{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3561", "width": "2159", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3444", "width": "1927", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "tt", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^C -^^^y c/t^", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PROCEEDINGS\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION\\n\u00c2\u00ab4 gttndr^dth Jmnitiiirsarg\\nINCORPORATION\\nTOWN OF MASON, N. H.,\\nAUGUST \u00c2\u00bbG, 1808.\\nPREPARED FOR PUBLICATION, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE\\nCOBIMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS,\\nBy JOHN B. HILL.\\nBOSTON:\\nKtiLIOTT, THOMIES c TALBOT.\\n1870.", "height": "3444", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Press of RocKWBLl CiipncHiLL,\\n122 Wnstiinptun Street, Boston.", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "^4 57\\nPKELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS.\\n3 S^C\\nAt the annual Town Meeting, March 10, 1868, pursuant to an\\narticle in the warrant, a vote was passed, to celebrate the one hun-\\ndredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, which would\\noccur on August 26, 1868, and to authorize the selectmen of the\\n3 ear, Charles B. Prescott, Win. G. Lakin, and Thomas B. Tarbell,\\nto take measures necessary and proper to carry the same into\\neffect, who subsequently appointed the following-named gentlemen\\na committee for that purpose Thomas H. Marshall, Jonathan\\nRussell, 2d, Abram Wright, Luther L. Barrett, Elisha B. Barrett,\\nCharles P. Eichardson, John S. Spalding, Samuel E. Adams, and\\nAlden B. Smith.\\nThe town also voted that the expenses of the celebration should\\nbe paid out of the town treasury but doubts having been expressed\\nas to the legal right of the town to raise money by taxation, for\\nsuch purposes, the committee, and other citizens uniting with\\nthem, by private subscription, raised a sum sufficient to meet all\\nsuch charges. The committee agreed with George W. Scripture\\nto provide a dinner for the company, and appointed Thomas B.\\nTarbell, Charles B. Prescott, Joseph B. Wilson, Edwin B. Hos-\\nmer, Luke Newell, George Whitaker, Abram Wright, John P.\\nWright, John Alinson, Veron Eatou, and Samuel H. Wheeler, a\\ncommittee to select a place and prepare a stand for the speaking", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "4 PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS.\\nand seats for the audience. The place selected \u00e2\u0096\u00a0vvas in a beautiful\\nforest, a part of the homestead farm of the Rev. Ebenezer Hill,\\na spot peculiarly well fitted for such a use, situate a short dis-\\ntance south of the site of the old meeting-house, on which suitable\\nand ample preparations were made for the purposes above indi-\\ncated. A letter of invitation was issued by the Committee of\\nArrangements, copied as follows\\nCENTENNIAL OF MASON.\\nThe undersigned, a committee appointed in pursuance of a\\nvote of the Town of Mason to celebrate the one hundredth anni-\\nversary of the Incorporation of the Town, cordiall} invite all her\\nabsent sons and daughters to come home and unite in a glad re-\\nunion on the 26th day of August next.\\nThomas H. Marshall,\\nJonathan Russell, 2d,\\nAbram Wright,\\nLuther L. Barrett,\\nElisha B. Barrett,\\nCharles P. Richardson,\\nJohn S. Spalding,\\nSamuel E. Adams,\\nAlden B. Smith.\\nMason, July 1, 1868.\\nThis letter was, by the citizens, sent out to their relatives and\\nfriends in neighboring and distant towns and States. Notice of\\nthe time, place, and occasion of the celebration was published in\\nthe public papers of the vicinity.\\nThe day opened auspiciously. It was one of those beautiful\\nautumnal mornings, which indicate that the oppressive heat of\\nsummer is gone, and which promise a day of truly enjoyable\\nweather. This promise was amply fulfilled. The day was\\nushered in with ringing of bells and peals of cannon and at an\\nearly hour, from all quarters, crowds assembled at the place of\\nmeeting. Friendly and hearty greetings were passed between many", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS. 6\\nwho had been long parted by distance, and were now permitted to\\nmeet and take each other by the hand.\\nThe following programme, issued by the committee of arrange-\\nments, and widely distributed, served as an order of proceedings\\nof the day", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "PB#\u00c2\u00a9BAMMB\u00c2\u00ab\\nI?\u00c2\u00bbR,OCESSIOIV FOIS] IEr AJF lO A. Ml.\\nJjAsx\\nJfUSIC ST THU 3S.^1JV2).\\nTRUTHS.\\nSOSrO OF WEIiCOME.\\nGlad are our hearts to-rlay,\\nAnil proudly lieave our breasts,\\nWhile we, our greeting lay\\nKxtend our honored guests\\nLet every tongue join tlie glad strain,\\nOh welcome, welcome home again.\\nWelcome, yes, welcome home again.\\nFrom distant lands they come.\\nHomes sr.ittered far and wide,\\nAnd friends of atdd-lang-syue,\\nHere clustering side by side,\\nWith cordial grasp extend the hand;\\nUnited now our household band.\\nWelcome, oh I welcome home again.\\nWe love our native town,\\nWe own her fostering care.\\nAnd here, with grateful pride,\\nHer natal honors share\\nLet every voice join the glad strain,\\nTill the broad welkin rings again,\\nWith our Centennial Jubilee,\\nMay generations hence\\nTheir lineage proudly tell.\\nAnd boast that no disgrace\\nE er J/V^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(l\u00c2\u00bb^s\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 fame befell\\nOh I be her future, as her past.\\nWith honor bright, and we at last\\nIn heaven sing glad welcome home.\\nMrs. Louisa J. Kimball.\\nMUSIC,\\nORATIOJ^,\\nA7iDSE,SS OF }rJEI,COJrE.\\nBy the Band.\\nSon. John B. Sill.\\nSOA^G OF JTrBII.EE.\\nCome, children of our dear old town,\\nWhere er your lot may be.\\nCome join us in our gladsome song,\\nOur song of jubilee.\\nUpon her ivied throne of years,\\nWith eye still bright and clear,\\nOur Motlier sits in honor of\\nHer hundredth natal year.\\nChorus\\nOh I happy hearts, now gathered here,\\n.Join in our chorus loud and clear, [true,\\nSing of the virtues of our JFother, fond and\\nSing of her hills and vales, her sons and\\ndaughters too.\\nCall them home from far and near.\\nBid them banish doubt and fear;\\nLet all with true JIasonic hearts to-day\\nJoin in our song of .Jubilee.\\nPOEM,\\nMUSIC,\\nCHRONICLES,\\nCome, gather round the circle close.\\nAnd feel the warmth that glows\\nWithin that heart whose life has beat\\nA century to its close;\\nA life of trial, toil, and strife.\\nBut yet without a stain\\nTo check our honest pride to-day,\\nOr cause our Mother shame. Cho.\\nThen ye whose locks are seared with age,\\nAnd ye whose pulses beat\\nW^ith ail the fiery life of youth.\\nYour love of home repeat\\nShout loud your cliorus to the skies,\\nAnd press the altars near.\\nAnd celebrate this glorious day\\nOf Centenary Year. Cho.\\nli. L. Cumnoclc, jr.\\nJiei T^ R. Sodgman.\\nBy the Band.\\nCharles E. Sill.", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "iliigr it ii\u00c2\u00a9 i gliil f .1,\\nIN THE TENT.\\nIIV1\u00c2\u00bbIX OF OKA-TITTJDE.\\nO Thou, wliose all-directing hand\\nHath guided lionic this wandering band,\\nWe own Tliy power, Tliy love adore,\\nWhile future blessings we innilore.\\nThy love divine, with cheering ray,\\nIllumed our Father s larkened way,\\nThough toils and dangers pressed them\\nround,\\nA sure support in Thee they found.\\nAnd children s children, grateful now,\\nBefore Thy throne with reverence bow,\\nWith one accord their hearts to raise,\\nIn loudest songs of grateful praise.\\nFrom homes with peace and plenty blessed.\\nOur willinjr feet have hither pressed,\\nWitli greeting kind and cheerful lay,\\nTo crown our glad Centennial day.\\nNo songs raise we to gods unknown,\\nOia- Cod, our Fdther s God, we own I\\nOh, be His love the strength and stay\\nOf all who ve gathered here to-day.\\nAnd when life s scenes for us have passed.\\nWhen we have looked on e.arth our last,\\nJlay each receive the welcome, Come,\\nFaithful of God, well done 1 come home.\\nMiss Ahby 11. Allen.\\nTOASTS clJVi) Si^EECHES.\\nS( )NG,\\nhy Mrs. Field.\\nI cannot sing the old Songs.\\nrOLUjYTEEH TOASTS AjYS) SS^EECJSTES.\\nrAKTIJVO HYMX.\\nNow as evening shadows gather.\\nAnd we re called upon to part,\\nMay the warm hand-clasp be taken,\\nOf the love heart bears to heart;\\nKindly wishes, thought or spoken,\\nDrop as blessings or as balm.\\nAnd the mem ry of this season\\nE er be hallowed with a charm.\\nMidst the joys of sweet reunion,\\n]\\\\Icm ry drops the bitter tear.\\nWhile recalling the loved faces\\nWhich no more can greet us here,\\nFathers, mothers, brothers, sisters.\\nTownsmen, held in high esteem.\\nSowers, reapers, and sheaf-binders.\\nLong since passed adown life s stream.\\nBut, though Death full oft has garnered\\nChoicest fruit we had to give.\\nSterling truth, in ripened manhood\\nAlso shows us how to live.\\nMUSIC,\\nHe.ads remembered erst as cradled.\\nNow with silvery locks arc crowned.\\nAnd Life s purpose, then unwritten,\\nClear is set each brow around.\\nFor all character, in forming.\\nLeaves its impress, good or ill,\\nAnd men s faces are the reflex\\nOf the tirm or pliant will.\\nMay this thought each then bear with him.\\nBy its frnltaf/e, is life known,\\nAnd in heaven will joy be measured\\nBy the harvest of truth sown.\\nMay God s word be our foundation,\\nHoly life the structures reared,\\nAnd tlirough Christ, our blest K edeemer,\\nHeavenly titles for each cleared.\\nThen, on earth, though ne er united,\\nWe shall meet at last above,\\nHearts and voices joined in tribute\\nTo the power of Jesus love.\\n3Trs. IT. M. V. Wrifjlit.\\nBy the Band.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nThe procession was formed at 10 o clock, under the direction of\\nJames L. Chamberlain, Esq., Chief Marshal, assisted by John S.\\nSpalding, Elisha B. Barrett, Thomas E. Marshall, Thomas B. Tar-\\nbell, and Marshall Kimball, Assistant Marshals, and under the\\nlead of the Brookline Brass Band, directed by Mr. Alonzo Bond,\\nof Boston, proceeded to the stand for speaking, where the Chief\\nMarshal introduced the President of the day, the Hon. Thomas H.\\nMarshall, who, with several Vice-Presidents, Jonathan Russell, 2d,\\nJoseph B. Wilson, Franklin Merriam, Charles Scripture, and Sam-\\nuel Smith, Avere conducted to seats.\\nReporters were present, and seats assigned to them, from the\\nBoston Daily Journal, and the Boston Daily Advertiser, in which\\npapers, on the next morning, full reports of all the proceedings\\nappeared, from which reports, somewhat condensed, and with some\\nadditions, the following account of the doings of the day is pre-\\nsented\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION,\\nAT MASON, N. H.\\nProcession Oration Ijiterary and Alusioal Xlxcrcises Dinner In a\\nSlaniniotli Tent.\\n[REPOKTED FOlt THE BOSTON JOURNAL.]\\nThe citizens of Mason, N. H.,\\nyesterday celebi ated the occurrence\\nof the one hundredth annivei sary of\\nthe organization of their town in a\\nmanner appropriate to an occasion\\nso significant and intei esting. The\\nlarge attendance of her sons and\\ndaughters, coming from every di-\\nrection and ahnost from every State\\nto which a New Englander might be\\nexpected to emigrate, and tlie con-\\ncert of action and universal hospi-\\ntality of those who yet remained at\\nhome, well attest the enthusiastic\\nand, perhaps not less, the tender\\nfeelings which the event awakened\\nIn all hearts.\\nTHE SITUATION OF THE TOWN.\\nThe town of Mason is situated\\nupon the southern border of New\\nHampshire, at the present terminus\\nof the Pcterboro and Shirley Hail-\\nroad, which branches from the Fitch-\\nburg at Groton Junction. In terri-\\ntory it is about six miles square, and\\nis divided substantially into two\\ncommunities or settlements, known\\nas the Centre and the Village. Ma-\\nson Villftge is the more populous of\\nthe two, and is a place of consider-\\nable manufacturing prosperity, pos-\\nsessing two cotton mills of about\\n8,000 spindles, a furniture manufac-\\ntory, of which the machinery is car-", "height": "3444", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nried by water power, and a grist mill.\\nThe Souhegan River, wMcIi passes\\nthrough this section of the town,\\ncould, it is said, supply power for\\n100,000 spindles, having a fall of\\nsixty feet within a distance of forty\\nrods and eighty feet within a quarter\\nof a mile. The approach to the\\nVillage by railroad is marked by\\nseveral peculiar and interesting\\nfeatures. To avoid a direct passage\\nthrough an intervening range of\\nlofty hills, a curve, which is almost\\nor quite a semicircle, is made,\\nwhich, as a citizen expressed it,\\ngives the line of road at its terminus\\nthe shape of a mackerel hook.\\nSweeping arouud this curve, the\\npassenger is aflbrded a charming\\nview of an extensive and deeply-in-\\ndented valley, through which flows\\nthe current of the Souhegan River,\\nand beyond which stretches an am-\\nphitheatre of hills, rising to a lofty\\naltitude, through one of those vig-\\norous geologic efibrts for which New\\nHampshire is so justly celebrated.\\nTo shoot across this valley from\\nhighland to highland, by railroad,\\nrequired the construction of a bridge\\nresting upon the borders of the\\nstream, 100 feet in height and 600\\nin length, and in rapidly passing\\nover it one gets a better idea than\\nbefore of the literal significance of\\nthe phrase a bird s-eye view.\\nThe scenery in every direction is of\\na similar character, lofty hills and\\ndeep valleys, and over and among\\nthese lies the connecting road be-\\ntween Mason Village and Centre.\\nThe latter is the place where the\\ncelebration was held, and is acces-\\nsible also from another point on the\\nrailroad. Its characteristics are\\nthose usual to an agricultural settle-\\nment in New England. Many well-\\ncultivated farms are seen In its pleas-\\nant valleys, and its hillsides are\\nspotted with happy homes. The\\nsons and daughters of this town are\\nnow residents in every portion of\\nour country, and a majority of the\\nStates in the Union were represent-\\ned in the gathering which took place\\nyesterday. The day was ushered\\nin by the ringing of bells and the\\nfiring of cannon, and was observed\\nas a holiday by the citizens, nearly\\nall of whom probably flocked to the\\nCommon at Mason Centre, where\\nthe procession was to be formed.\\nA panorama of the war was opened\\nin a tent upon the Common, booths\\nwere erected, flags thrown to the\\nbreeze in various localities, and the\\nVillage presented a lively appear-\\nance. The roads in the vicinity\\nwere filled with teams from distant\\nparts of the town and the surround-\\ning country, and nearly two thou-\\nsand people gathered to celebrate\\nthe happy occasion.\\nTHE CELEBRATION.\\nThe conduct of the celebration\\nwas under the immediate charge of\\nthe following-named officers of the\\nday: Hon. Thomas H. Marshall,\\nPresident; Jonathan Russell, 2d,\\nJoseph B. Wilson, Franklin Mer-\\nriam, Charles Scripture, Samuel\\nSmith, Vice-Presidents; James L.\\nChamberlain, Chief Marshal J. S.\\nSpalding, Elisha B. Barrett, Thos.\\nE. Marshall, Thomas B. Tarbell,\\nMarshall Kimball, Assistant Mar-\\nshals; James Russell, Toast Mas-\\nter.\\nA committee of general and an-\\nother of special arrangements had\\nbeen engaged for some time past\\nin making the preliminary prepar-\\nations.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nA procession was formed, at\\nthe square near the church, about\\nten o clock, A.M., and, headed by\\nthe Brookline (N. H.) Brass Band,\\nled for the occasion by Mr. Alonzo\\nBond, the well-known Boston mu-\\nsician, the march was made to a\\npine-grove about a fourth of a mile\\ndistant. Here a platform had been\\nerected, on which were seated the\\nofficers of the day, the participants\\nin the proceedings, and many ven-\\nerable citizens of the town. The\\nexercises commenced with the per-\\nformance of Auld Lang Syne by\\nthe band, after which the Chief\\nMarshal introduced the President\\nof the day, wlio briefly welcomed\\nthe visitors to the old town, and\\ncongratulated all upon the auspi-\\ncious circumstances under which\\nthey were met. The Divine bless-\\ning was then invoked by Rev. L.\\nC. Stevens, of Mason Village, after\\nwhich a select choir of ladies and\\ngentlemen sung an original Song\\nof Welcome, tc the tune of Sun-\\nderland, Mrs. Milton Hardy pre-\\nsiding at the melodeon. Rev. Geo.\\nF. Merriam, of Mason Village, then\\npronounced a formal address of\\nwelcome in eloquent and appropri-\\nate terms. After music by the\\nband, the Orator of the Day, Hon.\\nJohn B. Hill, was introduced.\\nORATION OP HON. JOHN B. HILL.\\nMr. Hill (who is one of the vener-\\nable citizens of the town, seventy-\\ntwo years of age, and favorably\\nknown in antiquarian circles as\\nthe author of the History of Ma-\\nson commenced his address with\\nthe statement that just one hundred\\nyears ago Obadiah Parker left the\\ntown of Mason for a journey to\\nPortsmouth, being instructed by a\\nvote of the citizens to procure in\\ntheir behalf from the Provincial\\nGovernor, John Wentworth, an act\\nof incorporation as a town. The\\ncircumstances under which the jour-\\nney was made, through the then all-\\nsurrounding wilderness, and the for-\\nmalities necessary in the conduct of\\nthe affair with His Majesty s august\\nrepresentative were depicted, and\\nthe cost of obtaining the franchise,\\nas recorded on the town books, was\\nstated to be \u00c2\u00a312 6s. 6d. 3 farthings.\\nIt had been voted to have the town\\ncalled Sharon, but it was decided\\nby the Governor, and agreed to by\\nthe delegate, to name it Mason, in\\nhonor of Captain John Mason, the\\noriginal grantee of lands in New\\nHampshire. The orator then ex-\\nhibited aud read the document which\\nParker brought back, which is in a\\ngood state of preservation, and bears\\nthe date of August 26, 1768. The\\ndocument, after describing the\\nbounds of the town, goes on further\\nto say, always reserving to our\\nheirs and successors all the white-\\npine trees which are or shall be\\nfound gi owing or being on the said\\nland, fit for the use of our Royal\\nNavy. The orator called attention\\nof the audience to the majestic pines\\nin the grove around them, as proof\\nthat the pines were still there, and\\nthat King George had never called\\nfor them. He then reverted to the\\nhistory of the town within his own\\nearly recollection, and gave a bio-\\ngraphical sketch of two of its cente-\\nnarians, Jonathan Foster, who\\ndied at the age of one hundred years,\\nIt was provided that the trees fit for\\nthe Royal Nary should be marked by the\\nKing s surveyor with the broad arrow any\\none cutting a tree so marked was subject to\\na heavy penalty, but until so marked any\\ntree might be felled by the owner of the\\nland without penalty. J. B. H.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n11\\nMarch 31, 1821, and Oliver Elliot,\\nwho died at the age of one hundred\\nand two years and six months. He\\nalso alluded to the ancient ministers\\nof the town\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. Jonathan Searle\\nand Ebenezer Hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the latter being\\nhis own immediate ancestor, being\\nthe owner of the beautiful grove in\\nwhich the celebration was held. A\\ncomparison was instituted between\\nthe status of the town in the year\\n1777 and the year 1868, the polls\\nbeing 98 against 348 the horses 48\\nagainst 189 the taxation $336\\nagainst $12,607.78, and the popula-\\ntion 501 against 2,000. The early\\nmanufactures of the town were al-\\nluded to, and the isolation of the\\npeople described. The only sources\\nof news in those days were the\\noccasional journeys of the farmers,\\nwith an ox team to Boston, and the\\nnews there being carefully treasured\\nin memory, was detailed on their\\nreturn to eager listeners in front of\\nthe church, between the forenoon\\nand afternoon services on Sunday.\\nThe first newspaper published in\\nthe State was in 1757, and now, said\\nthe speaker, we have them crowd-\\ning upon each other day after day,\\ntogether with a surfeit of periodi-\\ncals. He thought some of the town s\\npeople would now be desperately\\npushed for news if going to church\\non Sunday were the source on which\\nthey depended. In further contrast\\nof old times with the present, he said\\nthat witches, ghosts and sorcerers\\nhave disappeared along with queues,\\nknee-breeches and shoe-buckles,\\nand now we have Mormonism, Mes-\\nmerism, Spiritualism and Millerism,\\ntogether with changes in ladies\\ndresses, showing the least possible\\nlove of a bonnet, with the most\\nmagnificent amplitude of a skirt.\\nThe statistics of the town in the\\nwar of the Revolution were referred\\nto. Ninety-one men had served in\\nthat war and in the town there was\\nonly one tory. He was driven away,\\nand ended his days in poverty and\\nwretchedness at Groton, his native\\nplace. A company of Mason men\\nwere at Bunker Hill, two of whom\\nwere killed, Joseph Blood and\\nEbenezer Blood. At this point in\\nhis address the orator introduced\\nto the audience Mrs. Nutting, a sis-\\nter of Ebenezer Blood, an old lady\\nof ninety-six years. The venerable\\nmatron was escorted forward upon\\nthe platform, and was greeted with\\ngeneral applause by those present.\\nIn this connection it was stated\\nthat in the war of 1812 Mason con-\\ntributed eleven men to support the\\ngovernment in the field, and in the\\nrecent war one hundred and twen-\\nty-one men. The speaker then took\\na prospective glance into the future,\\nwhich on the whole he regarded as\\nauspicious, while deprecating the\\nfrightful visage of corruption in\\npublic ofiice, which threatened and\\nmight destroy liberty, law and re-\\npublican Integrity, The town of\\nMason, he said, had been the birth-\\nplace of two men of world-wide\\ncelebrity in the inventive arts,\\nJonas Chickering, the piano manu-\\nfacturer, and Walter A. Wood, in-\\nventor of a mowing-machine, for\\nwhich he had received the grand\\nprize, and had been decorated with\\nthe emblem of the Legion of Honor,\\nat the Paris Exhibition. In conclu-\\nsion he denied the decadence of\\nNew England, in which some pro-\\nfess to believe, and stated the rea-\\nsons for the view he took. He af-\\nfirmed the belief in her future pros-\\nperity in agricultural interests, and\\ntook o.ccasion incidentally to advo-\\ncate the growth of forest trees upon", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nthe rocky hillsides. One-third of\\nthe territory should be devoted in\\nthis wa}^ he thought, and it would\\nprove to yield a return which would\\nbe satisftictory to the most greedy\\nmoney-lender. He referred to the\\nexample of England and Holland in\\nthe matter of raising Improved\\nbreeds of cattle, and said that a\\nsimilar policy on the part of the\\nMason farmers would insure, ac-\\ncording to the ratio of Holland,\\n1,900 cattle in the town instead of\\n800 as at present. The orator\\nclosed his address somewhat abrupt-\\nly, but apologized for so doing on\\naccount of the length to which in\\nthe written form he had extended\\nit, and for the reading of which\\nthere was not further time to spare.\\nOTHER EXERCISES AT THE GROVE.\\nAt the close of the oration the\\nSong of Jubilee was sung to the\\ntune of Champagne Charley, the\\nsolo being finely rendered by Mrs.\\nLucien P. Field, of New York, a\\nnative of Mason. She was accom-\\npanied by Miss Lilla Larkin, of\\nTownsend Centre. A well-written\\npoem, of a historical character, was\\nthen read by Rev. E. R. Hodgman,\\nwhich was followed by a series of\\nchronicles, also of a local-historical\\ncharacter, and conceived in a sport-\\nive vein. These were read by Chas.\\nE. Hill, an uuder-graduate of Dart-\\nmouth, and their character will be\\nindicated by the closing invita-\\ntion to the now awaiting dinner at\\nthe tent, as follows: Lo, the\\nmeat offerings and drink offerings\\nare ready, and the royal Chamberlain\\nwaits to hasten you to the banquet.\\nThis day is Scripture revealed unto\\nyou. He that hath a purse let him\\ntake it, likewise his scrip, for the\\nmoney-changers await your com-\\ning. Stay yourselves with flagons\\nand be comforted with apples. To\\nyour tents, O Israel According-\\nly Mr. Chamberlain, as Marshal,\\nconducted the party to the tent,\\nwhere Mr. G.W. Scripture, caterer,\\nhad provided an abundant collation.\\nPROCEEDINGS AT THE TENT.\\nIn the tent, which was spread in\\nan open lot near the church, some\\neight hundred people sat down at\\nthe tables and heartily enjoyed the\\nviands which were spread before\\nthem, a sharpened appetite being\\nthe sequel of the somewhat pro-\\nlonged exercises at the grove.\\nWhen all had been thus refreshed,\\nthe exercises of the day were con-\\ntinued by the singing of a Hymn\\nof Gratitude, to the tune of Lynd-\\nhurst. Toasts and speeches then\\nfollowed. A sentiment in honor of\\nThe Great West was responded\\nto by Rev. Timothy Hill, of Kansas\\nCity, Mo. one, to The Sons of\\nNew Hampshire in other States,\\nwas responded to by B. W. Mer-\\nriam, of New York City; to The\\nRevolutionary Patriots, by Hon.\\nJohn B. Hill; The Day we Cele-\\nbrate, by Rev. S. Lee, of New Ips-\\nwich; The Town of Mason, by\\nJoseph C. Mason, of Booneville,\\nMo.; the Hills, Valleys, Fruits\\nand Flowers of Mason, by L. A.\\nElliot, of Boston.\\nThe literary exercises were agree-\\nably varied by the singing of the\\nsong entitled I cannot sing the\\nold Songs, by Mrs. Field; Twen-\\nty Years ago, by Samuel E. Wright\\nand wife, of Templeton, Mass., and\\nthe Parting Hymn, which was\\nsung by the choir to the tune of\\nFranconia. The musical part of\\nthe programme throughout the\\nday was, in the performance, of a", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n13\\nhigh order of excellence, and was\\nmuch enjoyed and applauded.\\nThe authors of the original hymns\\nwere Mrs. Louisa J. Kimball, K. L.\\nCumnock, Jr., Miss Abby H. Allen,\\nand Mrs. H. M. C. Wright, in the\\norder respectively in which the\\nhymns occurred on the programme.\\nThe celebration, as a whole, was\\nwell planned and carried out, and\\nthe day was generally observed as\\na holiday by the people of the\\nneighboring towns as well as those\\nimmediately interested. The day\\nwas ushered in by salutes of artil-\\nlery, which reverberated over the\\nmajestic hills, whose echoes seemed\\nto catch the note of festivity. The\\nchurch-bells of the town also\\nsounded their jocund peals, delight-\\ning Young America at the unex-\\npected recurrence of those emotions\\npeculiar to Independence morning.\\nThe side shows of the occasion\\nwere sufficiently numerous to give\\nthe Village Common a gala day ap-\\npearance, and were liberally patron-\\nized by those who preferred the\\nsportive and sensational to the in-\\ntellectual and sentimental modes of\\ncelebration. Probably from two to\\nthree thousand people participated\\npublicly in the festival, which must\\nbe regarded as a liberal convocation,\\nin point of numbers, for a locality\\nwhich may, with eminent propriety,\\nbe classed among the rural dis-\\ntricts.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS OF WELCOME.\\nBY EEV. GEORGE F. MERKIAM, OF MASON VILLAGE.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,\\nWhether cradled among these hills, adopted for a season into\\nour good mother s family, or otherwise linked in interest with the\\nold town whose centenary day we now celebrate, permit me to bid\\nyou a most cordial welcome.\\nFrom every place to which your enterprising feet have borne\\nyou, far or near from every walk of life, however humble or high\\nup\\nThe steep where Fame s proud temple shines afar\\nwhether coming with the dew of youth, or the frosts of age, or with\\nlife s meridian strength, bending beneath the heat and burden of\\nthe day we gladly hail j our return, and heartily rejoice with j ou\\nin the meetings and greetings of the hour. We give you a warm\\ngrasp of the hand, as j ou come once more to look upon the sce-\\nneiy of Mason, with all its features of beauty and grandeur to tread\\nthe soil made sacred by the labors of holy men now gone to their\\nrest to re-enter the homes about which so many tender recollec-\\ntions have clustered to revisit the haunts of childish frolic and\\nfancy to worship in the churches where our fathers used to pray\\nto muse in the church-yards where their precious dust is laid to\\nspeak one to another of all the way in which our God has led us,\\nand to spend a little season together with the memories of Auld\\nLang Syne.\\nAnd how many the spots in those early days, now transfigured\\nwith rosy light, as we glance backward in our life review How\\noften can we say of what has here occurred,\\nStill o er that scene my memory wakes,\\nAnd fondly broods with miser care\\nTime but the impression stronger makes,\\nAs streams their cliaunels deeper wear.\\n1)", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 15\\nHow grandly do the little incidents, recalled by the forms we\\nmeet to-day, loom through the mist of years\\nTis distance lends enchantment to the view,\\nbut not that alone, as we sing,\\nHow dear to my heart are the scenes of ray childhood,\\nWhen fond recollection presents them to view\\nThe meadow, the orchard, the deep-tangled wildwood,\\nAnd every loved spot that my infancy knew\\nThe wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it,\\nThe bridge, and the rock where the cataract fell\\nThe cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it,\\nAnd e en the rude bucket that hung in the well.\\nNor can we forget the trials of those bygone days\\nThere stands the old school-house, hard by the old church;\\nThat tree by its side had the flavor of birch.\\nTrials by no means profitless in our subsequent experience, and\\nat the time attended with an overflowing measure of kindness\\nwhile to-day we look back and feel,\\nThat we of all others have reason to pay\\nThe tribute of thanks, and rejoice on our way,\\nFor the counsels that turned from the follies of youth,\\nFor the beauty of patience, the whiteness of truth.\\nFor the wounds of rebuke, when love tempered its edge.\\nFor the household s restraint, and the discipline s hedge.\\nAnd then what a fragrance lingers about the memory of some\\nof those early friends We are now consciously stronger and\\npurer for having met them. Whatever is shining in our lives\\nmust come from the golden thread of their influence wound about\\nthem. One seems almost the soul s ideal\\nHis life was gentle, and the elements\\nSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,\\nAnd say to all the world, this was a man.\\nWe stand beside the mound where he sleeps, and feel the place\\nis holy ground that\\nThe actions of the just\\nSmell sweet, and blossom in the dust.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16 ADDRESS OF WELCOME.\\nIt is a privilege to scatter roses upon his last resting-place, and\\nsay\\nGreen be tlie turf above thee,\\nFriend of my early days\\nNone knew thee but to love thee,\\nNone named thee but to praise.\\nBut I am treading upon sacred ground, and engrossing too mucli\\nof your time. When the distant members of a household return\\nto some great family gathering, the elder members of the family\\nare wont to make ready the feast, and send one of the children to\\nswing wide the door, and cry with childish ardor. Come in, come\\nin So these venerable fathers, having provided a feast of reason\\nand flow of soul from the lips of eloquence and poesy, have sent\\nme to offer you their salutations, and say, Welcome, welcome\\nIn doing this, allow me to express the wish that this reunion\\nmay, for us, be typical of a better one above, where the angels\\nwill sing welcome home. And may they, who in this place shall\\ncelebrate the successive centuries of the future, have an ever\\nbrightening experience of peace, prosperity, and piety to record.\\nLong live the good town, giving out, year by year,\\nKecruits to true manhood and womanhood dear\\nBrave boys, modest maidens, in beauty sent forth,\\nThe living epistles and proof of its worth.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOM B. HILL.\\nOne hundred years ago, in August, 1768, Obadiali Parker left\\nhis humble dwelling on the west border of the town, near the line\\nof New Ipswich, on a pilgrimage to Portsmouth, then the capital of\\nthe Province of New Hampshire, charged by a vote of the propri-\\netors passed January 5, 1768, with the duty to goo to PortsmouU\\nand get the town incorporated as soon as may be. Let us follow\\nthe pilgrim on his adventurous journey. There was then no pub-\\nlic conveyance by which he could make his way.* There was no\\ncarriage for the conveyance of persons in the town. Indeed, the\\nox-cart was the only vehicle then owned in town, which moved on\\nwheels. The first chaise brought into and owned in town was\\nbuilt expressly for my father in the year 1799, after his marriage with\\nhis third wife. The time is fully within my recollection when the\\nfirst buggy or wagon, for the carriage of persons, was brought into\\ntown.\\nThe only mode Parker could adopt for making his journey was\\nto go on horseback or on foot. It is likely he chose the latter as the\\nleast expensive. Indeed, it would take little more time, as was\\nthen the state of the country roads and the character of the cav-\\nalry he must use. An active man, such as Parker was, he being\\nthen about forty-eight years old, would make the journey on foot,\\nprobably, in less time than on horseback. He must have made\\nIt is doubtful if there was any such at that time from Boston to Ports-\\nmouth. In the Boston Gazette and County Journal, March, 1770, in an\\nadvertisement, Joseph Hart notifies the public in a card that he has set\\nup a stage from Portsmouth to Boston, making one trip a week. The\\nhour of starting from Boston being about eight o clock in the morning on\\nTuesdays.