{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3589", "width": "2084", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "%/^s^V* %/^^V^ V^V*\\nV^\u00c2\u00b0V %/^v v 1 \u00c2\u00b0o\\n\\\\i\\nAT\\nr oV e\\nr oV\\nV^V V^V \u00c2\u00b0o^^\\nv t\\nA*\\nV^^V^ W r V w^V", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "*?WS* JH^/ vslE?: i?^ -Ills*\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2X ^iife..^. .\u00c2\u00aby.:ii-:.:v ^i^.^\\nv^\\n4\\nA\\nVw *y A w\\n.0* VIS. *\\\\c^\\nv\\n*tiV\\nn\\n^cr\\nE\\n^6^\\nV 7 V^V* (:v\\nlV^\\nj?*.ittfc.^ ^.:ffi,\\\\ V.iafe.^\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2y^", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3403", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3403", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "/rf-", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "J l f\\nJHBufforl s litfv.\\nu^^^u4^", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HISTOBT\\nNEW BOSTON,\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nCOMPILED AND WRITTEN\\nBY ELLIOTT C. COGSWELL,\\nPASTOR OP THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW BOSTON, N. H.\\nBOSTON:\\nPRESS OF GEO. C. RAND AVERY, 3 CORNHILL.\\n1864.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1804,\\nBY E. C. COGSWELL,\\nIn the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the District of New Hampshire.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "4715\\nmio\\nPREFACE.\\nIn all the arrangements for the Centennial, the publication\\nof a historic volume was a controlling consideration and the\\nsubjects assigned for discussion were selected with a view to\\nthis object so that the subsequent volume might bear the im-\\npress of many minds, rather than of one, and thus become the\\nproduct of New Boston intellects and hearts. Still, it was fore-\\nseen, that the articles furnished must be subjected to the care-\\nful revision of one responsible person, and be arranged in their\\nappropriate order while man} subjects, untouched by others, v\\nmust necessarily be developed by him and the great burden\\nof collecting incidents and facts, which would be of permanent\\ninterest, and serve to unfold the character and habits of by-\\ngone generations, could well devolve upon no other. Accord-\\ningly, at a meeting held the evening of July 4, 1863, at the\\nparsonage of the Presbyterian Church, by the returned sons of\\nNew Boston, Dr. Thomas H. Cochran was appointed Chair-\\nman, and Robert B. Wason, Secretary, when on motion, it\\nwas unanimously resolved that a history of New Boston, our\\nnative town, be published, embracing, among other materials,\\nthe transactions of the Centennial Celebration this day held.\\nOn motion, it was resolved, that, in order to defray the\\nexpenses of such publication, the amount necessary be raised\\nby joint-stock subscription, and that the respective subscribers\\nbe assessed, from time to time, upon the amount of their sub-\\nscriptions, in the proportion, which the amount necessary to be\\nraised bears to the aggregate sum subscribed/", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "On motion, resolved, that the Rev. E. 0. Cogswell be and\\nhe is hereby constituted the committee to gather and compile\\nthe materials, and prepare said history for publication, and to\\ntake the sole charge of such publication, and that he have full\\npower to designate such assistants as he may choose, and assess\\nthe subscribers, from time to time, in such sums as may be\\nneeded.\\nElbridge Wason, Robert Boyd Wason, Thomas H. Cochran,\\nJoseph T. Bradford,. Clark B. Cochrane, Gerry W. Cochrane,\\nand Josiah W. Fairfield became responsible for the work in\\nsubscriptions of one hundred dollars each. Exhausted by\\nefforts preparatory to the Centennial, we had no heart to under-\\ntake the task but yielding to the solicitations of the gentle-\\nmen whose wish, thus expressed, we could not well refuse, we\\nentered upon our labor with many misgivings. The task has\\nbeen performed how well, others will determine.\\nOur work possesses some features of originality. That it has\\nimperfections, we frankly admit but our aim has been to make\\nit readable and truthful. Errors in date will undoubtedly\\nappear, for they are unavoidable in a work of this kind. It\\nhas cost us much labor but it has been bestowed without\\nhope of praise, or expectation of reward to us it has been a\\nlabor of love. Amid unusual parochial duties, the preparation\\nof this work has proved too much for our strength, and quite\\nincapacitated us for physical or intellectual effort for the last\\nthree months and this must be some apology for some defects\\nthat may appear in the work.\\nThe embellishments in our work have been furnished at our\\nearnest solicitations while some, through modesty, have with\\ngreat reluctance allowed their portraits to appear but our aim\\nhas been to obtain representatives of the dead and the living for\\nthe benefit of the future the same has been true in regard to\\nviews of residences. The expense of embellishments has been\\nborne by those who furnished them.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "We cannot forbear to express our gratitude to the highly\\nesteemed gentlemen, concerned in the immediate publication\\nof this work, for their confidence, patience, and cheerful co-\\noperation, especially to Mr. Elbridge Wason, whose hospitable\\nmansion has been opened to us and greatly enjoyed in our in-\\nvalid state, a portion of the time during which this work was\\npassing through the press.\\nOften amid bodily anguish have we exclaimed, Oh, that our\\nwords were now written Oh, that they were printed in a\\nbook! That desire is now gratified. May Almighty God\\nbless the book to the sons and daughters of New Boston to\\nthose that are afar off, and to them that are near.\\nOur thanks are due to Mr. Harry Bixby, who, having just\\nreturned from Europe, kindly proffered his aid at a time when\\nwe could do but little, and had reluctantly come to the conclu-\\nsion that our work, though passing through the press, must be\\nsuspended until health was recovered. His aid lightened a\\nburden we had not strength to carry, and enhanced our appre-\\nciation of him as a gentleman and scholar, whose simplicity of\\nmanners and integrity of heart, combined with a scholarship\\nenriched by foreign travel and study, eminently qualify him to\\nbe a successful teacher in modern languages, to which he in-\\ntends to devote himself.\\nOur thanks are also due to the friends in our beloved con-\\ngregation, who decreed that we should appear among the\\nworthies, and generously bore the expense of our litho-\\ngraph.\\nE. C. C.\\nNew Boston, New Hampshire,\\nJuly 1, 1864.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "EMBELLISHMENTS.\\nRev. E. P. Bradford Frontispiece.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell 9\\nHon. C. B. Cochrane 25\\nJosiah W. Fairfield, Esq. 95\\nResidence of Rev. E. P. Brad-\\nford 123\\nPresbyterian Meeting House, 128\\nMrs. Mary M. Bradford 131\\nResidence of J. T. Bradford 133\\nRev. Edward Buxton 137\\nRev. John Atwood 143\\nBaptist Meeting House\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -Town\\nHouse 144\\nJames Crombie, Esq\\nRev. J. A. Goodhue\\nPerley Dodge, Esq\\nRev. William Clark\\nDr. Thomas H. Cochran\\nResidence of Sidney Hills\\nView of Joe English\\n153\\n163\\n199\\n269\\n275\\n300\\n304\\nResidence of Elbridge Wason, 312\\nRev. Hiram Wason 319\\nResidence of Hon. G. W. Coch-\\nrane 331\\nHon. Gerry W. Cochrane 333\\nJoseph Cochran, Jr., Esq. 306\\nDea. S. L. Cristy 371\\nClark Crombie 374\\nDaniel D. Crombie 375\\nAlbert D. Crombie 377\\nElbridge Wason 390\\nResidence of Geo. A. Wason 391\\nResidence of T. R. Cochran 392\\nResidence of Israel Dodge 393\\nAmos Dodge, Esq 394\\nResidence of Amos Dodge, Esq. 395\\nCapt. John Lamson 421\\nResidence of Dea. Samuel Dane, 423\\nAmos W. Tewksbury, Esq. 426\\nDr. Samuel Gregg 442\\nResidence of Solomon Dodge. 457\\nMap.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPage.\\nCentennial Proceedings.\\nPreliminary Measures 9\\nCommittee Appointed 9\\nThe Day 12\\nProcession 12\\nExercises 13\\nJ. W. Fairfield s Remarks 20\\nHistorical Address.\\nIntroduction 25\\nPreparatory Events 36\\nThe Grant 40\\nThe Settlement 43\\nThe Incorporation 47\\nChurches and Church Edifices 50\\nGrantees and Grant, Addition\\nand Masonian Charter 61\\nPoem, by W. E. Cochran 75\\nResponse of Josiah W. Fairfield,\\nEsq 95\\nEcclesiastical History.\\nProvisions of the Grant 103\\nFirst Meeting-House 104\\nSecond Meeting-House 106\\nRev. Solomon Moor 109\\nRev. Ephraim P. Bradford 117\\nOther Pastors 133\\nResponse of Rev. Edward Bux-\\nton 137\\nHistory of the Baptist Church 143\\nMinisterial Fund.\\nIts Origin 147\\nHow Appropriated\\nIts Loss\\nResponse of Jas. Crombie, Esq. 153\\nSchools.\\nFirst Appropriations 157\\nDivisions into Districts\\nResponse of Rev. Joseph A. Good-\\nhue 163\\nSchool-Teachers, Choristers, Mu-\\nsic Teachers 169\\nResponse of William W. Colburn 173\\nPage.\\nResponse of Gerry W. Hazelton 179\\nResponse of William P. Cochran,\\nEsq 185\\nResponse of Dr. Charles Coch-\\nran 195\\nResponse of Perley Dodge, Esq. 199\\nSketches of Lawyers 201\\nResponse of Dr. James H. Crom-\\nbie 207\\nSketches of Physicians 212\\nHistory of Mills 217\\nCasualties, Bills of Mortality,\\nGrave- Yards, Pounds, Roads 227\\nResponse of Lorenzo Fairbanks,\\nEsq 241\\nLetters 247\\nTown Officers 255\\nGraduates 261\\nRoll of Honor, and Tribute to\\nthe Absent Soldiers\\nNames of Soldiers 265\\nResponse of Rev. William Clark 269\\nResponse of Dr. Thomas H. Coch-\\nran 275\\nBusiness and Interesting Locali-\\nties 299\\nPoem, by Mrs. S. T. Wason 309\\nResponse of Rev. Hiram Wason.. 319\\nSabbath Schools 325\\nResponse of Hon. G. W. Cochrane 331\\nResponse of Rev. J. A. Goodhue. 343\\nBiographical and Geneological\\nSketches.\\nThomas Smith 349\\nDeacon John Smith 349\\nDeacon Thomas Smith 350\\nWilliam McNeil 352\\nJohn Blair 352\\nDea. James Person 352\\nHugh Gregg 353\\nAndrew Walker 355\\nDea. Jesse Cristy 355", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Page.\\nBiographical and Geneological\\nSketches (continued).\\nDea. Thomas Cochran 356\\nJohn Cochran 358\\nPeter Cochran 360\\nCapt. George Cristy i 361\\nJohn McMillen 362\\nDaniel McMillen 362\\nNathaniel Cochran 363\\nJohn Cochran, Esq 364\\nJames Cochran 365\\nElijah Cochran 365\\nJoseph Cochran, Jr., Esq 366\\nAbraham Cochran 368\\nJohn McLaughlen 369\\nWilliam Clark, Esq 369\\nDea. Eobert Clark 370\\nJohn Clark 371\\nEebecca Clark Moses Cristy. 371\\nNinian Clark 372\\nNinian Clark, Esq 372\\nJames Crombie 374\\nJohn Crombie 375\\nLemuel Harden 377\\nSamuel Harden 378\\nBenjamin Dodge 379\\nAndrew Beard 380\\nWilliam Kelso 383\\nJohn McAllister 386\\nDea. Eobert White 387\\nWillsons 387\\nDea. William McNeil 388\\nDea. Eobert Patterson 390\\nDea. Eobert Wason 390\\nDea. Archibald McHillen 391\\nDea. Thomas Cochran 392\\nLieut. Solomon Dodge 393\\nDea. Solomon Dodge 394\\nLuther Eichards 395\\nJohn Dodge 396\\nIsaac Peabody 397\\nEphraim Colburn 399\\nPage,\\nCapt. Benjamin Buxton 401\\nEobert Parkinson 404\\nJohn Goodhue 407\\nCapt. Matthew Fairfield 409\\nJohn Fairfield, Esq 409\\nJohn Cochran, Esq 409\\nAlexander McCollom 411\\nEobert Campbell 412\\nThomas Campbell 414\\nJosiah Warren 415\\nJames Caldwell, Esq 417\\nDea. William Moor 418\\nCapt. Joseph Lamson 419\\nDaniel Dane 421\\nDea. Samuel Dane 422\\nEobert Hogg 423\\nAbner Hogg 424\\nAmos W. Tewksbury 426\\nDavid Starrett 427\\nJohn Lamson 430\\nDea. Marshall Adams 431\\nJohn Whipple 432\\nJacob Hooper 434\\nLivermore Langdell 435\\nZechariah Morgan 436\\nCapt. Joseph Andrews 436\\nDea. Issachar Andrews 438\\nMaurice Lynch 438\\nEobert Livingston 439\\nCapt. Gerry Whiting 440\\nWilliam Woodbury 441\\nSamuel Gregg, Esq 442\\nDaniel Dodge 443\\nJoshua Jones 444\\nCapt. Ephraim Jones 445\\nThomas Otis 445\\nJeremiah S. Cochran, M. D 446\\nEev. Samuel Clark 447\\nEev. Samuel Wallace Clark 450\\nFakms and Farming 454\\nCensus for 1756 460\\nCensus for 1860 462", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "J ffuffirtf sA efi.\\n^2^ iTt^L\\n0-4tfkM s", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL PROCEEDINGS.\\nAs early as the day of the State Fast, in April, 1862, a meet-\\ning at the Presbyterian church, at the close of public worship,\\nwas held to consider the propriety of taking some notice of the\\none hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of\\nNew Boston. This meeting was attended by persons from all\\nparts of the town, and the sentiment was unanimously express-\\ned that the town ought to celebrate the occasion. Measures\\nwere adopted for calling a legal meeting as soon as practicable.\\nSuch a meeting was called, and it was voted to celebrate the\\nevent, but not to appropriate money to defray the expenses\\nthis last decision was reached through the influence of a few,\\nand it was understood that a vote to appropriate money would be\\nunavailing therefore, the subject was dropped, and no further\\naction was taken until the early part of the autumn, when the\\ncitizens were invited to meet at the Town Hall, to choose an\\nExecutive Committee to make all necessary arrangements for\\nthe observance of the centennial. Rev. E. C. Cogswell was\\ncalled to the chair, and Warren R. Cochrane was appointed\\nSecretary and the following gentlemen were appointed an Exec-\\nutive Committee, viz. E. C. Cogswell, R. B. Cochrane, N.\\nC. Crombie, S. L. Christy, Daniel Campbell, John Lamson,\\nSolomon Dodge, Luther Colbum, John Dodge, John Atwood,\\nand subsequently David Gregg was added.\\nThis Committee appointed Warren R. Cochrane their Secre-\\ntary, and resolved to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary gf\\nthe incorporation of the town of New Boston on the fourth day\\nof July, 1863, with an historical address, and other appropriate\\nservices. The Hon. Clark B. Cochrane was unanimously in-", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10\\nvited to deliver the address, and following is his letter of ac-\\nceptance\\nAlbany, October 14, 1862.\\nMy Dear Sir\\nYour favor, announcing that the Centennial Executive Committee had\\nunanimously chosen me to deliver the historical address usual on such oc-\\ncasion, and had voted to celebrate July 4, 1863, came to hand in due course\\nof mail. In answer, I hasten to say, I accept the invitation, and -will attempt\\nthe duty assigned.\\nBe kind enough to make to the Committee my grateful acknowledgments\\nfor this flattering expression of their kind remembrance, and accept for your-\\nself the assurance of my affection and esteem.\\nCLAKK B. COCHRANE.\\nTo W. E. Cochrane,\\nSec. Com.\\nThe following circular was ordered to be printed and sent to\\nabsentees\\nDear Sir\\nNew Boston, the place of your nativity, was incorporated about a hundred\\nyears ago, and it is thought best to take special notice of its hundredth an-\\nniversary. The Old Folks at home, therefore, send greetings to the\\nYoung Folks abroad, and desire to meet them in general assembly for high\\nconsultation at the Old Homestead,\\nON THE FOURTH DAY OF JULY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE.\\nThey would thus call home their sons and daughters to revive recollections\\nof the past, and to collect such facts respecting the early inhabitants as will\\notherwise soon be beyond recovery.\\nYou, therefore, are urgently requested to be present on that day, and to\\nbring with you a heart in sympathy with the occasion, when an Historical Ad-\\ndress will be delivered by the Hon. Clark B. Cochrane, of New York, and\\nsuch other services will be had as will become the day.\\nYours, respectfully,\\nE. C. COGSWELL, SOLOMON DODGE,\\nE. B. COCHRANE, LUTHER COLBURN,\\nN. C. CROMBIE, JOHN DODGE,\\nS. L. CHRISTY, JOHN ATWOOD,\\nDANIEL CAMPBELL, DAVID GREGG,\\nJOHN LAMSON, Executive Committee.\\nNew Boston, N. H., October 21, 1862.\\nThe Chairman and the Secretary were authorized to make\\nall necessary arrangements for the intellectual entertainment,", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "11\\nto which duty great labor was devoted appointments were\\nmade and subjects assigned adapted to unfold the history and\\ncharacter of the early settlers of the town, while no pains were\\nspared in searching for materials to assist some of the writers,\\nand to form a complete history. Several meetings of the Com-\\nmittee were held in the spring of 1863, to perfect arrangements,\\nand subdivided itself as follows E. C. Cogswell, John Atwood,\\nand W. R. Cochrane were to provide for the intellectual exer-\\ncises, including singing and instrumental music Luther Col-\\nburn, David Gregg, Daniel Campbell, and S. L. Christy, to ar-\\nrange for dinner N. C. Crombie, John Lamson, and Solomon\\nDodge to erect pavilion, tables, and seats R. B. Cochrane and\\nJohn Dodge to obtain requisite funds to defray expenses.\\nThe following appeared in the Farmers Cabinet some weeks\\nbefore the fourth, from the pen of Mrs. Wason, which\\nawakened no little interest\\nINVITATION TO NEW BOSTON\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, JULY4, 1863.\\nDear Cabinet, thy ceaseless rounds\\nThe last half hundred years,\\nHas told us oft our Saviour s love,\\nAnd oft of change and tears\\nDear, old, tried friend, a mission new-\\nNew Boston s sons would give to you.\\nThey d bid you seek the Prairie Homes\\nFar towards the setting sun,\\nAnd rouse the wanderers dwelling there,\\nAnd call them, every one,\\nTo our Centennial, that s to be\\nJuly the fourth, in sixty-three.\\nThey d bid you go with lightning speed\\nTo California s strand,\\nThat s lured the stray ones from our hills\\nTo wash her golden sand,\\nAnd tell them treasures lost and found\\nAt our Centennial will abound.\\nGo o er Virginia s battle-fields\\nWith slow and solemn tread,\\nAnd see the rank grass springing there", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12\\nAbove her sleeping dead\\nAnd tell, oh, tell our loyal sons\\nWe ll greet them when their mission s done-\\nGo with soft and gentle whisper,\\nTo Louisiana s shore,\\nAnd tell the loved ones gathered there\\nWe miss them more and more\\nThere ll be a sadness in our joys,\\nBecause of absent soldier boys.\\nGo to every nook, and corner,\\nThroughout our wide-spread land,\\nAnd tell our sons, and daughters too,\\nWe d take them by the hand,\\nAnd have a day of jubilee\\nFor old Scotch-Irish ancestry.\\nDuring* the night preceding the fourth, a delightful rain re-\\nfreshed the thirsty earth, and cooled the heated atmosphere.\\nThe fourth was ushered in with the roar of cannon and ringing\\nof bells, and proved to be just such a day as was desired. A\\nbeautiful banner, with no star lost, nor stripe erased, received\\nthe preceding day, the gift of General W. S. Cochran, of Rock-\\nland, Me., was unfurled to the breeze, and at nine o clock,\\nagreeably to previous arrangements, a procession was formed at\\nthe Town Hall, under the direction of Chief Marshal George\\nA. Wason, and his Aids Thomas R. Cochran, Samuel M.\\nChristy, Ira A. Gage, Alfred M. Campbell, James B. Whipple,\\nButler T. Hills, and Charles F. Dodge and, preceded by the\\nNew Boston Cornet Band, marched to the Presbyterian meet-\\ning-house. Here a platform had been erected front of the\\nchurch, and seats on the beautiful green but, as great reluc-\\ntance to speaking in the open air was expressed, it was resolved\\nto enter the church, and that large edifice was filled to its ut-\\nmost capacity, while hundreds lingered at the doors and win-\\ndows, and other hundreds, unable to hear, went away. When\\nthe crowd was composed the Marshal announced the presiding\\nofficers to be, Rev. B. C. Cogswell, President; Waterman Burr,\\nEsq., Dea. Samuel Dane, Rev. John Atwood, Hon. R. B. Coch-\\nrane, and John Dodge, Vice-Presidents and the following-\\noriginal hymn, by Mrs. Wason, was sung by a large choir, in", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "13\\nwhich were several aged people, (Mrs. Hannah Farley being\\nseventy-eight years old), under the direction of Mr. Jesse Beard,\\na veteran school-teacher and singing-master, now seventy-four\\nyears old, assisted by Mr. A. P. Brigham\\nCENTENNIAL.\\nOur fathers God, to Thee,\\nEnthroned in majesty,\\nWe humbly bow,\\nTo thank Thee that this day\\nRecalls our childhood s way,\\nBrings loved ones, far away,\\nTo meet us now.\\nWe ll lay aside our creeds,\\nAnd will our fathers deeds\\nCommemorate\\nWith marshaled hosts array,\\nAnd music s grand display,\\nOur anniversary day\\nWe ll celebrate.\\nTwas our departed sires,\\nWho kindled here the fires\\nOf peaceful homes\\nCircle of noble men,\\nLet each, with tongue and pen,\\nProclaim their praise again,\\nWhere er he roams.\\nVirtues like theirs, appear\\nMore bright, as year by year\\nWe glide along\\nSuch be our earthly store\\nThen on the shining shore\\nWe ll join them gone before,\\nIn endless song.\\nThe 107th Psalm was read, from a Bible brought with him\\nfrom the old World more than a hundred years ago by Wm.\\nKelso, and prayer offered by Rev. Edward Buxton, of Webster,\\nfollowed with music by the band. The President then wel-\\ncomed those who had returned, in the following brief address", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14\\nSons and Daughters. of New Boston:\\nIn behalf of the Committee of Arrangements for celebrating this, the one\\nhundredth anniversary of the incorporation of this town, I extend to you a\\ncordial welcome. Many of you have been long absent from the firesides of\\nyour childhood, and have found homes elsewhere. As we have watched your\\npaths, and seen you transfer from the old homestead the love you once cher-\\nished, to the new homes you have chosen, we have rejoiced to know that you\\nhave carried with you a fond remembrance of your birthplace, and have not\\nallowed the burning patriotism of your fathers to be less ardent in your own\\nbosoms, nor their all-controlling religious sentiments to be less influential over\\nyour lives. We have seen, with great satisfaction, that other communities have\\nwelcomed you to their inheritances, and have had no occasion to regret the\\nconfidence they have reposed in you. Justly proud of our sons and daughters\\nwhom we have sent forth, we have called you back to your ancestral homes,\\nthat we may pronounce God s blessings upon you, and incite you to endeavors\\nto show that whatever community receives a son or daughter of New Boston,\\nreceives a blessing from the Lord.\\nWith this day in view, we have been led to contemplate the men that\\ncleared these hills and reared these dwellings. Heroic men, and not less he-\\nroic women, the grandparents of your parents, rise up before us to say that\\ntheirs was a rough inheritance which they received to impart to their children.\\nThe Smiths, the Blairs, the Fersons, the Cochranes, the McAllisters, the Clarks,\\nthe Crombies, the Campbells, the Warrens, the McNeils, were men that\\nwalked before God with great uprightness, and the pathway of those men\\nshines brighter and brighter. The virtues of such men this day will unfold\\nand serve to perpetuate the remembrance of them. In the joy we have felt\\nat the unfoldings of noble elements of character in generations gone before,\\nwe have invited you to participate. And you have done well in heeding our\\nsummons. And we bid you welcome to the scenes of this day we welcome\\nyou to the green hills your childhood roamed we bid you welcome to hearths\\non which the fire goes not out, and to our social enjoyments we bid you wel-\\ncome to the graves of your sires, where the cold slab records the names of\\nthose who, though dead, yet live and may God Almighty bless you and us,\\nand by the discipline of time prepare us for the richer inheritance above.\\nIn the accomplishment of the object sought by this occasion, we have called\\nto our aid not a few of those qualified in head and heart for the pleasant ser-\\nvice. Upon one we have imposed the task of rescuing from the gulf of obliv-\\nion the facts and incidents of the early history of this town. To this labor\\nhe has brought the energies of a vigorous intellect, and the ardor of an affec-\\ntionate heart, who, we are happy to believe, will convince you that the race\\nof New Boston has deteriorated neither in stature of body nor breadth and\\nvigor of intellect. Therefore, with great pleasure, I introduce to you the\\nHon. Clark B. Cochrane.\\nMr. Cochrane was listened to for the space of nearly two", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "15\\nhours, with intense satisfaction, and the following hymn, by-\\nMrs. Wason, was sung by the choir\\nOUR CENTURY PLANT.\\nOur century plant is in blossom to-day\\nIts thousand leaves fragrant with scenes passed away\\nTwas a slip from the hardy old storm-beaten tree\\nThat grew in the Highlands, way over the sea.\\nlis a bonnie Scotch native, Americanized,\\nRetaining some traits the Scotch covenanters prized\\nIt grows rank in the soil where the red man roamed,\\nO er the graves of their hunters tis watching alone.\\nIts ancestral arms were emblazoned on high,\\nWhen the fires of Smithfield glared red on the sky,\\nWhen Claverhouse s bloodhounds dragged out. .frorn each den\\nOf Scotia s bleak mountains, her Protestant men.\\nA root was transplanted from Argyleshire s dale,\\nTo blossom but once in old Erin s green vale\\nTransplanted again to America s shore,\\nTwill blossom and flourish till time is no more.\\nAnd where are the fathers who planted our flower,\\nAnd watched o er its growth in its infancy s hour\\nThey re sleeping in quiet beneath our blue sky\\nTheir names are immortal, they never may die.\\nAfter music by the band, Rev. Thomas Savage, pastor of the\\nPresbyterian church in Bedford for thirty-seven years, whose\\nface it was pleasant for many to see, and voice to hear, as the\\nfriend and associate of Rev. Mr. Bradford, made a brief and\\npertinent address, by request of the President after which a\\nrecess was taken for dinner. About five hundred being seated\\nat the tables, the divine blessing was invoked by the Rev. Isaac\\nWilley, for the last twenty-five years of Goffstown, and an asso-\\nciate of Bradford. Before leaving the tables, the following song\\nwas suns;", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16\\nSONG.\\nAie, Auld Lang Syne.\\nWe come from northern snow-draped homes,\\nFrom western forest shade,\\nFrom mast and mead, and sea-girt shore,\\nAnd sunny everglade.\\nFor Auld Lang Syne, dear friends,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne\\nUp to the old ancestral hills,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne.\\nNew Boston now to celebrate\\nThy birthday we are come,\\nNor need we here to ask what cheer,\\nThe shout is, welcome home\\nFor Auld Lang Syne, dear friends,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne\\nGlad greetings we exchange this day,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne.\\nWe ve been where flows life s busy tide,\\nWith beauty, wit, and grace,\\nYet e er our throbbing hearts have yearned\\nFor thee, far dearer place.\\nFor Auld Lang Syne, dear friends,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne\\nThe very music of our lives\\nIs Auld Lang Syne.\\nWe thank thee, Father, for the love\\nAnd care which thou hast given\\nFor friends who meet as here at home,\\nAnd those who wait in heaven.\\nFor Auld Lang Syne, dear friends,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne\\nOur hearts with one affection beat,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne.\\nFor all, accept our humble praise,\\nStill bless us with thy love,\\nThat we may all united be\\nWithin thy home above.\\nFor Auld Lang Syne, dear friends,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne\\nWe ll keep this union in our hearts,\\nFor Auld Lang Syne.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "17\\nAfter brief addresses from several gentlemen, the following\\nwas sung, and the guests retired from the tables\\nWELCOME OF THE FATHERS.\\nHear ye not the soft, low whispers,\\nBreathing upward from the ground\\nTis the voices of the fathers,\\nWafting their sweet welcome round.\\nWelcome to these tents so goodly,\\nPlanted by our toilsome care\\nWelcome to this breath of heaven,\\nSoul-refreshing, native ah.\\nAt our coming none said welcome\\nAll was lonely, drear, and wild\\nIn the midst we built our altar,\\nSoon an Eden round us smiled.\\nHomes we sowed along the valley\\nLeai ning s dews we bade distil\\nAnd the church, with wing o ershadowing,\\nHovered on the highest hill.\\nSlowly up the pathway climbing,\\nHeaven grew nearer, and more sweet,\\nAnd a glory filled the temple,\\nOpening to receive our feet.\\nInward peace and outward trials,\\nWe accepted both with praise\\nWith our blessings take our counsel\\nChildren, keep the good old ways.\\nHaving reassembled in the church, the choir sang the follow-\\ning, by Mrs. Wason\\nOUR EARLY FRIENDS.\\nOur childhood s friends have met once more\\nThis side the shadowy land\\nWith cordial, earnest, youthful love,\\nWe ll grasp each proffered hand.\\nEach dear remembered face we see,\\nWakes memory s slumbering chain\\n3", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18\\nBids us tread back the lapse of years,\\nAnd we are young again.\\nlis here our homes of long ago\\nYet lift each humble head\\nThe brown moss creeps o er ancient walls\\nThat echo strangers tread.\\nThe gray-haired sire is laid aside,\\nAnd she who loved us best\\nNaught but the archangel s trump shall break\\nTheir peaceful, quiet rest.\\nHere Moor and Bradford fed their flocks,\\nWith earnest, Christian trust\\nBreathed out their lives among our hills,\\nAnd mingle now with dust.\\nOur hearts grow tender yet at sound\\nOf Bradford s cherished name,\\nWhose noble form sleeps now with those\\nWhose souls to bless he came.\\nAnd she who walked beside his path,\\nWith patient, gentle love,\\nIs waiting yet the summons, Take\\nThy starry crown above.\\nThe everlasting hills remain\\nUnchanged by time s decay\\nTheir towering cliffs point heavenward,\\nAs in our childhood s day.\\nWarren R. Cochrane pronounced a spirited poem, and was\\nfollowed, in response to various sentiments, by exceedingly\\ninteresting addresses from Josiah W. Fairfield, Esq., Perley\\nDodge, Esq., Dr. James H. Crombie, William Colburn,*L B.,\\nand Dr. Thomas H. Cochran, all of which, together with oth-\\ners for which there was not time, will appear in the following\\npages. After music by the band, and the singing by the choir\\nof the following hymn by Mrs. Wason, the exercises of the day\\nwere closed amid the rejoicings of a nation over the victory at\\nGettysburg, and the fall of Vicksburg", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "19\\nOUE FATHERS.\\nOur fathers God, who dwell st on high,\\nBeyond the star-gem d, azure sky,\\nBehold what wondrous change appeal s,\\nThe harvest of a hundred years.\\nA hardy band of pioneers\\nHewed down the mighty forests here,\\nAnd reared their church amid the wilds\\nWhere now the ripening harvest smiles.\\nAlong these hills and valleys green\\nTheir schools of learning soon were seen,\\nWhose worth will gild our country s page\\nWith living light in every age.\\nThose noble-hearted sires are gone,\\nTheir memories sweet will yet flow on,\\nTheir stern, deep-toned religious faith\\nOutlives the mighty conqueror, Death.\\nOur fathers God, oh grant that we,\\nScions of noble ancestry,\\nMay imitate their virtues rare,\\nAnd write our names in lines as fair.\\nThe Fourth of July occurred on Saturday, and, as those who\\nhad come to the old homestead would naturally desire to re-\\nmain over the Sabbath, appropriate arrangements had been\\nmade for continuing the services through the fifth and, though\\nthe rain fell abundantly, a good congregation convened in the\\nmorning. The services began with invocation and reading the\\n78th Psalm, by Rev. Mr. Russell, of the Baptist church, and\\nthe singing a part of the 148th Psalm, P. M., by the choir\\nafter which prayer was offered by Rev. William Clark, of Am-\\nherst, and the 78th Psalm, C. M., first part, was sung, and Hon.\\nGerry Whiting Cochrane, of Boston, member of Governor\\nAndrew s council, made an exceedingly impressive address on\\nthe religious character of the early settlers, followed by delight-\\nful reminiscences of Rev. Mr. Bradford, by Rev. Mr. Buxton.\\nAfter singing the Doxology, the morning services closed with\\nthe benediction by Rev. Mr. Buxton.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20\\nIt had been arranged that the Sabbath Schools should be ad-\\ndressed in the afternoon, and the services were appropriate to\\nthat object. Accordingly, though the storm continued, the\\nhouse was well filled, and after singing by the schools, and\\nprayer by Rev. Royal Parkinson, of Vermont, Rev. J. A. Good-\\nhue made an interesting address on the advantages of rural\\nhomes to the young, and was followed by pertinent addresses\\nfrom Rev. Messrs. Clark and Buxton and after them J. W.\\nFairfield, Esq., spoke of contentment with our lot as being a\\ngreat source of happiness. The substance of his remarks we\\nhere give\\nThere were some things with which we ought not to be content, but\\nshould try to rid ourselves of them. Every new generation ought to strive\\nto surpass the preceding in intelligence, enterprise, and thrift in deeds of be\\nnevolence, and excellence of moral character. With imperfections and evils\\nwhich can. be remedied we are never to be content but, we are often discon-\\ntented with what is for our highest interest to retain. I have been a superin-\\ntendent of a Sabbath school thirty years, and have been brought much into\\ncontact with children, and have observed that they are apt to become dissat-\\nisfied with the Sabbath school, and leave but the result is always painful:\\nThey forsake the sanctuary, aud trample upon the law of the Sabbath. Then\\nthey yield to temptations to dissipation, become assimilated to vicious com-\\npanions, and soon are utterly ruined. Sometimes children become dissatisfied\\nwith the restraints of home, and break loose from them, and the same painful\\nresults are reached.\\nGrown-up people become dissatisfied with their homes and neighbors,\\nsell out, and seek new ones, but are seldom at rest afterwards, for the\\nreason that they cai ry themselves the real cause of their discontent\\nwith them. If they could leave themselves behind, there might be some\\nchance of improvement; but, taking with them their moral characters,\\nmodes of thought, habits, and tastes, they only change the place, while they\\nkeep the pain. To improve their happiness, they must rectify themselves*\\nand then discontent will cease. So men become dissatisfied with the gospel.\\nDr. Lord said, some years since, that the gospel had proved a failure. But it\\nis not so there never was a time when the gospel was a greater power for\\ngood than now nor when its advocates wielded it with greater success.\\nSome people become dissatisfied with it when it insists upon a holy life when\\nit demands justice and benevolence and at first refuse to pay anything for\\nit, then to hear it at all, not because the gospel has changed, but because\\nits demands exceed what they are willing to yield because it condemns their\\nprinciples and conduct, and exposes the turpitude of their hearts, and the\\nwrongness of their lives. They charge the blame of all this to the change in\\nthe gospel, or its wrong interpretation, when the fault lies within themselves.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "21\\nThey allowed the fire that ought always to burn on the altar of the heart, to\\nbecome extinguished, and the light that was once in them to become darkness\\nand how great that darkness is, may be seen by the fact that they neglect the\\ngospel with its ordinances, and refuse to aid in sustaining the worship of\\nthe sanctuary and thus, in respect to them, the gospel does prove a failure\\nit fails to make them just, benevolent, and useful to others, and lovely in the\\nsight of God. If there ever comes upon New England a fearful night of\\nmoral darkness and woe, it will be when the people are unwilling to have the\\npractical doctrines of godliness pressed home upon their conscience, and refuse\\nto put their hands deep into their pockets for the support of the institutions\\nof religion. The greatest calamity that ever befell any community was the\\nconviction that the gospel was worth nothing, and the corresponding neglect\\nof it. Woe to my native town when she comes lightly to esteem the Sabbath\\nand the sanctuary, and to look upon the minister of the gospel with suspicion,\\nand his messages as of no weighty importance. Then, the glory of the town\\nthat boasts of an ancestry distinguished for their appreciation of the institu-\\ntions of religion, will have departed, and the names of godly men and women\\nwill be disgraced by children and grandchildren who hallow not the Sabbath\\nnor enter the sanctuary but who bear about with them the evidences of self-\\nruin. Here, now, and probably for the last time, and just upon the close of\\nthis great feast and commingling of hearts, with the teachings of the past\\nand spirits of the venerated fathers around us, we, who have returned to enjoy\\nthis blessed pentecost, lift up our voices, and bear our testimony to the value\\nof the gospel, and warn you who remain of the danger and fearful calamity\\nwhich will inevitably come upon you if you prize not the institutions of reli-\\ngion. If you neglect them, you neglect your own souls if you reject the\\nteachings of the gospel, you do your own souls a fearful injury, and entail\\nupon other generations inconceivable misery.\\nRev. Mr. Goodhue made remarks suggested by the inquiry,\\nWhere will be our home a hundred years hence The chil-\\ndren then sung A Hundred Years to Come, and the services\\nwere closed with prayer and benediction by Rev. Mr. Goodhue,\\nafter a few farewell words from the President to the great num-\\nbers who had so cheerfully responded to the invitation to visit\\nthe homes of their earlier days.\\nAll the exercises of the Sabbath were highly appropriate,\\nand all the utterances of the day were words fitly spoken were\\napples of gold in pictures of silver. Several of the addresses\\nwill appear in the ensuing pages, and will serve to keep alive\\nthe remembrance of the day. When the services were ended,\\nall lingered long, as unwilling to leave a scene so fraught with\\ninterest. Many kind wishes were expressed, and tender adieus", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22\\nuttered, all saying, It has been good to be here. During\\nthe two days, great quiet and the utmost order prevailed, and\\nnothing occurred to detract from the enjoyment of the occasion\\nbut it will be remembered ever as the richest feast of reason\\nand flow of soul which a lifetime is permitted to enjoy.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HON. CLARK B. COCHRANE.\\nMr. Cochrane was born in 1813, the son of Mr. John Coch-\\nrane, who resided on the north declivity of Joe English, where\\nhis youth was spent in labor upon the farm, and attendance at\\nthe district school. He commenced fitting for college in 1832,\\nat Atkinson Academy, under John Kelly, Esq., and completed\\nhis preparation at Francestown Academy, under Mr. B. F.\\nWallace, and at Nashua, under Mr. Crosby, having read Latin\\none or two terms with Mr. Edward Buxton. He entered Union\\nCollege in 1835, and graduated in 1839. He was admitted to\\nthe bar in 1841, and commenced the practice of law at Amster-\\ndam, N. Y., removing in 1851 to Schenectady, and thence in\\n1855 to Albany, where he now resides. In 1844, he repre-\\nsented in the State Legislature, Montgomery County, and in\\n1856 was elected to represent in the United States Congress,\\nthe counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, and Ful-\\nton, and was reelected in 1858. Mr. Cochrane was married in\\n1839 to Miss Rebecca Wheeler, of New York, and has one\\ndaughter, Mary Frances. By his legal skill, Mr. Cochrane has\\ngained an enviable position among honorable competitors, and\\nis widely known as a Christian gentleman, with a heart and\\nhand for every good object. In politics he is a Republican,\\nembracing the cause of the Union with an undivided heart.\\nIn selecting one to prepare and deliver the historical address\\non the Centennial occasion, Mr. Cochrane seemed in all respects\\nfitted for the duty, and the rich feast which he prepared for\\nthat day is now spread for the reader.", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "^^/^^y^^^ 1^?^^s", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS.\\nThere is a sentiment in the human heart answering to the\\nsummons which brings us to this feast of memory. We gather\\nat this centre of interest and friendship, from distant homes\\nand varied lines of life, in obedience to a common instinct of\\nour nature. Attachment to the place of birth, the scenes of\\nchildhood, the home of kindred, and the burial-grounds of our\\nfathers, springs from an affection inherent in our humanity.\\nAs the exhausted tides, by an irresistible law of nature, roll\\nback to their ocean home, so through their deepest channels\\nthe warm and wearied currents of the sonl return to the asso-\\nciations, the play-grounds, the companions, of early years.\\nWhen the patriarch Joseph, looking to the promised exodus,\\nthough wearing the second honors of Egypt, gave his brethren\\ncommandment concerning his bones, he did but express a\\ndesire instinctive and common to mankind under all conditions\\nand in every age.\\nBreathes there the man with soul so dead,\\nWho never to himself has said,\\nThis is my own, my native land\\nWhose heart hath ne er within him burned,\\nAs home his footsteps he hath turned,\\nFrom wandering on a foreign strand\\nYon, who have continued to occupy the old domain, and in-\\nherit the paternal soil, have never felt, and therefore cannot\\nappreciate, the power of those ties which link the heart of the\\nemigrant to the home of his youth. It is recorded of Abraham,\\nas a test of eminent faith, that when the command came, Get\\nthee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy\\nfather s house, he departed, as the Lord had spoken. It is\\nthe wanderer whose dreams are of the u fireside afar. Tis\\n4", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26\\nin the land of strangers, remote from former friends, away from\\nall that had been loved and left behind, in the distant pursuits\\nof fortune or fame, and amid the perplexities of trade, the\\nexhaustion of mind, the disappointments, toils, and tumults of\\nhurried life, that our thoughts dwell in the past and our weary\\nspirits pant for the green fields of youth and the spring-time\\nof life.\\nWith us, from whom the bloom and blessings of young ex-\\nistence have long since departed, the memory of its scenes, the\\nattachments it formed, the places it loved, and the objects it\\ncherished, retain a freshness and power which years and ab-\\nsence serve only to increase.\\nTime but the impression deeper makes,\\nAs streams their channels deeper wear.\\nAs the dreary winds and falling leaves of autumn force a\\nsigh for the balmy air and vernal glories of the opening year,\\nso the weariness and burdens of ripening age drive our thoughts\\nback to the sunny season of youth and hope, when, exempt from\\ncares and sheltered by a mother s love, the present had no sor-\\nrows, and, to the eye of young ambition, the future no clouds.\\nWho has not felt how growing use endears\\nThe fond remembrance of our former years\\nWho has not sighed, when doomed to leave at last\\nThe hopes of youth, the habits of the past,\\nThe thousand ties and interests that impart\\nA second nature to the human heart,\\nAnd wreathing round it close, like tendrils climb,\\nBlooming with age and sanctified by time.\\nThe present is an opportunity long wished for, at length\\nenjoyed. We are here for no purpose of gain or ambition, to\\ninaugurate no enterprise which might hold out to the greedy\\neye of capital promised returns of wealth and power we come\\nto contend for none of those glittering but delusive prizes\\nwhich tempt the feet of this world s votaries to the arena of\\ndiscord and strife. Far different is our mission. Ours is a\\npilgrimage of the heart, an errand of friendship, the presenta-\\ntion of a united social offering to the homes and the days of\\nlang syne. The selfish passions of the soul are left behind,", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "27\\nand all its nobler impulses, all its kindlier sensibilities, are\\ncalled into highest activity.\\nIt would be difficult to imagine an occasion which, for us,\\ncould possess greater interest.\\nNew Boston, our native town, the home we loved and left,\\nhas made a banquet for her absent children, and we are here.\\nDriving along the distant avenues and dusty ways of life, we\\nheard the mother s call, and we have hurried home to partake\\nof her hospitality, and receive her grateful welcome.\\nFellow-townsmen, neighbors, kinsmen, friends, we thank you\\nfor this public expression of your kind remembrance, for this\\nmost generous greeting, this grand and affectionate reception,\\nfor this feast of reason and flow of soul. The table which\\nyou have with so much liberality spread before us is wanting\\nin no luxury which may tempt the social appetite. Decked\\nand perfumed with the choicest flowers of memory, sparkling\\nwith nectar which the gods yield only to the lips of earliest\\nand truest friendships, and twined with evergreens connecting\\nthe present with a cherished past, we approach it as the one\\nentertainment, the crowning festival of our lives.\\nAfter long years of separation and varied vicissitudes, we\\nmeet again at the place from whence we went out. We parted\\nas friends, as friends we meet we left in the bloom of life and\\nhope, we return faded by time and worn by cares. Our several\\nways have led us in widely divergent lines. Our lots have been\\ncast in places remote from you and from each other. But\\nneither absence nor distance, prosperity nor adversity, suc-\\ncesses nor disappointments, have served to wean our hearts\\nfrom the friends and firesides we left behind, nor make us\\nforget the woods and the streams, the hills and the valleys, the\\nrocks and the glens, with which we communed when life was\\nnew. From the western prairies, from the shores of the great\\nlakes, from the valley of the Hudson, from the commercial me-\\ntropolis of the continent, from the cities and villages of the\\nAtlantic seaboard, from the manufacturing towns and along\\nthe rivers and among the mountains of our own New England,\\nanimated with one spirit and impelled by a single impulse,\\nwe have hastened to join this reunion of kindred hearts, and\\nhere, at the common source of our several life-streams, once", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28\\nmore drink together at the pure fountains of childhood, and\\nrenew our strength for what remains of life s battle amid the\\nbracing air and among the bracing friends of our rocky home.\\nThe circumstances under which we are reassembled are\\npeculiarly happy in their combination, and are such as can\\nrarely occur in the history of any local community. The day,\\nthe year, the preparation, the gathering, the scene, all unite in\\ncrowding within the limits of a few passing hours the highest\\nsocial pleasures, the most hallowed recollections of a lifetime.\\nIt is, indeed, a genial and joyous occasion a grateful halt-\\ning-place by the wayside of life a green spot, to which we\\ngladly turn aside from the heated and bustling ways over which\\nwe are driven along, to pass a brief season in fraternal saluta-\\ntions, in happy greetings, in pleasant and cheerful intercourse to\\nmeet old friends, and revive former friendships to recall the\\ninnocent sports, the delightful scenes, the genial memories of\\nearly years to inquire of you and each other how it has fared\\nwith us during these many years of separation what joys,\\nwhat sorrows, what successes, what reverses, what lights, and\\nwhat shadows have checkered life.\\nAs the present is a time for gladness, so also it is a time for\\nretrospect and gratitude, as well. We rejoice at the multiplied\\nevidences of your prosperity that the ancient character of the\\nold town for industry, enterprise, hospitality, and intelligence\\nhas sustained no detriment at your hands. If you have re-\\nceived from us a less revenue of honor and credit than you\\nhad reason to expect, you cannot justly reproach us with\\nhaving brought upon the names we bear, or the lineage we\\nclaim, the taint of disgrace or dishonor. Between you who\\nhave remained and us 1 who have returned let there be the full\\nflow of fraternal fellowship and generous gratulations, chas-\\ntened by a grateful sense that whatever of good fortune has\\nattended either, is due to that benignant Being, who tempers\\nthe winds to the shorn lamb, and who, of all true, good, and\\nright living, is at once the friend, inspirer, guardian, and\\nreward.\\nSince coming among you, we have not failed to make the\\nmost of time and opportunity; we have lived youth over again.\\nLeaving age and cares, we have gone back into the past. We", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "29\\nhave revelled in a full harvest of familiar scenes and ani-\\nmating recollections.\\nThe earth and air are fragrant with childhood memories.\\nThe noise of rural industry, the lowing of herds, the murmur\\nof streams, the hum of bees, the varied song of birds, the\\ndrum of the partridge, and the voice of the whippoorwill, sounds,\\nwhich, mingled with life s earliest dreams, have been again\\nheard among our native hills. We have stood and gazed up-\\nward, once more, full in the face of old Joe English, whose\\nstately form and solemn features impressed our infant thoughts,\\nand whose rugged ascent and airy summit first tempted the\\nambitious adventures of our boyhood. We have again followed\\nthe famous Piscataquog, still winding its resolute way through\\nthe heart of the old township, reminding us, at every turn, of\\nhome and friends and that sweet time when, boys together,\\nwe listened to its music, bathed in its waters, and played along\\nits banks. Nor have we forgotten the Meeting House Common\\nor the sandy slope in front of the Hall, where, on training-\\ndays, the New Boston Artillery, now an institution of the past,\\nwith measured tread, martial airs, and nodding plume s, was\\naccustomed to parade, taking captive our eager hearts and\\nstirring our young spirits to envy and admiration. We have\\nagain labored up the sides of the old hill pastures, on\\nevery square rod of which, when boys at home, we had brushed\\nthe dew with our bare and battered feet, and amid whose end-\\nless perplexities of heap and hollow, rock, stub, thistle, bush,\\nbrake, and fern, in hunting the cattle, or attempting to head off\\nsome antic horse or provoking steer, our young tempers had\\nbeen subjected to sorest trial. We have been to the school-\\nhouse to see once more the oft-remembered grounds, where,\\nwith merry voices, we had so often gamed and frolicked, when\\nplayful children just let loose from school to the gray\\nchurch-yard, through whose solemn gateway, during these long-\\nyears of absence, have been borne, one after another, the\\nremains of those whom, in life, we had known and loved, to\\nmingle with the kindred dust of three generations of our fore-\\nfathers have gazed upon the same sky which bent over us\\nin infancy, still floating the summer clouds, in whose fleeting-\\nshadows, emblems of human life and glory, we accept in age", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30\\nthe lessons rejected in youth. Have mused where once we\\nplayed, light of heart, beside the story-telling glens and\\nfounts and brooks. Have looked out upon the same grand\\nold woods upon the fields smiling in the same variegated\\ngarniture upon\\nThe orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild wood, t\\nAnd every loved spot that our 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 our father, the dairy-house nigh it,\\nAnd e en the rude bucket that hung in the well.\\nTurning from all the landscape smiling near, familiar\\nobjects still remain, to which distance lends enchantment.\\nWithin the ample circle marked by the horizon the grand\\nand diversified panorama, the first upon which we lifted our\\neyes there s no feature we do not recognize not a picture,\\nnot a group we do not recall familiar friends, old acquaint-\\nances all. Yonder, unchanged by time, the Uncannoonucs,\\nsisters of one birth, still lifting their graceful forms to the\\nclouds, stand as when we first beheld them, the same faithful\\nsentinels at the gates of the morning. From the stormy north\\nold Kearsearge, guarding the approaches to the enchanted\\nregions of the White Hills, heaves as of old his huge and gran-\\nite shoulders high in air. Towards the quarter whence Com-\\neth the summer shower, the same lofty pile still arrests the\\neye, as when, driving our father s team afield, we saw the thun-\\nder-cloud break and recoil from the assault upon his forked\\nsummit. Standing out against the evening sky is seen the\\nsame mellow outline of hills behind which, when we were\\nyoung, the sun, as now, went down to rest, drawing after him\\nthe same unfading curtains of purple and gold while away in\\nthe hazy distance beyond grand Monadnock towering upward\\nin silent and solitary grandeur, bares, as of yore, his un-\\ndaunted and imperial head to the bolting artillery of the skies.\\nTo the south, the green slopes and Wooded ridges of Mount\\nVernon, the plains of- Amherst, the pine forests of Merrimack,\\nnow as formerly, sleep in peaceful repose, and, blending with\\nthe less distinct landscape beyond, form a picture of rare and", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "31\\nquiet beauty as it stretches outward and onward towards the\\nsea.\\nOh, nature, how in every charm supreme,\\nWhose votaries feast on raptures ever new,\\nOh, for the voice and fire of Seraphim,\\nTo sing thy glories with devotion due.\\nSuch are the external scenes and surroundings from which\\nthe sons and daughters of New Boston drew their early inspi-\\n4 ration, and under the influences of which were shaped and\\ntempered the elements of their growth and character. Nature\\nrarely fails to impress something of her own features upon\\nthe children whom she nourishes upon her bosom.\\nWhere the earth rises to meet the heavens where cataracts\\nfoam and the waters leap where, above the herds that graze\\nand the fields that bloom in the valleys below, the eagle wheels\\nto his home in the cliffs, tis there, other conditions being\\nequal, that the soul most surely looks up through nature to\\nnature s God; that the seeds of liberty and virtue take read-\\niest and firmest root, and the abodes of men are safest from\\nviolence and plunder.\\nNature, we owe thee much if we have felt\\nAught of the firm resolve or wish sublime,\\nTis that Ave drank from thee the heavenly draught,\\nAnd gave thy moral image to the world.\\nPeculiarly gratifying as are the circumstances under which\\nwe meet though fraught with so much of traditional interest\\nand social inspiration, the occasion is not free from suggestions\\nof sadness. Of those, who have gone out from among you\\nwithin the memory of the present generation, a part only have\\nreturned. Some who had hoped to mingle in our festivities\\nhave been providentially prevented. Others, whose address\\nwas unknown or uncertain, have failed of notice. Many, very\\nmany, have passed beyond the call of earthly friendships. As\\nwell among us who left as you who remained, death has done\\nits inevitable work. Since last we met, who of us all has not\\nlost a friend Of all the family circles to which we claim kin-\\ndred, what one has remained unbroken Some have passed\\naway in the bright morning of hope and promise others have", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32\\nfallen in the strength and noon of life and labor. In the case\\nof a few, the silver cord has remained unloosed until the eye\\nbecame dim and the grasshopper a burden.\\nHow few of the fathers and mothers who bowed at these\\naltars, and worshiped in this mountain, when we were young,\\nare here to greet us to-day\\nIt is not our purpose to obtrude upon the pleasures of this\\nfestive season, the memory of private griefs or individual sor-\\nrow, of which we have all had our allotted share, or say aught\\nthat might open those heart-wounds over which time has passed\\nhis kind and healing hand. But there is one bereavement in\\nwhich we all equally share, all sorrowing for the loss of one in\\nwhom, while living, we found a common friend and father,\\nwhich forces itself upon our attention, and claims from the\\npassing hour a tribute of filial recognition. To this our social\\njubilee the charm of his presence is wanting. We miss his\\ngenial smile, the cordial grasp of his hand, his words of affec-\\ntionate welcome, his parental benediction. Assembled to mark\\nan era and commemorate so much that is local and interest-\\ning in our history as a community, it is impossible not to recur\\nto the name of one whose memory, fragrant with a thousand\\ngrateful recollections, looks out upon us from every whispering\\ntree and ancient pathway like a living presence, reminding us\\nof the plastic and moulding genius, that seized upon the ele-\\nments of youthful character and gave them the touch and\\ntone of virtuous manhood and womanly grace, evolving fresh\\nvigor as the years have waned. For a period of forty years,\\nembracing two-fifths of the century now closing, he moved\\namong his people, their acknowledged head, teacher, and guide\\na living exemplar of whatever is pure and excellent in moral\\nand Christian living. To advance your social prosperity, your\\neducational interests, and secure the present and eternal well-\\nbeing of yourselves and your children, was the unselfish bur-\\nden of his heart, the labor of his life. Faithful to every duty,\\npublic and private, failing in attention to no class or condition,\\nwith a wise reference to the great truth in the economy of\\ngrowth, that upon the seed-time depends the future harvest,\\nhe took especial interest in the training and education of the\\nyoung. How vididly do we recall his periodical visitations to", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "33\\nthe district schools, regularly occurring at the beginning and\\nagain at the close of each term They were the events of our\\nschool-day years. With what anxious carefulness of prepara-\\ntion, with what lively emotions of anticipated pleasure, we\\nawaited his coming. The young eyes turning, in spite of\\nrules, a sly glance through the window, lighted up with new\\nanimation as they saw his approach expectation stood on\\ntiptoe as the well-known knock was heard at the door, and the\\nwhole school rose to welcome, with the affectionate homage of\\ntheir obeisance, the advent of a recognized benefactor and\\nfriend. No merited praise was withheld, and criticism, when\\nrequired, was administered with wisdom and charity. He\\nbrought a kind word for all, assurance of reward for the dil-\\nigent, encouragement for the backward, hope for the timid, a\\nsure return of happiness for the good, and to the young aspir-\\nings of those of brightest promise, though clad in homeliest\\ngarb, were held up the attractive awards of future eminence\\nand success. The performance of his parochial duties was\\nwithout partiality. In visiting the homes of the more afflu-\\nent, he passed not by the dwellings of the poor. In both he\\nwas equally at home, and equally welcome. His words, always\\nfitly spoken, were as apples of gold in pictures of silver, and\\nas nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. When the\\near heard him, then it blessed him and when the eye saw him,\\nit gave witness to him.\\nUnto him men gave ear, and waited and kept silence at his\\ncounsel. They waited for him as for the rain, and they opened\\ntheir mouth wide as for the latter rain.\\nIn the house of gladness his presence and chastened vivacity\\nserved but to heighten every innocent pleasure, and to the\\nhouse of sickness and mourning he hastened to bear, from his\\nMaster, precious words of mercy and consolation, words\\nwhich few knew so well how to administer.\\nAt church, with meek and unaffected grace,\\nHis looks adorned the venerable place\\nTruth from his lips prevailed with double sway,\\nAnd fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.\\nPossessed of a mind richly endowed by nature and cultivation,\\nof conversational powers of rarest fascination, added to a pres-", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34\\nence, at once agreeable and commanding, he took rank from\\nthe first among the most gifted and intellectual of his contem-\\nporaries. Though eminently qualified for success in situations\\naffording broader range for intellectual activity and display, he\\nwas content to complete the measure of his life and ministry\\nin the less ambitious field to which he was first called, and, at\\nlast, be laid to rest among the people to whom his youthful\\nstrength and his earliest and only vows were given.\\nVenerable man None knew him but to love him, none\\nnamed him but to praise. And, so long as the Christian faith\\nshall preserve this tabernacle, and here maintain an altar, the\\nname of Ephraim Putnam Bradford shall live in the affection-\\nate memory of men.\\nWe have met, fellow-townsmen, for an historic as well as\\nsocial purpose to chronicle events while we glean in the\\nfield of recollection to pause in the rapid round of years,\\nreview the past, and make a record to witness the closing\\nscenes of a dying century, and raise a monument, and trace\\nupon it a brief inscription to its memory. Though the range\\nof immediate inquiry is narrow -and special, the task of its ex-\\namination which we propose to ourselves on this occasion, is\\nnot devoid of general interest. The records of states and na-\\ntions are made up from local and partial annals. From out\\njust such materials as the threads and fragments, which the\\npeople of New Boston this day rescue from the common de-\\ncay, the historic muse weaves with cunning hand the varie-\\ngated web of the ages.\\nThe events connected with the first settlement of New Bos-\\nton, about the year 1733, and its incorporation thirty years later\\nby the provincial government of New Hampshire, carry us back\\nto an age in which the great thought of separate nationality\\nhad not been conceived, and far into the colonial period of\\nAmerican history, to a time when our judges sat in the ermine\\nof Westminster Hall, and governors and magistrates ruled by\\ncommissions from the crown when men were yet strong who\\nhad triumphed with Marlborough at Blenheim and B-amiilies,\\nand our martial ancestors celebrated in scarlet uniforms the\\nimperishable anniversaries in the calendar of British glory;\\nto a period before the French empire in America had been dis-", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "35\\nsolved in the shock of battle on the plains of Abraham, or the\\nbrave Scottish clans who welcomed Charles Edward to the\\nHighlands had seen the last hope of the house of Stewart\\nperish on the field of Culloden.\\nMen and generations pass away, but society and the race\\ncontinue, and the cause of human progress and civilization,\\nevents and their logic, march steadily forward. Youth is re-\\nnewed at the grave of age, and over the ruins of universal\\ndeath new and better forms of life perpetually spring.\\nOur origin as a community is involved in no obscurity. It\\nis traceable in plain history, not in uncertain fable. In nation-\\nality, it was Scotch in Christianity, Protestant in theology,\\nCalvinistic in sect, Presbyterian We trace the well-marked\\nline of descent and emigration backward, first to Londonderry,\\nNew Hampshire thence to the counties of Londonderry and\\nAntrim, in the north of Ireland and from thence to Argyle-\\nshire and Ayrshire, its source, in the west of Scotland.\\nThan ours, few communities can claim a worthier genealogy,\\nor trace a nobler ancestral record. Though compelled to force\\nsubsistence from a reluctant soil, though inhabiting a land en-\\ncircled by wintry seas, piled with mountains, roaring with tor-\\nrents and wrapt in storms, the Scottish race have achieved\\nresults and attained a rank which have challenged the respect\\nand admiration of the world. From external fortune was\\nfashioned the interior character, and both were of iron. Emerg-\\ning in advance of most of the countries of Europe, from out\\nthe barbarism of the middle ages, Scotland has continued for\\nmore than seven centuries an historic and civilizing power\\namong the nations of the earth. Like her national thistle,\\nblooming for her friends and bristling to her enemies, in every\\nperiod of her history, she has been true to her motto,\\nNemo me impune lacessit.\\nAs the ever-green pine of Clan Alpine, moored in the rift-\\ned rock proof to the tempest shock, she still abides in immortal\\nyouth, with eye undimmed and strength unabated, bearing\\nlength of days in her right hand, and in her left hand riches\\nand honor. In literature, science, and philosophy, notwith-\\nstanding her comparatively small population, the array of brill-", "height": "3387", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36\\niant names she has given to the world is excelled by no country,\\nancient or modern.\\nFrom the Tweed to the Orkneys, and from the frith of Tay\\nto Loch Shiel, there is no rood of ground which the pen of her\\ngifted sons has not made classical. The yearly pilgrimages\\nmade by poets, scholars, and tourists to the various objects of\\nnatural grandeur and beauty with which Scotland abounds, are\\nbut the homage which taste and learning annually pay to the\\ngenius of Burns, of Scott, of Wilson and of Macaulay, who, in\\ndeathless song and matchless prose, have invested the estuaries\\nand lochs, the mountains and glens, the banks and braes, the\\nheathy moors and winding vales of our fatherland, with life\\nand enchantment. Katrine and Loch-Lomond, Benvenue and\\nBenan, the Sweeping Nith and Bonny Doon, glowing\\nafar in the attractions of romance, will carry down to remotest\\ntime the names which have made them immortal.\\nThe rigors of climate, the severities of labor, the protracted\\nconflicts to which they have been subjected, and through which\\nas well as over which they have triumphed, joined to native\\nforce of intellect and a stern Christian faith, have given charac-\\nter to the Scotch, and enabled them to exhibit, in every condi-\\ntion and under all vicissitudes of fortune, those combined quali-\\nties of valor, energy, intelligence, constancy, and self-command\\nwhich create success and exempt nations and individuals alike\\nfrom the possibilities of failure. It need, therefore, excite no\\nsurprise that the inhospitable shores, the bleak mountains, the\\nrocky soil, and the rugged primeval forests of New England\\nhad no terrors for and presented no obstacles to our hardy\\nancestors. They came to their work of settlement and empire\\nwith fearless hearts and resolute hands, trusting alone in the\\nfavor of Heaven and their own strong arms for success.\\nUpon the death of Elizabeth, in 1603, James the First of\\nEngland and Sixth of Scotland succeeded to the British throne.\\nDuring the early period of his reign, he directed his attention\\nto the improvement and reformation of Ireland. The cruel\\nand barbarous customs, which had prevailed among the aborigi-\\nnal inhabitants, were abolished, and the English laws, with\\ncourts for their administration, were substituted in their stead.\\nUpon the suppression of a revolt, which had been raised", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "37\\nagainst his authority, the insurrectionary district, embracing\\nthe province of Ulster, by attainder of the rebel chiefs, reverted\\nto the Crown. Liberal grants of the forfeited lands were\\nmade to companies formed in London, in aid of the royal\\nscheme of securing the permanent pacification of the insurgent\\ndistrict by the introduction of emigrants from England and\\nScotland. Under the encouraging auspices of the Crown, the\\nprocess of colonization went rapidly forward. Industry and\\nthe arts went with the colonists. The effect produced by the\\nintroduction of the new element among the native material\\nsoon vindicated the wisdom of the enterprise. Violence and\\ncrime diminished, and the country began at once to assume the\\nappearance of comparative order and civilization. The rebel-\\nlion had left the ancient city of Derry in ruins. With a view\\nto its reconstruction, the site upon which it had stood, together\\nwith six thousand acres of adjacent lands, were granted to the\\ncity of London in its corporate capacity, whence the old city\\nand county of Derry received the name of Londonderry. Emi-\\ngrants from Scotland, companies of whom began to arrive as\\nearly as 1612, settled in the counties of Londonderry and\\nAntrim, which thus became for a long and eventful period the\\nhome of our ancestors. During the three following reigns, and\\nincluding the period of the commonwealth, the colonists in Ire-\\nland continued to receive, from time to time, large accessions\\nto their numbers from among their kindred and countrymen\\nfrom England and Scotland. So that, at the commencement\\nof the memorable struggle of 1688, which resulted in the com-\\nplete dethronement of James the Second, and his final expul-\\nsion from the British islands, the Protestants of Ulster had\\nbecome, not indeed numerically, but by reason of superior\\nenergy, skill, and intelligence, the dominant and controlling\\nclass in the north of Ireland. Throughout that renowned con-\\ntest of arms, their zeal, endurance, and intrepidity have never\\nbeen surpassed. To their long and heroic defence of London-\\nderry, by which the French and Irish army was for months\\nbaffled and delayed, and before which it finally rolled back\\nover the line of its advance, broken and demoralized, the cause\\nof freedom and Christian civilization is in no small degree in-\\ndebted for the success of that most auspicious and happy of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "38\\nrevolutions which brought William of Orange and Mary to the\\nthrone.\\nSubsequent to this event, and a little less than thirty years\\nthereafter, one hundred and twenty families of Scotch descent,\\nfrom the counties before mentioned, among whom were many\\nwho had witnessed and some who had participated in the\\nmemorable siege, prompted chiefly by the hope of securing a\\nlarger measure of civil and religious liberty, prepared to bid a\\nfinal adieu to the old world, and try their fortune in the new.\\nThey left the shores of Ireland in five ships, and arrived\\nat Boston August 4, 1718. Sixteen of these families, having\\nobtained from the authorities of Massachusetts leave to locate\\nupon any of the unappropriated lands under the jurisdiction\\nof that province, a township of twelve miles square, proceeded,\\nduring the autumn, to Casco Bay, with the design of settling\\nin the neighborhood of what is now Portland if, upon view, a\\nsatisfactory location should be found. The expedition proved\\nunsuccessful. After passing, in the harbor of Falmouth, a\\nwinter of unusual severity, through which they were subjected\\nto extreme suffering, both from cold and hunger, they started\\nupon their return on the first opening of spring, and, coasting\\nwestward, entered the mouth of the Merrimack, and ascending\\nit to the head of navigation, landed at Haverhill, then a fron-\\ntier town, on the second of April, 1719. At this place flat-\\ntering representations were made to them of a tract of country\\nlying but a few miles northerly, to which, by reason of the\\nabundance and variety of nuts found there, had been given the\\nname of Nuffield. Thither the impatient adventurers, without\\ndelay, bent their weary but still resolute steps, and on the\\neleventh of April rested upon the soil of our then future Lon-\\ndonderry. It was the time of spring. Nature, throughout all\\nher myriad arteries, was throbbing with the tides of returning\\nlife. The wild grass was springing in the narrow glades and\\nalong the margin of the streams the forests of sturdy growth,\\nswelling with preparation, were just ready to burst into ver-\\ndure and every living thing, that had a voice, joined in a\\ngeneral chorus of welcome to the vernal year. It was the\\nseason of hope, and the scene was one of gladness. Here the\\nlittle company of emigrants, weak in numbers but strong in", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "39\\nspirit, at once determined to locate their grant and build their\\nhomes. Committing themselves and their infant enterprise to\\nthe keeping of that Being in whom they reverently trusted,\\nthey went to the work assigned them with a faith that never\\nfaltered, and with hands that never tired.\\nHad the acquisition of fame been the end at which they\\naimed, their aspirations must have been fully satisfied could\\nthey have seen the distinguished position they were destined to\\noccupy in the domain of history. But such was not the ambi-\\ntion which led them on.\\nNot as the conqueror comes,\\nThey, the true-hearted, came\\nNot with the roll of the stirring drums\\nAnd the trumpet that sings of fame.\\nNot as the flying come,\\nIn silence, and in fear\\nThey shook the depths of the forest gloom\\nWith their hymns of lofty cheer.\\nWhat sought they thus afar\\nBright jewels of the mine\\nThe wealth of seas the spoils of war\\nThey sought a faith s pure shrine.\\nAy, call it holy ground,\\nThe soil where first they trod\\nThey have left unstained what there they found,\\nFreedom to worship God.\\nThen and there were laid the foundations of a community\\nwhich was destined to act a most important and distinguished\\npart in the future settlement, growth, and triumphs of New\\nHampshire. Prosperity attended this colony from the begin-\\ning. The tomahawk and torch of the savage, by which so many\\nneighboring settlements had been surprised and desolated,\\ncame not near its borders. The pestilence, which had wasted\\nso many colonies, averted its breath from this. For nearly or\\nquite a half century, accessions were almost yearly made to its\\nstrength and numbers from the ranks of newly-arrived emi-\\ngrants of like faith and blood. The history of this community,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40\\nfrom its inception, was one of uninterrupted growth and suc-\\ncess. It proved a fountain from which, as well as into which,\\nstreams of emigration flowed. It is estimated that there are\\nnow living more than twenty-five thousand persons, some of\\nwhom are to be found in almost every town of New England,\\nand not a few beyond its borders, who derived their origin from\\nthis people. Windham and Londonderry, Vt. Cherry Valley,\\nN. Y. Windham, N. H. Acworth, Chester, Manchester, Bed-\\nford, New Boston, Antrim, Peterborough, Francestown, Goffs-\\ntown, Henniker, and Deering were first settled, all of them\\nlargely, and several of them, including New Boston, almost en-\\ntirely, by emigrants from Londonderry. Of New Boston it may\\nbe said, more emphatically than of any other town, she was the\\nchild of Londonderry.\\nMany other settlements received early and important acces-\\nsions from the same source, and, notwithstanding these heavy\\ndrafts upon her population, the mother township numbered\\nwithin her own borders, in 1775, two thousand five hundred\\nand ninety souls.\\nHaving thus briefly traced the history of the colony by whose\\nsturdy sons and sterling daughters our own town was founded\\nand its character and institutions formed, it only remains to be\\nadded, that no community within the limits of New Hampshire\\nhas exerted a wider or happier influence in shaping the destinies\\nand advancing the honor of the State, than Londonderry.\\nThroughout the struggle of the Revolution no town displayed\\ngreater unanimity, constancy, and zeal for the patriot cause, or\\nmade larger contributions of men and means to secure its suc-\\ncess. Thornton, Stark, Reid, Gregg, and McCleary are of the\\nmen she gave to the cause and the country, names which\\nhave shed imperishable lustre upon the annals of the States, and\\nabide forever in the gratitude of a free people.\\nTHE GEANT.\\nNew Boston was granted, January 14, 1736, by the Great\\nand General Court or Assembly, for His Majesty s province of\\nMassachusetts Bay, to John Simpson and fifty-two others, in-\\nhabitants of Boston. The name New Boston, which was sug-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "41\\ngested from the residence of the grantees, was first applied to\\nthe township by the proprietors on the 16th of April, 1751, in a\\ncall for a meeting, as follows The proprietors of a township\\ngranted to John Simpson and others, and lying on the branches\\nof Piscataquog river, known by the name of New Boston, are\\nhereby notified, c.\\nThe proprietors held tieir first meeting April 21, 1736,\\nat the house of Luke Vardy, Boston.\\nIn the records of their proceedings from 1736 to 1751, the\\ntownship is variously designated, sometimes as the township\\ngranted to John Simpson and others sometimes as the\\ntownship lying on the branches of the Piscataquog river,\\nbounded on two of the Narraganset towns, viz., No. 3 and No.\\n5 (Amherst and Bedford) and again as the new township\\nlying on the south and middle branches of the Piscataquog\\nriver.\\nThe grant was of a township in the unappropriated lands\\nof the province, of the contents of six miles square, with one\\nthousand acres added for ponds, and two rods in each hundred\\nfor unevenness of surface and swagg of chain. In pursuance\\nof authority contained in the act, the grant was located in Feb-\\nruary, 1736 (new style), by a survey made by Jeremiah Cum-\\nmings, surveyor, and Zacheus Lovewell and James Cummings,\\nchainmen, appointed and sworn for that purpose, and as thus\\nlocated, the grant was confirmed the 20th of the following\\nMarch.\\nFor a part of the distance on two sides, the survey bounded\\nthe township by Amherst and Bedford, then known as the\\nNarraganset towns, Nos. 3 and 5. The rest of the way the\\nline was run through province lands by courses and monu-\\nments. The lines then established remain the present bounda-\\nries of the town.\\nIn 1746, an event occurred which occasioned no inconsidera-\\nble alarm, not only to the proprietor! of New Boston, but on\\nthe part of land-o*\\\\ r ners throughout the province as well, who\\nheld their grants under the government of Massachusetts. The\\nclaim put forth by the Masons to the soil of New Hampshire,\\nand from time to time pressed with great pertinacity and\\nvarious success, had long been a prolific source of litigation and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42\\nembarrassment. Doubts, which had thus been cast upon the\\ntenure by which the lands were held, had necessarily tended to\\nretard the growth and settlement of the towns. In the year\\nlast mentioned, John Tufton Mason, the heir of Capt. John\\nMason, the original grantee of the province, for the considera-\\ntion of 1,500 pounds, sold and conveyed his title to Mark H.\\nWentworth, Theodore Atkinson, Johu Wentworth (son of Ben-\\nning Wentworth, then governor), and nine others, residents of\\nPortsmouth. These twelve persons were afterward known as\\nthe Masonian proprietors. The high standing of these gen-\\ntlemen, their intimate relations to the royal government, and\\nthe uncertainty which at first prevailed in reference to their\\npurposes, greatly excited and disturbed the public mind. These\\napprehensions, however, were soon dispelled.\\nThe course taken by the Masonian proprietors allayed all\\nserious disquietude, and was at once liberal and enlightened.\\nThey proceeded immediately to release their claims to all towns\\npreviously granted by Massachusetts, east of the Merrimack,\\nand a few years later quitclaimed all similar grants west of\\nthat river.\\nThe union of New Hampshire with Massachusetts, having\\nbeen dissolved five years before (1741), their title to the unap-\\npropriated lands was acknowledged, and of these lands grants\\nwere made upon just and reasonable terms. Thus was rapidly\\nand fortunately settled the long and vexed controversy, and the\\ntitle of the grantees to their grants, and the settlers to their\\nhomes, became finally and satisfactorily quieted.\\nIn May, 1751, the New Boston proprietors appointed a com-\\nmittee, consisting of John Hill, Robert Boyce, and James Hal-\\nsey, to confer with the Masonion proprietors in reference to\\ntheir claims if any they made to the township. In August\\nof the same year, Col. Joseph Blanchard was appointed a com-\\nmittee with power on the part of claimants. The two commit-\\ntees met at Dunstable, at the residence of Col. Blanchard, and\\nsuch proceedings were had and concluded, that afterward, and\\nin December following (1751), the Masonian proprietors con-\\nveyed to the proprietors of New Boston the original township,\\nand in addition thereto, by the same conveyance, made a further\\ngrant of six square miles, being an oblong 1 tract four miles long", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "43\\nby one mile and a half wide, extending from north to south along\\nthe west bounds of the original township, and down to the Salem-\\nCanada or Lyndeborough line. In the subsequent proceedings\\nof the proprietors, this new grant was referred to as the new\\naddition, or new additional land, and became known in the\\nlocal history of the times as the New Boston addition. From\\nthis addition, and a part of Society land, Francestown was\\nerected and incorporated in 1772, thus reducing New Boston\\nto its original boundaries.\\nIt was made one of the conditions of the original grant, that\\nthe town should be laid out into sixty-three equal shares, one\\nof which to be for the first settled minister, one for the minis-\\ntry, and one for the schools. This would give to each share\\nor lot about four hundred acres. Though, for greater con-\\nvenience, the Massachusetts grant was divided into lots of 150\\nacres each, and the new addition into lots of 100 acres, the\\ncondition imposed and accepted was faithfully fulfilled, and\\nthe required quantity of land set apart and sacredly devoted to\\neach of the objects specified.\\nIn this connection let it be remembered, once for all, that\\nwhenever and wherever the pioneers of New England went to\\nopen up the forests and cast in their lot, they carried with them,\\nas the grand agencies in the work of settlement and civilization,\\nthe Christian church and the common school. These instru-\\nmentalities lose none of their importance by change of condition\\nor lapse of time. They are continuing and unalterable necessi-\\nties. And here and now, as the last sands of a century fall and\\ndisappear, and speaking for the first and doubtless for the last\\ntime to the people among whom we were reared and for whom\\naffectionate memories have been retained, we pause to declare,\\nas the result of our deepest convictions, that neither yourselves\\nnor those who shall come after you have any sure promise for\\nthe life that now is, or the life which is to come, except as you\\nand they shall value and cherish these twin institutions of grace\\nand knowledge left by our fathers in solemn charge.\\nTHE SETTLEMENT.\\nIn meagre and imperfect notices of New Boston which we\\nfind in various gazetteers to which, access has been had, and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44\\nwhich are little more than mere copies of each other, and\\ntraceable doubtless to the same original source of information,\\nit is said that the first settlement was begun about the year\\n1733. The statement rests upon no sufficient authority. It is\\npossible that some adventurer in quest of game, or for purposes\\nof exploration, may have found his way here, and erected within\\nthe limits of the township a temporary cabin, as early, as the\\nyear indicated, but it is believed that no permanent settlement\\nwas begun until several years later. In 1741, New Hampshire\\nwas separated finally from Massachusetts, and became an inde-\\npendent province. Benning Wentworth was appointed gov-\\nernor, which office he continued to hold until 1767, when he\\nwas succeeded by his nephew John Wentworth. Upon the\\norganization of the new government in 1741, the New Boston\\nproprietors appointed a committee to wait upon the govern-\\nment and acquaint them that we are the proprietors of the land\\nby virtue of a grant from Massachusetts, that we are going on\\nto settle the same, and have expended already, by way of pro-\\nmoting settlements and improvements, over two thousand\\npounds. From this general statement it would appear that at\\nthis date some small beginnings had been made, but these\\nare believed to have been very inconsiderable.\\nThe enterprise was one of hardships and difficulty. The\\nforest growths were dense and heavy, the surface broken and\\nhilly, the soil rocky and stern. Surveys and allotments had\\nto be made, roads opened, bridges thrown across the streams,\\nand provisions and materials brought long distances by tedious\\nstages over rough and unworked ways and notwithstanding\\nthe proprietors, besides direct donations of land and grants of\\nspecial privileges, had expended, from time to time, very con-\\nsiderable sums of money in aid of general improvements, and\\nwith a view of securing an early settlement, for several years,\\nthe progress made seems to have been slow and doubtful. It\\nwas not until as late as 1750 that such substantial beginnings\\nhad been made as insured the complete success of the enter-\\nprise. At this period the tide of Scotch-Irish mind and muscle\\nfrom Londonderry began to set in, and from thence the growth\\nof New Boston went steadily and rapidly forward, until the\\ntownNreached its maturity in 1820. The first census of the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "45\\nsettlement was taken under the authority of the proprietors in\\n1756, and is the earliest reliable record to be found. Septem-\\nber 24, 1754, the proprietors met at the Royal Exchange\\ntavern in King street (now State), Boston, kept by Capt.\\nRobert Stone, and appointed Col. John Hill and Robert Jen-\\nkins a committee, with directions to view the settlements\\nat New Boston township, and make report of the same to the\\nproprietors.\\nIn the summer of 1756, the committee visited the settle-\\nments, and on the 11th of November of the same year, sub-\\nmitted their repart to the proprietors at a meeting called to\\nreceive the^eport of the committee who have been up to view\\nthe settlements in said town, and to dispose of such forfeited\\nrights as the proprietors shall think proper. By this report it\\nappears there were at the time of its date (Sept. 25, 1756),\\nwithin the limits of the township, 59 persons, namely, 26 men,\\n11 women, 9 boys, and 13 girls. There were 215 acres of land\\ncleared, 82 houses completed, 6 frames not enclosed, 2 camp\\nhouses and one barn, one saw-mill, and one grain-mill and\\ndam complete. Two men had gone to the war, one man\\nwas sick, one male child and two female children had been\\nborn in the town. The following, as well as we have been able\\nto ascertain, are the names of the 26 men, and which are be-\\nlieved to. be nearly or quite accurate. Thomas Smith, John\\nSmith, Samuel Smith, James Ferson, John Blair, William\\nBlair, Thomas Cochran, James Cochran, Abraham Cochran,\\nRobert Cochran, Samuel Cochran, William McNeil, John Burns,\\nAndrew Walker, Robert Walker, Isaac Walker, James Hunter,\\nJohn McAlister, George Christie, Thomas Wilson, James Wil-\\nson, James Caldwell, William Gray, Allen Moore, William\\nMoore, and Robert Boyce. The Clarks, the McLaughlins, the\\nMcMillens, the Livingstons, the McCollums, the Greggs, the\\nKelsos, the Campbells, and the Dodges came soon after.\\nEleven years later (1767), by order of Governor Wen tworth,\\nthe selectmen of the various towns within his jurisdiction were\\nrequired to make and return, during the year, a census of their\\nrespective towns. The census made in pursuance of this author-\\nity was the first general and complete one taken of the province,\\nand contains many curious and valuable statistics. The returns", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46\\nfor New Boston showed the following particulars unmarried\\nmen, between the ages of 16 and 60, 25 married men, be-\\ntween the same ages, 41 boys, 16 and under, 92 men, 60\\nand above, 6; females, unmarried, 80 married, 47; male\\nslaves, 1 female slaves, 2 widows, 3 total population, 296.\\nWho 44 of these adult males were, may be seen by reference to\\nthe list of names appended to the call, presented to the Rev.\\nSolomon Moor, August 25 of the same year. It is an inter-\\nesting fact, that of the 41 male heads of families in town, nearly\\nall must have united in the call.\\nAt this period (1767), there were thirty-one towns in the\\nprovince represented in the house of representative* which con-\\nsisted of thirty-one members, and held its sessions at Ports-\\nmouth, the seat of the royal government.\\nA third census was taken at the beginning of the Revolution\\nin 1775. It was made after the retirement of the royal govern-\\nment, and under the direction of the provisional convention\\nassembled at Exeter in the spring of that year. This census\\nwas also general, extending throughout the province, and was\\nintended, in addition to securing a correct enumeration of the\\ninhabitants, to obtain more accurate information with.reference\\nto the temper and defensive resources of the towns. The result\\nfor this town was thus given males under 16, 164 males,\\nfrom 16 to 50, not in the army, 98 males over 50, 27 per-\\nsons in the army, 20 females of all ages, 256 negroes and\\nslaves for life, 4 total population, 569. It is gratifying to find\\nthat New Boston was not behind her sister towns in effective\\naid to the patriot cause, having furnished, during the first weeks\\nof the war, more than one-sixth of her male population, between\\nthe ages of 16 and 50, as recruits to the army.\\nIn 1790, the number of inhabitants in the town had increas-\\ned to 1,202 j in 1800 to 1,491 in 1810 it was 1,619, and in\\n1820 it reached 1,686. At this period the town attained its\\ngreatest population, if not to its highest condition of prosperity.\\nThere were within its limits 16 school districts, 14 school-\\nhouses, 1 tavern, 3 stores, 25 saw-mills, 6 grain-mills, 2 cloth-\\ning-mills, 2 carding-mills, 1 bark-mill, and 2 tanneries. In the\\nnumber of saw-mills, New Boston, at that time, exceeded any\\nother town in the State. The river valley and the neighborhood", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "47\\nof the lesser streams abounded with pines of clear and lofty\\ngrowth, and the lumbering business early became an important\\ninterest, and was largely and profitably prosecuted for many\\nyears.\\nTHE INCORPORATION.\\nThe town was incorporated by the government of New\\nHampshire February 18, 1763. By the charter, which bears\\nthe sign manual and additions of Benning Wentworth, Esq.,\\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of New\\nHampshire, and Attested, Theodore Atkinson, Jun.,\\nSec, John Goffe, Esq., was appointed and directed to call\\nthe first town meeting. The meeting was required to be held\\nwithin twenty days after the date of the charter the time,\\nplace, and objects of the meeting to be specified in the notice.\\nThe charter contained the further provision that from and after\\nthe first election, the annual meeting of said town for choice\\nof officers and the management of its affairs, should be held\\nwithin said town on the first Monday of March in each year.\\nFrom that day to this, March meeting has remained one of\\nthe institutions of New Boston. In pursuance of the author-\\nity delegated, Col. Goffe proceeded at once to execute the duty\\nassigned. The call specified as objects of the meeting 1st. To\\nchoose all their town officers for the year ensuing as the law\\ndirects. 2d. To see what money the town will raise to defray\\nthe charge of the town and pay for preaching to the inhabitants\\nfor the year ensuing. The meeting was held, in pursuance of\\nthe notice, March 10 (1763), at the house of Deacon Thomas\\nCochran, about a mile easterly of the present business centre of\\nthe town. Deacon Cochran was the great-grandfather of your\\nworthy townsman, William C. Cochran, was one of the first set-\\ntlers, and took a leading and useful part in the early affairs of\\nthe town and of the church. The ample homestead, which he\\nfounded and left, has continued in the possession of his de-\\nscendants to the present time.\\nThe record of this first town meeting is as follows\\nModerator, Thomas Cochran.\\nVoted, Alexander McCollum, Town Clerk.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48\\nVoted, There shall be five selectmen Thomas Cochran, James McFerson,\\nNathaniel Cochran, John McAllister, John Carson, Selectmen.\\nVoted, Thomas Wilson, Constable.\\nVoted, Matthew Caldwell, John Smith, James Wilson, George Christy;\\nThomas Brown, Surveyors of Highways.\\nVoted, Abraham Cochran, Samuel Nickles, Tithing Men.\\nVoted, William Gray, John Burns, Hog Reeves.\\nVoted, John Carson, James Hunter, Deer Keepers.\\nVoted, John Cochran, Invoice Man, or Commissioner of Assessments.\\nVoted, That a pound shall be built by the corn mill, and that Deacon\\nThomas Cochran shall be Pound Master.\\nVoted, Matthew Caldwell, James Wilson, Accountants to examine accounts\\nof Selectmen.\\nVoted, To raise 100 pounds to defray charges for present year and for\\npreaching.\\nIt will be seen that several of the offices filled at this election\\nhad become, in the new condition of the people, entirely use-\\nless. The fact that these time-honored places of dignity were\\nnot suffered to remain vacant furnishes an amusing as well as\\nforcible illustration of the power of ancient forms and old insti-\\ntutions to which the minds of men have long been accustomed.\\nThe next year the number of selectmen was reduced to three,\\nwhich has since remained unchanged. The two succeeding\\nMarch meetings those of 1764 and 1765 were held at\\nthe house of John McLaughlin. That of 1766 was held in the\\nmeeting-house. This occurred on the 3d of March, and was\\nthe first annual town meeting convened in that building, and\\nindicates about the time of its completion. From this time for-\\nward, for a period of nearly three quarters of a century, the an-\\nnual and business meetings of the town continued to be held\\nwithin its walls, and until the venerable old edifice, hallowed\\nby so many interesting and sacred associations, yielded at last\\nto the innovations of time, and disappeared, from its place.\\nThose who are curious to learn what became of the quaint old\\npile, and to know the ample timbers and honest materials, of\\nwhich it was composed, will find the objects of their inquiries\\nartfully disguised under the outward seeming of a modern town-\\nhouse.\\nIn this connection it may not be uninteresting to know some-\\nthing of John Goffe, Esq., the person who as already stated", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "49\\nappeared here in February, 1763, to aid in organizing the town.\\nHis life was an eventful one, and viewed at this distance pos-\\nsesses much of romantic interest. He commenced life as a\\nhunter, and located in Derryfield, at or near the junction of the\\nCohos brook with the Merrimack river. Later in life he remov-\\ned to Bedford, in whose soil his ashes now rest in honor. In\\nfavor with the Wentworths, he was early advanced to places of\\npublic trust. Of deep religious convictions, he was accustomed,\\nfor want of a licensed ministry, to lead assemblies of the people\\nin public worship. In 174(3, he was sent in command of a com-\\npany of militia to the frontier, against the Indians. As lieutenant\\ncolonel commanding a detachment of the New Hampshire regi-\\nment, he was at Ticonderoga. At the opening of the campaign\\nof 1757, and in August of the same year, he was present at the\\nsurrender of Fort William Henry to the French. Promoted to\\nthe rank of colonel, at the head of eight hundred men, he join-\\ned the campaign which resulted in the conquest of Canada, in\\n1760. In 1767, he represented Amherst and Bedford in gen-\\neral court. In 1768, was made colonel of the old ninth regiment\\nof New Hampshire militia. He was the first judge of probate\\nof the county of Hillsborough, which office he held from 1771\\nto 1776. Brave, genial, and capable, he was largely trusted and\\nuniversally beloved. At the breaking out of the Revolution, he\\nhad become too infirm to take the field, but casting his martial\\nmantle on his son, who wore it not unworthily, he gave his\\nheart and his pen to the cause of his country. Long and hon-\\norably associated with the more prominent and stirring events\\nin the early history of the towns bordering on our own, the\\naddition of a passing word to the record of his fame was not\\ndeemed unbecoming the occasion.\\nDuring the revolutionary period, if we may judge from the\\ncharacter of her representative men, New Boston was neither\\nindifferent nor unfaithful to the cause of independence. In the\\nfirst provincial congress, as it was called, which met at Exeter,\\nin May, 1775, and over which Matthew Thornton presided, the\\ntown was represented by Thomas Wilson. The second con-\\ngress, which met in December of the same year, resolved itself\\ninto two bodies, a council and house of representatives, the first\\ncouncil being chosen by and from the representative body, and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50\\nafterwards both branches were elected by the people. The\\ngovernment thus instituted continued during the war, and until\\nsuperseded by the permanent government of New Hampshire,\\nin 1784. The house consisted of eighty-nine members, of\\nwhich the county of Hillsborough was entitled to seventeen.\\nTo this branch of the legislature, New Boston and Francestown\\nunited in sending one representative. In 1776, Capt. Benjamin\\nDodge, of New Boston, was chosen. In 1777 and 1778, Archi-\\nbald McMillen, of New Boston. For the two following sessions,\\nWilliam Starrett, of Francestown. In 1780, James Caldwell,\\nof New Boston. In a delegated convention which assembled at\\nConcord, in September, 1779, to consider the state of the cur-\\nrency, then an absorbing question, William Livingston sat as\\nrepresentative for the town. It is a matter for congratulation\\nthat, on this occasion of historic interest and review, New\\nBoston may recall with just pride, and after the lapse of more\\nthan four-fifths of a century, the character of the men whom\\nshe honored and trusted in those years of public anxiety and\\nperil.\\nCHURCHES AND CHURCH EDIFICES.\\nThe Presbyterian church and society was the first and for a\\nlong period the only religious organization in town. This organ-\\nization is known to have been as early as 1768, and there can be\\nlittle doubt it was formed some years earlier. The first settled\\nminister was the Rev. Solomon Moor. Mr. Moor was born in\\nNewtown, Limavady, Ireland, in 1736 graduated at the Univer-\\nsity of Glasgow, 1758 was licensed to preach by the presbytery\\nof Londonderry, Ireland, July 26, 1762 ordained a min-\\nister at large in 1766, and soon after sailed for America, and\\narrived at Halifax in October of the same year. Making but a\\nbrief stay at the latter place, he proceeded to Boston, where he\\ndelivered his first sermon in America, from the pulpit of the\\nRev. Mr. Moorhead. The following Sabbath he preached for\\nthe Rev. Mr. McGregore, at Londonderry West Parish, and in\\nFebruary, 1767, came to New Boston with letters of commen-\\ndation from the Rev. William Davidson, pastor of the first\\nchurch in Londonderry. Cordially and gratefully welcomed\\nby the people, he at once commenced among them the work of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "51\\nthe ministry, and on the 25th of August following, received a\\nunanimous call to become their pastor. Continuing his labors,\\nhe held the call under advisement nearly a year, and until July\\n1, 1768,* when he gave in his acceptance, and the relation of\\npastor and people was solemnized by his public installation on\\nthe 6th of September following.\\nThe relation thus formed continued unbroken until his death,\\nwhich occurred May 28, 1803, at the age of sixty-seven. His\\nministry proved a useful and acceptable one, and embraced a\\nperiod of thirty-six years. In 1770, Mr. Moor was married to\\nAnn Davidson, daughter of Rev. William Davidson, before\\nmentioned. This estimable lady, whose memory is associated\\nwith whatever is grateful in social and Christian charities, found\\nfavor in the eyes of the people with whom she had come to cast\\nin her responsible lot, and retained it to the close of life. She\\nsurvived her husband many years, and widely and respectfully\\nknown to old and young as Madam Moor, lingered among\\nus until within the present generation, receiving from all who\\napproached her the affectionate homage due to her station and\\nvirtues. As, at the end of a long summer day, the sun retires\\nslowly and calmly to rest through the mild glories of evening,\\nso, full of years of right living, closes the life of the aged good.\\nAt the time of Mr. Moor s settlement, he boarded in the fam-\\nily of Mr. Robert White, who lived on the crown of the hill a\\nfew rods northeasterly of where Abraham Wason now resides.\\nIn this connection the town records have this entry\\nAugust 15, 1768, Province of New Hampshire.\\nAt a legal meeting of the inhabitants of New Boston\\nVoted, Thomas Cochran, Moderator.\\nVoted, Robert White provide entertainment for ministers at the instalment\\nof the Rev. Mr. Moor, and bring in his charge to the town.\\nThe earlier records of the corporate meetings of the town,\\nboth annual and special, abound in entries of kindred charac-\\nter, touching the affairs of the church, showing that for many\\nyears the business of the town and temporalities of the church\\nwere equally regarded as matters of the same general and com-\\nmon concern. That there was anything improper in the union,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52\\nseems not to have been suggested. Those interested in the\\ntown were not less interested in the church. The supporters\\nof the one included the supporters of the other, woven to-\\ngether in harmony, and apparently without seam, by those of\\none faith and mind, the two grew and expanded as associated\\ninterests, without rent or discord. In all this there was no\\noffence to conscience, nor disregard of the voluntary principle,\\nso long as there were none to be aggrieved, and all continued\\nof the same mind. In the process of time, as other religious el-\\nements were introduced, and a sister church of different denom-\\ninational faith came to be organized, the practice alluded to\\nyielded to the changed relations of the people. In connection\\nwith the pulpit of the Presbyterian society,. it remains only to\\nbe added, that in May, 1805, Mr. Bradford, whose life has al-\\nready passed into history, commenced his public labors as a\\ncandidate, and on the 26th of February, 1806, was ordained\\nand installed as the successor of Mr. Moor.\\nThe Baptist church and society was organized in November,\\n1799, and in 1804 took the name of The Calvinistic Baptist\\nChurch in New Boston. Its first house of worship was erected\\nin 1805, in the westerly part of the town, a distance of about\\nthree miles from the lower village, where its present church\\nedifice is located. The first settled minister was the Rev. Isaiah\\nStone. He commenced his labors with the church in 1801, and\\non the 8th of January, 1806, was installed as its pastor. His\\ninstallation, as will be seen, was the same year, and a few weeks\\nearlier, than that of Mr. Bradford. He continued his pastoral\\nrelations until 1824, and was succeeded by your distinguished\\ntownsman, the Rev. John Atwood, afterwards and for many\\nyears honorably occupied with the duties of public life in the\\ndepartment of politics.\\nIt would seem to have been the intention of the proprietors\\nof New Boston at an early period to build up a centre of trade\\nand population on the plains in the northeasterly quarter\\nof the township. The reasons which induced this contemplated\\nenterprise are now only conjectural. Whatever they may have\\nbeen, the plan of erecting a meeting-house and group of dwell-\\nings in that neighborhood was actually undertaken and partially\\nexecuted as early as 1740. We find the subject of completing", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "53\\nthe meeting-house specified as one of the objects of a meeting\\nof the proprietors, called for the 15th of May, 1751, and after\\nan interval of more than ten years. The uncompleted struc-\\nture, however, was never finished, or used as a place of wor-\\nship. It was soon found that a location so remote from the\\ngeographical centre of the town was unfavorable to the settle-\\nment of the whole grant, and the enterprise was abandoned.\\nOf this attempted settlement little more is known. Whether\\nthe buildings, some sixty in number, were left to decay upon\\nthe spot where they were hastily thrown together, or were con-\\nsumed by fire, or partially removed for use elsewhere, or what\\nwere the motives which originally prompted the undertaking,\\nother than to save a possible forfeiture, by forcing a technical\\ncompliance with the three years limitation of the grant, are\\nquestions to which no satisfactory answers can be made, and in\\nreference to which no certain trace or reliable tradition remains.\\nThe first church edifice built in town, used as a place of pub-\\nlic worship, was the one to which allusion has been made in a\\nprevious connection, and known, since the erection of the new\\nstructure in 1823, as the old meeting-house. It stood on\\nthe northern slope of the hill, and overlooking the river valley,\\na few rods south and above the burying-ground. It was built\\nby Ebenezer Beard, under contract with the proprietors, by\\nwhom the plans and specifications were furnished. It was\\nbegun as early as 1764, and completed in July or August, 1767,\\nand about the time the call to Mr. Moor bears date.\\nThe commencement of the work was greatly delayed in con-\\nsequence of difficulty or indecision with reference to the ques-\\ntion of location. Becoming satisfied, from the report of the\\ncommittee of visitation in 1756, that the settlements would\\nprove a success, the proprietors proceeded immediately to ap-\\npoint a committee, with instructions to fix on a place in or\\nnear the centre of the town, for the public worship of God\\nand also for a public burying-place, as they shall think most\\nsuitable, for the whole community.\\nThe only record left to us of the action of this committee, is\\ncomprehended in the brief entry Fixed on lot 81. This\\nlot embraced Buxton Hill, an eminence on the north side of the\\nriver, corresponding to that on the south, upon which the site", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54\\nwas aftewards located, and is supposed to have been the place\\nselected. No action appears to have been taken on the report\\nof this committee, if indeed any formal report was ever sub-\\nmitted, and the question still remained an open one. In 1762,\\na more successful effort was made. The proprietors, for the\\nconvenience of the inhabitants, and in order to secure greater\\nfacilities for general consultation and interchange of views, held\\na meeting at the house of Thomas Cochran and, subsequently,\\nat Dunstable, September 14, 1762, appointed a new committee,\\nconsisting of Matthew Patten, John Chamberlain, and Samuel\\nPatten, with directions to select a spot for a meeting-house, in\\nthe most convenient place, to build a meeting-house or place\\nof public worship thereon, and report as soon as possible. At\\nthis meeting, Allen Moore, George Christy, John McAlister,\\nJames Hunter, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Cochran, and James\\nCaldwell, residents of the town, are named as having been\\npresent, and participating in its proceedings. In July follow-\\ning (1763), the committee, having unanimously agreed upon a\\nlocation, submitted their conclusions in writing, in which they\\nstate that they had visited several places, and heard the rea-\\nsonings of the proprietors and inhabitants of said town, and do\\nreport to the proprietors that the lot No. 79, in the second di-\\nvision, and near the centre of the lot on the south side of the\\nPiscataquog river, south of a red oak tree marked with the let-\\nter C, near the grave of a child buried there, is the most proper\\nplace or spot to build a meeting-house on in town, according to\\nour judgment.\\nThe report was at once adopted, and the question of location\\nsettled accordingly and, in September, the same committee\\nwere further authorized to enter into contract, on behalf of the\\nproprietors, with some suitable person, for building the meet-\\ning-house already voted, as soon as may be. Thus, after re-\\npeated delays and disappointments, more or less inseparable\\nfrom all new beginnings, the settlers were now able to look for-\\nward to a speedy realization of what from the first they had\\nsteadily sought and devoutly wished, an appropriate house of\\npublic worship, and a settled ministry.\\nThat portion of the present graveyard, first used as a burial-\\nground, was set apart for that purpose about the date at which", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "55\\nthe church site was fixed upon. The southerly bounds were\\nrun so as to include the new-made grave mentioned in the com-\\nmittee s report, thus making it the first within the sacred in-\\nclosure. Whose was next, is not known or now ascertainable.\\nThe earliest inscription is that on the stone erected to the\\nmemory of the first town clerk, Mr. Alexander McCollum, and\\nt)ears date in 1768.\\nAs connected with our own early history, and principally\\nbecause it is our own, how interesting and suggestive is the\\nallusion to that first little grave. The emotions excited are\\nmingled with pleasurable sadness as well as awakened inquiry.\\nWhence this child, its name, its age, its parentage, was not\\nstated, and is not known. Its story and its remains rest in a\\ncommon silence, to be revealed together at the last. Though\\nthe tenant be nameless, the tenement has a history which will\\nbe read with interest by generations coming after us.\\nThe red oak marked with the letter C, as a monument\\nof location, stood where the old south gate of the yard was\\nsituated, and the raised sod which was near points the spot,\\nin the bosom of that ample slope, where now heaves the\\nearth in many a mouldering heap, first disturbed to sepulchre\\nour dead. The site for the burial-place was well chosen com-\\nmanding a view of both villages, the river, and the prospect\\nbeyond, and capable of indefinite extension, it possesses rare\\nnatural advantages for the uses to which it has been conse-\\ncrated. Within our recollection, it has been much enlarged\\nand improved, and with a growth of ornamental trees spread-\\ning their green drapery over the bare surface, and the naked\\nmarble, and bringing with them the melody of birds, and all\\nthe grateful and varied charms of the grove, it would become\\nthe most delightful, as it is now the most sacred, feature of\\nthe town.\\nThe early records of the township disclose an isolated in-\\nstance relating to the legal modes formerly observed in making\\ndelivery of lands, which deserves mention. In 1756, certain\\nlots were forfeited by the action of the proprietors, for failure\\non the part of purchasers, to fulfil the conditions of their sev-\\neral agreements. At a meeting of the proprietors, William\\nMcNeil and Thomas Cochran, Jr., of New Boston, and William", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Gibson, of Litchfield, were constituted a committee to make\\ndelivery, by turf and twidge, of the forfeited lands, to\\nThomas Cochran, Sr., acting for the proprietors. This an-\\ncient ceremony was actually gone through with, and has this\\nexplanation In the transfer of real property under the feudal\\nlaws of Great Britain, investiture of title, or livery of seizen,\\nas it was called, was made by the parties going upon the land,\\nand the feoffer (grantor), delivering to the feoffee (grantee),\\nthe ring of the door, or turf, or twig of the land, in the\\nname of the whole. This mode of delivery has long since\\ngone into disuse the simple delivery of the deed, or convey-\\nance, being all that is necessary in order to invest the title.