{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "r", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE\\n0CTi9 1899\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDtftfl\\nCOMPRISING THE TOWNS OF\\nDERRY AND LONDONDERRY, N. H.\\nBY\\nREV. EDWARD L. PARKER,\\nLATE PASTOR OF THE PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH IN DERRT.\\nWITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.\\nBOSTON:\\nPUBLISHED BY PERKINS AND WHIPPLE.\\n1851.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0009.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Eiitered according to Act of Congres^, in the ycar 1851, by\\nEdward P. Parker,\\nlil the Clcik s Office of the District Coiiit of the District of Massachusetts.\\nfiy ia*ansfer\\ntC 30 1915\\nA N D o V E R J o H N D F I. A J O\\n\u00c3\u008fTEREOTTPEH *ND PRINTER.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0010.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nMbmoir Page ix\\nCHAPTER I.\\nCharacter of the Puritans Emigrations from Scotland to Ireland\\nHostility of the native Irish Invasion of Ireland by James the\\nFirst Unsuccessful Attempt to take possession of Londonderry\\nCruelty and Perfidy of the Papists Siege of Londonderry. 1-29\\nCHAPTEH II.\\nThe immediate Causes of the Emigration Arrival at Boston\\nSelection of a Township Settlement of a Pastor Introduction qf\\nthe Potato Manufacture of Linen Petition for a Charter\\nTitle to the Land obtained Attempts to dispossess the Settlers\\nIncorporation of the Town Fairs Origin of Town Organiza-\\ntions 30-66\\nCHAPTER III.\\nTraits in the Character of the early Settlers Marriage Ceremonies,\\nWakes and Funerals Diversions Erection of a Meeting-house\\nSchools Extracts from the old Town Records Dwelling-\\nhouses Incorporation of the West Parish Notices of John and\\nJames Pinkerton Incorporation of Windham and Derryfield\\nOld French War Emigrations from the Town Patriotic Zeal of\\nthe Inhabitants during the War of the Revolution Rebellion of\\n1786 The two Villages Pinkerton Academy Adams Female\\nAcademy Division of the Town Emigrations of English Fam-\\nilies into the Town 67-129", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "VI CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nPresbyterianisra in New England Extracts from the old Church\\nRecords Death and Character of Rev. J. MacGregor Rev. Mr.\\nClark his Character Settlement of Rev. Mr. Thompson Descrip-\\ntion of the Sacramental Service Induction of Elders Formation\\nof the West Parish, and Settlement of Rev. D. MacGregor Settle-\\nment of Rev. Mr. Davidson Revival New Meeting-house\\nDeath and Character of Rev. D. MacGregor Settlement of Rev.\\nMr. Morrison Death and Character of Rev. Mr. Davidson\\nSettlement of Rev. Mr. Brown Divisions in the East Parish\\nDismissal of Mr. BroAvn Settlement of the present Pastor\\nEndowment of the two Parishes Death and Character of Rev. Mr.\\nMorrison Dr. Dana Rev. Mr. Hayes his Death and Character\\nRev. Mr. Adams Rev. Mr. Brainerd Congregational Society\\nRev. Mr. Day Methodist Society Revivals 129-179\\nCHAPTER V.\\nSettlements made by Emigrants from Londonderry. Windham\\nPeterborough Bedford Cherry Valley Nova Scotia Antrim\\nAeworth 180-208\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nBiographical Notices. William Adams, Rufus Anderson, Robert\\nBartley, John Bell, Samuel Fisher, William (jregg, Jarvis Gregg,\\nSamuel Li vermore, Joseph Mc Keen, John McMurphy, John Pren-\\ntice, George Reid, Robert Rogers, John Stark, Samuel Taggart,\\nIsaac Thom, Matthew Thornton, and James Wilson. Genealogical\\nSketches of the Families of William Adams, Edward Aiken, James\\nAnderson, John Anderson, John Bell, James Clark, Robert Clark,\\nJohn Crombie, Samuel Dickey, George Duncan, Samuel Ela,\\nRobert Gilmore, James Gregg, David Gregg, Abraham Holmes,\\nJohn Mack, James MacGregor, Alexander McCollom, James\\nMcKeen, John McKeen, John Ml^rrison, James Nesraith, Peter\\nPatterson, John Pinkerton, Hngh Rankin, James Reid, Matthew\\nTaylor, Andrew Todd, John and Thomas Wallace, Thomas Wal-\\nIftce, and John Woodburn 208-312", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "l-\\nPREFACE.\\nSoON after the death of my fatlier, the charge of editing tlie\\nHistory of Londonderry was commitffed to me. The first foiir\\nchapters of the work were nearly completed, and the materlal\\nfor the two remaining chapters and the Appendix, in a great\\nmeasure coUected and arranged. It was the design of my father,\\nthat the work should be examined by myself, and by his son-in-\\nlaw, Mr. Samuel H. Taylor, Principal of Phillips Acadeni}-.\\nAndover, Mass., previous to its publication and a considerable\\nportion of the manuscript was in my hands, for this purpose, at\\nthe tune of his decease. The Editor has therefore done but\\nlittle mor e in the prep^ation of the work, than would have\\ndevolved upon him had its Author lived to see its entire com-\\npletion. And though it is more than probable that the Author\\nhad in his mind some fticts and illustrations, not committed to\\npaper, wi\u00c3\u00bci which he intended to cnricli the woi-k yet it is\\nbelieved that the Ilistory now presented to the public, is, in\\nmatter and form, what he intended it to be. In its preparation,\\nmy father availed himself of every source of information, and\\nmade free use of sueh material as could be found,\u00c2\u00aboccasionally\\nadopting the precise words and expressions of others, when thcy\\nsuited his purpose.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "IV PREFACE.\\nThe Editor woiild express his obligations to Mr. Dani\u00c3\u00abl Mac-\\nGregor and James McKeen, Esq., of the city of New York Hon.\\nSamuel D. Bell, of Manchester, N. H. George W. Nesmith, Esq.,\\nof Franklin, N. H., and Messrs..A. W. and R. C. Mack, of Lon-\\ndonderry, for much valuable assistance. His acknowledgments\\nare also due to Hon. Luther V. Bell, LL. D., of Somerville, Mass.,\\nfor the portrait of his grandfather, John Bell, Esq., and to Messrs.\\nMcKeen, of Brunswick, Me., for the portrait of their fatlier,\\nPresident McKeen. There are doubtless others, to whom my\\nfather would have been pleased to express his obligations. The\\nmanuscript, before it went to press, received the careful exami-\\nnation of Mr. Taylor, who also prepared the Memoir of the\\nAuthor.\\nEdward P. Parker.\\nAfe.iriinack\\\\ N.\\nJune, 1851.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. Vil\\nAPPENDIX.\\nTopography of Londonderry Memorial to Gov. Shute Wheel-\\nwright s Deed Charter of the Town Justice McKeen s Com-\\ninission An early Parish Tax-list\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Memorial to the General\\nCourt Association Test Soldiers of the Revolution Petition\\nfor an Act regulating Parish Voters Robert MacGregor s Deed\\nof the Common and Graveyard Lists of Representatives and\\nTown OflScers Lawyers Physicians Graduates. 313-359", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XI\\ngiven. Eight of her ten children in after life became\\nconsistent professors of religion. How far earlj maternal\\ninstruction was the means of this it is not for us to\\ndetermine, but doubtless that inflijence was important.\\nEdward, the youngest son, was the favorite child.\\nHis active and sprightlj habits made him the centre of\\ninterest in the family circle, a place which he continued\\nto hold in after hfe. Before he was five years old, he\\nhad, in three instances, almost miraculously escaped\\ndeath twice from drowning, and once from an attack\\nby a domestic animal, the marks of which he ever after\\nbore. At the period when he was of a suitable age to\\nattend school, the advantages of the common schools of\\nNew England were much fewer than at present. Instruc-\\ntors themselves were very imperfectly qualified, and the\\ncircle of studies was extremely limited, including little\\nmore than reading, writing, and arithmetic. This meagre\\ncourse of study was all that Mr. Parker enjoyed in his\\nyouth. When he was about twelve years of age, he was\\nplaced as a clerk in the store of his brother Thomas, in\\nBedford, N. H. Here he was brought into sc\u00c3\u00a8nes of pecu-\\nliar temptation. The village in which the store was situated,\\nbeing near the Merrimack River, was the residence and the\\nresort of a large number of persons engaged in rafting and\\nboating, who, at that time, were in the constant and free\\nuse of intoxicating drink. A favorite form of it was\\nflip and so constant was the demand for this, that the\\nloggerhead was always hot, ready to perform its indis-\\npensable part in the preparation of this choice beverage.\\nMr. Parker often remarked that he had sold hogsheads\\nof ardent spirit in this form. It will be readily imagined,\\nto what corrupting influences he was exposed, where", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Xll MEMOIR.\\nintoxicatihg liquors were thus freely used, and where his\\nears were daily familiar with the lowest vulgarity and pro-\\nfaneness and yet, to his own amazement, as in after Ufe\\nhe looked back upon Jhese sc\u00c3\u00a8nes, he never contracted\\nthe habits of those with whom he was brought in contin-\\nual contact. Though the habitual use of ardent spirit\\nwas at that time almost universal, yet, even under the\\nstrongest temptations, he never complied with the prac-\\ntice. In a sermon, preached a few years before his death,\\nhe said I was in childhood placed amid sc\u00c3\u00a8nes of\\npeculiar temptation and exposure yet, though destitute\\nas I then was of the true fear of God, through the influ-\\nence of maternal instruction and the restraints of a kind\\nProvidence, I was kept from contracting habits, or enter-\\ning upon courses of vice and impiety, into which so many\\nat that time were thrown. The impressions made upon\\nhis youthful mind by witnessing the debasing and brutal-\\nizing effects of intemperance, rendered him, in later\\nyears, the fearless and zealous advocate of every wise\\nmeasure to correct the evil.\\nIn the discharge of his general duties as clerk in his\\nbrother s store, he is described as attracting particular\\nnotice for his activity and energy. A part of his business\\nconsisted in measuring and taking an account of lumber,\\nparticularly of boards, which he is said to have done with\\ngreat rapidity. This lumber was sent in rafts to New-\\nburyport, and he, being commissioned to go and dispose\\nof it, sometimes accompanied the raft, but more gener-\\nally performed the journey each way on foot. As he\\nwas at this time a mere boy, and small of his age, he\\nwas looked upon with much interest for the shrewdness,\\naccuracy, and despatch which were manifest in all his\\ndealings.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XIU\\nWhen Mr. Parker was fifteen years of age, the brother\\nin whose store he had been emplojed failed in business\\nan e vent, we are told, which would have occurred still\\nearher but for the faithful exertions of his young clerk.\\nBeing thus thrown out of emplojment, he was invited bj\\nanother brother, who was a physician in Topsham, Me.,\\nto go and reside with him, and act as clerk in his drug-\\ngist s shop. This invitation he accepted, and remained\\nwith his brother about a jear. Here he was brought\\ninto a still strenger current of temptation than before.\\nTo the vice of intemperance, to which he had been\\nexposed, was now added the still more seductive one of\\ngambhng. Yet he never jielded previous resistance\\nhad given him doubl\u00c3\u00a9 power to overcome his present\\nexposure. Whenever it was possible, he always with-\\ndrew from the devotees of the cup and the gaming-board,\\nto a small room alone. At last, sickened bj the sc\u00c3\u00a8nes\\ninto which he was daily and nightlj thrown, he resolved\\nto leave Topsham, and return to his native place. He\\ndid so, performing the journej of one hundred and fifty\\nmiles on foot, in the month of March.\\nBeing unable to find such employment as he wished,\\nhe left home with the consent of his friends, but without\\ninforming them of his plans, knowing the objections they\\nwould interpose, and engaged himself as an apprentice\\nto a shoemaker in Billerica, Mass. Here he continued\\nfor some time, till his friends, accidentally ascertaining\\nwhere he was, persuaded him to return home. But there\\nwas no business for him there, and his active habits would\\nnot allow him to be idle. Accordinglj, in connection with\\na brother, he purchased a woodlot, got off the lumber,\\ndrew it to the river, and rafted it. In the winter, being\\nB", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "XIV ME MO IR.\\nnow se venteen years of age, he offered himself as a\\nteacher of a district school in the present town of Man-\\nchester, N. II., then called Derryfield. Though he had\\nbnt a verj Umited education, and had never studied\\nEnghsh grammar or geography, yet, after due examina-\\ntion, he was approved and engaged to teach the school.\\nAt the opening of the school, some of his scholars pre-\\nsented themselves to studj English grammar. With a\\nresolution that never failed him in the most trying cir-\\ncumstances, he put himself to the new study with such\\nenergy as to be able to teach it with success and so\\ngreat was the approbation of his instructions, and of his\\ngeneral management of the school, that he was invited to\\nteach there again the next winter.\\nAfter these checkered sc\u00c3\u00a8nes, bj the particular advice\\nof his friends, avIio saw in him clements of usefulness and\\nsuccess in some higher calling than any to which he had\\ndirected his attention, he was induced to prepare himself\\nfor the study of medicine. With the Httle gains acquired\\nby the sale of his lumber and by his school, he entered the\\nacademy in Londonderry, at that time, and for many\\nyears after, under the charge of Samuel Burnham, M. A.,\\na gentleman of most excellent character, and of some\\ndistinction as a teacher. While a member of the acad-\\nemy, he boardcd in the faraily of Rev. Jonathan Brown,\\nthe minister of the East Parish, and whose place he was\\nto occupy in a little more than six years. It was during\\nhis connection with this school that his attention was first\\ncalled decidedly to the subject of religi\u00c3\u00abn, by a sermon\\non the Judgment, delivered in the pulpit in which he\\nsubsequently preached for so long a period. \u00c3\u00afhere can\\nbe httle doubt that the change wrought in him by the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XV\\nreligious impressions made at that time was a tliorough\\nand radical one. It invested life with new interest, pre-\\nsented new and more enlarged objects of eflfort, and\\npressed upon liim higher and strenger motives of action.\\nHe soon relinquished the purpose of entering tlie medi-\\ncal profession and tliough entirely destitute of means,\\nexcept what he might gain by bis own exertions, directed\\nhis course of studj with reference to a preparation for\\ncollege, with a view of entering the Christian ministrj.\\nAt this time there was a highly excited state of feeling\\namong the people of the East Parish of Londonderry,\\nwhich had grown out of the opposition of a large minority\\nto the settlement of the Rev. Mr. Brown, and the conse-\\nquent formation of a Congregational society within the\\nbounds of the parish. Mr. Parker, finding his own mind\\ntoo much diverted from his studies by the subjects which\\ndistracted the parish, left the academy at Londonderry,\\nand placed himself under the instruction of Rev. Dr.\\nWood, of Boscawen, N. H., who \u00c3\u00b3ften fitted young men\\nfor college. Here he remained until he entered college,\\nwith the exception of the time which he spent in teaching.\\nDuring his residence in Boscawen, at the age of nine-\\nteen, he united with the church under the charge of Dr.\\nWood. With what perseverance and success he prose-\\ncuted his studies under his new, as well as under his\\nformer instructor, will be evident from the fact, that, in\\ntwo years and three months after he commenced his\\nstudies in the academy at Londonderry, with a view of\\nfitting himself for the medical profession, he entered the\\njunior class in Dartmouth College, having taught school\\nduring this time some more than nine months. He went\\nto Hanover on foot, carrying all his effects with him. In", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "XVI MEMOIR.\\nafter life, lie, like manj others, often regretted that he\\nhad not spent more time in his preparatory and col-\\nlegiale course.\\nWhile a member of college, he made the most faithful\\nuse of his time, rising at a very early hour in the\\nmoming. A classmate who was familiar with all his\\nhabits, sajs Ile prosecuted his studies with great\\nassiduity. With him no time was allo wed to pass mi-\\nimproved. He ranked high as a scholar, and was a\\nmember of the Phi B\u00c3\u00a8ta Kappa society.\\nHis Christian character and influence during his college\\ncourse attracted particular notice. A classmate, after\\nstating that he possessed a mind of a high order, strong,\\nand quick of apprehension, adds but his piety gave\\nthe chief lustre to his character. As a Chri ^tian, he was\\nexemplary, devout, humble, and cheerful. In conver-\\nsation and demeanor, he w^as pleasant and courteous.\\nProbably no one of his class was more highly esteemed\\nfor his moral and Christian character than he. Rev. Dr.\\nShurtleff, late professor in Dartmouth College, and the\\nonly one of his college instructors who now survives, says\\nIt is clear in my recoUection, that Mr. Parker stood\\namong the good scholars of his class, but was most prom-\\ninent as a devoted, consistent, and faithful Christian.\\nAnd adverting to his consci\u00c3\u00abntieus regard for divine\\ntruth, as exhibited in the decided and bold measures he\\ntook, on one occasion, to defeat the efforts made to dif-\\nfuse loose and dangerous sentiments. Dr. Shurtleff says\\nI silently marked the spirit which prompted him a\\nfearless determination to resist, at every hazard, the\\nencroachmcnts of error and the same fidclity and\\nmoral courage which he then displayed, were uniformly.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XVU\\nso far as I have known and heard, carried out with pru-\\ndence and good judgment in his subsequent life and\\nministry. Others have borne similar testimony in\\nregard to the earnestness and consistencj of his Christian\\nexample, and of the respect in which he was held, as\\ncombining in an unusual degree, at that time in college,\\nhonorable scholarship with decided pietj.\\nWhile Mr. Parker was a member of college, regular\\ninstruction was given in theology to such as wished it,\\nby the professor of that department, which was then filled\\nby Rev. Dr. ShurtlefF. Besides pursuing the prescribed\\ncollege course, he availed himself of the opportunity thus\\noffered to prosecute his theological studies. In these, as\\nin other studies, he made rapid ad vances. His professor,\\nreferring to the short time in which he prepared to enter\\nthe junior class in college, remarks His well known\\nrapidity of mind would give countenance to the report\\nwhich you mention. Certainly, his progress in theology\\ncorresponded with his supposed rapidity in fitting for\\ncollege.\\nMr. Parker supported himself during his college course\\nby teaching school. He often spoke of the good provi-\\ndence which directed him to desirable situations of one\\ninstance of this kind, he always had the most grateful\\nremembrance. During his senior year, at a season when\\nthere was no opportunity of obtaining employment in the\\ndistrict schools, he found himself wholly destitute of means\\nto pay his bills, and knew not what to do. At length, it\\noccurred to him that Richard Lang, Esq., a merchant\\nat Hanover, might wish to eniploy some one to teach his\\nchildren. With much diffidence, he concluded to go to\\nMr. Lang s store, and propose the subject to him. He\\nB*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "XVlll MEMOIR.\\naccordinglj went and, as soon as lie opened the door,\\nMr. Lang came to him and said Mr. Parker, I wish to\\nemploy some one to teach my children I have been to\\nProfessor ShurtlefF, to request him to recommend a suit-\\nable person, and he recommends you are jou willing\\nto take the situation? The answer can be readily\\nimagined. On the same day, he was comfortably settled\\nin Mr. Lang s family, where he remained several months\\nafter he graduated. Oh, how many young men of gen-\\nereus impulses, and with an ardent desire to prepare\\nthemselVes to be useful in the world, may be found in all\\nour institutions of learning, embarrassed and disheartened\\nfor the want of some small pittance of relief, which multi-\\ntudes would be the richer for ffivin^ir them\\nMr. Parker graduated in 1807, but continued his the-\\nological studies at Hanover, under Prof. Shurtleff, for\\nseveral months afterward. He was licensed to preach the\\ngospel Oct. 29, 1807, by the Committee of the Grafton,\\nN. H., presbylery, his license being signed by John\\nWheelock, John Smith, Roswell ShurtlefF, President and\\nProfessors in Dartmouth College, and Rev. James Wood-\\nward, of Norwich. During the winter, he spent some\\ntime in the study of theology with Rev. Dr. Burton, of\\nThetford, Yt., the zcalous advocate and defender of the\\nTaste Scheme, against the Exercise Scheme, as\\npromulgated by Dr. Emmons.\\nAbout this time he began to make occasional cntries\\nin a diary, from which a few extracts will be taken in the\\ncourse of this sketch. In view of the ministry upon\\nwhich he was about to enter, he seems to have had\\nclearer convictions than before of the necessity of vital\\npiety. Hence he says I do resolve to give more dili-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XIX\\ngence to be established in the hope of the gospel.\\nSensible of the great and momentous study in Avhich I\\nam engaged, and of the importance of entering upon it\\nwith right motives, I resolve to devote myself to the\\nexamination of mj own heart. I do now resolve to\\nrelinquish every earthlj object, and to set my aifections\\nsupremelj on God. I resolve not to suffer the opin-\\nions, the pleasures, the flatteries, or the frowns of the\\nworld, to influence mj conduct. Grant me power, O\\nGod, to confirm my feeble resolutions.\\nAs an evidence of his laborious application to the\\nstudies on which he had entered, it may be added, that\\nthe time of each day, from five o clock in the morning till\\nhalf-past eleven at night, was appropriated to particular\\nduties, including three seasons of devotion. He had an\\nimpediment in his speech he therefore devoted one\\nhour each day to correct that. He w^ished to gain a\\nmore extensive knowledge of some of the studies of his\\ncollege course he accordingly gave three hours each\\nday to the mathematics, and as many to the languages\\nand all this in addition to his principal object, the study\\nof theology.\\nIn the spring of 1808, Mr. Parker took charge of the\\nacademyin Salisbury, N. H., for six months, residing in\\nthe family of the Rev. Thomas Worcester, pastor of the\\nchurch in that place. After completing his engagement\\nat Sahsbury, he preached for several months at Columbia,\\nConn. Here he was invited to settle but feeling the\\nneed of more experience, as well as a more extended\\ncourse of study, before he connected himself permanently\\nwith any society, he decHned the call, and placed himself\\nunder the instruction of Rev. Dr. Worcester, of Salem,\\nMass., the first Secretary of the American Board. He", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "XX MEMOIR.\\nreraained in this place one year, reslding in the family of\\nDr. Worccster, and assisting him in liis ministerial and\\nparochial duties he also taught a school which was con-\\nnected with Dr. Worcester s society. His ardent piety\\nwas not unobserved bere. His faithful and earnest\\nlabors, during a revival in the winter of 1809-10, are\\nstill fresh in the minds of some who were familiar with\\nthe sc\u00c3\u00a8nes of that interesting period. He always looked\\nupon the time spent at Salem as a very valuable prep-\\naration for his subsequent labors.\\nDuring his residence at Salem, as he passed through\\nthe East Parish of Londonderry, now Derry, on his way\\nto visit his friends in Litchfield, he was providentially\\ninvited to supply the pulpit for two Sabbaths. This led\\nto further engagements, which he met by going to Derry\\non Saturday afternoon, and returning to Salem on\\nMonday in time to commence his school. As soon as he\\nhad fulfiUed the eno;ao;ement he had made with Dr. Wor-\\noester, he received a call to become the pastor of the\\nPresbyterian church in the East Parish of Londonderry.\\nThis call he accepted, and was ordained September\\n12, 1810. Rev. Dr. Worcester, his friend and recent\\ninstructor, preached the ordination sermon. In address-\\ning the people on that occasion. Dr. Worcester said, with\\nreference to the pastor elect: We have the pleasing\\nconfidence that our young brother, who is now to be set\\nover you in the Lord, will prove to you an ascension-gift,\\na good man and full of the Holy Ghost, an able and\\nfaithful minister of the New Testament. This confidence\\nwe have not taken up lightly it has resulted from what\\nwe have seen and known, and with respect to some of\\nus, at least, it has been strengthened and confiraied by\\nintimate and endearing acquaintance.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXI\\nJust before his ordination, he had evidently made the\\nresponsible duties of the ministrj, and the various wajs\\nby which these might be most successfullj accomphshed,\\na matter of protracted and prayerful study. He had\\ntaken a comprehensive view of the difficulties to be met,\\nthe prejudices to be overcome, and feit that he needed\\nmore than human wisdom to render his ministry success-\\nful. There was no shrinking from the responsibihties of\\nthe station, because it was beset with trials no desire\\neven to avoid what might come in the way of duty his\\nonly solicitude was to know how he might approve him-\\nself to Hlm who had put him into the ministry.\\nThe following extracts from his diary, will show his\\ninterest in adopting and carrying out such principles and\\nrules, as would fit him most successfully for the work on\\nwhich he was about to enter.\\nI will consider love to God and zeal for his glory\\nas my highest duty, and study to improve daily in these\\ndivine affections and will judge of my progress in them,\\nnot by transient fervor, but by my habitual temper by\\nmy faithful performance of the self-denying duties of\\nChristianity by my cheerful acquiescence in all God s\\ndispensations, and by the love, humility, and watchfulness\\nwhich I maybe enabled to exhibit to those around me.\\nI will cultivate au habitual sense of God s presence,\\nand of my accountability to him of the shortness of time,\\nand my obligations to improve it.\\nI will be particularly Avatchful against the love of\\npraise or distinction, as well as the fear of shame desist-\\ning from my purpose when I feel these to be my only\\nmotives, and endeavoring by prayer to overcome them\\nwhen I perceive them combined with proper motives,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "XXll MEMOIR.\\nI will be open to conviction, ever receiving correc-\\ntion and reproof meeklj and tbankfullj never question-\\ning merely for the sake of dispute, nor retorting on\\nmy repro ver.\\nI will in no case affect knowledge which I have not;\\nI will not put off to a future day the business of the pres-\\nent, but will applj mjself to it, never yielding to sloth\\nor the love of ease, but exercising a constant and self-\\ndenjing attention to mj proper work.\\nI will watch particularlj against all heartlessness\\ntowards inferiors, and especiallj such as need mj help.\\nI will listen kindlj to their representations, and render\\nthem all the assistance in mj power.\\nI will guard against everything, in look and manner,\\nwhich might tend to wound the feelings of others.\\nI will not allow the conduct of others towards me to\\nlessen my kindness and good-will to them.\\nI will consider the study of my heart one main busi-\\nness of my life, and I will enter every evening, if possible,\\ninto a serieus review of the day past, and will solemnly\\nconsider the fitness of my soul to enter the eternal\\nworld.\\nIn 1811, he married Miss Mehetabel Kimball, daughter\\nof Deacon Stephen Kimball, of Hanover, N. H. She\\nwas to him a worthy companion, and a valued helper\\nin bis rcsponsible duties. \u00c3\u00afhe connection then formed\\ncontinued for thirty-nine years. She still survives,\\nresiding with her youngest son, They had four children\\ntwo sous and two daughters. The younger daughter\\ndied at the age of about three years their other children\\nare still living.\\nThe parish with which Mr. Parker was connected,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXUl\\nrequired unusual labor and prudence. It stretched over\\na large territorj, rendering much time necessary to visit\\nthe remote parts of it. There had also been much\\nalienation between the two societies which had existed\\nthere for several years the appropriate duties of the\\nministry had been to some extent neglected, and, when\\nperformed, were rendered in a measure nugatory, by the\\nunhappy state of feeling existing in the place. And\\nthough, at the time of Mr. Parker s settlement, the two\\nsocieties had with entire unanimity united in giving him\\na call, yet the old wounds could not at once be healed.\\nA conviction of duty as well as interest impelled them to\\nbury their differences, and to unite their strength in the\\nsupport of an effici\u00c3\u00abnt ministry. Still, there were ele-\\nments pent up, which a slight cause would at any time\\ncall into action. This state of things Mr. Parker well\\nunderstood, for we find in his diary at this time, this\\nresolution Resolved to be very watchful and circum-\\nspect in regard to everything I say, considering the\\npresent state of the society. The ministry on which he\\nentered under such circumstances was eminently suc-\\ncessful. Not that there was always entire harmony or\\nno personal dissatisfaction not that a different course\\nof measures and a different style of preaching would not\\nhave been acceptable to some not that he himself was a\\nstranger to trials, some of which made his nights weari-\\nsome and sleepless but the general results of the connec-\\ntion between him and the parish were much more happy,\\nboth for the temporal and spiritual interests of the peoi^le,\\nwere attended with more harmony and mutual confidence,\\nthan either could have dared to anticipate.\\nOn the day of his ordination, he enteied among other", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "XXIV MEMO IR.\\nresoliitions, the following I noiv resolve to give myseJf\\nwJiolly to tlie ivorh. This was the great motto of his\\nlife. This resolution, adopted, not from constraint, but\\nunder a high sense of dutj, brought one single object of\\nlife before him, as the centre towards which everjthing\\nmust tend, and made the exhausting and self-denying\\nlabors of the ministry a sonrce of rich enjojment. Single-\\nness of aim, a hearty devotedness to the work, is one of\\nthe surest pledges of success in anj undertaking, and is\\nnowhere more needful than in the ministry. When this\\noflBce is entered with a divided purpose, with an eye as\\nmuch upon the personal advantages it may give as upon\\nthe solemn duties it imposes and the fruifcs that should\\nspring from it when it is sought with a view to gratify\\na literary taste, or as a field for the display of learning\\nor eloquence, or because it may elevate him who is\\nclothed with it to a more refined circle in society when\\nany one, or all of these become paramount to the true\\nbusiness of the ministry, the saving of men s souls,\\nthat sacred office is so far prostituted, and the results\\nwhich may always sooner or later be expected from the\\nfaithful performance of its duties, fail of being attained.\\nIt has been justly said, that it is hard to be a faithful min-\\nister and with equal justice it has been replied, it is\\nharder to be an unfaithful one.\\nMr. Parker entered the ministry with no such divided\\npurpose. I resolve to give mj^self wholly to the work.\\nI determine to realize that I have but one Master to\\nserve, and to make it my great aim to please him.\\nThus he resolves, and thus he writes, on the day of\\nhis ordination and how faithfully the pledge was kept,\\nthe people to whom he ministered for forty years can best", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXV\\njudge. How earnestlj he labored how little he con-\\nsulted liis own ease how entirelj he merged his private\\ninterests in the welfare of his people with what restless\\nanxiety he watched for opportunities to do good how he\\ndivided to his flock the Word of God, giving to each a\\nportion in due season how he warned and entreated\\nthem how he went from house to house, conversing with\\nthose unreconciled to God how often he was hj the bed-\\nside of the sick and the dying, pointing them to their\\nonlj refuge with what deep sjmpathjhe imparted con-\\nsolation to the afflicted and broken-hearted with what\\nwords of gentleness he strove to win the affection and\\nconfidence of the lambs of his flock, that the truth might\\ntake effect in their minds also what a fervor and spirit\\nof piety mingled in all his duties in a word, how faith-\\nful, how exemplary and blameless, was his ministrj, they\\nknow well, who, for so manj years, were witnesses of\\nthese things.\\nIlis theological views were consistent, scriptural, and\\nwhat are termed evangelical. While he had studied\\nmost of the leading theologians, and was familiar with\\ntheir differences of opinion, and their varjing shades of\\nrepresentation and conception, he had studied the Bible\\nmore, and admitted or rejected particular views, according\\nas thej coincided or were at variance with what, after\\npati\u00c3\u00abnt studj, he believed to be the teaching of the Word\\nof God. Of the doctrines of the Bible he had clear and\\nwell-defined conceptions, apprehending the extent and\\nlimits of each, as well as their interdependence, and seeing\\nhow sjmmetrical and harmonious a sjstem thej formed\\nwhen combined together. Hence, without prjing into the\\nbidden mysteries of God, or trying to comprehend and\\nc", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "XXVI MEMOIR.\\nexplain them, he was able to vindicate tlie wajs of God\\ntoman. These doctrines were presentcd clearly and\\nforciblj, but never in a manner suited to make the\\nhearers of them theological wrangiers, or the diseiples of\\na particular theological teacher. No one ever heard\\nfrom his pulpit the distinctive views or modes of philoso-\\nphizing adopted by Edwards, Hopkins, \u00c3\u009cAvight, Burton,\\nor Emmons. His aim was, not so much to make theolo-\\ngians as Christians, not so much to give theoretical as\\npractical instruction.\\nMr. Parker possessed highlj respectable, but not dis-\\ntinguished talents as a preacher. If it could be said that\\nhe preached few great sermons, it could also be said that\\nhe rarely, if ever, preached a poor one. Though his\\nmind was not characterized bj any marked originality, it\\nwas strong and vigorous, quick of pcrception and rapid in\\nits operations. It was not one-sided, or marred by any\\nprominent defects, but was Avell-balanced and well-dis-\\nciplined. His sermons were not elaborate productions,\\nmodelled after severe rules they bore no striking marks\\nof the rhetorician s skill, and there was little in them to\\ngratify the fanc}^ or imagination but they were always\\nsound and instructive, always exhibited consecutive and\\nwell-arranged thought they were plain, direct, and\\nearnest, making forcible appeals to the conscience,urging\\nupon men their duty, and portraying the fearful conse-\\nquences of neglecting it with the deepest solemnity too,\\ndid he exhort and entreat them to become reconciled to\\nGod.. And such was the evident sincerity with which\\nhis appeals and exhortations were made, so entirely free\\nwas he from heartlessness br formality in them, that none\\ncould sit beneath his ministrations without the conviction", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR.\\nthat he was a man of God, who knew and feit the weightj\\nimport of the message he had been commissioned to\\ndeliver.\\nThe subjects of his discourses were well chosen he\\nhad no favorite circle of themes on which to preach, to the\\nneglect of all others. His aim was to declare the whole\\ncounsel of God, selecting at a particular time such sub-\\njects as he supposed the wants of his people required.\\nIn this he was remarkablj judicious. Being constantly\\namong his parishioners, and acquainting himself with their\\npeculiar state of feeling, with their misapprehensions of\\ntruth or prejudices against it, he was fully prepared to\\nmeet their various necessities. The state of the times,\\npassing events, and solemn providences, he often seized\\nupon as themes of discourse. But whatever the theme,\\nwhether doctrinal or practical, historical or biographical,\\nhis great aim was to enforce moral truth on the minds of\\nhis hearers.\\nIn the discharge of his appropriate duties as pastor, he\\nhad few if any superiors. He has often and justlj been\\ncalled a model pastor. Certainly, in the untiring\\nand faithful manner in which the duties of this office\\nwere met, he has been surpassed by none. Not even\\nDr. Chalmers, in his unwearied efiforts to make his pas-\\ntoral influence feit among the ten or twelve thousand\\nparishioners of the \u00c3\u00afron Church Parish, or the Parish of\\nSt. John s, can be said to have performed a greater\\namount of pastoral labor. The labors of the pastor should\\never coexist with those of the preacher if the former are\\nmerged in the latter, so far the preacher neglects one of\\nthe most effective clements of his strength. Each is a\\nhandmaid of the other. To be most successful as a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "XXVlll MEMOIR.\\npreacher one must be a faithful pastor, and he who would\\ncarry with him the greatest influence in his pastoral\\ncircuits, must remember that, however constantly and\\nfaithfullj these more private ministrations may be per-\\nformed, thej can never supersede the necessitv of the\\nwell studied and vigorous instructions of the pulpit.\\nHow readilj and skilfuUy can he suit his teachings to\\nparticular states of mind, when he has learned these by\\nmingling with his people and how cordial a reception will\\nhe meet at the homes of his parishioners what an influ-\\nence will his private teachings have over them how\\nreadily will they open their hearts, if on the Sabbath he\\nbas ably and faithfully instructed them from the oracles\\nof God.\\nThe views of Mr. Parker with regard to the importance\\nof the pastoral office, as well as the character and extent\\nof his labors in it, are happily expressed in the following\\nextract from the Congregational Journal, written by the\\nEditor, Rev. Henry Wood.\\nConfessedly, preaching is the great work of the min-\\nistry but it is not its whole work. The natural and\\nacquired abilities which give it interest and power, the\\nreason which invigorates it, the taste which adorns it,\\nthe imagination which enlivens it, and the eloquence\\nwhich enforces it, are of high value, and worthy of admi-\\nration at the same time, there are other qualifications\\nequally potential in securing success, if not equally attrac-\\ntive and dazzling. The kind heart, the wisely spoken word,\\nthe judicious meas.ures, the visit to the house of poverty,\\noutgushing sympathy with mourning and sorrow, interest\\nin the parishioner s temporal as well as spiritual welfare,\\nthe familiar conversation, the cultivated intimacy with", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXIX\\nchildhood and youth throughout the parish, the prayer at\\nthe familj altar, or at the bedside of the sick and the\\ndjing, the conference in the school-room, and the pray er-\\nmeeting in the private dweiling, if they do not exhibit\\nthe talent which prepares the impressive and admired\\nsermon, are indispensable to its effect.\\nThe power of the pulpit is not like that of gravitation\\nor the mechanical forces, which may be calculated on\\ninfallible principles the state of mind in those who hear,\\nis an important element in the computation of preaching\\npower. Eloquence is impotent when it is judged to be\\nheartless, and the most logical ^sermons fail to convince\\nand impress, when it is suspected that they are extorted by\\nthe stern demands of pulpit duty, rather than the simple\\nproducts of the prompting heart. It is the volunteer\\noffices of the week which give much of its force to the\\nexacted sermon of the Sabbath, offices which might\\nhave been omitted without censure, and were performed\\nwith manifest pains-taking and self-denial. These,\\nattesting to the sincerity of the heart, make eloquence\\nmoie eloquent, and even common-place impressive and\\nmighty.\\nThe churches of New Hampshire have just lost,\\nno, not lost, but parted with one whose life both sug-\\ngested our remarks and illustrated them. Rev. Edward\\nL. Parker, of Derry, was a model pastor, exceeded by\\nnone other in the State it is hardly too much to add, by\\nno one in New England. A distinguished minister, who\\nfor many years had sustained the pastoral relation to\\nan important congregation, and afterwards became the\\nlearned professor in a theological seminary and university,\\nafter spending a few weeks in the family of Mr. Parker,\\nc*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "XXX MEMOIR.\\nand observing his wisdom and tact, remarked, that he\\nexcelled in these respects all the ministers he had ever\\nknown, and deserved to be stuiied bj young preachers\\nas a model. His talents as a preacher were respectable,\\nbut not eminent alwajs judicious and instructive, he was\\nnever eloquent. But his pastoral influence, like the air,\\nwas difFused and feit over his entire parish. In illustra-\\ntion of his life and labors, it may be stated, such was his\\nattention to the young that we learned from his own lips\\nwhat was affirmed by others, that he knew the name of\\nevery child in his large parish of nearly two thousand\\ngouls. His labors in the outskirts of his parish were as\\nabundant as they w^ere arduous. He was wont to\\nremark, that if he fortified the outposts he did not fear\\nfor the citadel.\\nIf Mr. Parker s parish had reason to boast of its\\npastor, the pastor had reason to boast of liis parish,\\nwhich in its good order, its intelligence, its solid religious\\ncharacter, its harmony, its steady progress, and the\\nnumber of its youth it educated and sent forth to honor-\\nable and useful stations, is hardly excelled by any other\\nin New England.\\nFor about thirty years of Mr. Parker s ministry, his\\nparish contained nearly four hundred families, all of\\nwhich he lookcd upon as his pastoral charge, and having\\nclaims upon him for instruction and sympathy. At\\ntimes, he would make appointments to visit in particular\\nneighborhoods, on certain days, calling at every house,\\nand in this way making the circuit of the whole parish\\nat other times, his visits were less formal and system-\\natic, having reference to the circumstances and wants\\nof particular families. His attentions to the afflicted", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXXI\\nwere unremitted, clay after daj was he foimd at the\\nbedside of the sick and djing the earnest inquirer he\\nsought out, that he might impart the Hght and instruction\\nof the gospel the infirm and aged, who could not\\nattend on his pubUc teachings, to their spirftual wants\\nhe ministered m their own dweUings. Sometimes he\\ndevoted an entire week in visiting, with the single view\\nof awakening among parents and children an interest in\\nattending the Sabbath school. His visits, whether for\\nthis purpose or for others, were more frequent to the\\nremoter parts of the town than to families more centrally\\nsituated. Wherever he went, he usually carried small\\nbooks or tracts, particularly adapted to the young, which\\nhe distributed among them, both for the purpose of\\ninstructing them, as well as winning their love and con-\\nfidence. Such was his desire to be among his people,\\nthat it was with difficultj he could be persuaded to be\\nabsent a few days, even to visit his friends and when\\nhe did so, he was always impatient to return and when-\\never he knew that any circumstances called him to any\\npart of his parish, he could never be induced to give\\nhimself quiet or rest at home, unless the state of the\\nweather rendered it wholly imprudent to go abroad.\\nNever was there a parish which had a more faithful or\\nlaborious pastor.\\nMr. Parker had a special interest in the younger\\nportion of his parish, and this interest was accompanied\\nby corresponding efforts for their improvement. He not\\nonly feit but he acted on the principle, that youth is the\\nseed-time of life. Some years previous to the establish-\\nment of Sabbath schools in New England, he adopted\\nmeasures to give the youth of his parish a more extensive", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "XXXU MEMOIR.\\nand exact knowledge of the Bible. The resldents of\\nDeiTj, thirty-five years ago, will reraember the two soci-\\neties then in cxistence with this object in view. The\\nAdelphi, and the Young Ladies Catechetical Soci-\\nety, Avill hver be held in grateful remembrance bj not\\na few of their members. These societies met once each\\nmonth, though not at the same time. Particular subjects\\nfor examination were previously assigned by the pastor,\\nand the members of the society were expected to illus-\\ntrate and ostabHsh these by texts of Scripture. Subjects\\nwere not unfrequently given to the members of the\\nAdelphi (the society for the young men), on which to\\nwrite this they often did, at considerable length. In\\nsome instances, the meetings of this society were held in\\npublic. In such cases, the members were questioned in\\nthe presence of the audience, and also read the disserta-\\ntions which they had written. Few parishes had a more\\npromising circle of young men than were to be found\\nhere, before the advantages held out to them from\\nabroad induced them to leave their native place. It\\nmust be added, that some of the choicest spirits went to\\nan early grave. Nor is it out of place to remark, that\\nthe young ladies connected with the society established\\nfor their improvement, have been distinguished for sta-\\nbility of character and many of them have been orna-\\nments in their respective spheres.\\nAs another means of improving the young men. Mr.\\nParker invited them to meet in the vestry on Sabbath\\nnoon, and at other times, to listen to the readingof some\\nvaluable book. Sometimes, too, meetings were appointed\\nin the school-houses in the remote parts of the parish, for\\nthe same purpose. Hawes s Lectures to Young Men,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXXIU\\nwere read in tliis waj in different parts of the town.\\nFor the younger part of his charge, he had other\\nmeasures. By various inducements, he would persuade\\nthem to commit the answers to Scripture Questions, and\\nalso the Assemblj s Shorter Catechism. For many years,\\nhis custom was to give a pocket Testament, containing\\nhis own name and that of the one to whom it was given,\\nto everj child who would recite the Catechism perfectlj.\\nMuch interest was in this waj awakened in the study of\\nthis vahiable summary of truth and the prize which the\\nsuccessful competitors obtained, was valued both as an\\nevidence of diligence and success, and also as being a\\npresent from their pastor. And will not these little\\nmementos of a pastor s affection and interest have an\\nincreased value, now that he who inscribed those youthful\\nnames, lias ceased from his labors in their behalf, and is\\nsilent in death\\nOn occasions of temperance and Sabbath school cele-\\nbrations, so earnest was he that all the children might have\\ntheir minds interested in these objects by the ceremonies,\\nas well as by the direct instructions, that the writer well\\nremembers him hurrying in different directions over the\\ncommon, where the processions w^ere usually formed,\\npicking up a child here and another there, and finding\\nplaces for them with the others.\\nHis effbrts for the general education of the yomig were\\nof the same earnest character. Durins; almost the whole\\nof his ministry, he visited the eight or ten district schools\\neach four times a year, at the commencement and the\\nclose of the summer and winter terms. These were no\\nformal visits, made to get rid of an irksome duty. He\\nwent with his mind alive to the interests which centred", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "XXXIV MEMOIR.\\nabout those humble seats of learniug. He watched and\\nnotedjwitli scarcely less than paternal interest, the devel-\\nopment and ^rowth of each mind. This interest on the\\npart of the pastor was not without its effect on the minds\\nof the scholars. Thej knew that their progress was\\nmarked, and w^ere incited by it to greater efforts. A\\nfailure at an examination is always humbling, but it is\\ndoubly so when made in the presence of onc whom we\\nknow to feel a Uvelj interest in our improvement. The\\nwriter has not jet forgotten his own mortified feelings at\\nfaihng to perform an exercise in the presence of his\\npastor, nor the resolution he then formed, not to be\\nfound defici\u00c3\u00abnt on a similar occasion. How manjyouth-\\nful minds have been thus quickened to nobler exertions,\\ncannot be told but without doubt, not a few owe their\\nfirst zealous impulse to study to the manifest interest and\\nthe counsels of their pastor at these school visitations.\\nMr. Parker was also deeply interested in the higher\\ninstitutions of learning in the town. From their first\\nestablishment, he was a trustee in the Pinkerton Acad-\\nemy, and in the Adams Female Academy, and took a\\nprominent part in their organization, and in advising and\\ndirecting in regard to their various interests. While\\nthere were at times marked differences of opinion in\\nregard to the genera! measures to be adopted, and like-\\nwise some cause for strong personal feeling, it is believed\\nthat in all cases he zealously sought their best good with-\\nout reference to his own private feelings, or the odium\\nthat might attach to him from advocating views different\\nfrom those of his associates. Certainly, no member of\\neither board had his sjmpathies more w^armly enhsted in\\nbehalf of these institutions and no one w^as more fre-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXXV\\nquently found at the quarterlj examinatlons. At the\\ntime of his cleath he was the president of both boards.\\nThe remarks ah*eady made show the laborious habits\\nof Mr. Parker but this feature deserves to be brought\\nout still more prominentlj. It may be said with\\nlittle hazard, that no minister of New England performed\\na greater amount of pastoral labor, and that no one\\npreached as many times within the sarae period, as he\\ndid. In favorable weather, he usually preached three\\ntimes on the Sabbath, the third service being held in\\nsome one of the school-houses or in a private house.\\nBesides this, he often held in the summer a prajer-\\nmeeting or teacher s meeting, before morning service,\\nand always attended a Bible class or the Sabbath school\\nduring the intermission of the public exercises. And it\\nis judged that on an average he preached three lectures\\na week, in different parts of the town in seasons\\nof religieus interest the num.ber being much. greater.\\nThe following extracts from his memoranda, embracing\\ntwo weeks, commencing with the first of January, will\\nexhibit the general character and amount of his labors\\nabroad among his people during the week.\\nMonday. Visited Mr. W., being sick with fever,\\nbut recovering also Mrs. H. very low with consump-\\ntion. Her hope is firm, desirous to depart. Afternoon,\\nMonthly Concert.\\nTaesday, Visited Mrs. McK., Mr. D., Mr. P., and\\nothers in the neighborhood; In the evening, attended a\\nmeeting of professors of religi\u00c3\u00abn at Mr. P s serieus and\\nI hope profitable meeting.\\nWednesday, Visited Mr. P., whose wife recently\\ndied. Attended a meeting of professors, and those who", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "XXXVl MEMOIR.\\nwere serlous, at Mr. N s meeting full. One person\\nexpressecl the hope of having obtained light and comfort\\nthe daj before from the Word of God may it prove gen-\\nuine. In the evenmg, attended a similar meeting at Mr.\\nCs. I have now fulfilled mj appointment of visiting the\\nchurch in their respective neighborhoods, with a view to\\nascertain their spiritual state, and to concert measures\\nto be adopted and pursued to revive rehgion in their\\nhearts and among those around them. The effect has\\nbeen, I trust, favorable. I feel much satisfied with the\\ncourse pursued, as I find it has served to rouse manj\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0who had begun to slumber.\\nThursday. Attended a conference meeting at Mrs.\\nCs.\\nFriday. Visited Mr. M s familj, and left some\\ntracts. Also Mr. P s had an opportunitj to converse\\nwith his son hope that it may not prove in vain.\\nVisited Mr. N., Mrs. G., Mr. IL, Mr. N. Found him\\nresting on the dangerous ground that a sinner must\\nwait God s time. Visited Mr. G s, Mr. D s, and Mr.\\nS s. In the evening, attended a conference at Mr.\\nG s.\\nMonday. Visited a school near Mr dincd with\\nMr. F conversed freely with him on the subject of\\ndelay afterwards visited the school in\\nTaesday. Attended the funeral of visited at\\nMrs. T s.\\nWednesday. Visited Mr. P., Mr. Conversed\\nparticularly with him on the subject of his suspension\\nadmonishcd him of his critical situation, which he\\nreceived kindlj In the evening, preached a lecture at\\nMr. A s.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXXVU\\nThursday. Yislted Mrs. Cs, and preached a\\nlecture in the school-house near Mr. Ws.\\nThe next week he visited one school, fourteen families,\\npreached four lectures, and attended an inqniry meeting.\\nThe following extracts from his journal, will show the\\nstrong interest which prompted these labors\\nI will cherish love for my people, and feel that for\\neverj soul I must give account.\\nI will prepare a list of mj people, and will in the\\ncourse of the jear if practicable, and oftener if I can.\\napplj divine truth to the heart of each, personallj.\\nI will converse with mj people more freelj and\\nmore directlj on the great subject of religion, as I have\\nopportunitj, and let no occasion pass unimproved.\\nThe historj of his pastoral labors can never be written\\nthej could have been fully understood only bj going with\\nhim on his visits to schools, to families, to individuals,\\nand bj witnessing his deep interest in their behalf, and\\nthe faithful manner in which he discharged his duties to\\nthem.\\nNotwithstanding this amount of labor abroad, he\\nsecured time for studj and for the preparation of his dis-\\ncourses. -But this he did onlj bj the strictest economj.\\nNo one could find more hours in a day than he nor\\ncould any one turn to better account the fragments of\\ntime. He could never be found idle. Some valuable\\nauthor was constantly by him, which was taken up when\\nhe had a leisure moment. He had a keen relish for\\nstudy, and it was no task for him to turn his mind, at\\nonce, to the subjects he wished to consider. While his\\nreading was by no means limited, it could not be said to\\nbe extensive. It embraced but comparatively few authors,\\nD", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "XXXVlll MEMOIR.\\nbilt thej were worth the reading, and were well di-\\ngested. With those writers who believe in the infinite\\ndivisibility of thought, he had no patience. Ile would\\nfrequently speak of the condensing process which needed\\nto be apphed to manj authors. Thongh his sermons,\\nas before remarked, were not elaborate productions, thej\\nwere by no means hastilj prepared. The plan and gen-\\neral arrangement of them he made as he rode on horse-\\nback from place to place among his people, and subse-\\nquentlj wrote them out in the quiet of his studj. He\\nwas a man of system he had a sjstem in his studies,\\nand a sjstem in his parochial and otlier duties. This\\ngave him an amount of time for the numerous demands\\nmade upon him, -which would seem incredible to those\\nwho do everjthing without a plan.\\nMr. Parker was a man of sound judgment. He formed\\nhis plans intelligentlj and judiciously, rarelj making a\\nmistake in regard to their practicability. His judgment\\nwas often put to a severe test in determining the course\\nto be pursued in critical emergencies, but he seldom took\\na wrong step. This shielded him from the difficulties\\ninto which so many men are constantly running. He\\nwas not a man to run hastily after any new or popular\\nnotions, merely because they were such nor was he a\\nman to be carried away by any popular current. Neither\\nhis opinions nor measures were characterized by any\\nextremes they were neither radical nor so conservative\\nas to admit of no departure from what usage or time\\nmight have established. He took practical and safe\\nviews of whatever came before him, and was ever\\nesteemed a wise and valuable counsellor by his brethren\\nin the ministry.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. XXXIX\\nWhile Mr. Parker was not liable to be deceived hj\\nnew moVements, or to run into them because tliej were\\nnew,* liis good judgment was manifested in his readiness\\nto adopt anj measures, from whatever source thej might\\ncome, provided they promised substantial, permanent\\ngood. It is believed tliat the first temperance society in\\nNew Hampshire was formed among his people and he\\nwas among the very first in tTie State to introduc\u00c3\u00a9 the\\nsystem of Sabbath school instruction.\\nHe was well acquainted with human nature, and\\nformed a correct estimate of character. He was quick\\nto detect the prejudices of men, their particular bias and\\nvaried motives. He knew who had an honest heart, and\\nwho, onlj an honest appearance. He was not deceived\\nby smooth words, nor misled by a show of friendship.\\nModest and retiring worth, too, he never failed to see and\\nappreciate, however rough and forbidding the exterior.\\nWith a sound judgment was united a remarkable\\nprudence. The former enabled him to see what was\\nwise, the latter kept him from doing what was unwise.\\nJudgment, gave him an insight into the characters of\\nmen prudence, put him on his guard against giving\\nthem unnecessary oifence. The former devises wise\\nmeasures, the latter keeps out of the way influences\\nwhich might. pre vent their accomphshment. These two\\ncharacteristics were happily combined in Mr. Parker,\\nand to their influence is to be attributed much of the\\nsuccess of his ministry, as well as the general harmony\\namong his people. These are important elements of\\nsuccess in any situation in life, but especially in the min-\\nistry. There are states of feeUng and times of excite-\\nment both among individuals and an entire society, when", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "xl MEMOIR.\\na false step or even an imprudent expression may prove\\ndisastrous to a pastor s influence and counteract the\\nbenefits of his past labors. Mr. Parker s prudence did not\\ndegenerate into timidity, though in some cases a bolder\\nand more decided course might have been wiser. It\\nwas not a mere negative virtue, whose only merit consists\\nin preventing men from acting, lest they may act wrong\\nnor was it a compromise of duty for the sake of a dead\\nquietism. It was a studieus effort in all his ministerial\\nduties, in all his relations as a citizen, to do nothing\\nwhereby his ministry might be blamed, or its influence\\nimpaired. It showed itself in foreseeing and preventing\\nthe occasions of evil in pouring oil on the troubled waters\\nin studying fitting times and seasons in which to rebuke\\nany prevailing evil in addressing with a spirit of kind-\\nness mingled with fidelity the erring ones of his flock,\\ninstead of bringing a raihng accusation against them.\\nAn incident which occurred but a few weeks before\\nhis death, will show how sensitive he was to whatever\\nmight in any way prejudice the mind against the truth.\\nThe Sabbath school was held in the vestry, which is ad-\\njacent to the entrance-hall, where many persons usually\\nstand during intermission. The door to the vestry would\\noften be left open and some persons, not connected with\\nthe Sabbath school, would stand near the door to hear\\nwhat was said, while the conversation of others was a\\nserious annoyance to the exercises of the school. To\\nsend some oneto shut the door, would deprive those who\\nwished it of an opportunity to hear, and others too might\\nregard it as a mark of censure towards themselves\\nand who could teil the consequences of an act apparently\\nso unimportant He was unwilling, therefore, that any", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR.\\nXli\\none shoulcl close the door, but said to the superintendent\\nCan you not put a spring on the door which will always\\nclose itwhen it is opened? To the unreflecting this\\nmight seem the merest trifling, but whoever understands\\nthe nature of the human mind, its nice susceptibihties,\\nthe slight causes which often give it a permanent direc-\\ntion fbr good or for evil, and that the destiny of indi-\\nviduals is sometimes so dehcatelj poised that a feather s\\nweight might turn the scale, will not regard it as an\\nunimportant circumstance, whether that doorwere closed\\nbj conscious or unconscious agency. The spring was\\nsoon put upon the door, but the watchful and sohcitous\\npastor never entered the room afterwards.\\nMr. Parker was a man of ardent piety, and his Chris-\\ntian character was eminently consistent and exemplary.\\nNo one becomes a villain at once, said the Roman\\nsatirist, and with more truth may it be said that no one\\nbecomes an eminent Christian at once. The formation\\nof character, whether good or bad, is progressive it is\\nnot the work of a moment time and appropriate influ-\\nences are requisite. Particularly is this the case in\\nforming and perfecting that character which the poet has\\njustly termed the highest style of man. Mr. Parker\\nrecognized this principfe in the cultivation of piety. He\\ndevoted much time to prayer, usually having three sea-\\nsons of private devotion daily. He had also special\\nseasons of fasting and prayer. It was one of his resolu-\\ntions to devote the last Saturday of each month to this\\nobject. He was a constant and prayerful student of the\\nBible. He always ros\u00c3\u00a9 early in the morning, and before\\nhis mind was engrossed with other things, he gave the\\nfirst hours of the day to the study of the Scriptures and\\nD*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Xlii MEMOIR.\\nas he grew older, they became more and more a favorite\\nstudy. He often remarked that he found in them inexhaust-\\nible tfeasures. Those who were for any time in his fam-\\nilj, will remember how often he was seen with his Bible\\nin his hand. This he studied, not merely as a bibhcal\\ncritic, though his Greek Testament gives abundant evi-\\ndence that he had not neglected that duty but partic-\\nularly that he might imbibe the spirit of its teachings, and\\ndraw from it that nourishment whereby he might grow\\nin grace. His piety was not fitful and intermittent, at\\none time ardent and at another without any evidence* of\\nvitaUty there was a remarkable uniformity and symme-\\ntry in it, much more than is noticeable in most Christians.\\nAmid the general declensions in the church, the fire did\\nnot go out on his altar, but burned with an almost uni-\\nform brilliancy. Indeed, when the piety of ethers shone\\nbut dimly, he feit the need of cultivating with increased\\nwatchfulness his own graces. The people of his late\\ncharge will remember the earnestness and fervor of his\\nappeals both in public and private, when a spirit of world-\\nliness had made them forgetful of higher interests. The\\nfollowing extracts from different parts of his diary, while\\nthey imply his own convictions of the low attainments he\\nhad made in holiness, give evidence of his earnest endeav-\\nors to grow into a nearer resemblance to his great Pattern\\nand Exemplar.\\nI resolve to be more frequent and earnest in prayer.\\nI resolve to read the Scriptures more attentively, and\\nwith self-application.\\nI will aim after singleness of heart, and devote more\\ntime to devotion.\\nOn recovering from sickness, he says May it be so", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "MEMOiB. xliii\\nsanctified as to be instrumental in leading me to greater\\nspirituality and to be more devoted to the duties of mj\\noffice.\\nI will maintain a devotional frame and a more spirit-\\nual conversation.\\nAs I am less engrossed this week than usual, I\\nresolve to dismiss all other subjects from my mind, and\\nto make the attainment of a good hope in Christ my\\nspecial concern.\\nHow many precieus moments have I waste d, which\\nshould have been consecrated to the cultivation of piety.\\nI resolve to be more engaged in my great work to\\nstrive to advance religi\u00c3\u00abn in my heart and life to suffer\\nno other object to divertmy attention.\\nI fear I do not make advances in the divine life. I\\nfind from unhappy experience that the least neglect of\\nduty, the least perplexity about the world, proves de-\\nstructive to the soul. May I be excited to live nearer to\\nGod, and may I enjoy more of the light of his counte-\\nnance.\\nI now determine to seek after holiness, to be much\\nin prayer, to live above the world, to feel myself no longer\\nmy own but Christ s, to be employed by him in the ser-\\nvice of this people, over whom I am placed as a spirit-\\nual watchman. I will especially guard against worldly\\ncares and anxieties. I will redeem time, and consider\\nevery hour lost which is not employed in some way to\\npromote my personal hohness and my usefulness as a\\nminister of Christ. I will do more and more every day\\nto promote the salvation of men.\\nThe following was entered in a note-book, while he was\\nat Philadelphia. During my absence in attending the\\nGeneral Assembly, as I shall be unincumbered with do-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "xliv MEMOIR.\\nmestic concerns and parochial duties, I determlne to\\nimprove the time at mj command in attending more par-\\nticularlj to the state of my heart, and the evidence of\\nmj pietj.\\nAbout five years before his death, after he had made\\narrangements which relieved him almost entirely from\\ndomestic cares, he sajs As I am, by a kind providence,\\nin circumstances more favorable to an entire consecration\\nof myself to the work of the ministry, I resolve to free\\nmy mind as much as possible from worldly cares, and to\\nstudy to promote in every practicable way my own hoUness\\nand the spiritual interests of others, especially of the souls\\ncommitted to my charge. I resolve to give myself more\\nto prayer each duj to present the case of some one\\nbefore God.\\nThe measure of good which he accomplished, whether\\ngreater or less, cannot be told. Who can follow the\\nwaves of influence, either for good or for evil, in their\\never-widening circles But that he did much in promoting\\na spirit of harmony among the people of his charge, in\\ncorrecting or preventing various evils, in raising the\\nStandard of education, in elevating the general character\\nof the people, in awakening interest in the great benevo-\\nlent operations of the day, and above all in bringing many\\nunder the controlling power of the truth, will not be called\\nin question. At the time of his ordination, the church\\ncontained ninety-eight members at some periods of his\\nministry, before the formation of the church in the Lower\\nVillage, and the removal of quite a number of families\\nand individuals into the several manufacturing villages\\nwhich have grown up in the vicinity, the church contained\\nover three hundred members. At the time of his death,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. xlv\\nthe number was two hundred and eighty, about forty of\\nthese being non-residents. During his pastoral office,\\nabout five hundred were added to the church bj pro-\\nfession.\\nIn the course of his ministry, Mr. Parker pubhshed\\nseveral sermons, most of them on funeral occasions. On\\nthe death of Elder John Crocker James Parker, Esq.,\\nof Bedford, N. H. Elder James Pinkerton Rev. Amasa\\nA. Hayes, pastor of the church in Londonderry Elder\\nSamuel Burnham, his early preceptor Miss N. M. Clark,\\nwho was to have accompanied the late Rev. A. K. Hins-\\ndale, as a missionary to Mosul Rev. Calvin Cutler, pastor\\nof the church in Windham, N. H. He also published a\\nCentury Sermon, commemorating the settlement of\\nLondonderry, delivered April 22, 1819; a sermon at\\nthe ordination of Rev. Abijah Cross, over the first Con-\\ngregational church in Salisbury, N. H. also two sermons\\non the Supr\u00c3\u00a8me Divinity of Christ, in 1827. These two\\ndiscourses were considered an able defence of the truth\\nthey were designed to estabUsh. The Century Sermon\\nmay be considered as the germ of the History of Lon-\\ndonderry. It awakened much interest at the time, in\\nregard to the early settlement of the town, and the edi-\\ntion then published was soon exhausted. Apphcation\\nbeing made to the author from time to time for copies of\\nthis sermon, which he was unable to supply, he was fre-\\nquently urged to prepare a more full account of the early\\nsettlement and subsequent history of the town. But he\\nfeit that his ministerial duties were paratnount to all others,\\nand that he c\u00c3\u00b3uld not comply with such a request without\\ninterfering with his obligations to his parish. Nothing\\ntherefore was done towards the preparation of the work", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Xlvi MEMOIR.\\ntill four or five jears since, when he had made such ar-\\nrangements in regard to his domestic aud sscular affairs\\nas to allowhim more time forsuch a purpose. And even\\nwhen he commenced the work, it was with the full purpose\\nthat it should not diminish the amount of his ministerial\\nlabors. If he ever departed from this purpose, it was\\nonly during the few last months of his life, when he evi-\\ndentlj began to feel, that what he did must be done\\nquickly.\\nMr. Parker W as a man of stron and vio;orous consti-\\ntution, which he retained in an unusual degree till nearly\\nthe close of his life. He was rarelj subject to sickness\\nor disease of anj kind. For the first thirtj-six years of\\nhis ministry, he was absent from the pulpit onlj seven\\nSabbaths on account of ill health. About four years\\nsince, he experienced the first symptoms of the disease\\nwhich finally terminated his life. It was a pain in the\\nregion of the heart, at first causing but little anxiety, and\\nat no time affecting his general health, or his abiUty to\\ndevote himself to the ordinary duties of his office. Any\\nunusual physical exertion, however, gave him consider-\\nable pain. On consulting physicians in regard to the\\nnature of the difficulty, it was pronounced a diseasa of\\nthe heart, technically called angina peetoris, Tliere was\\nno occasion to apprehend any immediate danger from the\\ndisease, particularly as his health, during the last six\\nmonths before his death, was generally good still, he was\\nevidently convinced that hls life was precarious, and\\nmight at any time terminate suddenly, But he had no\\nfear, in view of such an event he spoke of it from time\\nto time, to some members of his family, with perfect com-\\nposure. Indeed, he was never more cheerful, and even", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "MEMO IR. xlvii\\nplayful, than during the few last months of his life. The\\nlast time his daughter visited him, he conversed freely\\nvith her respecting some plans he wished to have adopted\\nin case of his death. In a letter to her, a few weeks\\nbefore he died, he says J hope I can truly saj, I do\\nnot feel so much concern as to mj health and life on my\\nown account, as on that of jour mother, and mj dear\\nfamilj and people, for whose good I may yet be in some\\nmeasure instrumental. We are truly happy when we\\ncan say Not my will but thine be done.\\nOn the Sabbath, July 14, 1850, he exchanged with the\\nRev. Mr. Bay, pastor of the church in the Lower Village.\\nIn an obituary notice of Mr. Parker, Rev. Mr. Day says\\nof his afternoon discourse on that day He preached\\nhis last sermon from the words of the prophet The soul\\nthat sinneth it shall die. There seemed to be an univer-\\nsal conviction on the part of all who heard him, that it\\nwas one of the most solemn discourses he ever preached.\\nHis appeals at the close were heart searching, and seemed\\nto prognosticate his own approaching dissol ution. At\\nthe close of the second service, he returned home. Later\\nin the afternoon. he went to attend a third service at one\\nof the school-houses in a distant part of the town. He\\npreached with his usual earnestness on such occasions,\\nand at the close of the meeting started to return. When\\nhe had gone about one half of the distance, and was a\\nmile and a half from his home, his horse stumbled and\\nfeil. He ran back a few rods to Mr. Clark s, the nearest\\nhouse, to call assistance. Undoubtedly feeling pain from\\nthe effort already made, and conscious of the danger to\\nwhich he was exposed by over-exertion, he told Mr.\\nClark that he must return slowly, and would then aid", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "xlviii MEMOIR.\\nhim in attending to the horse. On re turning to his\\ncarriage, and while stooping over his horse, either to\\nprevent him from rising suddenlj, or to loosen some of\\nthe harness, Mr. Clark heard him groan, and saw him\\nin the act of falHng forward. He immediately caught\\nhim in his arms, when he expired without a strug-\\ngle, not breathing more than once afterwards. Thus\\nended the dajs of this faithful minister of the gospel.\\nIt was a fitting time to die, in the midst of his labors,\\non the Sabbath, after its duties were all performed,\\nand at the going down of the sun. Appropriately did one\\nof his parishioners remark He served his Master faith-\\nfullj all day, and went home to rest at night. It would\\nhave been gratifying to his friends could they have stood\\nbeside him as he breathed out his hfe, and received\\nfrom him his last messages and parting blessing. But\\nwhat God appoints, is best. They know how he had\\nlived, and they know what would have been the burden\\nof his message to them and to the people of his charge,\\ncould he have spoken to them as he was entering another\\nworld. His remains, sustained in the arms of his young-\\nest son, were borne home to his stricken family, who,\\nwhile theymourned the loss of an endeared husband and\\nfather, bowed with becoming resignation to him who had\\nafflicted them.\\nHis death occurred at so late an hour that it was not\\ngenerally known that evening. But when, in the early\\nmorning, the long-protracted tolling of the bell announced\\nthat some unusual calamity had occurred and when the\\nw^ord flew from house to house that their pastor had fallen\\ndead in the street, the effect was overwhelming. More\\nthan twelve hundred of his flock had gone down to the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. xlix\\ngrave since he had dwelt among them and now the\\npastor who had so often been in the midst of death, and\\nseemed almost exempt ff om its power, had passed through\\nthe dark vallej. The deepest grief pervaded the whole\\nparish. Everj one whom you met was subdued and\\nsolemn. Strong men turned aside from their labors,\\nand sat in silence through the daj and some of the\\nchildren in the schools were inconsolable with grief.\\nHis funeral was attended on the following Wednesdaj,\\nbj a verj large assembij. His own parishioners, people\\nfrom all parts of the town, and from adjacent towns, and\\nan unusually large number of clergymen, came together\\nto pay their last tribute of respect to their deceased\\npastor and friend. It was a pleasant summer daj, but\\nall hearts were smitten with grief. After prajer at his\\nlate residence, bj Rev. Mr. Eels of Newburjport, his\\nremains were conveyed to the church, and in the entrance-\\nhall, an opportunitj was given to the assembij, as they\\nsuccessivelj entered the house, to take a last look of the\\ndeceased. It was a long time before this sad ceremonj\\nwas concluded, each seeming reluctant to turn awaj from\\nthe countenance upon which thej could never look again.\\nThe house was draped with mourning, and was filled in\\nall parts. The services, which were of a verj solemn\\nand appropriate character, were performed bj the Rev.\\nMr. Daj, of Derrj, Rev. Mr. Thajer, of Windham, Rev.\\nMr. Willej, of Goffstown, and Rev. Mr. Brainerd of\\nLondonderrj. The deepest feeling w^as manifested bj\\nthe audience, and manj were bathed in tears. After\\nthese exercises, the whole congregation foliowed the\\nremains to the grave, where thej now rest with those of\\nall the pastors who had preceded him in that church.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "1 MEMOIB.\\nAt the grave, was sung the burial hjmn of Watts Un-\\nveil thy bosom, faithful tomb, and then the mourning\\ncrowcl withdrew to meet that respected and revered\\npastor no more till the morning of the resurrection. In\\nthe afternoon of the Sabbath following, a highlj appro-\\npriate sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Whiton, of An-\\ntrim, the early and intimate friend of Mr. Parker, from\\nPsalm 116 15, Precieus in the sight of the Lord is\\nthe death of his saints. On this occasion, also, as well\\nas at his funeral, the assembij was verj large everj\\npart of the house, including the aisles and entries, was\\nfilled. The services of the Rev. Mr. Day s society, a\\nTarge part of whom had belonged to Mr. Parker s parish,\\nwere suspended, and pastor and people came to mingle\\ntheir sympathies and to worship with that flock which\\nwas now left as sheep without a shepherd.\\nThe following is an extract from Dr. Whiton s sermon\\non that occasion An intimacy of more than forty\\nyears with your departed pastor, drawn the closer by\\nparity of age, by an almost contemporaneous entrance\\ninto the ministry, and by frequent association in presby-\\nterial and ecclesiastical duties, has not only left on my\\nmind a deep impression of his piety and worth, but enables\\nme to speak with a degree of confidence on the leading\\ntraits of his character.\\nThat he, or any other merc man, was faultless, it\\nwere foolish and even wicked to pretend. He saw and\\nfeit in himself the evil and demerit of sin, and fled for\\nrefuge to the blood of Christ. He ever appeared to\\nwalk, in a happy degree humbly with God, looking for\\nsalvation as the free, unmerited gift of mercy to the ill-\\ndeserving, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Next to his", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. li\\npiety comes his prudence not the timid prudence that\\nslirinks from duty, but the prudence that scrupulously\\nshiins just occasions of oifence. In sound practical wisdom\\nhe excelled most others not making little things great,\\nnor great things little, but estimating them according to\\ntheir relative importance. This trait made him a safe,\\nreliable counsellor, in cases the most perplexed. Even-\\nness and stability of feeling, consistency of conduct with\\nprinciple, strongly marked his character. In point of\\nindustry and diligence, he was certainly pre\u00c3\u00abminent,\\nthere being few men who had accomplished an equal\\namount of ministerial labor. This unremitting diligence\\nmade him familiar with his people, including the children\\nof his parish, and was one of the means by which he\\npreserved them in harmony and peace. Of his method\\nand correctness, the records of the Londonderry presby-\\ntery, kept by his hand for about thirty years, will remain\\na lasting memorial. Integrity marked all his trans-\\nactions he was a man to be trusted. That crowning\\nexcellence, love of the religion of God, made him willing\\nto spend and be spent in the service of Christ, in a con-\\ntinuous course of effort for the salvation of souls. His\\ninvestigations of Christian doctrines and duties were\\npati\u00c3\u00abnt the subjects which passed through his hands\\nwere well weighed and lucidly presented to others.\\nHe is gone God took him at the time and in the\\nmanner unerring wisdom saw best. Looking at our loss,\\nwe may well exclaim, Alas, my brother My father,\\nmy father, the chariot of Isra\u00c3\u00abl and the horsemen\\nthereof Of the circumstances of his death, so sudden,\\nsurprising, affecting, it were needless to speak to those\\nwho know the details better than myself. The summons", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "lii MEMOIR.\\nfound our brother where a Christian would wish to be\\nfound, at the post of dutj, intent on his Master s work.\\nTo him, the close of his last earthly Sabbath was, we\\ndoubt not, the beginning of a Sabbath, heavenlj and\\neternal. Probablj not a minister could have fallen in\\nNew Harapshire, whose death would have called forth\\na larger tribute of regrets and tears\\nYou, the people of his charge, are witnesses how\\nholilj and justly, and unblamably he walked among you\\nyourselves are his letter of commendation, known and\\nread of all men. Full well you know, that not often\\noccurs a ministry attended with equal harmony and con-\\nfidence, and honored with an equal number of seals of\\nthe divine approbation. Both yourselves and your\\nchildren will cherish his name with long and affectionate\\nremembrance.\\nThe following notices of Mr. Parker, which appeared\\nin the weekly journals, though involving some repetition,\\nare here inserted, as evidences of the estimate which\\nothers formed of his character and ministry they will\\nalso show that the filial interest of the writer has not\\nled him to draw this brief sketch with too partial a hand.\\nMr. Parker, says the Rev. Mr. Day, is one of\\nthe brightest examples of ministerial fidelity which can\\nbe found in our State or New England. As a preacher,\\nhe was clear, close, and doctrinal. Ile well understood\\nthe wants and sympathies of the common mind, and never\\nfailed to furnish instruction. As a pastor he excelled.\\nHe was never weary in going from house to house, to\\ninquire for the temporal and spiritual welfare of his\\npeople. He was peculiarly happy at the bedside of the\\nsick, and with the mourner. He was deeply interested", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. liii\\nin the young, and gave to them no small part of his\\nenergies. He well knew what stations they were to\\noccupy in society, and how very soon they would be the\\nleading members of his parish. He kept his eye on the\\nSabbath and common schools, and was sure to let every\\nchild know that he was interested in him. He has gone\\ndown to his grave like a shock of corn fully ripe, deeply\\nlamented by his people, and the churches at large.\\nHe died as perhaps he might have wished to die, had he\\ndesignated his own time and circumstances. He was in\\nthe work, Avith the harness on. His life might be written\\nin the emphatic words of the apostle, and would furnish\\na most appropriate epitaph for his tombstone Not\\nslothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.\\nMr. Parker, observes a correspondent of the Con-\\ngregationalist, was remarkable for his knowledge of\\nhuman nature, and for his true Christian courtesy,\\nan example of purity and consistency in his life ever\\nlaborious and faithful as a preacher and a pastor, he\\nretained not only his post of duty, but what was more,\\nthe confidence and affection of his people. He died in\\nthe midst of his labors, and though less known than the\\ngreat Scotch divine, will, like him, wherever known,\\nbe remembered and loved.\\nThe following is from the Congregational Journal of\\nJanuary, 1851 Soon after Mr. Parker graduated, he\\nbecame the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Derry,\\nthen a part of Londonderry, which was in a condition\\nfar from promising and inviting but under his wise\\ncounsels, his unremitting labors, his self-possessed spirit,\\nand admitted moral worth, attained to be one of the best-\\nordered, the most harraonious and flourishing in the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "liv MEMOIR.\\nState. With very respectable powers of mind,\u00c2\u00ab and\\neermons alwajs full of the marrow of the gospel, instruc-\\ntive and cheering, if not the most deeply studied or\\neloquently delivered, still, the grand secret of his success\\nwas in his system and wisdom. He Uved and acted by\\na plan, from which he never deviated, and carried it out\\nto the last hour of his life. Not that he was obstinate,\\nself-opinionated, or incapable of seeing and appreciating\\nimprovements but he always made his changes by\\nsystem and rule. He was always active, but never in a\\nhurry never tired, but always werking. He was always\\nat home, and yet in every nook of his parish he seemed\\nto make no effort to do it, yet, strictly and truly speak-\\ning, he could call every child in his large parish by name.\\nNot that he did this from a certain passion or affectation\\nall was subservient to the great end of the pastoral ofl5ce,\\nthat he might save himself, and those that heard him.\\nThen, too, he was always judicious and wise. He never,\\nso far as we know, made a false step or took an unten-\\nable position. Naturally passionate, he was always cool\\nand self-possessed encountering, once or twice, organ-\\nized and formidable opposition on account of the doctrines\\nhe preached, he vanquished it by forbearance and kind-\\nness, without the sacrifice of principle, and converted his\\nbitterest enemies into his firmest friends. Rarely has\\nany man done so few injudicious and unwise things as\\nrarely has any man uttered so few injudicious, idle, or\\ninjurious words. He was a model pastor, and his name will\\nlong be held in affectionate and respectful remembrance.\\nWith much truth has it been said, by one of our most\\ndistinguished statesmen,* that the noblest contribution\\nHon. Robert C. Winthrop.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR. Iv\\nwhich anj man can make for the benefit of posterity, is\\nthat of a good character. The richest bequest which anj\\nman can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of\\na shining, spotless example. Sucb a legacy, emphati-\\ncallj, has the subject of this memoir left to his family and\\nfriends, to the people of his late charge, to the youth\\namong whom he labored, to his brethren in the ministry,\\nand to all who knew him.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nChARACTER op the PURITANS EMIGRATIONS FROM SCOTLAND\\nTO IRELAND HOSTILITY OF THE NATIVE IRISH INVASION OF\\nIRELAND BY JAMES THE FIRST UNS\u00c3\u009cCCESSF\u00c3\u009cL ATTEMPT TO\\nTAKE POSSESSION OF LONDONDERRY CRUELTY AND PERFIDY\\nOF THE PAPISTS SIEGB OF LONDONDERRY.\\nTo commemorate these sc\u00c3\u00a8nes and events in which our\\nancestors participated, and in which we ourselves are inter-\\nested, is a duty, not only approved by reason, but enforced\\nby divine authority. Remember the days of old, consider\\nthe years of many generations ask thy Father, and he will\\nshow thee thy elders, and they will teil thee. Many are\\nthe lessons of wisdom to be derived from a careful review of\\nages past.\\nTo perpetuate the remembrance of important events, and\\nimpress a recollection of them upon the minds of succeeding\\ngenerations, a variety of measures have been adopted. Pil-\\nlars and monuments have been erected, and inscribed with\\nappropriate records. Temples have been built, and festivals\\nestablished, to commemorate noble achievements, and impor-\\ntant revolutions. The annual feast of the Passover was a\\ndivine appointment, that the Israelites might not forget their\\ndeliverance from Egypt. The anniversary of the Declara-\\ntion of our Independence is regularly observed by all Amer-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0067.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "a HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nican patriots. Many of the sons of New England annually\\nrepair to the shores where their fathers first landed, and, by\\nappropriate services, perpetuate the remerabrance of the\\ncharaeter and the deeds of those Pilgrims, who laid the\\nfoundation of our civil and religious institutions.\\nFew, then, will doubt the propriety of recalling events\\nwhich in their results affect posterity. Sc\u00c3\u00a8nes in which our\\nfathers or more remote ancestors were concerned, although\\nthey may be unattended by important consequences, have for\\nus a special and peculiar interest.\\nIn reviewing the history of Londonderry, from its early\\nsettlement to the present time, it is not proposed to give a\\nmere narrative of events, but to bring into view those princi-\\nples and institutions, connected with these events, to which\\nthe welfare of a community may be ascribed. a\\nBefore entering upon a detailed account of the emigration\\nand settlement of the colony which planted themselves in Lon-\\ndonderry, in the year 1719, it may be useful to advert briefly\\nto some of the circumstances and occurrences in the father-\\nland, which constituted the great and leading cause of most\\nof the New England settlements. And it will clearly appear,\\nthat it was religious principle which brought our fathers to\\nthis land that it was for conscience sake they left their\\ncountry and their homes, and sought a faith s pure shrine\\nupon our bleak and inhospitable shores.\\nAlthough, upon the Reformation, Protestantism early\\nbecame the established religion in England, still, conformity\\nin sentiment and modes of worship, as prescribed by the\\nEpiscopal Church, was enforced with such extreme rigor,\\nthat a voluntary exile seemed to many the most eligible mode\\nof escaping from the penalties of non-compliance. The\\naccession of Elizabeth had, it is true, quenched the fires\\nof Smithfield, which had raged so violently in the days of\\nMary, and her long reiga had established the Reformation.\\nBut toleration, it ha\u00c2\u00bb been justly remarked, was a virtue\\nI", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0068.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT.\\nbeyond her conception, and beyond her age. She left no\\nexample of it to her successor, James the First, and it was\\nnot to be expected that a sentiment so wise or so liberal\\nshould originate with him.\\nDuring the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First, various\\nacts of Parhament were passed, regulating the religious afFairs\\nof the kingdom, and requiring, under certain penalties, that all\\nshould adopt the established religion, in its articles of faith and\\nmodes of worship. \u00c3\u00afliese acts excited the strong and deter-\\nmined resistance of large numbers of all ranks, both in Scot-\\nland and England, who fearlessly withstood this encroachment\\nupon their rights, demanding greater simplicity and purity of\\nworship than that allowed by the Church of England. Hence\\nthey were called, by way of reproach, Puritans. As their\\nsufFerings under these oppressive acts tended to deter all,\\nexcept the conscientious and sincere friends of Christ and of\\nthe purer worship, from uniting with them, the term, though\\notherwise intended, was adopted by them as significant of the\\nsuperior purity of their religion and of their lives.\\nIndebted as we are to them for much that distinguishes\\nus, and misrepresented or misunderstood as their true\\ncharacter has often been, a brief sketch of their more prom-\\ninent traits and characteristics, as drawn by that accom-\\nplished critic and historian, Macaulay, may not be out of\\nplace. As he is a native of the country from which our\\nfathers came, and a member of the Established Church, his\\nviews may be relied upon as just and impartial. We would\\nspeak, says he, of the Puritans as the most remarkable\\nbody of men which the world has ever produced. The\\nodious parts of their character lie on the surface. Nor have\\nthere been wanting malicious observers to point them out.\\nFor many years after the Restoration, they were the theme of\\nunmeasured invective and derision. Most of their absurd-\\nities were external badges, like the signs of free masonry, or\\nthe dresses of friars. We regret that these badges were not", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0069.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "4 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nmore attractive. But the Puritans were men, whose minds\\nhad derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation\\nof superior beings and external interests.\\nNot content with acknowledging in general an overruling\\nprovidence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will\\nof that Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast,\\nfor whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,\\nto serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of\\nhuman existence. They rejected with contempt the cere-\\nmonious homage, which other sects substitutcd for the pure\\nworship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses\\nof the Deity through an obseuring veil, they aspired to gaze\\nfuU on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him\\nface to face.\\nHence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions.\\nThey recognized no title to superiority but the divine favor\\nand, confident of that favor, they despised all the accomplish-\\nments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unac-\\nquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were\\ndeeply read in the oracles of God. On the rich and eloquent,\\non nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt for\\nthey esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure,\\nand eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by right of\\nan earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier\\nhand. Those had little reason to laugh at them, who encoun-\\ntered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.\\nThese men brought to civil and military affairs a coolness\\nof judgment, and an immutability of purpose, which were the\\nnecessary effect of their zeal. The intensity of their feelings\\non one subject made them tranquil on every other. One\\noverpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred,\\nambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure\\nits charais. They had their smiles and their tears, their\\nraptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.\\nThey had their minds cleared of every vulgar passion and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0070.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT.\\nprejudice, and raised above the influence of danger and cor-\\nruption.\\nSuch were the Puritans, and suchwere they made by their\\nreligion. Although they had their faults, their false logic and\\ntheir extravagances, the effect of the age in which they\\nlived, yet in the excellence of their principles, and in the\\nwisdom and result of their labors, they stand forth a noble\\nrace of men, superior to the ancestors of any other nation.\\nTo this class belonged the settlers of Londonderry. Al-\\nthough the fathers of these men differed from the Plymouth\\nCompany, with whom they were contemporary, in forms of\\nchurch govemment, yet in all their views of divine truth and\\nreligious duty, in zeal and firmness to resist civil and ecclesi-\\nastical domination, they fully harmonized with them, and\\nwere their fellow-sufferers, for conscience sake.\\nThe emigrants who settled the town of Londonderry, were\\ncalled the Scotch Irish, being the descendants of a colony\\nwhich migrated from Argyleshire, in Scotland, and settled in\\nIreland, in the province of Ulster, about the year 1612. To\\nthis they were induced by the circumstance that, in the reign\\nof James the First, on the suppression of a rebellion by his\\nCatholic subjects, in the northern part of Ireland, two millions\\nof acres of land, almost the whole of the six northern counties,\\nincluding Londonderry, feil to the king. His Scotch and\\nEnghsh subjects were encouraged, by liberal grants, to leave\\ntheir own country and settle upon these lands and it was\\nexpected that those turbulent spirits, who had so often defied\\nthe authority and arms of the British govemment might, by\\nthis means, be awed and controUed. This will account, in some\\nmeasure, for the enmity which was manifested by the Catho-\\nlics, the native Irish, towards these Protestant settlers, who\\noccupied the soil from which their countrymen had been forci-\\nbly expelled. The great Irish rebellion, which occurred thirty\\nyears after, in the reign of Charles the First, had its origin\\nin the animosity with which the Irish Catholics regarded the\\n1*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0071.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nProtestants, and in the desire they feit to wrest from them\\ntheir possessions in Ireland. The plot of this general massacre\\nwas fortunately discovered in Dublin, on the day before the\\ntime fixed for its execution but in the other parts of the\\nisland, and particularly in Ulster, the most cruel and wanton\\ndestruction of lives and property ensued. According to some\\nhistorians, no less than one hundred and fifty thousand per-\\nsons perished.\\nLarge companies of emigrants from Scotland and England\\nsettled in Ireland as early as 1612 some years after, in the\\nreign of Charles the First, they received accessions to their\\nnumbers but it was not until the latter part of the century,\\nthat the McKeens, (being four brothers,) the Cargills, the\\nMacGregors, and probably many other of the settlers of the\\ntown of Londonderry emigrated. This they did to escape the\\nmilitary and barbarous executions of Claverhouse, in the\\nreign of James the Second.\\nThis bigoted and infatuated monarch exhibited a hatred\\nto Protestantism, and a devotion to Papacy, and, during his\\nwhole reign, strove most zealously to eradicate the one and\\nestablish the other. No one of the Puritan sects was so par-\\nticularly the object of his aversion as the Presbyterians of\\nScotland. While he was viceroy of that kingdom, during the\\nreign of his brother, he had persecuted them with an unre-\\nlenting severity, which he was in nowise disposed to mitigate,\\nafter he had ascended the throne. Those districts in which\\nthe Covenanters were most numerous were overrun by bands\\nof soldiers, who practised the most wanton cruelties upon all\\nwho feil into their hands. Among the leaders of these bands,\\nthe most distinguished was James Graham, of Claverhouse,\\na soldier, says Macaulay, of distinguished courage and\\nprofessional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper,\\nand of obdurate heart, who has left a name which, wherever\\nthe Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is men-\\ntioned with a peculiar energy of hatred. To recapitulate all", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0072.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT.\\nthe crimes by which this man, and men like him, goaded the\\npeasantiy of the Western Lowlands into madness, would be\\nan endless task.\\nBy such brutal persecution, in a land most dear to them,\\nwere the immediate ancestors of many of the men who settled\\nthe town of Londonderry indueed to flee to Ireland, and join\\ntheir countrymen who had preceded them. But, even there,\\ntheir repose was short.\\nAlthough during the time of Cromwell, and for a few years\\nafter his decease, the Protestants were protected from the\\nbitter enmity of the Irish Catholics, they were at length\\ncalled to undergo privations and sufferings almost unparal-\\nleled. The pages of history ean furnish but few instances of\\nsuch undaunted bravery, unwavering firmness, and heroic\\nfortitude, as were displayed by the defenders of the city of\\nLondonderry, during its memorable siege in the years 1688\\nand 1689.\\nJames the Second had during his reign greatly disaffected\\nhis English subjects, who were generally Protestants, by\\nvarious injudicious attempts to re\u00c3\u00abstablish the supremacy of\\nthe Church of Rome. William, Prince of Orange, a Protes-\\ntant, who had married Mary, the daughter of James, was\\nencouraged by many in England to attempt a revolution, and\\nascend the throne. He accordingly coUected a fleet and\\narmy, and landed in England on the fifth day of November,\\n1688. He met with no opposition, and was soon joined by\\nthe principal lords, with their forces.\\nJames, alarmed at his approach, and at the desertion of\\nhis subjects, escaped with his queen to France, where he was\\nkindly received by Louis the Fourteenth, and encouraged to\\nattempt the regaining of his throne. Though William was,\\nwith great unanimity, elected to the British throne, Ireland,\\nwhose inhabitants were principally of the Papal church, still\\nmaintained its allegiance to James. His army there re-\\nmained stedfast and Tyrconnel, the Lord-Lieutenant, who", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0073.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "8 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nwas devoted to his interests, was actively engaged in raising\\nand disciplining new levies of troops.\\nEncouraged by these circumstances, and relying upon the\\npromised aid of the king of France, James resolved to cross\\nover to Ireland, and make a vigorous efFort to recover his\\ncrown. His plan of operations was, to raarch with his combined\\narmy directly to the north of Ireland, and, having subdued\\nthose places which offered any resistance, from thence to pass\\nover to Scotland, where a considerable force of Highlanders,\\nraised by Graham of Claverhouse, were waiting with impa-\\ntience his arrival. Had not his course been intercepted by the\\nbold and unexpected defence of Londonderry, he would have\\nbeen able, strengthened by his many adherents in Scotland,\\nand by a large number in England, who still favored his\\ncause, to contend perhaps successfully with William, regain\\nhis throne, re\u00c3\u00abstablish Papacy, kindie anew the fires of mar-\\ntyrdom, and crush the spirit of civil and religious freedom,\\nwhich from that renowned revolution has been strengthening\\nand extending its influence over the nations. So that this\\nsmall city, fortified, not by military and naval armaments,\\nbut by Protestant Christian hearts devoted to the cause of\\nreligious freedom, became the arena upon which the fate of\\nthe liberties, not only of the west of Europe, but ultimately\\nof this and other lands was to be decided.\\nAs the defence of this city was so important in its results,\\nand particularly as a number of the early settlers of the town\\nof Londonderry were among the heroic defenders of the\\nplace, and partook largely of the sufterings endured within\\nits walls, a brief account of it may not be uninteresting.\\nThe American Protestant Society have recently repub-\\nlished a narrative of the siege, drawn up by Rev. John\\nGraham, a lineal descendant of one who was a distin^-uished\\nactor in the sc\u00c3\u00a8ne. The sources from which Mr. Graham\\ncompiled his history, were the journals of the siege as kept\\nby Captain Ash and Rev. George Walker, one of the gov-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0074.