\\n3", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nhis way directly through the forests and by the sparse settlements\\nto his journey s end, which he would accomplish in about two days.\\nArrived at Portsmouth, he would there find the only power that\\ncould give success to his mission, in the person of the Royal Gov-\\nernor, the representative of his Royal Majesty, George III., styled\\nour truly and well-beloved John Wentworth, Esq., our Governor\\nand Commander-in-Chief of our Province of New Hampshire.\\nIn our day charters and acts of incorporation are granted by\\nthe Legislature, on application of the parties. Then, they were\\nmatters of royal grace and favor, to be granted by the Governor\\nwith much ceremon}^, not to say pomp and splendor. Parker, hav^-\\ning arrived at Poi tsmouth, must have made application to know\\nat what day and hour his Majesty s Royal Governor and Council\\nwould be pleased to give him an audience, and at the set time\\nhave presented himself, with the humble petition of his fellow-\\ncitizens, and having made such suggestions, and answered such\\ninquiries as the case needed, he succeeded in gaining the object of\\nhis journey, in the grant of the charter for the incorporation of the\\ntown.\\nBut fees and charges must be paid. The officials surrounding the\\ngovernor lived on fees. It was understood that such expenses\\nmust be incurred, and Parker was charged to disburst the money\\nfor that purpose, and promised that he shall have a hansom re-\\nward for the same. His bill rendered to the town for charges and\\ndisbursements was \u00c2\u00a312. 6. 6. 3, amounting to about $41.00. It\\nwas allowed and paid. The items composing this bill would be at\\nthis day a great curiosity, but they have escaped all search. The\\nproprietors voted to have the town called Sharon but no one will\\nregret that Parker so far departed from his instructions as to bring\\nback the charter with the name of Mason inserted instead, un-\\ndoubtedly with reference to Captain John Mason, the original\\ngrantee of the Province of New Hampshire. This venerable doc-\\nument, bearing date August 26, 17G8, I have now the pleasure of\\nexhibiting to you. Thus, one hundred years ago this day, the au-\\nthority and obligation to assume the rights and powers and duties\\nof a town were granted to our fathers.\\nBy the terms of the charter, Obadiah Parker, Gentleman, was\\nappointed to call the first meeting of the inhabitants as a town.\\nFor this purpose he issued his warrant in due form, under date of", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 19\\nSeptember 5, 1768, for a meeting to be held September 19, at which\\nmeeting Obacliah Parker was chosen Moderator Josiah Wheeler,\\nTown Clerk Josiah Wheeler, Obadiah Parker, and Joseph Ballard,\\nSelectmen Reuben Barrett and John Swallow, Constables Na-\\nthan Hall, Treasurer John Asten and Jonathan Winship, Tith-\\ningmen Thomas Barrett, Enosh Lawrence, Jr., Lemuel Spaulding,\\nand Josiah Robbins, Surveyors of Highways Capt. Thomas\\nTarbell, Sealer of Weights and Measures John Asten, Sealer of\\nLeather Richard Lawrence and Joseph Blood, Fence Viewers\\nSamuel Lawrence and Joseph Lowell, Hog Constables Aaron\\nWheeler and Oliver Elliott, Deer Officers. Thus the territory, for-\\nmerly known by the name of No. 1, became legally a town, and,\\nwith some additions of territory subsequently made, has remained\\na town to the present day.\\nIt is worth while to pause a few moments, and consider the char-\\nacter of that important political body, a New England town. No\\nsuch political organization was ever known in England. There\\ncities, boroughs, and parishes, have existed from time immemorial\\nbut none of these has served as the model of our towns. These\\nlast in this country are of New England origin, and are peculiar to\\nNew England, except so far as they have, with more or less fidel-\\nity, been copied in some of the more Western States.\\nOur Pilgrim Fathers, when, driven by high-church persecution\\nfrom their pleasant homes in England, they took refuge in Hol-\\nland, found there a division of the country into townships en-\\ntrusted with the internal regulation of their own affairs, the ap-\\npointment of selectmen, or municipal officers, the registry of deeds,\\nthe establishment of highways, and the erection of houses and\\nfarm buildings along the line of the travelled roads, none of which\\nexisted in England, and all of which, with great public benefit,\\nthey introduced into their new settled country.*\\nOf Holland, in 1608, Motley writes It was a land where every child\\nwent to school, where almost every individual inhabitant could read and\\nwrite, where even the middle classes were proficient in mathematics and\\nthe classics, and could speak two or more modern languages where the\\nwhole nation, with but few exceptions, were producers of material wealth,\\nand where compai atively little of unproductive consumption prevailed.\\nMotley, United Netherlands, Vol. iv., p. 432.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nThese organizations are the purest democracies the world has\\never seen. Every man in the town is not onl}^ a voter, but is\\ntrained up in the fearless and constant exercise of the voter s\\nrights. Here no one has any peculiar or special privileges. All\\nstand on the same footing. Every man has a right to be voted\\nfor, or to vote for any office. There is here no chance for an\\naristocracy to spring up and trample on the rights of the people.\\nIn the Southern States no such organizations ever existed. If\\nthose States had been overspread with towns, filled with people\\ntrained up in the exercise of the voter s rights, the slaveholding\\naristocracy could never have carried the Southern people, as they\\ndid, against their will, into rebellion.\\nOne of the first incidents attendant on arriving at the condition\\nof a town was found to be taxes, and that incident has contin-\\nued to attend its existence to the present day. To facilitate\\nthe collection of taxes, the town was divided into the West and\\nEast sides. This division was made on the road leading from\\nTownsend to the north part of the town by what was then the\\nresidence of Dea, Nathan Hall. All east of that road and north\\nof the centre of the town on that road belonged to the East side\\nall west of that road and south of the centre to the West side. A\\nlist of taxes was made out amounting to \u00c2\u00a317. 16. 6. 2. and com-\\nmitted to John Swallow, constable, for the West side, and a similar\\nlist amounting \u00c2\u00a317. 10. 7. 1. was committed to Reuben Barrett,\\nconstable for the East side, for collection, by warrants each bearing\\ndate January 28, 1769.\\nThese documents show who were then inhabitants of the town,\\nand the rate of taxes, and their relative wealth or means. On\\nthe West side were Josiah Bobbins, Ens. Enosh Lawrence, Samuel\\nLawrence, John Swallow, Isaac Holdin, William Badcock, Wil-\\nliam Barrett, Nathaniel Barrett, Jonathan Foster, Stevens Law-\\nrence, Thomas Robbins, Enosh Lawrence, Jr., Aaron Wheeler,\\nNathaniel Hosmer, John Button, Widow Burge, John Elliot,\\nMoses Lowell, Richard Lawrence, Joseph Merriam, David\\nLowell, David Lowell, Jr., Nathan Whipple, John Jefts, John As-\\nten, Joseph Barrett, Nathan Procter, Lieut. Obadiah Parker,\\nJoseph Bullard, Zachariah Da%ds, Reuben Tucker, Joseph Tucker,\\nAmos Dakin, Thomas Barrett, Joseph Lowell, Benjamin King,\\nEdmund .Town, Cornelius Cook, and Dennis McLean. The list", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 21\\nalso includes two more names of persons, whom I judge to have\\nbeen non-residents. On this list the highest tax was paid by\\nJosiah Robbins. He lived on the farm afterwards owned by Dea.\\nJotham Webber, and now owned by his grandsons.\\nOn the East side the names were Capt. Thomas Tarbell, Elias\\nElliot, Jason Russell, Nathaniel Smith, Joseph Ross, Nathaniel\\nTarbell, Edmund Tarbell, Jonathan Williams, Reuben Barrett,\\nHannah Elliot widow, Samuel Scripture, James Weathee, Lemuel\\nSpaulding, Elizabeth Powers widow, Joseph Blood, Abel Shedd,\\nGeorge Woodard, Jabez Kendall, Oliver Elliot, Daniel Fish, Mary\\nJefts widow, Thomas Jefts, Jonathan Jefts, Nathan Hall, James\\nHall, Patience Fish widow, Eleazer Fish, Ebenezer Blood, Jason\\nDunster, Joseph Herrick, Jonathan Winship, Samuel Tarbell,\\nNathaniel Barrett, Jr., John Leonard, Jonathan Fish. On this list\\nI do not recognize any non-residents. The highest tax on this\\nlist, and the highest in the town, was paid by Capt. Thomas Tar-\\nbell. He lived on the farm now owned by his great grandson,\\nThomas B. Tarbell, which farm has remained in the same family\\nfor five generations, almost or quite one hundred and twenty\\nyears. Of the persons named in these tax lists there are twenty-\\nthree who have descendants now residing in the town, and many\\nof them upon the farms then owned by their ancestors.\\nOne hundred years What a period in the life of nations Not\\ntwenty such have passed since the birth of Christ, scarce ten since\\npagan gods were publicly worshipped by princes and people in\\nEngland by our British ancestors. Of the human family, scarce\\none in thirtj^-six thousand attains that age, and yet in the list I\\nhave just read of the names of the tax-payers in the first assess-\\nment on the town, are found two who attained that wonderful\\nage.* One of these, Jonathan Foster, died at Ashby, March 31,\\nDesiring to ascertain, as nearly as might be, the ratio or proportion of\\npersons living in Southern New Hampshire in 1768, who would attain tlie\\nage of one hundred yeiirs or more, I addressed a letter to Dr. Edwai d\\nJarvis, the well-known statistician, asking a reply to that question. In\\nreply he kindly furnished me a very elaborate calculation and estimates\\nfrom the United States census, in which he deduced from the returns for\\nthe years 1830, 40, 50, and GO, that of white persous, 1 in 39,760 would\\nbe fouud of that age, and that of the white and colored united 1 in 27,738\\nwould be found to be of that age. The report of aged persons in the", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 CENTENNIAL CELENRATION.\\n1821, at the age of more than one hundred years. He resided,\\nwhen I first knew him, in the south part of the town near the State\\nline, a little east of the road to Townsend, in a wretched log hut.\\nFor man}^ years, I think near forty, he was supported by the town\\nas a pauper. I remember to have seen him frequently passing by\\non his way for his rations, to the residence of John Blodgett, Esq.,\\nchairman of the Board of Selectmen. Although then extremely\\naged, he walked with a quick military step, carrying a staff rather\\nfor ornament than use and returning with his moderate supply\\nof provisions, a little meal, pork, and perhaps a few potatoes, in a\\nsack upon his shoulder. He had an inveterate antipathy to work\\nof all kinds, but was fond of hunting, and among other feats of\\nagility he would imitate on all-fours the running and leaping of\\na bear. Hence the cognomen, b} which he was universally known,\\nof Bear Foster. It is not unlikely that this careful husbandry\\nof his muscular energy tended to the lengthening out of his da3rs\\nto the unusual term of one hundred years. He was a soldier in\\nthe army of the Revolution.\\nThe other centenarian was Oliver Elliot. He was born in Gro-\\nton, probably in what is now Pepperell, Aug. 24, 1734. He was\\nthe son of Elias Elliot, who came into town about the year 1762,\\nand died Feb. 23, 1785, at the age of seventy-eight years. His\\nthree sons, William, Oliver, and Elias, Jr., settled in Mason,\\nOliver, as early as 1764; AVilliam, as early as 1753. OliA^er was\\nan active, industrious man, and in the early period of the settle-\\nment, both before and after the incorporation of the town, was fre-\\nquentl} employed in the public business, and elected to offices in\\nthe affairs of the place and town. In the last years of his life he\\nfelt the hard hand of poverty, but never wore the garments of a\\ncolored population is so manifestly exaggerated as to be wholly unreli-\\nable, so that that of the white people alone should be considered. He\\nalso made an estimate of the population of the southern counties in New\\nHampshire in 1768, at G7,3G0, in which the number of centenarians at 1 in\\n27,738 would be 2.4 and at 1 in 39,700 it would be 1.7.\\nBy the census of England in 1852, there were of men plus 100, 35, of\\nwomen plus 100, 53=88, and by that of 1853 the men were 31, the women\\n62=93. The population of England in 1750 was estimated at 6,467,000.\\nIt would thus appear that of persons living in England in 1750, about 1\\nin 36,687 lived to one hundred years or more.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 23\\ntown pauper. He also was a soldier of the Revolutionary army.\\nHe died in September, 1836, aged one hundred and two years.\\nHe left numerous descendants residing in the town, and many\\nwho have sought out homes in other places.\\nIn 1858, I published a history of the town of Mason, in which\\nis contained everything which I judged could be of interest to\\npreserve, which I could learn from tradition or from the records\\nof the Proprietary, which exist in a perfect state of preservation\\nfrom the first meeting in 1749 to the last in 1773, and from the\\nrecords of the town from the first meeting in 1768, to that of 1858,\\nall in like perfect preservation and from the records of the Con-\\ngregational Church from 1772, the date of its organization, to\\n1858 and of the Baptist Church from its organization in 1786 to\\n1858. In this work will be found a record of marriages commenc-\\ning with that of the patriarch, Thomas Tarbell, June 30, 1666,\\ndown to Oct. 31, 1857. Also a list of deaths commencing in\\n1758, and extending to 1858, and numerous family registers, taken\\nfrom the town records, of a date previous to 1790. Also a list of\\nthe names of those who appear upon the tax lists to have been\\ninhabitants of the town previous to the year 1790, in which is in-\\ndicated, as far as could be leai-ned from tradition or other means,\\nthe place from which, and the time when, the individual came into\\ntown the place to which, and the time when, any of them removed\\nfrom town, and the place of residence of each one in the town, and\\nthe time of decease, age, etc., of such as died in town. A mark\\nalso indicates such as served in the army or navy in the war of\\nthe Revolution, and any noteworthy incidents in the histor}^ of\\neach one are also brieflj^ stated. I also published at the same\\ntime a biographical sketch of my father, the late Rev. Ebenezer\\nHill, in which are inserted his two published lectures upon the\\nearly history of the town, which contain much that, unless it had\\nbeen preserved in this form, would long since have faded from\\nmemory and perished. As these works are accessible to all who\\nfeel an interest to inquire into these matters, I sliall not in this\\ndiscourse enter so fully into minute particulars of the history of\\nthe town, as in ordinary circumstances it would have been advis-\\nable to do.\\nI have shown how the town was organized, and as to civil affairs,", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "42 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nplaced upon a foundation that remains to the present day. Next\\nin order and interest follows its ecclesiastical organization.\\nOur fathers esteemed their religious interests not second to\\ntheir secular affairs. I now proceed to show what they did in the\\nway of organizing for religious worship, and making provision for\\nthe accommodation of the worshippers. As to the places of wor-\\nship, one of the conditions of the grant of the township by the\\nMasonian proprietors was, that the grantees build a convenient\\nhouse for the public worship of God, at or before the last day of\\nMay, 1753, for the use of those who shall then or afterwards in-\\nhabit there. In 1751, a vote was passed to build a house 30 by\\n24 feet. The dimensions were afterwards changed to 40 by 30\\nfeet. This house was erected, and stood about three rods north-\\neast of the place where the second meeting-house stood, a locality\\nfamiliar to many persons present. The first house was never fin-\\nished, but was so far fitted for use that it served for public worship\\nand town meetings till the second was built, having, by a vote of\\nthe proprietors, been made over to the town. The second house\\nwas raised in 1789. It was so far finished that it was used for the\\nceremonies of the ordination of my father, Nov, 3, 1790, but was\\nnot completed and dedicated till Nov. 26, 1795. It continued to\\nbe used for public worship and town meetings till the third house\\nwas built, not by the town, but by a religious society in connection\\nwith the Congregational Church, in November, 1837, and after-\\nwards for town meetings till the town-house was built, in Novem-\\nber, 1848. It was then sold at auction and removed. The Bap-\\ntist society built a house placed between the roads, near the dwell-\\ning-house lately of Nathaniel Smith. I have no means of ascer-\\ntaining in what year it was built but I recollect the building at\\nleast sixty-five years ago, and it was then no new structure. It\\nwas never finished outside or in, and could not be occupied in cold\\nweather. It was sold and removed in 1812. The brick meeting-\\nhouse in the village was built in 1827, by a new Baptist society,\\nand has been occupied to the present time. The meeting-house of\\nthe .second Congregational society was built in the village by sub-\\nscription of individuals, and dedicated in December, 1849. The\\nChristian Chapel was erected in 1835. These are all the houses\\nfor public worship ever erected in the town.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 25\\nThe Congregational Church was organized October 13, 1772. It\\nconsisted of twenty-one members, twelve men and nine women.\\nOn the same da} Jonathan Searle was ordained pastor of the\\nchurch, and minister of the town. Disagreements soon arose be-\\ntween him and the church, and between him and the town, which,\\nas time went on, became more perplexing and unyielding. The\\nresult was his dismissal by the church, Ma}^ 4, 1781, and by the\\ntown August 14, 1781. Any one wishing to read the details of this\\nlong and singular controversy will find them fully, perhaps too\\nfully, set forth in the History of Mason, before referred to. Mr.\\nSearle was born in Rowley, in 1744, and graduated at Harvard\\nCollege in 1764. I remember him as a grave, stately gentleman,\\ntall, and of good personal appearance, always well dressed, wear-\\ning the cocked hat, knee-breeches, long stockings, and shoe-buc-\\nkles, the costume of a gentleman in his early days. Soon after he\\nwas dismissed he ceased to preach, and devoted himself to the\\ncare of his valuable real estate and the cultivation of his farm,\\nthe same now owned by Ebenezer Blood, the noble house upon\\nwhich, now in a fine state of presei vation, was built by Mr. Searle\\nninety -one years ago. I judge that he was not addicted to books\\nor study, and had little taste for literary pursuits. He held the\\noffice of Justice of the Peace many years, but did little business\\nas such. Indeed, little in that line in his day and region needed\\nto be done by any one. He died December 7, 1812, aged sixty-\\neight years. No monument marks the place of his burial. He and\\nhis wife were buried by the side of the monument of B. Witherell,\\nhis son-in-law. His successor in office was my father, the Rev.\\nEbenezer Hill. He was born in Cambridge, in January, 1766,\\ngraduated at Harvard College in 1786, pursued his professional\\nstudies under Dr. Seth Payson, of Rindge, was licensed to preach\\nOctober 28, 1788, and was employed by the people of this town\\nto preach for them early in 1789. His services met with such\\nacceptance that the church and town united in a call for him\\nto be their minister. He accepted the call, and was ordained No-\\nvember 3, 1790. He remained minister of the town till December\\n19, 1835, when he was, at his request, released by the town from\\nthe contract on their part. He continued in office as pastor of the\\nchurch till his death. May 20, 1854, in the eighty-ninth year of his\\nage and the sixty-fourth of his pastorship. In 1791 he bought the\\n4", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nfarm, and on it, in 1800, he bnilt the house in which, and on the\\nfarm to which he made some additions, he passed the remainder of\\nhis daj s. Upon this farm, with the pittance of two hundred and\\nfifty dollars for a salary, he brought up his numerous family of four-\\nteen children, only one of whom died in infancy. Order, economy,\\nand industry were the rules of his household. Abundance of plain\\nfare, coarse, strong, but decent raiment, were provided for all. Two\\nof his sons graduated at Harvard University, and one at Dartmouth\\nCollege. Rev. Andrew H. Reed was settled as colleague pastor with\\nhim in November, 1836, and remained till he was dismissed, at\\nhis own request, December 11, 1839. My father then resumed\\nthe pastoral duties of the parish, and performed the labors\\nof the station till August, 1840, when my brother, the Rev. Joseph\\nB. Hill, was emplo^^ed to assist him. He was settled as co-pastor\\nOctober 20, 1841, and remained till April, 1847, when he was,\\nat his own request, dismissed. The Rev. J. L. Armes was\\nsettled as co-pastor in 1851, and remained till after my father s death.\\nIn 1839 and 1840, he represented the town in the Legisla-\\nture of the State, but weary of public life, and longing for the quiet\\nof home, he declined further service in that line. From the time\\nof the settlement of Mr. Reed, my father continued to devote his\\nlife and labors to the business of his sacred calling, as opportunity\\npresented in the neighboring towns, until the infirmities of age,\\nwasting his energies and strength, compelled him to retire, and\\npass the evening of his life in the quiet of his household and fire-\\nside. I have thus briefly sketched the outlines of his life and\\ncareer. Thus he lived and thus he died. It is not for me to pro-\\nnounce his eulogy.\\nMy brother, the Rev. Joseph B. Hill, after leaving Mason, took\\ncharge of the church in Colebrook, N. H., where he remained ten\\nyears, and then removed to West Stewartstown, an adjoining town\\nand remained in charge of the church in that place five years. In\\n1862, he purchased a small farm in Temple, N. H., and removed\\nand settled his family there. In March, 1864, he accepted an ap-\\npointment in the Christian Commission, and in that capacity joined\\nthe army, and with fidelity, industry and zeal gave himself to the\\nduties of that office, in the army of the Cumberland, until, at\\nChattanooga, he met with an accident on the railroad so severe as\\nto terminate in his death, June 16, 1864. These are all the pas-", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 27\\ntors of this church who have gone to their reward. Mr. Armes\\nwas dismissed, at his own request, May 13, 1857. Immediately\\nafter Mr. Armes left, the Rev. Daniel Goodwin commenced preach-\\ning for this church, and continued in that employment till he was\\ninstalled as pastor, April 18, 1860, and he remains in office till the\\npresent time.\\nThe Baptist Church was, as styled in the record, imbodied\\nSeptember 28, 1786. The original members were Ezra Mansfield,\\nWilliam Elliott, and Jonathan Chandler Sarah Blood, Anna Law-\\nrence, Hannah Chandler, Sarah Blood, ye 2d, and Molly Ball.\\nTo these were added October 26, Joseph Bullard, Aaron Wheeler,\\nwidow Sarah Elliott, Sarah Tarbell, Eebecca Mansfield, and Re-\\nbecca Hildreth. Several of these persons had been members of\\nMr. Searle s church. The church gave Br. William Elliott a call\\nto settle with them in the gospel ministry, to which he gave his\\nconsent, and was ordained on ye third Wednesday of October,\\n1788. He served faithfully in that office, in his day and genera-\\ntion. He died June 4, 1830. Three of his sons were educated at\\npublic institutions, and became ministers in the Baptist church.\\nThose who would know more of this church and of their worthy\\npastor, are referred to the History of Mason.\\nSuch as I have described were the men who, one hundred years\\nago, assumed the burdens of the civil, political, and religious or-\\nganization of a town, and secured to us, their successors, the rights\\nand franchises, following and attendant on that state. I shall not,\\nfor the reasons already given, detail at this time, in any minute\\nand methodical way, the subsequent doings of the town, but will\\nrather employ what remains of time and space in exhibiting some\\nof the wonderful changes, in all that is interesting to us as men,\\nwhich have taken place in the world within the past century, most\\nof them within the period to which the recollection of some who\\nhear me extends. In 1760, George the Third came to the throne.\\nNo monarch more arbitrary, self-willed, and obstinate has reigned\\nin England within the last two hundred years. He was the undis-\\nputed sovereign of all the provinces and colonies on this continent,\\nwhich afterwards, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution,\\ncomposed the United States. The people were all loyal, and, until\\nafter the peace of 1763, there was no apprehension of arbitrary or", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\noppressive action on the part of the crown or parliament, and no\\nthought of independence or resistance to the power of Great\\nBritain. In 1759, Quebec was taken by Wolfe. The conquest of\\nCanada and Cape Breton followed, and by the peace of 1763 they\\nwere confirmed to England. Thus the French power on this con-\\ntinent was broken and gone forever. There was no longer dread\\nof Indian wars, excited and promoted by French influence and aid.\\nNo longer was the mother s sleep to be disturbed by dreams of\\nhorrid Indians breaking into her lowly cabin. No more were the\\nmorning slumbers of the inhabitants of the border towns liable to\\nbe roused by the hideous warwhoop, or their eyes to be daunted by\\nthe gleam of the tomahawk, or the blaze of the conflagration of a\\nneighbor s dwelling. The dispute between Massachusetts and\\nNew Hampshire for the jurisdiction of the territory on which we\\nlive, which, for more than one huudrefl years, had made doubtful\\nthe titles and retarded the settlement of the land, had been de-\\ncided in favor of New Hampshire. The line was run in February\\nand March, 1741, and has remained the line between the States\\nfrom that time to the present da3\\\\ The land was granted by the\\nMasonian proprietors to the proprietors of the town, in 1749, by\\nthe name of Township No. 1, and the settlement commenced by\\nLawrence in 1751, followed by Hall, Parker, Swallow, Tarbell, and\\nothers in 1752. The number increased slowly till, in 1767, at which\\ntime, by a census taken by the provincial authority, it was found\\nto be two hundred and seventy-eight. After the incorporation, in\\n1768, the increase became more rapid, and in 1775 the number was\\nfound to be five hundred and one. I have given the names of those\\nwho were assessed to pay the first tax levied upon the town. The\\ninventory upon which it was assessed I have not found. The ear-\\nliest inventory I have found, which furnishes means to compare the\\nformer with the present condition of the town, as to property and\\nvaluation, is that of 1777. The mode of making out the inven-\\ntory of the real estate at that time diflfered so much from that now\\nin use, that no just comparison can be made between them. But\\nthe inventory of the cattle and horses was so similar to that of the\\npresent day as to furnish a fair criterion of comparison. In an\\nagricultm-al town there is no better index of the wealth and pros-\\nperity of the people than that furnished by the number and value\\nof the cattle, horses, and other stock owned by the inhabitants.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 29\\nThe folio-wing statement is thd fairest exhibit I can make of the\\nproperty and taxes of the town for the years 1777 and 1868, as\\ncompared with each other\\n1777. 1868.\\njroiis,\\nHorses,\\n38\\n189\\nCattle,\\n354\\n761\\nValuation,\\n$540*\\n$584,730\\nTaxes,\\n$336\\n$12,670.78\\nInhabitants,\\n501\\nabout 2,000\\nThis little book which I exhibit, six inches long and three inches\\nwide, composed of eight leaves inartificially folded and ruled, con-\\ntains the whole inventory of the real and personal property of the\\ntown for the year 1775.* A large share of the increase in valua-\\ntion is due to the increase in population and business in the village.\\nThe Columbian Manufacturing Company have made large invest-\\nments in cotton factories in that place, which have added greatly\\nto the wealth, population, and business of the town. The railroad,\\nopened in 1850, has greatly promoted the business interests of\\nthe town.\\nOur predecessors of that day were a simple-minded, frugal, in-\\ndustrious people. They lived within their means. Their farms\\nsupplied their wants. Their garments were composed of wool and\\nflax, the produce of their own fields and flocks. Cotton, so far\\nfrom claiming then to be king, and to have the right to overturn\\nthe government because his claim to rule was not submitted to,\\nhad not then begun to lift up his head. The seeds must be re-\\nIt is obvious that five hundred and forty dollars is no adequate state-\\nment of the value of the real and personal property in the town in the\\nyear 1777. I have not been able to discover the basis upon which the es-\\ntimate was made. Instead of giving the number of acres and value of the\\nfarms and buildings, and of the cattle, the mode was as follows\\nTake for instance the valuation of Capt. Thomas Tarbell, of that year.\\nPoll, Orchard, Arable, Mow- Pastur- Oxen Cows, Two three s. d.\\ning, ing, Horses, year olds,\\n1 J 4 8 12 3 2 4 1. 18. 9.\\nIf the taxes were apportioned according to the ratio or rule by which the\\nproperty was valued, no matter what that ratio was, the burdens would be\\nequally divided. If each man s property was assessed its proper share of\\nfive hundred and forty dollars, the valuation of the town, each would pay\\nhis part of three hundred and thirty-six dollars, the amount of the taxes.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nmoved from cotton before it could be spun. While this must be\\ndone by hand, the cost was too great for its fabrics to be intro-\\nduced into common use. What was the production of cotton in\\n1768, I have no means of knowing, but it must have been incon-\\nsiderable, since, in 1784, it is said that an American vessel, having\\non board seventy-one bags of cotton, was seized at Liverpool, for\\nviolation of revenue laws, on the ground that so large an amount\\nof cotton could not have been produced in the United States and\\nwhen an old planter obtained fifteen small bales from five acres, it\\nwas not thought strange that he exclaimed, Well, well, I have\\ndone with cotton here is enough to make stockings for all the\\npeople in America! In 1791, the export was but one hundred\\nand eighty-nine thousand three hundred and six pounds, or less\\nthan five thousand bales. In 1860 it had reached thi-ee millions\\neight hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and forty-five\\nbales. This immense increase in the production of cotton, and\\ncorresponding increase in the number of slaves, dates its origin\\nfrom the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, in 1794, and\\nits introduction into use. From that time cotton became an im-\\nportant article of production and commerce. In the times of our\\nfathers, the spinning-wheel and the loom were found in every house-\\nhold, and were in frequent if not constant use. The garments thus\\nproduced were coarse, strong, warm, and enduring, and made up,\\nas they mostly were, by the busy fingers of the wives, mothers, and\\ndaughters, it was a happy circumstance that there were no bills\\nleft to be paid for the supplies of cash were scanty and hard to\\nbe got.* The surplus produce of the farmers must be loaded upon\\ntheir ox-carts, and teamed off to Groton, Concord, and Boston for\\na market. Slow, long, and tedious was the journey, and small the\\naggregate of the returns, but they sufficed for their very moderate\\nwants. A newspaper then was rarely seen in town, and very sel-\\ndom a letter. The farmers, on these market excursions, gathered\\nup the news of the day, which, on their return, they retailed out to\\nThe introduction of the mauufacture of cotton and woollen goods by-\\nmachinery took away from the women of the families their former employ-\\nment in making domestic cloths. It was tbe first step toward that wide-\\nspread revolution in manners and customs which has culminated in the\\ndeclaration of woman s rights and the claim of the ballot for the gentle\\nsex.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL.\\n31\\ntheir neighbors and friends, eager listeners, on Sundays, at the in-\\ntervals of worship. At the commencement of this century, and for\\nmany j ears after, there was scarce a household in the place that\\nfailed to be represented at the house of public worship on every\\nfair Sunday of the season.