\\nIn attemping within the limits imposed by the proprieties of\\nthe occasion, a historical sketch of the township, little more\\ncould be done than to present a mere outline of principal\\nevents, and afford here and there an occasional glance into its\\ninterior life. To me personally, the task, though undertaken\\nwith some disadvantages, has been a pleasant one, and I only\\nregret that it has not been better and more thorougly per-\\nformed. For the honor done me by the generous assignment\\nof this duty, my warmest thanks are due, and these are given.\\nThe point of interest with us, as with you, has been the\\nearly settlers, the events they shaped, the ends at which they\\naimed, the obstacles overcome, and the results they accom-\\nplished. To these fathers of the town, we owe a deep debt of\\ngratitude, and it was fitting that we should recognize it, in this\\nunited and public manner. They were, indeed, men of no or-\\ndinary rnoulcl men, in whom was united that relative measure\\nof faith and works, of purpose and action, by which victories,\\nwhether of war or peace, are compelled. While profoundly\\nacknowledging a superintending providence to which all hu-\\nman instrumentalities were .subordinate, they recognized in the\\nright and resolute use of their own powers, the appointed\\nmeans for carrying forward the enterprises, and securing the\\npurposes of life. With such, success depends upon no other\\nconditions against such, no fancied lions hold the way with\\nsuch, there can be no failure failure itself is victory. If such\\nwere our fathers, our mothers were not less equal to the de-\\nmands of the situation. These, content with their rugged lot,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "57\\nshared the cares and toils of their husbands, and, in the spirit\\nof true female heroism, met and overcame the numberless\\nprivations and severities which pertained to life in the new\\nsettlements. Superior to every trial, and armed for any ex-\\ntremes of fortune, they present in their lives, noble models for\\nthe imitation of American mothers. Like the virtuous woman\\nof the sacred proverb, whose price is estimated above rubies,\\nThey sought wool and flax, and worked willingly with their\\nhands.\\nThey rose also while it was yet night, and gave meat to their\\nhouseholds, and a portion to their maidens.\\nThey laid their hands to the spindle, and their hands held\\nthe distaff.\\nThey stretched out their hands to the poor, and reached\\nforth their hands to the needy.\\nThey were not afraid of the snow for their households,\\nknowing their households were clothed with the scarlet cloth\\nof their weaving.\\nThey made fine linen and sold it. Strength and honor were\\ntheir clothing.\\nThey opened their mouths with wisdom, and in their tongues\\nwas the law of kindness.\\nThey looked well to the ways of their households, and ate\\nnot the bread of idleness and their children, as we do this\\nday, rose up and called them blessed.\\nSaid the settlers in their invitation to Mr. Moor, From a\\nvery small, in a few years, we are increased to a considerable\\nnumber, and the wilderness by God s kind influences, in many\\nplaces amongst us, has become a beautiful field, affording us a\\ncomfortable maintenance. While this is the language of\\nhumble dependence, it is also the language of appropriate con-\\ngratulation, of conscious success, and Christian self-reliance.\\nIn scarcely more than a quarter of a century from the time\\nthe first clearing was opened to the sun, individuals had united\\ninto families, and families into neighborhoods, and neighbor-\\nhoods into a stable and flourishing community. The triumphs\\nof associated industry and enterprise were visible on every\\nhand, and their extent and achievement attested the qualities\\nof the race from which the fathers and mothers of New Boston", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "58\\nsprung. Flocks grazed in abundant pastures, the orchard\\nbloomed in its season, the red clover scented the summer air,\\nfields of yellow grain nodded in the harvest winds, the wren,\\nsweet bird of rural peace, from her perch by the farm-house,\\nwelcomed the dawn with joyous song and the robin, following\\nthe abodes of cultivated life, poured forth her evening carol to\\nthe setting sun. With these evidences of prosperity and con-\\ntentment, came the New England Sabbath, with its calm\\nstillness, its faithful lessons, and sacred solemnities, proclaim-\\ning the presence of a devout colony, already rejoicing in the\\nmore precious institutions of a Christian civilization, and look-\\ning forward to a posterity to whom they might safely commit\\nthe keeping of their faith and their inheritance.\\nDid time permit, it would be alike pleasant and instructive\\nto enter upon a brief review of the scenes of toil and activity,\\nas well as some of the more stirring events of local and public\\ninterest, which attended the growth and development of this\\npeople, but we may not trespass farther upon your generous\\nforbearance.\\nThis centennial occasion, with its pleasures and duties, has-\\ntens to a conclusion, and in a few brief hours, will be num-\\nbered among the events of the past. Soon we shall again sep-\\narate, and in our allotted j)laces and various callings, resume\\nthe journey and burdens of life, and, while all which we shall\\naccomplish in what remains of mortal activity will be less than\\na unit in the grand summary of events which shall complete\\nthe measure of the coming century, the transactions of to-\\nday, it may be reasonably hoped, will live on and live after us.\\nThe history we indite as a tribute of gratitude to the past, we\\nleave as an offering to the future. Though the gift be unpre-\\ntending, it will be eagerly accepted, and gratefully cherished\\nby every true son of the soil, whatever fortunes betide him,\\nand wherever he may make his later home.\\nTime, measured by the changes wrought upon us and ours,\\nis remorseless and fleeting. Individuals die and are forgotten,\\nand brevity and mutability are written upon all that is outward\\nand personal in human life. On the world s broad stage, both\\nthe scenes and actors are constantly shifting, but upon the\\ngreat drama the curtain never falls. What though, amid the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "59\\nrevolution of the centuries, generations come and go, and\\npeace and war follow each other, in protracted alternation\\nwhat though continents are now calm and now convulsed, and\\nthe armies of light and darkness seem to wage uncertain con-\\nflict; what though storms assail the noblest fabrics of social\\nwisdom, and at times comes the winter of our discontent,\\nin which the greenest leafage of our moral summer may fade\\nand fall, the race, with all its transcendent interests and\\nhopes, untouched in its life and unity, shall remain firm in its\\ndestiny, and the cause of truth, working out a full and free\\ncivilization, will move steadily onward, however thrones may\\ncrumble and empires perish, until the nations of mankind,\\nperfected through discipline and trial, shall pass at length into\\nthe tranquil glories of the promised millennium.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "GRANTEES AND GRANT\\nIii 1735, John Simpson, John Carnes, James Halsey, John Ty-\\nler, John Steel, Daniel Goffe, Charles Coffin, Ebenezer Bridge,\\nDaniel Pecker, William Lee, Henry Howell, Job Lewis, Thomas\\nBulfinch, John Indicott, John Erving, James Day, Andrew Lane,\\nByfield Lyde, John Hill, John Spooner, John Read, Samuel\\nTyler, John Boydell, John Homans, John Williams, Jr., Joshua\\nHenshaw, Jr., Benjamin Clark, Jacob Hurd, James Townsend,\\nWilliam Salter, Thomas Downs, Zachariah Johonnett, Daniel\\nLoring, John Crocker, William Speakman, Thomas Greene,\\nGilbert Warner, John Larrabee, John Green, Rufus Greene,\\nThomas Foster, John Arbuthnott, James Goold, Joseph Green,\\nIsaac Walker, Robert Jenkins, Benjamin Bagnald, Richard\\nCheckley, John Mavericke, Joshua Thomas, and Thomas Han-\\ncock, became petitioners to the Great and General Court or\\nAssembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New Eng-\\nland, for a grant of six miles square for a township.\\nOn what they based their claim for such a grant, does not\\nappear from any record before us, and the petition itself is not\\nat hand, but it is probable that the grant of this town is con-\\nnected with one of the most remarkable events in the history\\nof New England. It will be remembered that in 1690 the\\nProvince of Massachusetts undertook an expedition, under the\\ncommand of Sir William Phipps, in the conquest of Canada, for\\nthe purpose of securing the Colonies against the frequent in-\\ncursions of the Indians, at the instigation of their French allies.\\nThat expedition proved painfully disastrous. The Treasury of\\nMassachusetts becoming impoverished by this expedition, bills\\nof credit to pay the soldiers, and to defray other expenses, were\\nissued, which soon depreciated so far as to become nearly\\nworthless, and the soldiers who had received them laid claims", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62\\nfor further remuneration. Hence, many petitions were pre-\\nsented to the General Court of Massachusetts, of those who\\nwere in the expedition to Canada in the yea?- 1690, and the de-\\nscendents of such of them as are dead, praying for a Grant of\\nLand for a township, in consideration of their ancestors suffer-\\nings in the said expedition. And many grants of land were\\nmade, under the general name of Canada, with the name of\\nthe town prefixed to which the grantees belonged, or such\\ngrants were located so as to be bounded in such a manner, as\\nin some way to indicate then relation to that event. Thus the\\ngrant for New Boston was doubtless given to men in Boston\\nwho had suffered in that ill-fated expedition, or their descend-\\nants.\\nOn the petition of John Simpson and others, the following\\naction was taken, as attested by Thaddeus Mason, Dept. Secre-\\ntary\\nAt a Great and General Court or Assembly for his Majesty s Province,\\nof Massachusetts Bay, in New England, began and held in Boston upon\\nWednesday, the 28th of May, 1735, and continued by several adjournments\\nto Wednesday, the 19th of November following.\\nIn the House of Representatives, Dec. 3, 1735, in answer to the petition\\nof John Simpson and others,\\nVoted, That the prayer of the Petition be granted, and that\\ntogether with such as shall be joined by the Honorable Board, be a Commit-\\ntee at the charge of the Petitioners to lay out a Township of the contents of\\nsix miles square, at the place petitioned for, or some other suitable place\\nand that they return a platt thereof to this Court within twelve months for\\nconfirmation, and for the more effectual bringing forward the settlement of\\nthe said new Town.\\nOrdered, That the said Town be laid out into sixty-three equal shares, one of\\nwhich to be for the first settled minister, one for the ministry, and one for the\\nschools, and that on each of the other sixty shares the petitioners do, within\\nthree years from the confirmation of the platt, have settled one good family,\\nwho shall have a house built on his house-lot of eighteen feet square, and\\nseven feet stud, at the least, and finished that each right or grant have six\\nacres of land brought to and ploughed, or brought to English grass, and fitted\\nfor mowing that they settle a learned and Orthodox minister, and build and\\nfinish a convenient Meeting House for the publick worship of God. And the\\nsaid committee are hereby directed to take bond of each settler of forty\\nPounds for his faithful complying with and performing the conditions of set-\\ntlement, and in case any of the said settlers fail of performing the aforesaid\\nconditions, then his or their right, share, or interest in said Town, to revert to", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "63\\nand be at the disposition of the Province and that the said Committee be,\\nand hereby are iinpowered to sue out the Bonds and recover the possession\\nof the forfeited Lotts (if any be) at the expiration of the three years, and\\nto grant them over to other persons that will comply with the conditions\\nwithin one year next after the said grant and the Bonds to be made and\\ngiven to the said Committee and their successors in the said Grant.\\nSent up for concurrence.\\nJ. QULNCY, Chairman.\\nIn Council, Jan. 14, 1735.\\nRead and concurred.\\nJ. WILLARD, Secretary.\\nConsented to.\\nBELCHER.\\nA true copy examined by\\nTHAD. MASON, Dept. Sec y.\\nIn the House of Representatives, Jan. 16, 1735.\\nOrdered, That Capt. William Collings, and Mr. Ebenezer Parker, with\\nsuch as shall be joined by the Honourable Board, be a Committee to take a\\nplatt of the within Township, and effectual care the same be brought forward\\nto all intents and purposes, agreeable to the conditions of the Grant.\\nSent up for concurrence.\\nJ. QULNCY, Speaker.\\nIn Council, Jan. 16, 1735.\\nRead and concurred, and William Dudley, Esq., is joined in the affair.\\nTHAD. MASON, Dept. Sc y.\\nA true copv examined bv\\nTHAD. MASON, Dept. Sec y.\\nAgreeably to these acts, the committee appointed Jeremiah\\nCummings surveyor, to lay out the township, with Zacheus\\nLovewell and James Cummings for chainmen. He performed\\nthe task, and submitted his report, accompanied by a rude\\nmap of the township, denoting its boundary lines, rivers, and\\nJoe English or Eldost Hill. Here follows the report\\nI, the subscriber, together with Zacheus Lovewell and James Cummings,\\nhave laid out, pursuant to the Grant of the General Court to Mr. John Simj\\nson and other Petitioners with him for a Township in the unappropriated\\nLands of the Province, of the contents of six miles square, with a thousand\\nacres added for ponds that lye within the s d Township, and have bounded it\\nthus Beginning at a Beach tree, one of the Corners of the Narragansit town,\\nNo. 5, and in the north line of y e Narragansit, No. 3, from thence running", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64\\ntwo degrees South of the west by y c s a Narragansit Town No. 3, four miles\\nand three-quarters to the northeast corner of the s a Township, from thence\\nthe same course one mile and one hundred and twenty rods to a Burch tree\\nmarked, thence the line turns and runs North two degrees to the west by\\nProvince Land six miles and forty-two rods to a white pine tree marked,\\nfrom thence the hue turns and Runs East two Degrees north by Province\\nLands six miles and forty-two Rods to a White Oak tree marked, from thence\\nwe run South two degrees east Partly by Province Lands and partly by the\\nNarragansit town afore s a No. 5 to the beach tree the first mentioned bound,\\nwith two rods in each hundred added for uneavenness of Land and Swagg\\nof Chain.\\nWhich said Lands Lye on the west side Merrimack river on the Branches\\nof Piscataquog river.\\nJEREMIAH CUMMINGS, Surveyor.\\nFebruary The 12th, 1735.\\nMiddlesex ss., Dunstable, Jan. 28th, 1735.\\nJeremiah Cummings as Surveyor, and Zacheus Lovewell and James\\nCummings as Chainmen, personally appearing before me y e Subscriber, one of\\nhis Majesty s Justices of the peace for the County of Mid 1 made Oath that\\nin Surveying and measuring a Township granted by the General Court to Mr.\\nJohn Simpson and others, they would deal truly and faithfully in their Respec-\\ntive trusts.\\nELEAZER TYNG.\\nIn the House of Representatives, March 19, 1735, this report\\nwas read, and it was,\\nVoted, That a platt containing six miles square of Land laid out by Jere-\\nmiah Cummings, Surveyor, and two Chainmen on Oath, to satisfy the Grant\\naforesaid, Lying adjoining to the Naragansit Towns No. three and No. 5, and\\non province Lands, with an allowance of one thousand acres of Land for\\nponds Lying within the said Platt was presented for allowance. Read and\\nordered that y e platt be allowed, and y e Land therein delineated and described\\nbe and hereby are Confirmed to the said John Simpson and the other Gran-\\ntees mentioned in said petition passed y e last sitting of the Court, their Heirs\\nand assigns, respectively, forever, provided the platt exceeds not the quantity\\nof six miles square, and one thousand acres of Land, an allowance for Ponds\\nwithin the Tract, and does not interfere with any other or former Grant, pro-\\nvided also the Petitioners, their Heirs or assignes Comply with y e Conditions\\nof the Grant.\\nSent up for concurrence.\\nJ. QULNCY, Speaker.\\nIn Council, March 20, 1 735.\\nRead and concurred.\\nSIMON FROST, Dept. Sec y.\\nConsented to.\\nJ. BELCHER.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "65\\nBy an additional act, Mr. John Simpson was impowered\\nto call the first meeting, and thus the way was clearly opened\\nfor the unembarrassed action of the Proprietors, and their first\\nmeeting was held at the house of Mr. Luke Vardy, in Boston,\\nApril 21, 1736, and among the first acts of that meeting was a\\nvote instructing their committee, Daniel Pecker, Andrew Lane,\\nJohn Hill, John Indicott, and James Halsey, to build a saw-\\nmill on some convenient stream, for the use of the proprietors\\nin said township.\\nIt will be seen by the foregoing that New Boston was granted\\nMarch 12, 1735, while all authorities affirm that it was granted\\nJanuary 14, 1736. The solution is this In the old style the\\nyear commenced March 25, and by calculating backward it will\\nbe found that March 12, 1735, in the old style, was March, 1736,\\nin the new style, it being borne in mind that the new-style cal-\\nendar was introduced into England in the year 1752. And\\nthus the grant bears date March 12, 1735, old style it is also\\ntrue, according to the new style, that it was granted Jan. 14,\\n1736.\\nIn the report of the Surveyor, the name of Zacheus Lovewell\\nappears as one of the chainmen. This was, we apprehend, the\\nsame Zacheus Lovewell who afterward commanded one of the\\nNew Hampshire regiments in the French and Indian war, and\\nwho, as colonel commanding, was at the taking of Ticonderoga\\nand Crown Point, a son, as Belknap affirms, but a younger\\nbrother, as other authorities say, of the hero of Fryeburgh or\\nPiquawket, Capt. John Lovewell, who fell in 1725.\\nMASONIAN HEIRS AND NEW ADDITION.\\nIn 1620 the King of England, James I, constituted a Coun-\\ncil, consisting of forty noblemen, knights, and gentlemen, by\\nthe name of The Council established at Plymouth, in the\\ncounty of Devon, for the planting, ruling, and governing of New\\nEngland in America. The territory under their jurisdiction\\nextended from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north-\\nern latitude. This patent, or charter, was the foundation of\\nall grants subsequently made of the country of New England.\\nGreat confusion prevailed in the transaction of the business of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66\\nthis Council. Two of the most active members were Sir Ferdi-\\nnando Gorges and Capt. John Mason. Gorges had been an\\nofficer in the navy of Queen Elizabeth, and associated much\\nwith Sir Walter Raleigh, and partook of his adventurous spirit.\\nMason was a merchant of London, but became a sea-officer, and\\ngovernor of Newfoundland. Mason, acquiring great influence\\nin the Council, procured a grant of all the land from the river\\nNaumkeag, now Salem, round Cape Ann, to the river Merri-\\nmack, and up each of those rivers to the farthest head thereof,\\nthen to cross over from the head of the one to the head of the\\nother. The next year another grant was made to Gorges and\\nMason jointly, of all the lands between the rivers Merrimack\\nand Sagaclehock, extending back to the great lakes and river\\nof Canada, which tract was called Laconia. And, in 1629,\\nCapt. Mason procured a new patent for the land, from the\\nmiddle of Piscataqua River, and up the same to the farthest\\nhead thereof, and from thence northwestward until sixty miles\\nfrom the mouth of the harbor were finished also through\\nMerrimack River, to the farthest head thereof, and so forward\\nup into the land westward, until sixty miles were finished and\\nfrom thence to cross over land to the end of the sixty miles, ac-\\ncounted from Piscataqua River together with all islands with-\\nin five leagues of the coast. This tract of land was called\\nNew Hampshire. At length, in 1635, Capt. John Mason died,\\nand a great revolution transpired in England. The tract of\\nland known as New Hampshire came under the protection and\\ngovernment of Massachusetts, and though claims to it were\\noften preferred, and much litigation was had, these claims were\\nresisted until John Tufton Mason, a great-grandson of Capt.\\nJohn Mason, conveyed, in 1746, his interest to lands in New\\nHampshire, for the sum of fifteen hundred pounds currency\\nto Theodore Atkinson, M. H. Wentworth, and thirteen others.\\nThis transaction occasioned great consternation among those\\nwho had settled within the limits of this Masonian grant, be-\\ncause these men were in power, and it was seen that it would\\nbe hard to resist their claim. But these gentlemen took no\\nunreasonable advantage of their position, but were governed by\\nthe most liberal principles. Accordingly, in 1751, after a com-\\nmittee of the proprietors of New Boston had expressed to the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "67\\npurchasers a desire to compromise the matter with them, the\\nfollowing are the records of the Proprietors\\nProvince of New Hampshire.\\nAt a meeting of the Proprietors of the Lands purchased of John Tufton\\nMason, Esq.. in New Hampshire, held at Portsmouth, on Monday, the tenth\\nday of June, One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty-one.\\nWhereas the said Proprietors have been informed that there is a Tract of\\nLand, within the Claim of said Proprietors, called New Boston, and claimed\\nby a Number of Gentlemen under the Government of the Massachusetts\\nBay and whereas it is suggested that those claimers are disposed to come to\\nan Accommodation and Agreement with the said Proprietors, on such Terms\\nas may be agreeable to both Parties\\nTherefore, Voted that Joseph Blanchard, Esq., is hereby authorized and\\nfully impowered to agree and Compound all Claims and Demands, Differ-\\nences, Disputes, and Controversies, whatsoever, made, being and subsisting\\nbetween the said Proprietors and the Claimers of said Tract of Land under\\nthe said Government, as fully and amply to all Intents and Purposes as said\\nProprietors themselves could, or might do personally, and in case he shall see\\ncause to grant and Convey the said Land or any Part thereof to any others,\\non such terms as he shall judge best for the Interest, of this Propriety.\\nCopy of Record Examined\\nBy GEORGE JAFFREY, Propr Clerk.\\nThe foregoing action of the Masonian Heirs was in response\\nto the action of the Proprietors of New Boston, May 15, 1751,\\nwhen it was\\nVoted, The Question be put whether this Propriety would choose a Com-\\nmittee to make application to the Proprietors of Mason s claim to know upon\\nwhat condition they will grant us their rights and that John Hill, Robert\\nBoyers, Esq., and James Halsey, the standing Committee, be empowered to\\nsettle with them on the best Terms they can, if they think proper, and they\\nbe desired to offer this vote to each Proprietor for their approbation.\\nThis vote was approved, and the Committee held a confer-\\nence with Col. John Blanchard, which resulted in the following\\ncharter from the purchasers of Mason s claims to the Proprie-\\ntors of New Boston, by which their former grant from the Mas-\\nsachusetts Bay was confirmed, and no small part of what is now\\nFrancestown was added and this extension of their limits\\nwestward was ever afterward designated as the New Addition,\\nand continued a part of New Boston until the incorporation of\\nFrancestown, June 8, 1772.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68\\nProvince of New Hampshire.\\nPursuant to the power and authority granted and vested in me by the pro-\\nprietors of land purchased of John Tufton Mason, Esq., in the Province of\\nNew Hampshire, by their vote, passed at their meeting held at Portsmouth, in\\nsaid Province, the tenth day of June, 1752.\\nI do, by these presents, on the terms and conditions hereafter expressed,\\ngive and grant all the right, title, property, and possession of the proprietors\\naforesaid, unto Job Lewis, Henry Howel, John Steel, Thomas Bullfinch, Rob-\\nert Jenkins, John Spooner, Benjamin Bagnall, Samuel Tyley s heirs, James\\nTownsend s heirs, Isaac Walker, Joseph Wright, Eleazer Boyd, Daniel Pecker,\\nWilliam Dudley s heirs, Robert Boyes, Thomas Smith, Thomas Cochran, Pat-\\nrick Douglas, John Homans, James Day, James Caldwell, Gilbert Warner,\\nRichard Checkley s heirs, James Wilson, Jonathan Clark, William Speak-\\nman s heirs, Benjamin Clark s heirs, John Erwin, William White, John Hill,\\nEsq., John Taylor, John McCallester, Edward Durant s heirs, William Bant,\\nJohn Maverick, Rufus Green, James Halsey, Daniel Loring s heirs, Joseph\\nGreen, James Hunter, Thomas Wilson, of, in, and to that tract of land or\\ntownship called New Boston, in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid, of\\nthe contents of six miles broad and seven miles long, bounded thus Begin-\\nning at a beech-tree the southeast corner, and from thence north by the needle,\\ntwo degrees westward, six miles, or until it comes unto the northwest corner,\\nformerly made under the Massachusetts grant, for the northeast corner of said\\ntract, and from thence west by the needle two degrees to the southward, and\\nfrom the first bounds mentioned, the southeast corner aforesaid, west by the\\nneedle two degrees southward, six miles, or until it meet with Salem Canada\\nfine (so called), and turning and running north by the needle two degrees\\nwestward, two miles, or until it come to the most northeasterly corner of\\nSalem Canada township as formerly laid out, then turning and running west\\nas aforesaid, two degrees southerly so far, and extending the north line of the\\npremises likewise westward, until a line parallel with the east line will include\\nthe contents of seven miles long and six miles broad, as aforesaid. To have\\nand to hold, to them, their heirs and assigns forever, excepting as aforesaid,\\non the following terms, conditions, and limitations (that is to say) that as the\\ngreatest part of the tract aforesaid has heretofore been divided into sixty-\\nthree shares, now, therefore, that there be reserved for the grantors, their\\nheirs and assigns forever, out of the lands already divided, nine shares or\\nsixty-third parts, as followeth, viz. The home lots number four, number\\ntwenty-five, numbers thirty-three, nine, twenty-eight, five, twenty-nine\\neighteen, and ten, with the several lots annexed to the same, as in the sched-\\nule hereafter also so much of the common land, or undivided, to be laid out\\nin that part of the said tract, near the great meadows, as shall be equal to\\none-half part of a share, reserved as aforesaid, which half share is appropri-\\nated to Joseph Blanchard, Jr., with the same proportion of the common land,\\neach in that part formerly within the bounds called New Boston, exclusive and\\nexcepting five hundred acres hereby granted and appropriated to the grantees,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "69\\nto be by them disposed of for encouragement for building and supporting\\nmills in said township also reserving unto the grantors, their heirs and as-\\nsigns, after the five hundred acres aforesaid is laid out and completed in the\\ncommon, one-fourth part for quantity and quality of the lands by this grant\\nadded within the bounds of that called New Boston, as formerly laid out\\nthe said grantors parts to be divided, lotted, and coupled together, and drawn\\nfor with the grantees, according to the number of shares as before reserved,\\nso as for the grantors to have one full quarter-part as aforesaid said work to\\nbe finished within twelve months from this date, at the charge of the grantees\\nonly. Also, that the grantors right in three of the shares laid out, as afore-\\nsaid, be and hereby is granted and appropropiated, free of all charge, one for\\nthe first settled minister, one for the ministry, and one for the school there\\nforever, as they are set down in the schedule hereafter.\\nThat the aforesaid reservations for the grantors, and as well for Joseph\\nBlanchard, Jr., be free from all duties, charges, taxes, or expenses whatsoever,\\nuntil improved by the owner or owners, or some holding under them.\\nThat all the lots in said township be subject to have all necessary roads or\\nhighways laid through them as there shall be necessary occasion for, free from\\nall charge of purchasing the same.\\nThat the grantees, on their parts, make forty-five settlements in said town-\\nship, in the following manner, viz. Each to have a house built of one room,\\nat least of sixteen feet square, fitted and finished for comfoi-table dwelling in,\\nand three acres cleared, inclosed, and fitted for mowing and tillage, on each\\nof the forty-five shares, at or before the first day of August, 1754, and within\\none year afterwards, a family or some person inhabiting there on each settle-\\nment, and to continue residency there for three years then next, and within\\nthat term to fit four acres more each for mowing or tillage, as aforesaid.\\nThat the grantees build a meeting-house there, in four years from this date.\\nThat the grantees, at their own expense, make the settlement aforesaid, and\\nwithin six months from this date ascertain the particular grantees whom they\\nshall determine to make settlement and inhabit there, as aforesaid, and certify\\nthe same under their clerk s hand in the grantors clerk s office and in case\\nany of the grantees be delinquent, who shall be enjoined the settlement as\\naforesaid, on any part of duty enjoined by this grant, on such share hereafter\\nascertained, the whole share or right of such delinquent shall be and hereby\\nis granted to such of the grantees who shall comply on their parts provided\\nthey fulfil such delinquent s duty in two years after each period next coming\\nthat such duty should have been done and on their neglect, then all such\\ndelinquent s right or shares to revert to the grantors, their heirs and assigns,\\nfree and clear from all future charges thereon.\\nThat the grantees hold, under the conditions herein, the several lots of up-\\nland and meadow already laid out in said township, as set forth in the sched-\\nule annexed, and the future divisions to be ascertained by and according to\\nthe Massachusetts grant to them or their vendors.\\nThat one home lot (so called), viz., number sixty, be set and relinquished\\nunto John and Jonathan Simpson s assignee, Joseph Wright; always provided,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70\\nand on this condition only, that he build, clear, inclose, and settle a family on\\nsaid lot, according to the periods and several articles of duty enjoined and\\nspecified for one of the forty-five rights aforesaid and this settlement to be\\nover and above the said forty-five and in case of failure or neglect of any\\npart of the said duty, the said lot number sixty to revert to the grantees and\\ngrantors in common, to be apportioned with the other common lands also,\\nprovided the said Wright, or his assigns, pay the proportionable part of charge\\nfor that lot, in carrying forward the settlement.\\nThat the grantees, or their assigns, at any public meeting called for that\\npurpose by a majority of votes of the interest present, grant and assess such\\nfurther sum or sums of money as they shall think necessary for completing\\nand carrying forward the settlement aforesaid, from time to time, and all other\\nnecessary charges, until the same shall be incorporated. And any of the\\ngrantees who shall refuse and neglect making payment of their respective\\nsums and taxes for the space of three months next after such tax or assess-\\nment shall be granted and made, that then so much of said delinquent s right,\\nrespectively, shall and may be sold, as will pay the tax or taxes, and all\\ncharges arising thereon, by a committee to be appointed by the grantees for\\nthat purpose.\\nThat all white pine trees fit for masting His Majesty s royal navy, growing\\non said tract of land, be and hereby are granted to His Majesty, his heirs and\\nsuccessors, forever and, as a further condition of this grant, that the grantees\\nherein mentioned, within three months from the date hereof, signify their\\nconsent and acceptance, as well as their fulfilment and conformity to the\\nwhole of the conditions herein specified, by countersigning these premises\\nwith their hands and seals, and, on failure thereof, to receive no benefit by the\\naforewritten grant always provided there be no Indian war within any of\\nthe terms and limitations aforesaid, for doing the duty conditioned in this\\ngrant and in case that should happen, the same time to be allowed for the\\nrespective duties, matters, and things as aforesaid, after such impediment shall\\nbe removed.\\nTo all which premises, Joseph Blanchard, agent for and in behalf of the\\nsaid grantors, on the one part, and the grantees on the other part, have here-\\nunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, this twenty-fourth day of\\nDecember, 1752.\\nSigned and sealed.\\nJOSEPH BLANCHARD, in behalf of grantors,\\nand grantees.\\nThis charter was accompanied by a schedule of the Lotts\\nas they now stand granted the Home lotts were laid out for\\nfifty acres of the best Land and qualified for poor Land with a\\nlarger Quantity the second Division contained two lotts for\\neach share of one hundred and fifty-three acres each as re-\\nturned by Robert Boyes, Esq., authorized by the grantees for\\nthat purpose.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "71\\nThe addition to the old limits of New Boston began at the\\nnorthwest corner of present limits, and ran parallel with the\\nnorthern line, west about two miles and a half, thence nearly\\nsouth, parallel with the west line of present limits about three\\nmiles and a half, and thence by Lyndeborough, to the west line\\nof present limits, near Mr. William Parker s farm, making a\\nparallelogram two and a half miles from east to west, and\\nthree and a half miles from north to south. In the southwest\\ncorner of this tract was located a farm for the grantors, con-\\ntaining four hundred acres in the southeast corner was another\\nlot laid out for the grantors, of four hundred and thirty acres,\\nwith allowance for what part of the Haunted Pond it takes in\\nand in the centre Col. Joseph Blanchard s farm was located,\\ncontaining three hundred acres. The remaining portion was\\ndivided into fifty-one lots. This division was made in 1753,\\nby order of Eobert Boyes, Esq., Comitee, for Matthew Patten,\\nServeyor. The dimensions as given above may seem too large\\nfor the New Addition, but they correspond to the plan re-\\nferred to above.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "WARREN R. COCHRANE.\\nMr. Cochrane is the son of Hon. Robert B. Cochrane, born\\nAugust 25, 1835. He fitted for college chiefly atFrancestown,\\nunder Sylvapus Hayward, now pastor of the Congregational\\nChurch in Dumbarton and graduated from Dartmouth in the\\nclass of 1859. Mr. Cochrane was appointed tutor in Dart-\\nmouth College in 1861, and subsequently elected for another\\nyear, but was compelled to relinquish his relation to the col-\\nlege on account of ill health, which at present, requires free-\\ndom from severe mental application. His many friends sadly\\ndeplore his physical indisposition to enter some field of Chris-\\ntian activity, for which he is so well fitted, both by discipline\\nof intellect and grace of heart.\\nMr. Cochrane consented, with great reluctance, to deliver a\\npoem on the occasion of the Centennial but the plaudits of\\nthe assembly assured him of their high appreciation of it, and\\nthe reader will find no less pleasure in its perusal.\\n10", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "P E M\\nWho does not feel as year by year departs,\\nAs one by one our loved companions fall,\\nThat stronger sympathies should bind our hearts,\\nAnd larger fields our memories recall\\nWho has not felt that age to age should bear\\nIts friendly gifts, its pledges of regard,\\nWrought in the forms of eloquence and prayer,\\nTraced in the lyrics of the humble bard\\nWho has not felt that the historic pen\\nHad grown too partial to the suns of fame,\\nAs though kings could be something more than men\\nAnd humble souls be left without a name\\nHave not the humblest minds, the wisest sages,\\nA like ambition to be linked at last\\nWith all of fame that lights the future ages,\\nAnd all of glory that adorns the past\\nDo we not come to-day with some such feeling,\\nSuch hope of blessing, and of being blessed,\\nHere at the altar-place together kneeling,\\nThe gray old century our only guest\\nThe war-horse is worn when the battle is won,\\nThe limbs are weak when the race is run\\nAnd every power of arm or mind\\nBy man directed or man designed\\nIs wasted in a single day,\\nBegins, develops, and dies away,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76\\nAs philosophical people say.\\nThen can it be strange that a muse like mine,\\nA stranger to the original time,\\nUnwinged by genius, unfixed by wine,\\nAnd miinvoked in a single line,\\nSomewhat weary and weak appears\\nIn a backward flight of a hundred years\\nCan it be thought that the jaded thing\\nWould then be able to charm or sing\\nWithout a draft from the nectared spring,\\nSome needed rest from a flight so far,\\nWhere the homes of its lost companions are\\nIn the crumbling halls of the dreamy past\\nWhere the joyous shout, or the trumpet-blast,\\nWhere the songs of peace or the cannon s roar\\nAre heard no more are heard no more\\nThen let us pause since pause we will\\nIn the rough old church on the top of the hill,\\nAnd standing where our fathers trod,\\nOffer, like them, our prayer to God,\\nOur praise to God that we, to-day,\\nHave a house of prayer and a heart to pray,\\nOur praise, that He who ever hears\\nHas blest our fathers prayers and tears\\nThrough the changing scenes of a hundred years\\nNext let us honor them who came,\\nTo feed devotion s holy flame,\\nTo hear God s voice, and learn his will,\\nIn the rough old church on the top of the hill.\\nHard by the spot where they sung and prayed,\\nOne by one have their graves been made,\\nAnd their names like those of every age,\\nAre fading away on memory s page.\\nBut their deeds are written in larger lines,\\nIn the towering elms, and the mossy shrines\\nIn the fruitful fields and the meadows gay,\\nOn the hills where the flocks of their children stray,\\nIn the laws they established and we obey", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "77\\nAnd the sires are seen in the sons to-day\\nTis a heritage rich to be owned as heirs\\nOf sires like them and lives like theirs\\nAnd a sacred duty here to-day,\\nAnd year by year till we pass away,\\nTo name, to love, to honor those\\nWhose prayers in God s first temples rose\\nWhose strength these grassy slopes have cleared,\\nWhose hands these ancient piles have reared,\\nWhose places are remembered still\\nIn the rough old church on the top of the hill.\\nThe men we praise were godly men,\\nWho lived in Christian honor then,\\nWith humble heart and poor array,\\nWalking the strait and narrow way,\\nContent if God his grace bestowed,\\nAnd hope illumed the stormy road.\\nNo shallow pride inspired their breast,\\nNo summer dream, no earthly rest\\nBut, earnest, thoughtful, much in prayer,\\nThey toiled as faith directed where.\\nFaith was to them a living power,\\nNo tinsel robes to them were known\\nThey plucked the fruit, and not the flower,\\nThey lived for heaven and heaven alone.\\nEach Sabbath morn the preacher s call,\\nWas heard and answered by them all,\\nWith simple garb, and manners grave,\\nAs if each had a soul to save.\\nAnd oh if we could come like them,\\nWith none to scoff, evade, condemn,\\nAll eager to the house of prayer,\\nAll earnest in devotion there,\\nHow quickly would the prospect stir,\\nEach dull and thoughtless worshipper\\nHow gladly would we linger still,\\nIn the rough old church on the top of the hill\\nAnd a quaint and a queer old church was that,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78\\nWhere the gray-haired sires of our fathers sat\\nWith its framework strong, and its fashion old,\\nIt was cushionless, carpetless, clean and cold\\nWhile carelessly hung the huge sounding-board,\\nThat, when the preacher whispered, roared\\nAnd when he roared, it thundered so,\\nIt shook the very walls below\\nAssisted thus, he could not lose,\\nHis hearers in those huge old pews,\\nIn which a regiment might snoose,\\nOr Eoman holiday be kept,\\nWhen Eome was all the world, except\\nThe ashes that in Sparta slept.\\nThe men we praise were men of nerve\\nThey would not bend, or yield, or swerve\\nFrom duty s narrow path to gain\\nThe applauses of the weak and vain.\\nTheirs was a higher, larger plan,\\nTo honor God, to ennoble man\\nAnd mark their lives, whoever would,\\nThis double aim was understood.\\nThey were a bold and fearless race\\nThey bearded danger to the face,\\nThirst, hunger, cold, and beasts of prey,\\nAnd savage men more fierce than they,\\nAnd war s grim garments rolled in blood,\\nThe fire, the famine, and the flood\\nStill to their God and country true,\\nThey bore the fiery banner through.\\nIn every rise and every fall,\\nThey owned alike the great and small,\\nCared for their own and then for all.\\nFirst to the few, to whom we owe\\nOur highest duty here below,\\nThen to the world was freely given,\\nBut first and last and all to Heaven.\\nAnd so in fortune s smile or frown.\\nIn rural haunt or crowded town,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "79\\nWhatc cr we think or ieel or do,\\nStill is it best, and still tis true,\\nOur noblest work, where er we roam,\\nBegins, like charity, at home.\\nTis true that theirs were humble lives,\\nSecluded homes and godly wives\\nYet humblest, happiest, sterling pleasure\\nIs not gay and gilded treasure\\nTis a spirit deep and holy,\\nDwelling with the meek and lowly\\nTis a calm and quiet feeling,\\nDuty-bought, and love revealing\\nTis a blessed flame that glows\\nIn hearts like theirs and homes like those\\nWhere wants are few, where creeds embrace\\nThe Bible and the altar place\\nAnd human hearts have never found\\nSerener peace or holier ground.\\nNor fail we ever to repeat,\\nReligion and retirement sweet,\\nIn loving life-long league allied,\\nWith her whom both have sanctified,\\nMake all of home that home endears,\\nAnd all of earthly hope that cheers,\\nOr human life except its tears.\\nThe gravelled walk all shaded o er,\\nThe chiselled step, the gilded door,\\nThe stately hall, the cushioned chair,\\nAnd flowers nursed in foreign air,\\nAnd gay and festive music there,\\nWhere fortune smiles, and fashion brings\\nHer host of unremembered things,\\nFrom Afric s sand, or ocean s foam\\nThis is not home, this is not home\\nBut the willing hand and the ready art,\\nA smile when we meet and a tear when we part,\\nFrom an angel s eye, but a woman s heart,\\nTbat soul winch stands in human form", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "80\\nMid the chills of life s winter serene and warm,\\nLike an island of peace in an ocean of storm,\\nCheering the way when our prospects die,\\nWhen the lightnings flash in the darkened sky,\\nOr peacefully, quietly, earnest to share\\nIn the daily toil and the evening prayer\\nKindness and charity, cheerful and free\\nAs the soul of a Christian should ever be\\nHaste to forgive, and a heart to endure\\nThe failings which tenderness cannot cure,\\nOr the fault of a friend, though neglected and poor\\nJoy in receiving what mercy bestowed,\\nPatience in bearing the heaviest load,\\nThough dark be the prospect, though thorny the road,\\nThough faded each dream that a transport gave,\\nWhen hope wreathed her flowers round our path to the grave\\nThis, in luxury s gilded dome,\\nOr the poor man s cottage this is home\\nSuch homes as this were dotted o er\\nThese stately hills of yellow prime\\nAnd added to each humble store\\nWas the open heart and the open door,\\nIn the days of the olden time.\\nI m afraid we cling to each little dime\\nOf the much which God is giving us now,\\nWith a fiercer grasp, though its worth be small,\\nThan they who opened the way to it all\\nAnd I long, like the traveller of wintry brow\\nAfter sixty years, as he comes to climb\\nThese hills where his feet were wont to tread\\nWith the hopes that are blighted, the friends that are dead,\\nFor the cordial welcome that met him of yore,\\nFor the open heart and the open door\\nOf the days of the olden time\\nThe men we praise were men of toil\\nThey chose, they cleared, they tilled the soil\\nAnd on each spot, thus tilled and cleared,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "81\\nA rough, rude, humble cot was reared,\\nNestling the towering hills between,\\nHid under leafy folds of green,\\nNear nature s heart at rest, as though\\nThe hand parental left it so,\\nAs if in slumber soft and low.\\nFrom these our stately homes have grown,\\nHomes that we boast to call our own\\nFields, orchards, houses, all that please\\nThe lovers of taste, or the lovers of ease.\\nLabor then was lord in the land\\nThe sun-burned brow and the toil-worn hand\\nWere the freeman s boast and the lover s pride\\nThe poor man s comfort and hope and guide\\nWere the strength that was full, and the arm that was tried.\\nAnd even the women, though women of wealth,\\nFor the sake of beauty and vigor and health,\\nFor the sake of those who in sadness or mirth\\nBear the dearest names that are spoken on earth,\\nBy choice or necessity no matter which\\nTaking the distaff, or taking the stitch,\\nSpinning all day by the open door,\\nWeaving the very clothes they wore,\\nRiding the horse through the field of corn\\nIn the jocund hours of the early morn,\\nDriving at twilight the waiting cows,\\nWith the arms full loaded with hemlock boughs\\nTo be traced in a broom ere the coming day\\nFrom its eastern chambers should dance away\\nWere always working at useful things,\\nAs though time had value, as well as wings\\nBright, vigorous, fair, and strong,\\nIt is not strange that their lives were long.\\nBut oh how changed is the modern taste\\nTo work in the field is to be disgraced\\nDistaff, spinning-wheel, and loom,\\nSweeping with a hemlock broom,\\nOr any at all, is an awful doom\\n11", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82\\nHealthy life in the open air,\\nRoaming free as the breezes there,\\nHealth-stamped lips by nature minted,\\nTinted cheeks by nature tinted\\nSuit not ladies taste, they say,\\nWill not serve the world to-day\\nPaint supplies an easier way\\nFashion now bears absolute sway\\nFirst ambition, hope and dream\\nNow is not to be, but seem;\\nDress becomes the chiefest art,\\nFills the head and fills the heart\\nAt home, at church, in every station,\\nTis the theme of conversation.\\nThus many a modern belle, I know,\\nLives for nothing at all but show,\\nTwenty, thirty years, or so,\\nHalf-alive in heated rooms,\\nCarbon acids and perfumes\\nDragging life s journey wearily through,\\nTime hangs heavy on idle hands,\\nAlways longing for something new\\nBeing happy with nothing to do\\nIs out of the ring, as the matter stands\\nAnd the pale, weak daughter of fashion and ease.\\nWho presides in the parlor as nice as you please,\\nWho ponders over some love-sick book,\\nWhile her mother remains in the kitchen to cook,\\nWhose jewelled hands are as softly white\\nAs the dancing foam, or the starry light\\nAll spiritless, passionless, colorless, frail\\nAs the trembling leaf in the maddened gale,\\nShe is not what her mothers were,\\nAnd they are mysteries to her\\nBut much to be pitied as she may be,\\nAnd more to be pitied I think is he\\nWho plods the life-journey with such as she,\\nYet she merits not pity or scorn like him\\nWho bears the name that his sires have borne", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "83\\nWith the fire at the altar-place grown dim,\\nAnd the name of its honors shorn.\\nI pity the son of illustrious sires,\\nToo weak, too degraded to bear their proud name,\\nIn whom the last spark of their genius expires\\nIn the foul breath of luxury, riot, and shame.\\nAnd while this cannot be spoken of us,\\nI know there is need of unwearying care\\nWe are all in the way to be ruined thus,\\nAnd some of us doubtless, are almost there,\\nAnd if these hills may justly plead\\nSome freedom from the common curse,\\nTis of the sires and not the seed,\\nTfieir honor that we are not worse.\\nHowe er the unwelcome prospect dims\\nThroughout the land each patriot eye,\\nIts youth are wild with modern whims\\nThey ask not either whence or why,\\nBut follow, like shadows, each dreamer that shine,\\nAnd, shadow-like, grow as their leader declines.\\nThey linger at theatres, billiards, and chess,\\nTake pride in soft hands and extravagant dress,\\nInstead of the manly toil which bore\\nThe laurel and palm in the days of yore.\\nToo proud to work on their native ground,\\nThey must fathom the ocean of sight and sound\\nTeach, speculate, peddle, roam,\\nAnything rather than work at home\\nAnd so they are gone to the shop or store,\\nThey are digging after the golden ore,\\nThey have got into office, and live at ease,\\nThey are spreading sails in the distant seas,\\nThey are editing papers, or telling lies,\\nIn the shape of lawyers, or doctors wise\\nThey are making candy and cordials and pills,\\nEqually good for a thousand ills\\nPectoral, sarsaparilla, and schnaps,\\nBitters, and ointment, and money perhaps,\\nAnything paying well fits like a charm,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84\\nAnything rather than work on a farm\\nThey, too, bow down at the fashion shrine.\\nIn their father s earnings dress and shine\\nThey play politician and lover and sage,\\nThey flirt, sentimentalize, swagger, and rage\\nEqual adorers of Bacchus and Mars,\\nThey indulge in choice brandies and puff good cigars,\\nEnveloped in smoke, like a war-ship at bay,\\nWhile their gloved fingers brush the white ashes away\\nAnd so Avhile the money comes free when they say,\\nEach stripling smoker walks forth with delight\\nHe is surely a pillar of cloud by day,\\nAnd a pillar of fire by night.\\nHe is large, important, conceited, and bold\\nThough boyish in years, he is learned and old\\nIs charmed to real frenzy while cutting a dash,\\nWith scented ringlets and trim moustache,\\nWith rings and other observable trash,\\nAnd runs upon credit when he can t upon cash\\nThe homely virtues, the simple truth\\nWhich reigned in the bosom of age and youth\\nIn the peerless days of our fathers prime\\nAre now, they tell us, behind the time.\\nAnd the young man tickled with jewels of gold,\\nMakes his morals fit to the popular mould\\nWhile with accents smacking of foreign clime,\\nAnd an eye that whispers of secret crime,\\nHe swells along with a sickening pride,\\nLike a Neptune girt in his foamy tide\\nHe adores the menagerie, circus, and race,\\nThinks less of his fate than he does of his face\\nVisits each popular place of resort,\\nLearns the pet words of flattery, joke, and retort,\\nWorships fast horses, and talks quite well\\nIn the nauseous slang of the drinking cell,\\nOr the oath-burdened dialect spoken in hell\\nOh give me the rough, worn palm of the man\\nWho dares to do with his might what he can,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "85\\nWho shuns fast ways and unprincipled friends,\\nAnd stands like a rock where the current descends!\\nWho strives to live by the good old rules\\nIn a day of do-nothings and jockeys and fools\\nWho honors the home where his childhood was passed,\\nAnd clings to the dear old spot to the last!\\nSome turn from their homes as necessity calls them,\\nWith a tear in the eye that looks back as it goes\\nAnd some with real rapture as time disenthralls them\\nProm the bonds which paternal affection bestows.\\nWith a smile for the one and a sigh for the other,\\nWe bless them, though feeling alone and bereft,\\nNot doubting that each will come back as a brother,\\nAnd years will make dearer the homes they have left.\\nAnd we would not detract from the praise that is due them\\nAs the tear-drop again fills the eye that returns\\nWhere the few that are cherished in memory knew them,\\nAnd the altar of friendship still faithfully burns\\nWhile I honor the man who comes back with his laurel\\nAll blooming and fresh on the time-wrinkled brow,\\nFrom the scenes of debate or of national quarrel,\\nTo blend with his kindred who follow the plough,\\nI cherish, I love the true hero who lingers\\nLife-long at the tomb where his fathers lie\\nWhile the time-god is writing with skeleton fingers\\nEach scene on the heart as it fades from the eye.\\nI love the ambition which hovers the nighest\\nTo the fount whence our earliest pleasures flow,\\nWhose flight, like the lark s is the surest and highest,\\nWhile its home is unseen in the valley below\\nLabor then being lord in the land,\\nEverything had to be done by hand\\nWeaving, knitting, sewing-machines,\\nPlanting, reaping, mowing-machines,\\nThe engine steaming o er land and sea\\nWere among the dreams of the things to be.\\nOr perhaps they saw as the patriot sees\\nThat luxury thrives on things like these", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86\\nThat idleness, indolence, pomp, and ease\\nAre the fruits that follow beyond control\\nAs sure as the leaven will Work through the whole,\\nOr the needle point to its chosen pole,\\nWhile the gathered harvest in every clime\\nIs traced in blood from the morn of time.\\nEven church-going then was a work to be done\\nEoads there were few and vehicles none\\nFive or six miles over paths like those\\nWhere the wild beast roams or the hunter goes,\\nBarefoot all, with shoes in store,\\nPut on ere they entered the sacred door\\nSermons full two hours long,\\nThe full proportion of sacred song\\nPrayers that asked at a single birth\\nFor all of heaven and all of earth\\nHome by the light of the setting sun,\\nChurch-going then was a work to be done.\\nBut now if we ride in our dainty sleigh\\nSome two or three miles on the Sabbath day\\nIf a little heat or cold we bear,\\nIf clothes out of fashion we sometimes wear\\nIf we sleep like a pulseless thing of art\\nWhile a half-hour sermon is read to the heart,\\nWe think we are meriting sovereign grace,\\nAnd running with patience the Christian race\\nWomen made bare the head like men,\\nAs they entered the holy of holies then,\\nI would such an era might come again\\nBut not if the things which are yet to be,\\nFollow fashion s late decree,\\nAnd the delicate gear be ingeniously spread\\nSome feet in the rear of the wearer s head.\\nHow oft have we pitied some spirited miss\\nWho thought she must wear what other folks wore,\\nAs she dragged through the wind such a streamer as this,\\nWhile her head was as bare as they made it of yore\\nTis amazing, what a wonderful size\\nThese objects of woman s affection attain", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "87\\nWhat wonderful figures for curious eyes,\\nAiry, feathery, flowery, vain\\nSo that not a meeting-house in the land\\nWould hold all the bonnets as now arranged,\\nWere the frail, silky monsters untouched by the hand,\\nAnd the thing with the nicest precision planned,\\nAnd hence the old custom is properly changed.\\nBesides, twere the greatest of crimes I know,\\nTo have our ornaments out of view,\\nSo that pride have nothing at all to show,\\nAnd fancy nothing to do\\nThe men we praise were men of fun,\\nFat, laughter-loving, hale, and strong,\\nThey loved the angle and the gun,\\nThe story and the song.\\nIn toil or danger, good or ill,\\nJocose, facetious, happy still,\\nWith humble recompense content,\\nRejoicing on their way they went.\\nPriest, layman, all agreed to take\\nA little wine for the stomach s sake,\\nAnd a little more for the sake of that\\nSome hours ayont the twal they sat,\\nAnd pouzle and cider went freely down\\nIn the early days of the good old town\\nAnd often now is the story told,\\nHow the glass went round to the young and old,\\nAnd the social circles of every craft\\nGrew merry over a stronger draught.\\nI ut though some tares have flourished with the wheat,\\nGathered and garnered through each varied year\\nThough pride and fashion, folly and deceit\\nEach grown to huge dimensions now appear\\nThough simple manners, unpretending dress,\\nThe healthful habits and the humble fare\\nOf those whose memory to-day we bless,\\nIf lingering yet, are unobserved and rare\\nContrasted still, the present and the past,\\nSome nobler traits continue to arise", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "And while each age seems better than the last,\\nFame s proudest meed and learning s richest prize,\\nTruth s greatest victories, and freedom s too,\\nAnd forms of government of old unknown,\\nScience and art to God and nature true,\\nBrighten all ages, and adorn our own\\nFor the shade of America s latest light,\\nThe era to which we are bidding adieu,\\nIs better than cycles of Aztec might,\\nOr a thousand years of Peru\\nChains that bound the mind are broken,\\nWords that chafed the tyrant spoken,\\nBright examples wake and nerve us,\\nPowers of nature come and serve us.\\nFull of knowledge and full of skill,\\nMan moves on in his dignity still,\\nRuling the elements at his will\\nFloating far up mid the silvery clouds,\\nO er the moon s white pillow and vapory shrouds\\nBidding the waters turn the wheel\\nWhich moves o er their bosom the iron keel\\nReading the news in his cushioned car,\\nFlying away like a flying star,\\nLeaving a trail of steam-cloud there,\\nLike a comet s tail in the midnight air\\nOftentimes as the setting sun\\nViews some deed of glory done,\\nSomething new in the busy world,\\nFreighted ship on the breakers hurled,\\nRise or fall in the price of gold,\\nTide of battle backward rolled\\nPopular vote in a distant State,\\nAwful accident, trying fate\\nProclamation in every corps,\\nCall for a hundred thousand more,\\nThe man of traffic in every grade,\\nTurning away from the haunts of trade,\\nTo the rural home where his idols are,\\nJumps from his seat in the flying car,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "89\\nWhispers a word to the magic-wire\\nVictory, glory, murder, fire\\nSomething lost in the hurried way,\\nBusiness plans for the coming day\\nLaughs to himself while the lightning goes\\nTelling the news like a thing that knows\\nDashes back to his vacant chair,\\nJust in season, nothing to spare,\\nOn they go, darting o er valley and stream,\\nLike the living forms of a summer dream\\nThus are we now the hunting-grounds\\nThe rocks and rivers, woods and mounds,\\nAre changed and changing. Save some spot\\nWhere rude tradition says they fought,\\nSave some few names which cling to-day,\\nTo hills and falls, to creek and bay,\\nA hundred years have wiped away\\nEach vestige of that kingly race\\nWhose tragic aim and end embrace,\\nIn blazing home and bloody vow,\\nAll that is written of them now\\nWhose children, step by step, are pressed,\\nWeak, weary, wasted, to the west.\\nHere mid these hills, thus gorgeously arrayed\\nBy patient toil and unremitted care,\\nThe forest waved with its unbroken shade,\\nThe dark-eyed maiden tossed her jetty hair,\\nThe hunter roamed in unoffended pride,\\nThe arrow whistled through the quiet air,\\nThe wigwam nestled by the river side,\\nThe smoke curled heavenward through the narrow\\nglade,\\nThe trees grew, flourished, withered, and decayed\\nAnd so the red man s children grew and died,\\nBrave, noble, free, untaught and undismayed!\\nBut climb with me to-day yon towering height\\nWhich first is tinted with the morning light,\\n12", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90\\nOr nearer still where Moor s devoted mind\\nFrom life-long labors left the world behind\\nOr yonder hill where Bradford s classic eye\\nDrank the charmed loveliness of earth and sky,\\nAnd oh what change on every side appears\\nWrought in this period of a hundred years\\nSee the broad fields in summer verdure dressed,\\nThe happy flocks within the shade at rest\\nThe neat, white cottages along the hills\\nThe grassy meadows and the busy mills\\nThe laughter-loving brook and singing bird\\nThe loud steam-whistle in the distance heard,\\nThe modest school-house hi each valley seen,\\nWith happy children sporting on the green\\nThe church, our country s shield, preserver, friend,\\nWhere Christian people in devotion bend,\\nIts sweet-toned bell whose distant-echoing tongue\\nRolls where the war-whoop of the savage rung\\nThe northern peaks in cloudy robe unrent,\\nSouthward the scene in distant azure blent\\nThe setting sun of other climes a guest,\\nIn golden glory deck the shining west,\\nWhile lingering rays in tender sweetness play\\nRound the green summits as they fade away,\\nAnd sweetest, tenderest, longest, it is said,\\nO er the white chambers of our sainted dead\\nAnd oh when autumn drapes in harvest hues\\nThis scene of loveliness which fancy views,\\nAnd art divine its blended colors weaves,\\nLike rainbows dropped upon the blushing leaves,\\nHow sweetly changed is every field of green,\\nJune gray and chastened in September seen,\\nMild summer lingering in the autumn breath,\\nWith all of beauty that is sweet in death\\nAnd is it strange that the old Indian sires,\\nLoving the beautiful much as we,\\nHad here their counsels and their altar-fires,\\nBack in the ages when they wandered free\\nCan it be true that such a clime of beauty,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "91\\nScenes which outshine the eloquence of art,\\nHave reared no martyrs of reform or duty,\\nNo names that thrill the universal heart\\nShall it be said that no poetic fires,\\nNo light of genius ever sparkled here,\\nWhere all that pleases, elevates, inspires,\\nFills the charmed eye and trembles on the ear\\nNo never thus. Though not in golden lines\\nOur names are written, or our glory shines\\nThough on each field where many a patriot bled,\\nIt was not ours to lead but to be led\\nThough from these hills no star of science rose,\\nShone o er the world and unabated glows.\\nStill where yon shrine each sacred trust inurns,\\nWhere, unmolested, dust to dust returns,\\nWhere noble hearts have conquered inward wrong,\\nWhere tears of tenderness fall fast and long,\\nWhere hope repeats her undissembled prayer,\\nThere are our princes and our heroes there\\nPilgrims and warriors may not come to tread\\nWith reverent feet above each narrow bed,\\nNor pride and wealth their dainty watches keep\\nWhere the rude fathers of our hamlet sleep\\nBut human laurels never did nor could\\nFix the soul s nature as its highest good\\nFame s coveted rewards are gained too late\\nTo make us eloquent or make us great\\nThough what we do may shine in common eyes,\\nTis what we are that makes us truly wise.\\nWe know but little of our greatest men,\\nKnights of the sword and masters of the pen\\nUncalled by fate, to milder calls they bow,\\nPerhaps, like Burns, to follow at the plough.\\nNor worthy less, though in that silent land\\nWhere all untitled, unexalted stand,\\nNo towering monument or gilded bust\\nPays its false honors to the nameless dust.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "92\\nSo, white we see by memory s clouded sun\\nThe words and deeds of each departed one,\\nNo human eye can look within the veil,\\nSee where they really stand, or where they fail\\nSee the true eloquence whose smothered fire\\nAwoke not human praise, or human ire,\\nThe humble Pitt, the unaspiring Pope\\nWhose ashes sleep in yonder grassy slope\\nBut while the past its inspiration stirs,\\nWhile trembling age to joyous youth recurs,\\nWhile noble deeds revive the sinking breast,\\nBy hope deserted, or by grief depressed,\\nOh may we think what heroes suffered thus,\\nWhat happy homes have been prepared for us,\\nWhat sacred rights by noble sires we gain,\\nOurs to enjoy and ours to maintain\\nFired by the past, let every soul prepare\\nFor noble principles to do or dare,\\nTrue, like our sires where er the conflict be,\\nAs justly glorious, and as nobly free\\nLet patient Hope her triumph ne er resign,\\nLet constant Faith through constant virtue shine,\\nAnd sacred Truth her saving power impart\\nTo every sentiment and every heart\\nSo if dark be oar path through the waves we are\\ntossed on,\\nOr honor and peace the reward of our care,\\nWe never may blush for the hills of New Boston,\\nOr the homes of our kindred that wait for us there\\nAnd so if our pilot should ever be lost on\\nThe fathomless ocean of grief and despair,\\nCur hearts will turn back to the hills of New Boston,\\nAnd the homes of our kindred that wait for us there\\nAnd oh when Death scatters his chill and his frost on\\nThe brow of each son who was nurtured in prayer,\\nMay our friends bear us back to the hills of New\\nBoston\\nAnd the graves of our kindred that wait for us there", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "JOSIAH W. FAIRFIELD, ESQ.\\nHe was the son of John Fairfield, Esq., born August, 1803\\nfitted for college at Andover Academy, Mass., and graduated\\nfrom Dartmouth College in 1825. He taught an academy at\\nChesterfield parts of two years, having for his pupil the late\\nGovernor Haile. In 1827 he went to Hudson, N. Y., and be-\\ncame principal of the academy in that city, which position he\\nretained five years, studying law meantime with the celebrated\\nElisha Williams, and began to practice in 1832. Mr. Fairfield\\nhas been largely interested in railroad enterprises, holding im-\\nportant positions in them, while the cause of education has\\nalways found in him a friend, and all righteous reforms a cor-\\ndial advocate. He was a member of the last General Assembly\\n(N. S.), and is largely known as a philanthropic, Christian\\ngentleman.\\nApril, 1829, Esquire Fairfield married Laura, the second\\ndaughter of Hon. Asa Britton, of Chesterfield, N. H., by whom\\nhe has two sons living. The eldest, George B., is with his\\nfather, and William B. is a lawyer at St. Charles, Iowa. Both\\nsons are married. Mr. Fairfield buried a daughter in 1852,\\nand, February, 1864, he was called to part with his wife. She\\nwas an estimable, Christian lady, and died full of faith, hope,\\nand joy. After giving many precious directions, she bade each\\nof her friends good-by, then folded her hands across her\\nbreast, and said, Now I am ready, all ready, and expired im-\\nmediately. The end of a devout Christian is peace.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "J.HBuF ford s Litti,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "BESPONSE OF JOSIAH EAIBEIELD, ESQ.\\nNew Boston. Pleasant traditions and memories are cherished by absent sons and\\ndaughters.\\nMr. President\\nNo man can relate his recollections and pleasant memories\\nof any place or people, without speaking more or less of him-\\nself. He is, as iEneas says of his history, necessarily a part of\\nwhat he recites. This constant reference to one s self becomes\\ninsufferable egotism, unless the hearers perceive the necessity,\\nand throw a broad mantle of charity over the sinning speaker.\\nThat mantle is required on this occasion, and the speaker\\nonly hopes it will be long and broad enough to cover a multi-\\ntude of sins.\\nWe all know that the early settlers of this country Avere a\\npeculiar people, and none were more so than the Scotch immi-\\ngrants who found their homes in this town and county. They\\nwere Presbyterians of the original Covenanters type, but greatly\\nmodified and improved by two transplantings, first from Scot-\\nland to Ireland, and then to the forests of the New World.\\nThere is no race more tenacious of their original elements of\\ncharacter than the Scotch and, through all their persecutions,\\nchanges, removals, and improvements, they retained their rec-\\nollection of wrongs, and cherished their likes and dislikes, as\\nan inheritance never to be broken or alienated.\\nThe Puritan was one of their dislikes. Our Presbyterians,\\non arriving at their new homes, found themselves surrounded\\nby the Puritans, a people equally as fond of liberty, and rigid\\nin their notions as themselves still they disliked them, and\\nthere was a rank jealousy between them. The Independents,\\nunder Cromwell, had crushed the fond hopes of supremacy\\nwhich the Presbyterians had nearly attained in England, and i.t", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "96\\nwas a work of time to reestablish a feeling of trust and confi-\\ndence. This jealousy manifested itself early in the settlement\\nof this town. The earliest tradition that I remember of this\\npeople, had relation to this. The Scotch would at first suffer\\nno intermarrying with the Puritans and, if their daughters\\nwere as fair and beautiful then as when I first knew them, no\\nwonder that the Puritan young men felt themselves shut out\\nof Paradise. Be that as it may, the tradition is, that it was no\\nuncommon thing for the Scotchman to find at his door a rag-\\nged pedler, mounted on some miserable nag, with saddle-bags,\\nfilled with potatoes on one side and a huge jug of buttermilk in\\nthe other, and crying his wares, with affected blarney, Butter-\\nmilk and peraties buttermilk and peraties Paddy, will you\\nbuy If the pedler got off with an unbroken head, of course\\nhe was a lucky fellow, and continued his insulting raid. This\\nwas retaliated, of course, and the Puritan would be called up\\nat all hours in the night, and called out at all hours in the day,\\nby a sorry pedler, crying through his nose, in true Roundhead\\nstyle, Pumpkins and molasses pumpkins and molasses\\nBarebones, will you buy Hence, the names of Paddy\\nand Pumpkin became common in their mutual salutations.\\nBut these animosities soon died out, and the Puritan settlers\\nbecame Presbyterians, and the Presbyterian made pumpkin-pies.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Moor, or Priest Moor, as he was called, be-\\ncame the pastor of this people, and a genuine, noble man he\\nwas, if we may judge by the reverence and affection with which\\nhis name was mentioned long after his death, and during my\\nboyhood. Many anecdotes of his faithfulness and impartiality\\nwere current among the people, within my recollection. I will\\nrelate but one. Priest Moor was afflicted as we think most\\npastors of those days must have been, when sermons were two\\nhours long by the increasing disposition of his hearers to nod\\nduring his preaching. He bore it heroically till he saw one or\\nmore of his elders falling into the same sin. He could endure\\nit no longer, and, calling up the elder, he remonstrated with\\nhim, but without success then he rebuked him sharply, and\\nthe elder retorted by telling Mr. Moor to look after his own\\nfamily. This greatly disturbed the good man. The minister s\\npew then, as now, was the worst pew in the church, and gen-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "v\\nerally was under the side of the high pulpit, out of sight of the\\npreacher. On the Sabbath following- this retort of the elder,\\nthe priest discovered some one nodding, and immediately\\nthought of the elder s retort, and his family so, stepping down\\nto the broad stair of his pulpit, he looked over the railing, and\\ndiscovered Mrs. Moor fast asleep. Nanny Moor, Nanny\\nMoor, he cried but she heard not. He repeated the call,\\nand, some one nudging her, she waked, and looked up at the\\nindignant face of her husband, while he called out, Nanny\\nMoor, what did I marry you for Tell me that. Was it for\\nyour riches Na na Was it for your beauty Na na\\nWas it for your vartue Yes yes an fath, it seems that you\\nhave but very little of that This was hardly sincere on\\nthe part of the Dominie, as Mrs. Moor was reputed to be a\\nbeautiful woman in her day, and he knew it.\\nBut it is time to come to my own personal recollections of\\nthe people of this town. I think of them as a people exhibit-\\ning many of the peculiarities of their origin and religion a\\npeople such as~I have never seen elsewhere. No other rural\\npopulation that I have ever become acquainted with has so im-\\npressed my mind as a model population, worthy of all imitation.\\nThe old and middle-aged men of my earliest recollection were\\na grand old race grand in their physical proportions, grand\\nin their religion and moral habits grand in their harmony\\nwith each other and grand in their free, open, generous hos-\\npitality. I can see, in my vision, two generations of men,\\nmeasuring in height from five feet ten inches to six feet four\\ninches, and with strong, robust frames in proportion. There\\nwere giants in those days. In one family, where I labored one\\nseason of my youth, was the grand old patriarch of ninety\\nyears, standing six feet four inches in height, and gathering\\naround him on festive occasions, four sons of nearly equal size,\\nand two daughters fit to be queens among women. If I could\\nbreathe among the dry bones of yonder sacred cemetery, and\\ncall up before you the men and women that I am thinking of,\\nThe reader will observe that this is given as a tradition, current in the\\nwriter s youth and it may have had its origin in a much earlier day, and a\\nremote region yet it serves to picture to us the priest and the people at\\nthis period. Editor.\\n13", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "98\\nthe Clarks, the Crombies, the Cochrans, the Campbells, the\\nDodges, Moors, McNeils, Pattersons, Warrens, and many more,\\ntheir equals, and, to crown all, that prince of pastors, Rev. Mr.\\nBradford, standing in the midst of his people, I am sure that\\nthis assemblage would bow in admiration, and, as one man, ad-\\nmit that such a shepherd and such a flock could nowhere else\\nbe found on this continent. I have said that they were grand\\nin their religion, and in their moral and social intercourse. In\\nthe days I speak of, nearly the whole adult population belonged\\nto the church, and nearly every child was baptized. The divis-\\nions of later years had not then broken their solid ranks. In\\ntheir solemn assemblies, in their social gatherings, in their pub-\\nlic and festive turnouts, they acted together, always with dig-\\nnity and sobriety. Yet they were never bigoted or intolerant.\\nIf they had any idol, it was Mr. Bradford, their minister and\\nno man ever deserved the love and homage of his people more\\nthan he. Everybody, young and old, loved him and he loved\\neverybody, old and young. With such admiration, and such a\\npeople, there seemed no difficulty that could not be healed, and\\nno division that could not be closed. They acted together with\\nthe same dignity in their public affairs. There seemed no am-\\nbition for office, no electioneering for distinction. Modest\\nmerit was ever most likely to be exalted. I remember the first\\ntown-meeting that we boys were permitted to attend, probably\\nin March, of 1812 or 1813. The people assembled on that oc-\\ncasion in the old church, and took their pews as orderly and\\nquietly as upon the Sabbath. Mr. Bradford went into the pul-\\npit, and opened the meeting with prayer. The selectmen took\\nthe deacons seat, and called the meeting to business. A mod-\\nerator was first to be elected, and some one came to our pew,\\nand whispered to my father. He immediately rose up, and said,\\nBoys, we must go out. We followed him out, with sad\\nhearts, shut out from seeing what we came to see, and we knew\\nnot why. We begged for a reason, and he told us that the whis-\\nperer had informed him that he was the republican candidate\\nfor moderator, and must retire. In due time he was informed\\nof his election, when we returned to the church, and saw the\\nsame thing repeated in every balloting of the day. We may\\nsmile at the simplicity and modesty of such a people we may\\nboast of the wondrous progress we have made in advance of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "99\\nthat simplicity we may have seen the descendants of that people,\\nelectioneering and voting for themselves but let us remember\\nthat our boasted progress has culminated in the harvest of cor-\\nruption, treason, and rebellion, which the nation is now reaping.\\nThe patriarchs of the town were peace-makers litigation\\nwas scarcely known among them a resort to legal tribunals\\nwas a violation of public opinion no lawyer ever resided here,\\nand had one attempted it, he would have starved, if he had\\nleaned on the law for his bread. Lawyers grew fat in all the\\nneighboring towns, but this was the abode of peace, not of liti-\\ngation. I remember that, in later years, one uneasy, unlucky\\nwight, after resisting all offers of compromise, prosecuted his\\nneighbor, in due form of law, and so great was the excitement,\\nthat almost the entire population turned out as defendants.\\nThe poor plaintiff was crushed under the pressure of numbers,\\nand the verdict of the community was, served him right\\nThere were, undoubedly, troubles, disputes, and trespasses\\namong neighbors and there were, I presume, the usual local\\nmagistrates in the town, but I never saw nor heard of a justice\\ncourt, or a jury trial, until after I had grown to manhood, and\\nhad removed to other scenes. Conciliation was first aimed at,\\nand, if that failed, then arbitration or compromise, or the friend-\\nly offices of neighbors, uniformly succeeded in healing the\\nworst feuds and most troublesome animosities.\\nIt might be supposed that a population, such as I have de-\\nscribed, would repress with a strong hand the natural and or-\\ndinary love of social mirth, frolic, and amusement. The dispo-\\nsition to taboo the joyous and mirthful exhibitions of our na-\\ntures, I suspect, belonged more to the Puritan than to the Scotch\\ncharacter. Be that as it may, I know there was no restraint\\namong this people against any enjoyment, pleasure, or amuse-\\nment, which innocence might sanction, or virtue approve. We\\nhad our dances, and such dances none of your new, patent,\\nimproved cotillions, quadrilles, and waltzes but jigs, and long-\\nreels, and short reels, and square reels, and Hie Betty Martin\\nand then we had our sleigh-rides, apple-parings, corn-huskings,\\nand all manner of sports, such as were approved and partici-\\npated in by the old folks at home. Our mothers always\\nknew that we were out. We were at home by ten o clock,\\nsound, hearty, and happy. There is no young life so innocent,\\nLofC.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "100\\nso full of joy, no pleasures so full of vigor and benefit, as the\\nlife and pleasures of the young people of a moral and religious\\nfarming community. Cultivate and refine us as much as you\\nwill, give us the overflowing cup of the gay, fashionable world\\nto the fill, still, when we grow old, and look back for a time\\nof unalloyed enjoyment, those only find it who have luxuriated\\nin the untainted social life of the sons and daughters of such a\\nlaboring population. The dissipated ballroom, the drinking\\nand gambling saloons, and all kindred resorts for pleasure, leave\\na sting in the memory that neither time nor eternity can heal.\\nThe old folks, too, were not without their social enjoyments.\\nThey had their tea-parties and dinner-parties, their winter\\nevening sociables, with the fruit and wine of their orchards,\\nand the nuts of their forests. The men, especially the younger\\nmen, as the custom was, had their social assemblies and so-\\ncial drinks, and sometimes, though rarely, there were com-\\nplaints of excess and disorder. But, to the praise of our\\nfathers it may be said, that they loved and maintained order\\nand sobriety. It was a deep disgrace to be suspected of intem-\\nperance. There was not in the town, what we now call a rum-\\nhole, or gambling-shop. I remember but two men who were\\ncalled drunkards, and never saw but one of those. All gam-\\nbling was prohibited by the sternest repression, and many now\\nrecollect how thoroughly the one suspected rendezvous was\\ncleansed out by the wise strategy of the town officers. All\\nlicentiousness was pursued with deep disgrace, and was scarcely\\nheard of. Judge Lynch once held his court here, and an\\noffending citizen, convicted on sight, was put upon a rail, and\\ncarried outside the limits of the town, and warned never to re-\\nturn, under a penalty which he dared not incur. But the\\ncrowning evidence in favor of our fathers, was the fact that\\nreal poverty was scarcely known in the town. There might\\nhave been one or two helpless invalids supported as paupers,\\nbut it was the pride of every neighborhood to feed, clothe, and\\ncomfort their own poor. How many precious memories cluster\\naround those ministering angels, our mothers and sisters, as we\\nsee them, in our backward vision, visiting the sick, comforting\\nthe afflicted, supplying the wants of the poor, and giving to the\\nwidow and orphan the blessed assurance of being preserved\\nfrom the deep mortification of becoming town paupers. How", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "101\\nrich the legacy of these recollections How proud may we be\\nto-day of such a legacy\\nBut the happiest memories, and most delightful associations,\\nare those suggested by the occasion. We, who have wandered\\nfrom our native soil, and spent more or less of our lives among\\nstrangers, have come home to celebrate the one hundredth\\nbirthday of our venerable homestead. We come, not like the\\nprodigal, because we have been starving on husks, nor because\\nwe have squandered our patrimony in riotous living, but be-\\ncause our fathers and our brethren have invited us to come,\\nand because the dear recollections of our old home, of the dear\\ncompanions of our childhood and youth, of the many happy\\nhours, days, and years we have spent here, all combined, have\\ndrawn us with cords, laying hold of our hearts, and whose\\nstrength neither time nor distance has weakened. And we are\\nmet, on our return, not by the older brothers, grumbling and\\nbegrudging the fatted calf, but are welcomed by them to a\\nfeast of fat things. We rejoice together with you we gather up\\nthe precious memories of the past and hallow them we call\\nup the many and manly virtues of our fathers, and pay to them\\nthe tribute of our most hearty admiration. From the depths\\nof our hearts spring up the bright pictures of the departed dead,\\nwhom we seem to hear say to us, Children, do ye abide in\\nthe principles and virtues of your fathers What is our\\nanswer Standing here, the representatives of that race stand-\\ning here over their graves standing here upon the birthday\\nof the town, and the birthday of our nation, what do we say\\nAre we their legitimate children, or do we belie our origin\\nShall our fathers, looking down upon the scenes of this noble\\nlife, disown us, and our mother cast us off? No! no! A\\nthousand times, no We are not bastards We come here\\nto-day to testify our love for our home and our ancestors. If\\nwe have erred and strayed, we have come back to confess our\\nwanderings if we have neglected or forgotten their counsels,\\nwe will now recall and adopt them into our lives if we have\\ndishonored their graves, we will rebuild their sepulchres if we\\nhave forsaken their God, we will destroy our idols, and come\\nback to the altar where they worshipped. We lift up a stand-\\nard here to-day, and pledge our loyalty to our fathers, to our\\ncountry, and our God.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nIn the grant of the town by the Great and General Court,\\nof Massachusetts Bay, it is provided that the proprietors, with-\\nin three years from the date of the grant, shall settle a Learned\\nand Orthodox minister, and build and finish a convenient meet-\\nmg-house for the public worship of God. And for the encour-\\nagement of some godly man to settle in the township, they\\nfurther provide that one sixty-third part of the township shall\\nbe given him in his right at his settlement, and another sixty-\\nthird part shall be set apart in perpetuity towards his annual\\nsupport.\\nAgreeably to these provisions, a meeting-house was erected\\nby the proprietors, in the northeast part of the town, around\\nwhich clustered sixty dwelling-houses, each eighteen feet square,\\ntogether with a saw and grain mill. The proprietors agreed,\\nMarch 30, 1738 (old style), with Joseph Fitch, of Bedford,\\nmillwright, and Zachariah Emery, of Acton, husbandman, and\\nSamuel Fellows, of Chelmsford, housewright, all in the county\\nof Middlesex, to erect a Meeting-House of the following di-\\nmensions, viz. Forty-five feet long, and thirty-five feet wide,\\nand twenty-two feet between the cell (sill) and plate, to frame\\na Tower or steple at one end thereof, ten foot square, and forty\\nfoot high, and to finish the house in a good, workmanlike\\nmanner, on or before the fifteenth day of November, which will\\nbe the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty\\nfor which they agree to pay four hundred and nine pounds, in\\nBills of Credit of the old tennor. The proprietors, in a peti-\\ntion to the general court of Massachusetts Bay, on the last\\nWednesday of May, 1740, say that they have erected a\\nhouse for the public worship of God, sixty dwelling-houses, a\\nsaw-mill, cleared woods, and been at other charges, in the whole\\namounting to upwards of three thousand pounds. Yet, it", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "104\\nwould appear that the meeting-house was never finished inside,\\nthe contractors failing to fulfil their engagement nor is it cer-\\ntain that meetings for the worship of God were ever held in it.\\nIt seems pretty evident that soon after the erection and comple-\\ntion of the exterior of the house, it was consumed by fire,\\ntogether with many of the dwelling-houses in its vicinity.\\nThere is a tradition that the fire was set by Indians, then in the\\nregion but it is most reasonable to conclude that, during the\\nsummer of 1740, the fire was accidentally conveyed to it by\\nclearing the lands in the neighborhood. But its history is in-\\nvolved in mystery there is no record relating to it, beyond the\\nfact of its erection and partial completion and ,a like mystery\\nshrouds the fate of a village of some sixty houses. And why\\nthis spot should be selected for a village and a meeting-house,\\nbeing near the line of Goffstown, does not clearly appear. A\\nmeeting-house here would not accommodate the town, and this,\\nit is presumed, the proprietors discovered, and the house was\\nnever rebuilt, and nothing was done respecting another for ten\\nor twelve years. Yet it is believed that occasional preaching-\\nwas enjoyed during this period, and the inhabitants occasionally\\nreturned to the towns whence they had come to partake of the\\nsacrament of the Lord s Supper. The settlers expressed a\\nstrong desire for public worship in the latter part of 1757 but\\nthe proprietors informed them that Preaching could not begin\\nuntil May, 1758, and the settlers were desired to aid in the\\nsalary. The number of inhabitants in town, September 25,\\n1756, was only fifty-nine twenty-six men, eleven women, nine\\nboys, and thirteen girls. November 11, 1756, at a meeting in\\nBoston, the proprietors voted John Hill, Esq., James Halsey,\\nand Robert Jenkins be a committee to fix on a proper place, in\\nor near the centre of the town, for the public worship of God,\\nand also for a public Burying-Place, as they shall think most\\nsuitable for the whole community; (fixed on Lot No. 81.\\nLot No. 81, it is thought, must have included a part of Bux-\\nton Hill, and that on the western part of that hill it was pro-\\nposed to erect the second meeting-house. But this location did\\nnot satisfy the settlers for November 28, 1758, Thomas Cochran\\nis authorized to convene the settlers, and select a proper place\\nnear the centre of the town (old limits) for a house of worship", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "105\\nand burying-ground (supposed to be about Lot 79. But\\nthere was not the desired unanimity among the settlers, and,\\nAugust 30, 31, 1759, a committee of the proprietors held a\\nconference at Chelmsford, with Messrs. Cochran, McAllister,\\nFerson, Walker, and Carson, respecting raising money to pay\\nfor past preaching and the erection of a meeting-house, but no\\ndecisive action was taken. During the summer of 1760, the\\nRev. Mr. Burbeen preached several Sabbaths also the Rev.\\nMr. Brown, for whose services compensation was made by the\\nproprietors. April 20, 1762, a committee of the proprietors\\nmet Robert Boyes, Esq., James Caldwell, and John McAllister,\\nat Dunstable, and there it was voted to build a meeting-house\\non or near Lot 79, fifty feet long, and forty feet wide, with all\\nconvenient speed. June 9, of the same year, the proprietors\\nmet at New Boston, and, after voting to pay twenty-one dollars\\nfor past preaching, also voted again to build a meeting-house.\\nStill the contention continued as to location and, September\\n14, 1762, at Dunstable, it was voted unanimously that Ma-\\nthew Patten, Esq., Capt. John Chamberlin, and Samuel Patten,\\nor any two of them, be desired and impowered to fix a spot in\\nthe most convenient place in said New Boston, to build a Meet-\\ning-House, or place for public worship thereon, at the cost of\\nthe Proprietors, and are desired to report as soon as possible.\\nAnd the subscribers being present at the above vote, signified\\nour consent of said vote, and oblige ourselves to abide by the\\ndetermination of said committee, or any two of them, as wit-\\nness our hands for selves and constituence. This was signed\\nby James Halsey, for himself and twelve others, for whom he\\nwas authorized to act John Hill, Robert Jenkins, Robert\\nBoyes, Thomas Cochran, James Caldwell, for self and six oth-\\ners William Moor, John McAllister, George Cristy, James\\nHunter, Thomas Wilson, and Allen Moor.\\nThe following is the report of the committee\\nTo the Proprietors of New Boston\\nGentlemen: Pursuant to the vote and desire at the meeting held at\\nDunstable, in the Province of New Hampshire, the 14th of Sept., 1762,\\nWe, the subscribers, have attended the business therein mentioned, at said\\nmeeting, desiring us to choose a proper place to build a meeting-house in New\\nBoston we viewed the place or premises, heard the reasonings of the Propri-\\n14", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "106\\netors and inhabitants of said town, and do report to the said Propriety, that the\\nLot No. 79, in the second Division, and near the centre of said Lot, on the\\nsouth side of Piscataqnog Eiver, south of a Red Oak tree, marked with letter\\nC, near the grave of a child buried there, is the most proper place or spot to\\nbuild a Meeting-house on in town, according to our judgment.\\nMATTHEW PATTEN,)\\nJOHN CHAMBERLIN, V- Committee.\\nSAMUEL PATTEN,\\nWitness our hand, July 24, 1763.\\nThis report was accepted by the proprietors, at a meeting held\\nat Dunstable, September 28, 1763, at which were present\\nJames Halsey, John Hill, Esq., Robert Jenkins, Robert Boyes,\\nEsq., Thomas Corkrin, Col. Joseph Williams, Esq., John McAl-\\nlister, Allen Moor, William Moor, Robert Clark, George Christy,\\nAbraham Corkrin, and James Hunter. At their meeting in\\nDunstable, April 24, 1764, it was also voted by the proprie-\\ntors, That the Committee already appointed for building said\\nmeeting-house be desired to agree with some suitable person\\nfor building said house as soon as may be. That committee\\nwas the standing committee of the proprietors, consisting of\\nJames Halsey, John Hill, Robert Boyes, Thomas Cochran, and\\nJames Caldwell. At the same time this committee were author-\\nized to sell any unappropriated lands belonging to the proprie-\\ntors, either in the old town or in the new addition, of lands\\nfor building the Meeting-house while direct taxes were as-\\nsessed on each proprietor s right or rights, for the same\\npurpose.\\nIt would seem that this committee contracted with Ebenezer\\nBeard to build the house, as September 30, 1766, at a meeting\\nof proprietors at Dunstable, at the house of Thomas Harrod,\\ntaverner, it was voted, That John Hill, Esq., and Robert\\nJenkins, be a committee to treat with and agree with Mr.\\nEbenezer Beard, about the building and finishing the meeting-\\nhouse and settling his accounts so far as is already done, and\\npass receipts with said Beard, as to what he has already done\\nto the meeting-house, and what he has already received to-\\nwards it. And the same committee were instructed, in the\\nfollowing April, again to settle with him. There seems to\\nhave been much delay in completing his contract, and the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "107\\nproprietors, becoming impatient, instructed Thomas Cochran\\nand James Caldwell to hire workmen to finish the meeting-\\nhouse, provided Beard did not finish said house by the first of\\nJuly next (1767). It is, however, intimated that Beard was not\\nto finish the whole of the interior of the house, only the\\nlower story, with the pulpit, and seats for the singers. It would\\nseem that Beard completed his contract since the proprietors\\nvoted, September 15, 1767, to give Ebenezer Beard one hun-\\ndred acres of land in the New Addition above what they had\\ncontracted to give, since said Beard complained that he had a\\nhard bargain. And this was confirmed September 6, 1768, and\\nThomas Cochran was authorized to give him a deed of said\\none hundred acres of land, when it shall appear to said\\nThomas Cochran, that Ebenezer Beard has finished his work,\\naccording to his agreement, on the meeting-house. Lot No.\\n16 in New Addition, was selected, and Mr. Beard was set-\\ntled with and paid in full, agreeably to contract and the pro-\\nprietors resign their interest in the gallery to the inhabitants\\nof the town, provided they will join with the resident propri-\\netors in finishing the gallery and the meeting-house to the sat-\\nisfaction of said residents. And, after assigning to each orig-\\ninal proprietor one-half of a pew on the ground floor, the pro-\\nprietors seem to leave the meeting-house to be finished and\\ncared for by the town. And it will be observed that this brings\\nus into the year 1768, twenty-eight years since the erection of\\nthe first meeting-house on the Plains, in the northeast part\\nof the town. Meantime, the town has received its charter of\\nIncorporation from George the Third, by the grace of God,\\nof Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the\\nFaith, etc., through his trusty and well-beloved BenningWent-\\nworth, Esq., our Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and of\\nour Council for said Province of New Hampshire and the\\ninhabitants have greatly increased and improved in their ma-\\nterial interests and comforts. Nor have they been indifferent\\nrespecting a house of worship and the stated ministrations of\\nthe word. But they have earnestly sought for a habitation for\\ntheir God, and longed for his courts. They have had such\\npreaching in their private houses as they could obtain, and\\nhave thanked God and taken courage during the long period", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "108\\nof hope deferred. Thus the Eev. Mr. Hancock preached\\nfor them some weeks in 1762, and every year more or less of\\nmoney was raised and appropriated for preaching, and various\\nattempts were made to obtain some one to break to them the\\nbread of life. October 3, 1763, the town voted that Nathan-\\niel Cochran make application in behalf of the town at a meet-\\ning of ministers at Hollis for some preaching. March 4,\\n1765, the town voted to have Eev. Mr. Huston preach five\\nor six Sabbath days. Other ministers were heard at different\\ntimes with great satisfaction. And thus piety was kept alive,\\nand the children were brought to the altar of baptism, and the\\nSabbath was kept holy, and their longing desires for the gospel\\nwere, in a measure, gratified. But how great the joy felt at\\nthe sight of a meeting-house on their own soil and within their\\nown limits, it is now difficult for us to conceive. It is said\\nthat not a few wept for joy of it, and a day for thanksgiving\\nto God was observed by the town when their temple could\\nbe used for worship, and much prayer was offered that He\\nwould enable them to secure the settlement of a minister\\namong them. They lingered long about the courts of the\\nLord s house, counting the dust and the stones and the wood\\ns acred. It was an imposing structure for those days. It was\\nfifty feet long and forty feet wide and twenty-two feet stud,\\nwith a front door five feet wide towards the south, another\\ntowards the west, and another towards the east, while the pul-\\npit was on the north side, with square pews all around by the\\nwalls of the house, with a broad alley in the centre, and square\\npews on either side, and an alley between them and the pews\\non the sides, while the pulpit was of ample dimensions and im-\\nposing height, with its mysterious sounding-board above, and the\\nminister s pew on the west side of the pulpit, close by the stairs\\nwhich led to it. The singers seats were on a large scale on the\\nsouth side of the house in the gallery, though, until they were\\nfinished, the town voted to give the teached singers two seats\\non the west side of the broad alley. Thus in 1768 the meet-\\ning-house was so far finished as to be considered a comfortable\\nand appropriate house for worship, though, it was not entirely\\ncompleted until as late as 1786. Yet the house began to be\\nused for worship as early as 1767, the year in which the\\nRev. Solomon Moor began his labors.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "109\\nREV. SOLOMON MOOR.\\nHe was born in Newtown, Limavady, in Ireland, 1736, the\\nsame year the Grant of New Boston was obtained. He grad-\\nuated at the University of Glasgow in 1758, and was licensed\\nto preach by the Presbytery of Londonderry, Ireland, July 26,\\n1762, and was ordained in 1766 as a minister at large. This\\nwas done with a view of coming to America to labor wherever\\nin the providence of God a field of usefulness might be opened.\\nAccordingly he sailed for Halifax, where he arrived in October,\\n1766. After remaining there a few weeks, he proceeded to Bos-\\ntonj Massachusetts, and preached for the first time in America\\nin that city, in the pulpit of Rev. Mr. Moorhead. The next\\nSabbath he preached at Londonderry for the Rev. Mr. Mc-\\nGregor; and February, 1767, he came to New Boston, to which\\nplace he was recommended by letters of commendation from\\nRev. William Davidson, the pastor of the First Church in Lon-\\ndonderry. It should be remembered that a large proportion\\nof the first settlers of New Boston came from Londonderry, and\\nthey naturally maintained much intercourse with the churches\\nwhence they came, and enjoyed the sympathy and paternal care\\nof the pastors. It is evident that they had solicited the aid of\\nRev. Mr. Davidson in obtaining a minister. Hence Mr. Moor\\nwas encouraged to visit New Boston, and spend at least a few\\nmonths with the scattered population of that town. And Mr.\\nMoor seemed adapted to that people, both by birth and educa-\\ntion. He had no prejudices to overcome, but gained ready ac-\\ncess to their confidence and with great unanimity the inhabi-\\ntants presented him the following call, August 25, 1767 We,\\nthe inhabitants of the town of New Boston, as sensible of the\\nrepeated instances of the goodness of our kind Benefactor, par-\\nticularly in smiling upon our new settlement so that from a\\nvery small, in a few years are increased to a considerable num-\\nber, and the wilderness, by God s kind influences, is in many\\nplaces amongst us become a fruitful field, affording us a com-\\nfortable sustenance we acknowledge that we are not proprietors\\nof our estates in the sight of God, but stewards, and therefore\\nthey are to be improved for his honor, the spreading and estab-\\nlishment of his interest; and being destitute of a fixed pastor,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "110\\nand having longing and earnest inclinations to have one\\nestablished amongst us, that we may have the gospel\\nmysteries unfolded and ordinances administered amongst\\nus, the appointed means in God s house below, that we\\nand our seed may be disciplined and trained up for his\\nhouse in glory above as the kind providence of God has\\nopened such a door by, sir, your coming amongst us, we are\\nled cheerfully to embrace the happy opportunity, being well\\nassured, reverend sir, by unexceptional credentials as to your\\nministerial abilities to preach the gospel, and likewise as to\\nyour exemplary life, which gives force to what is preached, as\\nalso the suitableness and agreeableness of what you preach to\\nour capacities, we, earnestly imploring direction from the Be-\\ning that alone can effectually direct us in such a weighty and\\nsoul-concerning matter, we, with hearts full of well-guided affec-\\ntion, do, in the most hearty manner, invite, call, and intreat you,\\nthe Rev. Solomon Moor, to undertake the office of a pastor\\namongst us, and the charge of our souls forced upon your ac-\\ncepting this our call, as we hope the Lord will move and incline\\nyou so to do, we in a most solemn manner promise you all du-\\ntiful respect, encouragement, and obedience in the Lord\\nfurther, as the laborer is worthy of his hire, and he that serves\\nat the altar should live by it, as we have nothing but what we\\nhave received, we are willing to improve part of our portions\\nin this life that we may be made partakers of everlasting por-\\ntion in the life to come, by the blessing of God, under your\\nministry, and for your encouragement and temporal reward,\\nwe promise you yearly forty pounds sterling per annum for the\\nfirst five years after your instalment, and after that the addi-\\ntion of five pounds more sterling. August the 25, 1767. Sub-\\nscribed by John Smith, Matthew Caldwell, William Caldwell,\\nJesse Christy, Thomas Cochran, James Ferson, Alexander Mc-\\nCollom, William Clark, James Cochran, William Gray, Abra-\\nham Cochran, James Wilson, George Cristy, Alexander Wil-\\nson, James Hunter, Alexander Graham, Samuel McAllister,\\nThomas McColom, Ninian Clark, Peter Cochran, Reuben Smith,\\nHardry Ferson, John Blair, John Cochran, Jr., Thomas Coch-\\nran, Jr., Allen Moor, William McNeil, Jr., Thomas Quigely,\\nWilliam Kelsey, John Cochran, William Boyes, Paul Ferson,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nJames Ferson, Jr., Thomas Wilson, William Blair, John Mc-\\nAllister, Anamias McAllister, Archabald McAllister, Robert\\nWhite, John Burns, Robert Livingston, Nathaniel Cochran,\\nWilliam Livingston, John Gordon.\\nThe call thus given to Mr. Moor by individuals was subse-\\nquently adopted and confirmed by a vote of the town at a legal\\nmeeting. But, though this was given Aug. 25, 1767, it was not\\naccepted until July 1, 1768, although he had been with this\\npeople more than six months before the call was given. Rea-\\nsons for so long a delay is hinted at by those who think that\\nlove is omnipotent in controlling men s decisions. Tradition\\nhas it that Mr. Moor would not agree to settle here until he\\ncould gain the consent of a fair lady to share with him the pri-\\nvations and hardships incident to a settlement in what was then\\ncalled, in Londonderry, The Woods. It will be remembered\\nthat Mr. Moor spent some months at Londonderry before com-\\ning to New Boston, and there the softer passions were fanned\\ninto a flame by the charming graces of Miss Ann Davidson,\\ndaughter of Rev. William Davidson. She was not indifferent\\nto his solicitations, but desired that a different field might be\\npresented to him, more in accordance with her ambition and\\ncultivated manners. She had been educated at Schenectady,\\nN. Y., and Boston, Mass., and had been reared in an intelligent\\ncommunity for Londonderry was no mean city. She had\\nalready sent out several colonies, and raised up not a few\\nmighty men of valor, and men wise to expound the law of\\nthe Lord, and to frame constitutions for states and the nation.\\nA nd it is not strange that Miss Davidson, who was much young-\\ner than he, refused at first to go with the man. But Mr.\\nMoor believed in the perseverance of good men, and re-\\nnewed and redoubled his efforts to win the hand of one\\nwhose lofty bearing and noble spirit promised to make him a\\nhappy man, amid the difficulties of the way and Mr.\\nRobert White, afterwards Deacon, with whom he had boarded\\nsince his arrival, proposed that Deacon Thomas Cochran go to\\nLondonderry, to confer with the damsel, and carry a clus-\\nter of the grapes of Eschol, and magnify the goodliness of the\\nland to which they desired her to come. At length, in the\\nmonth of June, 1768, Thomas Cochran and his blessed wife", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "112\\nJenny, saddled their asses, and tracked their way to Derry\\nTown, on the important mission of aiding their minister to ob-\\ntain a wife, and visiting their friends. They accomplished their\\nobject, and Mr. Moor, having thereby conquered prejudices,\\nwith a joyful heart undertook the cure of souls in New Bos-\\nton. The people had their hearts set upon Mr. Moor s remain-\\ning with them, and did all in their power to prepare the way.\\nIn drawing the ministry lots, no one chanced to be very near\\nthe centre of the town. Lot 61, in the western part of the\\ntown, was a ministry lot, which the town voted to exchange for\\nlot 53, which had been drawn for a school lot, and this last was\\nin the southern part of the town, more than two miles from\\nthe meeting-house. It was here, in the neighborhood of several\\nvery early settlements, that they proposed their pastor should\\nhave his dwelling, and towards the clearing of which, and the\\nerection of buildings, they promised material aid. The town\\nhad been a little impatient under his long delay to answer then\\ncall, as is evident from the following vote,- taken in connection\\nwith what had before transpired March 7, 1768, Voted,\\nThomas Cochran, James Ferson, Thomas Quigely, Daniel Mc-\\nMillen, and William Clark, committee to treat with Rev. Solo-\\nmon Moor, in regard to his settling in New Boston and in case\\nthe said Moor will not. stay, to provide preaching some other\\nway for the present year. But August 15, 1768, the town\\nVoted, that Eobert White provide entertainment for ministers\\nat the instalment of Rev. Mr. Moor, and bring in his charge to\\nthe town, and Mr. Moor was installed Sept. 6, 1768, as the\\nminister of the town, with prospects of permanent usefulness.\\nThe occasion was one of great interest. Ample provisions were\\nmade for the entertainment of strangers. The clay at first\\npromised to be unpropitious but at length the threatening\\nclouds passed away, and every path was trod by the multitude\\nthat sought to witness the installation of the first minister in\\nNew Boston. It is believed that the Rev. David McGregor, of\\nLondonderry, preached the installing sermon, and the Rev.\\nWilliam Davidson gave the charge to the pastor.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "li:\\nORGANIZATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.\\nThere are no records to show the time of the gathering of the\\nPresbyterian Church. It is generally believed, however, that\\nit was organized the same day the Rev. Mr. Moor was installed,\\nSept. 6, 1768 though there are reasons to suppose that it had\\nan earlier origin. Thomas Cochran and Archibald McMillen\\nare called Deacons prior to Mr. Moor s installation, in the\\nrecords of the Proprietors, while there is no reason to believe\\nthat they had been Deacons in any church before coming to\\nthis town. Mr. Farmer, the well-known statistician, gave 1768\\nas the origin of the church, and the Rev. Dr. Whiton, of Antrim,\\nconcurs with him. But we think neither of them had access to\\nthe records to which we have alluded, and that they fixed on\\nthat date because no positive record could be found, and that\\ndate must be sufficiently late to render it certain that the\\nchurch did at that time exist. But it is hardly to be credited\\nthat a people so religious and so highly prizing the ordinances\\nof religion as the first settlers of New Boston, while they were\\nhaving more or less of preaching every year, should neglect to or-\\nganize themselves into a church, or that such excellent pastors\\nas those of the churches of Londonderry, and other towns, who\\nhad sent their members into this new settlement, should neglect\\nto gather them within the enclosure of church relations, for a\\nperiod of twenty-eight years. It is known that ministers of the\\ntowns whence the settlers came, were accustomed to perform\\nmore or less of labor in this town gratuitously every year, thus\\ncaring for the scattered members of their flocks. Hence, we\\nare of the opinion that the church in New Boston was organized\\nmuch earlier than 1768, though the precise time cannot be\\nknown. The session of the church in 1768 was thus consti-\\ntuted Mr. Moor, Pastor; Thomas Cochran, James Ferson,\\nJohn Smith, Archibald McMillen, Jesse Christie, and Robert\\nWhite, Deacons. Thus, strengthened by the cooperation and\\ncounsels of good men, in the session and in the church, Mr.\\nMoor girded himself for the labor of converting the wilderness\\ninto a fruitful field. And, to aid him still further in his work,\\nhe led to the hymeneal altar, July 16, 1770, Miss Ann David-\\nson, of Londonderry, then only twenty years old. The bride s\\n15", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "114\\nfather performed the marriage service, ami Mr. Moor and his\\nwife accompanied by a large number of her friends, started for\\nNew Boston, each riding a spirited steed, and were met on the\\nway by large numbers of their parishioners, who gave them a\\ncordial greeting, and escorted them to their new home, where\\nold men and women, young men and maidens were assembled\\nfor a most generous house-warming. The excitement was\\nintense at their arrival, and strong arms of loving Scotch women\\nbore their minister s wife from the saddle to her chamber, and\\nfrom thence, in the same manner, she descended to the reception-\\nroom. Ample provision was made for a joyous festival, and\\nthe swift hours of evening but too soon fled amid scenes deemed\\nappropriate to the event.\\nDuring the war of the Revolution, many patriots distrusted\\nthe loyalty of Mr. Moor to their cause, and were less cordial\\ntoward him and his wife, but there was no serious interruption\\nin his relation to the people. In due time that prejudice passed\\naway and, amid efforts to advance the cause of education,\\nto promote peace between contending parties and angry indi-\\nviduals, he successfully preached the gospel and blessed the\\npeople. He introduced large numbers to the ordinances of\\nbaptism and the supper, though the church enjoyed no special\\nrevivals during his ministry. Mr. Moor was Calvanistic in his\\ndoctrinal views and teachings, though not of the most rigid sort.\\nHe has been charged with being an Armenian by not a few in\\nlater years but we think without any good reason. Mr. Moor\\nwas a man of great moderation, and yet greater charity. He\\nlived in times very different from the present, and was lax in\\ndiscipline, and allowed some practices which would not now be\\ntolerated. But there seems to be no reliable evidence that he\\nhad any sympathy with Armenianism. He was always in cor-\\ndial sympathy with his ministerial brethren, and always wel-\\ncomed to their pulpits by their people, while his own church\\nand people cherished for him profound respect He lived and\\ndied greatly beloved by his flock. His death occurred May 28,\\n1803, aged 67, after a ministry of thirty-four years and four\\nmonths. His death was occasioned by a severe cold, which ter-\\nminated in congestion of the lungs. He was fully sensible of\\ndeath s approach, and spoke freely of his departure to those", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "115\\nwho saw him, expressing great attachment to his people, and\\ndeep anxiety for them, as they were now to be left as sheep with-\\nout a shepherd. After cxorting them to strive to perpetuate\\npeace, and cultivate mutal forbearance, he seems to have\\nbeen able to trust them in the hands of his Master, saying,\\nThe Lord will keep you, and give you. another pastor more\\nfaithful than I have been. Thus the good man blessed his\\nhousehold and his people, and fell asleep, a rich smile long rest-\\ning upon his countenance. His funeral was attended at the\\nmeeting-house, May 31, by a large concourse of people from\\nall parts of the town, and from neighboring communities,\\nwhen a solemn and affecting discourse was delivered by the\\nRev. Dr. William Morrison, of Londonderry, from the text, Job\\nxxx. 23, For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and\\nto the house appointed for all living.