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT.\\nernors of the city, and both of them active and influential in\\nits defence. It is on tliis history, that Charlotte Elizabeth\\nfounds her attractive work, entitled The Siege of Derry, in\\nwhich the men, who then and there battled for Protestant\\nfreedom, and their deeds of might and long endurance, are so\\ngraphically described. And it is not undesirable that, at\\nthis day, when the true principle of religious toleration is\\ncoming to be understood and appreciated, the attention of\\nthose who are emerging from a state of religious intolerance\\nshould be directed to an event, in which are displayed, in\\nstriking contrast, the cruelty, perfidy, and oppression of\\nPapacy, and the resolute, determined, unyielding spirit of\\nProtestantism.\\nThe city of Londonderry, is the capital of the county of\\nLondonderry, in the province of Ulster. It is one hundred\\nand fifty miles north-west from Dublin. It is situated on the\\nriver Foyle, and contains about ten thousand inhabitants. It\\nwas an ancient city, but, having been sacked and destroyed\\nin one of the many revolutions which mark the early history\\nof Ireland, it was rebuilt, during the reign of James the\\nFirst, by a company of adventurers from London, and hence\\nreceived the name of Londonderry, the original name being\\nDerry. About forty-five miles south of it, is the town of\\nEnniskillen, the only place, with the exception of London-\\nderry, which offered an efFectual resistance to the arms of\\nJameSc\\nThe Protestants in Ireland, who had generally acknowl-\\nedged the Prince of Orange, being apprized that James\\nintended an appeal to arms, and that Tyrconnel was raising\\nnew troops and issuing commissions, began to put themselves\\nin a posture of defence. This they were also induced to do,\\nby a report of an intended rising of the Catholics, throughout\\nthe Island, on Sunday, the ninth day of December, 1688, to\\nmassacre the Protestants, without respect to age or sex. This\\nrumor was the more readily believed, inasmuch as it was", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0075.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "10\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nobserved that the Papists were supplying themselves vvith a\\nkind of knife called a skein, and other weapons, the priests\\nsuflfering no man to come to mass who did not thus arm him-\\nself. Many eye-witnesses of the horrible excesses committed\\nin 1641, still survived, and everywhere the most intense\\nexcitement and alarm prevailed.\\nOn the seventh day of December, the inhabitants of Ennis-\\nkillen were informed by a letter that two companies of soldiers\\nwere on their march to take possession of the town. Although\\ntheir whole number did not exceed eighty, and they had but\\nten pounds of gunpowder, and twenty muskets, they boldly\\nresolved not to admit the soldiers, and made active prepara-\\ntion for defence. In a few days they received reinforcements\\nof several hundred men, and on the sixteenth, they marched\\nout, met the enemy a few miles from the town, and repulsed\\nthem without difficulty. From this time, until James was\\ndriven from the Island, the Enniskilleners not only bravely\\nand successfully defended their town against every atterapt\\nto reduce it, but by their frequent sallies did much to annoy\\nand distress the enemy.\\nEarly on the morning of the seventh of December, informa-\\ntion was received by the authorities of Londonderry, from\\nGeorge Philips, a veteran soldier, who had been once gov-\\nernor of the city, that a regiment of the newly-raised troops,\\nunder the command of Lord Antrim, were on their way to\\nthe town, and the Governor and council were advised not to\\nadmit them within the walls. The bearer of the letter also\\ntold them that some of the companies had then arrived within\\ntwo miles of the place. This announcement produced the\\ngreatest alarm and confusion among all classes of the inhabit-\\nants, and the authorities were in much perplexity as to the\\nbestcourse to be pursued. The admission of the unwelcome\\nregiment within their walls, seemed to them tantamount to a\\ndesertion of the cause of William and of Protestantism, and\\na delivery of themselves up to the mercy of their cruel and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0076.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 11\\nbitter enemies. But, on the other hand, it seemed a bold and\\nhazardous measure, to close the gates against them, scantily\\nprovided, as they then were, with the means to sustain a\\nsiege, and defend the city against the forces that might be\\nbrought against it.\\nWhile they were in this state of doubt and uncertainty,\\ntwo companies of the regiment appeared on the side of the\\nriver opposite the city, and their otficers immediately crossed\\nover and demanded admission. The deputy Mayor, who\\nwas secretly a friend of James, was disposed to receive them,\\nbut objections were made by others.\\nSome time having been spent in consuhation, the soldiers\\nbecame impatient, and, fearing that they might be excluded\\nfrom the city, without waiting for orders, crossed the river\\nand appeared on the landing-place, near the Ferry-gate. A\\nfew young men of the city observing this, rushed to the main\\nguard, seized the keys after a slight opposition, drew up the\\nbridge and locked the gate just as the soldiers were about to\\nenter. Others having come to their assistance, they imme-\\ndiately secured the three other gates.\\nThe names of these resolute young men deserve, says\\nthe historian, to be preserved in letters of gold, namely,\\nHenry Campsie, William Crookshanks, Robert Sherard,\\nDaniel Sherard, Alexander Irwin, James Stewart, Robert\\nMorrison, Alexander Coningham, Samuel Hunt, James\\nSpike, John Coningham, William Cairnes, and Samuel\\nHarvey.\\nThis decisive act had the effect of confirming the inhabi-\\ntants of the city, and particularly the young men, in their\\ndetermination to defend it at all hazards. Some few were\\nheard to express their disapprobation of the measure, and to\\nurge the opening of the gates. But their remonstrances were\\nsoon silenced.\\nMeanwhile, the companies who had been excluded, were\\nwaiting outside the gate in great wrath and indignation, and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0077.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "12 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nthough repeatedly warned to retire, they paid no heed to the\\nadmonition. At length, one James Morrison cried out, with\\na loud voice, Bring about a great gun liere, when they were\\nseized with a panic, and recrossed the river with the utmost\\ndespatch.\\nOn theafternoon of this day, David Cairnes of Knockmany,\\nin the county of Tyrone, a gentleman of high standing and\\nrespectabihty, came into the city, and ofFered his assistance.\\nHe highly approved of the course which had been taken, and\\ncommended the Prentice Boys, as they were called, for the\\ncourage and spirit which they had exhibited. His example\\nwas soon foliowed by other gentlemen from the surrounding\\ncountry. Four days after, Mr. Cairnes set out for London to\\ncommunicate to the government an account of the course\\nadopted by the citizens of Londonderry, and of the imminent\\ndanger incurred by such vigorous and decisive measures, and\\nto implore immediate assistance.\\nThe events of this day are justly entitled to a conspicuous\\nplace in the annals of civil and religious freedom. For had\\nthis regiment been admitted into the city, it would have been\\nhardly possible for the inhabitants to resist the tyrant, intent\\nupon regaining his throne and frustrating the revolution so\\nhappily begun by William.\\nOn the next day, the citizens were relieved of the imme-\\ndiate presence of Lord Antrim s regiment. Some welcome\\nnews of the success of prince William having that day been\\nreceived in the city, the inhabitants, to testify their joy, dis-\\ncharged two of the largest guns upon the walls. This had\\nthe effect of striking terror into the soldiers upon the other\\nside of the river, many of whom, being raw recruits, had\\nnever before heard the discharge of cannon. About the same\\ntime, one George Cooke drew up iifty or sixty boys in a line\\nupon the bank of the river next the city. These, the cowards\\nmistook for the advanced guard of a regiment, and their\\nalarm now being complete, they \u00c3\u009ced with precipitation.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0078.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 13\\nThe means of defence wliicli the city at this time posseased,\\nwas entirelj inadequate to the emergeney in which it was\\nlikely soon to be placed. Nearly fifty years previous to this\\ntime, the London companies had presented to the city a\\nlarge number of guns for the walls, but of these, not twenty\\nwere now fit for service. There was in the maorazine but\\nsix or seven barrels of gunpowder, and ten or twelve hundred\\nmuskets, of which the greater part were so much out of\\nrepair, as to be useless. There were, in the city, and in the\\nsuburbs, about six liundii-ed men capable of hearing arms, to\\nwhich, two days after, was added a reinforcement of two or\\nthree hundred horse and a company of infantry, who came\\ninto the city and offered their assistance. The town, says\\nGraham, was weak in its fortifications, the wall being, less\\nthan nine feet thick along the face of the ramparts, with a\\nditch, and eight bastions.\\nTyrconnel, aware of the importance of the possession of\\nLondonderry, in January, 1689, sent orders to Lord Mount-\\njoy and Lieutenant-Colonel Lundy, to march from Dublin,\\nwith six companies of troops, and take possession of it. The\\ncitizens of Londonderry having received Information of this\\nmovement, were at first disposed to refuse admission to the\\ntroops. So much confidence, however, was placed in the\\ncharacter of Lord Mountjoy, who was generally known and\\nhighly esteemed, that, on bis appearance before the city, they\\nentered into negotiations with him, and finally consented to\\nreceive him and Lundy, and two of the companies, which\\nwere composed of Protestants, within the walls. This, how-\\never, was done upon the express condition that the garrison\\nshould consist entirely of Protestant soldiers, and that the\\ncitizens should retain their arms. The remaining four\\ncompanies, about one half of the men being Papists, were\\nordered to retire to quarters, at some distance from the city.\\nLord Mountjoy, to whom George Philips, who had been\\nreinstated in the office of governor, resigned his authority,\\n2", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0079.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "14 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nclid not disappoint the expectations which had been formed\\nof him. Ile imraediately gave directions for strengthening\\nthe fortifications, remounting the giins, repairing the muskets,\\nand for placing the city in a suitable posture for defence.\\nConsiderable sums of money Avere raised among the citizens\\nby siibscription, and exj^ended in the purchase of ammunition\\nand arms, and in siich other modes as would contribute to\\nthe safety of the place.\\nThe course pursued by Lord Mountjoy being far froni\\nsatisfactory to Tyrconnel, he was soon recalled to Dublin,\\nand the cliief aiUhority devolved upon Colonel Lundy, who\\nwas then in high repute as an experienced soldier and a\\nzealous Protestant.\\nAbout the first of March, Tyrconnel sent an army under\\nthe command of General Hamilton, into Ulster, who, after\\nseveral skirmishes with armed bands of Protestants, appeared\\nbefore the walls of Coleraine, a considerable town, about\\nthirty miles north-west of Londonderry, on the twenty-\\nseventh day of the same month.\\nOn the twelfth day of March, king James landed at Kin-\\nsale, with about five thousand French troops, and immedi-\\nately proceeded to Cork. On the twenty-fourth, he made a\\npublic and iraposing entry into Dublin, where he remained\\nuntil the eighth of April.\\nOn the twenty-first of March, very welcome supplies were\\nreceived in Londonderry, from England, consisting of four\\nhundred and eighty barrels of guni)owder, and arms for two\\nthousand men. They were brought by Captain James\\nHamilton, who was-also the bearer of a considerable sum of\\nmoney for the garrison, and of a commission from kino-\\nWilliam to Colonel Lundy.\\nWlicn the government of the city was first intrusted to\\nLundy, all had the utmost confidence in liis skill and fidelity.\\nBut his conduct had been such as to excite in many the\\nsuspicion that he was secretly in the interest of James a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0080.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 15\\nsuspicion wliich, as it afterwards appeared; was too well\\nfounded. But liis treaclieiy was not as yet sufficiently man-\\nifest to warrant an impeachment, and he still continued to\\nhold his power, and to thwart, as far as he could witli safety,\\nthe well-concerted plans of the Protestants.\\nAbout the tenth of April, Information was received, by\\nRev. George Walker, that the Irish army were approaching\\nLondonderry, and he imraediately communicated this intelli-\\ngence to Lundy. Mr. Walker was Rector of the parishes of\\nDonoiighmore and Erigal Keeroge, in the county of Tyrone,\\nand, although at an advanced age, entered with true Christian\\nzeal into the contest, and, girding on the sword, plaeed him-\\nself at the head of a regiment which he had raised. Lnndy\\naffected to believe the news a false alarm, and took no\\nmeasures to prevent the approach of the hostile army. On\\nthe thirteenth, the enemy, under General Hamilton, appeared\\nupon the opposite side of the Foyle, but the river was then\\nso s wollen by recent rains, that they found it impossible to\\ncross it at that place. Had proper arrangements been made\\nto guard the passes of the river, the enemy might easily have\\nbeen prevented from crossing it but by tlie treacherous\\nmanagement of Lundy, they were not only suffered to cross\\nit on the fifteenth, buf his own troops were unnecessarily\\nexposed to be cut in p^ces.\\nOn the fifteenth of April, Colonel Cunningham and\\nColonel Richards sent to Lundy, informing him that they\\nhad arrived in Lough Foyle Avith two well-disciplined regi-\\nments, and desired his%rders in regard to their disembar-\\nkation. The perfidious governor assembled a council of war,\\nbut such were his representations and such his influence in\\nthe council, that they came to the decision that the place\\nwasuntenable, and that it could not long withstand the forces\\nwith which it would soon be invested. The commanders of\\nthe two regiments deemed it inexpedient to land them, or\\nthe ammunition sent by Parliament for the rehef of the city.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0081.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "16 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nThey conseqiicntly Avitliclrew to tlieir ships, and returned\\nwitli tlieir rcgiments to England, where tliej were immedi-\\natelj and deservedly cashiered.\\nLiindy continued to exert such an influence, and to adopt\\nsucli measures, as to induce the council, on the seventeenth\\nof April, to signify tliat they were willing to capitulate iipon\\nan assurance of iudemnity for their past resistance. King\\nJames had just arrived from Dublin, witli about fifteen\\nthousand trooj)s, and the proposal to surrender upon any\\nterms was most acceptable to him, as the success of his whole\\nplan of operations evidently depended upon his speedy pos-\\nsession of Londonderry. Accordingly, on the next day, he ad-\\nvaneed at the head of his entire army to a hill within cannon-\\nshot of the city, for the purpose of receiving their submission.\\nAt this crisis, Captain Murray, a brave and gallant\\ncountry gentleman, arrived, at the head of a company of\\nhorse, and entered the city in spite of the efforts of Lundy to\\nprevent him. Murray s expostulations and harangues had\\nsuch an effect upon the soldiers on the walls, that they opened\\nupon the enemy a terrible discharge of cannon and musketry,\\nAvhich was continued until night, a reception very different\\nfrom that which James had been led to expect.\\nNotwithstanding the occurrences of the day, Lundy still\\nproceeded in his attempt to surrender the city. Murray,\\nwhose jDresence, says one, struck a cold damp in the\\ngovernor and council, but inspired the men on the walls\\nwith vigor and resolution, announced his determination, not\\nonly to jirevent a surrender, but to suppress Lundy and his\\ncouncil. Others seconded Murray in this resolve, and all\\nwho were willing to unite with them, were requested to\\nsignify it by wearing a white cloth upon their left arm.\\nSeveral Ihousands adopted the badge, and no time was lost\\nin deposing the perfidious governor. He stole off, says\\none historian, with a load upon his back, a disgraceful\\ndisguise, and suited to him who bore it.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0082.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 17\\nOn the day after tlie departure of Lundy, the people\\nunited in the choice of Rev. George Walker, and of Colonel\\nHeniy Baker, as joint governors, who undertook their\\nweighty trust with the determination to defend the place, to\\nwhatever extremity of suffering they might be reduced.\\nThe total amount of men and officers at this time within\\nthe city, was upward of seven thousand several regiments\\nand companies which had been raised for the defence of other\\nplaces having retired to Londonderry on the approach of\\nthe Irish army. The number of women, children, and men\\nincapable of hearing arms, was about twenty thousand, and\\nit seemed improbable that their pro\\\\ isions would be suffici\u00c3\u00abnt\\nto sustain so large a number through a protracted siege.\\nAnother difficulty with which they had to contend, was the\\nwant of harmony between the different religious Siects or de-\\nnominations of Protestants. So bitter were the feelings exist-\\ning between the members of the Established Church and the\\nDissenters, between the Conformists and the Non-Conform-\\nists, that, notwithstanding the common danger, they came, on\\none or two occasions, almost to an open rupture. The clergy\\nand ministers, however, pursued a course most honorable\\nand judicious. They exhorted their respective congregations\\nto forget their distinctions, to dismiss their prejudices, and to\\nunite for the defence of the Protestant religion, wliich was\\nequally dear to all and, by their admonitions and example,\\nthey so far succeeded in reconciling these differences, that\\nno serious evils resulted from them.\\nThe city was now invested on every side, except that next\\nthe water, by an army of twenty thousand men, under the\\ncommand of General Richard Hamilton, a brave and skilful\\nofficer. The perfidy and cruelty with which James and his\\nofficers conducted this campaign was almost unprecedented.\\nThey seemed to act upon the maxim, ever a favorite one\\nwdth the Catholics, that no faith was to be kept with here-\\ntics. The protections which were granted to Protestants,\\n2*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0083.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "18 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\non the conclition of tlieir remaining neutral, were often disre-\\ngarded, and those holding them were frequently robbed of\\ntheir estates and imprisoned.\\nOne or two instances, from several related by Mr. Gra-\\nhara, will serve to show the character of the enemy with\\nwhom the Protestants had to contesnd. There was, in Grom\\nCastle, a prisoner, Brian McGuire, who had been a captain\\nin king James s army. Lord Galmoy wished for his release,\\nand sent an express to Gaptain Greighton, proposing to ex-\\nchange for him Gaptain Dixy, whom they had taken prison-\\ner pledging his honor that, if McGuire was sent to him, he\\nwould return Dixy without delay. McGuire was sent but,\\ninstead of fulfilling his promise, Lord Galmoy called a coun-\\ncil of war, and put Gaptain Dixy, and his lieutenant, Charle-\\nton, on trial for high treason, and they were condemned to\\ndeath, promises of life and preferment being made to them,\\nif they would renounce the Protestant religion, and join\\nking James s army. They were both young men, but they\\nfirmly rejected the base offer, and wisely prefered death to\\ndishonorable life. McGuire, who had been given in ex-\\nchange for Dixy, warmly interposed in behalf of the prison-\\ners, and was so disgusted at being unable to save their lives,\\nthough at the expense of his own liberty, which he generous-\\nly offered to resign for them, that he resigned his commission,\\nretumed to Grom, and would serve king James no longer.\\nGalmoy, in the mean time, deaf to every remonstrance made\\nto him, caused the unfortunate young gentlemen to be hanged\\non a sign-post and when they were dead, commanded their\\nbodies to be taken into the inn, had both their heads cut off,\\nand thrown out to the soldiers, who kicked them through the\\nstreets, as foot-balls. When the rufRans had sufiiciently\\ngratified themselves and their brutal commander by this\\nbarbarous sport, the heads were set up on the market-house\\nof Belturbet.\\nGalmoy marched in a few days afterwards towards London-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0084.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 19\\nderiy, and passing througli Tyrone, perpetrated anotlier act\\nof more than usual enormity. At Omagli, he took two men,\\nfather and son, on pretence of their having taken up arms\\nfor their own defence. He first caused the son to hang his\\nfather, and carry his head through the streets, crying, This\\nis the head of a traitor, and then the young man himself was\\nhanged.\\nNor were siich acts perpetrated by subordinate officers\\nwithout the approbation of the fallen monarch. He sanc-\\ntioned them, not only by word, but by act. A man named\\nMaxwell had taken up arms to defend his house against the\\nRapparees, and for this he was condemned to death. His\\nwife, after much solicitation, prevailed upon the sheriff to\\ngrant him a short reprieve. Then, accompanied by four or\\nfive small children, she appeared before the king, at Dublin,\\nand on her knees presented a petition, praying his Majesty\\nto pardon, or at least to reprieve, her husband. Although\\nher request was seconded by many of the Irish nobility who\\nwere present, and were moved by the tears of the woman and\\nher children, the stern reply of the king was, Woman, your\\nhushand shall die^ The sheriff received a rebuke for his\\nhumanity, and was commanded to hang the man immediately,\\nAvhich was accordingly done.\\nThis example, says Graham, added a stimulus to the\\nfury of the Romish soldiers against the Protestants, who\\nwere treated in the city, and under the immediate eye of the\\ngovernment, in the most barbarous manner. No Protestant\\ncould be out of his house after sunset without danger of his\\nlife several of them were assassinated and among them\\na poor tapster of an alehouse on the Wood Quay, who was\\nthrown into the Liffey and drowned, merely as a frolic, and\\nno notice whatever taken of it.\\nThe foUowing extract from the journal of Rev. Mr.\\nWalker, describes the circumstances of the besieged soon\\nafter he was appointed governor of the city.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0085.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nIt did be^et amono; us some disorder and confusion, when\\nwe looked about us and saw what we were doing our enemies\\nall about us, and our friends running away from us a gar-\\nrison we had, composed of a number of poor people, fright-\\nened from their own homes, and seemingly more fit to hide\\nthemselves than to face an enemy. When we considered\\nthat we had no persons of experience in war amongst us, and\\nthose very persons that were sent to assist us had so little\\nconfidence m the place, that they no sooner saw it than they\\nthought fit to leave it that we had but few horse to sally\\nout with, and no forage no engineers to instruct us in our\\nworks, no fire works, not so much as a hand-grenade to\\nannoy the enemy not a gun well mounted in the whole\\ntown that we had so many moutlis to feed, and not above\\nten days provision for them, in the opinion of our former\\ngovernors that every day several left us and gave constant\\nintelligence to the enemy that they had so many opportuni-\\nties to divide us, and so often endeavored to do it, and betray\\nthe governors that they were so numerous, so powerful, and\\nso well-appointed an army, that, in all human probability, we\\ncould not think ourselves in less danger than the Israelites\\nat the Red Sea. When we considered all this, it was\\nobvious enough what a dangerous undertaking we had ven-\\ntured upon but the resolution and courage of our people,\\nand the necessity we were under, and the great confidence\\nand dependence among us on God Almighty, that He\\nwould take care of us and preserve us, made us overlook all\\nthose difficulties.\\nA minute narration of all that transpired within and\\naround the walls of Londonderry, from the middle of April\\nto the middle of June, would be tedious and unf)rofitable.\\nIt would be a mere account of cannonadings by the besiegers,\\nwhich were promptly returned by the besieged of assaults\\nupon the city, of sallies from it, and of conflicts around the\\nwalls, in w^hich the Protestants were almost without excep-\\ntion the victors.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0086.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 21\\nTbe bomb-shells, liowever, wliicli were almost daily tlirown\\ninto the city, were productive of much injury and inconve-\\nnience to the besieged. Bursting as they feil, they destroyed\\nmany lives many persons were wounded by them, and\\nnumerors buildings were overthrown. Great care was requi-\\nsite to protect the gunpowder from thera, which was efiected\\nby placing it in deep cellars and dry wells. As there were\\nnumerous desertions from the city, it became necessary fre-\\nquently to move the gunpowder, that the enemy might be\\nkept in ignorance of the places where it was deposited.\\nMr. Walker has related two occurrences worthy of notice,\\nthey being so considerable, in demonstrating that prov-\\nidence which attended the defence of the town.\\nThere was at one time a large quantity of ammunition in\\nthe cellar of a Mr. Campsie, and it was thought advisable to\\nremove it. The very next day after it was removed, a bomb\\nbroke into the cellar, and if the gunpowder had been there,\\nthe greatest destruction of life must have ensued.\\nAt another time, a bomb from the enemy broke into a\\ncellar near the Butcher s-gate. Some persons were induced\\nby curiosity to examine the cellar, to see what injury had\\nbeen done, and there they found seven men lying dead, who\\nhad been secretly working at a mine, and, says he, if it\\nhad not been for so miraculeus a countermine, they might\\nhave gone on with their work and ruined us.\\nBy the middle of June the besieged began to suffer for\\nwant of provision, and were reduced to the necessity of\\nsaltino; and eatinor the flesh of the horses that were killed in\\nthe various skirmishes about the city. They obtained a tem-\\nporary supply by digging up cellars and otlier places, where\\nthey found considerable quantities of meal and other provis-\\nion, which had been buried by those who had died or left the\\ncity. But they had the prospect of famine before their eyes,\\nif they continued the defence, unless speedy relief should be\\nsent them.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0087.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OP LOND\u00c3\u009cNDERRY.\\nIn addition to this, sickness and disease became very prev-\\nalent, owing to tlieir close confineraent, and the scarcity of\\npure water. By the concussion of the ground, caused by the\\nbursting of the shells, the water in most of the wells became\\nso muddy and impure as to be unfit for use, and a supply of\\nthis necessary article had to be obtained without the walls,\\nwith great difficuhy and perih\\nOn the thirteenth of June, the hopes of the brave defend-\\ners of Londonderry were much raised, by the sight of a fleet\\nof thirty sail, in Lough Foyle. It was from England, sent\\nfor the reUef of the city, under the command of Major-\\nGeneral Kirke, and brought a reinforceraent of five thousand\\nmen and a supply of provision. The besieged expressed\\ntheir joy by the firing of cannon, and also made signals of\\ndistress but Kirke, deterred by the batteries erected on each\\nside of the river, made no attempt to send relief into tlie city,\\nand sailed out of the harbor, to the great dismay of the dis-\\ntressed garrison.\\nGeneral Kirke has been much and deservedly censured\\nfor his conduct on this occasion. Tlie boom which was\\nafterwards thrown across the river, had not at that time been\\ncompleted, and had he not been wanting in energy and\\nhumanity, he could, without much difficulty or danger, have\\nrelieved the city. The first appearance of the fleet in the\\nriver produced a visible consternation in the camp of the\\nbesiegers. Many were observed to strike their tents, and to\\nmake preparations for a speedy flight, and it is probable that\\nif Kirke had but remained in the river until the next morn-\\ning, the enemy would before that time have decamped.\\nGeneral Kirke, on leaving the Foyle, sailed round into\\nLough Swilly, and fortified the island of Inch, which he\\nconsidered a favorable position for holding communication\\nwith Enniskillen and Londonderry.\\nOn the eighteenth day of June, General Conrad de Rosen,\\na Frenchman, of much military skill, but haughty, unscrupu-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0088.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 23\\nlous, and cruel, appeared before the city with a reinforce-\\nment of fifteen hundred men, and topk the command of the\\nbesieging army. He expressed extreme contempt for the\\nwalls and other defences of the city, and swore that he could\\nmak\u00c3\u00a9 his men bring them to him stone by stone.\\nNotwithstanding the discouraging circumstances in which\\nthey were now placed, the men of Londonderry did not\\nwaver in their determination to defend the city to the last\\nextremity. Though they had suifered much, and must\\nprobably endure still more severe trials, they were well\\naware that the surrender of their strong-hold, would be the\\nabandonment of Protestantism in Ireland and trusting that\\nthat Providence which had protected them thus far would\\ncontinue to watch over them, they, on the very day of De\\nRosen s arrival, issued the order that no man, on pain of\\ndeath, .should speak of surrendering the city.\\nDe Rosen, the French commander, despairing of being\\nable to reduce the garrison by other means, at length had\\nrecourse to an expedi\u00c3\u00abnt unparalleled in atrocity. On the\\nthirtieth of June, he sent into Londonderry a declaration\\nthat, unless they would surrender, before the evening of\\nthat day, he would drive all the Protestants from the sur-\\nrounding country, men, women, and children, protected and\\nunprotected, under the walls of the city and, if the gar-\\nrison would not then surrender, he would put them all to\\nthe sword. This threat being received with contempt and\\nindignation, on the next day Rosen issued his barbarous\\nand cruel orders and his inhuman purpose, revolting to\\nmost of his own officers, was rigorously executed. The\\nIrish officers employed in this melancholy service, says Mr.\\nGraham, executed these orders with tears in their eyes,\\nand many of them declared that the cries of these victims\\nof cruelty, seemed to ring in their ears ever afterwards.\\nGeneral Hamilton was so shocked at the sight, that, in\\ndefiance of Rosen, his commanding officer, he ordered meal", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0089.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nand other provision to be distributed among the wretclied\\ngroups, as they passed through the Irish camp.\\nThe besieged took no pains to conceal the rage which this\\ninhuman proceeding excited. They immediately erected a\\ngallows npon the walls, and threatcned that they would\\nhang all their prisoners, unless their distressed friends and\\ncountrjmen were suffered to depart. The barbarity of\\nRosen, so far from having the effect intended, only strength-\\nened the garrison in their resolves to continue the defence\\nof the city; and even the suffering crowds around the city,\\nbesought their friends npon the walls to leave them to\\nperish, rather than to surrender to so merciless a foe.\\nA letter from James, reprehending the course he had\\npursued, the sight of the gallows erected on the walls for\\nthe execution of the Irish prisoners, and the general feeling\\nof abhorrence excited, as well in his own army as through-\\nout the whole country, induced Rosen, on the fourth of July,\\nto suffer the afflicted multitude, amounting to more than four\\nthousand, to return to their homes. Hundreds, however,\\nhad died around the walls other hundreds died on their\\njourney back and of those who succeeded in reaching their\\nformer places of abode, large numbers, finding their houses\\nplundered or destroyed, perished for want of the necessaries\\nof life.\\nDuring the month of July, the most extreme distress was\\nfeit from the scarcity of provisions. Many died from starva-\\ntion, and the garrison were reduced to the vilest and most\\nunwholesome food. Horsefiesh, cats, dogs, rats, and salted\\nhides were eaten. Tallow, which they humorously called\\nFrencti butter, was mixed with meal, ginger, i)epper, and\\nanise-seeds, and in this way, wliat they considered excellent\\npancakes were made. Towards the lat ter part of the month,\\na quantity of starch was discovered in one of the storehouses.\\nThis, mixed with tallow, was found to be not only a valuable\\narticle of food, but a remedy for the dysentery, which at that\\ntime prevailed.\\nM", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0090.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 25\\nThe following is a list of tlie market prices of some of the\\nprincipal articles of food\\nA quarter of a dog, five shilliiigs and sixpence.\\nA dog s head, two shillings and sixpence.\\nHorseflesh, per pound, one shilling and eightpence.\\nA cat, four shillings and sixpence.\\nA rat, one shilling.\\nA mouse, sixpence.\\nA pound of tallow, four shillings.\\nA pound of salted hides, one shilling.\\nA quart of horseblood, one shilling.\\nA handful of seawreck, twopence.\\nSo severe was the famine, that some expected to be com-\\npelled to eat the bodies of the dead and it is related, that\\none very corpulent man, imagining that some of the hungry\\nsoldiers regarded his body with a greedy eye, carefully con-\\ncealed himself for several days.\\nOn the twenty-seventh of July, the city had come to an\\nextremity from famine and disease which might well cause\\nthe most sanguine to despond. The garrison was reduced\\nto four thousand four hundred and fifty-six men. There was\\nnot in the city two days supply of food of any kind, and a\\nstrong boom thrown across the river, and the batteries\\non the banks, left but little hope of relief from the fleet.\\nDeliverance, however, was at hand.\\nMr. Graham thus relates the occurrences of the twenty-\\neighth of July\\nImraediately after divine service, the ships in the Lough\\nwere seen to approach the distressed city, now in the last\\nextremity to which famine and disease could reduce it. The\\ndefenders of the city discharged eight pieces of cannon from\\nthe steeple of the cathedral, and slowly waved their crimson\\nflag, to signify the extremity of their distress. With a fair\\nwind and a favorable tide to facilitate the approach of the\\nrelief before their eyes, now or never was the simultaneous\\n3", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0091.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\ncry of the feeble and emaciated multitude on the walls.\\nThe ships approaching were the Mountjoy, of Londonderry,\\nCaptain Micah Browning, commander, and the Phenix, of\\nColeraine, Captain Andrew Doughiss, master. They were\\nboth laden with provisions, and were convoyed by the Dart-\\nmouth frigate, commanded by Captain Leake. The enemy\\nfired incessanlly on the ships from the fort of Ct\u00c3\u00bcmore, and\\nfrom both sides of the river, as they sailed up, and the returns\\nwere made with the greatest bravery and effect. They\\npassed the fort without sustaining any material injury, and\\nthe exj)ectation of the besieged ros\u00c3\u00a9 into transports of joy,\\nwhich were ahnost instantaneously succeeded by despair,\\nwhen the Mountjoy, repelled by the boom, was run aground,\\nand the enemy, who had crowded in multitudes to the water-\\nside, raised a loud huzza, as they launched their boats to\\nboard her. The terror which prevailed in the city at this\\nmoment, is not to be described. The multitudes on the wall\\nstood petrified in the silent agony of grief, too great for utter-\\nance a faint and shrill cry from a few women and children\\nalone broke the dreadful silence, as it added to the horrors\\nof the sc\u00c3\u00a8ne. The pallid indications of fear suddenly dis-\\nappearing, were succeeded by a darkness of color, like that\\nwhich marks the counienance seen by the light of sul-\\nphureous flames. All features gathered blackness, and the\\ngeneral despondency was at its greatest height, when the\\nMountjoy fired a broadside at the enemy, rebounded from\\nthe shore, and the reaction of the vessel, aided by the sudden\\nswell of the rising tide, floated her again into the deep water\\nin the channel. Captain Douglass, of the Phenix, was ..t\\nthis time warmly engaged as he passed up, on the breaking\\nof the boom by the gallant Browning, who, while his vessel\\nlay aground, was killed by a musket-ball from the enemy,\\nwhich struck him upon the head, as he stood upon the deck\\nwith his sword drawn, encouraging his men to the contest.\\nKing William afterwards settled a pension upon the widoAV\\nI", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0092.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 27\\nof this gallant man, and, in the presence of the court, placed\\na gold cbain about her neck. Four of Browning s gallant\\ncrew shared his fate, just as the vessel got afloat and then\\nthe Dartmouth opened a heavy and well-directed fire upon\\nthe enemy s batteries, diverting them so from both vessels,\\nthat, amidst a desponding yell from the crowds on each\\nside of the river, they sailed up slowly, indeed, by reason of\\na failure in the wind after they had passed Culmore, but\\nsteadily and majestically, to the utter confusion of their\\nbaffled enemies. It was ten o clock in the niglit when\\nthey anchored in the ship-quay, upon which a general shout\\nof acclamation was raised by the soldiers on the walls, and\\nreiterated several times, while two guns were fired from the\\nsteeple, to give notice to the fleet of the safe arrival of the\\nrelief/\\nThe Pheni:?t contained from six to eight hundred boUs\\nof meal, with which she had been laden in Scotland, and the\\nMountjoy, carrying one hundred and thirty-five tons barden,\\nbrought from England her cargo of beef, pease, flour, biscuit,\\netc, all of the best kind. This relief, says Walker, arrived\\nhere to the inexpressible joy and transport of our distressed\\ngarrison, for we only reckoned upon two days life. We had\\nnine lean horses left, and one pint of meal to each man.\\nHunger and fatigue of war, had so prevailed among us, that\\nof seven thousand fi^e hundred men regimented at the corai-\\nmencement of the siege, we had now alive but about four\\nthousand three hundred, of whom at least one fourth part\\n^vere rendered unserviceable\\nIn the course of this night, the Irish army ran away from\\nthe position which they had occupied before Londonderry for\\none hundred and five days, having lost eight or nine thousand\\nmen and one hundred of their best officers, in their abortive\\nattempt to reduce the city.\\nIt was deemed important to connect with the history of\\nthe town of Londonderry, a concise sketch of this memorable\\nsiege, for two reasons.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0093.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nIn the first place, as has been already remarked, the\\ndefence of Londondeny, bj arresting and paralyzing the\\nefforts of James, contributed largely to his ultimate over-\\nthrow, and to the establishment of a revolution so important\\nnot onlj to the British nation, but to the world. For not-\\nwithstanding James, during the summer of 1690, received\\nreinforcements of men, and supplies of arms and ammuni-\\ntion, from France, yet he was soon after defeated by the\\nProtestant forces, commanded by king William in person, in\\nan engagement on the banks of the river Boyne. The next\\nyear his army was again completely routed at Aghrim, and\\nthe capitulation of Limerick, his last strong-hold in Ireland,\\nwhich soon foliowed, put an end to all his hopes of recover-\\ning his crown.\\nIs the battle of Bunker Hill, in its connection with the\\nresults of the stand there made in the cause of freedom, so\\nimportant, as to justify the erection of a splendid monument\\nto teil the story to future ages The protracted siege of\\nthis little city, when its consequences are duly considered,\\nwill appear entitled to quite as conspicuous a place in the\\nannals of freedom. And yet, important as it was, few\\ncomparatively, of the descendants of the brave defenders of\\nthe place, in this country, are familiar with the history of\\nthat event, upon which was suspended the rich inheritance\\nthey have received from their fathers, and which they are\\nto transmit to future generations.\\nIn the second place, a short account of this memorable\\nsiege seemed to be necessary, as it serves to display the\\ncharacter of the first settlers of the town of Londonderry,\\nmost of whom were of the number of those who, on that\\noccasion, fought so bravely, bied so freely, and endured so\\nheroically, for their religion. Such tried spirits, such lovers\\nof Christian liberty, were well prepared to encounter the\\nhardships and endure the trials of forming a new settlement,\\nand to lay the foundations of a community, which has been", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0094.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "EVENTS PRIOR TO ITS SETTLEMENT. 29\\ndistinguishecl for its intelligence, its steadfast adherence to\\nthe great truths and institutions of religion, and its pros-\\nperity.\\nSo important did tlie king and Parliament consider the\\ndefence of this city, and so highly did they appreciate the\\nvalor, the endnrance, and the worth of its defenders, that, in\\naddition to the bestowment of certain grants, an act was\\npassed, exempting from taxation, throughout the British\\ndominions, all who had borne arms in the city during the\\nsiege. Of this act, those who settled in the town of Lon-\\ndonderry availed themselves, until the American Revolution.\\nThe lands occupied by such individuals were known and\\ndesignated as the Exempt Farms. They can now be pointed\\nout by some of the older inhabitants.\\nThese considerations, will justify the notice which has\\nbeen taken of this event, which, as more recent revolutions\\nserve to evince, was among the first and essential links in\\nthat great chain of providential dispensations, from which\\nwe derived our rich inheritance of civil and religious bless-\\nings.\\nMay the review serve to revive, in the breasts of the\\npresent generation, descendants of the English Puritan, and\\nScotch Covenanter, here happily and harmoniously mingled,\\na veneration for those principles which actuated their heroic\\nancestors.\\n3\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0095.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OF LONDONDEKRY.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe immediate causes of tiib emigration arrival at boston\\nsklection of a township settlement of a pastor\\nintkoduction of the potato manufacture of linen\\npetition for a charter title to the land obtained\\nattempts to dispossess the settlers incorporation of the\\ntown fairs origin of town organizations.\\nReligious toleration, to the conception and acknowledg-\\nment of whicli the world has come so slowly, is a most\\nj ust and most wise principle. It requires that every man\\nbe allowed the unbiased exercise of his own choice, as\\nto the religious denomination, the creed, or the mode of\\nworship which he will favor and snjoport. Religion being\\nessential to the virtue, order, and best good of the community,\\nevery man is really, if not legally, bound to support religious\\nas well as civil institutions but the sect or denomination\\nshould be left to his own free choice. But such freedom of\\nconscience was unknown in the days of our fathers.\\nIn England even, notwithstanding the light and influence\\nof the Reformation, various laws were passed, enjoining\\nuniformity, not only in sentiment, but in forms of religious\\nworship, subjecting all who refused compliance to severe\\npenalties so that, on one occasion, the ever-memorable Bar-\\ntholomew s day, a. d. 1GG2, two thousand f)ious and devoted\\nministers, among whom were Henry, Baxter, How, and\\nOwen, men eminent for piety and talents, were ejected\\nfrom their parishes, separated from their beloved flocks,\\nsilencedfrom preaching, and thus deprived of all accustoraed\\nmeans of support for themselves and families, merely for\\nnon-compliance with the act of conformity.\\nThis act required that every clergyman should be reor-\\ndained, if he had not before received Episcopal ordination", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0096.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 31\\nsliould declare his assent to everything contained in the Book\\nof Common Prayer sliould take the oatli of canoiiical obedi-\\neiice should abjure the common league and covenant, and\\nshould renounce the principle of taking up arms on any pre-\\ntence whatsoever, against the king.\\nIt was these oppressive acts, in the days of Elizabeth and\\nher predecessors, which induced the Puritan settlers of New\\nEngland to seek in this newly-discovered land, a settlement\\nfounded on principles of religious freedom. It was a deter-\\nmination not to submit to dictation in matters of faith and\\nmodes of worship to hazard everything, to endure every-\\nthing for freedom to worship God. No worldly or secular\\nmotive was sufficiently powerful to influence these men to\\nexchange their native land, their pleasant homes, their\\nbeautiful fields, to abandon all that was endeared by the\\nassociations of life, for a hostile wilderness beyond the ocean.\\nThe love of religious liberty is a stronger sentiment, when\\nfully excited, than attachment to civil and jwlitical freedom.\\nThat freedom which the conscience demands, and for which\\nmen feel bound by the hopes of salvation to contend, can\\nhardly fail to be attained. If the hand of power is laid\\nupon it, this only seems to augment its force and its elasticity,\\nand to cause its action to be more formidable and terrible.\\nHuman invention has devised nothing, human power has\\ncompassed nothing, that can forcibly restrain it when it\\nbreaks forth. Nothing can stop it, but to give way for it,\\nnothing can check it but by indulgence. It loses its power\\nonly when it has gained its object.\\nAs the fathers of New England fled, not so much from the\\ncivil government as from the hierarchy, and the laws which\\nenforced conformity to the Church establishment, so did the\\nsettlers of Londonderry emigrate, to escape religious rather\\nthan civil evils. Although by the revolution of 1688, and\\nthe accession of William and the House of Hanover to the\\nBritish throne, the Protestant cause was firmly established,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0097.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\npeace restorcd to the island in which they dwelt, and toler-\\nation of religious sentiments allowed; still, as Presbjterians,\\nand Dissenters from the Church of England, they expe-\\nrieneed many embarassments.\\nThey were, indeed, permitted to maintain their \u00c3\u00b6wn forms\\nof worshif) unmolested still, they were comjielled to aid in\\nsupporting a minister of the established religion, and a tenth\\npart of all their increase was rigorously exacted for this\\npurpose. They also held their lands and tenements by lease\\nfrom the crown, and not as proprietors of the soil. With an\\ninextinguishable thirst for liberty, they could not bear to be\\nthus trammelled in their civil and religious rights.\\nTheir position in Ireland was uncomfortable, also, sur-\\nrounded as they were with the native Irish, who adhered\\nwith tenacity to the Church of Rome and though they were\\nthen subjugated to Protestant power, and not permitted openly\\nto persecute as they had done, yet a spirit of hostility still\\nexisted, and was in various ways expressed. Many circum-\\nstances, in addition to the original strong traits of character\\nwhich separate the Scotch from the Irish, had served to\\ninflame and strengthen the enmity existing between them.\\nMr. Macaulay, adverting to the hostility existing between\\nthe Irish Catholics and the Protestants, who had settled in\\nIreland, says On the same soil dwelt two populations,\\nlocally intermixed, morally and politically sundered. The\\ndifference of religion was by no means the only difFerence,\\nand was perhaps not even the chief difFerence, which existed\\nbetween them. They sprang from different stocks. They\\nspoke different languages. They had different national char-\\nacters, as strongly opposed as any two national characters in\\nEurope. They were in widely different stages of civiliza-\\ntion. There could, therefore, be little sympathy between\\nthem and centuries of calamities and wrongs had generated\\na strong antipathy. The relation in which the minority\\nstood to the majority, resembled the relation in which the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0098.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n33\\nfollowers of William the Conqueror stood to the Saxon\\nchurls, or the relation in which the followers of Cortez stood\\nto the Indians of Mexico.\\nThe appellation of Irish was then given exclusively to\\nthe Celts, and to those families which, though not of Celtic\\norigin, had in the course of ages degenerated into Celtic\\nmanners. These people, probably somewhat under a million\\nin number, had, with few exceptions, adhered to the Church\\nof Rome. Among them resided about two hundred thou-\\nsand colonists, proud of their Saxon blood and of their\\nProtestant faith.\\nThe great preponderance of numbers on one side, was\\nmore than compensated bj a great superioritj of intelligence,\\nvigor, and organization on the other. The English settlers\\nseem to have been, in knowledge, energy, and perseverance,\\nrather above than belo^v the average level of the population\\nof the mother country. The aboriginal peasantry, on the\\ncontrary, were in an almost sa vage state.\\nIt was in view of these embarrassments and evils expe-\\nrienced in their native land, that this body of emigrants were\\ndisposed to leave their homes and the many comforts there\\nenjoyed for an untried region, and the labors and sufiferings\\nincident to a settlement in a new country.*\\nThe rcsidence of the McKeens, MacGregors, Nesiniths, Dinsmoors,\\nand many other of the emigrants to Londonderry, was in the valley of\\nthe river Bann, and in or near the towns or parishes of Coleraine, Bally-\\nmoney, Ballywoolen, Ballywatick, and Kih-ea.\\nA distinguished descendant of one of the carly settlers, writcs to the\\nauthor, as follows On a voyage to the Old World, a few years since,\\nI could not resist the inclination to visit the tcmporary resting-place of\\nour forefathers, in Ireland. Not anticipating snch an exciirsion when I\\nleft home, I was misorably prcpared for taking advantage of what others\\nknew, as to the exact location of our ancestors; I only knew that Lon-\\ndonderry, Coleraine, Antrim, Bidlymoney, and Belfast, were some of\\ntheir i)laces of rcsidence, and of course could receivc only general appre-\\nCiations of their homes. Still, viewing the vast extent of excellent l^^nd,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0099.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nThat sucli were tlieir motives, we learn from a manuscript\\nsermon of the Rev. James MacGiegor, one of the four pastors\\nwho accompanied their flocks to Araerica, and the first min-\\nister of Londonderry. It was addressed to them on the eve\\nof their embarking for this country. Ilis discourse was from\\nthose very appropriate words of Moses, when conducting the\\nchosen tribes to the promised land If thy presence go not\\nwith me, carry us not up hence.\\nIn the application of the subject to their emigration, he\\nStates the following as reasons of their removal to America.\\n1. To avoid oppression and cruel bondage. 2. To shun\\npersecution and designed ruin. 3. To withdraw from the\\ncommunion of idolaters. 4. To have an opportunity of wor-\\nshipping God, according to the dictates of conscience and\\nthe rules of his inspired Word.\\nThey were, moreover, induced to contemplate a settiement\\nin this land, by the favorable report of a young man, by the\\nname of Holmes, the son of a Presbyterian clergyman, who\\nhad visited this country. Encouraged by his representations\\nof the civil and religious privileges which were enjoyed by\\nthe American colonies, his father, and three other Presby-\\nterian ministers, James MacGregor, William Cornwell, and\\nWilliam Boyd, with a portion of their respective congre-\\ngations, determined on a removal t?) this country.\\nstill uncultivated, the beauty of the scenery, the mildness of the winters\\n(on the thirtieth of March, 1845, I saw peaches in fuU blossom, in the\\nopen air, at Bclfast,) I could not but rcalize that moral licroisin, which\\ncould inducc men, perfcetly ndvigcd of all they were to expect or obtain,\\nto emigrate to the New World. Men in the most wild belief of the\\nprecious metals, will seek new countries with rccklcss disrogard of all\\nconsequcnces. Our Irish ancestors knew that ihey were Icnving a\\nletter country for a poorer, (speaking agricullurally,) and with only the\\nprospect of toil before tliem. Im.igination Icnt no eharms to the future.\\nThey must have had motives reaehing bevond the present. Their char-\\nacters, and I believe the moral tone of the vast masses of their widoly-\\nspread desccndants, leavc us in no doubt of the truc im]n)lscs which\\ngoverned them.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0100.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n35\\nIn order to prepare the way and secure a reception and a\\nplace of settlement on their arrival here, they dispatched,\\nearly in the year 1718, Rev. Mr. Boyd, with an address to\\ngovernor Shute, of Massachusetts, espressing a strong desire\\nto remove to New England, should he aiFord them suitable\\nencouragement. They also empowered Mr. Boyd to make\\nall the necessary arrangements with the civil authority for\\ntheir reception.\\nThe address is very concise and appropriate, and is signed\\nby two hundred and seventeen, each subscribing his own\\nname in a fair and legible hand, except ^^^eriijvhose marks ^Mi^lJuU^^\\nare affixed. That so large a proportion, in the circumstances\\nin which they were 2:)laced while in Ireland, were able to\\nwrite, is a fact that serves very clearly to show that, as a\\ncompany, they were superior to the common class of emi-\\ngrants. Nine of the subscribers were ministers of the gospel,\\nand three others were graduates at the university in Scot-\\nland. The document is on parchment, in a good state of\\npreservation, and may be regarded as a valuable relic of\\nthese early adventurers to this land. A copy is inserted in\\nthe Appendix, and it will no doubt be gratifying to many to\\nobserve, in the list of subscribers, the names of ancestors\\nwhom they have been accustomed to venerate. It would have\\ngiven greater interest could a fac-simile of the names, as\\nthey appear on the manuscript, have been presented.\\nMr. Boyd received from governor Shute the desired\\nencouragement. On communicating it to his friends in\\nIreland, by whom he had been commissioned, they immedi-\\nately converted their property into money, embarked in five\\nships for Boston, and arrived there August 4, 1718.\\nThat portion of the emigrants who had been the charge of\\nRev. Mr. MacGregor in Ireland, and others who joined them,\\nwished to unite, that they might continue to enjoy his labors\\nas their pastor, Among this number were the McKeen\\nfamilies, with their connections.\\nB^ JL 31) -av", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0101.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "36 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nJames McKeen, brother-in-law to Mr. MacGregor, and\\nwho appears to have been the leading influential member of\\nthis body, on conferring with governor Shute, was informed\\nthat there was good land in the vicinity of Casco Bay, Me.,\\nwhich they might have, and where they coiild carry into\\neffect their jiarticular design as a community, and secure the\\nenjoyment of religious ordinances under the ministry of their\\nfavorite teacher.\\nAnother portion of this company of emigrants repaired to\\nWorcester, and there attempted to form a settlement and\\nenjoy religious privileges under the ministry of one of the\\npastors who had accompanied them to this country. And\\nalthough they were an industrious, orderly, worthy, and\\npious congregation, yet, in consequence of their being foreign-\\ners, especially from Ireland, and introducing the Presby-\\nterian mode of worship, which was before unknown in New\\nEngland, the prejudices of the Congregational communities\\nin Worcester were so strong and bitier towards them, that\\nthey were compelled to leave the place. They in conse-\\nquence separated and were dispersed through the country.\\nSome of these families settled in Coleraine, some in Palmer,\\nsome in Pelham, and some in other towns in Massachusetts\\nand being joined by emigrants, from time to time, from the\\nold country, formed those Presbyterian societies which\\nexisted for many years in these several towns.\\nA considerable number of this body of emigrants, on\\narriving at Boston, saw fit to remain in that city and, uniting\\nwith those of their countrymen of their own faith, whom they\\nfound there, formed the iirst Presbyterian church and soci-\\nety, over which the Rev. John Morehead was installed\\npastor. It was at first styled the Presbyterian church in\\nLong Lane, subsequently Federal Street.\\nSixteen of the families who had purposed to form a distinct\\nsettlement, and become the charge of the Rev. Mr. Mac-\\nGregor, embarked in a vessel for Casco Bay, in order to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0102.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 37\\nselect a township while the remaining families, with Mr.\\nMacGregor, retired from Boston into the country some to\\nAndover, others to Dracut, until a suitable tract of land\\nshould be found for a permanent settlement.\\nThe party that left Boston for Casca Bay, arrived there\\nlate in the season and it proving to be a very early and cold\\nwinter, the vessel was frozen in. Many of the families, not\\nbeing able to find accommodations on shore, were obliged to\\npass the whole winter on board the ship, suffering severely\\nfrom the want of food, as well as of conveniences of situation.\\nWillis, in his History of Portland, referring to this event,\\nsays In the autumn of 1718, a vessel arrived- in the har-\\nbor of Falmouth, now Portland, with twenty families of emi-\\ngrants from Ireland. They were descendants of a colony\\nfrom Argyleshire in Scotland, and settled in the north of\\nIreland about the middle of the seventeenth century. They\\nwere rigid Presbyterians, and fled from Scotland to avoid the\\npersecutions of Charles the First. They suffered severely\\nduring the winter here; their provisions failed, and our\\ninhabitants had neither shelter nor food sutficient for so large\\nan accession to the population. In December, the inhab-\\nitants petitioned the General Court at Boston for relief.\\nThey stated their grievances as foUows That there are now\\nin the town about three hundred souls, most of whom are\\narrived from Ireland, of which not one half have provision\\nenough to live upon over winter, and so poor that they are\\nnot able to buy any, and none of the first inhabitants so well\\nfurnished as that they are able to supply them and they\\nprayed that the Court would consider their desolate circum-\\nstances, by reason of the great company of poor strangers\\narrived among them, and take speedy and effectual care of\\ntheir supply. On this application, the Court ordered that\\none hundred bushels of Indian meal be allowed, and paid\\nout of the treasury, for the poor Irish people mentioned in the\\npetition. It is subjoined, in a note to this record, That\\n4", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0103.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nJames McKeen, the grandfather of the first president of\\nBowdoin College, was of this company, and the agent who\\nselected the land on which they settled.\\nOn the opening of spring, the little colony prepared to\\ncommence an examination of the territory to which they had\\nbeen directed by governor Shute. As they disembarked in\\nthis new country, to which they had come to seek a residence\\nfor themselves and their descendants, they assembled, accord-\\ning to tradition, on the shore, and joined in acts of religious\\nworship, devoutly acknowledging the divine goodness iti\\ntheir pr\u00c3\u00a9servation upon the great deep, and during the un-\\nusually severe winter which they had experienced. No one\\nof their number had suffered by sickness, or been removed\\nby death. Standing on the shore of the ocean which sep-\\narated them from their native land, they ofFered their devoUt\\npraises in that most touching of all songs, the orle hundred\\nand thirty-seventh psalm. As they surveyed the unsubdued\\nand uninhabited country around them, and looked back upon\\nthe homes of their youth, and upon the blessings and coih-\\nforts which they had there possessed, amidst their tnany\\ntrials, they were ready to hang their harps upon the willows,\\nand say, How shall we sing the Lord s song in a strange\\nland! But they looked forward, with hope and constancy,\\nto the attainment of the great object for which they had\\ncome, religious freedom. And as they renewed their cove-\\nnant vows, and called to mind the persecuted, s\u00c3\u00bcffering state\\n\u00c3\u00b3f the church in their native land, they could with fixed\\ndetermination say, as did the Jewish captives, If I forget\\nthee, O Jerusalem, l\u00c3\u00a9t my right hand forget her cunning; if\\nI do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof\\nof my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.\\nThey were not men to be put back or turned aside by\\nobstacles. They had counted the cost of their undertaking,\\nand were prepared to meet it. After having explored for\\ns\u00c3\u00b3ine distance the country eastward from Casco Bay, and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0104.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CiyiL HISTORY. 39\\nfinding no tract of land that pleased them, they concluded to\\nreturn; and, directing their course westward, entered the\\nMerrimack, which they ascended to Haverhill, where they\\narrived the 2d of April, old style. While at Haverhill, they\\nheard of a line tract of land about fifteen miles distant, called\\nNutfield, on account of the abundance of the chestnut, butter-\\nnut, and walnut-trees, which distinguished the growth of its\\nforests. The men, leaving their families at Haverhill, came\\nand examined the tract and, ascertaining that it was not\\nappropriated, they at once decided here to take up the grant\\nwhich they had obtained from the government of Massa-\\nchusetts, of a township twelve miles square of any of her\\nunappropriated lands.\\nHaving selected the spot on which to commence their\\nsettlement, and having built a few temporary huts, which\\nthey left in charge of two or three of their number, they\\nreturned to Haverhill to bring on their families, their pro-\\nvisions, their implements of labor, and what little household\\nfurniture they could collect. A part of the company return-\\ned from Haverhill by the way of Dracut, where Mr. Mac-\\nGregor had passed the winter in teachmg, that they might\\nbring him with them the others came more directly. The\\ntwo parties arrived at about the same time, and met, as\\ntradition says, at a spot ever after termed Horse Hill, from\\nthe fact of their having there tied their horses, while they sur-\\nveyed the territory around. The day of their arrival here,\\nand on which the settlement commenced, was the eleventh\\nday of April, old style, 1719.\\nMr. MacGregor, on meeting this portion of his beloved\\nflock, from whom he had been separated some months since\\ntheir arrival in America, and on the spot so happily selected\\nas the place of their future residence, made an affectionate\\nand impressive address, in which he congratulated tliem on\\nthe propitious termination of their wanderings, their signal\\npreservation as a company while crossing the ocean, and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0105.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nsince their arrival in this country, and exhorted them to\\ncontinued confidence in God, planted as they now were in\\nthe wilderness, and strangers in a strange land.\\nHaving with them explored more fully the territory which\\nhad been selected as a township, and made some general\\narrangements as to their future proeeedings, he returned to\\nhis family in Dracut. Before leaving them, he delivered,\\nApril 12th, under a large oak, on the east side of Beaver\\nPond, the first sermon ever preached in this town. His\\ntext was from the prophecy of Isaiah, 32 2, And a man\\nshall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the\\ntempest as rivers of water in a dry place as the shadow\\nof a great rock in a weary land. Then, for the first time,\\ndid this wilderness and solitary place, over which the savage\\ntribes had for centuries roamed, resound with the voice of\\nprayer and praise, and echo to the sound of the gospel. The\\nspot where this religious service was held, especially the tree\\naround which they assembled, was long after regarded with\\na degree of reverence, not unlike that feit by the patriarch\\nin regard to the spot on which he rested, when favored with\\nthe heavenly vision. On the prostration of this venerable\\noak through decay, the owner of the field in which it stood\\nplanted a young apple-tree among its decayed roots, which\\nis now a thrifty tree, and will long serve to designate the\\nvenerated spot.*\\nThe field on which they first erected their rude cabins,\\nas a temporary accommodation for their families, and which\\nthey cultivated the first year in common, lies not far from\\nthe tumpike as it crosses West-running Brook, and has ever\\nsince been called the common field.\\nIt has been suggested, that as therc are so maiiy ploasing associa-\\ntions connectcd with it this spot, well dcscrves somc more cnduring\\nracmorial and for this object, it has been proposcd that a granitc\\nobelisk, hearing appropriate inscriptions, sliould at some early day be\\nerected in place of the tree. It is hoped that the snggestion will meet\\nwith a prompt response. See last page of Appendix.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0106.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "C^VIL HISTOBY. 41\\nAs soon as the company of settlers had organized them-\\nselves into a religious society, in order to the full and stated\\nenjoyment of divine ordinances, which was the leading object\\nof their eniigration, they proceeded, according to the pre-\\nscribed order of the Presbyterian church, to present in due\\nform a call to the Rev. James MacGregor, to become their\\npastor.\\nSome of them had been his pastoral charge while in\\nIreland, and all were well satisfied as to his worth, and his\\ndistinguished gifts as a minister of Christ. Sometime in May\\nfollowing, Mr. MacGregor, in compliance with their call,\\nremoved with his family from Dracut to their settlement,\\nand assumed the pastoral charge of the society. As no\\npresbytery then existed in New England, there could be no\\nformal instailation nor was it essentially needful as IVIr.\\nMacGregor had received ordination some years before, in\\nIreland. A formal and public recognition of the ecclesias-\\ntical relation thus formed between them, was all that in this\\ncase was requisite.\\nAccordingly, on a day appointed for the purpose, the\\npeople having assembled, he, in connection with appropriate\\nreligious services, solemnly assumed the pastoral charge of\\nthe church and congregation and they with like solemnity,\\nand by a formal act, received him as their pastor and spirit-\\nual guide.\\nHe preached to them on the occasion from those appro-\\npriate, and, as it regarded this infant settlement, truly\\nprophetic words (Ezekiel 37 26), Moreover, I will make a\\ncovenant of peace with them it shall be an everlasting\\ncovenant with them and I will place them, and multiply\\nthem, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for\\nevermore.\\nHaving shown that it is the Lord who places a people in\\na land multiplies them therein, and affords them the ordi-\\nnances of religion, he reminded his brethren, that they\\n4*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0107.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nshould devoutly acknowledge the providence of God in all\\npast changes, particularly in their emigration to this new\\nworld that they should live by faith in what was before\\nthem; fervently pray that God would continue to bless\\nthem be firmly united one with another walk in the fear\\nof God, and keep his charge.\\nThese discourses, delivered by their venerated author on\\noccasions so interesting, are noticed, for the purpose of show-\\ning that the removal and settlement of this company of emi-\\ngrants was from religious principle, and in reliance upon the\\ndivine guidance and protection. And has not the promise\\ncontained in the inspired passage from whicli he addressed\\nhis little flock, been most strikingly fulfiUed in respect to the\\nsettlement they were then commencing God, in his provi-\\ndence, not only planted them here, but greatly multiplied\\nthem, so that from this settlement many others were early\\nformed. It proved a most fruitful vine. He also set his\\nsanctuary in the midst of them, and has continued to them\\nand to their descendants in this place, without interruption\\nfor more than a century, the ordinances of religion. From\\nthat memorable day on which this sermon was preached,\\nand the Christian ministry established among this people,\\nto the present, a period of one hundred and thirty years,\\nthey have at no time been destitute of a settled ministry,\\nand the full enjoyment of gospel privileges. The churches\\nand religious societies here early established, have been\\nsignally preserved and prospered retaining, amidst the\\nmany changes and divisions in surrounding communities, the\\nsame faith, and the same mode of church government and\\nreligious worship, originally adopted.\\nThis stability may, in part, be attributed to their staid\\nThe original manuscript of this sermon, with ether manuscript\\nsermons of Rev. James MacGregor, is now in the possession of Rev.\\nJohn M. Whiton, D. D., of Antrim, N. II.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0108.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 43\\nattachment to the Presbyterian doctrine and discipline, as\\nobserved by the Church of Scotland. Presbyterianism, as\\nadopted by the Reformers, and introduced into that country\\nfrom Geneva, by John Knox, the celebrated Scotch Reformer,\\nis opposed to the prelatic power of Episcopacy, on the one\\nhand, and the independency of Congregationalism on the\\nother guarding the church ahke against a despotic govern-\\nment and a pure democracy. It adopts a form of govern-\\nment truly scriptural, as the representative form existed\\nboth in the Jewishand Christian church; and, while effici\u00c3\u00abnt\\nin its administration, is in full accordance with the principles\\nof liberty and equaHty in the church. lts judicatories bear\\na striking resemblance to those adopted under a free repub-\\nlican government. And while they unite and protect the\\nwhole body of professed disciples, they secure to each indi-\\nvidual his full and perfect rights and influence. Every\\nCongregational church, as it respects ecclesiastical govern-\\nment, is a separate and independent body while a Presby-\\nterian church is under the care, and subject to the control, of\\nthe presbytery, which, in its turn, is subject to the synod, and\\nthat again to the general assembly, all representative, though\\npermanent bodies. The pastor and a certain number of\\nelders in each church, elected to this office by its members,\\nconstitute what is termed a Session, for the transaction of its\\naffairs. As Congregationalism was first introduced into\\nNew England, it became the prevailing order of church\\ngovernment and although, through the illiberal spirit which\\nmarked that age, Presbyterianism for a time met with iegis-\\nlative as well as ecclesiastical opposition, yet eventually the\\nmembers of that church were left to the free and uninter-\\nrupted enjoyment of their own forms of worship. And\\nthough differing in the external order of Christ s house, yet,\\nbeing built upon the same precious foundation, the greatest\\nharmony has long prevailed, in New England, between the\\nPresbyterian and Congregational denominations and we", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0109.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nshould deplore anything which would mar the union that so\\nhappily exists. While the one can serve God in their more\\nfree organization, the growth of more than two centuries,\\nthe other, rejoicing in the greater sti ingency of their system,\\ncan iirge on the work of the blessed Redeemer, until all his\\nfollowers shall see eye to eye, and the watchmen on the\\nwalls of Zion, lift up their voice together. When the oom-\\nmon foes threaten to sweep away all that is holy and true,\\nespecially does it behoove the sons of the Puritans, and the\\ndescendants of the Covenanters, to grasp the Standard, and\\ndo battle for Christ s crown and covenant.\\nThose who first composed the settlement, were the follow-\\ning sixteen men with their families, namely\\nJames McKeen, John Barnett, Archibald Clendenin, John\\nMitchell, James Sterrett, James Anderson, Randal Alex-\\nander, James Gregg, James Clark, James Nesmith, Allen\\nAnderson, Robert Weir, John Morrison, Samuel AUison,\\nThomas Steele, and John Stuart. These pioneers of the\\nsettlement were most of them men in middle life, robust,\\nperse vering, and adventurous, well-suited to encounter the\\ntoils and endure the hardships of such an undertaking.\\nMost of them attained to advanced age. They lived to see\\ntheir descendants settled around them, and the forest into\\nwhich they had penetrated converted into a fruitful field.\\nThe average age of thirteen of the number, of whose age\\nalone we have any record, was seventy-nine years six\\nattained to nearly ninety, and two surpassed it. John\\nMorrison, the oldest of this company, lived to the advanced\\nage of ninety-seven years.\\nIn order to secure the advantages of near neighborhood,\\nand be thereby the better protected against the attacks of\\nthe Indians, in case of hostilities, with which the colonies\\nwere at the time threatened, these first families plantod\\nthemselves on each side of a small brook, which, from the\\ndirection of its course, they called West-running Brook.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0110.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 45\\nAnd they decided that their home-lots should be but tbirty\\nrods wide, fronting the brook, and to be extended back on a\\nnorth and south line, until they made iip sixty acres each.\\nBy such an arrangement, their dwellings were brought into\\nclose vicinity, and formed what has ever since been termed\\nthe Doubl\u00c3\u00a9 Range. This range was, for more than half a\\ncentury, an interesting and populous section of the town.\\nBut the houses, once inhabited by flourishmg families, have\\nbeen one after another removed or demolished, and nothing\\nnow remains but the half-filled cellar to mark the place where\\nthey once stood. This arrangement in the early location of\\ntheir dwellings, although it afforded them the advantages of\\nneighborhood, and greater protection in case of assault, was,\\nhowever, not so favorable to the uniform division of the\\ntownship into lots, and the regularity of the highways. The\\nmultiplicity of the roads, bending in every direction to\\naccommodate, as it would seem, the settlers, as they planted\\nthemselves, without any previous plan, in different parts of\\nthe town, and the consequent trouble and expense which\\nhave been realized in straightening and improving them,\\nmay be traced to this injudicious arrangement in the early\\nsettlement.\\nBeing at the time a frontier town, and exposed to a savage\\nfoe, in consequence of a war with the eastern Indians, which\\nbroke out soon after their arrival, they erected two stone\\ngarrison-houses. These were strongly built, and well pre-\\npared to resist an attack. To these the several families\\nretired at night, whenever danger from the foe was appre-\\nhended. There was, however, one of their number, James\\nBlair, a man of giant stature an(^ of fearless courage, who\\nscorned thus to shelter himself from his Indian enemies.\\nHe would never enter the garrison but, with his trusty\\narms, remained without and alone. It was reported that\\nthis man, who, like Saul, king of Isra\u00c3\u00abl, was from his\\nshoulders and upward higher than any of the people, more", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0111.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "46) HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nthan once, in consequence of his stature, saved his own life,\\nand tbat of his neighbors. After the close of one of the\\nwars, the Indians related that they had laid in ambush,\\nwhile Blair and other\u00c3\u00b6 were at work in the field, and had\\nopportunities to kill him, but seeing his huge form they\\ndared not shoot, thinking him a god. Although, during one\\nof the most severe Indian wars, Londonderry was a frontier\\ntown, and therefore exposed to greater dangers than the\\nmore interior settlements, yet the town was never assailed.\\nThe yell of the savage, and the shriek of the murdered set-\\ntler, were never heard here.\\nTradition ascribes the signal preservation of this colony\\nfrom the attacks of the Indians, to the influence of the Rev.\\nMr. MacGregor with the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the French\\ngovernor of Canada. It is said that they were classmates\\nat college, that a correspondence was maintained between\\nthem, and that, at the request and representation of his\\nformer friend, the governor caused raeans to be used for tlie\\nprotection of the settlement. He induced the Catholic priests\\nto charge the Indians not to injure any of these people, as\\nthey were different from the English and to assure them,\\nthat no bounty should be paid for their scalps, and that, if\\nthey killed any of them, their sins would not be forgiven.\\nThat such was the fact, the early inhabitants firmly believed.\\nIn confirmation of this tradition, on a manuscript sermon-\\nbook of Mr. MacGregor s, which has been preserved, is found\\nthe name of this French gentleman, and the vai ious titles of\\noffice which he held, and by which he would of course be\\naddressed.\\nTheir signal exemption from savage hostilities, may also,\\nin Divine Providence, be ascribed to the fact of their\\nsecuring, through Colonel Wheelwright, a fair and acknowl-\\nedged Indian title to their tovvnship, which will be more\\nparticularly noticed.\\nThe first company of settlers were soon joined by many of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0112.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "CR^L HISTORY. 47\\nthefr countrymen who had eraigrated with them to America,\\nand had dispersed through the country, awaiting the selec-\\ntion of a township so that before the close of the first year,\\nthe number of famihes was very considerably increased.\\nAs the account of their settlement, and the privileges they\\nhere enjoyed reached their friends and fellow-s\u00c3\u00bcfferers in\\nIreland, many were induced to follow them to this land, and\\njoin their community. And although many obtained with\\ndifficulty the means of transporting themselves and families,\\nsome even binding themselves to a term of labor after\\ntheir arrival, in order to pay for their passage to this coun-\\ntry, yet they were soon able, On coming to this town, to\\nobtain a cOmfortable support. No price was paid for the\\nland, it being a free grant hy the king t\u00c3\u00b6 f hese, his loyal\\nsubjects \u00c3\u00b3f the old country, many of them, as we have se\u00c3\u00a9n,\\nfaithful champions in the famous siege and d\u00c3\u00a9f\u00c3\u00a9nce \u00c3\u00b3f Lon-\\ndonderiy in Ireland, an event which contributed so directly\\nand powerfully to the establishment of his throne. Each\\nsettler had allotted him \u00c3\u00b3ne hundred and tw\u00c3\u00abrity acres, a\\nhome-lot, and an out-l\u00c3\u00b3t of sixty acres each. Being a very\\nhardy, industrious, frugal people, and favored from the first\\nwith moral and religious institutions, they sOon became a\\nthriving, prosperous, and respectable community.\\nTheir dwellings were at first of logs, and covered with\\nbark. The first framed house in the town was that of the\\nRev. J\u00c3\u00afimes MacGregor, their pastor, erected soon after his\\nsettlement. It is yet standing and in good repair, and is\\nnow occupied by Mr. Joseph Morrison. The second framed\\nhouse was erected by John McMurphy Esq., and is now\\ninhabited by his great-grandson, Mr James McMurphy.\\nFor a time, they necessarily endured many privations and\\nhardships. Their habitations were not only rude, but their\\nfood was meagre in kind and not abundant in quantity.\\nBeing without beasts of burden, much of their provision,\\nduring the two first years of their settlement, was brought", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0113.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nbj the men upon their shoulders from Haverhill, and from\\nAndover, Mass.\\nIn consequence of their vicinity to the falls of Amoskeag,\\nthey were enabled to provide themselves with fish. They\\nwere first directed to these falls by an Indian who visited\\ntheir settlement. Taking Mr. MacGregor to an eminence,\\nand pointing to a tall pine at a distance, he informed him\\nthat they were in that direction. Aided by this, he was\\nenabled with his compass to mark out a course to the falls,\\nto which he, with a few of the settlers, immediately repaired,\\nand, with the scoop-net which they had provided, readily\\nsecured a supply of salmon and shad, with which the Merri-\\nmack abounded. This, for a long time, was to the inhab-\\nitants of Londonderry a most valuable resource. Being\\nwithin a few miles of this important fishing-place, they could\\nwith little inconvenience and labor obtain an annual supply\\nof fish, which constituted an important article of food, espec-\\nially before their fields became productive. Subsequently,\\nand for many years, they lived mainly upon potatoes, bean-\\nporridge, samp, and barley-broth. It was long before the use\\nof tea and coffee was introduced among them. They were\\nhappily strangers to these debilitating drinks, which now\\nconstitute, in most families, an appendage to almost every\\nmeal.\\nTheir hard labor and homely fare contributed much, no\\ndoubt, to that robust health, great strength, and longevity, by\\nwhich they were as a company distinguished. In the labor\\nof subduing and cultivating the soil, the women vied with\\nthe men. Being, says Dr. Belknap, in his History of New\\nHampshire, a peculiarly industrious, frugal, hardy, intelli-\\ngent, and well-principled people, they proved a valuable\\nacquisition to the province into which they had removed,\\ncontributing much, by their arts and their industry, to its\\nwelfare.\\nThey introduced the culture of the potato, which they", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0114.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 49\\nbroiight with tliem f rom Ireland. Until their arrival, this\\nvaluable vegetable, now regarded as one of the necessaries\\nof life, if not whoUy unknown, was not cultivated in New\\nEngland. To them belongs the credit of lts introduction to\\ngeneral use. Although higlily prized bj this company of\\nsettlers, it was for a long time but little regarded by their\\nEnglish neighbors a barrel or two being considered a\\nsupply for a family. But its value as food for man and\\nfor beast became at length more generally known, and who\\ncan now estimate the fuU advantage of its cultivation to this\\ncountry The following well-authenticated fact will show\\nhow little known to the community at large the potato must\\nhave been.\\nA few of the settlers had passed the winter previous to\\ntheir establishment here, in Andover, Mass. On taking\\ntheir departure from one of the families, with whom they\\nhad resided, they left a few potatoes for seed. The potatoes\\nwere accordingly planted came up and flourished well\\nblossomed and produced balls, which the family supposed\\nwere the fruit to be eaten. They cooked the balls in various\\nways, but could not make them palatable, and pronounced\\nthem unfit for food. The next spring, while ploughing their\\ngarden, the plough passed through where the potatoes had\\ngrown, and turned out some of great size, by which means\\nthey discovered their mistake.\\nThese settlers also introduced the art of manufacturing\\nlinen of a superior quality, the raaterials for which they\\nbrought with them and as soon as their lands would admit\\nof its cultivation, the flax was considered among the moSt\\nvalued articles of produce. The spinning-wheel turned by\\nthe foot, and which came into general use, they first brought\\ninto the country, and it provt^d of essential service to this\\ncommunity. To the hand-card, the foot-wheel, and the loom,\\nthe common implements of maaufacture in almost every\\n5", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0115.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nfamily, was the town principally indebted for its early pros-\\nperity and its wealth.\\nOf such superior quality was the linen, the thread, and the\\nother fabrics manufactured in Londonderry, that they com-\\nmanded not only a more ready sale, but a higher price than\\nthose produced elsewhere. Hence many were induced to\\nknpose upon the public, by selling as Derry manufactur\u00c3\u00a9\\ntbat which was produced in other places.\\nTo prevent this fraud, a town meeting was called in 1748,\\nTo appoint proper and fit persons to survey and inspect\\nlinens, and hoUands, made in this town, for sale, so that the\\ncredit of our manufactory be kept up, and the purchasers of\\nour linens may not be imposed upon, with foreign and out-\\nlandish linens, in the name of ours and any other method\\nthat may be thought proper and necessary for that end as\\nmay be agreed upon, It was accordingly voted, that the\\nselectmen purchase seals to seal all the linens that are made\\nin said Londonderry, and that John McMurphy Esq., and\\nJohn Wallace, yeoman, be sealers and inspectors of the hol-\\nlands and linens that are made, or to be made, in our town j\\nwhether brown, white, speckled, striped, or checked, that are\\nto be exposed for sale and the said sealers and inspectors\\nshall seal any of the aforesaid linen, with a stamp in each\\nend of the piece of cloth, with the words Londonderry, in\\nNew Hampshire, and give a certificate to the persons that\\nare owners of the cloth, of their so doing for which stamp,\\ninspection, and certificate, they shall receive from the owners\\nof said linen sixpence, old tenor, for each piece. It was also\\nvoted To petition the General Asserably of the province,\\nfor a special act, to guard against any fraud that might be\\nperpetrated in the aforesaid affair, or any other thing nee-\\nessary for the intended good purposes.\\nWeaving, in the earlier periods of the settlement, Vvas per-\\nformed by men, and not, as subsequently, by women. It\\nwas regarded as among the more respectable employments,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0116.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 51\\nthe art being had in high repute, and carried by many of\\nthis people to a degree of perfection then unequalled in th\u00c2\u00a9\\ncountry. Of this, the foUowing fact affords an illustration.\\nJohn Montgomery emigrated to this town in 1747, and\\nestabHshed himself here, as a weaver. He married the\\ndaughter of Colonel George Knox she had lived some\\nyears in the family of Rev. David MacGregor, to whom she\\nwas related. He subsequently removed to Andover, Mass,\\nDuring the revolutionary war, Mr. Montgomery received\\nfrom Congress forty pounds and a diamond ring, as a pre-\\nmium for linen woven for Washington and the officers of the\\narmy. This ring he gave to his eldest daughter Jane, the\\nwife of John Clark, Esq., of Salem, N. Y., and it is now in\\nthe hands of a granddaughter, as a memorial of the interest-\\ning fact. The sale throughout the New England, and some\\nof the Middle States, of the thread and linen here manufac-\\ntured, became to those who engaged in it a lucrative business^\\nMany were thus constantly employed. Two of the larges^\\nestates accumulated in the town, and to which the inhabi-\\ntants are much indebted for the support of their religious\\nand literary institutions, were commenced and advaneed in\\nthi^ way. The Pinkertons, John and James names to be\\nhad in grateful remembrance by the people of Derry and\\nLondonderry began business as venders of these articles\\nof home manufacture.\\nThe females among the early settlers were distinguished\\nfor habitg of industry. Rarely would one enter a dweiling\\nwithout hearing the hum of the wheel, or the stroke of the\\nloom. All articles of clothing in those days were of domes-\\nt^c manufacture. The wool and the flax were carded, spun,\\nwoven, colored, and made into garments, at home. To use\\n^reign goods was considered great extravagance. For se?-\\neral years their wooUen cloths were not even fulled.\\nThe manufacturing enterprise in this country has produced\\nin this respect an entire revolution in our domestic habits.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0117.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nThe wheel and the loom are no longcr scen in our dwellings,\\nand the young women would be unprepared to use them, if\\npossessed. Yet, with all this improvement in manufactures,\\nit is still a question, whether it will prove conducive to the\\ntruc intcrests of the communitj. By the astonishing improve-\\nments in the arts of manufacture within the present centurj,\\nthere is an immense saving of time and toil in the production\\nof the necessary articles of clothing but are there not accom-\\npanying evils\\nIt has been justly remarked by one, that many of our\\nyoung women, the future mothers who are to form the char-\\nacter of the next generation, are not educated, as in former\\ndays at home, where the mind had leisure to mature, and\\nthe affections to expand, and where they were required to\\nengage in that kind of exercise most invigorating to the sys-\\ntem, but at an early period leave home, work togelher in\\nlarge companies, breath an impure air, and board in crowded\\nhouses. And though highly commendable provision lias\\nbeen made by the proprietors of our large manufacturing\\nestablishments for the improvement of those employed in\\nthem, and though many are thus brought under tlie most\\nsalutary influences, yet, is there not danger that too many of\\nthem will become disqualified for the private and domestic\\nduties of life, that their intellectual and moral interests will\\nbe neglccted Their bodies may be decked with more costly\\nattire, yet their minds may be robbed of their best affections\\nand their highest hopes. Never shall we witness a class of\\nfemales distinguished by phy^cal strength and energy, domes-\\ntic virtuos, mental vigor or moral and religious ])rinciples,\\nsuch as characterized the female portion of this community,\\nnot only at its earliest settlement, but during successive\\ngenerations. They most happily exemplified the portrait of\\nthe housewife drawn by the inspired pen.\\nIn socuring a valid title to their township, the first settlers\\nof Londonderry experienced no little embarrassment, They", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0118.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 5$\\nat first supposed that their settlement feil within the province\\nof Massachusetts bay, and therefore appUed to the genera!\\neourt of that province for the confirraation of their fermer\\ngrant but the court decided that they were not under their\\njurisdiction.\\nThey therefore, in September 1719, applied to the general\\ncourt of New Hampshire for an act of incorporation, and\\nthe enjoyment of town privileges. The folio wing is a copy\\nfrom the original petition now among the coUections of the\\nNew Hampshire Historical Society.\\nThe humble petition of the people late from Ireland,\\n\u00c3\u00afiow settled at Nutfield, to His Excellency the Governour and\\nGeneral Court assembled at Portsmouth, Sept. 23, 1719,\\nHunibly sheweth\\nThat your petitioners having made application to the\\nGeneral Court met at Boston in October last, and having\\nobtained a grant for a township in any part of their unap-\\npropriated lands, took incouragement thereupon to settle at\\nJ^utfield about the Eleventh of April last, which is situated\\nby estimation about fourteen miles from Haverel meeting-\\nhouse to the north-west, and fifteen miles from Dracut meet-\\ning-house on the River Merrimack north and by east.\\nThat your petitioners since their settlement have found\\nthat the said Nutfield is claimed by three or four different\\nparties by virtue of Indian deeds, yet none of them offered\\na,ny disturbance to your petitioners except one party from\\nNewbury and Salem. Their deed, from one John, Indian,\\nbears date March 13, Anno Dom. 1701, and imports that\\nthey had made a purchase of the said land for five pounds.\\nBy virtue of this deed they claim ten miles square westward\\nfrom Haverel line; and one Caleb Moody of Newbury, in their\\nname, discharged our people from clearing or any way im-\\nproving the said land, unless we agreed that twenty or five\\nand twenty families at most should dweil there, and that all\\nthe rest of the land should be reserved for them.\\n5*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0119.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nThat your petitioners, by reading the grant of the crown\\nof Great Britain to the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which\\ndetermineth their northern line three miles from the River\\nMerrimack from any and every part of the River, and by\\nadvice from such as were more capable to judge of this affair,\\nare satisfied that the said Nutfield is witliin his majesties\\nprovince of New Hampshire, which we are further confirmed\\nin, because the General Court, met at Boston in May last,\\nupon our renewed application, did not think fit any way to\\nintermeddle witli the said land.\\nThat your petitioners, therefore, embrace this opportu-\\nnity of addressing this Honourable Court, praying that their\\ntownship may consist of ten miles square, or in a figure equiv-\\nalent to it, they being already in number about seventy fam-\\nilies and inhabitants, and more of their friends arrived from\\nIreland, to settle with them, and many of the people of\\nNew England settling with them and that, they being so\\nnumerous, may be erected into a township with its usual\\nprivileges, and have a power of making town officers and\\nlaws. That, being a frontier place, they may the better sub-\\nsist by government amongst them, and may be more strong\\nand full of inhabitants. That your petitioners being descend-\\ned from, and professing the faith and principles of the estab-\\nlished church of North Britain, and loyal subjects of the\\nBritish crown in the family of his majesty king George, and\\nincouraged by the happy administration of his majesties chief\\ngovernour in these provinces, and the favourable inclination\\nof the good people of New England to their brethren, adven-\\nturing to come over and plant in this vast wilderness, hum-\\nbly expect a favourable answer from this Honourable Court,\\nand your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray, etc.\\nSubscribed at Nutfield, in the name of our people, Sept. 21,\\n1719, by\\nJames Gregg,\\nRoBERT Wear,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0120.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n55\\nThe petition is indorsed as follows\\nJames Gregg and Rob t Wear. In behalf of a company\\nof Irish at Nutfield, to be a township. Sept. 24, 1719, read,\\nminuted and suspended, read again April 29, 1720,\\nand minuted.\\nThis petition, drawn up with so mucb clearness and sim-\\nplicity, presents some interesting facts as to the infant settle-\\nment, particularly the rapid increase of the population. It\\ncommeneed in April, with sixteen families. In September\\nof the same year, there were seventj famihes.\\nThe lieutenant-governor of the province, dechned making\\nan actual grant, as the tract of territory including this and\\nother townships was, at that time, in dispute between the\\ncrown and the heirs of one Allen but by advice of council he\\ngave a protection, and extended to them the benefits of gov-\\nernment, appointing James McKeen, a man of distinguished\\nprobity, ability, and intelligence, justice of peace, and Robert\\nWeir, sheriff. This commission of Justice McKeen, as he\\nwas afterwards more usually styled, dated at Portsmouth,\\nApril 29, 1720, and signed by Governor Shute, is now in\\npossession of Rev. Silas McKeen, as are also, it is believed,\\nmost of the papers left by his great-grandfather.\\nAlthough James McKeen was the first acting justice in\\nthe town, it appears from certain facts that John McMurphy,\\nEsq., who joined the settlement the year foUowing, held a\\ncommission of a prior date, having received it before leaving\\nIreland. Notwithstanding they now enjoyed the protection\\nof government, and were thus encouraged to proceed in their\\nsettlement, still, the settlers of Londonderry were \u00c2\u00abnwiUing\\nto possess themselves of lands, once the undisputed property\\nof the aborigines, without a fair purchase of their claims.\\nBeing informed that Col. John Wheelwright, of Wells,\\nMe., had the best Indian title to this tract of country, derived\\nfrom his ancestor, the Rev. John Wheelright, and supposing", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0121.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "iJ6 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nthis to be valid in a moral point of view, they deputed a com-\\nmittee, consisting of Rev. Mr. MeGregor and Samuel Graves,\\nto wait upon Col. Wheelright, and secure, if possible, his title\\nto the land. The committee were successful, and obtained\\nof him a deed of land, ten miles square, in virtue of a grant,\\ndated May 17, 1629, and approved by the then existing\\naiuthorities, made to his grandfather, a minister of the gospel,\\ngjid to others named in said grant, by sundry Indiaii chiefs,\\nwith the consent of their tribes.*\\nIt appears that the Rev. John Wheelright, and others of\\nMassachusetts, pix^posing to form a settlement in the neigh-\\nborhood of Piscataqua river, assembled a council of Indians\\nat Exeter, and, by fair purchase, obtained a deed froni the\\nfour principal sagamores, of all the tei ritory lying betweeu\\nthe river Piscataqua and the Merrimack, bounded by the\\nAtlantic ocean on the east, on the south by the Merrimack\\ntQ Pawtucket Falls, thence by a line north-west, twenty\\nmilee to Amherst Plain, thence by a line running north-east\\ntQ Piscataqua river, thence down the river to the ocean.\\nJt must be truly satisfactory to the inhabitants of London-\\nderry, that the soil on which their fathers erected their habi-\\n^tions, and which they now cultivate, was not wrested from\\nthe original and rightful owners by force, as in too manj^\\ninstances was the case, in the settlement of our country.\\nThe foUowing testimony to the authenticity of this ancient\\ndeed of a tract of land, from Wehahnonaway and other la-\\ndian chiefs, to John Wheelright and others, is from a paper\\nfiled in the records of the ancient Norfolk county court.\\nI, John Wheelright, pastor of the church of Salisbury,\\ndoe test}f)% that when I, with others, first came to sit down at\\nExeter, we purchased of the Indians, to whom so far as we\\ncould learn the right did belong, a certain tract of land about\\nthirty miles square, to run from Merrimack river eaatward,\\n*See Appendix.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0122.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n57\\nand so up the country of wliich land we had a grant in\\nwriting signed by them.\\nJohn Wheelwright.\\nApril 15, 1668.\\nMr. Edward Colcord testifieth to all the above written,\\nand further saith, that one northly bound mentioned in our\\nagreement with Wehahnonaway, the chief sagamore, was\\nthe westerly part of Oyster river, which is about four miles\\nnorthly beyond Lampereele river.\\nSworn bef ore the court, ye 14th, 2d mo. 1668.\\nThomas Bradburt, Ree.\\nIn consideration of the deed obtained from Col. Wheel-\\nright, he, and also Governor Wentworth, were to receive\\ncertain lots of land in the township of Londonderry. These\\nlots included some of the best farms now in town.\\nThe government of New Hampshire, apprized of the\\nstrength and benefit whio.h the then weak province were\\nlikely to derive frora this company of emigrants, were par-\\nticiilarly attentive to them, and did much to patronize and\\nencourage them. Especially did the lieutenant-governor\\nlabor to encourage and assist the infant colony, and thereby\\nmerited and received an expression of their gratitude and\\nesteem, as appears from the following record on the town\\nbook.\\nThe people of Nutfield do acknowledge with gratitude\\nthe obligations they are under to the Hon. John Wentworth,\\nEsq., Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire. They re-\\nmember with pleasure, that His Honor, on all occasions\\nshewed a great deal of civility and real kindness to them,\\nbeing strangers in the country and cherished the small\\nbeginnings of their settlement, and defended them from the\\nencroachment and violence of such as, upon unjust grounds,\\nwould have disturbed their settlement; and always gave\\nthem a favorable ear, and easy access to government and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0123.