{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3506", "width": "2156", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3352", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3352", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3363", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "tf", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3292", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nHISTORY OF NE\u00c2\u00a5 IPSWICH,\\nFKOxTI ITS\\nFIRST GRANT IN MDCCXXXVI.\\nTO THE PRESENT TIME:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0WITH\\nGENEALOGICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL FAMILIES, AND ALSO\\nTHE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION,\\nSEPTEMBER 11, 1S50,\\nBOSTON:\\nGOULD AND LINCOLN,\\n59 WASHINGTON STREET.\\n1852.", "height": "3392", "width": "1988", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PRINTED BY THOMAS PRINCE,\\nRoxbury, Mass.\\nHA", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL APPLETON, ESQ.\\nWHOSE PRIVATE WORTH AND PUBLIC BENEFACTIONS HAVE\\nADDED NEW LITSTRE TO AN HONORABLE NAME\\nWHOSE RECOLLECTIONS OF DISTANT EVENTS HAVE CONTRIBUTED\\nMUCH THAT IS INTERESTING IN THESE PAGES\\nAND BY WHOSE ENCOURAGING PATRONAGE THEY HAVE\\nBEEN STIMULATED IN THEIR EFFORTS, AND\\nTHUS ARE ENABLED TO PRESENT\\nIT IN AN ATTRACTIVE FORM,\\nTHIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED\\nBy the authors.\\nBoston, Sept. 11, 1852.", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIST AND LOCATION OF THE ENGRAVINGS.\\nL Map of the Town.\\n2. View in the Village (Centre street.)\\n3. View of Whitlemore Hill,\\n4. Plot of the location of the township, 1736,\\n5. Portion of an old map, shewing the original location of the towns\\nand how they were affected by running the State line,\\n6. View of the Town House and Academy,\\n7. View of the second Meeting House, built 1757,\\n8. View of the third Meeting House, built 1770,\\n9. Plan of the lower floor in the same,\\n10. View of the fourth Meeting House, built 1812,\\n11. Sketch of ihe Centre School House about 1815,\\n12. Sketch of the old Academy,\\n13. Plan of the Centre Village, 1850,\\n14. View of the Appleton House,\\n15. Portrait of Hon. Samuel Appleton,\\n16. Residence of Mrs. Everett,\\n17; Residence of Joseph Barrett,\\nIB. Portrait of President Jesse Appleton,\\n19. View of the Ainsworth House,\\n20. View of Knight s House, formerly C. Barrett,\\n21. View of Residence of George Barrett,\\n22. Portrait of Charles Barrett,\\n23. Portrait of Samuel Balchelder,\\n24. Portrait of Benjamin Champney,\\n25. Portrait of Jonas Chickering,\\n26. View of ihe Judge Farrar House,\\n27. Portrait of Judge Farrar,\\n28. View of the Gould House,\\n29. Portrait of Dea. N. D. Gould,\\n30. Former Residence of Capt. Hoar,\\n31. View of the Kidder Mansion,\\n32. Portrait of Isaiah Kidder,\\n33. Residence of Rev. Mr. Lee,\\n34. Residence of Jesse Stearns,\\n35. Residence of Edward M. Isaacs,\\n9\\n25\\n28\\n134\\n144\\n150\\n151\\n160\\n196\\n199\\n286\\n307\\n308\\n318\\n322\\n324\\n320\\n330\\n330\\n333\\n335\\n347\\n349\\n363\\n364\\n381\\n381\\n391\\n408\\n412\\n416\\n423\\n446", "height": "3389", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nCHAP, I. Phvsical History.\\nLocation, 9; boundaries, 10; form, 10; elevation, 10; mountains, 10; Turkey\\nHills, 10 Boundary mountains, 10, 12 Kidder Mountain, 11 Flat Mountain,\\n11; Barrett Mountain, 11; Pratt Mountain, 11; Governor s Hill, 11; Town Hill,\\n12; Knight s Hill, 12; Stratton s Hill, 12; Whittemore Hill, 12; Drift Hills, 13;\\nStreams, 14 Souliegan, 14 Adams Brook, 15 Saw Mill Brook, 15; Patch s\\nBrook, 15; Jo. Kidder s Brook, 16; Fordvvay, 16; Ponds, 16; Binney Pond, 16;\\nHoar Pond, 16; Pratt Pond, 17; Valley of the Souhegan, 17 Climate, 17; Fo-\\nrest Trees, 19; Wild Fruits, 20 Orchards, 20 Grain, 20; Wild Animals, 20;\\nFarming, 21.\\nCHAP. H. History of the Land Title.\\nGrant of New Hampshire to John Mason, 22 his title contested and confirm-\\ned, 22; Massachusetts Grants, 23; Grant of this township to Ipswich petitioners,\\n23; derivation of name Ipswich, 23 petition and grant, 24 original plot, 25\\nrecords lost, 35 petition and names of Ipswich grantees, 26 transfer to New\\nHampshire, 27; title lost, 28; ancient map, 28; Masonian proprietors, 29; grant\\nof the township, 29 Masonian charter of 1750, 30 acceptance, 32 limits and\\nextent of the township, 32 apparent injustice, 33 mutilations of the township,\\n33 difficulties respecting Striptown line, 34 adjustments, 35 plotting of the\\nfarms, 36; Act of Incorporation 1762, 37 renewed 1766, 38 interregnum, 39;\\nBoundary lines, 39.\\nCHAP. III. Earliest Civil History.\\nEarly explorations and scouting parties, 40; traces of Indians, 41; plotting of\\nthe town, 42; early improvements, 42 earliest settlers, 43 progress of the set-\\ntlement, 45; interruption by the French and Indian war of 1744, 45; capture of\\nJohn Fitch and family, 45 desertion of the town, 46 Capt. Tucker remains,\\n47; return of settlers, 47; means of defence, 47; recapitulation, 48.\\nCHAP. IV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Proprietary History, 1749-62.\\nMasonian grantees, 50 their first meeting, 51 privileges of Massachusetts\\ngrantees, 51 compensation for mutilated lots, 51 apportionment of lands, 52\\nallotment, 52 list of proprietors, 53 erection of saw and grist mill, 53 John\\nChandler and his successors, 55; bridge at Capt. Hoar s, 56; provision for\\npreaching, 56; conditions of charter, how far fulfilled, 56; collection of taxes, 57;\\nland of delinquents sold, 58 change of officers, 58 burial-place laid out, 59\\nthe common, 59; first paupers, 59; tax list 1763, 60; recapitulation, 61.", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAP. V. Incorporation to the Revolution, 1762-75.\\nFirst town meeting, 64; number of inliabitants, 64; town sued by Kidder and\\nParker, 64 ponnd built, 65 Dr. Preston s tax, 65 town municipally divided,\\n65; selectmen not to be paid, 65; remonstrance against liquor licenses, 66; non-\\nimportation resolves, 66 stock of ammunition, 66; burial clothes, 66 case of\\nJohn Holland, 66; measures to secure representation, 67 progress of settlement,\\n68; Col. Kidder the first magistrate, 68; anecdote, 68; deaths and removals, 69;\\nraising of Wilton meeting-house, 69; valuation, 69; tax list 1774, 70.\\nCHAP. VI. Revolutionary History, 1775-6.\\nDea. Appleton chosen delegate to Exeter, 72 his instructions, 72 stock of\\nammunition increased, 72 Committee of Inspection and Correspondence, 72\\nmilitary exercises, 73 alarm at Concord fight, 73 march of minute-men, 74\\nThomas Heald commands, 74; part return, 75; enlistment of Capt. Town s com-\\npany, 74; company roll, 76; stationed at Medford, 76; battle of Bunker Hill, 77;\\nthe coward, 77; Josiah Walton wounded, 78; seige of Boston, 79; Rev. S. Far-\\nrar chosen delegate to Provincial Congress, 81; his instructions, 81 duties of the\\nCommittee of Safety, 81 case of David Hills, 82 William Shattuck chosen\\nrepresentative, 85 his instructions, 86; volunteers for Canada and Lake Cham-\\nplain, 86; test papers, 87; British deserter surrendered, 87; proceedings against\\nlories, 88; deserter, 88; privations, 89 anecdote of female zeal, 87 Capt.\\nSmith s company to White Plains, 90; Capt. Heald to Ticonderoga, 90; instruc-\\ntions to representative 1776, 90.\\nCHAP. VII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Revolutionary History, 1777-80.\\nUse of the town ammunition, 93 enlistments for three years, 93 small pox,\\n94; Capt. Brown s company to meet Burgoyne, 93 battle of Hubbardston, 95\\nCapt. Parker s company, 95; their dress and accoutrements, 95; roll, 96 skir-\\nmish, 97; battle of Bennington, 98; Coos alarm, 98; company at taking of Bur-\\ngoyne, 98 instructions to representative 1777, 99 average for services of sol-\\ndiers, 99; volunteers to Rhode Island, 100 beef rate, 101 sundry enlistments,\\n101 last alarm, 101 list of revolutionary soldiers, 102 disabled, 102 taxes,\\n103; prompt and full supplies, 103; depreciation of currency, 103; amounts paid\\nsoldiers, 104; vouchers, 105; expedients during the war, 106; census, 106.\\nCHAP. VIII. State and Federal Constitutions.\\nTimothy Farrar delegate to form State Constitution, 107; his instructions, 108;\\ndraft of constitution, 109; committee to report on it, 109 town meeting to con-\\nsider it, 109; regulations, 110; proceedings, 110; Rev. Mr. Farrar s report. 111;\\nsubsequent drafts, 113; instructions to representatives, 114; paper currency, 116;\\nConstitution of the United States, 116; returned soldiers, 119; prospects at close\\nof the war, 117; new pound, 118 suit of Dr. Preston, 118 town library, 118\\nwarning out of town, 119; recapitulation, 119.\\nCHAP. IX. History of the last half century.\\nPolitics. Reading of Washington s Farewell Address, 121; political harmo-\\nny, 121 first democrat, 122 embargo, 122 petition to Jefierson, 122 his\\nreply, 124; burning in effigy, 124 war of 1812, 125 enlistments, 125 peace,\\n125. Turnpike, opposition to it, 126 its cost and construction, 127; high\\nbridge, 128; post-olhce, 128; postmasters, 128; receipts 129; stages, postriders,\\n129; first stage-coach and passengers, 129; importance of the coach and driver.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. iii\\n130; railroads, 131 maintenance of the poor, 131; poor-house and house of cor-\\nrection, 132 regulations, 132 townhouse built, 133 celebrations of independ-\\nence, 134 musters, 135 Bethel Lodge, 135 abduction of a young lady, 135\\ncolony for the West, 136; taxes in 1801, 136 amusements and customs, 136;\\nconviviality and intemperance, 127; New Year s Gift, 138 Ladies\\nLooking Glass, 138; revival of religion 1810-11, 138; tythingmen, 139; houses\\nin the village, when built, 139 controversies, 140.\\nCHAP. X. Meeting-Houses.\\nFirst House, about 1740, 143 meetings at private houses, 143. Second\\nHouse, 1759. Third House, 145; difficulties about location, 145; petition to\\nGeneral Court, 146; order of the Court, 147; raising in 1768, 148; disposition of\\npews, 148; galleries finished, 149; opposition continued, 149; cushion for pulpit,\\n149; former house presented to the town, 150; converted into horse stables, 150;\\ndemolished by students, 150; description of old meeting-house, 151; its dis-\\ncomforts, 154 the congregation, 155 the services, 155; the intermission, 156;\\nSabbath customs, 156; repairs, 157; used by Baptists, 157; demolished in 1816,\\n157 relics in the town-house, 157. Fourth House, 158 controversy about\\nlocation, 158; settled by a conmiittee, 159; the raising, 159; contract withSeth\\nWheeler, 159 sale of pews, 159 dedication, 160; regulations, 160; subscrip-\\ntion for a bell, 160 presented to town with conditions, 161; stove, 161; sold to\\nFirst Church and Society, 161 its dilapidated state, 162 Baptist House,\\n162. Unitarian House, 163. Methodist House, 164.\\nCHAP. XL ^Ecclesiastical History.\\nEarly provision for preaching, 164; preachers, 164; call to Peter Powers, 165;\\nhis principles on baptism, 165; salary offered, 165; acceptance, 166; subsequent\\nrelease, 167; call to Deliverance Smith, 167; declined, 167; Stephen Farrar\\nchosen first pastor, 167; his salary, 167; letter of acceptance, 168; ordaining\\ncouncil, 169; ordination, 169 increase of the salary, 169 his supply of wood,\\n170; organization of tVie church, 170; church covenant, 170 original members,\\n172; deacons, 172; imperfect records, 172; additions to church, 173; great re-\\nvival 1785, 173 Mr. Farrar s death, 174 call to Experience Porter, 175 re-\\nconsideration, 175; revival of 1811, 175 call to Rev. Richard Hall, 175; letter\\nof acceptance, 176; ordination, 176; his ministry, 177; new church articles and\\ncovenant, 178; Mr. Hall s illness, 179 town objects to paying salary, 179 his\\nseparation and death, 180; town ministry terminates, 180; ministerial fund, 181;\\nFirst Congregational Society organized, 181 Rev. L R. Barbour settled, 181.\\ndismissed, 182; Rev. Charles Walker settled, 182 his success, 182; difficulties\\nin the church, 183; retrospect, 184 contributions, 185 Sabbath school, 185.\\nBaptist Church origin, 185 organization, 186 pastors, 186 relations to the\\nCongregational Church, 187; controversy with the town, 188; present condition,\\n188. Unitarian Society, 189. LTniversalist preacher, 189. Methodist Society,\\n189. Shakers, 189; delusions, 190; Millerism, 191; church music, 191 early\\ncustoms, 191 singers seats, 192; choristers, 192.\\nCHAP. XH. Educational History.\\nFirst school, 194; first teacher, 194; first school-house, 195 school tax, 195\\ngrammar school, 195; school fund, 196; districts, 197; character of schools, 197.\\nAcademy, 197; compact of the founders, 197; donations, 198; first Preceptor,\\nJohn Hubbard, 198 building erected, 199 act of incorporation, 199 endow-\\nment, 202; regulations, 202 union with Dartmouth College, 203 donations of\\nAbbot, Payson and Barrett, 204 Samuel Worcester, 204 David Palmer and", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "iv CONTENTS.\\nWarren Pierce, 204; reputation of the school, 204 distinguished students, 204;\\nperiod of depression, 205 Joseph Milliken, 205 laws, 205; funds, 205 O. S.\\nTaylor, 205; his great success, 206; subsequent depression, 206; rebellion, 206;\\nnew academy building, 206 Earl Smith, 206; S. Appleton s donation of globes\\nand books, 207 Isaac Appieton, 207 library of Deniosthenian Society, 208\\nphilosophical apparatus obtained, 208; R. A. Coffin, 208 S. T. Allen, 208\\nCharles Shedd, 208; Students Hall, 209 inadequate funds, 209 centennial\\ndonation of S. Appieton, 209; list of preceptors, 210; list of trustees, 210; notice\\nof John Hubbard, 210 Deniosthenian Society, 211 Social Fraternity, 211\\ninfluence of the Academy on the town, 212; professional men born in town, 213;\\nschool teachers, 213; list of graduates at colleges, 213; educated men not gradu-\\nates, 214; lawyers, 215 physicians, 215 missionaries, 217 publications con-\\nnected withthe town, 219.\\nCHAP. Xni. ^Trade and Manufactures.\\nSaw and grist mill, 221; fulling mill, 221; linseed oil mill, 221; oatmeal, 221;\\nmalting, 222; earthen ware, 222 pot and pearl ashes, 222; glass, 222; Robert\\nHewes, 222; failure, 222 first cotton factory, 224; second cotton factory, 225\\namount and description of goods manufactured, 225 picking machine, 226\\nDavis factory, 226; Rhoades factory, 226; Charles Robbins, 226; Ebenezer\\nStowell, 226; manufacture of velvets, checks, ginghams, c. 226; power looms,\\n227; small demand for American goods, 227; water loom factory, 228; Brown s\\nmill, 228 Souhegan factory, 228 James Sanderson, 229 blue dyeing, 229\\ncarding machine, 229 John Everett, 230 satinets, 230 King Taft, 231\\nThomas Adams sawmill, 231 Zechariah Adams mill, 231 Fletcher s mill,\\n231 Farrar s mill, 231; Barrett s mill, 232; Hildreth s mill, 232; starch mills,\\n232 traders, 232 taverns, 234 banks, 235 printing, 236 Mr. Ide s testa-\\nment, 227; chairs, 238; scythes, 238; carpenters, 239; blacksmiths, 239; shoe-\\nmakers, 239 hatters, 239 tailors, 240 saddlers, 240 bakers, 240 masons\\nand painters, 240 wheelwrights, 241; watchmakers, 241; tinmen, 241; statis-\\ntics of trade and manufactures 1850, 241.\\nCHAP XIV. Miscellaneous Subjects.\\nMilitary affairs, 243; first company, 243; company of 1771, 244; divided, 244;\\nofficers, 245; the troop, 245; military fete 1816, 245 grenadiers, 246; juvenile\\ncompanies, 246; students company, 247; fires, 247; casualties, 249; roads and\\nbridges, 250 working at highways, 253 highway taxes, 254 carriages, 254\\ntemperance reform, 255 slaves, 256 vital statistics, 257 burial of tlie dead,\\n259 burial grounds, 260 population, 261 valuation, 261 fire department,\\n261; music, 262; singing schools, 262; teachers, 262; Middlesex Musical Socie-\\nty, 263; Hubbard Society, 263 military bands, 264; Bethel Lodge of Freema-\\nsons, 264; Watatic Lodge of Odd Fellows, 265; bounties on wild animals, 265;\\ntornado, 265; gales, 265 officers of the Masonian proprietors, 266; list of town\\nofficers, 266; occupants of farms, 271.\\nPart Second. Family History and Biography, 289. Families arranged in\\nalphabetical order, with the exception of a few at the end.\\nAdditions and Corrections, 447.\\nCentennial Celebration, 449.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nIn the summer of 1849, one of the authors, (Frederic Kidder)\\nvisited his native town, to repair the tombstones of his ancestors,\\nand collect such materials as he might, towards a family history.\\nIn wandering over the old burying-ground, he was struck with\\nthe number of the great and good resting there, whose names and\\ndeeds were likely soon to be forgotten. On looking over the Town\\nRecords of the period of the Revolution, he could not but admire\\nthe firm and bold resolves of the citizens, their clear views of re-\\npublican principles and constitutional liberty, and their self-sacri-\\nficing patriotism. He desired that some one should chronicle the\\nhistory of the town, before the loss of records, or the death of the\\nremaining few whose memory extended back to early times, should\\nrender it too late. After unavailing efforts to prevail on some one\\nto undertake the task, he concluded to attempt it himself.\\nOn inquiry of those best able to give information, he was told,\\nthat materials enough to make a dozen pages relative to the history\\nof the town could not be found. He however persevered. His\\nfirst step was to employ Mr. James Spaulding to copy the inscrip-\\ntions upon the tombstones, and make some extracts from the Town\\nRecords. The Records of the Masonian Proprietors were soon\\nafter obtained, together with an almost obliterated plan of the town\\nand a series of inquiries was addressed to persons supposed to have\\nsome knowledge of important events in town, or who had access to\\nold records and documents. The Archives of the State, at Ports-\\nmouth and Concord, were carefully consulted, as well as an im-\\nmense mass of manuscripts at the State House in Boston. The\\nRecords of old Concord, Chelmsford and other towns, from which\\nthe earliest settlers came, were also put in requisition and thus a\\nconsiderable mass of materials relative to the Colonial and Masoni-\\nan charters, the progress of the settlement, the names and origin of\\nthe first settlers, and the part taken in the Revolutionary war, and\\nB", "height": "3377", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Vi INTRODUCTION.\\nthe adoption of the New Hampshire Constitution, was obtained, at\\nno small expenditure of time and money.\\nWhen it was decided to have a Centennial Jubilee, these papers\\nwere placed at the disposal of Dr. Augustus A. Gould, and formed\\nthe material basis of the historical part of his Address on that occa-\\nsion. The Address was, for the most part, an abstract of the docu-\\nments in hand and instead of publishing it in that form, as re-\\nquested, it was determined by the two gentlemen to unite their\\nlabors, and by amplifying it into a substantial history, give a per-\\nmanent form to materials which had been obtained with great diffi-\\nculty, and which it was by no means probable that any one would\\nsubsequently be either disposed or able to collect again.\\nTo this object they have devoted much of their leisure during\\nthe last two years, together with much time stolen from hours\\nwhich should have been given to repose. Of the number of letters\\nwritten, and volumes consulted, of the family records, account books\\nand loose papers culled over, and of the hours spent in settling\\ndates and doubtful points, none can conceive except such as have\\nbeen engaged in similar pursuits and none but an antiquarian, or\\na real lover of his native town, would have undertaken the task.\\nThe early history during the Colonial and Masonian charters,\\nthe Revolutionary and Political History, and the Biographical and\\nGenealogical Sketches, with the exception of the Gould and Prich-\\nard families and a few others, were mainly written by Mr. Kidder.\\nThe Topography and Maps, the Physical History, the account of\\nMeeting-Houses, the Ecclesiastical and Educational History, the\\nList of Occupants of Farms, c., were mainly prepared by Dr.\\nGould. In other portions they have labored jointly and each has\\naided the other throughout.\\nOf individuals from whom they have derived essential aid, they\\nwould distinguish above others Mr. James Spaulding, who, though\\nunder the disability of entire deafness, had collected numerous doc-\\numents relative to the town and its inhabitants, with the intention,\\natone time, of himself publishing them. Some of these he allowed\\nto be used in the preparation of the Centennial Address and that\\nhe might not interfere with them afterwards, generously tendered\\nthe whole collection to the authors of the present work, believing\\nthat such a course would best secure the object all had in view.\\nBeing a resident in town, he was able to elicit from aged persons\\nmany interesting particulars respecting early times, and to furnish\\ngenealogical data and other valuable facts, which would otherwise\\nhave been wanting.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. vii\\nFrom the venerable Isaac Appleton of Dublin, whose memory\\nruns back through a period of eighty years, much curious informa-\\ntion has been received and to his brother, Samuel Appleton of\\nBoston, they are almost equally indebted.\\nFrom Mr. Josiah Walton of Temple, have been received the\\ninvaluable Journals of his father, containing incidents relative to\\nthe Revolution, and subsequent times, and almost the only record\\nextant of the Church and of the Deaths, for a period of forty years.\\nFrom Messrs. Samuel Holden, John Gould, Thaddeus Taylor\\nand other aged persons, much of the previously unwritten history\\nhas been obtained.\\nHon. Samuel Batchelder furnished a valuable account of the rise\\nand progress of Manufactures in town.\\nHon. Timothy Farrar has heartily co-operated, and has prepar-\\ned the Family Histories of the Farrars, Prestons and their connec-\\ntions, as well as many facts throughout the work.\\nFrom Dea. N. D. Gould, who for forty years was conversant with\\nall the transactions in town, much information has been obtained.\\nMr. George M. Champney furnished the History of the Champ-\\nney Family and the Statistics of Manufactures at the present time.\\nTo Benjamin Champney they are indebted for most of the\\nsketches of landscapes, public buildings, and some private resi-\\ndences.\\nTo Samuel G. Drake, Esq., the historian and antiquary, they\\nare indebted for many indications of the sources of information, as\\nwell as for some materials.\\nAmong numerous others we may finally mention Hon. John\\nPreston, Rev. Samuel Lee, Rev. Addison Brown, Dr. T. H. Coch-\\nran, George Fox, and others, as having taken a special interest in\\nforwarding the work. Many ladies also, have contributed informa-\\ntion of much interest.\\nThe heads of individuals, as well as the wood cuts of private\\nbuildings, have been furnished by the families interested, and at\\ntheir expense.\\nThe general Map of the town has been made from inspection and\\nrecollection, and not from actual survey the course of the streams\\nbeing in a great measure laid down from the recollections of juven-\\nile fishing excursions. The plan of the Central Village is also de-\\nlineated by calculation only. Dr. Cochran has greatly aided in\\nthese endeavors.\\nThe subject of local history is becoming every day of more im-\\nportance, and although these pages may have but an unimportant", "height": "3342", "width": "1988", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "I\\nviii INTRODUCTION.\\nbearing on general history, it is mainly composed of facts before\\nunpublished, and is so much added to New England history. Few,\\nbesides those who have spent some portion of their lives in the\\ntown, can be supposed to be interested in all the details but to the\\ncitizens, for whom it was designed, we presume that all facts\\nwhich tend to exhibit the progress of the town in its settlement,\\nits inhabitants, its enterprises and institutions, its social manners\\nand customs. Sec, however trivial they may seem to others, will\\nprove interesting. Indeed, some things have been recorded, not\\nfor any importance which they may hold in the estimation of any\\none at the present moment, but for the interest that may attach to\\nthem when another century shall have rolled away.\\nThat they shall give entire satisfaction to their townsmen, they\\nby no means flatter themselves. Errors will doubtless be found.\\nIt will be felt that too much has been said of some and too little of\\nothers. But they have endeavored to make the best use of the facts\\nin their possession and had persons been as faithful in giving in-\\nformation as the authors have been in soliciting it, many errors\\nwould have been avoided, and more completeness gained. In their\\nestimate of individual character or acts, they may have unwittingly\\ngiven offence. They know how sensitive one is, and should be, to\\nthe peculiarities of his ancestors and, therefore, anecdotes which\\nto the general reader would appear harmless, might prove offensive\\nto relatives. To say nothing of the dead except what is good,\\nis an ancient and most charitable maxim but it is by no means\\none which can be admitted in impartial history. So, too, in regard\\nto points which have been matters of controversy, it is very difficult\\nto avoid seeming to be a partizan, however carefully language may\\nbe chosen. They do not expect or wish to escape criticism and\\nwhether censured or praised, they cannot be deprived of the satis-\\nfaction, in their own minds, at having been the diligent and well-\\nmeaning chroniclers of their native town.\\nBoston, September, 1S52.", "height": "3389", "width": "1958", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "NE\u00c2\u00a5 IPSWICH.\\nCHAPTER I,\\nPHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nLOCATION BOUNDARIES FACE OF THE COUNTRY MOUNTAINS AND\\nHILLS STREAMS GEOLOGY CLIMATE WILD ANIMALS FOREST\\nTREES AND WILD FRUITS SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS CAPABILITIES\\nFOR FARMING.\\nvT and uninteresting as\\nmay be the local\\nfeatures of any place to\\nthe stranger s eye, they\\nassume the highest interest Avhen\\nlooked upon as the familiar land-\\n,r _ V marks of our birth-place\\n^v or our home. Around them\\ncluster the most hallowed\\nH* ^Nr*!s?ai,^i\u00c2\u00abl*#IW* associations; and no delin-\\neations, whether of the pencil or the pen, are contemplated\\nwith more delight, than those which represent the scenes\\nmost familiar to our eyes, with which our own earliest\\nacts are identified, or where our revered ancestors lived\\nand toiled.\\nThe town of New Ipswich is situated in Hillsborough\\ncounty. New Hampshire, in latitude 42\u00c2\u00b0 44 north, and lon-\\ngitude 71\u00c2\u00b0 50 west. It is on the southern margin of the\\nState, adjoining Massachusetts is 50 miles from Concord, 70\\n2", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "10 PHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nmiles from Portsmouth, and 50 miles northwestwardly from\\nBoston. It has on the south, the towns of Ashby and Ash-\\nburnham on the west, Rindge on the north, Sharon and\\nTemple on the east. Mason.\\nBy a survey made in 1S04, its boundaries are described as\\nfollows beginning at the northeast corner, running north,\\n70\u00c2\u00b0 40 west, on the line of Temple and Sharon, six miles, 60\\nrods; thence south 1\u00c2\u00b0 30 east on Rindge, 5 miles, 85 rods;\\nthence east 8\u00c2\u00b0 south on the State line, and the towns of Ash-\\nburnham and Ashby, 6 miles, 93 rods thence north 2\u00c2\u00b0 west\\non Mason, 5 miles, 93 rods, to the point first mentioned,\\nbeing a mean of a little over five and a quarter miles from\\nnorth to south, by six and a quarter from east to west, and\\ncontaining an area of about 21,000 acres, of which about one\\nhundred are covered with water.\\nIts present shape is a rhomboid, or oblique quadrangle,\\ninclining to northwest and southeast. Since its first plotting,\\nhowever, its territory has been subjected to various transposi-\\ntions and curtailments, which will be fully detailed in sub-\\nsequent pages. It is situated upon the first considerable rise\\nof land above the seaboard in that direction and as we ap-\\nproach it from the east, over the Turkey Hills, it would seem\\nto be very considerably elevated. But a corresponding de-\\nscent, as we enter the town, reduces the elevation of its prin-\\ncipal water courses above the sea to about 150 feet. The\\naverage altitude of its territory, however, may be about 400\\nfeet.\\nThe surface is highly diversified with mountain, hill and\\ndale and there is no level area, many acres in extent, within\\nits limits. The principal elevations consist of a spur from the\\nBoundary Mountains, which range through Lyndeboro Tem-\\nple and Greenfield, running obliquely across the town, from\\nnear the middle of the nordiern boundary, in a southwesterly\\ncourse, to near the southwest corner, thus separating the town\\ninto two divisions, one below and one beyond the mountains\\nthe westerly or transmontane portion forming a steppe whose\\ngeneral level is much higher than the easterly portion. The\\nrange is broken by ravines into more or less isolated summits,\\nwhich are designated by different names. The northernmost,", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "MOUNTAINS. 11\\nfrom its having been owned by Col. Reuben Kidder, is called\\nthe Kidder Mountain. It is of an unusually symmetrical\\nform when seen from the east, and being more isolated than\\nthe rest, is also more conspicuous. It is about 1000 feet\\nhigh. On the north it is separated from the mountains in\\nTemple by a deep ravine through which the old countrey\\nroad towards Canada, laid out by the original proprietors,\\nused to run. On the south, after descending somewhat, the\\nsummit expands into a sort of table-land, and is known as the\\nFlat Mountain. Separated from this, by another ravine\\nthrough which the old turnpike passes, is a still less elevated\\nmountain, usually known as the Barrett Mountain or\\nBarrett Pasture. This extends, in a continuous ridge, for\\nthree or four miles, gradually increasing in height, and at its\\nsouthern portion is denominated Pratt Mountain. Just\\nover the boundary of the town, in Ashburnham, the range\\nterminates abruptly in the Watatic Mountain, which has an\\naltitude of about 1800 feet.* It is intermediate between Mo-\\nnadnock and Wachusett Mountains, and about equidistant\\nfrom them. These three isolated mountains form three con-\\nspicuous landmarks in travelling from the seaboard towards\\nthe Connecticut River, and some one of them is almost always\\nin sight.\\nBesides these elevations, which are dignified, and not im-\\nproperly, by the name of mountains, the town is still farther\\nhemmed in by elevations which receive the humbler appella-\\ntion of hills. A low ridge between Pratt Momitain and\\nWatatic is called Governor s Hill though from what this ap-\\npellation arose we have been unable to determine as Gov-\\nernor Wentworth once owned a lot a little to the eastward of\\nit, the name might have been applied from that fact. Along\\nthe eastern margin of the town, the western slope of the Tur-\\nWatatic Mountain (sometimes spelled Watahook, Wettetook or Wateticks)\\nmust long have been a resort both for the Indian and White man for purposes of\\nobservation. On a rock at its summit are vestiges of the initials of three persons,\\nwith a date of 1642 or 1662, probably the latter, as the gnawing tooth of time for\\nnearly 200 years has left them nearly illegible. They were probably made by\\nsome persons who were exploring the country, and had ascended this height for\\nan extended view. On the summit is a large pile of stones, which has been\\naccumulated in obedience to an Indian legend, that every one who visited the\\nsummit must add a stone, or become unlucky for life.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "^2 PHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nkey Hills presents an nnhroken barrier. In the early days of\\nthe settlement, this was denominated the Town Hill and\\nindeed most of the earliest settlers at first resided upon it but\\nit has long been familiarly known as Knights Hill, and\\nStratton s Hill. Closing up the southern border is the\\nWhittemore Hill, a very remarkable elevation of a some-\\nwhat semi-conical form, presenting a very abrupt face to the\\neastward, and sloping regularly and gently downwards on the\\nthree other sides, to the level of the Souhegan which bathes\\nits western base. It was evidently produced, geologically\\nspeaking, by an upheaval from the east, the broken edges of\\nthe elevated strata presenting themselves on its abrupt face,\\nwhile all the strata slope strongly to the west, like a pitched\\nroof, the corresponding eastern pitch being wanting. Its\\nsummit affords by far the best prospect of any elevation in the\\ntown. Westvvardly, just peeping over Pratt Mountain, though\\nfar beyond it, is seen the acute pinnacle of Monadnock di-\\nrectly north lies the valley of the town itself, shut in by\\nTemple and the Boundary Mountains nearly every dwelling\\nand the limits of every farm east of the mountains, with the\\nmeanderings of all the streams through the valleys, may be\\nseen from this point. To the south are seen Ashby and\\nAshburnham, and all the region onward to the Watchusett\\nMountain; while to the eastward, a glorious landscape is\\nspread out, extending for something like fifty miles in every\\ndirection, and including nearly the whole area between this\\npoint and the sea-coast. In full and distinct view are the\\ntowns of Groton and Townsend; and still farther in the dis-\\ntance the Merrimac, and the towns along its banks as far\\nas, and even beyond, the remarkable twin mountains (the\\nUncanoonucks) in Goff stown; and then an undefined back-\\ngroimd, from which definite objects can be made out only\\nwhen the light is favorable. As the greater part of Watatic\\nMountain may be seen, with the naked eye, from the summit\\nof the Bunker Hill monument, at eight or nine o clock in the\\nmorning, there is no doubt that the monument might be seen\\nwith the telescope from this hill, under favorable circum-\\nstances. Once we happened to be upon the spot just at sun-\\nset, when the whole region was marbled with patches of", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HILLS. 13\\nsnow, the atmosphere free of smoke, and thus every circnm-\\nstance combined in the most favorable manner for a clear view.\\nEvery thing was distinct, and the outlines of the most distant\\nobjects, onward to the vicinity of the sea, were well defined.\\nNever were we more forcibly impelled to fall in adoration,\\nthan at such a wonderful prospect of God s beautiful world.\\nAnd yet, not one in twenty of the citizens ever thought of\\nvisiting this spot, such a spot as thousands are annually mak-\\ning long pilgrimages and spending large sums to reach, for\\nthe mere pleasure of the prospect.\\nNear the pinnacle of the Whittemore Hill, stands a solitary\\npine tree of peculiar shape, a landmark familiar to the eye of\\nevery citizen it doubtless dates back as far as the settlement\\nof the town, and seems to have been left when the land about\\nit was cleared. In our youthful days it flourished in green\\nold age some years since, the bolt of heaven blasted it and\\nit now stands a leafless frame-work of its former comeliness.\\nAs one of the most notable objects in the town, for a long series\\nof years, and somewhat emblematical of the century which\\nhas passed, and especially for the regard we privately hold for\\nit, as one of the objects most intimately connected with the\\nromitnce of our boyhood, we deem it worthy of perpetuation\\nin this history, and have therefore given its counterfeit pre-\\nsentment in the sketch at the head of the chapter.\\nThe hill west of the village is of a somewhat similar char-\\nacter; and from its summit beautiful prospects to the east\\nand northeast, well worth the trouble of the ascent, may be ob-\\ntained through some of the openings in the eastern hills. The\\nKidder Mountain presents a much more extended prospect,\\nespecially to the westward but in proportion to its greater\\nelevation does the view become indistinct.\\nScattered here and there, especially at the northern portion\\nof the town, are several rounded hills, of from two to three\\nhundred feet elevation above the principal water com ses, of\\nthe kind usually denominated drift kills, composed chiefly of\\ngravel, and rounded boulders and pebbles of granite and quartz,\\nmany of them of great size, brought in by ice or floods from\\nthe northwest the fixed rocks being all metamorphic schists\\nand gneiss. The larger of the granite boulders are used for", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14 PHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nfoundations for buildings, and all other purposes requiring\\ndressed stone. These hills were all well wooded, every part\\nof them readily cultivated, and have afforded some of the best\\nfarms in the town. Of these we may mention the Beech Hill\\non the Kidder Farm, and those on what are known as the\\nBoynton, Gould, Wilson and Richardson farms.\\nIf we now regard the town as situated east of the moun-\\ntains, which we may do without any great violation of reality,\\ninasmuch as not over a dozen lots, out of a hundred or more on\\nand over the mountams, have ever been occupied except for\\npasturage, and look at it as it first breaks on our view in\\npassing up the turnpike, over the brim of Knights Hill, or as\\nwe see it from the Whittemore Hill, we find it to be a\\ndeep, elongated basin, twice as long from north to south as\\nfrom east to west, shut in on all sides by hills which may well\\nbear the name of mountains, somewhat, indeed, like the fabled\\nvalley of Rasselas so that the inhabitants within the valley\\ncan never look beyond their own precincts upon the neighbor-\\ning towns, without ascending some of the heights which skirt\\nit, except indeed towards the northeast, where the Temple\\nand Lyndeboro mountains soon shut off the view in that\\ndirection and in like manner it is so hidden from other towns,\\nthat from whatever direction one approaches it, the location\\nand features of the town burst suddenly upon him. Many\\nsunny slopes are thus presented which favor cultivation, and\\nthe climate is no doubt decidedly meliorated in consequence of\\nthe protection afforded by the range of mountams on the north\\nand west.\\nAs might be at once inferred, from the mountainous walls\\nwhich surround the township, it is well watered by numer-\\nous rivulets flowing down in every direction towards the prin-\\ncipal stream, which occupies the lowest level of the basin.\\nThis stream is the Souhegan,* which has its source in Great\\nThis is found variously spelled Soughagen, Souhegonack, Sowheage, So-\\nhegen, Souhegan it is of course the Indian name, and its signification has not\\nbeen satisfactorily made out. Its proper orthography is said to be Souhega-\\nnash, derived from souheke, a plain, and nash, which is added to inanimate\\nnouns to indicate the plural. River of the Plains might be an appropriate\\nappellation when applied to its lower portions, though quite inapplicable to its\\nbed in this town. Hon. C. E. Poller.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "STREAMS. 15\\nand Little Watatic Ponds in Ashburnham. and soon entering\\nthis town at its southern border, pursues a nearly direct course\\neast of north at first, under the name of South Branch, when\\nit unites with the North Branch, originatmg in Pratt s Pond\\nand the base of Barrett mountain. The united stream con-\\ntinues its course, inclining somewhat more eastwardly, and\\ncrosses the eastern Ime of the town just above Mason Village,\\nfalling at last into the Merrimack, in the town of Merrimack.\\nThe principal tributaries to the Souhegan are as follows,\\nviz. the Adams Brook, arising in the gorge between the Flat\\nMountain and the Barrett Mountain, flowing southwardly\\nalong the base of the mountain range, and receiving also a\\nstream from the north end of the Pond, when the water is\\nhigh, enters the North Branch about a mile below its source.\\nSaw-Mill Brook arises about the base of the Kidder Moun-\\ntain, and flowing through the Kidder and Appleton estates,\\narrives at the Starch Factory, then passes through the inter-\\nvale to the north of the village onward to the Forge, and falls\\ninto the Souhegan half a mile below the High Bridge. It de-\\nrives its name from the fact that in early times a saw-mill,\\nprobably the one erected by the Massachusetts Proprietors,\\nwas situated on it. The existence of such a mill has been\\nwarmly contested and its position, if it ever existed, has been\\nvariously located. That there was such a mill, and that its\\nlocation was either at the old Farrar s Mills, or at the dam a\\nlittle above the Starch Factory, just on the borders of the Ap-\\npleton lot, we think clearly established by the record of the\\nlaying out of a road in 1757.*\\nPatch s Brook has its sources about the Gould and Wilson\\nHills, and flowing in nearly an east direction somewhat south\\nof the school-house, joins the Souhegan just before passing the\\ntown line.\\nThis road was laid out from the road to Mason, beginning near the north-\\neast corner of No. 29, running westerly on lot 30 to Benjamin King s lot (the\\nSmith lot) south of King s house to lot 38 (late John Appleton s wood lot) to\\nOliver Procter s house lot (the Farrar lot) and to the Saw-Mill Brook about ten\\npole above the mill then turning southerly on said lot to the south side of O.\\nProcter s house (the old Academy) and so on to the main road. (P. R. 236)\\nthe latter part evidently answering to the road as now travelled to the Starch\\nFactory. This was many years before Mr. Farrar resided in town and erected\\nthe Grist-mill so well known. A Saw-mill of more recent origin is said to have\\nbeen burnt, near the site of Farrar s Mill.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "16 PHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nThe brook flowing through the village was designated, in\\nthe early records, as Jo. Kidder s Brook and the place\\nwhere the road to Temple and Mason crosses the Saw-Mill\\nBrook, was known as the Fordway.\\nBesides these tributaries of the Souhegan, there are, in\\nthe northwest, streamlets that flow into a large branch of the\\nContoocook, which passes from Sharon through Tophet\\nSwamp, to Jafli-ey, and soon into Peterboro\\nFrom the western slope of the Barrett mountain numerous\\nrivulets flow down, and form a considerable stream, which\\ntakes a southwesterly course, passing out of the town near the\\nmiddle of its western boundary into Rindge, and discharging\\ninto JMenomony (Monomnock, Wanomnock) Pond.\\nAlong the road to Temple, arising in the Wilson farm, a\\nsmall stream runs northwardly, and empties into a branch\\nwhich joins the Souhegan in Wilton.\\nNear the southwest corner of the town, a little beyond the\\nheight of land at that part, is a small pond, usually called the\\nBinney Pond, from which a stream flows south-westwardly\\ninto Ashburnham, and is one of the sources of Miller s River,\\nemptying into the Connecticut.\\nStill another small pond, called Hoar s Pond, covering only\\nfive or six acres, quite unknown to a majority of the inhabit-\\nants, is situated in a little basin upon the height of land at\\nthe southern part of the Knights Hill range, southwest of the\\nWheeler tav6rn. From this a stream issues which flows\\nsouth-eastwardly, and is often suflicient to work a small saw-\\nmill, soon after it enters Mason. W^hen the pond is full, it\\nhas another outlet, whence flows another stream in a southerly\\ndirection passing into Ashby, This is one of the sources of\\nthe Squannicock, a branch of the Nashua, and with other\\nsmall streams at the soutlieast corner of the town, finally\\nenters that river in Townsend.\\nThe fact, as above indicated, that the streams at the four\\ncorners of the town all flow away from the town, and become\\ntributary to as many diflerent trunks, arises from the generally\\nIn laying out the road from the village green, where Dr. Barr formerly re-\\nsided, toward Temple, it reads, and so on to the foard-way over the Saw-ruill\\nBrook, and on as marks direct, c. (P. R. 216.)", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PONDS. 17\\nelevated position of the town, and the pecnhar bulwark of\\nhills by which it is surrounded, as already explained.\\nPratt s Pond is the only one of any considerable magnitude 1\\nand this has an area of not over fifty acres, enclosed between\\ntwo of the Pratt Mountains.\\nThe descent of the streams is so rapid, that water-power is\\nafforded in an unusual degree for tlie size of the streams, and\\nhas been one of the chief sources of the enterprize and pros-\\nperity of the inhabitants. By the cutting off of the wood,\\nhowever, evaporation takes place to so great an amount, that\\nall the streams have greatly diminished in size within the last\\nfifty years. On the Souhegan are three principal points pecu-\\nliarly adapted by nature for the employment of water-power,\\nwhere the river passes between high rocky walls, caused by\\nthe fracture of the rocks in its course. At the High Bridge,\\nfor instance, one of the most picturesque spots in the town,\\nthere is a narrow chasm something like eighty or ninety feet\\ndeep, through which the stream tumbles in cataracts, and\\nwhere it is easily dammed and conveyed into any desired\\nchannel. This fissure is continued to the upper factories. It\\nis also found at the Mill Village, and at Mason Village. By\\nan examination of the map it will be seen that all these gorges\\nlie in nearly a straight line, about northeast and southwest,\\nand were all doubtless produced at the same time, by one\\ngreat geological convulsion. Soon after leaving the Mill Vil-\\nlage, however, the stream escapes to the southward and joins\\nthe south branch in the valley but traces of the geological\\nfissure, in its true direction, running between what used to be\\nthe Shattuck and Safford lots, are quite conspicuous. Before\\nthis disruption, the rocks at the High Bridge must have com-\\npletely shut up the passage of the waters, which must then\\nhave tumbled over a lofty precipice of from eighty to one hun-\\ndred feet, and have flowed back far into the meadows above\\nperhaps indeed, submerging all the low lands to the south, and\\nforming no inconsiderable lake.\\nOn account of the sudden elevation of the territory, the cli-\\nmate is somewhat more severe than in the towns in the im-\\nmediate vicinity to the eastward. The peculiar conformation\\nof the surface, however, renders it very different in different\\n3", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18 PHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nparts of the town. On the slopes exposed to the north and\\nwest, the winters are very cold and the summers mild while\\nthe eastern and southern slopes, protected by the mountains,\\nare comparatively tolerable. It is believed that no notes of\\nthe state of the barometer or thermometer were ever kept in\\ntown. Among the memoranda of Judge Champney, were\\noccasional allusions to remarkable states of the weather. For\\nthe only continuous journal we are indebted to Josiah Walton,\\nwho may be regarded as the annalist of the town to whose\\nprivate notes we are indebted for much of our revolutionary\\nhistory, and almost entirely for all we know of the history of\\nthe church for forty or fifty years. We have a series of mem-\\noranda extending from 1777 to 1817, forty years, in which,\\n.without thermometer or barometer, he has contrived by cer-\\ntain significant rural phenomena to give a general idea of the\\nclimatal character of each year. We have prepared a classi-\\nfied abstract of his notes, presenting only the most remarkable\\nseasons. Living, as he did, on the bleakest spot in town, due\\nallowance must be made for an extreme of early winter and\\nlate summer, which would not apply to the more sheltered\\nparts of the town.\\nHaying. Usually commenced the first week in July and\\nended the last week in August. Earliest co?nme?iccme7it, 1811,\\nJuly 4 latest^ the next year, 1812, July 20 earliest termina-\\niion, 1798, Aug. 19 latest, 1807, Sept. 14, in which year it\\nis noted, Sept. 12, mowing in frost.\\nFrost. Early autmnn. 1808, Aug. 17, killed corn and\\ntaters; 1792, Aug. 27, small; 1813, Aug. 19; 1783, Sept.\\n3, frosty morning 1814, Sept. 6, corn and taters bit 1808,\\nSept. 22, ground frozen; 1790, Oct. 27, great freeze. Late\\nspring. 1794, June 16; 1780, June 5, ground frozen; 1787,\\nJune 2, water frozen; 1794, May 17, great freeze, killed much\\nflax and grain; 1808, May 2, hard freeze; 1801, June 6 and\\n7, corn and beans killed.\\nSnow. Eai ly autumn. 1792, Sept. 7, ground covered\\n1783, Oct. 9, very snowy; 1786, Oct. 30, 4 inches; 1789, Oct.\\n26, 3 inches; 1797, Oct. 23 and 25, 5 inches; 1804, Oct. 9\\nand 10, and on 27th, 8 inches. Late autumn, (the first of\\nthe season) 1784, Dec. 18, 10 inches; 1791, Dec. 22, 14", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "FOREST TREES. 19\\ninches; 1805, Dec. 24, 6 inches; 1811, Dec. 24, 15 inches;\\n1813, Dec. 30, 20 inches. Late spring, 1777, May 1, about\\n14 inches; 1781, May 1, great storm of wind and rain river\\nrose ten feet in twenty-four hours snow at noon, over shoes\\ntrees half-leaved out; 1785, May 20, snow; 1799, May 12,\\ntwo inches; 1803, May 8, 3 inches; 1811, May 3 to 5, 9\\ninches.\\nIn 1785, April 22, there was sledding over the fences; in\\n1804, it was said the snow had been five feet deep 1809,\\nvery little snow before March 1802, ground nearly bare till\\nJan. 21, and mud till Feb. 18.\\nRain. 1787, Sept. 19, great flood; 1794, Jan. 23, great\\nrain 1807, very wet season 1809, very wet hay lay from\\nJuly 8 to 24th 1814, Aug. 28, very great rain.\\nWind. Great wind, very cold, June 24, 1814 great wind,\\nSept. 15, 1815.\\nVery dry year, 1782. Remarkably cold day, Feb. 14, 1817.\\nNo ores or interesting minerals have been found here.\\nIn consequence of this same elevation of the surface as we\\napproach the town from the east, an equally sudden transi-\\ntion is seen in the vegetation, especially in the forest trees.\\nAfter riding more than forty miles through oaks, pines, and\\nmaples, we come at once upon the hemlock, beech, spruce,\\nsugar maple, yellow and black birch, none of which have\\nbeen seen along the whole distance while the chesnut, hick-\\nory, locust, and juniper entirely disappear, though all of them\\nare found in some of the adjoining towns. Similar changes\\nare also manifest in the shrubs and grasses.\\nThe other prevailing forest trees are white, red and black\\noak, in the northern and western portions white and red ma-\\nple, bass-wood, ash, hornbeam, and black cherry, white birch,\\npoplar. The two latter are regarded as a secondary growth,\\nsubsequent upon the removal of the original hemlock, maple\\nand beech forests. West of the mountains are found pines,\\nlarches and firs, which are very rarely seen to the east. Indeed\\nthe inhabitants have been chiefly dependent on the towns of\\nSharon and Peterboro for pine lumber of all kinds. The\\nnative elm and the sassafras are occasionally seen. The but-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 PHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nternut is cultivated in a few instances. Wild grapes and\\nlow blueberries are rare whortleberries occur nowhere within\\nthe town. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and par-\\ntridge-berries are abundant and high blueberries occur in all\\nthe swamps.\\nFine orchards formerly existed on almost every farm but\\nmost of them have been suffered to go to decay, and some\\nhave been cut down altogether. Very little attention has been\\ngiven to the cultivation of fruit, or to gardening.\\nOf the cereal grains, corn and rye succeed best. Wheat is\\ncultivated on nearly every farm, but yields well on but a few\\nas is the case in all regions destitute of lime. Potatoes and\\nbeans thrive well, and the latter, in earlier times, was one of\\nthe chief articles of subsistence for the inhabitaiits.\\nThe pioneer settlers found here the bear, the wolf and the\\ndeer, and it is only recently that they have entirely disap-\\npeared. They have all been seen within the memory of per-\\nsons now living in town. In April, 1781, a great wolf hunt\\nwas held by the inhabitants of New Ipswich, Jaffrey and\\nSharon. According to a concerted plan, a large area was sur-\\nrounded, including Tophet swamp but it is said that the en-\\nterprise proved fruitless. A bounty on wolves was proposed\\nas late as 1784; and a deer reef, or deer-keeper, to take\\ncare that the deer were not destroyed at certain seasons of the\\nyear, was annually chosen, up to the year 1793. As lately as\\n1808, a bear weighing ten score was killed by Ephraim Heald,\\nin Temple. Beavers were not rare, as is evidenced by the\\ntraces of beaver-dams still existing in some of the meadows.\\nOtters were known to some of the inhabitants now living.\\nSalmon, shad and alewives sometimes made their ascent up\\nthe Souhegan, until their access was cut off by dams built in\\nthe towns below. Wild turkeys were abundant, especially\\nalong the eastern border, on the slope of the hills where the\\nchesnut is found, a circumstance which gave to the whole\\nrange, as far as Lunenburg, the title of Turkey Hills.\\nThe following incident is related by an aged gentleman.\\nMy grandmother Emerson, who lived at the southwest part\\nof the town, was walking to a neighbor s, having on a bright\\nscarlet cloak. The wild turkies on discovering the red dress,", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITIES. 21\\ncame into the road to give battle. She retreated to the house,\\nand my grandfather came to the rescue with his gun but\\nthe flint being gone, his wife took a coal of fire, and when he\\nhad levelled the gun, she communicated the fire, killing two\\nturkies at one shot. It is said on good authority that deacon\\nEphraim Adams, was once attending a coal-pit on the moun-\\ntains, and threshing grain at the same time. The wild tur-\\nkies came from the woods to search for grain among the\\nchaff among whom he made great havoc with his gun.\\nAmong them was a famous cock turkey which he had failed\\nto obtain a shot at, until he had no shot left. At last a good\\nchance presented, when he broke up a pewter spoon, loaded\\nhis gun with it, and made a successful shot, the turkey when\\nstripped weighing eighteen pounds.\\nOn the whole. New Ipswich may be considered a good\\nfarming town, not so much however for tillage as for the\\nraising of cattle and other live stock. The portions adapted\\nto cultivation are in patches of small extent, scattered here\\nand there, while the pasturage is abundant and of the best\\nquality. Each farmer, however, finds available soil enough\\nto supply the wants of his family. Formerly, most of the\\naccessible lots were occupied as farms, without much regard\\nto their adaptation for the general purposes of a farm. But\\nof late years many of them have been abandoned, and the\\nfarmer chooses rather to bestow his labor upon a smaller lot,\\nmore easy of cultivation, than to difflise it over many broad\\nacres, with no better reward. Hence, there is a tendency to\\nconcentrate in the vallies, and give up the old mountainous\\nand rocky farms to pasturage. While at first thought this\\nabandonment of old farms would seem to indicate that the\\noccupation of the farmer was held in disrepute, instead of be-\\ning held the noblest of all, as it should be, it is in truth the\\nadoption of a wiser policy in farming, namely, to choose and\\ncultivate more diligently those portions adapted to cultivation,\\nand to appropriate the more intractable portions to their\\nlegitimate purposes, timber and grazing. Scientific farming\\nhas scarcely been thought of, as yet, in the town but a\\nfew successful examples, now in progress, must soon force\\nthe conviction that this is not a mere theory.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nHISTORY OF THE LAND TITLE.\\nGRANT OF KING JAMES TO MASON; MASSACHUSETTS GRANTS; TITLE\\nBECOMES void; PETITION OF THE GRANTEES; MASONIAN GRANT;\\nDIFFICULTIES RESPECTING THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY ADJUST-\\nMENT ACTS OF INCORPORATION.\\nIn the year 1621, King James granted to John Mason all\\nthe land embraced between the Piscataqua and Naumkeag,\\n(that is, between Portsmouth and Salem,) and sixty miles\\nback into the interior. Under this grant, he, with his asso-\\nciates, took possession, and made settlements at Portsmouth,\\nDover, and elsewhere, as early as 1623; and this was the\\ngerm of the Province of New Hampshire. Very slow progress\\nin settlement was made Mason died, the Revolution in Eng-\\nland supervened, and the claim was neglected.\\nAfter the Restoration, the heirs of Mason attempted to revive\\ntheir title but the colonists resisted their claim, and a series\\nof sales, lawsuits and petitions to the Grown ensued, until at\\nlast, in 1745, it was decided that John Tufton Mason, a na-\\ntive of Boston and great-grandson of the original grantee,\\nheld a rightful title to the Province of New Hampshire.\\nMeantime, the work of settlement had gone on, and many\\nnew positions in the interior were occupied and as there were\\nnumerous disturbances from the Indians, the settlers had fre-\\nquent occasion to call upon their neighbors, in the older and\\nmore powerful Province of Massachusetts, for aid and protec-\\ntion. Massachusetts promptly responded to these solicitations,\\npartly, no doubt, from motives of humanity, but partly also,\\nfrom the fact that a large tract of the southern portion of the\\nMasonian territory was in dispute between the two Provinces\\nand Massachusetts was willing, by this means, to fortify her", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "MASSACHUSETTS GRANTS. 23\\nclaim to the domain, by thus laying the settlers under obliga-\\ntion, and securing their favor and adherence.*\\nStill further to strengthen its interests in this latter project,\\nas we learn from a historian of the time,f about the middle\\nof the last century, the General Assembly of Massachusetts\\nwas in the humor of distributing the property of much vacant\\nor Province land perhaps in good policy and forethought,\\nto secure to the Massachusetts people, by possession, the pro-\\nperty of part of some controverted lands. Our Assem-\\nbly, at that time, were in such a hurry to appropriate vacant\\nlands, that several old towns were encouraged to petition for\\nan additional new township and when they were satiated, the\\nAssembly introduced others, by way of bounty to the descend-\\nants of the soldiers in the Indian War of King Philip, so call-\\ned, (1675,) and these were called Narragansett townships\\nand others to the soldiers in Sir William Phipps expedition\\ninto Canada, (1690,) which were called Canada toivnships.\\nThus there were Dorchester Canada, now Ashburnham\\nRowley Canada, now Rindge Ipswich Canada, now\\nWinchendon, which, on account of its name, has generally\\nbeen confounded with the town of New Ipswich.\\nThese grants were made at the session of the General Court\\nof Massachusetts for the year 1735-6 so that many towns\\nrefer the initial measures which resulted in their settlement, to\\nthis date. Among the number is the town of New Ipswich.\\nIt was among those granted to petitioners from the old towns,\\nand in behalf of sundry inhabitants of Ipswich.J The follow-\\nThe following extract from the petition of John Rindge, in 1731, shows that\\nthe heirs of Mason were not blind to these schemes. Ihat your said Province\\nof New Hampshire being inclosed (as it were) between the several parts of the\\nprovince of Massachusetts, is daily encroached and usurped upon by its populous\\nand powerful neighbors of the Massachusetts, both in matter of property and gov-\\nernment and without your Majesty s Gracious Interposition will soon be ab-\\nsorbed and lost, as well in disherison of your Majesty s Crown as to the utter\\nruin of your faithful subjects and tenants in New Hampshire, who hold imme-\\ndiately of and under your Majesty.\\nt Summary, Historical and Political, c. of the British Settlements in Amer-\\nica, by William Douglass, M. D. 8vo. 2 vols. 1755.\\nt The town of Ipswich, in England, is said by some antiquarians to have de-\\nrived its name from Eba, a Saxon queen who resided there, and wich, a Saxon\\nword meaning place, or home hence Ebuswich. Others derive the name from\\nthe river Gippin hence Gippeswich, the place of the Gippin, or winding river.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF THE LAND TITLE.\\niiig is a copy of the doings in answer to the petition, obtained\\nfrom the State Archives\\nPROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY.\\nJany 15th, 1735-36. In the House of Representatives.\\nIn answer to the Petition of John Wainwright and John Choat\\nEsqr Representatives of the town of Ipswich In behalf of sundry\\ninhabitants of sd town, Voted that the prayer be granted and that\\nJohn Wainwright and John Choat Esqrs, with such as shall be\\njoyned by the Honorable board be a committee at the charge of the\\nGrantees and such of the Inhabitants as they shall think most\\nproper, to lay out a township of six miles square in some of the un-\\nappropriated lands of the Province and that they return a plat\\nthereof to this court within twelve months for confirmation, and that\\nfor the more effectual bringing forward the settlement of the sd new\\ntown Ordered that the said town be laid out into sixty-three\\nequal shares, one of which to be for the first settled minister, one\\nfor the ministry and one for the school, and that on each of the\\nother sixty shares the Grantees do within three years after the con-\\nfirmation of the plan settle one good family who shall have a house\\nbuilt on his home lot of eighteen feet square and seven feet stud at\\nthe least, and finished that each rightor Grantee have six acres of\\nLand brought to and plowed or brought to English Grass and fitted\\nfor mowing, that they Settle a learned and orthodox minister and\\nbuild a convenient Meeting house for the public worship of God,\\nand that said committee take bond of each Settler of forty pounds\\nfor his complying with the conditions of settlement, and that each\\nsettler that shall fail of performing the aforesaid conditions shall\\nforfeit his share or right in the said new town to the Government and\\nthe same to be disposed of as they shall see cause.\\nIn Council read and concurred and Thomas Berry, Esqr. is\\njoined with the committee in the said affair.\\nConsented to, J. Belcher.\\nIn Council May 20, 1735-6. A plat of a tract of Land laid\\nout by Jonas*Houghton Surveyer and the chairman on oath to ful-\\nfill a grant for a township of six miles square of land for a township\\nmade by the General Court to the Inhabitants of the town of Ips-\\nwich, bordering Southerly on a township laid out to Tileston and\\nothers, Canada Soldiers, and adjoyning to the town of Townsend.\\nIn the House of Representatives, Read and ordered that the\\nwithin plat be accepted as it is reformed by the pricked lines as\\nwithin set forth so as it adjoyns to Townsend, and the lands within\\nmentioned and so described are confirmed to the Grantees men-\\ntioned in the Grant of a township made by this court in their late\\nsetting to sundry Inhabitants of the town of Ipswich, on the prayer", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ORIGINAL PLAT OF THE TOWN. 25\\nof John Wainwrig-ht and John Choat Esqr and to their heirs and\\nassig-ns forever, they performing the conditions of the Grant, pro-\\nvided the plat exceeds not the quantity of six miles square of land,\\nand does not interfere with any former Grant.\\nIn council, read and concurred. Consented to.\\nJ. Belcher.\\nE. 12\u00c2\u00b0\\nLaid out in answer to petition of\\nJohn Wainvvright and John Choate,\\nEsq. for a township for some of the\\n;-A^ inliabitants of Ipswich.\\nSurveyed by Jonas Houghton for\\nIpswich.\\nThe plat, as returned by Hoiigliton, is still to be found in\\nthe State archives, and is a mere outline, no streams or nat-\\nural features of the land being laid down. The township was\\nfirst laid out of a rectangular form, two or three miles farther\\nwest, but was afterwards brought down, by running dotted\\nlines so as to adjoin to Townsend which then compre-\\nhended a part of what is now Mason, and to be bounded\\non the south by the township laid out to Tileston and others,\\nDorchester Canada, now Ashby and Ashburnham.\\nUnfortunately for our history, the Records of the Massachu-\\nsetts Proprietors have been lost so that all the details, as to\\nthe survey of the town and its first settlement, must be made\\nout from gleanings among documents in the public offices and\\nlibraries. No continuous records are found previous to 1750.\\nAs the result of one of these researches, a most important pa-\\nper for our purpose was discovered in Ipswich, by Rev. Joseph\\nB. Felt, the able historian of that town. It is a petition of\\nthe legal representatives of the grantees of the town; and\\nfrom it we learn the natues of several of the original proprietors.\\nMany of them were men well known for their standing, ability\\nand energy, particularly well qualified for an enterprize of the\\nkind. Their names appear in italics.\\nTo his Excellency Francis Bernard Esqr. and to the Honorable\\nhis Majesty s Council and to the Honorable House of Representa-\\ntives in General Court assembled, May, 1767.\\n4", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 TITLES TO TITE LAND.\\nThe Petition of Sundry persons Grantees of the Toa\\\\ti of New\\nIpswich lately so called, and the Legal representatives of the\\nGrantees of s Town.\\nHumhly Sheweth, That the Great and General Court or Assembly\\nof the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, did, in the month of Jany\\nAnno Domini 1735, grant unto sixty of the Inhabitants of the Town\\nof Ipswich a Township of the contents of six miles square Avhich\\nwas called New Ipswich that afterwards the said Township fell\\nwithin the province of New Hampshire that your Petitioners after\\nhaving been at a very great and long continued Expence lost their\\nseveral rights in said township and become Very great Sufferers,\\nthey having built a Meeting House, a saw mill. Bridges, :c, besides\\nExpending a great deal on their Several rights wherefore your Pe-\\ntitioners humbly pray that your Excellency and Honours would be\\npleased to take the premises into your consideration and Grant unto\\nthem an Equivelant in some of the ungranted lands of this Province,\\nor make them such other compensation as to your wisdom shall\\nseem meet and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray,\\nSigned,\\nSamuel Wigglesworth, of Ipswich.\\nNathaniel Rogers, for Rev. John Rogers.\\nNathaniel Rogers, in his own right.\\nJohn Kinsman, for Liejit. Jaf?ies Burnham.\\nNehemiah Choate for Capt. Robert Choate.\\nAbraham Knowlton for Capt. Knoivlto7i.\\nThomas Smith.\\nDaniel Eveleth.\\nJohn Berry for Thomas Berry, Esq: deceased.\\nAndrew Burley for the estate oi Andrew Burlcy.\\nJohn Smith.\\nRichard Brown for the right of Jeremiah Pitts.\\nWilliam Broum.\\nDaniel Rogers for Richard Rogers, Esq.\\nThomas Dennis.\\nIsaac Appleton.\\nThe following notices of some of the proprietors may be interesting.\\nRev. Samuel Wigglesworth, graduated at Harv. Coll. 1707, was a physician a\\nfew years, and then settled in the ministry at Ipswich Hamlet, died 1768, fPt. 80.\\nRev. John Rogers, H. C. 1684, died 1745, at. 80.\\nRev. Nathaniel Rogers, II. C. 1721, died 177.5.\\nThomas Berry, graduated at Harv. Coll. 1712, was a physician, died 1756.\\nAndrew Burley was a Justice of the Court of Sessions a representative in\\n1741-2, died 1753. His estate is noted at j\u00c2\u00a32.599.\\nAndrew Burlev, his son, graduated at Harv. Coll. 1742, died 1788.\\nWilliam Brown, died 1801, aged 90.\\nRev. Daniel Rogers, graduated Harv. Coll. 1725 and settled at Littleton, 1732.\\nCol. Thomas Dennis, died 1771. He left an estate of \u00c2\u00a31395.\\nIsaac Appleton, died 1794, aged 92.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PROVINCE BOUNDARY LINE. 27\\nWilliam Dodge for the right of Jos. Able.\\nJohn Treadwell.\\nJeremiah Perkins.\\nThomas Norton.\\nFrancis Choate Jr. for Capt. Thomas Choate.\\nThomas Choate, Jr.\\nFrancis Choate for himself.\\nJonathan Cogswell for William Cogswell.\\nDaniel Appleto7i,\\nHeirs of Dan\\nElizabeth Appleton,\\nJohn Walley,\\nElizabeth Walley,\\nMary Appleton,\\nJohn Appleto?i,\\nitl Apfileton, 5-^.\\nwho owned Joh?i vVainivrignt,\\nihe five oiigi- t T ^^^j^n frow\\nnal shares of no?naS l^TOSS,\\n[Nathaniel Wells.\\nFrom this document we also learn something of the pro-\\nceedings of the grantees towards the settlement of the t(nvn.\\nScarcely, however, could they have entered in earnest upon\\nthe work, before the event occurred Avhich at length drew\\nforth the above petition, and produced an almost entire sus-\\npension of the enterprise. The runnmg of the boundary line\\nbetween Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1741, not only\\nbrought the township within the limits of the latter Province,\\nbut, according to Douglass map, severed a triangular portion\\nfrom the southeast section of the territory as located by the\\nMassachusetts grant.* An extract from this map of Douglass,\\nmade in 1748, will show the position of the township in rela-\\ntion to the Province line and to the neighboring townships then\\nlaid out. It is evidently very defective in relative distances,\\nbut will serve to show all that was known of the territory at\\nthat date.\\nThomas Norton, graduated Harv. Coll. 1725. He was a lawyer, and the pro-\\nprietors treasurer.\\nJohn Treadwell, innholder, Ipswich.\\nCapt. Thomas Choate lived in Chebacco parish, died 1745.\\nThomas and Francis Choate were sons of Capt. Thomas. Francis was a ruling\\nElder in Chebacco parish and died 1777, in his 77th year.\\nCol. Daniel Appleton, died in 1762.\\nElizabeth Appleton, married Rev. John Walley, who died 1784.\\nJohn Wainwright died 1739.\\nThe only basis for conjecture as to the extent of this dismemberment is the\\nfact that the southern boundary is not now parallel with the centre line of the old\\ntownship. The distance between them at the eastern end is about seventeen rods\\nless than at the western boundary. Hence we may infer that about that number\\nof rods was cut off at the southeast corner though according to Douglass map,\\nit would appear to have been much more.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28\\nTITLES TO THE LAND.\\nMenadnock\\n\\\\WitcIwset\\nA. Province Land, uiiappropriateil.\\nB. Lane s New Boston.\\nC. To Concord, (Peterboro\\n1). Canada to Salem, (Lyndel)oro\\nE. Narraganset, No. 3, (Mount Vernon.)\\nF. Narraganset, No. 5, (Bedford.)\\nG. Canada to Rowley, (Rindge.)\\nH. Grotou Grant, (Mason and Wilton.)\\nI. liollis.\\nJ. Dunstable.\\nK. Canada to Ipswich, (Wincliendon.)\\nL. Canada to Dorchester, (Ashburnliain.)\\nM. Townshend.\\nN. Grolon.\\nO. Lunenburg.\\nP. Narraganset, No. 2, (Westminster.)\\nQ. Leominster.\\nR. Harvard.\\nFor the next four years every thing was in a state of un-\\ncertainty, as the rights of the parties were still contested, until\\nthe final decision in 1745 in favor of John Tuftoii Mason,\\nwhen, of course, the old title from Massachusetts fell to the\\nground.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "NEW GRANT. 29\\nMason immediately sold his claim to twelve persons resident\\nat Portsmouth and vicmity who were subsequently associated\\nwith others and were styled the Masonian Proprietors.\\nThese Proprietors pursued a liberal and conciliatory policy,\\nand with some unimportant reservations, confirmed the grants\\nmade by Massachusetts, when requested by the grantees so to\\ndo; and thus, though under different auspices, every thing\\nwent on as if no change had occured, every man retaining\\nthe lots claimed by hhn, and all the improvements which\\nmight have been made upon them. The Ipswich proprietors,\\nhowever, do not appear to have made this request on the\\ncontrary, they seem to have abandoned the township. Per-\\nhaps they had not made sufficient progress in its settlement to\\nhave justified such a request; or it may be that the war,\\nwhich had just broken out, led them to feel that titles were\\nof but little importance, in the uncertainty of the issue.\\nAt any rate, no immediate steps were taken to obtain a title\\nto the township. At length a few of the former Ipswich pro-\\nprietors, in conjunction with the resident settlers, and several\\nenterprising men from Hollis, Littleton, Westford, Concord\\nand other towns, who purposed to become settlers, thirty in\\nall, associated for this purpose.\\nThe first record of their doings is found after they had pro-\\nceeded so far that a meeting of the petitioners, under the style of\\nProprietors of the township of New Ipswich, was appointed\\nby Joseph Blanchard, Esq., agent to the claimers of the patent\\nunder John Tufton Mason, who are Grantors of said town-\\nship/ at the house of Capt. Joseph French, in Dunstable, April\\n16, 1749. At this meeting, all the preliminaries seem to have\\nThe names of the proprietors, at the time the grant of this town was made,\\ntwenty-one in number, representing eighteen shares, are as follows and seve-\\nral of the neighboring townships bear their names\\nCol. Theodore Atkinson, Jotham Odiorne,\\nThomas Packer, Daniel Peirce,\\nMark Hunking Wentworth, Mary Moor,\\nJohn Moftatt, John Tufton Mason,\\nGeorge Jaffrey, John Tomlinson,\\nJohn Rindge, Matthew Livermore,\\nJohn Wentworth, William Parker,\\nJoshua Pierce, Thomas Wallingford,\\nJoseph Blanchard, Samuel Solley,\\nNathaniel Meserve, Clement March.\\nRichard Wibird,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 TITLES TO THE LAND.\\nbeen settled; arrangements were made for laying out and\\ncoupling the lots for an equitable distribution and the sum of\\n\u00c2\u00a3210 old tenor, (about ^75,) was voted to Col. Blanchard,\\nfor his service and expense in procuring said township and\\ngranting out the same. At a meeting of the Masonian pro-\\nprietors, June 16, 1749, the doings of Col. Blanchard were\\nconfirmed and he was authorized to make the grant. It was\\naccordingly drawn up and signed April 17, 1750.\\n(the masonian charter.)\\nPROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nPursuant to the power and authority granted and vested in me\\nby the proprietors of lands purchased of John Tufton Mason, Esqr.\\nin said Province, by their Vote and passed at their Meeting at Ports-\\nmouth, in said province, on the 16th day of June, 1749, I do by\\nthese presents, give and grant unto Reuben Kidder, Archibald\\nWhite, Jonas Woolson, Habijah Foster, John Brown, Benj. Hoar,\\njr. Timothy Heald, Joseph Kidder, Joseph Bullard, Ebenezer BuUard,\\nJoseph Stevens, Henry Pudney, John Chandler, all of a place called\\nNew Ipswich, Hannah Dunsmore, Peter Powers, Mr. Daniel Emer-\\nson, David Nevins, all of Hollis, Zaccheus Lovewell, Joseph French,\\nboth of Dunstable, and all in the province of New Hampshire, Jon-\\nathan Hubbard, and John Stevens of Townsend, Isaac Appleton,\\nThomas Adams, Robert Choate, Thomas Dennis all of Ipswich, An-\\ndrew Spaulding of Westford, Isaac Patch of Groton, William Peters\\nof Medfield, John Marsh of Mendura and Benj. Hoar of Littleton, to\\ntheir heirs and assigns on the terms, conditions and limitations and\\nin the respective proportions here after expressed, that tract of Land\\nor township lying in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid, ex-\\ntending six miles in length and five miles in breadth, bounded as\\nfollows beginning at the line between the Province of N. H. and\\nthe Province of Massachusetts bay at the S. W. corner of the\\nTownship called No. One, (now Mason) thence north SO degrees\\nwest six miles to y^ southeast corner of the township called South\\nMonadnock, (or Monadnock No. One) from thence North by the\\nNeedle five Miles to the Northeast corner of s South Monadnock\\n(Rindge), from thence South 80\u00c2\u00b0 east by the line of Peterboro Slip,\\n(now Sharon and Temple) six miles to the Northwest corner of No.\\nOne, and from thence south five miles to the bounds first mentioned.\\nTo have and to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, excepting\\nas aforesaid, and on the following terms and conditions, with the\\nreservations aforsaid the lots already laid out, and the several propor-\\ntions of common land yet to be divided to each one as followeth.\\n[Here follows the allotineiit, which will be giveu iu a table hereafter.]", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "MASONIAN CHARTER. 31\\nThat is to say, that eighteen full and equal shares in said town\\nin the following manner, viz. thirty-six lots of eighty acres each,\\nalready laid out, and eighteen shares in the after divisions to be\\ndrawn for in some equitable manner that is to say, two lots of\\nseventy acres each, to be reserved for the use of the grantors, their\\nheirs and assigns forever, and the like number of lots and quantity\\nof land for each share of each grantee, holding in the after divi-\\nsions; and the remainder besides what is before granted to be to the\\nuse of the grantees that the divisions of the two seventy acre lots\\nfor each share be laid out and equitably coupled together and drawn\\nin some open fair manner, at or before the last day of August,\\n1751, and that the said eighteen shares reserved aforesaid for the\\ngrantors, be exonerated, acquited and fully exempted from paying\\nany charges towards making a settlement and not held to the con-\\nditions of the other shares respecting a settlement, nor liable to any\\ntax, assessment or charge, until improved by the owners or some\\none holding under thein respectively.\\nThat the Grantees at their own expense, make settlement, and be\\nat the charge of dividing the whole of the lands, clearing or making\\nfeasable roads, and that all the lots in toA\\\\Ti be liable to have all\\nnecessary roads laid out through them as there shall be occasion,\\nfree from charge that the grantees, according to the number of\\ntheir shares or lots, hereinafter named, make settlement in the fol-\\nlowing manner, viz. that within two years from this date, on each\\nsettling lot or share there be three acres of land cleared and fitted\\nfor mowing or ploughing, and have a comfortable dwelling house,\\nthe room to be at least sixteen feet square, and a family or some\\nperson to dwell in each house, and that within five years from this\\ndate there be nine acres more cleared, enclosed or fitted for mowing\\nor tillage on some lot belonging to each settling right aforesaid.\\nThat the grantees to make settlement, and the number of each be\\nas followeth, (viz.) Reuben Kidder to make settlement on three\\nshares or rights Archibald White, Jonas Woolson, Habijah Foster,\\nJohn Brown, on one share each Benjamin Hoar, jr. on two shares\\nTimothy Heald, Joseph Kidder, Joseph Bullard, Ebenezer Bullard,\\nJoseph Stevens, Henry Pudney, John Chandler, one share each\\nHannah Densmore, two shares Peter Powers, David Nevins, Jon-\\nathan Hubbard, John Stevens, each one share Isaac Appleton, six;\\nThomas Adams, five Robert Choate and William Brown, one each\\nNathaniel Smith, two Francis Choate, Thomas Dennis, Andrew\\nSpaulding, Isaac Patch, William Peters, John Marsh, one each\\nand Benjamin Hoar, two, in manner aforesaid, that each of the\\ngrantees at the executing of this instrument, pay fourteen pounds\\ncash, old tenor, to pay the charges arisen and arising in said town-\\nship, to be deposited in the hands of some person chose by them for\\nthat purpose also that a convenient meeting house be built in said\\ntownship, within seven years from this date, as near the centre of\\nsaid township, and at such place, as the major part of said grantors", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 TITLES TO THE LAND.\\nand grantees shall determine by vote, in proprietor s meetins;, called\\nfor that purpose and that ten acres of land shall be reserved there\\nfor public use and that said grantees shall within seven years settle\\na learned and orthodox minister in said township, and for whom\\nsuitable provision shall be made.\\nThat all white pine trees fit for his Majesty s use for masting his\\nRoyal navy, growing on said land be and hereby is granted to his\\nMajesty, his heirs and successors forever. [Here follow two pages\\ndescribing the proceedings to be taken in case any of the grantees\\nneglect to perform their contract, so as utterly to amove, oust and\\nexpel the grantors, provided there be no Indian wars within any\\nof the terms and limitations of time aforesaid, in which case the\\nsame term was to be allowed after such impediment shall be re-\\nmoved and also describing the covenant given by the proprietors\\nto defend the title.] This is executed at Dunstable, the 17th day\\nof April, 1750.\\n(Signed,) Joseph Blanchard.\\nAfter some trifling alteration, respecting the location of a\\nmeeting house, the charter was formally accepted, Dec. 19,\\n1753 and it was Voted, that we do hereby accept said title,\\nand for ourselves, our heirs and assigns, do acknowledge that\\nwe hold said lands under said titles, conditions and limita-\\ntions, with the reservations in the said charter mentioned.\\n[P. R. 193.]\\nThe township bore the same name, and purported to be the\\nsame, as that granted by Massachusetts but the tract of land\\ndesignated was, in reality, essentially different, and accorded\\nmore nearly with that first laid out by Houghton, (p. 25.)\\nOriginally, it was a much more eligible township than now. It\\nwas diamond shaped, six miles on each side, the long diagonal\\nrunning northeast and southwest. In fact it comprised nearly\\nall the valley, as we see it enclosed within the mountains, ex-\\ncluding some of the present township west of the mountains,\\nand that also on the eastern slope of the hills towards Town-\\nsend and Mason while it took in the best portion of Temple\\non the north, and the beautiful and important region of Mason\\nVillage at the northeast, as may be seen on the town map.\\nThe Masonian Proprietors altered the direction of the eastern\\nboundary line so as to run west of north, thus cutting off\\nMason Village, and taking in a tract of about 966 acres", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "MUTILATIONS OF THE TOWN. 33\\nat the sovitheast, which then belonged to Townsend. A strip\\na mile wide was taken from its northern side, and the western\\nline made nearly parallel to the eastern boundary. It is now\\ndiamond-shaped in the contrary direction, that is, pointing\\nfrom southeast to northwest.\\nThe Masonian Proprietors, in accordance with their usual\\ncustom of confirming and reissuing the grants of the old Mas-\\nsachusetts townships, as they stood, doubtless intended to pre-\\nserve this township as nearly the same, in extent and location,\\nas the new Province line would allow. They therefore au-\\nthorize Joseph Blanchard, Esq. to grant several towns to the\\neast of this, and also the lands lying between Peterborough\\non the North and said towns on the East, so far South as to\\nleave a town on square lines, joining the Province line, of six\\nmiles square, in and adjoining to New Ipswich. When there-\\nfore we consider his non-compliance with these conditions,\\nand the injurious change made in this township, both by cur-\\ntailment of its territory and change of its location, we cannot\\nbut surmise some fraud or injustice on the part of Col. Blan-\\nchard, as well as a strange disregard to their rights and inter-\\nest on the part of the grantees. We do not learn, however,\\nof any misgivings at that time. On the contrary, both the\\ncontracting parties seem to have been quite satisfied as is\\nevinced on the part of the Masonian Proprietors by their giv-\\ning Col. Blanchard a right in the township with themselves\\nand on the part of the grantees by the liberal compensation\\nthey voted for his services.\\nThe mutilations of the old township did not end here. It\\nwas found, on running the township lines, that the northern\\nboundary encroached upon what was then called Peterborough\\nSlip or Striptown, now a part of Sharon and Temple, which\\ncaused no little perplexity and vexation through a long series of\\nyears. The old township had been six miles from north to\\nsouth and lots had been laid out extending two miles on each\\nside of the centre line. As the new township was only five\\nmiles in this direction, one mile having been taken off from the\\nnorthern border, the northern ends of these lots, with the\\naddition of a strip corresponding to what had been severed\\n5", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 TITLES TO THE LAND.\\nfrom the south by the Province line, should have been the\\nnorthern boundary of the town. It was accordingly so plan-\\nned on paper, with a narrow triangular strip about thirty-four\\nrods wide at its eastern and widest part, running along the\\nwhole north side of the town, as may be seen by reference\\nto the map. But by the Masonian charter, a certain white\\npine tree marked the contiguous corners of the four towns,\\nnow called Mason, Wilton, Temple and New Ipswich. This\\nwhite pine tree, instead of being situated beyond, proved to be\\nabout forty-eight rods south of the north end of the afore-\\nsaid lots; and hence the difficulty.\\nThe attention of the Proprietors seems to have been soon\\ncalled to this interference of the boundary, and notwithstand-\\ning their prior and reserved territorial right over any township\\non the northern border (p. 33), they seem to have acquiesced\\nin the claims of their neighbors and at their meeting in Octo-\\nber, 17.53, they propose to convey to Reuben Kidder and Ben-\\njamin Hoar all the common lands that may be left, after all\\nthe rights are completed, for \u00c2\u00a3500 lawful, conditioned to\\nindemnifie said proprietee and every person in it, from any\\nharm or damage that they might other ways sustain by Reson\\nof the north Bounds of said Township runing in to Peterbo-\\nrough Strip or Striptown, so that none of said Proprietors\\nshall ever be molested by the said line. [P. R. 192.]\\nThe next year, however, for reasons unknown, the Propri-\\netors arranged with Messrs. Kidder Hoar to relinquish this\\ncontract; and after expressing their apprehension that such\\nan infringement existed, they agree to indemnify all those\\nwhose farms should be injured thereby and chose a com-\\nmittee to see if the strip in question could be procured.*\\nIt would seem that an appeal was first made to the Maso-\\nWhereas we are something apprehensive that some of the lots in New Ips-\\nwich or sum that was laid out to some of the Grantees of s i Township are\\nInfringed upon, by the line of Peterborough Strip or Strip Town so called there-\\nfore. Voted that wheare it shall so happen, that this Proprietee will secure and\\nDefend s Grantee from any Troble or Damage he shall theirby sustain, either\\nby purchasing s J land for them, or some other way, equal to what Damage he or\\nthey shall receive or sustain.\\nVoted to choose three men as a Committee for to procure, if they can, a\\nStrip of Land lying on the north side of our township which Peterborough Strip\\ninfringes upon. [P. R. p. 196, 199.]", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "STRIPTOWN INFRINGEMENT. 35\\nnian Proprietors, through Col. Blanchard their agent, (P. R.\\n205-206) but it is evident that no rehef was tendered from\\nthat quarter. At a meeting, Nov. 26, 1754, a committee was\\nchosen and directed forthwith to notifie the proprietors of\\nPeterborough Shp, so called, for to settle the line between\\nthem and us to settle the same with them when they shall\\nappoint; and on their neglect, you are directed to run the line\\nexactly from the northwest corner of this township to the\\nnorthwest corner of the township of Number One. (P. R.\\n212-13.] This was evidently done but whether by joint or\\nseparate action, does not appear.\\nVarious attempts were then made to ascertain the loss which\\nthe owners of the northern range of lots had thus sustained\\nand various plans were from time to time proposed, to satisfy\\nthem for their loss. At one time, it was agreed to give an\\nequivalent from the common and unappropriated lands of the\\ntown. [P. R. 250, Aug. 1759.] A few of the sufferers\\nacceded to this plan; but it seems not to have been satis-\\nfactory to all and, subsequently, it was agreed to allow a cer-\\ntain sum per acre, in money, the valuation varying in differ-\\nent lots, from 20 to 55 shillings, silver, per acre [P. R. 266.],\\nthe whole sum amounting to \u00c2\u00a3435.175., silver, old tenor.\\nIn 1771, still another adjustment became necessary, since it\\nwas found that some had received more, and some less, than\\nthey were entitled to. It was then agreed that each one should\\nhave liberty to measure the land cut off, and if more had been\\ncut off than had been estimated, it should be paid for at the\\nsame rate for each acre as said Proprietors voted formerly\\nand, on the other hand, the Proprietors should be refunded\\nat the same rate, if too much had been paid. The re-\\nsult was, that an additional sum of \u00c2\u00a353 lawful was found\\nnecessary to meet the losses sustained and an appeal was\\nmade to the General Court to enable them to collect the assess-\\nments for this purpose, and the charges that shall arise by\\neffecting the matter to a final determination, as his Excellence\\nVoted that each SufTerer by the Infringement of Striptown Line shall have\\nLiberty to Pitch on Lands in y coman of this Township for his Satisfaction and\\nshall enter his Pitch to the Props. Clark and shall have his Lands made up out of\\nthe Lands he or they Pitch upon, as they enter their Pitch to the Props. Clark,\\nc. [P. R. 250.] and the next year, such an allotment was made, [P. R. 254.]", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 TITLES TO THE LAND.\\nand Honors shall direct. This is the last item on the Pro-\\nprietors Records, and is dated Dec. 24, 1772, and seems, in-\\ndeed, to have been the only subject which called the Proprie-\\ntors together for several years previous to the termination of\\ntheir Records.*\\nThough this vexed question entered so largely into the\\ndeliberations of the early settlers, it would not have been of\\nsufficient interest to occupy the space here given it, were it\\nnot a mystery, to the owners of the northern range of farms,\\nhow it happens that a part of their lots are in this town, and\\na part in Temple most of the owners at that time having\\npurchased back again the portions falling into Temple, so as to\\nhave complete 80 acre lots. From Lot No. 24, twenty-three\\nacres were taken, and lie in Temple from No. 28, twenty-\\ntwo acres, and so on, one acre less for each succeeding lot\\nwestward so that from the northeast corner lot (the Ministry\\nlot. No. 20), had it been a full lot, twenty-four acres would\\nhave been taken. The length of the lot being one hundred\\nand sixty rods, we have 80 acres 160 rods 24 acres 48\\nrods. Adding to this, the eastern side of Lot 188, which\\nextended along the border of Wilton thirty-four rods still\\nfarther north of these lots, and Ave have the present northeast\\ncorner of the township now placed eighty-two rods farther\\nsouth than it was laid down in the Masonian plan. About\\nfive hundred acres, in all, were thus cut off from the town.\\nAs to the angular strip cut off from the old township by the\\nrunning of the Province line in 1741, as represented on Doug-\\nlass Map, we have already adverted to it. It is not improb-\\nable, indeed, as has been already hinted (p. 33), that it cor-\\nresponded to the angular strip. Lot 188, along the northern\\nmargin of the Masonian plan as may be readily understood\\nby reference to the town map.\\nIn conserpience of all these changes, the plotting of the farm\\nlots is very irregular, there being no less than five different\\nIt is apparent, however, that their operations, even on this endless suhject,\\ndid not terminate here for in the Town Record nnder date of June 30, 1773, is\\nthe following Voted to chuse a man to object against the Proprietors petition\\npreferred to the General (^ourt for a tax on the land in this town to pay those\\nproprietors who sutiered by not having their Rights compleat. [T. R. 107.]", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ACT OF INCORPORATION. 37\\nschemes employed in covering the whole ground and it is a\\nsingular fact, that there is not one square or right-angled\\nlot in the town, all of them being diamond-shaped in different\\nproportions, or wedge-shaped. Hence great perplexity has\\narisen in surveying the farm lines, the divergence of the angles,\\nas well as their position, being often widely different in two\\nadjacent farms.\\nAt a meeting of the Proprietors, July 5, 1762, it was Voted,\\nto apply to the General Court to git the Place called New Ips-\\nwich Incorporated.\\nVoted to imploy Capt. Reuben Kidder to go down to Court\\nto get the Incorporation effected, and that the said Kidder\\nshall proceed in the affair as he shall think best, and that the\\nnecessary charges shall be paid by the Propriety. [P.R. 270.]\\nThe duty was immediately performed, so that an Act of\\nIncorporation was obtained, bearing date Sep. 9, 1762 and\\nhenceforward the business of the town was transacted by the\\nresident citizens, directly, or through their officers, instead of\\nby th^ Proprietors of the Land and the first town meetmg\\nwas held on the thirteenth of the same month.\\nPROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nGeorg-e the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France,\\nand Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, c. To all to whom\\nthese presents shall come Greeting\\nWhereas our loyal subjects. Inhabitants of a tract of Land\\nwithin the Province of Newhampshire, known by the name of New\\nIpswich, lying on the branches of the Souhegan river, between No. 1\\nand Rowley Canada (so called), have humbly petitioned and re-\\nquested that they may be erected and incorporated into a Township\\nand infranchised with the same power and privileges which other\\nTowns within our said Province have and enjoy and it appearing\\nunto us to be conducive to the general good of our said Province, as\\nwell as of the Inhabitants in particular, by maintaining good order\\nand incouraging the culture of the land, that the same should be\\ndone Know ye therefore, that We, of our special grace, certain\\nknowledge, and for the encouragement and promoting the good pur-\\nposes and ends aforesaid, by and with the advice of our truly and\\nwell-beloved Benning Wentworth, Esqr., our Governour and Com-\\nmander in Chief, and of our Council for said Province of New\\nHampshire, have enacted and ordained, and by these Presents,\\nfor us, our heirs and successors, do will and ordain, that the Inhab-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "38 TITLES TO THE LAND.\\nitants of the tract of Land aforesaid, and others who shall inhabit\\nand improve thereon hereafter, the same being butted and bounded\\nas follows, viz. Beginning- at a white pine tree, being the south-\\nwest corner of the Town of Wilton thence running west six miles\\nthence running south to the Province line five miles thence six\\nmiles east upon the Province line thence running north five miles\\nto the bounds first mentioned, Be, and hereby are declared and or-\\ndained to be a Town Corporate, and are hereby erected and incorpo-\\nrated into a body politick and corporate, to have continuance until\\nthe first day of January, 1766, by the name of Ipswich, with all the\\npowers and authorities, privileges, immunities and franchises which\\nany other Towns in said Province by law have and enjoy, to said\\nInhabitants, or who shall hereafter inhabit, their successors for said\\nTown. Always reserving to us, our heirs and successors, all White\\nPine Trees that are or shall be found growing on the said tract of\\nLand fit for the use of our Navy. Reserving also to us, our heirs\\nand successors, the power and right of dividing said Town when it\\nshall appear necessary and convenient for the inhabitants thereof.\\nProvided, nevertheless, and it is hereby declared, that this Char-\\nter and Grant is not intended, and shall not in any manner be con-\\nstrued to extend to or affect the private property of the soil within\\nthe limits aforesaid. And as the several Towns within our said\\nProvince are by laws thereof enabled and authorized to assemble,\\nand by the majority of the voters present to choose all such officers\\nand transact such affairs as in Laws are declared, we do by these\\nPresents nominate and appoint Reuben Kidder, Esqr. to call the\\nfirst meeting of said Inhabitants, to be held within said Town, at\\nany time within forty days from the date hereof, giving legal notice\\nof the time and design of holding such meeting after which, the\\nAnnual meeting of said Town shall be held for the choosing of\\nsaid officers and the purposes aforesaid, on the second Monday in\\nMarch annually.\\nIn Testimony whereof, we have caused the Seal of our said Pro-\\nvince to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Benning Wentworth,\\nEsqr. our Governour, and Commander in Chief of our said\\nProvince, the ninth day of September, in the second year of\\nour Reign, Anno Domini 1762.\\nBenning Wentworth.\\nBy His Excellency s command, by advice of Council.\\nTheodore Atkinson.\\nIn this Act of Incorporation the town is styled Ipswich.\\nIt was limited to less than four years, and was to expire Jan-\\nuary 1, 1766. By a vote of the town it was ordered that a\\nrenewal of the Act of Incorporation should not be applied for,\\nuntil the first should have expired.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "DIMENSIONS OF THE TOWN. 39\\nThere is no evidence, from the Records, that any appUca-\\ntion was subsequently made. The new Act bears date Mar.\\n6, 1766 though it would seem that it was not recorded and\\ntransmitted till just a year afterwards. In the intervening\\ntime, between the expiration of the old and the reception of\\nthe new Charter, a period of fifteen months, there was a com-\\nplete interregnum in the exercise of municipal powers. Not\\na record appears on the Town books, and no tax was levied\\nor collected so that the next year it was necessary to assess\\na two-years minister s rate. The year, however, seems to\\nhave been passed in peace and prosperity.\\nThe second Act is in precisely the same terms as the first,\\nexcepting that the town is styled New Ipswich, and the\\nterm of duration is unlimited. In these Acts, as well as in\\nthe Masonian Grant, the township is described as being six\\nmiles long and five miles wide, containing thirty square miles.\\nThese could never have been the true dimensions, since, after\\nall the curtailments, the township remains about six and a\\nquarter miles in length and five and a quarter in breadth.\\nAnd it may also be remarked, that, in no two perambulations,\\nhave the length or direction of the boundary lines been re-\\nported the same the latter diflerence, however, may be ac-\\ncounted for by not making the proper allowance for the\\nperiodical variation of the needle.\\nAccording to the notes of the last perambulation (18.50) the\\nboundaries are as follow From the N. W. corner of Ashby\\n8\u00c2\u00b0 30 E. to the S. E. corner of N. I. from the S. W. corner of\\nN. I. about E, to the corner of Ashby and Ashburnham from\\nthe S. W. corner of N. I. and the S. E. corner of Rindge north\\n1\u00c2\u00b0 5 E. 1694 rods, to a stake thence S. 80\u00c2\u00b0 10 E. 690 rods\\nbetween N. I. and Sharon thence between Temple and N. I.\\nS. 79\u00c2\u00b0 30 E. 1253 rods to a stake between Mason and N. I.,*\\nbeginning at the N. E. corner of N. I. and the N. W. corner of\\nMason at a stake, thence S. 30\u00c2\u00b0 W. 1687 rods 10 links.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nEARLIEST CIVIL HISTORY,\\nthe wilderness early scouting-parties plotting of the\\ntown; improvements by the Massachusetts grantees; first\\nSETTLERS ABIJAH FOSTER; JONAS WOOLSON; MOSES TUCKER;\\nBENJAMIN HOAR, ETC.; TITLE BECOMES VOID INDIAN WAR; DE-\\nSERTION OF THE TOWN CAPTIVITY OF CAPT. FITCH WORKS OF\\ndefence; RECAPITULATION.\\nVery soon after the first colonists of New England arrived,\\nsettlers penetrated far up the beautiful valleys of the Connec-\\nticut and the Merrimac, attracted by the fertile meadows, and\\nby the comparative ease with which they could be brought\\nunder cultivation while a large tract of country much nearer\\nthe seaboard remained unoccupied. Lancaster, Groton, and\\nDunstable, after having been planted for nearly a century,\\nremained on the very outskirts of civilization while, at the\\ndistance of only twenty or thirty miles inland, not the least\\ntrace of the white man was to be found. The forests around\\nthe Monadnock and Watatic and the sources of the Souhegan\\nremained in as primitive a condition as Avhen the Pilgrim\\nFathers first landed at Plymouth. The foot of the white man\\nhad never traversed its solitudes, unless, perchance, some of\\nthe scouting-parties from Dunstable and Lancaster to the Wa-\\ntatic and Monadnock mountains, of which there are records\\nas far back as 1723, may have passed this way.* Nor does\\nMarch, 172.3. There is a Jo :rnal of a scout to Mulipas River (Malpus\\nBrook in Lunenburg), Turkey Hills, Squannicook River and head of Souhegaii\\nRiver, Watatic Hills, c.\\nFeb. 24, 1724. We went from Groton to Turkey Hills, thence to the Great\\nHills, thence on to Watatic Ponds and then to Watatic Hills thence to Monom-\\nnock Ponds and on to Pack Monadnocks and so to Souhegan River, and to Squa-\\nnakook, c. Jabez f\\\\\\\\iRBANKs.\\nJuly 31, 1725. We marched twelve miles, and I with fourteen men campt", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ABORIGINES. 41\\nit appear that the red man ever occupied the territory com-\\nprised in this township as a permanent residence, no vestiges\\nof his presence having been at any time discovered. Doubt-\\nless he might have occasionally roamed this way in his hunt-\\ning excursions and tradition says, tliat he sometimes visited\\nthe early settlers with his baskets and brooms. A grandson\\nof Mrs. Emerson, who lived near the foot of Watatic, says he\\nhas heard her relate the following incident: One day, in\\nsummer, a party of Indians were seen approaching the house.\\nThe family, stricken with terror, dispersed, and concealed\\nthemselves as best they could. One fled to the cellar, and\\nbeing concealed in a dark corner, saw them come into the\\ncellar, go to the pans of milk, skim ofl the cream with their\\nhands and suck it up. After liaving pilfered the house of such\\narticles as pleased them, they retired to the woods, to the great\\nrelief of the family. The only Indian relic which has ever\\nbeen mentioned, Avas a bit of metal found in a field near\\nAshby, supposed to have been an arrow-head and if so, must\\nhave been obtained of the French at a modern period.\\nAs we have already seen, this town, together with several\\nneighboring townships, were granted by Massachusetts in\\n1736-7. Dorchester Canada, including Ashburnham and part\\nof Ashby, had been granted at the same session, and its posi-\\ntion defined previous to the locating of this township. Town-\\nsend, which then embraced a very large territory, including\\nthe remainder of Ashby, Mason, and part of New Ipswich,\\nupon the top of Wannadnack mountain and discovered 26 pounds (ponds). Saw\\nPigwackett lying one point from said mpnntain, and Cusagee (Kearsarge) moun-\\ntain and VV^innepeseockey lying jiorlheast from said Wannadnack. The same\\nday we found several old signes which the Indians had made the last year, and\\nwhere they campt when they killed the people of Rutland, as we imagine.\\nAug. 1. We marched from the west side of Wenadnack and corsed three\\nstremes that run into Contocook, and then campt and sent out our scouts, and\\nfound two wigwams made in June or July as we suppose, and found 16 of there\\nspitts which they rost there meat with, all in said wigwams, and one of our scouts\\nwent so far he could not return tiie same night. Letter of Samvcl Willard.\\nJuly 2.5, 1725. These are to inform you that this day being wide of Watchu-\\nsett and Monadnock mountains upon our march towards Penishiwasset with 47\\nable bodied men, four of our men being sick and not able to travel, who I liave\\nsent into Lancaster with Joshua Parker, a well man, to take carp of them. I do\\nnot think to be in any town this .35 davs unless we get some Indians. Yesterday\\nI being upon the scout heard a gun which T supposed to be an Indian gun have\\nsent out scouts three several ways this day.\\nYours to serve, Samuel Willard.\\n6", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 EARLIEST CIVIL HISTORY.\\nwas the only town in the vicinity which had made any pro-\\ngress in settlement. Immediately, however, the Proprietors\\ncommenced the necessary steps to comply with the stipulations\\nof the grant, and thereby secure the township. It is clear\\nthat the town was known, by its name, and its boundaries\\nsettled and understood, as early as 1738, and probably in\\n1737.* As early as this, also, a portion of the township was\\nlaid out into lots. This was done by laying out a road from\\neast to west, parallel to the north and south lines of the town,\\nat what was doubtless regarded as the central line, in that\\ndirection. Then, four ranges of sixteen lots on either side of\\nthis road, making in all 128 lots. Each lot was diamond-\\nshaped, about 160 rods in length and 80 rods in width, that is,\\nabout half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, and com-\\nprised about 80 acres, covering in all an area four miles long\\nand four miles broad. Roads were laid out in straight lines\\nacross the ends of all the lots, and also north and south be-\\ntween every series of four lots. None of these roads, except a\\nsmall portion of the central one, Avere ever used but were\\nafterwards incorporated with the lots on which they bordered,\\nor were assigned to those who had their land cut by reason\\nof a road or roads going acrost their lott or lotts.- [P. R. 209.]\\nIn their petition for redress, which we have given at p. 26,\\nthe Grantees state that they built a meeting-house, saw-mill,\\nbridges, c., besides expending a great deal on their several\\nrights. f The meeting-house is believed never to have been\\nused as a place of worship and the saw-mill, if ever put in\\nIn December, 1738, a grant of land was made to Jeffrey Bedgood, mariner,\\nof Boston, lying adjoining on a townsiiip called New Ipswich, beginning at\\nthe northwest corner, c. Mass. Archives, vol. 93, fol. 93, 94. In November,\\n1738, a grant was made to Robert Auchmuty, of land adjoining New Ipswich\\nnorth line, c. Mass. Archives, vol. 46, fol. 97, 98.\\nt In confirmation of this, we have the following notice from a Boston newspa-\\nper. Whereas, on the 18th of June, 1739, the proprietors of the township\\ncalled New Ipswich, at their meeting, granted the sum of five pounds to be raised\\non each original right, to bring forward the settlement of said township, these are\\ntherefore to notify those delinquent proprietors that have not paid said tax, that\\nthey pay the same to Mr. Thomas Norton, the proprietors treasurer, on or before\\nthe 21st December next, or their rights are to be sold by us the subscribers ac-\\ncording to the Province law, at the house of Mr. John Tredwell, innholder, in\\nIpswich, on the day aforesaid. Edward Evkleth,\\nJohn Boardman, Committee.\\nOctober 29, 1741. Isaac Appleton,", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "FIRST RESIDENT SETTLERS. 43\\noperation, was used but for a very short time. The principal\\nbridge was over the Souhegan, on what was called the coun-\\ntry road, above the factory villages. Farther than this we\\nhave no specific account of what was done by the Massachu-\\nsetts Proprietors. That other roads had also been laid out,\\nAve infer from the fact that at the first meeting of the Mason-\\nian grantees an appropriation was made to repair the\\nhighways. The persons engaged in these preliminary oper-\\nations apparently spent the summers of 1737 and 1738 on the\\nground, returning again to the old settlements in the winter.\\nThe name of the first permanent resident, with his family,\\nhas been determined, so as to leave no question on that point\\nbut the precise date of his advent is less positively settled.\\nFrom extensive researches into the history of his family, and\\nfrom other collateral circumstances, we have been able to ar-\\nrive at a conclusion which admits of but very little controversy.\\ny y with his wife, and daughter\\n(X^ja^ jcJ/toA^ ^^^^T, then one year old, came\\nfrom old Ipswich some time\\nduring the summer of 173S, and became the pioneer settler in\\nthis place. His wife was the first woman in town, and his\\nson Ebenezer was the first male child born in town. He first\\nlocated himself on the lot in the centre village, now chiefly\\noccupied by .Joseph Barrett, Esq. (N. D. 33), and built his log-\\nhouse a little to the north of the house owned and long occu-\\npied by Mr. David Hills, just in the rear of the present Bank\\nbuilding. Traces of the cellar were very recently to be seen.\\nAbout the year 1750, he sold this to Joseph Bates, and removed\\nto the lot now occupied by Joseph Davis, (N. D. 45). This\\nhe sold to Thomas Fletcher, and we find him commencing a\\nthird clearing on the Caleb Campbell farm (S. D. IX 2) as\\nearly as 1755. Having thus done good service in the settle-\\nment of the town, he, with his son Ebenezer, entered the ar-\\nmy and both of them died in the service (of small-pox) near\\nCrown Point, in 1759. Thus, this town had a native-born\\ncitizen old enough to serve as a soldier in the old French\\nWar.\\nTradition says that Mr. Foster s family was the only one\\npermanently settled, until they were reinforced by the arrival", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 EARLIEST CIVIL HISTORY.\\nof Jonas Woolson and his wife. He settled on the farm\\non the hill, east of the river, now owned by James Spaulding,\\n(S. D. II 4.) The present proprietor, in making repairs\\nupon the old part of the house, built one hundred years ago,\\nrecently discovered the foundations of a former dwelling, with\\na large flat hearth-stone for a fire-place, and ashes a foot\\ndeep around it, which must have been in use one hundred\\nand ten years ago. He also found accounts, Avhich had been\\nregistered with chalk or charcoal on the timbers more than a\\nhundred years ago.\\nAbout the same time, came Benjamin Hoar and Moses\\nTucker, Mr. Hoar was from Littleton, and came from Town-\\nsend by marked trees, before any path had been cleared. He\\nsettled on the lot below Woolson, near the river (S. D. V 2),\\nnear where the first bridge was built, and still continues. He\\nwas a blacksmith, and also kept a public house, and was a\\nvery useful citizen. He told his grandson, [William H, Pren-\\ntice, Esq. of Boston,] now living, that he was the third settler,\\nand his wife the second woman in town. Captain Tucker\\nsettled on the west side of the river, cornering on Mr. Hoar\\n(S. D. VI 1), and his house stood on the side of the hill near\\nthe corner where the roads going to the river divide the farm\\nlong owned and occupied by Judge Champney. He also\\nsubsequently owned, and probably occupied, a farm on the\\nTown Hill, on the eastern line of the town (S. D. II 1), as\\nwe learn from the record of the laying out of a road to Mason\\nline in 17G5, (T. R. p. IS,) going on said Chandler s land\\nto the corner of his lott, then on the north end of his other lot\\nto Capt. Moses Tucker s end line of his lott to the town line.\\nc. Along this old country road then, on either side of the\\nriver, was the first neighborhood gathered.\\nThe BuUards, Ebenezer and John, next followed, and set-\\ntled on the Town Hill, (S. D. 1:2.) In the records of the\\ntown of Groton, is recorded the marriage of Joseph Stevens, of\\nNew Ipswich, to Ehzabeth Sawtell, Nov. 10, 1743, showing\\nthat he too was at that time a resident in the town. He\\nsettled on the Wilson Hill, (N. D. 35.) Some of the Adamses\\nHe married Susannah Wallis, of Townsend, June 23, 1742.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "INDIAN ALARMS. 45\\nand other young men, both married and single, came in so\\nthat in 1745 there were a dozen or more inhabited houses in\\nthe town.\\nThis, to be sure, was not making any great advance to-\\nwards a settlement- far less than the terms of the grant\\nrequired. The inherent dilficulties in effecting a new settle-\\nment are always great, especially when remote from others.\\nBut in this instance, before the five years probation allowed\\nthem for settling their lots had expired, the energy of the pro-\\nprietors had been paralyzed by the running of the Province\\nline in 1741, and by the consequent loss of their rights under\\nthe Massachusetts grant and those few settlers who perse-\\nvered in clearing and occupying their lands, must have done\\nso under the discouraging consciousness that they held them\\nby no valid titles.\\nBut a still more serious obstacle soon interposed, which for\\na time entirely suspended further operations. This was the\\nbreaking out of the French and Indian war, in 1744, which\\nspread consternation throughout all the feebler settlements, as\\nwell as in the older country towns. The Indians soon made\\ndescents from Canada, spreading terror and devastation as\\nthey went, and the principal towns to the north and west\\nwere attacked. The inhabitants of the neighboring towns\\neither received garrisons for their defence, or tied to stronger\\nplaces for refuge. The settlers here, however, seem to have\\nmaintained their ground, until an actual incursion upon our\\nvery borders. In the summer of 1748, a descent of a body of\\nIndians, about eighty in number, was made upon the settle-\\nment of Mr. John Fitch, which was located in what was then\\nLmienburg, and near the south part of the present town of\\nAshby. He with his wife and five children and three soldiers\\noccupied a garrisoned house. They were attacked one morn-\\ning when two of the soldiers happened to be absent, one of\\nwhom was killed in attempting to return. After a gallant de-\\nfence, and the loss of the soldier with him, he surrendered,\\nand with his wife and children was carried to Canada.*\\nAs this event occurred so immediately in the vicinity, and had so intimate a\\nconnection with the early fortunes of the town and as it has been narrated\\nunder different forms and different dates, it seems not improper to sketch the par-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46 EARLIEST CIVIL HISTORY.\\nThere was a block-house in Townsend, at the foot of the hill\\nabove the West Village, which still bears the name of Battery\\nHill, on the south road, not far from the southeast corner of\\nNew Ipswich. To this place the inhabitants now fled for\\nprotection, with their families and valuables, with one ex-\\nception. Captain Tucker boldly resolved to remain and\\nmake such defence as he could, or otherwise take his fate\\nticulars of the occurrence in full, as a careful investigation gives us assurance\\nthey actually took place.\\nMr. Fitch, who occupied with his family a frontier position, proposed to the\\ngovernment to keep a garrison, if he could have the aid of three soldiers this\\nnumher was sent him. Mr. F. was a man of note, had traded much with the\\nIndians in former years, and both he and his location were well known to them.\\nA body of them, said to be about eighty in number, some time in July, had deter-\\nmined to capture him. They had been prowling about this region, and one\\nmorning surrounded his garrison. On this morning two of the soldiers had left\\nthe garrison, one for a hunt, and the other to visit a house some miles distant.\\nThe latter soon discovered the Indians secreted in the tall grass, between him and\\nthe house and in attempting to return he was shot down. Mr. Fitch, with\\nonly one soldier left, determined to defend the garrison if possible but this sol-\\ndier, after firing a few times, was shot by an Indian through the neck and fell\\ndead. Mrs. F. loaded the guns, with which her husband continued to defend the\\nhouse for some time. The Indians at last told him, that if he would surrender,\\nthey should all be spared but if he persisted in tiring, that all should perish in\\nthe flames of the garrison. After consulting with his wife, he caj)itulated. The\\nIndians then burned the house and took the captive family towards Canada.\\nSoon after the building was on fire, Perkins, the absent soldier, espied the\\nsmoke, and on ascending a hill could see the ruins he gave the alarm, and\\nby dark, a hundred armed men, from Lunenburg and the vicinity, were ready to\\npursue the enemy. They waited till daylight, when they followed the trail of\\nthe Indians, who had proceeded along by the south side of Watatic mountain,\\nand made their first stop at Ashburnham meeting-house, the inhabitants of which\\ntown had abandoned it the year previous. Somewhere in the township of Ash-\\nburnham, the pursuers found a piece of paper, tied to the limb of a tree, and on\\nexamining it they found a request, in the hand writing of Fitch, begging that they\\nmight not be followed, as the Indians had assured him of safety ii not pursued,\\nbut would destroy them all, if his friends attempted a rescue. Upon this the\\nparty returned. Among the plunder taken by the Indians on this occasion, was\\na log-chain, which an Indian carried over his shoulders all the way to Canada,\\nand there sold it to a Frenchman for a quart of rum. At the close of the war,\\nMr. F. and all his family returned home, as we learn from the following paragraph\\nin the Boston Gazette, of Oct. 4, 1748\\nSept. 23d. Arrived in town from Canada by Albany, five French gentle-\\nmen, and brought with them several prisoners, among whom were Mr. John\\nFitch, of Lunenburg, with his wife and five children, who was taken the 3d of\\nJuly last by the French and about eighty Indians and carried to Canada, where\\nthey met with good treatment from the French.\\nIn 1749, Mr. Fitch presented a petition to the General Court, giving a full\\naccount of his sufferings and losses, and asking for relief. He once owned part\\nof the Judge Champney Farm, in this town, and is said to have resided there for\\na time. He finally became poor and dependent on the town of Asliby. About\\nfifty years after his death, a monument was erected to his memory as one has\\nwaggishly suggested, he asked for bread, and they gave hira a stone.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "INDIAN ALARMS. 47\\nand he did so. It is probable, however, that his family ac-\\ncompanied the fugitives. In the course of a month or two,\\ntheir fears were allayed, by the report of the scouts which\\nhad been sent out, that the Indians had retired beyond\\nthe Connecticut river and they returned to their deserted\\nhomes. Capt. Tucker was found safe. They also found that\\ntheir meeting house had been burnt but whether by the\\nIndians, or by fire from the burning forests, was uncertain. It\\nwas probably by the latter however, as the Indians would not\\nhave been likely to destroy the meeting house alone, while\\nthey left the private dwellings unmolested.\\nThe inhabitants of this town seem never afterwards to have\\nbeen seriously alarmed on account of the Indians, though\\nsome of the neighboring towns were led to feel the need of\\nprotection. In 17.50, Peterborough petitioned for a block\\nhouse and soldiers, pleading their great danger and exposure.\\nEven as lately as Jan., 17.55, when the Indians ravaged and\\nburnt the towns on the Connecticut river, the people of Ips-\\nwich Canada (Winchendon), called for aid, stating that In-\\ndians were about, and they could not cultivate their fields\\nso that they were dependent on Lunenburg, Lancaster, and\\nGroton for food. Nor were their fears groundless, for traces\\nof the visitation of savages were detected near at hand, by\\nthe scouts.*\\nBut such was the rapid progress then being made in this\\ntown, that the settlers felt themselves in comparative secu-\\nrity; and when at the Proprietors meeting, in Jan., 1757, the\\nquestion was put whether the Proprietors will build a fort\\nor forts in this township, it was voted not to build any\\nforts in this township and again, whether they will re-\\npair Mr. Adams flankers in order for defence, against the\\nenemy, it was voted in the negative. This is the only inti-\\nmation we have, that any means of defence against tlie Indians\\nwere ever adopted in this town. These flankers were a\\nEleazer Lawrence scouted about Dorchester Canada, Ipswich Canada, New\\nI|)s\\\\vich, c. Aug. 31, (17.55) at Ipswich Canada, discovered a small number\\nof tracks, supposed to be Indian tracks, and followed four or five miles, and found\\nthe bushes cut up and bent down in sundry places, as the usual manner of the\\nIndians is, when they travel upon the discovery, c. Several other journals\\nof the same import exist.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48 EARLIEST CIVIL HISTORY.\\nsort of breastwork of logs and stakes, extending outwards and\\ninwards from the angles of the house, with a port-hole at\\nthe point of meeting. Douglass, who wrote in 1748, says\\nhideed, that there were two block houses in New Ipswich.\\nMr. Adams house might have been one of those to which\\nhe alludes, and Capt. Tucker s another. It is probable that\\nour forefathers were indebted for their immunity from Indian\\nintrusions to the mountain barrier on the west. This opposed\\na serious obstacle to a ready retreat with plunder and\\nhence we find it to have been the custom of the savages to\\nconfine themselves, in all their predatory excursions, to the\\nprincipal water courses and low lands.\\nMore than ten years had now elapsed since the pioneer set-\\ntlers had threaded their way, through the forest, to this their\\nland of promise, clothed in the homeliest of garments, and\\ncarrying little else with them than the axe for offence and\\nthe firelock for defence. From time to time their scanty num-\\nber has been reinforced. Their title has proved worthless\\nand while, laboring under this discouragement and uncertain\\nof the future, they unitedly persevere, they are dispersed by\\nfears of the savage foe. Now, they are reunited, and ready\\nfor renewed effort. Much of this time they have lived with\\nno other shelter than the broad arch of heaven, or temporary\\nhuts of logs and bark, with moss and twigs for their couch\\nat night. They have subsisted chiefly on fish and such game\\nas the wild woods furnished, with wild berries for condiments,\\nand water from the spring for their beverage. They have\\ntoiled early and late at the laborious task of the woodsman.\\nAnd what are the visible results of all this A dozen or fifteen\\nsmall clearings might be seen scattered here and there in the\\ndense forest, scathed and blackened by fire, and these still beset\\nwith stumps. In the midst of them as many log cabins, many\\nof them destitute of chimneys, with merely a broad hearth-\\nstone, or a semicircular wall for a fire-place. A few beans\\nand turnips, with patches of corn and rye interspersed among\\nthe stumps, are beginning to appear and a few domestic ani-\\nmals are browsing around the dwellings of the more fortunate.\\nProspective roads and bridle-paths from house to house had", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "RECAPITULATION. 49\\nbeen marked out, by spotting the trees a bridge had been\\nthrown over the Sonhegan at one point, and something had\\nbeen done towards clearing out a road through the town to the\\ncountry beyond. A house for pubhc worship had been erected,\\nthougli never occupied for that purpose but from the pious\\nhves and subsequent public profession of nearly every adult\\nmember of this little community, we have reason to believe\\nthat every tenement was a temple from which the incense of\\ndevout worship daily ascended and that the Sabbath, which\\nwithin our memory, was so rigidly kept by their descendants,\\nwas no less strictly observed by themselves. They were still\\ndestitute of schools none of the comforts and few of the ne-\\ncessaries of life were accessible there was no one to consult\\nwho could afford skillful aid in cases of sickness the nearest\\ncorn-mill was at Townsend, some ten miles distant and with\\nthe important exception of a blacksmith, there seem to have\\nbeen no artisans among them.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nPROPRIETARY HISTORY, 1749-62.\\nmasonian grantees arrangement with massachusetts\\ngrantees; laying ottt of farm lots; allotment of farms;\\nSAW AND grist MILL BRIDGE OVER THE SOUHEGAN APPROPRI-\\nATION FOR preaching; DELINQUENT SETTLERS; TAXES; COMMON,\\nAND BURIAL GROUND FIRST PAUPERS; RECAPITULATION.\\nWith the obtaining of the Masonian Grant, in 1749, our\\nauthentic history begins. The French and Enghsh war had\\nterminated, and with it Indian hostiUties had ceased. The\\nfugitive pioneers had returned, and a title to the lands had\\nbeen secured. No further obstacles now remain to the suc-\\ncessful advance of the infant settlement.\\nAmong the petitioners for the grant, we find the names of\\nthirteen persons who are specified as being all of a place\\ncalled New Ipswich. These were Reuben Kidder, Archibald\\nWhite, Jonas Woolson, Habijah Foster, John Brown, Benja-\\nmin Hoar, Jr., Timothy Heald, Joseph Kidder, Joseph and\\nEbenezer Bullard, Joseph Stevens, Henry Pudney and John\\nChandler. Most of these we recognize as among the pioneers\\nwho had previously resided here, before the desertion of the\\ntown for fear of the Indians. The other seventeen proprietors\\nbelonged to Hollis, Dunstable, Townsend, Old Ipswich, Gro-\\nton, Westford, Littleton and Medfield; and several of them\\nsoon after removed to this place, and the settlement went on\\nvigorously. The Kidders came in from Westford the Ap-\\npletons and Adams from Ipswich the Farrars from Lincoln\\nand the Barrets from Concord the men who controlled the\\nearly destinies of the town, who stamped its character, and\\nhave always held a conspicuous place in its history. Many\\ncame as proxies for non-resident proprietors, to occupy and\\nimprove their lots, according to the terms of the grant; while", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SHARES OF MASSACHUSETTS GRANTEES. 51\\nOthers purchased lots of the grantees, and became themselves\\nproprietors.\\nThe first meeting of the Proprietors was held in Dunstable,\\nApril 16, 1749. At the next meeting however, it was Voted\\nthat all meetings shall be heald at New Ipswich for the futer\\nand that the owners of five shears shall be sufficient to request\\nmeetings for the time to com, and that notifications being\\nposted up at New Ipswich, Old Ipswich and Dunstable shall\\nbe sufficeant warning for said proprietors. [P. R. 17.] The\\nprincipal business at the first, and of the two subsequent\\nmeetings, was, to adjust the claims of those who had made\\nimprovements under the Massachusetts grant, or whose lot\\nhad been transferred from one township to another, by the\\nnew direction of the eastern boundary line to cause a survey\\nof the town, and agree upon a plan for the distribution of lots\\nand to make arrangements for the erection of a corn-mill and\\nsaw-mill.\\nThomas Dennis, Francis Choate, Nathaniel Smith, and\\nWilliam Peters, who had been proprietors under the Massa-\\nchusetts grant, were admitted as proprietors each of them to\\nhave one share, equal in value to those of the other grantees,\\nand on the same conditions and limitations and moreover,\\nthey were privileged to select one of the eighty acre lots which\\nthey formerly held under the grant of the Province, having\\nthe remainder of their share made up out of the common land.\\nIn regard to the lots which fell into Mason, or which had\\nbeen taken in from Townsend, the following votes were\\npassed\\nVoted that all the Lotts that was hearetofore laid out in said\\ntownship and are now taken off by the other townships (viz.) by the\\ntownship Number One and Two, shall be by a committee to be\\nchosen for that Purpus laid out in the Common land, in said town-\\nship, and quallified by said Committee said Lotts that are to be\\nlaid out are to be laid adjoyning to the other Lotts formerly laid\\nout in said town, and as conveniant for settleing as may be and\\nthat those persons owning said Lotts being grantees, to have s\\nLotts which are new laid out, in Lue of the Lotts taken off as a\\nfore said.\\nAlso Voted, if any of said Grantees have or had any land in\\nthe township or any part thereof formerly called Townshend and", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52 PROPRIETARY HISTORY.\\nnow falls into the township of New Ipswich shall have a whole\\nWright or part thereof laid out in the same place to them, said Com-\\nmittee quallifying the same eaqual to other shares. [P. R. 12.]\\nIll regard to the general distribution of the lands, it v/as in\\nthe first place determined that the whole number of shares\\nshould be sixty-three. By the grant, it had been provided\\nthat each of the eighteen grantors should first draw two of\\nthe 128 eighty acre lots, surveyed by the Massachusetts pro-\\nprietors and that afterwards each grantee should draw two\\nof the remaining lots for each right. The remainder of the\\ntownship was then to be laid out into seventy acre lots, and\\nanother draught had of two of these lots, in the same manner.\\nA committee was chosen, consisting of Isaac Appleton, Jona-\\nthan Hubbard, Reuben Kidder, Benjamin Hoar and John\\nStevens, to proceed as soon as may be, with a survey under\\noath, and lay out the seventy acre lots, and that they topple\\nthe same together, making them as neare as may be of equal\\nvaline; and they were to receive for this service, while\\nthey are in said township about said service, thirty shillings\\nper day, old tenor. The Committee found, however, upon\\nactual survey, in consequence of the town not having been\\nlaid out so large as supposed, that the commons would not\\nhold out seventy acres to each lot and it was accordingly\\nlaid out in lots of about sixty-six acres each, together with\\nseven other lots ranging from eighty to one hundred and\\ntwenty acres. These dimensions were adopted by the propri-\\netors, as an equitable arrangement both for themselves and\\nthe Masonian grantors, who by the charter were entitled to\\nseventy acre lots. The whole number of lots, including those\\nwhich had been cut off at the northeast part of the town, was\\nabout 275 which left some twenty lots, after the distribution\\nof four lots to each of the sixty-three shares, wherewith to\\ncompensate those who had been deprived of their lots in con-\\nquence of their falling within the present town of Mason.\\nBy a note in the Proprietors records, it appears that the\\ndrawing of the eighty-acre lots took place at Dunstable, July\\n10, 1750, although there is no record to show that any meet-\\ning was called at that time. The sixty-six-acre lots, or afier-", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "DISTRIBUTION OF THE LANDS.\\n53\\nlots, as they were usually called, were drawn at New Ipswich\\nMay 28, 1751, and resulted as shown m the Tables which\\nfollow on this and the next pages. A specific description of\\neach lot, with a plan of it, is carefully given in the Proprie-\\ntors book.\\nTo carry all their grain ten miles to the mill in Townsend,\\nover such roads as then existed, and generally upon their own\\nbacks, must have caused the people great inconvenience and\\nloss of time. Immediate measures were therefore taken to\\nremedy the evil and Reuben Kidder, Deacon Benjamin Hoar,\\nMr. Isaac Appleton and John Stevens were chosen a Commit-\\ntee to select a mill place where it would best accommodate\\nthe Proprietors, and agree with some proper person to build a\\nsaw and grist mill. They accordingly selected a site on the\\no\\noi\\n]Maso;vian-\\nProprietors.\\nQ\\nPi\\n0)\\n.2\\nc\\n3\\nfi\\n2:\\nm\\nTheodore Atkinson,\\n43\\n61\\n84\\n107\\nThomas Packer,\\nXIII.\\nVII.\\n4\\n4\\n82\\n83\\n]Mark H. Wentworth,\\n38\\n39\\n67\\n94\\nJohn Moftatt,\\n14\\nXIV.\\n2\\n80\\n81\\nGeorge Jaftrey,\\n29\\n24\\n172\\n173\\nJohn Ringe,\\nIX.\\n3\\n11\\n176\\n177\\nJohn Wentworth,\\nVIII.\\n1\\n56\\n87\\n109\\nJoshua Peirce,\\nVIII.\\n3\\n2\\n89\\n90\\nNathaniel Meserve,\\nV.\\n1\\n10\\n102\\n93\\nRichard Wibird,\\n28\\n2\\n162\\n165\\nJothani Odiorne,\\n23\\nV.\\n3\\n68\\n95\\nPeirce Moor,\\n13\\nXV.\\n3\\n167\\n169\\nTomlinson Mason,\\n59\\n60\\n163\\n164\\nMatthew Livermore,\\n62\\nVII.\\n1\\n126\\n128\\nWilliam Parker,\\n58\\n44\\n160\\n161\\nThomas Wallingford,\\nVIII.\\nIV.\\n4\\n3\\n85\\n86\\nJoseph Blanchard,\\nII.\\nIV.\\n4\\n4\\n155\\n157\\nSolly March,\\nXV.\\n4\\n64\\n181\\n182", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "64\\nPROPRIETARY HISTORY.\\nGRANTEES.\\nNorth Div.\\nSouth Div.\\nNew laid out.\\nAfter E\\nivisions.\\nReuben Kidder,\\n46\\nXIII. 1\\n76\\n77\\n55\\nXIV. 1,3\\nIII. 3\\n131\\n96\\n122\\nArchibald White, and\\nJoseph Buliard, 5\\n19\\nI. 2\\n175\\n179\\nCapt. Jonas Woolson,\\nC IV. 2\\nI XV. 2\\n118\\n121\\nAbijah Foster,\\n33\\nI. 3\\n152\\n159\\nJohn Brown,\\n31\\n65\\n60\\nBenjamin Hoar, Jr.,\\n40\\nII. 1\\n149\\n150\\n5 V. 2\\nI VI. I\\n74\\n66\\nTimothy Heald,\\n65,66\\n186\\n141\\nJoseph Kidder,\\n48\\nIX. 1\\n148\\n151\\nEbenezer Bnllard,\\n5 II. 2\\ni II. 3\\n129\\n130\\nJoseph Stevens,\\n35\\nVII. 3\\n44\\nHenry Pudney,\\n49\\n7\\n124\\n122\\nJohn Chandler,\\nIII. 1\\nI IV. 1\\nIX. 4\\n108\\n105\\nHannah Dinsmore,\\n54\\n125\\n137\\nRev. Daniel Emerson,\\nVII. 2\\n71\\n133\\n112\\nDavid Nevins,\\nXI. 4\\n187\\n78\\n79\\nCapt. Peter Powers,\\n1, 12\\n71\\nZaccheiis Lovewell,\\nS XI. 3\\n^XII. 3\\n145\\n140\\nJoseph French,\\n5 III. 4\\ni X. 3\\n146\\n147\\nMaj. Jonathan Hubbard,\\n47\\nIX. 2\\n92\\n88\\nJohn Stevens,\\n34\\nXII. 2\\n141\\n188\\nX. 4\\n5\\n98\\n99\\n52\\nXV. I\\n28\\nIsaac Ap|)leton,\\n63\\nIII. 2\\n117\\n116\\nit\\n42\\nXVI. 2\\n138\\n139\\nte te\\n64\\nXI. 1\\n170\\n171\\nee cc\\n42\\nVIII. 2\\n72\\nc c\\nVI. 2\\n69\\n183\\n184\\n(C\\n9\\n72\\n123\\n119\\nThomas Adams,\\n21,25\\n166\\n168\\na a\\n22\\nXIV. 4\\n24\\na (C\\n17\\nXVI. 1\\n1.56\\n158\\n11 a\\n18\\nX. 2\\n178\\nISO\\na a\\n50, 51\\n70\\nRobert Choate,\\nC I. 4\\ni X. 1\\nVI. 4\\n73\\nWilliam Brown,\\n30\\n120\\n144\\nNathaniel Smith,\\n45\\nXIII. 3\\n154\\n(C te\\n^XVI. 3\\n91\\n103\\nl XII. 4\\nThomas Dennis,\\n57\\n67\\n56\\nAndrew Spaulding, and\\nJohn Marsh, 5\\n37\\nXII. 1\\n153\\nIsaac Pailh,\\n15\\nV. 4\\nZaccheus Lovewell,\\nXI. 2\\n186\\n115\\n143\\nFirst Minister s Right,\\n32\\nXIII. 2\\n75\\n106\\nMinisterial Right,\\n20\\nXVI. 4\\nlots on S\\ntriplown.\\nSchool Right\\n134, 174\\n110\\nIll\\nBenjamin Hoar,\\n26\\n16\\n135\\n136\\ni\\n36,53\\n69\\n104\\nFrancis Choate,\\nVI. 3\\n66\\n97\\nCol. John Choate,\\n27\\n113\\n114\\nWilliam Peters,\\n70", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SAW AND GRIST MILL. 55\\nSoiihegan, and made a contract with John Chandler of West-\\nford to erect the Mills. He was to have the saw mill built\\nand fitted for service by the last of October 1750; and the corn\\nmill in October 1751, He was to keep them in good repair\\nfor ten years, and to grind and saw for the inhabitants ac-\\ncording to the customs of other mills. On the other hand,\\nthat he might have due encouragement for the carrying on\\nsaid service, he was to have one full right in the township,\\nwithout being obliged to pay the \u00c2\u00a340 in advance, which the\\nother grantees paid and was to have for his first draught the\\nlot on which the mills were to stand (IV. 1), a most valuable\\nlot,* including the sites of all the present factories, and the lot\\nadjacent to it on the east (III. 1). He was also to receive\\n\u00c2\u00a350 Bills of Credit, old tenor, to be paid in March 1751. For\\nthe due performance of the several matters and things as\\nafore specified, he, with William Chandler of Westford, were\\nbound in the sum of \u00c2\u00a3400, new tenor, equal to about ,^140.\\nThe mills were built according to agreement but it seems\\nthat some difficulty afterwards arose as to his obligation to\\ngrind for the inhabitants according to their customs for in\\n1757 a committee of five was appointed to oblige John\\nChandler to fulfill his obligation in grinding, [P. R. 239]\\nand again, in 1759, it was Voted not to accept four days\\ngrinding in a week, this winter. Mr. Chandler seems not to\\nhave been well pleased with his position, and in 176S, before\\nthe close of his contract, he sold out to Captain Eleazer Cum-\\nmings, and left the town. Not long after, Capt. Cummings\\nrebuilt the mills. They afterwards passed into the hands\\nof Capt. William Pritchard, his son-in-law, who carried\\nthem on till they were finally removed to give place to the\\nThis lot had been drawn by Isaac Appleton, who relinquished it for the\\nespecial purpose, as appears by the following quit-claim\\nWhereas the Proprietors of New Ipswich stand in need of the Lott No. One\\nin the fourth range in the south division, to build mills on, I the subscri uer do\\nhear by give up said Lott to said Proprietee who am the owner there of, the said\\nProprietors relinquishing my obligation to pay and do what I am obloiged to Do\\non the Right to which said Lott belongs, and to grant to me the vallue of said\\nLott. [P. R. 22].\\nAs witness my hand ^ifCiXC C", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56 PROPRIETARY HISTORY.\\nSoiihegan Factory. The original mill-stone, to which so\\nmany of the inhabitants were for so long a time, in an impor-\\ntant sense, indebted for their bread, is still to be seen in the\\nvicinity of the old mill-site.\\nAt the second meeting of proprietors, at the honse of\\nBenjamin Hoar, June 20, 1750, special attention was also\\ndirected to the highways. A contract was made for building a\\nbridge over the Souhegan, at or near the same place where the\\nformer bridge was built; and a committee was chosen to\\nrepair the ways in said town that are absolutely necessary.\\nIt was also voted that there shall be laid out \u00c2\u00a346 old tenor,\\nto provide preaching in the fall of the year next coming and\\nJoseph Stevens and Reuben Kidder were chosen a Committee\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0to take cair to provide a propper person to preach, In 1752 it\\nwas voted to build a meeting-house near the sou west corner\\nof Oliver Proctor s house lot. But as these subjects will be\\nseparately treated, they are only mentioned here to show the\\nearly attention which our forefathers gave to the essential\\ninstitutions and facilities on which the progress of every\\nenlightened community depends, and the liberal provision\\nthey made for them in the day of small things. It would add\\nto the pleasure with which we record these tokens of wisdom\\nand foresight, had w6 the evidence that they were equally\\nprompt in providing the means for public instruction. It is\\nnot, however, until after the incorporation of the town, more\\nthan ten years subsequent, that any record of provision for\\nschools appears.\\nThe time having expired within which three acres of land\\nwere to be cleared, and a house and resident found on each\\nRight, measures were taken to ascertain how far the proprie-\\ntors had complied with the conditions. At the meeting in\\nJune, 1752, Benjamin Adams, Reuben Kidder and Capt.