short time previous, a Teachers Insti-\\ntute was established in the countj-, by private subscription.\\nOn March 12, 1850, Keene votes seventy-five dollars for a\\nTeachers Institute, on condition of theco-operation of other\\ntowns in the county.\\nYet any word, however brief, concerning educational mat-\\nters in Keene, would be incomplete, which did not chronicle\\nthe School for Young Ladies and Misses, in which, under\\ndate of 1817, Miss Fiske and Miss Sprague advertise that they\\nshall pay all possible attention to the improvement of the\\nmanners, morals and minds of their pupils.\\nOn April 11, 1811, at the age of twenty-seven. Miss Catha-\\nrine Fiske began her school in Keene, which, in May, 1814,\\nunder the designation of The Female Seminary, was con-\\nducted for twenty-three years, with signal success, until her\\ndeath in 1837. Miss Fiske had been engaged in teaching for\\nfifteen years, before coining to Keene. Rev. Dr. Barstow, in\\nan obituary sketch, published in the Boston Recorder for Sep-\\ntember 1st, 1837, estimates that during the thirty-eight years\\nof her service, more than two thousand five hundred pupils\\ncame under her care. He commends especially her tact in\\neliciting the dormant energies of some minds, and the stimu-\\nlus afforded to those that were apt to learn. One friend of\\nmine had scarcelj^ set foot in Canada, when a lady said So\\nyou are from Keene? was once there myself, at Miss\\nFiske s school Another friend found that she had scarce\\nreached Spain, when she was favored even there, with some\\nreminiscence of Miss Fiske s school. Miss Withington, after-", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "29\\nwards the late Mrs. Stewart Hastings, and Miss Barnes, now\\nMrs. T. H. Leverett, were among the teachers associated with\\nMiss Fiske in her school. Miss Withington conducted it for\\na while after Miss Fiske s decease.\\nThe Director}- of 1831 records the existence of the Cheshire\\nAthenaeum, with six hundred volumes Joel Parker, president.\\nThe Keene Book Societj-, which had existed for a num-\\nber of years previous, reports Rev. T. R. Sullivan, as presi-\\ndent, Salma Hale, and S. Dinsmoor, Jr., as executive com-\\nmittee, George Tilden as treasurer and hbrarian, J. W.\\nPrentiss as secretary, with two hundred and seventy-five vol-\\numes. The Keene Forensic Society and Lj^ceum (Joel Par-\\nker president) also greets our eyes on these pages. Ten years\\nlater, we find a discussion advertised on the part of the Keene\\nLyceum, upon this subject Is Great Britain justified in her\\nwar against China? Evidently, without the intervention of\\na distant Lecture Bureau, the minds of the residents were\\nnot in complete stagnation, while the}- had a Lyceum and De-\\nbating Society, marshalled by such a man as Joel Parker.\\nOur later Keene Athenaeum was established in 1 859 The\\nFree Public Library in which is was merged, and which is sup-\\nported by an annual grant* from the city, (which name the old\\ntown took upon herself in 1874) now numbers about three\\nthousand A-olumes. Might not steps have been taken still\\nearlier, toward founding such a library, had Keene devoted\\nher share of the famed United States Surplus Revenue in\\na way different from what is indicated, in the following vote?\\nVoted, March 8th, 1842, That the public money of the\\nUnited States, deposited with the town, by the Act of January\\n13, 1837, and all interest which has accrued thereon, be di-\\naled equally among those persons, being American citizens,\\nwho were residents in the town on the first day of January\\nlast, and who shall continue to reside therein until the first\\nday of April next, and who shall be taxed in said town for\\ntheu- polls or ratable estate, the current year, and such other\\npersons, being citizens and residents, as aforesaid, as may be\\nover seventy years of age, (paupers excepted) and are there-\\nby exempt from taxes. Seven thousand eight hundi-ed and\\nFive hundi-ed dollars in the year 1876.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "BO\\nseven dollars, it appears, was the sum thus jingled into the\\npockets of the people. The town of Provincetown, Mass.,\\nput their share into a plank sidewalk over their drifting sands.\\nThe} were determined to have some common benefit from the\\nsnoney, even although it were not an eminently intellectual\\none.\\nHow much the Keene Harmonic vSociet} and the Keene\\nMusical Association, chronicled in the Director} of 1831,\\npaved the way for the prosperous annual Musical Conventions\\nwith which Keene has been identified for a score of years\\nwho can tell\\nOn March 9, 1847, on motion of Hon. Phineas Handerson,\\na committee was appointed to devise wa3 s and means for\\nbuilding or procuring a town hall. The cost, aside from the\\ntower and extension, a much later expense, appears, from\\nthe committee s report of March 12, 1850, to have been for\\nland, $1,750; whole cost, including land, $15,816.89.