\\nMrs. Moor survived her husband many years, living where\\nhe died, with some of her children and grandchildren about\\nher, making herself useful to them and others. She retained\\nher faculties to the last, fond of society, indulging in sprightly\\nconversation and occasional repartees. She had been a faithful\\nwife, looking well to her household, and putting her hand to the\\ndistaff. She died Nov. 22, 1842, aged 96 years, more than\\nthirty-eight years after the death of her husband, in a good old\\nage, greatly lamented by a large circle of kindred and friends.\\nHer husband praised her while he lived, and his successor in\\nthe ministry praised her when she was dead. To her cordial\\nsympathy and encouragment Mr. Bradford acknowledged him-\\nself greatly indebted. She became to him a mother, and loved\\nand prayed for him until the last, never omitting an opportu-\\nnity to cheer him when despondent, or to minister to his comfort,\\nor contribute to his usefulness. And her kindness never failed\\nto be appreciated by the great heart of that man of God. To\\nthe dignity, intelligence, and Christian deportment of Mrs.\\nMoor may be traced in no small degree the excellences which\\ncharacterized the generation of women who were brought\\nwithin the range of her influence, and which are not wanting\\nin their successors.\\nThe children of Mr. Moor were Mary, born Aug. 27, 1771\\nWitter Davidson, born May 16, 1773 Frances, born April 22.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "116\\n1775 Ann, born March 8, 1778 John, born Oct. 17, 1782\\nand Elizabeth Cummings, born Sept. 30, 1784.\\nMary married Samuel Cochran, of Londonderry, and at her\\ndeath left three children, Frances, Nancy, and Solomon.\\nWitter was killed by the falling of a tree when a child.\\nFrances married Capt. John Smith, of Goffstown, for many\\nyears a distinguished school-teacher, and subsequently a mer-\\nchant. Mrs. Smith died May 7, 1807, and he Nov. 11, 1851,\\ntheir children being, Alfred, who married Elizabeth Howard, of\\nTemple, and lives in Goffstown, having eight children Alfred\\nxinn Elizabeth John Witter Abby Frances, Nancy Moor\\nJane Harris and Solomon Moor, now in the first New Hamp-\\nshire Battery.\\nWitter, son of Frances, died young. So also Solomon Moor\\nand Nancy Moor, and Frances Moor became the wife of Dea.\\nJoseph Hadley, of Goffstown.\\nAnn, daughter of Rev. S. Moor, died unmarried, Nov. 23,\\n1859, aged 81.\\nJohn, son of Rev. S. Moor, married Mehitable Ray, of Mount\\nVernon, and their children are, Solomon, living in Washington,\\nD. C. James Ray, living in Amherst Sabrina Ray, who became\\nthe wife of Daniel Campbell, Esq.; Frances Smith, who became\\nthe wife of Alfred E. Cochran, and soon died John Hamilton,\\nliving in Washington, D. C; Eliza Ann, who became the wife\\nof Samuel Leach, her children being Emily Frances, Samuel\\nMitchell, Sarah Danforth, Sabrina Campbell, James Ray, Mehit-\\nable Mead, and Solomon Moor.\\nMehitable Ray, daughter of John Moor, became the wife of\\nFrank Mead, and lives in Littleton, Mass.\\nNancy, John Moor s daughter, married Dalton Clark, and\\nlives in Davenport, Iowa.\\nGeorge Rodney, son of John Moor, lives in Manchester.\\nMr. John Moor s second wife was Mrs. Martha Morrison,\\ndaughter of David Sprague, of Bedford, and their children are\\nFrances and Ellen. Mr. Moor died Oct. 28, 1862, aged 80.\\nElizabeth Cummings was married by Rev. Mr. Bradford to\\nJames McCurdy, March, 1813, and lives in New Boston her\\nchildren, being Solomon Moor Witter Smith, living in Law-\\nrence, Kansas John, now in California James, now on the\\nhomestead Jesse, in Quitman, Miss., and Ann Elizabeth.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "117\\nREV. EPHRAIM PUTNAM BRADFORD.\\nAfter the death of Mr. Moor, the pulpit was gratuitously\\nsupplied in favor of the widow of the late pastor, for several\\nmonths, by clergymen in the vicinity. Among those who are\\nremembered to have given a Sabbath each, are Goodridge of\\nLyndeborough, Burnap of Merrimac, Barnard of Amherst,\\nMorrison of Londonderry, Miles of Temple, Bruce of Mount\\nVernon, Bradford of Francestown, Paige of Hancock, Clark of\\nGreenfield, Dunbar of Peterborough, Fullerton of Antrim,\\nMorril of Goffstown, Moore of Milford, Beede of Wilton, Brown\\nof Londonderry, Dana of Newburyport, Sleigh of Dcering, and\\nClay ford of Weare.\\nThe town, at a legal meeting Aug. 18, 1803, appointed Dea.\\nWilliam McNeil, Jacob Hooper, and Ninian Clark a committee\\nto supply the pulpit after the ministers have supplied their\\ntours. It would seem that in the early part of 1804 the Rev.\\nMr. Harris supplied the pulpit for a time, and the town voted\\nhim a call, May 27, 1804, which he did not accept, having\\nengaged to preach at Windham for a certain number of months.\\nBut the hope of obtaining him was not abandoned. Accord-\\ningly, in July of this year, the town instructed their committee\\nto hire Mr. Harris for two months. He seems to have given\\nsatisfaction to a majority, and a call was voted him with a salary\\nof 400, Sept. 3 and in December the time was voted for his\\nordination, he having accepted the call. Seven ministers were\\ninvited by the town to constitute a council to ordain him,\\nconsisting of Harris of Dunbarton, Bradford, Bruce, Barnard,\\nMiles, Colly, and Morrison. Dec. 13, 1804, at a legal meeting,\\nit was Voted, that the Hon. Council meet at Mr. John Good-\\nhue s Tuesday next, at ten of the clock, forenoon, and that this\\nmeeting stand adjourned to that time. The council met, but\\ngreat opposition to the settlement of Mr. Harris manifested\\nitself, and it was deemed inexpedient to ordain him. Mr.\\nHarris was an estimable man, but was thought by an influen-\\ntial minority to be inadequate to the demands of the people.\\nPerhaps his doctrinal views seemed too rigid, especially did\\nhis rejection of the half-way covenant offend some who\\nwould otherwise have been favorably disposed to his settlement.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "118\\nMr. Harris subsequently settled in Windham, and proved him-\\nself a faithful and successful minister of Christ.\\nAt the annual meeting of the town, March 18, 1805, Capt.\\nEphraim Jones, Lieut. Samuel Gregg, and Robert Clark, were\\nappointed a committee to supply the pulpit and they invited\\nEphraim P. Bradford to preach as a caudidate for settlement.\\nHe was the son of Capt. John Bradford of Milford, afterwards\\nof Hancock, a member of the Baptist church, but of enlarged\\nand liberal sentiments, availing himself of every occasion to\\npartake of the Lord s Supper, whenever his son administered\\nthe ordinance. Mr. Bradford fitted for College at Amherst and\\nAndover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard University in 1803,\\nwith a high reputation for scholarship. He had Pay son and\\nseveral others for his classmates, who in subsequent years\\nattained great eminence. After teaching for a time, he studied\\ntheology with the justly celebrated Dr. Lathrop of West Spring-\\nfield, Mass., and having been licensed to preach hi 1804, at\\nWest Springfield, he came to Xew Boston in the latter part of\\nMay, 1805. He seems to have made a favorable impression at\\nhis coming; and Aug. 21, 1805,. the town instructed their\\ncommittee to hire Mr. Bradford two months longer as a cau-\\ndidate. Nov. 11, 1805, the town voted to give him a call to\\nsettle with them, pledging him a salary of four hundred dollars\\nper annum, and four hundred dollars as settlement. Capt.\\nEphraim Jones, Maj. Crombie, Dr. Luke Lincoln, Robert Clark,\\nand Capt. John Cochran, were appointed to prepare and present\\nthe following call\\ni\\nWe. the Congregation of New Boston, being on sufficient grounds well\\nsatisfied with the ministerial qualifications of you, Mr. Ephraim P. Bradford,\\nand having good hopes from our past experience of your labors, that your\\nministrations in the gospel will be profitable to our spiritual interests, do\\nearnestly call and desire you to undertake the pastoral office in said Congre-\\ngation, promising you in the discharge of your duty all proper support,\\nencouragement, and obedience in the Lord.\\nAnd, that you may be free from worldly cares and avocations, we hereby\\npromise and engage to pay you the sum of four hundred dollars, in regular\\nannual payments, during the time of your being and continuing the regular\\nPastor of this Church, reserving to the use of the town all ministerial rights\\nand privileges. And should it please God that you should settle among us,\\nfor your further encouragement, we hereby promise, engage, and oblige", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "119\\nourselves to pay you the sum of four hundred dollars as a donation or settling\\nmoney, the one-half to be paid to you in three months after you shall have\\ntaken the pastoral office in said Congregation the other in nine months as\\naforesaid.\\nIn testimony whereof, we have respectively subscribed our names in behalf\\nof the town of New Boston, this twenty-seventh day of November, 1805.\\nEPHRAIM JONES, 1 n 7 y7\\nROBERT CLARK, Committee chosen by the\\nWILLIAM CROMBIE, L Congregation oj New\\nLUKE LINCOLN, Boston to sign and pre-\\nJOHN CROMBIE, Jr., J sent me caiL\\nAt the same time the call was voted, the town appointed a\\nday for fasting and prayer, with reference to the settlement of\\nMr. Bradford. And, what may seem not a little strange to us,\\nagreeably to an article in their warrant, the town Voted Dea.\\nWilliam McNeil, Robert Patterson, Jr., Robert Campbell,\\nThomas Cochran, Robert Clark, James Ferson, Capt. John\\nCochran, Thomas Smith, Jr., and Geary Whiting, be Deacons\\nin the Presbyterian Church of Christ in this town. It would\\nseem that several of these men did not consent to be quali-\\nfied. The church meantime was not indifferent nor inactive.\\nAt a meeting of the church, held Jan. 14, 1805, Daniel Dane\\nwas chosen Moderator, and Robert Clark, Church Clerk and\\na committee, consisting of Ninian Clark, Daniel Dane, and\\nJosiah Warren, were appointed to examine the old records\\nrespecting the church-standing, and to report at an adjourned\\nmeeting. But this committee reported that no records of the\\nchurch could be found, nor have any been found to this day.\\nThe church voted, to stand upon the same footing they for-\\nmerly have that the Clerk make a record of the then\\nexisting members and a day for fasting and prayer be\\nappointed before the town present their call to Mr. Ephraim P.\\nBradford.\\nThe following is a catalogue of the existing members of the Church in the\\ntown of New Boston, the 28th October, 1805 Madam Moor, Dea. Jesse Cristy,\\nDea. Robert White, his wife Mary White, Dea. Wm. McNeil, Rachel McNeil\\nAllen Moor, James Willson, Mary Willson, James Crombie, Jane Crombie,Wm.\\nClark, Ninian Clark, John Cochran, Elizabeth Cochran, Peter Cochran, Mary\\nCochran, James Caldwell, Martha Caldwell, Robert Patterson, Margaret Patter-\\nson, Robert Patterson, Jr., Susanna Patterson, Daniel Dane, Sarah Dane, Isaac", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "120\\nPeabody, Mary Peabody, Kobert Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, Wm. Kelso,\\nAgnes Kelso, Daniel Kelso, Mary Kelso, James Ferson, Mary Ferson, Josiah\\nWarren, Jane Warren, Wm. Campbell, Ann Campbell, James Willson, Jr.,\\nJennet Willson, James Gregg, Jennet Gregg, Jacob Hooper, James Cochran,\\nElizabeth Cochran, John Henery, Mrs. Heneiy, John Livingston, Wm. Baird,\\nJane Baird, James Cairns, Mary Cairns, Thomas Smith, Jr., Esther Smith,\\nRobert Boyd, Mary Boyd, John Gordon, Jennet Gordon, Samuel Stickney,\\nMrs. Stickney, Thomas Mullet, Mrs. Mullet, Isaac Peabody, Jr., Mary Pea-\\nbody, Robert Cochran, Sarah Cochran, James McMillen, Mrs. McMillen,\\nAlexander McCollom, Mary McCollom, Elijah Cochran, Jemima Cochran,\\nSamuel Gregg, Mrs. Gregg, Joseph Cochran, Margarett Cochran, Geary\\nWhiting, Nabby Whiting, Thomas Cochran, Margaret Cochran, Robert\\nClark, Annis Clark, John Cochran, Jr., Frances Cochran, Robert Crombie,\\nMary Crombie, Thomas Moor, Mary Ann Moor, Robert Cristy, Mrs. Sarah\\nCristy, widow Ann Smith, widow Jennet Cochran, widow Lydia Dodge,\\nwidow McLaughlin, widow Mary McMillen, widow Alexander, widow Joanna\\nDodge, widow Mary Hogg, Christiana Donovan, Hannah Ferson, Lydia Pat-\\nterson, old widow Beard, Rebeccah Cristy, Gizza McNeil, Samuel Abbot,\\nJoseph Leach, Jr., Mary Leach, Wm. Clark, Jr., Abagail Clark, Mary Liv-\\ningston.\\nAt a meeting of the church, Jan. 13, 1806, it was Voted,\\nto take the yeas and nays on the subject whether the church\\nthought it expedient that Mr. Bradford should answer his call\\nin the affirmative or in the negative, when thirty-two voted in\\nthe affirmative, and two in the negative. The two who voted\\nagainst Mr. Bradford were Daniel Dane and Jacob* Hooper,\\nhaving some fears of his orthodoxy but they soon became his\\nmost faithful friends. At the same meeting it was Yoted,\\nthat if Mr. Bradford should settle over this Church, that he\\nwould settle agreeably to the Presbyterian order. And the\\ntown, Feb. 10, 1806, agreeably to an article in their warrant,\\nYoted, to acquiesce with the Church in settling Mr. Bradford\\nin the Presbyterian mode. The way being thus prepared, Mr.\\nBradford submitted the following reply to the call of the town,\\nbearing date Nov. 27, 1805, but not delivered until Feb. 10,\\n1806\\nBrethren,\\nI now proceed to communicate to you, the church and congregation of\\nNew Boston, my answer to the call presented by you to me to settle with you\\nas your religious instructor. The connection which you have invited me to\\nform with you is highly important. I have deliberated long and seriously upon\\nthe subject, have consulted the opinions and taken the advice of as many", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "121\\nof the people in the town as my other duties would allow me to see, on the\\nsubject. I have not neglected to ask the direction of Him who is the Father\\nof light, and without whose guidance we should be miserable indeed. It can\\nbe of no service, to you or myself, to remain any longer in susjiense on this\\ninteresting subject. With the expression of my gratitude for the favorable\\nopinion you have manifested of me, I do accept your call to settle with you,\\nas your religious instructor. In forming this determination, I have not been\\nunmindful of the responsibility I now take upon myself. On this occasion I\\ncannot avoid looking forward to the solemn hour when I must answer to the\\nJudge of the quick and deal, for the manner in which I perform the duties\\nwhich will devolve on me. You, likewise, my brethren, must be answerable\\nfor the manner in which you shall perform your duty as hearers. I am willing\\nto live with you as a brother, to participate and rejoice with you in prosperity,\\nand to suffer with you in adversity. You will extend your charity to my\\nimperfections, knowing that I am, like yourselves, a frail creature. In forming\\nyour opinion of my professional performances, you will consider my inexpe-\\nrience in my profession should it please God to continue my life and health,\\nI hope through his assistance to perform the duties of my profession better\\nthan I can be expected to do at present.\\nMy fervent prayer to God is that you may be built up in the most holy\\nfaith that you may long experience how good and how pleasant a thing it is\\nfor brethren to dwell together in unity and that you may finally be reunited,\\nthrough the mercy of God in Christ Jesus, in those mansions of happiness and\\nrest which He has gone to prepare for all those that love his appearing.\\nEPHRAIM P. BRADFORD.\\nUpon the reception of this favorable response, the town\\nVoted, to have the ordination the last Wednesday [the 26th]\\nof February instant, and appointed Capt. Ephraim Jones, Dea.\\nRobert Clark, and Lt. Samuel Gregg a committee to notify\\nthe Presbytery, and provide for the same. At the same time\\nit was Voted, to have six Congregational ministers to join the\\nPresbytery as Council and Mr. Bradford chose one and the\\ntown one alternately. And the ministers thus chosen were,\\nHarris of Dunbarton, Barnard of Amherst, Bradford of Fran-\\ncestown, Bruce of Mount Vernon, Moor of Milford, and Miles\\nof Temple, to act as Council with the Presbytery. And\\nthen, with a big heart, the town Voted, to give all the neigh-\\nboring ministers an invitation to attend, and the Selectmen to\\nnotify them. Maj. William Crombie, Dr. Luke Lincoln, and\\nJames Willson, Esq., were appointed a committee to arrange\\nand marshal the day and Alexander McCollom, Capt. Rob-\\nert Christy, Daniel Clark, Capt. John Cochran, and Win. Clark\\n16", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "122\\nwere to prop the galleries, and keep the doors shut, and keep\\norder in the house while Wm. B. Dodge, Capt. Kobert War-\\nren, and Nathan Marden were required to superintend the\\nsingers, and provide for the same.\\nAll this was characteristic of the men of New Boston fifty\\nyears ago. They had souls, and, if they undertook a thing,\\nthey accomplished it manfully. They attached a value to a\\ngood name, and resolved that their posterity should never rise\\nup and call them mean men. The men of later days who con-\\ntend that the town has no right to do anything for religion and\\nthe morals of the people, but to repudiate its financial indebt-\\nedness to the church, have no sentiment in common with the\\nmen of fifty or a hundred years ago. They consult to break\\ndown churches and the ministry, while the fathers saw that the\\nhighest interest of the community required that the sanctuary\\nand the ministry should be liberally sustained. Therefore the\\noccasion of the settlement of a minister inspired them to devise\\nliberally and to execute magnanimously. Nothing was wanting\\non the part of the town to render the ordination of their chosen\\npastor impressive and profitable. And the 26th of February\\nwas cherished by that generation as the most delightful in all\\ntheir lives. The assembly was large, and the services were\\nworthy the men and the occasion. The Rev. Jesse Appleton\\nof Hampton, pastor of a Congregational church, afterwards\\npresident of Bowdoin College, preached the sermon, from\\n1 Cor. i. 20 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of\\nour Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and\\nthat ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and the\\nsame judgment. Why Dr. Appleton was chosen by Mr. Brad-\\nford to preach the sermon, may be seen in the fact that Dr.\\nAppleton was a native of New Ipswich, studied theology with\\nthe Rev. Dr. Lathrop, married the daughter of the Hon. Robert\\nMeans, of Amherst, and was fast rising in the public estimation\\nas a preacher of the gospel, being the next year inaugurated\\npresident of Bowdoin College.\\nThe hand of fellowship was given by the Rev. Mr. McGregor,\\nof Bedford and the charge to the pastor by the Rev. William\\nMorrison, of Londonderry. Characteristically, the church,\\nafter giving thanks to these gentlemen for their services in the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "123\\nordination, requested copies of the sermon, fellowship, and\\ncharge, for publication; and the town, at a legal* meeting,\\nchose a committee to superintend the printing, and to give a\\ncopy to every family in the town. Accordingly the sermon and\\ncharge were printed and circulated at the expense of the town.\\nIt is not quite apparent who all the elders of the church\\nwere at Mr. Bradford s ordination. The records from 1805 to\\n1826 are very incomplete and unsatisfactory. When the\\nchurch voted, in 1805, that the clerk should make a catalogue\\nof the names of members, he was also instructed to record\\nthe old Deacons first and these seem to have been Jesse\\nCristy and Robert White. And the young deacons we may sup-\\npose to have been those chosen by the town Nov. 11, 1805, only\\na part of whom ever served. There is no record to show that\\nany were ever consecrated to the holy office by any appropriate\\nreligious ceremony yet it is remembered by some aged persons\\nto have been done. Nine years after Mr. Bradford s ordination\\nthe elders were Robert Patterson, Jr., Wm. McNeil, Thomas\\nCochran, Thomas Smith, Joseph Cochran, Robert Crombie, and\\nRobert Clark. As several of these were not chosen by the town\\nin 1805, it is reasonable to suppose that the church disregarded\\nthe action of the town, and chose their own deacons, as there is\\nno evidence that the town ever afterwards interfered with the\\nofficers of the church. At first the Presbyterianism of the\\nchurch seems of a doubtful character, a mixture of Presby-\\nterianism and Congregationalism. Gradually it became more\\ndistinctive, though never rigid.\\nTo prepare himself more effectually to labor for the good of\\nhis people, Mr. Bradford purchased a small farm upon one of\\nthe loftiest hills in New Boston, now known as Bradford s\\nHill, whence he could survey vast regions of country, and,\\nwitness such glorious risings and settings of the sun as are\\nseen from but few localities. Here he provided a home, and,\\nSept. 1, 1806, married Miss Mary Manning, daughter of Dea.\\nEphraim Barker, of Amherst, with whom he lived here nearly\\nforty years, greatly given to hospitality, with a growing family,\\nloving his people, and greatly beloved by them. His labors\\nwere highly profitable to his people, and the church received\\nadditions from time to time. No considerable revival seems to", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "124\\nhave been enjoyed until some nine years after his ordination,,\\nwhen some forty persons were added to the church in 1826,\\nsome twenty or thirty were added, and in 1831 and 1835 a\\nwide-spread religious interest existed, when nearly a hundred\\npersons were received to the church. But while his labors\\nwere greatly blessed to the salvation of his flock, Mr. Bradford,\\nlike other good men, had his trials. His salary proved insuffi-\\ncient for the support of his family and the extension of hospi-\\ntality to the many claimants. In 1819, the town increased his\\nsalary to six hundred dollars. In some instances he was re-\\nlieved by generous donations of money from his people, and\\nthus he was able to turn away from more tempting fields and\\nlarger salaries often tendered him. His people considered him\\na poor financier because he did not grow rich on his salary, and\\nwere pleased to think he was careless about his pecuniary mat-\\nters. Most people would have deemed this a defect. But the\\npeople of New Boston looked upon it as a great excellence,\\nand enjoyed repeating anecdotes respecting his habits of care-\\nlessness, and frequently took great pleasure in relieving his\\nembarrassments. We have reason to believe most of these\\nanecdotes are apocryphal. Mr. Bradford was a man of great\\ngood sense he understood human nature far better than most\\nmen, and he had been reared to habits of economy on a farm\\nduring his minority. He may sometimes have been forgetful\\nand seemingly oblivious in some financial matters. But we\\ndoubt if many men to whom he preached could, with his\\nincome, rear so large a family as Mr. Bradford s, and so effect-\\nually, and maintain such a reputation for generous hospitality,\\nwithout embarrassments equal or greater than he realized. The\\nminister who, in such a location as New Boston, could live,\\ncould keep soul and body together, and feed, clothe, and ed-\\nucate a family of ten children, and keep such a free tavern\\nas his people would think ought to be kept, on a salary of six\\nhundred dollars a year, must have been the greatest financier\\nthe world ever saw. All anecdotes told with such good nature\\nof his obliviousness to worldly interests, strangely conflict with\\nthe fearful burden that often well-nigh crushed that generous\\nheart, and cast down that lofty mind. The people saw a shin-\\ning face, but saw not the corroding cares and dispiriting fore-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "125\\nbodings which were within, and which no man of his sensibili-\\nties could avoid. He endured without complaint, and kept up\\nappearances of competence and satisfaction, that his people\\nmight enjoy the pleasure of believing that their minister was\\nwell cared for, and their reputation was safe while his noble\\nwife bore her full share of sacrifice and labor, and by prudence\\nand skill contrived to perpetuate the barrel of meal and the\\ncruse of oil.\\nOne of the most interesting events in Mr. Bradford s history\\noccurred in the year 1823. The meeting-house, built in 1767\\nand 1768, had waxed old. It stood in a bleak place, and\\nwas never furnished with means of warming. In 1769, the\\ntown built a session-house, near the meeting-house. This\\nwas a small building, of one room, furnished with a large fire-\\nplace and here in cold weather many resorted to warm them-\\nselves at the close of the morning services, and from that\\nglowing fire coals were removed to the foot-stoves which ren-\\ndered their stay in the tireless meeting-house endurable to the\\nfemale portion of the congregation. Not a few went further\\nthan the session-house, to Capt. John McLaughlen s tavern,\\nwhere they warmed the inner as well as the outer man, and\\noften lingered longer than became devout worshippers longer\\nthan the proprieties of the sanctuary justified. And good Mr.\\nMoor often complained that they could spend two hours at John\\nMcLaughlen s easier than one under his preaching. And,\\nthough Mr. Bradford was less annoyed, because of changes that\\nhad taken place, yet with all the hallowed associations cluster-\\ning around the old house, he looked forward with lively interest\\nto the time when a new temple on an improved plan should be\\nreared for the honor of Christ. The town refusing to build a\\nmeeting-house, individuals undertook the enterprise. Agreea-\\nbly to a call of Joseph Cochran, Jr., at the request of others, a\\nmeeting was convened at the meeting-house, October 24, 1822.\\nThe call for this meeting thus sets forth the necessity of the\\nmovement\\nThe undersigned is desired to give public notice that a number of respect-\\nable citizens in this town have taken into serious consideration the very\\ninconvenient situation of the Presbyterian meeting-house, the rapid decay of\\nthe house itself, and the inexpediency of expending a sum in repairing it,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "126\\nwhich would make it comfortable and decent as a place of public worship,\\neven for a few years that while they are convinced that extravagant expense\\nin the erection and support of an earthly sanctuary would be neither pleasing\\nto God nor useful to the cause of religion, they are no less convinced that it\\nis their duty to contribute to the building of a house for divine worship which\\nmay embrace the advantages of commodious situation, decency of appearance,\\nand protection from the inclemency of the seasons.\\nThis meeting was large and harmonious. Mr. Bradford\\ndelivered a discourse, says the record, suited to the occa-\\nsion and then it was organized by the choice of Rev. B. P.\\nBradford, Moderator, and Robert Wason, Scribe. Here it was\\nVoted, unanimously, to build a meeting-house and Capt.\\nJohn Cochran, John Crombie, Samuel Gregg, Esq., John Fair-\\nfield, Esq., Dea. Thomas Smith, Moses Cristy, Samuel Dodge,\\nEsq., Dea. Thomas Cochran, Dea. Robert Clark, and Robert\\nWason, were appointed a committee to look out a suitable\\npiece of ground to set it on, and to make some estimate of the\\nprobable expense. The following persons agreed to become\\nundertakers in building a new meeting-house, viz Robert\\nWason, Andrew Beard, James Sloan, James Cochran, 3d, John\\nLinch, William Clark, Peter McNeil, Joseph Cochran, Jr.,\\nJoseph Leach, John Dalton, Thomas Smith, John Cochran, Jr.,\\nJohn Crombie, Luther Richards, John Fairfield, Samuel Dodge,\\nJonathan Marden, Peter Cochran, Jr., Moses Cristy, John\\nLamson, Thomas Campbell, Francis Peabody, Asa Lamson,\\nRobert Clark, John Gage, Clark Crombie, James Moor, Joseph\\nCochran, Nathan Merrill, Hiram Perkins, Jacob Hooper, Jr.,\\nGreenough Marden, Francis Lynch.\\nThese gentlemen organized themselves into an association to\\nbe known as Proprietors for building a new Presbyterian\\nMeeting-house in New Boston. Dea. Robert Wason was\\nchosen Moderator Joseph Cochran, Jr., Clerk and Dea. Rob-\\nert Clark, Treasurer. Being a joint stock company, they voted\\nthat it should consist of one hundred shares, and each share\\nshould be entitled to one vote. John Crombie, Samuel Dodge,\\nEsq., and Thomas Campbell were appointed a committee to\\npresent plans for the house and John Crombie, Dea. Thomas\\nSmith, Jacob Hooper, Jr., Capt. John Cochran, and Dea. Rob-\\nert Wason were appointed a committee to purchase a building", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "127\\nlot, and take the deed. After examining several lots, and\\nreceiving many propositions, the committee purchased two\\nacres of land of Mr. Ammi Dodge, for $420. The plan pre-\\nsented by the committee and adopted, was as follows as to\\ndimensions, viz The body of the House to be 60 feet\\nsquare, with a projection of 5|- feet by 36 the Post of the\\nhouse to be 30 feet long. Jacob Hooper, Jr., Samuel Dodge,\\nEsq., and Lt. John Lamson were appointed a committee to\\nsuperintend the stone work, the procuring the Lime and Mason\\nwork while John Crombie, Dea. Robert Wason, and Joseph\\nCochran, Jr. were the committee to superintend the building\\nof the House. Mr. John Leach was employed by the commit-\\ntee to build the House for the proprietors.\\nThe meetings of the proprietors were held in the hall of Mr.\\nJames Sloan, and were characterized for great harmony and\\ndignity, and the work was urged forward with great earnest-\\nness, and the frame was raised in June, 1823, men being\\nboarded at the expense of the proprietors and one barrel of\\nWest India rum, three gallons of brandy, and a half-box of\\nlemons being provided for the occasion but it was wisely\\nVoted, that Dea. Robert Clark, Capt. John Cochran, and\\nLuther Richards be a committee to superintend the spirit on\\nraising days, and that no persons be treated but Proprietors and\\nRaisers while an efficient committee were authorized to\\nkeep the Common round the meeting-house clear of boys and\\nspectators. The frame was raised without any serious acci-\\ndent, and the structure was completed by the first of the\\nfollowing December, to the entire satisfaction of the proprietors,\\nas appears from the following vote, passed Dec. 22, 1823\\nVoted unanimously, that the Superintending Committee com-\\nmunicate to Mr. John Leach the thanks of the Proprietors of\\nthe new Presbyterian Meeting-house, for the manly deportment\\nand gentlemanly manner in which he and the young men\\nemployed by him have treated them while employed in building\\nand finishing said house and to Mr. Leach for the elegance,\\ntaste, and good workmanship manner in which he has finished\\nthe same. No wonder the proprietors were treated respect-\\nfully by the workmen, and that the work was well done for\\nthe committee who superintended the work and the proprietors", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "128\\nwere noble, princely men. They treated the workmen gentle-\\nmanly they knew when the work was done well, and were\\nwilling to give an honorable compensation. They had large\\nhearts, did things on a generous scale and when their house\\nwas finished they saw that it was good, and it did not repent\\nthem that they had reared a temple for God s worship, which\\nwas surpassed by no other similar structure in the State for\\nsymmetry of proportion, elegance of finish, and liberal expend-\\niture. The house to-day, after the lapse of forty years, without\\nchange and without repair, is a grand monument to the great\\nand good men that reared it, and proves that no mean race\\ninhabited these hills and worshipped at these altars. On the\\n4th of December, 1823, the pews were sold, after reserving one\\nfor the minister s family and three for the poor, for the sum of\\n$6,721.75 more than enough to defray all the expenses of the\\nhouse. Out of the surplus, $300 were appropriated towards\\nthe purchase of a bell, and the remainder was devoted to the\\nprocuring communion tables and other articles necessary for\\nthe same. Thus the anticipations of the proprietors were\\nmore than realized. One hundred and three pews were sold\\nthe greatest sum paid for one pew was $154, by Mr. John\\nCrombie and the lowest, $20, it being in the gallery.\\nAt a meeting of proprietors, Oct. 13, 1823, it was voted that\\nthe Rev. E. P. Bradford preach the sermon of dedication and\\nNov. 15, it was voted that the meeting-house be dedicated Dec.\\n25 and Joseph Cochran, Jr., Dr. John Dalton, Dea. E.\\nTVason, Col. Samuel Dane, and Lt. John Lainson were appointed\\nMarshals of the day, and all neighboring clergymen and\\nchurches were invited to be present. The day came, with its\\nblue sky above and its snow carpet beneath. The house was\\ncrowded to its utmost capacity, and Mr. Bradford preached one\\nof his most glowing discourses from the text, 2 Chron. vi. 41\\nNow therefore arise, Lord God, into thy resting-place, thou\\nand the ark of thy strength let thy priests, Lord God, be\\nclothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.\\nAnd the congregation dispersed, not weeping that their second\\ntemple was inferior to their first, but rejoicing in its far greater\\nglory.\\nIt is not a little singular that, after suffering so much from", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "i-n\\n*\u00c2\u00a3?(M .fjut. 1 -t:\\nV;;^v\\nBufforfi [.ilhu^rapliv liu\\nPRESBYTERIAN MEETING HOUSE.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "129\\nthe cold in the old house, they should fail to warm the new\\nyet no means were provided until 1835.\\nThe congregation had taken leave of the old house with\\nappropriate services, Mr. Bradford preaching an affecting ser-\\nmon from text, Matt. iv. 20 Our fathers worshipped in this\\nmountain.\\nIn 1839, the town refused to assess and collect the taxes of\\nthose who desired to pay the salary of Mr. Bradford, as had\\nbeen done since his settlement. But a society was organized,\\nMarch 21, 1839, consisting of one hundred and sixteen mem-\\nbers. The salary was at once assumed by the society, and\\ncheerfully and promptly paid and the pastor had a fresh\\nevidence of the strength of the attachment of his people, and\\nhe thanked God and took courage. Subsequent years\\npassed amid evident tokens of Divine favor. The congregation\\nwas large, and the church was composed of liberal-minded\\npersons, not captious and fault-finding, but willing that their\\nminister should give utterance to what he believed to be the\\nteachings of God s Word. Mr. Bradford was a decided Whig,\\nwhile a majority of his hearers belonged to the Republican\\nparty. And though warm discussions often took place between\\nhim and them, no alienation of feeling was suffered, and no\\ndisaffection was occasioned by his being repeatedly chosen Mod-\\nerator at the annual meetings of the town, nor by his election\\nto other important offices.\\nIn 1826, the elders of the church were Robert Patterson,\\nThomas Cochran, Joseph Cochran, Robert Crombie, Isaac Pea-\\nbody, Robert Wason, Peter McNeil, Elzaphan Dodge, Marshall\\nAdams.\\nIn 1850, the elders were Thomas Cochran, Thomas Smith,\\nSamuel Dane, Abraham Cochran, S. L. Cristy, and Marshall\\nAdams.\\nTo the last year of Mr. Bradford s ministry, his health was\\nfirm. Sickness interrupted his public services not more than\\nfive or six Sabbaths for a period of thirty-nine years. During\\nthe last year of his life, he was admonished by a sickness in the\\nearly part of it, that his days might soon be numbered. His\\nlast illness was short, a severe cold, terminating in croup, of\\nwhich he died Dec. 14, 1845, being almost seventy years old,\\n17", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "130\\nafter a ministry of nearly forty years, his birth being Dec. 27,\\n1776, and his ordination Feb. 26, 1806.\\nAfter Mr. Bradford s settlement in the ministry, says the\\nRev. Dr. Whitoii he rose rapidly into distinction. Few men\\nin the State were equally acceptable in the desk. In the con-\\ntroversy relative to Dartmouth College, from 1815 to 1819, he\\nwas one of a committee of three, appointed by the legislature\\nto investigate its condition. A vacancy occurring in the pres-\\nidency of the college, his was among the names before the\\npublic as candidates for the office.\\nThe publications of Mr. Bradford are few an address before\\nthe Handellian Musical Society an Election Sermon before the\\nLegislature of the State a Discourse before the People of Fran-\\ncestown, commemorative of the character of Rev. Moses\\nBradford, and a Sermon at the funeral of Rev. Dr. Harris, of\\nDunbarton.\\nMr. Bradford had a commanding person, a rich voice, com-\\nbined with a high order of intellect and great suavity of man-\\nners. He had the faculty of making people feel ivell, and to\\nbelieve that he highly esteemed them. And this love for them\\nbegat love towards himself. Every crumb of bread was sweet,\\nwherever eaten, and every home and every locality was pleas-\\nant and attractive. And thus he was welcomed at every door\\nby gladdened hearts not that some spirits never chafed and\\nfound fault, and became alienated, but to an unusual degree he\\nbound all reasonable men to his heart, and met their highest\\nconceptions of ministerial and Christian excellence.\\nMr. Bradford was a fine classical scholar he read much, and\\nin conversation drew from rich stores, which a retentive mem-\\nory always commanded. His fund of wit and anecdotes, and\\nelegant historic and classic allusions, seemed never exhausted.\\nAble readily to read character and motives, he seemed always\\nprepared for all occasions, and to meet all persons, knowing\\nhow to order his conversation aright. With a heart always\\nexpanding with the mountain ah he inhaled, watching from his\\ntent door the ever-varying aspects of nature, and brought\\ninto Contact with gigantic minds within the circle of his min-\\nisterial exchanges, we may well believe his expositions of Scrip-\\nture were rich and varied and that few men have ever excel-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "J.Ouffori s Uth.\\nJ(M J3^ac^^z^", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "131\\nled him in pulpit services. Eev. Dr. Aiken, once pastor of the\\nCongregational Church in Amherst, and later pastor of Park\\nStreet Church, Boston, remarks, Mr. Bradford was literally\\none of nature s noblemen of princely person, with a sonorous,\\ncommanding voice, exceedingly fluent and accurate in speech,\\nmodelled somewhat after Johnson s style so richly gifted in\\nmind and heart, that, with little preparation for his Sabbath\\nservices, he stood among the first preachers in the State. I\\nhave often thought that, if Ephraim P. Bradford had given his\\nmind thoroughly to the study and delivery of sermons, he\\nmight have stood, in the ministry of this country, where Robert\\nHall stands in that of England.\\nIt is not strange that the people of New Boston became proud\\nof their minister, since he gave character to them, and dis-\\ntinction to the whole town. Had the providence of God cast\\nhis lot amid incentives to intellectual greatness, he would\\ndoubtless have shone as one of the great lights in the galaxy of\\ngreat men in the church. As it was, he made his mark, and\\nblessed a generation and more, who grew up under his min-\\nistry, by inspiring in them a laudable ambition to excel in vari-\\nous departments of activity.\\nMr. Bradford was greatly aided in his ministry by her who\\nstill survives him as his widow, at the venerable age of seventy-\\neight years. It not unfrequently transpires that a minister s\\nsuccess is as much attributable to the good sense and holy in-\\nfluence of his wife, as to his own endeavors, though the, credit\\nmay never be given her. Mrs. Bradford had twelve children,\\nten of whom survived their father, two dying in childhood of\\nspotted fever, during the prevalence of that disease in New\\nBoston, 1814. Always limited in her resources, she made what\\nshe had to contribute to the comfort of the household, while she\\narranged for generous hospitality. She relieved her husband of\\nall care for the interior of the house, and of much anxiety for\\nthat which was without. His comfort and usefulness were\\nalways first consulted, and by her good sense and sound judg-\\nment she was able to safely counsel and encourage the heart of\\nher husband. Many daughters have done virtuously, but\\nMrs. Bradford excelled not a few, in her calm and dignified\\ndeportment in her patient endurance of hardship in her care", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "132\\nfulness for her household, and the happiness and success of her\\nhusband as a minister of Christ. The heart of her husband\\ndid safely trust in her, and he did often praise her. And her\\nchildren now rise up and call her blessed. With such a\\nwife, Mr. Bradford could not fail to be happy in his home and\\nit was here, as well as among his people, that he found incen-\\ntives to piety, and consecration to his Master s service. Relig-\\niously inclined from his early youth, his life was eminently free\\nfrom defects his piety was cheerful, yet humble and consistent.\\nAnd, as years multiplied, there was evident maturing for his\\nheavenly rest and, when the summons was heard, he bowed\\nhis head and gave up the ghost, leaning on the Staff, leaving\\nbehind him precious recollections and influences that are yet\\nblessing the church and the world.\\nIn the southern and highest part of the cemetery overlooking\\nthe congregation of the d.ead, many of whom he followed to their\\nresting-place during his protracted ministry, an affectionate\\npeople buried their beloved pastor, and reared a beautiful mar-\\nble monument bearing the following inscription\\nIn memory of Rev. Ephraim Putnam Bradford, born December 27, 1776.\\nGraduated at Harvard College, 1803. Ordained February 26, 1806. Died\\nDecember 14, 1845, aged 69. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Society, New\\nBoston, 40 years.\\nPiissimus, doctissimus, fortissimus et lamentissi?nns, in populorum suorum\\namoribus semper vivit.\\nErected by subscription of individuals, as a token of respect to their late\\nbeloved pastor.\\nMr. Bradford s children are James Barker, born July 6,\\n1807, and died of spotted fever, April 20, 1814 Sarah Putnam,\\nborn Feb. 9, 1809, and died of spotted fever, May 19, 1814\\nWilliam Symonds, born Oct. 2, 1810 Anstis Whiting, born\\nJune 8, 1812; Ephraim Putnam, born Feb. 7, 1814; John,\\nborn October, 1815 Mary Means, born May 18, 1817 Robert\\nClark, born April 25, 1819, and died at Milwaukee, Wis., March\\n20, 1852, and was buried at Detroit, Mich. James Barker,\\nborn April 2, 1822 Joseph Town, born March 5, 1824 Ann\\nBarker, born Sept. 20, 1826 Henry Dalton, born Oct. 5, 1829,\\nand died at Detroit, Mich., Jan. 18, 1848, aged 18.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "133\\nWilliam Symonds early enlisted in the United States army,\\nserved through the Florida and Mexican wars, and rose to the\\nrank of a first lieutenant, and was breveted for gallant conduct\\nin Mexico, being the first to raise the American flag on the\\nbattlements of Cero Gordo. Becoming disabled, the Thirty-fifth\\nCongress settled a pension for life upon him, for meritorious ser-\\nvices. He spent some years in the hospital at Harodsburg,\\nKy., and died at Louisville, June, 1863, aged nearly 53 years.\\nHis remains lie by the side of his venerated father.\\nAnstis Whiting became the wife of Waterman Burr, Esq., a\\nsuccessful merchant of New Boston and their children are\\nBphraim Bradford and Emma Lowe, having buried three in\\nearly childhood. John is married, and resides in Milwaukee,\\nWisconsin, connected with his brothers in an extensive mercan-\\ntile business.\\nMary Means became the wife of Robert Cochran, Esq., Oct.\\n17, 1844, and they live in Gallatin, Mississippi, having two\\nchildren, Henry Bradford and Letitia Clark.\\nJames B. and Joseph T. are both married, and reside in\\nMilwaukee, Wisconsin.\\nSurrounded by her sons, and with her daughter, Ann Barker,\\nMrs. Bradford, is passing her old age amid comforts, enjoying\\nchristian acquaintances, waiting cheerfully her appointed time,\\nhaving always the prayers of the people for whom she and her\\nhusband so many years labored in the Lord. Mrs. Bradford\\nwas born Oct. 9, 1785 being 78 years old in October, 1863.\\nIn March, 1846, following the death of Mr. Bradford, which\\ntranspired December 14, 1845, the services of Rev. E. M. Kel-\\nlogg were secured, and he received a unanimous call from the\\nchurch and congregation, May 5, 1846, with a salary of six\\nhundred dollars. This call was accepted, and Mr. Kellogg was\\ninstalled pastor June 25, 1846, and was dismissed in April,\\n1852.\\nSoon after the dismissal of Mr. Kellogg, the Rev. Alanson\\nRawson was employed, and received a call to settle. The call\\nwas accepted, but subsequently declined because of ill health,\\nthough he supplied the pulpit about two years.\\nIn June, 1855, Rev. E. C. Cogswell, the present pastor,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "134\\ncommenced his labors here, and was installed by the London-\\nderry presbytery October 30, 1855.\\nThe church numbers one hundred and sis communicants,\\nand the eldership consists of Samuel Dane, Marshall Adams,\\nSumner L. Cristy, and John N. Dodge. A precious work of\\ngrace has been silently progressing in the congregation to the\\npresent time, May, 1864, since the Centennial, in July, 1863,\\nwhich it is believed will greatly encourage and strengthen the\\nchurch in which have been reared so many excellent men and\\nwomen, not only to bless the town, but to strengthen other\\nchurches.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "EEY. EDWAED BUXTON.\\nHe was son of Capt. Benjamin Buxton. He was born Aug.\\n17, 1803, and was educated with pious care at home and in\\nthe district school. Having great desire for knowledge, he\\nbecame an excellent English scholar, and made no ordinary\\nprogress in the classics, with little aid from any teacher. He\\nstudied medicine with Dr. John Dalton, of New Boston, Dr.\\nJames Crombie, of Francestown, and Dr. Edmund Buxton, of\\nWarren, Me., and taught many schools, district and select.\\nAt length he felt constrained to turn his attention to the\\nstudy of theology, and placed himself under the instruction of\\nRev. Samuel W. Clark, of Greenland, and was ordained as an\\nevangelist, April 19, 1836, and installed pastor of the Second\\nCongregational Church of Boscawen, in that part of the town\\nnow known as Webster, December 13, 1837 the pastoral\\ncharge of which he still retains.\\nMr. Buxton married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Asa McFar-\\nland, D. D., of Concord, June 12, 1838. Mrs. B. died Sept.\\n11, 1812, leaving two children Elizabeth M., who was born\\nApril 2, 1830, graduated at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,\\nand is a christian lady and a successful teacher; and Edward,\\nwho was born May 25, 1811, and died Dec. 6, 1814, evincing\\nmuch evidence of piety, even at that early age.\\nMr. Buxton married Lois, daughter of Jacob Jewett,Esq., of\\nGilford, Sept. 27, 1813, for his second wife, and they have an\\nadopted son, Edward B., born Nov. 2, 1845, giving promise of\\nusefulness as a christian. Few pastors have been more suc-\\ncessful, or commanded more the respect and affection of their\\nflocks, than Mr. Buxton though his estimate of himself is\\nvery humble, and perhaps will be pained by even this truthful\\nassertion.\\nMr. Buxton was present on the Centennial occasion, and\\nadded much to the interest of it.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "*W\\\\ vf\\nIHBufTorO- s Ufa\\n-t/Vi /1a\u00c2\u00a3A*]/( -W", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OF REV. EDWARD BUXTON.\\nRev. Ephraim P. Bradford, whose mantle, if dropped, few would dare take.\\nMr. President,\\nTo equal the theme on which I am expected briefly to speak,\\nwould require for my feeble pinions too adventurous a flight.\\nThis sentiment revives in my heart the feelings with which, fifty\\nyears ago, I learned to regard the Rev. Ephraim P. Bradford,\\nwho then endeared himself to me by acts of paternal kindness,\\nand from that period, through the struggles of my childhood\\nand youth, stood by me as a faithful and sympathizing friend.\\nI love to cherish those feelings of deep veneration through\\nwhich I must ever contemplate the character and influence of\\nthat excellent man. While I summon up my early recollections\\nof him, his manly form rises before me, with his wonted cour-\\nteousness of manners, his noble bearing, and his open counte-\\nnance beaming with the social and benevolent affections which\\never came welling up from the depths of his generous heart.\\nI catch the inspiration of his voice, ever powerful and finely\\nmodulated, whether in conversation or in public discourse.\\nThough the places which once knew him will know him no\\nmore forever, yet with those places where we were most accus-\\ntomed to see him, and where we received our deepest and most\\nsacred impressions of him, he is in our minds inseparably asso-\\nciated. Some of us can, in imagination, reoccupy the old meet-\\ning-house, on some seat in its large, square, unpainted pews, in\\nthe midst of a congregation the elders of which now slumber\\nwith their beloved pastor in the adjacent cemetery. Still, as I\\nrevisit those Sabbath scenes of my early recollection, he rises\\nup before me in the pulpit of olden style, under the quaint\\nand, for him, needless sounding-board, and, as few have the\\nability to do, carries with him his audience in prayer and praise,\\n18", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "138\\nin testifying repentance towards God, and faith towards our\\nLord Jesus Christ, and in vindicating the doctrines of our holy\\nreligion. Again, I meet him at the week-day gathering, in the\\nschool-house or a private dwelling, where he could, with rare\\nability and effect, extemporize on the great themes of the gos-\\npel. Again, let us go with him to the house of mourning,\\nwhere he poured out his heart in solemn discourse, and most\\naffectionately and appropriately addresses himself to the several\\nmembers of the mourning circle. Again, let us enter his\\nhospitable mansion, where we were all so cordially welcomed\\nthat we severally felt we enjoyed a particular interest in his\\npastoral regard. I love to think of him as, with meditative\\nand uplifted countenance, he leisurely rode through the town,\\nrecognized at a glance and with pleasure wherever he went,\\nand with no surprise, if the truth were ever so conspicuous, that\\nhe did not think to put on his better coat before he left home.\\nHis ministerial work he pursued in a forgetfulness of him-\\nself, and through the manifestations of this fact we were the\\nmore sensible of those traits of his character by which he was\\ngreatly endeared to us. His religion was not gloomy and forbid-\\nding. He was a pleasant man. He had a vein from which he\\ncould put forth as much keen wit and good humor, and as aptly\\npoint a satirical remark, as any man. But he never opened\\nthis vein unseasonably. He habitually paid a strict regard to\\nthe injunction, Let your speech be always with grace, sea-\\nsoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer\\nevery man. He was a literary man, and thirsted for intercourse\\nwith literary society, and still was happy in accommodating\\nhimself to all classes of persons, in the spirit with which the\\napostle says, To the weak became I as weak, that I might\\ngain the weak I am made all things to all men, that I might\\nby all means save some. He made himself as much at home\\nin the lowliest cottage as when he was felt to be primus inter\\npares in the society of his ministerial brethren. His spirit was\\neminently catholic. From the benevolence of his heart he was\\na friend to everybody, and, from the charity which seeketh\\nnot her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, he em-\\nbraced the whole household of faith in whom he discovered\\nevidence that they loved the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "139\\nHe was constituted physically, mentally, and morally for\\nexerting a controlling influence. Even those who were the\\nmost disposed to glory in feats of physical violence, stood in\\nawe of him. This may be illustrated by an. occurrence in the\\nearly part of his ministry. Having preached a lecture in a part\\nof the town somewhat distinguished for the pugnacious dis-\\nposition of the people, as he came out of the house, an affray\\ntook place, in which one of their fighters, having prostrated an-\\nother and seized him by the throat, was forcing streams of blood\\nfrom his nostrils. He immediately rushed forward into the\\nscene of contention, and with one hand patted the prevailing\\ncombatant on the shoulder, saying pleasantly to him, Don t\\nkill the man! don t kill the man! while with the other\\nhand he broke his hold from the throat of the prostrated man,\\nand then separated them, and held them apart till they promis-\\ned for the present to keep the peace. By that transaction, he\\ngained the reputation, in that section, of being, not a pug-\\nnacious, but a powerful, kind-hearted, and fearless man. His\\ninfluence was not superficial and transitory. He was raised up\\nby divine providence and grace, for laying the foundations of\\nmorality, religion, and mental culture deep in the mind and\\nheart of the rising community in which he was established, and\\nin which, during a period of more than forty years, lie prosecuted\\nhis labors in the gospel ministry. In our centennial review of\\nthis community, our minds are thrown back still further than\\nthe period of its incorporation, to its germ, which was planted\\nin the families with which it commenced, a hundred and thirty\\nyears ago. How important the elements of physical, intel-\\nlectual, and moral character, which then began to take root in\\nit, and to spread out their influence through its successive gen-\\nerations. What matter of grateful praise to God it is, that\\nearly the principles and spirit of sound morality, evangelical\\nreligion, and of true christian patriotism were planted and\\nbecame predominant in it. With an honest pride we call to\\nremembrance the families that have passed away, having trans-\\nmitted to us the elements of character and the spirit with which\\nwe are assembled on this joyous, sacred, and solemn occasion.\\nWith a just appreciation of this precious inheritance on this\\nbirthday of our national independence, we must feel the solemn", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "140\\nresponsibilities and obligations which are pressing upon us.\\nWe must forecast the consequences of our present position and\\ninfluence, and what inheritance we shall transmit to our pos-\\nterity, who shall observe our next centennial celebration. While\\nI am anxiously inquiring for the future, and coming events\\ncast their shadows before, I hear voices from the past. A\\ncongregation rises up around me, in which I see the familiar\\ncountenances of our venerated fathers. They speak anxiously\\nof our national concerns, and of the national inheritance which\\nthey hoped to transmit to many generations of their posterity.\\nIn regard to this inheritance, they admonish us of our duty.\\nAmong them I discover the venerable form of our dear old\\npastor and friend. He seems with great affection to look upon\\nus, and in the words of the apostle Paul to say, God is my\\nrecord how greatly I long after you in the bowels of Jesus\\nChrist. He reminds us of the glorious gospel of the blessed\\nGod, which he preached to us as the perfect law of liberty. He\\nsays to us, If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the\\nrighteous do He assures us that the foundation of all\\nwhich we should hold dear, as participators in this centennial\\ncelebration, and as American citizens, must be laid deep in our\\nhearts by the spirit and principles of the Christian religion. But\\nthe dear man is gone. He has done with earth and, though\\nwe may not take his mantle, may we earnestly desire to have a\\ndouble portion of his spirit.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "EEV. JOHN ATWOOD.\\nHe was born in Hudson, then Nottingham West, October 3,\\n1795, where he united with the Baptist church at the age of\\ntwenty-one. Soon after, he began to study, with the ministry in\\nview, under the instruction of Rev. Daniel Merrill. In May,\\n1817, he entered the Literary and Theological Department of\\nWaterville College, in which he remained five years, under the\\ninstruction of Rev. Dr. Chaplin. June 1, 1824, he began to\\nlabor with the Baptist church in New Boston, and was ordain-\\ned May 18, 1825, and married, Nov. 28, 1826, Lydia, eldest\\ndaughter of Dea. Solomon Dodge. Being dismissed from the\\nchurch in New Boston as their pastor, after spending a short\\ntime in Francestown, he removed to Hillsborough, where he\\nremained seven years.\\nIn 1843, Mr. Atwood was elected State Treasurer, which\\noffice he retained six years, a part of which time he served as\\nchaplain to the State Prison.\\nIn 1850, Mr. Atwood returned to New Boston, where he still\\nresides, occupying his time in cultivating his farm, and occa-\\nsionally supplying churches destitute of pastors, enjoying the\\nconfidence and respect of the community, whom he has repre-\\nsented in the legislature five years, viz., 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835\\nand 1859.\\nAs a preacher, Mr. Atwood is evangelical and instructive, and\\nas a pastor, faithful, affectionate and conciliatory and his min-\\nistry in New Boston served greatly to enlarge and strengthen\\nthe church to which he ministered. He has always cordially\\nsought to advance the cause of education, and to promote every\\nenterprise that promised to benefit the community. And the\\nGovernment and the Union find, in this hour of peril, in Mr.\\nAtwood, an unwavering friend and supporter, planting no thorns", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "142\\nfor the pillow of his declining years by neutrality or opposition\\nto a just government. Courteous, hospitable, and generous,\\nhe binds to himself all good men, both as a christian gentleman\\nand an upright citizen.\\nMr. Atwood s children are Lydia D., Sarah E., John B.,\\nRoger W., Ann J., Mary F., Solomon D., and John H. The\\nlatter and John B. died in infancy, Sarah E. married John L.\\nBlair, and resides in Alton, 111.\\nAnn J. became the wife of Rev. J. L. A. Fish, and resides in\\nEast Tisbury, Martha s Vineyard, Mass.\\nSolomon D. married Florence A. Dodge, of Francestown, and\\nis of the firm, Joseph Whipple and Atwood, who have Young\\nAmerica combined with caution, and infuse great activity\\ninto their business.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF THE BAPTIST CHUECH.\\nBy Rev. John Atavood.\\nFrom records which have been consulted reaching back about\\nseventy-five years, it appears that the Baptist church in New\\nBoston took its origin from one previously existing in Amherst,\\nand entirely distinct from the present church in Amherst. The\\nAmherst church was organized December 6, 1787, and consist-\\ned of persons residing in New Boston, and in those parts of\\nAmherst which were subsequently formed into Mont-Vernon\\nand Milford, few or none residing in what is now called Am-\\nherst. In the course, however, of twelve years it had become\\nso diminished in numbers as to afford little hope that the enter-\\nprise would be permanently successful. In the mean time several\\npersons in New Boston had made a public profession of religion,\\nand united with the church in Weare. Rev. Mr. Elliot, of\\nMason, also baptized fourteen persons in the town, on the 4th\\nof October, 1799, though at the time they united with no\\nchurch. In view, therefore, of the number of Baptist profes-\\nsors that were resident in New Boston, it was mutually agreed,\\nby members of the church both in Amherst and New Boston,\\nat a meeting holden at John Whipple s in New Boston, Nov.\\n23, 1799, that the Amherst church should in future be known\\nby the name of The First Calvinistic Baptist Church in\\nAmherst and New Boston. Whereupon, those persons who\\nhad lately been baptized, and those who had joined at Weare,\\nunited with this church, whose number was also increased, dur-\\ning the year 1800, by the addition of nineteen others.\\nIn the year 1801, Rev. Josiah Stone commenced his labors\\nwith this church, and, in this and the three succeeding years,\\nfourteen persons were added to its fellowship. In 1804, the\\nchurch, by advice of Council, took the name of The Calvinistic", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "144\\nBaptist Church in New Boston. The same year the church\\nagreed upon the erection of a meeting-house, which was com-\\npleted the year following. This house was located in the west-\\nerly part of the town, three miles from the present place of\\nworship. Its dimensions were forty feet by thirty-two, and one\\nstory high.\\nDuring this year the church united with the Warren Associa-\\ntion, with which it retained its connection until the formation\\nof the Boston Association, when it fell within the limits of that\\nbody. The same year, also, Rev. Josiah Stone was installed\\nas permanent pastor of the church. From this time to 1816,\\nthe number received into the fellowship of the church was\\ntwenty. At the expiration of this period, a case of discipline\\narose which resulted in the division of the church into two\\nbodies, the one being retained in the Boston Association, the\\nother uniting with the Salisbury.\\nIn June, 1824, Rev. Mr. Stone resigned the pastoral care of\\nthe church, but remained in the place until his decease, which\\noccurred in 1839.\\nRev. John Atwood, then a licentiate, commenced his labors\\nwith this people on the first Lord s day in June, 1824. He was\\nordained the 18th of May, 1825, and closed his pastoral rela-\\ntion the last Sabbath in January, 1836. During his ministry\\nninety-nine persons were added to the fellowship of the church.\\nFebruary 23, 1825, the two churches were dissolved, by mu-\\ntual consent, and the members, forty-six in number, reorganized\\ninto one body, and united with the Salisbury Association. In\\n1826 a pleasant revival of religion took place, in which thirteen\\nwere added to the church. In 1828 the church was dismissed\\nfrom the Salisbury, and united with the Milford Association.\\nA more central location for public worship being very desirable,\\nin 1832 a meeting-house was erected in the lower village, and\\nwas dedicated to the worship of God on the 6th of February,\\n1833.\\nIn 1835 a precious revival of religion was enjoyed, during\\nwhich fifty-three persons were added to the church.\\nIn February, 1836, Rev. A. T. Foss became pastor of the\\nchurch, which relation he continued to hold during eight years,\\ntill January, 1844.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "145\\nOn the first Sabbath in February, 1845, Rev. David Gage\\ncommenced his ministerial labors with this people, and contin-\\nued with them ten years, during which time sixty-four were\\nadded to the church. His pastorate closed in March, 1855.\\nNovember 1, 1855, Rev. J. N. Chase began his permanent\\nlabors in the place was recognized as pastor December 19,\\n1855, and dismissed May 1, 1859.\\nRev. Franklin Merriam succeeded him in the pastoral office,\\nin May, 1859, and closed his labors in the place October 5, 1862.\\nThe pastorate is now filled by Rev. Thomas Clarkson Russell,\\nwho entered upon his labors with this church the first Sabbath\\nin June, 1863.\\nThe most reliable statistics to be found, show that from the\\nformation of the church in Amherst, in 1787, to the present\\ntime, two hundred and eleven persons have been added by bap-\\ntism ninety-two have been received by letter from other\\nchurches seventy-three have been dismissed thirty-one ex-\\ncluded and seventy-two have died. The present number,\\nJuly, 1863, is seventy-six.\\n19", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "MINISTERIAL FUND.\\nThe grant of New Boston was given on condition that one\\nsixty-third part of the township should be appropriated to the\\nfirst-settled learned and orthodox minister for his encour-\\nagement to settle in a new region of country, among a sparse\\npopulation, unable to pay a full and adequate salary. Further\\nto encourage and aid the people in maintaining the worship of\\nGod, it was required that another sixty-third part of said town-\\nship should be appropriated to the support of a learned and\\northodox ministry forever. And when the Masonian heirs\\nincreased the size of the town, they reserved a like proportion\\nof the Addition for the same purposes. Thus lots num-\\nbered 61 and 70, in the old limits, and 6, in the New Addi-\\ntion, weje appropriated to the first minister and lots 36, 123,\\nand an unnumbered lot set off in a then unsurveyed portion of\\nthe town, were appropriated to the benefit of the ministry in\\nperpetuity.\\nWhen the Rev. Solomon Moor was settled as the first minis-\\nter of the town, he took possession of his lots, and disposed of\\nthem as he pleased. He also had the use of the ministry\\nlots, and whatever income he could derive therefrom until his\\ndeath.\\nWhen the Rev. Mr. Bradford was ordained, the town paid\\nhim what they deemed an adequate salary, and made him a\\ndonation of four hundred dollars, reserving to the use of the\\ntown all ministerial rights and privileges, meaning the minis-\\ntry lots. It was known that Mr. Moor derived but little profit\\nfrom them, and the town resolved that Mr. Bradford should\\nnot be embarrassed by them, and thought they might be made\\nto yield a greater income, under different management. Ac-\\ncordingly, in 1804, the town sold, or leased for nine hundred", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "148\\nand ninety-nine years, a portion of the ministry lands and\\nsubsequently, at different times, the remaining portions were\\nin like manner disposed of to great advantage, being covered\\nwith valuable timber. The amount received for the ministry\\nlands reached nearly seven thousand dollars, which the town\\ndenominated the funded property for the ministry, and a\\nspecial treasurer was chosen annually by the town, for many\\nyears, to have charge of this money, and to make an annual\\nreport, showing to whom loaned, and the income thereof.\\nThe grant of the town required, also, that another sixty-third\\npart of the town be appropriated for the benefit of schools\\nand these lands were in like manner disposed of, earlier than\\nthe ministry lots, and the amount received for them was much\\nless than that for the ministry and the treasurer for the\\nfunded property for the ministry became the treasurer of\\nboth funds. William Clark was repeatedly elected to that\\noffice, and others were chosen after him. At length the care\\nof these funds was devolved on the town treasurer, and he\\nmade a distinct report of their condition annually. Immedi-\\nately after the sale of the ministry lands, the Baptist church,\\nfirst known as the Calvinistic Baptist Church in New Boston,\\nin 1804, claimed a part of the income and in August of 1805,\\nagreeably to a recommendation of Livermore Langdell and\\nLieut. Samuel Gregg, it was Voted, That the Baptists that were\\non their parish-book last March have their proportion, according\\nto poll and estate, to the present year. Up to March 10,1807,\\nall tax-payers were taxed for the support of the minister of the\\ntown, unless excused by special vote. At this time the town\\nvoted to excuse those that in good faith belong to the Baptist\\nSociety, from paying taxes to the Rev. E. P. Bradford. Octo-\\nber following, the town voted to raise annually five hundred\\ndollars, including the interest on funded property, four hundred\\ndollars of which to be paid to Mr. Bradford, and one hundred\\ndollars to Josiah Stone and that this should continue during\\nthe ministry of Mr. Stone, then the pastor of the Baptist\\nchurch. Owing to trouble in the church, the town subse-\\nquently refused to appropriate any to the two Baptist societies,\\nthe original society having become divided into two. In 1823\\nthe town gave them thirty -five dollars and the following year", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "149\\nfifty dollars. At length the town voted to divide the income\\naccording to poll and estate tax every man saying which\\nchurch he wished to sustain. And when at length a Univer-\\nsalist society was organized, they were allowed to have their\\nproportion. Henceforward the income of the fund was divided\\nbetween the three societies, in proportion to polls and estates of\\ntheir respective adherents, until 1861, when the selectmen\\nrefused to make the annual division of the income of the minis-\\nterial fund, except the interest on nine hundred dollars, affirm-\\ning that the rest of the fund had been lost by being absorbed\\nin other funds of the town, so that evidences of the fund could\\nbe found only for nine hundred dollars and they affirmed\\nthat, according to decisions of the courts in similar cases, there\\nwas no law to oblige the town to pay it, and that to pay it was\\ncontrary to law, and would render it impossible to collect the\\ntaxes. At the annual meeting in 1862, the town, by a very\\nlarge majority, instructed the selectmen to divide the income of\\nthe fund, as*in former years but they refused to obey instruc-\\ntions, and none has been made, except on the nine hundred\\ndollars which had not been absorbed. It is evident that certain\\nmen, who were not nursed at the breasts of New Boston moth-\\ners, and who have a chronic hatred of ministers and churches,\\nhad secretly sought to effect this at an earlier period than 1861.\\nThe town has never sanctioned, by vote, the repudiation, nor\\ndoes any honest man deny that the income of the whole fund\\nought to be paid, though they may question if it can be legally\\ndone, under existing circumstances. The Presbyterian and\\nBaptist societies have been embarrassed by this action but\\nthe descendants of the noble men who so highly prized the\\nworship of God in his sanctuary, and realized the benefits\\nof the gospel to the community, will prove equal to the exi-\\ngency, and will not show themselves the degenerate sons of a\\ngodly ancestry.\\nWhat remains of the school fund yields an income of some\\nfifteen dollars annually the greater portion of it having been\\nabsorbed like the ministerial fund.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "JAMES CEOMBIE, ESQ.\\nMr. Crombie was born 1811, the third son of William Crom-\\nbie, Esq., who removed from New Boston to Otsego, N. Y.,\\nabout 1816, having at that time a wife, three sons, and five\\ndaughters, his wife being Betsey Fairfield, of New Boston. In\\n1827, Mr. Crombie removed his family from Otsego to Oswego\\ncounty, then a frontier region, where his son James for some\\nyears relied upon him as his teacher in* mathematics and higher\\nEnglish branches, subsequently fitting himself for college at\\nBinghampton, Cazenovia, and Homer. But, in 1834, impaired\\nhealth forbade the idea of a college course, and he turned his\\nattention to the study of law, and was admitted to practice as\\nattorney at Albany, and as solicitor in chancery at New York\\ncity, in October, 1837, and as counsellor at Rochester in 1811.\\nHe commenced the practice of law at Greene, Chenango county,\\nin 1837, subsequently removing to Fulton, Oswego county,\\nwhere he remained until 1850. After travelling in California\\nfor a while, in search of health, he purchased a plantation in\\nVirginia. But having no sympathy with the institution of\\nslavery, having partially recovered his health, and seeing the\\ngathering storm, Mr. Crombie left the sacred soil of the\\nOld Dominion, and resumed the practice of law in New York\\ncity, in 1854, where he now resides.\\nAt Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., Esquire Crombie was\\nmarried to Miss C. Mary Beckwith, and has two sons, James F.\\nand Charles B.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "J onblitlL.\\nkklb\\n/VOyw.\\nfcvi^", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "BESPONSE OE JAMES CKOMBIE, ESQ.\\nThe People of New Boston. Never safer than when they emulate the patriot-\\nism and godliness of the men and women who converted this wilderness into a fruitful\\nfield.\\nMr. President,\\nWhen called upon to respond to the sentiment just proposed,\\nit occurred to me that, had you known how early in life I left\\nNew Boston, and what had been my history and the natural\\ntendencies of my education since, you would have entertain-\\ned serious doubts as to my fitness for the task. It was my lot\\nto leave New Boston in infancy, and to receive my education\\nin a new section of the State of New York, under circum-\\nstances and influences naturally calculated to crop out young\\nAmerican ideas and habits. In maturer life, I sojourned awhile\\namong the golden mountains and ravines of California, at a\\ntime when godliness was exotic. Still later, I resided in\\nVirginia, at a period when patriotism meant nothing more than\\nattachment to the sacred soil and the divine institution of\\nslavery. And, finally, I became a resident of the city of New\\nYork, when corporation financiers, and the democracy of the rab-\\nble, reigned triumphant. Knowing this history, you must have\\nhad unbounded confidence in natal and ante-natal influences,\\nand in the power of parental instruction and example, to form\\nthe character, or you would have selected some other person\\nfor this subject, and this occasion. You have not, however, been\\nmistaken in your estimate of the power of these influences in\\nmy case, however much you may have misjudged as to my\\ncapacity to do justice to the fervor of the patriotism and god-\\nliness of the men and women who settled New Boston.\\nI thank God, that neither education, nor residence, nor\\ntravel in other and different States, nor the. habits and institu-\\ntions of other people, have made me forget the place of my\\n20", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "154\\nbirth, nor the virtues, principles, and piety that made our fore-\\nfathers so preeminent. I can appreciate their love of country,\\ntheir earnestness and constancy of purpose, their industry, in-\\ntelligence, and godliness, and the powerful influence that their\\ncharacter, customs, and example have exerted, not only on their\\nown posterity, but upon the nation for wherever I have been,\\nin the settlements of the West, in the cities and on the planta-\\ntions of the South, and in the States that border the Pacific,\\ntheir posterity as travellers, settlers, teachers, and ministers,\\nhave carried with them the knowledge, refinement, literature,\\ncustoms, and ideas of our fathers.\\nChurches and school-houses of New England architecture, as\\nwell as ministers and teachers of New England ideas, are to be\\nfound in every city and State of the Union, or rather were to\\nbe found, before the present rebellion rendered certain localities\\ndangerous ground for the expression of New England ideas.\\nHow eminently fitted to produce such a race of men and\\nwomen, were these Eastern States An eminent writer has well\\nsaid, that the character, civilization, and institutions of a people\\nare mainly determined by their soil, food, and climate, and the\\ngeneral aspect of the country they inhabit. Had our forefathers\\nfound on these shores the rich alluvial soil of the South and\\nWest, producing, with little labor, far more than their wants\\ndemanded, and a malarious, enervating climate, what a change\\nit would have made in their destiny, and that of their race\\nHow different would have been their energy, character, and in-\\nstitutions, and their influence upon their own and succeed-\\ning ages Fortunately, however, they found these hills and\\nmountains covered with rocks and forests, almost defying the\\nenergy of man. They saw at a glance what years of toil and\\npatience it would require to settle and subdue so rugged a\\nregion. The very effort necessary to form a resolution to set-\\ntle and cultivate it, tended to give them purpose and energy of\\ncharacter. How much more the execution of such a resolution\\nAgain, they found a soil by no means productive, after all the\\ntoil and privation of settlement. They must have seen that it\\nwould return hardly an adequate compensation for the toil of\\ncultivation. The climate, too, was cold and bracing, long\\nwinters consumed all that the summers produced.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "155\\nWith such a soil and climate, and such a rugged, hilly coun-\\ntry, they had to add patience to toil, and godliness to patience,\\nto render life endurable and God gave them grace equal to\\nthe severity of their condition.\\nTheir very condition of toil and hardship made them thought-\\nful, earnest, sober, and godly men. They had no time to trifle.\\nThe realities and necessities of life were upon them, demanding\\nconstant prudence, forecast, and effort. With such cares, re-\\nsponsibilities, and duties upon them, to meet the exigences of\\ntheir life, it is no wonder they prayerfully considered and prop-\\nerly valued all that pertains to the life to come. But when\\nthese hills and mountains were cleared and cultivated, and cov-\\nered with waving grain and green grass, how changed the\\nscene became Mountains and hills of every possible contour\\nlifting their heads above the clouds, and stretching their green\\nslopes to the valleys and rivers below, ravines and undula-\\ntions affording constant changes of sunlight and shade stream-\\nlets gushing out from hillside and dell, and winding their way\\ndown to the rivers that gladdened and fertilized the valleys\\nprospects of surpassing beauty and grandeur met them, which-\\never way they turned. How could they help loving such a\\ncountry, after having bestowed so much of energy and life\\nupon it The inhabitants of hilly and mountainous countries\\nare proverbially patriotic the world over especially where the\\nsoil is not over productive. The beauty and grandeur of the\\nscenery, and the toil and cost of settlement and cultivation, con-\\nspire to render them so.\\nBut the patriotism of our fathers was of no narrow, sectional\\nkind. It embraced the whole nation.\\nWas any Southern city visited with plague was any portion\\nof the nation suffering from flood or famine was any part igno-\\nrant, and without the means of education and improvement,\\nour fathers were ever ready, with sympathy and material aid, to\\nassist and alleviate. They never inculcated sectional sym-\\npathies and interests, nor the doctrine of the right of disintegra-\\ntion and secession.\\nBut it is said, in certain quarters, that the principles and\\nideas they taught, and the institutions they founded, have\\nbecome dangerous to the peace and welfare of other portions of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "156\\nthe nation that they have become like bombshells thrown into\\na highly-ignitable city, destructive and consuming. It has also\\nbeen said that their ideas, principles, and institutions were more\\nbelligerent, and more to be feared, in a time of peace, than we,\\ntheir descendants, in a time of war that we were preemi-\\nnently a people of progressive and disturbing ideas and isms,\\nwhich we would be ready to abandon on the battle-field.\\nWell, the time has come to test the truth or fallacy of these\\ncharges. Already, we find one portion of the country has had\\nquite enough of our ideas, and of our warlike spirit on the\\nbattle-field, and are appealing to another portion to assist in\\nturning us out, and confining us to these our native hills, here\\nto droop and die. We can afford to bide our time for, whether\\nin or out of the Union whether we are confined to these hills,\\nor .have free range over this broad continent, one nation and\\none people, time will prove that the principles of liberty, the\\npatriotism and godliness which our fathers fostered and ripened\\namid the free air of these hills, are as imperishable as their\\nrace. Allow me, in conclusion, to extend the sentiment pro-\\nposed\\nThe people of New Boston and the woeld, never safer than\\nwhen they emulate the patriotism and godliness of the men\\nand women who converted this wilderness into a faithful field.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "SCHOOLS.\\nThe facilities for educating their children were not equal to\\nthe desires of the first settlers but such as they had, they im-\\nproved. Until the town was incorporated, all instruction was\\ngiven by teachers employed by individuals, while those who\\nwere able sent their children for a few months to Londonderry,\\nor other places where schools existed. In 1769, the town\\nerected a small building near the meeting-house, known as the\\nSession-House, which was often used for schools. Here we\\nfind a Mr. Donovan teaching, in 1776, five months, though as\\nearly as 1773 the town voted to raise twenty-four pounds, and\\nthat the selectmen divide it as they think proper. Accord-\\ningly, a man was employed to teach for a few months in differ-\\nent parts of the town. The following year the same amount\\nwas raised, and divided equally among five districts, the people\\nvoluntarily arranging themselves into so many districts. xVs\\nearly as 1788, the town voted to hire a grammar-school master\\nfor a year, as cheap as they can, and that said school-master\\nshall pass an examination that the Rev. Mr. Solomon Moor,\\nJonathan Gove, and William Clark, Esq., be a committee to\\nexamine the grammar-school master, to see if he is qualified\\nfor the office, as to the languages, figures, and mathematics.\\nAlso, it was voted to divide the town into five districts, and\\nthat the grammar-master shall keep equally in the said five.\\nThis division was made so as to accommodate the scattered\\npopulation as best it might. In 1792, the town was redistricted\\nby a committee composed of Ninian Clark, Mathew Fairfield,\\nSolomon Dodge, James Caldwell, and John Cochran, as follows\\nDistrict No. l.\\nDavid Henderson, John Parrot, Daniel Redington,\\nJohn McMillen, Jr., Samuel Cree, Henry Spaulding.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "158\\nJames Caldwell,\\nKobert Campbell,\\nJosiali Warren,\\nAllen Moor,\\nThomas Cochran,\\nAlexander McCollom,\\nJames Willson, Jr.,\\nThomas Grifen,\\nJonathan Grifen,\\nJohn Gordon,\\nSamuel Willson,\\nJoseph Beard,\\nJames Carnes,\\nEphraim Clark,\\nSamuel Smith,\\nThomas Smith,\\nRobert Balch,\\nJohn Burns,\\nNehemiah Dodge,\\nLivermore Langdall,\\nDavid Starrett,\\nJacob Ober,\\nJoseph Andrews,\\nJames Crombie,\\nSamuel Stickney,\\nWilliam Johnson,\\nHezekiah Austin,\\nWidow Martha Jacks,\\nJohn Henry,\\nEbenezer Clark,\\nThomas Cristy,\\nDistrict No. 2.\\nDavid Caldwell,\\nMatthew Caldwell,\\nSamuel Abbott,\\nJoseph Haselton,\\nJoseph Leach, Jr.,\\nDistrict No. 3.\\nAlexander Willson,\\nJames Willson,\\nThomas Willson,\\nDistrict No. 4.\\nW r illiam Woodbury,\\nJames Walker,\\nJames Smith,\\nRobert Walker,\\nWilliam Patterson,\\nSamuel Brown,\\nOliver Sheppel,\\nDistrict No. 5.\\nJohn Livingston,\\nJacob Bennett,\\nDeacon John Smith,\\nThomas Smith, Jr.,\\nWilliam White,\\nDistrict No. 6.\\nJosiah Morgan,\\nDavid Stinson,\\nDaniel Dane,\\nWilliam Clark,\\nNinian Clark,\\nDistrict No. 7.\\nThomas Stark,\\nDaniel Dodge,\\nRobert Cochran,\\nJesse Cristy, Jr.,\\nJohn Cochran,\\nNathaniel Dodge,\\nDistrict No. 8.\\nWilliam McMillen,\\nPeter Cochran,\\nJohn Davis,\\nJoseph Leach,\\nDavid Stevens,\\nElisha Wilkins.\\nPeter Cochran, Jr.,\\nSamuel Boyd.\\nJohn Jordan,\\nWilliam Beard,\\nRobert Willson,\\nElias Dickey,\\nAaron Howe,\\nSamuel Willson, Jr.\\nDavid Thompson,\\nJames Adams,\\nWilliam Dodge,\\nJames Gregg.\\nJacob Dodge,\\nSimon Dodge,\\nSamuel Patch,\\nJohn Whipple.\\nIsaac Peabody,\\nElijah Cochran,\\nWidow Waugh,\\nNathaniel Bootman,\\nJoseph McKenzie,\\nDeacon Jesse Cristy.\\nMatthew Fairfield,\\nMoses Cristy,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "159\\nJohn Cristy,\\nJames McMillen,\\nRobert Patterson, Jr.\\nDaniel Kelso,\\nWilliam Kelso,\\nAlexander Kelso,\\nEphraim Jones,\\nDr. McMillen,\\nJacob Hooper,\\nWilliam Camiel,\\nJohn Cochran, Jr.,\\nJames Cochran,\\nCapt. John McLaughlen, Capt. Benjamin Dodge,\\nDeacon Robert White,\\nJohn McMillen,\\nArthur Dennis,\\nDudley Curtis,\\nDistrict No. 9.\\nJoseph Lamson,\\nRobert Boyd,\\nJohn Lamson,\\nJacob Fairfield,\\nWilliam McNeill,\\nDistrict No. 10.\\nWidow McLaughlen,\\nSamuel Waters,\\nAmmi Dodge,\\nJohn Kennedy,\\nLieut. James Ferson,\\nJames Ferson, Jr.,\\nWilliam Coleman,\\nJonathan Gove,\\nWilliam Livingston,\\nSolomon Dodge,\\nRobert Hogg,\\nDistrict No. 11.\\nJohn Richards,\\nNehemiah Dodge,\\nFrancis Dodge,\\nJohn Hogg,\\nAbner Hogg,\\nWilliam Hogg,\\nJames Kenedy,\\nDavid McLaughlen,\\nLemuel Marden,\\nWidow Cristy.\\nJames Dodge,\\nJoshua Jones,\\nEnoch Dodge,\\nArchibald McAllister.\\nRobert Patterson,\\nRev. Solomon Moor,\\nElisha Dodge,\\nNoah Dodge,\\nGideon Dodge.\\nWilliam Blair,\\nZadoch Read,\\nAndrew Walker,\\nPhilemon Perkins,\\nLelsley Gregg,\\nSamuel George,\\nJohn McCaye.\\nSubsequently, changes took place, and new districts were\\nformed, until the number became eighteen, and so continued\\nuntil 1856, when two districts near the centre united, building\\na commodious house in the lower village, and grading the\\nscholars. Other districts have built new houses, or repaired\\nold ones, while some yet remain to the disgrace of the town,\\nand the injury of the rising generation. The amount of money\\nraised by the town annually has been usually something more\\nthan the law requires, in addition to the income from the\\nschool fund, most of which has been lost to the purposes for\\nwhich it was intended.\\nGreat benefit has been derived from tuition schools,\\ntaught in the autumn or spring, and not unfrequently both.\\nThese have usually been well attended, and instructed by com-\\npetent teachers. The hall over the long store in the upper", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "160\\nvillage, and the town hall in the lower, have witnessed many\\nminds struggling to unfold themselves by searchings for knowl-\\nedge, and their success is proof of the value of such schools\\nto a community. Rev. Solomon Moor interested himself much\\nin the success of schools, and encouraged many a lad to study,\\nwho otherwise would have grown up in ignorance and Rev.\\nMr. Bradford was unwearied in efforts to stimulate the children\\nof the town to excel as scholars, fitting not a few for college,\\nand more to become teachers, and to enter successfully upon\\nhonorable paths of activity. That New Boston has not fallen\\nin the rear of sister towns is evident from the number and\\ncharacter of the teachers she has reared, and the intelligent\\nmen she has sent forth into other communities. Such has been\\nthe benefit of her schools, that she may well foster them in the\\nfuture, nor feel that money expended in rearing convenient\\nand tasteful school-houses, and in paying competent and faith-\\nful teachers, will fail to return the most satisfactory dividends.\\nOf the character and advantages of her schools, we will let one\\nof her worthy sons testify in the following paper.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "EEV. JOSEPH ADDISON GOODHUE.\\nMr. Goodhue was born May 27, 1824, the son of Joseph A.\\nGoodhue, a notice of whose family may be found among the\\nbiographical sketches. Until sixteen he diligently combined\\nlabor and study at home, from which time until twenty he\\ntaught several district and select schools, and prepared himself\\nto enter the sophomore class in Dartmouth College, from which\\nhe graduated in 1848. After teaching Kingston Academy one\\nyear, he entered the Newton Theological Institution, whence\\nhe graduated in 1852, and was shortly after ordained pastor of\\nthe Central Baptist Church in Norwich, Conn., whence, after\\ntwo years, he was called to a professorship in the Connecticut\\nLiterary Institute, at Suffield, which he soon resigned, and\\naccepted a call from the South Baptist Church in Boston, where\\nhe remained about two years. In July, 1859, he was installed\\npastor of the First Baptist Church in Framingham and August\\n1, 1862, he was called to the North Baptist Church in Cam-\\nbridge, his present field of labor.\\nMr. Goodhue married Miss Abby, daughter of Rev. George\\nLeonard, of Portland, Me., December 8, 1852, and they have\\nhad two children: George H., born April 15, 1855 and Addie\\nJ., born July 15, 1857. His son George died January 25, 1864,\\na child of much promise, whose early removal has caused great\\ngrief. In 1859, Mr. Goodhue published a work called The Cru-\\ncible, a treatise on the Tests of a Regenerate State in which\\nthe author attracts and charms the reader, not by ornaments\\nand glowing periods, but by clearly presenting the mighty theme\\nin its own colors. Rev. Dr. J. N. Brown, of the Baptist Fam-\\nily Magazine, pronounces this work an invaluable book. It\\n21", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "162\\ntreats the most difficult, delicate, yet momentous points of ex-\\nperimental religion, with a singular depth of penetration, sound-\\nness of judgment, and seriousness of spirit. Its analysis is\\nadmirable, and the precision and terseness of the language give\\nit all the value, without the pretension, of a work of strict sci-\\nence. It is truly a work of spiritual pathology. Such a book\\nas this does not appear once in a century. It makes and marks\\nan era.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "JH Buff oris LlUl.\\nJ A ^crdJjAJd.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "KESPONSE OE MR. GOODHUE,\\nThe Schools of New Boston. They have been to the intellect of her ycmth what\\nthe sun and rain have been to her soil.\\nMr. President,\\nProminent among the indexes of the character of any people\\nis the provision which they are accustomed to make for the\\nmental culture of their children and youth. The history of no\\ntownship can be an honorable one in which, next to the village\\nchurch, the school-house does not occupy a conspicuous place.\\nWere there no reminiscences to be cherished at these centen-\\nnial festivities, of the school and the school-master, the spelling-\\nbook and reader, the arithmetic and grammar, meagre enough\\nwould be the occasion. But, as one of the sons of New Boston,\\nI am proud to-day that such reminiscences arc not wanting.\\nThey have been engraven on the tablets of a thousand youth-\\nful memories in such a manner that neither the cares nor the\\nbusiness nor the conflicts of subsequent life ever have been or\\nwill be able to efface them. The scenes of the district-school\\nhave been among our liveliest memories, and their story has\\noften been recounted by many a native of these hills and val-\\nleys far away in other towns and states, and even in other lands.\\nIf there is any one feature in the past history of this munici-\\npal incorporation which we shall celebrate to-day with a\\nheartier, livelier, and more spontaneous enthusiasm than we\\nshall the rest, it must be that of our common schools. The\\nrecollection of these, more than anything else, will quicken again\\nin our veins our youthful blood. It is with a right good relish\\nthat we come home from various parts, (for we have no home\\non earth but the place in which we were born, and where we\\nfirst learned to read and write and spell our mother-tongue),\\nto glory with our other brethren over those primitive, simple,\\nand yet invaluable institutions in which our young ideas were\\nfirst taught how to get their range and shoot.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "164\\nThe conviction of the worth of these institutions is deeply-\\nwrought into the fibres of our souls so deeply that no subse-\\nquent acquaintance with similar institutions, of however supe-\\nrior character they may have claimed to be, could possibly\\neradicate it. We, therefore, who received our first training in\\nthe common schools of New Boston, are prepared to hear any\\namount of eulogium heaped upon them. Our feelings will\\njustify the application of epithets to them in the superlative, yea,\\n(for I must coin a word), in the superlativest degree. When\\nwe were enjoying the advantages of those places of learning,\\nwe believed them to be the very best in the whole world. And\\nthis very faith which we had in them was calculated actually\\nto make them so to us. It is a wise provision of nature which\\nwhich leads the child to believe, for the time, in the superlative\\nexcellence of the institutions under which lie was reared just\\nas he naturally believes that his parents are the wisest and best\\nbeings in all the world such faith will cause teachers and\\neducational advantages of a very inferior quality to become of\\nincalculable worth, while a corresponding distrust of those of a\\nfar superior grade will reduce their benefit to the lowest degree.\\nThis is one evil attendant upon making constant changes and\\nprofessed improvements in our systems of education. It weakens\\nthe confidence of the young in the opportunities they have, and\\nimpairs the earnestness of their application, on which more\\ndepends than on the excellence of their advantages. This is an\\nevil attendant upon education in the academy, the college, and\\nthe schools for the professions. By the time the youth arrives\\nat these he has outgrown the period of implicit faith which\\nbelongs to childhood, and begins to reason, to elect, and doubt,\\nwhich impairs the concentration of his powers and his conse-\\nquent improvement.\\nWe have never had such faith in any other literary institu-\\ntions as we once had in the common schools of our native town.\\nAnd the effects of once having had such faith have by no means\\nbeen effaced from our minds, any more than we have outgrown\\nour early reverence for those who gave us our birth and nurtured\\nour tender childhood while to-day those early sentiments\\nare revived with all their youthful freshness and vigor. And\\nhence we feel just like giving full sway to our early attachment,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "165\\nand declaring it as our present deliberate conviction that the\\ndistrict schools of our native town were, without any qualifica-\\ntion, the very best in all the world.\\nNor is this a matter of the feelings only, or of personal pride.\\nThese schools were as a matter of fact to us the best in all the\\nworld. We, the sons of New Boston, owe to them all we have\\nbeen or are, or expect to be. And why should we not eulogize\\nthem here to-day It is folly to speculate as to what might\\nhave been the effect upon us if our lot had been cast elsewhere\\nin our childhood, and- we had enjoyed superior opportunities,\\nand facilities for an early education. It was not so to be. It\\nwas appointed that the most important part of the literary cul-\\nture and mental training that some, and all that most of us\\nshould ever have to prepare us for the conflict of life should be\\nhad in the schools of this goodly town. If these had not fur-\\nnished it, we should have had none at all. The other advan-\\ntages, which some of us have enjoyed in addition to these, would\\nhave been of no avail whatever without these to precede. And\\nas we look back upon them to-day, we are more deeply im-\\npressed than ever with the fact that they performed for us a\\ngreat and good work. I feel proud of my native town, when I\\nthink of the position and influence to which many to whom she\\ngave their birth have attained, at home and abroad, and remem-\\nber that their entire preparation for their stations of usefulness\\nand honor was received at her hands. And I am not less deeply\\naffected with a sense of gratitude, when I think of the many in-\\nstances in which she laid in her common schools the foundations\\non which have subsequently been erected superstructures that\\nhave been no disgrace to the literary and professional world.\\nConsidering her situation in a rural district, and her com-\\nparatively limited facilities for educating her children, I think\\na worthy meed of praise is due to our alma mater from her grown-\\nup sons and daughters, as they have come home to pay their\\nrespects to her on this her hundredth natal day. We feel it\\nincumbent upon us, and due to her, to acknowledge that she\\nhas done the best she could for her numerous family, in the\\ncircumstances she has furnished to. all her sons and daughters\\nthe opportunity, at least, of learning correctly to read and write\\nand speak the language of the country in which they were born,\\na language which is now most extensively spoken and written", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "166\\nof any on the face of the earth. So far as learning is con-\\ncerned, she has provided them with the means of securing an\\nhonest livelihood, and of making a respectable appearance in\\nthe world and if they have not done so it is their fault\\nand not hers she has done her part well towards astonishing\\nour Southern brethren, who have turned our enemies, with the\\nfact that Yankees can furnish an army of men who are able\\nupon the field of battle, to write upon the upturned bottoms of\\ntheir dippers, neatly executed epistles to their wives and\\nsweethearts at home. And, in addition to all this, she has sent\\nmany of her sons, who seemed to need it most, to the academy,\\nthe college, and the seminary, to finish up their education there.\\nBut let it not for a moment be supposed that we are trying\\nto make the best of the inevitable misfortune for which we are\\nnot responsible of having been born and nurtured in a country\\ntown, rather than in some populous city, whose literary advan-\\ntages correspond with its refinement and wealth and fashion.\\nI have come in contact, to a considerable extent, with the schools\\nof the principal towns and cities of Massachusetts, which are\\nsupposed not to be inferior to any the country affords but I\\nhave never for one moment regretted the nativity which a kind\\nprovidence, gave me. It is not simply from natural attachment,\\nor from an early faith in their excellence, or because it was\\nappointed that we should be their beneficiaries, that we speak\\nthus well of the schools, of our native town. It is the convic-\\ntion of our maturer judgment, that the opportunities of secur-\\ning a good education in them, even as they were a quarter of a\\ncentury and more ago, would not suffer so much as might be\\nsupposed, by a comparison with the improved systems of educa-\\ntion, so called, which are in so high repute in our cities and\\npopulous towns at the present day.\\nTrue, we do not forget their crudeness, their lack of system,\\nand order, and taste we remember the old school-house, with\\nits floors perfectly innocent of suds, and not very guilty of\\nbroom, save now and then of a visit from a hemlock bough\\nwe remember the benches all hacked and scarred or, rather\\ndeeply carved and highly wrought, in figures betraying more\\nperseverance than grace, and more ingenuity than sense of the\\nbeautiful we are not oblivious of its walls all ornamented with\\ndrawings in charcoal and chalk which a Punch himself could", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "167\\nnot outdo we still have some faint recollections of the not\\nmost highly-refined festivity claimed by the pupils on every\\nnew year of deposing the dominus from his authority, and tak-\\ning the reins of government into their own hands for the day,\\nby bolting or barring or smoking him out of the premises, as\\nthe case might require, and that at the expense of no penalty\\nsave an unusually close attention to books on the following day.\\nWe remember all these things and their recital has furnished\\nmerriment to the children of the city, who know as little of the\\ncountry as we used to of the city. But these, after all, were\\nonly incidental. We are not willing to call them faults. In-\\ndeed, the real, sterling merits of the simple system of the district-\\nschool instruction of my boyhood, with all its defects, have\\ngrown upon my appreciation the more I have become acquaint-\\ned with the multiplied novelties which are introduced into the\\ncity schools at the present time, under the head of improve-\\nments and I have almost wished that my own children could\\nbe transferred to the same limited system of instruction as\\nbeing the less evil of the two.\\nI have not time to draw a comparison between these two sys-\\ntems of education, and it might seem invidious to do so. But\\nsome of the points on which such a comparison might be based\\nare these. It may be said distinctively, and comparatively if\\nyou choose, of the common-school system of New Boston, as it\\nhas been in the past, that it was the fundamental and not super-\\nficial. If it was comparatively limited in its range, it was com-\\nmensurably thorough. For one thing New Boston deserves praise\\nand that is, that she has taught her children to spell their\\nmother tongue, which not all highly-educated persons are able\\nto do. The fundamental branches of reading, writing, spelling,\\narithmetic, and English grammar were not made to give place\\nto a multitude of superficialities, which are of no account but\\nfor a show. The training of our common schools has been such\\nas to develop and strengthen talent, if not to make it most elite\\nand ostentatious. It laid good foundations on which a super-\\nstructure might afterwards be raised, according to the in-\\ndividual s choice or it furnished an education sufficiently com-\\nplete in itself for all the common, practical purposes of life.\\nNew Boston has prepared her sons to go abroad in the world,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "168\\nand act out their common sense to a good advantage, and use\\ntheir wits without disgracing themselves. She has qualified\\nthem not to be pedants and dandies, not to flourish and swag-\\nger, but to be among the solid men of the land. Her system\\nof education has been such as to furnish sturdy thinkers rather\\nthan sickly sentimentalists and frothy declaimers. The absence\\nof extensive classification and gradation in her schools, has given\\nthose who had the disposition the opportunity to excel. This\\nhas made them hardy, self-reliant, persevering, and not afraid\\nof obstacles. Consequently, when they, like the sons of the\\nrural districts generally, have stood side by side, in our higher\\nseminaries of learning, with the sons of wealth from the cities\\nand populous towns, who have been educated more carefully\\nand tenderly, they have marched firmly and manfully on, while\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the latter, their precociousness having attained to its climax,\\nhave faltered and fallen back gradually toward the rear of the\\nranks, the nearer they approached to the goal of final distinc-\\ntion.\\nAnother cause, which ought to be mentioned as contributing\\nto this result, is the fact that our common schools never having\\nbeen continued through the entire year, the mental training of\\nthe young has gone hand in hand with habits of industry which,\\nwhile their education has not suffered by it, has inured them to\\nphysical hardihood and endurance while the sons of the city,\\nwho have passed slowly from one grade to another up through\\na long course of study in well-heated and poorly-ventilated\\nrooms, have emerged from them like a plant from a darkened\\ncellar, tall, slender, sickly, and puny, both in body and mind.\\nFinally, it is not unworthy to be recorded here, that the edu-\\ncational system of New Boston has been highly economical, as\\ncompared with that of our populous towns and cities that is,\\nwhile she has not been frugal in her appropriations, but rather\\ngenerous according to her ability, the results have been com-\\nparatively very large in proportion to the outlay. It has cost\\nher far less per head to educate her children than it has the\\ncities, while, in many respects certainly, their education has\\nnot been inferior.\\nHence we cordially indorse the sentiment with which we\\nstarted, that the schools of our native town have been to the\\nintellect of her vouth as the rain and the sun to her soil.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "SCHOOL TEACHEES.\\nThe following is an abridged list of school-teachers whom\\nNew Boston has raised up, as given by Jesse Beard, Esq. The\\nwhole list was very long, too long to be inserted\\nAdams, William\\nAdams, Sarah\\nAdams, Frances\\nAdams, Mary\\nAtwood, Lydia\\nAtwood, Sarah\\nAtwood, Annie\\nAtwood, Mary\\nAtwood, Solomon\\nBuxton, Edward\\nBuxton, Eliza\\nBradford, William\\nBradford, Ephraim P.\\nBradford, Anstis\\nBradford, Mary\\nBradford, Annie\\nBennett, John\\nBennett, Joseph\\nBrown, Mary\\nBeard, Andrew\\nBeard, William\\nBeai-d, Sarah\\nBeard, Eliza\\nBeard, John\\nBeard, Ann M.\\nBeard, Sarah M.\\nBeard, Jesse\\nBeard, James\\nBeard, Mary\\nBeard, Evelyn S.\\nBeard, Edwin\\nBeard, Cordelia C.\\n22\\nBrooks, John\\nBurnham, Abby L.\\nBurnham, M. Addie\\nChristie, John\\nChristie, Ann\\nChristie, Sumner L.\\nChristie, Elizabeth\\nChristie, Sarah\\nChristie, Harlan\\nChristie, Mary\\nCrombie, William\\nCrombie, Robert\\nCrombie, John\\nCrombie, Mary\\nCrombie, Letitie\\nCampbell, Samuel\\nCampbell, Mary\\nCampbell, Sally\\nCampbell, Daniel\\nCampbell, Annis\\nCampbell, William\\nCampbell, Elizabeth\\nClark, William\\nClark, Jonathan\\nClark, Dalton\\nClark, Rebecca\\nClark, Cordelia\\nClark, Frances\\nCochran, Peter\\nCochi-an, Thomas\\nCochran, John D.\\nCochran, Thomas H.\\nCochran, Mary\\nCochran, Mary S.\\nCochran, Jonathan\\nCochran, Robert B.\\nCochran, Prudence\\nCochran, Aftnis C.\\nCochran, Warren R.\\nCochran, Sophia\\nCochran, Whiting\\nCochran, Clark B.\\nCochran, Andrew\\nCochran, Alonzo\\nCochran, Lydia J.\\nCochran, Margaret\\nCochran, Sophronia\\nCochran, Marinda\\nColburn, William\\nDodge, Solomon\\nDodge, Sarah\\nDodge, Amos\\nDodge, Reuben\\nDodge, Abner\\nDodge, Elouisa\\nDodge, Mary\\nDodge, John N.\\nDodge, James S.\\nDodge, Mary J.\\nDodge, Sarah N.\\nDodge, Willard\\nDodge, Mary, 2d\\nDodge, Achsah\\nDane, Almena", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "170\\nDane, Elizabeth\\nFerson, William\\nFerson, James\\nFerson, Paul\\nFairfield, John\\nFairfield, Josiah\\nFairfield, John, 2d\\nFairfield, Seth\\nFairfield, Charles G.\\nFairfield, Sarah\\nFairfield, Elizabeth S.\\nGregg, Alexander\\nGregg, James\\nGregg, James M.\\nGregg, David-\\nGregg, Daniel\\nGregg, Augusta\\nGregg, Margaret\\nGoodhue, Joseph A.\\nGoodhue, Amos B.\\nGoodhue, Leonard\\nGoodhue, Joseph A.\\nGoodhue, Annie\\nGoodhue, Mary-\\nKelso, Jonathan G.\\nKelso, Augusta\\nLangdell, Christopher C\\nLangdell, Hannah\\nLawrence, Helen\\nLawrence, Eliza\\nLamson, Sally\\nLeach, Mary J.\\nLeach, Lucy A.\\nLoring, Lorinda\\nLoring, Aaron\\nMarden, Waterman\\nMarden, Henry\\nMcCollom, Rodney\\nMcCollom, Alexander\\nMcCollom, Arabella\\nMcNiel, William\\nMcNiel, Granville\\nMcNiel, John\\nMcNiel, Rachel\\nMcNiel, Mary J.\\nMcNiel, Lydia\\nMcNiel, John\\nNeville, Sarah\\nNeville, Victoria\\nNeville, Julia\\nRichards, Jacob\\nRichards, Margaret\\nRichards, Joanna\\nRichards, Evelyn\\nRichards, Nancy\\nRichards, Margaret J.\\nWason, Robert\\nWason, Horace\\nWason, Hiram\\nWason, William\\nWason, Robert B.\\nWason, Austin\\nWason, Louisa\\nWason, Caroline\\nWason, Adaline\\nWason, Mary\\nWason, Nancy\\nWason, Elbridge\\nWhiting, Dexter\\nWhiting, Harris\\nWhiting, Calvin\\nWhiting, Julia\\nWhiting, Roxanna\\nWhipple, Joseph\\nWhipple, Philantha R.\\nWilder, Lizzie E.\\nWilson, William\\nWilson, Rebecca\\nWoodbury, Hammon\\nWoodbury, Hannah\\nWoodbury, Lucy\\nWoodbury, William\\nCHOEISTEBS AND TEACHEBS 0E MUSIC.\\nPRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY.\\nJacob Dodge, from 1 7 73 to 1 782\\nRobert Clark,\\nWm. B. Dodge,\\nAbner Dodge,\\nJesse Beard,\\nJacob Richards,\\nfrom 1782 to 1803\\nfrom 1803 to 1808\\nfrom 1808 to 1817\\nfrom 1817 to 1828\\nfrom 1828 to 1858\\nThos. Thompson,\\nJesse Beard,\\nJosiah Gage,\\nZachariah Morgan,\\nJesse Beard,\\nVincent Jeffers,\\nJames M. Smith,\\nSOCIETY.\\nfrom 1804 to\\nfrom 1809 to\\nfrom 1820 to\\nfrom 1825 to\\nfrom 1833 to\\nfrom 1844 to\\nfrom 1851 to\\n1809\\n1816\\n1825\\n1833\\n1844\\n1851\\n1862", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM W. COLBUEN.\\nMr. Colburn is the son of the late Leonard Colburn. He\\nfitted for college chiefly at Francestown Academy, under Syl-\\nvanus Hayward, now pastor of the Congregational Church in\\nDunbarton, and graduated from Dartmouth College in the class\\nof 1861, with an enviable reputation for scholarship, and is\\nnow Principal of the High School in the city of Manchester,\\nhighly esteemed both as a teacher and a christian gentleman.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OF WILLIAM W. COLBURN.\\nThe Patriotism of the Early Settlers of New Boston. Voted unanimously,\\nto a man, to support the Constitution and Laws of the United States.\\nMr. President,\\nPatriotism has always been highly honored by men in all\\nstages of civilization. The ancient bards sang their noblest\\nstrains in celebrating it the orators of Greece and Rome kin-\\ndled their most glowing eloquence at its altar and history has\\ngiven her most luminous page to the record of those who freely\\noffered their lives in devotion to the interests of fatherland.\\nWe have honored it wherever we have seen it manifested. We\\nalways read with pleasure and enthusiasm the history of the\\npatriotic achievements of the Grecian phalanx at Thermopylae\\nand Marathon of the imperial cohorts of Rome, led and ani-\\nmated by the stately presence of a Caesar of the swarthy sons\\nof Spain under the Iron Duke of Alva, and the Great Captain\\nof the liberty-loving Netherlander, inspired and sustained by\\nthe peerless Prince of Orange and especially of the founders\\nand defenders of those liberties, constitutional rights and priv-\\nleges, which we now enjoy. The patriots of the Revolution,\\nfrom the immortal Washington to the humblest of their rank\\nand file, have been admired and eulogized by all the civilized\\nworld. We, their descendants, on this, the grand fete day of\\nour nation, assembled to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of\\nthe incorporation of this town, enjoying, as we do, so many bless-\\nings in consequence of the virtues of our fathers, should be\\nguilty of unpardonable neglect if we should fail on this occasion\\nto give prominent place in our thoughts and in our speech to the\\nvalor and patriotism which were manifested by the early inhab-\\nitants of this now venerable town. Unfortunately for us, the\\nearly history of New Boston has not yet been written, and for\\nparticular facts we are obliged to rely upon traditional accounts.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "174\\nThese, however, are sufficiently reliable for our present pur-\\npose. Indeed, it is but a few years since the last survivor of\\nthose who took an active part in the war of the Revolution\\npassed from among us, having lived to tell the story of that\\nlong and soul-trying war to three generations, and at last real-\\nizing, almost literally, Dryden s beautiful description of an old\\nman s death\\nOf no distemper, of no blast he died,\\nBut fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long\\nE en wondered at because he dropped no sooner.\\nFate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years,\\nYet freshly ran he on ten winters more\\nTill, like a clock worn out with beating time,\\nThe wheels of weary life at last stood still.