\\nThe post-offices at New Ipswich, established in 1800, and at\\nAmherst probably at an earlier date, were all that we had to\\ndepend upon at the commencement of this century and for many\\nyears after. Once a week regularly one of the company of\\nsubscribers for the Farmer s Cabinet went to Amherst for the\\nbundle of papers, and took letters to be mailed, and brought back\\nfrom the office letters found there for our people. But this was a\\ngreat advance on the means of intelligence enjoyed in 1768. Few\\nwere the newspapers then printed in the whole country, and meagre\\nthe news they had to communicate. The first newspaper printed\\nin America was the Boston Newsletter, in 1704 the first in\\nPhiladelphia in 1719 the first in New York in 1725 the first in\\nNew Hampshire in 1757. It was the New Hampshire Gazette or,\\nState Journal, and General Advertiser, a very large name for so\\nsmall a paper, of which this is a specimen. [Here was exhibited\\nthe paper referred to, being a folio sheet fifteen inches long by\\nnine and a half inches wide, bearing date April 2, 1788, filled\\nprincipally with advertisements of lands to be sold for non-pay-\\nment of taxes among which were the advertisements of John\\nLawrence, and of Thomas Tarbell, collectors for the West and East\\nsides in Mason.] This paper contained a report of debates in the\\nHouse of Commons, in Parliament, under date of July 27, and news\\nfrom the continent of Europe, under date of October 20. This\\npaper was printed on a very dingy sheet, and published at Exeter,\\nN. H. Under some changes of name it still continues to be\\npublished, being, so far as I know, the oldest newspaper published\\nin the United States. Now newspapers crowd each other, and\\nperiodical literature is so abundant as to be a drug, and many a\\nfamily in our midst would be decidedly in want of news, if going to\\nchurch on Sunday were the condition on which their supply\\ndepended. So again, instead of being forced as our fathers were^\\nto gather up the little surplus of their harvests and haul it off upon\\ntheir ox-carts to distant markets, our farmers find a ready sale for\\ntheir produce at their own doors, or at the neighboring cities and", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nvillages, within easy distance, or they can despatch it to Boston in\\nthree hours time by railroad. So again, with regard to the\\nknowledge of what is going on in the world abroad, the difference\\nis as marked as in the matter just alluded to. Then, news from\\nEngland, in our cities on the sea-board, five months old, was fresh\\nand racy now we must have it in three hours, or we grumble at the\\nlength of time taken by the Atlantic Cable to convey intelligence,\\nand in less than a week we have news of a victory achieved by the\\nEnglish troops in the heart of Abyssinia, a country of which little\\nmore was then known than we now know of the inhabitants of the\\nmoon. Just one hundred years ago, in 1768, James Bruce set\\nout on his adventurous journey into that country in search of the\\nsources of the Nile, which eluded his vision, and were only\\nrevealed almost one hundred years after to Baker, the enterprising\\ntraveller.\\nThen news at. Boston seven days old from New York was\\nswift enough for an express. Now if we cannot obtain news from\\nWashington in less than the same number of minutes, we become\\nalmost frantic, and talk of starting new telegraph companies then\\nsloop navigation was the only water communication between New\\nYork and Albany, depending mainly on the wind, which, failing\\noften, made the voyage that of weeks, and which with the most\\nfavorable winds was seldom made in less than four days. But a\\ngreat revolution in intercourse and means of communication\\nbetween distant places and countries was about to take place.\\nSteam had been used as a propelling power, but had never suc-\\nceeded in carrying itself along with what it propelled. Upon\\nrailroads, stationary engines had applied steam to the movement\\nof cars, but proved to be a very limited and inefficient mode of\\naffecting transit. But in August, 1807, sixty-one years ago, the\\nproblem of the steam-power transporting itself with the vehicle it\\nmoved was solved by Fulton. On the 7th of August, in that year,\\ncommenced a successful operation in the use of steam, that has\\nrevolutionized the business of the world. Then Robert Fulton\\nstarted in the first steamboat that would go, the Clermont, on a\\nvoyage from New York to Albany. Most people doubted the\\nsuccess of the experiment, and many were looking on expecting to\\nwitness a failure. But at the word of the inventor the wheels\\nbegan to move, slowly at first, but on they went faster and faster,", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL.\\n33\\nuntil the Clermont, freighted with happy friends surrounding the\\ninventor, vanished out of sight up the river, leaving the doubters\\nand scoflfers staring in blanlc amazement. Tliousands lined the\\nbanks of the river all along to Albany, to witness the wonder.\\nIt is said that the inhabitants of Newburg turned out in a body\\nto see a blacksmith shop go by. From that time to this,\\nimprovements have been made in the construction of steamboats,\\nand the engines for moving them, until the ocean is spanned by\\nthese swift messengers moving from land to land, from our\\ncountry to Europe in eight days, and carrying often one thousand\\npersons in safety, comfort, and ease. Fulton s boat moved on to\\nAlbany at the rate of about six miles an hour. In 1867, just\\nsixty years after this doubtful but successful experiment, the\\nChauncey Vibbard, a steamer of the Albany day-line, made the\\nvoj-age from New York to Albany at the rate of thirty miles an\\nhour, carrying five hundred and fifty passengers. How little do\\nwe yet appreciate the immense importance of that voyage of the\\nlittle steamboat Clermont? Steamboats and railroads are the\\nbands that bind the Union together. Without them what could we\\ndo with the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and California?\\nWithout them how could we have subdued the rebellion\\nFulton having successfully solved the problem of making steam\\ncarrj^ itself and its cargo upon the water, it remained for Stephenson\\nto apply the same principle to steam upon the land to do which\\nwith perfect success taxed his inventive powers and his patience in\\nexperiments from 1815 to 1825, when the iron horse, carrying his\\nhuge train of cars, was made ready to be sent careering over the\\nplains, through the mountains, across the rivers, through deep cuts\\nand over deep fillings, from land s end to land s end, and making\\ncities once a day s journey apart to be but suburbs of each other\\nthus giving to the business of the nineteenth century a magnitude\\nand momentum greater than that of the whole volume of the five\\npreceding centuries. Let us compare, for a few moments, the state\\nand movements of business before and since that epoch.\\nIn 1764 the mail went twice a week from New York to Phila-\\ndelphia, and since the close of the Revolutionary War a saddle-\\nbag-boy has carried the mail without any protection between these\\ncities.* When the mail-bags were placed in a sulkey to be carried\\nTkavelling in New York One Hundred Years Ago. The advertise-\\nment, of which we here give a Uteral copy, is deserving of preservation,\\n5", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nover the same road, the people were lost in astonishment at the\\nincrease of business, and were utterly amazed when they saw them\\nfor that purpose committed to a four-hoi se coach. Now a large\\nrailroad car is required to carry the mail between these cities, and\\nit is despatched two or three times a day for that purpose.\\nPassengers, instead of taking three days, to make the journey in a\\nmud-wagon, as in 1768, now ma}?-, eight times in twenty-four\\nhours, step on board a commodious car, choosing the time to suit\\nthemselves, and i-ecliniug at ease, reading the news, conversing with\\na friend, amusing themselves in any way, or passing the hours in\\nprofound sleep, make the journey between these cities in about\\nfour hours.* In 1865, thirty-five tons of mail matter were daily\\nreceived at the post-office in New York city, for its citizens, and\\nfifty-five tons were sent from that office every day. The average\\non account of the quanitness of the inn-signs, the peculiarity of the spelling\\nand diction, the shifting of the passengers which it announces, and\\nthe general idea it gives us of the way in which travelling was performed\\nin America at the time it was issued\\nPhiladelphia STAGE-WAGGON, and New York STAGE-BOAT performs\\ntheir Stages twice a Week.\\nJOHN BUTLER, with his waggon, sets out on Mondays from his House,\\nat the Sign of the Death of the Fox, in Strawberry Ally, and drives the\\nsame day to Trenton Eerry, when Francis Holman meets him, and proceeds\\non Tuesday to Brunswick, and the passengers and goods being shifted into\\nthe waggon of Isaac Fitzraudolph, he takes them to the New Blazing Star\\nto Jacob Fitzrandolph s the same day, Avhere Rubin Fitzraudolph, with a\\nboat well suted, will receive them, and take them to New York that night.\\nJohn Butler retui-ning to Philadelphia on Tuesday with the passengers and\\ngoods delivered to him by Francis Holman, will again set out for\\nTrenton Fei-ry on Thursday, and Francis Holman, c., will carry his\\npassengers and goods, with the same expedition as above to New-York.\\nWeekly Mercury. March 8, 1759.\\nFor speed and ease, cars are of course unsurpassed; but for ro-\\nmance, observation, interest, there is nothing like the old-fashioned stage-\\ncoach. Cars are city, coaches are country cars are the luxurious life of\\nwell-born and long-pursed people coaches are the stirring, eventful\\ncareer of people who have their own way to make in the world. Cars\\nshoot on independent, thrusting off your sympathy with a snort; coaches\\nadmit you to all the little humanities; every jolt harmonizes and adjusts\\nyou till you become a locomotive world, tunefully rolling iu your own\\norbit, independent of the larger world beneath. Gail Hamilton, vol.vi., p.\\n197 (Gala Days).", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL.\\n35\\nnumber of mail-bags received was three hundred and eighty-five,\\nand of those sent out seven hundred and thirteen the number of\\nletters and newspapers collected by the carriers for tlie quarter\\nending Dec. 31, 1865, was over three millions, nnd tlie nuniVicr\\ndelivered by them over three millions six hundred thousand. The\\ndelivery from the post-office boxes for the same time was over five\\nmillions, and the business and number of bags and letters have\\nvastly increased since that day.\\nBut time would fail me to speak of the telegraph, by which a\\nmessage can be sent across the Atlantic in a space of time too\\nshort to be measured of gas, which, in-doors, preceded by the tal-\\nlow-candle through all the vicissitudes of spermaceti, of lamps of\\nvarious forms and patterns, consuming oils and many illuminating\\nsubstances, now makes our parlors luminous with a light brighter\\nthan the sun, and in the streets, superseding links, cressets, lanterns,\\nand street lamps, now makes at midnight our streets bright as at\\nnoonday of the express, by which for a very trifling charge you may\\nsend a message or a package from Boston to Jerusalem, and be sure\\nit will arrive at the stipulated time, and by which orphaned children\\nhave been sent from San Francisco to their friends in Connecticut\\nof the railroads crossing the continent and interlacing the country\\nin all directions, working a total revolution in the business habits\\nof the people of the Croton Aqueduct, a structure of which Rome\\nin her proudest days might well have been proud of friction\\nmatches, which have taken the place of the tinder-box, which many\\nof you never heard of, and most of j^ou never saw, but which a few\\ngray-headed men and women have cause to remember by reason\\nof having had the skin torn from their knuckles by the unlucky\\ncollision with the flint or steel of the immense influx of gold, fol-\\nlowing discoveries of deposits of that metal in California, Austra-\\nlia, and the spurs of the Rocky Mountains of improvements in\\nmachinery and manufactures of every kind in navigation, in the\\nmeans of warfare and defence, most of them tending greatly to\\npromote the comfort, convenience, and permanent good of the\\nhuman family, all of which tend to make illustrious the century\\nwhich, with us, has just closed, the anniversary of which we are\\nassembled to-day to celebrate. Nothing shows the immense in-\\ncrease of business in this country within the last few years, as\\ncompared with the state of things in 1768, in a more striking light", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nthan the fact that the yearly sales of a single mercantile house in\\nNew York, that of H. B. Claflin Co., in the year 1865, as re-\\nturned by them to the tax-gatherer, exceeded seventy millions of\\ndollars, a sum no doubt much greater than the yearly sales of\\nall the mercantile houses in all the colonies in the year 1768.\\nIf time permitted, I could find much to say about events in the\\npast century which have left permanent impressions, and are mat-\\nters of interest to us of the present day. Wonderful discoveries\\nin Australia, in Central Africa, in the catacombs of Egypt, display-\\ning to us vivid pictures of Egyptian life three thousand years ago\\nthe unfolding of mummies, deciphering the hieroglyphics the dis-\\ncovery and laying bare the buried cities of Nineveh and Babylon\\nthe bringing to the light of day the long-hidden historical records\\nof those ancient monarchies, engraved in arrow-headed characters,\\nwhich modern ingenuity has succeeded in reading the Ameri-\\ncan Revolution, which commenced a new chapter in the history of\\nthe world the terrible wars of the French Revolution the career\\nof Napoleon Bonaparte the growing up of the colossal empire of\\nRussia the marvellous increase of the British power in India the\\nincrease, insolence, and overthrow of the slave power in the United\\nStates the emancipation of twenty millions of serfs in Russia,\\nall of these might be embraced in a review of the century just\\nclosed.\\nIn matters of belief, and in the habits and customs of domestic\\nlife, many changes have in the same period taken place, which\\nmight be worthy of note. Witches, sorcerers, and ghosts have\\ndisappeared along with wigs, cues, knee-breeches, shoe-buckles,\\nand cocked hats, and in their places have come Mesmerism, Mor-\\nmonism, spiritualism, spirit-rappings, table-turnings, and clair-\\nvoyance, and changes of dress on the part of ladies, through every\\nconceivable variety, culminating at this day in the smallest possi-\\nble love of a bonnet contrasted with the most magnificent am-\\nplitude of a skirt. But we might point to the dandy gentleman,\\nwhose period has but barely gone by his waist pinched to a wasp-\\nlike form, decked with a shirt-collar, starch-stiflened, and rising\\nabove his eyes and ears, inconvenient and troublesome to the\\nwearer as is that useless appendage, the blinders on the bridle, which\\nmany foolishly continue to keep as a part of the harness head-dress\\nof theLi horses, topped out with the stove-pipe hat, and termi-", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ADDKESS BY JOHN B. HILL.\\n37\\nnating with the swallow-tail coat, and conclude rightly that, on the\\nscore of the ridiculous in personal adornments, the sexes are so\\nnearly even that neither can laugh at the other.\\nOne hundred j^ears ago, nails were made by the blacksmith by\\nhand labor, each hammered out singly now by machinery nails\\nare made by hundreds at a time and shovelled up by the bushel\\nthen, all framing work was done with the pod-auger now, most\\npeople, if they should meet with that tool, would not know what it\\nwas, or to what use it could be put, and, if told, would still be un-\\nable to use it. Then, blood-letting was universally practised by\\nall physicians now, it is so rare that few have ever witnessed the\\noperation then, a case of small-pox spread terror through a wide\\nregion now, it is not as much dreaded or considered so danger-\\nous as a case of typhus fever. Training-days and musters, insti-\\ntutions of that and the subsequent ages, have gone by forever\\nthen, fish were common and plenty in our streams, and the lordly\\nsalmon and luscious shad and brisk and bony alewife could be had\\nby all for the taking, and constituted a good share of the food of\\nthe people. Now, a man who spends half a day and catches two\\npounds of trout, the largest not much longer than his finger, thinks\\nhe has done bravely, and that he is well paid for his labor then,\\nand for long after, our forests and orchards were filled with birds\\nthe wren and the marten builded about our houses and made\\nall cheerful with their songs and busy pursuit of their daily du-\\nties the woodpeckers, diligently digging the worms out of the\\ntrees in our orchards, were fairly entitled to the protection of man,\\nbut, instead of receiving this reward for their useful labors, they\\nhave been exposed to a war of extermination on his part, and have\\nleft us entirely, and in their place, as a just punishment for his\\ningratitude and folly, he is forced to contend single-handed with an\\narmy of insects, which threatens the total destruction of all the\\nfruits of the garden and orchard.\\nOne of the changes, which we cannot notice without sadness and\\nalarm, is the great diminution in the number of children to be\\nfound among us. School-houses in some districts, in which for-\\nmerly seats could not be found sufficient to accommodate the\\ncrowd that flocked to them, can now scarcely muster a dozen schol-\\nars. Then it was not unusual to find in all neighborhoods fami-\\nlies in which, going from house to house, you might count in\\neach from ten to twelve children you will now find the number", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\ndwindled away to two or three, and in many houses none are\\nfound. How sad must be that dwelling in which the prattle of lit-\\ntle tongues and the pattering of little feet have never been heard\\nIn this connection, I cannot but advert to the frequency and fa-\\ncility of divorces, a change which indicates an^^thing but a prom-\\nising future for the republic. Marriage is now got up on the sly,\\nwithout publishment of the banns, and is often ended by divorce,\\nalso got up by one party on the sly, without notice to the other\\nparty.\\nGreat changes have also taken place in the religious aspects of\\nthe community. Public worship was then supported by taxes paid\\nb} all now, b} voluntary contribution paid by few then, the\\nchildren were trained and drilled in the Westminster Catechism, at\\nthe fireside, and at times in the church, on set daj^s now, the Sun-\\nday schools have banished the catechism, with what good result\\nremains to be seen. Missions to the heathen are a modern insti-\\ntution, now beginning to show good fruit. Then, there were no\\nbishops in the land now, the three great Episcopal churches, the\\nEnglish, the Roman, and the Methodist, number one hundred\\nand thirteen archbishops and bishops in the United States. The\\nfirst Methodist conference was held at Philadelphia, in June, 1773.\\nIt was attended by ten members, among whom was Asbury, after-\\nwards bishop. Its total membership reported was eleven hundred\\nand sixty. In 1869, this church numbered nine bishops, one hun-\\ndred conferences, twenty thousand presiding elders, district and\\nlocal preachers, and a membership of one million five hundred\\nthousand. Bishop White, the first bishop of the English Church,\\nwas consecrated in 1787 now that church has a house of bishops\\nnumbering fifty-two. The first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church\\nwas consecrated at Baltimore in 1790 now that church has seven\\narchbishops and forty-five bishops.\\nThe Universalist and Unitarian denominations were not known\\none hundred years ago, in this country, even b}^ name.\\nDuring the one hundred years just closed this town has passed\\nthrough three periods of actual war. The clouds which foreshad-\\nowed the first were gathering and threatening in the horizon at\\nthe very time when our forefathers met at their first town meeting.\\nTheir records soon show that they were expecting and preparing\\nfor the conflict, and when war actually came they were ready to\\nmeet it. Capt. Benjamin Mann, with his company, marched to", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL.\\n39\\nCambridge, and joined the patriot army, and took part in the bat-\\ntle of Bunker Hill, in -which one of his company, Joseph Blood, is\\nknown to have been killed, and one other, Ebenezer Blood, Jr.:;^\\nwas probably killed, as he -was never heard of after that day. His\\nname is not found on the roll of the company. Undoubtedly he\\njoined it only, on the time of the battle, as a volunteer. The evi-\\ndence of his service and fall in the fight rests only on tradition\\nbut that has been uniform and uncontradicted. I mention it as a\\nremarkable fact that a sister of this soldier, Mrs. Naomi Nutting,\\nat the age of ninety-six years, hale and hearty, is present ^nt\\\\l\\nus at this meeting inthe full enjoyment of her faculties.* In the\\nHistory of Mason, to which I have referred, will be found the\\nnames of ninety-one inhabitants of the town who served in the ar-\\nmy or navy in the war of the Revolution, most of them on behalf of\\nthe town, but some for other towns or places. The number of in-\\nhabitants of the town was about five hundred so that nearly one\\nin five of all the inhabitants of the town, including men, women,\\nand children, old and young, took part in the strife of the battle-\\nfields. It is impossible to make out, with any satisfactory certainty,\\nthe amount of pecuniary burdens borne by our fathers in that war.\\nThat their energies and means were taxed to the utmost is appar-\\nent, and that the demands upon them were promptly met is also\\nshown by their records but the fact that all the sums paid and\\nburdens borne are not fully recorded, and the more important fact,\\nthat after the year 1777 the currency was continually depreciating,\\nrender it hardly possible now to ascertain what was the true\\nvalue of the sums assessed and paid as taxes. Very many inter-\\nesting facts and details in relation to these matters will be found\\nin the history referred to. In this war the town was united in the\\nprosecution of the contest. There was but one tory in the town,\\nand he was soon driven away. His property was confiscated, and\\nhis land sold by the authorities of the State, and he ended his days\\nin Groton, his native place, in poverty and wretchedness. No\\nState in the Union was so thoroughly loyal to the patriot cause,\\nand so free from toryism, in those days, as the State of New\\nHampshire, and no town in the State was more patriotic and unani-\\nmous in prosecuting the war to the end than the town of Mason.\\nMrs. Nutting here came forward on the stage, and was received with\\nhearty cheers.", "height": "3444", "width": "2011", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nIn the war of 1812, a very different state of feeling existed in\\nthe town. Many thought the war was needless, and that it was\\nbrought on not by any worthy cause, but by party management.\\nThe politics of the town, as indicated by the choice of representa-\\ntives in the years 1811, 12, 13, 14, and 15, showing a change from\\none party to the other, each successive year prove that the par-\\nties were very evenly balanced. The only call for soldiers from\\nthe town was made by the Governor, for the defence of Ports-\\nmouth. The names of eleven pq^ sons who volunteered, or were\\ndrafted for this service, appear on page 141 of the History of Ma-\\nson. In the report of the Adjutant-General, published in 1868,\\nthe names of fourteen persons are inserted as having been in the\\nservice from the town of Mason. The names of those in the last\\nlist, and not in the first, are Jason Dunster, Jr., Ensign in Cap-\\ntain Putnam s compan} William Foster, absent, sick. In Cap-\\ntain Gregg s company, Timothy Darling, Zebulon Jefts, Isaiah\\nRobbins, Shebuel Shattuck, and Joses Bucknam. Some of these\\nsei ved as substitutes for those who volunteered or were drafted.\\nTo these should be added the name of Ebenezer Gilman, who\\nserved in the campaign, but whose name appears in the list for\\nBrookline, as substitute for Samnel Glines, of Brookline.\\nThe war of the Rebellion found much less unanimity of senti-\\nment among the people of the town than that of the Revolution,\\nbut still a very decided majority was in favor of supporting the\\nold flag and in this majority was to be reckoned a large num-\\nber of the Democratic party. The purpose to make the burdens\\nand expenses of the military service a common charge upon the\\ntown was very generally resolved upon and acquiesced in. In the\\nAppendix will be found a list of those who served in that war,\\neither as volunteers or drafted men, or who procured substi-\\ntutes or paid commutation. The whole number is one hundred and\\ntwenty-one. The amount of money paid by the town for bounties,\\nand hiring soldiers, and other expenses of that war, is twenty-six\\nthousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-four cents,\\nas follows\\nBounties, etc., $25,675.18\\nExpenses, 799.26\\n#26,474.44", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 41\\nI here present a few sketches or pictures of scenes which were\\noften to be witnessed here numy years ago, the recollection of\\nwhich now rests only in the memory of a few of the aged among\\nus, who must soon join the great company of the departed, and\\nleave none behind them to tell these stories of the past.\\nAnd first, a Sunday, such as was then often seen. It is a morn\\ning of balmy June. Everything is fresh and green. Every tree is\\nin full leaf. Native flowers are blooming all around, and all the\\nbirds are singing in chorus full of joy. The old meeting-house on\\nthe hill, neatly and deftly swept by the careful hands of Dr. Bar-\\nber s daughters, stands cool and comfortable, doors and windows\\nopen, filled with sweet and refreshing odors, promising peace and\\nquiet, inviting all to enter. In all directions, the roads and the\\nby-paths across the fields and pastures ai e alive with men and\\nwomen, youths and maidens, dressed in their plain and homely\\nSunday s best, humble, grave, and peaceful, approaching the sanc-\\ntuary. Some are on horseback, often man, woman, and child upon\\nthe same steed, but most on foot. Colonel Wood winds up the\\nhill, himself and wife in chaise, and his one-horse wagon full to\\noverflowing with his woman-kind, and the rest of his numerous\\nfamily following on horseback or on foot. Here comes Lieutenant\\nObadiah Parker, on foot, cane in hand, his ample waistcoat and\\nshirt-bosom open to the breeze, and his coat hanging over his arm.\\nFrom the same quarter and on the same road, come families of\\nworshippers by the names of Manning, Boynton, Wheeler, Ams-\\nden, Parker, Robins, Jefts, Searles, Merriam, Whipple, Warren,\\nDavis, Barrett, Snow. From another road, come, by names of\\nWhitaker, Flagg, Fay, Lawrence, Woods, Hodgman, Shattuck, Far-\\nwell, Weston, Barrett, Hosmer, Davis, Wheelock, a long proces-\\nsion. From the south, on another road, by the names of Wilson,\\nWinship, Swallow, Brown, Blood, Barrett, Smith, Robbins, Web-\\nber. From the east, of Davis, Tarbell, Russell, Smith, Blood, Bar-\\nrett, Hill, Elliott, Flagg, Scripture, Gilman, Withington, Hunt,\\nHerrick, Withee, Kemp. From the north, of Buss, Tufts, Blood,\\nElliott, Russell, Williams, Shed, Bucknam, Barrett, Boynton,\\nBrown, Baldwin, Eaton, Gray, and John Pratt walking alone in the\\nmiddle of the road, talking to himself, his wife foUojving about four\\nrods behind him, in the same footsteps. From another branch\\ncome families by the name of Merriam, Holden, Bachelder, Rob-\\n6", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nbins, Hall, Sanders, Blood, Nutting, BuUard, Fish, Williams, Towns-\\nend, Richardson. On the village road, come Mann, Ames, Ken-\\ndall, Blodgett, Hill, Darling, Felton, Dunster, Adams, Chickering,\\nNewell, and a troop more from the village,* led on by Deacon\\nDakin. All are prompt and intent to be in season. The cavalry\\nhave dismounted and stabled their steeds in the horse-sheds, and\\nthe crowds of foot and horse men stand collected about the door,\\nwaiting the coming of the pastor. And now he appears, advanc-\\ning with grave and reverent steps, bearing under his arm a small\\n8vo Bible, printed in Edinburgh, with the imprimatur, or rather\\npreface, of King James, in which is folded his sermon, fully written\\nout, in short hand of his own invention, very neatly in a little book,\\nthe pages of which are in size about six by four inches.| As he ap-\\nproaches, the crowd opens for him to pass, each greeting him as he\\ngoes by, and in his hand are placed the notes to be read, asking\\nprayers, some for those in sickness and affliction, and others of\\nthanksgiving for restored health and for mercies received.]: With\\nhumble mien he enters the sanctuary, and ascends the pulpit stairs.\\nThen called the Harbor. A word of explanation of this term may no\\nbe deemed out of place. In the early settlement of the country, towns\\nwere laid out upon the sea- coast, on which in many of them there was a\\nbay, cove, or mouth of a river, used as a harbor for vessels. The meeting-\\nhouse, where town meetings were held and public business transacted, was\\nat the centre of the town, but it often happened that the Harbor was\\nthe principal if not the only mart of trade in the place. And when, in an\\ninland town, a locality on its border became the principal mart of trade, it\\nwas known by the same name of Harbor, as Mason Harbor, Townsend\\nHarbor, Dunstable Harbor. Of these, Townsend Harbor, a station on the\\nShirley and Peterborough Kailroad, is the only one now generally known\\nby that name in this vicinity.\\nt The engraving here inserted is a fac-simile of a page of one of these\\nsermons.\\nJ These notes for prayer, though presented with the utmost simplicity\\nand sincerity, sometimes contained ideas irresistibly ludicrous. An in-\\nstance is the following, given me by an esteemed friend A friend, a cler-\\ngyman of the neighborhoad, handed to me a note, which had the Sunday\\nbefore been put into his hands, in a pulpit, as a matter to be prayed for in\\nthe regular service of a congregation not far in the interior, as follows\\nit was, perhaps, forty years ago\\nJosiah and wife gratefully acknowledge the death of a sister-in\\nlaw to be for their good. He also asks your prayers for further needed\\nmercies his wife being sick.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 43\\nAll immediately enter and take their seats, and the house is filled\\nwith an audience of devout and humble worshippers, more in num-\\nber than, as I judge, there now assemble in the four congre-\\ngations which now meet for worship in the town. As soon as quiet\\nis restored from the noise of entering footsteps, the town clerk,\\nJohn Blodgett, rises in his seat, in his pew in the front gallery,\\nand cries or publishes the intentions of marriage of such as have\\ndesired him so to do. After invocation, the pastor reads from the\\nsacred volume, and then gives out and reads the psalm or hymn.\\nOn this occasion let it be the sixty-third psalm of Watts Early,\\nmy God, without delay, etc. Benjamin Kendall, the leader, or\\nquirister as he was called, names the tune the choir rise he gives\\na toot on his pitch-pipe, and off they go with that fine old fuguing\\ntune, Montgomery. This is what is called a double tune, requir-\\ning two verses to fill the music. The second verse,\\nSo pilgrims on the scorching sand,\\nBeneath a burning sky,\\nLong for a cooling stream at hand,\\nFor they must drink or die,\\nembraced the fuguing part, which was upon the words, Long for a\\ncooling (repeated three times) stream at hand. These words, in\\nthe broad pronunciation of that day, sounded in my childhood s\\nears, Long Father Cooling, and suggested to my inexperienced\\nmind that the Pilgrims were calling upon some tall old gentleman\\nby the name of Cooling, to show them the way to the water. The\\nsinging closed, the notes asking for prayers were then read, and the\\nprayer followed. It was a sincere outpouring of the heart, in the\\nspirit of devotion. There was no long statement of what God had\\ndone, or ought to do no long story told to the Deity of what had\\nhappened no elaborate setting forth of doctrinal points, nor a ser-\\nmon or dissertation under the guise of a prayer. The case of all\\nwho had asked prayers was presented with petitions or thanksgiv-\\nings appropriate to each one.\\nThe prayer ended, the second singing followed, for which the\\none hundred and twenty-first psalm of Watts is given out, and the\\ntune, is another charming fugue found in the old books, under the\\nname of Delight, to which the words of the third and fourth verses\\nare peculiarly well fitted and appropriate", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nNo burning heats by day, Hast thou not given thy word,\\nNor blasts of evening air, To save my soul from death?\\nShall take my health away, And I can trust my Lord\\nIf God be with me there To keep my mortal breath.\\nThou art my sun, I ll go and come\\nAnd thou my shade, Nor fear to die,\\nTo guard my head Till from on high\\nBy night or noon. Thou call me home.\\nThen followed the sermon, the text selected for which was always\\none that had a meaning, and presented a message, or called for a\\nduty, suitable to the people and the times. The sermon was an ex-\\nposition of the text in that respect diftering from many which we\\nhear in these days, in which it is difficult to trace any connection\\nbetween them. Sometimes, perhaps, with reason, we thought the\\nsermon long. The sermon ended, a short prayer and benediction\\nfollowed with the final amen, at which signal, as at a word of com-\\nmand, down fall all the seats with a bang, that, through the open\\ndoors and windows in a clear da} might be heard nearly half a\\nmile off. The pews were furnished with seats hung on hinges,\\nwhich were turned up when the congregation rose and stood up for\\nprayer, the irreverent mode of sitting bolt-upright during the exer-\\ncise not yet having been introduced. Then there was a rush from\\nthe galleries and the porches by those whose exit was by those\\ndoors but those in the body of the house, who were to go out at\\nthe front door, stood, the patriarch of the household at the open\\npew-door, hat in hand, till the pastor descended the pulpit-stairs,\\nand approached and passed the pew-door then each pew, in order,\\npoured out its occupants to follow his footsteps. Thus ended the\\nforenoon services. Those of the afternoon were so nearly a repe-\\ntition of the same order of proceedings that the}^ need not be re-\\nhearsed.