\\nThe building erected by the Cheshire Pro\\\\adent Institu-\\ntion for Savings f a few 3 ears since, is a fine monument to this\\nbeneficent enterprise. It is seldom that for more than two\\nscore years, a treasurer is spared to witness the extending\\nsweep of such a movement, and even to see a second institu-\\ntion| of kindred character. But Mr. George Tilden, who\\nhanded their books to the depositors in the day of small\\nthings, now renders the same office to the grand-children of\\nmany whose hands have long since crumbled into dust.\\nThe Natural History Societ} organized a few years since,\\nhas served to develop a wholesome zeal for the study of na-\\nture on the part of our youth, and has held its meetings with\\nmarvellous assiduity, and is steadily collecting a museum,\\nA Society for the Better Protection of Animals was or-\\nganized last year, at the urgent entreaty of the late Mrs. L.\\n*This 1831 Directory mentions the Farmers Museum newspaper as established\\nin 1828. In addition to the oft quoted New Hampshire Sentinel, the American\\nNeios, conducted by the late Benaiah Cook, was in circulation in 1851, when the\\nwriter came to Keene, Mr. H. A. Bill was then the editor of tlie Cheshire He-\\npublican. Tlie Sentinel and the Republican have long had sole possession of the\\nfield.\\nt This Banlj was chartered in July, 1833, and went into operation in September,\\nwith Mr. Tilden as treasurer. Its deposits are now about $2,000,000.\\nX The Keene Five Cents Savings Bank, established in 1868. Its deposits now\\namoxmt to $714,000. Let posterity understand that we have also, four National\\nBanks in Keene.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "31\\nM. Haudersoii, our lamented postmistress, and was largely\\naided in the maturing of its constitution by the late Hon.\\nWiUiam P. Wheeler.\\nOn March 14, 1860, the town accepts the one thousand dol-\\nlar bequest of the late David A. Simmons, of Roxbnry, Mass.,\\n(a native of Keene) toward the rehef and comfort of such\\nof the poor of the town, requiring assistance therefrom es-\\npecially the aged and infirm a condition of the bequest\\nbeing that the selectmen shall keep the same well invested,\\nand distribute only the income.\\nA residence of a quarter of a century among you, prompts\\nme to say, that I have never known the place for which its resi-\\ndents cherished a greater attachment. How dear these hills\\nand forests and streams are to them\\nRev. Dr. George G. Ingersoll,* (who, in 1850, retired hither\\nfor the last tliirteen 3 ears of his life) in a poem recited at the\\ncentennial dinner, in 1853, after we had hstened to Hon. Joel\\nParker s address at the town hall, exemphfies this strong local\\nattachment, in these words\\nThe Kefue that was, dream of au ear.ier year,\\nIts very name was music to my ear.\\nLike some sweet, far-oft visionary scene,\\nMy very name for Fairy-Land was Keene.\\nThe Keene tliat is, pride of Ashuelot vale,\\nWith heart and tongue, I bid thee hail\\nWliere better seek, where better hope to And,\\nRest for the frame, yet not to starve the mind?\\nlu this sweet spot where Nature does her part\\nTo meet the earnest cravings of the heart,\\nWith friends and books and blessed memories,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOne might, with Heaven s b essings, look for peace,\\nBeneath our hills which rise on either side.\\nBy sparkling streams, which through our valley glide.\\nA most interesting feature in the life of Keene, lias been\\nthe semi-annual terms of the Court. From tlie lips of Judges\\nno longer living, I have rejoiced to hear the testimony, that\\nthe manners of our court room, the professional courtesies of\\nthe members of the bar, one toward another, were in refresh-\\nHe was tlie only son of Major George Ingersoll, Comniauder at West Point,\\nX. Y., from 171)G to 1801. Major Ingersoll died six weeks alter retiring to Keene\\nin ISOo, when his son George was but eight years old.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "32\\niag contrast to what might be witnessed here and there in\\nother quarters of the State. May the same spirit go into the\\nnew century Keene has furnished six members of Congress,\\nall from this profession Peleg Sprague, Samuel Dinsmoor,\\nSenior, Joseph Buffum, Salraa Hale, James AMlson, Jr., and\\nThomas MacKay Edwards.\\nSamuel Dinsmoor, and his son Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr., have\\nbeen the only Governors elected from Keene Levi Chamber-\\nlain of the Cheshire bar, being at one time the opposing candi-\\ndate, of the latter. Mr. Chamberlain, well knowing that in\\nKeene the men of his own political stripe preponderated, playfully\\nsuggested, with his characteristic mirth, that to avoid putting\\nthe State to so much trouble, Mr. Dinsmoor and he had best\\nleave the case out to the decision of the friends and neigh-\\nbors by whom they were best known\\nIt was a memorable scene, when in the sunlight of the\\nafternoon of Ma} 20th, 1861, the late Ex-Governor Dinsmoor\\nstood upon the platform erected for the occasion, on Central\\nSquare, and, in pi esence of a multitude, said, as he introduced\\nto them Hon. James Wilson, still happil} spared to us, (both\\ndecorated with the red, white and blue Amid the general\\ngloom which pervades the communit} there is, yet, one cause\\nfor congratulation, that we at last see a united North.