\\nWe have all heard anecdotes of the trials endured, and sac-\\nrifices offered, by the early inhabitants of this town. The men\\ntook their muskets and joined their compatriots, leaving their\\nfarms to the care of their wives and children. They suffered\\nall the hardships of long marches, of severe weather, of field\\nand camp-life, and of dreary captivity. All this was endured\\ncheerfully, and in the true spirit of patriotism. That these\\nmen possessed courage and resolution might be inferred from\\nwhat they did at home. To enter a new country, to fell its for-\\nests, and to convert a wilderness into fruitful fields, is a task\\nthat timid souls would not undertake. The first settlers of\\nNew Boston, as well as of New England generally, were men\\nwho had a purpose in life, and were thoroughly in earnest to\\naccomplish it. They were no carpet champions, passing the\\ntime in ease and luxury but active, earnest men, ready to\\nmeet the rough realities of life, and to do their duty either at\\nhome, in the quiet pursuit of agriculture, or on the field of\\nbattle, in defence of their rights and liberties. I have not\\nbeen able to ascertain the exact number of those who did mili-\\ntary duty, but the records show that the quota of New Boston\\nwas promptly filled, both in the war of the Revolution and that\\nof 1812, and that ample provision was made for the wants of\\nthose who were left destitute by the departure of the able-bodied\\nmen to the service of their country.\\nThe fathers of this town, with their compatriots, declared", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "175\\nthemselves capable of self-government, and nobly sustained that\\ndeclaration on the battle-fields of the infant republic. No one\\ncan deny them patriotism, and, with the exception of the Tory\\nelement, which existed here a short time during the Revolution,\\ntheir loyalty to republican rule cannot be questioned. At this\\nday, no one will wish to deny, or be ashamed to confess, that\\nthe Tory element was represented in this town by a consider-\\nable party. Throughout the American colonies there were\\nmany men who, born and prospered under a limited monarchy,\\noften the recipients of royal favor and patronage, were slow to\\nrenounce their loyalty to Great Britain, and commit themselves\\nin favor of a movement which was attended with danger, and\\nwhose success was doubtful. But after our national independ-\\nence had been achieved, and republicanism established, these\\nsame men became as loyal as any.\\nPatriotism is universally the concomitant of intelligence and\\nwisdom. Laws, governments, and institutions are the creatures\\nof men, and reflect their character therefore, whenever we find\\nequable laws, governments adapted to the wants of the governed,\\nand institutions of a humane and benevolent character, we\\nmay safely infer that their founders were not only wise and\\nintelligent, but patriotic.\\nPatriotism looks to the future as well as the present. We\\nneed no stronger evidence of the patriotism of our fathers than\\nthe institutions they left to the country whose interests they\\nhad so willingly and faithfully served. Consider one moment\\nthe system of town government that prevails here and through-\\nout New England. With the possible exception of some of the\\ncantons, of Switzerland, the world does not present other in-\\nstances of government founded on the principles of pure democ-\\nracy than in the towns of New England. Here the people, in\\nsovereign capacity, assemble en masse to provide for the com-\\nmon interest. The democracy of ancient Greece was but an\\nempty name, compared with that established by the patriot\\nfathers of New England. Men may say what they please of the\\ninefficiency and ultimate impracticability of a republican form\\nof government for a nation of the size of ours, but no monarch-\\nist of Europe or anti-republican in America, can say that our\\n^own democracies are not complete, efficient, and satisfactory in", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "176\\nall the essentials of a prosperous and happy government. Look\\nat. the subject as we may, we find ourselves deeply indebted to\\nthe patriotism of the early inhabitants of this town. The\\ngentler sex also challenge our praise and admiration for the\\npatriotism, which they manifested by patient toil and self-\\nsacrifice in their quiet sphere of life. We should not do justice\\nto this occasion if we should fail to make honorable mention of\\ntheir mild and unobtrusive, but potential and efficient, influence\\nfor the good of their country. There never was a time when\\npatriotism could be better appreciated than now. Our national\\ngovernment is undergoing its most trying test, and is entirely\\ndependent upon the people who created it, and who during so\\nmany years have been protected by it, not only for delivery from\\npresent peril, but for the perpetuity of those institutions which\\nare so dear to every American heart. While we are so anxious\\nfor the success of our national arms, and tremble when we hear\\nof any disaster to the cause of patriotism, let us remember the\\nsuccess that crowned the humble, but determined efforts of our\\nfathers, and take courage. We can in nowise better pay the\\ndebt of gratitude we owe them than by following their example\\nin all the virtues of life. While we are justly proud of those\\nbrave boys who have gone from loved homes to defend our\\nnational honor, let us duly honor the valor and patriotism of\\nthose who, in the vigor of young manhood, felled the forests\\nthat covered these now cultivated hills, one hundred years\\nago.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "GERRY HAZELTON, ESQ.\\nMr. Hazelton is the son of William Hazelton, of Chester.\\nHis mother was Mercy J., daughter of John Cochrane, of New\\nBoston, and sister of the Hon. Clark B. Cochrane. After the\\nusual preparatory education, he read law with the Hon. C. B.\\nCochrane, of Albany, New York, and established himself in his\\nprofession in Columbus, Wisconsin, where his past success and\\nfuture prospects are sufficient to satisfy the ambition of any rea-\\nsonable young man. His high christian principles and sym-\\npathy with every good cause are the sure pledge of a harvest\\nof honor in years to come.\\n23", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "EESPONSE OF GEKRY HAZELTON, ESQ.\\nNew Boston, like New England, loyal to the Constitution and Union, looks con-\\nfidently to her absent sons to stand by her and New England, in this hour of struggle\\nfor national existence.\\nMb. Pbesident,\\nWere I to say that I feci a thousand times repaid for journey-\\ning from the far-off valley of the Mississippi, to enjoy this most\\ninteresting occasion, I should but feebly express the satis-\\nfaction I experience, in returning to New England and New\\nHampshire, to participate with the thousands here assembled, in\\nthus observing and celebrating this memorable and glorious day.\\nLeaving behind the broad lakes and thriving marts of the\\nWest, the teeming prairies with their lengthened shadows,\\nwhere to-day, even as we are assembled, yonder sun, that bathes\\nthese grand old hill-tops in its glow, is tinging the ripening\\ngrain for the reaper s sickle, it is delightful to stand again amidst\\nfamiliar and cherished, though rugged scenes, and breathe once\\nmore the inspiriting air that fans your mountain homes.\\nFor the first time in fifteen years, I am permitted to cele-\\nbrate this natal anniversary in New England. I could hardly\\nhope in a lifetime to be here under more interesting circum-\\nstances. It is a privilege which I fully appreciate.\\nStrong as may be my attachments elsewhere, and potent as\\nmay be the impulse which constrains so many of your sons and\\ndaughters to pursue the star of empire, I can well under-\\nstand the sentiment whi^h is still so largely cherished, and in\\nthe spirit of which you exclaim,\\nOthers may seek the Western clime,\\nThey say tis passing fair\\nThat sunny are its laughing skies,\\nAnd soft its balmy air\\nWe ll linger round our childhood s home\\nTill age our warm blood chills,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "180\\nTill we die in dear New England\\nAnd sleep beneath her hills.\\nMr. President, I bow with deference to this sentiment. In\\nthis imposing presence, I confess myself all bnt a captive to its\\nregal command.\\nOthers may calumniate this distinguished portion of our land,\\nand in the blindness of unreasoning prejudice, or impotent ma-\\nlignity, may thrust hither their poisoned shafts I shall never\\ncease to exult in New England as my birthplace, nor fail to\\nclaim kindred with her noble sons.\\nLet the spirits of darkness howl upon her track, and gnash\\ntheir impious teeth in her face, she remains the same New\\nEngland, sturdy, brave, intelligent and true, and this is enough.\\nLet other sections, and other localities fail and falter, and\\nturn their backs upon their obligations as they may, New Eng-\\nland holds right on her way faithful to her traditions, her duty,\\nher destiny.\\nWe have heard much, to-day, of the class of men that set-\\ntled this portion of New England. They are the type of our\\nwhole ancestral stock and if I were to undertake to define\\ntheir qualities in a word, I should say that, beyond any other\\nequal number of men, they united the greatness of action with\\nthe greatness of ideas. They were not greater in the majesty\\nof great virtues than of great and heroic deeds. If they could\\nplan, so could they execute. To the faith of the Covenanter\\nthey united the practical sense, the business energy, the unfail-\\ning sagacity of the successful man of the world. They put\\ntheir trust in God, but they were careful to keep their powder\\ndry. Taught the necessity of self-reliance, they were prepared,\\nas occasion called, to stand as if a man were author of\\nhimself, and knew no other kin at the same time they never\\nfailed to realize their dependence upon* the Almighty arm.\\nThey established churches and schools, but beside these they\\nplanted mills, reared factories, opened workshops, and multi-\\nplied facilities for commerce. While they cultivated and stim-\\nulated the moral and intellectual forces of the people, they were\\nassiduous in developing the material and physical resources of\\nthe land and although they inhabited a rocky and sterile coun-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "181\\ntry, no people has ever been more prosperous, more independ-\\nent, more happy, or more progressive.\\nIt was these characteristics which made them so prominent\\nand so effective in achieving our nationality. Among the first\\nwho conceived the necessity of cutting loose from the parent\\ngovernment, they were also among the most resolute and heroic\\nin accomplishing that great object. They appreciated the fiery\\npath through which the colonics must press to final triumph\\nbut they knew the prize was worth the cost, and cheerfully led\\nthe way through the smoke and flames and carnage of revolu-\\ntion, with unfaltering trust in God and their own right arm.\\nThey had read history not in vain. They knew that through\\nscenes of sacrifice and trial and danger, oftentimes through\\nthe fierce din of arms, and the surging and thundering of con-\\ntending forces, nations and peoples and communities are ed-\\nucated and disciplined up to a higher civilization and a truer life.\\nThey, moreover, realized and understood the force and sig-\\nnificance of the sentiment before the poet wrote,\\nOh Freedom thou art not as poets dream,\\nA fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs\\nAnd wavy tresses\\nA bearded man,\\nArmed to the teeth art thou one mailed hand\\nGrasps the broad shield, and one the sword thy brow,\\nGlorious in beauty though it be, is scarred\\nWith tokens of old wars. Thy massive limbs\\nAre strong with struggling.\\nWe have heard much, Mr. President, in certain localities of\\nthe West, during the past year, in denunciation of New Eng-\\nland, much, even, about dissolving the interesting relations\\nbetween her and the rest of mankind, and leaving her to the\\ndesperate alternative of taking care of herself.\\nSuch allusions, Sir, are extraordinary, and I only refer to\\nthem here to say that they are in no sense a correct reflection\\nof the prevailing sentiment on that subject, and find no coun-\\ntenance with fair-minded men of any party or nationality.\\nWere the proposition submitted to a vote of the people, there\\nis not a State west of Lake Erie where it would find any sub-\\nstantial indorsement.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "182\\nI have heard a public declaimer hissed into silence, in at least\\ntwo of the leading cities of the West, for carping at New Eng-\\nland. I have heard a Western troup sing, amid the tears and\\ncheers of a delighted auditory,\\nHurrah for old New England\\nAnd her cloud-capped granite hills\\nWhy, Mr. President, in Wisconsin we feel as though we could\\nnot keep house without New England\\nHer sons are in our pulpits, in our halls of legislation, in our\\nchambers of commerce, at our boards of trade, on our judicial\\nbenches, in our editors chairs, at our bars of justice. Her\\ndaughters are our school-madams, our wives, our sisters, our\\ncousins, our friends.\\nNo, we cannot part company. Not only East and West, but\\nNorth and South, must remain together. Our traditions, our\\nassociations, our interests, our hopes, our necessities bind us\\ntogether. A part of the same great National Unity, our destiny\\nis one. No stripe shall be erased from our national escutcheon,\\nno star obscured. The days and hours of our trial and sacri-\\nfice are days and hours of discipline, and will have an end.\\nForth from the fiery ordeal the Divine hand will lead us in his\\nown good time, purged and purified, and fitted for his own be-\\nneficent purposes. If true to the mighty trust which, in the\\nprovidence of God, has been cast upon this generation, we shall\\nearn the plaudits and benedictions of mankind.\\nNor shall we fail. The day of our triumph may be postponed,\\nbut it will dawn. High o er the eastern steep the sun is\\nbeaming, and darkness flies with her deceitful shadows; so\\ntruth prevails o er error. The lightnings may rend the skies\\nand shake the earth, but the balmier breezes the purer air, and\\nthe brighter heavens are beyond. The fury of the storm shall\\ncease, and the rainbow of peace again be painted on the sky.\\nThe temple of our liberties, gravitating amid the convulsions of\\nthe hour toward a broader and firmer basis, shall lift its jewelled\\nand burnished pillars far aloft, and stand secure amid the con-\\nflicts and commotions of the ages.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM PARKER COCHRAN, ESQ.\\nHe is son of Joseph Cochran, Jr., Esq. After arriving at\\nmajority, Mr. Cochran spent a short time in Lowell, Mass.,\\nwhen, his health failing, he shipped on board the China,\\nand visited the South Atlantic, and returned, after a cruise of\\neleven months, with health greatly improved. Subsequently he\\nbecame employed by the Boston and Lowell Railroad as clerk,\\nconductor, and general ticket clerk for the corporation. Here his\\nhealth failed him again, and he resigned his position, and was\\nsubsequently connected with the Cheshire Railroad, and is now\\noccupying an important office on the Vermont Valley Railroad,\\nhaving his residence at Bellows Falls. May 3, 1843, Mr. Coch-\\nran married Nancy C. Miller, and their children are Joseph,\\nborn April 16, 1844 Austin, born Nov. 24, 1849 Cornelia,\\nborn July 5, 1851, and William, born Feb. 24, 1855.\\nTwo of Mr. Cochran s children Austin and Cornelia\\ndied of scarlet fever, Jan. 9, 1854, at the same moment, after a\\nsickness of only twenty-four hours.\\nMr. Cochran is an intelligent, christian man, enjoying exten-\\nsive confidence as a gentleman of business capacity.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OF WILLIAM P. COCHRAN, ESQ.\\nThe Homes of New Boston. Good women have blessed, and religion has sancti-\\nfied them.\\nMr. President,\\nI thank you for the sentiment to which you request me to\\nrespond. Had the topic been left to my own choice, I could\\nnot have selected one more in harmony with my feelings to-day.\\nThere is no place like home. No other place awakens such\\npleasing associations, or sets in motion trains of reflection so\\ndelightful.\\nChildhood, parental tenderness, instruction, and restraints,\\nyouthful merriment and innocent sports, rich dainties and\\nabundant supplies, healthful labor and refreshing sleep, on the\\none hand, and trials of patience, temptations to weakness,\\nsevere tasks and scanty supplies, early bereavements and aching\\nhearts, on the other, cluster thick around the homes of our\\nearly life, as the great Disposer of the lot has ordained.\\nThe Homes of New Boston. It was here upon these hills\\nand amid these valleys, that we first beheld the beauties of earth\\nand the splendors of heaven that we first heard the melodies\\nof the human voice of bird, of winds, and waterfalls. It was\\nhere we were first startled by the lightning s flash and the\\nthunder s roar it was here we revelled amid scenes of pleasure,\\nfree from the cares and toils, sorrows and trials of mind and\\nheart, which in later days beset our pathway. Never to be\\nobliterated are the memories of our early homes. In after\\nyears, wherever we roam, whatever our fortune, rich or poor,\\nwhatever our surroundings, no other place is to us so cherished\\nas the home of our childhood. These homes may have been\\nthatched cottages, and to-day we may live in palaces, yet these\\nearly homes are the centre of attraction to our hearts we are\\nirresistibly drawn back, amid all our wanderings, to this start-\\n24", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "186\\ning-point of existence, the Eden from which it is well if only\\nour circumstances, not our sins, have thrust us out.\\nHow different the homes of childhood from those of man-\\nhood In the former, our wants are anticipated by others in\\nthe latter, we must care for ourselves and the precious children\\nGod has given us. Our homes of to-day are not the homes of\\nour youth, though the homestead be ours, and we dwell in\\nthe old family mansion. Death has broken domestic circles,\\nand the survivors are strangely dispersed so that he who\\nstands upon the old family hearthstone this centennial day,\\nsurrounded though he may be with the lovely and the loved,\\nrecalling the days of his youth, the forms that once surrounded\\nhim, and the faces that smiled for him, cannot be insensible to\\nthe fact that desolation lias swept that home, and rent into\\nfragments that once joyous family circle. He cannot but feel\\nsolitary, like some branchless trunk of a decaying tree, which\\nstands in the open field, representing all that is left of a once\\nstately forest yet, for their very desolation our hearts cling\\nwith tenderest interest to the dwellings of younger life, and\\nour minds are full of them when the sports and pleasures, the\\npains and sorrows, associated with them are recalled. The\\nvain attempt to catch the robin or the sparrow by laying salt\\nupon his tail, the shooting the squirrel, and angling the fish,\\nare not only associated with homes, but they marked a period\\nin our childhood life they denoted development, and the ris-\\nings of ambition. We can now remember the pride we felt on\\nthe achievement of boyish success, and the consciousness of\\nglory which the most successful general hardly dares antici-\\npate.\\nAnd our school-life, so intimately associated with early homes,\\nis not to be forgotten. The birch and ferule which few of us\\nescaped, the first lessons in Webster s Spelling-Book, under\\nsome Mary Campbell the reading of the story of The Boy in\\nthe Apple-tree the Dairy-maid with her spilled milk\\nand loss of a green dress Reynard and the Mosquitoes,\\nand Poor Dog Tray, punished for being in bad company the\\nBull and the Ox, with their argumentative owners the\\ngames we played the battles we fought, in which Bunker Hill\\nwas often taken and retaken those social gatherings on winter", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "187\\nevenings and summer days, when blind-man s buff, pass-\\ning the button, and paying the forfeit, were our sports\\nautumnal huskings, when the red ear was suggestive of ruby\\nlips and rosy cheeks and apple paring-bees, and the cider\\nthat did not intoxicate, the remembrance of these serves to\\nquicken our blood, and to cause us to grow young again and\\nthey are all associated with the homes of former days, though\\nthey may not belong to the present.\\nBut New Boston homes are associated with the loom, the\\nspinning-wheel, the reel, and warping-bars, darning, knitting,\\nand sewing-needles, some of which were musical, all useful,\\ninstruments too much displaced by the piano and crochet-needle.\\nTo aid them in their social gatherings, young misses used to\\ntake with them their spinning-wheels, each innocently striving\\nto excel all others and their brothers came in the evening, to see\\nthe reeling, and crown any who had excelled, and sometimes to\\nselect a pair of hands and a heart to aid in life s future toilings.\\nThe early homes of New Boston were hives of active, busy\\nhands and cheerful hearts. The Homes of New Boston.\\nGood women have blessed them. Yes, good women have blessed\\nthese homes. We cannot forget a pious mother, her loving\\nheart and ceaseless watchings nor can we fail to be influenced\\nby what she did and what she was to us. It was her hand that\\npressed our fevered brow, and her care, with God s blessing,\\nthat restored our strength. She saved us from many a heart-\\nache, dried many a tear, .shielded from many a temptation, and\\nsecured by her intercessions much succor from the unseen\\nPower. More to us than all the world besides have been the\\neyes, the hands, and the hearts of our mothers. And the loss\\nof a Christian mother cannot be replaced. Once lost she is\\nlost forever. Go the wide world over, and nothing will be\\nfound to fill the aching void. There is no home for a child,\\nwhere there is no mother nothing can serve in the stead of\\nher love neither distance nor years can wean us from it time\\nand distance but open our minds and hearts to a truer sense of\\nits value the further we wander, and the longer we stay from\\nthe scenes of early attachments, the more intense become our\\nlongings to live over again the innocent days of our childhood,\\nwhen we rested our weary heads on the bosom of a loving", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "188\\nmother, and were lulled to sleep by the sweet music of her\\nvoice.\\nThe Homes of New Boston. Good women have blessed,\\nand religion has sanctified them. Nothing is more obvious\\nthan the happy influence of Christian women and religion on\\nthe households of New Boston. And it was here in our child-\\nhood s home that we first learned our accountability to God,\\nand of salvation through Jesus Christ. Household religious\\ninstruction has always been one of the great mercies which a\\nkind Providence has conferred upon New Boston. The cate-\\nchism was earliest used as a means of storing the minds of the\\nyoung with Scriptural truths and this was generally taught,\\nand its influence in time can never be fully estimated.\\nIn 1819, the Sabbath school was first organized in this town,\\nand it then excited a lively interest. It was intended especially\\nfor the benefit of children, but our parents were not less inter-\\nested therein, and it was at home, under their superintendence,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2that we learned our lessons, which consisted of committing to\\nmemory passages of Scripture. Question-books and commen-\\ntaries which children could use were unknown in those days.\\nOur parents were in place of them. The Bible was our text-\\nbook, and Sabbath evenings were especially set apart for relig-\\nious conversation and instruction. And pleasant indeed were\\nthose Sabbath gatherings of families for the recital of what re-\\nligious truth we had learned, and receiving more. Long and\\nthankfully to be remembered are those Sabbath evenings, when\\nall were free and eager to ask questions, which our parents\\nkindly solved and reduced to our comprehension. Whether\\nthis practice was general, I cannot say but I know it was ob-\\nserved in many families. And where this practice has been\\ndiscontinued, and the religious and moral instruction of children\\nhas been wholly confided to Sunday-school teachers, and we go\\nabout the streets boasting of the great advantages of our chil-\\ndren, in the privileges they have in Sunday-school books and\\nteachers, it becomes us to remember the days of our fathers,\\nand to inquire into their practice in training their children for\\nit may be that we shall find ourselves gathering only bundles\\nof straw where they reaped golden sheaves of wheat. If we\\nwould have our homes sanctified as were the homes of our", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "189\\nfathers, we must practice home religious instruction otherwise,\\nwe may bring sorrow to our dwellings, and misery to our chil-\\ndren s heritage.\\nFor such instruction, the homes of New Boston were greatly\\nindebted to the good women whom God raised up to shed a\\nprofusion of light in their dwellings. Such mothers made these\\nhomes sanctuaries of peace and happiness. It was the wives\\nand mothers, with strong minds and healthy bodies and sancti-\\nfied hearts, that gave to this town so many model homes, and a\\ngeneration of sons and daughters who are here to-day, loyal to\\ntheir country, true to their God and to the principles that made\\nthe place of our nativity no mean inheritance. Diffusing the\\nspirit of religion through their households, they made these\\nhills and valleys attractive to childhood and the remembrance\\nof them and the homes they hallowed, has drawn us from our\\ndistant fields of activity to the scenes of our early life, to bear\\nour testimony to their worthiness, and to give assurance to the\\nliving and those that shall live after us, of our gratitude to\\nGod for such homes, and such mothers, and the religion that\\nmade them all that they were of good then, and now, and for\\ntime to come.\\nAnd now, Mr. President, I close with the following sentiment\\na prayer from a sincere and loving heart\\nThe present and future Homes of New Boston. May\\nequally virtuous mothers, bless them, and their pure religion\\nhallow them, rendering them the abodes of economy, industry,\\nand godliness.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "THE ABSENT.\\nThe number of those who have emigrated from New Boston\\nis very large. They are to be found in all parts of the country,\\nand in almost all departments of activity.\\nOn the occasion of the centennial, it was not anticipated that\\nall would return, though a large number was expected, and\\nthat expectation was more than realized they came from\\nregions far remote, overcoming huge obstacles, and making\\ngreat sacrifices, all drawn by a mighty attraction to the homes\\nof their childhood and the graves of their ancestors. And\\nthough both days of the celebration were crowded with rich\\nthoughts, delightful memories, and cordial greetings, yet the\\nabsent were not forgotten. Those who had been so long absent\\nas to be nearly forgotten were by associations brought vividly\\nbefore the mind, and those who had not neglected their an-\\ncestral honies were remembered with tender interest while\\nthose who had gone for the defence of our Government, and for\\nthe preservation of our Union against a foul conspiracy, were\\nmade the objects of most earnest prayer and of tenderest recol-\\nlections.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "I)R. CHARLES COCHRAN.\\nHe was the youngest son of John Cochran, Esq., born June\\n9, 1816. His mother was Frances, daughter of the late Dr.\\nJonathan Gove. He prepared for college atHopkinton, and Fian-\\ncestown academies, and spent two years in Ohio but in 1837\\nreturned and took charge of Sandwich Academy. After two\\nyears of teaching his health failing him, he returned to Ohio,\\nand in 1840, commenced studying medicine with his brother,\\nDr. Jeremiah S. Cochran of Sandusky, and graduated at Wil-\\nloughby Medical University in 1843, and practised in Sandusky\\nuntil 1850, and settled in Toledo in 1861, where he now resides,\\nhighly esteemed as a gentleman and a physician.\\nDr. Cochran married Mary A. Norris of Sandwich, N. H., in\\n1847.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "EESPONSE OF DE. CHAELES COCHEAN.\\nThe Emigeant Sons of New Boston They speak for themselves.\\nMr. President,\\nThe orator of the day has spoken eloquently. While you\\nhave listened to his glowing words, you may have thought of\\nothers, who would gladly have stood before you to give expres-\\nsion to the joyous sentiments suggested by the anniversary of\\nour country s birth, and by the rare event that has called so\\nmany of the sons and daughters of the town from their scattered\\nhomes. Others, who have responded to sentiments proposed,\\nhave spoken words that have waked up sleeping memories, and\\nrecalled incidents of by-gone years. All these have spoken\\nyou have heard their words of cheer.\\nIt is not of these I desire to speak, but of the absent ones,\\nwhose hearts this day beat with patriotism as pure and as\\nstrong as do yours. Some are scattered through the different\\nStates, engaged in peaceful avocations. Others have taken up\\narms in defence of their country. All these speak. Perhaps I\\ncannot better interpret their language than by giving incidents\\nthat have occurred in the life-history of some.\\nOn the 13th day of April, 1862, a staunch steamer, chartered\\nby the governor of the State of Ohio, lay in the Tennesee River\\ntied up at Pittsburgh Landing. Notice was soon circulated\\nthrough the camp of the great army that then lay on that sadly\\nmemorable field, that the wounded soldiers of Ohio would be\\ncared for, and removed to commodious hospitals nearer home.\\nAmong the first sufferers brought on board that hospital boat\\nwas a poor fellow whose leg was shattered by a musket-ball.\\nOne of those who carried the litter on which he was stretched\\nwas a tall, broad-shouldered man, wearing the uniform of a\\nprivate soldier. I was soon busy dressing the wound. While\\nthe tall soldier watched the process, I asked his nativity, New\\nBoston, New Hampshire, he replied. Just then a gush of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "196\\nblood from the wound demanded my attention, when it was\\nstanched, and I looked up, the tall soldier was gone. During\\nthe afternoon and far into the night, I frequently saw the same\\nbrave, tender-hearted soldier, bringing in the wounded. Near\\nmidnight, when I was at leisure, the tall soldier was engaged in\\nother duties, or taking his rest. I never knew his name nor he\\nmine. His gentle, patient, long-continued efforts to relieve his\\nsuffering fellow-soldiers proved him one of nature s noblemen.\\nHe speaks not for himself alone. The heart of every son and\\ndaughter of the old native town will think with pride, that such\\na man first breathed God s air among these rugged hills.\\nAnother youthful son of the town, one pleasant day last year,\\nwas sauntering through the streets of a little town in Missouri.\\nHe was met by a red-whiskered, long-haired, uncombed, un-\\nshaven, and unwashed, butternut-clad native, who, with oaths\\nand coarse ribaldry, charged him with being a son of New Eng-\\nland, and of loyalty to his country. That man, erect, showing\\nevery inch of stature with which God had endowed him, replied,\\nI am a son of New England, and I am loyal to my country\\nand to her flag. The cowardly assassin shot him dead. When\\nthe names of brave dead, fallen during this rebellion, shall be\\nenrolled, that of the martyred Richmond Cochran shall stand\\nprominent, and will hold a cherished place in the hearts of\\nmany here assembled to-day.\\nThese instances of devotion to country, and to the good of\\nfellow-men, do but epitomize the deeds of many of the absent\\nsons of New Boston. The minister of the gospel, the lawyer,\\nthe doctor, the merchant, the mechanic and the farmer (for\\nall these professions are by them represented), each in his\\nsphere, nobly does his duty, and, if present here to-day, each\\nwould echo every noble sentiment that has been uttered in\\nyour hearing. The emigrant sons of New Boston do indeed\\nspeak for themselves, by the noble, manly deeds that fill up\\ntheir daily life. They speak of whatsoever is pure and of good\\nrepute here, and of brighter hopes and more glorious prospects\\nhereafter. In conclusion, permit me to propose,\\nThe Fathers and Brothers at Home. May they unite with\\nthe absent ones in one long, loud shout, Our country first,\\nlast, always one and undivided.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "PEELEY DODGE, ESQ,\\nMr. Dodge s ancestors are believed to have come from the\\nNorth of Wales, and were among the early settlers in Massa-\\nchusetts Bay. His father, William Dodge, came from Hamil-\\nton, Essex County, Mass., in 1787, and settled where his son,\\nSamuel, now resides. Before coming to New Boston, he mar-\\nried Rachel Poland, and their children were three sons and six\\ndaughters, all of whom lived to have families.\\nThe subject of this sketch was the youngest son. He fitted\\nfor college at Pinkerton, Salisbury, and Francestown academies,\\nand with Rev. E. P. Bradford. He entered Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1820 subsequently went to Union College, whence he\\ngraduated in 1824, and read law with Titus Brown of Frances-\\ntown, and Nehemiah Eastman, of Farmington, and was ad-\\nmitted to practice in 1828. He commenced practice at Fran-\\ncestown, subsequently opened an office at New Boston, but in\\n1832 removed to Amherst, and in 1839 was appointed Clerk of\\nthe Courts of Hillsborough County, which office he retained\\nnearly eighteen years.\\nIn 1831, he married Harriet Woodbury, of Francestown, a\\nsister of the late Levi Woodbury, and is now in the success-\\nful practice of law in Amherst, enjoying the comforts of afflu-\\nence and the confidence of the community.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "i ore s 1 fn", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OE PEELEY DODGE, ESQ.\\nThe Lawyees of New Boston At home and abroad.\\nMr. President,\\nThis is an epoch in our lives history. Our various tasks are\\nforsaken for this joyous commingling of hearts, and rehearsals\\nof human acts and Providential overrulings. We represent all\\nclasses and all avocations, the tiller of the soil, the toiler in\\nthe shop, the merchant at his counter, the physician at the bed\\nof sickness, the lawyer in his office, and the pastor in his study.\\nAnd we here recognize the union of all these, the need of all\\nthese, to the highest well-being of society. All these have here\\nspoken but the lawyer. In his behalf you call upon me to\\nspeak. This I do with pleasure. There existed, for a long\\ntime, a decided aversion to the legal profession among no incon-\\nsiderable portion of the community. But that has disappeared,\\nand all intelligent men recognize the necessity of the profession\\nto the execution of laws and the maintaining of justice. The\\nrights of individuals would be in constant jeopardy but for those\\nskilled in the law, in detecting fraud and exposing wickedness.\\nThe profession may sometimes serve to shield the wrongdoer,\\nbut a thousand times oftener does it bring to light the hidden\\nworks of darkness. The guilty, not the innocent, dread the\\nlawyer, and the injured find him to be the friend in time of\\nneed.\\nIn 1772, when Hillsborough County was organized, there was\\nno member of the legal profession between Amherst and Clare-\\nmont. The first lawyer who attempted to establish himself in\\npractice above Amherst, was Samuel Bell, afterwards Judge,\\nGovernor of the State, and Senator in Congress. He opened an\\noffice in Francestown but the people were greatly exasperated\\nat his audacity, pronounced him an invader upon their rights,\\nand threatened him with violence. But his manly deportment", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "200\\nand strict adherence to justice soon overcame their prejudice,\\nand won their confidence.\\nNew Boston has never been an inviting field for the legal\\nprofession. Its location is not sufficiently central to attract\\nbusiness from surrounding towns, and the people have not\\nsought to encourage litigation. Once on a time I opened an\\noffice here, but soon found that if there was bread to spare in\\nany other region, it was not wise for me to remain and famish.\\nNo one else has had equal daring. And yet New Boston has\\ncontributed much to the support of lawyers in other towns. To\\ntheir patronage Steele and Gove, Brown and Danforth, Hazel-\\nton, Sawyer, Parker, Means, and Atherton, have been greatly\\nindebted. Is it certain that though this town boasts that it has\\nno lawyer, it really has been for its interest There is, at least,\\nroom for doubt. Be that as it may, it is certain the lawyer\\nhere has gained no laurels. Nor has New Boston raised up\\nmany of her sons for the legal profession but of those she has\\ngiven, there is no occasion for shame. William Willson became\\na leader, and rose to eminence. He was the son of Alexander\\nWillson, born in that part of the town once known as Egypt,\\nbecause there was much corn there. He graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College in 1797, settled in Ohio, and in 1823 became\\nJudge of the Supreme Court in that growing State, and subse-\\nquently was elected member of Congress, and died in 1827,\\naged 55.\\nOf Josiah W. Fairfield, I need not speak. He has spoken for\\nhimself, in your presence, as no man can without commanding\\nprofound respect. Of Clark B. Cochrane this community will\\nnever be ashamed, so long as they can appreciate eloquence and\\napprove of what is excellent. James Crombie, of New York,\\nLorenzo Fairbanks of Philadelphia, and Christopher C. Lang-\\ndell, of New York, have already gained, or are rapidly gain-\\ning, eminence in the profession. Of my humble self I have\\nnothing to say. Of the rest I can speak with pride. I am\\nproud to know that the sons of New Boston adorn all the profes-\\nsions, and not least, the legal. Other communities delight to\\ndo them honor. And it is not a little grateful to know that\\nthey are appreciated at home. And rest assured, Mr. President,\\nthat we will endeavor, in all coming time, to do credit to the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "201\\nplace of our birth, and give no occasion for the old folks at\\nhome to be ashamed of those whom they have sent forth upon\\nthe broad theatre of activity.\\nMr. Dodge prepared interesting biographical sketches of\\nmost of the legal gentlemen to whom he refers but as similar\\nsketches precede their papers in this work, they have been\\nomitted in his, while we append other names, with such facts\\nas have come to hand.\\nJohn Gove, son of Dr. Jonathan Gove, was born in New Bos-\\nton, Feb. 17, 1771, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1793,\\nread law with W. Gordon, commenced practice in Goffstown in\\n1797, and removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1802, and died the\\nsame year, aged 31.\\nCharles Frederick Gove was the son of Dr. Jonathan Gove\\nby his second wife. He was born May 13, 1793, graduated at\\nDartmouth College in 1817, read law with J. Forsaith, Dane\\nLaw School, commenced practice in Goffstown in 1820, where\\nhe remained till 1839, when he removed to Nashville, now\\nNashua, and represented that town in the State Legislature in\\n1830, 31, 32, 33, 34. He was President of the State Senate\\nin 1835, was Solicitor from 1834 to 1837, Attorney General from\\n1837 to 1842, and appointed Circuit Judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas in 1842. Subsequently, he resigned his judge-\\nsi lip, and became Superintendent of the Nashua and Lowell\\nRailroad, and died in 1850, aged G3.\\nJudge Gove married Mary H. Gay, of Nashua, but left no\\nchildren.\\nRobert Clark Cochran is the son of the late John D. Coch-\\nran. He was born Nov. 4, 1813, and married Mary Means,\\ndaughter of Rev. E. P. Bradford, and lives in Gallatin, Miss.,\\npractising law.\\nJesse McCurdy is the son of the late James McCurdy his\\nmother is the youngest child of the Rev. Solomon Moor. He\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in the Class of 1852. He\\ntaught school several years in Mississippi, and is now practising\\nlaw in Quitman, of that State.\\nChristopher C. Langdell is the son of John Langdell his\\nmother was Lydia, daughter of the late Joseph Beard, and sis-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "202\\nter of Jesse Beard, Esq. He fitted for college at Exeter Acad-\\nemy, and graduated at Harvard, and is now practising law in\\nthe city of New York.\\nSeth Fairfield is the son of Benjamin Fairfield, Esq., and a\\ngraduate of Waterville College, Me. He went into Mississippi,\\ntaught school some years, and is now in the practice of the\\nlegal profession in that State.\\nNinian Clark Betton was son of Samuel Betton, who came to\\nNew Boston from Windham, and married Anna Ramsey, sister\\nof the wife of Ninian Clark, Esq., near whom Mr. Betton re-\\nsided until his death, which occurred Oct. 9, 1790 and his wife\\ndied Nov. 23, 1790. These parents left two sons, Ninian Clark\\nand James, the oldest being less than four years of age. James\\ndied in early manhood. Ninian, at the age of about five years,\\nwas placed under the care of Robert Boyd, whose wife was a\\nkind-hearted woman, who, having no children of her own, loved\\nthose of other parents, and took great pleasure in caring for the\\norphan and needy. Here young Betton spent ten years of his\\nchildhood, always expressing great gratitude for the kindness\\nof heart and the wise counsels of Mrs. Boyd.\\nAfter his removal from New Boston, at the age of fourteen,\\nhe was sent to school for a while, and subsequently placed in a\\nstore, as clerk. But, having no taste for mercantile life, he re-\\nsolved to obtain a liberal education. He studied at Atkinson\\nAcademy, and entered Dartmouth College, whence he gradu-\\nated with the reputation of high scholarship, having the late\\nRev. Samuel Clark for his classmate.\\nThe following notice of Mr. Betton was written by a member\\nof the Suffolk Bar, and appeared in one of the Boston news-\\npapers on the day of his death, Nov. 19, 1856\\nDeath of a Member of the Suffolk Bar. Died in\\nthis city, this morning, Ninian C. Betton, Esq., counsellor-at-\\nlaw, aged 68 years.\\nMr. Betton was a native of New Boston, N. H., and studied\\nhis profession under the direction of the late Hon. Ezekiel\\nWebster, and afterwards under the direction of his distin-\\nguished brother, Daniel Webster.\\nMr. Betton was admitted to practice in this city in October,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "203\\n1817, since which time, with a short interval spent in New\\nHampshire, he has resided with us in Boston. He was a well-\\nbred lawyer, and an honest, upright man. He has performed\\nall his duties, in every relation of life, faithfully, and goes to\\nhis tomb with the sincere regret and undissembled respect of a\\nlarge circle of friends, who have long known and valued him\\nfor his sterling good sense and honest independence of charac-\\nter. Mr. Betton was well read^ in his profession, and was a\\nskilful and safe counsellor. He never delayed an honest claim-\\nant in obtaining his just claim, and never aided a dishonest man\\nin prosecuting an unjust demand.\\nMr. Betton, January 10, 1821, married Miss W. J., daughter\\nof the late Silas Betton, whose wife was Mary, daughter of the\\ndistinguished Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration.\\nThey had three sons of whom one, George E., survives. He\\nsucceeds his father in the successful practice of the legal pro-\\nfession in Boston.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "DR. JAMES H. CROMBIE.\\nHis father was Dr. James Crombie, who practised in Fran-\\ncestown and Temple, and died in Deny. Dr. James H. Crom-\\nbie studied medicine with his father and the late Dr. Amos\\nTwitchell, of Keene, attending lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and\\nBoston, Mass., and graduating at the medical department of\\nDartmouth College, 1838. He commenced practice the same\\nyear at Francestown, with his father, but removed to Derry, in\\n1850, where he now resides, having an extensive business. He\\nmarried Sarah Frances, daughter of Alexander Wilson, Esq.,\\nof Francestown, in 1844.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "KESPONSE OF DE. CEOMBIE.\\nNew Boston Physicians, at Home and Abroad. Their skill to heal and power\\nto console have made them welcome visitors in chambers of sickness.\\nMr. President,\\nI cheerfully respond to the sentiment just announced. Though\\nI cannot claim the honor of being born in New Boston, yet my\\nfather did, and here his fathers dust reposes, and here my\\nbest friends and kindred were born, and here many of them\\nyet live. And so identified are all my associations and feelings\\nwith this town, that I find it difficult to realize that I was not\\nborn here. Born here or not, I love New Boston with all the\\naffection of a dutiful son. And I thank you, Mr. President,\\nfor allowing me the privilege of enjoying and contributing\\nsomething towards the interest of this hour. With so many\\nfamiliar and loved faces, with so many cordial greetings, and\\nsuch glorious memories as have been arrayed before us to-day,\\nit may seem unkind to call up before you a succession of men\\nwith whom you associate all mortal diseases and nauseating\\nremedies. And yet, the history of the physicians of this town\\nis an important part of its whole history. Nor, I am constrained\\nto believe, can it be denied that most of them had power to heal\\nand to console. Many a chamber of sickness has been cheered\\nby their presence, and many an aching heart has been com-\\nforted by their words of sympathy. Indeed, it is this skill to\\nheal and power to console which always makes the honest,\\nchristian physician a most welcome visitor at the bedside of the\\nsufferer. And no other physician is worthy the confidence of\\nthe sick. A physician without respect for divine truth, and\\nreverence for God, with no sympathy for the sufferer, is un-\\nworthy the trust committed to him, however great his skill.\\nMatthew Thornton was a christian physician, and is believed\\nto be the first who practised in this town. He was born in", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "208\\nIreland, 1714, the son of James Thornton, who emigrated to\\nthis country about 1717. Dr. Thornton commenced the prac-\\ntice of medicine in Londonderry, and acquired a high and\\nextensive reputation as a physican, and, in the course of several\\nyears of successful practice, became comparatively wealthy.\\nHe became a proprietor of New Boston, and purchased a farm\\neast of that now owned by Mr. George W. Clark, where he re-\\nmained some years, and greatly endeared himself to the people.\\nIt will be remembered that, in 1745, Dr. Thornton joined the\\nexpedition against Cape Breton, as a surgeon in the New\\nHampshire division of the army, consisting of five hundred\\nmen and that at the commencement of the Revolutionary war\\nhe held the rank of a colonel in the militia. He was also com-\\nmissioned justice of the peace under the administration of\\nBenning Wentworth, and was appointed president of the Pro-\\nvincial Convention in 1775, and the following year was ap-\\npointed to represent the State of New Hampshire in Congress,\\nand signed the Declaration of Independence. He removed to\\nMerrimack, and died June 24, 1803, aged eighty-nine years.\\nDr. Thornton had great native wit, and loved a joke. Riding-\\npast an old man whose occupation was the making of grave-\\nstones, he said, Well, Wyatt, do you not sometimes pray that\\npeople would die faster, that your business might increase\\nThe old man calmly replied, I cannot say but I have done a\\nthing of the kind in my life, but there is no need of doing it\\nany longer, for there is a fop of a thing by the name of Thorn-\\nton come to town, and he will kill off two while I can make\\ngravestones for one Of course Thornton put spurs to his\\nhorse.\\nMrs. Webster, of Boscawen, a granddaughter of Dr. Thorn-\\nton, relates the following incidents Daniel Webster once\\ncalled her attention to a story he was about to tell to a party of\\nladies and gentlemen in the orchard at the Elm Farm, in Frank-\\nlin. Said Mr. Webster, When I was a little boy I was very\\nfeeble, hardly considered worth raising but Judge Thornton\\ncame to my father s, on his way home from Thornton, where\\nhe had been to look after his farms, and in the morning the\\ntwo walked into the orchard, sat down on those primitive\\nrocks, to enjoy the pleasant prospect of Elm Farm and the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "209\\nMerrimac River, and I lingered near to enjoy their conversa-\\ntion. At length my father asked Dr. Thornton what he could\\ndo for his boy, Daniel. Dr. Thornton professionally examined\\nme, and. then picked from the rock some moss, and said, Let\\nhis mother boil it in milk, and the lad drink freely of it. It\\nwas done, and here I am, an able-bodied man, stout enough to\\nwield a sledge-hammer. How much I am indebted to the hon-\\norable signer of the Declaration for my present health, God\\nonly knows\\nJudge Thornton married Hannah Jackson, a beautiful young\\ngirl of eighteen years, whom he promised, when a child, to wait\\nfor and marry, as a reward for her taking some disagreeable\\nmedicine.\\nDr. Jonathan Gove came hereabout the year 1770. He was\\nan excellent physician, and highly esteemed. Dr. Gove was a\\nnervous, energetic man, fond of fun, and enjoyed a joke. He\\nwas riding on the Sabbath, at the time the Sabbath law was in\\noperation, on business not connected with his profession, and\\nwas stopped by a tything-man, and asked where he was riding\\non the Sabbath His reply was, Sir, I am a doctor, and that\\nman is after me referring to a man who happened to be\\nriding behind him. The result was, both went on unmolested.\\nHe was a Tory, yet was promoted to all the offices at the dis-\\nposal of the town. He passed through a scene of great excite-\\nment relative to small-pox, and finally removed to Goffstown,\\nwhere he died. His son John graduated at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1793, and became a lawyer. His son Frederick was\\nthe late Judge Gove.\\nDr. McMillen was contemporary with Dr. Gove, and possessed\\nsome skill, and was followed by his son, Dr. Abraham McMillen,\\nboth dying in town.\\nDr. Eastman studied with Dr. Gove, and succeeded him for\\na few years, and then removed to Hollis.\\nDr. Lincoln succeeded Dr. Eastman was a pleasant man\\nbut not very skilful was an enterprising citizen, built a store\\nand mills, but, becoming intemperate, met with reverses, and\\nleft town.\\nDr. William Cutter, from Jaffrey, succeeded him. His wife\\nwas an Evans, of Peterboro He had something to do with\\n27", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "210\\nthe digging up of the dead body of a child, and roused the\\nindignation of the community. He returned to Jafirey.\\nDr. John Whipple was son of John Whipple, and was born\\nApril 29, 1776. He studied with Dr. Samuel Shepherd, of\\nBrentwood, commenced practice in New Boston in 1800, and\\nmarried, June 29, 1800, Hannah, daughter of Solomon Dodge.\\nHe was a successful practitioner, and a man of considerable\\nbusiness capacity.\\nDr. Winthrop Brown, from Maine, came here in the year\\n1813 or 1814. He was one of three children at a birth. He\\nstayed some four years, and had some practice.\\nDr. Dalton succeeded Dr. Brown. He came to town in the\\nyear 1818 or 1819, from Newburyport, Mass. He was a large,\\ntall, fine-looking man, and won the favor of all. He was the\\nonly child of a sea-captain, his father dying when he was young.\\nHe was a christian man.\\nDr. Perkins succeeded Dr. Dalton. He married a daughter\\nof John Cochran, Esq. He practised a few years, and aban-\\ndoned the profession for the ministry, and is now preaching in\\nWisconsin.\\nNext came Dr. David Bradford. He was son of Rev. Moses\\nBradford, of Francestown he practised successfully some two\\nor three years, and then removed to Montague, Mass., where he\\nnow resides. Then came Dr. Francis Fitch, son of Dr. Fitch,\\nof Greenfield. He practised satisfactorily to his employers for\\nseveral years, when he removed to Amherst, where he con-\\ntinues a respectable practice. Dr. James Danforth is next in\\ncourse. He is son of a very respectable lawyer in Tyngsboro\\nJosiah Danforth, formerly of Weare he graduated at the medical\\ncollege at Hanover, very acceptably, in 1838, and commenced\\nthe practice of medicine in 1841, in which he has continued\\nsuccessfully ever since. In 1843, he married Margaret,\\ndaughter of Mr. William Clark she deceased some years since.\\nDr. Moses Atwood came next to town. He was son of Mr.\\nDavid Atwood, of Lyndeboro He practised homeopathy, and\\nwas removed by death after a few months. Dr. Nelson P.\\nClark, who now practises in town, came last. He was born\\nMarch 8, 1824. He is son of Samuel Clark, of Hubbardstown,\\nMass. He studied medicine at Concord, N. H., with George", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "211\\nHains and Edward H. Parker, commencing practice in 1850, at\\nAndover, N. H., and came to New Boston, 1857. January 15,\\n1859, he married Susan P., daughter of Mr. W. W. Knowlton,\\nof Northwood, N. H., and has an increasing business.\\nWe have now completed the list of physicians who have\\npractised in this town. We now glance at those who have gone\\ninto other places.\\nDr. James Crombie, whose history is familiar to many of this\\naudience, studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Jones, of Lynde-\\nboro whose daughter he subsequently married, and commenced\\npractice in Temple, N. H., in 1798. In 1820, he removed from\\nTemple to Francestown, where he continued to practice until\\n1850, when he removed to Derry. February, 1855, he died.\\nSamuel Crombie, brother of the foregoing, studied medicine\\nand practised in Waterford, Me., for a few years, and there died,\\na young man.\\nDr. AVilliam Ferson was son of James Ferson, and grandson\\nof the early James Ferson, and graduated at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege, in 1797 he practised medicine in Gloucester, Mass., and\\ndied there. I saw a gentleman, a resident of Gloucester, yes-\\nterday, who told me that Dr. Ferson was a very successful\\npractitioner in that place for several years that he held many\\nresponsible offices in town, and was treasurer of the Glou-\\ncester Savings Bank, with a capital of three hundred and fifty\\nthousand dollars that he was considered a man of strict vera-\\ncity, and highly respected. He died in 1853, aged seventy-nine.\\nDr. Alexander McCollum practised medicine in Pittston,\\nMaine, where he yet resides. Dr. Samuel Gregg studied med-\\nicine with Dr. Dalton, went to Medford, Mass., subsequently\\nbecame a homeopathist, and removed to .Boston, where he now\\nenjoys an extensive practice. Dr. Jeremiah Cochran, son of\\nJohn Cochran, Esq., studied medicine with Dr. Dalton, and\\nremoved to Sandusky, Ohio, where, after some years of success-\\nful practice, he died. His brother Charles succeeded him, and\\nis now favorably known in the practice of medicine in Toledo,\\nOhio. Dr. Horace Wason, son of James Wason, was born\\nDecember, 4, 1817, and died November 13, 1847. He\\nstudied with Dr. Fitch, attended a course of lectures at Han-\\nover, and graduated at Castleton, Vt. He commenced the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "212\\npractice of medicine at Manchester, Mass., but soon abandoned\\nthe field, and died. He was a young man of much promise.\\nDr. Thomas Hamilton Cochran, son of John D. Cochran, took\\nhis degree of doctor of medicine at Hanover in 1840, com-\\nmenced practice in New Ipswich, in September of the same\\nyear, and continued there until 1853, when he removed to West\\nRutland, Vermont, and hi the winter of 1862-3, was ap-\\npointed As: istant Surgeon United States Army, in the hospital\\nof Louisville, Kentucky.\\nDr. Daniel Mar den, son of Solomon Marden, studied medicine\\nwith Dr. Danforth, graduated at Hanover, and commenced\\npractice at Goshen, N. H., and is now practising in Peru, Vt.\\nWe have good assurance that most if not all these have\\nobtained a good report, and have honored the place of their\\nnativity. At home and abroad, their skill to heal and power to\\nconsole have made them, not only welcome visitors in chambers\\nof sickness, but blessings to those who have come within the\\nrange of their influence. And, in closing, permit me, Mr.\\nPresident, to offer the following sentiment\\nNew Boston a venerable centenarian All honor to her\\nto her worthy matrons and her noble sires. Her daughters\\nhave cheered and made happy many a fireside and her sons,\\nlike the sturdy oaks and majestic pines of their native forests,\\nhave nobly borne themselves against the winds and storms of\\nlife s conflict, successfully rising above what is base, and aspir-\\ning to what is ennobling.\\nIn addition to the interesting sketches above given by Dr.\\nCrombie, we subjoin the following\\nNathaniel Peabody was the son of Francis Peabody, who,\\nabout 1779, settled on what is now the Town Farm. Nathaniel\\nstudied medicine, graduating at Hanover in 1800, and practised\\nin Massachusetts, and died in New Jersey. He married Eliza\\nPalmer, and left four children Nathaniel, now in Boston\\nElizabeth, who is unmarried, greatly distinguished as a teacher\\nand authoress Mary Taylor, who became the wife of the Hon.\\nHorace Mann, late president of Antioch College, and has her\\nresidence in Concord, Mass. and Sophia, who became the wife\\nof Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celebrated poet.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "213\\nDr. Moses Atwoocl, it may be added to what Dr. Crombie has\\nsaid, was born in Pelham, April 6, 1801, and died in New\\nBoston, April 28, 1850. He married, for his first wife, Mary\\nLewis, of Francestown, November 24, 1835 and she died June\\n21, 1844. His second wife was Julia Ann Chickering, of Am-\\nherst, to whom he was married May 5, 1846.\\nDr. Atwood studied medicine with Dr. Israel Herrick, of\\nLyndeborough, and Dr. Luther Farley, of Francestown.\\nHe began the practice of medicine in North Lyndeborough, in\\n1827 thence he removed to Deering, and thence to Frances-\\ntown.\\nHis practice was allopathic until 1841, when he studied\\nhomeopathy with Dr. Samuel Gregg, of Boston, and was the\\nfirst American who practised homeopathy in New Hampshire,\\nand the tenth in New England.\\nIn 1837, he removed from Francestown to Concord, where,\\nunder excessive labor, his health became impaired, and he re-\\ntired to the quiet village of New Boston, where he died, greatly\\nlamented. As a physician he ranked high, and was not less\\nesteemed for the many excellences of his character. He left a\\nwidow and one son the son now lives in Francestown, and his\\nwidow is now the estimable wife of the Rev. Benjamin Clark,\\nof Chelmsford, Mass.\\nDr. E. G. Kelley is the only child of John Kelley, who at the\\ntime of his son s birth lived on the. farm where Luther Colburn\\nresides, but is now living in Newport. Dr. Kelley was born\\nSeptember 29, 1812 his mother s name was Betsey, daughter of\\nNehemiah Dodge, of New Boston. He studied medicine two\\nyears with Dr. Muzzy, then of Hanover, and one year at Phila-\\ndelphia, where he graduated at Jefferson Medical College in\\nMarch, 1838. Since which time he has lived and practised\\ndentistry chiefly in the city of Newburyport, Mass., where he\\nnow resides, devoting himself to horticultural pursuits, his\\nresidence being known as the Evergreens of Lord Dexter\\nnotoriety. Dr. Kelley married Hannah P., daughter of the Hon.\\nE. S. Rand, of Newburyport, October 21, 1840, and has four\\nchildren Emily R., born August 11, 1841 Edward A., born\\nMarch 18, 1845, now a member of the second class in Dart-\\nmouth College Mary H., born March 8, 1853 and George\\nWallace, born November 7, 1858.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "214\\nDr. Jonathan Gove was born in Lincoln, Mass. His parents\\nwere John Gove and Tabitha Livermore, their children being\\nthree sons and one daughter. Jonathan was born September 3,\\n1746 graduated at Harvard College, studied medicine in Groton\\nMass., and settled in New Boston. He married Mary Hub-\\nbard, of Groton, Mass., by whom he had five children John,\\nborn February 17, 1771, and died in Chillicothe, Ohio Lucinda,\\nborn May 25, 1772, and died May 7, 1775 Frances, born\\nNovember 27, 1773, and became the wife of Capt. John Cochran,\\nknown in later years as Esquire John Cochran, of New Boston\\nMary B., born January 7, 1775, and became the wife of\\nThomas Stark George Brydges Rodney, born December 20,\\n1781, married Hannah Woodbury, of Weare, and is now living\\nin Fort Covington, New York.\\nAfter the death of his first wife, Dr. Gove married, for his\\nsecond, Polly Dow, Jan. 6\u00c2\u00bb, 1791, by whom he had children\\nas follows Clarissa, born March 17, 1792, who became\\nthe wife of William McQuestion, of Bedford, and had three\\nchildren, subsequently marrying, for her second husband, John\\nRichards, of Goffstown, by whom she had three children\\nCharles Frederick, who was born May 13, 1793, married\\nMary K. Gay, of Nashua, and died leaving no children Wil-\\nliam Clark, who was born July 8, 1796, married Sally Neal,\\nby whom he had three children, himself dying when a young\\nman Lucretia, who became the wife of Dr. John Gilchrist,\\nand died in Canada, leaving six children.\\nDr. Gove removed to Goffstown in 1794, consequently all his\\nchildren but the last two were born in New Boston. Dr. Gove\\ndied in 1818, and his widow in 1837.\\nAlexander McCollom was born Feb. 5, 1795. He fitted for\\nthe sophomore class in college, under Rev. E. P. Bradford, at\\nAndover, Mass., and at Bangor, Me., under Professor Fowler.\\nHere he commenced the study of medicine, under the instruc-\\ntion of the celebrated Dr. Hosea Rich, and subsequently under\\nDr. Chandler, of Belfast, and yet later under Dr. Manning, of\\nMerrimac, N. H. He attended a course of lectures at Bow-\\ndoin College, Me., and graduated at Dartmouth College. He\\ncommenced the practice of medicine in Windsor, Me., subse-\\nquently removed to Palermo, and for nearly thirty years has\\nresided at Pittston.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "215\\nDr. McCollom married, Oct. 19, 1830, Sarah Kimball, an\\nadopted daughter and niece of the late Dr. Goodrich, of Mer-\\nrimac, N. H. She was born Sept. 20, 1795.\\nTheir children are: Mary G., bom Sept. 21, 1831; Cath-\\nerine E., born Feb. 28, 1833, and died an infant; Abel G.,\\nborn Sept. 12, 1837. Of their two surviving children, Mary-\\nbecame the wife of Dr. Edward Mead, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct.\\n18, 1860, and in that city resides. Abel married Annie J. Da-\\nvidson, of Wiscassett, Me., Aug. 4, 1861.\\nFor a more extended notice of the McCollom family, the\\nreader may consult Biographical and Genealogical Sketches.\\nSamuel Lynch is son of the late John Lynch, his mother be-\\ning a Kelso, sister of our worthy townsman, Robert Kelso. He\\nwas born April 6, 1837 he graduated at the Mercantile Acad-\\nemy, at Boston, but subsequently read medicine in Norwich,\\nConn., and graduated from the University Medical College, in\\nNew York city, March 4, 1863. His residence is Saxonville,\\nMass.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "MILLS.\\nIn the year 1631, Belknap says that Capt. Mason sent eight\\nDanes over into New Hampshire, to build mills, saw timber,\\nand tend them. And the first saw-mill in this State was built\\nby them on Mason s plantation, at Newishewannock, in 1634,\\nnear Portsmouth.\\nThe first mills erected in New Boston, were on the middle\\nbranch of the Piscataquog, a little above the mills now owned\\nby Daniel Gregg. The contract for these mills bears date Nov.\\n25, 1736, and the contractor was Joseph Wright, of Boston,\\nin the County of Suffolk, in New England, housewright. He\\nwas to build for the proprietors, with all convenient speed, a\\ndam for a saw and grist mill, of the following dimensions, viz.,\\ntwo cells to be laid across the river, in the said New Hampshire,\\neach sixty-five feet long and twelve inches square and if any\\ncells are scarfed, each scarf not to be less than three feet, and\\neighteen cells up and down the river across the others, each a\\nfoot square and twenty-seven feet long, the dam to be raised\\neleven feet and a half high from the bottom of the cross cells,\\neighteen rafters each twenty-one feet long and nine inches square\\nat least at the smallest end, which is to be framed into a plate\\nat the head of the rafters, and eighteen rafters more to be\\nframed into the heads of the rafters before mentioned, and four-\\nteen feet in length and nine inches square each, eighteen studds\\nof eleven feet each, eighteen more of eight foot long, eighteen\\nmore of five foot in length, each to be seven inches square\\neach end of the dam to be of stone four feet thick at the bot-\\ntom and three feet thick at the top, one foot and half above the\\nrolling-dam upon a level to a pitch-pine tree at the east side,\\nand upon the west on a level to the hill the wall of the dam to\\nbe double-boarded up and down, and sufficiently gravelled for", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "218\\nsuch a dam and upon the west side of said river to build the\\nsaw-mill to carry one saw, and to find two good saws and all\\nother materials suitable for such a mill to be fitted for working,\\nwith a roof framed and fitted for boarding and to make a flume\\nfor a grist-mill on the east side of the river, in the rolling dam,\\nsuitable for a grist-mill all the timber for the above work to\\nbe of good sound white-oak, except the plates for the mill and\\nthe roof, the rolling-dam to be planked from the bottom with\\nwhite-oak plank half-way up the rafters, the remainder may be\\ndone with pine, all the plank to be two inches thick the whole\\nof the abovesaid work to be done well, substantial, and in work-\\nmanlike manner, to the satisfaction of said committee and the\\nmill to be made suitable to saw twenty feet in length, and to\\nbuild the said mill and dam on the middle branch of Piscata-\\nquaog river aforesaid, at the mill-lot laid out by Jeremiah Cum-\\nings, surveyor, by order of Mr. Gershom Keys, the whole work\\nto be performed according to two draughts interchangeably\\nsigned by the said committee and the said Wright, and the\\nabove timber and work to be fitted and completed on or before\\nthe fifteenth day of July next, according to the rules of art.\\nThe committee for the proprietors agree to pay Wright the\\nsum of three hundred pounds in bills of credit on the province\\nof the Massachusetts Bay, or Colonys of Connecticutt and\\nRhode Island, in manner following, viz., one hundred and fifty\\npounds thereof within fifty days next after the date of these\\npresents, and the remaining sum of one hundred and fifty\\npounds when the said stuff and work shall be provided and fin-\\nished in all respects as aforesaid.\\nAgeeeably to this contract, the first payment was made Dec.\\n6, 1736, and, for aught that appears, the mills were completed\\nas by contract, and in 1740 the proprietors report to the effect\\nthat the work had been executed. How long these mills were\\noperated is not known but there is reason to believe that the\\nproprietors conveyed their right in the mills and the mill-lot to\\nZachariah Emery, agreeably to the following vote, Feb. 19,\\n1741 Voted, that the mill and mill-lot, together with the\\ndam, be disposed of by the committee to Mr. Zachariah Emery,\\non the best terms they can, or to any other person or persons,\\nas they shall have opportunity.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "219\\nThis Mr. Emery had just completed a good and sufficient\\ncart bridge twelve feet wide, railed on each side, over the mill\\nbranch of the river, with good abuttments on each side, and\\ncleared a wood on the southwest side, one rod in width, up to\\nthe road which Mr. Joseph Wright cleared to the saw-mill, for\\nthirty pounds, in bills of credit. And nothing more is heard\\nof the mills after this transaction of the proprietors. Yet it is\\nwell known that these were of great service to the first settlers\\nfor some years.\\nWalker s Mills were built in 1753. In the deed of the Ma-\\nsonian Heirs, in 1751, five hundred acres of land were re-\\nserved for the grantees, to be by them disposed of for encour-\\nagement for building and supporting mills in said township.\\nAnd March 31, 1752, at a meeting of proprietors at the Royal\\nExchange Tavern, Boston, it was voted that the committee\\nagree with some suitable person or persons to build a saw and\\ngrist mill in said township, and that they be empowered to give\\na deed of sale for what land they shall think proper for that\\npurpose.\\nIt appears that the committee agreed with Andrew Walker\\nto erect mills since Feb. 8, 1753, the proprietors voted, That\\nAndrew Walker, who has agreed with the committee to build\\nthe saw and grist mill in said town, have free liberty to flow the\\nmeadow swamp next to the mills above the land he is to have\\nfor building the mills, upon a branch of the same stream, for\\nthe term of seven years from this time, and after that, to flow\\nit according to the law of the Province of New Hampshire.\\nA lot of land was given Walker around the place where he\\nwas to erect the mills, beside the five hundred acres reserved for\\nthat purpose by the Masonian Heirs. Walker built his mills\\nwhere now a saw-mill stands, owned by Bently and Dodge, on\\nthe Middle Branch, having given a bond of five hundred pounds\\nfor the faithful performance of his obligations, which were, to\\nkeep in good running order a saw and grain mill, and to use\\nboth for the convenience of the inhabitants of the township for\\nmoderate compensation. But Walker proved an uncomfortable\\nman, and did not trouble himself to accommodate the settlers of\\nXew Boston for small compensation, when he could use his mills\\nfor other people with greater profit. Hence, serious complaints", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "220\\nwere preferred against him, and fihe proprietors, November 28,\\n1758, instructed Thomas Cochran and John McAllister To in-\\nform Andrew Walker (the Mill-Man) that great complaints are\\nmade from the inhabitants of his ill behavior and bad treatment\\nto them, which will induce a prosecution of his obligation of\\nfive hundred pounds for his good performance towards the set-\\ntlers, to be put in suit against him by the Committee, unless he\\nconforms to the terms of his articles on which the Mill was\\nfounded, and the Mill lott was given him.\\nBut Walker was not the man to mend his ways at once, and\\nadditional charges were preferred against him, so that the pro-\\nprietors, August 31, 1759, discuss the question of suing\\nAndrew Walker (the Mill Man), unless he give further satis-\\nfaction, complaints having been made that his Mills are out of\\norder, and that he exacts on the inhabitants for sawing boards,\\nand very disobliging. Walker seems to have had things much\\nin his own way, and the enterprising conquerors of the forests\\nsoon erected other mills, and ceased to pay tribute to Walker\\nthe Mill Man.\\nThese early mills were of great advantage to the settlers, and\\nno town in New Hampshire has better water-privileges for the\\nkind of mills here needed, and no town has had a greater\\nnumber of them. Other towns were for many years debtors to\\nthem. Francestown, Lyndeborough, Antrim, and towns even\\nmore remote, in their early settlements depended upon these\\nmills to grind their grain and saw their boards.\\nDeacon Thomas Cochran, soon after the erection of Walker s\\nMills, built a corn-mill on a small stream near his residence,\\nwhich greatly accommodated the inhabitants at the centre and\\nin the east part of the town. This mill lasted many years.\\nCapt. Ira Gage s Mill. This was a saw and corn mill. It\\nwas built by Benjamin Dodge, and has been owned by George\\nMelvin, Dr. Grovenoer, of Pelham, Dole Butler, Josiah Gage,\\nand then by his son, Capt. Ira Gage, who sold one-half his right\\nto David Butterfield, who has put in machinery for making\\nboxes of various kinds, giving employment to several persons\\nalso a planing-machine, and a lathe for turning metals.\\nWe are indebted to N. C. Crombie, Esq., for most of the facts interwoven in the\\nfollowing brief sketches. Editor.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "221\\nKing s Mill. This was a saw and flouring mill, built by Dea-\\ncon Jesse Christy, subsequently owned by Col. John and Wil-\\nliam Crombie. It was consumed by fire about 1808, and rebuilt\\nby the Crombies. Subsequently it was owned by Henry Clark,\\nthen by Peter and Benjamin Hopkins, afterwards by Jesse Pat-\\nterson, then by Jerry and Luke Smith, and now it is owned by\\nJonathan King, by whom it has been rebuilt and greatly im-\\nproved. As a flouring-mill, it has no superior in this region.\\nMr. King has introduced some additional machinery for making\\npails, mackerel-kits, etc.\\nJohn McLaughlen s grain-mill was built near where the late\\nMoses Peabody lived. It was for many years of vast benefit to\\nthe central part of the town, and ceased to be used about 1810.\\nDeacon Robert White tended it for many years.\\nCampbell s Mill. This was built by Robert Campbell being\\nframed by Samuel Christy, the father of the present Mr. Jesse\\nChristy. Thomas Campbell subsequently owned it, and now it\\nbelongs to his son, Daniel Campbell, Esq. It has always been\\nused as a saw-mill, and a great amount of timber has here\\nbeen sawed.\\nSamuel Marden s Mill was near where the late Mr. Jonathan\\nMarden lived, by whom it was subsequently owned. It has now\\ngone to decay.\\nMorgan s Mill was at first a saw and grain mill now it is\\nused only for lumber. It was built by Josiah Morgan and\\nDavid Starrett, then it was owned by Zechariah Morgan, and\\nrebuilt by Levi Starrett, and now it is owned by Zechariah\\nMorgan.\\nHadley s Mill, saw and grain, was built by Leslie Gregg\\nsubsequently, it came into the possession of Lieut. William\\nDodge afterwards, it was owned by Samuel Dodge, then suc-\\ncessively by William Dodge, George Hardy, John Giddings,\\nand Mr. Hadley.\\nWarren s Mill was built by Robert and Josiah Warren. The\\nframe was raised March 27, 1805, the day on which Zebiah\\nWarren (daughter of Robert), now the wife of Mr. Jesse\\nChristy, was born. This mill was subsequently owned by John\\nB. Warren, then by Samuel M. Christy and Dunlap, now by S.\\nM. Christy.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "222\\nMarden s Mill, saw and shingle, was built by Solomon Mar-\\nden, and is now owned by his son, Samuel.\\nMcLaughlen s Saw-mill was built by David McLaughlen, and\\nwas subsequently owned by Francis Marden, and then by Na-\\nthan Merrill.\\nMarden s Saw-mill, near Solomon Marden s, on the Piscata-\\nquog River, was built by Nathan and Francis Marden, after-\\nwards owned by Porter Kimball, and was burned, and never\\nrebuilt.\\nThomas Parker s Saw-mill was built between Benjamin Colby\\nand Alfred E. Cochran s. It was operated for a number of\\nyears, and suffered to go to decay.\\nWilliam Christy s Saw-mill was built by him, between the\\nlast mill and Moses Wood s shop, on Meadow Brook. It was\\nat length, about 1810, taken down and carried to Mount Yer-\\nnon.\\nHopkins s Mill was built by Major James McMillen after-\\nwards owned by John Crombie and David Dodge then by N.\\nC. Crombie then by James Wilder, by whom it was rebuilt\\nthen by Jerry Smith then by James and John Christy then\\nby David A. McCollom, and now by Benjamin Hopkins. Clap-\\nboards and shingles are sawed here.\\nWallace s Grain-mill was built by Dr. Luke Lincoln and\\nWilliam B. Dodge, afterwards owned by Abner Dodge, then by\\nDeacon Isaac Peabody, then by William B. Dodge, and now by\\nRobert Wallace, by whom it has been rebuilt, and in whose\\nhands it has waxed old. A first-rate flouring-mill here is greatly\\nneeded, and must, in time, be had.\\nSmith s Saw and Shingle mill was built by Moses and Frances\\nPeabody, in 1810, and is now owned by Sandy Smith.\\nWhite s Grain-mill was built by James Adams, afterwards\\nowned by John White. It was built early in the history of the\\ntown, a little south of Mr. Benjamin Dodge s house, in the\\nnorth part of the town, on the Middle Branch of the Piscata-\\nquog.\\nDeacon Thomas Smith s Saw-mill was built near White s\\nMill, on the same stream, by his father, and for many years did\\nefficient service, though it, together with the grain-mill near by,\\nis among the things that are past.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "223\\nElias Dickey s Saw-mill was built by James Willson and oth-\\ners, and rebuilt by Mr. Dickey. This, too, has passed away,\\nthe timber in its vicinity having disappeared, as in the case of\\nothers.\\nJohn Cochran s Saw-mill was built at the foot of Cochran s\\nHill, on the south, on a small stream, and has disappeared.\\nWilliam Andrew s Saw-mill was built by Honest Peter\\nCochran, and came into the possession of his son, Deacon\\nAbraham Cochran. After his death, it was owned by G-reear\\nand Dodge, and is now owned by Mr. Andrews.\\nPerry Richards Saw-mill was built many years ago, and\\nowned for a while by Mr. Parker, but is now owned by Mr.\\nRichards, and is in active operation.\\nCapt. John Willson s Saw-mill was built by him, southeast\\nof Dickey s Mill, on a small stream running into the Piscata-\\nquog, and continued not many years.\\nGregg s Mill (saw, shingle, and lath) has always been owned\\nby the Greggs. Joseph Gregg rebuilt it, and it is now owned\\nby his son Daniel. This is on the Middle Branch.\\nPiam Orne s Mill was in the southeast part of the town, and\\nwas used only for sawing lumber, and was owned by no one\\nbesides him after it came into his possession.\\nWoodbury s Saw-mill was built in the north part of the town,\\nnear John H. Gregg s Mill, by Leslie Gregg, about 1795, for\\nJoshua Woodbury and others. It was rebuilt by Benjamin\\nWoodbury and others, and has now disappeared.\\nJohn H. Gregg s Mill was built by Andrew Walker. James\\nCams subsequently owned a part or all of the mill then it\\ncame into the hands of James Walker, son of Andrew, and\\nJames Buxton and David Tewksbury. In 1821, Simeon and\\nBenjamin bought it, and, after several transitions, it became\\nthe property of N. N. Philbrick, in 1850, who sold to John\\nH. Gregg, in 1855, the present owner.\\nDavid Willson built a saw-mill on Bogg Brook, in the east\\npart of the town.\\nCapt. Ezra Dodge had a saw-mill in the north part of the town,\\nnear where Mr. Luffkin now lives, which was in time removed\\nto Weare.\\nLuther Colburn s saw and shingle mill was built by Ephraim,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "224\\nhis father, on Middle Branch, in the west part of the town, and\\nis in active operation. Luther Colburn is the present owner.\\nFrederick Bell built a saw and shingle mill, in the east part\\nof the town, and which is now owned by John M. Holt.\\nJames Barnard built a saw-mill, in the east part of town,\\nwhich was afterwards owned by John Hazelton.\\nMr. OdelPs saw, shingle and lath mill, was built by Nathan\\nMerrill, afterwards owned by Benjamin Hopkins, who sold to\\nMr. Odell.\\nBailey s Saw-mill was built by Bailey and Sargent, in the\\nnorth part of the town, and subsequently owned by Joseph\\nCochran, Esq., and yet later by John Brown.\\nA wire-mill was erected by Holmes, Kendal, and Crombie,\\nnear what is now King s Mill. This was operated for a while,\\nbut did not prove renumerative and was given up. Axes and\\nhoes were also here manufactured.\\nThis establishment, after a few years, was converted into a\\ncarding and clothing mill, by John Gage. Mr. Gage was suc-\\nceeded by Dea. Marshall Adams, who continued the business\\nuntil within a few years with good success.\\nAnother carding-mill was connected with Frances Peabody s\\nMill, and a large business was done there.\\nThe first carding-mill in town was connected with Leslie\\nGregg s Saw-mill, and was successfully operated for many years.\\nAnother carding and clothing mill was built, near John\\nMcLaughlen s Mills, and operated many years by John Kelso\\nsubsequently he prosecuted the business in the shop occupied\\nby Mr. Flanders.\\nA mirror-frame factory was successfully operated by Sandy\\nSmith, through Wisewell and Fuller, for a few years, succeeded\\nby a peg factory, operated by S. Smith.\\nMorgan and Andrew s Bedstead Factory was operated for a\\nwhile in the western part of the town, and was destroyed by\\nfire it was rebuilt by Levi Starrett, and is now used for man-\\nufacturing bobbins.\\nAndrew s Chair and Knob Factory was built by Dea. Issachar\\nAndrews, for a clapboard mill, and is now owned by his son\\nJohn W. Andrews, and is doing a good business under his man-\\nagement connected with his establishment is a threshing-mill.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "225\\nAn axe factory has been successfully operated by G. D.\\nNeville his axes find a ready sale. A threshing-mill by the\\nsame is successfully operated.\\nA door factory was built in 1852, by Neil and Rodney\\nMcLain, giving employment to several men, and the business\\nis highly remunerative.\\nConnected with this is a piano-forte frame factory, operated\\nuntil recently by Parley and Pearsons, now by Farley. This\\ngives constant employment to several men. The wood-work is\\nall executed here, and the cases sent to Boston ready for the\\nmetallic parts.\\nA planing machine is here also owned and operated by N.\\nC. Crombie, Esq.\\n29", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "CASUALTIES, SUICIDES, ETC.\\nJames Smith, son of Thomas, the first settler in town, was\\nfound frozen to death on the road between his father s, in the\\nnortheast part of the town, and Parker s.\\nJames Cochran, son of the first Dea. Thomas C, residing\\non Cochran Hill, was thrown from a vicious horse, near the\\ndwelling of the present Dea. S. L. Cristy, and died from the\\ninjury in 1772, aged 40.\\nWilliam Henry was killed by the falling of the limb of a tree,\\nDecember 20, 1813, on the farm owned by Daniel Dodge he\\nwas passed middle life, and left a large family.\\nA son of William Douglass was* killed by being crushed\\nbetween the hub of a cart-wheel and a gate-post, when in the\\nemploy of Samuel Wilson.\\nCapt. Matthew Fairfield was killed by the falling of a tree,\\nFebruary 11, 1813 then living where E. Parker resides.\\nA son of Rev. Solomon Moor, Witter Davidson, born May 6,\\n177-!, when a lad, was killed by the falling of a tree.\\nSamuel Cooledge, son. of John Crombie, Esq., was killed by\\nthe falling of a cart upon him, June 11, 1814, aged 4.\\nA young man by the name of Dole, was killed by lightning in\\nthe west part of the town, about 1822.\\nSamuel M. Livingston was killed by falling from the tan-\\nnery of Samuel Trull, Esq., October 30, 1829, aged 49.\\nNathan Merrill was found dead in the road. Tradition says\\nthat in the early settlement of the town an erratic, visionary sort\\nof a man was found dead in so small a pool of water that foul\\nplay or suicide was suspected. A jury was called, on which\\nwas a broad-spoken son of Erin, who acted as chairman, and\\nwhen inquired of by the justice for the result of their investiga-\\ntion, replied, Yer Honor: we brought in a verdict of felo-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "228\\nnious wilfull murther But jest to soften it down a little, we\\nca d it accidental\\nTradition says, that in the spring of the year, in the early\\nsettlement of the town, the body of a man was found near the\\nGreat Meadow, in the west part of the town who he was or\\nhow he came by his death is not affirmed his body was found\\nnear the camp where some cattle had been fed during the\\nwinter, which had been driven up from Londonderry, as was\\nthe custom for many years. The grass in the Meadows of New\\nBoston was abundant and nutritious, and, as it could not be\\ncarried to Londonderry, farmers there sent their cattle to the\\nMeadows with one or more to care for them during the winter.\\nCapt. John McLaughlen, who resided on Bradford s Hill, and\\ncarried on an extensive business in tanning, near the house of\\nSidney Hills, and packed much beef for the market, and built\\nmills and kept a store, experiencing some reverses in fortune,\\nwas found drowned in a well in the east corner of his field.\\nThe late Luther Richards was on the jury of inquest, who, in\\nspeaking of the result of the investigation, said As we could\\nnot say, as no one saw him, that he came by his death inten-\\ntionally, we thought it would be most in harmony with the\\nfeelings of the community to say, accidental, and that was\\nour verdict.\\nIn a little book in which the first Jacob Hooper kept a record\\nof deaths in town from 1808 to 1828, the following is found\\nThe 29th of November, about seven and a half in the even-\\ning, we Sensibly felt the shock of an Earthquake, 1814.\\nThe wife of Capt. Gray hung herself, on the night of the in-\\nstallation of Rev. Solomon Moor, in the house now owned by\\nDaniel Dodge. Gray had been a sea-captain, and foul play\\nwas suspected, as the knot in the rope around her neck was a\\ngenuine sailor knot. When asked why he did not cut her down\\nwhen he first found her, replied, that he put his hand to her\\nmouth and her breath was cold so he knew she was dead.\\nIn 1854, a young man sought to win the hand of a young\\nlady, and being unsuccessful resolved to take her life, which he\\neffected and then took his own with the same instrument, ex-\\npressing a desire before he died to be buried in the same grave\\nwitli her who had just fallen by his hand.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "229\\nThe following inscription on lior tombstone, not only serves\\nto preserve the historic fact, but to show to what wondrous\\nheights of sublimity the muse will rise when so tragical an\\nevent transpires.\\nSevilla, daughter of George and Sarah Jones, murdered by Henry N.\\nSargeant, January LS, 1854, a3t. 17 years and 9 months.\\nTims fell this lovely blooming daughter\\nBy the revengeful hand a malicious Henry\\nWhen on her way to school he met her\\n\\\\ini wiili a sis self-cocked pistol shot her.\\nCharles Small was murdered, September 7, 1840, by one\\nThomas, of Amherst, near the McCollom tavern, on the road\\nto Amherst.\\nMr. Benjamin F. Blaisdell, of Goffstown, came to New Boston,\\nand bought the farm, now owned by Mr. Shedd, and entered\\ninto mercantile connections. His family consisted of his wife,\\nwho was Clarissa J. Kimball of Goffstown, their four children,\\nand his widowed mother. In the winter of 184!\u00c2\u00bb, Letitia Blais-\\ndell, an adopted daughter of the late father of Mr. Blaisdell,\\nwho had been working at Manchester after his removal to New\\nBoston, came to visit in his family. At her own request, the\\nnight after her arrival, she slept with her adopted mother. The\\nnext morning the old lady was taken sick in a strange way,\\nsoon became, Insensible and died the next morning, aged about\\n80. After the death of Mr. Blaisdell s mother, Letitia went to\\nWcntworth, and spent about four weeks, and returned Feb.\\n16, 1849. The next day after her return a son, a child about\\ntwo years and a half old, was taken sick, and after twelve\\nhours of suffering died, the physicians affirming that in some\\nway the child must have been poisoned, yet no suspicions rested\\non any person.\\nSoon after the burial of the child, Mr. Blaisdell and his wife\\nwere taken sick, while at tea with every symptom of poison,\\nbut by timely aid were relieved. Suspicions now began to rest\\non Letitia, and she soon confessed her guilt: that she had ad-\\nministered morphine both to the aged mother, and the little\\nchild and the same in the tea which Mr. and Mrs. Blaisdell\\ndrank and that she had provided herself with strychnine if the\\nmorphine failed that she held a forged note against Mr.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "230\\nBlaisdell, and intended to destroy the whole family. This was\\nundertaken from no ill-will towards any member of the family,\\nbut evidently with the impression that if they were all out of the\\nway she could take possession of the property. To this horrid\\ncrime she affirmed she had been impelled by the counsel and\\nassistance of another person. She was arrested, tried, and con-\\ndemned to be hung, but this sentence was commuted to impris-\\nonment for life yet in 1861, she was pardoned out by Gov.\\nGoodwin, and she subsequently married a man, who had served\\na period in the same prison, but with no prospects of rest in this\\nworld.\\nIn the early history of the town, like all new settlements, fires\\nwere not unfrequent, but during the present century the de-\\nstruction of property by fire has been very small.\\nA store and dwelling-house, owned by Thomas Stark, son-in-\\nlaw of Dr. Jonathan Gove, were consumed on the ground\\nwhere now stands the large house, on Cochran Hill, erected by\\nthe late John D. Cochran. This was not far from 1800.\\nThe barn of Dea. Adams was struck by lightning, and burned,\\nin 1824.\\nThe buildings of the late Dea. Solomon Dodge were burned\\nOctober 80, 1829 and those of his brother Davis, within the\\nsame year, November 12.\\nThe barn of Dea. S. L. Cristy was struck by lightning, and\\nburned, October 18, 1852, his dwelling being saved by a sudden\\nprovidential change in the direction of the wind.\\nThe barn of the late Dea. Bennett was burned in the early\\npart of the of the present century. It occurred in4he night,\\nand but few persons could be gathered to render assistance.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Bradford, then preaching as a candidate, and\\nboarding in the family of Ninian Clark, Esq., first gave the\\nalarm, and was first at the scene of destruction. To save the\\nhouse, some smaller buildings and fences had to be removed,\\nand Mr. Bradford rendered such essential service that he was\\noften afterwards compared to Samson walking off with the gates\\nof Gaza.\\nMrs. Hannah Hines, daughter of the late Mr. Rollins, was\\nshockingly burned on Saturday evening about nine o clock,\\nDecember 12, 1863, by her clothes taking fire at the open", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "231\\ndoor of her stove. She survived in great agony until the next\\nmorning, and died about seven o clock, aged 33, leaving a\\ndaughter about three years old. In her intense agony, she was\\nwonderfully sustained by a calm hope in Jesfis Christ.\\nA man was killed, at the raising of a house of Andrew Beard,\\nwhere James Buxton now lives.\\nIn 1807, John, son of William Beard, died from the kick of\\na horse, in twenty-four hours after the injury was received,\\naged 14.\\nIn 1858, a Mr. Sweetland was found frozen to death in the\\nsouth part of the town, evidently the result of intoxication.\\nMay 22, 1855, Mr. John Lynch, in the west part of the town,\\nwas found dead in his pasture, the contents of a musket having\\npassed into his head, accidentally, as was believed by his\\nfriends.\\nJuly 22, 1830, Mr. Jonathan Gove Kelso died from excessive\\nheat, while laboring at hay making.\\nThe spotted fever prevailed in New Boston greatly in 1814,\\nand, to a limited extent, in 1815.\\nBetsey Cochran hung herself, about March 31, 1828.\\nMrs. Benjamin Dodge hung herself, about fifty years ago.\\nIn 1854, Mr. Willson, son of Charles Willson, was run over\\nby a horse and carriage, on a Sabbath day, while descending\\nthe hill from the Presbyterian meeting-house, and killed.\\nTwo dwelling-houses, belonging to Dea. Peter McNiel, were\\nconsumed by fire, one in 1837 and the other in 1838.\\nDaniel T. Gregg s house and shop were burned March 17,\\n1837.\\nThe barn of Ezra Morgan was struck by lightning and con-\\nsumed, in 18\\nThe barn of Mr.Nourse was consumed by fire in 1856.\\nIsaac Giddings, son of the late Joseph Giddings, was drowned\\nin Boston April 11, 1836, aged 26 he fell between the boat\\nand the landing.\\nMr. Joseph Giddings died Feb. 17, 1835, and his mother the\\nsame day, of small-pox seven others in the family were ill with\\nthe same disease, but recovered.\\nLuke Giddings was run over by a cart-wheel, and killed in-\\nstantly, April 20, 1826, aged 46.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "232\\nAbsalom Dodge, in 1823, aged 15, was killed in the woods,\\naccidentally.\\nAbout 1807, a child of Dea. Isaac Peabody was drowned\\nnear his mills, aged two or three years.\\nHarry Robinson, a colored man, was found dead in a field\\nowned by Jacob Butler, in the summer of 1825. He had been\\ndead some two or three days before found.\\nEphraim Whiting was accidentally drowned Oct. 31, 1842,\\nin Brookline, Mass.\\nIn 1836, about the 29th of November, Elias Dickey, father\\nof the late Elias Dickey, was found dead in Francestown in the\\nroad.\\nSamuel Twiss, father of Mrs. John Hill, was killed in Oct.\\n1799, by the falling of a tree. His wife died, aged 96 years 5\\nmonths, with faculties nearly unimpaired.\\nJonathan Griffin was accidentally shot at Parker s, in Goffs-\\ntown, about 1800.\\nMrs. William Parker committed suicide, while laboring un-\\nder insanity, in 1845.\\nRobert Livingston s house was burned, many years ago, when\\nall were absent except their old negro, Scipio, who perished in\\nthe flames.\\nWilliam Campbell s house was consumed by fire about 1820.\\nRobert Boyd s house, many years ago, was destroyed by fire.\\nThe house of David Colburn, near the year 1810, was burned\\nby fire.\\nAbout the year 1830, Ann Griffin, and the year 1835, Han-\\nnah Wilson, disappeared from the Poor Farm, and have never\\nbeen heard from.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "233\\nBILLS OF MORTALITY,\\nFROM 1S08 TO 1828 AS KEPT BY MR. JACOB HOOPER FROM 1830 TO 1803 BY\\nMR. JOSEPH GIDDINGS.\\n1808..\\n..19\\n1823.\\n...19\\n1838..\\n..16\\n1853 38\\n1809..\\n..13\\n1824.\\n...24\\n1839..\\n..40\\n1854 45\\n1810..\\n3\\n1825.\\n...25\\n1840.\\n..26\\n1855 37\\n1811..\\n..13\\n1826.\\n...33\\n1841..\\n..34\\n1856 29\\n1812..\\n..14\\n1827.\\n...23\\n1842..\\n..18\\n1857 38\\n1813..\\n..19\\n1828.\\n6\\n1843..\\n..35\\n1858 34\\n1814..\\n..54\\nFrom Jan.\\nto June.\\n1844..\\n..19\\n1859 ...23\\n1815..\\n..25\\n1830.\\n...21\\n1845..\\n..20\\n1860 22\\n1816\\n..17\\n1831.\\n...20\\n1846..\\n..34\\n1861 21\\n1817.\\n..13\\n1832.\\n..35\\n1847..\\n..24\\n1862 24\\n1818..\\n..23\\n.24\\n1848..\\n..25\\n1863 30\\n1819..\\n..29\\n1834.\\n..21\\n1849..\\n..28\\n1820..\\n..11\\n1835.\\n..20\\n1850..\\n..21\\nTotal...l340\\n1821..\\n..13\\n1836.\\n..25\\n1851..\\n..28\\nin a little more\\n..22\\n1837.\\n..20\\n1852..\\n..35\\nthan 52 years.\\nGRAVEYARD S.\\nAs early as 1756, measures were contemplated for laying out\\na graveyard, together with the locating a site? for a meeting-\\nhouse. But, although the two objects are repeatedly referred\\nto afterwards as being inseparable, yet, when the meeting-house\\nwas located by the committee, July 24, 1763, no allusion is\\nmade to a burial-place, except to say that they have selected a\\nplace for the meeting-house near where a little child is buried.\\nThis child was, it is believed, a daughter of Capt. George\\nChristy, and it is believed that this place, near the Presbyterian\\nChurch at the centre of the town, had been selected for this\\npurpose before the appointment of the committee, and to select\\na place for a graveyard was not made a part of their business.\\nWe find no record, respecting it earlier than March 26, 1771,\\nwhen the town voted that all the inhabitants in said town,\\nexcepting such as incline to bury at the Burying yard by John\\nSmith s, work on the Graveyard by the meeting house two\\ndayes, each man, or pay three shillings for each daye s neglect.\\nVoted that William Clark have the charge of said work.\\nMarch 17, 1788, the town voted to chuse 3 men on each\\nside of the River to lay out the Graveyards and stake the\\nBounds, and vendue the fencing of them to the lowest Bidder,\\nand also the clearing them.\\nVoted that Capt. John McLaughlin, Wm. Clark Esq., and\\n30", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "234\\nJohn Cochran Esq., be the Committee for the South side of\\nS d Town.\\nVoted that Dea. John Smith, Capt. Wm. Boyes and James\\nFerson Ju r be a Committee on the North side of S d Town.\\nAgreeably to this vote, the committee for the south part of\\nthe town surveyed and laid out the ground as follows\\nBeginning at the South West Corner at a Stake Stones,\\nthen running East 4 Degrees North to a Stake and Stones, 13\\nRods then North 3 Degrees West to a Stake and Stones, 14\\nrods then West 4 Degrees South to a Stake and Stones, 13\\nRods then South 4 Degrees East to the Bounds first men-\\ntioned. William Clark Surveyor.\\nA true Record attest, Jon a Gove, T. Clerk.\\nSaid committee give notice that the fencing clearing the\\nGrave Yard (by the meeting-house) will be sold at public ven-\\ndue on Monday the fifth day of May, 1788 that the clearing\\nof said yard wilj. be set up by itself, and to be faithfully done\\nby the tenth day of June next the clearing must be six feet\\noutside the stakes. The Wall to be four feet high and in such\\nproportion as to admit of a stick of Timber ten Inches broad on\\nthe top. And the purchaser is also to hew said stick of Timber\\nin a triangular Form (of white Pine) and place it on the Top\\nof said wall.\\nThe four sides of said Wall to be put up separately, one\\nside at a time, and be completed by the first day of October.\\nThe clearing of the graveyard was struck off to David Cald-\\nwell for \u00c2\u00a31 4s. 6d.\\nThe south side wall was struck off to John Cochran, Sen.,\\nfor 5s. 6d. per rod.\\nEast side of said yard to Noah Dodge, at 5s. per rod.\\nWest side of said yard was struck off to Daniel Dane, at 6s.\\nper rod.\\nNorth side of said yard to Robert Campbell, at 6s. per rod.\\nHe who should build the south side wall was required to\\nbuild a Gate in the same.\\nThere is no record of the doings of the committee for the\\ngraveyard in the north part of the town, but it is believed that\\nthey, in like manner, laid out, cleared, and walled a lot. How", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "235\\nearly that ground began to be used is not known, but tradition\\nsays the first persons buried there were children of Dea. John\\nSmith. He had two children sick with dysentery, and he went\\nto Chester for medicine, but before he could return one died,\\nand the other soon followed.\\nSome of the oldest inscriptions to be found there are the fol-\\nlowing\\nAbraham Cochran died Jan. 15, 1776, in the 47th year of\\nhis age.\\nDea. John Smith died Sept. 3, 1800, in the 74th year of his\\nage.\\nThe sweet remembrance of the just\\nWill flourish tho they sleep in dust.\\nDea. Thomas Smith (son of the foregoing) died May 1, 1854,\\naged 89. He served as an elder in the Presbyterian Church\\nforty-seven years. Esther, his wife, died Oct. 8, 1851, aged 77.\\nPaul Ferson died Oct. 17, 1798, aged 66.\\nDea. James Ferson died Feb. 26, 1804, aged 86.\\nJames Gregg died December 31, 1805, aged 63 his wife,\\nJane, died January 12, 1820, aged 82.\\nThe oldest inscription, to be found in the centre graveyard,\\nis at the grave of Alexander McCollom, who died in 1768.\\nMarch 1, 1773, the town voted to get a Pall, and John\\nMcLaughlin to get it at the town s cost.\\nPOUNDS.\\nThe first pound was built of logs, by Dea. Thomas Cochran,\\nnear his corn-mill, agreeably to the vote of the town in 1763.\\nThe second was built near the old Presbyterian Church,\\nagreeably to a vote of the town, March 4, 1793, of stone, and it\\nis almost the only thing perpetuated from a period so remote to\\nthe present.\\nROAD S.\\nThe first settlers came into New Boston by way of Goffstown,\\nand this is one reason why that part of the town adjoining\\nGoffstown was first settled. The concentration of houses on", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "236\\nthe Plains was not long encouraged, and settlements were\\npushed westward and southward, on the height of land on which\\nis Jesse Beard s farm, and yet further to John Smith s, and\\nthence towards Francestown, by the late Dea. Thomas Smith s,\\nand southward to Wm. Bentley s, thence east to John Dodge s,\\nand, crossing the South Branch, to Dea. Thomas Cochran s\\nalso from Bentley s to Clark s Hill, and thence to Cochran\\nHill, and Alfred E. Cochran s, towards Amherst also from Bent-\\nley s settlements were pushed south to centre of the town, over\\nSouth Branch and Bradford s Hill, and thence towards Amherst,\\nby Jacob Hooper s, and by way of Dea. Patterson s (Allen\\nLeech s) to Rev. Solomon Moor s and. Allen Moor s, and by\\nway of Dea. White s, on Wason s Hill, by the McAllisters and\\nwhere Robert Kelso now lives, into Amherst.\\nIn 1765, a road was laid out from the line of Amherst, begin-\\nning near the present R. Kelso s land to Allen Moor s, and\\nthence to Alexander McCollom s and to Dea. Thomas Cochran s.\\nThe same year, a road was laid out from Amherst, by way of\\nAlfred E. Cochran s (then Peter) farm, Lot No. 10, between\\nWilliam Moor s (now Fuller), and John McMillen s (now Jona-\\nthan Marden s) to George Christy s thence, over Cochran s\\nHill, to, Francestown. But these roads, and nearly all laid out\\nat this period, as may be seen by the transcripts, simply followed\\nold paths which had been used for years. And it will be seen\\nthat, generally, the early roads went over the highest parts of\\nthe town. It was easy to build roads over the hills, and it was\\nhere that the settlements were to be found. The soil was best,\\nand could be brought under cultivation quickest on the elevated\\nparts while they were more healthy than the lower parts, they\\nafforded better views. It was worth much, when the primitive\\nforests covered the land, to occupy such elevations as could\\noverlook some of the surrounding settlements.\\nThe roads were built by each man working a certain number\\nof days, according to the vote of the town, until 1771, when it\\nwas voted to make the Highways by Pole and Estate the\\npresent year and to allow each man three shillings a day.\\nIt was also voted that each Pole work four days on the High-\\nways exclusive of his Estate, and that a pair of oxen be allowed\\nas a man. When the labor should be expended seems to have", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "237\\nbeen left to the selectmen generally, though highway surveyors\\nwere chosen but some years, the town voted that the labor\\nshould be under the direction of a committee, and then the town\\nwas divided into districts, and highway surveyors were annually\\nchosen, who were made responsible for the roads and the dis-\\nposition of the labor.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "LOEENZO FAIBBANKS, ESQ.\\nHe is son of Joel Fairbanks, and was born March 16, 1825.\\nHe fitted for college at Black River Academy, Ludlow, Yt.,\\nthough he was for a time at Hancock Academy also at Town-\\nsend Academy, Vt. He entered the sophomore class in Dart-\\nmouth College, in the fall of 1849, and graduated in 1852,\\nimmediately commencing the study of law, in the city of New\\nYork, spending the ensuing winter in Savannah and Charles-\\nton. He resumed his studies in 1853, in the office of Strong,\\nBidwell and Strong, Wall Street, New York, and was admitted\\nto the bar the same year, and continued in practice there until\\n1856, when he removed to Iowa, but soon returned and\\nestablished himself in business in Philadelphia, where he now\\nresides. Mr. Fairbanks is the author of a work on book-keep-\\ning, which he published some years ago, which has been highly\\nacceptable to that portion of the community for which it was\\nwritten. In 1856, Mr. Fairbanks was married in New York\\ncity to Sarah E. Skelton, of Bradford^ Mass., by whom he has\\nhad two children, one of whom, a child of much promise, died\\nin 1863.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "KESPONSE OF LOKENZO FAIRBANKS, ESQ.\\nTHE BURIAL-GROUND GOD S ACRE.\\nHere hath prayer arisen like dew,\\nHere the earth is holy too\\nLightly press each grassy mound;\\nSurely this is hallowed ground.\\nMr. President,\\nWe dwell to-day upon the history of a century, recounting\\nthe struggles, the joys, the hopes, the sorrows of those who have\\ngone before us and what more fitting occasion can there be\\nfor the expression of a sentiment like that which has just been\\nuttered. It finds a response in every heart, and furnishes an\\nimpressive theme amid the festivities of the hour. The old\\nburial-ground claims of us a solemn tribute of respect and ven-\\neration. It is a hallowed spot, hallowed as the resting-place\\nof those long since passed away, whose names and deeds live\\nin tradition and history, and in the rude stone by the green\\ngraves, over which we still weave bright chaplets of affectionate\\nremembrance. There have been gathered, one by one, our\\ndeparted friends and kindred. Those silent mounds speak of\\nsundered ties and stricken households, and bid us pause in\\nsolemn thought over cherished recollections, which, though\\nmingled with sadness, grow brighter and brighter as years roll\\naway.\\nEven they, the dead, though dead, so dear,\\nFond memory, to her duty true,\\nBrings back their faded forms to view.\\nHow lifelike through the mist of years\\nEach well-remembered face appears\\nWe see them as in times long past\\nFrom each to each kind looks are cast\\nWe hear their words, their smiles behold,\\nThey re round us as they were of old.\\n31", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "242\\nVery few there are in this great assembly who have not fol-\\nlowed thither the mortal remains of near and clear relatives\\nand friends, consecrating anew with each baptism of tears, and\\neach farewell prayer, this spot of earth to be held forever sacred,\\nsacred by the vacant places of every hearth-stone, by every\\nassociation connected with the memory of the lamented dead,\\nthat sends a thrill of pain or pleasure through the heart! Who\\nthat wanders among these silent habitations of the dead is not\\nstirred by emotions and inspirations which spring out from the\\nnoblest and holiest sentiments of our natures? There, in fond\\ncontemplation, we dwell amid the scenes of the past, and live\\nagain in the buoyant and happy hours of youth, bright with the\\npleasures of home and the society of those we loved and vener-\\nated. There as parents and children, brothers, sisters, hus-\\nbands, wives, we gather around the tombs of the departed, and\\nfind a solace in the duties of affection, the faithful tribute, the\\nsilent tear, that tell of sorrows that time cannot heal. There\\nthe Christian, standing as it were upon the verge of that mys-\\nterious land to which we are all hastening, looks beyond the\\nportals of the grave to a life of blessed immortality. There all\\nmay learn the great lesson of life in the universal record of\\nman. Born and died, covers it all. God s Acre The silent\\nyet majestic monitor of the world The loftiest monument, the\\nhumblest stone, the forgotten and unhonored grave, alike\\nteach us that we, too, are mortal, and must sooner or later\\npass to that bourn whence no traveller returneth. Soft and\\nreverential then be our tread, for holy is the earth; angel-\\nwhispers are on the breeze the voice of God is heard from\\nthe tombs of the unnumbered dead, and bids us bow in humble\\nadoration of that infinite Power before which all that is earthly\\nvanishes, and is lost in the boundless ocean of eternity.\\nRegard for the dead and a desire to perpetuate their memory\\nhave in various forms been manifested in every age, in heathen\\nas well as in Christian lands and the progress of the sepul-\\nchral art is invested with peculiar interest and significance. In\\nits successive developments we trace the progress of our race,\\nand the prevailing ideas and religious sentiments of tribes and\\nnations that have left behind no other record. The barrows of\\nEurope and Asia, the tumuli of the heroic ages, alluded to by", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "243\\nclassic writers, and the mounds and magnificent sepulchres of\\nthe Western hemisphere, containing untold treasures and the\\nimplements, weapons, and utensils of by-gone races, are the sole\\nchroniclers of peoples who would otherwise he utterly lost in\\noblivion, and stand the only memorials of unrecorded greatness.\\nThe pyramids of Egypt the culmination of mound-building\\nremain imperishable monuments of departed glory, and are\\ncounted among the wonders of the world. The catacombs,\\nshrouded in mystery, and filled with the emblems of the\\nthoughts, the actions, the life of those who have slumbered\\nthrough unnumbered ages, afford inexhaustible fields for the\\nresearches of the philosopher and the investigation of the cu-\\nrious. The grandeur and glory of the ancient cities of the Old\\nWorld are immortalized in the splendor of their subterranean\\nreceptacles of the dead, mortuary mansions, and palaces, elab-\\norately carved and ornamented, that have defied the touch of\\ntime, when all else has changed or passed into oblivion. The\\nproud mausoleums and monuments of later times superb\\npalaces where the lords and monarchs are carried in solemn\\nprocession with imposing ceremonies attract the gaze of the\\ntraveller, and convey the profoundest lessons to mankind. In\\ntheir calm and peaceful retreats we are led to exclaim, in the\\nsublime apostrophe of Sir Walter Raleigh, Oh, eloquent, just,\\nand mighty Death whom none could advise, thou hast per-\\nsuaded what none hath dared, thou hast done and whom all\\nthe world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world\\nand despised thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched\\ngreatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and cov-\\nered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.\\nAn almost instinctive idea that we are not wholly separated\\nfrom the departed, a longing for immortality, the hope of a\\nfinal resurrection, respect or aifection for friends, and a desire\\nto preserve the dignity of earthly greatness, have all contributed\\nto carry this art to the highest degree of perfection, until we\\nrejoice that death lias been relieved of some of its terrors by the\\nspirit of modern civilization, seeking to make our cemeteries\\nattractive and picturesque, instead of repulsive, crowning them\\nwith the beauties of nature, and choice works of art, fit em-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "244\\nblems of the analogies between the living and the dead and the\\nhopes of a bright and glorious future.\\nSee Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending,\\nAnd Nature all glowing in Eden s first bloom\\nOn the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending,\\nAnd Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.\\nThe beautiful cemeteries of the present day in Europe and\\nour own country attest the spirit of the age, and exert an influ-\\nence as wide-spread as it is beneficent. Such places as Pere la\\nChaise, Mount Auburn, Greenwood, Laurel Hill, and Mount\\nVernon combining the graces of nature, with the beauties of\\nart, on which is lavished all the wealth of cultivated taste and\\nfond affection are worthy of our highest admiration. It may\\nbe that vanity and a love of display have contributed much to\\ntheir magnificence but whatever the spirit which seeks to make\\nthe Silent Land harmonize with our feelings and instincts, we\\nhonor it. We should cherish it as, in the main, tending to\\ngood as ennobling and dignifying mankind as fostering a love\\nfor the beautiful, and hence elevating public taste as pro-\\nmoting Christianity; as an incentive to virtue, and the source of\\ncharity and fellowship among men as a consolation to the dy-\\ning, that they will be remembered in pleasant places, hallowed\\nand guarded by the watchful eye and pious care of devoted\\nfriends.