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "5^ HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nprocured justice for them, and established order, and pro-\\nmoted peace and good government amongst them giving\\nthem always the most wholesome and seasonable advice,\\nboth with respect to the purity and liberty of the gospel, and\\nthe management of their secular concerns and put arms and\\nammunition into their hands to defend them from the fears\\nand dangers of the Indians and contributed Hberally, by his\\ninfluence and example, to the building of a house for the\\nworship of God so that, under God, we own him for the\\npatron and guardian of our settleraent, and erect this monu-\\nment of gratitude to the name and family of Wentworth, to\\nbe had in the greatest veneration by the present generation\\nan i the latest posterity.\\n\u00c3\u00afhis document is alike honorable to their patron and ben-\\nefactor, and to those who adopted it. It not only shows their\\nexposed and harassed situation during the early period of\\ntheir settlement, but evinces that genereus, high-minded feel-\\ning, and that lively sensibility to every expression of kind-\\nness conferred upon them, which so strongly marked their\\ncharacter. A favor bestowed upon them, was not soon or\\neasily forgotten.\\nIn speaking, in this address, of the encroachment and vio-\\nlence of such as upon unjust grounds vvould have disturbed\\ntheir settlement, and from which they were kindly defended\\nby the governor, there is reference more particularly to\\nattempts, by a party on the borders of Massachusetts, to dis-\\npossess them, by artifice or by force, of their tovvnship. It\\nappears that certain persons in Haverhill, and its vicinity,\\nlaid claim to these lands, by virtue of a deed of but about\\ntwenty years date, from an Indian sagamore named John,\\nwhereas the Indian title which the proprietors of London-\\nderry elaimed, was obtained more than sixty years before, and\\ngigned by all the principal chiefs who had any right whatever\\nto the territory in question. Weak and unjust as was the\\nelaim of these individuals, they endeavored to press it, hoping", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0124.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 59\\nthat, as these settlers were foreigners, if they could not by\\npersuasion, they would by menaces, be induced to abandon\\ntheir settlement. Hence they came from time to time in\\narmed bodies, threatening violence if the settlers upon these\\nlands did not remove. But they knew not the men whom\\nthey tlius assailed, men of tried courage and noble daring.\\nSatisfied of the justness of their title, and determined to\\ntnaintain it at the peril of life, if called to the encounter, the\\ninhabitants of Londonderry went forward with their settle\u00c2\u00bb-\\nInent, heedless of the menaces they received. It is related,\\nthat on one occasion a large party from Haverhill, led by a\\nman named Herriman, came fuUy armed for an encounter^\\nwnl\u00c2\u00abss these settlei^ would yield to their dematids, either\\npaying them for the township or at once quitting it.\\nIt was on Friday, and the men with their famihes W \u00e2\u0082\u00acrre\\nassembling under a spreading oak, their house of worship\\nnot being as yet erected, to observe, according to the good\\nold Presbyterian custom, the service preparatory to the co\u00c3\u00b6i-\\ninunion, which was to be administered on the following Sab-\\nbath. The assailants, on making known their purpose, Welre\\nrequested to desist from all acts of violence, until their reli-\\ngious services were over, which they consented to do. Hav-\\ning listened attentively to the discourse addressed to his floek\\nby the venerated pastor, and struck with the firm and ^em-\\ndaunted appearance of the men, and with the spirit and\\nsolemnity of their devotions, Herriman said to his foUowers\\nLet us return it is in vain to attempt to disturb this people^\\nfor surely the Lord is with them.\\nIn connection with these more formal assaults, they were\\nfrequently harassed by intruders who attempted to mow\\ntheir meadows, on which they mainly depended for the sup-\\nport of their cattle during the earlier years of the settlement.\\n8uch intruders were not unfrequently taken by them, and\\ndetained as prisoners, until satisfaction was rendered by them,\\nor their friends. We find in the town accounts during these", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0125.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nyears, frequent charges by individuals for giiarding pris-\\noners. Sometimes an inhabitant of the town, when employed\\nin these meadows, would be seized and carried away by\\nindividuals from abroad, who laid in wait for the purpose.\\nTlms a Mr. Christie, while mowing in a meadow, was seized\\nand carried to Haverhill, without being allowed to apprize\\nhis farnily of his situation. The next day some of his apparel\\nwas found in the meadow where he had been at work, and\\nhe was at length disco vered and rescued.\\nIt also appears that civil processes were commenced and\\ncarried on before the courts in Massachusetts, as they held\\ntheir sessions, at Newburyport and Ipswich, and that certain\\nindividuals were actually committed to prison under the arrests\\nwhich were made by the claimants in that province. We find\\nfrequent charges made for attendance at court at Ipswich, also\\na vote of the town to pay the expenses of the individuals\\nimprisoned, and to perform for them the necessary work\\nrequired on their farms during their imprisonment.\\nIn June, 1722, three years after the commencement of\\ntheir settlement, the tract of land which they had selected,\\nand which heretofore had been called Nutfield, was incorpo-\\nrated as a township by the name of Londonderry, in com-\\nmemoration of the city in and near to which most of them\\nhad resided in their native land.\\nThe charter conveyed to the proprietors, whose names\\nwere annexed, amounting at that early day to more tlian an\\nhundi-ed, in the name of George the Third, a tract of land ten\\nmiles square and duly bounded, and that the same be a town\\nineorporate, by the name of Londonderry to have and to\\nhold the said land, to the grantees, their heirs and assigns,\\nupon the following conditions, viz\\nThat the proprietors of every share, build a dwelling-\\nhouse within three years, and settle a family therein and\\nthat he break up three acres of land, and plant and sow the\\nsame within four years, and pay his or their proportion of the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0126.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 61\\ntown charges, when and so often as occasion sliall require\\nthe same that a meeting-house shall be built in four years\\nthat upon the default of any particular proprietor in comply-\\ning with the condition of this charter on his part, such\\ndelinquent proprietor shall forfeit his share to the other\\nproprietors, to be disposed of by vote of the major part of\\nthe proprietors the said men and inhabitants rendering\\nand paying for the same to us and to our successors, or to\\nsuch officer or officers as shall be appointed to receive the\\nsame, the annual quit-rent, or acknowledgment, of one peck\\nof potatoes, on the first day of October, yearly, forever\\nreserving, also, to our heirs and successors, all mast-trees\\ngrowing on said tract of Londonderry. After making\\nprovision for an annual town-meeting, the charter further\\nenacts, that on every Wednesday in the week forever, they\\nmay hold, keep, and enjoy, a market for the buying and\\nselling of goods, wares, and merchandise, and various kinds\\nof creatures, endowed with the usual privileges, profits, and\\nimmunities as other market towns fuUy hold, possess, and\\nenjoy, and two Fairs annually, forever the first to be held\\nand kept within the said town on the eighth day of November\\nnext, and so annually, forever the other on the eighth day of\\nMay, in like manner. Provided, if it should so happen, that\\nat/kny time either of these days fall on the Lord s day, then\\nthe said Fair shall be held and kept the day following it.\\nThe said Fair shall have, hold, and enjoy the liberties, priv-\\nileges, and immunities as other Fairs in other towns, fuUy\\npossess, hold, and enjoy.\\nThe conditions specified in this charter, serve to throw\\nlieht on the state of our ei vil communities at that time, and\\nthe origin of some practices which prevailed until a recent\\ndate in this town. The annual payment of the peck of pota-\\ntoes, and the reservation of the noblest trees in our forests,\\nSee Appendix.\\n6", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0127.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "62 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nwas an acknowledgment of the dependence of these prov-\\ninces upon the mother couiitiy all grants of lands and\\nprivileges were from the crown, and conferred by govern-\\nments acting under its appointment and authority.\\nIn the reign of William, a surveyor of the woods was\\nappointed, and acts were passed by order of the king, in the\\nseveral provinces, for the j)reservation of the white pines.\\nIn 1708, a law, made in New Ilampshire, prohibited the\\ncutting of such as were twenty-four inches in diameter at\\ntwelve inches from the ground, without leave of the surveyor,\\nwho was instructed to mark with the broad arrow, those\\nwhich be fit for the use of the navy, and to keep a register\\nof them. From these, and similar restrictions upon their\\nfreedom and independence, the fathers of the Revolution\\nsought to free themselves, and their posterity and by their\\nvalor and sufferings, they obtained, and conferred on us, the\\nrich inheritance which we now enjoy.\\nWe have here, also, the origin of those annual Fairs,\\nfor which the town became distinguished, and which were\\ncontinued until within a few years. The original design of\\nthe Fair was good, and for some years it was of public\\nuse and convenience, affording an opportunity to the inhab-\\nitants of this, and the adjoining towns, to meet and exchange\\ncommodities. It was conducted with order and propriety.\\nThe assemblage was usually large merchants from Haverhill,\\nSalem, and even Boston, were present with goods and\\nevery variety of home manufacture was here collected.\\nThe Common was usually surrounded with tents containing\\nmerchandise, and with pens of cattle, sheep, and swine, for\\nsale or exchange.\\nThe state of society at length changing, the country be-\\ncoming generally settled, stores being multiplied, and the\\nmeans of communication with our large towns greatly im-\\nproved, the Fair became of little or no use, was soon per-\\nverted from its original design, and for many years proved a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0128.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 63\\nmoral nuisance, attracting chiefly the more corrupt portion\\nof the community, and exhibiting for successive days, each\\nyear, sc\u00c3\u00a8nes of vice and folly in sonie of their worst forms.\\nAttempts were consequently made by the town, from time\\nto time, to regulate the Fair, and thus correct the e vil, but\\nwith little success.\\nAt their annual meeting in 1798, the folio wing resolution\\nand vote were passed by the town\\nFrom the misconduct and disorderly behaviour of most\\nof the people which frequent the Fair, as now holden, the\\ngood intention and original design are altogether defeated\\nwhereupon enacted, that it shall be confined to two days, one\\nday each Spring and Fall, the 19th of May and 19th of\\nOctober, when they do not occur on the Sabbath.\\nVoted, also, that no booth shall be used after 9 o clock in\\nthe evening of said days, for selling merchandise or liquor,\\nor furnishing any kind of entertainment, without forfeiting\\nand paying a fine of one pound.\\nlts final suppression was the result of the temperance\\nreformation, as it here prevailed. In 1839, the only public\\nhouse in the village, where the Fair had from the first been\\nheld, became a strictly temperance tavern the bar was\\nremoved, and no intoxicating drmks were to be obtained in\\nthe place. A number of persons on assembling at the usual\\ntime, and finding this to be the case, at once withdrew, and\\nno traces of the Fair remain in Derry, Avhere for more than\\na century it had been observed.*\\nThe settlement being incorporated, and exercising town\\ngovernment, many judicious regulations were introduced and\\nadopted, for its improvement and good order.\\nThe settlers were now in a situation to enjoy civil\\nand religious privileges, which they had never before pos-\\nAt the session of the Legislature, in June of the present year 1 850),\\nthat part of the charter of the town authorizing the holding of Fairsj\\nwas repcaled.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0129.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF LONDONDEKRY.\\nsessed and, although inexperienced in the management of\\nsucli corporations, yet having at the head of their affairs\\nmen of sound judgment and of rcligious integrity, the gov-\\nernment was cfRcient and liberal.\\nThese corporate townships, as may here be observed, are\\na pecuhar feature in our government, and are indeed essen-\\ntial to the existence and preservation of f ree institutions.\\nThey sprang, as has been supposed, from the form of church\\ndiscipline, originally introduced into New Enghmd, and in\\nthis, as well as other instances, w^e may see liow much we\\nare indebted to the Puritans, not only for the substance,\\nbut even the form of our political and civil freedom.\\nThe origin of town organizations was not derived from\\nthe authority of the general court, but from the necessity of\\nthe case, and the circumstances in which the people were\\nplaced. Their foundation was in the vohnitary, though tacit\\ncompact of the proprietors and settlers of the different towns.\\nThey were associations, in chai*acter, like that entered into\\nby the Plymouth Pilgrims before they disembarked. Settle-\\nments being made in different phices, some plan must be\\nadopted for the orderly management of their affiiirs. Taxes\\nmust be levied, lots of land must be granted, highways laid\\nout, and meetings of the freemen must be had, to make\\norders, to appoint subordinate ofRcers, and provide for their\\nsecurity and general interests.\\nIt was therefore necessary that some form of town govern-\\nment should be established. The inhabitants at first chose\\nseveral of their principal proprietors to manage the affairs\\nof the town, who were tlien styled townsmen. Some years\\nafterwards the number being reduced, and it becoming cus-\\ntomary to select three or five only fbr this purpose, they\\nwere called selectmen. To these men were intrusted the\\nprincipal concerns of the town. Their proceedings, in the\\nmanagement of its affairs, were annually brought before a\\nmeeting of the town for confirmation.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0130.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 65\\nAs the settlements advanced, and new regulations became\\nnecessary, statutes were made by the several provincial\\ngovernments, with permission of the crown, grantiiig or\\nrecogiiizing the rights and privileges of towns, and these\\ncorporations became essential parts of the machinery of the\\ncolonial, as they have since been of the State governments.\\nOther officers were added from time to time, as assessors,\\noverseers, surveyors, etc., who were annually elected at the\\ntown-meeting usually held in March.\\nThe people have always been ardently attached to these\\nlittle republics. They have guarded and watched their\\nrights with the utmost jealousy. The history of these little\\nmunicipalities, scattered over and covering the surface of\\nNew England, is closely interwoven with that of our country.\\nThe Revolution, it is believed, would never have been achieved\\nwithout them, nor would our liberties be long secure. These\\ntownships being composed entirely of the citizens, without\\nany distinction as to rank, property, or ontward appendage\\nwhatever, contain in themselves all the clements of a pure\\ndemocracy. They are the schools, as one remarks, in\\nwhich young men are educated for higher offices, and in\\nwhich all may be taught their duty as citizens. But the\\ngreat purpose which they answer, is, that they serve as a\\nbarrier against the encroachments of the State and federal\\ngovernments. One great danger in every government, is\\nthe centralization of power, a power controUing not only\\nwhat relates to the whole State or Union, as the revenue and\\npost-office and military department, but those of a more\\nlocal character, as is the case in all despotic and many of the\\nmonarchical governments.\\nTo prevent this dangerous result, we have, in the first\\nplace, our State governments, and then, what is of far greater\\nimportance, our town governments, which hold in their hands\\nmore than nine-tenths of the real power, which, so far as\\nthey are concerned, belongs to government.\\n6*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0131.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nA large proportion of the real efFective legislation, under\\nour government, is j^erformed by the towns. They raise the\\ntaxes, support the schools, roads, and bridges, provide for\\nthe poor, and direct in whatever pertains to their local inter-\\nests, as well as to the general welfare.\\nThus admirably adapted to the security and prosperity of\\na community, is the simple machinery of town government.\\nUnder this, Londonderry, like other New England towns,\\nhas grown up to its present condition, not only sending forth\\ncolonies for the commencement of other settlements in dif-\\nferent parts of the land, but becoming itself two large and\\nprosperous towns.\\nThe description, drawn by Dr. Belknap, the historian, of a\\ndesirable town community, has in many, if not all the points,\\nbeen realized in the towns which have arisen from the early\\nsettlement of Londonderry.\\nA town consisting of a due mixture of hills, valleys, and\\nstreams of water the land well fenced and cultivated the\\nroads and bridges in good repair decent inns for the\\nrefreshment of travellers, and for public entertainment. The\\ninhabitants mostly husbandmen their wives and daughters\\ndomestic manufacturers a suitable proportion of handicraft\\nworkmen, and two or three traders a physician and a\\nlawyer; a clergyman of good understanding, candid dispo-\\nsition, and exemplary morals, not a metaphysical, nor a\\npolemic, but a serieus, practical preacher. A schoolmaster,\\nwho should understand his business, and teach his pupils to\\ngovern themselves. A social library, annually increasing,\\nand under good regulations a decent musical society no\\nintriguing politician, horsejockey, gambler, or sot. Such a\\nsituation may be considered as the most favorable to local\\nhappiness of any which this world can aiford.\\nMay these towns, in their future character and situation,\\nrealize still more fully the picture here presented, and, blend-\\ning the glory of the children with that of the fathers, enlighten\\nthe dark vista of future years, till time shall be no more.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0132.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 67\\nCHAPTER III.\\nTrAITS IX THE CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLERS 3IARRIAGE\\nCEREMONIES, WAKES, AND FUNERALS DIVERSIONS ERECTION\\nOF A MEETING-HOUSE SCHOOLS EXTRACTS FROM THE OLD\\nTOWN RECORDS DWELLING-HOUSES INCORPORATION OF THE\\nWEST PARISH NOTICES OF JOHN AND JA3IES PINKERTON\\nINCORPORATION OF WINDHAM AND DERRYFIELD OLD FRENCH\\nWAR EMIGRATIONS FROII THE TOWN PATRIOTIC ZEAL OF\\nTHE INHABITANTS D\u00c3\u00bcRING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION\\nREBELLION OF 1786 THE TWO VILLAGES PINKERTON ACAD-\\nEMT ADAMS FEMALE ACADEMY DIVISION OF THE TOWN\\nEMIGRATIONS OF ENGLISH FAMILIES INTO THE TOWN.\\nThe early settlers of New Hampsliire may be divided\\ninto foiir classes these on the Piscataqua, who came into\\nthe State for the purpose of fishing and trading the Scotch\\nsettlers at Londonderry emigrants from Massachusetts,\\nwho established themselves on the Merrimack and its tribu-\\ntaries and those who came from Connecticut, and j)lanted\\nthemselves on the Connecticut river.\\nEach of these divisions of the population, is said to retain\\nand exhibit at the present time certain peculiarities, intellec-\\ntual, moral, social, and political, which were characteristic of\\nthe original settlers. This is strikingly the case in regard\\nto the Scotch-Irish settlers. The national traits which\\ncharacterized this company of emigrants, were deeply and\\nstrongly marked. They, and their immediate successors,\\nhave passed away, but they have left their impress upon the\\ngenerations which have succeeded them. Owing to the\\ndifference in their language, habits, and modes of life, from\\nthose of their English neighbors, prejudices were early\\nimbibed, and unreasonably indulged, against these settlers,\\nand many things in their manners and practices were grossly", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0133.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "68 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nmisrepresented, and falscly reported and believed. Some\\nof the inliabitants of the adjoining towns, not iinderstanding\\ntheir true origin and character, but supposing that, as they\\ncame from Ireland, they were of the native Cathohc Irish,\\nwere greatly alarmed, and were anxious to have thern\\nremoved from their immediate vieinity, if not expelled from\\nthe country.\\nAUhough they came to this land from Ireland, where\\ntheir ancestors had a century before planted themselves, yet\\nthey retained unmixed the national Scotch character. Noth-\\ning sooner offended them, than to be called Irish, Their\\nantipathy to this appellation had its origin in the hostility\\nexisting in Ireland between the Celtic race, the native Irish,\\nand the English and Scotch colonists, adverted to in a\\nformer chapter.\\n]VIi\\\\ Belknap quotes from a letter of Rev. James Mac-\\nGregor to Governor Shute, in which he says, We are\\nsurprised to hear ourselves termed Irish people, when we so\\nfrequently ventured our all, for the British crown and\\nliberties, against the Irish Papists, and gave all tests of our\\nloyalty which the government of Ireland required, and are\\nalways ready to do the same when required.\\nBetween the native Irish and the Scotch, who removed\\nto Ireland, there was almost as great a difFerence in re-\\nligion, morals, intelligence, and language, as exists between\\nthem and the English. Although the Scotch as a nation\\nare plain, frugal, frank, and somewhat rough, yet they pos-\\nsess a greater vivacity and quickness of parts, propensities\\nmore social, and stronger sensibilities of all kinds than their\\nsouthern neighbors. They have ever been distinguished for\\ntheir hospitality, their valor, firmness, and fidelity. No people\\ndisplay more faitliful and affectionate attachment to those who\\nhave conciliated their good-will and few nations have given\\nmore undeniable proofs of genius in scientific and literary pur-\\nsuits, or have, throughout past ages, sustained a higher degree", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0134.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 69\\nof moral and political respectability. This may be triily said\\nof those who constituted the settlement of Londonderiy, and\\ntheir numerous descendants and here no apology will be\\nnecessary for introducing, with the permission of the author,\\nthe concise but just view of the prominent traits in their\\ncharacter, as given by a descendant* of these emigrants, on\\na public occasion. Speaking of an interesting branch of this\\ncolony, he says But while the intellect of our people is\\nshown in the number and character of educated men that\\nhave gone from among them, it is shown still more in their\\ngeneral character. I might select many among those whom\\nI have personally known, who, if not polished so as to bring\\nout all the shades and ricli veins of intellect, have yet been\\nsufRciently cultivated to show minds capable of grasping\\nstrong thoughts, and acting upon the most important inter-\\nests of public and private life.\\nThe next remarkable feature has been courage. It was\\nshown by our fathers in Ireland, and has not deserted their\\nsons. As a people, they have never shrunk from peril. At\\nthe first sound of danger, their custom has been to fly to the\\nsc\u00c3\u00a8ne of action. So was it in the Indian and French wars.\\nSo was it after the news of the battle of Lexington. Many\\ninstances might be adduced, which would serve to illustrate\\nthe courage which has been always a prominent feature in\\ntheir character, distinguishing alike their habits of thought,\\nof social intercourse, of public and private enterprise. In\\nwhatever they have undertaken, they have gone forward\\nwith the same fearless spirit.\\nIf at any time a man has had hard thoughts of his\\nneighbor, he did not whisper it about in private scandal,\\nbut the ofFender was the first to hear it there was no secret,\\nunderhand dealing, but their voices were always loud, their\\ngait erect, their conduct open.\\nRcv. J- H. Morison, of Milton, Mass.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0135.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "70 niSTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nWhilc ready to maintain \u00c3\u009cii\u00c3\u00a8r own and tlieir neighbor s\\nrights, they have also, it must be acknowledged, never been\\nbackward in proclaiming their own merits yet they have\\nnot been a conceited, boasting race, but men who knew theu\\nstrength, who judged correctly of their merits, and would not\\nsuffer others to destroy or impair tlieir just appreciation.\\nClosely allied to this, was another prominent trait in\\ntheir character. They were always a high-minded, generous\\npeople. Though poor, they were never mean in spirit. Some-\\ntimes, indeed, a foolish pride has been among them. It is\\nrelated of the wife of the oldest John Morison, that when\\nher husband was building his first habitation in Londonderry,\\nshe came to him, and in a manner unusually affectionate,\\nsaid, Aweel, aweel, dear Joan, an it maun be a log-house, do\\nmake it a log heegher nor the lave, (than the rest.)\\nBut if they have had a little sprinkling of this spirit,\\nthey have also been marked by a true loftiness and gen-\\nerosity of soul, which, in all their trials, has not forsaken\\nthem. It mingled with their courage in war, and guided\\ntheir intelligence in politics. Li their influence, great or\\nsmall, in high or in low stations, upon the councils of the\\nstate or nation, this people, as a body, have always been on\\nthe side of a liberal, generous policy, whatever might be its\\neffect upon their private interests.\\nAnother prominent trait of character, was their ready wit.\\nNo subject was kept sacred from it the thoughtless and the\\ngrave, the old and the young, alike enjoyed it. Our fathers\\nwere serious, thoughtful men, but they lost no occasion\\nwhich might promise sport. AVeddings, huskings, log-rollings,\\nand raisings, what a host of queer stories is connected with\\nthem! Our ancestors dearly loved fun; there was a grotesque\\nhumor, and yet a seriousness, pathos, and strangeness about\\nthem, which in its way has perhaps never been excelled.\\nIt was the sternness of the Scotch Covenanter softened by a\\ncentury s residence abroad, amid persecution and trial, wed-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0136.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 71\\nded there to the comic humor and pathos of the Irish, and\\nthen grown wild in the woods, among these our New England\\nmoiintains. I see in them, and their genuine descendants,\\nthe product of the heaths and highlands of Scotland, with\\ntheir border wars of the rich low fields of Ireland, with their\\nmirth and chibs, modified afresh bj the hardships of a new\\nsettlement, and the growing infiuence of a free country.\\nThese traits of character, manifest as they wers in that\\nportion of the early settlers and their descendants to whom\\nthese remarks were directly addressed, belonged, with little\\nmodification, to the whole company of emigrants, and to the\\nseveral colonies which went out from them. But the trait\\nmost distinguishing their character, and most valuable in its\\ninfluence, was their steadfast adherence to enlightened reli-\\ngious principle, and to all the forms and duties of devotion.\\nThey were a devout, religious people. With their Pres-\\nbyterian predilections, confirmed by the inhuman massacres,\\nextortions, and wars through which they had passed, their\\nfirst object in settling here was that they might be free in\\ntheir religious faith. And no sooner were they formed\\ninto a community, than, as we have seen, they organized a\\nchurch, settled a pastor, and commenced and maintained\\nunder many disadvantages the public services of religion.\\nIn all their rude dwellings, the morning and evening sacrifice\\nof prayer and praise was regularly offered, and the Scriptures\\ndevoutly read. The omission of such daily acts of devotion, in\\na single family, w^ould, for some years after their settlement,\\nhave excited alarm, and called for examination. The fol-\\nlowing fact may serve as an illustration of the general feeling\\nwhich thus pervaded the community.\\nThe venerable pastor, being one evening informed that an\\nindividual was becoming neglectful of family worship, imme-\\ndiately repaired to his dweiling the family had retired he\\ncalled up the man, and inquired if the report was true, and\\nwhether he had omitted family devotion that evening. On", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0137.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "72 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nhis aclmitting the fact, his faithful pastor, having diily admon-\\nished liim of his faiilt, refused to leave his house until he\\nhad kneeled with his partner, and ofFered up prayer to God.\\nNot only the shorter, but the larger catechism of the\\nPresbyterian church, was regularly committed and recited\\nby all, bbtli parents and children. For nearly a century,\\nthe practice of annual family catechizing was strictly ob-\\nserved in the town. Families to the number of eight or ten,\\nassembled according to aj)pointment, at some dwelling in\\ntheir respective neighborhoods here the pastor met them,\\nand, commencing with the younger, and proceeding to the\\nelder classes, he carefully examined each individual, as to\\nhis knowledge of this summary of Christian faith and duty.\\nNot only was the answer to the question proposed expect-\\ned, but some, if not all, of the Scripture proofs annexed, were\\nrequired. By means of this catechetical instruction, with\\ntheir habitual attendance upon divine ordinances, and their\\ndevout readings of the Scriptures, and some of the best\\nStandard authors in divinity of the seventeenth century, they\\nbecame firmly established in the great and essential truths\\nof revelation, and were well fortified^ against the encroach-\\nments of error. As an illustration of this, and of the happy\\neffect of such religious training, is the fact, that, for an\\nhundred years after its settlement, no religious meeting was\\nheld, or sermon preached, in this town, except by a Presby-\\nterian or Congregational minister. The practice of thus\\nassembling by families was laid aside, in consequence,\\nmainly, of the emigration to the town of those who had not\\nbeen thus trained, and were, consequently, unprejiared for\\nsuch an exercise, and the recitations of the catechism were at\\nlength confined exclusively to children and youth, either\\nat their dwellings, wlien visited by the pastor, or at the\\nschoolroom, they being long regarded by this people, and\\nby the inhabitants of Ncav England in general, indispensable\\nat school, as a weekly exercise at least.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0138.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 73\\nBut while these excellences of character are acknowledged,\\nand tlieir influence is to this day manifest in their descendants,\\nthey had their weaknesses and their errors. Many of their\\ncustoms were decidedly objectionable, as their marriage cere-\\nmonies, their wakes or watehings with the dead, and their\\nfuneral solemnities. On these occasions, ardent spirit was\\nearly introduced and freely used, and was not unfrequently\\nproductive of sc\u00c3\u00a8nes most painful. But these practices,\\nto adopt the language of one, to whom reference has already\\nbeen made, were doubtless of Irish origin, and not the\\noffspring of Scotland, whose inhabitants are uniformly distin-\\nguished for their sober, regular habits. But what clung to\\nthem in Ireland, the disposition to humor, rioting, and laugh-\\nter, was only on the surface, playing there and varying the\\noutlines of the countenance, while the strong granite features\\nof Scotland were fixed deep in the soul. The unbending\\npurpose, the lofty principle, the almost haughty adherence to\\nwhat they believed true, and high, and sacred, resting on a\\nreligious basis, was the real substance of their character.\\nThey had foibles, they had weaknesses and errors but well\\nmay it be for us, if the refinements of a more advanced soci-\\nety, and a more liberal culture, should serve to give grace,\\nbeauty, and light to the same strong powers of thought the\\nsame courage, though in a different sphere the same gen-\\nerous elevation of soul the same vivacity and above all,\\nthe same deep, thoughtful, religious principle that belonged\\nto them.\\nIt was such domestic sc\u00c3\u00a8nes and habits, and such devotional\\nexercises as the poet of Scotland has so beautifuUy depicted\\nin his Cotter s Saturday Night, which, as transferred by\\nthis company of emigrants to this land, gave such distinction to\\ntheir settlement, and rendered it so prosperous and benefi-\\neial in its influence upon the community.\\nAs many of their customs and practices have passed away,\\nand even the recoUection of them will soou be gone, it may\\n7", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0139.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nbe well, in tliis historical sketch, to preserve such memorials\\nas now remain.\\nThe following description of the marriage ceremony, as\\nwitnessed in his early days, is furnished by an aged descend-\\nant of one of the first families which formed the settlement.\\nThese occasions were celebrated with the strongest demon-\\nstrations of joy. When two persons were about to be united\\nin wedlock, it was customary for the gentleman, in company\\nwith the father of the lady, or some one of her nearest\\nconnections, to go to the minister of the town and request\\npublishment this, the minister more usually employed the\\nelerk of the parisli to perform, but somet:mes did it himself.\\nIn the mean time, preparations were made for a sumptuous\\nentertainment. The guests were all invited at least three\\ndays before the wedding, it being considered an unpardon-\\nable- affront, to receive an invitation only a day previous.\\nTlie bridegroom selected one of his intimate friends for\\nthe best man, who was to officiate as master of the cer-\\nemony, and the bride likewise one of her companions, as\\nbest maid. The morning of the marriage-day was ushered\\nin with the discharge of musketry, in the respective neighbor-\\nhoods of the persons who were to be united. This practice\\nit seems originated in Ireland, in consequence of the Catholics\\nhaving been, after the Revolution, deprived of the use of fire-\\narms. The Protestants, proud of the superior privilege which\\nthey then enjoyed, made a display of tlieir warlike Instru-\\nments on all public occasions. Seldom was a respectable man\\nmarried without his sword by his side. At the appointed\\nhour, the groom proceeded from his dweiling with his select\\nfriends, male and female about half way on their progress\\nto the house of the bride, they were met by her select male\\nfriends and, on meeting, each company made choice of one of\\ntheir number to run for the bottle to the bride s house.\\nThe champion of the race who returned first with the bottle,\\ngave a toast, drank to the bridegroom s health, and, having", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0140.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 75\\npassed round the bottle, the whole party proceeded, saluted\\nby the firing of muskets from the houses they passed, and\\nansweriiig these salutes with pistols. When arrived at the\\nbride s residenee, the bridegroom s corapany were placed\\nin an apartment by themselves, and it was considered an act\\nof imjioliteness for any one of the bride s company to intrude.\\nWhen the ceremony was to commence, the best man first\\nintroduced the bridegroom then, entering the bride s apart-\\nment, led her into the room, and, placing her at the right\\nhand of her intended, took his station directly behind, as\\ndid the best maid. The minister commenced the marriage\\nservice with prayer on requesting the parties to join hands,\\neach put the right hand behind, when the glove was drawn\\noff by the best man and maid. Their hands being joined,\\nthe marriage covenant was addressed to them, with appro-\\npriate remarks on the nature and responsibilities of the\\nconnection thus formed. Having concluded with another\\nprayer, he requested the groom to salute his bride, which being\\ndone, the minister performed the same ceremony, and was\\nimmediately foliowed by the male part of the company the\\nfemales in like manner saluted the bridegroom.\\nThe ceremony being concluded, the whole company sat\\ndown to the entertainment, at which the best man and best\\nmaid presided. Soon after the entertainment, the room was\\ncleared for the dance and other amusements, and the\\nevening, remarks our aged informant, kindling at the re-\\ncollection of by-gone sc\u00c3\u00a8nes, was spent with a degree of\\npleasure of which our modern fashionables are perfectly\\nignorant.\\nThe foregoing is a brief sketch of a Scotch-Irish wedding,\\nas usually witnessed. But there was another form of mar-\\nriage which became somewhat fashionable.\\nFor some years previous to the Revolution, the governor\\nof New Hampshire, appointed by the crovyi, was authorized\\nto grant licenses for marriage, as a means of augmenting his", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0141.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "76 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nsalary, which was in those days small. He was allowed\\ntwo crowns for each license which he signed. This yielded\\na considerable revenue, as facihties were thus afforded for\\nclaiidestine marriages, which often produced serious evils.\\nThe ministers of this town opposed the practice and it was\\nregarded by the church as a subject of discipline, as several\\ninstances on the records of the church clearly show but\\nthere were ministers who approved of this mode of marrying,\\nand furnished themselves with licenses from the governor, to\\nbe filled out by them as occasion might require.\\nThis was the case with the Rev. Mr. Flagg, of Chester, to\\nwhom those who wished to be married without publishment\\nwould resort from this and other towns. Hence such marriages\\nwere usually termed in this community Flagg marriages.\\nSeveral elopements and marriages took place in this way by\\npersons of this town, some of a romantic character. In one\\ncase, the parties had been published, and the day of marriage\\nhad arrived all arrangements were made, and the bride s\\ncompany had left her house to meet the bridegroom, as before\\ndescribed. In the mean time another gentleman rode up to\\nthe door the horse being provided with a j)illion, she imme-\\ndiately mounted behind him and departed, and, before the\\nintended bridegroom had reached her father s dweiling, she\\nwas the wife of another. Such instances created a strong\\nsensation in the community, and rendered them still more\\ntenacious in their adherence to their ancient customs in this\\nrespect.\\nTheir funeral observances were of a character, in some\\nrespects, peculiar. When death entered their community,\\nand one of their number was removed, there was at once a\\ncessation of all labor in the neighborhood. The people gath-\\nered together at the house of mourning, and during the\\nearlier periods of the settlement, observed a custom which\\nthey had brought.with them from Ireland, called the wake,\\nor watching with the dead, from night to night, until the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0142.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORT. 77\\ninterment. These night sc\u00c3\u00a8nes often exhibited a mixture of\\nseriousness and of humor which appear incompatible. The\\nScriptures w\u00c3\u00b3uld be read, prayer offered, and words of coun-\\nsel and consolation administered but ere long, according to\\nestablished usage, the glass, with its exhilarating beverage,\\nmust circulate freely so that, before the dawn, the joke and\\nthe laugh, if not sc\u00c3\u00a8nes more boisterous, would break in\\nupon the slumbers of the dead.\\nAt the funeral, whatever might have been the age, the\\ncharacter, or condition of the deceased, the assemblage would\\nbe large. Every relative, however distant the connection,\\nmust surely be present, or it would be regarded as a\\nmarked neglect and it was expected that all the friends and\\nacquaintance of the deceased, within a reasonable distance,\\nwould attend. Although funeral sermons were seldom if\\never delivered on the occasion, yet there would be usually\\nas large a congregation as assembled on the Sabbatli. Pre-\\nvious to the prayer, spirit was handed-around, not oniy to the\\nmourners and bearers, but to the whole assembly. Again,\\nafter prayer, and before the cof\u00c3\u00afin was removed, the same was\\ndone. Nearly all would follow the body to the grave, and\\nusually the greater number walked. Processions, from a\\nthird to a half a mile in length, were not unfrequent. At\\ntheir return, the comforting draught was again administered,\\nand ample entertainment provided. Many a family became\\nembarrassed, if not impoverished, in consequence of the heavy\\nexpenses incurred, not so much by the sickness which pre-\\nceded the death of one of its members, as by the funeral ser-\\nvices as then observed, and which as they supposed respect\\nfor the dead required.\\nTheir diversions and sc\u00c3\u00a8nes of social intercourse were of\\na character not the most refined and cultivated displaying\\nphysical rather than intellectual and moral powers, such\\nas boxing-matches, wrestling, foot-races, and other athletic\\nexercises. At all public gatherings, the ring would be\\n7*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0143.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nusually formed and the combatants, in the presence of neigh-\\nbors, brothers, and even fathers, would encounter each other\\nin close-fight, or at arms-length, as the prescribed forra might\\nbe thus giving and receiving the well-directed blow, until\\nthe face, limbs, and body of each bore the marks of almost\\nsavage brutality. All this was done, not in anger, or from\\nunkind feeling towards each other, but simply to test the\\nsuperiority of strength and agility.\\nThe females, also, had their social interviews but they\\nwere unlike parties of modern times, marked by cold formal-\\nity, or ceremonious politeness, and by the exhibition and dis-\\nplay of costly attire and finery. They would assemble from\\ntime to time at each other s dwellings, carrying with them\\nthe small wheel and the flax, and spend a long half day in\\nsocial talk and diligent labor, combining in the happiest man-\\nner pleasure and profit.\\nThe Scotch-Irish have been distinguished for their wit\\nand qu\u00c3\u00afckness of ret(ft*t. Their repartees were often in a\\nhigh degree sarcastic as well as humorous. The author had\\npurposed to collect and insert a few anecdotes as illustrative\\nof this trait of character, and which might also serve to\\nenliven the historie details which chiefly compose this work.\\nBut in attempting it, he was soon reminded of an incident\\nconnected with the delivery of an election sermon, by Rev.\\nDr. Morrison, before the New Hampshire legislature. The\\nlegislature having voted to publish the discourse, and having\\nspecified the number of copies to be printed, a raember of\\nthe body moved for an additional number, provided they\\nwould also print the hroguer It was this, that often gave\\npeculiar force and pungency to what was uttered but this\\nwe cannot print.\\nSuch were the traits which characterized the settlers of\\nLondonderry, and their immediate descendants. The sub-\\nstantial clements of their character well deserve attention,\\nand long may they be cherished and perpetuated by their", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0144.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORT. 79\\nposterity. Their faults and faults they had partly be-\\nlonged to the times, but were more the effect of strong feel-\\nings without the advantages of early discipline. At the same\\ntime, they had in them the rudiments of a real refinement,\\nwarm, kind, and gentle feelings and specimens of polite-\\nness w^ere found among them worthy of the patriarchal age.\\nThey have indeed long since passed away, but they have\\nleft their impress upon the generations which have succeeded\\nthem. Forever honored be their names, forever cherished\\ntheir memories not only by those who dweil on the spot\\nplanted by their hands, but by their numerous and wide-\\nspread descendants of whom it may truly be said, The\\nglory of children is their fathers.\\nMany, indeed, of their descendants in the several profes-\\nsions, and in the various walks of public and private life,\\nhave sustained characters of distinguished excellence, and\\nlilled some of the highest offices literary, military, civil,\\nand sacred in the country. We can name those descend-\\ning from this company of emigrants, who have* held seats in\\nthe American Congress, who have presided in our higher\\nseminaries of learning, who have fiUed places in our State\\ncouncil and senate, who have signalized themselves by mili-\\ntary achievements, who have sustained the chief magistracy\\nof the Commonwealth, and who have been distinguished as\\nministers of the gospel.\\nThe growth of the settlement w^as very rapid, and the\\nearly settlers received frequent accessions to their number.\\nTheir fellow-countrymen, then in America, flocked to join\\nthem, while emigrants from Ireland, on their amval in New\\nEngland, mostly sought a residence in the colony here es-\\ntablished so that, as we have seen, the number of families\\nincreased in a few months from sixteen to seventy, and the\\npopulation continued to augment in such a degree, that, at its\\nincorporation, three years after its commencement, the sev-\\neral lots into which the town had been divided, were mostly", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0145.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "80 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\ntaken up, and families planted throughout its various sec-\\ntions.\\nAlthougli they did not at first obtain an act of incorporation\\nas a township, yet, receiving the protection of government,\\nand the benefits of law, they proceeded to organize them-\\nselves into a civil community, and to appoint suitable of\u00c3\u00aficers\\nfor the due management of its concerns, and the promotion\\nof its interests. Their first regular meeting for the transac-\\ntion of town business, was lield November 9, 1719.\\nThe town voated Mr. James McKeen for Moderator. On\\nthe said day, was voated for Town Clerk, John Goffe.\\nAt an adjourned meeting, November 20th, 1719.\\nThe Town voated, that seven men should be chosen as a\\ncomnlittee for the managing of the publiek affairs of this\\ntown, and the names of the members are as followeth David\\nCargil, James McKeen, James Gregg, Robart Wier, John\\nMorison, Samuel Graves, and John Goffe.\\nThis committee, in the laying out and disposal of the lots,\\nagreed that tlie first settlers, to the number of twenty, should\\neach have an additional lot to dispose of to any person whom\\nthey should see cause to settle on it. This act of the committee\\noccasioned much dissatisfaction.* The town, at a meeting\\nin July, 1720, Voted to refer the whole matter to the Gen-\\neral Court, at their next session at the Bank, that is, Ports-\\nmouth, that place being originally called Strawberry Bank.\\nLi October following, Lieutenant-govcrnor Wentworth\\nvisited the town for the i:)tirpose of adjusting this and other\\ndifiiculties. He ordered that Ensign Blair, John MacNeil,\\nand Hugh Montgomery, should be joined to the committee\\nin the management of the public affairs of the town and it\\nFrom this vote it appears, that although but sixtcen families first took\\npossession of the ground selectcd for a scttlcment, tliey were very soon\\njoined by four others, making ihc twenty who chiimcd and rcccived\\nthese additional lots as the first settlers, namcly, John Gregg, John\\nGoffe, Elias Keyes, and Joseph Simonds.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0146.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 81\\nwas ordered by the governor, that they should have f uil\\npowers to lay out the highways in this town, the wayes to\\nbe laid out, not to be under four rods wide. This direction\\nwas, however, very generally neglected, so that most of the\\nroads were not more than two rods wide.\\nSuch was the regard of this people to the institutions of the\\ngospel, that they no sooner obtained a title to the soil, and\\nwere organized into a township, than they began, notwith-\\nstanding their embarrassed circumstances, to make arrange-\\nments for the erection of a house of worship, in order to the\\nmore convenient enjoyment of Christian privileges. We\\nfind in the town records the folio wing minutes in regard to\\nits erection.\\nAt a general town meeting, June 3, 1720, On the day\\nabove said, the Town voated that their shall be a small\\nhouse built that may be convenient for the inhabitants to\\nmeet in for the worship of God, and that it shall b\u00c3\u00a9 built as\\nsune as it can with conveniency allso that the house shall\\nbe built as near the senter of the one hundred and five lots,\\nas can be with conveneance.\\nAt a general town meeting, June 29, 1720, The town\\nthen voated that the meeting-house shall be built within\\nseven rhods of a black stake set up either upon or near unto\\nMr. McGregor s lott.\\nJanuary y^ llth, 1720-21. At a general Town meeting\\nit was voated, that a meeting-house shall be built in this town\\nas speedely as may be, and that the above said house shall\\nbe fifty feet in length, forty five feet broad, and so high as\\nmay be conveneant for one set of galeryes. On the day\\naforesaid, voated that two men be chosen as a committee to\\nagree with the carpenter, and other affairs relaiting to said\\nhouse. The members chosen for said committe are Mr.\\nJames McKeen, and Mr. Samuel More.\\nThe house was raised and finished the following year and\\nthus, in a little more than two years from their settlement", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0147.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nhere in the wilderness, they dedicated to the service of God\\na convenient and well-finished house of worship, while they\\nconstructed their own houses of logs regarding not, as many\\ndo, their own private gratification and convenience, to the\\nneglect of the divine honor and the interests of the soul,\\ndvvelling in their own ceiled houses, while the house of\\nGod is neglected.\\nIn this undertaking, attended as it must have been at that\\nearly period with very considerable expense, on account\\nof the difRculty of obtaining the requisite materials, they\\nwere kindly aided by Governor Wentworth, and other benev-\\nolent gentlemen in and near Portsmouth.\\nThe house of worship thus erected, was situated a few feet\\nnorth of the spot occupied by the present house. A more\\npleasant and favorable location could not have been selected\\nwithin the limits of their township. In this house they con-\\ntinued to worship nearly fifty years, until 17G9, when a new^\\nmore capacious, and better finished one was erected.\\nThe men who laid the foundation of this community were\\nmindful, not only of the religious interests of themselves and\\nfamilies, but also of the means of education. In 1723, a\\nschoolhouse was built upon the Common, near the meeting-\\nhouse. It was of logs, and but sixteen feet long and twelve\\nwide. In this humble building commenced the education of\\nthose who were, in after years, distinguished for their attain-\\nments and usefulness. In 1725, only six years after their\\nsettlement, it was Voted in town meeting, that there should\\nbe a school in each quarter of the town six months in a year,\\nif suitable instructoi:s could be procured.\\nThe following are the namcs of some of the early school- teachers\\ncmployed in the town, namely, Robert Morrison, Eleanor Aiken, John\\nBarnett, W. Harvey, and Archibald Wier wirc cmployed in 1725;\\nJohn Wilson, William Wallace, Ezckiel Stcele. and Morton, in\\n1733; Thomas Boyes, Francis Bryan, and Goodall in 1735;\\nMatthew Campbell, Thomas Bacon, William McNcil, and John", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0148.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORT. 83\\nIn this early and prompt attention to the means of educa-\\ntion, we mark the wisdom and foresight of these men. They\\nsought to found the prosperity of their community on the\\ncultivation of the mind, as well as on the improvement of the\\nheart. Knowledge, as well as piety, were in their view\\nessential to the maintenance of civil and religious institutions,\\nif not to the attainment of salvation. They had while in their\\nnative land given no countenance to the popish dogma, that\\nignorance is the mothgr of devotion. They were by no\\nmeans an uninformed people. They were not only imbued\\nearly with religious truth, but favored with common school\\neducation, which was at that time more generally enjoyed in\\nScotland, and the north of Ireland, than in England. The\\ngreat proportion of them could read and write, while a few\\nwere more highly educated. This early attention to educa-\\ntion has not declined in the community they established.\\nThe regard which has been paid to learning by the inhabi-\\ntants of Londonderry, appears from the literary institutions\\nhere established, and from the number and charaeter of their\\neducated men, who will be more particularly noticed here-\\nafter.\\nTo meet the expenses of the settlement, it was voted in\\ntown meeting, March 25, 1721, that all the lots in this\\ntown be rated thirty shillings per lott, from the first settle-\\nment thereof unto this present day.\\nAs the lots assigned to the proprietors, by the men chosen\\nto manage the prudential affairs of the town, were not of\\nlike value, considerable dif\u00c3\u00aficulty arose in equalizing the\\nclaims of the settlers. In order to an adjustment of these\\ndifficulties, and to secure to eacli an equivalent for any defect\\nEayrcs in 1736; Mary McNeil, Daniel Todd, and William McNeil in\\n1737.\\nThe amount of money expended for schools in 1725, was \u00c2\u00a336, 4s.\\nThe amount assessed for ministers ratcs in 1726, was \u00c2\u00a398, 12s. ld. in\\n1727, it was \u00c2\u00a3128. 16s.5d.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0149.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "84\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nin their respective lots, a special committee was appointed,\\nconsisting of James Gregg, Samuel Graves, and Thomas\\nSteele, and a vete passed, that all persons that have a mind\\nto complain of their lots may repair to the rtiree men above\\nnamed, paying them for their time they are by them to have\\ntheir lots valued, and a recompense made them according to\\ntheir want, provided they make their complaint by the lOth\\nof May next ensuing, and no allowance after that time.\\nAlthough, as a people, they valued the gospel, and readily\\nmade self-denying efforts for the support of its institutions,\\nyet there were individuals at that early day, as there have\\nbeen since, who were not disposed to pay their just propor-\\ntion of the expense thus incurred. Hence, we find that at a\\nmeeting, January 22, 1721-2, in order to take some proper\\nmethods for giting in the minister s salary, ordered that a\\nlist be drawn forth of the arrears, and the town clerk to\\nannex a warrent thereto, in order to the constables distrain-\\ning those persons that neglect or refuse to pay their rates to\\nthe minister.\\nThe following entry is upon their town book, and may\\nserve to exhibit the charaeter of their financial concerns\\nThe town of Nutfield has raised, this present year, 1721,\\nby the committee, 15 shillings per lot, which amounts to\\n\u00c2\u00a381, Os, Od and it has been disposed of in the following\\nmanner also, \u00c2\u00a315, O, O, received of Gilmore, for half a lot\\nsold by ye town also, \u00c2\u00a35, O, O, received of the governor,\\nof ye town s money, and \u00c2\u00a311 pounds due from Constable\\nWear to the town in all, \u00c2\u00a3112, O, 0.\\nIn the disbursement of this sum, as specified in the town\\naccounts, we find the followinof items\\nTo Alexander Nicols, for his going down for the\\nclements of the sacrament, \u00c2\u00a30, 10, O\\nTo James McNeel, for going to the Bank (i. e.\\nPortsmouth) on the town business, 1, 5, O\\nTo Arch. Clendenen, for work at Mr. McGregor s, 1, 1,0", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0150.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 85\\nTo Robert Wear, for carrying the prisoners to the\\nBank, calling the court, a constable staiF and\\ncharges at Chester, 2, 8,\\nFor the charges of the prisoners at his house, O, 4, 6\\nTo Mr. McKeen, when he went to the Sessions at\\nthe Bank, when he got the promise of a gift to\\nthe town towards the building of the meeting-\\nhouse, O, 19, 6\\nTo Mr. McGregor and Mr. McKeen, when they\\nwent to Governor Usher, O, 10,^9\\nTo Daniel McFee, for going to the Bank with the\\nprisoners, and making the town stock of bullits, O, 14, O\\nTo James Alexander, for lead, O, 2, O\\nTo James McNeel, for going to the Bank for the\\nmoney the gentlemen at the Bank promised to\\nbestow on the town, towards building the meet-\\ning-house, 2, 10,\\nTo the Commissioners that go to the Bank on\\naccount of the town grant or charter, O, 7, 0.\\nThe foUowing entry may also show the simpllcity and\\neconomy of those times, in regard to public expenses. At\\na general town meeting, January ye 19, 1719, the town\\nvoted, that seven men should be chosen as a committee for\\nthe viewing and laying out of lots and meadows and that\\nthe above committee shall have four shillings per day for\\ntheir work.\\n\u00c2\u00abMarch24, 1721-2.\\nThe committee being met, and having cast up how manj\\ndayes they have set upon the public affairs of this town, and\\nfinding it to be 20 dais to six of said committee, and ten dais\\nto Joseph Simons. And the committee agreed to take their\\npay in work from the town.\\nIt appears from the records of the town, that there were\\nthree grand divisions of its lands, and that each proprietor\\nreceived a lot in each of these separate divisions.\\n8", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0151.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nThe indiviclual wlio imdertook the finishing of the meet-\\ning-house, was one Jeremiah Osgood, and, as it appears, he\\nfound it a losing job.\\nAt a town meeting, March je 5, 1722. Voted, tliat\\nJeremiali Osgood shall have a tract of land allowed liim, in\\nthe coramon lands in this town, as a consideration for his loss\\nin his work about the meeting-house in this town.\\nVoted, that the said Jeremiah Osgood shall also have\\none hundred acres in satisfaction for his work.\\nOn the said day the town voted, that the fairs and mar-\\nkets shall be held at the meeting-house.\\nVoted, that the pound shall be made by the meeting-\\nhouse that it shall be built this spring, before June next\\nensuing.\\nAt a town meeting, October, 1723. Voted, that all per-\\nsons who shall do any work for the town, shall be allowed\\ntwo shillings and sixpence, and no more, per day.\\nVoted at the above meeting, that the select-men shall have\\npower to take what methods they shall think fit, for the secur-\\ning the fishery at Amoskeag.\\nAs lumber for building was much needed by the settlers,\\nthey took immediate measures to have a saw-mill erected.\\nA fall in the stream issuing from Beaver Pond, very near\\nthe centre of the town, afForded sufiicient water power, and\\nformed a good site both for a saw-mill and a grist-mill.\\nAccordingly, on the seventeenth of June, 1719, The town\\nordered a saw-mill to be built on Beaver River, and the\\ntenor of their agreement with the undertakers, viz. Robert\\nBoyes, James Gregg, Samuel Graves, and Joseph Simonds,\\nis as followeth the above named have obliged themselves to\\nbuild a saw-mill upon Beaver river, to be ready some time\\nin the month of September, and that the said stream is\\ngranted to the above named men, and a lot of land to them\\nand their heirs forever, only the above named James Gregg\\nshall have full privilege to build a grist-mill upon the said", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0152.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 87\\nstream, tliat is to say, upon *Beaver river and tliat tlie said\\nSamuel Graves, Robert Boyes, Josepli Simonds, and James\\nGregg, sliall have the prevelidge of the said stream from the\\nfoot of the falls to the upper end of beaver pond. This\\nprivilege of a mill stream was subsequentlj confirmed in the\\ncharter particularlj, to James Gregg and John GofFe, for\\ntheir good services in promoting the settlement of the town,\\nThe next year, 1720-1, the committee intrusted with the\\nmanagement of the public affairs of the town, being peti-\\ntioned to by William Aiken, John Bell, Andrew Todd, John\\nWallis, James Aiken, and Benjamin Wilson, for the grant of\\na stream or brook, which commonly goes by the name of\\nAiken s brook, in order to the setting up of a saw-mill there-\\non, and also one acre of land adjoining to said brook, that\\nwill be convenient for a yard to said mill. The committee\\nhaving taken it into consideration, and thinking that it may\\ntend to the publiek good of this town to have more milis set\\nup in it, granted their request, and by virtue of the power\\nand trust committed to them, secured to the petitioners the\\nsaid stream or brook, on the condition that what boards they\\nshould have to dispose of, the inhabitants of this town shall\\nhave the refusal of, at the rate of thirty shillings per thou-\\nsand, and sawing, at fifteen shillings per thousand.\\nThis mill was on the site of the one now occupied by Mr.\\nHorne. In the following year, a grist-mill was erected by\\nJames Gregg, in what is now the lower village, and a lot of\\nland secured to him in consequence by the town, of which we\\nhave the following minute in their town records. The town\\nvoated that Mr. James Gregg shall have his grist-mill lot\\nlaid out to him upon the south side of beaver river.\\nA few years after, another grist-mill was erected on the\\nstream which empties into Beaver Pond, near its mouth, and\\nwhich for more than a century has been owned and improved\\nby the descendants of John McMurphy, Esq. Until the\\nerection of these milis, the inhabitants were subject to great", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0153.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\ninconvenience in obtaining their meal. Oxen and horses\\nnot being yet cominon among them, many were obliged to\\ncarrj their grain upon tlieir slioulders, a distance of some\\nmiles, to be ground. In some families, the hand-mill, of\\nwhich we read in Scripture, was used. The stones are now\\noccasionally seen among the relies of the ancient dwellings.\\nThey were usually tiirned, as in Jiidea of old, by two women.\\nBy means of the saw-mills, which were soon in operation, the\\npeople were much aided in procuring materials for building.\\nThe log huts in which they had at first resided, soon gave place\\nto substantial framed-houses, many of them two stories high.\\nThey were usually after the same model, and by no means\\nin accordance with modern notions of economy in the saving\\nof fuel, or of convenience in the performance of household\\nlabor. The Rev. Mr. MacGregor s house was the first\\nerected it is now standing, and is a fair representation of\\nthe style of the better class of their dvvelling-houses two\\nstories in front and one story in the rear. The internal con-\\nstruction was uniformly the same. There were two large\\nfront rooms, the kitchen was back, extending nearly across\\nthe house, with ample dressers, and a sink at one end, and\\na bedroom at the other.\\nThe fireplace in the kitchen extended nearly a third of the\\nlength of the room. It was four or five feet high, with jambs\\nsuf\u00c3\u00aficiently spacious to contain logs two or three feet in diam-\\neter, and eight feet long. Back in the corner of the fireplace\\nwas a capacious oven, while in both corners, under the chim-\\nney, was room for benches, which were the usual seats for\\nthe children.\\nThese large kitchens, none of which remain in their orig-\\ninal form, contributed much to the domestic enjoyment of the\\nearly settlers. Not only the members of the household,\\nusually large in those days, but the collcctions of neighbors,\\nwhich were tlien frequent, would form an evening circle\\naround the blazing hearth, productive, perhaps, of more sub-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0154.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0157.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0158.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORT.\\n89\\nstantial (if not equallj refined) pleasure, than is now expe-\\nrienced in social parties. The one-story framed buildings,\\nresembled in all respects tliose just described, except in the\\nwant of the two square front-chambers.\\nIn their out-door arrangements, their barns, out-houses,\\nfields, and fences, the early settlers manifested a negligence, a\\nwant of skill, taste, and good husbandry, rarely to be witnessed\\nin the town at this time. In all these particulars there has\\nbeen a very marked advance. They feit not the need of agri-\\ncultural improvements. The soil was rich and productive,\\ntheir wants comparatively few, and their time necessarily oc-\\ncupied in making their first clearings, laying out and fencing\\ntheir fields and roads, and rendering their situation comfort-\\nable. They labored others have entered into their labors.\\nBeing now duly organized as a township their lots as-\\nsigned, and many of them under improvement a meeting-\\nhouse well finished, and an able and acceptable pastor settled\\nover them the settlement rapidly ros\u00c3\u00a9 in character, in num-\\nbers, and importance. The population increased not only\\nby births but by emigration.\\nThe first person born in Londonderry was Jonathan Mor-\\nrison, son of John and Margaret Morrison who was born\\nSept. 8, 1719. The second, was James McKeen, Jr. Their\\nbirths were not far apart, and there was much anxious\\nexpectation, says a venerable man, now Hving, Judge\\nMcKeen of New York, who personally knew the rivals,\\nwhich mother s son sliould obtain the prize of a farm or lot\\nof land, which was to be assigned to the first-born son of\\nLondonderry.\\nJohn Morrison removed after a few years to Peterborough,\\nand became the ancestor of many of the more distinguished\\ncharacters who have originated from that town, among whom\\nwas the Hon. Jeremiah Smith.\\nHis son Jonathan, to whom we have referred, became dis-\\ntinguished as a mechanic, being the first, and for a consider-\\n8*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0159.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nable time the only one in Peterborough. He was, as stated\\nin the centenary discourse delivered in that town, a mill-\\nwright, a blacksmith, a carpenter, a house-joiner, a stone-\\ncutter, a gun-maker, and had the rei3utation of being really\\na workman at all these trades. He was a man highly gifted,\\ndistinguished for quickness of parts, great ingenuity, and\\ngenerous in the extreme. He removed from Peterborough\\nto Vermont, and died about the year 1778.\\nThe first marriage in Londonderry was that of John Walis\\nand Annis Barnard, by the Rev. Mr. MacGregor, May 18,\\n1721.\\nThe second, was that of John Barnett and Joan Seaford,\\nby Mr. MacGregor, Nov. 2, 1721.\\nJohn Crombie and Joan Rankin, were mariied on the\\n17thofNov. 1721.\\nThe first person who died in the town was John Clark,\\nJanuary 13, 1720-1.\\nThe next whose death is recorded is Mary Leslie, the\\nwife of James Leslie, who died April 8, 1722.\\nThe spot selected by this company as the last resting-place\\non earth for themselves and their descendants, was the lot\\nwhich has ever since been occupied as a cemetery. Here\\nreposes the dust, not only of those who first took possession\\nof the township, but of five generations who have folio wed\\nthem to the house appointed for all the living. A walk,\\nsays a late visitor of the place, through its crowded grave-\\nyard, through the moss-covered stones, marking the spots\\nwhich contain the remnants of men of former days the fre-\\nquency with which the same name occurs, as in long lines of\\ntomb-stones families seem to repose together, shows that this\\npeople have dwelt alone, and not mingled with others. This\\nremark applies to the earlier generations.\\nThe land thus occupied as a graveyard, together with the\\nCommon, on which the meeting-house stands, was conveyed\\nas a gift to the town, by Robert MacGregor, for these pub-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0160.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 91\\nlic purposes, in 1729.* As deatli multiplied its tropliies\\nfrom one generation to anotlier, tlie place originally assigned\\nfor the dead, containing about three acres, became too limited\\nfor tlieir reception, and was enlarged in 1816, and again in\\n1846 so that the inclosure now contains twice the original\\narea.\\nOn October 29, 1729, there was an earthquake, the severest\\never known in New England, causing the earth to quake\\nwith a terrible noise, and producing the greatest imaginable\\nterror. It happened at ten o clock in the eveniiig. The\\nheavens were clear, the atmosphere perfectly calm, and the\\nmoon was shining in her brightness. Mr. MacGregor, feel-\\ning for his beloved flock, at once arose and prepared to go\\namong them. He was reminded that his family needed his\\npresence at home. O, said he, I have a still greater fam-\\nily, which I must care for. As he was hastening to their\\ndwellings, he met numbers of them simultaneously flocking\\nto his own house, that they might receive from him counsel\\nand consolation in the hour of alarm. The shock extended\\nseveral hundred miles, its greatest force being displayed at\\nNlWbury, Mass., only twenty miles from Londonderry, where\\nthe earth opened in several places. A general seriousness\\nfoliowed. In many towns, numbers were awakened and\\nhopefully converted, a reformation of morals was visible, fam-\\nily pray er was more generally attended, and great additions\\nw\u00c3\u00aare made to many churches.\\nThe settlement continuing to receive accessions from Ire-\\nland, and elsewhere, was so increased in its population, that,\\nas early as 1730, but eleven years from its commencement,\\na petition was presented at a town meeting, by sundry per-\\nsons in the westerly part of the township, to be set off, as a\\nparish, for the better enjoyment of religious privileges.\\nThe petition was at this time refused, but being from time\\nto time renewed, the request was, in 1735, granted by the\\nSee Appendix.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0161.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\ntown, and about sixty families became a distinct religious\\nsociety, known hy the name of the West Parish of London-\\nderiy, in distinction from the original society, afterwards\\nusually styled the First, or East Parish.\\nPrevious to this division of the town into parishes, or about\\nthe time of it, a meeting-house was built on the hill, near\\nwhat is now usually termed the old graveyard. No account\\nof the erection of this house appears on any town or parish\\nrecords. The probability is, that it was built by certain indi-\\nviduals, in anticipation of the formation of a new parish, and\\nas a means of securing that object. It was also supposed by\\nthose engaged in its erection, that this would be the central\\npoint in the new parish, and the place of worship. But cir-\\ncumstances occurred which served to fix the location else-\\nwhere. Rev. David MacGregor, son of the first minister,\\nabout this time received license to preach the gospel. He\\npossessed distinguished gifts, and gave high promise of future\\nacceptableness and usefulness as a minister of Christ. The\\nsecond parish had selected him, in case of their organization\\nby the General Court, as their future pastor. A number of\\nfamilies in the east part of the town, from strong attachrrffent\\nto Mr. MacGregor as the son of their first minister, to whom,\\nalso, many of them w\u00c3\u00a8re relatives, and being not fuUy satisfied\\nwith Rev. Mr. Davidson, who had been recently settled as\\npastor of the first religious society, made application to\\nbecome mombers of the new parish, and were received.\\nResiding, as they mostly did, east of the old or first meeting-\\nhouse, their influence was such as to induce the West parish\\nto locate their house of worship at the Aiken s Range, more\\nthan a mile east of the house which had been built for that\\npurpose.\\nThis of course greatly disaffected many who resided west\\nof this spot. They therefore withdrew from the new, and\\nreunited with the old parish. Hence the act of the General\\nCourt, incorporating the second parish, which was not ob-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0162.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n93\\ntained until 1740, contained a clause authorizing forty\\nfamilies, who lived within the bounds of the East parish, to\\nbe taxed for the support of the gospel in the West parish,\\nand an equal number in the West, to be taxed in the East\\nparish. This continued in force until 1778, when, at the\\nrequest of the town, the clause was repealed, and these\\nfamilies were confined in the pajment of the ministerial tax\\nto the parish within whose bounds they resided although\\nmanj continued to worship as they had before done, until\\nthe causes of the division were reraoved by the erection of a\\nnew house of worship in a more central part of the West\\nparish.*\\nThe first store of foreign and domestic goods in the town,\\nwas opened by Elder, or as he was more usually called\\nMajor, John Pinkerton. He was born in Ireland, and came\\nwith his father to this country when he was about four years\\nof age. He commenced business quite early in life, carrying\\na variety of lighter goods in a pack upon his back, and re-\\nceiving in exchange for these articles, linen cloth and thread,\\nwhich were carried by him into different parts of New Eng-\\nland, and disposed of with profit, the manufactures of this\\ntown being in high demand. Havmg in this way accumu-\\nlated a small property, he opened, about the year 1750, a\\nstore of goods. It was kept in a room in his dwelling-house.\\nThis he continued nearly fifty years, and by his judicious\\nmanagement and economy, united with strict moral principle\\nand conduct, he secured the full confidence and the patronage\\nof the community, and accumulated a very large estate, thirty\\nthousand dollars of which he devoted to the interests of the\\ntown, in support of its religious institutions, and the endow-\\nment of an academy which bears his name.\\nHis brother, Elder James Pinkerton, a few years younger,\\nadopted a similar course, and opened the second store in the\\ntown. This he also sustained until advanced age, and like\\nSec Appendix.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0163.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "94 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nhis brotlier was successful in business, liaving to contend at\\nthat daj with but little competition. For a long period,\\nLondonderry and the neighboring t\u00c3\u00b3wns were supplied\\nprincipallj bj the Pinkertons with merchandise. They\\nwere both men of more than ordinary financial ability,\\nuniting in their character Scotch prudence and stability,\\nwith Yankee enterprise. To the donation made by Elder\\nJohn Pinkerton for founding an academy, his brother James\\nadded a sum which now amounts to three thousand dollars.\\nThese two brothers, thus distinguished by their strict\\nmoral and religieus principles and habits, and their industry\\nand success in business, afford an example to young men at\\nthe present day, which they would do well to imitate, to\\nbe satisfied with slow and steady gains, and not to hasten\\nto be rich, and especially to seek first the kingdom of\\nheaven, and its righteousness.\\nThey both sustained the ofRce of ruling Elder in the\\nchurch, and offices of civil trust and respectability in the\\ntown. They frequently represented it in General Court.\\nThey were not only the principal merchants, but chief\\nbankers, of those days. Persons wishing to hire money\\nusually went to them, and from one or the otlier, would gen-\\nerally obtain the desired loan, provided they could furnish\\nthe security requisite. In this they were particularly care-\\nful. If but one indorser was ofFered, the Major, who was\\nthe principal loaner, would usually reply, a threefold cord\\nis not easily broken you may give me another name.\\nA striking contrast is presented between the stores of that\\nday and those of the present. A small room in a dwelling-\\nhouse, was then usually deemed sufficiently spacious to con-\\ntain the variety of West India and English goods, necessary\\nto meet the calls of the public.\\nShortly before the Revolution, another store was opened in\\nthe East part of the town, by James MacGregor, Esq., son\\nof Rcv. David MacGregor since which period stores have", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0164.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 95\\nbeen multiplied and the business increased in the town. In\\n1741, another religious society was formed in the south\\npart of the town, which was, the next year, incorporated as a\\nparish with town privileges, taking the name of Windham,\\nfrom a place of that name similarly situated in relation to\\nLondonderry in Ireland.\\nIn 1751, the town of Derryfield was incorporated. It was\\ncomposed of a part of Chester, a part of Londonderry, and\\nof lands not before granted to any town, and contained nearly\\nthe same territory now embraced in the charter of Man-\\nchester.\\nThe times preceding the American Revolution were, in\\nrespect to the infant settlements, full of anxiety, trouble,\\nand peril. Many of them suffered severely from the incur-\\nsions of savage foes. The year 1744 was rendered memora-\\nble by a renewal of hostilities between France and England,\\nwhich was a sure precursor of war in America, between the\\nFrench and Indians on the one hand, and the English col-\\nonies on the other. This war continued with little abate-\\nment about fifteen years, and has been long denominated the\\nold French war.\\nDuring these sc\u00c3\u00a8nes of alarm and of cruel massacres,\\nexperienced by many of the frontier settlements, London-\\nderry was happily exempt from the assaults of the Indians\\nyet its inhabitants were as patriotic and as prompt in defence\\nof the country, as any body of citizens whatever. At the\\ncall of government, a number from this town, mostly volun-\\nteers, joined the noted expedition agaiftst Cape Breton.\\nThis was one of the most bold and fortunate attempts during\\nthis loniz; and distressino; war.\\nThe place was strongly fortified, yet its reduction was\\nefFected by Col. William Pepperell, a merchant, at the head\\nof a body of husbandmen and mechanics. The New Hamp-\\nshire troops, animated with enthusiastic, if not religious\\nardor, partook readily and largely of all the labors and dan-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0165.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "96 HISTORY OP LONDONDERRT.\\ngers of the siege. They were eraployed during fourteen\\nsuccessive nights, with straps over their shoulders, and\\nsinking to their knees in mud, in drawing cannon frora the\\nlanding-place to the camp, through a morass.\\nPepperell, as stated by several writers, consiilted with the\\ncelebrated George Whitefield, who was then in America, in\\nregard to the expedition. He encouraged the measure, and\\ngave it the appearance of a crusade, by proposing, as a motto\\nfor their flag, the words Nil desperandum, Christo duce,\\na motto truly appropriate to any Christian enterprise, where\\nsuccess is to be attained not by carnal but by spiritual\\nweapons but of its application to such a warlike measure as\\nthis, we may well doubt.\\nDr. Matthew Thornton, of Londonderry, subsequently one\\nof the signers of the Declaration of Independence, served in\\nthis campaign, as surgeon.\\nOn tlie renewal of hostilities in 1756, between the Frehch\\nand the English, in w^hich the infant colonies of New Eng-\\nland were more seriously threatened with total extirpation\\nthan they had ever before been, Londonderry again prom2)tly\\nbore its full share in their protection and defence. A regi-\\nment having been raised in New Hampshire, to assist in an\\nattempt upon Crown Point, and it being distinguished for\\nhard! bood and adroitness in traversing the woods, three\\ncompanies of rangcrs were selected from it, and placed under\\nthe command of the celebrated John Stark (afterwards briga-\\ndier-general in the army of the Revolution), WiUiam Stark,\\nand Robert Rogers. The three captains and many of their\\nsoldiers were from Londonderry. Ca})t. Rogers, a brave\\nand skilful officer, was soon after promoted to the rank of\\nMajor, and under his command, the three companies of\\nrangers performed aetive and etiicient service during the war.\\nTo encourage its citizens to engage in the enterprise, the\\ntown voted that every soldier that should enlist in order to\\nthe rcduction of Crown Point, shall receive thirty pounds", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0166.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 97\\nbounty. A company of men was here enlisted under the\\ncommand of Capt. John Moor, an active and enterprising\\nofficer, and, joining the regiment from New Hampshire,\\npenetrated with much di\u00c3\u00b6iculty and suffering into Canada,\\nand aided in the reduction of those provinces, and their\\nsubjection to the British crown.\\nQuebec having fallen into the hands of the English, the\\nconsequent surrender of all the French possessions in Can-\\nada, brought again the prospect of a settled tranquillity to\\nthe northern colonies, and was inexpressibly cheering to those\\nwho had so long borne the heat and burden of the day. For\\nmany years the father had not cultivated his field in safety,\\nnor had the mother committed her infant charge to rest, but\\nwith the most distressing apprehensions. But now^ every-\\nthing was encouraging to the view of the colonists. They\\nwere exempt from the fear of a lurking enemy while their\\nhardships and exposures had rendered them bold and enter-\\nprising. In marching to and from the theatre of war, they\\nhad become acquainted with the fertile parts of the interior\\nof their country, and the young men pressed onward with\\nardor to take possession of the wilderness, and to couvert it\\ninto a fruitful field.\\nLondonderry, by the rapid increase of the early settlers and\\ncontinued accessions of their countrymen from abroad, soon\\nbecame populous, and sent forth many colonies to form new\\nsettlements in the vicinity, and in more remote parts of the\\ncountry, now open for cultivation. A large number of the\\npioneers of civilization in New Hampshire, Yermont, INIaine,\\nNew York, and Nova Scotia, were from this town. Of som e\\nof these settlements, by Londonderry emigrants, a more\\nparticular, but brief account, will be given.\\nThe first company which left, was in 1737. They passed\\nover the Merrimack river and settled in Bedford, and were\\nin sueceeding years joined by others from their native land\\nand from Massachusetts. A number of families from London-\\n9", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0167.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nderry removed to Merrimack, adjoining Bedford, which had\\nbeen a short time before settled by a company from Massa-\\nchusetts. In Bedford, the Scotch-Irish infliience predomi-\\nnated in Merrimack, the English.\\nThe one class of settlers was strongly attached not only\\nfo the doctrines, but to the discipline, of the Presbyterian\\nchurch the other, as strongly to the Congregational mode\\nof discipline. While a Presbyterian church was formed in\\nBedford, a Congregational church was organized in Merri-\\nmack. Consequently, a number of the inhabitants of Merri-\\nmack united, for several years, with the people of Bedford, in\\nreligious privileges, while sundry others, of Bedford, united\\nwith the people of Merrimack.\\nIn 1741, an emigration of a number of families to the\\nvalley of the Mohawk west of the Hudson river, took place,\\nand the settlement of Cherry Valley was thereby commenced.\\nAbout the same time, a small party of hardy and enter-\\nprising men, joined by some of their countrymen from\\nLunenburg, Mass., attempted to form a settlement at Peter-\\nborough, and though at first repulsed by th\u00c3\u00a8 difficulties and\\ndangers which attended it, they ultimately succeeded.\\nAbout the year 1760, a number of families emigrated from\\nLondonderry to Nova Scotia, soon after its evacuation by the\\nFrench, and settled in the towns of Truro and Londonderry.\\nIn 1767, a settlement was formed by Londonderry emi-\\ngrants in Antrim. Soon after, another company planted\\nthemselves in Henniker, a neighboring town and still an-\\nother in Deering, and laid in cach of these places tlie\\nfoundation of a valuable and flourishing community.\\nIn 1766, a small party removed to Acworth, in this State,\\nand united with a few families from Connecticut, in forming\\nthat township. About the year 1 774, a few families removed\\nfrom this town to a tract of country in Yermont, which had\\nbeen purchased by a Mr. James Rogers. It was subse-\\nquently incorporated into two townships, Londonderry and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0168.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORT. 99\\nWindham, as the early settlers were mostly from tliose\\ntowns. Among these were James Rogers, S. Thompson,\\nJames Patterson, Edward Aiken, John Woodburn, and\\nJames McCormick.\\nNew Boston was settled by a colony from Londonderry\\nstill earlier, and was, more exclusively than either of the\\nother settlements, confined to those of Scotch-Irish descent.\\nIn addition to these, many other towns in their early settle-\\nment received accessions from this town, as Litchfield, Hud-\\nson, Amherst, Dunstable, and Chester. Thus, during the\\nperiod of twenty-five years preceding the Revohition, ten\\ndistinct settlements were made by emigrants from London-\\nderry, all of which have become towns of influence and im-\\nportance in the State. And while the town afforded colonists\\nto form other settlements, the church here proved a hive,\\nfrom which most of the churches, which now constitute the\\nPresbytery of Londonderry, derived their origin. It also\\ncontributed largely to the organization, strength, and stability\\nof other religious societies. Most of the Congregational\\nchurches in the vicinity, and many in the more distant parts\\nof the State, have received accessions from this. Wherever\\na Londonderry man was found, there, with few exceptione,\\nwas found a steadfast supporter of the gospel, as well as of\\ncivil institutions. No subjects were more obedient to the\\nauthorities appointed by the mother country, or more ready\\nto sustain them, than the citizens of Londonderry.\\nWhile we were colonies, it appears that the officers of\\ngovernment, who derived their appointment from the crown,\\nnot unfrequently received from individuals and communities\\ngifts, which were regarded, not perhaps as bribes, but.as per-\\nquisites attached to their office, and which they were at\\nliberty to receive as such. Yet the practice was regarded as\\nrather disreputable, and required at times concealment, as\\nappears from the following record.\\nOne article of the warrant for a town meeting in 1774,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0169.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "100 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nwas to see if tliey will allow a small gift to be given to a\\nspecial friencl to the town, no name being mentioiied. On\\nbeing considered, it was voted that the selectmen purchase\\none hundred weight of botter, at the charge of the town, to\\ngive to the aforesaid special friend. We find also frequent\\ncharges against the town for venison and for salmon that\\nwas sent to Portsmouth, the seat of government at that\\ntime.\\nIn the town accounts, as early as 1727, is this item To\\nJohn Barr, for wine when flie Governor was here, \u00c2\u00a30, 15, 6.\\nCharges of a similar character for wine, venison, mutton,\\ndo not unfrequently occur, showing the hospitality of the\\ntown to strangers, and characters of distinction, who visited\\nthe place.\\nIn 1729, is the charge\\nTo John McMurphy, for cloath to Governor Bur-\\nnett, \u00c2\u00a34, 10, 0.\\nIn 173G, To John McMurphy, for linen to give to\\nthe Governor, \u00c2\u00a36, 10, 0.\\nUpon the accession of George the Second, in 1727, Wil-\\nliam Burnett, son of the Bishop of Sarum, was appointed\\ngovernor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He had\\nbeen popular as a governor of New York and New Jersey.\\nHe was received in Boston with great pomp, being met there\\nby the Lieut.- governor of New Hampshire, and a committee\\nof the council and assembly. An address was communicated\\nto hini from this town by the Rev. Mr. MacGregor, as ap-\\npears from the following charge in the accounts for 1727.\\nTo James Reid, to give to Mr. MacGregor, when\\nhe went to Boston with our address to Gov. Bur-\\nnett, \u00c2\u00a32, O, 0.\\nIn 1741, Benning Wentworth succeeded Mr. Belcher as\\ngovernor of New Hampshire. He was received with great\\nsatisfaction by the people, and was highly regarded by the\\njnhabitants of this town, being the son of tlieir early pcVtron", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0170.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 101\\nLieut.-governor Joliii Wentworth. The foUowing cliarge\\nappears in tlieir town accounts for that year\\nTo Robert Cochran, for going to the Bank, to con-\\ngratulate his Excellencj to the Province with\\nye Rev. Wm. Davidson, \u00c2\u00a33, 4, O,\\nBut while the bold and hardy sons of the older times were\\nthus rapidlj forming settlements throughout New England,\\nand the wilderness and solitaiy place was made glad;\\nwhile the colonies, long harassed and depressed by their wars\\nwith the Indians, were now increasing in popnlation and\\nstrength, and everything indicated prosperity, their bright\\nvisions of peace and security in the enjoyment of their posses-\\nsions, and the fruit of their labors, were suddenly overcast.\\nThe intention of the British ministry to quarter troops in\\nAmerica, and tax the people, without their consent, for their\\nsupport, was announced. The colonies at once understood\\nthe purport of this intelligence it was to subjugate and make\\nthem vassals of the British crown. They had expended their\\nbest blood and treasure in putting the British nation in pos-\\nsession of a territory of full twice the dimensions of all their\\npossessions in Europe, and were they to be requited thus\\nWonder not at their determined spirit of resistance at their\\nresolute, and, in the view of the world, rash purpose to bur-\\nish their arms anew, and gird them on single-handed against\\nthe most powerful nation of the world, rather than resign to\\nher oppressive grasp their rights and their liberties.\\nTwelve years passed away in strifes and melancholy fore-\\nbodings. Every day the storm gafchered blackness, and now\\nthe time drew near for it to burst upon these infant colonies.\\nAmong the most decided in resistance to the oppressive acts\\nof British domination, were the descendants of those men who\\nresisted, unto blood, against th\u00c3\u00a9 encroachment upon their civil\\nand religious rights in the mother-country. This was particu-\\nlarly the case with the Presbyterian colonists. Not only the\\nspirit of civil and religious fre.edom, nurtured and strength-\\n9*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0171.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "102 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nened by the persecutions endured for conscience sake in Ire-\\nland, but the form of tlieir church polity served to prepare\\nthem to espouse, and steadily to maintain, the cause of Amer-\\nican Independence.\\nIn confirmation of this statement, the following testimony,\\nfrom writers of known and acknowledged ability, may be\\nadduced.\\nMr. Reed of Philadelphia, himself an Episcopalian, re-\\nmarks The part taken by the Presbyterians in the contest\\nwith the mother-country, was indeed, at the time, often made\\na ground of reproach, and the connection between their\\nefforts for the security of religious liberty and opposition to\\nthe oppressive raeasures of Parliament, was then distinctly\\nseen. A Preshylerian loyalist was a thing unheard of.\\nSays Dr. Elliot, speaking of the Revolution, The Presby-\\nterians, of every class, were ever foremost in achieving the\\nliberties of the United States. And theydiave been all along\\nthe leading supporters of the constitution, law, and good order.\\nThey have been thepioneersof learning and sound knowledge,\\nfrom its higliest to its lowest grade, and are now its principal\\nsupporters.\\nAnd af ter the conflict was over, says a writer on the\\nsubject, and the sages of America came to settle the forms\\nof our government, they did but copy into every constitution\\nthe simple clements of representative republicanism, as found\\nin the Presbyterian system. It is matter of history tliat can-\\nnot be denied, that Presbyterianism, as found in the Bible,\\nand in the standards of ihe several Presbyterian churches,\\ngave character to our ^yqq institutions.\\nNor must it be forgotten that the Pilgrim Fathers, after\\nwitnessing the sad eifects of simple independency in their\\nown land, had been nurscd in the bosom and drank of the\\nspirit of Presbyterian Holland and Geneva, before they\\nreached the rock of Plymouth, and, from the very first, their\\ninstitutions partook of the Presbyterian form.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0172.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 103\\nWe have the authority also of the late Chief Justice Tilgh-\\nman, for statmg that the framers of the Constitution of the\\nUnited States were, through the agency of Dr. Witherspoon,\\nwho was one of them, much indebted to the standards of the\\nPresbyterian church in Scotland, in modelling that adniira-\\nble instrument under which we have enjoyed, during three-\\nfourths of a century, unparalleled national prosperity.\\nAnd still further, the Hon. W. C. Preston, of South Caro-\\nliija, has made the following declaration Certainly, it is the\\nmost remarkable and singular coincidence, that the constitu-\\ntion of the Presbyterian church should bear such a close and\\nstriking resemblance to the political constitution of our coun-\\ntry, \u00c3\u00afhis may be regarded as an earnest of. our union. We\\nfondly regard our federal constitution as the purest specimen\\nof republican government that the world ever saw and on\\nthe safne pure principles of republicanism, as its basis, we\\nfind established the constitution of this republican church.\\nThe two may be supposed to be formed after the same\\nmodel. An inquiry into the matter would show that a large\\nnumber of the distinguished veterans of the Revolution were\\nmembers of the Presbyterian church. Without attempting\\nto make such an investigation, the following facts may be\\nstated From the State of South Carolina, it appears that\\nten officers of distinction, among whom were generals Mor-\\ngan and Pickens, and colonels Campbell, Williams, Shelby,\\nand Sumpter, were Presbyterian elders all hearing rule in\\nthe church of Christ, and all hearing arms in defence of our\\nliberties. And from New Hampshire, were General Stark,\\nand colonels Reed, McCleary, and Gregg, of the Presby-\\nterian colony, here planted. The names of braver or better\\nofficers cannot be found in the annals of our country nor\\nwere tliere braver or better troops in the American army,\\nthan those furnished by the Presbyterian communities at the\\nNorth, or at the South.\\nAs in the previous wars in which the colonies were in-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0173.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "104* HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nvolved, Londonderry afforded her full proportion of troops,\\nand borc prompt ly her full share in every conflict, so was\\nit in tlie war of the Revoliition. Not only an ardent love of\\nliberty, but a spirit of daring, was a strong feature in the\\ncliaracter of its inhabitants. They never shrunk from jieril,\\nbut were ever prompt to repair to the sc\u00c3\u00a8ne of action. The-\\nvery first act of open and bold resistance to British author-\\nity and arms, was exhibited by a small party of undaunted\\nmen of this town, although the fact never received public\\nnotice. The writer had it from an aged veteran who was\\nprominent in the adventure.\\nWhile the British were quartered in Boston, and before\\nthe encounter at Lexington, four of their soldiers deserted\\nand came to Londonderry. Notice was given by a tory who\\nresided in the town, of their place of residence. An officer\\nwith a number of soldiers, was dispatched for their arrest.\\nThe deserters were discovered, secured, and marched towards\\nBoston. No sooner was the fact known in the town, thai}\\na party of young men rallied, and, led by Captain James\\nAiken, a bold and energetic officer, pursued and overtook\\nthem a few miles north of Haverhill. Captain Aiken, quickly\\npassing them, drew up his men in front of the party, and\\ncommanded them to halt and deliver up their prisoners.\\nThe British officer, overawed by this unexpected and bold\\nresistance, at once complied, and they returned with the lib-\\nerated men, who became residents in the town, no further\\nattempts being made for their arrest.\\nWhen the news came that General Gage was marching\\ntroops from Boston into the interior, New Hampshire at once\\ntook up arms and hastened to the sc\u00c3\u00a8ne of action. Twelve\\nhundred of her sons instantly repaired to Charlestown and\\nCambridge. Among these was a large company from Lon-\\ndonderry, mider the command of brave and experienced\\nofficers. The tidings had no sooner reached the town, that\\nthe conflict had actually commenced, than the whole com-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0174.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 105\\nmunity were seizecl witli a warlike frenzy. A number of\\nmen, dropping instantly their implements of liusbandry,\\nhastened from one section of the town to the other, to spread\\nthe news and in a few hours, all who could bear arms were\\nassembled on the Comnion, at the meeting-house. There a\\nfew brief and patriotic appeals were made, in reference to\\nthe impending struggle, and the sacrifices of life and treasure\\nwhicli would be required, to defend and preserve those privi-\\nleges, for the sake of which many of them, with their fathers,\\nhad come to this country.\\nAs a community they needed, on such an occasion, no\\nincitement to duty. They were prepared to act. From the\\ntwo companies of militia in town, a large company of volun-\\nteers was at once formed and, being allowed to select from\\nthe officers of the two companies, those under whom they\\nwould march to the conflict, they chose George Reed, captain,\\nAbraham Reed, lieutenant, and James Anderson, eusign.\\nThey started instantly, on being organized their provisions,\\nammunition, and whatever was necessary for their encamp-\\nment and future wants, being afterwards forwarded by\\nexpress.\\nOn the organization of the troops that had assembled at\\nCambridge, Gapt. Reed received the commission of colonel.\\nHe served during the whole of the war, was in most of the\\ndistinguished battles, and received repeated tokens of appro-\\nbation, for his valor and military skill, from his commander-\\nin-chief. Confidential Communications from Washington, in\\nhis own handwriting, are now in the possession of his de-\\nscendants.\\nThe convention which met at Exeter, April 25, 1775, a\\nfew days after the fight at Lexington, formed the men from\\nNew Hampshire, who had joined the army around Boston,\\ninto two regiments, which were placed under the command\\nof Colonel, afterwards General Stark, and Colonel Reed,\\nboth of Londonderry. Shortly after the battle of Bunker", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0175.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "106 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nHill, anotlier regiment from New Hampshire, under the\\ncommand of Colonel Poor, joined the army at Cambridge.\\nThe two regiments under Stark and Reed were stationed,\\nprevious to the battle of Bunker Hill, at Medford, and thus\\nformed the left wing of the American army. These\\ntroops, says one, in his narrative of the battle, were hardj,\\nbrave, active, athletic, and indefatigable almost every soldier\\nequalled William Teil as a marksman, and could aim his\\nweapon at an opposer with as keen a relish. Those from\\nthe frontiers had gained this address against the savages and\\nbeasts of the forests. The country yet abounded with game,\\nand hunting was familiar to all, and the amusement most\\nfashionable and universal, throughout New England, was\\ntrial of skill with the musket.\\nOn the landing of British troops at Charlestown, the two\\nNew Hampshire regiments were ordered to join the forces\\non Breed s Hill. A part were detached to throw up a work\\non Bunker Hill, and the remainder, under Stark and Reed,\\njoined the Connecticut forces under General Putnam, and\\nthe regiment of Colonel Prescott, at the rail fence. This\\nwas the very point of the British attack, the key of the\\nAmerican position. To be stationed there, in the post of\\ndanger, Avas a high honor, and well did the New Hampshire\\ntroops merit it, although not a few paid for the distinction\\nwith tlieir lives. The New Hampshire regiments lost 19\\nmen killed, and 74 wounded. None of the company from\\nthis town were killed.