\\nNothing brought the pastor so near to his people as the sad ser-\\nvice for the burial of the dead. The dead is prepared for the\\ngrave the mourners are assembled, and sympathizing neighbors\\nand friends are gathered at and around the desolated dwelling.\\nSolemn as the scenes around him is the pastor s countenance full\\nof sympathy with the afflicted is the tone of his voice full of con-\\nsolation and hopefulness, or of sadness and warning, are his words,\\nas the occasion permitted or required, A tender and affectionate\\naddress is made, suited to the condition of the afflicted family and", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 45\\nthe circumstances of the case. When the funeral services were\\nclosed, and preparation were making to move to the grave, that\\nfiend, who does more than half the mischief that is done in the\\nworld, is seen to step in. It was understood and believed in those\\ndays that rum was a friend. His aid was involved on all occasions.\\nHe might be misused, and then matters would go wrong. Mistake\\nor over-doing was the ready excuse, and thus this simple people\\npermitted an enemy to steal away their brains. On all funeral\\noccasions toddy must be mixed and administered to all the mourn-\\ners and to all their gathered friends but especial provision in that\\nline must be made for the bearers. There was no hearse in those\\ndays, and the bearers were literally such. They lifted the bier\\nupon which the coffin was laid upon their shoulders, and bore it in\\nthat manner, even from the most remote habitation in the hamlet,\\nto the grave-yard. To strengthen themselves for this sad task they\\nmust take a strong drink, and sometimes, I almost dread to say, it\\nproved too strong. Then, mostly on foot, the funeral train would\\nslowly wind its way over the hills and along the valleys, with deep\\nand solemn silence, till the grave was reached and even then no\\nword was uttered, the dead was silently laid in his last resting-\\nplace, and the mournful train turned away sadly to retrace their\\nsteps to the desolated home.\\nThe annual Thanksgiving was then the one great festival\\nof the year. It had not been intruded upon in the slightest de-\\ngree by Christmas. That was then hardly known by name, and\\nwas observed only by here and there a rare sample of what were\\nthought by themselves, and a few others, to be tip-top gentry.\\nThanksgiving came at a season when the labors of the year were\\nover. The barns, garners, cellars, and larders were filled with the\\nabundance of the year, and a season of leisure was presented be-\\ntween the close of the summer and autumn labor and the com-\\nmencement of winter work, which our fathers thought it worth\\nwhile heartily to enjoy. The day was to be the great feast-day of\\ntlie year, and the preparations therefor generally began about a\\nweek in advance of the day. Then there was a great slaughter of\\nbeeves, porkers, geese, turkeys, and other fowls but tlie great\\nbusiness in-doors of the week preceding was the making of pies,\\nwhich were made and piled up in pyramids and stacks, especially\\nof mince pies, enough to last all winter. Another important prep-", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\naration for the festival devolved upon the singing- choir. A meet-\\ning was called, at which an anthem was selected, to be performed\\nas a part of the public worship of the day. It was one of the old-\\nfashioned solid pieces, in which full scope could be given to all the\\nmusical talent of the body, and to which the utmost latitude was\\ngiven for all the noise the singing gallery could make, and in\\nwhich there would be no danger of overdoing. Sundry meetings\\nwere held for practice, so that every one should be ready and\\nprompt in his part. These meetings were held in the evenings,\\nwhich were generally bright with moonlight, and were much en-\\njoyed by the young folks, offering fine opportunities for flirtings,\\noften ending in serious courtships, to be followed up in the next\\nyear s crop of weddings.\\nThe day comes. The labor of preparing the dinner calls for the\\nservices of so many of the women that the audience to listen to\\nthe pastor s discourse is mostly composed of men. In the dis-\\ncourse is given a general review of the interesting incidents in the\\nhistory of the town for the past year, stating in particular the num-\\nber of marriages and of deaths within the period. The sermon\\nended, the anthem sung, and the meeting dismissed, all hurry\\nhome but on the way many of the grave and reverend seigniors,\\nwith hasty steps, enter into the tavern bar-room to take their modi-\\ncum of that king of all tipples, flip. They find the landlord ready\\nwith his pots of beer at hand, a lively fire glowing with coals on his\\nample hearth, in which lies a row of loggerheads, heated to redness,\\nwith which to give the mixture of beer, rum, and sugar its proper\\ncooking. Arrived at home, then follows the dinner, to which all\\nthe members of the family, old and j^oung, near and distant, that\\ncan be assembled, are gathered.\\nThe table is broadly spread, and on it are placed roast beef,\\nspare-rib, roast turkey, geese, and chickens, and a bountiful sup-\\nply of boiled meats, chickens, and vegetables is heaped upon huge\\npewter platters. The enormous brick oven turns out its store of\\npies and cakes and puddings, Indian puddings, plum puddings,\\nand rice puddings, puddings that are puddings that when\\nturned out of the pots will stand up and face the company, retain-\\ning their shape till demolished by the consumers, and not, as is the\\nfashion with puddings in these degenerate days, fall flat and squat\\nupon the dish, and spread themselves to little purpose. A relay of", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B, HILL.\\n47\\npies, of all sorts aud sizes, is ready at hand to fill up any gaps that\\nmay possibl3^ be found in the array of viands.\\nBut some may ask, Why all this profusion and waste? I an-\\nswer, there was no waste, for at that season of the year the cold\\nweather, which had free access to the open, airy pantries of our\\nfathers, would preserve all that was left of the feast till there\\nwas ample time to put it all to use. Besides, many a poor widow s\\nheart was cheered with a portion of the remains, that was highly\\nacceptable to the mouths of her hungry children.\\nThe evening of the day was spent in merry-making by the young\\npeople, and by the elders in social chats in family gatherings at\\nneighboring houses.\\nThere was one other custom of those days, which will never be\\nseen again in this place, the recollection of which will soon pass\\naway with the demise of a few of the aged among us. It was the\\nannual wood-hauling to supply the pastor s wood-pile for the year.\\nOn a day agreed upon and arranged by themselves, about Christ-\\nmas or New Year s, the farmers and their sons, with axes, teams and\\nsleds, at an early hour of the day, made their way into his wood-\\nlot. Soon was heard the crash of the fall of huge trees yielding\\nto the sturdy blows of the axe-men. These were speedily cut into\\nsled-lengths, and loaded upon the sleds, and a long procession of\\nteams started for the house. These teams were kept going and\\nreturning till nightfall, piling at his doors a heap like a mountain,\\nenough to supply the roaring fires of the large open fire-place, the\\nother fires, aud the big oven, called into requisition once or twice\\na week, for the full year. In the mean time, early in the forenoon,\\ncould be seen another procession, tending towards the house, com-\\nposed of the grandfathers and the more elderly fathers of the par-\\nish, with their wives and daughters, and some precious old maids,\\nin sleighs, bringing with them, some, nice roasters of beef, others,\\nlegs and hams of pork, chickens, turke3 s, and geese, all ready for\\nthe spit. After greetings, the men took charge of the fires, or\\njoined their neighbors in the woods the women donned their\\nchecked aprons, and the work of preparation for the feast com-\\nmenced. Roaring fires were built on the hearth and in the oven,\\nand busy fingers were at work on puddings and pies, the huge iron\\npot was swung upon the crane, filled to repletion with articles to\\nbe boiled, and the roastings were arranged with proper appara-", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 CESTEN^^AL CELEBRATIOy.\\ntiis about the fires and by the time that the iveary wood-choppers\\nand the weaiy teams and teamsters came up, about sunset, the\\ntables were spread, and a feast was prepared which even an epi-\\ncure might enjoy, and while the oxen took their lunch of sweet\\nhay from the pastor s mow, the men taking first a heai ty drink of\\nflip, after a grace as lang s my arm, the feast ate merrily,\\nmerrily which ended, all wended their several wajs home with the\\nheart-cheering reflection that they had done a good deed.\\nThus far we have been looking at. the century that is past.\\nLet us turn our thoughts for a brief space to that which is before\\nus, upon which we have just now entered. To set forth what has\\nbeen is the province of the historian. He often finds it ditficult to\\ndiscover and state, with truth and certainty, the facts that have\\ntaken place, in their proper light and bearing. To predict the\\nfutm-e belongs to the prophet. His task is more difficult still, if\\nhe is left to depend on human appliances and means alone. I am\\nnot a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, and I shall not attempt to\\nlift the veil of the future, and show you a picture of what is to\\ncome but I may hazard a few conjectmres as to what may take\\nplace within the next one hundred years, with the more freedom,\\nsince I may rest assured, that if, at the next centennial celebration\\nit shall appear that my conjectures are mere empty dreams, I shall\\nnot be there to hear reproach for my presumption, or to feel\\nmortification for the failure of my predictions.\\nThe century commenced when the English settlements in what is\\nnow the United States extended along the Atlantic coast from the\\nmouth of the Penobscot River to the southern limits of Georgia.\\nthinly scattered colonies, reaching back from the coast into the\\ncountry scarcely one hundred miles The population of all the\\ncolonies was at that time less than two million five hundred\\nthousand, about half of what is probably now that of the State of\\nXew York. The population of Xew Hampshire was about fifty-\\ntwo thousand seven hundred that of this town two hundred and\\nseventy-eight. Those feeble, disconnected colonies depended on\\na government three thousand miles away. The French, at an\\nearly period, had possession of Canada and of all the country east\\nof Maine, They had extended their posts along the lakes and\\ndown the Mississippi to its mouth, thus completely encircling the\\ncolonies, and cutting them oti from any considerable extension", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 49\\nof their western limits. Althougii by the peace of 1763 these\\nbarriers were removed, no progress had been made in 1768 in\\npushing our settlements beyond the Ohio. Now the century\\ncloses upon a united people, in number between thirty-five and\\nforty millions, masffers of themselves and of a territory extending\\nupon the Atlantic coast from New Brunswick to Mexico, reaching\\nacross the continent to the Pacific Ocean, and upon that\\nocean from the southern limits of California, excepting a fragment\\nof British territory interposed, to the North Pole. What more\\nprobable than that the coming century will see our dominion\\nembracing the whole continent of North America, with the adjacent\\nislands, and our people not only masters of themselves, but, for all\\npractical purposes, masters of the world? Public and private\\nvirtue, coupled with intelligence, will insure prosperity and\\nnational unity, and if these remain, our flag will wave over the\\ncontinent and float over both oceans, and there will be no power\\nwith which, in a just cause, we may not readily cope. With a\\npopulation of one hundred and fifty millions, more likely two\\nhundred millions with naval armaments upon both the Atlantic\\nand Pacific Oceans, each a match for the united navies of the\\nworld, nothing in the nature of things can prevent the consumma-\\ntion of national greatness which I have indicated. But there is loom-\\ning up in prospect tlie frightful image of corruption, in public\\nservants, in legislative halls, in judicial stations, in the popular\\nelections, and in the administration of municipal. State, and\\nnational officers, which, unless speedily checked and removed,\\nthreatens the destruction of public integritj liberty, and law.\\nWhen these are gone, the body politic must waste as if consumed\\nby an internal cancer, which certainly and surely will eat out and\\ndestroy the national life. But it is not in numbers alone that\\nnational greatness consists we must ask not only how many they\\nare, but what can they do? The state of mind, sluggish or active,\\nlimits national power. In this respect great and wonderful have\\nbeen the results of inventive genius in the past century in this\\ncountry, in its appliances to all the walks of life, and there are no\\nsigns of its exhaustion or running dry.* Who one hundred years\\nThe business of the Patent Office is the criterion of the activity of the\\ninventive mind. Its wonderful increase in this country is shown by the\\n7", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nago could have foretold the invention of the spinning-jenny,\\ninvented in 1769, the power-loom, the machinery for the manu-\\nfacturing of cotton and woollen goods, the application of steam to\\nwork such machinery, the cotton-gin, the mowing, reaping, and\\nthreshing machines, without which it would ilbw be impossible to\\nreap our fields and prepare our harvests for market iron ships,\\ndriven by steam, without the aid and against the force of tuind and\\ntide; railroads which bind continents together telegraphs which\\nannihilate time and space stereotype printing and cylinder\\npresses, which render the issuing from one office half a million of\\nnewspapers every week, a task easily accomplished monitors to\\nprotect our harbors sewing-machines gang-saws which take in a\\nwhole tree, it may be one hundred feet long, and at one going\\nthrough cuts it up bodily, and at once into boards and although\\nsmall matters in appearance, not least in usefulness, because of\\nuniversal use, friction matches and shoe-pegs, made by the\\nmillion and by the bushel. All these tend to relieve the human\\nmuscle from the yoke of labor, and to add to the comfort and\\nconvenience of domestic life. Inventions and discoveries, as\\nwonderful and important as any of these, may be, and undoubtedly\\nwill be, the gains and glories of the coming centur3\\\\ Two\\nimportant factors in the solution of the problem of the future will\\nbe associated capital in the form of railroads, manufacturing\\ncorporations, and banks and associated poverty and labor in the\\nform of co-operative societies. Here I may remark, that our town\\nhas the honor of having been the birthplace of two men, who, by\\ntheir inventive genius and skill in adapting it to manufacturing\\npurposes, have obtained a world-wide celebrity. Jonas Chickering,\\nwho established the house of Chickering Sons, whose pianos are\\nknown, wherever in, or even out of, Christendom there is any\\nmusic, was a native of this town; and Walter A. Wood, the\\nfounder of the house of Walter A. Wood Co., whose mowing-\\nmachines totally and entirely distanced all competitors at the\\ngreat Paris Exposition, was born in this town. The fathers of\\neach, Abner Chickering and Aaron Wood, were blacksmiths, and\\nwere patterns of industry in hammering at the anvil.\\nstatement, that in 1847 the number of patents issued was five hundred aud\\nseventy-two in 1869, thirteen thousand nine hundred aud eighty-six.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 51\\nBut let us look, for a few moments, at matters that more\\nimmediately concern us all. Many think that New England has\\nseen its best days, and that, signs of decadence, speedily to be\\nmanifested, are discernible. I am not of that number. The\\nactivity, energy, enterprise, and intelligence of her people forbid\\nsuch a result. All history shows that a people dwelling upon the\\nsea-board, in a temperate climate, have always been able to hold\\ntheir own against the competition of dwellers inland. Of the\\ncontinued manufacturing and commercial prosperity of New\\nEngland none but croakers doubt. But the alarm is sounded by\\nthose, who, upon a hasty survey, have pronounced its agricultural\\nprosperity not alone to be waning, but gone. This conclusion seems\\nto me hasty, if confined to the present time, and utterly false as a\\nprediction of the future. There never was a time when a greater\\namount of what is used for the sustenance of men, and of\\nmarketable articles, was produced in this town than at present.\\nThe fields of skilful cultivators show no signs of exhaustion, and\\nthe number of such is every year increasing. The agricultural\\npress is doing a great work in stimulating and encouraging\\nefibrts in this direction. There is not a farm in town that has not\\non it one acre at least, and many have more than one, which\\nproduces a crop as remunerating to the owner as an average acre\\nof the boasted prairie country. On all these farms such acres can\\nbe increased, in most cases largely increased, and the coming\\ncentury will see the number of such acres multiplied to an extent\\nwhich would now be pronounced incredible. In this connection, it\\nis worth while to mention that quarries of granite have recently\\nbeen open and worked in this town, lying contiguous to the\\nrailroad, which are said to be not surpassed in quality by any in\\nNew England, and to be inexhaustible in quantity, promising in\\nthe future abundant employment at remunerating prices. There\\nis much territory which is apparently exhausted, and on which\\ncultivation should not be attempted but this land is far from\\nbeing useless or worthless. About one third of our land, includino-\\nthat just described, should be devoted to wood. All the hill-tops\\nand hill-sides which are too rough for cultivation, and on which\\nthe cattle find but scanty herbage, should be given up to the\\nforest. I have travelled in many States, and have had many\\nopportunities of observation and knowledge in that line, and can", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nsay that in no part of our country does the forest assert its right\\nto live, with so persistent and determined a vigor, as upon our\\nhills. It cannot be subdued. Horace says, that if you drive\\nout nature with a fork, it will come back in spite of you.\\nThe axe, the fire, and the plough will not subdue our forests with-\\nout the most continued eflbrts. Let us, then, follow the plain in-\\ndications of nature, and permit the forests to clothe all our rocky\\nhill-sides. Such lands, now growing up to 3 oung wood, with\\nproper usage will yield a constant revenue, equal to that reaped\\nfrom most of the otlier acres of the farm, and at the same time\\nwill increase in value at a ratio that would be satisfactory to\\nthe most greedy monej -lender. This course pursued will be at-\\ntended with another great and blessed result. It will not only\\npreserve our wasted and waning rivers and streams, but in time\\nrestore them, in a good degree, to their original and native vol-\\nume, and will aid much, with other proper efforts in that direction,\\nto re-stock our rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes, with the fish,\\nsalmon, shad, and alewives, that before the dams were built, and\\nthe forests swept awaj were so abundant in all our waters.\\nUpon the topic of the agricultural future of New England, I\\ncould say much but want of time will not permit me to enlarge.\\nI will, however, state that, in the j^ear 1856, there was published in\\nthe New England Farmer, a series of articles, written evidently\\nby a man of education and sound sense, in which the former and\\npresent agricultural condition of England was compared, county\\nby count} every one of which was gone over and carefully exam-\\nined and he expressed it to be his deliberate judgment that the\\noriginal agricultural capacity of England was not superior to that\\nof New England that one hundred years ago the condition of ag-\\nriculture in England was little, if in anj^ degree, superior to that\\nof New England at the present day and he went on to show that\\nthe present high and flourishing state of agriculture in England\\nwas brought about and is wholly dependent upon the raising and\\nfeeding of cattle, of course including sheep. With the introduc-\\ntion, or rather production, of better breeds of animals, and the\\nmore common-sense and scientific modes of feeding and preparing\\nthem for the market, the agricultural interest there began its pros-\\nperous career, which has gone on increasing to the present daj\\nThe eff ect was produced by so feeding tlic cattle that, at eighteen", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 53\\nmonths and two years old, the} would weigh more and bring a\\nhigher price in the market than under the old system they would\\nweigh and produce at the age of five and six years, so that in fact\\nthe expense of keeping the cattle two or three years was saved to\\nthe owner. Again, the new mode of feeding added vastly to the\\nquantity and value of the manure, which is to the farmer what his\\ncash capital is to the merchant.\\nWhen a heavy stock is kept on any farm, and fed in a thoi\\noughly liberal way, with the very best of everything, the immense\\nquantity of rich manure will feed the land in a corresponding way,\\nand bring the whole farm into such a high condition that double\\nand triple crops can be grown. Thus the profits will go on in-\\ncreasing. Any man having cattle, and being afraid to feed\\nthem, had best give up agricultural pursuits at once. High\\nfeeding is of the utmost importance, to the live stock and to the\\nland and any one, no matter who, having too faint a heart to carry\\nout the programme, must succumb and end his career in disap-\\npointment.\\nIn England, by the improved agriculture above referred to, the\\naverage crop of wheat has been increased from about eight bushels\\nto nearly forty bushels to the acre, and about the same ratio of in-\\ncrease will be found in most of the other pi oductions of the soil.\\nSuch crops are not produced without a liberal expenditure of means\\nto put the land into proper order, and of manures, and of cultiva-\\ntion for the crops. There is no State of New England in which\\nfarms cannot be found managed with results as profitable to the\\nowners as the average of farms in England. All that is wanted to\\nbring the agriculture of New England up to the standard of that\\nof England is capital and skill, both of which the English farmers\\npossess in an eminent degree, and both of which our farmers, in\\ngeneral, sadly lack. There is nothing in the climate or soil that\\nforbids success. An acre of Indian corn, upon an acre of land as\\nwell prepared for the crop as the English farmer prepares his for\\nwheat, will produce with us a crop as valuable as the English far-\\nmer s crop of wheat, and will cost no more in cultivation.\\nThe great difference between the English and American farmer\\nis this The American farmer expends his whole capital, and some-\\nCountry Gentleman.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\ntimes runs deeply in debt, for the purchase of a farm, and has noth-\\ning left in the way of means wherewith to carry it on successfully,\\nand consequently suffers great embarrassments for want of such\\nmeans, all of which renders his efforts, in a great measure, abor-\\ntive and yet some, by perseverance and good luck, will succeed\\nin this up-hill road. On the other hand, the English farmer buys\\nno land. He reserves all his capital to furnish means to carry on\\nhis farm, for which he pays a rent to the owner, and depends on\\nthe proceeds of the farm for means to pay the rents and add to his\\ncapital and in this mode, all, with few exceptions, succeed to\\ntheir heart s content. There is nowhere to be seen a more hearty,\\ncheerful, contented individual than the English farmer. Now, why\\nshould not the same mode be practised in New England In every\\nNew England State there are thousands of farms in good condition\\nas to lands, houses, farm-buildings, and situation, where schools,\\nchurches, and roads are all ready for use, left in the hands of old\\nmen whose sons have gone to seek employment in the cities, or to\\nthe mines or prairies, who would be glad to rent their farms to good,\\nfaithful men, for a share of the crops, or for a money rent. Why,\\nthen, should not our young men adopt the English system, and use\\ntheir capital, not in buying land, but to furnish the means to carry\\non a farm to profit, for so many years that they shall be able to\\nbuy and stock a good farm for themselves? Earn more than you\\nspend, is a rule short and simple. It is hard for a young man to\\nfollow it, but it leads to independence. Good judgment, industry,\\neconomy, and perseverance are sure to end in wealth. The place\\nmakes little difference. While many start for the great West,\\nothers will not go out of the sound of the bells of the city, and\\nwill make as much money from a patch that you can throw a stone\\nacross, as a Pike s Peak colonist will on his square mile. There\\nis everything in the man, nothing in the chance; for the right kind\\nof man makes his own chance.\\nIt is often said of an unsuccessful farmer that he has too much\\nland. It is never said of a successful farmer. The true state of\\nthe case is admirably set forth by Horace Greeley, in these words\\nHe who has but fifty acres has too much if he lets part of his\\nland lie idle and unproductive, for lack of team or hands to till it\\nNew York Tribuue.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS BY JOHN B. HILL. 66\\nefficiently while he who has a thousand acres has none too much,\\nif he has the means and talents wherewith to make the best of it\\nall.\\nFour hundred years ago, Holland was nothing but heaps of sand-\\nhills, thrown up by the booming of the waves of the North Sea, in\\nthe midst of bogs, liable to the overflows of rivers and of the\\nocean a more uupropitious spot and condition could not be found\\non which to attempt to build up a flourishing community. To dam\\nout the ocean and the waters of the rivers was the only mode by\\nwhich the country could be made inhabitable. To do this, it was\\nnecessary to bring from Norway whole forests of trees, and mil-\\nlions of tons of rocks, no trees nor rocks being found within its\\nbounds fit for such purposes and yet the sluggish Dutch, as we\\nare sometimes ready to style them, made that unpropitious and in-\\nhospitable mud-bank the most flourishing agricultural country in\\nthe world. And the foundation of its agricultural prosperity rests\\nwholly upon its herds of cattle.. The richest and choicest beef and\\nbutter and cheese go, in Dutch ships, to the London market,\\nfrom pastures actually lower than the surface of the ocean, and\\nfrom which the water is constantly pumped out by machinery,\\nmoved by immense wind-mills.*\\nThe inhabitants of Holland are stated to be 3,699,744\\nTheir cattle, iucluding horses, sheep, and swine, 3,523,307\\nThe inhabitants of Mason number about 2,000\\nTheir cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, about 1,200\\nLet our people increase their cattle to the number of, say 1891,\\nwhich is near the Dutch standard, and feed them and care for them\\nIn every branch of human industry, these republicans took the lead.\\nOn .that scrap of solid ground, rescued by human energy from the ocean,\\nwere the most fertile pastures in the world. On those pastures grazed the\\nmost famous cattle in the world. An ox often weighed more than two\\nthousand pounds. The cows produced two and three calves at a time, the\\nsheep four and five lambs. In a single village, four thousand kine were\\ncounted. Butter and cheese were exported, to the annual value of a mil-\\nlion, and salted provisions to an incredible extent. The farmers were in-\\ndustrious, thriving, and independent. It is an amusing illustration of the\\nagricultural thrift and republican simplicity of this people, that, on one\\noccasion, a farmer proposed to Prince Maurice that he should marry his\\ndaughter, promising her a dowry of one hundred thousand florins. Mot-\\nley, United Netherlands, Vol. iv., p. 652.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nas carefully and skilfully as they feed and care for theirs, and the\\nagricultural wealth of the town will at once be increased more than\\none hundred per cent. Not only so, but the ratio of increase will\\nbe constantly advancing. The more cattle the more manure the\\nmore manure the greater and better crops, and thus the land will\\nbe enriched, and will enrich its owners. But without liberal feed-\\ning, especially of young animals, no progress can be made. A calf\\ncannot be cheated out of a pint of milk. He keeps an accurate\\naccount with you, and, at the end of the year, you will find your-\\nself charged in the balance-sheet with every scanty meal, and every\\ncase of neglect and ill-usage with which he has been served. It\\nshould be borne in mind that agriculture is by no means the sole\\nemployment of the people of Holland. A large share of their en-\\nergies is devoted to the business of commerce, manufactures, and\\nfisheries. The same is true of the people of New England. In\\neach a happy diversity of employments tends to individual well-\\nbeing and to national prosperity.\\nThe ratio of neat or horned cattle in the United States, by the\\ncensus of each of the years 1840, 1850, and 1860, was eighty per\\ncent., not varying one per cent, from that number in either census\\nthat is, there were eighty cattle for each one hundred people in the\\nUnited States. Of course some States had more and some less\\nthan that number. That average would require the number of neat\\ncattle for this town to be about sixteen hundred. It is about seven\\nhundred and sixty-one. The Dutch average would require the\\nnumber, including horses, sheep, and swine, to be about eighteen\\nhundred and ninety-one. It is about twelve hundred and ninety.\\nLet it be increased to the standard of the census, or to the Dutch\\nstandard in numbers, and to the Dutch or English standard in care\\nand feeding and with our facilities for marketing our agricultural\\nand horticultural productions, our prosperity is insured for all time.\\nShall our next anniversary witness this result? Farmers, the an-\\nswer rests with you.\\nNote. For many of the facts, and sometimes for the language in\\nwhich they are stated, I am indebted to the History of New York City,\\nby William L. Stone. I take this mode of acknowledgment, rather than\\nto encumber the page with marks of quotation and foot-notes.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "POEM.\\nBY REV. EDWIN R. HODGMAN.\\nTwo travelers o er the Alpine cliffs,\\nSlow toiling up from height to height,\\nThrough snow, wind- whirled, in massive drifts,\\nSm-veyed with wonder and delight\\nThe grandeur of the mountain-pass,\\nThe poised and threatening avalanche.\\nThe towering crags, the deep crevasse,\\nThe rugged ice-wall, cold and stanch.\\nTill, through a vista stretching far,\\nIn clear perspective gainst the sky,\\nAs when at night some brilliant star.\\nThrough breaking clouds, bursts on the eye,\\nThey saw revealed a sight most rare\\nCarved on the pure and virgin snow.\\nIn profile wrought unique and fair,\\nWith heavenward look as if to show\\nWhence all its grace and brightness flowed.\\nAppeared a perfect human face.\\nAnd there in mellow sunlight glowed.\\nNo painter s hand hath skill to trace\\nA portrait so divinely sweet,\\nSo nobly grand, so simply true,\\nIn eveiy feature all complete,\\nBeyond what mortal art can do.\\nTwas woman s likeness, pure, refined.\\nTender, contemplative, serene,\\nA soul by Nature s hand enshrined,\\nA human face with angel s mien.\\nThis beauteous form, the snow-wraith s child.\\nRested in statue-like repose,\\nAnd seemed a spirit undefiled,\\nPure as the bed from which it rose.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nSpellbound the travelers stood for speech\\nIs tame and worthless at such time\\nWhen the full soul essays to reach\\nA thing of beauty so sublime.\\nThen one, an artist, strove to make\\nA picture of that face so rare.\\nTo grasp its loveliness and take\\nTrue likeness of the snow-child there.\\nA hundred times his jDencil drew\\nAn image, yet so. poor, so faint,\\nSo all unlike the thing he knew,\\nThat in despair, with woful plaint,\\nHe dropi^ed his work then sought again\\nTo catch and trace the subtle line.\\nThe look intent, twas all in vain;\\nThe angel baffled his design.\\nThere in mute ecstasy he stood\\nThe ice-fields all around him gleamed.\\nThe hoary peaks seemed praising God,\\nAnd over all a glory streamed.\\nBut first and chief in that glad hour.\\nWas that sweet face to heaven inclined.\\nWhose wondrous contour foiled his power,\\nSoul of the sunshine and the wind\\nSo to the gaze of every man\\nWhose heart a true ambition fires,\\nWhose life fulfils some noble jDlan,\\nAnd after truth and right aspires,\\nA vision comes of something grand,\\nAnd wakens every latent power.