\\nIt is natural and rational for us to think well of cemeteries,\\nand take a just pride in rendering them attractive and pleasant,\\nas well as convenient for the purpose intended. Objects which\\nso frequently appeal to our notice, and are so interwoven by\\nassociation with our past lives, places where repose the ashes\\nof our friends and kindred, and where we also shall ultimately\\nfind rest, certainly demand our fostering care, and should\\nexcite a laudable desire for their improvement. We cannot\\nallow this occasion to pass without offering a few suggestions,\\nwith the hope of awakening, in some degree, a proper public\\nsentiment on a subject of so much importance. We regret to\\nsay, we have cause to blush for the little care we have bestowed\\nupon our principal burying-ground. It has, indeed, been suf-\\nfered to fall into general neglect. It is contracted in space, and\\ncrowded to excess, where land is plenty and cheap. It is not", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "245\\nonly almost entirely destitute of the adornings which elsewhere\\ngrace such places, even in our own immediate vicinity, but is\\nwanting in common conveniences. There are no avenues or\\nwalks, but few shade-trees or plants, little or no shrubbery,\\nhardly anything that may be called ornamental, while the whole\\nis allowed to run to waste, and grow up with obnoxious weeds\\nand unsightly things, marks of desolation, where beauty and\\nloveliness should smile upon the lap of earth. The walls are\\ndilapidated tombstones are thrown down, scattered, and\\nbroken, or lean in all directions, sad evidences of a want of\\npublic spirit or private enterprise. Let it be so no longer let\\nus cast off the stigma and the reproach we justly deserve. In-\\nspired by the memories that, on an occasion like this, come\\ncrowding upon us, by a true consideration of our interests as\\nwell as our pleasures, let us pledge ourselves to the work of re-\\nform. Stoical philosophy may answer the highest aspirations\\nof some parsimony may stifle the better instincts of others.\\nWe make no appeal to such. If they rest in unhonored graves,\\nlet it be no fault of ours. Our duty is plain and easy. No\\nsacrifices are called for. We would create no public burden,\\nnor urge any of the extravagant expenditures which can be\\nborne only by the concentrated wealth of our large cities. We\\nonly need the development of the right spirit, and a little\\nspared from our hoarded treasures will meet every required\\ndemand. Then shall we live with the satisfaction of having\\nperformed our duty to the dead, and with the happy assurance\\nthat when our wanderings are over, and our dust shall return\\nto mingle with the dust of our kindred, that our providence has\\nrendered the burial-ground the desired resting-place of all that\\nthe earth can retain.\\nWe have already hinted at the general requisites of an ap-\\npropriate place of burial. It may be well to sum them up and\\nurge them upon your attention.\\n1st. Ample Space and proper Location. There is no occasion,\\nin a country town like this, for confining our cemeteries within\\nnarrow limits, nor of seeking desolate hill-sides. Land is cheap,\\nand we can afford some of our broad and fertile acres for so\\nworthy an object. It may be best to extend our present grounds\\nby adding contiguous lands on the north, west, and south, al-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "246\\nthough they are not all that could be desired. At all events\\nwe must have more room, even if compelled to seek another\\nlocality. We are constantly disturbing graves which have\\nhardly been forgotten by the present generation, and it is a\\nsacrilege that ought, if nothing else will, arouse us to a sense\\nof our duty.\\n2d. Neat and permanent Enclosures. It is a disgrace to us\\nto surround our graveyards with walls and fences that would\\ndamage our reputation if they enclosed our fields and common\\npastures. We are in favor of a substantial iron fence, even at\\na cost of five or ten thousand dollars. If that is beyond our\\nmeans, we can at least begin the work, and leave its completion\\nto succeeding generations as a monument to our enterprise.\\nThis would require the principal outlay of money.\\n3d. Convenient Avenues and Walks. These are not only\\nnecessary, but, by a proper arrangement and construction, they\\nadd much to the beauty and symmetry of such a place. We\\nhave said that our present burial-ground is destitute of such\\nconveniences. There is not even a carriage-way, and the set-\\nting of a monument imposes upon us the necessity of dragging\\nit over graves which we have no right to disturb. In attending\\na funeral, we are obliged to leave our carriages, and follow the\\nbier on foot. Can such things be and not mantle our cheeks\\nwith shame\\n4th. Pleasant Shade-trees. Trees were the mortal enemies\\nof our ancestors, and we can pardon them for not appreciating\\nthe beauties of groves and ornamental arbors. We cannot ex-\\ncuse ourselves, if we neglect to adorn our cemeteries with what\\ncan be obtained so cheaply, and possess at the present day so\\nmany natural charms. Pleasant shade-trees are really the\\ncrowning glory of a rural cemetery.\\n5th. Shrubbery, Plants, and Flowers. A cultivated taste\\ninclines us to place a high value upon these, while they are the\\nmost natural and instructive emblems of a renewed life, and\\nthat pure and holy affection which leads the chastened mourner\\nto hallow with their gentle influence the sacred repose of loved\\nand cherished ones.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "LETTERS.\\nMany letters were received from distinguished individuals,\\nwho had been invited to be present on our centennial occasion\\nbut we insert only a few from those who will not otherwise\\nappear in this volume.\\nConway, Mass., June 29, 1863.\\nGentlemen,\\nYour kind invitation in behalf of the Old Folks at Home,\\nrequesting my attendance at the centennial celebration, Satur-\\nday, the fourth day of July next, is at hand. I have delayed\\nan answer until this late moment, in the hope of being able to\\naccept it. With extreme regret, I now find that pressing-\\nduties will require me to forego the satisfaction of meeting with\\nyou, to celebrate the day which brings round one hundred years\\non the wheels of time.\\nThe ashes of the dead, as well as the loved faces of the living,\\nattract me strongly to my native town, and that attachment, I\\nfind, increases each day of my life. I cannot imagine any-\\nthing, gentlemen, which would be more delightful than to\\nparticipate with the assembled inhabitants of my native town,\\nin rescuing from oblivion her ancient history, her original set-\\ntlement, her doings in the Revolution, in the war of 1812, and\\nin this great Rebellion, her contributions in money and men,\\nwho sacrifice everything for the old flag of our Union. I know\\nthe story will be one of which New Boston will be proud. I\\nfeel it to be an honor that, as one of her sons, I am entitled to\\nyour invitation. The recollections which suggest themselves,\\nthe localities, the streams, the woods, the green hills, the old\\nchurch, the adjoining burying-ground (where sleep my own\\nkith and kin), time nor distance can ever obliterate from my\\nmind. With the sincerest good wishes for the success of your\\ncelebration,\\nI remain, yours, etc.,\\nW. C. CAMPBELL.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "248\\nBoston, June 30, 1863.\\nBev. E. C. Cogswell.\\nDear Sib Your note of the 24th instant, together with\\nthe circular of the Executive Committee, kindly requesting me\\nto be present on the contemplated festival on the centennial\\nanniversary of the place of my nativity, is received. It would\\ngive me much pleasure to again meet many of my former\\nfriends and acquaintances, to mingle with and witness the\\nreminiscences of former days. But my professional engage-\\nments are such as will constrain me to forego the gratification\\nit would give me to be present. Although I should find that\\nmany places and faces have much changed, yet many anec-\\ndotes and incidents of my boyhood would be revived. The\\ntrudging on the farm of my native hill I could never enjoy,\\nwhen a boy and to wait for the slow movement of an ox-team,\\nor for a nibble at the end of a fish-line, I could never endure\\nyet I never found time to be idle. I cannot say that the early\\npart of my professional life was congenial to my disposition\\nstill I persevered in puking and skinning sick folks (perhaps\\nwith as much success as most of my professional fellows) for\\nfourteen years, when I got tired of guessing and experimenting\\non the sick, on general principles (as a famous medical pro-\\nfessor used to say), not knowing whether I was doing good or\\nharm. Then during the winter of 1837 and 1838 I heard of the\\nmore certain way of selecting remedies for disease according to\\nthe law, similia similibus curantur, which I at once exam-\\nined, and satisfied myself by experiment that disease could be\\nmost certainly cured by a very small quantity of a specific\\nremedy, properly selected. That course of practice I have pur-\\nsued since that time, with increasing satisfaction, although I\\nhad to endure the gibes and jeers of my former associates in\\nthe profession, for nearly a year, before there was a single genial\\nphysician in all New England with whom I could speak on the\\nsubject now we have over two hundred like physicians in my\\nadopted State. Of the native, or former resident physicians\\nin New Boston, I cannot say much. When I was a pupil,\\nI was much in the office of Doctor James Crombie, at\\nFrancestown, where he used to detain me, sometimes long, in\\nrelating stories and anecdotes, for which he was an adept. I", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "249\\nhave thought that he sometimes benefited his patient quite as\\nmuch by his story-telling as he did by his medicine. He also\\nloved a repartee as well as he did to tell a story. I distinctly\\nrecollect the doctor telling a story of a good old lady (who was\\ndesirous of doing all the good she could) asking the doctor if\\nhe knew what a grand physic oil-nut bark was. No, said the\\ndoctor, is it How do you take it Why, doctor, just take\\nsome of the bark and steep it and drink it it makes one of\\nthe grandest physics in the world; but doctor (she said),\\nwhen you scrape the bark you must always be careful to\\nscrape it down, for if you scrape it up it will puke you dread-\\nfully Well, said the doctor, what will it do if you scrape\\nround It will go round and round in a fellow s belly and\\nneither go up nor down, won t it\\nI do not know whether Doctor Hugh McMillen was a native\\nof New Boston or not at any rate he was a genius, possessing\\na high-toned intellect and shrewd observation. He obtained\\nmuch of his medical knowledge while engaged in the study of\\nancient alchemy, over which he spent much time. I recollect\\nof hearing the old gentleman make a remark, long before I had\\ngiven any attention to medicine, but I have often thought of it\\nsince. The old doctor was sitting in a store smoking his pipe,\\nwhen a physician from a neighboring town passed by, who had\\nbeen called to visit some severe cases of typhoid fever. Some\\none of the by-standers asked if he was a very skilful physician.\\nDoctor Hugh replied, with an ejaculating grunt, removing his\\npipe from his mouth long enough to say, Good in fevers\\nYes so any other fool might be if he had wit enough to let\\nthem alone. This was long before the French professor had\\npublished his expectant plan of treatment.\\nDoctor John Whipple was a man of observation, and\\nalthough empirical in his practice, yet he learned much from\\nexperience. His practice was what would now be called eclec-\\ntive. He relied much upon specifics which he had learned by\\nobservation, and was what might be termed a successful practi-\\ntioner.\\nI will propose for a sentiment, Progress and Development.\\nI am not willing that science, art, and practical philosophy\\nshould remain as they were one hundred years ago our mis-\\n32", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "250\\nsion is to find out (if we can) the eternally fixed laws of nature,\\nand investigate them for the melioration and improvement of\\nour generation and race. For abide them, either for good or\\nfor evil, we must.\\nMost respectfully your friend,\\nSAMUEL GEEGG.\\nEev. E. C. Cogswell,\\nE. B. Cochran, Esq., and Associates.\\nEockland, Maine, June 23, 1863.\\nMessrs. Cogswell and others,\\nYours of June 20th was received. I shall endeavor to be at\\nNew Boston on the 4th. I send you to-day, by express, a flag\\nwithout a stripe erased or a star obscured please accept it as\\na humble gift from one who sprung from the State that pro-\\nduced a Webster, a Mason, Woodbury, and others that have\\ndone their country service. The flag was made by those that\\nbear the name of Cochran. Long may it wave o er the land\\nof the free and home of the brave. Excuse haste.\\nYours truly,\\nW. S. COCHEAN.\\nTo E. C.Cogswell and others,\\nExecutive Committee. 3\\nNew York, June 22, 1863.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell.\\nDear Sir, Your esteemed favor, inviting me to attend\\nyour forthcoming centennial celebration of the incorporation of\\nthe town of New Boston, came duly to hand.\\nI regret to say that my engagements are likely to be of such a\\ncharacter as to make it very inconvenient, if not impracticable,\\nfor me to leave town during the early part of July. I think,\\ntherefore, I shall be obliged to decline your very kind invita-\\ntion.\\nThanking your committee and yourself for your politeness,\\nand wishing every success to your praiseworthy undertaking,\\nI am, very respectfully yours,\\nC C. LANGDELL.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "251\\nLee Centre, Illinois, June 18, 1863.\\nTo E. C. Cogswell and others\\nYour circular, announcing a proposal to celebrate, on the\\n4th of July next, the centennial anniversary of the incorpora-\\ntion of New Boston, was duly received, and read with deep\\nemotion. I need not say that I was immediately seized with a\\nstrong desire to accept the genial invitation of the old Folks\\nat Home, to appear among their sons and daughters, to re-\\nvive recollections of the past at the old homestead. My res-\\nidence in this remote region, once esteemed by us as the v^rge\\nof sundown, has not abated my love and fond recollection of\\nthe place of my birth. To be addressed as one of the young\\nfolks, beguiles the somewhat saddening conviction which the\\nbleached head and the honor and title of grandfather force upon\\nme. I am refreshed by the suggestion that I am yet young.\\nI exceedingly regret my inability to share in the festivities of\\nthe day. My heart, however, although in an absent body, will\\nbe in sympathy with the occasion. I sincerely hope that the\\ngathering of the General Assembly for high consultation\\nwill be an occasion of great delight to all my townsmen so for-\\ntunate as to be present.\\nVery truly yours, etc.,\\nC. C. COCHRAN.\\nMilwaukee, June 18, 1863.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell\\nDear Sir, I have not, up to this time, answered your kind\\nletter and invitation of May 11, for the reason that two or\\nmore of our family have intended to be at the centennial cel-\\nebration on the 4th proximo. I write to you noiv, because un-\\nforeseen circumstances have arisen within the past few days and\\nhours that may prevent the consummation of our strongest\\nwishes.\\nI have written this day to our brother and sister, Mr. and\\nMrs. Burr, the details of the sad combination of circum-\\nstances above alluded to, and I refer you to them for reasons\\nthat may prevent our attendance at the interesting celebration\\nof the birth-year of our beloved native home.\\nIt is possible that one of the Bradford boys will, on the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "252\\nday of the celebration, be resting his weary, war-worn body\\nunder the green turf of the old hill-side graveyard where his\\nboyhood footsteps so often trod.\\nI need not say to you, dear sir, how great will be the disap-\\npointment to us if none of us can be present with you on this\\noccasion, that happens but once in a lifetime and we ask your\\nkind remembrances.\\nMost truly your friend,\\nJAMES B. BRADFORD.\\nMilwaukee, June 29, 1863.\\nMr. Cogswell\\nDear Sir, Your letter of May 11, inviting me to your\\ncentennial celebration, came duly to hand.\\nI had intended, until recently, to be present on the occasion,\\nbut find now that it will not be in my power, and that I must\\nforego the pleasure of meeting old friends, most of whom I may\\nnever have an opportunity to see again. Let me assure you,\\nhowever, that with reference to New Boston, I can say in all\\nsincerity, with the poet,\\nWhere er I roam, whatever realms to see,\\nMy heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee.\\nWith an earnest wish that your celebration may be all, in\\ninterest and gratification, that you can desire,\\nI am yours truly,\\nE. P. BRADFORD.\\nBoston, July 3, 1863.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell\\nDear Sir, My thanks are due for your kind invitation to be\\npresent on the 4th instant, and mingle in the festivities of the\\ntwo memorable events, which the citizens of New Boston de-\\nsign to commemorate connectedly. The closing up of the cen-\\ntury, which, has just passed, in the settlement of my native\\ntown, will be of thrilling interest to those now upon the stage,\\nespecially those who have reached their threescore years and\\nten, as they look back over the rise and progress of events as\\nthey have transpired during the last century. The two impor-\\ntant eras will give scope to the flowing out of soul, and ex-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "253\\npression of high-toned patriotism, especially if the spirit of\\n76 pervades the hearts of the New Boston people.\\nIt would prove a day of hilarity to all good people who may\\nassemble around the festive board, on the occasion, if we were\\nfree from the deadly grasp and horrors of a civil war. Notwith-\\nstanding the dark cloud which broods over our mourning coun-\\ntry, still we would not lose sight of the nation s first struggle,\\nwhich so gloriously gained for us our independence and an\\nelevated stand amongst the nations of the earth.\\nIt would contribute much to my happiness to be a participant\\nin the festivities of the day, not of the outer, but of the inner\\nman. It would prove injurious to me to leave my business just\\nat this time, which must plead my excuse for non-attendance\\non so pleasant an occasion.\\nIn conclusion, permit me to offer the following sentiment\\nLoyalty, without alloy, to the principles established by the\\nConstitution of American Independence, that all men are\\nborn/ree and equal.\\nI am, dear sir, very cordially,\\nYour friend and humble servant,\\nWM. R. CLARKE.\\nEvergreens, Newburyport, Mass., June 15, 1863.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell\\nDear Sir, Your circular for the hundredth anniversary\\ncelebration on the coming 4th of July, was received months\\nago, but I have delayed replying till I could say, I will come.\\nUnfortunately, I cannot yet so decide, but hope to be able to\\nenjoy the day with old friends.\\nI well remember the orator for the occasion, Hon. C. B.\\nCochrane, as well as some of your committee, particularly Lu-\\nther Colburn. My regards to all.\\nRespectfully your obedient servant,\\nE. G. KELLEY.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell, Ch. Ex. Committee.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "254\\nMilfoed, June 23, 1863.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell:\\nDear Sir, I thank you for your polite invitation to attend\\nthe centennial celebration of the birthday of New Boston. It\\nwould be highly gratifying to me to be present on the occasion,\\nand participate with the people in their reflections on the past.\\nBut I am afflicted with lameness, which retards me on the track,\\nexcept on the track of time. I can be with you only in spirit.\\nMy best wishes for you, and for your town.\\nYours truly,\\nHUMPHREY MOORE.\\nAmherst, July 4, 1863.\\nRev. E. C. Cogswell\\nMy Dear Sir, On this day of glorious and precious mem-\\nories, I am glad that your citizens have decided to commem-\\norate the commencement of your civil history. The settlement\\nof New Boston, and the period of its incorporation as a town,\\nmust furnish many pious and patriotic incidents, which may\\nwell be brought to mind in an hour like this, when the national\\nlife is imperilled. I have a very lively sympathy with every\\neffort to recover the memorials of that heroic age, when these\\ntowns were planted. The descendants of those who emigrated\\nfrom Londonderry to New Boston, can look back to a noble an-\\ncestry. I should be happy to join in the services which bring\\nto mind their personal worth and valuable labors, but I can-\\nnot, with convenience, be absent from home. If you should\\nprepare a memorial volume, or print any record of your pro-\\nceedings, enter my name as a subscriber.\\nThanking you for the Gourteous invitation with which I have\\nbeen honored, I am\\nYours, with sincere esteem,\\nJ. G. DAVIS.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFEICEES.\\nJohn Goffe, Esq., was apppointed by the Governor and Coun-\\ncil to call the first town-meeting in New Boston and the first\\nmeeting was held at the dwelling-house of Dea. Thomas\\nCochran, on Thursday, March 10, 1763. At this meeting\\nAlexander McCollom, was chosen Town Clerk, and Thomas\\nCochran, James McFerson, Nathaniel Cochran, John Mc-\\nAllister, and John Carson, Selectmen Thomas Wilson Con-\\nstable, Matthew Caldwell, John Smith, George Cristy, James\\nWilson, and Thomas Brown, Surveyors of Highways Abraham\\nCochran and Samuel Nickles, Tythingmen William Gray and\\nJohn Burns, Hog-reeves John Carson and James Hunter,\\nDeer-keepers John Cochran, Commissioner of Assessments\\nDea. Thomas Cochran, Pound-keeper Matthew Caldwell and\\nThomas Wilson a Committee to examine the Selectmen s\\naccounts.\\nThe following is a list of the names of the persons that have\\nserved in the office of Representative, Town Clerk, and Select-\\nmen, from the year 1763 to the year 1863, the year set against\\ntheir names, prepared by George G. 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IS IS S p==i PQ PQ .-_j 3 Q o 8\\nScss t-?^^! V _3\\n|S53 ^2 m c3^1l\\n.2 r a A tT\u00c2\u00ae o \u00c2\u00abr 5K75 ce j2 r R r 9\\n^ddd p -3-325SS^o \u00c2\u00a7pqpd\\n^^^^^pqpqpqQOOpqQF^ji;\\nrfl\\npq\\nfl\\n_\\nri\\n3\\nd\\na\\no\\nP o\\nS 0 2\\na\\n2 M,- o.^\\n3 a?\\nn\u00c2\u00abF!\\neS t3\\no a\\na\\n^P\\nl P\\na 32\\npq:*) npq bhfl\\nX\\nas\\no\\n,_,\\n^1\\nOJ\\n\u00c2\u00abn\\nT\\ni^-\\nX\\nc\\n,_,\\n-M\\n-f\\no\\nIO\\nlO\\nIffl\\nlO\\nirt\\nl-O\\nlO\\nlO\\n--T\\nCO\\n-2\\ncc\\noo\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\n00\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nX", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF COLLEGES.\\nJohn Gove, Dartmouth College. .1703\\nWilliam Wilson, D. C 1707\\nWilliam Ferson, D. C 1 707\\nPeter Cochran, (Rev.) D. C 1708\\nNathaniel Peahody, D. C 1800\\nThomas Cochran, (Rev.) B. U.\\nRobert Cochran, (Rev.) B. U.\\nSamuel Clark, (Rev.) D. C 1812\\nCharles F. Cove, D. C 1817\\nJosiah W. Fairfield, D. C 1825\\nClark B. Cochrane. U. C 1839\\nPerlcy Dodge, U. C 1824\\nHiram Wason, (Rev.) A. C 1834\\ni Royal Parkinson, (Rev.) D. C. .1842\\nI Witter S. M Curay, D. C 1845\\nJesse M Curdy, D. C 1852\\nAmos B. Goodhue, U. C 1845\\nJoseph A. Goodhue, D. C 1848\\nLorenzo Fairbanks, D. C 1852\\nWarren R. Cochrane, D. C 1850\\nWilliam R. Adams, D. C 1859\\nWilliam W. Colburn, D. C 1861\\nHenrv Marden, D. C 1862\\nGRADUATES OF MEDICAL COLLEGES.\\nSamuel Gregg, D. C 1825\\nA. G. Kelley, Jeff. Med. Coll.. .1838\\nJeremiah Cochran, B. C 1825\\nChas. Cochran, Willoughby TJniv .1843\\nThomas H. Cochran, D. C 1840\\nHorace Wason, CastletonM. Sch.1845\\nSamuel Lynch, Union Med. Col.,\\nNew York 1863", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "EOLL OE HONOR.\\nA TRIBUTE TO THE ABSENT SOLDIERS, BY W. R. COCHRANE.\\nWhile we are luxurious,\\nJoyous and curious,\\nMany brave hearts are away to the war\\nKindred to some of us,\\nWhat would become of us,\\nLosing the rights they are suffering for\\nReturning approvingly,\\nEagerly, lovingly,\\nHome s gushing heart is the dream-gathered gem\\nAs in spirit they meet with us,\\nLaugh with us, eat with us,\\nOh, be our sympathy ever with them\\nIn fancy, frivolity,\\nPleasure and jollity,\\nFriendship s sweet paths, or devotion s warm tear,\\nThey were ever a part of us,\\nDeep in each heart of us\\nBe the white chamber of memory dear\\nFor some will not press again\\nHands whose caress again,\\nMeeting or parting, can thrill us no more\\nIn the camp languishing,\\nOn the field vanquishing,\\nFalling in glory, their battles are o er\\nFrom the clash, the disparity,\\nBooty, barbarity,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "264\\nBack will the spirit instinctively roam\\nDying unswervingly,\\nDying deservingly,\\nDying in dreams of affection and home\\nOh take him up carefully,\\nTenderly, prayerfully,\\nThough the fixed eye be unceasingly dim\\nThough he awake no more,\\nThough his heart break no more,\\nHoly the ashes of heroes like him\\nBear him with gratitude\\nTo this cold latitude,\\nWhere the green graves of his kindred may be\\nLink not with slavery\\nChristian-like bravery,\\nLet his bones rest in the soil of the free\\nReared in obscurity,\\nPiety, purity,\\nThough unemblazoned his dearly-loved name\\nTrue to the land we love,\\nTrue to the God above,\\nAges shall brighten and whiten his fame\\nNot popularity,\\nProperty, charity.\\nNot by what others might offer or say\\nHe was a patriot,\\nLoving the state he ought,\\nHere was the spirit which called him away\\nOh changelessly, cheerfully,\\nTenderly, tearfully,\\nLovingly spoken his name shall be\\nIn his life beautiful,\\nUnto death dutiful,\\nLong shall he live in the hearts of the free", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "OP VOLUNTEERS FROM NEW BOSTON\\nIN THE WAR OP THE REBELLION.\\nFOR TIIREE MONTHS.\\nJames B. Whipple,\\nPaul Whipple,\\nPage Fox,\\nJoseph K. Whipple,\\nW. B. Dodge,\\nAlfred Eaton,\\nW. E. Taggart.\\nFOR NINE MONTHS.\\nPerley Doge,*\\nM. Colburn,\\nAbner Lull,*\\nJacob Towns,\\nGeo. Andrews,\\nC. H. Dickey\\nH. Peabody,*\\nJ. Peabody,*\\nL. Peabody,*\\nJ. Langdell,\\nWm. Kelso\\nPage Fox,\\nH. Fairfield,\\nHorace Langdell,\\nEdward Cudworth,*\\nCalvin Andrews,\\nC. H. Murphy,\\nE. P. Dodge,\\nGeo. Marden,\\nLewis Towns,*\\nMoses Crombie,\\nBenj. Wilson,*\\nFred. Lamson.*\\nFOR THREE YEARS\\nOR THE WAR.\\nEmerson Johonnett,\\nEdward Reynolds,\\nSamuel Putman,\\nWm. C. Kelso,\\nJacob Carson,\\nW. Cornelius Beard,*\\nJulian Dodge,\\nS. Dodge, Jr.,\\nWm. B. Dodge,\\nRobert Clark,\\nGeo. H. Chandler,\\nCaleb Dodge,\\nPaul Whipple,\\nHenry Gage,\\nA. Carson,\\nEverett Ober,\\nJohn Corvan,*\\nGeo. Davis,\\nGeo. How,\\nEdwin Barnard,\\nLevi W. Sargent,\\nCharles Brooks,*\\nRichardson,\\nFrank Warden,\\nJohn Buxton,\\nWashington Follansbee,\\nHenry Shelby,\\nAddison Meade,\\nChas. E. Daggett\\nH. Frank Warren,\\nElbridge Mansfield,\\nJ. H. Johonnett,\\nA. J. Bennett,\\nAustin Morgan,\\nGeo. Lawrence,\\nJohn G. Rowell,\\nWm. Dustan,\\nGeo. E. Cochran,\\nDaniel Heald\\nJohn H. Eaton,*\\nAlfred Eaton,\\nFrank Carson,\\nR. Bartlett,\\nWm. N. Dunklee,\\nA. P. Brigham,\\nHope,\\nJ. Whipple Jr.,\\nGeo. Moulton,\\nJames Leet,\\nDuncan Campbell,\\nEdgar Richards,\\nJoseph Richards,\\nOscar Richards,*\\nDaniel F. Shedd,\\nJames Colburn,\\nJohn Dickey,\\nWm. J. Perkins,\\nJohn II. Boynton.\\n34\\n*Dead.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "REV. WILLIAM CLAKK.\\nHe was born in Hancpck September 28, 1798, the son of John,\\nwho was the son of William. When a lad he went to Con-\\ncord, and learned the printer s art. But while here, under the\\npreaching of Rev. Asa McFarland, D. D., he became hopefully\\ninterested in religion, and desired to obtain a suitable education\\nfor the ministry, and to this bent his energies. He fitted for col-\\nlege at Bradford Academy, Mass., and graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in the Class of 1822. Teaching an academy at New-\\nport two years, he entered Andover Theological Seminary in\\n1824, and graduated in 1827, after which he was employed as\\nan agent for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign\\nMissions in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and was settled\\nover the First Congregational Church in Wells, Me., February\\n19, 1829, where he remained six years, seeing much fruit of his\\nlabors. He was then appointed agent for the American Tract\\nSociety for New England, and in 1836 for the Society at New\\nYork, as their general agent for the Western States. In 1840\\nhe was appointed district secretary for the A. B. C. F. Mis-\\nsions for Northern New England, and occupied this position\\nuntil 1856, when he resigned, and was appointed secretary and\\ngeneral agent of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society,\\nand still holds that office.\\nMr. Clark married Elvira Hurd, of Newport, January 14,\\n1829, who died February 9, 1847, leaving a son and daughter,\\nthe latter dying young, the former being now a member of\\nAmherst College, Mass. December 26, 1848, Mr. Clark mar-\\nried Mrs. Mary C. Wheelright, of Bangor, Me., and resides at\\nAmherst.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "MHjZxOZra vMffi", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OF REV. WILLIAM CLARK.\\nNew Boston. What has given it its character.\\nMr. President,\\nFrom its first settlement more than one hundred years since,\\nthe town of New Boston has held a conspicuous and honorable\\nposition. Its name has been associated with whatsoever is of\\ngood report. Having no special natural advantages above its\\nsister towns in the vicinity, with the exception, perhaps, of\\nsomewhat extensive water power and valuable pine growth on\\nthe borders of its streams, it has been prominent among them.\\nGreat industry has ever characterized its inhabitants. Few, in\\nany period of its existence, have eaten the bread of idleness.\\nThe sturdy owners of the soil have cultivated their acres with\\nindomitable energy and unremitting diligence combining these\\ntraits with frugality and good management, they have attained\\nto prosperity. This is seen in their good roads, their substan-\\ntial stone fences, their well cultivated farms, their convenient\\nwell-furnished buildings, their large barns, their extensive\\nflocks and herds.\\nHospitality has been a marked trait in the character of the\\nNew Boston people. Before the construction of the turnpike\\npassing through the southwest corner of the town, teamsters\\nfrom upper towns in the State and in Vermont, learning the\\nfame of New Boston hospitality, were wont to avail themselves\\nof it, much to their comfort and to the relief of their scantily\\nfilled purses. Some fifty years ago, when country farmers, liv-\\ning remote from sea-board towns, were wont in the winter sea-\\nson to go tib market with their own teams and exchange their\\nproduce for groceries, Deacon Robert Clark used to purchase\\nlargely, not only for his own family, but for the visitors and\\ncallers at his house, whether relatives or strangers.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "270\\nIn one of his annual trips to Boston, while negotiating some-\\nwhat largely for groceries, the merchant inquired whether he\\nwas purchasing to sell again, or for his own family expenditure\\nintending to sell at a cheaper rate if the good deacon had in\\nview the former object. He replying, Sir, I am purchasing\\nfor my own family, and for my friends and my guests, was\\nobliged to pay retail prices. Paying such prices for his groce-\\nries they were cordially dealt out to his comers, irrespective of\\nrelationship, without money and without price. The hay and\\ngrain of his well-filled barns were in like manner gratuitously\\ndealt out to the teams of his callers and guests. This gen-\\nerosity, this open-heartedness, that disdained to receive compen-\\nsation for entertainment, was a prominent trait in the earlier\\nsettlers of the town, and contributed not a little to its good\\nname.\\nThe early settlers of New Boston, most of them of Scotch\\ndescent, possessed sturdy intellects and strong common sense.\\nWell educated for those days of comparative scarcity of schools,\\nbooks, and newspapers, they made provision for the education\\nof their children. When unable to sustain the present system\\nof common schools, neighboring families would unite in pro-\\ncuring teachers for their children from Scotland and Ireland.\\nThis kept alive amongst them the love of education and learn-\\ning, and greatly promoted general intelligence. As fruits of\\nthis, the town bias furnished a large number of well-educated\\nmen for the professions of medicine, law, and divinity, and for\\nteachers, mechanics, merchants, tradesmen, and farmers. In\\nthis connection should be named the wives, mothers, and\\ndaughters of New Boston, who were second in no respect in\\nstrength of character, intelligence, frugality, hospitality, or in-\\ndustry, to their husbands, parents, or brothers. Indeed, the\\nvaluable traits of character belonging to the men were inspired\\nby the excellent women of the successive generations of the\\npast century.\\nIt need hardly be said, after the foregoing, that public order\\nand good morals have been marked traits in the character of\\nthe people of New Boston. These are almost necessary conse-\\nquences of a community distinguished for industry, frugal-\\nity, hospitality, intelligence, good family government, respect", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "271\\nfor parental authority, fraternal affection, love of honesty,\\ntruth, integrity between man and man, obedience to public law,\\ntemperance, respect for and observance of the Sabbath as an in-\\nstitution of God, reverence for the sanctuary, all these, and kin-\\ndred virtues, have ever belonged, to a good degree, to this people.\\nNow, under what general influences has their character, as\\nabove imperfectly delineated, been formed We reply, under\\nthose of the Bible, of the preaching of the gospel, and of its\\nblessed institutions.\\nThe early settlers of the town most of them emigrants\\nfrom Londonderry, whose ancestors were Scotch Presbyterians\\nbrought with them a reverence for God and his institutions.\\nTheirs was a scriptural piety, the fruit of an unhesitating, full,\\npractical faith in the great doctrines of revelation.\\nThese great doctrines had been taught them in Londonderry\\nby the McGregors and the Davidsons, and by their godly par-\\nents from the Bible and the Westminster Assembly s Cat-\\nechism. These Bible truths had enlightened and invigorated\\nthe intellect, and stamped the character of the pioneer settlers\\nof the town. Thus trained at home, and coming here in the\\nfear of God, they laid the foundation of religious institutions\\nwhen comparatively few and feeble in pecuniary means. They\\nkept the Sabbath, and reverenced the sanctuary. Soon after\\ntheir establishment in town they extended a call to Rev. Sol-\\nomon Moor, recently from Scotland, to become their pastor and\\nteacher. This call, signed by some fifty men, heads of families,\\nhonors their intellect and heart.\\nMr. Moor, accepting the call, became their minister, remain-\\ning such till his death, which occurred May 3, 1803, at the age\\nof 67. A church of the Presbyterian order was formed, prob-\\nably in the same year of his settlement, 1768. His ministry\\nof thirty-five years was comfortable and useful, made so, in no\\nsmall measure, by the influence of his excellent lady, a daugh-\\nter of Rev. William Davidson, of the east parish, Londonderry.\\nOn the ministry of Rev. Mr. Moor, most of the families in the\\ntown constantly attended. Such was the tone of public opin-\\nion, that no family or individual could have the respect of the\\npeople who did not regularly resort to the sanctuary, and, at\\nleast externally, hallow the Sabbath. Returning from public", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "272\\nworship, parents would gather their children around them, and\\nteach them the doctrines and duties of the Bible. Daily wor-\\nship was maintained by the families generally. This greatly\\ncontributed to the maintenance and efficiency of family govern-\\nment. Children honored their parents, and loved one another\\nthey were taught to respect their superiors and reverence age,\\nto fear God and keep his commandments.\\nSuch was the state of society in New Boston when Rev.\\nEphraim P. Bradford a nobleman by nature, and, by the grace\\nof God, a finished scholar a sound theologian an eloquent\\npreacher a faithful pastor a devout Christian wise, prudent,\\ndeeply impressed with a sense of his responsibilities as a minis-\\nter of Christ was ordained a successor of Rev. Mr. Moor\\nFeb. 26, 1806, continuing pastor of the church to the close of\\nhis life, Dec. 15, 1845, at 69 years of age. During his useful\\nministry, of nearly forty years, some three or four extensive re-\\nvivals occurred among his people, the aggregate fruits of which\\nwere several hundred additions to the church. Seldom has a\\nChristian ministry, of like duration, been more beneficial to\\nany people. The high tone of morals existing from the early\\nsettlement of the town, the respect and observance of the Sab-\\nbath, the reverence for the sanctuary, the cheerful support of\\nChristian ordinances shown by the fathers at one period, and\\nmaintained to a good degree by the children under the able,\\nearnest, godly ministry of Mr. Bradford, gave prominence to\\nNew Boston.\\nThe primary and principal influences, therefore, which have\\ngiven New Boston its excellent character during the century\\nof its existence, have come from the Bible, the church, the\\npulpit, the ministry, the Sabbath school, the ordinances of the\\ngospel. Had none of these hallowed influences existed in the\\ntown, had the first settlers been indifferent to the sacred insti-\\ntutions ordained of God for the temporal and eternal good of\\nthe race, and had their successors followed their example, how\\nbarren of interest would be the event we to-day celebrate The\\ngreat interest of this occasion results, in no small degree, from\\nthe ecclesiastical history of the town. May its future history\\nbe fraught with like interest. In order to this, the people must\\nearnestly, cheerfully, liberally, sustain the divinely-appointed\\ninstitutions of the Bible, institutions so loved by the fathers.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "DR. THOMAS II. COCHRAN.\\nDr. Cochran was the son of John Davidson Cochran, born\\nJune 15, 1812, on Cochran Hill. After his preparatory course\\nin schools, he studied medicine and surgery with Dr. Nehemiah\\nCutter, of Pepperell, Mass., and Drs. Dixi Crosby, of Hanover,\\nand Josiah Crosby, of Meredith Bridge, and graduated at the\\nMedical College at Hanover, in the Class of 1840, and com-\\nmenced to practice at New Ipswich in September of that year.\\nHe was married, by Rev. Samuel Lee, to Mary, daughter of\\nCapt. Jeremiah Pritchard of New Ipswich, Oct. 3, 1844. Their\\nchildren are Hamilton P., John D., Frederick C, Mary L., and\\nHelen V. Dr. Cochran held a commission of Justice of the\\nPeace for the County of Hillsborough from 1847 to his re-\\nmoval to West Rutland, Vt., in 1855, and served as Assistant\\nSurgeon U. S. Army, in the military hospitals Louisville, Ky.,\\nin the years 1862 and 63. He is now in the successful prac-\\ntice of his profession in West Rutland, Vt.\\n35", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "J.KBufford siifti.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "KESPONSE OF DR. T. H. COCHBAN.\\nAnd the rest of the acts of the fathers, behold, they are written in the book of the\\nChronicles.\\nMr. President,\\n1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in or-\\nder a declaration concerning the manner of the discovery and\\nearly settlement of this goodly heritage, whose boundaries are\\nthe Eastern and Western Seas, and also the acts of the early\\nfathers,\\n2 I thought it good to me also, having sat at the feet of\\nelders and old men and ancient maidens, and learned, by\\nword of mouth, many ancient traditions\\n3 And also having a perfect knowledge of many things that\\nhave never been before written\\n4 And furthermore, having been an eye-witness of many\\nthings, that have come to pass in these latter days, to set them\\nforth in order unto your most excellent friends,\\n5 That you, likewise, might know and understand the same\\n6 Now, therefore, declare I them unto you, and not unto you\\nonly do I declare them,\\n7 But to the effect that generations yet unborn may also read\\nand know of the acts of their fathers.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nDISCOVERY OF AMERICA. FIRST SETTLEMENTS.\\n1 Now it came to pass, in the days of Ferdinand and Isabella,\\nthat there arose a young man, a Genoese, a man of much\\nstudy and learning and wisdom and understanding, and full of\\nall knowledge in navigating ships upon the waters.\\n2 Now this young man went into the presence of the King\\nand Queen, and bowed himself before them, saying,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "276\\n3 Hear ine, King, I pray thee, and turn not a deaf ear\\nunto the supplication of thy servant.\\n4 Now this is my petition and desire for it comes to pass,\\nthat as I lie sleeping upon my couch by night, my slumbers are\\ndisturbed by strange visions of isles and lands beyond the sea,\\ntowards the setting sun\\n5 And my convictions, also, by day are, that there are yet\\nother lands, that my lord the King knoweth not of.\\n6 Now, therefore, I pray thee, give me ships, and men to\\nnavigate them, that I may go in search thereof, and bring sil-\\nver, and gold, and precious stones, and men-servants, and maid-\\nservants, to fill the treasury of my lord the King.\\n7 Now it came to pass, that, after many like entreaties, the\\nhearts of the King and Queen were moved with compassion\\ntowards him, and they gave him ships and men, as he had de-\\nsired them.\\n8 Now when he had cast his lot upon the waters, and had been\\ntossed about for many months, he lifted up his eyes, and be-\\nhold, there rose up before him a land of mountains and valleys,\\nand hills and forests, yea, of lakes and mighty rivers, whose\\nwaters mingle with the sea\\n9 A land inhabited by a strange people, clothed in skins and\\nfurs of animals, cunning archers, and mighty warriors, wor-\\nshippers of a great spirit, but who knew not the living and true\\nGod.\\n10 Now he called the land he had discovered, Columbia, and\\ntarrying for a season, returned to his own country.\\n11 Now it came to pass, that when the discoveries that\\nChristopher, whose surname was Columbus, had made, became\\nnoised abroad among the nations of the East,\\n12 There arose colonies from Tyrus, which is, by interpreta-\\ntion, England\\n13 And also from the land of pipes, lager-beer, and sour-\\nkrout, which is, by interpretation, Holland\\n14 Also from the land of oil, wine, and honey, the originators\\nof fashions for the civilized world to ape, which is Prance\\n15 Also from the land of knight-errantry, seekers for gold-\\ndust, famed for its Amoritish and Moorish women, even Spain.\\n16 Now they crossed the sea in ships, and anchored at the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "277\\nmouths of the mighty rivers, and builded cities every tribe\\naccording to its nation, did it build a city. (a)\\n17 Now the land that Columbus discovered became a great\\nand mighty nation.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nSETTLEMENT OF LONDONDERRY.\\n1 Now there came also a tribe of Scots from the Isle of\\nErin Go Bragh known and read of all men as Scotch-Irish,\\nfor they had sojourned many generations in that Isle, in the\\nnorth part thereof, Presbyterians, who feared God, and eschewed\\nevil.\\n2 They also came down in ships, their wives and little ones,\\nand the ships wafted westward, and anchored at the mouth of\\nJordan, even the Merrimac, where it empties into the sea.\\n3 Now it came to pass, as they journeyed westward a Sabbath-\\nday s journey, that they lifted up their eyes,\\n4 And behold they discovered land, yea rich land, abound-\\ning in forests of cedar and fir.\\n5 And behold also, there were meadows, where ran pure\\nstreams of water, and bearing much grass for their flocks and\\nherds. (b)\\nG Here they pitched their tents, and gave thanks unto the\\nLord, for his goodness, and for his mercy that endureth for-\\never.\\n7 And they called the land whereon they worshipped\\n-Bethel;\\n8 For they said The Lord hath directed our steps hither-\\nward, and pointed this land out to us, for an heritage for our-\\nselves, and the generations that are to come after us.\\n9 So it came to pass that they builded houses, and tilled the\\nearth, and the earth yielded her increase, and sons and\\ndaughters were born unto them.\\n10 And their flocks and herds multiplied exceedingly, and\\nthey became a prosperous and happy people, fearing God alway.\\n11 Now they called the land whereon they abode London-\\nDerry, for they said We will perpetuate the name of the\\nplace of our nativity.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "278\\nCHAPTER III.\\nSETTLEMENT OF NEW BOSTON.\\n1 Now it came to pass, in process of time, that the sons that\\nwere born unto them grew to man s estate, and for number\\nwere like the hosts of David when he warred against the Phi-\\nlistines,\\n2 G-odly men, and men of valor and their daughters were\\nlike the roes upon the mountains, comely and fair to look\\nupon.\\n3 Now the young men arose and said unto their fathers,\\nBehold the young men, for we are mauy, and the place is too\\nstraight for us.\\n4 Where now is the rood of ground whereon we can build\\nan house, and plant a vineyard, and eat our bread, and drink\\nour wine, and live and die under our own vine and fig-tree\\n5 Now when the young men had done speaking their fathers\\nsaid unto them,\\n6 Lift up your eyes and look afar off, beyond Jordan, even\\nwestward, beyond Joppa. (c)\\n7 Is there not a land flowing with milk and honey, and own-\\ned by the merchant men of the city, even Boston\\n8 Arise, go to now, take money in your purse, and two loaves\\nto sustain you on your journey,\\n9 And go buy you lands whereon to build and raise you up\\na local habitation and a name in Israel.\\n10 Now the young men did as their fathers had commanded\\nthem, and went and bought lands that had been measured by\\nthe compass and chain,\\n11 And felled the timber thereon, and burned it upon the\\nground, and sowed instead the wheat and flax and barley\\n12 And builded an house every man according to his means,\\ndid he build an house.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nTHE YOUNG MEN SEEK WIVES.\\n1 Now it came to pass that one young man, after he had cast\\nin the wheat and flax and barley, and builded an house, arose\\nand came to himself, and said,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "279\\n2 kt As it was in the days of Adam so it is In these latter\\ndays, it is not good for man to be alone\\n3 What doth it profit a man, if he gain a farm and live a\\nbachelor\\n4 I will arise, and go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bcth-\\nuel, my mother s father, and take from thence a wife of the\\ndaughters of Laban, my mother s brother. (1)\\n5 And he arose, and went and did as he had said\\n6 Now this was the portion that Laban bestowed upon his\\ndaughters.\\n7 One young heifer, one ewe lamb, one foal, and a side-sad-\\ndle, new from the shop, stitched by the hand of a cunning work-\\nman,\\n8 A spinning-wheel (there were no pianos in those days),\\nand some fine linen from the loom,\\n9 Pewter spoons and platters, without alloy, for the table, a\\nchurn and kneading-trough. (d)\\n10 And, peradventure, another article, much used in those\\ndays, somewhat after the similitude of a kneading-trough, with\\nthe addition of rockers.\\n11 This was the portion that the damsel brought unto her\\nhusband.\\n12 Now it came to pass, that other young men, seeing that\\nthe prosperity of their friend was greater after he had taken a\\nwile than before, went and did likewise.\\n13 Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand\\nbefore kings, he shall not stand before mean men.\\n14 Now they prospered and waxed in riches, and became\\nmuch people, and called the land whereon they dwelt Israel,\\nwhich is by interpetation New Boston, for they said, Did we\\nnot buy lands of the merchant-men of the city of Boston\\nCHAPTER V.\\nWHAT THE W I V.E S DID.\\n1 The heart of her husband, doth safely trust in her.\\n2 She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her\\nhands", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "280\\n3 She layeth her hand to the spindle, and her hands hold the\\ndistaff;\\n4 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among\\nthe elders of the land\\n5 She maketh fine linen and selleth it\\n6 Her children rise up and call her blessed, and her husband\\nalso and he praiseth her.\\n7 Now the wives they had chosen were cunning workers with\\nthe shuttle and distaff, and spun of the wool, and made gar-\\nments for themselves, their husbands and little ones.\\n8 And of the flax, they made linen, yea the fine linen of\\nEgypt did they make, and laid it upon the lawn to bleach and\\nto whiten,\\n9 And watered it with a watering-pot, at the rising of the\\nsun and at the going down of the same, and at noon-day, until\\nit was like unto the snow for whiteness.\\n10 Now they beetled it upon a rock, even the rock that stands\\nunto this day, at the threshold of the door of the house of\\nPeggy, the daughter of John, did they beetle it\\n11 And folded it in folds, and took it to the Fair, even the\\nDeny Fair, and sold it to the merchant-men of the city for\\nshekels of gold and shekels of silver. (c)\\n12 Thus were they an helpmeet to their husbands.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nCAVE OF MACHPELAH.\\n1 Now it came to pass that the chief people and elders as-\\nsembled themselves together, and said one to another,\\n2 Man that is born of woman tarrieth but for a season and\\npasseth away, and we have not yet where to bury our dead.\\n3 And they communed with Ephron the son of Zohar the\\nHittite saying,\\n4 Sell unto us, for as much money as it is worth, the field\\nand the cave therein, which layeth before Mamre, on the hill-\\nside, above the river, even t the Piscataquog, that runneth\\nthrough the valley, for a possession of a burial-place, that we\\nmay bury our dead out of our sight.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "281\\n5 And Bpliron answered and said unto them Hearken\\nunto me my neighbors and townsmen\\n6 The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, what\\nis that betwixt me and you bury therefore thy dead.\\n7 And they hearkened unto Ephron, and weighed unto him\\nthe silver which he had named, even four hundred shekels cur-\\nrent money with the merchants.\\n8 And the field and the cave of Machpelah, which lieth\\ntherein were made sure unto them for a possession of a burial-\\nplace, and there they bury their dead even unto this day.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nBUILDING OF THE FIRST TEMPLE CALLING OF\\nSOLOMON.\\n1 Now after those things, the chief people and elders assem-\\nbled themselves together the second time, and said one to\\nanother,\\n2 Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests,\\nbut we have not where to worship God on the Sabbath day.\\n3 Now they took counsel together, and builded a sanctuary\\non Mount Ephraim, on the north side thereof, near Cave Mach-\\npelah.\\n4 The length thereof was one score and ten cubits, and the\\nbreadth thereof was one score and five cubits, and the height\\nthereof twelve cubits.\\n5 On the south side was the gate, or main entrance to the\\nlower, or inner court of the sanctuary, and on the east, south,\\nand west sides of the inner walls was an upper court, which is,\\nby interpretation, a gallery.\\n6 On the south of the upper court sat those who sang songs\\nand played the harp, and on the east and west sides sat rebel-\\nlious lads and contrabands,\\n7 While on the lower court sat the elders and assembled wis-\\ndom of Israel.\\n8 Now there were on the east and west ends of the sanctuary,\\nporches, or outer courts with side entrances to the lower court,\\nand winding-stairs to the upper court.\\n36", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "282\\n9 Now opposite the south gate on the north side, against the\\nwall of the inner court, was the altar, whose height was three\\ncubits and a span, and above the altar was there projecting from\\nthe wall after the similitude of the shell of the tortoise, which\\nis, by interpretation, a sounding-board, that the truths spoken\\nat the altar might not ascend, and be lost among the rafters,\\nbut descend, and find lodgment in the hearts of the hearers.\\n10 Now the color of the temple was diverse from that of the\\nsepulchre unto which Christ likened the Jews\\n11 And the building might be likened unto an algebraic for-\\nmula, thus a -J- b x y the whole, which is, by inter-\\npretation a, the walls plus b, the roof; minus x, the steeple\\nminus y, the bell the house.\\n12 Now they called Solomon from the isle of Scotia, be-\\nyond the sea, a devout man, of much learning and wisdom, and\\nof talents not a few.\\n13 And Solomon was anointed to walk in and out of the\\ntemple before this people, and he did so and his offerings were\\nacceptable unto the Lord and multitudes turned from the error\\nof their ways under his teachings.\\n14 And the temple was called the Temple of Solomon.\\n15 Tradition says of Solomon, whose surname was Moor,\\nthat he was of large stature, and his countenance beamed with\\nintelligence and good-humor,\\n16 And was known for his many proverbs and sayings, that\\nabounded in wit and sarcasm, and was, withal, a good horse-\\nman, and sat upon his horse after the similitude of one that\\ncommandeth an army.\\n17 Now there was a man of much note in the land, whose\\nsurname was McLaughlen, who kept an inn on the hillside above\\nthe sanctuary, and many of the hearers of Solomon assembled\\nthere at noontide on the Sabbath day, and regaled themselves\\nwith new wine and strong drink.\\n18 Now on the altar, on the right hand of Solomon, stood a\\nmonitor, which is, by interpretation, an hour-glass, to ad-\\nmonish the congregation of the distich in the primer, that\\nAs runs the glass,\\nMan s life doth pass. W", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "283\\n19 And Solomon preached by the hour.\\n20 Now on the morrow after the Sabbath, a certain man re-\\nproached Solomon, in this wise\\n21 Thou didst weary us yesterday with thy much speaking,\\nand the hour dragged heavily upon us.\\n22 Whereupon Solomon replied, and made the ears of him\\nto whom he spake to tingle What have I to do with thee,\\nthou wicked and perverse son of Belial for thou wilt take two\\nglasses from Mac with an easy grace, and canna take one glass\\nfrom me without grumbling.\\n23 Now all the days of the ministration of Solomon among\\nthis people were one score and seventeen years and he died,\\nand was buried in the cave upon the hillside, and a horizontal\\nslab, supported at its four corners, with inscriptions thereon,\\nshoweth his history unto this day.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nTHE SECOND ADVENT. (g)\\n1 Now it came to pass, that about one score and ten years\\nafter the coming of the first tribe, there came also from the sea-\\nshore, even Beverly and Hamilton, in the Old Bay State,\\nanother tribe and people, whose speech and dialect were unlike\\nthe speech and dialect of the former people, for they said Sib-\\nboleth.\\n2 Now they multiplied and became much people, so that the\\nname became more numerous than any other name in the land.\\n3 They also waxed in riches, and became money-changers and\\ntax-gatherers,\\n4 And owners of much land, and cattle, and sheep, and\\nswine,\\n5 And horses, and asses, and contrabands, and he-goats,\\nand rams, and bulls, whose bellowings were like the bellowings\\nof the bulls of Bashan, when they encompassed the psalmist\\nround about.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "284\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nTHE WITCH OP ENDOB (h) WHAT SHE DID THE\\nFATE OF ISAAC THE DEATH OF THE WITCH.\\nI tell the tale as it was told to me.\\n1 Now as it was in the days of the man of Uz, so it was in\\nthe early settlements Satan came also, in the person of a\\nwitch, that he might annoy and vex the feeble ones, and pro-\\nvoke them to curse God and die.\\n2 Now she entered into the swine, and choked them with\\ntheir victuals and she possessed the house-dog, that he howled\\ndismally, and the cat, that she screeched wildly about the house,\\n3 And also the cock did crow, and the geese did cackle at\\nunseasonable hours of the night.\\n4 Now an incubus fell upon the sleeper, that he awoke\\nwith fright, and the infant screamed and refused its mother s\\nbreast.\\n5 Now the kine gave blood instead of milk in the pail, and\\nthe churner of cream received naught for her labor, and\\nswine s flesh turned to oil in the pot with the dinner of herbs.\\n6 All this, and more, did this witch do, to the great annoy-\\nance and affright of the people, and against the peace and\\ndignity of Israel.\\n7 Now Isaac, the son of Eliab, conceived a passion for Me-\\nhitable, the daughter of John, who lived a long mile distant\\nacross the wood, and he tarried with her until a late hour of\\nthe night, and departed for his father s house.\\n8 Now the witch confronted him at the water-ford, in the\\ndepth of the wood, and Isaac saw an unco sight, phantoms\\nand ghosts, and Father Time with his scythe danced before him,\\nand blazing fires flitted fantastically upon his right hand and\\nupon his left. (i)\\n9 The big owl hooted, and the small owl screeched over his\\nhead, and the hare rustled the dry leaves at its feet.\\n10 Now Isaac perceived that he was tormented by a witch,\\nand was sore afraid, and said, If I cross the stream, she will\\ncause my feet to slip, and I shall be choked in the waters and\\nif I turn, and flee to the house of Mehitable, she will cut the\\nsinews of my heel, and I shall be roasted alive.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "285\\n11 Now Isaac was in a great strait, and wot not what to do,\\nand left not his track till the crowing of the cock.\\n12 Now Isaac never tarried with Mehitable more.\\n13 Now the death of the witch was after this wise\\n14 A housewife, who had churned from the rising of the sun\\nuntil the eleventh hour of the day, and brought no butter, said,\\nHow long shall I be troubled with this, mine adversary\\n15 And she took a horse-shoe, that had been worn, and\\nheated it to redness seven times, and cast it into the churn,\\nwhich made the contents to seethe and boil, and again beat the\\ncream with the dash, as it were a dozen strokes, and took out\\nbutter by the pound.\\n16 Now it came to pass, at the self-same hour, that two men\\nwere passing the house of the witch, and heard a scream from\\nwithin, as of one in distress\\n17 And they entered, and lo the woman lay dead on the\\nfloor, with a mark on her forehead after the similitude of a\\nhorse-shoe.\\n18 Now it was a proverb in Israel, that if the housewife\\nchurned, and brought butter before sunrise, on the first morn-\\ning of the fifth month of the year the spell of the witch would\\nbe broken, and the woman would be in luck with her dairy.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nTHE BAPTISTS COMING OF ISAIAH, AND BUILD-\\nING OF THE TABERNACLE DEATH OF ISAIAH.\\n1 In the beginning of the nineteenth century came Isaiah\\nthe prophet, crying,\\n2 Ho, all ye that pant after the water brooks, come unto\\nme, and I will immerse you beneath the waters of Jordan.\\n3 For all other rites and ceremonies concerning baptism\\nare but as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, of none effect.\\n4 Now many followed Isaiah, and they builded a tabernacle\\nin the land, in the north part thereof, near the habitation of\\nIssachar, whose length was twenty cubits, and whose breadth\\ntwenty cubits, and whose height was twelve cubits and a span.\\n5 At the south end thereof was the gate that led to the altar\\nat the north end", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "286\\n6 From the gate to the altar was an aisle upon either side\\nthereof were seats for the hearers\\n7 On the west of the aisle sat those who wore beards and\\non the east sat those whose heads were decked with the roses\\nof Sharon, and wore long hair for a covering.\\n8 Thus were man and wife separated in the sanctuary.\\n9 Now Isaiah, whose surname was Stone, prophesied among\\nthem many years, and was gathered unto his fathers.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nWINTER EVENING FESTIVALS WHAT HAPPENED\\nTO THE WIFE OF THE MILLER.\\n1 Now it was a custom among the first tribe, that after ear-\\ning and harvest, they made feasts, each man at his own house,\\nand bade those of his kin and tribe, that his house might be\\nfilled.\\n2 And he sat before them the fruits of his stall, and fowl and\\nwild game and honey\\n3 Also did he set before them the fruits of his orchard and\\nvintage.\\n4 Now they ate and drank, and repeated anecdotes of olden\\ntime, and recounted personal exploits and deeds of daring, and\\nmade merry until a late hour of the night.\\n5 Thus did they spend a winter s eve.\\n6 Now there was a man at a feast, an elder of the church,\\nof uprightness and integrity;\\n7 And he brake the wheat and the barley between the upper\\nand nether millstone\\n8 And his fame was known through all the region round\\nabout, as there was no mill, for fine flour, like unto the Dea-\\ncon Cristy Mill.\\n9 Now, like Noah of old, he looked upon the wine when it\\nwas red, and tarried long at the inn of him that sold strong\\ndrink.\\n10 Now it came to pass that his wife said unto him at the\\nfeast,\\n11 Wist ye not that it is the twelfth hour of the night\\nAnd he said, We will go.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "287\\n12 Now he drove fine horses, even a span and the horses ran\\nfuriously, and overturned the sleigh, and threw the woman upon\\nthe ground, even at their own door.\\n13 And she arose with a fright, and shook the snow from her\\ngarments, and said,\\n14 I have reason to thank my Maker that I am not killed.\\n15 Now the saying of his wife displeased him much, inas-\\nmuch as it wounded his pride for he accounted himself a good\\nreinsman.\\n16 And he lifted up his voice and said unto her, Thank\\nyour Maker thank your Maker Woman, verily, verily, I say\\nunto thee, thou hast far more reason to thank thy driver.\\n17 Now this has been a saying and a byword in Israel, until\\nthe present day.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nCALLING OF EPHRAIM BUILDING THE SECOND\\nTEMPLE BURIAL OF EPHRAIM.\\n1 Now the people lamented the death of Solomon for a\\nfaithful shepherd he had been over them.\\n2 And they said Who now will go up to the sanctuary\\nbefore us, and baptize our little ones, and give our daughters\\nin marriage, as Solomon has done\\n3 And they prayed that the Lord might direct them in their\\nchoice.\\n4 Now Thomas, an elder in the church, fell into a deep\\nsleep, and saw as in a vision, and behold there stood up before\\nhim a young man in stature like unto Saul the son of Kish,\\nwhom the Lord directed unto Samuel.\\n5 And his countenance beamed with intelligence and joy,\\nand was like unto the face of one divinely inspired to preach\\nglad tidings.\\n6 And he spake many tongues, and his voice was sweet and\\nharmonious, like a band of well-tuned instruments\\n7 And his eloquence was like unto the eloquence of Saul\\nof Tarsish when pleading before Agrippa.\\n8 Now Thomas awoke, amazed at his dream, and declared\\nit unto the brethren", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "288\\n9 And they said Is it not Ephraim, the son of John, a hero\\nof the Revolution Lo, he tarrieth at Carmel, at his father s\\nhouse.\\n10 And they sent messengers unto Ephraim, and Ephraim\\ncame, and was anointed to walk in and out before this people.\\n11 And never was there so large a multitude gathered to-\\ngether in Israel as on the day of the anointing of Ephraim.\\n12 Now in the eighteenth year of the ministration of\\nEphraim, being the three and twentieth year of the nineteenth\\ncentury, the chief people and elders assembled themselves to-\\ngether the third time, and said,\\n13 Behold our children and children s children worship\\nwith us in the sanctuary, and their number is legion, and lo,\\nthe temple our fathers built is too straight for us.\\n14 Now they took counsel together, and builded a second\\ntemple upon the plain, in the field of Ami, a furlong east from\\nthe first temple\\n15 Now the length thereof was forty cubits, and the width\\nthereof was forty cubits, and the height thereof was eighteen\\ncubits,\\n16 And the porch before the temple was four cubits, and its\\nlength twenty cubits.\\n17 On the south end of the temple was the tower, whose\\nheight was four score cubits, with a dial upon three sides there-\\nof, made without hands. (i)\\n18 On the south are three doors that open into the porch or\\nouter court, and from the porch are three doors that open into\\nthe sanctuary, and winding-stairs that lead to the upper\\nchamber or gallery, on three sides thereof.\\n19 Now the height of the altar opposite the middle door of\\nthe porch, on the north side of the sanctuary, is nine cubits,\\nand is overlaid with cushions of scarlet, and at the four corners\\ntherof hang tassels of purple.\\n20 Behind the altar was placed a window, and around the\\nwindow hang curtains of scarlet, and above the curtains is\\nwritten in letters of gold, as upon the arc of the rainbow,\\nHoliness becometh thine house, Lord, forever.\\n21 Now there was no temple in all the country round about\\nso beautiful and comely in all its proportions as the Temple\\nof Ephraim.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "289\\n22 Now all the days of the pilgrimage of Ephraim were\\nthree score and eight years, and all the days of his ministry\\namong this people were one score and nineteen years, and he\\ndied.\\n23 And his people made great lamentation over him My\\nfather, my father! the chariot of Israel and the horsemen\\nthereof.\\n24 Now they carried the body of Ephraim into the aisle be-\\nfore the altar, and John, a learned divine, spake unto them,\\nand comforted them with precious words.\\n25 Now they buried Ephraim in the cave upon the hillside,\\nwhere they buried Solomon and the saints in Israel that had\\ngone before him, even the cave of Machpelah which they pur-\\nchased from Ephron the Hittite.\\n20 And they erected a monument of marble, with inscrip-\\ntions and devices thereon, that the sons and daughters of Israel,\\nsojourning in far countries, as they make pilgrimages once\\nmore to the homes of their childhood and graves of their sires,\\nmight see the spot where they laid him.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nC O M I N (J OF JOHN THE PHYSICIAN, MARRIAGE\\nPROCLAMATION DEATH OF JOHN.\\n1 Now there came a young man of fair exterior, of good\\nreport, and of knowledge and understanding, and his manner\\nand speech were pleasing unto the people, and his name was\\nJohn, and he healed the people of their infirmities for many\\nyears.\\n2 Now John was withal a good penman, and was chosen\\nmany years the people s scribe, to chronicle the votes and laws\\nof the town.\\n3 Now it was so that the sons and daughters of Israel were\\nmany,\\n4 And the sons were diligent husbandmen, and cunning\\nworkers of wood and iron, and tradesmen\\n5 And the daughters were comely and fair, even fairer than\\nthe last daughters of Job; and they were skilled in the use of\\nthe needle and management of the dairy.\\n37", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "290\\n6 Now as it was in the days of Noah, so it was in these\\nlatter days, they were married and given in marriage.\\n7 Now it was the custom that when a young man was be-\\ntrothed to a maiden, he gave the chief scribe money, even five\\ndimes, to proclaim it three times at the festivals and public\\ngatherings of the people.\\n8 Now John the scribe, as was his custom, sat with those\\nwho sang and played the harp in the temple of the Lord on the\\nSabbath day.\\n9 Now when Ephraim the priest had done exhorting the peo-\\nple, and the singers had sung, John stood up in his place and\\nproclaimed in a. loud voice, in this wise, and all the congrega-\\ntion gave heed\\n10 Marriage is intended between Major Jesse Obadiah and\\nMiss Prances Matilda Zachariah\\n11- Also between Captain Jacob Hezekiah and Miss Maria\\nAntoinette Zepheniah all of this town.\\n12 Also between Colonel Elias Tobias, of Joppa, and Miss\\nHannah Annis Mordechias, of this town\\n13 Thus did John proclaim them that their parents and\\nfriends might show cause, if any they had, why it should not\\ncome to pass, or forever hold their peace.\\n14 Now John, whose surname was Dalton, fell sick, and\\ndied, and a large multitude gathered at his burial.\\n15 And the body of John was borne to the tomb by men\\nwearing white aprons and gloves and they lamented the\\ndeath of John, and threw sprigs of evergreen upon the coffin\\nin the grave.\\nCHAPTEB XIV..\\nA BURIAL SCENE.\\n1 Now the age of Ninian, whose surname was Clark, one\\nof the early fathers, an honorable and upright man, and a mag-\\nistrate for many years, was four score and eight years, and\\nhis eyes, waxed dim, and he called to his bedside his children,\\n2 Even William, his son, and Lydia and Letitia, his daugh-\\nters, for his other sons, Hamilton and Eobert and David and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "291\\nJonathan, were already dead, and Samuel, his youngest, lived\\na great way off;\\n3 And he said unto them, Gather yourselves together, your\\nwives, your husbands, and little ones, and hearken unto Ninian,\\nyour father.\\n4 Behold, the days of my pilgrimage are fulfilled, and I go\\nhence, and the place that knows me will soon know me no more\\nforever.\\n5 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be\\ngathered unto my people\\n6 Bury me in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which I\\nand my neighbors bought of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession\\nof a burial-place.\\n7 There we buried Solomon, our beloved pastor, and there I\\nburied Mary, the mother of you all, and there I also buried her\\nsons, David and Jonathan.\\n8 Now after Ninian had made* an end of commanding his\\nchildren, he drew up his knees in the bed, and yielded up the\\nghost, and was gathered unto his people.\\n9 Now when the day of his burial had come, his children\\nand children s children gathered themselves together, clothed\\nin sackcloth, and a large multitude gathered there also.\\n10 Now Ephraim, the priest, stood up in their midst, and\\ncomforted them, and when he spake to them of the faith and\\nhope and charity of Ninian, he moved the multitude to tears.\\n11 Now they passed around the coffin, and looked upon the\\nface of Ninian, their father and friend and neighbor, and wept.\\n12 And the body was borne to its burial, and a large proces-\\nsion followed according to the age and relation of the deceased,\\ndid they follow in order.\\n13 Now when the coffin was let into the grave, John, the\\nphysician, and conductor of the ceremony, uncovered his head,\\nand spake aloud, saying,\\n14 In behalf of the chief mourners, I thank you, friends\\nand neighbors, for this last tribute of respect for the deceased,\\nand for burying their dead out of their sight. The bearers and\\nfriends are requested to return to the house of mourning.\\n15 Now the children and children s children, and friends and\\nrelatives of Ninian, returned to the house of mourning, and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "292\\nate of the fatted calf, and drank wine, as was the custom in\\nthose days, and each then departed unto his own house. (1)\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nCOMING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.\\n1 In those days came John the Baptist, like one crying in\\nthe wilderness,\\n2 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths\\nstraight.\\n3 Now many believed in the preaching of John, and were\\nbaptized of him in Jordan, which is, by interpretation, Scoby\\nBrook.\\n4 Now this same John was clothed in raiment of broadcloth\\nand fine linen, with a white scarf about his neck, and sandals\\nupon his feet.\\n5 Now during the faithful administration of John, the church\\nincreased an hundred-fold.\\n6 And they also waxed in pride, for they said, Behold the\\ntemple of Bphraim, and the unpainted tabernacle our fathers\\nworshipped in is a hissing and a by-word.\\n7 Now they took counsel together, and builded a second\\ntemple in the valley, by the river s bank,\\n9 Where dwelleth the innkeeper and the merchant-men of\\nIsrael, and they that heal the sick, and the miller, and the\\nworkers of wood and iron, and he that stitcheth blinkers with\\nan awl\\n10 And where is also the tabernacle of learning, and the\\ngrand sanhedrim, where the people do yearly congregate to do\\npenance, by taxing themselves, and choose whom they shall\\nserve, or who shall serve them, and make long harangues, and\\npass some lawful and many unlawful acts.\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nBELSHAZZAR S FEAST, OR JACKSON BARBACUE.\\n1 Now it came to pass, in the last year of the reign of John\\nthe second, whose surname was Adams, that the Whigs, who\\nhad chosen John aforetime, said among themselves,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "2\\n2 John doeth well, and we will choose him to sit at the\\nhead of the assembled wisdom of the nation, yet other four\\nyears.\\n3 But the Democrats said Nay we will choose Andrew,\\na valiant warrior, and hero of many battles, to preside over the\\ndestinies of the nation.\\n4 Now the Democrats strove against the Whigs, and vexed\\nthem sore, and cast out John, and put Andrew in his place.\\n5 Now it happened on a day, which is to say, the first month\\nof the year, and eighth day of the month, which is the day\\nwhen Andrew overthrew the hosts of the king, and slew them\\nhip and thigh, that there were none left to tell the tale,\\n6 That Samuel, whose surname was Trull, an innkeeper in\\nthe land, made a, great feast, and bade the friends of Andrew\\nwithout stint.\\n7 And Samuel slew an ox, and sacrificed him whole upon\\nthe party altar. (I)\\n8 And multitudes came and filled his house, and ate of the\\nox, and drank of his wine, and sang songs, and danced, and\\nmade merry in their hearts\\n9 For they said, We have conquered our political enemy,\\nthe Whigs, and digged about them, and hedged them in, inas-\\nmuch as we have chosen Andrew over John.\\n10 Now there was a man at the feast whose head was\\nwhitened with the frosts of many winters, a councillor in the\\nland for many years, and his name was the name of the Lord s\\nanointed, even Samuel.\\n11 Now Samuel stood up among them, leaning upon his staff,\\nand prophesied unto them, saying,\\n12 I hath, as I hoping, that Jackson seed may ne er depre-\\nciate, but increase from generation to generation, until e en the\\nmules themselves do bring forth their young.\\n13 Now the prophecy of Samuel pleased them much, and\\nthe multitude sent up three shouts like unto the shouts of the\\nhosts of Joshua, that rent the walls of Jericho.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "294\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\ni\\nCOMING OP FRANCIS AND JAMES AND NELSON.\\n1 Now after John, came Francis, fresh from the Whited\\nSepulchre filled with dead men s bones, skilled in the art of\\nhealing, and filled with medical lore. (m)\\n2 Now Francis, whose surname was Fitch, was of a perverse\\nand obdurate heart, steeled against the smiles and fascinations\\nof women for he said, like Paul, It is better that all men\\nshould be as I am\\n2 Howbeit marriages increase the number of my loaves\\nand fishes, so let them marry who will, for my purse s sake.\\n4 So Francis preserved his identity, and lived a bachelor,\\nwhich caused many a damsel to mourn, and refuse to be com-\\nforted.\\n5 Now Francis tarried many seasons, and departed for the\\nplains of lawgivers and synagogues and prisons.\\n6 Now after Francis, came James, the son of Josiah, the\\nlawyer, and he lodged in the inn of one Pharisee (Faris.)\\n7 Now James, whose surname was Danforth, rebelled against\\nthe monkish celibacy of his illustrious predecessor, and was\\nsmitten with the beauty of Israel, and took a wife of the daugh-\\nters of the house of William, of the tribe of Ninian.\\n8 And there was much. mourning among the damsels of Is-\\nrael, who exclaimed, Alas for us for while we were busy here\\nand there, he was gone And thus they wept, while James\\nrejoiced, and gave heed unto the sick of the land.\\n9 Lastly there came one Nelson, whose surname is Clark,\\nfrom the cold regions of the North, saying, Come unto me,\\nall ye sick, lame, and suffering, and I will give you rest, not by\\nmeans of the nauseating drugs of the apothecary, but by the in-\\nfinitessimal saccharine globules whose taste is pleasant, and\\nwhose virtue is sure. And the people listened to Nelson and\\nwere healed.\\nCHAPTEE XVIII.\\nVALEDICTION.\\nHumble mansion, within whose portals we drew our first\\nbreath, and gazed with an infant s stare upon the morning", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "295\\nlight, and from whose altar the morning and evening incense\\narose, and from whose gates the beggar ne er turned him away\\nempty, farewell\\nFarewell ye Elms of Zoar and Poplars of Hebron, against\\nwhose trunks the northern blasts have spent their strength for\\nnaught, and amid whose branches the evening breeze discoursed\\nsweet music, and in whose shade we gambolled and fell asleep\\nhi childhood.\\nHumble school-house, farewell where first we lisped our\\na, b, abs, to the now venerable Jesse, whose surname was\\nBeard, and in boyhood s rougher years we tugged at roots and\\nfelt the rod, and where at the noontide hour we joined the\\njoyous throng at athletic games and sports, and with tactics\\nmilitary, purely original, we besieged, with boisterous shouts,\\nthat made the welkin ring, and took snow forts by storm.\\nFarewell ye forests and hunting-grounds where in days\\nof yore, we, with sinewey arm and measured stroke, the wood-\\nman s axe wielded, and brought to earth, with the thunder s\\ncrash, thy proudest monarch s and where, with our grand\\nancestral fowling-piece, dropped the cunning fox and timid\\nhare, as on swift foot they fled the thirsty blood-hound s deep-\\nmuttered bay, as in the fresh track he scents his game, and in\\nmad haste pursues.\\nYe meandering brooks and mountain streams, farewell\\nwhere oft in boyhood s days, we, with the angler s rod and line,\\ntempted with delusive bait the speckled tenants of thy bubbling\\nwaters.\\nYe mountains of Gilboa, whose tops rend the clouds in twain,\\nthe theatre of those grand terrific scenes upon which we oft\\ndid gaze with mingled awe and admiration, as on thy gigantic\\nfront and sides the lightnings crashed and thunders echoed,\\nfarewell\\nFarewell, old familiar hillside, where stood the first temple\\ndedicated to the triune God, and at whose baptismal font the\\nhand of Ephraim was placed upon our infant brow and where\\nin early childhood we repeated our first Sabbath-school lesson,\\nand wondered with childlike curiosity at the meaning of the\\ndistribution of those symbolic elements to the sacramental\\nhost.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "296\\nCave of Machpelah, farewell where the polished marble\\ntells the passer-by, that here repose the dead. During the past\\ncentury a rich harvest has been gathered within thy sacred\\nembrace. Here the loving and loved of earth sleep and know\\nno waking, until mortal shall put on immortality. Here ma-\\nternal breasts, on which our infant head reposed, lie treasured in\\nthy sacred urn until the resurrection morn.\\nA sacred trust thou hast in keeping, and most sacredly art\\nthou fulfilling thy pledge, Grave Venerable and illustrious\\ndead, loving and beloved, peace to your ashes\\nOld New Boston, all hail to thee home of our childhood\\nhow pleasant are thy gates, and thy temples how beautiful to\\nthe eye of the returning pilgrim The eagle buildeth her nest\\nin thy high places the ox grazeth by thy river s bank, and the\\nkid and fattlings feed upon thy hillsides, and the horse\\nsnuffeth the battle afar off. Thy sons go forth the third time\\nto meet the enemy and return not empty-handed, and thy\\ndaughters are those whose children rise up and call them\\nblessed. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within\\nthy palaces. Again, peace, and farewell! (0)\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nAPPENDIX TO CHRONICLES.\\nNote Ch. 1. Build a city. The French settled Louisi-\\nana, Spain, Florida, English Jamestown, Dutch New York,\\netc.\\nNote b, Ch. 2. Meadows, etc. Beaver Meadows, vide\\nParker s History of Londonderry.\\nNote c, Ch. 3. Beyond Jordan. The Merrimac lies\\nabout midway between Derry and New Boston. Joppa, a\\nsmall village in Bedford, between the river and New Boston.\\nNote (1), Ch. 4. Some married cousins.\\nNote d, Ch. 4. Pewter. An entire set of pewter platters\\nand plates, consisting of fourteen pieces, now grace as a relic\\nof antiquity the open, kitchen cupboard of Peggy Cochran, on\\nCochran Hill, which her mother brought from Londonderry,\\nover a century ago, as part of her wedding dower. It was used\\nas table-service at the antiquarian picnic, on the Monday", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "297\\nfollowing the centennial, when some twenty-live descendants\\nfrom that venerable, weather-beaten mansion, that has bravely\\nwithstood the storms of a century, representing four genera-\\ntions and three States, held a social reunion to pay their re-\\nspects to the aged tenant, who, with the exception of one sister,\\nis the only living representative of her generation, whose name\\nwas once legion.\\nThe old-fashioned pot of baked beans, brown bread,\\nand mug of cider, were prominent items in the bill of fare.\\nBefore partaking of the bountiful repast, a select portion of\\nScripture was read by one of the number, from an old family\\nBible, and a feeling and pertinent address made, and a blessing\\ninvoked by Eev. Mr. Cogswell, who, with his estimable lady,\\nwere invited guests.\\nNote e, Ch. 5. Derry Fair. An annual festival held at\\nDeny, where stock and household manufactures were taken to\\nbe sold or exchanged.\\nNote/, Ch. 7. Hour-glass. As clocks and watches were\\nrare in those days, the hour-glass was the only measure of\\ntime.\\nNote g; Ch. 8. Second advent. The numerous and in-\\ndustrious family of Dodges. As they were mostly from towns\\nbordering on the coast in the vicinity of Salem, Mass., and being\\nan admixture of English and Welch and inheriting, by associa-\\ntion, much of the peculiar phraseology of the fishermen of the\\ncoast, their mode of expression was, as might be supposed,\\ndifferent from that of the Scptch and Irish of the first families.\\nNote h, Ch. 9. Witch, etc. Many of the Scotch-Irish\\nsettlers were firm believers in the witch legends of father-land.\\nNote i, Blazing fires. Jack O Lanterns, Will O Wisps,\\nIgnis Fatuus.\\nNote i, Ch. 12. Without hands. The edifice is yet want-\\ning a clock to make it complete.\\nNote _; Ch. 14. Drank wine. It was a universal custom\\nto furnish one or more kinds of spirits at funerals. The wife\\nof Deacon Thomas Cochran, who died in 1829, was the first\\nperson of any note buried without that ceremony. The tem-\\nperance question began to be agitated about that time.\\nNote I, Ch. 16. Sacrificed. Roasted whole.\\n38", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "298\\nNote m, Ch. 17. Whited Sepulchre, Medical Buildings.\\nHanover.\\nNote n, Have faith homeopathic.\\nNote o, Ch. 18. Third time. Revolution, War of 1812,\\nand the Rebellion of 1861.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS AND INTERESTING LOCALITIES.\\nAs the settlement of New Boston began in the northeast part\\nof the town, for some years business was confined to that re-\\ngion, though, of course, but little was done prior to 1760, yet\\nthere was a small stock of goods kept in a dwelling-house near\\nWalker s Mills, as early as 1755. About this time, the settle-\\nments were being pushed into other parts, and Cochran Hill\\nbecame a place of interest. A Mr. McGaw built a house here,\\nand kept a tavern and store and Joseph Towns traded near\\nwhere the late John D. Cochran s house stands, sold to Thomas\\nStark, and removed to Hopkinton. Stark traded here some\\nyears, was burned out, resumed his business, and was suc-\\nceeded by Ira Wilkins. Wilkins continued for a few years, and\\nwas succeeded by James Ray, of Mount Vernon. For a while,\\nNathaniel Martin traded here. This Thomas Stark was a\\nnephew of the elder General Stark, married the daughter of\\nDr. Jonathan Gove, ultimately failed in business, and died in\\nDunbarton. Near King s Mills, Samuel Worthly traded for\\nseveral years. As early as 1760, a store was opened on Brad-\\nford Hill. John McLaughlen carried on a large business here,\\nfor many years, keeping also a tavern, which was extensively\\npatronized, the great thoroughfare through the town being over\\nthis hill. This was the grand central business locality, for a suc-\\ncession of years. A store was kept many years by Mr. Lamson,\\nin a part of the Dea. White house and the tanning of hides\\nwas carried on for years, traces of the pits being yet discover-\\nable in Mr. Abraham Wason s field. He, also, kept a tavern.\\nMr. Joseph Lamson, a little to the south of this, for many\\nyears kept a tavern so it is evident that over this road, at the\\nbase of Joe English s, on the west, there must have been much\\ntravel. A public house and store were, for many years, kept\\nnear Mrs. John Lynch s, on the turnpike. Mr. John Moor did", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "300\\nbusiness for some years. A store was kept, for a while, near\\nthe residence of the late Dea. Issachar Andrews, by Samuel\\nMorgan, with whose death trade ceased here.\\nAs we have said, the principal business locality was the cen-\\ntral part of the town. Capt. John McLaughlen, who kept a\\nstore and tavern on Bradford s Hill, at length carried on the\\nbusiness of tanning, near the residence of Mr. Sidney Hills.\\nHere he opened a slaughter-house, and killed a great many cat-\\ntle, salting the flesh for a foreign market, and retaining the\\nskins for tanning. And this soon became the centre of busi-\\nness. Several stores were opened, and two or three taverns\\nwere kept. Mr. James Sloan had a store in a part of the\\nhouse now used for the parsonage of the Presbyterian church\\nin which building was Long Hall, which was often used for\\nselect schools, and other purposes deemed important in those\\ndays. It was here that Jonathan Cochran, John Goodhue, John\\nand Nathaniel Safford, Nathaniel Cleeves, Levi Bixby, Moses\\nWhitney, Rodney M Oollom, Samuel and Butler Trull, Parker\\nWarren, and Nehemiah Trull, carried on mercantile business.\\nIt was here Capt. Geary Whiting, Samuel Trull, and Ira\\nClough prosecuted a large business in tanning. Here Water-\\nman Burr, Esq., Micah Lawrence, Esq., and Amos W. Tewks-\\nbury commenced their successful business career. About 1825,\\nwhat is now called the Lower Village began to be built, and\\nsoon business was transferred from the Upper Village to\\nthis, as it had been from Bradford s Hill to the Upper Vil-\\nlage. The opening of new lines of travel have produced great\\nchanges in business localities. Until within a few years, Burr,\\nLawrence, and Tewksbury continued, in the Lower Village,\\nthe business which they began in the Upper Village here,\\nalso, traded David G. Fuller, Alexander Dickey, Stephen Whip-\\nple, John Gregg and still later, James and Dexter Smith,\\nJames and David Gregg, Joseph Whipple, and Solomon Atwood.\\nNestled in this valley, on either side of the South Branch\\nof the Piscataquog, is the principal village, consisting of some\\nfifty dwelling-houses, three stores, one tavern, a large school-\\nhouse, two stories in height, with ample halls, and modern im-\\nprovements, built in 1856, at the expense of nearly four thou-\\nsand dollars, where the children are divided into two grades,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "301\\nand called together, by the musical tones of a bell, the Baptist\\nchurch and the Town House. This latter is the old Presbyte-\\nrian meeting-house, that formerly stood on the hillside, just\\nsouth of the burial-ground. It is of the same dimensions as\\nformerly, except in its height. The lower part is used for\\nmeetings of the town, while the upper was finished for a school-\\nhall, for which purpose it has been much used. In the upper\\npart, also, is a room in which the selectmen transact their busi-\\nness.\\nPending over this village, on the south, is the Upper Vil-\\nlage, the central graveyard, and the Presbyterian meeting-\\nhouse with its lofty steeple and rich-toned bell.\\nTo one standing on the highest part of Clark s Hill, a beau-\\ntiful panorama unfolds itself on every hand. Some fourteen\\ntowns can be seen by the unassisted eye. Monadnock, Kear-\\nsarge, and other eminences are prominent among the objects of\\ninterest. This locality is associated with the thriving and chris-\\ntian families of Clarks, who lived and died here.\\nCochran s Hill, like the Clark Hill, is in the western part of\\nthe town, not as high as the latter, yet a beautiful swell of land,\\nwith rich scenery around it, and associated with the early fam-\\nilies of Cochrans and Crombies. These families were in afflu-\\nent circumstances, and remarkable for their hospitality and\\nsocial propensities. Bradford s Hill is near the centre of the\\ntown, and nearly as high as any point of land by which it is\\nsurrounded. The hill was first settled by John McLaughlen,\\nand here the Rev. Mr. Bradford lived for nearly forty years,\\nand from him it takes its name. On the west, in the distance,\\nMonadnock is seen struggling to raise its head above the shoul-\\nder of an intervening range of hills. On the north, Kearsarge\\nbares its head to the blast of the storm, and Mount Washington\\ndeigns at times to unveil his lofty peak. The Unconoonucs re-\\npose in quiet beauty on the east, beyond which are seen the\\nheights around Laconia and Lake Winnipiseogee. To the\\nsouth, the eye stretches indefinitely towards Ashby and Ash-\\nburnham, Mass. The rising and setting of the sun in the sum-\\nmer, and its setting through the entire year, are obscured by no\\nmaterial object and the west winds come sweeping over a vast\\nregion of country, checked by no intervening barrier. The", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "302\\nlungs can always expand and be filled here, while the eye never\\ntires in beholding objects, whose attractions are so many and\\nso varied, nor in watching the endless phenomena of clouds\\nand winds. The stars seem nearer than on most elevations.\\nThe scenery in winter is indescribably rich. The pure snow-\\ncarpet on hill and valley, on a calm day, stretching in all direc-\\ntions save one, as far as the eye can reach, with a thousand cot-\\ntages embosomed, is a scene of rare attraction. And when the\\nwinds are abroad, and the snow is in high spirits, the ever-\\nshifting snow-wave, the scowling face of the cloud, the cease-\\nless sport of the wind, changing its form continually, present\\nan ever-varying scene of thrilling interest to the spectator. We\\nhave seldom, or never, seen a location so well adapted to the\\nlarge lungs, and larger heart of him, whose name is forever to\\nbe associated with it. It is emphatically Bradford s Hill.\\nWhat God hath joined together let no man put asunder.\\nWason s Hill is believed to be the highest point of cultivated\\nland in the town, from which the prospect is beautiful in several\\ndirections. This elevation is pleasantly associated with Dea.\\nRobert White, with whom Rev. S. Moor lived at the time of\\nhis installation, and also with many other influential families.\\nJoe English stands in the southern part of the town, attain-\\ning a height of 572 feet from its base. On the north the ascent\\nis not difficult, the slope extending a considerable distance, so\\nthat in this direction it might be ascended by carriages. On\\nthe east it is more abrupt, while on the south it presents a\\nbold and seemingly perpendicular and craggy front. The top\\nand parts of its sides are covered with trees. This hill over-\\nlooks a great region of country. Near it are nestled the vil-\\nlages of Mont Yernon, Amherst, Prancestown, Merrimac, and\\nDunbarton, and the cities of Manchester and Nashua. Ando-\\nver, Mass., and other towns in that direction maybe seen, while\\nthe eye stretches indefinitely into Maine, in the direction of\\nSaddleback Mountain, between Deerfield and Northwood, and\\nPawtuckaway, between Deerfield and Nottingham.\\nJoe English was an object of great interest to the early set-\\ntlers, since it designated to their friends in Londonderry, Chester,\\nTyngsborough and other places, the locality of their humble\\nhomes and from this height they could easily trace the com-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "803\\nmunities they had left for ruder dwellings in the woods.\\nThis hill was, no doubt, a favorite resort of Indians, so long as\\nthey lingered in this region. It is known that remnants of\\ntribes lingered long on the branches of the Piscataquog, in\\nwhich fish abounded, and where lingered the mink, the beaver,\\nand other game. The Indians that used to live along the\\nMerrimac and its tributaries, were the Agawams, Wamesits or\\nPawtuckets, the Nashuas, the Sougans, the Namoskeags, the\\nPenacooks, and the Winnepesaukees. In process of time,\\nthrough various causes, these became merged into one tribe,\\nand were indiscriminately called Penacooks. Namoskeag was\\nthe royal residence of the ancient Sagamores of this great tribe,\\nwhile at the mouth of the Piscataquog River was a considerable\\nvillage. The Sagamores most worthy of mention among the\\nPenacooks, were Passaconaway, Wonnalancet, his son, and\\nKancamagus, usually called John Hodgkins, his grandson\\nPassaconaway appears first in 1627 or 1628 he was a power-\\nful warrior, and died prior to 1669, being a faithful friend to\\nthe English. Wonnalancet was chief of the tribe in 1669, and\\nwas converted to Christianity in 1674, through the preaching of\\nthe Rev. John Eliot, and ever afterwards exhibited a meek and\\nquiet spirit, and proved an abiding friend to the whites. Won-\\nnalancet was succeeded in 1685 by Kancamagus, better known\\nas John Hodgkins, son of Naunomocumuck, Passaconaway s\\neldest son. He was a brave and wise chieftain, and losing his\\nrespect for the English authorities, became a formidable enemy\\nto the settlements in the neigborhood of the Merrimac River.\\nHe is last heard of in 1691, near which time it is believed he\\ndied in friendship with the English.\\nWhen the grant of New Boston was obtained, in 1763, no\\nconsiderable tribe was to be found in the region, yet fragments\\nof tribes temporarily abode both within the limits of the\\ntownship, and at different points on the Merrimac and its\\ntributaries, up to nearly that period and though New Boston\\nnever suffered much from depredations, yet the settlers lived\\nin fear of roving squads of them.\\nJoe English has sometimes been called IngalFs Hill, or Indos,\\nbut its true name is Joe English, which it received from a\\nnoted Indian of that name. In his History of Manchester, the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "304\\nHon. C. E. Potter, alluding to this eminence, thus writes\\nIt is noted, and is of much curiosity as a freak of nature. It\\nis precipitous and abrupt on its southern end, having the ap-\\npearance of the southern part of the hill being carried away by\\nsome convulsion of nature. In fact the hill terminates on the\\nsouth in a rough precipice, presenting in the distance a height\\nof some two or three hundred feet, and almost perpendicular.\\nThe hill took its name from an incident of olden time connected\\nwith this precipice. In 1705 or 1706, there was an Indian liv-\\ning in these parts, noted for his friendship for the English set-\\ntlers upon the lower Merrimac. He was an accomplished\\nwarrior and hunter, but following the counsels of Passacona-\\nway and Wonnalancet, he continued steadfast in his partiality\\nfor his white neighbors. From this fact the Indians, as was\\ntheir wont, gave him the name, significant of this trait, of Joe\\nEnglish. In course of time the Indians, satisfied that Joe\\ngave information of their hostile designs to the English, deter-\\nmined upon killing him upon the first fitting opportunity. Ac-\\ncordingly, just at twilight, they found Joe upon one of the\\nbranches of the Squog, hunting, and commenced an attack\\nupon him but he escaped from them, two or three in number,\\nand made directly for this hill, in the southern part of New\\nBoston. With the quick thought of the Indian, he made up\\nhis mind that the chances were against him in a long race, and\\nhe must have recourse to stratagem. As he ran up the hill, he\\nslackened his pace, until his pursuers were almost upon him,\\nthat they might become more eager in the pursuit. Once near\\nthe top he started off with great rapidity, and the Indians after\\nhim, straining every nerve. As Joe came upon the brink of the\\nprecipice before mentioned, he leaped behind a jutting rock,\\nand waited in breathless anxiety. But a moment passed, and\\nthe hard breathing and measured but light footsteps of his\\npursuers were heard, and another moment, with a screech and\\nyell, their dark forms were rolling down the rocky precipice, to\\nbe left at its base, food for hungry wolves\\nHenceforth the hill was called Joe English, and well did his\\nconstant friendship deserve so enduring a monument.\\nJoe English was the grandson of the Sagamon of Aga-\\nwam (now Ipswich), whose name was Wosconnomet.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "305\\nJoe English came to his death in consequence of his fidel-\\nity to the whites. The hostile Indians determined upon liis\\ndeath, and kept constantly upon his path. At length, July 27,\\n170G, Lieutenant Butterfield and his wife, riding betwixt Dun-\\nstable and Chelmsford, on horseback, with Joe English as\\ncompanion and a guard, fell into an Indian ambuscade. The\\nhorse was shot upon the first fire, Butterfield and his wife fall-\\ning to the ground. The main object of the Indians being to\\nsecure Joe, Butterfield and the soldier made their escape,\\nwhile the Indians (one of the party being left in charge of Mrs.\\nButterfield) went in pursuit of him. Joe made for the woods,\\nseveral Indians in full pursuit, and finding them gaining upon\\nhim, he turned about and presented his gun as if to fire. The\\nIndians, fearing his fatal aim, fell upon the ground, and Joe\\ntook to his heels for life. Again the Indians gained upon him,\\nand Joe again presented his trusty gun, and for fear of it\\nthe Indians again threw themselves upon the ground. This\\nwas repeated several times, until Joe had almost gained the\\nthick woods, when one of the Indians, despairing of taking him\\nalive, and fearing he would escape them, fired upon him, break-\\ning the arm with which he held the gun. The gun fell to the\\nground and Joe redoubled his speed. But just as he gained\\nthe wood, a shot struck his thigh and he fell to the ground.\\nHis fall was the signal for a yell of triumph from the Indians in\\npursuit. When they came up to him, they expressed their\\npleasure in no measured terms. Now, Joe, said they, we\\ngot you you no tell English, again, we come No, retorted\\nJoe, Cap n Butterfield tell that at Pawtucket. Hugh\\nexclaimed the Indians, the thought just striking them that the\\nsoldiers at the block-houses, at Pawtucket or Dunstable, alarm-\\ned by the whites who had escaped, would lie upon them in a\\nshort time. There was no time for delay. Joe could not be\\ncarried away, and one of them buried his hatchet in the head\\nof the prostrate Indian. Thus died Joe English, the faithful\\nfriend of the white man. The services of Joe English were\\nconsidered so meritorious that a grant was made to his wife\\nand two children, by the Legislature of Massachusetts, because,\\nas the words of the grant have it, he died in the service of his\\ncountry\\n39", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "MES. SARAH THERESA WASON.\\nShe is the daughter of Capt. John Lamson, born March 18,\\n1821. Mrs. Wason was educated at the district school, and at\\nNew Ipswich Academy. Feb. 22, 1843, she became the wife of\\nMr. Abram Waaon, a worthy farmer residing near Joe Eng-\\nlish, on a farm once owned by Dca. Robert White. Mr. Wason\\nwas the son of James Wason, a brother of the late Dea. Robert\\nWason. The children of the late James Wason arc Thomas,\\nwho married Mary Emeline Cowdry, of Lunenburg, Mass., Jan.\\n5, 183(5. His second wife was Mary Ann Lawton, of Shirley,\\nMass., who was married April 2, 1851. He married, for his\\nthird wife, Harriet Lawton, of Shirley, Mass., Feb. 22, 1855,\\nand resides in Mount Vernon, N. H. Robert married Martha\\nF. Murray, of Charlcstown, Mass., April 8, 1841. He married,\\nfor his second wife, Harriet Hall, of Charlestown, Mass., in\\n1852. Alcinda married Perley Batchelder, of Mount Vernon,\\nN. H., July 8, 1841, where they reside. David married Julia\\nM. Leeland, of Somervillc, Mass., Dec. 25, 1843, and resides\\nin California. William married Frances Hazeltine, of Am-\\nherst, N. H., Sept. 30, 1847, and resides in Watertown, Mass.\\nJames Putnam married Eliza Baker, of Billerica, Mass., Oct.\\n1847, and resides in California. John died Dec. 25, 1845,\\naged 20 years. Horace died Nov. 13, 1847, aged 29. William\\ndied Oct. 12, 1855, aged 43.\\nMrs. Wason s poetical taste has been inspired by the bold and\\ndelightful scenery amid which she has lived, by the broad acres\\nher husband has tilled, and by the flowers cultivated with her\\nown care. Her occasional productions have been received with\\nmuch commendation. Modest and retiring, she has shrunk\\nfrom public notoriety, and, with great reluctance, submitted the\\nhymns found in the centennial proceedings and the ensuing\\npoem, for publication", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "JOE ENGLISH MEMORIES.\\nPost remember, clear Joe English,\\nThine ancient, youthful day,\\nHow creation s mighty Maker\\nFashioned thine eternal clay\\nHast thou stood in silent grandeur\\nThese thousand, thousand years\\nThy face uncovered, upward turned\\nTo Him who rules the spheres\\nDost remember, dear Joe English,\\nIf thou hadst another name\\nBefore the red man christened thee,\\nWhen the early English came\\nDidst thou guard their smoky wigwams\\nAs thou hast the white man s home,\\nAnd love and cherish Uncas tribe,\\nAnd tribes before them, gone\\nDost remember sixteen ninety,\\nHow the council-fire burned bright,\\nWhen young Joe English s doom was said,\\nFor his friendship to the white,\\nAnd a wily, red-faced warrior,\\nIn skulking, Indian style,\\nWent to hunt the missing culprit\\nRound thy huge, old granite pile\\nThat amid the silent darkness\\nThe doomed one lurked anear,\\nThe hot blood mounting to his brow\\nSuch black treachery to hear,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "310\\nAnd with light, elastic footstep\\nOvertook his crafty foe,\\nAnd his deadly English musket\\nLaid the dusky savage low\\nRememberest thou when Tories\\nBurned the Pope among the trees\\nTwas the effigy of Washington\\nThat swung in the autumnal breeze,)\\nHow they came again the next year,\\nTo repeat their much-loved fun,\\nAnd party spirit grew so strong,\\nThat the Tories had to run\\nThose were days when dreaded witches\\nHeld an undisputed sway,\\nAnd took the cattle from their stalls\\nTo the scaffold on the hay\\nUsed to hide within the cream-pot\\nWhen the churning days came round,\\nAnd the heated poker s burning mark\\nOn the witch was always found.\\nDost remember, dear Joe English,\\nHow they searched thee, o er and o er,\\nFor the pot of hidden treasure,\\nAnd the gold thou hadst in store\\nAnd no richly hidden treasure,\\nNeither gems of gorgeous hue,\\nBut thy solid granite boulders\\nEver met their longing view\\nThat for miles around the country\\nMysterious lights were seen\\nFlitting round thy sacred summit\\nWhen the darkness reigned supreme\\nThat the goblins, ghosts, and witches,\\nAnd the money-diggers crew", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "311\\nVanished when the light of morning\\nStreaked the distant eastern blue\\nDost remember, dear Joe English,\\nThe cottage, mossed and brown,\\nReared upon thy northern summit,\\nOn a green and grassy lawn,\\nWhere the eye could ever linger\\nOn New Hampshire s Crystal Hills,\\nOn her silvery lakes deep settings.\\nOn her winding, rushing rills\\nFar up, within that mountain home\\nA group of children fair\\nFirst conned their life s great lesson from\\nTheir mother s earnest prayer,\\nSadly gazed their farewell parting\\nBy that humble cottage door,\\nWith their buoyant hearts so trusting\\nIn the untried world before.\\nThat youthful boy of golden hair\\nWears honor s radiant crown,\\nAnd fortune s smile is over him,\\nAnd showers her blessings down.\\nBright, shining laurels, ever green,\\nAre upon another s brow,\\nAs he sits in stately council\\nWith our mighty nation now.\\nDost remember, dear Joe English,\\nAmong thy many joys,\\nThose Western troops, a numerous throng\\nOf right merry girl s and boys,\\nHow they grew to manhood s portion\\nIn thy bracing mountain air,\\nPlow their sterling self-reliance\\nSought other homes and cares V", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "312\\nDost know, that he of gifted mind\\nEarly passed away from earth\\nTo where the flowers immortal bloom,\\nWhere no ties are torn by death\\nAnother loved one sweetly sleeps\\nNeath Mount Auburn s sacred dust,\\nWho gave, with liberal hand and heart,\\nGod s blessings held in trust.\\nLife s fleeting years have sped away,\\nAnd one among that band\\nIs telling messages from God,\\nIn a far-off Western land\\nAnother wields the golden wand\\nSo many fail to win,\\nMong Brookline s splendid palace homes\\nHis princely home is seen.\\nWithin a sheltered, sunny nook\\nAdown thy fertile vale,\\nA once delightful, pleasant home\\nYet stands the threatening gale,\\nLived one who served his country well\\nIn Revolution times,\\nWho crossed old ocean s foamy deep\\nTo many foreign climes.\\nLong time ago, in life s young morn,\\nA proud, impulsive boy\\nWent forth from out that early home,\\nIn a seaman s bold employ.\\nThe waves dashed o er the noble ship\\nIn a tempest-storm, one day\\nThese sixty years his bones have slept\\nIn Chesapeake s sandy bay.\\nRemember st thou, in by-gone days,\\nDoctor Hugh McMillen s fame,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "313\\nHis wondrous skill in medicine,\\nAnd the trials he o ercame\\nThere re many legends told of him\\nWhere thy loved name is known\\nHis cool, shrewd, philosophic mind\\nStood undaunted and alone.\\nHis father bore an elder s part\\nIn the church s earliest call,\\nAnd filled an honored member s seat\\nIn the legislative hall\\nHis numerous sons and daughters,\\nHis descendants scatter wide,\\nFrom northern shores and southern clime,\\nTo Pacific s peaceful tide.\\nClose nestled neath thy changeless face,\\nTwo homes stood side by side,\\nWhose heads were elders in the church,\\nWhose sons are scattered wide,\\nAnd when mankind were wrapped in sleep, 1\\nAt midnight s mystic hour,\\nDevouring flames consumed those homes\\nWith reckless, fearful power.\\nKnow st thou that California s land\\nHas mystic charms untold,\\nThat many reared among thy homes\\nHave sought those mines for gold\\nThat one gathered rich treasures up\\nWith earnest, careful hand,\\nThen came to breathe life s last fond sigh\\nAmong his household band\\nThere, grassy mounds are over some\\nWho never came again\\nAnd oh, the weary days and nights,\\nWhen the fever burned their veins\\n40", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "314\\nNo loving mother near, to bathe\\nThe aching, throbbing brow,\\nOr say sweet words of gentle trust,\\nAs the passing spirit bowed.\\nDost thou know our first loved pastor\\nLived anear thy mountain throne,\\nThat his children oft have gathered\\nIn the old ancestral home\\nGrandsons twain went forth in honor\\nFrom old Dartmouth s classic hall,\\nAnd another s heaping treasure\\nWhere the golden cascades fall.\\nDost remember, dear Joe English,\\nIn seventeen seventy-nine,\\nWhen good old Deacon White lived here\\nIn vigorous manhood s prime,\\nOf the quaint, old-fashioned wedding,\\nWhen his daughter came a bride,\\nOf the three days jovial feasting\\nEre she left his home and side\\nThat this dear old, ancient homestead,\\nSo rich in scenery grand,\\nHas been the dwelling-place of scores\\nIn this our far-famed land\\nThat sorrow mingled with their joys\\nIn the days of long ago,\\nWhen some dear, cherished form was laid\\nIn the grave so cold and low\\nKnow st thou our loyal-hearted sons,\\nWhose names we re proud to tell,\\nWere cradled mid these granite hills,\\nAnd drank at Freedom s well\\nThey said Good-by to friends and thee,\\nTo their childhood s cherished home", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "315\\nThey ve gone to plant our nation s flag-\\nWhere bold, rank treason roams.\\nDost thou know, dear old Joe English,\\nTis our centennial day,\\nAnd eager, longing eyes have come\\nFrom homes far, far away,\\nTo gaze once more upon thy face,\\nOnce more review past scenes,\\nOnce more recall youth s ardent hopes,\\nAnd childhood s sweetest dreams 1\\nDost know, dear, changeless, silent friend,\\nThat our lives are passing on\\nSoon for us the keenest joys we feel\\nWill be numbered o er and gone\\nSoon the loving hearts that cherish thee\\nWith tenderest memories green,\\nWill faint and falter in life s work,\\nAnd the grave will come between.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "REV. HIRAM WASON.\\nHe was son of the late lamented Dea. Robert Wason, and\\nwas born December 18, 1814. He united with the Presbyterian\\nChurch in 1831, and began to fit for college the following year,\\nattending the first of a series of select schools in New Boston,\\ntaught in the Long Hall, by Wm. Hall. He completed the pre-\\nparatory course at Prancestown, and entered Amherst College\\nin 1834, graduating in 1838, and immediately commenced\\nteaching in New Ipswich Academy. His health failing, in the\\nautumn of 1839, he went South, and spent nearly a year teach-\\ning in a private family in Georgia. Returning North, he spent\\none year at Andover Theological Seminary but for the sake of\\nmilder winters went to New Haven, Ct., and remained the two\\nfollowing years in the Theological Seminary there. In 1843\\nhe was licensed by the Londonderry Presbytery, at Greenfield\\nand the same year went to the West, and spent a short period\\nin Lane Seminary, and soon began to preach at Vevay, Switzer-\\nland county, Indiana where he remained until 1857 since\\nwhich time he has been at West Creek, Lake County. On en-\\ntering the ministry Mr. Wason was embarrassed by feeble health,\\nand yet has been unable to preach but one Sabbath for nearly\\ntwenty years. While at Vevay he taught a select school from\\nfour to nine months yearly, during seven of the years of his\\nstay there. In October, 1844, he married Betsey R., daughter\\nof Timothy Abbot, Esq., of Wilton, N. H., and has one son and\\ntwo daughters. Mr. Wason is a highly successful and faithful\\nminister retaining the spirit and principles in which his earlier\\ndays were nurtured, and is remembered with interest by the\\nchurch and community among whom repose the ashes of his\\nbeloved father and mother.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "S.Zjto- rtr-d -s.ftti.\\nP\u00c2\u00a3^\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "THE PAST AM) PBESENT-THE CONTRAST.