\\nJonas Wool son were chosen a committee for this purpose, to\\nreport at the next meeting (P. R. 34) and in March, 1753, it\\nwas voted to choose three men as a Committee to sell the\\nland in this place on which duty is not performed according to\\ncharter, or take bonds sufficient for the Proprietors security.\\nChosen for said Committee Capt. Jonas Woolson, Benjamin\\nHoar and Joseph Stevens. (P. R. 186).", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "TITLES TO THE LAND. 57\\nThe doings of this committee were approved at a meeting,\\nJan. 16, 1754. The result seems to have been to compel\\nimmediate attention to the fulfilment of the conditions of the\\ncharter and at the meeting on the 22d of the following April\\nit was Voted, That Mr. Joseph Stevens, Treasurer, shall\\ngive up those Bonds that were given into his hands for the\\nProprietors security, if, upon his knowledge, they shall have\\ncompleted their Duty according to Charter. (P. R. 200.)\\nThe compliance was so universal, that there is no further\\nrecord to show that any one was ever molested in the posses-\\nsion of his Right on this account.\\nA more serious difficulty arose in attempting to enforce the\\npayment of taxes, on account of the obstinacy of some, but\\nprobably from inability in most cases.\\nIn 1753, there was a kind of general reckoning. After an\\nenumeration of taxes, laid at various times, all persons\\nconcerned in this affair that do not pay within three months,\\nwere notified that their land would be sold. To cut off all\\nexcuse, it is stated that these Taxes were imposted and set\\nup at several places, viz., one at said New Ipswich, one at\\nDunstable and one at Ipswich, and witnessed as followeth\\nthe one that was set up at New Ipswich, was put up at the\\nHouse of Mr. Benj^ Hoar, Inholder, in Presence of said Hoar\\nand me the subscriber, (Benj^^ Adams) and another was set\\nup at Mr. Frenches, Inholder in Dunstable, in presence of Mr.\\nHardy, the fariman, and Lydia Adams, wife to Ephraim\\nAdams* the other was set up at the House of Mr. Increase\\nHow, in Ipswich, in Presence of said How and Mr. Daniel\\nWarner. (P. R. 189).\\nThe taxes were afterwards regularly imposted in a similar\\nmanner, in the town of New Ipswich only, and always with a\\nnotice to all persons concerned in this affair, that their lands\\nwould be exposed for sale if the amount was not paid in three\\nmonths.\\nThe duty of selling the lands on this account seems to have\\ninvolved the committee, having the duty in charge, in serious\\nShe is said to have travelled alone through the woods, from New Ipswich to\\nDunstable, to carry the notification.\\n8", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "58 PROPRIETARY HISTORY.\\ndifficulties, and probably subjected them also to odium and\\ninsult; so much so, that after it had been Voted, that Mr.\\nReuben Kidder, Capt, Jonas Woolson and Benj\\\\ Adams shall\\nremain in their former office for to self the land of those that\\nare delinquent in paying their imposted Taxes, the three\\nmen before-mentioned utterly, for some considerations, refused\\nto serve in the business, [P. R. 205.] The reason for their\\nobjections is explained in a subsequent vote, which, after di-\\nrecting and empowering them to sell the lands of delinquents,\\nalso authorizes them to give the purchasers a Title accord-\\ning to Charter of said Township and the Proprietors pro-\\nmis and Ingage to Secure and Defend said Committee from\\nany Trouble or Charge they shall Receive or Sustain in their\\nproceeding. [P. R. 209]\\nA similar difficulty arose with the Committee on Highways,\\nand they were uuAvilling to proceed in their duties. Quite an\\nexcitement seems to have arisen on the occasion, and such\\nwas the amount of ill-humor, that at one meeting, (Aug. 1,\\n1753,) after negativing every article in the warrant, in suc-\\ncession, the Record winds up as follows: and upon the\\nwhole, voted not to do any thing this meeting, for some con-\\nsiderations, [P. R. 207.] A series of instructions respecting\\ntheir duties and powers restored harmony in this case also.\\n[P. R. 200.]\\nThe petty jealousies and suspicions against those who have\\nthe principal management of affairs, which are so well known\\nin larger communities, seems to have been cherished in this\\ninfant settlement. In 1755, there appears to have been a\\ngeneral clamor for reform; and it was Voted to exchange\\nsome of the officers of the proprietors formerly chosen, for\\nsome new officers. [P, R. 220.] The Clerk, the Treasurer,\\nand the Committee to reckon with the Treasurer, seem to have\\nfallen into disgrace. In the case of the Treasurer, Joseph\\nStevens, there probably was some cause for dissatisfaction, if\\nwe may judge from the repeated and peremptory demands\\nupon him for a settlement until at last the Committee to\\nsettle with him were authorized and empowered, if he\\nneglected or refused to render to them his account, jointly\\nand severally, or any two of them, to sue and proceed on with", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "COMMON AND BURYING GROUND. 69\\nthe above said Treasurer in sum proper action, for the recov-\\nery of such moneys, and to pursue the same to final\\njudgement and execution, with a power of substituting.\\n[P. R. 230.] Want of promptness in cohecting and accounting\\nfor the taxes, rather than want of honesty, seems to have\\nbrought tliis action upon him.\\nMar 21, 1753. Voted that Reuben Kidder, Ephraim Adams\\nand Benjamin Hoar to be a Committee to take care of the\\nprudentials of this place; also to layout a Burying place,\\nand clear some their. [P. R. 187.]\\nFeb. 27, 1754. Voted to give Joseph Kidder at the rate of\\ntwelve pounds an acre for clearing his land at the North West\\ncorner of his lott, (IX. 1,) to be for a common, after three\\nyears and a halfe from the date hereof [P. R. 198.] The\\nsame vote was passed in relation to the South West corner of\\nJoseph Bates lott (No. 33, N. D.) and ten acres were after-\\nwards laid out adjoyning to the meeting house, agreeable to\\ny grant of y* same. [P. R. 265.]\\nThe westerly part of tlie lot then laid out was subsequently\\nexchanged with Mr. Farrar for land under and about where\\nthe meeting house afterwards stood. [P. R. 73, 75.]\\nNov. 26, 1754. Voted that four neat cattle shall stock a\\nRight till such time as it shall be thought proper to alter this\\nvote. [P. R. 214.]\\nIn 1757 we have the first indication that any one had\\nbecome a charge upon the town on account of poverty.\\nAug. 25. Voted that Timothy Heald shall draw out of the\\nTreasury forty-five pounds, old tenor, for keeping Phmehas\\nGoodale and carrying him to Townsend, [P. R. 238.] The\\nnext, and perhaps the first unequivocal case of pauperism is\\nrecorded in 1762, when it was voted, to allow the reasona-\\nble charge of those who have supported Samuel Perham s\\nchildren, [P. R. 270.] Mr. Perham came from Hollis, as\\nproxy for Reuben Kidder, and both he and his wife died in\\nthe spring of 1761. A son also died the same year. Subse-\\nquently, however, tlie committee having obtained further facts,\\ninform the selectmen that they intirely disallow what we\\nhave heretofore done in and about said accounts, and judge\\nit unreasonable for the town to pay any thing, [T. R. 8.]", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "60\\nPROPRIETARY HISTORY.\\nDuring the ten years, which up to this time, had elapsed\\nafter the obtaining of the grant from the Masonian proprietors,\\nsubstantial progress had been made. The axe wielded by\\nvigorous hands, and the devouring fire, had been active, and\\nhad made extensive inroads upon the forest. The number of\\ninhabitants had increased from about one hundred and forty\\nto something like three hundred and fifty, and among them\\nwere now many substantial families. The following year\\n(1763), the first tax list appears and as it is the best means\\nwe can have to show the adult male residents at that period,\\ntheir comparative substance, and also the farms in the town\\nwhich were first occupied, we present the minister s rate entire.\\nMINISTER S RATE FOR THE YEAR 1763.\\nCapt. Jonas Woolson,\\n\u00c2\u00a310\\n18s\\n3\\nBenjamin Knowlton,\\n\u00c2\u00a3,1 10s\\n9\\nCapt. Benjamin Hoar,\\n10\\n8\\n10\\nArchibald White,\\n5\\n18\\nThomas Wright,\\n3\\n11\\n3\\nBenjamin Procter,\\n3\\n1.5\\n4\\nThomas Parrett,\\n1\\n19\\n4\\nEzra Towne,\\n2\\n19\\n1\\nEbeiiezer Heald,\\n6\\n9\\n4\\nGeorge Start,\\n7\\n7\\nJacob Adams,\\n2\\n18\\n1\\nEs Joseph Stevens,\\n8\\n3\\n1\\nSamuel Kinney,\\n4\\n7\\nNathan Cutter,\\n5\\n16\\n3\\nThomas Heald,\\n2\\n14\\n4\\nBarnabas Davis,\\n5\\n3\\n6\\nBenjamin Gibbs,\\n5\\n10\\n7\\nSimeon Gould,\\n2\\n16\\n8\\nSamuel Whittemore,\\n7\\n9\\n6\\nJohn Brown,\\n2\\nSimeon Fletcher,\\n4\\n5\\n1\\nBenjamin King,\\nBenjamin Safford,\\n4\\n14\\n9\\nRobert Campbell,\\n4\\n3\\n1\\n7\\n4\\n9\\nHezekiah Corey,\\n2\\n2\\n2\\nWid Mary Foster,\\n3\\n3\\n9\\nAndrew Conn,\\n2\\n6\\n3\\nWid Elizabeth Fletcher,\\n19\\n1\\nJoel Crosby,\\n4\\n17\\n6\\nJoseph Kidder,\\n4\\n6\\n3\\nThomas Adams,\\n7\\n8\\n1\\nJoseph Bates,\\n6\\n9\\n1\\nSimeon Hildreth,\\n3\\n4\\n8\\nIsaac Appleton,\\n9\\n4\\n6\\nStephen Adams,\\n7\\n12\\n7\\nJames Farrar,\\n3\\n18\\n9\\nJesse Carleton,\\n2\\n5\\n6\\nJames Wilson,\\n2\\nJohn Chandler,\\n11\\n7\\nReuben Kidder, Esq.\\n16\\n13\\n10\\nPeletiah Whittemore,\\n2\\n8\\n9\\nRobert Waugh,\\n3\\n10\\nElias Stone,\\n2\\n16\\n3\\nSamuel Parker,\\n5\\n1\\n3\\nThomas Spaulding,\\n2\\n9\\n7\\nAbel Wright,\\n4\\n11\\n10\\nStephen Adams, Jr.\\n2\\n1\\n2\\nThos. Earns worth.\\n3\\n11\\n10\\nTimothy Heald,\\n7\\nI\\nKendall Briant,\\n6\\n7\\n6\\nJoseph Bullard,\\n4\\n14\\n1\\nAndrew Spaulding,\\n3\\n15\\nEbenezer Bullard,\\n7\\n13\\n7\\nJosiah Crosby,\\n4\\n6\\nCapt. Moses Tucker,\\n11\\n3\\n10\\nMoses Tucker, Jr.\\n3\\n15\\nJames French,\\n2\\n8\\n9\\nThomas Fletcher,\\n6\\n4\\n1\\nJohn Dutten,\\n7\\n10\\n7\\nFrancis Fletcher,\\n6\\n9\\n9\\nJohn Dutten, Jr.\\n2\\n13\\n1\\nWilliam McClary,\\n4\\n18\\nElijah Dutten,\\n2\\n1\\n10\\nWid\u00c2\u00b0. Catherine McClary,\\n1\\n13\\n9\\nDea. Benjamin Adams,\\n7\\n.5\\n6\\nDaniel McClary,\\n2\\nDca. Ephraim Adanis,\\n6\\n19\\n6\\nAaron Kidder.\\n7\\n7\\n4\\nAbba Severance,\\n3\\n6\\nIsaac How,\\n7\\n2\\n10\\nPeter Fletcher,\\n3\\n17\\n7\\nWilliam Brown,\\n2\\n8\\n7", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "RECAPITULATION.\\n61\\nBenjamin Cutter,\\n\u00c2\u00a35\\nIs\\n3\\nIchabod How,\\n\u00c2\u00a38 8s\\n1\\nSilas Parlier,\\n2\\nAsa Bullard,\\n2\\nLeonard Parker,\\n2\\nJoseph Richardson,\\n2\\nSimeon Wright,\\n2\\nGeorge Hewett,\\n3 17\\n10\\nThomas Brown,\\n2\\n8\\n9\\nSilas Russell,\\n2\\nWilliam Spear,\\n5\\n1\\n3\\nZachariah Emery,\\n2\\nNathaniel Carleton,\\n2\\n16\\n3\\nZachariah Adams,\\n7 12\\n3\\nAmos Taylor,\\n2\\n10\\n7\\nSamuel Foster,\\n2\\nReuben Taylor,\\n3\\n15\\nJoseph Parker,\\n2\\nRobert Crosby,\\n3\\n6\\n7\\nJohn Mcintosh,\\n2\\nJohn Preston,\\n3\\n15\\nWid Mary Brown,\\n14\\nSamuel Perham,\\n2\\nTotal, je436 10s. 8d.\\n$200 near\\nly.\\nThe above is a copy of the Ministers Rate for the year 1763 the assessment\\nwas on silver at \u00c2\u00a32 5s. per dollar, as they were set or valued in the Massachu-\\nsetts Provinces, in the currency of the said Province, by reason that our Contract\\nwith y^ Rev. Mr. Stephen Farrar was for Silver as aforesaid.\\nTIMOTHY HEALD, Town Clerk.\\nWe find the whole number of tax-payers to be ninety-five.\\nThey were all in the prime of life, the oldest of them, Capt.\\nMoses Tucker, being only 58 years of age. Among them wc\\nfind four widows, showing that the universal destroyer had\\nalready commenced his work here, and ten or twelve had\\nalready become tenants of the old burying ground besides\\nwhich, tradition says there were five buried near the head of\\nthe fe^afibrd lane, previous to the opening of the old cemetery\\nin 17.53. Among these were a son and daughter of Ebenezer\\nBullard a son of Joseph Bullard two sons and a daughter of\\nBenj. Adams the wife of Ephraim Adams a daughter of\\nBenj. King; two sons and a daughter of Benj. Hoar; Samuel\\nPerham, his wife, and a son Abijah Foster, the first settler,\\nand one of his sons had died in the army.\\nWe may also see that most of the principal farms in town\\nwere already occupied. The east and north quarters, howev-\\ner, seem to have been more fully occupied than the south and\\nwest. The centre village contained four or five houses\\nJoseph Kidder s house stood where J. Preston, Esq., now\\nlives his lot extended thence southerly to where the\\nmeeting-house now stands, comprising the main street and\\nthe meadow. It was then an alder swamp, so dense that\\nJudge Farrar said he had seen the time when he could walk\\nacross, on the bushes, without touching the ground and it was\\nregarded as so worthless, that poor as Joe Kidder s lot", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62 PROPRIETARY HISTORY.\\nbecame a proverb in town. Joseph Bates occupred the house\\nbuih by Abijah Foster, on the lot north of Kidder, which\\ncomprises the remainder of the village and the intervale now\\nimproved by Joseph Barrett, Esq. Oliver Proctor lived on\\nthe lot next west, and his house stood at the northwest corner\\nof the old academy. This afterwards became the farm of the\\nRev. Mr. Farrar, who soon built a small tenement, still or\\nrecently standing, attached to the north side of the old tavern\\nhouse, at the corner of the road to the starch factory. Isaac\\nAppleton lived on the lot next west, and his house stood near\\nwhere the road turns from the old turnpike to the bake house\\nvillage. Soon after. Dr. Preston built the house where Maj.\\nSeth King recently lived, and James Farrar built on the spot\\nso long occupied by Judge Farrar and these were the only\\nhouses in the village for many years afterwards. Roads had\\nalready been cleared to the principal points in town, so that\\nthe settlers had been able to transport their proportion of\\nlumber for the erection of the meeting bouse but they could\\nhave been little better than the sled paths now used for\\nobtaining fuel from the forests. The day of uncertainty had\\npassed, and all doubts as to the success and stability of the\\nsettlement had vanished.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nINCORPORATION TO THE REVOLUTION,\\nproprietary affairs terminated first town meeting town\\nofficers litigation with capt. kidder the pound dr.\\nPreston s tax municipal division of the town liquor\\nLAWS non-importation resolves ammunition john Hol-\\nland s FINE CLAIM FOR REPRESENTATION RECAPITULATION.\\nThe Act of Incorporation having been obtained, the\\nmimicipal affairs of the town assume a different form, mider\\nofficers annually chosen by the tax-paying citizens. The\\nProprietors, as such, no longer direct the interests of the town,\\nlaying taxes to defray expenses on the several Proprietors\\nRights, but they are imposed according to the valuation of\\nproperty. Indeed the functions of the Proprietors nearly\\ncease at this time, their acts for the following ten years being\\nconfined to the settlement of old claims, the collecting of\\narrearages, and the giving of some assistance in aid of a new\\nmeeting-house.\\nOct. 13, 1764. They agree to raise \u00c2\u00a36. 13. 4. silver, old\\ntenor, on each uninhabited 80 acre lot, and \u00c2\u00a33. 6. 8. on each\\nsixty-six acre lot, half to be paid on the raising of the meeting\\nhouse, and half when it should be finished, upon the town\\ntaking the contract upon them that the Proprietors made with\\nthe Rev. Mr. Farrar. [P. R. 275.]\\nDec. 30, 1770. They declare themselves ready to pay the\\nabove sums upon receiving of said town our proportionable\\npart of the Meeting Hous according to our pay. [P. R. 283.]\\nMay 22, 1765. Voted that Dea. Ephraim Adams, Mr.\\nBenj. Safford and Ichabod How be a Committee to collect the\\narrearages of all the former Taxes and Finish the affair.\\n[P. R. 277.]", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 INCORPORATION TO THE REVOLUTION.\\nThe Charter of Incorporation was signed Sept. 9, 1762, and\\nthe first meeting of the town was held on the thirteenth of\\nthe same month. The following is a copy of the Record.\\nAt the first Town Meeting held at Ipswich in New Hamp-\\nshire, by Veirtue of a Charter of Incorporation held in said\\nIpswich.\\nCapt. Jonas Woolson chosen Moderator of said meeting.\\nMoses Tucker, Dr. John Preston and Robert Crosby chosen\\nSelectmen.\\nEbenezer Bullard chosen Constable.\\nIchabod How and Thomas Heald chosen a Committee to\\nexamine the Selectmen s accounts, and make Report of the\\nsame at the next annual meeting.\\nVoted that the Selectmen shall serve as Assessors.\\nBenjamin Knowlton and Isaac Appleton chosen tithingmen.\\nJoseph Bates was chosen Sealor of Waits and Measurs.\\nSam Kinney, Simeon Gould and Aaron Kidder chosen\\ndeer keepers.\\nJoseph Stevens, Thomas Farnsworth, Francis Fletcher,\\nEbenezer Heald and Joseph Bullard chosen Surveirs of High\\nways.\\nRobert Crosby chosen Surveir of Lumber.\\nTimothy Heald, Town Clerk.\\nThe number of families in town, at this time, was about\\n75, and the number of inhabitants probably about 400. The\\namount voted to pay the necessary charges in the town, was\\n\u00c2\u00a31200 old tenor.\\nThe Records of the town from this time up to the period of\\nthe Revolution, afford but few incidents for history. They\\nrecount, from year to year, the Officers elected, the taxes\\nraised, the various steps taken in building meetinghouses,\\nsettling a pastor, establishing schools and improving the\\nhighways. The following votes comprise pretty much all\\nelse that is specially interesting.\\n1763. Voted to chuse an agent to defend in behalf of this\\ntown, in those actions commenced against this Town, by\\nCapt. Kidder and Samuel Parker. [T. R. 8.] What these\\nactions were is now uncertain but they probably grew out of\\nsome proposition to indemnify the Striptown sufferers on", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SUNDRY VOTES. 65\\ncertain conditions. An execution was obtained against the\\ntown, and a tax of \u00c2\u00a3728 17^. 7d. ^325, was laid to satisfy\\nit. This probably gave displeasure to the people, as Capt.\\nKidder seems never afterwards to have been conspicuous in\\ntown aifairs.\\nVoted to build a Pound of Wood, and to set it on Joseph\\nKidder s Land, south of the road, on the east side of the\\nBrook that runs out of said Kidder s meddow. [T. R. 9.\\nThis was nearly opposite the late Dr. Barr s residence, and\\nwas used about twenty years.\\nVoted not to abate Doct. Preston s Rate for his head and\\nhors nor Relese him from pay for his head and hors for the\\nfuture. [T. R. 10.] He had probably claimed this immuni-\\nty on the same ground that Chandler, the miller, was released\\nfrom the initial tax on his right because of being a public\\nbenefactor.\\nAfter the interregnum which took place at the expiration of\\nthe first Charter of Incorporation, and on the reception of the\\nnew one, which restored to the town its original name. New\\nIpswich, a Town Meeting was called March 17, 1767, by\\nReuben Kidder, one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace\\nfor the Province of New Hampshire, and probably the only\\none in this vicinity, and the town government was again\\norganized by the choice of officers.\\n1767. Voted to chuse two Constables for the present\\nyear. [T. R. 24.] From this time the town was municipally\\ndivided into two Districts, by a line running east and w6st,\\none range of lots south of the centre line. A separate tax -list\\nwas prepared for each and a sort of rivalry resulted through\\na long series of years, in both civil and military matters.\\nVoted for calling town meetings for the future the Consta-\\nble notifie at the Mill and the most public House in town.\\n[T. R. 28.]\\nVoted not to pay the Select men. The next year,\\nhowever, it was voted to pay the Select men for taking the\\nInvoice and making Rates, and nothing else. [T. R. 27.]\\nVoted not to exact the fine of Lieut. Bates for his not\\nserving Constable for said year. He had been regularly\\nchosen, but refused to serve this year.\\n9", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "60 INCORPORATION TO THE REVOLUTION.\\n1770. Whereas sundry persons have been hcensed to sell\\nspirituous hquors in this town, who have not had the Appro-\\nbation of the Select men, which we think has a bad Tendency,\\nand has already been to the damage of the Town,\\nVoted that the Town Clerk in behalf of the Town, prefer\\na Petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions, that no person,\\nfor the future be licensed but what have the Approbation of\\nthe Selectmen. [T. R. 65.]\\nVoted that Commissions of profit and faculty s and licensed\\nHouses be Rated by the Selectmen according to their supposed\\nprofits.\\n1770. An article was inserted in the Warrant for town\\nmeeting, as follows To pass such further Resolves respect-\\ning the non-Importation agreement of the Generous Sons of\\nLiberty at Boston as shall be thought proper. [T. R. 76.]\\nThis probably refers to the non-importation agreement passed\\nin Boston, Aug. 1768. It is the first indication of a revolu-\\ntionary spirit among the citizens. The article was, however,\\ndismissed without action, the majority of the people not being\\nyet convinced that rebellion against the mother country Avas\\ncalled for. Another vote, soon after, shadowed forth the rising\\nspirit of resistance more significantly. Voted that the Select\\nmen provide a Stock of Amunition, sutable for the town.\\n[T. R. 78.]\\nVoted to build a place for the Town Stock of Amunition\\non the Beams under the Roof of the Meeting house.\\n1773. Voted that the Selectmen provide Burying Cloths\\nfor the Town s use.\\nConsiderable commotion seems to have arisen this year, in\\nconsequence of an assessment laid on the County by the\\nSessions of the Peace to be granted to John Holland,\\nDeputy Sheriff*. It would seem that a prisoner, by the name\\nof Joseph Kelly, had escaped from his custody, whereby he\\nhad incurred a penalty, which the Court remitted to him, and\\nassessed upon the County. Holland had made himself\\nobnoxious to the people on account of his tory principles and\\na committee was first appointed to go to Amherst and inquire\\ninto the cause of the grant afterwards a petition was drawn\\nup to the General Court to repeal or suspend this order of the", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "REPRESENTATION. 67\\nCourt of Sessions. The appeal was probably without avail,\\nas we find a vote of the town the following year, to refund the\\nSelectmen the cost of an execution from the County Sessions.\\nHolland joined the British in 1775; his estate was confiscated,\\nand he himself pronounced an outlaw the next year.\\n1774, Dec. 6. At this time occurs the first decidedly\\npolitical act of the town which we find recorded. It is in\\naccordance with the spirit of the times.\\nVoted, That it is the opinion of this Town that Represent-\\nation is absolutely necessary to legal taxation or Legislation\\nand whereas this town has, for a number of years, been taxed\\nto the Province, and have had no Voice in Legislation, which\\nis a great Grievance and in order to obtain a Redress, that the\\nSelectmen of this town do forward a Petition and Remon-\\nstrance to his Excellency our Governour, that we may enjoy\\nthose privileges which are essential to the British Constitution,\\nand that they call upon the adjacent Towns to adopt the like\\nmeasures and endeavor that the unrepresented Towns come\\ninto similar measures throughout the Provmce. [T. R. 127.]\\nThis phraseology about grievances, remonstrances and\\nredress, seems rather magniloquent when it is considered that\\nonly about three years previous, Dec, 1770, an article was\\nintroduced into the Warrant, to see if the town will come\\ninto a Meathod to send a Representative, when it was voted\\nnot to send a Representative at present and even no longer\\nthan the preceding March it was voted, not to petition the\\nGovernor for the Privilege of sending a Representative.\\n[T. R. 119.] But it breathes the spirit of the times, and\\nshows to what an extent the people had been aroused to a\\nsense of their political rights during that brief period. It\\nembodies the essential principles of a Republican government,\\nand is a fitting prologue to the numerous subsequent acts re-\\nspecting the Revolution and the framing of the Constitution,\\nwhich bear the impress of the Adamses and Farrars, and other\\npatriots, and which will compare well with the doings of any\\nlegislative body of that eventful period.\\nAs the period preceding the Masonian Grant may be regard-\\ned as the infancy, and the one subsequent to it up to the incor-\\nporation of the town may be considered as its period of child-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68 INCORPORATION TO THE REVOLUTION.\\nhood, so may the twelve years preceding the epoch at which\\nwe have now arrived, be considered its period of adolescence.\\nIt was the most impulsive and vigorous period of its history.\\nIt had acquired a growth from which it varied very little for\\nthe next fifty years. Nearly every farm, capable of cultiva-\\ntion, had its occupant the number of farms then was even\\ngreater than at the present day, many of them having been\\ngiven up to pasturage, or merged in adjoining farms. The\\nnumber of inhabitants was now about nine hundred, having\\nnearly trebled in fourteen years. They and their children\\nlived in the days when it was customary to stay at home\\nthey Were isolated, intermarrying with each other, and form-\\ning one great family. It was they who founded all the insti-\\ntutions of the town, and established its character.\\nThe town had now acquired the exercise of all its functions\\nas a civilized and independent community. As early as 1763\\nit was provided with the three essential dignitaries, the minis-\\nter, the lawyer, and the doctor and the inhabitants of the\\nadjacent towns also were in a great measure dependent on\\nthem for advice. Col. Kidder had been for many years the\\nonly magistrate in the region, and many amusing stories are\\ntold of the quarrels that came before him, and the summary\\nmanner in which justice was administered.* The community\\nhad become much improved in general intelligence. Schools\\nhad been opened and school districts had been formed and\\nthere were resident in town three graduates of Harvard College.\\nGreat changes had taken place in the population. Very\\nmany additions and some deductions had been made. Four\\nof the most substantial citizens had died, viz. Captain\\nIn the year 1773, a Peterborough man was detected in steaHng, and was\\nbrought before Col. Kidder, accompanied by a pretty full delegation of his towns-\\nmen. The proof was positive, and the man was pronounced guilty. As\\nthere was no jail in the Province nearer than Portsmouth, corporeal punishment\\nwas much more convenient for all parties, than a long journey and imprisonment.\\nThe Colonel therefore sentenced him to receive forty lashes save one. The cul-\\nprit was tied up to one of the elms in front of the magistrate s mansion, and the\\npunishment administered. Tradition says that he bore it with great philosophy,\\nand after it was over, soothed his smart in a refreshing glass of rum and the\\nPeterborough folks finished the afternoon in dancing on the green to some of\\ntheir national Scotch airs, the late convict officiating as musician and finally,\\nabout dusk, went home in good humor, evidently much gratified with their day\\nof recreation", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "INVOICE OF THE TOWN.\\n69\\nMoses Tucker, the patriarch of the town, at the age of 58,\\nEbenezer Bullard, Captain Aaron Kidder, and James Farrar.\\nAnother citizen, Simeon Fletcher, was killed at the raising\\nof Wilton meeting-house, in 1773, on which occasion five\\npersons lost their lives by the falling of the frame, and\\nmany others were maimed for life among them Simeon\\nWright, of this town, had his ankle crushed, and William\\nSpear had some of his ribs broken. This terrible catastrophe\\nwas the subject of a mournful ballad, which was familiarly\\nknown and sung for many years afterwards.* In 1769, quite\\na colony departed, to settle on a township in Maine (now the\\ntown of Camden,) in which Charles Barrett had an interest.\\nAmong these were Cory, Conn, Wheat, Waugh, Heald,\\nChandler the miller, Ichabod How and Joseph Stevens.\\nAn invoice of the town, taken in 1773, was as follows\\n169 male polls,\\n3 slaves,\\n201 oxen and horses,\\n267 cows,\\n246 young cattle,\\nIS acres of orchard,\\n3118 of pasturage,\\n881 arable and mowing.\\n\u00c2\u00a366 lawful, the yearly income of stock in trade, money\\nat interest, mills, c.\\nWhole number of inhabitants 882.\\nThe tax-list for 1774 will show the number of persons taxed\\nat the commencement of the Revolution, who they were,\\nwhose lives and substance were devoted to the purchase of\\nliberty, and what were their comparative means.\\nThe whole Ballad consists of forty-two stanzas, of which the following\\nspecimens\\nAttention give, and yon shall hear All on a sudden broke a beam,\\nA melancholy theme, And letdown fifty-three\\nOf such an instance as there is Full twenty-seven feet they fell,\\nBut very seldom seen.\\nIn seventeen hundred seventy-three,\\nSeptember, seventh day.\\nAt Wilton did Almighty God\\nHis anger there display.\\nOf men a great collection mot\\nA meeting-house to raise.\\nTherein to speak God s Holy Word,\\nAnd foi to sing His praise.\\nA shocking sight to see.\\nMuch timber with those men did fall,\\nAnd edged tools likewise;\\nAll, in a heap, together lay\\nWith biftter shrieks and cries.\\nSome lay with brfiken shoulder bones\\nAnd some with broken arms,\\nOthers with broken legs and thighs\\nAnd divers other harms.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70\\nINCORPORATION TO THE REVOLUTION.\\nTOWN\\nFAX\\nSOUTH\\nStephen Adams, Jr.\\n\u00c2\u00a30\\n8s\\n3\\nSilas Adams,\\n8\\n3\\nThomas Adams,\\n9\\n7\\nRichard Alexanders,\\n13\\n9\\nCharles Barrett,\\n3\\n4\\n9\\nSamuel Bartlett,\\n17\\n6\\nJohn Breed,\\n1\\n15\\n7\\nJohn Brooks,\\n12\\n10\\nNathan Boynton,\\n1\\n2\\n8\\nAllen Breed,\\n17\\n1\\nDavid Brooks,\\n2\\nJesse Butterfield,\\n8\\n3\\nRobert Campbell,\\n1\\n11\\n9\\nNathaniel Carlton,\\n12\\n2\\nJames Chandler,\\n1\\n4\\n6\\nHezekiah Corey,\\n1\\n6\\nThomas Cummings,\\n9\\n7\\nEphraim Chamberlain,\\n2\\n4\\nBenjamin Carver,\\n2\\n3\\nEphraim Cummings,\\n2\\n3\\nSamuel Cummings,\\n16\\n3\\nAaron Chamberlam,\\n8\\n3\\nBunker Clark,\\n8\\n3\\nBenoni Cory,\\n8\\n3\\nThomas Davis,\\n1\\n8\\nJonathan Davis,\\n1\\n7\\nJosiah Davis,\\n12\\nWid\u00c2\u00ab. Rachel Fletcher,\\n1\\n7\\n6\\nTimothy Fox,\\n1\\n8\\n6\\nIsaac Farwell,\\n12\\n2\\nTimothy Farwell,\\noil\\n11\\nWid Mary Foster,\\n9\\n5\\nNathaniel Farr,\\n9\\n7\\nEphraim Foster,\\n11\\n8\\nDaniel Foster,\\n8\\n3\\nWilliam Faris,\\n8\\n3\\nBenjamin Gibbs,\\n1\\n9\\n5\\nCapt. Benjamin Hoar,\\n2\\n10\\nEns Thomas Heald,\\n1\\n11\\n10\\nSamuel Horsley,\\n9\\n9\\nSampson Ilildreth,\\n2\\n8\\nSamuel Holden,\\n1\\n3\\nWilliam Hodgkins,\\n1\\n11\\nStephen Hiidreth,\\n12\\n2\\nSimeon Ilildreth,\\n19\\n8\\nJonas Ilolden,\\n1\\n6\\n1\\nJohn Jaquith,\\n1\\nSamuel Kinny,\\n1\\n16\\n5\\nSanuu l Kiimy, jun\\n10\\n3\\nJacob Kendall,\\n5\\n9\\nStrpbcii Lund,\\n8\\n3\\nNatiiaiiicI lVI(;lvin,\\n13\\n3\\nCm| 1. .loiias Minott,\\n8\\n7\\nJohn M;uisfield,\\n11\\n1\\nJohn Melvin,\\n\\\\rj\\n5\\nDavid Melvin,\\n11\\n8\\nFOR 1774.\\nLIST.\\nAbel Miles, \u00c2\u00a30 19s. 6\\nLieut, Obadiah Parker, 8\\nCapt. Samuel Preston, 6 2\\nJames Preston, 9 11\\nJoseph Parker, 111\\nStephen Peirce, 17 3\\nLeonard Parker, 18 2\\nKendall Parsons, 8 3\\nJoseph Pollard, 1 16 4\\nLeonard Procter, 2 4\\nNathaniel Pratt, 10 9\\nAbel Parker, 8 3\\nJonathan Parker, 8 3\\nJohn Pratt, 5 6\\nNathaniel Reed, 18 2\\nJonathan Robbins, 16 6\\nDavid Rumrill, 14 5\\nBenjamin Safford, 2 6\\nWilliam Shattuck, 2 14\\nEphraim Severance, 8 3\\nThomas Spaulding, 18 1\\nJohn Savvtell, 15 9\\nDavid Saunders, 1 10\\nTimothy Stearns, 14 11\\nWilliam Shattuck, jun 8 3\\nJohn Scott, 17 8\\nThomas Sprague, 10 9\\nThomas Sprague, jun^. 8 3\\nReuben Taylor, 1 3 11\\nOdoardo Thomas, 13 4\\nJames Tidder, 14 2\\nSampson Tuttle, 14\\nMoses Tucker, 10 5\\nJoseph Tenny, 14 2\\nCapt. Jonas Woolson, 2 2 5\\nPeletiah Whittemore, 9 7\\nSamuel Whittemore, 2 8 11\\nHenry Woods, 3 5\\nSamuel Wood, 12 4\\nPeletiah Whittemore, jun^ 14 9\\nSupply Willson, 8 3\\nJohn Wheeler, 19 10\\nJoseph Warren, 14 4\\nSimeon Wright, 19 6\\nJohn Wilkins, 10 6\\nJonas Wheeler, 12 8\\nJohn Walker, 14 11\\nOliver Wright, 11\\nJonas Wheeler, j^n^ 9 5\\nSeth Wheeler, 1 6 1\\nNathan Wesson, 13 6\\nHenry Wright, 8\\nJames Wright, 8 3\\nHenry Spaulding, 8 3\\nElijah Flagg, 15 1\\nTotal, \u00c2\u00a386 Us. 6d.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "TAX PAYERS.\\n71\\nDea Ephraim Adams,\\nDea Benjamin Adams,\\nLieut. Isaac Appleton,\\nFrancis Appleton,\\nEphraim Adams, jun\\nLevi Adams,\\nLieut. Stephen Adams,\\nPhinehas Adams,\\nM Joseph Adams,\\nLieut. Joseph Bates,\\nLieut. William Brown,\\nThomas Brown,\\nEdmond Briant,\\nJosiah Brown,\\nThomas Barnes,\\nJoseph Baker,\\nJames Barrett,\\nCapt. Nathan Barrett,\\nRetire Bacon,\\nJohn Boutwell,\\nEphraim Burge,\\nJohn Brown,\\nJoseph Brooks,\\nJohn Brown, jun\\nJonas Brown,\\nM Ebenezer Champney,\\nEleazer Cummings,\\nNathan Cutter,\\nWilliam Clary,\\nIsaac Clarke,\\nJesse Carlton,\\nDaniel Clary,\\nJohn Cutter,\\nJonathan Cutter, ^,y^\\nJohn Button, y^\\nDea Stephen Davis,\\nStephen Davis, jun\\nBenjamin Davis,\\nElijah Davis,\\nSilas Davis,\\nCapt. Thomas Fletcher,\\nFrancis Fletcher,\\nPeter Fletcher,\\nSamuel Farrar,\\nThomas Farnsworth,\\nHenry Fletcher,\\nTimothy Farrar,\\nWilliam Fletcher,\\nDaniel Farnsworth,\\nAdam Goold,\\nSimeon Goold,\\nNathaniel Goold,\\nIsaac How,\\nDavid Hills,\\nJohn Harknees,\\nNORTH\\nLIST.\\n\u00c2\u00a32 5s.\\n10\\nRobert Harkness,\\n\u00c2\u00a30 lis\\n.0\\n2 3\\n6\\nCharles Hinds,\\n8\\n3\\n2 3\\n6\\nSamuel Heyward,\\n1\\n8\\n2\\n1 11\\nThomas Holt,\\n9\\n7\\n11\\n4\\nElisha Hubberd,\\n8\\nS\\n8\\n3\\nCol. Reuben Kidder,\\n4\\n7\\n3\\n9\\n7\\nLieut. Benjamin Knowlton,\\n3\\n4\\n3\\n8\\n3\\nWid^v. Rachel Kidder,\\n18\\n4\\n8\\n3\\nThomas Kidder,\\n8\\n11\\n1 12\\n5\\nJoseph Lowell,\\n8\\n3\\n2\\n9\\nDaniel Mansfield,\\n1\\n3\\n2\\n1 3\\n1\\nEzra Mansfield,\\n18\\n2\\n19\\n10\\nJosiah Melven,\\n2\\n11\\n1 7\\n9\\nElijah Morse,\\n8\\n3\\n9\\n7\\nJoseph Peirce,\\n10\\n7\\n9\\n2\\nDocf^. John Preston,\\n1\\n8\\n9\\n11\\n2\\nStephen Parker,\\n18\\n8\\n2\\n11\\nPaul Prichard,\\n3\\n5\\n9\\n10\\n3\\nBenjamin Pollard,\\n1\\n2\\n11\\n3\\n5\\nSamuel Parker,\\n1\\n7\\n3\\n5\\nBenjamin Procter,\\n1\\n6\\n7\\n4\\n1\\nAmos Prichard,\\n9\\n7\\n12\\n4\\nEzra Peirce,\\n8\\n3\\n8\\n3\\nRobert Reading,\\n13\\n9\\n8\\n3\\nSilas Richardson,\\n14\\n6\\n2 18\\n1\\nDocf. Jesse Rice,\\n12\\n4\\n2 5\\n3\\nJosiah Robbens,\\n11\\n2\\n1 13\\nJosiah Rogers,\\n1\\n7\\n6\\n1 5\\n9\\nSamuel Rogers,\\n10\\n3\\n1\\n4\\nEns Joseph Stevens,\\n1\\n6\\n3\\n8\\n3\\nGeorge Start,\\n1\\n3\\n2\\n13\\n11\\nLieut. Nathaniel Stone,\\n1\\n19\\n6\\n1 15\\n3\\nJonathan Stevens,\\n8\\n3\\n8\\n3\\nAbijah Smith,\\n1\\n2\\n4\\n1 5\\n8\\nWilliam Start,\\n1\\n1\\n5\\n1\\n4\\nWilliam Spear,\\n1\\n6\\n1\\n10\\n7\\nAndrew Spaulding,\\n19\\n1\\n7\\nThomas Stow,\\n1\\n4\\n11\\n9\\nJoseph Stickney,\\n16\\n4\\n11\\n1\\nEzra Town,\\n1\\n11\\n3\\n2 7\\n11\\nJoseph Tucker,\\n1\\n17\\n1\\n1 11\\n11\\nEdmund Town,\\n12\\n4\\n1 14\\nJosiah Walton,\\n16\\n1\\n10\\n3\\nBenjamin Williams,\\n11\\n2\\n1 9\\n2\\nTimothy Wheelock,\\n19\\n10\\n9\\n3\\nSamuel Walker,\\n9\\n7\\n1 8\\n7\\nJohn Warner,\\n1\\n5\\n8\\n8\\n3\\nJoseph Wright,\\n12\\n10\\n3\\nJonathan Wheat,\\n17\\n10\\n9\\n7\\nJohn Flynt,\\n8\\n3\\n1 5\\n8\\nSamuel Soper,\\n10\\n5\\n18\\n1\\nDaniel Stratton,\\n1\\n6\\n3\\n2 4\\nTimothy Spaulding,\\n3\\n9\\n1 13\\n5\\nBenjamin Smith,\\n8\\n3\\n9\\n7\\nTotal, \u00c2\u00a3106 16s.\\nu.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nREVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, 1775-76\\nPREPARATIONS FOR RESISTANCE; MILITARY COMPANIES CONCORD\\nFIGHT RALLY AND MARCH OF THE MEN CAPTAIN TOWNE s\\nCOMPANY BUNKER HILL DELEGATE TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,\\nAND INSTRUCTIONS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY SUPPLY OF SALT\\nLOYALISTS CAPTAIN SMITH s COMPANY J REPRESENTATIVE CHO-\\nSEN, AND INSTRUCTIONS.\\nThe feeling that pervaded the town in this eventful year,\\nwas first expressed at a meeting holden on the 19th of Janu-\\nary, 1775, when it was Voted, that Deacon Isaac Appleton\\nis chosen to meet with the Deputies of the several towns in\\nthe Province, at Exeter, on the 23d of January instant, in\\norder to choose delegates to represent this Province at an\\nAmerican Continental Congress, proposed to be holden at\\nPhiladelphia on the tenth day of May next.\\nVoted, that said Deputy be empowered to use his endeav-\\nours that the Province be put in a state of defence and also\\nthat the said Deputies do recommend such manual exercise as\\nthey think proper\\nThe annual meeting for the choice of town officers, and the\\nlast one that was called in His Majesty s name, was holden\\non the 17th of March, when it was\\nVoted to add One Hundred and a half weight of Powder\\nand Three Hundred and a half weight of Lead to the Town s\\nStock.\\nVoted to accept of the Committee of Inspection s report\\nwith respect to the two shop-keepers.\\nVoted that the Association means that nothing be sold at\\na higher price than they have been for a year past.\\nEphraim Adams, Joseph Bates, Josiah Brown, Isaac How,", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "LEXINGTON AND CONCORD ALARM. 73\\nJohn Breed, William Shattuck, Eleazer Cummings, Edmund\\nBryant, and Benjamin Knowlton chosen as the Committee of\\nCorrespondence and Inspection.\\nThere were at this period two military companies in town,\\nunder rather an inefficient organization, one of them com-\\nmanded by Capt. Charles Barrett, the other by Capt. Francis\\nFletcher. Many were anxious to inform themselves in the\\nmilitary art and a select company was in the habit of meet-\\ning for exercise and drill, as often as once a week, under the\\ndirection of Timothy Farrar.\\nThus we see that our forefathers made prompt and efficient\\npreparations for the anticipated emergency.\\nThe spring opened early, and the month of April being more\\nthan usually pleasant, the farmers had commenced ploughing\\nand the various processes of spring husbandry but anxiety\\nmight be seen in many a countenance, and travellers, as they\\npassed from one town to another, were eagerly questioned if\\nany thing had taken place at Boston, the spot where the whole\\ncountry expected the political drama would soon open.\\nIt had been ascertained, and the rumor sent to most of the\\ntowns, in the early part of April, that the commander of the\\nBritish troops then occupying Boston, designed soon to send\\nout an expedition into the country, to destroy the military\\nstores then deposited in several towns, but mainly at Concord\\nand Worcester. Early on the morning of the nineteenth of\\nApril, this design was executed. A large party of British\\ntroops advanced to Lexington, where they fired on a company\\nof militia, killing eight persons; passing rapidly on, they\\nmade their appearance at Concord soon after sunrise, and the\\nmemorable event, known as Concord Fight, took place.\\nBy preconcerted arrangements, the Committees of Safety in\\nthe various towns spread the news in all directions and so\\nrapidly had messengers sped from town to town, that before\\nnight-fall not a place within a hundred miles but had heard\\nthe news, and in many instances with almost every kind of\\nexaggeration.\\nThe intelligence reached this town about two o clock in the\\nafternoon the Committee of Safety immediately assembled\\non the common, and fired three guns in quick succession, the\\n10", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nsignal that had been agreed on m case of a sudden alarm.\\nThe people rapidly assembled, and in less than two hours a\\ngreat proportion of the male population met on the little com-\\nmon in front of the meeting-house. After a short consultation\\nwith the oldest and most experienced, it was decided to prepare\\nas many as possible, and march for Concord. The town s\\nstock of powder and lead was taken from the magazine, then\\nsituated on the beams of the meeting-house, and distributed\\nto such as had not a supply, a careful account of it being\\ntaken by the selectmen. In the mean time, the alarm was\\nextending through the remote parts of the towh, and some of\\nthe men who were at work in the woods or distant fields, did\\nnot reach the usual training-ground till sunset and as pro-\\nvisions had to be collected, so much time was consumed, that\\nprobably but few commenced their march before dark. Seve-\\nral parties proceeded as far as Capt. Heald s, where they took\\na few hours repose and others spent most of the night in and\\nnear the middle of the town, but took up their march before\\ndaylight and before the sun rose the next morning, not less\\nthan a hundred and fifty men, the very bone and muscle of\\nthe town, were pressing forward, some on foot and some on\\nhorseback, towards Concord. Provisions were collected, and\\nforwarded in carts, under the direction of the Committee of\\nSafety.\\nDeacon Appleton, like Cincinnatus, had left his plough in\\nthe furrow at the moment of the alarm, and soon after mount-\\ned his horse and carried the news to Peterborough. The next\\nmorning a company from that patriotic town, with Capt.\\nWilson in command, passed through New Ipswich, then nearly\\ndeserted by the men, the Deacon hastening on with them, not\\neven stopping to take leave of his family, though he passed\\nnear his own door.\\nIt has been stated, that there was but little military organi-\\nzation. Timothy Farrar was, perhaps, the most prominent\\nman and had been the most active in exciting a military\\nspirit, though he did not assume any command. Ezra Towne\\nwas an officer in the militia, but acted as a subaltern on this\\noccasion. Capt. Heald was recognized as the commander, and\\npaid the bill for the entertainment of the men at Acton, where", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "PREPARATIONS FOR RESISTANCE. 7^\\nthey arrived and remained during the night of the 20th. On\\nthe succeeding day they arrived at Concord, where they ob-\\ntained reliable information that the enemy had all returned to\\nBoston. Many of the elder men, after visiting the scene of\\nblood at the North Bridge, returned home, to make the neces-\\nsary preparations for a contest, which they now saw was\\ninevitable and with what feelings we may judge, when we\\nconsider that the scene of the conflict was the natal soil of\\nmany of them, and that many of those who had fallen victims\\nhad been their neighbors and kinsmen. By far the larger\\npart, however, proceeded to Cambridge, the Head Quarters of\\nthe Army.\\nOf the names of the men who went on this first alarin^ it is\\nnow impossible to give an entire list it would be enumerat-\\ning almost all who were capable of bearing arms. Several\\nyears afterwards, ninety-five testified to doing this service\\nbut many others had then died, or had removed elsewhere.\\nReliable statements fix the number at about one hundred and\\nfifty. No town, so remote from the scene of action, can boast\\nof having sent a larger proportion of its men at so short\\nnotice.\\nOn the arrival of our men at Cambridge, they found an\\nimmense concourse of people, rather than soldiers, most of\\nwhom were occupying the colleges for temporary quarters.\\nAt the request of the Committee of Safety, Capt. Towne, on\\nthe 23d of April, took orders for enlisting a company, and\\nimmediately notified his townsmen and such was their con-\\nfidence in him, and in those who were to be associated in office\\nwith him, that nearly thirty signed his roll that day and by\\nthe 10th of May it was increased to sixty- five in number, in-\\ncluding rank and file. Most of these were citizens of New\\nIpswich, only ten being from Peterborough, and a few from\\nMason. All the officers were of this town, and it was called\\nthe New Ipswich Company. We annex the Roll of the\\nCompany. It was procured from the State House at Concord.\\nAmong them are the names of many who were well known\\nby the older residents of the town, and were active in its\\naffairs though very few of their name, or even of their de-\\nscendants, now remain to represent them.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76\\nREVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nPAY ROLL of Capt. Ezra Towne s Company, in Col. James Reed s\\nRegiment, to the 1st of August, 1775.\\nEzra Towiie, Captain.\\nJosiah Browne, First Lieutenant.\\nJohn Harkness, Second Lieutenant.\\nBenjamin Williams, Serjeant.\\nPeletiah Whittemore,\\nElisha Hubbard,\\nSamuel Breeding, Serjeant.\\nSupply Wilson, Corporal.\\nElijah Morse,\\nStephen Adams,\\nJesse Carlton, Drummer.\\nWilder Kidder, Fifer.\\nPhinehas Adams,\\nAsa Adams,\\nJeremiah Andrew,\\nDavid Avery,\\nTimothy Avery,\\nJohn Breed,\\nEbenezer Bullard,\\nPeter Brown,\\nBenjamin Cutter,\\nArcher Churchwood,\\nNathaniel Carlton,\\nElijah Davis,\\nAbraham Densmore,\\nDavid Elliot,\\nJohn Elliot,\\nJoseph Felt,\\nEzra Fuller,\\nSilas Gill,\\nPRIVATES.\\nSamuel Griffin,\\nSamuel Hutchins,\\nDaniel Hall,\\nBenjamin King,\\nPeter Lowell,\\nSamuel Mitchel,\\nDavid Melvin,\\nDavid Marshal,\\nFarrow Miller,\\nThomas Morrison,\\nAaron Oliver,\\nThomas Pattison,\\nEben. Pratt,\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nJonathan Stevens,\\nJohn Start,\\nEbenezer Severance,\\nDavid Scott, kill d June 17.\\nAbel Severance,\\nBenjamin Smith,\\nIsaac Stanhope,\\nEphraim Stevens,\\nWilliam Scott,\\nDaniel Severance,\\nJosiah Stone,\\nTimothy Sternes,\\nSamuel Soper,\\nThomas Tufton,\\nEzra Tovvne, jr.\\nJohn Temple,\\nJosiah Walton,\\nNathan Watson,\\nArchibald White,\\nDaniel White,\\nLevi Adams.\\n65 Ra7ik and File.\\nAbout the first of June Col. James Reed arrived at Cambridge\\nwith a commission from the Provincial Congress of New\\nHampshire, to command a regiment of troops of that State.\\nThe next morning, he says, he was waited upon by Capt.\\nTowne, who introduced to him some other officers command-\\ning companies from this State, and a regiment was soon\\nformed, consisting of eight companies, of which Capt. Towne s\\nwas called the first, and was assigned the post of honor, being\\nstationed on the right. As Cambridge was crowded with\\nsoldiers. Col. Reed marched his regiment to Medford, where\\nthere was a better opportunity for perfecting in organization\\nbut on the 12th he was ordered, by Gen. Ward, the Com-\\nmander-in-chief, to march to Charlestown Neck, to take pos-\\nsession of the houses there for quarters, to station all neces-\\nsary guards at the Ferry, and extend them on to Bunker\\nHill; and on the 14th, Col. Reed issued his regimental orders\\nfrom that place.\\nEarly on the morning of the 17th of June, the British\\ncommenced firing, from their ships, on the party of Americans", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. 77\\nwho had, the night previous, been engaged in forming\\nentrenchments on Breed s Hill, under the command of Col.\\nPrescott of Pepperell. As every movement of the British\\nArmy indicated that a contest between the American detach-\\nment and the British troops would soon take place, Gen.\\nWard had been requested, durmg the morning, to send a rein-\\nforcement to the party on the Hill. This he for some time\\nhesitated to do, but about ten o clock issued an order for the\\ntwo New Hampshire Regiments, under Colonels Stark and\\nReed, to make the necessary preparations, and march to the\\nHill. The Regiments being nearly destitute of powder and\\nball, were marched to the building occupied as an Arsenal,\\nwhere each man received a gill cup full of powder, fifteen balls\\nand one flint the several captains were then ordered to march\\ntheir companies to their respective quarters, and make up\\ntheir powder and ball into cartridges, with despatch. As\\nthere were hardly two muskets of the same calibre, in any\\ncompany, many of the balls had to be reduced in size and as\\nbut few had cartridge-boxes, they mainly used powder-horns,\\nputting their balls either in their pouches or pockets. Not a\\nbayonet was to be found in our company, and not a dozen in\\nthe whole Regiment the officers, like the soldiers, each car-\\nried a gun.\\nAbout one o clock, Col. Stark s Regiment having arrived\\nfrom Medford, joined that of Col. Reed, and both commenced\\ntheir march over Charlestown Neck, exposed to a heavy fire\\nof chain and round shot from the British ships and floating\\nbatteries. But our men safely crossed it, and, after a rapid\\nmarch, formed on Bunker Hill, having first deposited their\\nblankets, coats, and other burdens at the foot of the hill.\\nJust previous to the arrival of the New Hampshire Regi-\\n*One Peter Lowell, not a native of New Ipswich, who had always be^n the\\ngreatest braggart in the company, upon reaching the Neck where the shot\\nwere flying, was suddenly taken with a severe belly ache, and asked permission\\nto retire; no one listened to his complaint for sometime, but at last Capt. Towne,\\nfearing his disorder might become contagious, gave him leave to go but Peter\\nwas afraid to go alone, and asked that some one might accompany him. This\\nwas asking quite too much, and Capt. Towne, drawing his sword, told him if he\\ndid not instantly scamper he would run him through. Peter took to his heels and\\nwas never seen in camp afterwards. It was said he never stopped running\\ntill he reached home. Lt. Brown s relation to his grandson.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nments, some of the Connecticut troops had been employed in\\nmaking a temporary breastwork by planting two parallel\\nlines of post and rail fence, commencing near the rear of the\\nredoubt, and running down obliquely towards Mystic River,\\nthe spaces between the fences being filled with new mown\\nhay. About four o clock, the regiment of which our company\\nformed a part, took up its position in rear of the rail fence,\\nnear the redoubt, Col. Starks s being extended farther down\\ntowards the river.\\nThe British troops, numbering about three thousand men,\\nafter a short address from their General, were marched direct-\\nly on towards the American lines, while a heavy cannonade\\nfrom the ships was directed to the redoubt. The regiment of\\nWelch Fusileers, the pride of the British Army, advanced in\\ncolumn directly in front of the rail fence, where our company\\nwas posted, and having deployed into line, poured in a very\\nheavy and regular fire. A steady and fatal discharge from\\nour line was returned, and in the course of ten to fifteen\\nminutes the enemy gave way, and retreated, leaving a large\\nnumber of their killed and wounded, many of them near the\\nfence. After some manoeuvering on the part of the British,\\nthey made a second attack, and were again received with the\\nsame coolness by our troops, who waited till they were suffi-\\nciently near, and then poured in upon them so fatal a fire, that\\nthey were forced a second time to retreat, in much confusion.\\nBy this time the scanty supply of ammunition was so reduced,\\nthat it would not average more than a single charge to each\\nman. A strong reinforcement now arrived from Boston and\\nbeing fresh troops, they advanced rapidly to our lines. The\\nAmericans, after employing to the utmost every means of re-\\nsistance, Avere overpowered and a retreat was ordered. Capt.\\nTowne s company came off in good order, although exposed\\nto a very heavy fire. At this time Josiah Walton received a\\nsevere wound in his shoulder and neck, which Avas supposed\\nto be mortal but having been assisted from the field by his\\ncomrades, he was carried to the camp and finally to Reading,\\nand, after much suffering, he was, in about three months,\\nable to rejoin his company.\\nOn their retreat our company found that the old house, near", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "EXCITEMENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. 79\\nthe Neck, in which they had left their coats and packs, had\\nbeen set on fire by the hot shot from the British ships, and\\nsome of the men, among whom was Supply Wilson, ventured\\nthe attempt to save their packs, and succeeded in bringing\\nthem off, Avith as many more as they could carry the rest\\nwere burned. Capt. Towne retreated to Prospect Hill, where\\nmost of the night was spent in throwing up intrenchments.\\nOf his company, but one man was killed outright; several\\nwere wounded, among whom was Asa Adams, who was\\ncarried from the field by Mr. Wilson and others but all are\\nbelieved to have recovered. By the returns, now on file, Capt.\\nTowne s Company is reported as having fifty-two men and\\nthree officers in the field, the remainder did guard duty at\\ntheir quarters from the best accounts that have been pub-\\nlished, it is stated, that the Americans had not more than\\nfifteen hundred men in the action; so that this company\\ncomprised more than one-thirtieth of the whole force in this\\nmemorable battle, so important in its immediate and remote\\neffects.\\nAlthough by the pay roll it would seem, that this company\\nwas discharged in the succeeding August, such is not the\\ncase they continued to form part of the army employed in\\nthe Siege of Boston. About the period of its surrender and\\nthe departure of the British fleet, they were discharged and\\nreturned home, most of them, like their officers, to do fur-\\nther service for their country during the war.\\nThe news of the Battle of Bunker Hill created a great sen-\\nsation through the country. Previous to this event, every man\\nhad looked forward to a settlement of the existing difficulties\\nwith the mother country, but now the prospect was changed.\\nIt was supposed that the British would march out to attack\\nour lines at Cambridge, and a company of about thirty in\\nnumber left town immediately, and soon reached the army\\nbut after a short stay, finding their services could be dispensed\\nwith, they returned home.\\nIn December, many of the troops engaged in the siege of\\nBoston became dissatisfied, and wished to return home. The\\narmy had been diminished by sickness, and by the expiration\\nof the short term for which many of the soldiers had been", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "80 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nenlisted. Washington became very much alarmed, and per-\\nsonally appealed to the dissatisfied, not to leave him in that\\nemergency. Still, numbers returned home, more particularly\\nthose of the Connecticut Line, who went off in whole detach-\\nments and companies.\\nA convention of the officers of the army and leading men\\nwas held. It was decided to call in the aid of the minute-\\nmen immediately. Gen. Sullivan wrote to the New Hamp-\\nshire Committees of Safety, and said, I hope the eager speed\\nwith which the New Hampshire forces will march to take\\npossession of and defend our Lines, will evince to the world\\ntheir love of Liberty and regard for their Country. As you\\nfind the business requires such infinite haste, I must entreat\\nyou not to give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids\\ntill the troops are on the march. Couriers were sent out,\\nparticularly to Hillsborough and Cheshire counties and al-\\nthough it was at a very inclement season, troops turned out\\nvery freely. On the arrival of the messenger sent to this town,\\na meeting was called, and Capt. Eleazer Cummings, with\\ntwenty-six men, left immediately for Cambridge. At another\\ntime eight men, led by John Cutter, joined them, and all con-\\ntinued in service till the British left Boston. The alacrity\\nwith which his call had been responded to, was exceedingly\\ngratifying to Washington and Gen. Greene wrote to Con-\\ngress: New Hampshire behaves nobly.\\nLet us turn once more to note the action of the people at\\nhome during these exciting times. The summer of 1775 was\\nextremely dry and hot, much more so than any since the set-\\ntlement of the town; the crops of corn and potatoes were\\nmuch diminished, and in dry land entirely failed of hay not\\nover half a crop was raised. It was also very sickly. The\\ndiseases seemed mainly to be dysentery and fevers, which\\nwere in many cases protracted and severe. The number of\\ndeaths was large, much larger than had ever before occurred\\nin town. Add to all this the absence of so many heads of\\nfamilies in the army, and the extreme solicitude on account of\\npublic affairs, and we may imagine the trials and anxieties of\\nthis eventful year.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "DELEGATE TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 81\\nTown meetings were held in rapid snccession. On the 10th\\nof May, the Rev. Stephen Farrar was chosen a Delegate for\\nthe proposed Congress at Exeter, and the following instruc-\\ntions given\\n1st. That he use his influence that this Province join with the\\nother Colonies in New England in raising their equal proportion of\\nmen, and defraying the charges of defending their invaluable rights\\nand privileges.\\n2d. That he use his influence that the Congress procure Arms\\nand Ammunition sufflcient for defending the Province, and that a\\nsuitable Artillery be provided for that purpose and in case Powder\\ncannot otherwise be speedily provided, that he use his influence that\\nthe Province stock be proportioned to each town according to their\\npay.\\n3d. That he use his influence that for the future the Congress\\nset as near the centre of the Delegates as conveniently may be.\\n4th. That the Officers of the Army be men that have appeared\\nTrue friends to the Country, and that no suspected person be in-\\ntrusted in any public office.\\n5th. Whereas the times are distressing, and our Expences must\\nbe very great, that he endeavour that the officers and others that\\nmay do service for the Province, shall receive but moderate pay for\\ntheir service, c.\\nAt this meeting it was Voted to abate three-fourths of the\\nmoney raised for Highways, and one half of that raised for\\nSchools at our Annual Meeting. This measure of econo-\\nmy had become necessary from the urgent and pressing state\\nof public affairs.\\nAbout this time some difficulty seems to have arisen between\\nindividuals and the Committee of Inspection, Correspondence\\nand Safety, so that they declined serving any longer, and a\\nnew committee was elected, consisting of Ephraim Adams,\\nPaul Pritchard, Peter Fletcher, Samuel Whittemore and Jo-\\nseph Bates.\\nThis Committee seems to have been invested with most\\nimportant powers. No State government had as yet been es-\\ntablished, and no courts of law were in operation. The fram-\\ning and executing of laws, and the administration of justice,\\nand sometimes even the censorship of opinion, seems to have\\nbeen delegated to these committees in the several towns.\\nTheir duties were arduous and their sessions frequent, to\\n11", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nrestrain lawless persons, who thought they could conduct as\\nthey pleased, with regard to persons and property. From\\nthe resignations and refusals to serve, which are frequently\\nrecorded, we must infer that their duties were odious as well\\nas onerous or else that peace and harmony did not always\\nreign in their councils. The following will serve as a speci-\\nmen of the many cases in which the committees were called\\nupon to act.\\nTo the Honorable Gentlemen of the\\nProvincial Congress of New Hampshire\\nThat whereas Jason Russell and John Tarbell, both of Mason, in\\nsaid Province, did, in a felonious manner, on or about the 20th of\\nMay last, retire to a pasture in said town belonging to Samuel Dana\\nof Groton, and took therefrom a three-year old Heifer, and killed\\nand converted it to their own use Whereupon early notice being\\ngiven to the Committee of said town, they met and required of the\\noffenders full satisfaction therefor. But each of them peremptorily\\nrefusing to comply therewith, the Advice of the Committees of the\\nneighbouring Towns being called in, viz.. New Ipswich and Tem-\\nple, and the criminals being cited to appear before said Committees,\\nnot only neglected to make their appearance before us, but, as we\\nlearn, have fled to the Army and, finding ourselves unable to set-\\ntle the difficulty by reason of their escape, came into the following\\nResolution, viz. Resolved to refer the matter to your judicious\\nconsideration, begging that you will in your wisdom take cognizance\\nof the offence and deal with them in this and in such like cases for\\nthe future. Ephraim Adams, Chairman,\\nMason, June 26, 1775. David Blodgett, Scribe.\\n[American Archives, Vol. IV.]\\nAnother example of the duties and powers of the Commit-\\ntees of Inspection, is furnished by the following pithy corres-\\npondence. It shows for itself, better than any remarks we can\\nolTer at this date, the vigilance and spirit of the times. Look-\\ning calmly at it, at this distance of time, we should judge that\\nthe transaction originated in excessive zeal and suspicion on\\nthe part of the Committee and that Mr. Hills met the charges\\nagainst him with a good degree of success. At any rate,\\nhe seems afterwards to have conducted his affairs so much\\nto the satisfaction of his townsmen, that he was allowed\\nto continue in trade. It was understood at the time, and\\nindeed to the end of that century, that traders were authorized\\nto receive thirty-three per cent, advance, on the cost of their", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "COMMITTEE OF SAFETY AND INSPECTION. 83\\ngoods, as a fair profit, and no more and when any one com-\\nplained of prices, it was always satisfactory if the trader\\nshowed by his bills that he came within that limit.\\n[From the Essex (Salem) Gazette of Aug. 24, 1775.]\\nIn February last, the Committee of Inspection for the town of\\nNew Ipswich, in New Hampshire, finding Mr. David Hills, a trader\\nin said town, had raised the price of some articles of his merchan-\\ndise whereupon said Committee called him to an account, and\\nafter some debate said Hills promised to adhere strictly to the Asso-\\nciation so said Committee received him again. In the beginning\\nof the next March, said Hills violated the rules of the Association\\nagain, in the same manner as before whereupon said Committee\\ncalled him to account again. Then he said he did not understand\\nthe Association nor the promises as we did, but for the future he\\nwould adhere to the Association, and the promise as we understood\\nthem and so was received again. Now he has violated the Asso-\\nciation in like manner a third time, nothwithstanding his promise\\nso we again examined him, and he owned he had raised his price\\non some articles, viz., fish, salt and rum, and says it is no violation\\nof the Association, so refuses to make satisfaction. Now we, the\\nCommittee, advise all good people to break off all dealing with him,\\nas the Association binds us all to do.\\nPer order of the said Committee.\\nJoseph Bates, Chairman.\\nNeio Ipswich, July 22d, 1775.\\n[From the same paper of Sept. 7th.]\\nThe publication in the Essex Gazette, printed the 24th instant,\\nsigned Joseph Bates, Chairman of said Committee, requires this\\npiece of Justice to the public and to my character, that some facts\\ntherein mentioned be rightly stated The customary price of Salt\\nin this town was 4s. per bushel till July last, when the price of carting\\nwas necessarily raised 5d. or 6d. for want of loading to carry down,\\nand near all the salt I have on hand ever since has cost me 3s. 7d.\\nper bushel delivered here, and the price complained of 4s. 3d. per\\nbushel so that the advance is 3d., making no allowance for the\\nCasks to contain it, waste, c. I have had license to Sell Rum\\nonly since November last my price has been 2s. 6d. per gallon\\ntill July last, when I raised to 2s. Sd., which had been the custom-\\nary price here for several years, the Excise on it being 2d. The\\ncustomary price of common Fish is 2d. and 3d. per pound this of\\nmine is Spring Merchantable Fish, equal in quality to what the\\narmy is supplied with at 19s. per quintal, and my price for it is 3d.\\nper pound. As for what passed in February and March last, see a\\nVote of the town at the Annual meeting on March 15, viz. Voted", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nto accept of the Committee of Inspection s report with respect to\\nthe two Shopkeepers. This I carefully say is the true state of the\\ncase and I hereby challenge this Committee and the whole world\\nto produce any evidence to the contrary. This, however absurd, is\\nless strange, than since it appears that two of the most leading men\\nof the committee have declared against the proceedings of the Uni-\\nted American Colonies as being imprudent, and that we had better\\nhave complyed with the requisitions of the Brittish Parliament.\\nUpon principles (it seems) not unlike that, the committee have pro-\\nceeded in the most arbitrary obstinate manner to publish said\\npiece, utterly refusing after repeated intreates to submit to a hear-\\ning of the case before any other committee. Now I desire all peo-\\nple both good bad to treat this committee their publication\\nas they deserve. David Hills.\\nNew Ipswich, Aug. 30, 1775.\\n[From the same paper of Sept. 21st.]\\nThe piece published on the 7th instant, and signed David Hills,\\nwhich says the Publication in the Essex Gazette, printed the 24th\\ninstant, signed Joseph Bates, Chairman, requires this piece of Jus-\\ntice to the public and to my character, I observe is just such a\\npiece as the tory party have practised to publish, mostly false and\\nscandalous, representing things in a false light, when he says the\\ncarting was necessarily raised he hired some teams to carry and\\nfetch a load at 8s. 1. m. a Journey, cheaper than the usual price.\\nThe Salt he mentions he bought at 12s. per Hogshead. The Fish,\\nthat he says is equal in quality to that the army is supplyed with\\nat 19s. per quintal, he purchased at 16s. per quintal, as appears by\\nhis bill from his Merchant. The Rum he bought a large store of\\nat Is. 3d. per gallon, except one load at Is. 9d. per gallon and as\\nthe affairs of the Province are now regulated by Congress, it is sup-\\nposed there will be no Excise. It appears said Hills got his goods\\nas cheap as usual, if so, I see no reason why he should raise his\\nprice. I should think it Avould be time enough to raise when his\\ngoods cost more.\\nThe report of the committee he refers to, was, that said Hills had\\npromised to make restitution to those he had sold to at a higher\\nprice than his former custom, and that he would adhere to the Asso-\\nciation as the committee understood it. The said Hills and his\\nadherents said, the ninth article of the Association means that the\\nvendor of goods shall sell at usual profit. The committee said that\\nit meant the goods shall sell at their prices. So he complyed, and\\nmade promise, whereupon the town Voted satisfied with said Hills\\nor Shopkeepers.\\nAll these things I think may be easily proved, notwithstanding\\nhis bold challenge. On the 29th of August last, we had a full\\ntown-meeting, which was requested by said Hills and his adherents,", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "REPRESENTATIVE. \u00c2\u00a75\\nand the town heard said Hills complaints against said Committee\\nof Inspection, see Votes of the Town, viz., Voted to hear the\\ncomplaints of Mr. David Hills against the Committee of Inspec-\\ntion; and afterwards it was Voted that said Committee have\\ngone according to the rules of the Association.\\nI would further observe, that the said Hills is the man that had a\\nquantity of goods burnt at New York by the good people of that\\ncity for none of his good conduct in the time of the Stamp Act.\\nAfter the people of this town had unanimously agreed not to use\\nany more tea, said Hills brings a quantity into town to sell thus it\\nappears he, the said Hills, has proved himself guilty of perfidy, and\\nthat no solemn ties are sufficient to hold him. Considering these\\nthings, it is not strange that he has published his false piece, say-\\ning, that two of the most leading men of the committee have de-\\nclared against the present proceedings of the United American Col-\\nonies as being imprudent, and that we had better have complyed\\nwith the requisitions of the Brittish Parliment. Can any one sup-\\npose that any person can declare as aforesaid, and then take pains\\nto bring people to an adherence to the Association\\nAs for the committee refusing him a hearing before some other\\ncommittee, said Hills never asked it till the paper was in the hands\\nof the printer, and then he claimed it as his right, given him by the\\nAssociation. Now if the committee dealing with him as the rules\\nof the Association directs, after he had violated them a third time,\\nbesides his bringing the Tea into town, and refusing to reform, is\\narbitrary, then I know not what Arbitrary is.\\nJoseph Bates, Chairman.\\nNeio Ipswich, Sept. 13, 1775.\\nA town meeting was held on the 27th October, of which\\nMr. William Shattiick was chosen Moderator. It was Voted\\nto dismiss the Rev. Mr. Farrar, at his request, from further\\nrepresenting this town in the Provincial Congress, and\\nthe thanks of the town are voted him for his faithful\\nservices.\\nA County Congress had been in session at Amherst, con-\\nsisting of delegates chosen from the towns. Benjamin Adams\\nrepresented this town but at this meeting he declined serving\\nany longer, and was excused. It was then voted not to\\nchoose another. At another meeting, holden on the 11th De-\\ncember, William Shattuck was chosen Representative to the\\nProvincial Congress for the ensuing year, and Joseph Bates,\\nBenjamin Adams, and Isaac How were chosen to draw up\\nInstructions to him, and reported as follows", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\n1st. That he use his influence, that the Provincial Congress\\npetition the Continental Congress, that the officers of the Army do\\nnot have such high wages as said Congressmen have appointed, as\\nit creates great uneasiness in the minds of the people, and discour-\\nages many of the best principled from engaging in the service.\\n2d. That he use his influence that care be taken in appointing\\ncivil officers, that men be put into office that are of honest princi-\\nples, and not of Arbitrary and Cruel disposition.\\n3d. That he use his influence that the people of this Province,\\nthat went to Cambridge in the time of the invasion in April last, be\\npaid for that service according to the method of the Bay Govern-\\nment. And further necessary confidence in his wisdom for what\\nmay appear Necessary.\\n1776. In February of this year a call was made for men to\\nreinforce the army attempting the conquest of Canada. Sev-\\nenteen men were raised, who proceeded, under Capt. Towne,\\nby way of Lake Champlain, as far as St. Johns but the fail-\\nure of Arnold s attempt on Quebec, and the retreat from Mon-\\ntreal, terminated the expedition, and they returned.\\nDuring the spring more troops were wanted for Lake Cham-\\nplain and Joseph Parker raised eighteen men in town, and\\nenough in the vicinity to make up a company, and marched\\nfor Ticonderoga and there, and in the vicinity, they did ser-\\nvice through the summer and autumn.\\nAt the annual town meeting, the following persons were\\nchosen the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safe-\\nty Josiah Brown, James Chandler, Benjamin Gibbs, Thomas\\nBrown and Josiah Walton.\\nAfter the Declaration of Independence, which took place on\\nthe Fourth of July of this year, more stringent measures were\\ntaken by the ardent patriots against those whom they styled\\ntories. In addition to the hatred they had imbibed against all\\nwho favored the mother country, they were also incited by a\\nresolution of Congress, passed in March, in these words\\nResolved, That it be recommended to the several Assem-\\nblies, Conventions, Councils, or Committees of Safety, imme-\\ndiately to cause all persons to be disarmed within their respec-\\ntive Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of\\nAmerica, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate,\\nto defend by arms the United Colonies against the hostile at-\\ntempts of the British fleets and armies.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "TEST PAPERS. 87\\nSeveral of the Governors of the States, Conventions, Coun-\\ncils, and Committees of Safety, took immediate measures for\\ncarrying this resolution into effect. The form of subscription\\nwas, a recital of the resolution of Congress, and then the pro-\\nmise, or pledge, in the following words\\nIn consequence of the above Resolution of the Continental\\nCongress, and to show our determinations in joining our Amer-\\nican brethren in defending the lives, liberties and properties of\\nthe inhabitants of the United Colonies We, the Subscribers,\\ndo hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the\\nutmost of our power, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, with\\narms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and\\narmies against the United American Colonies.\\nThis pledge was forwarded to the Committee of Safety in\\nevery town, with directions to have it presented to all the\\nvoters in the place, and to return it to the Committee of Safety\\nfor the Province, with the signatures, and also a list of all who\\ndeclined to sign. These were called test papers. Many\\nof these documents are still extant in the States Archives but\\nwe have been unsuccessful in our search for the paper sent\\nin from this town, a document which at this day would possess\\nuncommon interest.\\nPerhaps the most rebellious act in the history of the town,\\nwas one which transpired a few years earlier, and deserves a\\nplace in this connection.\\nA soldier deserted from the British troops stationed at Bos-\\nton, and came to this town. He was employed by a Mr. Ba-\\nker, who then lived on the Stickney farm at the north part of\\nthe town. His abiding-place was ascertained, and an officer\\nwas sent to take him and had the soldier possessed the pre-\\nsence of mind which Mrs. Baker manifested, he might have\\nescaped. It was late in the afternoon, and she was heating\\nher oven. When the officer came into the house, she at once\\ntold the deserter to go to the back door, and bring in her oven\\nbroom, while she was answering the questions of the officer,\\nhoping that the soldier would take to the woods and escape.\\nBut terror overcame him, and he stupidly came back with the\\nbroom, to be captured. He was taken directly to the tavern\\nof Mr. Dix in the middle of the town, which stood where Rev.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nMr. Lee s house now is, and confined, and afterwards remov-\\ned to Boston. The inhabitants were so indignant at tlie tav-\\nern-keeper that they burnt him in effigy, removed his sign,\\nand hung in its place an offensive substitute, tied a dead dog\\nto his door, sung songs, and annoyed him exceedingly, for\\ngiving aid and comfort to the Britisli so that he soon after\\nremoved from town, and finally left the country. He is named\\nin the proscribing act, passed in 1778, and his property was\\nconfiscated to the State.\\nAnother instance of patriotic zeal is related by one who took\\npart on the occasion. About fifty men went over to Ashburn-\\nham, to take care of a bad tory by the name of Wilder. They\\nsurrounded his house, and selected a committee of three (Josi-\\nah Brown, Isaac How, and Joseph Bates,) to wait upon him\\nin his house. They made him come out and appear before\\nthe throng. A barrel was placed in the yard with a long bung\\nin it. He was ordered to mount it by the bung, but he leaped\\nupon the barrel without stepping on the bung, and was in-\\nstantly ordered down and made to mount in the way prescrib-\\ned and when mounted in order, was required to make some\\nconfession or promise, which unfortunately is not recorded.\\nAs an offset to this, the folloAving story is told A large\\nnumber of people once came from Rindge to tar and feather,\\nor otherwise take summary vengeance on some of the tories\\nin our town, more particularly Judge Champney. They\\ndoubtless thought they had as good a right to practise super-\\nvision here, as our people had at Ashburnham. But some of\\nour best citizens turned out, with Dea. Ephraim Adams at\\ntheir head, and told the Rindge patriots, that before they\\nshould lay a hand on any of our people, they must have a\\nfight and that they felt entirely competent to take care of all\\nthe affairs of the town in their own way. Finding their er-\\nrand superfluous, the Rindge people returned home.\\nWe regret to record, that one man basely proved a traitor\\nto his country Daniel Farnsworth deserted from his com-\\npany and went over to the enemy. He was included in\\nthe proscribing act of 1778, with the penalty of death if he\\nreturned.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "PRIVATIONS. 89\\nAfter the departure of the British from Boston, the seat of\\nwar was removed to New York and the news of disasters\\nfollowing fast upon each other, rendered the summer one of\\nuncommon gloom and discouragement. The war had now\\nbeen in process long enough to have drawn severely upon not\\nonly the comforts but the necessaries of life, and pinching want\\nwas sorely felt. Still the spirit of patriotism and self-denial\\nprevailed husbands and brothers promptly answered to the\\ncall for more men and wives and sisters with resignation\\nand encouragement gave them the parting hand, and supplied\\nthem with all the comforts which they c5uld command.*\\nThe following instance, which occurred just over the borders of the town, is\\nonly one of hundreds which were of daily occurrence in those times.\\nLate in the afternoon of one of the last days of May, in the year 77, when I\\nwas a few months short of fifteen years old, notice came to Townsend, Mass.,\\nwhere my father used to live, that fifteen soldiers were wanted. The training\\nband was instantly called out, and my brother, that was next older than I, was\\none that was selected. He did not return till late at night, when we were all in\\nbed. When I rose in the morning, I found my mother in tears, who informed\\nme that my brother John w?.s to march next day after tomorrow morning at sun-\\nrise. My father was at Boston in the Massachusetts Assembly. Mother said\\nthat though John was supplied with summer clothes, he must suffer for winter\\ngarments. There were at this time no stores, and no articles to be had except\\nsuch as each family could make itself. The sight of mother s tears always\\nbrought all the hidden strength of body and mind into action. I instantly asked\\nwhat garment was needed. She replied, pantaloons. Oh, if that is all, said\\nI, we will spin and weave him a pair before he goes. But, said mother, the\\nwool is on the sheeps back, and the sheep are in the pasture. I immediately\\nturned to a younger brother and bade him take the salt-dish and call them to the\\nyard. Mother replied, poor child, there are no sheep-shears within three miles\\nand a half. I have some small shears at the loom, said I. But you can t spin\\nand weave it in so short a time. I am certain we can, mother. How can you\\nweave it there is a long web of linen in the loom. No matter, I can find an\\nempty loom. By this time the sound of the sheep made me quicken my steps\\ntowards the yard. I requested my sister to bring the wheel and cards while I\\nwent for the wool. I went to the yard with my brother, and secured a white\\nsheep, from which I sheared with my loom-shears half enough for a web we\\nthen let her go with the rest of her fleece. I sent the wool in by my little sister,\\nand Luther ran for a black sheep and held her, while I cut oft wool for my filling\\nand half the warp, and then we allowed her to go with the remaining coarse part\\nof the fieece. The rest of the narrative the writer would abridge, by\\nsaying that the wool thus obtained was duly carded, spun, washed, sized and\\ndried a loom was found not far off, the web got in and wove, the cloth\\nprepared, cut and made, two or three hours before the brother s departure that\\nis to say, in forty hours from commencement, without help from any modern im-\\nprovement. The old lady closed by saying I felt no weariness, I wept not, I\\nwas serving my country, I was relieving my poor mother, I was preparing a gar-\\nment for my darling brother. The garment finished, I retired, and wept till my\\novercharged and bursting heart was relieved. This brother was, perhaps, one\\nof Gen. Stark s soldiers, and with such a spirit to cope with, need we wonder\\nthat Burgoyne did not execute his threat of marching through the heart of\\nAmerica\\n12", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nIn October, Capt. Abijah Smith marched towards New York\\nwith a company from this town, Peterborongli, and the vicin-\\nity. Among them were many of the principal men. The two\\nDeacon Adams, Lieut. Stone, Deacon Isaac Appleton, John\\nCutter, Jonathan Kinney, Jonas Diitton, Jeremiah Pritchard,\\nand others. They were present at the battle of White Plains,\\nbut from their position were not much exposed to the fire of\\nthe enemy. They all arrived home safe before the end of the\\nyear.*\\nSometime during the autumn, on an alarm from Ticonde-\\nroga, Capt. Heald marched with nineteen men. They were\\nposted at Mount Independence, and were absent three months.\\nThey returned home during the ensuing winter.\\nAt a meeting holden November 25, 1776, William Shattuck\\nwas again chosen the representative for the ensuing year, and\\nthe following instructions, reported by a committee, were\\nvoted to be given him, viz.\\n1st. That he shall give constant attendance at the sessions of\\nthe General Assembly.\\n2d. That he use his influence that every collection of freemen\\nrepresented in the Assembly shall, at the conclusion of each session,\\nbe favored with the proceedings of the Court, which copy shall be\\nlodged with the town clerk.\\n3d. That an act be passed in the General Court, that no man be\\ndeemed a voter, in any town meeting, but such as have a sufficient\\nresident common interest, with an attachment to the community,\\nviz., that he be possessed of a rateable freehold, and that such voter\\nshall have a right to be elected a member of the General Assembly\\nor any office in this State.\\n4th. That each town or collection of freemen (qualified voters)\\nhave the liberty of sending a representative by themselves, or by\\ncoupling with any other town or towns, or collections, as they may\\nsee fit provided always, that if any member so elected does not\\nrepresent that number of inhabitants which the court has or may\\nprefix for a member, that the operation of the voters shall be in\\nproportion to the number they represent.\\n5th. That he shall dissent against any proposal, should any such\\nbe made in Court, for the rendering durable any Constitution or form\\nOne of this company told the writer, that it was on this expedition he\\nfirst saw that now almost indispensable article, an umbrella. On their way\\nto join the Army they stopped during a rainy day at Worcester, where were\\nquartered several British officers, who had been taken prisoners; and one of them\\nhappened to pass through the street with this, to them, curious contrivance to\\nprotect him from the rain.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "INSTRUCTIONS. 91\\nof government that has been or may be adopted for this State, with-\\nout particular instructions thereupon.\\n6th. That he shall use his influence that such men be appointed\\nofficers in this State, both civil and military, as are most noted for\\nwisdom and virtue, and best qualified for the respective offices to\\nwhich they are elected, and that all officers be displaced who are\\nopenly vicious or otherwise wanting in the faithful discharge of the\\ntrust reposed in them, and that the utmost care be taken to prevent\\nvice, extortion and open profanity, too prevalent among us, and es-\\npecially in the military department and that some effectual method\\nbe adopted to prevent the extravagant price for salt and other neces-\\nsary articles in the mercantile way also that a proper inquiry be\\nmade into the reason why our soldiery have not had the allowance\\npromised by the Congress, and that proper provision has not been\\nmade for the sick in camps, and allowance for soldiers on their way\\nhome, and that an effectual remedy be applied by appointing able\\nand faithful surgeons and commissaries with a competent supply of\\nmedicines and other necessaries which may entirely supersede the\\nnecessity of the hated name of sutler in the camp.\\n7th. That he shall endeavor to prevent any man s holding any\\noffice in the executive, who is a member of the legislative body in\\nthis State also any person holding office which calls him to differ-\\nent studies, or shall interfere one with another.\\n8th. That the court call upon the several Colonels in this State,\\nfor an exact return of all the men in their respective regiments who\\nare now, or have been soldiers in the continental or colonial service\\nwith the term they have served, and what corps, that services for\\nthe future may be just and equitable.\\n9th. That some method may be taken by the court to prevent\\nany person being held a slave, except in case of forfeiture or volun-\\ntary surrender of his liberty.\\n10th. That he endeavour that an exact entry be made of yeas\\nand nays, in all matters of importance, on the Journal of the House,\\nand enter his protest against any vote that may pass in the Assem-\\nbly contrary to his Instructions, (or in matters where he is not in-\\nstructed,) contrary to his mind.\\n11th. That an act pass the Assembly, to compel every able-\\nbodied man to do a turn in the war when legally called upon.\\n12th. That no person be put in office upon the recommendation\\nof any person, without the strongest assurance of his impartiality,\\nand of the qualification of the person appointed and that each\\nregiment in the continental or colony service be provided (by the\\ncourt) with faithful and able chaplains and necessary officers and\\nthat a proper inquiry be made into each man s behaviour in office.\\nSuch instructions may, at the present day, appear unmean-\\ning or trivial. It is now very easy to organize a State, and", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "92 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nto put in operation a government which shall duly protect the\\nlives and property of all living under it. But let us not forget\\nthat then, all the powers and privileges of a power strong\\nenough to protect, yet too weak to oppress, had to be pondered\\nand determined. There was no model for any such form of\\ngovernment. The passage of such instructions as the above,\\nand the debates to which they undoubtedly gave rise, must\\nhave done much to instruct and prepare the people for repub-\\nlican institutions and it was in the town corporations then\\npeculiar to New England, those miniature republics, and in\\ntheir town meetings, that many of the first principles of a free\\ngovernment were discussed and settled. There is ample evi-\\ndence that the instructions and resolutions from New Ipswich,\\ndictated and guided, as they were, by those who afterward\\nheld distinguished positions in the political and judicial affairs\\nof the State, were listened to with interest, and exercised no\\ninconsiderable influence in the organization of the State Gov-\\nernment.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII\\nREVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, 1777-80\\nTOWN MEETING ENLISTMENT FOR THREE YEARS TICONDEROGA\\nHUBBARDSTON BENNINGTON CAPTAIN PARKER s COMPANY\\nDRESS AND EQUIPMENTS PAY ROLL TAKING OF BIIRGOYNE\\nCOOS ALARM AVERAGE OF SERVICE.\\nThe State Government having gone into operation, the An-\\nnual March meeting was this year called In the name of the\\nGovernment and People of the State of New Hampshire. It\\nwas Voted to have five Selectmen this year, but they are not\\nto he exempted from doing their proportion in the war. Five\\nmen were chosen as a Committee of Inspection, Correspond-\\nence and Safety, viz., Thomas Heald, Nathaniel Stone, Ben-\\njamin How, Isaac Appleton, and Ephraim Adams.\\nIt was voted, that the persons going to Cambridge at the\\ntime of Concord Fight, and the Provisions carried and sent at\\nthat time, be proportioned by the Committee with the other\\nservice done in the war. Also voted, that those persons, ex-\\ncepting such as are in the army, who refuse to return the am-\\nmunition which they have drawn out of the town stock, shall\\nhave the Powder charged to them at two dollars per pound,\\nand other articles in proportion, and that this shall be put into\\ntheir Rate at the next assessment. Voted, that the Selectmen\\nbuy guns for those that are destitute.\\nEarly in the spring, the people of New England were filled\\nwith consternation at the accounts received of the overwhelm-\\ning army that was advancing from Canada towards Albany,\\nunder Gen. Burgoyne. The first direct call for soldiers came\\nin April, under the new law requiring enlistments for three\\nyears and twenty-two men were required from this to\\\\vn.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "94 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nA meeting was called, when it was Voted to have the two\\ncaptains of the companies make out the lists and raise the\\nmen, and that the town pay in money one hundred dollars for\\neach man wanted.\\nThe small pox was introduced into town by a soldier from\\nthe army, and several took it, of which two or three died, and\\nwere buried near the brick school-house in the South District.\\nIt was voted to take all prudent care to prevent its spreading,\\nand to prosecute all persons who shall offend in this affair.\\nIn April an order came for soldiers, to proceed to strengthen\\nthe army under Gen. St. Clair, at Ticonderoga, and a com-\\npany of twenty-four men was raised, under Capt. Josiah\\nBrown, who soon reached Ticonderoga, where they remained\\nsix weeks, and were discharged. No very important opera-\\ntions had then taken place there but they had scarcely reach-\\ned home, when the news of the capture of Crown Point, by\\nBurgoyne, and his investment of Ticonderoga came, with an\\nurgent request for men. Capt. Brown promptly responded,\\nand with a company of forty-eight men started at once for the\\nseat of operations a considerable part of them went on horse-\\nback, and followed the practice of ride and tie, that is, a\\nnumber of men, equal to the number of horses, mount, and pro-\\nceed a few miles, and then tie the horses and walk on, while\\nthe party in the rear come up, and mount and ride on about\\nan equal distance. By thus alternating, the men were able to\\nmake much more speed, and, on arriving at their destination,\\nwere not worn down by fatigue. On their arrival at Charles-\\ntown, on Connecticut river, about the 1st of July, they were\\nmet by an express, who informed them that Gen. St. Clair\\nhad resolved to abandon Ticonderoga, and that all the troops\\non the way there could return home. But the energy with\\nwhich Burgoyne pursued our retreating army, their defeat\\nand confusion at the battle of Hubbardston, soon altered the\\nface of things another express overtook them before they had\\nreached home, with orders for them to advance again. Some\\nof them, wishing first to visit their families, came home, but\\ntwenty-six of them again marched for the seat of war and\\nwere employed about one month. The party of twenty-two,\\nwho had enlisted in the month of April for three years, were", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "CAPTAIN PARKER S COMPANY. 95\\nengaged at the battle of Hubbardston, Among these were\\nDaniel Foster, and his nephew Ebenezer Fletcher, who was\\nseverely wounded and taken prisoner his touching narrative\\nof his sufferings and escape has been extensively read.\\nThe town which, since April, had been in a constant state\\nof inquietude and alarm, from the numerous calls for, and\\nmarching of soldiers, was soon to be taxed still further, to\\nresist the rapid progress of Burgoyne, and its darkest day of\\ntrial seemed to have come. Early in July, Capt. Stephen\\nParker, then residing in the westerly part of the town, enlisted\\na large company, of which over fifty were of New Ipswich,\\nand the rest from Peterboro with a few from Temple and\\nStriptown.\\nA venerable octogenarian has given us a graphic sketch of\\ntheir appearance, as he saw them when they commenced\\ntheir march, which we here record.\\nTo a man, they wore small-clothes, coming down and\\nfastening just below the knee, and long stockings with\\ncowhide shoes ornamented by large buckles, while not a pair\\nof boots graced the company. The coats and waistcoats\\nwere loose and of huge dimensions, with colours as various\\nas the barks of oak, sumach and other trees of our hills and\\nswamps, could make them, and their shirts were all made\\nof flax, and like every other part of the dress, were home-\\nspun. On their heads was worn a large round top and broad\\nbrimmed hat. Their arms were as various as their costume\\nhere an old soldier carried a heavy Queen s Arm, with which\\nhe had done service at the Conquest of Canada twenty years\\nprevious, while by his side walked a stripling boy, with a\\nSpanish fuzee not half its weight or calibre, which his grand-\\nfather may have taken at the Havana, Avhile not a few had\\nold French pieces, that dated back to the reduction of Louis-\\nburg. Instead of the cartridge box, a large powder horn was\\nslung under the arm, and occasionally a bayonet might be\\nseen bristling in the ranks. Some of the swords of the officers\\nhad been made by our Province blacksmiths, perhaps from\\nsome farming utensil they looked serviceable, but heavy and\\nuncouth. Such was the appearance of the Continentals to\\nwhom a well-appointed army was soon to lay down their arms.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "96\\nREVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nAfter a little exercising on the old Common, and performing\\nthe then popular exploit of whipping the snake/^ they\\nbriskly filed off up the road, by the foot of the Kidder Moun-\\ntain, and through the Spafford Gap, towards Peterboro to\\nthe tune of Over the Hills and far away.\\nThe annexed is the roll of the company, procured at\\nthe State House in Concord. Those who were from the\\nneighboring towns have the letter P or T attached. It\\nwill show that several belonged to it who afterwards became\\ndistinguished in public and private life, among whom was\\nJeremiah Smith, then but sixteen years old, afterwards cele-\\nbrated as a Judge, and Governor of the State, who left home\\nwithout his father s knowledge, and presented himself to\\nCapt. Parker for enlistment. From that interesting book, the\\nhistory of his life, we are indebted for some of the movements\\nof this company.\\nPAY ROLL of Capt. Stephen Parker s Company, in Col. Moses\\nNichols Regiment, and Gen. Stark s Brigade of JVew Hampshire Mil-\\nitia, which Company inarched from, JVew Ipswich {and joined the Conti-\\nnental Army under Gen. Gates at Stillwater) 19th July, 1777.\\nStephen Parker, Captain.\\nBenja. Craggiri, t. First Lieutenant.\\nSamuel Cunningham, p.\\nBenjamin Williams, Ensign.\\nBenja. Ryan, p. Sergeant.\\nJohn Robb, p.\\nArchibald White,\\nAllen Breed,\\nAllen Breed, Juu.\\nSaml. Walker,\\nBenjamin SafTord,\\nJosiah Walton,\\nDavid Rumrill\\nPelatiah Whittemore,\\nPeter Fletcher,\\nEphraim Stevens,\\nJona. Parker,\\nRichard Wheeler,\\nAmos Wheeler,\\nWm. Upton,\\nEdmund Savvtel,\\nNehemiah Stratton,\\nJohn Knight,\\nJotham Hoar,\\nFrancis Appleton,\\nEbenezer Severance,\\nSaml. Mitchel, p. Sergeant.\\nWhitcombe Powers, Corporal.\\nEphraim Brown,\\nThomas Morrison, p.\\nSaml. Lewis,\\nSaml. Lowell, Drummer.\\nSimeon Ilildreth, Fifer.\\nprivates.\\nJames Foster,\\nCaleb Bancrof,\\nPaul Powers,\\nJohn Everet,\\nSamuel Wheeler,\\nPeter Wheeler,\\nDaniel Foster,\\nRichard Stickney,\\nNat Shattuck,\\nNeedham Drury,\\nBenja. Severance,\\nLevi Spaulding,\\nHenry Spaulding,\\nEli Adams,\\nAbel Dutton,\\nBenja. Dunn, p.\\nEphraim Brockway, p.\\nJeremiah Proctor, p.\\nAsa Brockway, p.\\nJesse Smith, p.\\nJames Mitchel, p.\\nJohn Blair, p.\\nBenja. Mitchel, p.\\nWm. Robbe, p.\\nThos. Little, p.\\nSargent Paige, p.\\nSimpson Hogg, p.\\nJeremiah Smith, p\\nJames White, p.\\nCharles McCoy, p\\nWm. Blain, p.\\nSaml. Miller, p.\\nWm. Moore, p.\\nJoseph Heald,\\nJohn Steward, p.\\nSilas Taylor,\\nAbraham Taylor,\\nIsaac Barret, p.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SKIRMISH. 97\\nTo amount of wages, ^484 4 5\\nTo two journeys from New Ipswich to Exeter, to get the\\nRoll passed, 12 days, at 8s. per day, \u00c2\u00a34 16\\nRoll and Copy, 14\\n\u00c2\u00a36\\nTo one day s provisions for Forty men, on their return\\nfrom Halfmoon, Aug. 16th, where we had been to\\nGuard Provisions, which I purchased of the Inhabitants, 2\\nThis is a true Account and Roll, \u00c2\u00a3492 4 5\\nAttest, Stephen Parker, Captain.\\nIn Committee on Claims, Exeter, Feb. .5th, 1778. This Account and Roll,\\nthe balance of which amounts to Four Hundred ninety-two pounds four shillings\\nand five pence, is right Cast. J. Oilman.\\nFeb. 5th, 1778. Captain Stephen Parker appeared, and made solemn oath to\\nthe truth of this Roll Before M. Weare, Jus. P.\\nOctober nth, 1778. Rec d on Order on the Treasurer for four hundred and\\nsixty pounds in part of this Roll, and on the fifth day of February 1778, Rec d an\\nOrder fr the Treasury for Thirty-two pounds four shillings five pence in full\\nfor the balance. Stephen Parker, Captain.\\nThe following adventure relative to this company, was\\ntold by Judge Smith some years ago, to his friend the Hon.\\nS. D. Bell, who committed it to paper, and to his kindness\\nwe are now indebted for it. Capt. Parker s company, to\\nwhich I belonged, was ordered on a scout and soon marched.\\nBeing pretty ambitious, I got a place in the advanced guard\\nwhich consisted of six men, who kept some rods in advance\\nof the main body. After marching some miles in the woods, on\\na very warm day, we came to a brook and a bridge over it\\nmost of the company, and I among the rest, left the ranks and\\nwent to the brook to fill our canteens. A few moments only\\nhad passed, when we were startled by a sudden fire of mus-\\nketry in our front, and saw the other five of the advanced\\nguard (who had continued to proceed on) all cut down. The\\ncompany was formed in a moment, and a charge made across\\nthe bridge, and the enemy fled with great haste into the\\nwoods, leaving their provisions and baggage. It seemed the\\nenemy, about an equal force to ours, were also upon a scout\\nthey had notice of our approach and placed themselves in\\nambuscade. A heavy log fence on the left of the road reached\\nfrom the bridge some distance, and they were concealed behind\\nit, and were ordered to fire as soon as the front ranks of our\\ncompany should pass their left. The advanced guard, and the\\n13", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "98 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nbreaking of our ranks for water, which had not been foreseen,\\ndefeated the enemy s plan, which they could not countermand\\nwithout being discovered. Only the five men of the advanced\\nguard were in front of the ambuscade, and they all fell, riddled\\nwith balls. Four of them were instantly killed the fifth, a\\nMr. Robb of Peterboro was very severely wounded, but ulti-\\nmately recovered and lived many years and, added Judge\\nSmith, I had the pleasure, when in Congress many years after-\\nwards, to aid in obtaining for him a pension. As no date or\\nlocation was given in the above relation, it is not now known\\nwhere this skirmish occurred, but probably not far from the\\nHudson river, and doubtless previous to the Battle of Ben-\\nnington, which took place August 17, in which this company\\nwas actively engaged throughout the day. During the night\\nof the battle they assisted in guarding the Hessian prisoners,\\nwho were confined in the Bennington meeting-house. From\\nthe pay roll it seems the company was discharged about the\\n20th of September.\\nThe fortunate issue of the Battle of Bennington gave great\\nencouragement to our Province but the calls for men were, if\\npossible, more pressing than before. In the month of August\\nan alarm came that the British had sent out a detachment\\nfrom Canada, and that they had already reached the Coos.\\nIt originated in the capture of a tory in Vermont, who had in\\nhis possession letters in which Burgoyne proposed a plan to\\nsend three detachments to ravage the towns on Connecticut\\nriver. It turned out to be a mere I use of the enemy to divide\\nour forces. Eleven went on this alarm, with William Clary\\nat their head, and were absent about a month.\\nIn September, a company of forty-two men was raised, in\\nwhich Simeon Gould was an officer, and hurried off in great\\nhaste. Part of the men had horses, and no doubt practised\\nride and tie. They arrived in time to take part in the bat-\\ntles at Stillwater and Saratoga, and to witness the surrender\\nof Gen. Burgoyne and his whole army an event every where\\nreceived with joy and satisfaction, more especially by the\\npeople of New England, who were thereby relieved from the\\nfear of impending invasion.\\nAt a town meeting holden Dec. 9th, Nathaniel Stone was", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "AVERAGE OF SERVICE. 99\\nchosen as representative for the ensuing year, and the follow-\\ning instructions were voted to be given him\\n1st. That the act for calling in this State s money, and giving\\nnotes on interest for the same, be repealed, and that said money all\\nbe called in and burnt in the two years 1777 and 1778.\\n2d. That the Continental Soldiers wages, clothing, c., be made\\nas good to them as was promised to them, notwithstanding the depre-\\nciation of money.\\n3d. That the time be stated for talcing the Invoice on the tenth\\nday of June so that the Cattle brought from the Massachusetts\\nState into this, to pasture, may be included.\\n4th. That he enter his dissent against any vote that may pass in\\nmatters of importance contrary to his instructions, or that appear to\\nhim not for the public good.\\n5th. That those towns that have not provided their proportion of\\nmen for the public service, be called upon to send forth their num-\\nber in full, and that the towns that have sent their proportion be\\nnot called on till the delinquents have furnished their full number.\\n6th. That every session he bring, in print, the minutes of the\\nJournals of the House, and lodge them with the Town Clerk, and\\nthat every member do the same.\\nAs the taking of Burgoyne had relieved this part of the\\ncountry from any immediate danger from the enemy, they\\nbegan to talk of settling with the soldiers for their services.\\nAccordingly a Committee was chosen to average the ser-\\nvices done in the war. Their report was as follows, all\\nwhich the town voted to pay\\nThat those that went in the service at Cambridge eight months\\nbe allowed for five months. That those that went to Ticontiroga\\nfor five months, be allowed five months. That those who went the\\ntwo other short terms to Cambridge, be allowed in the same pro-\\nportion as those that went eight months.\\nThat those that went the Canada voyage be allowed for fourteen\\nmonths.\\nThat those who went to Coos the three months term, be allowed\\nfor one month.\\nThat those who went to New York the first time, be allowed for\\nsix weeks.\\nThat those who went to New York the second time, be allowed\\nfor six weeks.\\nThat those that went to Ticondiroga in the fall of 1776, be allow-\\ned six weeks.\\nThat the three years men be allowed as many months as gone.\\nThat those that went on the last alarm, be allowed 43 days.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "100 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nThat those that went on the alarm when Ticontiroga was given\\nup, be allowed one month.\\nThat those that went to Bennington be allowed two months.\\nThat those that went to the taking of Burgoyne, be allowed two\\nmonths.\\nAnd that all the above services done by the inhabitants of the\\ntown, be set at forty shillings per month, and that the Selectmen\\nmake a rate to pay the above services, and that those persons that\\nhave performed service bring in their accounts to the Selectmen by\\nthe first day of January next, and that the Cambridge average,\\nmade at a former time, be assessed the same as others.\\nIt was also voted to pay for the Pork and other provisions, that\\nthe Selectmen sent to the men that went on the alarm to Concord.\\n1779. A number of men joined the expedition under Gen.\\nSullivan to Seneca Lake, which resulted in great disaster to\\nthe Indians there.\\nIn March it was voted that there be a contribution taken\\nup, to defray the charges of bringing Ephraim Foster home\\nfrom the army, and also for the benefit of the poor of the\\ntown.\\nAt this time the British held possession of part of Rhode\\nIsland, and a company of thirty-one men under Capt. Joseph\\nParker proceeded to Providence, and afterwards to the Island.\\nIt is not known whether or not they fought in the engage-\\nments there.\\nIt would appear that several parties went to Rhode Island\\nwhile it was invested by the British for, in the following\\nAugust, when a committee was appointed to make another\\naverage of the services of the inhabitants in the war, their\\nreport was, That those who went to Rhode Island the first\\nterm be allowed for six months and those who went the\\nsecond term be allowed three weeks and those who went the\\nlast term be allowed six months.\\nIn obedience to another call in August, it was voted to\\nHier six men to go in the Continental Army, agreeable to the\\nrequisition of the Court.\\nIn June, 1780, a call for six men for the Continental Army\\nwas made. A meeting was called, and it was Voted that the\\nSelectmen and the Captains of the two Train Bands be a com-\\nmittee to hire the six men for the Town, in the cheapest and\\nmost expeditious way they can.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "LEVIES AND ENLISTMENTS. 101\\nIn July a demand was made on the town for their propor-\\ntion of beef for the army. It was accordingly voted to raise\\nFifty-five Thousand Pounds, lawful money,* to procure Beef\\nfor the Army, and to pay Soldiers now gone. It was also\\nvoted, that any person might pay his rates, in silver, at sev-\\nenty-five for one which shows the depreciated state of the\\ncurrency at this period.\\nThe next year it was Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a3400 Silver Money,\\nfor to pay for this Town s proportion of Beef rate for the\\nArmy, and the Constables were authorized to receive the old\\nrates, on the scale -of one silver dollar to ninety of paper.\\nIn Feb. 1781, a meeting was held to raise twelve men for\\nthe Continental Army, who had been called for to fill up the\\nquota assigned to the State. These were raised by dividing\\nthe town into twelve classes, as recommended by the General\\nCourt each class to furnish a man, by hireing, or otherwise.\\nIn November, a call was made for Militia men, and the\\nSelectmen proceeded to hire them on the best terms they\\ncould. The town Voted to approve of the Selectmen hireing\\nthe three months militia, and also to procuring this town s\\nproportion of Rum. It is supposed that nine men went at\\nthis time to West Point, of whom Isaac How was the leader.\\nVoted to pay those men who went on the late alarm\\nfor Coos. A small party of British soldiers made an incur-\\nsion into Vermont, and at Newbury had captured a Colonel\\nJohnson, and carried him to Canada. An alarm was made\\nin this region, and Capt. Heald, with quite a number of men,\\nwere soon on their way thither they were absent but a short\\ntime.\\nJanuary, 1782, Voted that the Selectmen shall procure cloth-\\ning for the former Continental Soldiers, against the next Town\\nmeeting, if they can.\\nSix men were raised this year for the continental service\\none of these was Mr. John Gould, who still survives, probably\\nthe only person from this town, now living, who was engaged\\nin military operations during the war.\\nDuring this Summer or Autumn, a party of Tories from\\nThis would be equivalent, in silver, to .fi733 .33.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "102\\nREVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nCanada, made an irruption into Vermont, and proceeded as\\nfar as Royalton. It was supposed they were the vanguard of\\na large detachment, sent to lay waste the Towns on Connec-\\nticut River. An alarm was sent to this town, and a large\\ncompany of sixty-five men marched immediately, but were\\nabsent only a few days. This was the last alarm that ever\\ncame for soldiers. The capture of Cornwallis, with his army,\\nnearly closed the active operations of the Revolution.\\nOf the persons who were Officers or Soldiers in the service\\nduring the war, it is to be regreted that no entry was ever\\nmade on the Town Records, that thereby their names might\\nhave been preserved. We have already given two extensive\\nrolls and, after a thorough investigation, we think the sub-\\njoined list will contain the largest part of those who served\\nthree years or more, besides those already named, but not all.\\nJonas Adams,\\nLevi Adams,\\nJohn Adams,\\nPhinehas Adams,\\nStephen Adams,\\nPeter Bullard,\\nJohn Bullard,\\nAmos Baker,\\nJoel Baker,\\nWm. Scott,\\nJesse Walker,\\nWm. Hewitt,\\nJoseph Procter,\\nJohn Thomas,\\nSamuel Potter,\\nSilas Whitney,\\nEzra Meriam,\\n-Ephraim Foster,\\nNathaniel Hays,\\nSilas Gill,\\nNehemiah Stratton,\\nIn addition to these were all those who turned out on the va-\\nrious alarms, on the requisition of the Committee of Safety,\\nmaking in all something like 360 enlistments, in numbers\\nvarying from three to forty-eight men at a time, and for peri-\\nods of from one month to three years. Nearly every man,\\nfrom the highest to the lowest, sooner or later took his turn,\\nor hired some one as a substitute.\\nOf all these men, but one or two were killed in battle eight\\nor ten were very severely wounded, among whom were Josiah\\nIthamar Wheelock,\\nRawlins Coburn,\\nSaml. Foster,\\nAsa Perham,\\nWm. Prichard,\\nJohn Yoman,\\nEphraim Severance,\\nMoses Farnsworth,\\nEbenezer Fletcher,\\nAshel Powers,\\nDavid Melvin,\\nJonathan Davis,\\nLt. Nathan Wesson,\\nThomas Kidder,\\nAsa Severance,\\nIsaac Taylor,\\nJames McGensey,\\nJoel Barker,\\nBunker Clark,\\nJames Whipple,\\nHezekiah Sawtelle^\\nJona. Parker,\\nHezekiah Wetherbee,\\nZebedee Whitemore,\\nSamuel Walker,\\nJoshua Davis,\\nEleazer Bullard,\\nJohn Thomas,\\nJoel Proctor,\\nJames Tidder^\\nHenry Knowlton,\\nJohn Brown, jr.\\nJonathan Wheat,\\nIsaac How,\\nStephen Hildreth,\\nLt. Jeremiah Prichard,\\nLt. Peletiah Whittemore,\\nSamuel Cummings,\\nWhitcomb Powers,\\nWilliam Hunt.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WAR. 103\\nWalton, Ebenezer Fletcher, Jeremiah Prichard and Jonas\\nAdams and about twenty died of sickness in the army, or\\nsoon after they were brought home, of whom were John Adams,\\nSimeon Hildreth, Daniel Hall, Samuel Campbell, Jonathan\\nWheat, Samuel Foster, Ephraim Foster and Asa Perham.\\nQuite a number of them had contracted habits incident to the\\ncamp, which materially affected their respectability and success\\nin after life.\\nThe country was drained of all its available means by con-\\ntinual heavy taxes, that were almost constantly levied, in one\\nshape or another, to carry on the contest. The proportion of\\nthis town, in a Province Tax of \u00c2\u00a31000, was in 1773, \u00c2\u00a313\\nIs. only sixteen towns paid more. In 1777, it was \u00c2\u00a312\\nlis. 6d. only ten towns paid more. In 1780 it was \u00c2\u00a312 5s.\\n2d. In 1781 an act was passed to raise a quantity of Beef\\nfor the army the proportion levied upon this town was 17,164\\npounds only twelve towns furnished a larger quantity. A\\nlevy was made by the State for 10,000 gallons of Rum this\\ntown s part was 122 gallons.\\nIn 1781, Congress called on this State for 1354 men, for the\\nContinental Army; our proportion was 17 men, which were\\npromptly furnished. From this it is probable that this town\\nwas relied on, and did supply, a fraction over one-eightieth of\\nall the men and other means raised by this State during the\\nRevolutionary War. All the requisitions were supplied fully\\nand promptly. In 1782, a list was made out by the Legisla-\\nture of the deficiencies of the several towns and while there\\nwere great delinquencies in some places. New Ipswich was\\nfound deficient two men only, which were immediately sup-\\nplied.\\nOne of the principal embarrassments during the war arose\\nfrom the rapid and enormous depreciation of the Paper Cur-\\nrency of the country. Various attempts were made to fix\\nsome permanent value to it. In September, 1779, a Conven-\\ntion was held at Concord, at which Timothy Farrar was a\\ndelegate, for the purpose of regulating the prices of staple arti-\\ncles of produce and merchandize, but without the least relief.\\nIn 1781, the Legislature took the matter in hand, and prepared\\nwhat was called the authorized scale of depreciation, ac-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "104 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\ncording to which contracts made at different periods might be\\nequitably adjusted. A copy of it was sent to this, and proba-\\nbly to all other towns in the State. It indicates the compar-\\native value of \u00c2\u00a3100 at different periods.\\n1777. 1778. 1779. 1780. 1781.\\nJanuary,\\n\u00c2\u00a3104\\n325\\n742\\n2934\\n7500\\nFebruary,\\n410\\n350\\n868\\n3322\\n7500\\nMarch,\\n106\\n375\\n1000\\n3739\\n7500\\nApril,\\n110\\n400\\n1104\\n4000\\n7500\\nMay,\\n114\\n400\\n1215\\n4800\\n7500\\nJune,\\n120\\n425\\n1342\\n5700\\n12000\\nJuly,\\n125\\n450\\n1477\\n6000\\nAugust,\\n150\\n475\\n1630\\n6300\\nSeptember,\\n175\\n500\\n1800\\n6500\\nOctober,\\n275\\n545\\n2030\\n6700\\nNovember,\\n300\\n634\\n2308\\n7000\\nDecember,\\n310\\n620\\n2393\\n7300\\nThus it will be seen, that in January 1777, \u00c2\u00a3104 lawful\\nwas equal to \u00c2\u00a3100 silver but by July 1781, it had depre-\\nciated so that \u00c2\u00a312,000 was only equal to that amount.\\nOn the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the debts of\\nall the several States were assumed by the General Govern-\\nment, and Commissioners were appointed in this State, of\\nwhich Woodbury Langdon was Chairman, to examine the\\naccounts of the various Towns for payments made to Soldiers\\nduring the war, besides what had been received from the\\nContinental or Province Treasury. The following account\\nwas drawn up for this town, and with its vouchers was\\nduly forwarded to the Commissioners. It will be seen that\\nthe only charges made are for bounties paid, and for horses\\nlost in the various campaigns in which they were engaged.\\nThe State of New Hampshire\\nto The Tovm of New Ipswich, Dr.\\n1777. s. d.\\nTo the bounties given 36 men that went to Cambridge in 1775, at\\n;E10 each man, 360\\nTo the bounties given 19 men that went to Tycontaroga and served\\nfive months, at \u00c2\u00a310, and Individuals a bounty of j\u00c2\u00a3l2, 202\\nTo the bounties given to 35 men, that went two short turns to\\nCambridge, 87 10\\nTo the bounty given to 11 men that went to Canada, at \u00c2\u00a328 each\\nman, 478\\nTo the bounties given to 11 men that went to Coos three months, 22\\nTo the bounties given 12 men that went to New York six weeks,\\nfirst time, 36", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "BOUNTIES TO SOLDIERS. 105\\nTo bounties given 6 men that went to New York, j\u00c2\u00a3l8 Os.\\nTo the bounty given 20 men that went on the alarm to Ticontaro-\\nga, six weeivs in the fail of 1776, 60\\nTo bounties given 24 men that went on the last alarm, 43 days, 72\\nTo bounties given 48 men that went on the alarm when Tyconta-\\nroga was given up, one month s pay, each, being 40s. 90\\nTo the bounties given 37 men that went to Bennington, \u00c2\u00a34 each\\nman, 148\\nTo bounties given 42 men that went when Burgoyne was taken,\\n50s. each man, 105\\nTo bounties given 31 men that went to Rhode Island three weeks, 46 10\\nTo bounties given 3 men that went to Rhode Island six months, 90\\nTo bounties given 6 men to join the Continental army, at \u00c2\u00a330\\neach man, 180\\n1780.\\nTo bounties given 9 three-months men, that went to West Point, 148 10\\nTo bounties given 65 men that went to Royalston, at 6s. per man, 52\\n1777.\\nTo bounty paid 18 men, at \u00c2\u00a330 each, 540\\n1781.\\nTo bounty paid 8 men, at \u00c2\u00a390 each, 720\\nTo bounties paid 14 men, at different times, (names omitted,) 737 4\\nTo a bounty given to 96 men that went to Concord on the alarm in\\n1775. 30\\nTotal, \u00c2\u00a34127 19\\nNew Ipswich, 7 Dec. 1787. A true Copy according to Vouchers.\\nAttest, Seth Wheeler,\\nEph m Adams\\nJr. 5\\nSelectmen.\\nTo this account was annexed the necessary vouchers, of\\nwhich the following are specimens\\nHillsborough County, Deer. 3d, 1787. Then personally appeared Joseph\\nParker, and made oath, that as a Captain he went in 1776 to Ticontaroga, in the\\nfive-months service with eighteen men, and received twelve pounds eacli as a\\nbounty from Individuals, besides what New Ipswich gave as a town.\\nSigned, John Preston, Justice Peace.\\nSimeon Gould appeared and made oath, that he with forty-one men from\\nNew Ipswich, went into the service when Burgoyne was taken; and also he went\\nwith five men to New York in December 1776, for three months.\\nTimothy Farrar, Justice Peace.\\nWe, Francis Fletcher, Francis Appleton, and Jonas Woolson, of Lawful\\nage, testify and say, that we went as Volunteers into the army under the Com\\nof CoK Tho Heald at the time Gen Burgoine was taken prisoner, and that\\nEach of us lost a Horse at that time which we have not since beared of.\\nFrancis Fletcher,\\nFrancis Appleton,\\nJonas Woolson.\\nHillsborough, ss. June 28th, 1791. Then appeared the above-named Fran-\\ncis Fletcher, Francis Appleton and Jonas Woolson, made solemn oath to the\\ntruth of the foregoing deposition by them subscribed.\\nBefore me, Tim Farrar, Justice Peace.\\n14", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "106 REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\nI, Joseph Parker, of lawful age, testify and say, that I was One of three\\napprisers appointed by the select Men of the Town of New Ipswich to apprise\\nthe above mentioned Horses the next year after they were lost, and that I then\\nhad sum Remembrance of their Value, and that we ail agreed to Value the same\\nas follows, viz., Francis Fletchers and Jonas Woolsons twelve pounds each, and\\nFrancis Appletons at fifteen pounds in hard money and we also appraised a\\nhorse belonging to Cap^ Charles Barrett, which was lost in the service, at twelve\\npounds like money. Joseph Parker.\\nReceived of my honored father, Paul Pritchard, thirty pounds lawful, for\\nwhich I promise to serve three years in the Continental Army I say received\\nper me, William Pritchard.\\nDuring the last years of the War the people suffered very\\nmuch for want of many articles, which, owing to the long\\ncontinuance of the War could not be had at any price. Of\\nSalt and Iron scarcely any could be had no articles of cloth-\\ning were worn but such as could be made in town, except\\nthose that had been on hand for years. Herbs generally\\nsupplied the place of tea. Molasses was often made by boil-\\ning cider, and was sometimes extracted from cornstalks.\\nMaple trees afforded a partial supply of Sugar, but for Iron\\nno substitute could be found. Cart wheels were often made\\nby sawing off a section of about a foot in length from a large\\nmaple or oak log, and cutting a hole in the centre. Ploughs\\nwere often constructed entirely of wood. Leather breeches\\nwere much worn in a .Journal kept by Judge Champney, he\\nspeaks of purchasing a suit of Moose-skin for each of his sons.\\nThe following shows the population at the end of the War\\nAgreeably to directions from the Council and House of Repre-\\nsentatives, upon June 20th, 1783, we have taken the number of our\\nInhabitants, Buildings, Land, c., which is as follows, viz.\\n206 Rateable Polls. 120 Dwelling Houses.\\n1033 White Inhabitants. 116 Barns and other Buildings.\\n2 Black 19,000 Acres of Land.\\nJames Horsley,\\nPaul Prichard, Selectmen.\\nSep. 5, 1783. Ephr m Adams, Jr.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII\\nSTATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS,\\nSTATE CONSTITUTION CONVENTION AT CONCORD INSTRUCTIONS\\nTO delegate; action on the constitution; instructions to\\nrepresentatives; adoption of the united states constitu-\\ntion RECAPITULATION.\\nIn addition to the state of commotion and anxiety in which\\nthe citizens were kept by the vicissitudes of the war, and the\\noft-repeated calls on them for more men and more money,\\ntheir minds were no less agitated in the discussion and estab-\\nlishment of a form of Government. The political acts and\\nsentiments of the people at this period, as expressed in the\\nTown Records, were of the most elevated character. There\\nwas a clear understanding of the principles of constitutional\\nliberty, a brevity and pointedness in the expression of them,\\na knowledge of the forms of business, and a directness and\\nfirmness in their resolves which are remarkable. The whole\\nrecord, during the Revolution, for the exhibition of wisdom,\\npatriotism and good order, will compare well with that of any\\nother legislative body that can be furnished. We can, how-\\never, give only a summary of it.\\nA Provisional State Government had been arranged soon\\nafter the Declaration of Independence. The Articles of Con-\\nfederation and perpetual Union of the United States had al-\\nready been read, and the first thirteen approved and the Re-\\npresentative to the Assembly had been instructed to vote for a\\nConvention to frame a Government for the future happiness\\nand well-being of the good people of the State. This Con-\\nvention having been decreed, Timothy Farrar was chosen to\\nattend it. It was held at Concord June 10, 1778, and was in", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "108 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS.\\nsession several days but as its Records are lost, the doings\\nare not known. That some plan was framed and submitted\\nto the people is evident from the Town Record dated August,\\n1779, Voted to act on the Bill of Rights and Plan of Govern-\\nment, article by article and, on the vote upon the whole sub-\\nject, ninety-four were for receiving, and thirteen for rejecting\\nit. It did not, however, go into operation, and was probably\\nrejected by a majority of the towns and the Provisional Gov-\\nernment remained in force.\\nA Convention was again recommended by authority, to\\nbe holden at Concord on the first Tuesday in June, 1781, to\\nform a permanent plan of Government. Timothy Farrar,\\nEsq., was again appointed as the delegate from this town. A\\nCommittee to give him Instructions, consisting of Isaac Apple-\\nton, Ephraim Adams, and Isaac How, was appointed, who\\nsubsequently reported the following\\nWhereas we, the town of New Ipswich, have chosen you, Tim-\\nothy Farrar, Esq., Delegate to meet in Convention with the dele-\\ngates of the State of New Hampshire, for the purpose of forming a\\npermanent plan of Government for said State and though our\\nchoice fully demonstrates that we have a high esteem for your abili-\\nties and integrity, yet as the affair is of the greatest importance, and\\nas we have chosen you to act for the people, we would give you\\nsome Instructions, viz.\\nThat you use your utmost endeavours that the rights of the peo-\\nple be well secured by a Bill of Rights and plan of Government be-\\ning fully, properly and well stated. Though this comprehends all,\\nyet as the following particulars were not inserted by the former\\nConvention, we instruct you to use your influence that they may be\\ninserted in the Bill of Rights and plan of Government now to be\\nformed.\\n1st. That the Legislature shall make all the Laws for the State\\nin our own common language.\\n2d. That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of\\nwriting and publishing their sentiments therefore, the freedom of\\nthe press ought not to be restrained.\\n3d. That the people have a right to assemble together, to consult\\nfor their common good, to instruct Representatives and to apply to\\nthe Legislature for redress of grievances, by address, petition or\\nremonstrance.\\n4th. That the Legislature shall not give any gift or pension to\\nany person or persons, to be paid by the public, without the concur-\\nrence of the people at large, before they are called upon to pay it.", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "ACTION ON THE STATE CONSTITUTION. 109\\n5th. That the Legislature shall be chosen annually, saving the\\nright to each county and town to dismiss their members when they\\nsee fit, and send new men in their room.\\n6th. As standing Armies in time of peace are dangerous to Lib-\\nerty, they ought not to be kept up, only proper garrisons for castles\\nat seaports but that the militia be kept well regulated, so as to be\\nin good order to turn out in case of an invasion.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fth. That the Legislature send to every town, in print, at the\\nrising of every session, all their proceedings (which can concern the\\npublic) at their preceding session.\\nSth. That the Legislature ought not to delegate their power of\\nmaking laws, nor right of taxation, to any other hands.\\n9th. That the Legislature shall not lay any duty on any article\\nof trade without the concurrence of the people at large.\\nThe Convention was held at the appointed time, and a\\ncommittee of seven, of which Judge Farrar was one, was\\nchosen to draft a Constitution, and report at an adjourned\\nmeeting in September following. The Committee reported,\\nand a Bill of Rights and plan of Government was agreed on,\\nwhich was printed, and sent forth to the towns with explana-\\ntions, for their acceptance or rejection. It arrived in town in\\nNovember whereupon the following were chosen a commit-\\ntee to examine it, and report at an adjourned meeting on the\\n3d of January, 1782, viz., Rev. Stephen Farrar, President;\\nPaul Prichard, Benjamin Gibbs, Isaac How, James Chandler,\\nJohn Pratt, Isaac Appleton, Josiah Brown, Enos Knight, Ben-\\njamin Adams, Joseph Parker, John Preston and Jonathan\\nKimball. These will at once be recognized as among the\\nmost able men and leading politicians of the town. It is pre-\\nsumed that the Report, proposing amendments, was read at\\nthis adjourned meeting by the President but no action upon\\nit is recorded, except to choose a Committee to give reasons\\nfor the amendments in the plan of Government Rev. Mr. Far-\\nrar, Isaac How and Isaac Appleton composed the Committee.\\nA special meeting on the following Tuesday was then voted,\\nwhen it was expected that every thing would be in readiness\\nfor definite action.\\nThis meeting, on January Sth, 1782, was evidently deemed\\nof no ordinary importance, and was conducted with all the\\nformality and solemnity comporting with the importance of\\nthe occasion. In the first place, the Rev. Mr. Farrar was", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "110 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS.\\nspecially requested to act with the town at this meeting for\\nalthough a high whig and zealous politician, he never, ex-\\ncept on the present occasion and when he went as delegate to\\nExeter, mingled directly in the secular and political legislation\\nof the town. In the next place, the following stringent Rules\\nand Regulations, to be observed during the meeting, were\\nadopted, viz.\\n1. The Inhabitants, when assembled, shall take their seat in\\nthe body seats, nor shall any person leave the house, or even their\\nseat, without leave of the Moderator.\\n2. No person shall transact any business of private concernment,\\nwhile in the meeting-house, or hold any conversation with any per-\\nson or persons upon any subject whatever, during the term of hold-\\ning said meeting.\\n3. No person shall speak in town meeting, without leave first had\\nand obtained of the Moderator and every person desiring it, shall\\nhave leave to speak twice to each particular point, and shall be fully\\nand patiently heard.\\n4. No person shall speak but by address to the Moderator, and\\nbut one shall be allowed to speak at a time.\\n5. Should there be occasion for the adjournment of this meeting,\\npunctual attention shall be paid to the term of said adjournment.\\nAll preliminaries being thus arranged, an adjournment to\\nthe following day, at ten o clock^ was made, so as to have\\nample time for discussion and the voters convened accord-\\ningly.\\nIt was first put to vote to see if the town would accept the\\nplan without alterations or amendments. The decision was\\nunanimously in the negative. It was then unanimously voted\\nto accept the same, with the proposed alterations, together\\nwith the reasons for said alterations.\\nIt must he recollected that this grave and protracted discus-\\nsion, which lasted till towards evening, took place on the 9th\\nof January, in the old meeting-house on the top of the hill, in\\nwhich no fire ever diff used its genial influences. It is not to\\nbe wondered at, therefore, that as soon as this momentous\\nbusiness was despatched, there should have been an adjourn-\\nment for one quarter of an hour to Mr. Samuel Hey wood s\\ndwelling-house. Nor would it be strange if, at this inclem-\\nent season, and considering that Mr. Heywood s house was", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "ACTION ON THE STATE CONSTITUTION. HI\\nalso a public house, something ardent should have been appli-\\ned to the inner as well as to the outer man.\\nSubsequently, the voters reassembled, and voted to return\\nthanks to the Rev. Mr. Farrar for his kind assistance to this\\ntown in the important affairs of this meeting and he was\\nalso requested to assist the clerk in drawing up the votes and\\ndeterminations of the town, with the amendments proposed,\\nand reasons therefor, in order to lay the same before the Con-\\nvention which was done, and entered upon the Town Re-\\ncord. The whole paper is an admirable one, and of itself\\nsufficient to stamp its reverend author as an ardent patriot, a\\nfar-sighted politician, and a clear-headed reasoner. We must\\nhowever content ourselves with an abstract of it, in relation\\nto some of the more important points.\\nThere was a clause in relation to the powers of the Legisla-\\nture, by which acts might be done by authority derived\\nfrom that body. This was to be erased, because we give a\\npower to our Representatives of Legislation and Taxation to\\nbe exercised by themselves, but not for them to transfer this\\npower into the hands of others, besides, should they exer-\\ncise this power, we know not where it may fall, possibly\\ninto the hands of some foreign Prince or Potentate we there-\\nfore chuse to have the power revert into our own hands, un-\\nless it be exercised by those we immediately choose for that\\npurpose.\\nThey insisted that a clause should be added, that no Tax,\\nby way of Excise, on any articles whatever, should be laid\\nwithout the consent of the people at large. They considered\\nit an unequitable way of defraying public expense but as\\nthe necessities of the State might possibly require money to be\\nraised in this way on a sudden emergency, we think it best\\nto leave it with the people at large to judge of the expediency.\\nIn relation to granting pensions, it had been drafted that the\\nLegislature should be exceeding cautious. But the report\\ninsisted not only that this expression should be erased, but\\nthat no pensions or gifts of public money should be granted\\nwithout the explicit consent of their constituents. It was\\nargued that the terms exceeding cautious would lay no\\nrestriction at all in respect of granting said pensions, the Legis-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "112 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nlature being themselves judges of the exercise of that power,\\nand consequently would in every instance be able to say that\\ntheir grants were made with the greatest caution.\\nSenators were to be proportioned according to the number\\nof rateable polls in each District, and not according to prop-\\nerty because we conceive it to be of importance to preserve\\nthis idea, that the Legislative body is a representation of per-\\nsons and as life, liberty and property are of equal importance\\nto the poor as the rich, there ought to be an equality in the\\nchoice of Representatives, and every legal inhabitant paying\\ntaxes shall be considered as a qualified voter. They proposed\\nthat the property qualification for a Senator should not rise\\nabove \u00c2\u00a3200 real estate, lest, as it stood in the Constitution,\\nit would deprive us of the Wisdom and Assistance of many\\nvaluable persons in the State.\\nThey proposed that every town having one hundred voters,\\nshould be entitled to send one Representative, and another for\\nevery additional hundred substituting this method for the one\\nproposed in the Constitution, for the plain and important\\nreason that we might chuse our own Representative, and not\\nput it into the hands of others to chuse for us. This privilege\\nwe shall always agonize to retain.\\nThey proposed that the supreme magistrate of the State\\nshould be styled President; because mere titles add nothing\\nto real service besides, the alteration in style may produce\\na saving in expense. They objected to his having a veto\\nupon the acts of the majority of both Houses of the Legisla-\\nture and yet thought that the President should have it in\\nhis power to call upon the legislators to review their acts,\\nwhich, together with attending to the reasonings and remarks\\nof the President, may have a happy tendency to render our\\nlaws more perfect and complete.\\nThose Salaries which the Constitution renders fixed and\\npermanent shall be voted annually reason, that the servants\\nof the State might feel themselves dependent, and find herein\\na motive to fidelity; also, their services, year by year, would\\nbe better ascertained.\\nIn relation to Absentees, and the confiscation of their es-\\ntates, they were disposed to be rigid; reason, Those who", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. 113\\nhave acted so cruel a part as to leave us in time of distress,\\nespecially those who have acted the part of a revengeful and\\nimplacable enemy, as we suppose many of them have done, to\\ntake up arms in order to enslave and destroy their country,\\nmake but a very inadequate atonement for their crime by the\\nforfeiture of their Estate nor is it reasonable that such per-\\nsons should ever return, but by the undeserved clemency of\\nthe people whom they have injured.\\nIt was deemed important that the Treasurer, and all others\\nentrusted with public moneys, should be brought to a settle-\\nment at least once a year and that this should be embodied\\nm the Constitution, to prevent fraud, embezzlement, and\\nembarrassment in settlements.\\nThe draft of the Constitution having thus been submitted to\\nthe people, the State Convention then held a third session in\\nJanuary, 1782, when it was found that the objections to it\\nwere so numerous as to render it necessary to prepare a second.\\nIt was accordingly prepared, probably by the same committee,\\nand again printed and sent out for the consideration of the\\npeople. This draft was much more generally approved but\\nstill some amendments were found necessary and the Provi-\\nsional Government having expired with the War, was revived\\nby a vote of the people until the Constitution should be per-\\nfected. The draft was a third time printed and circulated in\\nits amended form and having received the approbation of a\\nmajority of the people, the Constitution was finally established\\nat the ninth meeting of the Convention, in October, 1783, to\\ntake effect on the first Wednesday of June, 1784. In this\\ntown, the second draft was also strongly opposed and materi-\\nally amended after which the votes stood 34 for it, as it was\\npresented, and 24 nays, except with the proposed amendments.\\nOn its third presentation, this town voted that it was their\\nearnest desire that a majority should determine all votes in the\\nGeneral Court, after hearing any objection offered by the Gov-\\nernor yet, rather than the Constitution should not pass next\\nsession of the Convention, they consent to adopt the method\\nproposed by said Convention August 21, 1782. Yeas 36\\nNays 6. Nearly all the modifications proposed by this town\\nwere embodied in it, especially the title of President for the\\n15", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nChief Magistrate, which he bore until 1790, when, having\\nbeen given to the chief magistrate of the United States, it\\nbecame less appropriate.\\nThe consideration of the plan of a State Constitution was\\nonly one of the many topics on which the inhabitants had oc-\\ncasion to express their political sentiments. These are mostly\\nembodied in the annual Instructions given to their Represent-\\native, which they always maintained the right of imposing,\\nwith the expectation that he would strictly conform to them\\nand they had, moreover, in several instances, chosen a person\\nto deliver a speech or oration just previous to entering upon\\nthe choice of a Representative, setting forth the duty and\\nprivilege of the Electors, and the duty and obligations of the\\nperson elected; and this they proposed to establish into a\\nperpetual custom. It does not appear, however, by whom\\nthis preliminary was performed except in two instances, when\\nDeacon Jonathan Kimball and Dr. John Preston officiated.\\nIn May, 1781, the town, not content with the Instructions\\nthey had given their Representative, Dea. Ephraim Adams,\\nwhen he was elected on the preceding November, chose Dr.\\nJohn Preston, Paul Prichard and Isaac How a committee to\\ngive further instructions. The preamble to these Instructions\\nis too rich and stately to be lost, and is as follows\\nSir, the fate of the Nations of Europe, together with our own\\nExperience, sufficiently evinces the necessity of carefully looking\\ninto the conduct of those we intrust with the management of our\\npublic affairs, for (in our regard,) the natural propensity of those\\nin power to oppress those whom they are under every possible\\nobligation to protect has been too notorious, even in Republican Gov-\\nernments, and Slavery has crept in through too great remissness\\nand want of attention in the people at large and although we have\\nsatisfactory evidence of your faithfulness, zeal and fortitude in the\\nimportant part reposed in you, we regret that it has not been in\\nyour power to give us a more particular account of the acts and\\nproceedings of our Legislature and whereas, we presume it must\\nbe very satisfactory to you to find that you represent a people who\\nare not so entirely lost to all sense of virtue and patriotism, as\\ntamely or implicitly to acquiesce at all times in all public measures,\\nwithout ever examining the propriety thereof; and when any of\\nthe acts and proceedings of our Legislature appear to us exception-\\nable, we claim the right of remonstrating against them and peti-\\ntioning for redress a privilege so essential to the liberties of a", "height": "3414", "width": "2065", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "INSTRUCTIONS TO REPRESENTATIVES. 