\\nThe prize ajipears, and his own hand\\nMust grasp it as his lawful dower.\\nHe climbs the mount and sees afar\\nThe thing he longs for and must gain.\\nFrom this no toil, no fate shall bar\\nHe feels the strife in every vein.\\nAnd sti ife means action, sturdy, i-eal\\nThe aim is high, the motive strong.\\nAnd he must reach his own ideal.\\nBut few, indeed, of all the throng\\nOf kingly souls who seek a crown.\\nHere find the glory they would win.\\nHere gain the coveted renown,\\nOr satisfy the thirst within.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "rOEM.\\nWhen this new world, the Occident,\\nLoomed up to men across the wave,\\nThen hither came, with just intent,\\nThe good and true, the pure and brave.\\nThey fled from stern oppression s rule,\\nFrom bigotry and tyranny,\\nFrom the mad rage of sect and school,\\nTo be in these wild regions free,\\nFi ee as the mountain breeze that wafts\\nThe light and fleecy cloud along\\nFree as the limpid brook that laughs\\nAnd sings the winsome little song.\\nThe old world cast them out with \\\\ate.\\nThe new world took them in with love.\\nAnd here they built a Christian State,\\nWith faith and hope in God above.\\nHard was the labor, fierce the strife.\\nThat with heroic valor brought\\nOur great Republic into life,\\nOur nation s glorious birthright bought\\nWith price untold, freedom to think.\\nTo dare, and do. No cowards they\\nFrom toil or danger e er to shrink\\nThey kept their faith and won the day.\\nOne hundred years ago, these hills\\nResponded to the piercing cry\\nOf wolf or wild-cat at these rills\\nDrank trembling fawns, so coy and shy\\nForests with thick, umbrageous gloom\\nSjH-ead far and wide wild fruits matured\\nUnplucked by man the choice perfume\\nOf flowers no human foot allured\\nThe hawk and raven built their nest\\nUnscared the timid fish, uncaught.\\nSwam the deep pools and nature, dressed\\nIn pristine garb, with grace untaught.\\nLooked queenly in the eye of heaven.\\nLet fancy di aw the picture then,\\nSince to her touch such skill is given\\nAlong each winding stream and glen,\\nStretch groves of pale, deciduous trees\\nThe slopes are crowned with evergreen;\\n59", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "60 CENTENNIAL CELEBKATION.\\nNo woodman s axe hath humbled these\\nNo Vandal s touch hath marred the scene.\\nThe circling hills in order stand,\\nThe crown is on Monadnoc s brow,\\nAnd, rippling over rock and sand.\\nOur gentle river floweth now\\nUntrammeled to the boundless sea.\\nHere is primeval solitude.\\nBehold, what sweet simplicity\\nSee nature in her loveliest mood\\nNot from the court or council-hall\\nNot from the home of wealth and pride,\\nFrom titled ranks, or great, or small,\\nWith greed of gain imsatisfied,\\nCame they who first a pathway cleared\\nThrough the wide forest, thick and drear,\\nBuilt their rude cabins, and upreared\\nA house for Him whom all revere.\\nStrong, hardy men, with instincts true\\nLaid the foundations of the town\\nThey kept a noble end in view.\\nAnd worked for Ood, not for renown.\\nDebtors to no man s lore or skill,\\nThey bore the stress of constant toil\\nWith patience and unconquered will\\nThey strove to make a stubborn soil\\nPay tribute to unwearying care.\\nUnlearned they were, uncouth and rough.\\nBut men of faith and men of prayer\\nMen fashioned of the sternest stuff.\\nWere they not heroes, though their names\\nAre blazoned not on martial rolls\\nTrue men, whose sterling virtue shames\\nThe meanness of some modern souls\\nOf Lawrence, Parker, Mann, and Hall,\\nSpeak we to-day with reverence due\\nOf Barrett, Dakin, Elliott, all\\nThey builded better than they Jcnew.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "POEM. 61\\nThese and their compeei s passed away\\nBut on, with varying fortune, ran\\nThe bright succession, till to-day\\nOur mother boasts a worthy clan\\nOf sons and daughters, native born.\\nOr else adopted, re-baptized,\\nOod-given, her annals to adorn.\\nWith fondness cherished, loved, and prized.\\nSee where with faith and trust combined\\nShe rears memorials of her dead\\nEarth holds their dust with love enshrined.\\nBut they are gone, ah, whither fled\\nCan those we knew all, all unwept,\\nUnhonored or forgotten lie\\nO loved ones peacefully yeVe slept\\nSince we, who saw you droop and die,\\nIn our true hearts embalmed you, gave,\\nWith pain and sorrow all unspoken.\\nYour flower-strown bodies to the grave,\\nAnd mourned the ties so rudely broken.\\nWith filial love we turn again\\nTo Nature s shrine and question her\\nWhat treasures in your fair domain\\nWhat gift for lowly worshiper\\nWithin your broad and teeming breast,\\nHidden for ages all unknown,\\nWhat gems unquarried darkly rest\\nWhat diamond or what precious stone\\nWhat rai-e and luscious fruits are found\\nWhat trees in strange luxuriance grow\\nDo myrrh and frankincense abound\\nOr milk and liquid honey flow\\nAnd this the answer she returns\\nNot here doth endless summer reign\\nNor here the orient splendor burns,\\nNor heaven rains manna on the plain\\nHere are no mines of native gold,\\nNo tropic fruits, no incense sweet\\nBut meekly here the flowers unfold.\\nAnd spread their petals at your feet.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nAnd hast thou these, O sylvan maid\\nWhat flowers here scent the morning hom-s,\\nAnd blush along the opening glade\\nConduct us to your floral bowers,\\nAnd to our gladdened eyes disclose\\nThese nurslings of the dew and sky.\\nThen she aside her mantle throws,\\nAnd in sweet woi ds she makes reply\\nBlushing mid the withered leaves,\\nModest, jDeerless, little thing,\\nLo the fragrant May-Jiower weaves\\nChaplets for the brow of Spring.\\nBlooming in the sunny days.\\nHumbly trailing on the ground.\\nCoyly shrinking from our gaze,\\nWaiting to be sought, if found.\\nNext of all the floral train,\\nComes the wind-flower s fragile form,\\nGently nursed by sun and rain.\\nGrowing in the covert warm.\\nIn the valleys, on the knolls.\\nSmiling with a look serene.\\nThe welcome violet unfolds,\\nBeauteous in its shape and mien\\nSpringing from the humid sod.\\nSilent as the dewy even.\\nRaising its meek eye to God,\\nTinted with the hues of heaven.\\nSparkling on the water s breast.\\nLike a jewel bright and rare.\\nSee the lily s form at rest,\\nPurely white and strangely fair.\\nNestling in the pine-tree s shade.\\nCatching summer s latest sighs,\\nIn its bridal state arrayed,\\nThe sweet Linncsa blooms and dies.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "POEM.\\nFringing all the silvery streams,\\nFirst of all in splendor classed.\\nHere the princely Laurel gleams\\nWith a beauty unsm-passed.\\nThus my fingers deftly trace\\nLessons with true wisdom fraught\\nTypes I give of mental grace,\\nGrace of feeling, wealth of thought.\\nPictures of the life refined,\\nFar above the reach of art\\nSymbols of the love enshrined\\nIn a sweet and holy heart.\\nCome with me now to Barrett s Hill\\nThe ancient landmarks yet remain\\nRiver and brook are murmuring still\\nThe wide horizon bounds the plain\\nThe distant mountains, nude and dim,\\nIn homage seem to bend, while earth\\nChants forth her grateful morning hymn.\\nEach day repeated since her birth.\\nThe dark and pathless woods are gone\\nThe hills and vales with verdure teem\\nSmooth, shady roads sweep past the lawn\\nThe v.exed Souhegan s hurrying stream,\\nCaught and imprisoned, deigns to spin\\nFabrics for human need; and, look!\\nWith breath of fire and clanging din.\\nThe iron steed through Roclcij Brook\\nRushes like demon mad with pain\\nIn pastures free the cattle roam.\\nThe green, glad fields stand thick with grain.\\nFor man finds here a quiet home.\\nAnd hark within this hallowed grove\\nI hear a voice, loud, sweet, and strong,\\nRehearse the story that we love,\\nAnd this the burden of the song\\nGod bless New England brave and free\\nAre they who till her rugged soil,\\n63", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 CESTEKNIAI. CELEBRATION.\\nLabor for them has dimity.\\nAnd Heaven repays their hardy toil.\\nI love the grave simplicity,\\nAnd staid demeanor of her sires\\nNew England is the home for me,\\nWhose name to generous deeds inspires.\\nGod bless New England ever famed\\nFor just regard to public good,\\nFor equal laws to virtue framed.\\nFor enterprise and hardihood\\nFor science, piety, and zeal\\nIn Freedom s holy cause, and love\\nOf home, none but the free can feel,\\nXew England homes all homes above\\nGod bless Xew England every hill\\nAnd dale are sacred unto me\\nI love her snow-clad forests still,\\nAnd her loud ocean minstrelsy.\\nGod bless Xew England tis my prayer\\nBreathed from my inmost soul on high\\nWith love unchanged her fate PU share,\\nSere Kould Hive and here Pd die.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES\\nBY CHARLES E, HLLL.\\nTHE WORDS OF THE PROPHET HILL-KIAH, AS THEY ARE WRITTEN\\nIX THE BOOK OF SHAPHAN, THE SCRIBE.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nEarly settlement of America. Oppression of\\nthe King of the East. Nun-importation Act.\\nAND certain men came from a far-off\\ncountry in the East, and pitched their\\ntents in the wilderness of Barjathaaron,\\nwhich is, by interpretation, America, and\\nmade their abode there with the owl of\\nthe desert and the bears of the wilderness.\\n2 And they became exceeding fruitful,\\nand increased, and multiplied, and drave\\nout the ancient inhabitants of the land.\\n3 Their sons were men of great stature,\\nskilful in all manner of cunning work, and\\ntheir daughters were comely and fair to\\nlook upon, sweeter than honey in the honey-\\ncomb, and more to be desired than gold,\\nyea, than much fine gold. And the} were\\nprospered, and became a mighty people.\\n4 And the King of the East sent among\\nthem merchants, traders, and tax-gather-\\ners, who greatly troubled the people,taking\\naway from him that hath, and not sparing\\nhim that hath not.\\n5 Then the chief men and elders took\\ncounsel together, and said among them-\\nselves: Shall a man reap where he hath\\nnot sowed, or exact a grievous tax of him\\nwho hath no vote As for us, we will not\\nhave a king to rule over us, neither will\\nwe pay tribute to him who is not Ca;sar,\\nnor buy merchandise of the men of the\\nEast at a great price.\\n6 And the inhabitants of Barjathaaron\\nbought no more of the spices of the East,\\nnor silver, nor gold, nor of precious stones,\\nneither of green tea, nor black tea, but it\\nis written. They tasted of adversi-te.\\n7 For an alarm of war was heard through-\\nout the land. And it came tcHpass in Gibeah,\\nwhich, by interpretation, is called Mason,\\nthat a certain man, named Benjamin Mann,\\ncalled together the inhabitants of the land\\nand spake unto them.\\nSee History ot\\n9\\n8 Now Benjamin was a scribe, and wise\\nafter his generation, and he rose up before\\nthe people, and said, Ye men of Gibeah!\\nDo ye not dwell on high places, and eat\\nof the increase of the fields For you the\\nhills are covered over with flocks, and the\\nvalleys bring forth goodly grass, even\\nblue jint and foul medder.\\n9 Ye can suck honey from the rock-ma-\\nple and oil from the fat of oxen. Have ye\\nnot butter of kine and milk of sheep, with\\nthe fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of\\nBashan, and goats, and potatoes, and oats?\\n10 Do ye not drink of the juice of ap-\\nples, when ye rise up, and of the pure\\nblood of rye, when, truly, ye fall down\\n11 Lo! are not your daughters skilful\\nto weave fine linen, and all manner of\\nwoollen stuffs? Wherefore do ye spend\\nmoney for that which is not broad, and\\nbuy spices and soft raiment of the stran-\\nger, and tea, which maketh the tongue of\\nwoman sharper than a two-edged sword,\\nand causeth the hand of the strong man to\\ntremble?\\n12 Come, now, let us make a covenant\\ntogether, that we will no more have traffic\\nwith the King of the Ea\u00c2\u00abt, neither partake\\nof the merchandise of those that go down\\nto the sea in ships. And this saying\\npleased the people, and they made a cove-\\nnant as he had said.\\n13 Now this was called the Non-impor-\\ntation Act and Agreement.*\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe strong men of Gibeah go down to fight\\nagainst the hosts of the East. The people\\nfear lest their supply of salt fail them.\\nThry send down to Salem to buy there-\\nfrom.\\nAND war raged throushout the land.\\nFor the King of the East had sent his\\nMason, p. 75.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nhosts, chosen men, apt for war, that they\\nmight spoil the land in the length and\\nbreadth thereof.\\n2 Then the children of the wilderness\\nrose up, and girded themselves fur bat-\\ntle, and among them were many from the\\nland of Gibeah, men of might, and men\\nof war, that could handle the shield and\\nbuckler, whose faces were as the faces of\\nlions, and they were swift as roes upon the\\nmountains.\\n3 And they went down and fell upon\\ntheir enemies at Baal-zephor, which is,\\nby interpretation, Bunker Hill, and pre-\\nvailed against them, so that a great pile\\nof stones was set up, which stands in re-\\nmembrance of their victory even unto this\\nday.\\n4 And it came to pass that the inhabi-\\ntants of Gibeah were in great tribulation,\\nand sighed for their flesh-pots and pork-\\nbarrels.\\n5 For, said they, if our meat do lose its\\nsavor, wherewith shall it be salted, for we\\nhave no salt\\n6 Then lifted they up their voices and\\nwept; yea, they wept when they remem-\\nbered their brine-barrels.\\n7 Now there stood a sanctuary over up-\\non the hill near the valley of dry-bones,\\nand the chief men and elders went up\\nthither and took counsel how they might\\nbuy salt for the people. And in those\\ndays men spake as though they were\\nmoved by spirit.\\n8 Then the man Dakin, a deacon in the\\nland, whose surname was Amos, a ruler in\\nthe synagogue, and a man whom the peo-\\nple delighted to honor, lifted up his voice\\nand cried out Doth the wild ass bray\\nwhen he hath grass, or loweth the ox over\\nhis fodder\\n9 Can that which is unsavory be eaten\\nwithout salt, or is there any taste in the\\nwhite of an egg Verily, the things that\\nmy soul refuseth to touch are my sorrow-\\nful meat. My strength is departed from\\nme.\\n10 The flesh of swine I abominate, and\\neven baked beans cease to move me.\\n11 Lo! in Salem s towers there is salt\\nenough and to spare. Let us send thither\\nand buy for a fair price, lost, peradven-\\nture, our young men eating of the un-\\nsavory flesh of rams and conies of the\\nrocks, or coons of the hollow, shall see\\nevil visions, and our old men dream bad\\ndreams.\\n12 Then the elders answered Amos, and\\nsaid: How now can we go down and buy\\nsalt, for silver and gold have we none, and\\nour rag-money vanisheth like dew on the\\nmorning grass Shall we go down like a\\nthief in the night, and bind the strong\\nmen of Salem that we may take their salt?\\n13 And Aiuos answering, said, Go down;\\nfor it is written: Provide neither silver,\\nnor gold, nor brass for your purses, nor\\nscrip for your journey.\\n14 Go down, then, and when ye draw\\nnigh unto the men of Salem, say unto them\\nLo we are of thy brethren from the laud\\nof Gibeah, which is upon the hill-tops over\\nbeyond Raby.\\n15 And the marrow drieth up in our\\nbones, and our flesh wasteth away, because\\nwe have no salt. Then shall they give us\\nof their salt, that we may live and not die.\\n16 Then the people gave a shout, and\\ncried out. It is the voice of a deacon. So\\nlet us do.\\n17 And they chose Samuel, James, and\\nSilas, and Obadiah, captains of the host,\\nand Enosh, and Aaron, and Stephen, sur-\\nnamed Lawrence.* And these yoked un-\\nmilked kino to old carts, and went down\\nthrough the wilderness to Salem, and the\\nsound of their going was as the rushing of\\nmany waters.\\n18 For, in those days, the crooked ways\\nwere not made straight, nor the rough\\nplaces smooth and the riders in chariots\\nwere constrained to cry out in the words\\nof the prophet Jeremiah, my bowels,\\nmy bowels I am pained at my very\\nheart; my heart maketh a noise within\\nme.\\n19 And it came to pass, when the men\\nof Salem heard the sound of their coming\\nafar oflf, they wont forth to meet them.\\nAnd as they drew nigh, they said unto\\nthose who drave the carts. Is it well with\\nthee?\\n20 And they that drave the carts an-\\nswered, Nay, it is not well for they were\\nexceedingly pained.\\n21 Then told they the men of Salem all\\nthe things which were in their hearts,\\neven as Amos had commanded. And the\\nSalemites answered them, and said. Can ye\\nnot earn your salt? Verily, we will not\\ngive unto thee, for we give nought, save\\nfor a price.\\n22 Ye shall take of us enough and suf-\\nficient, but in due time ye shall repay\\nagain, even unto the uttermost farthing.\\n23 Then they took and put upon the\\ncarts twoscore and ten ephahs of salt,\\nscant measure, scraped off and scooped out,\\nas the manner of men now is.\\n24 Then the men of Gibeah turned back,\\nhomeward, gofeig through the wilderness\\nby the same way in which they had come,\\nseven days journey.\\nHistory of ilason, pp. rs, 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 88.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES.\\n67\\n25 Now, when the time drew nigh in\\nwliich they should pay for the salt, the\\npeople were greatly perplexed.\\n2(5 For ceitain men, sous of Belial, who\\ndwelt iu the country round about, but had\\npossessions in Gibeah, cried out to the el-\\nders on the day of Pentecost, which is, by\\ninterpretation, the town-meeting, saying,\\nAVhat have we to do with you, ye salt-\\nbuyers\\n27 Verily we have raised our own meat\\nand made our own brine; and as for us we\\nwill not pay for that which we have not\\nhad and which we want not, neither want\\nwe that which yo have.\\n28 Then were the elders exceeding an-\\ngry; and they seized upon the portion of\\nthose who would not pay the debt, and\\nsold it unto strangers; and the names of\\nthose evil-doers were blotted from the book\\nof remembrance forever.\\n29 Then had the people rest from their\\nsalt troubles.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nGreat prosperity in the land of Gibeah.\\nBuilding of the temple in Peterboro\\nStrength and valor of Thomas and his\\nsons.\\nAND it came to pass, when the sons of\\nmen saw that the daughters of Gibeah\\nwere exceeding fair and beautiful, they\\ntook them wives of all which they chose.\\n2 And they were fruitful as kittens, and\\nbrought forth sons and daughters of great\\nstature, even seven cubits and less.\\n3 And so it happened that the dwellers\\nin the land of Jabesh, which is, by inter-\\npretation, Peterboro builded a temple;\\nand they sent through all the region round\\nabout for the mighty men of great strength\\nand skilful in timber-work, to set up the\\npillars and raise the beams thereof.\\n4 Then went there up from the land of\\nGibeah, Thomas and his seven sons, val-\\niant men, each strong as a beau, and swift\\nto follow after the young heart in shady\\nplaces.\\n5 And the giants of the land assembled\\nin .Jabesh and they raised the temple\\nwith great labor, beam upon beam, and\\nrafter after rafter; and they placed a\\nwatch-tower thereon.\\nAnd it came to pass, when they had\\nmade an end of the work, that the spirit of\\nold Jamaica fell upon the strong men, and\\nthey made merry with unleavened bread\\nand dry codfish.\\n7 And becoming exceeding joyful, they\\nrose up from the ground and wrestled to-\\ngether, and lo, the sons of Thomas over-\\nthrew all which went up to meet them, and\\nnone could stand, for they smote them hip\\nand thigh, so that they fell heavily to the\\nground.\\n8 But there were certain men, sons of\\nBelial, Red-headites,and descendants from\\nthe isles of the sea, which, when they wore\\ncast down, became possessed of devils, and\\ntook counsel how they might slay the sons\\nof Thomas.\\n9 Now there dwelt in the land of Ja-\\nbesh a certain publican and wine-bibber,\\nwho dealt with familiar spirits;\\n10 A man wonderful to behold, for his\\nnose was like a carbuncle, and his eyes\\nlike rubies, exceeding red. His cheeks\\nblossomed as the rose, with toddy-blos-\\nsoms, and his mouth was like a toper s.\\nHis belly was like a barrel, and his legs as\\nhalf-barrels.\\n11 And the Red-headites went in unto\\nhim and said. Can the stone be swiftly\\nhurled where there is no sling, or is the\\nhead broken without a puneh\\n12 Give us, therefore, punch and sling,\\nhot and strong, that we may go up to meet\\nthe strong men and overthrow them, even\\nas Goliah overthrew David.\\n13 Now these were vain babblers, and\\nunderstood not the Scripture.\\n14 Then the publican was sore amazed,\\nand hasted and made ready, and gave un-\\nto them. Then girded they up their loins,\\nanti went forth to lay violent hands upon\\nthe sons of Thomas.\\n15 And it came to pass that the old man,\\neven Thomas himself, rose and stood be-\\nfore the people, and cried out with a terri-\\nble loud voice, If any man wants to fight,\\nlet him take me, and let my boys alone.\\n16 Then confusion fell upon the Red-\\nheadites, and they vanished like grease\\nbefore the fire.\\n17 And all those beholding were filled\\nwith amazement, and cried out. Behold\\nthe strength of Gibeah and the glory\\nthereof. He mocketh at fear, and is not\\naffrighted. He saith among the trumpets.\\nHa, ha! and is more terrible than an army\\nwithout banners.\\n18 And the Red-headites called Thomas\\nand his sons, in their own tongue, Tarri-\\nbles, because they caused great terror to\\nall beholding, and so it is their descend-\\nants among us are called Tarbells even\\nunto this day.\\n19 Now all the rest of the acts of the peo-\\nple of Gibeah, and all that they did; how\\ntheir sons and daughters went forth to the\\nNorth and South, and the East and West,\\nthrough all the land, even unto Gotham;\\n20 And how they were greatly prospered,\\nand sent of the fruit of their substance to\\nbless the home of their fathers; are they\\nnot written in the book of John, the coun-\\nselor, even in the History of Mason", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n21 But the eyes of the prophet Hill-Kiah Chamberlain waits to hasten you to the\\nwax dim, and his stomach groweth faint banquet.\\nby reason of long fasting; and, lo! as in 23 This day is Scripture revealed unto\\na vision, he heareth the sound of a going you, and now he that hath a purse let him\\namong the pine-trees, and the people be- take it, and likewise his scrip, for the\\nstir themselves. money-changers await your coming.\\n22 There is the voice of one crying in 24 Stay yourselves with flagons and be\\nthe wilderness, Lo! the meat offerings and comforted with apples.\\ndrink offerings are ready, and the royal 25 To your tents, Israel!", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES.\\nNo. 1. We welcome those who have gone out from us to plant the\\ninstitutions of religion and social order in the Far West.\\nRESPONSE BY REV. T. HILL, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.\\nMr. President^ and Ladies and Gentlemen It is a great gratifi-\\ncation to me to be present with you on this centennial day of our\\nbeloved ancestral home. It is a joy to gaze on these familiar hills,\\ngraced as they are with never-failing beauty the old rocks and\\ntrees, so familiar in all their outlines and yon burying-gronnd,\\nwhere sleep the honored and best-loved ones, gathered to their\\nsilent homes, all intimately blended with every association of\\nchildhood and youth. It is a joy to me to see once more so many\\nfamiliar faces of friends from whom I have been so long separated.\\nI see ,you, the associates of my youth, the companions of school-\\ndaj s, and the friends who were gathered in the old familiar church.\\nWe are changed much now, but the memory of those days lives\\nwith unchanged freshness still.\\nTo participate in these scenes, I have come a long journey of\\nnear seventeen hundred miles, from my home on the banks of the\\nrapid and ever muddy Missouri, upon whose troubled face I look\\nalmost every hour. This place will seem to many of you as the\\nreal Far West, to which so many have been migrating these many\\nyears but to me it is hardly the West at all, for there is a West,\\nfull of activity and busy life, so much beyond where I live, that I\\nseem to myself to be in the centre, and not in the West. I have\\noften gazed on the long trains of wagons starting on their weary\\njourney of eight hundred miles to Santa Fe, and I daily see the\\ncars, as they disappear in the west, starting on their journey to\\ncross the great plains where the buffalo may still be found in count-\\nless numbers.\\nThe children of New England have always been a wandering\\nrace go where you will you meet them, oftentimes where you\\nmight least expect them yet, wherever they may be, they look\\nwith fond recollections to the hills and rocks of their ancestral\\nhome. Other fields may be larger, other streams may be longer\\nbut none are more beautiful than the green hills and the brooks of\\nthe home where childhood and youth were spent. But what occu-", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\npies the sons of New England in their wanderings What detains\\nthem away from this land so filled with pleasant memories? They\\nare found engaged in everything, good and bad. The}^ are found\\nin the pulpit, pointing dying men to the realities that outlive the\\ntomb the}^ are in the school-room, directing the minds of those\\nwho will soon control the destinies of the nation they are in po-\\nlitical office, from governors and congressmen down to the lowest\\nstations of influence and power and in whatever they engage, for\\ngood or ill, the} usually leave their impress strongly marked. In\\nthe pulpit, they are often the pioneers on the frontiers of civiliza-\\ntion, planting the banner of the cross in advance of all others.\\nTiie first man who preached the Presbyterian faith beyond the\\nMississippi was from Connecticut. Many of his early associates\\nwere from New England, and from that day till this a goodly num-\\nber of the preachers west of the great river have been from New\\nEngland.\\nIn legal and political life, one can point to the Chief Justice of\\nthe nation from our own New Hampshire, or can point to one who\\nswayed the populace as few men ever have done, who knew the\\nsecret sources of influence far better than most men, the great\\nIllinois Senator, who was from Vermont. The halls of Congress\\nand the chairs of governors often show men who came from a home\\nfar distant from the one they represent or now occupy.\\nMost of these are honorable and honored men but some of them,\\nundoubtedly, are often the pattern of one whose repeated failure\\nfor office at home was consoled by his son, who preceded him to\\nthe West, and wrote back to his disappointed father, saying, Fa-\\nther, come out here and run for Congress, for mighty mean men get\\noffice out here.\\nBut among the best things New England has done for the West\\nhas been her influence over education, in the way of schools. Many\\nof the colleges in the West have had their roots in the New Eng-\\nland home thence came the men wlio founded tliem, the money\\nthat endowed them, and the instructors who toiled for them. In\\nail the ways in which schools have been benefited, New England\\nhas had her share. He who drew the present excellent public-\\nschool law of Illinois was from New Hampshire and in many an\\nhumble school-house on the edge of the prairie, or in the rising\\ncities of the West, may be found one who learned how to teach in\\nthe New England school.\\nBut however far the son of New England may have wandered,\\nhowever well he may love his new home, he will look back to the\\nhills whence he came with pleasant memories.\\nI once spent a Sabbath in a village in Illinois. On inquiring of\\nthe man, at whose house I was entertained, whence he came, I found\\nhe was from Townsend. He had been there thirteen years without\\nhaving returned, and Avhen he found who I was, and whence I came,\\nhe plied me with many questions in regard to the old home, who\\nwas dead, who were married, who preached, and who traded, and", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 71\\nall the many queries of the familiar home life. After this he said,\\nYou liave some townsmen here and I found and had a pleasant\\ninterview with some who had known me in childliood.\\nA few weeivs after tliis there came an invitation for me to talce\\nthe care of the church of wliich mine host was an honored elder\\nbut I have never been there since.\\nOnce, as a pastor, I sat b} the bedside of one who had come from\\nthe far East to visit her son in the West. Her stay was but few\\nda3 s, when the cholera laid its hand upou her, and she soon passed\\nawa} faintly whispering, Bury me by the side of my mother.\\nI have heard of a very different scene, no less illustrative of the\\nNew England character, of two gamblers meeting at Santa Fe,\\nand, after discovering their common origin, they spent a long time\\ndiscussing the familiar scenes of the old home, and as they sep-\\narated the one says to the other, You are a Yankee, and so am\\nI, and now^ let us sing Old Hundred in memory of the past.\\nBut wliy should we go from the land we remember so pleas-\\nantl}^? Undoubtedly it may be said of most of us, in the words of\\nHoly Writ, If they had been mindful of the country whence they\\ncame, they might have had opportunity to return. So most of\\nNew England s sons prefer their western home. No however fair\\nNew England may be, the great West presents attractions stronger\\nstill her pi airies, filled Avith flowers in their wild condition, filled\\nwith teeming harvests in tlieir cultivated form, call for men, and\\nbind them with linlcs that cannot be broken.\\nOur country is one. Her New England homes, her broad west-\\nern lands, her golden mountains, richer far than the Ophir of Solo-\\nmon, and her sunsets on the Pacific, all, all make but one land,\\nand the New Englander is still at home into whatever part he\\nwanders.\\nWe go there that we may make a broader New England that we\\nma} transplant her energy and skill, her schools, and her firmest\\nreligious faith on a broader field that we maj^ retain what is most\\nexcellent of our own, and mingle it with -what is most desirable in\\nthe other portions of our land. We would do what we can to make\\nour country the most glorious land of earth. From the Atlantic to\\nthe Pacific we would have the land of the Puritan and the Cavalier,\\nthe land of the Dutchman and the Huguenot, the land of Frank-\\nlin and of Washington, one land, free, intelligent, and holy one\\nland, the richest, the fairest, and the best of earth.\\nNo. 2. We welcome those who, having gone from us, have aided in\\nsustaining, in tlie commercial metropolis of our country, the character\\nof tho sons of New Hampshire for integrity, enterprise, and success\\nin business in every portion of our land.\\nRESPONSE BY B. W. MERRIAM, ESQ., OF NEW YORK.\\nEncouraged by the above sentiment, commencing b} welcoming\\nus to this banquet who commenced life here, I take pleasure in", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nsaying a word in response. I rejoice, Mr. President, to be here to-\\nda} this day so full of interest to us who are permitted to look\\nupon those who began life together and while I see but few, com-\\nparatiA^ely, of this class, their descendants are numerous and\\nhappy. How improved is 3^our condition, m}^ youthful friends,\\nfrom that of your predecessors\\nI well remember the day when those not compelled to go on\\nfoot rode only on horseback the father in the saddle, the mother\\nupon the pillion the brother in the saddle, the sister upon the\\npillion.\\nWell I remember, Mr. President, when the first pleasure-wagon,\\nso called, was owned in this town, and also remember the name of\\nthe owner, and his industry and toil to procure the amount of money\\nnecessary to obtain it. At the early period alluded to, a boy to\\nsee a cit}^ must walk a portion or all of the distance to it. I have\\nnot forgotten, when a 3^outh, leaving this, my home, in an after-\\nnoon, and, after walking most of the journey during the night, as\\nthe sun arose the next morning, was permitted to look upon the\\ngreat city of Boston, then containing thirty or forty thousand in-\\nliabitants.\\nHad one predicted then that a railroad would now have been in\\nthis town, we should have thought such a prophet a false one. At\\nthe present day, instead of being twenty-four hours on foot, 3 ou\\nenter the car, and in two hours reach Boston and find there four,\\nfive, and six hundred thousand inhabitants in a few hours more\\n3 Ou reach New York, and behold its teeming millions.\\nThose of us who left this New Hampshire town, and whose lives\\nhave been spent in commercial cities of our country, are indebted\\nto the earl} mental and physical training we were subjected to\\nhere, for the strength which has enabled us to battle with the cares\\nand temptations of a commercial life. Here in New Hampshire\\nwe learned early to assume responsibilities the healthful moun-\\ntain breezes helped us to obtain almost iron constitutions Chris-\\ntian admonitions, together Avith a little of Solomon s birch,\\ntaught us obedience and truthfulness and if we have been success-\\nful merchants, we remember that in New Hampshire we were told\\nthat honesty is the best polic3\\\\ In New Hampshire we learned\\nalso that integrity and enterprise are twin sisters, and lead not\\nonly to success in business, but to the confidence and esteem of\\nthose with whom we are associated in life.