\\nMr. President,\\nThe hundredth anniversary of the first settlement of New\\nBoston furnishes an occasion for mingling our sympathies, and\\nfor indulging in pleasant and grateful recollections. The early\\nhistory of our native town is full of interest to all her sons and\\ndaughters. Here our fathers endured hardships and privations,\\nand their descendants are now enjoying the fruits of their\\nlabors. We now stand upon the horizon that divides two cen-\\nturies. In looking over the past Ave find the changes have been\\ngreat the physical changes are the most obvious. On every\\nside cultivated farms and buildings, for the comfort of man and\\nbeast, now greet the eye. The first settlers saw nothing but\\none dense forest, with no trace of the white man save here and\\nthere the marks of the surveyor s axe. The first thing to be\\ndone was the construction of a rude cabin on some sunny hill-\\nside, or sheltered valley not always the most comfortable\\nfor winter or convenient in summer. The modern housekeeper\\nwould have her ingenuity taxed to apply the same room to the\\npurposes of parlor, sitting-room, dining-room, kitchen, bedroom,\\nchamber, and cellar. The furniture of such a dwelling must\\ncorrespond both in quantity and quality, and yet, in that cabin,\\nthe stranger and the visitor were always made welcome. Be-\\nsides the purposes of living, the early dwellings were factories\\nalso, for in most of them was found a place for the card, spin-\\nning-wheel, and loom. They manufactured most of their table-\\nlinen, bedding, and wearing apparel, not only the clothing\\nfor every-day wear, but the clean attire for Sundays and festive\\noccasions.\\nIn contrast with the cabin of the pioneer, there now stands\\nthe neatly-painted cottage or mansion, arranged for comfort\\nand convenience, and furnished with all the improvements and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "320\\nluxuries of steam and telegraph days. For many of the every-\\nday conveniences which we enjoy, our ancestors had no word in\\ntheir vocabulary.\\nSubstantially built and well-filled barns, furnishing food and\\ncomfort for large stocks, stand in striking contrast with the\\nrude hovel, built of poles, and covered with hemlock or pine\\nboughs, to furnish protection to the only cow, the main depend-\\nence for family food. If the family were able to own, and\\nhad the means of keeping them, a yoke of oxen were added to\\nthe stock these performed the double labor of service on the\\nlittle farm and journeys upon the road. They had but little\\nuse for the horse, and none for the carriage. Their visiting,\\nmarketing, and journeys were performed with an ox-team.\\nEven after horses were in common use, carriages, except the\\none-horse square-top chaise, were almost unknown. All rode\\non horseback, and the horses always carried double often a\\nchild in the mother s lap, and another on the pommel of the\\nsaddle before the father.\\nThey had not the semblance of roads, but followed paths or\\ntrails over the most convenient ground, guided by marked trees.\\nFrequently there were not even pole bridges over the streams,\\nand when they were swollen, and there was no ferry, they must\\nwait till the waters subsided so that they could ford the stream.\\nThis often caused a delay of many days on short journeys, and\\nthere was no help for it. Store-bills then were not large. A\\nyearly journey to Londonderry, Newburyport, or Salem, to sell\\nthe overplus of farm products, and to purchase necessaries for\\nthe year to come, sufficed for shopping.\\nMills were then scarce, and often far distant and when it\\nwas impossible or difficult getting to them, the corn, rye, and\\nbarley were prepared in various ways at home for family food.\\nTheir fare was simple, wholesome, and nutritious. The Indian\\nJohnny-cake baked on wooden trenchers by the fire, the bean,\\nor corn-porridge, and barley-broth (eaten in the wooden bowl\\nor pewter basin or porringer, with a pewter spoon) never gave\\nour grandparents the dyspepsia. We dare not say that the first\\nsettlers were not happier, and oven more useful in laying the\\nfoundations for generations yet to come, than we, their descend-\\nants, who inherited the fruits of their labors. They were then\\nhonest men, and sincere worshippers of God.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "321\\nThey were in the habit of attending meeting in heat and\\ncold, in storm and sunshine, roads or no roads. There was no\\ndanger of breathing confined air in any of their places of wor-\\nship, on a windy day, nor were any made sick or faint, after a\\ncold ride, by going into a church well warmed by stove or fur-\\nnace, and no one became drowsy or listless from sitting on well-\\ncushioned or inclined-backed seats.\\nThe only compensation in those days, for our present com-\\nfortable places of worship, was the family foot-stove, which was\\nconsidered the property of the mother. The little ones who\\nsat nearest to her would have the advantage of putting their\\ntoes and fingers near it, while the larger ones, as they sat on\\nall sides of the old square pews, would extend their feet toward\\nthe radiating heat, or rap their boots together, waiting im-\\npatiently to have the minister say, Finally. The older men\\nwould bear cold patiently, showing what they could endure for\\nreligion s sake, while the young men bore it bravely, lest their\\nreputation for hardihood might suffer in the eyes of the gentler\\nsex. The minister, boxed up in the old-fashioned pulpit elevat-\\ned far above the congregation, as if it were colder in that airy\\nheight, often preached having on a surtout buttoned up close,\\nand a heavy cloak over the shoulders, with thick gloves or mit-\\ntens on the hands not very conveniently dressed for oratorical\\neffect. Between the two services the boys and those w ho could\\nnot well endure the cold, would scatter to the post-office and\\ntavern, where it was known that good fires were kept, and\\nwhile the men would stand round the bar to get that which\\nwas then believed to be invaluable to keep out the cold of\\nwinter and the heat of summer, the boys would monopolize the\\nheat of the large fireplace filled with wood. The more gallant\\nand self-denying portion of the men would take the family\\nfoot-stove, and replenish it with good live coals for the afternoon\\nservice and homeward ride. Those times have long since\\npassed away, and now most places of worship arc as comfortable\\nas a private sitting-room, summer or winter.\\nThe first two generations passed away before the sound of\\nany bell floated down the valleys and over the hills, to call the\\npeople together for worship, to tell the most suitable hour for", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "O i\\nbreakfast or dinner during the week, and what would be the\\nproper time for steady folks to retire to rest.\\nThe bell is even made to speak a language when it rings and\\ntolls out of season. It announces the fact to all the inhabitants\\nof the town, that a man, woman, or child has passed away\\nand then the solemn toll, beating the slow, measured step to the\\ngrave, reminds the living of their destiny.\\nGreat changes have taken place within the memory of many\\nnow living, in regard to some of the customs, changes which\\nare real improvements in civilized life. The time has been\\nwhen no wedding would take place without the free use of\\nwine, and generally that which was much stronger. It is said\\nthat a barrel of rum was often provided for the occasion, and\\nthen a drunken frolic would last for several days. Now, it is\\nrare that even wine is provided publicly for the occasion.\\nThe change is equally great in regard to the general use of\\nintoxicating drinks. If there are as many drunkards now as\\nformerly, and as much liquor consumed (as is claimed by some),\\nthe number that use it is certainly less. It is within the mem-\\nmory of many of us, that not a single farmer in town thought\\nof harvesting his hay or grain without rum when not a single\\nbuilding was raised, or any special gathering made, without\\nrum and when it was not known that any man or boy refused\\nto drink from principle. Good men drank, believing that it\\nwas right and beneficial. It was offered to the minister when\\nmaking his parochial calls, and not generally refused to the\\nfamily physician when he came to see the sick, and to friends\\nwheli they came to make an afternoon or evening visit. All\\nmerchants kept it on one end of the counter to sell by the glass\\nor to give their customers. Even at the solemn rites of the\\nburial-service it was not forgotten or omitted. After the\\nreligious services at the house, and before going to the grave,\\nthe glass was first passed to the minister, then to the near\\nfriends and more distant relatives. Those who were to act as\\nbearers were next served, and then it was freely offered to all\\nthe neighbors and citizens who had gathered for the occasion.\\nThose living at the close of the century can well judge of the\\nchange that has taken place.\\nIn education there has been an advance. At first, the schools", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "323\\nwere limited from necessity, limited in number, length, and\\nexcellence. They had nut the means to hire teachers of suit-\\nable education, nor were such persons easily obtained. The\\nlog school-house or a small room in some private house, early\\ngave place to the red frame school-houses, and the red ones are\\nrapidly yielding to the neatly-painted white ones. There is\\nample room for the next century to improve on the past. The\\nschool-house should have a pleasant and healthy location, with\\nample grounds for recreation, well-fenced and ornamented with\\ntrees. The interior should be arranged for health and conven-\\nience. In other words, let the house where the child receives\\nthe first elements of an education be an attractive place, and it\\nwill exert a lasting influence on both mind and heart. One of\\nthe main impulses to education, and that which has done more\\nthan any other one thing to elevate the standard of education,\\nwas the inaugurating, in New Boston, a select school in the au-\\ntumn of 1832. This brought together the best scholars from\\nthe various school districts in town. It was, in reality, a sort\\nof graded school system, for the school was made up almost en-\\ntirely of town scholars. This school was kept up for many\\nyears. It was the means of fitting numbers for teaching, and\\nfor years New Boston furnished more school-teachers than any\\nof the neighboring towns. It also stimulated others to acquire\\na liberal education for previous to this, only a few had grad-\\nuated. Other changes might be mentioned, did time and space\\nallow. In early times, when families were few and land abun-\\ndant, the children settled mostly in the vicinity, and pursued\\nthe avocation of their fathers but in these days of steam com-\\nmunication, and the multiplying of trades, the children em-\\nigrate. Now they are found engaged in almost every branch of\\nbusiness and every profession, and scattered over a Avide extent\\nof territory.\\nBut there have been painful changes, that I have not men-\\ntioned. Every house has its story of joy and sorrow. Death\\nhas been here and nowhere can the history of change and sor-\\nrow be so plainly read as in the graveyard. There sleep the\\nfathers, forever sacred be their graves There, too, lie our\\nkindred and neighbors and friends. Through these changes\\nwe, too, must pass. The blessings we inherit we only hold in", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "324\\ntrust, to transmit, after we have improved them, to our descend-\\nants. It is the duty of the present generation to honor the\\nmemory of the past, emulate their virtues, and cherish all that\\nis really good, so that the coming century may stand in happy\\ncontrast with the present in all that is pure and ennobling.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "SABBATH SCHOOLS.\\nAt a meeting of a number of heads of families, and others,\\npatrons of the Sabbath school in New Boston, holclen at Mrs.\\nMoses Whitney s hall, in said town, on Friday, the first day of\\nOctober, 1819,\\nMotion being made to choose a chairman, the Rev. E. P.\\nBradford was chosen, and took the chair accordingly.\\nMotion was then made to choose a clerk, and Joseph Coch-\\nran, Jr., was chosen to officiate in that office.\\nProceeded to open a contribution for the purpose of pur-\\nchasing books for premiums, to reward the youth and children\\ncomposing the Sabbath school, for their industry in committing\\nand reciting portions of the sacred Scriptures.\\nFrom the foregoing, taken from a document which came into\\nour hands, it appears that a Sabbath school was organized in\\nthe Presbyterian congregation as early as 1819. Its organiza-\\ntion was very simple classes were formed, and teachers ap-\\npointed, and the work to be done was to commit and recite pas-\\nsages of Scripture. It was a school for children only yet, it\\nwould sec in, from the large and enthusiastic meeting referred\\nto above, and from the character of the men that composed it,\\nand the amount subscribed, that there was no want of interest\\nin the enterprise on the part of parents. The enthusiasm of\\nthe pupils was great, as appears from the number of verses of\\nScripture committed and recited. The whole number of classes\\nwas eight, four male and four female. The whole number of\\nteachers, eight assistant teachers, eight and the whole num-\\nber of pupils was 43 males, and 75 females. The boys recited\\n9,786 verses, and the girls 29,994.\\nClass No. 1 consisted of 10 boys, from 14 to 16 years of age\\nJeremiah Cochran, Rodney Cochran, John Kelso, Jr., Hiram\\nLynch, John Fairfield, Jr., Hiram Mcintosh, Lincoln H. Flint,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "326\\nJesse Colby, Joseph B. Cochran, and John Howe. Their\\nteacher was Moses Whitney, and the highest number of verses\\nrecited was 559, by Jeremiah Cochran. The whole number of\\nverses recited by the class was 1,596.\\nClass No. 2 consisted of 10 boys, from 11 to 18 Peter\\nCrombie, James B. Gregg, Jonathan Cochran, Sumner Cristy,\\nAlfred Cochran, Nathaniel Patterson, Silas Cochran, Daniel\\nLynch, Haskell McCollom. Their teacher was William Jones\\nand the highest number of verses recited was 1,116, by James\\nB. Gregg the next highest, was by Jonathan Cochran, 628.\\nThe whole number of verses recited by the class was 3,866.\\nClass No. 3 consisted of 9 boys, from 9 to 12 Samuel C.\\nWhiting, Elbridge Wason, Isaac Giddings, Jr., Absalom Dodge,\\nSylvester Dodge, Gilman McCurdy, William W. Peabody, Ly-\\nman Marcleu. Their teacher was JJeacon R. Wason and the\\nhighest number of verses recited was 511, by Calvin Whiting\\nthe next highest, 505, by Samuel C. Cochran. The whole num-\\nber of verses recited by the class was 1,492.\\nClass No. 5 consisted of 14 boys, from 5 to 8 John B.\\nWallace, William Wallace, John Crombie, John C. Henry,\\nWilliam Bradford, George W. Clark, Jacob Dodge, Ephraim\\nCristy, William P. Cochran, William C. Campbell, James Mar-\\nden, Thomas H. Cochran, Albert Dodge, R. C. Cochran. Their\\nteacher was Robert B. Cochran and the highest number of\\nverses recited was by William Bradford, 456 the next highest,\\n264, by Thomas H. Cochran. The whole number recited by\\nthe class was 2,832.\\nClass No. 5 consisted of 18 girls, from 13 to 16 Marinda\\nCochran, Susannah Leach, Syrena McMillen, Louisa Beard,\\nNancy McCurdy, Margaret R. Cochran, Letitia Cristy, Eliza\\nBeard, Jane Livingston, Anna Marden, Eliza Dickey, Harriet\\nCrombie, Hannah Peabody, Eleanor Giddings, Louisa Butler,\\nHepsibah Flint, Jane Gregg, Jane Wilson. Their teacher was\\nMary B. Cochran, assisted by Miss Burns and the highest\\nnumber of verses recited was 1,206, by Letitia Cristy the next\\nhighest was 873, by Hannah Peabody. The Avhole number\\nrecited by the class was 9,112.\\nClass No. 6 consisted of 17 girls, from 11 to 12 Adeline", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "327\\nMcMillen, Caroline McMillen, Charlotte Fairfield, Lucretia Liv-\\ningston, Cordelia Clark, Asenath Dodge, Sally Smith, Mehi table\\nGriddings, Relief Dodge, Sophronia Cochran, Rebecca Clark,\\nFrances Smith. Margaret Ann Cochran, Lavinia Wilson, Sa-\\nbrina Wilson, Abigail H. Flint, Rebecca Pinkerton. Their\\nteacher was Miss Sally Lamson, assisted by Betsey Wilson and\\nLydia Cochran. The highest number of verses recited was\\n1035, by Sophronia Cochran the next highest was 896, by\\nLucretia Livingston. The whole number of verses recited by\\nthe class was 8,953.\\nClass No. 7 consisted of 16 girls, from 5 to 10 Mary Cristy,\\nEloisa Dodge, Augusta Kelso, Nancy Eliot, Anna Hooper, Han-\\nnah Hooper, Rachel Smith, Annis Cochran, Ann Clark, Fran-\\nces Moor, Elizabeth Peabody, Mercy Cochran, Jane Wilson,\\nMary E.Cochran, Clarissa W. Collom, Mary Emily Cochran.\\nTheir teacher was Miss Frances Cochran, assisted by Sally\\nGregg and Harriet Cochran. The highest number of verses\\nrecited was 864, by Annis Cochran and the next, 801, by Au-\\ngusta Kelso. The whole number recited by the class was 7,198.\\nClass Xo. 8 consisted of 24 girls, from 4 to 8 Nancy Rich-\\nards, Sarah Hooper, Anstis Bradford, Nancy Cristy, Emily\\nWhiting, Lucy Adams, Lydia Adams, Ellis Hooper, Phebc Pat-\\nterson, Mary Jane Wilson, Rnhamah Cochran, Elizabeth Ann\\nPeabody, Abigail Fairfield, Mehitable G. Marden, Clarissa W.\\nMcintosh, Almena Dane, Dolly George, Clarinda Smith, Betsey\\nDane, Margaret Cochran, Elizabeth Dodge, Mary Patterson,\\nMary Whiting. Their teacher was Roxanna Whiting, assisted\\nby Jane Cochran and Lydia Cochran. The highest number of\\nverses recited was 511, by Sarah Hooper and the next highest\\nwas 449, by Anstis Bradford. The whole number recited by\\nthe class was 4,731.\\nThe whole number of verses recited by the school was 39,780.\\nThis school continued seventeeen weeks and the premiums\\nwore trifles, cheap books or tracts, no one exceeding in value\\ntwenty-two cents, few exceeding ten cents. These were given\\nas rewards not anticipated, for the meeting referred to was\\nheld near the close of the school, and Rev. Ephraim P. Brad-\\nford was authorized to obtain the books, and deliver them to", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "328\\nthe teachers, to be given to the pupils. And, true to their\\ngenerous character, before the meeting closed they voted,\\nunanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be presented\\nto the instructors and instructresses for the ability, fidelity,\\nand impartiality they have manifested in the discharge of their\\nduties, in instructing the youth and children composing the\\nSabbath school in this town, the present season.\\nThis mode of sustaining the Sabbath school continued for\\nsome years, with slight modifications. At length, catechisms\\nand question-books were gradually introduced, and for years\\npast the school has extended through the entire year, receiving\\na large infusion of the adult portion of the congregation.\\nThough the congregation has diminished, the Sabbath school\\nhas increased in numbers to-day, June 20, it numbers 207 pu-\\npils, with 22 teachers, and as many classes, while an increased\\ninterest is felt to have more of the Bible committed to memory\\nthan during the few past years.\\nKnowing the men and women who have been trained in this\\nSabbath school, who yet remain on the old homesteads or have\\ngone to other localities, it is not easy to close our eyes to the\\nfact that this institution has proved an incalculable benefit to\\nat least two generations, and promises benefits equally great to\\nyet other generations. The smiling faces and sparkling eyes\\naffirm the pleasure which children feel in attending. It is here\\nthat the intellect is quickened, as well as the heart improved.\\nIt is here that self-respect is inspired, and noble resolutions are\\nmade, which give direction to conduct and form the character\\nfor subsequent life. It is here that jewels of the church as\\nwell as of the household are burnished, and from those here\\ndisciplined will come forth the brightest ornaments of the\\nchurch and the greatest blessings of the State.\\nAlthough the introduction of the Sabbath school into the\\nBaptist congregation transpired at a later date than into the\\nPresbyterian, still it has been no less a blessing to that portion\\nof the community.\\nDuring the past two years, through the efforts of the pastor\\nof the Presbyterian Church, three schools have been organized\\nand sustained by the citizens in as many different parts of the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "329\\ntown remote IVom the meeting-houses. Much interest has ex-\\nisted in these, and no little good has been done. That in the\\nwest part of the town, under the superintendence of Dea.\\nMarshall Adams, has had nearly a hundred scholars, including\\nchildren and adults. The interest in this school has been\\ngreatly heightened, and its benefits multiplied, by a good\\nlibrary of one hundred volumes the first year, and the addi-\\ntion of seventy-five the second; the generous gift of Mr.\\nMarshall C. Adams, of Jaffrcy, the worthy son of the superin-\\ntendent, who has not forgotten the home of his childhood, nor\\nlost his interest in an institution that blessed his youth. This\\nthoughtfulnoss of Mr. Adams deserves special commendation,\\nas being the first and only gift, of any note, received from her\\nmany and prospered absent children, by the town. It strikes\\nus as a little remarkable that, of the two generations of men\\nwhom New Boston has sent forth, most of them nurtured in\\nher churches and trained in her Sabbath schools, not one of\\nthem good men and highly prospered abroad has ever\\nmade a thank-offering to the Sabbath school in which lie was\\ntaught, the church in which he was nurtured, or the town in\\nwhich he was reared, except Mr. Marshall Adams, the first-\\nborn of a family of thirteen children, all of whom are now\\nliving, and having hope towards God through our Lord Jesus\\nChrist. Has it been the result of thoughtlessness, or have\\nother places made imperious demands upon all their charities?\\nOr have they ceased to feel a lively interest in the place of\\ntheir young life s activities and advantages V Or do they still\\nthink of the town with its population of 1820, and the large\\ncrowded assembly on the hill of mighty men and noble wo-\\nmen, with ample means of obtaining all they need, forgetting\\nthat the population of the town has been sadly changed and\\nreduced by the exodus of her sons and daughters, that the\\nchurches where they worshipped arc no longer thronged as in\\ndays of yore Are they ignorant that, while the virtuous and\\nGod-fearing are diminished by their going forth, the ungodly,\\nwho glory in their shame, reject all religious instruction, and,\\ngyrating in the slime of moral corruption, are not diminished\\nNo debt is more obvious than that which absent children owe\\n42", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "330\\nto the place of their birth to remember it affectionately, and\\nsympathize with its struggles to hold fast the things that\\nremain. And every absent son is honored or dishonored as\\nthe reputation of the old homestead is sustained or lowered.\\nNor should it be forgotten that any efforts to uphold or en-\\nhance the honor of the place of one s nativity reflects most\\nglory on him who makes the endeavor.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "HON. GEERY WHITING COCHEANE.\\nMr. Cochrane was born near Joe English, March 22, 1808,\\nbeing the son of Mr. John Cochrane. His early youth was\\nspent on the farm and in the district school, afterwards at\\nPinkerton Academy in Deny, and Bradford Academy, Massa-\\nchusetts, and in teaching. In 1829 he entered the store of\\nJacob Howe, Esq., of Haverhill, Mass., and after a service of\\nfour or five years entered upon business *for himself in that\\nplace, subsequently removing to Boston, where he now resides\\nand where he is prosecuting a large and lucrative business.\\nFor many years he has been director in several insurance\\ncompanies, and in one of the largest banks in Boston. He\\nwas eight years a member of the State Committee was chosen\\nPresidential elector in 1860 and in 1862 and 1863 was elected\\nexecutive councillor for the Essex Second District.\\nMr. Cochrane married Miss Mary Jane, daughter of Rev.\\nWilliam Batchelder, and has three sons, William B., Henry\\nF.,and Frederick, all of whom have been liberally educated.\\nMr. Cochrane s father was a native of Windham, and has\\nbeen dead many years his venerated mother, an estimable\\nChristian lady, is now living in Chester, aged ninety, enjoying\\nremarkable vigor of body and mind, waiting cheerfully her\\nappointed time.\\nMr. Cochrane has two brothers, Hon. Robert Boyd, of this\\ntown, and Hon. Clark B., of Albany; and five sisters, Mary\\nB., who married Mr. Moses Hall, of Chester, whose children\\nare Luther W., William Atwood, Mercy H., Abigail S., Nason,\\nClark B., Adeline, and Elizabeth; Mary J., who married Wil-\\nliam Hazelton, of Chester, whose children are William, Har-\\nriet T., Gerry W. (a lawyer in Columbus, Wisconsin), George\\nC. (a lawyer in Wisconsin), John Franklin (a lawyer, now", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "332\\nBrigade Quartermaster in the Army of the Potomac), Sophia\\nP., living in New Boston, Marinda living in Chester, an in-\\nvalid, and Abba S., who married Mr. Jonathan Pressey, and\\nlives in Chester.\\nMr. Cochrane is a man of large charities, with a heart for\\nevery good enterprise alive to the interests of education, the\\ncountry, and of religion.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "JOnffarisItth,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OF HON. GERRY W. COCHRANE.\\nThe Religious Character of the early Settlers of New Boston. First\\npure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,\\nwithout partiality, and without hypocrisy.\\nMb. President,\\nThere is no truth more apparent in the history of our race\\nthan this, that everywhere and always men are laboring for\\nthe future struggling forward to a good more or less remote,\\non which hangs some glittering prize, whose attainment is to\\nfill the measure of their happiness. Whether this be one of\\nman s mistakes or not, it is surely one of his most universal\\ncharacteristics, that he is about to live. He has ever some un-\\nfulfilled desire, some unaccomplished plan, some deficiency to\\nbe supplied in his means of enjoyment, before he can dismiss\\nhis corroding care, quiet the burning fever of desire, and relax\\nhis soul into the sweet and placid consciousness of happiness.\\nWe may infer, therefore, that the tendency to live for the\\nfuture, to regulate our present course of life with a primary\\nreference to our future well-being, however abused, is emi-\\nnently consonant with the nature of man it harmonizes with\\nthose high powers of reason and reflection, which exalt him\\nimmeasurably above the brutes, and enable him, though phys-\\nically confined within a narrow sphere of activity, to live in\\nspirit throughout the entire circle of creation and the entire\\nduration of time. In so living, man displays the high endow-\\nments, the mighty capacities, of his nature.\\nSociety, government, institutions of learning and religion,\\nare matters of formation and growth. They are the result of\\nearnest thought, practical wisdom, and experience. God de-\\nsires that man shall be happy but under the arrangements of a\\nwise Providence he must labor for it. For the production of a\\nresult so devoutly to be wished, he must cooperate with the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "384\\nlaws of nature and of grace. Progress has been, is, and must\\nbe, the law of our race, until earth shall be redeemed from the\\nthraldom of sin, and converted into another paradise. If one\\nnation has lost the line of advancement, another has seized it,\\nand so the world has gone forward.\\nIt must be remembered, however, that no nation is truly\\nprogressing where the Bible is not recognized as containing the\\ngreat fundamental principles upon which all our hopes must\\nrest, both for success in this world, and a glorious immortality\\nbeyond. Hence the importance given by our fathers to the\\ninfluence of the Gospel, the pure teachings of God s blessed\\nword hence the necessity that every people should magnify\\nthe truth, and seek earnestly to know him who is The way,\\nthe truth, and the life.\\nPerhaps no race of men ever recognized this more than did\\nour Puritan fathers, who, turning their backs upon the graves of\\ntheir ancestors, left home and country, coming to this western\\nworld for freedom to worship God. As we look over the\\nhistory of the past three centuries, and read of the intolerance\\nof those times, we are filled with wonder and admiration in\\ncontemplation of those noble characteristics, displayed by the\\nlong succession of Christian heroes who went to prison and\\ndeath to maintain their faith. Prom their retreats we hear\\nthe prayer and the psalm swelling and rising from the hearts of\\nindomitable Covenanters, driven from their homes, and suffer-\\ning the loss of all things, for truth and conscience s sake. Well\\nmay we, the sons and daughters of the earlier settlers of this\\nour native town, thank God and take courage, even in these\\ndark and troublous times, that we have descended from an an-\\ncestry whose inflexible purpose ever was to do right and\\noppose the wrong whose sincere, patriotic, Christian devotion\\nto the principles of eternal truth, set forth in our declaration\\nand bill of rights, is worthy of the profound gratitude of our\\nhearts.\\nMost of the early settlers of New Boston were of Scotch\\norigin, hence their firm purpose and decision in all matters of\\nconscience their iron will in surmounting every obstacle to the\\nfulfilment of their purposes and plans, whether of a temporal\\nor spiritual nature, never forgetting the Divine injunction, In-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "385\\nasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my\\ndisciples, ye have done it unto me. While we have been\\nsearching for facts, and studying the religious character of those\\nmen and women who, one hundred years ago, exercised a con-\\ntrolling influence in this town, imparting a high moral tone to\\nthe sentiments of this community, our heart has been cheered\\nwith the fact so fully established of their fidelity to Christian\\nprinciples. We see them laboring to establish and perpetuate\\nin the mind and hearts of their descendants that reverence for\\nGod and his sanctuary that strict observance of the holy\\nSabbath, with all its hallowed associations and delightful duties\\nwhich they themselves so fondly cherished.\\nNo words of ours can convey to the mind the true spirit of\\ndependence upon Divine guidance, the firm personal adherence\\nto truth, that vigorous faith in the power of the gospel which\\npervaded the hearts of our fathers, so well as those embraced\\nin their call to the Rev. Solomon Moor, to become their pastor,\\nin the year 1767. This paper was signed by forty-four men,\\nwhose names have been so intimately associated together, and\\nclosely indentified with the early history and prosperity of New\\nBoston, that they will be heard with thrilling interest as they\\nare now enunciated. The following are the exact words of that\\ncall, as found among our early records, bearing the signatures\\nof some we have seen, with whitened locks and venerable forms.\\ngathering around the communion table to celebrate the suffer-\\nings and death of a crucified Redeemer. Sentiments like these\\ndeserve to be engraved in letters of living light upon the door-\\npost of every family in the town\\nNew Boston, August 25, 17( 7.\\nWe the inhabitants of the Town of New Boston as sensible of the repeated\\ninstances of the goodness of our Kind benefactor, particularly in smiling upon\\nour new Settlement, so that, from a very small, in a few Years we are in-\\ncreased to a considerable number and the wilderness by God s Kind influences\\nis, in many places amongst us become a fruitful field affording us a comfort-\\nal ile maintainanee. We acknowledge that we are not proprietors of our estates\\nin the sight of God, but stewards, and therefore they are to be improved for\\nhis honor, the spreading and establishment of his interest, and being destitute\\nof a fixed Pastor, and having longing and earnest inclination to have one.\\nestablished amongst us, that we may have the Gospel mysteries unfolded, Or-\\ndinances administered amongst us. the appointed means of rod s 1 louse below,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "336\\nthai we and our seed may be disciplined, and trained up for his House of\\nglory above, as a Kind providence of God has opened such a door by, Sir,\\nyour coming amongst us, we are cheerfully led to embrace the happy opor-\\ntunity, being well assured Rev. Sir, by unexceptional credentials as to your\\nministerial abilities to Preach the Gospel and likewise as to your exemplary\\nlife which gives force to what is preached, as also the suitableness and agree*\\nableness of what you Preach to our capacities. We therefore, earnestly im-\\nploring direction from the being that alone can effectually direct us in such a\\nweighty and soul concerning matter, we with hearts full, of well gratified\\naffection, do in the most hearty manner, invite, call, and entreat you, the\\nRev. Solomon Moor to undertake the office of a pastor amongst us, and the\\ncharge of our souls forced upon your accepting this our call, as we hope the\\nLord will incline and move you so to do, we in a most solemn manner, prom-\\nise you all dutiful respect, encouragement, and obedience in the Lord s\\norder. As the laborer is worthy of his hire, and he that serves at the altar,\\nshould live by it, and as we have nothing but what we have received, we are\\nwilling to improve part of our portion in this life, that we may be made par-\\ntakers of everlasting portion in the life to come, by the blessing .of God under\\nyour ministry, and for your encouragement and temporaiy reward, we prom-\\nise you yearly forty pounds sterling per annum for the first five years\\nafter your instalment, and after that the addition of five pounds sterling more\\nper annum.\\nThe deep religious feeling that controlled the action of these\\nmen is apparent in almost every sentence of the foregoing\\npaper. We can have no surer test of the devoutly pious\\ncharacter of the early settlers of New Boston than is here\\ngiven us.\\nHow significant the words, We are not the proprietors of\\nour estates in the sight of God, but stewards therefore they\\nare to be improved for his honor Here is a free and frank\\nconfession of entire dependence upon God, coupled with a\\nstrong desire to do his will, a practical illustration of the\\nparable of the talents, with the command given, Occupy till\\nI come, a full recognition of the doctrine taught by Christ\\nand his apostles. These were the men that desired, as they\\nhere express it, not only to have their own minds and hearts\\ndisciplined, and trained for heaven, but that their children and\\nchildren s children should be educated for higher and nobler\\nduties, and become heirs of immortal glory. Some of their\\ndescendants are here to-day, witnesses for God, saved as by fire,\\nSee names on page 110.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "M ;7\\nill answer to their prayers, and their faithful instruction in the\\nblessed Word of life.\\nWho can estimate the undying nature and the priceless value\\nof a religion founded upon the eternal principles of truth, set\\nforth in this call Three generations have passed away\\nsince that document was signed and put upon record.\\nChanges, many and terrible, have come over us, and our dear\\nnative land but our fathers God is our God to-day, and wher-\\never men lean upon him, and not upon their own understand-\\ning, they become an element for good, which no earthly power\\ncan overthrow. No, never Such a community, covenanted\\nin one bond of union to do his will, are sure to possess that\\npractical wisdom and true conception of duty, which a devoted\\nheart and a vigorous faith cannot fail to inspire. Their lives\\nwill everywhere and always be a never-failing attestation to the\\nblessedness of the religion of Jesus Christ. Let us follow those\\nmen after they had settled the question of duty, in reference to\\ndevoting a part of what God had given them, to the support of\\nthe gospel ministry. Mark their language in stating their feel-\\nings and purposes to one whom they expected soon to become\\ntheir religious instructor and spiritual guide We, there-\\nfore, earnestly imploring direction from the Being who alone\\ncan effectually direct us in such a weighty and soul-concerning\\nmatter. How comprehensive the prayer how full of mean-\\ning is every word the very embodiment of all spiritual life,\\nthe sure evidence of a true gospel hope, a petition that\\ncould never come from any other than a humble Christian\\nheart, uttering its sincere desire from a sense of its wants and\\nobligations to Him whose mighty arm upholds the world.\\nThe fruits of this connection between minister and people\\nprove to us, who know them, that this short prayer, so accord-\\nant with the teachings of the gospel, secured the Saviour s\\nblessing.\\nThe charge of illiberality is often made against those men\\nwho first came into this vast wilderness to secure for them-\\nselves and their children a permanent Christian home. They\\nare often quoted as the very personification of sectarianism in its\\nmost hateful form enforcing a church and family government\\nparticularly severe tending to create and foster in the minds", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "and hearts of their descendants a strong aversion to everything\\nsystematized and made permanent in the pastoral relation and\\nin the administration of the gospel ordinances, so beautifully\\nreferred to and set forth in the call.\\nWe take peculiar pleasure, in the privilege afforded us at this\\ntime, to give our testimony on this point, and to repel these\\ncharges, which we sincerely believe to be false. If a sect or\\ncommunity of persons, for being tenacious of their opinions of\\nright and wrong, for being strict in their observance of the\\nChristian Sabbath, and for enforcing wholesome rules in the\\nchurch and family, are to be stigmatized as bigots, then we will\\nadmit that they were guilty of the charge, and pray that God\\nwill make every son and daughter of Adam not almost, but\\naltogether, such as they were. For if any people ever suffered\\nfor want of just such men to stand by the minister, and give\\ncharacter and efficiency to the church of Christ, we who live in\\nthe middle of the nineteenth century are that people.\\nLook over any region, and you find it dotted with men (or\\nrather the physical forms of men) marked and ticketed as not\\nbelonging to themselves, but to others from whom they derive\\ntheir opinions, both in politics and religion. Such persons arc\\nnever to be trusted. They have no decision, nor firmness of\\npurpose in standing by the right and opposing the wrong no\\nseizing an object with a grasp of mind not easily relaxed. A\\nproper decision, such as our fathers possessed, is not a preju-\\ndiced wilfulness, that dares act without investigation but,\\nwhen convinced of the right, they stood immovable as the\\nmountain base. The grand characteristics of the early settlers\\nof this town were integrity and moral courage, which gave them\\nexecutive force, and raised them above all defeat, and gave\\nthem an overwhelming advantage over the faint-hearted and\\nfickle. In a world like ours, such characteristics are indispen-\\nsable to success in right. The unstable man is as the waves of\\nthe sea, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. Without\\nfixedness of purpose, a firm and consistent course of reasoning,\\nhe will be likely to sacrifice his conscience at the shrine of a short-\\nsighted and time-serving policy. By this class of men every-\\nthing is resolved into natural law and human agency. The\\npower of God is not recognized, and he is virtually shut out of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "389\\nhis own creation. But to our Christian fathers, the element of\\ninfluence and power was their constant recognition of Almighty\\nGod, to them a sure pledge of succei\\nLet us look, for a moment, at the every-day lives of those men\\nwho cleared these forests, erected many of the dwellings that\\nnow stand as landmarks, to remind us of the simplicity and\\nrigid economy of those fathers and mothers, who constituted\\nthe first Christian church in New Boston, and solemnly cov-\\nenanted with eaeh other, before God, to sustain a gospel minis-\\ntry who toiled incessantly, six days in the week, and walked\\nfrom one to four miles on the Sabbath, taking their children\\nwith them, to attend on the public worship of the sanctuary,\\nsitting during a two hours service, without fire on a cold win-\\nter s day.\\nDoes this not prove their firm and devoted love for the teach-\\nings of God s Word, and the ordinances of his house We\\nhave a strong and full affirmative answer, not only in their\\nlives, but in their own language, as we quote their exact words\\non this point That we might have the gospel mysteries un-\\nfolded, the appointed means of God s house below, that we\\nand our seed may belMsciplined and trained up for his house\\nof glory above. The excellency, dignity, and power of such\\nlanguage are seldom equalled. These were the men who insti-\\ntuted and sustained a systematic family government, a Christian\\nfamily discipline, teaching their children to reverence God,\\nand hallow his sanctuary, and to keep his statutes, calling them\\nmorning and evening, day by clay, around the family altar,\\nfrom which ascended the humble petition and the heart-felt\\nthanksgiving. Well do we remember more than one such altar\\nwhere, when a small boy, we bowed with our little associates,\\nand listened to the earnest words of some of those holy men,\\nwhose memory still lingers with many present to-day. We can\\nnever forget such men as Dea. Thomas Cochran, Deacon Wil-\\nliam McNeil, Dea. Robert Patterson, and many others, who\\nlong since were gathered into the Redeemer s fold on high.\\nHere, too, were the Christiem mothers. Oh, how the heart\\nswells with tenderest emotion as we write the word, mother\\nWho can estimate the value of a Christian mother See her\\nby the bedside of her little ones, teaching them, as soon as they", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "340\\ncan lisp the name of Jesus, to say, Our Father who art in\\nheaven, and tell me, if you can, the value of such instruction,\\nthe influence of such love.\\nWhat minister of the gospel, living in the middle of the nine-\\nteenth century, would not thank God for such a church to\\nstand up for Jesus, ever ready to counsel with and sustain\\nthe pastor in his arduous work of love The respect, encour-\\nagement, and obedience of these parents and their children,\\nwhich they promise in the Lord s order, proves their faith\\nand sincerity in what they considered the instrumentalities to\\nbe used for the conversion of their fellow-men, and the wisdom\\nof the choice so unanimously made. God signally blessed them\\nby imparting the influences of his Holy Spirit to the word\\nspoken, in the purifying of many souls, and by continuing that\\nconnection, so prayerfully considered during the space of nearly\\nforty years, in which there was a great ingathering of those\\nmade wise unto salvation. The church was greatly strength-\\nened, and made a power for good to influence many generations.\\nIn the process of time, after a long and successful ministry,\\nGod called this faithful servant from his labor on earth to his\\nrest in heaven. The people bowed with sa ddened hearts as they\\nlaid him in the tomb, sorrowing most of all that his work on\\nearth had ceased, and they should see his face no more.\\nThese praying disciples, whose hearts burned within them as\\nthey talked of Him whose voice was now silent in death, and\\ncalled to mind the kind words of comfort and consolation they\\nhad received, were now found just where we may always ex-\\npect to find the unwavering child of God, clinging closer to the\\ncross as sorrow and affliction darkened their pathway, earnestly\\nseeking that divine and heavenly light which every true Chris-\\ntian finds when he comes to the throne of grace, and there asks\\nwisdom of Him who said to his own chosen disciples, Let\\nnot your hearts be troubled ye believe in God, believe also in\\nme.\\nThese pious fathers and mothers, pillars in the church,\\ndid not shrink from duty, nor falter in their efforts to secure\\nanother under-shepherd at the earliest convenient time. After\\nrepeated trials, God heard their prayers, and sent them a young-\\nman, possessed of high intellectual endowments, firm in pur-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "841\\npose, with a deep conviction of the great responsibility he was\\nabout to assume in entering upon the work of preaching the\\nglorious gospel of the blessed God. His labor for the instruc-\\ntion of the young, and counsel to those in the vigor of life, his\\nkind words of comfort for the distressed, his efforts in elevating\\nthe standard of piety among this people for nearly half a cen-\\ntury, will be felt in their influence long after those who now\\nhear mo shall have passed away. Eternity alone will reveal the\\nnature and extent of the work he accomplished for the Master,\\nas he traversed these hills and valleys, carrying joy to every\\nyoung, buoyant heart, and consolation to the sick and bereaved\\nin sorrow s dark hour. The hallowed associations and delight-\\nful memories of the Rev. Ephraim P. Bradford are yet fresh\\nwith many here to-day, whose hearts have been made to rejoice\\nin a risen Saviour through his instrumentality. Ay, they can\\nnever forget him until they shall fail to appreciate the impor-\\ntance of a faithful and earnest presentation of divine and saving\\ntruth.\\nThis beloved pastor and all his early faithful associates and\\ncolaborers in the church of Christ have gone to their reward in\\nheaven but their Christian fidelity and the moral influence of\\ntheir lives cannot fail, under God, to promote the welfare of his\\nkingdom in years to come. Here the flowers fade, the heart\\nwithers, man grows old and dies the world lies down in the\\nsepulchre of ages but time writes no wrinkles on eternity. In\\nthe dwelling of the Almighty can come no footsteps of decay.\\nThe old meeting-house that stood on the green hillside, with\\nits square pews, and ever-to-be-remembered sounding-board,\\nwhere our fathers worshipped for more than half a century, has\\nbeen vacated forty years, but there are some present who re-\\nmember the religious privileges of that house with sacred joy.\\nNever can we forget some of the solemn seasons that occur-\\nred within those hallowed walls, as we witnessed them in our\\nyouthful days. Semi-annually were spread the long tables\\naround which were first gathered the aged servants of God, to\\npartake of the holy communion following these were the\\nactive, vigorous members of the church, and then came the\\nyoungest of the flock, all in their turn, to hear words of wisdom\\nfrom this faithful minister of the Lord. The sweet harmony of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "342\\nthose voices in the choir, as they sung of a crucified and risen\\nRedeemer, the earnest exhortation, the devout prayer, are all\\nwritten on the tablet of our memory, never, never to be effaced.\\nAs we write these words we seem to see that devoted pastor\\nwe early learned to reverence and love, with dignified and\\nmanly form, his countenance beaming with Christian kindness,\\nrising to address the throne of grace. Oh how those melting-\\ntones, uttered in words of humble, devout prayer, lift the soul\\nupward and onward toward the divine life Oh how they\\nimpart to all who seek that higher life, holier aspirations, and a\\nfirmer reliance on the promises of the gospel, an earnest desire\\nfor a closer walk with God, and a fuller purpose to do his\\nwill.\\nThere is something truly delightful to the Christian heart in\\nsuch holy worship, such solemn, quiet communings with the\\nGreat Shepherd and Bishop of our souls. These commemora-\\ntions serve to raise our thoughts from earth toward heaven,\\npointing the soul to that day when all the saints in glory shall\\nbe gathered around the great white throne, with their voices in\\nharmony with that angelic choir whose heavenly music shall\\nswell in rapturous strains when the last sound of the organ and\\nthe lute shall have ceased forever. Thus may all the sons and\\ndaughters of the early settlers of New Boston, down to the\\nlatest generation, be prepared to sing the song of Moses and\\nthe Lamb, that when, one by one, they cross the river of death,\\nexulting angels may welcome them to the celestial city.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "RESPONSE OE EEV. J. A. GOODHUE.*\\nThe Resident Sons of New Boston. Theirs is a good inheritance. As his part\\nis that gocth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.\\nMr. President,\\nThe world in which wc live is a wide, wide world, and man\\nat best is a pilgrim and a stranger in it. The idea of his hav-\\ning anything that can be called a residence here is very imper-\\nfectly realized under any circumstances. The rapid march of\\nmankind from the cradle to the grave, the changes which even\\na few short years produce upon the face of human society, are a\\nsad and impressive commentary upon the fact that we have\\nhere no abiding place, no continuing city. The appearance of\\nmankind upon the face of this earthly ball is like that of the\\nants upon a molehill which to-day are lively and busy, but to-\\nmorrow are gone forever. The idea of having a habitation and\\na home here on earth can be realized under the most favoring\\ncircumstances only just enough to make us appreciate the pre-\\nciousness of the conditional promise of a real home in heaven,\\nand an everlasting mansion there.\\nThat the possession of a place on earth, which you can call\\nyour home, is an invaluable blessing, and one of the choicest\\nand dearest in this world, no one will deny. The enjoyment of\\nthis blessing is greater, too, than we are wont to suppose. The\\ngreat mass of mankind do not, except by the privation of it,\\nIn addition to the Crucible, noticed in a sketch of him on page 161,\\nMr. Goodhue is author of an article entitled The Preaching of Ecclesiastes,\\npublished in the Christian Revieio, July No. for 1854, page 434; also an\\narticle entitled, Dying unto Sin with Christ, it being an exposition of Horn,\\nvi. 2, 8, 10, 11, published in the Bibliotheca Sacra, E^nd American Biblical\\nRepository for July, 1857, it being the 55th No. of the former, and the 107th\\nof the latter, page 538.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "344\\nknow what it is. Aside from the comparatively sparse popula-\\ntion of the rural portions of the country, aside from the yeo-\\nmanry of the land, the cultivators of the soil, the large propor-\\ntion of the race follow an exceedingly unsettled, nomadic,\\nplanetary mode of life. The mechanics of the land, the arti-\\nsans, the merchants, and those who follow the professions, are\\nalmost constantly subject to migration and change. Very few\\nof the inhabitants of our cities and large towns, into which the\\ngreat tide of humanity is constantly pouring, realize to any\\nextent what it is to have a home. The major part live merely\\nby tenantry from year to year so that they are able to acquire\\nno uninterrupted attachments to one locality over another.\\nThey are equally at home everywhere which is equivalent to\\nsaying that they have no home anywhere. Even those who are\\nfortunate enough to be the owners of the dwellings in which\\nthey live, and the soil on which these dwellings stand, can have\\nbut a very imperfect enjoyment of the home feeling. Their\\nestates are limited within the very narrowest compass by a\\ncrowded and crowding population all around them, while the\\nrapid march of events, like an invading army, is continually\\njostling them from their places as they come in the way of its\\nonward progress.\\nThe conditions which are necessary to constitute a real\\nhome, in the most perfect sense in which it can be realized in\\nthis world, are found among the inhabitants of the country,\\nwho are the grand producers of the land. One of these con-\\nditions is the perpetual and perpetuated ownership of the dwell-\\nings and lands which they occupy, and in connection with\\nwhich their entire lives are spent and all their earthly labors\\nare performed. The tillers of the soil are the most permanent\\nand almost the only permanent and really settled class of people\\nin the whole community. They are almost the only class who\\ncan contemplate, with any kind of certainty, the spending of\\ntheir entire lives in the dwellings in which they were born, and\\nwho can look forward to a changeless occupation through life,\\nand that upon the very same materials that have always con-\\nstituted the means of their industry and the sources of their\\nlivelihood. Those who have chosen to remain by the stuff and\\nperpetuate their family tree, in this goodly town, may have this", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "345\\nthought to console them, that though they may see less of the\\nworld than many others, and experience less of its adventures,\\nthey have elected for themselves a mode of life which is cal-\\nculated to insure to them the invaluable blessing of an uninter-\\nrupted earthly home, as no other mode of living can a blessing\\nwhich they are not in a position to appreciate as we do who\\nare not permitted to enjoy or anticipate it.\\nOne of the most difficult questions we, who have gone abroad,\\never have to answer, is, Where is your home The only reply\\nwe can make to it is that New Boston is our native town.\\nAside from that we are as much at home in one place as an-\\nother. There is no other spot on earth that is endeared by any\\nsacred memories or by any ties that may not be sundered\\nwithout much pain. And the question where we shall lay our\\nbodies when we are dead, and the bodies of our loved ones, is as\\nunsettled as it is painful to contemplate. With you who remain\\nupon your native soil these questions require not a moment s\\nthought. Here you were born on the same ground and under\\nthe same skies where your fathers before you have lived and\\ntoiled, and here you expect to live and labor and die, and\\nyonder graveyard is to be your final resting-place. Rooted\\ndown thus deeply as you are, having grown up out of the soil\\nmade sacred by the industry of your ancestors, your very life\\nis identified with the scenes in the midst of which it is your lot\\nto perform all your earthly labors. How it must sweeten and\\nlighten your otherwise laborious pursuits to stop a moment and\\ncall to mind the hallowed memories that cluster around you\\nto remember that every foot of the ground on which you perform\\nyour daily toil has been trodden by the feet of your fathers, and\\nthat they have so oft reclined under the very same trees for\\nshade and rest to which you are wont, in your wearied moments,\\nto resort.\\nWhat peace and quiet, also, it must impart to your life to\\nthink of the comparative security of your earthly posses-\\nsions and the unfailing nature of the resources from which\\nyou derive your livelihood. Though such scope for ambition\\nand enterprise is not open before you as lies in the path of\\nothers, yet neither are you beset by the harassing fears by\\nwhich their minds are haunted day and night in view of the\\n44", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "346\\nuncertain tenure by which they hold their worldly goods, and\\nthe liability that, in some unfortunate hour, their wealth and\\nall the sources of it may be swept away, and they be left amid\\nthe strife and bustle of a selfish and avaricious world, penniless\\nand helpless as the veriest beggar. The vibrations of the\\nmarket, the rise and fall of stocks, which they watch with\\nbreathless anxiety, and on which their fortunes depend, affect\\nyou no more than a wave of the sea dashing against the dis-\\ntant shore affects these everlasting hills on which you dwell.\\nUntil the sun shall cease to shine in the heavens and the rain\\nto fall from the clouds until the wheels of Nature shall stop\\nin their course, and day and night, seed-time and harvest, shall\\nreturn no more, you will have no fears that your comfortable,\\nthough not luxurious, livings will fail to make to you their\\nsteady returns.\\nThe voyage of your life is across a smooth and quiet sea\\nand though you have to toil in rowing, and do not penetrate so\\nmany seas, nor feel the winds of so many climes as others, yet\\nyou are sure of a peaceful voyage, and a safe arrival at your\\ndestined haven while those who go out to try their fortunes\\nupon the wide world, though animated by greater enterprises\\nand higher hopes, yet they also find a rougher and more stormy\\nvoyage. The jarrings and commotions of human society are\\nmost keenly felt by them. They mount up and go down with\\nevery wave, and are often at. their wits end, not knowing\\nwhether the favoring breezes of fortune shall land them high\\nup on the shores of wealth and fame, or whether contrary\\nwinds shall lay them forever low in the valley of disappoint-\\nment, mortification, and penury. Go to the thickly-settled\\ntowns and cities, the great centres of human activity, and you\\nobserve at once the constant feverishness of the life that is\\nthere spent you witness the rapid pulse, the hurried tread,\\nthe excited, anxious eye, and flushed countenance, which make\\nyou feel as if men thought they were liable not to live out half\\ntheir days before they arrive at their journey s end while\\nthe dwellers in this goodly town pursue their peaceful avoca-\\ntions with as much quiet and leisure as if they had taken a\\nlease of life for a thousand years. All but the most extraor-\\ndinary waves of excitement spend their force and die away", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "347\\nbefore they reach them. Nothing, except it be some such\\ncalamity as the civil war which is now convulsing the entire\\nnation, moves them, and that only in a modified degree. Yet\\nthe world will stand just as long, and its ends be just as fully\\naccomplished for them as for those who spend their lives in\\nanxious solicitude lest every day should be the last.\\nThere is no more independent class of people on the face of\\nthe earth than the resident sons of this goodly town. The\\nsources of their earthly livelihood are as little connected as\\npossible with the treachery and fickleness of public opinion.\\nThe favor of no earthly mortal are they obliged to court in\\norder to secure the privilege of earning their daily bread by\\nthe sweat of their brow. Dependent for their sources of in-\\ndustry and livelihood only upon their broad and fertile acres\\nwarmed by the genial sun and watered by the gentle showers\\nof rain, and upon their faithful and obedient flocks and herds,\\nit is their prerogative, as it is of no others, to say,\\nI am monarch of all 1 survey,\\nMy right there is none to dispute\\nFrom the centre all round to the sea,\\nI am lord of the fowl and the brute.\\nThe least of any class in the world are those who remain\\nupon their native soil obliged to be servants to their fellow-\\nmen, and to be under the disagreeable necessity, as are the\\ngreat mass of men of every rank in the cities, of constantly\\ncompromising their personal feelings, if not their consciences,\\nfor the purpose of endeavoring to secure the good-will of\\nothers, both their inferiors and superiors, for whose persons\\nthey care nothing, but only for their patronage. By no such\\nmortifying obsequiousness and servility does the farmer obtain\\nhis earthly living. He bows down to no one but to his Maker,\\nand has none to thank for his prosperity but a favoring Provi-\\ndence and his own industry.\\nThose who remain upon their native soil are, also, most per-\\nfectly contented with their situation and their lot of any class\\nof people in the world while those who roam abroad and fol-\\nlow a life of adventure and experiment never find the situa-\\ntion that precisely suits them. Having once sundered the ties\\nthat bind them to their native land, such ties are never formed\\nagain.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "348\\nBut independently of these natural ties, the resident sons\\nof New Boston have as much reason to be contented with the\\nlot which their nativity has afforded them as any other people.\\nA more salubrious climate, a more beautiful landscape, a more\\nproductive soil, a more upright, moral, and peaceable commu-\\nnity, is nowhere to be found. A more favorable portion of the\\nearth on which to spend one s life, if one desires to live in peace,\\ncould not be assigned by a wise Providence to any mortal.\\nThe temptations and exposures which are attendant upon the\\npath of the young, especially in our populous towns and cities,\\nare here almost entirely unknown. It would scarcely seem\\npossible that one reared in such a community as this should\\nnot lead a life of moral purity at least. The value of such an\\nopportunity for rearing up the children, which a kind Provi-\\ndence gives us, for spheres of worth and usefulness, can be ap-\\npreciated only by those who are subjected to the trying expe-\\nrience of educating their offspring in the midst of the mixed\\npopulations of the seaboard towns.\\nAbove all, and finally, a more fitting spot than this can-\\nnot be found on the face of the earth for religious culture for\\nthe implantation and cultivation in the heart of true piety to-\\nwards God, and for securing a preparation to meet our common\\nMaker ere long at the day of final accounts, and then to spend\\nan eternity in the abodes of the blessed beyond the grave.\\nI see not how the accumulative influences of the sacred asso-\\nciations and hallowed memories which come welling up from\\nthe past here to-day the recollections of the departed, of\\nwhom yonder graveyard so vividly reminds us the solemn\\nassociations that cluster around these holy shrines, where ven-\\nerated ministers of religion were wont to lead their people in\\nthe worship of Almighty G-od, but who, with large portions of\\ntheir flocks, have gone to their reward I see not how these\\nsacred associations and reminiscences, in the midst of which\\nresident brothers are permitted to spend their lives, can fail,\\nunder the blessing of God s Spirit, to mature and ripen them\\nere long for the rest of the true people of God. That this may\\nbe their portion and ours when the next centennial shall come\\nround, is our sincere and earnest prayer.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "BIOGKAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES.\\nThomas Smith. He came from Chester to this town about\\n1734, when it was an entire wilderness, and settled where the\\nlate Hiram Lull lived, in the east part of the town. He was\\nfor some two years the only white man within the present lim-\\nits of New Boston, before the grant of the town was made.\\nIt was near his farm that the Proprietors built sixty dwell-\\ning-houses, a grist and saw mill, and a meeting-house, as early\\nas 1740. Mr. Smith is said to have built the first frame house\\nin New Boston, and it yet stands in a state of comparatively\\ngood preservation, and constitutes a part of Widow Hiram\\nLull s house. Mr. Smith Was once obliged to flee from his\\nfarm before he had moved his family to it, because of the pres-\\nence of Indians. They had done violence to some neighbors\\nliving a few miles from him in Goffstown, and seeing traces of\\none or more in the vicinity of his cabin, evidently seeking an\\nopportunity to capture him, he precipitately fled with his faith-\\nful gun, and returned not until the Indians had departed from\\nhis neighborhood. His son Samuel, in 1765, lived where the\\nlate Deacon Thomas Smith died his son James perished with\\ncold on the road leading from his father s to Parker s, in Goffs-\\ntown. His son Reuben was in the war of the Revolution, and\\nafter the close of it he removed into the State of Maine, near\\nthe Passamaquoddy Bay.\\nDeacon John Smith. He was son of the above-named\\nThomas, and moved with him from Chester. He married a\\nMiss McNeil, daughter of William McNeil, by whom he had\\nfive children Martha, Sarah, Janey, Mary, and John. After\\nher death he married Ann Brown, of Francestown, by whom\\nhe had fourteen children Janey, Thomas (the late deacon),\\nElizabeth, William, David, Susanna, Ann, Samuel, Martha,\\nReuben, Elizabeth B., Robert, an infant, and James D. Of the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "350\\nchildren of his first wife, Martha died Feb. 19, 1756, and\\nJaney Jan. 10, 1756, of dysentery, and were the first that\\nwere buried in the graveyard in the north part of the town.\\nSarah married a Mr. McMarston for her first husband, and\\nfor her second, John Burns, who owned the farm now owned\\nby Mr. Luther Colburn. He was in the war of the Revolution,\\nalso of 1812, and had the title of Major. He moved to White-\\nfield when a young man, and died there a few years since, hav-\\ning represented his town in the Legislature after he was eighty\\nyears old, remarkable for his vigor of body and mind.\\nMary, another daughter of Deacon Smith, married Robert\\nBurns, of Bedford they had a son who became a physician.\\nJohn Smith entered the army in 1776, and served to the close\\nof the war, then settled in Francestown, and died there, having\\nmarried for his first wife Elizabeth Campbell, of Litchfield, by\\nwhom he had two sons, John and David one of his daughters\\nis now the wife of Mr. Benjamin Dodge, of New Boston.\\nThis John Smith, son of Deacon John, was a lieutenant in\\nthe militia. A musket-ball was lodged in his neck, and was\\nnever extracted. He was one of the early deacons in the Con-\\ngregational Church in Francestown. He was a very worthy\\nman, and reared an interesting family his son John being\\ndistinguished for his piety and devotion to the instruction of the\\nIndians at the West. Deacon Smith, Senior, died Sept. 3, 1800,\\nin his 74th year. The inscription on his tombstone is very\\nappropriate\\nThe sweet remembrance of the just\\nWill flourish though they sleep in dust.\\nDeacon Thomas Smith. He was son of Deacon John Smith,\\nborn May 7, 1765 he married, March 22, 1791, Esther Poland,\\nwho was born May 1, 1774. They had thirteen children;\\nSusannah was born Jan. 27, 1792, became the wife of Mr.\\nThomas George, of Weare after his death married Mr. James\\nAdams, of this town, and afterwards removed to Johnson,\\nVt., where she died Dec. 12, 1843, leaving three children, two\\nby the first, and one by the second husband Ann, born March\\n17, 1794, became the wife of Thomas Ring, and lives in New\\nYork, having five children John, born May 14, 1796, married\\nDec. 1, 1819, Nancy, daughter of David Tewksbury, and had", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "351\\nthirteen children, eight of whom survive, viz., Ezra D., who\\nmarried Mary Jennis, and lives in Concord John B., who\\nmarried Rebecca W. Richards, and resides in California\\nAmos T., who resides in California Ivers, Sarah T., Almas,\\nEthan A., who married Maria E. Burt, of Bennington, March\\n19, 1863, and lives in New Boston, and Clara Thomas died\\nMarch 2, 1852 Charles B. died Jan. 17, 1847, at the Deaf and\\nDumb Asylum, in Hartford, Conn David T. died in California\\nMarch 8, 1862 Clarinda died August 17, 1837 James K. P.\\ndied Sept. 25, 1848.\\nEsther (daughter of Deacon Thomas Smith), born August\\n20, 1798, married Asa Dodge, of Francestown, having one\\ndaughter, who became the wife of Smith Follansbee, of Frances-\\ntown Thomas, born April 8, 1801, married Nancy Gove, of\\nWeare, lives in New Boston, and has one son, Daniel.\\nWilliam, born May 22, 1803, lives in Croyden with his\\nthird wife, having three children by his first, and seven by his\\nsecond wife Moses was born June 8, 1805, married Eliza Bai-\\nley, of Weare, and lives in Johnson, Vt., having seven chil-\\ndren Rachel was born August 10, 1807, married Ambrose\\nStory, and lives in Antrim Clarinda, born January 9, 1810,\\nbecame the wife of John McCurdy, who soon died, leaving her\\nno children Ivers was born March 31, 1812, married Sarah\\nHoyt, of Weare, and lives in New Boston, having two daugh-\\nters, one of whom, Lora, became the wife of Thomas Moore,\\nof Bedford the other, Clarinda, married Elbridge Colby, of\\nWeare George W. was born January 19, 1815, and died\\nFebruary 15, 1858 Ethan was born October 17, 1817, mar-\\nried Alvira Morrill, and lives in Weare, having six children\\nSarah, born October 23, 1819, died young.\\nDeacon Thomas Smith died May 1, 1854, and his wife died\\nOctober 8, 1851. He was a man of great decision and energy\\nof character, industrious and thrifty he became one of our\\nmost independent farmers. He reared a large family, and con-\\ntributed generously to benevolent enterprises, never overlook-\\ning the claims which God had upon his possessions. As a\\nchristian, he was uniform in his feelings, consistent in his daily\\nwalk, a strict observer of the Sabbath, and a constant attend-\\nant on the sanctuary. He was emphatically a pillar in the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "352\\nPresbyterian Church, and his end was peace and his death\\nwas seriouly felt by the church and the community.\\nWilliam McNeil. He lived about a mile southwest of the\\nfirst named Smith, where a Mr. Woodbury now lives. Mr.\\nMcNeil was a schoolmaster, teaching for many years in differ-\\nent parts of the town whence he came, and also in this town.\\nHis second wife presented him a daughter, who was the\\nfirst female child born in New Boston. They called her Han-\\nnah; and she married John Jordan, a British soldier, who\\ndeserted before the Eevolution. They lived where William\\nBeard now resides. He enlisted in the war of the Eevolution,\\nand was at Bunker Hill. After the war he moved his family\\ninto Vermont, and was buried near Burlington, having died in\\nthe camp during the war in 1812.\\nMr. McNeil had other daughters, one of whom became the\\nwife of a Mr. Ferson, brother of Deacon James Ferson. He\\nhad also two sons, both of whom were in the war of the Rev-\\nolution.\\nJohn Blair. He settled where Mr. William Woodbury now\\nlives. He came direct from Ireland, marrying for his wife Miss\\nJennet McCloud. He had two sons and one daughter. His\\ndaughter married James Hunter, and their son John was the\\nfirst male child born in New Boston, and became a soldier in\\nthe war of the Revolution. Mr. Blair s sons were Robert and\\nWilliam Robert enlisted in the British army long before the\\nwar of 1776, and William lived with his father, marrying a Miss\\nRosinna Gregg Dec. 8, 1768, by whom he had a son named\\nHugh, born Oct. 2, 1769, who lived with his father on the old\\nhomestead also a daughter, named Jeane, born Feb. 17, 1771.\\nDea. James Fekson. He settled where Mr. John Dodge\\nnow lives, coming from Chester. He had three sons the third,\\nJames, married the daughter of Mr. James McNeil, and moved\\nto Ohio in his 74th year, where he has since died. Dea. Ferson\\nhad three daughters Sarah, Hannah, and Rosamah. Sarah\\nbecame the wife of Mr. John Eli, and moved to Londonderry,\\nand Rosamah became the wife of the late Abner Hogg. Dea.\\nFerson s wife was Jennet Lesley, a very excellent woman her\\nhusband was a worthy, christian man was one of the earliest\\ndeacons in the Presbyterian Church, and died Nov. 1, 1792,\\naged 76 and his wife died Feb. 26, 1804, aged 86.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "353\\nJames Ferson, son of Dea. James Ferson, was born in\\nChester May 29, 1744, 0. S., and married Mary McNeill,\\ndaughter of James McNeill. She was born in New Boston\\nSept. 30, 1755, N. S. They were married Dec. 28, 1773.\\nTheir children were William, Jennet, James, Paul, Sally, Sam-\\nuel, Daniel, and John. James was Town Clerk for some years,\\nand became a physician. Some of the children went to Ohio,\\nand their father, who was 74 years old, followed them, and died\\nthere, being esteemed a highly worthy man.\\nHis son, William, graduated at Dartmouth College in the\\nClass of 1797, studied medicine and practised in Gloucester,\\nMass., where he died. He is remembered as a school-teacher\\nhe taught school in the house near Mr. Bently s, one winter\\nhe was cross-eyed, and was sure to detect the rogues.\\nHugh Gregg. He settled near where Daniel T. Gregg lately\\nlived, and married Sarah Lesley, sister of the wife of Dea.\\nJames Ferson. They had sons James, .Alexander, Lesley,\\nReuben, and Samuel. James settled where his son, the late\\nDaniel T. Gregg, lived until within a few years of his death,\\nthe farm now being owned by John H. Gregg. Reuben served\\nin the war of the Revolution.\\nHannah, daughter of James, married Nathan Andrews, of\\nSutton, where she resides, aged 94, having had eight chil-\\ndren Sallie, who married a Mr. Woodsworth, and died in New\\nYork Nathan, who married Dorothy Pilsbury, and has five\\nsons and one daughter John, who married Susan Adams, and\\nhas sons and daughters, graduated at Dartmouth College, and\\nis now a chaplain in the army; Samuel G., who inherits the\\nhomestead, married Lavinia H. Pilsbury, and has two children\\nJennett, who married John Eaton, of Sutton, and has six sons\\nand three daughters Hannah died young James, who\\nwas liberally educated, and died a young man Mary, who has\\nbeen a school-teacher. Daniel T., his son, was born Dec. 11,\\n1775, married Esther, born July 14, 1780, daughter of Thomas\\nMilieu. This Thomas Millen was born in Londonderry 1756,\\nwas a soldier in the Revolutionary war, lived in Newbury, Vt.,\\nhaving married Jane McCollom, sister of Alexander McCollom,\\nof New Bostom, and died in 1852. Daniel T. Gregg inherited\\nthe homestead, and had eight children Jane E. resides in\\n45", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "354\\nNew Boston James died young John H. lives in New Bos-\\nton Maria L. became the wife of Thomas Delano, resides in\\nSomerville, Mass., and has seven children Ann B. died in\\n1844 Charlotte Augusta is a teacher in Chicago, 111. Esther\\ndied May 24, 1853.\\nJoseph, son of James Gregg, was born in New Boston Dec.\\n11, 1777, married Jennett Moor, of Goffstown, and lived where\\nDaniel M. Gregg now resides. He rebuilt the mills at that\\nplace, and operated them until his death, doing an extensive\\nbusiness in lumbering. He had several children Jennett mar-\\nried Bartlett Richards, and died leaving eight children James\\nM. married Sarah Goodwin, of Londonderry, and died in New\\nBoston April, 1862, leaving two children, Letitia, the wife of\\nAlfred E. Hardy and Margaret, having buried three children.\\nLetitia married William Smith, of Bradford, and died leaving\\nthree children.\\nJohn married Mary Bachelder, and lives in Goffstown, having\\nthree children.\\nDavid married Harriet Todd, having had four children.\\nMargaret married John Richards, of Goffstown.\\nDaniel M. married Hannah Augusta Young, of Deerfield,\\nand has two children.\\nSally, daughter of James Gregg, married John Brown, of\\nBradford, and had six children Joel, who is a physician,\\nand resides in Newton, Mass. Jeremiah, who is a lawyer in\\nBoston, a graduate of Dartmouth College Hannah, who mar-\\nried Truman Brachaway, and lives in Boston Jerusha died\\nyoung Livonia, who married Mr. Simpson, of Manchester,\\nwho died in California and Nancy, who married a Bracket,\\nand lives in Bradford, having a son, John Q. A., in Cambridge\\nCollege.\\nJohn, the son of Hugh Gregg, married a Waugh, and settled\\nin Deering.\\nAlexander, who married a Wilson, and Mary, who married a\\nPerson, settled also in Deering.\\nAnn married William Patterson, and lived in New Boston,\\nhaving had eight children.\\nRosanna married William Blair, and lived in New Boston,\\nwhere Mr. William Woodbury now lives. She had three sons\\nand seven daughters.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "355\\nLeslie married Lydia Beard, and had one son and six daugh-\\nters his son married Jane Moor, and lived in the State of\\nMaine Sallie married James Moor, and died in Cavendish, Vt.\\nLydia married Mr. McDougall, of Goffstown, and had nine\\nchildren Mary married Foster Wyatt, of Amherst Rebecca\\nmarried Levi Ordway, and lives in Cavendish, Vt. Hannah\\ndied in Goffstown Rachel married Samuel Campbell, of Bed-\\nford.\\nSamuel, subsequently known as Samuel Gregg, Esq., mar-\\nried Jane Wilson, and died in Deering.\\nAndrew Walker. He came from Londonderry, and con-\\ntracted with the proprietors to build a grain and saw mill,\\nwhere Dodge and Bently s mills now stand, for which he was\\nto receive five hundred acres of land, on condition that he\\nshould keep them in good running order, and be very accom-\\nmodating and reasonable in tolls and charges with the settlers.\\nHe built his mills in 1753, but was not guilty of being exces-\\nsively accommodating to the settlers, and many and grievous\\ncomplaints were made against him to the Proprietors, who, los-\\ning patience with him, instructed Dea. Thomas Cochran and\\nJohn McAllister to deal summarily with him, if he did not\\nspeedily reform. He did do a little better for a time, but\\nproved a hard subject and other mills were soon erected, and\\nthe settlers became independent of his.\\nWalker s sons were Andrew, Alexander, James, and Robert\\nhis daughters were Peggy, Martha, and Jennet. Andrew lived\\nin the north part of the town, marrying Ruth Woodbury, and\\nsubsequently moved to Unity, and died there Alexander died\\nin the year 1776, at Mount Independence, in the camp; James\\nwent into the war of the Revolution, and afterwards lived in\\nAntrim, and fell dead in the road Robert married a Miss\\nWoodbury, and moved to Acworth, and died there Peggy\\nmarried Jonathan Major he was a baker in the army after\\nthe war they separated, he going into the State of ^Jaine both\\nare dead.\\nDea. Jesse Cristy. He came from Londonderry, where he\\nmarried Miss Mary Gregg, daughter of Samuel Gregg. He\\nsettled on what is called the Whipple farm on Clark s Hill, now\\nowned by Mr. Edward Dodge. Mr. Cristy sold his farm to Mr.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "356\\nJohn Whipple, and built mills where King s Mills now stand.\\nHe was chosen Deacon during the ministry of Rev. Mr. Moor.\\nHe was a very honest, friendly man, but often indulged his\\nappetite for intoxicating drinks, to an extent wholly inexcus-\\nable. His wife was an estimable Christian woman she was\\nalso a very large woman, weighing between three and four\\nhundred pounds, as many who remember her affirm. Their\\nchildren were Jeane, Peter, Samuel, John, Mary, Elizabeth,\\nJames, Mary Ann, Jesse, Robert, Anna, and William. Jeane\\nbecame the wife of James Willson, Esq., and lived where Mr.\\nPeter Jones now resides. Several of Dea. Cristy s sons, after\\nthe Revolution, moved into New Brunswick, where many of\\ntheir descendants may now be found. Robert went into Ohio\\nafter the death of his mother, and his father accompanied him,\\nand with him died.\\nDea. Thomas Cochra\u00c2\u00abn. He was born in Londonderry,\\nIreland, about 1703. His father s name was James, and his\\nmother s Letitia Patten. They were doubtless prisoners within\\nthe walls of that city, and took active part in its defence during\\nthe famous Papal Siege. They immigrated to this country\\nwith their four children, two sons, Thomas and Peter, and two\\ndaughters, Molly and about 1720, and, landing at\\nHalifax, N. S., settled at Topsham, Maine, where he soon died,\\nand the family moved to Londonderry, N. H.\\nPeter went to New Jersey, and Molly married James Wilson,\\nof Topsham, Maine, where it is said some of her descendants\\nstill reside. Thomas (afterwards Deacon) married Jennett\\nAdams, of Londonderry and came here about 1748.\\nHe was elected Deacon in the Presbyterian Church as early\\nas 1768. He. was a proprietor, and owned large tracts of land.\\nHe settled where Thomas R. Cochran, his lineal descendant,\\nnow lives. He was early intrusted with important business by\\nthe Proprietors, and was for many years the most prominent\\nman hi the town. His piety was sincere and consistent, and\\nhis character was always above reproach he was a safe coun-\\nsellor and faithful friend. He was very useful as a carpenter,\\naiding gratuitously new settlers in framing and rendering com-\\nfortable their dwellings. For many years there was no physi-\\ncian in the town, but Deacon Cochran having some knowledge", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "357\\nof diseases and their proper treatment, was accustomed to care\\nfor the sick, and to exercise his surgical skill in setting many\\na bone. His house was the resting-place of weary travellers,\\nand his table was ever free to the hungry. His children were,\\nJames, John, Robert, Peter, and Thomas, and two daughters,\\nLetitia and Elizabeth. Robert went to Charleston, S. C, and\\nbecome a large and wealthy planter, and died there leaving\\nchildren. James married Miss Christina Aiken, of London-\\nderry, and lived where Mr. Ephraim Dodge now lives, on Coch-\\nran Hill he died in 1772, aged about 40 years, receiving a\\nfatal injury by being thrown from a vicious horse his children\\nwere: Thomas (the late Deacon Thomas), Margaret, who mar-\\nried Jesse Christy, and lived in Grafton, Vt. Jennett, never mar-\\nried Robert, who lived on a part of his father s farm, marrying\\nfor his wife Miss Sally McMillen Nathaniel John, known as\\nthe late Esquire John Peter, who graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege 1798, and became a Presbyterian minister, and going\\nSouth, perished on the ocean John, another son of the first\\nDeacon Thomas, lived on Cochran Hill Peter, another son,\\nlived where the late Mr. Peter Cochran died, and where his son\\nAlfred E. now lives.\\nDeacon Cochran had two daughters: Letitia who married\\nDea. Robert Moor, of Londonderry, father of the present Miss\\nJane Moor and Elizabeth, who married Robert Hopkins, of\\nWindham Thomas settled at home with his father, to aid him\\nin his old age, but died October 6, 1770, aged 28. After a few\\nyears Dea. Cochran becoming infirm, abandoned his home-\\nstead, and lived alternately with his sons, John and Peter, and\\ndied, with his son John, November 20, 1791, aged 89, a good\\nman, whose memory deserves to be cherished by the whole town\\nas well as by a grateful posterity. The late Mr. Abner Hogg\\nsaid of him He was the best man I ever knew. There was\\nno way in which you could view him, and not pronounce him\\ngood. Deacon Cochran s wife, his blessed Jenney, as he\\nwas wont to call her, was a queenly woman, equal to her hus-\\nband in all virtues. She was a crown of glory to him, and a\\nblessing to the whole town. She carried relief to the sick and\\njoy to the needy, and was a ministering angel in every sorrow-\\ning household. She died June 7, 1784, aged 76. The late", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "358\\nMr. Luther Richards said of her I can remember her well,\\nand a dear good woman she was too. Everybody loved her.\\nI can testify to all that, added the late Mr. Hogg. The first\\nmeeting of the town was called at Deacon Cochran s house March\\n10, 1763, and that of the present year (1863) was held March\\n10, one hundred years after the first, the same day and hour,\\nat the Town House a coincidence of dates which was appro-\\npriately noticed by the town amid its deliberations.\\nJohn Cochran. He was son of the foregoing Dea. Thomas\\nCochran. He settled on the Cochran Hill, where his daughter\\nPeggy, at the venerable age of 87, now lives, occupying the\\nsame house which her father built nearly a hundred years ago,\\nbeing the first framed house erected in that part of the town.\\nMr. Cochran married Miss Elizabeth Boyce, daughter of Joseph\\nBoyce, a descendant of a celebrated divine of Dublin, Ireland.\\nTheir children were: Mary Ann, born October 16, 1764, who\\ndied August 9, 1838, in her seventy-third year she married\\nJesse Cristy, son of Captain George Cristy, who died April 26,\\n1841, aged 83 Letitia, born May 1, 1766, died unmarried\\nFebruary 15, 1857, aged 91 Joseph, who was born October\\n11, 1767, and died October 30, 1841, aged 84 he was a Deacon\\nin the Presbyterian Church James, born May 5, 1769, who\\nlived where Mr. Cudworth now lives, and died April 8, 1845,\\naged 76 Thomas, who was born April 14, 1771 Jennett, born\\nMarch 20, 1773, who became the wife of Peter Cochran, and\\ndied May 15, 1863, aged 90 John and Elizabeth, twins, died\\nyoung; Margaret (Peggy), born July 25, 1776, and is yet liv-\\ning; Betsey, born August 16, 1778, who died insane, March 31,\\n1838, in her 59th year John Davidson, born October 26, 1780,\\nand died June 14, 1850, aged 69 Mary and Robert, twins,\\nborn January 30, 1783 Mary married, in 1812, William Brown,\\nEsq., and Robert became a Presbyterian minister, and- died\\nAugust 1, 1818, aged 35, leaving one son and one daughter;\\nthe daughter becoming the wife of the late Abraham Cochran,\\nand the son, General William S. Cochran, lives in Rockland,\\nMe. Mr. Cochran was an excellent man having ample means,\\nhe maintained a most hospitable table. New settlers made his\\nhouse their home as long as it was necessary, and travellers\\nwere never tnrned away unfed, his latch-string being never", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "359\\npulled in by day nor by night. He was skilled in hunting\\ngame, in which he took great pleasure. Mr. Daniel Dodge\\ncarries a cane, the head of which is the antler of a deer shot by\\nMr. Cochran in his own field near his house. He was a man\\nof giant frame, and great personal courage and prowess. Tra-\\ndition says that having followed a bear to her den, from which\\nshe could not be driven, he, with a torch in one hand, and his\\nnever-erring musket in the other, entered the den and shot her in\\nher dark recess, and putting a rope around her neck, with the\\nassistance of his neighbors drew her forth as a trophy. Mr.\\nCochran was very useful as a house carpenter, in which trade\\nhe was much employed. He was a member of the Presbyterian\\nChurch, and lived a consistent christian life, and died March\\n29, 1825, aged 88 his wife died October 23, 1821, aged 83.\\nAt his funeral Rev. E. P. Bradford preached from the text\\nGen. 1. 1 And Joseph fell upon his father s face, and wept\\nupon him, and kissed him. At her funeral Rev. Mr. Bradford\\npreached from the text Gen. xxiii. 2 And Sarah died in Kir-\\njath-arba the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan and\\nAbraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.\\nWe give the following additional facts respecting his chil-\\ndren\\nMary Ann, his daughter, became the second wife of Jesse\\nCristy, son of Capt. George Cristy, the first male child born in\\nNew Boston being a blacksmith by trade, he lived many\\nyears on Cochran Hill, but at length moved to Grafton, Vt.\\nHis first wife was the daughter of James Cochran. His chil-\\ndren by his last wife were Margaret C, born Aug. 27, 1801,\\nand died June 4, 1859, being the wife of Jonathan Sherwin,\\nof Grafton, Vt., and Achsah, born Feb. 18, 1804, and died\\nSept. 25, 1858 Letitia lived and died in the house in which\\nshe was born, unmarried Joseph married Margaret Hogg\\nJames married Jane Crombie Thomas married Mary Barstow,\\nof Hanover, Mass. graduating at Brown University, he\\nstudied theology, and was settled as a Congregational minister\\nin Camden, Me., his children being Elizabeth B., John Boyce,\\nNathaniel Barstow, Deborah Barstow, and Sydney C. T. This\\nJohn B. married Elizabeth Fletcher, of Lowell, Mass., and is\\nan enterprising farmer m Linden, Genesee Co., Mich. and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "360\\nNathaniel B. married Jane Lees, of New Ipswich, N. H., May\\n4, 1841, and was for many years a popular steamboat captain\\non the Hudson River, but has lately retired to a farm near his\\nbrother in Michigan, a gentleman of fine literary taste and an\\nantiquarian of rare attainments Jennet married Peter Coch-\\nran John Davidson married Letitia, daughter of Ninian\\nClark, Esq., and built the large house at the corner of the four\\nroads on Cochran Hill. He possessed an ardent, genial, tem-\\nperament, and was greatly given to hospitality. He, in com-\\nmon with the Beards and Fersons, was a popular school-\\nteacher during the first quarter of the present century. His\\nchildren were Thomas Hamilton, born June 15, 1812 Robert\\nClark, born Nov. 4, 1813 Jonathan Ramsey, born Nov. 12,\\n1815, and deceased Nov. 28, 1855 John Boyce, born May 27,\\n1817 and Mary Letitia, born July 3, 1820. Robert C. studied\\nlaw and settled in. Gallatin, Miss., marrying, Oct. 17, 1844,\\nMary, daughter of Rev. E. P. Bradford, their children being\\nHenry Bradford and Letitia Clark. Jonathan R. was an\\nenterprising, public-spirited man, and died in California Nov.\\n30, 1855, where he had resided for some years John B. mar-\\nried Elizabeth Adams, of New York, and now resides in Lan-\\nsing, Michigan Mary L. became the wife of Benjamin Russell,\\nof Milford, in 1848, who, in 1850, with his wife s brother,\\nJonathan Cochran, went to California, and was accidentally\\ndrowned in the bay of San Francisco. Being an upright and\\nenergetic man, he was highly esteemed, and his death greatly\\ndeplored. His widow, in 1853, became the wife of James Pat-\\nten, Esq., of Berne, New York. They have one daughter,\\nMary Letitia. Robert, the youngest son of John Cochran,\\nmarried Abigail Stacy, of Wiscassett, Me., and died August 1,\\n1818, aged 35. Mary, the youngest daughter of John Coch-\\nran, married William Brown, of Union, Me., and has two\\nchildren, a son and a daughter the son resides in Nashua,\\nand the daughter resides in New Boston, the wife of Charles\\nGoodrich.\\nPeter Cochran. He was the son of Deacon Thomas Coch-\\nran, married Mary M Curdy, and lived on the South Hill,\\nwhere Mr. Alfred E. Cochran now lives. He died March 4,\\n1828, aged 89, and his wife died April 2, 1841, aged 92.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "361\\nTheir children were Robert, who married and lived in Ver-\\nmont Jennet, who married Capt. Wm. Stinson, of Dunbarton,\\nfather of the present Col. Charles Stinson, who married Susan,\\ndaughter of Robert Cochran, brother to Jennet Nancy, who\\nmarried Ninian Clark, of Hancock, brother of Dea. Robert C,\\nand son of William Letitia, who married Abraham Story,\\nEsq., and lived in Washington Peter, who married Louis\\nStory, of Dunbarton, and lived on the homestead, having one\\nson, Alfred E., who married Clarinda Parker, and their chil-\\ndren are Wallace, Warren S., Sarah, and George E. Mr.\\nPeter Cochran died Feb. 15, 1862, his second wife being Mary\\nFairfield, of Saco, Me. James, another son of Peter Clark\\nthe elder, died unmarried, and Mary, another daughter, mar-\\nried Peter Jones. Jesse died young.\\nCapt. George Cristy. He came from Londonderry about\\n1750, having married Margaret Kelso, daughter of Alexander\\nKelso, of Londonderry. Her brother John subsequently set-\\ntled where his grandson, Mr. Robert Kelso, now resides. Capt.\\nCristy settled where Dea. Sumner L. Cristy lives. His chil-\\ndren are Anna, Jesse, Thomas, John, George, Mary, Nancy,\\nMargaret, and some others. Margaret became insane, and\\nAnna married William Campbell, who lived where Mr. Lemuel\\nMarden now resides. Capt. Cristy became quite affluent for\\nhis times, and had a very respectable family. His wife was\\na highly esteemed lady. He died April 22, 1790, aged 58, and\\nhis wife died March 13, 1799.\\nBefore Mr. Cristy had cleared land enough to afford forage for\\nhis cow, he was accustomed to drive her to the meadow, near\\nwhat were the Dea. Jesse Cristy s Mills. One evening, when\\nhe was unable to go for his cow himself, Mrs. Cristy, with her\\ndog and pail, went for the milk, with the intent of leaving the\\ncow at the meadow. Obtaining the milk, she started for\\nhome but when darkness came she found herself just where\\nshe had started. With a heavy heart she saw the necessity\\nof passing the night by the side of the cow with her dog,\\nthough an infant child at home demanded her presence. She\\npassed a sleepless night, rendered hideous by the howling of\\nwolves and a consciousness of danger. With the dawn of\\nlight she started for home, guided by spotted trees, and soon\\n46", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "362\\nmet her husband in search of her, who had in like manner,\\nwith his little ones, passed a night of terrible suspense.\\nJohn McMillen. He came to New Boston in 1755, and\\nsettled the tract of land owned by the late Dea. Elzaphan\\nDodge and by Jonathan Marden. After a few years he sold to\\nhis cousin Daniel McMillen, and settled the tract of land now\\nowned by Ezra Morgan, and subsequently moved to Littleton,\\nand died in the town of Lyman, at the age of 95 and his wife\\ndied at the age of 90.\\nMr. McMillen was in the Revolutionary war, serving in\\nRhode Island in the militia, being called out to defend certain\\nplaces, while the veterans advanced against the British. His\\nsons were Alexander, Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, Henry and\\nhis daughters were Mary, Sally, Nancy, Hannah, Rachel,\\nCatherine. Most of his sons settled in Western New York.\\nMary became the wife of James McMillen, who settled in New\\nBoston. Sally became the wife of Robert Cochran, and lived\\nin New Boston. Rachel married a Mr. Haskins. Catherine\\nbecame the wife of a Mr. Pike, and lived in Western New\\nYork.\\nMr. McMillen was a worthy citizen, and a consistent mem-\\nber of the Presbyterian Church, and was often entrusted with\\nimportant business by the town.\\nDaniel McMillen. He bought, as above stated, the farm\\nof John McMillen, where he lived and died. When about\\neighteen, he enlisted in the Revolutionary war, in the militia,\\nand was at West Point when Benedict Arnold went over to the\\nBritish and was guarding Arnold s house when he rode\\naway, observing strange movements and personages about the\\npremises before daybreak, not mistrusting what was transpir-\\ning. Just before this event he and others, under an appro-\\npriate officer, were sent out to bring in wood and while\\nengaged in this, a fine looking officer approached, and they\\nwere ordered to open right and left and salute him, which sal-\\nutation was gracefully returned by the unknown rider. Soon\\nafter Major Andre, the spy, was taken, and was identified as\\nthe same officer whom they had saluted, then on his way to\\nArnold to consummate the arrangements for his defection.\\nAfter the war, Mr. McMillen married Mary, the daughter of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "363\\nthe above John McMillen. Their children were six sons and\\nfour daughters, John, James, Annanias, William, Daniel,\\nDavid, Sally, Alice, Polly, and Betsey. John lived in Wash-\\nington, was deacon in the Congregational Church there, and\\nhighly respected as a citizen and christian. James lived on\\nthat part of his father s farm now owned by Jonathan Marden,\\nand erected the buildings thereon. He died in 1849, aged 86.\\nAnnanias settled in Littleton. William lived on that part of\\nhis father s farm owned by the late Dea. E. Dodge, but subse-\\nquently moved to Newport, and died there. Daniel lived in\\nBradford. David lived and died in Littleton. Sally became\\nthe wife of James Steele, and lived in Washington, but died in\\nNew York. Alice became the wife of John Lynch, and lived\\nand died in New Boston. Polly married Zebi Wright, and\\nlived in Littleton, but died in Manchester.\\nJames had twelve children John, who lived in Lyman,\\nand died in Lyndeborough Sally, who married Andrew\\nWalker, Jr., who built the house where Issachar Andrews\\nlives they subsequently moved to Unity, where she still lives\\nAbigail married Henry George, of Goffstown, and lived in\\nHaverhill after his death, she became the wife of David\\nTewksbury, of this town Daniel, who married Eliza Lewis, of\\nFrancestown, and lives in New Boston, having seven children\\nJames, first and second, who died young and Rachel, who\\nmarried William Hunter, and lived in Boston for many years,\\nand now lives in Maiden Syrean, who married John Emerson\\nand lives in Boston Adeline and Caroline, twins the first\\nmarried Ezra B. Peabody, and lives in Brookline the second\\nmarried William Haywood, and lives in Connecticut Absa-\\nlom, who lives in Unity Henry, who lived in South Carolina,\\nand died there.\\nNathaniel Cochran. His father s name was John, and was\\nborn in Ireland. He married Lilly Killgore, and came to\\nAmerica in the year 1717. They landed at Brunswick, in the\\nState of Maine, where Bowdoin College now stands. He was,\\nby way of distinction, called John The Man. Their chil-\\ndren were as follows James, Joseph, Thomas, Nathaniel, Sam-\\nuel, Elizabeth, and Susannah. James, when sixteen years of\\nage, was a soldier in the King s service, and was taken prisoner", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "364\\nby two Indians, on the Sheepscot River in Maine and on the\\nsecond night after his capture he killed them both while they\\nwere sleeping; he brought their scalps and guns to Boston\\nApril 3, 1725. For this act of bravery he received as a re-\\nward twenty pounds, lawful money, and a discharge from the\\nservice one year before the term of his enlistment expired,\\nand was ever after called Indian Jemmy. He subsequently\\nremoved to Pennsylvania. Nathaniel was born in Ireland in\\nthe year 1714, was three years old when his father brought him\\nto America. He married Miss Jael Martin, and came from\\nLondonderry to New Boston, it is thought, about 1755. Their\\nchildren were as follows John, born 1745, on Noddle s Island,\\nnow called East Boston, Mass., and died at New Boston June\\n8, 1805, aged 60 James, born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 14, 1748,\\nand died at New Boston May 11, 1837, aged 89 Elijah, born\\nin Salem, Mass., August 23, 1751, and died at New Boston\\nJan. 15, 1850, aged 99 Jennette was born in Salem, Mass.,\\nand died in Londonderry. Mr. Cochran s wife died in Lon-\\ndonderry, 1753 and he married for his second wife Elizabeth\\nHenderson, by whom he had a daughter, named Jael, born at\\nNew Boston 1768, and died at Belvidere, Vt. Mr. Cochran s\\nsecond wife died July 16, 1796, and he died July 16, 1802,\\naged 88, where Mrs. Sargent resides.\\nJohn Cochran, Esq. He was son of the above-named\\nNathaniel born 1745, married Martha Dickey Sept. 2, 1773,\\nand settled near his father s, where the widow of Col. Ira Coch-\\nran lately died. Their children were as follows Nathaniel,\\nborn Aug. 14, 1774, supposed to have been killed in a skirmish\\nwith a party of Spanish Royalists, near the Gulf of Mexico,\\nabout Dec. 25, 1816 Samuel, born March 7; 1776, and died\\nat Opelousas, St. Martins, Louisiana, July 12, 1832 Martha\\nD., born Oct. 26, 1777, died Sept. 23,1778 Martin, born Nov.\\n29, 1779, and died Aug., 1782 William, born May 9, 1781,\\nand died at Boston July 17, 1821, of yellow fever, which pre-\\nvailed in Boston that year Ira, born Jan. 2, 1786, it being\\nthe second day of the year, the second day of the month, the\\nsecond day of the week, and the second day of the new moon,\\nand he died Oct. 27, 1818 Mary Boyd, born March 28, 1739,\\ndied June 14, 1850, being married to Levi Cochran Oct. 31,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "365\\n1820 John Bruce, born Aug. 3, 1794, and died at Boston\\nAug. 14, 1821, of yellow fever Mr. Cochran s wife died March\\n16, 1843, aged 92, and he died June 8, 1805, aged 60. Mr.\\nCochran was an intelligent, upright man he was for many\\nyears a Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk, and Selectman, doing\\nbusiness with great facility and accuracy. He was a warm\\nWhig, and espoused the cause of the Patriots with great zeal,\\nand this brought him often into collision with the Tories, whom\\nhe resisted with great ability. He was a member of the Pres-\\nbyterian Church, and was exemplary as a christian.\\nJames Cochran. He was son of Nathaniel, and brother of\\nthe above-named John. He married Anna Waugh Sept. 28,\\n1780. She was born Nov. 5, 1761, and died April 28, 1785.\\nTheir children were Jane, born March 24, 1782, who became\\nthe wife of Col. Ira Cochran, and died July 14, 1861, aged 79\\nElizabeth, born Sept. 26, 1783, and married Moses Peabody\\nAugust 8, 1805, and is still living at the venerable age of 80\\nand an infant son born April 1, 1785, and died the same day.\\nMr. Cochran married Elizabeth Stone for his second wife, who\\nwas born in Salem, Mass., July 8, 1763, and died Nov., 14, 1808,\\nand their children were Joseph, Anna, Susannah, John, who\\ndied July 26, 1795 Martha D., died July 25, 1795 Lydia, Ru-\\nhamah, died Aug. 25, 1801 Nathaniel M. and Hiram. Mr.\\nCochran settled where John Lamson lives. Mr. Cochran died\\nMay 11, 1837, aged 89, greatly respected as a citizen and be-\\nloved as a friend and christian. His life was characterized by\\nuprightness and pious zeal he successfully raised a large\\nfamily of children. Additional facts may be found respecting\\nsome of his children, and those of his brother John, after what\\nis recorded of Elijah Cochran.\\nElijah Cochran. He was son of Nathaniel and brother of\\nthe above-named James and lived on Buxton Hill. He was a\\ntailor by trade. He married Jemima Gregg June 24, 1779,\\nand she died Aug. 27, 1834, aged 80. Their children were\\nNathaniel, Mary Martin, James Gregg, Samuel, Isaac, and\\nHitty. Mr. Cochran was in the war of the Revolution, being\\nat the battle of Bennington, and died in 1850, aged 99.\\nJael, daughter of Nathaniel, married Enoch Dodge, and had\\neleven children.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "366\\nNathaniel, son of John and Martha, married Celeste Prud-\\nhomer, and their children are Mary, who became the wife of\\nMichael Hargrider, and Martha, who married Andrew Myers.\\nWilliam, son of John, married Mary Fletcher May, 1807,\\nand their children are Martha, Agnes Gorden, Mary Ann, and\\nElizabeth.\\nIra, son of John, married Jane, daughter of James, Feb. 19,\\n1815 and their children were John Harris, born March 3,\\n1816, and died in the Army Hospital near Washington in\\n1863, and James Dinsmore, who died young. Mrs. Cochran\\ndied July 14, 1861, aged 79 and Col. Ira, her husband, died\\nOct. 22, 1818, aged 32. Mary Boyd, daughter of John, mar-\\nried Levi Cochran Oct. 31, 1820, and died June 14, 1850, aged\\n61. Their children are Mary Bradford, now the wife of Reu-\\nben Dodge, and Sarah Martha, who became the wife of David\\nM. McCollom.\\nElizabeth, daughter of James, married Moses Peabody Aug.\\n8,1805.\\nSusannah, daughter of James, married Jonathan Cochran\\nNov. 26, 1812, and resides in Bangor, Me., their children being\\nMary Emily, Sarah B., Martha A., and Helen A.\\nLydia, daughter of James, married Phineas Dodge Dec. 31,\\n1822, her children being Elizabeth, who married Oliver Wal-\\ncott, and Arvilla, who married Arnmi Follett. She died at\\nJohnson, Yt., Feb. 14, 1828.\\nNathaniel Martin, son of James, married Elizabeth Knights\\nJan. 30, 1827 their children being Nathaniel D., Elizabeth\\nM., Arvilla, and James M. He died at Franklin, Dutch Settle-\\nment Parish, St. Mary s, Louisiana, Nov. 16, 1838.\\nAnna, daughter of James, married Joseph Batchelder.\\nHiram, son of James, married, and had several children, and\\ndied at Orono, Me., Sept. .1, 1844.\\nJoseph Cochran, Esq. He was son of James, and married\\nAnna Wilson Nov. 1, 1810. Their children are William P.,\\nborn March 2, 1811, and resides at Bellows Falls, Vt. Ru-\\nhamah, born Feb. 25, 1812, now the wife of Hon. Horace\\nChace, of Hopkinton Eliza J., born May 16, 1813 Elvira,\\nborn Feb. 27, 1815, and died Aug. 19, 1840, in Michigan, the\\nwife of Charles Merrill James M., born Feb. 28, 1817, and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "J. ill affords Lilt.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "367\\nresides in Stonington, 111., the pastor of the Baptist Church in\\nthat place his wife was Jane M. Philbrook Mary Ann, born\\nJune 26, 1819, now the wife of Henry Holt Walter W., born\\nMay 18, 1821, who lives at Bellows Falls, Vt., connected with\\nrailroads centring there Joseph L., born Feb. 16, 1823, and\\nresides in Holyoke, Mass., engaged in manufacturing he mar-\\nried Miss Sarah Weeks Hannah W., born June 14, 1825\\nCynthia C, born Aug. 16, 1827, and died June 26, 1852 and\\nAugusta K., born Aug. 13, 1830.\\nWalter Wardrobe married Eliza Ann Corning Sept. 23,\\n1847. She was born Nov. 23, 1822, and their children are\\nFrank Byron, born March 15, 1851 Stella Ann, born July 7,\\n1853 Emma Jane, born March 10, 1855 and Lizzie Etta,\\nborn Feb. 29, 1860.\\nJoseph Cochran, better known as Joseph Cochran, Jr., was a\\ngood scholar for his day, and greatly excelled in penmanship\\nand this was early called into requisition in various ways as\\nTown Clerk and secretary of religious societies. He was very\\naccurate in the transaction of business, and much of his time\\nwas devoted to town affairs and the settling of estates. He\\nwas commissioned ensign in the 9th Co. 9th Regt. N. H.\\nMilitia, June 11 1810, by Gov. John Langdon, and as Lieut.\\nJune 17, 1812, by Gov. Wm. Plummer, and as Capt. June 15,\\n1815, by Gov. J. T. Gilman. He held commissions as Justice\\nof the Peace, beginning with June 19, 1816, from Govs. Plum-\\nmer, Bell, Morrill, Dinsmore, Hill, Paige, Colby, and Dinsmore,\\nthe last bearing date July 2, 1851, extending through a period\\nof forty years.\\nSept. 28, 1846, he was commissioned by Gov. Anthony Colby\\nSpecial Justice of the Police Court of the City of Manchester,\\nto which city he had removed. He early identified himself\\nwith the temperance. cause, and devoted to it his most vigorous\\nenergies. He was very efficient in the erection of the Presby-\\nterian and Baptist meeting-houses, and aided much the cause\\nof Sabbath schools. In politics he was formerly identified with\\nthe Democratic party, but early espoused the cause of the\\nprogressive patriots, who sought to remove slavery as the con-\\ntrolling power in the government, and with that party he con-\\ntinued to act until his death.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "368\\nMr. Cochran was for many years a member of the Presby-\\nterian Church; but in the most friendly manner left that to\\nunite with the Baptist, having changed his views of the doctrine\\nof baptism. As infirmities increased he removed to Bellows\\nFalls, Vt., where several of his children had already gone and\\nthere with them he spent his last years, and died January 17,\\n1863, aged nearly 78, greatly beloved by his family and re-\\nspected by all who knew him.\\nAbraham Cochran. After his marriage with Jennette Coch-\\nran, of Londonderry, of which he himself was a native, Mr.\\nCochran came to New Boston, and settled on the rich swell of\\nland, now in the possession of Benjamin Baker, who married his\\ngranddaughter. He also purchased the large and well-timber-\\ned lot of land owned by the late Deacon Abraham Cochran, his\\ngrandson. He had five children Andrew, Jane, Peter, Ann,\\nand Mary, the first two dying young Peter married Jennette,\\ndaughter of John Cochran on Cochran Hill, inherited the\\nhomestead, and died January 20, 1843, aged 75. His children\\nwere Jane, Abraham, John Davidson, Margaret Ann, Mary\\nElizabeth, and Andrew, who died when a child. Jane married\\nRobert, son of the late Dea. Robert Crombie, and lives inNew\\nBoston Abraham, born September 1, 1802, married Almira\\nTrull, of Townsend, Mass., September 9,1830, and lives where\\nWilliam Andrews now resides. Mrs. Cochran died, leaving\\nhim five children, Lydia Jane, Andrew D., Alonzo B., Almus\\nP., and A. Josephine. Mr. Cochran married for his second\\nwife Abigail, daughter of Rev. Robert Cochran, of Wiscasset,\\nMaine, January 20, 1847, by whom he had two daughters,\\nAlmira T. and Abbie Maria. Mr. Cochran was a member of\\nthe Presbyterian Church, and for many years was an elder in\\nit. He died July 22, 1856, in Rutland, Vt., on his return\\nhome from a journey taken for his health,. aged 54 years. Dea.\\nCochran was a sincere christian and an upright man, and his\\nend was peace. His son Alonzo died April 22, 1858, aged 22,\\na young man of great promise and his daughter, Lydia, died\\nAugust 14, 1860, aged 29, a thorough scholar and his son\\nAndrew, a member of Dartmouth College, died October 23,\\n1860, aged 27, near San Antonia, Texas, where he had gone\\nin search of health, hoping to stay the progress of consumption,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "369\\nof which his father, brother, and sister had died. He was a\\nyoung man of exemplary piety, and possessed a superior intel-\\nlect. Almus, another son of Dea. A. Cochran, is in the army of\\nthe Cumberland, and A. Josephine, his youngest daughter by\\nhis first wife, is a graduate of New Ipswich Academy.\\nJohn Davidson (son of Peter) married Margaret Todd, of\\nBelfast, Maine, and lives in Milford, his surviving children be-\\ning Albert A., now in the service of his country, and Jennie M.\\nMargaret Ann, daughter of Peter, married Benjamin Baker,\\nof Newbury, Vt., and they live on the homestead in New Bos-\\nton, having two children, Benjamin F., and Annie M. Mary\\nElizabeth married Peter E. Hadley, Esq., of Goffstown, and they\\nhave two sons, George P. and Charles C.\\nPeter Cochran, father of the late Dea. Abraham Cochran,\\nwas distinguished from all other Peter Coehrans by the worthy\\ntitle Honest Peter, a title justly due to him.\\nJohn McLauglen. He settled on Bradford Hill, and built\\nthe house in which Rev. Mr. Bradford lived. He had a son,\\nJohn, who kept store and tavern, and was a man of great busi-\\nness activity, for many years he kept the town astir with his\\nenterprises, which were greatly beneficial to the community if\\nnot remunerative to himself. A worthy descendant of his may\\nbe found in Colonel Thomas McLaughlen, son of David, born\\nin New Boston March 11, 1800, moved into Vermont with his\\nfather when a lad, and has been for the last twenty-five years\\nthe owner of Clarendon Springs, and the well known and\\npopular proprietor of the Clarendon House, a romantic and\\nquiet retreat among the green hills of Vermont, where thou-\\nsands from all parts of New England and the great Metropolis\\nresort annually to receive healing from its waters, and enjoy a\\nrespite from the heated atmosphere and din of city life. Colonel\\nMcLaughlen is a philanthropic, public-spirited man, and a\\nliberal contributor to the religious and charitable institutions\\nof the day.\\nWilliam Clark, Esq. He was son of Robert Clark, of Lon-\\ndonderry, who came to this country about the year 1725, set-\\ntling on the height of land northwest of Beaver Pond, and died\\nin 1775 his wife, who was Letitia, daughter of John Cochran,\\nof Londonderry in Ireland, died in 1783. Their children were\\n47", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "370\\nWilliam, John, Samuel, Ninian, Jane, Letitia, Agnes, and\\nElizabeth.\\nWilliam married Anne Wallace, of Londonderry, February\\n2, 1764, and settled in 1766, in New Boston, where Mr. George\\nW. Clark, his grandson, lives. Their children were Letitia,\\nRobert, Ann, John, Mnian, Rebecca, Samuel, Ann, and Letitia.\\nMr. Clark was the only Justice of the Peace in town who re-\\nceived his commission from the British Government he did\\nnot sympathize at first with the patriots of the Revolution, and\\nmade enemies thereby. But he was a man with whom the\\ntown could not afford to be long angry. As a surveyor of land\\nhe had no equal in the town as an intelligent justice his ser-\\nvices were of great value. He was a just man, and sought to\\npromote peace and save the town and private parties from liti-\\ngation he was employed in the service of the town for a long\\nsuccession of years in almost every capacity, and had the un-\\nbounded confidence of the people. He was a member of the\\nPresbyterian Church, and lived and died as a christian, and\\nleft a name that will not soon be forgotten. His death trans-\\npired March 9, 1808, aged 73. His wife died June 12, 1792,\\naged 55.