115\\nfree people, that whoever shall attempt to deprive us of it, strikes\\nat the vitals of the Constitution, and ought immediately to suffer as\\na capital offender. And as we have a right at all times to instruct\\nthose we intrust with the management of our public affairs, we\\npresume it will be very satisfactory to every honest representative\\nto know that he acts the minds of his constituents and therefore,\\nSir, we hereby give you the following instructions, in addition to\\nthose you have already received from us.\\nThe burden of his instructions this year, and for the five or\\nsix successive years that he was reelected were, that the army\\nshould be fulLy and promptly filled up, and amply supplied\\nand supported that all persons in the service of the State\\nshould be honorably rewarded for their services that the test\\nact, so far as respects voters in town meeting, be repealed\\nthat prisoners for debt may be kept in close confinement, un-\\nless they give bond and security for double the sum recovered,\\nprevious to obtaining the liberty of the yard that an excise\\nbe laid on all spirituous liquors, without regard to the number\\nof gallons that all due encouragement be given to our own\\nmanufacturing, by giving proper bounties that proper fee\\ntables for clerks and attorneys be established that Ports-\\nmouth be a free port for all nations at peace that no pensions\\nor compensation for extraordinary expenses be granted to par-\\nticular persons, where there were no promises of Congress\\ntherefor.\\nIn 1787, Charles Barrett was chosen Representative, and\\nwas instructed to pay a sacred regard to the principles of the\\nConstitution of the State, and be opposed to those men and\\nmeasures which are not directed by republican principles;\\nthat he use his utmost endeavors to raise the credit of the\\nState by urging the speedy and punctual payment of taxes,\\nand by proper imposts and excise to encourage industry, econ-\\nomy and frugality, and to remove every obstacle to the circu-\\nlation of specie that no public moneys be granted to unde-\\nserving persons that no persons of corrupt morals and deist-\\nical principles hold any office or post of trust in this State\\nthat persons entrusted with public money be frequently called\\nto account that a copy of the doings of each session, with\\nthe yeas and nays, grants of moneys, c., be brought home.\\nConsidering the known political and religious sentiments of", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "116 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nthe incumbent, and his personal relations to the Committee of\\nwhich Dr. Preston was chairman, some of these instructions\\nmust be interpreted in a severely ironical sense.\\nIn regard to a paper currency, and to the granting of pen-\\nsions, the opposition was uncompromising and in relation to\\nthe latter, a convention was called, in connection with other\\ntowns, and held at Temple in 1781, to prepare a petition and\\nremonstrance to the General Court. Dr. Preston and Isaac\\nHow were sent as Delegates. The resolves there passed were\\npresented to the Legislature for consideration. When, in\\n1786, the General Court submitted a plan for the emission of\\npaper currency, the representative was instructed to oppose the\\nplan sent out by Government, or any other plan. It is\\nwell known, however, that the sentiment on this subject was\\nso different in other places, that an armed mob beset the meet-\\ning house at Exeter, in which the Legislature was in session,\\nand demanded an immediate issue of paper money, which\\nshould be a legal tender for debts or taxes. No heed was\\ngiven to their demand, and the mob was promptly dispersed\\nby Gen. Cilley, under the direction of President Sullivan.\\nThe consideration of the Constitution of the United States,\\nwhich was submitted in 1787, in place of the Articles of Con-\\nfederation, was another of the exciting topics which super-\\nvened upon the Revolution, and gave origin to the two great\\npolitical parties which so long prevailed in this country. In\\nthis town party feelings ran high, and strange to say, some of\\nthose who had been most loyal to a regal government became\\nmost radical in their democracy. The opposing candidates\\nfor the Convention on its acceptance, were Hon. Timothy\\nFarrar, a strong federalist, and Hon. Charles Barrett. After\\na hard struggle, the latter was elected. He was strongly\\nopposed to the Constitution, and voted against it to the last;\\noften declaring that Presidents would prove nothing less than\\nfour-year-old kings, and finally kings for life. Eight States\\nhad already adopted the Constitution, and it required the\\nassent of one more to make it binding on the whole. All eyes\\nwere therefore turned on New Hampshire and New York,\\nthen holding its Convention at Albany. It was finally accept-\\ned by New Hampshire by a small majority and a messenger", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CLAIMS OF DESTITUTE SOLDIERS. 117\\nwas immediately despatched from Concord to Albany to give\\nthe information. As Judge Farrar was then one of the lead-\\ning politicians in the State, and had been very solicitous that\\nthe Constitution should be accepted, the messenger was in-\\nstructed to call on him on his way, and communicate intelli-\\ngence so gratifying. He arrived on Sunday, during religious\\nservices, and so important was the message considered, that\\nJudge Farrar was called out of meeting to receive the news\\nand it is said that many who had been induced to vote against\\nhim as a delegate, congratulated him on the joyful news, and\\nwere heartily glad of the result.\\nWith the exception of these two great subjects, the con-\\nstruction of a State and General Government, little else pre-\\nsented itself subsequent to the Revolution. The settlement of\\nthe claims of those who had served in the war, for their ser-\\nvices and losses, occasioned some considerable difficulty and\\ndissatisfaction. The soldiers had returned penniless and bro-\\nken down many of them homeless, and without employment.\\nThey felt as though a debt of gratitude was due to them, and\\nthey claimed the aid and hospitality of those who had remain-\\ned at home. On the other hand, those who had staid at home,\\nfelt that they had toiled hard and made very heavy sacrifices,\\nto provide means to pay the soldiers and sustain the war and\\non one occasion, by way of retort on the soldiers, some one\\nhad inserted in the warrant for town meeting an article to\\nsee if the town will allow the inhabitants in town for the ser-\\nvices done in the war on their farms or places. And when\\nMr. Farrar, during the depreciation of the currency, asked\\nthat his salary should be made good to him, some of the in-\\nhabitants entered their protest against it, because his estate\\nis subject to no tax for the support of the present war, which\\nwar defends his estate and person as well as ours and the\\ncharge of this war is so great that we cannot expect it can all\\nbe paid in our day, if it can in our children s. 2d. Because,\\nthat as he shared with us in prosperity, we think he ought to\\nshare with us now in adversity. 3d. Because we think a\\nminister ought not, in such a time of extremity, to keep rising,\\nand his people falling, but that they ought to rise or fall\\ntogether, and that a minister ought to take his lot with the\\npeople.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "118 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nIn 1795, it was apprehended that a war might arise with\\nFrance or England, botli of which were then interfering with\\nour commerce and it was proposed to raise a company of\\nminute-men to be ready in case of need. The town met to\\nconsider the proposals of the militia-men who had volunteered\\nfor the public service as soldiers, and voted that each soldier,\\nwhen equipped to the satisfaction of his commanding officer,\\nand producing a certificate thereof to the selectmen, should\\nreceive nine shillings as bounty, and when called into actual\\nservice should receive nine dollars a month, including the\\nwages given by Congress.\\nFor several years, a debate was carried on as to the proper\\nlocation of a new Pound, and the materials of which it should\\nbe built. In 1784, Charles Barrett, Esq. built the present\\npound, on his own land, at the corner of the old burying-\\nground, and at his own expense, and made a free gift of them\\nboth to the town, for which a vote of thanks was passed.\\nThus that matter was set at rest.\\nIn 1789, a meeting was held to choose an agent, to defend\\nin a suit brought against the town by Dr. John Preston. It\\nwas probably brought for medical services rendered to the\\npoor. It was agreed to leave the matter to the discretion of\\nthe Selectmen but it was also voted, not to employ Dr.\\nJohn Preston in future to doctor the town s poor. This\\nvote, however, was reconsidered two years afterwards.\\nIn 1791, an attempt was made to mise money to procure a\\ntown Library, in connection with the Demosthenian Society,\\nwhich had been established by the scholars of the Academy,\\nbut it failed. A town library was, however, soon after estab-\\nlished by subscription, and held in shares. In 1799, it was\\nvoted that the United States Laws, conveyed to this town\\nby Ephraim Hartwell, Esq., be deposited in the hands of the\\nlibrarian of the Town Library, (so called in distinction from\\nthe Demosthenean said librarian is, in consequence of this\\nvote, authorized to loan said books at his discretion, to any\\nperson in this or in the Ninth District, who shall apply for\\nthe same. This Library was burnt in 1812 and at that\\ntime numbered between three and four hundred volumes.\\nOne of the practices of which there is frequent mention in", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "WARNING OUT OF TOWN. 119\\nthe Records at the latter part of the last century, and which\\nwill be remembered by only a few persons now living, was\\nthat of warning out of town. Whenever an individual, or\\nfamily, came to reside in town, whatever might be their sta-\\ntion or condition, and especially if they were in indigent cir-\\ncumstances, the Selectmen ordered the constable to warn\\nthem to depart out of town within fourteen days, and re-\\nmain in it no longer. This was not intended to compel the\\nnew-comers to leave the town but, by thus refusing them a\\nlegal residence, to secure the town against the liability of be-\\ning obliged to support them, should they ever become paupers.\\nAfterwards, this practice was discontinued, the law being so\\naltered that the town was not liable unless the pauper had\\npaid taxes within a certain period. The Assessors were there-\\nfore very careful not to levy taxes on those whose pecuniary\\nresources were very questionable.*\\nSeveral other events of much importance belong to the his-\\ntory of the close of this century such as the founding of the\\nNew Ipswich Academy; the great religious Revival of 1786;\\nthe Shaker delusion, c., which will be duly noticed in their\\nspecial connections.\\nAt the close of the century, the town was in a flourishing\\ncondition, and in many respects was in as efl!ective a condi-\\ntion as it has ever been since. The war was ended, and a\\nsatisfactory Government was established. The farms were\\nagain managed by a competent number of hands. Business\\nresumed its usual channels. Learning and manufactures be-\\ngan to receive especial attention. The debts of the Revolu-\\nThe following may serve as an example of the usual formula\\nState of New Hampshire, To Mr. Francis Appleton, Constable for\\nHillsborough, ss. New Ipswich in said County, Greeting:\\nWhereas a widow woman, named A F came to this town the 28th of\\nDecember last from the town of Littleton, State of Massachusetts, to reside here\\nin said New Ipswich, said person we refuse to receive as an inhabitant this is\\ntherefore to require you, in the name of the Government and people of the State\\nof New Hampshire, to notify and warn the above-named person forthwith to de-\\npart out of said New Ipswich, and reside in it no longer, and go to the place\\nwhere she is a lawful inhabitant. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this\\nwarrant with your doings thereon, as you will answer your default at the penalty\\nof the law for that end made and provided. Given under our hand and seal at\\nNew Ipswich, this seventeenth day of April, A. D. 1781.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120 STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS.\\ntion, which had so long imposed heavy taxes, were hqiiidated,\\nand prosperity dawned on every side. Two log-houses alone\\nremained one of them was situated on a part of the Stratton\\nfarm, near the borders of Mason, and was last occupied by a\\ncolored man named Herrick. The other was in the vicinity\\nof the Solomon Davis farm, on the hill east of the river, and\\nwas last occupied by Nathaniel Williams. Which of these\\ntwo has the melancholy distinction of being the last of its\\nkind, is veiled in uncertainty.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX,\\nHISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY,\\nPOLITICS THE EMBARGO PETITION TO JEFFERSON THE WAR OF\\nMDCCcxii; turnpike; post office; stages and railroads;\\nPAUPERS AND POOR HOUSE; TOWN HOUSE FESTIVALS RECLAMA-\\nTION OF A child; COLONY TO IOWA; morals; RECAPITULATION.\\nDuring the fifty years of the present century, so few events\\nworthy of record have occurred, and those at periods so dis-\\ntant from each other, that it seems better to regard the epoch\\nas a whole, and to arrange its history under the several more\\nimportant topics, than to attempt to observe chronological\\norder.\\nPolitics. At the March meeting in 1801, the Rev. Mr.\\nFarrarwas requested to read Washington s Farewell Address\\nfrom the pulpit on the next Sunday; and it was voted to\\nestablish it as a custom in future, to have it read the Sunday\\nsucceeding the 22d of February. How long this custom\\nwas maintained does not appear.\\nTo show how well satisfied the citizens had become with\\nthe State Constitution, to which many of them had made such\\nstrong objections, when the question was taken in 1807, as to a\\nrevision of the Constitution, it was voted unanimously not to\\nrevise it.\\nDuring the early part of the century, there was very great\\npolitical harmony in the town. In choosing Governor and\\nother State officers, the vote was sometimes almost unani-\\nmous. The citizens were mostly federalists, coinciding in\\nopinion with Judge Farrar, who exercised such a leading\\npolitical influence in both the town and the State. When a\\ndifference of opinion on any measure arose at town meeting, it\\n16", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nwas customary to appeal to him for his views and rarely, if\\never, did they fail to be adopted, without further debate.\\nWhen war again threatened, and the embargo was laid in\\n1807, a democratic party (Jacobin as it was then called) arose,\\nand gradually gained strength. Elijah Towne is said to have\\nbeen the first who avowed himself of that party. But even\\nas lately as 1814, only forty-one votes were cast for the dem-\\nocratic ticket, against one hundred and eighty-one for the fed-\\neralist candidate.\\nThe Embargo Act bore heavily upon all classes. There\\nwas no outlet for the products of the soil and such as had\\nbeen received of the farmers by the country traders, in ex-\\nchange for goods, lay spoihng on their hands. In this town,\\nquantities of butter, which had become unfit for consumption,\\nwere converted into soap. One of the traders, Peter Felt, is\\nsaid to have succeeded in smuggling a large lot of damaged\\nbutter into Canada. At a meeting held on the 29th of August\\n1808, it was resolved to petition the President of the United\\nStates for the repeal or suspension of the Embargo Law.\\nHon. Timothy Farrar, Hon. Ebenezer Champney, Noah Bart-\\nlett, Esq., Isaiah Kidder, and Samuel Batchelder were ap-\\npointed a Committee for the purpose, and to express their\\nopinion on the state of public affairs. Such a document was\\nprepared and forwarded to President Jefferson. The original\\ndraft of it, in the handwriting of Noah Bartlett, with the\\namendments subsequently made by the Committee, is still\\nextant. It is an article which does honor to its excellent au-\\nthor, and deserves preservation. It attracted much attention\\nat the time, and received a very frank and respectful reply\\nfrom the President. The letter and reply were both published\\nin the Farmer s Cabinet, Nov. 15, 1808.\\nPETITION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.\\nThe Inhabitants of New Ipswich, in the State of New Hamp-\\nshire, in town meeting assembled, respectfully represent That they\\nhave long waited anxiously, but submissively, in expectation of the\\nremoval of the present restraints upon the Commerce of this coun-\\ntry. That they have materially suffered, being mostly concerned\\nin Agriculture, by the total stoppage of all sales of their productions\\nfor exportation, and the depression of the prices of such as are sold", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "PETITION TO JEFFERSON. 123\\nfor home consumption. That fears are entertained that recourse\\nmust be had to Loans or Taxes to replenish our Treasury, cut off\\nfrom its usual supplies by a measure which renders us less able to\\npay such Taxes, should they be necessary. But knowing these\\nacts, layini^ an Embargo, were recommended, passed and approved\\nby those who better knew the state of our Foreign relations and\\ncould better calculate the probable effects of such measures than\\nthemselves, they had hopes that it might produce some national\\nbenefit more than sufficient to counterbalance their individual suf-\\nferings. Under these impressions, they have calmly submitted\\nsupposing the time would shortly come when the proposed object\\nwould be effected and they should be relieved. But they have yet\\nseen no appearance of approaching relief. Not having been favored\\nwith a knowledge of the object intended to be effected by this mea-\\nsure, they cannot pretend to decide Avhether it will or not effect\\nthat object, and to pronounce from that decision whether it would\\nbe expedient to suspend the operation.\\nBut they feel that it is oppressive. They see no benefit pro-\\nduced by it, and they know that certain events have taken place in\\nEurope that would put it in our power to carry our produce to a\\ngood market were it not for the restrictions we have laid upon our\\ncommerce. Though the urgent orders and devices of the Belliger-\\nents respecting Neutrals may have justified those restrictions when\\ntheir orders aftected our commerce in so considerable a degree, yet\\nsince Spain and Portugal have been added to the countries with\\nwhich we may trade in safety, they think that commerce of too\\nmuch consequence to be sacrificed upon any uncertain hope of\\nbringing the belligerents to better terms (if such may be the intend-\\ned object of the embargo.) Every person who duly prizes the\\nblessings of an independent Government, or who is averse to op-\\npression, must wish success to the Spaniards in their present enter-\\nprises and we ought to be prompt to take off all restriction on\\ntrade with them, from more generous motives, if not from those of\\ninterest. It has been expected, if the Mercantile and Agricultural\\ninterest be injured by the Embargo, that the Manufacturers would\\nbe benefited by it. But though more extensively concerned in\\nmanufactures than any other town in this State, the Inhabitants of\\nNew Ipswich, far from finding the injuries to the farmers compen-\\nsated by the benefits to the manufacturers, find the measure equally\\noppressive to both, and both unite in their wishes for the suspension\\nof these laws.\\nThe total suppression of that trade which has been the source of\\nour prosperity, and which has placed the means of procuring wealth\\nwithin the reach of every man in the country, injures the manufac-\\nturer by distressing all other classes, and denying him the means\\nof producing his commodities.\\nWe exult in being members of the only existing Republic on", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nearth, in possessing the fair inheritance purchased by the blood of\\nour fathers. And we ardently hope that our countrymen may\\nnever have an inducement to abandon the shores that gave them\\nbirth for monarchical employ, which many of a certain class are\\ndriven to do, by an act passed ostensibly for their protection.\\nInfluenced by such considerations, and further prompted by a\\nwish to correct an opinion that we are in favor of an Embargo,\\nwhich might reasonably be inferred from an Address to your Excel-\\nlency by our Legislature in June last but which must have been\\nfounded on an entire misapprehension of the feelings and opinions\\nof a great portion, if not a majority of the people of this State the\\nInhabitants of New Ipswich pray, that the operation of the Acts,\\nlaying an Embargo, may be suspended, according to the powers\\nvested in the President, or that Congress may be convened as early\\nas possible, that they may deliberate on the changes which have\\noccurred and the new channels (of trade) which have been thrown\\nopen for our commerce during their recess, and on the changes\\nwhich may be necessary in our commercial regulations in conse-\\nquence thereof. And as in duty bound will ever pray,\\nSigned by Noah Bartlett, c 7\\nJ Selectmen\\nSupply vV ilson, at t t.\\nTy TVT of riew Ipswich.\\nElijah Newell,\\nAttest, John Preston, Town Clerk.\\nThe President, in his reply, states, that no person has\\nseen, with more concern than himself, the inconveniences\\nbrought upon the country by the circumstances of the times\\nin which we happen to live he reviews, in a calm, firm\\nand conciliatory manner, the history of the wrongs imposed\\nupon this country by the belligerents of Europe, and concludes\\nby saying, I should, with great willingness, have executed\\nyour wishes, had peace, or a repeal of the obnoxious edicts,\\nor other changes, produced the case in which the laws alone\\nhave given me that authority. And so many motives of jus-\\ntice and interest lead to such changes that we ought continu-\\nally to expect them. But while these edicts remain, the\\nLegislature alone can prescribe the course to be piu sued.\\nUpon the receipt of President Jefierson s letter, some of the\\nhot-blooded young Federalists of the town resolved upon mak-\\ning a public demonstration of their resentment, by burning its\\nauthor in effigy. This auto-da-fe took place on the meadow\\nin the rear of the Baptist meeting house. An attempt was\\nmade by Esquire Hartwell to stop the proceedings, but", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "WAR OF MDCCCXII. 125\\nwithout success, and he was threatened with a roasting him-\\nself if he interfered. It is gratifying to know that but few\\nwere engaged in the business, and that it was disapproved of\\nby a large majority of the citizens.\\nThe war of 1812 found but little favor in this town. Nearly\\nall the citizens were opposed to it. Only five are recollected\\nto have enlisted during its continuance. These were Aaron\\nBarton, John Eaton, Ephraim Spoor, Peter Cummings, and\\nStearns. Barton went no further than Boston, where\\non account of some injury he was discharged, and now draws\\na pension Eaton died of fever on his way to Greenbush\\nSpoor was discharged before the close of the first year of\\nCummings and Stearns nothing is known.\\nIn the fall of 1814 a requisition was made by the Governor\\nfor a detachment of nine men, to be sent to Portsmouth. The\\nmilitia were called out on the 12th of September, and mus-\\ntered in the old meeting-house. The selectmen offered a\\nbounty of one dollar, and twelve dollars per month for wages,\\nto volunteers. The drum and fife struck up, and a march com-\\nmenced through the aisles of the old church, reviving within\\nits walls the scenes of Seventy-six. The required number\\nsoon joined in. They were, Moody Blood, William Hall, Abel\\nGardner, Bela Gardner, Sewell Spaulding, James Spaulding,\\nAshby Brooks, Jonas Smith and John B. Wright. The town\\nmagazine was opened, and each man furnished with a quarter\\nof a pound of powder and twelve bullets, most of which were\\nexpended in shooting at cats, pigeons and tavern signs on the\\nmarch to Portsmouth, Avhich commenced next day. They\\nwere stationed at Fort Constitution, at the mouth of Ports-\\nmouth harbor. James Spaulding is now (1851) the only sur-\\nvivor. A requisition of six more men was made a week after-\\nwards, and Peter Wilder, Silas Wheeler, Samuel Chickering,\\nNathan Severance, Henry Keep (as a substitute for Charles\\nWalker), and Gould volunteered. They were stationed\\nat Portsmouth Plains.\\nPeace was proclaimed on the following February, and thus\\nthe term of service ended. Great joy was expressed by the\\nfiring of guns and social convivialities, but no public demon-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nstration was made. On the subsequent Fast day, however,\\nMr. Hall preached a political discourse, censuring the past\\ncourse of the Administration in virulent terms, and gave seri-\\nous oflence to many of the citizens.\\nThe Turnpike. At the very commencement of the cen-\\ntury the Third New Hampshire Turnpike, was projected.\\nIt was very strongly opposed by those at the westerly part\\nof the town, through whose lands it was to pass, and who\\nwished to have it take a more southerly route, and gave rise\\nto some riotous proceedings by no means creditable to those\\nconcerned. One party sustained the contractors in breaking\\nthrough the lands, while another did what they could, by\\nthreats and annoyances, to drive olf the working party.\\nPloughs, shovels and other implements were carried off or\\nmutilated, and not a few bruised heads and lawsuits resulted.\\nIn the New Year s Gift, by Isaac Iambic, a satirical poem,\\nstill well remembered by the older citizens, this violation of\\nthe peace and dignity of the town is duly noticed.\\nNow turnpike themes again come round,\\nAnd we must creep on turnpike ground\\nThose shall not pass Avithout my lesson,\\nWho pulled down fence, and took possession\\nBefore the owners had their pay\\nFor land and damages and they\\nWho did oppose with so much fury,\\nWho got together mob unruly,\\nAnd went one day to Tophet Swamp,\\nTo force the workmen to decamp.\\nAfter casting all the blame of sustaining the trespassers upon\\nSquire H-rtw-11, and enumerating some of the demagogues\\nand fools who opposed them, he continues,\\nAnd shall I tell how they have acted,\\nHow by the D 1 they ve been directed,\\nOf cutting ploughs and carts and scrapers,\\nAnd playing all such devilish capers\\nHow Joseph both his axes lent\\nTo Is-c Gr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 n, with this intent;\\nHow many lawsuits now were brought,\\nAnd all with trivial charges fraught\\ni", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE TURNPIKE. 127\\nOf stones being flung with fatal aim\\nAt Isaac s little head in vain\\nO what poor marksmen, could n t they hit\\nThat lump of skull with little wit?\\nSee how our worthy priest has been abused,\\nCause he with equal candor both sides used\\nWho having lectured those who broke the land.\\nWith equal justice then reversed his hand,\\nAnd brought the crime in glaring strains to light,\\nOf cutting carts and scrapers in the night.\\nO shame to tell the Deacon joined the throng\\nThat blamed the priest, and said that he was wrong\\nIn such affairs as this to interfere,\\nAnd that he should of all such things keep clear.\\nThe turnpike was fifty miles long, extending from Town-\\nsend to WalpoJe. Its location was as bad as it could well be,\\nand was laid out on the idea that the most direct course was\\nboth the shortest and most expeditious hence there was the\\ntugging directly over the summit of steep hills, when it would\\nhave been as near to go round them on nearly level ground.\\nThe contract for constructing it was chiefly taken by Col.\\nBellows, of Walpole, assisted by Squire Hart well and others\\nand sections of it, were undertaken in this town, by Seth\\nWheeler and Maj. Benj. Adams. It proved an unprofitable\\nenterprize. It cost about f 50,000, divided into shares of ^200.\\nA very small dividend was declared for a few years but in\\n1813 the stock had depreciated so much that it sold for twelve\\ndollars a share and about the year 1819, for some small sum,\\nwhich was raised by voluntary subscription, it was made a\\nfree road, and adopted by the town. The toll-gates were\\nplaced, one at the foot of the hills in Mason, and the other\\nnear where the Rindge road turns off above the Flat Moun-\\ntain. The people above this latter gate, however, did not\\nchoose to pay toll for coming to the village, and therefore cut\\na road around it. Travellers and teams soon learned to avail\\nthemselves of the same loop-hole, and the Directors found it\\nmore judicious to allow the citizens and their neighbors to\\ntravel two or three miles free, and catch those who travelled\\nlong distances so the gate was removed westward to near the\\nborders of the town.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nThe first bridge over the Souhegan, commonly called the\\nHigh Bridge, was an immense wooden structure, consider-\\nably higher than the present one. It was taken down in\\n1815, and a stone structure was built by Capt. Aaron Brown,\\nfor the sum of $2,000. None of the stones were squared, and\\nvery soon after its completion it fell down. The Proprietors\\nclaimed damages for deficiency in the work, and referees\\nawarded $1,212 damages. The present bridge was built in\\n1817, under the supervision of Jesse Patten. It is one hund-\\nred and fifty-six feet long, forty-two feet above the water, and\\ntwenty-two feet wide, resting on a single arch. In 1848, the\\ntown built a parapet wall of split stone, on each side, at a cost\\nof about |300.\\nA Post-Office was established in New Ipswich in the au-\\ntumn of 1800, and Samuel Batchelder, Sen. was appointed the\\nfirst postmaster. The oflice was located at the store of Mr.\\nBatchelder in the bake-house village. As it did not accom-\\nmodate the mass of the people, a petition was forwarded to\\nthe Hon. Gideon Granger, the Postmaster General, from the\\npeople residing in the middle of the town, asking for its remo-\\nval. He replied to their petition, saying that as it appeared\\nto be for the public good, the request was granted, and Ben-\\njamin Champney, Esq. was appointed postmaster. He enter-\\ned upon his duties in January 1802, and held his place for\\ntwenty years and six months. The post-office was at first in\\nthe building occupied by the postmaster as a law office. It\\nwas a snug little one story, steep-roofed building, with pro-\\njecting eaves, situated under the shade of a large willow tree,\\non the north side of the road, just across the brook, near\\nthe late Dr. Barr s residence. But it was afterwards kept at\\nMr. Batchelder s store (now E. M. Isaacs), and then at Mr.\\nFletcher s on the other side of the way and the duties of the\\noffice were mostly performed by those who kept the stores.\\nThe subsequent appointments have been as follows\\nJuly 8, 1822, Sampson Fletcher.\\nMarch 23, 1839, Josiah W. Spaulding.\\nMarch 10, 1843, Charles Hastings, Jr.\\nJuly 3, 1845, Charles Chickering.\\nApril 23, 1849, Edward M. Isaacs.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "STAGES.\\n129\\nThe statistics of the post-office in this town is an epitome of\\nits history throughout the States. Mr. Batchclder made his\\nfirst Return to Government Jan. 1, 1801, and paid over the\\nnett proceeds, amounting to seven cents, his commission being\\nthree cents. One letter had been received, on which the post-\\nage was ten cents. The receipts steadily increased, as shown\\nby the amounts paid over at the following dates\\nFor the year ending October 1, 1801,\\n1801,\\n4 33\\n1811,\\n77 39\\n1821,\\n150 02\\n1831,\\n306 96\\n1841,\\n441 27\\n1851,\\n521 08\\nStages. During the first years of the revolution, a man\\nwas hired to ride post between here and Boston, by the way\\nof Amherst, and bring newspapers and messages; and pre-\\nvious to 1800, letters used sometimes to come to Amherst\\npost office for people in this town. In 1794, a post-rider, by\\nthe name of Balch, commenced going from Boston to Keene\\none week, and back the next. He came through this town\\nand did errands for the inhabitants.\\nIn the spring of 1802, Dearborn Emerson, commenced run-\\nning a stage from Groton to New Ipswich. On the first trip\\nfrom New Ipswich he carried three passengers, viz. Reuben\\nKidder, Esq. and lady, and Timothy Farrar, Jr. The fol-\\nlowing is copied from an advertisement in the Keene Sentinel,\\ndated Dec. 3d, of that year. Dearborn Emerson informs\\nthe public that he runs a line of stages on the middle post\\nroad from Boston to Walpole twice a week, passing through\\nConcord, Groton, New Ipswich, Jaffrey, Marlborough and\\nKeene to Walpole; leaving Boston every Wednesday and\\nSaturday morning, at 4 o clock arriving at New Ipswich\\nat 6 o clock in the evenhig, leaving there at 4 o clock every\\nThursday and Monday morning, arriving at Keene at noon,\\nand at Walpole at 6 o clock in the evening. The fare from\\nBoston to Keene $4,50 to New Ipswich, $3,25. From a\\nremark in the advertisement that the road the most part of\\nthe way is a good turnpike, it may be inferred that the third\\n17", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nNew Hampshire turnpike, from Townsend to Walpole, was\\nthen finished. About 1807 the stages commenced running\\nthree times a week, from Boston to Keene, arriving here from\\nBoston about 2 o clock, P. M., and reaching Keene the same\\nevening. This arrangement continued until about 1820,\\nwhen there was a coach daily.\\nThat old stage coach! Who that can remember it, thirty-\\nyears ago, does not recal the excitement which was awakened\\nwhen it peered over the brow of the hill, and came thunder-\\ning down, with Jehu speed, half enveloped in a cloud of dust 1\\nThe tin horn sounds its approach, and the driver, summoning\\nhis bravest air, rounds up to the door at full gallop, with a\\ncrack of the whip within an ace of the leader s ear, which\\nsent a thrill through every beholder. He was a great man,\\nthat coachman. He had seen what to us were foreign parts;\\nand knew more of what was going on in the world than all\\nthe town beside. He was almost the only medium of inter-\\ncourse between our mountain-enclosed citizens and the outside\\nworld. If there had been a fire, or a failure, a marriage or a\\nmurder, a death or a duel, he knew all about it. He jumps\\nfrom his box while the mail bag is being examined, waters\\nhis horses, cracks a few jokes, retails as much gossip as the\\ntime will allow, discharges a passenger if there happens to be\\none, tosses up his mail bag, mounts his seat, a ld is oif to\\nBatchelder s tavern for dinner. The people on the road who\\nhappened to be going to mill or to the stores, especially the\\nwomen and boys, kept a good look out for the stage, in order\\nthat they might have time to get fairly out of the road, and\\ngive place for it to pass; for, in the first place, it was consid-\\nered unlawful to obstruct the mail coach every thing must\\nclear out of its way; and in the next place, it would have\\nbeen no difficult matter for that knowing and dexterous driver\\nto run them down, and strew grist, butter and eggs, as well\\nas themselves, in the gutter.\\nBut what a change has taken place within the last twenty\\nyears The stage coach is no longer an object of wonder,\\nand every body has travelled. The old straight road to Bos-\\nton through Townsend, Pepperell, Groton, Littleton, Aclon,\\nConcord, Lexington and so on, the road which our fathers", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "MAINTENANCE OF THE POOR. 131\\nand grandfathers knew, has been well nigh abandoned and\\nwere those who emigrated in 1833, to colonize a new town in\\nIowa, now to revisit their native place for the first time, they\\nwould have little conception of the strange and devious way\\nby which they would approach it. And all owing to the in-\\ntroduction of railroads.\\nThe old turnpike is a pike no more,\\nWide open stands the gate\\nWe have made us a road for our horse to stride,\\nWhich we ride at a flying rate.\\nWe have filled the valleys and levelled the hills,\\nAnd tunnelled the mountain side\\nAnd round the rough crag s dizzy verge,\\nFearlessly now we ride\\nFirst came the Lowell Railroad and then Concord, Lex-\\nington and Acton were passed by coaches then ran daily\\nfrom Lowell through Chelmsford to Groton, and soon twice a\\nday. Next came the Fitchburg Railroad, approaching still\\nnearer Groton and Townsend were then passed by, and\\ntravel took a direction which had never before been dreamed\\nof Then the Lowell road was extended to Nashua, and\\nmany found that the most convenient route to Boston, though\\nin a direction nearly opposite, in the outset, to the route by\\nFitchburg and the roads through Ashby and Wilton, which\\nhad scarcely been known to any except the ministers, as\\nthey performed their annual exchange, and the lawyers, as\\nthey went to the courts at Amherst, now became familiar\\nto every one. And finally, the road to West Townsend, eked\\nout for a few years by stages through Mason village, until its\\ncompletion to that point. For the honor and interest of our\\ntown, we trust this is not to be its nearest approach to the\\ncentral village.\\nMaintenance of the Poor. Great precaution was taken, in\\nthe earlier history of the town, to avoid incurring the burden\\nof maintaining paupers. Hence the old custom, already alluded\\nto, of warning out, in order to prevent persons from ac-\\nquiring a legal residence for it was not uncommon for neigh-\\nboring towns, as it is now in foreign lands, to encourage\\ntheir paupers to settle beyond their limits, in order to avoid", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nthe expense of their maintenance. At a later period it was\\ncustomary to avoid receiving taxes from persons who were\\nlikely to require public support. Previous to the Revolution,\\nthe number of paupers was very small but the privations\\nand calamities attendant upon this struggle for liberty,\\nbrought many to want, for a time. It was the custom to ob-\\ntain places for them, and pay such annual sum as might be\\nagreed upon, in addition to the services likely to be rendered.\\nIt was generally the practice to offer the maintenance of each\\none at public auction and they became dependent on the\\ntender mercies of the lowest bidder.\\nIn 1828, at the town meeting, Charles Barrett, Stephen\\nWheeler, Peter Felt, Isaac Adams Daniel J efts were ap-\\npointed a Committee to take into consideration the whole\\nsubject of an establishment for the Poor; and they were clothed\\nwith power to hire or purchase a farm for that purpose, and\\nto take any measures they might see fit, to efiect the desired\\nobject. After examining a number of farms, and the terms on\\nwhich they could be obtained, they purchased the Pratt farm\\nfor about $2600. It was an excellent and productive farm,\\nand well suited to its intended use. It was placed under the\\nmanagement of Col. Isaac Sanderson, and at first nearly\\nmaintained itself On the whole, the cost to the town com-\\npared with the old system has been somewhat augmented, but\\nthe comforts of the poor have been much increased and the\\npain of being annually assigned a home and a master, in\\nwhich they had no voice, has been spared them.\\nThe average number of inmates has been about twelve.\\nIn 1836 the Poor House was also made a House of Correc-\\ntion, and William Ainsworth, Esq., E. H. Farrar, Esq., and\\nMaj. Seth King were appointed a Committee to prepare By-\\nLaws for its regulation. They proposed the following Rules,\\nwhich were adopted by the town\\nFirst. The Superintendent of the poor farm, for the time being,\\nshall be also keeper of the House of Correction, and be clothed\\nwith all powers and duties incident to that office.\\nSecond. It shall be the duty of said keeper, to carry into effect\\nthe sentence of any magistrate upon any person sent to the House\\nof Correction, and to enforce on the inmates, at all times, habits of\\nsobriety, morality and quiet obedience.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "TOWN HOUSE. 133\\nThird. All persons committed to said House of Correction,\\nshall be obedient to the keeper thereof, and orderly in their conduct.\\nFourth. In case any person sent to said House of Correction,\\nshall prove refractory disobedient, the keeper shall be authorized,\\nat his discretion, to inflict on such person any reasonable punish-\\nment, not exceeding hard labor, and such correction as a parent\\nmay lawfully inflict upon a refractory child, or solitary confinement\\nnot exceeding forty-eight hours.\\nFifth. The overseers of the Poor shall be authorized to make\\nsuch alterations and additions to the buildings on the town farm as\\nwould enable the Superintendent to carry these Regulations into\\nefTect.\\nFor fifty years and more, it had been customary, to transact\\nall town business in the meeting house, and there was no\\nbuilding for general purposes, in tov/n, with the exception of\\nthe Hall over the apothecary shop of Dr. Preston, in which\\nthe Demosthenian Library was placed, the Masonic Lodge\\nmet, and a musical society occasionally practised. The old\\nmeeting house was now falling into ruin, the Academy build-\\ning was ill adapted to its purpose, and the central school house\\nwas in an equally discreditable condition. Tn 1816 a commit-\\ntee was appointed to procure a plan for a Town House, and\\nreceive proposals for building it also to receive offers for the\\nold Meeting House, and to confer with the Trustees of the\\nAcademy, and the Central School District, as to contributing\\ntowards its erection, with the expectation of jointly occupying\\nit. A plan was fixed upon, and an arrangement effected with\\nthe Trustees of the Academy. A contract was also made\\nwith Deacon Nathaniel D. Gould, for its erection. He was\\nto have the old meetinghouse, and employ such of the mate-\\nrials as he pleased, in its construction, and to have the old\\nAcademy building and the land appertaining, which was\\nsupposed to comprise the plot between the Academy and\\nMeetinghouse, used as a play ground and training field but\\nit was afterwards claimed by the heirs of the Rev. Mr. Far-\\nrar, and appeared, on examination, to have been given by him\\nfor the express and sole purpose of an Academy play ground.\\nA small subscription was also added by the citizens. It was\\nbuilt and occupied in 1817, and in it are preserved many relics\\nof the old meeting house. It has since served many useful", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134\\nHISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\npurposes; learning has found its\\nabode in the upper halls; religion\\nhas been cradled and nurtured in the\\nSabbath School and conference meet-\\nmg, under its roof; and while the\\nclashing interests in town affairs,\\nmay sometimes have raised fell dis-\\ncord below, the walls of the hall\\nabove have ofttimes resounded with\\nharmonious strains of no ordinary\\ncharacter. In 1819 it was painted, and the expense defrayed\\nby the sale of the old Common and some discontinued roads.\\nIn a secluded country town, having nothing but its own\\naffairs to manage, but few incidents of a public nature are\\nlikely to occur. The most important ones pertaining to the\\nlast fifty years, have been already mentioned. Others, relating\\nto ecclesiastical and educational matters, will be given in their\\nappropriate places. Besides the raising of meeting-houses\\nand ordination of ministers, the only festival occasions were\\nas follows:\\nThe twentieth anniversary of American Independence, July\\n4, 1796, was celebrated, with great parade, both civil and mil-\\nitary. An oration was pronounced in the meeting house by\\nSamuel Worcester,* then preceptor of the academy. Seve-\\nral young ladies personated goddesses, Minerva with her\\nspear, Ceres with her sheaf of wheat, c., and came bound-\\ning up the broad aisle while they sung in joyful dance, with\\ninstruments of music. The musical performances were quite\\nextraordinary for those days. A procession was formed and\\nmarched to a tent on the green, in front of Squire Hartwell s,\\nwhere a dinner was provided by Isaac B. Farrar, who then\\nkept the tavern adjacent. Guns were fired, toasts were given\\nand great speeches were made. The oration was extolled,\\nby the citizens of this and the neighboring towns, as extraor-\\ndinary and most felicitous, and was printed, and has also\\nbeen mainly reprinted in Dr. Worcester s biography by his son.\\nThe fourth of .July was celebrated in 1806, when an Ora-\\nRev. Samuel Worcester, D. D., pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "CELEBRATIONS. I35\\ntion was delivered by Solomon Kidder Livermore. There\\nwas also a celebration of the fourth of July, 1824.\\nIn 1809, the people joined in a fourth of July celebration at\\nTemple. On that occasion, Seth King was Marshal, Benja-\\nmin Champney, Esq., Vice President, Dr. John Preston, Toast-\\nmaster.\\nIn 1800, a famous military muster took place, on the level\\nground bordering the Souhegan, on the Hoar farm. It was\\non this occasion that the march called Ipswich xMuster, was\\nbrought out, and enjoyed great popularity in the region, for\\nmany years.\\nBesides the sham-fight, the speeches of Old Boston, the\\nnegro, c., was the exhibition of a Bison, from the western\\nprairies. The people became displeased at the proprietor,\\nfrom some cause, tore down his shanty, and let the animal\\nloose, and then the assembled multitude, horse and foot,\\namused themselves in the attempting to catch him, in which\\nthey finally succeeded.\\nIn 1815, the Bethel Lodge of Freemasons was instituted.\\nAn Oration was delivered by Brother Nathaniel D. Gould,\\nand a public dinner was had in a tent constructed of boughs,\\non the green near the centre school house.\\nIn 1817, the citizens were thrown into great commotion, by\\nthe sudden seizure of a young lady, supposed to be an orphan,\\nwho had been placed under the care of Rev. Mr. Hall, by her\\nguardian residing in New Orleans, for the purposes of educa-\\ntion. Her own mother, who had been divorced from her\\nfather, and from whom she had been a long time separated,\\nhad traced her to the town, and unexpectedly made her ap-\\npearance. Having been induced to visit a neighbor s house,\\nthe child v/as seized and carried to her mother. This\\nsudden abduction, of course caused great excitement, and\\nwas not easily explained. Mr. Hall felt himself responsible\\nfor the safety of one whose real friends he supposed so far\\ndistant. His friends felt that he could not be wrong, and\\nwere zealous in sustaining him while others hstened to the\\nmother s story, and took sides with her. Much newspaper\\ncontroversy, and an appeal to the laws, supervened, and it\\nwas several years before the ferment subsided.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nIn 1839, two or three enterprising citizens, in imitation of\\ntheir ancestors, formed the project of colonizing a new town-\\nship in the West. The leader of the enterprize may be\\nconsidered to have been Timothy Fox 3d. In company with\\ntwo others, he selected a township in Iowa, now called Den-\\nmark, and in due time was joined by other persons from this\\ntown. Their first care was to secure those institutions, the\\nchurch, the common school and the Academy, on which they\\nfelt that their own happiness and success had been based.\\nTheir own account, given in their letter intended to be read at\\nthe centennial celebration, is of a most interesting character,\\nshowing that they have laid foundations which must render\\ntheir settlement a most desirable location, and that their\\nsuccess has surpassed all they could have reasonably an-\\nticipated. They have done honor to the fathers and the\\ntown from whence they sprung.\\nThe amount of Taxes raised in 1801, was $1632 11, which\\nwas about one-third the sum levied in 1850. The number of\\ntax payers at that time was 272, of which not over fifteen\\nnow survive. The highest tax payers were Ebenezer Champ-\\nney, $38 33 Hon. Charles Barrett, $27 02 Charles Barrett,\\nJr., $27,95 Supply Wilson, Sen., $26 81.\\nAt the commencement of the century, the principal topics\\nof political moment had been settled, the form of government\\nhad been determined, and was in operation, and all the ma-\\nchinery for the administration of town affairs, was instituted.\\nThe farms were productive, and the energy of the inhabitants\\nhad enabled them to rise above all the sacrifices they had\\nmade for liberty. In a moral point of view, however, the first\\nten years of the century will not bear a favorable comparison\\nwith other periods of our history. Probably there was more\\ngaiety, gambling, profanity and hard drinking, at this epoch,\\nthan at any other. This was, doubtless, chiefly owing to the\\nloose and peculiar habits incident to a camp life, to which\\nso many of the men had become habituated. In addition to\\nthis, there was a large class of well educated youiig men,\\nwhose fathers had a competency, who naturally became some-\\nwhat more gay than iheir fathers had been. Dancing, which\\nat anterior and subsequent periods was almost unknown, was", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "NEW YEAR S GIFT. 137\\nthen a favorite amusement, and was perhaps carried to excess.\\nCards, bowhng, and pitching coppers, were also extensively-\\npractised. But the greatest bane to the welfare of the town,\\nwas intemperance. Taverns, and places where liquor was\\ndealt out, were very numerous. The quantity of rum pur-\\nchased, as shown by some of the old store account books of\\nthat day, is almost beyond belief The exhibit of bad debts\\nis also in corresponding proportion. Everybody drank more\\nor less, from the minister and his deacons, downwards. And\\nthey drank on all occasions. The doctor could not make a\\nvisit without being offered his dose of stimulus and when his\\npatient died, the company assembled at the funeral were all\\nexpected to stifle their grief, by partaking freely of o-be-joy-\\nful. After the death of the truly lamented pastor in 1S09,\\nwe find a vote of the town, to pay the expenses of the fune-\\nral, viz., dinners and liquors, grave and coffin, c. And\\non wedding, and other festive connubial occasions, rhe flow\\nof ardent corresponded to the flow of animal spirits. No\\none thought of making a friendly call, or doing his shop-\\nping, without enjoying the rites of hospitality in the shape of\\ncider, toddy, sling or flip and on all working occasions, such\\nas raisings and reaping, haying and highways, the eleven\\no clock and four o clock were absolutely indispensable\\nto man and boy. While this state of things lasted, the con-\\nsequences, both to body and estate, are easily conjectured.\\nThe great majority were in a condition which now a days\\nwould be called questionable, but which then was considered\\nlegitimate, because it was the common level, and all saw the\\nsame horizon. Others, alas, our recollection brings before us\\ntoo many, gradually yielded to alcohol the supremacy, and\\nbecame its victims. Such a condition was not peculiar to this\\ntown; on the contrary, the people are characterized, by one\\nwho knew them intimately, as he did also the people of\\nneighboring towns, as being remarkable for their good morals.\\nHe says he never saw, in any other place, such uniform and\\nuniversal industry and, though everybody drank, drunken-\\nness was very rare compared with its prevalence in other\\nplaces.\\nOn New Year s morning, 1802, a small pamphlet was found\\n18", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\ndistributed at almost every man s door. It was entitled The\\nNew Year s Gift, or Naughty Folks Reformed by his Honor\\nIsaac Iambic. The avowed object of the muse v/as, to\\nlash the times,\\nReview the folly and the crimes\\nWhich have transpired within the year, c.\\nSome of the verses, in relation to the Turnpike, have been\\nalready quoted. Besides this, the management of Singing\\nand Singing Schools, and the preceptor of the Academy are\\ncastigated, with sundry hits at hard drinking, swearing and\\nlying, and many other topics. The excitement produced was\\nvery great, and the efiect was highly beneficial in suppressing\\nthe follies and quarrels of the citizens. Every one stood in\\nterror of Isaac, who had declared that he should do his duty,\\nand that every New Year they should have his gift, and\\nmoreover, that he will\\ntell the truth, but will not spare\\nLittle or great a single hair\\nAnd when you tell a lie or swear,\\nExpect your friend Iambic there,\\nTo write your name, and then to lift\\nIt into his next Neio Year s Gift.\\nThe threats of vengeance, from those who had been directly\\nalluded to, were loud and long. The sin of authorship was\\nlaid at many a door, but no satisfactory clue to it was then\\nobtained. Indeed, we believe the name of the author has\\nnever yet been fully disclosed. His two coadjutors were\\nfaithful, and he so artfully diverted attention by castigating\\nhimself as well as his father, hinting\\nHow S 1 B r, the younger,\\nIn an oration much did blunder,\\nthat he escaped detection.\\nA somewhat similar commotion was produced, a dozen\\nyears or more afterwards, by the circulation of some verses\\nentitled The Ladies Looking-Glass, aimed at some of the\\nprevalent follies of the day.\\nThe religious revival in 1810-11, soon after the death of\\nMr. Farrar, made a very extensive and marked impression\\nupon the manners and morals of the town. Many of the\\nyoung men became subjects of it and, as the code of christian", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE CENTRAL VILLAGE. 139\\nduty and abstinence enforced by Mr. Hall, was of the severest\\nkind, everything like laxity and levity was banished as far as\\npossible. Professors of religion were expected to maintain\\npuritanical gravity and simplicity, and they did so; and every\\nrestraint was thrown upon the indulgences and hilarity of\\ntheir children. Pious teachers were obtained for the schools,\\nand religious exercises were almost universally observed in\\nthem. The Sabbath was kept with great strictness; and\\nthough, in our youth, the Sabbath was a day of tedious rest,\\nand some of the restraints placed upon us, would, at this day,\\nbe regarded as verily fanatical, yet we freely acknowledge\\ntheir salutary influence on the habits of after life.\\nIn 1814, several of the neighboring towns entered into a\\ncombination, for the better observance of the Sabbath;\\nand in consequence of it, nine tything-men were chosen in\\nthis town, who were expected to see that no unnecessary labor\\nwas performed, that no travelling or any other infraction of\\nthe day of rest was practised. Several teams and travellers\\nwere arrested on the turnpike, and detained till Monday. But\\nin attempting to enforce their regulations, the tything-men\\nsoon found themselves involved in lawsuits, and were obliged\\nto abandon their laudable designs.\\nOn the whole, we doubt if a generation of citizens ever\\ninhabited the town, before or since, to be compared for intelli-\\ngence, sobriety, enterprize and influence, with the congregation\\nthat sat under the ministry of Mr. Hall.\\nAt the commencement of the century, the houses in the\\ncentral village were situated around the old meeting house,\\nand along the road between it and .ludge Farrar s and there\\nwere the Barrett, Prichard and Foster houses on the road to\\nBenjamin Safford s. When the Turnpike was opened, several\\nbuildings were immediately erected there. John F. Hills\\nbuilt a store on the spot occupied by the brick house in\\nwhich Joseph Barrett, Esq., now resides. He afterwards\\nremoved it across the way, and commenced the brick house\\njust before his death. It was completed and occupied for\\nseveral years, by Ephraim Searle. Dr. John Preston, Jr.\\nbuilt the house now occupied by E. F. Edwards, and the\\nbuilding west of it, which was used as an apothecary s shop,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 HISTORY OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.\\nwith the hall above for various public purposes. Barrett and\\nChandler built a two story store on the ground now occupied\\nby Mr. Saunders. It was afterwards occupied by Samuel\\nBatchelder, and was burnt in 1812. Mr. Batchelder then\\nerected the brick house, and the brick store at the corner,\\nnow occupied by Mr. Isaacs. Isaiah Kidder erected the build-\\ning so long occupied as a tavern, for a store, and carried on an\\nextensive business there until his death. A little to the east-\\nward, on the turnpike, stood the hayscales, owned by Dr.\\nPreston. On the central road no new buildings have been\\nerected except the house occupied by Mrs. Clary, which was\\nbuilt by James Taft, since resident in Mason Village, and the\\nhouse occupied by Mr. Lee, which stands on the ground\\nwhere Jonathan Dix had his store, and Elijah Towne kept\\ntavern. Several buildings have, on the contrary, disappeared.\\nA house built by Benjamin Pollard, stood east of the brook,\\non the south side of the road the office of the Champneys\\nstood on the opposite side. The store of Squire Hartwell,\\nfirst occupied by Josiah Rogers, stood on a line with the west\\nend of Mrs. Barr s house, facing eastward while another\\nbuilding stood on the opposite side of the yard, facing west-\\nward, used by Seth King and Stephen Preston, as a Hatter s\\nshop. David Hills kept his store in a building running west-\\nward from his house. It had an alarm bell, which announced\\nto the people in the house when any one entered the store.\\nBarrett and Appleton traded at the corner, near the tanyard.\\nThe centre school house at first stood on the great rock, oppo-\\nsite the north east corner of the old burial ground, at the\\ncorner of Squire Preston s orchard. It was removed down\\nthe hill, about the year 1807, and stood at the corner below\\nMr. Hill s house. There was also a blacksmith s shop, owned\\nby Josiah Batchelder, opposite to his house, the same now\\noccupied by Col. Peter Clark. A house which stood opposite\\nthe burial ground, the Dutton house, at the corner of the road\\nto the Mill Village, and the Safford house, in the orchard south\\nof the Meeting house, were all that existed in that vicinity\\nwhen it was erected. In 1814, two rows of Horse-sheds were\\nbuilt, one running east and west, in the rear of the meeting\\nhouse, the other running from the burial ground to the", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE CENTRAL VILLAGE. 141\\nAcademy. The first range was overturned by the great gale\\nin September, 1815, and afterwards reinstated the other was\\nremoved, in the year 1835, and placed in the rear of the\\nfirst range. Each proprietor furnished his proportion of mate-\\nrials, and they were framed and finished at common charge.\\nVery specific regulations were made by the town respecting\\nthe terms on which the owners were to hold them, though it\\nwould appear that very little pains has been taken to enforce\\nthem, especially those which rendered it imperative on the\\nowners to keep the sheds in repair.\\nWere we called upon to indicate the palmy days of New\\nIpswich, we should name the first fifteen years of the present\\ncentury. There v/as then greater uniformity of character,\\nharmony of feeling, and community of interest, and more\\ngeneral prosperity than at any other period. There was\\nscarcely a diversity of opinion in politics or religion, and very\\nfew causes of dissension, of any sort, existed. This cannot\\nbe said of more recent periods. Ecclesiastical difficulties of\\nall sorts, and of no trifling consequence, have sprung up.\\nPolitical differences have augmented, and all the exciting\\ntopics of the age, such as Temperance, the Wine Question,\\nSlavery, Communism, Millerism, c., have come up in their\\nturn, and, as in most other towns throughout New England,\\nhave found zealots in their behalf, have sown more or less of\\ndiscord for a time, finally settling down into the rational me-\\ndium of sober common sense-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nMEETING HOUSES.\\nfirst meeting house second meeting house is converted\\nto horse sheds third meeting house contention about\\nits location about the pew spots; its interior sabbath\\ncustoms; fourth meeting house; controversy; the bell;\\nSALE TO the church baptist meeting house UNITARIAN\\nmeeting house; methodist meeting house.\\nThe first Meeting-house, built by the Massachusetts Pro-\\nprietors, in accordance with their charter, which required that\\na convenient meeting-house for the pubhc worship of God\\nshould be erected within three years, was erected on what has\\nbeen long known as Judge Farrar s Hill, but designated in\\nthe early Records as the Meeting-house Hill. It was nearly\\nopposite the head of the Safford Lane. Judge Farrar has\\nbeen heard to say that it was a framed building, though we\\nshould have expected nothing more than hewn logs. No\\nevidence or even tradition exists that it was ever used as a\\nsanctuary and it was found to have been destroyed during\\nthe desertion of the town in 1748, probably by accidental\\nfires from the burning woods.\\nFor several years afterwards, the people assembled on the\\nSabbath at private houses, going from place to place as might\\nbe convenient; until in October 1753, the Proprietors voted\\nto meet for public worship at the house of Joseph Kidder\\nfor the future. [P. R. 191,] His was a hipped roof house,\\nand stood where John Preston, Esq. now resides and here\\nwas the tabernacle for the next five or six years. Very soon\\nafter the obtaining of the Masonian Charter, however, steps\\nwere taken for the erection of a Meeting-house and as early\\nas 1752 it was voted to build one near the souwest corner of", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SECOND MEETING HOUSE. 143\\nMr. Oliver Proctor s house lott, afterwards the Rev. Mr. Far-\\nrar s lot but owing to the difficulties which then, as well\\nas now, are incident to such an enterprise, the house was not\\nbuilt and in a condition to be occupied till six years after-\\nwards. After various resolves and re-resolves as to the loca-\\ntion and size of the house,* it was finally agreed to set it near\\nthe north east corner of Capt. Robert Choate s lott, No. 1 in\\nthe 10th range, [P. R. 212,] just north of the present Pound,\\nand to have it 32 feet long, 22 feet wide and 9 feet posts.\\nThis being finally settled, a tax of five pounds old tenor on\\neach right was laid for the purpose of building the house, most\\nof which was paid in lumber hemlock boards, shingles and\\nclapboards at stated prices, becoming a legal tender. Joseph\\nKidder, Joseph Bates and Capt. Benjamin Hoar were chosen\\na committee to provide materials. They were directed to\\nreceive of the proprietors, as they shall deliver at the meeting-\\nhouse plot, good boards and shingles to cover the meeting-\\nhouse last voted, and slit work for the same you are further\\ndirected to see that the work be speedily done by the Proprie-\\ntors Labour to your satisfaction, and on their neglect, you\\nare directed to let out the work as you see good and you are\\nfurther directed to purchase or receive of the Proprietors, nails,\\nglass, c., for the work, at your discretion you are to re-\\nceive good hemlock boards at ten pound per thousand, and\\nspruce at twelve pounds a thousand, and good shingles at\\nthree pound a thousand, and slit work at your discretion.\\n[P. R. 210-11.]\\nThis was in October, 1754 and we may infer that the\\nwork was prosecuted with zeal, inasmuch as a Proprietors\\nmeeting was held at the meeting-house (perhaps not in it) on\\nthe following August, and continued to be holden there at all\\ntimes afterwards. The progress must have been afterwards\\nFebruary 27, 1754. Voted to set the meeting-house facing the soutli, on\\nthe southeast corner of Oliver Proctor s lott, joyning to the south west corner of\\nJoseph Bates lott. Voted to build said meeting-house fifty feet in length\\nand forty feet wide and twenty-four feet post. Voted to set the frame of\\nsaid house up by the tenth of September next. Voted to let out the hew-\\ning and frameing of said House by the great. Voted to choose three men\\nas a committee to oversee said work. Chosen for said Committee Capt. Wool-\\nson, Timothy Heald and John Button. [P. R. 198.]\\nApril 22, 1754. Voted to build a meeting-house twenty-five feet longe, and\\ntwenty feet in bredth and nine feet stud. [P. R. 200.]", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 MEETING HOUSES.\\nsuspended, as in February 1757, it was voted to finish the\\nmeeling-house, except the upper floor. In February 1759,\\nmore than four years from its commencement and seven years\\nafter the resolution to build, we may presume that this great\\nundertaking was accomplished, and the spacious house was\\nready for its special use. A committee was then chosen, con-\\nsisting of Aaron Kidder, Joseph Bates and Ichabod How, to\\nseat the meeting house and they were directed to seete\\nten persons on each Long Seat, and four on each short one.\\n[P. R. 245.] This was a custom of that day, according to\\nwhich every man had a seat assigned him corresponding to\\nhis dignity and importance. Joseph Kidder was to have two\\ndollars for the care of the meeting-house, and for sweeping\\nthe same.\\nIt was a small and simple\\nstructure, far inferior to a\\ncommon country school-\\nhouse of the present day,\\nwith merely a covering,\\na floor, and with movable\\nbenches for seats, and an\\nunfinished gallery, which,\\nwith the nine feet stud,\\nwe must suppose could only have extended across the gable\\nend. We give a cut of it, as it has been represented by one\\nwho well remembers it. In this house the first minister was\\nordained, and began his long and useful career and in it the\\nchurch was organized.\\nIt had been originally proposed to build a house of much\\nlarger dimensions and the wisdom of this intention soon be-\\ncame evident for such was the influx of inhabitants, that,\\nwith the addition of the galleries, in less than three years the\\nplace had become too strait for them. In about eight years\\nthe number of families had more than doubled, and numbered\\nupwards of one hundred. So soon as January, 1762, there-\\nfore, an article was introduced into the Warrant, to see if\\nthey (the Proprietors) will make preparations for Building a\\nMeeting-house. [P. R. 264.] The article does not appear to\\nhave been acted upon at that meeting but in July of the same\\nyear, it was voted to set the Meeting-house, Avhen it is built,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 145\\non the southeast corner of Mr. Farrar s lot, being No. 37 north\\ndivision, near where the meeting-house now stands.\\nVoted to build a Meeting-house 50 feet long, 40 feet wide,\\nand 24 feet post. Voted to chuse a Committee to receive\\nand provide stuff, such as boards, slit-work, shingles, clapboard\\nand the like for the Meeting-house. Chosen Mr. Robert Cros-\\nby, Mr. John Chandler, Dea. Benjamin Adams and Capt.\\nReuben Kidder. [P. R. 270-71.]\\nAnother five years of controversy ensued respecting the\\nlocation and dimensions of the house, which was by no means\\nthe less violent in consequence of the newly-organized town\\ngovernment. Two years afterwards, it was voted to build 55\\nfeet long, 45 wide and 26 feet post, with permission to the\\nCommittee to make the posts two feet shorter the frame was\\nto be up, and the outside covered, by the last of September,\\n1765. But in March of that year, it was decided to omit the\\nbuilding of a Meeting-house this summer or fall but the Com-\\nmittee were to provide the materials for the fraim and civer-\\ning and Stones for underpinning the House. In October,\\n1765, it was voted not to set up the frame by next June, and\\nto add five feet to its length when built. It was also voted to\\nraise \u00c2\u00a360 lawful, for the purchase of stuff, which might be\\npaid in good marchantable stuff by the first of the following\\nNovember.\\nApril 3, 1767, Voted to Build a Meeting Hous next sumer\\non the place formerly staked out 65 by 45 and 26 feet posts.\\nAt this time a formidable opposition arose from the inhabitants\\nof the south part of the town, who wished to have the house\\nlocated at what is called the Hodgkins corner, which is very\\nnear the geographical centre of the town, though distant from\\nthe centre of population. To effect this, they sent a petition\\nto the General Assembly of the State requesting interposition\\nin their behalf, of which the following is a copy\\nOn the delivery of good marchantable stuff at the M. H. spot appointed,\\n(each man his proportion,) the said committee shall discharge him or them from\\nthe rate and if any part be not paid at the time and place appointed, in stuff,\\nthe said Rate shall be committed to the Constable to collect for the aforesaid use.\\nAlso the men who have a mind to get Stuff go to the Com for directions what\\nto get and that the men formerly agreed with to provide stuff be not allowed to\\nget any more than what they have agreed for, nor other, unless it fall to their\\nshare. [T. R. 20.]\\n19", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146\\nMEETING HOUSES.\\nTo His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq., Captain-General,\\nGovernor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty s\\nProvince of New Hampshire The Honorable His Majesty s\\nCouncil and House of Representatives for said Province, in Gene-\\nral Assembly convened\\nThe humble Petition of we the Subscribers, Freeholders and Inhab-\\nitants of the Town of Ipswich in said Province, shews\\nThat the Inhabitants of said Town are about to Build a Meeting\\nhouse for the Public Worship of God there, have Lately had a\\nMeeting for that Purpose, that it appears the said Inhabitants are\\nno ways Likely to Agree on a suitable Place to set the Same, that\\nmay in any manner Accomodate a very Considerable Number of\\nthe Said Inhabitants the best Lands that much uneasiness has\\nalready arisen on Account thereof more likely to insue, and\\nshould that be the Case may be the means of hurting or Preventing\\na further Settlement of the Lands now wild in said Town.\\nThat your Petitioners under a sense of the Great Benefit Arising\\nfrom a Peaceable Neighborhood now in the Infant State of said\\nTown most humbly pray that Your Excellency and Honors would\\nInterpose and Take their Peculiar Circumstances into Considera-\\ntion that they may have a Committee to repair to said Town\\nView the Same Report a proper place, which We pray may be\\nfinal, or Give such other Relief as Your Excellency and Honours\\nshall see Meet. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever\\npray.\\nBenja. SafTord, Samuel Kinney,\\nPelatiah Whittemore, Simeon Wright,\\nJoseph Pollard,\\nJames Chandler,\\nHezekiah Cory,\\nWido. Mary Foster,\\nJohn Wheeler,\\nSamuel Whittemore,\\nIchabod How,\\nBenja. Gibbs,\\nAllen Breed,\\nZechariah Adams,\\nThomas Heald,\\nThomas Spaulding.\\nThe petition was received, and the petitioners were ordered,\\nat their own cost, to furnish the selectmen of the town with a\\ncopy of the petition, and cause the substance of the petition\\nand order of the Court to be printed three weeks in the New\\nHampshire Gazette, that any person may appear and show\\ncause why the prayer thereof should not be granted.\\nAbraham Bennet,\\nAndrew Conn,\\nStephen Adams, jr.\\nSamuel Wheeler,\\nJames Foster,\\nSimeon Hildrith,\\nEleazer Cummings,\\nDavid Rumrill,\\nAndrew Spaulding,\\nWilliam Hodgkins,\\nThomas Brown,\\nJune 27th, 1767.\\nReuben Taylor,\\nJoel Crosby,\\nJohn Walker,\\nReuben Hosmer,\\nSimeon Fletcher,\\nAbraham Esterbrooks,\\nThomas Adams,\\nJesse Carleton,\\nStephen Adams,\\nJacob Gragg,\\nSamuel Holden,\\nRobert Campbell,\\nJosiah Walton.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 147\\nThe town thereupon Voted to send a man to give reasons\\nto the Court whi the Petitioners Petition should not be grant-\\ned, and the Selectmen furnished the following certificate to\\nshow what proportion of the taxable property the petitioners\\nrepresented.\\nIn a Rate of Three Hundred Pounds the Petitioners, with those\\nthat Voted with them against Building a Meeting House on the\\nSpot where the Town Voted to Build it, Pay Eighty-foure Pounds\\nnineteen Shilings to the Same Rate, Exclusive of the Polls.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nNath l Stone, Selectmen.\\nBenja. Hoar,\\nThe Court then adjusted the matter as follows\\nIn the House of Representatives, Sept. 22, 1767.\\nUpon Hearing the Petitioners on the foregoing Petition and also\\na Com ee on behalf of the Town against the Petition, it appears that\\nsending a Committee will be most Likely to Settle peace in the\\nTown Therefore, Voted, That Col. John GofFe, John Hale and\\nJames Underwood Esq be a Committee to Determine the most\\nSuitable place for Erecting a Meeting House in said Town and to\\nmake Report to the General Assembly as Soon as may be.\\nM. We are, Clerk.\\nThe Committee subsequently made the following Report\\nAgreeable to the within Vote, We have been at the Town of\\nNew Ipswich, hav^e fully heard and Considered what has been offer-\\ned by all Concerned, Examined the Town Votes and Viewd the\\nSituation of the Town and from all Circumstances are fully\\nSattesfied that the place where the Meeting House now is, in said\\nTown, is the best situation for it to be Continued in, will best Ac-\\ncommodate the Town and be most Agreeable to the Greatest part\\nof the Inhabitants. And accordingly we beg leave so to Report.\\nJohn Goffe, John Hall, James Underwood.\\nFebruary 18tk, 1768.\\nIn the House of Representatives, Feb. 19, 1768.\\nVoted that the foregoing Report of the Committee be Accepted\\nand the Place for Setting the Meeting House in said Ipswich\\nEstablished Agreeable thereto. And further. Voted That the\\nAccompt of said Committee for their time and Expense in that\\nBusiness, amounting to three Pounds Sixteen Shillings Lawful!\\nMoney be allowed, and Paid them by the Selectmen of said Ips-\\nwich who are Directed to Assess the Inhabitants for the same.\\nM. Weare, Clerk.\\nIn Council, eadem die. Read and concurred.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 MEETING HOUSES.\\nAt various other times besides those here noted, the subject\\nof the size and location of the building was agitated. The\\nonly point gained by this agitation and delay was, that its\\ndimensions were from time to time enlarged, until finally it was\\nample enough to meet the prospective increase of the town.\\nIt was set upon the precise spot at first proposed, and was 60\\nby 45 feet on the ground, and 26 feet posts. It was Voted\\nthat the Inhabitance find Provision for the Labrows a raising\\nthe M. H. at the meeting house spot also that the Carpinders\\nshall chuse the Hands for raising. Voted the Com pro-\\nvide Liquor for said Raising. [T. R. 32.] The raising had\\nnot taken place in November 1767, and doubtless occurred the\\nnext spring.\\nThe house being erected and covered, a controversy almost\\nequally virulent arose, as to the manner in which the Pew\\nground should be disposed of Some wished to have a Com-\\nmittee to prise the pew spotts and let the highest payers\\nhave them according to their pay, and others wished to have\\nthem sold to the highest bidder at public vendue. [T. R. 42.]\\nIt was finally agreed, Nov. 18, 1768, that all persons who\\nhath a mind to have his proportionable part in the pew\\nground in the New M. H., prefer a Request to the Com cho-\\nsen to dispose of the Pews at Vendue, by the 25th day instant\\nat 9 o clock in the morning, shall have their proportionable\\npart, according to their pay, sett off to such as Request it.\\nVoted, by Intrest, that all the persons Intrested in the\\nNew M. H. shall sell the pews (that are not sett off to such as\\nRequested their part) at public Vendue to the highest bidder,\\nand have the benefit of the money said pews come to, in pro-\\nportion to their pay. [T. R. 47.]\\nThe amount of each person s interest was determined by\\nthe Invoice of this and the preceding year a plot of the pew\\nground was prepared, the vendue was held on the 25th, and\\nfour months pay day with good security was given the pur-\\nchaser. The pews were sold at prices ranging from \u00c2\u00a342 to\\n\u00c2\u00a382, the lot next the pulpit stairs being reserved for the\\nminister.\\nThe house being covered and glazed, though not to the sat-\\nisfaction of the committee, the process of completion seems to", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 149\\nhave been suspended during the winter. In March 1769, it\\nwas voted that the Committee proceed to build a pulpit and\\nmake the Body of Seats, and Seal up the window stools, and\\nlathe and plaster to the Gallery girts and so under the Galle-\\nrys, and Build the Stairs, and lay the gallery floor and also\\nthe ministerial Pew, all to be compleated this Summer com-\\ning. [T. R. 55.]\\nIn January 1770, it was voted to finish the meeting-house\\nthis present year to have a row of pews around the gallery,\\nsell them at auction, and apply the proceeds towards the fin-\\nishing of the house. They also voted to paint the interior as\\nthe committee should think proper upon advise of men skill-\\ned in painting. [T. R. 67.] The last recorded act in relation\\nto the completion of the house was to build seats on the spaces\\nover the stairs, and the Negroes to set on the Hindmost of\\nsaid seats in each gallery, [T. R. 83] though by a subse-\\nquent record it appears that they had not been built in 1774.\\nFive years of controversy as to the location of the house\\nhad thus ensued, and three more were consumed in the actual\\nconstruction and even long after this, the spirit of opposition\\nhad not subsided for in the warrant for March 1774, an arti-\\ncle was introduced, to see if the town would build a new\\nmeeting-house on the southeast corner of the lot that Capt.\\nThomas Fletcher bought of Odoardo Thomas that is, some-\\nwhere near the Hodgkins corner. But the article was passed\\nwithout action. It was immediately occupied, probably before\\nit was actually completed, as the old house had been disposed\\nof some time previously. The last town meeting called in the\\nold meeting-house was that of March 1769, which was ad-\\njourned to the new house. No dedication seems to have taken\\nplace, and the time-honored custom of seating the meeting-\\nhouse giving precedence to persons of distinction, was dis-\\npensed with and, what was then an innovation, every one\\nwas allowed to take such of the public seats as he pleased.\\nIn 1773, the Selectmen were directed to provide a cushion for\\nthe pulpit. And again, in 1782, it was voted to exempt\\nMr. William Spear from serving constable in future, in con-\\nsideration of his giving a note for twenty dollars to the select-\\nmen, the money to be appropriated for a cushing for the pulpit", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 MEETING HOUSES.\\nor desk. This cushion was made of a dressed deerskin\\nstuffed with feathers and after serving as the drum eccle-\\nsiastic for about twenty-five years, was at last stolen.\\nAfter the completion of the town s meeting-house, the Ma-\\nsonian Proprietors, having already contributed liberally to its\\nerection, voted also to present the old house to the town. Its\\nconsecrated walls, in which the church was organized and in\\nwhich its youthful pastor commenced his long and useful\\ncareer, were abandoned without any apparent regrets and\\nalthough, in 1775, the constable certifies that he had posted\\nhis warrant for town meeting at the old meeting-house, the\\nusual place for posting meetings, it was soon disposed of at\\nauction to several of the citizens (Josiah Walton, Hilas Da-\\nvis, Josiah Brown, Reuben Brown, William Clary, John Cut-\\nter, Simeon GJould, Benj. Williams) living in the outskirts of\\nthe town, stripped of its interior, and converted into horse-\\nsheds. One summer night, in 17S9, some of the Academy\\nstudents undertook to overthrow it, and were partially suc-\\ncessful. They were detected, and compelled to see that the\\nbuilding was made good again but in attempting to replace\\nit, it fell entirely down, and the culprits had to pay twenty\\nshillings each to rebuild it.* The stables were rebuilt, and\\nThe following is the account of this affair, as given in Mr. Walton s Journal.\\nAugust 28, 1789, our horse-house assaulted and thrown off the underpinning.\\nAugust 31, said house assaulted by a large number of scholars and nearly thrown\\ndown. September 1, we requested said scholars to meet us at C apt. t letcher s\\nfor settlement. John Preston, Esq. and Charles Barrett, Esq., met us with a\\nlarge number of scholars after considerable conversation the following agree-\\nment was come into, viz., On the scholars part, that the damage done us should\\nbe made good, said Preston and Barrett promised on the part of the scholars\\nsaid house should be made good as it was before it was damaged by said schol-\\nars an agreement that said Preston, Barrett, with Timothy Fox and Ephraim\\nAdams, Jr., say when said house is as good if they do not agree, they to choose\\na fifth to join them, the above said men to fix a time to move said house on to\\nCapt. Barrett s land near the pound. But said house fell down then it was left\\ntoCapt. Wheeler what they should do, who brought in they should set up a frame\\n36 feet long. We then agreed with Capt. Barrett for six feet longer, for six shil-\\nlings, which made forty-two. [Then follows an account of the days works on\\nthe new sheds, showing the whole cost to have been jE4.18.8, or 2s. 4d. per foot.]\\nBetween the fourth and eleventh of July (1790) the stable doors were taken off.\\nAugust 30, three of the said doors set up. September 1, two of said doors gone\\noff again. The stable was divided between William Clary, Timothy Fox, Josiah\\nWalton, Josiah Brown, Silas Davis, John Brown, Benjamin Williams, Nathan\\nMerriam, Ezra Town, Wid Kidder, Simeon Gould, John Cutter and Isaac\\nClark.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE.\\n151\\nsomewhat enlarged, nearly on a line with the old bury in g-\\nground, just above the pound, and stood there more than\\ntwenty years afterwards.\\nO \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^Nj \\\\V,)\\nOur meeting-house our meeting-house,\\nIt stood upon a hill,\\nWhere autumn gales and wintry blasts\\nPiped round it loud and shrill.\\nNo maple tree with leafy shade,\\nNor tall, protecting oak,\\nStood near to guard the ancient house\\nWhen tempests round it broke.\\nNo steeple graced its homely roof,\\nWith upward-pointing spire\\nOur villagers were much too meek\\nA steeple to desire.\\nAnd never did the welcome tones\\nOf Sabbath morning bell,\\nOur humble village worshippers\\nThe hour of worship tell.\\nThe old meeting-house and the old church-yard are revered\\nobjects in every place and as our old meeting-house is\\ndear to the memory of many persons still living, and may\\nbe an object of curiosity to those of fewer years, a description\\nof it, as it arises to the mind s eye, together with some of the", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152\\nMEETING HOUSES.\\ncustoms of worship which prevailed during its days of glory,\\nmay not be unwelcome and will also be the best method we\\ncan adopt for presenting some of the most important features\\nof the town history.\\nAt the time of its erection it was the largest building within\\ntwenty miles. It stood on the brow of the hill, just north of\\nthe old burying-ground, facing the south and as the land in-\\nclined rapidly towards the east, that end had around it a\\nwharf or wall of uncemented stones about six feet wide and\\nnearly as high. This was built in the year 1790. At the\\nnortheast corner was a large stone, which was used as a horse-\\nblock. There was neither tower nor portico the exterior was\\nnever painted, and of course presented the weathered and\\ndusky appearance usual under such circumstances. The\\nwindows were small, with heavy sashes, and panes of 7 by 9\\nglass. The doors were single and composed of numerous\\nI\\no o\\nm\\nm\\npannels. There were three entrances, one at each end, and\\none in front, with aisles crossing the centre at right angles,\\nand also one surrounding the house next to the wall pews.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 153\\nOpposite to the front door was the pulpit and in each of the\\nfront corners was a flight of stairs leading to the galleries.\\nThe posts were very large, extending the whole height of the\\nhouse, and projecting into the house towards the top, where\\nthey were to receive the beams, they were enlarged, somewhat\\nlike the capital of a column. The walls were plastered,\\nthough never whitewashed and as they were never tarnished\\nby fires or lights, they maintained a very respectable air of\\ncleanliness. The galleries were lofty, resting on columns\\nabout a foot in diameter. The breastwork of the gallery was\\ncomposed of large pannels and ornamented with a heavy cor-\\nnice. This, together with the posts, was painted of a name-\\nless color approaching somewhat to poppy-red, and grained in\\nimitation of marble or mahogany. There was a row of wall\\npews, twenty-four in number, surrounding the house both\\nabove and below. The body of the house was divided into\\ntwo portions by the transverse aisle. On the half next the\\ndoor were twelve square pews, esteemed the best in the house,\\nwhile on the half next the pulpit were long seats extending on\\neither side, from the broad aisle to the side aisles. They were\\nnot like the slender, sloping, sofa-like slips of the present day,\\nbut good substantial benches, made of thick plank and capped\\nwith good-sized joists. The galleries were furnished with\\nsimilar seats. The pews were occupied by the principal fam-\\nilies, while the long seats were free to all, and were occupied\\nby what might be called the common people. Over the stairs,\\nat the southwest and southeast corners, were the negroes seats.\\nThe pulpit was lofty, and the ascent to it was by a flight of\\nstairs outside, with a balustrade of curiously twisted balusters.\\nIt had a recess or rostrum in which the speaker stood behind\\nhim was a curtainless arched window above him was a\\ncurious gilded canopy, about six feet in diameter, resembling\\nin form a turnip cut in two transversely. It was called a\\nsounding-board, and hung near the speaker s head by a slen-\\nder iron rod from the ceiling, so slender as to have excited\\napprehensions and speculations in many a youthful mind as\\nto the probability of its falling and beneath him, in front of\\nthe pulpit, were the deacons seats, in a sort of pen, where\\nthey they sat facing the congregation, with the communion\\n20", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "154 MEETING HOUSES.\\ntable hanging by hinges in front of them. The pews were\\nabout six feet square their walls were high, having also a\\nrailing of little balusters around the top a row of hard, un-\\ncushioned seats surrounded the interior, and often there were\\ntwo or three high-backed flag-bottomed chairs in the centre.\\nThe seats were hung by hinges, so that they might be turned\\nup, as the congregation rose at prayers, as was the goodly\\ncustom of our fathers and the slam-bang, as they were turn-\\ned carelessly down again, at the close of prayers, not unlike\\na volley of musketry, was no inconsiderable episode in the\\nceremonies.\\nBehold now the congregation, as it assembles on the Sab-\\nbath. Some of them are mounted on horses the father, with\\nhis wife or daughter on a pillion behind him, and perhaps\\nalso his little boy astride before him. They ride up to the\\nstone horse-block and dismount. The young men and maid-\\nens, when not provided with horses, approach on foot. They\\nhave worn their every-day shoes until just before coming in\\nsight, and have there exchanged them for their clean calfskins\\nor morocco, having deposited the old ones in some unsuspected\\npatch of brakes, or some sly hole in the wall. They carry in\\nhand a rose or a lilac, a pink, a peony or a pond-lily, (and\\nthis was the whole catalogue of flowers then known) or what\\nwas still more exquisite, a nice bunch of caraway seeds.\\nInstead of this, in winter, they bear a tin foot-stove, contain-\\ning a little dish of coals which they have carefully brought\\nfrom home or filled at some neighboring house and this was\\nall the warmth they were to enjoy during the two long hours\\nof the service. They have come a long distance on ox-sleds,\\nor perhaps have skimmed over the deep, untrodden snow on\\nrackets. They enter the house, stamping the snow from their\\nfeet and tramping along the uncarpeted aisles with their cow-\\nhide boots. Let us enter with them. The wintry blast\\nhowls around and shrieks among the loose clapboards the\\nhalf-fastened windows clatter and the walls reecho to the\\nthumping of thick boots, as their wearers endeavor to keep up\\nthe circulation in their half frozen feet, while clouds of vapor\\nissue from their mouths and the man of God, as he raises\\nhis hands in prayer, must need protect them with shaggy", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 155\\nmittens. So comfortless and cold, it makes one shudder to\\nthink of it. In summer, on the contrary, the sun blazes in,\\nunscreened by blind or curtain the sturdy farmer, accustom-\\ned to labor all day in his shirt sleeves, takes the liberty to lay\\naside his coat in like manner for the more serious employ-\\nments of the sanctuary: especially is this the case with the\\nsingers, who have real work to perform.\\nEvery man is in his appropriate place for it was little less\\nthan sacrilege, in the days \\\\vhen the Sabbath was kept with\\nall puritan gravity and severity, to stay away from meeting,\\nlet the weather be what it might. See the row of hats hang-\\ning upon pegs in front of the gallery. There in the body pews,\\non the right hand of the broad aisle, are Kidder, Cummings,\\nFox, Spear and Fletcher on the left are Merriam, Barrett,\\nBreed, Moses Tucker, Abijah Smith in the large corner pews\\nat the northeast and northwest are Ephraim Adams and Dix\\nor Batchelder, and between them and the pulpit are Farrar,\\nBenjamin Adams, Nathan Cutter and Eleazer Cummings,\\nHoar, Start, and the minister s pew along the eastern side\\nare Knowlton, Appleton and Holden along the west wall\\nare Mansfield, Knights, Champney and Hills and in front\\nare Brown, Heald, Preston, Spaulding and others. In the\\nwestern gallery are Walton, Pollard, Bates, Joseph Kidder,\\nWhittemore and Wheat in the eastern are Goold, Parker,\\nCutter, Barr, Robbins and Brooks and in the front gallery\\nStephen Adams, Francis Fletcher and others. Adams, Ap-\\npleton and Chandler are in the deacons seats; a goodly band\\nof veterans occupies the long seats below, while the rising\\ngeneration sits in those in the gallery and Patience and Ro-\\nsanna, and Cesar and old Boston occupy the negroes seats.\\nThe prayers are offered and during the long prayer, and\\nlong indeed it was, a pause is made at a certain stage of it,\\nfor those who choose to sit down. The sermon begins, and\\nadvances by regular approach up to Sthly and even to IGthly,\\nthe elderly men, unaccustomed to long sittings, occasionally\\nstanding erect or stretching over the breastwork of the gallery\\nto relieve the fatigue of their position Tate and Brady is\\nlined off, two lines at a time, by a person selected for the pur-\\npose, and sung with good nasal twang and hearty good will", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 MEETING HOUSES.\\nto some good old St. Anns or St. Martins and, finally, the\\nbenediction is pronounced. The congregation still remains in\\nits place to go out in prescribed order first the minister and\\nas he passes the deacons, they follow then those in the front\\nseat below, and at the same time those in the front gallery\\nseat and those in the pews then those in the second seat,\\nand so on in successive order. Would that a like decorum in\\nthis respect could be substituted for the impatient and irrev-\\nerent rush of modern days They separate for a short inter-\\nmission and to despatch their lunch of dough-nuts or apples\\nin summer they stroll in the graveyard, to hold silent converse\\nwith those who sleep there, and impress the lesson of their\\nown mortality and in winter those from a distance take re-\\nfuge before the blazing hearth of some friend in the village,\\nand are perhaps regaled by a hospitable mug of cider and\\nsoon all are reassembled for the afternoon service.\\nAfter this, they wend their way home, to partake of a\\nhearty warm dinner, the best of the week, in most instances\\ntoo, prefaced by an exhilerating draught of hot toddy, and\\nfinally to say the Catechism. That Westminster Assem-\\nbly s Catechism who that was trained in the early part of\\nthe century shall forget it Its pictorial alphabet of aphorisms,\\nIn Adam s fall we sinned all\\nMy Book and heart shall never part,\\nthe story of John Rogers Agur s Prayer and Dialogue be-\\ntween Youth, Christ and the Devil it was the only book\\nbesides the Bible and Psalm Book allowed in the hands of\\nyouth on the Sabbath. The Catechism concluded the reli-\\ngious observance of the day. Then the children were let\\nloose, and in summer, all the family walked over the farm to\\nobserve the crops and salt the cattle.\\nAs those who were actors in these almost forgotten scenes\\nrecall them, with a thousand associations which it is impossi-\\nble to recount, it must seem almost a dream and those who\\nare now in the morning of life would doubtless smile could\\nthese old times and customs be but once presented in reality.\\nBut they were good old times and the Sabbath and the sanc-\\ntuary were then regarded with a strictness and reverence\\nwhich we should be glad to see approached in our day.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 157\\nOf the history of this, our old meeting-house, very httle\\nmore remains to be recorded. In 1790 it was voted to wharf up\\nthe meeting-house and to prime the window frames. In 1792\\na proposition to raise money for a stove was negatived. In\\n1800 it was voted to shingle the meeting-house, to repair the\\nclapboarding and underpinning, and board up the back of the\\nseats in the galleries. Further repairs were proposed in 1808,\\nbut not agreed to and in fact the house had become so much\\ndilapidated, and so much dissatisfaction had always existed\\nas to its location, that a meeting was called towards the close\\nof the year 1809, to see if the town will take down the old\\nmeeting-house and set it in some more convenient place.\\nThis was not done however, but a new one was ultimately\\nbuilt. The old house was subsequently used for town meet-\\nings, and also by the Baptists as a place of worship. In 1810\\na part of the roof was taken off by a gale, and was repaired.\\nAlas there came a luckless day,\\nOur meeting-house grew old\\nThe paint was worn the shingles loose,\\nIn winter twas too cold\\nThey called it an old-fashioned thing,\\nAnd said it must be sold.\\nIn 1816 a committee was chosen to value the pews and the\\nproportion to each proprietor, and dispose of said meeting-\\nhouse, either by repairing it for a town-house, by selling it as\\nit now stands, or by taking it down and selling it in lots or\\notherwise, as shall appear most conducive to the interests of\\nsaid town and the pewholders\\nIt was finally demolished in 1816, and the materials were\\nemployed in building the present town-house and academy.\\nThe window frames and windows are the same the twisted\\nbalusters of the railing to the stairs of the academy are the\\nsame which ornamented the stairs of the meeting-house.\\nThe cornice and wood work of the western hall were taken\\nfrom the gallery breastwork; the base of the sounding-board\\nwas also placed in the western wall and the pine cone which\\ncrowns the cupola is the same which surmounted the sound-\\ning-board.\\nIt had stood for forty-eight years. Under its roof had been", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "158 MEETING HOUSES.\\nperformed many solemn ceremonies, and had been gathered\\nin the fruits of two glorious revivals. It still stands, in all its\\ndusky grandeur, in memory s eye but alas, it has already\\nbecome an antiquity to the rising generation its foundations\\nhave been removed, the plough has levelled the sacred spot,\\nand there is scarcely a trace left to tell us where it actually\\nstood.\\nA controversy, no less virulent than those which preceded\\nit, arose in regard to the location of the fourth or present\\nMeetinghouse and as there were now more interests to be re-\\nconciled, so the prospect of agreement was the more doubtful.\\nAll were aware that the old house was far from the geogra-\\nphical centre of the town, and probably from the centre of\\npopulation also. The residents of the south, therefore, availed\\nthemselves of these facts, as well as the experience they had\\nso long had of the tedious ascent of the old burial-ground\\nhill, as arguments for a change of location in their favor\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0while those of the north, with the advantage of those in pos-\\nsession, and with an equal dread of traversing the hill, made\\nstrong endeavors that the old location should be retained.\\nThe spots which were the subjects of contention were the old\\none, the Hodgkins or Mansfield corner, and the place where\\nthe house now stands. A large committee of persons from\\ndifferent parts of the town was chosen to consider the subject,\\nand report. In June 1810, they recommended an admeasure-\\nment of the town to ascertain the centre of travel, and to\\ndefine and determine the bounds of individual rights, as the\\nmost likely method to prevent and extinguish mutual jealousies\\nof a design to encroach upon the same. This survey was\\nordered and a second report, founded upon it, was made.\\nThe committee gave as their opinion, that the least amount of\\ntravel would be required to the spot where the meeting house\\nthen stood; but that it is more equally proportioned to the\\ndifferent parts of the town near the widow Mansfield s. On\\nthe whole, they were in favor of removing the old house and\\nsetting it on the land of Samuel Button, a little north-west of\\nthe spot now occupied by the meeting house. The town re-\\njected the report, and, by a small majority, voted to take down\\nthe old house and set it up near where Mr. Reuben Taylor", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 159\\nnow lives. This was strongly protested against by the mi-\\nnority. It would be useless to attempt to follow the manoeu-\\nverings of the town through all the resolutions and reconsider-\\nations, and remonstrances and replies of twenty-two meetings\\non this subject. .Suffice it to say, that at a meeting on the\\nspot, it was voted to build on Samuel Button s land. Fifty-\\ntwo individuals, mostly from the southwest and northwest\\nparts of the town, signified their determination, in writing,\\nnot to pay taxes to build on the ground designated. Finally,\\nin August, 1811, it was agreed to leave the decision to an im-\\npartial committee and Col. Jos. Wilder of Rindge, Samuel\\nSmith of Peterborough, and Daniel Searle of Temple were\\nappointed, and in November reported in favor of the spot where\\nthe house now stands nearly the precise spot first proposed.\\nThe plan of the house was drawn by Seth Nason, Esq.\\nIts dimensions were to be 92 by 69 feet and the building of\\nit was disposed of at auction to Cummings Fletcher, for\\n^5,480. Mr. Fletcher sold his contract to Seth Wheeler, Esq.\\nwho commenced the work early in 1812. The raising of the\\nframe was commenced on election day, and occupied the whole\\nof three days. It was done under the direction of two skillful\\nmaster workmen, Capt. Rofle of Ashby, and Mr. John But-\\nman. The hands employed upon the frame were all picked\\nmen, and no others were allowed to assist. No accident oc-\\ncurred. A great assemblage of people was gathered on the\\noccasion. Every body in town was present, and great num-\\nbers from the neighboring towns. Great jollity and frolic was\\nkept up during the three days booths were erected, and\\ntoddy and punch were dealt out with a profusion that would\\nbe deemed scandalous in these days of temperance pledges.\\nThe dissatisfaction as to the locality of the house had not\\nmaterially subsided, and was much increased when the se-\\nlectmen sold, to Seth Wheeler, all the pews excepting five,\\nfor the sum of ^4,800, the town conveying them all to him,\\nand paying him the $700 difference between this sum and the\\ncontract price for building the house. Of the 97 pews con-\\nveyed to him, it appears by the deeds that he sold 57 for\\n$4512, having still forty pews left.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "160\\nMEETING HOUSES.\\nThe house was completed early\\nin 1813, and far exceeded in dimen-\\nsions, elegance and convenience any-\\nother house, in the vicinity. It is\\nsaid to have been the second church\\nedifice in this region in which the\\nmodern slips were introduced, in\\nplace of the square pews, Park\\nstreet meetinghouse in Boston, after\\nwhich the interior was modelled,\\nbeing the first. The dedication was\\nappointed; and after an unavailing\\nattempt on the part of the malcon-\\ntents, was held on the 11th March.\\nSupply Wilson, Jr., John Everett, Seth King, Seth Wheeler\\nand Peter Felt were appointed a committee of arrangements.\\nThe sleighing was good, and the concourse of people was very\\ngreat. Rev. Richard Hall preached the sermon from Genesis\\nxxviii. 17. This is none other but the House of God, and\\nthis is the gate of Heaven. Some of those who were dis-\\naffected intimated that the preceding portion of the verse\\nhow dreadful is this place, would have been more appro-\\npriate. At the close of the services, the moderator read cer-\\ntain rules which were to be observed by those attending wor-\\nship, some of which are recollected. Hats were not to be\\nhung on the outside of the gallery breastwork, as had been\\nthe custom in the old house dogs were not to be allowed to\\naccompany their masters to the pews the congregation was\\nrequested not to wait, after services, for the minister to leave\\nthe house first. The town seems to have repented of having\\ntaken off this latter restraint, for in 1818 a committee was\\nchosen to make regulations respecting leaving the meeting\\nhouse after public worship.\\nIn 1815, a few individuals by private subscription, raised\\nthe sum of ^.593 for the purchase of a bell and, at a meeting\\nof the subscribers,* they voted unanimously, that the Bell\\nThe subscribers were Timothy Farrnr, Ephraim ITartwell, Francis Cragin,\\nRichard Hail, John Preston, Samuel Batchelder, Natiianiel D. Gould, Timothy\\nFox, .If., Jeremiah Pritchard, Supply Wilson, Solomon Fastabrook, John Sbal-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THIRD MEETING HOUSE. 161\\nbe presented to the town of New Ipswich for the use of the\\ninhabitants forever on condition that they cause the same\\nto be rung on Sabbath days for pubhc worship, and on each\\nweek day at noon and at nine o clock in the evening, and\\nsuch other hours as the selectmen may direct, also on public\\ndays and for funeral services. For two or three weeks\\nafter its elevation to the belfry, it was kept ringing almost\\nincessantly, day and night. For thirty-six years its peals\\nhave welcomed the Sabbath and invited to the house of God\\nthey have daily marked the flight of time, and have already\\ntolled the knell of a whole generation, who now crowd the\\nthen new burying-ground, among whom are forty of the sixty-\\neight subscribers fourteen others have removed to other towns,\\nfive of whom are known to have died, and fourteen only sur-\\nvive in town.\\nIn 1821, leave was granted to place a stove in the house,\\nprovided some one be appointed by the selectmen to take\\nproper care of it. It cost about seventy dollars, and stood di-\\nrectly in front of the pulpit.\\nIn 1832 the town voted to sell the house, with the exception\\nof the belfry and steeple, to the Congregational church and\\nsociety. This reservation was made on account of the bell.\\nA committee of three was appointed from each religious society\\nto sell the town right to the Congregational church and so-\\nciety and if said committee and said society cannot agree on\\nthe price, said committee is authorized to agree with a com-\\nmittee from said society on appraisers, and to convey the town\\nrights for such sum as said appraisers may agree upon.\\nIsaac Adams, Eleazer Brown, Joseph Barrett, Col. Sanderson,\\ntuck, Jr., Joseph Davis, Joel Davis, John Everett, Supply Wilson, Jr., Stephen\\nWheeler, Solomon Davis, John Wilson, Seth Nason, Jesse Holton, Eleazer\\nBrown, Peter Felt, Moses Davis, Abigail Davis, John IButman, Stephen Spauld-\\ning, Charles Barrett, Josiah Batchelder, Benjamin Champney, James Locke,\\nJohn F. Hills, Moody Adams, Newton Willey, Isaac Appleton, Caleb Campbell,\\nJames Spaulding, Abel Shattuck, Abner Chickering, John Pratt, Isaac Warren,\\nSamuel Taylor, Josiah Wilkins, Daniel Jefts, William Prichard, Jonas Champ-\\nney, Eben. Champney, Aaron Brown, Joseph Cragin, Seth Wheeler, John Apple-\\nton, Rogers Chandler, Earl Boynton, Margaret Fletcher, Zebedee Taylor, Eph-\\nraim Fairbanks, Hepsey Kidder, Mary Appleton, Samuel Holden, Benjamin\\nAdams, Jr., Benjamin Davis, Nathan Merriam, Luther Parker, John Gould, Jr.,\\nJames Chandler, Isaac Adams, Daniel Spaulding, Loanmii Hartshorne, John\\nBinney.\\n21", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1(52 MEETING HOUSES.\\nDeacon Sanderson, Francis Shattuck, Charles Barrett, John\\nPreston and J. W. Bhss were chosen. It was originally\\npanited cream-color, and had a very neat appearance but\\nwhen it became necessary to apply a new coat, the dirty and\\ndismal coating of yellow ochre was put upon it, which has\\nfor many years past annoyed the eyes of every beholder. It\\nhas now stood thirty-eight years, and while as many precious\\nseasons have been enjoyed within its walls as within those of\\nany other house during that period, it has also been the\\ntheatre of controversies such as were never known under the\\nroof of its predecessor. Its present dilapidated appearance\\nindicates that at no distant day it must give place to another\\nwhen we may anticipate that another prolonged controversy\\nas to its location will arise, which will probably result as the\\nother three have done, in placing the house precisely where\\nit may be first proposed.*\\nBaptist Meeting House. In 1815 a house was erected for\\nthe use of the Baptist Society, by Deacon Aaron Brown, and\\nchiefly at his own expense. After the incessant and uncom-\\npromising opposition which the leading men of this society,\\ntogether with those who afterwards associated with them, had\\nmade to the location of the new meeting house, as altogether\\nabusive to the clearest rights, and as imposing upon them an\\namount of travel very unreasonable, it was a matter of no\\nsmall surprise that a building spot was selected as near to the\\none they had so long and stoutly contended against, as well\\ncould bs. It was on the north side of the road to the Mill\\nVillage, a few rods from the Academy corner. It was a small,\\nplain structure, of the barn style and there it stood thirty-five\\nyears, till it had become well nigh a ruin. In 1850 it was\\ntaken down and removed to its present location, at the centre\\nof the village, decidedly tiie most desirable location that could\\nhave been selected. A basement and steeple have been added,\\nand it is now an ornament to the village.\\nIt is pleasant to be able to state, that since this was written, the proprietors\\nof the house, with most commendable zeal and unanimity, have at a very consid-\\nerable expense entirely remodelled it, by raising the floor so as to have a base-\\nment story for a lecture room and town hall, by building a new and beautiful\\nspire, and by carpets, cushions, and other conveniences rendering it in every\\nrespect as comfortable and elegant as other houses of the time.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "UNITARIAN MEETING HOUSE. 163\\nUnitarian Meeting House. In 1833, a small brick meeting\\nhouse was erected in Souhegan Village, chiefly at the expense\\nof Charles Barrett, Esq,, for a Unitarian society. It stood on\\nthe north side of the turnpike, a little north of the high bridge.\\nAfter the death of Mr. Barrett, and the destruction of the fac-\\ntory by fire, it was sold to the Methodists in 1840, and re-\\nmoved to the centre village, near the northeast corner of the\\nburying ground, where it now stands.\\nA new Methodist meeting house has been recently erected\\nbetween the two upper factory villages, chiefly by subscrip-\\ntion and their house in the centre village is about to be occu-\\npied by the Second Congregational Church.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nEARLY PROVISION FOR PREACHING CALL. TO PETER POWERS TO\\nDELIVERANCE SMITH TO STEPHEN FARRAR HIS SETTLEMENT\\nFORMATION OF THE CHURCH THE COVENANT ORIGINAL MEM-\\nBERS DEACONS REVIVAL OF MDCCCLXXXV.; DEATH OF MR. FAR-\\nRAR CALL TO EXPERIENCE PORTER CALL AND SETTLEMENT OF\\nRICHARD hall; HIS ILL HEALTH AND RESIGNATION; SETTLEMENT\\nOF JOSEPH R. BARBOUR OF CHARLES WALKER OF SAMUEL LEE\\nRETROSPECT.\\nNo sooner had our ancestors provided for themselves a\\nsheher, and had secured the preparation of their daily food,\\nthan, in the true spirit of the pilgrim fathers, their next care\\nwas to provide for the united and public worship of God,\\nwhom they had doubtless habitually worshipped in a more\\nprivate manner. Most of the first settlers were members of\\nchurches in the towns from whence they came, and would\\nnot remain long without hearing the sound of the Gospel.\\nAt their meeting in 1750, the Proprietors appropriated \u00c2\u00a346,\\nold tenor, for preaching in the fall of the year; and chose\\nJoseph Stevens and Reuben Kidder a committee to provide\\na proper person to preach. Although two years afterwards\\n(1752) \u00c2\u00a3150 old tenor were voted to pay for what preach-\\ning there had been, and to be laid out in preaching for the\\nfuter; and also -to have constant preaching hereafter, it\\nwould appear that it was enjoyed only about one third part\\nof the time, until 1755. In 1754 it was voted to hire two\\nmonths preaching in six months next coming, and no more.\\n[P. R. 205.] Who the preachers were, that occasionally\\nofficiated, we have no record of It would seem that among\\nthem was a Mr. Worcester for in 1757, one of the articles\\nfor the action of the Proprietors was, to see if the Propric-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "CALL TO REV. PETER POWERS. 165\\ntors will make Mr, Woster any consideration for sum bad\\nmoney that he received of the Treasurer for his preaching\\nwith us; and it was voted not to do so. The Rev. Daniel\\nEmerson, one of the proprietors, evidently preached occasion-\\nally and once applied for exemption from taxes on account\\nof his preaching, which was refused him. Another preacher\\nmust have been Mr. Peter Powers of Mollis for, after observ-\\ning the first Wednesday in January as a day of fasting and\\nprayer to God, for his directing of us in the choice of a min-\\nister, [P. R. 212,] it was voted Feb. 1755, to proceed to\\nsettle a minister; and subsequently, that Mr. Peter Powers\\nbe our gospel minister, [P. R. 215.] Joseph Stevens and\\nEphraim Adams were chosen to apply to Mr. Powers, and\\nmake some proposials to him about his settleing with us, and\\nhear his reply, and make Report at the Adjournment of this\\nmeeting. They were also directed to hire Mr. Powers to\\npreach with us hear in this place till the adjournment of this\\nmeeting, [P. R. 215.] A difficulty in the way of Mr. Pow-\\ners was, that he did not hold to the half-way covenant,\\nwhich was at that time almost universally accepted; that is\\nto say, according to his principles, he would not admit any\\nto the rite of baptism without they come to full commu-\\nnion. The people at first demurred to this view of the\\nsubject, and voted not to comply with his principles. Subse-\\nquently, however (May 27, 1755) with somewhat elastic con-\\nsciences, they voted to superceed or make void the vote,\\npassed at our last meeting, of our not complying with Mr.\\nPowers principles concerning baptism. [P. R. 218.] They\\nthen voted to give him \u00c2\u00a3400 old tenor, in passable bills, for\\na settlement and also to give him \u00c2\u00a3400 old tenor, equal\\nto about \u00c2\u00a340 silver, for a salary, with thirty cords of wood\\nyearly.!\\nThis was Rev. Francis Worcester of Holiis, afterwards settled at Sandwich,\\nMass.\\nt As an example of the very unsettled state of the currency at that time, the\\nvote on this occasion will show. The pay was to be \u00c2\u00a3400 old tenor in passable bills\\nof this or the neighboring Colonys or equal theirto in any other passable bills that\\nshall or may be made in this or the neighboring Provinces, said Bills to be passa-\\nble in this Province or \u00c2\u00a340 lawful silver money of the Province of Massachu-\\nsetts Bay, said silver to be the standard, and either of them to be a tender for\\nsaid payment, c. [P. R. 219.] Also, the same year it vvas voted that any\\nperson who paid a dollar to the treasurer should have \u00c2\u00a36.10.5. old tenor, dis-\\ncharged on his part of tax. P. R. 237.]", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "166 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nMr. Powers then accepted the call in the terms of the fol-\\nlowing letter\\nNew Ipswich, July 29, 1755.\\nTo the Members of Churches residing in the township of New\\nIpswich, together with the rest of the Propriety of said township.\\nChristian Brethren and Friends. Whereas it has pleased God,\\nin the course of his Providence to bring me among you; and like-\\nwise to incline your hearts to give me a call to the work of the\\nevangelical Ministry among you, and to take the oversight of you\\nin the name of the Lord. I have upon mature deliberation consid-\\nered the matter, and have determined to accept of the call being,\\nas I apprehend, called of God to do it and it is my desire, if I am\\nnot deceived, as well as prayer to Almighty God, that I may come\\nto you in the fulness of the Blessing of Christ and that it may be\\nmy greatest concern to know Jesus Christ and him crucified among\\nyou. And I hope and expect that you will be helpers together\\nwith me, by Prayer and that it will be our endeavor on both sides\\nto live together in Love, Peace and Unanimity, that the God of\\nLove and Peace may dwell with us and that we shall seek each\\nothers Good and Benefit for Soul and Body, for time and eternity.\\nAnd I expect of you, my friends, a comfortable and Gospel Mainte-\\nnance, that so I may give my selfe to the service of your souls,\\nwhich if you neglect to do, will you not thereby greatly hinder my\\nUsefulness among you Thus it appears to me and accordingly\\nI shall look upon it that I am at my Liberty to leave you, for it is\\nnot Reason that I should leave the word of God and serve Tables.\\nI am your friend and servant in the Gospel of Christ,\\nPeter Powers.\\nThe second Wednesday in November ensuing was fixed for\\nthe ordination, and a council of nine Ministers and Churches\\nwas called. Mr. Joseph Kidder was engaged to provide vic-\\ntuals and entertainment for the ministers and delegates,* and\\nall other arrangements were duly made.\\nMr. Powers, however, seems not to have been altogether\\nsatisfied with the selected ordaining council, and proposed\\nthat his ordination should be deferred, and a new council\\nchosen. This request the Proprietors did not see fit to grant\\nand Mr. Powers, at his desire, was released from his engage-\\nThe pastors were, Rev. Joseph Emerson of Maulden, Rev. Daniel Emerson\\nof Mollis, Rev. Caleb Trowbridge ofGroton, Rev. Daniel Bliss of Concord, Rev.\\nPhinehas Hemingway of Townshend, Rev. Joseph Emerson of Pcpperell, Rev.\\nDaniel Rogers of Littleton, Rev. Willard Hall of Westford, Rev. David Stearns\\nof Lunenburg.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "CALL TO DELIVERANCE SMITH. 167\\nment. Anotlier attempt was made, the following year, to\\nsettle Mr. Powers, with the further inducement that he\\nshould receive the addition of \u00c2\u00a3100 old tenor to his salary,\\nwhen there should be seventy families in town. But it seems\\nto have been difficult to please him, and he made such requisi-\\ntions that the people could not comply with them. On receiv-\\ning from him the following laconic note, Gentlemen Please\\nto discharge me from all obligation I am under to you by vir-\\ntue of my answer to the call you gave me to settle with you\\nin the ministry, and you will much oblige your friend, Peter\\nPowers, they concluded to settle with him in full, which\\nthey did, by paying him \u00c2\u00a32G old tenor, on account of the de-\\npreciation of money.\\nFeb. 24, 1757. Timothy Heald, Benjamin Hoar and Icha-\\nbod How, the committee to hire preaching, were ordered that\\nthey should hier no more than four Sabbaths, without giv-\\ning the Inhabitants opertunity to manifest there minds to said\\ncommittee and shall not hier a minister contrary to ye minds\\nof the major part of the Proprietors. [P. R. 233.]\\nIn October, 1757, a call was given to Deliverance Smith,\\nwith a settlement and salary still greater than had been offer-\\ned to Mr. Powers but he seems not to have entertained the\\ninvitation, as no communication from him is on record, though\\nit is evident that he preached more than one Sabbath, for we\\nfind it voted, Aug. 28, 1758, to allow Reuben Kidder out of\\nthe treasury, the four dollars paid to Mr. Smith for his last\\nday s preaching, for those that paid said money. [P. R. 243.]\\nFeb. 22, 1759. Voted to give Joseph Stevens \u00c2\u00a39. 95. in\\nsilver, old tenor, for going to Concord to hier a preacher, and\\nto Townshend to wait on Mr. Farrar up and for going to\\nCambridge, \u00c2\u00a37. 4^. silver, old tenor \u00c2\u00a32. 10s. like tenor, for\\ngoing to Chelmsford on the like business.\\nNov. 26, 1759. At a meeting of the Proprietors, Rev.\\nDaniel Emerson presiding, and after solemn supplication,\\nVoted by Proxes, and chosen Mr. Stephen Farrar to be our\\nGospel minister in this place.\\nVoted, to give Mr. Stephen Farrar \u00c2\u00a340 starling money of\\nGrate Britton in adition to the first Minister Rite of Land in\\nthis Place, if he settles in the ministry in this place,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "168 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nVoted, to give Mr. Stephen Farrar forty pounds starling,\\nas afor-said, for a yearly Sallery, so long as he continues a\\nGospel minister amongst us.\\nVoted to add to Mr. Farrar s Sallery five Pounds Starling,\\nto be paid yearly, when there is Eighty families and five\\nPounds starling more, to be paid yearly, when there is one\\nhundred famelies settled in this place, said adition to continue\\nso long as he does the work of a Gospel minister in this place,\\nand no longer.\\nVoted to give Mr. Stephen Farrar thirty Cord of good\\nWood, cord-wood length, to be delivered at his house anualy,\\nif he settles in this place.\\nVoted that the Comtee apointed to hier preching shall in-\\nform Mr. Farrar of our Call and the Conditions of the same.\\n[P. R. 252.]\\nOn the 30th of July, 1760, at a meeting of the Proprietors,\\nand after solemn supplication, Mr. Stephen Farrar proceeded\\nto make the following answer to his invitation\\nGentlemen, I have received your call, by the hand of your\\nCommittee appointed for that purpose, manifesting your unanimous\\nchoyce of me to the settlement in y^ Gospel Ministry amongst you\\nin this place.\\nI have, as was my duty, taken this Call of yours into due and\\nserious consideration, and having (as I trust) asked Counsel and\\ndirection of God, in this important affair, I now return my answer\\nto this invitation, and publish to you my acceptance of your Call,\\nand cheerfully devote myself to the service of God in the Gospel of\\nhis Son amongst you, and do now stand ready to be introduced into\\nthe work to which I am now called, and to be consecrated to the\\nPastoral Office, I would thankfully acknowledge the sufficient\\nprovision you have made for my maintenance, and do testify my\\ndesire to rest satisfied therewith, with an humble dependence upon\\na kind Providence and as the Providence of God has cast my lot\\nat a distance from my Relations, in order to remove, in some meas-\\nure, the Burden arising from this account, I would request Liberty\\nto be absent from you a number of Sabbaths, as you shall see\\nconvenient, the only alteration of your proposals that I desire.\\nFinally, it is my hearty Desire that we may never have occasion\\nto repent of these appointments of Providence, that we may be mu-\\ntual comforts and blessings to each other.\\nStephen Farrar.\\nIn compliance with his request, it was stipulated that he", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ORDINATION OF MR. FARRAR. 169\\nmight have Hberty to be absent three Sabbaths yearly, if he\\npleased, a privilege of which he rarely availed himself\\nThe ordination of Mr. Farrar was appointed for Wednes-\\nday, Oct. 22, and the following churches and elders were sent\\nto, to assist at the service, viz., Mr. Stearns of Lunenburg,\\nMr. Winchester of Dorchester Canada [Ashburnham], Mr.\\nDaniel Emerson of Hollis, and Mr, Joseph Emerson of Pep-\\nperell. Joseph Kidder was directed to make provision for the\\nCouncil and other gentlemen, their associates for which he\\nafterwards received \u00c2\u00a3j77. 17. 6, silver, old tenor.\\nThe ceremony was performed on the day appointed. The\\nsermon was preached by the pastor of the candidate. Rev.\\nWilliam Lawrence of Lincoln, from 1 Peter ii. 3: Feed the\\nflock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof,\\nnot by constraint, but willingly not for filthy lucre, .c.\\nThis discourse was afterwards published, through repeated\\nrequests from the people in New Ipswich and some other\\nfriends.\\nThus, after solicitous efforts for more than four years, and\\ntwo ineftectual efforts to obtain others, a man was selected,\\nand his acceptance obtained, on whom the destinies of this\\ntown for good have mainly rested. The alliance was consum-\\nmated a connection which continued in mutual confidence\\nand harmony for nearly fifty years. The purity of his life\\nand doctrine, the warmth of his patriotism, his conciliatory\\ndisposition, and his regard for the interests of education diffus-\\ned a healthful and liberal influence throughout the town so\\nthat an almost entire unanimity of religious and political\\nopinion pervaded all classes during his life.\\nAfter the incorporation of the town, the contract made by\\nthe Proprietors with Mr. Farrar was assumed by the town,\\nand his salary was thenceforth raised by a tax on the inhabit-\\nants. At this time there were about fifty families in town,\\nnumbering perhaps 250 persons.\\nIn 1768, the last addition was made to his salary, there be-\\ning then one hundred families in town. During the Revolu-\\ntion, when money suffered great depreciation, the nominal\\namount of the salary was raised in proportion thus in 1778\\nit was \u00c2\u00a3300 and in 1779 it was \u00c2\u00a31200. Some of the inhab-\\n22", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "170 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nitants protested against this, for reasons already specified,\\n(p. 90.) In the face of these plausible reasons for evading\\nthe contract to give a certain sum of silver, the town voted\\nthe next year (1780) to give him the nominal sum contract-\\ned to give him by the year in silver money, or in paper money\\nat seventy-five for one. A similar adjustment was always\\nmade, whenever either the fluctuation of the currency or the\\nnecessities of the pastor required it. Having commuted with\\nhim to receive a certain amount of money in lieu of wood, as\\nthe price of wood and other necessaries gradually became\\nmuch enhanced, the town, in 1795, agreed that it was reason-\\nable to make an allowance, and voted him the additional sum\\nof \u00c2\u00a327. 65. 80?. The same was voted the next year. In 1803,\\nthey voted him \u00c2\u00a3100 (|333. 33) and thirty cords of wood,\\nwhich was then held at 8s. 6d. per cord. In 1804 he was to\\nhave \u00c2\u00a385, and forty -five cords of wood.\\nThe same Council which convened to ordain Mr. Farrar,\\nOct. 21, 1660, at the request of the inhabitants, and in concur-\\nrence with the pastor elect, assisted in organizing them into a\\nchurch. After serious prayer and deliberative consultation,\\nwith the advice of the Council it was unanimously agreed, by\\nthose who were members of other churches or had obtained\\nregular dismissions, to unite and embody into a church, by a\\nsolemn covenant. This covenant, drawn up evidently by Mr.\\nFarrar, might well be regarded as a model for such an instru-\\nment. While it fully incorporates all the essential doctrines\\nof evangelical faith, and the principles of Christian life, in the\\nmost scriptural language, it breathes a most humble and pious\\nspirit, and is so destitute of denominational peculiarities that\\nevery part of it might be adopted by every denomination of\\nthose who believe in the Deity and atoning sacrifice of Christ.\\nWe can only wonder that any other was ever substituted by\\nthis church for it. It was in the following terms\\nORIGINAL CHURCH COVENANT.\\nWe, whose names are hereunto subscribed, inhabitants of New\\nIpswich, so called, acknowledge the great goodness of God to us,\\nboth as to outward and spiritual mercies and blessings and being,\\nas we apprehend, called of God to enter the Christian state of the\\nGospel, for the free enjoyment of God s worship and ordinances,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "ORIGINAL CHURCH COVENANT. 171\\ndo, in the first place, acknowledge our great unworthiness to be so\\nhighly favored of the Lord at the same time, admiring and ador-\\ning the free and rich grace of God, that triumphs over so great\\nunworthiness, with an humble dependence on the grace of God,\\nwould now thankfully lay hold on His Covenant, and choose the\\nthings that please Him.\\nWe now declare our serious and hearty belief of the Christian\\nreligion, as contained in the Sacred Scriptures, the rule of Faith\\nand Practice, and as it is usually embraced by the faithful in the\\nChurches of New England, which is summarily exhibited in the\\nsubstance of it, in their well-known Confession of Faith heartily\\nresolving to conform our lives to the rules of Christ s holy religion,\\nas long as we live in the world.\\nWe give up ourselves to the Lord Jehovah, who is the Father,\\nSon and Holy Spirit, and avouch him this day to be our God and\\nFather our Saviour and our Leader and receive him as our por-\\ntion forever.\\nWe give up ourselves to the blessed Jesus, acknowledging his\\ntrue Deity, and do adhere to him as the head of his people, in the\\nCovenant of Grace, and rely upon him as our Prophet, Priest and\\nKing, to bring us to eternal blessedness.\\nWe acknowledge our everlasting and indispensable obligations to\\nglorify God, in all the duties of a sober, righteous and godly life\\nand more particularly in the duties of a Christian state, and a body\\nof people associated for an obedience to Him in all the ordinances\\nof the Gospel and we therefore depend on His gracious assistance\\nfor our faithful discharge of the duties thus incumbent on us. And\\nwe desire, and also promise and engage, with Divine assistance, to\\nwalk together, as a Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the faith\\nand order of the Gospel, so far as we do know, or shall have the\\nsame made known to us carefully and conscientiously attending\\nthe public worship of God and the sacraments of the New Testa-\\nment and that we will be observant of the laws of Christ s king-\\ndom, which regard the discipline of the Church, as they have in\\ngeneral been administered in the churches in New England before\\nmentioned and that we will attend all God s ordinances and insti-\\ntutions in communion with one another, watching over one another\\nin the spirit of meekness, love and tenderness and that we will\\ncarefully avoid all sinful stumbling-blocks, strifes and contentions;\\nand will endeavor to the utmost to keep the unity of the Spirit in\\nthe bond of peace.\\nAnd we do now, with ourselves, present and dedicate our offspring\\nunto the Lord, resolving, with the help of Divine grace, to do our\\npart in the method of a religious education, that they may be the\\nLord s, and that we will carefully keep up family religion.\\nAnd all this we do, flying to the blood of the everlasting Cove-\\nnant for the pardon of our manifold sins, praying that the Lord", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "172 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nJesus Christ, who is the head of the Church, and the great Shep-\\nherd, would prepare and strengthen us to every good work to do\\nHis will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, to\\nwhom be glory forever and ever. Amen.\\nStephen Farrar, {Pastor elect.) John Dutton,\\nEphraim Adams, Reuben Kidder,\\nJoseph Bates, Ebenezer BuUard,\\nThomas Fletcher, Joseph Stevens,\\nAndrew Spaulding, Benjamin Hoar,\\nJonah Crosby, Benjamin Adams,\\nAmos Taylor, Thomas Adams,\\nZechariah Adams, John Chandler,\\nStephen Adams, Joseph Bullard.\\nTo these were added, in the course of the succeeding twelve\\nyears, thirty-eight others.*\\nJanuary 1, 1761. Ephraim and Benjamin Adams were\\nunanimously appointed by the church as Deacons, and accept-\\ned the office. During the next fifty years, we have record of\\nthe appointment to the same office of Ephraim Adams, Jr.,\\nIsaac Appleton, James Chandler and Noah Bartlett and we\\nincidentally hear of Dea. Jonathan Kimball, Stephen Davis,\\nBenjamin Safford and others, but know not if they officiated\\nin this church. Indeed the Records of the church are exceed-\\ningly defective, as may readily be supposed, when the fact is\\nstated, that all the doings of the church, including the admis-\\nsions and dismissions of members during the whole of Mr.\\nFarrar s ministry, are recorded upon a single sheet of paper\\nand were it not for some private records, especially those of\\nJosiah Walton, we should have been left in almost total igno-\\nrance of this whole period. For the first half of this epoch,\\nAmong these were, 1764, Barnabas Davis, Nathaniel Carleton and wife,\\nRachel Kidder, Cornelius Cook, Joel and Hannah Crosby, Marshall Farnsworth.\\n1765. George Start and wife, Ichabod and Sarah How.\\n1766. Edmond and Abigail Briant, Nathan Boyntoii, Rebecca Melvin the\\nwives of Ezra Town and Abijah Smith.\\n1767. Seth Cobb and wife, Jonathan and Sarah Davis.\\n1768. Joseph and Ruth Pollard Rebecca, wife of John Preston.\\n1770. Samuel and Bridget Brown, Silas Richardson, John and Susannah\\nCutter the wives of Jonas Woolson, Josiah Brown, Stephen Brown and Elijah\\nMansfield.\\n1772. Isaac Clark, William Elliot wife of Simeon Fletcher.\\nAccording to Mr. Walton s memoranda, there were added in 1786, 88; 1787,\\n10; 1789, 5 1790, 1; 1791, 2; 1792, 3; 1794, 2 1800, 5; 1801, 3; 1806, 1;\\n1808, 2; 1809, 3.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "GREAT REVIVAL. 173\\nthere seems to have been very httle to record. It was the\\nperiod including our national revolution, when war and poli-\\ntics engrossed the minds of men, to the exclusion of religion.\\nTwenty years after his settlement, Mr. Farrar, in tears, la-\\nmented that he did not know that he had done any good. In\\n1785, when the population was two-thirds as great as it is\\nnow, the church numbered only ninety-one members. But in\\nthe autimm of that year a revival of uncommon power and\\ninterest broke forth, which extended also to the neighboring\\ntowns. It was forty years after the revivals in the days of\\nEdwards, and seven years previous to the great revivals in\\n1792, a period in which it has been said there were no revi-\\nvals. This was one of a few exceptions. As the fruits of it,\\nthe church was more than doubled in numbers, ninety-eight\\nbeing added during the two following years and others, many\\nyears afterwards, dated their conversion from this period.\\nThis was the only occasion of the kind during Mr. F. s min-\\nistry and during the twenty years that he officiated after\\nthis, according to private records, only twenty-eight were\\nadded. In 1811, however, soon after his death, and before\\nhis successor was chosen, a still more powerful revival, which\\nmay justly be regarded as the harvest from the seed he had\\nsown, took place. It continued through the two first years of\\nMr. Hall s ministry; and during that time he had the pleasure\\nof gathering in one hundred and forty converts, as he himself\\nexpressed it, in answer to the prayers of Mr. Farrar.\\nRev. Mr. Lee, now pastor of the old church, drew up an\\naccount of the Revival for the Hillsborough Convention of\\nChurches, from sources which have now passed away. It\\nwas afterwards published in the Congregational Journal,\\nin 1843 and from it we make the following extracts\\nThe sudden death of a young lady had produced a deep sensa-\\ntion. On the Sabbath preceding the first Wednesday in January,\\n1786, Mr. Farrar preached from Isa. xxxii. 2 A man shall be a\\nhiding-place from the wind, c., with great effect. On the follow-\\ning Wednesday a quarterly church fast (which the church it seems\\nhad been accustomed to observe, not as a means especially of pre-\\nparing the way for a revival, but for the general purpose of promot-\\ning their sanctification,) was held and attended by unusual numbers,\\nnot only of the church but others. Upon this assembly the Spirit", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "174 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\ncame down with pentecostal power. After the meeting was closed,\\nthe people, many of them, did not retire for nearly an hour, but\\nstaid, anxiously inquiring what they must do to be saved. The re-\\nport of this meeting went abroad and had a powerful effect. None\\nliving had witnessed the like, and knew not what a revival was.\\nHence the novelty of the facts only increased the interest. The\\nexcitement was very great and though the winter was very severe\\nand the snow deep, it did not cool the burning zeal. Successive\\nmeetings were often held during the whole day, and by adjourn-\\nment from one place to another. The people would assemble at\\nsome dwelling-house in the morning, and after continuing their\\nmeeting a suitable time, adjourn to meet in some other neighbor-\\nhood in, say an hour or more, according to the distance. At these\\nconference meetings persons would be so disturbed that they would\\narise and say, What can I do to be saved This was especially\\nthe case at a meeting at the house of Mr. Josiah Walton, where\\nthe distress of many was exceeding great, and several were con-\\nverted during the services. So anxious were persons to attend\\nmeetings, that the sick would be carried and laid on beds. At a\\nmeeting in the school-house in the Mill District, two were carried\\nand laid on a bed during the service. Mr. Farrar attended these\\nmeetings, as far as possible, and preached without notes preached\\nin tears, literally, with his auditors sobbing around him. In some\\ncases, where private dwellings could not accommodate the many\\nwho attended, he would repair to the barn, and with his hearers\\naround him upon the floor and above him on the scaffold, dispense\\nto them the word of life. So great was the demand for ministerial\\nlabor, that the clergymen from the neighboring churches came to\\naid the overburdened pastor. The members of the church were\\nalso abundant in labors. Young converts also put on the harness\\nas if enlisted in the service of Christ. The subjects of the work\\nwere of all ages, from children of four, seven and twelve years of\\nage, up to extreme old age.\\nThis was followed by other Revivals in neighboring places,\\nespecially in Temple and Ashby. On Election-day, 1786, the\\nyoung people of New Ipswich went to Ashby to hold a religious\\nmeeting with the young people of that place. The minister of\\nAshby, as also Mr. Farrar, was present but the exercises were\\nconducted chiefly by the young converts from New Ipswich.\\nMr. Farrar died suddenly, of apoplexy, July 23, 1809. It\\nwas so sudden and unexpected that all stood aghast. Every\\nmark of respect was shown to his memory. His funeral was\\nattended by a large concourse from this and the neighboring\\ntowns. The pulpit was dressed in mourning, and a sermon\\nwas preached by the Rev. Seth Payson from the words And", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "CALL OF RICHARD HALL. 175\\ndevout men carried Stephen to his burial. The town voted\\nunanimously to pay the funeral expenses, and for a suit of\\ndecent mourning for the widow; and also to give her the\\nmourning used for the pulpit. It was also voted to erect a\\ndecent monument over his grave and Benjamin Champney,\\nEsq., Capt. Isaiah Kidder and Nath l. D. Gould were chosen\\na committee to carry the resolutions into effect. Of his life\\nand character more will be given in another place.\\nTimothy Farrar, Ephraim Hartwell, Benjamin Williams,\\nJames Chandler and Ephraim Adams, were appointed a com-\\nmittee to provide preachers and just a year afterwards, an\\ninvitation to become the pastor was extended to Rev. Experi-\\nence Porter. He was a man of commanding appearance, and\\na good orator the church was unanimous in his favor, and\\na large number of the inhabitants also voted for him. He\\naccepted the invitation, with a salary of $500 per annum and\\ntwenty-five cords of wood. But in consequence of some slan-\\nderous reports from other towns, prejudices were excited\\nagainst him, and the votes granting him a salary and supply\\nof wood were both reconsidered and rescinded, with but one\\ndissenting voice. Under these circumstances, Mr. Porter soon\\nleft town, and the pulpit was supplied for a time by Rev. Mr.\\nBurbank.\\nAt this time commenced the second great revival, already\\nalluded to. In June, 1811, the attention to religion commenc-\\ned, and extended gradually to all classes, in all parts of the\\ntown. Fifty-four were admitted to the church in 1811, and\\nseventy-four in 1812. The effects upon the morals of the\\ntown have been already described and its influence on town\\naffairs were no less salutary. The divisions relating to the\\nbuilding of the new meeting-house and the settlement of a\\npastor, so far subsided, that both objects were soon accom-\\nplished.\\nIn the autumn of 1811, November 15, the town voted, in\\nconcurrence with the church, to give Mr. Richard Hall a\\ncall to settle with us in the work of the Gospel Ministry,\\nprovided the town can be honorably discharged from the call\\npreviously given to the Rev. Experience Porter. A committee\\nwas appointed to correspond with him on this point, who soon", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "176 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nobtained from him a full discharge, and in a most christian\\nspirit. It was voted to give Mr. Hall $600 per annum, and\\nthe interest of the ministerial fund, which at that time amount-\\ned to $1468, and was considered equivalent to another hun-\\ndred dollars. Dissatisfaction was soon felt by many of the\\npeople, on the ground that they had voted for too high a sal-\\nary and some proposed a conference with Mr. Hall, to ascer-\\ntain if more moderate terms would not be assented to but\\nthe matter passed without action, and proved a fruitful source\\nof difficulty afterwards.