\\nTo all the actual engagements on this memorable year,\\nthe town contributed its fuU proportion of men and mcans,\\nas appears from the following minutes from the town records.\\nApril 23, 1775. Voted in town meeting, to give our men\\nthat have goiTie to the Massachusetts government, seven dol-\\nlars a month until it be known what our provincial Congress\\nwill do in that affair and that the officers shall have as\\nmuch pay as those in the Bay government.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0176.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n107\\nApril 29. Votecl tliat a committee of nine men be chosen\\nto inquire into tlie coiiduct of those men that are thouglit not\\nto be friends to the country. Capt. Moses Barnett, John\\nMcKeen, John Aiken, John Gilmore, Capt. John Moor,\\nEnsign James McGregore, George Duncan, Jr., Capt. Rob-\\nert Moor, and John Bell, were this committee. Voted that\\nthe aforesaid committee have no pay. At this meeting,\\nVoted that twenty more men shall be raised immediately,\\nto be ready upon the first emergency, as minute-men.\\nMay 22. Voted that twenty more men be enlisted in\\nCapt. James Aiken s company, as minute-men.\\nJuly, 1775. Voted, that six more be added to the com-\\nmittee of inspection, viz., Kobert McMurphy, Lieut. John\\nPinkerton, John Nesmith, Capt. William Alison, James\\nRamsey, and Peter Patterson.\\nThough there were but few tories in the town, yet the\\nappointment of so large and respectable a committee, shows\\nthe deep interest and close vigilance with which they\\nguarded the sacred cause of freedom. Col. Stephen Holland,\\na gentleman of respectable family in Ireland, had some years\\nbefore emigrated, when a yonng man, to America, and settled\\nin this town. He here married into a family whose connec-\\ntions were rather numerous. He was a gentleman of educa-\\ntion, easy address, and of influence. He had been represen-\\ntative of the town, and intrusted with the management of its\\ninterests. But holding, as he did at the commencement of\\nthe Revolution, offices both civil and military, under the\\ncrown, he was early suspected of inchning to the cause of\\nroyalty, and of not being truly friendly to the movements of\\nthe colonists. Knowing the deep and strong feehng of the\\ntown on the subject, he took measures to allay their jealous-\\nies. At a town meeting called for the purpose, he presented\\na strong disclaimer in reference to the reports then in circu-\\nlation, as to his attachment to the British cause. The town,\\nby a YOte, expressed their satisfaction, and he was invested", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0177.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "108 HISTORY OF LONDONDEKRT.\\nanew witli certain offices of trust. But events not long after\\ntranspired, wliicli induced him to joiii the Britisli at Boston.\\nHe left a valuable cstate, situated near the first meeting-house,\\nwhich was confiscated and sold. He returned, first to Eng-\\nland, and from tlience to Ireland, where he died, soon after\\ntlie dcclaration of peaee. No other loyalist of any influence\\nwas found in the place.\\nThe professional and influential men of the town were\\nunitedly and ardently engaged in supporting the struggle for\\nindependence and tliey were sustained in all their proposed\\nmeasures bj the almost unanimous voice of their fellow-\\ncitizens.\\nApril 23, 1775. The town Voted to send a delegate to\\nrepresent us in the Provincial Congress, which is to meet at\\nWatertown on the 31st of May. Voted, that Col. Matthew\\nThorton is the man to be sent. At an adjourned meeting,\\nJames McMurphy, Esq. was also appointed to act with him\\nin behalf of the town.\\nIn Nov. 177G, in consequence of the great depreciation of\\npaper mone} the exorbitant prices demanded by spcculators\\nwho had forestalled the markets, and the consequent dis-\\ncouragement to the exertions of those who were laboring to\\nsustain the heavy pubhc burdens, a meeting was held at\\nDracut, to petition Congress, and the State legislatures, upon\\nthe subject and to devise sucli other measures as might be\\nnecessary for the protection of the people. A large number\\nof delegates were present.\\nLondonderry was represented by Deacon Samuel Fisher.\\nThe convention met Nov. 26, 1776, at the house of Major\\nJoseph Varnum, and, after passing a number of resolves,\\nprepared a petition to the gencral courts of Massachusetts\\nand New liampshire, that the resolves of the Continental\\nCongress, respecting the prices of articles of necessary\\nconsumption, might be enforced more strictly.\\nThe three regiments which had been raised in New", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0178.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "CIVIL mSTORY. 109\\nHampshire, amounting to two tlioiisand men, which were\\nplaced under the commaiid of colonels Stark, Reid, and Hale,\\nwere, in 177G, sent to New York, to join the army under Gen.\\nSuUivan, for the invasion of Canada. They proceeded up\\nthe Hudson, and down the lakes to Canada, but were obliged\\nto retreat to Ticonderoga. They suffered severely, and lost\\none third of their number by sickness and exposure.\\nDeo. 17, 1776. It was voted that, at the desh-e of our\\ndelegates chosen to represent us in the Assembly of this\\nState, a committee be chosen to give them instruction from\\ntime to time at this calamitous day, that they may know how\\nto act the minds of their constituents, as well as their own.\\nTiie following were this committee John Moor, Robert Moor,\\nJohn Aiken, Thomas Taggart, John Nesmith, John McKeen,\\nJohn Gilmore, Robert McMurphy, Peter Patterson, Samuel\\nMorrison, and Capt. William Duncan.\\nThe resolutions adopted by the Assembly of New Hamp-\\nshire against the proceedings of the British Parliament, and\\nthe proposals for a colonial Congress at New York, were all\\napproved by the freemen of this town.\\nVoted, in town meeting, that the remainder of the stock\\nof powder shall be divided out to every one that hath not\\nalready received of the same, as far as it will go, provided\u00c2\u00bb\\nhe produces a gun of his own, in good order, and is willing to\\ngo against the enemy, and promises not to waste any of the\\npowder only in self-defence and provided, also, that he\\nshows twenty buUets to suit his gun, and six good flints.\\nMarch, 1777. Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a318 bounty for each man\\nthat is now wanting to make up our complement of men.\\nIn April following, \u00c2\u00a312 was added, so as to make thirtj\\npounds bounty for each continental soldier who enlists for\\nthree years.\\nIn January, 1778, It was voted, that the selectmen make\\nprovision for the families of the soldiers belonging to this\\n10", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0179.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "110 niSTORY OF LONDONDEURT.\\ntown, who are engaged in the Continental army, agreeable to\\nan act of oiir General Court tbr tliat purpose.\\n1778. The thirteen articles of the confederation proposed\\nby Congress, were referred by this town to a committee, of\\nwhich Matthew Thornton was chairman, to report thereon.\\nTheir report, containing certain strictures on these articles,\\nwas adopted by the town, and liumbly recommended to the\\nconsideration of the Honorable Congress. In 1778, Col.\\nMatthew Thornton and John Bell, Esq., were appointed to\\nattend the convention at Concord, for framing and adopting\\na form of government.\\nThese extracts are suffici\u00c3\u00abnt to testify to the zeal and\\npromptness with w^hich the town met the calls of that trying\\nperiod, and the efficiency with which they sustained the cause\\nof American independence. During the entire struggle of\\neight years, not only did this town furnish her full proportion\\nof regular troops, but the repeated emergencies which called\\nfor special aid, were here met with readiness.\\nFrom a return of the number of the inhabitants in the\\nseveral towns of New Hampshire, with the number of sol-\\ndiers, firearms, ammunition, etc. taken by order of the con-\\nvention, during the war, it appears that in this town there\\n*were four hundred and four males, from the age of sixteen\\nto fifty, and of these, sixty-six were in the army a larger\\nnumber than from any other town in the county. P\u00c3\u00b3rts-\\nmouth sent but fifty men. According to the returns thus\\nmade, but one town in the State affiarded more soldiers\\nthan Londonderry that town was Amherst, which sent\\neighty-one. It appears from the army-rolls, in the office\\nof the Secretary of State, that Londonderry paid for bounties\\na larger sum than any other town, and it is believed that,\\nincluding volunteers and recruits for the continental line, this\\ntown furnished the greatest number of soldiers. Nor\\nshould it be forgotten, that the victory at Bennington, which\\narrested the progress of the British arms under Burgoyne,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0180.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 111\\nand turned the tide of war, Avas achieved by her gallant son,\\nStark, snstained bj New Hampshire and Yermont troops.\\nIn this famous battle were also Col. William Gregg, Capt.\\nV Daniel^ejnolds, and lieutenants McClary and Adam Taylor,\\nwith a select band of soldiers from Londonderry. Lieutenant\\nMcClary was slain in the action. He was a brave and active\\nofRcer; a man of piety and of patriotism. The Sabbath\\nbefore the engagement, as lie passed through the tents of\\nthe soldiers composing his company, he remarked, Boys,\\nremember this is the Lord s day. He was foremost among\\nthe assailants of a redoubt which the enemy had thrown up,\\nand while leading on his men to the attack, he was shot down\\nby a musket-ball. The Bible which he had carried with\\nhim to the camp, and from which he had that morning re-\\nceived divine encouragement, and also the ball which pierced\\nhim, have been preserved as sacred relies, by his relatives.\\nIt is a most reraarkable fact, that Lieut. McClary was the\\nonly man from Londonderry who was slain in battle during the\\nwar, especially considering the number in constant service, and\\nengaged in many of the most sanguinary encounters. A\\nnumber, however, died in consequence of sickness during the\\ncampaigns in which they were engaged.\\nIn 1778, a petition was presented to the town by thirty-six\\nof lts inhabitants, dwelling in that j^art called Derry Claim,\\nat lts south-west corner, that they be separated from Lon-\\ndonderry, and annexed to the town of Nottingham-West,\\nwhich was granted. March 6, 1778, a small tract of territory\\nwas, by act of the legislature, taken from the south-west\\npart of the town, and annexed to the town of Nottingham-\\nWest, now Iludson.\\nIn 1779, the selectmen were empowered, by the vote of\\nthe town, to provide a workhouse, and to furnish employment\\nto such persons in said town as are not willing to work,\\nsuch workhouse to be regulated as other workhouses in\\nthis State.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0181.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nAt a town meeting July 20, 1779, a letter from the select-\\nmen of Portsmoutli was submitted, announeing the measures\\nadopted by said town for restonng the credit of the currency\\nwhereupon the following patriotic resolutions were unani-\\nmously adof)ted, namely\\n1. That we will cheerfully coneur Avith oiir brethren in\\nthe seaports in accomjjlishing the salutary purposes of Con-\\ngress, communicated in their late jiidicioiis and spirited\\naddress, for appreciating the Continental currency.\\n2. That we will sell none of the necessaries of life, linen\\ncloth, or other manufactures, higlier than they were sold the\\nfirst day of May last and that we will continue to reduce\\nour prices monthly, not doubting but other towns in the\\ncountry will adopt the like salutary measures.\\no. That we consider as enemies to our country, all per-\\nsons who shall buy gold or silver, or sliall demand hard\\nmoney, in whole or in part, for any article they may have for\\nsale, and that we will do everything in our power to prevent\\n8uch pernicious practices, as they have an immediate ten-\\ndency to ruin our paper currency. And whereas the traders\\nin this town sell West India goods cheaper than they are\\nnow sold in Portsmouth, resolved,\\n4. That they continue to lower their prices as those in\\nseaports do.\\no. That we will instruct our representatives to use their\\ninfluence to obtain a law for the punishment of sharpers, and\\nhawkers, and oppressors, etc.\\nG. Resolved, that a committee bc ai^j)ointed to take cog-\\nnizance of any persons who shall, by any means whatsoever,\\nevade and defeat the design of these resolves, and to treat\\nthem as enemies to our country and that said committee\\noffer ?aid resolves to every man in said town for signing.\\nAnd voted, that the above resolves be printed in the Wor-\\ncester newspaper.\\nThe following October, the town appointed a committee to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0182.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 113\\niix the prices of sundrj articles of commerce, agreeably to\\nthe recommendation of the State convention.\\nIn forming a State constitution, after our independence\\nhad been achieved, and the British yoke thrown off, this\\ntown, by its delegates, took an active and influential part.\\nThe present constitution with its bill of rights, was, on being\\nsubmitted to the town for consideration, at first referred to a\\nlarge and judicious committee for careful examination. After\\nhearing their report, it was, by a large majority, adopted, and\\nhas received their steadfast support to the present time. In\\nevery instance, when called upon to express their opinion,\\nthey have decided not to revise the constitution, lest instead\\nof amending they should mar that excellent instrument, to\\nwhich they were indebted for that security and prosperity\\nwhich they had so long enjoyed.\\nAfter the close of the war, a question arose whether the\\ntories, who had fled from the country and given their aid to\\nBritain, should be allowed to return. The feeling against\\nthem was deep and bitter, and the popular current was\\nstrong in opposition to their being tolerated in the country.\\nThe subject was warmly discugsed in the meetings of the\\ntowns and the assemblies of the State.\\nThat the feeling of hostility towards those who had de-\\nserted their country, and turned against her in the hour of\\nconflict and peril, was peculiarly strong and determined in\\nLondonderry, appears from the following record. It is not\\nsurprising, considering the constitutional warmth and ardor\\nof their temperament, that they did exhibit some feeling on\\nthis subject.\\nOn being apprized that, on the adoption of the articles of\\npeace, a clause was inserted at the request of the British\\nplenipotentiaries, that Congress recommend that the several\\nState* make some provision for the return of the loyalists\\nand refugees, a town meeting was immediately called, to\\nsee if the town will take some effectual measures to prevent\\n10*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0183.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OF LONDOXDERRY.\\nthose men who have been the cause of so mnch clesolation\\nand blootlshed in the land, to return and dweil aniong us, and\\nenjoy the blessings of peace and the sweets of liberty.\\nAt the meeting thus called, May 29, 1783, a vote was\\npassed, with great unanimity, To instruct their representa-\\ntives to use the utmost of their power in the General Court,\\nthat Ihe refiigees have no liberty to come back to this State.\\nThe following is a copy of the instructions which were\\ndrawn up and adopted by the town, and addressed to Col.\\nDaniel Reynolds and Mr. Arehibald McMurphy, representa-\\ntives for the town of Londonderry for the present year.\\nGentlemen Whereas, by an article in the preliminaries\\nfor peace between the United States of America and Great\\nBritain, it is to be recommended by Congress to the several\\nStates to make some provision for the return of the royalists\\nor refugees and we conceive that every State in the Union\\nare to act thereon as they think best, and that nothing\\ntherein is binding on the part of the State and as it is our\\nundoubted right, at all times, to instruct our representatives\\nwe do now solemnly, in town meeting, instruct you to use\\nyour influence in the General Court to prevent the return of\\nall or any of the miscreant tories, who have gone from this\\nState to the enemy as the tories have been the principal\\ncause of this long and bloody war. They have murdered\\nour brethrcn in cold blood they have burnt our towns,\\nrobbed and plundered our citizens, ravished our daughters,\\nand been guilty of every sort of rapine and carnage, that can\\nbe thought of; and by their lies, continually sent across the\\nAtlantic Ocean, the war spun out to so great a length. We\\nexpect tliat you will use your best endeavours, that nothing\\nmay ever be done for those infernal wretches, by this State,\\nfurther than to j^rovide a gallows, halter, and hangmfhi, for\\neveiy one that dare to sliew their vile countenances amongst\\nus. Attest, William Anderson, Town Clerk.\\nMay 29, 1783.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0184.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY.\\n115\\nThe indignation here expressed can be justified only on\\nthe ground of their ardent and devoted attachment to the\\ncause of freedom, and the sufFering which they had endured\\nin its defence.\\nIn 1783, it was voted, that the town meetmgs, which, from\\nthe settlement of the town, had been held at the First Parish\\nmeeting-house, should be held every third year at the West\\nParish meeting-house.\\nIn 1784, the foUowing votes were passed in town meeting.\\n1. That the representatives oppose, by every method in\\ntheir power, the grant of five years fuU pay to the continental\\nofficers, as recommended by Congress it being unjust and\\nvery oppressive, and would lay such a burden on us, as\\nneither we nor our children could ever get clear of.\\n2. Voted, that our representatives use their influence\\nthat there be a revision of the table of fees as it appears\\nthat the attorney s fees should be out down, at least one half.\\nThey would not then be so fond of business, and people\\nwould have time to breathe.\\nIt would appear that, in consequence of the expenses of\\nthe war, the depreciation of paper money, and the derange-\\nment of business, there was much embarrassment in the\\ncommunity, which gave rise to litigation and distraining for\\ndebt and too many of the legal profession were disposed\\nto avail themselves of these circumstances, to increase their\\ngains at the expense of the suffering and oppressed.\\nThis town having been settled by a colony from Ireland,\\nand its inhabitants distinguished for their attention and hos-\\npitality to strangers, it became, more than most places, the\\nresort, noC only of emigrants from the nortli of Ireland, but\\nof vagrants and foreigners from otlier countries many of\\nwliom, having belonged to tlie British army, remained in\\nthe States, after the Revolution. The principles and habits\\nof these persons were such, as not only to render their sup-\\nport burdensome, but their residence an injury to the oom-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0185.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "116 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nmunitj. It became necessaiy for the town to take some\\naction to prevent the evil. It was, therefore, in 1786, voted,\\nThat any person within this town, who shall entertain any\\nstranger, stroller, or other vagrant person, for the space of\\nfive days, in his or her house, without giving due notice to\\none of the selectmen, of the name of the person, and from\\nwhence they came, shall forfeit and pay for the use of the\\ntown thirty-nine shillings, for each and every offence, to be\\nrecovcred by an action of debt, before any or either of the\\njustices of the peace within the county of Rockingham.\\nIn 1786, the State of New Hampshire was considerably\\nagitated in regard to the issuing of paper money, which\\nshould -be receivable as a tender in payment of State taxes,\\nand fees, and salaries of public officers. The desire for such\\nmoney arose from the pressure of taxation, which was\\nseverely feit in consequence of the debt accumulated during\\nthe revolutionary war, and the great deficiency of the circu-\\nlating medium. To meet this demand, a bill, authorizing\\nsuch an emission of j)aper money, to the amount of fifty\\nthousand pounds, to be lent at four per cent., on the security\\nof real estate, and receivable as a tender in payment of taxes\\nand debts, was introduced into the legislature, copies of\\nwhich were sent to the several towns, and the opinions of the\\nvoters were to be expressed in open town meeting. In this\\ntown, the vote was /or the emission of such paper. But,\\nhappily for the State, a majority of the voters disapproved\\nof the bill, perceiving that, as such jiaper must depreciate, in\\nproportion to the freedom with which it should be issued,\\nthe remedy would ultimately prove a greater evil than the\\ndisease.\\nAs the clamor for paper money daily grew louder, and the\\nnumber of the disaffected in the State increased, they at length,\\nafter having held conventions in the several counties, adopted\\nthe mistaken and unjustifiable plan of having recourse to\\narmed intervention, to obtain redress of grievances. Accord-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0186.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "CIYIL HISTORY. ^^l\\ningly, on the morning of the 20th of September, 1786, about\\ntwo hundred men assembled at Kingston. A part were pro-\\nvided with firearms, and the rest with swords and clubs. In\\nthis company were several individuals from Londonderry, of\\nsober and respectable character, Avho, not understanding the\\nreal nature of the evils of which they comph\u00c3\u00bcned, nor theh\\nproper remedies, under the influence of excited feeling, had\\njoined the insurgents. Having organized themselves, and\\nchosen their leaders, tliey proceeded to Exeter, where the\\nleo-islature was in session. They at first addressed a com-\\nmunication to the legisLature, demanding an answer to the\\npetitions, which had been previously presented. The House\\nof Representatives were disposed to confer with them on the\\nsubject, and appointed a committee for the purpose. Happily,\\nhowever, for the honor ^nd peace of the State, General Sul-\\nlivan, who was then president, declared himself opposed to\\nall negotiation with them, on the ground that an application\\nouo-ht never to be complied with, when thus enforced by\\nviolence and assured the insurgents that no consideration\\nof personal hazard would render the Assembly unmindful\\nof its public duty. They immediately surrounded the building\\nin which the legislature was convened, placed sentinels\\nat the doors, and threatened the members that they would\\nnot be permitted to retire until their demands sliould be\\ngranted. When the president aftempted to retire, at the\\nusual hour of adjournment, he was at once resisted and threat-\\nened with violence. With great coolness and decision, he\\nendeavored to convince them of the foUy and peril of the\\ncourse which they were pursuing, but without effect. Just\\nat that time, a drum was heard, and an alarm was given,\\nthat a body of artillery was approaching, when they precipi-\\ntately retired for the night. In the mean time, the president\\nwas authorized by the legislature to resort to military force,\\nto suppress the insurrection. His orders were issued with\\nBucb promptness, that, by morning, several companies from", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0187.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "118 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nthe neigliboring towns had arrived. These were placed by\\nthe president uiider the command of General Reid, from\\nthis town, who was then at Exeter, and had served with\\nhim as colonel during the revolutionary war. They were\\nordered to march against the insurgents, who had retired a\\nlittle out of the village. As the military came up the insur-\\ngent leaders gave orders to their followers to fire, but for-\\ntunately they were not obeyed. They immediately attempted\\nto flee. About forty were taken and secured, while the rest\\nmade their escape. The prisoners, after an examination\\nbefore the president and council, were, on their profession\\nof sincere repentance, discharged, and the insurrection was\\nthus effectually suppressed, without the loss of life and with-\\nout any serious evil.\\nAlthough Londonderry had voted in favor of a paper ciir-\\nrency, yet it evinced its love of order and good government,\\nby condemning the conduct of its citizens, who took part in\\nthe insurrection. Those of them who sustaincd a relation to\\neither of the churches in town, were required to make a\\npublic acknowl\u00c3\u00a9dgment of the error into which they had\\nbeen drawn.\\nIn 1790, it was decided that the annual town meetings\\nshould be henceforth held alternately at the East and West\\nparish meeting-houses, and that the Town Clerk be chosen\\nin the parish where said ifieetings are held.\\nIn 1792, the town being entitled to two rejiresentatives, it\\nwas voted, that one should be chosen from each j^arish. This\\nagreement, as well as that respecting the place of meeting,\\nwas strictly and harmoniously observed for nearly forty\\nyears, until the division of the town.\\nIn 1792, a committee was appointed by the town to pro-\\ncure land for a graveyard in the West Farisli. A lot was\\naccordingly purchased for that purpose, and it is now the\\nprincipal burying-ground in Londonderry. In that yard\\nrepose the remains of the Rev. Messrs. Morrison and Hayes,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0188.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 119\\ntwo of the pastors of that parish. The Rev. Mr. MacGregor,\\ntheir first pastor, was interred by the side of his father, the\\nRev. James MacGregor, in the old burjing-ground, in the\\nEast Parish.\\nFrom the termination of the war in 1783, which secured\\nto us freedom and independence, no events of special inter-\\nest, have marked the history of Londonderry.\\nFor nearly a century from its settlement, there was no\\ncollection of dwellings in any part of the town, which could\\nwith propriety be called a village. The principal employ-\\nment of the inhabitants being agricuUure, they were sepa-\\nrated at the usual distance of farm-houses, with here and\\nthere a mechanic s shop.\\nIn 1806, the turnpike from Concord, N. H., was made,\\nand passing through Londonderry, gave rise to the Loiver\\nVillage, as it is now called. This spot being central to the\\ntown, situated between the two parish meeting-hou. ;s, and\\nfavored with some water-privileges, soon became a j)lace of\\nvery considerable business, and was in some degree a centre\\nof trafRc for the neighboring towns. Although the place\\nnow termed the Upfer Village, wliere the first meeting-house\\nwas erected, is peculiarly pleasant, by reason of its elevation\\nand dehghtful scenery, but few buildings were erected there,\\nfrom the planting of the colony, until 1812. The parsonage,\\na tavern, and two or three farm-houses, were the only build-\\nings in the immediate vicinity of the meeting-house.\\nIn 1814, a road, beginning about eighty rods east of the\\nmeeting-house, and leading to the Prentice House, was opened,\\nchiefly through the agency of Alanson Tucker, Esq., who\\nhad, a few years before, removed into the town from Boston.\\nThis road afforded some house-lots, on one of which he built\\nhis mansion, and encouraged the erection of others. The\\ngrowth of the village was subsequently promoted by the\\nestablishment of the Adams Female Academy. The origin\\nof this institution, and also that of the Pinkerton Academy,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0189.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "120 IIISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nmay be traced to the establisliment of a classical Iligli School,\\nin the upper village, hy a number of gentlemen, as early as\\n1793. In order that the youth in the town and its vicinity\\nmight obtain a more thorough education than the common\\nschools could afford, a few citizens associated for the purpose,\\nand erected on the Common, near the East meeting-house, a\\ncommodious building, and engaged educated gentlemen as\\nteachers. Their first teacher was Mr. Z. S. Moor, afterwards\\nprofessor at Dartmouth, and subsequently president of Wil-\\nliams and Amherst colleges. He was succeeded by several\\nothers, until Mr. Samuel Burnham, a graduate of Dartmouth\\ncollege, took charge of the school, who continued his connection\\nwith it more than twenty years and to his labors and perse-\\nverance, in sustaining the school on his own responsibility,\\nafter the proprietors had withdrawn their individual contri-\\nbutions and support, is, to some extent, the present incorpo-\\nrated male^academy indebted for its funds and even its\\nexistence; as it was by a strong personal regard to Mr.\\nBurnham, and a desire to sustain and encourage him, that\\nthe principal donor of that institution was at first influenced,\\nin making his liberal bequests. Mr. Burnliam was distin-\\nguished for his faithfulness as a teacher, his mild and persua-\\nsive government, the great amiableness of his manners, and\\nhis devoted piety. He was for many years a most exem-\\nplary Christian, and a useful ot\u00c3\u00aficer in the church. He died,\\nNov. 1, 1834, at the age of sixty-seven years.\\nThe building in which the High School had been kept for\\nabout thirty years being out of repair, arrangements were\\nmade, in 1814, to erect by subscription a larger and more\\ncommodious one, for the accommodation of the pupils and the\\nencouragement of Mr. Burnham, who had struiii;o:led for some\\nyears to sustain the school. During the process of the erec-\\ntion and completion of the building, it was proposed, by those\\ninterested in it, to j)etition the legislature for an act of\\nincorporation, and at the same time it was suggcsted to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0190.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 121\\nMajor John Pinkerton, wlio had subscribed liberally towards\\nthe erection of the building, that a fund, to insure the con-\\ntinuance* of the school, and to extend lts means of usefulness,\\nwould be very desirable and that if he should see fit to\\nmake a donation for that purpose, the petitioners would\\nrequest to have it incorporated in his name, as the Pinker-\\nton Academj, in Londonderry. The proposition was favor-\\nably received, and he proposed, at first, to bestow five thousand\\ndollars. The petition for an act of incorporation, designated\\nthe site of the former building as the place where the acad-\\nemy should be located but the bill accompanying it, thi ough\\nan oversight, did not contain this provision. While the bill\\nwas passing the several readings in the legislature, an\\naddition of another trustee to the number proposed by the\\npetitioners was made, at the suggestion of the representative\\nfrom this town, to whom the business of obtaining the act\\nwas intrusted. By this means a majority was secured in the\\nboard, who desired a different location of the academy from\\nthat which had been decided upon by the petitioners, and\\nwhere a building had been by them actually erected and fin-\\nished. The Pinkerton Academy was consequently located\\nwhere it now is, more than a mile west of the spot where the\\nE.ev. Mr. Parker often remarked that, some time previous to the\\nfoundation of the Pinkerton Academy, he visited Major Pinkerton for the\\npurpose of obtaining a subscription in aid of the school then in opera-\\ntion. In the course of their conversation, he remarked to Major Pin-\\nkerton, that he hoped at some time they might have a permanent school,\\nthe one at that time conducted by Mr. Burnham being without funds,\\nand liable to be suspended, whenever the teacher should find it unprofit-\\nable. The next time they met, Major Pinkerton said to Mr. Parker I\\nhave been thinking a great deal about that word per-man -ent (giving it\\nthe Scotch pronunciation), and your suggestion seems to me very\\nimportant. There can be little doubt that that word, dropped almoat\\nby accident, first suggested to Major Pinkerton the idea of giving a por-\\ntion of his property to endow a permanent High School in the town, and\\nwas, in fact, the origin of the Pinkerton Academy. Editor.\\n11", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0191.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "122 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\npublic school had been sustahied. The change was produc-\\ntive, at first, of excited feelings in the community, but the\\nresult has perhaps been favorable to the interest of the town,\\nas it gave rise to a female school in the Upper Village, which\\nwas subsequently incorporated and endowed.\\nAt first, two departments existed in the Pinkerton Acad-\\nemy,* male and female. After a few years, the trustees\\njudged it expedi\u00c3\u00abnt to separate these departments, and con-\\nfine the instruction in the Pinkerton Academy to males. A\\nfemale seminary was in consequence opened in the building\\noriginally erected for an academy. In 1823, Mr. Jacob\\nAdams, a gentleman without a family, deceased. He be-\\nqueathed about four thousand dollars of his property to endow\\nThe Pinkerton Academy was incorporated June, 1814. The trustees\\nappointed by the charter were, Isaac Thom,*M. D., Dea. James Pinker-\\nton, Rev. Edward L. Parker, John Porter, Esq., Rev. William Morrison,\\nJohn Pinkerton, Jr. Esq., John Burnham, Esq., Alanson Tucker, Esq.,\\nand Robert Bartley, M. D.\\nThe trustees elected since the charter was obtained, to supply vacan-\\ncies in the board as they occurred, are as follows\\nJustin Edwards, D. D., James Thom, Esq., Asa McFarland, D. D.,\\nDaniel Dana, D. D., George Earrar, M. D., Hon, William M. Richard-\\nson, John H. Church, D. D., William Choate, Esq., Samuel Adams,\\nEsq., Thornton Betton, Esq., Rev P. B. Day, Rev. Jonathan Clement,\\nRev. T. G. Brainerd, Samuel H. Taylor, A. M., John M. Pinkerton,\\nA.M.\\nMr. Samuel Burnham was the first preceptor; he coramenced his\\nservices Deo. 1, 1815, and continued until 1818. Mr. Justin B. Adams\\nsucceeded him, and was preceptor one year. In 1819, Abel F. Hil-\\ndreth, A. M., was elected principal, and continued in that office until\\n1846. He Avas succeeded by Caleb Emery, A. B., upon whose resigna-\\ntion, in 1848, Rev. Elihu T. Rowe, A. B., was elected. Mr. Rowe\\nresigned Nov. 1850, and was succeeded by Marshall Henshaw, A. M.,\\nthe present principal.\\nThe present permanent funds of the institution amountlo $16,185,18,\\nof which $13,185,18, were givcn by Major John Pinkerton. The remain-\\ning $3.000 were bestowed by Dea. James Pinkerton, his original donation\\nof $1,500, having now doubled.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0192.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 123\\na female academy, to be located within one hiindred rods of\\nthe East Parish meeting-house, in Londondeny. It was\\naccordingly incorporated as the Adams Female Academy.\\nIt was the first incorporated female academy in the State\\nand among the first in New England in which the course of\\nstudies was prescribed, and the classes arranged as in our\\ncollegiate institutions.\\nMiss Z. P. Grant, who had been a pupil, and was then an\\nassistant, in the seminary of the Rev. Joseph Emerson, was\\nplaced at the head of this institution. She was aided by\\nMiss Mary Lyon, who subsequently became so distinguished,\\nas a teacher, in carrying into successful operation, at the\\nMount Holyoke Seminary, the plan of female education\\noriginally adopted here.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Emerson s views and plans on this subject\\nseem to have been in advance of his times, but his instruc-\\ntions contributed largely to give the right direction to the\\nminds of these ladies, whose influence upon the community\\nhas been so extensively and happily feit. The germ of the\\nseminary founded by Miss Lyon, may probably be found,\\nsays President Hitchcock, in his memoir of that lady, in a\\nremark made by the Rev. Mr. Emerson to Miss Grant, when\\nadvising her to take charge of the Adams Female Academy.\\nIf you can put into operation, said he, a permanent school\\non right principles, you may well afford to give up your life\\nwhenever you have done it. It was the hope of realizing\\nthis thought, that induced that lady to take charge of the\\nAdams Academy, where for several years she labored with\\nMiss Lyon, to accomplish the object.\\nUnder the superintendence and instruction of these two\\nladies, the institution here established soon became distin-\\nguished. The system of study adopted, though novel and\\nthorough, met with very general aj)probation. Young ladies\\nfrom various parts of New England resorted to it. It soon\\ncontained a hundred pupils, and it continued to rise in char-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0193.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "124 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nacter and influence, until circumstances led Miss Grant and\\nMiss Lyon to resign their connection with it, and to open a\\nschool for young ladies at Ipswich, Mass., which they con-\\nducted on the principles here laid down, and which were\\ncarried more fully into operation at South Hadley.\\nThey were succeeded by Mr. Charles C. P. Gale, of Exeter,\\na graduate of Yale College. He sustained a high character as\\na teacher, and remained principal of the institution ten years,\\nwhen he was invited to Boston, to take charge of a female\\nschool in that city. He had but just entered upon the duties\\nof this situation, when he was suddenly removed by death,\\nMarch 1, 1838. On the resignation of Mr. Gale, John Kelly,\\nEsq., of Atkinson, was appointed principal. He continued\\nto have the charge of it three years and on his retiring,\\nthe institution was again, in accordance with its original\\nplan, placed under the instruction and government of female\\nteachers. Miss Laura W. Dwight took charge of it in 1841,\\nand remained its principal three years. It is at present\\nunder female instruction, and afFords to young ladies advan-\\ntages of a thorough education.\\nMr. Adams, in addition to the fund for the establishment\\nof a female academy, gave eight hundred dollars to the\\nparish, for the purchase of a bell.\\nIn 1828, the number of inhabitants, the extent of terri-\\ntory, the inconvenience of attending the town meetings,\\ntogether with many local and rival interests, which frequent-\\nly agitated the community, induced those residinff in the\\neasterly part, to apply to the legislature for a division of the\\ntown. The petition was granted, and the easterly portion\\nwas set off as a township and incorporated by the name of\\nDerry, the remaining portion retaining the original name\\nof Londonderry. Tliere was nearly an equal division of\\nterritory and of population. The town contained 48,470\\nacres. West of the divisional line are 25,870 acres east of\\nthe line, 22,600 making the territory of Londonderry 3,270", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0194.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORT. 125\\nacres larger than the town of Deriy. But Avhile the town-\\nship of Londondeny exceeds that of Derry in territory, it\\ncontains a less population.\\nIn 1829, a bank, with a capita! of one hundred thousand\\njdollars, was chartered in Derry, by the name of the Derry\\nBank. Alanson Tucker, Esq. was its president, and James\\nThom, Esq., its cashier, from its establishment, until its\\ncharter expired, in 1849.\\nAlthough the strong traits of character which marked\\nthe early settlers of this town, their staid attachment to re-\\nligious principle and order, their firm adherence to what\\nthey believed true and sacred, their generosity and social\\nattachments, are still manifest in their descendants, and mark\\nthe community which they here founded yet many causes,\\nduring a period of more than an hundred years, have tended\\nto obliterate in a degree these distinctive traits. While em-\\nigrations from Londonderry were taking place from time to\\ntime, as its population increased, English families from other\\nplaces have removed into the town, preferring, as they left\\nthe denser settlements on the sea-board, to purchase farms\\nalready brought mto a state of cultivation, rather than, like\\nthe more hardy and adventurous sons of these colonists, to\\npenetrate and subdue the unbroken wilderness. A few such\\nfamilies, at an early period, settled on a pleasant tract, north\\nof Beaver Pond, which, from that circumstance, received the\\nname of the English Range, which it still retains.\\nAbout the year 1790, the town received a valuable acces-\\nsion of settlers from Ipswich, Mass. They were of the true\\nPuritan race, and retained all those excellences of character\\nthat distinguished the pilgrim band, which settled that an-\\ncient town. They had been trained up under the ministry\\nof Rev. Messrs. Rogers, Frisly, Cleaveland, and Dana, men\\ndistinguished for learning and piety, and for their attach-\\nment to the doctrines and order of the Puritans.\\nAlthough their national traits of character differed in some\\n11*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0195.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "126 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nrespects from those of the settlers of tliis town, yet they were\\nsoon blended, each imparting and receiving benefit by the\\nunion. A degree of cultivation and refinement was imparted\\nby these English settlers, which served to soften and improve\\nthe sterner and more rough features of the Scotch-Irish\\ncharacter.\\nThe first family which came from Ipswich to London-\\nderry, was that of John Cross. He was soon foliowed by\\nothers, as William and James Choate, Joseph and Benjamin\\nProctor, Nathaniel Jewett, Benjamin Caldwell, Joseph Cogs-\\nwell, Aaron Choate, John Burnham, John Crocker, Eliezer\\nLow. They were of the Congregational order, but readily\\nunited in the Presbyterian form of church govemment\\nwhich had been here observed. Many of them became dis-\\ntinguished not only as intelligent and influential citizens, but\\nas elRcient members of the church, and their descendants\\nare among the most valuable inhabitants of the town.\\nSeveral families, soon after this emigration from Ipswich,\\nremoved into this town from Newbury, Mass., among which\\nwere those of David and Edmund Adams, who became\\nlarge landholders, and entered extensively into agricultural\\npursuits.\\nAnother company from the more southerly part of Massa-\\nchusetts removed into Londonderry, and settled in the West\\nParish. Some of these families were of the Baptist denomi-\\nnation. They were not disposed to unite with the Presby-\\nterian society, as others had done, but, being joined by\\nsome few of the older inhabitants, they organized and formed\\na Baptist church and society, and in 1829, erected a meeting-\\nhouse in the north-west part of the town, which had been\\nusually called Canada.\\nFamilies from different parts have, from time to time,\\nremoved into this town, and others have left, so that the pro-\\nportion of the descendants of the first settlers is at present\\nnot large. There are, however, some which retain unmixed", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0196.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 127\\nthe native Scotch-lrish blood. Of tlie families living in the\\ntown, there are but few that retain the farms first subdued\\nfrom the original forest, and cultivated by their progenitors\\nof the same name. But while a marked change has taken\\nplace in regard to its inhabitants, it is deserving of grateful\\nnotice, that most of the accessions which this town has\\nreceived from other commmiities, have been families of sober\\nand industrious habits, friendly to good order, and attached\\nto religieus institutions, and have consequentlj contributed\\nto its prosperity.\\nFor a number of years after the settlement of this town,\\nthere were no means of conveyance from place to place. Yehi-\\ncles,now in such common use, were then almost unknown and\\nhad there been such, the state of the roads would not have\\nadmitted of their general use. Those who attended meet-\\ning on the Sal\u00c3\u00afbath, though the distance was in some instances\\ngreat, usually travelled on foot, mothers often with a young\\nchild in their arms. At length, as horses became mor^ com-\\nmon, the more wealthy part of the inhabitants might be seen\\ngoing to uroeting on horseback, the good-man before, the wife\\non the pillion, behind-n^This, until the close of the last cen-\\ntury, was the usual if not only mode of conveyance. In\\nthis way long journeys would be performed, females not un-\\nfrequently carrying an infant in their arms. Horses were\\nthen trained to pace or rack, and not, as now, to trot that\\ngait being more gentle and easy for the rider. It was not\\ntill nearly the commencement of the present century, that\\nthe fii st chaise was introduced. This was owned by Hon.\\nJohn Prentice. It excited great wonder, and was deemed\\nan unjustifiable extravagance. In 1814, the first horse- wagon\\nwas introduced into the town. It was made and owned by\\nDea. James Gregg. The style, ease, and mode of finish\\nof these vehicles, now in such general use, have since been\\ngreatly improved.\\nBut although the inhabitants in past days were destitute of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0197.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "128 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nthese means of conveyance although they were not, as now,\\nclad in flannels and furs during the winter season, or even\\npossessed of an outer garment, now deemed indispensable\\nand although their house of worship was unprovided with\\nstoves, and all the conveniences of ease and comfort which\\nit now possesses, yet seldom did they fail of a regular and\\npunctual attendance, in winter as well as summer, on the\\nstated worship of the sanctuary. These privations and hard-\\nships they cheerfully sustained, from love to the gospel, and\\na desire to transmit to their descendants a goodly inheritance.\\nLet not their simple manners and customs everbe reproached\\nor ridiculed by those who are reaping the fruits of their\\nindustry, frugality, and self-denying piety.\\nMuch attention has, from the first, been paid to common\\nschool education in this town. Primary schools have been\\nmaintained and well regulated in its severa\u00c3\u0089 districts, and\\nfew, if any, of the children and youth have not been taught\\nin the rudiments of knowledge. A classical or high school\\nwas here established, when but few such institutions existed.\\nSince which, a male and female academy, both wftl endowed,\\nhave been incorporated and well sua^ined.\\nMany of our youth, availing themselves of the advantages\\nof these institutions, have obtained a good academical educa-\\ntion, and become teachers in the district schools of this and\\nsurrounding towns while a very considerable number of\\nyoung men have received a collegiate education, and become\\ndistinguished in professional life.\\nFew towns, perhaps, possess more advantages than belong\\nto the original township of Londonderry. VYhether we con-\\nsider the scenery it everywhere presents, the strength and\\nfertility of its soil, its vicinity to several flourishing cities\\nand manufacturing villages, its means of communication\\nwith them by railroad or its institutions of learning, its gen-\\neral order and the ample provision made for the permanent\\nsupport of the Christian ministry, they surely have reason", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0198.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 129\\nfor gratitude, wlio enjoy a dwelling-place possessing so many\\nadvantages. They have, indeed, a goodly heritage. There\\nmay be places where larger possessions can be more readily\\nacquired, but few, if any, where the means of comfortable\\nliving, and of intellectual and moral improvement, can be\\nmore easily obtained, or are more generally enjoy ed.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nPkESBYTERIANISM in NEW ENG LAND EXTRACTS FROM THE OLD\\nCHURCH RECORDS DEATH AND CHARACTER OF REV. J. MAC-\\nGREGOR REV. MR. CLARK, HIS CHARACTER SETTLEMENT OF\\nREV. MR. THOMPSON DESCRIPTION OF THE SACRAMENTAL SER-\\nVICE IND\u00c3\u009cCTION OF ELDERS FORMATION OF THE WEST PAR-\\nISH, AND SETTLEMENT OF REV. D. MACGREGOR SETTLEMENT\\nOF REV. MR. DAVIDSON REVIVAL NEW MEETING-HOUSE\\nDEATH AND CHARACTER OF REV. D. MACGREGOR SETTLEMENT\\nOF REV. MR. MORRIS\u00c3\u0096N DEATH AND CHARACTER OF REV. 3IR.\\nDAVIDSON SETTLE3IENT OF REV. MR. BROWN DIVISIONS IN\\nTHE EAST PARISH DISMISSAL OF MR. BROWN SETTLEMENT\\nOF THE PRESENT PASTOR ENDOWMENT OF THE TWO PARISHES\\nDEATH AND CHARACTER OP REV. MR. MORRIS\u00c3\u0096N DR. DANA\\nREV. MR. HATES, HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER REV. MB.\\nADAMS REV. MR. BRAINERD CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY\\nREV. MR. DAT METHODIST SOCIETY REVIVALS.\\nThe text from which the Rev. Mr. MacGregor preached,\\nwhen he took the pastoral care of the infant church in Lon-\\ndonderry, then literally in the wilderness, was from Ezekiel\\n37 26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with\\nthem it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and\\nI will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanc-\\ntuary in- the midst of them forevermore. This promise, as\\napphed to this band of emigrants, has been strikingly ful-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0199.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "130 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nfilled, in the permanency, enlargement, and prosperity of the\\nsettlement, then devoutly commenccd. It has been shown\\nin a previous chapter, that the leading motive of these colo-\\nnists in coming to this country, was the more full and free\\nenjoyment of religious privileges. Like most of the New\\nEngland colonists, they sought a home and a place to wor-\\nship God. The emigration, therefore, from Ireland in 1718,\\ncalled the Londonderry emigration, as they mostl} came from\\nthat city, and its vicinity, included four Presbyterian minis-\\nters, viz. MacGregor, Cornwell, Boyd, and Holmes. Of these\\nministers, the settlers of this town made choice of the Rev.\\nMr. MacGregor, as their pastor. He was now in the meri-\\ndian and vigor of life. He had received a thorough classical\\nand theological education, and sustained for some years the\\npastoral office in Ireland. He was every way qualified to be\\nto them a spiritual guide and counsellor. Although, in conse-\\nquence of his lamented death, his relation to them continued\\nbut a few years, yet he was an important blessing to the\\ninfant settlement, as it respected its civil as well as ecclesi-\\nastical concerns. We find from public documents, that he\\nwas associated with others, and was doubtless the most influ-\\nential, in securing a title to the soil, in obtaining an act of\\nincorporation, and in erecting and finishing a house of worship.\\nThe tradition, in regard to his correspondence with the Mar-\\nquis de Yaudreuil, has been already noticed.\\nAs no presbytery then existed in this part of the country,\\nnor any otlier Presbyterian church in New England, there\\ncould have been no regular installation of Mr. MacGregor,\\nover the congregation. It appears from the brief record of the\\ntransaction, that the people being assembled for public wor-\\nship, the pastor elect, having preached to them from the\\npassage above referred to, did, in the presence of God, take\\nthe people to be his pastoral charge. And they, by a public\\nexpression of their wishes, received him as their minister.\\nWe know not the number of members which composed the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0200.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 131\\nchurch at its organization but its increase was rapid, as the\\nsettlement ad vaneed. At a communion season, in 1723,\\nthere were one hundred and sixty comraunicants. At the\\nnext spring communion, only four years from the formation\\nof the church, there were present two hundred and thirty\\nmembers.\\nBeing of Scottish descent, and having been educated in\\nthe Presbyterian faith and discipline, that mode of church\\ngovernment was adopted by this company of settlers. The\\nchurch which they established was the first Presbyterian\\nchurch in New England. Others were soon formed by the\\nemigrants who accompanied and foliowed them to this land,\\nas they settled in different parts of the country.\\nThe Federal Street Church (then Long Lane) in Boston,\\nwas originally Presbyterian, and was formed soon after the\\norganization of this. Their first pastor was the Rev. Mr.\\n.Morehead, from Ireland. He was a man of distinguished\\ntalents, and eminent for his piety but subject to a natural\\ntemperament so excitable as not unfrequently to lead to rash\\nand imprudent acts and expressions, which called forth on\\none occasion, from Mr. MacGregor, his particular friend,\\nthis reproof: Mr. Morehead, you have doubl\u00c3\u00a9 the grace of\\ncommon Christians, but not half enough for yourself. His\\nfuneral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. David Mac-\\nGregor, from the text, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom\\nis no guile. He was succeeded by Robert Annin, also from\\nIreland, and distinguished as a scholar and a divine. On\\nhis removal to Philadelphia, Dr. Belknap, of Greenland, the\\nhistorian of New Hampshire, became pastor of that church.\\nAbout this time, its mode of church government was changed\\nfrom the Presbyterian to the Congregational form. Presby-\\nterian churches were so multiplied in New England, that,\\nas early as 1729, we find in the records of the London-\\nderry church session, a notice of a meeting of presbytery in\\nBoston and that an elder was appointed to attend its ses-\\nsion. It may have been formed a few years earlier.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0201.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "132 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nThe Presbyterian mode of cliurch order, differing from\\nthe Congregational, which claims independency, supposes\\nthat the government of the church, as laid down in the New\\nTestament, was by presbyteries, that is, by associatio\u00c3\u00afis of\\nministers and ruling elders, all possessed of equal powers,\\nwithout any superiority among them, either in ofiSee or\\norder and in this principal feature, it was opposed to Epis-\\ncoi3acy, which gave so much power to the bishop.\\nIt was, moreover, deemed more simple and spiritual in its\\nmode of worship, conferring upon the people a larger share\\nin the affairs of the church. Between Presbyteriani\u00c2\u00abm and\\nEvangelical congregationalism, tliere is little or no d\u00c3\u00bcFerence,\\nexcept in the form of government. Every Congregational\\nchurch, as respects ecclesiastical government, is a separate\\nand independent body while according to the Presbyterian\\nmode, there are regular and established judicatories, before\\nwhich all cases of discipline or difficulty can be promptly\\nand regularly brought. The lowest is the church session,\\nconsisting of the minister and the elders of the congregation,\\nwho are chosen to this office by their brethren. The next\\njudicatory is the presbytery, which consists of all the pastors\\nwithin a certain district, and one ruling elder from each\\nchurch, commissioned by his brethren, to represent, in conr\\njunction with the minister, the session of that church. From\\nthe judgment of the presbytery, lies an appeal to the synod,\\nwhich meets once a year, and exercises over the presbyteries\\nwithin its bounds a jurisdiction similar to that whi\u00c3\u00a9h is vested\\nin each presbytery over the several church sessions within\\nits bounds.\\nThe synods are composed of the members of the several\\npresbyteries within their respective limits. The highest\\nauthority in the Presbyterian church, is the General Assem-\\nbly, which. consists of a certain number of ministers and\\nruling elders, delegated from each presbytery. To this body,\\nappeals may be brought from all the other ecclesiastical", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0202.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 133\\ncourts, and in questions purely religious no appeal can be\\nhad from its decisions. There is thus a most perfect system\\nof procedure in all cases of difficulty, verj similar to that in\\ncivil cases before the courts of law, the tribunals being per-\\nmanently established, and not called by the parties for the\\noccasion. The doctrines of the Presbyterian church have\\never been Calvinistic, as contained in their confession of\\nfaith. The early settlers of Londonderry were ardently\\nattached to the doctrines and government of this church,\\nbeing those of the church of Scotland, and introduced there\\na century before, by John Knox, the celebrated Scotch\\nreformer. Presbyterianism, thus planted by this colony,\\nbranched out, as churches were formed by emigrations from\\nthe town, so that at an early period there was not only a\\npresbytery constituted in Boston, but subsequently two\\nothers, composed of churches in Massachusetts, New Hamp-\\nshire, and Maine. These presbyteries were at length formed\\ninto one body, called The Synod of New England, which\\ncontinued to hold regular annual meetings, usually at Lon-\\ndonderry, for several years.\\nIn 1782, some difficulties having arisen, and the number of\\nthe Synod being considerably reduced, they agreed to dissolve,\\nand to form themselves into one presbytery, by the name of\\nthe Presbytery of Salem. After subsequent divisions and\\nchanges, there was formed, May, 1794, a union of the asso-\\nciated reformed presbytery of Londonderry, and of the\\neastern presbytery the body thus united, was called the\\nPresbytery of Londonderry. This title it continues to retain,\\nbeing the only Presbyterian body now in New England,\\nembracing twelve churches, two of which are in Massachu-\\nsetts, the others in New Hampshire and about twenty min-\\nisters.\\nThe records of the church in Londonderry, commence\\nJune 27, 1723. The first church session consisted of Rev.\\nJames MacGregor, moderator, David Cargil, James Mc-\\n12", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0203.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "134 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nKeen, Samncl Moor, John Cochran, John Barrett, William\\nAyer, James Alexander, James Aclams, Robert Wilson, and\\nRobert Givan, elders. James Reed was added in 172G.\\nThe following extracts from their records may serve as an\\nillustration of the vigilance with which these elders watched\\nover the flock, of which they were the overseers. The first\\ncase which engaged their attention was the report that James\\nDoake had quarrelled with liis father and beaten him. The\\nrecord states, that the session came to this conclusion that\\nafter a great deal of pains taken, they cannot find it proven\\nthat James Doake did beat his father, yet the session agreeth\\nthat James Doake should be rebuked before them, for giving\\nhis father the lie, and to be exhorted to respect and honor\\nhis parents in words and actions.\\nThe next case of discipline was a charge brought by John\\nArchibald, against James Moor, for using unjustifiable ex-\\npressions, of a profane character, which Moor denied yet\\nhe was exhorted by the session to be watchful and more\\ncircumspect for the future.\\nA trait of character which distinguished this people, was\\na generous sympathy for their friends in circumstances of\\naffliction, and a readiness to tender relief. Hence we find,\\nthat at the early period of 1725, the session ordered two\\npublic coUections to be taken on the Sabbath. One was to\\naid a Mr. James Clark, residing in Rutland, to ransom\\nhis son, taken by the Indians; the collection, straitened\\nas were their circumstances at the time, amounted to five\\npounds. The other was for the relief of William Moor, who\\nhad two cows killed by the falling of a tree three pounds\\nand nineteen shillings were received. It is most evident,\\nfrom these ancient records, that, whatever imperfections\\nappeared in the character of the people, they did not suffer\\nsin to pass unreproved. Impurity of speech or act the cir-\\nculation of slanderous reports, dishonesty, or neglect of social\\nreligious duties, w^ere subjects of prompt and faithful disci-\\npline.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0204.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 135\\nIn 1734, we find the entry of a complaint by Arcliibald\\nStark, against John Morrison, that, having foiind an axe in\\nthe road, he did not leave it at the next tavern, as the\\nlaws of the country doth require and although Morrison ac-\\nknowledged the fact, and plead that it was of so small a value\\nthat it would not qiiit cost to proclaim it, yet he was severely\\ncensiired by the session, and exhorted to repent of the evil.\\nOn another occasion, two individuals were arraigned for\\nindecent behavior, who plead as an apology that tliey were\\nin a state of intoxication at the time. This, so far from being\\nconsidered as any excuse for the acts of which they were\\nacciised, was declared by the session an aggravation of their\\nsin and they were dealt with accordingly. No people were\\nmore distinguished for sound Christian doctrine and order,\\nor for a more strict and inflexible code of morals.\\nIn 1729, the town experienced a heavy loss in the removal\\nof the Rev. Mr. MacGregor, their spiritual guide and father.\\nNo trial could have been more afflictive to this people. He\\nhad taken a lively and tender interest in their temporal as\\nwell as spiritual prosperity, and by his counsels, his influence,\\nand his many exertions, contributed much to the formation\\nof the character and to the great prosperity of the settlement.\\nHe lived to see the vine which had been brought from his\\nnative land into this wilderness, takino; firm root and beo-in-\\nning to entend its tender branches. His name and memory\\nwere most tenderly cherished by his bereaved flock, and suc-\\nceeding generations and the eifects of his labors among them\\nwere long and widely feit. He possessed a robust constitu-\\ntion, and had enjoyed firm and uninterrupted heahh. He\\nhad never been visited with sickness until seized with that\\nwhich terminated his life. Though at the time but a youth,\\nhe was among the brave defenders of Londonderry, in Ire-\\nland, and discharged from the tower of the cathedral the\\nlarge gun, which announced the approach of the vessels that\\nbrought them relief. Thus habituated to hardships and self-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0205.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "136 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\ndenial, he was well prepared to share with the compaiiy who\\ntook possession of tliis spot, the toils, daiigers, and sacrilices\\nof ease and comfort, ever attendant upon a new settlemcnt.\\nHe survived but a few days the attack of fever, with which\\nhe was seized. He died on Wednesday, March 5, 1729, and\\nwas intcrred on the Saturday following, with deep and gen-\\neral lamentation. The Rev. Mr. PhilHps, of Andover, Mass.,\\npreached his funeral sermon, from the words of Zeehariah\\n1:5: Your fathers, where are they and the prophets, do\\nthey live forever? Althoiigh the settlement, before his\\ndeath, had surmoimted its principal difficidties, and so greatly\\nincreased, that, at the last sacramental occasion on which he\\nattended, with his beloved flock, there were present three\\nhundred and seventy-five communicants, yet his removal\\nwas deeply feit and lamented. He was, as Dr. Belknap\\njustly observes, in his Ilistory, a wise, affectionate, and faith-\\nful guide to his people, botli in civil and religieus matters.\\nFrom traditional remarks, as well as from some few manu-\\nscripts of his, which have been preserved, we are led to con-\\nsider him a man of distinguished talents, both natnral and\\nacquired. He evidently possessed a vigorous and discrim-\\ninating mind. He was strictly evangelical in his doctrinal\\nviews, and peculiarly spiritual and exj^erimental in his\\npreaching. During his short but severe sickness, he mani-\\nfested a firm, unshaken faith in the Saviour, and a liyely hope\\nof his interest in the promises of the gospel. In the imme-\\ndiate prospect of death, he remarked to those around him,\\nthat he trusted he had known Christ from the fourteenth\\nyear of his age, and could cheerfully confide to his hands his\\nimmortal interests.\\nThe session, in noticing his removal, on their records,\\nspeak of his peaceful and triumphant death, of his victori-\\nously entering into the joy of his Lord. He was fifty-two\\nyears of age at his death. He left a widow and seven\\nchildrcn. His personal appearance was commanding his", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0206.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 137\\nstature tall and erect, liis complexion rather dark, and his\\ncountenance expressive.*\\nSoon after the death of Mr. MacGregor, the Re\\\\^ Matthew\\nClark, having received ordiuation in Ireland, came to this\\ncountry and immediately repaired to Londonderry, where\\nhis countrymen and many of his former acquaintance now\\nresided. At the request of the church and congregation, he\\nsupplied the desk and took the pastorai care of the people,\\nalthough not formally installed as their .pastor. Possessing\\ndistinguished literary acquirements, he also officiated as an\\ninstructor in the higher branches of education. Though\\nabout seventy years of age when he came to this town, yet\\nhe continued in the vigorous discharge of his duties for more\\nAs ilhistrative of the practical customs and manners of the clergy-\\nmen of those days, and of Mr. MacGregor s prompt and decided char\\nacter, it is related, that during the time of the first harvest after the\\nsettlement, a party of men, strong in numbers, came up from the neigh-\\nboring town of Haverhill, Mass., as it seems had been their custom for\\nsome years previous, to mow and carry off the grass from the fine natu-\\nra! meadows. This was not unexpected but it was supposed that, a\\nmanly and cxplicit explanation being given, they would at once desist\\nand at the suggestion of their pastor, Mr. IMacGregor, a committee of four\\nor five men went out to meet them. for this purpose. The representa-\\ntions of this committee, howcA er, were treated with derision, which being\\nreported, some others went forward, headed by their pastor, who in very\\ndecided thougli dignified terms, and with some warmth, told them that\\nthe title of the proprietors of Londonderry to the grass was direct and\\nperfect, and ordered them off the ground. The leader of the party\\nimmediately walked up to Mr. ]MacGregor, and shaking his fist in his\\nface, in an angry, threatening tone, exclaimed, alluding to his clerical\\ncostume, Nothing saves you, sir, but your black coat. Mr. Mac-\\nGregor instantly replied, Well, it shan t save you, sir, and throwing\\noff his coat, was about to uit the action to the word, when the party,\\nwith their boasting leader, beat a retreat.\\nIt was the custom, at that day, for all able-bodied men to go to\\nchurch well armed, in order to be prepared to repel any sudden attack\\nfrom the Indians, and their pastor always raarched into his pulpit with\\nhis gun well loaded and primed.\\n12*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0207.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "138 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nthan six years. He had served as an ofRcer in the Protest-\\nant army during the civil commotions in Ireland, and was,\\nas already stated, active in the defence of Londonderry,\\nduring the memorable siege which it endured. In one of\\nthe sallies which were frequently made by the besieged, he\\nreceived a wound, the ball grazing the temple and so affect-\\ning the bone, that it never healed. The sore was concealed\\nby a black patch, as his portrait novv shows, and may be\\nregarded as an honorable testimonial of his miUtary services.\\nAfter the civil commotions in his native land had subsided,\\nhe quit the military service, and having qualified himself,\\nbecarae a preacher of the gospel, laying down the sword of a\\nhallowed defence for the purer service of the sons of Aaron.\\nHe was very eccentric in his manners, possessing it is said,\\na peculiar vein of humor, \\\\Vhich would occasionally appear\\nin his more public services.* He was sound in the faith,\\nDuring the period of the old Frcnch war, a young, large, athletic,\\nand fine-looking British officer, happening, during his furlongh, to be at\\nLondonderry, attended church on the Sabbath, and standing about the\\ndoor till after service had commeneed, was^ccosted by an cider, and\\ntold that he had better walk in. He did s\u00c3\u00b3-Avhile the congregation\\nwere engaged in prayer, and taking a conspieuous position, stood up.\\nas was the general and appropriate custom of those days, during prayer\\nbut being, probably, desirous of showing what lie tliought a good speci-\\nmen of a British ofRcer, in bright scarlet uniform, continued standing\\nuntil the sermon was somewhat advanced. Mr. Clark, on glancing\\naround, discovered, much to his annoyance, that the attention of most\\nof the congregation, including ncarly all the young ladies, was engrosscd\\nby the handsome officer whcrcupon lie paused, laid doAVn his sermon,\\nand abruptly, with a significant gesture, and in his own emphatic Scotch\\ndialect, thus addressed him Ye are a braw lad, ye ha e a braw suit o\\nclaithes, and we ha e a seen thcm, ye may sit doun.\\nIt may be hardly necessary to add, that the courage of the soldier,\\nwhich was undoubtedly amply suffici\u00c3\u00abnt for all ordinary emergencies,\\nfailcd him here, and he instantly sat down whcn Mr. Clark went on\\nwith his sermon, as though nothing had happcned.\\nIt is also related of him that in preaching on the confidenceof Peter,\\nthat he would not deny his Lord, and his subscquent fall, he rcmarked", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0208.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 139\\ndecided and independent in his seutiments, and fearless in\\ndefence of what he judged to be correct in doctrine, or in\\npractice. In his mode of living lie was singularly temperate.\\nHe wholly abstained from all kinds of flesh, and never ate\\nof anything wbich had possessed animal life. His martial\\nspirit, though he had become a minister of the Prince of\\nPeace, would not unfrequently be revived. It is among the\\ntraditions of the people, that, while sitting as moderator of\\nthe presbytery, the martial music of a training band, recalled\\nhis youthful fire, and for a while he was incapable of attend-\\ning to the duties of his office. To the repeated calls of the\\nmembers, his reply was, Nae business while I hear the toot\\no the drum. He married, as his third wife, the widow of\\nthe Rev. Mr. MacGregor. He died January 25, 1735, aged\\nseventy-six. His remains, in compliance with his special\\nrequest, were borne to the grave by those who had been his\\nfellow-soldiers and fellow-sufFerers in the siege of Derry.\\nPreviously to the death of Mr. Clark, the people, desirous\\nof obtaining a minister from their native land, had made appli-\\ncation to the presbytery of Tyrone for a candidate. In 1732,\\nMr. Robert Boyes was appointed by the town their com-\\nmissioner, who, with the advice and in concurrence with the\\nRev. Mr. McBride of Ballymony, was empowered to invite\\na suitable, well-qualified, and accredited minister, to take\\ncharge of them in the Lord, engaging to pay any one who\\nshould consent ^o come, one hundred and forty pounds annu-\\nJust like Peter, aye mair forrit than wise, ganging swaggering aboot\\nwi a sword at his side an a puir han he mad o it when he cam to\\nthe trial, for he only cut ofF a chiels lug, an he ought to ha split\\ndeun his heed.\\nOn another occasion also, he is said to have commenced a discourse,\\nfrom Philippians 4 13, in the following manner I can do all thiugs\\nay, can ye Paul 1 I U bet ye a dollar o that, (placing a Spanish dollar\\nupon the desk,) Stop Iets see what else Paul says I can do all things\\nthrough Christ, which strengtheneth me. Ay, sae can I, Paul, I draw\\nmy bet, and he thereupon returned the dollar to his pocket.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0209.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "140 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nallj, besides the expenses of his voyage, and also to give him,\\nas a settlement, one half of a home-lot and a hundred-acre\\nout-lot, as it was then termed. These two lots,with the minis-\\nterial lot adjoining Beaver Pond, subsequently constituted a\\nvaluable farm, and was owned and occupied by Kev. Mr.\\nDavidson. This was a salarj much larger than is now usu-\\nally received by settled ministers and, considering the time\\nwhen it was granted, evinces the zeal and liberality of the\\nearly settlers in supporting the gospel, and its institutions.\\nIn those days, as we learn, the colony gave the governor but\\none hundred pounds a year and Portsmouth, the capital,\\ngave its minister a salary of only one hundred and thirty\\npounds. But this people had been taught the value of the\\ngospel, and the free enj\u00c3\u00b6yment of divine ordinances. They\\nwere forward to honor the Lord with their substance and the\\nfirst fruits of all their increase, and they realized the fulfil-\\nment of the divine promise, and were blessed, as a commu-\\nnity, in their basket and in their store.\\nIn October, 1733, Mr. Boyes returned from Ireland with\\nthe Rev. Thomas Thompson, who, having accepted the invita-\\ntion given him in behalf of this church and congregation, had\\nbeen ordained as their pastor by the presbytery of Tyrone, and\\nwas, by that body, amply recommended to this people. On\\nhis arrival, he was cordially received by them as their minis-\\nter. A number of emigrants accompanied him, who became\\nmembers of his society. His first sermon was from those\\nappropriate words of Peter to Cornelius, Acts 10: 29, There-\\nfore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was\\nsent for: I ask, therefore, for what intent ye have sent for\\nme? The session, in behalf of the church and society, en-\\ntered the following minute on their records in respect to him\\nThe session having seen and approved Mr. Thompson s\\ntestimonials of not only his trials but ordination to be our\\nminister in the Lord, by the presbytery of Tyrone, together\\nwith a letter from said presbytery, wherein they largely set\\nforth the great satisfaction which they had, not only of his trials,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0210.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 141\\nbut also of his Christian life and conversation, all which we\\nheartily and clieerfully accept, and recei ve him to be our minis-\\nter in the Lord promising, as God shall enable us, to yield all\\ndue subjection andobediencetohim in the Lord, and to respect\\nhim as an ambassador of Jesus Christ, for his work s sake.\\nMr. Thompson was twenty-nine years of age when he came\\nto this country. He had married, before he left Ireland, a\\nMiss Cummings, daughter of an of\u00c3\u00aficer of the British navy,\\nand a lady of accomplished education. On his settlement\\nin this place, he not only received the lands voted him by the\\ntown, but was aided by the people in the erection of a commo-\\ndious house, the one afterwards occupied by Rev. Mr.\\nDavidson, his successor, and not long since taken down.\\nThe church enjoyed the pastoral labors of Mr. Thompson but\\nfive years. He died Sept. 22, 1738, leavinga widow and one\\nchild. Though his ministry was short, it was highly accept-\\nable to the people, and attended with the divine blessing, the\\nchurch being very considerably increased during the period\\nof his connection with it.\\nFrom the few facts and traditionary notices of him that\\nhave come down to us, it appears that he was a man of\\npromising talents and varied accomplishments, easy, affable,\\nand pleasing in his manners, and interesting as a public\\nspeaker. At his decease, the town, from attachment to his\\nfamily and respect to his memory, and with a liberality highly\\nconTmendable, voted to bestow seventy pounds towards the\\neducation of his infant son.\\nIn those days, the character of the minister was faithfully\\nprotected, by the church, against the scandals and malicious\\ndesigns of those who desire to destroy his influence. Defam-\\ners of the ministry were not then countenanced and sustained,\\nas they now are, by numbers in almost every community.\\nWe find that a Mr. John Taggart was arraigned before the\\nsession for uttering reproachful words respecting Mr. Thomp-\\nson, charging him with being false, and not having the truth\\nin him. Taggart appeared before the session and acknowl-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0211.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "142 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nedged his fault, in expressing himself so rashly and unad-\\nvisedly as he bad done wliicli confession, after lie was\\nrebuked and exborted to be more cautious and watchful of\\nhis words for the future, was read before the congregation.\\nThere is no class of men more open to the envenomed shafts\\nof the defamer, and none, owing to their peculiar situation,\\nless able to repel the assaults, than the ministers of the gos-\\npel. It is only by well-doing that they can put to silence the\\nreproaches of ungodly men but this often requires time.\\nIt would be well, therefore, if churches, or church sessions,\\nwould, on certain occasions, as was done in the case referred\\nto, throw around their pastor a protecting influence, and\\ncause the defamer to feel its power.\\nDuring Mr. Thompson s ministry, the church was very\\nconsiderably increaieed. At a sacramental occasion in 1 734,\\nonly fifteen years after the settlement of the town, there w^ere\\npresent, as appears from the church records, seven hundred\\ncommunicants. This number included, as we suppose, many\\nfrom other towns, where settlements had commenced and\\nthose also who, retaining a relation to this churcli, but resid-\\ning elsewhere, returned, on such occasions, to enjoy the\\nprivilege of communion witli their brethren. These seasons,\\nrecurring but twice in the year, were regarded by the people\\nas important occasions, something like the assembUngof the\\nancient tribes, on their national festivals. This mode of con-\\nducting the sacramental service, had its origin in the churches\\nof Scotland. At the commcncement of the Reformation, in\\nthat country, the Lord s supper was administered four times\\nin each year. Afterwards, for reasons which we are not able\\nto state, that ordhiance came to be administered less fre-\\nquently, in some churches once only in the year, and in\\nnone more than twice. One consequence of this arrangement\\nwas, that, whenever the ordinance was dispensed in each\\nchurch, it was made an ecclesiastical occasion. The pastors\\nof three or four neighboring churches left their own pulpits\\non that day, went to the aid of their brother, and took the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0212.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 143\\nmass of their congregations with them, to enjoy the privilege\\nof communing with their sister church.\\nThe sacramental service was commonly preceded by\\npreaching on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the first of\\nwhich days was observed as a sacramental fast, and observed\\nas sucli with great strictness, the families abstaining from\\nfood and all kinds of worldly labor. Any violation of the day\\nby secular concerns, was a disciplinable offence. A complaint\\nwas, on one occasion, brought against a member of the\\nchurch, for spreading out grain on that day to dry, for which\\nhe was duly admonished by the session. The Monday\\nfollowing the sacrament was a day of thanksgiving.\\nThese extra services gave rise to much preaching, which\\nrendered the aid of several ministers highly desirable, if not\\nnecessary. When the Sabbath came, which was the great\\nday of the feast, the ministers, ruling elders, and communi-\\ncants of several different churches, were all assembled, pre-\\npared to gather round the sacramental tables. In these\\ncircumstances, the question would arise, how should those\\nwho were really communicants, in good standing, be distin-\\nguished from unworthy intruders, who belonged to no\\nchurch, and were, perhaps, even profligate but who, from\\nunworthy motives, might thrust themselves into the seats of\\nworthy communicants, and thus produce disorder and scan-\\ndal To meet this difficulty, the plan was adopted to depos-\\nite, in the hands of each pastor and his elders, a parcel of\\ncheap metallic pieces, stamped wdth the initials of the churcli,\\ncalled tokens, which they were to dispense to all known\\nmembers of their own church who were in attendance, and\\nwished to commune. Thus, although not a quarter part of the\\ncommunicants were personally known to the pastor, or elders\\nof the church in which the sacramental service occurred,\\nyet these cheap and convenient little certificates of church\\nmembership, for such they were intended to be, being re-\\nceived by each communicant from the minister and elder of\\nhis own church, prevented imposition and secured regulaiity", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0213.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "144 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nand order. Such was the origin of tokens, which for more\\nthan a century were used in our Presbyterian churches in\\nthis country, even many years after the occasion for them\\nhad passed away.\\nThe administration of the ordinance on the Sabbath was\\nattended with certain ceremonies and services, not generally\\nobserved at present. A long but narrow table, or rather\\nelevated form, was placed in each aisle, with lower ones on\\neach side for seats. Before these were filled by communi-\\ncants, and before the clements were distributed, the tables\\nwere barred, or fenced, as it was termed, by the officiating\\nminister. In this exercise, the requisite qualifications for\\nacceptable communion were stated, and those sins, secret or\\nopen, which in the sight of God, and according to his word,\\nwould debar one from the table of the Lord, detailed at some\\nlength. This more usually included a brief exposition of the\\ndecalogue. After this service, occupying from thirty to forty\\nminutes, the seats at the tables were first filled by the more\\nelderly portion of the church. After an address to them, in\\nreference to the occasion, the clements were duly conse-\\ncrated, and passed along the tables by the officiating elders.\\nThis company being served, retired from the table while a\\nhymn was snng, and another company approached and\\ntook their seats, to whom the clements were imparted in like\\nmanner, accompanied with an address from the minister.\\nThere would sometimes be three or four sittings or services\\nat the table, before the whole church could bc served. The\\nwhole was foliowed by a warm and faithful exhortation from\\nthe pastor, to walk worthy of their high vocation, and\\nadorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things. After\\na short recess, the congregation reassembled, w^hen an appro-\\npriate discourse, with the usual devotional exercises, closed\\nthe public services of the day, which w^ere often protracted\\nto the going down of the sun.\\nThese forms and extra services are now in most of our\\nchurches in a great degree laid aside. Pews ai e occupied.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0214.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 145\\ninstead of seats, at the table. The whole church commune\\nat the same time. The Saturday and in some cases the\\nMondaj services are omitted, and although the day of fast is\\nmaintained in most if not all the Presbyterian churches, as a\\nseason preparatory for the communion yet even this is by\\ntoo many professors neglected, or very formally observed.\\nIt would be well in this case to inquire for the old paths\\nwhere is the good way. Such solemn and devout convo-\\ncations, such assembling of the people for several consecutive\\ndays for prayer and praise and preaching, if the practice\\nwere revived by the churches, would happily serve, it is\\nbelieved, to promote their spirituality, and bring down the\\ndivine influences in more copious effusions. Such meet-\\nings, in connection with the administration of the Lord s\\nsupper, are in accordance with the directory for worship, as\\ncontained in the Confession of Faith, and in many instances\\nhave been attended with most signal manifestations of\\nthe divine presence. Such was the fact in the days of the\\nErskines, and other powerful preachers of the Scottish\\nchurch. Their sacramental seasons were, in most instances,\\ntimes of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. There\\nwas a most remarkable display of divine grace, during such a\\ncommunion season, in 1 630, at the Church of Shotts, a small\\ntown between Glasgow and Edinburgh, at which nearly five\\nhundred are said to have been awakened, most of whom gave\\ngood evidence of a saving change of heart, in their subse-\\nquent lives.\\nSimilar instances of the divine manifestations in Scotland,\\nand in Ireland, were repeatedly witnessed at these pro-\\ntracted meetings of the people of God and although these\\nextra services on such occasions may have become in many\\ncases mere formal observances, yet it is to be regretted that\\nthey should have been so generally laid aside. Man, as\\nGecil remarks, is a creature of extremes. The middle\\npath is generally the wise path but there are few wise\\n13", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0215.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "146 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nenough to find it. Because our fathers may have made too\\nmucli of forms and outward services, we have made too little\\nof them. The form of godliness, without the power, is\\nworthless hut so long as we are creatures of sense, and not\\nall spirit, godliness must with us have a form. While some\\nconsider grace as inseparable from the participation of the\\nsacraments, others lose siglit of them as instituted means of\\nconveying grace to the heart.\\nIn 1736, the session, having been reduced by death, was\\nincreased by the addition of John Moor, Sen., John Moor,\\nJr., Peter Douglass, Thomas Steele, Alexander Rankin, and\\nNinian Cochran. The manner of electin^j and inductinoj\\nthese officers of the church, difFered, as it appears, from the\\ncourse now generally pursued. The following extracts from\\nthe records of the session will exhibit the spirit and manner\\nof procedure in a business so solemn and important in its\\ninfluence upon the church.\\nMarch 11, 1735-6. The session being met and consti-\\ntuted by prayer, after due deliberation and calling on God,\\nto direct and assist in tliis weighty affair, did all agree to\\nmake clioice of a certain number to be added to the session,\\nand in order to carry on the same we had long communing,\\nwho shall be fixed on, and having agreed upon them, they\\nwere as followeth, (the individuals above named.) They\\nare to be spoken to and dealt with, that they may joyn\\nmembers in this session, and give their answer at our next\\nmeeting, which is to be upon the 25th pf March. And so\\nconcluded by prayer.\\nMarch 25, 1736. The session being met and constituted\\nwith prayer by the moderator, Rev. Mr. Thompson, the\\nabove-named John Moor, Sen., John Moor, Jr., Thomas\\nSteel, Peter Douglass, Alexander Rankin, Ninian Cochran,\\nhaving been formerly nominated and invited to be joined\\nmembers of this session, and as was appointed, do appear\\nand being asked if they would answer the session s desire,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0216.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 147\\nand tlieir objections and discouragements being heard and\\nanswered, they all owned that it was their duty to serve God\\nand liis church, as far as they were capable, and if the Lord\\nwould clear their way, they would answer their desire, and\\njoin with them. And the above named having been nom-\\ninated to the presbytery, the session agreed that their names\\nshould be published before the congregation. At a subse-\\nquent meeting, June 10, 1736, the session having delib-\\nerately proceeded with the above-named men to be added to\\nthe session, by nominating them to the presbytery, as also\\ntheir names to the congregation, do agree that they shall\\nbe ordained elders upon the 23d of this inst., June. And\\naccording to this appointment they were ordained and joined\\nas members with the former session.\\nThe settlement continuing to receive accessions from Ire-\\nland and elsewhere, and the remoter sections of the township\\nbecoming inhabited, sundry persons in the westerly part,\\nhaving petitioned for that object, were set off as a religious\\nsociety, and in 1739, were invested with parish privileges by\\nthe General Court, and styled the West Parish in London-\\nderry.\\nRev. David MacGregor, son of the Rev. James Mac-\\nGregor, the first minister of the town, took the pastoral\\ncharge of the newly-formed church and society. He had\\nreceived his literary and theological education chiefiy under\\nthe tuition of the Rev. Mr. Clark, his father s successor. He\\nw^as ordained in 1737. The house of worship in which he\\nministered to this people of his charge, until nearly the close\\nof his life, was located in the Aiken s Range. He however\\noccasionally preached in what was termed the Hill meeting-\\nhouse, nearly a mile west. This was the site first selected by\\nthe West Parish as the place of worship, and a house was\\nthere erected. But a number of families residing in the\\neasterly part of the town, being dissatisfied with Mr. David-\\nson s ministry, and particularly attached to Mr. MacGregor,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0217.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "148 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nas he was the s\u00c3\u00b6n of their former pastor, and more evangel-\\nical in his doctrinal views, and a more talented preacher than\\nMr. Davidson, united with the newly-formed parish, and\\nthus oecasioned a change in the location of their house of\\nworship, from the Hill, so called, to the Aiken s Range. This,\\nof course, disaffected tliat portion of the parish residing west\\nof the house first erected, and induced nearly the same num-\\nber of famihes (about forty) to withdraw from the West, and\\nunite with the East Parish. Thus, while a portion of the\\ninhabitants passed by Mr. Davidson s house of worship to\\nthat of Mr. MacGregor, an equal portion passed by Mr.\\nMacGregor s house to that of Mr. Davidson. This unhappy\\ndivision, which continued for nearly forty years, was produc-\\ntive of evils long feit in the town, not only occasioning alien-\\nation of feeling, and often bitter animosities between the\\nmembers of these two religious societies, but also preventing\\nall ministerial and even social intercourse between the pas-\\ntors of these flocks.\\nThe following minute from the records of the session of\\nthe first church, may serve to show the want of Christian fel-\\nlowship which then existed between the two churches.\\nJames Wilson came to the session and desired to be\\nadraitted to the sacrament, to which Mr. Davidson told him,\\nwith the session, that we admitted none that partook with\\nMr. MacGregor and was inquired of, whether or not it was\\na personal quarrel with his minister that made him decline\\nfrom him. He answered it was not, but only the tenents\\nthey held up amongst them, and that he would not join with\\nthem for the future, and upon these he got a token of admis-\\nsion. It is cause of thankfulness that no such alienation\\nof feeling now exists that for almost a century uninter-\\nrupted harmony and Christian intercourse have prevailed\\nbetween these ancient churches, and their respective pastors.\\nThe original or East Parish, at a meeting in 1739,\\nappointed a committee to unite with the session of the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0218.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 149\\nchurcli, in presenting a call to the Rev. William Davidson,\\nwho had siii^plied the desk for a time, to settle with them in\\nthe ministiy, engaging to give hini one hundred and sixty\\npounds as a settlement, and the same sum annually as his\\nsalary. He accepted of their invitation, and was installed\\nas their pastor the same year. He married the widow of\\nthe Rev. Mr. Thompson, his predecessor. She was a lady\\nhighly respected. She survived her second husband some\\nyears, and died September 3, 1796, at the ad vaneed age of\\neighty-six years.\\nDuring Mr. Davidson s ministry of more than fifty years,\\nvacancies occurring in the session were suppUed by the fol-\\nlowing individuals, who were, from time to time, consecrated\\nto the office of ruling elder Abraham Holmes, John Alex-\\nander, Thomas Cochran, Moses Barnett, Hugh Wilson, John\\nMoor, Samuel Morrison, James Alexander, Matthew Miller,\\nThomas Wilson, David Morrison, Peter Calhoun, Robert\\nMoor,* John Holmes, and David Patterson.\\nThe great awakening, or extraordinary seriousness and\\nattention to religi\u00c3\u00abn, which, in 1741, in the days of the Ten-\\nants, of Edwards, and of Whitefield, so extensively prevailed\\nin this country, pervading New England and most of the\\nAmerican colonies, extended to this town. During this period,\\nthe Rev. David MacGregor visited Boston and some other\\nplaces favored with the divine manifestations, and having\\nAvitnessed most striking displays of divine grace, in the hope-\\nful conversion of multitudes, he returned to his people greatly\\nenlivened and deeply impressed with the subject of a revival\\namong his own charge. He accordingly delivered a series of\\nvery impressive discourses from Eph. 5 14, Awake thou\\nthat sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give\\nthee light. The word, thus solemnly and pungently preached,\\nwas blessed as the meaos of awakening many of his people to\\na deep conviction of their guilt and danger, and led to their\\nhopeful conversion to God. Meetings for religious conference\\n13*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0219.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "150 niSTOKY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nand prajer were frequent. The work extended to all classes,\\nerabracing more particularly the young, and a happy addition\\nwas made to the church. But while one flock in the town\\nwas, like Gideon s fleece, thus watered with the dews of\\nheaven, the other remained dry. Mr. Davidson and his\\nchurch stood aloof from all participation in the work, and\\nrather deprecated its approach. During this season of re-\\nligious attention, the celebrated Whitefield visited the town,\\nand preached to a very large collection of people in the open\\nfield, the meeting-house not being sufficiently large to ac-\\ncommodate the multitude assembled.\\nIn regard to the character of the work which then per-\\nvaded the colonies, through the instrumentality of this dis-\\ntinguished preacher of the gospel, ministers in New England\\nwere greatly divided as in this town, some favored, some\\n(Tpposed, the work. To the testimony of an assembly of pas-\\ntors, at Boston, July 4, 1743, expressing their belief that\\nthere had been a happy and remarkable revival of feligion\\nin many parts of the land, through an uncommon divine in-\\nfluence, among the names of the New Hampshire pastors\\nappended, is that of David MacGregor, of the Presbyterian\\nchurch in Londonderry. And in a letter, accompanying his\\ntestimony, afterwards published in Prince s History, vindicat-\\ning the work against the charges brought by its opposers, as\\npartaking of antinomianism and fanaticism, he says For my\\nown part, I have seen little or no appearance of the growth of\\nantinomian errors, or anything visionary or enthusiastic,\\neither in my own congregation, or among the people in the\\nneigliborhood where I live. Indeed, if asserting justification\\nby faith alone, and denying it by the law, as a covenant of\\nworks, while the eternal obligation of the law as a rule of\\nlife is strongly maintained in practice as well as profession,\\nif this, I say, be antinomian doctrine, then we have a great\\ngrowth of antinomianism. Again, if asserting the necessity\\nof supernatural influence, or divine energy, in conversion, or", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0220.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 151\\nthe reality of the immediate witnessing and sealing of the\\nSpirit, be enthusiasm, then we have a remarkable spread of\\nenthusiasm: and in these senses, may antinomianism and\\nenthusiasm grow more and more, till they overspread the\\nwhole land.\\nUnhappily, Mr. Davidson dissented from such evangelical\\nviews, opposed the religieus movements of the day, and, as\\nthe conseqiience, shared not in the refreshing influences which\\ndescended copiously upon sister churches and congregations.\\nAlthough he, and those in the Presbyterian connection who\\nsympathized with him, adhered to the confession of faith,\\nand had in constant use the Assembly s Larger and Shorter\\ncatechism in their families, schools, and congregations yet,\\nin their preaching they left out, as has been justly said, the\\ndistinctive doctrines of the Calvinistic system dwelt chiefly\\non moral and practical duties, were not zealous for the con-\\nversion of sinners, and in their preaching and devotional\\nservices lacked that unction and fervor which distinguished\\nthe advocates, promotors, and subjects of the great revival.\\nThe result was, that vital godliness greatly declined in this\\nchurch, few were added by profession, discipline was much\\nneglected, and the distinctive lines between the church and\\nthe world nearly obliterated.\\nThe session of the church in the West Parish, during Mr.\\nMacGregor s ministry, consisted of the following individuals,\\nwho were at different periods elected and consecrated to the\\noffice of ruling elder, viz., James McKeen, James Leslie,\\nJames Clark, James Nesmith, James Lindsley, George Dun-\\ncan, John Duncan, James Taggart, John Gregg, Robert\\nMorrison, John Hunter, John McKeen, Samuel Anderson,\\nSamuel Fisher, John Aiken, and James Reed.\\nIn 1769, anew meeting-house was erected in the East Parish,\\nlocated a few rods south of the site occupied by the first house\\nof worship. lts dimensions were sixty-five by forty-five feet,\\nwith a steeple. It was well finished, and equalled, if it did not", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0221.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "152 niSTORY OF LONDONDEKRY.\\nsui iDass, in its appearance, most of the cliurch edifices of that\\nperiod. The undertakers of the work were Col. Daniel Rey-\\nnolds and Joseph Morrison. So excellent was the timber em-\\nployedin its construction, that the original frame, on beingen-\\nlargedin 1824, by the insertion of twenty-four feet, was found^\\nto be without defect. In 1845, the house was remodelled, as to\\nits internal construction, and so arranged as to afford, not only\\na large and spacious church, but also a town halj^a vestry, a\\nroom for the session, and another for the parish library, the\\nmeetings of committees, and other uses. Occupying a com-\\nmanding position, on an elevated ascent, with its lofty spire,\\nit attracts the eye for miles in every direction. Tastefully\\narranged, it is, in its internal structure, one of the neatest,\\nin a country of beautiful sanctuaries. Its location evinces\\nthe wisdom and taste of the early settlers and around this\\nspot, on which their first altar was reared, and where they\\nstatedly met to worship God, the most hallowed associations\\nwill ever cluster in the breasts of their descendants.\\nThe change which has taken place in the structure of\\nhouses of worship, correspond with the dfhanges which have\\ntaken place in the state of society. It is not trifling to attend\\nto the arrangements in meeting-houses, and the forms of dress.\\nThey are material forms of human society, and exhibit to us\\nthe minds, the morals, atid the manners of mankind. Distinc-\\ntions of rank among different classes of the community, a part\\nof the old system, prevailed very much before the Revolu-\\ntion, and were preserved in the dress as well as in the forms\\nof society. Meeting-houses were constructed to suit, in some\\ndegree, the existing state of society. The construction of the\\npulpit with its appendages, in Presbyterian communities,\\ncorresponded with their form of ecclesiastical government.\\nAs you entered the pulpit, you first came to the deacons seat,\\nelevated, like the pews, about six inches from the floor of the\\naisles, or passages. In the deacons narrow slip usually sat two\\nvenerable men, one at each end. Back of the deacons seat,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0222.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0225.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0226.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 153\\nand elevated ten or twelve inches higher, was the pew of the\\nruling elders, larger than that of the deacons, and about square.\\nBack of the elders pew, and two or three feet higher, and\\nagainst the wall, was the pulpit, Such was the arrangement\\nin the house of worship, in the East Parish of Londonderry,\\nwhen the present pastor commenced his ministry. There\\nwas also appended to the pulpit an iron frame for the hour-\\nglass, that was turned by the minister at the conimence-\\nment of his discourse, wliich was expected to continue during\\nthe running of the sands. Sometimes, when the preacher\\ndeemed his subject not sufficiently exhausted, the glass would\\nbe turned, and another hour, in whole or in part, occupied.\\nWhether this arrangement of the deacons and elders seats,\\nwhich became general throughout New England, grew out of\\npure Presbyterianism, we are not able to say. The Congrega-\\ntional Platform also provides for ruling elders in each church,\\nbut they have never been common in Congregational churches.\\nIn many of the meeting-houses of that day, there were, on each\\nside of what may be called the centre aisle, and in front of\\nthe pulpit, two or three seats, of suffici\u00c3\u00abnt length to accommo-\\ndate eight or ten persons. These were designed for the elderly\\nportion of the congregation, and for such as had not pews.\\nIn these, the men and the women were seated separately, on\\nopposite sides. On these plain seats, our grave and devout\\nforefathers would contentedly sit during a service of two hours,\\nwithout the luxury of cushions or carpets, and, in the colder\\nseasons of the year, without stoves, and in houses not so\\nthoroughly guarded against the penetration of the cold as\\nthose of the present day.