\\nDea. Robert Clark. He was son of the foregoing William,\\nand was born in Londonderry October 6, 1765, before his father\\nmoved here. Robert inherited the homestead, and married\\nAnnis Wallace March 4, 1790. Their children were Rebecca\\nWallace, Ann, Frances Moor, William, Sally Wallace, Jane\\nMoor, Louisa Letitia, Cordelia, and George Washington. Mr.\\nClark was chosen elder in the Presbyterian Church about the\\ntime of Mr. Bradford s ordination, and greatly magnified his\\noffice by his exemplary and holy life. His christian zeal and\\nuniform devotion to Christ and his cause gave him great power\\nin the church, and secured to him the confidence of the town.\\nFor many years he filled important offices, and was always\\ndeemed a safe counsellor, and a friend of peace and good order.\\nHe died September 18, 1826, aged 61, greatly lamented by a\\nbereaved church and an afflicted community. His wife died\\nJanuary 5, 1850, aged 82, being an excellent woman, a great\\nhelp to her husband, and the succorer of many.\\nTheir daughter Ann married, December 28, 1813, Mr. Robert", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "SA-.TerAIzth.\\nI^PrVTU^\\n^V- ($4", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "371\\nMack, of Londonderry Frances Moor married, October 13,\\n1829, the Rev. Samuel Wallace Clark, who died in Greenland\\nAugust 17, 1847, aged 52 Jane Moor married Alexander\\nGregg October 3, 1820, and they live in Medford, Mass., he\\nbeing the son of the late Samuel Gregg, Esq. their son, Wil-\\nliam Robert, married Hannah Caldwell, of Manchester, Mass.,\\nin 1848, and they live in Boston George W. married, April 2,\\n1837, Letitia M., daughter of William Crombie, of Fulton, New\\nYork, and lives on the home farm.\\nJohn Clark. He was a son of William, and brother of\\nRobert. He married Rebecca Wallace, sister of Deacon Rob-\\nert s wife, and their children were Ann, who died in Amherst\\nSamuel Wallace, who married Frances Moor, daughter of Dea.\\nRobert Clark, and died in Greenland William, a clergyman,\\nnow residing in Amherst, Secretary of the N. H. Home Mis-\\nsionary Society and Gilman, now living in Foxcraft, Me.\\nAbbie, who became the wife of Mr. Kent, and lives in Vermont\\nJohn, married and lived in Georgia for many years, but now at\\nthe North Lydia and Letitia, who live in Amherst.\\nRebecca Clark. She was daughter of William, and mar-\\nried Moses Cristy March 20, 1788, and they settled where Dea.\\nSumner L. Cristy now lives. Their children were John, who\\nmarried Polly Dodge for his first wife, and Roxanna Baker for\\nhis second, and died in Johnson, Vt. Anna became the wife\\nof Stephen Durant, and, for her second husband, married John\\nCarroll, and died in Lowell, Mass. William Clark married\\nHannah Taylor, and lives in Charlestown, Mass. David, who\\ndied Sept. 8, 1802 Robert died in childhood James married\\nJane Dodge, and lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Elizabeth S. mar-\\nried Ezra Harthan, and died at Great Falls Mary, who became\\nthe second wife of Ezra Harthan, and died at Great Ealls Le-\\ntitia died unmarried Nancy, who died young and Sumner\\nL., who was born May 26, 1807, and married Sarah Hooper,\\ndaughter of the late Jacob Hooper, and their children are Sa-\\nrah, who became the wife of E. F. Baker, and resides in Sa-\\nlem, Mass. Elizabeth H., who graduated at Mount Holyoke,\\nMass., in 1860 Mary L. Harland P., living in Flint, Mich.\\nMartyn K. Charles S. Mrs. Cristy died May 4, 1854. Dea.\\nS. L. Cristy married, for his second wife, Emily Whiting, daugh-\\nter of the late Capt. Gerry Whiting.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "372\\nNinian Claek. He was son of William, and married Nancy\\nCochran, daughter of Peter Cochran, the elder, and sister of\\nthe late Peter. He settled in Hancock, and died there. His\\nchildren were Nancy, who married Peter Whitcomb, of Lon-\\ndonderry Peter Cochran, who died in New Jersey while teach-\\ning school. Mr. Clark married, for his second wife, Sally War-\\nner, by whom he had children Warner, who died in Hancock\\nReid Paige, who lives in Londonderry, marrying for his wife a\\nMiss Perkins Avory, who married a Miss Goodhue, and lives\\nt in Hancock Almira Augustus Ninian, who lives in Beverly,\\nMass. Robert, who died in California and Mary Ann, who\\nlives in Hancock.\\nNinian Clark, Esq. He was son of Robert Clark, of\\nLondonderry, and came with his brother William, and settled\\nnear him, where Mr. William Orne now lives. He married\\nMary Ramsey, sister of the wife of the late Dea. Thomas Coch-\\nran, Nov. 11, 1773. Their children were William, Lydia,\\nRobert, Hugh Hamilton, Letitia, David, Jonathan, and Samuel.\\nWilliam, born Sept. 29, 1774, inherited the homestead, and\\nmarried Abigail H. Farwell, of Merrimack, having for children\\nAbigail D., who died young Robert H., who went west Mary\\nR., who was made deaf by spotted fever, and has since died\\nRebecca G., who married Joel Fairbanks, and lives in New Bos-\\nton, her husband dying Sept. 10, 1862 Ann, who married Wil-\\nliam C. Cochran June 2, 1840, and lives in New Boston John\\nC, who was made mute by spotted fever, living in Nashua, where\\nhe died, and marrying for his wife Caroline Dunnison, of Fran-\\ncestown Abigail, who in like manner was made mute, and\\nmarried Albert Gove, a mute, of Henniker Margaret, who\\nbecame the wife of Dr. James Danforth, of New Boston, and\\ndied Sept. 18, 1851 William Dalton, who married Nancy,\\ndaughter of John Moor, and lives in Davenport, Iowa Lydia\\n(daughter of Ninian), born May 3, 1776, and became the wife\\nof John Crombie Robert, born June 23, 1778, became a mer-\\nchant, and died in Boston, unmarried Hugh Hamilton, born\\nNov. 2, 1780, became a merchant in Boston, of the firm Hum-\\nphry and Clark, and died April 11, 1818, aged 37 his wife\\nbeing Nancy Barnard, daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Barnard, of\\nAmherst, who died Dec. 1, 1803, aged 27, by whom he had", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "373\\nthree children Anne B., who married the Hon. Charles G.\\nAtherton, and now lives in Boston and Frances, who became\\nthe wife of the Rev. Alonzo Hill, of Worcester, Mass. and\\nHamilton Letitia (another daughter of Ninian) was born\\nApril 11, 1783, and became the wife of John Davidson Cochran,\\nson of John Cochran, on Cochran Hill David Ramsey (another\\nson of Ninian) was born June 23, 1785, and died June 18,\\n1823, aged 37, living where the late John Linch died, having\\nby his first wife one daughter, who married John Nichols, of\\nBoston, and by his second a son, Ninian Ramsey, who lives in\\nSomerville, Mass., marrying Cordelia Benner, of Waldoborough,\\nMe., and has one daughter also three daughters one, Re-\\nbecca, marrying a Mr. Reid, of New Orleans and the second,\\nSophia, who married a Mr. Reid, and lives in Bridgewater,\\nMass. and the third, Frances, who married a Mr. Howard of\\nBridgewater, Mass. Jonathan, another son of Ninian, was born\\nApril 27, 1789, and died May 13, 1814 and Samuel, the last\\nson of Ninian, was born April 21, 1791, being prepared for\\nDartmouth College by the Rev. Mr. Beede, of Wilton, grad-\\nuating 1812. He studied theology with Rev. Dr. Channing,\\nand was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church in Princeton,\\nMass., June 18, 1817, and was installed at Uxbridge Jan. 9,\\n1833, and remained pastor of that church until his death, which\\noccurred Nov. 19, 1855. He married Miss Sarah Wigglesworth,\\nan estimable christian woman, who died some years before him,\\nhimself being a man of rare modesty, great self-denial, imper-\\nturbable good-nature, excellent gifts, large culture, and unflinch-\\ning fidelity to duty and when the Master called he was ready.\\nMr. Ninian Clark, father of the foregoing, was an extraor-\\ndinary man, of large sympathies, and a noble spirit. He was\\nfor many years a Justice of the Peace, filling many offices with\\nfidelity always characterized for his unflinching integrity. He\\nwas for many years a member of the Presbyterian Church, and\\nhis life and character were models for imitation. No two men\\nin town exerted a more widely-extended influence, nor more\\nenduring and happy, than Ninian Clark and his brother Wil-\\nliam. Mr. Ninian Clark died May 25, 1828, aged 87, and his\\nwife died Jan. 11, 1791.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "374\\nJames Crombie. He was son of John Crombie, who em-\\nigrated from the north of Ireland, and settled in Londonderry\\nabout the year 1720, marrying Joan Rankin Nov. 17, 1721, by\\nwhom he had nine children: Hugh, William, James, John, Eliz-\\nabeth, Mary Jane, Nancy, and Ann.\\nJames came to New Boston in 1783, and settled where C. F.\\nFarley lives, having married Jane Clark, daughter of Robert\\nClark, of Londonderry, by whom he had six sons and two\\ndaughters, all of whom were born prior to his coming to New\\nBoston, except Clark. His children were as follows William,\\nborn Dec. 16, 1766, who married Betsey Fairfield, and settled\\nin Fulton, in the State of New York, where he died Dec. 20,\\n1851, and where his wife died Aug. 9, 1855, aged 85 years\\nRobert, born Dec. 12, 1768, who married Mary Patterson, daugh-\\nter of Dea. Robert Patterson, and settled in the northern part\\nof the town he was, for many years, a deacon in the Presbyte-\\nrian Church, and died April 21, 1830, aged 61 John, who\\nlived on the homestead Jane, born July 27, 1772, married\\nJames Cochran, son of John Cochran, and settled near his fa-\\nther, on Cochran Hill, where Mr. Cudworth now lives, and died\\nthere James, born Sept. 28, 1774, who married Joanna Jones,\\ndaughter of Dr. Jones, of Lyndeborough, with whom he studied,\\ncommencing the practice of medicine in 1798, at Temple, re-\\nmoving to Francestown in 1820, where he continued until 1850,\\nwhen he removed to Derry, where he died with his son James\\nH. Crombie, M. D., 1853 Samuel, born Aug. 2, 1778, who\\nmarried Mary Cooledge, and removed to Waterford, Me., where\\nhe practiced medicine until his death Letitia, born Jan. 15,\\n1781 Clark, born in New Boston Sept. 14, 1784, who mar-\\nried Lucy, daughter of Daniel Dane, and settled near King s\\nMills, subsequently living where Mr. Prince now lives, and at\\npresent resides in South Reading, Mass., his children are:\\nJane, James C, Daniel D., Sarah E., and Albert D. Jane be-\\ncame the wife of Butler Trull, of Goffstown, and died leaving\\nfive children; James C. married and resided in Lowell, Mass.,\\nwhere he died, leaving one child Daniel Dane married in\\nLowell, Mass., and has one child he is agent for the Everett\\nMills, Lawrence, Mass., a gentleman widely known for his in-\\ntegrity of character and business capacity, as well as for his", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "X:\\nl s tith..\\ni^U i^C ^W??^.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "^Cg nWtfS", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "375\\nloyalty to his country and spirit of enterprise Sarah E. be-\\ncame the wife of John Ammidon, a merchant in Baltimore,\\nMd., and has two children Albert D. married Miss Greenwood,\\nof Nashua, and has one child he is a successful merchant in\\nBaltimore, Md.\\nMr. James Crombie was a shoemaker, currier, and tanner,\\nand was one of the most useful mechanics of his day generous\\nin hospitality, high-minded and honorable in his dealings, social\\nin his habits, diffusing happiness by his cheerful spirit and help-\\ning hand. His ready wit created mirth for the gloomy, and\\nhis christian fervor prompted to acts of piety. He was just the\\nman for the time and the place into which Providence brought\\nhim. He died Jan. 7, 1814 and his wife, as good as himself,\\ndied May 25, 1815.\\nJohn Crombie. He was son of the foregoing James Crom-\\nbie, born July 30, 1770, marrying Lydia Clark April 28, 1800,\\ndaughter of Ninian Clark, Esq. He lived with his father, and\\nhad for children: Ninian Clark, who was born Jan. 20, 1801,\\nand married Rebecca Patten, of Derry, Oct. 29, 1829, and lives\\nin New Boston, having for children Nancy Moor, John Clark,\\nMoses Colvard, Harriet Rebecca, and James Patten Mary\\nRamsey, who was born July 27, 1802, and married James\\nWilder, living and dying near the mills now owned by Mr.\\nHopkins, her children being John Crombie, James Watter-\\nman, and Charles Styles Jane, born Nov. 17, 1803, and died\\nyoung Harriet, born April 26, 1806, who married William C.\\nCochran April 26, 1831, and died Aug. 16, 1839, leaving two\\nsons, Thomas Ramsey and John Crombie, and two daughters,\\nLydia Clark and Margaret Anna Letitia, born Jan. 27, 1808,\\nand died young Samuel Cooledge, born May 22, 1810, and\\nwas accidentally killed June 11, 1814; John, born Feb.\\n1812, who married Eliza Patten, of Derry, April 26, 1828,\\nlived in Nashua, and died Jan. 19, 1855, leaving five children\\nHarriet, Mary, Eliza, John, Lydia, and Frances Rebecca\\nSamuel Cooledge, born April 20, 1814, who married Susan\\nChoat, of Derry, Jan. 28, 1841, and now lives in Burlington,\\nVt., his wife dying March 19, 1857, their children being Mary\\nPinkerton, William Choat, Lydia, and Rufus Nancy Moor,\\nborn March 26, 1816, and died May 5, 1830 William Hamil-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "376\\nton, born Sept. 3, 1818, who married Adeline Cheney, of\\nDeny, June 22, 1842, and lives in Davenport, Iowa, his chil-\\ndren being Etta Yelora, Sophia Clark, Emma Frances, and\\nFrank Hamilton.\\nMr. John Crombie was a house carpenter, learning the\\ntrade from Dr. Hugh McMillen. After his death, which oc-\\ncurred April 24, 1839, in the 69th year of his age, his affec-\\ntionate pastor, the Rev. E. P. Bradford, wrote thus of him\\nMr. John Crombie will long be remembered by a numerous\\ncircle of friends and acquaintances as a virtuous, intelligent,\\nand useful member of society. Possessing a great share of\\nthat most valuable of intellectual properties, common sense,\\nhis inquiries were directed, from an early period of his life,\\nchiefly to those subjects which are of practical importance to\\nmankind. Though he had enjoyed the advantages of a com-\\nmon education only, which were comparatively small in his\\nchildhood and youth, the inquisitive and discriminating char-\\nacter of his mind led him to search diligently for general\\nknowledge, of which he obtained a very valuable treasure.\\nHis sound judgment, combined with a generous and benevo-\\nlent disposition, rendered this knowledge highly useful in its\\napplication to the important purposes of life. He was often\\ncalled to assist in compromising difficulties between conflicting\\nparties, who placed great confidence in his wisdom and impar-\\ntiality. He always manifested an enlightened regard for the\\ninstitutions of revealed religion. He often expressed his con-\\nviction of the need of the gospel in the prevalence of its\\nspirit, in order to the happiness of human society. He be-\\nlieved it also to be the grand instrument of preparing men for\\na better world. In consistency with these views, he ever\\ntook an active and liberal part in supporting it in the religious\\nsociety of which he was a member, and in extending it to the\\ndestitute. Every enterprise which in his view was judiciously\\nprojected for advancing the public good, received his cheerful\\napprobation and support. From the worldly substance which\\nDivine Providence bestowed upon him, he was in the habit of\\ndistributing generous portions among the poor. His guests,\\nwhether relatives, acquaintances, or strangers, he treated with\\ngreat hospitality and kindness. His house was the abode of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "TF *N|\\n,$v**\\n\u00c2\u00a9a (g^\u00c2\u00aera\u00c2\u00a9OI n", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0/SBuiTa-d s JiOi.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "377\\ndomestic order, peace, and happiness. He was permitted to\\nlive with the wife of his youth nearly forty years, in bonds of\\nthe most affectionate mutual regards. As a mechanic, Mr.\\nCrombie was skilful and enterprising, and characterized for\\nhis habitual and persevering industry to the last moment of\\nhis active life and many are the inhabitants of this region\\nwho, as they lie dovvn to rest at night, may feel indebted to it\\nfor a shelter to their heads. Many the sanctuaries of the\\nLord, whose spires point to heaven, are the workmanship of\\nhis hands and while they remind us of the wise master-\\nbuilder who laid his foundation there, should admonish us\\nof the only pathway to a heaven of peace and rest. Mr. C.\\nbore his last sickness, which was sometimes very distressing,\\nwith great patience and resignation to the will of God. He\\napparently enjoyed the unclouded exercise of his reason till\\nwithin a few minutes of his death. He often expressed a hope\\nof a blessed immortality only through the merits of the Lord\\nJesus Christ. He died, as he had lived many years, a member\\nof the Presbyterian Church. His widow and children, who\\nsurvive him, have experienced a heavy bereavement in his\\ndeath. But their sorrows are alleviated by the belief that he\\nhas entered into everlasting rest.\\nMrs. Crombie, highly esteemed for her many excellences of\\ncharacter, which made her household the abode of domestic\\nhappiness, died May 9, 1849, aged 73.\\nLemuel Marden. He was born Aug. 80, 1745, and came\\nfrom Bradford, Mass., about 1786, where he married, in 1769,\\nHannah Greenough, born May 21, 1750, the youngest of six\\ndaughters she died Oct. 20, 1843, aged 73. He settled where\\nthe late Jonathan Marden lived, purchasing of Daniel Hardy,\\nof Bradford. His children were Hannah, Greenough, Solo-\\nmon, Nathan, Francis, Samuel, Mehitable, Jonathan, and\\nSarah. He died Jan. 9, 1819, aged 74.\\nGreenough, his son, was born Oct. 17, 1772, and married\\nSybil, daughter of Benjamin Hardy, of Hancock, Oct. 10,\\n1802, having learned the trade of a mason in Bradford, Mass.\\nHe bought the farm on which he now lives of Porter Sawyer,\\nwho bought of Nathaniel Fairfield, who bought of the heirs of\\nRalph Inman, one of the original proprietors of the town, liv-\\n48", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "378\\ning in Cambridge, Mass. Fairfield felled the first trees and\\nerected the first cabin. Mr. Marden s children are Lemuel,\\nwho married Clarissa M Collom, and lives where William\\nCampbell died Levi, John Langdon, Lyman, Cynthia, Sybil,\\nAbigail, David, and William Greenough. Mr. Marden, though\\nninety-one years old Oct. 17, 1863, retains to a remarkable\\ndegree his mental faculties and physical energies, superin-\\ntending a large farm, and transacting his business with great\\nexactness.\\nJonathan Marden, a son of Lemuel, was born July 5, 1788,\\nand married Sally Foster December 31, 1815. She was born\\nat Ashby, Mass., February 8, 1763. .Their children are Eliza-\\nbeth Foster, born February 6, 1817 John Foster, born July 6,\\n1818 Jonathan, born September 26, 1820 Harriet Newell,\\nborn August 29, 1822; Alfred, born November 22, 1828;\\nCharles, born July 21, 1830 and George Waterman, born Oc-\\ntober 17, 1832. Elizabeth F. became the wife of Caleb Reid\\nJune 1, 1842, and removed to Beaver Dam, Wis., in 1855,\\nwhere she died May 4, 1861, aged 44. John F. married\\nJerusha H. Adams, of Milton, Mass., and has four children;\\nHarriet Newell married Frederic H. Ober, of Hopkinton, May\\n29, 1845, and lived in Nashua. After his death she became\\nthe wife of George Hall, of Brookline Jonathan married Eliza\\nJane Norton, of Yermont, March 9, 1847, by whom he had one\\nchild. His second wife died in 1863.\\nAlfred married Augusta H. Emerson, of Francestown, Dec.\\n30, 1852, and lives in Beaver Dam, Wis., though now in the\\narmy of the Cumberland. He has one child. Charles married\\nHarriet Butterfield, of Nashua, March 14, 1855, and lives at\\nBeaver Dam, Wis., having two children. George Waterman\\nmarried Abby M. Sawyer April 1, 1858, who soon died, and he\\nmarried Asenath B. Hovey, of Peterborough, where he now\\nresides.\\nSamuel Marden. He was the son of Solomon, born March\\n24, 1775, who was the son of Lemuel Marden. He was born\\nNovember 18, 1804. Phebe Noyes was- born November 3,\\n1802. They were married July 1, 1828. Their children were\\nMary, born April 20, 1829, died April 24, 1829 Lydia Maria,\\nborn July 31, 1830 Harriet Campbell, born April 6, 1832,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "379\\nmarried George Hall, Jr., March 11, 1857, and now resides in\\nNashua Mehitable Jane, born April 10, 1834, died March 11,\\n1854 James, born February 23, 1836, married H. Jennie\\nPark May 19, 1863, now resides in Springfield, Mass. Henry,\\nborn December 9, 1837, graduated at Dartmouth College 1862\\nGeorge, born August 26, 1839, married Sarah Lizzie Mansfield\\nNovember 11, 1862, served in the Union Army, 16th Regiment\\nN. H. V., from November 1862 to August 1863 Mary Ellen,\\nborn September 30, 1841 Lora Ann, born August 11, 1843\\nSamuel Lewis, born June 23, 1845.\\nBenjamin Dodge. He came from Beverly, Mass., marrying\\nfor his wife a Dodge. He followed the seas from his child-\\nhood, and commanded a ship for many a year prior to his com-\\ning to New Boston, and for a long time after his family came\\nhere visiting almost every country on the globe. He settled\\nwhere Mr. Irving now lives, some improvement having been\\nmade by a prior settler and was accustomed to entertain his\\nfamily and neighbors with the narrative of his adventures\\nwhenever he visited his home. His children were Benjamin,\\nGideon, and Antipas. Antipas lived where his father died, in\\nNew Boston Gideon lived and died near his father s Ben-\\njamin was born April 13, 1758, in Beverly, Mass., and married,\\nNovember 24, 1780, Eunice Boutwell, who was born November\\n14, 1761, in Reading, Mass., and died November 21, 1811.\\nHis second wife was Widow Mudgett, of Weare, born August 17,\\n1774, in Andover, Mass., to whom he was married March 15,\\n1812 she died December 5, 1838. Mr. Dodge died January\\n13, 1831.\\nHe first settled near the Rev. S. Moor, then in Sullivan, sub-\\nsequently in Amherst, and finally in the northern part of New\\nBoston, where he died. His children were Elizabeth born\\nJanuary 13, 1783, who married Lieutenant Solomon Dodge\\nMay 25, 1805, and lived where Israel Dodge, her son, now lives,\\nshe died December 6, 1840 Lydia, born June 18, 1787, who\\nmarried Samuel Gregg November 11, 1811, and lived in Deer-\\ning, she died November 8, 1826 Charlotte, born February\\n23, 1790, who married James Boutwell December 20, 1810,\\nand died January 17, 1844; two daughters dying young;\\nMonice, born June 23, 1799, who married Mr. Samuel Dodge", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "380\\nFebruary 6, 1817, and lives in New Boston Achsah born July\\n6, 1802, who married Captain Rodney George, of Windham,\\nMarch 16, 1832, and now lives in Tewksbury, Mass Rebecca,\\nborn February 20, 1806, who married Jacob Bailey February\\n6, 1825, and lived where John Lamson resides, but now lives a\\nwidow in Nashua, having a daughter who married William, son\\nof Greenough Marden Sarah, born November 27, 1813, who\\nmarried Captain Jonathan Gove Kelso, of New Boston, April\\n11, 1837, and now lives in Charlestown, Mass. Mary W., born\\nSept. 4, 1816, who married David A. Kendall, of Mont Vernon,\\nApril 25, 1837, and died June 28, 1856, these last. two being\\nthe children of his second wife. Benjamin, born January 22,\\n1777, remained on the homestead, marrying, November 22,\\n1821, Mary, daughter of Dea. John Smith, of Francestown,\\nwhose children are John Newton, who married Emma Jane\\nColburn July 1, 1858, and lives with his father; Persis Board-\\nman, who married Robert Peaslee, of Weare, in 1846 Mary\\nJane, who married William Taylor in 1853, and resides in\\nMedford, Mass. James Smith, who married Sarah Evelyn,\\ndaughter of Jesse Beard, and is a merchant in Andover, Mass.\\nDavid Campbell died young Sarah Elizabeth, who died young\\nand Sarah Nancy.\\nAndrew Beard. He came from the north of Ireland in\\n1766, and stopped at Litchfield a few years, and then located\\nhimself where James Buxton lives, where he erected a house,\\nat the raising of which a man was accidentally killed. He\\nsoon left this place, and permanently settled where Alfred N.\\nHardy now lives, that beautiful eminence long being known as\\nBeard s Hill. He died June 19, 1798, aged 88. His son\\nJoseph, who was four years old when his father left Ireland,\\nmarried Margaret McMillen, of Franceston, in 1784, and settled\\nwhere his son Jesse now lives a Mr. Mackintosh having com-\\nmenced a settlement there. The children of Joseph Beard\\nwere Anna, yet living unmarried, retaining great vigor of mind\\nSarah, Jesse, James, now living in Vermont Lyclia, who mar-\\nried John Langdell Mary, who married John Stone, and lives\\nin Vermont Joseph Goardly, who died young. His son Jesse\\nsucceeded his father on the homestead, marrying, November 23,\\n1826, Elizabeth Sweetser, daughter of Benjamin Fairfield, Esq.,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "381\\nand their children were Cordelia Clark, Edwin, Joseph, Horace\\nPhilbrick, now a merchant in Andover, Mass., marrying in\\n1862, Frances R. Shattuck, of Andover, Mass. Evelyn Sarah,\\nwho was married June 1, 1858, to James Smith Dodge, a mer-\\nchant in Andover, Mass. Selwin Felt and Mary Josephine.\\nMr. Beard has buried all his children but the two living in An-\\ndover. He has been a remarkably successful educator, com-\\nmencing teaching in 1814, and ending in 1860, having taught\\n67 terms, and having been a superintending school committee\\n21 years taking great interest in vocal music, he has taught\\n87 singing schools. Mr. Beard was born February 17, 1789,\\nand though 71 years old, has kept pace with the world s prog-\\nress, and yet seems young, in sympathy with the young, and\\nalive to every effort for their improvement.\\nWilliam, the oldest son of Andrew Beard, was born October\\n20, 1751. His father it seems was a blacksmith, and was born\\nin the county of Antrim in the year 1710. In 1749 he married\\nLydia Goardly, and when they came to New England they had\\nfour children two sons and two daughters. She excelled in\\nthe manufacture of linen cloth.\\nIn June, 1775, he was at work building a house for his father\\non their new farm, when the news came that the British were\\nlanding in Boston. With the leave of his father and mother\\nhe immediately repaired to Charlestown in defence of his coun-\\ntry, was at the battle of Bunker s Hill, and was one of the\\nforty volunteers who brought some cattle across the neck,\\nunder a raking fire of the enemy, in order to prevent their\\ncapture. In 1777 he received an ensign s commission, and\\nwas one of the scouts that commenced the attack on the\\nenemy at Bennington. He was in several engagements, but\\nwas never wounded.\\nWhen he was done serving his country, he returned home\\nand lived with his father on the farm. March 20, 1790, he\\nmarried Jane Burns, of Bedford, by whom he had seven chil-\\ndren, three sons and four daughters. They lived on the same\\nfarm till their death.\\nAlthough entitled to a pension, he nobly refused to draw it.\\nHis death occurred Jan. 2, 1832 his wife died Feb. 9, 1830.\\nSally Beard, daughter of Andrew Beard, married George\\nRobinson, of Tyngsborough both died young.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "382\\nLydia, daughter of Andrew Beard, married Leslie Gregg,\\nof New Boston, had seven children, one son and six daughters,\\nafterwards moved to Goffstown, where they both died.\\nRachel, the youngest daughter, married Thomas Christie, of\\nNew Boston, and moved to Hartland, Yt. had nine children,\\nthree sons and six daughters.\\nAndrew Beard, the son of William Beard, was born Jan. 30,\\n1791. In 1816 he married Elizabeth Cochran, daughter of\\nDea. Joseph Cochran, by whom he had three children. She\\ndied Jan. 11, 1826 he afterwards married Rachael Marshall,\\nof Weare, and moved to Newport, N. H., and died March 30,\\n1860, aged 69 years.\\nJohn, son of the above-named Andrew Beard, was born Dec.\\n16, 1817. Married Emily Marshall, of Unity, and now lives at\\nBock Island, 111. Margaret, the daughter of Andrew, married\\nHiram Angel, of Newport, and died, July 23, 1857 their son\\ndied in infancy.\\nJohn, son of William Beard, was born May 5, 1793, died\\nSept. 25, 1807, aged 14 years.\\nSarah, daughter of William Beard, was born August 10,\\n1795 Sept. 24, 1822, married Moody Marshall, of Weare, and\\nhad eight children, seven sons and one daughter.\\nJane, daughter, of Wm. Beard, was born March 8, 1802,\\nand settled in New Boston, had five children.\\nWilliam, the son of William Beard, was born May 6, 1798.\\nNov. 8, 1825, married Eleanor McMillen, daughter of Dr.\\nHugh McMillen, of New Boston settled on a part of his\\nfather s farm called the Jordan Lot. He has six children,\\nfour sons and two daughters.\\nAsa M., the son of William Beard, 2d, was born Nov. 8,\\n1827. In 1850 he married Lucy J. Trull, of Goffstown has\\nfour children, and lives in New Boston.\\nAnn Augusta, daughter of William Beard, 2d, was born\\nMay 18, 1829, and in 1858 married John Gilmore, of New-\\nport has one child, and lives in New Boston.\\nSarah M., daughter of AVilliam Beard, was born Feb. 5,\\n1836. In 1858 she went to Marshfield, Indiana, as a school-\\nteacher January, 1862, married Levi M. Cronkhite, of that\\nplace, where she now lives.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "383\\nCornelius VV., son of William Beard, was born Sept. 29,\\n1840. Sept., 1861, he enlisted in a company of sharpshooters,\\nwas in several battles, received a severe wound at the battle\\nof Antietam, and was killed in a skirmish with the rebels at\\nGettysburgh July 4, 1863, aged 22 years, 7 months, and 5 days,\\na brave soldier and a pure patriot.\\nJames M. G. was born May 27, 1844 in 1862 he published\\nan Almanac called the New England Calendar, and Miscel-\\nlaneous Year Book. In March, 1863, he went to Indiana as\\na school teacher, in which business he is still engaged.\\nEliza and Louisa, twin daughters of William Beard, Sen.,\\nwere born Feb. 15, 1806. Eliza married Jacob Bartell, of\\nLynn, had one child, and died in 1852, aged 47. Louisa mar-\\nried Hiram Campbell, of Bedford, settled in New Boston, had\\nfour children afterwards removed to Nashua, N. H., where\\nshe died, in 1840, aged 43 years.\\nWilliam Kelso. He was born in Londonderry, being the\\nson of Alexander Kelso, whose wife was a Kelso, daughter of\\nWilliam Kelso. Alexander, with three brothers, came from the\\nNorth of Ireland and settled in Londonderry, and died when\\nWilliam was fifteen years old and William came to New\\nBoston about 1763, though his sister Margaret came some years\\nearlier, being the wife of Capt. George Cristy, who settled\\nwhere Dea. Sumner L. Cristy now lives. William married\\nAgnes Kelso, and settled first where Leonard Merrill lives,\\nand after clearing a few acres, sold to his brother Daniel, and\\nthen settled where Mr. Robert Kelso now lives, near Joe Eng-\\nlish, buying of Eleazer Boyd, who cleared a few acres and\\nreared a small house. Mr. Kelso had six children Nancy\\nRichards, who died Jan. 30, 1831, aged 50 Elizabeth, who\\ndied March 2, 1839, aged 60 Ann, who died Nov. 8, 1851,\\naged 81 John, who died March 2, 1850, aged 74 and William,\\nborn April 9, 1785. John (the son of William) succeeded\\nhis father on the homestead, and married Gizzy, the daughter\\nof Dea. Robert Patterson, and his son Robert lives on the\\nhomestead, the boundaries of which have not been altered since\\nEleazer Boyd sold it to his grandfather William, though in all\\nother respects it has been changed for the better. Mr. Robert\\nKelso, in 1841, married Juliana Perkins, of Windsor, their chil-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "384\\ndren being Henry, Mary L., and Helen A. William, the\\nyoungest son of the elder William, and brother of the fore-\\ngoing John, settled where he now lives, buying his farm fifty-\\nthree years ago of Mr. Clapp, who bought of Coburn, who\\nbought of Sawyer, who had it of Archibald McAllister, the\\nson of John, the first McAllister in New Boston. This Wil-\\nliam married, in 1823, Susannah Coggin, of Mont Vernon, and\\ntheir children are Susannah, Eliza, Catherine, William, who\\nlives with his father, Alfred, and Nancy A.\\nWilliam Kelso, at the head of this sketch, died Jan. 19, 1823,\\naged 83 and his wife died April 7, 1825, aged 77. His\\nbrother Daniel lived on Leonard Merrill s farm, marrying Mary\\nMcAllister, daughter of John, having twelve children: Alex-\\nander, John, Ann, William, Daniel, Robert, Annanias, Eliza-\\nbeth, Thomas, Mary, David, and Jonathan Gove.\\nAlexander was a physician, and was killed by the falling of\\na tree. Ann married Thomas White, son of Dea. Robert\\nWhite, and lived in Vermont, he dying in Hopkinton, and she\\nin Antrim.\\nWilliam lived in New York, died there, and left children.\\nDaniel lived and died in Pennsylvania, and left children.\\nRobert lived and died in Rising Sun, Indiana, and had chil-\\ndren.\\nAnnanias has lived in Vermont, but now is in New Boston,\\nand is the father of Jonathan Gove Kelso, of Charlestown,\\nMass.\\nElizabeth was Mrs. Parkinson, mother of Rev. Royal Parkin-\\nson, of Randolph, Vt. Thomas died in Canterbury, on his way\\nto Columbia, of spotted fever. Mary married Asa Dustin, and\\nlived in Columbia, and died leaving one child, Daniel. David\\nmarried Mary, daughter of Wm. Campbell, and for his second\\nwife he married widow Andrews, daughter of Dea. Joseph\\nCochran. Jonathan Gove married Letitia, daughter of James\\nCochran.\\nAlexander, another brother of the first-named William\\nsettled where Mrs. Achsah Dodge now lives, marrying Nancy\\nGuiness, of Amherst their children being Anna, Sally, and\\nCatherine.\\nJohn Kelso, son of Daniel, was born July 14, 1771 by", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "385\\ntrade he was a clothier, and carried on the business for many\\nyears in New Boston. He married Dorcas Cleaves, of Mont\\nVernon. Their children are John, who was born Nov. 1, 1804,\\nmarried Susan Bradford, of Fitchburg, Mass., and has three\\nchildren, William, Marion, and John he resides in Benning-\\nton, Vt., and is a manufacturer of woollen goods. Augusta,\\nborn July 13, 1808, became the wife of Micah Lawrence, of\\nAshby, Mass., Feb. 15, 1834. Mr. Lawrence, in company with\\nWaterman Burr, when he was a young man commenced trade\\nin the Upper Village, subsequently continued the same busi-\\nness in the Lower Village, and in retired life is enjoying the\\nfruits of his successful enterprise. Their children are Helen,\\nwho became the wife of Charles A. Wood, Esq., Sept. 27, 1863.\\nMr. Wood is a native of Hancock, N. H., and now a success-\\nful lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin he served as Lieut. Col.\\nover two years and was at the siege of Vicksburg immediate-\\nly after his marriage he sailed for a tour of Europe. Sarah\\nbecame the wife of Charles H. Bixby Sept. 16, 1862. Mr.\\nBixby is son of Levi Bixby, formerly of Francestown, and late of\\nSurinam, South America he graduated at Williams College in\\n1858, and soon after, went to Europe, and studied the modern\\nlanguages in France and Germany immediately after his mar-\\nriage he, in company with his wife, sailed again for Europe,\\nspending nearly two years in Germany, France, and Italy.\\nGeorge 0., born July 27, 1841, became connected with the\\nNaval Department of the West in Oct., 1862, and now holds\\nan important position in the Medical Department. Eliza C.\\nwas born Nov. 15, 1843. John K. was born Nov. 13, 1847.\\nDavid, son of John Kelso, born Aug. 25, 1814, is a mason\\nby trade, and resides in New Boston. Sarah was born Aug. 20,\\n1816, became the wife of Neil McLane, Esq., Aug. 14, 1849, re-\\nsides in New Boston, and has one daughter, Marion A., born\\nMay 24, 1854. Adeline, born Jan. 20, 1819, became the wife of\\nJoseph Warren in 1844, and resides in New Boston her chil-\\ndren are H. Frank, John K., and Emma Frank enlisted in\\n1862, in the 13th Regt. N. H. V., and has proved a brave and\\nvaliant soldier, shrinking from no danger and complaining of\\nno hardships.\\n49", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "386\\nJohn McAllister. He came from the North of Ireland,\\nand settled where William Kelso now lives, about 1748. He\\nmarried in Ireland, and had one son four years old, whom he left,\\nand a daughter, named Mary, was born during the passage\\nacross the ocean, and married Daniel Kelso, whose son John\\nwas the father of the present David Kelso, Mrs. Micah Law-\\nrance, Mrs. Neil, McLane, and others. She was an excellent\\nwoman, and a great help to those who early settled in the\\nneighborhood of Joe English. She was witty, and loved to\\nmake all around her happy. The Eev. Mr. Moor when he\\nfirst visited her, inquired of her if she were born in Ireland.\\nNo, indade, I was not, was the reply. Were you born in\\nEngland inquired he. No, indade, I was not, sir.\\nThen you must have been born in America An I was\\nnot born in America, neither, sir. Then where upon arth\\nwere you born An indade, sir, I was not born on the\\narth at all, sir. As Mr. Moor was a man of great good na-\\nture, and loved a joke as well as any of his parishoners, the\\nmystery was satisfactorily explained.\\nMr. McAllister had three sons Archibald, who was born in\\nIreland, Agnus and Daniel. Archibald lived on the homestead\\nat first, then moved to Francestown, where he died. Agnus\\nsettled where James Dexter now lives, near the late Dea. Peter\\nMcNeil s subsequently he moved to Pequawkett, an Indian\\nname applied to a considerable tract of country now includ-\\ning Conway, N. H., Fryeburgh, Me., and some of the adjacent\\ntowns. Here he died some years since. Daniel settled near\\nhis father, and sold his farm to the father of the present Capt.\\nJohn Lamson, and moved to New Brunswick on the Passama-\\nquoddy Bay, where he died.\\nTolm McAllister was an early proprietor, and had a fine tract\\nof \u00c2\u00b1and. He was a man of great energy of character, and was en-\\ntrusted with various offices in the town, and took great interest\\nin its settlement, and the permanent establishment of the institu-\\ntions of religion. When an old man he removed, with his son\\nArchibald, to Francestown, where he died in a good old age.\\nIt is related as a singular coincidence that his daughter Mary,\\nwho married Daniel Kelso, had twelve children, nine sons and\\nthree daughters, while Archibald, her brother, had twelve chil-\\ndren, but nine of them were daughters and three were sons.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "387\\nDea. Robert White. He settled on the height of land now-\\nowned by Abram Wason. He was among the earliest set-\\ntlers in the vicinity of Joe English, and took an active part in\\nthe settlement of Mr. Moor. His wife, Mary, is remembered\\nas an excellent woman. Mr. White was one of the earliest\\nelders in the Presbyterian Church, associated with Archibald\\nMcMillen, John Smith, Thomas Cochran, William Moor, James\\nFerson, and William McNeil, in the Session. His children\\nwere: Andrew, born Jan. 20, 1759 Jane, born May 2, 1761,\\nwho married a Mr. Willson William Robert, born Feb. 25,\\n1766 Thomas, born July 11, 1773, who married Ann, daugh-\\nter of Daniel Kelso, and lived in Tunbridge, Vt. Solomon,\\nWilliam, and John Craige. Dea. White sold his farm to John\\nLamson, and tended John McLaughlen s grain-mill for many\\nyears; subsequently he removed to Goffstown, tending a mill\\nthere, whore he died in 1809. Dea. White was a good man,\\nand highly esteemed by his contemporaries. Mr. Lamson, who\\nbought his farm, carried on the business of a tanner and cur-\\nrier he kept a store in a part of his house, also a tavern.\\nWillsons. Three brothers, sons of Robert Willson, came\\nfrom Londonderry, and settled on an elevated tract of land in\\nthe east part of the town now called Willson s Hill, but for a\\nlong time called Egypt, because during years of scarcity corn\\ncould always be had of the Willsons, whose lands were very\\nproductive, and they had more pecuniary means than most of\\nthe early settlers. Thomas Willson settled the farm just east\\nof Almus Warren s, which is now owned by John B. Warren\\nJames settled northeast of his brother Thomas s farm, where\\nRobert Crombie lately lived and Alexander settled near his\\nbrother James, on land now owned by Micah Lawrance David\\nwas the son of Thomas, and lived where Almus Warren\\nnow lives, one of whose daughters became the wife of od-\\nney McCollom, and another of John B. Warren. James Will-\\nson, Esq., who lived where Peter Jones now resides, was another\\nson of Thomas, marrying a daughter of Dea. Jesse Cristy his\\nother children were Elizabeth, Alexander, Robert, David, and\\nJane. The children of James (the first James) were Robert,\\nJames, David, Molly, John, Samuel, Hugh, Jane, and Marga-\\nret, who became the wife of William Batchelder Dodge, and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "388\\nwas the mother of Mrs. Solomon Dodge, and of the first wife\\nof Jacob Richards, Esq., also of the wife of James Cristy, now\\nliving in New York Alexander (the first) had a son Alexander,\\nalso a son William, who graduated at Dartmouth College in the\\nClass of 1797, studied law, and went to Ohio, where he was\\nmade Judge and elected a member of Congress, and died while\\nreturning home from Washington. He was a man of fine tal-\\nents and great energy.\\nRobert Willson, who settled in the northeast part of the\\ntown, near the Plains, was a distinct branch of the Willsons,\\nknown as the Black North Willsons, while the others were\\ncalled Curly Willsons.\\nDea. William McNeil. He was born March 28, 1746, in\\nthe town of Bellemoony and County of Antrim, Ireland, being\\nthe son of Abraham and Jane. He came to this country with\\nhis parents in 1750, and settled at what was then called Derry-\\nfield, now Manchester. His father died in 1752, and he came\\nto New Boston in 1765, accompanied by his mother and two sis-\\nters, and settled on a fifty-acre lot of wild land on the south\\nside of Joe English. He married, Dec. 15, 1774, on her 22d\\nbirthday, Rachel Patterson, daughter of Peter Patterson, of Lon-\\ndonderry. Their children were James, born June 1, 1776\\nJane, May 26, 1778 Grissel, April 6, 1780 Abraham, July\\n24, 1782 Rachel, Oct. 26, 1784 Peter, Dec. 5, 1786 John,\\nNov. 14, 1788 Betsey, Sept. 26, 1790 Sally, Sept. 5, 1793\\nJennette, Eeb. 4, 1796. Three feons and three daughters grew\\nup, and the remainder died young. Abraham lived in Antrim\\nfor many years, subsequently in Lowell, Mass., where he died\\nPeter lived with his parents on the homestead, and married\\nMary Stiles, of Amherst, Sept. 23, 1818, by whom he had eleven\\nchildren, six daughters and five sons Mary Jane, H. Elizabeth,\\nWilliam, C. Granville, John, James, Rachel Patterson, Abby\\nStiles, Peter Patterson, Harriet Newell, and Lydia Shaw Mary\\nJane married N. Farnum, of Francestown, having had one child,\\nNahum Hardy, deceased H. Elizabeth married Fuller R. Tal-\\nbot, and lives in Lacy, Iowa, and has seven children James F.,\\nMary E., John, Hardy F., George, Abby J., Albert S. William\\nmarried Sarah Barnes, of Hillsborough, and lives in Clarence,\\nIowa, and has five children Scott, Kate, Frank, Fred, Dora", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "C. Granville married Martha A. Holt, of Andover, Mass., and\\nlives in Tipton, Iowa, and has seven children Charlotte E.,\\nAbby M., Sarah E., George Granville, Elbridge G., Claria Jane,\\nand Peter Patterson he holds the office of deacon, and is a\\nman of much activity and usefulness in the church of Christ\\nJohn married Mary L. Pratt, of Chelsea, Mass., where he re-\\nsides, having four children Annie C, Mary Alice, Caleb H.,\\nand Hattie C. James married Jane Willson, of Factory ville, Pa.,\\nand lives in Bates County, Mo., and has four children Abby\\nJane, John, Willson, and Thomas S. Rachel P. married Capt.\\nJames M. Tuttle, and lives in New Boston, having two children\\nJames P. and Granville J. Abby S. died at the age of 19\\nPeter Patterson married Sarah Elston, and lives in Elston,\\nMissouri, having three children Mary, Abby, Hattie N., and\\nArthur, who was chosen deacon in the Presbyterian Church in\\n1828, and died February 15, 1849, aged 62 John lived in\\nthe south part of Antrim, and died there Jane married Abra-\\nham Smith, of Nottingham West (now Hudson), where she\\ndied, having had twelve children Grissel died unmarried,\\naged 55 Betsey was married to John Burns, a jeweller, of\\nMilford, Nov. 25, 1817, by whom she had no children, and\\nwas, after Mr. Burns s death, married to Piam Orne Oct. 31,\\n1822, and their children were: Joseph Milton, born Sept. 11,\\n1823, who married Climena Bartlett, and lives where his father\\ndied, July 30, 1843 William, born Oct. 8, 1825, who married\\nAlmeda Bartlett, and lives on the farm settled by Ninian Clark,\\nEsq. and Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. 28, 1828, and died Oct.\\n14, 1846. Mrs. Orne yet lives, possessed of great activity both\\nof body and mind, for one aged 73. Dea. William McNeill was\\na noble man, calm, dignified, yet genial and affectionate. As\\na christian he was exemplary and devout, cherishing large\\ncharity, and always ready for every good work. He sustained\\nhis pastor by all the influence he could exert, and sought to\\nstrengthen the things that remained. He successfully reared\\nhis family, and left his posterity an example which they can\\nsafely follow. When he died, devout men and women made\\ngreat lamentation over him, because they had lost from the\\nchurch a man of faith and prayer. His decease transpired\\nJan. 15, 1823, when in his 77th year. His widow survived", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "390\\nuntil April 20, 1837, attaining the good old age of 84, exerting\\na blessed influence while living, and in dying left assurance that\\na life full of good works and kindly endeavors shall end with\\nthe comforts of hope and glimpses of celestial light.\\nDea. Robert Patterson. He was born in Londonderry,\\nbeing son of Peter Patterson, and brother of the wife of Dea.\\nWilliam McNeil. He settled where Allen Leach, his grandson,\\nlives, marrying Susanna Miller, of Londonderry. Their chil-\\ndren were seven, three sons and four daughters the oldest son\\ndied young, and the oldest daughter, Mary, married Robert\\nCrombie, afterwards deacon of the Presbyterian Church, and\\nlived in the wet-.t part of the town Rachel married Joseph\\nLeach, and lived in the eastern part of New Boston Gizzel\\nmarried John Kelso, father of the present Robert Kelso Jane\\nmarried William Mackintosh, and lives in Bethel, Vt. Samuel\\nwent into Pennsylvania, where he married, and has seven chil-\\ndren and John died unmarried. Dea. Patterson was an ex-\\ncellent man, being chosen deacon before Mr. Moore s death, and\\nserving many years during the pastorate of Mr. Bradford. He\\nwas exact in his notions, and slow to conform to new customs,\\nyet was a man in whom there was no guile. He died in 1828,\\ngreatly lamented.\\nDea. Robert Wason. He was born in Nottingham West,\\nnow Hudson, June 14, 1781, being the son of Thomas Wason\\nhis mother was Mary Boyd, of Londonderry. He came to\\nNew Boston April, 1803, to live with Robert Boyd, his uncle,\\nwho settled on Lot No. 30, near Joe English, being then ad-\\nvanced in years. He was married Dec. 26, 1808, by Rev. Mr.\\nBruce, to Nancy, daughter of John Batchelder, of Mont\\nVernon, born Oct. 13, 1789 their children are Elbridge,\\nLouisa, Hiram, Nancy, Mary, Robert Boyd, Adeline, Caroline,\\nand George Austin. Elbridge married Mary Stickney, of\\nBoston, April 24, 1851, who died Aug. 15, 1863, and he has\\nhis residence in Brookline, Mass., and is of the firm Wason,\\nPierce Co., in Boston. Hiram graduated in 1838, at Am-\\nherst College, studied theology at New Haven, Ct., married,\\nOct., 1844, Betsey R. Abbot, daughter of Timothy Abbot, Esq.,\\nof Wilton, went to Indiana, in which State he still resides at\\nWest Creek, Lake County. Mary married Nathaniel Carr", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0JBBuTford s lath\\ne/A^*- ^2", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0452.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0453.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0454.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "391\\nNov. 13, 1850, and lives in Boston, Mr. Carr belonging to the\\nfirm of Dexter, Robie Co. Robert Boyd resides in Boston,\\nand is with his brother Elbridge, one of the same firm. Ade-\\nline married John Batchelder Sept. 5, 1843, and lives in\\nSprague, Conn., their children being Emma, Louisa, and\\nHerman. M. Batchelder is the inventor of a sewing-machine,\\nand was the first to devise the most essential and practical\\nparts of all sewing-machines in this country. He is also the\\ninventor of a machine for stamping bags, etc., which is of great\\nutility. Austin inherits the homestead, and is a progressive\\nfarmer; he married Clara L., daughter of Mr. Sidney Hills,\\nSept. 17, 1863. Caroline, who had been a teacher for many\\nyears in Boston, died June 23, 1864, greatly beloved, useful in\\nlife and happy in death.\\nDeacon Wason reared a highly interesting family, none of\\nwhom has forsaken the faith or rejected the principles that\\ncharacterized the worthy men of earlier clays. He was social\\nand affectionate, and always aimed to cultivate the intellect\\nand improve the heart of his children. He united with the\\nPresbyterian Church in 1815, and a few years after was elected\\nan elder, which office he held at his death. Dea. Wason was\\na man of great energy, and entered with zeal upon every en-\\nterprise adapted to benefit the church or the community, so\\nthat he was a doer of the word as well as a hearer; and\\nwhen he died, Aug. 7, 1844, aged 63, his death was greatly\\nlamented, and the loss of his influence was seriously felt. His\\nvenerable widow, enjoying a peaceful home and the affection-\\nate ministrations of her children, survived until July 28, 1863,\\nhaving been a faithful mother and a sincere christian.\\nDea. Archibald McMillen. He came to this town as\\nearly as 1756, and settled on the south of Joe English. He\\nwas elected a deacon in the Presbyterian Church as early as\\n1768. He was chosen to represent New Boston and Frances-\\ntown in 1777, at Exeter, in the General Court also at Con-\\ncord in 1778, and was chosen Moderator at a meeting of the\\ntown Dec. 4, 1780. He served in the war of the Revolution\\nat different times, and was at the battle of Lexington. He\\nsubsequently went into New York on business and died ere he\\ncould return. He had children, among whom was a son,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0455.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "392\\nHugh, who was born April 26, 1763, and married Eunice\\nwho was born Jan. 19, 1761, and their childron were Archi-\\nbald, born Dec. 24, 1787 Aaron, Hannah, Abraham, Mary,\\nEunice, Mercy, Asa, Betsey, Andrew, Elenor, and Abner, born\\nAug. 17, 1804.\\nThis Hugh was an excellent house carpenter he was eccen-\\ntric in character. He obtained access to some old medical\\nbooks of Dr. Codman, at Amherst, and from them learned to\\ncompound certain medicines which effected some marked\\ncures, gained for him some celebrity, and secured for him the\\npopular title of doctor. He gained some knowledge of chem-\\nistry, and acquired the art of converting the softer metals into\\nshining silver coin. His laboratory was an object of great in-\\nterest, where for some time he drove a brisk business. His\\nson Abraham succeeded him in the compounding and use of\\nhis medicines.\\nDea. Thomas Cochran. He was grandson of the first\\nDea. Thomas, and son of James, who was killed by being\\nthrown from a vicious horse. Dea. Thomas came into posses-\\nsion of the farm on which his grandfather settled. He was\\nborn March 25, 1759, and married Margaret Ramsey, of Lon-\\ndonderry, April 13, 1784 she was born Dec. 29, 1762, and\\ndied July 21, 1829, aged 66 and he died Dec. 30, 1852, aged\\n94. Their children were James, born Dec. 4, 1785 Mary\\nC, born April 24, 1793 Nancy, born Nov. 16, 1797 Lydia,\\nMarch 15, 1788 Anna, July 1, 1795 Letitia, Nov. 13, 1799\\nWilliam C, June 3, 1802 and Margaret R., Sept. 23, 1804.\\nJames married Abigail Buxton, daughter of Capt. Benjamin\\nBuxton, May 26, 1815. She was born Oct. 8, 1796. They\\nlived on the homestead with his parents. Their children were\\neight Edward Buxton, the first born, married, in 1852, Clara\\nBonham, of Michigan, where he now lives Mary Flint mar-\\nried, Dec. 31, 1851, Mr. Charles G-. B. Ryder, of Dunbarton,\\nand their children are Charles Ellenwood and Bayard Cochran\\nSylvester lives in Sandstone, Mich. Charlotte Abigail married\\nJohn C. Carroll in 1863, and they live in Jackson, Mich.\\nJames Richmond was born Sept. 9, 1832, graduated at the\\nScientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1856, and was\\nshot dead Nov., 1861, in Missouri, in the street, by one An-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0456.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0457.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0458.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0459.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0460.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "393\\ndrew Burritt, because he would not swear allegiance to the\\nSouthern Confederacy. The miserable traitor has since died\\nin the rebel army. The rest of Mr. James Cochran s children\\ndied young. He died of consumption May 2, 1849, and his\\nwife, of the same disease, died Aug. 28, 1850.\\nWilliam C. married Harriet, daughter of John Crombie, for\\nhis first wife and their children were John C, Thomas Ram-\\nsey, and Lydia C. for his second, he married Ann Clark and\\ntheir children are Mary Abbie and Margaret Ann. Deacon\\nCochran s children are all dead but William C, residing near\\nthe Presbyterian Church.\\nDea. Cochran was highly esteemed as a citizen, being a kind\\nneighbor and upright in all his ways. As a christian his influ-\\nence was always good, and as an elder in the Presbyterian\\nChurch he magnified his office he died as if falling into a\\ngentle repose, as some of his children had who preceded, and\\nas those have who succeeded him. The peacefulness of his\\nlife and the guilelessness of his heart made him deserving of\\nhigh commendation, and his death was greatly lamented.\\nLieut. Solomon Dodge. He was born in Andover, Mass.,\\nAug. 13, 1747, and died May 8, 1799. His wife was Sarah\\nDodge, born Aug. 20, 1752, to whom he was married Jan. 23,\\n1772. She died Dec. 23, 1845. He settled where his grand-\\nson, Israel, now lives, coming here when a young man, and\\nperforming his appropriate part in the settlement of this new\\nregion. He seems to have been a man of much energy, and\\nhighly esteemed for his manly virtues. His children that came\\nto maturity were Amos, who settled in Johnson, Vt. Solo-\\nmon, who remained on the homestead Hannah, born Sept.\\n13, 1779, who married Dr. John Whipple, of New Boston, and\\nwho now, a venerable widow, enjoys great vigor of body and\\nmind, living to do good, and is loved as a mother by all who\\nknow her Daniel, who settled in Johnson, Vt. Sally, who\\nbecame the wife of Jacob Hooper, Jr. Alice, who became the\\nwife of Thomas Hooper, and lived in Johnson, Vt. Phineas,\\nwho was bora Oct. 30, 1793, and is now living in New Boston\\nand Aaron, who married Lydia Irwin, and lived in Johnson,\\nVt., dying March 18, 1862, aged 64 years.\\n50", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0461.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "394\\nDea. Solomon Dodge. He was the son of the foregoing,\\nborn August 1, 1777, and died March 16, 1853 May 25, 1805,\\nhe married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Dodge,- who was\\nborn January 13, 1783, and died December 6, 1840, their\\nchildren were Lydia, who became the wife of Rev. John\\nAt wood, of New Boston Solomon, who lives near the old\\nhomestead and married Mary, widow of Charles Buxton, and\\ndaughter of Jacob B. Dodge Sarah, who became the wife of\\nPhillip F. Pettee, of Goffstown, and died May 5, 1859 Amos,\\na successful merchant in Concord, who married Emily Everett,\\nof New London Benjamin, who died, unmarried, October 10,\\n1852, aged 34 Israel, who married Priscilla, daughter of\\nIsrael Andrews, and lives on the homestead and Ann E., who\\nbecame the wife of Isaac Manning, of Johnson, Vt., and died\\nin 1848.\\nDea. Dodge was a genial, large-minded man, upright in his\\nconduct, commanding the confidence of all. He was a Deacon\\nin the Baptist Church for many years, and by his ardent piety\\nand consistent life gave great strength to that body. He suc-\\ncessfully reared a large family, and is remembered with venera-\\ntion by all his children, and his name is fragrant in all the\\nchurch. October 31, 1829, his dwelling and other buildings\\nwere all consumed by fire and the good man bowed without\\na murmur beneath the stroke, and gave God glory in the midst\\nof his affliction.\\nSolomon, son of Dea. S. Dodge, was born February 27, 1808,\\nand married Mrs. Mary Buxton March 14, 1834. Their chil-\\ndren are Margaret Elizabeth, born March 5, 1835, and who\\ndied an infant Solomon, born May 28, 1836 Charles Franklin,\\nborn July 2, 1838 William Bachelder, born April 22, 1840\\nJulian Percival, born September 29, 1842 Edward Buxton,\\nborn April 8, 1845; and Albert Ernest, born August 26, 1848.\\nSolomon married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Cristy,\\nAugust 9, 1862. He enlisted August 12, 1862, for three years\\nin the Company P. 9th Regiment N. H. Volunteers, and his\\nbrother William is in the same regiment. Julian enlisted Oct.\\n1862, in the second regiment of Berdan s Sharpshooters, under\\nthe lamented and greatly beloved Capt. Henry M. Caldwell, of\\nDumbarton.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0462.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0463.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0464.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0465.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0466.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "395\\nm\\nMrs. Dodge, wife of Solomon Dodge, Sen., was the widow of\\nCharles Buxton, to whom she was married April 5, 1820. She\\nwas born February 20, 1803, and their children were Charles\\nFranklin, born October 26, 1821, died June 20,1823; Mar-\\ngaret, born October 14, 1823, died January 14, 1827 Eliza\\nJane, born December 14, 1826, became the wife of Robert M.\\nGregg December, 1850.\\nMr. Buxton died March 25, 1834, aged 40.\\nLuther Richards. He was born in Sharon, Mass., Nov.\\n23, 1774 his father and grandfather were each named Wil-\\nliam his mother was Joanna Cummings. Mr. Richards s\\nfather had seven sons William, Jeremy, John, Oliver, Luther,\\nSamuel, and Solomon and three daughters Susan, who mar-\\nried Elijah Briggs Anna, who married Mr. Leonard and\\nSally, who became the wife of Samuel Waters. All the sons\\nwere married and left large families of children, and all are\\ndead but Samuel, who lives in Winthrop, Me.\\nAt the age of fifteen Luther came with Mr. Waters to New\\nBoston, and with him learned the tanner s trade. At the age\\nof twenty-one he went to Weare, and subsequently to Hopkin-\\nton. But about 1798 he purchased the farm on which he\\nresided until his death, and where he prosecuted the business\\nof tanning.\\nIn 1799 he married Mary, daughter of Jacob Hooper. They\\nhad eight children Luther, who died unmarried Ruthey W.,\\nwho became the wife of Dr. Samuel Gregg, now of Boston.\\nShe died in 1853, leaving five children Martha D., who mar-\\nried a Mr. Tileston Carrie A., who married a Mr. Stockbridge\\nAnna S., who married a Mr. Howard; Abby T., who became\\nthe wife of a Mr. Wooster, and Josephine M. Jacob Hooper,*\\nwho remains on the homestead, was born August 17, 1804 he\\nmarried for his first wife, December 25, 1829, Asenath, daughter\\nMr. Richards, since the writing of this sketch, has died. His death oc-\\ncurred March 11, 1864, at the age of 59. Captain Richards s life was re-\\nmarkably free from faults; upright in all his dealings, fond of society, greatly\\nbeloved by his family, and respected by the community, he will long live in\\ntheir recollection, while the Presbyterian Church and congregation will long\\ndeplore his removal, as a kind, judicious, and faithful chorister for more than\\nthirty years.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0469.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "396\\nof William B. Dodge, by whom he had three children, Margaret\\nA., who became the wife of Dr. Atwood, and died in Virginia\\nEvelyn M. and Frank S. he married April 19, 1847, for his\\nsecond wife, Nancy B., daughter of Ezra Dodge, of Beverly,\\nMass., by whom he has two children, Mary Eliza, and Frances\\nDodge Samuel Wardsworth, who died young Nancy P., who\\ndied unmarried Mary Anna, who became the wife of Robert\\nFulton, now living in Bedford, whose children are Lyman\\nHahneman, Luther Herbert, and Samuel Wardsworth Joanna\\nCummings, who married Nehemiah Trull, and died in Canter-\\nbury in 1848, leaving one daughter, Abby Joanna Abby\\nHooper, who became the wife of Samuel G. Waters, and lives\\nin Johnson, Yt., their children being Samuel H., Luther R.,\\nWardsworth F., Ruthey G., and Mary A.\\nMr. Richards, at the age of thirty, was thrown from a horse,\\nand by this and other casualties was crippled for life, yet his\\nindomitable energy overcame obstacles to which many would\\nhave yielded. Few men could accomplish more than he, in\\nspite of great physical sufferings. Exact and scrupulously\\njust in his transactions, he secured the confidence of others,\\nand died September 22, 1857, aged nearly 85 years, greatly\\nrespected and sincerely lamented his mental powers being but\\nlittle impaired, and a delightful christian peace continuing\\nuntil the last.\\nMrs. Richards died March 3, 1847 and Jacob H. Richards s\\nfirst wife died December 12, 1846.\\nJohn Dodge. He came to New Boston in 1815, from Ham-\\nilton, Mass. His wife was Mary Dodge, of Wenham, Mass.\\nHe bought of Stephen Ferson the farm formerly owned by\\nPaul Ferson, son of Dea. James Ferson. Mr. Dodge s children\\nwere John, Israel, Mary, Joseph, and Elizabeth.\\nJohn now lives on the homestead, his wife was Polly Dodge,\\nof Hamilton, Mass., by whom he has three children Joseph A.,\\nnow of Plymouth, superintendent of the Concord and Montreal\\nRailroad, marrying Mary Tewksbury, and having two children,\\nLizzie and John Mary Ann, now the wife of John S. Edwards,\\nhaving two children, Andrew D., and Eugene Casandana.\\nMr. Dodge s second wife was Mary T. Lovett, of Beverly, Mass.,\\nby whom he has five children S. Emiline, now the wife of", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0470.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "397\\nMiles Taylor, of Lake Village Israel T., now living in Lafay-\\nette, Indiana, marrying Julia M. Allen, of Woburn, Mass., and\\nhaving one daughter, May John, who died young Eben,\\nwho married Fannie, daughter of Dea. Livemore Langdell, and\\nlives with his father and Andrew, unmarried, living in\\nIndiana.\\nIsrael lived where Eben Bartlett now lives, and died in\\n1852 Mary married Jonathan Dodge, and lives in the west\\npart of the town, her children being Elizabeth, Alva, Lydia,\\nJosephine, John E., and Daniel L. Joseph died young; Eliza-\\nbeth became the wife of Joseph B. Cochran, son of Dea. Joseph\\nCochran, and lived with his father her second husband was\\nNathaniel Whiting, of Francestown, her children being Sarah,\\nJosephine, and Harvey.\\nIsaac Peabody. His great-grandfather s name was Francis,\\nand he came to this country in 1835 from Wales, England, set-\\ntling in Topsfield, Mass., where he erected mills which have\\nbeen in the possession of his descendants until now.\\nMr. Francis Peabody was born in Topsfield, Mass., September\\n30, 1747, and came to New Boston in 1783. He purchased a\\nfarm of Robert Patterson, now known as the Town Farm.\\nHe died May 13, 1826. He had eight children, six sons and\\ntwo daughters, viz. Lydia, Nathaniel, Isaac, Moses, John,\\nMary, Ezekiel, and Francis. Lydia was born October 5, 1772,\\nmarried Thomas Willson, and lived in the east part of the\\ntown, and died June 18, 1839, leaving no children. (For\\nNathaniel, see Sketches of Physicians.} Isaac was born Nov.\\n28, 1775, married Mary, daughter of Jacob Dodge, and lived\\non the homestead. He was elected an elder in the Presbyterian\\nChurch, and died January 23, 1832. He had children John,\\nwho lives in Antrim Hannah, who married Nathaniel Coggin\\nElizabeth, who married a Mr. Hursey, of Croyden Daniel, who\\ndied in Hooksett and Isaac, who lives in Lowell, Mass.\\nMoses was born Dec. 22, 1778, and died Aug. 1, 1858. He\\nmarried Elizabeth, daughter of James Cochran, and lived in\\nNew Boston. His children are Ezekiel Cummings, Horace,\\nwho died in 1855 William Wason, who died in Salem, Mass.,\\nin 1851 Elizabeth Ann, who married Isaac Newton Fitz, of\\nLowell, Mass., and died Oct. 17, 1845 Mary Potter, who mar-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0471.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "398\\nried Samuel Bellows, and died in Boston, July 1, 1839\\nMartha Jane, who died March 3, 1831, aged 13 James Coch-\\nran, who married Caroline Gibson, of Ashbnrnham, and died\\nSept. 13, 1847, aged 28 Harriet Newell, who was born Feb.\\n25, 1823, and became the second wife of Mr. Fitz, the husband\\nof her deceased sister, and lives in Lowell, having two chil-\\ndren, Frank Eugene, and Willie Fremont.\\nJohn, was born Jan. 16, 1781, and died Aug. 15, 1821, in\\nBatavia, India. He married Elizabeth Manning, of Salem,\\nMass., in 1808, by whom he had three children. Commencing\\nas a merchant in Salem, he soon entered upon a seafaring life.\\nIn 1813 he attempted to reach St. Domingo with a loaded ves-\\nsel, and was captured by a British vessel, and was released in\\n1814. Having commanded several vessels bound to India, his\\nlast voyage was undertaken with enfeebled health in 1821, he\\nreached Batavia, and died Aug. 15, 1821. He was a man of\\nstrict business habits, and of great integrity, and died sustained\\nby faith in Jesus Christ. His daughter Elizabeth married a\\nRev. Mr. Elevenworth in 1813, and went to North Carolina,\\nsubsequently removed to Petersburg, Virginia, where he be-\\ncame a slaveholder, and there she died, leaving several chil-\\ndren. The wife of Capt. John Peabody died in 1846, aged 57.\\nMary married John P. Chapman, of Windsor, April 18,\\n1810 he died March 22, 1815, leaving three children. She is\\nstill living, at the age of 80, with her brother Francis, in Am-\\nherst.\\nFrancis was born Feb. 6, 1793, and married Lydia Peabody,\\nof Topsfield, Mass., who was born Jan. 12, 1797, on the 23d\\nof Dec, 1819. His children (all born in New Boston) are\\nAaron Francis, born Jan. 2, 1821, married Paulina A. Nettle-\\nton, of New York, July 24, 1849, and moved to Fond Du Lac,\\nWisconsin, in 1851 John, born Jan. 17, 1822, and died Nov.\\n30, 1824; Ann Maria, born May 22, 1824, married Rev.\\nCharles Seccumb, of Salem, Mass., Aug. 4, 1850, who was or-\\ndained Aug. 8, 1850, as a Home Missionary, and went to St.\\nAnthony, Min., the same year, and became pastor of the first\\nCongregational Church formed in that State, and here his wife\\ndied Feb. 28, 1853 John, born Nov. 9, 1827, married Fannie\\nE. Sargent, of Milford, March 22, 1859, and lives in Brook-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0472.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "399\\nline, being elected a Deacon in the Congregational Church in\\nthat place in 1860 Lydia E., born Sept. 7, 1829 David, born\\nDec. 17, 1831, and married Lucy D. Tolman, of Wilmington,\\nMass., and moved to St. Anthony, Min., having had two chil-\\nden: Francis, born Oct. 13, 1860, and Charles W., born May\\n17, 1862, and died Aug. 10, 1863 Margaret Brigham, born\\nApril 23, 1837; George Wellington, born Oct. 11, 1838;\\nDaniel Augustine, born June 29, 1842, enlisted Oct., 1861, in\\nthe Fifth New Hampshire Regiment, Co. I, was in the battle\\nof Fair Oaks, returned home Oct. 2, 1862, an invalid, and is\\nnow on the pension list (1864).\\nMr. Francis Peabody removed to Amherst in 1846, where\\nhe now resides, waiting for the rest that remaineth for the\\npeople of God, surrounded by christian children.\\nDavid Colburn, son of Ephraim Colburn, removed from Ded-\\nham, Mass., to New Boston in the year 1795. He settled in\\nthe westerly part of the town, upon the farm formerly owned\\nby Capt. Burns, where he remained until his death. He was\\nsucceeded by his son Ephraim, who owned, and with the ex-\\nception of a few years, lived upon the farm during his life.\\nAt the time of his death it was in possession of his son Luther,\\nthe present owner. David Colburn married Rebecca, daughter\\nof Thomas Richards, of Dedham. They had a numerous fam-\\nily, only three of whom were living when they came to town,\\nEdward, Ephraim, and Tryphena.\\nEdward, the oldest, married Betsey, daughter of Ebenezer\\nNewell, of Needham, Mass., to which town he removed in 1822,\\nand died in 1833.\\nTryphena married Capt. Jacob D. Dodge, and is now residing\\nin Nashua. She has had a numerous family, only four of whom\\nare now living, two sons and two daughters.\\nEphraim, the second son, married Rachael, also a daughter\\nof Dea. Newell, of Needham, in April, 1804. He died May\\n19, 1855, aged 78 years. His widow, who still has a home\\nupon the old farm, is now 78 years of age.\\nThey had seven children Leonard, born Aug. 17, 1804\\nWillard, born January 9, 1807 Luther, born Aug. 16, 1811\\nHorace, born Sept. 28, 1815; Mark, born May 12, 1818\\nEphraim, born May 1, 1821, and Reuben, born April 8, 1826.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0473.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "400\\nLeonard, the oldest son, married Mary T., daughter of Capt.\\nLivingston, of New Boston. He was always a resident of New\\nBoston, and during the last years of his life resided near the\\nUpper Village, where his widow still lives. He died in July,\\n1856.\\nThey had four children William W., Ephraim Warren,\\nEmma J., and James L. William graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege, in 1861, and is now Principal of the High School in\\nManchester, N. H. Warren married Lizzie S. Roper, of Fran-\\ncestown, where he now resides. Emma married Dea. John N.\\nDodge, of New Boston. James enlisted into the 9th Beg. N.\\nH. V. in Aug., 1862, and is now in the army.\\nWilliard, the second son, married Sarah, daughter of Joseph\\nGilbert, of Prancestown. They lived in New Boston till 1853,\\nwhen they removed to Manchester, where they still reside.\\nThey had eleven children Bachael N., Willard E., Sarah\\nG., Hannah R., David W., Maria W., Carrie S., Mary E., Les-\\ntina L., Margie C. D., and Joseph G.\\nRachel married David S. Todd, of New Boston, in the fall\\nof 1854, and died in March, 1857.\\nWillard has been twice married, and is now living in Ches-\\nter. Sarah married James More, of Manchester, and died in\\n1856. Hannah married Eri Harvey, of Manchester, and died\\nin February, 1864.\\nDavid enlisted as private in the 2d Regt. N. H. Y. in the\\nspring of 1861 was promoted to orderly sergeant, which po-\\nsition he held at the time of his death. He was married to\\nMiss Lucy Proctor, of East Washington, N. H., while home on\\na furlough in the spring of 1863, and was killed on the 2d\\nof July following, at the battle of Gettysburg, after having\\nsafely passed through all the battles in which his regiment had\\nbeen engaged previous to that time.\\nMaria is now residing in Manchester. Carrie married\\nEmerson Dunham, and is also in Manchester. Lestina and\\nJoseph are with their parents. Margie died in May, 1854.\\nLuther, the third son, married Mary S., daughter of Samuel\\nTodd, of New Boston, Oct. 15, 1835. She died in Aug., 1841.\\nHe married Hannah E., daughter of Nehemiah Story, of\\nGoffstown, May 3, 1842. By his first marriage he had two", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0474.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "401\\nchildren Mary J., born March 4, 1837, and Martin L., born\\nApril 26, 1839. By the second marriage, five children\\nHattie E., born Dec. 1, 1843 Emmie M., born April 18, 1850\\nFrank N., born Oct 19, 1852 Addie N., born Dec. 24, 1855,\\nand Charles S., born April 11, 1860.\\nAll are living at the present time except Frank, who died\\nJuly 31, 1854. Martin served as Lieut, in the 16th Reg. N.\\nH. V., in Louisana.\\nHorace, the fourth son, died Sept. 16, 1816. Mark, the\\nfifth son, married Caltha, daughter of Capt. Cyrus Lufkin, of\\nWeare, in June, 1843. They reside in Weare, and have two\\nchildren Cyrus L., and Edson.\\nEphraim, the sixth son, married Sarah J., daughter of Wil-\\nliam Taylor, of New Boston, in 1850. She died in July, 1859.\\nHe married Charlotte Barron, of Merrimac, in August, I860,\\nand is now living in Merrimac. He has one son, William\\nHenry, born in February, 1853.\\nReuben, the seventh son, married Hannah Gould, daughter\\nof Elijah Gould, of Antrim, in 1849.\\nIn 1853 he married Miss Mary J. Holt, of Francestown, and\\nnow resides in Manchester. By the first marriage he had one\\ndaughter by the second one son, Otis H., born in 1854.\\nBenjamin Buxton was born in North Reading, Mass., in\\n1753. In early life he resided in the family of Rev. Eliab\\nStone, the pastor of a church in that place, under whose in-\\nstruction he commenced the study of Latin. But the Revolu-\\ntionary war breaking out, he forsook his Latin, and hastened to\\nthe defence of his country. Soon after the commencement of\\nthe war, he went out in a privateer, which, having made a suc-\\ncessful voyage, was returning with the crews of the vessels she\\nhad captured on board, when they suddenly rose, got possession\\nof her, and took her into Halifax. Subsequently he was im-\\npressed on board of a British man-of-war, where he was kept till\\nthe close of our Revolutionary struggle. In that situation he\\nwas treated with great severity, because he would stand up for\\nhis country. As often as the British officers vilified it, assuring\\nhim that, together Avith Washington, it was going to ruin, he\\nreplied to them, Sir, I wish I was with him. He was be-\\nlabored unmercifully with blows, till, on a certain occasion\\n51", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0475.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "402\\nunder such treatment, he turned on his heel, and knocked the\\nboatswain down at which, some recommending to take him\\naft, that is, to have him executed, the boatswain said,\\nNo, I won t I ll hang him myself. Giving him a few light\\nblows, he turned away from him, and the same day drew him\\ninto his berth to drink grog with him, saying, Buxton, you\\nare a good fellow.\\nDuring his service in the British navy, he acquired consider-\\nable reputation as a seaman and after his discharge from that\\nservice he followed a seafaring life a number of years, in the\\ncapacity of a shipmaster.\\nAbout the year 1796 he removed from Danvers, Mass., where\\nhe had resided for some time, to New Boston. He was nat-\\nurally of an upright, frank, and generous disposition, having no\\nheart or tact to secure advantages in trade which may be illus-\\ntrated by a single incident. Col. Daniel Flint, of North Blad-\\ning, coming into the country with him, to assist him in select-\\ning and purchasing a farm, said to him, Now, Buxton, let me\\ndo the trading, and don t you say a word. But, having ex-\\namined the farm which he purchased, and learned the price at\\nwhich it was held, he immediately forestalled all attempts to\\nget it at a cheaper rate, by saying, Cheap enough, Col. Flint,\\ncheap enough\\nSoon after he came to New Boston the death of his little\\ndaughter was sanctified to him for his religious awakening and\\nhopeful conversion. He then made a public profession of re-\\nligion, and was ever after noted for his consistent christian life\\nand regular attendance on the institutions of the gospel. His\\nyoungest son he consecrated to God, with a special desire that\\nhe should become a minister of the gospel. Through God s\\ncovenant faithfulness, his prayers for this object have been an-\\nswered. In 1813 he died, aged 60 years, a good man, and\\ngreatly lamented.\\nCapt. Buxton, in 1786, married Hannah Flint, of North\\nReading, who was born Feb. 5, 1759, and died in the year 1837.\\nThey had six children.\\n1. Hannah was born May 17, 1787 died Sept. 12, 1860 mar-\\nried Abner Dodge, who was born Oct. 21, 1788 died Sept. 24,\\n1852. They were professors of religion, of consistent piety\\nhad eleven children.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0476.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "403\\nEloisa was born Aug. 5, 1808 married Abner Dane June 9,\\n1840 a few years after their marriage removed to Nashua,\\nwhere they now reside.\\nJacob was born July 1, 1810 an ingenious mechanic expe-\\nrienced religion in his last sickness died at his paternal home\\nin Nashua, Feb. 2, 1849.\\nEzra was born Sept. 9, 1812 married April 10, 1838 a pro-\\nfessor of religion has two sons resides in Danvers, Mass.\\nBenjamin P. was born Dec. 13, 1814 married Oct. 12, 1848\\nhas two children is a professor of religion resides in Stacy-\\nville, Iowa.\\nMary B. was borri Feb. 3, 1817 married Samuel Dane is a\\nprofessor of religion has had several children resides in New\\nBoston.\\nReuben was born Dec. 15, 1818 married Mary Cochran\\nhas one daughter is a professor of religion resides in Man-\\nchester.\\nAbner B. was born June 1, 1821 died April 16, 1822.\\nAbner B. was born April 9, 1823 married Mary Gr. Hall\\nresides in Nashua.\\nJames F. was born Oct. 26, 1826 died Dec. 20, 1834.\\nAnna M. was born May 11, 1828 is a professor of religion\\nresides in Nashua.\\nMargaret was born April 26, 1831 was a professor of re-\\nligion a sweet singer died July 9, 1855.\\n2. Charles was born Aug. 27, 1789.\\n3. James F. was born Nov. 9, 1792 married Lucinda Coch-\\nran in 1819, and they had four children Charlotte Flint, Fran-\\nces Gove, John Cochran, Eliza Dalton.\\nCharlotte was born Jan. 1, 1820 died Nov. 24, 1838.\\nFrances was born Jan. 15, 1824 became the wife of J.\\nRichards Dodge Oct 20, 1846.\\nJohn was born Feb. 29, 1828 married Henrietta S. Norris,\\nof Sandusky, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1853.\\nEliza was born June 15, 1832 became the wife of Edward\\nP. Ransom Aug. 7, 1855, and died at Newburyport, Mass.,\\nFeb., 1857.\\nMr. James F. Buxton resides with his son, in Springfield\\nCity, Ohio, where his wife died Dec. 27, 1857, aged 62.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0477.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "404\\n4. Abigail was born Oct. 8, 1796 died Aug. 8, 1850 was a\\nprofessor of religion married James Cochran, by whom she\\nhad eight children.\\n5. Mary was born Jan. 31, 1799 died Oct. 6, 1802.\\n6. Edward. (See page 135.)\\nRobert Parkinson. His ancestors were all of the genuine\\nstock, Scotch Irish. His father, whose name was Henry, en-\\ntered Nassau Hall College from Londonderry, and graduated.\\nHe served in the Revolutionary war, and was at one time quar-\\ntermaster in Col. John Stark s regiment. In an old manuscript\\nof his it is found recorded that his constitution was broken\\nwhile in the service and this is given as a reason why he\\nspent his days in farming and teaching, instead of pursuing a\\nprofession. It is said that he excelled as a classical scholar\\nand in his day he fitted many students for Dartmouth College.\\nHis wife was a McCurdy, and aunt to the late James and John\\nMcCurdy, of New Boston.\\nRobert Parkinson, his son, was born in Francestown May 18,\\n1781, and passed his youth in Concord and Canterbury, and\\npurchased a lot of land in Columbia, then a wilderness, as was\\nno small portion of Coos County at that time. He spent the\\nsummer of 1809 there, in camp, and clearing land, sowing\\nwinter grain, and building a house of hewn timber, the first\\nin the settlement of so much pretension, there being only two\\nor three houses, and those of round logs.\\nIn February or March, 1810, he was married, by Rev. Mr.\\nBradford, to Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Kelso, one of the\\nsturdy farmers who cleared away the forests, and laid the foun-\\ndations of the civil and religious institutions of the town. His\\nwife was Mary, daughter of John McAllister, and they had nine\\nsons and three daughters, and all lived to adult years.\\nMr. Parkinson s wife was born April 5, 1781. Immediately\\nafter his marriage he proceeded to Columbia, and spent the .first\\ntwelve years of wedded life there in his log house, in which\\nthere were born two sons and two daughters. Here he became\\ninvolved, and lost his property, partly in consequence of being\\nbound, and having to pay another s debt, and partly by an\\ninvestment in lumber, which was rendered unsalable by the\\nEmbargo, and became disheartened. But his noble wife was", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0478.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "405\\nequal to the position in which this change of fortune placed\\nher. Before leaving New Boston she professed her faith in\\nChrist and all the precious promises of the Bible, by uniting\\nwith the Presbyterian Church. And the hope she had pro-\\nfessed gave full proof of its genuineness in the darkest and\\nstormiest hour it was an anchor to her soul, sure and steadfast.\\nPossessing, by nature, a cheerful temperament, untiring energy,\\na fortitude which succombed to no hardship, a love which many\\nwaters could not quench, and a clearness of perception which\\nnever failed to distinguish between a lowly position and low-\\nness of character; with these natural gifts rooted in, and\\nvitalized and beautified by, the faith which is the substance of\\nthings hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen\\nLet cares like a wild deluge come,\\nAnd storms of sorrow fall\\nstill she could move calmly on in the path Providence had as-\\nsigned her, without a faltering step or a murmuring lip, and\\nwear herself out in feeding, clothing, instructing, counselling,\\nand inspiring with self-respect, courage, and hope, the little\\nflock to whom she was far more then wealth and high position.\\nAnd in the rich triumphs of faith she went to her eternal rest\\nMarch 4, 1837, aged 56.\\nIn 1821 Mr. Parkinson with his wife and children returned\\nto New Boston, and lived near the base of Joe English, not far\\nfrom the school-house in Captain Lamson s district. In that\\nschool-house the children, born in Columbia, were baptized by\\nRev. Mr. Bradford, as there was no church in that settlement.\\nThe scene at their baptizing is described as most intensely in-\\nteresting and solemn. In that little red house Mr. Parkinson s\\nchildren, for the first time, attended school whatever they had\\nlearned before had been taught them by their faithful mother.\\nIn speaking of that school the Rev. Royal Parkinson, their\\nfourth child, thus speaks Among the best remembered school-\\nmates of those days were Clark B. Cochrane, the sons of James\\nWason, and the elder sons and daughters of Dea. Robert Wason.\\nMy brother Henry and sister Frances attended at the same\\ntime and my impression is that Gerry Whiting Cochrane,\\nbrother of Clark B., and one or two of their sisters, attended", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0479.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "406\\nthat first winter school. From it have come three college grad-\\nuates, two ministers, one minister s wife, one lawyer, judge\\nand member of congress, one state senator, one alderman, at\\nleast four leading and successful city merchants all reliable\\nmen, of sterling character, and not less than half a score of suc-\\ncessful teachers. Perhaps I should be justified in adding to\\nthis catalogue a poetess, since, if L. Theresa Lamson, now\\nWason, was not my schoolmate, and I am not sure, she was\\nmy pupil, for I subsequently taught there, as did my sister\\nFrances.\\nRoyal Parkinson, the second son of Robert, was born in\\nColumbia November 8, 1815. When but eight years old he\\nwent to live with Captain James F. Buxton, a man in whom,\\nhe says, I never saw a mean act and that his wife was a\\nwoman of great kindness and worth, no inhabitant of New\\nBoston need be told. After four years Captain Buxton remov-\\ning to Nashua, young Parkinson labored in different places\\nduring summers and attended or taught schools winters aid-\\ning his mother in the support of the family. Among my\\nteachers, he says, in New Boston were Augusta Kelso, now\\nLawrence, B. B. and C. B. Cochrane, Putman Bradford, David\\nAtwood, and William and Jesse Beard. The last named had\\nfew equals, and I have never known his superior, as a teacher.\\nMy fitting for college, he continues, was away from New\\nBoston, but yet under New Boston inspiration and auspices.\\nProminent among those who inspired me with courage to make\\nthe attempt, outside of my own family, were Mr. Bradford, and\\nby their kind words and worthy example Edward Buxton and\\nClark B. Cochrane, and chief among those who aided me in\\nexecuting it, were Captain Buxton and his wife. During the\\ntime of my academical studies they resided in Nashua, and\\nthe greater part of the time I had a home with them, and all\\nits conveniences and comforts, in exchange for what chores\\nI did, more or less.\\nMr. Parkinson entered Dartmouth College in the spring of\\n1889 and graduated in 1842, and entered immediately the\\noffice of Hon. George Y. Sawyer, of Nashua, as a law-student, and\\nwas connected with it two years, though engaged in teaching\\nthe larger part of the time. In the mean time old religious", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0480.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "407\\nimpressions made at New Boston in the great revival of 1881\\nwere revived, deepened, and culminated in new and higher views\\nof life and its end, and he turned from the law to the gospel.\\nHe entered Union Theological Seminary, New York city,\\nand spent two years there, and the third at Andover, graduat-\\ning in 1847. He at once began to Labor at Capo Elizabeth,\\nMe., where he was ordained over the Congregational Church\\nOctober 18, 1848, and was united in marriage witli Joanna.\\nGriffin, of Brunswick, Me., November 21 of the same yen-.\\nAnd now, 1 says he, in speaking of himself I am here in\\nRandolph, Vt., ministering to a worthy church and people;\\nand one member of the church, among the most worthy, is a\\ngranddaughter of Deacon Robert Patterson, of New Boston.\\nThree miles from here, on the railroad, there is another village\\nin town; the leading mercantile firm in it is one noted\\nthroughout the county for its reliability, its strict integrity;\\nthe church, the Sabbath school, and everything good has in it\\nfriends and supporters; it is Amos W. Tewksbury and sons\\nfrom New Boston.\\nMary (daughter of Robert Parkinson is connected with the\\nSchool of Designs, Cooper Institute, New York; Benry, is a\\nmerchant in Nashua, and be married Lydia Wilson, of Antrim;\\nEliza became the wife of Mr. McKean, of Manchester, and has\\ndeceased; Francos became the wife of Rev. Mr. Wheeler, of\\nRoxbury, Mass., and has four children Caroline is a teacher\\nin Worcester Seminary, Mass. John K. is in California; and\\nClara married Henry Herrick, designer and engraver, Brooklyn,\\nNew York, and has four children.\\nJohn Goodhue. In November, 1636, the Etev. Nathaniel\\nRogers, formerly minister of Assington in Suffolk, England,\\ncame over to this country, and was soon followed by William\\nGoodhue and sixteen others, all members of bis church. Said\\nGoodhue was deacon of the first church in Ipswich; was in\\nhigh reputation as a man of piety, integrity, and wisdom. For\\nmany years he served the town as selectman, moderator, and\\nrepresentative, lie died, at an advanced age, in 1699 or 1700.\\nHis children were Joseph, William, and Alary: .Joseph, was\\ndeacon of the first church with his father; William was dea-\\ncon of the second church. History says both men were of like\\nrespectability with their father.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0481.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "408\\nJoseph died in September, 1697. By his third wife, Mercy,\\nhe had one son whose name was Samuel, who was born April\\n6, 1696. Samuel married Abigail Bartlett, and settled in\\nStratham, N. H. He afterwards moved to Nottingham, where\\nhe was deacon of the Congregational Church for many years.\\nHe subsequently removed to Hollis, N. H., and died the 7th\\nof November, 1785, in the ninetieth year of his age, triumphant-\\nly supported by the religion he had long professed and en-\\njoyed.\\nJohn, the youngest of his eight children, married Olive\\nTaylor, and resided in Hollis, and afterwards in Groton, N. H.,\\nwhere he died in 1818, aged eighty-four. Their children were\\nsix. John 2d, the eldest, married Hannah Parham, and resided\\nin Hollis, N. H., afterwards in Amherst, N. H. Thence he re-\\nmoved to New Boston in 1796 or 1797, where he was in busi-\\nness as a merchant till the winter of 1816-17, when he\\nremoved to Westfield, Ohio, where he remained till his death.\\nJoseph (A) Goodhue, the second of the five children of John\\n2d, was born in Hollis, N. H., 1789 removed with his father\\nto Amherst, thence to New Boston. He married Betsey Felch\\nNovember 15, 1818. He resided for nearly two years in Med-\\nford, Mass., when he returned to New Boston, where he still\\nremains.\\nTheir children were five, three sons and two daughters.\\nAmos B. Goodhue was born January 22, 1821. He graduated\\nat Dartmouth College in 1845. In a few months after his\\ngraduation he married Elvira, daughter of David Patten, Esq.,\\nof Hancock, N. H., and went to Alabama, where in the course\\nof a year or two he became Professor in Howard College at\\nMarrion, where he still remains.\\nLeonard F. Goodhue was born Oct. 23, 1822. He entered\\nthe Sophomore class in Dartmouth College in 1844, and died\\nat the commencement of his Junior year, having attained a\\nhigh position in his class as a scholar.\\nJoseph Addison Goodhue. (See page 161.)\\nAnn married Dr. Eaton for her first husband; for her second,\\nMr. Edwin Tilden, of Boston.\\nMary became the wife of Mr. Fuller, and after his death, of\\nRev. Mr. Weeks and is now dead.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0482.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "409\\nMr. Gooodlmc married, for his second wife, Ann Crosby, of\\nMilford, by whom he has one daughter, Sarah L.\\nCapt. Matthew Fairfield. Capt. Matthew Fairfield com-\\nmanded a company during the war of the Revolution, and was\\nsent by the War Department to quell the Tory insurrections, or\\nmobs, that existed in New Hampshire, and particularly in Hills-\\nborough County, where the old loyal Scotch element so largely\\npredominated. The duty assigned him was like that of our\\nprovost marshals. There are those living who remember to\\nhave seen and read his first proclamation to the rebels. His\\ngreatest troubles were in New Boston, where the Tories had\\ntheir rendezvous. But it appears that here he found friends,\\nand soon after the war he moved his family from Wenham,\\nMass., to New Boston, and settled on a tract of land in the\\nsouth part of the town, where he resided until his death, in\\n1814, which was occasioned by the falling of a tree.\\nHis wife was Abigail Ayers, of Haverhill, Mass. They had\\nbut one child, John.\\nCapt. Fairfield was a man of much intelligence, and was\\noften entrusted with important business, serving the town in a\\nvariety of ways with great fidelity.\\nJohn Fairfield, Esq. He was son of Capt. Matthew Fair-\\nfield, came to this town with his father when a small lad, and\\nat his father s death inherited the homestead, as the only child.\\nHe married Hetty Baker, of Wenham, Mass., by whom he had\\ntwelve children, only two of whom survive Josiah W., of Hud-\\nson, N. Y., the second child, and Mrs. Warren, of Manchester,\\nthe youngest. Mr. Fairfield s wife died Sept. 8, 1840, aged 62.\\nAfterwards he married Mrs. Stevens, of New Boston, and died\\nFeb. 17, 1854, aged 81. His widow died in 180:3.\\nMr. Fairfield, like his father, was a very intelligent man, and\\npossessed of business capacity, which was often called into\\nrequisition.\\nJohn Cochran, Esq. It appears that James Cochran came\\nto this country in 1717, and died in Londonderry in 1718.\\nThe name of his wife is unknown.\\nHis son Thomas was born 1702, and died Nov. 20, 1791,\\nknown as the first Deacon Thomas Cochran, of New Boston j\\n52", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0483.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "410\\nand his wife was Jennet Adams, of Londonderry, born 1708,\\nand died June 21, 1784.\\nJames, the son of this Deacon Thomas, was born in 1731,\\nand died April 21, 1772. His wife was Christian Aiken, born\\n1734, and died Aug. 22, 1819. She was daughter of Nathaniel\\nAiken, who was born May 14, 1696, and died Dec. 1, 1783,\\nhaving married, Dec. 1, 1726, Margaret, daughter of James\\nCochran and this Nathaniel Aiken was the son of Edward,\\nwho was born in 1660, and died in 1747, having married Barby\\nEdwards in 1663, who died in 1747. Thus John Cochran, Esq.,\\nwas the son of Dea. Thomas, who was the son of James.\\nJohn Cochran, Esq., was born Eeb. 27, 1769, and died May\\n16, 1857. He married Frances, daughter of Dr. Jonathan\\nGove. She was born Nov. 25, 1774, and died Jan. 5, 1826.\\nTheir children were\\nLucinda, born Nov. 12, 1794, and died Dec. 27, 1856, be-\\ncoming the wife of Feb. 26, 1819.\\nFrances, born July 12, 1796 married Rev. J. W. Perkins\\nDec. 28, 1824, and they now live in New Chester, Adams\\nCounty, Wisconsin.\\nCharles E., born July 7, 1798, and died April 20, 1814.\\nHarriet, born July 30, 1800, and died Jan. 13, 1826.\\nRodney G., born Dec. 1, 1802 married, May 1, 1828, and\\nnow lives in Francestown.\\nJeremiah S., born Jan. 16, 1805 became a physician, and\\ndied at Sandusky, Ohio, July 6, 1845 marrying, Jan. 1, 1837,\\nSarah T., daughter of Hon. M. Far well, of Sandusky, a most\\nestimable woman, who died in 1842, by whom he had four chil-\\ndren, one of whom is the wife of J. M. Osborn, Esq., of Day-\\nton, Ohio, and another is a soldier in the Army of the Cumber-\\nland.\\nJonathan, born March 28, 1807 married Nov. 26, 1840, and\\nnow resides at Elgin, Min., Wabashaw Co.\\nSamuel C, born May 6, 1809 married June 22, 1837, and\\nresides at St. Louis, Mo.\\nSarah Jane A., deaf and mute, born Nov. 12, 1812, and died\\nSept. 23, 1828, at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Hartford, Ct.\\nCharles, born June 9, 1816 married May 27, 1847 now a\\npractising physician in Toledo, Ohio.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0484.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "411\\nAlexander McCollom. With his wife Jennet, Mr. McCol-\\nlom came from Londonderry, Ireland, about the year 1730, and\\nsettled in Londonderry, N. H. His children were Alexander,\\nThomas, Jean, Robert, Archibald, John, Jennet.\\nAlexander married Elizabeth McMurphy, and settled in this\\ntown, on the farm now owned by George Adams, in 1758, more\\nthan a mile east of the Presbyterian Church. He was chosen\\nclerk at the first meeting of the town, at Dea. Thomas Coch-\\nran s house (after its incorporation), March 10, 1763, and held\\nthat office without interruption until his death, Jan., 1768.\\nHis children were Jennet, Jean, John, Elizabeth, and Alex-\\nander.\\nJennet married Eliphalet Duston, and settled in Francestown,\\nand died in the city of Manchester, at the residence of Dr. L.\\nFarley, July 8, 1854, age 95 years 9 months. She was married\\nat the age of 16, and proved a woman of rare excellences of\\nmind and heart. She reared a family of eight children, two\\nothers dying before reaching maturity united with the Pres-\\nbyterian Church in 1776, then under the charge of Rev. Sol-\\nomon Moor, by whom all her children were baptized, and lived\\na life in harmony with her sacred profession. Her relation to\\nthe church extended through a period of seventy-eight years,\\nwhile her married life was fifty-nine. She outlived all her chil-\\ndren but three, with one of whom she died, possessed of much\\nof the mental and physical energy of earlier days, and in the\\nglorious hope of immortality.\\nJean married Thomas Millen, and settled in Newbury, Vt.\\nJohn died 1783, aged 22.\\nElizabeth married Zachariah Duston.\\nAlexander retained the homestead, and in 1784 married\\nMary, daughter of Robert Patterson, and their children were\\nJohn, Elizabeth, Robert, Rodney, Alexander, Fanny, Elbridge,\\nMary, Milton, Haskell, Clarissa, George W., and two that died\\nyoung. This Alexander McCollom held the office of Selectman\\nseveral years, and was a very energetic and industrious man.\\nHe removed to Mont Vernon in 1820, where he died 1 1843,\\naged 77, and his widow died in 1854, at the age of 79. Of\\ntheir children, John settled in Claremont, and married Betsey\\nChase, their children being Clarissa and Annis he died in 1822,\\naged 34.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0485.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "412\\nElizabeth married John McLane, of Francestown, and their\\nchildren were Niel, Alexander, John, Charles, Rodney, Mary\\nIsabel, Nancy Jane, George W., Elizabeth, Clara, Sarah, Hellen,\\nMarion, and Robert E.\\nRobert died in Batavia, N. Y., 1825, aged 35, unmarried.\\nRodney married Naomi, daughter of the late David Wilson, and\\ntheir children are David A., who married Martha, daughter of\\nLevi Cochran Arabella, who married Foster Allen, and they\\nreside in Manchester, Mass. and Mary Rebecca.\\nAlexander married Mary Goodrich, of Merrimac, and settled\\nas a physician in Pittston, Me., where he now resides.\\nFanny resides in Lowell, Mass. Elbridge, married Mary\\nJane, daughter of Hon. Jonathan Harvey, of Sutton, and\\ntheir children are Elizabeth, Hannah, and Thomas Benton.\\nMilton married Sophronia Trow, and lived in Mont Vernon,\\ntheir children being Charles, John, Mary, and Francis\\nMilton died in 1852, aged 49 Mary died in 1825, aged 20\\nHaskel married and lived in Lancaster, Mass., and his chil-\\ndren are Mary, Caroline, George, and Harriet Clarrisa,\\nmarried Lemuel Marden, and they reside in New Boston\\nGeorge W. married Mary Jane Stephens, of Mont Vernon,\\nand they live in New York city.\\nRobert Campbell. The Campbells are Scotch-Irish in\\ntheir origin, and made their first settlement in Townsend,\\nMass. Robert, the subject of this sketch, was the son of\\nRobert, who died at Townsend Feb. 12, 1792, and married\\nElizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Waugh and this\\nElizabeth died Dec. 5, 1796, and her father died May 18, 1802,\\nand her mother died 1800. Robert Campbell (the second)\\nwas born in Townsend, Mass., June 4, 1742, and died Jan. 18,\\n1827. He married Elizabeth Waugh, who was born in 1750\\nand died in 1831. Their marriage transpired Dec. 8, 1767\\nand they came to New Boston in 1770, and settled on a tract\\nof land in the east part of the town, where his grandson Dan-\\niel Campbell, Esq., now resides. It was a rough tract of land,\\nbut containing rich soil and excellent timber. Their first habi-\\ntation was the rudest structure of round logs, and few and far\\ndistant were their neighbors, dark and dense were the forests\\non every hand, made more dark by frightful beasts of prey;", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0486.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "413\\nbut stout hearts and strong arms soon converted the wilder-\\nness into a fruitful field. Mr. Campbell s wife was a resolute,\\nchristian woman and they both resolved to clear the land and\\nbuild houses for the Lord s sake, and they ever kept their eye\\nupon the interest of religion, as well as civilization, and hal-\\nlowed the Sabbath and sanctified all things with prayer. The\\nwar of the Revolution came just when they were beginning to\\nenjoy a little comfort, but they both cordially embraced the\\ncause of the Patriots, and he bared his bosom to the weapons\\nof the Royalist, and she encouraged him in his patriotism, and\\nfearlessly took upon herself the care of the household and the\\nmanagement of the farm. While near Ticonderoga, he was\\ntaken prisoner by the Indians, together with James Caldwell\\nand Josiah Warren, stripped of their clothing, and subjected to\\nmuch suffering but after some months were exchanged, and\\ncame home on a furlough in great destitution, but cheerfully\\nreturned to the service again. Mr. Campbell could not toler-\\nate Tories, and whenever they assembled for treasonable pur-\\nposes, his horse was always fleetest of foot to bear him to their\\nrendezvous, to aid in dispersing them. Mr. Campbell was an\\nhonest man, a kind neighbor, as well as a firm patriot, and was\\noften intrusted with business for the town, and took a lively\\ninterest in the institutions of religion.\\nHis children were: Daniel, born Oct. 18,17G8,and died Oct.\\n6, 1795 James, born Oct. 15, 1770 Thomas, born April 7,\\n1773, and died Jan. 7, 1852 Elizabeth, born April 7, 1775\\nand died Dec. 4, 1856 Robert, born March 6, 1777 John,\\nborn March 22, 1779 Samuel, born Aug. 27,1782 an infant,\\nApril 18, 1784 Josiah, born June 3, 1785 David and Jona-\\nthan, May 28, 1787; Mary Gove, born, June 22, 1789; Sallie,\\nborn Sept. 16, 1792.\\nJames went to Hartland, Vt., where he died without chil-\\ndren, having married Sallie Weed Dec, 1795 Elizabeth mar-\\nried Samuel Christie, of Antrim, Dec. 20, 1814, and he died\\nOct. 25, 1818, and she died at New Boston Dec. 4, 1856, aged\\n81. Mrs. Christie was a lady of a highly cultivated mind and\\nchristian heart, in sympathy with every good cause; the im-\\npress of the Master was clearly seen upon her, and when he\\ncalled she was ready to go. The influence of her life, and her", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0487.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "414\\nsweet serenity in death, were a wondrous proof of the sancti-\\nfying effect of .religion.\\nRobert was born March 6, 1777, went to Hartland, Yt., mar-\\nried Huldah Hackett, and died, leaving two daughters Mary\\nAnn, who became the wife of Samael M. Christie, and Sarah\\nJane, who became the wife of Reuben R. Dutton, and resided\\nat Hartford, Vt. Mr. Dutton died in 1856.\\nJohn was born March 22, 1779, went to Waitsfield, Vt.,\\nmarried Maria Louise Whitney June, 1801, by whom he had\\nnine children, of whom there are now living Calista, John\\nS., James and Mary Gove. He died March 23, 1852.\\nSamuel was born Aug. 27, 1782, was many years a school\\nteacher in Boston, and subsequently located on one of the\\nbest farms in Mont Vernon he married Rebecca Kingsbury,\\nof Dedham, Mass., by whom he has had two children Eliza-\\nbeth M. (deceased) and William Henry.\\nJosiah was born June 3, 1785, went to Waitsfield, Vt., and\\nmarried Abagail Cary Jan., 1813, by whom he had five, chil-\\ndren Robert, Benjamin, Rebecca C, Annis C, Josiah, and\\nHannah A.\\nDavid and Jonathan were born May 28, 1787. David died\\nOct. 6, 1795, and Jonathan went to Hartland, Vt., and married\\nElizabeth Wilson Dec, 1812, by whom he had three children,\\nnow all dead. He died May 15, 1819.\\nMary Gove was born June 22, 1789, and died, unmarried,\\nJune 23, 1840.\\nSallie was born Sept. 16, 1792, and became the wife of John\\nMclntire, of Goffstownin 1822, and had one child that died\\nyoung. Mr. Mclntire died May 20, 1840, and she became the\\nwife of Dea. John French, of Bedford, Aug., 1844, and died\\nMay 25, 1861, and she now resides in Goffstown.\\nThomas Campbell. He was son of Robert, born March 6,\\n1777, inherited the homestead, and married, Oct. 3,1799, Ann,\\ndaughter of William Clark, Esq., and died Jan. 7, 1852, and\\nshe died Aug. 25, 1857. Mr. Campbell was an excellent citi-\\nzen, and exemplary in the various walks of life, while his wife\\nwas an energetic, industrious, high-minded christian lady,\\nadorning the domestic life by many virtues, and, amid all her\\ncares, not forgetting her obligations to God. The largest hos-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0488.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "415\\npitality in her house was always enjoyed, and the sick and\\nneedy ever found in her a friend and helper. She filled a large\\nplace in the family and neighborhood.\\nTheir children were Annis, born July 9, 1802 Daniel,\\nborn April 16, 1801 Eliza Ann, born Sept. 5, 1807, and died\\nMarch 23, 1808 William C, born Sept. 16, 1810, and Eliza-\\nbeth L., born April 13, 1816.\\nAnnis married Leonard C. French, Jr., Esq., June 1, 1831,\\nand they live in Bedford, their children being Clinton, born\\nOctober 24, 1832 Elmira T., born May 1, 1835, and became\\nthe wife of Thomas R. Cochran, of New Boston, January 1,\\n1863 William C, born December 18, 1838 and Robert C,\\nborn January 2, 1845.\\nDaniel married Sabrina R., daughter of John Moor, and\\ngranddaughter of Rev. Solomon Moor, November 6, 1834, who\\ndied February 11, 1846, aged 38, by whom he had five chil-\\ndren Clark, born March 17, 1836, and married November 27,\\n1862, Ann Perkins, of Mont Vernon, where they now reside\\nAlfred M., born May 14, 1838 John, born May 1, 1840, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2died November 17, 1840 John and Sabrina, born February 11,\\n1846, the latter dying April 18, 1846.\\nMr. Campbell married, for his second wife, December 2, 1847,\\nMatilda Moor, and they have two children Hamilton M., born\\nAugust 29, 1848, and Mary Ann, born March 27, 1851.\\nWilliam C. went to Conway, Mass., in 1838, and is engaged\\nin mercantile business he married Emma Ames, and they\\nhave six children: Almira F., Elizabeth, Emma, Mary Ann,\\nJesse, and William F.\\nElizabeth L. married Luther McCutchin, and they live in\\nNew London, having two children Robert Sherman and Ann\\nElizabeth.\\nJosiah Warren. He came from Chelmsford, Mass., son of\\nEphraim, who married Esther Parker, and this Ephraim seems\\nto have been the son of Joseph, who married Ruth Wheeler\\nMarch 11, 1696, and died September 30, 1769, while Ephraim\\nseems to have died at Townscnd, Mass., about the year 1784, in\\nhis eighty-first year. Josiah Warren came to New Boston from\\nChelmsford, Mass., about the same time as Robert Campbell,\\nand settled on a tract of land quite near him, and very similar", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0489.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "416 I\\nto his, where the late Josiah Warren lived. He married Jane\\nLivingston, sister of the late Lieutenant Robert Livingston,\\nand was a very worthy citizen, a kind neighbor, hospitable to\\nstrangers, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church.\\nHe was a zealous patriot, and was in the army of the Revolution\\nwith his friend and neighbor, Robert Campbell, sharing his\\nfate in captivity and his wife was worthy of her husband, and\\nof the times in which she lived.\\nTheir children were Esther, born May 5, 1768, and died aged\\n86 Ephraim, born October 14, 1770 Robert, born December\\n24, 1772, and died March 26, 1857, aged 84 Josiah, born Oct.\\n15, 1774, and died May 5, 1862 Jane, born September 16,\\n1776 Mary, born November 9, 1774 Ephraim, born November\\n2, 1780, and died December 10, aged 69 Sarah, born March\\n1782 Elizabeth, born March 27, 1784 Salley, born September\\n27, 1786 and Mary Ann, born December, 1788.\\nEsther married William Duncan, of Antrim Zebiah mar-\\nried Samuel Christy, son of Dea. Jesse Christy, and lived in\\nAntrim Robert married Prudence Butterfield, and lived near\\nhis father s, and was a worthy citizen and highly esteemed as a\\nChristian, and his children were: John B., who inherited the\\nhomestead, and married Lavinia, daughter of the late David\\nWilson, having children, Alnms, James, George, and AnnisP.\\nJosiah inherited his father s farm, and married Hannah Her-\\nridon, and their children are Jonathan, who married Mary\\nPeabody, and lives, in Manchester Joseph H., who married\\nAdeline Kelso Josiah, who married Lucinda Worthley, and\\nlives in Goffstown, his present wife being a McClure John D.,\\nwho married Sophia Jayne, and lives on the homestead Jane\\nmarried Jedediah Tuttle, of Antrim, and was the mother of\\nour worthy townsman, Captain James M. Tuttle Mary mar-\\nried William Livingston, and their children were Gerry W.,\\nEphraim W., living in Nashua, Mary T., who married Leonard\\nColburn, having for children William W., a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth and teacher of the high school in the city of Manchester\\nEphraim W. married, and lives in Francestown Emma Jane,\\nthe wife of Dea. John N. Dodge and James L., now in the\\nArmy of the Cumberland and Jane W. (daughter of Mary\\nand Wm. L.), who married Leonard Cutler, of Frankville,\\nIowa, and John.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0490.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "417\\nEphraim (son of Josiah) lived in Goffstown, and was an ex-\\ncellent man, for many years a deacon in the Congregational\\nChurch, which office he held at his death, December 10, 1849,\\naged 69 he married Mary Patterson, who died April 8, 1824\\ntheir children being William P., who married Mary Gove\\nCampbell, daughter of the late Robert Warren, and she died\\nSeptember 28, 1854, at the age of 40, leaving five children\\nEphraim, Mary Prances, William Christie, Granville Patter-\\nson, and Sarah Jane Patterson.\\nJane, who married Cyrus Clough, of Hillsborough, and has\\nthree sons living; Robert, who married Mary, daughter of\\nJohn Fairfield, Esq., of New Boston, by whom he had one son,\\nFrank his second wife was Martha Butterfield Mary, who\\nmarried Horace Richards, of Goffstown, and died leaving six\\nchildren Henry, Mary Annis, George, Ephraim, Edward, and\\nTyler.\\nDea. Ephraim Warren married for his second wife Beulah\\nMussey, sister of the celebrated Dr. Reuben D. Mussey, by\\nwhom he had four children John M., Esther Duncan, George,\\nwho inherits the homestead, and married, June 25, 1863, L.\\nAbbie, daughter of Jeremiah Burnham, of New Boston and\\nJulia Ann.\\nJames Caldwell, Esq. He was son of James Caldwell, of\\nLondonderry, one of the Proprietors, and settled on a tract of\\nland where Samuel Jones now lives, but subsequently sold,\\nand built on land adjoining the farms of Robert Campbell and\\nJosiah Warren, and these three men lived on terms of great\\nintimacy until death separated them. Their early hardships\\nwere similar, and their experience of captivity by the Indians\\nwas the same. These three men were captured during the war\\nof the Revolution, near Ticonderoga, and after a captivity of\\nabout three months were liberated, by exchange, on the last\\nWednesday of May, election day in Massachusetts and an-\\nnually afterwards they celebrated that event by a feast which\\nthey called the Feast of Purim. Alternately at each other s\\nhouses the feast was year by year prepared, when the three men,\\nwith their wives, breakfasted together, and at dinner all the\\nchildren and grandchildren were assembled, with such neigh-\\nbors and friends as they chose to invite to partake at tables that\\n53", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0491.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "418\\ngroaned with smoking meats, pudding, and pies, such as wives\\nof those days prepared to grace the festive board. After the\\nrepast they gave themselves up to shooting at targets, pitching\\nof quoits, wrestling, running, and such other sports as were in\\nvogue at that period. And thus these families were strongly\\nbound to each other, living in unbroken friendship, and aiding\\neach in a variety of ways in subduing the forests, in multiply-\\ning their domestic comforts, and promoting the happiness of the\\ncommunity.\\nEsquire Caldwell was an energetic man, qualified for trans-\\nacting business, with which he was often entrusted he was\\nintelligent beyond many of his contemporaries, and loved to give\\nand receive a joke a kind neighbor and a true patriot and in\\nRevolutionary times he was a terror to evildoers and with his\\ntwo friends, Campbell and Warren, often made the conclaves\\nof treasonable Tories disperse like chaff before the wind.