\\nMr. Hall addressed the following letter to the church and\\ncongregation, accepting their call\\nBeloved Brethren and Friends By your Committee I receiv-\\ned an invitation to settle with you in the gospel ministry. I have\\ntaken the subject under serious consideration, have sought for di-\\nvine direction, and have consulted several of my fathers in the\\nministry. The result is a thorough conviction of my duty. The\\nharmony which has governed your proceedings, and the conditions\\nof the call are such as induces me to declare a readiness to comply\\nwith your invitation.\\nYour liberality, manifested for my support, gives you a right ta\\nexpect that I shall observe that exhortation of Paul to Timothy,\\nGive attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate\\nupon these things, give thyself wholly to them. And now, com-\\nmending you to the grace of God, and requesting an unceasing\\nremembrance in your praj ^ers, that I may be faithful and successful\\nin the arduous, and infinitely momentous work to which I am called,\\nI subscribe myself your affectionate friend and servant in the Lord.\\nEichaud Hall.\\nNew Ipswich, 25 Jan. 1812.\\nMarch 12th was appointed for his ordination. Seth King,\\nAbner Chickering, Supply Wilson, Jr., Nathaniel D. Gould\\nand Robert Nicholas were appointed a committee to make all\\nnecessary arrangements, and to take any measures they\\nmight think proper, and that will comport with the dignity of\\nthe town and the solemnity of the occasion.\\nThe ordination took place according to appointment. It\\nwas a great occasion, only one event of the kind, and that\\nfifty years previous, had ever taken place in the town the\\nceremony was therefore quite a mystery to that generation,\\nand many and curious were the speculations as to what would", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "ORDINATION OF REV. MR. HALL. 177\\nbe done on the occasion.* A great concourse of people was\\npresent from neighboring towns, and not two-thirds of the\\nassemblage could obtain entrance to the house. The ordain-\\ning council were as follows Rev. Leonard Woods of Andover,\\nRev. Luther Sheldon of Easton, Rev. Daniel A. Clark of\\nWeymouth, Rev. Seth Payson of Rindge, Rev. Cornelius Wa-\\nters of Ashby (Moderator), Rev. Solomon Miles of Temple,\\nand Rev. Ebenezer Hill of Mason, together with delegates\\nfrom their churches.\\nThe sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Woods of Andover.\\nThe charge was given by Rev. Dr. Payson and a circum-\\nstance which rendered it peculiarly impressive was this\\nWhen Dr. P. entered the ministry, he received his charge\\nfrom Mr. Farrar. On the present occasion, after an appropri-\\nate introduction. Dr. P. proceeded to give to Mr. Hall the\\nsame charge he had received from Mr. Farrar; and thus,\\nstanding in the place which Mr. Farrar had so long occupi-\\ned, and using his words, he seemed to personify the venerable\\npastor from his grave, instructing his youthful successor how\\nto break the bread of life to his bereaved flock. f\\nThe ministry of Mr. Hall was faithful and successful. He\\nwas devoted to the duties of his ofiice, and in addition to the\\nrevival in which he participated as he entered the ministry,\\nand to large annual accessions, his labors were blessed with\\nanother extensive revival in 1821-2, when upwards of seventy\\nwere added to the church. During the twelve years of his\\nministry in this place, about two hundred and twenty persons\\nwere added to the church, averaging nearly twenty annually\\nand we venture to say, that few instances can be cited where,\\nduring an equal length of time, and in a community of equal\\nnumbers, the ministry has been attended with equal success.\\nOne very serious disappointment of a somewhat ludicrous character occurred\\non account of this inexperience. It was generally supposed that on such occa-\\nsions people would take the liberty to call wherever there might be a chance of\\nobtaining a good dinner, without waiting for an invitation, and therefore few in-\\nvitations were given. Most ample provisions were made, and open house was\\nkept. The consequence was, that nearly all the strangers went home doleful\\nand dinnerless, while the unlimited hospitable intentions of the people were\\nmostly lost.\\nt The same charge was not long since given to a son of Mr. Hall, at his ordi-\\nnation, in the pulpit so long occupied by his father.\\n23", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nIt was during Mr. Hall s pastorate that it was thought ad-\\nvisable to modify the original Church Covenant, so as to pre-\\nsent the articles in a more specific form, and to render them\\nmore expressive of the theology of the day. The Pastor,\\ntogether with Deacons N. D. Gould and Isaac Adams were\\ntherefore chosen a committee for the purpose and in Novem-\\nber, 1819, presented the following\\nCHURCH ARTICLES AND COVENANT.\\nYou believe the articles of the Christian faith, as they are con-\\ntained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments particu-\\nlarly, you believe, that there is one only living and true God, exist-\\ning in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,\\ninfinite in all His attributes and perfections, the great Creator, con-\\ntinual Preserver, sole Proprietor, and supreme Governor of the\\nuniverse.\\nYou believe that God created man upright and just, after knowl-\\nedge, righteousness and true holiness that man being in honor did\\nnot abide, but voluntarily disobeyed the laws of his Creator, and\\nfell from that holy and happy state into a state of sin and death.\\nYou believe that God cannot, consistently with His holy charac-\\nter, forgive sin without an atonement that man, with all other\\ncreated beings, is utterly unable to make an atonement for the least\\nsin and that, so far as respects the claims of the creature, God\\nwould have been just, and his throne forever guiltless, had he never\\nopened a door of mercy. Yet you believe that God, actuated by\\nHis own self-moving goodness, mercy and grace, hath opened a glo-\\nrious way of life and salvation for our guilty and ruined world,\\nwho hath offered Himself a sacrifice of atonement for sin, and made\\ncomplete satisfaction to divine justice.\\nYou believe that life and salvation are freely offered to all who\\nwill repent and believe, that all are free to accept, and under no\\nconstraint to continue impenitent, which does not consist in their\\nunwillingness and opposition.\\nYou also believe that the righteousness of Christ is that alone\\nwhich justifies in the sight of God, and that the doings of the crea-\\nture, however necessary as evidences of faith, are entirely excluded\\nas the ground of justification.\\nYou believe that all mankind are by nature sinners dead in\\ntrespasses and sins that they are destitute of holiness and adverse\\nto a reconciliation with God, so, that were God to leave them to\\nfollow their own choice and inclinations, they never would repent\\nand believe that therefore the power and grace of God are the only\\ncause of regeneration and salvation, and that this power and grace\\nare exerted according to His eternal purpose.\\nYou believe that those who are justified by the righteousness of", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "MR. HALL DISABLED BY SICKNESS. 179\\nChrist, which is perfect and complete, will never fall from grace,\\ncome into condemnation, or finally fail of salvation.\\nYou believe that though we are justified by the righteousness of\\nChrist and saved by His grace, yet the law, as a rule of life, is of\\nfull force, that believers are under obligation ever perfectly to obey\\nit and that the gospel of free grace does not, in the least, encour-\\nage nor countenance continuance in sin.\\nYou believe in the resurrection of the dead and the general judg-\\nment that all true Christians will, by divine grace be wholly re-\\ncovered from sin to holiness, and be completely and eternally happy\\nin the kingdom of God but, on the contrary, that the wicked, im-\\npenitent and ungodly will go away into everlasting punishment.\\nIn 1822, Mr. Hall s health began to fail him, and bleeding\\nat the lungs supervened. The subsequent winter he spent in\\nNew Orleans, but without any material benefit. For a year\\nand a half he had been unable to preach, and had supplied\\nthe pulpit with other preachers. Considerable dissatisfaction\\nbegan to be felt, and it was only by a very small majority\\nthat his salary for 1824 was voted. In December, he address-\\ned a letter to the Church and town, stating that he had adopt-\\ned the means which seemed most likely to restore his health\\nwithout apparent benefit, or any immediate prospect of resum-\\ning his duties, and that mider those circumstances it seemed\\ndesirable that his connection with them should be dissolved,\\nif it could be effected on fair and righteous conditions. His\\nown view of the case was, that he had been settled with a\\nsalary for life while the town thought that, as in the case of\\nhis predecessor, it was to continue so long as he does the\\nwork of a Gospel minister in this place, and no longer. He\\nproposed a reference of persons, to be mutually acceptable, for\\na fair and final settlement of the civil contract between him\\nand the town, submitting to them the question in the follow-\\ning form: What are fair and equitable conditions of Mr.\\nHall s dismission from the church and people of his charge?\\nThe town appointed a committee to bring the subject to deci-\\nsion by reference, and to employ counsel if necessary. The\\ncommittee and Mr. Hall did not agree on a reference and\\nafter considerable correspondence the subject was abandoned.\\nThe committee reported their proceedings at the next March\\nmeeting (1824), and were discharged but a new committee", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "180 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nwas chosen to give notice to Mr. Hall that the town consider\\nhim under obligations to fulfil the duties of a Christian Minis-\\nter during the existence of the contract, and that the town\\ndo not consider themselves under obligations to pay him his\\nsalary unless he fulfils all the duties of a Christian minister.\\nThough there might have been no legal obligations, it was\\nhardly to be expected that one who had served long and faith-\\nfully, should be discharged while hopelessly struggling with\\ndisease, and with a large and helpless family dependent upon\\nhim, without any encouragement of assistance, and without an\\nexpression of sympathy. There might have been manifest-\\ned, on his part, an uncompromising or exacting spirit, which\\nprovoked the resolution. Could it have been foreseen how\\nshort was the remnant of his days, it is not likely that a\\ncourse so at variance with what has since been taken, under\\nsimilar circumstances, would have been adopted.\\nMr. Hall soon left the town, and took refuge at his father s\\nhouse in New Haven, Vt., telling his friends there that he had\\ncome to lay his bones with them. He died July 13, 1824,\\naged forty-six years. When the intelligence of his death\\nreached town, the meeting-house was shrouded in mourning,\\nand the mourning drapery was subsequently voted to his\\nwidow.\\nThe early ecclesiastical system in this town was the same\\nas in all other New England towns. The town built the\\nmeeting-house, and owned it the church chose the pastor,\\nand the town raised his salary and every man was taxed,\\nand compelled to pay for his support, however much he might\\ndiffer in sentiment. It was thus a sort of established church,\\nsustained by law. There are advantages in it at least, it is\\npleasant to see a whole community walking the same road\\nand assembling under the same roof, for religious worship\\nbut it was this very system our forefathers crossed the ocean\\nto escape. In the early part of this century, nearly all the\\ncitizens were of one mind in religious matters. None had ever\\nobjected to the minister s tax, save the Shakers. There were\\na very few who professed Anabaptist sentiments, and were\\nconnected with the Baptist church in Mason village. Year", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY FORMED. 181\\nafter year did they petition to be released from paying taxes\\ntowards the town s ministry, and as often did the town refuse\\nto release them but at last, by a law of the State, the stand-\\ning order was broken up, and no man was obliged to pay for\\npreaching other than that which he chose to hear. All de-\\nnominations being thus put upon an equal footing, the Baptists\\nmade application for their proportion of the ministerial fund\\na fund derived from the sale of one right of land reserved by\\nthe Charter for the support of the ministry. After several\\nyears refusal, this too was conceded in 1820 and it is now\\nequally divided between all denominations which support\\npreaching three months in a year. The fund in 1835 was\\n$1315.68, and the avails of the fund are about $80 a year.\\nMr. Hall s death dissolved all connection between the town,\\nas such, and its future pastors and from henceforth, we look\\nin vain upon the Town Records for any of the ecclesiastical\\nconcerns in town. The last salary raised by taxation was in\\n1823 after this time, each one was to pay or not, and to such\\norganized society, as he pleased.\\nThe Congregational Society, consisting of the members of\\nthe old church, and such others as chose to associate with\\nthem, was organized in 1824. At a meeting of the church,\\nAugust 26, 1824, it was voted expedient to establish the re-\\nsettlement of the Gospel ministry among us as soon as may be\\nconsistently, and to request the Society to unite with us in\\nprocuring a candidate. In October the church voted to give\\nRev. Isaac R. Barbour a call to settle as pastor but the Soci-\\nety did not concur. The church repeated the call in Decem-\\nber, 1825, and the Society concurred but on this occasion the\\ncandidate did not see fit to accept the invitation. A joint\\ncommittee of the church and society, appointed with no great\\nunanimity, requested him to withdraw his negative answer,\\nand renewed the request that he would settle over them. To\\ntheir solicitations he returned an affirmative answer, dated\\nFebruary 12, 1826, and was installed on the 8th of March.\\nBut on the 22d of August, the same year, he requested a dis-\\nmission, ostensibly on account of the ill-health of his wife, but\\ndoubtless mainly because of the division of feeling which had\\nattended his settlement, and which still continued. The", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "182 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nchurch, after considering all the circumstances of the case,\\nvoted that his request be granted, and he was dismissed in\\ndue form. The society purchased the house and land owned\\nby him, for a parsonage. This was the Hodgkins estate, on\\nthe road to Mill Village. A gratuity of ^150 was also made\\nto him.\\nNo time was lost in obtaining a successor. On the 20th of\\nDecember, 1826, Mr. Charles Walker was invited to become\\nthe Pastor, with an offer of $600 salary, to which the church,\\nas such, agreed to add another hundred. To this invitation\\nhe returned the following answer\\nTo the Congregational Church and Society in New Ipswich\\nMy dear Friends, Your invitation to settle with you in the\\nGospel ministry has now been before me some weeks. I have felt,\\nin relation to answering your call, as you did in giving it, that it\\nwas a subject of too much importance to be acted upon hastily.\\nAfter receiving it, I resolved not to listen to any proposition from\\nany other quarter, until I had in some way answered yours. The\\nsimple inquiry was, then, Shall I accept the call from New Ipswich,\\nor shall I not To aid me in this inquiry I have sought the advice\\nof my friends and of those who are wise in counsel. I have en-\\ndeavored to weigh impartially the considerations upon both sides of\\nthe question, in favor of an affirmative or negative answer.\\nWith this inquiry before me, I have looked up, I trust, sincerely,\\nfor that wisdom which is profitable to direct. So far as I know my\\nown heart, I have been solicitous to ascertain the leadings of Provi-\\ndence, and have endeavored to cherish a disposition to follow them.\\nThe result of my deliberation upon this subject, so important to you\\nand to me, has given peace to my own mind and the path of duty,\\non the whole, appears plain.\\nI accept your invitation. May your own hopes and mine be fully\\nrealized in the interesting relation which is anticipated, and may it\\nembrace our eternal interests.\\nYours, affectionately, Charles Walker.\\nMr. Walker was ordained February 28, 1827, and contin-\\nued the pastor until 1835, when he asked a dismission, which\\nwas granted in August, to the sincere regret of a large propor-\\ntion of the inhabitants. His ministry was faithful and suc-\\ncessful. During his pastorship the church, already one of the\\nlargest and most efficient in New Hampshire, was nearly\\ndoubled in numbers. At his settlement there were 173 mem-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "SETTLEMENT OF REV. SAMUEL LEE. 183\\nbers of the church at his dismission there were 335. A me-\\nmorable revival occurred in 1831, and the scenes attending it\\nare still deeply imprinted on the minds of the present genera-\\ntion. At one time, about sixty stood forth together, to assume\\nthe obligations of the Covenant. But his ministry was also\\ncheckered with difficulties. An unusual number of individ-\\nuals came under discipline, and some of them several times.\\nMany of the cases were of a very perplexing character, and\\nprotracted through several years in the course of which, par-\\nties were naturally formed criminations and recriminations\\nrapidly succeeded each other and indeed, on one occasion\\nthe pastor himself was arraigned by one of the church, which\\nresulted in an ecclesiastical council and the exculpation of the\\npastor. At least two other councils were called during his\\npastorate. These controversies are still fresh in the remem-\\nbrance of the inhabitants but we forbear alluding to them\\nexcept in this general way nor would it be becoming in us,\\neven were all the facts known to us, to express an opinion as\\nto where the fault lay. Doubtless, in these, as in most other\\ncases of the kind, there was a zeal manifested, and an impor-\\ntance given to matters apparently trifling, which, to bystand-\\ners, would seem quite unaccountable. Wide dijfferences of\\nopinion, and perseverance in maintaining them, are not incon-\\nsistent, however, with the honesty and sincerity of opponents.\\nRev. Samuel Lee was installed as the fifth pastor, May 5,\\n1836, and is the present incumbent. Many additions to the\\nchurch have been the fruits of his ministry. Another of those\\npeculiar revival seasons, by which this town has been so re-\\nmarkably distinguished, occurred soon after his settlement,\\nand a large number made a profession of religion in 1837-8\\nand a still more remarkable one took place in 1841-2, during\\nwhich time upwards of one hiuidred were added to the church.\\nHis ministry has been in many respects highly successful\\nbut though the difficulties themselves, which had so agitated\\nthe pastorate of his predecessor, were settled, party spirit\\nnaturally engendered by them was not eradicated. To those\\nSamuel Lee, born in Berlin, Conn., March 18, 1803 graduated at Yale\\nCollege 1827 studied Theology at New Haven ordained at Sherburne, Mass.,\\nNov. 4, 1830; resigned April 27, 1836; installed at New Ipswich May 5, 1836.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "184 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nOther causes of disagreement have been added, which have at\\nlast resulted in the separation of the old church of 1762 into\\ntwo bodies. These events are so recent as neither to require\\nnor to allow of amplification or comment.\\nIn taking a retrospect of the church, it will appear that\\nduring the ninety years since its organization, it has been\\ndestitute of a settled minister only five years and four months;\\nand so far as we have been able to learn, it has not been des-\\ntitute of preaching for a single day. Mr. Farrar rarely, if\\never, availed himself of his privilege of an annual vacation\\nand since the time of his death it has not been difficult to ob-\\ntain supplies whenever necessary. It is gratifying also to be\\nable to record, that for more than sixty years, that is, during\\nthe pastorates of Mr. Farrar and Mr. Hall, no quarrels of any\\nkind were known in the church. Pastor and people seemed\\nto have mutual confidence in each other, and to cooperate in\\nevery good word and work. To succeed in thus maintaining\\nharmony requires a knowledge of human nature and a tact\\nnot often possessed. It would be pleasant to stop here and\\nwe could almost wish, that for the last half of the century, the\\nChurch Records had been as meagre as they were for the first\\nhalf It is truly painful, in looking over the Records, which\\nshould be radiant with expressions of love and peace, and\\nswelling with the enumeration of new converts, to find, for a\\nperiod of twenty years, the many things of this sort which\\nmight have been recorded, entirely omitted, and in their place\\na catalogue of nothing but cases of discipline and contention.\\nThe condition of the Records too, is worthy of reprobation.\\nFor the last twelve or fifteen years they have been carefully\\nand fully kept, and nothing more systematic could be desired.\\nBut previous to that, the utmost confusion prevails. Nothing\\nlike a complete list of members is to be found. This should\\nbe prepared as far as is now possible, and all the Records, pre-\\nvious to the volume now in use, should be copied in order.\\nThe importance of such documents is constantly increasing, and\\nwhen well kept they form the most reliable data for history.\\nThe church has been a very efficient one. It has furnish-\\ned a large number of both ministers and ministers wives. In", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "SABBATH SCHOOL. 185\\nthis regard the influence of the Academy has been very appa-\\nrent. Indeed the reaction of the Church on the Academy, and\\nthe Academy on the prosperity of the Church, has been very\\ndecidedly marked. A goodly number have entered the mis-\\nsionary field in this and foreign lands. It was among the first\\nto take an active interest in the cause of Missions, of educating\\nyoung men for the ministry, in the distribution of tracts, and\\nthe other benevolent operations of the present century. A\\nCent Society, the members of which contribute one cent a\\nweek to benevolent objects, was formed about forty years ago,\\nand is still in active existence. A scholarship of seventy-five\\ndollars was sustained for several years and liberal contribu-\\ntions in clothing and other necessaries have often been made\\nto indigent students. The aggregate of contributions for be-\\nnevolent objects in latter years has ranged from ten to four-\\nteen hundred dollars.\\nThe Sabbath School was established in the spring of 1818,\\nthe next year after that institution was introduced in Boston.\\nIt was a new project, and did not, for a time, receive the\\nmarked favor of either parents or children. The exercises\\nconsisted exclusively in committing to memory chapters in the\\nBible, for which tickets were given. These were of two de-\\nnominations one having a verse or text printed in black ink;\\nthe other was printed in red ink, and was ten times the value\\nof the first. At the end of the season these tickets were\\ncommuted for books of equal value. There were then no\\nSabbath School Libraries, no Question Books, no Bible Illus-\\ntrations, no Juvenile Music; but numerous chapters were\\nlearned, which in after life were never forgotten.\\nBAPTIST CHURCH.\\nIn the latter part of the last century a few persons had been\\nbaptized by immersion, and had united with a small Baptist\\nchurch, formed, about 1790, of persons residing in Temple,\\nJafirey, Rindge, Sharon and New Ipswich, and called the\\nchurch in Temple; others from time to time adopted the\\nsame sentiments and practice. They occasionally held meet-\\nings at private houses as early as 1801 at which time it was\\n24", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "186 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nvoted to have Elder Elliot preach on the first Sunday of each\\nmonth, at the houses of John Brown, Josiah Brown, Benjamin\\nPrescott (of Jaffrey) and Ebenezer Stratton. For the next\\nten years preaching was sustained more or less each year, for\\nthe most part alternately at the school-houses near Aaron\\nBrown and Benjamin Prescott, who were the two principal\\nsupporters. For a year or two they worshipped in the old\\nmeeting-house, until the opening of their new house in Janu-\\nary, 1816. Elder Elliot usually preached during this time,\\nand was paid at the rate of three dollars a Sabbath. Josiah\\nBrown was chosen the first deacon, in 1801.\\nIn 1814, it was agreed to divide the church the members\\nbelonging to Jaffrey and Rindge were to form the church in\\nJaffrey, and those belonging to Temple and New Ipswich\\nwere to form the church in New Ipswich; the members be-\\nlonging to Sharon were to join either of the branches as they\\nmight choose. The original members of the New Ipswich\\nbranch were thirty-three in number, to whom several others\\nwere soon after added and many of those who had contend-\\ned against the location chosen for the new meeting-house at-\\ntached themselves to this new Society. Elder John Parkhurst\\nwas at this time their preacher, and was invited to become\\nthe pastor of the New Ipswich church. He accepted the call,\\nand was installed March 10, 1814. Elder Andrews, of Athol,\\npreached the sermon on the occasion. Mr. Parkhurst was to\\npreach three Sabbaths in a month, with a salary of $200 the\\nfourth Sabbath he preached at Sharon or Jaffrey. He contin-\\nued his labors until 1821, when, as the Record expresses it,\\nhe felt it his duty to labor in another part of the vineyard of\\nChrist. Parted peaceably. Mr. Parkhurst was a native of\\nChelmsford, and a graduate of Harvard College in 1810. He\\nwas a good scholar, and though not particularly attractive as\\na preacher, he was universally respected for his amiable de-\\nJohn Parkhurst, Josiah Brown, Aaron Brown, John Brown, Henry Whit-\\nman, Ebenezer Fletcher, William Laws, Joseph Eaton, Jr., Stearns Adams,\\nMary Emery, Dolly Fuller, Sally Fuller, Adubah Bancroft, Martha Brown,\\nAbigail Laws, Anna Moor, Hannah Brown, Sally Burrows, Lydia Burrows, Ruth\\nBurrows, Celia Burrows, Catherine Eaton, Betsy Eaton, Betsy Wheeler, Betsy\\nStearns, Abigail Whitman, Sally Haynes, Cynthia Adams, Mary Fletcher, Mary\\nBarr, Relief Stone, Betsy Spear, Rebecca Gibson.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "BAPTIST SOCIETY. 187\\nportment and his consistent Christian character. The preach-\\ners who have subsequently labored here are as follows\\nFerris Moore,\\nfrom\\n1821 to 1824.\\nJoseph Elliot,\\n1824 1827,\\nBenjamin R. Skinner,\\n1827 1828.\\nCalvin Greenleaf,\\n1828 1830.\\nAsaph Merriam,\\n1830 1836.\\nJohnson Howard,\\n1836 1839.\\nS. M. Willmarth,\\n1840 1842.\\nJacob Weston,\\n1842 1842.\\nHarrison W. Strong,\\n1843\\nA. H. House,\\n1850.\\nRev. Asaph Merriam also again officiated for a time, previous\\nto the settlement of the last pastor.\\nOf the above ministers. Rev. B. R. Skinner afterwards was\\ndesignated as a missionary to Liberia, where he died. Mr.\\nWeston embraced the Second Advent doctrines, and became\\nthe principal advocate of them in town, denouncing the church\\nas a cage of unclean birds, and causing much difficulty.\\nLicenses to preach have been granted by the church to the\\nfollowing members John Brown, Bela Wilcox, Isaac Butter-\\nfield, Daniel F. Twist.\\nThe church meetings for business were usually held, for\\nmany years, at the house of Ebenezer Fletcher, in the Mill\\nVillage and candidates liave been usually baptized in the\\nriver at that place.\\nThis society has always struggled under serious disadvan-\\ntages. Its members were originally few, and the prejudices\\nof the inhabitants generally, were very strong against them.\\nIn addition to this, the society became a receptacle for malcon-\\ntents from the other congregation, which of course rendered it\\nstill more odious. For many years there was no exchange of\\nministerial and scarcely of social courtesies, between the cler-\\ngymen of the two denominations. As early as 1810 we find\\nsome of the leading Baptists contending for the principle, now\\nso universally allowed, that no one should be compelled to\\npay for a ministry which, from conscientious scruples, he did\\nnot attend and Josiah Brown, Abner Brown, Peter Sander-\\nson, John Cary and Henry Godding asked to be excused from", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "188 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nthe minister s tax, on this ground. The town did not grant\\ntheir request. With great pertinacity they continued from\\nyear to year to urge their claim in increasing numbers. In\\n1815 we find the number of remonstrants had increased to\\neighteen, and some of them refused to pay for the support of\\nMr. Hah. The town as stoutly contended against them and\\nas it was supposed that some claimed to be Baptists solely for\\nthe purpose of evading taxation, two of them were arrested to\\ncompel payment. To avoid imprisonment they paid the tax,\\nand then brought suits against the town to recover the money.\\nA committee was appointed by the town to confer with them,\\nand report to the selectmen such evidence as they can obtain\\nof certain persons calling themselves Baptists, who claim ex-\\nemption from paying a ministerial tax to Mr. Hall, whether\\nthey pay the taxes that have been assessed or not; and on\\ntheir report, the town authorized the settlement of the difficulty\\nby refunding the money demanded (five dollars) with costs.\\nHaving gained this point, they next entered a claim to their\\nproportion of the ministerial fund, and continued their appli-\\ncations regularly for several years. Sometimes the town neg-\\natived the request, and sometimes refused to act upon it;\\nbut at last, in 1820, a proportional division was agreed to,\\nby a bare majority, and has been continued to the present\\ntime. In 1823 some assistance was asked of the town, as\\nsuch, and ^30 was voted from the town treasury. At various\\ntimes since then, assistance has been derived from persons not\\nconnected with the society, and some small legacies have been\\nleft to it by some of its members.\\nOf late years there has been a degree of fellowship between\\nthe two denominations, which is quite gratifying when con-\\ntrasted with the exclusiveness, if not hostility, which once\\nprevailed. In revivals, and on all other occasions of religious\\ninterest, they have been accustomed to cooperate.\\nThe society is still feeble in strength, compared with its\\nnumbers. There are now about fifty members. The total\\nnumber which has been connected with the church is about\\ntwo hundred the largest number, at any one time, about\\neighty.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "DELUSIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS. 189\\nUNITARIAN SOCIETY.\\nA number of the inhabitants united to form a Unitarian\\nSociety, A meeting-house was built near the High Bridge in\\n1833, as aheady stated. Rev. Mr. Harding, an Enghshman,\\nRev. Reuben Bates, since settled in Ashby^ and Rev. Warren\\nBurton, have officiated as ministers. Some of its principal\\nsupporters having either died or removed, the interest was\\nabandoned after a few years, and is now extinct.\\nA Universalist minister. Rev. Asa P. Cleverly, was also\\nsustained for a few months.\\nMETHODIST SOCIETY.\\nA Methodist society was established about the year 1840.\\nIt is attended chiefly by persons employed at the Factories\\nand on that account the meeting-house, which had been built\\nin the middle of the town, was abandoned, and a new one re-\\ncently erected at its present position, near Brown s Factory.\\nThe society is in a flourishing condition, so much so that it\\nbecame necessary, within two years after the erection of their\\nhouse of worship, to enlarge its dimensions. The church\\nnumbers about sixty members.\\nIts first pastor was Rev. Mr. Moulton and among his suc-\\ncessors were G. W. T. Rogers, Joseph W. Guernsey, Joseph\\nHayes, J. Hall, Mr. Boyce, and Orlando H. J. Jasper, its\\npresent pastor. y^\\nThis town cannot boast of having escaped religious fanati-\\ncism. But few are aware that one of the strangest delusions,\\nattended with almost incredible extravagances, once prevailed\\nhere. About the year 1784, a number of citizens, mostly at\\nthe south part of the town, gave credence to the divine mis-\\nsion of Anna Lee, from whom originated the sect of Shaking\\nQuakers. In 1785, John Melvin, David Melvin, Jonathan\\nKinney, Amos Whittemore, and Nathaniel Williams, on this\\naccount, petitioned to have their minister s tax abated. Their\\nrequest was at first granted, but afterwards denied. The\\nleading man among them was Amos Whittemore, who lived\\non the south road, at the foot of the Whittemore Hill, at the", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nplace now owned by Mr. Ramsdell. At his house their\\nmeetings were held. They could assemble forty or fifty from\\nthis and the neighboring towns. Their exercises consisted of\\nfurious and long-continued whirling and dances, exceeding in\\nthis respect anything in the annals of savage war-dances\\nthey were performed with half naked bodies, and attended\\nwith singing, shouting and shrieking which could be heard\\nfor miles and, in short, they resembled drunken bacchanals\\nor raving wild beasts rather than rational beings. A stick,\\nwhich had been used for thumping time at these dances, was\\nfor thirty years preserved on the beams of the house of Capt.\\nBailey, occupied at that time by the Kinneys. Some, if not\\nall of them, believed in witchcraft and in their ability to per-\\nform miracles. Many amusing stories are told, illustrative of\\nthe reluctance of the mind to yield to the dictates of reason\\nunder such delusions. On one occasion a man had a paral-\\nyzed arm, and one of the miracle-workers told him that before\\nthe sun rose again, his arm should be well. On the following\\nmorning, when the day was considerably advanced, his wife,\\nfinding him still in bed, inquired why he did not rise. He\\nreplied that it was not time that tlie sun was not yet risen.\\nOn being assured that he was mistaken, and that it was some\\nhours high, he declared it to be impossible, because his arm\\nwas not yet well. On another occasion, one of them visited a\\nrelative, and told him that he had been commissioned by the\\nLord to convert him and Mr. Gibbs and Col. Heald, that\\nvery day, and he had then come for that very purpose. To\\nwhich the relative replied The Lord knows that Mr. Gibbs\\nhas been gone to Boston for a week, and will not be back for\\na week to come and how could he send you here, to convert\\nhim today. The Shaker replied, if that is the case, I will go\\nhome again. Notwithstanding this palpable refutation of his\\npretensions, he clung none the less to his delusion.\\nAfter a year or two, most of the Shakers removed to Har-\\nvard, and joined the Shaker community in that place. Mr.\\nWhittemore, after remaining a few years, and sacrificing all\\nhis property, came back, and was supported by his son. His\\ndaughter Sarah, though quite young, was so confidently re-\\ngarded by him as possessed of supernatural powers, exerted", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "CHURCH MUSIC. 191\\nupon his cattle and other subjects, that when she died she was\\nplaced in a box of rough boards, and denied the common rites\\nof burial.\\nThere were several other dames who enjoyed the unenvia-\\nable reputation of being witches. One of them especially,\\nwith her high cap, bible and yardstick, which she usually\\ncarried with her, and which were regarded as her talismen,\\nwas looked upon with superstitious awe, not only by the\\nyouth of the neighborhood, but by some of the most pious and\\nvenerable men and women too. It was gravely asserted by a\\nmost excellent deacon, that on attacking a cat in his barn,\\nwith a pitchfork, it was suddenly transformed into a human\\nhand and another worthy man asserted that a cat came into\\nthe sawmill and placed her paw on the saw while in motion,\\nand instantly stopped it. But, with the exception of such im-\\naccountable freaks of cats and oxen, and some extra kinks in\\npigs tails, we cannot learn that there was any foundation for\\nthe wonderful powers ascribed to the supposed witches.\\nThe Miller delusion found not a few adherents, and receiv-\\ned no inconsiderable countenance here. In 1842 an immense\\ntent was erected on the south road, near the Bedstead Factory,\\nwhere preaching was kept up for several weeks. At one time\\nit is estimated that as many as five thousand persons were\\npresent. There are a few who still adhere to the idea that\\nthe second Advent is near at hand but with these few ex-\\nceptions, all have returned to their ancient faith.\\nCHURCH MUSIC.\\nThe singing was at first conducted according to the usual\\ncustom in churches in the middle of the last century that is,\\nthe minister first read the hymn, and then began repeating it,\\nline by line, allowing the singers time to sing each line after\\nhim. Some one of the congregation raised the tune, and\\nthen all who could sing, or thought they could, joined in.\\nThis practice of lining the hymn was continued until 1784\\nwhen a committee was appointed to consider whether any\\nbeneficial modification could be made. They made a report\\nwhich was, to adopt a proposition of the church, that the lines", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nbe read according as the nature of the tune best requires,\\nwhether it be two hnes together, or four. This report was\\naccepted by the town, provided the psahn or hymn be read\\nby single hnes, excepting when they sing Particular Metre.\\nIn 1787 a still farther innovation was adopted, namely, that\\nthe singers might sing the last time each Sabbath without\\nreading, also all hymns and psalms of particular metres.\\nThe singing was for a long time strictly congregational, no\\nspecial place being assigned for the singers. But soon after\\nthe building of the third meeting house, it was proposed to\\ncollect them into a choir, and allow them to sit in the front\\ngallery, which had been designed and occupied as free seats,\\none half for males and the other for females. The town con-\\nsented but the old occupants rebelled, and some of them\\nmaintained their accustomed seats in spite of the intrusion\\nand so great did the resistance prove, that the gallery was\\ngiven up, and in 1780 the two hindermost of the long seats\\nbelow were assigned to the singers. Two years afterwards\\nthe singers were allowed, at their own expense, to convert\\nthese seals into pens, which they did by placing doors at the\\nends. They also placed a board upon the top of the front seat,\\nso as to make a sort of table between the two ranks, on which\\nto place their books and when they rose to sing, the front\\nrank turned about and faced those behind them and then\\npoured forth volumes of sound at each other, with vigorous\\nquaver and right good will. About the year 1804, the num-\\nber of singers having very much increased in consequence\\nof a successful singing school, the singing pens became too\\nstrait, and the singers were allowed to occupy the gallery.\\nMuch opposition was again manifested, but this time the sing-\\ners maintained their ground.\\nAmong the early settlers who had musical talents, were old\\nCaptain Tucker, who raised the tune until his death, Timothy\\nFarrar, John Warner, Nathaniel Gould, Nathaniel Swain,\\nThomas Brown and Jeremiah Prichard. In 1786 Lieut,\\nPrichard was appointed to set the psalm instead of Thomas\\nBrown and in 1787 Mr. Gould was to set the psalm and\\nselect a number to assist him he nominated John Warner,\\nJeremiah Prichard, Jotham Hoar, Benjamin Champney and", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "I\\nCHURCH MUSIC. 193\\nJohn Pratt. Who the ladies were that assisted in these exer-\\npises, we are not informed. Mr. Gould was chorister for\\nmany years and after him Major Hoar and Peter Fletcher,\\nJr. subsequently Benjamin Champney held the office for a\\nlong time. Dea. N. D. Gould succeeded him about the year\\n1808, and directed the music until he removed from the town\\nin 1817. Dea. John Clark and his sons have had charge of\\nthe choir, for the most part, from that time to this.\\nThe tunes used for the first forty years were of the substan-\\ntial sort, such as York, Mear, St. Martins, St. Anns, c., and\\nwere limited in number to eight or ten, which by long and\\nrepeated use had become almost as sacred as the Bible itself.\\nThis kind of music prevailed until about 1780, when a new\\nstyle was introduced, much more rapid in movement and in-\\ntricate in structure. It was the introduction of this music,\\ncalled fugueing, in which the several parts were singing\\ndifferent words at the same time, and allowing no time for\\npauses, that prompted to, and even compelled the abandon-\\nment of reading the hymns line by line.\\nThe character of the musical performances in this town\\nhas been of a high order, and unusual attention has been\\ngiven to the cultivation of music. On this account it deserves\\nto be more fully spoken of; and we shall therefore recur to it\\nagain under the head of Singing Schools and Music.\\n25", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII,\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY,\\nEARLIEST COMMON SCHOOLS; SCHOOL TAX; GRAMMAR SCHOOL; SCHOOL\\nHOUSES INSTRUCTORS ACADEMY COMPACT EDIFICE; INCORPO-\\nRATION; funds; new EDIFICE DONATION OF GLOBES AND BOOKS\\nBY ISAAC AND SAMUEL APPLETON OF MRS. EVERETT PRECEP-\\nTORS DONATION OF MONEY BY SAMUEL APPLETON DEMOSTHENI-\\nAN SOCIETY GRADUATES OF COLLEGES LITERARY PRODUCTIONS.\\nThe cause of learning has been well sustained, and has\\ndone much for the reputation of the town not so much, how-\\never, in its earlier history, as could have been desired. In the\\nGrant of the township it was provided that one right should\\nbe set aside for the support of schools and thus, with enlight-\\nened foresight, the Proprietors did all that was incumbent on\\nthem, to furnish the means of education to the settlers. But\\nwe have no intimation that any school was kept until after the\\nincorporation of the town, fourteen years after the actual set-\\ntlement. It is true that there could have been very few who\\nwere not either too young or too old to attend schools at that\\nearly period, and those few must have been widely scattered.\\nDoubtless they received private instruction at home from their\\nparents, who, we have abundant evidence, were intelligent\\nand well-educated people. In 1762, the year of all others\\nmost memorable in the history of the town, it was voted\\nthat a school be kept in town three months this year, and no\\nmore, as near the meeting-house as a house can be provided.\\nTwo years afterwards, means were provided to have schooling\\nfour months, in four quarters of the town and if any persons\\nfailed to provide a place for a school, that quarter was to be\\ndestitute, and the other quarters that did provide were to en-\\njoy the benefits. William Shattuck is supposed to have been\\nthe teacher. In 1768, the town was divided into four dis-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "SCHOOL TAX.\\n195\\ntricts, each of which was to have its committee man, and \u00c2\u00a320\\nwas appropriated for schools, each district to receive in pro-\\nportion to the amount paid by the inhabitants of the district.\\nIn 1771, a sum of money was raised to build school-houses,\\nand, so far as can be learned, none were built previous to this;\\nbut the schools were kept in private houses. Tradition says,\\nthat the first school in town was kept at Reuben Kidder s\\nhouse. The first school-house in the middle of the town was\\non the hill, northwest of the old meeting-house, and was\\nafterwards used as a carpenter s shop.\\nThe following table will show the amount of the School\\nTax for a series of years, and the proportion in which it was\\ndistributed to the districts according to taxation. It will be\\nseen that the preponderance of the population was at first\\ntowards the northeast, and that it gradually became equalized\\ntowards the southwest.\\nYears.\\n1772,\\nN. East.\\nEast.\\nMiddle.\\nS. East.\\nS. West.\\nWest.\\n6.19.2\\nTotal.\\n6.17.14\\n5.\\n10.19\\n4.19. 6\\n5. 5\\n\u00c2\u00a340\\n1773,\\n7.4\\n4.16\\n10. 5. 4\\n5. 6. 8\\n5.14. 8\\n6.13.4\\n40\\n1774,\\n8.10. 4\\n5.15.9\\n11.17. 4\\n7. 0.11\\n7. 6.11\\n9. 8.4\\n50\\n1775,\\n5. 1. 6\\n3. 9.5\\n6.14. 6\\n4. 6. 9\\n4.13. 5\\n5.14.4\\n30\\n1776,\\n6.11. 4\\n4. 6.4\\n8.15.10\\n5.13.10\\n6.16. 3\\n8. 6.2\\n40\\n1777,\\n9.19. 1\\n6.19.4\\n15. 3.10\\n8.14. 3\\n9.11\\n9.12.2\\n56\\nAt this period the currency became depreciated, and the\\nnominal sum appropriated for schools in 1780 was \u00c2\u00a35000, be-\\ning in reality about \u00c2\u00a360 silver.\\nIt seems that by law the towns containing a certain num-\\nber of inhabitants, were obliged to maintain a grammar school\\nwhere Latin might be taught, on penalty of \u00c2\u00a320 for failure.\\nFor a number of years the town tried to avoid this expense,\\nand used to vote annually to indemnify the Selectmen, if they\\nshould be fined for not providing one. In 1771, it was voted\\nto -have a Grammar school nine months in the year; while at\\nthe same time they voted to hold the Selectmen harmless, if\\nthey did not have one. But at last, in 1772, several persons\\ndissented from this proceeding; and in the following year, a\\nprotest still stronger against this evasion was recorded on the\\ntown books, as repugnant to the law of the Land in such", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "196 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\ncase made and provided, and signed, Ebenezer Champney,\\nAbijah Smith, Jonas Wheeler, Ezra Mansfield, John Brooks,\\nWilham Spear, Isaac Clark, Edmond Briant, Reuben Kidder,\\nEleazer Cummings, Joseph Bates, Simeon Gould, John But-\\nton, Moses Tucker, Thomas Kidder, Francis Fletcher, Isaac\\nHow. As we find among these the names of but two or three\\nwho were likely to have been particularly interested in the\\ncause of education, we are led to suspect that the protest was\\na partizan, rather than a conscientious matter.\\nThe effect of the remonstrance was to provide a sort of pe-\\nripatetic Grammar School. There was to be a Master, who\\nshould go from school to school, beginning with the middle\\nschool, which paid the most, and ending with the eastern dis-\\ntrict, which paid the least here he was to keep one month,\\nand in the other districts as much longer as their pay is\\nmore. In 1787, \u00c2\u00a320 were appropriated to have a Grammar\\nmaster in the middle district, to whom grammar scholars from\\nthe other districts might go. At this time the number of dis-\\ntricts was seven the school tax was \u00c2\u00a360 silver and the\\nlength of the school varied in the districts from four to eight\\nweeks, which was the whole amount of annual schooling en-\\njoyed. In 1801, the amount raised for schools was $500 in\\n1805, $600 and there were nine districts. And this was the\\namount annually appropriated until 1825, when it was in-\\ncreased to $700. In 1833, it was $800 in 1838, $850. The\\nsum now appropriated is about $1000, and the number of dis-\\ntricts is fourteen.\\nThe lands originally set aside for the support of schools\\nwere sometimes improved, and sometimes rented. They were\\nfinally sold and the proceeds funded. In 1796 the fund was\\n\u00c2\u00a3175; in 1805, it was $583.34, when another sale was made,\\nand in 1806 it was $947.34 in 1835, it was $1351.62.\\nxC?j-x^^,^=^ The Central school-house, fifty\\nyears ago, stood on a rock in the\\norchard opposite the northeast corner\\nof the old burying-ground. After\\nthe road to the turnpike was built, it\\nwas removed down the hill, and placed at the corner of Mr.\\nHills garden.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "THE ACADEMY. 197\\nAdditional school-houses were from time to time built. In\\n1789, \u00c2\u00a3300 was voted for building and repairing school-houses;\\nin 1800, ^630 was voted to build school-houses.\\nThe schools in town have for the last seventy years been of\\na high order, especially that in the middle district. Among\\nthe earliest teachers was Timothy Farrar and after him John\\nHubbard, who was subsequently the first preceptor of the\\nAcademy. After the establishment of the latter Institution,\\nthis district always enjoyed the advantage of a selection from\\nall the students, as a teacher and usually, the preceptor him-\\nself was employed for the winter term. The other districts\\nenjoyed similar advantages of selection so that instruction\\nhas ahuost invariably been given, both summer and winter,\\nby competent teachers.\\nNEW IPSWICH ACADEMY.\\nAlthough the town had made provision for instruction in\\nthe languages under such competent men as Timothy Farrar,\\nMr. Hedge, and John Hubbard, yet it was only for a few\\nweeks in a year and after the close of the Revolutionary war\\nit was not to be expected, that such men as the Farrars,\\nChampneys, Prestons, Barretts, Appletons and Kidders, who\\nthen had sons coming forward, would be satisfied with the\\nadvantages then enjoyed. Accordingly, in 1787, an associa-\\ntion of gentlemen, in this and the neighboring towns, thirty-\\ntwo in number, entered into the following compact\\nKnow all men by these presents That we whose names are\\nunderwritten, and seals hereto affixed, do covenant jointly and sev-\\nerally for ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns,\\nand each to the other, that we will support and maintain a school\\nfor and during the term of five years from the date of these pres-\\nents, and each one to pay an equal share and proportion that shall\\nbe necessary therefor, to the Master or Preceptor thereof, for the\\ntime being that all votes passed by a majority of us at any meet-\\ning warned in the following manner, shall be binding upon all of\\nus respecting the regulation of said school or the support of the\\nsame that when any three or more of us the subscribers shall, in\\nwriting, under their hands, signify their desire to all the rest of us\\nthe subscribers, of a meeting and the subject thereof, and the time\\nand place of the same, a meeting shall be called, fourteen days\\nbeing the notice that shall be given of said meeting so intended.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "198\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nThe proprietors of said school not to exceed thirty -two persons in\\nnumber, and to have and enjoy all the profit and advantages thereof,\\neach one an equal share, for his and their sole use and benefit. In\\nwitness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this\\n12th day of September, Anno Domini, 1787.\\nDaniel Emerson (Mollis,)\\nTimo. Farrar,\\nFrancis Appleton,\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nEbenr. Sparhawk (Keene,)\\nLaban Ainsworth (Jaffrey,)\\nDavid Sherwin (Rindge,)\\nEbenr. Champney,\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nJohn Preston,\\nEleazer Cummings,\\nJames Chamberlain,\\nRobert Wilson (Peterboro,)\\nAaron Brown (Groton,)\\nJoseph Brown (Winchendon,)\\nStephen Farrar,\\nJohn Gushing (Ashburnham,)\\nJohn Lock (Ashby,)\\nCharles Barrett,\\nEphraim Hart well,\\nLeonard Whiting,\\nThomas Heald,\\nJohn Warner,\\nBenj. Adams, Jr.,\\nThomas Fletcher,\\nReuben Kidder,\\nSeth Payson (Rindge,)\\nWm. Gardner, (Rindge,)\\nSaml. Gragg (Peterboro,)\\nNathan Merriam,\\nGen. Henry Woods (of Pepperell.)\\nIn furtherance of the object, Charles Barrett promised a\\ndonation of \u00c2\u00a3100 and Dr. Hartshorne of Rindge also propos-\\ned to give thirty acres of land for the use of the Academy.\\nMr. Barrett was also desired to make inquiries on what terms\\na township of land at the eastward might be procured, to be\\nappropriated to the support of the Academy and he was sub-\\nsequently desired to procure the wild lands in Camden, Me.,\\nor such others as, with the advice of the Trustees, they might\\nthink best. A subscription for obtaining funds was also com-\\nmenced.\\nMr. John Hubbard was chosen the first Preceptor, with a\\nsalary of \u00c2\u00a360 for one year s service, and the school was open-\\ned in the school-house October 15, 1787. The tuition was\\ntwelve shillings quarterly in advance. At the end of the first\\nyear there was a deficit, which was supplied by an assess-\\nment of ten shillings on each of the proprietors. At the end\\nof the second year there was a small balance in favor of the\\nproprietors.\\nAs it became quite evident, after two years experiment, that\\nthe enterprise was likely to succeed, a subscription was ob-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE ACADEMY.\\n199\\ntained for erecting an Academy building and some of the\\ncontributions having been collected in building materials, and\\na plan procured, a committee was authorized to let the erec-\\ntion of it to any one, provided he would complete the same\\nfor the subscriptions, and collect them himself Its dimen-\\nsions were to be forty by thirty-eight feet, and one story high,\\nmaking provision for\\nhanging a bell on the\\nsame. Ebe r. Foster\\ntook the contract. It\\nwas erected in 1789,\\nabout a hundred rods\\nnorth of the meeting-\\nhouse, on land given\\nfor the purpose by\\nRev. Mr. Farrar, to-\\ngether with all the\\nlevel plot between it and the common around the meeting-house\\nfor a play-ground. The building still stands, unpainted, as it\\never was, having sometimes been used as a dwelling-house,\\nand sometimes as a carpenter s or wheelwright s shop. The\\ndoor and a window have changed places, and the little belfry\\nhas been removed. It was never graced with a bell, and was\\ninaccessible except externally. It was once struck by light-\\nning and the roof set on fire on which occasion the precep-\\ntor, Mr. Pierce, succeeded in ascending by the gable window\\nand extinguished the fire.\\nIn 1780 a committee was chosen to apply for an Act of In-\\ncorporation, and use their utmost exertion to get the same\\nthrough the Court as soon as may be. This was accordingly\\ndone, and the following Charter of Incorporation was obtained.\\nState of New Hampshire, anno 1789.\\nAn Act to incorporate an Academy in the town of New Ipswich, by\\nthe name of the New Ipswich Academy.\\nWhereas the education of youth has ever been considered by the\\nwise and good, as an object of the highest consequence to the safety\\nand happiness of a people, as at an early period of life the mind\\neasily receives and retains impressions, and is most susceptible of\\nthe rudiments of useful knowledge, and whereas the Hon. C. Bar-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "200 EDT CATIONAL HISTORY.\\nrett, of New Ipswich, County of Hillsboro and sundry other per-\\nsons, are desirous of giving to Trustees hereinafter named, certain\\nlands and personal estate, to be by said Trustees forever appropri-\\nated and expended for the support of a public school or Academy in\\nNew Ipswich, and whereas the execution of such an important de-\\nsign will be attended with very great embarrassments, unless by an\\nAct of Incorporation said trustees and their successors shall be au-\\nthorized to commence and prosecute actions at law, and transact\\nsuch other matters in a corporate capacity as the interest of said\\nAcademy shall require.\\nBe it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-\\ntives in General Court convened, that there be, and hereby is estab-\\nlished in the town of New Ipswich, in the County of Hillsboro in\\nsaid State, an Academy, by the name of the New Ipswich Acad-\\nemy, for the purpose of promoting piety and virtue, and for the\\neducation of youth in the English, Latin and Greek languages, in\\nWriting, Arithmetic, Music and the Art of Speaking, practical\\nGeometry, Logic, Geography, and such other of the liberal arts and\\nsciences or languages, as opportunity may hereafter permit, and as\\nthe Trustees hereinafter provided shall direct.\\nAnd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the\\nRev. Stephen Farrar, Hon. Charles Barrett, E. Hartwell, Esq., and\\nJohn Hubbard of New Ipswich, Rev. D. Emerson of Hollis, Rev.\\nS. Payson of Rindge, and Jacob Abbot, Esq. of Wilton, Rev. Joseph\\nBrown of Winchendon, and Henry Wood, Esq. of Pepperell, be and\\nthey hereby are, nominated and appointed Trustees of said Acade-\\nmy, and they hereby are incorporated into a body politic, by the\\nname of the Trustees of the New Ipswich Academy, and that they\\nand their successors shall be and continue, a body politic and cor-\\nporate by the same name forever.\\n[Here follows authority for a common Seal to sue and be sued,\\nc.]\\nBe it further enacted that the said Farrar, and the other Trustees\\naforesaid, the longest livers and survivors of them and their succes-\\nsors, be the true and sole Visitors, Trustees and Governors of the said\\nAcademy, in perpetual succession forever, to be continued in the\\nway and manner hereinafter specified, with full power and author-\\nity to elect such officers of the said Academy, as they shall judge\\nnecessary and convenient, and to make and ordain such laws, orders\\nand rules, for the good government of said Academy, as to them, the\\nsaid Trustees, Governors and Visitors aforesaid, or their successors\\nshall from time to time, according to the various occasions and\\ncircumstances, seem most fit and requisite; all which shall be\\nobserved by the officers, scholars and servants of the Academy, upon\\nthe penalties therein contained, provided that the said rules, laws\\nand orders be in no way contrary to the laws of the State.\\n[Trustees to be not more than 11 nor less than 7 a majority to", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF THE ACADEMY. 201\\nbe a quorum, and majority present to decide, except as hereafter\\nspecified the principal Instructor to be one of them, and a major part\\nlaymen and respectable freeholders.] And be it further enacted,\\nthat as often as one or more of the Trustees of the said Academy,\\nshall die or resign, or in the judgment of a major part of the other\\nTrustees be rendered, by age or otherwise, incapable of discharging\\nthe duties of his office, then and so often the Trustees surviving and\\nremaining, or the major part of them, shall elect one or more per-\\nsons to supply the vacancy or vacancies so happening.\\nBe it further enacted^ that the Trustees aforesaid and their succes-\\nsors, be and hereby are rendered capable in law, to take and receive\\nby gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any lands, tenements or\\nother estate, real or personal, provided that the annual income of\\nsaid real estate shall not exceed the sum of \u00c2\u00a3500, and the annual\\nincome of the said personal estate shall not exceed \u00c2\u00a32000, both\\nsums to be valued in silver at the rate of 6s. 8d. per ounce, to have\\nand to hold the same, to them the said Trustees and their successors\\non such terms and under such provisions and limitations as may be\\nrequired in any deed or instrument of conveyance which shall be\\nmade to them, provided always that neither the said Trustees nor\\ntheir successors shall ever hereafter receive any grant or donation\\nthe condition whereof shall require them, or any others concerned,\\nto act in any respect counter to the design of the first grantors, or\\nany prior donation\\nBe it further enacted, that if it shall be hereafter judged, upon\\nmature and impartial consideration of all circumstances, by three-\\nfourths of all the Trustees, that for good and substantial reasons,\\nwhich at this time do not exist, its interests will be promoted by re-\\nmoving the seminary from the place where it is founded, in that case\\nit shall be in the power of the said Trustees to remove it according-\\nly, and to establish it in such place within this State as they shall\\njudge to be best calculated for carrying into effect and real execu-\\ntion, the intention of the founders.\\nAnd whereas the said Institution may be of very great and gen-\\neral advantage to this State, and deserves every encouragement;\\nBe it therefore enacted, that all ye lands, tenements and personal\\nestate within the State, that shall be given to said Trustees for the\\nuse of said Academy, shall be and hereby are exempted from all\\ntaxes whatever, so long as they remain for the use of said Academy,\\nand that the students at said Academy be exempted from paying a\\npoll tax.\\nState of New Hampshire, House of Representatives, June 17,\\n1789, passed to be enacted and sent up.\\nIn Senate, June 18, 17S9, enacted.\\nJohn Sullivan, President.\\nAttest, Joseph Perrin, Secretary.\\n26", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "202 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nThis was the second Academy incorporated in the State,\\nPhiUips Academy in Exeter having preceded it by five years.\\nOn the 19th of August, 1789, the Proprietary deUvered over to\\nthe Trustees all their papers, moneys, c., and dissolved.\\nThe following extract from the Records will show the pecu-\\nniary prospects of the Corporation at this time.\\nDonations to the Academy from sundry respectable gentle-\\nmen, who have thereby manifested the generosity of their benevo-\\nlent hearts, in their noble exertions to establish an Academy in\\nNew Ipswich, for the promotion of useful knowledge in the rising\\ngeneration which donations are to remain in the hands and at the\\ndisposal of the Trustees of said Academy, so long as the said Trust\\nshall support the education of youth in the same, according to the\\ntrue intent and design of the Incorporation Charter and whenever\\nsaid Trust shall fail of supporting said Academy accordingly,\\nthen the principal of each donation shall be faithfully and punctu-\\nally returned to the respective donors or to their assigns, without\\nany embezzlement, fraud or unnecessary delay.\\nBonds solely for the support of the Preceptor.\\nJohn Preston, \u00c2\u00a335 Thomas Fletcher, \u00c2\u00a350.\\nBonds for the support of the Academy.\\nEphraim Hartwell, \u00c2\u00a350 Isaac Appleton, \u00c2\u00a335 Josiah Batch-\\nelder, \u00c2\u00a312 George Start, \u00c2\u00a310 Oliver Whiting, \u00c2\u00a310 Samuel\\nDana (for T. Farrar), \u00c2\u00a315 Eleazer Cummings, \u00c2\u00a315 Nathan\\nMerriam, \u00c2\u00a315; Jeremiah Prichard, \u00c2\u00a315; Seth Wheeler, \u00c2\u00a312;\\nBenja. Adams, Jr., \u00c2\u00a320 Charles Barrett, \u00c2\u00a3100 Stephen Farrar,\\n\u00c2\u00a315.\\nBond of C. Barrett, for a deed of 3000 acres of land in Camden.\\nBond of Stephen Farrar, for about 1 1-2 acres of land for the use\\nof the Academy.\\nObligation of David Hills for a road to the Academy.\\nDeed of 30 acres in Rindge from Dr. Ebenezer Hartshome.\\nBond for a deed of 50 acres in Andover, Vt., from Lieut. John\\nWarner. All dated August 22, 1789.\\nThe Trustees chose Rev. Stephen Farrar for their President,\\nand John Hubbard, Preceptor, with a salary of \u00c2\u00a365, his board\\nand horse-keeping. They also adopted the old Laws and Re-\\ngulations. Among these was a requirement, that in the sum-\\nmer months the students should attend prayers and such other\\nexercises as the Preceptor should propose, at six o clock in\\nthe morning and afterwards have two sessions of three hours\\neach, durmg which time they should study in the Academy.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "THE ACADEMY AND DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. 203\\nThe Proprietors had appointed a committee, in 1787, to ap-\\nply to the President and Trustees of Dartmouth College to aid\\nthem in obtaining an act of incorporation, and also to ascer-\\ntain if some terms of union could not be effected between the\\nCollege and the Academy, whereby they might be of mutual\\nassistance in furnishing students to each other. Such an ar-\\nrangement was finally effected, in 1789, by which, on the one\\npart, the College was to have a voice in the regulations and\\ninstruction of the Academy and, on the other hand, the stu-\\ndents entering from the Academy were to be allowed to study\\na part of the College term at the Academy with a remission\\nof their tuition, and to board out of Commons if they desired.\\nThe following is the record\\nThe Trustees of New Ipswich Academy having taken into con-\\nsideration the several proposals made by the Honorable Trustees of\\nDartmouth College and the Trustees of said Academy, respecting\\na union between said College and Academy, contained in several\\nletters and other papers, voted the same, according to the following\\nstatement, viz\\nI. The appointment of Instructors made by the Trustees of said\\nAcademy, and their continuance in office, shall be subject to the\\napprobation of said College,\\nII. The laws and regulations of said Academy shall be conform-\\nable to the laws of Dartmouth College, so far as the different cir-\\ncumstances will admit, and subject to the approval of the Board of\\nsaid College.\\nIII. Those students who shall be fitted at said Academy, and en-\\ntered as members of said College, shall be thereupon indulged in the\\nprivilege of studying in said Academy, under the direction of the\\nEector thereof, in such cases and for such part of the time as the\\nPresident, with the advice of the other executive officers of the Col-\\nlege, subject to the direction of the Board, may from time to time\\njudge consistent which shall be at least one quarter part of the\\ntime if thought proper by the Executive authority of said Acade-\\nmy. Provided that the liberty so qualified be confined to the first\\npart of their collegiate standing and students so indulged, shall\\nhave one half of their tuition bills at said College remitted for such\\nterm of time as they have liberty of absence from said College.\\nIV. Those students who shall be fitted at said Academy, and en-\\ntered at said College, shall have the privilege of boarding out of\\nCommons if desired, at such places as may be approved by the Ex-\\necutive authority of said College.\\nMr. Hubbard continued in office till 1795, his salary hav-\\ning been increased to \u00c2\u00a395, when he resigned and on settle-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nmerit, the arrears due to him were found to be \u00c2\u00a3105.105. He\\nhad been assisted at different periods, by S. Crossat, Jesse Ap-\\npleton and Darius Shaw.\\nThe funds at this time had been somewhat increased by a\\ndonation of \u00c2\u00a330 from Seth Payson, the proceeds of which\\nwere to be devoted to the education of needy scholars, reserv-\\ning to himself the right to nominate the persons to receive it.\\nAnother donation of \u00c2\u00a320 had been made by Mr. Jacob Abbot,\\nof Andover. The whole fund, exclusive of a bond of Charles\\nBarrett for a township of land, was \u00c2\u00a3419. This bond for\\nthree thousand acres of land was commuted, in 1806, into a\\nnote for $221.14, as balance due and it is believed that the\\nnote was allowed to run until it became outlawed and Mr.\\nBarrett s death supervening before it was renewed, nothing\\nwas ever realized from it.\\nAfter a short interval, Mr. Samuel Worcester, who had fit-\\nted for college under Mr. Hubbard, was secured as Preceptor,\\nand maintained the reputation of the school successfully.\\nHaving been ordained for the ministry, and being desirous of\\nentering at once upon his vocation, he resigned in 1798, and\\nwas succeeded by Mr. David Palmer, afterwards the minister\\nin Townsend. Mr. Palmer was to receive the interest of the\\nfund and the tuition, he to find wood, and pay for repairs,\\nand other expenses. After one year he also resigned. The\\nschool was closed during the winter, and from April to Sep-\\ntember instruction was given by Mr. Peter Cochran. From\\nSeptember 1799 to September 1801, Mr. Warren Pierce offici-\\nated as Preceptor, upon the same terms as those given Mr.\\nPalmer, with three months vacations.\\nThus far the school seems to have had a high reputation,\\nand to have fulfilled all the expectations of its friends. Many\\nof the sons of New Ipswich had, in the mean time, received a\\npreparation for college without leaving their own homes, and\\nmany others from neighboring towns had also received their\\npreliminary education here, who became afterwards distin-\\nguished in life among whom may be mentioned Dr. Twitch-\\nell of Keene, Dr. George C. Shattuck of Boston, Hon. Levi\\nWoodbury, Hon. Amos Kendall, Rev. Edward Payson, Dea.\\nSamuel Greely of Boston, Thomas G, Fessenden, and others.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THE ACADEMY. 205\\nAt this period, however, seems to have occurred one of\\nthose intervals of depression which, hke the ebbing and flow-\\ning of the tide, are so certain to occur in all associations.\\nThere seems even to have been a doubt whether it would be\\nbest to attempt to sustain the interest. The Corporation was\\ndirected to call in all demands, and call on all debtors to pay\\nthe interest of their bonds, the avails of which were to go as\\nfar as they might towards paying liabilities and they were\\nto take the minds of all donors in writing, with respect to con-\\ntinuing the Academy in operation. Their decision seems to\\nhave been in favor of continuance for in 1804, after the school\\nhad been closed for two years, Mr. Joseph Mulliken was\\noffered the position of preceptor, if he would accept it for the\\ninterest of the funds and the tuition. This he saw fit to do\\nand continued to instruct until the autumn of 1807 with pretty\\ngood success. The tuition at this time was from seventeen to\\ntwenty-five cents per week, at the discretion of the preceptor.\\nA code of laws was adopted, enforcing attendance on morning\\nprayers and the observance of the Lord s day forbidding\\nabsences from town or recitations without leave, and trespass\\nfor fruit or diversion and requiring of the preceptor a thor-\\nough knowledge of the qualifications of a student before giv-\\ning him a certificate to keep school. These rules were posted\\nup, and required to be publicly read once a month.\\nThe productive funds at this time (1807) were found to be\\n$2069.29 and although there seems to have been, some mis-\\ngivings, it was voted to put the Academy in operation on\\nthe old funds, considering the prospect we have of a perma-\\nnent addition. In the spring of 1808, Benjamin White was\\nchosen preceptor, and the opening of the school on the first of\\nApril was duly advertised but in the autumn he was releas-\\ned by the Trustees to pursue the study of Theology. He was\\nsucceeded by Mr. Oliver Swain Taylor, who entered upon the\\nduties of preceptor, which he exercised with much success for\\nthree years. In 1810 the number of students was eighty-five,\\nthirty of whom were females, under the instruction of Mrs.\\nMitchell (afterwards Mrs. Peter Batchelder) and one of the\\nsmall rooms was fitted up for her accommodation. This was\\nthe first time a preceptress had been employed. There were", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "206 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nthirty-five pursuing classical studies. It was one of the ad-\\nministrations which are now and then signalized by a revival\\nof interest and an unusual degree of prosperity and encourage-\\nment. In 1809 the citizens seem to have been awakened to a\\nsense of the value of the Academy, and to the necessity of\\ncontributing substantially and liberally to its support. Ac-\\ncordingly, bonds were given by twenty-one persons for the\\npayment, in various sums, of $49.10 annually, during life; by\\nthirteen persons $49.10 annually for ten years by thirteen\\npersons for $19.50 annually, during their residence.\\nAfter the resignation of Mr. Taylor, another period of de-\\npression seems to have ensued. In 1812, there was quite a\\nrebellion among the students, and many of them left the\\nAcademy. They complained that the preceptor was not suffi-\\nciently accurate in the languages and a committee of inquiry\\nhaving satisfied themselves that there was ground for the\\ncomplaint, voted to settle with him, and proceed to the selec-\\ntion of a substitute. From this time up to 1817, the school\\nwent quietly on, under the instruction of Messrs, Hart Talcott,\\nJesse Smith and Elijah Demond.\\nIn 1816-17, it having been deemed desirable to erect a new\\nbuilding in a diiferent location, and the town being also at the\\nsame time desirous of accommodations for the town meetings,\\nan arrangement was entered into, so that by the joint contri-\\nbution of the old meeting-house, the old academy, and a sub-\\nscription raised in behalf of the Academy, a building should\\nbe erected to embrace the purposes of a Town House and\\nAcademy. To this we have already adverted, p. 133. The\\nTrustees were at first unwilling that the building should be\\nlocated so far south but on the whole, they consented, and\\nunited with the town on condition that a title to the land\\nshould be secured that the bonds for the new contributions\\nto the Fund should all be presented to the Treasurer before\\nthe raising of the building and that the subscription to the\\nbuilding should be secured.\\nWith the new edifice, the substantial addition to the funds,\\nand a new preceptor, Mr. Earl Smith, the interest received\\nquite a new impulse, and the number of scholars was largely\\nincreased. So encouraging were the prospects, that arrange-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "THE ACADEMY. 207\\nments were again made for a preceptress (Miss Susan Eaton)\\nwho taught a large class in the summer of 1818. Mr. Smith\\ncontinued the school with good success for three years, at a\\nsalary of $200 and the tuition fees. Avhich still continued at\\nfrom twenty to twenty-five cents a week.\\nThe following extract from a letter from Charles Barrett,\\nEsq. to Samuel Appleton, Esq., his former partner in business,\\nwritten about this time, will show not only what had recently\\nbeen done, and some of the wants of the Academy, but also to\\nwhom it was indebted for the suggestion and the bestowment\\nof a most valuable donation.\\nWe have built an elegant Academy, 45 by 36 feet, two stories\\nhigh, with a handsome Apparatus and Library room but the great\\nmisfortune is, we have no Apparatus or Library to put in it. In\\naddition to building the house, we have added $1500 to the fund.\\nIn fact, the Academy would now be upon as respectable a footing as\\nany in the State, had it a pair of small Globes and a small Philoso-\\nphical Apparatus and Library. It is natural for all men to feel a\\npartiality for their native town and they ought to feel a laudable\\npride in its prosperity. We must acknowledge that the Academy\\nin this place has added much to the respectability of the town, and\\nhas been a great help to many who now make a figure in the world.\\nShould any of your friends think fit to make a small donation in\\nthe above articles, however small, it will be thankfully received and\\nsuitable notice taken of the same.\\nThe sentiments advanced in the above letter are worthy the\\nconsideration of the natives of New Ipswich at all times. Mr.\\nAppleton nobly responded to the above hint, by sending the\\nGlobes, and with them one hundred volumes for the nucleus\\nof a Library. At the same time his brother, Isaac Appleton of\\nDublin, N. H., contributed a large and curious folio volume on\\nGenealogy. Nothing could have been more timely than these\\ndonations and never shall we forget the impression made\\nupon our youthful imagination by the contemplation of this\\ncollection of one hundred well-bound volumes, and the respect\\nthen inspired for its princely donor.\\nThe thanks of the Trustees were voted to the donors, and\\nit was ordered that suitable cases for the reception and preser-\\nvation of the books should be constructed, and that they be\\nmarked so as to transmit to posterity the name of the donor.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "208 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nA committee was also chosen to inquire respecting the Library\\nof the Demosthenian Society, and if it could be united with the\\nbooks recently received. The representatives of the Society\\noffered to deposit its books and funds, provided the books be\\nnot loaned contrary to the rules of the Society, and that the\\nincome of the funds be used for the purchase of books.\\nNo apparatus of any sort has been provided for the Acade-\\nmy, except an electrical machine and a few other instruments\\nfor philosophical experiments, which were obtained by sub-\\nscription about the year 1830.\\nIn 1831, a fine Bell was presented to the Academy by Mrs.\\nDolly Everett, sister of the Appletons, to whom the Institution\\nhas been so often and so largely indebted. The thanks of the\\nTrustees were voted.\\nFor five or six years after the first occupation of the new\\nbuilding, the school flourished, under the administration of\\nAmasa Edes, Rufus A. Putnam and Cranmore Wallace.\\nThen came a period of depression for two or three years. In\\n1827, it is recorded that the school was very small. And\\nagain, under the care of Mr. Robert A. Coffin, assisted by Mrs.\\nCoffin, the Institution rose to a high pitch of prosperity; so\\nmuch so, that the Trustees more than once officially expressed\\ntheir approbation of his administration and when he was\\nabout to leave, in 1833, they took the opportunity to express\\ntheir high sense of his faithful and successful instructions\\nwhile at the head of the Institution. And on the withdrawal\\nof his assistant and successor, Mr. Stephen T. Allen, at the\\nend of the following year, they expressed their thanks for the\\nefficient and very satisfactory manner in which he had dis-\\ncharged his duties as Principal.\\nIn 1835, Charles Shedd was engaged as Preceptor, and re-\\nmained in office until his resignation in 1841. At this time it\\nwas thought judicious to build or purchase a house, for the\\naccommodation of students, in which they might be furnished\\nwith cheap rent, and board themselves in their rooms, and\\nthus materially diminish their expenses and a committee was\\nappointed to confer with Mr. Shedd on the subject. The\\nresult was, that a contract was made with Mr. James Rand\\nto build Students Hall, on land given by the town for the", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "DONATION OF SAMUEL APPLETON. 209\\npurpose, for !^1200. This sum was withdrawn from the per-\\nmanent fund, one half of which was thus expended. The\\nbuilding has not answered the expectations of the Trustees,\\nand indeed has scarcely been used for the purpose intended,\\nof late years.\\nSo far as the number of students is concerned, the Academy\\nhas continued almost uniformly to be well sustained to the\\npresent time. But the funds became still further diminished\\nby necessary repairs and alterations, so as not to afford means\\nfor satisfactorily sustaining such instructors as the age de-\\nmands, and such facilities as were necessary to compete with\\nkindred institutions. Some important, though still inadequate\\nadditions were made to the funds by subscription in 1846.\\nStruggling thus Avith the bare means of subsistence, and ap-\\nprehensive of entire failure, it gave occasion to enthusiastic\\njoy, when at the Centennial celebration, and in the presence\\nof so many who had enjoyed the benefits of the Institution, it\\nwas announced that Samuel Appleton had again come to the\\nrescue, and after a just eulogium on the character of the first\\nsettlers of the town, especially on the founders of the Acad-\\nemy, had promised to pay to the Trustees of the New Ips-\\nwich Academy Five Thousand Dollars, to enable that Insti-\\ntution to assume its former standing, and extend its future\\nusefulness. It is expected that an equal sum will be added\\nby other natives of New Ipswich and if so, we see not why\\nthis Academy should not continue to be one of the most effec-\\ntive, as it is one of the most ancient, in the State. Nothing\\nmore is needed than a just appreciation, on the part of the citi-\\nzens, of the paramount importance of the Academy to the pros-\\nperity of the town and the well-being of their offspring, and\\nan active interest in sustaining it. Let them sustain it, at\\nwhatever sacrifice. Let them, as soon as may be, erect an\\nedifice more in accordance with recent improvements in school\\narchitecture, and the anticipated fund will be sufficient to se-\\ncure adequate instruction, Avith appropriate illustrations.\\nThe following is believed to be a complete list of the Pre-\\nceptors, though it has not been possible in all instances to\\nascertain the dates of appointments and resignations.\\n27\\nk", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "210\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\n1789\\n1796-\\n1797\\n1799,\\n1799-\\n1803-\\n1807.\\n1808-\\n1812.\\n1813.\\n1814\\n1816.\\n1817.\\n1818-\\nDr.\\ntion\\n-95. John Hubbard.^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a097. Samuel Worcester.\\n-98. David Palmer.\\nPeter Cochran, a. b.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21801. Warren Pierce.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a27. Joseph Mulliken.\\nBenjamin White.\\n11. Oliver Swain Taylor.\\nLuke Eastman.\\nHart Talcott.\\n-15. Jesse Smith.\\nHorace Hatch.\\nElijah Demond.\\nEarl Smith.\\n1820-22. Amasa Edes.\\nEufus A. Putnam.\\n1825. Cranmore Wallace.\\n1826. Luther Smith.\\n1827. Seth H. Keeler.\\n1828-33. Robert A. Coffin.\\n1833. Asahel Foote.\\n1833-34. Stephen T. Allen.\\n1834-41. Charles Shedd.\\n1841. Josiah Crosby.\\n1842. James K. Colby.\\n1842-44. Abner S. Warner.\\n1844-51. Edward A. Lawrence.\\n20.\\nWarren taught a few months in 1814, and died of consump-\\nMr. Fessenden also officiated a few months.\\nThe following is a list of the Trustees, with the dates of\\ntheir appointment and resignation, so far as can be ascer-\\ntained.\\nRev. Stephen Farrar, 1787-1809.\\nCharles Barrett, Esq., 1787-9.\\nEphraim Hartvvell, Esq., 1787-9.\\nJoseph Brown, 1789-93.\\nRev. Seth Payson, D. D., 1789-1820.\\nRev. Daniel Emerson, 1789-1800.\\nHenry Woods, 1789-94.\\nJacob Abbot, 1789-94.\\nJohn Hubbard, 1789.\\nDr. John Preston, 1790-91.\\nHon. Timothy Farrar, 1790-1848.\\nThomas Fletcher, 1791-3.\\nRev. Noah Miles, 1793-94.\\nJonathan Searle, 1793.\\nJohn Hubbard was born in Townsend, August 8, 1759. His\\nfather had died before his birth, and he worked on a farm during\\nhis minority. He commenced study at the age of twenty-one, and\\nthe next year entered Dartmouth College. After graduating, he\\nentered upan the study of Theology and commenced preaching, but\\nfound his voice too feeble for that vocation. He was engaged as\\nthe first Preceptor of the Academy, and soon brought it into public\\nfavor. He left town in 1797, and after teaching a while in Wal-\\npole, was appointed Judge of Probate for Cheshire County in 1798,\\nwhich office he held till 1802, and then resigned. He then became\\nPreceptor of Deerfield Academy but on the death of Prof. Wood-\\nward in 1804, he was elected to the vacant chair of Mathematics\\nand Natural Philosophy in Dartmouth College, where he offici-\\nated till his death, August 14, 1810, aged 51. He was not only an\\nexcellent instructor, but an exemplary Christian and public-spirited\\ncitizen and the town is much indebted to him for the spirit he in-\\nfused and the institutions he founded. He was noted for his mu-\\nsical taste and talents, and did much towards forming a just and\\nelevated standard of church music in town.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "DEMOSTHENIAN SOCIETY. 211\\nRev. Abel Fiske, 1794. Joseph Barrett, 1824.\\nRobert Smith, 1794. Rev. Isaac R. Barbour, 1825-27.\\nEbenezer Edwards, 1794-1817. O. P. Eaton, 1826-31.\\nJeremiah Prichard, 1800-13. Rev. Charles Walker, 1827-36.\\nRev, Cornelius Waters, 1803. Rev. A. W. Burnham, 1831.\\nIsaiah Kidder, 1809. Ephraim H. Farrar, 1831.\\nBenjamin Champney, Esq., 1810-17. John Clark, 1831-32.\\nDr. John Preston, Jr., 1812-29. William Ainsworth, 1833-42.\\nRev. Richard Hall, 1812-25. Isaac Adams, 1831.\\nSamuel Batchelder, 1813-17 1826. Rev. Samuel Lee, 1836.\\nRev. Ebenezer Hill, 1813-37. David Perry, 1837-44.\\nRev. David Palmer, 1816-37. Rev. Frederick A. Adams, 1837-44.\\nCharles Barrett, 1816. William W. Johnson, 1842.\\nN. D. Gould, 1817-24. George Barrett, 1844.\\nDr. James Crombie, 1817-23. Stephen Thayer, 1844.\\nRev. Thos. Beedee, 1820-29. William Olmstead, 1849.\\nPeter Felt, 1823-31. Supply Wilson, 1849.\\nConnected with the Academy was the Demosthenian Soci-\\nety. It was mstituted about the year 1793, by the efforts of\\nPreceptor Hubbard, for exercises in declamation, composition\\nand debate. It was composed chiefly of students of the Acad-\\nemy, but other young men of the town were also admitted.\\nLike some other Literary Societies, it had its secret shibboleth.\\nIts constitution was written in a character devised for the pur-\\npose, and could be read by three persons only. At last only\\none person was left who could read it (Timothy Preston) and\\nhe was therefore made perpetual Secretary. For many years\\nit was well sustained. Dramatic exhibitions were annually\\ngiven for ten or twelve years, at which dialogues and other\\npieces, many of them written by the members, were performed.\\nOne of these exhibitions, in 1801, is alluded to in the New\\nYear s Gift, and the preceptor severely castigated for de-\\nmanding extra pay,\\nBecause he heard the brethren speak\\nTheir pieces, once or twice a week,\\nhe himself being one of the members. A Library of three or\\nfour hundred well-selected volumes was procured.\\nAbout the year 1810, the Society ceased to hold its meet-\\nings, and the Library was very little used. The remnants of\\nit were deposited with the Academy Library in 1818, as we\\nhave seen, and the Society was again renovated, ten or twelve\\nyears afterwards, under the name of the Social Fraternity.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "212 EDUCATIOiNAL HISTORY.\\nThe amount of general intelligence and of literary cultiva-\\ntion in this town has been somewhat remarkable. The first\\nsettlers were very many of them substantial and well-educated\\nmen and among them were at least three professional men,\\nwho had enjoyed a college education. But it is to the Acad-\\nemy we are to look as the main source of this distinction.\\nThe men who established it were far-sighted and liberal.\\nThey had just passed through the war of the Revolution,\\nimpoverished, distressed and heart-stricken by the blood and\\ntreasure it had cost and as the waves of oppression which\\nhad for years been dashing over them, were retiring from our\\nshores, they hesitated not, even at such a time, to draw from\\ntheir remaining resources to an extent unknown in these days,\\nto establish and endow an Institution which had for its object,\\nas is set forth in its charter, the promotion of piety and virtue\\nas well as of literature, science, c. Thus they clearly show\\nthat they understood the foundation of Republican Govern-\\nment that Knowledge was the only ark of our political salva-\\ntion, and Virtue the Ararat on which it must rest. It has\\nbrought into town a large number of liberally educated men as\\nInstructors such men as Hubbard, Worcester, Palmer, MuUi-\\nken and Smith, and many, more recently, who need not be\\nnamed. They have given a literary cast to the town, and\\nhave created a taste for investigation and sound learning.\\nThere have been attracted hither, from all quarters, numerous\\nyoung men of distinguished talents, who have mingled with\\nthe citizens, elevated the standard of general intelligence, and\\nbrought wealth to them. But above all, facilities have been\\nfurnished to the resident youth of both sexes, which they\\nwould not otherwise have enjoyed and there have been very\\nfew who have not availed themselves of these advantages.\\nHence it is, that a very large proportion of the young men has\\nreceived a liberal education. At one time, 1791, there were\\nno less than ten students in Dartmouth College from New\\nIpswich. In alluding to the people at the time the Rev. Sam-\\nuel Worcester gave a Fourth of July oration, his biographer\\nremarks, that there were not many places in New Hamp-\\nAddress of E. H. Farrar, Esq.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "GRADUATES OF COLLEGES. 213\\nshire, or in any part of the interior of all New England, where,\\nwithin the same territorial limits, so great a number of well\\neducated people of both sexes could have been convened on\\nthe Fourth of July, 1796. It would appear that since the\\nestablishment of the Academy, in a population of about 1200,\\none young man annually has been graduated at some college.\\nAmong them we enumerate a President, a Professor and a\\nTutor of a College twenty clergymen, three of whom have\\nbecome missionaries eight physicians twelve lawyers, four\\nof whom have become judges and numerous instructors.\\nBesides these, the number of those who have received an ad-\\nvanced English education, and have become efficient common\\nschool teachers, is very large. A great proportion of the\\nyounger people, both male and female, have been engaged in\\nteaching, before they have arrived at the age of twenty-five.\\nThe beneficial effect of the Academy in thus elevating the\\nmass of intelligence in the cultivation of good manners, and\\nin affording opportunities for enjoying rational intercourse at\\nhome, and of observation abroad, is incalculable. The citi-\\nzens will never allow this Institution to languish for want of\\nany patronage or aid on their part, if they understand their\\ntrue interest. The difference between sending children away\\nfrom home for an education, and of receiving others from\\nabroad amongst them would soon be felt.\\nThe following is a list of persons born in New Ipswich, or\\nwho have spent their early lives and received their prelimina-\\nry education in the town, who have received degrees at Col-\\nleges. Most of them will receive further notice under the\\nfamilies to which they belong.\\nEbenezer Adams,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1791.\\nJoseph Appleton,\\n1791.\\nMoses Appleton,\\nu\\n1791.\\nReuben Kidder,\\n1791.\\nJohn Preston,\\n1791.\\nJesse Appleton,\\n1792.\\nAsa Bullard,\\n(1\\n1793.\\nSamuel Farrar,\\nHarvard\\nCollege,\\n1793.\\nCharles Barrett,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1794.\\nThomas Heald,\\na\\n1794.\\nReuben Emerson,\\n1798.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "214\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nPerley Prichard,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1799.\\nWilliam Warren,\\nli\\n1800.\\nBrown Emerson,\\nu\\n1802.\\nElijah Parker,\\n(f (I\\n1806.\\nJosiali P. Cooke,\\nl( u\\n1807.\\nTimothy Farrar,\\nU\\n1807.\\nOliver S. Taylor,\\n1809.\\nSamuel Blood,\\n1812.\\nStephen F. Jones,\\nYale College,\\n1812.\\nEodney G. Dennis,^\\nBowdoin College,\\n181G.\\nEbenezer Cheever,t\\na u\\n1817.\\nPhinehas Pratt,\\nu a\\n1817.\\nEbenezer Newhall,\\nHarvard College,\\n1818.\\nJohn Appleton,\\nBowdoin College,\\n1822.\\nJohn Preston,\\nHarvard College,\\n1823.\\nJohn Taylor Jones,\\nAmherst College,\\n1824.\\nAug-ustus A. Gould,\\nHarvard College,\\n1825.\\nAddison Brown,\\n1826.\\nHenry Shedd,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1826.\\nCharles Shedd,\\na\\n1826.\\nNathan Brown,\\nWilliams College,\\n1827.\\nJohn S. Brown,\\n1832.\\nFrederic A. Adams,\\n1833.\\nTimothy Stearns,\\nAmherst College,\\n1833.\\nJ. G. D. Stearns,\\na\\n1835.\\nHorace Hall,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1839.\\nFrederic S. Ainsworth\\nK 1(\\n1840.\\nTimothy F. Clary,\\nli\\n1841.\\nJosiah M. Stearns,\\nAmherst College,\\n1842.\\nJohn Giles,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1842.\\nJohn P. Perry,\\nti\\n1842.\\nDavid Perry,\\nGeorge E. King,\\nUnion College,\\nRichard Hall,\\nDartmouth College,\\n1847.\\nGeorge Clary,\\nBesides these, Benjamin Champney, Jr., John Bartlett and Joseph\\nAppleton Barrett died while in College. Nathan\\nAppleton entered\\nCollege, but did not graduate\\nhe received the honorary degree of\\nMaster of Arts from Harvard College in 1844. E\\nugene Batchelder\\nreceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws at Harvard University in\\n1844.\\nSeveral others have studied professions, who were not graduates\\nBorn in Gofistovvn, studied Theology at Andover settled at Topsfield,\\nMass., and Somers, Con. now resides at Grafton, Mass.\\nt Born in Andover, Vt. Studied Tiieoiogy at Andover settled at Mount\\nVernon, afterwards at Newark, N. J. now at Milwaukie.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "LAWYERS PHYSICIANS. 215\\nof any college. Among them may be mentioned Rev. John Chand-\\nler of Shirley Rev. Thomas Fletcher Hon. Stetson of\\nBangor John Cutter, Esq. of Stoddard George Willey, Esq. of\\nCleveland Dr. Benoni Cutter of Hollis Dr. Oliver Scripture of\\nHollis; Dr. Kendall Davis of Reading Dr. Bigelow of Louisville.\\nThe following persons have practised Law.\\nTimothy Farrar, John Muzzy,\\nEbenezer Champney, Abel Conant,t\\nBenjamin Champney, George F. Farley,!\\nNoah Cook,* John Preston.\\nPHYSICIANS.\\nDoctor John Preston came to the town and commenced the\\npractice of Medicine as early as 1762, and for about fifteen\\nyears was the only physician in town. He died 1803.\\nDr. Thomas Swain was taxed in town in 1771.\\nDr. Eben Harnden Goss was taxed in 1771 and 1772.\\nDr. Nathaniel Breed resided in town from 1786 to 1789.\\nHe took some part in town affairs, btit probably did not be-\\ncome established in business.\\nDr. John Preston, Jr., studied medicine with his father,\\nand with Dr. Holyoke, and commenced practice about 1798.\\nFor twenty years he had nearly all the business of the town,\\nand a large share of it till his death in 1828.\\nDr. Timothy Preston, son of Dr. John Preston, Sen., com-\\nmenced practice in Rochester, N. Y. 1807, where he remained\\na short time and returned to New Ipswich. He practised\\nsome time in Mason and also in Dover.\\nDr. James Barr was the son of James Barr, who came from\\nScotland. He was educated principally at the Academy, and\\nstudied medicine under Dr. Haskell of Lunenburg and Dr.\\nNoah Cook was a Chaplain in Stark s hrigade during the Revolution. His\\nservice money was collected by Gen. Stark, and it was with much diihcuhy that\\nMr. Cook obtained it, as the popularity of the General was such that jurors would\\nnot give judgment against hini.\\nt Abel Conant was a native of Hollis. He studied law with Benj. Champnej\\nmarried a daughter of Professor Hubbard practiced in this town six or eight\\nyears removed to Lowell about the year 1826, where he still resides.\\nt G. F. Farley was a native of Hollis graduated at Harvard College 1816\\nstudied law with Mark Eastman of Hollis opened an office here in 1819 and\\nhad a large and lucrative business until he removed to Groton about 1830.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "216 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nTwitchell of Keene, and attended Medical Lectures at Boston\\nand Hanover, at which latter place he received his degree.\\nHe commenced practice about 1816, and having more preten-\\nsions to surgical skill than any of the neighboring physicians,\\nhe soon became knov/n. His practice increased slowly, but\\nsurely and during the last twenty years of his life he had a\\nlarge business. For three or four years previous to his death,\\nhe suffered severely from pulmonary disease, but did not sus-\\npend his labors and when too feeble to manage his horse, he\\nwas driven from place to place by his wife or some one else.\\nHe died while on a visit to Boston, June 6, 1845, aged 55.\\nHe was a cautious, skilful and conscientious physician. As a\\nman he was modest, sincere, upright in all his dealings, cour-\\nteous to other practitioners in town, never engaging in con-\\ntroversial matters either political or religious and was uni-\\nversally respected.\\nDr. Moors Farwell came from Harvard commenced prac-\\ntice in town about the year 1813. He had not obtained a re-\\ngular medical education, and did not gain the confidence of the\\npeople very extensively, though he remained in town till about\\n1838, when he removed to Illinois.\\nDr. Calvin Brown practised in town from 1828 to 32.\\nDr. William Gallup resided in town about the years 833-6.\\nDr. John Clough received a medical degree at Dartmouth\\nCollege, and practised here from 1837-40, when he removed\\nto Boston, where he practises Dentistry.\\nDr. Henry Gibson, son of Dr. Stillman Gibson, studied\\nmedicine partly in New Ipswich and partly in Boston, and\\nreceived a medical degree at Dartmouth in 1841. He was an\\namiable and judicious man, and rapidly acquired the confi-\\ndence of the citizens. With every prospect of extensive use-\\nfulness and eminence, he was removed by death, July 25th,\\n1844, aged 25.\\nDr. L. H. Cochran was born in GofTstown, and took his\\nmedical degree at Dartmouth. Commenced practice about\\n1840, and is now the principal practitioner in the place.\\nDr. KiTTREDGE has resided in town about five years.\\nDr. Frederic Jones has recently commenced, and lives at\\ntlie south town.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "MISSIONARIES. 217\\nWe must not omit, in the list of medical practitioners, Dr.\\nStillman Gibson, whose business and fame has probably\\nextended beyond that of either of those above-mentioned.\\nThough not enjoying the advantages of a medical education,\\nwith good natural abilities, good common sense, and careful\\nobservation and self-reliance, he has attained no mean de-\\ngree of skill. In early life he gave some attention to the\\ndiseases of horses and cattle, in which he was regarded as\\npeculiarly skilful. He then devised plasters and herb-drinks,\\nwhich gained such repute that he was at last compelled to\\ndevote his Avhole time to the demands of this kind made upon\\nhim. Since then he has been flooded with patients from all\\nquarters and all distances, and has often been called far away\\nby those whom his fame has reached. In dyspeptic and\\nnervous aflections and in cases of general debility, he has had\\nthe faculty of inspiring a confidence which few of higher rank\\nwould have succeeded in obtaining, and which has revived\\nthe spirits and led to those exertions which have resulted in\\ngreat benefit. Unlike most so-called irregular practitioners,\\nwho are usually ready to treat any case, whether understood\\nor not, provided it will pay, he has ever declined treating\\ndiseases which he was conscious he did not understand with-\\nout frankly declaring it. He has always been hospitable to\\nthe stranger, kind and benevolent to all, moderate and consid-\\nerate in his charges, never taking advantage of the necessities\\nof those who consulted him and while he might have amass-\\ned a large fortune, is still a man of moderate means.\\nMISSIONARIES.\\nAmong the most distinguished of the sons and daughters of\\nNew Ipswich, are those who have entered upon the Mission-\\nary field. From the following notices, it will appear that\\nprotestant missions to two of the nations of the East have been\\nfounded by New Ipswich men and they bear the reputation\\nof having been among the most discreet and learned of that\\ndevoted class of men.\\nJohn Taylor Jones was born in New Ipswich in 1802, and was\\nthe son of Elisha and Persia Jones. He joined the church in 1S17,\\nat which time he worked in the bakery of Joseph Davis studied\\n28", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "218 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nat New Ipswich and Bradford Academies graduated at Amherst,\\n1825 studied Theology at Andover and Newton joined the Fed-\\neral Street Baptist Church in Boston 1S2S ordained July 1S30\\nsailed as missionary to Burmah in August, and remained at Maul-\\nmain two years, when he was designated to found the Siam mission\\narrived at Bankok 1833 received the degree of Doctor of Divinity\\nfrom Columbian College, 1850 visited China and twice returned to\\nAmerica before his death, which occurred at Bankok, from dysente-\\nry, Sept. 1851, at the age of 49. He was thrice married.\\nAs a missionary, the following character is given of him by the\\nSecretary of the Board of Missions He laid the foundations of\\nthe Siam Mission, and they were laid sure. His department of\\nmissionary labor was more especially, and of necessity, linguistic.\\nHe was first, of American missionaries, to obtain a radical knowl-\\nedge of the Siamese tongue. It rested on him, in great measure,\\nto fix the Siamese usage of theological terms. The first religious\\ntracts, with the exception of two unsuccessful attempts, were pre-\\npared and published by him. To him was assigned, more than all,\\ntranslating into Siamese the word of God. For this high service\\nDr. Jones, by native endowments and severe study, was well pre-\\npared. He was a careful student, discriminating, well balancing,\\nlaborious. He was acquainted with the original language of the\\nBible, and well versed in the science of biblical interpretation. His\\nconclusions as to the meaning of the sacred text were ordinarily\\nreliable, and his words skilfully chosen in which to convey it. The\\nentire New Testament in Siamese, translated by him and revised in\\na second edition, is an honorable memorial of his biblical scholar-\\nship and his idiomatic familiarity with the Siamese language.\\nOther portions of the Scriptures were also translated by Dr. Jones\\nand of some of them it has been stated, such is their accuracy and\\ndelicacy of finish, that not unfrequently they are referred to by the\\nmost intelligent of the nobles as among the choicest specimens of\\nSiamese literature. [Missionary Magazine, March, 1852, in which\\na full sketch of his character is given.]\\nNathan Brown, born June 22, 1807, son of Nathan and Betsy\\nBrown converted and joined the Baptist church at Whitingham,\\nVt., 1816 graduated at Williams College 1827 taught at Ips-\\nwich, Concord, N. H., and Bennington, Vt. studied Theology a\\nshort time at Newton Seminary licensed at Brandon, Vt. 1831\\nedited Vermont Telegraph 1831; ordained at Rutland 1837; em-\\nbarked as a missionary of the Baptist Board to Burmah Dec. 1832;\\nreached Maulmain June 1833 soon went to found the mission in\\nAssam, a region until then unvisited by the Gospel, and where he\\nhas since labored faithfully, and almost alone, at Jaipur and Sibsa-\\ngor. The Secretary of the Board declares that Mr. B. will bear\\ncomparison with any missionary in the world. We have in posses-\\nsion a newspaper in the Assamese language and character, of which\\nhe is editor.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE TOWN. 219\\nSamuel B. Fairbank, son of John B. Fairbank, was educated at\\nJacksonville, Illinois. Is attached to the Bombay Mission.\\nLucy B. Mits^or, daughter of Levi Baily, was bom July 18,\\n1819 joined the Church in 1830 married Rev. Eastman S. Mi-\\nnor arrived at Ceylon 1834; died at Manepy June 29, 1837.\\nAbby M. S. Cummings, daughter of Jesse and Lucinda Stearns,\\nborn July 24, 1822; joined the Church 1834; attended New Ips-\\nwich Academy and Mount Holyoke Seminary married Rev. Sen-\\neca Cummings Oct. 1847 sailed for China 1847, and is now sta-\\ntioned at Fuh-Chau.\\nJane C. Ireland, daughter of Supply and Sarah Wilson, born\\nJan. 18, 1820 joined the Church 1831 educated at New Ipswich\\nAcademy was a teacher five years married Rev. William Ire-\\nland sailed as a missionary to South Africa 1848, and is now\\nstationed at Ifumi among the Zulus.\\nThe following works, relating to the History or the Inhab-\\nitants of New Ipswich, have been published.\\nSermon preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Stephen Farrar\\nto the pastoral care of the Church in New Ipswich, in the Province\\nof New Hampshire, Oct. 22, 1760. By William Lawrence, A.M.\\nBoston, N. E. 1761.\\nOration on the Fourth of July, 1796. By Samuel Worcester.\\nNarrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Ebenezer Fletcher,\\nof New Ipswich, who was wounded and taken prisoner at the Bat-\\ntle of Hubbardston, Vt., in 1777, c. Written by himself. First\\nprinted about 1800 A fourth edition was printed by Salmon Wil-\\nder, in New Ipswich, 1827.\\nThe Death of the Godly lamented a Sermon delivered at New\\nIpswich June 26, 1809, at the Interment of the Rev. Stephen Far-\\nrar, A, M., Pastor of the Church in that place. By Seth Payson.\\n12mo. Amherst, 1810.\\nSermon delivered at New Ipswich June 3, 1811, at the Inter-\\nment of the remains of Miss Ruthy Batchelder, daughter of Josiah\\nand Ruth Batchelder, who died June 1, 1811, aged 22. By Eben-\\nezer Hill of Mason. 8vo. Boston, 1812.\\nSermon delivered at New Ipswich, at the Interment of William\\nKimball Batchelder, son of Josiah and Ruth B., who was killed by\\nbeing thrown from a horse August 4, 1811, aged 13. By Ebene-\\nzer Hill. 8vo. Boston, 1812. Two Hymns were composed on the\\noccasion one by A G the other by M. B. [Mrs. John M.\\nBatchelder]. Many young persons afterwards ascribed their first\\nserious reflections leading to their converson, to this sudden death.\\nSermon delivered at New Ipswich, Sept. 28, 1815, at the Fune-\\nral of Miss Clarissa Davis. By Ebenezer Hill. Also, Extracts\\nfrom her Diary and Letters, by Richard Hall. 16mo. Boston, 1816.\\nL", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "220 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nSermon delivered at the Interment of the Kev. Jesse Appleton,\\nD. D., President of Bowdoin College, who died Nov. 12, 1819,\\naged 47. By Benjamin Tappan. 8vo. Hallowell, 1819.\\nSermon at the Interment of Mrs. Anna Farrar Clary, at Dover,\\nFeb. 18, 1825. By Federal Burt.\\nSermon, May 5, 1833, on the Death of Joseph Appleton Barrett,\\nonly son of Joseph Barrett, a Sophomore in College, April 20, 1833.\\nBy Charles Walker. 8vo. New Ipswich, 1833.\\nSermon at the Installation of Rev. I. R. Barbour, as pastor of the\\nCongregational Church in New Ipswich, March 8, 1825. By Rev.\\nWarren Fay. 8vo. Boston, 1826.\\nDiscourse occasioned by the Centennial Anniversary of Hon.\\nTimothy Farrar, LL. D., delivered at Mollis, July 11, 1847. By\\nTimothy Farrar Clary. 8vo. Andover, 1847.\\nSketch of New Ipswich, N. H., Civil, Literary and Ecclesiasti-\\ncal, By Charles Walker, A. M., Pastor of the Congregational\\nChurch, 1835. [In Collections of the New Hampshire Historical\\nSociety, v. 155.]\\nAddress before the Bethel Lodge. By Nathaniel D. Gould.\\nThe New Year s Gift, or Naughty Folks Reformed. By His\\nHonor Isaac Iambic, Commander in Chief of the Poetic Forces in\\nNew Ipswich. 12mo. Jan. 1, 1802. [A Satirical Poem, by one of\\nthe Citizens.]\\nTwo or three Newspapers have been published in town each of\\nwhich had a temporary success. The first was entitled the New\\nIpswich Register, in 1833, edited by Mark Miller. Another, in\\n1836, entitled The News Gatherer, published by King Hewes,\\nand edited by Hewes. The Farmer s Cabinet, at Amherst, was\\nalso originally established by Cushing Preston, Samuel Pres-\\nton of New Ipswich. After a few years he withdrew, and removed\\nto the West and established another newspaper.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nTEADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nclothier s works; linseed oil works; oatmeal; malt; earth-\\nen WARE potasheries; glass cotton and woollen manu-\\nfactures stores and taverns artisans statistics for\\nMDCCCLI.\\nManufacturing has always been a favorite pursuit with the\\npeople of this town, and has often been followed with perse-\\nverance worthy of better success. It is believed that in some\\nbranches which have grown to be of importance, they may\\nclaim to be among the pioneers. The establishment of Saw\\nand Grist Mills has already been noticed in the former part of\\nthe volume. The next in order of time was the erection of a\\nClothier s Works and Fulling Mill this was erected about\\n1776, on the site of the present Mountain Mills, by John War-\\nner. He employed Nathaniel Prentice, who had been enga-\\nged in the same business at Westford and in the course of a\\nyear, Prentice purchased a part of the establishment, and it\\nwas carried on under the firm of Warner \u00c2\u00abfc Prentice. After\\na few years, Mr. Prentice became the sole proprietor, and car-\\nried on the business until about 1800, when he disposed of the\\nconcern to Ephraim Hartwell, who erected some additional\\nbuildings, and turned it into an establishment for making\\nLinseed oil large quantities of flax being then raised in town,\\n(for almost every family made their own linen,) there was no\\ndifficulty in obtaining the seed in any quantity. Linseed oil\\nwas also made by Eleazer Cummings, at his mills, at an early\\ndate.\\nVery soon after the close of the Revolutionary war, Mr.\\nCummings also manufactured at his mill a quantity of Oat-\\nmeal, for the supply of the apothecaries of Boston, who had", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "222 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\ngenerally imported the article. The secret of preparing and\\nhulling the oats for the purpose was said to have been brought\\nfrom Scotland by James Barr, and was not communicated to\\nany other parties.\\nMr. Cummings also had an establishment for Malting,\\nwhich was conducted by Mr. Barr. There was a Malt-house\\non the old road along the flat Pasture, west of the burying-\\nground and this road was designated on the Records as the\\nMalt-house road. It has not been ascertained by whom it\\nwas carried on. Malt was also made at Farrar s mills, by\\nPeter Warren, and continued as lately as 1812.\\nStone and brown earthen ware, such as Jugs, Milk-pans,\\nand Bowls, was manufactured on the Kidder farm as early as\\n1792. Isaiah and Josiah Kidder seem to have managed the\\nestablishment.\\nThere were three or four establishments for the manufac-\\nture of Pot and Pearl Ashes before the beginning of the present\\ncentury. The first of which we have any knowledge was\\nthat of Josiah Fletcher, in the Bake-house village, in 1795.\\nAnother, near where the Bank building now stands, was own-\\ned by David Hills. One by Charles Barrett, in the rear of\\nhis house; and another by Ephraim Hartwell. Another, at\\nthe south part of the town, was carried on by Zechariah\\nParker.\\nBut the first combined effort was for the manufacture of\\nGlass. During the Revolution, the article of window glass\\nbecame so scarce, that the people of Groton had petitioned the\\nGeneral Court to loan them some out of the public stock, stat-\\ning that they could not purchase any for the repairing of their\\nmeeting-house, on any terms whatever.\\nAbout this time Robert Hewes came here, from Boston,\\nwhere he had been a soap and tallow chandler, but was forced\\nto remove on account of the depression of business consequent\\non the war. He was a man of some talents and good address,\\nand professsed to have a knowledge of Glass making. He\\nhad with him some Germans who had worked at the business\\nin Europe. With the assistance of some of our most enter-\\nprising people, he commenced the undertaking, on the north\\nside of the Kidder Mountain, a short distance over the town", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "GLASS HOUSE. 223\\nline, in Temple. The establishment was on a very small\\nscale and, althongh he made some samples of glass, he prac-\\ntically etfected nothing, and after a while concluded to leave\\ntown. But some of the most prominent men became interest-\\ned in the matter, and a meeting was called to investigate the\\nthing when it was agreed to form a company, (or society, as\\nit was then called,) to enable him to erect more extensive\\nworks, and to extend the business, and make every thing that\\nwas wanted in that line.\\nAmong the leaders in the enterprise were Dea. Isaac Apple-\\nton, Charles Barrett, Judge Champney, Reuben Kidder, and\\nJudge Farrar. A large building was soon erected, and exten-\\nsive furnaces were commenced. The heavy fire-stones, as\\nwell as the clay, had to be transported from Boston, over bad\\nroads, a journey that then took a full week to accomplish with\\na loaded team. Much energy was displayed by those inter-\\nested, and it was regarded as a great affair. A large number\\nof persons were employed in cutting and hauling the timber\\nand fuel, and the various labors consequent to such an estab-\\nlishment. People came from far and near to see, for the first\\ntime, the making of glass and for a year or so, till Peace was\\ndeclared, the project seemed to be in a flourishing way. A\\nlottery was arranged for its benefit, and the tickets prepared,\\nbut it is believed were never disposed of. As the thing was\\nso new, much time and money was spent in trying to make\\ntumblers, window glass, and other articles then much wanted,\\nbut with little success and it is said that they never made any\\nthing but junk bottles. Soon after Peace took place, the coun-\\ntry was flooded with every article of European manufacture at\\nmuch lower prices than ever before, and Mr. Hewes was com-\\npelled to stop. He found himself very much indebted to the\\npeople he had employed, as well as to those who had furnish-\\ned him with funds, as he seems to have been the real proprie-\\ntor from first to last. He left town rather suddenly for Bos-\\nton, which gave rise to the story that he had been bought off\\nby a rival establishment there but this was an error, as he\\nresumed his old trade, and paid ofl many of his debts here, in\\nsmall boxes of shaving soap.\\nHe was a man of a sanguine temperament and a few years", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "224 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nafter, again commenced the manufacture of glass in Boston,\\nand received from the Legislature an exclusive grant to man-\\nufacture it throughout the State. His works were located in\\nEssex street, opposite to Kingston street, and were supposed\\nto have been quite profitable.\\nThe following sketch of the cotton and woollen manufac-\\ntures has been furnished by Samuel Batchelder, Esq., who\\nhas been engaged in manufactures probably as long as almost\\nany person now living and is familiar with their rise and\\nprogress. We insert it entire.\\nIn the year 1803, preparations were made for building a\\nCotton Factory in New Ipswich, which was put in operation\\nDecember 15, 1804, being the first cotton factory built in the\\nState of New Hampshire. From the time of the introduction\\nof the Arkwright machinery by Samuel Slater, Avhich was put\\nin operation at Providence, on the Pawtucket Falls, in 1790,\\nthe business had been confined to that first mill until 1798,\\nwhen Slater, in connection with some other persons, built a\\nsecond mill at Cumberland and these two mills for some\\ntime had a monopoly of the business. But after a few years,\\nthe men employed in these mills thought themselves suffi-\\nciently acquainted with the construction of the machinery to\\nset up for themselves. Among these Charles Robbins came to\\nNew Ipswich in 1803, and made proposals to other parties to\\nunite with him in building a mill. A location was fixed upon\\non the lower part of the site of the present mill, which was\\noccupied at that time by an oil mill, a fulling mill, and other\\nAvorks, belonging to Charles Barrett, Ephraim Hartwell and\\nNathaniel Prentice. An Association was formed, in which\\nCharles Barrett and Benjamin Champncy were at first inter-\\nested with Robbins. The latter was to receive for his services\\nand skill ^2.75 per day, and the others to furnish the means\\nfor conducting the business. The mill went into operation in\\nDecember 1804, and contained 500 spindles. Four and a half\\npounds of yarn were spun on the first day, which was sold to\\nCharles Robbins for ^3.42. June 11, 1805, the Legislature of\\nNew Hampshire, on the petition of Charles Barrett and odiers,\\npassed an Act to encourage the manufacture of Cotton Yarn", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "FIRST COTTON FACTORIES. 225\\nin the town of New Ipswich in this State. Tliis act granted\\nan exemption from taxes for five years.\\nIn 1807, a second factory was commenced by Daniel\\nBrooks and some of the workmen who had been engaged\\nin building the first. This was situated a little below, on the\\nsame stream, and was put in operation in 1808, previous to\\nwhich time Samuel Batchelder had purchased an interest\\nin the property. December 9, 1808, on the petition of Seth\\nNason, Jesse Holton and Samuel Batchelder, was passed An\\nactto encourage the manufacture of Cotton Yarn. This act\\ngranted an exemption from taxes for five years, on the build-\\nings, machinery and stock employed in the business, not ex-\\nceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars. These two mills\\nwere both in operation some time before any other machinery\\nwas built in the State for the manufacture of cotton yarn,*\\nand both mills contained less than one thousand spindles.\\nThese were the days of small things^ in some respects, com-\\npared with the present. The quantity of cotton spun in the\\nfirst mill, from April 7, 1810 to June 1, 1811, was 18,196 lbs.,\\nor a little more than 300 pounds per week. The average cost\\nwas 26 cents per pound the product was 13,647 pounds of\\nyarn. The yarn No. 12 was then sold for 84 cents per poimd.\\nAll the cotton used in the factories at that time, or cotton icool,\\nas it was then denominated, had to be picked by hand, at a\\ncost of four to five cents per pound for which purpose it was\\ndelivered at the mill in bags of one hundred pounds or more,\\nand carried frequently some miles on horseback, to be picked\\nby families in distant parts of the town, or the neighboring\\ntowns. This occasioned great delay and inconvenience to\\nobviate which, an Englishman, by the name of Charles\\nIt has sometimes been said, that the first Cotton Factory in the State was\\nbuilt at Exeter; but this is a mistake, as some of the parties concerned in building\\nthe first cotton factory at Exeter, visited New Ipswich after the second mill was\\nbuilt there, in order to obtain information in relation to the business they were\\nabout commencing. The early factory alluded to, at Exeter, was not a cotton\\nfactory, but was built for the manufacture of sail duck. The Legislature of\\nNew Hampshire, in 1789, passed a law to encourage the manufacture of Sail\\nCloth or Duck, granting an exemption from taxes for ten years, an abatement\\nof the poll tax for seven years to such as should be employed in the business, and\\na bounty of fifty pounds for the first establishment created for the purpose. This\\nwas the origin of what has been called the old factory at Exeter.\\n29", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "226 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nHughes, in 1812 built a picking machine, which was put in\\noperation at the first factory, and was among the first experi-\\nments for picking cotton by machinery in this country.\\nIn 1806, Isaiali Kidder purchased the interest of Charles Bar-\\nrett in the first mill for $2,600, and Rogers Chandler also pur-\\nchased the interest of Charles Robbins,* so that the owners then\\nwere Isaiah Kidder, Benja. Champney and Rogers Chandler.\\nIn 1810, Mr. Samuel Appleton, of Boston, who always felt a\\ngreat interest in the prosperity of his native town, also became\\nan owner.\\nAbout the year 1810, Josiah Davis, Joel Davis and Peter\\nFelt converted the old Iron Works, on the north branch of the\\nSouhegan, into a Cotton Factory, which continued in opera-\\ntion until about 1826. It is now occupied more successfully\\nas a Bedstead Manufactory by William Walker.\\nAbout the same time the old Saw and Grist Mill, a little\\nbelow, near Col. Gibson s residence, built about ISOO by Jere-\\nmiah Prichard, and carried on by his brother Benjamin, and\\nafterwards by Salathiel Manning, was purchased by Eleazer\\nRhoades and Loammi Chamberlain. They put Cotton Ma-\\nchinery in it, and carried it on eight or ten years.\\nSoon after this time, Isaiah Kidder formed a partnership\\nwith Ebenezer Stowell, who had considerable experience in\\nvarious branches of manufacture, which he had been concern-\\ned in carrying on at or near Worcester, Mass. They com-\\nmenced the business of manufacturing Velvets, Checks, Tick-\\nings, Table and Bed Covers, and a variety of cotton fabrics,\\nwhich was continued until the death of Mr. Kidder, April 28,\\n1811. As he was the active and enterprising manager of the\\nMr. Robbiiis left town in 1807, and was employed to superintend the mak-\\ning of the patterns and machinery, and put in operation the cotton factory then\\nbeing built at Fitchburg. Mr. R. was said to be in the habit of drinking a quart\\nof brandy daily, and was not usually of a very atniable temper. Being puffed\\nup by being the possessor of important secrets, he assumed an overbearing de-\\nmeanor which was not very pleasing to his employers. As the proprietors funds\\nsoon gave out, all persons employed had to take shares in the concern but Rob-\\nbins, thinking they could not proceed without him, declined to do so. But he\\nsoon found that he had over-estimated his importance, as a very enterprising\\nyoung workman, by climbing the lightning-rod, reached the room where the chest\\ncontaining his patterns was deposited, by which he was soon capable of superin-\\ntending the work, and Mr. Robbins was summarily dismissed. What became of\\nhim afterwards is not known. Soon after its completion a Mr. Field, who had\\nlearned the business in this town, was employed to superintend this factory.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "COTTON GOODS. 227\\nwhole concern, this proved a heavy blow, both to the Cotton\\nFactory, in which he was interested, and to the new under-\\ntaking of weaving cotton goods. But though this business\\ndid not prove successful or profitable, and was not long con-\\ntinued, the commencement of it brought together a number of\\nemigrants from Scotland, Yorkshire, and other places, who\\nwere acquainted with weaving, dyeing and other manufactur-\\ning processes, and who afterwards found employment by other\\nparties so that at the commencement of the war of 1812, a\\nsort of hand-loom manufacture was carried on of Ginghams,\\nTickings, Shirtings and other articles to a considerable extent,\\nprincipally by Samuel Batchelder, who contracted, for some\\nyears, for all the yarn produced in the mill in which he was\\ninterested, and had it woven on his own account; which busi-\\nness he continued until his removal to Lowell, and his con-\\nnection with the Hamilton Manufacturing Company on its\\nestablishment there in 1825.\\nUntil about the year 1812, there were no Power-looms in\\noperation in this country, and most of the yarn spun in the\\nfactories here was used in various household manufactures by\\nhand-looms, which were then a necessary appendage to\\nalmost every family and all mothers and daughters were\\nskilled in using them and, except in a few instances, like\\nthat above-mentioned, very little cloth of any kind was man-\\nufactured for sale. So entirely was our supply of cotton\\ngoods, at that time imported from Great Britain, and such was\\nthe feeling respecting American goods, that few persons en-\\ngaged in the Dry Goods business in Boston could be prevailed\\nupon to offer an article of American manufacture for sale.\\nThe consequence was, that such goods as were made could\\nonly be disposed of by barter, or by consigning them for sale at\\nretail in Boston, or to traders in the country. Notwithstand-\\ning these embarrassments, a considerable business was done\\nfor several years at hand-loom weaving in New Ipswich, on\\naccount of the manufacturing skill which had been introduced\\nthere, affording employment to many of the inhabitants, and\\ncontributing very materially to the prosperity of the place.\\nThis was continued until it was superseded by the introduc-\\ntion of the power-loom; and in the mean time establishments", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "228 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nwere commenced for the sale of American goods in Boston,\\nand such commission houses found an increasing and prosper-\\nous business.*\\nAfter the successful introduction of the Power-loom at Wal-\\ntham, Samuel Appleton, Benjamin Champney, Silas Bullard\\nand Charles Barrett, Jr., and others, were incorporated as the\\nNew Ipswich Water-loom Factory, in 1820, and proceeded\\nto build a new mill, occupying the site of the old mill, then\\nowned by them, and the old fulling-mill above it. This went\\ninto operation in 1821, for the manufacture of Sheetings\\nby power-looms, and was continued successfully for several\\nyears. On the death of Charles Barrett, it was sold at auc-\\ntion, and purchased by a company in Boston. It is now con-\\nducted, under the name of the Mountain Mill, by Hiram\\nSmith, as agent, and manufactures Jeans and Flannels.\\nAbout 1823, a new mill was also commenced on the site of\\nthe second factory, by Samuel Batchelder and Eleazer Brown,\\nwho had purchased the interest of Mr. Holton, about 1818,\\nfor the manufacture of Tickings by power-looms. This went\\ninto operation in 1825, and these two establishments have\\nbeen continued, with various success and some interruptions,\\naccording to the chances and discouragements of the times,\\nand with several changes in the ownership, up to the present\\ntime.\\nAbout the year 1825, two other Cotton mills were put in\\noperation on the same stream, and principally by the same\\nowners; one of which, the Souhegan, has been since burnt\\ndown and rebuilt, under the name of the Columbian Facto-\\nry, No. 2; the other by Eleazer Brown, on the site of the\\nSanderson Factory and both have participated in the prosper-\\nity and adversity of others engaged in this branch of business.\\nOn account of the rapid increase of the Cotton manufacture\\nin this country, since these small beginnings in 1803, and the\\nextent and importance of the business at present in this State,\\nit has not been deemed improper to give the foregoing minute\\ndetail of particulars respecting the commencement of the busi-\\nness at New Ipswich.\\nAmong tl)e very first who engaged in this branch of business vvas Gilman\\nPricliard, a native of New Ipswich,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "WOOL CARDING AND BLUE DYEING. 229\\nIn connection with the cotton mannfacture, the name of\\nJames Sanderson onght not to be omitted, on account of the\\ninfluence which his skill in bhie-dyeing had, in some branches\\nof the cotton business estabhshed at a later period. He came\\nto New Ipswich in 1801, and put in operation a carding ma-\\nchine for carding wool. Those who have any recollection of\\ncloths earlier than this date, will remember that the woollen\\ncloth of household manufacture which constituted the princi-\\npal clothing of people in the country, was very coarse and\\nimperfectly made. The greatest defect arose from carding by\\nhand and want of proper care in sorting the wool, for which\\nreason different parts of the cloth would shrink unevenly in\\nthe fulling and dressing. This was obviated by machine\\ncarding, which mixed and carded the wool so thoroughly and\\nequally that the different parts of the cloth would receive a\\nuniform finish. For this reason the introduction of carding\\nmachines by Mr. Sanderson was an important era in house-\\nhold manufactures and wool was brought to be carded from\\nthe neighboring towns for twelve or fifteen miles, as this was\\nthe first carding machine introduced in this part of the coun-\\ntry. Another very important facility introduced by Mr. S.\\nwas the spring shuttle in place of the hand shuttle.\\nMr. Sanderson was from a manufacturing district in Scot-\\nland, and had also the skill, then almost unknown in this\\ncountry, of dyeing indigo blue by the same process now\\npracticed in our best manufacturing establishments. Before\\nthis time, the good housewife, in providing clothing for her\\nfamily, had some experience of the difficulty and delay of\\nseveral weeks in producing at last a very ordinary color;\\nso that she had a proper appreciation of the mystery of blue\\ndying and when she was able to carry her yarn to the dye-\\nhouse in the morning, for which purpose she sometimes trav-\\nelled several miles, and to have it dyed a beautiful and per-\\nmanent color, and ready to have it carried home at night, it\\nwas a matter of no inconsiderable wonder. The skill of Mr.\\nSanderson proved, afterwards very important, in giving a good\\nand permanent color to the Tickings, Checks and other goods\\nwhich, in the progress of the cotton manufacture, were after-\\nwards made here; and he was subsequently employed at", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "230 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nLowell in skein-dyeing soon after the commencement of bnsi-\\nness by the Hamilton Manufacturing Company. He also\\ncarried on the manufacture of woollens to a considerable ex-\\ntent in 1812-14, and in 1819, added [cotton machinery also.\\nHis factory was burnt in 1819, whereby he lost nearly every\\nthing. It was rebuilt and again burnt.\\nMr. John Everett commenced the manufacture of woollens\\nabout 1810. He erected a mill on the north branch of the\\nSouhegan, on the south road near Dr. Gibson s. His first\\nbusiness was the fulling and dressing of woollen cloth that\\nhad been spun and woven in families but in 1815 he began\\nthe manufacture of satinets. The first weaver in his employ\\nwas Miss Reed, afterwards Mrs. Tho. Sanderson. She was paid\\ntwelve cents per yard. The bobbins were all wound by hand,\\non a one-spindle quill-wheel, the thread passing between the\\nthumb and fingers. The satinet warp was sized in a common\\nwooden tub, and drawn through the nose of a broken jug, in\\norder to squeeze out the sizeing. About 1820 the business\\nwas increased by I he introduction of looms for the making of\\nbroadcloths, kerseymeres and satinets. This was continued\\non quite an extensive scale for those times. The cloth was\\nwoven by main strength, and was as firm as the hills it was\\nbeat up so hard that it was almost milled in the loom. The\\nwool was mostly purchased in Boston, and the cloth sold\\nthere. The woollen manufacture in New England has seen\\nmany reverses and in 1826 this establishment was compelled\\nto stop. The employees mostly emigrated to Lowell and other\\nIt appears from a deposition of the wife of Sanderson, taken in 1823, for the\\npurpose of establishing her claim to a legacy of about three hundred pounds, left\\nher by an uncle who died in London, that Sanderson came to this country in\\n1794, and that she came three years later and that they took up their residence\\nin New Ipswich in 1801. She testifies that she was the daughter of John Thor-\\nburn and Mary Thorburn, formerly Mary Wihon, and sister of Thomas Wil-\\nson, late of Old Bond Street, London that she was married to James Siinderson\\nat Gallashiels that one of her children was born at Melrose that she resided\\nfor a time at West Gordon, and near A f/so. The names of these places seem\\nnow suggestive of poetical associations; and the persons named bring to mind\\nemigrants from Scotland to this country, who have figured in other than manu-\\nfacturing vocations. But tliis was before the genious of Scott had thrown a charm\\nover every fimiiiar name and location in his vicinity and those names, at that\\ntime, belonged truly to the work-day world of plain prose.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "SAW AND GRIST MILLS. 231\\nlarge manufacturing towns, where their experience and skill\\nhave been duly appreciated. In one large factory the princi-\\npal Overseer and three of his subordinates all learned their\\ntrade in Everett s Mills.\\nMr. Everett had been previously connected with Major King\\nand James Taft, in commencing the woollen works at Mason\\nVillage.\\nMILLS.\\nThe first Mills built by the Massachusetts Proprietors, and\\nby John Chandler, have been already described.\\nThomas Adams Sawmill is spoken of in the Records of\\n1760; but its location is not precisely known. It is presumed\\nto have been identical with the one next mentioned. Tradi-\\ntion says that the crank was made of a crooked tree.\\nZechariah Adams, with the assistance of John Breed, built\\nthe Mills in the IMill village. They are alluded to in the\\nRecords of 1764. They were accidentally burnt in 1780, and\\nrebuilt by Samuel Cummin gs. They then stood directly be-\\nlow the dam. They were afterwards owned by Ebenezer\\nFletcher, who rebuilt them on their present site. He sold\\nthem to his son, Roby Fletcher, about 1826. In 1827 they\\nwere set on fire by friction and burned loss ^2.500. They\\nwere rebuilt by Shattuck Knowlton, and again burnt in\\n1836. Again they were rebuilt, and are now owned by Jonas\\nNutting and Stephen Sylvester, who, in addition to Sawing\\nand Grinding, carry on an extensive business in the manufac-\\nture of Chairs.\\nFarrar s Mills, on the Mill Brook, at what has more recent-\\nly been called the Starch Factory, were erected about the year\\n1790. A Bolting Machine for wheat flour, the first in town,\\nwas introduced in 1793, previous to which, the little flour that\\nwas used was sifted by hand sieves. A single run of mill-\\nstones was all the machinery they contained, until about the\\nyear 1816, when an extension was made and a Carding Ma-\\nchine added. They have been carried on by Peter Warren,\\nIsaac Preston, Stephen Farrar, Arthur Dennis and others, and\\ncontinued in operation till 182.5. The mill privilege is now\\nowned by Harvey Batchelder.\\nThe Mills in Mason Village were erected by Charles and", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "232 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nThomas Barrett about 1766w and were called Barrett s\\nMills. They were sold to Amos Dakm 1768.\\nA small Sawmill was built on the stream issuing from\\nPratt s Pond, on the Hildreth estate. Another was built by-\\nMr. Lock on the Adams Brook where it crosses the road going\\nto the Poor-house. There are also two Sawmills on the\\nstream west of the mountains.\\nThe mill built by Capt. Pritchard and improved by Benja-\\nmin Prichard and Salathiel Manning, and afterwards convert-\\ned into the Rhodes Factory, subsequently came into the hands\\nof Mr. Green, who established a manufactory of Potato Starch.\\nIt is now owned by Col. George Gibson, and used for making\\ncarriages and various purposes.\\nAnother Starch mill, on a larger scale, was put in operation\\njust above Farrar s mill, and was carried on for two or three\\nyears, but proved a ruinous concern.\\nTRADERS,\\nThe first trader in town was Jonathan Dix, who settled in\\n176 1 on the Village flat where Rev. Mr. Lee s house now is,\\nand remained till 1771. As early as 1768, Robert Harris\\nbuilt the house occupied by the late Dr. Barr, and kept a\\nstock of goods. He was succeeded by Josiah Rogers, who is\\nmentioned as innholder in 1772. About 1791 he sold out\\nto Ephraim Hartwell, who kept a stock of goods till his death\\nin 1816. His store stood on the west side of the house yard,\\nfacing eastward. It has been removed, and is the same now\\nused by Mr, Hassall for a wheelwright s shop,\\nDavid Hills purchased the estate of Joseph Bates about\\n1771, and opened a store in the house. When the house now\\noccupied by John T. Stevens was built, a room at the west\\nside was used as his store. When the turnpike was opened,\\nhe built a store on the spot now occupied by the house of\\nJoseph Barrett, Esq., which was soon given up to his son,\\nJohn F. Hills, who for a short time (1809) was in company\\nwith Daniel Wheeler. This building was removed, and oc-\\ncupied after the death of Mr. Hills by Sampson Fletcher,\\nwho was his clerk, and succeeded to his business.\\nSome others kept goods for sale previous to the Revolution.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "TRADERS. 233\\nand among them was Jonathan Davis, at the house recently-\\noccupied by his son, Solomon Davis.\\nSamuel Appleton opened a store at the corner, at the foot of\\nthe Burying-ground hill, in 1792. About two years after-\\nwards he entered into partnership with Charles Barrett, and\\ncontinued until 1798, when he removed to Boston. The busi-\\nness was then conducted under the firm of Charles \u00c2\u00abfc George\\nBarrett, having a branch also in Keene, conducted by Roger\\nChandler, and one in Boston. They finally removed to Bos-\\nton about 1804. Their subsequent prosperous career will be\\nnoticed elsewhere.\\nBarrett Chandler built a store in 1806 on the turnpike,\\nwhere the brick house at the corner of the road to Mason and\\nTemple stands.\\nSamuel Batchelder built a store in the Bakehouse village\\nabout 1800, which was managed by his sons, Samuel and\\nPeter. Samuel removed to the store built by Barrett Chand-\\nler about 1810, which was burnt in 1812. He then built the\\nbrick store now occupied by E. M. Isaacs, Esq., where he\\ntraded till his removal to Lowell in 1825. He was succeeded\\nby Eaton Farrar, O. P. Eaton, G. M. Champney Co.,\\nHenry Isaacs, E. M. Isaacs.\\nIsaiah Kidder erected a store opposite to that of Barrett\\nChandler, about 1808, and occupied it till his death. It is the\\nsame building now and for many years used as a tavern.\\nWilliam Lock opened a store on the south side of the stream\\nin Mill village (now called Smith village), about 1803, and\\ntraded there a few years. He afterwards erected the building\\nin front of the tanyard, and kept store there for a short time\\nalso.\\nThe store at the corner of the road to Mason, on the turn-\\npike, has been occupied by Heywood Wood, Heywood\\nDavis, C. B. Davis, and Luke Cram.\\nPeter Felt built a store in Mill village about 1810, and car-\\nried on the business there until his removal about 1825. Col.\\nJeremiah Smith has since traded in that village in a house\\nnearer the stream, on the opposite side of the road, built by\\nEbenezer Fletcher.\\nAbout the year 1816 the old store of Appleton and Barrett\\n30", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "234 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nwas reopened by Gould Willey and under this firm, and\\nthose of Gould Clark, Gould Fox, and Timothy Fox,\\nwas carried on till about 1823. Fletcher (!fc Barrett, George\\nBarrett, Henry Isaacs, James Spaulding, Shattuck Mann,\\nhave since traded there.\\nWilliam W. Johnson has traded in the Bank village since\\nabout the year 1825 a part of the time in connection with\\nCharles Barrett, Jr. and Col. J. P. Clark.\\nSilas Foster, Stevens Taft. and James Reed have traded\\nat the High Bridge and Thomas Wilder in Swamp village.\\nTaverns. The public houses have been almost too numer-\\nous to mention, and very much too numerous for the good of\\nthe town. The first was opened by Benjamin Hoar, at his\\nhouse near the river, on the old countrey road. This was\\nas early as 17.52, and it was kept for forty years or more.