\\nNo. 3. We revere and cherish the niomory of our townsmen who,\\nunder the command of Captain Benjamin Mann, marched to Cam-\\nbridge, joined tlie patriot army, and took part in the battle of Bunker\\nliill and of all our patriot citizens who, on the many battle-fields\\nfrom Quebec to Yorktown, endured the hardships of war, and perilled\\ntheir lives in the cause of their country\\nResponded to by Hon. John B. Hill. The gentleman to whom\\nthis sentiment was assigned not answering when called upon, at", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 73\\nthe request of the President, Mr. Hill made a brief response, of\\nwhich no report has been preserved.\\nNo. 4. The day we celebrate.\\nRESPONSE BY REV. SAMUEL LEE, OP NEW IPSWICH.\\n3Ir. President In the absence of the speaker expected to an-\\nswer to this toast, I address you. It ma}^ seem like arrogance or\\npresumption in me, on the mere spur of the moment, to attempt a\\nresponse to this, which is really the great sentiment of the occa-\\nsion. But it will be remembered that a ver}^ unpretending article\\nis sometimes used to fill the place of a missing pane in the window.\\nA centennial is sacred. It rises as an eminence between the\\nyears of the century past and the indefinite future. We stand upon\\nthat eminence and survey the past, then turn and gaze upon the\\nfuture that fades away in the distance. And we know that solemn\\nfuture is in no small degree to receive its character from the cen-\\ntur}^ past and the view we take of it to-day.\\nAs in the individual so in a community, the inceptive period is\\nspecially important. Here we find the springs whence issue the\\nstreams that pass into the future for good or evil, the origin\\nof the trains of antecedent and consequent passing out and in-\\ncreasing as they go, expanding in ramifications which mingle each\\nwith those of others and make up the web and quality of society.\\nThe good people of Mason to-day are what the energy and cour-\\nage and perseverance and toils and self-denial and prayers and\\nholy living of the first settlers have made them. Hence that sen-\\ntiment, indigenous to the human mind, of reverence for ancestors.\\nWe revere the memory of the men who have sent down to us those\\ninfluences that have been so potent in forming at once our charac-\\nter and condition. And then there is a sort of enchantment which\\ndistance lends to the view. We see them only in the hazy indis-\\ntinctness of the past. Their faults, if they had them, we perceive\\nnot, and think only of the good in their lives, the influence of which\\nhas come down in blessed sequences to administer to our well-be-\\ning. Their memory is blessed and salutary. We go to the locali-\\nties where they lived and toiled, and to the graves where their\\nremains are sacredly preserved, with the feeling that we are on\\nholy ground. And we feel, too, that Grod is in their historj and\\nin all that connects it with us and ours. And in the influences\\nthat they bring to us we hear the voice of God.\\nA centennial serves as an occasion for collecting the facts of the\\nearly history of the town, but for which they would soon be lost\\nforever. To preserve these wc owe to posterity, who as truly as\\nourselves have an interest in them. For the influences that have\\ncome down to us from them have accomplished only a part, and a\\nsmall part, of their wondrous mission. They pause not here, save\\nfor the brief hours of tlie day we celebrate, tliat we ma_y notice\\nthem and estimate their importance, then renew their march adown\\n10", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "74 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nthe solemn, awful future. To that future, then, we are debtors.\\nAnd in the person of our competent and faithful historian of the\\nda^ we have met our obligations.\\nI hope this centennial will be regarded as an authoritative prece-\\ndent, and be imitated by those of each of the coming centuries.\\nBut who shall celebrate the next? Not one of us. It is indeed\\npossible, though not probable, that some one of the little ones that\\nare here to-day may tell with faltering utterance the story of the\\nhundred years. Perhaps these sparkling eyes, then dimmed with\\nage, may witness the scenes of the next centennial.*\\nNo while the consequences of what we shall have been and\\ndone shall be met in this life by our successors, we shall be meet-\\ning such consequences in another mode of being.\\nBut I trust that the next centennial shall be held in the midst\\nof a condition of privilege and glory to which we are strangers.\\nThe pen of inspiration hath told us of a blessed future, a new\\nheaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. That\\nday hastens on. Everything in the present indicates that this\\nworld is on the eve of a great moral transformation. The facts\\nbetoken rapid development. God is even now getting ready that\\nNew Jerusalem which shall come down from his abode and find its\\nplace upon earth. The Tabernacle of God shall soon be with\\nmen, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people\\nand God himself shall be with them, and be their God.\\nFly swifter round, ye wheels of time,\\nAud bring the welcome day.\\nNo. 5. Mason Her past is history lier future is in her own hands.\\nRESPONSE BY JOSEPH C. MASON, ESQ., OF BOONEVILLE, MISSOURI.\\nFriends and Fellow-Citizens Though I have not the honor to\\nclaim in this town a nativity, yet by adoption she is mine. Her\\nintelligent inhabitants, her educational institutions, her religious\\ntemples, her rock}^ elevations that bask in the early beams of morn-\\ning, are dear to yoio, and so they are to me. The present and fu-\\nture of Mason What are the duties of the present? What are\\nits promises? The past lies behind us; and we may well turn\\nfrom its annals and look down the ages. When the clock of time\\nshall have recorded another centennial revolution, our descendants\\nwill stand here to speak of us. What, oh, what shall be their\\nlano-uao-e? What the burden of their discourse?\\nThe character of this, ancient town is now strong, its reputa-\\ntion untarnished. Because we have inherited a legacy so rich, the\\nfuture will have upon us large demands. If the facilities for\\nprogress are greater than ever before, a corresponding increase of\\nresults will be expected at our hands.\\nJust here a little boy, son of Lucius A. Elliott, Esq., passed across the\\nstage, and the speaker laid his hand upon his head as he uttered the last\\nsentence.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND KESPONSES. 75\\nThis one thought should engage our attention here and now\\nOur responsibility to those on tvhom no ray of light has yet shone.\\nMen and communities must labor for the unborn. He who plants\\na tree plants for others. It is a law of our being that one shall\\nsow and another reap. Let this occasion, so fruitful in memories\\nof the past, awaken in the bosoms of all (especially the young)\\nnoble resolves and lofty aspirations.\\nAre we as a people keeping our estate Could the hardy sons\\nwho turned into smiling fields these once unfrequented wilds stand\\nhere to-day and proudly claim us by an alliance of blood and\\ncharacter? Can the aged sire, whose wisdom is commensurate\\nwith his years, let his mantle fall upon the son with a confidence\\nthat he will wear it wortliily?\\nI sometimes cast about me for the coming men and women,\\nfor those to whom this fair heritage must soon be committed. How\\nmany young men of Mason are preparing for the great future?\\nHow many are adding, day by day, to their stores of useful knowl-\\nedge, or are, by slow but sure degrees, forming characters\\nagainst which the waves of passion and prejudice may not prevail\\ncharacters in keeping with the high exigencies that so frequently\\nsummon the citizens of a free country to do and to dare I shall not\\nbe misunderstood here. The nineteenth century is full of demands\\nupon the philanthropist and the patriot.\\nThe present happy auspices, under which we are assembled,\\nfully attest how well those demands have been met by our retiring\\nancestors. History will do justice to their deeds and to them. But\\nsome one must write our history. The stream cannot rise above\\nits fountain. Glorioiis deeds cannot be born of ignorance, of in-\\ndifference, of immorality. They spring from noble impulses, sup-\\nported by heroic endeavor from knowledge, and virtue, and\\ncourage.\\nMy voice is to the young. With them I plead. They hold in\\ntheir hands, to a great extent, the destiny of this town. They are\\nstamping indelibly upon it features by which it shall be recognized\\nat a time when our voices shall be hushed in a dreamless sleep.\\nLet the example of our fathers, living and dead, of former resi-\\ndents who have come to us to-day from homes afar, of all the noble\\nspirits who, in the long line of years departed, have stood upon this\\nsacred soil, inspire in our hearts higher and holier purposes in the\\npresent, and the future shall come to us freighted with the rich re-\\nwards of an Almighty hand.\\nNo. 6. Mason, lior hills i\\\\nd valleys, her fruits and wild flowers.\\nRESPONSE BY LUCIUS A. ELLIOTT, OF BOSTON.\\n3fr. President I thank you for appointing to me a response to\\nthis rather than to any other sentiment.\\nYou, sir, know the fond and sacred esteem in which 1 hold the\\nrugged hills and the sweet valleys of my native town how dear to", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "76 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nme are her name and all things pertaining to her. She is rough,\\nindeed, and her thin soil does not so generously yield a return to la-\\nbor as do the wonderful alluvial expanses of the West, from which\\nsome of her .prospering sons, perchance, sometimes turn a thought\\nof pity toward her well-remembered fields, of rocks and roots and\\nscanty herbage, or as does the great field of commerce in cities\\nEast and West. We would fain believe, however, that from their\\ndistant homes beyond the Father of Waters, or nearer the great\\nlakes, or where they swell the channels of trade in our commercial\\ncentres, or where they are tarrying in foreign lands, they are ten-\\nderly thinking of their native hills to-day, and that indeed there\\nare no hills or valleys so fondly cherished as those which fill the\\nlandscape of their childhood.\\nMr. President, I should reverence and love old Mason if I had\\nnot been cradled in her lap. Do the prairies, the mysterious\\nmounds, the vast coal-beds of the West, the submerged forests of\\nthe Mississippi, and the monarchs of the Yo Semite, bid our ad-\\nmiration for their great antiquity and mysterious origin Who shall\\nstand indifferent before our hills, with their granite boulders, which\\nhad existence ages before the creation of man, before the mighty\\nw^aters had detached from its parent granite the first particle of\\ndust of which the prairies were made They speak to us of that\\nremote period when there was no verdure upon the earth, ere\\nGod had cleft a way for the rivers, or made a bed for the ocean,\\nere His handiwork had made the ever-changing curtain above the\\nearth, when in the silence of the ages they were alone with God,\\nand when the Great Architect was in them preparing a foundation\\nfor all he has since made of beauty and majesty to live upon\\nthe eart]}.\\nOur hills and granite pebbles deserve our love. They give to us\\nthe music of the brooks, and send the little fructifiers down to the\\nmeadows. Ah, how many sons of the hills are there in city count-\\ning-rooms, who, perhaps, go at night to luxurious homes, where in\\nmusic they hear the best imitations of nature which art can give,\\nwho yearn to sit on their native hill-sides and hear again what\\npiano or flute or human voice could never produce the song of\\nthe brook How many have homes on the vast plains, on which no\\nhill rises with its gurgling brook, who would be glad to part with\\nmany of their fertile acres could they thus bring such a sight and\\nsound b}^ their doors\\nAnd the cool, bracing air of our hills It is not a matter for\\nwonder that so many rush from the cities, when the sun burns the\\nstreets, to refresh themselves in such a bath, or that sometimes\\nlanguishing ones distant from their native hills are heard to\\nlong for the air that moved their infant life, strengthened them in\\nchildhood s days, and never had aught but blessing in it.\\nAnd, oh, the prospects which these hills afford That Masonian\\nhas but little poetry in his soul, who, in a pleasant summer twi-\\nlight, caii ride over the Merriam or Sanders Hill, without", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 77\\ntarrying from other thoughts to enjoy for a few moments the pic-\\nture before him. How delightful in the morning, when the mists\\nlie along the -Merrmm, and all beyond is half covered, half re-\\nvealed, through the veil, while hitherwards the chimneys of a hun-\\ndred homes are sending up their signals of awakening life, and the\\nlandscape is opening its bosom to the coming king of day How\\nbeautiful at noon, when the moisture of the morning has freshened\\nthe colors of woodland, tillage, and pasture when the distant hills\\nput on their heavenly blue, and are flanked by a curtain of myste-\\nrious haze which speaks of fairy-land beyond How charming at\\nsunset, when the blue of the hills has changed to mellow purple,\\nand the long shadows of the woods and hills are adding variety to\\nthe forms and hues of the familiar fields I well remember the\\npleasure expressed by a lady from a western city when she stood\\non Barrett Hill. Her journe3dngs had never before extended be-\\nyond the prairies, and she had never seen a hill until the visit in\\nquestion. It was easy to perceive that, as she approached the sum-\\nmit, she was both surprised and delighted, but when her eye had ta-\\nken in the Temple Mountains, Joe English, the Ammonoosucs, and\\nthe blue film of the White Mounta ns beyond, had turned to the\\npicturesque landscape of village, farm, and woodland, with its dis-\\ntant bound of blue in the south-east and south, had swept\\naround to Ashby, and to New Ipswich, with her white hamlets\\nnestling under the hills, with dark Wachuset and hoary Monad-\\nnock behind all, she exclaimed, with every appearance of rapture,\\nThis is Paradise\\nMy fi iends, we emigrants rejoice in the hills and valleys of Ma-\\nson. They furnish pictures for the halls of our memories, such as\\nno artist can provide for not only are they redolent with moving,\\nliving varieties, such as no pencil can animate, but the associa-\\ntions of youth, in the midst of which we transferred these scenes\\nto our mental canvas, can never accompany the work of a human\\nartist. He cannot restore to us the happy circle at the foot of the\\nhill, the dear friends who gazed with us on these scenes, but\\nwho have ceased from the earth. There are two other hills where\\nmany of them sleep, hills which shall yet be most glorious of\\nall, when they become the scenes of the mightiest miracles of human\\nhistory, as in the Master s good time they will. Fondly do our\\nhearts turn to them and their sacred mounds to-day, and some of\\nus are saying. Oh that my father, my mother, my child, my sister,\\nor my brother were here Thanks to our gracious Father, we are\\nnot forbidden the hope that in holy sympathy they do mingle with\\nus on this occasion, and that they rejoice in every worthy exercise\\nthat gives us joy.\\nAnd now, Mr. President, what shall I say for the wild flowers\\nof Mason? Her sons and daughters know them so well that no\\npoet botanist is needed to speak their praise to them. How can I,\\nneither a poet nor a botanist, speak of them to strangers? Let me\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\x\\nWv V. Cv(;^", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78 CEKTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nseek to make them tell their own praises. Bring vases, and let us\\nsee if we can set for our guests a bouquet for each month.\\nWhat shall cold January, the midnight of the year, provide? A\\nbackground of spruce, with spreading arms decked with brown\\ncones and delicate vermilion cups of moss a foreground of oak,\\nbrown and purple, gathered from the old Bullard woods last fall.\\nFebruary, not as cold as usual, shall let us find mosses and the\\nbeautiful miniature of the ivy vine on which the fox-plum grows.\\nWe will build a mound of moss, twine the vine about it, drop here\\nand there a red and yellow thornberry, twist a spray of crooked\\nlaurel into a chair, and, placing it in the midst, will make a throne\\nfit for Titania.\\nMarch will send us to the woods again, where, lifting the snow,\\nwe shall find the dwarf evergreen, which we can train about the\\nvase in festoons and bunches of green, so that we shall forget that\\nThe stormy Mcarch has come at last;\\na few toes from the pussy-willow, found |by any. brook, and\\nsprigs of brown-alder tassels will mingle beautifully with the\\ngreen.\\nWaiting till late April, we may be compensated by a cluster of\\nviolets, which, with swelling buds of birch, and perchance a touch\\nof crimson from the rock-maple blossom, a back of hemlock, and a\\nfew early grasses, will well furnish April.\\nAnd now comes the month in which spring seems fully born,\\nand we shall have no lack of delicate flowers just opening their\\neyes upon the earth. Once we could have filled dozens of vases\\nin the Adams woods, near Chamberlin s mill, with the carefully\\npencilled Benjamin, and we doubt not the boys and girls\\nknow where thej may now be found so soon as May has fairly\\ndriven the snow from the ground. But here is the trailing ar-\\nbutus, the pure, simple, sweet May-flower, in pink and white, and\\nhere the modest and graceful anemone. May shall have two\\nvases. The ferns and larger flowers shall show their glory alone,\\nand, since we shall have nothing so lovely again, we will let\\nthe May-flower, the anemone, and the meek-eyed strawberry blos-\\nsom rest in each other s bosom.\\nJune will quite satisfy us with her wonderful laurel, its deli-\\ncate flower of pink flecked with deep brown, and its rich leaf of\\ngreen. See, the pastures near Pratt Pond are all aflame with\\nthem. In our June vase we will drop a few blossoms of the wild\\ngrape near Luther Nutting s, to get the most delicate of perfumes.\\nJuly shall give us wild roses, blueberry balls, blackberry blos-\\nsoms, the beautiful pink hardback, white elder blossoms, daisies,\\nchestnut pendules, and the meadow pink from the little marsh\\nnear the top of Barrett Hill, with rich ferns for a setting.\\nAugust will furnish a plenty of broad leaves for a liackground,\\nwith the Canada thistle and the great thistle, on which the yellow\\nfinch so loves to swing, the wild primrose, the white hardback,", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 79\\nthe golden rod, and the cardinal flower, from Felton Brook, for\\nrelief.\\nUpon September we will call for a spraj^ of chestnut-bearing\\nclusters of filling burrs, and before it we will placQ some berries of\\nripened sumach, and intertwine the clematis with its hazy blossom.\\nIn the woods on Dnnster Hill we will find plenty of fungi of all\\ntints needful for any effect of colors, and Mr. Whittaker will add\\na few vines of cranberry.\\nAnd what shall we do with the wealth that October brings her\\nsprays of sumach, green and red, her trembling birches of all tints\\nof yellow, and her mosses, with bird s wheat and delicate cups of\\nmany forms and hues, soon to sleep under the snow\\nWe must have a late Indian summer, that November may have\\nfor us some of the maples, the woodbine, the ivy, and the sarsapa-\\nrilla. I know a pasture maple in this town that, with its wondrous\\nvariety of autumn tints, would be an object of greater interest in\\nH3ale Park than is any one of its famous trees.\\nFor the December setting we will have a twig of brown oak\\nwith its acorns. If the winter is not too early, and the winds have\\nnot been too rough, we will find some sprays of silver leaves from\\nthe beech, a few spines from the pine, and brown flag blossoms,\\nyet waiting in the Rocky Brook marsh, near Uncle Charles Scrip-\\nture s.\\nNow, stranger friends, do not think we have gathered for you\\nhalf the varieties of wild flowers with which, in their season, our\\nfields and I oadsides abound. An expert botanist only could recall\\nthem. If, however, those we have named have been well set, we\\nhave a display of which any Masonian may be proud, and we ask\\nyou if our delicate and gorgeous array of summer flowers, in their\\nrich brown frame, are not at least worthy of honorable men-\\ntion on this festal day\\nI give you, sir, again. The fruits and flowers of Mason the\\nfairest are the characters and the benefactions of some of her sons\\nand daughters. The hills of Mason the best are the little Hills,\\nwhose Ebenezer was established here about eighty years ago.\\nNo. 7. Glimpses of our fathers one hundred years ago.\\nRESPONSE BY SAMUEL DUNSTER, ESQ., OF ATTLEBORO MASS.\\nI am glad to return to this good old habitat, to participate in the\\npleasures and enjoyments of the first centennial celebration of\\nMason, and to mingle again with the friends and companions of\\nmy early days, although 1 find many of them, like myself, to have\\npassed the limits of easy recognition. It is my privilege at this\\ntime to be the representative by lineal descent, as well as name\\nwhich no longer exists in this community, of the head of a family\\nand the ladies and gentlemen will please pardon me, if, ,in the few\\nwords I may venture to say, I may seem to be egotistic in referring\\nto an ancestor who was a resident, and freeholder of fair estate,", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "80 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nof this town at the time of its incorporation, and who took an\\nactive part in bringing it into municipal existence.\\nAlthough our knowledge of the personal efforts of each\\nindividual in organizing the town must of necessity be mere\\nglimj)ses, yet we have the highest assurance that he, from his well-\\nknown religious character, used his best endeavors for that pur-\\npose, that as a corporation the} could more readily promote the\\nwelfare of the settlement, advance the cause of truth, hire preach-\\ning, and to see if thej could come into some measure for further\\nfinishing the meeting-house.\\nIn the establishment of the church as a distinct organization,\\nthree or four years afterwards, he was a zealous worker. When it\\nw\\\\as fully established he was appointed to serve the Table of the\\nLord for a time until the church shall proceed to make choice of\\nDeacons.\\nHis wife, also, was one of the nine sisters whom the twelve men,\\nas soon as they had become a visible, distinct church, I egularly\\nand scripturally embodied, admitted to communion. They unani-\\nmously voted to receive y^ hereafter mentioned sisters as stand-\\ning in full chh. membership with ym.\\nHe was one of the committee to wait on Ebenezer Hill and\\ninvite him to become their Pastor. When the Rev. Mr. Hill, who\\nhad accepted the call, w\\\\as ordained, he and Hobert Russel were\\nvoted to be a committee to wait on the honorable council at his\\noi dination. It was at his house that Mr. Hill was entertained\\nwhile preaching as a candidate for settlement. He was amiable\\nand uniform in temperament, as an old gentleman, now in his\\ngrave, told me, who knew him well. In stature he was about six\\nfeet high, and wore a white linen cap under his three-cornered hat,\\nwhich was exchanged on the Sabbath for a green one, when he\\nwent to meeting.\\nThe genealogy of Jason Dunster, to whom I refer, is clearly\\ntraced by authentic records to the Rev. Henry Dunster, the fli st\\nPresident of Harvard College, who was, as one of his contempo-\\nraries says, a prodigy of learning, of undoubted piety, energetic in\\ncharacter as well as firm in decision. Uncompromising with the\\nworld, he dared to preach manfully the truths he conscientiously\\nbelieved and sincerely regarded. For this he fell under the ban\\nof meddlesome Massachusetts, not yet quite cured of her intoler-\\nance. He was indicted by the grand jury, tried and convicted by\\nthe court, sentenced to pay a fine, and be admonished on lecture-\\ndaj put under bonds for good behavior, and afterwards ordered\\nto leave the town for preaching against the ordinance of infant\\nbaptism.\\nIn the discipline of the college President Dunster availed him-\\nself of the belief of the age in the active agencj^ of malevolent but\\ninvisible beings, and deemed it proper to apply this, at that time,\\npotent instrumentality to the governmeut of the unruly. A tradi-\\ntion is still extant among his descendants that one day, being at", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 81\\nConcord, he suddenly ordered bis horse to be saddled, for he must\\nlusttuitly return to Cambridge, On being asked the cause of his\\nabrupt departure, he replied that he had received word that the\\nstudents there had raised the devil, and being unable to control his\\nexhibitions had become alarmed. This practice, if wo may believe\\nthe stories of recent college boys, is not obsolete, but understood\\nby them in a very diSerent light from that received in former times.\\nOn arriving at Cambridge he took his well-filled powder-horn, and,\\npouring a part of its contents on the floor, he abjured the presence\\nof such a visitor, and to the relief of the affrighted boys directly\\nflashed him out of college. It is added that, when thus summarily\\nsent away, he was heard to say that he would never trouble any\\nof the Dunsters afterwards but this consoling assurance, as far\\nas I am informed, does not make a part of the tradition in the\\nMason branch of that family.\\nIt is not wonderful that such a strange mixing up of piety with\\nsuperstition, of truth with delusion, by our fathers, should have had\\na mighty influence on the first settlers of this town. They had\\nimbibed from their ancestors many notions of the physical power\\nof invisible agents, and given them a large credit for acts of won-\\nder.\\nIt was fully believed by some here a hundred years ago that the\\nsame old fellow who raised such a rumpus at Cambridge had de-\\nposited in the solid rock, near the foot of the high falls on the right\\nbank of the Souhegau River, a pot of money, veritable coins of\\ngold, now almost become a myth. How he got it into the solid rock\\nthey stopped not to inquire. It was there, so they said and\\nbelieved. How to get it, was the practical inquiry. Deacon Da-\\nkin, probably thinking to anticipate his less vigilant neighbors and\\navail himself of the hidden treasure, or, perhaps, to outwit the de-\\npositor, resolved to blow the rock away. Making a confederate of\\nthe blacksmith living close to him, and enjoining strict privacy in\\nthe matter, they began operations the blacksmith to make the\\nnecessary drills and other tools, the deacon to work and blow until\\nthe coveted treasure should be brought to light. Laboring dili-\\ngently, they persevered until a huge hole was made in the rock\\nbut no wealth, as may be readily conjectured, was ever obtained.\\nThe hole blowed out I have often seen no doubt it remains there\\nyet. It was said, when the matter leaked out, that they continued\\nto dig until they were admonished that they were taking too large\\na liberty with the depositor s domain.\\nUpon a granite stone, mostly covered by lichens, on lot number\\nten, in the eighteenth range, formerly owned by my father, was a\\nsingular impression, which really was not a natural one. It was\\nreputed to have been the track of the same agent who had hid the\\nmoney at the high falls. The story connected with it was, that\\nBenjamin Knowlton, who lived on the next lot north, close to the\\nold road, which was on the Mason and New Ipswich line, had a\\nquarrel with his wife, in which she proved to be his hetter half in\\n11", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "82\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nreality. The women in those da3-s were some of them athletes as\\nwell as amazons. I haw seen one, a daughter-in-law of Jonathan\\nFoster, or old Bear Foster, as he was familiarly called, whose lon-\\ngevity was mentioned by the gifted orator of the day, in the grove\\nthis forenoon, who could lift a barrel of cider, and, holding it on\\nher knees, drink from it.\\nKnowlton, exasperated at his discomfiture, invoked, as the story\\ngoes, the help of one whom he believed was more than a match for\\nhis belligerent wife. Responding promptly to the summons, he made\\nhis appearance, somewhat to KnoAvlton s alarm. Nothing daunted,\\nhis wife pitched in upon the new-comer, not exactly according\\nto the etiquette of the prize ring, but in a way that soon satisfied\\nhim that it was not best to fight it out. on that line, when, with a sin-\\ngle bound he lighted on the stone referred to, some ninety rods dis-\\ntant. When a child, I never dared to visit that stone except in com-\\npany with older people. The spot said to be his track was free\\nfrom moss but whether sulphur was unfavorable to vegetation,\\nor some wag kept it carefully rubbed off to perpetuate the wonder,\\nI leave the audience to guess. Such are some of the incoherent\\nglimpses of our fathers in times gone by.\\nPermit me to close with the sentiment Mason village, my\\nnative place. May his footprints never come nearer to it.\\nNo. 8. The Flag of our Union and its Literary Namesake.\\nRESPONDED TO BY JAMES R. ELLIOTT, OP BOSTON, MASS.\\nNo. 9. Our Common Schools.\\nRESPONDED TO BY REV. E. J. EMERY, OF MASON.\\nNo. 10. The Homes of our Youth.\\nRESPONDED TO BY HON. WILLIAM W. JOHNSON, OF NEW IPSWICH.\\nNo. 11. The Memory of John Boynton.\\nRESPONDED TO BY REV. D. GOODWIN, OF MASON CENTRE.\\nNo report of this response having been furnished, I have thought\\nit suitable to copy and insert here the following\\nMemorial notice of John Boynton, Esq., offered by the Presi-\\ndent and adopted by the Trustees of the Worcester County Free\\nInstitute of Industrial Science, at the annual meeting held June\\n5, 1867.\\nThe death of John Boynton, Esq., the worthy and respected\\nfounder of the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Sci-\\nence, on the 25th of March last, is an event which demands a brief\\nmemoir on our records. Mr. Boynton was born in Mason, N. H.,\\non the 31st of May, 1791. He worked as a farmer with his father,", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "^5^^ /^/Pv^^^t;^^^^", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 83\\nuntil near the year 1821. Then he began, at New Ipswich, the\\nmanufacture and sale of tin ware. In a short time he removed to\\nTempleton, where he remained till he retired from active business,\\nin 1846. He was representative of the town of Templeton in the\\nState Legislature, but declined other public offices. After he dis-\\nposed of his business in Templeton, he resided in Athol, where he\\nwas the first president of the Miller s River Bank in that town.\\nHe was twice married, and had no children, and was a widower at\\nthe time of his death. He died unexpectedly and suddenly, at\\nTempleton, after an attack of inflammation on the lungs, occa-\\nsioned by the exposure of a ride in a severe storm.\\nHe had little school instruction, and no literary taste. He\\ndirected his powers less to intellectual culture than to the business\\nby which he sought to acquire wealth. He was modest and re-\\nserved in his disposition, and quiet and orderly in his habits, and\\nhe had a reputation for carefulness and moderate thrift, rather\\nthan for large acquisitions, or a philanthropic spirit. He was re-\\ngarded as an honest, unambitious man, whose thoughts and care\\ndid not reach beyond his private affairs and his personal comforts.\\nHis love of concealment was injurious to his acts of individual\\nkindness and his general popularity. This disposition was grati-\\nfied, in hiding in his own breast the benevolent enterprise to which\\nhe intended to devote the largest part of his property, during his\\nlife. It was, therefore, a subject of general surprise and admira-\\ntion, when his reluctance to make display could no longer conceal\\nthe fact that this severe economist had acquired so large a power\\nof public beneficence, and that he had generously parted with it\\nduring his life, to provide for young men the advantages of scien-\\ntific and skilful training in mechanic arts, and in other depart-\\nments of active business, which he himself had not enjoyed, and\\nhe had not been thought capable of appreciating. It is unneces-\\nsary to repeat here, that he was most liberal and accommodating\\nin adopting modifications of his original instructions, by which the\\nobjects of this Institute could be more fully presented. He made\\nno provision or suggestion for his personal advantage or distinc-\\ntion, or for the honor of his name. No grain of selfishness tar-\\nnished the beauty of his noble benefaction. After giving to his\\nrelatives such donations as he judged proper and sufficient, he\\ntransferred to this Institute one hundred thousand dollars, care-\\nfully invested, for the purposes set forth in his letter of gift. And\\nhe reserved for himself a small amount of property, sufficient\\nfor his frugal habits and simple tastes in the residue of his life.\\nSeveral years ago he gave, in his peculiar and quiet manner, ten\\nthousand dollars for the public schools in Mason, N. H., where he\\nwas born.\\nWhile he lived it was proper to respect his wishes as to any\\npersonal distinction, in connection witli his gifts. Now that the\\nprovidence of God has withdrawn him (Voui participation in the\\nlabors and feelings of this life, these trustees have a duty to pre-", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nserve his memory for honor and gratitude. The following resolu-\\ntion is, therefore, adopted\\nHe solved, That the principal building for instruction, of the\\nWorcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science, shall be\\ndesignated and called Boynton Hall, to perpetuate the honored\\nname of the founder of the Institute, and to enlarge the good in-\\nfluence of his wise and liberal benefaction.