\\nEsquire Caldwell s children were Elizabeth, Mary Ann,\\nSolomon Moor, Alexander, Sarah, Jacob, Hannah, and James.\\nAlexander was born February 4, 1773, and settled near his\\nfather.\\nDea. William Moor. He was one of a large family in Lon-\\ndonderry, and came to New Boston among its earliest settlers.\\nAllen Moor, who first settled in the north part of the town, and\\nsubsequently in the southeast, on a tract of land now owned\\nby R. B. Cochrane, was his brother, and died unmarried, leaving\\na highly-productive farm to a relative. Dea. William Moor\\nsettled the farm now owned by Calvin Fuller, in the western\\npart of the town. His children were Thomas, Robert, Mar-\\ntha, Molly, John, George, William, Hannah, Tristram, Eliza-\\nbeth, and Anna. He moved into New Brunswick, near Passa-\\nmaquoddy Bay, about 1786, and the river St. Croix Alexan-\\nder McAllister, Peter, James, and John Cristy, and some others\\naccompanied, or soon after followed him. Inducements were\\nheld out to those in the States who had not sympathized with\\nthe Revolutionary movements, to settle there, and these men\\navailed themselves of the flattering though partially deceitful\\nproffers. Dea. Moor was one of the first elders in the Presby-\\nterian Church, and possessed a competence, and reared an\\ninteresting family.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0492.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "419\\nMrs. Moor was a resolute, high-spirited woman, and encour-\\naged her husband in going into that new settlement, where they\\nboth died. A daughter of their son John is the present wife of\\nDaniel Campbell, Esq.\\nCapt. Joseph Lamson. He was son of Jonathan, who was\\nson of William, who was son of William, Danish in origin.\\nThis last William emigrated to this country in the year 1637,\\nand settled in what is now called Hamilton, Mass. Jonathan\\nwas born in 1720, and died Aug. 1G, 1808. His wife, Anna\\nWhipple, died Aug. 29, 1791. Their children were William,\\nborn 1745, and died Nov., 1800 Jonathan, born Aug. 3, 1747,\\nand died Sept. 28, 1825 Francis, born Oct. 4, 1749, and died\\nMay 13, 1831 Nathaniel, born June, 1751, and died May 13,\\n1806 Lydia, born Aug. 4, 1753, and died Aug. 25, 1753\\nAnna, born Aug. 4, 1753, and died Feb., 1835 Benjamin, horn\\nJune 7, 1755, lost at sea June, 1780 Lydia, born June 20,\\n1757, and died Jan. 27, 1759 Joseph, born Oct. 22, 1759\\nLydia, born Oct. 22, 1729, and died Dec. 28, 1759 a child,\\nborn Oct. 7, 1761 and Asa, born June 20, 1764, and perished\\nat sea.\\nWilliam married Mary Lummus, of Hamilton, Mass., and\\nsettled in Mont Vernon, and died in 1800, his son William suc-\\nceeding him on the homestead, which is in possession of Wil-\\nliam O. Lamson, the grandson of William the first Jonathan\\nlived and died on the homestead in Hamilton Francis settled\\nin Beverly, Mass., being a hatter by trade Nathaniel was a\\nmerchant, and died in Beverly Anna married Edward Patch\\nAsa lived in Beverly, Mass.\\nMr. Joseph Lamson came to New Boston in 1787, having\\nmarried Sarah Patch Sept. 8, 1784, and bought the farm settled\\nby Daniel McAllister. He had followed the sea for several\\nyears, and served in the war of the Revolution. He was in the\\nbattles of Bennington and Stillwater served as a privateer on\\nthe sea. He was one among the number who threw the tea\\noverboard in Boston harbor in 1773. After peace was restored\\nhe continued the occupation of seaman, until he removed with\\nhis family to New Boston, where he resided at his death, Nov.\\n12, 1843, at the age of 84 years.\\nHe was a man of good sense and sound judgment. Having", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0493.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "420\\nbeen a close observer of men and things in foreign countries,\\nhe always had a fund of information at command for all classes.\\nBeing an upright and conscientious man, he possessed the con-\\nfidence of his neighbors, and those with whom he had business\\ntransactions. He was greatly endeared to his family and friends\\nfor his many social qualities, and was tenderly loved and\\nrespected by his grandchildren, always giving them a cordial\\nwelcome to his fireside and table. He was a great reader,\\nespecially of the Bible, making it a daily practice to read a\\nportion of it, with Scott s comments, usually adding his own.\\nThe Sabbath he sacredly observed. For many years he was in\\nthe daily habit of rendering thanks to the great Giver, and\\nimploring a continuance of his many favors. Having a reten-\\ntive memory, the history he had read in early life was a great\\nsource of pleasure to him in his declining years.\\nHis wife died March 25, 1856, aged 91. Mrs. Lamson was\\na superior lady, highly intelligent, and cultivated in her man-\\nners. Until her death she received and read a weekly journal,\\nThe Farmer s Cabinet, published at Amherst, and never\\nallowed the world, with its inventions, improvements, and rev-\\nolutions to leave her in the rear. She was young at ninety-\\none, with the vivacity and freshness of youth, adorned with the\\ngraces of sincere piety, and in her death was witnessed a blessed\\ntriumph of grace.\\nTheir children were Sally, born June 3, 1786, who died Aug.\\n25, 1848 Polly H.,born Feb. 4, 1788 Joseph, born April 22,\\n1790, lost at sea 1813 John, born March 15, 1793 Asa, born\\nOct. 17, 1795 and Theresa, born Sept. 6, 1797.\\nSally died unmarried, but not unlamented her piety was\\nattractive, and while it adorned her it blessed others, and grace\\ngave her the victory.\\nAsa married Sally D. Locke, of Andover, Mass., Dec. 12,\\n1826. He lived, where Mr. Jaquith resides, for many years,\\nand died in Andover, Mass., Aug. 24, 1860, leaving four chil-\\ndren Martha D., who married Gabriel H. DeBevoise, a grad-\\nuate of Andover Theological Seminary; Samuel L. Sarah\\nPatch, who became the wife of Rev. Everts Scudder, of Kent,\\nConn., in 1859 and Emilina.\\nJohn succeeded his father on the homestead, and married", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0494.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0495.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "J.RihiKurd s Littu\\nfrn^i Jzft\\nz r7^7cr", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0496.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "421\\nSally Gage, of Merrimac, Feb. 15, 1820. He was commis-\\nsioned second lieutenant of the company of cavalry in the\\nninth regiment in 1820, and first lieutenant by Governor S.\\nBell, and as captain bj r Governor D. L. Morrill in 1826, and at\\nhis own request was honorably discharged in 1829. Capt.\\nLamson s children are Sarah Theresa, born March 18, 1821\\nJoseph Walter, born Nov. 13, 1822 Orrilla Angeline, born\\nApril 13, 1826 Ruth A., born May 4, 1828 John H., born\\nAug. 13, 1830 Mary E. Gage, born Jan. 4, 1823, and died\\nFeb. 17, 1853 George Frederick, born Sept. 5, 1837, and died\\nJuly 10, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La., member of the Ninth\\nRegiment N. H. Vols. Sarah Theresa married Abram Wason\\nFeb. 22, 1843, and they have one son, Eugene Joseph W.\\nmarried Ann Elizabeth Pearson Nov. 3, 1852, and lives in Man-\\nchester Ruth A. married Winthrop G. Harrington Nov. 3,\\n1852, and lives in Cambridgeport, Mass., their children being\\nMary E. G., John Lamson, Sarah R., and George E. John H.\\nmarried Elmira W. Sargent Aug. 3, 1853, and lives in New\\nBoston, their children being Joseph W., Mary E., and Emma H.\\nMary E. (daughter of Capt. Lamson) died Feb. 17, 1853, an\\nestimable young lady, of rare piety and mental endowments.\\nDaniel Dane. He came to New Boston from Ipswich, Mass.,\\nin 1780, son of Daniel, who died 1768, aged 52, and was born\\nApril 29, 1716, his wife being Abigail Burnham, born in 1717,\\ntheir children being Abigail, who was born Dec. 1, 1740, lived\\nand died in Ipswich, her second husband being a Mr. Patch\\nLydia, born Dec. 7, 1741, and married Thomas Appleton, and\\nlived in Beverly, where she died at the age of 103 Daniel, who\\nwas born Aug. 14, 1743, and died Aug. 7, 1819 Samuel, who\\nwas born Feb. 23, 1745, and died in Beverly of small-pox Eliz-\\nabeth, born Oct. 4, 1746, who married a Mr. Ellen wood, and\\nlived in Beverly John, born Nov. 8, 1748, and lived in Bev-\\nerly Sarah, born Oct. 31, 1750, who married a Mr. Waters,\\nand lived in Beverly Nathan, born Dec. 27, 1752, was an em-\\ninent lawyer, and died in Beverly in 1835 Lucy, born Oct. 3,\\n1754 Joseph and Benjamin, twins, born July 13, 1756 Mar-\\ntha, born July 6, 1758, marrying for her first husband a Mr.\\nEllenwood, and lived in Ipswich, and for her second husband\\nshe married Thomas Whipple, and moved to Dunbarton, N. H.,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0497.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "422\\nabout 1800, where their descendants may now be found Jo-\\nseph, born April 29, 1760.\\nThe foregoing were the brothers and sisters of the Daniel\\nDane who came to New Boston in 1780. He married Sarah,\\ndaughter of John Goodhue, of Ipswich, Mass., and bought the\\nfarm settled by David Scoby, where his son, Dea. Samuel Dane\\nnow lives. He was a man of much energy and decision of\\ncharacter, and was a steadfast friend of the Presbyterian\\nChurch, of which he was a member.\\nHis children were Sarah, born Nov. 20, 1771, who married\\nAndrew Taylor, and lived in Bennington, having three chil-\\ndren, Sarah, Daniel, and William, she dying March 28, 1798\\nDaniel, born Sept. 17, 1773, and died young Elizabeth, born\\nApril 13, 1775, and died young Daniel, born Sept. 13, 1776,\\nmarried Nancy Aiken, of Deering, and lived in New Boston,\\nwhere he died in May, 1834, leaving four children, Nathan,\\nSally, Hammond, and Nancy Elizabeth, born Jan, 33, 1779,\\nand married Abner Starrett, of Prancestown, and is now living\\nin China, Me., having seven children, Abner, Daniel, William,\\nBetsey, Lucinda, Sarah and David Samuel, born March 19,\\n1781 John died an infant John, born April, 29, 1784, mar-\\nried Betsey Giddings, and died in New York, leaving children,\\nJohn, Polly, Betsey, Ursula, Horace, Joseph, Daniel, Otis, and\\nOliver Polly, born Oct. 6, 1786, married Amasa Lewis, of\\nLyndeborough, and lives in Medforcl, Mass., having children,\\nSamuel, Amasa, Aaron, Sally, Mary, Elizabeth, Abagail, Julia,\\nHorace, and Almina Joanna, born Oct. 1, 1789, married Dan-\\niel Dodge, and lives in New Boston, their children being Al-\\nbert, who died young Hiram, who married for his first wife\\nOlive Butterfield, of Francestown, by whom he had one child,\\nand for his second wife Abigail, daughter of Greenough Mar-\\nden, by whom he has children Polly, who became the wife\\nof the late Cummings Cross, and has one daughter, and Sarah,\\nwho married James Hobby, of Charlestown, Mass. Lucy,\\n(daughter of Daniel Dane) was born Dec. 7, 1791, and mar-\\nried Clark Crombie, and they live in South Reading, Mass.,\\nhaving four children.\\nDea. Samuel Dane. He was formerly better known as\\nColonel Dane, and was born March 19, 1781, inheriting the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0498.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0499.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0500.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "423\\nhomestead. He married, Dec. 19, 1805, Lucy, daughter of\\nBenjamin Dean, of Francestovvn, by whom he lias had eight\\nchildren Abner, born Nov. 28, 1806, and married, June 9,\\n1840, Louisa, daughter of the late Abner Dodge, and lives in\\nNashua Rodney, born Sept. 5, 1808, married, July 11, 1837,\\nEmily, daughter of James Ridgeway, of Nashua, where he\\nnow lives Almina, born Sept. 13, 1810, married, April 25,\\n1844, Ebenezer Goodhue, of Hancock, and he died in Nashua\\nOct. 10, 1862 Elizabeth B., born June 6, 1812, and married\\nButler Trull May 22, 1845, and lives in Decatur, Illinois,\\nhaving two children, Emily Ann and Mary Elizabeth Mary,\\nborn April 2, 1814 Lucy, born June 11, 1816, and became\\nthe wife of Horace Langdell April 29, 1856, and has one\\nchild, Sabrina Samuel, born April 19, 1818, lives with his\\nfather, and married, Nov. 15, 1849, Mary B., daughter of Ab-\\nner Dodge, and they have had three children, Moses Atwood,\\nWalter Franklin, and Willie Francis; Sabrina A., born April\\n6, 1820, married, Sept. 25, 1845, William Taylor, and died\\nJuly 8, 1851, having one son, William Henry.\\nRobert Hogg. He came from the north of Ireland, when\\nabout twenty-two years old. Was born Feb. 25, 1732 his\\nfather s name was James. Robert Hogg married Margaret,\\ndaughter of Samuel Gregg, of Londonderry her mother was\\nMary Moor. Mrs. Hogg died about five years after the death\\nof her youngest child, of consumption, aged 55 or 56 and\\nMr. Hogg died Jan. 23, 1795 both he and his wife were mem-\\nbers of the Presbyterian Church, and were highly esteemed\\nfor their consistent piety. Robert Hogg came to New Boston\\nin 1764, and purchased three lots of land, including the farms\\nof Solomon and Israel Dodge and John Cochran, and built\\nhis house on the hill just in the rear of Solomon Dodge s\\nhouse, and there he and his wife died.\\nTheir children were thirteen in number, some dying young\\nMary married Tobias Butler, a school teacher, and they lived\\nnear her father s for awhile, and then moved to Antrim, and\\nsubsequently to Hillsborough, where they died, leaving several\\nchildren Susan, James, Robert, Margaret, Samuel, Joseph,\\nThomas, John, and Nancy.\\nJames, son of Robert, married Jennet Morrison, and moved", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0503.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "424\\nto Francestown, then to Ac worth, and subsequently to War-\\nrensville, Ohio.\\nWilliam married Elizabeth Ferson, and lived where Mrs.\\nGiddings resides, but subsequently moved to Moretown, Yt.,\\nwhere they died. Nancy married Thomas Patterson, and died\\nin Ohio. John married Polly Brown, and died in Plainfield\\nMargaret married Joseph Cochran, afterwards a deacon in the\\nPresbyterian Church, and lived where their son John now\\nresides.\\nRobert married Elenor Clark, and died in Alstead. Sarah\\nmarried Stephen Ferson, and lived where Mr. John Dodge\\nresides. They had an interesting family of children, but all\\ndied young save one, who is an idiot. He became poor through\\nintemperance, and died at the poor-farm July 3, 1863, his\\nwife dying some years previous. Samuel married and lived in\\nWalpole. Betsey married Samuel Fisher, and settled in West-\\nern New York, and subsequently in Pennsylvania.\\nAbner Hogg. He was the son of the foregoing Robert,\\nand was born in Londonderry Feb. 15, 1759, and came with\\nhis father to New Boston when five years old, and assisted his\\nfather until 1776, when he enlisted in the Revolutionary army,\\nhis brother James having been in the battle of Bunker Hill\\nJune 17, 1775 Abner enlisted June, 1776, under Capt.\\nBarnes, of Lyndeborough, and went to Ticonderoga in the di-\\nvision under Gen. Horatio Gates, and returned in December.\\nThe next spring he enlisted for three years under Capt. Liver-\\nmore, in the Third New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by\\nCol. Alexander Scammel, and went in the vicinity of Ticonder-\\noga, and suffered greatly from sickness and frequent skirmishes\\nwith the enemy, in one of which he lost everything but his\\nlife. He was in the battle at Saratoga, and witnessed the\\nsurrender of Burgoyene. Subsequently, he joined Washing-\\nton s army near Philadelphia, and took- part in many of those\\nsignal conflicts that resulted in our Independence. He was in\\nten battles, and returned home in May, 1780. He held the\\noffice of a sergeant for two years in the army, and drew a\\npension from the General Government from March, 1831, until\\nhis death.\\nMr. Hogg married, October 21, 1784, Rosamah Ferson, whose", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0504.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "C/?e ZJ}as7 pc/ Gome V^c/^/^y L s e s\\n6e^ M re/e^^", "height": "3377", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0505.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0506.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "425\\nmother was born in 1718, during a passage across the ocean,\\nand settled, where he died, on the farm now owned by William\\nBently, his grandson. He lived with his wife in great conju-\\ngal affection, and reared a respectable family. Mr. Hogg was\\nchosen second lieutenant by the town in 1787, at the same\\ntime that John McLaughlen was elected captain, all doing ser-\\nvice in one company, and all the officers being chosen, like\\ncivil officers, by the town at their legal meetings. In the years\\n1844 and 1845 he was elected to represent the town in the\\nState Legislature, which he did with credit to himself, though\\nmore than eighty-five years old.\\nMr. Hogg was for many years a member of the Presbyterian\\nChurch, but, in 1805, united with the Baptists. His piety was\\nsincere and his life blameless, performing with great exactness\\nthe duties of neighbor, citizen, and christian. Possessed of a\\nfirm constitution, and being temperate inhabits and calm in his\\ntemperament, he retained both physical and intellectual powers\\nto a remarkable degree, unimpaired even to the last year of his\\nlife. To him the writer of this is indebted for many facts that\\nappear in these pages, which otherwise would have been lost.\\nHe retained a vivid recollection of many of the earliest settlers,\\nand could give their names and the names of their children\\nwith great exactness, and many incidents in their lives he could\\nrelate with great accuracy. His conversation was characterized\\nby simplicity and sincerity, loving most of all to dwell on topics\\nrelating to our holy religion. He was in sympathy with Christ,\\nand loved his word and ordinances, and died in the comforts of\\na hope of acceptance through the merits of Jesus October 16,\\n1856, aged ninety-seven years, eight months, and one day.\\nThe following account of his children was given by Mr.\\nHogg himself: Sarah F., born July 26, 1785, and died Decem-\\nber 17, 1842 Robert, born June 25, 1787, married, December\\n26, 1811, Joanna, daughter of Livermore Langdell, and died\\nNovember 3, 1852, having taken, as did some of his brothers,\\nthe name of Bently his children being three daughters, one of\\nwhom, Abagail, became the wife of Hiram Lull, and lives on\\nthe first setlled farm in New Boston, settled by Thos. Smith, in\\nthe east part of the town and two sons William, with whom\\nMr. Abner Hogg died, and Abner, who died in 1855 Hannah,\\n54", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0507.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "426\\nborn July 5, 1790, and died the same year Hannah, born\\nOctober 17, 1792, and married Stephen Bennet; Jennet F.,\\nborn June 9, 1799, married Asa Andrews, and lives in John-\\nson, Vt., having four children: Polly L., born July 2,1802,\\nmarried Samuel Andrews, and lives in Johnson, Vt. Rebecca,\\nborn May 11, 1806, and died September 12, 1807 Sarah, the\\noldest daughter, married David Tewksbury, and lived in New\\nBoston.\\nAmos Wood Tewksbury, Esq. His father, David, was born\\nSeptember 12, 1776, the son of Henry and Hannah C. Tewks-\\nbury, of Weare, and married April 3, 1797, Betsey, daughter\\nof Moses Lull, of Weare, and settled in New Boston in 1800, on\\nthe farm now owned by his son, D. A. Tewksbury. His wife\\ndied May 30, 1809, and he married, October 27, 1811, Sarah,\\ndaughter of Abner Hogg, who died December 17, 1842, and\\nfor his third wife he married, November 5, 1844, Mrs. Abagail\\nGeorge, daughter of James and Mary McMillen. Mr. Tewks-\\nbury died March 22, 1855. His children by his first wife were\\nAmos Wood, Nancy, who became the wife of John Smith, son\\nof the late Dea. Thomas Smith, and James, Betsey, and David,\\nwho died young, and Dorothy, who married David Jones, of\\nMerrimac, and died in 1836. By his second wife he had Eliza,\\nwho married Joseph Andrews, and died in 1856 Rozeann,\\nwho married David Jones, and resides in Merrimac Mary\\nAndrews, who became the wife of Joseph A. Dodge, and they\\nlive in Plymouth Hannah Bennett, who married John F.\\nKennard, and lives in Merrimac Jane Andrews, who married\\nLewis M. Lull, and they reside in Woburn, Mass. Harriett\\nNewell, who married Samuel G. Ohamberlin, and settled in\\nMerrimac and David A., who married Adaline Brown, and\\nresides on the homestead.\\nAmos Wood Tewksbury, first child of David, was born July\\n30, 1798, and married, May 13, 1823, Abigail Balch, who died\\nOctober 26, 1826, her two children dying very young. Mr.\\nTewksbury married for his second wife, November 20, 1828,\\nAnnis Campbell, daughter of Robert Cochran and their chil-\\ndren are Amos Bradford, who married September 6, 1860\\nMartha S. Stedman, of Randolph, Vt., who died May 7, 1863\\nMartin Atwood, Emiline Antoinette, and Henry Winslow.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0508.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "J\\nO\\ny\\nJ^VritmA/rHt", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0509.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0510.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "427\\nMr. Tewksbury commenced business as a merchant in 1826,\\nin the Upper Village of New Boston, where he remained ten\\nyears, that being the centre of business for the town. But a\\nvillage having sprung up which is now known as the Lower\\nVillage, a few rods from the former on the South Branch,\\nhe transferred his merchandise to that, where he continued in\\ntrade eighteen years, gaining by his strict integrity and exten-\\nsive business. He served as town clerk twelve years, and\\ntreasurer ten years, and was treasurer and collector of the\\nPresbyterian society sixteen years, and never failed during that\\nwhole period to have the money ready for his pastor the very\\nday it was semiannually due. He was treasurer and collector\\nfor the New Boston Fire Insurance Company fourteen years.\\nMr. Tewksbury removed from New Boston to Randolph, Vt.,\\nin the year 1855, successfully prosecuting business under the\\nfirm of A. W. Tewksbury and Sons.\\nDavid Starrett. He was born in Derryfield, now Man-\\nchester, May 9, 1763, being a son of David Starrett, and died\\nNovember 29, 1839. He married Mary Langdell August 27,\\n1788, for his first wife, born February 27, 1772, and died May\\n18, 1817, and for his second, a cousin of his first, Abigail Lang-\\ndell (born September 29, 1776, and died September 2, 1844),\\nDecember 1, 1818. His children were a daughter born Dec.\\n1788, and died William L., a son who died young Betsey,\\nborn March 20, 1793, and married Samuel Todd, of Frances-\\ntown, and lives in New Boston Jane, who died young Mary,\\nborn July 20, 1797, and died January 29, 1832, being the wife\\nof Captain Daniel McLane David, born July 14, 1799, and\\ndied March 13, 1845 Jane, born June 4, 1801, married Wil-\\nliam Taylor, and lives in Nashua Sabrina, born September 20,\\n1803, married for her first husband Isaac Patch, of Francestown,\\nfor her second Daniel Taylor, of Nashua Levi, born March 19,\\n1806 Mark, born January 22, 1808, and lives in Nashua, his\\nwife being Betsey Goodale, of Deering William, born Sept.\\n26, 1809, and married Hannah Gilbert, of Francestown Sally,\\nborn August 12, 1811, and married William Lamson, and they\\nlive in Metamora, Illinois Roxanna, born June 8, 1813, and\\ndied April 5, 1815 Caroline, born July 10, 1815, and married\\nFrederick Heirsch, of Metamoca, 111.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0511.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "428\\nWilliam L., the second child of David Starrett, was born May\\n9, 1790, and died of hydrophobia August 16, 1809. The fol-\\nlowing notice of the event was written by the Rev. Moses Brad-\\nford, of Francestown. Some time in the month of June last\\nMr. Starrett was bit by a fox, from which he suspected no\\nharm, as it appeared to be a wound of no consequence. He\\ncontinued about his domestic business as usual, until about the\\n8th or 10th of August following, when he began to complain\\nof sleepless nights and other symptoms of the above disorder.\\nThe Monday before he died his complaint became much more\\nalarming, at which time he called on a neighboring physician,\\nwho not being acquainted with the disorder, mistook it for a\\nfever of the malignant kind in this situation he continued\\n(except with aggravated symptoms of the hydrophobia) until\\nWednesday, the 16th, when a second physician was called, who\\nimmediately informed the patient together with the family what\\nhis disorder was likewise of the imminent danger he was in,\\nbut too late medical assistance at this time was equally as im-\\npotent as the tears of weeping friends. The sight of water was\\nat this time very dreadful to the patient to see it poured from\\none vessel to another threw him into the utmost horror of mind\\nas well as distress of body being asked by the physician what\\neffect it had, or how it made him feel, he replied that one drop\\nappeared sufficient to drown him. At this stage of the disorder\\nthe severity of convulsions threatened the immediate dissolu-\\ntion of the body yet his reason continued good to the last.\\nHe exhibited a firm reliance on the mercy of God through the\\nmerits of his son Jesus Christ for salvation beyond the grave,\\nand spoke very sensibly to a number of his friends and ac-\\nquaintance who were spectators of the awful scene, and having\\ncommitted his soul into the arms of him, who through death\\nhath conquered the power of death, he launched into the invisi-\\nble world. He was a youth much respected and beloved by\\nthe whole circle of his friends and acquaintance, and died\\nlamented by all who knew him.\\nLevi, son of David Starrett, married Mehittable Gage, of\\nMerrimac, and inherited the homestead, but in 1864 removed\\nto North Andover, Mass. Their children are David Clifton,\\nwho married Maria J. Dennison, of Francestown Sarah an", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0512.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "429\\ninfant son Martin Van Bnren, who marrioil Kohecca .lane\\nPhilbrick, oi* Manchester Caroline, who married John J\\\\I.\\nTuttle, of Weare; Henry Gage, and Levi Efcawson.\\nTradition has it that Mr. Starrett s ancestor, who came ko\\nthis country, was an officer in the Scotch Army. Being lorn\\ntime in England, a lady belonging to the nobility became en-\\namored with him, and resolved to marry him. This not being\\nallowed by her parents, they clandestinely sailed for New Eng-\\nland, where they were married, and settled near Boston, and\\nmost of their descendants went to Thomaston, Me., while one son,\\nDavid, settled in Derryfield, now Manchester; and another,\\nWilliam, settled in Francestown, and ultimately David removed\\nta Francestown also.\\nBetsey, daughter of David Starrett, married Samuel Todd\\nJune 7, 1814, and lives in New Boston. She was horn\\nMarch 20, 17915, and Mr. Todd November II, L788. Their\\nchildren are: An infant son; Mary S., horn September 28,\\n1816, became the wife of Luther Colburn August 22, 1841,\\nand left two children, Martin L., and Mary. lane; Harriet A.,\\nborn September 14, 1814, became the wife of David Gregg,\\nand her children are: Almus D., Margaret, who became the\\nwife of .James Whipple, and died November, 18G2 Caroline,\\nand Harriet; Mark, horn September 16, L820, married Rachel\\nMclntire, of Lyndehorough, and died August 23, 1860, leav-\\ning one son, George E. James Page, born Nov. 24, 1822,\\nmarried Abigail Desire A., daughter of John Loring, Dec. 30,\\n1852, and their children are: Mary Alice, James, Arthur,\\nGeorge Loring, Caroline Lizzie, and Frank P. David S., born\\nOctober 25,1824, married Rachel Colburn, and alter her death\\nMartha Dean, of Francestown, by whom he has two children,\\nCharles and Harriet.\\nCaroline S., born September 26, 1827, married Horace Lang-\\ndell, and died, leaving one child, Austin.\\nJohn M., born November 22, 1829, and died September 6,\\n1832 Sarah E., born August 9, 1833,married (Jeorge Upham,\\nlives in Goffstown, and has two children, Frederick and Caro-\\nline.\\nJohn, born September 6, 1835, married Elizabeth M. Fletcher,\\nresides in New Boston, and has one child Mr. Samuel Todd", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0513.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "430\\nwas son of James, who was born in Peterborough he came\\nhere about forty years ago.\\nJohn Lamson. Rev. Dr. Lamson was requested to furnish\\nfacts respecting his ancestors. Instead of arranging them in\\nour usual form, we shall give the entire letter otherwise its\\nsimplicity and touching allusions would be lost.\\nRev. Mr. Cogswell.\\nDear Sir New Boston is a name which revives the earliest and most\\ncherished memories of my childhood. It was the home of my grandparents,\\nand of my father during his childhood and early youth, and the place where\\nI passed the larger portion of a year when quite a child. Having no family\\nrecords, and being the only descendant of the family living in this part of\\nthe country, I can only give such general statements as linger in my memory.\\nMy grandfather was John Lamson, his wife was Elizabeth Rea, of Tops-\\nfield. What year they removed to New Boston I am unable to state, though\\nit is my impression it was soon after their marriage. He was for some years\\nan innkeeper, and I think pursued some other branch of business. They\\nhad five children, John, Benjamin, Betsey, William, and Joseph. These\\nall lived to be over twenty years of age, and all died under thirty. My\\nfather, William Lamson, came when a lad to Danvers, Mass., and was ap-\\nprenticed to Mr. Caleb Oakes, a shoe manufacturer. Soon after his majority\\nhe was married to Sally Richardson, of Danvers. They had three children,\\nBetsey, William, and Joseph. After his marriage, my father became master\\nof a small trading vessel, which ran between Salem, Mass., and Baltimore,\\nMd., and it was on one of the return voyages that, overtaken with a terrific\\ngale, he and his vessel and all on board were lost. This was when I was in\\nmy third year. A year afterwards my mother, with her three children,\\nwent to New Boston, and passed a year with my grandmother, then a widow,\\nand childless, having lost four of her children by consumption, and my\\nfather by shipwreck. It is almost incredible to myself that, after a lapse of\\nnearly fifty years, I retain so vivid a recollection of the scenery of the place,\\nand of many of the circumstances of my brief residence there. It seems\\nto me, if I were an artist, I could sketch a very faithful outline of the build-\\nings on the old Lamson place there, as they then were. The names of the\\nfamilies in the neighborhood I still remember. The Sabbaths, the general\\nappearance of the old church, and of the congregation, come back to me, as\\nI write, with a strange vividness. There were then but few, if any carriages\\nin the town, and a large portion of the people, both men and women, came\\nto church on horseback. My mother used to take me on the horse with\\nher. There it was that I received my first impressions of the sacredness of\\nthe Sabbath, probably there that I for the first time attended church.\\nBut how great the changes since the days I am now recalling I have now\\nbeen for twenty-eight years a preacher of the gospel, and have outlived\\nnearly every member, if not every one, of the family on my father s side.\\nMy grandmother lived to hear me preach one sermon, the first I ever", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0514.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "431\\npreached, and died shortly afterwards, in Danvers. My sister Betsey was\\nmarried to Mr. Allen Jacobs, of Danvers, and died a year after her marriage,\\nleaving an infant that survived his mother but a few years. My brother\\nJoseph went some twelve years since to California, where, if living, he still is.\\nI have been blessed with one son, an only and noble child. Soon after the\\nopening of the present war he entered the service of the country, in the\\npaymaster s department, and on the fourth of last August was drowned by\\nthe burning of the steamer Ruth, on the Mississippi River, between Cairo\\nand Memphis. In his death perished the only hope of perpetuating the\\nfamily name. His body sleeps in the Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem,\\nMass.\\nI am glad to know you are preparing a memorial volume of the town of\\nNew Boston, the first century of whose history has just closed. If you can\\nuse this, or any portion of it, it will give me pleasure to have thus contributed\\nto place the names of my ancestor s among the names of those with whom\\nthey once lived. Very respectfully yours,\\nBrookline, Mass., 1864. WILLIAM LAMSON.\\nMarshall Adams. A native of Rmdge, N. H., removed\\nto New Boston April 18, 1823, and rented the clothing shop\\nformerly occupied by John Kelso, situated in the Lower Vil-\\nlage, which then contained but seven small dwelling-houses,\\none grist-mill, one clothing and carding-mill, one saw-mill, and\\none blacksmith shop, where for three years he was engaged in\\nthe dyeing and clothing business, and also the manufacture of\\nwoollen cloth. In 1826 he purchased the clothing shop of\\nJohn Gage, situated in the west part of the town, where he\\ncontinued in the wool-carding, dyeing, and clothing business\\ntill 1852, since which he has been engaged in agricultural pur-\\nsuits. In May, 1826, he married Sarah G. Richards, a native\\nof Newton, Mass.\\nThe following are their children Marshall C., who married,\\nApril 19, 1853, Susan B. Patterson, of Danvers, Mass., and\\nresides at Jeffrey, N. H. Sarah B., who married, Oct. 27,\\n1856, Horace Pettee, Esq., and resides at Manchester, N. H.\\nWilliam R., who graduated at Dartmouth, in the Class of\\n1859, now Principal of the High School at Alton, 111., and\\nmarried, Sept. 3, 1861, Ellen D. Richmond, of Rochester, Vt.,\\nthen a teacher in the Female Seminary at Carlinville, 111.\\nJohn R., who married, May 1, 1859, Jennie R. Cahart, of\\nNatick, Mass., and now resides at Natick, Mass. Frances B.,\\nwho married, Oct. 29, 1858, Holmes R. Pettee, and resides in", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0515.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "432\\nManchester, N. H. Mary N. Joseph G., who married, May\\n2, 1859, Martha J. Perry, of Natick, Mass., and resides at\\nNatick, Mass.\\nHenry P., who married, July 3, 1861, Fannie B. Patterson,\\nof Danvers,Mass. He entered the service of his country July\\n29, 1861, in the 13th Regt. Mass. Yol. was wounded in the\\nbattle of Antietam Sept. 15, 1862. Received his discharge\\nMarch, 1863, and resides at Manchester, N. H.\\nCharlotte R. James C, who entered the service of his\\ncountry, Sept., 1863, as member of the 39th Regt. Mass. Vol.\\nEllen M. Charles A. and George Albert.\\nOf Dea. Adams s thirteen children, not one has died; not\\none is a drunkard not one uses tobacco in any of its forms\\nnot one is a Sabbath-breaker, or a profane swearer. Reared\\nin his modest dwelling with frugal fare, he has sent them forth\\nwith minds and hearts well disciplined for any sphere of\\nactivity, all professing to be disciples of Jesus Christ.\\nJohn Whipple. He was born Dec. 30, 1747. Deliver-\\nance, his wife, born Feb. 15, 1746 early settled in New Bos-\\nton, where they had nine children, six sons and three daugh-\\nters.\\nJerusha was born Oct. 17, 1768, married Jacob Bennett,\\nof New Boston, and died Sept. 23, 1839, being 71 years a resi-\\ndent of New Boston, and living to see seven children arrive to\\nthe age of manhood, several of whom are married and pleas-\\nantly situated in their native town. Stephen, born Dec. 16,\\n1770, and died a young man.\\nPaul, born July 11, 1773, married Betsey Woodbury, by\\nwhom he had fourteen children.\\nJohn, born April 29, 1776. For many years a skilful phy-\\nsician, married Hannah Dodge died Nov. 4, 1836, leaving a\\nwidow but no children.\\nSaloma, born April 2, 1778, died July 3, 1779.\\nSaloma, born June 24, 1780, married Rev. Thomas Rand,\\nof Springfield, Mass., where many of her descendants may\\nnow be found.\\nAaron, born Sept. 11, 1782, died July 5, 1783. Aaron 2d,\\nborn Jan. 13, 1787, died Nov. 7, 1792.\\nRobert, born March 13, 1790. For many years a very sue-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0516.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "433\\ncessful physician and surgeon in Barre, Vt. afterwards re-\\nturned to New Boston, where he still resides.\\nThe children of John and Betsey Whipple, with their de-\\nscendants\\nBetsey, born May 26, 1796 died at Francestown Nov.,\\n1855, leaving a husband and two daughters, both married\\nLucy, born April 12, 1798, married Mark Langdell, of Mont\\nVernon, by whom she had nine children William, the young-\\nest, being one of the first to volunteer to defend our country s\\nflag in the rebellion of 1861. Twice has he been wounded,\\nbut is now a veteran in the Army of the Potomac.\\nStephen, born March 4, 1800, married Hannah Kingsbury,\\nof Francestown.\\nHannah, born Jan. 27, 1802. For several years a resident\\nof Lowell, Mass. was early left a widow, with no children.\\nSaloma, born Feb. 26, 1804, now finds a home with her\\nchildren, having buried three husbands.\\nJohn, born Aug. 31, 1806, married Philantha Reed, of Barre,\\nVermont.\\nWilliam Bently, born May 3, 1808 died 1854, leaving a\\nwife and four children the youngest is one of the brave de-\\nfenders of his country.\\nAaron, born March 3, 1810 married, and lives in Boston,\\nMass. has two children, a son and a daughter.\\nMason Woodbury, born Nov. 11, 1811; settled with his\\nfamily in Haverhill, Mass.\\nRobert, born May 17, 1813 went to Florida, where he died.\\nJames, born April 8, 1815 with wife and three children has\\na home in York, Penn.\\nIsaac Adams, born June 9, 1818 early fell a victim to con-\\nsumption, and died Aug. 30, 1841.\\nMaria, born Dec. 7, 1820 died Sept. 30, 1836.\\nFidelia, born Aug. 17, 1823 married Nelson Shedd has a\\nfamily of five children, and resides in Mont Vernon.\\nStephen and John, with their families, have homes in their\\nnative town. Joseph, the only child of Stephen, married, Jan.\\n19, 1864, Sarah Chandler, and is an enterprising merchant in\\nNew Boston.\\nJohn s family is as follows Hannah, married John McLane\\n55", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0517.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "434\\nhas four children, a daughter and three sons Philantha, a well-\\nknown school-teacher John, James, Paul, and Reed, inheriting\\nfrom their father a love of military discipline, and with hearts\\nglowing with true patriotism, early engaged in defending the\\nFlag of our Union James, Paul, and Reed enlisting May,\\n1861, for three months, and served their term Paul reenlisted\\nNov., 1861, in the 7th Regiment N. H. Volunteers, was severely\\nwounded in the foot at the siege of Fort Wagner, S. C, July\\n18, 1863, but he soon joined his regiment he reenlisted Feb.,\\n1864, and is now in the Army of the Potomac. John enlisted\\nin the 11th N. H. Yol. Regiment Sept., 1862, fought bravely\\nat the battle of Fredericksburg, Ya., was among the first of his\\nregiment to enter Yicksburg and Jackson, Miss. At Knox-\\nville, Tenn., Nov. 23, 1863, while skirmishing, was taken pris-\\noner by the rebels, since which nothing has been heard from\\nhim. James married Margie, eldest daughter of David Gregg,\\nof New Boston, who soon after died. Reed lives in Boston,\\nMass. Mary A. remains at home. Willie, born Sept. 29,1849,\\ndied Nov. 24, 1856.\\nMr. Jacob Hooper came to New Boston about the year 1775,\\nfrom Manchester, Mass. He went into the forest and prepared\\na comfortable home for his little family before moving them\\nhither. He was an ingenious and industrious man, of sound\\njudgment and in process of time made his backwoods home a\\npleasant and attractive spot, and secured for himself a lasting\\nreputation for uprightness of character, dying lamented both\\nby the church and community. He had one brother who served\\nin the war of the Revolution, and was killed in the battle of\\nBennington.\\nMr. Hooper was three times married by his first wife, Mary\\nObear, of Beverly, he had two children by his second, Ruth\\nWadsworth, of Lyndeboro he had eight. His last wife was the\\nwidow of Lieut. Solomon Dodge, who lived to the advanced age\\nof 93 years. Only three of his children lived to arrive at ma-\\nturity. His daughter Mary married Luther Richards, and\\nsettled in New Boston. His son Thomas married Alice Dodge,\\ndaughter of Lieut. Solomon Dodge, and settled in Johnson, Yt.\\nHis eldest son Jacob married Sarah Dodge, daughter of Lieut.\\nSolomon Dodge, and remained at home, providing amply for", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0518.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "435\\nthe wants of his parents and family, and proving himself a wor-\\nthy successor of his father. As a citizen he was very industri-\\nous and highly trustworthy, receiving many assurances of the\\nconfidence of his fellow-citizens. He was a model farmer in\\nneatness and thrift. His house was always an abode of gener-\\nous hospitality, where want received a ready response. In his\\nfamily lie was affectionate and forbearing, happy in making\\nothers happy.\\nHe had eight children, only five of whom survive him. Two\\ndaughters settled in New Boston one of whom became the\\nwife of Zechariah Morgan, the other married Dea. S. L. Cristy\\ntwo of them settled in Michigan, and one resides in Canterbury.\\nThe youngest son, George, married and settled in Johnson, Vt.,\\nwhile the eldest son, Levi, inherits the homestead. Mary mar-\\nried Mr. Orvis, and lived in Manchester, where he died and\\nshe now resides in New Boston.\\nLivermore Langdell. William Langdell, born in England,\\ncame to America married Marie Witridge, of Beverly, Mass.,\\nand settled in Beverly. He followed the sea for several years,\\nthen removed to Mont Vernon, N. H., with his son Joseph.\\nHad five sons, two of whom were lost at sea in one vessel. He\\nafterwards removed to New Boston with his son Livermore,\\nwhere he died 1799. His wife died April, 1816.\\nLivermore, his son, was born in Beverly, Mass., and married\\nAbigail Dodge, of Beverly. He followed the sea a few years,\\nand was the captain s first mate after the war of the Revolution\\nbroke out. He removed to New Boston in 1771, and first set-\\ntled where Zechariah Morgan lives built the first saw and grist\\nmill in that part of the town sold and bought where his son\\nSamuel lives, and there spent the remainder of his days. He\\nvolunteered, and was at Saratoga when Gen. Burgoyne surren-\\ndered to Gen. Gates. He was one of the first deacons of the\\nBaptist Church in New Boston, and died May, 1826. He had\\ntwelve children. The eldest, Abigail, married David Starrett,\\nof New Boston she died Sept. 2, 1844 Jane Langdell died in\\nSalem, Mass., 1836 Mary Langdell married Thomas Farnum,\\nsettled in Johnson, Vt., and died April, 1828 Sarah Langdell\\nmarried William Langdell, settled in Johnson, Vt., and died\\nSept. 4, 1863 William Langdell married Marie Aiken, of Deer-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0519.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "436\\ning, N. EL, settled in New Boston, afterwards removed to\\nNashua, and died in New Boston July, 1862 his wife died\\nAug., 1855 Joanna Langdell married Robert Hogg, only son\\nof Abner Hogg, died May, 1844 Lucy Langdell married Pium\\nDodge, of Salem, Mass., and is still living there Rebecca Lang-\\ndell married Ezra Langdell, settled in Mont Vernon, and\\ndied Jan., 1855 Livermore Langdell married Fannie Fisher,\\nof Francestown, and settled in New Boston Betsie Langdell\\ndied April, 1816, aged 19 years Jacob Langdell was drowned\\nin Haunted Pond, in Francestown, July 11, 1813, aged 12\\nyears Samuel Langdell married Caroline Fisher, of Frances-\\ntown, and settled in New Boston.\\nLivermore Langdell s family consists of seven children, five\\nsons and two daughters one son in Lyndeboro two in Wiscon-\\nsin, two sons and two daughters in New Boston.\\nSamuel Langdell s family consisted of nine children, four of\\nwhom died in their infancy in New Boston.\\nZechariah Morgan. He was born Aug. 14, 1768. Heph-\\nzibah Morgan, his wife, was born Feb. 1, 1764 both members\\nof the Baptist Church. Mr. Morgan came to town about 1800.\\nHis children are\\nDavid, born Jan. 12, 1797, who resides at Andover, Mass.\\nEbenezer, born June 18, 1799, and died July 29, 1836.\\nZechariah, born Dec, 1802. He married Julia A. Fisher\\nOct. 4, 1831, who died Nov., 1835. Two children were the\\nissue of this marriage Harriet W., born July 4, 1832, and\\ndied Jan. 3, 1834 and Austin W., born April 29, 1835. He\\nenlisted in the 11th Regiment N. H. Volunteers, and died at\\nKnoxville, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1862.\\nZechariah Morgan married his second wife, Hannah W.\\nHooper, Sept. 11, 1836. Their children are Julia A., born\\nNov. 24, 1837 Addie A., born Oct. 28, 1839 Edward P., born\\nJune 12, 1846 and Frank B., born June 15, 1849.\\nCapt. Joseph Andrews. He was born in Essex, Mass., April\\n23, 1757. He married Margaret Ober, of Manchester, Mass.,\\nwho was born Jan. 22, 1765. Mr. Andrews was a sea captain,\\nand came to New Boston in 1790.\\nHis children were Joseph, Ruth, Israel, Issachar, Daniel,\\nBenjamin, Asa, Amos, Isaac, and Samuel.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0520.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "437\\nJoseph was born Sept. 15, 1782 married Jane Adams, and\\nsettled in Johnson, Vt., where he remained until his death, June\\n23, 1862, leaving two sons and four daughters.\\nRuth was born June 29, 1784, became the wife of Joseph\\nManning, settled in Johnson, Vt., and died March 11, 1844,\\nleaving one son and three daughters.\\nIsrael was born Sept. 27, 1786, married, and lives in John-\\nson, Vt., having three daughters and four sons.\\nDaniel was born April 4, 1792, married, March 8, 1814, Han-\\nnah, daughter of Jacob Dodge, of Wenham, Mass., and inher-\\nited her homestead. His children are Hannah D., Jacob,\\nDaniel, Bradford, Mary D., and Daniel. Jacob and Daniel\\ndied young Bradford married Ann, daughter of Samuel Kid-\\nder, of Francestown, lives in Francestown, and has three chil-\\ndren Mary D. became the wife of Benjamin D. Stanley, lives\\nin New Boston, and has four children Daniel lives in New\\nBoston, marrying for his first wife, May 1, 1856, Abby Plum-\\nmer, and for his second, Nov. 3, 1858, Margaret Ann, daughter\\nof Ezekiel Irving, of New Boston. Mrs. Daniel Andrews died\\nDec. 23, 1862, aged 70.\\nBenjamin married Mary, daughter of Dea. Joseph Cochran,\\nby whom he had two children, Benjamin and Joseph Foster\\nthe former lives in Nashua, and the second is a lieutenant in\\nthe 1st Regiment New Hampshire Cavalry. This Benjamin\\ndied some years since in New York.\\nAsa married Jane, daughter of the late Abner Hogg, and\\nsettled in Johnson, Vt., where he yet resides, having two daugh-\\nters and one son.\\nAmos married Betsey Fisher, of Francestown, for his first\\nwife, and for his second, Abigail Carson, and died Sept. 4, 1854.\\nIsaac died young, and Samuel married Polly, daughter of\\nAbner Hogg, and lives in Johnson, Vt.\\nCapt. Joseph Andrews was of English descent, and followed\\nthe sea until he came to New Boston. He was in the service of\\nWilliam Gray, of Boston, fourteen years. When the war of\\nthe Revolution began he was returning from the East Indies,\\nwas captured and carried to Halifax, and for some time impris-\\noned in a fetid dungeon. After his release he commanded a\\nvessel in the privateering service until the close of the war.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0521.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "438\\nHe settled in New Boston, on a tract of land now owned by\\nClifton Starrctt, purchasing of Jacob Ober, a brother of his\\nwife. Here he lived until his death, Oct. 18, 1834, his wife\\ndying June 21, 1829. He was one of the founders of the Bap-\\ntist Church in New Boston, was an exemplary christian, and\\nreared an interesting family.\\nDea. Issachar Andrews. He was born October 16, 1789,\\nmarried Abigail Manning October 12, 1811, who was born\\nMay 12, 1785. His death occurred May 29, 1882, and she\\ndied January 12, 1857. They had children Joseph M., born\\nMarch 1, 1813; Issachar, Jr., born August 9, 1815; John\\nW., born April 20, 1818 Caroline, born June 22, 1820 Wm.\\nE., died very young: Wm. E., born August 5,1823; Benj.\\nF., born January 31, 1825; Cynthia, born April 1, 1827. J.\\nM. Andrews married Eliza Tewksbury June 30, 1836, who\\ndied June 11, 1856 their children being Dura P., Lizzie D.,\\nwho died June 6, 1855 Sarah T., Willie M., who died March\\n13, 1843 Nettie H., Hattie C, Emma E. Mr. J. M. Andrews\\nmarried for a second wife Caroline M. Scott, of Greensborough,\\nVt., December 1856. Their children are George S. and\\nCharles.\\nIssachar Andrews married Betsey Lull December 28, 1841.\\nTheir children are Calvin L., who was married August, 1862\\nGeorge C, who died September 6, 1883 Hellen M., Ada M.,\\nand Louisa L.\\nJohn W. Andrews married Mary J. Crombie, a native of\\nDublin, May 9, 1843. Their children are John C. Prissila,\\nwho died young; Lottie A., and Mary J., who died young;\\nAbbie L., Willie R., who died April 13, 1864, and Hattie R.\\nCaroline Andrews married Benjamin Goodhue, of Hancock,\\nNovember 23, 1841. Their children are Warner C, Andrew\\nP., Cynthia A., Benjamin F., Caroline F., and Eben P.\\nWilliam E. Andrews married Lydia A. Knight, of Hancock,\\nFebruary 10, 1857.\\nBenjamin F. Andrews married Elenor Templeton, of Wilton,\\nNovember 25, 1848. Their children Eliphabet P., H. Ellen,\\nMary E., Willie F., Jessie F., who died November 15, 1857\\nBertie S., Luis A., and Benjamin.\\nMaurice Lyxch. He married Catherine Shuhan. He was", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0522.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "439\\neducated for a Catholic priest. His son John Lynch was born\\nin Newfoundland September 8, 1766, married Alice McMillcn\\nNovember 21, 1789, died February 17, 1843 (Alice McMillen\\nwas born in New Boston June 22, 1771, and died September\\n5, 1829). Their children were Francis, born in Mont Vernon\\nSeptember 16, 1790, married Fannie Knowlton April 20, 1815\\nAnn, born in Mont Vernon July 27, 1792, died July 29, 1863\\nJohn, born in New Boston April 14, 1794, married Nancy\\nKelso February 14, 1826, died May 22, 1858 Alice, born in\\nNew Boston February 29, 1796, married Moses Woods Oct.\\n24, 1816 William, born in New Boston May 10, 1798, mar-\\nried Ann Donnan January 31, 1822, died September 16, 1845\\nKatharine, born in New Boston June 19, 1800, married Ama-\\nzieii Blanchard May 10, 1842, died November 24, 1861;\\nHiram, born in New Boston July 12, 1804, married Martha\\nSeaver March 26, 1840 Hiam, born in New Boston March\\n20, 1802, died September 1, 1813 Leonard, born in New\\nBoston November 17, 1805, married Eliza Palmer January\\n22, 1832, and died July 7, 1850 Alfred, born in New Boston\\nJuly 16, 1809, died November 17, 1815.\\nRobert Livingston. He married Zebiah Sargent, of Boston,\\nlived in Haverhill, Mass., a few years, then in Londonderry,\\nand came to New Boston at the first settlement of the town,\\nand settled on the farm now owned by Jonathan Dodge. He\\nhad ten children, three sons and seven daughters John, Wil-\\nliam, Robert, Mary, Zibiah, Hannah, Ann, Margaret, Jane, and\\nElizabeth. John married Mary Todd, daughter of Colonel An-\\ndrew Todd, of Londonderry William married Mary Ann Boyce,\\nof Londonderry Robert married Mary Leslie John lived in\\nLondonderry, then moved to Walpole, and died there. William\\nsettled on the farm owned by the late Jacob H. Richards he\\nwas a delegate to the convention at Concord, from this town,\\nSeptember 22, 1779. Robert served seven years in the Revolu-\\ntionary war, and died in this town. Mary married John Car-\\nson, and lived and died in New Boston. Zibiah married Daniel\\nBoardman, and lived in Lynn, Mass. Hannah married Dea.\\nWilliam Moore, and lived on the farm now owned by Calvin\\nFuller. Ann married Josiah Hitchings, and lived in this town\\nsome time, then moved to New Brunswick. Margaret married", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0523.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "440\\nJosiali Patterson, lived and died in this town. Elizabeth mar-\\nried Abijah Richardson, and lived in Westford, Mass. Wil-\\nliam Livingston had no children of his own, but adopted his\\nnephew William, son of John Livingston, who lived and died\\nin New Boston. John Livingston had eleven children, eight\\nsons and three daughters William and Samuel were the only\\nones that settled in town. William married Mary Warren\\nSamuel married for his first wife Eunice French, of Maine\\nafter her death he married Hannah Twiss, of New Boston.\\nLucretia Livingston, daughter of Robert Livingston, first mar-\\nried Dr. Reed, of Nashua, after whose death she married Rev.\\nMr. McKay, and they moved to Inverness, Scotland, and finally\\nwent to Syria as missionaries. Dana Livingston lived in Saco,\\nMe. John, also, lived there. Robert Leslie married a daughter\\nof Dea. Josiah Duncan, of Antrim, and settled there. Gerry\\nW., son of William Livingston, lived and died in this town.\\nEphraim W. married Mahala Christie, they now reside in\\nNashua, and their children are Anstice Bradford, Cynthia C,\\nJohn Edward, member of the 8th N. H. V., now in the Army\\nof the Potomac; Ephraim W., Charles, for three years in the\\nTJ. S. A. Carrie J., and George W., now drummer in the 3d\\nRegiment N. H. Y., and aged 16.\\nMary T. Livingston married Leonard Colburn, and now re-\\nsides in New Boston their children are William W., Ephraim\\nWarren, Emma Jane, James Leonard, member of the 9th\\nRegiment N. H. Y., now in the Army of the Potomac.\\nJane Livingston married Leonard Cutler, and lives in Frank-\\nville, Iowa. John Livingston married Elizabeth Barrett, of\\nNashua, and still resides here; his children are: Gerry W.,\\nwho died in the army at New Orleans September 18, 1853\\nMary Jane Adeline F., his wife, died in August, 1841. Samuel\\nLivingston had by his first wife the following children John\\nL., Ursula, Alminor, and Mary by his second wife, Adeline\\nF., David, Nancy, Diantha, Samuel, Benjamin.\\nCapt. Gerry Whiting. He came from Francestown, mar-\\nried Abigail, daughter of Dea. Wm. Starrett, September, 1798.\\nTheir children were Julia, who became the wife of Oliver\\nCochran November, 1822 Roxanna, who was married to\\nDavid Stone February, 1825 Dexter, who married Mary", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0524.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "441\\nStone April, 1828 Harris, who married Mary Dodge in 1832\\nLouisa I)., who died; Calvin, who married Abby Btirnham;\\nEmily, who married, June, 1855, Dea. Summer L. Cristy Mary,\\nwho died July, 1830 Hannah 0., who married James Clark;\\nand Abby, who married Walter J. Jaquith in 1849. These\\nchildren all located for a time in Johnson, Vt., except Emily\\nand Abby. Capt. Whiting was a man of great business capa-\\ncity, and was long respected as an upright and worthy citizen,\\nand had a highly interesting family of children. He died Nov.,\\n1827. His wife was an exemplary christian woman she died\\nApril, 1831.\\nWiilliam Woodbury. Three brothers came from England,\\nand settled in Beverly, Mass. Mr. William Woodbury de-\\nscended from one of these brothers, and came to New Boston\\nabout 1785. He settled in the north part of the town, marry-\\ning, and having five children who came to maturity Dorathy,\\nwho became the wife of Mr. Walker, and lived in Ackworth,\\nand had children Hannah, who also married a Mr. Walker,\\nand lived in New Boston, and had children, one of whom is Mrs.\\nJoshua Woodbury Joshua E., who married and settled near\\nhis father, and had children: Ebenezer K., Joshua E., Hittic,\\nwho married a Mr. Thomas, of Middleton, Mass., where si to\\nnow resides David, who removed to Mobile, Alabama Sallie,\\nwho married and lived in Wisconsin Benjamin Smith, who\\nlives in New Boston Sallie (daughter of William) died un-\\nmarried Benjamin S., who married Sallie B. Jones, daughter\\nof Joshua Jones, and lived on the old homestead and had twelve?\\nchildren Sabrina, who married Jason Philbrick, of Weare, and\\nlives in Sanbornton William, who married Rachel P., daughter\\nof the late John Shirley, and lives where her father died, being\\nthe farm formerly owned by Hugh Blair, and has two children\\nliiicetta, who married William B. Symonds, of Weare, and lias\\nfour children Benjamin F., who married Caroline H., daughter\\nof Richard Webster, of Concord, and has one daughter, Hettic\\nR. W. Joshua J., who married Harriet McClure, and resides\\nin New Boston, and has two children Eliza .Jane, who mar-\\nried Luther M. Brown, and lives in Minnesota, and has four\\nchildren; Elizabeth Ann, who died young; Harriet R., who\\nmarried Thomas Holmes, and lives in Minnesota Frances Ann\\n56", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0525.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "442\\nwho married Squire G. Eastman, of Weare, and has had five\\nchildren Caroline, who married Jesse Clement, of Weare, and\\nhas two children Levi, who married Maria Whitcomb, of\\nWarner, and lives in Weare Maryett.\\nMr. Benjamin S. Woodbury died December 25, 1846, and his\\nwidow lives in Weare.\\nSamuel Gregg, Esq. He was the youngest son of Hugh\\nGregg. Was born at New Boston June 9, 1764. In the\\nearly part of his manhood he was an apprenticed mechanic,\\nhis father having died when he was quite young. For several\\nyears he pursued his trade of carpenter and cabinetmaker, but\\nrelinquished his trade, and gave his attention to farming. He\\noccupied many responsible positions in town affairs, and was\\nmany years Justice of the Peace.\\nHe married for his first wife, Jane W., daughter of Alex-\\nander Wilson, of New Boston. She was born Nov. 20, 1770,\\nand died Dec. 25, 1800.\\nThey had six children Jenny, who married Daniel Dodge,\\nand lived in Johnson, Vt. Elizabeth, who married Robert\\nWilson, and lived in Deering Mary, who married Samuel B.\\nWaters, and lived in Johnson, Vt. Sarah, who married Rob-\\nert McPherson, and now lives in Michigan Alexander, who\\nmarried Jane M., daughter of Dea. Robert Clarke, of New\\nBoston, and now lives in Medford, Mass.\\nHe married for his second wife, Lydia Bartlett, of Newbury,\\nMass. they had one son, James Bartlett, who married Mary\\nBailey, of Newbury, Mass. His second wife, Lydia B., died in\\nNew Boston Nov., 1835, and he died in Deering, New Hamp-\\nshire, May 6, 1839. Of the above children there are now\\nliving, Sarah, Alexander, and Samuel.\\nDocter Samuel Gregg. He was born at New Boston July\\n1, 1799. He studied medicine with John Dalton, M. D., of\\nNew Boston. He graduated M. D. at Dartmouth College in\\n1825, and commenced practice in medicine the same year in\\nMedford, Mass. He married for his first wife Ruthey W. R.,\\ndaughter of Luther Richards. She was born at New Boston\\nJune 5, 1802, and died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 20, 1853.\\nShe had nine children Mary Josephine W., who died in\\nMedford, Mass., May 6, 1838 Martha D., who married Ed-", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0526.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "./rfffu/frrd-sZiiA\\n^^-T^^i^^y 4-/2", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0527.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0528.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "443\\nward G. Tileston, Esq., and now lives in Brookline, Mass.\\nSamuel W., who died in California in 1850, aged 23 years;\\nCaroline A., who married W. R. Stockbridge, and now lives in\\nCambridge, Mass. Abbie Maria, who died in 1836, aged three\\nyears Anna, who married Joseph Howard, Jr., and now lives\\nin Brooklyn, N. York; Abby H. T., who married I. B. Woos-\\nter, and now lives in San Francisco, California Franklin\\nHahneman, who died in infancy, and Josephine Maria, now\\nliving in Boston, Mass. Dr. Samuel Gregg s present wife was\\nMrs. Sophronia C. Hills, of Leominster, Mass.\\nDoctor Samuel Gregg continued the practice of medicine,\\nafter the teachings of the Allopathic School, for nearly fourteen\\nyears when, in 1838, he was induced to examine the teachings\\nof Hahneman, who had promulgated a new, or Homeopathic\\nsystem of therapeutics. Being satisfied of the truth of the prin-\\nciple announced by Hahneman, he has continued in successful\\npractice ever since. He thus introduced the New School\\nsystem into New England, and was the only practitioner of that\\nsystem for nearly a year in all that region. In 1840 he re-\\nmoved to Boston, where he continues in successful practice,\\nand can now enumerate his colleagues by hundreds, throughout\\nNew England, who have adopted the motto, Similia Similibus\\nCurantur of the immortal Hahneman.\\nDaniel Dodge. He was born in Hamilton, Mass., Oct. 24,\\n1766 married, Elizabeth, daughter of Luke Dodge, who was\\nborn Feb. 27, 1764. They had nine children Daniel, born\\nDec. 9, 1785, married, Dec. 28, 1810, Joanna, daughter of\\nDaniel Dane, who was born Sept. 16, 1789 their children are\\nAlbert, born Nov. 13, 1812, died Feb. 14, 1823 Hiram, born\\nApril 3, 1813, who married Olive Butterfield for his first, and\\nAbigail Marden, for his second wife Polly, born Feb. 28, 1819,\\nwho became the wife of Cummings Cross Sarah, born Dec.\\n1823, who became the wife of James Hovey Lydia, born Dec,\\n1828, died 1849.\\nBetsey, born Jan. 28, 1788, died young.\\nBetsey, born Oct. 28, 1789, became the wife of Daniel Whit-\\ntermore, and resides in Wisconsin, having had eleven children,\\nfour of whom survive.\\nPolly, born March 16, 1793, died April 16, 1814.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0529.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "444\\nLuke, born Feb. 19, 1795, married Rachael Dodge, lived in\\ntown, and died April, 1868, leaving three children Ephraim,\\nwho died June, 1863, William, and Daniel.\\nEphrairn was born March 16, 1797, married Catherine Luce,\\nand resides in South Boston, having five children.\\nLydia, born Jan. 28, 1798, died July 16, 1806.\\nJonathan, born Sept. 6, 1801, married Mary Dodge, died in\\nNew Boston Sept. 6, 1801, having had seven children.\\nThe first Daniel Dodge died April 26, 1843 his wife died\\nJuly 20, 1851. Mr. Dodge was one of the most thrifty farm-\\ners in town upright in his transactions with others, and a\\nfriendly neighbor, having regard to the law of the Sabbath\\nand the institutions of religion, knowing how to bridle his\\ntongue.\\nJoshua Jones. He came from Dracut, Mass., about 1780,\\nand settled in the south part of the town, buying of John Mc-\\nAllister. He married Sarah Burns, of Dracut, Mass. Their\\nchildren are Betsey, Nathaniel, Joshua, Peter, Samuel, George,\\nSally, and Jefferson.\\nBetsey married Benjamin Butterfield, of Goffstown, where\\nshe lived and died.\\nNathaniel married a Miss Butterfield, and settled in Dracut,\\nMass., and died in the West Indies, leaving several children.\\nJoshua married Irena Perkins, and died in New Boston in\\n1863, leaving one son.\\nPeter married for his first wife Mary, daughter of Peter\\nCochran, sister of the late Peter Cochran, by whom he had\\nseven children: Mary Jane, Peter C, Nancy, Letitia, Jennette,.\\nJames C. and Allen W. Mary Jane married Daniel Ayers, Esq.\\nof Albany, N. Y. Peter C. resides in California, and has two\\nchildren; Nancy died young. Letitia married Perry Richards,\\nof Goffstown, for her first husband, and Richard Pattee,\\nalso of Goffstown, for her second husband, and has two chil-\\ndren Jennette died young James C. married Jerusha,\\ndaughter of John G. Dodge, of Goffstown, and has two chil-\\ndren Allen W. died in California in Feb., 1858. Mr. Jones\\nmarried for his second wife Mrs. Nancy Hill.\\nGeorge married Sarah Battles, of Mont Yernon, and had six\\nchildren.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0530.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "445\\nSally married Capt. Benjamin Woodbury, lived and died in\\nNew Boston, having had several children.\\nJefferson married Mary Fisher, of Francestown, lived in\\nGoffstown, and died some years ago.\\nCapt. Ephraim Jones. He was son of Jonathan Jones, of\\nDracut, Mass. he married a Miss Hildreth, daughter of Gen.\\nHildreth, of Dracut, of Revolutionary memory. He had two\\ndaughters, Mercy and Prudence. Prudence married Mr. Co-\\nburn, and settled in Dracut. Mr. Jones was a blacksmith, and\\nmade scythes and other edge tools, and was one of the most\\nuseful men in town highly respected, and promoted to all\\nthe offices in the gift of the people and an active friend of\\nthe Presbyterian Church until his death.\\nThomas Otis. He was born in Barrington Feb. 9, 1783.\\nAt the age of twenty-one he removed to Wenham, where he\\nmarried Mary, daughter of Aaron Lee. He came to New\\nBoston in 1819, and settled in the east part of the town. Their\\nchildren are Peter Y., Hannah, Sarah L., Thomas, Mary\\nJane, Harriet Newell, William Luke, James L., and Elizabeth.\\nPeter married Frances A. Center, and has three children\\nWilliam Henry, Harriet Frances, and Charles.\\nHannah became the wife of William A. Flint, and resides\\nin Merrimack.\\nSarah married Jonas Holden, lives in Rollinsford, and has\\nthree children.\\nThomas married Mary Mulligan, lives in Watertown, Mass.,\\nand has four children.\\nMary Jane married Henry F. Straw, lives in Manchester,\\nand has two sons.\\nHarriet N. married Elijah Parkhurst, and lives in Merrimac,\\nhaving one daughter.\\nWilliam L. married Paulina Balch, of Goffstown, and is now\\na member of the 11th Regt. N. H. V.\\nJames L. married Louisa Manuel, and lives in Chicago, 111.,\\nhaving one daughter.\\nElizabeth married George Austin, of Goffstown, and lives\\nin Springfield, Mass.\\nMr. Otis died Jan. 4, 1855 his wife died Aug. 25, 1854.\\nHe was an excellent man, greatly beloved as a neighbor, and", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0531.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "446\\nhonored as a christian. He found a ready helper in his wife in-\\nevery good purpose, and they reared a happy, industrious, and\\nvirtuous family of children.\\nDr. Jeremiah S. Cochran. He was son of John Cochran,\\nEsq. His mother was Prances, daughter of the late Dr. Jona-\\nthan Gove. He was born in New Boston Jan. 16, 1805. His\\nyouth was spent at home on a farm. Serving as a clerk in a\\nstore in Billerica, Mass., in 1822, he began the study of Latin,\\nunder Rev. E. P. Bradford, in the year 1823. In 1825 he\\nbegan to read medicine with Dr. John Dalton. In 1826 he\\nattended a course of lectures at the Medical College at Han-\\nover. Subsequently he attended lectures at Bowdoin College,\\nand graduated as a physician in May, 1829. He commenced\\nthe practice of medicine at Massena, in Northern New York,\\nOct. 6, 1829, where he remained about a year, and then re-\\nmoved to Waddington, and subsequently to Fort Covington, of\\nthe same State. At length he went to Sandusky, Ohio, during\\nthe prevalence of the cholera at the West. Here he directed\\nall his energies to his profession, and rose rapidly in it, treating\\ncholera with marked success. He spent three months of the\\nwinter of 1835 in attendance on lectures at the Cincinnati\\nMedical College, and, with this exception, he never slept a\\nnight away from his place of business from 1832 to 1845. He\\nwas a skilful physician, because he studied his cases thoroughly,\\nand rarely failed in diagnosis. He gained clear and distinct\\nideas of the nature of the disease, and then promptly and\\nboldly applied the remedies. There was no vacillation in his\\ntreatment of his patients. Having prescribed the remedies, he\\nrequired a strict adherence to the directions given, any devia-\\ntion was visited with severe rebuke.\\nIn 1837 Dr. Cochran married Sarah T., daughter of Hon.\\nM. Farwell, of Sandusky. She was an estimable lady, and died\\nin 1842. They had four children Charles, who died in 1842\\nSarah Frances, who died 1849, whose remains lie in the centre\\ngraveyard, in New Boston. Of their surving children, one is the\\nwife of J. M. Osborn, Esq., of Dayton, Ohio, and the other is a\\nsoldier in the army of the Cumberland.\\nIn politics Dr. Cochran was a republican, vigorously opposing\\nevery measure for slavery extension. As a christian he was", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0532.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "447\\nsincere and earnest, being a constant attendant on the services\\nof the sanctuary upon the Sabbath. He believed that a physi-\\ncian could arrange his business so as to attend church on\\nSunday, unless there were unexpected calls at the time which\\ncould not be postponed till after service. He was also a constant\\nattendant at the evening meetings of the church for prayer,\\ntaking part in them. He contended that a physician was not\\nworthy to be trusted who trifled with religion and outraged\\nthe moral sense of a christian community by trampling upon\\nthe law of the Sabbath, and by identifying himself with the\\nworkers of iniquity. Dr. Cochran early identified himself with\\nthe religious community, and was ever ready to cooperate with\\nthem in any effort to do good, and thus secured the confidence\\nof all right-minded men, and was enabled to exert an influence\\nover them for good, and when he died they mourned for him as\\nfor a friend and benefactor.\\nThree years before his death he was attacked with fever, which\\nwas followed by a succession of fevers of the same character\\nevery summer, and continued until autumn. In June, 1845, he\\nhad an attack as in former years, and from it was slowly recov-\\nering when a night exposure caused a relapse, and he expired\\nJuly 6, 1845, when it was said of him, The good physician is\\ndead.\\nRev. Samuel Clarke. He was born in New Boston, N. H.,\\nApril 21, 1791. All the early circumstances in which he was\\nplaced conspired to impart unwonted sobriety to his character.\\nHis home was in a wild, mountainous region, remote from the\\ndissipations and distractions of the city. There, instead of the\\nsights and sounds of man s creating, he listened to the many-\\ntoned voices of nature heard in glade and forest and was\\ntaught to commune with the mysteries and wonders of the in-\\nvisible world, written on the earth and sky, and revealed to the\\nlonely heart of man. The distinctive character of that home,\\ntoo, could not fail to have a commanding influence over him.\\nHis family belonged to a strongly marked class of immigrants,\\nwho took up and reclaimed the townships along the upper Mer-\\nCondensed from a more extended sketch, by his brother, Dr. Charles\\nCochran, of Toledo, Ohio.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0533.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "448\\nrimac and its tributary streams. They were originally from\\nScotland, full of Scotch blood, and trained in the sternest\\ndogmas of the Presbyterian Church. They had removed in a\\nbody to the north of Ireland had been involved in the priva-\\ntions, hardships, and woes winch befell this part of the coun-\\ntry a century and a half ago. They had shared in the hunger,\\nnakedness, and cruel sufferings, of the siege of Londonderry,\\nso full of strange incident, so bloody, and so barbarous and\\nwhen once more they took up the line of their pilgrimage, and\\nat length pitched their tents on the hills of New England, there\\nagain to engage in a border warfare with the savages of the\\nNew World, the story of their sufferings wild and heart-stir-\\nring traditions, could not fail to leave a profound impression\\nupon the minds of their descendants. A marked seriousness\\nand thoughtfulness, the old Scottish reverence for the clergy,\\nsobriety of demeanor, and strictness of discipline, lingered long\\nin the Colony, and went down from generation to generation.\\nMr. Clarke was born and reared in the midst of these influ-\\nences. He was trained in their precise school of manners, and\\nwas exact in the little proprieties as well as in the essential\\nduties of life. His father, Ninian Clark, was an extraordinary\\nman, of large sympathies and a noble spirit, trusted by every\\none, and famed all the country around for unflinching integ-\\nrity. He was a man of thought and considerable reading\\nsuch men as Dr. Samuel Clarke and Archbishop Tillotson were\\namong his favorite authors. The son, then, in addition to\\nthose peculiar influences which served to awaken a profound\\nreverence for things sacred and to bring God very near, re-\\nceived those also which helped to expand and ennoble him.\\nHe was prepared for Dartmouth College by the Rev. Mr.\\nBeede, of Wilton entered, and was graduated in 1812. Here he\\nenjoyed the respect and affection of his classmates a feeling\\nwhich had continued to such extent, that when, forty-two years\\nafter graduation, the survivors once more met at their Alma\\nMater, they appointed him to collect the statistics, and prepare\\na biography of each member of the class which trust he execut-\\ned with fidelity, and to the satisfaction of his fellows. After\\nleaving college, he returned for a few months to his old tutor\\nin Wilton but was afterwards induced to repair to Cambridge,", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0534.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "44\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb\\nwhen, at the same time, he took charge of the grammar-school\\nin that place, and became a pupil in theology of the Rev. Dr.\\nOhanning. I lore new Scenes opened before him, and now in-\\nfluences were exerted which never ceased to be felt, lie had\\ncome from the quiet seclusion oi the country and now, for the\\nfirst time became familiar with the social activity and the in-\\ntellectual and spiritual wealth of the metropolis. Young Buck-\\nminister was at the height of his fame Kirkland occupied the\\npresidency oi the neighboring university, and Ohanning was\\nmaking his influence widely felt.\\nAmid such influences Mr. Clarke was ordained June 18,\\n1817, over the Unitarian Church in Princeton, Mass., where he\\nremained fifteen years. He was installed over the Unitarian\\nChurch in Uxbridge, Mass., January 9, 1883, where he re-\\nmained twenty-seven years, making a. ministry of forty-two\\nyears.\\nMr. Clarke married Miss Sarah Wigglesworth, who appears to\\nhave been adapted to exert a large and beneficent influence\\ngifted with genius, refined tastes, and an active intellect, Mrs.\\nClarke could not fail to win to her home even those whom no\\nparochial ties could have drawn thither. She was a woman to\\nwin for she combined to a rare extent large mental endow-\\nments, with a capacity for the homeliest duties. She would\\nconduct the affairs of her household in a manner to satisfy the\\nmost fastidious, and the while revel amid the creations of an\\nexuberant imagination, and engage in speculations the most\\nprofound. She would dignify her home-cares by a discussion\\nof the abstruse metaphysics of Reid and Hamilton, and throw\\nover them the hue of poetry by seizing and holding whatever\\nmight catch her fancy. It was no burden to her to rise before\\nthe dawn on Monday mornings, and to do the drudgery of the\\nweek; for she would find ever fresh enjoyment in the unspeak-\\nable beauty and glory of the morning hour. She would linger\\nlate on Saturday night over the humblest and most distasteful\\nwork, and find no weariness in it; for she already had foregleama\\nof the enjoyment of the coming Sabbath and, while it was yet\\nmidnight, would, like Petrarch, begin her great hymn of wor-\\nship. So also in the often hard and irksome duties of the par-\\nish, how difficult soever at first, she so schooled herself that,\\n57", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0535.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "450\\nwhatever the) might be, they would afford her only pleasure\\naud profit. In her walks, she would seize ou a beautiful sun-\\nset, or a way-side flower, and transfer it to her portfolio. She\\nwould find sunlight and flowers in the homes of others and\\nthe more desolate and forlorn those homes were, the more sure\\nshe would be to see what others could not see, and invest them\\nwith a sanctity and loveliness all their own.\\nThus Mrs. Clarke lived and died a blessing to her husband\\nand family, and a blessing to the people. Mr. Clarke survived\\nhis wife but a few years. The blow which removed such a\\ncompanion left a wound that time could not heal. Always\\nfrail, his whole life interrupted by frequent sicknesses, he could\\nbear the strain upon his faculties no longer. He fell, as the\\ngood man would wish to fall, at the altar at which he served.\\nHe was arrested in the midst of his discourse, and never preach-\\ned again. Feeling that his work was done, he sent a letter,\\nresigning his office, and requesting the society to accept his\\nresignation, a request which, to their honor, they promptly\\ndeclined not only voting to supply the pulpit, but to continue\\nthe salary of Mr. Clarke. From that time, although the seal\\nof coming death was on his brow, it brought no terrors and\\nthe kindly voice and the beaming smile seemed to speak of a\\nheaven within. And November 19, 1859, he fell asleep like\\none who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies\\ndown to pleasant dreams.\\nRev. Samuel Wallace Clark. He was born in Hancock\\nDec. 15, 1795, -son of John Clark, Esq., who was the son of\\nWilliam, of New Boston. He was, by birth, the second of ten\\nchildren, eight of whom, four sons and four daughters, lived to\\nmature age. His youth was spent with his father on a farm\\nand preparation for college. He graduated from Dartmouth in\\nthe Class of 1823, and studied theology in a regular course at\\nAnd over Seminary, graduating in 1827, and was ordained pas-\\ntor of the Congregational Church in Greenland, Rockingham\\nCounty, Aug. 5, 1829. He married, Oct. 13. 1829, Frances\\nMoor, daughter of Dea. Robert Clark, of New Boston.\\nSee Commemorative Discourse, preached December 11, 1859, by Rev.\\nAlonzo Hill, of Worcester, Mass.. from which the foregoing is chiefly taken.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0536.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "451\\nMr. Clark was a man of a high order of intellect, the native\\ngift of God. This gift was increased and chastened by cultiva-\\ntion through a long, faithful, and regular course of study and\\ndiscipline. The pursuit and contemplation of truth was his\\ndelight of all truth, truth in nature, truth reduced to\\nscience, truth in life and in Providence. Especially was the\\ntruth of God, as revealed in his word, his highest joy, and until\\nhis death he retained his inquisitive, studious tastes and habits\\nof mind, so that he could say, with the Roman orator, These\\nstudies occupy our youth, make our riper years happy, are an\\nornament in prosperity, a refuge and solace in adversity, delight\\nus at home, and are no hindrance to us abroad, spend the night\\nwith us, go with us in our travels, and pass the time with us in\\nour country abodes.\\nThe natural cast of his mind was reflective, meditative, in-\\ntrospective truth, in his mind, did not lie in parcels and frag-\\nments, but was logically connected, disposed in system and in\\nthe order of sequence. His mind was equally removed from a\\nconceited and dogmatic conservatism on the one hand, and from\\na rash and empiric radicalism on the other. Neither the bigot,\\nthe superstitious, nor the fanatic, found anything in him answer-\\ning to their own wishes and character.\\nThere was in Mr. Clark, pervading and tinging the opera-\\ntions of his mind, a rich, salient vein of playful humor, that\\nquick, brilliant reason, which, as Barrow has said, consisteth in\\none knows not what Its ways are unaccountable and inex-\\nplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy,\\nand windings of language. He was apt, and wont himself to\\nsay many apt and pleasant things and he enjoyed, with a keen\\nzest, anything of the kind in his associates and friends, if so be\\nit were pure and innocent. It is matter of observation that this\\nproperty of mind, while it often delights, sometimes offends and\\nwounds. In him it was baptized and purified in the clear,\\ntransparent flowings of a pure love. Nothing biting, nothing\\nsarcastic, or ironical, escaped his lips. He made fun and mock\\nof no creature of God. His wit and humor conversed with\\nthings and thoughts, and not so much with men and characters.\\nSometimes it lie in a pet allusion to a known story, or in a\\nsensible application of a trivial saying sometimes it played in", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0537.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "452\\nwords and phrases sometimes it lodged in a sly question, in a\\nshrewd intimation, or in closely retorting an objection\\nhence, while you saw its glare and brightness, it was never with\\nthe foreboding fear that its stroke might ere long fall upon you\\nor yours, smiting, prostrating, and humbling you in the dust.\\nThis trait and grace of mind he had rightfully and by inheri-\\ntance, being descended of the Scotch race, in whose character it\\nis proverbially prominent. And amid all the solemnities of a\\ndeath-bed, in the undressing of his soul, the reverential and\\nearnest abiding of the quick-coming scenes of eternity, the\\npatient expectation of heaven and its glories, which were the\\nobjects of trust and faith in Christ only, his pleasantry and\\nhumor did not forsake him and these, with the other and\\nspiritual exercises of his mind, gave a very pleasant and grate-\\nful air to the sick-chamber and the death-bed, where the good\\nman meets his fate, making less frightful, pleasant and joyous\\neven, the noiseless approach of the king of terrors. Thus was\\nhe natural and himself, up to the last hour of life and in the\\nsolemn moment of death a devout, confiding christian indeed,\\nbut no less a man gifted and endowed as well by nature as by\\ngrace. His life of great excellence was crowned by a graceful,\\ndignified, and sacred period.\\nMr. Clark for a long time was a sufferer, but endured his\\nprotracted confinement with patience, and died of bronchial\\nconsumption Aug. 17, 1847, leaving a wife and three children,\\nafter a pastorate of eighteen years.*\\nThe materials for the foregoing sketches have been gathered\\nfrom various sources with great labor, and they have been ex-\\ntended far beyond our first intention, and quite as far beyond\\nthe legitimate taxing of our strength. Soon after the Centen-\\nnial a request was made through several of the weekly news-\\npapers, that any person interested in the history of New Boston,\\nand having a historic relation thereto, would furnish a brief\\nsketch of his family, both historic and genealogical. Few have\\ncomplied with it. But the fault of any omission must be the\\ndelinquent s, not ours. We have never felt that we were binder\\nany obligation to write the history of private families and indi-\\nCondensed from a more extended notice.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0538.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "453\\nviduals. If we have done it in case of most of the foregoing\\nsketches, it was not because we felt there were any claims on us\\nfrom any one, but because the history of the town would be\\nincomplete without some of them, and the volume would lose\\nmuch of its interest to coming generations.\\nAlthough a full list of names of the men who served in the\\nwar of the Revolution cannot be obtained, yet they are inci-\\ndentally brought to light in these sketches, and it is abundantly\\nevident that New Boston promptly furnished her full share of\\nmen, giving liberal bounties, and generously supporting the\\nfamilies of the soldiers at the expense of the town. Though a\\nmajority of the people were opposed to the war, and though\\nthey had some stormy debates, yet the patriots always had a\\nmajority whenever a vote was taken to raise bounties, or advance\\nthe pay of the soldier, or relieve his family. The records of\\nthe town, on this subject, are full and entirely satisfactory.\\nIn the war of 1812 the town could vote unanimously, to a\\nman, to sustain the government, and, of course, men and\\nmeans were furnished without stint. So in the present war,\\nour quotas have been promptly filled through the offering of\\ngenerous bounties, notwithstanding a large majority of the legal\\nvoters are opposed to the present administration. And few\\ntowns have more readily contributed to the wants of soldiers,\\nthrough the various channels in which comforts are conveyed\\nto them, than this, though these contributions have come from\\na small minority of the inhabitants.\\nWe have taken great pleasure in honoring the men who have\\nheroically served their country, whether in 1776, 1812, or 18G1.\\nTheir names deserve a record, and their patriotism a tribute of\\npraise. A united and grateful country will honor them as they\\ndeserve, when the stormy clays have passed, and it comes to be\\nseen that a country, purified by sufferings and sacrifices, has\\nfavors only for those who bared their bosoms to the conflict for\\nself-preservation, and reproaches for those that came not to\\nthe help of the Lord, to the. help of the Lord against the\\nmighty.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0539.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "FABMS AND FABMING.\\nThe surface of New Boston is broken, its abrupt hills indi-\\ncating that Nature once got into a strange freak, and sought\\nto make this region of country preeminent for its inequalities.\\nBut she gave a rich compensation in the fertility of the soil, and\\nthe grandeur of the forests. The branches of the Piscataquog,\\nwhich traverse this region, have been distinguished for the\\nsuperiority of the pine timber that bordered them, while her\\nhills have been covered with a heavy growth of chestnut,\\nbeech, birch, maple, and hemlock. Wood here grows with\\nsurprising rapidity. With markets near, and prices remunera-\\ntive, great quantities of wood for fuel are transported from the\\ntown, affording employment for many teams through the year,\\nespecially in winter. And the quantity of valuable timber for\\nbuilding, and other purposes, every year removed, is very\\nlarge. The timber of New Boston has been inferior to that\\nof no other town in the vicinity. Masts of great size have here\\nbeen obtained for a long series of years. By royal authority,\\nwhen New Hampshire was a colony of England, a road was\\nconstructed up the Piscataquog River, through Goffstown and\\nWeare, and a branch extended into New Boston. This road\\nhas always been known as the Mast Road, its construction\\nbeing for the accommodation of the masting business. Mr.\\nPotter, in his History of Manchester, says\\nSome of the largest and most valuable masts, ever cut in\\nthe Province, were cut in Goffstown and New Boston. The\\nold people relate that one was cut upon the farm of Jonathan\\nBell, of Goffstown, in the valley of the south branch of the\\nPiscataquog, and about a half of a mile southwest of Goffs-\\ntown, West Village, that exceeded in size, length, and symme-\\ntry, any other ever cut in this region. It was so large, that\\nsome of the teamsters drove a yoke of seven feet oxen upon\\nits stump, and turned them round with ease.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0540.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "4r /5\\nOwing to this abundance of timber, with corresponding mill\\nfacilities and convenient markets, Lumbering has absorbed much\\nof the interest and labor which ought to have been given to\\nthe soil. The lumbering business is more speedily remunera-\\ntive, but the tilling of the soil better promotes the morals of\\na people, and far more tends to permanent wealth. Large\\ntracts have been divested of rich growths, leaving the soil\\npoor and worth but little consequently the farms to which\\nthey were attached greatly depreciate, and are used for pas-\\ntures or sold in fragments to surrounding neighbors and thus\\nmany of the once most productive farms are lost on the map\\nof the town, and the thousands of dollars received from the\\nsale of lumber almost immediately finds investment in other\\ntowns; SO that while individuals obtain largo sums by divest-\\ning the soil of its growth, the town is, in reality, to the same\\nextent impoverished. So much of the large growth has been\\nremoved, that there would be good reason to anticipate greater\\nattention to farming, if the increase of wood did not nearly\\nequal the amount removed. As it is, we think there is hope.\\nThe surface of New Boston, as has been said, is distinguished\\nfor its abrupt inequalities. Her hills are precipitous, and the\\nsoil on their sides and tops is deep and friable, seldom Buffer-\\ning from droughts, and as little injured by washings.\\nThe rapid decay of minerals supplies the earth with needed\\nsalts, so that it is not impoverished by its annual production\\nwith a reasonable return from the stable. Corn, wheat, oats,\\nbarley, beans, and potatoes arc cultivated with great success\\nand, unless positively abused, there is little soil in New Boston\\nthat does not repay the laborer. And he is a thriftless farmer\\nwho grows poor, possessed of a moderate amount of mother\\nearth within our limits. Indeed, such is randy or never the\\ncase with any sober and industrious man.\\nFor a long time our restless youth have been eager to rush\\ninto the manufacturing towns and mails of trade, preferring a,\\nmore rapid course to wealth, though full of hazards. This is\\nowing partly to the little taste manifested, and the little regard\\nshown to the higher needs of the family by parents, which have\\nserved to disgust many a youth with rural pursuits, and partly\\nto the feverishness which pervades the whole country, by the", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0541.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "456\\nopening of new channels of trade and novel fields of activity.\\nThat farming is not a rapid road to wealth, is admitted but\\nthat it is a sure road to competence, is undeniable. That it\\nrequires labor, it must be confessed but the poor city clerk,\\nwho puts on better cloth, and assumes more attractive airs,\\nto the confounding of country boys, has to labor more hours,\\nand with more degrading obsequiousness, than the young man\\nwho tills the soil while his chances of competence are by no\\nmeans flattering.\\nValuable as has been the timber of New Boston, we doubt if\\nit has equalled her annual grass crop productive as is the soil\\nin the growth of the cereals, it is unsurpassed in its adapted-\\nness to the cultivation of the grasses. Here the timothy, red-\\ntop, and clover grow luxuriant, and are cultivated with facility.\\nLarge quantities of hay are every year conveyed to Manchester,\\nNashua, and other places, commanding remunerative prices,\\nthus being a source of income to the farmer. Still, it is to be\\nfeared that too many calculate upon the ready cash it will\\nbring, more than how they may enhance the fertility of the\\nsoil and increase its production. If hay is sold and .its equiv-\\nalent in fertilizing properties be not returned to the soil, the\\nground is necessarily impoverished to that extent. Yet many\\nfarmers of New Boston can afford to spare a portion of their\\ngrass crops, if judiciously cared for from the barn-cellars. And\\nthis leads us to say that great improvements have been made,\\nwithin the past few years, in the construction of barns and cel-\\nlars for the reception of manures. It is now well understood\\nthat the thrifty farmer can multiply his fertilizers fourfold\\nbeyond that distributed to the land by our fathers and the\\nwaste once witnessed on many a farm would now be deemed a\\nreproach.\\nWhile New Boston boasts a rich soil and ample returns, she\\nalso takes pride in her herds and flocks. The pastures are nat-\\nurally fertile and well-watered. The cattle that graze them are\\nmostly of the native breed, greatly improved by being crossed\\nwith other breeds. They do not possess the great horns, nar-\\nrow shoulders and rumps, as formerly, but are large, round,\\nline-looking animals, strong for labor, or meet for the stall, or\\nready to enrich the dairy. A few herds of pure Devons may", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0542.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0543.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0544.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "457\\nbe found, but more crossed with the native breed. Now and\\nthen a Durham and Ayershire may be seen, but the cattle gen-\\nerally preferred are the first named. The number of cattle is\\nlarge. The dairies though not large as formerly, yet are nu-\\nmerous and more remunerative, while present exorbitant prices\\nobtained for butter and cheese would justify extension. Within\\nthe past few years more attention has been given to wool-growing\\nand the sheep once more is heard bleating upon our hills, from\\nwhich for a time she seemed banished, evidently to the detri-\\nn nt of the soil and the loss of the farmer.\\nNew Boston has always boasted a race of fine horses and\\nfew towns can present a larger number of substantial and well-\\ntrained animals for the family and the road, than may here be\\nfound. The Scotch-Irish take great pride in driving a spirited\\nsteed, and count it reproach to be the owner of a mean animal\\nfrom the days of good old Deacon Jesse Christy, whose horses\\nnever ran too fast for him, to the present young Americas.\\nNew Boston has won the palm at many a fair, and gloried in\\nthe animal that smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of\\nthe captains and the shouting. John Newton Dodge has taken\\nthe premium for horses George Austin Wason, for Devon stock\\nand horses while Jacob Hooper and Solomon Dodge have car-\\nried off the premium for best farms, at county fairs. A brighter\\nday, we think, is beginning to dawn upon the farming interests\\nof New Boston, and the future promises to yield better results\\nthan the past. The good time coining for New Boston is\\nwhen lumbering shall cease, and all men not required in other\\nbranches of activity shall count it their glory to own farms and\\nexcel in their cultivation where her youth shall no longer\\nprefer to obtain a livelihood any way rather than by farming.\\nA quiet home in the country, with pleasant surroundings, with\\nmeans of intelligence and aids to refinement, which every thrifty\\nfarmer may have, is of all places the most secure of ills, and\\nthe most sure pledge of length of days, and of blessings that\\nbring no sorrow with them. The farmer is not now necessarily\\nignorant of the world s activity, either in trade or politics.\\nCities are no longer the only centres of intelligence and refine-\\nment, but these centres may be found wherever there is a live\\ntiller of the soil, or an active mechanic. His daily and weekly\\n58", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0545.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "458\\nnewspaper keeps him as well-informed as if he lived in the great\\nmetropolis. And as to seeing, his horse, light of foot, soon\\nbears him to the city to which he need be no stranger, or the\\niron horse that passes his door lands him in a short time in the\\nmidst of trade and attractions nor is he less happy if his\\nfamily be permitted to accompany him.\\nIn the year 1672, when throughout Great Britain only six\\nstage-coaches were constantly going, a pamphlet was written by\\none John Cresset, of the Charter House, for their suppression\\nand among the many grave reasons given against their contin-\\nuance is the following These stage coaches make gentlemen\\ncome to London upon very small occasion, which otherwise\\nthey would not do, but upon urgent necessity nay, the con-\\nvenience of the passage makes their wives often come up, who,\\nrather than come such long journeys on horseback, would stay\\nat home. Here, when they have come to town, they must pres-\\nently be in the mode, get fine clothes, go to plays and treats,\\nand by these means get such a habit of idleness and love of\\npleasure, that they are uneasy ever after.\\nThe farmers of New Boston have no such fears. Their sen-\\nsible and intelligent wives and daughters may love to visit the\\ncity occasionally, that they may not forget how the world moves\\nat the seat of fashions and inventions, but they are glad to re-\\nturn to the quiet seclusion of their happy rural homes, wiser,\\nand better prepared for their duties than before. There is no\\nlonger ground of fear of country cousins. They are as well-\\neducated, have as much brain, and sometimes more heart than\\ntheir city friends and country cousins, instead of being awed\\nby the airs of city friends, have come to feel that theirs is the\\nbetter inheritance. Self-respect will exist where there is home-\\nrefinement and heart-culture. Let the farmers of New Boston\\nresolve that they will make their homes nurseries of industry,\\nintelligence, and virtue, and they will never pine for the pleas-\\nures of a city life. Let theirs be the sentiment,\\nHigher, higher will we climb\\nUp the mount of glory,\\nThat our names may live through time\\nIn our country s story\\nHappy, when her welfare calls,\\nHe who conquers, he who falls.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0546.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "459\\nOnward, onward will we press\\nThrough the path of duty\\nVirtue is true happiness,\\nExcellence true beauty\\nMinds are of supernal birth,\\nLet us make a heaven of earth.\\nClose and closer then we knit\\nHearts and hands together,\\nWhere our fireside comforts sit\\nIn the wildest weather\\n)h they wander wide, who roam\\nFor the joys of life, from home.\\nNearer, dearer bands of love\\nDraw our souls in union,\\nTo our Father s house above,\\nTo the saints communion.\\nThither every hope ascend,\\nThere may all our labors end.\\nAccording to the United States census for 1860, the popula-\\ntion of New Boston is 1,369, white males, 682 white females,\\n681 free colored males, 2 and colored females, 4. The pop-\\nulation of Hillsborough County is 62,140. The population of\\nthe bordering towns is as follows Francestown, 1,082 Goffs-\\ntown, 1,740 Weare, 2,310 Bedford, 1,172 Amherst, 1,508\\nMont Vernon, 725 Lyndeborough, 823. The total population\\nof the State is 325,579.\\nThe following columns show that the number of owners or\\nmanagers of farms is 170 number of acres of improved land,\\n16,306 acres of unimproved land, 4,352 cash value of the\\nfarms is set down at -1477,190 the value of implements and\\nmachinery is 120,658 number of horses, 281 milch cows, 546\\nworking oxen, 342 other cattle, 857 sheep, 723 swine, 406\\nthe value of live stock, $82,086 number of bushels of wheat,\\n2,094 bushels of rye, 1,319 bushels of Indian corn, 10,885\\nbushels of oats, 4,410 pounds of wool, 1,867 bushels of peas\\nand beans, 391 bushels of Irish potatoes, 18,797 bushels of\\nbarley, 996 cash value of orchard products, $5,974 pounds of\\nbutter, 47,025 pounds of cheese, 18,152 tons of hay, 3,686\\nvalue of slaughtered animals, $11,058.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0547.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "460\\nto\\nfr\\nH\\n9*\\n88\\nfc\\n9*\\n9*\\n*i\\n94\\na)\\nP\\n06\\n8\\nx\\n6\\nes\\nfc\\nH.\\nm\\nSi so\\n5=3\\nd\\n3\\nq\\na\\n23\\n3\\no*\\na\\n.a\\nh\\nO D\\na\\nH\\no\\n65\\n;S N\\n1 1 -HWrH\\nrt\\ne\\nO\\na\\n73\\nh\\n60\\nC\\no\\nT3\\nd\\nPQ\\na\\n3\\n2 d S\\nffl\\na\\no a\\nft 2\\na a\\n.a\\n03\\nea\\no a S\\nO\\nz\\nd\\no p a) o) p\\nS 3 5 S S\\np\\n3\\na) cj o g; o3 aJ flj o p,o\\no c\\n73 5* cd p ai p \u00c2\u00a3^p p p\\no o o o o\\noooooooo^c\\nn c\\nd\\nOOOO ^Oi-C\\nA AAA ,4\\n,s.a,a,a.d.a.a.a o,=\\nfisAjuz-r* o-svr^a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a\\nCD\\n^^i\\nc\\nCc c a c 1\\nCO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2HHfc\\nH\\nsaas -H\\n73\\nd\\nd\\na\\no\\nCO CD aTd\\np\\n8gSg|g~\\nP\\nc-\\na)\\nd c\\nMS\\n.a\\nS\\no o o o j\u00c2\u00bb o ;s M\\n5 .SiH\u00c2\u00ae\\n.\u00c2\u00abP3^\\npq\\nfflpqpqpq \u00c2\u00a7\u00c2\u00abCQ-2\\nC\\no\\nF M ft?\\nfcfcs\\no\\nft\\na \u00e2\u0080\u00a2t-et\\np cu a\\n0)\\nqj n cj oi a) 1 a h\\nH\\n5 CD Q.r H\\n1-5 .l-sPSlSl-s\\ncu S\\no\\npO\\n^x:^^ o^ \u00c2\u00a3,3\\nc\\n2\\npq\\na H\\na o o c\\n.PSpqp:\\nPi\\nooooeo P o\\nEL\\n5\\nat a\\n.o t\\nM\\ncoeoeoccotc\\nOOOOOMM* IS\\nC !C\\nU5C5\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab \u00c2\u00a9SCO\\nbrtH\\nA o\\na)\\nA\\n2\\no u\\na\\nS \u00c2\u00abt3 5\\nP O.faS r\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a\\np\\n3\\nrtrt \u00e2\u0080\u00a2fl of\\n\u00c2\u00abOBEr S\\nllifcsta -c\\nd\\ng\\nax\\nO o\\nI\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-W 0) 0) J 3 d\\nS\u00c2\u00a3 t^ 2 S\\n1-5 Hj p-5 Pn h, c-H\\n6 6 g a E\\ng\\nSSdOr^ci 1 C\\nO rr\\no\\nsarjsot.\\n^^ss^i\\nK\\nEh\\n4H\\nrt\\ni\\nlO \u00c2\u00a9tH\\neo\\ntS C\\nh CO\\n1-1\\n=8\\n0)\\n,0 O\\nft\\na^\\no", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0548.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "461\\n2\\nS\\nftrH\\nO\\n2\\n11 1\\n5\\nn.js g\\nc o o \u00e2\u0096\u00a0z, o o S\\nJ.\\na\\n:i\\n\u00c2\u00a3pq\\nM\\nc\\nV\\no\\nH CO s\\no\\nWo!\\nrx J\\n^iCO -H ^^t\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IrJiCi^\\nfc. t oii\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a \u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00a3S \u00c2\u00bb-is\\nfa ptegoogs^o^\\no S te- fe- 51\\np^- X\\ns\\nt-\\nso\\nu\\nU\\n^s\\ni-srt\\nN r o i~\\nIS\\npq\\nO\\nD\\nOQ\\nB\\nH\\na\\ni-5 r 1\\nJJ\\nH w\\n_o\\nW\\n13\\n^H\\nw g\\n00\\n5\\no o\\nto\\npu -g\\na\\nS\\n7 1", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0549.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "462\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2spstaray\\njo eniBA\\nA uH jo snox\\nWi-iC(WrtM\u00c2\u00abN*0)*i\\nr -o :(Hssnn\u00c2\u00ab(OB*is!ow\\njo spunoj\\no o o o\\nio so\\n\u00c2\u00a3s, o O\\no o o o\\nBJOtSIOOPO\\nuawng:\\njo spunoj\\nLO O O 3 3 J* LO O LO O O 3 3 3 3 O\\nIs. 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Church, 143.\\nAtwood, Dr. Moses, sketch of, 210, 213.\\nAyrshire, 35.\\nBaptist Church, 52; organized, 143.\\nBeard, Ebenezer, 107; Andrew, sketch of,\\n3S0; Jesse, 13,109,380.\\nBeede, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nBarnard, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nBetton, N. C, Esq., sketch of, 202.\\nBlair, John, sketch of. 352.\\nBlanchard, Col. J. 42, 07, 70.\\nBoston, arrived at, 38.\\nBradford, Rev. E. P. 34, 52, 9S call of, 118;\\nacceptance, 120; ordination, 122; mar-\\nriage, 123 trials, 124; salary, 129; publi-\\ncations, 130 wife, 131, 133; children, 132.\\nBradford, Dr. David, 211; James B. and\\nEphraimP. 252; Rev. Moses, 117.\\nBrown, Rev. Mr. 117; Dr. Winthrop, 210.\\nBruce, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nBurial-ground, history of, 233; Fairbanks\\non, 241.\\nBurnap, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nBurr, W., Esq. 12, 300.\\nButterfield, Lieut. 305.\\nBuxton, Rev. Edward, 13, 20; sketch of, 135;\\nresponse of, 137; Capt. Benjamin, sketch\\nof, 401.\\nCaldwell, James, Esq., sketch of, 417.\\nCampbell, Daniel, 9; Wm. C, letter of 247;\\nRobert, sketch of, 412; Thomas, sketch\\nof, 414.\\nCanada, 61.\\nCasualties, 227.\\nCensus, first, 44; second, 45; third and\\nfourth, 40; for 1860,459-405.\\nCentennial, proceedings of, 9.\\nChase, Rev. Mr. 145.\\nChoristers, 170.\\nChurches, 50.\\nClark, Wm. R., letter, 253; Rev. William,\\n19; sketch of, 207; response of, 209; Dea.\\nRobert, 123, 209 sketch of, 370 Dr. N.\\nP. 210 William, Esq., sketch of, 309\\nJohn, sketch of, 371 Rebecca, sketch of,\\n371 Ninian, sketch of, 372 Ninian, Esq.,\\nsketch of, 372 Rev. Samuel, sketch of,\\n447; Rev. Samuel Wallace, sketch of,\\n450.\\nClayford, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nCochrane, Hon. C. B. 9; letter, 10; sketch\\nof, 23; address, 25, 200; Robert P.. 9;\\nWarren R. 9; sketch of, 73; poem, 75;\\nHon. Gerry W. 19; sketch of, 331 re-\\nsponse of, 333.\\nCochran, C. C. letter of, 251; Dr. Charles,\\nsketch of, 19.;; response of, 195, 211; Dr.\\nJeremiah 5. 211; sketch of, 446.\\nCochran, Dea. Thomas, 47, 111, 123 sketch\\nof, 350 William P., Esq., sketch of, 183;\\nresponse of, 185; Gen. William S., ban-\\nner of, 12; letter of, 250; Robert C, Esq.\\n201; Dr. Thomas !I. 212; sketch of, 273;\\nresponse of 275; John, sketch of, 35S;\\nPeter, sketch of, 300; Nathaniel, sketch\\nof, 303; John, Esq., sketch of, 304;\\nJames, sketch of, 305; Elijah, sketch of,\\n305; Joseph, Esq., sketch of, 306; Abra-\\nham, sketch of, 308; John, Esq., sketch\\nof, 409.\\nCristy, Dea. S. L. 9, 371 Moses, 371; Dea.\\nJesse, sketch of, 355; Capt. George,\\nsketch of, 361.\\nCogswell, Rev. E.C. 9, 12; address of, 14, 133.\\nColburn, L. 9; Wm. W., sketch of 171; re-\\nsponse of, 173.\\nCrombie, Dr. James II., sketch of, 205, re-\\nsponse of, 207; James, Esq., sketch of,\\n141; response of, 153, 200; Ninian C. 9;\\nDr. James, 211 James, sketch of, 374;\\nJohn, sketch of, 375.\\nCammingS, Jeremiah, 11, 01.\\nCutter, Dr. Wm. 209.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0555.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "468\\nDalton, Dr. John, 210.\\nDana, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nDane, Dea. Samuel, 12 sketch of, 422 Dan-\\niel, sketch of, 421.\\nDanforth, Dr. James, 210.\\nDavidson, Kev. Wm. 50.\\nDavis, Rev. J. G., letter of, 254.\\nDeering, 40.\\nDerry, 37.\\nDodge, Solomon, 9; John, 9; sketch of, 396;\\nPerley, Esq., sketch of, 197 response of,\\n199; Benj., sketch of, 379; Lieut. Solo-\\nmon, sketch of, 393; Israel, residence of,\\n393 Dea. Solomon, residence of, 394\\nAmos, Esq., residence of, 394: Daniel,\\nsketch of, 443.\\nDunbar, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nDunstable, 106, 305.\\nDwelling-houses, 103.\\nEastman, Dr. 209.\\nElders, 113, 119, 123, 129, 134.\\nElizabeth, Queen, 36, 66.\\nExeter, 49.\\nFairbanks, Lorenzo, Esq. 200; sketch of,\\n239; response of, 241.\\nFairfield, J. W., Esq. 200; address of, 20;\\nsketch of, 93; response of, 95; Capt.\\nMatthew, sketch of, 409; John, Esq.,\\nsketch of, 409; Seth, Esq. 200.\\nFarmer s Cabinet, 11.\\nFarms and Farming, 454.\\nFerson, Dea. James, sketch of, 252; Dr.\\nWilliam, 211.\\nFires, 230.\\nFitch, Dr. Francis, 210.\\nFlag-, presented by Gen. W. S. Cochran, 12.\\nFoss, Rev. A. T. 144.\\nFrancestown, 40, 67.\\nFryeburgh, 65.\\nFullerton, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nGage, Rev. David, 145.\\nGoodhue, Rev. J. A. 20, 21 sketch of, 161\\nresponses of, 163, 343; John, sketch of,\\n407.\\nGenealogical sketches, 349.\\nGoodridge, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nGorges, Sir Ferdinando, 66.\\nGoffe, John, Esq. 48, 201.\\nGoffstown, 40, 104.\\nGove, Dr. Jonathan, 201; sketch of, 209, 214;\\nCharles Frederick, 201 John, 201.\\nGraduates, college, 260.\\nGrant, 40, 61; conditions thereof, 62, 103.\\nGrantees, names of, 01 claim of, 01.\\nGraveyards, 54, 104 history of, 233.\\nGregg, Hugh, sketch of, 353; Dr. Samuel,\\n211: letter of, 248; sketch of, 442; Sam-\\nuel, Esq., sketch of, 442; David, 9.\\nHarris, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nHaverhill, 38.\\nHayward, Rev. Sylvanus, 73.\\nHazelton, Gerry W., Esq., sketch of, 177;\\nresponse of, 179.\\nHills, Cochran s, 299; Bradford s, 300,301;\\nClark s, 301; Joe English, 302, 304.\\nHenniker, 40.\\nHogg, Robert, sketch of, 423 Abner, sketch\\nof, 424.\\nHistory, Ecclesiastical, 103.\\nHoilis Association, 108.\\nHooper, Jacob, sketch of, 434.\\nHonor, Roll of, 263.\\nHymns, Centennial, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19.\\nIncorporation, 47.\\nIndians, tribes of, 303.\\nInhabitants, number of, 44, 459.\\nIreland, 35, 30, 38,50, 95.\\nJames the First, 36; the Second, 37.\\nJoe English, friendship of, 304; death of,\\n305 memories of, 309.\\nJones, Joshua, sketch of, 444; Capt. Eph-\\nraim, sketch of, 445.\\nKelso, William, sketch of, 383.\\nKelley, Dr. E. G., sketch of, 213; letter of,\\n253.\\nLaconia, 06.\\nLamson, Capt. John, 9 Joseph, sketch of,\\n419; Rev. William, D.D. 430\\nLangdeil, Livermore, sketch of, 435.\\nLawyers, 99.\\nLivingston, Robert, 439.\\nLocalities, business and interesting, 299.\\nLondonderry, 35 origin of 37, 40.\\nLovewell, Zacheus, 41, 63, 65; Capt. John,\\n65.\\nLynch, Dr. Samuel, 215 Maurice, sketch of,\\n438.\\nMast Road, 454.\\nMcAllister, John, sketch of, 386.\\nMcCollom, Alexander. 55; sketch of, 411;\\nDr. Alexander, sketch of, 214.\\nMcCurdy, Jesse, Esq. 201.\\nMcGregore, Rev. Mr. 50.\\nMcLaughlen, sketch of, 3r9.\\nMcMillen, Dr. Hugh, 209, 249 Dea. Archi-\\nbald, sketch of, 391 John, sketch of, 362\\nDaniel, sketch of, 362.\\nMcNeil, William, sketch of, 352; Dea. Wil-\\nliam, 55, 123 sketch of, 388.\\nManchester, 40, 304.\\nManufacturing Establishments, 224.\\nMarden, Dr. Daniel, 212; Lemuel, sketch of,\\n377; Jonathan, 378; Samuel, sketch of,\\n378.\\nMarshal, Chief, 12 aids, 12.\\nMason, John T. 42, 66, 67.\\nMasonian heirs, 65, 67 grant, 68.\\nMeeting-houses, 103, 105, 107, 126.", "height": "3387", "width": "1970", "jp2-path": "historyofnewbost01cogs_0556.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "469\\nMerriam, Rev. Franklin, 145.\\nMerchants, 250.\\nMerrimac, 38.\\nMiles, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nMills, 103.\\nMinisterial Fund, 147.\\nMoor, Rev. S. 50; call of, 109; installation\\nof, 112; marriage, 113 death, 114; his\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0widow and children, 114, 115.\\nMoore, Kev. Mr. 117; letter of, 251.\\nMoor. Dea. William, sketch of, 418.\\nMoorhead, Rev. Mr. 50.\\nMorgan, Zechariah, sketch of, 436.\\nMorrill, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nMorrison, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nMortality, Bills of, 233.\\nMurders, 228.\\nNarraganset- towns, 41, 63.\\nNew Boston, first called, 40, 47; supplies her\\nwar quotas, 453, 455.\\nNuffield, 38.\\nOfficers, town, 255.\\nOld Style, 05.\\nOrthodox, minister, 103.\\nOtis, Thomas, sketch of, 445.\\nPaige, Kev. Mr. 117.\\nrarkinson, Rev. Royal, 20, 405; Robert,\\nsketch of, 404.\\nTatten, Matthew, 71, 105, 106 Samuel, 105,\\n106.\\nPatterson, Dea. Robert, 123 sketch of, 390.\\nPeabody, Dr. Nathaniel, sketch of, 212 Isaac,\\nsketch of, 397.\\nPerkins, Dr. James, 210.\\nPeterborough, 40.\\nPhipps, Sir William, 61.\\nPine-trees, 454.\\nPoems, W. R. Cochran s, 75; Mrs. S. T.\\nWason s, 309.\\nPopulation, 459.\\nPresbyteiiau Church, 52; organized, 113;\\nmembers of, 119.\\nPresbyterians, 95, 96.\\nPresident, 12; Vice, 12.\\nPounds, 235.\\nPotter, Hon. C. E. 304.\\nPreaching, desired, 107.\\nRichards, Luther, sketch of, 395.\\nRoads, 235.\\nRevolution, war of, 49.\\nRiver, Piscataquog, 41, 106.\\nRussell, Kev. T. C. 19, 145.\\nSchools, first appropriation for, 157; districts\\nand first committee, 157.\\nSchool Fund, how obtained, 148; lost, 149.\\nSchool teachers, list of, 169.\\nSchools, Sabbath, first organized, 325.\\nScotch, 35; Scotch Irish, 44, 95, 96.\\nScotland, 35, 95.\\nSession House, 125.\\nSettlement, town, 43.\\nSimpson, John, 41, 02, 64.\\nSleigh, Rev. Mr. 117.\\nSmith, Thomas, sketch of, 349; Dea. John,\\nsketch of, 349 Dea. Thomas, sketch of,\\n350.\\nSociety, Presbyterian, organized, 129.\\nStarrett, David, sketch of, 427.\\nStone, Rev. Josiah, 143, 144.\\nSuicides, 22S.\\nTeachers, school, 109 music, 170.\\nTewksbury, Amos W., Esq., sketch of, 420.\\nThornton, Dr. Matthew, 49, 207; anecdotes\\nof, 208.\\nTiconderoga, 65.\\nTown meeting, the first, 47; other, 48, 98.\\nTurf and twidge, 50.\\nTyng, Eleazer, 64.\\nUlster, 37.\\nVardy, Luke, 41, 65.\\nVolunteers, names of, 263 tribute to, 263.\\nWarren, Josiah, sketch of, 415.\\nWason, Dea. Robert, 120; sketch of, 390;\\nElbridge, 390; his residence, 312; Rev.\\nHiram, sketch of, 316; response of, 319;\\nDr. Horace, 211 George A. 12; Mrs. S.\\nT. 11, 12, 15, 17, 18; sketch of, 307; poem\\nof, 309.\\nWalker, Andrew, sketch of, 355.\\nWentworth, B. and J. 44.\\nWhipple, Dr. John, 210, 249; John, sketch\\nof, 432; Dr. Robert, 432;\\nWhite, Dea. Robert, 51, 111; sketch of, 387.\\nWhiting, Capt. 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