\\nJoseph Kidder seems to have been mine host in the cen-\\ntral village, and at his house Proprietors meetings and other\\ngatherings were held although we nowhere find him desig-\\nnated as innholder.\\nCol. Kidder, whose house was then on the great thorough-\\nfare to the towns above, is denominated innholder as early\\nas 1761 and Josiah Rogers, who lived on Dr. Barr s estate,\\nin 1772. Robert Blood is also enumerated at the same date.\\nSamuel Heywood afterwards purchased the Jo. Kidder es-\\ntate, and built the large house now occupied by John Preston,\\nEsq. for a public house, about the year 1783. His successors\\nwere Ebenezer Parker, Elijah Towne and John Champney.\\nThe Bakehouse establishment, so long occupied by Joseph\\nDavis, was built for a store by Josiah Fletcher about the year\\n1785, and enjoyed some little notoriety as a place of convivi-\\nality, as did all stores in those days; rum being dealt out\\nfreely, at little profit, as a lure to customers.\\nOn the site of the Rev. Mr. Lee s house formerly stood a\\none-story building of considerable extent, which was occupied\\nas a store and tavern by Jonathan Dix, and afterwards as a\\ntavern by Samuel Atherton, also by Isaac B Farrar and Eli-\\njah Towne.\\nSoon after the turnpike was constructed, four new taverns", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "TAVERNS AND BANKS. 235\\nwere opened upon it. The first was Wheeler s tavern, at the\\neastern border of the town. The next was kept by Major\\nBenjamin Adams, in the old parsonage house of Rev. Mr. Far-\\nrar, now occupied by ]\\\\Irs. Shattuck. It was a very reputable\\nhouse for those times, and was seldom resorted to as a loung-\\ning-place, or defiled by drunkenness. The third was the\\nBatchelder tavern, built by Samuel Batchelder, Sen., which\\nfor many years enjoyed the reputation of being the best house\\non the road and indeed it was probably unsurpassed any-\\nwhere in the country. After his death it was kept by Peter\\nBatchelder and Moody Adams, until it was finally closed.\\nThe fourth was the Merriam tavern, over the mountain.\\nMr. Merriam had previously kept a tavern a little way up\\nthe Rindge road, but built a new brick house on the turn-\\npike soon after it was opened, about half way between the\\nRindge and Peterborough roads.\\nOn the south road, the house of Samuel Whittemore, now\\nowned by Amos Ramsdell, was enlarged by Silas Bigelow, and\\nwas known as the Bigelow tavern.\\nSamuel Whittemore, Jr. also kept tavern for a time at the\\nhouse opposite the road to the Holden farm.\\nThe Estabrook tavern, the estate once occupied by Col.\\nThomas Heald, was favorably known, during the first quarter\\nof the present century, and was a favorite resting-place of\\ndrovers, as were also the two last-mentioned houses.\\nThe Stage tavern, in the Centre village, was opened about\\nthe year 1818, by Joseph Newell. Among his successors have\\nbeen J. B. Holt, E. P. Tucker, E. L. Hammond, Henry Bates,\\nA. L. Merriam, John Peabody, Oilman Brickett, William\\nMansur.\\nA tavern was also kept for some years at the High Bridge,\\nby Dinsmore, Henry Campbell, and William Mansur.\\nBanks. The Manufacturers Bank was chartered by the\\nLegislature in 1820, with a capital of One Hundred Thousand\\nDollars but it did not go into operation till two or three years\\nafterwards. It was located near the present Mountain Mills,\\nin what has since been called the Bank Village. The first\\nPresident was Charles Barrett, Esq., who contiiuied in ofiice", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "236 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\ntill nearly the time of his death. Thomas B. Fearing was the\\nfirst Cashier, and held the office for some two or three years\\nhe was succeeded by William Ainsworth, Esq., who had the\\nchief management of the Institution till his death in 1S42.\\nHis fidelity and urbanity gave great satisfaction to all who\\nhad occasion to have dealings with the Institution. He was\\nsucceeded by Mr. George Barrett. In 1845, a new building\\nwas erected in the middle of the town, and the Bank removed\\nthere. Besides paying its semi-annual dividends, at the expi-\\nration of its charter there was said to have been a handsome\\nsurplus after paying out the capital to the stockholders a\\npretty good evidence that it had been well managed.\\nThe New Ipswich Bank was chartered in 1848, and\\nwent into operation soon after. Its capital is f 100,000.\\nIts officers are J. M. Minot, President George Barrett,\\nCashier Directors J. H. Melville, S. A. Elliot, J. Chandler,\\nS. Gibson, S. Wheeler and J. W. Bliss. Its dividends have\\naveraged seven per cent, annually. The number of stock-\\nholders is one hundred and nineteen, about one quarter of\\nwhom reside in town.\\nA Savings Bank was incorporated a few years since, and\\nwent into operation. It has been managed principally by\\nJohn Preston, Esq.\\nPrinting. About the year 1817, Salmon Wilder removed\\nto this town from Leominster, with a Printing apparatus of\\nthe rudest kind even for those days. He did such jobs in the\\nway of printing notices for Vendues, Strayed or Stolen, Farm\\nfor sale. Executor s Notices, c., as were usually found posted\\nin country taverns and stores. He also printed little Toy-\\nbooks, illustrated with curious cuts executed on type metal in a\\nvery questionable style of art, such as is exhibited in the cuts\\nto the old Catechism. Beyond the printing of Ebenezer\\nP letcher s Narrative, or an occasional Address he did not as-\\npire. He executed all the printing demanded by the town\\nand vicinity for many years. Since his time the printing bu-\\nsiness has been carried on by Mark Miller, King Hewes.\\nIt is not probably known by many of the inhabitants how-\\never, that a printing establishment once existed over the", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "I\\nPRINTERS. 237\\nmountain, near the Rindge line, owned and conducted by-\\nSimeon Ide. We have gathered some particulars of his life,\\nwhich we should be glad to give more fully than we propose,\\nas a specimen of the enterprize and perseverance of many New\\nEngland youth in overcoming difficulties. He was appren-\\nticed to Farnsworth Churchill, publishers of the Vermont\\nRepublican, at Windsor, Having bought his time of his\\nfather, he found himself in possession of about $500, at the age\\nof 22. With this he purchased of Munroe Francis a small\\ntv o-piill Ramage press, and a font of bourgeois type which\\nhad already been pretty well worn on an edition of Shak-\\nspeare. This he placed in the blacksmith shop on his father s\\nfarm, and undertook to print an edition of the New Testament\\nin duodecimo form. By the assistance of a sister about twelve\\nyears old, in setting type, it was accomplished in about six\\nmonths. That this his first publication might be as free from\\nerrors as possible, he engaged the Rev. Dr. Pay son of Rindge\\nto read the proof-sheets. As there was only type enough to\\nset twelve pages at a time, he walked to his house, a distance\\nof four miles, twice a week, to read proofs with him and to\\ngive greater currency to the edition, he prevailed on Dr. Payson\\nto allow him to insert on the title-page Revised and corrected\\nby Rev. S. Payson, D. D. Some of the Doctor s friends\\nhaving got the impression that he had been making a new\\ntranslation of the Testament, it gave him no little uneasiness.\\nTo relieve him of this, Mr. Ide printed the words First New\\nIpswich Edition, and pasted the strip over the obnoxious\\nline. An edition of 5000 was worked off, and 1000 copies, in\\nfull binding, were sold to the New Hampshire Bible Society,\\nfor $280, which was less than cost, in order to raise money to\\npurchase paper at Peterborough. The others were retailed at\\nfifty cents a copy.\\nBesides the Testament, Mr. Ide printed a Sermon, by Dr,\\nPayson The Grave, a Poem, by Robert Blair the Life and\\nCharacter of Benjamin Franklin, about fifty pages 32mo,,\\nwritten by Mr, Ide himself, in his leisure hours, while an ap-\\nprentice.\\nIn 1817 he removed from New Ipswich, and worked at", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "238 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nBoston, Dedham and Windsor, and now resides and continnes\\nhis vocation at Claremont, N. H.\\nChairs. Soon after the opening of the Turnpike, Peter\\nWilder located himself in the dense woods at the northwest\\ncorner of the town, a dismal region, long known under the\\nname of Tophet Swamp. Here he erected works for the\\nmanufacture of Chairs, which in the hands of his partner,\\nAbijah Wetherbee, and his sons, J. P. and John B. Wilder,\\nhas been carried on industriously and extensively for about\\nforty years. It was one of the earliest establishments of the\\nkind and most of the pine-seated, curved-back, painted and\\nornamented chairs in the region originated here, and finally\\nsuperseded the old square built, flag-bottomed pattern. That\\nYankee luxury the rocking-chair, was largely supplied from\\nthis establishment The present Swamp Village, or\\nWilder s Village, now consisting of five or six houses,\\nseveral shops, and a sawmill just over the Sharon line, has\\nresulted.\\nThere are now one or two other shops for the same purpose\\nin town.\\nScythe Manufactory. Before the year 1800, John Putnam,\\nunder the patronage of Ephraim Hartwell, commenced the\\nmanufacture of Scythes. He first had a trip-hammer at the\\nMill village but subsequently erected the works lower down\\nthe stream, afterwards the Davis Cotton Factory. The\\nworks were afterwards carried on by Oliver Ormsbee and\\nJohn Farwell, until Mr. Farwell removed to Fitchburgh,\\nwhere he has since continued the business on a much larger\\nscale. The scythes of Ormsbee Farwell were for many\\nyears in great demand, far and near.\\nA building on the Sawmill Brook, near the old Adams es-\\ntate, now used for preparing match-wood and for other pur-\\nposes, and previously for a Bleachery and for Stove Castings,\\nhas always gone by the name of The Forge but for what\\npurpose it was originally intended we have not been able to\\nlearn.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "ARTISANS. 239\\nThe following is a list of the various Artisans who have\\nlived ill town, as far as recollected, enumerated nearly in the\\norder of time.\\nCarpenters. Jonas Woolson, Amos Prichard, Daniel Fos-\\nter, John Gould, Benjamin Prichard, John Prichard, Ebene-\\nzer Fletcher (millwright), Samuel Holden, John Butman,\\nJoseph Knowlton, Leonard Brooks, Cummings Fletcher,\\nCharles Stearns, Oilman Ames, Willard Jefts. They were\\naccustomed to execute all kinds of wood- work.\\nJoiners. Joseph Bacheller, who occupied the first school-\\nhouse; northwest of the old meeting-house Isaac Appleton, in\\nMill village Martin Haven, who first worked in a part of the\\nhouse now occupied by John Preston, Esq., about 1800, and\\nafterwards built the shop near the burying-ground, now occu-\\npied as a dwelling-house by Mrs. Chickering he was suc-\\nceeded by Peter Cloyes and John Gould, Jr. John M. Bach-\\neller.\\nBlacksmiths. Benjamin Hoar, at the bridge over the river;\\nEbenezer Brown, near the northeast school-house Edmund\\nBriant, near Col. Kidder s, and afterwards Mill village; John\\nDutton, at the crotch of the roads above the Factories Josiah\\nBacheller Son, opposite Peter Clark Abner Chickering, at\\nhis farm; Enos Knight and Elijah Knight, on Knight s Hill;\\nCarey, on the Rindge line Joseph Briant, Ephraim Fair-\\nbanks, in Bakehouse village Oliver Whitcomb, at the brook\\nnear Mrs. Everett; Samuel Dutton, near the meeting-house;\\nAbel Gardner, at the old Factory; Isaiah Williams, Charles\\nBateman and John T. Stevens, near Kidder s Brook\\nHale, Charles Whitmarsh, Lewis Eppes, Russell Farwell,\\nCurtis Shedd, Hildreth, in Mill village Lysander E.\\nRussell, near Estabrook s tavern; Thomas Wesson, near the\\nCentre tavern.\\nShoebiakers. Jonathan Kimball, Phinehas Pratt, Josiah\\nObear, Abijah Smith, Elijah Towne, Israel Cheever, William\\nDickson, Benjamin Barrett, Benjamin A. Billings, Ralph Ro-\\nby, William Cheever, Abel Shattuck, Isaiah Cragin, William\\nSearle, Franklin Griswold, Wilson.\\nHatters. Daniel Swain, Richard H. Jones, Elijah Smith,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "240 TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nSeth King, Stephen F. Preston, Caleb Farrar, Samuel Parker,\\nJames Tolman, Jonathan Webster, Charles King.\\nTailors. Joseph Baker, Ezra Kimball, Samuel Porter, Jo-\\nsiah Webber. Most of the Tailoring has been done by fe-\\nmales.\\nTanners. Jeremiah Prichard constructed the yard below\\nthe old burial-ground about 17 7; Isaac Spaulding, James\\nTaft, Jeremiah Prichard, Jr., John Tolman, Charles Adams,\\nCharles Shedd, Amos Pierce, Lawrence, Bell, have\\nall successively occupied the same premises Stedman Hough-\\nton, near the meetinghouse, opposite the new burying-ground.\\nThe slaughter-house was early connected with the yard\\nand the butchering business has usually been carried on by\\nthose who have improved the tanyard.\\nSaddlers. John Crosby, as early as 1793 Isaac Stone,\\nSilas Cragin, William Farwell, Charles Hubbard, Newton\\nWilley, Levi Cochran, all in shops near the Barrett store\\nLevi Hodge, C. L. Weston, at the turnpike.\\nBakers. Samuel Batchelder removed from Jaffrey in 1785,\\nand built the house now occupied by Benjamin Davis, as a\\nbakery. This he carried on about fifteen years. Joseph Da-\\nvis soon after converted the store of Josiah Fletcher into a\\nbake-house, and carried on the business with much energy\\nand success. For the first quarter of the century he supplied\\nthe whole region, for twenty miles, with Crackers and Gin-\\ngerbread. Thayer Wood again fitted up the old establish-\\nment of Samuel Batchelder, about twenty-five years since,\\nand occupied it for a few years, when they removed to the\\nCentre village, on the turnpike. N. Smith, N. H. May and\\nAlbert Thayer have succeed ^d them.\\nMasons and Painters. Until quite recently, there were no\\nprofessed masons in town, with the exception of Francis Shat-\\ntuck and his father; and the inhabitants were dependent\\nchiefly on the Wellingtons of Ashby for this indispensable\\nservice.\\nThe same may be said of Painters, who, it is too true, found\\nlittle occupation anywhere in the country, until the last thirty\\nyears. Such buildings as were painted, were mostly covered", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "I\\nSTATISTICS. 241\\nby unskilful hands with a coating of oil and Spanish-brown,\\nmixed with a little red lead.\\nWheelwrights. James Brickett, about 1820 Cummings\\nFletcher, Roby Fletcher, William Hassall, Hiram Nutting,\\nSeth Stratton.\\nTinmen. About 1816 to IS, Joseph Pressey occupied the\\nshop in front of the tanyard, as a tinman. Joseph Buckman\\nnext manufactured tin ware to a considerable extent, at the\\nold Farrar tavern. Since then, this business has been carried\\non in town very extensively by Nathan and George Sanders,\\nBoynton Stark, and others.\\nWatchmakers and Jewellers. Richard Boyter, David\\nFrench, Martin Ames.\\nSTATISTICS OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURES, AUGUST, IS. JO.\\nPREPARED BY GEORGE M. CHAMPNEY.\\nColumbian Factory, No. 2. {late Souhegan.^\\nHas in operation 3000 spindles, 30 carding machines, 83\\nlooms.\\nManufactures 1,243,000 yards Tickings, Stripes and De-\\nnims per annum.\\nUse 468,000 lbs. of Cotton 828 bbls. Flour for dressing\\n400 cords Wood, in dyeing, calendering, c.\\nEmploys 120 operatives, male and female.\\nMountain Mill, {late Waterloom.\\nHas in operation 2176 spindles and 54 looms.\\nManufacture 572,761 yards brown Drills per annum.\\nUse 166,692 lbs. Cotton\\nEmploys 77 operatives, male and female.\\nBrown s Mills, erected in 1822.\\nHave in operation 1756 spindles and 54 looms.\\nManufacture 350,000 to 400,000 yards Ticking and Denims\\nper annum.\\nUse 150,000 lbs. Cotton per annum.\\nEmploys 75 operatives, male and female.\\n31", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "243\\nTRADE AND MANUFACTURES.\\nS. Thayer Co. Cigar Manufactory.\\nMake 2,791,500 Cigars per annum.\\nUse 279,150 lbs. Tobacco.\\nEmploy about 50 hands.\\nCigar Factory.\\nUse 150,000 lbs. Tobacco.\\nMoses Brickett.\\nMake 1,500,000 per annum.\\nEmploys 40 hands.\\nManufactures also 50 barrels Ink per annum, and a large\\namount of Japan and Paste Blackmg, Essences, c., c.\\nS. Thayer Co. Match Factory.\\nMake 4,507,200 Matches, or 31,300 gross per annum.\\nEmploy 12 hands.\\nThey also make and bottle 100 bbls. Ink 30 bbls. Japan\\nBlacking and great quantities of Paste Blacking, Essences,\\nOils, c., c.\\nOther Manufactories.\\nSaddle and Harness Maker.\\nWatchmaker and Jeweller.\\nBlacksmiths.\\nTannery.\\nTailoring Establishments.\\nGrist Mills.\\nBuilders and Housewrights.\\nGeneral Variety Stores.\\nRestaurant.\\n1 for making Cigar Boxes.\\n1\\n1 Match Wood.\\n1\\n2 Chairs.\\n5\\n2 Carriages.\\n1\\n1 Bedsteads.\\n3\\n1 Hats.\\n2\\n2 Tin Ware Manufactories.\\n5\\n1 Bakery.\\n4\\n1 Wheelwright.\\n1", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV,\\nMISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS,\\nmilitary affairs fires casualties roads and bridges\\ncarriages; temperance reform; slavery vital statistics;\\nburials and burying-ground music population; occupancy\\nOF farms; town officers, ETC.\\nMilitary Affairs. It is impossible to give, at this time,\\na full account of the various Military companies, with their\\nofficers, that have, for the last century, existed in town. As\\nthere have been no Records preserved, the following state-\\nment is nearly all derived from tradition and memory.\\nIn former times, military offices were looked upon as high\\nhonors, and none but the most reliable and courageous were\\nselected for them and a captain was held in higher distinc-\\ntion than a General is at the present day. The dignity of\\neven a corporal was such that he was usually addressed by his\\ntitle through life. Training, in those days, meant something\\nmore than a mere holida^^-show.\\nIt is not known at what period the first company was or-\\nganized in town, but probably as early as 1755, as from that\\ntime till 1760 we had an Indian enemy on our very borders.\\nIt is supposed that Capt. Tucker was the first commander.\\nThis is mainly inferred from his having the title of captain,\\nand his known martial ability and courage. It is known that\\nthere was an organized company here in 1760, under the com-\\nmand of Capt. Reuben Kidder, of which Aaron Kidder was\\nlieutenant and on the elevation of the former to the office of\\ncolonel, the latter was appointed captain of the company. He\\ndied suddenly, in 1769, and was probably succeeded by Capt.\\nBenjamin Hoar.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "244 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nThe venerable Isaac Appleton says, the first traming he\\never witnessed was when he was about nine years old. that\\nis, in 1771. The following is a list of the officers, viz. Tho-\\nmas Fletcher, captain Benjamin Knowlton, first lieutenant\\nIsaac Appleton, his father, second lieutenant Thomas Heald,\\nensign; Sam l Whittemore, clerk; Thomas [Francis 7J Fletch-\\ner, Charles Barrett, Simeon Fletcher, Ezra Towne, sergeants\\nStephen Parker, Joseph Parker, Hezekiah Corey and Moses\\nTucker, Jr., corporals Thomas Farnsworth, drummer. The\\ncompany was very large, containing not less than one hund-\\nred. I heard the clerk call over their names, and five brothers\\nanswered to the name of Kinney. It will be seen that many\\nof this list of officers afterwards commanded companies, and\\nsome of them attained a higher rank.\\nIn 1773 a division was made so as to form two companies\\nand considerable rivalry existed between them for a long peri-\\nod. The North company retained Capt. Fletcher as its com-\\nmander, while the South chose Capt. Charles Barrett. At the\\ncommencement of the Revolution, the latter declined to act\\nwith the new government, and was superseded and we hear\\nnothing of the doings of the former.\\nIn September, 1775, a reorganization of the Militia took\\nplace. This town was included in the fifteenth regiment, and\\nour companies were styled the first (North) and second\\n(South) companies. The first is supposed to have been com-\\nmanded by Capt. Abijah Smith, of which Stephen Parker was\\nlieutenant the second by Captain Thomas Heald, who soon\\nbecame colonel, and was succeeded as captain by Joseph Par-\\nker. Jonathan Davis was appointed ensign of the second\\ncompany his commission, dated at Exeter, Sept. 5, 1775, is\\nstill extant; it is signed by Matthew Thornlon, as President,\\nand bears the official seal of the Colony a bundle of arrows,\\na fish and a pine tree, with the motto, Vis unita fortior.\\nAbout 1700, by a new organization of the Militia, this town\\nwas included in the twenty-second regiment, as it still is.\\nThe North company has been commanded by Capts. Benja-\\nmin Williams, Seth Wheeler, Ephraim Hartwell, Ezra Towne,\\nBenjamin Adams, and in 1800 by Isaiah Kidder and subse-\\nquently by Captains Supply Wilson, Abner Brown, Eleazer", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "MILITARY AFFAIRS. 245\\nBrown, Abijah Wetherbee, Josiah P. Wilder, and others. The\\ncommanders of the South company have been Jotham Hoar,\\nZechariah Parker, Timothy Fox, Jr., Noah Bartlett, Solo-\\nmon Davis, John Everett, Peter Felt, Levi Bailey, Timothy\\nFox, 3d., Reuben Ramsdell, and probably several others.\\nAbout 1798, the North company was organized as a Light\\nInfantry corps, and were all in complete uniform. This was\\nsustained for several years, while under the command of Capt.\\nBenjamin Adams, who was afterwards Major.\\nAbout 1796, a Cavalry company was organized in the regi-\\nment. It was got up mainly through the exertions of Capt.\\nJeremiah Prichard, who was its first commander. He had\\nbeen an officer in the Revolution, and his military taste, ele-\\ngant figure and fine horsemanship rendered him an excellent\\ncommander. The officers and privates were mostly from this\\ntown and they seldom paraded elsewhere, except at the an-\\nnual musters. Their uniform was a scarlet coat, bulf breeches\\nand red-topped boots, a low helmet cap with a bearskin crest\\nand white plume tipped red on the side, and appropriate arms\\nand accoutrements. It flourished for some twenty-five years,\\nand had the reputation of being one of the best squadrons of\\nHorse in the State. Its commanders were Jeremiah Prichard,\\nSamuel Greely (of Wilton), W^illiam Prichard, Charles Cum-\\nmings, Isaac Spaulding (who afterwards removed to Wilton),\\nJeremiah Prichard, Jr., Newton Willey, Asa Prichard, Charles\\nPrichard, and perhaps others.\\nDuring the war of 1812, and for several years after, there\\nwas a revival of the military spirit. Trainings were multipli-\\ned, and the companies put on something of the appearance of\\nregular troops, by providing frontlets ornamented with stars\\nand eagles, and tied on the hat with tasselled cords, so as to\\nresemble somewhat the British grenadier cap of the Revolu-\\ntion.\\nIn September 1816, a grand military fete took place, con-\\nsisting of the two Infantry companies, the troop of Horse, and\\nthe Alarm List, composed of veterans under Capt. Abner Cliick-\\nering. There were also two tribes personating Indians, of\\nwhich Roger Chandler and Elijah Town, were chiefs, which\\nkept the town in alarm during the day by their sudden incur-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "246 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nsioiis and depredations. The sham fight and display afforded\\nmuch gratification to the numerous spectators, and some as-\\ntonished boys were heard to declare that it was equal to a\\nmuster.\\nIn 1818, a company of Independent Grenadiers was formed.\\nTheir uniform consisted of a chapeau de bras with green plume,\\nblue coat with bell buttons, black pants with red corded seams,\\na new stand of arms, and accoutrements to match. A good\\nband of music, for those days, was attached to it and it was\\ndecidedly the best uniformed and best disciplined company\\nthat had ever been attached to the regiment, and for ten years\\nor more continued to bear the palm. On one occasion it went\\nto Mont Yernon to do escort duty, on the Fourth of July\\nand on a similar occasion it appeared at Wilton. Their com-\\nmanders were John Everett, John Shattuck, Samuel Chicker-\\ning, Lewis Epps, George Gibson, John P. Clark, and others.\\nThe following persons have held commissions as colonels\\nReuben Kidder, Thomas Heald, Ezra Towne, Reuben Rams-\\ndell, Jeremiah Smith, George Gibson, John P. Clark.\\nNoah Bartlett and Supply Wilson were Majors, and Seth\\nKing held the commission of Adjutant and Brigade Inspector.\\nAmong the military organizations, we must not omit to\\nmention some of the juvenile military companies.\\nIn 1800, a juvenile company was organized, which attract-\\ned great attention. It was commanded by Elias Phinney,\\nafterwards of Lexington, and then a student at the Academy\\nEbenezer Start was lieutenant Caleb Farrar, ensign N. G.\\nDuren, fifer Thomas Pollard, drummer.\\nAn Artillery company was organized about 1817. It was\\ncomposed of boys from ten to fifteen years of age, and about\\nforty in number. They wore white pants, dark roundabout\\njackets, and chapeanx de b?rfs, most of them made of black\\npasteboard, with a white red-tipped feather. They were pro-\\nvided with swords, some of metal, but mostly of stained wood,\\nand had a small field-piece. They attended the annual mus-\\nter at Wilton, and the commanding ofiicers of the regiment\\ncourteously assigned an honorable position on the field and\\nas the Peterborough Artillery had come unprovided with pow-\\nder, they had the pleasure of firing the salutes of the day.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "LOSSES BY FIRE. 247\\nThe town furnished them with rations and ammunition, and\\nthey attracted much attention by their prompt manoeuvres and\\nsoldierly bearing and during the sham fight they won unfad-\\ning honors, without any efiusion of blood. They were com-\\nmanded by Capt. Joseph Warren Lawrence. Bruce Wilkins\\nwas lieutenant. Ira Holden, now of New Orleans, was fifer\\nand Mr. Kendall (formerly of the N. O. Picayune) was drum-\\nmer. He has since made more noise in the world, and in the\\nwar with Mexico figured on a somewhat larger field. John\\nAppleton, Esq., now Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine,\\nwas one of the sergeants, and the writer of this article another.\\nIn 1824, a similar company flourished. They made a dis-\\nplay at the celebration of the Fourth of July, and at the Mus-\\nter at Temple that year. They were commanded by Capt.\\nCharles Smith (recently deceased at Mobile), who was suc-\\nceeded by Capt. George M. Champney.\\nIt would be interesting to publish at this time the rolls of\\nthese companies, could they be found. The members are now\\nscattered from the Penobscot to the Mississippi.\\nSome will remember another company, formed of the stu-\\ndents of the Academy, in 1818, commanded by Capt. Thurs-\\nton, of Fitchburg. They had been warned, contrary to long\\ncustom, to appear at training. As they were numerous, and\\nhad no prospect of procuring a supply of arms, they organized\\na company, chose their officers, and paraded with a drum and\\nfife, armed with books, which they manoeuvred in appropriate\\nstyle. Their behavior was so satisfactory, that it was accept-\\ned as a due compliance with the laws, and they were excused\\nfrom fine.\\nLoss BY Fires. The first building destroyed by fire, was\\nthe first meeting house, in 1748 how it took fire is, and for-\\never will remain, unsettled. It was probably of little value.\\nA currier s shop, owner unknown, was burnt about 1775.\\nThe saw and grist mills in Mill Village, then owned by Sam-\\nuel Cummings, were burnt about 1780.\\nA school house, in the north east district, near where Mark\\nFarrar now lives, was destroyed about 1790.\\nI", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "248 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nThe dwelling house of Lt. John Pratt was consumed in\\n1806. Loss of property about $1500.\\nThe store owned by Samuel Appleton, Esq., and occupied\\nby Mr. Samuel Batchelder, was burnt Dec. 22d, 1812. Loss\\nestimated at $7,000. The town Library, and many of the\\npapers belonging to the Academy, were lost by this fire.\\nA blacksmith s shop, belonging to Josiah Bacheller, stand-\\ning nearly opposite the house of Col Peter Clark, was burnt\\nin 1812.\\nIn 1816, the dwelling house of Abijah Smith was des-\\ntroyed, by a spark alighting upon the roof. Nearly all the\\nfurniture was saved.\\nTwo barns, owned by Ebenezer Champney, were struck by\\nlightning, and consumed in 1820. They were soon rebuilt,\\nby the voluntary contributions and labors of the citizens. In\\nthe same year, Mrs. Burrows lost her barn, from the same\\ncause.\\nJan y 10th, 1820, the cotton and woollen factory of Mr.\\nSanderson was consumed it was rebuilt and burnt in 1825.\\nThese were severe losses to that industrious man.\\nThe dwelling house of Charles Bateman was consumed,\\nabout 1826. This was formerly the old Dix and Town s\\ntavern.\\nThe dwelling of Samuel C. Wheeler was burnt in 1819.\\nIt was formerly the residence of Isaac How. Loss $2500.\\nThe old Fletcher mills were burnt by friction, in 1827;\\nthey were rebuilt and owned by Shattuck Knowlton, and\\nagain burnt in 1836. Loss $2000.\\nThe Souhegan factory was burnt at midnight, Aug. 21,\\n1838 loss estimated at thirty thousand dollars.\\nA dwelling house and shop, standing opposite the new\\nburying ground, and belonging to Stedman Houghton, was\\nburnt in 1838.\\nIn 1844, a machine shop belonging to Capt. Eleazer Brown\\nwas burned. This building was the second cotton factory\\nbuilt in town. It was rebuilt and again burnt in 1846.\\nTwo barns belonging to Samuel Holden, were burned by\\nlightning, in 1845.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "CASUALTIES. 249\\nJohn Gould s dwelling was destroyed by fire, in 1836, and\\nthe house of Oliver Boynton, near it, in 1842.\\nIn 1851, the Mountain mills were damaged by fire, to the\\namount of about five thousand dollars.\\nCasualties. Nathan Page was killed by the fall of the\\nlimb of a tree, 1772. Simeon Fletcher was killed at the rais-\\ning of Wilton meetinghouse, 1793. Daniel Clary was killed\\nby falling at the raising of Dea. Ephraim Adams, Jr. s barn,\\nin the attempt to stand on his head on the ridgepole, 1772.\\nElizabeth Going was wounded by a splinter, and bled to\\ndeath, 1798. A child of James Barr was killed by a cart,\\n1799. Jonathan Bigelow was killed in a well, 1799. Col.\\nEzra Town was killed by falling upon a hay-hook, 1795.\\nSimeon Wright cut his ancle, which bled profusely he ran a\\nfew rods and fell dead. Isaac Preston was killed by a fall\\nfrom a dam, in Ashby, 1806. A child, named Wheeler, was\\nburnt in the house of John Pratt, 1806. The wife of Zech-\\nariah Parker was burned, by her clothes taking fire, in 1808.\\nWilliam Kimball Bacheller was thrown from his horse, strik-\\ning his head on the hub of a wheel, and was killed, 1811.\\nJonas Jones, ad. 81, fell dead from his horse, in Ashby, 1818.\\nJacob Ames was killed by falling from the dam of the Souhe-\\ngan Factory, 1825. Capt. William Prichard was thrown from\\nhis chaise by the fall of his horse, and broke his neck, 1835\\nit was in Wilton, near the spot where his friend Capt. Samuel\\nGreele, long associated with him in the Cavalry Company,\\nwas killed, while riding past, by the fall of a tree. His wife,\\nDeidamia Prichard, was found dead, suffocated by her cloth-\\ning having taken fire, 1840. Samuel Chickering was killed\\nby the kick of a horse, 1836. Joseph Spear died suddenly\\nfrom drinking cold water, 1818. Gilman Spaulding was kill-\\ned with an axe, by an insane brother, 1842. Alva Butler\\nwas caught by the machinery at Brown s factory, and killed,\\n1844. Luke H. Cutter was frozen to death, 1845.\\nDrow7ied. A child of Peter Warren, at Farrar s mill, 1798.\\nNathan Pratt was drowned 1802. James Jewett, 1806.\\nA child of John Prichard, 1808. Alanson Prichard, at Mason\\nVillage. Josiah Fisk, at Medford, 1818. A child of William\\n32", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "250 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nMatthews fell through the ice at the Factory, 1842. Wilham\\nHall, at Westminster, 1844.\\nSuicide. Almira Griswold, in a state of religious melan-\\ncholy, committed suicide, by hanging herself on a tree, in\\n1829. This is the only instance of suicide that has occurred\\nin town.\\nRoads and Bridges. The condition of the highways, in\\nthe early settlement of the town, can now hardly be imagined.\\nWhen the lots of the town were plotted, provision was made\\nfor roads in strait lines across the ends of the lots, east and\\nwest, and between every four lots, north and south. As these\\nlocalities were impracticable, roads were laid out across lots,\\nand the strips set aside for roads added to the farms encroached\\nupon. This often gave rise to troublesome quarrels. They\\nwere mere bridle paths, formed by cutting away a few trees,\\nand winding through the woods, over one hill after another,\\nand making the travelled distance between many places near-\\nly double the distance it now is. All travel was done on\\nhorseback. The roads gradually improved, down to the Rev-\\nolution but it was not till about the beginning of the present\\ncentury that they were in a condition to be travelled with\\nsafety, by any of the various kinds of carriages now in use.\\nIt is said, that the present condition of the old blueberry\\npasture road, from the old burying ground westward, is a\\nfair sample of what the roads were some sixty years ago. In\\nfact, down to the end of the last century, it was almost impos-\\nsible to get into or out of the town, with a pleasure carriage.\\nAt their meeting in June, 175U, the Masonian Proprietors\\nvoted, to build a Bridg over Souhegan River, on or near the\\nsame place wheare the former Bridg was built. Benjamin\\nHoar and Capt. Jonas Woolson were to build it in the course\\nof the summer, and when finished workmanlike in the judg-\\nment of indifferent men, they were to receive \u00c2\u00a355, old tenor.\\nThis bridge was at the same place where the road crosses the\\nriver, above the upper factory. They also chose a commit-\\ntee to repair the Ways of the town that are absolutely nec-\\nessary, not to exceed the sum of \u00c2\u00a330, old tenor.\\nThe principal road referred to, was the one which entered", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "ROADS AND BRIDGES. 251\\nthe town from Townsend, south of the Wheeler tavern, thence\\nover the hill by the Tucker place to the bridge, thence past\\nJudge Farrar s place to the meeting-house, thence past the\\nAppleton and Kidder estates towards the Spofibrd gap, and so\\non to the towns above. This was called, in after time, the\\nold countrey road. It was agreed to have this road four\\nrods wide, and the others two rods wide. It was formally laid\\nout and accepted neare about wheare People now Travil,\\nin 1752 and, although it was the great thoroughfare of the\\ntown, the trees were still standing in it, and it was then voted\\nnot to fell the trees on the main road through the town, as\\nlately as 1759. There were other paths to accommodate the\\nAdamses, and as far as the Wilson farms. Another led to\\nAbijah Foster s, at the Bakehouse village.\\nChandler s Mills having been built in 1750, it was voted\\nthe next year, to build a bridge across the river near the\\nmills, provided it could be completed, workmanlike, for the\\nsum of \u00c2\u00a350, old tenor. It stood a little below the High\\nBridge. It was built by Timothy Heald, and was accepted\\nOct. 1753. The next year it was voted to board the Bridges\\nover Souhegan River, on each side. It was rebuilt in 1759,\\nand those who built it were allowed for thirty-nine days\\nwork and for two gallons of Rhum, and the necessary ox-\\nwork.\\nIn 1753, a road was laid out to Rov/ley Canada (Rindge).\\nThis road ran from the Bakehouse village, over the Burrows\\nhill, passed the Wheeler farms to Ephraim Adams and then\\ndirectly over the mountain to the Godding village.\\nIn 1754, the road from the village to Temple, by way of\\nthe Wilson farms, was laid out. In 1755, the road from the\\nHodgkins corner to the Safford farm, and so on up the Safford\\nlane to the Farrar place, which was the only way of coming\\nto the old meeting house from the south and southwest, until\\nthe road running between the two burying grounds was con-\\nstructed in 17()8. A road over the hills, to the northeast cor-\\nner of the town, towards Wilton, was also laid out this year.\\nThe road that goes to Dorchester Canada, (Ashburnham)\\nwas spoken of 1765, and a Bridge at the Mills Village was", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "252 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nbuilt by Timothy Heald, for \u00c2\u00a335, old tenor, in 1759. It was\\nrebuilt by Samuel Cummings, in 1771-72.\\nThe south road, from the town line to Dr. Gibson s, and\\nthence north past Wilkins and Safford, was accepted in 1755\\nand Amos Whittemore, in 1756, was allowed \u00c2\u00a335, old tenor,\\nfor a Bridge across the Souhegan. This road had probably\\nbeen laid out before this time, for on the Townsend Records\\nof 1750, are the minutes of a road to the town line, evidently\\ncontinuous with this. Among the early roads not yet men-\\ntioned, and which were the accustomed lines of travel at the\\ntime, was one from the bridge below Chandler s mills, south-\\neastward up the hill to the Woolson and Bullard farms, then\\nsouth entering the country road above the Wheeler tavern\\nanother from the same point northeastward over the hill, by\\nStratton s to Mason another ran southerly over the hill to\\nthe Tucker farm, and then onward along the high land com-\\ning out at the Whittemore estate. The road from the mill to\\nthe centre village, ran near the old turnpike, or a little to the\\nnorth of it, crossing the Mill Brook at the Forge, then passed\\nthe Adams houses, then southerly crossing the turnpike and\\npassing Dr. Preston, and so on to the centre road.\\nIn the northwest, the road from Rindge, which ran nearly\\nwhere it now does from the Merriam tavern, then crossed the\\nturnpike and passed up the side of Flat Mountain, where it\\nwas joined by the road coming from Reed, Silas Davis Wal-\\nton then past the Brown and Stephen Davis farms to where\\nS. C. Wheeler resides then through the Bakehouse village and\\ndown the centre road to the meeting-house. From the south\\nburying-ground there was a road running north to the Tho.\\nSpaulding house, thence onward to Reuben Taylor s, then\\nturning easterly entered the Malthouse road across the Blue-\\nberry pasture, which entered the centre road not far above\\nthe old meeting-house.\\nThe road from Dr. Gibson s to the Bakehouse village was\\nlaid out in 1779. The road from the old Academy down the\\nhill, passing the Hills house, and to the westward of Esquire\\nPreston s house, was opened about the year 1790. The road\\nfrom the Bakehouse to the turnpike was laid out in 1804.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "ROADS AND BRIDGES. 253\\nGreat improvements have been made, the present century,\\nin laying out new roads along the valleys, instead of those\\nalong the rocky ridges of the hills and at the same time by\\nrendering them more direct. The most important have been\\nthe road eastward from the meeting-house towards the Facto-\\nries, in 1814; the road from opposite the tavern at the turn-\\npike, towards Temple and Mason, in 1817, at an expense of\\nabout $1000 the road from the meeting-house, along the\\nriver, to Dr. Gibson s corner, in 1835 the road from the High\\nbridge to Mason village, in 1832. Many others of less extent\\nmight be mentioned.\\nThe road from the School-house corner to the turnpike was\\nopened in 1802 its continuation, as it now runs, to the tan-\\nyard, was not opened till 1815. In 1818 the turnpike was\\nmade free to the citizens, on condition of their keeping a cer-\\ntain portion of it in repair, and it virtually became a town\\nroad afterwards.\\nAny further enumeration of the Roads is unnecessary, as\\nthey may be seen on the Map, most of them having the date\\nof their being laid out attached, and the discontinued roads\\nbeing designated by broken lines.\\nThe highways have been multiplied, and kept in repair by\\nan annual tax, which has been received in money, or in labor\\nat a determinate rate, at the option of the person taxed. Be-\\nfore the incorporation of the town, a committee of three was\\nchosen annually to superintend the repairs of Highways. In\\n1767, the town was divided into districts, with a surveyor for\\neach one. In the beginning there were nine districts in 1775\\nthere were twelve; in 1782 there were fourteen, and they\\nhave been but little multiplied since. The Surveyor decides\\nupon the repairs to be made, and notifies the inhabitants of his\\ndistrict of the time fixed upon for making them when they\\nassemble with the requisite caitle and tools, and work in con-\\ncert. Working at the highways has therefore been a sort of\\nholiday occasion, when, as at raisings and huskings, neigh-\\nbors have met each other, and relieved the monotony of every-\\nday farming with social glee, and the pleasurable perception\\nthat many hands make light work. The Surveyor exult-\\ned in his brief authority the strongest men held the", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "254 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\ngreat plough and relaid the bridges the vigorous young men\\ntook the shovels, and their fathers the hoes while those of\\nacknowledged dignity passed along with crowbars, to loosen\\nthe projecting stones, and the boys threw them out of the\\nroad. Most of the tax was worked out as soon as the roads\\nwere settled in spring but a portion was reserved for any re-\\npairs which might be needed at autumn.\\nDuring the Masonian proprietorship, the taxes were assess-\\ned upon each right and they amounted, in various years, to\\nfrom \u00c2\u00a32 to \u00c2\u00a38, old tenor. After the incorporation, no specific\\nappropriation for highways was made for several years, but\\nthe sums expended were taken from the general funds and\\nthere seems to have been a question as to the proper method\\nof an equitable apportionment of the expense. But, in 1767,\\nit was voted to repair the roads by taxes on estates, the same\\nas in other cases. Up to 1782, the annual tax varied, accord-\\ning to the state of the currency, from \u00c2\u00a380 to \u00c2\u00a37000, being in\\nreality about \u00c2\u00a3100 per annum, excepting in the year 1778,\\nwhen, on account of the heavy requisitions for the army, only\\nhalf the sum was voted.\\nThe rate per diem, for labor, varied also with the value of\\nmoney. In 1752, the laborers were allowed 155. a day, and\\nthe overseers 205., old tenor; in 1756, 355. 1757, \u00c2\u00a32; 1758,\\n\u00c2\u00a33 1772, in June, 205., in September, I85. for oxen, 125.\\nfor plough, 5s. for cart, 55. in 1780, it was |40 a day and\\nin 1781, \u00c2\u00a312 per diem the next year, when the currency was\\nagain settled, the allowance was 35. per diem, which was in\\nreality about the equivalent of the preceding rates, apparently\\nso enormous. In 1795, the allowance was 45, a day 1820,\\n83 cents 1836, $1.\\nCarriages. The first vehicles in town had only two wheels;\\nand all the transportation to and from Boston was done in ox-\\ncarts. Even the bakers and butchers carts were of this kind.\\nWagons for heavy burdens and for family use, with four wheels,\\nbut without springs, were introduced at the beginning of the\\ncentury. Previous to the Revolution, Col. Kidder had a four-\\nwheeled vehicle for two horses, called a curricle and this\\nwas the only pleasure carriage for a long time. The first", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "TEMPERANCE REFORM, 255\\nChaise in town was owned by George Barrett, about 1796.\\nHe not only used it himself, but allowed his neighbors to do\\nso and it was in such demand that it was often engaged seve-\\nral weeks in advance. Capt. Kidder, Ephraim Hartwell, Eb-\\nenezer Champney, Samuel Batchelder and Enos Knight were\\nperhaps the only other persons who had them previous to\\n1810. After this time they rapidly increased. The first pri-\\nvate coach was kept by Charles Barrett, Esq., about 1815,\\nand was an object of great admiration. The Jersey wagon\\nwas introduced about 1812, and soon became the possession of\\nnearly every one who could not afford a chaise.\\nTemperance Reform. Universal indulgence in the use of\\nardent spirits, as has been already stated, was at one time the\\nbesetting sin of the inhabitants; and although very many are\\nat this day entirely guiltless in this respect, yet if any one\\nthing more than any other is sapping the peace and prosperity\\nof the town, it is still indulgence in spirituous liquors.\\nThe first movement in behalf of temperance was in 1770,\\nwhen the town objected to the number of licenses, and has\\nbeen already recorded, p. 66. No further public action was\\ntaken until 1823, when the town voted that they disapprove\\nof selling liquors within the walls of the Townhouse on town-\\nmeeting days. This practice had become a regular custom,\\nand during the two or three days usually consumed by the\\nannual March meeting, was quite a profitable operation. It\\ndid not entirely cease till some years afterward.\\nIn 1835, the temperance question was formally brought up\\nin town-meeting, and the following Resolutions were intro-\\nduced by John Preston, Esq.\\nResolved, That the use of Ardent Spirits as a drink, is a\\ngreat moral evil, being the primary cause of most of the pov-\\nerty, distress and crime existing among us therefore\\nResolved, That the Selectmen be respectfully requested\\nto grant no licenses to retailers within the limits of this town\\nthe ensuing year.\\nThese resolutions passed without dissent, and were directed\\nto be placed on record.\\nThe next year they were again introduced, but not acted", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "256 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nupon. In 1837 and 1838 the Selectmen were directed to grant\\nno licenses during the year; and in 1839 the vote on the\\nindefinite postponement of the same question was taken by\\nyea and nay yeas 102, nays 109. No licenses were there-\\nfore authorized except for medicinal purposes. A decided\\ncheck was given to the sale of liquors in small quantities.\\nThere were, however, evasions and some places for tippling\\nwere established just across the line of the town, or in seclud-\\ned places which were never visited for any other purpose.\\nBut he who would drink was compelled to do so by stealth\\nand few were willing to be found in such connection.\\nA Lodge of the Sons of Temperance has been formed.\\nSlavery. It may be strange, and probably unwelcome, to\\nsome of the present inhabitants, to learn that the peculiar\\ninstitution once existed within our borders. Long previous\\nto the revolution, the minister, the doctor, the magistrate, the\\ndeacon and the captain, all were slave owners.\\nThe first one ov/ned in town was a man, belonging to Dea-\\ncon Adams. Tradition says he was very discontented when\\ncomparing the solitudes of the wilderness with the cleared\\nfields of old Ipswich. Soon after, Col. Kidder had two, one\\nof whom was a girl, and died young Caesar, the man, was\\npurchased in Chelmsford, for \u00c2\u00a310, when seven years old.\\nScipio, owned by Capt. Hoar; Patience, by Rev. Stephen\\nFarrar Boston, by Doctor Preston, Sen. and Grace, by Paul\\nPrichard, died young.\\nIt was considered that, by the declarations in the State Con-\\nstitution, they could be no longer held to service indeed a bold\\nresolution on this subject was voted by the town, as early\\nas 1776. Although in fact free, they all continued attached\\nto the families where they had spent their youth. Three of\\nthem attained to an old age, and long outlived their masters.\\nCsesar lived with the family till after Col. Kidder died;\\nthen built a small house of his own, on the plain, south east\\nof his old master s mansion, and would occasionally draw\\nsupplies from the old farm, on which, as he said, he had spent\\nthe marrow of his bones. He, about that time, married Ro-\\nsanna, and had one child, which died at an early age, as", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "VITAL STATISTICS. 257\\nCsesar believed, by the malicious influence of a witch. His\\nwife lost her reason, and for many years spoke not a word,\\nand would stand motionless for hours. He believed her to be\\nimder the spell of the witch also, and bestowed upon her the\\nkindest and most constant care. He died in 181(3, at the age\\nof about 70.\\nOld Boston lived to a truly patriarchal age. He always\\ndeclared himself to be bove century, and no doubt spoke\\nthe truth. He used to say that his father wasKingof Bungo,\\nand had a silver steppy stone a door, and a goldy iron pot.\\nHe afforded a striking example of native piety and native\\neloquence. He had acquired a knowledge of the Bible histo-\\nries, which he used to recite, with additions and interpreta-\\ntions of his own, with a pathos and eloquence which always\\nbrought tears from his own eyes, and often from those of his\\nhearers. He was one of the attractions at musters and town\\nmeetings, and his recital of the stories of Adam and Kve, of\\nJonah, and of the Crucifixion, are still remembered by the\\nolder citizens.\\nPatience, or Pashe, as she was usually called, was a liv-\\ning exemplification of her name. Her intellect was of a low\\norder but she was simple-hearted and faithful, and her great\\npowers of endurance, under the direction of others, rendered\\nher a useful servant. She also lived to a great age, probably\\n85 years. She died in 1844.\\nVital Statistics. For the earlier part of the town s his-\\ntory, no reliable record of deaths is to be found. It is to be\\npresumed, however, that when the Record Book was com-\\nmenced, most of the deaths which had occured were entered\\nupon it, as might easily have been done. Who the first victim\\nwas is not known. Ebenezer Bullard, Benjamin Adams,\\nBenjamin King and Benjamin Hoar, each lost a child in 1752\\nand these are the earliest deaths on record. It is the tradition,\\nthat five persons were interred on the meeting-house hill at\\nthe head of Satford Lane, previous to 1753. The above, with\\nanother child of B. Hoar, who died that year, may have been\\nthe persons. From the town and family records, and from\\ngrave-stones, the names of eighty-two persons have been ob-\\n33", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "258 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\ntained up to 1780. From that time to 1820 we are entirely\\nindebted to the private record of Josiah Wahon. Up to the\\ntime of his removal to Temple, about 1797, it is probably\\ncomplete and its correspondence afterwards, with the proper\\nrate of mortality, shows that he kept it with a great degree of\\naccuracy up to the time he was eighty-five years of age, a\\nperiod of about forty years. The number given by him from\\n1780 to 1800 is 202, and is probably complete. The number\\nfrom 1800 to 1820 is 384. For the next three years only four\\ndeaths have been ascertained. From 1824 to the present time\\nthe list is again complete, having been accurately kept by John\\nGould, Jr. and Clark Obear. The whole number of deaths in\\nthat period is 652, making a total of 1320; and if we place\\nthe whole number of deaths in town at 1500, it cannot be far\\nfrom correct.\\nThe average of life for the last twenty-five years, has been\\nabout 36 years but a marked difference appears between the\\naverage during the first and second halves of this period.\\nDuring the first it is only about 32 years, and during the\\nsecond nearly 40. The year 1824 was remarkable for the\\nmortality among old people. There were 17 deaths, with an\\naverage age of fifty years. The lowest average in any year\\nwas in 1829, when it was 14 years. The largest number of\\ndeaths in any year was 50, in 1842.\\nA writer in the Farmer s Cabinet, in 1809, signing himself\\nPhilo-historicus, (Benjamin Champney says As a proof\\nof the salubrity of the Monadnock atmosphere, I have selected\\nthe following instances of longevity from forty females of this\\nplace, who have lived in a married state and reared children,\\nbut in May were widows, enjoying a comfortable state of\\nhealth, and he might have added, as an example of the\\nfact, that females more frequently attain a great age than men\\nviz.: 1 of 100; 2 of 90; 3 of 80; 13 of 70; 9 of 60; 6 of\\n50; 2 of 40; 3 of 30; making an aggregate of 2470 years.\\nEsquire Champney also states, that on the first day of Janu-\\nary 1823, there were to his knowledge sixty persons living in\\ntown between the ages of 70 and 95. Two were totally blind\\none imbecile the residue enjoying comfortable health, and\\nmany of them capable of labor and business.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "BURIAL OF THE DEAD. 259\\nOf 444 persons whose ages bave been ascertained from pub-\\nlic and private records and from tombstones, there have died\\nat the age of 100 and upwards, 3 90, 20 SO, 63 70, 95\\n60, 69; 50, 43; 40, 34; 30, 36; 20, 60; 10, 14; under 10, 7.\\nThe person who attained to the greatest age was Hon. Tim-\\nothy Farrar, who died aged 101 years 5 months. The next\\nwas Margaret Bacon, wife of Retire Bacon, who was 100\\nyears 5 months 21 days old and as her eulogy, and evidently\\nas a remarkable thing at that time (1808), it is stated in the\\nnewspaper announcement of her death, that she drank noth-\\ning stronger than small beer, for fourteen years before her\\ndeath. William Burrows lived to the age of 97, retaining\\nhis sight and hearing perfectly, walking with the step of 60,\\nand writing a fair hand. Josiah Walton and Mrs. Dady died\\nat 95. The oldest couple was Silas Davis, 94, and his wife\\nMary, 91. Jonas Wheeler, Joseph Davis, and Joseph Ten-\\nney were 94; Simeon Gould, Benjamin Safford, Thomas Em-\\nery and Rebecca Cragin (Mrs. Barrett), 93 Simeon Blanch-\\nard, Mrs. James Spaulding and Mrs. Ebenezer Brown, 92.\\nBurial of the Dead. In a small community, the death and\\nburial of an individual is a matter of general concern, and all\\nare accustomed to gather, to take a last look at the remains of\\nan associate, and to pay them the last honors. The body of\\nthe deceased was borne to its final resting-place on a bier, upon\\nthe shoulders of persons of like age, and others followed in\\nsolemn procession. The reputed rites of hospitality were also\\nexpected at the house of the deceased, and in some instances,\\nespecially in the days when ardent spirits were freely used,\\nscenes of conviviality would usurp the place of sober lamenta-\\ntion. It was an established custom, after the body had been\\ndeposited and the first earth thrown upon it, for the conductor\\nof the funeral to thank the friends for their attendance, and\\ninvite the bearers to return to the house of the deceased, to\\npartake of refreshments. Other friends were often invited on\\nthe occasion, and the remainder of the day was spent in\\ngood cheer. In 1790 the subject of more regular processions\\nat burials was agitated and in 1792 eight directors were\\nchosen who were to govern the procession at bmiais in difierent", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "260 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nparts of the town. In 1802 it was voted to procure new burial\\nclothes for the use of the town. In 1804 it was voted to pro-\\ncure a hearse. This was done, and a hearse-house was built\\nat the foot of the old burying ground. It was afterwards re-\\nmoved to the south-east corner of the new burying ground,\\nwhere it stood until the removal of the horse sheds in 1836.\\nBurial Grounds. The first burials were made at a spot at\\nthe head of Safford lane, near where the first meeting-house\\nstood. The burial ground on the hill, now called the old\\nburial ground was laid out in 1752, and the first burials in\\nit took place in 1753. In 1774 it was voted to build a faced\\nwall on both roads. In 1784 it was voted to have the burial\\ngrounds fenced with a stone wall, and make decent gates, and\\nface the walls on the sides of the gates. In 1849 the wahs had\\nagain fallen and had become a disgrace to the memory of the\\nforefathers. An effort was therefore made, and a sum of\\nmoney was raised, chiefly from persons no longer resident,\\nwhose ancestors were buried there a new wall was built\\nunder the direction of the town, and the spot was somewhat\\nornamented with young trees. We trust that the love of an-\\ncestry and the love of virtue will, from time to time, rebuild\\nthe walls of this ancient cemetery, and suffer not its tottering\\nand sinking tombstones to be removed or violated.\\nIn 1778 the South Burying Ground near the Mill Village M^as\\nlaid out. The first person buried there was probably John\\nBreed, 1780.\\nIn 1807, a committee was appointed to obtain a new bury-\\ning ground in the middle of the town, and the present cemetery\\nwas procured and laid out in 1809. The first interment was\\nmade the same year Elizabeth, wife of John Appleton. It is\\na solemn thought, to those who remember this burial, forty-two\\nyears ago, that this ground, which then seemed so ample, is\\nnow almost wholly occupied, more than a whole generation\\nsleeping there and that it has become necessary to extend its\\nlimits.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "POPULATION.\\n261\\nPopulation. The estimated number of inhabitants at dif-\\nferent periods, up to the Revohition, has ah eady been given\\nbut for the sake of direct comparison, the numbers are here\\nrepeated. In 1750 about 120 in 1760 about 350 in 1770\\nabout 650. The actual enumeration commoices in December\\n1773, when there were 882 persons in September 1775 there\\nwere 956; 1790,1241; 1800,1266; 1810,1393; 1820,1278;\\n1830, 1673 1840, 1578 1850, 1878.\\nThe number of rateable polls in 1773 was 160 1775, 205\\n1777, 160; 1779, 185; 1783, 189; 1788, 222; 1798, 202;\\n1803, 195 1808, 193. The number of qualified voters, which\\ncorresponds to the number of rateable polls, was, in 1825, 320\\n1828, 312; 1829, 335; 1831, 312; 1832, 321 1834, 335;\\n1835, 365 1836, 372 1838, 386 1839, 344. The influence\\nof the revolutionary war, and of the factory operations, in\\nmodifying the number of adult males, is at once perceptible\\nby the above numbers.\\nThe following table will give some idea of the progress\\nmade in clearing the farms and bringing the land under culti-\\nvation. It would seem, however, as if the valuation must\\nhave been made upon a diflerent basis at different times, espe-\\ncially in 1808.\\n1773.\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1779.\\n1783.\\n189\\n1788.\\n222\\n1798.\\n202\\n1803.\\n195\\n1808.\\nMale polls,\\n169\\n160\\n185\\n193\\nSlaves,\\n3\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\nAcres of Orchard,\\n18\\n43\\n41\\n65\\n69\\n115\\n112\\n110\\nArable,\\n881\\n1339\\n220\\n233\\n232\\n228\\n200\\nMowing,\\n1160\\n1270\\n908\\n991\\n972\\n850\\nPasture,\\n3118\\n4662\\n4511\\n4361\\n4327\\n4091\\n3357\\n2050\\nHorses,\\n201\\n170\\n105\\n223\\n224\\n169\\nOxen,\\n234\\n107\\n246\\n136\\n171\\n169\\n208\\nCows,\\n267\\n341\\n335\\n392\\n384\\n530\\n555\\n454\\nThree year old cattle,\\n160\\n131\\n145\\n174\\n178\\n150\\n118\\nTwo year old\\n118\\n224\\n121\\n206\\n202\\n357\\n246\\n144\\nYearlings,\\n145\\n242\\n203 178\\n262\\n62\\nAccording to the census of 1850, there were 113 farms, 343\\ndwellings, and 21 different manufactories.\\nFire Department. A Fire Department was organized in\\n1828, and has nearly supplanted the military companies.\\nThere are now three Fire Engines in town, to each of which\\nabout twenty men are attached.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "262 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nMusic. In this town the singers sat separate from the con-\\ngregation, forming a choir, at a very early date and here, first\\nin the region, money was raised to encourage the cuhivation\\nof music. In 1801, the proposition to appropriate money for\\nthe encouragement of music, was strongly opposed at town\\nmeeting by some who considered it not only a waste of money,\\nbut as likely to introduce innovations dangerous to the spirit\\nof religious worship. But they were so severely castigated in\\nthe New Year s Gift, that no opposition was ever made\\nafterwards and in 1802, ^50 were appropriated, to be ex-\\npended under the direction of B. Champney, Benj. Williams\\nand the Selectmen. In 1803, 1807 and 1808, forty and fifty\\ndollars were appropriated. The first school that bore the\\nname of Singing School, was about the year 1787. It was\\nconducted by John Warner and Amos Prichard. The music\\nof Billings and Holden was then for a short time practised,\\nbut was never heartily accepted. About this time Mr. Law\\npublished a selection of Anthems and Psalm tunes, which not\\nonly augmented the scanty stock of tunes to which congrega-\\ntions had been limited, but was really good music. His books\\nwere introduced. Soon after, William Emerson (the late Dr.\\nEmerson, of Kennebunk) taught a singing school. His advice\\nto Ebenezer Adams, afterwards Professor at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege, who had a very harsh tone, is still remembered that he\\nhad better save his voice to split wood with. By perseverance\\nhe subsequently became a good singer. No individual, how-\\never, had so great an influence in forming the taste for classical\\nmusic, and in elevating the style of performance as Mr. Hub-\\nbard, who was about this time teacher of the grammar school\\nand subsequently preceptor of the Academy. He had made\\nmusic a study, and was quite in advance of the age. A suffi-\\ncient evidence of his knowledge and cultivation in music, is\\ngiven in an Essay on Music, pronounced by him before the\\nMiddlesex Musical Society, in 1807.\\nIn 1795 a school was taught by Reuben Emerson, who is\\nstill living, as are many of his pupils. His tastes were in\\nunison with those of Mr. Hubbard, and a selection was made\\nRev. Reuben Emerson, now of Reading, Mass.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "MUSIC. 263\\nfrom various sources, of tunes of a truly devotional charac-\\nter and for want of books, most of the scholars were obliged\\nto copy the parts they sung, in manuscript. His personal\\ncharacter, as well as the music he introduced, had a decidedly\\nfavorable and lasting influence upon his pupils. Rev. David\\nPalmer, afterwards of Townsend, had a pleasant voice, and\\nfine musical taste, and he too assisted in giving a favorable\\nimpulse to musical performances.\\nIn 1805 or 6, Ichabod Johnson kept a school, and introduced\\na lighter kind of music. He could not sing himself, but with\\na good faculty at teaching, and the help of his violin (when\\nhe was sober) and assisted by one or two reliable persons on\\neach part, he succeeded in collecting a large school, was pop-\\nular, and on the whole gave an impulse to music generally,\\nthough he rather detracted from the devotional spirit. His\\nschool was the first that was allowed a permanent station in\\nthe gallery, as a choir.\\nYery soon afterwards, N. D. Gould became distinguished as\\na teacher of music, both vocal and instrumental, and became\\nwell known as such, throughout the State and in the adjacent\\nparts of Massachusetts. He had received his first instruction\\nfrom Mr. Reuben Emerson, and had imbibed his taste for sci-\\nentific music, teaching it as a preparation for the solemn act\\nof religious worship.\\nAbout this time the Middlesex Musical Society was formed,\\nembracing persons of cultivated taste, from many of the\\nneighboring towns, whose object it was to meet for the per-\\nformance of anthems, and to select and publish, as well as\\nperform, psalmody of a higher style than was to be found in\\nany American music books then in use. This Society was\\nthe first, or perhaps the second of the kind formed in America.\\nFrom it the Middlesex Collection resulted, and good ser-\\nvice was done for the cause of Church Music. It was at first\\nunder the guidance of Rev. Dr. Chaplin, of Groton, who, with\\nMr. Beede of Wilton, Mr. Palmer of Townsend, and most of\\nthe clergymen of the vicinity were associated in it. Mr. Gould\\nconducted the performances several years.\\nThe Hubbard Society, about the year 1815, was formed in\\ntown, with similar objects. It was conducted for several", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "264 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nyears by Deacon Gould, and under the paternal solicitude of\\nthe venerable Judge Farrar as President, then 70 years old,\\nand himself one of the performers, it was a most efficient\\nand excellent society. It is not too much to say that the\\nperformances were in advance of the day, and that, with\\nthe exception of the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, no\\nother musical society in the country surpassed it. Two or\\nthree public concerts were given, at different times, one as\\nearly as 1817, and great numbers were attracted from the vi-\\ncinity, to enjoy a performance so rare. It continued an active\\nassociation for many years, and we believe still exists; and to\\nmany persons, some of the pleasantest remembrances of the\\ntown are connected with it.\\nFor the last thirty years the music has been of a high or-\\nder, though since the almost universal attention to music, it\\nmay not rank so high, relatively to other places, as formerly.\\nIt has been conducted by Deacon .John Clark, and by his sons\\nJohn P. and Peter Clark. The latter gentleman is well known\\nas a skillful teacher, and few can be said to surpass him as a\\nperformer on instruments.\\nA Military Band was formed, as early as 1804 or 5, princi-\\npally by the exertions of N. D. Gould, and was under his di-\\nrection. It was the first Band formed in that part of the State.\\nIt was next instructed by Ichabod Johnson, with the addition\\nof other performers, and was really well drilled and performed\\nwondrously. At no period since, has there been a time when\\nthere were not enough performers to constitute a good band.\\nAbout 1818, Jonas Barrett, of Ashby, gave instruction in in-\\nstrumental music, and a band was formed, connected with the\\nGrenadiers, led by John Tolman. And those who attended\\ntlie Centennial Celebration will bear witness to the great pre-\\ncision and good taste of the Band under the direction of Peter\\nClark, Esq.\\nBethel Lodge of Freemasons was instituted in 1815, the\\nmembers constituting it having been dismissed from a Lodge\\nin Ashby. John Everett was the first master N. D. Gould\\nwas his successor. It was formerly well sustained.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "BOUNTIES TORNADOES. 265\\nWatatic Lodge of Odd Fellows was instituted about 1840,\\nand now numbers sixty-three members. About $300 were\\ndistributed in charity during the last year.\\nBounties on Wild Animals have sometimes been offered.\\nTo the destruction of bears, wolves, foxes and hawks there\\ncan be no valid objection. But had the habits of crows and\\nwoodpeckers been better understood, they never would have\\nhad a price placed upon their heads, unless it were for their\\npreservation. The injury they do is infinitely more than\\ncompensated by the benefits they confer, in the destruction of\\nmyriads of pernicious worms and insects, which neither the\\neye nor the hand of man can reach. At one time it was voted\\nto pay a copper a head to encourage killing woodpeckers. In\\n1798, it was voted to give one shilling a head for killing old\\ncrows, and sixpence a head for young ones. In 1816 a boun-\\nty of seventeen cents for crows was granted. In 1833, eigh-\\nteen crows and forty foxes were presented for bounty. The\\nnext 5/^ear all bounties were withdrawn, though many unsuc-\\ncessful attempts have since been made to impose them.\\nA Tornado, in 1769, passed through the northeasterly part\\nof the town, originating near the south part of the Nathaniel\\nGould farm, near the Kidder hill, passed a little south of east\\nthrough the Appleton farm, cut a broad and clean track\\nthrough the forest, which was clearly recognized for thirty or\\nforty years afterwards by the new growth of trees. In pass-\\ning the Start house, at the School-house corner, it lifted the\\nroof from the house, and carried it many rods.\\nIn 1806, July 10, a terrible hurricane and hail-storm occur-\\nred, also at the northeast part of the town, between Temple,\\nMason and New Ipswich. Over an area two or three miles\\nsquare, all the grain was cut down or prostrated orchards\\nwere torn up; buildings were unroofed, and in some instances\\ntorn in pieces all the exposed glass was broken, and even\\nthe bark was grazed from the trees by the hailstones, some of\\nwhich had not wholly melted eight hours afterwards.\\nThe great September gale of 1815 unroofed and overturned\\nmany buildings, and uprooted most of the old hemlock trees\\nin the forest.\\n34", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "266\\nMISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nOFFICERS OF THE MASONIAN PROPRIETORS.\\nYear.\\nModerators.\\nClerks.\\n1749.\\nJoseph Blanchard.\\nJohn Stevens.\\n1750.\\nJonathan Hubbard.\\nit K\\n1751.\\nIsaac Appleton.\\n\u00c2\u00abt\\n1752.\\nJonas Woolson.\\nBenjamin Adams\\n1753.\\nReuben Kidder.\\n4 It\\n1754.\\nTimothy Heald.\\n(t tt\\n1755.\\nEphraim Adams.\\nit tt\\n1756.\\nReuben Kidder.\\nTimothy Heald.\\n1757.\\nIchabod How.\\nft (C\\n1758.\\nBenjamin Hoar.\\ntt tt\\n1759.\\nBenjamin Hoar.\\ntt tt\\n1760.\\nReuben Kidder.\\n(t tt\\n1761.\\nJonas Woolson.\\nIchabod How.\\n1762.\\nThomas Heald.\\ntt tt\\nLIST OF TOWN OFFICERS.\\nYear. Moderators.\\n1762. Jonas Woolson.\\n1763. Timothy Heald.\\n1764. Timothy Heald.\\n1765. Benjamin Hoar,\\nTown Clerks.\\nMoses Tucker.\\nTimothy Heald.\\nIchabod How.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\n1766. Interregnum..\\n1767. Reuben Kidder. Isaac Appleton.\\n1768. Moses Tucker. Benjamin Adams.\\n1769. Samuel Kinney. Benjamin Adams.\\n1770. Joseph Stevens. Benjamin Adams.\\n1771. Ebenezer Champney. John Preston.\\n1772. Joseph Stevens. Benjamin Adams,\\nSelectmen.\\n3Ioses Tucker,\\nJohn Preston,\\nRobert Crosby.\\nIchabod How,\\nTimothy Heald,\\nJohn Chandler.\\nIchabod How,\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nThomas Heald.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nBenjamin Hoar,\\nIsaac Appleton.\\nThomas Heald,\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nNathaniel Stone,\\nAaron Kidder,\\nBenjamin Hoar.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nThomas Heald,\\nJohn Preston.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nWilliam Shattuck.\\nJohn Preston,\\nCharles Barrett,\\nSamuel Whittemore.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nIsaac Appleton.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n267\\nYear. Moderators. Town Clerks.\\n1773. Ebenezer Champney. Benjamin x\\\\dams.\\n1774. Ebenezer Champney. Timothy Farrar.\\nRepresentatives.\\n1775. William Shattuck. Isaac How.\\n1776. Joseph Bates.\\nIsaac How.\\n1777. Benjamin Adams. Isaac How.\\n1778. John Preston. Isaac Appleton.\\n1779. Ebenezer Champney. Isaac Appleton.\\n1780. John Brown.\\n1781. Timothy Farrar.\\n1782. Ephraim Adams.\\n1783. Ephraim Adams.\\n1784. Ephraim Adams.\\n1785. Ephraim Adams.\\n1786. John Preston.\\nIsaac How.\\nBenjamin Adams.\\nIsaac How.\\nJames Horsley.\\nJames Horsley.\\nJames Horsley.\\nIsaac Appleton.\\n1787. Charles Barrett. Isaac Appleton.\\n1788. Charles Barrett. Isaac Appleton.\\nSelectmen.\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nNathaniel Stone,\\nIsaac How,\\nCharles Barrett.\\nTimothy Farrar,\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nJosiah Brown.\\nIsaac Hoar,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nThomas Heald.\\nIsaac How,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nThomas Heald.\\nIsaac How,\\nJames Chandler,\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nBenjamin Gibbs.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nJames Chandler.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nJames Chandler,\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nSamuel Whittemore,\\nJohn Warner.\\nIsaac How,\\nSamuel Whittemore,\\nJohn Brown.\\nBenjamin Adams,\\nThomas Heald,\\nJosiah Brown.\\nIsaac How,\\nJosiah Brown,\\nJoseph Parker.\\nJames Horsley,\\nPaul Prichard,\\nEphraim Adams, Jr.\\nJames Horsley,\\nPaul Prichard,\\nEphraim Adams, Jr.\\nJames Horsley,\\nPaul Prichard,\\nEphraim Adams, Jr.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nEphraim Adams, Jr.\\nWilliam Shattuck,\\nSimeon Gould,\\nJoseph Parker.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nEphraim Adams, Jr.\\nSeth Wheeler.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nEphraim Adams, Jr.\\nSeth Wheeler.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "268\\nMISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nYear. Representatives.\\n1789. Charles Barrett.\\n1790. Charles Barrett.\\n1791. Charles Barrett.\\n1792. Charles Barrett.\\n1793. Charles Barrett.\\n1794. Jeremiah Prichard.\\n1795. Jeremiah Prichard.\\n1796. Charles Barrett.\\n1797. Jeremiah Prichard.\\n1798. Charles Barrett.\\n1799. Jeremiah Prichard.\\n1800. Jeremiah Prichard.\\n1801. Ebenezer Champney.\\n1802. Jeremiah Prichard.\\n1803. Noah Bartlett.\\n1804. Noah Bartlett.\\n1805. Noah Bartlett.\\n1806. Noah Bartlett.\\n1807. Noah Bartlett.\\nTown Clerks.\\nIsaac Appleton.\\nIsaac Appleton.\\nJeremiah Prichard.\\nJeremiah Prichard.\\nJeremiah Prichard.\\nJeremiah Prichard.\\nJohn Hubbard.\\nJeremiah Prichard.\\nJeremiah Prichard.\\nSeth Wheeler.\\nNoah Bartlett.\\nNoah Bartlett.\\nNoah Bartlett.\\nJohn Preston.\\nJohn Preston.\\nJohn Preston.\\nJohn Preston.\\nJohn Preston.\\nJohn Preston.\\nSelectmen.\\nIsaac Appleton,\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler.\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nJohn Ptatt.\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheiler,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nJeremiiih Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nEphraim Adams,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nJohn Pratt.\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nJeremiah Prichard,\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nSeth Wheeler,\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson, Jr.\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nJohn Preston.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nEphraim Adams.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nBenjamin Champney.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nElijah Newell.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n269\\nVear.\\n1808.\\nSelectmen.\\nNoah Bartlett.\\nTown Clerks\\nJohn Preston.\\n1809. Noah Bartlett. John Preston.\\n1810. Isaiah Kidder. John Preston.\\n1811. Samuel Batchelder. John Preston,\\n1812. Samuel Batchelder. John Preston,\\n1813. Samuel Batchelder. John Preston.\\n1824.\\n1825.\\n1826.\\n1814.\\nSamuel Batchelder.\\nJohn Preston.\\n1815.\\nSamuel Batchelder.\\nJohn Preston.\\n1816.\\nSamuel Batchelder.\\nJohn Preston.\\n1817.\\nN. D. Gould.\\nJohn Preston.\\n1818.\\nN. D. Gould.\\nSamuel Batchelder.\\n1819.\\nCharles Barrett.\\nSamuel Batchelder\\n1820.\\nN. D. Gould.\\nSamuel Batchelder.\\n1821.\\nCharles Barrett.\\nSamuel Batchelder.\\n1822.\\nCharles Barrett.\\nSamuel Batchelder\\n1823. Stephen Wheeler. Samuel Batchelder.\\nStephen Wheeler.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nCharles Barrett. E. H. Farrar.\\nCharles Barrett. E. H. Farrar.\\nRepresentatives.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nSupply Wilson,\\nElijiih Newell.\\nNoah Bartlett,\\nBenjamin Chanipney,\\nN. D. Gould.\\nNathaniel D. Gould,\\nJ iinothy Fox,\\nAaron Brown.\\nN. D. Gould.\\nBenjamin Chanipney,\\nAaron Brown.\\nN. D. Gould,\\nNathan Robbins,\\nAaron Brown.\\nJohn Preston,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nJeremiah Prichard, Jr.\\nN. D. Gould,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nJeremiah Prichard, Jr.\\nN. D. Gould,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nJeremiah Prichard, Jr.\\nN. D. Gould,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nBenjamin Chanipney.\\nSamuel Batchelder,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nBenjamin Champney.\\nSamuel Batchelder,\\nTimothy Fox, Jr.\\nBenjamin Champney.\\nAbner Brown,\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nTimothy Fox,\\nBenjamin Champney,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nTimothy Fox,\\nBenjamin Champney,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nTimothy Fox,\\nAbner Brown,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nAbner Brown,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nPeter Felt,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nJoseph Bairett,\\nPeter Felt,\\nJohn P. Robbins.\\nJoseph Barrett,\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nDaniel Jefts.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "270\\nMISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nYear. Representatives.\\n1827. Stephen Wheeler.\\n1828. Stephen Wheeler.\\n1829. Stephen Wheeler.\\n1830. Charles Barrett.\\n1831. George F. Farley.\\n1832. Stephen Wheeler.\\n1833. John Preston.\\n1834. Seth King.\\n1835. Seth King.\\n1836. Stephen Wheeler.\\n1837. Seth King.\\n1838. John Preston.\\n1839. Jeremiah Smith.\\n1840. Jeremiah Smith.\\nTown Clerks\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nJeremiah Smith.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nE. H. Farrar.\\nJohn Gould, Jr.\\nJohn Gould, Jr.\\nJohn Gould, Jr.\\nSelectmen.\\nJoseph Barrett,\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nJoseph Barrett,\\nPeter Felt,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nJoseph Barrett,\\nPeter Felt,\\nIsaac Adams.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nDaniel Jefts.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nDaniel Jefts.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nDaniel Jefts.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nSilas Wheeler.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nDaniel Jefts.\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nDaniel Jefts.\\nJohn Preston,\\nCastalio Hosmer,\\nStephen Thayer.\\nJohn Preston,\\nCastalio Hosmer,\\nJohn P. Houghton.\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nAndrew Conant,\\nChauncy Perry.\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nAndrew Conant,\\nChauncy Perry.\\nJeremiah Smith,\\nStephen Wheeler,\\nJames Chandler.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 271\\nThe following is an attempt to exhibit the persons who set-\\ntled, and have subsequently resided upon the several lots in\\nthe town. For a great majority of them, the task is not diffi-\\ncult but for others, the removals have been so numerous and\\nfrequent, that the attempt to render a full list, or to avoid er-\\nrors would be hopeless. We think it will be found that, in such\\ncases, such persons as are named resided on the lots mention-\\ned, or in the immediate vicinity. Perhaps it would have been\\nmore clear if we had arranged the list by following along the\\ndifferent roads but on considering that the roads have been\\nrepeatedly changed, and are liable to frequent changes hereaf-\\nter, it was thought better to follow the original plotting of the\\ntown, which in many cases still corresponds with the present\\nlimitation of the farms. In the northern and eastern parts\\nseldom has more than one family located on a lot in the\\nsouthern and western parts, however, two persons frequently\\nsettled on the same lot. The names of the original settlers of\\nthe lots, as far as they are now remembered, also those who\\nerected the buildings, are printed in italics, and the date of\\ntheir settlement is sometimes given. In other cases the death\\nof the person is given and in others, some period when he is\\nknown to have resided there. Where two or more houses\\nhave been built on the same lot, they are indicated by the let-\\nters a, 6, c. Lots which have been abandoned as places of\\nresidence are preceded by a cipher Those inclosed in\\nbrackets are the names of persons whose dwelling is not pre-\\ncisely known, but who resided somewhere in the vicinity. In\\nthe general list, for the lots on which villages now exist, we\\nhave given the names of the first occupants with their direct\\nsuccessors, and have given the present villages separately.\\nThe numbers refer to those on the map of the town.\\nNorth Division North of the old hirying-ground, and East of\\nthe Mountains.\\nNos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and parts of 5, 10, 15, 16,\\ncut off by Mason Line.\\nNo. 9. Daniel Stratton, 1765 32, Daniel Stratton Jr., Jere-\\nmiah Stratton, Luke Cutter, d. 1845.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "272 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nNo. 10. Elijah Mansfield, (mostly in Mason.)\\n13. Meadow below High Bridge.\\n14. Abba Severance, (1767,) D. Mansfield, d. IS 16, Israel\\nMansfield, d. 1825, S. W. Mansfield, (1850.)\\nEdmund Towne, Jefts.\\n17. Adams lot, north of Forge.\\n18. Peter Fletcher, (1757,) Geo. Start, Paul Prichard(1771),\\nd. 1785 William Prichard; Stephen Prichard Dan-\\niel Jefts, (1850.)\\n18. Archibald White Amos Prichard, d. 1782 William\\nPrichard; Thomas Read, d. 1817; Conant;\\nBarrett Hayden Alfred Tenney, 1850.\\n20. Ministry Lot.\\n21. Ephraim and Benjamin Adams, (1742); Quincy Adams\\nFrancis Cragin Joseph Cragin Sewall Hosmer\\nCastalio Hosmer; Bruce, (1850.)\\n22. Benjamin Knoivlton, (1755); Jonas Jones Stephen\\nJones Samuel Chickering.\\nJoh7i linoiolton Abner Chickering, d. 1841 Ezra\\nWoods; Sewall O. Chandler, (1850.)\\n23. Ezra Toicne, {ilbQ); Ezra Towne, Jr.; Ebenezer Rich-\\nardson, d. 1817; Tho. Richardson Barnard Tenney,\\n1850.\\n24. William Upton, 1770.\\n25. Benjamin Adams, (1750) Maj. Benj. Adams, d. 1825;\\nJonathan J. Bacon B. A. Clark, (1850.)\\n26. Jonathan Stevens William Start, d. 1791 Stephen\\nPrichard Jotham Hoar; Jona. Hartshorn, d. 1812;\\nDavid Fisk Moses Carleton Andrew Wilson Tho.\\nRichardson Mark Farrar, (1850.)\\n27. Benjamin Proctor, (1757); Joseph Proctor Jonas\\nDavis.\\n28. Natha7i Cutter Joseph Cutter Peter Fletcher\\nStevens Oliver Scripture Isaac Wilson James\\nBride Daniel Felt.\\n29. Unoccupied.\\n30. Ebenezer Brown, d. 1813 Daniel Spaulding, d. 1839.\\n31. Roger s Pasture. John Brown in vicinity.\\n32. John Cutter, d. 1775 Isaac Kimball Supply Wilson,\\nd. 1835 John Wibon Edward Wilson l850.)\\n33. Abijah Foster, (1748); Joseph Bates, (1750); David\\nHills, (1772) J. F. Hills John T. Stephens.\\n34. Benjamin King, (1755); Abijah Smith (1764-86);\\nElijah Smith Winn; Abijah Smith, 1820 She-\\nbuel Shattuck d. 1846, George Nicholas Erastus\\nAustin.\\n35. Joseph Stevens, (1754-72) Geo. Start; 0. Scripture;\\nSupply W^ilson, Jr. (1850) Matthias Wilson (1850.)", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 273\\nNo. 36. Stephen Parker, [John Brown.]\\n37. Oliver Proctor Rev. Steph. Farrar Benja. Adams\\nC. Page M. Wyman S. Burnham F. Shattuck.\\nStephen Farrar, Jr Rev. S. Farrar E. H. Farrar, c.\\nPeter Warren Arthur Dennis Isaac Preston Capt.\\nDinsmore; Stephen Farrar, Jr. Abijah Smith Fran-\\ncis Sawyer John Walker. (Farrar s Mill.)\\nSumner Prichard, in old Starch Factory building.\\n38. a Francis Appleton, d. 1816 John Appleton George\\nGibson; Castalio Hosmer Edward Hooper.\\nb Kemp.\\n39. vacant, F. Appleton lot.\\n40. Simeon Gould, (1758-1827.)\\nJohn Gould, Reuben K. Gould (1850).\\nHayden.\\n41. Isaac Appleton, 1753-1806 Silas Lawrence Benjamin\\nDavis Isaac Appleton, Jr.; Joseph Barrett Edward\\nF. Preston, (1850.)\\n42. vacant. Isaac and Francis Appleton, meadow and\\nwoods.\\n43. Nathaniel Gould, d. 1808 N. D. Gould, 1816 Wm.\\nLocke John Clark Silas Davis Daniel Clark\\nJeremiah Prichard W. W. Prichard (1850).\\n44. Joseph Parker, {\\\\1%S); Joseph Baker (1778) Joseph\\nand Moody Stickney Oliver Boynton Amos Hatch,\\n1850.\\n45. Abijah Foster (1750) Tho. Fletcher, (1755) Tho.\\nFletcher, d. 1813; Silas Davis.\\nJosiah Fletcher; Joseph Davis (1850.)\\nJames Davis (1850.)\\n46. Reuben Kidder, d. 1793 Simeon Stetson; Isaiah Kid-\\nder, d. 1811 James Spaulding S. Burnham; Jon-\\nathan Webster Leonard Hastings Andrew Wil-\\nlard, (1850.)\\nCaesar.\\nc Kendall Briant Edm. Briant, 1785 Daniel Swain\\nElijah Morse Josiah Fisk David More Edward\\nPreston; Oliver Barrett, (1850.)\\n47. Vacant. Kidder and Gould, wood lot.\\n48. Vacant. Rogers pasture belonging to Stickney farm.\\n49. Ichabod How, (1759.) John Cutter, d. 1771, Nathan\\nCutter, d. 1808, Robert Nicholas.\\n50. Samuel Perham, Earl Boynton.\\n51. Joel Wheelock, Jonas Jones, Artemas Holt, Earl Boyn-\\nton, Hastings.\\n52. Isaac Clark, 1770.\\n53. and 54. vacant,\\n35", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "274 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nNo. 55. Bunker Clark, Joel Wheelock, Jr., James Jaquith, Ben-\\njamin Davis (1814), Jonathan Spauldingf, d. 1823.\\nArchibald White, Silas Richardson, d. 1775, Ithamar\\nWheelock, Samuel Kendall, George Kendall, Arte-\\nmas Fisk, Shebuel Shattuck, George Brown, d. 1846,\\nJohn Anderson.\\n56. Vacant pasture.\\n57. Isaac Hoio, Joseph How (1800,) S. C. Wheeler.\\nNew brick house, Wilson Wheeler.\\n58. Thomas Brown, Stephen Davis, Timothy Stearns, Aa-\\nron Blodget, James Davis, Charles Goddard, 1850.\\n59. Kidder Mountain. 60. Adam Gould.\\n61. Ephraim Adams, Jr., 1770-1825, Isaac Adams, d. 1849,\\nHenry Adams (1850.)\\nWilliam Spear, d. 1805, Joseph Spear, d. 1818.\\nSamuel Batchelder (1801-13), Moody Adams, Silas\\nWheeler, William Mansur, Isaac Spaulding.\\n62. Josiah Broion (1775), Abner Brown, d. 1824.\\n63. Josiah Walton, Josiah Walton, Jr.\\n64. Kidder Mountain.\\nSouth Ranges. Sixteen Ranges, of four farms each, South of the\\nold Burying Ground.\\nR. I. 1. Vacant.\\n2. Ebenezer Bullard, d. 1768, Joseph Bullard, Charles\\nBarrett, Enos Knights, Elijah Knights, Ephraim\\nSpoor, d. 1849, John Emery, Stillmau Stratton\\n(1850).\\n3. and 4. Pasture lots, including Hoar Pond.\\nR. II. 1. Moses Tucker, Nathan Woolson.\\nCharles Herrick, d. 1827.\\n2. Joseph Bullard, James Barr, Reuben Russell.\\n3. Jonathan Davis, d. 1819. Solomon Davis.\\n4. Horsley pasture.\\nR. III. 1. Chandler lot, east of the High Bridge.\\n2. Vacant. Danforth, 1750 Conant, 1764 Wheeler\\nW. Hewett, 1775; N. Williams Solomon Wheat;\\nJonas Wheeler, 1750; (three old cellars.)\\n3. Moses Tucker, Jr., d. 1792.\\n4. Eben Heald.\\nR. IV. 1. John Chandler (1751-67) Eleazer Cummings, d. 1815;\\nCharles Cummings Win. Prichard Asa Prichard.\\n2. Jonas Woolson, 1743-90; J. Woolson, Jr., d. 1804;\\nDaniel Brooks Jesse Holton Wm. Lock Wm.\\nBrooks; John Emery; James Spaulding, (1850.)\\n3. Vacant. Wheeler, 1750.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 275\\nR. IV. 4. Sajmiel Kinney (1764); Jona. Kinney Nathaniel\\nWilliams; Levi Bailey; Zaccheus Walker; Dan-\\nforth Walker; Shebuel Shattuck Samuel Gush-\\ning, 1850.\\nR. v. 1. Nathaniel Prentiss, Daniel Brooks, Solomon Brooks.\\nLeojiard Cragin, Abigail Kidder.\\n2. Benjamin Hoar, 1742, d. 1799, Jotham Hoar, Jonas\\nC. Champney, d. 1824, Jeremiah Prichard, John\\nEmery, (1850.)\\n3. Meadow south of the preceding. Moors Farwell,\\nReuben Nutting, (1850.)\\n4. Jesse Fletcher (1755), Simeon Fletcher, d. 1773,\\nJohn Wilkins, Jeremiah Prichard, Sen., David\\nWilkins, Moses Davis, Dr. S. Gibson.\\nR. VI. 1. Moses Tucker, Jr., John Dutton.\\nEbenezer Champney, E. Champney Jr., John P.\\nHoughton, William Prichard.\\nBenja?nin Champney, Parker, William Lock, Levi\\nHoughton, John Kidder.\\n2. Vacant. Champney lot.\\n3. Pelatiah Whittemore, d. 1783, Josiah Bacheller,\\nJames Horsely, Josiah Wilkins, d. 1834, Moses\\nWilkins, (1850.)\\n4. [Dr. Frederic Jones, John Champney, Daniel Foster,\\nCharles Burgess, Aaron Barton.]\\nEleazer Rhoades, James Spaulding, Hepsy Kidder,\\nJoseph A. Gibson.\\nR.VII. 1. Judge Farrar s Pasture.\\n2. Benjamin Safford (1755), father and son.\\nMatthias Wilson, Reed (1850.)\\n3. John Wilkins, John Shattuck (1796), d. 1816, J.\\nShattuck, Jr., Dan l Farwell, d. 1825, Geo. Wil-\\nlard, (1850.)\\nh Danforth Walker.\\n4. Benjamin Prichard, S. Manning.\\nJohn Everett, George Gibson, Dr. Henry Gibson, C.\\nS. Gibson, 1850.\\nR. VIII. 1. James Farrar, d. 1767, Timothy Farrar, 1770-1819,\\nThomas Davis, Jesse Holton, Joel Gould (1850).\\n2. Ezra Kimball, Samuel Dutton, Dr. Moors Farwell,\\nTimothy Wheelock.\\nAbel Shattuck, Silas Cragin.\\n3. John Stowell, d. 1826, John Prichard, W. Emery,\\n1850.\\nJohn Putnam, Oliver Ormsby, Joel Davis, John Clark,\\nJames Spaulding.\\n4. John Brooks, John Going (or Gowing), d. 1805, John\\nGoing, Jr., d. 1831, Noah Going, (1850.)", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "276 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nR IX. 1. Joseph Kidder, S. Heywood, E. Champney, G, F.\\nFarley, John Preston. The village south of the\\ncentre line to graveyard.\\n2. Abijah Foster, (1755), Daniel Foster, Ephraim Fos-\\n\\\\ter, d. 1780, John Fletcher.\\nJonathan Twiss, Widow Prichard, Elijah Morse.\\nJohn Wilkins, C. Campbell,\\nc Benjamin Prichard, James Spaulding, d. 1832,\\n3. Four vacant. East of Mill village.\\nK. X. 1. Vacant. Flat Pasture.\\n2. William Hodgkins, d. 1804, Widow Mansfield, John\\nPutnam, Rev. Isaac R. Barbour, James Bancroft\\n(1850.)\\n3. Zechariah Adams (1745). North part.\\nIsaac Appleton, middle part. Jonas Nutting, (1850.)\\nThomas Adams, Sam l Cummings, Cornish, Eben r\\nFletcher, Edmund Briant, d. 1786, Peter Felt,\\nJoseph Knowlton (1850), Jeremiah Smith (1850.)\\n4. Hannah Briant, Sally Jones, Nathan Hale, Town,\\n(1850.)\\nc Cummings Fletcher, Hiram Nutting, Rogers Ryan.\\nSamuel Foster, d. 1780, William Burrows, James\\nSpaulding, Dexter Fletcher, James Kennedy, Jon-\\nathan Taylor.\\nJoseph Fellows (1772), Eben r Jones, Elisha Jones.\\nStephen Sylvester.\\ns Merrick Sjdvester, d. 1850.\\nEaton.\\nStore of James Lock, Hildreth, Lewis Eppes,\\nCurtis Shed, Russell Farwell, Hildreth.\\nJames Chandler, Thomas Davis.\\nRichard Davis.\\nSamuel Taylor.\\nCharles Taylor.\\nR. XI. 1. John Walker, John Harkness, 1775. North part.\\nAndreio Spalding, Retire Bacon, Farr (south\\npart.)\\n2. Reuben Taylor, d. 1813, Zebedee Taylor, d. 1844,\\nR. Taylor (1850.)\\n3. Thomas Spalding, d. 1815, Stephen Spaulding, Dan-\\niel Clark, Stephen Piper, Oilman Spaulding, Phin-\\nehas Carpenter, Wid. Spaulding, Thomas Adams.\\n4:. D. Nevins (1756), Samuel Parker, (1765), William\\nShattuck, d. 1792, Amos Whittemore, (1812.)\\n[Eleazer Cummings in vicinity.]", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 277\\nR. XII. 1. Joseph Briant, Ephraim Fairbanks, William Taylor.\\nSamuel Batchelder, Thayer Wood, Benja. Davis.\\nLeonard Stearns, Lawrence, Amos Potter.\\nNath l Melvin, Daniel Foster, Odoardo Thomas,\\nJohn Cutter, d. 1813.\\n2, Amos Taylor, Nathan Cutter, d. 1808, Oliver Wright,\\nB. Buckman, Aaron Buckman (1850.)\\n3, Robert Crosby (1759), Josiah Crosby, Joseph Parker,\\nTimothy Fox, T. Fox, Jr., George Fox, Ephraim\\nFox.\\n4, Stephen Adams, Roger Chandler, Timothy Wheelock,\\nJoseph Parker, Wm. Lock, Wm. Lock, Jr., James\\nChandler (1850.)\\nb Si)neo7i Hildretk, d. 1800.\\nUnderwood, Joseph Parker, Joseph Tenney, Jr.,\\nDaniel Clark.\\nR. XIII. 1. Francis Fletcher, Richard Wheeler.\\nWm. Burrows, d. 1808, Sarah Burrows, Jonas Dutton.\\n2. Samuel Bartlett (1770), Noah Bartlett, Danforth\\nWalker, Joseph Brown, Richard Wheeler (1850.)\\n3. Vacant, 0. Thomas, Jesse Walker, Thomas Wright,\\n(1804), W. Emerson.\\n4. Joseph Parker, Jr., d. 1800, Zechariah Parker, Tim-\\nothy Carleton, d. 1847, Symonds, 1850.\\nBenjamin Wheat (1770), Levi Farr, d. 1789.\\nR. XIV. 1. Daniel Clary (1762), d. 1789.\\nWm. Clary, Sam l Wheeler, Geo. Wheeler, (1850.)\\n2. Nath l Carleton, 1762, Sprague, Phinehas Pratt.\\n3. Vacant.\\n4. Stephen Hildreth, d. 1800, James Hildreth, d. 1844,\\nDaniel Farwell.\\nR. XV. 1. Aaron Kidder, d. 1769, Rachel Kidder, d. 1815, Lucy\\nJohnson, d. 1825.\\n2. Samuel Brown (1770), J. Tidder, Joseph Giles, Dan-\\niel Giles, d. 1813, Spaulding Boynton, Gilman\\nBlanchard.\\n3. John Pratt, d. 1799, John Pratt, Jr., Nathan Rob-\\nbins, John P. Robbins. Poor House.\\nIsaac Farwell, Richard Wheeler, Richard Wheeler,\\nJr., E. Nutting.\\nTimothy Farwell, Joseph Eaton, J. Eaton, Jr., Wm.\\nTaylor, Russell Farwell.\\n4. Vacant.\\nR. XVI, 1. Ephraim Adams, (see No. 61, N. Div.)\\n2, Vacant, Mountain. No. 3, Pratt Pond.\\n4. Vacant. Mountain.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "278 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nAfter Lots. A. Two Ranges of Farms along the South line.\\nNo. 65. Vacant. 66. Aaron Breed. 67. Vacant.\\n68. Abel Hildreth, Nathan Estabrooks, Stanton, 1S50.\\n69. Seth Wheeler, Abijah Smith, Thomas Danforth, Moses\\nDavis, David Wilkins, Elhanan Preston, Taylor,\\nBenjamin Wilson (1830.)\\n70. Abel Miles, d. 1814, Abel Mansfield, George Ramsdell,\\n1850.\\n71. Col. Benjamin Gibbs (1670 to 1805.)\\n72. Hunt s Pasture. Barret s Pasture, (1777.)\\n73. Samuel Holden, (1764), Reuben and Samuel Holden,\\nEdward Holden.\\n74. William Burroivs. Fletcher Pasture.\\n75. Holden Meadow.\\n76. a. Eleazer Cummings (1762-7), David Rumrill, John\\nKnowlton, d. 1838, Maxwell, Ira Smith.\\nEbenezer Newell (1780), Onesimus Newell, d. 1833,\\nSamuel Newell, Seth Newell, Nathan Cummins,\\nIsaac Stearns 1850.\\n77. Andrew Conn (1768), Elijah Newell, Preston,\\nRamsdell, Benjamin Lovett 1850.\\n78. John Jaquith, d. 1805, James Jaquith, Abijah Rice,\\n(1809), B. C. Pillsbury (1850.)\\n79. Vacant.\\n80. John Breed, Jr., d. 1807, Joel Foster, Joseph Cragin,\\nDaniel Ramsdell (1850.)\\n81. Benjamin Eaton, Elias Whitcomb, Cyrus Coleman.\\n82. John Breed, d. 1780, Allen Breed, d. 1806, Enoch\\nBreed 1811, Abijah Wetherbee, Eppes, Marble,\\nL. Chandler (1850.)\\n83. Vacant.\\n84. Stephen Adams (1750), Simeon Blanchard, d. 1805,\\nSimeon Blanchard, Jr., d. 1822, William Blanchard\\n(1850.)\\n85. Abraham and Jesse Carleton (1765), Jonas Stone, Na-\\nthan Stone.\\n86. Joseph Pollard (1750-86), John Wheeler, Hills,\\n(1850.)\\n87. Wm. Paris (1771), Z. Conant, Andrew Conant, Sam-\\nuel Cushing, Thomas Davis.\\nLevi Farr, d. 1789, Bennett Whitman.\\nNathaniel Farr.\\n88. Thomas Emerson, Jonathan Taylor, William Wheeler.\\n89. Joseph Tenney, 1774-1843.\\n90. Thomas Emerson, Asa Emerson, Sam l Fletcher, 1778.\\n91. Governor s Hill.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 279\\nNo. 92. Samuel Wheeler 1790, Jonas Emerson, Daniel Emer\\nson, Lemuel Sylvester, Louis Wheeler.\\n93. Vacant. Governor s Hill.\\n94 _ Sawtell, Kendall 1850.\\n95. Asa Brown, William Harris, O. Harris, L. W. Harris,\\n1850\\nThomas Br 01071, William Harris, Addy Jaquith.\\n96. School lot.\\n97. Thaddeus Taylor, Samuel Taylor, Maxwell 1850,\\nDudley, Stephen Brooks, D. Brooks, Walton\\nBrooks.\\nB. Lots West of the Mountain.\\n174, 175. Wilder s Village.\\nPeter Wilder, d. 1841, J. P. Wilder (1850.)\\nJohn B. Wilder, formerly the store of Thomas Wilder.\\nThomas Wilder, Lot Nichols, Oilman Gould, James\\nBancroft. Charles Walton (1850.)\\nThomas Wilder, Abijah Wetherbee, d. 1835, Levi Jos-\\nlin, J. P. Wilder, G. B. Gardner, Luke Crane, David\\nWilson, Smith, Watkins.\\nJ. P. Wilder, d. 1842, John S. Wilson, Willard Rob-\\nbins, G. S. Nicholas, George Rolf.\\nPaul Moors. 176, 177, 178 vacant.\\n184. Josiah Reed. 185 vacant. 143, 144, 145 vacant.\\n146. Gates Mills. 147, 148, 183, 179 vacant.\\n140. Robertson, Daniel Walker, Daniel Walton, George\\nStratton (1850.)\\n141, 142, 149, 150 vacant.\\n151. Timothy Stearns (1767), B. Williams, B. B. Williams,\\nSilas Wheeler, Benjamin Cram, Luke Crane, Joseph\\nHeywood 1850.\\nNathan Merriam.\\n137. Stratton s lot.\\n138. Henrij Fletcher, D. Rumrill. 139. Vacant.\\n152. Henry Fletcher, Jesse Walker, Ezra Carr (1850),\\nEmerson, John Walker, David E. Adams 1850.\\n153. 154 vacant.\\n181. John Brown, Aaron Brown, Hermon Brown.\\n134. N. Walton. 135. Reuben Fletcher 1771.\\n136. Amos Fletcher 1771. 155, 156, 157, 180 vacant,\\n131. D. Walker, E. Carr. 132, 133, 158, 159 vacant.\\n160. Daniel Clary.\\n128. Carey, Simeon Ide, Spalding, Bartlett, 0. Cra-\\ngin. 129, 130, 161, 162, 165 vacant.\\n125. Converse, Ebenezer Converse. Carr s Mill.\\n126. Godding, Ariel Godding. 127, 163, 164, 166 vacant.\\nAll the remainder, beyond the Mountain, vacant.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "280 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nC. Lots on the Eastern boundary.\\nNo. 186. Timothy Ileald 1752, Josiah Heald (1753), Stephen\\nPierce, d. 1819, Joseph Pierce 1850.\\nCharles Barrett, John Butman, Seth Newell, Elisha\\nDavis 1850.\\nJonas Wheeler 1770.\\nNo. 5. Seth Wheeler 1755, d. 1820, Stephen Wheeler, Wil-\\nliam Prichard, Jr.\\nAaron Wheeler, d. 1806.\\ni Seth Wheelvr, Silas Wheeler, Stephen Wheeler,\\nWalker, Stephen D. Wheeler 1850.\\nNew laid out. A. Range of 7iarrow Lots between the Ranges\\njust mentioned and the South Division irregularly numbered.\\nNo. 24. On Mason line, vacant.\\n28. Nathan Weston, A. Hosmer, W. Lee.\\n29. Nathan Hosmer.\\n2. Josiah Davis, d. 1815, Cyrus Davis, Moses Davis, Lu-\\nther Robbins.\\n44. John Melvin, Nathaniel Melvin (1770), Ezekiel Russell,\\nd. 1813, Solomon Russell 1850, Lysander E. Russell.\\n187. Thomas Heald, d. 1805, Solomon Estabrook, Samuel\\nEstabrook, Job Davis, Davis (1850.)\\n12. Thovias Heald, James Chandler, Francis Shattuck,\\nCharles Shattuck, Rice, George Ramsdell, Jr.\\n(1850).\\nSamuel Whittemore, Jr., Samuel Whittemore, 3d.,\\nBaker, How, Washington Shipley, (1850.)\\n1. Samuel Whittemore, d. 1812, Silas Bigelow, d. 1797,\\nZach. Walker, Amos Ramsdell (1850.)\\n16. Vacant. Whittemore Hill.\\n7. Robert Campbell, d. 1791, Caleb Campbell, d. 1800,\\nJoseph Newell, Jeremiah Kinsman, Jesse Stearns,\\nIsaac C. Stearns. No. 11. Vacant.\\n56. Aaron Chamberlain, d. 1799, A. Chamberlain, (1803.)\\nC. Perry (1850.)\\n60. Joseph Collins, Nathan Collins.\\n64. Joseph Pollard, d. 1786, James Barr, d. 1829, William\\nLock, George Barr, William Wheeler (1850.)\\nXin. 2. Isaac Flagg, Joseph Warren, Sprague, Elisha Childs,\\nStillman Gibson, Nathan Page, Luther Page.\\nJames Chandler 1824, Roger Chandler, d. 1845, Nathan\\nPage (1850.) No. 10. Vacant.\\n187. Peter Shattuck (1780), James Preston, Joseph Tenney.\\n98. Simeon Wright (1765), John Nutting, (1850.)\\nJohn Scott (1770.)", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 281\\nNo. 99. Sampson and William Tcnney.\\n100, John Walker, d. 1786, Thomas Wetherbee, Luther\\nWetherbee, Rogers Ryan, [Stephen Adams, Jr.,\\nAbraham Bennett, Oliver Wright.]\\nJohn Binney, d. 1784, John Binney, Jr.\\n102. Pond. 103, 104 and 105 vacant over the mountain.\\n990. Sampson Tenny, William Tenney.\\n106. James Preston, Isaac Preston, Richard Wheeler. J\\n107, 108 and 109, pastures.\\nB. New laid out. West of North Division.\\n63. Hildreth.\\n69, 70. Vacant. Adams Brown lots.\\n11. Silas Davis. 72. Vacant.\\nFactory Villages. A. High Bridge.\\nMcGowan (1850.)\\nAdams.\\nWhite Fitts (store).\\nCharles Stearns.\\nGeorare Oliver, James Spaulding, Wm. Mansur, Brown\\n(1850.)\\nCharles Stearns, d. 1818.\\nJames Sanderson, John Sanderson.\\nGeorge Sanders (tin shop), Wm. Matthews.\\nMilliner s shop and dwelling.\\nEleazer Cummings, Jacob Ames, Webber.\\nJames Sanderson, Isaac Russell.\\nJames Sanderson, d. 1830, Thomas Sanderson.\\nBrown, Boarding-house.\\nDyehouse, Thomas Ryan, Cassin.\\nJames 0. Reed, (store.)\\nBrooks Shattuck.\\nRobert Fitts, Christopher Whitney,\\nBoarding Houses (five) to Souhegan Factory.\\nSilas Foster, store and house, Daniel Walker.\\nTavern, E. Mansur, Dinsmore, Cummings, W. Man-\\nsur.\\nFrancis P. Prichard, d. 1850.\\nB.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Broio7i s Mills.\\nBoarding-houses, Nos. 1, 2, 3.\\nSeth Nason, Horace Brown, Eleazer Brown.\\nC. Mou7itain Mills.\\nSilas Wheeler, James Bliss, John P. Clark.\\nCyrus Baldwin, W. W. Johnson, George Keyes, Jefts,\\n36", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "282 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nGilman Ames.\\nJonathan Warner, L. Cragin, Gilman Ames.\\nJames W. Bliss.\\nGates Chapman.\\nNathaniel Prentice, Daniel Brooks, Sol. Brooks, John\\nAyres, John Clark, Hiram Smith.\\n(Store), W. W. Johnson, C. Barrett.\\n(Bank), Nathaniel Barrett.\\n(Livery stable), John P. Clark.\\nCharles Barrett, Jr., Chandler, J. P. Clark.\\nCharles Wiofht, FlasfSf.\\nWilliam Ainsworth.\\nJohn Boodry, Henry Johnson.\\nTufts.\\n(Boarding-houses, six double houses.)\\nOrlando Marshall.\\nCyrus Merrill.\\nPhelps.\\nN. Barrett.\\nEoby Fletcher.\\nSukey Dady.\\nCentral Village.\\nA. The Turnpike.\\nCharles Bateman, E. P. Edwards, Josiah Walton, Jr.\\nStephen Thayer (Match Factory.)\\nSampson Fletcher, Paul Boyce, Andrew Willard.\\nNathan Sanders.\\nNathan and George Sanders (Tin manufactory.)\\nE. L. Hammond, Henry Isaacs, d. 1S46, Edward M. Isaacs.\\nStephen Thayer.\\nBrown, Oliver Barrett, Hosea Eaton.\\nSteph. Thayer (Bakery), N. H. May, N. Smith, Albert Thayer.\\nCharles Bateman (Blacksmith shop), Thomas Kesson,\\nBoynton Stark (Tin manufactory.)\\nStephen Thayer (Store and Segar manufactory.)\\nGeorge S. Kitig (Hatters shop.)\\nMoses Brickett (Cigar shop and store.)\\nE. L. Hammond, Martin Ames, Nichols (1850.)\\n[Temple Road, Thomas Emery (house), G. N. Sanders (paint\\nshop), Seth Stratton (wheelwright), Thayer Boynton.]\\nSilas Wheeler 1828, Shebuel Shattuck d. 1846.\\nHeywood Wood (store), Heywood Davis, C. B. Davis,\\nLuke Cram.\\nSamuel Batchelder (1813), O. P. Eaton, James Spaulding, Silas\\nWheeler, George Sanders.\\nJohn Preston (1802-28), Henry Isaacs, E. P. Edwards.\\nApothecary Shop and Masonic Hall of Dr. Pteston.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 283\\nCharles Hastings.\\nJohn F. Hills, Ephraim Searle d. 1S24, Raymond Stratton d.\\n183S, Joseph Appleton d. 1840, Cyrus Da^^is, Jos. Barrett.\\nIsaiah Kidder (store), Samuel Batchelder, Newell Willey\\n(tavern), Joseph Newell, J.B.Holt, E.O.Tucker, A. L.\\nMerriam, Bates, E. P. Edwards, John Peabody, Gilman\\nBricket, William Mansur.\\nKing Hewes (printers), C. L. Weston (harness maker.)\\nMartin Ames (watchmaker.)\\nSamuel Batchelder (store 1813), Eaton Farrar, O. P. Eaton,\\nG. M. Champney Co., Henry Isaacs, E. M. Isaacs.\\nJohn F. Hills (store), Sampson Fletcher d. 1847, David French,\\nCharles Davis.\\nTwo houses, owned by Roby Fletcher.\\nOliver Boynton.\\nJ. Lawrence.\\nJoh?i M. Batchelder d. 1849.\\nMoses Brichett.\\nStephen Farrar (house), Benjamin Adams (tavern), Christopher\\nPage, Maveric Wyman, Ebenezer How, Stephen Burnham,\\n(house), J. Buckman (house and tin ware shop), Francis\\nShattuck.\\nCaleb Farrar (hatter s shop), Samuel Parker, James Tolman.\\nB. From the Turnpike, past the old Academy to the Judge Farrar\\nhouse.\\nStephen Farrar, Jr., Rev. Stephen Farrar d. 1808, Madam\\nFarrar d. 1818, E. H. Farrar d. 1851.\\nOliver Procter, Jonathan Kimball.\\nAcademy, Harvey Bacheller, E. How.\\nAaron Brown, Noah Cooke, Elijah Towne, N. Boyter, Hepsy\\nKidder, Capt. Roffe, Moses Brickett, Gilman Brickett, Jas.\\nBrickett.\\nIsrael Cheever d. 1815, Salmon Wilder d. 1823, Cahill.\\nHastings, 1\\nBoynton, j\\nWl on the Hills Orchard.\\nHaskell, I\\nWilliam Lock. J\\nJoseph Bacheller d. 1816, Oliver Bacheller d. 1816, Eliza Bach-\\neller, Widow Fisk.\\nNoah Cooke, John Hubbard, Dr. John Preston, Isaac Spaulding,\\nStephen F. Preston.\\nSamuel Heyioood, Ebenezer Parker, c. (see R. ix. 1.)\\nDavid Hills, (see N. Div. 34.)\\nSchool-house.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "284 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nBenjamin A. Billings, James Lock, James Taft, Eev. Richard\\nHall, Mrs. Clary.\\nJosiah Bacheller (blacksmith shop), Isaiah Williams, Charles\\nBateman, John T. Stephens.\\nSite of the Olfice of Ebenezer and Benjamin Champney.\\nBenja. Pollard, Widow Tillock d. 1800, Ezra Kimball d. 1825,\\nIra Spafford.\\nRolert Harris, Josiah Rogers, Ephraim Hartwell, James Barr,\\nJeremiah Prichard, Mrs. Laura B. Barr.\\nJohn Preston (1764-1803), Seth King d. 1851, T. F. Preston.\\nSeth King (hatter s shop), Stephen F. Preston.\\nJonathan Dix, Samuel Atherton, Isaac B. Farrar, Stephen Prich-\\nard, Elijah Towne, Charles Bateman, E. P. Edwards, Rev.\\nSamuel Lee.\\nIsaac B. Farrar, Benjamin Champney, John Buckman, G. F.\\nFarley, Parlow.\\nJames Farrar d. 1768, Timothy Farrar, Thomas Fletcher, Jesse\\nHolton, Joel Gould.\\nC. From the Turnpike to the Tanyard.\\nWm. Hassall (wheelwright, formerly the store of E. Hartwell.)\\nNathaniel Hurd, Joseph Newell,\\nDavid French.\\nWidow Preston, Charles Nicholas.\\nJ. A. Weston.\\nNew Ipswich Bank.\\nUnion and Odd Fellows Hall, Confectioner, c.\\nAi Sherwin.\\nSchool-house.\\nJohn Preston, Esq. (office.)\\nBaptist Meeting-house.\\nJosiah Bacheller d. 1827, Rev. Charles Walker, Martin Ames,\\nPeter Clark, John Clark.\\nJosiah Bacheller (blacksmith shop.)\\nJeremiah Prichard, Isaac Stone, Ralph Roby, Rev. John Park-\\nhurst, Isaiah Cragin.\\nCharles Hubbard (saddler s shop), Josiah Bacheller, Jr., Timothy\\nFox, 3d., Eliza Bacheller, Harvey Bacheller.\\nSamuel Appleton (store), Appleton Barrett, Charles George\\nBarrett, Gould Willey, Gould Clark, Gould Fox,\\nFletcher Barrett, George Barrett, Henry Isaacs, Shattuck\\nMann, Murphy (dwelling), Sullivan.\\nD. From the old Burial Ground to the Meeting-house.\\nCharles Porter.\\nJohn Buckman.\\nHiram C. Wilson.\\n1", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "OCCUPANTS OF FARMS, HOUSES, ETC. 285\\nMoody Adams, Silas Cragiti, John Tolman, Setli Stratton.\\nRalph Roby, Joseph Newell, Lyman Spear.\\nAi Sherwin, Charles Shattuck.\\nWilliam and James Lock (store), Joseph Pressey (tin ware),\\nCharles Stearns (dwelling), Amos Pierce, Dr. Kittredge.\\nChs. Hubbard (saddler s shop), Hubbard Willey, Silas Cragin.\\nNewton Willey, Levi Cochran, Levi Hodge.\\nMrs. Kesson.\\nCharles Barrett d. 180S, Francis Cragin d. 1826, George Bar-\\nrett, J. T. Stevens, Dr. L. H. Cochran.\\nCharles Barrett, Jr. (1799), Allen Hallett d. 1808, Sam l Batch-\\nelder (1812), Charles Barrett, Jr., George Barrett.\\nCentennial Pavilion.\\nJohnBarr (1811), Silas Cragin, Newton Willey, James Tolman,\\nStephen Thayer, Moody Adams.\\nJames Tolman (hatter s shop). Col. Sanderson.\\nJohn Crosby, Cragin, Jeremiah Prichard d. 1813, J. Prichard,\\nJr., N. D. Gould (1816), Abel Kendall d. 1846, Newton\\nBrooks.\\nWillard Jefts, Boy den.\\nMrs. Davis.\\nOliver Whitcomb (blacksmith), Martin Haven (cabinet maker),\\nPeter Cloyes, Silas Lawrence, John Gould, Jr., Julia Chick-\\nering (house.)\\nDolly Everett.\\nMartin Haven, Peter Cloyes, David Sherwin, John Gould, Jr.,\\nSeth Newell.\\nDaniel Foster, Isaac Spaulding, Josiah Obear d. 1829, Clark H.\\nObear.\\nMethodist Meeting-house.\\nHannah and Abigail Bacheller.\\nSchool-house.\\nStephen Adams d. 1801, Josiah Bacheller, Abijah Smith, Abel\\nShattuck, Leonard Brooks, Stedman Houghton.\\nStudents Hall.\\nCharles Shed, Charles R. BuUard.\\nNew Ipswich Academy.\\nJohn Shattuck, William Newell, Elijah Newell d. 1851.\\nDr. Moors Farwell, Dr. William Gallup, Josiah W. Spaulding.\\nEzra Kimball, Samuel Dutton, Dr. M. Farwell.\\nAbel Shattuck, Willard Jefts, Silas Cragin.\\nMatthias Wilson, Reed.\\nE. Road towards Smith s Village.\\nDr. Moors Farwell, Mary Foster, Ebenezer Fletcher, Isaac\\nSpaulding.\\nSite of Baptist Meeting-house.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "286 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.\\nMinisterial House. Joseph Cragin.\\nDr. Moors Farwell, Eichard Wheeler d. 1832, Levi Ward d.\\n1S36, Job Davis d. 1850.\\nParsonage House (Baptist), John Sawtell, Asaph Merriam.\\nRuth Wetherbee.\\nThe plan of the village opposite may be of especial interest\\nto those who have been long absent from the town at any\\nrate, it will be curious to look back, fifty or a hundred years\\nhence, and see the present state of the village. It has been\\nmade without any actual survey, but the relative position of\\nlocalities will be sufficiently well recognized. The public\\nbuildings, houses and shops in 1S50, exclusive of out-build-\\nings, are laid down, with the names of those who occupy or\\nimprove them. The position of the amphitheatre where the\\ncentennial services were performed, and of the dinner pavilion\\nare also given, as well as a few of the localities where build-\\nings formerly stood. The plan will be more fully understood\\nby reference to the list of occupants preceding. The buildings\\nin the other villages may be well enough recognized by com-\\nparing the large map of the town, and the list of the occupants.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "PART SECOND.\\nFAMILY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.\\nPerhaps no part of history is read with more interest than Biog-\\nraphy and when it relates to those for whom we feel any ties\\nof affinity or familiar acquaintance, the notices must awaken a much\\ndeeper feeling. Within a few years a new and increasing interest\\nhas been given to personal and family History, and many have been\\ninduced to enter the field, and glean from among musty or decaying\\ndocuments and fading traditions the materials for some memorials\\nof their family or friends, who, but for this pious service, would\\nsoon have been forgotten forever.\\nWe of New England may well be proud of our ancestors they\\nwere truly a peculiar people their mission has been a glorious one,\\nas they were the main pioneers of what will soon be the greatest\\nnation the world has ever seen. Let us, therefore, gather up what\\ncan yet be found of the materials for the history of our families,\\nand place them on record before it is too late. Every family should\\nhave a book, where all these things should be preserved, for the\\nbenefit of those who are to come after and we venture to say, that\\nnothing we shall leave can give a greater satisfaction to posterity.\\nOur ancestors, the settlers of this town, with two or three excep-\\ntions, were all natives of the counties of Essex and Middlesex, and\\nwere mostly the great grand-children of those puritans who came to\\nMassachusetts during the great emigration from England between\\n1630 and 1650.\\nThe ancient town of Ipswich has generally been considered the\\nmother of our place but it is a fact, that less than a dozen families\\nfrom there ever settled here some of these were among our earli-\\nest adventurers. Next came the emigration from Chelmsford and\\nWestford, (which had formerly been one town.) These made their\\nadvent from 1750 to 1756, and were in all about twenty families.\\nThey were followed by nearly as many from old Concord, particu-\\nlarly from those parts now Littleton and Lincoln, many of whom\\nwere drawn hither by the influence of the Rev. Mr. Farrar, and\\ncame immediately after his settlement. It will thus be seen, that\\nto the three ancient towns of Ipswich, Chelmsford and Concord, are\\nwe mainly indebted for our earliest settlers and as their characters", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "288 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nhad been formed where the institutions of religion and moral cult-\\nure had been long established, they were well calculated to be the\\nfathers of a new town and we doubt if, taken as a whole, a better\\nclass have ever undertaken the same task. They were a hardy\\nand industrious race, and they and their immediate descendants\\nhave left a name of which we should be proud. As a consequence,\\nfor a hundred years we have had a reputation as a church-loving,\\nlaw-abiding people. Not a crime of any magnitude has ever been\\ncommitted here, and, so far as our knowledge extends, not a native\\nhas ever been the inmate of a penitentiary. There is a gratifica-\\ntion in recording these things, and we trust the generation now en-\\ntering on the stage will feel an incentive to well-doing, so that the\\nfair fame of the town may long remain untarnished.\\nThe following notices are not as full as was at first intended, but\\neven these have been collected with much labor and difficulty\\nthey could have been made much more full and interesting. But\\nif any persons are disappointed in not finding any account of their\\nfamilies or friends, they must remember that they alone are to blame.\\nThe many cases of indifference that have been manifested when\\ninquiries have been made, with the numberless unanswered letters\\nrequesting information, are a sufficient excuse for any omissions\\nor errors that may be found.\\nIt will be seen that, except in a few cases, no effort has been made\\nto trace a continuous pedigree of the families from their emigrant\\nancestors, for the reason that the limits of the work would forbid it.\\nIt may be thought that the pedigrees of a few families have been\\ncarried out to an unreasonable extent but they are generally those\\nwhich have been the most distinguished, and have exerted the great-\\nest influence on the destinies of the town.\\nIn penning these notices, we can truly say that no invidious\\nfeelings have governed us and we have endeavored, so far as we\\ncould obtain the materials, to do even justice to all. We trust\\nthey will be received and read in the same spirit in which they\\nwere wTitten.\\nOur design has been to give some account of every family that\\nwas here previous to the incorporation of the town in 1762, and to\\nnotice some of the most prominent who came afterward, down as\\nlate as ISOO.\\nAbbreviations. Da. for daughter; s. son; b. born m. married; d. died;\\nw. wife; ch. children.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "THE ADAMS FAMILY.\\nAdams, Ephraim, was born at Ipswich. He was the son\\nof Thomas Adams, a man of respectabihty and property, who\\nresided in that part of the town then called The Hamlet,\\nnow forming the town of Hamilton. Some of his descend-\\nants still reside there. He took qnite an interest in the\\naffairs of this town under the first Grant, and seems to have\\ncontinued it under the Masonian organization, in which he\\nwas one of the largest shareholders, having held five rights.\\nEphraim was born in 1724, was a soldier for one campaign in\\nthe old French war about 1746, and soon after his return to\\nhis home, was married and removed to this place. This\\nwas about 1748. He, in company with his brother Benjamin,\\nsucceeded to two of his father s rights and as their names\\nare not mentioned in the Masonian charter, they undoubtedly\\nheld their title under the old grant. They improved two ad-\\njacent lots, one of which is the farm now owned by Mr. Ben-\\njamin A. Clark, and built the house still standing near the old\\nForge. It had flankers around it, as a defence against the\\nIndians, which were remaining in 1755, when they applied to\\nthe Proprietors of the town to repair them, who voted not to\\ndoit. Mr. Adams was an enterprising and useful man; he\\nassisted at the first organization of the church and was elected\\nthe first deacon, which office he filled faithfully till his death.\\nHe was noted for his strong original sense and quaint hu-\\nmor many of his shrewd sayings and playful remarks are\\nstill remembered by the old inhabitants. He took a leading\\npart in the strong measures Avhich preceded the Revolution\\nand when the war broke out, he did his full duty, both in\\ncouncil and in the field. Probably no man in the town did so\\nmuch to procure soldiers and other means for the war. The\\n37", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "29U FAMILY HISTORY.\\nlukewarm and desponding were encouraged by his ardor, and\\nthe tories and croakers quailed under his satire and humor.\\nAs he had been a soldier himself, he took great interest for\\nthem, always using his influence that there should be sup-\\nplied comforts for the able-bodied, and more especially for\\nthe sick. The following anecdote is remembered of his exer-\\ntions in their behalf: While representing the town in the Pro-\\nvincial Congress, he attempted one day to call their attention\\nto procuring suitable clothing for the soldiers during the then\\napproaching winter, but without much success. On the fol-\\nlowing day he rose in his place with much solemnity, and\\nread a resolution, in substance that it was the opinion of that\\nbody, that the soldiers from their State should have wool grow\\non their backs, to protect them from the cold during winter.\\nThis drew the attention of the House immediately, and a\\ncommittee was chosen, of which he was the chairman, and\\nhis wishes were promptly carried into effect.\\nDuring his long residence here, he was, oftener than almost\\nany man, elected to the various town offices, where his sound\\nand discriminating judgment was very useful. He often serv-\\ned as selectman and representative. He died March 26, 1799,\\naged 72.\\nThis family was descended from William Adams, who was\\nat Cambridge in 1G35, but removed to Ipswich before 1642,\\nand had a son John who it is believed was grandfather to the\\nThomas Adams before mentioned.\\nEphraim Adams m. Lydia Kinsman ch. Ephraim, b. Dec.\\n15, 1749 Thomas, b. Sept. 12, 1751 Stephen, b. Nov.\\n1753; Daniel, b. Aug. 24, 1755; Lydia, b. Aug. 16, 1757.\\nMrs. Lydia Adams d. Nov. 3, 1760, ee. 32. He m. Nov. 13,\\n1761, Rebecca Locke; ch. John, b. Feb. 29, 1764, d. in the\\narmy 1781 Ebenezer, b. Oct. 2, 1765, Professor at Hanover\\nRebecca, b. July 27, 1767 James, b. May 20, 1769 Betty,\\nb. Mar. 13, 1772 Quincy, b. Sept. 29, 1775.\\n(yriY ^ClCUm4 (brother of the above,) and\\n(y probably came here with\\nhim. They held their property together for many years, and\\nlived in a truly fraternal manner; and, although Benjamin", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "ADAMS FAMILY. 291\\nhad not so much energy of character as Ephraim, he had re-\\nceived a better education, and was probably as useful a man\\nin town affairs. He was elected a Deacon at the same time\\nas his brother, and held the office to the acceptance of the\\nchurch, for over half a century he served several years as\\nProprietor s Clerk, and, at the incorporation was elected Town\\nClerk, and often held other offices. He was a soldier in the\\nrevolution for one or two campaigns. He m. Priscilla\\nch. Joseph, b. Feb. 3, 1752, d. Mar. 30, 1752 Priscilla, b.\\nMar. 15, 1753; Sarah, b. Feb. 1, 1755, d. Mar. 1755; Benja-\\nmin, b. Feb. 7, 1756, d. 1758 Mary, b. Mar. 5, 1756 Debo-\\nrah, b. June 6, 1760, d. an infant; Hannah, b. Aug. 22, 1761\\nBenjamin, b. Sept. 9, 1763 Joseph, b. Dec. 13, 1765 Sarah,\\nb. Aug. 10, 1768, d. an infant Eunice, b. March 8, 1770.\\nDeacon Benjamin Adams d. May 5, 1815, se. 86. His wife d.\\nFeb. 19, 1791, a 62.\\nAdams, Ephraim, Jr., (son of Ephraim) he settled in the\\nwest part of the town, where his grandson, Henry, now re-\\nsides; like his father he was elected a Deacon in the church,\\nand often in various town offices. His ch. Ephraim, b. 1773;\\nIsaac, b. 1775; Lydia, b. 1777; Elizabeth, b. 1778; John, b.\\n1781 Rebecca, b. 1782 Sarah, b. 1784; Susannah, b. 1785\\nLucinda, b, 1788; Timothy, b. 1791; Benjamin Stearns, b.\\n1794 Cynthia, b. 1796. He d. April 13, 1825, a3. 75.\\nEbenezer Adams, (son of Ephraim,) b. October 2, 1755; m.\\nAlice Frink, July 9, 1795. She was the da. of Dr. John Frink,\\nSen r., and sister of Dr. John Frink, Jr., all of Rutland. She\\nd. June 20, 1805, and he m. 2d, Beulah Minot, of Concord,\\nMay 17, 1807, the dau. of Dr. Timothy Minot. She was b.\\nJune 28, 1773. His two sons, John and Ebenezer, graduated\\nat Dartmouth College.\\nProfessor Adams fitted for college in New Ipswich, his\\nnative town, and graduated at Dartmouth College 1791. He\\nsoon after went to Leicester, where he was Principal of an\\nAcademy for fourteen years. In 1806 he took charge of the\\nAcademy at Portland but being appointed Prof, of Mathe-\\nmatics at Phillips Academy, at Exeter, N. H., he left Port-\\nland in 1808, and went to Exeter. In 1809, being appointed", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "292 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nProf, of Languages at Dartmouth College, he removed to Han-\\nover. In 1810 he was transferred to the Professorship of\\nMathematics and Natural Philosophy, and continued in that\\nstation until 1833, twenty-three years, when he resigned all\\nactive service, but continued till his death Professor Emeritus.\\nHe was an original member of the Northern Academy of\\nArts and Sciences, member of the N. H. Hist. Society, Ameri-\\ncan Antiquarian Society, the American Academy of Arts and\\nSciences, the Maryland Academy of Sciences and Literature\\nand the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, and of other\\nliterary societies and institutions, and for nearly twenty years\\nPresident of the New Hampshire Bible Society. (See N. E.\\nHist. Gen. Reg. Vol. 1, p. 80.)\\nProf. Adams was possessed of a strong intellect, most thor-\\noughly disciplined, was uncommonly amiable in his deport-\\nment, and in all the stations he filled gave the highest satisfac-\\ntion. As an instructor, he was able and accurate no one\\nsurpassed him in faithfulness, and hence it was proverbial\\nthat he made thorough scholars. Judge Washburn, in his\\nHistory of Leicester, says After a succession of Principals,\\n(in Leicester Academy,) Mr Ebenezer Adams took charge of\\nthe Institution in 1792, and continued in that office till 1806,\\nAvhen he resigned it. As a teacher his character was almost\\nunrivalled. For the fourteen years he continued in that em-\\nployment, he was uniformly respected and esteemed, as well\\nby his pupils as by the inhabitants of the town and when he\\nleft, bore with him the highest testimonials of the regret of\\nthe trustees at his surrender of a place he had so usefully\\nfilled. (Worcester Mag. Vol. 2, p. 80.) While at Leicester,\\nhe also held the ofiice of Postmaster. He d. at Hanover, N.\\nH., Aug. 1841, ge. nearly 76.\\nAdams, Benjamin, (s. of Benjamin,) resided the principal\\npart of his life on the paternal farm, but for a few years kept\\na tavern at the old Farrar house. He d. in 1825, se. 62.\\nHe was an exceedingly amiable and affable man, possessed\\nan enterprising spirit, with rather a sanguine turn of mind.\\nAt one period he took much interest in military affairs, and\\nrose to the rank of Major, and ever after bore the title. He", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "ADAMS FAMILY. 293\\nm. Olivia Everett, (sister to David Everett). Ch. David Ev-\\nerett, Olivia, Augusta, Frederic A., and others. Only the first\\nnamed now resides in town. Frederic A. received a colle-\\ngiate education, studied Divinity at Andover, and was settled\\nat Amherst, but now resides at the West.\\nAdams, Benjamin, (s. of Ephraim, Jr.) was for many years\\none of the selectmen, and succeeded his father as deacon of\\nthe church. He died in 1849, se. 74.\\nAdams, Stephen, (s. of Thomas,) was born at Chelmsford,\\nin 1715, and was here soon after 1750; his farm was located\\nbeyond Mill Village; with his brother he was one of the first\\nmembers of the church at its organization. He seems to\\nhave been a very quiet man, and in humble circumstances,\\nbut he did something for his country by furnishing three sons\\nfor the revolutionary army their names were Stephen, (who\\nwas a Lieutenant,) Phineas, (who was killed in battle,) and\\nJonas, (who was severely wounded). Mr. A. d. Aug. 3, 1801,\\nee. 86.\\nAdams, Zachariah, brother of the above, was b. at Chelms-\\nford, in 1718, and came here before 1754; he built a saw-\\nmill previous to 1760, the particular location of which is\\nunsettled it probably stood on the falls at Mill Village his\\nhouse stood near the Hodgkin s corner, on the right hand side\\nof the present road, as you pass from Mr. C. Campbell s to\\nMill Village; some remains of a cellar can yet be seen there.\\nHe is supposed to have left town previous to the Revolution.\\nAdams, Thomas, was brother of the above, and came here\\nabout the same time was concerned in the sawmill, and is\\nmentioned in the Proprietors Records, but very little is now\\nknown about him or his family.\\nThe Chelmsford Adams family was descended from Henry,\\nwho was at Braintree in 1630, and who was the ancestor of\\nthe two Presidents of that name.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "THE APPLETON FAMILY.\\nTo this family, which for a long period has been identified\\nwith, and an honor to the town, it is intended to give a some-\\nwhat extended notice and we commence with extracts from\\nan interesting letter written by Mr. Eben Appleton, then in\\nEngland, to his brother, Nathan Appleton of Boston, giving\\nan account of the early history of the family in that country.\\nIt is dated Liverpool, Oct. 20, 1818.\\nI now send you the long promised account of my researches into\\nthe history of our ancestors. There is little doubt we are descend-\\ned from William de Appleton of Suffolk, who died in 1326 for\\nalthough our genealogical tree does not extend in a direct line, fur-\\nther back than John Appleton, (1412,) yet as the estates of William\\nde Appleton were in Haxwell and Boxford in the immediate vicinity\\nof Waldenfield, it is most probable we are a branch of his family.\\nThat he was a man of some note, I gather from the pomp and\\nexpense attending his funeral the particulars of which you will find\\nherewith.\\nThe information I have collected is from various sources, exclusive\\nof three journeys to Crayford and Dartford in Kent, South Benfleet\\nin Essex, and into Suffolk. I have looked over county histories,\\nancient chronicles, books of antiquities and remains, as well as books\\nof heraldry without number. I found in the collection of Harleian\\nManuscripts at the British Museum, a pedigree of the family of\\nAppleton of Suffolk, from John, 1412, to Samuel, who emigrated to\\nAmerica. That our Arms are correct I also ascertained from the\\nsame document, as it is there stated that William, the grandfather\\nof John and Samuel, bore for his arms, Argent a fess sable be-\\ntween three po??igranets gules, slipped leaved and vert, Crest, an\\nOlivanfs hed couped sa tusked ear^d or, ivith a serpent writhed about\\nhis noz vert. On the adjoining leaf was the pedigree of the family\\nof Isaack, into which Thomas married.\\nThere is little doubt that the name of Appleton is of Saxon origin.\\n(Apelton, Saxon, orchard.) It was known as the name of places\\nbefore the Norman Conquest, as it occurs in different parts of", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 295\\nDomesday Book, both in York and Norfolk, as Appletuna,\\nAppletona, c. I find the name used for persons as early\\nas 1216, (Henry III.) Mabilia de Apleton, c. The Christian\\nnames being all Norman, as William, John, Henry, Edward, c.\\nthe family are probably of Norman descent, and took their name\\nfrom the place where land was granted them. It appears to have\\nbeen variously spelt, even during the same period. Little attention\\nwas paid to orthography in the early times of English history. It\\nis spelt Apylton, Apilton, Apelton, Apeltun, Apulton, Appulton,\\nApetone, c. In the old county histories of Kent and Essex, the\\nname occurs frequently. They appear from their marriages, estates,\\nc., to have been an ancient and highly respectable family.\\nI visited Crayford in Kent, in September 1S17. I looked throuo-h\\nthe church and churchyard, but found nothing relative to the name\\nof Appleton. I since find from Hasted s History of Kent, that the\\nmonuments in this church, to the Appletons and others, were des-\\ntroyed by a fire which consumed the church the date is not men-\\ntioned. It appears from this history, that the Appletons owned\\nestates and had resided in this neighborhood from near 1400, at\\nabout which time Roger was Auditor to Henry V. and VI.\\nThe same history says, these Apyltons or Appletons are sup-\\nposed to be descended from a family seated in Great Waldingfield,\\nin Norfolk (diocese) and in another place, Edward Isaac,\\ndescendant of William Isaac, Esq., gave the manor of upper Gar-\\nwinton to his two daughters, nameljr, Mary, married to Thomas\\nAppleton, Esq., of Suffolk, and Margaret, married to a son of Sir\\nJohn Jermyn. In reference to the manor of Apulton in Jekliam\\nparish, it is written in old deeds, Apylton, from its being the in-\\nheritance of a family of that name, but whether they are related to\\nthe Apyltons of Essex and SufTolk is uncertain.\\nOn the 15th of October, 1817, 1 left London for Suffolk, in strong\\nhopes that on visiting the very spot upon which our ancestors had\\nresided, I might find much worthy of notice. I took the road for\\nSudbury. From this place to Great Waldingfield is only three and\\na half miles. My first visit was to the church and churchyard, but\\nin neither could I find any tombs or inscriptions of the name of Ap-\\npleton. I applied to the Rev. Mr. Creswell, the rector, who was\\ndisposed to give me every information in his power, but he knew\\nnothing further than that people of our name had in old time resi-\\nded in the place and owned estates in the neighborhood. Round\\nthe battlements of the church are some letters cut in the stone, in\\nthe old English character, quite illegible to us, Mr. Creswell says\\nhe once, when the church was repairing, made out from the scaf-\\nfolding the words, Orate pro anima, and he has been told that\\nit was in memory of some of the Appletons. I then proceeded to\\nLittle Waldingfield, the distance across the fields only one mile. It\\nis a larger village, and more pleasantly situated than Great Wal-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "296 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ndingfield. I examined the church and churchyard, but was equally-\\ndisappointed here no monuments or inscriptions at present exist-\\ning to any of the name. The old clerk, whose father was clerk\\nbefore him, says there have been no tombs with inscriptions to the\\nAppletons, in either of their days.\\nI find the particulars of them in Weever s Funeral Monu-\\nments, and Gough s Sepulchral Antiquities. But Weever col-\\nlected his inscriptions in 1630 or thereabouts, and the later books of\\ninscriptions were mostly copied from him. At what time these\\nmonumental inscriptions were destroyed, it is now impossible to\\nascertain. Many of them used to be cut in brass inlaid in the stone,\\nand in the time of the civil wars, when churches were converted\\ninto barracks, an immense number of these inscriptions were stolen\\nfor the value of the brass, after which, it being unknown to whom\\nthe graves belonged, some other family has taken possession of the\\nunclaimed tenement. [Later investigations have brought to light\\ntwo marble slabs in the church of Little Waldingfield, with the\\neffigies in brass of Robert Appleton, who died 1526, and of Mary\\nhis wife. Copies of the following wills are in the possession of Mr.\\nNathan Appleton of Thomas Appulton, who died 1507 of Wil-\\nliam Appuiton, who died 1514; and of Thomas Apleton, who\\ndied 1603.] The only interesting relic in Little Waldingfield\\nchurch, is a helmet, part of a leather jerkin or apron, and a sort of\\ncoronet which tradition gives to our family, although I know not\\nupon what grounds. These things hang upon an iron peg about\\ntwelve feet from the floor, in the chancel. A similar iron peg is\\nwithin a few feet of this, where the remainder of the armor hung,\\nbut it has been stolen or lost, time unknown. There is a\\nlegacy of \u00c2\u00a32, to the poor of each parish of Great and Little Wal-\\ndenfield, left by Edward Appleton of Edwardston, son of Robert,\\nsecured on lands belonging to the estate of Holbrook Hall, formerly\\nowned by the Appletons. It is situated in Little Waldingfield not\\na quarter of a mile from the church. The present occupier is Mr.\\nHanmer, son of Captain Hanmer, who had it from a Mrs. Warner.\\nI examined the Parish Register from the year 1560, when it com-\\nmences. I send you an extract from it of all which relates to our\\nfamily. After 1640 I found no entry of the name. It was satis-\\nfactory to find the baptism of John and Samuel, as also of their\\nfather Samuel, who emigrated with them to America. There is\\nonly one entry of the name in Great Waldingfield Register, namely,\\n1621, Thomas son of John Appleton buried October 4th. Icon-\\nversed with several of the inhabitants. They all seemed perfectly\\nacquainted with the fact that the Appletons formerly owned much\\nof the land about here, but further than that they knew nothing. I\\ncould not hear of any of the name in the county. There is unfor-\\ntunately, no good county history of Suffolk. Sir Simon D Ewes\\ncollected materials for writing a very particular one, but died before\\nhe finished it.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 297\\nI annex an extract from the Parish Register of Little Walding-\\nfield. Parish Registers were commenced in 1538.\\n1574. A daughter of Thomas Appleton, Gentleman, was baptized;\\nname illegible, (no doubt Mary.)\\n1576. Isaack, son of Thomas Appleton, Gent., was baptized.\\n1578, Judith, a daughter of Thos. Appleton, baptized.\\n1580. Sarah,\\n1582. John, son of Thomas Appleton, baptized.\\n1585. Thomas,\\n1586. Samuel,\\n1589. Mary Appleton, married to Mr. Robert Ryece.\\n1608. Sir Isaac Appleton, Knt. buried.\\n1615. Mary Ladee Appleton, wife to Mr. Lawrence Cutler, buried.\\n1616. Mary, (should be Sarah,) daughter of Samuelle Appleton,\\nbaptized.\\n1618. Judith, daughter of Samuelle Appleton, baptized.\\n1620. Martha,\\n1622. John, son of Samuel Appleton, baptized.\\n1624. Samuel,\\n1639. Mrs. Frances Appleton, married (Jacob Preston of Beeston.)\\n1640. Mr. John Appleton was buried.\\nThe above are all I could find. It is something of an underta-\\nking to go through the Parish Register, the writing being in many\\ncases a good deal obliterated, and the penmanship generally of the\\nvilest character.\\nIn some heraldric notices of the family of De Peyton of Peyton\\nHall, Suffolk, it is stated Sir Roger de Peyton, who died 25th of\\nEdward III. (1351,) married the Lady Christiana de Apleton, who\\nwas heir to land in Boxford and Haxwell, and who died 19th of Ed-\\nward II. and was buried at Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, with great\\npomp. Extract from the funeral expenses\\n55 Quarters of Wheat, \u00c2\u00a34. 10.\\n1 Hogshead of Wine, \u00c2\u00a353. 4.\\n4 Muttons, 5.\\n5 Barrow Hogs, \u00c2\u00a31. 4.\\n10 Calves, et caetera.\\nA curious document, showing the cheapness of provisions and the\\ndearness of wine. It may have been some peculiar sort used at fu-\\nnerals. At the Herald s Office is a record signed Robert Appleton,\\nat the visitation in 1664, namely,\\nThomas Appleton, Esq., of Little Waldingfield.\\nJohn Appleton, Esq., of Chilton.\\nRobert Appleton, of Preston, Barrister at Law.\\nPreston is about ten miles from Waldingfield. I did not visit it.\\nI shall close this long letter by adding the different Arms of the\\nname, as stated in different books of Heraldry. I presume all those\\nwhich have apples on them are from the Suffolk and Essex stock,\\n38", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "298 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nand the others with bears, c., belong to the York and Lancaster\\nfamilies, which are probably totally distinct.\\nApfleton, Suffolk. Argent, a fesse sable, between three apples\\ngules, stalked and leaved vert Crest, an elephant s head couped\\nsable ear d or, in his mouth a snake vert, writhed about his trunk.\\nI shall be pleased, if you derive half the satisfaction in reading\\nwhat I have collected, that I have done in the research. Surely,\\nthe social and moral feelings should receive improvement, and the\\nmind be stimulated to virtuous emulation, by wandering amidst the\\ntombs of our ancestors, tracing the rude inscriptions which record\\ntheir peaceful virtues, and in looking back to an extended line, who\\nhave descended to their graves free from reproach. Let us be care-\\nful to leave the same memorial to our posterity.\\nYour affectionate brother,\\nE. Appleton.\\nL* Samuel Appleton v;as born in 1586, at Little Wald-\\ningfield, Suffolk county, England. His name first appears,\\nin this country, among the persons who took the freeman s\\noath, 25th of 3d month, (May,) 1636. He, with three\\nothers, Robert Keaine, Henry Flint, and Daniel Maude,\\nout of sixty-two persons then admitted, had the honorary\\nprefix of Mr., which then was used to designate a graduate of\\na University, or a gentleman by birth. He appears to have\\ncontemplated an earlier emigration, as we infer from a letter of\\nGovernor Winthrop to his son at Groton, dated August 14th,\\n1630, and written shortly after his arrival. Every circum-\\nstance shows conclusively that his emigration m ist have been\\nprompted by religious motives, as a Puritan. He settled at\\nIpswich, where he had a grant of lands a building lot of\\neight acres in the town, on the Topsfield road, running down\\nto the river; also four hundred and sixty acres, constituting\\nwhat are now called the farms, lying on the line of the town\\nof Hamilton, and bounded on one side by Ipswich River, and\\non the other by Mile Brook. A large portion of this farm is\\nnow in possession of his descendants.\\nHe was Deputy at the General Court, 17th May, 1637, and\\nwas chosen to assist at the particular Court at Ipswich. He\\nwas also at the Court, 6th June same year at Boston, and also\\nThe Roman capitals designate the different Generations.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 299\\n6th August, when he was on a committee for raising a rate of\\n\u00c2\u00a3400. He was also present at I he Court of 26th September\\nsame year, but was not chosen to the new Court, which met\\non the 2d November foHowing. We are informed by Backus,\\nin his history of New England, of the cause of his being left\\nout. The former Court refused to support the views of the\\nSynod at Newton, which condemned eighty-two errors in\\nreligion, as connected with Mrs. Hutchinson and her party. A\\nnew Court was chosen, better disposed to sustain the intolerant\\nviews of the times, which banished Mrs. Hutchinson and\\nseveral others. This dismission from public services, under\\nthese circumstances, is honorable to him, and he does not after-\\nwards appear in it.\\nSamuel Appleton married Mary Everard. Nothing farther\\nis known of her, than that the family of Everard was a highly\\nrespectable one in the County of Suffolk. She accompanied\\nher husband, with their five children, to this country. He died\\nJune, 1670, at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he was buried,\\nand where it is probable he had resided with his- daughter,\\nMrs. Phillips, during the latter part of his life. By Mary\\nEverard he had the following children\\n1 John. 2 Samuel. 3 Sarah. 4 Judith, m. Samuel\\nRogers, 1657, son of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich-\\n5 Martha, m. Richard Jacob.