\\nIt may not be improper to remark that Mr. Boynton acted upon\\nthe principle which has rendered the name of George Peabody\\nillustrious for all time, that of bestowing his wealth and adminis-\\ntering his estate in his lifetime, not leaving it to be contended for\\nin, or wasted by, the expenses incident to lawsuits. He was buried\\nin the graveyard at Mason Centre, by the side of his first wife.\\nA chaste monument, erected in good taste, marks the appreciation\\nin which he was regarded by his friends and fellow-townsmen.\\nNo. 12. The Memory of Jonas Chickering.\\nNo. 13. The New England and Western States,in the same latitude\\nmay no longitudinal line ever divide them.\\nRESPONDED TO BY REV. GEORGE F. MERRIAM.\\nOf responses Nos. 8,9, 10, 12, and 13, inclusive, no report has\\nbeen furnished.\\nNo. 14. The Doctors of Mason.\\nRESPONSE BY DR. JOHN BACHELDER, OF PLYMOUTH, MASS.\\n1. William Barber. He was born in Worcester, Mass., in\\n1767, and obtained a good private medical education. He came\\nto Mason in 1789, as a school-teacher. He was paid for his first\\nterm of teaching, in the south district, $8.12^, besides waiting a\\nyear and a half before the town voted to pay it.* He commenced\\nthe practice of medicine in 1791, probably teaching school during\\nthe preceding winter. In 1793, he purchased of the town a little\\nfarm, at the rate of $8.67 per acre, which constituted the north-\\neast corner of the common or parade-ground on the Brookline\\nroad, on which he erected a spacious house and other buildings.\\nThe house is still standing, seventy-five years old. He possessed\\nsuperior conversational powers and social qualities, employing lan-\\nguage at once chaste and fluent. Indeed, he was a model gentle-\\nman of the old school, and a careful and conscientious physician.\\nHe continued in practice until disabled by infirmities of age, near\\nthe close of his life, about sixty-one years. He died in 1852,\\naged eighty-five years. f\\nIt is probable that this was a disputed arrearage, requiring special\\nvote of the town.\\nt Dr. Barber was a fellow-boarder with ray father iu the family of Mr.\\nJohn Wiuship, from the time lie commenced practice iu town until my", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 85\\n2. Joseph Gray. He was born in Providence, R. I., was prob-\\nably an officer of the Revolutionary army, perhaps surgeon, pro-\\ncured a thorough medical education in the best medical school\\nthen in the United States, first settled in the town of Hudson (then\\nNottingham west), removed to Mason in 1790, when he was\\nthirty-nine years of age. He settled on a farm, one mile north of\\nthe centre of the town, on the Wilton road. It is probable that\\nhe erected the buildings on his farm, and resided there nineteen\\nyears. He appears to have been a physician of more than ordi-\\nnary attainment and skill, for the time.\\n3. Henry Gray. He was son and successor of the preceding,\\nborn in Hudson, 1783 practised medicine in Mason from 1809 to\\n1814, then relinquished his practice to Dr. Johnson, and removed\\nto Londonderry, Vt., where he was residing as late as 1859, being\\nthen seventy-six years of age.\\n4. Willis Johnson. He was born in Sturbridge, Mass., in\\n1786. He studied medicine with private tutors three and a half\\nyears, which is more than the usually required time. He first set-\\ntled in Jaffrey, in 1807, but removed to Peterborough the following\\nyear, and remained there till he removed to Mason, in 1814, where\\nhe remained until his death, in 1859. He was the only physician\\nof the list here mentioned who served in any civil office. He was\\nTown Clerk twenty-two years, longer than the term of any other\\nTown Clerk. He was chairman of the Board of Selectmen five\\n3^ears, and was Justice of the Peace from 1823 to the time of his\\ndeath, thirt^^-six years. Dr. Johnson was the latest and best\\nknown of the deceased or removed physicians. He had a fine per-\\nsonal appearance, large, well proportioned, dignified and com-\\nmanding. He possessed an inexhaustible fund of anecdote, from\\nwhich he was always ready to draw on all proper occasions. He\\nnever seemed to grow weary in relating reminiscences of the past,\\nfather became a house-keeper. He then made his residence in his family\\nuntil he was married and began house-keeping-. And after the death of his\\nfirst wife he returned, and resided with my father till his second marriage.\\nHe was of a large frame, and possessed a vigorous constitution; was\\nstrong, resolute, and hardy, qualities which peculiarly fitted him to endure\\nthe hardships incident to his professional labors in a new and rough coun-\\ntry, which required him often to travel on snow-shoes over the deep fields\\nof snow, saddle-bags on arm, or to breast and struggle his way through\\nimmense drifts, impassable in any other way. Never, even in the most\\nsevere weather, did he fail to respond to the calls of the suft ering. Not\\nunfrequentl} in the early years of his practice, would he find the houses\\nof the poor people whom he visited, destitute of all appliances for his con-\\nvenience, often without candle or lamp, and he would be compelled to\\nspread his simples on the hearth, and on his knees before the fire to manip-\\nulate his mixtures by its light; and sometimes he could find no cup or\\nvessel in which to mix liquid preparations, but a fragment of a broken\\nbean-pot, or of some other article of coarse earthen ware. He was of a\\ncheerful, genial disposition, kind and tender-hearted, ready to I ejoice with\\nthe prosperous, or to sympathize with the afflicted.\\nJ. B. H.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nand thus often inducing his patients to forget their suflferings. He\\nexceeded all his predecessors and contemporaries in the extent of\\nhis practice, which was not limited to the town in which he resided.\\nNotwithstanding his charges were extremely moderate, even for\\nthe times, and his great indulgence towards his debtors (I have\\neven been told that he never asked a debtor for pa^^ment Perhaps\\nthis is not strictly true, but if partially true, it is a circumstance\\nworthy of note. What physician at the present day can live in\\nthe exercise of a like indulgence yet he acquired a competence,\\nand probably no physician in this town had so large a circle of\\nfriends and so few enemies, in proportion, as he had for many\\nyears. For a period of forty years, these physicians (above\\nnamed) held almost the entire practice of the town and much out\\nof it.\\nIn the village\\n1. George Chadwick, 1829-30.\\n2. Israel Herrick, 1831-34:.\\n3. Otis Hoyt, 1835-37.\\nThese, all holding a high rank as physicians, and in the popular\\nfavor, maintained so brief a residence in the town, I will not speak\\nof them particularl3\\\\ The doctors of Mason merit honorable\\nmention on this festival da}^ consecrated to the memory of our\\nancestors. I shall only speak of the deceased and removed, who\\ncannot speak for themselves. These worthy men filled a large\\nplace in the imagination of my boyhood. Their presence inspired\\na feeling of awe which I felt in the presence of no other persons.\\nThey appeared to me more than common mortals, a kind of\\ndemigods. The contents of the saddle-bags seemed to possess a\\nmarvellous potency for good or evil, whose life-giving energy\\ncould only be unlocked by the magic hand of the medical diviner.\\nWith trembling eagerness I watched the changing features, while\\nhis finger rested on the patient s pulse, or his eyes on the protruded\\ntongue, to catch the first monition of life or death. Then, the\\njirescription^ those mysterious mixtures of white, yellow and red,\\nwhich were just the composition required to charm away the\\ndreaded foe. The vocabulary, so strange, so awfully mj^stic Was\\nit Latin, Greek, Hebrew, or the language of immortals Pneu-\\nmonia, hydrocephalus, hydrothorax, ascites, neuralgia, etc., etc.\\nWhat profound, superhuman learning Who could comprehend\\nsuch language The names of drugs were equally recondite,\\ncinchonia, antimony tartarized, submuriate, steel. I knew that\\nmany familiar tools were made of steel but what could doctors\\ndo with steel, except in surgery The symjJtoms were of the same\\nsort. If the patient recovered, as he generall}^ did, all honor to\\nthe divine art, and to him who so skilfully wielded it. If he died,\\nstill I knew there was One from whom proceed the issues of life\\nand death, and who could dispose of the one or the other according to\\nhis behest, and the physician lost nothing in my estimation. His", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 87\\nskill was as conspicuous, I had faith to perceive, in the one case\\nas in the other.\\nNow this picture of a childish imagination, although somewhat\\noverdrawn, j-et is a tolerably correct representation of the estima-\\ntion in which the conscientious physician was held by our grand-\\nfathers and grandmothers. The only learned men in their day\\nwere the minister, the doctor, and the school -master. Lawyers found\\nno resting-place among the sternly upright yeomen of old and I\\nbelieve they still find it an uncongenial soil. The simple faith and\\nintegrity which characterized the people then, themselves illiterate,\\ntended to exalt the skill and wisdom of those who attended them\\nthrough scenes of suffering and affliction. The physician seemed\\nto possess a charmed life. Though in the midst of disease and\\ndeath, who ever heard, years ago, of a physician dying, or sick?\\nThese events are of recent occurrence. The two Grays removed\\nfrom town, the elder after a residence of nineteen years. The\\nremaining and succeeding physicians enjoyed firm health through\\na long term of practice, one of sixty-one years, the other of\\nforty -five. Who can wonder that they were regarded as a kind of\\ndemigods by our simple-minded ancestors? But they have at last\\nj ielded to the claims of mortality. Their dust now mingles with\\nthe dust of those whose mortal woes they sought to alleviate.\\nRequiescant in pace All honor to a people, so confiding, so\\nconscientious, so prompt in remunerating those to whose care they\\ncommitted their dearest earthly interests.\\nLETTER OF EDWARD S. HILL.\\nRosEMOND, III., Aug. 19, 1868.\\nDr. Marshall^ Jona. M^issell, Esq., and Associates:\\nGents Your letter of invitation to be present at the Centennial\\nCelebration in Mason, reached me in due time, and it would be to\\nme a source of much pleasure to be present on that occasion, but\\nmy business is such that I must forego that pleasure. Many years\\nhave passed since I was a resident of that town, yet it has always\\nbeen a source of great pleasure to me to visit the home of my\\nyouth. When a boy I used to go to mill for Aaron Wood, Capt.\\nWilson, and other neighbors, whose boys were too small to ride\\nastride the horse on top of two or more bags of grain to the Har-\\nbor, as the village was then called. Capt. Wood used to pay me\\nsix cents each time. I put the cents in a small purse, and when I\\nhad one hundred cents my purse was full that was the first money\\nI ever earned. The little purse of pennies to me looked large,\\nand with it I bought a Bible, which I still possess. 1 have ever\\nloved to travel that road, over the Darling Hill to the Village.\\nEvery tree, every rock, is an old acquaintance, and if any of them\\nhave been removed, I miss them. I well remember many of those\\nwho were the active men of the town one hundred years ago Obadiah\\nParker, Deacon Hall, Capt. Joseph Barrett, Samuel Smith, John\\nSwallow, Elder Wm. Elliott, Joshua Davis, and the old chorister,", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nBenj. Kendall, and others. Many of those named I think now\\nhave none of their descendants in the town. Some portions of\\nthe town have changed but little during the hundred years now\\npassed, while in others many and great are the changes made, and\\nthe progress onward. The old bog meadows and swamps, that\\nused to be thought worthless, are now of great value, and the\\ntime is not far distant when all the productions of the town will\\nbe brought into use. The shrubs, brakes, ferns, and innumerable\\ngranite rocks and stones will be a source of profit to the inhabi-\\ntants of the town. I love to recall my early schoolmates and\\nschool days, and the good old strict discipline and drill of the\\nschools, when persons passing a school-house would receive a\\ngraceful bow from the children and j outh, instead of a volley of\\nsnow-balls, as is often the case at the present time. I know of\\nbut few of the many who have emigrated from Mason, whose sub-\\nsequent lives have been a disgrace to the land of their birth.\\nMay the present and the future generations of the town be an im-\\nprovement on the past.\\nKespectfully,\\nEdward S. Hill.\\nNo. 16. Twenty years ago.\\nSong sung by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Wright, of Templeton,\\nMass., who left Mason to take up their abode in Templeton,\\njust twenty years before the Centennial day\\nTWENTY YEARS AGO.\\nI ve wandered to the village, Tom,\\nI ve sat beneath the tree\\nUpon the school-house playground,\\nWhich sheltered you and me\\nBut none were there to gj-eet me, Tom,\\nAnd few were left to know,\\nThat ijhij ed with us uj^on the grass\\nSome twenty years ago.\\nThe grass is just as green, Tom\\nBarefooted boys, at play.\\nWere sporting as we did then,\\nWith spirits just as gay\\nBut the master sleeps uijon the hill,\\nWhich, coated o er with snow,\\nAftbrded us a sliding-place\\nJust twenty years ago.\\nThe river s running just as still;\\nThe willows on its side\\nAre larger than they were, dear Tom\\nThe stream appears less wide", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "SENTIMENTS AND RESPONSES. 89\\nThe grape-vine swing is ruined now,\\nWhere once we played the beau,\\nAnd swung our sweethearts, pretty girlsV\\nJust twenty yeai s ago.\\nThe spring tliat bubbled neath the hill.\\nClose by the spreading beach,\\nIs very low twas once so high\\nThat we could almost reach\\nAnd kneeling down to get a drink.\\nDear Tom, I started so,\\nTo see how much that I was changed.\\nSince twenty years ago.\\nNear by the spring, upon an elm,\\nYou know I cut your name,\\nYour sweetheart s just beneath it, Tom,\\nAnd you did mine the same.\\nSome heartless wretch had peeled the bark\\nTwas dying sure but slow\\nJust as that one, whose name was cut,\\nDied twenty years ago.\\nMy lids have long been dry, Tom\\nBut tears came to my eyes,\\nI thought of her I loved so well.\\nThose early broken ties.\\nI visited the old church-yard,\\nAnd took some flowers to strew\\nUiJon the graves of those we loved,\\nSome twenty years ago.\\nSome are in the church-yard laid,\\nSome sleep beneath the sea.\\nBut few are left of our old class.\\nExcepting you and me\\nAnd when our time shall come, dear Tom,\\nAnd we are called to go,\\nI hope they ll lay us where we played\\nJust twenty years ago.\\n12", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MASON\\nFROM 1858 TO 186 8.\\nBy JOHN B. HILL.\\nMason, Sept. 5tb, 1868.\\nAt a meeting of the Committee of General Arrangements for\\nthe Centennial Celebration, held this da}^ it was voted unani-\\nmously to invite the Hon. John B. Hill to prepare for publication\\ntlie proceedings of the Centennial Celebration, Oration, Poem,\\nChronicles, Responses to toasts, etc., so far as they can be ob-\\ntained, and to write the histoiy of the town from the j^ear 1858\\nto the pi-esent 3 ear, for publication. It was also voted that Abraam\\nWright be a committee to inform Mr. Hill of the above action.\\nCharles P. Richardson, Clerk.\\nPursuant to the preceding vote, the foregoing pages have been\\nprepared for publication, and I now proceed to complete the his-\\ntory of the town, having published, in 1858, a volume of 324 pages,\\ncomprising the history of the town from the grant of the terri-\\ntory by the Masonian proprietors Nov. 1st, 1749, to the close of\\nthe _year 1858, in which will be found full lists of marriages and\\ndeaths in the town for one hundred years, lists of revolutionary sol-\\ndiers, of town officers, and all particulars and incidents in the his-\\ntory of the town, both civil and religious, which were deemed to be\\nof importance.\\nIt is said, that is a happy people whose condition furnishes no\\nitem for the historian. Such was the state of this people in the\\nj^ears 1859 and 1860 but in 1861 they felt, with the rest of the\\ncommunity, the approach of that great civil war, the magnitude\\nand horror of which are without example in the history of the\\nworld.\\nAt a town meeting May 16th, 1861, Voted, to appropriate\\n$1,500 for the use of volunteers who shall enlist in the service of\\ntheir country for three years. James L. Chamberlin, George\\nTaft, John 8. Spalding, Joseph B. Wilson and Willard Jefts were\\nappointed a committee to have charge of the disbursement of the\\nsaid appropriation.\\nVoted, to present each person, a resident, who shall enlist for\\ntln-ee years, with a revolver. Voted, that the increase of the pay\\nof soldiers, above the government price of $11.00, be left to the", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MASON. 91\\ndiscretion of the committee for the assistance to the families of\\nthe volunteers.\\n1861, Oct. 7th. Voted, to pay to the wives of the volunteers en-\\nlisted in the service of the United States, and their children under\\n16 years dependent on them, one dollar per week, not exceeding\\n$16 a month, for one family if necessary; and the disbursement\\nof the same was left with the above committee.\\n1862, Aug. 12. Voted, to pa}^ a bounty of $100 to each volun-\\nteer from the town for three years, in the service of the United\\nStates. Voted, to add $50 to the above bounty, if accepted by the\\nproper authorities. Voted, to pay $100 to volunteers for nine\\nmonths chose a committee, George W. Scripture, William Clag-\\ngett, Jacob Rideout, James Taft, John S. Spalding, to enlist\\nvolunteers.\\n1863, Aug. 10. Voted, to pay to each volunteer, or to each\\ndrafted man, or his substitute, out of the town treasur^^, $300,\\nnot to be paid until ten days after he shall be mustered into the\\nservice of the United States, and to raise $5,100 for that pur-\\npose.\\n1863, Sept. 29. Voted, to rescind the vote passed at the meeting\\nAug. 10, and voted to pay to each drafted or conscripted man, or\\nto his substitute, to serve on our quota, $150, agreeably to the\\nact of the Legislature of June last, and that the selectmen borrow\\nthe money for that purpose.\\n1863, Dec. 8. Voted, that the town will advance the money to\\npay the volunteers the amount of the National and State bounties,\\nalso to raise $400 to pay the volunteers in addition to the Na-\\ntional and State bounties. Wm. G. Lakin was chosen agent to\\nprocure the volunteers to fill the quota of men now called for.\\n1864, March 8. Voted, to reimburse those who have paid for\\nsubstitutes under the recent draft to the amount of $300, inclu-\\nsive of $150 already paid by the town. Voted, to reimburse those\\nwho have paid commutation to the amount of $150.\\n1864, Aug. 8. Voted, that the selectmen be instructed to pro-\\ncure substitutes to fill our quota under the present call for troops,\\nand to pay any sum not exceeding $200 for one year s, $400\\nfor two years and $600 for three years men and any person\\nenrolled in the town, -by paying the diftei-ence above the State and\\ntown bounties, shall have the privilege of a substitute, and his\\nname be stricken from the enrolment. Voted, that the selectmen\\nbe authorized to borrow $15,000 for the above object. Voted,\\nto sanction the doings of the selectmen in procuring substitutes\\nunder former calls, and that they be authorized to borrow money\\nto pa} for the same. Voted, to pay $200 to each man that is\\ndrafted to fill the quota of the town, when he is accepted and\\nmustered into the service of the United States, and that the\\ntown borrow $5,000 for the same.\\n1865, March 14. Voted, that the selectmen be authorized to\\nprocure substitutes to fill future quotas, nwd to burrow money for", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nthe same. Voted, that the selectmen be authorized to refund to\\nthose who have furnished substitutes to fill the town quotas, and\\npaid the commutation fee, the amount paid by them for that pur-\\npose and to borrow $5,000 to pay for the same.\\n1867, March 12. Voted, topaj^the soldiers who enlisted without\\nbounty in the late war, and were credited to the town, $100 a\\nyear, and in that ratio for the time spent in the service of the\\nUnited States. Voted, to raise $1,800, for that purpose.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n93\\n4^\\n4-3\\n4^\\n4J\\nd\\na\\n5\\nu\\n3\\nM\\no\\no\\no\\nCO M\\nrt s\\nn 3 a .2\\n-Ih^\\no\\n25 W\\nei\\nH53\\n43\\no\\no\\n73\\nP\\nPh\\npq\\n2\\nH\\nP5\\na\\no\\n05 l\\na\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23 9\\nCOH-I\\no\\n03\\nO\\n73\\nOJ\\nl4\\nPh\\npq\\n0)\\na cj\\n^pq\\n\u00c2\u00bb3\\na;\\na\\n73\\nc:\\n73\\nOJ\\nid\\n73\\n73\\na.\\nCO\\ns\\nQ.\\ncZJ_a3 _\\nCO\\nd\\n1\\na\\n6 -5 H H 3 H? 3 fe\\na a\\no\\ni2\\ni_\\n81\\na 2\\n_:\\n00\\ns\\na\\n3\\nrt\\nO\\nM\\nS\\n4J\\ns\\n13\\na\\na\\n0)\\na,\\na\\na\\no\\nu\\n73\\ns\\no\\nw\\n73\\ncS\\nS\\no\\n_fcC\\ni\\nX3\\na\\nO\\nCO\\n73\\na\\n3\\na\\nc3\\n.Q\\nr^\\n73\\nCO\\n_fc*_\\nH\\nH\\n_\u00c2\u00b1\\nHi\\nH\\n-3l\\n3\\n-lj\\na\\n4.3\\nSX)\\ntb\\n_a\\n.3\\nI)\\nC3\\no\\na\\nS\\na\\no\\nC\\niC\\nbX)\\n;p\\nS\\nX3\\nCO\\nCD\\npH\\nm\\no\\ns\\nirj\\ni:C\\nsc\\n,..4\\ni\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i\\ng\\na\\no\\nH\\n.s\\n00\\n5\\n.2\\no.\\n.3\\nc3\\n5\\n3\\nC3\\na\\nCO\\na\\na\\n-a\\no\\ni-q\\nCO\\nO\\nA\\n!_\\n_!_\\no\\nt-5\\n-5\\n_^5\\n3\\na\\nc\\na\\na\\na\\na\\na\\nGO\\no\\n6\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\nm\\nCO\\n73\\n73\\n73\\n73\\n73\\n73\\nO\\nU\\nS\\n1\\nw\\nP^\\ntj\\n1 a\\no\\nw\\npq\\npq\\nPq\\npq\\npq\\nw\\npq\\nH\\nO\\n3\\n1.\\no\\n73\\nO\\n73\\no\\n73\\no\\n5,\\n73\\no\\n,a\\n7)\\no\\n-a\\n73\\no\\na\\n73\\nO\\nSi\\nO\\n73\\no\\n-5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-J\\n\u00c2\u00b12_\\ni-i\\ni-s\\n1-J\\n1-5\\n^-3\\nd\\n4^\\no\\no\\nC3\\nfi4\\noi\\nCO\\nCO\\n3\\n3\\n4J\\no\\n\u00c2\u00bb-5\\n3\\n0)\\n4^\\nM\\nH\\nW\\nH\\nt3\\ni\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00ba-5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-5\\n1-3\\nw\\nM\\nCO\\n73\\ni3\\nC3\\n^7\\nJ\\nT^\\ng\\n1-3\\npq\\nA\\nkJ\\n1.\\nH\\nA\\nCi\\no\\nr-^\\nW\\nCO\\n-i\\nU5\\nCO\\nl--^\\no6\\no\\no\\no\\nCO\\nCD\\no\\nCO\\nO\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\ncao\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\nCX\\nCO\\n00\\nOD", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS.\\nUnder this head, it is my purpose to continue the history of the\\nchurches and societies from 1858 to 1868.\\nIn the first Congregational Church the Eev. Daniel Goodwin\\ncontinued his services, as stated in the History of Mason, p. 251,\\nuntil he was installed as pastor, April 18, 1861, and he continued\\nin office at the close of the decade.\\nIn the Christian Church the Rev. Mr. Nasou was succeeded by\\nthe Rev. Mr. Ham, whose successor was the Rev. Mr. Phillips.\\nThe loss in this church and society by the death and by the re-\\nmoval of members from town is probably the reason that since\\nthe close of Mr. Phillips ministry there has been no settled pastor\\nover this church.\\nIn the Baptist Church, the ministry of Mr. Cutting closed\\nMarch 31, 1861. In his ministry thirty members were added to\\nthe church. He was succeeded by the Rev. E. J. Emery, April\\n14, 1861. His ministry closed March 21, 1865, during which the\\nadditions to the church were fourteen. He was succeeded by the\\nRev. L. C. Stevens, April 1, 1865, who still continues in office.\\nUnder his ministry fort^^-two have been added to the church.\\nThe number of members, July 30, 1869, was eighty-four. Dea.\\nJonas Adams died Feb. 28, 1859. Dea. Samuel Hartshorn died\\nSept. 16, 1861. Benjamin H. Day and Sewall F. Adams were\\nchosen deacons Aug. 31, 1860. Eben Tilton was chosen deacon\\nJuly 3, 1868. In 1866 the church repaired their house of worship\\nat an outlay of about $600. In the same year Lucius A. Elliott,\\nEsq., of Boston, conveyed to the church, as a free gift, the prop-\\nerty including the dwelling-house and out-buildings in the village,\\nformerly owned by his father, the late George Elliott Esq., after\\nputting the same in good repair, to be used as a parsonage.\\nTHE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN MASON VIL-\\nLAGE.\\nThe death of Dea. Stephen Smith was soon followed by that of\\nDea. Simeon Cragin, who departed this life Sept. 2, 1858, ripe in\\nyears and graces of Christian character. The loss of these two\\npillars has been deeply felt by the church, in the decade of years\\nthat has since passed. A spirit of harmony has prevailed among\\nits members, with a good degree of outward prosperity, and j^et,\\nfor a variety of reasons, it has failed of that growth and strength\\nfor which its friends have hoped.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS.\\n95\\nAfter a very brief pastorate, Kev. Samuel J. Austin resigned his\\ncharge, April 24, 1859, and was succeeded bj^ Rev. George E.\\nFisher, who labored with great zeal and devotion, till Oct. 29,\\n1862, when he, too, at his own request, was dismissed from his\\npastoral care. Soon after. Dr. M. N. Root was engaged as stated\\nsupply, and continued his ministrations till the summer of 1864.\\nDuring the same season (August 27), a call was extended to\\nRev. Andrew Jaquith but it reached him only on the eve of his\\ncall to the heavenly service. In October, 1864, Rev. George,\\nF. Merriam, the present pastor, entered upon his ministry, and\\nMarch 9, 1865, was ordained and installed over the church. He\\nhas found the field a very pleasant one, among the friends of youth,\\nand has enjoyed with them one season of special refreshing during\\nthe winter of 1865, 1866.\\nThe other officers of the church are.\\nDeacon Merrill C. Dodge, chosen Sept. 25, 1857.\\nMarshall Kimball, Nov. 5, 1858.\\nCharles Baldwin, Sept. 23, 1859.\\nCharles Wilson,\\nThe Sabbath school, so long under the charge of Dea. Smith,\\nhas, since his decease, continued to prosper in the care of super-\\nintendents Dea. Dodge, Bro. E. B. Barrett, and Dea. Wilson.\\nThe present membership of the church is one hundred and ten, of\\nwhich thirty-eight are males, seventy-two females. The number\\nbelonging to the Sabbath school is about one hundred and twelve.\\nWithin the past few months the church has had special cause\\nfor gratitude to its friends, and, above all, to Him who putteth\\nliberal things into the hearts of His people, for the gifts of a new\\ncommunion service, from Mrs. E. C. Brown, of Boston, and a par-\\nsonage from George D. Cragin, Esq., of New York. Both of\\nthese presents were peculiarly welcome, and the latter, purchased\\nat a cost of three thousand dollars, is a munificent token of the\\ngiver s kind remembrance of his native village, and love for the\\nchurch, to which, from its first organization, his parents were so\\ndevoted.\\nThe old Roman mother, pointing to her children, said, These\\nare my jewels and with similar spirit this church cherishes the\\nmemory of her sainted ones. Among others, slie mourns the early\\ndeath of Rev. Edwin E. Merriam, who was for years a member of her\\nSabbath school, and though unable to mark any time when he did\\nnot clierish Christian hope, was always accustomed to speak with\\ntender interest of the religious impressions here received. He\\nafterwards united with the church in Plymoutli, Mass., graduated\\nat Amherst College in 1858, with high reputation as a scholar and\\na writer taught in the South and West graduated at Union The-\\nological Seminary, New York, in 1863 and was soon afterwards\\ncalled to the Presbyterian Church in Salem, Penn., where among\\na loving people, and with the brightest prospects of usefulness, he\\ndied, Feb. 17, 1865, aged twenty-eight years. His end was peace.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nList of Marriages from Nov., 1857, to close of the Year\\n1868, Taken from the Town Records,\\n1857, Nov. 22. George R. Elliott, Mason. Eliza E. Stevens,\\nMason.\\n26. Leonard Elliott, Pepperell. Augusta S. Hodg-\\nman, Mason.\\nDec. 17. Henry Kirke, Mason. Sarah Gardiner, Mason.\\n31. Kendell Davis, Sharon. Lucinda Chamberlin,\\nMason.\\n1858, Jan. 4. Edmund Holden, Mason. Elizabeth Flagg,\\nMason.\\nApril 15. Edmund Blood, Townsend. Nancy W. Simonds,\\nTown send.\\n22. John Campbell, Mason. Lavinia Hemphill,\\nMason.\\nJune 27. Moses Towne, Townsend. Nancy Razen, Town-\\nsend.\\nJuly 4. Charles H. Hanaford, West Brookfield. Jennie\\nA. Nason, Mason.\\nSept. 20. James H. Furgeson, Mason. Ellen M. Kim-\\nball, Mason.\\nOct. 1. Elbridge Howe, Peterboro Henrietta Felch,\\nMason.\\n5. George M. Frederic, Mason. Mary J. Wright,\\nMason.\\nNov. Joshua J. Hobart, Mason. Melvina S. Davis,\\nMason.\\n17. William G. Ober, Mason. Alice C. Glover,\\nMason.\\n20. Benjamin F. Lusk, Mason. Lucretia Butler,\\nMason.\\n25. Edward B. Richardson, Mason. Harriet S.\\nWatson, Mason.\\nAbram H. Seaver, Mason. Martha F. Rich-\\nardson, Mason.\\nDec. 28. John R. Lynch, Mason. Abbie J. Kimball,\\nMason.\\n30. Alfred M. White, Mason. Marietta Holt,\\nMason.\\n1859, Feb. 29. Benjamin F. March, Mason. Ellen Finley,\\nMason.\\nApril 15. Perry Farrar, Mason. Mary Blood, Mason.\\nMay 15. Marshall Kimball, Mason. Loisa J. Allen,\\nMason.\\nNov. 20. John S. Bennett, Nashua. Sarah J. Dinsmore,\\nNashua.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES.\\n97\\n1859.\\nDec.\\na\\nli\\n1860,\\nJan.\\n(1\\nJune\\n4. Elisha B, Barrett, Mason. Carrie McClure,\\nMason.\\n20. Rufus Smith, Danville. Susan A. Ingalls,\\nMason.\\n17. Joseph B. Robbing, Mason. Helen M. Wyman,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Mason.\\n2. C. N. Bennett, Boston. Olive M. Kelley,\\nPittsfield, N. H.\\n30. Elbridge H. Howe, New Ipswich. Carrie H.\\nBaldwin, New Ipswich.\\nCharles M. Pierce, Lempster. S. Lizzie Howe,\\nNew Ipswich.\\nSept. 20. Samuel L. Gerould, Stoddard. Lucy A. Mer-\\nriam. Mason.\\nOct. 8. John K. Mills, Mason. Elizabeth B. Holt,\\nMason.\\nDec. 30. James P. Nutting, Mason. Mary A. Phillips,\\nFall River.\\n1861, Jan. 1. William W. Pritchard, Mason. Emeline E. Liv-\\ningston, Mason.\\n28. Jeremy Weston. Lydia J. Karkin.\\nMay 12. Edmund Merriam, Mason. Maria A. Pierce,\\nNew Ipswich.\\n19. Charles H. Dix, Mason. Jannette Sherwin,\\nMason.\\nJuly 4. Aaron Wheeler, Fitchburg. Dorcas Sawyer,\\nMason.\\nNov. 26. Morton L. Barrett, Mason. Rhoda M. Jones,\\nMason.\\n26. Nelson L. Barrett, Mason. Hattie A. Russell,\\nNew Ipswich.\\n1862, March 27. Albert Taylor, Wilton. Mary E. Tibbetts,\\nMason.\\nApril 6. Thomas Jackson, Wilton. Anna R. Blood,\\nMason.\\n10. Charles L. Robbins, Mason. Abby J. Davis,\\nMason.\\nJune 10. John A. Wright, Keene. Julia A. McCoy,\\nGilsum.\\nJuly 5. Elisha K. Frederick, Mason. Emeline V. Rolf,\\nSharon.\\n18. Henry B. Hosmer, Mason. Hattie E. Elliott,\\nMason.\\nAug. 14. Milton H.Hardy, Mason. Mary Jane Marshall,\\nMason.\\n16. George D. Reed, Mason. Eliza Elliott, Mason.\\nNov. 11. Samuel H. Wheeler, Mason. Augusta Camp-\\nbell, Manchester.\\n13", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1862, Dec. 31. Luther A. Blood, Mason. Harriet A. Fuller,\\nCliarlestown, Mass.\\n1863, Jan. 1. Henry Kendall, Shirley. Mary E. Felton,\\nMason.\\n1. Joseph McGown, Shirley. Clementine E. Bax-\\nter, Mason.\\nFeb. 10. Lyman K. Sawtell, Springfield, Mass. Mary\\nJane Whitehead, Rindge.\\n11. George H. Goodwin, Mason. Mary Holbrook,\\nGroton Junction.\\nMay 24. Charles W. Tarbell, New York. Sarah D.\\nGoodwin, Mason.\\nJune 6. J. Harrison Hutchinson, Wilton. Emma T.\\nMoore, Temple.\\nWarner Russell, Mason. Phebe Elliott, Mason.\\nBradley Stone, Milford. Harriet E. J. Temple,\\nMilford.\\nAdin A. Smith, Wilmington, Vt. Lucy Ellen\\nTenney, New Ipswich.\\nWilliam S. White, Mason. Mary M. Emery,\\nNew Ipswich.\\nLevi Johnson, Deering, N. H. Hannah F.\\nWarby, North Chelmsford.\\nOren J. Manning, Townsend. Martha Camp-\\nbell, Mason.\\nJames M. Nutting, Mason. Susan A. Lobdel,\\nMason.\\nJacob H. Bachelder, Mason. Maria S. Hodg-\\nman. Mason.\\nPerr} Farrar, Mason. Sophronia N. Tarbell,\\nMason.\\nCharles A. Wright, New Ipswich. Mary E. J.\\nSanders, Mason.\\nMarquis L. Holt, Mason. Rocene Sherwin,\\nMa-son.\\nJoseph B. Wilson, Mason. Persis S. Blodgett,\\nMason.\\nJonas Richards, Jr., Mason. Isabel Ferman,\\nTownsend.\\n17. Seth Preston, Jr., Mason. Katie A. Fuller,\\nMason.\\n27. George L. Creighton, Mason. Martha M. Hol-\\nden, Maspn.\\nNov. 20. Edward J. O Donnell, Mason. Nellie F. Pres-\\ncott, Mason.\\n20. Frank L. Peabody, Mason. Emeline A. Pres-\\ncott, Mason.\\n24. George Cutting, Fitzwilliam. Jane McGown,\\nMason.\\n(I\\n27.\\nu\\nu\\n27.\\nu\\n30.\\nJuly\\n19.\\nl(\\nu\\n19,\\nNov.\\n1.\\n1864,\\nFeb.\\n11.\\n18.\\nu\\n18.\\nMarch 8.\\n(I\\n20.\\nt(\\nJuly\\n28,\\nAug.\\n15", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 99\\n1865, Feb. 9. John Richards, Mason. Winfred Richards,\\nTownseud, Mass.\\n27. George E. Smith, Ashby, Mass. Eliza A.\\nBadger, Mason.\\n28. Moses C. Wilson, Sharon. Amelia W.\\nS-ylvestQr, New Ipswich.\\n28. Artemas Sylvester, Jr., New Ipswich. Hannah\\nP. Wilson, Sharon.\\nApril 2. Franklin B. Heald, Mason. Emma E. Pritch-\\nard. Mason.\\nMay 8. Prucius W. Manley, New Ipswich. Martha A.\\nSwallow, New Ipswich.\\nJune 10. John S. Sargeant, Milford. Abby A. Putnam,\\nMason.\\nAug. 19. Abbott A. Forbush, Peterborough. Lizzie M.\\nPutnam, Mason.\\n31. Charles Russell, Appleton, Wis., Sarah A.\\nWilder, Mason.\\nSept. 20. Henry L. Stone, Groton. Juliette R. Bond,\\nNew Ipswich.\\nOct. 24. Samuel N. Barrett, Mason. Eliza Brown,\\nAshby.\\n29. Herbert Willard, Ashby. Abby J. Robbins,\\nMason.\\n1866, April 19. Samuel H. Oliver, Mason. Emma E. Sawtell,\\nMason.