\\nThe Rev. David MacGregor died May 30, 1777, aged\\nsixty-eight years. He was the third son of the Rev. James\\nMacGregor was born in Ireland Nov. 6, 1710, and baptized,\\nas the record states, by William Boyd, the agent of the com-\\npany of emigrants who visited America in 1718. He was\\ngreatly respected, and his death sincerely lamented by the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0227.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "154 HISTORY OP LONDONDERRY.\\npeople of liis cliarge. He stood deservedly high m public\\nestimation, as a preacher and a divine. Few, if any t.hen\\nupon the stage, were considered his superiors. His praise,\\nas a bold, faithf ul, and successful minister, was in all the\\nsurrounding churches, and his services eagerlj souglit.\\nThougli not favored with a collegiate cducation, yet, under\\nthe private instruction of Rev. Mr. Clark, and by his great\\nassiduity and application in the acquisition of knowledge, he\\nbecame a scribe well instructed unto the kingdom of heaven,\\nand was able at all times and on all occasions, to bring forth\\nout of his treasure things new and old. Ile was an animated\\nand interesting preacher. His pulpit talents were considered\\nsuperior to those of his father. His voice was fuU and com-\\nmanding, his delivery solemn and impressive, and his\\nsentiments clear and evangelical. His house of worship was\\nusually thronged. Many from neighboring towns attended\\nregularly upon his ministry. He excelled not only as a\\npreacher, but as a j^astor. In the discharge of parochial\\nduties, especially in catechizing his flock, he was eminently\\ndistinguished.\\nThe folio wing anecdote of Mr. MacGregor lias been pre-\\nserved, and proves tliat he was not defici\u00c3\u00abnt in that ready\\nwit, wliich was characteristic of the Scotch-Irish generally.\\nWilliam Stinson was one of the first settlers of Dunbar-\\nton. He was born in Ireland, and came to Londonderry\\nwith his father, wliile young. From tlience he went to Dun-\\nbarton. For some time, he lived alone in his log house,\\ndestitute of most of the conveniences of domestic life. On a\\ncertain time, the Rev. D. MacGregor of Londonderry\\ncalled upon and dined with him. Not having a table, or\\nanything that would answer for a better substitute, he was\\nobliged to make use of a baslet, turned up. The Rev. Mr.\\nMacGregor, being requested to solicit a blessing, perti-\\nnently and devoutly implored that his host might blessed\\nin his basket and in his store. This was literally verified,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0228.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 155\\nas Stinson became one of the most wealthy men in tlie\\nvicinity.\\nMr. MacGregor possessed, in an eminent degree, a spirit\\nof firmness and independence, whicli deterred him from\\nshrinking from duty on account of apparent danger or diffi-\\ncnlty. The following fact may serve to illustrate this trait\\nof his character.\\nMr. Jotham Odiorne, a gentleman in Portsmouth, received\\ntwo letters from an unknown hand, in which the writer\\nthreatened that his buildings and other property M ^ould\\nbe burned, and his life endangered, unless the sum of five\\nhundred pounds, should be left at the westerly end of the\\nlong bridge, which is between Kingston and Chester, on a\\ncertain day. The money was accordingly deposited, and a\\nguard placed near to arrest the person who should appear to\\ntake it. Capt. John Mitchell, a respectable citizen of Lon-\\ndonderry, having occasion to travel that way in the night,\\nalighted from his horse near the spot where the money was\\ndeposited. He was immediately arrested by the guard, as\\nthe supposed incendiary, and, notwithstanding his protesta-\\ntions of innocence, was conveyed directly to Portsmouth and\\ncommitted to prison. Owing to the singular concurrence of\\ncircumstances, the public sentiment was very generally and\\nstrongly excited against him.\\nIn this painful situation, separated from his family, and\\nlaboring under the imputation of so foul a crime, he found it\\ndifiicult, as his trial apj)roached, to obtain a suitable advocate\\nto manage his defence, there being at the time few attorneys\\nin the county, and the most able being retained by the pros-\\necutor. Mr. MacGregor, couvinced of Mitchell s innocence,\\nand strongly interested in his behalf, ofFered liimself as his\\nadvocate, and undertook to manage his cause. He accord-\\ningly, by permission of the court, took his seat among the\\nlegal gentlemen at the bar, who were no less amused than\\nsurprised, on receiving their clerical associate. Although", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0229.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "156 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nMr. MacGregor was not particularly versed in the forms\\nand teclinicalities of the law, yet he managed the defence\\nwith much ability and address, and supported it by an in-\\ngenieus and powerful argument. The evidence for the\\nprosecution was so clear, however, that Mitchell was convict-\\ned, notwithstanding all the efforts of his advocate, and was\\nsentenced to pay a fine of one thousand pounds, and costs of\\nprosecution, and to recognize for his appearance at the next\\nterm of the court. Being unable to meet this sentence,\\nMitchell was kept in confinement, until, by the exertions of\\nMr. MacGregor, a suffici\u00c3\u00abnt bond was procured and filed.\\nThis bond was renewed from time to time, until at length the\\ninnocence of Mitchell was made manifest, and he was fully\\nacquitted. It should be noted, as illustrative of Mr. Mac-\\nGregor s disinterestedness, that Capt. Mitchell was not a\\nmember of his society, but, having on some accounts become\\ninimical to him, was a decided opposer.\\nAlthough Mr. MacGregor had not passed through the\\nregular course of education at any of our colleges, yet, such\\nwere his attainments in general science, and such his high\\nreputation, that he received the honorary degree of Master of\\nArts, from Princeton College, in New Jersey. In 1755, the\\nPresbyterian church and congregation in the city of New\\nYork, afterwards the charge of Dr. Rogers, and now of Dr.\\nSpring, being then vacant, extended a call, by the advice of\\nthe presbytery, to Mr. MacGregor, to become their pastor\\nwhich call, thougli urged upon him by many considerations,\\nhe however declined, preferring to remain the minister of his\\nown beloved flock, many of whom had been the charge of his\\nvenerated father.\\nMr. MacGregor did not survive his active usefulness.\\nHe continued in the faithful and acceptable discharge of the\\nduties of his sacred office until removed by death. His last\\nSabbath on earth was a communion season with his church.\\nOn this occasion he preached, as usual, and manifested,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0230.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 157\\nduring the services, liis accustomed zeal and earnestness.\\nAt length, exhausted by the efFort, he sank down in his desk,\\nand was carried out of the assembly. He ho wever so far\\nrevived as to return to the house of God, and there give a\\nshort and parting address to his beloved people, whoni he\\nhad served so long and so faithfully in the gospel. The sc\u00c3\u00a8ne\\nw^as deeply affecting. He died the following Friday. During\\nhis short confinement, his mind was calm and resigned. His\\nfaith in that Saviour, whose character he had so fully\\nexhibited in all his offices, was now his unfailing support.\\nIt disarmed death of its sting. To one of his elders, he\\nobserved, referring to Christ, I am going to see hira as he\\nis. Addressing some of the brethren of the church, in\\nreference te the destitute situation in which they would be\\nplaced, he exhorted them to look to the great Head of the\\nchurch, who is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever and\\nbore repeated testimony to the truth and importance of those\\ndoctrines, which for more than forty years had been the\\nsubject of his preaching, and which are usually termed the\\ndoctrines of grace. If\\nThe chambei where the good man meets his fate\\nIs pvivileged beyoncl the common walk\\nOf virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven,\\nmuch more is that in which the good minister of Christ\\ncloses his life of labor, and thence departs to meet his\\nreward.\\nDr. Whitaker, pastor of the Tabernacle church, in Salem,\\nMass., preached the funeral discourse of Mr. MacGregor,\\nfrom the words of Elisha, on the removal of Elijah My\\nfather, my father, the chariot of Isra\u00c3\u00abl and the horsemen\\nthereof. Truly had he been a father, a defence and protec-\\ntion, to the religious and moral interests of this community.\\nThe only published performances of Mr. MacGregor, which\\nare now extant, is the letter before referred to, in vindication\\n14", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0231.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "158 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nof Mr. Whitefield, and of the great revival of that day, and\\na sermon, preaclied hy liim at the funeral of Rev. Mr. More-\\nhead, of Boston.\\nA notice of Mr. MacGregor s family may be foiind in a\\nsubsequent chapter.\\nIn 1 778, the forty families which had been allowed, for\\nsome years, to pass from one parish to the other, for the\\nmore satisfactory enjoyment of religieus privileges, having\\nincreased to nearly seventy, were confined by an act of the\\nGeneral Court, to their respective bounds as jDarishioners,\\nand taxed accordingly, for the support of the gospel. The\\ngreater part of them, however, continued for a time to\\nworship as they had formerly done.\\nThe West Parish, after remaining destitute of a pastor six\\nyears, and having made trial of a number of candidates, was\\nunanimous in the clioice of Rev. William Morrison, a licen-\\ntiate of the Associate Reformed Presbytery of New York.\\nThe presbytery having sustained the call which had been\\npresented to him, he was ordained February 12, 1783, and\\nset apart to the work of the gospel ministry, to take the\\ncharge of the second parish in Londonderry. Rev. David\\nAnnan preached the ordination sermon.\\nSoon after Mr. Morrison s settlement, the session of that\\nchurch, which had been reduced by death, was enlarged by\\nthe addition of John Bell, John Pinkerton, Robert Thomj^son,\\nAbel Plummer, James Aiken, Jonathan Griffin, Abraham\\nDuncan, Thomas Patterson, and James Nesmith. Subse-\\nquently, and during Mr. Morrison s ministry, James Pinker-\\nton, William Adams, David Brewster, John Fisher, Jonathan\\nSavary, Thomas Carlton, and John Pinkerton, Jr., were\\nelected and consecrated ruling elders.\\nPrevious to the death of Mr. MacGregor, the West Par-\\nish had erected a new meeting-house, on a site more central,\\nin which he preached a certain part of the time. In this\\nhouse, situated a little east of the graveyard in that parish,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0232.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0235.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0236.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 159\\nMr. Morrison was ordained, and in this he fulfilled his min-\\nistry. It has been recently taken down, and a new house\\nerected by the society, a mile west, on the Mammoth Road.\\nThe Rev. William Davidson, who sustained the pastoral\\ncharge of the first chiirch and society, continued to officiate\\nas their Minister, more than half a century. He was\\nordained in 1740, and died February 15, 1791, at the\\nadvanced age of seventy-seven years. He was born in Ire-\\nland, but educated at the university in Scotland. He grad-\\nuated in 1733, being but nineteen years of age. He was a\\nman of very amiable character, possessing a peculiarly mild,\\nfriendly, and benevolent disposition. He was exemplary in\\nhis deportment, and devoted to the interests of his people.\\nHe did not excel as a theologian, or as a public speaker.\\nHis doctrinal views were not characterized by the clearness\\nand discrimination of many of the preachers of that time.\\nHe was supposed to incline to Arminianism yet as a pastor,\\nhe was diligent and afFectionate. He was not distinguished for\\nthe brilliancy of his talents, but he was beloved and respected\\nfor the qualities of his heart, and the virtues of his life.\\nAn aged and highly respected gentleman, now living, says,\\nin a communication respecting the history of this town I\\nhave very often heard Mr. Davidson preach abooi Saint Pa-al,\\nalluding to his peculiarly broad pronunciation, and very fre-\\nquent reference to the great apostle in his discourses, and\\nif he had been l)rought before me charged with any crime,\\nas a judge, I should have acquitted him, so expressive of\\nbenignity were his features. He did not, in any degree\\nwhatever, entano-le liimself in the affairs of the world.\\nAttentive to the duties of his office and the calls of his par-\\nish, he left the management of his temporal concerns, in a\\ngreat degree, to INIi s. Davidson, a lady well qualified to fiU\\nthe station in which she was placed. He studied to preserve\\nthe peace and harmony of his society. He frequently remit-\\nted his demands upon his parishioners when requested, never", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0237.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "160 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nsuffering any to be distressed in payment of their tax for his\\nsupport, lic died siiicerely beloved and respected by tliose\\namong whoni he long labored, and in whose service -his\\nlocks had whitened, and his eyes grown dim.\\nHe left four children, two sons and two daughters, one\\nof whom was married to the Rev. Solomon Mooi^of New\\nBoston. The other remained unmarried, oecupying, until\\nher death, April 10, 1836, the homestead of her father. His\\neldest son joined the British, during the revolutionary war,\\nand settled in Nova Scotia, and sustained there important\\ncivil offices. The younger brother, Hamilton, also removed\\nto the same place after the Declaration of Independence.\\nAfter the decease of Mr. Davidson, the parish remained\\ndestitutc of a settled ministry until 1795, when the Rev.\\nJonathan Brown was ordained their pastor, by the London-\\nderry presbytery. Mr. Brown was a native of Pittsfield,\\nN. H. He w^as early a hopeful subject of divine grace, and\\ngave pleasing promise of usefulness in the church of Christ.\\nAlthough in indigent circumstances, he sought an education\\nfor the gospel ministry. Becoming acquainted with the Rev.\\nMr. Murray, of Newburyport, he was encouraged and sus-\\ntained by him in prosecuting his object. On being licensed,\\nhe was solicited by a number of vacant parishes to become\\na candidate for settlement. Ple accepted the invitation from\\nLondonderry. There was, however, in this place, a strong and\\ndetermined oppositiou to his settlement, by a large minority\\nof the parish. But notwithstanding their remonstrance, the\\npresbytery saw fit to ordain him. In doing tliis, they did net\\nact with that wisdom which subsequent experience has fully\\ntaught ecclesiastical councils. It has been long found unad-\\nvisable toforce a candidate upon a people, where an opposition\\nof any importance exists. Tliough it may not be strong at lirst,\\nit more generally increases, tending not only to divide and\\nAveaken the society, but greatly to mar the peace and counter-\\nact the labors of the pastor. It proved so in this case. While", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0238.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 161\\nMr. Brown s situation was trying and unpleasant, the cliurch\\nand society were agitated and weakened. The individuals\\nopposed to his settlement withdrew from the parish, were\\norganized, and, by an act of the legislature, incorporated as a\\nCongregational society. A church was also formed on Con-\\ngregational principles. This society maintained separate\\nworship a considerable part of the time, for about twelve\\nyears, but happily, they did not erect a house of worship,\\nwhich serves in such cases to perpetuate divisions. Their\\npublic worship w^as held in a hall fitted up for the purpose.\\nThe secession was productive of alienations and controversies,\\nwhich for a time greatly marred the peace and happiness of\\nthe community.\\nAfter nine years of pastoral service, Mr. Brown, in conse-\\nquence of renewed opposition and alleged imprudences, was,\\nat his own request, dismissed from his charge, in September,\\n1804. He continued, however, to remain in the town, and\\ndied February, 1838, at the age of eighty. He was, without\\ndoubt, a man of sincere piety. Living, as he did, a single\\nlife, and possessing certain peculiarities of character, he sub-\\njected himself to many uncandid and unkind remarks, and\\nin many instances, his movements were no doubt indiscreet,\\nnot comporting with the sacredness of the ofhce which he\\nsustained. He uniformly manifested a deep interest in the\\ncause of truth and the advancement of the Redeemer s king-\\ndom, in the salvation of his fellow-men and although he was\\nrequired by the presbytery not to preach or perform any\\nofficial acts in the parish after his dismission, his conduct\\nas a parishioner was uniformly exemplary and commendable,\\nand he was for nearly thirty years a valued friend and helper\\nto his successor. He experienced severe trials, and towards\\nthe closing sc\u00c3\u00a8ne of life, endured many spiritual contlicts\\nbut we trust that, thus tried and purified, his faith m his\\nRedeemer was found unto praise, and honor, and glory.\\nDuring the ministry of Mr. Brown, John Nesraith, Daniel\\n14*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0239.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "162 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nMcKeen, and John Taylor, were added as ruling elders to\\nthe session of the chiirch.\\nIn 1809, the third or Congregational parish became united\\nto the Presbyterian society, from which it had seceded, and\\nthey were, by an act of the legislature, incorporated as the\\nFirst Parish of Londonderry. In forming this so desirable\\na union, eacli society modified some of its peculiarities in\\nrespect to church government. In this they manifested their\\nwisdom and their regard to the common good, and for forty\\nyears the union and harmony then commenced have been\\nuninterruptedly continu ed so that the division and aliena-\\ntions once existing are now forgotten. They have, during\\nthis period, fully realized liow good and how pleasant a tliing\\nit is for brethren to dweil together in unity.\\nThe present pastor of this church and society was or-\\ndained, Sept. 12, 1810. The services of the occasion were\\nperformed by the following ministers. Rev. Abishai Alden,\\nof Montville, Conn., offered the introductory prayer, llev.\\nSamuel Worcester, D. D., of Salem, preached the sermon,\\nRev. Samuel Woods, D.D., of Boscawen, made the consecrat-\\ning prayer, Rev. William Morrison, D. D., of Londonderry,\\ngave the charge, Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., of Newburyport,\\npresented the right hand of fellowship, Rev. James Milti-\\nmore, of Newbury, addressed the people, and the Rev. John\\nCodman, D. D., of Dorchester, oifered the concluding prayer.\\nOf these beloved and respected brethren who officiated on\\nthe occasion, none survive but the venerable Dr. Dana.\\nOn the union of the two churches, they proceeded agree-\\nably to the articles of their constitution to a choice of elders.\\nThe following individuals were elected and set apart to that\\noffice. Daniel McKeen, James Palmer, Charles Sniith,\\nJohn Burnham, John Crocker, James Moor, AndrcAv ]\\\\Ioor,\\nDavid Adams, John Dinsmore, Nathaniel Nourse, and James\\nGregg. Of this number but one, the last named, now sur-\\nvives, at the age of seventy-seven. Samuel Burnham, Mat-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0240.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 163\\nthew Clark, Jonathan Aclams, Robert Morse, Williara Choate,\\nJames Choate, John Humphrey, Ilenry Taylor, William Ela,\\nJoseph Jenness, Nathaniel Parker, Abel F. Hildreth, Moses\\nC. Pilsbiny, Jesse AYebster, William Cogswell, Robert\\nMontgomery, Humphrey Choate, James Choate, Jr., and\\nJames Taylor, have been, at successive periods, added to the\\nsession, eleven of whom are now ruling elders.\\nIn May, 1816, Elder John Pinkerton, a distinguished bene-\\nfactor of the town, died. He had long been a useful, respect-\\nable, and influential citizen, steadfast and active in the\\nsupport of civil and religious order. By a continued course\\nof industry and prudence in business, he accumulated a large\\nestate. In the distribution of his property, after making\\nprovision for his heirs, he bestowed nine thousand dollars\\nupon each of the two Presbyterian societies in town for the\\nsupport of the gospel, and thirteen thousand as a fund for\\nthe support of an academy. His name will be deservedly\\nprecieus in this place, and be had in lasting and grateful\\nremembrance, for his public and private virtues, as well as\\nfor his liberal donations.\\nThe Rev. William Morrison died March 9, 1818, after\\nhaving been the minister of the West Parish thirty-five years.\\nHe was born in Scotland, and came to this country while a\\nyoung man, with a view to obtain an education for the Chris-\\ntian ministry. He was furnished with letters from respecta-\\nble ministers in Scotland, to several ministers in Philadelphia\\nand New York, who received him kindly and encouraged his\\npious design. But as the college of New Jersey, for which\\nhe was destined, had its operations entirely suspended by\\nthe revolutionary war, as was the case with similar institu-\\ntions in the land, he had recourse to academies and private\\ntutors, for the attainment of the requisite classical and gen-\\neral knowledge. Placing himself under the care of the\\nAssociate Reformed Presbytery of New York, he pursued\\nhis theological course, under the tuition of the Rev. Robert", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0241.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "164 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nAnnan, then settlecl in the vicinity of Pliiladelpliia, subse-\\nquentlj pastor of tlie Presbyterian church in Boston. Ilis\\ntalents enabled him to surmount the disadvantages of a\\ncircumscribed education, and supplied in no common degree,\\nthe defects of early culture.\\nHaving received license to preach the gospel, he vms soon\\nafter employed to supply the desk in the West Parish of\\nLondonderry, then vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr.\\nMacGregor. He soon received a unanimous call from the\\nchurch and society to become their pastor. He accepted\\ntheir invitation and was ordained, February 12, 1783. Here\\nhe continued for thirty-five years in the assiduous and suc-\\ncessful discharge of the duties of his office. He was a man\\ngreatly respected and beloved, not only by his own charge,\\nbut by the surrounding communities, which often enjoyed\\nhis labors. These labors were, indeed, Avidely extended,\\nbeing highly valued and eagerly sought by cliurches abroad.\\nThe following extract from a communication of the Hon.\\nJames Wilson, will serve to illustrate the estimation in which\\nhe was held, and the interest feit in his pulpit and ministerial\\nservices.\\nIt is among my earliest recollections, that old parson\\nMorrison, of Londonderry, used to come to Peterborough\\nonce every year, and hold a protracted religious meeting, of\\nsome seven or eight days, durin^ which time he administered\\nthe ordinance of baptism to the children of the town, and\\nalso the Lord s supper to the communicants of the church,\\nafter the forms of tlie Presbyterian church. It was the most\\nsolemn and imposing religious service I ever witnessed. To\\nmy childish fancy, at the time, the Rev. old gentleman was\\na lo7ig i\u00c3\u00bcay9 better than otlier men. I remember to have\\nthought that there would have been no sin in worshipping\\nhim a litthr The character of Mr. Morrison was correctly\\ndelineated by the Rev. Dr. Dana, in a discourse delivered at\\nhis funeral from this discourse the following extracts are\\ntaken", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0242.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 165\\nPlis sermons were purely and strictly evangelical were\\nluminous and instructive faitliful and searcliing awfully\\nalarming to the wicked yet encouraging to the sincere, and\\ntenderly consoling to the mourner in Zion. Nor were his\\nprayers less impressive than his sermons. Replete with rev-\\nerence and afFectionate devotion the breathings of a soul\\napparently in near communion with its God f uil, yet concise\\nadapted to occasions and circumstances they could scarcely\\nfail to solemnize and edify the hearers.\\nHis manner, in the sacred desk, was peculiar. It had\\nsomething of patriarchal simplicity, something of apostolical\\ngravity and authority. Yet it was mild, afFectionate, and\\npersuasive. It indicated a mind absorbed in heavenly things,\\ndeeply conscious of its awful charge, and anxiously intent to\\nfasten eternal truths on the consciences and hearts of men.\\nAs a pastor, he was faithful, assiduous, and tender\\ninstant in season, and out of season watching for souls as\\none that must give account and finding his delight in the\\ndischarge of the most laborious and exhausting duties of his\\noffice. How little did he spare himself, even in those closing\\nyears of life, in which his emaciated form proclaimed the\\nravages of disease, and infirmity, combined with age, seemed\\nto demand repose. He was truly the father of his beloved\\npeople. But his cares and labors were by no means confined\\nto his flock. The general interests of Zion the peace and\\nAvelfare of churches near and remote, engaged his feelings,\\nand frequently employed his exertions. Few were so often\\nresorted to, as counsellors, in cases of difficulty and few\\nhave been so successful in promoting the interests of peace\\nand order.\\nHe took an energetic and interested part in the variety\\nof plans and institutions, to which the present age has given\\nbirth, for disseminating the Scriptures, for extending the\\nknowledge of the gospel, for promoting the power of godli-\\nness, and effecting a reformation of manners. Every design", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0243.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "166 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nconnected witli the glory of God, and best interests of man,\\nengaged liis cordial concurrence, liis active patronage, and\\nhis fervent prayers. He was mucli animated and deliglited\\nby the recent signs of the times. If we follow him into the\\nprivate walks of life, we perceive a character consistent and\\nuniform, estimable and lovely. His piety was strict without\\nausterity, and fervent without enthusiasm. If there was a\\ntrait in his character conspicuous above the rest it was\\nhenevolence, a benevolence which promptedhim to unwearied\\nand self-denying exertions in promoting the real happiness\\nof his fellow-creatures which inspired candor for their\\nfailings, and compassion for their distresses whicli could\\nforgive the injurious, and overcome evil with good.\\nDr. Morrison lived to the age of seventy. But eight days\\nbefore his death, he preached a funeral sermon for one of\\nhis congregation from Ps. o9 4. Lord, make me to know\\nmine end, and the measure of my days, what it is that I\\nmay know how frail I am. It was emphatically his own\\nfuneral sermon. The closing sc\u00c3\u00a8ne of his protracted and\\nuseful life was consoling and instructive.\\nOn the Sabbath preceding his death, his sickness, which\\nhad confined him for a few days, assumed an alarming\\nappearance, and he evidently considered his dissolution\\napproaching, but he made it known to his family that he was\\nnot af raid to die. To Mrs. Morrison, he said You know\\nthat the Sabbath was always my best day, and my employ-\\nment then, my best employment. But this is the last Sabbath\\nI shall spend on earth. In a short time I shall bc spending\\nan everlasting Sabbath. He added, with a smile, will not\\nthat be a blessed exchange?\\nHe was mucli employed dnring the short period which\\nintervened, in repeating favorite passages of Scripture, and\\nuttering pious thoughts and ejaculations. O, to be with\\nJesus! Come, Lord Jesus! were expressions frequently\\non his lips. I long, said he, to be away but desire to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0244.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT.\\n167\\nsiibmit. To be with Christ is far better. The last seii-^\\ntence that could be distinctly iinderstood, was, Come, come,\\nLord Jesus! With these words on his lips, he expired\\nwithout a struggle.\\nThe bereaved parish which had so long been his special\\ncharge, voted not only to defray all expenses attending the\\nfuneral of their venerated pastor, but to procure a suitable\\ngravestone, which bears the following inscription\\nIn memory of\\nthe Eevekend William Morrison, D. D.,\\nfor 35 ycars the beloved and honored Pastor\\nof this Church.\\nFrom nature, he inherited\\nan energetic and capacious mind,\\nwith a heart of tenderest sensibility\\nfrom grace, all the virtues\\nwhich adorn the man and the Christian.\\nAs a Divine, a Preacher, and a Pastor,\\nhe held acknowledged eminence.\\nWith apostolic simplicity and genuine eloquencc,\\nhe preached Jesus Christ and him crucified.\\nHe died, in sweet peace and aniraated hope,\\nMarch 9, 1818, aged 70.\\nWhen this Monument,\\nerected by his mourning fiock,\\nshallhavc gone to decay,\\nhis dear memory will still remain\\nfor the righteous shall be in evcrlasting remembrance.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0245.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "168 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nThis parish, whicli had from its commencement been so\\nhig I favored with pastors of distinguishcd talent, found it\\nnot easy to unite in one as their minister. They made trial of\\nseveral candidates for settlement among these were Mr.\\nEbenezer Cheever, Mr. Elam Clark, Mr. J. R. Ambler, and\\nS. M. Emerson, to eacli of whom a call was voted by the\\nparish, but not with unanimity it was therefore with\\npropriety declined by these individuals, who were subse-\\nquently settled in respectable and inviting parishes. The\\npeople remained destitute of a pastor nearly four years.\\nRev. Daniel Dana, D. D., having resigned the fresidency\\nof Dartmouth College, was with great unanimity invited to\\nbecome their pastor, and was ofFered a salary of seven hun-\\ndred dollars, six hundred being voted by the parish, and one\\nhimdred dollars added by subscription. He accepted the\\ninvitation, and was installed by the Londonderry presby-\\ntery, January 15, 1822. The sermon was preached by his\\nbrother, Rev. Samuel Dana, of Marblehead, Mass. inti o-\\nductory prayer, by Rev. E. P. Bradford installing prayer,\\nby Rev. John Kelly charge, by Rev. James Miltimore\\nright hand of fellowship, by Rev. E. L. Parker concluding\\nprayer, by Rev. William Miltimore.\\nIn April, 1826, the pastoral relation of Rev. Dr. Dana to\\nthe church and society in the West Parish, was dissolved,\\nat his particular request, with the consent though deep\\nregret of the people, as appears from the following extract\\nfrom their records Although our venerated pastor may\\nhave failed to convince us that his reasons for asking a dis-\\nmission are suffici\u00c3\u00abnt to justify his removal, an event which\\nwe cannot contemplate but with painful emotions, yet such\\nis our affection^te regard for him, and our disposition to\\nadopt such measures as will most promote his interest and\\nhappiness, that we consider it our duty not to oppose his dis-\\nmission. An expression of feeling alike honorable to their\\nbeloved minister, and to themselves. This was the lirst", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0246.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 169\\niiistance of a dismissal in that religious societj, since its\\norganization, which was iiearlj a centuiy.\\nDr. Dana having retired from his charge in Londonderry,\\nwas shortlj after installed pastor of the second Presbyterian\\nchurch and society in Newburyport.\\nThe West Parish, now vacant, was supplied by Stephen\\nD. Ward, as a candidate for settlement, afterwards by Mr.\\nEbenezer Everett, to each of whoni a call was voted, but\\nnot with suffici\u00c3\u00abnt unanimity to justify, in their view, an\\nacceptance. Mr. Amasa A. Hayes being introduced to the\\nparish, after supplying the desk for a few months, was, with-\\nout a dissenting voice, invited to become their pastor, with\\na salary of six hundred dollars annually. The call was\\naccepted, and he was ordained June 25, 1828. The follow-\\ning was the order of exercises Introductory prayer, by Rev.\\nStephen Morse sermon, by Pev. Leonard Woods, D. D.\\ncharge, by Rev. E. P. Bradford right hand of fellowship,\\nby Rev. Calvin Cutler ordaining prayer, by Rev. Peter\\nHolt address to the people, by Rev. Thomas Savage con-\\ncluding prayer, by Rev. John Kelly.\\nThe pastoral connection thus happily formed, and with\\ngreat promise of usefulness, was soon dissolved. Mr. Hayes\\nhad no sooner entered upon the duties of his office, than his\\nhealth began to decline though he continued to minister\\nto his beloved charge for more than two years, arnidst much\\nweakness and suffiiring, until his labors were suddenly closed\\nby death, October 23, 1830, in the thirty-third year of his\\nage.\\nRev. Amasa A. Hayes was bom in Granby, Connecticut,\\nJanuary, 1798. He was graduated at Yale College, in 1824,\\nand the same year he entered the Theological Seminary at\\nAndover, Mass. Having completed the prescribed course\\nat that Institution, he received license to preach the gospel,\\nin 1827. Immediately on leaving the Seminary at Andover,\\nhe was employed as a candidate for settlement in London-\\n15", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0247.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "170 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nderrj, and continued to supply the cliurch tliere most of the\\ntime until liis settlement the succeedirig year.\\nThe following remarks, respecting the chafacter of the\\nRev. Mr. Hayes, are taken from the discoursc delivered at\\nhis funeral, by the writer of the present work The early\\ndechne and final departure of that beloved brother and fel-\\nlow-hiborer, wliose hfeless form is now before ns, has saddened\\nour hearts. Though perraitted to remain not long with us\\nthough but lately consecrated, in this place, to the work of\\nthe ministry, and though the great Head of the church so\\ntveakened his strength in the %imy^ during this short period,\\nthat he was able but seldom to meet his ministerial brethren\\nin the interchange of services, or at their more public meet-\\nings yet we have all known enough of the beloved man, of\\nhis Christian spirit, his devotedness to his work, and his\\nwinning deportraent, to endear him to our hearts. Of his\\nfidelity and ability as a preacher, of his engaging and affec-\\ntionate manners as a pastor, the united and strong attachment\\nwhich this people have borne to him, even while unable to\\nmeet their calls, is a suffici\u00c3\u00abnt testimony. In patience under\\nsufferings, which were severe and protracted, in resignation to\\nthe divine will, and in Christian fortitude, he was indeed an\\nexample. While many, with half the infirmity and suffering\\nwhich he for months experienced, would have relinquished\\nall attempts at active service, he was seen attending in some\\ngood degree to the state of his flock, preparing beaten oilfor the\\nsanctuary, and ministering with animation in this holy j)lace.\\nIt was his often-expressed desire, that he might not long\\nsurvive his usefulness, and in this he was singularly indulged.\\nBut a few days since, he here conducted, unassisted, the\\nservices of a communion Sabbath, and ate with his beloved\\nflock the Christian passover. Yea, it was in the sacred desk,\\nengaged in a labor of love to my own people, that his tongue\\nbegan to falter, and symptoms of his speedy dissolution to\\nappear. He hastened from the pulpit to his home, there to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0248.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 171\\nlie down and die. He loved, indeed, his divine Master, and\\nhe loved his work. But alas God was pleased to weaken\\nhis strength in the way, and to shorten his days. The exer-\\ncise of his rational powers was suspended but for a short\\ntime. Although unable to say much, his mind appeared\\ncalm and serene. His faith and hope in the divine Redeemer\\ndisarmed death of its sting, and the grave of its terrors and\\nwe have good reason to believe, that he has died in the\\nLord, that he has rested from all his painful labors, and now\\nenjoys the reward of a good and faithful servant of Jesus\\nChrist. It is, indeed, to be lamented, that the life and useful-\\nness of this man of God have so soon come to a close. His\\ndeath is a dark dispensation, which calls for mourning also\\nfor submission for the Lord has done it.\\nAt a meeting of the West Parish in Londonderry, Sept.\\n12, 1831, it was voted to give Mr. John R. Adams a call to\\nsettle in the ministry in said i:)arish and to give him six\\nhundred dollars annually, as his salary. Mr. Adams accepted\\nthe call, and was ordained October 5, 1831. The order of\\nexercises was as folio ws Introductory prayer, by Rev. Mr.\\nBradford, of New Boston sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Cowles,\\nof Danvers, Mass. ordaining prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Kelly,\\nof Harapstead; the charge, by Rev. Mr. Holt, of Peter-\\nborough right hand of fellowship, by the Rev. Mr. Parker,\\nof Derry address to the society, by Rev. Dr. Church, of\\nPelham concluding prayer, by Rev. Mr. Savage, of Bed-\\nford. Mr. Adams is a son of John Adams, Esq., formerly\\nof Andover, twenty-two years principal of Phillips Academy.\\nHe graduated at Yale College, 1821, and completed his theo-\\nlogical course at the Seminary in Andover, 1826. In 1832,\\nhe was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann MacGregor,\\ndaughter of Colonel Robert MacGregor, of Derry, and\\ngranddaughter of Rev. David MacGregor, the first minister\\nof the West Parish in Londonderry.\\nJanuary 1, 1834, Jonathan Humphrey, James Perkins,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0249.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "172 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nand Robert Boyd, Jr., liaving been elected elders, were con-\\nsecrated to that office.\\nIn September, 1838, Mr. Adams resigned his pastoral\\ncharge, and was dismissed hy the Londonderry presbytery\\nin October foUowhig. He was subsequently installed over\\nthe Evangelieal church in Brighton, Mass., and is now the\\npastor of the Congregatjonal church and society in Gorham,\\nMe.\\nThe Presbyterian society in Londonderry, after having\\nbeen supplied by several candidates for settlement, Sep-\\ntember 8, 1840, extended an unanimons call to Mr. Timothy\\nG. Brainerd, to settle over them as their pastor, offering him\\na salary of six hmidred dollars, to be paid semi-annually.\\nThe call was accepted and Mr. Brainerd was ordained\\nNovember G, 1840. The order of exercises on the occasion\\nwas the following Reading of the Scriptures, by Rev. Ste-\\nphen T. Allen, of Merrimack introductory prayer, by Rev.\\nCalvin Cutler, of Windham sermon, by Rev. Dr. Woods,\\nof Andover ordaining prayer, by Rev. E. P. Bradford,\\nof New Boston charge to the candidate, by Rev. E. L.\\nParker, of Derry right hand of fellowship, by Rev. P. B.\\nDay, of Derry concluding prayer, by Rev. J. M. C. Bartley,\\nof Hampstead. Mr. Brainerd was boni in the city of Troy,\\nN. Y., but in early life removed with his parents to St.\\nAlbans, Vt., where he remained until he completed his\\nstudies preparatory for college. He graduated at Yale Col-\\nlege, in the class of 1830. After liis graduation, he spent\\nseveral years in teaching, at Wethersfield, Conn., at Mere-\\ndith, N. Y., and at Randolph, Vt. He also engaged in the\\nstudy of law, which he pursued until he was nearly quali-\\nfied for admission to the bar. But while at Randolpli, his\\nviews of duty and usefulness underwent a change, whicli led\\nhim to the choice of the Christian ministry as his employ-\\nment for life. His theological studies were pursued at\\nAndover, Mass., where he graduated in 1839. In 1841, he", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0250.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0251.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0252.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORT. 173\\nmarried Miss Harriet P. Cilley, a native of Nottingham,\\nN. H., daughter of Major Jacob Cillej, and granddaughter\\nof General Josej^h Cilley, of Nottingham, and of General\\nEnoch Poor, of Exeter, N. H., both. officers in the army of\\nthe Revolution. She died September 23, 1848, aged thirty-\\nseven years, leaving four daughters. Mr. Brainerd is still\\npastor of the Presbyterian society in Londonderry.\\nIn 1836, the Presbyterian society in Londonderry voted\\nto build a meeting-house, to be located on the west side of\\nthe Mammoth Road, at the corner and north of the old road\\nleading from Captain Isaac McAlester s house. The house\\nwas accordingly built and located agreeably to the above\\nvote; and at a parish meeting, August 21, 1837, it was\\nvoted that divine service commence at the new meeting-\\nhouse the first Sabbath after it shall have been dedicated.\\nIn consequence of the removal of the place of worship a\\nmile west from the old meeting-house, a considerable number\\nof families on the easterly side of the parish were disaffected.\\nAnd as their attendance upon divine worship was rendered\\nmore inconvenient, they withdrew from the parish, and,\\nuniting with families residing in the lower village of Derry\\nand that vicinity, formed a Congregational church and society.\\nA preliminary meeting, to consider the expediency of form-\\ning a church in the village, was held July 8, 1837. After\\ndue deliberation, it was decided to call a council for this\\npurpose, on the tliird day of August following. The council\\nmet on that day, agreeably to letters missive, and proceeded\\nto organize a church, to be called the First Congregational\\nChurch in Derry. The reasons assigned for forming another\\nchurch were, that the population in the village was increas-\\ning that there was an important literary institution there,\\nand that the inhabitants might enjoy increased facilities for\\nmeeting on the Sabbath, and for occasional religious exer-\\ncises.\\nIn the organization of the church, forty members were\\n15*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0255.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "174 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nadmitted from the Presbyterian church in Derry, twenty-\\nthree from the Presbyterian church in Londonderry, and one\\nfrom the church in Pelham. In the course of a few months,\\nthirteen others were admitted by letter. Nathaniel Parker,\\nAbel F. Hildreth, and John Perkins, were chosen deacons.\\nIn the same year, the society erected a neat and commodious\\nmeeting-house, on the summit of a gentle swell of land, in the\\nwesterly part of the village.\\nOn the 12th of August, 1837, the church voted, unani-\\nmously, to give Mr. Pliny B. Day a call to settle with tbem\\nin the gospel ministry in which call the society, with like\\nunanimity, concurred. The invitation being accepted. Mr.\\nDay w^as ordained on the fourth of October following. Mr.\\nDay is a native of Norwich, Mass. He graduated at Amherst\\nCollege, in 1834, and at Andover Theological Seminary, in\\n1837. His pastoral connection with that church and society\\nstill continues.\\nA Methodist Ej^iscopal church was formed in Derry,\\nAugust 6, 1834, consisting, at the time of its formation, of\\nfifteen members. Caleb Dustin, J. T. G. Dinsmore, W. S.\\nFollansbee, John March, and John Taylor, were appointed\\nstewards. In 183G, a neat and convenient meeting-house\\nwas erected for their accommodation, in the Lower Village.\\nThe church at the present time consists of eighty members\\nand has since its formation been supplied by the following\\nministers, in succession. Rev. Pliilo Brownson, Rev. James\\nMcCane, Rev. Samuel Iloyt, Rev. W. H. Brewster, Rev.\\nMichael Quimby, Rev. Jonathan Ilaseltine, Rev. James\\nDow, Rev. James Adams, Rev. Richard Newhall, Rev.\\nEzekiel Adams, Rev. G. W. T. Rogers, Rev. Freeman Q.\\nBarrows, and Rev. Joseph Palmer.\\nIn closing this summary view of the churches and their\\nseveral pastors, in this ancient town, I remark, that the eccle-\\nsiastical is by far the most important chapter in the history\\nof a people, whether considered in relation to the life that", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0256.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 175\\nnow is, or that which is to come. While in the narrative of\\nsome communities it presents a dark page, in regard to this\\ntown it is cause of devout gratitiide that in no instance\\nhas the ministry been dishonored. Of the thirteen rainistCTs\\nwho have held the pastoral charge of its respective parishes,\\nthere is not one but has sustained, unblemished, the Christian\\ncharacter, and been acceptable, and in a degree successful, in\\nthe discharge of the duties of the sacred office. Of the five\\nministers preceding the present pastor, who have had\\ncharge of the first or original parish, all but one died while\\nsustaining the pastoral relation, and now repose in the same\\ngraveyard, surrounded by their beloved flocks.* There\\nrests also the dust of the Rev. Mr. Brown, who, although\\nhe had early resigned the pastoral charge, continued to offi-\\nciate in the Christian ministry till advanced age, and died\\nrespected by those who had long known him as a friend and\\na neighbor.\\nIn the West Parish, three of its ministers sustained the\\npastoral relation until it was dissol ved by death. Two of its\\npastors, at their special request, were dismissed, while each\\nof the Presbyterian societies, as w^ell as the Congregational\\nsociety, enjoys the labors of a settled pastor. The Methodist\\nAnd now the remains of die sixth pastor lie in the same yard. It\\nis probably true of no town in New England. which lias been settled\\nthe same length of time, that all the pastors of the parish are buried\\ntogether in the same cemetery. To these may be added Rev. David\\nMacGregor, of the AA^ est Parish, making scven of the pastors of Lon-\\ndondcrry who now rest there from their labors, and will sleep together till\\nthe resurrcction.\\nIn the month of November, subseqnent to the death of Rev. Mr.\\nParker, Mr. Joshua W. AYellman. a native of Cornish, N. H and a\\ngraduateof Dartmouth College in 1846, and of the Theological Semi-\\nnary, Andover, in 1850, supplied the pulpit of the Presbyterian chnrcli\\nin Derry, for a few Sabbaths. Mr. Wellman was the first and only\\ncandidate of the society, and at a parish meeting, January 1851, received\\nan mianimous call to become their pastor. This call was subsequently\\naccepted, and he is to be ordained in June of the present year.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0257.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "176 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nsociety also, since its oi ganization, lias uniformly been siip-\\nplied with the preacliing of the gospel. No one year has\\npassed since the settlement of the town, in which there has\\nnJrbeen a stated pastor to conduct the services of the sanc-\\ntuary, and usually two; nor a Sabbath in which the Word of\\nGod has not been read and expounded in the public congre-\\ngations of the i)eople. If there is any advantage, then, in the\\nconstant employment of an able and faithful ministry, this\\ntown has probably possessed it as fuUy as any otlier in New\\nEngland. That there are real and substantial benefits con-\\nnected with the stated ministry, and the ordinances of reli-\\ngion, will not be denied by any who admit the truth of the\\ndivine word. Faith cometh by hearing, and by the\\nfoolishness of preaching, it pleases God to save those that\\nare lost.\\nThe records of the churches in this town exhibit evidence\\nthat the ordinance of the Christian ministry, here so uni-\\nformly maintained, has not been without its appropriate\\nfruits. Previous to the division of the original town into\\nparishes, we find that the number of communicants at the\\ntable of the Lord was large, that many were added to the\\n.!rch from one communion season to another. The state\\nof the churches after a division took place, is not so well\\nknown, as very imperfect records were kept and preserved.\\nWe have adverted to the interest feit in this town on the\\nsubject of religion, during the great awakening in 1741.\\nA very considerable number became the hopeful subjects of\\ndivine grace, and were added to the church of Christ. In\\nthe first church in Derry there have been, since 1810,\\nrepeated and powerful manifestations of divine grace, as has\\nalso been the case in the other religious communities within\\nthe limits of the original township.\\nThe first of these seasons was in 1815, when thirty-one\\nmembers were added to the church. It occurred in connec-\\ntion with the usual means of grace. A like season of refresh-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0258.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 177\\ning was experienced by this cluirch in 1823, resulting in the\\nhopeful conversion of nearly forty individuals. The year\\nfollowing (1824), the General Association of New Hampsliire\\nheld its anniversary in the East Parish of Londonderry. A\\ndivine blessing attended its deeply interesting and solemn\\nservices. Sixty-two were, in eonsequence, added to the\\nchurch. In 1827, an awakened interest in religion was\\nmanifested in the community more than thirty individuals\\npublicly professed their faith in Christ.\\nThe first protracted meeting (as such religious convoea-\\ntions were usually termed) held in this town, was in 1831.\\nIt continued four days, which was the usual term of such\\nmeetings. There were public services during the day, the\\nsame as on the Sabbath. The regular discourses were\\ngenerally preceded and foliowed by brief extemporaneous\\naddresses by ministers in attendance. The intermission of\\npublic exercises was improved as an inquiry meeting, afford-\\ning any who might be in an awakened and anxious state\\nof mind, an opportunity to receive appropriate instruction\\nfrom the pastor and others. In the evenings of these days,\\nthere were more usually religious services in the different\\nneighborhoods. The mornings were seasons of special\\npraycr, both private and social. The exercises were more\\ncommonly sustained by the neighboring ministers, occasion-\\nally by an evangelist.\\nSuch was the order generally pursued in these meetings,\\nwhich soon became general throughout the land, among all\\ndenominations of evangelical Christians. They were attended\\nin most instances with very happy results, until at length an\\nundue reliance came to be placed on these special services,\\nto the neglect of the ordinary but more important means of\\ngrace. Then the divine influence was withheld, and in some\\nsections of the land, and by certain eccentric teachers, irreg-\\nularities and\u00c2\u00bbiraproprieties of conduct, in respect to these\\nservices, were introduced and sanctioned. They were there-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0259.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "178 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nfore, at length, suspended by the churches generalij, and\\nrelianee for the revival and promotion of religion was placed\\nmore entirely on the divinely apj)ointed ministrations of the\\nstated pastor, in his pulpit and parochial labors. Butthough\\nthese protracted meetings were in some cases perverted from\\ntlieir original design, attended witli irregularities, and. the\\noccasion of evil, they were iri general the means of great\\ngood, and attended with signal blessings to the churches.\\nThe first meeting of the kind held in this place was highly\\nsalutary in its effects sixty-eight were in consequence\\nadded to the church. In 1834, a similar meeting was held\\nhere, and attended with like effect a goodly number gave\\nevidence of a saving cliange, and made public profession of\\ntheir faith.\\nIn 1837-8, a very general attention to the subject of\\nreligion prevailed throughout the town, and all its religious\\nsocieties were blessed with the special influences of the Spirit.\\nTo the Presbyterian church in Derry, more than an hundred\\nwere added by profession. Ninety-six persons, comprising\\nindividuals of various classes and ages in the community,\\nfrom the aged of more than threescore and ten, to the youth\\nof fourteen, were received to the communion of the church\\non one Sabbath. The sc\u00c3\u00a8ne was most deeply solemn and\\nimpressive. Rev. Dr. Woods of Andover was present, and\\npreached to a large and attentive assembly. It was estimated\\nthat more than two hundred, within the bounds of Derry,\\nbecame the hopeful subjects of divine grace, during this\\nseason of revival. The last revival season enjoyed by this\\nreligious community was in 1841 thirty were then added to\\nthe church.\\nIn the Presbyterian society in Londonderry, there were,\\nduring the years 1831 aud 1832, times of refreshing, under\\nthe ministry of Rev. Mr. Adams and as the fruit of these\\nrevivals about seventy were added to the chur\u00c3\u00b6h. There was\\nalso a special attention to the subject of religion, ncar the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0260.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 179\\nclose of the year 1834, and as the result, about fifteen made\\na public profession of their faitli in Christ. There was also\\na general revival of religion in that society, in 1842, under\\nthe ministry of Rev. Mr. Brainerdj and about eighty gave\\nevidence of a saving change. Among these were to be found\\nthe man and woman of grey hairs but most of them were\\nin middle age, and in the morning of life. By this out-\\npouring of the Holy Spirit, the church was much refreshed,\\nand increased in numbers and strength.\\nBesides these more marked displays of divine -grace,\\nattended with most happy effect, there have been, in the\\nmean time, lighter showers of divine influence, which have\\nproduced many precieus fruits of righteousness. And it is\\ndeserving of notice, that the far greater proportion of those\\nwho have become members of the church of Christ, since the\\ncommencement of the second century, were fruits of these\\nseasons of revival. The Word and ordinances of God, how-\\never regularly and faithfully dispensed, are ineffectual to\\nthe salvation of the soul, if unattended by the special\\ninfluences of the Spirit. Paul may plant and Apollos\\nwater, but it is God who givetli the increase.\\nLet then the Holy Spirit, the author of these sacred influ-\\nences, by which men are awakened from the slumbers of\\nimpenitence, convinced of their guilt and danger as sinners,\\nrenewed in the spirit of their minds, sanctified in heart and\\nlife, and fitted for the light and purity of heaven, be duly\\nhonored, and his agency humbly and fervently sought.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0261.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "180 HISTORY OF LONDONPERRY.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nSettlemen\u00c3\u00afs made ky emigrants rnoM londoxderuy.\\nWINDHAM rE\u00c3\u008fERBOROUGH BEDFORD CIIERRY VALLEY\\nNOVA SCOTIA ANTRIM ACWORTII.\\nThe descendants of tlic early settlers of Londonderry, and\\nthose who joined tliem from Ireland, becoming nuraerous,\\nfurnished a large niimber of pioncers of civilization, in New\\nHampshire, Vermont, and Maine. Many towns in its vi-\\ncinity were settled from this colony. Windham, Chester,\\nManchester, Merrimack, Bedford, GofFstcvn, New Boston,\\nAntrim, Peterborougli, Colerain, and Acworth, together with\\nsettlements more remote, derived from Londonderry a con-\\nsiderable proportion of their first inhabitants. A brief notice\\nwill be given of some of these settlements, derived chiefly\\nfrom the centenary discourses which have been pnblislied\\ncommemorating their settlement, and from other authentic\\nsources.\\nW I N D II A ]\\\\I\\nIn 1742, an act to incorporate a new parish in the town-\\nship of Londonderry, by the name of Windham, passed in\\nthe General Assembly of the province.\\nThe boundaries of the parish, as described in the charter,\\nare as follows Beginning at the dwelling-house of one\\nJohn Ilopkins of said Londonderry, yeoman, thence running\\non a due west course to Beaver Brook, so called then begin-\\nning again at the said house at the place where it began\\nbefore (so as to leave the said house to ye northward), and\\nfrom thence to run on a due east course, till it comes to ye\\neasterly line of said Londonderry; then to run as said line", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0262.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF WINDHAM. 181\\nruns, till it comes to the southerly boundaiy of said London-\\ndei iy then to run to westward as the said boundary runs,\\ntill it comes to the said Brook, and then to run as the said\\nBrook runs, until it comes to the place on the said Brook,\\nwhere the said west line runs across the same, excej^ting\\nout of these limits the polls and estates of John Archibald,\\nJames Clark, James Moor, John Hopkins, and John Cochran^\\nand their respective families.\\nThe charter provides, that the said parish shall be and\\nhereby is invested with all the powers and authorities that\\nje several towns in the province are invested with, with\\nthe exception of the right to send a representative to the\\nAssembly for which purpose they were to unite with the\\ninhabitants of Londonderry.\\nIn 1750, a considerable tract of land was taken from the\\nsoutheasterly part of Windham, and annexed to Salem.\\nThe town now comprises fifteen thousand seven hundred\\nand forty-four acres, and, in 1840, contained nine hundred\\nand twenty-six inhabitants.\\nIn the beginning of 1747, the Rev. William Johnston was\\ninstalled pastor of this religious society and Nathaniel\\nHemphill, Samuel Kinkead, and John Kyle, w^ere ordained\\nruling elders. In July, 1752, Mr. Johnston was dismissed\\nfrom his pastoral charge not, as it appears, on account of\\nany disaffection of the people towards him, or of impropriety\\nin his conduct, but for want of support. During his ministry,\\nthere was no house for public worship the meetings were\\nusually held in barns, sometimes in private houses. In 1753,\\na meeting-house was erected in that parish, on the south side\\nof Cobbett s Pond. The church and society, on aj^plication\\nby their commissioner to the synod of New York and Phila-\\ndelphia, for a Presbyterian minister, obtained the Rev. John\\nKinkead, and a regular call having been presented to him and\\naccepted, he was installed in October, 1760. Soon after, an\\naddition was made to the eldership, of the following gentle-\\n16", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0263.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "182\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nmen, namely, John Armstrong, Samuel Campbell, David\\nGregg, John Morro^v, Samuel Morrison, Robert Hopkins,\\nGawin Armour, and John Tufts. Although Mr. Kinkead\\npossessed respectable talents and acquirements as a preacher\\nof the gospel, yet, not maintaining a Christian and minis-\\nterial deportment, and being chargeable with immoralities,\\nhe soon lost the respect and confidence of his people, and\\nwas dismissed in April, 1765.\\nSoon after the dismission of Mr. Kinkead from his pastoral\\ncharge, the parish presented a call to the Rev. Simon Wil-\\nliams, who was ordained their pastor. December, 1766, by\\nthe Boston presbyteiy. He continued their minister twenty-\\nseven years, and deceased November 10, 1793, aged sixty-\\nfour years. He was highly respected and esteemed by his\\npeople, and by the neighboring ministers and churches. He\\nwas eminent as a scholar, and opened a private academy,\\nwhich he continued a number of years. Under his tuition,\\nmany young gentlemen were prepared for admission to col-\\nlege, some of whom became distinguished in professional\\nlife. Although, during the latter part of his life. Mr. Wil-\\nliams was subject at times to a partial derangement of mind,\\nand to other bodily infirmities, he still continued in the dis-\\ncharge of the duties of the ministry, with few interruptions,\\nuntil his death. He died beloved by the people of his charge,\\nwho readily cast the mantle of charity over his eccentricities\\nand frailties. During his ministry, John Dinsmorc, Robert\\nPark, John Anderson, William Gregg, Samuel Morrison,\\nRobert Dinsmore, and Alexander McCoy, were ordained\\nruling elders in that church.\\nIn 1798, a new meeting-house was erected, at some dis-\\ntance west from the first, and more central to the town. After\\nremaining destitute of a settled ministry twelve years, the\\nchurch and society extended a call to the Rev. Samuel\\nHarris, to become their pastor. He accepted their invita-\\ntion, and was ordained by the Londonderry presbytery, Oct.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0264.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF PETERBORO\u00c3\u009cGH. 183\\n9, 1805. Mr. Harris s connection with tliis diurch and soci-\\nety, as their pastor, continued until 1826, when, his voice\\nfailing, he was dismissed by mutual consent. During his\\nministry, the following persons were at different times added\\nto the session, namely, David Gregg, James Davidson, Wil-\\nliam Davidson, John Davidson, Jesse And^rson, Samuel\\nDavidson, J. P. Johnson, Eleazer Barrett, James W. Perkins,\\nJacob E. Evans, and David McClary.\\nIn April, 1828, Rev. Calvin Cutler was ordained; and he\\nsustained the relation of pastor to this church until his death,\\nin 1844. During his ministry, some difhculties having arisen\\nin the town, in regard to the right of occupying the meeting-\\nhouse, a new house was erected, not far from the forraer\\nplace of worship. Mr. Cutler ordained the following elders,\\nnamely, Samuel Anderson, Jacob Harris, Silas Moore, David\\nCampbell, and Jonathan Cochran, in 1833 and Theodore\\nDinsmore, Joseph Park, Benjamin Blanchard, David A.\\nDavidson, and Rei Hills, in 1843.\\nNovember 5, 1845. Rev. Loren Thayer was ordained,\\nwhose pastoral connection with this church and society stiil\\ncontinues.\\nThe inhabitants of Windham, who are mostly the descend-\\nants of the first settlers of Londonderry, have firmly adhered\\nto the religieus principles of their fathers, to the doctrine and\\nforms of the Presbyterian church, as originally established\\nin Scotland, and adrainistered in this country. Not given to\\nchange, they have remained united and firm supporters of\\nreligious institutions and of gospel order.\\nPETERBORO\u00c3\u009cGH.\\nThe township of Peterborough was first surveyed and laid\\nout by Joseph Hall, Jr., in 1737, and was granted in 1738,\\nby the General Court of Massachusetts, within whose juris-\\ndiction it was supposed to lie, to Samuel Haywood, and\\nx^", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0265.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "184 niSTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nothers, who soon after transferrecl tlieir title to Jeremiah\\nGridley, John llill, Fowle and William Vassal. The first\\nsettlements in the town were made under purchases from\\nthe last-named gentlemen.\\nIn the year 1739, there was an inefFectual attempt to form\\na settlement in this township. Three years after, live men\\nfrom Lunenburg, Mass., made a small clearing, which they\\nwere compelled to abandon in the year 1744, on account of\\nthe alarm of war. About the same time, another party of\\nthree men cleared a parcel of land in the southerly part of\\nthe town, but left before they had put in their seed. The\\nfirst permanent settlement in the township was commenced\\nin 1749, when, upon the close of the war, the first adventur-\\ners returned, and received large accessions to their number\\nfrom Londonderry, Lunenburg, and other places. From\\nthis time the colony increased rapidly, so that in ten years it\\nembraced about fifty families. All the first settlers were of\\nthe Scotch-Irish stock, those who came from Lunenburg\\nhaving but a few years before emigrated from the north of\\nIreland.\\nThe town was incorporated January 17, 1760, and took\\nits name from Peter Prescott, of Concord, Mass. The peti-\\ntion for the act of incorporation is dated October 31, 1759,\\nand is signed by Thomas Morrison, Jonathan Morrison, and\\nThomas Cunningham. One of the three, Jonathan Morrison,\\nwas the first male child born in Londonderry.\\nThe hardships experienced by the first settlers of this town-\\nship were severe, far more so than those now experienced\\nby the pioneers in our western territories. Being recently\\nfrom a foreign country, unaccustomed to the axe, and by no\\nmeans acquainted with the best method of clearing away the\\ntimber, they were here in the midst of an unbroken forest,\\nand exposed to acts of Indian cruelty. When they retired\\nto their beds at night, it was under the constant apprehension\\nof a midnight attack and when they left their dwellings to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0266.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OP PETERBOROUGH. 185\\ncultivate their fields, it was with the same fearful forebodings.\\nThey were several times driven ofF by the enemy, and many\\nof them almost ruined, as to thcir property yet, to use their\\nown afFecting language, as in their petition for incorporation,\\nas a town, what little we had in the world, lay here, we\\nhaving no whither else to go, returned to our settlement as\\nsoon as prudence would admit, where we have continued\\nsince, and cultivated a rough part of the wilderness to a\\nfruitful field.\\nBut aside from the apprehension of danger, they surely\\nhad difficulties and hardships enough. Till 1751, they had\\nno grist-mill, and were obliged to bring all their provisions\\nupon their shonlders five and twenty miles. For many years,\\nthere was not a glass window in the place. Their dwellings\\nwere miserable huts, not a board upon or within them, till\\n1751, when three frame houses were erected. The first\\nmeeting-house was erected in 1752, an i for several years\\nwas furnished with no other seats than rough boards, laid\\nloosely upon square blocks of wood. For a long period, there\\nwere no oxen, and still later no horses.\\nThe first settlers of Peterborough and their descendants,\\nhave exhibited the energy, courage, and patriotism, which\\ndistinguish the Scotch-Irish. During the war, which com-\\nmenced in 1755, a number of their young men enlisted in\\nRogers s company of rangers. On the 13th of March, 1758,\\na party of eight of them feil into an Indian ambuscade, near\\nLake George, and six were killed, namely, John Stewart,\\nRobert McNee, John Dinsmoor, Charles McCoy, David\\nWallace, and William Wilson. Alexander Robbe and\\nSamuel Cunningham, escaped.\\nThe inhabitants of Peterborough engaged with zeal in the\\nstruggle for independence. Twenty-two from that town\\nwere present at the battle of Bunker Hill, although but\\nseventeen were actually engaged in the conflict. Seventeen\\ndays before the Declaration of Independence, the foUowing\\n16*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0267.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "186 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nresolution was signed by eighty-three able-bodied men, of\\nthat town, as an expression of their determination in join\u00c2\u00bb.\\ning their American brethren in arms, in defending the lives,\\nliberties, and properties of the United Colonies.\\nWe, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and\\npromise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the\\nrisk of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hos-\\ntile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the\\nUnited Colonies.\\nThis pledge, given not long after the comraencement of\\nhostilities, was nobly redeemed. Few if any towns furnished\\na greater number of soldiers during the revolutionary war,\\nin proportion to the number of inhabitants, than Peter-\\nborough. There was not a man in the town who favored\\nthe British cause.\\nThe first school taught in the town was commenced by\\nMr. John Ferguson. The first representative was deacon\\nSamuel Moore, elected in 1775. William Smith, Esq., was\\ndelegated to the Provincial Congress in 1774. The first\\nperson commissioned as a justice of the peace, in Peter-\\nborough, w^as Hugh Wilson, Esq., a respectable magistrate.\\nA subject of no little interest in the history of this town is\\nits manufacturing establishments. In 1780, a clothier s shop,\\nfor taking in avooI to card and cloth to dress, was built, and\\nwas the only factory in town until 1793, when an impulse\\nwas given to the manufacturing enterprise of the place by\\nMr. Samuel Smith, who erected a large building for mechan-\\nical purposes. This turned the attention of the people to the\\nvaluable water privileges in the town. In 1810, the first\\ncotton factory was put in operation since which time sev-\\neral cotton and other factories have been established. It\\nwas estimated in 1839, that the amount of property vested\\nin the various water privileges was three hundred thousand\\ndollars; that the cotton factories produced annually one\\nmillioa seven hundred and twenty-five thousand yards of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0268.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OP PETERBOROUGH. 187\\ncloth and tliat the amount of property imported and sold,\\nin the various stores in the town, was not less than seventy-\\nfive thousand dollars.\\nThe population of the town, according to the census of\\n1830, was one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four; and\\naccording to the census of 1840, it was two thousand one\\nhundred and sixty-three.\\nThe early ecclesiastical history of Peterborough is far\\nfrom favorable. The church, as originally organized, was\\nPresbyterian. The gentlemen first separated to the office\\nof elders, were William McNee, AYilliam Smith, Samuel\\nMoore, and Samuel Mitchel. They were consecrated by\\nRev. Robert Annan, of Boston, in 1778, and they all\\nadorned their profession, and died in faith. A Presby-\\nterian minister, by the name of Johnston, came with the first\\nsettlers and remained with them about a year. The desk\\nwas supplied for a time by Rev. Mr. Harvey, and in the\\nyear 1764 by Rev. Mr. Powers.\\nThe first settled minister in the town was Rev. John Mor-\\nrison. He was born at Pathfoot, in Scotland, in 1743, and\\nwas of a family distinct from that of the Morrisons who were\\namong the first settlers of the town. He was graduated at\\nEdinburgh, in 1765, arrived at Boston the May following,\\nand was ordained at Peterborough, November 26, 1766.\\nAlthough he was possessed of more than ordinary talent, he\\nsoon proved to be intemperate and licentious. His conduct\\nafter a time became so scandalous that a presbytery was\\nheld, and he was suspended for a time from his office. He\\nrelinquished his connection with the society in March, 1772,\\nvisited South Carolina, returned and joined the American\\narmy, at Cambridge, in 1775. He soon after went over to\\nthe British, and remained with them till his death, which\\ntook place at Charleston, S. C, in 1782. He became a pro-\\nfessed atheist, and died an abandoned profligate.\\nIn October, 1778, Mr. David Annan, having received a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0269.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "188 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\ncall, was ordained for Peterborougli, hy the presbytery, which\\nmet at Wallkill, N. J. He was a brother of Robert Annan,\\nwlio was for a time pastor of Federal Street cliurch, in\\nBoston, was born at Cupar of Fife, in Scotland, April 4,\\n1754, and came to America when young. He received his\\neducation at New Brunswick College, N. J. In 1792, the\\npastoral connection of Mr. Annan with the society in Peter-\\nborough was dissolved, at his request, by the presbytery of\\nLondonderry. He was by the same presbytery deposed\\nfrom the ministry, in 1800, and died in Ireland, in 1802.\\nMr. Annan possessed respectable talents, and might easily\\nhave retained the confidence of his people. But his intem-\\nperate habits, his licentious and corrupt conversation, and\\nhis haughty, overbearing demeanor, at length deprived him\\nof their respect and regard. So brutal was his treatment of\\nhis wife, who was an estimable woman, that she was some-\\ntimes compelled to pass the whole night, with her children,\\nin the woods and she finally obtained a bill of divorce, on\\nthe ground of extreme cruelty. Mr. Morrison and Mr.\\nAnnan were the only settled ministers in the place for fifty\\nyears.\\nThe question, says the Rev. J. H. Morrison, in his cen-\\ntenary address, How could religion be kept alive under such\\ncircumstances, is readily answered. Our people were always\\nreaders, and the Bible was almost their only book. Here\\nthey went for counsel and support. It was to them prophet\\nand priest. With all their reverence for the public minis-\\ntrations of religion, their reverence for the written word\\nwas far greater. In the next place, the practice of fomily\\nprayer was faithfully observed. Morning and evening the\\nScriptures were read and if the flame of devotion burned\\ndim in the house of public worship, it was not permitted to\\ngo out upon the family altar.\\nAfter the dismission of Mr. Annan, a call was given to\\nRev. Z. S. Moore, but it was declined, and the town con-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0270.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF PETERBOROUGH. 189\\ntinued without a minister iintil October 23, 1799, when Rev.\\nElijah Dunbar was ordained. The church had originally\\nbelonged to the Londonderry presbytery, but at the settle-\\nmeiit of Mr. Annan, at his request, it was dismissed from.\\nthe Londonderry presbytery, and united with the New York\\npresbytery. When Mr. Dunbar was settled, that presbytery\\nhad become extinct, and the church, being left an indepen-\\ndent body, adopted the Congregational form. As there were\\nmany who were still attached to the Presbyterian mode, it\\nwas arranged that once a year the communion should be\\nadniinistered by a Presbyterian, in the Presbyterian manner.\\nTliis service was for many years performed by Rev. Wil-\\nliam Morrison, of Londonderry. In 1822, a portion of the\\npeople who had never been pleased with the Congregational\\nform, and others who had never been quite at ease under an\\nArminian preacher, withdrew, and formed a Presbyterian\\nsociety. Mr. Dunbar retained his pastoral connection with\\nthe Congregational society, until February, 1827. He was\\nsucceeded in June, of the same year, by Abiel Abbot, D. D.,\\nwho is still the pastor. The present number of communi-\\ncants in this church, who are residents in the town, is sixty-\\neight.\\nThe Presbyterian society erected a meeting-house in\\n1825, and, in 1827, Rev. Peter Holt was installed their\\npastor. Li March, 1835, Mr. Holt resigned his office as\\npastor of this society, and Rev. Mr. Pine was installed the\\nnext year, and was dismissed in January, 1837. Rev. Joshua\\nBarret was stated supply from February, 1837, to February,\\n1839. Rev. James R. French was ordained pastor, March\\n18, 1840, and was dismissed in April, 1847. The present\\npastor, Rev. Henry J. Lamb, was ordained July 14, 1847.\\nThe present number of members in this church is one\\nhundred and seventy-five.\\nA Baptist church was constituted November, 1822, con-\\nsisting of forty members, and the first pastor was Rev.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0271.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "190 HISTORY OP LONDONDERRY.\\nCharles Cummings. Rev. Mr. Goodnow commenced liis\\nlabors with tliis church in June, 1831. Rev. George Daland\\nwas the pastor from March, 1834, until 1836. Rev. John\\nPeacock commenced preaching September, 1837, and re-\\nmained one year. Rev. J. M. Wilmarth was settled Sept.,\\n1838, and was dismissed March, 1840. Rev. Zebulon Jones\\nwas the pastor from April, 1840, to November, 1843. Rev.\\nA. Brown commenced preaching Jan., 1844, and remained\\none year. Rev. Sherborn Dearborn commenced his labors\\nin September, 1845, and was dismissed August, 1847. The\\npresent pastor, Rev. J. M. Chick, was settled December,\\n1847. The number of resident members in this church at\\nthe present time is eighty-three.\\nThere has been in this town for several years a Methodist\\nchurch, which now contains seventy-eight members.\\nTo the foregoing historical sketch of Peterborough, the\\nfollowing item, from the Boston Evening Traveller, is\\nappended, in the belief that it will not be uninteresting\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE IN OLD TIMES.\\nThe oldest son of New Hampshire who attended the\\ngrand festival, on Wednesday, was our fellow-citizen, Mr.\\nSamuel Gregg, of 18 Leverett Street. He was born in\\nPeterborough, N. H., in 1772, and has resided in Boston\\nconstantly for the last half-century. Among the first settlers\\nin his native town were his mother and father. The latter,\\nsubsequcntly known as Major Samuel Gregg, was a native\\nof Londonderry. Joining, at the early age of seventeen, the\\nEnglish army in the old French war, he was at the capture\\nof Louisburg, and on the plains of Abraham, with the brave\\nGeneral Wolfe, whose great victory there united the Cana-\\ndas to the British empire. When the Revolution broke out,\\nhe refused to act under his commission of lieutenant in the\\nking s service, took up arms for his countrymen, and with\\nhis wife, who was born in Haverhill, Mass., staked all for", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0272.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF PETERBORO\u00c3\u009cGH. 191\\nthe cause of independence. The following, related a few\\nhours since bj their son, the present Samuel Gregg, and the\\noldest person at the dinner on Wednesday, will give some\\nidea of the necessities and toils of some of the first founders\\nof the Granite State. My parents planted themselves in\\nPeterborough, remarked Mr. Gregg, about one hundred\\nyears ago, on the banks of the Contoocook. At that period\\nthere was not a settler, nor a single improvement, between\\ntheir house and Canada and it was years afterwards, before\\nthey had one neighhor and for a long time but one, between\\nthem on the north and the boundaries of that province. On\\na cold winter s day, my mother threw on her cloak of scarlet\\ncloth, such as the great-great-grandmothers of the rising\\ngeneration were then accustomed to wear, and with her\\nhusband, went out upon the ice down the Contoocook, to see\\nthe family of their nearest northern neighbor, in Antrim,\\ntwelve miles off by land, and some fifteen by the river.\\nThey arrived about noon, but found their neighbor, Mr.\\nJames Aiken, had gone with his wife to make a call on\\nsome of their relatives, twenty-five or thirty miles distant at\\nthe east. Miss Aiken, their little daughter, then about\\ntwelve years old, made a cup of tea for my mother, after\\nwhich, the two disappointed travellers retraced their steps,\\nover the ice to their dwelling, which they reached in the\\nevening. That night there feil a rain so heavy as to break\\nup the frozen stream and had they not returned as they\\ndid, they could not have reached home for less than four or\\nfive weeks, as there were no roads, and the snow was three\\nor four feet deep in the woods. In those days, there was not\\na cart nor a vehicle on wheels, nor a highway, in the whole\\ntown of Peterborough and my ancestor was obliged to take\\nhis grain four miles to mill, and bring the meal back upon a\\nrude car, composed of poles, fastened lengthwise to a cross-\\npiece, the front being elevated by the oxen, and the rear\\ndrawn over the ground, somewhat like a sled.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0273.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "192 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nBEDFORD\\nA settlement was commenced in Bedford in the year 1737\\nby a few individuals from Londonderry, among whom were\\nRobert and James Walker, Jolni Goffe, Matthew Patten,\\nand Capt. Samuel Patten. These individuals settled near\\nthe bank of the Merrimack river. They were soon foliowed\\nby many others, so that, in 1750, the town which had been\\ncalled Souhegan East, or Narraganset, No. 5, was ineorpo-\\nrated under its present name, and with its present limits, its\\nterritory originally extending south to Souhegan river.\\nAs might be expected from a people of sucli an origin,\\nthey made early provision for the institution of the gospel.\\nIn 1750, the town gave a call to Rev. Alexander Boyd, and\\nsoon after to Rev. Messrs. Alexander McDowell, and Sam-\\nuel McClintock; but in each case without success. A\\nmeeting-house was raised in 1755, but not fully finished\\nuntil some years after.\\nOn Sept. 28, 1757, Rev. John Houston was ordained pastor\\nof the church, which was organized in the Presbyterian order.\\nRev. Mr. True of Hampstead, ofFercd the prayer Rev. Mr.\\nParsons of Newbury, preached the sermon Rev. David Mac-\\nGregor of Londonderry, gave the charge Rev. Mr. True\\ngave the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. Mr. White of\\nGloucester, concluded with prayer.\\nJames Little, James Gilmore, Benjamin Smith, and Wil-\\nliam Moor, constituted the first board of elders.\\nAbout this time, sundry inhabitants of Merrimack, who\\nhad removed to that town from Londonderry, united for a\\nnumber of years with the inhabitants of Bedford, probably\\nfrom preference for the Presbyterian form of government.\\nMr. Houston continued to fill the office of minister in Bedford,\\ntill 1775. This town partook largely of the patriotic feeling\\nthat prevailed at this time throughout the country, and many\\nof its citizcns engaged in the dangers and hardships of the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0274.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF BEDFORD. 193\\nrevolntionary war. Tlieir minister differed from the great\\nbody of the people, in his views of public affairs, and on this\\naccount he ceased preaching, and in 1778 his pastoral con-\\nnection was dissolved by act of the presbytery.\\nEev. Mr. Houston was educated at Princeton, N. J., where\\nhe took his degree in 1753 he studied divinity with the\\nRev. David MacGregor of Londonderry. He was consid-\\nered a sound, orthodox divine, and a man of considerable\\nnative and acquired talent, but somewhat defici\u00c3\u00abnt as a public\\nsj)eaker. He was a conscientious and good man. He was\\nborn in Londonderry, and died in Bedford, 1798, aged 75.\\nFor a long j)eriod after the dismissal of Mr. Houston, the\\ntown was destitute of a settled ministry. The people were\\nsupplied with preaching part of the year, but, with a single\\nexception, by no one individual for any length of time. Rev.\\nWilliam Pickles, from Wales, England, preached for a time,\\nas a stated supply. He was a man of very popular talents,\\nbut his habits and general deportment were sucli as to dis-\\nhonor his sacred profession. His influence was unfavorable\\nto the cause of vital piety. As might be expected in such a\\nstate of things, the ordinances of religion were neglected,\\ndivisions arose, and the interests of piety declined. But\\nduring this long period of nearly thirty years, the watchful\\nprovidence of God surrounded the church, through seasons\\nof peril, and preserved it from becoming extinct.\\nOn Sept. 5, 1804, Rev. David MacGregor, a native of Lon-\\ndonderry, was ordained to the pastoral charge of the church\\nand congregation in Bedford. The religious aspect of things\\nnow began to change. The church as a body became more\\nregular and consistent, additions were yearly made to tlieir\\nnumber, and the cause of piety and benevolence advanced\\nwith a steady progress.\\nLi April, 1825, the pastoral relation, subsisting between\\nMr. MacGregor and the church, was, by mutual consent,\\ndissolved by act of presbytery. Mr. MacGregor received\\n17", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0275.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "194 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nhis education at Dartmouth College, -vvliere he took liig\\ndegree in 1799. Ile studied divinity with Rev. Dr. Mor-\\nrison of Londonderry. His ministry, it is believed, was\\ngreatly blessed. He removed to Falmouth, Maine, where\\nhe is engaged in the business of instruction.\\nThe present pastor, Rev. Thomas Savage, was installed\\nover the church and people July 5, 1826.\\nThe old meeting-house having been occupied for the wor-\\nship of God from generation to generation for nearly eighty\\nyears, and having become unsuitable for a place of worship^\\na new house was erected, and solemnly dedicated to the\\nservice of God, December 25, 1832. The church has shared\\nwith other churches in spiritual blessings and since the\\nsettlement of the present pastor, two hundred and seventy-\\ntwo have been added by profession.\\nCHERRY VALLET.\\nIn the year 1741, an emigration of a nuraber of families to\\nthe valley of the Mohawk, west of the Hudson river, took\\nplace under the foUowing circumstances. A patent of a\\nterritory now called Cherry Valley, containing eight thou-\\nsand acres of land, lying about ten miles south of the Mohawk\\nriver, and fifty-two west from Albany, was granted to John\\nLindesay, a Scotch gentleman of some distinction, and three\\nethers. At that time, with very few exceptions, the whole\\ncountry west of Cherry Valley, reaching on to the Pacific\\nocean, was one unbroken wilderness. The whole country\\ncalled the Great West, the vast Valley of the Mississippi,\\nwas almost an unknown land. Attracted by the beauty of\\nthe scenery, the wild and romantic features of the country,\\nnbt unlike his native Scotland, Mr. Lindesay, the principal\\npatentee, witll his family, took up his abode in this place in\\nthe summer of 1740. An Indian footpath ouly afforded him\\ncommunication with the Mohawk river.\\nThe winter which foliowed was one of great severity.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0276.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF CHERRY VALLET. 195\\nLong ere spring revisited tlie Valley, liis provisions were\\n\u00c2\u00abexliausted. The great depth of snow entirely interrupted\\nliis intercourse with the settlements of the Mohawk. He\\nrealized in their greatest extent the dangers and trials of a\\nborderer. A lingering death by starvation was before him.\\nAt this critical period, an ludian arrived from the Mohawk,\\non snow-shoes. The Indian returned, at the solicitation of\\nMr. Lindesay, and procured provisions, which he carried on\\nhis back to the distressed emigrants, and thus saved the lives\\nof the first family which settled in Cherry Valley.\\nAbout the time of his settlement, Mr. Lindesay became\\nacquainted with the Rev. Samiiel Dunlop, a nativeof Ireland,\\nand a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and induced him\\nby liberal offers to aid the settlement, through his influence\\nwith his countrymen at home and in this country. He con-\\nsented, and having gone to Ireland and married, he returned\\nwith his wife and a few families. From New York he came\\nimmediately to Londonderiy, where his countrymen had\\nsettled twenty years before, and which had now become a\\nthriving town. By his representations of the tract of terri-\\ntory offered for settlement on the most favorable terms, a\\nnumber of persons from Londonderry were persuaded to\\nremove to Cherry Valley. David Eamsay, William Gault,\\nJames Campbell, William Dickson, and others, with their\\nfamilies, in all about thirty persons, accompanied him to that\\nthen remote and exposed settlement, and laid the foundation\\nof a thriving colony.\\nOne of the first movements of this little band, was the\\norganization of a church under the pastoral charge of Mr.\\nDunlop, and the erection of a rude edifice of logs, in which\\nthey assembled to worship the God of their fathers. In his\\nown house. Mr. Dunlop opened a classical school, and there\\neducated some young men, who afterwards, and especially\\nduring the Revolution, acted conspicuous parts. It is worthy\\nof especial remembrance, that in this Valley, and principally", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0277.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "196 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nby individuals from Loridonderry, tlie first regular society\\nwas organized for religioiis worshij) in the Englisli language,\\nand the first classical school established in central or western\\nNew York.\\nThe conduct of these emigrants from Ireland, in the estab-\\nlishment of churches and schools, is the best evidence of the\\nspirit with which the foundations of their settlements were\\nlaid. Virtue and knowledge, the two great pillars of repub-\\nlican institutions, were uniformly the object of their pursuit.\\nThus did this colony seek to plant in the very centre of the\\nwilderness, the seeds of Christianity and civilization. Their\\nnumbers were small, their means were limited, but their aim\\nwas noble, and their enterprise ultimately successful.\\nSettlements were not tlien, as riow, thrown forward with\\nsuch rapidity that a frontier hamlet of to-day becomes a city,\\nwith a densely peopled country around it, to-morrow. On\\nthe contrary, the encroachments upon the wilderness, and\\nupon the home of the red man, previous to the Revolution,\\nwere made slowly, and with great caution, and the increase\\nof these frontier settlements was very slow; so that in 1752,\\ntwelve years after the first settlement of Cherry Yalley,\\nthere were but eight families in the place. In 1765, they\\nhad increased to forty families. The slow increase of this\\nand other frontier settlements, was owing in a great degree\\nto the long and bloody wars between England and France\\nduring this period. The battle-field was transferred from\\nEurope to America, and the contest fpr national supremacy\\nwas maintained with renewed vigor amid the forest homes of\\nour fathers, and upon their inland seas. ]Most of the Indian\\ntribes at the north, allured away by the French Jesuits, and\\nby the liberal jDresents of the French monarch, took up the\\nhatcliet against the English and Americans. Hence the\\nfrontier inhabitants were kept under constant apprehension\\nand though the settlement of Cherry Yalley escaped destruc-\\ntion, yet the inhabitants were called into service, and ex-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0278.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF CHERRY VALLET. 197\\nchanged the peaceful pursuits of agriculture for the exeite-\\nnients and dangers of the camp, and were engaged in distant\\nand hazardous expeditions.\\nWhen the war of the Revokition commenced, Cherry\\nValley was still a frontier settlement, and its citizens early\\nembraced the colonial cause. This region seems early in the\\nprogress of the war to have been marked out for destruc-\\ntion, and the settlement of Cherry Valley, after repeated\\nalarms, was destined to share the common fate of the frontier\\nhamlets of New York. The llth of November, 1778, has\\nbeen rendered memorable by the sacrifices, and sufiferings?\\nand death of many of the early settlers of this Valley. On\\nthis day, the place was attacked by the savage foe. Between\\nthirty and forty of the inhabitants were killed others were\\nretained as hostages, or prisoners, to be borne away through\\nthe wilderness to take up their abode with the savages, and\\nto suffer a tedious and dreadful captivity. All the houses\\nin the place were burned, and the inhabitants who escaped\\nabandoned the settlement. This destruction of the settle-\\nment closed the revolutionary drama at Cherry Valley.\\nAt the close of the Bevolution, and when peace was once\\nmore restored, the remnant of the inhabitants returned to\\ntheir former homes but war, and disease, and poverty had\\ndone their fearful work and many a onc\u00c2\u00a7 familiar face was\\nnever again seen around the domestic hearth.\\nIn 1784, a few log-houses were built by the inhabitants\\nwho had returned to their former homes. The long and\\nbloody war through which they had passed had thinned their\\nranks, and whitened the heads and furrowed the cheeks of\\nthe survivors. They had once more a home, but it was\\nagain a forest home. A few log-huts had been built, but\\nthere was no building in the settlement wliere the inhabitants\\ncould assemble together. They met, therefore, like their\\nfathers, under the open heavens. The place where they gath-\\nered was hallowed ground. It had been set apart for the burial\\n17*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0279.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "198 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nof tlieir clead. The graves of tlieir kinclrecl and friends were\\nround about tliem. It was the pUice which had been conse-\\ncrated by their patriotism, for there stood their little fort.\\nThe inhabitants being assembled on this spot, organized\\nanew, on the 5th day of April, 1785, that Presbyterian\\nsociety which has continued to this day. Their beloved\\npastor, Rev. Samuel Dunlop, whom many of them had fol-\\niowed to this place, was gone. He had rainistered for nearly\\nforty years to the early settlers. At the time of the mas-\\nsacre, his family were slain. He alone with one danghter\\nescaped. Under the protection of an Indian chief, he stood\\nand beheld the destruction of his earthly hopes, his home\\nand the homes of his friends melting away with the flames.\\nHe survived the massacre but a short time. The misfortunes\\nof that day, carried down his grey hairs with sorrow to the\\ngrave.\\nThe first regular pastor over the newly organized society\\nwas the Rev. Dr. Nott, now president of Union College.\\nThe population soon increased, and numbers of the desccnd-\\nants of the little band who went out from Londonderry, and\\nthere fixed their abode, still reside in that Yalley, while\\notliers have contributed to swell that western tide which is\\nspreading its population over more distant portions of the\\nland. Among these, many in the various pursuits of life,\\nand in the learned professions, have been distinguished for\\ncharacter and usefulness.\\nOf the first settlers, the late Col. Samuel Campbell was\\nthe last survivor. He was a true patriot and an excel-\\nlent citizen. He served in the French war, and was Avith\\nSir William Johnson at Fort Edward, in 1757, at the time\\nof the massacre at Fort William Hcnry. Duriug the stormy\\nperiod of the Revolution he was an active and e\u00c3\u00bcicient friend\\nof his country, and, at its close, found himself stripped of most\\nof his property. At the massacre and conflagration of the\\ntown, his family, with the exception of himself and his eldest", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0280.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF CHEIITIY VALLEY. 199\\nson, were taken and carried into captivity. His wife and\\nchildren were for a long time detained as prisoners among\\nthe Indians in Canada, but were at length exchanged. Again\\nMr. Campbell commenced his laborious life, and lived to see\\na large and prosf)eroiis family around him. He was born in\\nLondondeny, and was three years old when his father re-\\nmoved from that place. He closed his eventful life in 1824,\\nat the age of eighty-six. Others, descendants of these\\nsettlers, are mentioned with honor by the historian of this\\nsettlement as Col. Samuel Clyde, John Moor, Robert Mc-\\nKean, the Gaults, the Dicksons, the Ramseys, and Wilsons,\\nnames familiar to the natives of Londonderry. They were\\nsterling men, with strong and vigorous intellects, and tried\\nprinciples. They have all been indeed gathered to their\\nresting-places, and the clods of the valley are over them, to\\nbe removed only at the general resurrection, but they have\\nleft their impression on the community, the foundation of\\nwhich they there laid.\\nThe foUowing incident was related a few years since to a\\ngentleman from Londonderry, who visited Cherry Yalley, by\\nMrs. Clyde, tlien living in the place.\\nAt the time of the massacre, to which we have referred,\\nSamuel Clyde, a native of Windham, N. H., and his wife,\\nwhose maiden name was Thornton of Londonderry, with a\\nyoung family, resided about a mile west of the main settlement.\\nThey were aroused in the night by the sound of musketry\\nand the shouts of Lidians. Mr. Clyde seized his gun and\\nproceeded to the defence of the settlement. Mrs. Clyde, with\\nan infant but two Aveeks old, and several small children, fled\\nto the woods. The snow falling fast at the time, providen-\\ntially covered their tracks. Having found a secreted place\\nin a thicket, she lay down with her little ones on the snow\\nand was soon covered by it, some inches deep. In this situa-\\ntion, she passed the dreary night, and could distinctly liear the\\ndying shrieks of the slaughtered inhabitants, mingled with the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0281.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "200 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nslioiits of tlie murderous savage. The husband haviiig escaped,\\nreturned in the morning to his dweiling, vvhich, thougli spared\\nfrom the flaines that had consumed the settlement, was desert-\\ned hy his family. By the aid of neighbors, and the sounding\\nof horns, his wife and children were at lengtli discovered, and\\nreturned to their habitation, the snow having afforded them\\nsecurity and a covering. And now, said the venerable\\nwoman, I am eighty-four years old, and the infant of two\\nweeks, then at my breast, is this my son, Col. Clyde, just\\nreturned from the State convention at Albany, and this my\\nelder son, Esquire Clyde, can attest from memory to the\\ntruth of the statement.\\nNOVA SCOTIA.\\nAbout the year 1760, a number of families emigrated from\\nLondonderry to Nova Scotia, and settled in Truro, soon\\nafter its evacuation by the French. Among these first set-\\ntlers, were James, Thomas, Samuel, and David Archibald\\n(brothers), Matthew Taylor, who married a sister of the\\nArchibalds, and William Fisher Samuel Fisher, a nephew\\nof William, joined the company a few years afterwards.\\nOther emigrants foliowed from time to time. Their descend-\\nants became numerous and respectable, and settled in the\\nsurrounding towns as Pictou, Stewiacke, Musquodobit, and\\nSt. Mary s. We have been able to obtain no particular\\nInformation respecting this colony, except it be in reference\\nto the Archibald and Fisher families.\\nWilliam Fisher, senior, was a highly respectable and\\nuseful man. He represented the township of Truro in the\\nGeneral Assembly held in the province. Several of the Archi-\\nbalds are somewhat distinguished as having held important\\npublic offices. David Archibald, Ist, was magistrate and major\\nin the militia while his sons Robert and Samuel surveyed\\nthe township, and were the principal managers in its settle-\\nment one of whom was not only a magistrate, but a judge", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0282.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "EMIGRATION TO NOVA SCOTIA. 201\\nof tlie court. No less than eigliteen of this name, descend-\\nants of the first settlers wlio went from this town, have held\\nhigh and responsible situations in the several departments of\\ngovernment as magistrates, representatives, judges, and\\nmilitary officers.\\nSamuel G. W. Archibald, LL. D., son of Samuel, and\\ngrandson of David, the first settler, was first Jiidge of Pro-\\nbate, then member and speaker of the General Assembly,\\nthen attorney-general, and governor of King s College, and\\nthen Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and Master of the\\nRolls. He was, without dispute, considered the greatest\\npolitieian and the most talented public speaker which the\\nprovince ever produced. He has three sons, who are bar-\\nristers one a director of the Commercial Bank, London\\nanother, attorney-general of Newfoundland.\\nThe Archibalds of Nova Scotia are generally not only\\npeople of respectable standing in society, but a very large\\nproportion of the adults are consistent and zealous professors\\nand supporters of religion. The same may be said of most\\nof the emigrants from this town to that place, and of their\\ndescendants. More uniformly than almost any other of the\\ncolonies from Londonderry, have they adliered, not only to\\nthe principles, but to the religious order of their ancestors.*\\nThey are, almost without an exception, Presbyterian, and\\nmaintain in their public worship many of the forms practised\\nin Scotland and Ireland by their fathers. They have never\\nadmitted any change in their sacred psalmody. The psalms\\nof David, in their most literal translation, are used in their\\nworship in the singing of which the congregation unite.\\nSucli has been the influence of this first colony in that\\nprovince, that a greater portion of the churches in the sev-\\neral townships are Presbyterian.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0283.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "202 HISTORY OF LONDONDEREY.\\nANTRIM.\\nThe first settlement within the present limits of Antrim,\\nwas made by Phihp Rily, in 1744, who in company with his\\nfamily, after a resiclence of two years, abandoned their hab-\\nitation through fear of an Indian attack. They did not\\nreturn till 1761, after an absence of fifteen years. An ad-\\nvertisement by the Masonian proprietors, in 1766, inviting\\nyoung men to view the lands on Contoocook river, induced\\nsix young men from Londonderry to visit the place that\\nyear. They were pleased with the lands, and made some\\nsmall clearings. The next year, August, 1767, James Aiken,\\nafterwards Deacon Aiken, removed his family to that place,\\ninto a little cabin, which he had built at the time of his first\\nvisit. He was one of the six who had previously visited the\\nplace, and expected soon to be foliowed by his associates\\nbut on learning that the proprietors would not give them\\neach a lot of land, three of them abandoned the enterprise,\\nand the other two did not come till some years afterwards.\\nDeacon Aiken suffered many privations. His nearest neigh-\\nbor on the west, was at Walpole. William Smith removed\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2his family there in 1771, and was foliowed the next year by\\nRandal Alexander, John Gordon, and Maurice Lynch. John\\nDuncan, Esq., removed with his family to Antrim, Sept.,\\n1773, making the seventh in the place. Within the three suc-\\nceeding years the foUowing persons made settlements there\\nAlexander Jameson, James Duncan, Joseph Boyd, Matthew\\nTempleton, James Dickey, Daniel McFarland, James\\nMcAlister, James and Samuel Moor, Thomas Stuart,\\nRobert Burns, and David McClary, all from Londonderry,\\nor its vicinity.