\\nn. Samuel Appleton, the second son of Samuel I., was\\nborn at Waldingfield in 1624, and came to New England with\\nhis father at the age of eleven years. He was Deputy to\\nthe General Court, under the title of Lieutenant Samuel Ap-\\npleton, in 1668 and in 1669-71, in company with his brother,\\nCaptain John again in 1673 and 1675 by himself\\nIn this last year, the Indian war, called Philip s war, broke\\nout. On the Massachusetts Files is the following record,\\n1675: On 24th September ordered, that a commission be\\nissued forth to Captain Samuel Appleton, to command a foot\\ncompany of 100 men. His destination was the frontier\\ntowns on the Connecticut River, where Captain Lathrop s\\nCompany was destroyed on the 18th September. On the 4th\\nOctober he was appointed Commander in Chief of the army", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "300 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nin those parts, by whose industry, skill and courage, says\\nHubbard, his neighbor, those towns were preserved from\\nrunning the same fate with the rest, wholly or in part turned\\ninto ashes. This appointment was in pursuance of the re-\\nquest of Major Pynchon, to resign the chief command, in con-\\nsequence of the loss of his barns, c., a short time previously,\\nin the conflagration of Springfield. To his letter to the Coun-\\ncil making this request, under date 30th September, 1675, is\\nappended the following postcript: Capt. Appleton is a man\\nyt is desirous to doe something in this day of distress; being\\nvery sensible of y^ cause and people of God, at stake, and is\\nmuch to be commended and upon that account to be preferred\\nbefore many yt dare not jeopard their lives in the high places\\nof ye field. On the 19th October, a violent assault was made\\nupon Hatfield by 700 or SOO Indians, who were repulsed after\\na sharp conflict, as described by Hubbard, who says, Major\\nAppleton s sargent was mortally wounded just by his side, an-\\nother bullet passing through his own hair, by that whisper tell-\\ning him that death was very near, but did him no other harm.\\nThere are a number of his letters on file in the Secretary s\\noffice, Massachusetts, bearing date from the 12th October to\\nthe 20th November, giving a detail of his operations in that\\nquarter, and his difficulties with the Connecticut officers.\\nThey are written in a beautiful chirography, with great\\nprecision of style, and are full of the pious spirit of the day.\\nUnfortunately, the letter which must have given an account\\nof the attack upon Hatfield is missing.\\nAfter placing small garrisons in the towns on the river, he\\nprepared for the expedition then fitting out for the Narragan-\\nsett country, in which he had the command of the Massachu-\\nsetts forces, consisting of six companies of foot and a troop of\\nhorse, in all 527 men. These were placed under his command\\nat Dedham, December 9th, 1675 and with the Plymouth and\\nConnecticut troops, making up the number of 1000 men, were\\nunder the command of General Win slow. Nothing could\\nshow the alarm of New England, at the deeply organized plan\\nof Philip, more than the undertaking this expedition at this\\nsevere season of the year. In the bloody action of 19th De-\\ncember, 1675, and the capture of the Narragansett fort, Mas-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 301\\nsachusetts lost 110 men, killed and wounded. The troops\\nreturned to Boston, and Major Appleton seems then to have\\nleft the service.\\nIn October, 1676, he was appointed to proceed to Piscata-\\nqua. with the full command of an expedition, then fitting out\\nfor that place, but he seems to have declined the appointment.\\nHe was chosen to the Council as Assistant in 1681, in which\\noffice he continued until the appointment of Sir Edmund An-\\ndres as Governor-General in 1686. In Edward Randolph s\\nletter giving the characters of the leading men of Massachu-\\nsetts, he is placed amongst the factious in other M^ords, the\\nsupporters of the rights of the colonists. On the deposition\\nof Sir Edmund Andros, his name appears in the Council,\\ncalled to the Provisional Government of the Colony. He was\\nof the Council named in the Charter of William and Mary,\\nin 1692.\\nHe did not escape the persecution of Sir Edmund Andros\\nand his tools, probably on account of the freedom of speech,\\nin which he denounced his arbitrary assumption of power.\\nOn the 19th September, 1687, three days after the order for\\nthe arrest of the Selectmen of Ipswich, warrants were issued\\nfor the arrest of Dudley Bradstreet of Andover, Samuel Ap-\\npleton of Ipswich, and Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, as\\npersons factiously and seditiously inclined, and disaffected\\nto his Majesty s government. On the 3d and 5th October,\\ntwo other special warrants were issued for the apprehension\\nof Samuel Appleton, by which it appears that he secreted\\nhimself, probably at the house of his son at Lynn. It was\\ndoubtless on this occasion that the scene occurred, referred to\\nin Lewis s history of Lynn, (1st edition,) where he is repre-\\nsented as addressing the people from a rocky eminence, near\\nthe Lynn print and bleach works, which still goes by the name\\nof Appleton s pulpit.\\nAt lengdi, on the 19th October, he was brought before the\\nGovernor and Council, by Thomas Larkin, Messenger, and\\nordered to stand committed until he give bond in the sum of\\none thousand pounds to appear at the next Superior Court, at\\nSalem, to answer what shall be objected against him, and in\\nthe mean time to be of good behaviour. This bond he re-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "302 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nfused to give whereupon, at a Council on the 30th Novem-\\nber, he was ordered to be imprisoned in Boston jail. How\\nlong he remained in prison is not known. So far as appears,\\nthe severe measures of the Government subdued al! others to\\nthe footstool of Sir Edmund but Major Appleton was inflex-\\nible, and was visited with his vengeance to the last extremity.\\nThe writer was informed by Mr. John Appleton of Cambridge,\\nthat it was a tradition in the family, that on the imprison-\\nment of Sir Edmund in 1689, and his confinement at the\\ncastle, Major Appleton was allowed the satisfaction of hand-\\ning him into the boat which conveyed him off.\\nHis will is dated April, 1695, and was proved May 25th,\\n1696 witnesses, Samuel Phillips, Sr., and Edward Payson.\\nHe divided the land included in the angle between Mill River\\nand Mile Brook, embracing the whole original grant, between\\nhis four sons.\\nHis first wife was Hannah Paine, daughter of William\\nPaine of Ipswich, afterwards of Boston, by whom he had the\\nfollowing children\\n1. Hannah, m. William Downes, a merchant of Boston, and\\nhad issue, a daughter. 2. Judith, m. Samuel Wolcott, of\\nWindsor, Connecticut. He was grandson of Henry, who\\narrived in America in 1630, and removed to Connecticut.\\n3. Samuel.\\nSamuel Appleton s second wife was Mary Oliver, b. 1640,\\nwhom he married December 8th, 1656, at the age of sixteen.\\nShe was daughter of John Oliver of Newbury, who was a\\ndeputy in 1637, and died 1642. By her, Samuel Appleton had\\nthe following children:\\n4. John. 5. Major Isaac. 6. Oliver. 7. Joannah, m.\\nNathaniel Whipple.\\nSamuel Appleton died October 30th, 1725, and was buried\\nat Ipswich. His wife survived him, and was subsequently\\nmarried to the Rev. Edward Payson.\\nIII. Major Isaac Appleton, b. 1664, at Ipswich. He m.\\nPriscilla Baker, granddaughter of Lieutenant-Governor Sym-\\nonds. He d. 1747. Their children were,\\n1. Priscilla, b. 1697, m. Thomas Burnham of Ipswich,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 303\\nand had sons, Thomas of Ipswich, and James of Portland.\\n2. Mary, b. 1702, m. Zachariah Osgood of Andover, 1729.\\n3. Isaac. 4. Elizabeth, m. Josiah Fairfield of Wenham.\\n5. Martha, m. John White of Haverhill. 6. Rebecca, m.\\nWilliam Dodge of Ipswich, a distinguished merchant.\\nIV. Isaac Appleton, b. 1704, at Ipswich. He married\\nElizabeth Sawyer, daughter of Sawyer, a merchant of\\nWells, Maine. She was b. 1710, and d. 1785. He d. 1794.\\nTheir children were,\\n1. Dea. Isaac Appleton of New Ipswich. 2. Francis of\\nN.Ipswich. 3. Elizabeth, m. Sam l Bartlett, of N. Ipswich.\\nTheir children were 1. Isaac 2. Samuel 3. Daniel 4.\\nNoah 5. a daughter, m. Fox. 4. Samuel of Ipswich. 5.\\nThomas of Beverly, b. 1741. He was twice married. By\\nhis first wife, he had two children 1. Isaac 2. Elizabeth.\\nBy the second, who was a Dane, sister of Nathan Dane, he\\nhad three children 1. Daniel; 2. Lydia 3. Sarah. His wife\\nd. in 1845, ae. 103 years. He d. 1831. 6. John of Buxton,\\nMaine. He settled on lands granted in 1730, to the officers\\nand soldiers engaged in the Narragansett fight. He left no\\nissue. 7. Daniel of Buxton, Maine, m. Adams, d. 1836.\\nHe settled on lands granted like the preceding. His children\\nwere: 1. Daniel; 2. Joseph; 3. Elizabeth, m. Hopkinson.\\n8. WiLLiABi of Portsmouth. 9. Mary, m. Woodbury, and\\nhad two children 1. Samuel 2. Mary, m. Thomas McMa-\\nhon, by whom she had four children. 10. Rev. Joseph\\nAppleton of North Brook field.\\nV. Deacon Isaac Appleton, of New Ipswich b. May 31st,\\n1731, m. April 24th, 1760, Mary Adams, who was born\\nApril 14, 1742, and died May 22d, 1829. She was daughter\\nof Joseph Adams of Concord, who d. May lOth, 1790, ae. 88,\\nand Dorothy his wife, who d. July 24th, 1791, ae. 85. He\\ndied February 25th, 1806. Their children were,\\n1. Isaac of Dublin, N. H. 2. Joseph B., b. June 25th,\\n1764, d. December 2d, 1791, at Keene, N. H. He graduated\\nat Dartmouth College, 1791. 3. Samuel, merchant of Boston.\\n4. Aaron of Keene, b. August 6th, 1768, m. 1st. Eunice\\nAdams, who d. July 24th, 1841 2d. Keziah Bixby, he d. June", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "304 FAMILY HISTORY.\\n1852. 5. Dolly, b. September 6th, 1770, m. David Everett.\\n6. Moses, of VVaterville, Me. 7. Mary. 8. Ebenezer, b.\\nOctober 17th, 1777, d. July 7th, 1780. 9.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathan, merchant\\nof Boston. 10. Emily. 11. Eben. 12. Emma, b. April\\n14th, 1788, d. January, 1792.\\nV. Francis Appleton, of New Ipswich b. 1732, m. Hub-\\nbard, d. January, 1816. He inherited a right of land north\\nof his brother, on which he settled about 1770. He was an\\namiable, industrious and pious man, but being subject at times\\nto a remarkable aberration of mind, he never took much in-\\nterest in town affairs. He went to the capture of Burgoyne,\\nAvhere he lost his horse. He was the father of Jesse, hereaf-\\nter mentioned, who became one of the most distinguished di-\\nvines in New England. His children were,\\n1. Isaac, who lived in Mill Village. 2. Francis, of Dub-\\nlin, N. H., m. Mary Ripley, and had several children. 3. John\\nof New Ipswich, m. Betsey Peabody. He was father of Hon.\\nJohn Appleton of Bangor, Judge of the Supreme Court of\\nMaine, and of Elvira, who m. George Gibson. 4. Rev.\\nJesse Appleton. 5. Mary. 6. Betsey.\\nVI. Francis Appleton, (s. of Francis,) was born in 1759.\\nWhen about eighteen years of age he performed one or two\\ncampaigns as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. At the age\\nof twenty he left home and settled in Dublin. He m. Mary\\nRipley, the sister of Rev. Dr. Ripley of Concord. In 1790 he\\nand his wife became members of the church under the care of\\nthe Rev. Edward Sprague, and in 1795 he was chosen a dea-\\ncon, and discharged its duties for thirty-six years, till in 1831\\nhe resigned, feeling that old age and infirmity was a sufficient\\nexcuse for taking such a step.\\nHis days were extended far beyond his expectation and\\nmany years before his death he arranged his temporal affairs\\nas if he was soon to leave the world. He d. July 17, 1849,\\nas. 90 his wife d. in 1840, ae. 74.\\nVI. Isaac Appleton, of Dublin, N. H., b. June 6th, 1762,\\nm. Sarah Twitchell, 1788. She was b. January 9th, 1768,\\nand d. March 2Sth, 1828. Their children were,\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY, 305\\n1. Sarah, m. James B. Todd. 2. Joseph, b. December\\n5th, 1791, d. May 9th, 1840. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Emily, b. May 15th, 1794,\\nm. Estabrook, d. September 9th, 1842. 4. David. 5. Mary.\\n6. Samuel, b. July 12th, 1803, m. Heywood, d. June 20th,\\n1830. 7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac, b. February 21st, 1807, d. November 26th,\\n1827. 8. Harriet, m. Rev. Henry A. Kendall of Dublin.\\nVI. Samuel Appleton, merchant of Boston, b. June 22d,\\n1766, m. Mrs. Mary Gore.\\nVI. Rev. Jesse Appleton, b. November 17th, 1772, in New\\nIpswich. He entered Dartmouth College in 1788. He pre-\\npared himself for the ministry and was ordained at Hampton,\\nN. H., in February, 1797. In 1807, on the decease of the\\nRev. D. McKeen, the first President of Bowdoin College, Mr.\\nAppleton was chosen his successor. Two volumes of his\\nworks, embracing his course of Theological Lectures, his\\nAcademic Addresses, and a selection from his Sermons, with\\na Memoir of his life and character, were published in 1837.\\nIn 1800, he married Elizabeth Means, daughter of the Hon.\\nRobert Means of Amherst, N. H, He died November 12th,\\n1819. Their children were,\\n1. Mary Means, m. John Aiken. 2. Elizabeth FranceSj\\nb. April 22d, 1809, m. Alpheus S. Packard of Brunswick, Me.,\\nd. June 2d, 1839. 3. Jane Means, m. Gen. Franklin Pierce\\nof Concord, N. H., now nominated for President of the U. S.\\n4. William, b. November 7th, 1808, d. at Cincinnati, October\\n19th, 1830. 5. Robert, m. Rebecca W. Means, d. 1851.\\n6. John, b. August 14th, 1814, d. October 19th, 1817.\\nVI. MosEs Appleton, M. D., of Waterville, Maine, b. Mar.\\n17th, 1773, [Gr. D. C. 1791,] m. Ann Clark, 1801, d. May\\n6th, 1849. Their children were,\\n1. Ann Louisa, m. Hon. Samuel Wells of Portland. 2.\\nSamuel. 3. Mary Jane, m. Dr. Sam l Plaisted. 4. George\\nAlfred, b. June 5th, 1809, d. young. 5. Moses Larke, m.\\nJane Hill. Resides in Bangor.\\nVI. Mary Appleton, b. June 22d, 1775, m. Joseph Barrett,\\nOctober 3d, 1809. Their children were,\\n1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Appleton, b. July 22d, 1812, d. April 20th, 1833,\\n39", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "306 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nwhile a sophomore in college. 2. Emily Maria, b. October\\n23d, 1814, d. June Uth, 1833. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Narcissa, m. Sam-\\nuel W. Bent. 4. Dora Everett, m. Dr. Edward Spalding,\\nof Nashua.\\nVI. Nathan Appleton, merchant of Boston, b. October 6th,\\n1779, m. 1st, Maria Theresa Gold, 1806,Mvho was b. Novem-\\nber 8th, 1786, and d. February 10th, 1833. Their children\\nwere,\\n1. Thobias Gold. 2. Mary, m. Robert James Mackin-\\ntosh. 3. Charles Sedgwick, b. October 9th, 1815, d. October\\n25th, 1835. 4. Fanny Elizabeth, m. Henry Wadsworth\\nLongfellow.\\nHe m. 2d. Harriot C. Sumner, 1839. Their children were,\\n5. William Sumner. 6. Harriot. 7, Nathan.\\nVI. Emily Appleton, b. November 7th, 1781. She m. No-\\nvember 6th, 1804, Moses Jewett, who was b. July 5th, 1777,\\nand d. August 12th, 1847, at Columbus, Ohio. She d. June\\n4th, 1809, at Burlington, Vermont. Their children were,\\n1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet, b. September 17th, 1805, d. July 31st, 1806.\\n2. Isaac Appleton.\\nVI. Eben Appleton, b. June 7th, 1784. He m. October\\n12th, 1809, Sarah Patterson, who d. July 12th, 1837. He d.\\nApril 29th, 1833. Their children were,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. Sarah, b. July 12th, 1810, at Liverpool, England, d.\\nJune 5th, 1837. 2. Samuel A. m. Julia Webster, who d. April\\n28th, 1848. 3. William S. m. Georgiana Louisa Frances\\nArmistead of Baltimore. 4. Caroline Frances, m. Samuel\\nBlatchford of Auburn, New York.\\n1*1^ t ii4M^", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY.\\n307\\n^if^^^i\\n/fO-CCC ^/y(-^/a^ (son of Isaac,) was bom at\\nIpswich in 1731, and remov-\\ned to New Ipswich about the year 1750. His father was\\nthe largest proprietor in the town, having six shares, a part\\nof which were inherited by his sons. Mr. A. built his house\\nat first about one hundred rods southeast of the site of his\\nlater residence. He was not a man of great physical vigor,\\nbut this lack was more than made up by his industry,\\nprudence, piety, and all the qualities which go to make up a\\ngood name and inspire confidence. He was a true patriot\\nand on the news of Concord fight reaching town, he exerted\\nhimself to arouse the people to hasten to repel the enemy, and\\nwent himself with them. He was one of the Committee\\nof Safety, and was in two or more campaigns during the war.\\nAs deacon of the Church he was also foremost in all good\\nworks and his influence was always exerted for peace. He\\ntook a share in all the various enterprizes which would bene-\\nfit the town, and the Academy always felt his influence.\\nMany a poor student was assisted and encouraged by him\\namong others, the late Rev. Dr. Worcester of Salem may be\\nnamed, for which his biographer has just made honorable\\nmention.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "308 FAIMILY HISTORY.\\nSamuel Appleton. In noticing the life of this useful,\\ndistinguished, and now venerable man, we cannot speak with\\nthe freedom we have of those worthies who have passed from\\namong us, and altliough he is no longer to be found amid the\\nactive scenes of life, still, like the hidden fountain, he continues\\nto pour out a perennial stream which gladdens the heart of the\\nwidow and orphan while the institutions of learning and\\ncharity often have occasion to acknowledge his bounty.\\nBy a reference to the Family Genealogy, it will be seen that\\nhe was the son of Deacon Isaac and Mrs. Mary Appleton, and\\nwas born, in 1766, in the Family Mansion, a view of which is\\nseen on p. 307. During the period of his youth, the schools\\nin town afforded him but a meagre opportunity for improve-\\nment and it is likely that to a father of much more than the\\nusual abilities of farmers of that day, as well as to a strong-\\nminded mother, he was indebted for the rudiments of knowl-\\nedge, as well as for the good habits and firm principles of\\nintegrity which have adorned his character. He well recol-\\nlects, however, attending school in the first school house, which\\nwas afterwards Joseph Bachelder s shop, under the instruction\\nof Mr. Hedge.\\nHis first step in the world, and probably his first egress\\nbeyond the borders of his native town, was when he was\\nabout twelve years of age, and is pleasantly told in his letter\\naddressed to the citizens of Peterboro on the occasion of their\\nCentennial Jubilee.\\nBoston, Oct. 22, 1839.\\nGentlemen, I have received 3 our letter of the 16th inst.,with a polite invita-\\ntion to attend the celebration of the First Centennial Anniversary of the town of\\nPeterborough, on the 24th inst. I much regret that it will not be in my power to\\nattend said celebration, as it would afford me much pleasure to meet my friends\\nand acquaintances at that place.\\nI have known Peterborough for about sixty years, and observed with pleasure\\nits rapid growth in population, agriculture, manufactures, arts, sciences, literature,\\nc., c.\\nMy first visit to Peterborough I will relate, merely to show some of the changes\\nthat have taken place since my recollection. Fifty-nine years ago last April, a\\nman with a drove of cattle passed my father s house in New Ipswich, on his way\\nto a pasture for his cattle in the town of Hancock. Being in want of assistance\\nto drive his cattle, and seeing a flaxen-haired boy at the door, he bargained with\\nmy father that I should assist him on his way as far as the mills in Peterborough,\\ndistance ten miles for this service to be performed by me, my father received\\nninepence, lauful money; we arrived at the mills a rickety saw and grist mill,\\nstanding on the site wlfjere the Peterborough Factory now stands, about four\\no clock. The man of cattle then offered me half as much as he had paid my", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "v^i^ tC;^/^^^^-\\nTAruir-eH s C^.IHwslxc/", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 309\\nfather, and a night s lodging, if I would go on with him through the woods three\\nmiles to Taylor s Tavern. I readily consented, and pocketed the cash. At that\\ntime there was only one house (Doctor Young s) between the mills and the\\ntavern. All the rest of the way was a dreary wilderness. But enough of my\\nfirst visit to Peterborough. I propose, with your permission. Gentlemen, the fol-\\nlowing toast\\nThe. First Settlers of the town of Peterborough, The Smiths, the Wilsons, the Steeles,\\nthe Moiisons, and many others celebrated for their industry, perseverance, prudence\\nand honesty. Also their sons and grand-sons whether at home or abroad; they have\\ndone honor to themselves, to their native town, and to their country. Their virtues\\nand talents have shed a lustre on every profession, political, judicial, ecclesiastical,\\nmedical, military and scientific.\\nI have the honor to be, most respectfully, gentlemen, your obedient, humble\\nservant. Samuel Appleton.\\nMr. A. for several years assisted his father in carrying on\\nhis farm. In 1787 that famous teacher, Mr. Hubbard, taught\\na school in the Middle District of a much higher order than\\nany that had before been known in that part of the country.\\nIn this he was, for a year or two, an industrious scholar and\\nin the Autumn of 1789, just after the opening of the Academy,\\nhe received the first certificate of his ability to teach a school,\\nthat was ever issued from that institution.\\nNew Ipswich Academy, 17th Nov., 1789.\\nTo All whom it may concern.\\nThis may certify, that Samuel Appleton has, in time past, been under my in-\\nstruction; that he is well acquainted with English Grammar, and well capable of\\nkeeping an English School, he is hereby recommended to the attention of any\\ngentleman who shall see fit to employ him.\\n(Signed) John Hubbard, Preceptor.\\nHe taught a school in Temple the succeeding winter, and\\nthe next year was presented with the following testimonial\\nfrom his beloved pastor, and was again employed in teaching.\\nNew Ipswich, November 8th, 1790.\\nThis may certify, that Mr. Samuel Appleton, of this town, is a person who\\nsupports a good Moral character, and is possessed of abilities sufficient to instruct\\na school, in reading, writing, orthography, English Grammar, and Arithmetic.\\nAttest, Stephen Farrar.\\nAbout this period the new lands in Maine were attracting\\nmuch attention. Many persons from this town had been\\ninduced to settle there on land which had been granted to the\\nHon. C. Barrett and Mr. A. spent a part of two years there,\\nwith some design of making it his permanent residence, and\\npartly as agent for Mr. Barrett. It was to a small church,\\nerected within a few years near this place, that he so gener-\\nously presented a Bell, much to the gratification of the inhab", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "310 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nitants of the town, when tlie following interesting correspond-\\nence ensued.\\nAppleton, Oct. 24th, 184.5.\\nSamuel Applelon, Esq. Sir, We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the town\\nof Appleton, would respectfully represent, that we have lately erected a small\\nmeeting-house at the village of McLain s Mills, in said town, and that we feel\\nanxious to obtain a bell suitable for the same; that our numbers are small, and\\nthe expense already incurred falls heavily upon us; and knowing the high repu-\\ntation you every where sustain for liberality, have been induced to ask you to\\npresent us with a bell. The only reasons we have to offer for asking the boon at\\nyour hands, rather than any other person, are\\nFirst Because the town of Appleton was named in honor of your venerable\\nfather, and to commemorate the name of his family; and,\\nSecondly That if we have not been wrongfully informed, you can make the\\ngift without the least possible injury or inconvenience to yourself or family.\\nWe do not pretend to have any claim upon you, except upon your generosity;\\nand should you decline complying with our wishes, we shall have no fault to\\nfind. Will you please give an answer, and direct to the first signer of this letter.\\nBenj. McLain, (and others).\\nBoston, November 3, 184-5.\\nBenjamin McLain, {and his associates) Sir I have received a letter,\\ndated October 24th, signed by yourself and seven others, inhabitants of the town\\nof Appleton, requesting me to make a present of a bell, suitable for a meeting-\\nhouse lately erected at the village of McLain s Mills in said town. You say the\\nreasons of your asking the boon from me, rather than any other person, are\\nFirst, that the town of Appleton was named in honor of my venerable father,\\nand to commemorate the name of his family. 1 think there must be some mis-\\ntake in this. My father, Isaac Appleton, lived and died on a small farm at New\\nIpswich, New Hampshire. I do not think he was ever in the Srtate of Maine, or\\never heard of the town of Appleton.\\nI, myself, formerly had some knowledge of your neighborhood. About sixty\\nyears ago, I was among the first settlers of the town of Hope, (then called Bar-\\nrettstown.) I took for myself a lot of land, more than two miles from any other\\nsettlement, and for some time carried my provisions on my back, going through\\nthe woods by marked trees, to my log-house and home at that time. My lot of\\nland was near where Mr. Reuben Safford built a house on his land. If Mr. Saf-\\nford, or any other persons are now living who resided in Hope from fifty-five to\\nsixty years ago, they can tell you something of Samuel Appleton of that day.\\nAs I should be very sorry to give a bell that might sound my praises under\\nfalse pretences or impressions, I therefore most respectfully decline complying\\nwith your wishes. Sam l Appleton.\\nAppleton, Nov. 10th, 1845.\\nSamuel Appleton Sir Your letter of November 3d has been received, and\\nwe thank you for the information you have given us. The most aged persons\\nnow living in this town have always stated that the town of Appleton was named\\nin honor of your father, who, they believed, resided in Boston at the time, and\\nwas an owner of Eastern lands; and we have always supposed (till now) that\\nthis was the fact how this impression became so general, I am not able to say.\\nThe farm upon which you connnenced in your young days lies about three\\nmiles from the new Meeting-House, and is now under improvement. Your old\\nneighbor, Mr. Saflbrd, is still living, although his head seems to be whitened by\\nthe frosts of many winters.\\nAs we have been mistaken in regard for whom the town was named, we now\\nwithdraw the request that you would give us a Bell, and hope you will not be-\\nlieve that we intended to obtain one from you under false pretences, for if", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 311\\nwe had succeeded in getting it by such means, it would have sounded only our\\nown dishonor. Benjamin McLain.\\nBoston, Dec. 1st, 1845.\\nBenjamin McLain, Esq. Sir I have received your letter of November\\n10th, in which you withdraw your request made in a former letter, that I would\\ngive a meeting-house bell to the town of Appleton. You will please to recollect\\nthat your reasons for asking me for a bell, were First, that the town of Ap-\\npleton was named in honor of my father. In answer to that letter, I informed\\nyou that your first reason for asking me for a bell, was not correct; as the town\\nwas not named in honor of my father, I therefore declined giving a bell on that\\nscore.\\nYour second reason for asking me for a bell, was, that if you were not\\nwrongly informed, I could make the gift without the least possible injury or in-\\nconvenience to myself. To this, your second reason, I now reply, that through\\nthe kindness of Providence, in my pecuniary affairs, you were not wrongly in-\\nformed on that subject; and if you will procure a suitable bell for your new\\nmeeting-house, and send me the bill, I will with the greatest pleasure pay the\\namount.\\nI am happy to hear that a meeting-house is erected, and that the gospel is\\npreached within three miles of the place where I spent three long summer sea-\\nsons, during which time, I never heard the sound of a church-going bell, or ever\\nheard a sermon, or the voice of prayer there being at the time, no place of\\npublic worship within twenty miles of my humble dwelling.\\nSamuel Appleton.\\nMr. Appleton s first interest in trade was at Ashburnham,\\nwhere he remained only a year. Soon after he opened a store\\nat the foot of the old Meeting-house hill, where he carried on\\nbusiness with considerable success for a few years, a part of\\nthe time in partnership with the late Charles Barrett, Esq.\\nIn 1794, he removed to Boston, and commenced business.\\nHe was not long after joined by his brother Nathan, and the\\nfirm of S. N. Appleton was soon well known as a prosper-\\nous and extensive concern.\\nIn 1799 he made his first voyage to England, where he re-\\nmained some months. About 1SU2 he made a second voyage\\nto England and the continent, and for the next twenty years\\nmuch of his time was passed abroad, but neither his friends or\\nhis adopted city with its charitable institutions were forgotten.\\nHis noble and unlooked-for gift to the Female Asyhim gave an\\nimpulse to that Institution which has again, on a more recent\\noccasion acknowledged his bounty and elicited a correspond-\\nence which is as pleasant as it is honorable to the writers.\\nBoston, July 5th, 1844.\\nTo the Managers of the Boston Female Asxjlum\\nLadies, I had the pleasure when in London, a great many years ago, to\\nreceive a very polite letter from your Secretary, A. L. Frothingham, dated No-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "312 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nvember 3d, 1815, for a donation I then sent you. That letter was couched in\\nsucn flattering terms that it left me much your debtor.\\nIt has aftbrded me much pleasure to see and to hear of the good effects of your\\ndisinterested exertions in the cause of female orphans, and I am happy to learn\\nthat a sum has lately been raised, that will enable you to build a larger, and\\nmore comfortable house, and to curry on this good work of charity more exten-\\nsively than heretofore, I send you enclosed, one thousand dollars, my subscrip-\\ntion, in furtherance of the above named object. I wish continued success to the\\nBoston Female Asylum health and happiness to the managers, and other officers\\nthereunto belonging and constant improvement to the orphan recipients of its\\nbounty and watchful care.\\nI have to be, Ladies, with great respect, your most obedient, most humble\\nservant. Samuel, Appleton.\\nOn receipt of this gift, the Managers of the Institution voted\\ntheir thanks to Mr. A., in communicating which, the Secre-\\ntary adds,\\nI cannot, my dear sir, send this expression of gratitude from the Managers of\\nthe Asylum, without making my individual acknowledgements for the kindness\\nwith which you mention the note I had the honor to address to you, nearly twenty-\\nnine years ago.\\nI believe it very seldom happens that the same officer of any charitable society\\nhas an opportunity, after an interval of so many years, to address its thanks to\\nthe same benefactor.\\nThe oriental hyperbole, may you live a thousand years, rises spontaneously\\nto my mind, accompanied by the thoughts that there is, indeed, a sense in which\\nwe may live, even on this earth, through an unimagined period, in the conse-\\nquences and influences of our present life and perhaps, be permitted to trace\\nthem, in a future one, to their remote results.\\nMay you have many years, in which to increase the store of recompenses, thus\\nlaid up for you. Abby L. Wales.\\nBoston, July 31st, 1844.\\nBosTox, May 28th, 1845.\\nTo Ahby L. Wales, Secretary of the Boston Female Asylum\\nI received on the 1st of Aug. last your letter of the 31st, enclosing a vote of\\nthanks passed at a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Boston Female\\nAsylum, July 30th, for a donation sent them toward the building of a new house,\\nfor the Asylum. I also received your letter, signed Abby L. Wales, in which\\nyou are pleased to say: The oriental hyperbole, May you live a thousand\\nyears, rises spontaneously in your mind, accompanied by the thought that there\\nis indeed, a sense in which we may live, even on this earth, through an unimagined\\nperiod, in the consequences and influence of our present life and perhaps be\\npermitted to trace them in a future one, to their remote results.\\nThis explanation of the phrase, May you live a thousand )-ears, although\\nto me entirely new, appears both beautiful and rational. It discloses a very\\ninteresting truth, which might otherwise appear a mere extravagant wish. The\\nthought that our actions, though apparently unimportant, may yet, not only-\\ninfluence distant generations, in this world, but in their remote results, may even\\nhe felt through a future state of existence, might perhaps, if properly kept in\\nview, encourage us to the doing of good deeds, and deter us from doing those\\nwhich are evil.\\nI send you enclosed one thousand dollars, which I wish may be invested in a\\npermanent fund. The interest on the same to be expended annually, in medals,\\nbooks, money, or any thing else the managers may think proper, among the most\\ndeserving girls at the Boston Female Asylum. A present, though trifling in value,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 313\\ngiven to an orphan girl of eight or ten years of age, for her good deeds or good\\nbehavior, may perhaps have a beneficial influence on her conduct, through life.\\nShould it be supj)osed that this donation is prompted by a hope of realizing in\\nthe meniories of men or women, the idea contained in the oriental hyperbole, so\\nkindly made use of in your letter, I can only say that if any thing could reconcile\\nme to such a motive it might perhaps be the thought of a favorable recollection, a\\nthousand years hence, in the minds of persons, governed by so pure and disin-\\nterested principles, as those which have characterized the past and present man-\\nagers of the Boston Female Asylum.\\nWith great respect, I have the honor to be your most obedient, most humble\\nservant. Samuel, Appleton.\\nAbout 1820, Mr. A. retired from the active pursuits of busi-\\nness, with a large estate, which was the result of a well-con-\\nducted commercial business and an untiring industry, and still\\nricher in an unstained reputation. Till within a few years\\nhe was to be found taking an active interest in the good\\nenterprises that concerned his adopted city, and liberally\\ndistributing from his abundance to the really deserving. It\\nwould be beyond our limits to name but a part of his noble\\ngifts. To Dartmouth College he has been a benefactor, as\\nthe following letter will testify.\\nBoston, June 27th, 1845.\\nTo JVathan Lord, D. D., President of Dartmouth College\\nDear Sir, I was happy to learn from you, when you did me the honor to\\ncall at my house, a few days ago, that the liberal sum of $25,000 had already\\nbeen subscribed for the benefit of Dartmouth College.\\nFor the purpose of giving further aid to the institution at this time, I send you\\nenclosed, my check on the Columbian Bank for 09,000. This sum, with the do-\\nnation of $11,000 sent you in August 1843, making ,f 10,000, 1 wish may be in-\\nvested as a permanent fund for the establishment of a Professorship of Natural\\nPhilosophy, at Dartmouth College. The interest accruing on the same to be ap-\\npropriated, annually, towards the support of a Professorship in that extensive and\\nuseful branch of education.\\nI cannot better express myself on the subject, than by making an extract from\\nmy letter to the President of Dartmouth College, August 28th, 1843.\\nIt aftbrds me much pleasure to have it in my power to do something for the\\nonly college in my native State, which has done so much to establish a sound\\nliterary character in the country.\\nDartmouth has done her full proportion in educating for the pulpit, the bar, the\\nhealing art, and the Senate, good and great men who have done honor to their\\nnames, to the college, and to the country.\\nMay New Hampshire long continue to send forth from her literary emporium,\\nmen who will dispense among their fellows, religion, law, and the other arts and\\nsciences, in simplicity, purity and truth.\\nI wish continued success to the institution health and happiness to the officers\\nand students thereunto belonging.\\nI have the honor to be, sir, with great respect, your most obedient, most humble\\nservant, Samuel Appleton.\\nHis noble sentiment at our Centennial will be noticed in\\nour account of that event.\\n40", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "314 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nWith the infirmities of more than fourscore years upon him,\\nhe still retains an elasticity of spirits, and a mental vigor only\\nto be secured by a life of temperance and active usefulness.\\nLong may he be spared, with his noble heart and his almost\\nunbounded but well-discriminating charities his name is\\nhonorable alike to the city of his residence and the town\\nwhere he first drew his breath.\\nMosES Appleton, (son of Isaac,) b. Mar. 17, 1773 was\\nfitted for college by Mr. Hubbard, and graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College in 1791, and pursued his medical studies a\\npart of the time with Governor Brooks at Medford. He re-\\nceived his Medical diploma from the Mass. Medical Society in\\n1796. He settled in Waterville, Me., the same year, and\\ncommenced the practice of medicine, which he continued till\\nwithin a few years of his death. A citizen of Waterville for\\nmore than half a century, he did much for its advancement\\nand prosperity.\\nUniformly kind to the poor, and generous to those who re-\\nquired his professional services, upright and honest in his\\ncharacter, frank and affable in his disposition and manners,\\nhe was beloved by his friends, and respected for his many\\nvirtues. His departure was mourned by a wide circle of ac-\\nquaintances. He died in 1849, 96. 76.\\nNathan Appleton, (son of Isaac) was born in 1779. In\\nearly life he availed himself of the advantages of our Acade-\\nmy, and there laid the foundations of a good education, and\\nof future usefulness. He pursued his studies and was fitted\\nfor Dartmouth College, where he entered, in 1794; but he\\nchanged his views, and left the pursuits of literature to em-\\nbark in mercantile business witVi his brother Samuel, in Bos-\\nton. With enterprising views, untiring industry and a mind\\nsoon well stored with practical knowledge, he became a suc-\\ncessful merchant.\\nIn a few years he made a visit to Europe, in order to extend\\nhis business relations; this gave him an opportunity of prac-\\ntically observing the subjects of commerce and manufactures\\nin their then most-advanced condition and to his observing", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 315\\nmind must have had an influence on his subsequent career in\\nlife.\\nMr. A. was one of the original proprietors of the Waltham\\nCotton Manufactory, where the power-loom was first put in\\noperation in this country in 1815. This, more than anything\\nelse, gave the great impetus to the cotton manufacture; but\\nin a few years we find him looking forward to farther progress,\\nand with his far-seeing views, he had satisfied himself that\\nthe time had come for the manufacturing of colored prints in\\nthis country and, in company with the late Patrick T. Jack-\\nson and Kirk Boott, they made purchase of the water power\\nat Pawtucket Falls, on the Merrimack River, and a large\\npart of the land adjacent, on which the city of Lowell now\\nstands and here, through his forecast and financial skill, com-\\nbined with that of his associates, has grown up, almost as by\\nmagic, perhaps the proudest monument in our country, of well\\ndirected enterprise and skill.\\nMr. A. was the projector and largest proprietor of the Ham-\\nilton Company, where new varieties of goods were first made\\nin this country the acting superintendent, Samuel Batchel-\\nder, Esq., and several overseers of which, were from this town.\\nHe was largely interested in the various manufacturing estab-\\nlishments, as they successively grew up in Lowell.\\nIn 1830, Mr. A. was elected to represent his adopted city in\\nthe National councils.* While in Congress, Mr. A. was not\\na very frequent debater, but whenever he did speak, was\\nlistened to with much attention. His speeches, as published\\nin Gale s Seaton s Register of debates, will ever remain as\\nmodels of straight-forward, business-like documents, remark-\\nable for their concise logic and convincing arguments, every\\nword of which is of lasting value, and no man ever left Con-\\ngress with a better reputation of what a legislator should be,\\nto represent the varied interests of Boston.\\nSince his retirement to private life, many articles of much\\nvalue and of an enduring character, have emanated from his\\n*He served through the 22d Congress, but declined re-election. He was also\\nchosen in 1842, to supply a vacancy in the 27th Congress, occasioned by the\\nresignation of Mr Winthrop.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "316 FAMILY HISTORY.\\npen, mostly on Currency and Political Economy. They have\\nbeen well appreciated by those who are competent to judge on\\nthese important subjects.\\nA few years since, Mr. A. received a complimentary degree\\nfrom Harvard College, which was as honorable to the Institu-\\ntion as to the recipient.\\nDuring the last year he has again visited Europe, and spent\\nsome time in examining those villages in the father-land made\\ninteresting by having been in former days the residence of the\\nancestry of his family.\\nMr. A. has, for many years, been a man of wealth, of\\nwhich he has made a noble use. His assistance has been\\nfreely given to many of our institutions of learning and char-\\nity, and his native town has felt his beneficence. His son,\\nThomas G., is an Amateur Artist of much taste and refine-\\nment. One of his daughters is the wife of the celebrated\\nPoet, Professor Longfellow, and another is married to Mr.\\nMackintosh, son of the late Sir James Mackintosh, now Gov-\\nernor of one of the British West India Islands.\\nEben Appleton (son of Isaac,) was born in 1784. He\\ncommenced business in Boston, in copartnership with Daniel\\nP. Parker, as importers of British goods. The nature of their\\nbusiness led to his residence in England, where he married.\\nHe was, for many years, established as a commission merchant\\nin London, but returned to America during the war. In 1826\\nhe took charge of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company at\\nLowell, where he died in 1833.\\nThe annexed obituary was written by Chief Justice Shaw,\\nwho was one of his early associates.\\nIt is a few weeks only, since the newspapers announced the\\ndeath of Mr. Eben Appleton, in the town of Lowell, formerly a\\nmerchant of this city. We have seen no other public notice of his\\ndecease, than the mere annunciation of the fact, thouQ^li there may\\nhave been some other. But we think it deserves to be more gen-\\nerally known, as it was to those who knew him best, that with the\\nmore excellent qualifications of the heart, he possessed talent, ge-\\nnius and taste of a very high order, which, had his attention not\\nbeen attracted, and strongly attracted, to other pursuits, would have\\nplaced him in a high rank among the literary characters of his time.\\nMr. Appleton was the son of a respectable farmer of New Ips-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 317\\nwich, in the State of New Hampshire. He was early enured to\\nthose habits of industry, and of energetic and persevering effort,\\nwhich without the aid of external advantages, have carried forward\\nso many of the distinguished men of New England in a career of\\nsuccessful enterprise. Having early discovered and indulged a\\ndecided literary taste, all the leisure time which could be properly\\nwithdrawn from the more active pursuits of business, were devoted\\nto the cultivation of his mind and taste, to the reading of the best\\nand purest of the English authors, and to the study of several of\\nthe modern languages.\\nHis taste for poetry, though not exclusive, was strongly marked\\nand his own numerous and various poetical productions, were char-\\nacterized by great ease, elegance and purity. Upon his early en-\\ntrance into life, and before he had become exclusively occupied in\\nthe cares of business, the periodicals of this and other cities were\\noften enriched by the productions of his pen. The Port Folio,\\nthen recently commenced at Philadelphia, under the editorship of\\nMr. Dennie, a publication which led the van, in that long line of\\nreviews and literary periodicals, which have done so much to give\\nlife and reality, energy and refinement, to American literature, de-\\nrived something of its early and high character, in its poetical\\ndepartment, from the articles contributed by him. They were\\ngenerally original works, and mostly of a satirical or didactic cast\\nbut many of them consisted of translations or rather free poetical\\nversions from the French and German.\\nBut he was not long destined to follow in the path that opened\\nto him so brightly. He was induced by the most flattering pros-\\npects of success, to forego the attractions of elegant literature, for\\nthe more solid and substantia] rewards of commercial enterprise.\\nHaving a resident partner here, his mercantile business led him to\\npass sometime in the Southern States, and in Europe, and these\\nopportunities of enlarging his knowledge, both of men and of books,\\nwere not lost upon his active and inquiring mind.\\nMr. Appleton for several years resided in England, where he es-\\ntablished himself as an American merchant. Having returned to\\nthis country at about the time of the commencement of the great\\nmanufacturing establishments at Lowell, his thorough and intimate\\nacquaintance with all that belongs to the fabric, as well as to the\\ntraffic in English goods, led him to take a deep interest in the im-\\nprovement and perfection of our own manufactures of the same\\narticles and some years since he removed to Lowell, and took\\ncharge of the concerns of the Hamilton Company, one of the large\\nand flourishing cotton manufactories of that town, in which he\\ncontinued to the period of his decease.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "318\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\nResidence of Mrs. David Everett.\\nDavid Everett^ was born at Princeton, Mass., in 1769, and\\nwas early left an orphan, his father having fallen in military service\\nin the war of the Revolution. He lived and was under the guard-\\nian care of relatives at Wrentham, whence he went to the New Ips-\\nwich Academy at about the age of twenty-one. He graduated at\\nDartmouth College in 1795, and on that occasion had the honor of\\nthe valedictory poem, in which he predicted of our country as fol-\\nlows\\nThe Muse prophetic views the coming day,\\nWhen federal laws beyond the line shall sway\\nWhere Spanish indolence inactive lies,\\nAnd every art and every virtue dies,\\nWhere pride and avarice their empire hold,\\nIgnobly great, and poor amid their gold,\\nColumbia s genius shall the mind inspire,\\nAnd fill each breast with patriotic fire.\\nNor east nor western oceans shall confine\\nThe generous flame that dignifies the mind\\nO er all the earth shall Freedom s banner wave,\\nThe tyrant blast, and liberate the slave\\nPlenty and peace shall spread from pole to pole,\\nTill earth s grand family possess one soul.\\nHaving studied law with John M. Forbes, he entered the bar in\\nBoston, and had an office in Court-street, in company with the noted\\nThomas O. Selfridge, who killed Charles Austin, in State-street\\nin ISOl was poet for the Phi Beta Kappa celebration at Cambridge\\nin 1802 he removed to Amherst, N. H., and remained in that town\\nThis article is extracted, by permission of the author, from a very interesting\\nwork, just published, by James S. Loring, entitled The Hundred Boston\\nOrators.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 319\\nuntil 1807, when he returned to Boston, and established the Boston\\nPatriot in 1609, devoted to the interests of the Democratic party.\\nIt was in this paper that President John Adams, who had become\\ndisaffected towards the Federal party, Avrote historical reminiscences\\nand political essays.\\nMr. Everett was author of a very agreeable little work, entitled\\nCommon Sense in Dishabille, written after the manner of Noah\\nWebster s Prompter, which should be published in a tasteful form,\\nand widely scattered. He wrote dramatic pieces, one of which\\nDaranzel, or the Persian Patriot was performed in ISOO at the\\nFederal-street Theatre. Mr. Everett early engaged in politics, and\\nwrote in the Boston Gazette over the signature of Junius Ameri-\\ncanus. He was at this period warm in the interests of the Federal\\nparty but he took sides, in the great division of the party between\\nPresident Adams, on the one hand, and that section of the Federal\\nparty known as the Essex Junto, and inclined in opposition to the\\nlatter. Mr. Everett married Dorothy, daughter of Dea. Isaac Ap-\\npleton, Dec. 29, 1799. In 1811 Mr. Everett published the first\\nnumber of a Demonstration on the Divinity of the Scriptures in the\\nfulfilment of the Prophecies. In 1812 Mr. E. espoused the cause\\nof De Witt Clinton for the presidency, in opposition to James Mad-\\nison, thus returning to the Federal party. He conducted, also,\\nThe Yankee, and engaged in The Pilot, which survived but a\\nbrief period. In 1813 he removed to Marietta, Ohio, where, before\\nsucceeding in establishing a proposed newspaper, he died, Dec. 21,\\n1813, aged forty-four years.\\nMr. Everett had a sprightliness of mind, with a liberal share of\\nwit rare poetic taste, as his poems show and was a racy, pungent\\nwriter, admirably fitted for popular effect. Mr. Everett, in the win-\\nter previous to entering Dartmouth College, in 1791, when a teacher\\nin the Grammar School at New Ipswich, prepared a little poem to\\nbe recited at an exhibition got up in the Academic style, composed\\nexpressly for E phi-aim H. Farrar, to be spoken by him on the occa-\\nsion, when only seven years of age. We quote this curiosity, as it\\nappears in Bingham s Columbian Orator. It is a rare sample of\\njuvenile wit, and will be famous so long as a youthful orator ap-\\npears on the floor of a school or an academy\\nYou d scarce expect one of my age\\nTo speak in public on the stage;\\nAnd if I chance to fall below\\nDemosthenes or Cicero,\\nDon t view me with a critic s eye.\\nBut pass my imperfections by.\\nLarge streams from little fountains flow;\\nTall oaks from little acorns grow;\\nAnd though I now am small and young.\\nOf judgment weak, and feeble tongue.\\nYet all great learned men like me.\\nOnce learned to read their A, B, C.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "320 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nBut why may not Columbia s soil\\nRear men as great as Britain s Isle,\\nExceed what Greece and Rome have done,\\nOr any land beneath the sun\\nMay n t Massachusetts boast as great\\nAs any other sister State\\nOr Where s the town go far and near.\\nThat does not find a rival here\\nOr where s the buy, but three feet high,\\nWho s made improvement more than I\\nThese thoughts iuspire my youthful mind\\nTo be the greatest of mankind\\nGreat, not like Cresar, stained with blood.\\nBut only great as I am good.\\nThe boy who spoke this simple speech was Ephraim Hartwell\\nFarrar, who was writing-master, in 1813, in the elementary school\\nof Lawson Lyon, located on the north side of Dr. Channing s church\\nin Boston, where sons of our most distinguished families were\\neducated among whom were boys who have risen to eminence in\\npublic life, such as Rev. Dudley A. Tyng, and Rev. William Fur-\\nness of Philadelphia Alexander Young, D. D., Rev. Samuel J.\\nMay, Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. William P. Lunt, William\\nH. Gardiner, John Everett, William Parsons, son of the late chief-\\njustice, the Gilberts, brokers in State-street, and James S. Loring.\\nMaster Farrar was remarkable for a mild and even temper. A\\ngentler soul never breathed, and his benignant light stroke of the\\nrattan, was a striking contrast to the eight severe blows of the but-\\nton-wood ferule vigorously applied by Master Lyon, the terror of\\nthe school. As posterity will ever desire to know the history of the\\nboy for whom the inimitable speech was written, we will relate that\\nhe was the youngest son of Rev. Stephen Farrar, the first minister\\nof New Ipswich, who graduated at Harvard College, 1755. He\\nwas born Dec. 8, 1783, and married Phebe Parker in 1825, widow\\nof Jonas C. Champney, by whom he had one daughter. His wife\\ndied in 1848 and Master Farrar died in New Ipswich, Jan. 8,\\n1851. After being many years a teacher in Boston, he became a\\npartner in trade with a Mr. Carleton and, on returning to his\\nnative town, he became the town-clerk, which station he occupied\\ntill within a few years of his decease. He was educated at the\\nNew Ipswich Academy and it was at one of the annual exhibi-\\ntions of that institution when he was called on to recite this beau-\\ntiful poem. It is interesting to remark, that at the centennial\\ncelebration in that town, September, 1850, when he was an old\\nman, he was called out again to personate the youth for whom that\\neffusion was written and, immediately rising, merely repeated the\\nfirst two lines\\nYou d scarce expect one o^ my age\\nTo speak in public on the stage\\nwhich excited the risibles of the audience.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 321\\nWe cannot be parted from these pleasant reminiscences without\\nintroducing Master Farrar s own criticisms on the subject. In\\nwriting- from New Ipswich, under date of July 27, 1S49, he relates\\nthat Mr. Everett kept the grammar school in the centre of this\\ntown, and got up an exhibition in the academic style, and at this\\ntime wrote the lines expressly for and to be spoken by the writer of\\nthis communication, then a little boy seven years of age. The\\nLines were handed to me in manuscript. After they had been\\ngiven to me, I had always considered them as in a sense belonging\\nto me, to my native State, my native town. When, therefore, I\\nsaw, in the printed copy, the substitution of two words for two in\\nthe original, namely, Massachusetts and sister, for New\\nHampshire and Federal, I thought there was either a gross\\nmistake in the printer, or an infringement upon my rights this\\nchanging the place broke up all my former associations, and entire-\\nly destroyed the intrinsic merits of the piece. Whether this was\\ndone by the author or not, I am not able to say. I am rather in-\\nclined to think the latter was, for he afterwards became a politician\\nof the Jefferson school, edited a paper called The Patriot, and\\nthe word Federal became extremely obnoxious to many of that\\nparty. This, however, I never quarrelled much about. But that\\nmy native State should receive such an insult, I felt very indignant.\\nIt seemed to my youthful heart to sa}% there was one man who\\nmight possibly have some doubts whether New Hampshire could\\nboast as great as any other federal State, so, to end all dispute\\neverywhere, he would put in Massachusetts but, after a residence\\nof several years in the very heart of that State, thus becoming more\\nexpatriated from the one and naturalized to the other, and seeing,\\nalso, that every little boy read the piece just as if it were his own,\\nI gave over the contest, and became reconciled to the change, with\\nthis proviso, that, from that time, every boy who should speak the\\npiece should have the liberty to substitute his own State.\\n41", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "322\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\nResidence of Joseph Barrett, Es-q.\\nJesse Appleton, son of Francis, was born Nov. 17, 1772. He\\nfitted for college in the academy of his native town, and in 17SS, at\\nthe age of sixteen, entered Dartmouth College. He early gave\\npromise of uncommonly amiable and delicate feelings, and of a vig-\\norous intellect. In college, he sustained a high reputation as a\\nscholar. Deficient in no department of the course, his preference\\nwas for those studies which address the taste. As a classical\\nscholar and writer, he was regarded as inferior to no one in his class.\\nIt appears that at this early period, he laid the foundation of those\\nmental habits for which he was remarkable during his life. He\\npassed, moreover, through the temptations of college without censure\\nor reproach, always exhibiting that delicate sense of propriety and\\nkeen moral perception which characterized his mature years.\\nAfter he left college, he was employed, for nearly two years, as\\nan instructor of youth at Dover and Amherst, N. H. In this occu-\\npation he was highly successful. His discriminating mind, his\\ngeneral loveliness of character, his delicate humor, and his engaging\\nmanners, made him the ornament of the social circle. He pursued\\nhis theologieal studies under the direction of the venerable and\\neminent Joseph Lathrop, D. D., of West Springfield. His papers\\nof this period, comprising dissertations on various topics of theology,\\ngive evidence that he was a diligent and successful student. Few", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 323\\npupils in theology have won the confidence and affection of an in-\\nstructor to so high a degree as did Mr. Appleton and few returned\\nthat interest with such unmingled respect and love. Dr. Lathrop\\ndid not conceal the high hopes which he cherished of the future\\nusefulness and eminence of his pupil. Mr. Appleton maintained,\\nuntil the death of his preceptor, an uninterrupted correspondence\\nwith him, consulting him freely on the many perplexing subjects\\nrelating both to doctrine and the pastoral relation, which present\\nthemselves in the labors and studies of an active minister.\\nMr. Appleton began to preach in the summer of 1795, and such Avas\\nthe opinion then entertained of his talents and piety, that some\\nclergymen in Massachusetts who did not consider him as agreeing\\nfully in sentiment with themselves, strongly recommended him to\\ncertain vacant parishes, as a candidate for settlement. During the\\ntwo years that he was a candidate, he preached in several towns\\nboth in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. From Leicester, Ms.,\\nand Hampton, N. H., he received earnest invitations to settle in\\nthe ministry. He thought it to be his duty to accept the call from\\nthe latter place. He was ordained at Hampton, on the 22d of\\nMarch, 1797.\\nIntroduced into a new and important station, he entered upon the\\ndischarge of its duties with earnestness and a deep sense of his\\naccountability. He became at once a close, uniform and systematic\\nstudent. He had indeed already laid the foundation of those ad-\\nmirable habits of study which he preserved through life. In the\\ndistribution of his time, he was strictly methodical; and nothing\\nbut unavoidable avocations was allowed to intrude upon the plans\\nwhich he had formed. There was an order, a regularity in his\\nvarious pursuits, that beautifully corresponded with the structure\\nof his mind and the symmetry of his character. Theology was\\nno less from inclination than a sense of duty, the principal object of\\npursuit and he left abundant evidence, not only in the reputation\\nwhich he acquired while in the ministry, but in his discourses, in\\nhis communications to the religious periodicals of the time, and in his\\nprivate papers, that, unwilling to confine himself within the com-\\nmon range of the profession, he from the first sought to explore the\\nwhole field of theological learning, not from motives of ambition,\\nbut rather from an ardent love of truth and a deep sense of his\\naccountability for the use he made of the powers which had been\\ngiven him, and of his means of improvement and usefulness. By\\nthe time he left Hampton, he was a theologian accomplished beyond\\nhis years.\\nMr. Appleton was married in 1800 to Elizabeth, daughter of the\\nHon. Robert Means of Amherst, N. H. In her he found a friend\\nworthy of the connection, which for nearly twenty years so happily\\nsubsisted between them. They had six children, three sons and\\nthree daughters. The youngest child, a son, was very suddenly", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "324 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ntaken from them, when three years old, in October, 1817. The\\neldest son, a graduate of Bowdoin College, while pursuing the\\nstudy of the law, under the charge of Stephen Farley, Esq., of Cin-\\ncinnati, Ohio, was seized by an attack of bilious fever, and died in\\nOctober, 1830. Many cheering promises and fond hopes were thus\\nsuddenly cut off.\\nMr. Appleton, while at Hampton, was a trustee of Phillips Acad-\\nemy, Exeter, and in that office manifested much activity. He was\\nespecially interested in the subject of theological education. While\\na parish minister, he directed the studies of several persons who\\nwere pursuing a course of theological education, and never failed\\nof securing the highest respect and affection of his pupils. In 1803,\\nhe was one of the most prominent candidates for the chair of the-\\nology at Cambridge, an election in which the deepest interest was\\nfelt, and as the result of which Dr. Ware was chosen.\\nWhen Mr. Appleton entered on his ministry, he had not formed\\nsettled opinions on some topics of theology. In a discourse de-\\nlivered February 22, 1807, he remarks: In reviewing the ten\\nyears of my ministry, if any cause of self-congratulation is pre-\\nsented, there are abundant causes of self-reproach. I have, indeed,\\nfrom the beginning, preached what I believed to be the leading\\ntruths of the Bible and if I have, of late years, insisted more than\\nformerly, on some of its peculiar doctrines, it is because the impor-\\ntance of these doctrines has risen in my apprehension. Some of\\nthe more abstruse and perplexing topics of our faith he does not ap-\\npear to have discussed in his sermons. This is in part, doubtless,\\nto be ascribed to his habitual caution in the expression of opinions,\\nwhich were not the result of long, patient and profound reflection\\nand investigation. As a preacher, he was entirely free from all dis-\\nplay of learning or study of effect. His manner was chaste, dig-\\nnified, earnest and very impressive. Most of his sermons were\\nwritten while he was at Hampton. Though designed for the people\\nof a secluded parish, they were prepared with great care and accu-\\nracy. He made it a rule to write but one sermon a week. Monday\\nbeing devoted to pastoral visits, he vvas accustomed to begin his\\nsermon on Tuesday, and end it on Friday. He also meditated his\\nprayers. He diligently stored his mind with a great variety of ma-\\nterials adapted to all the occasions of pastoral duty. Those who\\nheard him conduct the public devotions, were impressed with the\\nprofound reverence, the elevation, fervor and copiousness which\\ncharacterized them.\\nBesides the composition of his sermons, he also contributed to\\nsome of the religious periodical publications of the time. He was\\ninstrumental in establishing a work called the Piscataqua Evangeli-\\ncal Magazine, which was conducted by a number of clergymen as-\\nsociated for the purpose. He was also an able contributor to the\\nPanoplist, chiefly on points of doctrine His favorite signatures\\nwere Leighton and Owen.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "l/ f t,\u00e2\u0080\u009e.-,;\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e Cii i I -rliJ", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 325\\nIn 1S07, on the decease of the Rev. Dr. McKeen, the first Presi-\\ndent of Bowdoin College, Mr, Appleton was chosen his successor.\\nAfter much and anxious deliberation, he concluded to accept the\\nappointment. He was inaugurated in December, 1S07, and entered\\nimmediately on the duties of his office. He thus exchanged a life\\nof comparative quiet, for one of unceasing solicitude and oftentimes\\nof embarrassment and perplexity. The office of President of any\\nof our colleges, at any time, is not one of mere literary ease and\\nhonor. But in the early part of the present century, there were\\ncertain habits prevalent in society, which made the office in ques-\\ntion one of peculiar perplexity and hardship. Ardent spirits, then\\na very common beverage, were the source of innumerable troubles\\nin college, and were not unfrequently the cause of the utter ruin of\\nsome of the most promising scholars. Bowdoin College was then\\nin its infancy, situated in a remote part of New England, in a dis-\\ntrict of an older and somewhat distant State. The value of a\\nliberal education was not, at that time, generally appreciated, its\\nadvantages being confined to a great extent to the sons of the rich.\\nThe funds of the college were, moreover, small and in an embar-\\nrassed state. A large part of them consisted of unproductive lands\\nin the wilderness.\\nPresident Appleton brought to his work a deep sense of responsi-\\nbility both for the literary reputation, and the moral and religious\\nwelfare of those under his care. He also possessed great integrity,\\nfirmness, discretion, true love of learning, cultivated taste, and a\\ndelicacy and refinement of character, which are hardly ever sur-\\npassed. Such a man could not but gain the respect and affection\\nboth of the students and of his associates in the government.\\nThere being no professor of intellectual and moral philosophy, or\\nof rhetoric aud oratory, the care of these departments devolved, for\\nthe most part, upon president Appleton, and during the greater por-\\ntion of his official career, he conducted the exercises of the students\\nin both of them. Instruction in Butler s Analogy and in Paley s\\nEvidences, was always his peculiar province. His decided predilec-\\ntion for those studies which relate to the intellectual and moral na-\\nture of man, imparted to the recitations in those departments, as\\nconducted by him, a high degree of interest and success. The text-\\nbooks, besides the two just mentioned, were Locke on the Human\\nUnderstanding, and Dugald Stewart s Elements of Intellectual Phi-\\nlosophy. Mr. Appleton never permitted himself to enter the class\\nroom without having thoroughly investigated the subject of the\\nlesson. He usually conducted such investigations with pen in hand\\nand to insure precision and clearness on his part, he was accustomed\\nto write his questions in the margin of his book. These were framed\\nwith much care and skill, so as to fix the attention more on the sub-\\nject under discussion, than on the author. The students well knew,\\nthat ignorance or sloth could not escape the severe scrutiny they", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "326 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nwere obliged to undergo. The recitation in Butler s Analogy, in\\nparticular, can never be forgotten by the pupils of president Appleton.\\nPresident Appleton was fond of classical studies, and read the\\nbest authors, both Latin and Greek, with accuracy and taste. He\\ntook a deep interest in this department of the college course, and\\nexcelled as an instructor in it. At different times, he heard the\\nrecitations in most of the Latin and Greek authors at that period\\nread in our colleges, and his manner of conducting these exercises\\nwas marked by the peculiarities which have been already noted. To\\nthe passage he always gave a thorough examination minute accu-\\nracy in the forms and syntax was required, as also in the prosody, a\\npoint then and now too much neglected. The partiality of the\\nPresident for Livy, was proverbial among the students, who were\\nwont to say, that were an edict published, requiring all other books\\nto be destroyed, next after the Bible, with Butler in one pocket, and\\nLivy in another, he would be content.\\nPresident Appleton had great uniformity and firmness in admin-\\nistering the discipline of the institution. So far as was practicable,\\nhe maintained a familiar acquaintance with the standing of every\\nstudent; so that whenever there were appearances of deterioration\\nin any one, the proper remedy might be promptly applied. His su-\\npervision of the operations of the whole system was universal and\\nunremitting. His warnings and counsels, conveyed with parental\\nsolicitude and kindness, not unfrequently excited feelings of the\\nliveliest gratitude, of which he subsequently received many testimo-\\nnials. Near the end of his life he declared that he had never re-\\npented a decision in regard to college discipline, except in one\\ninstance, when he yielded to the wishes of his associates, and the\\nevent proved, that the opinion which he had previously formed was\\ncorrect. His interest in the students was not confined to official\\nintercourse. Many can recal to mind frequent acts of kindness,\\nalways conferred in the most delicate manner, experienced from him\\nand his family. The sick were cheered by their active .sympathy,\\nand, in some instances, even where there was no peculiar claim,\\nwere taken to his house and nursed with tender care.\\nDr. Appleton, from the first, conducted an exercise in the Scrip-\\ntures on Sabbath evening in the chapel, in which all the students\\nparticipated. Several volumes of his questions, in manuscript,\\nused on these occasions, interspersed with occasional remarks, and\\nprepared with characteristic care, are yet preserved. Most of his\\ntheological lectures, delivered in the chapel, on Thursday afternoon,\\nare preserved in the college library, in three bound volumes.\\nIn addition to the perplexing cares and the multiplied labors of\\nthe presidency. Dr. Appleton preached much, and discharged a\\ngreat amount of pastoral duty for the Congregational society in\\nBrunswick. His presence was sought in ecclesiastical councils,\\npspf cially when perplexing questions were likely to occur. That", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "APPLETON FAMILY. 327\\nhis services were highly valued, was evident by the frequency with\\nwhich they were solicited. Within a few years, he was invited to\\npreach, not only before the Bible, Missionary, Education and Peace\\nSocieties of Maine, and repeatedly at meetings of citizens, asso-\\nciated to suppress immoralities and to promote the better observance\\nof the Sabbath, but also before the American Board of Commission-\\ners for Foreign Missions, of which he was a member, before the\\nLegislature of Massachusetts at the annual election, before the\\nConvention of the Congregational clergy of Massachusetts, before\\nthe Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance,\\nand, had his health permitted, he would in the year in which he\\ndied, have addressed the Society for Promoting Christian Knowl-\\nedge. He also preached several ordination sermons. He received\\nthe honorary degree of Doctor in Divinity from Dartmouth College,\\nand, in 1810, the same honor from Harvard University. He was a\\nmember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\\nBut we have now reached the close of his honorable and useful\\nlife. The effects of his excessive labors and his habits of unre-\\nmitted application, upon a system which was not invigorated and\\nrefreshed by useful exercise, soon became too apparent. About the\\ntime of his losing a very dear son, in October, 1817, he took a\\nsevere cold, from the effects of which he never entirely recovered.\\nNo serious apprehensions were, however, entertained respecting\\nhim until early in 1819, when, greatly to the concern of his person-\\nal friends, and the friends of the college, he gave too plain indica-\\ntions of the assaults of disease. His complaints were a slight\\ncold, great hoarseness and debility. His symptoms indicated a\\ndisease of the larynx, which advanced with fearful rapidity. He\\nwas unable to preside in the college exhibition in May. It was\\nhoped that a journey which he took in the spring vacation, as far\\nas Amherst, would produce a favorable change. From this place\\nhe addressed a letter to the students, full of the tenderest affection\\nand the most impressive warnings. He soon after returned to\\nBrunswick, his health not essentially improved. During the sum-\\nmer and the first part of autumn, hopes of his restoration were at\\ntimes indulged. On the 12th of October, a profuse hemorrhage\\nrendered his recovery entirely hopeless.\\nIt was mercifully ordered, that his illness should not be attended\\nwith severe pain and that until the last few days of his life, he\\nshould be in the entire possession of his understanding. He en-\\njoyed in a greater degree than in health, the consolations and hopes\\nof the gospel. He often said, Of this I am sure, that salvation is\\nall of grace. I would make no mention of any thing which I\\nhave ever thought, or said, or done but only of this, that God so\\nloved the world as to give his only begotten Son, that whosoever\\nbelieveth on him should not perish but have everlasting life. The\\natonement is the only ground of hope. In general, I am quite", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "338 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ncomfortable but not uniformly so, though I have seldom what may\\nbe called distress or great anxiety. I have sumetimes sweet views\\nof God s holy providence. But I am, indeed, a poor sinner, lying\\nat the foot of sovereiga mercy. Most emphatically, and from my\\nsoul, do I renounce all hope in any thing done by myself as a\\nground of justification. I fly, I fly with my whole soul to the blood\\nof a crucified Saviour. In a letter of July 1st, to the Rev. Dr.\\nTappan of Augusta, he writes I am not indifferent to life. How\\ncan I be with such a family as I have so young and so dependent\\non parental attention and guidance But the event is with God\\nand I hope, that I am willing it should be so. I am not very anx-\\nious as to the event. I hope it is my desire that Christ may be\\nhonored, whether by my life or by my death. In an interview\\nwith a ministerial friend, he says I have been the happiest man\\nin the world in my domestic connections. I have endeavored faith-\\nfully to instruct my children, and they have conducted so as greatly\\nto endear themselves to me. I shall leave them but little property,\\nbut they will be in the hands of Him who made them. God has\\nbeen uniformly good to me all my life, and it would now be very\\nunreasonable for me to be unwilling to obey his summons. From\\nthe window of his chamber he frequently looked at the college\\nbuildings. One day, while fixing his eye upon them, he exclaimed,\\nPrecious objects have ye been to me, but I resign you all for my\\nGod.\\nDuring the greater part of the last five days, his mind was some-\\nwhat disordered although at times he appeared perfectly rational,\\nand uttered many interesting expressions. At length, after a long\\nand painful struggle, about eight o clock in the evening, Nov. 24,\\n1S19, he fell asleep in Jesus. The knell of the chapel bell, which\\nbroke the stillness of the evening, announcing to the college family\\nand the neighborhood his departure, fell with leaden weight on many\\nhearts.\\nEvery mark of respect was paid to his memory. A sermon was\\npreached at his funeral by the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Tappan of Augus-\\nta. Prayers were oflTered by the Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Gillet of Hal-\\nlowell. The body was deposited, with many sighs and tears, in the\\nancient cemetery, a mile south from the college plain. In the year\\nfollowing, it was removed to the new cemetery, opened in the pine\\ngrove in the rear of the colleges. A marble monument was erected\\nover it by the Boards of college, with an appropriate Latin inscrip-\\ntion prepared by Prof. Newman.\\nSoon after the death of President Appleton, a volume was\\npublished, containing some of his theological lectures, and a\\nfew sermons, with a sketch of his life and character, by Dr.\\nTappan of Augusta. In 1837, two volumes of his works,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "AINSWORTH FAMILY,\\n329\\nincluding a well written memoir of his life, by his son-in-law,\\nProf. Packard, was published. Interesting notices of him are\\nto be found in the Quarterly Register, and some other period-\\nicals, from which the foregoing have been extracted.\\nAiNswoRTH, William, (s. of Rev. Laban Ainsworth) was\\nborn at Jaffrey, grad. at Dartmouth College, studied law and\\npracticed for several years in his native town, where he\\nenjoyed the respect of all. He was appointed Cashier of the\\nManufacturers Bank in 1S33, and removed to this town in\\nthis office he gave great satisfaction and enjoyed the confi-\\ndence of the community. In 1842 he was elected to repre-\\nsent the town in the Legislature, and proceeded to Concord\\nfor that purpose, accompanied by his wife, where he died, but\\nwas interred in the old burying ground here. His father,\\nwho was ordained at Jatfrey in 1783, is still living. His son,\\nFrederick S. grad. at D. College, pursued his medical studies\\nat Paris is now a practising physician in Boston. His\\ndaughter m. Lieut. Green, U. S. Navy. The view at the\\nhead of this article represents the family residence.\\n42", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "330\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\nBarrett, Charles, was descended from the respectable\\nfamily of that name in Concord, where Humphrey Barrett,\\nwho came from England as early as 1640, settled. He left\\nfour sons, one of whom, Humphrey, m. Elizabeth Payne in\\n1661. They had two sons and two daughters, one of which,\\nBenjamin, m. Lydia in 1705. He d. in 1728, ae. 4.7.\\nChildren. 1. Benjamin. 2. Thomas. 3. James. 4.\\nLydia. 5. Timothy. 6. Mary. 7. Stephen. 8. Rebecca.\\nDea. Thomas m. Mary Jones, and had ch. 1. Thomas.\\n2. Charles. 3. Samuel. 4. Amos. 5. Ruth. 6. Mary.\\nMr. Charles Barrett was born in 1740. From his youth he\\npossessed an enterprising spirit, and while a young man, he,\\nin connection with his brother, built the grist and saw mills\\nin what is now Mason Village. This property he soon after\\ndisposed of, to his cousin. Deacon Amos Dakin, and in 1764\\ncame to this town. He purchased the Farm of Joseph\\nand Ebenezer BuUard, on Knight s Hill, and soon after\\nerected the house which is still standing, a sketch of which is\\nat the head of this article. After residing there about sixteen\\nyears, he found the land had been so much exhausted as to\\nbear but indifterent crops, and he disposed of the place in\\n1781, to Mr. Knights. Soon after, he purchased the farm of\\nJoseph Kidder in the middle of the town. Here he erected\\nthe house now occupied by Doctor Cochran, in which he ever\\nafter resided.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "BARRETT FAMILY. 331\\nAt the commencement of the Revokition, Mr. Barrett, by-\\nenergy and industry, had made himself one of the most\\nprominent men of the town but, hke several of our leading\\nmen, he had strong doubts of the measures then adopted by\\nthe ardent whigs. Having always been accustomed to state\\nhis opinions boldly and fearlessly, he often became involved\\nin controversies with many of the patriot party, and a large\\npart of the people branded him as an enemy of his country;\\nand at one time, party feelings ran so high, that his principles\\nwere discussed in Town Meeting.\\nBut our people soon found, that honest opinions, however\\nstrongly expressed, should not be punisbed and as the hon-\\nesty of Mr. B. s principles had never been questioned, and he\\nsoon cheerfully acquiesced in the measures of the new gov-\\nernment and paid his full share towards carrying on the war,\\nhe regained his popularity and the confidence of his towns-\\nmen. He was elected a delegate to the convention to ratify\\nthe Constitution of the United States, and was afterwards a\\nmember of the Senate, and served as counsellor for one or\\nmore terms, was chosen Representative annually for fourteen\\nyears, which, more than anything else, shows the confidence\\nreposed in him by his townsmen.\\nSoon after the Revolution he obtained the grant of a town-\\nship of land in Lincoln County, Maine, which was for a long\\ntime called Barrettstown, afterwards incorporated by the\\nname of Hope. Here he spent much of his time, and was\\nthe means of inducing many persons to emigrate there from\\nthis and the neighboring towns, to whom he freely distributed\\nland. The settlement of a town in the then wilderness of\\nMaine was, at that day, a task to try the energies of any man.\\nBut Mr. Barrett went into it with a will that never tired, and\\nhis enterprising spirit looked to results far beyond the ken of\\nmost men of his day.\\nIn 1790, he was engaged, with J. Jameson, in erecting ex-\\ntensive mills on the falls of George s River. Soon after, he\\nprojected an extensi ve course of improvement of this river, so\\nas to enable loaded boats to reach his township from tide\\nwater.\\nIn 1791, he was empowered, by an Act of the Legislature", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "332 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nof Massachusetts, to construct Locks and Canals, to improve\\nthe navigatiou of that river, and to reimburse the expense, by\\ntolls on the boats and rafts that should pass. He commenced\\nthis arduous task, and after spending two or three years, and\\nencountering almost incredible difficulties, he had succeeded\\nin bnildiug, on a plan of his own, a series of Locks, the first\\nin New England and probably in America. This had been\\ndone without the aid of an engineer, or any person who had\\never seen any works of the kind. The plan was entirely\\noriginal the Locks were placed in the centre or main chan-\\nnel of the river, and after he had expended so much time and\\nseveral thousand dollars, they were found to answer no prac-\\ntical purpose. This caused him much mortification and\\ndisappointment, and in 1795, he disposed of the concern to\\nthe distinguished Revolutionary General, Henry Knox, who\\nemployed a French Engineer, who resnmed the work, and,\\nafter another large outlay, and when the proprietor thought\\nthem complete, a freshet carried ofi and destroyed the whole\\nworks. They were afterwards rebuilt.\\nAlthough Mr. B. was a man of great physical endurance\\nand industry, he returned home after the closing of this enter-\\nprize, almost prostrated in body and mind by his over-exertions,\\nbut his mind was too active to be long quiet, and he lost no\\nopportunity of aiding in any matter that would increase the\\nbusiness of our town. He had an interest in the glasshouse\\non the Mountain, and was one of the subscribers to the Actid-\\nemy, and made it a donation of a tract of wild land in\\nCamden, Me., which was afterwards sold by him as agent of\\nthe institution, but, from some cause, nothing was realized\\nfrom it. He may be said to have been the father of the cotton\\nmanufacture in this place, as Mr. Robbins, a practical ma-\\nchinist, came here at his suggestion, and they, in connection\\nwith Benjamin Champney, Esq., erected the first cotton mill\\nin the State.\\nAlthough Mr. B. had received but a very ordinary educa-\\ntion, he possessed a very strong mind, and had informed\\nhimself so as to cenverse well on almost any subject. He\\ndied Sept. 21, 1808.\\nHe m. Rebecca Minot, at Concord, in 1764. Ch. 1.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "r.Tit? hvnwsniifli\\nT-i-^^^^.^-,^^^", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "BARRETT FAMILY. 333\\nCharles, b. 1765, d. 1766. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dorcas, b. 1767. d. 1818.\\n3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles, 2d, b. 1773, d. 1836. 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George, b. 1777, d.\\n(near New Orleans) 1812. 5. Rebecca, b. 1774, m. Hon.\\nSamuel Dana, of Groton, d. 1837. 6 Seth, b. 1784, d. 1793.\\nMrs. B. afterwards m. Francis Cragin, and d. 1838, se. 93.\\nBarrett, Charles, (s. of the above,) graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College 1794, but bemg rather disinclmed to follow\\nany of the learned professions, entered into a partnership with\\nMr. Samuel Appleton, and commenced trade. The business\\nproved prosperous, and in 1793, Mr. Appleton left the firm for\\na wider field in Boston. In a few years after, he was fol-\\nlowed by Mr. Barrett, whose ample means and business\\nhabits soon brought him an extensive circle of acquaintances\\nand friends. Here he pursued an extensive commercial trade\\nthrough the trying times which our commerce passed, in that\\nera of non-intercourse, embargo and war, with varied success,\\ntill 1814, when he returned with his family to his native town,\\nto enjoy once more the retirement of his beautiful mansion,\\nwhich he had erected during his former residence, a view of\\nwhich is to be seen on page 330, (the house on the right\\nis the one built and long occupied by his father).\\nIn 1819. Mr. B. was induced to purchase an interest in the\\nold cotton factory, and being associated with several other\\ngentlemen, he procured an Act of Incorporation under the\\ntitle of the Water Loom Factory Company here they erected\\nthe large building now standing. This promising to be a\\ngood investment, two other companies were formed, of which\\nMr. B. was the head and principal manager. These establish-\\nments were built near the High Bridge and at Mason Village,\\nwith which he was connected during his life, all of which are\\nnoticed under the head of manufactures.\\nMr. B. s life was an active one like his father, he disliked\\nto see an idle man. He was the principal man in establishing\\nthe Bank, and it was mainly by his exertions that the Unita-\\nrian Church was erected, as also many other public improve-\\nments. He was elected to various town offices, and repre-\\nsented the town for many years in the General Court. He d.\\n1836, 86. 63. His wife, a lady of true grace and matronly\\naccomplishments, d. in 1842, ae. 71. He m. Martha Minot at", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0359.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "334 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nConcord, 1800. Ch. George Mary Ann Juliet, d. young\\nCharles Edward, d. 1834.\\nBartlett Samuel, a native of Reading, came here in 1770,\\npurchased and settled on the lot near the Fox place, now\\nowned by Richard Wheeler. He married Elizabeth Appleton;\\nd. 1812, 93. 79 his wife d. 1817, ge. 80.\\nCh. Noah, b. in Reading. 1768, d. 1809; Elisabeth, b. 1773,\\nd. 1790 Sarah, b. 1776, d. 1803 John, b. 1779, d. 1802\\nMary, b. 1781.\\nNoah m. about 1802, Mary Hills she d. 1806. Ch. George,\\nb. 1802, d. 1820. John, b. 1804, and had nearly completed his\\ntheological studies at Andover, with a view to the ministry,\\nwhen he was attacked with that insidious disease, consump-\\ntion, which had laid in the grave all his family, warning him\\nof his approaching fate. He went South, accompanied by a\\nfriend, but died on the way, in New Jersey, at the age of\\nabout 22 years. The family was now extinct, and he be-\\nqueathed the remainder of his patrimony to the American\\nBoard of Missions. Both he and his brother were young men\\nof much promise, and beloved by their acquaintance. Their\\nfather, Dea. Noah Bartlett, was a prominent man in the town.\\nHis upright and manly course had secured the confidence of\\nhis fellow citizens, who ever found in him a prudent and a\\nsafe counsellor. Called by them at an early age to the re-\\nsponsible and arduous duties of conducting the business of the\\ntown as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and of repre-\\nsenting them in the Legislature, he never neglected or betrayed\\nthe trust reposed in him, but ever served them faithfully. He\\nwas elected Town Clerk and first Selectman in 1798, one or\\nboth of which offices he filled until his death. In 1803 he was\\nchosen representative, and probably no other man was thought\\nof to fill that office during his life. In his private and domes-\\ntic character he was all that could be desired. During the\\ngreat revival 1786 he became a member of the Rev. Mr.\\nFarrar s church, being then in the 18th year of his age. He\\nwas a man of but few words, but a strong and vigorous wri-\\nter and deep thinker, and of truly righteous deeds. He was\\nappointed deacon of the church April 30th, 1807, and his", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0360.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0361.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "^^2^^^..^^^. ^^^^2", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0362.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "BATCHELDER FAMILY. 335\\ndeath, which took place two years later, was a great bereave-\\nment to them, following, as it did, so soon after that of their\\nbeloved Pastor.\\nBatchelder, Samuel, was a native of Beverly he removed\\nto Jaffrey at the close of the revolution, from which place he\\ncame here, in 1785. He commenced business here as a baker,\\nbuilt and occupied the house now owned by Mr. Benjamin\\nDavis. After the opening of the turnpike, he erected and kept\\nthe best public house between Boston and Keene. He Avas a\\nvery correct and industrious man. His ch. Samuel, b. at\\nJaffrey, 1784; Peter, b. 1786 Betsey, b. 1789, m. M. Adams;\\nWilliam, b. 1791, d. 1811; Nancy, b. 1793, m. Rev. Phineas\\nPratt; Mary, b. 1797, m. Silas Wheeler; Serena, b. 1800, m.\\nJoel Parker Fanny, b. 1804, m. Rev. J. Brown. Mr. B. d.\\n1814, 33. 69.\\nSamuel Batchelder, (son of Samuel,) was born at Jaffrey,\\nin 1784, but a few weeks previous to the removal of his parents\\nto this town. His education was mainly at our Academy,\\nwhere he was noted for his studious habits. He was fond\\nof reading and of committing his thoughts to paper, and early\\nmanifested a decided literary taste, of which the columns of\\nthe Portfolio, (published by Dennie at Philadelphia, and then\\nthe principal literary journal of our country,) bears evidence.\\nFrom the year 1800 when he was sixteen years of age, he\\nhad the care of a store belonging to his father, making the\\npurchases of the goods in Boston, as well as attending to the\\nsales. In 1804 at the age of twenty, he commenced business\\non his own account at Peterborough, N. H. where he con-\\ntinued about two years, and was afterwards about as long at\\nExeter, from which place he returned to New Ipswich and\\nrecommenced business there and early in the year 1808 be-\\ncame interested in the erection of the second Cotton Factory\\nbuilt in New Hampshire.\\nIn the winter of 1812. his store took fire at night, and was,\\nwith its valuable stock of goods, entirely consumed. Two\\npersons, clerks in the establishment, barely escaped with their\\nlives. As insurance in the country at that time was almost", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0363.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "336 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nunknown, this was an entire loss, and to Mr. B. a heavy blow,\\nand to many men would have been ruinous; but he had well\\nlaid the foundation of a character for integrity and business\\ntalents which a calamity of this kind might try the strength of,\\nbut could not overthrow. In a short period he built the store\\nat the corner, where he continued business while he resided\\nin town. As early as 18(38 he had purchased an interest in\\nthe second Cotton Factory, of which he was the most ac-\\ntive managing partner and here, in the course of years,\\nhe slowly, but surely, designed and carried out the manufac-\\nture of several new varieties of cotton goods, which are now\\nsuch an article of commerce. This estabhshment was, of\\ncourse, subject to the vicissitudes that made the earlier pe-\\nriod of cotton manufacturing so precarious a business but\\nowing mainly to his thorough system of keeping the accounts,\\nand his sagacity in seeking out and turning attention to the\\nmai ing new kinds of goods, with the economy he introduced,\\nit is believed it was a paying concern when ahuost every other\\nestablishment in the vicinity was compelled to stop.\\nIt was here that he acquired the rudiments of that skill\\nwhich has since enabled him to conduct those extensive es-\\ntabhshments with which he has been connected. While he\\nwas thus carrying forward a business of much importance to\\nthe place, his abilities were fully appreciated by his townsmen.\\nMuch of the public business fell on him, as every one felt that\\nif it was once in his hands it would be done as well as it\\ncould be. He was repeatedly chosen to represent the town in\\nthe Legislature, and various other offices.\\nIn 1826, some of the sagacious capitalists of Boston, wlio\\nhad made the purchase of the site of what is now Lowell,\\nhad projected an establishment for the manufacture of new\\nkinds of cotton goods, and were anxious to obtain the services\\nof a man whose scientific skill and judgment could success-\\nfully manage such a concern. Among them was one who had\\nbeen a school-boy with Mr. B., and more recently a business\\nacquaintance, and fortunately for the concern, Mr. B. was en-\\ngaged. He soon after left town, much to the regret of its in-\\nhabitants, (for his place has never been made good,) and took", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0364.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "BATCHELDER FAMILY. 337\\nup his residence in what was then East Chelmsford. Under\\nhis directions the foundations were laid, and the structures\\nerected, that constitute the Hamilton Manufacturing Corpora-\\ntion; and here was a broad field for him to carry out, on a\\nliberal plan, those ideas of which his efforts in this town were\\nbut the germ.\\nThe various fabrics which his genius and skill brought\\nforward, found a ready sale at remunerating prices, and soon\\nbecame one of the staple exports of Boston. They form a large\\npart of the clothing for the laboring class throughout our\\nbroad country, are the favorite dress of the negro of Hayti\\nand Brazil, and are most extensively used throughout China\\nand British India. At Lowell Mr. B. saw grow up a city with\\na rapidity till then unknown, and in which he had a most\\nactive part.\\nIn 1831, he, in company with some capitalists of Boston\\npurchased the site of a cotton mill at Saco, which had been\\ndestroyed by fire, and there designed a large establishment.\\nHere he soon removed and took the supervision, and he may\\nbe said to have been the soul of the enterprise. With a ma-\\ntured judgment he laid out his plans on a broad scale, and\\nsoon had in operation an extensive establishment, in which\\nwas manufactured many of a similar kind of goods that he\\nhad introduced at Lowell. He subsequently extended his\\nAmong the inventions deserving of particular notice, was a Dynamometer,\\nfor the measuring of steam or water-power, by S. Batchelder, Esq., of Saco.\\nThis is an instrument which has long been a desideratum in practical mechanics.\\nIt is on a principle entirely novel, yet so simple that it is no sooner seen tlian it is\\nacknowledged to be fully adapted to its object. It may be made of any dimen-\\nsions or strength, suited to the degree of power to be measured and by placing\\nit in the line of communication by means of a band or gearing, between the\\nwater-wheel, or drum of the steam engine, and the machinery to be moved, the\\npower exerted on the machinery may be exactly measured by means of a steel-\\nyard and weight, which form a part of the machine. There is also connected\\nwith it an index to show the number of revolutions of the drum, in a given time,\\nwhich being observed, together with the weight, the data are obtained for com-\\nputing the number of pounds which would be raised one foot per minute, by the\\ndegree of power exerted at the time upon the machine, and transmitted through\\nit to the working machinery. Whether we regard the utility, the ingenuity or\\nthe simplicity of the machine, it must be ranked in a high class of inventions, as\\nrendering that easy of attainment which was before impracticable by any process\\nuniversally applicable and we are a little surprised that in the liberal number of\\npremiums awarded, no higher testimonial of approbation has been bestowed upon\\nit than the award of a silver medal. [JV. Amcr. Rev. Jan. 1850, p. 227.\\n43", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0365.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "338 FAMILY HISTORY,\\npurchases till he had obtained nearly all the great hydraulic\\npower at that place. The sites of new establishments were\\nlaid off and planned, and as a consequence, one of the most\\nflourishing cities in that State has grown up around it. So\\njudiciously had Mr. B. planned and perseveringly carried out\\nhis ideas, that it is probable that while under his superintend-\\nance this establishment was the most profitable one in New\\nEngland. A few years since he retired from its active duties,\\nwith a competency, the reward of a long career of persevering\\nindustry, and fixed his residence at Cambridge, of which city\\nhe was soon elected a representative to the Legislature. But\\nhis experience had too well fitted him for usefulness to allow\\nhim much repose, and no man s services are more anxiously\\nsought for, in many of the great enterprises of our day. As\\nTreasurer of the Portsmouth Factories, and Director in an\\nimportant Railroad, and other enterprises, with his well ripen-\\ned judgment and varied experience, he bids fair for a contin-\\nued career of usefulness.\\nMr. B. married, in 1810, Miss Mary Montgomery, and\\nhave now six children living, of whom John M., William,\\nIsabella, and Eugene, were born in New Ipswich.\\n^^/^/y ^^i ^:/^^f came here from Westford,\\nin 1751, and purchased of\\nAbijah Foster what has since been known as the Hills\\nFarm, in the centre village. He was one of the original\\nmembers of the church formed in 1760. It is believed he\\nkept a store which he sold with the farm to Mr. Hills, in 1772.\\nMr. Bates seems to have been a man of some importance he\\nwas an ardent patriot, was Chairman of the Committee of\\nInspection and Safety in 1775, in which capacity he had quite\\na controversy with Mr. Hills. He went as a lieutenant into\\nthe war, and was present at the capture of Burgoyne. He\\nremoved to Jaffrey, about 1785, and afterwards to the north-\\nern part of New York State, where he died.\\nBreed, John, came from Lynnfield, and settled in the south\\npart of the town about 1764, on what is still known as the", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0366.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "BROWN FAMILY. 339\\nBreed farm. He reared a numerous family, two of whom\\nwere deaf and dumb. He d. in 1780, se. 60.\\nBreed, Allen, (s. of the above,) b. in Lynnfield in 1744\\nafter the death of his father, he remained on the paternal\\nfarm. The soil was fertile, and he became quite a wealthy\\nfarmer. He was a soldier in the Revolution for a short\\nterm. The seeds of consumption seem to have been in-\\nherited in this family from their birth; they all fell victims\\nat an early age a long row of stones in the south burying-\\nground, tells the sad story. He d. 1806. Ch. Lydia, b. 1768\\nJohn, b. 1769, d. 1807, ee. 38 Elisha, b. 1771 Allen, b.\\n1774 Jane, b. 1775 Enoch, b. 1778.\\nBrl-^nt, Kendall, came here about 1762. He purchased a\\nsmall farm of, and adjoining on the south, Col. Kidder. He\\nwas a blacksmith, and the shop was standing within twenty\\nyears had a son Edmund, who commanded a company from\\nthis town and vicinity, for a campaign in the Revolutionary\\nwar. Capt. Edmund d. Sept. 28, 1786, ae. 42.\\nc/ in 1744: m\\nwas born at Concord\\nm. October 176.5, Sarah\\nWright; removed to this town the same year, and settled\\non the farm on the Flat Mountain, where he resided for\\nover half a century. While the eastern and central parts of\\nthe town had been sometime occupied, the western being\\nmore mountainous and less accessible, had remained a forest\\nuntil about the time of his advent here, so that he and his\\nneighbors had to encounter many of the difficulties of a new\\nsettlement, not the least of which was their annoyance from\\nwolves and other wild animals; and at one period it was dan-\\ngerous for a man to be out after nightfall without means of\\ndefence. The soil of these hills was at first quite productive,\\nbut after long cultivation it became exhausted, and they are\\nnow mostly abandoned to pasturage. At the commencement\\nof the Revolution, Mr. B. was a stanch patriot, was Lieuten-\\nant of the New Ipswich company at the battle of Bunker Hill,\\nand he often said, he believed he fired the last gun before the", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0367.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "340 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nretreat. He served eight months, often doing duty as com-\\nmander, in the absence of Capt. Towne. He afterwards did\\nthe duty of Captain at Ticonderoga, which post was surren-\\ndered about three months after his release from the service.\\nAfter the Revohition he was often chosen to some town\\noffice; was prominent in organizing the Baptist church, of\\nwhich he was the first deacon. He was a robust, energetic,\\npersevering man was impulsive, and had a very strong\\nwiU. He was a rehgious and a benevolent man, always\\nready to do his share for the support of religious institutions,\\nand for the relief of the poor and suffering. His experi-\\nence, which was written down by his grandson, is quite curi-\\nous. His mind seems to have been deeply affected by read-\\ning Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress, and it no doubt had\\na great influence in forming his opinions and character. For\\na few years previous to his death, he was lame and nearly\\nblind. He died in 1831, in the 88th year of his age his wife\\ndied in 1821, aged 77. She died in her chair without any\\nprevious illness. Their children numbered fourteen, two only\\ndying in infancy, the rest living to rear families, and some of\\nthem are still living at an advanced age, most of them mem-\\nbers of Baptist churches. Ch.\\nJosiAH, b. 1766; Joseph, b. 1767; Jonas, b. 1769, m. Lovis\\nRussell, 1796 Sarah, b. 1770, m. Reuben Brown, 1793 Aa-\\nron, b. 1772, m. Hannah Brown, 1795 Amos, b. 1774, set-\\ntled in Whitingham, Vt.; Abner, b. 1776 Rebecca, b. 1778,\\nm. Perry, settled in New York State Levi, b. 1780\\nNathan, b. 1782, was father of the Missionary of the same\\nname Howard, resided in Acton, d. in 1850 Nabby, m.\\nFarnsworth, settled in New York State.\\nBrown, Abner, (son of Josiah,) resided on a farm on the\\nFlat Mountain, now owned by Dr. Gibson. He was much\\nrespected as a man, and often employed in the business of the\\ntown. He had a large number of children, none of whom\\nnow reside here. He d. 1824, se. 48 years.\\nBrown, Aaron, (son of Josiah,) m. his cousin Hannah\\nBrown. He was a leading man in town affairs, was often\\nelected Selectnian and to other offices, had good judgment,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0368.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "BROWN FAMILY. 341\\nbut of strong party feelings, and zealous in whatever cause\\nhe espoused, but always respected by all parties. He was,\\nlike his father, active in the organization of the Baptist church,\\nand was also a deacon. He d. Feb. 14, 1828, se. 55. He\\nleft a number of children, of which only Hernion resides in\\ntown. Addison, another son, graduated at Harvard College,\\n1826, studied Theology, and settled in the ministry at Brat-\\ntleboro Vt., where he now teaches an Academy.\\nBrown, John, (son of John) was born in Concord about\\n1726, m. Elizabeth Bateman there; removed to this town\\nsoon after the revolution, and settled on the place where their\\ngrandson, Mr. Herman Brown, now lives. They had ten\\nchildren, who all lived to adult age, and had families who\\nwere engaged in agriculture. He d. 1803, his wife d. 1804,\\nboth as. 70. His children were,\\n1. Elizabeth, m. Samuel Brown of Concord. 2. John,\\nlived at the West. 3. Asa, lived at the West. 4. Rebecca,\\nm. Josiah French, 1790, resided in Cavendish, Vt. 5. Anna,\\nm. Spaulding. 6. Hannah, m. Aaron Brown. 7.\\nReuben, m. Sarah Brown, resided in Canada. 8. Hepsibeth,\\nm. Stephen Davis, 1796. 9. Polly, m. Wyman, set-\\ntled in Reading, Vt. 10. Joseph, m. Sally Preston, received\\nan education, studied Theology, and for a time performed the\\nduties of the ministry. He died in Vermont.\\nIt will be seen that the Browns have been quite a nu-\\nmerous family here. It is believed this family were descend-\\ned from Thomas Brown, who came from England and settled\\nin Concord in 1640.\\nBrown, Eben, born at Ipswich, Mass., 1746, his father s\\nname was William. He (Eben,) married Elizabeth Perkins.\\nHe d. 1813 she d. 1837, se. 92. They had children\\nEben, b. 1769 Isaac William Elizabeth Betsey all\\nb. old Ipswich Eleazar, b. 1778 Lucy James Susan\\nSarah Abigail, b. at New Ipswich.\\nBrown, Eleazer, son of Eben, born 1778, married Hannah\\nMorgan, Feb. 6, 1806. Children\\nHannah M., b. Dec. 9, 1806, d. 1819 Elvira, b. July 25,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0369.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "342 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nISOS, d. 1809 Elvira E., b. Jan. 1, 1810, d. 1810 Louisa,\\nR. b. Mar. 4, 1811, m. R. R Graves, d. at Macon, Geo. Mar.\\n1838 Lucy Ann, b. Jan. 8, 1813, m. G. M. Charnpney, Jan.\\n13, 1836 George, b. April 14, 181.5, d. 1816 Henrietta, b.\\nJan. 16, 1817, m. Edwin Graves, Dec. 25, 1837, d. at Macon,\\nGeo. 1848 Charles Bradford, b. Oct. 8, 1818, d. Feb. 1825\\nMary Jane, b. Jan. 28, 1821, d. Feb. 1825 Horace Willard,\\nb. Oct. 31, 1822, m. Harriet N. Tucker, Aug. 6, 1849 Sarah,\\nb. Dec. 8, 1824, d. Dec. 1824.\\nBullard, Ebenezer, was born in Weston was one of the\\nearliest settlers of the town he was certainly here with his\\nfamily in 1743. Like most of the first comers he located on\\nTown Hill, (since called Knights,) on the farm now owned by\\nMr. Stillman Stratton he wa^; accompanied by his brother,\\nwho resided with him till his marriage. They both assisted\\nin organizing the first church, in 1760. Ch. Asa, b. 1743\\nSimeon, b. 1745 Keziah, b. 1747 John b. 1749 Ephraim,\\nb. 1751 Mary, b. 1753 Ebenezer, b. 1756; Sarah, b. 1758\\nSusannah, b. 1761 Asa, b. 1765. Ephraim, Susannah and\\nAsa, d. 3^oung. Ebenezer and John were soldiers in the Rev-\\nolutionary war. He d. 1768.\\nBullard, Joseph, brother of the above, came about the\\nsame time, and resided with him till, on his marriage in 1754,\\nhe settled on the adjoining farm. Ch. Silas, b. 1755 Isaac,\\nb. 1757, d. 1760 Peter, b. 1760. Soon after this he removed\\nto No. (now Mason,) and settled on the farm where his\\ngrandson now lives. Like his brother he has grand-children\\nand great- grand-children residing in town. He d. about 1796.\\nBullard, Asa, (s. of Ebenezer,) grad. at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege was principal of the Franklin school in Boston, of\\nwhich Chief Justice Shaw was his assistant. He afterwards\\nstudied medicine, and was a successful practitioner. He was\\na gentleman of fine social powers and of great practical know-\\nledge. He died at Mt. Vernon, about 1826.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0370.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "THE CHAMPNEY FAMILY.\\nFirst Generation,\\nRichard Champney came from Lincolnshire, England, in\\n1634 or 1()35, and settled in Cambridge, Mass. He was made\\nFreeman in 1636. He was a ruling Elder in the Church\\ngathered there, and much esteemed for his piety, and his ex-\\nhibition of the Christian virtues. His name is honorably\\nmentioned in the Cambridge Church Gathering. He was\\nmarried, in England, to Jane He d. Nov. 26, 1669.\\nChildren\\nEsther, b. in England, 1629, m. Josiah Converse, Woburn,\\n1651; Mary, b. Oct. 163-, d. young; Samuel, b. Sept. 1635,\\nm. Sarah Hubbard, 1657; Sarah, b. May, 1638, m. Wm. Bar-\\nrett, 1656, d. 1661 Mary, b. Nov. 1639, m. Jacob French,\\n1665 John, b. May 1641 Daniel, b. March 1644.\\nSecond Generation,\\nDaniel, b. 1644, (s. of Richard,) m. Dorcas Bridge, Jan. 3,\\n1665. They resided in Cambridge. She d. 1684, se. 36. He\\nd. 1691, se. 47. Children:\\nDorcas, b. Aug. 1667, m. Nicholas Bow, 1690 Daniel, b.\\nDec. 1669; Thomas, b. Sept. 1673; Noah, b. Sept. 1677;\\nDowning, b. June 1680, d. 1705, se. 25; Abagail, b. April,\\n1683 Hepzibah, b. June 1687.\\nThird Generation.\\nDaniel, (b. 1769, s. of Daniel,) m. Bethiah Danforth.\\nChildren:\\nThomas, b. 1697; Dorcas, b. 1699; Daniel, b. 1700, m.\\nTabitha Hancock, 1723; Solomon, b. 1702; Noah, b. 1704,\\nm. Martha Hubbard, 1725 Downing, b. 1706 Richard, b.\\n1707 Thomas, b. 1709.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0371.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "344 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nFourth Generation.\\nSolomon, (b. 1702, s. of Daniel,) m. Elizabeth Cunning-\\nham, 1723. Children\\nRichard, b. 172- Ebenezer, b. 1729, (probably died young);\\nNathan, b. 1733 John, b. 1735, d. 1820, se. 85, 2d wife Aba-\\ngail Crackbone Silence, b. 1740, d. 1747; Ebenezer, b. April\\n3, 1744.\\nThe above Solomon was bred a mechanic, but afterwards\\nbecame a soldier under Geo. III. and was stationed at Castle\\nWilliam, Boston Harbor, where he d. in 1760.\\nFifth Generation.\\nEbenezer, (s. of Solomon,) b. 1744, m. Abigail Trow-\\nbridge, at Groton, 1764. Children\\nBenjamin, b. Aug. 20th, 1764, d. 1827, se. 62 Francis, b.\\nJan. 27, 1766; Abigail, b. May 4, 1767, m. Thos. Gardner, d.\\n1805 Hannah, b. Sept. 23, 1768, m. James Prescott Eliza-\\nbeth, b. Sept. 12, 1770, d. Aug. 27, 1775 Sarah, b. Dec. 25,\\n1771, d. Aug. 20, 1775 Ebenezer, b. Feb. 5, 1774, d. Aug.\\n29, 1775.\\nShe d. 1775, ee. 35. 2d wife Abigail Parker, Nov. 1778,\\nd. 1790, ge. 38. Children\\nElizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1779, m. John Preston, M. D.; Eben-\\nezer, b. July 19, 1781, d. 1820, se 45 Jonas Cutler, b. April\\n17, 1783, d. 1824, se. 41.\\nMarried third wife, Susan Wyman, 1796. She d. same\\nyear.\\n8ixth Generation.\\nHannah, (dau. of Ebenezer,) m. James Prescott, 1792.\\nChildren\\nSusan, b. 1793, d. 1795 Hannah, b. 1795, d. 1800 Susan,\\nb. 1797 LucRETiA Lucy James, b. 1803, d. 1803 William\\nMary Hannah Maria Benjamin.\\nEbenezer, (s. of Ebenezer,) m. Mehitable Goodridge.\\nChildren:\\nJonas Nichols Ebenezer Julius Samuel Elizabeth\\nLewis.\\nJonas Cutler, (s. of Ebenezer,) m. Phebe Parker, 1808.\\nChildren", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0372.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "CHAMPNEY FAMILY. 345\\nHoratio Nelson, b. 1809; Abby Parker, b. 1813.\\nElizabeth, (dan. of Ebenezer,) m. John Preston. Children:\\nEbenezer Maria; John; Eliza; Llxy; Abigail; Maria;\\nWilliam Thomas Rebecca.\\nBenjamin, (s. of Ebenezer,) m. Mercy Parker, 1791. Chil-\\ndren:\\nSarah, b. July 22, 1792; Maria, b. July 23, 1y93, d. Nov.\\n1. 1796; Benjamin, b. March 12, 1795, d. Nov. 13, 1813, an\\nundergraduate of Dartmouth College.\\nShe d. 1795, se. 29 m. second wife, Rebecca Brooks, 1809.\\nChildren\\nEdward Walter, b. Aug. 18, 1810, m. Caroline L. Floyd,\\n1845 George Mather, March 6, 1812, m. Lucy Ann Brown,\\n1836 Maria Louisa, b. Nov. 14, 1813, m. F. R. Cragin, 1837;\\nEllen Eliza, b. Oct. 17, 1815, m. John Clough, 1840 Ben-\\njamin Crackbone, b. Nov. 22, 1817; Mary Jane, b. Nov. 22,\\n1819, d. March 2, 1837; Henry Trowbridge, b. Sept, 19,\\n1825, m. Lydia S. Parshley, 1849.\\nFrancis, (s. of Ebenezer,) m. Abigail Trowbridge, 1786.\\nChildren\\nFrancis, b. 1788, 1791 Samuel, b. 1789, d. 1793 Abigail,\\nb. 1791, d. 1793; Fanny, b. 1793; Francis 2d, b. 1794; Ab-\\nigail 2d, b. 1796 Samuel 2d, b. 1798 Ferdinand, b. 1800.\\nAbigail, (dau. of Ebenezer,) m. Thos. Gardner, Groton,\\n2790. Children\\nThomas Champney, b. 1791, d. Abigail, b. 1792;\\nEliza, b. 1794; John, b. 1796 Walter; George; Mary.\\nb fi/ynylTyillt/^yy^ was born at Cambridge, educated\\nA^^^^f- g^j Harvard University, receiving the de-\\n(_^/ gree of Bachelor of Arts in 1762. He\\nwas at first designed for the ministry, and to that end studied\\nDivinity and preached about two years. He received a call\\nto settle in township No. 1, now Mason this was declined,\\nand soon after, he left this profession for that of the Law.\\nHe prepared himself for this vocation in the office of Hon.\\nSamuel Livermore, and was admitted to the Bar at Ports-\\n44", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0373.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "346 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nmouth, N. H., in 1768. In June of the same year he re-\\nmoved to New Ipswich and entered upon the duties of his\\nprofession. In the spring of 1783, Mr. Champney went to\\nGroton, where he remained until 1789, \\\\vas representative in\\n1784, when lie returned to New Ipswich, His first commis-\\nsion as Justice of the Peace was received from the celebrated\\nGov. John Hancock, of Massachusetts.\\nIn 1795 he was appointed Judge of Probate for the County\\nof Hillsboro The duties of this office were appropriately\\ndischarged until his resignation a few months before his death.\\nJudge Champney married, first, a daughter of Rev. Caleb\\nTrowbridge, of Groton, in 1764, which connected him with\\nthe distinguished families of Cottons and Mathers. By this\\nmarriage he had seven children, three of whom died in in-\\nfancy. He became a widower in 1775, and was married\\nagain in 1778, to Abigail Parker, by whom he had four child-\\nren. She died in 1790, and he was again married in March,\\n1796, to Susan Wyman, who died the September following.\\nJudge Champney was a man of very respectable talents,\\nand exercised no inconsiderable influence in this vicinity.\\nDuring the earlier years of his practice, he was the only law-\\nyer between Keene and Groton, and had offices both at New\\nIpswich and the latter place, in conjunction with his son.\\nThe labor of attending the courts at that period was very great,\\nthe circuit being extensive, and all journeys were necessarily\\nperformed on horseback.\\nDiu ing the controversy between the colonies and the mother\\ncountry, the sentiments of Mr. Champney were adverse to\\nthose extreme measures that led to the revolution. He was a\\nmoderate tory, and deprecating a resort to arms, believed that\\nwith prudent and moderate counsels all causes of disaflection\\nmight be satisfactorily adjusted. He wished to preserve his\\nloyalty and the peace of the country but like many others\\nwho forebore to take part in the contest, he lived to acknowl-\\nedge the benificent effects of that struggle which gave us our\\nliberties and free institutions.\\nHe died on the 10th September, 1810, at the age of 67.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0374.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0375.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "/^^Z^", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0376.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "CHAMPNEY FAMILY. 347\\nBenjamin Champney, eldest son of the above, was born at\\nGroton, Aug. 20, 1764. His early life was spent in the usual\\nemployments attendant upon farming. His education was\\nreceived from the common schools of that day, although he\\nenjoyed the advantages of occasional instruction in the office\\nof his father. Before he completed his majority he com-\\nmenced in the same office, the study of ihe Law, and in due\\ntime prepared himself for the legal profession. He opened an\\noffice in Groton, in conjunction with his father in 1786, and\\nresided there until 1792, when he returned to New Ipswich.\\nFrom this period, until the time of his own decease in 1827,\\nhe continued alone in the duties of his avocation.\\nFew men have enjoyed the confidence of the community in\\nwhich they lived, to a greater degree than Mr. Champney.\\nPossessed of a candid and liberal mind, he saw things in their\\ntrue and just relations, and was capable of weighing in his\\nwell-balanced judgment the various and complicated issues\\nthat were offered for his advice and adjudication. For many\\nyears he served the town as one of the Selectmen. He re-\\nceived the appointment of Post Master upon the removal of\\nthe office to the Village, which he held for 20 years. He was\\nalso for a number of years, President of the Hillsboro Bar.\\nAs a townsman, he was one of the foremost in devising and\\nexecuting measures for the promotion of learning and the\\ngeneral improvement of the town.\\nHe was one of the projectors and original proprietors of the\\nfirst Cotton Factory built in New Ipswich. This enterprise\\nwas commenced in 1804, in conjunction with Charles Barrett\\nand Charles Robbins. [This factory, together with those that\\nhave grown out of it, has been of much importance, to the\\ntrade and prosperity of the town. For a time it was a great\\nattraction to the neighborhood and even to places quite re-\\nmote on account of its entire novelty. For some years it was\\nconducted with much success, but subsequently it proved a\\nsource of loss to all concerned.]\\nMr. C. married, in 1792, Mercy Parker. She died in 1795,\\nhaving borne him three children. Benjamin, the only son,\\nwas endowed with rare mental qualities, and at a very early\\nperiod of life was prepared for college. He entered the", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0377.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "348 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ninstitution at Hanover in 1812. During the first year he was\\naccidentally wounded in the head hy a sfone thrown by a fel-\\nlow-student. The blow occasioned fits of an epileptic character,\\nwhich compelled him to leave the college. After sutfering\\nincreased physical and mental prostration for more than a\\nyear he was found dead in his bed. on the morning of Nov.\\n13, 1813.\\nThe second marriage of Mr. C, took place in Oct. 1809, to\\nRebecca Brooks, of New Ipswich, a relation of the late Gov.\\nJohn Brooks of Mass. By this union he had seven children\\nall but one of whom are now living.\\nEsquire Ohampney died on the 12th of May, 1827, at the\\nage of 63. Although at one time possessed of a competence\\nof this world s goods, yet the decline of his life was somewhat\\nembittered by the evils of an accumulating poverty. He had\\nnot enjoyed the advantages of a collegiate education, yet he\\nwas well read in his profession and had a good knowledge of\\nEnglish literature. As a gentleman, he was courteous and\\naffable; and as a man, public-spirited and honorable.\\nChandler, James, came here about 1765. He was descend-\\ned from Roger, who came from England and settled at Con-\\ncord in 165S, who m. Mary Symonds in 1671, d. 1717; his\\nwf d. 1728. They had several children of whom Samuel m.\\nDorcas Buss, 1695, d. 1745. Ch. Joseph, Samuel, John,\\nJames, and three daus. James had sons Joseph (who lived and\\nd. in Concord, and whose posterity still reside on the land\\ntheir ancestors owned almost two centuries since) and James,\\nwho came to this town, m. Mary Melville. Ch. Samuel, b.\\n1769, d. in Con. 1799 James, b. 1768, m. Huldah Paine, d.\\nin Penn. leaving 6 ch. Roger, b. 1770, m. Lydia Marshall\\nof Chelmsford, in 1795, d. 1847. Ch. Mary, m. Thos. Kins-\\nworthy Rebecca, m. Stillman Gibson, resides in town, have\\nhad nine ch.; Sally, m. Ephraim Fairbanks, ch. five s. atid\\ntwo daus John, m. Betsy Richardson Lydl^, m. Benjamin\\nSafford, now resides in Illinois; Daniel, m. Azenith Wheeler,\\nremoved to Penn.\\nDeacon Chandler was a man of most amiable character,\\nand universally respected, an exemplary christian and useful", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0378.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "CHICKERING FAMILY. 349\\ncitizen his descendants are among the most prominent men\\nin town. He d. May, 1822.\\nChandler, John, came here from Westford, in 1750 had a\\ngrant of money and land, inckiding the falls in the Sonhegan\\nnear the high bridge, which encouraged him to build the first\\nmills there. It is supposed the grist mill stood above the bridge,\\nthe dam occupying nearly the same site as the one afterwards\\nbuilt by Mr. Sanderson, while the saw mill probably stood near\\nwhere the Columbian factory now is. Although Mr. Chandler\\nseems to have had as good advantages as any man in town,\\nhe did not choose to remain, but about 1769 sold out his\\nmills and other property, and removed to Maine. His ch. b.\\nhere were John, b. 1754; Noah, b. 1756; Joel, b. 1757;\\nLydl\\\\, b. 1759 Keziah, b. 1761 Molly, b. 1763 Lucy, b.\\n1765; Susannah, b. 1766; Hannah, b. 1768.\\nChickering, Abner, was b. at Holden, Mass., 1767. He\\nresided at Mason Village for several years, and about the\\ncommencement of the present century removed to this town.\\nHe purchased the farm known as the Knowlton place, in the\\neasterly part of the town, where he resided till his death. He\\nwas a blacksmith, an excellent farmer, an amiable and indus-\\ntrious man and a useful citizen. He died in 1841, ge. 74. Ch.\\nMary, Samuel, Jonas, Melinda, Eliza, Rebecca, Charles.\\nChickering, Jonas, (s. of Abner,) received the rudiments of\\na good education at our town schools, and at the age of 17,\\nwent to learn the cabinet-maker s trade of Mr. John Gould,\\nwhom he served with fidelity for three years, when he was\\nreleased from further service with the consent of his employer.\\nMr. C. early evinced a natural taste for music, and availed\\nhimself of every opportunity of acquiring instruction, and\\nmany of his leisure hours were devoted to the study of its\\nrules and to its practice on various instruments. When about\\nnineteen years of age, a piano forte, (the only one in town,)\\nbecame useless for want of some person to tune it and make\\nsome slight repairs and, although it was the first instrument\\nof the kind he had ever seen, yet, prompted by curiosity and\\nhis interest in musical instruments, he undertook the task.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0379.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "350 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nand, after much labor, succeeded in restoring it to usefulness.\\nThis apparently trifling matter, no doubt, had an important\\nbearing on after life, and he soon after, unaided and alone,\\ncommenced the building of a small organ without any instruc-\\ntion, drawings, or hardly any idea what such an instrument\\nshould be. He persevered for a while, but could hardly be\\nsaid 10 have succeeded, and it is only now referred to, to show\\nthe early bent of his mind.\\nAfter leaving town, he soon found his way to Boston, which\\ncity he entered on the 15 th of February, 1818, and, with the\\nindustry so characteristic of him, found employment and\\ncommenced work that day, where he labored for one year.\\nIn the meantime he had ascertained that the manufacture of\\npianos was pursued as a business and on the anniversary of\\nhis advent into the city, he entered into the employ of Mr.\\nOsborn, then almost the only manufacturer of these instru-\\nments. Here he found much to satisfy his inquiring mind,\\nand for four years he was in this establishment, until he had\\nmade himself master of all the knowledge then to be obtained,\\nand on the loth of February, 1823, entered into a copartner-\\nship with Mr. Stewart, which lasted three years, when Mr.\\nC. continued the business alone. At this period he had\\nacquired some reputation, as he had introduced many\\nimprovements, and his work began to show indications of\\nwhat has since been attained in this department. On the\\n12th* anniversary of his entrance into the city, he became\\nassociated with Mr. Mackay, a thorough business man and\\ncapitalist, with whom he continued ten years. This gave an\\nopportunity for a rapid extension of the business, by the erec-\\ntion of large buildings, the importation and selection of the\\nmost beautiful kinds of wood, and for the last twenty years\\nhe has gone on, each year surpassing its predecessor, by pro-\\nducing an article more splendid in exterior as weU as superior\\nin tone and finish, until Chickering s Pianos stand without\\na rival in the world. To show the great increase in his\\nbusiness, it is only necessary to state, that when he com-\\nThe fifteenth of February, which, by a singular coincidence, seems to have\\nbeen the day of destiny on which all the great enterprizes of his life have been\\nuadertaken.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0380.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "CHICKERING FAIMILY. 351\\nmenced, he manufactured only fifteen instruments a year, at\\nthis time he is making thirteen hundred a year, and the\\ndemand for them is greater than can be supphed.\\nWithin the last year he visited Europe, where a triumph\\nawaited him of no ordinary kind. Two of his instruments\\nwere exhibited at the World s Fair, (where was collected\\nthe choicest workmanship of England, France and Italy,) for\\nwhich he had the honor of receiving a Prize Medal, which\\nconferred distinction on himself as well as on his country.\\nWith all this prosperity and success, he is always to be\\nfound at work, and still remains the same affable, unassum-\\ning, kind man as when he left our town, to which he is still\\nmuch attached, as his recent subscription of one thousand\\ndollars to the Academy will testify. In the city of his adop-\\ntion he has a large circle of friends and is universally respect-\\ned and among the professors and lovers of music he is\\nlooked to as their principal adviser and patron. Mr. C. has\\nbeen a member of the Legislature, was several years Presi-\\ndent of the Massachusetts Mechanic Association, and for\\nmany years President of the Handel and Haydn Musical\\nSociety.\\nCampbell, Robert, a native of Scotland, was here in 1760.\\nHe resided on the farm on the Ashby road, now owned by Mr.\\nJesse Stearns his son, Caleb, who m. Abigail Wilkins, resi-\\nded on the same place. He d. 1800, se. 59. Ch. Caleb, now\\nresiding in town, and a dan. who m. Samuel Cragin.\\nClary, or McClary, William, came here from Lunenburg\\nwith his brother Daniel, about 1751. They were originally\\nfrom the North of Ireland. He, as well as his brother, had all\\nthe propensities for fim and jokes that are so characteristic of\\ntheir countrymen. They did much to amuse the town, and\\nno doubt were useful in other ways. William removed to\\nBelfast, Maine, soon after the Revolution, and he, with three\\nof his sons, marched for Concord at the time of the\u00c2\u00abfight.\\nClary, Daniel, was located near the Samuel Wheeler\\nplace. At the raising of Dea. E. Adams barn in 1780, he", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0381.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "CRAGIN FAMILY, 353\\ntown affairs, particularly in the schools. He is still remem-\\nbered by some of the older inhabitants.\\nHis ch. born here were Noah, b. 1786, d. at Keene 1791*\\nPolly, b. 1788 Josiah Parsons, b. 1787, who was prepared\\nfor college at Chesterfield, grad. at Dartmouth College, 1807.\\nHe pursued a course of professional studies in his father s\\noffice at Keene removed to Boston, where he was admitted\\nto the Bar in 1810, and during the same month opened his\\noffice and commenced practice. Mr. C. has continued, for a\\nlong course of years, to devote himself exclusively to his pro-\\nfession, and is among those who have not been slothful in\\nbusiness, and consequently has been favored, from an early\\nperiod in his professional career, with more than an ordinary\\nshare of lucrative and highly respectable practice.\\nClark, John. Though not one of the early settlers, he has\\nbeen for a long time, with his family, among the most promi-\\nnent townsmen. He was a native of Lyndeboro and came\\nhere in 1816, as an overseer in the Davis factory. Soon after,\\nhe engaged in trade with N. D. Gould, and afterwards with\\nTimothy Fox, 3d. He was then superintendent in Brown s\\nfactory and of late years has acted in various capacities in\\nthe centre village. He was chosen deacon of the church in\\n1819, and for many years had charge of the choir, and occa-\\nsionally taught singing schools. His children, especially the\\nyoungest, have distinguished themselves as musicians. He\\nhas been several years Town Clerk. He m. Margaret Rand\\nof Lyndeboro she d. 1846, se. 64. Their children were, 1.\\nMary, m. Martin Ames, d. 1841, se. 34 2. Hannah, m. W. W.\\nJohnson, d. 1843, ge. 33 3. John P. 4. Deborah, rn. Henry\\nAdams: 5. Peter.\\nThe Cragin family in this country, is declared to have been\\ndescended from John Cragon, a Scotchman, who was taken by\\nIt was then the custom to call on some friend, to remain as a watcher to the\\ncorpse, and Mr. Joseph Appleton of this town, a most promising young man,\\nwho had just graduated at Dartmouth College, and was then student at law, un-\\ndertook the melancholy office, and as it was supposed, from this exposure, took\\nthe same fever and died, after an illness of only one week.\\n45", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0383.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "354 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nCromwell at the battle of Dunbar, and shipped to this country\\nwith other prisoners in 1G51, to avoid the care of them, and\\nwhose services were sold, after their arrival here, for three or\\nfour years, to defray the cost of transportation.* The scurvy\\nbroke out on board during ti.e voyage, and Cragon being sup-\\nposed at the point of death, was about to be thrown over-\\nboard, but was spared at the intercession of a young woman,\\nby whose assiduous attentions he was restored, and whom he\\naft.^rwards married, and settled in Woburn.\\nFrancis and Benjamin Cragin, were among the early settlers\\nof Temple, and located near each other at the foot of the\\nmountains between Temple and Sharon. They were highly\\nrespectable townsmen, and both held the office of Justice of\\nthe Peace, and Benjamin was Lieutenant in Capt. Parker s\\ncompany at the battle of Bennington. About the year 1800\\nFrancis exchanged farms with Q,uincy Adams, and removed\\nto the farm of the elder Deacon Ephraim Adams, where he\\nresided until his third marriage, with the widow of Charles\\nBarrett, and removed to the Barrett mansion, leaving his farm\\nto his son Joseph. He d. 1826, ee. 87.\\nHe m. 1st, Miss Piper, by whom he had Paul, who settled\\nin Greenfield, N. H., where he still lives at an advanced age;\\n2d Sibbel Law, who d. 1809, ac. 60; they had, besides several\\nchildren that d. young, Francis, lives in Temple Stephen,\\nm. Patty Kimball of N. I., lived first in Temple and then in\\nHancock; Esther, married Artemas Wheeler, who kept store\\nin Temple, after w-vrds removed to New York State, and thence\\nto Groton, Mass., where they recently died.\\nCragin, Silas, the third son, m. Anna, dan. of Amos Prich-\\navd, lived at first in New Ipswich, then in Billerica, after-\\nwards in Harvard, and the last twenty years of his life in New\\nIpswich. He was a saddler by trade. He d. 1849, se. 74.\\nShe d. 1838, ae. 62. Their children were:\\n1 Lorenzo S., merchant in Boston, \\\\vho m. Susan Tyler,\\nand has iwo sons, one of them a graduate of Harvard Col-\\nlege, 1849, and now a lawyer in Boston 2 Anna, who m.\\nSee Genealogical Register for 1847, p. 378.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0384.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "CUMMINGS FAMILY. 355\\nStedman Houghton, of Harvard, and soon settled in New Ips-\\nwich shed. 1843, se. 35, 3 Sophronia 4 Elvira; 5\\nElizabeth, d. 1850 6 Rebecca, m. George W. My rick of\\nBrookfield, 1848.\\nJoseph m. Hannah Patten, of Temple, and removed to\\nNew Ipswich with his father. They had several children,\\nwho have settled in the town and vicinity. She d. and\\nhe afterwards married a second time.\\nLeonard, was a saddler, and lived some time in New Ips-\\nwich in a honse near his brother Joseph, and removed to\\nWestmoreland.\\nIsaiah, was a shoe-maker, m. Miss HiMreth, and removed\\nto Alstead, but returned again, and resided many years; he\\nm. 2d, Sivona, dau. of Joseph Davis, and now lives at Gro-\\nton, highly respected, and a deacon of the church.\\nSamuel, m. Polly, dau. of Caleb Campbell, and trades in\\nAlstead.\\nCrosby, Jonah, was here before 1756, came from Westford,\\nas also Robert, Joel and Josiah it is said they were all broth-\\ners, and some of them were here soon after 1750; their names\\nare on the tax list for 1763, but removed to Maine previous to\\nthe Revolution. Joel Crosby was taken prisoner by the In-\\ndians, near Fort Edward, in 1756 his father-in-law, Andrew\\nSpaulding of Westford, petitioned the General Court of Mass.\\nto ransom him in 1757. He was probably afterwards a resi-\\ndent here, and settled on Spaulding s land. The wife of one\\nof the above died before 1755, and was buried in the ancient\\nburying ground on the Judge Farrar farm. Jonah Crosby m.\\nLydia Chandler at Townsend, in 1757.\\nCuMMiNGs, Eleazer, (s. of Elcazcv, grandson of Nathaniel,)\\nb. at Dunstable, Dec. 15, 1740. He came here about 1762,\\nand settled on the John Knowkon farm; in 1768 he pur-\\nchased the extensive farm and the mills erected by John Chan-\\ndler, which he afterwards increased by other purchases, till it\\nembraced about four hundred acres, covering the whole Sou-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0385.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "356 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nbegan Village and vicinity. He soon after erected a new set\\nof mills near the same spot, to which he afterwards added a\\nMalt house, and soon after an Oil Mill. He was an enter-\\nprizing citizen. He commanded the reinforcement that went\\nto Cambridge on the alarm given at the battle of Bunker\\nHill. He d. Aug. 4, 181.5, se. 16. Ch. Molly, b. 1764, m.\\nJames Barr, a Scotchman by birth, of whom mention has\\nalready been made, as associated in the malting and other\\nprocesses with Mr. Cummings he was a highly respectable\\ncitizen, the father of Dr. James Barr and a large family, who\\nare still extensively connected in town Aaron, b. 1765, d.\\n1766 Matilda, m. T. Wheelock Charles, b. 1770, d. 1809;\\nDiEDAMiA, m. Wm. Prichard Lavina, b. 1774, m. L. Joslin\\nBarnard, d. young.\\nCutter, John, (s. of John,) b. at Lexington 1726, resided\\nseveral years at Shrewsbury, came here about 1767, settled on\\nthe place lately occupied by John Wilson he d. 1771, se. 45.\\nHe m. Susannah Hastings 1749. Ch. John, b. 1750 Joseph,\\nb. 1752; Moses, b. 1754; Benjamin, b. 1756; Susannah, b.\\n1759, m. Supply Wilson Moses, b. 1761 David, b. 1762;\\nRachel, b. 1764; Sally, b. 1766; Rachel, 2d., b. 1769;\\nBenoni, b. 1771, was a physician at Hollis. Mrs. C. m.\\nSimeon Gould; she d. in 1827, se. 96.\\nCutter, Nathan, (brother of the above,) b. 1733. Settled\\non the adjacent farm afterwards removed to the place known\\nas Cutter s Lane, where he d. in 1808, se. 88. Had ch. b.\\nhere: Hannah, b. 1761 Rachel, b. 1763; Barnabas, b. 1766;\\nIsaac, b. 1768 Rhoda, b. 1770.\\nCutter, John, (s. of John,) resided on the farm, and erect-\\ned the house in Bakehouse village, afterwards occupied by\\nRobert Nicholas. He d. 1813, of the spotted fever, se. 63.\\nThe Davis family have been, and are still quite numerous\\nhere. They came from Concord, and are the descendants of\\nDolor Davis, who came from England as early as 1634, was\\nfirst at Cambridge, but afterwards settled at Concord.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0386.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "DAVIS FAMILY. 357\\nDavis Josiah, (s. of Thomas,) was b. at Concord. He set-\\ntled on the place now owned by Mr. Robbins, in the south\\npart of the town, about 1770. He and his son Josiah joined\\nthe church in the great revival in 1786. He m. Abigail Hub-\\nbard, and had a large and highly respectable family, of which\\nonly Lucinda, who m. Jesse Stearns, resides in town.\\nDavis, Jonathan, came here in 1764, and settled in the east\\npart of the town. In September, 1775, Mr. D. was appointed\\nEnsign of the South company his commission is still extant,\\nsigned by Matthew Thornton; President of the Province. Mr\\nD. was engaged in the revolutionary war for a short period\\nBy his wife, Sarah, he had ch. Sarah, b. 1767; Mary, b\\n1769; Lucy, b. 1770; Jonathan, b. 1771; Jonah, b. 1773\\nRuth, b. 1784, (m. Stephen Poor, 1746); Solomon, b. 1776\\nThomas, b. 1781 Rebecca, b. 1784. Mr. Davis d. 1819, se. 77\\nDavis. Solomon, (son of Jonathan,) inherited the paternal\\nfarm was long an officer in the militia, and commanded the\\nSouth company. By his first wife, Mary, he had two child-\\nren, who d. young. She d. 1809, se. 32. He m. 2d, Esther\\nAllen, who d. 1840, leaving no children. He afterwards m.\\nCandace Tarbell, who bore him three children. Capt. Davis\\nd. in 1850, in the house where he was born, se. 74.\\nDavis, Stephen, was here in 1768. By his wife Sarah, he\\nhad Stephen, b. 1775, (m. in 1796 Hepzibah Brown); Amos,\\nb. 1774; Aaron, b. 1776; Moses, b. 1778; Timothy, b. 1781.\\nDavis, Silas, came here in 1768, and settled on the Flat\\nMountain. The country west of him, for many miles, was\\nthen almost an unbroken forest, and well stocked with wild\\nanimals. Mr. D. was a great hunter, and was said to have\\nkilled more wolves previous to 1800 than all the other men\\nin town. In the next twenty years he was as successful in\\ndestroying foxes and other game. His sons, (Joseph, who\\ncarried on the baking business with energy and. success for\\nmany years,) Benjamin, James and Thomas, still reside in town.\\nDavis, Thomas, was taxed here in 1773, and Elijah and\\nAbraham were here in 1778.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0387.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "THE FARRAR FAMILY.\\nConspicuous among the early, though not among the first\\nsettlers of this town, were four members of this family.\\nThey were children of Dea. Samuel Farrar*, of that part\\nof Concord, Mass., which is now Lincoln. He was born\\nSept. 28, 1708, the youngest son of George who first settled\\nin that place in 1692, and great-grand-son of Jacob*, who was\\none of the original proprietors of Lancaster, Mass., in 1653.(*)\\nThough he lived and died on his father s farm in Lincoln,\\nwhere his descendants still live, yet as he was long a freeholder\\nand taxpayer in this town, settled so many of his children\\nhere, and thereby promoted the settlement here of so many of\\nhis townsmen and neighbors, we claim a right to appropriate\\na portion of his character and history. Q He married, Jan.\\n13, 1731-2, Lydia, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Barrett, and\\ngrand-daughter of James Minot, Esq., who was one of the\\nmost distinguished men of his day in Concord. She was\\nborn Aug. 2, 1712, and died in June, 1802, in her 90th year.\\nHe was much interested in public afl airs, frequently serving\\nhis town as Selectman, Town Clerk, Representative, c., and\\nwas a patriot of great zeal, steadiness and perseverance. He\\nwas Selectman of Concord in 1754, when Luicoln was set off\\nand afterwards for many years Town Clerk and Representa-\\ntive of the new town.\\nIn Nov. 1773, he was Chairman of the first Committee of\\nCorrespondence, and afterwards a member of the great Mid-\\ndlesex Convention of Aug. 30, 1774, which led off in the\\nRevolution, by Rrsnlving, among other things of similar\\nimport, That it is our opinion these late acts [of the British\\nSee a Genealogical account of the family in the 6th Vol. N. E. Hist, and Ge-\\nnealogical Register, page 313, for A. D. 1852.\\nSee Shattuck s History of Concord.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0388.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY 359\\nParliament,] if quietly submitted to, will annihilate the last\\nvestige of liberty in this Province, and therefore we must be\\njustified, by God and the world, in never submitting to themy\\nHe was also a member of the first Provincial Congress, which\\nmet Oct. 11, 1774, and at the age of 66 years, took part in\\nthe first battle of the Revolntion, at Concord, Apr. 19, 1775.