\\nRepresenting differing political organizations, these honored\\nmen served to typify the patriotism, which, in that trying hour,\\nfused so man} hearts in one. How the women, moved with\\na common purpose, toiled week after week, year after year, in\\nconnection with the Soldier s Aid Society, or to help the\\nbenevolent work of the United States Sanitary Commission\\nHow like romance sound some of the surprises caused by the\\nhandicraft of the New Hampshire women. f A Dubhn soldier-\\nboy, in his distant hospital, gains strength to scan the names\\ninscribed upon his album-quilt, and is strangely stirred, as the\\nSo early as March 11, 1862, the town votes three thousand dollars for the relief\\nof wives, children, or parents of volunteers.\\nt After the subsidence of the war, live hundred dollars a year were paid by a\\ncombination of persons in the various religious societies, for two or three years,\\nto the Keene Freedman s Aid Society. The Ladies Charitable Society unites\\nas it has for many years, the sympathies of all the parishes. The Invalids\\nHome has been lately founded chiefly by the efforts of the Keene Congi-ega-\\ntional (or Unitarian) Society its chief benefactor being the late Charles Wilson,\\nwho left to the Home the sum of one thousand dollars.", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "33\\nnames grow more aud more familiar, until at last he sees the\\nhand-writing of his own mother.\\nAs we recall those memorable days, how that company of\\nthe Second Regiment, moving forth from our railroad station,\\nat the signal of prayer, comes back to our minds, and those\\ntents of the New Hampshire Sixth, as for weeks together,\\nthey whitened the plains beyond the Ashuelot How shall\\nI speak of the courage, the patience, the devotion of such\\nmen I abandon the attempt. In summer and winter, week\\nin and week out, thej have their perpetual orator. There he\\nstands in brazen panopl} of armor If ^-ou have never heed-\\ned him, you will not heed me But in his meditative attitude,\\nto me he speeks, not wholly of the storm-cloud of battle, nox\\nof freedom dawning upon millions of a once enslaved race\\nhe seems to dream besides, of brighter days for his countiy,\\ndays when men shall beat their swords into ploughshares,\\nand their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up\\nsword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.\\nThe time shall come when no Uving tongue among their com-\\nrades shall be left to tell of Lane and Leverett, of Metcalf\\nand Flint, Crossfield and Rugg, and Howard and Cheney,\\nand their associates, who returned, not alive, to the dear old\\nhome One by one, all who bore part in the gigantic con-\\ntest shall have passed onward. Yet even then, God grant\\nthat those silent lips ma}^ speak eloquently to the future dwell-\\ners in this happy valle} of those sons of Keene, who in behalf\\nof their countr}^ presented their bodies a living sacrifice.\\nYe living hosts of the departed, gathered invisibly with us\\nto-day, \\\\e who ploughed these stubborn furrows in years gone\\nb} 3 e, who watched for the midnight war-whoop, ye, who in\\nlater days, were summoned to the Held by the Revolutionary\\ntocsin, or who flew to your Country s defence in tlie War of the\\nRebellion, pray that we may enter upon the new century de-\\ntermined to hold all who fill offices of honor and trust in the\\nnation, to a rigid accountability, yet at the same time cherish-\\ning fresh faith in the expanding destinies of the Republic\\nAnd ye, an unseen host, who are coming after, 3 e, who, a\\nhundred years from to-daj beguiled b}- your earth-dream,\\nshall call us all. dead, we beg you not to forget us wholly,", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "34\\nas 3 ou, in your turn, gather here Here s a warm hand for\\nyou across the arches of the coming century- We pledge\\nourselves, God willing, to be mth you then, though your\\neyes should be holden that 3^ ou shall not know us\\nRemember how dear this valley was to us It can be no\\ndearer to you Cany education, temperance, literature, re-\\nligion, to a higher, purer pitch than we have And say\\nAmen, as we do, to these time-honored words of Sir Wm.\\nJones, which we leave with you as our benediction\\nWhat constitutes a State?\\nNot high-rais(!d battlement or labour cl mound,\\nThick wall or moated gate\\nNot cities proud, with spires and turrets crown d\\nNot bays and broad arm d ports.\\nWhere, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride\\nNot starr d and spangled courts\\nWhere low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride.\\nNo Men, high minded men.\\nWith powers as far above duh brutes endued\\nIn forest, brake or den.\\nAs beasts excel co d rocks and brambles rude\\nMen who their duties know.\\nBut know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,\\nPrevent the long-aim d blow\\nAnd crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain\\nThese constitute a State I", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 996 902 9", "height": "3342", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00whit_0040.jp2"}}