\\nApril, 1775, brought the alarm of the battle at Lexington.\\nAlthough the whole population amounted to only one hun-\\ndred and seventy-seven souls, yet a company of sixteen men,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0284.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF ANTRI3I. 203\\nraised and commanded by Captain Duncan, marched the\\nnext morning for the sc\u00c3\u00a8ne of action, foliowed by Captain\\nSmith, with a load of provisions, one man only remaining in\\ntown. At Tyngsborough, they were met by General Stark,\\nwho warmly commended their patriotism, but informed\\nthem that there were men enough under arms near Boston,\\nand advised them to return, plant their corn, and wait till\\ntheir services became indispensable.\\nThe first sermon preached in the place was delivered\\nSeptember, 1775, by Rev. Mr. Davidson of Londonderry, in\\nDeacbn Aiken s barn.\\nJames and Samuel Moor built a grist-mill in 1776, on the\\nNorth Branch, now known as Wallace Mills. This was a\\ngreat accommodation to the inhabitants. The same season,\\nJames Aiken and Joseph Boyd erected a saw-mill where\\nJohnson s Mills now stand.\\nThe town was incorporated March 22, 1777, in compli-\\nance with a petition from.the inhabitants, and called Antrim,\\nafter the county of that name in Ireland, whence the ances-\\ntors of some of the first settlers had emigrated to London-\\nderry. It had at the time twenty-three freeholders, a few\\nof whom were single men, who paid one shilling each toward\\nthe expense of the corporation. In the autumn of this year,\\nseveral of the inhabitants marched at different times to the\\nwestward, some of whom fought in the battle of Bennington,\\nunder General Stark. A still larger number were present\\nat the surrender of the British army, under General Bur-\\ngoyne.\\nWithin three years succeeding the date of the incorpora-\\ntion of the town, a considerable nmnber of additional families\\nestablished themselves there, among whom were Daniel\\nNichols, Jonathan Nesmith, Samuel and Benjamin Gregg,\\nDaniel Miltimore, James Carr, Tristram Cheney, James and\\nSamuel Dinsmore, William McDole, William Boyd, John\\nGilmore, and James Steele.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0285.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "204\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nPrior to 1778 there had been no preaching in the town,\\nexcept for a few Sabbaths bj neighboring ministers, gratui-\\ntously. At the March meeting in that year, thirty-two\\ndollars were voted, and in July twenty more, for the support\\nof preaching. From this time the people procured some\\nsupply of ministerial service each year, as they feit able.\\nThey placed a high value on Christian institutions, and made\\nsj^irited efForts to sustain them. A school of twelve scholars,\\nthe first one kept in town, was tauglit by John Dinsmore, at\\nDeacon Aiken s, in the winter of 1778-9.\\nIn August, 1780, the town voted an invitation to Mr. James\\nMiltimore, of Londonderry, to become their pastor, with a\\nsalary of two hundred and thirty-three dollars and a lot of\\nland. Mr. Miltimore declined the invitation, and afterwards\\nbecame minister, first of Stratham, and then of a parish\\nin Newbury, Mass. He however continued to preach in\\nAntrim a few Sabbaths each year, till 1783.\\nThe first meeting-house was raised June 28, 1785. Col.\\nWilliam Gregg, of Londonderry, celebrated for the distin-\\nguished part lie bore at the battle of Bennington, was the\\nmaster-workman. The house was not completed till 1791.\\nPrior to this time, religious meetings had been held chiefly\\nin barns, and town meetings in private houses. The first\\nstore of foreign goods in the place was opened in 1787, by\\nEbenezer Kimball.\\nIn 1788, measures were taken for the organization of a\\nchurch. At a legal town meeting held early this year, the\\ntown, in consideration of their destitute state, as to religious\\nordinances, appointed an agent to attend the next session of\\nthe presbytery of Londonderry, at Peterborough, and request\\nthem to organize a church here. That body appointed the\\nRev. William Morrison, of Londonderry, to visit the place\\nfor this purpose. He went, accordingly, and oi ganized,\\nAugust 3, a Presbyterian church, consisting of about sixty-\\nfive members. Three persons were then elected ruling", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0286.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF ANTRIM. 203\\nelders by the congregation. In August following, the sacra-\\njneiit of the Lord s supper was adrainistered by the Rev. Mr*\\nMorrisoii, for the first time in this place.\\nSeveral attempts were afterwards made to settle a minis-\\nter, but unsuccessfully till 1800, when Mr. Walter Little was\\nordained as pastor of the church. He remained but four\\nyears, being dismissed in 1804. The people were then des-\\ntitute of a stated minister till September 28, 1808, when the\\nRev. John M. Whiton, the present pastor, was ordained.\\nThe church consisted at this period of about one hundred\\nand twenty-seven resident members, and had twelve elders,\\nnine having been added to the original number, soon after\\nthe ordination of Mr. Little. During thirty years succeed-\\ning the Rev. Mr. Whiton s connection with the church, three\\nhundred and thirty-eight persons were added.\\nThe spotted fever made its appearance in the town Feb.,\\n1812, and spread with such rapidity that, in two months,\\nthere were two hundred cases, and about forty deaths.\\nIn 1816, there was an increased attention to religion. The\\nwork was silent and gradual, continued two years, and was\\nlasting and happy in its effects more tlian fifty persons, as\\nthe result, were added to the church.\\nIn 1826, a new meeting-house was erected. It was dedi-\\ncated on the fifteenth of November. Several citizens in the\\neast part of the town, dissatisfied with the location of the\\nnew house of worship, united with others in Deering and\\nSociety Land, and built, the same year, the East meeting-\\nhouse.\\nThe year 1827 was distinguished by a remarkable atten-\\ntion to religion, and resul ted in the addition of one hundred\\npersons to the Presbyterian church.\\nSeveral persons, natives of this town, have received a\\ncollegiate education, and have been distinguished in their\\nseveral professions. The first was John Nichols, missionary\\n18", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0287.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "206 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nto India. He died near Bombay, 1824, liaving been for\\nseven years a devoted laborer among the heathen.\\nThe fathers, where are they Alas none of the first\\nsettlers, and but few of the first generation, remain. But\\nfew of the countenances, said the beloved pastor of this\\npeople, in his anniversary discourse, in 1838, that appeared\\nin our sanctuary thirty years ago, are now to be seen. There\\nhas risen up here, generally speaking, a new church and a\\nnew congregation. The exit of our predecessors reminds us\\nthat to us death and judgment are approaching. Our only\\nark of refuge is Christ.\\nA C W O R T H\\nThe original church, now the Presbyterian church in\\nDerry, formed by the first company of settlers, may be\\njustly regarded as the hive from which have gone forth the\\nswarms which have formed the other churches in the pres-\\nbytery. It also contributed to the organization of other\\nchurches, more remote, which in consequence of their situ-\\nation, became Congregational in their form of government.\\nAmong these were Acworth in this State, and Coleraine, Ms.\\nAcworth received its charter in 1766, being in the sixth\\nyear of the reign of George the Third, though it was not\\nperraanently settled until the summer of 1768. In this year,\\nthree families, Samuel Harper, William Keyes, and John\\nRodgers, with some other individuals, principally from Lon-\\ndonderry, effected a permanent settlement. The year aft er,\\nsome families came in from Windham, and Ashford, Conn.\\nThe first town-meeting was held March 12, 1771.\\nAs the settlement of the town took place at the time of the\\ncommencement of the difTiculties which brought on the Amer-\\nican Revolution, its advancement in wealth and population\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was very mucli retarded. The oj^pression of those days was\\nfeit in every nook and corner of the land. No man at that", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0288.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OP ACWORTH. 207\\nday could for any length of time sit quietly uncler his own\\nvine and fig-tree. War was in the land, and all the available\\nstrength was needed to answer its demands. After the Rev-\\nolution, additional families removed from Londonderry to\\nthis town,\\nThe present Congregational church was organized March\\n12, 1773. On that raemorable day, which was observed\\nwith fasting and prayer, the little Christian band was formed,\\nconsisting of eight souls. The ministers who assisted were\\nRev. Bulkley Olcott and Rev. George Wheaton. The plan\\nof church government, which was adopted in 1781, and is\\nfound highly conducive in its practical results to the inter-\\n\u00c2\u00absts of the church, combines a mixture of the Congregational\\nand Presbyterian systems.\\nRev. Thomas Archibald, of Londonderry, was ordained\\nover this people November 11, 1789. The church at this\\ntime contained fifty-eight members. During his ministry,\\nwhich continued four years, ten were added to the church,\\nHe was dismissed June 14, 1794 The town was destitute\\nof a minister at this time just three years. Rev. John Kim-\\nball became the pastor of this people June 14, 1797. The\\nchurch then contained about sixty members. During his\\nministry, which continued sixteen years, sixty-four were\\nadded to the church. By mutual consent, he was dismissed\\nMay 4, 1813.\\nRev. Phineas Cook was ordained their pastor September\\n7, 1814. The church at this time contained about seventy\\nmembers. At the end of three years, the church increased\\nto two hundred and twelve. In 1821, a new and commodious\\nmeeting-house was built in that town. In March, 1829, Rev.\\nMr. Cook was dismissed from his charge in this place, and\\nsoon after installed over the Congregational church in\\nLebanon, N. H. Rev. Moses Grosvenor was settled over\\nthis church and society, October 14, 1829, and was dismissed\\nApril 25, 1832, Rev. Joseph Merrill was settled October", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0289.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "208 HISTORY OF LONDONDERKY.\\n16, 1833, and was dismissed July 11, 1838. Rev. Thomas\\nEdwards was settled August 19, 1841, and was dismissed\\nFebruary 16, 1843. The present pastor, Rev. E. S. Wright,\\nW-as settled January 7, 1846. The church now consists of\\none hundred and eighty-one members.\\nCHARTER VI.\\nBlOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. WiLLIAM ADAMS, RUFUS ANDERSON,\\nROBERT BARTLEY, JOHN BELL, SAMUEL FISHER, WILLIAM GREGG,\\nJARVIS GREGG, SAMUEL LIVERMORE, JOSEPH m kEEN, JOHN\\nm mDRPHY, JOHN PRENTICE, GEORGE REID, ROBERT ROGERS, JOHN\\n8TARK, SAMUEL TAGGART, ISAAC THOM, MATTHEW THORNTON, AND\\nJAMES WILSON. GeNEALOGICAL SKETCHES OF THE FAMILIES\\nOF WILLIAM ADAMS, EDWARD AIKEV, JAMES ANDERSON, JOHN\\nANDERSON, JOHN BELL, JAMES CLARK, ROBERT CLARK, JOHN\\nCROMBIE, SAMUEL DICKEY, GEORGE DUNCAN, SAMUEL ELA,\\nROBERT GILMORE, JAMES GREGG, DAVID GREGG, ABRAHAM HOLMES,\\nJOHN aiACK, JAMES MACGREGOR, ALEXANDER m cOLLOM, JAMES\\nm kEEN, JOHN m kEEN, JOHN MORRISON, JAMES NESMITH, PETER\\nPATTERSON, JOHN PINKERTON, HUGH RANKIN, JAMES REID,\\nMATTHEW TAYLOR, ANDREW TODD, JOHN AND THOMAS WALLAGE,\\nTHOMAS WALLAGE, AND JOHN WOODBURN.\\nIt was remarked, in a former chapter, that a large\\nnumber of the early settlers of Londonderry, and of their\\ndescendants, have honorably distinguished themselves, and\\nhave held high offices of trust. Six of them have filled the\\ngubernatorial chair of New Ilampshire, namely, Matthew\\nThornton, who was president of the Provincial Congress, in\\n1775, Jeremiah Smith, Samuel Bell, John Bell, Samuel\\nDinsmoor, and Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. Nine have been mem-\\nbers of Congress from New Hampshire, namely, Matthew\\nThornton, member of the Old Congress, and signer of the\\nDeclaration of Independence, Samuel Bell, senator, Jeremiah", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0290.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 209\\nSmith, Sllas Betton, James Wilson, Samuel Dinsmoor,\\nSamiiel Smitli, James Wilson, Jr., and George W. Morrison,\\nrepresentatives. Five have been appointed justices of the\\nSuperior Coiirt of Judicature for New Hampshire, namely,\\nJeremiah Smith, Chief Justice, Matthew Thornton, Jonathan\\nSteele, Samuel Bell, and Samuel D. Bell. The names of\\ngenerals John Stark, George Reid, James Miller, and John\\nMcNeil, of colonels Andrew Todd, William Gregg, and\\nDaniel Reynolds, and of Major Robert Rogers, suf\u00c3\u00aficiently\\nprove that they have contributed their full share to the mili-\\ntary achievements and glory of their country. No attempt\\nwill be made to enumerate those who have attained dis-\\ntinction in other States, or in professional life.\\nThe following are a few biographical notices of some\\nof the early settlers, or of their descendants, who were\\nprominent, either by reason of their public services, or their\\ninfluence in the town. They include, however, only those\\nwho were residents or natives of the town, as a different\\ncourse would extend the chapter much beyond its assigned\\nlimits. Notices of many distinguished individuals will be\\nfound in connection with the genealogical sketches of their\\nrespective families.\\nWILLIAM ADAMS.\\nHon. William Adams, the son of James, the eldest son of\\nWilliam Adams, who was one of the early settlers of Lon-\\ndonderry, was born February 6, 1755. When a youth, be\\nentered with patriotic zeal the army of the Revolution. On\\nthe first alarm, that hostilities had commenced, he enroUed\\nhimself in the military company from this town, commanded\\nby Captain George Reid, and was in the battle of Bunker\\nHill. He served during several campaigns, and was engaged\\nin the battle of Bennington. He there received a severe\\nwound a musket-ball entered his body near the shoulder,\\nbut did not prove fatal. After leaving the army, he was\\n18*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0291.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "210 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nappointed to the command of a regiment of militia, which\\noffice he held several years. In early life he united with the\\nchnrch, and was elected a ruling elder the duties of which\\noffice he faithfully discharged. His judgment and his influ-\\nence, in all matters touching the discipline and government\\nof the church, were highly valued by his venerated and\\nbeloved pastor, Rev. Dr. Morrison.\\nColonel Adams took an active and decided part in the\\ncivil and political movements which marked the earlier\\nperiod of our government. He not only sustained for many\\nyears the more imjDortant offices of the town, and was influ-\\nential in the direction of its affairs, but was repeatedly chosen\\nto represent his fellow-townsmen, in General Court and\\nwas for several years a member of the Senate. He was a\\nstern and bold reprover of vice, in all its manifestations, a\\nsteadfast supporter of religious institutions, and an intel-\\nligent and zealous defender of evangelical truth. He pos-\\nsessed strongly-marked traits of intellectual and moral\\ncharacter, was distinguished for strength \u00c2\u00abf mind, firmness\\nof purpose, and unwavering adherence to religious principle,\\nin the discharge of duty. He may be justly regarded as\\nhaving been one of the fathers of the town.\\nHe married Janet Taylor, February 6, 1733. He died in\\nOctober, 1828, and his widow died in the foUowing Decem-\\nber. They had three children an infant, tliat lived but a\\nfew hours, a daughter Mary, who, in 1821, married elder\\nJohn Holmes, and a son James, who was born November 7,\\n178.5, and died April 15, 1817. He was a young man of\\ngreat promise. Possessing an ardent thirst for knowledge,\\nhe entered upon a course of education, and graduated at\\nDartmouth College, in 1813. On leaving college, he took\\ncharge of the academy at Ilampton, N. H. He there com-\\nmenced the study of theology, with Rev. Mr. Webster, tlien\\nminister of that town. He feit a stronj\u00c3\u00af desire to enjxaj\u00c3\u00afe in\\nthe work of the ministry, had nearly completed his course", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0292.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 211\\nof preparation, and the time was fixed for his examination\\nand licensure, when he was attaeked with sickness, wliich\\nterminated in consumption, and closed his life and promised\\nusefuhiess in the church below.\\nRUFUS ANDERSON.\\nThe ancestors of Rufus Anderson came from the north\\nof Ireland. His grandfather, James Anderson, w^as one\\nof the sixteen first settlers of Londonderiy. He had five\\nsons and two daughters. James, the third son, married\\nNancy Woodburn for his first wife and by her he had\\neight children. His second wife was widoAV Elizabeth Bar-\\nnett, and by her he had four children. Kufus, a son of\\nNancy Woodburn, was born March 5, 1765, and was a little\\nmore than two years old at the time of his mother s death.\\nHis motlier, a half-sister of Mrs. George Reid, who was so\\ngenerally known and highly respected, is reputed to have\\nbeen a very godly woman, and having devoted Rufus to the\\nministry of the gospel, she obtained, on her deathbed, a\\npromise from his fath\u00c3\u00a9r, that he should be edueated for that\\nwork. Bilt his father s second marriage, which added four\\nmore childreii to the family, interposed almost insuperable\\ndifficulties in the way of his obtaining a liberal education.\\nIn the year 1783, when eighteen years of age, he became a\\nmember of the Presbyterian church in Londonderry, then\\nunder the care of the Rev. Mr. Morrison. It was with Mr.\\nMorrison he commenced his preparation for college, attend-\\ning to the secular affairs of his instructor as a return for\\nboard and tuition. His preparatory studies w^ere completed,\\nhowever, with the late Dr. Wood, of Boscawen, N. H., and\\nfor that excellent man he ever cherished a grateful affection,\\nas their correspondence of raany years doubtless would show.\\nMy father, says his son, Rev. Rufus Anderson, of Boston,\\nrecords in his private journal, that his available funds, when\\nhe entered Dartmouth College, in 1787, w^ere only three-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0293.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nfourths of a dollar. I infer from letters addressed to liim in\\nafter life, by Dr. Wheelock, that he secured while in college\\nthe respect and esteem of the president. He was graduated\\nin 1791. I SLippose my father s pecuniary necessities in col-\\nlege were no worse than those of many of liis contempora-\\nries but I am afFected to think of him as driving before him,\\nfrom Londonderry to Hano^ ^r, on foot, two cows, which his\\nfather had given him towards his college expenses or carry-\\ning homespun cloth to sell in one of the large seaports or\\nfinding his way, sixty years ago, to the then distant town of\\nSaco, in Maine, to keep school, and receiving his pay in\\nthings not easily converted into money. But he appears to\\nhave been less in debt when he graduated than is frequently\\nthe case with young men of our day, and from this indebted-\\nness he contrived soon to relieve himself.\\nAfter spending a short time in the study of theology, in\\nBeverly, Mass. Avith his brother-in-law, Rev. Joseph McKeen,\\nhe was licensed to preach the gospel some time in 1792. In\\nthe following year, he received two invitations to settle in\\nMaine, one from Parsonsfield, which he declined, the other\\nfrom the second parish in North Yarmouth, which he\\naccepted. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev.\\nMr. McKeen, from 1 Timothy, 4: 16, Take heed unto thy-\\nself, and unto the doctrine. Mr. Anderson records in his\\nJournal on the occasion, gratitude for a united parish, a\\nunited church, and a united council.\\nOn the 8th of September, 1795, Mr. Anderson was\\nmarried to Hannah, second daughter of Isaac Parsons, Esq.,\\nof New Gloucester, Me. She possessed a cultivated mind,\\nand a truly Christian spirit humility, patience, love to the\\npeople of God, and rare prudence, are said to have been her\\nprominent graces. She died at North Yarmouth, July 14,\\n1803, scarcely eight years after her marriage, leaving three\\nsons, Rufus, Isaac, and James. The two younger lived to\\ngraduatc at Bowdoin College, and both died soon after of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0294.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 213\\nconsumption the former at Beverly, 1818, the latter in\\nCharleston, S. C, 1823. Of Isaac, an interesting memoir\\nwas published soon after his death. He was a young man\\nof most promising talents and of devoted piety.\\nRufus, the eldest son (Rev. Dr. Anderson, Secretary of\\nthe A. B. C. F. M.), has for many years been the only sur-\\nvivor of the family. He also graduated at Bowdoin College,\\nduring the presidency of Dr. Appleton. For many years the\\nfather was a member of the Board of Overseers of this\\ncollege.\\nMr. Anderson, on entering upon his charge at North\\nYarmoLith, devoted himself unreservedly to the work of the\\nministry. He was a man for work, and he was a man for\\nprayer. His liabit was to pray in secret three times a day.\\nHe had that indispensable requisite in a minister, an earnest\\ndesire to save souls. He labored in season and out of sea-\\nson, especially with the youthful portion of his people. Nor\\ndid he labor in vain. Not only did many give evidence of\\nderiving spiritual prolit from his labors while he was with\\nthem, but an extensive revival, which occurred soon after his\\ndismission, was regarded as mainly the result of his instru-\\nmentality. The inadequacy of his support, and the necessity\\nof some change for the benefit of his health, led him to ask\\na dismission, after a ^ettlement of almost ten years. This\\nwas very reluctantly granted, in September, 1804.\\nMr. Anderson s next pastoral charge, in which he re-\\nmained till his death, was in Wenham, Mass. He was\\ninducted into this new relation on the lOth of June, 1805.\\nA short time before his removal from North Yarmouth, he was\\nmarried to Elizabeth Lovett, of Beverly, who survived him\\na number of years, and died in her native place, in 1820.\\nThis removal to Wenham was doubtless the means under\\nGod of prolonging his life. His new situation combined, in\\na far higher degree than did the place of his former resi-\\ndence, the things which he then needed, in order to enjoy", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0295.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "214 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\neven tolerable Iiealtli. A revival of religion in the year\\n1810, greatly rejoiced liis heart, but he never recovered frora\\nthe effects of the extraordinaiy labors Avhich were necessa-\\nrily put forth at that time. A consumption gradually fastened\\nupon him, though he continued to preach till near the close\\nof the year 1813. As he perceived the design of his gra-\\ncieus Lord to remove him, he became more sensitive to the\\nthings of the heavenly world. 1 remember, remarks his\\nson, his being so overcome, one morning when on his knees\\nengaged in the family devotions, that he could not proceed.\\nHis social afFections were ever strong, and he had some\\nfriendships among his ministerial brethren which were pecu-\\nliarly dear. The dearest and most intimate of them all was\\nwith Dr. Samuel Worcester, of Salem, Mass., well known as\\nthe First Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of\\nCommissioners for Foreign Missions. This high fraternal\\nregard was fully reciprocated. As two or three of Dr. Wor-\\ncester s brothers had departed somewhat from the orthodox\\nviews of the person and offices of Christ, Mr. Anderson,\\nshortly before his departure, and while yet able to converse\\nfreely, requested an interview with Dr. Worcester, and spent\\na long time with him in his study after which he was heard\\nto say, with great emphasis, to his wife, as he came out of\\nhis study, All is right Samuel is safe! It was this\\ninterview, probably, which induced Dr. Worcester to select\\nthe Deity of Christ, as*a subject for the sermon which he\\npreached at his funeral.\\nMr. Anderson died on the llth of February, 1814, when\\nhe had nearly completed his forty-ninth year. His funeral\\nwas numerously attended, and the sermon preached by Dr.\\nWorcester on the occasion, from 2 Timothy, 1 12, was after-\\nwards published, and contains a glowing description of his\\ncharacter and worth. The prcaclier closed his memorial of\\nhis departed friend by sa^ing, Might an expression of per-\\nsonal feeling be indulged, I would say, I am distressed for", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0296.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 215\\nthee, my brother Anderson veiy pleasant hast tliou been\\nimto me.\\nMr. Anderson published two fast sermons in the jear\\n1802, designed more particiilarly to resist the ingress of\\nFrench infidelity and licentiousness. In 1805 and 1806, he\\npublished two pamphlets, directed against the distinetive\\nprinciples of the Baptists. They show a discriminating\\nmind, and a clear apprehension of the subjects of which he\\nwas treating. He also published a primer for children. At\\nthe close of his life, he was preparing an historical work on\\nmodern missions to the heathen a subject which had then\\nbegun to attract the attention of the American churches, and\\nhad secured his warmest interest. The outline of the work\\nwas drawn up, and various materials collected, which are\\nnow in the hands of his son, Dr. Anderson. As Dr. Ander-\\nson was employed by his honored father to transcribe these\\ndocuments, it served not only to give him thus early some\\nknowledge of the field to which Providence afterwards\\nassigned him, and where he has labored so long and so effi-\\ncently, as Secretary of the American Board for Foreign\\nMissions, but to enlist his feelings deeply in the work of\\nChristian Missions, an object so dear to the heart of his\\nvenerated parent, who lived to see only the dawn of the long-\\npredicted and desired day.\\nROBERT BARTLEY.\\nRobert Bartley, M. D., was born June 13, 1759, in the\\ncounty of Armagh, in the north of Ireland. His parents\\nwere of Scotch orio:in, and his father was an elder in the\\nPresbyterian church. Dr. Bartley received his collegiate\\neducation at the Dublin university in Ireland, and his pro-\\nfessional education at the university of Edinburgh. At each\\nof these institutions he completed the regular course of\\ninstruction, and received his medical diploma in the year\\n1784. The two subsequent years he spent as assistant in", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0297.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "216 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\ndifferent liospitals, in the city of London. He afterwards\\nserved, for a year or two, in the capacity of surgeon s mate,\\nin a British man-of-war. He carae to America about the\\nyear 1790, and settled in Londonderry, about two years\\nafterwards, where he piirsued the practice of his profession\\nfor the remainder of his life. He was highly esteemed as a\\nphysician, and had a very extensive practice. He died in\\nNovember, 1820. He Icft several children, among whom\\nwere Hugh, wdio succeeded his father in the practice of med-\\nicine in Londonderry, John M. C, pastor of the church in\\nHampstead, N. H., and Robert, of Windham, N. H.\\nJOHN BELL.\\nJohn Bell, born August 15, 1730, was the yoimgest of the\\nfamily of John and Elizabeth Bell. In early life, he had\\nonly such advantages of education as the common schools\\naf\u00c3\u00afbrded, which, it is needless to say, were very inconsider-\\nable. \u00c3\u00afhough not a scholar, he was through life a diligent\\nreader, and a thinking man. He married. December 21,\\n1758, Mary Ann Gilmore, a daughter of James Gilmore\\nand Jean Baptiste, and a granddaughter of Robert Gilmore\\nand Mary Kennedy, who were early settlers in Londonderry.\\nShe was thought to possess much personal beauty in early\\nlife, was a woman of great prudence and good sense, and of\\na kind and affectionate temper. They had twelve children,\\nseveral of whom died early.\\nAt the commencement of the revolutionary war. Mr. Bell\\nwas forty-five years of age, w^ith a family of eight children,\\ncircumstances which must have prevented his taking a very\\nactive part, if he had desired it, in the military moveinents\\nof the day. In the spring of 1775, he was elected town\\nclerk, and a member of the committce of safety of the town.\\nIn the autumn of that year, he was elected a member of the\\nProvincial Congress, which met at Exeter, December 21,\\n1775, and w^hich, early in 1776, resplved itself into a house", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0298.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "^^5\\n,xo^\\nM(0)Ho oIIOHM BlB\u00c3\u008f^\\nS^^^U^^^\\nn\\nFrom a skeieh takri ia ilie\\n95 year of ks age ^y to \u00c2\u00a7raiid.DU,tk lat. JofeBeil.MD", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0301.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "^1", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0302.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 217\\nof representatives, and put in operation the independent\\ngovernment of New Hampshire, under the temporarj consti-\\ntution. In the autumn of 1776, he was re\u00c3\u00ablected and\\nattended the seven sessions of the legislature which were\\nheld in 1776 and 1777, and was again a member from Dec.\\n1780 to Dec. 178]. In 1776, he was appointed a muster-\\n.master of a part of the New Hampshire troops and in\\n1780, he was appointed colonel of the eighth regiment of the\\nmilitia. p-Throughout the revolutionary struggle, he was a\\nfirm and decided whig, and much confidence was reposed by\\nthe more prominent men in the State government in his sound\\njudgment and steady support of the cause.^:i-In 1786, under\\nthe new constitution, he was elected a senator, and held the\\noffice by successive elections until June 1790, and in 1791\\nhe was elected to fill a vacancy, and served at the winter\\nsession. He was a member of the committee who succeeded\\nin effecting a comjiromise of the Masonian proprietary\\nclaim, a subject which, in its time, was a matter of great\\ninterest in the State and, before the adoption of the consti-\\ntution of 1792, he was a special justice of the Court of Com-\\nmon Pleas. He held during many years the office of mod-\\nerator, selectman, or town clerk, and discharged their duties\\nwith unquestioned integrity and good judgment. He was a\\nmagistrate, from an early period after the Declaration of\\nIndependence, until disqualified by age. He was early a\\nmember of the church, and sustained the office of elder\\nfrom 1783, until his injSrmities required him to withdraw.\\nHe was justly esteemed as a pious, devout, and sincere\\nChristian, and a steady and consistent supporter, through\\na long life, of all the institutions of religion.\\nAt the age of seventy, he determined to close his connec-\\ntion with the business of others, and ceased to act in the\\ncapacity of magistrate, and of administrator and guardian, in\\nwhich, through the esteem and confidence of his townsmen,\\nhe had been extensively engaged. He was never anxious\\n19", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0303.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "218\\nHISTORT OF LONDONDEKRT.\\nfor the aequisition of wealth, but had property enough for\\nhis moderate wants, and continued to find occupation and\\nemi^loyment in the cultivation of his farm. y He was a man\\nof large frame, six feet and one inch in height, had a pow-\\nerful voice, and great personal strength and activity, having\\nbeen for twenty years the champion in the wrestling-ring, a\\nfavorite amusement at public meetings at that day*^ He had\\nnaturally a good constitution, which, with his temperate\\nhabits, secured to him, with the exception of a single attack\\nof a rheumatic kind in middle life, almost uninterrupted\\nhealth till near the close of his ninety-fifth year. He died\\nNovember 30, 1825, having survived his wife more than\\nthree years. She died April 21, 1822, aged eighty-five.\\nSAMUEL FISHER.\\nDea. Samuel Fisher was born in the north of Ireland, in\\nthe year 1722, and was of Scottish descent. His father was\\na weaver. Dea. Fisher came to America in 1740, in the\\nnineteenth year of his age. The ship in which he came was\\nusually spoken of as The starved ship. The vessel was so*\\nscantily supplied with provision, that long before the voyage\\nwas completed, one pint of oat-meal for each individual on\\nboard, and a proportionate allowance of water, was all that\\nremained. Mr. Fisher once went to the mate with a table-\\nspoon to obtain some water, which was refused him, there\\nbeing but two-thirds of a chunk-bottle full on board. Mr.\\nFisher s custom was, to take a table-spoonful of meal daily,\\nand having moistened it with salt water, to eat it raw. The\\npassengers and crew, having subsisted in this manner for\\nfourteen days, were at length reduced to the necessity of\\neating the bodies of those who died. Even this resource\\nfailed them, and at length Mr. Fisher was selected to give\\nup his life to preserve the lives of the rest. Providen-\\ntially, however, a vessel hove in sight, and their signals\\nof distress being observed they obtained relief and were", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0304.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 219\\nsaved. So deep an impression did tlie horrors of that pas-\\nsage make upon the mind of Mr. Fisher, that, in after life, he\\ncould never see, without pain, the least morsel of food wasted,\\nor a pail of water thrown carelessly upon the ground.\\nOn his arrival in this country, he was bound by the\\ncaptain to a man in Roxbury, for the payment of his passage.\\nHe came to Londonderry, probably about one or two years\\nafter, and became a member of the family of Mr. Matthew\\nTaylor, whose daughter he married, when he was twenty-\\nfive years of age. He was made a ruling elder of the church\\nin the West Parish, during the ministry of Rev. David Mac-\\nGregor, and remained in this office until he was no longer\\nable to perform its duties on account of his age. He seemed\\nto be well instructed in the great principles of the gospel, as\\nset forth in the Westminster Catechism, and in the Confes-\\nsion of Faith of the Church of Scotland. These principles he\\ntaught diligently to his children, for whose spiritual welfare\\nhe feit a deej) solicitude.\\nOne of his grandchildren (Mrs. Dickey), writes thus of\\nhim I can only sj)eak of the impression he made on my\\nmind when visiting in his family when quite young. His\\nfamily worship was strikingly impressive. When he read a\\nportion of Scripture, he became remarkably interesting. I\\nsliall never forget his manner, in reading the chapter in\\nwhich Isaac blesses his son Jacob. It seemed as though he\\nwas the very patriarch himself. When he knelt in prayer,\\nhow deeply impressive were his devotions how arden tly\\nwould he plead the promise, I will be a God to thee, and\\nthy seed. He had a most happy faculty of improving the\\noccurrences which took place about him for the religious\\ninstruction of his family. He was a great lover of Watts\\nand Doddridge would frequently address me on the subject\\nof religion, and give me some of his books.\\nDeacon Fisher was married three times, and had twelve\\nchildren eleven of whom arrived at adult age, and ten of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0305.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "220 HISTQRT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nwhom survived him. Ten of his children were married, and\\nmost of thera lived to advanced age. The average age of\\nfour of them was ninety-one years. His descendants now\\n(1850) number nine hundred and fifteen, and are scattered\\nthrougli nearly all the States of the Union, through Nova\\nScotia, and the Canadas. Some of them are ministers, and\\nsome elders in the church. It is estimated, that three-fourths\\nof those over twenty years of age are professors of religion.\\nDeacon Fisher was, in his j: ersonal appearance, tall and\\ncommanding, and his countenance was grave and solemn, so\\nthat few would willingly be guilty of levity in his presence.\\nHe died at Londonderry, April 10, 1806, in the eighty-fourth\\nyear of his age.\\nWILLIAM GREGG.\\nWilliam Gregg was born at Londonderry, N. H., October\\n23, 1730. He was the son of Captain John Gregg, who\\nemigrated with his father. Captain James Gregg, from the\\ncounty of Antrim, Ireland, when about sixteen years of age.\\nAt the commencement of the revolutionary war, Colonel\\nGregg commanded a company of minute-men, in the town\\nof Londonderry. He joined his countrymen in Boston early\\nin the year 1775, and tarried there till more urgent calls\\nrequired his presence at home as muster-master for his regi-\\nment and a member of the committee of safety. The ensu-\\ning year he was commissioned by the council of the State as\\nmajor in the first regiment of militia raised in New Hamp-\\nshire to recruit the army at New York, where he performed\\nvarious military services and sufFered numerous privations\\nand hardships. In the year 1777, Colonel Gregg and James\\nBetton, Esq., were appointed agents to proceed to the seat\\nof government, then at Baltimore, where they obtained and\\nbrought to the New England States a large sum of money,\\nfor the purpose of prosecuting the war. After making dis-\\nbursements in New York and at Hartford, Conn., he returned\\nto Boston, and from thence to his native State, when he", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0306.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 221\\nreceived the thanks of the legislature for his services. In\\nthe same year, he sustained the commission of lieutenant-\\ncolonel in the brigade commanded by the iutrepid General\\nStark, and commanded the vanguard in the memorable\\nbattle at Bennington, where he was honored by the confi-\\ndence and approbation of that distinguished ofRcer.\\nAt the close of the war he retired to his farm, and em-\\nployed himself in the pursuits of husbandry until within a\\nfew years of his death. He died at Londonderry, Sept. 16,\\n1815, at the age of eighty-five.\\nThe leading feature in the character of Colonel Gregg\\nwas perseverance. Whatever he undertook, he saw accom-\\nplished. In the prime of life, his industry and resolution in\\nthe discharge of his affairs were unrivalled. Those who were\\nin his employ partook of the same spirit, for he went forward\\nand cheered them in the midst of severe toil with tales of\\nhigh emprise, and pleasing anecdotes. He inherited the\\nspirit of hospitality by which the emigrants of Ireland have\\nlong been signalized. His house was always the resting-\\nplace of the weary, and none left it without feasting on the\\nbounties of his board. Youth and age were delighted in his\\ncompany, and his hospitality gained him numerous friends,\\nin addition to those who esteemed and honored him for the\\ngood he had done his country.\\nJ AR VIS GREGG.\\nProf. Jarvis Gregg, son of Deacon James Gregg, of Derry,\\nN. H., was born in Derry, September, 1808. At an early\\nage he entered the Pinkerton Academy, in his native town,\\nthen, and for many years subsequent, under the charge of\\nAbel F. Hildreth, Esq. Here, while a mere lad, he became\\ngreatly distinguished for the rapidity and accuracy of his\\nacquisitions, and, at this early period, had a wide reputation\\nfor varied scholarship. He graduated at Dartmouth College\\nin 1828. He was for a time a teacher in one of the public\\n19*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0307.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "222 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nschools in Boston, and subsequently took the charge of the\\nAcademy in Boscawen, N. H. In 1833, he was appointed\\ntutor in Dartmouth College, which office he held for one\\nyear. He pursued his theological studies at Andover, Mass.,\\nwhere he graduated in 1835. While at Andover, he received\\nthe a^^pointment of professor of rhetoric and mathematics, in\\nWestern Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio. This appoint-\\nment he accepted, and entered upon his duties soon after\\nleaving Andover. The next spring he returned to New\\nEngland, and was marrieS to Miss Alice Webster, daughter\\nof Hon. Ezekiel Webster, of Boscawen, N. H., and niece of\\nHon. Daniel Webster.\\nOn Sabbath morning after his return to the place of his\\nlabors, he was attacked with the scarlet fever, and died on\\nTuesday evening, June 28, 1836, just one week after his\\nreturn to Hudson, not having been considered dangerously\\n111 more than an hour before his death. Professor Gregg was\\na young mgfti of superior abilities, of great brilliancy, of\\nextensive and varied learning, and gave promise of eminent\\nusefulness, not only in the departments of instruction to\\nwhich he had been called, but extensively in that part of\\nthe country in which he resided. Even thus early, he had\\ngained an enviable distinction as a rapid and finished writer.\\nHis style was bold, graphic, and imaginative. He wrote\\nseveral Sabbath-school books, and several articles in the\\nlarger periodicals, which were considered very able produc-\\ntions. Few young men of his age excelled him as a public\\nspeaker, possessing, as he did, in a very high degree, the\\ngraces and the power of true oratory. The writer well\\nrecoUects with what a thrill of delight and admiration his first\\nsermon was received. Two of his public addresses were\\npublished one, a Eulogy on Lafayette, delivered before the\\nstudents of Dartmouth College, another before the New\\nHampsliire State Lyceum.\\nA friend of his at the West, who knew him well, and could", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0308.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 223\\nappreciate the value of his services to the college, as vvell as\\nhis great excellence of character, says, in view of his death\\nHis loss to the college, at this crisis, will be peculiarly\\nafflictive. Although the period of his professorship had been\\nshort, he had already attained a high and enviable standing\\nand such was the suavity of his manners, and the sweet-\\nness of his disposition, that he had endeared himself to all\\nwith whom he had become acquainted, and it may with truth\\nbe said of him, None knew him but to love him, none named\\nhim but to praise.\\nSAMUEL LIVERMORE.\\nHon. Sanauel Livermore was born in Waltham, Mass., May\\n14, 1732, (o. s.) He graduated at Princeton, N. J., in 1752,\\nand studied law with Hon. Edmund Trowbridge, and was\\nadmitted to practice in 1757. The next year he established\\nhimself at Portsraouth. He married, September 22, 1759,\\nJane Brown, daughter of Rev. Arthur Brown, of Portsmouth.\\nAt what time he removed from Portsmouth to Londonderry\\nis uncertain, probably about 1765. He represented the\\ntown in the General Court in 1768, 1769, and 1770. Subse-\\nquently, probably about 1775, he removed to the town of\\nHolderness, N. H., of which town he was one of the original\\ngrantees and of which he became, by purchase, the principal\\nproprietor. In 1769, he was appointed king s attorney; in\\nthis office he remained four or five years, and after the Rev-\\nolution, he held the office of attorney-general about three\\nyears. He was a delegate to the old Congress, from Dec,\\n1779, to June, 1782. In 1782, he was appointed Chief\\nJustice of the Superior Court this office he held until 1790.\\nIn the fallof 1789, he was elected representative in Congress,\\nand in 1793, was elected to the Senate of the United States,\\nin which office he remained until declining health obliged\\nhim to resign it in 1802. He died at Holderness, May 18,\\n1803, at the age of seventy-one years. He left one daughter\\nand three sons, Edward St. Loe, Arthur, and George.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0309.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "224 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nJOSEPH MKEEN.\\nRev. Joseph McKeen, D. D., was born in Londonderry,\\nN. II., October 15, 1757. His grandfather was James Mc-\\nKeen, Esq., one of the company hy wliom the settlement of\\nthe town was commenced. His father, John McKeen, was\\nborn April 13, 1715, at Ballymony, in the county of Antrim,\\nin Ireland, being one of twenty-one children, and about four\\nyears of age when his father emigrated to this country. He\\nmarried Mary McKeen, his cousin, and had also a numerous\\nfamily. He was for many years an elder of the first Pres-\\nbyterian church in Londonderry.\\nOf seven sons, Joseph was the third. At an early age, he\\neno;ao;ed in classical studies under the tuition of Rev. Mr.\\nWilhams of Windham, N. H., and such was his proficiency,\\nthat he entered Dartmouth College in the thirteenth year of\\nhis age. Of his college life but little is known, excepting\\nthat he showed a decided predilection for mathematical\\nstudies, in which he made, while there, very respectable\\nattainments, and graduated in 1774, with the reputation of a\\ngood classical scholar. On leaving college, he engaged as a\\nschool-teacher in his native town, and continued in London-\\nderry in that employment eight years. Some time during\\nthis period, as is supposed, he united Avith the Presbyterian\\nchurch under the pastoral care of Rev. David MacGregor.\\nThe records of that church, including this period, being lost,\\nwe have no record of the event. While thus employed as a\\nteacher, he imj)roved wliat time his duties would permit, in\\nreviewing his college studies, and in extending his acquaint-\\nance with general literature.\\nMr. McKeen s labors in this employment were suspended,\\nfor a season, by the events of the revolutionary war. A\\npressing call being made for soldiers, he laid aside his pro-\\nfessional duties, and joined the army as a private soldier,\\nunder General Sulhvan, and was with that officer in his cel-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0310.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0311.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "FJRkST PR-EyiDE^JT OF BOWUOJN COLLEGE\\nDii^d Jirlv 1807. Anpfi 4 9Yrs.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0312.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 225\\nebrated retreat from Rhode Island. After concluding hia\\nengagements as a teacher, he went to Cambridge. There,\\nunder the instruction of Prof. WiUiams, he pursued a course\\nof studies in natural philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy,\\nwhich had been his favorite pursuits while an undergradu-\\nate. At the end of this course, he commenced his theologi-\\ncal studies, under the instruction of the Rev. Mr. Williams\\nof AVindhara, his former tutor and in due time was exam-\\nined and licensed as a preacher, by the Londonderry pres-\\nbytery. About this time he was employed for several terms\\nas an assistant in Phillips Academy, at Andover, Mass., then\\nunder the preceptorship of Dr. Pearson, who was afterwards\\nprofessor in Harvard University.\\nAfter ha ving preached sonie time in Boston, with much\\nacceptance, to a society then recently collected by Rev. Mr.\\nMoorhead, composed chiefly of Presbyterian strangers, he\\nreceived an invitation to preach as a candidate for settlement\\nover the first church and society in Beverly, Mass., which\\nhad been left destitute by the removal of their pastor. Dr.\\nTVillard, to the presidency of Harvard College. Being at\\nlength invited with great unanimity to take the pastoral\\ncharge of that flock, he accepted the invitation, and was\\nordained, May, 1785. In this place he labored as a minister\\nof Christ for seventeen years, till called in providence to the\\noffice of president of Bowdoin College, then recently estab-\\nlished in Brunswick, in the District of Maine, but which\\nhad not yet gone into operation. He was inaugurated Sept.\\n2, 1802, and as the college had then no chapel, and there\\nbeing no church in the village, the public services of the\\noccasion were performed in a grove, a little distance from\\nthe site of the present college buildings.\\nDr. McKeen was in his person considerably above the\\nordinary stature, and of noble appearance. He was dignified,\\nyet simple and conciliatory in his manners, of kind and con-\\ndescending spirit, always gentlemanly and affable. His", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0315.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "226 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nwhole intercourse in the community, as a citizen, was\\nrnarked witli urbanity and propriety of deportment. In the\\nei vil and political con\u00c3\u00b6erns of his country he took a deep\\ninterest, and was not afraid freely to avow his sentiments\\nrespecting them both in private and in fniblic on all suitable\\noccasions, thoiigh he always did it with great wisdom and\\nprudence. So judicious was he in all his movements, that\\nhe rarely gave ofFence to persons of any party or sect. His\\nunbending integrity and spotless morals were ackiiowledged\\nby alL As a Christian, he was decided in his views and\\nconsistent in his practice uniformly serieus and devout, but\\nwithout the least appearance of ostentation or gloominess.\\nHis walk before the church and the world was so blameless,\\nthat no charge of the least impropriety was ever known to\\nbe made against liim. It may well be qaestioned, whether\\nany man of his day, in public life, ever came nearer than he\\nto that apostolical description, If any man offend not in\\nword, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the\\nwhole body.\\nPresident McKeen was sound in his views of theology, as\\nreceived by the orthodox of the present day. His creed was\\nsubstantially in agreement Avith the Assembly s Shorter Cat-\\nechism, which he taught to the children and youth of his\\nparish, through the whole period of his ministry, holding\\nannual catechizings in different districts.\\nAs a public speaker, Dr. McKeen s voice was clear and\\nstrong, and his articulation and enunciation so distinct, that\\nhe was easily heard by the largest audience. His pulpit\\nstyle was marked by simplicity, purity, and strength, and\\nhis reasoning was lucid and impressive. His manner was\\nalways solemn, and evinced that he believed what he uttered\\nto be important truth, although he was rarely so earnest in\\nhis appeals as to amount to what may be called pathos.\\nNothing light or trifling, or adapted to provoke a smile, was\\nperhaps ever uttered by him from the pulpit.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0316.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 227\\nIn his character as a pastor, he was affectionately attentive\\nto his flock, and especially in cases of affliction was ever\\nready to sympathize and do all in his power to assist and\\ncomfort them. As illustrative of this excellent trait of char-\\nacter in a minister of Christ is the following incident.\\nWhen General Washington was making the tour of New\\nEngland, after the Revolution, he passed through Beverly,\\nand was to dine at the house of a distinguished gentleman in\\nthat place. Mr. McKeen was of course invited and expect-\\ned to be present on an occasion so highly gratifying. Just\\nas he was leaving his house for this purpose, he received a\\nrequest to visit a very humble parishioner, in a remote part\\nof the town, who was at the point of death. Without plead-\\ning his previous engagement as a reason for delaying his\\nvisit, or hesitating for a moment, he at once repaired to the\\nhouse of the afflicted, to administer the desired consolation,\\nreadily denying himself the privilege of an interview with\\nthe Father of his country, which must have been so highly\\ngratifying.\\nSecuring thus the esteem of his people to an unusual\\ndegree by his ability and fidelity, his parish remained united\\nand in peace while other parishes around were divided and\\ndistracted. Although the leaven of French infidelity was\\nprevalent to some extent in his society for several years, yet\\nby his able instructions and judicious management it was\\nkept in check, and finally to a great degree rooted out. So\\nhighly was Dr. McKeen estimated for his attainments in\\nscience and literature, and so distinguished was he for his\\ngentlemanly and Christian qualities, that his elevation to the\\npresidential chair of Bowdoin College gave great satisfaction\\nto the friends of education in New England, and particularly\\nin Maine, it being generally supposed that he was eminently\\nqualified to give form and solidity, and extended usefulness,\\nto the new institution. These expectations were not disap-\\npointed for, by a discreet management of the affairs of the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0317.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\ninstitution in its infancy, he contributed in no small degree\\nto lay the foundation of its future prosperity.\\nNot only was he well qualified by his distinguished schol-\\narship to take charge of the instruction of this institution, but\\nby his extensive knowledge of character, and his mild, yet\\nfirm and decided spirit, was eminently fitted for its govern-\\nment. He succeeded well in the presidential office, and did\\nall that the friends of the college could reasonably expect in\\npromoting its interests, and left it, at his decease, in a flour-\\nishing condition. Not only did he exert himself for the\\nadvancement of science and literature, but also for the gen-\\neral promotion of piety and religion, as well in the commu-\\nnity as in the college.\\nIn September, 1805, when he had been at the head of the\\ncollege four years, he was attacked by what was thought to\\nbe a disease of the liver, whicli terminated in dropsy, and\\nput an end to his valuable life, July 15, 1807, in the fiftieth\\nyear of his age. His long and distressing sickness he bore\\nwith Christian submission and fortitude, and deep humility.\\nToward the close of life, the fifty-first Psalm was his favorite\\nsubject of meditation and conversation. Deeply sensible of\\nhis ill-deserts as a sinner, and relying on God s free and\\nsovereign mercy in Jesus Christ, this distinguished man feil\\nasleep and was gathered to his fathers.\\nJOHN m murphy.\\nJohn McMurphy, Esq., arrived in America from Ireland,\\nand joined the settlement in Londonderry a very short time\\nafter its commencement. His name appears on its earliest\\nrecords. He was one of the selectmen in the year 1722,\\nand was a member of most of the important committees to\\nadjust the concerns of the colony. He was also the first\\nrepresentative of Londonderry, and it appears from the\\nrecords that he represented the town, as a member of the\\nGeneral Court, eleven years. He was very early appointed", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0318.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 229\\njustice of the peace and of the quorum. Unless he had\\nreeeived his commission before his arrival in this province,\\nhe must have been preceded in the office by James Mc-\\nKeen, Esq., who was appointed justice of the peace, April\\n29, 1720.\\nIt appears that Esquire McMurphy was a man of intelli-\\ngence and of probity. His character, intellectual and moral,\\nwas such as to secure the unlimited confidence of the town,\\nand commanded the respect of his fellow-citizens. He was\\na ready scribe, was required t\u00c3\u00b3 transact most of their civil\\nbusiness, and was continued in the office of town clerk four-\\nteen years.\\nThe lot of land which he selected, or which was assign\u00c3\u00abd\\nto him as a proprietor, is the farm now occupied by his\\ngreat-grandson, James McMurphy. It has never passed out\\nof the family. The house which he built, was the second\\nframed house erected in the town, a. part of which is now\\nstanding, and inhabited by Mr. James McMurphy. He died\\nin 1755, at Portsmouth, while a member of the General\\nCourt. His decease was deeply feit and lamented by the\\ntown and the community at large. The foUowing record\\nappears on the town-books\\nJohn McMurphy, Esq., Justice of the quorum, departed\\nthis life September 21, 1755, at Portsmouth, and was carried\\nto Londonderry on Tuesday and buHed on Wednesday, the\\n24th, at the old burying-place in this town, with an extraor-\\ndinary company, aged about seventy-three years.\\nJOHN PRENTICE.\\nHon. John Prentice was a native of Cambridge, Mass.\\nHe graduated at Harvard College, in 1766, his mother\\nhaving been obliged to sweep the college buildings to aid in\\npaying his expenses. He came to Londonderry in 1772,\\nand read law with Hon. Samuel Livermore. On being\\nadmitted to the bar, in 1775, he purchased the farm of Mr.\\n20", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0319.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "230 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nLivermore, on wliich, after building a new mansion, he sub-\\nsequently settled, having as it is believed resided for a few\\nyears previous in Marblehead, Mass. He was appointed\\nattorney-general June 5, 1787, and resigned in 1793. He\\nwas representative from the town qf Londonderrj thirteen\\nyears, and was chosen speaker in 1794 and 1795, and from\\n1798 to 1803. In September, 1798, he was offered the\\nappointment of justice. of the Superior Court, which he\\ndeclined. He died May 18, 1808, at the age of sixty.\\nHis first wife was Ruth Lemon, of Marblehead, who had\\nsix children, and died in 1791. He afterwards married\\nTabitha Sargent, a daughter of Hon. Nathaniel P. Sargent,\\nof Haverhill, Mass., who died in 1806, having had six\\nchildren.\\nGEORGE REID.\\nGeorge Reid was the eldest son of James and Mary Reid,\\nwho were among the early settlers of Londonderry. He was\\nborn in the year 1733, married Mary Woodburn, daughter\\nof John Woodburn, by his first wife Mary Boyd, and settled\\nin Londonderry. At the time of the battle of Lexington,\\nMr. Reid was in command of a company of minute-men, and\\nno sooner did the intelligence of that event reach London-\\nderry^ than, leaving his wife and children, he placed himself\\nat the head of his company, and marched to join the left\\nwing of the American forces, under General Stark, at\\nMedford, near Boston. He, with his company, took part in\\nthe battle of Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775. His\\nfirst commission under the Continental Congress, is in the\\nfolio wing words\\nThe Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hamp-\\nshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New\\nYork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of Newcastle,\\nKent, and Sussex, on the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and\\nNorth Carolina, to George Reid, Esq.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0320.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 231\\nWe, reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriot-\\nism, valor, conduct, and fidelitj, do, by these presents, con-\\nstitute and appoint-you to be captain of a company in the\\n5th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel John Stark.\\nBy order of the Congress,\\nJohn Hancock, President\\nAttest, Charles Thompson, Secretary.\\nJanuary 1, 1776.\\nMr. Reid afterwards, in 1777, received the appointment\\nof lieutenant-colonel, and in 1778, that of colonel, of the\\nsecond New Hampshire regiment. In 1783, he was, by act\\nof Congress, appointed colonel by brevet in the army of the\\nUnited States. In 1 785, he received his commission, from\\nthe State of New Hampshire, as brigadier-general in the\\nState service, signed by John Langdon, president. In 1786,\\nhe received the appointment of justice of the peace for the\\ncounty of Rockingham, in those days an office of dignity and\\nconsequence, from his old commander, General John SuUi-\\nvan, then president of New Hampshire. In 1791, he was\\nappointed to the office of sheriiF of the county of Rocking-\\nham.\\nIn the year 1786, was the celebrated rebellion in New\\nHampshire, of which an account has been already given in\\nthis work. The fact that General Reid was appointed by\\nhis old commander and companion-in-arms, General Sulli-\\nvan, then president of the State, to command the military\\nforces called out on this occasion, is satisfactory evidence of\\nhis character for prudence, courage, and general ability. So\\ngreat was the discontent in his own county, that General\\nReid received several anonymous letters, threatening his\\nlife, and the destruction of his property by fire, for the part\\nhe took in quelling the insurrection. So formidable did the\\nmatter appear to some of his friends, that they entreated him\\nnot to attend church on the Sabbath, as his life mightfall a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0321.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "232 HISTORY OF LONDONDERKY.\\nsacrifice if he did so. Disregarding tlieir fears, however, he\\nattend\u00c3\u00aad church as usual, though well armed, and accorn-\\npanied by two or tliree of his old militapy companions, who\\ninsisted upon going with him. On one occasion, a mob sur-\\nrounded his house in the night, threatening his destruction.\\nHe instantly armed, and, though alone, presented himself at\\nthe window, and harangued the mob, in a calm but firm and\\ndetermined tone, upon the great impropriety of their con-\\nduct. The force of his expostulations, and his calm,\\nundaunted demeanor, at length induced the crowd to\\ndisperse; and many of them afterwards expressed their\\ndeep regret for the course they had taken. There are those\\nof General Reid s descendants who remember his indigna-\\ntion, when recounting, in after days, the events of that night.\\nGeneral Reid held a command in the New Hampshire\\nforces during the entire war of the Revolution and was in\\nthe battles of Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains,\\nTrenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Still-\\nwater. H\u00c2\u00ab was with the army, and partook of their suffer-\\nings and hardships, during their memorable encampment at\\nValley Forge, in the severe winter of 1777. He w^as also\\nwith SuUivan, and took an effici\u00c3\u00abnt part in the expedition\\nplanned by Washington, against the Six Nations, to\\navenge the terrible massacres of Wyoming and Cherry\\nValley. He was for some time at West Point and during\\nthe summer of 1782, was in command at Albany, N. Y., the\\nhead-quarters of the army being at Newburgh. He fre-\\nquently received letters from General Washington, and as\\nsome of them, though on ordinary business, may be interest-\\ning, we here insert them.\\nHead-Quarters, Newhurgh, May 20, 1782.\\nSir: I received your letter of the llth inst., and another\\nwithout date the former inclosing the proceedings of a\\ncourt-martial, held for the trial of Shem Kehtfield. Inclosed", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0322.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 233\\nyou have a copy of the General Order, approving the pro-\\nceedings, and a warrant for the execution of the prisoner\\nthe place of execution is left to you.\\nThe necessity of the contractors furnishing hard bread*\\nwhen required, has been represented to Mr. Morris, who\\nwill doubtless take measures acccordingly.\\nI am, Sir, your very humble servant,\\nGeorge Washington.\\nCol. Reid, commanding at Albany.\\nHead-Quarters, Neivhiirgh, July 10, 1782.\\nDear Sir: I am favored this moment with your letter of\\nthe 2d inst. The intelligence communicated therein appears\\nto me to be vague and not perfectly founded it ought, how-\\never, to have so much influence upon our conduct, as to\\nexcite unusual vigilance and preparation, in order to baffle\\nany of the barbarous designs of the enemy, should they\\nattempt to carry them into execution.\\nFor my own part, I am more apprehensive of the country\\non the Mohawk river, than for any other part of the frontier\\nbecause I think, from the circumstances, the principal effort\\n(should there be any invasion) would be made against it\\nand therefore it occurs to me, that withdrawing the State\\ntroops from Saratoga, and that quarter (where they cannot\\nbe very necessary), and extending them, together with the\\nother levies on the frontier of the Mohawk, and at the same\\ntime concentrating your regiment to the neighborhood of the\\nplace you mention, would be a judicious plan though I do\\nnot pretend to be myself sufl ciently acquainted with the\\nlocal situation to determine with absolute certainty on the\\nexpediency of this disposition. It will, in my opinion, be\\nwell to consult and arrange with Colonel Willet, who is par-\\nticularly well informed of the geography of the country.\\nI have a confidence that you and the other officers, com-\\n20*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0323.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "234 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nmanding on the frontier, will economize tlie means in your\\npossession to the best advantage, and exert all your zeal and\\nactivily in the public service.\\nI am, dear sir, your most obedient, humble servant,\\nGeorge Washington.\\nCol. Reid, commanding at Albany.\\nHead-Quarters, Newhurgh^ July 7, 1782.\\nSir The Honorable Mr. Renden, of Spain, resident at\\nPhiladelphia, Mr. Holkers, and Mr. Terressen, have a desire\\nto see Saratoga, and the field of action in that country. I\\nrecommend them to your civilities and if it should be judged\\nexpedi\u00c3\u00abnt, I desire you will give them such guard, or so\\ndispose the troops in the quarter where they are, as to give\\nthem security in their jaunt.\\nI am, sir, your humble servant,\\nGeorge Washington.\\nCol. Reid, commanding at Albany.\\nMrs. Reid was a woman of rare endowments, and of most\\ninteresting character. It is related that General Stark, who\\nwas an intimate friend of the family,once remarked, in refer-\\nence to her If there is a woman in New Hampshire, fit\\nfor governor, tis MoUy Reid. A more extended notice of\\nher will be found in the account of the family of John Woo^-\\nburn. Although left with the care of a family of young\\nchildren, she assumed, during the absence of her husband,\\nwhich continued, with the exception of a few short and\\nhurried visits, a period exceeding seven years, the entire\\ncharge of his farm and other business affairs. A few extracts\\nfrom some of their letters, which have been preserved, may\\nnot be uninteresting. The constant reference to the Almighty,\\nand the confiding trust in him, in regard to their daily cares,\\ntrials, and anxieties, which is evinced on the part of each of\\nthem, is a pleasing feature of their correspondence. General", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0324.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 235\\nReicl s first letter is dated at Medford, May 30, 1775, a few\\ndays prior to the battle of Bunker Hill.\\nI have not time, he says, to give you an account of\\nour late engagement, only that God has appeared for us, in\\nmost imminent danger.\\nThe next is dated Camp at Winter Hill, August 10,\\n1775. We are daily taking off some of their guards; and\\nwe expect to make an inroad upon them, some of these\\nnights. May God prosper and protect us. I know we have\\nyour prayers, with many of God s people.\\nI hope yet to live with you in peace and tranquillity,\\nwhen we have subdued the enemies of our country. I com-\\nmend you and my dear children to the Shepherd of Isra\u00c3\u00abl.\\nSame place, November 22, 1775. As to engaging for\\nanother season, I cannot as yet inform you. To shrink from\\nthe cause we have embarked in, would be inglorious and\\ndastardly cowardice, and which I hope I may never be\\nstigmatized with. K ever I am dismissed, I hope it will be\\nwith honor. I hope that God will direct me in this case,\\nand all others, as may be most to his glory and my eternal\\nwelfare.\\nThe next is from a letter addressed by Mrs. Reid to her\\nhusband at Ticonderoga, dated Londonderry, September 8,\\n177G. I received your letters of July 6th, and 21st, also\\nAugust lOth, and to the former of those two would say, that\\nGod has laid you under the greatest obligations. Every\\nmercy, every escape, must be accounted for. May we be\\nprepared for the great day of account. She goes on to\\nargue, with all the acuteness of one who knew, various\\nmatters relating to the farm, stock, etc, but concludes with\\nthe very deferential remark of an obedient wife All this,\\nwith your advice, not otherwise. May the good-will of Him\\nwho dwelt in the bush, rest and abide with you.\\nIn a letter dated at Ticonderoga, June 21, 1777, General\\nReid writes as follows Our enemy, according to the most", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0325.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "236 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\naccurate account we can get, is approaching towards us. It\\nmay be a feint but if they do attack us, we are resolved to\\ndefend ourselves to the last extremity. We could wish our-\\neelves stronger. The Indiaus are lurking about us daily.\\nFrom the same, dated at Valley Forge, December 22,\\n1777. General Howe came out with his whole army, about\\na fortnight since, and drew up in line of battle against us,\\nfirst on our right, and then on our left, in order to draw us\\noff some advantageous ground we were in possession of but\\nbeing harassed by us on both wings, repeatedly, they thought\\nproper to retreat, very precipitately, into Philadelphia. We\\nhave had several skirmishes with their light horse, and took\\nten horsemen and fifteen horses yesterday. No general\\naction has occurred, nor is likely to, this winter. We are\\nnow making huts to winter in. I feel sympathy for you, but\\ncannot be with you honor forbids it. May happiness attend\\nyou and the dear children.\\nHis next letter is dated Camp, White Plains, August 3,\\n1778. I have just come in from the enemy s lines, at New\\nYork have been down three days on command, and met\\nwith a party of the enemy, fired on them, and drove them\\ninto their lines.\\nIn relation to a matter at court, Mrs. Reid writes her\\nhusband as foUows, under date of July 5, 1782, addressed to\\nhim while in command at Albany. I informed you in my\\nlast, that I had employed Mr. Neil, who was attending at\\ncourt, to represent the true state of the affair likewise to\\nask a continuance, till you were acquainted with the matter.\\nThe judge informed me, through Mr. Neil, that I need give\\nmyself no uneasiness about the matter, for it should be con-\\ntinued tillyour return, if that should hcjive and twenty years.\\nUnder date of June 11, 1783, General Reid writes as\\nfoUows We are in daily expectation of a final dissolution\\nof the army. I send by a public wagon a chest, containing\\nvai ious matters for which I have no occasion, and you will", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0326.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL N0TICE9. 237\\nfind in it tlie old regimental colors and Standard of the regi-\\nment, wliich you will take particular care of, witli soiiie\\npapers in the till. I shall make the best of my way to your\\ncottage.\\nHaving faithfully served his native town, State, and coun-\\ntry, General Eeid died in September, 1815, at the age of\\neighty-two years. His wife survived him eight years, and\\ndied April 7, 1823, at the advanced age of eighty-eight\\nyears.\\nROBERT ROGERS.\\nMajor Robert Rogers was the son of James Rogers, and\\nwas a native of Londonderry. His father was one of the\\nearly settlers of the town but after a residence here of a\\nfew years, he removed to Dunbarton, N. H., and was one of\\nthe first settlers of that town. He was afterwards shot in\\nthe woods, his fur cap and black clothes being unfortu-\\nnately mistaken by a hunter for a bear.\\nMajor Rogers was appointed captain of one of the three\\ncompanies of rangers raised in 1756, and being subsequently\\nl^romoted to the rank of Major, had the entire command of\\nthat celebrated corps. Many of the rangers were from\\nLondonderry, and the immediate vicinity, and in skirmishes\\nwith parties of the enemy, in scouring the woods, and pro-\\ncuring intelligence of hostile movements, they performed\\nactive and important service. Many anecdotes of perilous\\nadventure and hairbreadth escape, are related of them. At\\none time. Major Rogers, with a small party of his rangers,\\nwere nearly surrounded by the Indians, on the north-west\\nshore of Lake George. Rogers, being on snow-shoes, made\\nthe best of his way to the top of a high rock which overhung\\nthe lake. Having thrown his haversack and other cuni-\\nbrous articles over the precipice, he turned himself about in\\nhis snow-shoes, without moving them, and, having fastened\\nthem on in the reversed position, descended to the lake by", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0327.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "238 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nanother and less precipitous path. The Indians in pursuit,\\narriving at the top of the rock, perceived two sets of tracks\\nleading to the rock, and none leading from it, and conse-\\nquently supposed that two of the fiigitives had attempted to\\ndescend to the lake at that place, and had perished. Soon\\nafter, however, to their astonishment, tliey saw Hogers, at a\\nconsiderable distance, making his escape upon the ice, and\\nbelieving that he had descended the precipice in safety, con-\\ncluded that he was under the immediate protection of the\\nGreat Spirit, and did not venture to pursue him. The rock\\nhas since been known by the name of Rogers Slide.\\nIn 1759, Major Hogers was sent by General Amherst to\\ndestroy the Indian village of St. Francis. In 1766, he was\\nappointed governor of Michilimackinac. He was accused of\\nconstructive treason, and was sent to Montreal for trial,\\nwould seem, however, that he was honorably acquitted, as, in\\n1767, he went to England, and Avas presented to the king.\\nHe afterwards returned to America, ^nd, in the Revolution,\\nespoused the royal cause. His name was on the list of tories\\nproscribed by the act of New Hampshire of 1778. In 1777,\\nhe again went to England, where he died. He published, at\\nLondon, in 1765, a journal of the military services of the\\nrangers, which was republished at Concord, N. H., in 1831.\\nThe following anecdote is found in the first volume of the\\nHistorical Collections, by Farmer and Moore.\\nIt is reported of Major Rogers, that while in London\\nafter the French war, being in company with several persons,\\nit was agreed, that the one who told the most improbable\\nstory, or the greatest falsehood, should have his fare paid by\\nthe others. When it came to his turn, he told the company,\\nthat his father was shot in the woods of America, by a person\\nwho supposed him to be a bear and that his mother was\\nfoliowed several miles through the snow by hunters, who\\nmistook her track for that of the same animal. It was\\nacknowledged by the whole company, that the Major had", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0328.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 239\\ntold the greatest lie, when, in fact, he had related nothing\\nbut the truth.\\nJOHN STARK.\\nThe first company of emigrants who formed the settlement\\nof Londonderry, were soon foliowed by a large number of\\ntheir countrymen. Among these, was Archibald Stark, who\\narrived in 1722. He, like many of these emigrants, was a\\nnative of Scotland, and emigrated while young to London-\\nderry in Ireland.\\nJohn Stark, the second of four sons, was born in London-\\nderry on the 28th of August, 1728. In 1736, his father\\nremoved from Londonderry to Derryfield, now Manchester.\\nIn 1752, John Stark went in company with his elder brother,\\nWilliam, David Stinson of Londonderry, and Amos East-\\nman of Concord, upon a hunting excursion to Baker s river,\\nin the northern part of the State. While there, they were\\nsurprised by a party of Indians. Stinson was killed, and\\nWilliam Stark effected an escape. John, though a youth,\\nevinced uncommon bravery on the occasion, but was carried,\\nwith Eastman, into captivity, and remained three months\\nwith the tribe established at St. Francis. At the end of this\\ntime, he was redeemed by Captain Stevens of Charlestown,\\nN. H., and Mr. Wheelwright of Boston, who had been sent\\nby the General C\u00c2\u00aburt of Massachusetts to redeem some of\\nthe citizens of that provioce, who had been carried into cap-\\ntivity. Not finding those from Massachusetts of whom they\\nwere in search, they liberally paid the ransom of Stark and\\nEastman, one hundred and three dollars for the former, and\\nsixty for the latter.\\nWhile in captivity with the Indians, Stark manifested\\nthose strong traits of character by which he was distinguished\\nin subsequent life. He appears, says his biographer, to\\nhave caught the humor of the Indians, and, by observing\\ntheir manners and character, to have known how to approach\\nthem on the side of their prejudices. This, the following\\nincidents may serve to illustrate.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0329.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "240 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nIt was the universal practice of the North American\\nIndians to compel their captives to pass between the young\\nwarriors of the tribe, ranged in two lines, each furnished with\\na rod, and prepared to strike the prisoners as they passed.\\nOn the present occasion, Eastman was severely whipped as\\nhe passed through the lines. Stark, more athletic and adroit,\\nand better comprehending the Indian character, snatched a\\nclub from the nearest Indian, laid about him to the right and\\nleft, scattering the Indians before him, and escaped with\\nscarcelj a blow greatl y to the delight of the old men, who\\nsat at some distance, witnessing the sc\u00c3\u00a8ne, and enjoying the\\nconfusion of their young warriors.\\nOn one occasion he was ordered by them to hoe their corn.\\nWell aware that they regarded labor of this kind as fit only\\nfor squaws and slaves, he took care to cut up the corn and\\nspare the weeds, in order to give them a suitable idea of his\\nwant of skill in unmanly labor, and at length threw his hoe\\ninto. the river, declaring, it was the business, not of warriors,\\nbut of squaws, to hoe corn. This spirit\u00c3\u00a9d deportment gained\\nhim the title of young chief, and the lionor of adoption into\\nike tribe.\\nIn 1754, the great Seven Years war, which grew out of the\\nstruggle between the British and the French for the posses-\\nsion of North America, in reality commenced. A corps of\\nrangers was enlisted in New Hgmpshire for the service,\\nunder the command of the famous Major Robert Hogers.\\nStark s experience fitted him for this service, and his char-\\nacter being already so well established, he received a com-\\nmission as lieutenant in this company. The regiment to\\nwhich it belonged, was commanded by Colonel Blanchard.\\nDuring this long war, in which he continued to serve to its\\nclose, by his many fierce encounters with the savage tribes,\\nand the sanguinary conflicts in which he led that invincible\\nbody of men, the New Hampshire rangers, he thoroughly\\ninured himself to toil and danger, and proved that he was a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0330.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 241\\nman of indomitable courage, uncommon military skill, and\\ngreat original resource. He served with this company during\\nthe successful campaign of 1755 and in the winter of 1757,\\nhe conducted the retreat, after the bloody battlq^near lake\\nGeorge. In th^ attack upon Ticonderoga, in June, 1758, he\\nbehaved with great sagacity and bravery. In this action\\nfeil the young and gallant Lord Howe, deeply mourned by\\nthe whole army, and between whom and Stark a strong\\nfriendship existed. At the capture of Ticonderoga and\\nCrown Point, Stark rendered effici\u00c3\u00abnt service to Lord Am-\\nherst. At the close of the war he retired with the reputation\\nof a brave and vigilant officer, and betook himself to the\\nordinary pursuits of domestic life.\\nWhen the report of the battle at Lexington reached him,\\nhe was engaged at work in his saw-mill. Within ten min-\\nutes after the news had been received, he had mounted his\\nhorse, and was on his way to Cambridge, having left direc-\\ntions for such of his neighbors as might choose to volunteer,\\nto meet him at Medford. The morning after his arrival, he\\nreceived a colonel s commission, and availing himself of his\\nown popularity, and the enthusiasm of the day, in a few\\nhours he enlisted eight hundred men. On the ever-memor-\\nable 17th of June, 1775, Stark s regiment formed the left of\\nthe American line, and he maintained through the whole\\nconflict his usual coolness and intrepidity. At the head of\\nhis backwoodsmen from New Harapshire, he poured on the\\nenemy that deadly fire from a sure aim, which effected such\\nremarkable destruction in their ranks and compelled them\\ntwice to retreat. He fought until the American forces had\\nquite exhausted their ammunition, and were almost surround-\\ned by the British troops, when he succeeded in securing the\\nretreat of his men in perfect order.\\nAfter the British evacuated Boston, Col. Stark joined the\\nNorthern army, while retreating from Canada, and had\\ncommand of a party of troops who were employed in fortify-\\n21", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0331.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "242 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\ning the post of Mount Independence. During the campaigii\\nin New York, he bore an active part. On the morning of\\nthe 26th of December, 1776, when the Hessians were sur-\\nprised an^defeated at Trenton by Washington, Stark, with\\nhis regiment, led the van, and contributed his full share to\\nthis brilliant enterprise, in which nearly a thousand were\\ntaken prisoners. After this engagement, he marched with\\nthe commander-in-chief to Princeton, and was also present\\nat the battle of Springfield, in New Jersey.\\nBut the battle of Bennington, on the 16th of August, 1777,\\nthe darkest and most desponding period of the Revolution,\\nwas one of the most decisive victories gained during the war,\\nand was by far the most brilliant of Stark s numerous ex-\\nploits^ It breathed new ardor into the drooping spirits of\\nour Northern army, animated the hearts of the people, and\\ncompletely prostrated the high hopes of Burgoyne, not only\\ncosting him more than one thousaild of his best troops,\\nbut whoUy deranging the jjlan of his campaign, and materi-\\nally contributing to the loss of his army. In his movements\\non this occasion, Stark acted independently of any superior\\nofficer. In the preceding spring, a new list of promotions\\nhad been made, in which his name was omitted, and those of\\njunior officers were found. It was impossible for a man of\\nhis lofty spirit and unbending character, to acquiesce in what\\nhe considered an injurious disregard of his fair pretensions\\nta advancement. He therefore immediately retired from the\\narmy, declaring to those who would have dissuaded him from\\nexecuting his purpose, that an officer who would not main-\\ntain his rank and assert his own rights, could not be trusted\\nto vindicate those of his country. But though dissatisfied with\\nhis own treatment, he was in no dcgree disaffected to the\\ncause. When therefore called upon, by the General As-\\nsembly of New Harapshire, to take the command of the troops\\nwhich they were about to raise, in order to defend their fire-\\nsides and their homes against a formidable ai my, which was", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0332.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 243\\npenetrating the States from Canada, he consented to assume\\nit on condition that he should not be obliged to join the main\\narmy, but be allowed to exercise his own discretion as to his\\nmovements, and-be accountable to none but the authorities\\nof New Hampshire. His conditions were complied with.\\nHence, when \u00c3\u00b3rdered by General Schuyler, commander of\\nthe Northern department, to conduct his troops to the west\\nbank of the Hudson, Stark declined, communicating to Gen-\\neral Schuyler the authority under which lie was acting, and\\nstating the dangerous consequences to the people of Vermont,\\nof removing his forces from their borders. Although Con-\\ngress passed a resolution, disapproving of the course pursued\\nby General Stark, yet his refusal was founded upon the\\nsoundest views of the state of things, and was productive of\\ninestimable benefits, as the event soon proved. General\\nStark, on the achievement of his victory, communicated the\\nintelligence of it to General Gates. He also transmitted\\nofficial Information of it to the State authorities of New\\nHampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, whose troops were\\nengaged with him in the contest. To each qf these three\\nStates, he sent trophies of the battle, taken from the field.\\nAs his letter to Congress, some months before, on the sub-\\nject of his rank, had lain on the table unanswered, he forbore\\nto write to them, even to communicate the tidings of his\\ntriumph. They, however, wisely chose to take the first step\\ntowards a reconciliation, and though they had passed their\\nresolution, censuring his assumption of a separate command,\\nyet, on the 4th of October, Congress passed the foUowing\\nresolution\\nThat the thanks of Congress be presented to General\\nStark, of the New Hampshire militia, and the officers and\\ntroops under his command, for their brave and successful\\nattack upon, and victory over, the enemy in their lines, at\\nBennington and that General Stark be appointed a briga-\\ndier-general in the armies of the United States.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0333.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "244 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nSeveral anecdotes relating to this signal encounter of the\\nenemy have been recorded. Almost eveiy one has heard\\nof the pithj address he made to his troops on this occasion,\\nbut it will bear repeating. The ground bad been chosen\\nwith deliberation and skill, the plan of the battle had been\\nagreed upon, and small parties had been sent forward to\\nreconnoitre. Pointing out the enemy to his troops, he\\nexclaimed, I will gain the victorj over them in the ap-\\nproaching battle, or Molly Stark will be a widow to-night.\\nAnother anecdote raay be noticed, as it serves to illustrate\\nthe spirit of the times, and the ardor which was enkindled to\\nmeet and repel the foe. Among the reinforcements from\\nBerkshire, Mass., came a clergyman with a portion of his\\nflock, resolved to make bare the arm of flesh against the\\nenemies of the country. Before daylight, on the morning of\\nthe battle, he addressed the commander as foUows We, the\\npeople of Berkshire, have been frequently called upon to\\nfight, but have never been led against the enemy. We have\\nnow resolved, if you will not let us fight, never to turn out\\nagain. General Stark asked if he wished to march then,\\nwhen it was dark and rainy. No, was the answer. Then,\\ncontinued Stark, if the Lord should once more give us sun-\\nshine, and I do not give you fighting enough, I will never ask\\nyou to come again. The weather cleared up in the course of\\nthe day, and the men of Berkshire foliowed their spiritual\\nguide into action.\\nGeneral Stark, after this, volunteered his services under\\nGeneral Gates at Saratoga, and assisted in the council which\\nstipulated the surrender of Burgoyne nor did he withhold\\nhis valuable services till he could greet his native country as\\nan independent empire.\\nGeneral Stark was of the middle stature, and well propor-\\ntioned. In his early years, he was remarkable for his\\nstreng\u00c3\u00bch, activity, and ability to endure fatigue. His man-\\nners were frank and unassuming, but he manifested a pecu-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0334.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 245\\nHar sort of eccentricity and negligence, whicli precluded all\\ndisplay of personal dignity, and seemed to place him among\\nthose of ordinary rank in life. But as a courageous and\\nheroic soldier, he is entitled to a high rank among those to\\nwhom a large share of glory is justly due. He was an object\\nof respect, such as is due to age, patriotism, and public ser-\\nvice of the most brilliant cast, in trying times. He died on\\nthe eighth of May, 1822, in the ninety-fourth year of his age,\\nand was buried with the honors of war.\\nHis remains were deposited in a tomb which a few years\\nbefore had ^been erected at his request, upon a rising\\nground on the bank of the Merrimack, near the place of his\\nresidence. A monument, consisting of a block of granite, in\\nthe form of an obelisk, has been erected by his family on the\\nspot, with the simple inscription, Major-General Stark.\\nIn 1757, General Stark was married to Elizabeth Page,\\ndaughter of Captain Page, of Danbarton, by whom he had\\nseveral children, some of Avhom still survive.\\nIt is justly mentioned as an extraordinary circumstance\\nin his life, that, frequently as he was engaged in battle, in\\ntwo long wars, he never received a wound. His horse was\\nkilled under him in the battle of Bennington.\\nAs illustrative of General Stark s character for bravery,\\namounting on some occasions, when he had an object in\\nview which he deemed it important to accomplish, to a\\ndaring recklessness of life, we may here relate an instance.\\nHaving volunteered his services under General Gates,\\nprevious to the capitulation of Burgoyne, he selected, as one\\nof his aids on that occasion. Mr. Robert MacGregor (son of\\nRev. David MacGregor), who was then quite a young man,\\nand a near neighbor of his. Hie forces being separated by\\nthe British troops, from the main body under Gates, the\\nonly avenue to Gates s quarters lay directly through a con-\\ntinuous line of the enemy pickets. One night, Stark\\nsuddenly thought of a communication which he desired to\\n21*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0335.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "246 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nmake to Gates, and without a moment s hesitation on account\\nof the peril of life, which was imminent, instantly despatched\\nMacGregor, with the message. MacGregor, who counted\\nnot the risk, immediately obeyed the order, and mounting\\nhis horse, set off at fuU speed. On being repeatedly chal-\\nlenged by the enemy s sentinels, with the stern question,\\nWho goes there enforced at the point of the bayonet,\\nhis uniform, brief, and very adroit answer which undoubt-\\nedly saved his life was, I have orders from the General,\\nand at the same instant, clapping spurs to his horse, he rode\\non. The sentinels, put off their guard, and deceived by\\nhis manner, mistook him for one of their own officers,\\nand each, in turn, suffered him to pass. On arriving at the\\ncamp of Gates, the latter, in much surprise, accosted him\\nwith the question, For God s sake, where did you come\\nfrom, sir MacGregor duly explained his errand, when\\nGates replied, Stark is mad, sir and immediately ordered\\nhim to take his position with his own aids, and on no account\\nto return to Stark.\\nSAMUEL TAGGART.\\nRev. Samuel Taggart was the son of elder James Taggart,\\nof Londonderry, and was born about the year 1754. He\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College, in 1774, in the same class\\nwith Captain David MacGregor, Joseph McKeen, D. D.,\\nand Rev. James Miltimore all natives of Londonderry.\\nAbout the year 1781, he was ordained pastor of the Presby-\\nterian church and society in Coleraine, Mass. In 1803, he\\nwas elected representative in Congress, which office he\\nretained fourteen years. His connection with the church\\nand society at Coleraine coniinued during the time he was a\\nmember of Congress, and until the close of his life.\\nAlthough Mr. Taggart was somewhat eccentric, he pos-\\nsessed a strong mind, and was wgW informed on almost e very\\nimportant subject. His memory was remarkably retentive.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0336.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 247\\nHe once remarked that he knew the name of every one who\\nhad been a member of Congress during his congressional life,\\nand could give a description of his person. As a politician,\\nMr. Taggart acquired some celebrity, but as a pastor, he is\\nsaid to have been in some resj)ects defici\u00c3\u00abnt. In his person,\\nhe was very large and corpulent. He married EHzabeth\\nDuncan, daughter of George Duncan, of Peterborough,\\nN. H. He died at Coleraine, April 25, 1821, aged seventy-\\none years.\\nISAAC THOM.\\nDr. Isaac Thom, son of William Thom and Elizabeth\\nWiar, was born in Windham, N. H., March 1, 1746. In\\n1769, at the age of twenty-three, he commenced the practice\\nof medicine, in his native town. He was verj successful,\\nand remained there about thirteen years. In 1782, he\\nremoved to Londonderry, where he continued to pursue his\\nprofession until 1795. He was highly esteemed as a physi-\\ncian, had an extensive practice, and became somewhat dis-\\ntinguished by the discovery and adoption of improved modes\\nof practice, in certain cases. He was ajustice of the peace,\\nand for several years did a large proportion of the business\\nappertaining to that office in the town. He was the first\\npostmaster appointed in the town. He married. November\\n17, 1769, Persis Sargent, daughter of E-ev. Nathaniel P.\\nSargent, of Methuen, Mass.^ and sister of Chief Justice Sar-\\ngent, of Massachusetts. She died June 23, 1821. He died\\nJuly 13, 1825. He had two children who died in infancy,\\nand nine who lived to adult age, namely, Christopher S.,\\nWilliam S., Persis, Susan, Isaac, James, Nathaniel, Eliza,\\nand George. Of these but three survive, Persis, widow of\\nHon. John Bell, James, and Eliza, wife of Alanson Tucker,\\nEsquire.\\nMATTHEW THORNTON.\\nHon. Matthew Thornton was born in Ireland, in 1714.\\nTwo or three years subsequent to his birth, his father, James", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0337.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "248\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nThornton, emigrated with his familj to this country. He at\\nfirst resided at Wiscasset, Me. In a few years, lie removed\\nto Worcester, Mass., where he conferred the benefits of an\\nacademical education upon his son, whom he designed for\\none of the learned professions. The son accordingly pursued\\ntlie study of medicine, and commeneed practice in London-\\nderry, among those who were from his native land, and who\\nproverbially possess warm national remembrances. Here\\nhe acquired a high and extensive reputation as a physician,\\nand in the course of several years of successful practice,\\nbecame comparatively wealthy. He took an active and\\ninfluential part in the affairs of the town, sustaining several\\npublic offices.\\nIn 1745, Dr. Thornton joined the expedition against Cape\\nBreton, as a surgeon, in the New Hampshire division of the\\narmy, consisting of five hundred men and it is a creditable\\nevidence of his professional abilities, and of the attention of\\nthe medical department, that from among that number of\\nsoldiers only aix individuals died, previous to the surrender\\nof the town, notwithstanding they had been subjected to\\nexcessive toil and constant exposure. The troops, a company\\nof whom were from this town, under the command of Cap-\\ntain John Moor, animated with enthusiastic ardor, readily\\nencountered all the labors and dangers of the siege, and\\nwere employed, during fourteen successive nights, with\\nstraps over their shoulders, and sinking to the knees in mud,\\nin drawing cannon from the landing-place to the camp,\\nthrough a morass.\\nAt the commencement of the revolutionary war, Dr.\\nThornton held the rank of a colonel in the militia. He was\\nalso commissioned as justice of the peace, under the admin-\\nistration of Benning Wentworth.\\nSoon after General Gage had opened the bloody drama\\nof war, at Lexington and Concord, on the 19th of April,\\n1775, the British government in New Hampshire was term-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0338.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 249\\ninated by the retirement of Governor Wentworth. Dr.\\nThornton, amid the perilous and appalling sc\u00c3\u00a8ne which the\\ncountry exhibited, was appointed to the presidency of the\\nProvincial Convention. On the 12th of September, 1776,\\nhe was appointed, by the house of representatives, a delegate\\nto represent the State of New Hampshire in Congress. He\\ndid not take his seat in that illustrious body until November\\nfollowin^, being four months after the passage of the Decla-\\nration of Independence but he immediately acceded to it,\\nand his signature is enroUed among those of the fifty-six\\nworthies, who have immortalized their names by that mem-\\norable act. He was subsequently appointed a judge of the\\nSuperior Court of New Hampshire, having previously\\nreceived the appointment of Chief Justice of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas. He removed from Londonderry to Exeter.\\nAfter residing there a few years, he fixed his residence in\\nMerrimack, having purchased the large estate of Edward\\nGoldstone Lutwyche, Esq., which, in consequence of his\\njoining the English, on the Declaration of Independence,\\nwas confiscated. It was situated on the Merrimack river,\\nnear Lutwyche s Ferry (as it was then called), now Thorn-\\nton s Ferry.\\nJudge Tliornton died while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs.\\nJohn McGaw, at Newburyport. His remains were conveyed\\nto Merrimack, and interred in the graveyard near his dweil-\\ning. His monument bears the following inscription Erect-\\ned to the memory of the Hon. Matthew Thornton, Esq., who\\ndied June 24, 1803, aged. eighty-nine years. The honest\\nman.\\nThe following anecdote of Judge Thornton, may serve as\\nan example of that ready wit which he possessed in common\\nwith most of the Scotch-Irish race.\\nAbout the year 1798, the legislature of New Hampshire\\nconvened at Amherst, about eight miles from the residence\\nof Judge Thornton, who found it convenient to attend, as a", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0339.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "250 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nspectator, and listen to the debates. While there, he hap-\\npened to meet a gentleman from a neighboring town, by the\\nname of D who had formerly lived a near neighbor to\\nhim in Londonderrj, and who was then a member of the\\nlegislature. Mr. D was a man who possessed a fair\\nshare of natural talent, but who seemed by no means dis-\\nposed to underrate his own consequence. During their\\nconversation, Mr. D asked the Judge, if he did not\\nthink the legislature had improved very much since he\\n(Mr. Thornton) held a seat in it, and if it did not then\\npossess more men of natural and acquired abilities, and more\\neloquent speakers, than it did when he (Mr. Thornton) was\\na member. For then, said he, you know, that there\\nwere but five or six who could make speeches but now, all\\nwe farmers can make speeches. To this question, Judge\\nThornton, with his usual good-humor, replied, To answer\\nthat question, I will teil you a story I remember to have\\nheard related of an old gentleman, a farmer, who lived but\\na short distance from my father s residence, in Ireland. This\\nold gentleman was very exemplary in his observance of\\nreligious duties, and made it a constant practice to read a\\nportion of Scripture, every morning and evening, before\\naddressing the throne of grace. It happened one morning,\\nthat he was reading the chapter which gives an account of\\nSamson s catching three hundred foxes when the old lady,\\nhis wife, interrupted him by saying, John I m sure that\\ncanna be true for our Isaac was as good a fox-hunter as\\nthere ever was in the country, and he never caught but\\nabout twanty. Hooh! Janet, replied the old gentleman,\\nye mauna always tak the Scripture just as it reads.\\nPerhaps in the three hundred, there might ha been\\naughteen, or may be twanty, that were raal foxes, the rest\\nwere all skunks and woodchucks.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0340.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 251\\nJAMES WILS ON.*\\nJames Wilson, who lias the honor of being the maker of\\nthe first pair of terrestrial and celestial globes ever made in\\nAmerica, is the son of James Wilson who lived in the South\\nRange. His grandfather, James Wilson, emigrated from\\nLondonderry in Ireland, to Londondeny, N. H., soon after\\nthe settlement of the place, and had thirteen children.\\nJames, the father of the subject of this notice, had four sons\\nJames, Robert, David, and Samuel, and several daughters.\\nOf these sons, James and David are now (1850) living in\\nBradford, Yt., and Robert in Derry. James was born in\\n1763. He early feit a strong love of knowledge, and gave\\nproof of talents of the right stamp for acquiring it; but\\nfeit constrained by circumstances to devote himself to the\\nlaborious occupation of a farmer. Up to the age of thirty-\\nthree, he pursned that employment in the place of his\\nnativity, not however without reading, observation, and\\nreflection. His inclination and genius turned his thoughts\\nand studies especially to geography and astronomy, with\\nthe means of their illustration. In the year 1796, he\\nremoved with his family to Bradford, Yt., and took up his\\npermanent abode on a farm which he purchased there, on\\nthe Connecticut river, about one mile north of the village.\\nWhen about thirty-six years of age, Mr. Wilson had the\\npleasure of seeing and examining a pair of English globes\\nand resolved to imitate them. He commenced with balls\\nturned from blocks of wood, which \u00c2\u00abhe nicely covered with\\npaper, and scientifically finished off, with all the lines and\\nrepresentations which belong to such apparatus, drawn upon\\nthem.\\nThis rude beginning was foliowed by a much better\\nmethod. The solid balls were thickly covered with layers\\nThis notice of James Wilson is copied, with but little alteration,\\nfrom an article which appcarcd, a few years ago, in a ncwspaper pub-\\nlished in Vermont.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0341.