\\nMay 16. Samuel McGown, New Ipswich. Charlotte L.\\nJohnson, New Ipswich.\\nJune 15. George W. Russell. Sarah A. Ewing.\\n16. Oliver Felix, Mason. Mary Percy, Mason.\\n16. Stephen Austin, Mason. Lydia S. Boynton,\\nMason.\\n16. Mitchell Lafayette, Mason. Eveline L. Preue,\\nMason.\\nJuly 5. Alfred J. Morse, Mason. Almira J. Upton,\\nPeterborough.\\n8. William O. Robbins, Mason. Martha Jane\\nBarrett, Ashby.\\n31. Michael P. Donley, New Ipswich. Hattie A.\\nChristie, New Ipswich.\\nDec. 2. Joseph C. Mason, Mason. Hattie J. Kings-\\nbur}^, Mason.\\n5. Francis A. Spaulding, South Reading. Orinda\\nYork, Peterborough,\\n13. Abner Holden, Mason. Rachel Boynton, Ma-\\nson.\\n25. George E. Blood, Mason. Lizzie Gailey, Ma-\\nson.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1867, Jan. 1. George H. Livingston, Weymouth, Mass.\\nMaiy J. Pierce, Mason.\\n2. John Rlioades, Fayette, Iowa. Ruvina M. Cra-\\ngin. Mason.\\n3. Franklin B. Holden, Mason. Fannie L. Ken-\\ndall, Jaffrey.\\n20. George S. Smith, Nashua. Almira S. Flagg,\\nMason.\\nFeb. 3. Amasa A. Wright, Ashby. Lizzie Susan Badger,\\nAshby.\\n3. Joseph A. Cragin, Temple. Mary E. Sheldon,\\nTemple.\\n23. Patrick Murphy, Mason. Lizzie Lary, Mason.\\nApril 11. Job Siiattuck, Mason. Azubah F. Davis, Ma-\\nson.\\n30. George R. Elliott, Mason. Sarah Austin,\\nMason.\\nOct. 4. Ai Richards, Mason. Ellen E. Day, Town-\\nsend.\\n24. Otis P. Pratt, New Ipswich. Emma C. Ball,\\nMason.\\n30. Edmund B. Newell, Mason. Fannie A. Fessen-\\nden. New Ipswich.\\nNov. 9. Joseph Chamberlin, Mason. Elizabeth Putnam,\\nMason.\\nDec. 7. True Robbins, Mason. Louisa Ames, Mason.\\n17. Louis H. Robbins, New Ipswich. Abbie E.\\nWheeler, New Ipswich.\\n1868, Jan. 25. Anthony Dene-^ere, Mason. Matilda St. Peters,\\nMason.\\nApril 22. Enville J. Emery, Mason. Melissa Emery,\\nMason.\\nJune 2. T. E. Oxford, Fitchburg, Mass. Genevieve\\nA. Becker, Fitchburg, Mass.\\n10. Daniel P. Blake, Westminster, Mass. Melissa\\nR, Newell, Mason.\\nJuly 2. William F. March, Mason. Adeliza Bolton,\\nWest Boylston, Mass.\\n5. Henry A. Barker, Dublin, N. H. Abbie J.\\nLovejo3% Mason.\\nAug. 19. Henry W. Wilson, New Ipswich, N. H. Viola\\nM. Davis, New Ipswich, N. H.\\nSept. 24. Otis C. Elliott, Mason. S. Georgia Nutting,\\nMason.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "DEATHS.\\n101\\nList of Deaths from Jan. 1, 1858, to Dec. 31, 1868. Taken\\nfrom the Town Records, corrected by the Records of the\\nClergymen.\\nCummings McClure, 27.\\nInfant child of Levi Joslin, 5 ms.\\nJohn H. Sawtell, dropsy.\\nInfant child of Jona. Connell, 9 mos.\\nJohn P. French, suicide, 34.\\nHannah Adams, 62.\\nCharles O. Hodgman, suicide, 34.\\nElnathan D. Boynton, palsy, 51.\\nAnnaC. Henr}^, convulsions, 1.\\nPeter Mullen, drowned, 24.\\nInfant child of Thomas Ganey, 8 days.\\nWillie P. Adams, scarlet fever, 5.\\nAugustus E. Chapman, scarlet fever, 11.\\nCharles 0. Robbins, scarlet fever, 8.\\nHattie M. Robbins, scarlet fever, 4.\\nCaroline E. Claggett, scarlet fever, 7.\\nElla Florence Wilson, scarlet fever, 6.\\nAddie E. Adams, scarlet fever, 5.\\nCharles W. Wilson, scarlet fever, 3.\\nRuth Harding, old age, 95.\\nJames D. Goddard, scarlet fever, 7.\\nSimeon Cragin, consumption, 71.\\nDr. Willis Johnson, heart disease, 71.\\nMichael Grad}^, scarlet fever, 3.\\nLorena Russell, consumption, 22.\\nTimothy Jones, 78.\\nMr. Ward, 23.\\nEunice B. Hosmer, drops}^ 77.\\nJonas Adams, fever, 74.\\nMicah Russell, consumption, 67.\\nClara E. Merriam, 9 ms.\\nMrs. Abigail Hill, old age, 87 ys. and 6 ms.\\nIrish child, 6 ms.\\nSusan Cragin, consumption, 25.\\n30. Mrs. S. Tarbell, old age, 69.\\nMartha Merriam, 43.\\nAndrew Elliott, cholera, 69.\\nRuth Withee, consumption, 71.\\nChild of Wm. Claggett, fever, 1.\\nMartha Russell, mortification, 50.\\nDeWitt C. Claggett, fever, 1.\\nNoah Winship, consumption, 74.\\nAsa B. Hodgman, consumption, 34.\\n1858, Jan.\\n1.\\n1.\\nMar.\\n18.\\nu\\n20.\\n31.\\nApril 1.\\nMay 10.\\n30.\\nJune\\n1.\\n(I\\n7.\\n7.\\ni( 4(\\n10.\\n.i\\n16.\\nli a\\n26.\\n26.\\nJuly\\n4.\\n6.\\n10.\\na u\\n14.\\n21.\\nAug\\n26.\\nSept\\nOct.\\n21.\\n2.\\nNov.\\n1.\\nu\\n7.\\nDec.\\n11.\\n1859, Feb.\\n14.\\nu u\\n18.\\n27.\\nMar.\\n7.\\n(I\\n8^\\nMay\\nJune\\n2 r.\\n20.\\n28.\\nu\\n30.\\nAug\\n12.\\nii, LL\\n16.\\n16.\\n29.\\nSept.\\nOct.\\n11.\\n3.\\na\\n12.\\nli il.\\n14.", "height": "3444", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1859, Nov. 23. William Webber, cancer, 77.\\n25. Zebiah Fletcher, consumption, 36.\\nDec. 9. Elijah Davis, old age, 80.\\n12. Eunice Davis, old age, 80.\\n1860, Jan. 19. James Gordon, consumption, 19.\\nMar. 3. Mary Wheeler, consumption, 44.\\n7. Dea. Amos H. Hosmer, consumption, 47.\\n16. Maria Withington, consumption, 16.\\n19. Harry Larken, fits, 5 ms.\\nJuly 21. Mary Morse, dropsy, 63.\\n[No record of this year later than July 21.]\\n1861, Jan. 9. Mrs. E. K. Hardy, 39.\\n21. Lucy M. Cutter, consumption, 20.\\n29. Perley Sanders, 84.\\nFeb. 5. Edward A. Hurdy, fever, 14.\\n20. Edwin B. Watson, 7 mos.\\nMar. 10. Luther Elliott, 47.\\n10. Timothy P. Elliott, 42.\\n31. James Proctor, old age, 83.\\n31. Hannah Taft, old age, 75.\\n31. Sarah Felt, fever, 17.\\nApril 7. John Baldwin, lung fever, 60,\\nMay 2. Sarah Lawrence, 70.\\nJune 2. Wilson, scarlet fever, 3.\\nJuly 29. Hannah Fisher, 3 ms.\\nAug. 29. Rebecca Russell, consumption, 23.\\nSept. 14. Samuel Hartshorn, consumption, 78.\\n19. Martha Green, fever, 23.\\nOct. 5. Nancy Flagg, drops} 69.\\nNov. 11. Charles Prescott, fever, 58.\\n12. Henry E. Blood, fever, 22.\\n21. Daniel L. Merriam, fever, 20.\\n1862, Mar. 10. Morton Ingalls, fever, 21.\\n13. Henry Russell, 17.\\nMay 19. Roger Weston, consumption, 73.\\nJune 26. Jennie McClure, fever, 6.\\n29. Melinda B. Wilson, 49.\\nAug. 25. George W. Watson, 25.\\nSept. 14. Amos Robbins, old age, 87.\\n22. F. M. Knapp, cholera infantum, 4 ms.\\nOct. 7. Mary Winship, fever, 31.\\nNov. 12. Thankful Sawtell, dropsy, 61.\\n12. Charles E. Merriam, in army, 19.\\n27. Hannah H. Merriam, erysipelas, 52.\\nDec. 2. Ephi-aim Russell, old age, 97.\\n13. Mary Darling, heart disease, 73.\\n1863, Jan. 11. Edward Lamb, diphtheria, 2.\\n15. Ira M. Whitaker, measles, in army, 17.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "863,\\nJan. 19.\\nt(\\nFeb. 8.\\n12.\\n17.\\nu\\n17.\\n21.\\n22.\\nMar. 14.\\n20.\\nu\\n21.\\n^i\\n23.\\nApril 22.\\n24.\\nMay 6.\\n25.\\nJune 10.\\n19.\\n28.\\nJuly 2.\\n31.\\n(i\\nAug. 1.\\n2.\\n10.\\n18.\\n21.\\nu\\n21.\\n21.\\n22.\\n23.\\na\\n26.\\n26.\\nSept. 5.\\n9.\\n12.\\nu\\n15.\\nu\\n16.\\nu\\n19.\\nu\\n26.\\n28.\\nii\\n28.\\n30.\\nu\\n30.\\nOct. 1.\\n5.\\nkl\\n13.\\nit,\\n18.\\n28.\\n31.\\nDEATHS. 103\\nAbijah Elliott, disease of kidneys, 61.\\nAbby Hayward, consumption, 30.\\nLucinda Chambevlin, 67.\\nJames W. Merriam, 26.\\nHannah Webber, old age, 74.\\nInfant child of G. L. Blood, lung fever.\\nSally Easterbrook, 80.\\nJohn B. Smith, diphtheria, in army, 18.\\nLyman L. Sanders, diphtheria, in army, 19.\\nMary Merriam, fever, QG.\\nMary Russell, dropsy, 79.\\nWm. Eastman, 53.\\nCalvin Amsden, consumption, 50.\\nWife of Joseph White, 54.\\nJoanna Newell, 66.\\nDavid Amsden, old age, 82.\\nCynthia Bachelder, consumption, 37.\\nGeorge Martin, consumption, 81.\\nEliza Chamberlin, 60.\\nThomas Russell, apoplexy, 77.\\nClaytie O. Scripture, cholera infantum, 2.\\nJoseph White, apoplexy, 67.\\nJames Davis, died in army, 40.\\nGeorge L. Adams, chronic diarrhoea, 37.\\nFrederic P. Scripture, cholera infantum, 1.\\nGustavus Johnson, d3^sentery, 66.\\nCalvin Davis, consumption, 58.\\nCharles E. Russell, dysentery, 10.\\nFrankie Scripture, cholera infantum, 2 ys. 10 mos.\\nLydia Hunt, gravel, 89.\\nEmogene Russell, 8.\\nBell C. Pierce, consumption, 19.\\nEunice Holden, dysentery, 67.\\nRachel Barber, old age, 94 ys. 6 mos.\\nSamuel Withington, dysentery, 77 ys. 9 mos.\\nFreddie L. Richardson, 2 ys. 8 mos.\\nLucy A. Hosmer, 4 ys. 11 mos.\\nEsther Flagg, dysentery, 70.\\nRobbins, croup, 3.\\nAdams, diphtheria, 4.\\nNutting, 2.\\nRobbins, croup, 1.\\nAzubah Withington, dysentery, 83.\\nClarrisa A. Barrett, 33\\nWm. W. Pritcliard, consumption, 37.\\nHarriet B. Hosmer, consumption, 22.\\nMary B. Farrar, dysentery, 53.\\nFinis D. Creighton, fever, 10.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1863, Nov. 9. Albert Taft, apoplexy, 57.\\n11. Child of James S. Tuttle, 3 mos.\\nMcGown, diphtheria, 3.\\nDec. 5. Josiah Flagg, fever, 78.\\n11. Thomas Wilson, fever, 85.\\n18. Orie H. Elliott, diphtheria, 3 mos.\\n20. Maria Whitaker, consumption, 38.\\n28. Lydia Tarbell, old age, 78.\\n31. Albert F. Davis, diphtheria, 21.\\n1864, Jan. 8. Lucy Wilson, old age, 86.\\n21. John E. Stearns, chronic diarrhoea, 32.\\n24. Elva E. Blood, dropsy of brain, 3ys. 10 mos.\\n24. Lucy Scripture, 82.\\n26. Sarah G. Gilman, diphtheria, 3.\\nPatrick Mullen, colic, 1.\\nFeb. 2. Hannah Shattuck, consumption, 68.\\n19. Emma F. Gilman, diphtheria, 9 ys. 6 mos.\\nMar. 25. Mary Heald, palsy, 70.\\n28. Bobbins, whooping cough, 2 mos.\\nSarah Lobdell, diphtheria, 6.\\nDIED IN THE ARMY.\\nRalph Weston,\\nGranville Robbins,\\nNathaniel Smith, 58.\\nAlbert Austin,\\nCharles Baldwin,\\nBarzillai Russell.\\nEtta M. Wright, diphtheria, 9.\\nWife of Oliver Allen, 66.\\nSon of Wallace Pritchard, 2 ys.\\nH. Dix, in rebel prison, 25.\\nMrs. Mary Kimball, 68.\\nA French child, 4 or 5 ys.\\nMr. Ellis, 45.\\nWidow of Joel Ames, 89.\\nSon of Leander Nutting, 27.\\nWilliam Davis, 58.\\nClemena Winship, 37.\\nMr. Worcester, 80.\\nFrancis Cragin, 37.\\nJohn Withee, 79.\\nLucy Barrett, old age, 86.\\nDaughter of Mr. Fontaine, 20.\\nSally Smith, consumption, 71.\\nSarah E. Farwell, croup, 3 mos.\\nLuther Livingston, heart disease, 67.\\nOlive A. Wilson, consumption, 39.\\nApr.\\n15.\\n25.\\nMay\\n11.\\n18.\\n31.\\n31.\\nJuly\\n28.\\nAug.\\n25.\\nSept,\\n3.\\n5.\\nu\\nDec.\\n5.\\n(65\\nJan.\\n18.\\n(I\\n22.\\nFeb.\\n6.\\nu\\n7.\\nit\\n14.\\n15.\\nMar.\\n13.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "DEATHS. 105\\n1865, Mar. 13. Child of Mr. Reed,\\n25. Lucy Robbins, 85.\\n30. Benoni C. Kimball, diabetes, 74.\\nHarriet Allen, 67.\\nApr. 24. Judith, wife of Abijah Eaton, 78.\\nJune 23. Sarah, widow of Andrew Elliott, 79.\\nAug. 16. Wife of John Felt, 72.\\nSept. Abial A. Nutting, dysentery, 61.\\nOct. Infant son of Charles Lynch, 7 mos.\\n11. Abijah Eaton, 80.\\nNov. 24. Freddie Arthur Claggett, croup, 2.\\nDec. 17. Child of E. B. Hosraer, 2 mos.\\n1866, Jan. 2. James A. Wyman, consumption, 22.\\n12. Mrs. Martha Burdick, 33.\\nFeb. 10. Wm. Darling, 79.\\nChild of James Tuttle, 2 mos.\\nJuly 15. Mary, widow of Samuel Hill, old age, 86.\\nAug. 11. Child of Abial Nutting,\\nChild of Whitney, 11 mos.\\n20. Amelia Adams, consumption, 20.\\n28. Clara A. Russell, consumption, 17.\\nSept. 22. Infant child of S. H. Wheeler, 5 weeks.\\n8. Ellen Sheridan, 15.\\nOct. 31. Amos Flagg, 84.\\nDec. Wm. P. Smith, dropsy, 62.\\n1867, Jan. 3. Sarah W. Adams, 78.\\nFeb. 9. Sarah Brasen, 65.\\n13. Lillie Adams, congestion of brain, 1 m.\\n14. John S. Proctor, fever, 50.\\nMar. 8. Frank M. Pierce, rupture, 13.\\n10. Polly Carlton, old age, 89.\\n11. Son of Charles Lynch, 2 days.\\n15. Katie F, Preston, consumption, 22 ys. 9 mos.\\nApr. 15. James Gailey, consumption, 21.\\n22. Anne J. Emery, suicide, 39.\\n24. George Tibbetts.\\nMay 18. Charles Hayes, diabetes, 11.\\n18. Dailey, 5 mos.\\nJune 6 George Mansfield, 1 day.\\nJill} French child.\\nAug. 10. Abigail P. Winship, heart, 78.\\nOct. 5. Sally Merriam, paralysis, 79.\\nNov. 10. Patrick Murphy, heart, 30.\\nDec. 19. Seth Preston, Jr., accident, 24.\\n1868, Feb. 17. Elizabeth Hodge, old age, 90.\\nApr. 26. Sophia Hunt, suicide, 59.\\nMay 17. Mrs. Lucy Wyman, 28.\\nMay 18. Infant child of Wm. Crighton,\\n14", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1868, June 14. Joel Smith, consumption, 50.\\nJuly 15. Alfred Davis, sunstroke, 61.\\n19. John Gordon, 38.\\nAug. 8. Mrs. Mary Nutting, 32.\\n10. Infant son of Samuel N. Barrett, 4 mos.\\nSept. 6. Preston Elliott, 10.\\nOct. 26. Infant child of Otis Robbins, 1 month.\\nThe record of births in the town-books is so deficient and imper-\\nfect, as not to be worth publishing.\\nA Report of the Nunnber and Naines of Soldiers Furnished\\nby the Town of 3Iason, for the Suppression of the JRe-\\nbellion, as inade out Feb. 29, IS 66, by Charles B. Fres-\\ncott,\\nThomas E. Marshall, Co. G-, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Wounded\\nJuly 2, 1863. Promoted to second Sei geant, and then through\\nevery grade up to Captain. Re-enlisted January 5, 1864. In that\\nyear he was placed in command of a companj^ of sharp-shooters,\\nin which he served till the close of the war.\\nCharles H. Dix, Co. G, 2d Reg t, June 5 1861. Discharged\\nfor disability, Dec. 3, 1861.\\nCharles E. Foster, Co. G, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Re-enlisted\\nJanuary 1, 1864.\\nLevi J. Josslin, Co. G, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Promoted\\nCorporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864.\\nJohn Kenney, Co. G, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Mustered out\\nJune 21, 1864.\\nAugustus G. Nutting, Co. G, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Mus-\\ntered out June 21, 1864.\\nAndrew Corbit, Co. H, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Deserted at\\nConcord, May 5, 1863.\\nMichael C. Haley, Co. H, 2d Reg t, June 5, 1861. Promoted\\nCorporal. Mustered out Sept. 21, 1863.\\nMarquis L. Holt, Co. E, 3d Reg t, August 23, 1861. Promoted\\nCorporal. Re-enlisted Feb. 15, 1864.\\nEphraim Crandall, Co. C, 4th Reg t, Sept. 18, 1861. Died of\\ndisease June 23, 1863.\\nRomango L. Nutting, Corporal, Co. E, 6th Reg t, Nov. 28,\\n1861. Not officially accounted for.\\nHenry A. Jones, Co. E, 6th Reg t, Nov. 28, 1861. Re-enlisted\\nDec. 25, 1863.\\nSeth Preston, Co. B, 8th Reg t, Dec. 20, 1861. Re-enlisted\\nJan. 4, 1864.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "NAMES OF SOLDIERS.\\n107\\nHenry Shattuck, Co. B, 8th Reg t, Dec. 20, 18G1. Died at\\nCamp Parapet, La., Aug. 6, 1862.\\nRobert G. Phiimey, Co. E, 8th Reg t, Dec. 20, 1861. Promoted\\nCorporal July, 1862. Wounded Oct. 27, 1862. Promoted Ser-\\ngeant Feb. 14, 1863. Discharged for disability Nov. 27, 1864.\\nGeorge Cutting, Corporal, 1st Light Battery, New Hamp-\\nshire Volunteers, Sept. 26, 1861. Reduced to the rank. Mustered\\nout Sept. 25. 1864.\\nWillard C. Burdick, 1st Light Battery, New Hamp-\\nshire Volunteers, Sept. 26, 1861. Mustered out Sept. 25,\\n1864.\\nGeorge H. Dix, New Hampshire Battalion, 1st New England\\nCavalry, Oct. 24, 1861. Missing Oct. 12, 1863.\\nDavid Moran, New Hampshire Battalion, 1st New England\\nCavalry, Dec. 24, 1861. Re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864.\\nEnoch Leavitt, New Hampshire Battalion, 1st New England\\nCavalry, Dec. 24, 1861. Re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864.\\nPatrick O Brien, New Hampshire Battalion, 1st New England\\nCavalry, Dec. 24, 1861. Not officially accounted for.\\nMilton H. Hardy, Sergeant, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire\\nVolunteers, Sept. 19, 1862. Commissioned as Lieutenant.\\nJohn G. Blood, Corporal, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire\\nVolunteers, Sept. 19, 1862.\\nJoel E. Boynton, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 19, 1862. Died Feb. 25, 1863.\\nWm. W. Bailey, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 19, 1862. Wounded severely June 3, 1864.\\nWilliam D. Carr, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteers, Sept. 19, 1862. Promoted to Corporal. Wounded severely,\\nMay 13, 1864. Died of wounds, at Point Lookout, Md., June 12,\\n1864.\\nEdward W. Davis, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteers, Sept. 19, 1862. Wounded Sept. 29, 1864. Died of wounds,\\nat Hampton, Va., Oct. 12, 1864.\\nCharles H. Russell, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteers, Sept. 19, 1862.\\nGeorge D. Reed, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept, 19, 1862. Discharged Nov. 29, 1863.\\nRalph Weston, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 13, 1862. Died of disease March 21, 1863.\\nIra M. Whittaker, Co. G, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteers, Sept. 19, 1862. Died of disease, Jan. 15, 1863.\\nCharles A. Austin, Co. I, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteers, Sept. 20, 1862. Discharged April 27, 1863.\\nE. T. Elliott, Co. I, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 20, 1862.\\nJoseph P. P^lliott, Co. 1, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 20, 1862.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nM. V. B. Elliott, Co. I, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 20, 1862.\\nErastus E. Elliott, Co. I, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteers, Sept. 20, 1862.\\nDaniel Parker, Co. I, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 23, 1862.\\nJohn B. Smith, Co. I, 13th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteers,\\nSept. 20, 1862, Died March 14, 1863.\\nJoseph E. O Donnell, Second Lieutenant, 16th Reg t, New\\nHampshire Volunteer Inf., Co. C, Nov. 4, 1862. Mustered out\\nAug. 20, 1863.\\nHenry H. Stevens, Sergeant, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire\\nVolunteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nJohn E. Stearns, Sergeant, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire\\nVolunteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nHarrison Livingston, Corporal, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hamp-\\nshire Volunteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nJames Davis, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Died Aug. 10, 1863.\\nGeorge L. Adams, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Died Aug. 19, 1863.\\nChauncey A. Adams, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Vol-\\nunteer Inf. Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nNathan Adams, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 27, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nAlbert A. Austin, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Died Aug. 1, 1863.\\nCharles P. Baldwin, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Died June 1, 1863.\\nSydney A. Barrett, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Discharged Dec. 16, 1862.\\nGeorge L. Crighton, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Discharged for disability.\\nCharles P. Gorham, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nThomas Jackson, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nMarshall Kimball, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nBenjamin G. Livingston, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire\\nVolunteer Inf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nDavid Robbins, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nSamuel S. Reed, Co. C. 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Discharged Dec. 15, 1862.\\nGranville Robbins, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Nov. 19, 1862. Died of disease March 20, 1863.\\n.Nathaniel Smith, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Died May 12, 1863.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "NAMES OF SOLDIERS. 109\\nLyman Sanders, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Vohmteer\\nInf., Oct. 18, 1862. Died March 21, 1863.\\nSamuel H. Wheeler, Co. C, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Oct. 28, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nThomas B. Russell, Co. E, 16th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Nov. 13, 1^62. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863.\\nThomas R. Clement, Assistant Surgeon, 10th Reg t, New Hamp-\\nshire Volunteer Inf., Oct. 26, 1863. Honorably discharged Sept.\\n17, 1864.\\nJames S. Manlove, Co. K, 6th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Oct. 14, 1863.\\nWilliam H. Gage, Co. I, 6th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., March 31, 1864.\\nCharles H. Thompson, Co. I, 7th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., 7th Reg t, Oct. 15, 1863.\\nGeorge Beford, Co. K, 8th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Sept. 1, 1863. Killed at Bayou De Glasse, La., May 17,\\n1864.\\nWilliam Hunt, Co. C, 8th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer Inf.,\\nSept. 1, 1863.\\nMadison Colby, Co. K, 11th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 12, 1863.\\nAlonzo Carter, Co. D, llth Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 12, 1863. Wounded July 27, 1864.\\nFrancis Bernard, Co. I, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 11, 1863. Deserted at Point Lookout, Md., March 10,\\n1864.\\nJohn Grant, Co. K, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer Inf.,\\nDec, 11, 1863. Transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 1864.\\nThomas Ganigan, Co. K, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 11, 1863.\\nJames M. Howard, Co. C, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Dec. 10, 1863.\\nWilliam Kingsland, Co. I, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Inf., Dec. 10, 1863.\\nGeorge Lansing, Co. K, 12th Reg t, New Hampshii-e Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 11, 1863.\\nWilliam Meaney, Co. E, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 11, 1863. Wounded May 6, 1864. Deserted near Pe-\\ntersburgh, Va., July 10, 1864.\\nGeorge Nichols, Co. D, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 11, 1863. Transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 1864.\\nLouis Schafft, Co. C, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nInf., Dec. 12, 1863. Wounded June 3, 1864.\\nJolm Tupper, Co. E, 12th Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer Inf.,\\nDec. 10, 1863.\\nJames Abbott, Troop G, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nCav., April 5, 1864. Missing Nov. 12, 1864.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nCharles S. Cheeney, Troop G, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Vol-\\nunteer Cav., March 31, 1864.\\nLouis Curtois, Troop G, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nCav., March 31, 1864.\\nJames Dailey, Troop D, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nCav., June 25, 1864.\\nJames Eastman, Troop D, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nCav., April 30, 1864.\\nElton Harrington, Troop M, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Cav., March 22, 1864.\\nJoseph Arquette, Troop M, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volun-\\nteer Cav., March 25, 1864.\\nJohn Marsau, Troop M, 1st Reg t, New Hampshire Volunteer\\nCav., March 25, 1864.\\nHenry Goodwin, Co. A, Uth Reg t, April 5, 1864.\\nCharles Buries, Co. A, 7th Reg t, Sept. 21, 1864. Deserted at\\nStaten Island, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1864.\\nJohn Staw, Co. I, 7th Reg t, Sept. 22, 1864. Deserted to the\\nenemy, Oct. 29, 1864.\\nThomas Fletcher, Co. E, 7th Reg t, Sept. 22, 1864. Deserted\\nat Staten Island, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1864.\\nEdward Prial, Co. A, 9th Reg t, Aug. 25, 1864. Missing at\\nPoplar Grove Ch., Va., Sept. 30, 1864.\\nPeter Baker, Co. C, 9th Reg t, Aug. 26, 1864. Deserted on\\nroute to regiment.\\nJohn L. Blance, Co. F, 5th Reg t, Sept. 13, 1864.\\nCharles H. Dogherty, Co. B, 5th Reg t, Sept. 17, 1864.\\nThomas Florence, Co. A, 5th Reg t, Aug. 17, 1864.\\nJoseph French, Co. A, 5th Reg t, Aug. 19, 1864.\\nDaniel Finn, Co. B, 5th Reg t, Sept. 1, 1864. Deserted near\\nPetersburg, Va., Oct. 12, 1864.\\nWalter Jones, Co. I, 5th Reg t, Sept. 13, 1864.\\nJoseph Marshall, Co. F, 5th Reg t, Aug. 18, 1864.\\nEdward McGuire, Co. F, 5th Reg t, Aug. 19, 1864.\\nThomas McGuire, Co. F, 5th Reg t, Sept. 2, 1864.\\nJohn Mahoney, Co. F, 5th Reg t, Sept. 3, 1864.\\nJohn Mountain, Co. K, 5th Reg t, Sept. 19, 1-864.\\nWilliam H. Rand, Co. E, 5th Reg t, Aug. 25, 1864.\\nJohn Sweeney, Co, F, 5th Reg t, Aug. 31, 1864.\\nSydney A. Barrett, Veteran, Regular Army, Aug. 31, 1864.\\nJames Gilson, Sept. 23, 1864.\\nThomas Dunham, Sept. 21, 1864.\\nJames Smith, Sept. 15, 1864.\\nJacob Johnson, Sept. 20, 1864.\\nMorton Ingalls, enlisted in the Navy, but fell sick and died\\nMarch 10, 1862, before joining his vessel.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "NAMES OF PERSONS DRAFTED.\\nIll\\nNames of Persons Drafted from Mason, Sept. 2, 1863,\\nJerome Davis, furuishecl substitute.\\nOtis Walters,\\nMortou L. Barrett,\\nHorace E. Davis,\\nJosepli McGown,\\nJames Q. Couant,\\nAlbert Wliittaker,\\nHenry P. Adams,\\nMarshall H. Nutting, paid commuta-\\ntion.\\nEdwin B. Hosmer, discharged for\\ndisability or other causes.\\nWilliam S. Merriam, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.\\nEdmund B. Newell, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.\\nHarrison Hutchinson, discharged\\nfor disability, etc.\\nBenj. F. March, discharged for disa-\\nbility, etc.\\nCalvin Barrett, discharged for dis-\\nability, etc.\\nThomas Ganey, discharged for dis-\\nability, etc.\\nIsrael D. Balch, discharged for dis-\\nability, etc.\\n.Robert L. Cumnock, Jr., discharged\\nfor disability, etc.\\nNelson L. Barrett, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.\\nPatrick Meloney, discharged for dis-\\nability, etc.\\nBarnard Lamb, discharged for dis-\\nability, etc.\\nCharles H. Nutting, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.\\nElliott Merriam, discharged for dis-\\nability, etc.\\nIsaiah E. Scripture, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.\\nErauklin B. Holden, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.,\\nJames P. Nutting, discharged for\\ndisability, etc.\\nNames of those tvJio furnished Substitutes under the Call\\nof July 18, 1864:.\\nPrincipals.\\nSubstitutes.\\nJames L. Chamberlain,\\nThomas McGuire.\\nCharles P. Richardson,\\nEdward McGuire.\\nJames Tafc,\\nJohn Mahoney.\\nAbel E. AJams,\\nThomas Florence.\\nSewall F. Adams,\\nJoseph Marshall.\\nEuville J. Emery,\\nJoseph French.\\nEdwin L. Nuttiug,\\nJohn L. Blance.\\nCharles E. Kej ^es,\\nJacob Johnson.\\nRufus P. Boynton,\\nJames Smith.\\nJames Russell,\\nThomas Fletcher.\\nAnson J. Rideout,\\nDavid Finn.\\nGeorge W. Scripture,\\nPeter Baker.\\nBarnard Lamb,\\nCharles Barles.\\nJoel H. Elliott,\\nThomas Dunham.\\nWilliam A. Adams,\\nJames Gilson.\\nIsaiah E. Scripture,\\nJohn Starr.\\nJohn L. Taft,\\nJohn Mountain.\\nAmos A. Smith,\\nEdward Prial.\\nAlvah Lakin,\\nJohn Sweeney.\\nGeorge L. Blood,\\nWra. H. Rand.\\nHorace K. Hodgeman,\\nCharles H. Dogherty.\\nNelson L. Bai rett,\\nWalter Jones.\\nAmount paid for substitutes,\\n$22,455 00\\nHighest amount paid, .$1,225;\\nlowest, $900.\\nState Bounty, $300 town dc\\n.$600, 900 00\\nPaid by prijicipals.\\n140 00\\nTotal average cost.\\n$1,040 00", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "119\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nTo three years men, 1862, __\\nnine months men, 1862, ?f^,550 00\\nconscripts, 1863, 2,200 00\\n1864, 2,100. 00\\nSubstitutes, etc., 1864, J^^O 00\\nServices of selectmen and others, 27,327 35\\nReceived from the government $35,620 50\\n944 00\\n134,676 50", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SUBSCRIPTIONS.\\nThe Committee of General Arrangements met, and organized by\\nmaking choice of Dr. Thomas H. Marshall, Chairman, Charles P.\\nRichardson, Clerk, and Jonathan Russell, Esq., Treasurer, and\\nimmediately took measures to raise by subsci iption the sum nec-\\nessary to meet the expenses incident to the celebration, June 13,\\n1868.\\nThe following is a list of the names of the subscribers, with the\\nsum paid by each\\nCharles P. Eichardson,\\nJonathan Eussell,\\nThomas H. Marshall,\\nL. L. Barrett,\\nE. B. Barrett,\\nSamuel E. Adams,\\nAlden B. Smith,\\nJames L. Chamberlln,\\nGeorge W. Scripture,\\nWm. G. Lakin,\\nSamuel Smith,\\nSamuel Ingals,\\nT. B. Tarbell,\\nHorace K. Hodgman,\\nJames H. Barrett,\\nCharles B. Prescott,\\nA. M. Hill,\\nE. P. Peabody,\\nW. D. Hero,\\nJohn Alius on,\\nA. P. Barrett,\\nJoseph P. Blood,\\nN. H. Shattuck,\\nF. L. Peabody,\\nOtis Childs,\\nJason Webber,\\nE. H. Hildreth,\\nE. B. Hosraer,\\nG. L. Blood,\\nLeonard Morse,\\nGeorge L. Morse,\\nSolomon A. Davis,\\nSampson Spalding,\\nNelson Blake,\\nGardner B. Gay,\\nHenry L. Newell,\\nEdwin J. Hodgman,\\nEphraim Hildreth,\\nStilmau Farrar,\\nN. L. Barrett,\\nM. L. Barrett,\\nThomas Fitzpatrick,\\nWm. Robbins,\\n15\\n10 00\\nTrue Eobbins,\\n1 00\\n10 00\\nAmos A. Smith,\\n1 00\\n10 00\\nHenry L. Hodgman,\\n1 00\\n10 00\\nLuke Newell,\\n1 00\\n10 00\\nH. E. Amsden,\\n1 00\\n10 00\\nJ. Hammond Elliott,\\n10 00\\n10 00\\nIsaac A. Brown,\\n3 00\\n25 00\\nJ. S. Spalding,\\n5 00\\n10 00\\nFreeman Elliott,\\n5 00\\n2 00\\nSamuel Tarbell,\\n2 00\\n5 00\\nC. A. Elliott,\\n2 00\\n2 00\\nVeron Eaton,\\n6 00\\n5 00\\nJason Russell,\\n2 00\\n2 00\\nS. H. Russell,\\n1 00\\n2 00\\nJames Eussell,\\n2 00\\n5 00\\nAmos Scripture,\\n8 00\\n1 00\\nM. C. Dodge,\\n5 00\\n1 00\\nJohn Felt,\\n50\\n1 00\\nF. B. Heald,\\n2 00\\n1 00\\nJ. Q. Conaut,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nE. K. Hardy,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nJoseph McGown,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nN. Y. Oliver,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nC. N. Corey,\\n10 00\\n2 00\\nJohn Kenney Co.,\\n4 00\\n2 00\\nAsa Webber,\\n2 00\\n1 00\\nThomas Bennett,\\n1 00\\n2 00\\nLeander Nutting,\\n60\\n1 00\\nA. A. Lovejoy,\\n1 00\\n2 00\\nB. H. Savage,\\n60\\n1 00\\nH. Eaton,\\n60\\n1 00\\nE. Arthur,\\n50\\n50\\nJos. B. Pope,\\n50\\n1 00\\nGeoi*ge Hartshorne,\\n50\\n2 00\\nM. H. Hardy,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nG. M. Farrar,\\n1 00\\n2 00\\nGeorge H. Preston,\\n60\\n1 00\\nGeo. F. Mitchell,\\n50\\n1 00\\nEben. Eichardson,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nJoel Ball,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nPeter Liberty,\\n50\\n1 00\\nG. Simeueau,\\n1 00\\n1 00\\nPatrick Mullen,\\n1 00", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nFrederic Mansfield,\\n5 00\\nSewall F. Adams,\\n3 00\\nAbner Holden,\\n1 00\\nHarrison Livingston,\\n50\\nJoseph Felix,\\n1 00\\nBeujaman Livingston,\\n1 00\\nLewis Charlon,\\n50\\nBoyutou Jefts,\\n1 00\\nLyman K. Sawtelle,\\n1 00\\nBeuj. Sawyer,\\n1 00\\nCharles Wilson,\\n1 00\\nE. J. Emery,\\n50\\nJosiah Sawtell,\\n1 00\\nNathan Adams,\\n6 00\\nMitchell Bobilee,\\n50\\nC. A. Adams,\\n1 00\\nWm. Cray,\\n1 00\\nM. Kimball,\\n5 00\\nHenry G. Amsden,\\n60\\nJ. B. Wilson,\\n5 00\\nCharles A. Deuiver,\\n50\\nE. B. Richardson,\\n1 00\\nJames McGown,\\n1 00\\nD. H. Cochran,\\n1 00\\nCharles Baldwin,\\n50\\nCalvin Barrett,\\n1 00\\nNicholas Cray,\\n50\\nJohn Campbell,\\n1 00\\nE. G. Heald,\\n1 00\\nWm. Webber,\\n1 00\\nC. B. Shelden,\\n1 00\\nJerome Davis,\\n1 00\\nJohn Martin,\\n1 00\\nJohn Taylor,\\n1 00\\nOliver Felix,\\n1 00\\nJ. K. Mills,\\n1 00\\nMrs. J. Sheriden,\\n50\\nJoel Nutting,\\n2 00\\nRichard Bobilee,\\n1 00\\nAlbert Whitaker,\\n1 Oo\\nGenery Avery,\\n1 00\\nLevi W. Mitchell,\\n2 00\\nWm. St. Germane,\\n1 00\\nSamuel N. Barrett,\\n2 00\\nJohn Centere, Sr.,\\n50\\nDaniel Goodwin,\\n2 Oo\\nMary Bans,\\n50\\nW. W. Whitaker,\\n2 00\\nAnn Ball,\\n60\\nSimon T. Smith,\\n1 00\\nH.J.Whitney,\\n3 00\\nGeorge Whitaker,\\n2 00\\nPeter Luce,\\n50\\nLuke Newell,\\n60\\nAlexander Sherbro,\\n50\\nS. H. Wheeler,\\n1 00\\nAntony Bobilee,\\n50\\nJoseph Saunders,\\n1 00\\nAbraham James,\\n1 00\\nJohn K. Lynch,\\n1 00\\nOtis Pratt,\\n1 00\\nAmos Robbins,\\n2 00\\nW. W. Sanderson,\\n1 00\\nA. Henry,\\n2 00\\nLnther Austin,\\n1 00\\nFranklin Merriam,\\n2 00\\nCalvin Searle,\\n1 00\\nW. R. Collins,\\n1 00\\nJason Merrill,\\n1 00\\nC. W. Russell,\\n1 00\\nCaleb Bullard,\\n50\\nWarner Russell,\\n1 00\\nEdwin Nutting,\\n50\\nChax les Jenkins,\\n2 00\\nD. P. Stowell,\\nMichall Cavenaugh,\\n50\\n50\\nTotal amount\\n$844 50\\nJ. H. Hartshorn,\\n3 00\\nThe Treasurer s account rendered and allowed is as follows\\nJonathan Russell to the Contennial Celebration Committee Dr.\\nTo amount of subscriptions, $344 50\\n837 tickets for dinner, 837 50\\n$1,181 60\\nCr.\\nBy paid Geo. Hobart, for music, $75 00\\nAsher Peabody, for horse-keeping, 3 00\\n20 dinner tickets furnished the Band, 20 00\\n17 free tickets, 17 00\\n123 tickets remaining unsold, 123 00\\nfor lumber for seats, 2 50\\nMoore Berry, for printing, 22 50\\nG. W. Scripture, for dinner, 700 00\\nfor powder, 10 40", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "SUBSCRIPTIONS. 115\\nBy paid T. H. Marshall, Express postage, 3 07\\nT. H. Marshall amount voted by Committee, 4 00\\nC. P. Richardson 3 00\\nLuther L. Barrett, 2 00\\nAbram Wriijht, 1 00\\nElisha B. Barrett, 5 00\\nAldeu B. Smith, 4 00\\nJona Russell, 2d, |6 00\\nThomas B. Tarbell, for procuring flags and getting lumber\\nto the grove, 10 70\\nChas. B. Prescott, ticket office sign, 1 00\\nUncollected subscription, 5 00\\n$1,018 17\\nAmount of Debits, $1,18150\\nCredits, 1,018 17\\nAmount due Committee, $163 33\\nBy vote of the Committee, the above balance is to be applied towards\\npaying the expenses of publishing the proceedings of the Centennial Cele-\\nbration.\\nNote. I have for sale a few copies of the History of Mason.\\nTliose who make an early application therefor can be supplied at\\n$1 50, or if sent by mail postpaid at $1 75 per copy. Also a few\\ncopies of the Memoir of the Rev. Ebenezer Hill, in which will be\\nfound his two published lectures, on the early history of the tovra,\\nand two of his sermons. Price 25 cents, for which it will be sent\\npost-paid by mail.\\nJ. B. Hill.\\nMason, Feb. 21, 1870.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "PROCEEDINGS\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION\\n#114 Sun^vijdtli ginniu^rsarii\\nINCORPORATION\\nTO^YN OF maso:n, :n. h.\\nAUOUST 36, 1808.\\nPUEPARKD FOR PUBLICATION, UNDER THE DIRPXTION OF THE\\nCOMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS,\\nBy JOHN B. HILL.\\nBOSTON:\\nELLIOTT, TH[OM:e;S TALBOT,\\n1870.", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "!Dl\\n(1-", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3402", "width": "1969", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofcen00hill_0134.jp2"}}