\\nHe died soon afler the conclusion of the war, Apr. 17, 1783,\\nin the 75th year of his age, having witnessed the establish-\\nment of the independence of his country, and endured the\\nhardships of its acquisition, but leaving to his posterity the\\nenjoyment of the rich inheritance of its blessings.\\nV^/V Cy/Ci^^^^^^^ second son\\n^~T^ Pand third child of Dea.\\nSamuel*, born September 8, 1738, and graduated at Harvard\\nCollege in 1755, with a class which has been considered re-\\nmarkable for the number of its distinguished characters. He\\ncommenced preaching here in the winter of 1758-9, before he\\nwas twenty-one years of age was called to settle in Novem-\\nber 1759, collected and organized a church, and was ordained\\nits first pastor, October 22, 1760. He continued its pastor,\\nand the only minister of the gospel in the place, to the time of\\nhis death.\\nHis connections by marriage, as well as birth, were highly\\nrespectable. Eunice, his wife, (daughter of the late Isaac\\nBrown of Waltham, sister of Moses Brown of Beverly, and\\nof Mary, wife of Ephraim Hartwell, Esq.,) whom he married\\nin 1764, survived him about 9 years, and died Sept. 9, 1818,\\naged 74. Their children were\\n1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Stephen,^ b. Aug. 17, 1766. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eunice, b. Feb. 26,\\n1768. 3. .Tames, b. Jnne 23, 1769. 4. Isaac Brown, b.\\nMarch 27, 1771. 5. Samuel, b. June 20, 1772, grad. Harv.\\n1793. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Prentice, b. Nov. 12, 1773. 7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, b. June\\n26, 1775. 8.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Moses, b. March 12, 1777. 9.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia, b. Dec.\\n30, 1778. 10.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Caleb, b. June, 1780. 11.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nancy, b. Jan.\\n24, 1782. 12.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ephraim Hartwell, b. Dec. 8, 1783.\\nThey all survived him, married, and brought up families of\\ntheir own. Several of them spent portions of their married", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0389.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "360 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nlife here, but Ephraim Hartwell was the only one that spent\\nthe whole. In 1826 he married Phebe Parker, at that time\\nthe widow of Jonas C. Champney, and remained an inhabi-\\ntant here, occupying the farm and last residence of his father,\\ntill he died Jan. 8, 18.51. He served his generation as an\\ninstructor of youth, Town Clerk, and in other civil and\\necclesiastical relations, respected and beloved as a good citi-\\nzen, and a most kind and amiable man. It is said that at this\\ntime, (1852) none of the numerous descendants of the first\\nminister remain in the town. His ministry, extending through\\nhalf a century, was useful, peaceful and happy. His natural\\ntalents were above the ordinary standard.*^ He had a clear\\ndiscernment, sound judgment, and a good knowledge of hu-\\nman character. Decision and firmness were among his most\\nstriking characteristics, yet prudence and moderation held a\\ndistinguished place among the large assemblage of his virtues.\\nHe was distinguished for his early and constant piety, and\\nthe unceasing devotion of his whole soul to the solemn duties\\nof his charge. As a Theologian he was a Calvinist as a\\npreacher evangelical and pathetic. As a man, his manners\\nof eminent gravity and dignity, were tempered to urbanity by\\nchristian benevolence. In his private deportment, as well as\\nin his public ministrations, he never failed to manifest a deep\\nsense of the majesty and holiness of God, and the value of\\nthe gospel scarce anything can be conceived more solemn\\nthan his devotional addresses. One who knew him well, has\\nsaid of him, I have known no man, the recollection of\\nwhose moral, intellectual, and personal qualities, rests with so\\nmuch power on my mind, as forming a character so truly\\nvenerable and becoming a father and apostle in the church.\\nSanctity of manners, devotion to God, and benevolence to\\nman, were the great leading traits of his character. The\\nextent of his influence in promoting the settlement of this\\ntown may be inferred not only from its rapid progress after he\\ncame, but from the number of his personal connections, and\\n\u00c2\u00bbFor several years in Boston. See p. 320.\\nbPanoplist, 1811. N. H. Hist. Collections.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Boston Patriot, 1809. Funeral\\nSermon, by Dr. Payson, 1809.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0390.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY. 361\\nformer townsmen, who followed him here. His influence on\\nthe general character and respectability of the town, may he\\ninferred, perhaps with less certainty, from the number of dis-\\ntinguished men it contained, the progress of education and\\nimprovement, and the moral and conservative principles and\\nconduct of the people during the fifty years of his connection\\nwith them.\\nHe preached to his own people on his last Sabbath, and his\\nlife and ministerial labor were suddenly terminated together,\\nby apoplexy, on the 23d day of June, 1S09. The Rev. Dr.\\nPayson, of Rindge, preached his funeral sermon, which was\\npublished, from the text, Devout men carried Stephen to his\\nburial, and made great lamentation over him. The town\\ntook charge of his funeral, and placed over his grave a plain\\nmarble slab, which, besides the usual memorials, contains the\\nfollowing inscription, which has been admired for its touching\\nsimplicity.\\nTHE PEOPLE OF HIS CHARGE\\nLEAVE THIS STONE\\nTO MARK THE PLACE\\nWHERE THEY HAVE LAID HIM.\\nAbout two years after his decease,^ the Rev. Dr. Payson,\\nwho, on entering the ministry, had received the charge from\\nhim, was called upon to deliver the charge at the ordination\\nof Mr. Farrar s successor. After an appropriate introduction,\\nhe proceeded to transmit the same charge which had been\\ndelivered to him. The circumstance had a powerful effect on\\nthe mind of the speaker, and the manner in which it was used\\nmade it no less powerful on the hearers. Standing in his\\nplace, and speaking his words, he seemed to exhibit their ven-\\nerated pastor from the grave, instructing his youthful succes-\\nsor how to break the bread of life to his people.\\nThe only publications from the press, to which he is known\\nto have given his name, are a sermon preached at the inter-\\nment of the Rev. Mr. Dix of Townsend, and several charges\\ndelivered at the ordinations of his brethren in the ministry.\\nJames,* the third son and fourth child of Dea. Samuel, was\\nborn July 24, 1741. He came to this town after his brother s\\nN. H. Historical Collections,\\n46", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0391.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "362 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nordination, and after coming of age in 1762, and settled as a\\nfarmer, on the place where his yonnger brother afterwards\\nlived. His deed is dated October 15th, 1762. He cleared a\\nportion of this farm, and commenced the present buildings\\nupon it, A view of the house is presented on the next page.\\nIt is not known to whose right the lot No. in the 8th range,\\non which the buildings stand, fell, in the division among the\\nProprietors of the Massachusetts Grant, or whether any\\ndwelling-house was erected upon it. But it is known that\\nsome improvements were made, and that the first meeting-\\nhouse and burying-ground were located on either side of the\\nroad, on the top of the hill, eastwardly of the dwelling-house,\\nand in the neighborhood of the solitary hemlock, which\\nremains the only survivor of the ancient forest that covered\\nthe hill. That meeting-house was burnt some years before\\nthe New Hampshire grant was made, but it has not been\\nascertained precisely when it was built. The building of it\\nwas required, as a condition in the Massachusetts Grant,\\nwhich became utterly void, by the running of the New Hamp-\\nshire line in 1741. It is not probable, therefore, that the\\ngrantees would be at any expense to perform the condition\\nafter that time. James died July 11, 1767, in his 26th year,\\nand unmarried. It is inscribed on his grave-stone that\\nHe was a pious youth.\\nThe inhabitants had manifested their confidence in him, by\\nelecting him to many responsible ofiices in the town, and at\\ntime of his premature death he was surveyor of highways,\\nand a member of the committee for building the third meeting-\\nhouse, which was completed in 1769.\\nRebecca,* the fifth child of Dea. Samuel, was born Aug.\\n13, 1743, and married Doctor John Preston of this town, Nov.\\n29, 1764. She outlived her husband, and died April 1, 1829,\\nin her 86th year. Her history, with that of her husband and\\nnumerous family, belongs, more appropriately, to the head of\\ntheir family name, to which the reader is referred.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0392.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY.\\n36:\\nt/^ X7^(Xn^ the fourth and youngest son, and\\nseventh child of Dea. Samuel, was born June 2S, 1747, old\\nstyle/ He passed the years of his childhood and youth on\\nhis father s farm and at the schools in Concord, till the year\\n1763, when he entered Harvard College, where he was grad-\\nuated in 1787. The two following years he passed in teach-\\ning schools in Concord and Lincoln, which had now become\\na separate town, and Framingham. The Hon. John Locke,\\nlate member of Congress from Middlesex, now of Boston,\\nsays he went to school to him in Framingham in 1769. In\\nthe same capacity of school teacher, he came to this tov/n in\\n1770, and his name first appears on the tax list in October of\\nthat year. The next spring the town voted to employ an Eng-\\nlish schoolmaster for nine months of the year, and to raise\\nmoney to build school-houses in the several districts. When\\nthis was done, the practice was to dispense with a central\\nGrammar school, and employ him to teach in all the districts\\nin succession, allowing all the Grammar scholars to follow\\nhim into them. In this manner the Enslish scholars com-\\nSee Shattuck s Hist. Concord Mr. Clary s Centennial Discourse, 1847\\nRev. Mr. Lee s Funeral Sermon Gen. Reg. 1850.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0393.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "364 FAMILY HISTORY.\\npleted their education, and those intended for college pursued\\ntheir preparatory studies. In 1771 he became a freeholder,\\nand in 1773 the owner of the entire farm on which he lived,\\nincluding part of No. 1 in the 7th range, the whole of No. 1\\nin the 8th range, and part of No. 1 in the 9th range, or the\\nJo. Kidder lot, as it was called.\\nThe farm and the schools divided his attention, till the\\nchange of government at the Revolution threw him into wider\\nand more public responsibilities, to the exclusion of the latter.\\nHe never received an appointment of any sort from the King s\\ngovernment, nor is it known that he ever came directly in\\ncontact with it, till, in 1773, he Avas appointed by the town\\nChairman of a Committee to inquire into certain proceedings\\nof the magistrates, sitting in the Court of Sessions for the\\ncounty, in the case of John Holland, a deputy sheriff or jailor,\\nwho had suffered the escape of Joseph Kelley, a prisoner in\\nhis custody; and the Court of Sessions, which included all the\\nKing s justices of the peace in the county, had undertaken to\\ncharge the damages upon the county, and apportioned the\\namount to the several towns. The claim agamst this town\\nwas \u00c2\u00a378.3.2; and in August this Committee was appointed\\nand instructed to inquire into the cause of the grant, and\\nto confer with similar committees from other towns. In Octo-\\nber following, the same Committee were further directed to\\npetition the General Court on the subject. No redress, how-\\never, was obtained, and the controversy went on, till, on\\nMarch 13th, 1775, the town voted that they would not pay it;\\nand the matter was consequently merged and decided with\\nthe other controversies of the Revolution.\\nFrom March 1774 to March 1775, he was first Selectman\\nand Town Clerk. During this year, several other important\\nmeasures were adopted. In regard to representation in the\\nlegislature, which they had assiduously sought for several\\nyears, they voted not to petitioji for the privilege any longer,\\nbut in December they passed the following Resolution\\nThat it is the opinion of this town that Representation is\\nabsolutely necessary to legal taxation, or legislation and this\\ntown has for a number of years been taxed to the Province,\\nand has had no voice in legislation, which is a great griev-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0394.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "0^7-\\nef^-vr^^w^sT^", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0397.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0398.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY. 365\\nance; and, in order to obtain redress, that the Selectmen do\\nforward a petition and remonstrance to his Excellency onr\\nGovernor, that we may enjoy those privileges which are es-\\nsential to the British Constitntion and that they call npon\\nthe adjacent towns to adopt the like measures, and endeavor\\nthat the nnrepresented towns come into similar measures\\nthroughout the Province. In January they chose a Dele-\\ngate to the Provincial Congress, to meet at Exeter on the 25th,\\nand elect Delegates for the Province to the Continental Con-\\ngress, to meet at Philadelphia May 10th; and at the same\\ntime instructed their Delegate to use his endeavors that the\\nProvince be put in a state of defence.\\nOn the memorable 19th of April, 1775, when the alarm was\\ngiven that the British had marched out of Boston towards\\nConcord, he, with his neighbors, seized his musket and march-\\ned to meet them. They were without commissions, and\\nwithout military organization, for all military as well as civil\\nauthority was then in the hands of the King s officers. Hear-\\ning, before they arrived at Concord, that the British had re-\\nturned to Boston, well pursued, he returned home. In this\\ntown, the last precept issued In His Majesty s Name, was\\nthe one calling the annual meeting in March 1775 and after\\ntaking up arms, the last vestige of royal authority soon ceas-\\ned throughout the Province.\\nDuring this year Mr. F. received two commissions on the\\nsame day, one that of a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,\\nand the other that of Major of the forces to be raised for the\\ndefence of the Province, with an urgent request that he would\\naccept the civil office, that being the most difficult to fill,\\nmainly on account of the lack of compensation, and of chances\\nfor promotion. This he did, and in a letter to a friend, under\\ndate of Nov. 27, 1834, he writes In the autumn of 1775, a\\nCourt of Common Pleas, and Court of General Sessions of the\\nPeace, was organized, (of which I was a member and held\\ntheir sessions at Amherst at the times appointed by law, from\\nthat time to the present. Some of the Courts were held with-\\nBoth Courts were held in the same week, Thursday being Sessions day; and\\nthe usage was for the Common Fleas judges to sit as magistrates in the Sessions\\nCourt.-^ED.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0399.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "366 FAMILY HISTOUY.\\nout the attendance of any one member of the Bar, at others\\ntwo or three would attend/ But as bushiess was as scarce\\nas attorneys, there was httle or no suffering for want of advo-\\ncates to plead their causes, by any who had either occasion or\\ninclination to litigation. Under what authority this was\\ndone, does not appear. The Provincial Congress at Exeter,\\nand the Committee of Safety, who in the recess exercised the\\nsame powers, made both military and civil appointments dur-\\ning this year and a county congress for Hillsborough, which\\nconvened at Amherst May 24th, and in which this town was\\nrepresented till October 27th, may have done the same thing.\\nThe Provincial Congress early applied to the Continental Con-\\ngress for advice in regard to the mode of civil government.\\nThis, however, was not obtained till Nov. 3d. The elections,\\nin conformity to it, were made early in December, and the\\nnew Convention met at Exeter Dec. 21. They adopted the\\ntemporary Constitution Jan. 5th, 1776, resolved themselves\\ninto a House of Representatives, and chose twelve persons\\nto constitute a distinct branch of the Legislature, under the\\nname of a Council. After this all public officers were ap-\\npointed by the two Houses and on the 24th of the same\\nmonth they made one hundred and fifty-three civil appoint-\\nments, including twenty-nine judges; and among them, and\\nprobably the youngest on the list, was Mr. F., then twenty-\\neight years of age, appointed or confirmed as Judge of the\\nCourt of Common Pleas, under the temporary Constitution.\\nThis judicial appointment, accompanied probably with a com-\\nmission of the Peace, carried with it all the duties of a local\\nmagistracy for that part of the county, in both civil and crim-\\ninal cases. The following letter, from a Judge of the Supreme\\nCourt of Massachusetts, may indicate something of the man-\\nner of doing this kind of business during the war.\\nGroton, loth July, 1780.\\nSir You have now in custody in your place one J. D., of this\\ntown, who is suspected of having been concerned in passing coun-\\nterfeit money, and as his being sent into this Government may be\\nOnly three, Atlierton, Champney, and Claggett, resided in the county, two\\nof whom were Tories. Ed,\\nAnd no military", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0400.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY. 367\\nconducive of detecting- others more attrociously guilty than himself,\\nI shall take it as a favor that he may be sent by the person who de-\\nlivers this. He shall be so well secured here, that he shall be lia-\\nble to the justice of your State at any time.\\nI am, Sir, your very humble servant,\\nJames Sullivan.\\nTimothy Farrar, Esq.\\nFrom April 177S to May 20, 1782, when he resigned, he\\nwas a member of the Convention for forming a new Constitu-\\ntion, and one of the committee to draft the instrument and\\nfrom 1779 he was one of the memorable th irtij-two councillors,\\ntill the new Constitution went into operation, in June 1784,\\nby which Judges were excluded from the Legislature.\\nIn the midst of the war, Oct. 14, 1779, he married Anna\\nBancroft, daughter of Capt. Edmund Bancroft of Peppercll,\\nand sister of the late Dr. Amos Bancroft of Groton. This\\nconnection was altogether respectable, appropriate and happy.\\nCapt. Bancroft was an independent and successful farmer,\\nand also, like Dea. F., had been a member of the famous\\nMiddlesex Convention of August 30, 1774, of the Provincial\\nCongress of 1776, and held divers other offices evincing the\\nconfidence of his fellow-citizens while the daughter possess-\\ned all those personal attractions and accomplishments neces-\\nsary for an affectionate and confiding wife, and a faithful and\\ndevoted mother.\\nA heavy affliction, hovvever, awaited them in the loss of\\ntheir first child, a lovely daughter of near five years of age.\\nShe was born March 1, 1785, and died on Saturday, Oct. 17,\\n1789. Notwithstanding the crushing severity of this disci-\\npline, they did not shut themselves up to inordinate grief, but\\nrather, on the morrow, being the first day of the week, follow-\\ned the submissive example of God s ancient servant, who,\\nin similar circumstances, arose and washed himself, and\\nchanged his apparel, and came unto the house of God, and\\nworshipped. The stone that marks her resting-place, by the\\nside of her uncle James, in the Hill burying-ground, bears this\\nsorrowful, but hopeful inscription\\nFarewell, sweet child, we part in pain,\\nBut we shall live to meet again.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0401.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "368 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nAbout this time, in addition to the duties of his farm and\\nthe Judiciary, he was much interested in laying the founda-\\ntions of the Academy, e of which the history has been given in\\nanother place; and in the measures for forming and adopting\\nthe (Constitution of the United States, and organizing the Gov-\\nernment under it. In March 1791, he was appointed to the\\nBench of the Supreme Court. He sent in his resignation in\\n1796, but on the urgent and unanimous sohcitation of the Gov-\\nernor and Council, afterwards withdrew it, and on Feb. 22d,\\n1802, was appointed Chief Justice of that court. Having de-\\ntermined, however, to leave that Bench as soon as satisfactory\\narrangements could be made, he did not accept the office,\\nthough he continued to preside in the Court till Judge Smith\\nconsented to take it. This was signified to him in the follow-\\ning letter\\nPeterborough, 2 August, 1802.\\nDear Sir I have consulted with my friends in this place, and\\nat length have determined to accept the office of Chief Justice for\\nthe present. I can truly say, that I have never, in the course of my\\nlife, formed a resolution with so much reluctance, and I feel as if I\\nshould repent it. I mention this, that I may avoid the charge of\\nfickleness, in case I should soon quit it.\\nI am, with sincere esteem and regard.\\nDear Sir, your friend and obedient servant,\\nJudge Farrar. Jeremiah Smith.\\nJudge Farrar finally resigned his seat in that Court in the\\nsucceeding April, and accepted a reappointment to the Bench\\nof the Court of Common Pleas in his own county, where he\\npresided till 1813.\\nIn this Court, soon after this time, two incidents occurred,\\nwhich are rendered interesting by reason of their connection\\nwith the most distinguished son of New Hampshire. Mr.\\nWebster was a native of this county,* and in this Court re-\\nceived his first civil appointment, while a student at law, and\\nhere also made his first professional effort, immediately after\\nhe came to the Bar in 1805. The first was the occasion of\\nthe following letter to the Chief Justice\\nThe original obligation, by which he and others bound their estates for the\\nexpense in 1787, is still in existence in his handwriting. See ante, p. 197.\\nMerriiiiac county was not constituted till 1823.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0402.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY. 369\\nSalisbury, July 12, 1S04.\\nTimothy Farrar, Esq.: Instances of favors conferred some-\\ntimes occur, in which it is not a little difficult to determine whether\\na respectful silence or an open acknowledgment is most likely to be\\nwell received by him who has obliged us. But though it may be\\nuncertain whether we ought to speak, it is yet sometimes difficult\\nto be silent, when kind things are done in a kiiid manner.\\nMy honored father informed me, that on an expected vacancy in\\nthe Clerkship of the Court of Common Pleas in this County, you\\nwere pleased to mention my name to the Court as a candidate for\\nthat office. I should be happy, if on this occasion, I could express\\nmy gratitude in terms not likely to ofiend against the delicacy of\\nyour feelings. I confess I was gratified, as well as surprised, by\\nthis unexpected mark of distinction; particularly so, as I have not\\nthe honor of much acquaintance with you, and am destitute of\\nmany of those aids, which make young men known in the world,\\nbeyond the sphere of their personal friends.\\nOffice and emolument have, as I hope, their just and no more\\nthan their just estimation in my mind but aside from the consid-\\neration of these, and though I should never, in this case, possess\\nthem, the nomination will add something to my happiness, as I\\nshall be the better pleased with myself, for having been thought\\nworthy an office of trust and confidence by Judge Farrar.\\nI am, sir, with high respect,\\nyour humble servant,\\nDaniel Webster.\\nHon Timothy Farrar, New Ipswich, N. H.\\nThe second is related substantially in Loring s Boston\\nOrators, as follows\\nAt his first term, Mr. W. had no case for trial, that rendered it\\nnecessary for him to address the court, but he had an important mo-\\ntion to make, not in the order of the docket, for w^hich he had made\\nelaborate preparation. Not being familiar with the course of busi-\\nness, and having seen no favorable opportunity to introduce and\\nargue his motion, after waiting the whole term, till the court stood\\non its adjournment, he rose, and stated to the court, that he had\\nhoped for an opportunity to bring his motion before them, and had\\nprepared himself to argue it, but that he now saw there was no\\ntime for the purpose. Nevertheless, he was unwilling to omit alto-\\ngether acquainting the court with his case. With this introduction,\\nhe proceeded to make a short statement of the circumstances of\\nhis case, and the remedy for which he had proposed to call upon\\nthe court but, at that stage of the business, he would not under-\\ntake to argue it, though he had prepared himself for the purpose.\\n47", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0403.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "370 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nWhen he had resumed his seat, the chief-justice, turning to his\\nassociates, remarked, in an undertone, which was, however, over-\\nheard, That young man s statement is a most unanswerable argu-\\nment, and immediately granted his motion. Mr. Webster has\\nbeen frequently heard to remark that this incident has had a marked\\ninfluence on his efforts in after life. It suggested to him the im-\\nportance of clear statement, and the use of a plain style in discus-\\nsion.\\nMr. Webster imbibed in early youth, from his father, the high-\\nest degree of respect for Judge Farrar. Judge Farrar, the late\\nJudge Jeremiah Smith, Col. Eobert Means, and Col. John Orr,\\nwere among the citizens of the County whom Judge Webster most\\nrespected, and taught his son to respect. Of Judge Farrar, Mr.\\nWebster has often said, that he never knew a Judge of a more\\ncalm, dispassionate, and impartial character a better listener to a\\ndiscussion or a man more anxious to discover the truth, and to do\\njustice. In these traits of character he thought him very much to\\nresemble the late Chief Justice Marshall.\\nIn reference to another trait of his character, it may be proper\\nhere to insert a remark of Mr. Webster s old instructor in the law,\\nthe late Thomas W. Thompson, for several years a Senator in\\nCongress. Speaking of his firmness and courage under difficulties\\nand opposition, Mr. Thompson remarked, that in case of clearly\\nascertained right and duty, he never knew a man that would march\\nright up to the cannon s mouth and stand his ground in defiance of\\nconsequences, like Judge Farrar.\\nIn 1813, on a reorganization of the Courts, the three coun-\\nties of Rockingham, Strafford and Hillsborough were brought\\ninto one Common Pleas circuit, and Judge F. was appointed\\nChief Justice for the Eastern circuit. In 1816, on a political\\nrevolution, a different organization of the Courts was effected,\\nin which he declined to enlist, and thereby retired from his\\nconnection with the Judiciary, after a continuous service of\\nmore than forty years.\\nIn the mean time, he had been four times elected a member\\nof the Board of Electors of President and Vice President of the\\nUnited States, and in 1804 was appointed a Trustee of Dart-\\nmouth College, which office he sustained for over twenty\\nyears. While in this office, he and his associates had the\\nhonor of presenting a steady, persevering and successful oppo-\\nsition to the unconstitutional and oppressive legislation, that\\nsought to subject the property and franchises of that Institu-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0404.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY. 371\\ntion to the purposes of political partizanship and of thereby\\nvindicating and establishing, before the highest tribunal of\\nthe nation, the inviolability of the chartered rights of this and\\nsimilar Institutions, for all coming time. He was repeatedly\\nnominated and urged to become a candidate for the Congress\\nof the United States, and for Governor of this State and in\\nMarch 1S17, Avas actually chosen, without his consent, to the\\nState Legislature.* These honors he respectfully, but decid-\\nedly declined, and devoted himself exclusively to domestic\\noccupations.\\nHis surviving children, a son and three daughters, had now-\\nbeen emancipated, and all but the youngest had finally quit\\nthe paternal mansion. But a sorer bereavement awaited him\\nin the irreparable loss of their excellent and benevolent\\nmother. While on a visit to her third daughter, Anna, wife\\nof the Rev. Joseph W. Clary, of Dover, she died suddenly,\\nMay 1, 1817, commending, in her dying breath, her absent\\nand affectionate husband to the consolations of the Holy\\nSpirit. She lies interred in the Cemetery at Dover, and beside\\nher have since been laid her daughter Anna, her son-in-law,\\nthe Rev. Mr. Clary, and two grand-children, William Clary\\nand Horace Hall.\\nThus, at the age of threescore years and ten, his home liad\\nbecome desolate, and its appurtenances, to him. useless. He\\nhad neither the assistants necessary to enable him to use them,\\nnor the dependencies necessary to stimulate, by participating\\nin, the enjoyment of them. It remained for him, therefore, to\\ndivest himself of all those material accumulations, which it had\\nbeen the business of his life to make, for the support, employ-\\nment, and happiness of his family, and which had now be-\\ncome mere incumbrances. This object was effected by degrees\\nin the course of a few succeeding years.\\nHe now divided his time among his descendants and friends,\\nemploying his leisure to feed and store his mind from books,\\ns Dartmouth College case. College v. Woodward, (9 Wlieaton s Rep.)\\nThe Hon. Timothy Farrar was chosen to represent the town in the Gene-\\nral Court, who, after a very interesting and pathetic address to the town, declin-\\ned serving. [Town Records, March 11, 1817.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0405.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "372 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nand blessing his children and grand-children with the counsels\\nof wisdom, and the practical exhibition of that benignity,\\ncheerfulness and enjoyment, which are the result and reward\\nof a life of piety and virtue.\\nWhen the infirmities of age, and the desire of repose ren-\\ndered journeymg irksome to him, he took up his abode with\\nhis youngest daughter, Eliza, and her husband^ Dr. Scripture\\nof Hollis. Thus, narrowing his circle only as necessity sug-\\ngested, resigning one source of pleasure and activity after an-\\nother, not by the neglect or nonuser of any of his faculties,\\nbut only as power ceased, he gradually retired, not only with-\\nout repining, but cheerfully and contentedly, to the cultivation,\\npreservation and enjoyment of what remained, till the re-\\nmaining purposes of his long, useful and happy life were ac-\\ncomplished. He never ceased to enjoy life himself, or to add\\nto the enjoyment of others, while life lasted uniformly prac-\\ntising those virtues that are the means of preserving and pro-\\nlonging the faculties of body and soul, and affording an exam-\\nple of the calm and peaceful resignation, and Christian hope,\\nwith which, by the grace of God, the soul may watch and\\ncontemplate the certain and near approach of the last scene\\nof life, and enter upon the realities of Faith beyond. About\\ntwenty years before his death, he had prefaced his last Will\\nand Testament with these memorable and significant words,\\nwritten with his own hand. Daily reminded by the great\\nage to which I have arrived, and the consequent infirmities\\nof that period of life, of the mortality of my body, and that\\nthe time of my departure is at hand and entertaining a good\\nhope, through grace, of a better resurrection, and a glorious\\nimmortality, I do, c.\\nHe attained the age of one hundred and one years, seven\\nmonths, and twelve days, surviving all his collegiate cotcm-\\nporaries, and all the ante-revolutionary graduates of Har-\\nvard College the one hundred and fifty-three officers of the\\ncivil list in 1776 the memorable thirty-two Councillors\\nof the Revolution and it is believed all his associates in the\\nConvention for forming the first Constitution of 1784.\\nAn unadorned marble block, by his grave, on Elder Path,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0406.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "FARRAR FAMILY.\\n373\\nNo. 1182, in Mount Auburn Cemetery\\ninscription\\nHon. Timothy Farrar, LL. D.,\\nBorn June 28, 1747.\\nFor more than 40 successive years\\nfrom 1775,\\nhe sustained the office of Judge\\nin the Supreme and Com. Pleas Courts\\nof the State of New Hampshire.\\nBlessed by a kind Providence\\nwith a sound mind, health, honor,\\nand length of days,\\nhe maintained with meekness and firmness,\\nthe pure character\\nof his Christian profession\\nwith uniform kindness and tenderness,\\nthe ties of conjugal and parental affection;\\nwith impartial and enlightened justice,\\nthe dignity of his official station.\\nSatisfied with long life, and worldly good,\\nand entertaining a good hope, through grace,\\nof a better resurrection,\\nand a glorious immortality,\\non the 21st day of February, 1849,\\nhe yielded up his soul\\nto God who gave it.\\nHe was a just man, and feared God.\\nAlas, my Father 1\\nbears the following", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0407.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "374 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nFletcher, Francis, b. in Concord came about 1760 settled\\non the farm since owned by Dea. James Davis (N.D. 58), then,\\nhke the rest of that part of the town, an unbroken forest. He\\ncommanded a company in the militia for some years. He\\nmade one of the large number of our townsmen that was at\\nthe capture of Burgoyne, and lost a valuable horse while on\\nthat service. He died in 1797, ee. 62. His mother, widow\\nAbigail Fletcher, died in this place in 1788, se. 88. His ch.\\nMary, b. 1761 Jonathan, b. 1764; Ephraim, b. 1766; Sarah,\\nb. 1770 Joshua, b. 1772 Francis, b. 1775 Lydia, b. 1776.\\nFletcher, Thomas, (s. of Francis of Concord, and brother\\nof the above,) was here in 1754, and purchased of Abijah\\nFoster the farm, now owned by Mr. Joseph Davis. The\\nhouse is not now standing in which he resided. He was an\\nindustrious and wealthy farmer. In 1770 he commanded the\\nonly military company in town, numbering about one hundred\\nrank and file. He d. March 17, 1811, as. 82. His wife, Es-\\nther, d. 1812, 86. 83. Ch. Thomas, b. 1760 Esther, b. 1762,\\nd. 1783; Abigail, b. 1765; Anna, b. 1768; Benjamin, b. 1771.\\nThomas m. Betsey Hoar 1788, who. d. 1802, se. 38 he d.\\n1813, ge. 53.\\nFletcher, Peter, brother of the foregoing, was here about\\n1762. His wife s name was Ruth. Ch. Dorothy, b. 1763;\\nRuth, b. 1765; Peter, b. 1768; Ebenezer, b. 1770; David,\\nb. 1772; Submit, 1774; James, 1778, d. 1778; Lydia, 1781.\\nFletcher, Simeon, came here from Westford about 1765\\nhis farm was the one now owned by Dr. Gibson, on which he\\nwas probably the first settler. He was instantly killed by the\\nfalling of the frame of Wilton meeting-house, which he was\\nassisting to raise, Sept. 7th, 1773. Some of his descendants\\nstill reside in town.\\nFletcher, Josiah, (son of Thomas.) He erected the house\\nnow owned by Mr. Joseph Davis, in which he kept a store\\nand tavern. He carried on the Pearlash business for some\\nyears. He removed to Goshen, N. H.\\nBy a first marriage he had two children. His wife Grace", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0408.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "FLETCHER FAMILY. 375\\nd. in 1789. He m. 2d, Rachel Walton, in 1790, by whom he\\nhad eight children.\\nFletcher, John, b. in Concord, where he served his time\\nwith Joseph Adams at the cooper s trade. Came to this town\\nabout 1758 m. in 1759, Elizabeth Foster, dau. of Abijah\\nFoster, the first settler, and she was the first female child born\\nin town. He settled near what has been called the Hodgkin s\\ncorner, about half a mile southwest of the meeting-house\\nwhere he built a house and planted an orchard. He was killed\\nby the falling of a tree, near his own house^ Jan. 14, 1763.\\nThe family were attracted to the spot by the peculiar noise\\nmade by a cat which came into the house. His ch. Joseph,\\nb. 1763, d. when he was nineteen years old.\\nFletcher, Ebenezer, (son of John,) b. 1762, m. Mary Cum-\\nmings. Ch., Ebenezer, d. in Cornish; John, d. in Michigan;\\nPolly, m. Peter Felt, d. in Illinois; Cummings d. at Enos-\\nburg, Vt. Betsey, m. Ralph Roby, d. in Boston Sally, now\\nliving in town Nancy, m. Thomas Davis Dexter, resides\\nin Stoddard Roby resides in town.\\nWhen Mr. F. was fourteen years old, he went to live with\\nSamuel Cummings, who built and then owned the mills in\\nMill Village, where he remained two years, when, in 1777, he\\nenlisted, as a fifer, in the regiment commanded by Col. Nathan\\nHale (of Rindge), and in Capt. Carr s company. Of this\\ncompany Pelatiah Whittemore and Jeremiah Pritchard, both\\nof this town, were lieutenants, and quite a number of the sol-\\ndiers were also from this town they were what were called\\nthree-years men. The regiment marched to Ticonderoga and\\nfor some time made a part of the garrison at that fort but on\\nthe approach of Burgoyne, the American army retreated till\\nthey were overtaken at Hubbardston, where a sharp action\\ntook place, in which Mr. Fletcher was severely wounded and\\ntaken prisoner. After remaining with the British a few\\nweeks, and partially recovering from his wounds, he contrived\\nto escape, and after severe trials in the woods and among the\\nmountains, without food or company, he reached the house of\\na friend, where he staid some days, till he was able to return", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0409.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "376 TAMILY HISTORY.\\nhome. After he had sufficiently recovered from his womids,\\nhe served the remainder of his time in the army, and was\\nunder Gen. SulUvan, in his campaign against the Indians in\\nthe Genessee country. After his return liome. he purchased\\nthe miUs of his father-in-law, and carried them on very suc-\\ncessfully for a long period. His first wife died in 1812 he\\nafterwards married a Mrs. Foster of Ashby, who still survives.\\nMany years since, Mr. F. published a Narrative of his Captiv-\\nity and Sufferings. It was well written, and passed through\\nfour editions; it is now a very rare book. He also left a MS.\\nof a dozen pages, containing many facts relative to the early\\nhistory of the town and the Revolution, and from these this\\narticle has principally been compiled. He died May 8, 1831,\\nse. 70 years. His wife d. 1812, ge. 53.\\n(Z^ ja^ycfLQ4^^\\nwas from Ipswich he was great\\ngrandson of Reginald Foster,\\nwho came to New England in 1638, and with his five sons\\nsettled at Ipswich. He was of a very respectable family of\\nExeter in England, and died at Ipswich in extreme old age.\\nAbijah Foster was born in 1710, and no doubt was sent\\nhere in the employ of the Ipswich Grantees. His was the\\nfirst family which came here, and he nuist be regarded as the\\nfirst settler in town, but it is not so easy to fix the time of\\nhis advent. After a very thorough examination of the records\\nof Ipswich, and almost everything that could throw any light\\non the subject, it would seem that his location here was in the\\nspring of 1738. It is certain he was there in the fall of 1736,\\nand was not there in the fall of 1738. He was accompanied\\nby his wife and daughter. He undoubtedly had his choice of\\na lot for a farm, and fixed on what was known for a long\\ntime as the Hills Farm, a considerable part of which is now\\noccupied by Joseph Barrett, Esq. His house, which was\\nbuilt of logs, stood near the present Bank building; the old\\ncellar hole was visible within a few years.\\nMr. Foster was a man of an unsettled disposition he dis-\\nposed of his farm in 1750 to Joseph Bates, and removed to\\nwhat was formerly known as the Fletcher Farm, now owned", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0410.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "FOX FAMILY. 377\\nby Mr. Joseph Davis some vestiges of his cellar still remain.\\nThis farm he disposed of, in 1755, to Capt. Thomas Fletcher,\\nand removed his family to the land now owned by Caleb\\nCampbell. His house there, stood a few rods east of Mr.\\nCampbell s barn the site of it can still be traced.\\nMr. Foster was in town in June 1758; but either in that or\\nthe succeeding year he enlisted in the army then employed in\\na campaign against the French and Indians; he was accom-\\npanied by his eldest son Ebenezer, the first child born in town,\\nwho was then about nineteen years old. While the army\\nwas encamped near Crown Point, they both took the small-\\npox, and died. His widow continued to reside in the house\\nhe last erected, for many years. She joined the Rev. Mr. Far-\\nrar s church in the great revival in 1786, and was baptized by\\nimmersion at her request. It is supposed she removed from\\ntown with her son Daniel.\\nMr. Foster m. at Ipswich, Dec. 13, 1733, Mary Knowlton.\\nCh. Mary, b. in Ipswich, Aug. 1736 Ebenezer, b. here pro-\\nbably in 1739, d. 1759; Elizabeth, b. probably in 1741, m.\\n1st, John Fletcher 1759, 2d, m. William Hodgkins had six\\nchildren, d. Feb. 27, 1800, as. 60.\\nSamuel m. Tabitha Hodgkins he built a small house in\\nMill Village was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and d.\\nin the service 1780. Daniel, was a soldier in the Revolution\\nfor three years was a carpenter, and built the house now\\nowned by Mrs. Obear he removed, about 1802, to Pakersfield.\\nnow Nelson. Ephraim resided with his mother, but during\\nthe Revolution enlisted for three years was brought home at\\nthe expense of the town, and soon after died. Hepsey, b.\\n1759, m. June 2, 1791, Isaac Appleton, d. 1839.\\nFox, Timothy, (s. of John,) came here from Littleton in\\n1765, purchased lot No. 1, range 12, lying south of the present\\nBakehouse village, on which he erected a small house but\\nabout 1770, he removed to the land where his grandson now\\nresides [XII. 3.], the present residence of the family, which\\nhe afterwards built. He m. Abigail. Ch.\\nTimothy, b. 1764; Nabby, b. 1766, m. Edmund Briant, Jr.,\\n48", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0411.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "378 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nd. 1792; Jonathan, b. 1769; Peter, b. 1771 Samuel, b. 1773;\\nJohn, b. 1774; Sarah, b, 1776; Lucretia, b. 1778, m. John\\nBinney, d. 1841 Zedekiah, b. 1780 Lucy, b. 1782, m.\\nWorcester of Stoddard. He d. 1827, se. 86 she d. 1808.\\nFox, Capt. Timothy, (s. of Timothy,) resided on the farm\\nwhere his father had lived and died. For a number of\\nyears he commanded the South Company, was for a long pe-\\nriod selectman, and often held other town offices. He pos-\\nsessed a very cool, discriminating judgment, which was often\\nused for the benefit of his townsmen. He was a good farmer\\nand an honest man. He m. in 1787, Ruth, dau. of Joseph\\nPollard. Ch.\\nRuth, b. 1788, d. 1813; Mary, b. 1790, d. 1808; Clarissa,\\nb. 1791, d. 1803; Nabby, b. 1798, m. John F. Hills Timothy,\\nb. 1795 Marinda, b. 1797, d. 1798 Rowena, b. 1799, m.\\nLewis Epps. Mrs. Ruth Fox d. 1801, as. 34. Wife Sally,\\ndau. of Samuel Bartlett, d. 1803, ae. 27. He m. in 1807 Han-\\nnah Flint, of Lincoln. Ch. Catherine, b. 1808, d. 1811\\nEmily, b. 1809, m. Lieut. J. F. Miller, U. S. N., d. 1846; Eph-\\nraim F., b. 1814; George, b. 1816; Caroline H., b. 1819, m.\\nJames F. Miller.\\nFox, Timothy, (son of Capt. Timothy,) b. 1795, was well\\neducated, and spent the earlier part of his life in teaching;\\nhe afterwards traded for several years in the Barrett store, at\\nMechanics Corner, as it was sometimes called and in\\n1837, he, with his brother-in-law, Lewis Epps, and one or\\ntwo others, purchased a township in Iowa, most of the early\\nsettlers of which went from this town. It is now the thriving\\ntown of Denmark, near Fort Madison. He m. Elizabeth\\nSmith of Peterborough.\\nJohn G owing, (or Going,) from Reading, came here during\\nthe Revolution, and purchased the farm near Mill Village,\\nowned by John Brooks. He d. 1805. se. 87. His only son\\nJohn, resided on the same place he d. 1831, se. 78, and\\nhad one son, Noah, who now lives on the paternal farm.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0412.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "THE GOULD FAMI LY.\\nThe Goulds, who were among the early settlers of the town,\\ncame from Chelmsford. Their connection with the families\\nwho first came to this country, has not been distinctly traced,\\nthough there is little doubt that they were derived from\\nZaccheus Gould of Boxford. The family has been somewhat\\nremarkable for habits of unusual sedateness, and for quiet,\\nunwearied industry which may account for their great\\nlongevity.\\nGould, Adam, with his wife, came here very soon after the\\nfirst settlement of the town, and lived in a house built by Col.\\nKidder on one of his lots on the Kidder mountain, near the\\nold Peterborough road, where they seemed to act as shepherds\\nover the cattle in the mountain pastures. They were proba-\\nbly somewhat advanced in life at the time of their removal,\\nas they left behind them two sons, Abraham and Abijah, who\\nnever lived with them in New Ipswich. He was exempted\\nfrom taxes for several years before his death. On account of\\ntheir patriarchal age, and as they lived as it were alone in the\\nworld, they were usually designated by the names of Adam\\nand Eve. She died in 1790, and he probably went to his sons\\nsoon after.\\nGould, Benjamin, of Chelmsford, was brother of Adam. He\\nwas born 1695, m. Sarah Parkhurst 1722. His ch. 1. Benja-\\nmin, b. 1723, d. 1742, as. 19; 2. Ebenezer, b. 1726, d. 1816,\\n8B. 90, lived in Chelmsford; 3. Sarah, b. 1728, m. Hill,\\nof Merrimac, d. 1817, se. 89; 4. Mary, b. 1720, d. 1736; 5.\\nSimeon 6. Reuben, b. 1736, d. 1809, as. 72, lived in Westford\\n7. Lydia, b. 1738, m. Asa Duren, and afterwards Fletcher,\\nd. 1822, EG. 84 8. Nathaniel 9. Mary, b. 1746, m. Reuben\\nDuren, d. 1823, se. 77, lived in Billerica. The seven children", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0413.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "380 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nwho passed the age of childhood, hved to the average age of\\n82 years.\\nGould, Simeon, b. Aug. 17, 1733, came to New Ipswich be-\\nfore 1760, and settled on a farm in the northern range (N. D.\\n40), a part of which afterwards fell within the limits of Tem-\\nple. He several times volmiteered during the Revolution,\\nand was an officer in a company which was engaged at\\nthe capture of Burgoyne. He died in 1827, se. nearly 94.\\nHe m. 1st. Elizabeth Pike; their ch. 1. Simeon, b. 1761, m.\\nSarah Lane of Bedford, and settled in Stoddard, where he\\nwas an influential citizen and very worthy man; 2. John;\\n3. Sarah, b. 1766, m. Bigelovv of Plymouth, Vt. 4.\\nBetty, b. 1768, m. Peter Darby of Plymouth, Vt. 5. Marga-\\nret, b. 1770, m. Moses Start, and removed to Enosburg, Vt.\\n6. Ambrose, b. 1772, m. 1st, Susan Farley of HoUis, 2d,\\nwidow Lawrence 1. Polly, b. 1774, m. Dea. S. Farley of\\nHoUis. His wife Elizabeth d. 1779, se. 44 he m. 2d, Rachel,\\nwidow of John Cutter.\\nJohn Gould, (s. of Simeon,) was b. 1763, and lived on the\\nsame farm with his father. He m. Susan, dau. of Reuben\\nKidder. Their ch. were John, and Reuben Kidder. He once\\nvolunteered towards the close of the Revolutionary war, when\\nquite a young man, and is the only man now living, of the re-\\nvolutionary soldiers from this town. He was a carpenter by\\ntrade. His son John learned the trade of a cabinet maker,\\nand long carried on that business in the middle of the town.\\nHe was for many years the town sexton, and kept a valuable\\nrecord of the deaths which occurred. He m. Eliza Ann, dau.\\nof Francis Appleton of Dublin, and had a son and a daughter.\\nBoth he and his wife died 1840. Reuben K. lives with his\\nfather on the old homestead.\\nGould, Ambrose, (s. of Simeon,) first learned the trade of a\\ncarpenter, and at the same time acquired an unusually good\\neducation. He soon entered into trade, and kept store in Bil-\\nlerica, Greenfield, Mason, Hollis and Manchester, and was a\\nhighly-valued citizen. He was passionately fond of music,\\nand a skilful performer.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0414.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0415.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0416.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "GOULD FAMILY.\\n381\\nGould, Nathaniel, (son of Benjamin,) came to town at the\\nsame time with his brother Simeon, and settled on a lot\\ndiagonal to his (N. D. 43). He served the town in the capa-\\ncity of constable and surveyor, and among other offices was\\nappointed by a vote of the town to raise the tune on the Sab-\\nbath, at a time when it was the custom to line, or deacon-\\nize the hymn. lie was one of the first persons in town who\\ncould read music, and took a prominent part as a performer\\nand also as an instructor of psalmody during his life. He was\\nan exemplary member of the church, and died 1808, ge. 67.\\nHe m. Hannah Shed, of Chelmsford she died 1828, se. 85.\\nThey had no children, but adopted his nephew, Nathaniel\\nGould Duren.\\nNathaniel Gould Duren, (now N. D. Gould,) the son of\\nReuben and Mary Duren, was born in that part of Chelmsford\\nwhich is now Bedford. His father was a resolute and enter-\\nprising man, of an inventive mind, and was distinguished, in\\nhis vicinity, as a contractor for building meeting-houses and\\nother large structures. He received a premium for a model of\\na bridge over the Merrimac at Pawtucket Falls, against many\\ncompetitors. It was constructed of a single arch, the first of\\nthe kind, so far as known, in this country, and was regarded\\nby most persons at the time, as a wild scheme. He succeeded\\nhowever, in erecting it. He was engaged in the pursuit of the\\nBritish from Concord, and brought home some trophies, which\\nwere long retained in the family. His mother was sister of", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0417.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "382 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nSimeon and Nathaniel Gould. At the age of ten years he rode\\non horseback, behind his uncle, from Bedford to New Ipswicli,\\nand engaged in farming. From his earliest years he displayed\\na fondness for penmanship, so that his father furnished him\\nwith a low desk, when quite a child, at which he might\\namuse himself in imitating letters; and one of the leading\\nevents of his life was, to see his own name written in German\\ntext by the family physician. Dr. Amariah Preston, which he\\ncopied times without number. As a teacher of penmanship,\\nno man has probably had more experience and as an orna-\\nmental penman he has no superior. At the same time he, in\\ncommon with a large family of brothers, evinced unusual\\ntaste and talents for music. He procured in succession all the\\nmusical instruments that were then in vogue, and made him-\\nself master of them. At the age of sixteen he commenced\\nteaching, and from that time spent his winters in teaching\\ngrammar, music and writing schools. He was probably the\\nmost distinguished teacher in the latter branches in New\\nHampshire and the neighboring parts of Massachusetts, until\\n1819, when he removed to Boston. He there devoted himself\\nexclusively to teaching in these two departments for thirteen\\nyears, and had the field almost entirely to himself After-\\nward he taught in New York and vicinity for ten years more,\\nsince which time he has devoted himself exclusively to orna-\\nmental penmanship and the rapidity and elegance of his\\nexecution, at his advanced age, is truly surprising.\\nDuring the thirty years of his residence in town, no man\\nwas more engaged in the affairs of the town, or had more\\ncompletely the confidence of his townsmen. He sustained\\nnearly every office in their gift, and was appointed to conduct\\ntheir most intricate affairs. In 1812 he was chosen one of\\nthe deacons of the church. As a teacher, it may be sufficient\\nto say of him, that of the 60,000 pupils which, according to\\nhis computation, have at difierent times been under his care,\\nno one ever meets him or speaks of him but with grateful\\nrecollections. He exerted a decided influence in favor of tem-\\nperance and religion, at a time when musicians, almost with-\\nout exception, were tipplers and scoffers. And he was the\\nfirst in New England, so far as is ascertained, who practised", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0418.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "GOULD FAMILY. 383\\nupon the idea, now so universal, that Httle children could be\\nsuccessfully taught to sing. He first attempted it in the Sun-\\nday school, in 1818, and soon after in private instruction. It\\nwas a matter of no little difficulty at first to obtain pupils, and\\nit was chiefly by the strategem of amusing the children at his\\nwriting schools, by practising songs with them during a half-\\nhour s intermission, and then inviting the parents to a sort of\\nexhibition at the close of the quarter, that he finally forced the\\nconviction of the feasibility of the idea, so as to feel assurance\\nto advertise for a juvenile singing-school, to be taught from\\nthe black board. This he did in the year 1824, and soon had\\nnumerous schools in Boston and vicinity. Other teachers\\nafterwards entered this department but he was extensively\\nengaged, as a pioneer, in and around the principal cities of\\nNew England, New York and New Jersey.\\nHe married Sally, dau. of Amos Prichard, 1801. Their ch.\\nare: 1. Nathaniel Perley, b. Nov. 6, 1803, d. Mar. 22, 1804.\\n2. Augustus Addison, b. April 23, 1805, prepared for college\\nat New Ipswich, grad. Harvard College 1825 taught two\\nyears in Maryland, studied medicine with Drs. James Jack-\\nson and Walter Channing in Boston, where he is now a prac-\\ntitioner of medicine is Fellow of the American Academy of\\nArts and Sciences of the American Philosophical Society,\\nand of various Scientific Societies; m. Harriet Gushing Sheafe\\nand has had nine children. [In 1806, N. G. D. took the family\\nname of his uncle.] 3. Charles Duren, b. Feb. 2, 1807, book-\\nseller in Boston m. 1, Sophia Lincoln, 2, Sarah B. Wheeler,\\n4. Mary Ann, b. April 4, 1809, m. Elisha T. Coolidge of Cin-\\ncinnati. 5 and 6. Two children, b. in 1813, d. in infancy.\\n7. Elizabeth Freeman, b. May 5, 1816, m. Joshua Lincoln\\nof Boston. 8. Sarah, b. Sept. 22, 1818, d. July 25, 1820.\\nGiBBS, Benjamin, was here in 1761 resided in the south\\npart of the town, near Whittemore Hill. He m. Ehzabeth\\nButton in 1763 had no ch. He d. 1805, se. 92.\\nHall, Rev. Richard, the successor of Mr. Farrar and second\\nPastor of the church, was born at Mansfield, Con., in August,\\n1784. His parents afterwards removed to New Haven, Vt.,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0419.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "384 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nwhere he received his early education. He was graduated at\\nMiddlebnry College in 1808, with reputation, and immediately\\nelected a tutor in that Institution. Afterwards he pursued\\nhis preparatory studies for the ministry at the Theological\\nInstitution at Andover till March 12, 1812, when he was or-\\ndained Pastor of this church. In August of the same year, he\\nmirried Lucy, the second daughter and third child of Judge\\nFarrar, who was born Dec. 6, 1789. Their children were,\\n1. Richard, b. July 1, 1815, d. Dec. 31, 1815. 2. Richard,\\nb. Aug. 6, 1817, grad. Dart. Coll. 1847, missionary in Mine-\\nsota. 3. Horace, b. April 6, 1819, grad. Dart. Coll. 1839.\\nThe following year he was Principal of the Academy at\\nHampton, N. H., and in the fall of 1840 he entered the Theo-\\nlogical Seminary at Andover but in the ensuing spring ac-\\ncepted an invitation to take charge of the Academy at South\\nBerwick, where he died of typhus fever Feb. 27, 1842. His\\nstanding and character in College, and his success as a teach-\\ner afterwards, gave sure indications of future eminence and\\nusefulness. 4. William, b. March 11, 1812, d. June 15,\\n1845; interred here. 5. Lucy Farrar, b. Jan. 1, 1823.\\nMr. Hall was a man of decision and energy; his labors\\nwere abundant and much blessed. Possessed of a superior\\nintellect, and governed by a high sense of moral obligation, he\\ngave himself, with singleness and assiduity, to his ministry.\\nHe cultivated his mind, and made it bear upon every depart-\\nment of his office. He brought to his public performances\\nthe matter of theology with great accuracy of language, pre-\\ncision of statement, power of argumentation, pertinency, form\\nand honesty of application. In ecclesiastical affairs he was\\nan able counsellor and a firm executor. He had influence\\namong his brethren and the churches of Christ. His opinions\\ncontributed to give weight to their deliberations and eflect to\\ntheir decisions. The church under his care was almost con-\\nstantly receiving accessions, and was among the foremost in\\npious and benevolent exertions. During a period of unusual\\nrehgious excitement among his people, in the winter and spring\\nBoston Recorder, 1842.\\nN. H. Repository, 1846; Boston Recorder, 1825.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0420.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "HALL FAMILY. 385\\nof 1822, the excessive labors, induced by his desire to meet\\nthe constantly increasing demands for the light and consola-\\ntions of the Gospel, broke down his vigorous constitution, and\\nhis health utterly failed. A robust frame was suddenly struck\\nin a vital part. While addressing an Ordaining Council at\\nBradford, in May, he was seized with hemorrhage of the\\nlungs, which immediately terminated his active services as a\\nminister, and gradually wore out his life. Thus cut down in\\nthe midst of his strength, for two years he languished under\\nthe accumulating pain and debility of hopeless disease and\\ncoming death, oppressed by the increasing wants of a helpless\\nfamily, (the oldest son passing from four towards seven years\\nof age,) but comforted and supported by the hopes of the Gos-\\npel. In the last stages of his disease, by the assistance of a\\nbeloved brother, he was enabled to reach the home of his\\nyouth, the quiet dwelling of his parents, at New Haven, Vt,\\nand there, on 13th day of July, 1824, he died in peace and\\nhope, and there, in affliction and solitude, attended only by\\nstrangers, the feeble mother of his helpless children buried\\nhim, and placed over his grave the only existing monument\\nto Jiis memory. He was an able and faithful, and for the\\nlength of his service, only ten years, one of the most success-\\nful of Christian ministers.\\nHis particular friend, classmate and room-mate, through\\ncollege and at the seminary, Rev. Joseph W. Clary, married\\nhis wife s sister, Anna and as their families have since become\\none, the remnants of which are here, this seems to be the place\\nfor some account of them.\\nMr. Clary was born at Rowe, Mass., Nov. 21, 1786. His\\nparents afterwards removed to Hartford, N. Y. He Avas or-\\ndained at Dover, May 6, 1812, and married Sept. 1, 1813.\\nHis wife was born here Nov. 22, 1791, and died at Dover,\\nFeb. 1.5, 1825. Children\\n1. Joseph Ward, b. June 28, 1815. 2. Timothy Farrar,\\nb. April 24, 1817, grad. Dart. Coll. 1841 minister Thetford,\\nVt. 3. Edward Warren, b. Nov. 6, 1819, m. Charlotte Rus-\\nsell, Aug. 17, 1847; d. at Holyoke June 16, 1852, leaving a\\nFuneral Sermon, by Rev. F. Burt of Durham.\\n49", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0421.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "3S6 KAMU.V lUSrORY.\\ndaiightor. 1. Annv Fakkak. b. I ob. t\\\\ IS 22. o. Wii.i.iA^i,\\nb. Jan. 1821: d. Fob. l.-\u00c2\u00bb. 1S2(\\nTho snrvivinu homls ol tlioso two lamilios, ^Ir. Clary niui\\nMrs. Hall, intorinarriod Juno IS2(). In IS iS ho loft Dovor.\\nand was soon altor setllod at C^ornish. Avhoro ho dioil April K\\n183. Thoir cliildron aro.\\n1. V.\\\\.\\\\7..\\\\ Faruak. b. at Dovor. Alaroh iS. 1S27: Gkorgk. b.\\nat rornish. April 2o. 182lK grad. Dart. Coll. 18.V2.\\nAs Air. lary uover was hinisolt an iidiabitant olthis town,\\nan extended notice of his eharaotor would be inappropriate in\\nthis place.\\nHartwkll, ErnKAni. was born in that jiart of Concord now\\nLincoln, bnt canio horo from Prinooton about 1782 ho pur-\\nchased, of Josiah Rogers, the house now owned by IMrs. Harr.\\nas also a store which stood at the west end o( the house.\\nHe entered into trade, \\\\vhich lie pursued with energy and suc-\\ncess for about thirty years. His public spirit and enterprize\\nmade him popular, and he was elected to many important\\noliices he was candidate lor Senator for several years, ami\\noften held town otlioes. He was an early and constant Iriend\\nto the Academy: and it was owing to his energy that several\\nkinds of manntactures were introduced here. He owned the\\nScythe lactory on the South road the lirst Linseed 0\\\\\\\\ mill,\\nwhere the Factory in Hank village now stai\\\\ds. He had\\nPearlash works near his house was one of those most deeply\\ninterested in the turnpike, as also ii\\\\ some other enterprizes.\\nHe d. 1810. a\\\\ 70: his wife d. 182t). a\\\\ about 70. Hem.\\nMary Brown of Waltham: they had one child. AIaky. who m.\\nCaleb Bellows of Walpolo. who had twelve children, oi which\\none, l.AiKA. resided hero, and ni. Dr. James Barr. lor so many\\nyears the principal physician in town.\\nHeai.p. Timothy, was born in Concord, where his ancestors\\nhad resided for several generations. He was here before\\n17o0. His name often occurs in the Proprietors and after-\\nwards in tho town records. He was for many years. Clerk,\\nand was chairman oi nearly every commiiteo lor laying out\\nroads or respecting land claims. He resided in the oast part", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0422.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "IIEALD FAMILY. 387\\nof tlin town, on tlio lino of Mason, on what was afterwards\\ntfio f iorc.-o IMarr;: fie removed to Maine about 1770. Ch.\\nI iMOTiiv, I74 .i- John, h. UrA .SfBvr-, b. Uryr)-^ Jonas, b.\\n1757; JosiAH, b. 1750. A Josfah }Ira/,i\u00c2\u00bb, probably brother to\\nffie above, was here in I75 1, and also resided on the Pierce\\n[jl. ice.\\nf[i;A(,i), Thomas, (brother of the above) was here when a\\nyoung man, probably soon after his brother; for some years\\nthey seemed to have held their property together, but about\\n1770 Thomas purchased I imotby s .share, and, a few years\\nafter, erected tlie old tavern hou.se, now owned by Mr. Sam l\\nMstabrooks. He was a man of good abilities and education.\\nAt tbe alarm con.sec|uent on Concord fight, he was com-\\nmander of the militia, and displayed much energy on that\\noccasion, and undoubtedly took the direction of the large force\\nthat went from town. He probably returned after a few\\ndays service, fn 1770 he commanded a company from this\\ntown and the vicinity, at the time Ticonderoga was taken,\\nand the next year was at the head of a company at the cap-\\nture of Hurgoyne. and was soon after appointed a colonel. It\\nis believefl he commanded quite a body of troops which went\\nto Coos, on an alarm during the war.\\nHis wife, Sibyl, d. 1788. He d. Aug. 20, 1800, fj;. 73. Ch.\\nThomas, b. 1708; Himkon, b. 1773, d. 1774; Nathan, b. 1775;\\nSimon, b. 1777, d 1779; Jona.s, b. 1780. He m. 2d, in 1788,\\nDelia Blanchard. Ch. Cilman, b. 1790; Sibyl, b. 1792; Pol-\\nly, b. 1790 a .son b. 1800, now living in town. His widow\\nafterwards m. Dea. James Chandler, and d. 1845, aE. 86.\\nThomas Heald, the son of Col. Thomas Heald by wife\\nSibyl was b. at N. Ipsv/ich, March 31, 1768, grad. at\\nD. Col. 1794; .studied law with Jonathan Fay, Ivsq., of Con-\\ncord, Mass., and was admitted to the bar about 1800; about\\n1797 he went to the West Indies, to manage .some commercial\\naffairs, and in 1798 wa. j appointed a Lieutenant in the United\\nStates Army was captain of a troop of cavalry at Concord.\\nHe remained in the practice of law at Concord till about 181.3,\\nwhen he moved to or near Montpelier, Vt., and thence to", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0423.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "388 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nBlakely, Ala., where he was appointed Clerk, and snbse-\\nquently Judge of the Supreme Court, and died July, 1821.\\nHe m. Elizabeth, the dau. of Jonathan Locke, Esq., of\\nAshby, Dec. 1800, by whom he had five children. His wid-\\now m. Elijah Newhall of New Ipswich, and d. May, 1843.\\nMr. Newhall d. Aug. 18.51.\\nMr. Heald was a man of more than ordinary talents, main-\\ntained a fair rank at the bar, was of a jovial disposition, and\\nwas very humorous in his social habits, and somewhat famed\\nfor his wit among his brethren of the Greenbao;.\\nHeywood, Samuel, came from Concord and built the house\\nnow occupied by John Preston, Esq., where he kept a public\\nhouse for several years. He d. 1790 his wf. d. same year.\\nCh. James, Samuel, Timothy and Betsey.\\nHills, David, a native of Wrentham, came here about\\n1772. He purchased the farm then owned by Joseph Bates,\\nthe most of which is now occupied by Joseph Barrett, Esq.,\\nthe balance is covered by houses and shops, or used as gar-\\ndens. He built the house now owned by John T. Stephens,\\nand used a part of it for a store for some thirty years. In\\n1775, when the Committee of Inspection for the town, under-\\ntook to regulate the prices of goods, they accused Mr. H. of\\nnot fully complying with the letter of their regulations, and a\\nsharp controversy followed the committee published him in\\nthe papers, and Mr. H. rejoined. A copy of this correspond-\\nence may be found in the Revolutionary chapter.\\nIn Sabine s History of the Loyalists Mr. H. is put down\\nas a tory this is an error. He is said to have been at first\\nrather adverse to the proceedings of the Patriots, and as he\\nwas naturally an independent man, the doings of the com-\\nmittee no doubt seemed to him very oppressive and dictatorial,\\nMr. H. was a man of no little genius. In supplying him-\\nself with water, he resorted to a most successful expedient.\\nHe reasoned thus if my neighbor at the top of the hill, ob-\\ntains water by digging sixty feet, why may not I obtain the\\nsame by running a shaft into the side of the hill till I reach\\nthe same point. He acted upon the obvious conclusion, and", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0424.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "HILLS FAMILY. 389\\nmade a horizontal well, which not only supplied a perpetual\\nstream to his house without the trouble of drawing, but\\nafforded a most ample and capital cellar for the storage of\\nbutter, cheese and other articles from both heat and cold. He\\nconstructed a scraper, and a left-handed plough, so as to be\\nable to plough down hill in constructing the road from his\\nhouse to the old Academy. He was a most excellent farmer,\\nand employed many processes in ditching and manuring,\\nwhich were altogether in advance of his fellow-townsmen.\\nHis fruit was of the best kind, and never failed and it is\\nquite remarkable that he employed a process for preserving\\nthe trees from canker worms, which was tantamount to the\\nonly effectual one now employed, and is good evidence of his\\ncareful observation and ingenuity. He led the stream, which\\nran down the road in the early part of the year, to each of\\nhis trees, and dug a trench so as to encircle each one with\\nwater thus at the same time watering the tree and protect-\\ning it from worms.\\nHe carried on Potash Manufacturing, in a building that\\nstood where the bank does now, the offal of which he made\\nsubservient to his farming processes. As a tradesman, he\\nwas exact to a proverb. For many years before his death he\\nwas affected with shaking palsy. He d. in 1815, se. 79. By\\nhis first wife, Hannah [Fales,] who d. 1777, ge. 30, his ch. were\\nMartha, m. Wm. Hall Hannah, m. John Wheeler, parents of\\nRev. John Wheeler, President of the University of Vermont;\\nMary, m. Noah Bartlett Melettah, d. 1778. He m. a 2d\\ntime in 1779, and she d. 1803, ee. 48. Ch. Sarah,\\nm. William Hall John Fales David Meletiah Susannah\\nand Jabez several of his ch. died young. His third wife\\nwas the widow of Capt. Abijah Smith, and d. in 1815, ae. 71.\\nHills, John Fales, (son of David) b. 1780, succeeded his\\nfather in his farming and trading concerns. His store was at\\nfirst on the spot where the house of Joseph Barrett, Esq. now\\nstands, but was removed to the opposite side of the way and\\nwas long occupied by Sampson Fletcher. He commenced\\nthe brick house above alluded to, but died before its comple-\\ntion in 1819, se. 39. Like his father, he was prosperous in", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0425.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "390 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nbusiness, scrupulously exact in his dealings, strongly wedded\\nto his opinions, and unyielding whenever he considered his\\nrights in any way invaded hence his legal claims were\\nnever allowed to remain unsatisfied or at least imtried. He\\nm. Abigail, dau. of Capt. Timothy Fox, and afterwards\\nEsther Arnold, of Westminster, Vt., and had several children.\\nHills, Jabez, (son of David) went to live with his brother-\\nin-law, William Hall, Esq., of Rockingham, Vt. as a clerk.\\nIn addition to the other characteristics of his father and\\nbrother, he has been remarkable for his recluse and taciturn\\nhabits, which he has practised from early life. He is seldom\\npersuaded to partake of food with others, never rides, never\\nspeaks when words can be avoided, and wears the same\\nouter apparel for years in succession. Hence he is extensive-\\nly known as Jabez, the Hermit. In addition to his ordi-\\nnary trade, he formerly acted in a small way, as exchange\\nbroker. By perseverance and econom) he has accumulated\\na large property, and is now a sort of private banker.\\nHoLDEN, Samuel, (s. of Samuel,) came from Concord 1763-4,\\nin company with Reuben Hosmer, whose sister Sally he\\nmarried, and Nathaniel Melvin, who also married another\\nsister. They all settled near the southeast corner of the town,\\nsouth and east of the Whittemore Hill. Their children were,\\n1. Samuel, who still lives on the homestead, one of the old-\\nest men in town, and quite an active man 2. Reuben\\n3. Sally, m. John Knowlton, d. 1841, ae. 65 4. Betsy. He\\nd. 1820, 86. 79, and his wife about the same time.\\nHolden, Reuben, (s. of Samuel,) lived on the farm with his\\nfather m. Hannah, dau. of Amos Prichard. Their ch. were,\\n1. Ira Samuel, resides at New Orleans; 2. Amos Prichard,\\nmerchant at Cincinnati 3. Edward Hosmer, m. Dorcas, dau.\\nof Joseph Cragin, and lived the successor of his father on the\\nfarm, an enterprising, pious and highly respected young man,\\nd. 1842, 86. 31 4. Eliza Ann 5. Reuben Andrews, merchant\\nat Cincinnati. The three elder brothers have been successful\\nin business, and are among the substantial citizens in the\\ncities where they reside.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0426.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "HOAR FAMILY.\\n391\\nd^ CfiJ ^H^O-^ Benjamin,) came here\\n\u00c2\u00a37^ from Littleton, when there\\nwere but three settlers in the place. This was probably as\\nearly as 1742 he did not bring his wife till some years after-\\nwards. His farm was on the country road, east of the\\nriver, and was afterwards owned by Mr. Jonas C. Champney.\\nHe was the first blacksmith, and his shop stood on the south\\nside of the road, nearly opposite his house. He was also the\\nfirst innholder, being mentioned as such in the records in 1753,\\nand was probably the first captain of the military company\\nhe was certainly in office in 1754. Capt. H. may be consid-\\nered, for its first half century, as one of the most important\\nand useful men of the town. He was born in that part of\\nConcord now forming part of Lincoln, in 1717. While a\\nchild, his father (who was afterwards one of the proprietors\\nof this town, removed to Littleton. The family are descend-\\ned from a wealthy banker of London, who came to this coun-\\ntry before 1640. He had a son John, who became a lawyer\\nMr. H. once told the late Benjamin Champney, that when he first came here\\nsalmon were very plenty and that one morning he shot one under the bridge,\\nnear his house, of such length as to reach from his hip to the ground.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0427.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "392 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nof distinction and settled in Concord about 1660. Benjamin\\nHoar m. at Concord Anna Brooks. Children,\\nBenjamin, b. 1750, d. 1752 Benjamin, 2d., b. 1753, d. same\\nyear Anna, b. 1754, d. 1755 Rhoda, b. 1756 Jotham, b.\\n1757; Anna, 2d., b. 1760; Benjamin, 3d., b. 1762; Phebe, b.\\n1765. Capt. Hoar d. Feb. 14, 1799 and his wife d. five days\\nafterwards, ge. 84.\\nHoar, Jotham, (s. of Benjamni,) m. Mary they had\\nten children born here between 1787 and 1805, when he re-\\nmoved to Peterborough. He was captain of the South Com-\\npany, and afterwards major of the regiment.\\nHow, IcHABOD, b. in Marlborough, was here as early as\\n1754. Ch. Jonathan, b. 1760 Melicent, b. 1762, he resid-\\ned on the Nicholas place, (49 N. D.) and removed to Maine\\nprevious to the Revolution.\\nHow, Isaac, b. in Marlborough, was a brother of Ichabod,\\nand came here about 1760 resided on the place occupied by\\nS. C. Wheeler (59 N. D.) had a tolerable education was\\ntown clerk, and often held other offices. He was an ardent\\npatriot. Rev. Samuel Webster of Temple, writing to the\\nNew Hampshire Committee of Safety, in June, 1775, says\\nI mentioned to you Mr. Isaac How, of New Ipswich, as a\\nperson I imagined suitable to be appointed Quarter-master of\\nCol. Reed s regiment. I have since seen Mr. How, and find\\nhe is willing to take the place, of which I was doubtful, when\\nI found that the wages were only three pounds per month. If\\nyou have not appointed one before this reaches you, I hope\\nyou will bear him in mind. He is, I think, a person of very\\ngood capacity and property has already been in the army,\\nand has, as he tells me, the approbation of Col. Reed. He is\\nof fair character, and much used to public business.\\nMr. H. served as Adjutant in this regiment till it was dis-\\nbanded and occasionally in other situations during the war.\\nHe m. Sibyl Children,\\nVashti, b. 1763; Sarah, b. 1764; Is\\\\ac, 1767; Joseph, b.\\n1769, d. 1772 Sibyl, b. 1772 Susannah, b. 1774 Joseph, b.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0428.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "JONES FAMILY. 393\\n1776 Sylvanus, b. 1779 Jonathan, b. 1781 Asa, b. 1784,\\nIsaac and Joseph settled in town Jonathan is a printer in\\nBoston. Mr. Isaac How d. 1799, a3. 66. Isaac 2d, d. 1824,\\n86.57.\\nJones, Jonas, came here from Shrewsbury in 1790 he had\\nten children, five of whom accompanied him.\\nWhen but ten years of age, Mr. J. went with his father,\\n(Capt. Ephraim Jones of Concord,) to the conquest of Louis-\\nburg, which took place in 1746. In the next French war he\\nwas an under officer in the expedition to capture Crown Point,\\nand was much engaged in the scouting parties common in\\nthat war. The writer has often heard him relate his exploits.\\nWhen at the head of about a dozen men, in the depth of a\\nnorthern winter, they traversed the mountains about Lake\\nGeorge, making their beds of hemlock boughs, after tread-\\ning down the snow while a solitary sentinel took a tour\\nof two or three miles along the track they had made, to\\nsee if they were pursued by Indians. In their excursions,\\ntheir food was limited to raw salt pork and hard bread.\\nAt one time he captured a Frenchman, whose gun he retain-\\ned during his life he also preserved as a curiosity a piece\\nof rind from the pork Avhich had been served out to them\\nas rations. It was said to have come from Germany, and\\nmay have been the skin of a wild boar it was, at least, as\\nthick as sole-leather. In one of the battles there, a bullet\\npassed through his knapsack, but was stopped by the pork\\nrind. Mr. J. through life was an intelligent and energetic\\nman his death was occasioned by a fall from his horse, in\\nAshby, in 1817, at the age of 81. He was buried in the old\\nburying-ground by the side of his wife Abigail (Hart well,)\\nwho died in 1809, ae. 65. He was the fourth in descent from\\nJohn Jones, who settled at Concord before 1650. Ch.\\nLucy, b. 1764 Jonas and Ephraim, b. 1765 Richard Hall,\\nb. 1767; Hefsy, b. 1770; Stephen, b. 1775; Henry, b. 1777;\\nIsaac, b. 1780 Peter.\\n50", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0429.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "THE KIDDER FAMILY,\\nIN ENGLAND.\\nFrom researches that have been made, it has been ascer-\\ntained that this may be called one of the ancient families of\\nEngland. It is certain that for several centuries a respectable\\nfamily of the name is found to have resided in the old quiet\\nagricultural village of Maresfield, or as it was more anciently\\nwritten, Marsfielde, which is situated in the county of Sussex,\\nabout seventy miles from London. Some account relating to\\na transfer of land there, dated as early as 1270, in which the\\nname of Kydder is a party, is said to be still extant. But if\\ntradition is to be relied on, they are of the stock of ancient\\nBritons, and existed as a family previous to the incursions of\\nthe Romans, Danes, or Saxons, and that they were not dis-\\nturbed in the possession of their lands at the conquest. In\\nsome of the early documents the name is stated to be written\\nKyddwr this would indicate a Welch, or more properly, an-\\ncient British lineage. The late investigations of English and\\nFrench historians seem to warrant the belief that but a small\\npart of the latter race either fled or were driven into Wales\\nand a strong probability exists that the more quiet and peace-\\nful were allowed to remain and cultivate their lands in quiet-\\nness. Of the derivation of the name much uncertainty exists.\\nKyd in Welch means a town on a hill, and dwr a small river\\nor brook while in Saxon, Kidder means a dealer in grain.\\nSome changes seem to have been made in writing the name\\nat different periods as early as about 1500, it was written\\nKydder this spelling was retained for over a century in the\\nCambridge Church Records, as early as 1656, it was written\\nKiddar.\\nAlthough the name has been found in different parts of Eng-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0430.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 395\\nlandj and at one time in Ireland, it is now well ascertained\\nthat previous to 1500, all of the name who were then on the\\nearth were residing at Maresfield. But soon after that time, a\\nconsiderable emigration of them took place to some parts of\\nthe adjacent county of Kent, and one family to London.\\nA family of the name seem to have taken up their abode in\\nthe city of Canterbury, where there is a will on record, dated\\n1543, made by one of them, in which he distributes his prop-\\nerty to his children, who were tradesmen of that city. The\\npost-office was held by this family for over a century. Some\\nof the descendants were living in that vicinity within a few\\nyears, but they are now extinct.\\nThere were, a few years since, two or three families living\\nin London they were the descendants of Gilbert Kidder, who\\nwas born at Maresfield about 1670, and came to London be-\\nfore 1700. A wealthy branch flourished for near two hund-\\nred years at Lewes in Sussex, and one family were long seat-\\ned at East Grinstead, in that vicinity, and here was the birth\\nplace of the patriarch of ihe American family.\\nThere has been a family residing in Kent for several gene-\\nrations, of which some respectable gentlemen are now living,\\nand are supposed to be the only males bearing the name in\\nEngland.\\nVincent Kidder was son of George Kidder, and emigrated\\nto London about 1630 he was a silversmith. He joined the\\nParliament forces under Cromwell, and went to the reduction\\nof Ireland, was a successful and brave officer, attained the\\nrank of major, had a grant of near one thousand acres of\\nland 10th of July, 1668, situate in the county of Kilkenny,\\nmarried Ellen, daughter of Adam Loftus and grand-daughter\\nof Sir Adam Loftus. She was descended from Edward III.,\\nKing of England, 1327-1377. His second son Vincent was a\\nlieutenant in Capt. Cottingham s company at the battle of the\\nBoyne 1690, afterwards a colonel, and was appointed assay-\\nmaster for proving the standard of the gold and silver articles\\nmade in Dublin. A picture of him is still to be seen in the\\nGoldsmith s Hall. A curious engraving of the Major is now\\nin the possession of the writer, representing him in the milita-\\nry costume of that period, and the face bears a strong resem-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0431.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "396 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nblance to some of the name now living in this vicinity. His\\ngrandson Thomas resided in London, where he was a mem-\\nber of the common council, and in the employ of the East In-\\ndia Company. He was an antiquary, and wrote several let-\\nters to a namesake in this country, giving an account of the\\nfamily, from which much of the above has been derived. He\\ndied in 1824, and was buried in the old churchyard at Mares-\\nfield at his request, although none of his direct relatives for\\nthree generations had been interred there.\\nThe most distinguished of the family was Richard Kidder,\\nBishop of Bath and Wells. He was born in 1633, at East\\nGrinstead, the birth-place of the American immigrant, of\\nwhom he was a kinsman. His father was a reputable land-\\nholder in that parish. He was educated at Emanuel College,\\nCambridge, where he was admitted a sizer in 1649 was\\nRector of St. Martin s, London, Prebend of Norwich 1681,\\nDean of Peterborough 1689, and in 1691 was made Bishop of\\nBath and Wells. He perished in the great gale, Nov. 27, 1703;\\nbeing with his wife at prayers in their chamber in the Bish-\\nop s palace at Wells, one of the chimneys, driven by the fury\\nof the tempest, fell through the roof and buried them in the\\nruins.\\nHe was a talented, warm-hearted Christian his writings\\nhave been for more than a century and a half a text-book to\\nthe theologian, and a solace to the inquiring Christian they\\nwill ever remain an evidence of a mind that was far in\\nadvance of its day in true practical Christianity. He left\\ntwo daughters, Ann, who died unmarried, and was buried by\\nhis side Susannah, who married Sir Richard Everard, Bart,\\nand was one of the early Governors of North Carolina. They\\nboth resided and died in Virginia, where their descendants,\\nwho are among the most distinguished families, still reside.\\nAmong them are Richard Kidder Meade, a well-known mem-\\nber of Congress and Bishop Meade, the head of the Episcopal\\nChurch in that State.\\nThe following letter, written in 1850 by the Rev. Edward\\nTurner, Rector of Maresfield, a distinguished Antiquary, gives\\nmany particulars of the family history. It may be considered\\nas perfectly reliable.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0432.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 397\\nThe antiquity of the Kidder family in Maresfield is un-\\ndoubted. The earUest notice of it that I have met with is con-\\nnected with a deed of Edward 11., assigning certain rights\\nand privileges within the Forest of Ashdown to the Rector of\\nMaresfield. This will carry them back to about the year\\n1320. At that period, and till about the time of Charles II.,\\n[say 1660] this forest was a royal park, called Lancaster\\nGreat Park, and the Kidders are described as the Baylitfs.\\nTheir place of residence was within the precincts of this Park,\\nand bore the appropriate, though not very elegant name of\\nThe Hole, clearly from the circumstance of its being situ-\\nated at the bottom of a deep forest dell. There is still a house\\nthere bearing the same name. Might not the name of Kidder\\nthen be derived from the nature of the duties attached to the\\noffice of bailiff of this park, which was abundantly stocked\\nwith deer le Kidder 7 Kidbrook is still the name of a dis-\\ntrict of AshdovAai Forest. The deer on the coat of arms which\\nyou mention as in your possession, is evidently what is called\\nin Heraldry lyininhig^ that is, a play on the name Kid Deer.\\nBut might it not also be taken as bearing on my hypothesis of\\nthe origin of the name\\nIt is, however, to the Registers of the parish that Ave must\\nlook for the best proof of the early connection of the Kidder\\nfamily with Maresfield and from this source most extensive\\nand satisfactory information is to be obtained. The parish\\nRecords commence with the year 1538, [30th of Henry VIII.]\\nand among the earliest names that occur in them there is that\\nof Kydder. It records a marriage that took place in 1539, of\\nwhich the following is a copy In y^ monyt of November\\nand y^ ix day I wedded one Gabryell Altchorn and Mary\\nKydder. And the next in point of time is a Baptism, in\\n1541 Item primus, Robertus Kyddr (sic) filius Thomi Kyd-\\nder Baptizatus erat 30\u00c2\u00b0 die Novembris. I annex the descent\\nof the Family, as shown by the Maresfield Registry. I have\\nalso carefully examined the Records of Lewes and some other\\nparish registers, and thereby extended and enlarged the list.\\nThe dates and names have again been revised, and may now\\nbe depended on.\\nNote. In the tabular pedigree on the next two pages, the double lines denote the\\n.-descent of the New England family of Kidder.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0433.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "398\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\np\\nJ\\nC5\\nH\\nfa\\nO\\nII-\\n-cw\\ni-f\\nhJ\\nil--g^\\nHH\\nrr, -^TS\\n1\\nesfiel\\nR\\ndie\\nfa\\nC8\\nw\\nQ\\n;e3\\nn\\nW\\n^_rt\\nW\\nBO\\nW\\nwW\\nH\\ns s\\nfa\\nt^i\\no\\nw\\nas o\\nfa\\nM\\nc\\nO\\nt\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nQ\\nfa\\nfa\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r o\\nC3\\nC\\ns\\na to\\nZ:;\\nM\\nlO\\nOi\\nlO\\nT1\\ns\\n13\\n1\\nT5 eo\\nCO\\n-J=\\nPi .2\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0B2\\nO\\nU L\\nH\\n^L\\n0)\\n-3\\nc\\n-c\\ne\\nti!\\nw\\n0)\\nc\\nz\\n35\\na\\nlU\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0T3\\nc\\nCS\\nlij\\nO QO\\n\u00c2\u00bbo in\\n1\\n1 I\\nJBWi\\nJ E S\\n.5i\\n00\\nW^\\n-ESco\\nri to\\nK^ -a\\ncc\u00c2\u00bb.\u00c2\u00a3\\nC3 5 .-S to 05\\nto J LO 0\\nS Z W -o -a__\\n.12\\n13 vft\\nis\\nCS S\\nJ 13\\nCOO\\nO Its\\nE\\nH.O\\nIK\\nre c s to\\nr r^ CO\\n-G C\\nWEhK\\nPQ K\\n-5 i 5 s\\nj3 w o a) u to\\nH ohJ E OrH\\ng -O 4) CIS\\nU HI TJ\\n5 bcto", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0434.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY.\\n399\\nw\\n.2\\n13\\nt;\\no\\no\\nc\\no\\nS\\nin\\nr-(\\nCO\\nC-lO 1\\nbl\\nin\\ni-i\\nfN\\nm\\nE\\nin\\n^a\\n7)\\nc\\n.a -a\\nd\\n.Q\\nno\\nt^\\n13\\nlO\\nCO\\nSi\\npH\\nO\\na.\\nj: 13\\nR\\nCO\\nlO\\nC\\nS\\n1\\n-coo\\na t;-\\nm t^\\nO f5\\nbe r-l\\nJ S-2\\ng.aSj2\\noT 13\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0--13 QJ m O L??\\nW cs J3 Pi .5\\n-C 13\\n-gin a\\nago\\nO f^ l-H\\nS n\\n4) brri\\nc CO\\ncs i-i\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-S C5l3\\nS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J ^2\\nPhp^ 6\\nre CO 00\\n5 in o\\nH-a-\\nSKi3\\n\u00c2\u00abj;-o i-H 13\\ni= 1 e i\\nw-=\\n0:3\\n-HWi3\\n\u00c2\u00bb-5 \\\\CS OQ\\n!Zi-\u00c2\u00b0Si3\\nC.13\\nC t^ GO\\n-^^in\\no to\\n^Si3 J2\\nj;s\\nIM\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0p:\\n--f\\nr\\nt\u00c2\u00a9\\n_\\nW\\n.5\\n-3\\nF\\na\\n-f\\n^R-\\nii\\nkilled\\ntime\\nher\\nand.\\nAnna,\\nd. un-\\n3\\ns\\nB\\nc-^-^\\n1-4\\nb\\nC3\\nn\\n=9\\nt-\\nJ\\nCS\\nU\\njishop\\n1 Well\\nled 170\\nCO\\n(1-\\ni T\\nCS\\n2-S\\n-p\\nctf\\n5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a\\n-2\\n5\\nin\\n12\\nleaving\\nhis estate\\nson of his\\nRichard,\\nBath an\\n1691 ki\\nSir Rich\\nEvershei\\nBart, G\\nN.Caroh\\nQ\\n13 13\\n_0 O\\nCO\\nS CO\\n13 CO\\n-5 CJ\\nq2\\n_Q", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0435.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "THE KIDDER FAMILY,\\nIN AMERICA.\\nThe first person of this name who came to the New World\\nwas Steven Kidder, who was here as early as 1633. He is\\nmentioned in a letter of that date as having been sent out by\\nSir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, to commence\\na plantation at Newichewanock, now South Berwick. As\\nGorges died shortly after, and his establishment was broken\\nup, no doubt Steven Kidder returned to England, as from a\\nthorough search no further trace of him can be found. He\\nwas born at Maresfield in 1609, and was therefore about\\ntwenty-five years of age when he came here. One Thaddeus\\nKidder came to this country about 1670 was at Lynn in\\n1672 and also in 1676. It cannot be ascertained that he left\\nany descendants, at least in the male line.\\nJames Kidder who was born at East Grinstead, in Sussex,\\nEngland, in 1626, may be considered as the patriarch of the\\nfamily, and the ancestor of all who bear the name in this\\ncountry. In what year or by what ship he made his advent\\nto New England, cannot now be ascertained. It is certain\\nthat he was at Cambridge as early as 1650, and perhaps it is\\nfair to infer that he was here sometime previous. As the per-\\nsecution for opinion s sake in England had ceased some years\\nprevious, we cannot claim that as a cause for his leaving his\\nfatherland, but must presume, that on coming of age he found\\nhis country involved in a civil war of uncertain length, and\\nto avoid those troublous times, he concluded to seek a more\\npeaceful residence with better prospects than a young farmer\\ncould then find in his native country. We first find him lo-\\ncated at Cambridge, where he married, probably in 1649,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0436.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 401\\nAnna Moore, daughter of Elder Francis Moore. As the fam-\\nily of Elder Moore was then one of the most wealthy and\\nrespectable in that place, we infer that the appearance and\\nreputation of our ancestor must have been of equal character\\nto have entitled him to such an alliance.\\nIn 1653 he was occupying a farm of two hundred and eighty-\\nnine acres, lying on the north side of Fresh Pond and Menot-\\nomy River, which he had leased of Dea. Sparrowhawk three\\nyears previous. (This location is now in West Cambridge.)\\nIn the Treasurer s records of the colony for that year, now\\ndeposited in the rooms of the N. E. Historical and Genealogi-\\ncal Society, his name appears, as having received ten shillings\\nas the bounty for killing a wolf\\nIn 1653 the General Court granted Shawshine, now Billeri-\\nca, to Cambridge, and for several years it continued to form a\\npart of that town many of its older residents receiving grants\\nof lands, soon removed there. It is most likely that James\\nKidder was among the first to take up his abode in that wil-\\nderness, and it is quite probable he may have gone there as\\nearly as 1653 or 4, and to have made, as soon as possible, the\\npreparations for removing his family. It is certain he was\\nresiding there with his family as early as 1656, and this place\\nmay be considered as the home of the family for over one\\nhundred years. Both he and his wife were members of the\\nchurch in Cambridge in full communion, and six of their\\nchildren were baptized there. When a church was organized\\nat Billerica, they were among the first to become members of\\nit. In 1662, he was a juror of the Court holden in Cam-\\nbridge, and in the Court records of that year we find the fol-\\nlowing entry James Kidder is allowed to be sergant of the\\nMilitary Company at Billerica. This may be thought a\\nsmall affair for the courts to take cognizance of, but the or-\\nganization of the military of that day was a matter of the first\\nimportance, and none but men of the most reliable character\\nwere entrusted with any office in it. It will be seen that he\\nafterwards rose to the rank of Ensign his name is often men-\\n1 As the record of most of the early marriages in Cambridge is lost, the precise\\ntime cannot be ascertained.\\n51", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0437.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "402 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ntioned in the Town records of Billerica, where he was appoint-\\ned on various committees. He was also Selectman for six\\nyears. In 1675, when King Philip s war took place, he was\\nin the public service, and kept guard over the small tribe of\\nIndians at Wameset, now forming part of Lowell, and soon\\nafter was appointed to the command of a garrison-house,\\nwhich contained seven families, including his own and that of\\nhis son James. He died April 16th, 1676, in the midst of the\\nwar, aged about 50, it has been suggested, from disease caused\\nby his exposure in this war, which was the most trying time\\never seen in New England.\\nThus passed away the patriarch of the family in this coun-\\ntry; and though no stone marks the spot or perpetuates his\\nmemory, the name seems destined to live through all coming\\ntime, as his descendants, now numbering some thousands, are\\nspread over this broad land, from the Penobscot to the Upper\\nMississippi, and from Canada to Louisiana and although\\nfew of them have been distinguished as warriors or states-\\nmen, still some have been found as legislators in several of\\nthe States, and at least two of them have found their way\\nto Congress while, after a search over the records of two\\ncenturies, not an individual of the name is ever found to have\\nbeen guilty of any crime against the laws.\\nSome of his hand-writing is still extant it is in the sharp,\\nangular style of the times, and shows that his education was\\nsuperior to many of the A- l ^4^. J^\\nearly emigrants. His y/u^*-^^^^^ ^^Z^itP^^\\n3rl\\nautograph is annexed.\\nFirst Generation.\\nJames Kidder came to New England, married Anna Moore\\nbefore 1650, and had the following children\\nSecond Generation.\\n1. Hannah, b. 1 Imo. 1650 m. Nathaniel Kettell, of\\nCharlestown, 1672. 2. Dorothy, b. 1651 m. Jona. Hyde,\\nat Billerica, 1673. 3. James, b. 3 llmo. 1653 m. Eliza-\\nbeth Brown, 1678. 4. John, b. prob. 1655 m. Lydia Parker", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0438.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 403\\nat Chelmsford, 1684. 5. Thomas, b. 1 Imo. 1657; made a\\nfreeman at Watertown, 1690. 6. Nathaniel, b. prob. 1658;\\nd. in Newton, in 1690. 7. Ephraim, b. Aug. 31, 1660; m.\\n^achel Crosby, in Billerica, 1685. 8. Stephen, b. Nov. 26,\\n1662 m. Mary resided in Charlestown. 9. Enoch, b. Sept.\\n1664 m. Mary lived in Billerica. 10. Samuel, b. Jan. 7,\\n1666 m. Sarah Griggs, in Cambridge, 1690. 11. Sarah, b.\\nJune 1, 1667; m. George Brown, of Chelmsford, 1689. 12.\\nJoseph, b. Nov. 20, 1670 probably died young.\\nII.* James Kidder, Jr. (s. of James) m. Elizabeth Brown,\\nSept. 23, 1678. Resided in Billerica, where he died Dec. 15,\\n1732, SB. 78 his wife d. Aug. 10, 1691. Their children\\n1. James, b. Jan. 27, 1679 m. Mary Abbott, at Concord,\\n1703. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, b. Jan. 27, 1681 m. Mary Phelps, at Charles-\\ntown, 1706. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph, b. April 21, 1683 d. July 30, 1683.\\n4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elizabeth, b. March 30, 1686 d. April 14, 1703. 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHannah, b. April 27, 1689. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel, b. May 23, 1691 d.\\n1692.\\nII. John Kidder, (son of James,) m. Lydia Parker, at\\nChelmsford, Sept. 3, 1684. In 1686 he bought of Jonathan\\nTyng, 500 acres of land, lying on the west side of Concord\\nriver in Chelmsford, where he afterwards resided. Their chil-\\ndren\\n1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Anna, b. Sept. 12, 1685. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, b. Dec. 23, 1683 m.\\nMary. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas, b. Oct. 30, 1690 m. Joanna Keyes 1716.\\n4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathaniel, b. Dec. 13, 1692. 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, b. April 9, 1695.\\n6. Joseph, b. August 11, 1697 kept the Green Dragon Tav-\\nern in Boston, 1734. 7. Benjamin, b. August 11, 1697 d.\\nat Souhegan East in 1746 he was with Lovell in his expedi-\\ntion in 1724. 8. James, b. Jan. 28, 1700 m. Abigail. 9.\\nJonathan, b. Jan. 14, 1701. 10. Elizabeth, b. July 12, 1704.\\n11.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David, b. October 11, 1706 hving in C. in 1767. 12.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSarah, b. June 2, 1709.\\nII. Ephraim Kidder, (s. of James,) m. Rachel Crosby, Au-\\ngust 4, 1685. He resided on the paternal estate at Billerica,\\nThe generations will be designated by Roman Numerals.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0439.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "404 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nwhere he d. Sept. 25, 1724, se. 64 she d. in 1721. His estate\\nwas administered on by his sons Thomas and Benjamin, Jo-\\nseph being gone to sea. Their children\\n1. Joseph m. Dorothy Drew, at Charlestown, in 1712.\\n2. Ephraim, b. April 26, 1687. 3. Rachel, b. April 1, 1691\\nm. Thomas Taylor at Charlestown, 1714. 4. Alice, b. Feb.\\n8, 1692. 5. Hannah 6 Dorothy twins, born at Medford,\\nSept. 2, 1646. Hannah m. J. B. Rhodes in 1737. 7 Thom-\\nas, b. August 3, 1700 m. Lydia Cooper at Cambridge, 1725.\\n8. Benjamin, b. August 3, 1702. 9. Richard, b. May 10,\\n1705; removed to Dudley d. 1773.\\nn. Enoch Kidder (s. of James) m. Mary she died\\n1742 he m. Hannah Danforth, June 4, 1743 she d. 1752,\\nHis residence was in Billerica, where he d. in 1752, se 89.\\nTheir children\\n1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, b. Sept. 14, 1693 d. in 1693. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abigail, b.\\nDec. 16, 1694. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Enoch Jr., b. Dec. 30, 1697 m. Sarah\\nHunt he d. 1781. 4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William, b. Dec. 5, 1700 d. 1702.\\n5.~Francis, b. Oct. 1, 1703 m. Elizabeth Hill, 1731 d. at\\nOxford. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, b. March 26, 1707. 7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William, b. March\\n13, 1710.\\nn. Stephen Kidder, (s. of James,) settled at Charlestown.\\nHis wife s name was Mary. He was a blacksmith, a man\\nof energy, and accumulated quite an estate. His will, dated\\nMarch 19th, 1747, and proved July 18th, 1748, is on file in\\nthe Middlesex Probate Records. He leaves his property to be\\nequally divided between his children Stephen, Isaac, John,\\nMary and Anna. Probably the others, as well as his wife,\\nwere then dead. He died in 1748, se. 85. Some of his pos-\\nterity were living in Charlestown till about 1840. His chil-\\ndren\\n1. Stephen, b. Oct. 6, 1697 resided in Charlestown till\\n1741. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Anna, b. Dec. 20, 1699. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sarah, b. April 22,\\n1700. 4. Abigail, b. Jan. 1701. 5. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 29,\\n1703. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, b. March 26, 1706. 7.^Isaac, b. Nov. 6,\\n1707 resided in C. till 1773. 8.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, b. Feb. 13, 1708; m.\\nAnn Walker of Boston, 1737. 9. Eliza, b. 1710.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0440.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 405\\nII. Samuel Kidder, (s. of James,) seems to have resided,\\nwhile young, with his micle Francis Moor, who gave him\\nthe family residence and farm in Cambridge. It was situated\\nnear where Porter s Hotel now is, comprehending the pre-\\nsent race-ground, and extending west to the borders of Fresh\\nPond a large part of it is still called Kidder s Swamp,\\nand a street near by is called Kidder s Lane. He was a\\nDeacon of the church, and a man of some importance in the\\ntown. He had a mill for manufacturing malt. He d. July 4,\\n1724, 86. 59 his wife d. Nov. 15, 1738, se. 72. The invento-\\nry of his estate amounted to \u00c2\u00a31138, which was a large amount\\nat that day. By his wife Sarah Griggs, whom he m. Oct. 23,\\n1689, he had children.\\n1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sarah, b. Aug. 17, 1690. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Francis, b. 1692, m. Ma-\\nry Prentice 1718, d. 1724, se. 32. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel, b. 1694, d.\\n1718, 93. 24. 4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James, b. 1696, d. 1714, se. 18. 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John,\\nb. 1701, d. 1735, se. 34. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph, b. 1704, d. 1725, se. 21.\\nII. Nathaniel Kidder, (s. of James,) resided in Newton\\n1690, d. unmarried. His will, dated Dec. 12, 1690, was\\nproved April 7, 1691. His property, consisting mostly of land\\nin New Cambridge (Newton), is mainly given to his brother-\\nin-law and his wife, (his sister). A small legacy is given to\\neach of his seven brothers and two sisters as Joseph is not\\nnamed, it is presumed he had died previously.\\nII. Thomas Kidder, (s. of James,) resided at Watertown,\\nwhere he was made freeman in 1690, and no further intelli-\\ngence has been had respecting him.\\nIII. Thomas Kidder, (son of John, grandson of James,) m.\\nat Chelmsford Dec. 31, 1716, Joanna Keyes. Ch.\\n1. Thomas, b. Jan. 2, 1718, supposed to have d. young.\\n2. Aaron, b. Dec. 22, 1719, m. Rachel Bush at Marlborough,\\n1749. 3. Reuben, b. Jan. 1, 1723, m. Susannah Burge,\\n1754, d. at New Ipswich, 1793. 4. Joseph, b. Oct. 31, 1725,\\nd. in Temple. 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Josiah, b. Feb. 20, 1727.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0441.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "406 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nIV. Reuben Kidder and his wife Susannah had children\\n1. Sarah, b. Sept. 24, 1758 m. Daniel Batchelder of Wil-\\nton, d. 1848. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Miriam, (Milly,) b. April 10, 1760 m. Sam-\\nuel Button, d. 1848, se. 88. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ruth, b. April 1, 1762\\nm. Doct. Jonas Prescott. 4. Susannah, b. Aug. 5, 1764 m.\\nJohn Gould. 5. Abigail, b. Sept. 19, 1766 resides at New\\nIpswich. 6. Reuben, b. April 3, 1768 m. Lois Crosby; she\\nd. 1809 he d. 1817. 7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaiah, b. Feb. 3, 1770; m. Hepsey\\nJones, at Boston, 1799; d. 1811. 8. Josiah, b. July 27, 1771\\nm. Betsey Shedd d. at Hampden, Me. 1848. 9. Betsey^ b.\\nJune 11, 1773; m. Simeon Stetson, resides at Hampden, Me.\\n10._Joanna, b. Oct. 11, 1775 d. 1796. 11.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia, b. Feb.\\n2, 1777 m. Stephen Jones of Ash by. 12. Jeremiah, b. March\\n12 died in Maine. In 1844, seven of the daughters above\\nnamed, met together at the house of one of them, (Mrs. Gould,)\\ntheir united ages being 532 years. They had not all been\\npresent, at the same time, since the funeral of their father, more\\nthan fifty years previous. Five of them are still living, from\\n75 to 90 years of age probably the most remarkable case of\\nlongevity which has ever occured in town.\\nIV. Joseph Kidder (s. of Thomas) came here in 1750, set-\\ntled on the farm afterwards mostly owned by Hon. Charles\\nBarrett and Judge Champney. His house stood on the spot\\nnow occupied by the residence of John Preston, Esq., and he,\\nno doubt, planted the magnificent elm, still so prominent an\\nornament of the village. He removed to Temple about 1770,\\nwhere he died in 1817, se. 93. He m. Rebecca Wilder. Ch.\\n1. Wilder, b. March 15, 1753 was living in New York\\nState in 1840. 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rebecca, b. Aug. 27, 1754. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sibyl, b.\\nMarch 24, 1756. 4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Susannah, b. Oct. 17, 1757. 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia,\\nb. Oct. 17, 1759. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Molly, b. Nov. 1, 1761. 7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph,\\nb. Aug. 22, 1763. 8.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Calvin, b. Aug. 22, 1765. 9.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rhoda,\\nb. Sept. 12, 1767.\\nIV. Aaron Kidder, (brother of the above,) came here about\\n1750. He resided near Dea. E. Adams, Jr. (XV. 1) was\\none of the first commanders of the military company, and\\nJ", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0442.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 407\\nheld some other town offices. He died very suddenly, Nov.\\n16, 1769, cB. 50. He m. May 19, 1749, at Marlboro Rachel\\nBush she d. 1815, 8b. 90. Ch. (whose bhth are on town rec-\\nords) 1. Aaron, b. Nov. 18, 1764. 2. Luther, b. June\\n29, 1767. 3. Submit, b. Feb. 8, 1770. Also, Thomas, Joan,\\nLucy, Rachel, Eunice, not recorded.\\nV. Thomas Kidder, (s. of Aaron,) was a soldier in the rev-\\nolution m. Ruth. Ch. 1. Thomas, b. 1777 d. in Vermont.\\n2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin, b. 1778. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sara, b. 1780.\\nV. Aaron Kidder, (s. of Aaron,) m. Elizabeth Bush Ch.\\n1. Aaron Bush, b. 1790. 2. Luther, b. 1792; 3. Jeremiah,\\nb. 1794. 4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Carter, b. 1795. 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Betsey, b. 1796.\\n6. Benjamin F., b. 1799. 7. Thomas, b. 1801. 8. Joanna,\\nb. 1803. 9.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elmina, b. 1806. 10.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Louisa, b. 1807.\\nV. Isaiah Kidder, (s. of Reuben,) m. Hepsey Jones, 1798.\\nCh. 1. Ann, resides in Cambridge. 2. Sophia m. C. G.\\nSalinus, resides in Charleston, S. C. has four ch. 3. Fred-\\neric, m. Harriet M. Hagar is a merchant, resides in Boston.\\n4. Edward m. Ann Potter resides at Wilmington, N. C.\\nhas six ch. 5. Harriet, m. Charles Wood d. 1849. 6.\\nGeorge, d. 1815. 7. Isaiah, d. 1822.\\nV. Reuben Kidder, (s. of Reuben,) graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College settled as a lawyer at Waterville, Me. m.\\nLois Crosby. He d. in Indiana in 1817. Ch. 1. George\\nd. young. 2. Henry d. at Port au Prince, ae. 15. 3. Ca-\\nMiLLus m. Sarah Herrick resides at Baltimore. 4. Jerome\\nG. resides in Boston.\\nVI. Edward Kidder, (s. of Isaiah,) m. Ann Potter. Ch.\\n1. Edward Hartwell, b. at Cambridge Aug. 11, 1840. 2.\\nGeorge Wilson. 3. Susan Smith. 4. Gilbert Potter.\\n5. Frederic 6. Anne, b. 1851. The last five were born\\nat Wilmington, N. C.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0443.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "408\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\ni%-\\nwas the son of Thomas, who\\nwas the grandson of the imigrant ancestor of the name. He\\nwas born in that part of the ancient town of Chelmsford, now\\nWestford, in 1723 of his youth but httle can now be ascer-\\ntained. He had the misfortune to lose his father when only six\\nyears of age, and he and his brothers had to struggle with all\\nthe difficulties incident to a state of orphanage. Notvvith-\\nstanding this, he obtained the rudiments of an education supe-\\nrior to most of the young men of that day, and it did much to\\ngive him that station in life he subsequently reached.\\nHis first step in the world beyond his native town was as a\\nsurveyor, and owing to the number of new townships then\\nbeing laid out, and the constant sale of lands, the office was\\nan important one to the community, and generally lucrative to\\nthe possessor. Among the benefits it conferred, not the least\\nwas in making him acquainted with the locations, value and\\nclaimants of the various tracts of land which had been so\\nfreely granted by the General Court about this period. It is", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0444.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 409\\nsupposed that in this way he first became acquainted with the\\nsituation of New Ipswich, whicli by the running of the State\\nhue, had been taken from its original grantees, wliile the\\nFrench and Indian wars of 1748 had caused almost an aban-\\ndonment of its territory by the few settlers who had com-\\nmenced preparing a home in that wilderness. With a spirit\\nof enterprise so characteristic of him in after life, ^ve find him,\\nas soon as this war had closed, making purchases of some of\\nthe Ipswich grantees of their dormant rights, at merely nomi-\\nnal prices, and in the spring of 1749 had obtained a title to\\nabout four shares. He was the most prominent person in\\nmaking arrangements for a new title, with Col. Blanchard as\\nagent for the Masonian proprietors, and this was soon effected,\\nand a Proprietory organization established in April 1750. In\\nthis instrument he, as well as his brother Joseph, are named\\namong the grantees, and called residents of the town, but it is\\nnot supposed he was permanently here, until two or three\\nyears after. It was by his influence and exertions that a large\\nnumber of young men, natives of old Chelmsford, including\\nWestford, were induced to buy lands and become settlers\\nhere, and it is a well-known fact that we are indebted to that\\ntown for a larger emigration than any other.\\nMany of them purchased farms of Col. Kidder, who was a\\nlarge land-seller both of his own and that of the Masonian\\nproprietors, who soon constituted him their agent. A venera-\\nble man, who well remembers him, and whose opinion gives\\nit weight, says that Col. K. may be said to have been, for the\\nfirst twenty years of his residence here, the father of the town.\\nIn 1754 he was married to Susannah Burge, a native of the\\nsame town as himself, and in the spring of that year she ac-\\ncompanied him to the new township, making the twenty-fifth\\nmarried woman here. Mr. Kidder had probably almost a free\\nchoice in the location of his farm, and whether he was most\\ninfluenced by its suitableness as a farm, or the beauty of its\\nscenery, is not known. It is to be supposed that the first was\\nthe strongest incentive, but from his known good taste we\\npresume he did not overlook the latter certain it is, that no-\\nwhere in the town could a more attractive spot have been\\nselected. For his house he chose a location gently sloping\\n52", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0445.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "410 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nto the south, while in front and on the left extended noble\\nmeadows for nearly half a mile in extent, which those indus-\\ntrious animals the beavers, as advanced pioneers, had already-\\ncleared of the forest, and constructed dams, the remains of\\nwhich a century have not obliterated, and so extensive, that\\nthis was then the broadest surface which was opened to the\\nrays of the sun in the township. On the north was a conical\\nhill, then covered with a thick grove of beech, which gave it\\nthe name still retained to the present time; while to the west,\\nat the distance of only half a mile, was a range of mountains,\\nthe most prominent of which, for a century has borne the\\nname of the Kidder Mountain, and will serve to perpetuate\\nhis name to generations yet to come. On this farm, then said\\nto be a mile in length, he commenced in the summer of 1750,\\nthe process of cultivation, and having several men in his em-\\nploy, he was enabled to pursue it with energy, and the virgin\\nsoil yielded abundant crops of grain, while the beaver mea-\\ndows brought, with little labor, large crops of hay, an article\\nwhich is not soon obtained in a new settlement. He soon\\nturned his attention to the culture of fruit, on a very extensive\\nscale, and previous to the Revolution had one of the largest\\nand most valuable orchards in New England, containing the\\nrarest varieties of apples and pears of the former it is very\\ndoubtful if any one orchard can at the present day, with all\\nthe boasted improvements in Pomology, be found, containing\\na greater variety of valuable kinds and while it has been\\nsuffered to go to decay, and many kinds to become extinct, its\\nscions are still flourishing from the Penobscot to the Ohio.\\nHe erected the first mill in this region, and made annually\\nthree to four hundred barrels of cider, a beverage then univer-\\nsal and indispensable in every family. All his enterprises\\nseem to have been successful, and he soon attained an influ-\\nence and respect much more extensive than any other man\\nwithin a dozen miles. A large part of the province was then\\nowned by residents of Portsmouth, where his business often\\ncalled him. He was on intimate terms with Gov. Wentworth,\\nfor whom he had a great respect, and from him he received\\na commission appointing him his Majesty s Justice of the\\nPeace, which contained much larger powers than in more", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0446.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 411\\nrecent times. Under this, he exercised almost supreme sway,\\nand his decisions were potential through this and the adjacent\\ntowns. After the county was organized, he, with some others,\\nheld a Quarterly court at Amherst, with probably more form\\nand as much dignity as the Superior Court now shows. In\\n1762 the Proprietors wishing an incorporation as a town, he\\nwas delegated to go down to court and obtain the charter,\\nwhich he did, and was appointed to call the first meeting.\\nAfter this charter expired, he went again the second time, and\\nafterwards presided at the reorganization of the town.\\nAbout 1770, Gov. Wentworth conferred on him the title of\\nColonel of a regiment of militia, which was then a responsible\\noffice, and this appointment was probably the principal reason\\nfor the course he subsequently took in the Revolution. From\\nthe Masonian proprietors he received the grant, under certain\\nrestrictions, of a township of land, afterwards called Camden,\\n(from the celebrated British statesman of that name, who was\\na friend of Gov. Wentworth,) but subsequently named Wash-\\nington. This grant was upon condition of his settling a certain\\nnumber of families, building roads, c., and in this enterprise\\nCol, K. expended much time and money, but the Revolu-\\ntion and the subsequent pecuniary difficulties which afflicted\\nthe country, prevented him from realizing his expectations of\\nprofit. After his death, through the exertions of his son Isaiah,\\nthe family realized what he had earlier anticipated. The\\nmansion at the head of this article was mainly built by him,\\nabout one hundred years ago, and the front added a dozen\\nyears later. In the parlor was a chimney-piece of slate, highly\\nornamented and wrought under his direction, the centre-piece\\nrepresenting the family Coat of arms, and in this room\\npaper hangings were first introduced, which antedated every\\nother house in town at least a dozen years. He also owned\\nand used the first carriage within twenty miles a gentleman\\nnow living says he well remembers when the Colonel used to\\ncome out of church, hand his wife into the curricle, and when\\nseated, his colored man Cesar would rein up his span of black\\nhorses and drive to his residence, much to the admiration of a\\nlarge portion of the congregation, all of whom either came on\\nhorseback or on foot. Col. Kidder assisted in the oraraniza-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0447.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "412 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ntion of the church, and was at first a member, but subse-\\nquently adopted more hberal views in rehgion, and both he\\nand his wife would, at this day, be claimed as Unitarians\\nbut he always paid cheerfully the largest sum of any person\\nto the support of Mr. Farrar.\\nAt the commencement of the Revolution he held two offices\\nunder the King, and many of his friends were among the\\nroyal party. Having so high an opinion of the power of Eng-\\nland, and amid strong conservative influences, it is not strange\\nthat he should have viewed the measures of the patriots as\\ninjudicious, and calculated to prove disastrous to all engaged\\nin them. Declining to act under the authority of a Commit-\\ntee of Safety or the Provincial Congress, he was super-\\nseded in his military command by an act passed in 1775, and\\nfrom that time seems to have devoted himself to his private\\naffairs alone. Although he always expressed his opinions\\nfreely as averse to the war, and therefore must have been\\nextermely unpopular, still the respectability of his character\\nseems to have preserved him from any of the annoyances\\nwhich many of the loyalists of that day had to encounter. He\\npaid his full proportion, which was the greatest of any person\\nin town, towards carrying on the war, to which, from princi-\\nple, he was opposed, and which proved so disastrous to his\\npecuniary interests. In person he was tall, of a dignified ap-\\npearance, courteous and affable to his friends and respectful\\nto all, and in his numerous business relations was honorable\\nand just. He died in 1793, aged 70. His widow survived\\nhim thirty-two years, and died in 1824, aged 88. For their\\nchildren see Genealogical table.\\nKidder, Isaiah (s. of Reuben,) was born at the mansion\\nhouse of the family in 1770. In his boyhood he made consid-\\nerable progress in the common schools, and afterwards finished\\nhis education at the Academy, under the tuition of Mr. Hub-\\nbard. In early manhood, for some two or three years, he kept\\none of the district schools, and there are yet living some among\\nhis pupils who well remember his encouraging voice and pleas-\\nant smile.\\nAt the death of his father in 1793, he took charge of his ex-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0448.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0449.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0450.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "KIDDER FAMILY. 413\\ntensive affairs, and, in a few years, settled the estate, and made\\nvaluable the land titles that had been in confusion. In Feb.\\n1799, he commenced trade at Mason Village, then called Mason\\nHarbor. By his enterprise and fair dealing, he soon won the\\nconfidence of the community, and, as his was the only store\\nin Mason, Temple or Wihon, his trade was extensive and lu-\\ncrative. He continued this business successfully, for about six\\nyears, and when it was closed he said that thirty dollars would\\ncover all his losses by bad debts.\\nHe was one of the originators of the turnpike, in which he\\nmade a large investment, and of which he was long time a\\ndirector. He erected the large building, and occupied it as a\\nstore till his death, which has for many years been used as the\\nonly public house in the village.\\nIn 1S04 he purchased the farm where he was born, and to\\nwhich he was much attached and, although no practical farm-\\ner, still he continued to pursue it as a matter of taste. It was\\nhis pleasure to plan and put in operation various improvements\\nin agriculture. In this connection, he was the first to introduce\\nmerino sheep into this part of the country, which has resulted\\nin a great benefit to the community at large.\\nIn 1806 he purchased of the Hon. Charles Barrett his in-\\nterest in the first Cotton Factory. Up to that time, its opera-\\ntions had been limited to merely the process of spinning yarns\\nbut Mr. K. had closely examined the subject, and foretold that\\nthe manufacture of cotton into various fabrics was to be a great\\ninterest in New England, and, if pursued with energy, would\\nbe of much importance to the town. He commenced in the\\nestablishment as principal manager, and it was known under\\nthe firm of Isaiah Kidder Co. With a sanguine spirit, he\\nsoon began the manufacture of various kinds of goods, such as\\nstripes, checks, ginghams, and velvets, and for this purpose pro-\\ncured various fixtures till then unknown in the country and\\nas no persons proper to carry on these projects were to be\\nfound, they were procured from England and Scotland. A\\nlong series of experiments had to be gone through with, and a\\nlong time elapsed before the goods were produced. Much diffi-\\nculty occurred in making sales. They were sent to the South,\\nand sometimes to Canada but prejudice was very strong", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0451.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "414 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nagainst home manufactures, and their introduction was. con-\\nsequently, exceedingly slow. It was left to later times and\\nother persons to mature and carry out such enterprises suc-\\ncessfully, and to reap the fruits of which he had first planted\\nthe seed.*\\nIn 1810 he was chosen to represent the town in the Legisla-\\nture, and again in 1811. No man was ever more popular in\\nthe town, or more interested for its prosperity. He was one of\\nthe Trnstees of the Academy, and its warm friend.\\nIn the spring of 1811, he was attacked by a fever, to which,\\nafter a few weeks illness, he fell a victim. He died on the\\n28th of April, aged 41, in the midst of his active business,\\nwith many plans for future usefulness, and the prosperity of\\nhis native town unfulfilled. One of his associates has recent-\\nly said, his mind in regard to many of the great enterprises\\nof the day was at least twenty years in advance of his time,\\nand, had he lived, he would have been one of the first to have\\ntaken a leading part in some of the great projects of manufac-\\ntures and intercommunication which have so benefitted New\\nEngland.\\nIn all his various transactions he was high-minded and\\nhonorable, and he always commanded the respect of a numer-\\nous acquaintance, and left not an enemy in the world. His\\nfuneral was very numerously attended. A sermon was preach-\\ned by the Rev. Mr. Hill of Mason, from which the following\\nextract is made\\nTo the mournful catalogue of such names of departed\\nworth as a Bartlett, a Farrar, a Barrett and a Champney, you\\nnow have to add the name of Kidder. The general grief is\\nhis best eulogy. It shews you are not insensible to the worth\\nof the man, and of the loss society sustains in his death.\\nPossessed of a strong mind, cultivated by a good education,\\nand enriched by reading and observation, his judgment was\\nsound, active and enterprising. He was capable of much busi-\\nness and very extensive usefulness. Warmly interested in the\\nHis death was noticed in the Day Book kept at the Factory, by a black line\\ndrawn across the page. This still remains. It was significant of a mournful\\nchange in that establishment as, deprived of its head, it lingered for a few years,\\nan unprofitable concern, and finally became almost a total loss.\\n4", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0452.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "KNOWLTON FAMILY. 415\\nprosperity of his country, and vigilant to promote the common\\nwelfare, he justly merited the confidence of his fellow-citizens.\\nJust rising into public life, ah how are all our fond expecta-\\ntions cut olf.\\nKinney, Samuel, was here before 1762 he was several\\ntimes elected a selectman, and held other town offices.\\nWith several adult sons he resided on the Capt. Bailey farm.\\nHe was among those who took an active part in the Shaker\\nmeetings. During the summer of 1777 he and his son Samuel\\nwere engaged as carpenters in erecting for Col. Thomas Heald\\nwhat has since been known as the Estabrook Tavern, when\\nthey both took the small-pox from a discharged soldier, and\\ndied. They were buried near the road, between the brick\\nschool-house and the river.\\nKnight, Enos, was b. at Salem, but came here from Tops-\\nfield in 1781, and purchased the farm of the Hon. Charles\\nBarrett, on what is now known as Knight s Hill. He was\\nthree times married, and had a number of children, most of\\nthem settled in Hancock and Antrim. He died 1804, se. 74.\\nHis wife Louisa (or Lovis) d. 1788, as. 62 his wife (Mrs.\\nMary Estabrook,) d. 1797, se. 57; his 3d wife d. 1802. His\\nson Elijah resided here on the farm inherited from his father\\ntill his death he d. in 1828, and his only dan. Hepsy m.\\nEphraim Spoor, who resided on the farm with her father lill\\nher death. They had four surviving children, the eldest of\\nwhom, Elijah K., is a police officer in Boston.\\nKnowlton, Benjamin, (s. of Benjamin,) was b. in Ipswich,\\nwas here in 1752, settled in the nortbeast part of the town on\\nthe farm lately occupied by Capt. Chickering, (22, N. D.)\\nm. Phebe Children,\\nPhebe, b. 1752; Benjamin, b. 1753; Henry, b. 1756; Lydia,\\nb. 1758; Esther, b. 1761; Sarah, b. 1764; John, b. 1766;\\nEunice, b. 1769, m. Luke Rice 1791 Bethia, b. 1771, d. 1777;\\nHannah, b. 1776. Removed to New York with his son Ben-\\njamin previous to 1808.\\nJohn removed to the south part of the town, and m. Sally\\nHolden and several of their descendants now reside in town.\\nHe d. 1838, se. 71 his wife d. 1841, se. 65.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0453.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "416\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\nLee, Samuel, (s. of Samuel,) was born at Berlin, Ct. March\\n18, 1803 his father was the grandson of John Lee, who was\\none of the original proprietors of Farmington, Ct. Mr. Lee\\ngraduated at Yale College in 1827, studied Theology in the\\nSeminary connected with that Institution, was settled as Pas-\\ntor of the Evangelical Church in Sherburne, Mass., Nov.\\n4th, 1830. Having received a call to become pastor of the\\nchurch in this town, he was dismissed from Sherburne, May\\n5, 1836, and soon after installed here. Mr. Lee s ministry\\nhere has been energetic and useful, and we trust will be long\\ncontinued.\\nHe was m. to Emily Fiske of Natick, Nov. 3, 1834 she d.\\nMarch 5, 1843. He m. 2d, Lydia Coggeswell Wentworth of\\nConcord, N. H. Ch.\\nSarah Fiske, b. Sept. 14, 1838 Samuel Wentworth, b.\\nSept. 12, 1847; John Wentworth, b. April 3, 1852.\\nMansfield, Daniel, was here from Lynnfield in 1765. His\\nfarm was on the town line, near Mason Village, and is still oc-\\ncupied by his grandson. He d. 1816, sup. about ae. 75. By\\nhis wife Lydia, had ch. Jacob, b. 1766 Daniel, b. 1768", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0454.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "NEWELL FAMILY. 417\\nLydia, b. 1769; Joel, b. 1771; Polly, b, 1773; Thomas, b.\\n1775 Betsey, b. 1779 Israel, b, 1781 David, b. 1777, d.\\nyoung; Newell, b. 1784; Willum, b. 1786; Sally, b. 1788.\\nTwo of his sons emigrated to Maine soon after the revolution.\\nNewell, Ebenezer, came here from Lynnfield in 1780. He\\nowned the farm now belonging to Mr. Isaac Stearns. He d.\\nin 1783, and, at his own request, was buried in his orchard.\\nNewell, Elijah, (s. of the above,) m. Hannah Gill. Ch.\\nWilliam, b. 1790, d. 1845; Nancy, b. 1793; Hannah, b. 1792;\\nJames, b. 1795 Clarissa, b. 1797 Louisa, b. 1802. Mr. N.\\ndied in 1851, se. about 84.\\nNewell, Onesimus, (s. of Ebenezer,) b. in Lynnfield. He\\ncame here about 1785. In his 19th year, he marched for the\\nfield of battle on Bunker Hill, but did not arrive in season to\\ntake part in the engagement. He was with the army at\\nRhode Island, under Gen. Sullivan, and was for some time in\\nthe garrison at Ticonderoga. He afterwards left the army,\\nand entered the Naval service, and at Penobscot, after a brave\\nresistance, was compelled to jump overboard and swim ashore,\\nin order to avoid being captured. Soon after this, he engaged\\non board a privateer, in the capacity of gunner, and while in\\nthe act of elevating his piece, was wounded by a grape shot,\\nwhich entered his mouth, passed out under his ear, and then\\nstruck his shoulder. The enemy s ship was taken. Although\\nhis wounds were severe, he soon recovered, but his mouth was\\nmuch distorted. He again entered a privateer, was taken by\\nthe enemy and carried to Newfoundland, was soon exchanged\\nand continued in the Naval service till the end of the war-\\nHe died in 1833, se. 76 his first wife d. 1786 m. Lydia\\nCh. Ebenezer, b. 1789, grad. Harvard Coll. 1818 Samuel,\\nb. 1791; Seth, b. 1794; Sarah, b. 1796; Mary, b. 1798;\\nLucy, b. 1800.\\nParker, Joseph, came here about 1766; settled, first, ad-\\njoining the Gould farms (44 N. D.), then on the Fox farm,\\nand afterwards on a part of the Chandler farm. Capt. Parker\\nseems to have been fitted by nature for the part he was to act\\n53", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0455.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "418 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nin this town, particularly during the Revolution. He was a\\ndaring, energetic man, and had considerable influence over a\\ncertain class. He commanded a company of militia, and was\\nprompt to march wherever his services were needed. He\\nwas at Cambridge, Ticonderoga, Rhode Island, and at the\\ntaking of Burgoyne. He was very popular with his soldiers.\\nHe died 1807, a). 66 his wife died 1812, a3. 90. Ch.\\nJoseph, b. 1767, removed to Lempster. Zachariah, b. 1770,\\ncarried on the potash business removed to Ludlow, Vt.\\nAmos, b. 1773, removed to Lempster. Susannah, b. 1774, d.\\n1781. Asa, b. 1777. John, b. 1779. Betty, b. 1783, d. 1807.\\nSarah, b. 1785, m. Sampson Tenney, lives in Illinois. Lydia,\\nb. 1789 none of his descendants reside in town,\\nParker, Jonathan, (brother of Joseph,) was an early settler,\\na soldier and pensioner, pious, lived a bachelor, somewhat\\neccentric in his character, and d. 1820, eb. 69.\\nParker, Stephen, (s. of Stephen,) b. in Shrewsbury 1738,\\ncame here in 1765, and resided in the northeast part of the\\ntown (36 N. D.) In 1777 he was a lieutenant in the compa-\\nny of militia he enlisted a company, of which he was com-\\nmissioned captain; the members were from this town and\\nPeterborough the list of them will be found in another part\\nof this work. With this company he marched from here\\nabout the 5th of July. Near the head of Lake Champlain he\\nhad a fight with some tories and Indians, whom he defeated,\\nand soon after joined the army under Gen. Gates. He remov-\\ned to Nelson about 1780, and afterwards to Walpole, where\\nhe d. 1814, 86. 77. He m. Mary Morse 1760. Ch.\\nJonathan, b. 1761; Almorin, b. 1764; Stephen, b. 1766;\\nMolly, b. 1768; Nehemiah, b. 1770; Hezekiah, b. 1772;\\nElijah, b. about 1776 grad. at Dart. College is a lawyer,\\nand now resides in Keene.\\nParker, Obadiah, came here from Groton in 1766 he re-\\nsided in No. 1, now Mason, on the town line, where his dau.\\nHannah was born in 1754. He d. 1764.\\nParker, Samuel, from Groton, was here in 1760 lived on", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0456.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "PRATT FAMILY. 419\\nChampney farm. His ch. were: Abigail, b. 1762, m. Judge\\nChampney Ebenezer, b. 1759, m. dau. Silas Richardson, and\\nkept tavern where Esquire Preston hves Agnes, b. 1761, d.\\n1766; Samuel, b. 1762 Sarah, b. 1764; Mercy, b. 1766, m.\\nBenj. Champney, Esq. d. Jeremiah, b. 1767; Anne, b.\\n1769; Sampson, b. 1771 Reuben, b. 1773, d. 1775 he d. 1806,\\nhis wife Abigail d. 1786, se. 54.\\nParker, Samuel, (s. of Samuel,) lived here in early life, and\\nremoved to Stoddard. Among his children were: Sally, m.\\nCaleb Farrar Phebe, m. Jonas Champney, and afterwards\\nE. H. Farrar, Esq. Samuel, who d. 1812. ge. 25 Luther\\ntaught school in Boston; Abigail. His wife Sarah d. 1816.\\nPerham, Samuel, a native of Hollis was here in 1750. He,\\nas well as his brother, were employed by Col. Kidder, and\\nlived on the road west of him. His son Asa d. by sickness in\\nthe army during the revolution.\\nPerham, Ezekiel, (bro. of the above) was here about the\\nsame time.\\nPratt, John, a native of Reading, came here in 1767, set-\\ntled in the west part of the town (XV. 3.) He had several\\nchildren. He d. 1799, ee. 75 his wife d. 1812, se. 88.\\nPratt, John, (s. of the above,) came here in 1785, and suc-\\nceeded his father on the farm now owned by the town. He\\nhad received a good education for those times, and was much\\nemployed in the business of the town. He was very firm in\\nhis opinions when once formed was an energetic and suc-\\ncessful farmer, and became quite wealthy. His house was\\nburned in 1806. He d. Feb. 4, 1816, se. 67 his wife Hannah\\ndied four days after, se. 74.\\nThey had no children, but Pratt s Pond and Mountain will\\nperpetuate the name. His estate, now the Poor House Farm,\\nfell into the hands of his brother-in-law, Nathan Robbins.\\nThe following account of the burning of his house was written\\nat the lime, by Miss Ruth Bacheller\\nDec. 29, 1806. This morning the most melancholy event", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0457.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "420 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nhas occured that ever took place in town The house of Lieut.\\nJohn Pratt was consumed by fire. J. J., who is a foreigner,\\nrose at about four o clock in the morning, and on coming out\\nof his chamber, his astonished eyes beheld the flames around\\nthe chimney extending to the floor above. After a general\\nalarm to the reposing family, he sprang to the east chamber,\\nwhere his daughter, a Mrs. Wheeler, slept. She arose, and\\nfondly clasping her son of three years old, went down into the\\nkitchen, which was filled with fire and smoke.\\nAfter a fruitless attempt to pass a door, she turned back,\\nfell at the broad stair, and dropped her child but recovering\\nherself, fled before the dreadful enemy. The foreigner, after\\nawakening an elder son of Mrs. Wheeler s, now sought in\\nvain for the child, and prevented the frantic mother from rush-\\ning into the flames to save her oflspring. He, with the mo-\\nther and the young man, escaped by jumping from a window.\\nMr. Pratt ran to the opposite side of the house, and broke\\nin a window, through which he drew his aged mother. The\\nbones of the child were afterwards found. Of the property\\nnothing was saved.\\nPratt, Nathaniel, (probably brother of John, sen r.) came\\nabout the same time, and settled near him.\\nPratt, Phinehas, came from Dunstable, and settled on the\\nCarleton place had a large family, among whom was Rev.\\nPhinehas Pratt, and Hannah, wife of Rev. Thomas Fletcher.\\nMr. Pratt d. 1848, se. S3.\\nPrentice, Nathaniel, (s. of William Henry,) b. 1755; came\\nhere from Westford, where he had learned the trade of a cloth-\\nier, about 1778. He was employed by John Warner, who had\\na few years previous erected clothing works on the Falls where\\nthe Mountain Water Loom Cotton Mill now stands. He soon\\nbecame a partner in the establishment, and, a few years later,\\npurchased Mr. Warner s share, and for more than twenty years\\ncarried on the clothing business. He was an industrious, wor-\\nthy man. He was descended from Henry Prentice, who was\\nat Cambridge as early as 1G40. He removed to Peterboro\\nwhere he died. He m. Anna Hoar, and they had ch.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0458.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0459.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": ",/A", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0460.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "PRESTON FAMILY. 421\\nWilliam Henry, b. 1781 m. Sarah Whipple, at Boston\\nNancy, b. 1783, m. Isaac Packard Polly, b. 1785, m. Wil-\\nliam Salter Nathaniel, b. 1787, m. Sarah Chapman Alfred,\\nd. yomig John, b. 1791, d. young; Alfred 2d, b. 1793, d.\\nyoung Patty, b. 1795, m. James Holbrook Sumner, b.\\n1798, m. Nancy Wright Lona, b. 1800, m. James Perham\\nLucy, b. 1803, d. young.\\nWilliam Henry, named above, was b. at the residence of\\nhis grandfather, Capt. Hoar, (see cut. p. 391.) Cast upon the\\nworld with only the good principles of his parents to guide\\nhim, at an early age he found his way to Boston, where his in-\\ndnstry and perseverance soon opened the way for a successful\\nbusiness, which has long been pursued with an increasing re-\\nputation for integrity. Many of his old friends have partaken\\nof his hospitable house, and been enlivened by the stories of\\nhis boyhood, which was spent along the Souhegan, where his\\nmemory still loves to linger. He m. Sally Whipple, and a\\nlarge and happy family are the result of this union.\\nTHE PRESTON FAMILY.\\nDr. John, the first of the name in this town, was the son of\\nCapt. Samuel of Littleton, who was a descendant of John of\\nAndover. The family were in Andover as early as 1672, and\\nCapt. Samuel, with his wife Hannah, settled at Littleton about\\n1728. He was an active and influential man in the town be-\\nfore the Revolution, and, besides serving in his mihtary capac-\\nity, was town Treasurer, and in other town offices. His ch.\\nJames, b. Jan. 10, 1729 Hannah, b. July 1733 John, b. Sept.\\n22, 1738 settled in New Ipswich Mary, b. May 13, 1742\\nPeter, b. Feb. 17, 1743. At the age of 18 years, Dr. John\\nserved one campaign at least, as a soldier in the company of\\nhis father in the French War in 1756. The particulars of his\\nearly education, which was probably defective, are not known\\nbut, at the early age of 22 years, in 1760, he settled in this", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0461.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "422 FAMILY HISTORY.\\ntown as a physician. Thus, in one year, two of the learned\\nprofessions were filled by two active young men of the same\\nage, and, in a few years more, the other also. Nov. 29, 17G4,\\nDr. Preston married Rebecca Farrar, the sister of the minister.\\nHe became skilful and popular in his profession, and for more\\nthan forty years retained exclusive possession of the ground,\\nexcept that, in the latter part of his life, he took his son into\\npartnership, and, at his decease, left the whole practice in his\\nhands. As a citizen, he was zealous, active and influential in\\nall matters of general and political interest in the town. After\\nthe incorporation in 1762, he was elected one of the first board\\nof Selectmen, and he often served the town as Representative\\nin the General Court, and in other town offices. In 1782, on\\nthe resignation of Judge Farrar, he was chosen a member of\\nthe Convention for framing the State Constitution. During the\\nRevolution, he was one of our most ardent Whigs, and did\\nmuch to encourage the people to make the great exertions they\\ndid in aid of the common cause. Anecdotes of his wit and\\nhumor as a legislator have come down to our time, and the\\nrecords of the town still preserve memorials of this trait in his\\ncharacter. He built the large house where his descendants\\nstill live, and resided there till his death, which occurred Feb.