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "252 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nof paper, firmly pasted together. This shell was tlien\\ndivided into liemispheres, which, being removed, were again\\nunited, and finished with du e regard to liglitness and smooth-\\nness. But how were these spheres to be covered with maps,\\nequal to those of the European artists Mr. Wilson pro-\\ncured copper plates of suffici\u00c3\u00abnt size for his thirteen-inch\\nglobes, protracted his maps on them in sections, tapering, as\\nthe degrees of longitude do, from the equator to the poles,\\nand engraved them with such admirable accuracy of design,\\nthat when cut apart and duly pasted on his spheres, the edges\\nwith their lines, and even the different parts of the finest\\nletters, would perfectly coincide, and make one surface\\ntruly representing the earth or celestial constellations.\\nThough in the use of the graver he was self-taught, and\\nthis species of design and engraving was incomparably more\\ndifficult than plain work, yet, by his ingenuity and incred-\\nible perseverance, he succeeded admirably, and brought forth\\nglobes, duly mounted, and in all respects fitted to rival in\\nmarket any imported from foreign countries. In the prose-\\ncution of this work. Mr. Wilson doubtless derived important\\nassistance from the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, which consti-\\ntuted the principal part of his library.\\nHe published the first edition of his globes in 1814; and\\npersonally presented to the people of Boston the first Amer-\\nican globes which were seen there. Quite a sensation was\\nproduced among the literati by such a novelty and when\\nearnest inquiry was made, Who is this James Wilson\\nwhere is he he has been heard to say that he feit exceed-\\ningly mortified, in consideration of his rustic garb and\\nmanners, when obliged to come out and confess himsclf.\\nBut the gentlemen in question knew how to prize his\\ntalents, and were proud of the honor which he had done to\\nhis country. They encouraged him to prosecute his under-\\ntaking, by the assurance that he should find a ready market\\nfor all the globes he could fumish. For a time he pursued", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0342.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 253\\nhis vocation on a small sCale, at Bradford, Vt., and also at\\nLondonderiy, N. H., but finally, in company with his sons,\\nwho inherited a good share of their father s taste and inge--\\nnuity, lie established, about the year 1815, a large manufac-\\ntory in Albany, N. Y., and in 1826, brought out from fresh\\nengravings a still more perfect and splendid edition. These\\nglobes, consisting of three different sizes, so elegantly and\\nscientifically constructed, are an honor not only to their\\nmakers, but to the American people. Tiie manufactory\\nat Albany is yet sustained though the young artists who\\ncommenced it went down to early graves, and their aged\\nfather, not long after, wholly withdrew himself from the\\nbusiness.\\nMr. Wilson, with a remnant of his once flourishing fam-\\nily, is still (1850) living on his farm in Bradford, and at the\\nage of eighty-six years, retains his strength, especially of\\nmind, in a remarkable degree. His love for geograjAij,\\nastronomy, and the mechanica! arts connected with them,\\nremains unabated. Since he was eighty years of age, he has\\ncontrived, and with his own hands constructed, a machine,\\nwhich finely illustrates the diurnal and annual revolutions of\\nthe earth, the cause of the successive seasons, and the sun s\\nplace for every day of the year in the ecliptic. These move-\\nments are produced by turning a crank, which causes the\\nearth to revolve about the sun in the plane of the ecliptic\\nalways retaining its true relative position. The machine is\\nalso furnished with the means of enabling the student to see\\nand understand precisely what is meant by the precession of\\nthe equinoxes, a difficult thing without some such means of\\nillustration. The large copper plat e, on which are printed.\\nthe months of the year, with their days, and the corresponding\\nsigns of the zodiac, with their degrees, was engraved by Mr.\\nWilson, after he was eighty-three years of age. Can a sim-\\nilar instance anywhere be found?\\nA specimen of this curieus apparatus may be seen at\\n22", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0343.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "254 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nThetford Academy, Bradford Aca demy, or at Mr. Wilspn s\\nresidence which last is an improvement on the others.\\nEvery academy ought to have something of the sort and\\nthe aged and very ingenious maker ought to realize some\\nprofit from so scientific and useful a contrivance. The\\nmachine, for the want of a more definite name, is called\\nWilson s Planetarium the latter term he used in a restricted\\nsense. If this planetarium should be thought clumsy, still, it\\nfinely illustrates what it was intended to do, and it may yet\\nbe reduced to any degree of elegance. It would in any fam-\\nily be an appropriate accompaniment to Wilson s globes.\\nGENEALOGICAL HISTORY.\\nThe following sketches of the families of some of the early\\nsettlers of Londonderry, are derived in part from records\\nand in part from traditions and the recollections of aged\\npeople. It can hardly be expected that, depending as they\\ndo in some measure upon the memory of the aged, they\\nshould be entirely free from error. But as they have been\\nprepared with much care, it is believed .hat they will, with\\nbut rare exceptions, be found correct. There were many\\nimportant and respectable families, of which no information\\nsuffici\u00c3\u00abnt for a connected sketch could be obtained.\\nThe names of the first ancestors of the families in Amer-\\nica, are printed in small capitals those of their children, in\\nitalics, and where perspicuity seems to require it their grand-\\ncbildren are designated by numerals.\\nFAMILY OF WILLIAM ADAMS.\\nWiLLiAM Adams emigrated from the north of Ireland to\\nthis town, soon after its settlement, and settled upon the\\nfarm now owned and occupied by Nathaniel Brown. He\\nhad five sons, as follows\\nJames, who had eight children, namely, James, Mary, Wil-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0344.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 255\\nliam, of wliom a short notice has been given, Elizabeth,\\nSarah, Samuel, Rachel, and David. David, the youngest son,\\nmarried Janet Wilson, daughter of Colonel Robert Wilson,\\nin 1 800 and had nine children, namel j, Jane, James, Mary\\nM., Robert W., William, David B., John B., Jonathan, and\\na child that died in infancy.\\nJonathan^ who was born in 1729 and died in 1820. He\\nraarried Sarah Smith, and settled on the farm now occupied\\nby his grandson, Captain Josiah H. Adams. He was an\\nactive, energetic man was a soldier in the Revolution, and\\nsnbsequently held the commission of captain in the militia.\\nHe had six children, as follows 1 Jane, who died unmar-\\nried. 2. Jonathan, who lived with his parents and retained\\nthe homestead. He was a very worthy man was distin-\\nguished for his frankness and sincerity, and waS for many\\nyears an elder in the church. His children were William,\\nJosiah H., Daniel M., Jabez F., Sarah Jane, and Moses.\\n3. William, who married Margaret Duncan, and had three\\nchildren, Mary, Jane, and Sarah. 4. James, who married\\nJudith Rolfe, and had ten children, namely, Jonathan, Ann\\nR., Joseph R., James, Jane S., Sarah, John S., Elizabeth,\\nLucinda, and Henry R. 5. Mary, who married William\\nEayres, and removed to Rutland, Vt. 6. Susannah, who\\ndied unmarried.\\nSamuel, who settled at Casco Bay.\\nWilliam and David, of whom no Information has been\\nreceived.\\nFAMILY OF EDWARD AIKE\u00c3\u008f^^.\\nED^yARD AiKEN emigrated from the north of Ireland to\\nthis town, about the year 1722, and settled on the farm now\\nowned by John Folsom, Esq., and which continued in the\\npossession of his descendants more tlian a century. Edward\\nAiken had three sons, who settled in Londonderry, Nathan-\\niel, James, and William. Nathaniel lived on his father s", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0345.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "256 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nfarm, James on the farm iiow owned by Mr. Bradford, aqd\\nWilliam on tliat owned by Mr. David Carr. Hence that\\nneigliborhood was early designated as the Aiken s Range.\\nNathaniel, the eldest son, had five sons. Edward, John,\\nJames, Thomas, and William. Edward settled in Windham,\\nVt., and was the grandfather of Rev. Samuel^C. Aiken, of\\nCleaveland, Oliio. John, the grandfather of Hon. John\\nAiken, of Andover, Mass., and of Rev. Silas Aiken, of Rut-\\nland, Vt., settled in Bedford, N. H. James remained in\\nLondonderry, and had a large family of sons and daughters.\\nThomas and William, the two youngest sons, settled in\\nDeering, N. H., and had large families. Many of their\\ndescendants still remain in that town.\\nJames had three sons and three daughters. His son\\nJames com menced a settlement in Antrim, N. H. and his\\nfamily was the first and only one in that town for several\\nyears. His son John inherited his farm, and had several\\nsons, some of whom removed to Benson, Vt.\\nWilliam had two sons, Edward and William. Edward\\nsettled in Windham, Vt., and had several sons and daugh-\\nters. William removed to Truro, Nova Scotia.\\nOf the descendants of this early and very respectable\\nfamily of the settlers of Londonderry, no correct and full\\naccount has been obtained, except of one branch, that of\\nJohn, the second son of Nathaniel, the elde^ son of Edward.\\nThe statistics of his numerous descendants have been recently\\ncollected by Hon. John Aiken, of Andover, a synopsis of\\nwhich is here inserted.\\nJohn Aiken was born November 18, 1728. In 1758, he\\nmarried Annis Orr, eldest daughter of John and Margaret\\nOrr, of Bedford. They resided in Londonderry eight or ten\\nyears, after their marriage, when they removed and settled\\nin Bedford, where they passed the residue of their days.\\nTheir children were John, Phineas, Margaret, Susanna,\\nAnnis, Sarah, Mary, and Jane.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0346.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 257\\nJohn, their eldest son, married Mary McAfee, of Bedford,\\nin 1781, and ten years afterwards removed to Merrimack,\\nN. H., where he died. He had twelve children, namely,\\nSarauel, Marj, Annis, Susan, Sarah, Jesse, John, Phineas,\\nJane, Lucinda, Benjamin F., and Eliza F.\\nPhineas married. December 8, 1789, Elizabeth Patterson,\\nof Amherst, N. H. He died in 1836, having resided in\\nBedford from early childhood. His widow still survives.\\nTiiej had nine children, as folio ws 1. Nancy P., their\\neldest daughter, was married, in 1809, to Jonathan Aiken,\\nof Goffstown, son of Captain James Aiken, of Londonderry.\\nHe graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1807, and settled in\\nGoffstown as an attorney at law. In 1838, he removed to\\nthe State of Illinois, where he died in 1839. His widow still\\nsurvives. Their children were James, David, Elizabeth,\\nJ5hn C, Charles, Jonathan, Nancy, Henry M., Jane, Silas,\\nWalter H., and George E. 2. Lucy, in 1816, married\\nFrederick A. Mitchel, M. D., of Bedford, and had seven\\nchildren. 3. Betsey, in 1818, married Isaac Riddle, Jr.,\\nof Bedford, and had five children. 4. John graduated at\\nDartmouth College, 1819 was tutor there for two years\\n(1820-1822). Resided in Bennington county, Vt., from 1823\\nto 1834, most of the time in the practice of law removed to\\nLowell, Mass, in 1834; resided there till 1850, as agent of\\na manufacturing company. In 1849, he was a member of\\nthe governor s council. In 1850, he removed to Andover,\\nMass., where he now resides, being the treasurer of the\\nCocheco Manufacturing Company, Dover, N. H. He\\nmarried, in 1826, Harriet R. Adams, daughter of Prof.\\nAdams, of Dartmouth College, by whom he had three\\nchildren. In 1832, he married Mary M. Appleton, of\\nAmherst, daughter of the late president Appleton, by whom\\nhe has five children. o. Silas graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege, 1825 was tutor there three years (1825-1828)\\nwas settled in the ministry at Amherst, N. H., 1829. He\\n22*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0347.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "258 HISTORY OF LONDONDEliRY.\\nsubsequently removcd to Boston, and was for several years\\npastor of Park Street churcli. He is now settled in Rutland,\\nVt. In 1829, he married Mary Osgood, of Salem, Mass., by\\nwhom he had three children. In 1837, he married Sophia\\nParsons, of Amherst, Mass., by whom he has two children.\\n6. Charles, in 1839, married Adeline Willey, of Campton,\\nN. H., and had seven children. 7. David, in 1844, married\\nLydia W. Root, of Greenfield, Mass. She died in 1846,\\nand in 1848, he married Mary E. Adams, of Amherst, Mass.\\n8. Sarah A., in 1829, married William P. Black, of Man-\\nchester, Vt., and had six children. 9. Phineas died in early\\nlife.\\nMargaret, in 1787, married Josiah Chandler, of Goffstown.\\nAbout the year 1799, they removed to Pomfret, Vt., where\\nthey both died. Their children were Mary B., John A.,\\nAnnis, David, Lucinda, Josiah, and Calvin.\\nSusamia, in 1790, married Jonathan Barron, who then\\nresided in Merrimack, subsequently in Rockingham, Vt., and\\nnow resides at Nunda, Livingston county, N. Y. Their\\nchildren were Polly A., Annis, Moses, Harriet, Abel, Sally,\\nLucius H., Quartus H.\\nAnnis, in 1813, married Abner Campbell, of London-\\nderry, and died, in 1839, without issue.\\nSarah, in 1791, married Samuel Gilchrist, of Goffstown,\\nN. H., and after his death married, in 1822, Captain Jolm\\nSmith, of Goffstown, with whom she still lives. Her chil-\\ndren by her first husband were John, Fanny, Alexander,\\nSamuel, Sophronia, Jason, Margaret A., James A., and\\nHiram.\\nMary, in 1814, married William Reed, of Litchfield,\\nN. H., and had one son, Phineas A.\\nJa7ie, in 1807, married James Aiken, of Goffstown, who\\ndied in 1809, without issue. In 1831, she married Rev.\\nWalter Harris, D. D., of Dunbarton, N. H., who died in\\n1843, leaving her a second time a widow.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0348.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "aENEALOGiCAL SKETCHES. 259\\nAccording to the statistics of tliis branch of the Aiken\\nfamily it appears, that from this one grandson of Edward\\nAiken, the \u00c3\u00b6rst ancestor of the family in this country, there\\nare two hundred and sixty-three descendants, two hundred\\nand twelve of whom are now living. As Edward Aiken had\\nthirteen grandchildren, if the descendants of the other twelve\\nwere as numerous, the whole number of his descendants\\nwould be three thousand four hundred and nineteen.\\nFAMILY OF JAMES ANDERSON.\\nOf the first sixteen settlers of the town, were Allen\\nand James Anderson. Allen had no children James had\\nseven; namely, Samuel, Robert, James, Thomas, David,\\nJane, and Nancy.\\nSamuel married Martha Craige, and had four children 1.\\nJames married Nancy Armstrong. 2. John married Anna\\nDavidson, and for his second wife, Mary Williams. 3. Sam-\\nuel married Mary Davidson. 4. Margaret married John\\nGraham.\\nRobert married Agnes Craige, and had nine children: 1.\\nJames remained unmarried. 2. John married Jane Wallace.\\n3. William married Margaret Wilson. 4. Allen married\\nSally Moor. 5. Robert married Mary Darrah. 6. Samuel\\nmarried Anna Alexander, and removed to Acworth. 7.\\nDavid married Sally Barnett. 8. Mary married James\\nDinsmore. 9. Jane married David Campbell.\\nJames married Nancy Woodburn, and subsequently widow\\nElizabeth Barnett. By his first wife he had eight children\\nand by his second wife, four 1. James, who married Mar-\\ngaret Reid, was lieutenant under Captain George Reid,\\nat the battle of Bunker Hill, and subsequently captain of the\\ncompany, on the promotion of Captain Reid. He continued\\nin service during the whole of the war, and died at Troy, N.\\nY., 1827. 2. John married Mary Morrison. He was also\\na short time in the service of his country. 3. Rufus, of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0349.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "260 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nwhoni a biograpliical sketch has been given. 4. Joseph,\\nwho removed to the West. 5. Maiy married Thomas Aiken\\nof Deering. 6. Margaret married James Moor. 7. Alice\\nmarried the Rev. Joseph McKeen. 8. Nancy married John\\nMcClary. 9. Alexander married Martha McGilvery. 10.\\nBenjamin married Lydia Jackson. 11. William married\\nPrudence Ladd. 12. Jane married Alexander McCollom.\\nThomas married Mary Craige, and had seven children: 1.\\nDaniel, who married Sarah Nesmith. 2. James, unmarried.\\n3. John, unmarried. 4. Mary, who married William Ander-\\nson of Candia. 5. Jane, who married Robert Nesmith. 6.\\nMartha, who married Robert McClure of Acworth. 7.\\nMargaret, unmarried.\\nDavid m.2kVT\u00c3\u008fQ^ a Miss Wilson, and had three sons Robert,\\nwho married Naomi Aiken, James, and Andrew.\\nJane married Elder James Taggart, and had two sons,\\nSamuel, of whom a particular notice has been given, and\\nThomas.\\nThe children of John, the son of Samuel, and grandson of\\nJames the first settler, were as follows Martha, who mar-\\nried David Robinson Jesse, who married Martha Morrison\\nJohn, who removed to South Carolina, and married there\\nSamuel, who married Mary Wilson, and afterwards Eliza-\\nbeth Armstrong Sarah, who married John Holmes Jane,\\nwho married John Hills James, who married Nancy An-\\nderson, and Betsy, who married James Tojvns.\\nThe children of Margaret,. daughter of Samuel, who mar-\\nried John Graham, were William, Martha, Samuel, Jane, and\\nElizabeth.\\nFAMILY OF JOHN ANDERSON.\\nJohn Anderson, with his wife and family, came from\\nthe north of Ireland and settled in Londonderry as early as\\n1725. Their children, John, James, Robert, and Jane, came\\nwith their parents.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0350.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 261\\nJohn married and lived in Londonderry, but died young,\\nleaving three cliildren, Matthew, John, an d Jane. Mattliew\\nand John were at the battle of Bunker Hill, and after the\\nclose of the war, Matthew married Nancy Taylor, daughter\\nof Adam Taylor, and John married a Miss Archibald, and\\nboth removed to Yermont, where they lived and died. Their\\ndescendants are very numerous in Vermont, New York, and\\nthe Western States. Jane married David Paul, of the East\\nparish in Londonderry, where many of her descendants reside.\\nJames married Isabel McQueston, about the year 1728,\\nand had nine children namely, Jane, Hugh, Sarah, Mary,\\nJames, John, William, Mary Ann, and Joseph. Of these,\\nJane, James, and John died young and unmarried. Hugh\\nwas out in the wars about the year 1760, and was known to\\nhave been engaged in a running fight with the French and\\nIndians, where his party was overpowered by numbers, and\\nwas never heard from afterwards. William married Agnes\\nClark, in 1769, and had eight children Hugh, Robert, Mary\\nAnn, James, William, Letitia, Elizabeth, and John, no\\none of whom survives excepting Mary Ann, who now resides,\\nat an advanced age, on the old family homestead in London-\\nderry. Hugh, son of William, married Jane Nesmith in\\n1797, and left three children William, John N., and Eliza-\\nbeth N., all of whom are living and have numerous descend-\\nants. Robert, son of William, married Sarah Stearns, in\\n1804, and eight of his children are now living in New Hamp-\\nshire and Massachusetts. William, son of William, married\\nMary Bell, daughter of John Bell, Esq., in 1808, and left two\\ndauo-hters, each of whom is married and has several children.\\nOne of them resides in Pittsburgh, Pa., and the other in the\\nState of Ohio.\\nRobert married, and resided in that part of Londonderry\\nnow Manchester, but left no male issue his daughters were\\nmarried, and many of tlieir descendants are now living.\\nJane was married, and many of her descendants are now\\nliving in New Hampshire and Vermont.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0351.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "262 HISTORT OP LONDONDERRT.\\nThe original homestead on which the commori ancestors\\nsettled in Londonderiy, in 1725, has ever since remained in\\nthe family, and is now in the possession of their descendants,\\nWilliara Anderson of Derrj, and John N. Anderson of Lon-\\nden derry.\\nFAMILY OF JOHN BELL.\\nJohn Bell, though not one of the first of the emigrants\\nwho began the settlement of Londonderry in April 1719,\\nmust have arrived there in 1720, as the first mention of his\\nname upon the records is in the grant of his homestead, a lot\\nof sixty acres, in Aiken s Range, upon which he spent the\\nrest of his life, and where his son John always lived. This\\nrecord bears the date of 1720. Other lands were allotted\\nhim in 1722, and afterwards, to the amount of three hundred\\nacres. After commencing a clearing upon a part of his lot\\nnear the brook, and building a cabin there, he returned in\\n1722, to his native country for his wife and two surviving\\ndaughters, two of his children having died in infancy.\\nMr. Bell was born in the vicinity of Coleraine, probably\\nin the parisli of Ballymony, in the county of Antrim, in\\n1678. He married Elizabeth Todd, a daughter of John\\nTodd and Rachel Nelson, and sister of Col. Andrew Todd.\\n-He appears to have held a respectable position among his\\ntownsmen, and for several years held various offices in the\\ntown. He died July 8, 1743, aged sixty-four years. His\\nwife was a person of much decision and energy of character,\\nand survived him till August 30, 1771, when she died, aged\\neighty-two years. After their removal to Londonderry,\\nthey had two soiis and two daughters.\\nSamuel, his eldest son, was born September 28, 1723.\\nHe removed to Cambridge, New York, and married Sarah\\nStorow. He, and two of his sons and two brothers-in-law,\\nwere taken prisoners hj the advance of Burgoyne s army,\\nhis stock was driven off, and his buildings burned. His", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0352.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 263\\nsons, John and Matthew, clied not long after their return from\\ncaptivitj. Mr. Bell died about 1803, at the age of eighty,\\nleaving many descendants.\\nThe four daughters of John Bell, all married persons of\\nthe name of Duncan, three of them brothers, and sons of\\nGeorge Duncan, Esq., of Londonderry, and the other a\\nnephew, the son of John Duncan, their eldest brother.\\nLetitia, born in Ireland, married Deacon George Duncan\\nof Londonderry.\\nNaomi married Captain William Duncan of Londonderry.\\nElizaheth married James Duncan of Haverhill, Mass.\\nMary married George Duncan of Peterborough, N. H.\\n(For the children of these four daughters, see family of\\nGeorge Duncan.)\\nJohn^ of whom a biographical sketch has been given, mar-\\nried Mary Ann Gilmore, daughter of James Gilmore and Jean\\nBaptiste, and, besides three children who died in early life,\\nhad five sons and four daughters, as follows: 1. 2. James\\nand Ebenezer died in youth. 3. Jonathan died at Chester\\nin 1808, leaving no children. 4. John, born Ju ly 20, 1765,\\nearP^ engag\u00c3\u00abd in trade Avith good success, and was elected a\\nmember of the legislature from Londonderry. About the\\nbeginning of this century, he s^ttled in Chester, where he\\nspent the rest of his life. In 1803, he was elected senator\\nfor the third district, and served one term. Li 1817, he was\\nelected councillor, and continued in that office five years.\\nLi 1823, he was appointed Sheriff of Rockingham County\\nand held that office until he was elected governor in 1828,\\nin which office he served one term. He was fortunate in the\\nacquisition of property, and left at his death, in March, 1836,\\na handsome estate. He married Persis, daughter of Dr.\\nIsaac Thom, of Londonderry, and had a family of ten chil-\\ndren. Of these, one son, Charles Henry, a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth College, 1845, alone survives. Governor Bell was\\ndistinguished through life for sound judgment, accurate\\nbusiness habits, and strict integrity.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0353.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "264 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\n5. Samuel was born Febriiaiy 9, 1770, graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College, 1793, studied law witli Hon. Samuel Dana,\\nof Amherst, and was admitted to practice in 1796. He\\npractised law at Francestown to 1808, and at Amlierst to\\n1810.* He was representative in 1804, 1805, and 1806, and\\nwas speaker tlie two last years. He was senator and pres-\\nident of the Senate in 1807 and 1808, and was councillor in\\n1809. In 1812, he removed to a farm in Cliester, where he\\nhas since resided. In 1816, he was appointed a judge of\\nthe Superior Court. In 1819 to 1823, he was elected gover-\\nnor, and from 1823 to 1835, senator in Congress. He has\\nbeen twice married first, to Mehitable B. Dana, daughter of\\nHon. Samuel Dana, by whom he had six children. Three\\nsons survive. Hon. Samuel D., justice of the Superior\\nCourt of New Hampshire, James, counsellor at law, at Gil-\\nford, N. H.,.and Hon. Luther V. Bell, LL. D., superintend-\\nent of the McLean Asjlum, at Somerville, Mass. She\\ndied in 1810. His second wife is Lucy G. Smith, daughter\\nof Jonathan Smith, Esq., of Amherst. They have four sons,\\nGeorge and John, students at Dartmouth College, Charles,\\nstudent at Brown University, and Lewis. 6. Elizabeth^ftied\\nJune 22, 1786, at the age of twenty-three years. 7. Susan-\\nnah married John Dinsmore, Esq., whose sons, John B. of\\nRipley, N. Y., and James (Dartmouth College, 1813,) of\\nWalnut Hills, Ky., survive and have families, and other\\ndescendants remain. 8. Mary married Captain NYilliam\\nAnderson and left two daughters, one of whom married a\\nMr. Dickey, now of Alleghany, Penn. 9. Mary Ann died\\nunmarried.\\nFA.MILY OF JAMES CLARK.\\nJames Clark, afterwards Deacon James Clark, one of the\\nfirst settlers of Londonderry, lived on the farm now occupied\\nbyhis grandson, Deacon Matthew Clark. He had four sons\\nand one daughter, namely, John, Samuel, George, Matthew,\\nand Eleanor.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0354.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 265\\nJohn settled in the western part of Londonderry, and had\\nseveral children. Some of their descendants still reside in\\nthe town.\\nSamael and George settled in the town of Windham.\\nEach had a family of children, and some of their descend-\\nants now live in that town,\\nMatihew inherited his father s fe,rm in Londonderry. He\\nmarried Margaret Anderson, by wliom he had four sons\\nand three daughters namely, James, Samuel, Matthew,\\nJohn, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabetli.\\nEleanor married Robert Hemphill, of Windham, and had\\na family of sons and daughters,\\nFAMILY OF ROBERT CLARK.\\nKoBERT Clark, of the Scotch colony, in Ireland, came to\\nLondonderry about the year 1725, and settled on the height\\nof land northwest of Beaver Pond. He died in 1775.\\nLetitia, his wife, was the daughter of John Cochran, of\\nLondonderry in Ireland. She died in 1783. Their children\\nwere as follows\\nW\u00c3\u00aflltam, who married Anne Wallace, and settled in New\\nBoston, N. H., in 1766. His children were Robert, John,\\nNinian, Rebecca, Anne, and Letitia.\\nJohfi, who married Nancy Stinson, lived in Londonderry,\\nand died in 1808. His children were Robert, David, Letitia,\\nPoUy, Alexander, William, Jane, Betsey, and John.\\nSamuel, who married Sarah Holmes, and subsequently,\\nJanet Barnett, and died in Londonderry, in 1791. His\\nchildren were Robert, Daniel, Sally, Moses, William, John,\\nand Janet.\\nNinian, who married Mary Ramsey, settled in New\\nBoston, N. H., and died in 1808. His children were Wil-\\nliam, Lydia, Robert, Hugh, Hamilton, Letitia, David, Jona-\\nthan, and Samuel.\\nkL7ie, who married James Crombie, and resided in New\\n23", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0355.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "266 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nBoston. Her children were William, Robert, John, Letitia.\\nJane, James, Samuel, and Clark.\\nLetitia, who married Samuel Wallace, and subsequently\\nRobert Moor, of Londonderry, and died in 1832, at the age\\nof eighty-nine. Her children by her first husband were\\nAnnis, Letitia, Rebecca, and Sarah by her second husband,\\nJane, Mary, and Samuel.\\nAgneSy who married William Anderson, and lived in Lon-\\ndonderry. Her children were Hugh, Eobert, Marianne,\\nJames, William, Letitia, Elizabeth, and John.\\nElizabethy who married Andrew Mack, of Londonderry.\\nHer children were Jane, Letitia, Elizabeth, John, Isabella,\\nRobert, Andrew, and Daniel.\\nFAMILY OF JOHN CROMBIE.\\nJohn Crombie emigrated from the north of Ireland, and\\nsettled in Londonderry, about the year 1720. He married\\nJoan Rankin, November 17, 1721, and by her bad four sons\\nand five daughters namely, Hugh, William, James, John\\nElizabeth, Mary, Jane, Nancy, and Ann.\\nHugh lived in Chester, N. H., married, and had a faraily.\\nJohn married Rebecca Barnett, by whom he had three\\nsons and two daughters namely, William, Moses, John,\\nMary, and Huldah. He was for several years one of the\\nselectmen of Londonderry.\\nJqmes married Jane Clark, by whom he had six sons and\\ntwo daughters, as folio ws 1. William, who married Betsey\\nFairfield, and settled in the State of New York, where he\\nstill lives. 2. Robert, who married Mary Patterson, and\\nlived and died in New Boston, N. H. 3. John, who married\\nLydia Clark, and lived and died in New Boston. 4. Jan..\\nwho married Joanna Jones, studied medicine with Dr. Jon-\\nformerly of Lyndeborough, N. H., and commenced pract\\nin 1798, at Temple, N. H. In 1820, he removed fr(.?n\\nTemple to Francestown, N. H., where he continued tn.;", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0356.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 267\\npractice of medicine, until 1850, when he removed to Derry,\\nwhere he now resides with his son, James H. Crombie,\\nM. D. 5. Samuel, who married Maiy Cooledge, and re-\\nmoved to Waterford, Me., where he was engaged in the\\npractice of medicine until his death. 6. Clark, who married\\nLucy Dean, lived for many years in New Boston, and after-\\nwards removed to Lowell, Mass, where he still resides.\\n7. Jane, who married James Cochran, and still lives in New\\nBoston. 8. Letitia.\\nIn 1783, James Crombie, Sen., removed from London-\\nderry to New Boston. All his children were born in Lon-\\ndonderry, with the exception of Clark, who was born in New\\nBoston.\\nElizabeth married William Blair.\\nMary married John Patten, of Chester.\\nJane married Robert Clendenin,\\nNancy married Deacon Peter Calhoun.\\nAnn married John Cochran.\\nFAMILY OF SAMUEL DICKEY.\\nSamuel Dickey, the ancestor of this family, although not\\none of the first, was among the early settlers of Londonderry.\\nHe settled on the south side of Moose Hill, subduing and\\noccupying the farm now possessed by his grandson. Captain\\nJoseph Dickey. Mr. Dickey was distinguished for his\\nHerculean strength, it being equal to that of two ordinary\\nmen. He had two sons and five daughters.\\nAdam, the elder son, married Jane Nahor, and settled on\\nthat part of his father s farm now owned by Warren Coffin,\\nEsq., where he lived several years after which he removed\\nto Vermont. In the decline of life, he returned to his native\\ntown, where he died.\\nBetsey, the eldest daughter, married James Betton, Esq.,\\nseveral of whose descendants were among the more respect-\\nable and influential members of the community. Silas Betton,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0357.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "268 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nson of James, pursued a literary course, and graduated at\\nDartmouth College, 1787. He settled as an attorney at law,\\nin Salem, N. H. He was for several years a member of the\\nNew Hampshire legislature, as a representative, and as a\\nsenator. He was a representative of the State in Congress\\nfrom 1803 to 1807, and high sheriff of Rockingham county\\nfrom 1813 to 1819. He died January 22, 1822.\\nThe second daiighter married Alexander Parker, of Green-\\nfield, N. H.\\n3Iary married Robert Boyd. Jenny was a deaf mute.\\nMartlia married John Cochran, of New Boston. They\\nwere among the first settlers, and their descendants consti-\\ntute some of the more respectable and influential members\\nof that community.\\nRobert, the yo\u00c3\u00bcnger son, inherited the homestead, as well\\nas much of that muscular energy that marked the character\\nof his father. Of this, his contemporaries are said to have\\nhad effective demonstration, as they engaged in the athletic\\nsports and games of that early period. These practices,\\nwhich served to test and foster the strength, energy, and\\ncourage of the corabatants, and which are now passed away,\\nwere adapted to the times, when such physical powers and\\nvirtues were more requisite than in the present improved\\nstate of society. Though Mr. Dickey was not quarrelsome\\nor revengeful in his disposition, yet, in one of those combats\\nso frequent in his day, a stroke of his powerful arm proved,\\nmost unhappily, fatal to his antagonist. He married Hannah\\nWoodburn, of whom a brief notice is given in the account of\\nthe family of John Woodburn and from them descended\\nthe families of Dickey, now inhabitants of the town, and\\nseveral others who have removed to distant parts of the\\ncountry. Mr. Dickey possessed a generous public spirit and\\nkind and hospitable feelings. He died when little past the\\nmeridian of life. He had eleven children, all of whom lived\\nto mature life. Ten still survive, the youngest of whom is\\nabout fifty years of age.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0358.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 269\\nThese children, while favored with such means of educa-\\ntion as the times then afForded, were early accustomed to\\nhabits of labor and industry. They were.principally trained\\nto agricultural pursuits, and their devotedness to husbandry,\\nthat very useful and honorable employment, forms a distin-\\nguishing feature in their family history. Few have engaged\\nin mechanical or mercantile business, or in professional life.\\nAs these ten children Wiire all settled within a few miles\\nof the paternal home, their local situation, early friendship,\\nand frequent intercourse, have rendered this family, in its\\nseveral branches, remarkable for the intimacy and ,harmony\\nwhich have prevailed among them. Few circles have en-\\njoyed more social gatherings, or been less broken by the\\nhand of death, than this. The habits of this family, to use\\nthe language of one of its members, are decidedly domestic,\\nmuch less disposed to hazardous sf)eculation and scheming\\nenterprise, than to honest toil. Indeed, of all its numerous\\nmembers, none have as yet discovered any other channel to\\ncompetence and character, than hard work so much so,\\nindeed, that many of them have come to measure character,\\nnot so much by moral virtues or intellectual attainments, as\\nby the amount of hard labor performed. Though none of\\nthem have shone conspicuously in the public arena, few have\\nreason to blush for their reputation. Though none of them\\nboast large fortunes, yet so much have they been favored by\\nfortune s smiles, that all enjoy a competence, and at no time\\nhas any member been dependent, either upon public charity\\nor private munificence.\\nFAMILY OF GEORGE DUNCAN.\\nGeorge Duncax was a son of George Duncan who\\nlived and died in Ireland. He came to this country with\\nhis second wife, Margaret Cross, and his seven children.\\nThey were John, the eldest by a former marriage, and\\nGeorge, William, Robert, Abraham, Esther, and James, by\\n23*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0359.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "270 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nthe second marriage. He was a man of education, and was\\na justice of the peace.\\nJohn married Rachel Todd. They brought with them to\\nthis countiy four children namely, John, George, Abraham\\nand William. The latter was born on the passage. After\\ntheir arrival and settlement in Londonderry, they had five\\nother children namely, James, Naomi, Polly, Rachel, and\\nRosanna. From this stock are descended John Duncan,\\nEsq., of Londonderry, William H. Duncan, Esq., of Han-\\nover, N. H., and several families of that name in Antrim,\\nand elsewhere. George, son of John, married Mary Bell,\\nyoungest daughter of John and Elizabeth Bell. They lived\\nat Peterborough, where she died, about 1811, aged eighty-\\nthree. Their children were Elizabeth, who married Rev.\\nSamuel Taggart, member of Congress Rachel, who married\\nDeacon John Todd, of Peterborough Sarah Esther, who\\nmarried Moses Black, of Boston, Mass. a daughter, who\\nmarried Ebenezer Moore, of Peterborough Mary, who mar-\\nried Rev. Mr. Wallace, and George, who married Jane\\nFerguson, and removed to Western New York, or Ohio.\\nWilliam, son of John, married Jane Alexander, lived many\\nyears in Londonderry, and had three children, Rosanna,\\nRachel, and Ann. Rosanna married Thomas Lamb, and\\ndied about 1849, aged eighty-nine. Thomas Lamb of Boston,\\nis her son. Rachel and Ann left no children. Rachel,\\ndaughter of John, married Samuel Archibald, of Nova Scotia,\\nand had several children. Among them was the Hon. Sam-\\nuel G. W. Archibald, attorney-general of Nova Scotia, who\\nlived at Halifax, greatly respected.\\nGeorge married Letitia Bell, eldest daughter of John and\\nElizabeth Bell, and lived in Londonderry. He was an elder\\nin the church, and died about 1780-5, aged about seventy.\\nTheir children were as follows 1. John, who married Mary\\nDuncan, was resident in Antrim, which town he represented\\nin the legislature, was a State senator, and died in 1822,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0360.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 271\\naged ninety-one. 2. George, wlio removed to the West. 3.\\nJames, Esq., of Hancock. He represented that town in the\\nlegislature, and died about 1804. 4. Josiah. 5. Elizabeth,\\nwho married James Cimningham, of Pembroke. 6. Letitia,\\nwho married Alexander Todd.\\nWilliam married Naomi Bell, sister of Letitia above men-\\ntioned. They lived in Londonderry, where she died, about\\n1804, aged eighty-nine. Captain Duncan died about 1798,\\naged eighty-two. Their children were as follows 1. George,\\nof Acworth, who died unmarried. 2. John, of Acworth, rep-\\nresentative and colonel, whose sons were Adam, John, and\\nHorace. 3. William, who died unmarried. 4. Isaac, of\\nAcworth. 5. Rachel, wife of Major John Pinkerton. 6.\\nSusannah, wife of Joseph Patterson of Henniker. 7. Jane,\\nwife of Abraham Duncan. 8. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas\\nMoore, of Acworth. 9. Margaret, wife of William Adams.\\nRohert moved to Boston, married Isabella Caldwell, and\\nhad several children. Among their descendants, are the\\nfamilies of the late Alden Bradford, and William Stephen-\\nson, of Boston, and William Thomas, of Plymouth.\\nAbraham married, lived, and died in North Carolina.\\nEsther married John Cassan, of Connecticut.\\nJames married Elizabeth Bell, third daughter of John and\\nElizabeth Bell, and was a merchant in Haverhill, Mass.\\nHe acquired a large property, and died about 1818, aged\\nninety-two. His wife died, aged about forty-seven years.\\nTheir children were as follows 1. John, who died unmar-\\nried. 2. Samuel, of Grantham, N. H., who married a Miss\\nEmerson, and had several children. 3. Robert, who was\\nrepresentative of Grantham, married a Miss Emerson had a\\nson, Samuel B., and died in 1807. 4. Abraham, o. Wil-\\nliam, who lived at Concord, N. H., and represented that\\ntown. He married a Miss Harris, and had a son James, a\\ndaughter Mehitable, who married Andrew McCIary, a\\ndaughter, who married the late George B. Upham, of Clare-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0361.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "272 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nmont, N. H., and a daughter who married a Mr. Shapleigh,\\nof Portsmouth, N. H. He died about 1795. Ilis widow\\nremoved to Ohio with her son James, and died in 1835. 6.\\nJames, who married Rebecca White, and died about 1822.\\nHe had two sons, Col. Samuel, who died about 1824, aged\\nthirty-four, leaving children, and Col. James H., counsellor at\\nlaw, and representative in Congress, who married Miss Willis,\\nand has a large family. 7. Elizabeth, who married a Mr.\\nThatcher, a lawyer, and afterwards George Carter, and is\\nliving at Boston. 8. Margaret, who is now living, and is\\nthe widow of Thomas Baldwin, D. D., of Boston. 9. Mary,\\nand three others.\\nFAMILY OF SAMUEL ELA.\\nSamuel Ela removed from Haverhill, Mass., and settled\\nin Londonderry, about the year 1755, and died in 1784.\\nHe had eight children, as follows\\nEdward married a Miss Colby had two children, Edward\\nand Nancy, and died in Londonderry.\\nClark married a Miss Fulton, and had one son.\\nDavid married Nancy, the daughter of Deacon Samuel\\nFisher, and widow of William Cunningham, and had five\\nchildren namely, Clark, William, Sally, Lois, and Charlotte.\\nHe lived and died in Londonderry.\\nJohn married Sarah Ferson, and had one child, who died\\nin early life.\\nTabitha married Richard Petty, and removed to Thorn-\\nton, N. H.\\nHannah married Jonathan Ferson, and also removed to\\nThornton.\\nMary married Eliphalet Chcney, and removed to Canaan,\\nN.H.\\nLois died in childhood.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0362.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 273\\nFAMILY OF ROBERT GILMORE.\\nRoBERT Gilmore was born near Coleraine in Irelaiid,\\nand married Mary Ann Kennedy, in that country. They\\nemigrated early to Londonderry, where they spent the rest\\nof their days. His age at his death was eighty. His chil-\\ndren were William, Robert, John, and James.\\nWilliam married Elizabeth The births of four\\nchildren are recorded upon the town records Robert, Mary,\\nJames, and Anne.\\nJRohert lived at Londonderry, where he died about 1780,\\naged eighty. By his first wife, Anne, he had two children,\\nJames and Elizabeth; and by his second wife, Elizabeth, he\\nhad three sons and two daughters John and Roger, both of\\nwhom lived in Jaffrey, N. H., William, who lived in Lon-\\ndonderry, Meriam, and Jemima.\\nJohn died unmarried.\\nJames married Jean Baptiste. They lived in Londonderry,\\nand both died about the same time, of pleurisy. He was\\nabout fifty years of age. They had a large family, as foUows\\n1. John died at Rockingham, Yt., aged about eighty-one, and\\nleft a family. 2. Jonathan, who lived at Ira, Vt., married\\na Miss Hunter, and had several children, of whom James,\\nRobert, William, and Jonathan, were lately living in Ohio.\\n3. James, who was colonel of the eighth regiment, and who\\nhad several children James, John of Belfast, Me., Robert,\\nGawen of Acworth, Baptiste, Jonathan, Jane, Margaret, and\\nAnn. 4. Jane, who married Robert Patterson of Saco, Me.,\\nand had eleven sons and three daughters. 5. Margaret, who\\nmarried George Pattison of Coleraine, Mass., and had six\\nsons and one daughter. 6. Elizabeth, who married Samuel\\nWilson, died at Londonderry in 1816, aged eighty-five, and\\nhad six children; Samuel, Jane (Patterson, afterwards\\nAiken), Elizabeth (Clyde), Rachel (Gregg of Waterford,\\nN. Y.), Mary Ann (Wilson), Margaret (Anderson). 7.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0363.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "274 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nAgnes, who married Benjamin Nesmitli. 8. Maiy Ann,\\nwho married John Bell, Esq., of Londonderry. For her\\ndescendants, see family of John Bell. /i -fK V^\\nFAMTLY OF JAMES GREGG.\\nCaptain James Gregg, one of the sixteen who first,\\nsettled in Londonderrj, was bom in Ayrshire, Scotland, and\\nemigrated with his parents to Ireland, about the year 1690.\\nPrevious to his leaving Scotland, he had served as an\\napprentice to the tailoring business. He married Janet\\nCargil. They had four sons and one daughter namely,\\nWilliam, John^ Samuel, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Soon after\\nhis marriage he commenced the business of linen-draper,\\nand for several years pursued it with success, and accumu-\\nlated considerable property. In 1718, he embarked with\\nmany others for America, and was among those who passed\\nthe following winter at Cape Elizabeth, where they endured\\nmany privations and much sufFering. As Mr. Gregg pos-\\nsessed the means, and also the disi3osition, he was very\\neffici\u00c3\u00abnt in aiding and encouraging this company of settlers\\namid their trials and wants. He subsequently received a\\ncaptain s commission, and commanded the first company of\\nsoldiers raised in the town.\\nWilliam, the eldest son of Captain James Gregg, became\\nthe principal surveyor in the town, and laid out its lots. He\\nmarried Janet Rankin. They had two sons and two daugh-\\nters James and Ilugh, Naomi and Frances.\\nJohn married Agnes Rankin. They had ten children;\\nnamely, James, Hugh, John, AVilliam, George, Samuel,\\nJosep h, and Benjamin and .twin daughters, Elizabeth and\\nJanet.\\nSamuel married Mary Moor, by whom he had four sons\\nand thre^\u00c3\u00af daughters James, John, Samuel, David, Margaret,\\nMary, and Elizabeth.\\nThomas married Ann Leslie. They had several sons and\\ndaughters. Some of their posterity now reside in Vermout.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0364.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 275\\nElizabeth married James Moor. Tliey had three sons\\nand two daughters namelj, William, Robert, Hugb, Maiy,\\nand Elizabeth.\\nJames, i\\\\\\\\Q eldest son of John Gregg, and grandson of\\nJames, married Marj McCurdy. They had five sons and\\nthree daughters John, Joseph, James, Jonathan, Benjamin,\\nElizabeth, Hannah, and Mary.\\nWilliam, the third son of John, married Barbara Aiken,\\nand had two sons and three daughters Ebenezer, William,\\nJane, Hosanna, and Elizabeth.\\nJohn, the fourth son of John, married his cousin Mary\\nGregg. They had three sons and three daughters Benja-\\nmin, Ebenezer, William, Agnes, Jane, and Mary.\\nSamuel, the fifth son of John, married Agnes Smiley.\\nThey had eight children John, Hugh, Samuel, George,\\nSarah, Ann, Mary, and Elizabeth.\\nJoseph, the seventh son of John, married Susanna Aiken\\nhad four sons and seven daughters namely, John, Nathaniel,\\nJoseph, David A., Anne, Margaret, Barbara, Susanna,\\nElizabeth, Jane, and Sarah.\\nBenjamin, the eighth son of John, married Lettice Aiken.\\nThey had two sons and two daughters John and James,\\nLettice and Jane.\\nFAMILY OF DAVID GREGG.\\nDavid Gregg was the ancestor of another family,\\nentirely unconnected with the preceding. He was born in\\nLondonderry in Ireland, in 1 685, and was the son of John\\nGregg, who was als o a native of the same city. He married\\nMary Evans, and with his wife and son, William, who was\\nthen eigjit years of age, emigrated to North America, and\\nsettled in the southerly part of Londonderry (now Windham),\\nin November, 1722. After his\u00c2\u00abarrival in this country, he had\\nother children.\\nWilliam, the eldest son, married Elizabeth Kyle, who was", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0365.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "276 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nborn in the county of Antrim, in Ireland, in 1719, and came\\nto this country in 1727. He had six sons and three daugh-\\nters.\\n1. One son died while a soldier in the French war, at\\nSchenectady, N. Y., in 1755. 2. William married Isabel\\nDunlap, and had three sons and six daughters. 3. David\\nmarried a Miss Gregg, a cousin, and had two sons and one\\ndaughter. 4. Thomas married a Miss MeCoy, and had one\\nson, Dani\u00c3\u00abl, who lived in Boston, Mass. 5. The oldest\\ndaughter, married Richard Sisk, and lived in Massachusetts.\\n6. Mary, the second daughter, married Hugh McKeen, of\\nAcworth, N. H., had a family, and removed to Genessee\\ncounty, N. Y. 7. Jane, the third daughter, married James\\nMcAlvain, and removed to Francestown, N. H., and had four\\nsons and one daughter. 8. John married Lydia Meivin, and\\nlived for a time in Acworth, but now resides in Claremont,\\nN. H. He had four sons and four daughters. 9. Alexander\\nwas a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and also made\\nseveral privateering voyages during the war. He married\\nSarah Adams, and removed to Antrim, N. H., in 1786. He\\nhad four sons and four daughters. James A. Gregg, M. D.,\\nof Manchester, N. H., is one of the sons.\\nDavid Gregg was a younger son of David and Mary\\nGregg. He left his parents at the age of fifteen, went to\\nsea, and did not return until lie was tliirty years of age. It\\nis related of him, that having been promoted to the command\\nof a vessel, he came into the country to pass the winter, and\\nengaged his board of his father and mother. He was not\\nrecognized by them or any of the neighbors, until he hap-\\npened to meet Molly McCoy, a blind woman, who no sooner\\nheard his voice, than she exclaimed, David Gregg has\\ncome Captain Gregg was an officer in the French war,\\nand commanded the batteauxt)n the Nortli River. He after-\\nwards settled in Windham, and married a Miss Clyde, by\\nwhom he had several children, who are settled in various\\nparts of the country.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0366.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "GENEALOG-ICAL SKETCHES. 277\\nFAMILY OP ABRAHAM HOLMES.\\nAbraham Holmes and wife, with his children, came\\nfrom Ireland, in 1719, and soon joined the settlement which\\nhad been commenced in Londonderry. He had married for\\nhis second wife, Marj Morrison. He was early elected an\\nelder in the First Presbyterian church. He died in 1753,\\nat the age of seventy.\\nHis son John^ who was ten years old when he came to this\\ncountry, was also an elder in the same church, during the\\nlong ministry of the Rev. Mr. Davidson. He settled on the\\nfarm now owned and occupied by William M. Holmes, in\\nLondonderry. He married Grizel Giv ean. They had nine\\nchildren, three sons and six daughters namely. Sarah,\\nMargaret, Abraham, Eleanor, Robert, Mary, Thomas,\\nMary Ann, and Martha. 1. Sarah married John Barnett.\\n2. Eleanor married William Wier. 3. Mary Ann married\\nThomas Boyd. 4. Martha married Alexander Boyd.\\n5. Abraham, the oldest son, married and settled in Peter-\\nborough, N. H., and had eleven children, eiglit sons and\\nthree daughters. 6. Robert, the second son, married a Miss\\nWier, and settled in Jaffrey, N. H,, and had a large family\\nof children. 7. Thomas, the third son, married Margaret\\nPatterson, and lived on the farm of his father. He had\\ntwelve children. Sarah, who married Amos Page John,\\nwho married Sarah Anderson for his first, and Mary Adams\\nfor his second, wife Grizel, who married Thomas Savory\\nPeter, who married Olive Graves, and now resides in Hop-\\nkinton, Mass., one of whose sons, Franklin Holmes, gradu-\\nated at Yale College, in 1845, and lias entered the gospel\\nministry Robert, who married Jane Anderson, and died in\\n1825, leaving a widow and three children; Margaret, who\\nmarried William Boyd Thomas, who married Sarah\\nGraves, settled in West Boylston, and there died, leaving a\\nwidow and four children Abraham, who married Esther\\n24", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0367.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "278 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nSmith, and is settled in Ridgefield, Ct. James, who mar-\\nried Martlia Barker for his first, and Susan Webster for his\\nsecond wife, and resides in Derrj- Matthew, who married\\nBetsey Fitts, remains in Londonderry William M., who\\nmarried Judith Noyes, and lives in Londonderry, on the\\nhomestead and Jane F., who is unmarried.\\nJohn Holmes, the eldest son of Thomas, was ordained an\\nelder of the Presbyterian church in Londonderry, in 1827,\\nand still officiates in that session. He has four children\\nliving, three sons and one daughter. James, his eldest son,\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College, 1838, and at Andover\\nTheological Seminary 1841. He married Miss Amanda\\nBurns, of Milford, in 1841. In 1842, he was ordained and\\ninstalled pastor of the Presbyterian church in Watertown,\\nOhio. Ple resigned his charge in that place, in 1846, and\\nafter supplying the church and society in Auburn, N. H.\\nthree years, was installed pastor of that church, December\\no, 1849.\\nCaroline, daughter of elder John Holmes, Avas married,\\nMay, 1849, to Rev. William Murdock, of Candia, N. H.\\nFAMILY OF JOHN MACK.\\nJohn Mack and Isabella Brown, his wife, came froni\\nLondonderry, Ireland, in 1732, and settled near the site of\\nthe Rev. Dr. Morrison s meeting-house, in the West Parish,\\nwhere he died, in 1753, at the age of fifty-five. His widow\\nlived until about the year 1770. Their children were\\nWilliam, Janet, John, Robert, Martha, Elizabeth, Andrew,\\nand Daniel.\\nWilliam remained in Ireland until he arrived at the age\\nof twenty-one years, when, coming to America, he enlisted\\nas a soldier in the French war, and marrying Mary\\nHylands, he resided at Amherst, N. H., and subsequently\\nat Londonderry, Vt. His children were Margaret, John,\\nOliver, Naomi, Ruth, Janet, Andrew, Elijah, Mary, Jane,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0368.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 279\\nand Jesse. Descendants of tliis family reside in Washing-\\nton county, N. Y.\\nJanet was born upon the ocean, and became the wife of\\nHenrj Campbell, long a resident of Londonderrj, but who,\\nafter her death, in 1778, removed to Fletcher, Vt., where he\\ndied, in 1813. Children John, James, William, Nancy,\\nDaniel, and Mary. Descendants of the Campbell family\\nreside at Henniker, Walpole, and Keene, N. H., and in\\nNorthern Vermont.\\nJolin married Margaret Nichols, and lived and died at\\nNewbury, Mass., leaving no children.\\nRobert and Elizabeth Ewins, liis wife, settled in Leicester,\\nVt. Their children were John, Nancy, James, Susan,\\nAndrew, and Elizabeth, descendants of whom now reside in\\nWestern New York. Robert Mack was a soldier in the\\nrevolutionary war.\\nMartha married William Moor, of Londonderry. Her\\nchildren were James, John, William, Hannah, Henry, Janet,\\nAndrew, and Daniel.\\nElizabeth married James Smith, of Bedford, N. H. About\\nthe year 1790, Smith removed to Marietta, Ohio, with a\\nfamily of eight children, as follows Benjamin, Mary,\\nBetsey, Catherine, Martha, Jane, James, and John. The\\ndescendants of this family are numerous in the counties of\\nWashington and Meigs, Ohio, hearing the names of Smith,\\nE-ussell, Cooke, Stowe, etc.\\nAndrew^ who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert\\nClark, resided in Londonderry, where he died in 1820, aged\\nseventy-two years. His wife died in 1830, at the age of\\neighty-two. Their children were as follows Jane, who died\\nat Londonderry, in 1850, aged seventy-four Letitia, who\\ndied at Londonderry, in 1849, aged seventy-one Elizabeth,\\nwho married David Stiles, and resided at Lyndeborough,\\nN. H. John, who married Phebe Goodrich, and subse-\\nquently Hannah Abbott, and resided at Amherst, N. H.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0369.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "280 HISTORY OF LONDONDERKY.\\nIsabella, wlio died in 1812, aged thirty Robert, wlio mar-\\nried Anne Clark, and lives at Londondeny Andrew, wlio\\nmarried Maria BuVns, and resides at Gilmanton, N. H., and\\nDaniel, who raarried Sophia Kendrick, and resides at Bed-\\nford, N. H.\\nDaniel married Nancy Holmes, and removed to Tompkins\\ncounty, ]Sr. Y. His clnldren were Elizabeth, Sibella, Janet,\\nNathaniel, Martha, John, Daniel, and Ann. The descend-\\nants of Daniel Mack are numerous in Central New York,\\nbearing the names of Mack, Hutchinson, Spalding, etc.\\nFAMILY OF JAMES MACGREGOR.\\nRev. James MacGregor, the first minister of London-\\nderry, married Marion Cargil, in Londonderry, Ireland, in\\nOctober, 1706. His children were Robert, Daniel, David,\\nJane, Alexander, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, John, and\\nJames, of wliom seven survived him. We have no par-\\nticulars of the history of these children, with the exception\\nof David, who was the first minister in the West Parish\\nof Londonderry.\\nRev. David MacGregor married Mary Boyd, a lady,\\nwho, having been left an orphan when in early life, was\\nbrought up by his mother. She was possessed of consider-\\nable property, and was distinguished for her personal appear-\\nance and accomplishments. Mr. MacGregor died May 30,\\n1777, aged sixty-eight. His wife survived him, and died\\nSeptember 28, 1793, aged seventy. They had nine chil-\\ndren, as follows\\nDavid, who died in infancy.\\nRobert, who married Elizabeth, daughter of General\\nGeorge Reid, and settled at first in Goffstown, N. H. He\\nwas a man of fine natural endowments, and of great excel-\\nlence of character. He was quite a young man at the com-\\nmencement of the revolutionary struggle, but he volunteered\\nhis services, and, in 1777, joined the troops mustercd in New", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0370.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 281\\nHampshire, imder the command of General Stark and was\\nappointed by that officer to act as his aid-de-camp, which\\noffice he fiUed at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was\\nvery energetic as a merchant and man of business. As an\\ninstance of the latter trait of character, it may be mentioned,\\nthat he was the projector and the principal proprietor of the\\nfirst bridge which crossed the Merrimack river, on the site\\nnow occupied by the old central bridge of the Amoskeag\\nCompany, the abutments and some of the piers of which\\nwere used in the erection of the present bridge. Many, in\\nthose days, were entirely incredulous as to the practicabilify\\nof the enterprise. Among these was Mr. MacGregor s neigh-\\nbor, General Stark, who lived on the opposite bank of the\\nriver, and who remarked to him, Well, Robert, you may\\nsucceed but when the first passenger crosses over, I shall\\nbe ready to die. In sixty-five days, however, from the\\ntime when the first stick of timber used in its construction\\nwas felled in the forest, the bridge was open for passengers,\\nand General Stark lived many years to cross and recross it.\\nIt was called MacGregor s bridge, from its projector and\\nbuilder. Mr. MacGregor was also one of the original pro-\\nprietors and directors of the Amoskeag canal, one of the\\nearliest works of that nature in this country. He resided\\nin Goffstown many /ears, and his farm, on the Merrimack,\\nembraced a large portion of the lands and water-power\\nnow owned by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.\\nHe subsequently removed to Newburyport, where he en-\\ngaged in commerce, but finally returned to reside in Lon-\\ndonderry, his native town, where he died, September 16,\\n1816, aged sixty-seven. He had nine children namely,\\nDavid, George, Maria, Elim, Robert, James, Mary Anne,\\nJohn, and Daniel.\\nDavid pursued a coUegiate course, and graduated at\\nDartmouth College, 1774. He entered the army of the\\n24*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0371.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "282 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nRevolution, and held tlie office of captain. He afterwards\\nengaged in the business of teaching.\\nJames settled in Londondeny, and married Margaret\\nHolland, a daughter of Colonel Stephen Holland. He\\nopened a store, which he continued for many years, at the\\nsame time improving a valuable farm, which he received\\nfrom his father. He was, in the earlier part of his life, much\\nengaged in public business, sustaining not only the office of a\\nmagistrate, but various offices of the town and was for some\\nyears a representative in the General Court. He possessed\\nsuperior abilities, and a well-cultivated mind he died,\\nlamented by a large circle of connections and acquaintances,\\nJune 23, 1818, aged seventy. His wife died in December,\\n1746, aged eighty-eight. He had six children namely,\\nDan iel, James, Stephen, Jane, Mary, and Nancy.\\nElizaheth.\\nMarga7 et, who married James R-ogers.\\nMary Anne, who married James Hopkins.\\nJane, who married Robert Hunter.\\nMary, who married Robert Means, of Amherst, N. H.\\nShe possessed, with many excellent qualities, traits of char-\\nacter similar to those of her father and through a long life\\nof active usefulness, was particularly distinguished for her\\ngenerous benevolence and hospitality. \u00e2\u0099\u00a6She united to gentle-\\nness, refinement and kindness of manners, great energy and\\ndecision of character. It is related of her, that when a girl\\nof fifteen, and while visiting her brother Robert, who then\\nresided at Goffstown, she and her brother were walking one\\nday, on the banks of the Merrimack, looking at the falls.\\nRobert, by way of hravado, and to startle and astonish her,\\nstepped upon a stick of tinifi|r, polishcd by the dashing\\nwaters, which lay across the rails in such a manner as to\\nallow those who had strong heads and steady nerves to pass\\nover. When he was nearly across, he glanced around, and,\\nto his utter astonishment, beheld her also in the act of cross-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0372.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 283\\ning, witli her high-heeled skoes.* He dared not speak to lier,\\nbilt once safelj across, he would not permit her to return hi\\nthat manner, but procured a boat, in which they recrossed\\nthe river. She died in Boston, January 14, 1838, at the\\nadvanced age of eightj-five. Her husband, Robert Means,\\nwas of Scotch descent, and canie from the north of Ireland\\nwhen a youth, in company with his friend and cousin,\\nJacob McGaw. They at first settled in Merrimack, N. H.,\\nand were for a time connected in business. On a separa-\\ntion, Mr. Means removed to Amherst. They both became\\nwealthy merchants, ranked among the most influential citi-\\nzens in the county, and were the fathers of highly intelli-\\ngent and respectable families.\\nFAMILY OF ALEXANDER m COLLOM.\\nAlex ANDER Mc Collom, with his wife, Janet, came\\nfrom Londonderry in Ireland, and settled in this town, about\\n1730. His children were Alexander, Thomas, Jean (after-\\nwards Brewster), Robert, Archibald, John, and Janet (after-\\nwards Gordan).\\nOf these, Rohert retained the homestead, and in 1767,\\nmarried Martha Beattie. By her he had twelve children\\nArchibald, Alexander (who died at two years of age),\\nWilliam, Jenny, Alexander, Fanny, Robert, John, Lydia,\\nJonathan, Elizabeth, and Martha. Of these, John, with\\ncertain abatements, retained the homestead. After a few\\nyears, his right was transferred to Messrs. Robert and Jon-\\nathan McCollom the latter of whom survives, and with his\\nthree sisters, Lydia, Elizabeth B., and Martha, still retain pos-\\nsession. Of the family of Robert the elder, four Archibald,\\nAlexander, Jenny, and John removed early from this\\ntown. They were all married, and with a single exception,\\nhave families, scattered through the New England, Middle,\\nIt was fashionable, in thosc days, for ladics to wcar shocs with\\nheels from three to four inches in heiffht.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0373.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "284 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nand Western States. The rest of the family remain on the\\nhomestead, except Robert, who lately deceased.\\nOf the descendants of the first family who left tlieir native\\nplace, little is known and so of the family of Robert\\nMcCollom, beyond those still residing in town. Their\\n\u00c3\u00afiames, or even their number, is not accurately ascertained.\\nThey are or have been engaged in various kinds of business\\nsome are merchants, some mechanics, and others farmers.\\nTwo are clergymen of whom one is the Rev. James T.\\nMcCollom, of Great Falls, N. H.\\nOf the founder of the family in this country little is\\nremembered. An interesting document is inserted in the\\nAppendix, being his warrant as collector of parisli taxes.\\nOf his father nothing is known, except a tradition that he,\\namong others, was sorely pressed with famine in the well-\\nknown siege of Londonderry in Ireland, and that, in the\\nextremity of his hunger, he gave the sum of twenty-five\\ncents for the head of a cat. This was on the day the Mount-\\njoy reached the city with provisions for their relief. Of the\\nfamily living in town, it is worthy of notice, that it is one of\\nthe few that retain the farm first cleared up from the orig-\\ninal forest by their progenitor of the same name.\\nFAMILY OF JAMES m kEEN.\\nThe ancestor of the McKeens, was James McKeen, who\\nlived in the north of Ireland. He was a staunch Protestant,\\nand took an active part in the defence of the city of London-\\nderry. He had three sons James, John, and William.\\nJames, the son, was twice married, and had in all twenty-one\\nchildren, not one half of whom are known to have arrived at\\nthe age of maturity. By his first wife, Janet Cochran, he\\nhad two daughtcrs Elizabeth, who married in Ireland James\\nNesmith, whose descendants are mentioned in the notice of\\nthe family of James Nesmith, and Janet, who married John\\nCochran, of Windham, N. H., and had a daughter Elizabeth,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0374.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 285\\nwlio became the wife of William Dinsmoor, and the mother of\\nRobert Dinsmoor, the Rustic Bard, and of the late Gover-\\nnor Samuel Dinsmoor, of Keene, N. H. John, the son of\\nJames McKeen the elder, married Janet and had four\\nchildren James, Robert, Samuel, and Mary. William, the\\nson of James McKeen, the elder, was a respectable farmer.\\nJames and John were partners, resided at Ballymony, and\\nbeing successful in business, were, for those times, compara-\\ntively wealthy. James McKeen the younger, with his second\\nwife, Annis Cargil, and his children, came to this country in\\nthe emigration of 1718, of which enterprise he was one of the\\nprincipal originators. He was accompanied by his son-in-\\nlaw, James Nesmith, and by Rev. James MacGregor, who\\nhad married Marion Cargil, a sister of his wife, Annis Car-\\ngil. His brother John intended to emigrate with him,\\nbut died a short time previous to the embarkation. John s\\nwidow, Janet, and her four children, however, came with\\nthe other emigrants.\\nJames M Keen, or Justice McKeen, as he was usually\\ncalled, he being the first magistrate commissioned in the town\\nafter his settlement,* was a man of probity, ability, and intel-\\nligence, and was active and influential in the settlement of\\nLondonderry. He was born in the year 1665, and was of\\ncouri^e fifty-three years of age at the time of the emigration.\\nHe died at Londonderry, November 9, 1756, in the ninetieth\\nyear of his age and being more than any other man the\\npatriarch of the colony, he was as such universally honored\\nand lamented. His widow, Annis Cargil, a lady of excellent\\ncharacter, survived him many years, and died Aug. 8, 1782,\\nin the ninety-fourth year of her age. He had by his second\\nwife nine children namely, John, Mary, David, James,\\nJanet, Martha, Margar^t, Annis, and Samuel.\\nJohn was born at Ballymony in the county of Antrim, in\\nIreland, April 13, 1714. He was an elder of the Presby-\\nA copy of Justice McKccn s commission is insertcd in the Ap-\\npendix.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0375.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "286 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nterian church in Londonderry, was a representative in the\\nlegislature, and held various other civil offices in the town.\\nHe married Mary McKeen, daughter of his uncle John, and\\nhad a large family of children as ibllows 1 James, who\\nmarried a Miss Cunningham, soon after removed to Peter-\\nborough, and died in 1789. He was the father of Judge\\nLevi McKeen, who now lives at Fishkill Landing, Dutchess\\nCo. N. Y., at the age of eighty-three years. Judge McKeen\\nremoved from New Hampshire to the State of New York,\\nabout the year 1790, and for twenty-five years, pursued a\\nmercantile business in Poughkeepsie. He was for many\\nyears Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and has held\\nvarious other offices of trust. 2. John, who married Janet\\nTaylor, daughter of John Taylor of Londonderry. He was\\nsergeant in Captain Daniel Reynolds s company, at the battle\\nof Bennington, and was afterwards promoted to the rank of\\ncaptain. He died in 1807. He had four sons and three\\ndaughters, none of whom survive except James McKeen,\\nEsq., counsellor at law in the city of New York. 3. Robert,\\nwho married Mary McPherson,and settled in Antrim, N. H.\\nHe subsequently removed to Corinth, Vt., and died in 1809,\\nleaving one son, Joseph McKeen, who is superintendent of\\nthe public schools in the city of New York. 4. William, who\\nmarried Nancy Taylor, another daughter of John Taylor,\\nand settled in Windham, N. H. He was a volunteer in the\\narmy of the Revolution. He had six children, and died\\nin 1824. 5. Annis, who was unmarried. 6. Joseph, some-\\ntime pastor of a church in Beverly, Mass., and afterwards\\nthe first president of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Me.,\\nand of whom an extended notice has been given. He had\\nthree sons Joseph, long treasurer of Bowdoin College\\nJames, a medical professor in that institution, and John, who\\nis a graduate of that college, and resides in Brunswick. 7.\\n8. Janet and Daniel, who were twins. Janet raarried John\\nTaylor, Jr., and had five children. Daniel married Janet", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0376.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 287\\nWilson, and afterwards Lucy Martin, widow of John Nes-\\nmitb of Windham, and had four or five children, and lived\\nin Londonderrj, upon the homestead. 9. Samuel, who mar-\\nried Betsey Taylor, and afterwards Mary Clark, and had\\nseveral children.\\nMary married Robert Bojd. They lived in Londonderry,\\nbut had no children.\\nJames, born April, 1719, married Elizabeth Dinsmoor,\\nsettled in Londonderrj, and had two children a son David,\\nand a daughter, who died in childhood. His wife died at\\nthe age of twenty-seven, and he did not marry again.\\nAbout the close of the revolutionary war, he removed to\\nCorinth, Vt., where he died in 1794, aged seventy-five. His\\nson David married Margaret McPherson for his first wife,\\nand settled in Corinth, Vt. By her he had twelve children,\\nnamely James, Elizabeth, Dani\u00c3\u00abl, Polly, David, John, An-\\nnis, Jenny, Margaret, Silas, Robert, and another daughter.\\nThese children, or their descendants of the next gene-\\nration, have settled in Yermont, New Hampshire, Maine,\\nNew York, Canada West, Michigan, and Ohio. One\\nof the sons, Rev. Silas McKeen, has been for many years\\npastor of a church in Bradford, Vt. After the death of his\\nwife, Margaret, David McKeen married Lydia Ingalls, of\\nMethuen, Mass., by whom he had two children, Lydia and\\nDavid, making fourteen in all.\\nJanet, born December 28, 1721, married William Orr,\\nand had three children, James, Anna, and a daughter who\\nmarried Timothy Carr, one of the first settlers of the town of\\nDanville, Vt.\\nMarilia married John Dinsmoor, and had several children,\\namong whom was Silas, who was for a long time employed\\nby the United States Government, as Indian agent.\\nBut little is known respecting David, Margaret, Annis^\\nand Samuel, children of Justicc McKeen, and they probably\\ndied in early life.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0377.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "288 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nAnother principal branch of the McKeens, were the family\\nand posterity of John McKeen, a brother of James McKeen,\\nwho was intending to emigrate with him, but died before the\\nembarkation. His widow came, as has ah cady been stated,\\nbringing with her three ifons, James, Robert, and Samnel,\\nand her infant daughter Marj, and had a lot of land assigned\\nher. She subsequently married Captain John Barnett, who\\nwas among the early settlers of the town.\\nJames settled in Hillsborough, N. H. He had children,\\nand among them a daughter Isabel. Some of his posterity\\nwere residing in Deering, N. II., not many years ago.\\nRohert is said to have settled in Pennsylvania. He was\\nengaged in the French and Indian wars, and was promoted\\nto the rank of major, but having been taken prisoner, he was\\nput to death in a most cruel manner.\\nSamuel settled in Amherst, N. H. He had by his wife\\nAgnes, a numerous family, as follows 1. Hugh, who was\\nkilled by the Indians in the old French war. 2. John, who\\nwas massacred by the Indians, at the taking of Fort William\\nHenry, in the same war. They stuck his flesh full of pitch-\\npine skewers, and burned him to death. 3. Robert, who\\nsettled at Cherry Yalley, N. Y., and became a captain of\\nrenown. He was killed by the Indians in the batllc of\\nWyoming, Penn. He had a son Robert, the father of Sam-\\nuel McKeen, United States senator from Pennsylvania. 4.\\nJames, who married and settled in Amherst, N. II. 5.\\nSamuel, who married a daughter of Hugh Graham, of\\nWindham, N. H. He lived for a time at Amherst, after-\\nwards at Windham, and subsequently removed to Belfast,\\nMe., and was a deacon of the cluirch there. He had several\\nchildren. G. William married Ann Graham, settled in\\nDeering, N. H., and had elevcn children, among whom was\\nWilliam McKeen, Jr., a member of the New Ilampshire\\nsenate in the years 1844 and 1845. Some of his sons set-\\ntled in Nashua,* N. II.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0378.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 289\\nSamuel McKeen had also four danghters, Marj, Martha,\\nAgnes, and Jane making in all a family of ten children.\\nWiLLiAM McKeen, brother of Justice McKeen, born in\\nIreland in 1704, came to America eight or ten years aft\u00c3\u00a9r\\nthe emigration of 1718, and settled in Pennsylvania. Among\\nhis grandsons was Thomas McKean, signer of the Declara-\\ntion of Independence, and for nine years governor of Penn-\\nsylvania.\\nFAMILY OF JOHN MORRISON.\\nThere were two individuals of the name of John Morri-\\nSON among the early settlers of Londonderry. The first\\nwas one of the original sixteen settlers, and was father of\\nJonathan Morrison, the first male child born in the town.\\nHe emigrated from the north of Ireland, and was nine years\\nof age at the time of the siege of the city of Londonderry.\\nHis father s family, including himself, were of the nmnber\\nwho were driven, in pursuance of the barbarous order of\\nRosen, under the walls of the city. He was admitted\u00c2\u00abwithin\\nthe walls, where he remained until the city was relieved.\\nAbout the year 1759, he removed to Peterboroiigh, N. H.,\\nand was one of the early settlers of that town. He died in\\n1776, at the age of ninety-seven. No Information respecting\\nhis descendants, suffici\u00c3\u00abnt for a connected sketch, has been\\nreceived. Among them, however, are the names of Hon.\\nJeremiah Smit]i, of Exeter, N. H., Rev. John H. Morrison,\\nof Milton, Mass., and Hon. George W. Morrison, of Man-\\nchester, N. H.\\nThe other John Morrison emigrated from the north of\\nIreland to Londonderry, seven or eight years after the first\\nsettlement. He had two sons and one daughter, as follows\\nSamuel, whose children were William, Samuel, Joseph,\\nJohn, Thomas, Katherine, Jane, and Mary.\\nJoseph, whose children were Abraham, John, Joseph, Sam-\\nuel, Jonathan, Jane, Hannah, Mary, and Ann.\\n25", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0379.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "290 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nHannah, who married Robert Clendcnin, and liad seven\\nchildren namely, John, William, Robert, Andrew, Betsey,\\nMary, and Nancy.\\nFAMILY OF JAMES NESMITH.\\nJames Nesmith emigrated from the V-alley of the river\\nBann, in the north of Ireland, to America, in 1718, and was\\none of the first sixteen settlers of the town of Londonderry.\\nHe was one of the original proprietors of the township, and\\nwas a very respectable member of the little colony there\\nplanted. At the organization of the church in the West\\nParish, he was chosen one of its elders. He married in Ire-\\nland, about the year 1714, Elizabeth, daughter of James\\nMcKeen, and had four sons and one daughter namely, Ar-\\nthur, James, John, Thomas, and Elizabeth.\\nArthur, who was born in Ireland, married, and settled in\\nthe southerly part of the town, and afterwards removed to\\nthe State of Maine. He had four children James, John,\\nBenjamin, and Mary. James served in the army of the\\nRevolution, and afterwards settled in the State of Maine.\\nJohn married Jane Reid. Early in the revolutionary strug-\\ngle he enlisted as a volunteer in the company coramanded\\nby George Reid, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He\\nafterwards commanded a company in the Canada service,\\nand was subsequently at Rhode Island, under the command\\nof General SuUivan. At the close of this campaign, he was\\ncompelled by ill health to retire from the service. He grad-\\nually sunk under a lingering sickness until after the close of\\nthe war, when he died. Captain Nesmith was frank and\\ngenerous in his disposition, dignified in his manners, and was\\ndistinguished for intrepidity, activity, and muscular strength.\\nHe left but one child, who did not long survive him.\\nJames, the second son, was born in Ireland in 1718, just\\nbefore the embarkation, or, as some have said, during the\\nvoyage. He served in the revolutionary war, and was in", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0380.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 291\\nReid s company at Bunker Hill. He settled in the nortliern\\npart of Londonderry, and had six children, as folio vvs 1.\\nJames, who married Martha McCluer, and was an elder in\\nthe church in the West Parish. 2. Jonathan, who married\\nEleanor Dickey, and removed in 1778 to Antrim. He was\\none of the first elders in the church in that town, and was\\nthe father of George W. Nesmith, Esq., of Franklin, N. H.\\n3. Robert, who married Jane Anderson. 4. Elizabeth, who\\nmarried James Cochran, of Windham. 5. Mary, who mar-\\nried James McCluer, of Acworth. G. Sarah, who married\\nDaniel Anderson, of Londonderry.\\nJohn, the third son, married Elizabeth Reid, sister of Gen.\\nGeorge Reid. He settled on the homestead, in the southerly\\npart of the town, and died in 1815, aged eighty-seven. He\\nhad eight children, as folio ws 1. James, who married Eliz-\\nabeth Brewster, and settled in Antrim, where he died about\\n1840, at an advanced age. 2. Arthur, who married Mary\\nDuncan, and settled in Antrim, but afterwards removed to\\nthe State of Ohio, where he died. 3. John, who was born\\nin 1766, on the homestead, where he resided until his death,\\nwhicli occurred in 1844. He married for his first wife,\\nSusan Hildreth, by whom he had eight children namely,\\nJohn P., Isabella A., Susan H., Samuel H., James P., Mary,\\nThomas, and Elizabeth. For his second wife, he married\\nLydia Sargeant, by whom he had two sons, Albert S., and\\nCharles E. 4. Ebenezer, who married Jane Trotter. 5.\\nThomas. 6. Elizabeth, who married Dea. James Pinkerton.\\n7. Mary, who married John Miltimore, and now resides at\\nReading, Pa. 8. Jane, who married Hugh Anderson.\\nThomas, the fourth son, was born in 1731- He married\\nAnnis Wilson, and settled in Windham, near the south line\\nof Londonderry. He had three children, as foUows 1.\\nJohn, who raarried Lucy Martin, and had nine children\\nnamely, Jacob M., Tht)mas, Elizabeth, John, James W.,\\nLucy, Annis, George R., and Jonathan W. 2, Elizabeth,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0381.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "292 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nwho married Jonathan Wallace, and removed to the State of\\nNew York, where she died. 3. Thomas, who died in infancy.\\nThe descendants of Elder James Nesmith are very nu-\\nmerous, and are, with few exceptions, valuable members of\\nsociety.\\nTHE PATTERSON FAMILIES.\\nPeter Patterson came from the parish of Priestland,\\ntown of Glenlace, county of Antrim, Ireland, about the year\\n1730, and purchased the farm now owned and occupied by\\nCaptain Thomas Patterson, of Londonderry. He married in\\n1742, Grisey Wilson, danghter of Thomas Wilson, of the\\nDoubl\u00c3\u00a9 Range. They had three sons Robert, Thomas, and\\nJohn and five daughters Rachel, Margaret, Sarah, Grisey,\\nand Elizabeth, who are all dead.\\nJRobert married Susan Miller, and settled in New Boston.\\nThey had two sons, John and Samiiel. The former lives on\\nthe homestead, and the latter i esides in Erie county, Penn.\\nThey had five daughters, all of whom were married.\\nThomas married Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of James\\nand Mary Wallace, in 1775. They had twelve children,\\nall of whom except one son, who died in infancy, lived to adult\\nage and were settled in life. Nine still survive. 1. Grisey,\\nthe eldest, married David Barnet. 2. James married Hannah\\nHughes, of Windham. 3. Peter married Mary Wallace,\\ndaughter of Judge Wallace, of Henniker. 4, Robert mar-\\nried Esther Spaulding, of Hudson. 5. Mary man-ied Abra-\\nham McNeil, and removed to Antrim, where she died of the\\nspotted fever, in 1812. 6. Margaret married Samuel F.\\nTaylor. 7. Thomas married Hannah, a daughter of John\\nDuncan, and lives on the original homestead. 8. Williara\\nmarried Lucinda Gregg, of Derry. 9. Elizabeth married\\nWilliam Duncan, Esq., of Candia. 10. Jenny married Dr,\\nAugustus Frank, of Warsaw, N. Y. 11. George W. mar-\\n-ried Hannah, a daughter of John Dickey, Esq. In 1815,\\nWilliam, being then a young man, went into the State of", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0382.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 293\\nNew York, and commenced the business of making and\\nvending fanning-mills, whicli had been recently patented.\\nHe was quite successful, and,/ in 1818, was joined by his\\nbrother George W., who was some years younger than him-\\nself. Though they were favored with a common school\\neducation only, and engaged in mechanical business, yet such\\nwas their force of character, such their correctness of prin-\\nciple and of conduct, and such their enterprise, that they not\\nonly succeeded in accumulating a large property, but secured\\nthe confidence of the communities in which they resided.\\nThey were elected to offices of trust and responsibility, and\\nbecame members of the-legislature of the State for successive\\nyears. In 1836, William was chosen member. of Congress,\\nfrom the district composed of the county of Genesee, but\\nwhile at Washington, in 1 838, he was seized with illness,\\nfrom which he never recovered. Although able to reach home,\\nhe died August 14, 1838, aged forty-nine. George W., after\\nhaving been a member of the assembly six years, was chosen\\nspeaker, which office he held two years. In 1846, he was\\nelected a member of the convention to revise the constitu-\\ntion. In 1848, he was chosen lieutenant-governor, which\\noffice he still holds. About 1829, Robert and Peter also\\nremoved to the State of New York, and settled in the\\nvicinity of their brothers, who had preceded them. Peter\\nPatterson, Esq., who had represented his native/town in\\nGeneral Court, and sustained various public offices, was,\\nsoon after his settlement in New York, elected a representa-\\ntive to the State Assembly for the years 1833 and 1834. In\\n1842, he was appointed one of the judges of the county court,\\nfor the term of five years.\\nJohi married Jane Wilson, of Windham, and had one son,\\nPeter, who removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, about 1810, was\\nfor many years clerk of Ross county, and, up to the time of\\nhis death, 1845, was one of the magistrates of the city.\\nHe left several sons, one of whom is a clergyman of the\\n25*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0383.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "294 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nMethodist denomination. The widow of John Patterson\\nmarried Deacon James Aiken, of Londonderry, and was the\\nmother of Captain Nathaniel Aiken.\\nRachel married William McNeil, and settled in New Bos-\\nton. They had three sons and three daughters.\\nMargaret married Thomas Hohnes, of Londonderry.\\nThey had thirteen children, several of whom still reside in\\nDerry and Londonderry.\\nSarah married Thomas Melendy, and settled in Amherst,\\nN. H. They had five sons and one daughter two of the\\nsons are dead one lives in Springfield, Illinois, one at Cin-\\ncinnati, Ohio, and one son and the daughter are on the liome-\\nstead at Amherst.\\nGrisey married John Burns, and settled in Milford, N. H.\\nThey had two sons and one daughter.\\nElizaheth married Daniel Burns, and also settled in Mil-\\nford. They had five sons and one daughter.\\nWilliam Patterson, the brother of Peter, came from\\nIreland to Londonderry about the year 1724, and settled on\\nPatterson s Hill, afterwards Smith s Hill. He had five sons\\nand several daughters.\\nJohn settled on the Chestnut Hills, Amherst. His\\ndaughter Elizabeth married Phineas Aiken, of Bedford.\\nRohert settled in New Boston.\\nPeter married a daughter of John Bell, Esq-, and settled in\\nGoffstown.\\nAdam married and settled in the State of Maine.\\nDavid married a daughter of Silas Betton, Esq., of Wind-\\nham, and settled in Temj^le, but afterwards removed to\\nFrancestown. The Information which lias been obtained of\\nthis branch of the Patterson family is very limited.\\nJohn Patterson, the great-grandfather of Peter and Wil-\\nliam, who came to this country, removed from Argyleshire in\\nScotland to Ireland about one hundred years before the emi-\\ngration of his descendants to America.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0384.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 295\\nFAMILY OF JOHN PINKERTON.\\nThe ancestor of tliis family, John Pinkerton, came from\\nthe county of Antrim, in the north of \u00c3\u00afreland, to this town,\\nin 1724. He settled upon a farm in the West Parish of\\nLondondeny, and died in 1780, at the age of eighty. He left\\nfive sons David and John, who were born in Ireland,\\nMatthew, Samuel, and James and four daughters Mary,\\nElizabeth, who married IJeacon James Aiken, Rachel, and\\nJane, who married Deacon David Brewster.\\nOf David and Samuel we have no particular information.\\n3\u00c3\u00afatthew lived and died in Londonderry. He had three\\nsons the late Lieutenant John Pinkerton, who held for some\\nyears offices of trust in the town, and was the father of\\nGeorge W. Pinkerton, Esq., of Manchester, N. H., James,\\nwho resides in Derry, and David, who settled in Boscawen.\\nA brief sketch of John, the second son, and of James, the\\nyonngest, has been already given. They were benefactors\\nto the town, and deserve to be had in remembrance. The\\nfolio wing is a brief genealogical statement of their fam-\\nilies\\nMajor John Pinkerton married, for his first wife. Rachel\\nDimcan, by whom he had five children; namely, Polly,\\nNaomi, Betsey, John, and Esther. Polly married Alex-\\nander MacGregor, and had one child, John P., who was\\nadopted by Major Pinkerton.\\nFor his second wife, he married Polly Tufts, but had no\\nchildren by her.\\nDeacon James Pinkerton married, for his first wife,\\nElizabeth Nesmith, daughter of John Nesmith, by whom he\\nhad six children, as follows Isabella and James, both of\\nwhom died in infancy Betsey, who married John Aiken,\\nson of Deacon Nathaniel Aiken, and died in 1837 Jane,\\nwho married Joshua Aiken, brother of John Aiken Mary\\nB., who married Captain William Choate, and Clarissa, who\\nmarried Robert E. Little.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0385.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "296 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nDeacon Pinkerton married, for his second wife, Sarah\\nWallace, daughter of Samuel Wallace, and by her had four\\nchildren, as follows Rebecca W., who married Perkins A.\\nHodge Francis C, who married Hon. Luther V. Bell\\nDavid H., who married Elizabeth Aiken, and John M., who\\nis a counsellor at law, and resides in Boston, Mass.\\nFAMILY OF HUGH RANKIN.\\nIn the year 1722, three years after the settlement in Lon-\\ndonderry was commenced, Hugh Ranki\u00c3\u00afs^ arrived with his\\nfamily from the county of Antrim, in Ireland. He had\\nnine daughters and no son; consequently those who have\\nborne that name in the town during some past genera-\\ntions, were not descended from him nor did they sustain\\nany relation whatever to his family. He was a man of fair\\nChristian character, was influential in promoting the pros-\\nperity of the settlement, and sustained for some years the\\noffice of ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church. His\\nnumerous family of daughters were distinguished for their\\npersonal appearance, and for their accomplishments. They\\nall became members of the church, and examples of Chris-\\ntian piety and virtue. They were all respectably married,\\nexcepting the youngest, who died in early life.\\nThe eldest married Hugh Stirling, whose descendants are\\nin the State of Maine. The second married William Gregg.\\nThe third married John Gregg. The fourth married Allen\\nAnderson, and had no ofifspring. The ffth married James\\nCochran, whose descendants now live in many parts of the\\ncountry. The sixth married Mr. Clyde, of Windham, and\\nhad a numerous family. The seventh married John Crombie,\\nfrom whom descended all of that name in this part of the\\ncountry. The eighth married a Mr. Rogers, who removed\\ninto the State of Maine, where their descendants still live.\\nThe posterity of this family of the early settlers became\\nvery numerous, and are extensively dispersed throughout", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0386.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "GENEALO \u00c3\u008fICAL SKETCHES. 297\\nthe land and in most instances are known to have proved\\nvaluable members of the community.\\nFAMILY OF JAMES REID.\\nAmong the first settlers of Londonderry, was James\\nReid, a native of Scotland, and a graduate of the University\\nof Edinburgh. He took an active and conspicuous part in\\nthe early organization of the town, and in the direction of its\\ncounciis. He was a man who added to an accomplished\\nmind, all those traits of character which go to constitute an\\ninfluential and useful member of society. He was a member\\nof the session of the church in the West Parish, durin* the\\nministry of Rev. David MacGregor, and died in November,\\n1755, aged sixty. His widow, Mary, died February, 1775,\\naged seventy-six. His children were\\nJElizaheth, who married John Nesmith, and whose children\\nare mentioned in the notice of the family of James Nesmith.\\nJohn, who died February, 1803, aged fifty-eight.\\nGeorge, who married Mary Woodburn, and of whom a\\nnotice lias already been given. He had five children, as\\nfollows 1. Elizabeth, his eldest child, married Robert Mac-\\nGregor, son of Rev. David MacGregor. She died in March,\\n1847, at the advanced age of eighty-one, highly respected\\nand esteemed in the wide circle of her acquaintance.\\n2. James, for many years of the eminent banking-house of\\nBrown, Reid, and Co., of Lisbon, Portugal, died in London,\\nMay, 1827, aged sixty. 3. INIary, who married the late\\nHon. Samuel Dinsmoor, formerly governor of New Hamp-\\nshire, and father of the present governor. She died at\\nKeene, June, 1834, at the age oi sixty-four. 4. John, who\\nwas for many years a respectable and successful merchant\\nin Philadelphia, where he died in December, 1834, aged\\nsixty-three. 5. George, their youngest child, was born Jan,\\n29, 1774, and graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1797,\\nmarried Mary Borland, in 1809 for his second wife, he mar-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0387.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "298 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nried Harriet Davidson, in 1835. He entered the profession\\nof law, which he practised with much success, in the State\\nof Maine. He died in Boston, January 30, 1848, aged\\nseventy-four.\\nFAMILY OF MATTHEW TAYLOR.\\nMatthew Taylor and his wife, Janet, came from the\\nvicinity of Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in London-\\nderry (now Derry), in 1722. He lived on the farm now\\noccupied by his grands\u00c3\u00b3n, Henry Taylor.\\nJohn, thfiif first child, was born September 22, 1721, on\\ntheir*passage to America. He married Margaret Dickey,\\nand had five children; Matthew, James, John, Janet, and\\nNancy. 1. Matthew married a Miss Little, and had five\\nchildren Sarah, Joseph, John, James, and Oliver. 2. James\\nmarried a Miss Dickey, and had three children Margaret,\\nRachel, and William. 3. John married Janet McKeen,\\nand had five children Anna, Margaret, John, Daniel, and\\nSamuel. 4. Janet raarried Captain John McKeen, and\\nhad seven children James, John, Joseph, Robert, Samuel\\nSarah, and Janet. 5. Nancy married William McKeen,\\nand had six children Mary, Nancy, Margaret, Johnj Janet,\\nand Alice.\\nMatthew, the second son, was born October 30, 1727, mar-\\nried, and went to St. John s, Nova Scotia. He had four\\nsons one of them became a ship-builder, and three went to\\nOhio and settled on the Sciota river.\\nWilliam was born March 23, 1733, and married Betsey\\nGrimes. Their children were Mary, John, Janet, Nancy,\\nAdam, Samuel, Sarah, andT3etsey. 1. Mary married John\\nGregg, and went to New York. 2. John married Nancy\\nCunningham. Their children were Aiken, William, Samuel\\nFisher, Ephraim, Nancy, Mary, Sarah, Eliza, and Fanny.\\n3. Adam married Martha Paul. Their children were Jane,\\nBetsey, Adam, Matthew, Clarissa, Mary Ann, Margaret, and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0388.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 299\\nPaul. 4. Sarah married John McGrath, of Dorchester, and\\nhad three sons and two daughters. o. Betsey married\\nCaptain James Paul. Their children were Betsey, John, and\\nDavid. Janet, Nancy, and Samuel, the remaining children\\nof William, were unmarried, and lived to be. quite aged.\\nDavid^ the fourth son, was born August 10, 1735, married\\nMargaret Kelsey, and had seven children 1 David mar-\\nried, and had two sons. 2. Robert married Dolly Colby,\\nand had ten children Anna, Lucinda, Rebecca, Robert,\\nStephen, Henry, and four who died under fifteen, and in one\\nweek, of spotted fever. 5. Rosa married James McNeil,\\nand removed to the western part of the State. William,\\nBetsey, Jonathan, and John, were unmarried, and died in\\nthe prime of life.\\nAdam was bom August 15, 1737, married Mary Cunning-\\nham, and had three children: 1. Nancy married Matthew\\nAnderson. Their children were Adam, John, Jane, Mary,\\nSamuel, Matthew, Betsey, James, and Nancy. 2. Janet\\nmarried Colonel William Adams, and had two children,\\nMary, who married Captain John Holmes, and James, who\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1813, and died in 1817.\\n3. Betsey married Samuel McKeen, brother of Joseph\\nMcKeen, president of Bowdoin College, and had three chil-\\ndren, John, Adam, and James Orr.\\nSamuel, the sixth son, remained on a part of the home-\\nstead, having erected a house and married Sarah Fisher.\\nShe had one son and then died. Her son, Matthew, grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College in 1801, entered the ministry,\\nraarried a Miss Fisher, and went as a missionary to Ohio,\\nwhere he died. Samuel married Eunice Lancaster for his\\nsecond wife. They had nine children Sarah, Janet, Sam-\\nuel Fisher,*Henry, James, Mary, and three at a birth, who\\ndied young. 1. Sarah married Captain John Clark, and\\nhad seven children Eliza, Mary Jane, Sarah, Nancy, ISfel-\\nvina, Sophia, John Newton, and Harvey. The sons died", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0389.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "300 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nin infancy. 2. Janet died unmarried. 3. Samuel F. mar-\\nried Margaret Patterson. Their children were Mary Jane,\\nHenry Gilman, Elizabeth, James, Lucinda, and three sons\\nwho died young. 4. Henry resides upon the homestead\\nof his grandfather, Mattliew Taylor, and is unmarried.\\n5. James resides on a part of the homestead, being one of\\nthe farms origin^lly belonging to Governor Wentworth, and\\nmarried Persis Hemphill they have nine children Samuel\\nH., Nathaniel M., Almira, Caroline P., Harriette, James C,\\nSarah J., Mary E., and Emma. 6. Mary married Captain\\nJohn Clark, as his second wife, and Had two children,\\nElvira M., and Clara A.\\nSarah, the first daughter, married Deacon Samuel Fisher,\\nand had one child. Sarah,- who married Samuel, the sixth son\\nof Matthew Taylor.\\nJanet, the second daughter, was born June 10, 1731, and\\nmarried John Anderson. Their children were: 1. John,\\nwho married a Miss Archibald, and had thirteen children\\nAnn, John, Jane, Robert, Martha, Betsey, Thomas, Marga-\\nret, Nancy, Eli, Samuel, and two who died young. 2. Mat-\\nthew, married his cousin, Nancy Taylor, wliose children are\\nreferred to in Adam Taylor s family. 3. Jane married\\nDavid Paul, whose children were Mai tha, James, Janet,\\nJohn, Mary, Matthew, David, Jane, Thomas, Margaret,\\nNancy, and two who died young. After Mr. Anderson s\\ndeath, his widow married Mr. Finlay, and had two children\\n1. Samuel, who married a Miss Witherspoon; and their\\nchildren were Jane, Robert, Joseph, John, Nancy, Fanny,\\nHugh, Jesse, and Martha. 2. Ilugh married Janet Cochran,\\nand had six children Mary, Joseph, Betsey, Samuel,\\nSophia, and Barnett.\\nJohn and Matthew Anderson lived ^in Ira,* Vt. and\\nSamuel and Hugh Finlay, in Acworth, N. H. Nearly all\\nthe other families lived in Derry, or the vicinity.\\nThe great-grandchildren of Matthew Taylor, as far as\\nknown, number one hundred and thirty.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0390.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 301\\nAMILY OF ANDREW TODD.\\nAndretv Todd arrived at Londonderrj in 1720. He\\nwas the third son of James Todd and Rachel Nelson, both of\\nwhom were natives of Scotland, but emigrated to the north\\nof Irelajid, where all their children were born, and had\\narrived at middle age, before the emigration to Londonderry,\\nIST. H. James Todd died in Ireland, but his widow removed\\nwith her children to New England, and died at London-\\nderry.\\nAlexander, the eldest brother, removed to Boston from\\nLondonderry was married, and had three daughters, one\\nof whom married a Mr. Houghton, and among her descend-\\nants are many persons of the name of Warren, Willis,\\nNewcomb, etc. He was a graduate of the University of\\nEdinburgh. Samuel, his brother, was also a graduate at\\nEdinburgh, and resided at Boston, where he died unmarried.\\nTheir sister, Elizabeth, married John Bell, who emigrated\\nto Londonderry, in 1720, where she died in August, 1771,\\naged eighty-two. For her descendants see the family of\\nJohn Bell.\\nAndrew T( i i maiTied Beatrix Moore, in Ireland, and\\nearly became a leading man in^the town. He represented\\nthe town in the provincial legislature, and held a commis-\\nsion in the French war of 1744, and again in the war of\\n1755, and held the rank of colonel of the provincial levies\\nat the close of his military service. He gained a high rep-\\nutation by his services in those wars, and was one of the\\nmarked men of his time. He had five sons and two daugh-\\nters. Towards the close of his life he removed to Peter-\\nborough, where one of his sons had settled. He died at\\nPeterborough, about 1778, aged over eighty years. His\\nchildren were\\nAlexander, who lived in Hooksett, N. H., upon a handsome\\ninterval on the Merrimack, now known as the Todd Farm,\\n26", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0391.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "302 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nfrom whicli he returned to Londonderry. He married a\\ndaughter of Deacon George Duncan, of Londonderry, and\\nhad several children. He. was a captain in the provincial\\nlevies, in the last French war. He died at Londonderry,\\naged about seventy.\\nJolin^ who was drowned at Amoskeag Falls, abojit 1754,\\naged twenty-four.\\nJames, who resided at the house where his father lived, in\\nAiken s Range, and died of hemorrhage of the lungs.\\nAndrew, who died unmarried, aged seventy.\\nA daughter, who married a Mr. Miller.\\nkachel, who married Moses Morrison, of Peterborough.\\nSamuel, who married a Miss Morrison, and lived and died\\nat Peterborough. Deacon John Todd, who lately died at\\nPeterborough, at a very advanced age, was his son.\\nFAMILIES OF JOHN AND THOMAS WALLAGE.\\nJohn Wallage came from the county of Antrim, Ire-\\nland, to Londonderry, in 1719 or 1720, and was married to\\nAnnis Barnett, on the 18th of May, 1721, being the first\\ncouple married in Londonderry. They had four sons and\\nfour danghters. The sons were James, Samuel, William,\\nand John the daughters \u00c2\u00abwere Ann, Janet, Sarah, and\\nRebecca.\\nJames married Mary Wallace, a cousin of his father.\\nThey lived over the brook, on the farm now owned by\\nCaptain Upton. Mrs. Siraeon Danforth and Mrs. William\\nMontgomery are their granddaughters.\\nSamuel married Letitia Clark. They had four daughters\\nand no son. One of the daughters was married to Deacon\\nJames Pinkerton, as his second wife another to Robert\\nClark, of New Boston another to John Clark, of Hancock,\\nand another to a Mr. Porter, of Yermont. His widow after-\\nwards married Deacon Robert Moor, by whom she had two\\ndaughters and one son Jane, Mary, and Samuel.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0392.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 303\\nWilliam married Hannah Tliornton. They had tliree\\nsons William, James, and John and two daughters, Han-\\nnah and Catherine. William and James settled at Niagara,\\nin Upper Canada, prior to 1800, and remained there until the\\nwar of 1812. They had acquired a very large property;\\nand were the owners of forty thousand acres of choice land,\\non Grand River, besides a large amount of village property\\nat Niagara. But they were too patriotic to take up arms\\nagainst their native country. They therefore left all their\\npossessions in Canada, to be confiscated by the government,\\nand came to Rochester, and were among the early settlers\\nof that city. 1. William died in 1823, and left a daughter,\\nCharity, and four sons Matthew T., William, James, and\\nJohn. They all reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. 2. James still\\nsurvives, and is living with Jiis second wife. He is -eighty-\\nseven years of age a man of strong mind and energy^\\nof character. He now resides in BufFalo, N. Y. He has\\nno child living. 3. John married, and settled in the town\\nof Thornton, N. H. He died a few years since, leaving a\\nfamily. 4. Hannah was never married. She died soon\\nafter her mother, on the homestead, the farm now owned\\nby Mr. Robert Chase, near the Lower Village. 5. Catherine\\nmarried James Cox, removed to Holderness, N- H., and\\nhad a large family.\\nJohn married Sarah Woodburn, of the High Range. He\\nsettled in Bedford Rev. Cyrus Wallace, of Manchester,\\nis one of his descendants.\\nAnn married William Clark, of New Boston, the father\\nof Robert and John Clark.\\nJanet married Matthew Dickey, the father of John Dickey,\\nEsq., formerly of this town, and of three other sons\\nEbenezer, James, and Samuel also of two daughters, Sarah\\nand Rebecca.\\nThomas Wallage, brother of John Wallage, who\\nraarried Annis Barnett, and Jean, his wife, emigrated from\\nL", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0393.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "304 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nColeraine, in the coiinty of Antrim, in Ireland, to London-\\nderry, N. H., in the year 1726. They were not married\\nwhen they came to this country an acquaintance was formed\\non their passage, which resulted in marriage. Her maiden\\nname was Jean Wallace, and she was a sister of Joseph\\nWallace, who was one of the early settlers of Milford, N. H.,\\nand many of whose descendants have resided in that town.\\nThomas Wallace and his wife settled on the farm formerly\\nowned by elder John Fisher. They had four sons James,\\nJoseph, William, and John and four daughters Janet,\\nMargaret, Ann, and Betsey. After the birth of all their\\nchildren, they reraoved to Bedford, N. H., and were the\\neighth family that settled that town.\\nJames settled in Bedford, and married Mary Lind; by\\nwhom he had one son, Thomas, and three daughters, Ann,\\nMary, and Betsey. By his second wife, Sarah Riddle, he\\nhad two sons, James and John, and one daughtcr. Sarah O.\\nJoseph married Mary Scoby, and settled in Acworth,\\nN. H. They had three sons Thomas, John, and Joseph\\nand four daughters Susan, Martha, Mary Ann, and Marga-\\nret. All this family, with the exception of two maiden\\ndaughters, are dead, and have left no issue.\\nWilliam married Ann Scoby, sister of the wife of Joseph,\\nand settled in Merrimack, N. H. They had five sons\\nJoseph, James, David, John P., and Adam; and three\\ndaughters, Jane, Ann, and Sarah.\\nJohn married Isabella Witherspoon, and settled in Bed-\\nford. They had seven sons Hobert, Samuel, Ande, Isaac,\\nJesse, William, Thomas, and George O, and two daughters, h\\n.Janet and Polly. Doctors Thomas and Isaac Wallace were\\nof this family.\\nJanet, Ann, and Betsey were never married.\\nMargaret married George Qrr, of Bedford. They had\\nfour daughters Jane, Eleanor, Ann, and Margaret, No\\none of this family is now living.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0394.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 305\\nFAMILY OF THOMAS WALLAGE.\\nAnother branch of the Wallace family is as follows\\nThomas Wallage, a nephew of John Wallace, came\\nfrom the county of Antrim, Ireland, about the year 1732,\\nand settled near the West Parish meeting-house. He had\\nfour sons Robert, Thomas, William, and James and one\\ndaughter, Mary.\\nRobert owned and occupied the Cobb Farm, east of the\\nmeeting-house, and died without issue.\\nThomas owned the farm lately occupied by Boyes and\\nGilchrist, and also died without issue.\\nWilliam w^ educated at Edinburgh, Scotland, for the\\nministry, and died at Londonderry, March 27, 1733, aged\\ntwenty-six. He was the first person buried in the Hill\\ngraveyard.\\nMary married James Wallace, her cousin s son, and was\\ndistinguished from the other Mary Wallace at the West\\nmeeting-house, as Mary over the brook, as above men-\\ntioned.\\nJames, the youngest son of Thomas Wallace, married\\nMary Wilson, who was born on board of a pirate ship, in\\n1720, a memorable fact, which is noticed in the account\\nof the Woodburn family. They had four sons; Thomas,\\nRobert, William, and James and one daughter, Elizabeth.\\n1. Thomas married a Miss Gregg; was in the battle of Ben-\\nnington, and died soon after his return home. He had one\\nson, now living in Weare, N. H. The other three brothers\\nmarried three sisters, Jane, Hannah, and Ann Moore, of the\\nEnglish Range, and they all settled in Henniker. 2. Robert\\nhad four sons James, Robert M., Thomas, and William and\\none daughter, Mary. James and Thomas married ladies by\\nthe name of Bowman the former continued to reside in\\nHenniker, the latter settled in Goffstov^, where he died,\\nleaving four sons and one daughter. ifobert M. married\\nJane Morrison, daughter of Rev. William Morrison, of Lon-\\n26*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0395.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "306 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\ndonderry. William was killed by the blasting of a rock.\\nMary married Peter Patterson, of Londonderry, and had\\ntwo sons and three daughters. 3. William, son of James\\nWallace, helped to survey and lay out the town of Henniker,\\nheld various offices of trust, and was a prominent and useful\\ncitizen. He left four sons and four daughters. But two of\\nhis children survive James, who lives in Lynn, Mass., and\\nMary, (Mrs. Gove, of Deering, N. H.) 4. James died a\\nfew years after his settlement in Henniker, leaving a soa\\nand two daughters, all of whom are dead. 5. Elizabeth\\nmarried Thomas Patterson. For her children, see notice of\\nthe Patterson families.\\nBesides the three Wallace families which have been\\nnoticed, there were two other families of Wallaces, of whom\\nbut little information has been obtained. The ancestors of\\nthese two families were two brothers, Joseph and John Wal-\\nlace, who emigrated from the north of Ireland, and settled\\nin Londonderry, about the year 1726. Jean Wallace, who\\nmarried Thomas Wallace, was their sister.\\nJoseph Wallage married in Ireland, and came to\\nAmerica with his wife and one son, William, who was then\\nabout five years of age. After his arrival in this country\\nhe had several other children, of whom, however, but little\\nis known.\\nWilliam married Mary Burns, who, with her parents,\\nhad emigrated from Ireland in company with him and his\\nparents, and in 1755, settled in Milford, N. H. He had five\\nchildren, as foUows 1. Joseph, who married Letitia Burns,\\nsettled in Milford, and had several children of whom the\\neldest was Dr. William Wallace, late of Bedford. 2. John\\nwho married Mary Bradford, and had ten children among\\nwhom were Dr. John Wallace, of Milford, deceased, formerly\\nsenator and councillor, and Andrew Wallace, Esq., now\\nliving at Amherst, N. H. 3. Mary, who married Isra\u00c3\u00abl\\nBurnham, of Lyndeborough, N. H., and had one child, who", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0396.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 307\\nis now living. 4. William, who died unmarried. 5. James,\\nwho lived in Milford, married Betsey Kimball of Amherst,\\nand after her death, a Miss Tuttle, of Littleton, Mass. By\\nhis first wife he had several children, one of whom is Elishg.\\nF. Wallace, Esq., of Syraciise, N. Y.\\nJohn Wallage married Janet Steele, and had six\\ndaughters, as follows\\nJane married David Jennings.\\nMary married Samuel Miller. tr-**^^^\\nElizaheth married Solomon Todd. ^0\\nMargaret married Samuel Gregg.\\nJanet married Hugh MeCutchins. W^V^ S\\nAnn married Samuel Cherry.\\nTHE FAMILY OF JOHN WOODBURN.\\nJohn Woodburn came to this country from Ireland a\\nfew years after the settlement of Londonderry. Little is\\nknown of hira previously to his emigration. He was\\naccompanied by his brother David, who was drowned some\\nyears after, leaving a wife and two daughters.\\nJohn Woodburn was married first to Mary Boyd, after-\\nwards to Mary Taggart. His first location was east of the\\nold Graveyard Hill, on the farm recently occupied by E-obert\\nCraige. He subsequently removed to the High Range, and\\nlived the remainder of his days in a log-house that had been\\nused as a garrison for protection against the assaults of the\\nIndians. He died in 1780. By his first marriage he had\\nfour daughters.\\nNancy, the eldest, married James Anderson, of whose\\ndescendants was the Rev. Rufus Anderson, late of Wenham,\\nMass., and his son, Rev. Dr. Anderson, of Boston, Secretary\\noftheA. B. C. F. M.\\nMargaret married Edward Aiken, who took part in the\\nsettlement of Windham, Vt.\\nSarah married John Wallace, of Bedford, from whom are", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0397.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "308 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\ndescended many of the Wallace and Patten families of that\\ntown. The Rev. Cyrus Wallace, of Manchester, is one of\\ntheir descendants.\\n31ary married General George Reid. Mrs Reid was\\nwell adapted to the circle in which she moved. Possessing\\na strong and vigorous intellect, retentive memory, a bland\\nand cheerful disposition, with great equanimity of temper,\\nshe exerted a powerful and happy influence over the more\\nexcitable and strong passions of her husband, whose military\\nlife had served to give prominence to those traits of charac-\\nter by which he was distinguished. He was, in his more\\npublic life, much indebted to her wisdom and prudence in his\\ndomestic arrangements, which happily illustrated the Divine\\nencomium of the prudent wife, that her husband is known\\nin the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers* of the land.\\nThose who knew Mrs. Reid, regarded her as a pattern of\\nfemale excellence. She lived to an advanced age, and died\\nrespected by the community.\\nBy his second marriage. Mr. Woodburn had two sons and\\nfive daughters. Mrs. Woodburn survived her husband, and\\nlived to a very advanced age.\\nDavid, the eldest son, inherited the paternal estate. He\\nmarried Margaret Clark, the granddaughter of a Mrs. Wil-\\nson, whose history was a subject of interest to the early set-\\ntlers. In 1720, a company of emigrants, on their passage\\nfrom Ireland to tliis country, were taken by pirates, and\\nwhile in their hands, Mrs. Wilson was delivered of her first\\nchild, which so moved the pirate band, and particularly\\nthe captain, who had a wife and family, that he permitted\\nthem to pursue their voyage, bestowing upon Mrs. Wilson\\nsome valuable articles of apparel, among which was a silk\\ndress, pieces of which are still retained among her descend-\\nants, as memorials of her peril and of her deliverance. The\\ncaptain of the band obtaincd from her the promise, that she\\nwould call the babe by the name of his wife. The company", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0398.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 309\\nof emigrants arrived safely, and were among the early set-\\ntlers of this town. Their signal deliverance was commem-\\norated by the annual observance of a day of thanksgiving,\\nduring that generation. The child was named Mary, and\\nbecame the wife of James Wallace. Mrs. Wilson, after the\\ndeath of her husband, married Jame^Clark, whose son John\\nwas the father of Mrs. Woodburn.\\nDavid Woodburn and wife were the matemal grand-\\nparents of the Hon. Horace Greely, the well-known and dis-\\ntinguished editor of the New York Tribune and to the\\nmother of Mr. Woodburn Granny Woodburn, as she was fa-\\nmiHarly called he attributes his earliest intellectual awaken-\\ning. In a letter to a friend, published in the Business Mensi\\nAlmanac, he says, I think I am indebted for my first impulse\\ntoward intellectual acquirement and exertion to my mother s\\ngrandmother, who came out from Ireland among the first\\nsettlers in Londonderry. She must have been well versed\\nin Irish and Scotch traditions, pretty well informed, and\\nstrong minded and my mother being left motherless when\\nquite young, her grandmother exerted a great influence over\\nher mental development. I was a third child, the two pre-\\nceding having died young, and I presume my mother was\\nmore attached to me on that ground, and the extreme feeble-\\nness of my constitution. My mind was early fiUed by her\\nwith the traditions, ballads, and snatches of history she\\nhad learned from her grandmother, which, though conveying\\nvery distorted and incorrect ideas of history, yet served to*\\nawaken in me a thirst for knowledge, and a lively interest\\nin learning and history. Mr. Greely, says another of her\\ndescendants, lias not mistaken the character and intellectual\\nqualities of this remote ancestol She lived to see her chil-\\ndren s grandchildren and the stories, ballads, and facts\\nwhich her experience and memory had treasured up, were\\nthe principal historical training which many of her posterity\\nobtained,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0399.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "310 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nDavid Woodburn, by his first marriage, had several chil-\\ndren, only three of wlioiii survive.\\nJohn^ the younger son, married Martha Clark, and was\\namong the early settlers of Londonderry, Yt. They had a\\nfamily of three sons and five da ughters, many of wbose\\ndescendants now residS in the towns of Windham and Lon-\\ndonderry, Vt.\\nOf the five remaining children of John Woodburn, Senior,\\none was never married, two were married to husbands of the\\nname of Thompson, and removed to Grafton, Vt.\\nBetsey was married to William Aiken. They were among\\nthe pioneers in the settlement of Deering, N. H., several of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^vhose children and grandchildren reside in that town.\\nAmong the grandchildren of William and Betsey Aiken, are\\nThomas W. Gillis, of Nashua, N. H., and David Gillis, of\\nIManchester. N. H.\\nHannah, the j ^oungest of John Woodburn s family, mar-\\nried Robert Dickey. They had eleven children six sons\\nand five daughters, all of whom lived to form connections in\\nlife, and with one exception were settled within a few miles\\nof their paternal home and all of whom except one are still\\nliving, the youngest being about fifty years of age. Mrs.\\nDickey was well known to the inhabitants of the parish in\\nwhich she so long lived, and was highly esteemed as a mother\\njn Isra\u00c3\u00abl. She possessed strong and valuable traits of char-\\nacter. She was distinguished for her industry and economy\\nin the management of her domestic afi^airs, but not less so for\\nher firm adherence to evangelical truth, and her anxious\\ndesire and efibrts that her children, grandchildren, and great-\\ngrandchildren whom she lived to. see, might all become the\\ndecided followers of Christ, and be seen walking in the truth.\\nShe died in 1845, aged ninety-two.\\nLike many of the pioneers in the settlement of London-\\nderry, the descendants of Mr. Woodburn attained to great\\nage, many of them living to the age of eighty, and several to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0400.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. 311\\nthat of ninetj and upwards. They were an atliletic race,\\ncapable of great endurance. They were strong in their\\nattaebments, and fond of social intercourse. They were noted\\nfor retentive memory, retaining in advaneed life an uncom-\\nmonly vivid impression of the events of their youthful days.\\nJohn Woodburn, grandson of the first settler by his son\\nDavid, still inherits the paternal homestead in the High\\nRange, and with his brother James, living in Windham, are\\nthe principal branches of the family that retain the name.\\nOf their four sisters, Margaret is the wife of John Dickey,\\nand still lives in the town. Mary was married to Zaccheus\\nGreely, and is the mother of Horace Greely, and four other\\nchildren, who reside in the State of Pennsylvania. Sarah\\nwas married to Dustin Greely, brother of Zaccheus, who\\nhad six children. Subsequently, she became the wife of\\nClark Simonds. Mary Ann married Benjamin Dwinnels,\\nand lives in the State of New York. The children of this\\nearly settler are numerous, and contribute largely to con-\\nstitute the hundred thousand who are supposed to have\\ndescended froni the early settlers of Londonderry.\\n[The f\u00c3\u00bcllowing communication in relatiou to the origin of most of\\nthe famiUes residing in the present town of Londonderry, from an\\nintelligent friend in that town, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was rcceived by the Editor after the\\npreceding chapters of this work had gone to press. It is here inserted,\\nin the belief that it cannot fa il to be interesting.]\\nFormany years after the settlement of Londonderry, there\\nwas a marked distinction between the Scotch Irish inhabitants\\nand those of English origin. This was a natural consequence,\\nas they were the representatives of two nations, distinct as\\nare the English and the French. The Yankees possessed\\nthe characteristics of the English people, modified by the\\nresidence of their ancestors, during the preceding century.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0401.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "312 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nin the wilds of New England; while the first settlers of\\nLondonderry claimed to be the possessors of the better\\nqualities of both the Scotch and the Irish. Tlie two races\\nhad inherited a mutual dislike from their ancestors, and it\\nis not strange that a Httle of the old bitterness should remain\\nwhen they became neighbors. As the English race multi-\\nplied in the town, and as time wore away, this clannish spirit\\ngradually softened, and has, at length, nearly disappeared.\\nWhile this feeUng of disKke prevailed, very few instances of\\nintermarriage occurred, and the consequence is that the two\\nclasses are pretty distinct at the present day.\\nThe following are the names of the principal families\\nnow in Londonderry, of Scotch Irish descent Macgregore,\\nMoor, Adams, Karr, Aiken, Dickey, Watts, Mack, Holmes,\\n-Nevins, Boyd, Dana, Boice, Conant, Alexander, McAllister,\\nPatterson, Anderson, Morrison, Humphrey, Campbell, Dun-\\ncan, Woodburn, Nesmith, McClearey, White, Clark, Willson,\\nMcDuffee, McMurphy, Martin, Fling, Wallace.\\nMany family names, which were once common, have\\nbecome extinct. Over half a century ago, a pretty ex-\\ntensive emigration took place from Essex county, Mass.\\nThe Savory and Tenny families came, about sixty years\\nsince, from Bradford, and subsequently the Barker and\\nHardy families, from the same place. The Crowells and\\nPlummers came from Rowley. The Towns and Dwinnells\\noriginated in Topsfield. The Gilchrist family were from\\nMethuen. The Batchelder family from Beverly. In Essex\\ncounty, also, originated the Goodwin, Corning, Annis,\\nAvery, Leach, Greeley, Kimball, and Whittier families, etc.\\nThe Manter, Ripley, and Sampson families were from the\\ntown of Duxbury, Plymouth county, Mass. In later years,\\nthe Burbank, Coffin, Wallace, and Peabody families have\\ncome from Oxford county, Maine. The Hurd family were\\nfrom Charlestown, Ma fes., the Dinsmoors from Boston, and\\nthe Chases from Brentwood, N. li.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0402.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "m\\nSS\\n60\\nZ\\nO\\no\\nz\\ng\\ns=s\\nI\\nI\\n1^\\nS\\n?5\\nla\\nc\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0403.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "i\\ne:\\n)i", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0404.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nTOPOGRAPHY OF LOXDOXDERRY MEMORIAL TO GOV. SIIUTE\\nWHEELWRIGHT s deed CHARTE\u00c2\u00bb OF THE TOWN JUSTICE\\nM kEEN s COMMISSION AX EARLT PARISII TAX-LIST 3IEMO-\\nRIAL TO THE GENERAL COURT ASSOCIATIOX TEST SOLDIERS\\nOF THE REVOLUTION PETITION FOR AN ACT REG\u00c3\u009cLATING\\nPARISH VOTERS ROBERT MACGREGOr s DEED OF THE COMMOX\\nAND GRAVETARD LISTS OF REPRESENTATITES AND TOWN OF-\\nFICERS LAWTERS PHYSICI ANS GRAD\u00c3\u009cATES.\\nTOPOaRAP^Y OF LONBONDERRY.\\nThe town of Londonderiy, including Derry, is situated in\\nlat. 42\u00c2\u00b0 54 north, and in long. 5\u00c2\u00b0 45 east, from Washington. It\\nis bounded on the north by Manchester, Auburn, and Chester,\\na distance of twelve and one-half miles on the east, by San-\\ndown, Hampstead, and Atkinson, four and one-half niiles on the\\nsouth, by Salem, Windham, and Hudson, fourteen miles and on\\nthe west by Litchfield and Manchester, seven miles. The town\\nis thirty-seven miles north of Boston, twenty-five southeast of\\nConcord, and tliirty-five southwest of Portsmouth. lts loca-\\ntion is highly favorable for communication, not only with our\\nprincipal seaports, by means of a railroad which passes through\\nit, but with the several large manufacturing and business places\\nwhich have arisen in its sdcinity. Manchester, Nashville, Nashua,\\nLowell, Lawrence, and HaverhiU are all %ithin sixteen miles of\\nit, and some of those towns are much nearer. It thus possesses\\nadvantages for trade and marketing, superior to those of most\\nmtry towns.\\nlts soil is generally strong and productive, covered in its natu-\\ni\\\\ state with various kinds of hard wood, intermixed in some\\nparts with the white and yellow pine. The butternut, chestnut,\\n27", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0405.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "314 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nand walnut trees formerly abounded bere, and gave to the town\\nits early name, Nutfield.\\nThe town is traversed by tliree leading roads running in a\\nnortherly and soiitherly dlrection. The first on the west is the\\nroad leading from Manchester to Nashua, passing through the\\nHigh Range. The second is the Mammoth road, made in 1831,\\nand designed to be the leading road from Concord to Lowell. It\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was for a few years the great thoroughfare, until the Concord\\nrailroad superseded it in 1842. The third is the Londonderry\\nturnpike, built in 1807, and for some years one of the most\\ntravelled roads in the vicinity. Yarious changes and enterprises\\ncontributed, at length, to diveii; the travel ^m the road, and in\\n1838, it was thrown by the proprietors upon the towns through\\nwhich it passed, and became a free road. The Manchester and\\nLawrence railroad, opened in 1849, runs in nearly the same di-\\nrection. Thcre are various roads from the west, leading from\\nMoor s, Read s, and Thornton s ferries, and from Nashua, which\\nintersect those before named, and, converging, meet at Derry\\nVillage while on the east, are those leading from Chester, Ex-\\neter, and Hampstead, which meet in the same place.\\nThe surface of the township exhibits gentle swells, without\\nany high hills or precipitous cliff s. The whole extent of the west\\nside, bordering on Litchfield, for a nfife in width, is level, and\\nwas until recently a nearly unbroken forest, known as the hack\\nwoods. But the late demand for wood and timber in the manu-\\nfacturing towns on the Merrimack, and its vicinity to the river,\\ngave to it an unexpected value. Much of this tract has, within\\ntwenty years, been stripjDed of its growth and converted into\\npasture land.\\nNext to this range of flat land is a tract well adapted to agri-\\nculture. It is divided into Avell-cultivated farms. The southern\\npart is termed the High Range, an extensive swell of excellent\\nland, well suited to tillage. Its neat dwellings, undulating roads,\\nand gentle slope to the east and south, render it one of the most\\npleasant locations in town.\\nA mile east is Moose Hill, so called from the fact that, in the\\nearly scttlement of the \u00c2\u00abDwn, a moose was there taken. Its west-\\nerly side is mostly covered with wood, but on the east and south\\nare some valuable and highly cultivatcd farms. In the vicinity of\\nthis spot, and on the Mammoth road is the site of the Presbyte- K\\nMoose l\\\\\\nI\\nrian meeting-house in Londonderry. About a mile from Moose l\\nHill, in a northeasterly direction, is Ministerial Hill, thus termed V.\\nfrom a lot of land, \u00c2\u00abon its westerly side, ha ving been set off by the", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0406.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 315\\nparisli for the iise of tlie minister. It is principally covered with\\nwood and timber. A little farther north is Canada, or Bartley s\\nHill. Aroiind its base are many produetive farms, although the\\nsoil is difficult of cultivation. From this point eastward, all along\\nthe northern border of the town, is a wide extent of woodland,\\ninterspersed with here and there a farm-house, but with no com-\\npact settlement.\\nA little more than a mile eastward from Moose Hill, is the\\nGraveyard Hill, having near its summit one of the earliest\\nburying-places in town. A meeting-house was formerly erected\\nhere for the Rev. David MacGregor, but, owing to the erection of\\none soon after in Aiken s Range, and certain changes in the par-\\nish, it was not occupied and soon went to decay.\\nA little farther east, separated by a deep valley, is Craige s Hill.\\nFrom this hill there is a partial view of the Lower village, and a\\ndistinct and delightful view of Aiken s Range, the Upper \\\\illage\\nof Derry, its meeting-house, and most of its buildings, forming in\\nthe season of summer foliage one of the most beautiful land-\\nscapes on which the eye can rest. Derry Lower village is situated\\nin the valley of Beaver Brook, about a mile southwest of Beaver\\nPond. Here are the Congregational and Methodist meeting-houses,\\nthe Pinkerton Academy, a grist-mill and saw-mill, several me-\\nchanic shops, and two stores. It contains from forty to fifty families.\\nNorth of Beaver Pond is the Enghsh Range, situated on a\\nbeautiful and fertile swell of land, rising with a gentle ascent\\nfrom the pond, and forming one of the most pleasant agricultural\\nneighborhoods in the town. On the south of the pond the land\\nrises in an even and magnificent swell, on the summit of which is\\nthe Presbj-terian meeting-house, occup3^ng the original site se-\\nlected by the first settlers. Extending from it, to the east and\\nsouth, is the village, including the Adams Female Academy, two\\nstores, and a number of handsomely finished dwelHngs. The\\nfarms in this part of the town are unsurpassed in productive-\\nness, and many of them present specimens of agricultural taste\\nand industry. About a mile southwest from the meeting-house\\nis the Doubl\u00c3\u00a9 Range, where was formed the earliest settlement in\\ntown.\\nThe more southerly part of the tOAvn, though not so compactly\\nsettled, contains many excellent farms. The land is much diver-\\nsified with hills and valleys, but is less stony and hard, particular-\\nthat portion of it which borders on Beaver Brook, than the\\n)rthern part of the town.\\nThe eastern side of the town, bordering on Sandown and", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0407.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "316 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nHampstcad, is less even in its surface than some other parts.\\nTliough nndulating, it is not rougli and brokcn, but most of it is\\nsusceptible of cultivation, affording gootl tillage as well as pastur-\\ning. Here are many good farms and orcbards, with valuable\\nwood-lots.\\nIn tbe southeast corner of tbe town is Island Pond, an extensive\\nsheet of Avater, in the middle of which is a large island, improved\\nas a farm. The east line of the town passes through this pond.\\nIt is well supplied with fish, and is often visited by those wh,o are\\nfond of ano-ling.\\nThe soil of the townsliip is well adapted to the production of\\ngrass. Indian corn, oats, and potatoes, of an excellent quality, are\\neasily raised. The pear, peach, plum, cherry, and quince thrive\\nwell. Apples are produced in abundance, and most of the\\norchards are composed of grafted fruit-trees.\\nBeaver Brook is the most considerable stream in the town. It\\nissues from Beaver Pond, and, running in a southwesterly direc-\\ntion through Pelham, empties into the Merrimack at Dracut.\\nBeaver Pond is a beautiful body of water, nearly in a circular\\nform, and about three hundred rods in diameter. It is in fuU\\nview of the Upper village, and, being surrounded by well culti-\\nvated farms, adds much to the delightful scenery there presented.\\nThree miles northwest from this pond are three other ponds,\\nScoby s, and upper and lower Shield s. Small streams issuing\\nfrom these unite and fall into Beaver Brook, on which are, for\\nsome miles, extensive and valuable meadows. In the westerly\\npart of the town are also several streams suffici\u00c3\u00abnt for mill pur-\\nposes, which empty, after a short course, into the Merrimack\\nriver.\\nThe population of Londonderry by the census of 1767, was\\n2,389 bythat of 1775, was 2,590; bythat of 1790, was 2,622 by\\nthat of 1800, was 2,650 bythat of 1810, was 2,766 and bythat\\nof 1820, was 3,127. By the census of 1830, the population of Derry\\nwas 2,178, and that of Londonderry was 1,469. By the census\\nof 1840, the population of Derry was 2,034, and that of London-\\nderry was 1,556. By the census of 1850, the population of\\nDerry is 1,850, and that of Londonderry is 1,563.\\n^Some idea of the comparative wealth of the town may be\\nformed from the proportion of State taxes it has paid.\\nBy the apportionment of taxes made in 1820, of every onc\\nthousand dollars of public taxes, Londonderry paid $13.27. By^\\nthe apportionment of 1829, Derry paid $7.54, and Londonderry\\n$5.17; by that of 1832, Derry paid $7.94, and Londonderry", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0408.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 317\\n$5.17 by that of 1836, Derry paid $8.80, and Londonderry paid\\n$5.32 by that of 1840, Derry paid $8.43, and Londonderry\\n$5.08 by that of 1844, Derry paid $7.84, and Londonderry\\n$5.14 and by that of 1848, Derry pays $7.00, and Londonderry\\n$4.97.\\nThe decrease in the proportion of taxes paid is to be attribut-\\ned, mainly, to the growth of several large manufacturing places\\nin the State, and not to a diminution of the wealth of the town.\\nCOPY OF THE MEMORIAL TO GOV. SHUTE.\\n[The original manuscript, from which the following copy was taken,\\nAvas presented to Mr. Daniel MacGregor, of the city of New York, by\\nthe late AldenBradford, Esq., who was for many years Secretavy of the\\nState of Massachusetts.]\\nTo His Excellency the Right Honourable CoUonel Samuel Suitte\\nGovernour of New England.\\nWe whose names are underwritten, Inhabitants of ye North\\nof L-eland, Doe in our own names, and in the names of\\nmany others our Neighbours, Gentlemen, Ministers, Farmers\\nand Tradesmen Commissionate and appoint our trusty and well\\nbeloved Friend, the Reverend Mr. William Boyd of Macasky\\nto His Excellency the Right Honourable Collonel Samuel Suitte\\nGovernour of New England, and to assure His Excellency of our\\nsincere \u00c2\u00ab,nd hearty Inclination to Transport our selves to that very\\nexcellent and renowned Plantation upon our obtaining from his\\nExcellency suitable incouragemeut. And further to act and\\nDoe in our Names as his Prudence shall direct. Given under\\nour hands this 26th day of March, Annoq. Dom. 1718.\\nJames Teatte, Y. D. M., Jahon Andrson,\\nThomas Cobham, V. D. M., George Grege,\\nRobert Houston, V. D. M., Andrew Dean,\\nWilliam Leech, V. D. M., Alexander Dunlop, M. A.,\\nRobert Higinbotham, Y. D. M., Arch. M. Cook, M. A.,\\nJohn Porter, Y. D. M., Alex r Blair,\\nHen. Neille, Y. D. M., B. Cochran,\\nTho. Elder, Y. D. M., William Galt,\\nJames Thomson, Y. D. M.,. Peter Thompson,\\nWilliam Ker, Richart McLaughlin,\\nWill. McAlben, John Muar,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0409.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "318\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nWillcam Jeameson,\\nWm, Agncw,\\nJeremiah Thompson,\\nJohn Mitchell,\\nJames Paterson,\\nJoseph Curry,\\nDavid Willson,\\nPatrick Anderson,\\nJohn Gray,\\nJames Greg,\\nAlex r McBride, Bart.,\\nSam. McGivom,\\nJohn Hurdock,\\nGeo. Campbell,\\nJames Shorswood,\\nJohn McLauglilen,\\nGeorge McLaughlen,\\nJames Henre,\\nThomas Ramsay,\\nFrancis Richie,\\nJames Gregg,\\nRobert Boyd,\\nHugh Tarbel,\\nDavid Tarbel,\\nhis\\nJohn M Robb,\\nmark\\nJeatter Fulltone,\\nRobt. Wear,\\nAlex r Donnaldson,\\nArch d Duglass,\\nRobert Stiven,\\nRobt. Henry,\\nJames Pettey,\\nDavid Bigger,\\nDavid Patteson,\\nDavid (illegible),\\nJohn Wight,\\nJoseph Wight,\\nRobt. Willson,\\nJames Ball,\\nAndrew Cord,\\nJames Nesmith,\\nJohn Black,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nSamuel Boyd,\\nLawrence McLaughlen,\\nJohn Heslet,\\nGeorge McAlester,\\nThomas Ramadge,\\nJames Campbell,\\nDavid Lindsay,\\nRobt. Giveen,\\nJames Laidlay,\\nBenjamin Galt,\\nDaniel Todd,\\nRobt. Barr,\\nHugh Hollmes,\\nRobt. King,\\nJohn Black,\\nPeter Christy,\\nJames Smith,\\nJames Smith,\\nPatrick Smith,\\nSameuel Ceverelle,\\nJames Craig,\\nSamuel Wilson, M. A.,\\nGawen Jirwen,\\nRobert Miller,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nWilliam Wilson,\\nJames Brice,\\nNinian Pattison,\\nJames Thompson,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nRobert Thompson,\\nAdam Thompson,\\nAlexander Pattison,\\nThomas Dunlop,\\nJohn Willson,\\nDavid Willson,\\nJohn Moor,\\nJames McKeen,\\nJohn Lamont,\\nJohn Smith,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0410.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n319\\nPatrlck OiT,\\nBonill Orr,\\nWilliam Orr,\\nJohn Orr,\\nJeams Lenox,\\nJohn Leslie,\\nJohn Lason,\\nJohn Calvil,\\nSamuel Wat,\\nJames Craford,\\nDavid Henderson,\\nMatheu Storah,\\nDavid Widborn,\\nLuk Wat,\\nRobert Hendre,\\nWilliam Walas,\\nThomas Walas,\\nThomas Cewch,\\nWilliam Boyd,\\nWilliam Christy,\\nJohn Boyd,\\nWilliam Boyd,\\nHugh Orr,\\nRobert Johnston,\\nThomas Black,\\nPeter Murray,\\nJohn Jameson,\\nJohn Cochran,\\nSamuel Gonston,\\nThomas Shadey,\\nWilliam Ker,\\nThomas Moore,\\nAndrew Watson,\\nJohn Thonson,\\nJames McKerrall,\\nHugh Stockman,\\nAndrew Cochran,\\nJames Carkley,\\nLawrence Dod,\\nSandrs Mear,\\nJohn Jackson,\\nJames Curry,\\nJames Elder,\\nJames Acton,\\n(name illegible),\\nSamuel Smith,\\nAndrew Dodg,\\nJames Forsaith,\\nAndrew Fleeming,\\nGorge Thomson,\\nJames Brouster,\\nThomas (illegible),\\nJames Baverlan,\\nPeter Simpson,\\nThomas McLaughHn,\\nRobert Boyd,\\nAndrew Agnew,\\nJames King,\\nThomas Elder,\\nDaniel Johnston,\\nRobert Walker,\\nDavid Jonston,\\nyJames Steuart,\\ny John Murray,\\nThomas Blackwel,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJohn Ross,\\nWilliam Johnston,\\nJohn King,\\nAndrew Curry,\\nJohn (illegible),\\nJames (illegible),\\nSamuel Code,\\nJames Blak,\\nThomas Gro,\\nThomys Onston,\\nJame Gro,\\nJohn Clark,\\nThomas McFader,\\nDavid Hanson,\\nRichard Acton,\\nJames Claire,\\nThomas Elder,\\nJeremiah Claire,\\nJacob Clark,\\nAbram Baberley,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0411.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "320\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nStephen Murdock,\\nRobert Murdock,\\nJohn Murdock,\\nWilliam Jennson,\\nJames Rodeer,\\nJohn Buyers,\\nRobert Smith,\\nAdam Dean,\\nRandall Alexander,\\nThomas Boyd,\\nHugh Rogers,\\nJohn Craig,\\nWm. Boyle,\\nBenj. Boyle,\\nJa. Kenedy,\\nM. Stirling,\\nSamuel Ross,\\nJohn Ramsay,\\nJohn McKeen,\\nJames Willsone,\\nRobert McKeen,\\nJohn Boyd,\\nAndrew Dunlap,\\nJames Ramsey,\\nWilHam Park,\\nJohn Blair,\\nJames Thompson,\\nLawrence McLaughlin,\\nW\u00c3\u00bcl. CampibeU,\\nJames Bankhead,\\nAndrew Patrick,\\nJames McFee,\\nJames Tonson,\\nGeorge Anton,\\nJames Anton,\\nGeorge Kairy,\\nThomas Freeland,\\nThomas Hunter,\\nhjs\\nDaniel A McKerrell,\\nmark\\nHorgos Kcnedey,\\nhis\\nJohn A Suene,\\nmark\\nAdam y^ Ditkoy\\nmark\\nAlexander Kid,\\nThomas Lorle,\\nThomas Hines,\\nWiU A Halkins,\\nmark\\nGeorge Anton,\\nJohn Colbreath,\\nWilliam Caird,\\nJohn Gray,\\nJohn Woodman,\\nAndrew Watson,\\nWilliam Bleair,\\nJoseph Bleair,\\nhis\\nHugh X Blare,\\nmark\\nWilliam Blare,\\nSamuel Anton,\\nJames Knox,\\nRobert Hendry,\\nJohn Knox,\\nWilliam Hendry,\\nWilliam Dunkan,\\nDavid Duncan,\\nJohn Muree,\\nJames Gillmor,\\nSamuel Gillmor,\\nAlexander Chocran,\\nEdward MKene,\\nJohn Morduck,\\nhis\\nSamuel V\\\\ McMun,\\nmark\\nHenry Calual,\\nThomas McLaughlen,\\nRobert Hoog,\\nJohn Millar,\\nHugh Calwell,\\nWilliam Boyd,\\nJohn Stirling,\\nSamuel Smith,\\nJohn Lamond,\\n1^", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0412.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n321\\nRobert Lamond,\\nRobert Knox\\nWilliam Wilson,\\nWm. Paterson,\\nJames Alexander,\\nJames Nesmith,\\nDavid Craig,\\nWcaU. McNeall,\\nThomas Orr,\\nWm. Caldwall,\\nJames Moore, Jr.,\\nSam. Gunion,\\nMatthcAv Lord,\\nRobert Knox,\\nAlex. McGregore,\\nJames Trotter,\\nAlexander McNeall,\\nRobert Roo,\\nJpsepli Watson,\\nRobert [Miller,\\nJohn Smeally,\\nJames Morieson,\\nJames Walker,\\nRobert Walker,\\nRobert Walker,\\nWilliam Calwall,\\nmark\\nWilliam Walker,\\nSamuel t^ Young,\\nmark\\nAlexander Richey,\\nJames Morieson,\\nhis\\nJoseph X Beverlan,\\nmark\\nhis\\nRobert ki Crage,\\nmark\\nJohn Thompson,\\nHugh Tomson,\\nJames Still,\\nhis\\nJames X Hoog,\\nmark\\nThomas Hanson,\\nJohn Hanson,\\nRichard Etone,\\nJames Etone,\\nThomas Etone,\\nSamuell Hanson,\\nJames Cochran,\\nJames Hulton,\\nThomas Hasetone,\\nJohn Cochran,\\nWilliam Cochran,\\nhis\\nSamuel r^ Huntor,\\nmark\\nJohn Huntor.\\nJ^\\n1\\nCOPY OF WHEELWRIGHT S DEED.\\nThese presents mtnesseth, that I, John Wheelwright, of Wells,\\nin the county of Yorke, in the pro^4nce of the Massachusetts\\nBay, do for me myself, Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and\\nAssigns, by virtue of a Deed or Grant made to my Grandfather,\\na minister of the Gospel, and others named in said Grant, \u00c2\u00a5y\\nsundry Indian Sagemores, with the consent of ye whole tribe of\\nIndians between the Rivers of Meremaike and Pescutequa, to\\nthem and their Heirs forever fuU power for the laying out\\nbounding and Granting these Lands into suitable tracts for town-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0413.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "322 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRY.\\nships, unto such numbers of People as may from time td time\\noffer to settle and Improve the same, wliich deed beareth date,\\nMay the seventeenth, onc thousand sLx hundred and twenty and\\nnine, Executed, Acknowledged, and approved by the authority\\nin the Day, as may at large more fully appear. Pursuant there-\\nunto I Do, by these presents, Give and Grant all my Right Title\\nand Interest therein contained for the ends, uses abovesaid, unto\\nMr. James MacGregor, Samuel Graves, David Cargill, James\\nMcKeen, James Gregg, and one hundred more, mentioned in a\\nlist, to them and their Heirs forever, a cert.iin tract of Land,\\nbounded as followeth, not exceedlng the quantity of ten miles\\nsquare beginning at a pine-tree, marked, which is the south-\\nwest corner of Chcsheir, and running to the northwest corner of\\nthe said Cheshire, and from the northwest corner, running upon\\na due west line unto the E.iver Merimack, and down the River\\nMerimack, until it meets with the line of Dunstable, and there\\nturning eastward upon Dunstable line, untill it meet with the\\nline of Dracut, and continuing eastward upon Dracut Line, untill\\nit meet with the line of Haverill, and Extending northward upon\\nHaverill Line, untill it meet with the line of Cheshire, and then\\nturning westward upon the said Line of Cheshire, unto the pine-\\ntree first mentioned, where it began. In witness whereof, I have\\nhereunto set my hand and seal, this twentyeth Day of October,\\none thousand seven hundred and nineteen.\\nSigned, Sealed, and Delivered\\nin the Prcsencc of\\nDaniel Dupee, John Wheelwright. [l. s.]\\nJohn Hirst,\\nSuffolk, SS. Boston, October ye 20th, 1719.\\nJohn Wheelwright, Esqr., personaly appearing, acknowledged\\nthe above Instrument to be his volluntary act and Deed.\\nCor. Wm. Welsteed, Just. Peace.\\nProvence of\\nire. j\\nNewhampsliire. j Entered and rccorded in the llth Book of\\nthe said Records, Page 138-139, this 24th of October, 1719.\\nPr. Saml. Penhallow, Recorder.\\nCOPY OF THE CHARTER OF LONDONDERRY.\\nGeorge, By the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France,\\nand Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.\\nTo all people, to whom these presents shall come GredTing.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0414.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 323\\nKnow ye that we, of our especial knowledge and mere\\nmotion for the due encoiiragement of settling New plantations,\\nBy and with the advice aiid consent of our council, have Given\\nand Granted, and by these presents, as far as in us lies, do Give\\nand Grant, in equal shares, unto sundry of our beloved subjects,\\nwhose names are entered into a schedule hereunto annexed, that\\ninhabit, or shall inhabit, within th\u00c2\u00a7 said grant, within our Province\\nof New Hampshire, all that Traet of Land within the folio wing\\nbounds, being ten miles square, or so much as amounts to ten\\nmiles square, and no more Beginning on the northeast angie at\\na beach Tree, marked, which is the southeast angle of Chester,\\nand running from thence due south, on Kingston line four miles\\nand a half; and from thence on a west line, one mile and three\\nquarters and from thence south, six miles and a half; and from\\nthence west-northwest, nine miles and a half; and from thence\\nnorth, eleven miles and a half; from thence north-northeast, three\\nmiles from thence east-southeast, one mile and from thence\\nsouth-southwest, to the south w est angle of Chester; and from\\nthence, on an east-southeast line, bounding on Chester, ten miles,\\nunto the Beach tree first mentioned and that the same be a\\nto ^vn corporate by the name of Londonderry, to the persons\\naforesaid forever, Provided, nevertheless, and the true intent and\\nmeaning of these presents is, anything to the contrary, notwith-\\nstanding, that nothing in this, our said Grant, shall extend to, or\\nbe understood to extend, to defeat, prejudice, or make null and\\nvoid any Claim, Title, or Pretence wliich our Province of the\\nMassachusetts Bay may have to all or any part of the premises\\nGranted as aforesaid, or the Right, claim, property, or Demand of\\nany private person or persons, by reason or means of all or any\\npart of the said Granted Premises falling within the line or\\nbounc -les of our said province of the Massachusetts. To have\\nand to lx d the said lands to the Grantees, their heirs and assigns\\nforever, upon the folio wing conditions, namely\\nFirst, That the Proprietors of every share bull^ a dwelling-\\nhouse within three years, and settle a family therein, and break\\nup three acres of ground, and plant or sow the same within four\\nyears, and pay his or their proportion of the town charges, wlien\\nand so often as occasion shall require the same.\\nSecondly: That a meeting-house shall bc built within four\\nyears.\\nThirdly That, upon default of any particular proprietor in\\ncomplying with the conditions of this Charter on- his part, such\\ndelinquent Proprietor shall forfeit his share to the other Propri-", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0415.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "324 niSTORY OF londonderry.\\nctors, to be dlsposed of by vote of the major part of tlie proprl-\\netors, and in case of an Indian war within the said four years, the\\nsaid grantees shall have four years more, after the said war is\\nended, for the performance of these conditions.\\nFourtlily The said men and Inhabitants also rendering and\\npaying for the same, to us, our successors, or to such Officer or\\nOfficers as shall be appointcd to receive the same, the Annual\\nquitrent or acknowlcdgment of one peck of potatoes, on the\\nfirst day of October, yearly, forever. Reserving also unto us,\\nour heirs and successors, all mast-trees growing on said tract of\\nLand, and according to the acts of Parlianient in that behalf\\nmade and provided and for the better order, rule, and govern-\\nment of the said Town, we do, by these presents, Grant for us,\\nour heirs and successors, unto the said Grantees, that yearly and\\nevery year, upon the fifth day of March, forever, except on the\\nLord s day, and then on the Monday next following, they shall\\nmeet, elect, and choose, by the major part of the Electors present,\\nall Town Officers, according to the usage of the other towns\\nwithin our said provinces, for the year ensuing, with such powers,\\nprivileges, and authorities as other town officers in our provinces\\naforesaid do enjoy. As also, that on every Wednesday in the\\nweek, forever, they may hold, keep, and enjoy a market, for the\\nselling and buying goods, wares, merchandize, and all kinds of\\ncreatures, endowcd with the usual privileges, profits, and Immuni-\\nties as other market-towns usually hold, possess, and enjoy and\\ntwo fairs annually, forever the first to be held or kept within\\nthe said Town, on the eiglith day of October next, and so de anno\\nin annum, forever, and the other on the eighth of May, in like\\nmanner provided, that if it should so happen, that at any time\\neither of those fall on the Lord s day, then the said fair shall be\\nheld and kept the day following, and that the said fair shall have,\\nhold, and possess the Liberty, Privileges, and Immunities that\\nother fairs in^jither Towns usually possess, hold, and enjoy. In\\nwitness wliereof, we have caused the seal of our said Province to\\nbe hereunto ai^xed.\\nWitness, Samuel Siiute, Esq., Our Governor and Com-\\nmander-in-chief of our said Province, the twenty-first day of June,\\nAnno Domini 1722, in the eighth year of our reign.\\nBy advice of the Council. Samuel Shute.\\nRiciiARD Waldkon, Clerk Council.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0416.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n325\\nV\\nThe Schedule of the names of the Proprletors of Londonderry.\\nShares, Shares.\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\nX\\nJolin Moor,\\nRobert Wilson,\\nSamuel Moor,\\nJames and John Doak,\\nohn Arcliibald,\\nHenry Green, 1\\nAbel Merrei, 1\\nHandel Alexander, 1\\nRobert Doak, 1\\nAlexander Walker, 1\\nJohn Clark, 1\\nJames Anderson,\\nJames Alexander,\\nJames Morison, 1\\nJohn Mtchel, 1\\nArchibald Clendinen, 1\\nJohn Barnett, 1\\nJames McKeen and son,\\nJona. Ta} lor, 1\\nAlexander Niehols, 1\\nWilliam Hmnphra, 1\\nJohn Barnet and sons, 2\\nDa\\\\id Craig and W. Gilmore, 2\\nJohn Stewart, 1\\nThomas Steell, 1\\nSamuel Allison, 1\\nRobert Weir, 1\\nJohn Morison, 1\\nAllen Anderson, 1\\nMr. MacGregore and sons, 3\\nJames Nesmith, 1\\nJames Clark, 1\\nWilliam Gregg, 1\\nJohn Gregg, 1\\nJames Gregg and sons, 2\\nDavid Cargil, Jr., 1\\nRobert McKeen, 1\\nJanet, John, and\\n$amuel McKeen,\\nAlexander McMurphy and\\nJames Liggit, f\\n28\\nWilliam Cochran,\\nWiUiam WUlson and\\nJohn Richey, j\\nWilliam Thompson,\\nHugh Montgomery,\\nRobert Morison,\\nAlexander McNeal,\\nRobert Boyes,\\nJohn McMurjDhy,\\nJohn McNeal,\\nWilliam Campbell,\\nCapt. David Cargile,\\nJohn Archibald, Jr.,\\nJames McNeal,\\nDani\u00c3\u00abl McDuffee,\\nSamuel Huston,\\nCol. John Wlieelwright,\\n2 I Edward Proctor,\\nBenjamin Kidder,\\nJohn Gray,\\nJosepli Kider,\\nJohn GoiFe,\\nSamuel Graves,\\nJohn Crombie,\\nMatthew Clark,\\nJames Lindsey,\\nJames Lesly,\\nJohn Anderson,\\nJames Blair,\\nJohn Blair,\\nJames Moor,\\nJohn Sheales,\\nJames Rogers,\\nJoseph Simonds,\\nEHas Kays,\\nJohn Robey,\\nJohn Senter,\\nJohn Goffe, Jr.,\\nStei)hen Perce,\\nAndrew Spauiden,\\nDavid Bogle,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0417.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "326\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nJohn, Peter, and\\nAndrew Cochran,\\nSamuel Gregg, Samuel\\nGraves, and Robert Boyes\\nJames Ailvcn,\\nWilliam Aiken,\\nEdward Aiken,\\nJolin Wallace,\\nBenjamin Willson,\\nAndrew Todd,\\nJohn Bell,\\nDa^dd Moiison,\\nSamuel Morison,\\nAbram Holmes,\\nJohn Given,\\nWilliam Eayers,\\nThomas Bogle,\\nEhzabeth Willson and\\nMary, her daughter,\\nSliaics.\\n1 I\\nSamuel Graves, Jr.,\\nMr. James McGregore,\\nfor a servant,.\\nGapt. Cargile, for\\n2 servants,\\nGeorge Clark,\\nThomas Clark,\\nNehemiah Giffen,\\nJames McGlauglilin,\\nParsonage lot,\\nJohn Barnett, Jr.,\\nJohn McConoeighy,\\nJohn McClurg,\\nJohn Woodburn,\\nBening Wentworth,\\nRichard Waldren,\\nLieut. Govemor Wentworth,\\nRobert Amistrong,\\nRobert Actmuty,\\nShares.\\n1\\ni\\ni\\nWhole number, 124j\\nMemorandum over and above what is already given in the\\nSchedule, are added.\\nAcres.\\nAcres.\\nMr.\\nMcGregore,\\n250\\nMr. James Gregg,\\n150\\nMr.\\nMcKeen,\\n250\\nJohn Goffe,\\n100\\nMr.\\nDavid Cargil,\\n100\\nAnd to the two lots last mentioned, viz. Gregg and Goffe, a\\nmill-stream within the said Town, for their good services in pro-\\nmoting the settlement of the Town.\\nRichard Waldron, Clerk Council.\\nNew Hampshire, June 21, 1792.\\nAdmitted Proprietors and Commoners in the Town of London-\\nderry, with the persons mentioned in this Schedule, His Excel-\\nlency, Governor Shute a home-lot and 500 acres, His Honor,\\nLieut. Governor Wentworth a home-lot and share 300 acres.\\nRichard Wiberd, 1 share\\nThos. AVestbrook, 1\\nThomas Parker, 1\\nArchibld. McPhetrick, 1\\nRichard Waldron, Clerk to Council.\\nSamuel Penhallow,\\n1 share\\nMark Hunken,\\n1\\nGeorge Jeffries,\\n1\\nShadrac Walton,\\n1", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0418.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 327\\nJUSTICE M KEEN S COMMISSION.\\nA copy of the commission of James McKeen, Esq., a Justice\\nof tlie Peace, in Londondeny the original being now (1850) in\\na good state of preservation, in the hands of his great-grandson,\\nRev. Silas McKeen, of Bradford, Vt.\\nGeorge, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and\\nIreland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc, to our trusty and\\nwell-beloved James McKeen, Esq., Greeting. Know you that\\nWe, rejDOsing mueh confidence in your loyalty, skill, and ability,\\nhave constituted, ordained, and made, and by these presents do\\nconstitnte and appoint you to be one of our Justices of the Peace,\\nwithin our Province of New Hampshire, in America hereby\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0willing and requiring you to keep, and caus\u00c3\u00aa to be kept, all ordi-\\nnances and statutes made for the promotion of peace, and conser-\\nvation of t^e same, and for the quiet rule and government of Our\\npeople, in all and every the articles thereof, in Our said Prov-\\nince, according to the form and effect of the same fuUy to act,\\nperform, and do all, and whatsoever to the Justice of the Peace\\n(within the said Province) doth appertain, according to the laws\\nthat now are, or may be, in forcc within the same.\\nIn witness whereof, we have caused the seal of Our said\\nProvince to be hereunto affixed.\\nWitness, Samuel Shute, Esqr., Our Captain, General, and\\nGovernor in Chief, in and over Our said Province of N.\\nHamp., at Portsmouth, the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the\\nsixth year of Our reign. Anno Domini 1720.\\n[l. s.] Saml. Shute.\\nCOPY OF AN EARLY PARISH TAX-LIST.\\nProvince of 7 To Alexander Mc Collom, old parish Con-\\nNew Hampshire. stable, in Londonderry, in said province, to\\n[l. s.] Colect the Minister s sallary on the west side\\nof Bevor Brook, in said town. Greeting.\\nYou are hereby Requaired in his Maj tes Name to Collect the\\nfollowing sums, as they are anexed to each man s Name in this\\nList they being the inhabitance of the old parish in London-\\nderry, afforesaid. And the said sums, so Collected, you are to\\npay to us the subscribers, or our Order, at or befbre the tenth", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0419.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "328\\nHISTORY OP LONDONDERRT.\\nDay of January ncxt Ensulng, in Order to pay the Rev d Wil-\\nliarn Davidson bis sallary for his Labors Amongst iis, in the year\\n1750. And If any person shall Neglect or Kefuse PajTnent of\\nthe snm or sums on him or them so assescd or apploted, You\\nare to Make Distress upon all such as the Law Dircets and for\\nTvant of Good or Chattels whereon to Distrain, You are to size\\nthe Body, and Commite hun or them to the Common Goile, of said\\nprovince, there to Remain nntill he or they shall pay the sum or\\nsums on him or them so assesed or apploted, And this shall be\\nyour Suffici\u00c3\u00abnt Warrant. Given under Our hands and seal, at\\nLondonderry, this ninth Day of November, and in the twenty-\\nfoarth year of his Reaign. Anno Domi. 1 750.\\nJohn Cromey, 1\\nJohn Barnett,\\nAlex r Kelsey, j- Selectmen.\\nSamuel Morrison,\\nrobt. cochran, j\\n3.\\nd.\\n3.\\nd.\\nJohn Ramsey,\\n2\\n14\\n1\\nJohn Brown,\\n2\\n12\\nJames Ramsey,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nJoseph Wallace,\\n2\\n12\\nWed w Calderwood,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nWiUiam Eyars,\\n4\\n19\\n8\\nRobt. Clark,\\n5\\n14\\n9\\nJames Cochran,\\n2\\n7\\n10\\nRobt. Wallace,\\n4\\n3\\n2\\nNethaniel. Holms,\\n2\\n7\\n10\\nBenj. Willson,\\n3\\n8\\n9\\nWiUiam Marten,\\n1\\n6\\n10\\nCapt. Andrew Todd,\\n1\\n8\\n8\\nWed*w Willson,\\n2\\n5\\n10\\nJohn Wallace,\\n2\\n9\\n8\\nJoseph Bell,\\n2\\n2\\nJohn Barnet,\\n2\\n17\\n4\\nNenion Cochran,\\n3\\n12\\n7\\nCor. James Willson,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nPeter Cochran,\\n2\\n2\\nCapt. Andrew Todd,\\n5\\n14\\n9\\nWilHam Cochran,\\n2\\n2\\nDavid Morison,\\n5\\n8\\n1\\nThos. Willson,\\n2\\n13\\n5\\nJoseph Cochran,\\n5\\n14\\n9\\nSam 1 Mller,\\n2\\n18\\n5\\nWill mBetty,\\n1\\n2\\nDn. John INIoore,\\n5\\n3\\n2\\nThos. Wallace,\\n5\\n8\\n11\\nfor his Negrow,\\n5\\nThos. Cochran,\\n5\\n8\\n11\\nDn. Patrick Douglass\\n5\\n6\\n10\\nJohn Cromey,\\n4\\n15\\n6\\nfor his Negrow,\\n5\\nJohn Maclurge,\\n1\\n15\\n10\\nSam 1 Morison,\\n5\\n14\\n9\\nJames Wallace,\\n1\\n15\\n10\\nRobt. Craigo,\\n5\\n14\\n9\\nJohn Barret,\\n1\\n1\\nJames Morrow,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nWill m Edison,\\n1\\n1\\nThos. Macleary,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nJames Doack,\\n3\\n12\\n7\\nAbraham Holms,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nWed w Woodburn,\\n2\\n2\\nJohn Holms,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nMatthew Wright,\\n2\\n11\\n7\\nHalbert Morison,\\n2\\n17\\n5", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0420.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n\u00c2\u00a3j\\n2y\\nS-,\\nd.\\ns.\\nd.\\nSam 1 Dlckey,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nRobt. Petterson\\nand bis motber,\\n1\\n2\\nPeter Petterson,\\n2\\n17\\n5\\nJolin Maclurge,\\n5\\n14\\n9\\nWilliam White,\\n2\\n4\\nHugli Young,\\n3\\n7\\n3\\nJames Boys,\\n1\\n10\\nSam 1 Fislier,\\n1\\n13\\n8\\nSam 1 Boys,\\n14\\nWed w Hogg,\\n1\\n13\\n8\\nChristephor Eyars,\\n1\\n5\\n6\\nJames Caldwell,\\n3\\n7\\n3\\nCur. James Willson s\\nAlex r Macolam,\\n3\\n7\\n3\\nsons,\\n1\\n5\\n6\\nWilliam Macnlell,\\n3\\n7\\n3\\nAlex r Craige,\\n12\\n9\\nJoseph Boys,\\n2\\n4\\nJohn Morison,\\n12\\n9\\nJames Oiigliterson,\\n1\\n2\\nAlex r Macmurphy,\\n12\\n9\\nRobt. Kenady,\\n1\\n2\\nJohn Cox,\\n12\\nWilliam Cox,\\n11\\nJohn Wallace,\\n16\\nEdward Cox,\\n11\\nJohn Rowside,\\n12\\n9\\nCharls Cox,\\n1\\n2\\nRobt. Livingstone,\\n12\\n9\\nJoseph Cox,\\n1\\n2\\nEdward Aiken,\\n12\\n9\\nWed w Macalester,\\n1\\n2\\nJames Aughenbowl,\\n14\\nWill m Macalester,\\n1\\n10\\nHugh Campbell,\\n16\\n2\\nJames King,\\n14\\nEdward Presbery,\\n7\\n5\\nLitle Sam 1 Morison,\\n2\\n4\\nThos. Grahams,\\n2\\n8\\n4\\n06\\n11\\n3\\nMEMORIAL OF MATTHEW THORNTON AND OTHERS TO THE\\nGENERAL COURT.\\nTo His Excellency, Benning Wentworth, Esq., Captain, Gen-\\neral, Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over his\\nMajesty s Province of New Hampsliire, the Honourable, his\\nMajesty s Council and House of Representatives.\\nWe, the subscribers, Freeholders and Inhabitants in London-\\nderry, and Province aforesaid, humbly beg leave to return our\\nsincere and hearty thanks for the late gracious Act, in which it\\nis Stipulated that Londonderry aforesaid shall have no more than\\nthree Taverns and two Retailers, for the present and four Ensu-\\ning years, and we had rather the number were diminished than\\nincreased.\\nLondonderry, Sept. 26th, Annoque Domini 1758.\\nMatthew Thornton,\\nWilliam Wallace,\\nWilHam Cox,\\nCharles Cox,\\nJohn Macartney,\\nWilliam Cochran,\\n28*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0421.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "330\\nmSTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nJolm Cocliran,\\nPeter Cocliran,\\nRobert Cochran,\\nNinian Cochran,\\nJolm Wallace,\\nNathaniel Aiken,\\nHugh Young,\\nRandal Alexander,\\nJames Anderson,\\nDavid Anderson,\\nSamuel Moore,\\nAlex r W. Nutt,\\nThomas Grier,\\nJohn Durham,\\nRobert Moore,\\nJohn Hunkin,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJames Willson,\\nJames Willson,\\nMoses Barnett,\\nJames Aiken,\\nSamuel ]\\\\\u00c3\u00bclls,\\nJohn Barnett,\\nRobert Barnett,\\nSamuel Alison,\\nSamuel Alison, Jr,\\nDavid Steel,\\nThomas Creaj;e,\\nDavid Craige,\\nSamuel Morrison,\\nMatthew Taylor,\\nJohn Hogg,\\nJohn Mtchell,\\nSamuel Rankin,\\nJames Paul,\\nWilliam Rankin,\\nJohn Steel,\\nSamuel Steel,\\nJno Wiear,\\nJohn McKeen,\\nEphraim Marsh,\\nJames Thompson,\\nHugh Thompson,\\nWilliam Humphrey,\\nWilliam On-,\\nJohn Moor,\\nHugh Montgomery,\\nDa\\\\ id Montgomery,\\nRobert Morison,\\nRobert MacMurphy,\\nSamuel Houston,\\nJames Houston,\\nDaniel Leslie,\\nW\u00c3\u00bcham Taylor,\\nRobert Patterson,\\nWilliam Eayres,\\nJohn Moor,\\nRobert Moor,\\nJames Caldwell,\\nPatrick Douglass,\\nAlex r Rankin,\\nDaniel McDuffee,\\nRobert Adams,\\nJames McGregore,\\nJohn Taylor.\\nASSOCIATION TEST.\\nIn April 17 7G, in accordanee with a recommendation of the\\nContinental Congress, circulars wei\u00c2\u00bbe* sent, by the Committee cf\\nSafety of New Hampshirc, to the Selectmen of the several towns\\nm the State, requesting them to procure the signatures of all the\\nmales in the town, over twenty-one years of age, (with certain\\nexceptions,) to the declaration contai ned in the circular, and to", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0422.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 331\\nreport the names of all who shoiild rcfuse to slgn. The foUowing\\nis a copy \u00c3\u00b3f the circular sent to the Selectmen of Londonderry,\\nof the names of those who signed, and of those who refused to\\nsign it.\\nTo the Selectmen and Committee of Londondeny, Colony of\\nNew Hampshire.\\nIn Committee of Safety.\\nApril 12th, 1776.\\nIn order to carry the underwritten resolves of the Hon ble\\nContinental Congress into execution, You ar\u00c2\u00ab requested to desire\\nall males above Twenty-One years of agc, (Lunaticks, Idiots, and\\nNegroes excepted^) to sign to the declaration on this paper and\\nwHen so done, to make return hereof, together with the name or\\nnames of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General\\nAssembly, or Committee of Safety of this Colony.\\nM. Weare, Chairman.\\nIn Congress, March 14th, 1776.\\nResolved, that it be recommended to the several assembUes,\\nConventions, and Couneils, or Committees of Safety, of the United\\nColonies, immediately to cause all persons to be disarmed within\\ntheir Respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the\\ncause of America, or who have not associated, and refuse to asso-\\nciate, to defend by arms, the United Colonies against the hostile\\nattempts of the British fleets and armies.\\n(Copy) Extract from the Minutes,\\nCharles Thompson, Sec ry.\\nIn consequence of the above resolution of the Hon. Conti-\\nnental Congress, and to shew our determination in joining our\\nAmerican brethren in defending the Lives, Liberties, Properties\\nof the Inhabitants of the United Colonies\\nWe, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise,\\nthat we will, to the utmost of our power, at the Risque of our\\nLives and Fortunes, with arms, oppose the Hostile proceedings\\n\u00c3\u00b3f the British Fleets and Armies, against the United American\\nColonies.\\nMatthew Thornton, WUliam Alexander,\\nJoseph Gregg, Isaac Peabody,\\nGeorge Duncan, Junr., McGregore,\\nJohn Gregg, Daniel Reynolds,\\nBenjamin Gregg, George Russel,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0423.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "332\\nniSTORY OP LONDONDERRY,\\nJohn Moor,\\nJohn Aiken,\\nThomas Taggart,\\nJohn Nesniith,\\nJaines Cochran, Junr.,\\nJames INIcGregore,\\nJohn Bailey,\\nJohn Gilmore,\\nRobt. McNeil,\\nArthur Archibald,\\nWiUiam Kelly,\\nWilliam Gregg,\\nHugh Montgomery,\\nJohn Pinkerton,\\nMoses Lankester,\\nBenjamin Cheney,\\nDavid Clendinin,\\nJames Paul,\\nJohn Cochran,\\nRobert Willson,\\nTimothy Faren,\\nStephen Holland,\\nWilUam Yance,\\nNathan Stinson,\\nDa\\\\dd Craige,\\nJohn Prentice,\\nJames Cochran,\\nJames Alexander,\\nMatthew MUer,\\nMoses Barnet,\\nJohn Yance,\\nAlex dr. Mc Collom,\\nAdam AViar,\\nRobcrt AValton,\\nThomas McCleary,\\nEobert Macordy,\\nJohn Robinson,\\nJohn Patten,\\nSaml. Dickey,\\nJames Wallace,\\nJohn Holmes,\\nAlex r. Crage,\\nRobt. Gilmore,\\nAndrew Clendinin,\\nThomas Willson,\\nSamuel Morison,\\nJohn Steel,\\nJames Nicliols,\\nJohn Morison,\\nThomas Patterson,\\nRobert Holmes,\\nAdam Dunlap,\\nWilliam Davidson,\\nRobt. Moor,\\nRobt. Smith,\\nDavid Anderson,\\nSamuel Gr\u00c3\u00a8gg,\\nDavid Taylor,\\nJohn Hopkins,\\nSamuel Marsh,\\nRobt. Morrison,\\nJonathan Gillmore,\\nJonathan Kelso,\\nGeorge Mansfield,\\nJohn Annis,\\nJames Humphrey, Junr.,\\nRobert McFarland,\\nJohn T}-lor,\\nW\u00c3\u00bcliam Tylor,\\nJohn Marsl^\\nWm. Cunningham,\\nThomas Anderson,\\nThomas Creage,\\nMatthew Clark,\\nIsaac Brewster,\\nJohn Barnet,\\nJohn Hiland,\\nJohn Barnet, Junr.,\\nJames Anderson,\\nJohn Gunion,\\nAdam Taylor,\\nSamuel Taylor,\\nJohn Bell,\\nWm. Duncan,\\nAbraham Duncan,\\nJohn Cox,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0424.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n333\\nRobert Monson,\\nJohn Creaig,\\nJames Taggart,\\nSamuel Anderson,\\nJames Adams,\\nJames Nesmith,\\nRobert Adams,\\nArcliibald Mack,\\nJames Nesmitli, Junr.,\\nJames Miltimore,\\nSamuel Clark,\\nJames Ewing,\\nJames Donaldson,\\nWilliam Rogers,\\nDavid McKeen,\\nJohn Wallace,\\nDa^dd Paul,\\nSamuel Ghrims,\\nSaml. Wilson,\\nJames Dinsmoor,\\nSamuel Gregg,\\nJolm McKeen,\\nGeorge Duncan,\\nSamuel Fisher,\\nJohn Duncau,\\nJames Anderson,\\nJas. Hopkins,\\nRobt. Archibald,\\nJohn Hunter,\\nJames IMiltimore,\\nJonathan Wallace,\\nDavid Hnkerton,\\nJames Adams, Junr.,\\nThomas Rogers,\\nJames Anderson,\\nWilliam Anderson,\\nJoseph Mack,\\nJosiah Duncan,\\nRobert Craige,\\nJohn McAlester,\\nThomas Holmes,\\nDa^-id McCleary,\\nEphraim Dunond,\\nJohn Anderson,\\nJohn Patterson,\\nAlexander Boyd,\\nThos. Wallace, Junr.,\\nJames Barnett,\\nJJ\u00c3\u00b3hn McClurg,\\nSamuel Morison, Junr.,\\nRobert Dickey,\\nJoseph Chapman,\\nEhas Smith,\\nJohn IMarshall,\\nHumphrey Holt,\\nAndrew Mack,\\nArchibald McAlester,\\nAndrew Todd,\\nRobert Thompson,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nIsaac Walker,\\nSaml. Thompson,\\nAndrew Todd,\\nRobert McColom,\\nDavid Brewster,\\nJames Adams,\\nJames McMurphy,\\nJames Alexander,\\nJohn Mcintosh,\\nRobt. INIcMurphy, Junr.,\\nSamuel Monson,\\n]\\\\Iatthew Pinkerton,\\nSamuel Alls,\\nAlexander Craig,\\nHugh Watt,\\nArchibald McMurphy,\\nJedediah Patee,\\nSamuel WiUson,\\nJames Willson,\\nAdam Dickey,\\nJohn Dickey,\\nGeorge Corning,\\nJames Boyes,\\nSamuel White,\\nGeorge Mc Allaster,\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u0094Matthew Dickey,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0425.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "334\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nRobcrt McLiiere,\\nJohn Kerr,\\nSaml. Wallace,\\nJohn Giles,\\nRobert Boyes,\\nJames Thompson,\\nThomas McCleary,\\nJacob Chase,\\nWilliam Page,\\nNathl. Smith,\\nJoseph Bell,\\nJames Cochran,\\nJohn McAdams,\\nJohn McClenehe,\\nSamuel Boys,\\nJosej^h Boys,\\nMoses Watt,\\nJoseph Hogg,\\nJohn Watts,\\nThomas Hilands,\\nJames Lyons,\\nJames Hoofgr,\\nFrancis Mitchell,\\nWm. Johnston,\\nHiigh Kattey,\\nPeter Kattey,\\nBobt. Clendinin,\\nWilliam Wier,\\nNicholas Dodge,\\nJohn Dwinell,\\nHenry Campbell,\\nDavid Porter,\\nThomas Wallace,\\nJames AVallace,\\nGeorge MclNlurphy,\\nWilliam Wallace,\\nJoseph Cochran,\\nSamuel Bankin,\\nWilliam Rankin,\\nJames Ramsey,\\nJohn Ilunter,\\nDaniel Hunter,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJesse Plunier,\\nNathaniel Brown,\\nJonathan Adams,\\nJohn Clark,\\nWilliam Eayrs,\\nJohn Ramsey,\\nWilliam Ramsey,\\nWilliam Cochran,\\nJohn Ramsey,\\nJames Ciombie,\\nJohn Crombie,\\nThomas Lennan,\\nSimeon Roberson,\\nEleazer Cumings,\\nEbenezer Tarbox,\\nSamuel Eayrs,\\nReuben Page,\\nJonathan Reed,\\nJoseph Finlay,\\nJohn Clark,\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nJosiah Jon es,\\nJoseph Curtice,\\nThomas Senter,\\nWilliam Richardson,\\nWilliam Alexander,\\nJames Darrah,\\nEzekiel Gaile,\\nNathaniel Hale,\\nDaniel Mari^liall,\\nBenjamin Kidder,\\nJoseph Hobbs,\\nElijah Towns,\\nStephen Dwinell,\\nWilliam Moor,\\nJames Town,\\nJohn March,\\nSamuel Senter,\\nJames Greijg,\\nWilliam Boyd,\\nAbel Plummer,\\nJoshua Conet\\n-^William Dickey,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0426.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n335\\nSamuel Karr,\\nWilliam Eayers,\\nSamuel McAclams,\\n--William Dickey,\\nThomas Boycl,\\nPeter Robinson,\\nWiUiam Steel,\\nWilliam McAdams,\\nRobert INIcAclams,\\nJohn Kobinson,\\nDa\\\\acl Peabody,\\nJoseph Steel,\\nGeorge Biirroiighs,\\nIsaac Page,\\nPhilip Marston,\\nDavid Lawrence,\\nRichard ISIarshall,\\nSamson Kidder,\\nJames Barret,\\nJohn Smith,\\nJosiah Burroughs,\\nWiUiam Burroughs,\\nMoses Barret,\\nDayid Campbell,\\nWilliam How,\\nWilliam Grimes,\\nRobert Anderson,\\nSamuel Cochran,\\nSamuel Miller,\\nJohn Duncan,\\nJohn Jaques,\\nJohn Pinkerton,\\nTrueworthy TSargent,\\nJesse Annis,\\nTliomas Perrin,\\nThomas Melcher,\\nRobert Cochran,\\nJoseph Morison,\\nArthur Boyd,\\nDa\\\\id Conelly,\\nParker Moores,\\nJohn Stewart,\\nThomas Stewart,\\nAlexander Robinson,\\nRobert McKeen,\\nGeorge Orr,\\nSimeon Merrill,\\nMos^s Rowell,\\nBarnes Morrill,\\nJames Cheney,\\nDavid Davison,\\nAlexander Kassay,\\nDavid Colbey,\\nDaniel Cheney,\\nCharles Sargent,\\nJohn Kinkead,\\nAbraham Page,\\nStephen Johnson,\\nWilliam Grey,\\nSamuel Dodge,\\nWilHam Parkinson,\\nAlexander Campbell,\\nDenis Healey,\\nRobert Wallac\u00c3\u00a9,\\nDenis Plunmier,\\nJames IVIiller,\\nJohn Stinson,\\nJohn Ka\u00c3\u00afT,\\nRobert Hunter,\\nJames Macgregore,\\nJames Litch,\\nJohn Archibald,\\nGeorge Moor,\\nWilliam Morison,\\nWilliam Gilmore,\\nWilliam Smith,\\nJohn Livingston,\\nDaniel McDuffee,\\nJacob Bartlett,\\nGeorge Davidson,\\nDavid Colby,\\nAlex r Clark,\\nWm. Parker,\\nDaniel McNeill,\\nJames Yance,\\nRobert Boyd,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0427.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "336 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\nRobert Boyd, Jun r, James Willson,\\nJacob Fowle, James Eayres,\\nJolm Wadlle, John McDuifee,\\nJolin Alcxander, Joliii Moore,\\nRicliard Emerson, Samuel White,\\nWilliam INIiltimore, Hngh Danshe,\\nRobert Hopklns, John Humphrey,\\nJohn Nesmith, Samuel AlHson,\\no George Gregg, Thomas Cristy,\\nIsaac Cochran, Robert McMurphy.\\nLondonderry, June ye 24th, 1776.\\nTo the Hon ble House of Representatlves for the Collony New\\nHampshire,\\nAgi eable to the request of the Hon ble Committee of Safety\\nfor the Colony, we have taken pains to go through with the asso-\\nciation papper, and we find none who refuses to slgn the same ex-\\ncept the persons hereafter mentioned, vlz., Timothy Dawson,\\nAlexander Nicols, Joseph Morison, Abraham Morison, William\\nHumphrey, David Morison, Samuel Ella, Doet. George Wood,\\nJohn Holmes, Lieut. to a minute company, John Reed, John\\nMoor, Robert Moor, James Cochran, Samuel Clark, John Stewart.\\nBy order of the Selectmen,\\nThos. Taggart, Select Clerk.\\nLIST OF THE SOLDIERS FROM LONDONDERRY, IN THE ARMY\\nOF THE REVOLUTION, FROM 1775 TO 1783.\\nIn presenting the names of the soldiers of the Revolution from\\nLondonderry, it is deemed preferable to give, so far as it can\\nconveniently be done, distinct lists of those enrollcd in the various\\nenlistments made in tlie town, rather than one list of all those who\\nserved at any time during the war. This course, however, neces-\\nsarily causes occasional repetition of names. Notwithstanding\\nmuch pains lias been taken to obtain complete lists, they are, in\\ntwo or tliree instances, defective.\\nSoon after the news of the battle of Lexington had been re-\\nceived, Captain George Rcid marehed with a company of nearly\\na hundred men from Londonderry, and joined the American\\nforces at Mcdford. The following is a list of the officers and\\nprivates composing this company, as it was on the twenty-eighth\\nof July, 1775.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0428.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 337\\nGeorge Reid, captain Abraliam Reid, lieutenant James An-\\nderson, second lieutenant John Patten, qnartermaster sergeant\\nDaniel IMiltimore, John Nesmith, Robert Barnet, John Mackey,\\nsergeants; James McCluer, Robert Boyes, Joshua Thompson,\\nGeorge McMurphy, corporals Robert Burke, drummer Thomas\\nIngliss, fifer Matthew Andersou, Robert Adams, Samuel Ayers,\\nHugh Alexander, John Anderson, Alexander Brown, Wilham\\nBoyd, John Campbell, Thomas Campbell, Peter Chnstie, Solomon\\nColhns, Stephen Chase, William Clyde,* William Dickey, James\\nDuncan, Samuel Dickey, John Ferguson, David Gregg, James\\nGilmore, Allen Hopkins, John Head, Asa Senter, John Hopkins,\\nSamuel Houston, Jonathan Holmes, Peter Jenkins, John Living-\\nston, Ebenezer Mcllvain, Hugh Montgomery, Jolin Morrison,\\nJames Morrison, Joseph Mack, Martin Montgomery, Robert Mc-\\nMurphy, William McMurphy, William Moore, Robert Mack,\\nDavid McClary, Archibald Mack, James Nesmith, James Nes-\\nmith, Jr., William Parker, Joshua Reid, WiUiam Rowell, Thomas\\nRoach, Abel Senter, James Stinson, Samuel Senter, Samuel\\nThompson, John Vance, Hugh Watts, Thomas Wilson, John Pat-\\nterson, Henry Parkinson, Samuel Stinson, John Smith, Richard\\nCressey, James Moore, privates. Whiole number, seventy-two.\\nIt appears from the accounts for town bounties, in the office of\\nthe Secretary of State, that Londonderry paid bounties for ninety-\\nnine men, who volunteered on the Lexington alaim. There\\nwere, therefore, twenty-seven others from Londonderry, in the\\nservice, at this time, whose names, with the exception of David\\nMacGregor, William Gregg, and William Adams, are not known.\\nIn August, 1776, a company of eighty men was raised for the\\nCanada service, from Col. Matthew Thornton s regiment, which\\ncomprised the towns of Londonderry, Windham, and Pelham, and\\nfrom Col. Josiah Bartletf s regiment, which comprised the towns\\nof Kingston, East Kingston, Hawke, Sandown, Newtown, Hamp-\\nstead, Plaistow, Atkinson, and Salem. This company was com-\\nmanded by Captain John Nesmith, and formed a part of Colonel\\nWingate s reoiment. The followino; are the names of those\\nmembers of this company who are believed to have belonged to\\nLondonderry\\nJohn Nesmith, captain Alexander Graham, second lieutenant\\nSamuel Cherry, ensign Solomon Todd, sergeant William Dickey,\\ncorporal Michael George, drummer Timothy Dustin, fifer\\nJohn McClurg, Samuel Thompson, Matthew Anderson, John\\nAnderson, William Rogers, Robert McCluer, James Ewins,\\nJames Boyes, Jr., John Orr, Samuel Rowell, John Humphrey,\\n29", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0429.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "338 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nJohn Cox, Edward Cox, John Anderson, Jr., Thomas White,\\nEphraim White, Joscph Mack, James Moor, Samuel Eayres, John\\nVance, John llamsey, David George, %William Dickey, Jona.\\nGregg, Hngh Alexander, Abner Andrews, Peter Jenkins, Alex-\\nander Craige, William Colby, Patrick Fling, William Adams,\\nJames Boyes, Jr., Jona. George, Allen Ilopkins, James Gil-\\nmore, Charity Killicut, John Lancaster, privates.\\nIn December, 1776, the following enlistment was made in Lon-\\ndonderry, fbr three months in the Continental service, in Captain\\nSamuel McConnel s company, in Col. David Gilman s regiment.\\nJames Hopkins, lieutenant Jonathan Wallace, sergeant Hugh\\nWatt, corporal William Lyons, Moses Watt, Thomas McClary,\\nJesse Jones, James Nesmith, Arthnr Nesmith, John Todd, Ben-\\njamin Nesmith, James Hobbs, Nathan Whiting, Benjamin Robin-\\nson, David Marshall, William Burroughs, James Gilmore, John\\nKinkead, Alexander Morrow.\\nThe foUoAving are the names of the men from Londonderry,\\nwho enlisted in the years 1777 and 1778, for the continental ser-\\nvice, for three yeare, or during the war\\nPeter Jenkins, Joseph Mack, Samuel Walton, Nathaniel Plum-\\nmer,* William Dickey, Bishop Castor, John Obrian, George Me-\\nMurphy, David Plummer, Abel Walton, James Campbell, John\\nMcMurphy, Robert Wilson, Joseph McFarland, Samuel Ayers,\\nRobert Rogers,- Solomon Todd, Frederick Roche, Charles Bryan,\\nJames Nesmith, William Johnson, John Erwin, Jeremiah Fair-\\nfield, John Ayres, John Martin, John Morgan, David George,\\nDavid Dickey, Ebenezer Mcllvane, Timothy Harrington, Robert\\nBoyes, Thomas Holmes, Martin Montgomery, Zacheus Dustin,\\nValentine Sargent, Robert Craige, John Head, James Boyes, John\\nAllen, Alexander McMasters, Abel Whiting, Ambrose Vicker,*\\nJohn Grear,* Glaude Colombon,* Joseph Coste,* Jean Rots,\\nJonathan George, Michael George, Timothy Hutchins.\\nThe following names of men from Londonderry, are found in the\\nreturns of enHstments for three years, or during the war, although\\nthey do not appear to have received bounties from that tOTrn.\\nWilliam Hogg, Samuel Hamilton, David Ela, John Mack,\\nZabulon Colby, William Colby, Castor Barnes.\\nJuly 20, 1,777, a company of seventy volunteers was enlisted\\nin Londonderry. It was commanded by Capt. Daniel Reynolds,\\nand was in the battle of Bennington. The following is a copy\\nThese men were enlisted at Exeter, by Major John Pinkcrton, to\\nmake up the quota for Col. Thornton s regiment. Their bounties were\\npaid by Londonderry.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0430.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 339\\nfrom tlie roll of the company Daniel Reynolds, captain David\\nMcClary, Adam Taylor, lieutenants John Hughes, ensign John\\nSmith, John McKeen, John Anderson, John Robinson, sergeants\\nMatthew Dickey, David Clark, Simeon Sentcr, Joseph Hastings,\\ncorporals Thomas Griffin, fiter John Barr, Nathaniel B urrow s,\\nJohn Robinson, George Eviston, Joseph Sargent, Isaac Colby,\\nAlexander Stevens, William Houston. William Fellows, James\\nNesmith, Jonathan Cheney, Samuel Rowell, William Sevrans,\\nJonathan Kelso, John Ferguson, Samuel Thompson, Nathaniel\\nSweetser, Dudley Balley, Johii Campbell, James Huniphr^y,\\nJames Taylor, Archibald Cunningham, William Burrgjgs, Peter\\nRobinson, Mansfield McDufFee, Nathaniel Cheney, James Moore,\\nThomas Carr, Samuel Spear, Samuel Campbell, William Ramsey,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0T^Robert Morrison, Thomas Wallace, Joshua Conant,- Joseph Cald-\\nwellf Adam Dickey, William Adams, Thomas McClary, Hugh\\nWatts, Andrew Todd, Thomas Wallace, Jesse Jones, Thomas\\nRogers, Ephraim Gregg, James Morison, John Watts, Allen An-\\nderson, David BrcAvster, Jonathan Wallace, John Wallace, John\\nTodd, John McClary, Joseph Hobbs, Joseph Steel, Samuel Brown,\\nSamuel Taylor, John Stuart, privates.\\nOctober 1, 1777. The folio wing company of volunteers\\nmarched from Londonderry, under the command of Capt. Joseph\\nFinlay, and joined the Northern Continental army at Saratoga.\\nTheir term of service, however, was short.\\nJoseph Finlay, captain James Cliristy, lieu tenant Robert\\nAdams, John Patterson, sergeants Jonathan Gilmore, Robert\\nWallace, Adam Dunlap, John McCoy, David Quinten, Samuel\\nGregg, Jonathan Holmes, John Moore, Peter Christy, William\\nHopkins, Joshua Lancaster, W^illiam Moore, John Taylor, Adam\\nJohnson, John Adams, William Aiken, David AVilson, Thomas\\nMorrison, William Alexander, Samuel Anderson, AVilliam Mc-\\nKeen, John Hunter, Moses Walton, John Walton, Samuel Dodge,\\nNathaniel Holmes.\\nIn the returns of Col. Henry Jackson s regiment, we find the\\nfoUowing names of men from Londonderry, who enlisted in 1777.\\nJohn Nesmith, lieutenant John Vance, sergeant John Bryant,\\nTimothy Melon, John Mitchel, piivates.\\nIt appears from the accounts for town bounties, that London-\\nderry paid, in 1778, bounties for twenty volunteers for the Rhode ^C\\nIsland service. The names of these volunteers, with the excep-\u00c2\u00ab.7 J^ c\\ntion of Joseph McKeen, are not known. In the same year, Jon-\\nathan Ferrin, Hugh Jameson, and Francis Mitchel, enlisted in Ol T A cv\\nthe Continental service, for the term of nine months. iPi*^\\nITOJ, X p,\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^^(^", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0431.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "340 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nIn 1779, the following enllstments were made in Londonderry\\nfor the Continental service\\nThomas Rankin, EdAvard Colby, Richard Gillespie, and James\\nCampbell, for one year and Heniy Weid, Peter Hakins, Robert\\nBarber, David Richards, John King, and John White, during the\\nwar and John Ross, Archibald Clark, John McCarty, Isaac\\nColby, Thomas Drew, Neal McGee, and Windsor Golden, for the\\nservice at Rliode Island.\\nIn 1 780, the following new levies for the continental army were\\nraised in Londonderry John McCarty, William Thomas, Zoe\\nWithe, John Clark, John Remmick, Pomp Sherburne, James\\nWhaley, Windsor Golden, James Harris, Thomas Mitchel, Sam-\\nuel Merrill, James McMahan, Jeremiah Fairfeld.\\nIn February, 1781, the following enlistments were made in this\\ntown Abner Andrews, Asa Andrews, Jonathan Black, Charles\\nBurrows, John Ward, Allen Anderson, Archibald Clark, John\\nWebb, Pomp Sherburne, Martin Byrne, James Burke (deserter\\nfrom Burgoyne), James Adams, David Morrison, Jeremiah Fair-\\nfield, John McCarty, John Pease, Daniel Marsh, James Boyes,\\nJames Blair.\\nIn September following, nine were enlisted in Londonderry,\\nfor three months, and marched under the command of Lieutenant\\nJonathan Adams namely,xWilliam Dickey, Thomas McLaughlin,\\nAdam Dickey, William Eastman, Arthur Nesmith, Robert Thomp-\\nson, James Gregg, Elijah Towns, Alexander McMurphy. Abra-\\nham Perry and John Mannyfold were also in the service in 1781.\\nIn 1782, John McCurdy and Charles Cavenaugh enlisted from\\nLondonderry. The latter is known to have served during several\\nprevious campaigns. It may be proper to remark, that although\\nthe men who have been mentioned as having been enlisted at\\nvarious times in Londonderry, are described in the returns as\\nLondonderry men, some few of them may have been citizens of\\nother towns, who enlisted and served for Londonderry. In like\\nmanner several citizens of Londonderry enlisted and served for\\nother towns. In 1777, John Hall served for Deerfield, and John\\nReed, for Chichester. In 1779, Daniel Callaghan served for At-\\nkinson, and John Moloy, James Keeff, and Thomas Mitchel,\\nfor Hampton. In 1781, Michael Keeff served for the town of\\nAmherst.\\nThe revolutionary services of Gen. Reid, David MacGregor,\\nRobert MacGregor, and others have been mentioned in the body\\nof this work.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0432.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 341\\nPETITION OF MEMBERS OF THE WEST PARISH TO TIIE GEN-\\nERAL COURT FOR AN ACT, OBLIGING EACH INHABITANT\\nOF LONDONDERRY TO VOTE AND PAY TAXES IN\\nTHE PARISH IN WHICH HE DWELLS.\\nTo The Hon ble Council and House of Representatives For\\nthe State of New Hampshire in General Assembly Convened at\\nExeter, within and for said State, May 20, a. d. 1778.\\nThe subscribers, Inhabitants, and freeholders in. the West\\nParish in Londonderry, in The Coimty of Roekingham in said\\nState Hiimbly Sheweth.\\nThat in the year a. t 1739, Londond ry was by an act of the\\nLegislature of said State, Divided into Two Parts, Called the East\\nand West Parishes, with Liberty for a number not Exceeding\\nforty Persons in Each Parish to poll to the Other, and Become\\nmembers of the Parish they did not Dweil in. The 40 in the\\nEast Parish that Polled to the west, by the Assistance of Those\\nin the west That lived near the East line, Obtained a Yote to\\nBuUd and did Bu\u00c3\u00bcd a Meeting-House in said west Parish Yery\\nnear the East line, Avhen said Parish then had a Meeting-House,\\nnear the Center Newly Built is now Rotten, for want of use.\\nAs the number of Inhabitants in the West Parish Increased,\\nthe forty in the East that Poll d to the west, Multiplied, are\\nnow Become a Muchgreater Number, and by the aforesaid Assist-\\nance, To this Day have Obliged all the Rest of the Inhabitants\\nof the West Parish to Travel to the Meeting-House near the East\\nline, Excepting Yery lately we have been Allo wed some Preach-\\ning in a third Meeting-House, Built near the Centre of said West\\nParish by subscription. Dureing the Late Rev nd Mr. David\\nMacgregore s Hfe Time, altho we were Yery sensible of the great\\nInjustice Done us, Yet Out of Respect to Him, as he lived near\\nthe Centre of the East Parish, we AUowed Our selves to Bear\\nand Forbear. But Now he is Deceased, and yet the 40 in the\\nEast that Pollcd To the AVest, their Numerous posterity Ap-\\npear at The west Parish Meetings, and Being Joined as abovesaid\\nYote the preaching where they Please.\\nOn the 23d of last April, we Obtained a Yote, a Copy whereof\\nis Herewith Exhibited but well Knowlng that the vote of a town\\nCannot Repeal an act of the Legislature, we Exhibit said Copy\\nto shew That the Majority of the Inhabitance of Londond ry are\\nw\u00c3\u00bcling Justice should be Done.\\nFor The Reasons aforesaid, we Humbly pray your Honors to\\n29*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0433.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "342\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nTake the Prcmises under Consideration, and Repeal said act by\\nEnacting that in all future Time Every Inliabitant in London-\\nderry shall Pay his Legal Proportion of the Minister s sallery in\\nthat parish wherein he Dwels and be for Ever Excluded from\\nVoting in any Parish Meeting Except in the Parish wherein he\\nDwells.\\nAnd Your Pettitioners as in Duty Bound will Ever Pray.\\nJames Wallace,\\nHenry Campbel,\\nJames Anderson,\\nJohn Campbel,\\nAndrew Mack,\\nDavid Woodburn,\\nRobert Dickey,\\nJesse Jones,\\nJoseph Curtis,\\nJoseph Chapman,\\nIsaac Peabody,\\nEleazar Cumins,\\nWilliam Richardson,\\nThomas Senter,\\nWill m Alexander,\\nJacob Nickols,\\nJoseph Nickols,\\n^WiUiam Dickey,\\nVMatthew Dickey,\\nAdam Dickey,\\nJohn Corning,\\nJohn McAlister,\\nArchibald McAlister,\\nJohn Dwinel,\\nJoshua Coming,\\nNicholas Dodge,\\nDavid Chiney,\\nWilliam Wier,\\nAdam Wier,\\nThomas McClary,\\nThomas McClary, Jr.,\\nGeorge McAlister,\\nJames Lyons,\\nWilliam Lyons,\\nThos. Holmes,\\nThos. Lennan,\\nRobert Wallace,\\nJosiah Jones,\\nRobert Thompson,\\nJosiah Jones, Jr.,\\nJohn Senter,\\nJohn Clark,\\nJohn McClurg,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nSaml Thompson,\\nJoseph Harvel,\\nJacob Richardson,\\nStephen Chase,\\nSamuel Senter,\\nAsa Senter,\\nEben r Senter,\\nReuben Senter,\\nJohn Woodburn,\\nNathan Plumer,\\nJames Gregg,\\nJonathan Gregg,\\nEphraim Gregg,\\nRobert McClure,\\nJohn March,\\nAaron Senter,\\nElijah Towns,\\nJohn Patterson,\\nEphraim Dimond,\\nIsaac Smith,\\nThos. Patterson,\\nPeter Patterson,\\nElias Smith,\\nAbel Plumer,\\nAsa Andrews,\\nSamuel Bean,", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0434.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n343\\nSamiiel Graham,\\nSaml McAdams,\\nJames Anderson, Jr.,\\nJohn Anderson,\\nWilliam Boyd,\\nDavid Boyd,\\nJohn Moor,\\nJames Moor,\\nWil\u00c3\u00bcam Moor,\\nRobert Anderson,\\nJohn Anderson, Jr.,\\nWilliam Anderson,\\nAllen Anderson,\\nAlexander Boyd,\\nSam 1 Anderson,\\nSam l Anderson, Jr.,\\nJoseph Hogg,\\nSimon Kezear,\\nAbram Morison,\\nJames Hogg,\\nMatthew Dickey,\\nWilliam Hogg,\\nHugh Watt,\\nSaml White,\\nThomas White,\\nRobert Willson,\\nRobt Boyes,\\nJohn Mc Clenche,\\nSamuel Fisher,\\nSamuel Fisher, Jr.,\\nSamnel Karr,\\nThomas Rogers,\\nJames Rogers,\\nJoseph Finlay,\\nWilliam Anderson,\\nSamuel Boyes,\\nJohn Barnett,\\nJabes Towns,\\nMoses Town,\\nJames Thompson.\\nState of In the House of Representatives, Novem r\\nNew Hampshire j 4th, 1778.\\nUpon reading the foregoing Petition, Yoted that the prayer\\nthereof be granted, and that the^Petitioners have leave to bring\\nin a bill accordingly.\\nSent up for concurrence.\\nJohn Langdon, Speaker.\\nIn Conncil the same day read and concurred.\\nE. Thompson, Sec y.\\nCOPY OF ROBERT m GREGOR S DEED OF THE COMMON AND\\nGRAVEYARD IN THE EAST PARISH.\\nTo all Christian people to whom these presents shall come\\nGreeting, Know ye yt, I, Robert McGregor, of Londonderry,\\n^vithin his maj ts Prov e of N. Hampsh e, In Engi d for Divers\\ngood causes considerations, moving me hereunto, have given,\\ngrant d, bargain d, sold, alien d, enfeoff d, convey d, confirm d\\ndoth by these presents give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, assign,\\nmake over, confirm unto ye town of Londonderry afores d,\\ntheir heirs Exe rs, adm rs assigns forever, one messuage", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0435.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "344 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nor tract of land, lying scituate bclng in Londondcrry afores d,\\ns d tract of containing by estimatioii three acres a halfe,\\nw ch land ye meeting stands upon, as also a training green\\ngraveyard belonging to ye s d town of Londonderry, w ch land\\nis Butt d and Bound d as followeth viz., beginning at a red oak\\ntree mark d standing on ye Soutlierly side of ye highway yt\\nleads easterly frora said meetinghouse standing on ye line of\\nRobert Weare s land, thence runing South by mark d trees, fifty\\nrods, and joyning on s d Weare s land to a stake and stones, thence\\nruning a due west line six rods to a stake and stones, thence\\nruning by mark d Norwest be Nor fifty rods to a stake\\nstones, standing to ye west of ye s d meetinghouse, thence runing\\nEast Bounding on ye afores d highway, twelve rods to ye\\nRed Oak Tree first mention d, To have to hold ye s d\\ngrant d bargain d premises w th al ye appurten s, privileges,\\ncomodeties to ye same belonging, or in any wise appertain-\\ning to ye s d Town of Londonderry their heirs assigns to\\nthem their proper use, benefit behooff forever, I ye\\nsaid Robert Macgregor for me, my heirs, Exe rs, adm rs, do\\ncovenant, promise, grant, to w th ye s d Town of Lon-\\ndonderry their heirs assigns, yt before ye ensealing hereof, I\\nam ye true sole lawfuU owner of ye above bargain d premises,\\nhave in my selfe good right, fuU power, laAvfull authority to\\ngrant, bargain, sell, convey, confirm ye same in maner as\\nabove s d, yt ye afores d Town of Londonderry their heirs\\nassigns, shall may from time to time at all times\\nforever hereafter, by force virtue of these presents, lawfully,\\npeaceably, quietly have, hold, use, occupy, possess, enjoy\\nye s d Demised premises, w th ye appurten s, free clear\\nfreely clearly acquit d, exonerat d Discharg d of\\nfrom all all maner of former or other gifts, grants, bargains,\\nsales, incumberances, extents; furthermore, I ye s d Robt.\\nMcGregore for my selfe, my heii s, Exe rs, Adm rs, do cov-\\nenant engage ye above Demis d premises to ye s d Town of\\nLondonderry their heirs and assigns against ye lawfuU claims or\\ndemands of any person or persons w tsoever in by or under me ye\\ns d Robt McGregore, my heirs, Exe rs, adm rs In testimony\\nof all before written, I have hereunto set my hand seal this\\n12th day of June 1729, in ye third year of his majes ts Reign,\\nc.\\nSign d, \u00c3\u0096cal d, Del d j\\nin presencc of n\\nDavid McGregore, j Kobert McGregor. [seal]\\nJno. McMurphy, J", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0436.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 345\\nSuffolk, Boston, July ye 9th, 1729.\\nEobert McGregore appear d acknowledged this Instrument\\nto be liis act Deed, before me,\\nSam 1 Checkley, Jus. Peace.\\nEntered Record d according to ye orig 11, 28th July, 1729.\\nper Josh. Pierce, Record r.\\nA LIST OF ALL THE EEPRESENTATIVES EROM LONDONDERRY\\nTO THE GENERAL COURT.\\n1732-3, John McMurpIiy.\\n1734-5, RobertBoyes.\\n^1736, James Grecrcr.\\n1737, Robert Boyes.\\n1738, Hugh WUson.\\n1739-40, Robert Boyes.\\n1741-2, SamuelBarr.\\n1 743-5, inclusive, John Wallace.\\n1746-54, John McMurphy.\\n1755-7, Robert Clark.\\n1758-60, Matthew Thornton.\\n1761-7, SamuelBarr.\\n1768-70, Samuel Livermore.\\n1771-5, Stephen HoUand.*\\n1776, John Bell, Moses Barnet.\\n1777, John Gilmore, John Pinkerton.\\n1778, John McKeen, John Pinkerton.\\n1779, Moses Barnet, Samuel Fisher.\\n1 780, Daniel Reynolds, John Bell.\\n1781-4, inclusive, Daniel Reynolds, Archibald McMurphy.\\n1 785, John Prentice, Arcliibald McMurphy.\\n1786, Daniel Reynolds, Archibald McMurphy.\\n1787, John Prentice, John Pinkerton.\\n1 788, Daniel Reynolds, Archibald McMurphy.\\n1789-91, inclusive, James Mac Gregor.\\n1792, James MacGregor, John Bell.\\n1793, John Prentice, John Bell.\\nMatthew Thornton and James MacGregor wcre members from\\nLondonderry, of the ronvcntion whioh met May 17, 1775. Matthew\\nThornton and John Bell werc members of the convention which met\\nDecember 21, 1775, and afterwards rcsolved itself into a House of\\nReprescntatives.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0437.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "346 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\n1794-5, James Pinkert\u00c3\u00b6n, John Prentice.\\n1796-7, James Pinkerton, Willlam Choate.\\n1798, James Pinkerton, Jolm Prentice.\\n1799-1800, Jolin Bell, Jun., John Prentice.\\n1801-5, inclusive, James Pinkerton, John Prentice.\\n1806-8, William Adams, John Moor.\\n1809-11, John Dickey, John Moor.\\n1812, John Pinkerton, John Moor.\\n1813-14, John Pinkerton, John Nesmith.\\n1815, John Pinkerton, John Porter.\\n1816, John Fisher, John Nesmith.\\n1817-18, John Fisher, John Porter.\\n1819-20, John Fisher, Peter Patterson.\\n1821, WilHam Adams, James Thom.\\n1822, Robert Patterson, John H. Miltimore.\\n1823-4, Robert Mack, James Thom.\\n1825, Robert Mack, William Choate, James Thom.\\n1826, do do do\\n1827, Alanson Tucker, J. H. Miltimore, John Porter.\\nIn Londonderr\u00c3\u00af/, since the division of the town.\\n1828, John Holmes.\\n1829, Robert Mack.\\n1830-32, inclusive, John N. Anderson.\\n1833-4, Hugh Bartley.\\n1835-6, William Plummer.\\n1837-8, John N. Anderson.\\n1839-40, Reuben White.\\n1841-2, Robert Boyd, Jr.\\n1843-4. Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1845, voted not to send.\\n1846-7, David Flanders.\\n1848-9, James Perkins.\\n1850, Francis D. Anderson, Francis Manter.\\nIn DerrT/, since the division of the town.\\n1828, John Porter, Alanson Tucker.\\n1829, Alanson Tucker, William Choate, Jr.,\\n1830, John Porter, Samuel Adams.\\n1831, Alanson Tucker, William Montgomery.\\n1832, William Montgomery, David A. Gregg.\\n1833, William Montgomery, John Porter.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0438.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n355\\n1838, Ricliard Melvin, Nathaniel Aiken, William Cogswell.\\n1839, Ricliard Melvin, William Cogswell, Geo. W. Pinkerton.\\n1840, Richard Melvin, John Patten, George W. Pinkerton.\\n1841-2, William Anderson, Isra\u00c3\u00abl Herrick, William Adams.\\n1843, Samuel Marshall, Moses Hamilton, John Patten.\\n1844, William Ela, James Choate, Jr., Lucien Harper.\\n1845, J. T. G. rJtnsmore, Lucien Harper, John B. Taylor.\\n1846, James Choate, Jr. Joseph Montgomery, Nathaniel M.\\nTaylor.\\n1847, Edward Ballou, Jonas Herrick, Lucien Harper,\\n1848, Edward Ballou, Jonas Herrick, George H. Taylor.\\n1849, John Folsom, Samuel F. Taylor, Robert W. Adams.\\n1850, Samuel F. Taylor, John Patten, James C. Taylor.\\nLAWYERS WHO HAVE PRACTISED IN LONDONDERRY.\\nSamuel Livermore, commeuced prac,\\nJohn Prentice,\\nMoses L. Neil,\\nGeorge Reid,\\nJabez Kimball,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nJohn Porter,\\nJames Thom,\\nDavid A. Gregg,\\nDavid W. Dickey,\\nThornton Betton,\\nEdward P. Parker,\\nGeorge O. Betton,\\nJoseph A. Gregg,\\n1765,* ceased prac. 1775.*\\n1775, 1803.\\n1788, 1791.\\n1800, 1802.\\n1801, 1802.\\n1802, 1802.\\n1806, is still in practice.\\n1814, ceased prac. 1829.\\n1814, is still in practice.\\n1821, ceased prac. 1831.\\n1829, 1841.\\n1839, 1843.\\n1841, 1845.\\n1843, is still in practice.\\nPHYSICIANS WHO HAVE PRACTISED IN LONDONDERRY.\\nArchibald Clark, commenced prac.\\nAlexander Cummings,\\nDr. Rand,\\nMatthew Thornton\\nGeorge Wood,\\n1730,* prac. many years.\\n1748, prac. about 2.0 years.\\n1750, prac. \u00c2\u00abseveral years.*\\n1740, ceased prac. 1778.*\\n1770, 1785.\\nThese dates refer to the times when the -lawyers and physicfans\\ncommenced and ceased practice in Londonderrij. They are as nearly\\ncorrect as can be ascertained.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0439.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "358 HISTORT OF LONDONDERRT.\\nThe Monument.\\nIn regard to the erection of a Monument to commemorate the spot\\non which the first scrmon was preachcd in Londonderry, it may be\\nremarked that much interest is feit in the execution of such a work, at\\nan early day. It is believed that a durable shaft or obelisk of granite,\\nwith suitable inscriptions, may be completcd for the sum of from two\\nhundred to four hundred dollars, according to its size. The Editor of\\nthis work is authorized to say that the sum of fifty dollars may be con-\\nsidered as pledged for this purpose, provided an additional sum of not\\nless than three hundred dollars is contributed during the year 1851.\\nAny donations for this object may be pledged by addressing a line to\\nhim, stating the amount\\nIt has been suggested that an inscription like the following, on the\\nfront side, would be appropriate\\nIsaiah 32 2.\\nAnd a man shall be as an hiding-pl^e from the wind, and a covert\\nfrom the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a\\ngreat rock in a wearj land.\\nThe above formed the text of the first sermon preachcd in this town,\\nApril 12, 1719, by the Rev. James MacGregor, under the wide-spreading\\nbranches of a venerable oak, which for more than a century marked this\\nspot. Then, for the first time, did this wildemess and solitary place,\\nover which the savage tribes had for centuries roamed, resound with the\\nvoice of prayer and praise, and echo to the sound of the gospel.\\nThe ancient oak is gone this granite column will decay and crumble\\ninto dust; but the principles hcrc proclaimed will endure forever.\\nOn another side of the Monument might be inscrlbed the names of\\nthe first sixteen settlcrs, and any othcr prominent facts in the history of\\nthe town.\\nOCT 19^891", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0440.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n347\\n1834, John H. Miltimore, William Montgomery.\\n1835, William Montgomery, Jolin Porter.\\n1836, Luther V. Bell, John T. G. Dlnsmore.\\n1837, John T. G. Dinsmore, Nathaniel Parker.\\n1839, Henry Taylor, William Choate.\\n1840, John T. G. Dinsmore, Thornton Betten.\\n1841, Henry Taylor, John Porter.\\n1842, John Porter, Henry Taylor.\\n1843, John T. G. Dinsmore, James Taylor.\\n1844, James Taylor, John Porter.\\n1845, Richard Meivin, William Ela.\\n184G, Richard Meivin, Benjamin Eastman.\\n1847, William Ela, John Porter.\\n1848, Abel F. Hildreth.\\n1849, Edward Ballon, John Folsom.\\n1850, Edvsrard Ballon, John Folsom.\\nLIST OF MODERATORS AT THE ANNUAL MEETINGS, AND\\nTOWN CLERKS.\\nY ears.\\nModerators.\\nTown\\nClerks.\\n1719\\nJames McKeen,\\nJohn GofFe.\\n1720\\nRecord lost),\\nJohn Goffe.\\n1721\\nJames McKeen,\\nli\\nIl\\n1722\\nJames Gregg,\\nu\\nII\\n1723\\nJames Nichols,\\nJohn\\nMcMui-phy\\n1724\\nRobert Boyes,\\nii\\nII\\n1725\\nJohn Blair,\\ntl\\nII\\n1726-7\\nRobert Boyes,\\nu\\nII\\n1728\\n(No record),\\nu\\nII\\n1729\\nJames McKeen,\\nu\\nII\\n1730\\nJames Nesmith,\\nII\\n1731\\nJames McKeen,\\nii\\nII\\n1732\\nRobert Boyes,\\nli\\nIl\\n1733\\nRobert Wear,\\nII\\nII\\n1734-5\\nRobert Boyes,\\nII\\n(i\\n1736\\nJohn Blair,\\nu\\nil\\n1737\\nNathaniel Weare,\\nJohn Wallace.\\n1738\\nAndrew Todd,\\nu\\nu\\n1739\\nRobert Boyes,\\na\\nil\\n1740\\nJohn Morrison, Sen.,\\nu\\nII\\n1741\\nAndrew Todd,\\nu\\nli\\n1\\nV", "height": "3507", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0441.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "348\\nHISTORY OF LONDONDERRY.\\nYears.\\nModerators.\\nTown Clorks.\\n1742\\nHugh Wilson,\\nJohn Wallace.\\n1743-8 inc.\\nu u\\nMoses Barnett.\\n1749\\n1750-52 inc.\\nRobert Boyes,\\nHugh Wilson,\\nJames Nesmith.\\n1753\\nJohn Mitchell,\\nU il\\n1754\\nJames Clark,\\nMoses Barnett.\\n1755\\nSamuel Barr,\\nu u\\n1756\\nJames Clark,\\nU\\n1757-62 inc.\\nAndrew Todd,\\n1763-4\\nSamuel Barr,\\n1765\\nAndrew Todd\\nu u\\n1766-9 inc.\\nSamuel Barr,\\nu u\\n1770-71\\nMatthew Thornton,\\nli ii\\n1772\\n1773-4\\nSamuel Fisher,\\nHenry Campbell.\\n1775\\nJohn Moor,\\nJohn Bell.\\n1776\\nMatthew Thornton,\\nJohn Crombie.\\n1777\\nJohn Bell,\\nThomas Taggart.\\n1778\\nli\\nJohn INIoor.\\n1779\\nii ii\\nJohn Bell.\\n1780\\nJohn Moor,\\nJohn Moor.\\n1781\\nSamuel Fisher,\\nJohn BeU.\\n1782\\nJames Nesmith, Jr.,\\nJohn Moor.\\n1783\\nJames MacGregor,\\nWilHam Anderson.\\n1784\\nJohn Bell,\\nU il\\n1785-6\\n1787\\nU ii\\nRobert McMurphy.\\nWilliam Anderson.\\n1788-9\\n1790\\nii ii\\nJames MacGregor,\\nRobert McMurphy.\\nWiUiam Anderson.\\n1791\\nU U\\nGeorge Reid.\\n1792\\nJohn Bell,\\nAndrew Mack.\\n1793\\nU II\\nGeorge Reid.\\n1794\\nii ii\\nWilliam Anderson.\\n1795\\nii ii\\nGeorge Reid.\\n1796\\nli il\\nJohn Ewins.\\n1797\\nIl II\\nGeorge Reid.\\n1798\\nli li\\nEbenezer Fisher.\\n1799\\nJohn Bell, Jr.,\\nGeorge Reid.\\n1800\\nJohn Bell,\\nEbenezer Fisher.\\n1801\\nii li\\nGeorge Reid.\\n1802\\nii u\\nEbenezer Fisher.\\n1803\\nWilliam Adams,\\nGeorge Reid.\\ni", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0442.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n353\\n1791, George Reid, Daniel Reynolds, Edmund Adams, John\\nBell, William Adams.\\n1792, George Reid, Daniel Reynolds, John Bell, William\\nAdams, Thomas Patterson.\\n1793, James MacGregor, John Nesmith, Jr., James Choate,\\nWilliam Adams, Major John Pinkerton.\\n1794, Daniel Reynolds, George Reid, Andrew Mack, John\\nBell, Edward Ela.\\n1795, John Nesmith, Sen., William Choate, Daniel McKeen,\\nAndrew Mack, John Ewins.\\n1796, John Nesmith, Sen., Daniel McKeen, Andrew Mack\\nEdward Ela, John Ewins.\\n1797, John Moor, Nathaniel Nowell, John Nesmith, Andrew\\nMack, John Bell.\\n1798, John Moor, John Nesmith, Andrew Mack, John Dickey,\\nRobert Nesmith.\\n1799, John Moor, William Choate, John Nesmith, Andrew\\nMack, John Dickey.\\n1800, John Moor, William Choate, Andrew Mack, Robert\\nNesmith, John Dickey.\\n1801, John Moor, William Choate, Daniel McKeen, Andrew\\nMack, John Dickey.\\n1802, James Choate, John Moor, John Pinkerton, John Fisher,\\nWilliam Gage.\\n1803, James Choate, John Moor, Daniel McKeen, John Pinker-\\nton, John Dickey.\\n1804, John Moor, Aaron Choate, John Dickey, John Pinkerton,\\nJohn Fisher.\\n1805, John Moor, Aaron Choate, John Clark* John Dickey,\\nJohn Pinkerton.\\n1806, Daniel McKeen, Aaron Choate, Andrew Mack, John\\nPinkertcMi, John Fisher.\\n1807, Daniel McKeen, James Choate, John Nesmith, Andrew\\nMack, John Fisher.\\n1808, John Nesmith, James Choate, John Pinkerton, John\\ndickey, John Fisher.\\n1809, James Choate, John Fisher, John Nesmith.\\n1810, John Nesmith, John Pinkerton, John Fisher.\\n1811, John Nesmith, James Choate, Jolyi Fisher.\\n1812, John Nesmith,^ Samuel Dickey, John Fisher.\\n1813, John Moor, Peter Patterson, Samuel Dickey.\\n1814, John Moor, William Adams, William Anderson, Jr.\\n1815, John Dickey, John Clark, Samuel Adams.\\n30*", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0443.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "354 HISTORY OF LONDONDERRT.\\n1816, John Dickey, John Clark, William Anderson, Jr.\\n1817, John Clarft:, William Choate, William Anderson, Jr.\\n1818, John Dickey,^illiam Choate, WiUiam Anderson, Jr.\\n1819, John Moor, John Fisher, John H. Miltimore.\\n1820, J. H. Miltimore, John Fisher, Robert Mack.\\n1821, William Montgomery, J. H. Miltimore, Robert Mack.\\n1822, William Montgomery, Robert Mack, John Holmes.\\n1823, Alanson Tucker, Robert Mack, William Montgomery.\\n1824, William Montgomery, Robert Mack, John Holmes.\\n1825, J. H. Miltimore, John Holmes, Jonatlian Humphrey.\\n1826, John Holmes, John H. Mltimore, Samuel Dickey.\\nIn Londonderry^ since the division of the town.\\n1827-9 inc, Robert Mack, Robert Boyd, Jr., Samuel Dickey.\\n1830-31, Robert Mack, Robert Boyd, Jr., Wilham Plumer.\\n1832, Robert Mack, William Plumer, Thomas Patterson.\\n1833, Thomas Patterson, Jr., David Gilcreast, Samuel Dickey.\\n1834, Robert Boyd, Jr., David Gilcreast, Francis Manter.\\n1835-6, Thomas Patterson, William Plumer, Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1837, Thomas Patterson, David Tenney, Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1838, Robert Mack, Thomas Patterson, Moriison Jackson.\\n1839, Robert Boyd, Jr., Morrison Jackson, Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1840, Robert Boyd, Jr,, Thomas Patterson, Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1841, Thomas Patterson, Daniel G. Coburn, Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1842, D. G. Coburn, Jonathan Humphrey, J. N. Anderson.\\n1843 -4, F. D. Anderson, David Gilcreast, Jr., Nathan Plumer.\\n1845-6, J. N. Anderson, Arley Plumer, Cyrus Nesmith.\\n1847, Josiah Sleeper, Reid P. Clark, Jonathan Young.\\n1848-9, Matthew Holmes, D. G. Coburn, Calvin Boyd.\\n1850, Robert Boyd, Jr., Aaron P. Hardy, Wilham W. Gage.\\nIn Derry, since the division of the town.\\n1827, James Thom, William Choate, Jr., Mark Fisk, William\\nEla, Nathaniel Aiken.\\n1828, John H. Miltimore, Nathaniel Aiken, William Ela.\\n1829, Henry Taylor, James Choate, Jr., Nathaniel Aiken.\\n1830, Nathaniel Aiken, James Choate, Jr., William Ela.\\n1831, Nathaniel Aiken, William Ela, J. H. Miltimore.\\n1832, Nathaniel Aiken, WiUiam Ela, Perkins A. Hodge.\\n1833-5 inc, Nathaniel Aiken, WiUiam Ela, John Patten.\\n1836, James Taylor, David Clement, J. H. -Miltimore. i ^ijjl\\n1837, Richard Meivin, Nathaniel Aiken, John Patten.\\nC\\\\", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0444.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "ERRATA.\\nPage 35, tenth line from top, for two hundred and. seventeen read three\\nhundred and nineteen.\\neleventh line from top, for seven read thirteen.\\n139, twelfth line from top, for toot read tooTc.\\n156, fourteenth line from top, for acquitted read pardoned.\\n210, thirteenth line from bottom, for 1733, read 1783.\\n238, fifteenth line from top, in some copies supply the word It.\\n299, second line from bottom, omit the comma after Nancy.", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0445.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "r\\nC\\n4 s_\\n^^T 4z\\n^^iy.\\nOh.,", "height": "3528", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0446.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3528", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0447.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0448.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0449.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3538", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyoflondond00park_0450.jp2"}}