\\n17, 1803, in his 65th year. His wife survived him more than\\n26 years. See ante, Farrar Family. Their ch. were\\n1. Rebecca, b. July 16, 1768, m. Aug. 10, 1791, John Hub-\\nbard, grad. Dartmouth 1785. 2. John, b. Feb. 15, 1770. 3. Lu-\\ncy, b. Dec. 3, 1771, m. Oct. 16, 1794, Thos. Bancroft, of Pep-\\nperell, who d. 1846. 4. Lydia, b. Oct. 26, 1774, m. Josiah\\nBellows, and lived at Lancaster, N. H. 5. Hannah, b. Jan.\\n8, 1776, lived unmarried, and died at Lancaster with her sister.\\n6. Mary, b. June 5, 1777, lives unmarried at the family man-\\nsion in N. I. 7. Samuel, b. June 24, 1778, m. daughter of\\nTimothy Taylor, Esq. of Dunstable removed to Norwalk, O.,\\nwhere he followed the vocation of editor and printer of a news-\\npaper till his decease. On the evening of March 3, 1852, in\\ndescending his office stairs; he fell and fractured his skull, so\\nthat he died the next morning in his 74th year. It is said he\\nwas much respected, filled reputably a number of responsi-\\nble offices, and left not a personal enemy. 8. Stephen Far-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0462.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "PRESTON FAMILY. 423\\nRAR, b. June 2, 1780, m. Hannah Kimball, and lives in N. I.\\n9. Timothy Farrar, b. June 2, 1780, lives unmarried at the\\nmansion house of his father. 10. Peter, b. June 20, 1782\\nd. a young man at Cape Breton. 11. Nancy, b. August 10,\\n1784, m. Oct. 1808, Seth King, who d. 1851. The widow and\\nsome of her children live with her brother and sister at the\\nold family mansion.\\nJohn, the oldest son of the above, was born Feb. 15, 1770,\\ngrad. Dartmouth 1791. He studied medicine partly with his\\nfather, and partly with Dr. Holyoke of Salem, and opened an\\napothecary s shop and commenced practice as a physician\\nhere, in connection with his father,in Dec. 1794. Jan. 21, 1798,\\nhe m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Ebenezer Champney. Af-\\nter his father s death in 1803, he succeeded to the general med-\\nical practice of the town and, notwithstanding the adjoining\\ntowns were by this time supplied with physicians, he had oc-\\ncasional calls among them. After the Turnpike was built,\\nhe erected on that street the first dwehing house, being at that\\ntime the only one on that road, near the village, except the\\nold parsonage house on the hill, which was appropriated for\\na tavern. To that place he removed his apothecary s shop,\\nand there he lived till his death in 1828. He maintained a re-\\nspectable standing and reputation as a physician, and was a\\ngood citizen. He served as Town Clerk for seventeen years,\\ncommencing in 1802, and several years as Selectman. He\\nwrote a good, round recording hand, and the records bear am-\\nple evidence of his capacity as a Clerk, and occasionally of\\nhis personal feelings and predilections as a townsman. His\\nwife and several children survive him, of whom John, grad.\\nHarvard Coll. 1823, is settled in the practice of law in this\\ntown. Ch.\\nEbenezer C, b. 1799, was an apothecary in Boston, d.\\n1828; Rebecca, b. 1800, d. 1807; John, b. 1802; Eliza, b.\\n1804, m. Elisha L. Hammond; Lucy, b. 1805, m. Francis K.\\nCragin Abigail, b. 1807, m. Benj. B. Brown Maria, b.\\n1809, d. 1830 William Henry, b. 1811 Thomas Bancroft, b.\\n1813 Rebecca, b. 1815, m. Benj. F. Whipple.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0463.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "424 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nTHE PRICHARD FAMILY.\\nThe family of Peichard, Prichett, Prichet, or Pritchard,\\nas it is variously written, came early to this comitry from\\nWales, and some of them were among the earliest settlers of\\nthat part of old Rowley now called Eoxford. Pritchard Pond,\\n(now Perley s,) on the line between these two towns, well\\nknown on the old records, was doubtless near their residence.\\nPaul Prichard, one of the descendants, was born in 1721, and\\nafter having held several offices of honor and trust in that town,\\nremoved to N. I. in 1772, and settled near Mason village on\\nwhat is now known as the Jefts Farm, (N. D. 18.) He was\\none of the most substantial and influential citizens of his da)\\nIn the time of the Revolution, he was a conspicuous member\\nof the Committees of Safety and Correspondence, for giving\\ninstructions to delegates and representatives, for averaging\\nclaims for military service, for examining the Bill of Rights,\\nc. He contributed liberally of his means for the war, and\\nhad two sons in actual service. In 1779 he was chosen repre-\\nsentative to the General Court, and for the three last years of\\nhis life was one of the Selectmen. He died 1787, se. 64. He\\nm. Hannah Perley, whose ancestors settled on the borders of\\nthe same pond as the Prichards. She was a woman of un-\\ncommon energy of body and mind, and could accomplish the\\nordinary labor of three persons. She had made the subject\\nof midwifery a study, and had considerable practice in her\\nnative town. Nor did she confine herself to this branch of\\npractice, but became quite celebrated in scrofula, salt rheum,\\nliver complaint, c., for which her fame was quite extensive.\\nAfter removing to N. I., she had an extensive practice in that\\nand the neighboring towns. She was always ready to answer\\ncalls, and allowed no hour and no weather to detain her and\\nwhen the roads were so blocked up with snow, and the weath-\\ner so tedious that others would quail at the undertaking, and,\\nthough unusually corpulent, she would mount the snow shoes\\nand breast the storm over hill and dale. This she continued\\nto do, until very far advanced in life, to the no small annoy-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0464.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "PRICHARD FAMILY. 425\\nance of the accredited physicians. She survived her husband\\ntwenty-five years, and died 1810, se. 81. Their ch. were:\\n1. Sarah, b. 1750, d. 1785. 2. Amos. 3. Jeremiah. 4. Per-\\nLEY, b. 1757, d. 1775. 5. William. 6. Sarah, b. 1762, m.\\nNehemiah Stratton. 7. Hannah, b. 1764, m. David Sher-\\nwin, parents of Thomas Sherwin, the present distinguished\\nteacher of the Enghsli High School in Boston. 8. John. 9.\\nBenjamin. 10. Stephen all of whom, except the latter were\\nborn in Boxford, and afterwards lived in this town. The\\nsons were all somewhat remarkable as large, athletic men, of\\nsound constitution, and capable of accomplishing a large\\namount of labor.\\nPrichard, Amos, (s. of Paul,) b. 1761, lived on the farm\\nnorth of his father, which was a part of the paternal estate.\\nHe m. Anna Andrews of Boxford. Their ch. were 1. Anna,\\nb. 1776, m. Silas Cragin. 2. Perley, b. 1778, grad. Dartmouth\\nColl., studied medicine, m. Mrs. Stone of Billerica, went to\\nBaltimore, and commenced business, and is supposed to have\\nbeen lost on his passage to the West Indies. 3. Hannah, b.\\n1780, m. Reuben Holden. 4. Sally, b. 1781, m. N. G.\\nDuren (Gould.) 5. Amos, b. 1783, soon after the death of his\\nfather m. Jane Dustin, and lived in West Brookfield, where\\nhe died a few years since. Mr. P. was a carpenter, and died\\nwhile building the Hills house, November 23, 1782, ae. 31.\\nHis wife survived him sixteen years, and died on the Camp-\\nbell place in 1798, as. 50.\\nPrichard, Jeremiah, (s. of Paul) was b. 1754. In 1775, he\\nenlisted in Capt. Town s company, and was at the battle of\\nBunker Hill was afterwards a Lieutenant in the regular ar-\\nmy was at the battle of Hubbardston, and all those connect-\\ned with the taking of Burgoyne, and also at the battle of\\nWhite Plains, where he received a wound, for which he drew\\nan officer s pension during life. After the war, he married\\nElizabeth Smith of HoUis, where he resided a few years, but\\nreturned here, and constructed the tan-yard, wliicli he car-\\nried on for many years. His residence at that time was in the\\nhouse he built near the corner, next south of Mr. Peter Clark s\\nhouse. He afterwards removed to the John Wilkins farm.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0465.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "426\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\nResidence of Dr. Stillman Gibson, (see p. 217.)\\nand built the house now occupied by Dr. S. Gibson, where he\\nresided some years, and then removed to the middle of the\\ntown, to the house next south of the Charles Barrett estate, and\\nthere spent the remainder of his days. He was a man of fine\\npersonal appearance, of great energy and enterprise, brave and\\nresolute, and yet of great dignity and refinement in all his\\nmanners. He had an unusually good common education, wrote\\na beautiful hand, and served the town very many years as\\nClerk, Selectman, Representative, and in numerous minor ca-\\npacities, up to 1802. Chiefly through his eflbrts, the troop of\\ncavalry from this and the neighboring towns was formed, and\\nthe command, which became a sort of heir-loom in the family,\\nwas first held by him. He d. 1813, se. 59. His wife lived\\nmany years afterwards with her son George. Their ch. were\\n1. Jeremiah; 2. Moses, b. 1789, a trader in Concord, Mass.\\nand for many years Sheriff of Middlesex county 3. George\\nW., b. 1792, a trader in Oxford, Vt., where he has been one\\nof the leading men 4. Gilman, a merchant in Boston, and\\none of the first who engaged in the sale of domestic manu-\\nfactures on commission. He was an active member of the\\nchurch in Essex street, and died of consumption about 1835.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0466.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "PRICHARD FAMILY. 427\\nPrichard, William, (s. of Paul.) was born Sept. 19, 1759.\\nHe served in the Continental Army as a three years man, and\\nwas in several battles. He afterwards lived on the farm of\\nhis brother Amos, until, about the year 1810, on the death\\nof his brother-in-law, Charles Cummings, he removed to\\nthe High Bridge, and carried on the saw and grist mill\\nthere, until they were removed to give place to the Souhegan\\nfactory. In his younger days, he was unusually attractive in\\nhis person and manners, and was highly respected through\\nlife. He was Captain of the Troop, and was killed instantly\\nby being thrown from his chaise, 1835, se. 75. He m. Deida-\\nmia, dan. Eleazer Cummings. She was found dead, and her\\nroom on fire and, from appearances, her clothes having\\ntaken fire when about to retire, she was almost instantly suf-\\nfocated 1840, ae. 69. Ch. William, b. 1792, m. Eliza But-\\nman; Asa, b. 1793, m. Caroline Barr; Barnard, b. 1795, d.\\n1846 Deidamia, b. 1797, m. William Johnson, d. 1849\\nCharles C, b. 1799, d. ]800; Charles, b. 1802, d. 1846, se.\\n43; Francis Perley, b. 1803, d. 1807; Caroline, b. 1805, d.\\n1806; Adaline, b. 1807; Sarah, b. 1809.\\nPrichard, John, (s. of Paul,) b. Mar. 25, 1766, m. Lovice,\\ndau. of Josiah Wilkins, and had a large family, several of\\nwhom still reside in town. He was a man of large stature\\nand great strength. He d. 1843. se. 76. His wife d. in 1850.\\nHis son Francis P. d. in 1850, ae. 43, an enterprising and suc-\\ncessful man, enjoying the confidence of his townsmen as a\\nman of good sense and sound judgment. His son William\\nnow owns and resides on the Judge Champney farm.\\nPrichard, Benjamin, (s. of Paul,) b. 1769, was a carpenter,\\nbuilt the Saw and Grist Mills on the south road, and then a\\nsmall Cotton Mill; he also built the house on the Mill Village\\nroad, east of the Campbell house removed to Bedford, N. H.\\nand there built another Cotton Mill, and finally another in\\nBoscawen. He m. Patty Sherwin of Townsend in 1791.\\nAmong his ch. were Alanson, who was drowned at Mason\\nVillage Bernice Cyrene Dexter.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0467.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "428 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nPrichard, Stephen, (s. of Paul,) b. 1772, m. Polly, dan. of\\nWilliam Start lived in the tavern-house on the Village Green,\\nwhere he d. in 1802, se. 30. His widow afterwards married\\nHowe, and removed to Camden, Me., where his descend-\\nants still reside. Among his ch. are William Start of Ban-\\ngor Mary, c.\\nPrichard, Jeremiah, (s. of Jeremiah,) b. 1787; has passed a\\nlong and active life, mostly in town. After the death of his\\nfather he resided several years in the family mansion, and\\ncarried on the Tanyard. He has been much engaged in the\\nservice of the town as Selectman and in other capacities. He\\nwas, like his father, uncle and cousin, Commander of the\\nTroop. He removed to Concord, N. H., about 1816, and then\\nto Boston, and returned to this town about twenty years since.\\nHe m. Nancy Barr, and has a large and most respectable\\nfamily. Their ch. are: Sarah Elizabeth, m. Rev. Reuben\\nBates, d. 1842; George, emigrated to Illinois; Mary Ann, m.\\nDr. T. H. Cochran; Jeremiah, merchant in Boston, and for-\\nmerly American Consul in Porto Rico, m. Helen Vila Henry,\\nresides in Newton Charles C. resides in Boston William\\nW. Martha Jane, m. Jackson Burr Emily, d. 1847, ae. 29.\\nProctor, Oliver, b. in Chelmsford in 1721. Was here in\\n1752. He owned what was afterwards Rev. Mr. Farrar s\\nfarm (37 N. D.), and his house stood near the site of the\\nold Academy, until after the Revolution. The cellar hole is\\nstill to be seen. He probably left town when he disposed of\\nhis land to Rev. Mr. Farrar, about 1761. A Benjamin Proc-\\ntor, his cousin, was here about the same time, and lived at\\nthe northeast part of the town, (27 N. D.)\\nPollard, Joseph, came from Westford in 1764, and settled\\non what is known as the Barr farm (64, new laid out). He\\nbore the title of Adjutant. He m. Ruth Burge of Westford,\\nsister to the wife of Col. Kidder. He d. 1786. Ch.\\nRuth, b. 1765, was the first wife of Capt. Timothy Fox, d.\\n1801; James, b. 1769; Moses, b. 1772; Susannah, b. 1774;\\nSarah, b. 1777, m. David Felt of Temple.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0468.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "SAFFORD FAMILY. 429\\nPollard, Benjamin, (brother of Joseph,) came about the\\nsame time, and built a house near the brook, opposite the\\nHartwell house, now taken down. He had one son, Thomas,\\nwho removed to Enosburg, Vt., about 18U0, where he was a\\nprominent and useful man, and removed to Missouri. A dau.\\nMiLLY d. 1777. He d., and his widow m. Whiting, and\\nhad a dau. Mercy, who lived in the same house many years.\\nSafford, Benjamin, a native of Ipswich, was here before\\n1754. His farm was next south of the Congregational meet-\\ninghouse and the Common. He was often chosen to various\\ntown offices, and was much esteemed as a kind and pious man.\\nHe was remarkable for his punctual attendance at church\\nfor more than fifty years, and used to grope his way up the\\nhill after he was almost totally blind. He was singularly\\nfond of music, and used sometimes publicly to request the\\nsingers to repeat some of the good old tunes of that day. About\\n1800 an innovation was made by introducing a bass viol into\\nmeeting, which gave offence to many persons, one of whom\\nindignantly asked Mr. S. what he thought of the singing that\\nday. I thought I was in heaven, was the enraptured reply\\nof the good old man. He d. 1810, se. 93. His wife Prudence\\nd. 1784, 3 64. Ch.\\nHannait, b. 1755 Ly^dia, b. 1757; Betsey, b. 1759; Lucy, b.\\n1760; Prudence, b. 1763; Benjamin, b. 1764; Reuben, b. 1767.\\nSafford, Benjamin, resided on his birthplace till about 1828,\\nv/hen he d. while on his way to Illinois, where several of his\\nchildren reside. His wife Hannah d. 1807, se. 45. He then\\nm. Lydia Chandler, dau. of Dea. James Chandler.\\nShattuck, William, was here before 1770, and was proba-\\nbly the son of Rev. Mr. Shattuck of Pepperell. He is said to\\nhave been the first man that taught a school in town. His\\nfarm was near the south burying ground (XL 4.) He was an\\nardent patriot during the Revolution, and seems for several\\nyears to have had much influence, and was a delegate to the\\nProvincial Congress in 1775. He removed to JafFrey about\\n1790, where he d. in quite indigent circumstances. His son", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0469.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "430 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nWilliam was a soldier in the Revolution, and was killed by the\\nIndians near Crown Point in 1777. His son Peter buried three\\nwives in town, one of whom was a daughter of John Breed.\\nShattuck, John, came from Pepperell about 1770 m. Betty,\\ndau. of Abel Miles, in 1783, and afterwards removed to Ashby,\\nwhere his ch., John, Daniel, Lemuel and Betsey were born.\\nHe returned here about 1795, and this v/as the birth-place of\\nAbel and Rebecca, who d. 1817, ae. 23. He resided on the farm\\nnow owned by Capt. Willard, (VII. 3.) His wife d. 1798\\nhe d. 1816, se. 70. His second wife, Mrs. Potter, d. 18.51.\\nShattuck, David, from Mason. Ch. Francis, m. dau. Col.\\nThomas Heald d. 1847, se. 48. Shebuel, d. 1846, se. 51.\\nSmith, Abijah, came here from Leominster about 1764. He\\npurchased the farm of Benjamin King, north of the village,\\n(34 N. D.) He had been a soldier in the French War, and\\ncommanded a company from this town for a short period\\nduring the Revolutionary War. He m. Abigail, at Leominster.\\nCh. Abijah, b. 1765 Abigail, b. 1767 Cyrus Lydia, b. 1770,\\nd. 1785; David, b. 1771; Sally, b. 1773; Elijah, b. 1774;\\nRebecca, b. 1776 Samuel, b. 1778 Betsey, b. 1779 Polly,\\nb. 1781 Jeremiah, b. 1782, d. 1808; Relief, b. 1784; Jesse,\\nb. 1785 Lydia and Betsey, twins, b. 1786 he d. 1786.\\nSmith, Abijah, (s. of the above) resided many years on the\\nsame farm; m. in 1796, Hannah Jones. Ch. Jeremiah, Jo-\\nnas, Charles, and others. His house was destroyed by fire in\\n1816. He d. 1825, se. 60. His son, Col. Jeremiah, is a well\\nknown resident, Charles recently died at Mobile, where two\\nother brothers also died.\\nSpaulding, Andrew, of Westford, was one of the grantees\\nunder the Masonian charter, and signed the Covenant at the\\norganization of the church, but probably never permanently\\nresided here. He owned the farm (XI. 3), and had a house\\nnear Mr. Reuben Taylor s was connected by marriage with\\nthe Crosby s, and they and his son probably occupied his lots.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0470.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "SPAULDING FAMILY. 431\\nSpAULniNG, Thomas, (prob. s. of Andrew) was here about\\n1760. He settled on the farm near Mill Village, afterwards\\nowned by his son Stephen. He m. Rachel Chandler, at West-\\nford. Ch. Rachel, b. 1761 Thomas, b. 1763 Stephen, b.\\n1766, d. 1826; Lydia, b. 1768 Ruth, b. 1769, m. Z. Taylor\\nLucy, b. 1772.\\nSpaulding, James, was among the nnmerous families of the\\nname who have resided in town, all of whom were descended\\nfrom Edward Spaulding, who was at Braintree in 1640, and\\nremoved to Chelmsford, where he d. in 1670. James Spauld-\\ning resided here but a few years, and returned to West ford,\\nwhere he d. about 1790. His s. James, who was b. in West-\\nford 1758, settled on the north side of Watatic, just over the\\nAshburnham line, about 1773. Although without its limits,\\nhe was always socially connected with this town, where he\\nwas allowed to pay his minister and school rates, and partici-\\npate in tiiose advantages. For sixty-five years he was a con-\\nstant attendant at church. When the alarm of Concord\\nfight was given, he started immediately for the scene of ac-\\ntion, while his wife and eldest son spent the afternoon of that\\nday upon the summit of Watatic, where they saw the smoke\\nof the burning buildings, and distinctly heard the report of\\nthe British cannon. His wife Hannah (Barron) d. m 1814\\nhe afterwards m. the widow of John Wilkins, and resided on\\nher estate near the meeting-house. He d. June 8, 1832. Among\\nhis numerous family was Jonathan, who was b. at Westford\\nin 1770; was one of the earliest scholars at our Academy, un-\\nder Mr. Hubbard, where he acquired a good education, of\\nmuch use to him and others during his life. He m. Milly, dau.\\nof Capt. James Bennett of Ashby, (a Revolutionary patriot,)\\nand settled in Lempster, N. H. He possessed an active and\\nintelligent mind, and was much engaged in organizing and\\ncarrying on the affairs of that then new town. He raised and\\ncommanded a grenadier company there, which was then the\\nadmiration of the regiment. He removed to this town in 1812,\\nand two years afterwards was prostrated by a paralytic shock,\\nwhich he survived but a few years. He d. in Vermont in", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0471.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "432 FAMILY HISTORY.\\n1823, 86. 52. Two of his sons, (Sewall and James,) were vol-\\nunteer soldiers from this town in 1812; the latter of whom\\nsuffered so much from a severe contagious fever, as entirely to\\nlose his hearing. But notwithstanding this disability, many\\npages of this work will bear evidence to his persevering love\\nof local history. Isaac was another son of James, well known\\nin town.\\nSpear, William, settled here prior to 1760, a little south of\\nthe Batchelder tavern. He was one of those that were se-\\nverely wounded by the falling of Wilton meeting-house, in\\n1773. He d. 1805, aj. 78. Ch.\\nWilliabi, b. 1759, d. 1787. Margaret, b. 1762. Hannah,\\nb. 1765. Lydia, b. 1768. Mary, b. 1770. Joseph, b. 1775,\\nresided on the paternal farm had five children d. suddenly\\nin 1818, from drinking cold water.\\nStart, William, came here about 1770, and resided on the\\nfarm first occupied by Jonathan Stevens, and now owned by\\nMark Farrar (26 N. D.) Married Keziah, dau. of Ebenezer\\nBullard. Ch.\\nSally, d. 1785, se. 13. William, d. 1781. Lucy, d. 1780.\\nGeorge, m. Susan Wood of Pepperell. Polly, m. Stephen\\nPrichard. Ebenezer. George and Ebenezer removed to Cam-\\nden, Me., where their descendants are numerous. He died\\n1784. His wife then m. Col. Ezra Towne, 1788, to whose\\nhouse she afterwards removed and after his death, m. Jona-\\nthan Hartshorne, and returned to her former residence. He\\nd. 1812, 86. 64, and she removed to Maine.\\nStart, George, brother of the preceding, purchased of Jo-\\nseph Stevens his farm (35 N. D.) about 1764. He m. Mary,\\ndau. of Capt. Moses Tucker. Their ch. were,\\nMoses, m. Peggy, dau. of Simeon Gould; removed to Enos-\\nbury, Vt. Polly, m. Robert Nicholas, d. 1834, ae. 61. Amos.\\nSally, m. Peter Powers of Hollis, afterwards a blacksmith in\\nTemple. Leffy, (Relief) George. John. Most of the ch.\\nwent to Vermont when young, where it is believed they still\\nreside. His wife d. 1812, se. 55.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0472.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "STEARNS FAMILY.\\n433\\nJohn Stearns,\\n(son of Charles,) was one\\nthe earliest mhabitants\\nBillerica, having settled ther\\nin 1653. He died in 1669\\ning a son, .Tohn, who was born in 1654, and who held several\\noffices, civil and military. He died 1728; his son John, b.\\n1686, d. 1776, se. 90. His son Isaac, b. 1722, d. 1808, was a\\nmember of the Senate of Massachusetts. His son Isaac, b.\\n1750, removed to Ashburnham 1777, d. 1807, he was a ser-\\ngeant in the Revolutionary army. Jesse, his 2d son, b. 1784,\\nm. Lucinda Davis in 1811 was a school teacher twenty-\\ntwo years. His son, Jesse George Davis, b. 1812, grad. at\\nAmherst College 1836, A. M. 1839, tutor two years, studied\\nDivinity at Andover, ordained at Billerica 1843.\\nEveline Lucinda, b. 1814, educated at our Academy, m.\\nRev. S, S. Tappan of Boston, 1835, d. at Conway, N. H. 1850.\\nJosiAH Milton, b. 1818, grad. at Marshall College, Penn.,\\n1844, studied Theology at Cincinnati, O. settled at Lunen-\\nburg, Vt. 1849.\\nIsaac Crosby, b. 1820.\\nAbigail Mary, b. 1822, educated at our Academy and at\\nMount Holyoke Seminary; m. Rev. Seneca Cummings 1847,\\nwith whom she went as a missionary to China.\\nLucy Estabrook, b. 1827, educated at Mount Holyoke\\nSeminary, and is under appointment with Rev. Charles Hart-\\nwell of Lincoln, to the same Missionary station.\\nJohn Milton, b. 1829.\\n55", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0473.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "434 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nStevens, Joseph, from Townsend, was probably one of the\\nvery first settlers, and is supposed to have been here as early\\nas 1740, and located on the Supply Wilson farm (35 N, D.)\\nIn 1743, his intention of marriage to Elizabeth Sawtell is to\\nbe found on Groton town records, where he is called of New\\nIpswich. He is said to have been brother to John Stevens,\\nwho was the first Proprietors clerk, and who surrveyed and\\nmade the plot of the township. Joseph Stevens emigrated to\\nMaine before 1770.\\nStevens, Ephraim, was here in 1753, for Robert Choate, and\\nis supposed to have been a brother to the above.\\nStevens, Jonathan, probably another brother, settled the\\nMark Farrar place (26 N. D.)\\nStone, Isaac, came here from Framingham was a saddler\\nm. Grace Whiting. Had ch.\\nIsaac, Eliza, Rebecca, Mary Ann they left town many\\nyears ago but the children, with filial piety, have since erect-\\ned, in the old grave-yard, a marble monument to the memory\\nof their mother, a woman of intelligence and true excellence.\\nStratton, Daniel, came in 1769, settled on the hill north of\\nEnos Knights. His ch. were\\nSarah, b. 1771, d. 1790 Daniel, m. Jane Stickney, and\\nlived on the farm after the death of his father John Asa, d.\\n1802, 3B. 25; Dolly; Dolly, 2d.; Lucy; William; Sarah;\\nLydia Polly several of these died young, but his descend-\\nants have continued on the old place until recently. He died\\n1832, 8B. 89; his wife d. 1825.\\nTaylor, Reuben, (s. of Samuel,) was b. at Dunstable set-\\ntled near the geographical centre of the town (XI. 2). It is\\nsupposed that he and his brother Amos bought their land\\nof Col. Blanchard. They were here about 1757. He d. 1813\\nof spotted fever, ae. 11. By his wife Lucy his ch. were,\\nLucy, b. 1762, d. 1789; Reuben, b. 1764; Zebedee, b. 1765;\\nRachel, b. 1767, m. Stephen Brooks; Aaron, b. 1768, d. an", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0474.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "TAYLOR FAMILY. 435\\ninfant Hannah, b. 1770 James, b. 1772 William, b. 1781\\nHannah, b. 1784. His wife d. 1814, se. 71.\\nTaylor, Thaddeus, (s. of Samuel,) born at Dunstable, was\\nhere before the incorporation in 1762 lived over the moun-\\ntains at the southwest corner of the town, (No. 79.) By wife\\nMary (Walton) he had Thaddeus, still living in N. I. John,\\nm. Sally Jones Katy, b. 1777, m. Edmund Jones Susannah,\\nb. 1779, m. Dea. Jonas Barrett Samuel, b. 1781, m. Persis\\nJones, and still lives at Mill Village; Oliver Swain, b. 1784,\\ngrad. Dart. Coll. 1809, Avas afterwards preceptor of the Acad-\\nemy, and now practises medicine in Auburn, N. Y. Hepsey,\\nb. 1789, m. Benjamin B. Williams. He d. 1825, se. 81.\\nTaylor, Zebedee, (s. of Reuben,) lived on the same farm as\\nhis father m. Ruth Spaulding. Ch.\\nGeorge, b. 1797 Sophia, b. 1798 Asenath, b. 1800 Ruth,\\nb. 1802; Milly, b. 1804, m. Joseph Brooks; Sophia, b. 1806;\\nReuben, b. 1809 Henry, b. 1811 Lucy, b. 1816, m. R. Far-\\nwell. He died 1845, se. 80, and his widow still survives.\\nHis son Reuben still occupies the homestead. The descend-\\nants are quite numerous.\\nTaylor, Amos, (brother of Thaddeus,) from Dunstable,\\nwas a member of the first church formed in town settled on\\nthe farm next west of his brother Reuben, (XII. 2,) and many\\nyears occupied by Mr. Buckman. It is believed that he either\\nreturned to Dunstable before the incorporation of the town, or\\nsettled in some of the adjoining towns.\\nThomas, Odoardo, b. in Shrewsbury in 1731, m. Hannah\\nMorse, 1757. Came here in 1764. Ch. John, b. 1758 Lyd-\\nlA, b. 1770 Eben r, b. 1761; Joseph, b. 1763; Solomon, d.\\n1769 Mary, b. 1765 Hannah, b. 1767. Only the three last\\nwere b. here. He lived in the vicinity of the Crosby family,\\nbut removed to Maine soon after the Revolution, in which his\\nson John served three years.\\nTowne, Ezra, was born at Topsfield, April 30th, 1736, and\\nwas one of three brothers at one birth, children of Benjamin", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0475.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "436 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nand Susannah Towne. He settled in the north-easterly part\\nof the town, on what is now known as the Richardson farm\\n(23 N. D.) about 1759, and here he lived, pursuing his avo-\\ncation as a farmer until 1775, when, at the call of his coun-\\ntry, he promptly took the field. On the afternoon of the 19th\\nof April, being at work in his field, he heard the alarm guns\\nfired on the common, immediately hastened to that spot, and\\nwas soon on his way to the seat of war, with the large num-\\nbers furnished by this town, accompanied by his son Ezra,\\nthen but fifteen years of age. On their arrival at Cambridge,\\nhaving previously been an officer in the militia and possess-\\ning a fine military appearance, he was soon introduced by\\nsome friends to the Committee of Safety, who proposed at\\nonce his enlisting a company from among his townsmen and\\ntheir neighbors. He opened his roll on the 23d of April, and\\non that day obtained the names of thirty men, and soon after it\\nwas increased to sixty-five men, and was subsequently attach-\\ned to Col. Reed s regiment. A few days after, occurred the\\nbattle of Bunker Hill, in which Capt. Towne and his compa-\\nny nobly did their duty. A part of the company were enlist-\\ned for only four months, but the officers and most of the men\\nremained eight months. The next year he again took the\\nfield, and at the head of a company, part of whom were from\\nthis town, he went on an expedition to Canada and participa-\\nted in all the hardships of that campaign, until the surrender\\nof Burgoyne s army. This probably closed his active service,\\nbut his opinion on military matters was often solicited during\\nthe war. He was appointed colonel of the regiment of which\\nthis town made a part, and in this office remained till his\\ndeath, and was very popular. He was a brave man and a\\nfine officer his death was accidental and very melancholy\\nOn the evening of the 23th of December, a neighbor requested\\nof him a little straw he entered his barn, mounted the scaf-\\nfold, and threw it down while sliding down himself, a hay-\\nhook entered his abdomen and caused his death in a few\\nhours. The hay-hook is still preserved, in the house where\\nhe lived and died, and a label attached to it tells the melan-\\ncholy tale. He was buried with military honors on the 31st\\nDecember, 1795, se. 59.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0476.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "TUCKER FAMILY. 437\\nBy his wife Elizabeth he had children, Ezra, b. 1760\\nReuben, b. 1763; Betty, b. 1765; Elijah, b. 1767.\\nHis wife died he married, in 1769, Elizabeth Button.\\nCh. Nehebiiah, b. 1769; Luther, b. 1772, d. 1775; Rhoda,\\nb. 1774, d. 1775; Rhoda, 2d, b. 1776; Mercy, b. 1778; Ra-\\nchel, b. 1780 Wilder, b. 1781. His wife d. 1787 he m. in\\n1788, Keziah, widow of Wm. Start. Ch. Jeremiah, b. 1792.\\nHis son Ezra was a very respectable ship-master. He\\nleft two daughters, one of whom Mrs. Isaac Williams, still\\nsurvives.\\nAnother son, Elijah, resided and died in town^ leaving an\\nonly child, Ezra, who now resides at Syracuse, N. Y.\\nTucker, Moses, was here probably before 1745. He locat-\\ned on Town Hill, (II. 1.) The place is now known as the\\nRussell Pasture. The house was taken down many years\\nsince. He is said to have been a very resolute man, and to\\nhave been an otRcer in some of the French and Indian wars.\\nIt is supposed that his house was fortified and used for the pro-\\ntection of that neighborhood, at the time of the capture of John\\nFitch and family by the Indians, July 6, 1748. The alarm\\nwas so great that all the inhabitants fled, except Capt. Tuck-\\ner, who, for a while, was the sole occupant of the place. After\\nthe incorporation of the town, he was for several years Town\\nClerk and Selectman. He d. Jan. 6, 1769, se. 66, and was\\nthen the oldest man in town. There is no record of the births\\nof his ch. His son Joseph m. Martha Woolson she d. 1773,\\n8E. 22. His son Moses lived near Capt. Woolson s (III. 3,)\\nand the place, now vacant, is still called the Tucker Orchard.\\nHe d. 1792, se. 58. Either he or his father owned the farm\\nafterwards occupied by Judge Champney. His dau. Susan\\nm. Ithamar Wheelock. Mary m. George Start.\\nWalker, John, came here in 1760. He resided on a farm\\non the summit of the hills, near Binney Pond, on the Rindge\\nRoad, (No. 100,) in the S. W. part of the town, which was a\\nwilderness, and they traversed by marked trees. He d. April\\n25, 1890 86. 75. His dau. Anna m. John Binney, who came\\nfrom Hull, and who afterwards resided on the farm.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0477.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "438 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nWalker, Jesse, (s. of the above,) resided at the north-west\\npart of the town on the Rmdge road, (No. 152.) He early\\nenhsted in the Revohitionary Army, and served three years\\nand more. He was at tlie evacuation of Ticonderoga, and the\\ncapture of Burgoyne, and went out once from Fort Herkimer\\nin a single company that routed about 500 Indians. He d.\\n1832. By his wife Sarah he had Rebecca, b. 1785, m. Jo-\\nseph Brown, and Sarah, b. 1786. when she d. 1786. By his\\nsecond wife he had seven children, viz Nancy, Daniel, d.\\n1848, 86. 43, Nabby, John, and three who d. in infancy.\\nWalker, Zaccheus, was b. in Andover. Came here soon\\nafter the Revolution, in which he was engaged throughout the\\nwar, and served a part of the time in Washington s Life Guard.\\nHis son Danforth and numerous descendants are now resi-\\ndents. In 1790, hem. the widow of Silas Bigelow, and resid-\\ned on her estate, formerly that of Samuel Whittemore. He d.\\n1832.\\nWalton, Josiah, b. in Reading, 1736, m. Elizabeth, 1759.\\nCh. Josiah and James, twins, b. at Reading, 1760 Rachel,\\nb. 1764, m. Josiah Fletcher Asa. b. 1767, d. 1784 Hepzibah,\\nb. 1770, d. 1789 Rebecca, b. 1778; Mary, b. 1781. Mrs. W. d.\\n1811, 86. 79; he d. 1831 se. 95. Mr. Walton was a man of\\nvery firm and energetic character, and did more for his coun-\\ntry than many men of more pretensions. At the age of 19,\\nduring the old French war, he joined a company that went\\nfrom his native town to Lake George, and was in the severe\\nbattle that took place Sept. 4, 1755, where he was severely\\nwounded, and returned home by water. He came to this\\ntown in 1763, and settled on the Flat Mountain when that\\npart of the town was all a wilderness. At the commencement\\nof the Revolution, he was a strong Whig, and did his duty\\nthrough the war. He was a member of Capt. Towne s com-\\npany at the battle of Bunker Hill, where he received a very\\nsevere wound in the neck, and was with difficulty carried from\\nthe field by his comrades. He however recovered so as again\\nto take the field, and was present at the battle of Bennington.\\nTo this venerable and persevering man, we are indebted for\\nmany historical facts that have been of much use in compil-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0478.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "WHEELER FAMILY. 439\\ning this work. He kept a journal of his adventures in his\\nfirst campaign, with all the names of the members of his com-\\npany, part of which has been published. After he removed\\nto this town, he continued it, and among his chronicles are a\\nlist of deaths from 1780 to 1820, and of the additions to the\\nchurch, and remarks upon the Aveather and various other\\nmatters. About 1822 he removed to Temple. Three of his\\nchildren still survive, of whom Josiah is 91, and still active.\\nWheeler, Jonas, a native of Concord, was here in 1758,\\nand located in the easterly part of the town, near Hoar Pond.\\nHe died in 1815, se. 94, and his wife in 1816, 83. 87. He was\\ndescended from the famous Capt. Wheeler, who commanded\\nthe Concord horse companyin Philip s war, 1675.\\nWheeler, Seth, (s. of Jonas,) came here with his father\\nwhen about five years old. He served in the war of the Rev-\\nolution, as the following copy of an order sent him by the\\nN. H. Committee of Safety in 1775, will show\\nTo Mr, Seth Wheeler, c., You are hereby directed to\\nenlist ten men as soldiers, and as soon as your men have been\\nmustered, your commission as Ensign shall be made out.\\nYou and said men are to be under the command of Capt.\\nJohn Parker of Litchfield, in Col. James Reed s regiment.\\nHe lived at first at the east part of the town, on the old\\nAshby road, and afterwards he built the well-known Wheeler\\ntavern, on the turnpike where it enters the town.\\nThe life of Capt. Wheeler was an active and useful one.\\nHe was a skilful surveyor, and his services in that profession\\nmuch required. He filled the offices of Town Clerk and Se-\\nlectman, often both at the same time, for eighteen out of nine-\\nteen years, and as a Committee man his services were often\\nseverely taxed. He possessed a sound and discriminating\\njudgment, which enabled him to make estimates as contractor\\non public works, with great accuracy. He built a part of the\\nturnpike and many of the roads in town. He Avas a contrac-\\ntor for building the Meeting-house in 1811, for which he was\\nto receive about $5,400; but by a pretty shrewd agreement\\nwith the Selectmen, he took the pews for his pay, and cleared\\na handsome profit.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0479.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "440 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nAmong all the conflicting opinions and difiiculties in town\\nabout the size and location of the Meeting-house, no one ever\\nventured to breathe a word but what the contract to build it\\nhad been faithfully fulfilled on his part. His whole life was\\na useful one. He d. 1822, ae. 72; his wife d. 1841, se. 87.\\nCh. Seth, b. 1774; Betsey, b. 1776, m. Dickinson\\nPersis, b. 1779, m. Isaac Munroe Rachel, b. 1781 Moses,\\nb. 1783, d. in infancy; Stephen, b. 1784; Asenath, b. 1787;\\nMiLA, b. 1789 Silas, b. 1792 Moses, 2d, b. 1795. This nu-\\nmerous family are mostly settled in Boston, Baltimore, and\\nWestern New York. Stephen Wheeler, Esq. who m. Hannah\\nStratton, is the only representative of them remaining in town.\\nHe has often been called upon to serve as Representative to\\nthe Legislature, Selectman, Delegate to Conventions, c., c.\\nSilas m. Mary Batchelder, was well educated, and is a leading\\nman in western New York.\\nSeveral other families of this name were settlers in town\\nwithin the first fifty years. Among them was John, who d.\\n1797, 86. 75. Aaron, d. 1806, ae. 66. William lived near the\\nAshby line, on one of the Emerson farms d. 1842, se. 67,\\nSamuel lived on the Clary farm (XIV. 1), d. 1839, se. 76.\\nJoseph lived on the Kidder farm, adjoining. Richard lived at\\nthe foot of the hill, near the Poor farm, and afterwards on the\\nBurrows place, where he d. 1832, se. 72. Richard, one of his\\ndescendants, now owns and occupies the Bartlett farm.\\nWhite, Archibald, was a native of Pepperell. He came\\nhere in 1750, and is named in the Masonian Grant. He was\\nin the employ of Col. Kidder, and at first settled near his farm,\\nat the place now occupied by John Anderson {55 N. D.), and\\nafterwards at the northeast part of the town (15 N. D.) His\\nsons, Archibald and Daniel, Avere in Capt. Towne s company\\nat the battle of Bunker Hill. Just previous to the Revolution\\nhe removed to Camden, N. H., where he was again employed\\nby Col. Kidder in attending to his interests there. Mr. White\\nwas an ardent patriot, and it is said that it was mainly\\nthrough his exertions that the name of Camden was changed\\nto Washington in 1776, it being the first place on this conti-", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0480.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "WHITTEMORE FAMILY. 441\\niient that bore tlie name of the father of his country. Mr.\\nW, afterwards removed to Windsor, Vt., where his descend-\\nants reside. He m. at Lunenburg, in 1750, Margaret Mc\\nClary, whose parents were from Ireland. Ch.\\nMary, b. 1751; Archibald, b. 1753; Daniel, b. 1755; John,\\nb. 1758: Samuel, b. 1760: Susannah, b. 1762.\\nWheelock, Timothy, came here from Shrewsbury in 1768,\\nwith eight children, all born there. After the death of his wife,\\nhe returned to his native town, where he again married and\\nresided till his death, which occurred in 1812. Three of his\\nsons remained here, viz Ithamar, b. 1761, lived near the Kid-\\nder farm, {55 N. D.) m. Susan, dau. of Moses Tucker, had\\nno issue. Was a soldier in the Revolution, and was in the re-\\ntreat from Ticonderoga, at Hubbardston, Saratoga and Still-\\nwater d. 1850 in the Poor House, ae. 89. Timothy, b. 1766,\\nlived near the Wheeler Tavern, m. Matilda Cummings, 1790.\\nCh. -ra son and a daughter, both d. young. He d. 1827, ae.\\n71, Joel resided here for some time, near the Kidder Moun-\\ntain, (51 N. D.) and his wife, and one child d. here but is\\nbelieved to have afterward removed to Vermont.\\nWhittemore, Samuel, came here before 1760, settled on the\\nnorth side of Whittemore Hill, on the farm now owned by Mr.\\nRamsdell (No. 1 new laid out.) He was a man of great phys-\\nical endurance and industry. It is said he would work at\\nclearing land and rolling logs all day, then light a pine knot,\\nshoulder a bag of grain, carry it two miles through the woods\\nto mill, and the next morning be at his work as usual. About\\n1784, he and his wife became infatuated by some of the disci-\\nples of Ann Lee, the Shaker. Meetings were held at his house,\\nand many in the neighborhood became converts, and finally\\nhe joined the brethren at Harvard. Mr. W.* lost his farm by\\nAlthough deluded, still I\\\\Ir. W. was honest in his belief, as the following an-\\necdote will shew About 1775, he bought of Deacon Appleton a valuable cow,\\nagreeing to pay for her when it was convenient to him. Some years after,\\nwhen Continental money became almost worthless, but still by law a legal tender,\\nhe waited on the Deacon and told hnn he would take up his note, ofi ering liim the\\namount in bills. The Deacon replied he did not want the money, particularly in\\nsuch a currency, and asked him if he thought h right and honest to pay his debts\\n56", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0481.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "442 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nthe movement, and returned to town poor. He lived with\\nhis son, and d. 1812, se. 80 his wife OHve d. 1812. Ch.\\nOlive, b. 1755 Samuel, b. 1757 Sarah, b. 1759, d. 1786\\nSibyl, b. 1701; Jabies, b. 1764; Ruth, b. 1767; Deliverance,\\nb. 1771; Lucy, b. 1773; Rebecca, b. 1775 Nathan, b. 1778.\\nWhittemore, Peletiah, settled on the Wilkins farm, (VI. 3,)\\nhad ch Debby, b. 1766 Hannah, b. 1768 Molly, b. 1775\\nAsa Lyman, b. 1777 his son Peletiah, was a Lieutenant in\\nthe Revolutionary Army. He d. 1783, se. 75.\\nWhittemore, Samuel, (s. of Samuel) resided upon the farm\\nnow owned by Mr. Shipley, (No. 12, new laid out.) His ch.\\nAmos, b. 1779 Eunice, b. 1783 Samuel, b. 1791 Sewall,\\nb. 1792 Marvin, b. 1794; Betsey, b. 1796; he d. 1810, and\\nthe family left town soon after, but the beautiful hill near\\nwhich they lived, still perpetuates the name.\\nWilliams, Benjamin, was a native of Concord came here\\nin 1771, and lived west of the moimtain, near the turnpike\\n(No. 151.) He was orderly sergeant of Capt. Towne s com-\\npany at the battle of Bunker Hill, and assisted in carrying\\nfrom the field his neighbor Walton, who was severely wound-\\ned. Mr. W. was Ensign of Capt. Stephen Parker s company,\\nwhich went to Bennington in 1777. He removed with his\\nsons to Enosburg, Vt. in 1827, where he died. Ch.\\nAbigail, b. in Concord Hepzibah, b. 1772 Rhoda, b. 1774\\nMelicent, b. 1776, d. 1777; Melicent, b. 1778 Lucy, b. 1780;\\nBenjamin B., b. 1782, m. 1st, Fox, 2d, Hepsy Taylor\\nlived and removed with his father Hannah, b. 1784 Eph-\\nraim, b. 1786 Isaiah, b. 1788 Patty, b. 1791.\\nWilson, Supply, b. in Woburn 1750 came here 1769, and\\nsettled in the northeast part of the town m. Susannah, the\\nin that way. Mr. W. said he did not i novv certainly, as he had just sold a lamb\\nfor the same amount he gave for the cow, but he would ask his God what he\\nought to do. About a week afterwards he told Deacon A. that he had laid the\\ncase before his (lod, and he told him that he must pay as much money for his\\nnote as would buy as good a cow as the note was given for, which he immedi-\\nately did, saying, I should like to see any other God who would give a better\\nopinion in such a case.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0482.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "WILSON FAMILY. 443\\nwidow of John Cutter, 1777, Ch. Supply, b. 1778; John, b.\\n1780; Susannah, b. 1782, m. Israel Mansfield; Sally, b. 1784,\\nm. Edwards Samuel, b. 1786 Isaac, b. 1783 Rachel,\\nb. 1790, m. Joseph Wheeler; Rebecca, m. Richard Wheeler;\\nAbigail, m. Samuel C. Wheeler William Kimball, b. 1795\\nPolly, b. 1797, d. 1805. His wife Susannah d. 1815; he m.\\n2d, widow Elizabeth Batchelder, who d. 1835, ge. 73, and he\\nsurvived her only a few months, se. 85. On the news of Con-\\ncord fight reaching here, he made one of the hundred men\\nthat hastened to the conflict. He enlisted in Capt. Town s\\ncompany, and was appointed a non-commissioned officer;\\nwas at the battle of Bunker Hill, and afterwards served in the\\ncompany which went from this town under the command of\\nCapt. Abijah Smith. He was esteemed one of the best of citi-\\nzens, and an excellent farmer, and by his industry acquired a\\nhandsome property, having purchased several of the farms\\nadjoining the one he first occupied, (32 N. D.) He was for\\nmany years one of the Selectmen, and was always highly\\nesteemed for his sound judgment and peace-making spirit. A\\nnumber of his descendants still reside in town, and are among\\nthe best citizens and most substantial farmers.\\nWilson, Maj. Supply, (s. of Supply.) has long lived on one\\nof the farms acquired by his father, one of the most thrifty\\nfarmers in town. He m. Sally Scripture, dau. of Oliver S.,\\nwho for many years lived with her. She d. 1837. se. 57.\\nThey had a large and intelligent family. Among them are,\\nFranklin Sally, m. Perry Susan, m. Kendall,\\nand recently Geo. Sanders; Jane C, m. Rev. William Ireland,\\nand is now a missionary in South Africa; Sophronia, m.\\nRev. of Jaftrey Harriet, m. H. J. Taylor, and\\nresides in Iowa James, a distinguished teacher, and a man\\nof high promise, d. in 1840, se. 20 Abby, now a teacher at\\nthe West.\\nWilson, John, (s. of Supply,) lives on the homestead, and\\nhas also a large and most respectable family, among whom\\nare John Gardner, James Addison Supply Cutter Ann, in.\\nMark Farrar and Adeline. He m. Miss Holt,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0483.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "444 FAMILY HISTORY.\\nWilson, Isaac, (s. of Supply,) after residing for a time on\\nthe Scripture farm, removed to Temple. He m. Miss Howard.\\nWooLsoN, Jonas, was born in Cambridge in 1711 he was\\none of the five earliest settlers, and is said to have been here\\nin 1739, and to have worked about three summers on his land\\nin company with Benjamin Hoar, Jr., returning to Littleton\\nduring the winter. It is supposed they both removed their\\nfamilies here in 1742, soon after his marriage. He is men-\\ntioned as one of the resident grantees under the Mason ian\\nCharter. His name is often noticed in the Proprietors and\\nTown Records, under both of which he was often appointed\\nto important offices. His farm was located on the east side\\nof the river on Town Hill, (IV. 2.) It was occupied by\\nhim and his descendants for seventy years, and now consti-\\ntutes a part of the farm of Mr. James Spaulding, and still pre-\\nserves the original bounds as laid out over a hundred years\\nago. The dwelling-house, after standing nearly a century,\\nwas taken down the last year. Mr. W. was at the taking\\nof Burgoyne, where he lost a valuable horse. This name is\\nvery rare in this country, and is entirely unknown in Eng-\\nland. On good authority it is stated that it is properly Wool-\\naston, which is pronounced there Woolson. Some of Mr.\\nW. s descendants now spell their name Wilson. The follow-\\ning extract from the Townsend Records shows that he was\\namong the earliest residents of our town, and was here previ-\\nous to his marriage.\\nJune 23, 1742. Mai:ried, by the Rev. Mn Heminway,\\nJonas Woolson of New Ipswich, to Susannah Wallis of\\nTownsend. Their Ch. were,\\nElizabeth, b. 1743, d. 1794; Susannah, b. 1745; Martha,\\nb. 1751; Jonas, b. 1757.\\nCapt. Jonas Woolson d. 1790, se. 78 his wife d. 1796, ae. 70.\\nWoolson, Jonas, (s. of Jonas,) d. 1804. His widow Eliza-\\nbeth m. William Lock his dau. Anna m. Reuben Russell\\nhis son George m. Miss Wallace of Townsend, who d. 1804.\\nHe was a superior performer on musical instruments, espe-\\ncially on the fife. He enlisted in the army in the war of 1812,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0484.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "EMERSON FAMILY. 445\\nand after one of the battles on the northern frontiers, was\\namong the missmg. Nathan hved on Knight s HiU, (R. II. 1.)\\nWright, Simeon, resided on the farm now owned by Mr.\\nJonas Nutting, (98 narrow lot.)\\nHe was badly wounded at the raising of Wilton meeting-\\nhouse in 1773, one of his ankles being crushed by the falling\\ntimbers. He recovered and about 1786, accidentally wound-\\ned the same ankle with an axe he instantly dropped his axe,\\nran a few rods, and fell dead from the great quantity of blood\\nthat issued from the newly-opened wound. Sarah, his widow,\\nd. 179.5.\\nOliver, probably his brother, resided at the southwest part\\nof the town.\\nEmerson, John, was the son of Dea. Brown E., of South\\nReading, the son of Peter, the son of Joseph, who came from\\nEngland, and was settled the first minister in Mendon, 1669.\\nHe came to N. I. about 1783, and settled near the present\\nschool house in Tophet Swamp, (probably No. 147.) His\\nch. John William Rev. Reuben, now of Reading Jacob,\\nlived in Ohio Rev. Brown, now of Salem Phebe and Roma-\\nNus, now of Boston, were b. in Ashby between 1765 and 1782.\\nAnna, b. 1785, m. He wins of West Roxbury, and Rev.\\nNoah, now of Hollis, b. 1787, were natives of this town. He\\nremoved to Hancock about 1793, and d. in 1809, se. 71. In\\nconsequence of having been defrauded, they came to town in\\nvery humble circumstances but by the usual process pursued\\nby aspiring New Hampshire boys, viz farming in summer.\\nAcademy in autumn, and teaching in winter, three of the sons\\nacquired a liberal education, and have reputably pursued the\\nprofession for which the Emerson race is so wonderfully dis-\\ntinguished. Piety and preaching might well be the family\\nmotto.\\nEmerson, Thomas, distantly related to the preceding, settled\\non the south margin of the town, on the old Ashby and Rindge\\nroad, over the side of Watatic mountain. Several descend-\\nants have lived near him, and one lived on the Jesse Walker\\nplace, on the north Rindge road.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0485.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "446\\nFAMILY HISTORY.\\nResidence of Edward M. Isaacs, Esq.\\nIsaacs, Henry, was born at Portsmouth came to Mason\\nvillage and engaged in trade about 1S16, and was to some\\nextent connected in a manufacturing establishment there.\\nAbout 1822 he removed to this town, commenced trade in the\\nstore at -Mechanics Corner, and subsequently in the brick\\nstore on the turnpike, where he continued till his death, about\\n1846. He was for a time President of the Bank, and was en-\\ngaged in various enterprises. He m. Clarissa, dan. of Rev.\\nMr. Whitney of Shirley. Ch. 1. Henry A. 2. Edward\\nM. succeeds his father in business 3. Charles, d. young.\\nLocke, William, (s. of Samuel of Woburn,) resided some\\ntime at Lancaster, but came here from Rindge, about 1808,\\nand purchased the Barr farm; but soon sold it, and resided\\non the estate of his second wife. His first wife was Sarah\\nFowle; 2d, Hannah, widow of Jonas Woolson; she d. 1828,\\nSB. 70 he d. 1827, se. 78. His son William removed to this\\ntown, where he now resides he m. Eleanor Haynes. his son\\nJames m. Frances Hallett 1805 was a trader here for several\\nyears, in company with his brother; d. 1818. Nancy, b.\\n1789, and Lucretia, b. 1787, reside in N. L", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0486.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "WILDER FAMILY. 447\\nHiLDRETH, Stephen, settled on the farm near Pratt s Pond,\\n(XIV. 4,) about 1772. He was a soldier of the Revolution, d.\\n1800, 86.58. He was the father of Mr. James Hildreth, who\\nd. 1844, 86. 67, highly respected as an upright man. He m.\\nRebecca, dau. Silas Davis.\\nHildreth, Simeon, was an early settler upon the south part\\nof the Roger Chandler farm, (XII. 4.)\\nWilder, Peter, came from Boston about 1810, and estab-\\nlished a chair manufactory near the northwest corner of the\\ntown, in connection with his son-in-law, Abijah Wetherbee.\\nCh. Elizabeth, m. A. Wetherbee Joseph Thomas Peter\\nd. 1814, 86. 22 Andrew Louisa, m. Adams Nancy,\\nm. Smith Josiah P. John B. Calvin, He d. 1846,\\n86. 80 his wife Tamar d. 1843, se. 80.\\nMr. Wetherbee d. 183-5, se. 54. His only surviving child\\nwas Ann Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Addison Brown.\\nADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.\\nA few additional facts have presented themselves while the vol-\\nume has been in press, of sufficient importance to require insertion.\\nErrors have also been detected, a few of which we here correct.\\nPage 10, 7 lines from top, for north 70 40m. west, read west 7\u00c2\u00b0 40m.\\nnortli.\\nThe altitude of the territory and water courses is from two to three\\nhundred feet higher than stated.\\n4 lines from top, for 1000 read 1600.\\n6 the stream returns into Sharon, and thence into\\nPeterhorough, and joins the Contoocook.\\n44, 6 line from bottom, for John read Joseph.\\n104, 7 line from top, for 410 read 110.\\n119, 14 for within a certain period, read for four\\nyears in succession.\\n125, 8 line from top, insert George Woolson, Jonas Dutton, Jr., Isaac\\nStone.\\n132, 31 line from top, insert, the first pauper family was that of Samuel\\nPerham, 1762. Phinehas Goodale had been previously sent to\\nTownsend.\\n135, 7 line from top, insert. About 1795 there was a muster on the\\nplain near the house of Ebenezer Brown.\\n140, 12 line from top, for James Taft read Benjamin A. Billings.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0487.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "214,\\n26\\n29\\n215,\\n2\\n3\\n16\\n448 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.\\nPage 165, 6 line from top, insert. In 1756, Capt. Hoar was authorized to re-\\nceive dollars at \u00c2\u00a34.10s. old tenor, proprietors money, for pay-\\nment of Mr. Perrey, [Rev. Joseph Perry, probably,] and pay\\nsaid money at \u00c2\u00a33. 10s. same tenor.\\n184, 4 line from top, insert the list of Deacons Ephraim Adams and\\nBenjamin Adams, chosen 1762; Isaac Appleton, 1774; Ephraim\\nAdams, Jr., Noah Bartlett, 1807 Nathaniel D. Gould\\nand Thomas Wetherbee, 1812; Isaac Adams, 1814; John Clark,\\n1819 Isaiah Cragin, 1827 James Tolman, James Da-\\nvis, 1831; James Bancroft,\\n189, 5 line from bottom, for Amos read Samuel.\\n198, 8 line from top, for John read Jonathan.\\ninsert Ephraim Adams, Dart. Coll. 1839.\\nfor Amherst read Marshall.\\ninsert Charles before Stetson,\\nfor John read Moody.\\ninsert Dr. Jesse Rice 1774 to 1777.\\n216, last line, read south part of the town.\\n219, at top, insert, Ephraim Adams and Richard Hall are missionaries\\nat the West.\\n243. In reference to the last paragraph, in has now been ascertained,\\nthat the first company vvas organized in 1754, and that the offi-\\ncers were Capt. Benjamin Hoar, Lieut. Reuben Kidder, and\\nEnsign Timothy Heald. Reuben Kidder was Captain in 1759\\nJonas Woolson in 1768. Moses Tucker must have been Cap-\\ntain before he came to town.\\n267. The persons named as Representatives, from 1774 to 1781, were\\nModerators. The names should read in succession Stephen\\nFarrar, William Shattuck, Nathaniel Stone, Paul Prichard,\\nThomas Heald, Ephraim Adams.\\n293, 6 line from top, for Benjamin read Isaac.\\n335, 5 line from bottom, for New Hampshire read New Ipswich.\\nThe inscription mentioned in the note on page 11, is\\nI R\\n1684\\nB D H W", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0488.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nThis Jubilee had its ori^yiu at the meeting of three old school-\\nmates in Boston, during the summer of 1845. After a mutual\\nconsultation on the subject, it was agreed, that each one should\\nwrite to some resident of the town, and call their attention to the\\nmatter. This was done, but without eliciting a single answer.\\nThe parties had continued to mention the design whenever an op-\\nportunity occurred and when they again met at the same place, in\\n1847, it was found that each had done something to call attention\\ntowards the occasion.\\nIn the summer of 1849, one of the three persons visited the town\\nto collect some materials toward his family history; and, at his re-\\nquest, a few persons assembled together and agreed that they would\\nmake an effort to have something done in the town, relative to the\\nsubject, the following spring. Accordingly a meeting of the citi-\\nzens was held Feb. 7th, 1850 and a Resolution was passed to\\nhave a Celebration during the summer, as the Centennial Anniver-\\nsary of the Masonian Charter of the town.\\nThe following Committee was appointed to carry the vote into\\neffect\\nGeorge Barrett, John Preston, Joseph Barrett, Supply Wilson, Francis\\nP. Prichard, Jeremiah Smith, Isaac C. Stearns, William W. Johnson,\\nStephen Thayer, Samuel Lee and Thomas H. Cochran.\\nA Corresponding Committee at Boston was also appointed, con-\\nsisting of\\nHon. Timothy Farrar, N. D. Gould, Samuel Batchelder, and Frederic\\nKidder.\\nTo this general Committee the following persons were afterwards\\nadded, representing the different districts of the town\\nJ. W. Bliss, George Fox, James Chandler, Martin xVmes, J. P. Clark,\\nHiram Smith, Charles M. Wheeler, Christopher Whitney, H. W. Brown,\\nStillman Gibson, Walton Brooks, J. P. Wilder, C. H. Goddard, Frederick\\nJones, G. C. Gibson, Sumner Prichard, R. K. Gould, Ai Sherwin, Roby\\nFletcher, H. Bachelder, Richard Wheeler, E. H. Farrar, Nathan San-\\nders, C. H. Obear, Jeremiah Prichard, William Hassall, Orlando Marshall,\\nHenry Adams, Asa Prichard, Reuben Taylor, John Wilson, Hosea Eaton,\\n57", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0489.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "450 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nAfter some correspondence between the Committees, the day for\\nthe Celebration was agreed upon and at a meeting of the Commit-\\ntee, May 4th, a vote was passed, requesting Dr. Augustus A. Gould\\nof Boston, to deliver the Address on that occasion.\\nThis vote was communicated to Dr. Gould, through the Corres-\\nponding Committee at Boston, accompanied with an earnest expres-\\nsion of the wishes of that Committee, that he would accept the\\nappointment. His reply was as follows\\nBoston, May 25, 1850.\\nGentlemen, Your note, communicating the vote of the Committee of\\nArrangements for the proposed Centennial Celebration at New Ipswich,\\nrequesting me to deliver the Address on that occasion, has been received.\\nMy leisure time is already more than fully occupied by extra-professional\\nengagements, and the undertaking is altogether foreign to the quiet and\\nsecluded ministrations of the physician. It is, therefore, after much hesi-\\ntation, and much distrust in my qualifications to do anything like justice to\\nmyself or the occasion, that I have concluded to comply with the request.\\nAs the occasion is one of historical interest, a discourse, to be appropri-\\nate, must be based upon historical data. It must, therefore, be a condition\\nof my acceptance that you aid me by furnishing the necessary documents.\\nI shall want whatever Records exist, from which a history of the town may\\nbe learned, especially the earliest history, such as the Town Records,\\nChurch Records, Academy Records, List of Births and Deaths, c.\\nRelying upon your kindness and co-operation, I have the honor to be.\\nRespectfully, yours, Augustus A. Gould.\\nTo Messrs. Samuel Batchelder, Timothy Farrar, Frederic Kidder,\\nCommittee of Correspondence.\\nOn the 23d of June, a letter from the sub-committee was addressed\\nto Eugene Batchelder, Esq, of Cambridge, requesting him to pre-\\npare and deliver a Poem on the occasion to which he gave a favor-\\nable reply.\\nThe following Officers and Committees were also subsequently\\nappointed\\nPresident Hon. John Preston.\\nVice Presidents Samuel Batchelder, Hon. Timothy Farrar, Seth King,\\nSupply Wilson, Samuel Greele, Stephen Wheeler, Isaac Spaulding,\\nWm. H. Prentice, Joseph Davis, George Barrett, Frederic Kidder, Silas\\nWheeler, James F. Miller, Joseph Barrett, Stillman Gibson, Nathaniel D.\\nGould, Jonas Chickering, Solomon Brooks, Ephraim H. Farrar, John Elliot.\\nChaplains Rev. Samuel Lee, Rev. Jonathan Hall, Rev. A. H. House.\\nSecretaries I. C. Stearns, T. H. Cochran, G. C. Gibson.\\nChief Marshal Jeremiah Prichard.\\nAids Gilman Brickett, E. M. Isaacs, George Fox.\\nMarshals\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. H. Cochran, Matthias S. Wilson, L. W. Wheeler, Henry\\nA. Isaacs.\\nCOMMITTEES.\\nFmance\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George Barrett, John Preston, Supply Wilson, J. W. Bliss,\\nJeremiah Smith.\\nI", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0490.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 451\\nInvitations Jeremiah Smith, T. H. Cochran, E. M. Isaacs, Timothy\\nFarrar, Frederic Kidder.\\nTent and Table F. P. Prichard, Hosea Eaton, R. K. Gould, George\\nFox, Roby Fletcher, J. W. Bliss, Sumner Prichard, Asa Prichard,\\nWilliam Hassall, Ai Sherwin, Clark H. Obear.\\nAmphitheatre Stephen Thayer, James A. Weston, M. S. Wilson, Sam-\\nuel Lee, Hosea Eaton, Martin Ames.\\nDinner Jeremiah Prichard, F. P. Prichard, Supply Wilson, Ai Sher-\\nwin, P. H. Clark.\\nMusic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Veier H. Clark.\\nReception E. M. Isaacs, Stephen Thayer, Seth King, George Fox,\\nWilliam Hassall, George Sanders, Hosea Eaton.\\nToasts Samuel Lee, John Preston, E. M. Isaacs, James Spaulding,\\nGeorge M. Champney.\\nA Committee of twenty-four ladies was appointed by the Chairman to\\ndecorate the tables.\\nThe Committee on Invitations issued the following Circular, of\\nwhich more than three hundred copies were forwarded to families\\nand individuals.\\nNew Ipswich, August 1, 1850.\\nDear Sir, The Inhabitants of this Town propose to celebrate the Cen-\\ntennial Anniversary of the reorganization of the place under the New Hamp-\\nshire (Masonian) Charter, on Wednesday, the eleventh day of September\\nnext, by appropriate ceremonies and festivities. They invite the presence\\nand co-operation of all, who, from circumstances of Birth, Education,\\nConnections, or otherwise, feel an interest in the History of the Town, or\\nits former or present Inhabitants,\\nWe would therefore express the hope, that you will favor us with your\\npersonal attendance, together with such friends and connections as may find\\nit convenient and pleasant to accompany you on the occasion.\\nJeremiah Smith, Thomas H. Cochran, Edward M. Isaacs,\\nTimothy Farrar, Frederic Kidder, Committee of Invitation.\\nOn the morning of the 10th, those from Boston and the vicinity,\\nwho proposed to join in the Celebration, took the cars to West\\nTownsend, and thence were conveyed up the hills, along the old\\nturnpike, in carriages. On approaching the eastern limit of the\\ntown, at the Wheeler tavern, they were met by the Committee of\\nKeception, with a cavalcade under the direction of Col. John P.\\nClark. An American flag was hoisted on one carriage, and a ban-\\nner, with an appropriate motto, upon another. As they crossed the\\ntown line, they were heartily welcomed with three cheers for\\nour friends from abroad and, as they passed over the brow of\\nKnights Hill, in long and triumphal procession, a field-piece on one\\nof the hills near the Mountain Mills commenced its welcoming\\npeals. Thus they were escorted through the Factory villages to\\nthe Meeting-house, and thence through the main street to the turn-\\npike, delighted with the recognition of old scenes, new improve-\\nments, and here and there a well-known face. The evening was\\nspent in pleasant reunions and reminiscences.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0491.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "452 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nThe morning of the 11th of September, 1850, was as beautiful as\\nany one that had preceded it, since the settlement of the town. It\\nwas ushered in by the ringing- of bells, c. a large national flag\\nwas suspended in front of the house of Peter H. Clark, and others\\nwere seen floating from trees and housetops throughout the village.\\nThe village was soon filled with persons from this and the towns in\\nthe vicinity. One of the most pleasant features of the morning was\\nthe frequent meetings of old schoolmates, acquaintances and friends\\nthat had not met for many long years, and the hearty recognitions\\nand hurried inquiries about relatives or remembered friends, many\\nof whom are probably not destined to meet again in this world.\\nAbout nine o clock a procession was formed at Union Hall in the\\nfollowing order\\nChief Marshal and Aids.\\nBand of Music led by P. H. Clark.\\nWatatic Lodge of Odd Fellows in regalia, as escort to the procession.\\nCommittee of Arrangements.\\nOrator and Poet.\\nChaplains of the day.\\nPresident and Vice-Presidents.\\nInvited Guests and Natives from abroad, headed by their\\nMarshal, Jonas Chickering, Esq.\\nAt the front was borne a banner inscription\\nOUR BIKTH-PLACE.\\nWhere er we roam, whatever realms we see,\\nOur hearts, untravelled, fondly turn to thee.\\nIn the rear, Dea. N. D. Gould bore a banner, on which was\\nrepresented the Old Meeting-House, and under it\\n1770 to 1S16.\\nAlumni of the Academy,\\nsucceeded by the present Students, bearing a banner with\\nNew Ipswich Academy, incorporated 1789.\\nOn the reverse Per Augusta ad Augusta. Toil. Hope.\\nThe Children from the Public Schools\\nBanner A Nation s Hope.\\nCitizens of New Ipswich.\\nCitizens of the neighboring towns.\\nAt ten o clock the procession moved through the street towards\\nthe meeting-house, receiving constant cheers and welcomes in pass-\\ning. When it arrived opposite the residence of Newton Brooks, it\\nturned through his grounds into a field in the rear, and soon reach-\\ned the destined spot. This was a natural amphitheatre, made by\\na recess in the slopes of the two hills, of so striking an appearance\\nthat one gentleman exclaimed, It must have been made on pur-\\npose for this occasion. A speaker s stand had been erected at one\\nend and seats constructed for the multitude, gently rose from\\nthe centre so as to convene all. After the great congregation was", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0492.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 453\\nseated, the services commenced by an Invocation from Rev. Seth\\nChandler of Shirley, followed by the reading of select portions of\\nthe Scriptures by the Rev. Mr. Lee, from a volume of Erasmus\\nCommentaries, printed in 1548, in old black letter.\\nThe following original Ode, (written for the occasion by Miss\\nIsabella Batchelder, now Mrs. James of Philadelphia,) was sung by\\nthe whole assembly.\\nNor neath crumbling arch and column.\\nBrothers, do we meet to-day;\\nBut with nature calm and solemn,\\nRises our Centennial day.\\nNear us bends the leafy wildwood,\\nDecked with flowers that bloomed of yore,\\nWhile the pillared hills of childhood\\nBound the world for us once more.\\nHoary heads, with honors laden,\\nManhood in the flush of pride,\\nAged matron, blooming maiden.\\nMeet together, side by side.\\nHome we come, a band long parted,\\nCareless of our worldly strife,\\nTo the spot from which we started\\nOnward in the race of life.\\nYet we miss some well-known faces.\\nSome kind voices we have loved\\nBroken phalanx vacant places.\\nOnly to be filled above.\\nBut the echo of their actions,\\nSounding down the stream of time.\\nBids forget all sundering factions,\\nAnd as one, harmonious join.\\nPrayer by Rev. John Wheeler, President of the University of\\nVermont, followed by an original Hymn by James Spaulding.\\nThe Orator of the day, Dr. Augustus A. Gould, then rose and\\naddressed the large assemblage. He spoke for nearly an hour and\\na half. The introductory and concluding portions were as follow\\nFellow-Townsmen An occasion like this on which w^e have\\nmet, has never before occurred to any one of us, and in all proba-\\nbility, never can occur to any one of us again. The anniversary\\nday of our National Independence returns to us great National\\nRevolutions often occur our Sabbaths return and the returns of\\nour birth-day may be threescore and ten but who of us has ever\\nseen, or ever will again see a centennial day, corresponding to this\\nLike the day of our birth and the day of our death, we shall expe-\\nrience it but once. It is now somewhat more than one hundred\\nyears since our ancestors penetrated into the then wilderness, and\\nbegan to clear the region where we are now assembled and we\\nare met to celebrate that event. Some of us have made our habita-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0493.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "454 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\ntion here, since the day of our birth and in quietude and simpli-\\ncity, remote from the whirlwind of metropolitan bustle, have been\\ncontent to live in comparative retirement, and to move within a\\nvery limited sphere. Such have made a wise choice. Others of\\nus, more restless and ambitious, have overleaped these mountain\\nbarriers in search of fame, fortune and happiness in wider fields and\\nmore exciting scenes. Some have tried the thronged city, with all\\nits bustle, magnificence and wickedness some have gone to the far\\nWest, attracted thither by golden visions, which, in most instances,\\nproved but visions some have crossed the ocean to the mother land,\\nand have witnessed the splendor of royalty and perhaps enjoyed the\\nsmiles of princes they have visited the scenes which are famous\\nin story, and viewed the treasures of nature and art which have re-\\nquired centuries for their accumulation and some may have even\\nencompassed the globe itself. But, during our wanderings, has not\\nthis valley of our birth, encompassed by hills which shut out the\\nprospect beyond, reminded us of the valley of Rasselas the hap-\\npy valley, in which all the sources of true happiness were con-\\ncentrated and though, like Rasselas, we may have contrived to\\nescape from it, and have looked for happiness and contentment in\\nthe distinctions which wealth, and station, and learning, and success\\nconfer, have we not, like him, found sorrow and disappointment\\nand discontent everywhere\\nIn behalf of all these rovers I wall venture to speak, and to say,\\nthat no Alps have ever appeared to them so formidable as did once\\nthe mountains around us no river has caused us to forget Souhe-\\ngan no embosomed Swiss or Scottish lakes have seemed more\\nlovely than Pratt s Pond no lofty and crumbling cathedral has\\nimpressed upon us such reverential awe as the old meeting-house\\non the hill no institution of learning has excelled the old district\\nschool, where the twig was first bent, and felt too no festival ever\\nsurpassed in extravagance and in relish, the old thanksgiving dinner\\nno happiness has been found, far or near, to be compared with that\\nat the old country fireside. A friend of mine, a year or two since,\\nremoved from the city, and built him a pretty residence in a retired\\nvillage some twelve miles distant. He gave for his reason, that he\\nwished his children, in after life, to enjoy the associations of child-\\nhood, which he regarded as among their most exalted sources of\\nsubsequent happiness to have some tree, or rock, or rill, around\\nwhich the memories of childhood might cling. It was a happy\\nthought it was a good reason.\\nIn one of my drives in the vicinity of the city I gathered some\\nblossoms, and placed them in my room. Some time afterwards the\\ncook met me, and with sparkling eyes inquired, and where did\\nyou get those blossoms in your room why, they are raal ha thorn\\nI have not seen any these six years and a half, since I left Ireland.\\nHowever laughable her enthusiasm might seem, I could not but", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0494.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 455\\nhonor her feelings. The innocent and joyous days of childhood\\nwere brought before her, and she was for the moment restored\\nagain to her home and her kindred.\\nIt is with similar feelings that we come back to-day, to gaze\\non the landscape upon which our eyes first opened to breathe the\\nair and tread the soil, from the elements of which, our very selves\\nwere made to do homage at the tombs of our fathers to look\\nonce more on the venerable faces of our elders more especially to\\ngreet our contemporaries, from whom we separated ten, twenty,\\nthirty or more years ago, and who, by tell-tale wrinkles, gray locks\\nand shining heads excite our surprise that they should have grown\\nso old, while we remain so young. Some we bring with us, our\\nbetter halfs, who have left father and mother, to cleave unto us\\nand with them we bring some of the pledges of our union doubt-\\ning not that you are as curious to know something of our family-\\nmatters as we are to know about yours and trusting that we shall\\nmutually excuse each other for the little pride we may take in the\\npresentation. Strangers as they are, may we not promise ourselves\\nthat, on our account, they will receive a cordial welcome from those\\nwhose homes are here\\nSince these things are so, let us celebrate the day with enthusi-\\nasm, with becoming solemnities, with rejoicing and good cheer, and\\nwith social greetings and, above all, with devout thankfulness to\\nHim in whom we live and move and have our being, for all the\\nway in which He has led us for the wonderful results which we\\nsee around us as the fruits of one hundred years, and for the privi-\\nlege granted us of meeting on this festive day.\\nHonored as I feel myself to have been, in being called to address\\nyou on this occasion, I at once selected the theme on which I sup-\\nposed the current of thought would this day run and shall endea-\\nvor, so far as the hour will admit, to satisfy the curiosity which\\nmust naturally arise, to know what was our origin who were the\\nmen, who came alone and unprotected into the dreary wild, and\\nmade the first beginnings here what were the steps of their pro-\\ngress what has been the result, and what have been the principal\\ninfluences in securing it,\\n[Here followed the historical sketch of which this volume is an amplification.]\\nWe have thus touched upon some of the principal incidents in\\nthe history of our town during this the first century of its settle-\\nment and now for a moment let us compare the end with the be-\\nginning. Instead of a howling wilderness, into which the summer\\nsun rarely penetrated, we now see smiling fields and waving grain\\ninstead of log cabins, covered with bark, we have ample and com-\\nfortable architectural dwellings instead of a few paths indicated by\\nspotted trees, passable only on foot, or at most mere bridle paths,\\nour territory is now threaded in every direction with carriage roads,", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0495.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "456 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nand every man has his vehicle moreover, for his use and pleasure.\\nInstead of the log meeting-house, with the bushes growing up within\\nit, we have four or five houses of worship and as many worshipping\\nassemblies. Instead of the single schoolmaster, going from place to\\nplace to teach a few urchins for two or three weeks, we have our\\nsixteen common schools with as many teachers, and, above all, our\\nnoble, time-honored Academy. Many of us remember when there\\nwere only four or five painted houses in town when there was\\nscarcely a room papered or carpeted when wooden bowls, plates,\\nspoons and platters, or in the better families pewter ones, supplied\\nthe place of crockery, glass and silver when square, high-backed,\\nflag-bottomed chairs and settles stood where rocking chairs and vel-\\nvet sofas now stand when six yards of calico were considered an\\nample pattern for a dress, and none but the most extravagant thought\\nof seven. But on the contrast we will not dwell it presents itself\\nto the eye and it is but the contrast which prevails throughout our\\nhappy land.\\nAnd we have done something for the welfare of the wide, wide\\nworld also. Within the walls of our Academy many men of dis-\\ntinction, of every calling, have received their preliminary education.\\nFrom among our citizens, either born here or who passed their early\\nyears here, we enumerate one President of a college, one Professor\\nand one Tutor two Members of Congress in other States at least\\ntwenty-six Clergymen, three of whom have devoted themselves to\\nForeio-n, and two to Home Missions, two of them having had the\\nhonor of founding missions to two Eastern nations, and of first trans-\\nlating the New Testament into the language of those nations\\nmoreover, three of the daughters of New Ipswich have become the\\nwives of Missionaries to the East. We have had as many as\\ntwelve lawyers, four of whom have been Judges. Ten or more\\nhave become Physicians. And we may add, as perhaps exerting a\\nmore important influence than all, we have furnished numberless\\nteachers, who have labored all over our broad land. And all this\\nin a population of from twelve to eighteen hundred.\\nWould you speak of enterprise in Trade and Manufactures, look\\nat our merchant princes in Boston and elsewhere look at our Fac-\\ntories in town look at Waltham and Lowell and Saco, in which\\nour townsmen have taken so prominent a part.\\nDo you speak of Philanthropy, and ask what has been done for\\nthe Institutions of Benevolence and Learning Look about you,\\nand names synonymous with liberality, familiar to you from child-\\nhood, will rise spontaneously. Go inquire in the metropolis of\\nNew England, and you will be pointed to many, whose ancestral\\ngraves are here. And especially will they point you to him, whose\\nbusiness, I should rather say whose pleasure, it has been for many\\nyears to listen to an incessant round of solicitations from the unfor-\\ntunate or the philanthropic. All are heard patiently, so long as time", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0496.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 457\\nand streng-th will allow none are ever rudely repulsed, and few\\never part from him without kind words and substantial aid. Many\\nis the heart he has made glad and he is distinguished not\\nmore for the number and amount of his bestowments than for his\\ndiscrimination in the selection of the objects of his benevolence\\nand still more, for the cordial and artless manner in which he be-\\nstows them.\\nNo better evidence of the standing in which the sons of New Ips-\\nwich are held abroad need be adduced, than the fact that, at the\\nrecent New Hampshire Festival in Boston, three of the Committee\\nof Arrangements and five of the twelve Vice Presidents were New\\nIpswich men and it was remarked in my hearing, by a gentleman\\nfrom another town, that probably the sons of New Ipswich had ac-\\ncumulated more wealth than the sons of any other town in the\\nState of like numbers. And what should give us great pleasure is,\\nthat they have all been engaged in legitimate trade and their\\nwealth is the legitimate fruit of productive industry. I have never\\nyet heard of the first man among them whose integrity in trade was\\nnot unimpeachable.\\nAnd though last that we shall mention, not least, we have done\\nsomething for Art. Music especially has received much at our\\nhands. A choir was organized here at a very early date and our\\ncitizens have ever been diligent in the cultivation of chaste and\\nsubstantial music, both vocal and instrumental. How many thou-\\nsands have received musical instruction from some of our citizens\\nWe look back with pride to the palmy days of the Hubbard Soci-\\nety, as a musical association almost unrivalled at that time, save by\\nthe Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. Time was, and at no\\nvery distant day either, when a piano forte was a possession to\\nwhich no ordinary citizen could aspire. Thirty years ago, and very\\nfew ears had been delighted with the sound of even one of the tink-\\nling piano fortes of that day and one who could perform upon such\\nan instrument was a prodigy indeed. But how is it now pianos\\nresound on all sides and throughout every nook and corner of the\\nland and no drawing-room is considered completely furnished with-\\nout one. Every little miss expects to be provided with one and\\nthe number of performers is legion. The sweet and soothing influ-\\nences of music are felt in every school and in almost every dwell-\\ning. A great and happy change has been wrought in social life.\\nAnd to whom is this delightful change mainly owing? Is it not\\nto one of our own citizens Do we not remember him, as he\\nquietly plied the saw, the plane, and the lathe near yonder rill. It\\nis Chickering and it is to his industry, perseverance and good\\ntaste, that we owe, more than to that of any other individual, this\\ngreat social change. Nearly 11,000 instruments have gone directly\\nfrom his manufactory and 1,300 from the establishment of Wil-\\nkins, another son of New Ipswich. By his skill and perseverance,\\n58", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0497.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "45 8 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nhe has now a world renown, and his instruments are unsurpassed,\\nif equalled, in any land. At the same time, it is particularly pleas-\\ning to record, that his personal worth is as universally acknowl-\\nedged as his professional merit. He must be regarded as one of\\nthe great benefactors of his race. We may be proud that we can\\nclaim him as ours.\\nThe sister art of Painting, too, is not without a worthy represent-\\native. Already has the gifted Champney, though scarcely yet\\nentered upon the stage of life, given ample proof of superior skill.\\nHe has designed and executed a gigantic work of great merit. We\\nhave seen the Rhine, with all its beetling heights crowned with\\nlofty castles, its vineyards, its cities, its palaces, we have seen\\nit flow, as it came from his pencil. May his reward be equal to\\nhis merits, and his fame be as undying as his Art.\\nIn short, hoping no offence to our neighbors, for their own repu-\\ntation should raise them above jealousy, we feel that we may adopt\\nthe lines of the little poem, which has been on every school-boy s\\nlips, and which of itself is enough to confer lasting renown on New\\nIpswich, lines that are as pertinent now, as on the day when they\\nwere written,\\nAnd where s the town, go far and near.\\nThat does not find a rival here\\nAnd now, as we separate for a more general participation in the\\nfestivities of this occasion, let us pause for a moment to indulge in\\none solemn thought. A century has past, and with it have gone\\nnearly three generations. Very many of us remember when yonder\\nchurchyard, the New Burying Ground as we called it, was first\\nappropriated to its sacred purpose and then it was considered too\\nlarge. Already has the necessity of enlarging it arrived. We re-\\nmember when the first body was laid there it was that of my\\nnearest neighbor and now the place is filled with graves and\\ntombstones. A number equal to all the present inhabitants now\\nlies there, and before this century closes as many more will be there.\\nA century how brief it is and yet within it are concentrated for\\nus the destinies of countless centuries to come\\nAnd may the virtue, the piety, the harmony, the industry and\\nenterprize, and intellectual culture which have characterized this\\ntown for so large a part of the past century, and have secured for\\nit such a measure of local prosperity, and contributed so much also\\nto the well-being of the community at large, prevail, in still greater\\ndegree, through the coming century so that the satisfaction with\\nwhich those who, at the close of that epoch, shall contemplate the\\npast, may far surpass that which we now enjoy.\\nAfter the Orator had closed, the company had a few moments\\nrecess, and Avere entertained by Music from the Band.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0498.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 459\\nThen came the Poem by Eugene Batchelder, Esq. of Cambridge.\\nThis was a very interesting production, and Avell received. It call-\\ned to remembrance many bygone scenes and persons, in a graphic\\nand amusing style. It was soon after published, has gone through\\nfour editions, and has been extensively read and quoted. The\\ncommencement and close, with a song, casually introduced, were as\\nfollows\\nHow vain the task to paint the thoughts that burn\\nWhen wandering exiles to their homes return\\nWhat feelings gush from every opening heart,\\nWhat tears of joy from every eyelid start.\\nWhat smiles rekindle, and what hopes renew.\\nAs bursts once more our native town in view;\\nWhat joyful welcomes bid the heart to feel\\nThat kindness here, is not officious zeal,\\nBut something more a greeting kind, and warm,\\nThat gladdens life, and takes your heart by storm.\\nThis we have felt; a newborn impulse thrills\\nOur souls, to think we tread our native hills;\\nWe view with joy that sacred village spire\\nIllumed with light, as glows the east with fire,\\nAnd hear its chimes careering on the breeze\\nThat still awake ten thousand memories.\\nWe see the roof where first we drew our breath;\\nYon sacred graves, where rest our sires in death;\\nThe village play-ground, with its spreading-tree,\\nWhere oft we roamed in youthful frolics, free;\\nThe ancient school-house, where, with shining face,\\nWe first began fair learning s mighty race.\\nSONG.\\nHow noiseless and swift have a hundred years fled;\\nHow fast they have circled away,\\nSince our fathers first gazed on these hills that we tread\\nWith such varied emotions to-day.\\nO say, did they dream, as they shouldered the axe,\\nAnd trod through the forest s dark maze.\\nWith their rifles, and household gear slung at their backs,\\nThat we on this fair scene should gaze;\\nDid they dream, as the deer started forth from their path.\\nAnd sped through the forest away,\\nWhile the Indian looketl down from yon hill in his wrath.\\nAt his hunting-grounds stolen away,\\nThat we, on this morning, should all gather here,\\nFrom city town valley and glen,\\nTo recite all the deeds, which we now hold so dear.\\nOf those glorious Pioneer Men.\\nNo, they thought not of us; but, to hazard a guess,\\nI suspect that they thought vastly more\\nOf how they should manage, by skill and address,\\nTo keep famine and wolves from their door", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0499.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "460 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1 suspect that their thoughts took a practical turn\\nThat they felt there w as work to be done\\nThat their future was bounded by what they could earn,\\nTwixt the sun-rise, and set of the sun;\\nThat they thought of the friends they had left on the shore.\\nSo many days journey away\\nWhere the bright waters dance, and the loud billows roar.\\nIn Boston s old time-honored Bay;\\nAnd as fancy reviewed every scene of the past,\\nThey sighed, if such men ever sigh.\\nThat though now in the desert their bleak lot was cast.\\nThey might once see those shores ere they die.\\nFarewell, farewell, this day is flying fast,\\nSoon twill he numbered with the mighty past;\\nBut often we with pleasure shall look back,\\nAs o er life s sea we hold our stormy track.\\nTo this fair Haven, where we safely lay,\\nAnd moored our barks with pleasere for a day.\\nForgot the tempests of life s troubled main.\\nAnd pressed the hands of welcome friends again;\\nThrew off the burden of our daily toil.\\nAnd trod once more our own, our native soil\\nAnd though to-morrow we may spread our sail.\\nAnd bear away before fair fortune s gale.\\nYet still, some word of kindly greeting here\\nShall linger with us, on our brief career,\\nUntil we reach that bright and heavenly shore.\\nWhere storms invade not, and no billows roar;\\nO there again may we in perfect peace\\nIMeet, where all partings and all sorrows cease.\\nAfter singing Old Hundred, the service ended.\\nThe procession was re-formed, the gentlemen being joined by\\ntheir wives and families, and marched a short distance to the Pa-\\nvilion, which had been erected in front of the Barrett mansion. It\\nwas 114 feet long and 80 feet wide, covered by sails brought from\\nBoston. It contained twelve tables with 1024 plates, with an ele-\\nvated platform at each end for the officers and music. The whole\\nwas handsomely decorated with flowers and evergreens by the Com-\\nmittee of ladies. The Dinner was prepared by Messrs. William J.\\nGreenman and Daniel G. Murphy.\\nAfter as many as could be seated were received, they were called\\nto order by the President. A blessing was invoked by the Rev.\\nEphraim Peabody of Boston, and the company was soon busily\\nengaged with knife and fork. After the inner man was satisfied,\\nthe President opened the subsequent entertainment by the following\\nappropriate remarks\\nLadies and Gentlemen The position assigned to me on this\\noccasion, confers upon me the very pleasant privilege of bidding you\\nwelcome to our beloved and venerated town.\\nOur revered Mother, on this her Centennial birth-day, has called", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0500.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 461\\nhome her absent children to unite Avith those who occupy the home-\\nstead, in a tribute of gratitude for the many favors we have receiv-\\ned at her hand. How cheerfully have the loved and absent ones\\nresponded to the invitation.\\nWe have with us to-day those who dwell upon the banks of the\\nPenobscot. Her sons and daughters have come from the borders\\nof the beautiful Ohio from beyond the mighty Mississippi from\\nevery State from the line of Victoria s dominions, far far away to\\nthe good old North State. Massachusetts has sent us large num-\\nbers who have gone out from us to distinguish themselves and the\\nplace of their birth by the honors which they have acquired in their\\nvarious pursuits. All, all unite with glad hearts and voices in ac-\\nknowledging the benefits conferred by, and in asking for God s\\nchoicest blessings upon our dear native town.\\nHer sons and daughters fill and adorn every honorable calling\\nand profession. She has sent forth her loved ones to preside over\\nsome of the most respectable of our colleges and other seats of learn-\\ning. The pulpit acknowledges its indebtedness to her for many a\\nworthy and distinguished divine. We have with us those who\\nstand in the front rank in the legal profession. Her physicians are\\nknown across the broad Atlantic, for their scientific attainments.\\nWho has not heard of her merchant princes and their unbounded\\nmunificence\\nWhere shall we find manufacturers more distinguished for their\\nskill where mechanics in the various departments who excel them\\nTheir names and works are known in every land where harmony\\nresides. Her farmers are among the most industrious and respect-\\nable. But who shall attempt to eulogize her daughters\\nCome then, expressive Silence, muse their praise.\\nHappy Mother of distinguished sons and daughters Long, long\\nmay she continue to give birth to their equals. Long, long may\\nthe country and the world be blessed by their labors and virtues\\nBut I forbear. I am already transgressing a rule which I was\\nabout to suggest to others. We have with us many distinguished\\ngentlemen gentlemen to whose eloquence we would gladly listen\\nfor hours, did the short time which remains to us permit. We\\nwould hear them all but to give an opportunity to a few only of\\nthe many, we must consider brevity not a virtue only, but a necessity.\\nOur Clergymen always speak tvell, but never better than when pro-\\nnouncing the Ziewe-diction. Our Physicians must practice upon the\\nhomoeopathic system. Our Lawyers must file brief statements,\\nin conformity with the statutes in such cases made and provided.\\nAll others must remember that brevity is the soul of wit, and I\\ntrust we shall be found abounding in that rare commodity.\\nLadies and Gentlemen, I again bid you welcome, i/^rice welcome,\\nto the place of our birth, the home of our affections.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0501.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "462 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nThe President then gave the following as the first toast\\n1. The Day ice celebrate.\\nAfter the reading of this toast, the President remarked that some\\nfifty years ago there was a showy muster of the military, in this\\ntown, and a March was composed, called Ipswich Muster; and\\nhe proposed that it should be revived on this occasion. It was ac-\\ncordingly played by the band.\\n2. The Orator of the day. We have hitherto been proud of his name and\\nreputation as one of the great lights of the scientific world; he has to-day laid us\\nunder infinite obligation for his interesting and eloquent Address.\\nDr. Gould replied, that as he had already done so much of the\\nspeaking, he would not further intrude, though he would have been\\nglad to have added much more, which want of time had forced him\\nto leave unsaid. After expressing the pleasure he had experienced\\nin again meeting many of his fellow townsmen, and the gratitude\\nhe felt for the attention with which he had been listened to, he\\noffered the following sentiment\\nIpswich People, to whom this town was first granted an honest, intelligent,\\nindustrious, frugal, enterprising, pious and patriotic people may the excellent\\nqualities of the parent stock abound in the scions.\\n3. The Poet of the day our first Poet Laureate.\\nMr. Batchelder responded Ladies and Gentlemen, when I\\narrived here yesterday, I cheered till I cheered myself hoarse and\\nthe efforts of to-day have rendered me much more so. I will, there-\\nfore, only remark, that I had considered my native town to be alto-\\ngether barren of poetic interest that nothing at all of a poetic na-\\nture had ever occurred in its history. But by the assistance of the\\nDoctor here, and of that renowned antiquarian, Mr. Kidder, I have\\nvery happily found myself mistaken. I would propose as a senti-\\nment\\nThe Town of JYeiv Ipswich patriotic and stedfast; so may it ever continue.\\n4. The Memory of our departed Ancestors. When the spirits of the sires\\nand the sons shall mingle, may the latter have no cause to lament that they have\\nno better sustained the reputation of their good and pious forefathers.\\nHon. Salma Hale, of Keene, replied. Ladies and Gentlemen\\nThere is nothing that I have looked upon, in the whole course\\nof my life, with so much interest as upon the labors and trials\\nof those who have marched forward and been the first to open\\nour forests the feelings they must have had, and the firmness,\\nperseverance and energy with which they encountered the difficul-\\nties of a new settlement. These have been the means by which\\nour country has been going on in a constant march of improve-\\nSome of the toasts and accompanying remarks, which follow, were necessa-\\nrily unspoken, for want of time, though prepared for the occasion.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0502.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 463\\nmerit. And I hope, Gentlemen, that this feeling, which was im-\\nplanted in the nature of our fathers, will not be entirely extinct in\\nthe generation that is before us. I look forward to the time when\\nthe prosperity we witness will be excelled by that which is to come,\\nI think that can be acquired by education not of the mind merely,\\nbut of the body also. Let us educate the body first, the affections\\nnext, and let the mind follow, for that is the least important of the\\nwhole.\\n5. Hev. Stephen Farrar, the first Pastor the memory of the just is blessed.\\nEphraim Hartwell Farrar, Esq. (son of the venerated Pastor,)\\nresponded.\\nIt may be expected by some, that I should respond to the senti-\\nment just uttered by others, that modesty would induce my silence.\\nI fear I may fall short of meeting the expectations of the first, and\\ntire the patience of the latter but justice to the individual requires\\nthat I should be faithful, and the subject that I should be plain and\\nexplicit while the time and place remind me that I should be brief.\\nIn 1760, ten years after their first organization as a town, the\\nRev. Stephen Farrar was settled as a minister over this church and\\npeople. Mr. Farrar was courteous and familiar with his friends,\\nand at times facetious, and would often unbend himself in his own\\nfamily and in the families of his parishioners yet he was always\\ndignified, and never lowered himself in their estimation. As to the\\nforbidding aspect, and the awe with which he was approached by\\nstrangers, to which reference has been made, I can readily assent\\nthough for myself I can say, I never felt any of this dread in his\\npresence, when in the way of duty. I have seen it in others, and\\nfelt it myself, when in the way of transgression. I have seen the\\nboy, who, with knife in hand, was marking his neighbor s fence, or\\nwith pole in hand, was beating his neighbor s orchard, quail under\\nthe severe rebuke of his penetrating eye, drop his implements and\\nretire from the scene of his depredations as fast as possible. This\\nawe and distance may not all of it have arisen from any special se-\\nverity in the individual some of it may be attributed to the reve-\\nrence at that day thrown around the sacred office and the dress\\npeculiar to the minister, the lawyer, and the judge, in those days,\\nmight have contributed to this result.\\nMr. Farrar was about twenty years old when he commenced\\npreaching, and, I have been told, had a very youthful appearance\\nfor one of that age, and in ascending the pulpit looked like a mere\\nboy. This circumstance might have induced him to throw all the\\nsternness possible into his countenance, to counteract any want of\\nrespect his boyish appearance might induce on the younger portion\\nof his audience, and to enhance the dignity of his office. However\\nthis might have been, I will relate an anecdote in confirmation of\\nthe fact of his youthful appearance. Not long after his settlement,\\nhe had occasion to journey at a distance, and fell in company with", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0503.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "564 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\na cler^man who, having learned that he was from New Ipswich,\\nbegan to question him how he liked his minister. He, not being\\nvery desirous of saying much in his own praise, answered him\\nrather coolly. I am surprised to hear you speak so, said the\\nclergyman let me tell you, young man, it does not become you,\\nwith no beard upon your face, to speak thus lightly of your minis-\\nter I have been told, that he is a very devoted, talented young\\nman. He is, indeed, very young and inexperienced, and I much\\nfear, he will not be able to meet the wants of his church, or the\\nraised expectations of his people. I have very humbling views of\\nhim myself. Indignant at this, the clergyman could forbear no\\nlonger: You little young upstart, I ll teach you better manners\\nthan thus to undervalue your minister. 0, sir, to show you that\\nI have the deepest interest in his welfare, and the best means pos-\\nsible of judging of his deficiencies and imperfections, let me tell\\nyou I am myself the minister of New Ipswich. The minister,\\ngrasping his hand, said, Let me assure you, sir, I have greater\\nconfidence in your usefulness than ever.\\nAt the close of nearly half a century of ministerial labors among\\nthis people, I have often heard him express the desire, always with\\nsubmission, that his labors and his life might terminate together,\\nwhich proved to be the fact he preached the Sabbath before his\\ndeath. This, to him, I believe, was a happy coincidence. But his\\nusefulness did not terminate at his death it was very evident that\\nhe had left the impress of his character, and the evidences of his\\nministerial fidelity upon many a heart in the midst of the commu-\\nnity in which he dwelt. And for a long time after his decease, at\\nthe bare mention of his name, the eye of piety would glisten and\\nthe tear of penitence be dropped by hundreds of those, who had a\\nhope that they had been redeemed, through his instrumentality,\\nfrom spiritual death to newness of life and new obedience. And\\neven to this day, the print of his footsteps is not entirely obliterated.\\nAsk that aged saint, who worships God leaning upon the top of his\\nstaff, whence all that ardor of piety and fervency of devotion, in\\nwhich he pours out his soul, morning and evening, as he gathers\\nhis family around the domestic altar and commends all his interests\\nfor time and eternity to the protection of that God in whom is all\\nhis trust, and to the redeeming blood of that Saviour, from whom\\nis all his hope, and he will tell you, that, under God, he owes it\\nall to the faithful labors and exemplary life of the first settled min-\\nister of New Ipswich. And I will venture to predict, that, after\\nanother hundred years shall have unfolded all their eventful histo-\\nry, and we all of us, who are here congregated, shall have been laid\\nin our gravies, and other sons and other daughters from these green\\nhill-tops and these verdant valleys shall have come together to cel-\\nebrate another centennial festival, the moral influence of the first\\nsettled minister in New Ipswich will still be felt.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0504.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 465\\nAnd here, Mr. President, before I close, let me pay a tribute of\\nrespect and drop a tear of gratitude on the grave of those pioneers\\nin the cause of truth and righteousness, who were the first members\\nof the first church gathered in New Ipswich, and especially to its\\nofficers, the Adamses, the Appletons and Chandlers, the Aarons\\nand Hurs, who stayed up the hands of their minister, and who so\\neminently contributed, with him, to make New Ipswich for good\\nwhat she was, what she is, and what she may be hereafter. I close\\nwith this sentiment\\nChurch and State we want no other union than that of the former, to secure\\nthe perpetuity of the latter.\\n6. JVew Ipswich Academy itself poor, but making others rich.\\nDea. Samuel Greele of Boston. Mr. President, Ladies and Gen-\\ntlemen Though I am not a son of New Ipswich according to the\\nflesh, I am a son according to the spirit for my mind received\\nsome of its earliest and best impressions here. I am glad to see\\nbefore me men and women of all parties in politics, and of all de-\\nnominations in religion. This is as it should be. For we have\\nmet for no sectarian or political purpose. We have assembled, as\\nsons and daughters of pious and virtuous ancestors, to brighten and\\nstrengthen the chain that binds us together, as brothers and sis-\\nters, in common sympathies and common affections. There is no\\nroom for party discussion here.\\nFew festal occasions are more salutary in their effects, than those\\nwhich commemorate the early settlement of our cities, towns, and\\nvillages. It is well for us, who repose on downy couches, sit at\\nplenteous tables in comfortable dwellings, to recur in imagination to\\nthe labors and privations of those, to whom we are indebted for our\\npresent conveniences, comforts and luxuries. It is well for us,\\nwhile worshipping in our sanctuaries, (perhaps I might appropri-\\nately call them chapels of ease,) without any to molest or make us\\nafraid, to think of those who repaired to the house of God, armed\\nnot only with the shield of faith, the breastplate of righteousness,\\nand the sword of the spirit, but protected by other weapons than\\nthose of celestial temperament, swords, guns and bayonets were\\nnever forged in heaven, not because they delighted in war, but\\nthat they might defend themselves from savage foes.\\nWell may the natives of this town look back with honest pride\\non those to whom, under God, they owe their earthly existence.\\nThough my knowledge of some of these worthies commenced more\\nthan half a century ago, my recollection of them is as fresh as\\nthough I had parted with them but yesterday.\\nIf departed spirits take cognizance of human affairs, may we not\\nindulge the belief, that the fathers are mingling their sympathies\\nwith those of their sons this day, who seek not so much to garnish\\ntheir sepulchres, as to recall the memory of their persons and their\\n59", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0505.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "466 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nvirtues. I am sure the thought, that the spirits of the Farrars,\\nof Hartwell, Appleton, Champriey, Barrett, Kidder, Preston, Prich-\\nard, Batchelder, Wilson, and a host of others, together with their\\nexcellent consorts now in heaven, may be with us at this time, I\\nam sure that this thought will not so much sadden as it will deepen\\nand chasten our joys. Truly, giants in intellect and heart lived\\nhere in days of yore. I trust they have impressed their moral\\nimage on the present generation. Departed worthies may we\\nimitate as well as laud your virtues.\\nThe Academy, which these men established more than sixty\\nyears ago, (it was the second that was incorporated in this State,\\nExeter being the first,) is a monument of their wisdom, and a proof\\nof their interest in the education of their sons and their daughters,\\nwhen learning was comparatively but little appreciated, and when\\nsuch institutions were rare in the land. Many, who afterwards\\nbecame distinguished in church and in state, at the bar, in the\\nmedical prefession, in the pulpit, and in the councils of the nation,\\nwere fitted for college at this venerable institution. Others, who\\nhave been ornaments in the several spheres in which they moved,\\nconsummated their educution here.\\nBoston is largely indebted to this town, and to this seminary, for\\nsome of her most honored citizens. For want of time, I can name\\nbut few. The Appletons are as well known in our city for their\\nmunificence, as -was the Man of Ross in England for his generous\\ndeeds. To recount their charities would be to transcribe a page\\nfrom almost every philanthropic society in the metropolis of New\\nEngland. As the elder Appleton is not present, I trust I shall not\\nbe wanting in delicacy to my venerable friend, if I narrate an inter-\\nview 1 had with him, after he had met with an accident which de-\\nprived him of the support of his nether limbs. On my expressing\\nmy regret at his misfortune, he replied, As I have had the use of\\nthese legs for eighty years, why should I complain that I can use\\nthem no longer This is philosophy baptized into Christianity.\\nIf it is not, I must confess that I am ignorant of philosophy and of\\nChristianity too.\\nOther distinguished citizens of Boston had their origin in this\\ntown. I will not cause a blush on their manly cheeks, by calling\\nthem by name. I rejoice at seeing so many alumni of the Acade-\\nmy and natives of this place now before me. Though their names\\nmay not be written in the book of Kings, their deeds will be record-\\ned in the first book of Chronicles of the times.\\nTo revert once more to the Academy, my earliest Alma Mater\\nshe has well discharged the office and the duties of a normal school,\\nby educating teachers for our primary and district schools. I was\\ninitiated into the mysteries of my mother tongue by a lady, who\\nwas educated at this seminary. Bingham s Ladies Accidence was\\nthe first English classic which I studied, and love was the first", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0506.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBARATION. 467\\nverb which I learned to conjugate. Paradoxical as it may seem,\\nthough by the aid of this excellent instructress I could conjugate\\nthe verb to love through all the moods, tenses, numbers and persons,\\nI could never yet learn to decline it. Thanks to this kind lady,\\nher instructions have sunk so deep into my heart that I always\\nhave loved, I still do love, and I trust by the blessing of heaven I\\nalways shall and will love, as long as I live, all good persons and\\ngood things, my excellent and amiable school-mistress certainly not\\nexcepted.\\nA little more autobiography, and I shall have done in regard to\\nmyself. During my short academic course, I was favored with the\\ninstruction of two excellent men, the late Rev. Dr. Worcester of\\nSalem, and the late Rev. Mr. Palmer of Townsend. Though their\\ntemperaments and style of manners were widely different, the one\\nbeing grave, and the other gay, they were, each in his own way,\\ngood instructors, as well as respectable divines and true-hearted\\nmen. The former was distinguished in his profession. The solemn\\nnotes of the one, and the merry tones of the other, are still audible\\nto memory s ear. Various are the methods of accomplishing the\\nsame object. Both frowns and smiles have a beneficent agency in\\nthe education of the young. We may be reasoned into regret, or\\nlaughed into shame, for our short-comings in duty. Thanks then to\\nthose who have made us better scholars and better men, either by\\njokes or reproofs, by smiles or tears. The cheerful Christian can-\\nnot say to the solemn one, I have no need of thee neither can the\\nsolemn Christian say to the cheerful one, I have no need of thee.\\nBoth may be equally good pillars in the temple of our Lord.\\nI have intimated in my remarks, that many New Ipswich men\\nhave found pleasant and profitable homes in Boston. I will now\\nadd, that some of those ladies who are now the pride and the orna^\\nment of our city parlors and social circles, as well as efficient agents\\nin our eleemosynary and benevolent institutions, were born and rear-\\ned in the farm-houses of New England. New Ipswich is well re-\\npresented in this goodly society of elect ladies.\\nI am happy to say, that the advantage is not on one side only.\\nSome of our city-born and city-educated females have exchanged\\nthe delicate employments of the needle and pencil for the more ac-\\ntive labors of the farm-house and the dairy, to the manifest improve-\\nment of their health, and to the increased thrift of their loving lords\\nand husbands. Should an opportunity present, I hope some of my\\nfair hearers may be induced to exchange their country homes for\\ncity ones, by accepting such offers as I have alluded to. Should\\nany of you, in this way, come to reside in Boston, (I assure you it\\nis a glorious place to live in,) I venture to promise you, in the name\\nof our city, our protection and blessing. I furthermore engage, we\\nwill not abandon these our wards, for the gold diggings of Califor-\\nnia. We will never go in quest of silver and gold abroad, while", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0507.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "468 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nsuch rubies and diamonds demand our care, regard and safe-keep-\\ning at home.\\nI cannot close my remarks, before expressing my thanks to the\\ncommittee, to whom we are indebted for the admirable arrange-\\nments of this repast. On festal occasions, which I have attended on\\nbygone days, there was always a plenty of gentlemen, an abund-\\nance of alcholic spirits, and of creature comforts, as they are called,\\nbut a great lack of ladies. The present occasion presents a pleas-\\ning contrast to former times, no wine or alcoholic spirits crowning\\nthe table but instead thereof, a goodly number of our fair sisters,\\nencircling this well-spread festive board. I repeat it, thanks to\\nyour committee, who have exorcised evil spirits, and introduced\\ngood ones in their place. I will close with a sentiment\\nThe Alumni and present Pupils of the Academy May they, by their learn-\\ning and piety, prove an honor to their Ahna Mater.\\n7. Hon. Timothy Farrar laden with early honors, adorning a useful and\\neventful life, prolonged beyond that of all his fellows.\\nThis was responded to by his son, Hon. Timothy Farrar of Bos-\\nton. Mr. President It is impossible for me to remain unmoved at\\nthe mention at any mention, of that venerable name. But, Sir;\\nafter the extreme kindness and respect with which it has been so\\nrepeatedly mentioned and received by my fellow townsmen, on this\\noccasion, it would be unpardonable in me to occupy the time with\\nany remarks of my own. I hope, therefore, to be excused from any\\nthing more than the heartfelt expression of my profound gratitude,\\nfor the great respect that has been manifested here for my ven-\\nerable father.\\nCol. Reuben Kidder One hundred years ago he was prominent in the or-\\nganization of this town, of which he was always a distinguished citizen while\\nyonder Mountain perpetuates his name, his memory will endure.\\nTo which his grandson, Mr. Frederic Kidder of Boston, replied\\nas follows Mr. President, I thank you for the kind sentiment in\\nwhich you have honored my ancestor. He was truly a prominent\\nman in the affairs of this town. Among the first settlers, he did pro-\\nbably more than any other one towards forwarding and regulating\\nits affairs and as the first Magistrate, his decisions and authority\\nestablished law and order for at least twenty miles around. But,\\nSir, the generation that knew him has passed away and but little\\nthat was familiar to their eyes, save the hills and valleys, now re-\\nmains. It would be pleasing to take a retrospect of the people and\\ntimes down to the days of our own boyhood but the length ening\\nshadows of yonder elms warn me to be brief, and I will close with\\na sentiment\\nThe JVcighbors of Col. Kidder, the Appleton and Gould Families May the\\nintimacy and friendship, that have extended through three generations become\\nin their descendants as perpetual as your sentiment has made his memory.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0508.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 469\\nThe Legal Profession Its members from abroad are welcome to our fam-\\nily festivities.\\nGen. James Dana, of Charlestown, also a grandson of Hon.\\nCharles Barrett, replied\\nI have been struck, in coming up here to-day, and seeing this\\nassembly, with the beauty, advantage and profit of these occasions.\\nWe ought to esteem it a privilege to live where we can enjoy them.\\nThere are many of our friends gone to the West, who cannot, for\\nmany a long year, have these centennials. They are delightful, by\\nthe family feeling which is cultivated, as is manifest on this occa-\\nsion. May that feeling continue to be cherished. You will allow\\nme, therefore, Mr. President, in accordance with these remarks, to\\nofTer the following sentiment\\nJVew England May the time never come, when her sons or her daughters,\\nwherever they may be, forget to love her.\\n8. Hon. Charles Barrett a pioneer in the principal enterprises which have\\ngiven importance to the town.\\nThis was replied to by Martin Ames, Esq., in behalf of George\\nBarrett, Esq., grandson of the person alluded to. After recounting\\nsome of the enterprises in which he had been engaged, and the of-\\nfices he had held, (which may be found in his biographical sketch)\\nMr. A. said, that in the brightest portion of the brilliant galaxy of\\nearly settlers in this town, would stand the name of Charles Bar-\\nrett. He possessed the elements of character which would have\\nrendered him in a high degree an accession to any town. He was\\na man of strong character, and vigorous mind, and was enterprising,\\nactive and successful in business. In him was verified the proverb,\\nseest thou a man diligent in business he shall not stand before\\nmean men. He has long since gone to his last reward but the\\nbrilliancy of his deeds and name remain to posterity.\\nLetters were read from non-resident natives and invited guests\\namong others, from President Fillmore,whose ancestors were Old Ips-\\nwich people from Gov. Dinsmore from Hon. Frank Pierce, whose\\nlady is one of the Appleton family from Hon. Joel Parker, Josiah\\nP. Cooke, Esq., of Boston, Hon. Samuel Farrar, of Andover, who\\nwere prevented by professional engagements from attending.\\nRev. Luther Wright, of Woburn, now 80 years of age, writes\\nI still retain a vivid recollection of the pleasant manner in which I spent a\\npart of the years 1790-1, in your celebrated Academy, under the tuition of\\nthe amiable, learned and beloved Hubbard. Never shall I forget the able\\nand faithful ministrations of the reverend and venerable Farrar, nor the pa-\\nrental courtesy and kindness of the Hon. Timothy Farrar. The respecta-", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0509.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "470 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nble names of the Farrars, Hartwells, Champneys, Prestons, Appletons, c.\\nare very familiar to my recollection. I should love to descant on my remin-\\niscences of New Ipswich, and its highly favored literary institution, but I\\nmust forbear.\\nA letter from Dr. George C. Shattuck, another of the early stu-\\ndents at the Academy, was also read.\\nGentlemen Your kind invitation to participate in the celebration, enti-\\ntles you and ihe people of the town lo my grateful acknowledgement. It\\nrecais incidents of thrilling interest, passed away more than half a century\\nago. In 1798, the fame of the Academy at New Ipswich was at its height.\\nA border State felt its influence. The youth from the entire region around\\nresorted to it to prepare for the strife of life. Your invited guest, then just\\nentered on his teens, was sent by a pious mother to her sister in New Ips-\\nwich, to pass a novitiate in the classics at her Academy. About an hundred\\nof various ages and sizes and of both sexes, from the full grown man and\\nwoman downward, had assembled to be taught. David Palmer, the Precep-\\ntor, had an encouraging word and smile for every tyro. The untutored as-\\nsemblage all bent to their tasks, determined to do their best. Of those then\\nand there assembled, the counting-room, the bar, the church, and other hum-\\nbler yet equally useful callings have exhibited no unworthy specimens of va-\\nried excellence. The genius of the place favored the progress of the youth\\nin training to habits of industry and virtue. The citizens of the town were\\nvenerable for their virtue and example. The pledge to stand by the Consti-\\ntntion and support the Union, in the form of the Federal Cockade, the ladies\\nplaced on the heads of the boys. The cunning work was performed by\\nthe patriotic fair, who have since been mothers in Israel. Time does not\\nallow of detail, therefore cannot describe Amos Twitchell, just from the\\nmountains, as he conjugated his Greek verbs, on his way from the boarding-\\nhouse 10 the Academy, nor yet how the boys fell when they saw one of their\\nnumber settling on the bed of the Souhegan, where they had gone to bathe,\\nuntil an expert, with friendly hand, had conveyed him to the shore, to re-\\ncover breath and a forgotten lesson from his mother. Nor yet can I speak\\nof Elisha Hammond at the Exhibition, enacting the part of the King in\\nYoung s tragedy of the Revenge, where Miss Easterbrook, then just in the\\nbloom of womanly perfection looked and acted the Queen, but will apolo-\\ngize for my unavoidable absence by offering as a sentiment\\nThe Memory of the Early Settlers of JVew Ipsivich, whose stout hearts and\\nhard hands covered her granite hills with the sustaining corn, and whose\\npiety and patriotism endowed posterity by furnishing halls of instruction where\\ntheir sons were trained to enter the lists with the wise men and merchant prin-\\nces of the nation.\\nHon. Levi Woodbury ^vrites\\nMany of the reminiscences of my early life are closely associated with\\nthe names and virtues of some of your early inhabitants.\\nI spent some of the most happy days of my youth within the limits of\\nyour ancient and honorable town.\\nMay it long continue to prosper, and long be able to feel proud of the\\ntalent and worth it has produced in various walks of life strengthening, as\\nshe has been strengthened by, those peculiar institutions and habits of New\\nEngland, which have conferred on her so much glory and power.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0510.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 471\\nHon. Amos Kendall writes from Washington\\nMany of the early and most agreeable incidents of a busy life are asso-\\nciated in my memory with the scenery of New Ipswich and the features of\\nits inhabitants and it would have given me a great, though I doubt not, a\\nmelancholy pleasure, to mingle in the festivities of your anniversary. The\\nscenery which delighted in youth, cannot but please in old age but the\\nfaces which beamed with kindness and love, where are they 1 Buried in\\nthe grave, or so changed by the hand of time, as scarcely to be recognized.\\nKind remembrances would doubtless smile upon me through the disguise\\nwhich the enemy of all that is beautiful in the human form has put upon the\\nfaces of kindred and friends but how many there are who can smile no\\nmore\\nWith many thanks for your kindness, and sincere wishes for the pros-\\nperity and happiness of the people of New Ipswich, until their hun-\\ndredth anniversary shall be a hundred times repeated, I remain.\\nHon. James Wilson of Peterborough,\\nI want to see the sons of New Ipswich assembled in grand Convention.\\nI want to hear them talk over old matters. I want the Appletons and Bar-\\nretts, and Farrars and Champneys, and Pritchards and Wilsons, and Ad-\\namses, c. c., of the old families, to assemble on the soil of their birth,\\nand to revive old associations, and give utterance to the reminiscences of\\nearly life. It would be charming. I know my heart would be moved and\\nimproved by such a meeting. I would respectfully ask you to present\\nto your meeting the following sentiment\\nJVew Ipswich Boys When they go from home in their home-spun garments,\\nmay they not forget to take with them, and preserve with special care, their\\nold, sound, excellent home-spun principles.\\nHon. Charles Stetson, of Bangor, Member of Congress, writes\\nfrom Washington\\nAlthough removed in early life from the home of my maternal ancestors\\nto the State of Maine, I have ever cherished the history of your State\\nwhich, in able men and in the manly virtues of its citizens, has no superior.\\nMy own State, (and which one is not?) is largely indebted to the hardy,\\nvirtuous and talented emigrants from the Granite State.\\nHon. Marshall P. Wilder of Dorchester\\nThere is something in this celebration higher and nobler than the mo-\\nmentary pleasures of the eye or taste it calls to mind the associations of\\nby-gone days, renews the bonds of friendship and social relations, and will\\naiford a most grateful subject for future reflection and satisfaction.\\nAlthough I cannot claim the honor of being a son of the worthy town\\nof N. I., yet I doubt not I am much indebted to its Academy for the standing\\nI possess, and the happiness that has thus far attended me in life.\\nTo the town of New Ipswich belongs a high encomium for the early\\naids afforded by this institution to advance the cause of education and human\\nimprovement and, as one who has shared in her bounty, I tender to its citi-\\nzens my unfeigned wishes for their prosperity and for the nsefulness of all\\nher descendants.\\nPermit me, gentlemen, to offer as a sentiment", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0511.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "472 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nThe JVew Ipswich Academy A fountain opened for the refreshment of\\nsouls thirsting after knowledge. Many have drawn of its waters, and thousands\\nhave dispensed them for the intellectual and moral improvement of mankind.\\nThe J^on-resident sons of JVew Ipswich\\nMen are the fruits our frozen climes supply;\\nAnd souls are ripened in our northern sky.\\nHon. John Appleton of Bangor, Me., responded\\nAn occasion which has assembled friends, united by the ties of a\\ncommon origin, from the cotton-fields and pine plains of the South,\\nfrom the fertile prairies and the populous cities of the West, from\\nthe land which the sun greets in his rising ay, and from the isles\\nof the ocean, must be one of no usual interest. It is the tie of our\\nbirth-place which unites and which has brought us hither not so\\nmuch to consider the present as to commemorate the past.\\nIt is a day of contrast the past to be contrasted with the present\\nand how immense the change. A century ago, this magnificent\\namphitheatre which encloses us, lay in its primeval solitude. A\\ncentury passes away and now how changed The eternal hills,\\nthe flowing streams and the firmament above, alone remain as they\\nwere. The mountains and the valley gladden the eye with the\\nhabitations of civilized man. The idle streams, seized in their\\ncourse by the art of man, have been compelled to become laborious\\nand industrious co-workers with him. The path of the wayfarer\\nwas then indicated by the blazed tree or the broken twig now the\\ntrack of the railroad is almost within your borders, and you can al-\\nmost hear the shrill whistle and the proud step of the iron steed.\\nA century ago, home was across the waters of the Atlantic.\\nHere were colonies, disunited powerless dependent. Now, lands\\nthen unknown and undiscovered, have become powerful States, and\\nhave become parts of a great confederacy extending from the Atlan-\\ntic to the Pacific, and whose limits may yet be co-extensive with a\\ncontinent. The flag of the republic, whose growth has transcended\\nall history, floats gorgeously above us.\\nIn looking back upon our past local history, no portion seems so\\nfull of proud recollections as that of the revolutionary period; and\\nso in the nature of things must it have been. The first settlers\\nwere of the genuine Puritan stock and of a more glorious lineage\\nno man can boast men hating tyranny in all its forms of a stern\\nreligion, but lovers of civil and religious freedom. They were men\\nwhom Cromwell would have rejoiced to have enrolled among his\\nIronsides, and who would have followed him in his fiercest charges.\\nThey were the wheat winnowed from the surrounding chaff fit\\nseed of empire. Such were the early settlers. And when the cry\\npassed from man to man, from town to town, that blood had been\\nspilt each man was at his post, ready for the conflict. The ox\\nwas left in the furrow, to pass the sound along or to hasten to the", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0512.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 473\\nscene of action. The settlement was recent, the inhabitants poor\\nyet you have heard, from the lips of our eloquent orator, how the\\nfirst call found them prompt and unanimous in action how no call\\nfor men found them laggard no call for money found them irres-\\nponsive how this infant settlement sent forth a fiftieth of those\\nwho commenced the war at Bunker Hill and how her means\\nwere expended, and her soldiers doing battle from the commence-\\nment to the closing scene of the Revolution.\\nMr. President, I give you as a sentiment,\\nThe Revolutionary Annals of our ancestors: Ever to be held in proud re-\\nmembrance by their posterity.\\nThe jyatives of Ipswich, wherever they are located, from the seashore to the\\nprairies; e pluribus unum.\\nEdward Kidder, Esq. of Wilmington, N. C, replied as follows\\nI am most happy. Sir, to have come here to-day, with all my\\nhousehold, and to meet (probably for the last time) so many old\\nfriends and townsmen.\\nLike many other sons of New England now here, I have made\\nmy home in a distant State, to which I feel strong attachments\\nyet I can never forget the home of my childhood or the graves of\\nmy ancestors. I offer. Sir, this sentiment:\\nThe States of our nativity and the States of our adoption; may they always be\\none one United States.\\nLetters were communicated and portions read from the following\\ngentlemen\\nSalem, Sept. 6, 1850.\\nI have much reason to be interested in New Ipswich, although I have\\nnever been in the place, unless it was in my infancy. My father studied at\\nthe Academy, and was afterwards the Preceptor. In a letter to Dea. Isaac\\nAppleton, under date April 26, 1795, a few months before he graduated, he\\nrefers very affectionately to his residence there, while fitting for College.\\nI cherish, he says, a grateful remembrance of the kindnesses I have\\nexperienced at your hands and at your house. I especially remember the\\nsolicitude you manifested for my success in the pursuit of learning, and the\\ninterest you appeared to take in whatever concerned my welfare and my use-\\nfulness in life. It was under your hospitable roof that I first came to a de-\\ntermination of prosecuting a classical education. I shall never forget the\\nplace it is dear as that of my nativity. I had almost said, it is the birth-\\nplace of my mind.\\nIf I could be present on the 11th, I should be strongly inclined to address\\na few words to the assembly, if an opportunity were afforded, and I do not\\nknow that I could find any better sentiment to offer, than that which is so\\nnaturally suggested by the grateful remembrances of my revered father\\nand which, if formally expressed according to the usage of such occasions,\\nmight read somewhat as follows\\nJVl w Ipswich The birth-place of many noble sons, and of the minds of\\nmany renowned fathers.\\nVery respectfully yours, Samuel M. Worcester.\\n60", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0513.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "474 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nFrom Dr. Oliver Swain Taylor, of Auburn, N. Y., a native of\\nthis town, and formerly Preceptor of the Academy\\nWere pride either allowable or wise, well might the inhabitants of New\\nIpswich be permitted to exult in the retrospect of their history. Could it\\nbe seen what that little town has done for the neighborhood, for the State,\\nand for the Republic what she has effected by her Academy an influence\\ndiff used much farther, an agency operating much wider, than ever was heard\\nthe sound of her name could the labors of all her sons and daughters\\ncould their civil and moral influence be justly appreciated then, and not\\ntill then, could we estimate the amount of her energies, and the extent of\\ngood accomplished for herself, for her country, and the world.\\nWere it granted me to utter one faint, trembling, dying whisper in the\\near of your assembly, on the approaching joyful re-union, I would say;\\nFriends, brothers, fellow-citizens, let your prayers, your hopes and your\\nlabors be exerted to equal, nay, to surpass your ancestors keep them and\\ntheir example forever in your eye, so that if you do not acquire a world-\\nwide fame, nevertheless, by the Divine blessing, you shall be as the salt of\\nthe earth, yourselves and your posterity forming the characters and mould-\\ning the destiny of millions, both here and hereafter.\\nFrom Hon. Nathan Appleton, of Boston\\nPiTTSFiELD, 4 Sept. 1850.\\nDear Sir I duly received yours of the 19th ult., inviting me to attend\\nthe Centennial Celebration of New Ipswich on the 11th inst.\\nI have delayed answering it until now, in the hope that the state of my\\nhealth would enable me to be present on the interesting occasion but, al-\\nthough considerably improved, it will not furnish me this gratification.\\nI have never visited the streams and the mountains amidst which I passed\\nmy boyhood, without the associations connected with the past, which it is\\ndelightful to cherish, and which lead to thoughts and reflections on the\\nchanging scenes of life, full of admiration and adoration to the Being who\\nrules all these changes for good.\\nI should be pleased to renew these reminiscences, to meet the few remain-\\ning associates of my youth, (alas, how few to witness the vigor and elas-\\nticity of the generations which have succeeded us, and the joyous hopes of\\nthe younger branches, to which they must in turn soon give place.\\nHoping the occasion may realize all the satisfaction anticipated by its\\npromoters, and furnish a fund for future reflection,\\nI remain, gentlemen, with much respect.\\nYour very obedient servant,\\nN. Appleton.\\nFrom Hon. Samuel Batchelder, of Cambridge\\nAmong my regrets in not being able to attend, one of the principal is the\\nloss of the opportunity of renewing many of the associations connected with\\nthe New Ipswich Academy, an institution which, perhaps, like a prophet in\\nhis own Qountry, fails to excite the interest it justly deserves.\\nIf we look back to the circumstances connected with its first establishment,\\nwhen there was only one other institution of the kind in the State, and by a\\nvoluntary association of individuals pledging themselves, not only formally,\\nbut for each other, to support it for a certain time, itafiijrds a proof of intelli-\\ngence and liberality, scarcely to have been expected among a community of\\nhusbandmen just commencing the cultivation of thejr farms, and at a time", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0514.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 475\\nwlieii the country had hardly begun to feel the effects of a settled and estab-\\nlished government.\\nWhere so many will be brouglit together, who will look back with inter-\\nest to the instructions and benefits they have derived from this institution,\\nI cannot but hope that some measures will be taken for its future support,\\nand have no doubt that others will join with me in the pro?nisc as well as\\nthe hope.\\nWhile we have among us a name, which, through the liberality of differ-\\nent members of the family, has been known beyond the limits of our own\\ncountry, we may well expect such aid as circumstances may require, to place\\nthe New Ipswich Academy on a respectable and permanent foundation.\\nI beg leave to conclude with the following sentiment for the table\\nThe Founders of the JVew Ipswich Academy Pioneers in the cause of ed-\\nucation, while they were yet but pioneers in the forest may their descend-\\nants maintain the institution in a condition to do honor to the founders and to\\nthemselves.\\nThe President then read the following letter from Samuel Ap-\\nPLETON of Boston\\nGentlemen, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your polite\\nnote of August 14, inviting me to be present at the Centennial Anniversary\\nof the settlement of New Ipswich, to be held September 11th, 1850.\\nPlease to accept my best thanks for this kind invitation. I perfectly\\napprove of the festival, and I doubt not it will be an interesting one. It\\nwill assemble together many friends, and call up many pleasant reminis-\\ncences. Such an occasion is calculated to improve the social and patriotic\\nfeelings. I sincerely wish success to the anniversary, and I very much re-\\ngret my inability to attend, on account of my advanced age (more than four-\\nscore and four years), and my infirmities.\\nThe early recollections I have of New Ipswich are very pleasant. My\\nboyhood and youth were nearly all passed there, and I look back upon those\\ndays with much satisfaction. The first settlers of New Ipswich were very\\nsuperior men. Like the Pilgrim Fathers they believed, that the only sure\\nfoundations of individual and national prosperity were piety and knowledge.\\nThey acted on the principle themselves, and endeavored to impress it upon\\nthe minds of their children.\\nThe founders of New Ipswich Academy in 1789, were a noble company\\nof men. Their object in founding the Institution, as expressed in the in-\\nstrument itself, was to promote piety and virtue, and a knowledge of the\\narts and sciences. They acted in conformity with the principles of the\\nearly settlers of the town of which they were a part. No one would wish\\nto see those principles departed from by their descendants. The zeal they\\nhad for education was so great, that some of them even mortgaged their\\nhouses and lands to raise money to educate their sons and daughters. I re-\\ncollect many of those men well. They are gone, and I sincerely trust are\\nnow enjoying the rewards promised in the other world to those who endea-\\nvor to do their duty.\\nFor fifty-six years last past, I have not personally known much of New\\nIpswich. I have, however, always felt an interest in its prosperity, and I\\nshall continue my best wishes for the well-being of its inhabitants. As a\\nsentiment on the present occasion, I send you the following, which I hope\\nwill meet the approbation of all present\\nThe Literary Institutions of New Hampshire in general, and the Academy of", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0515.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "476 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nNew Ipswich in particular and to enable that Institution to assume its former\\nstanding and extend its future usefulness, Samuel Jlppletou of Boston, do\\nhereby promise to pay, to the Trustees of JVew Ipswich Academy, for the benefit\\nof said Academy, Five Thousand Dollars, on demand.\\nI ain, Gentlemen, very respectfully, your obedient, most humble servant,\\nSamuel Appleton.\\nThe reading of this letter, which took the audience by surprise,\\ncreated great sensation. The band struck up a merry peal, and the\\ntent resounded with applause. It was also responded to by the\\nfollowing toast\\nHon. Samvel Appleton: The successful merchant, the benevolent gentleman,\\nto whose ample munificence we are already under the greatest obligations.\\nRev. Mr. Lee rose to this toast, and said Mr. President In\\nbehalf of my colleagues, the Trustees of the New Ipswich Academy,\\nI cannot refrain from expressing our profound gratitude for the\\nfavor we have now received from our distinguished and munificent\\nbenefactor.\\nDr. A. A. Gould then pledged himself to give to the Academy\\nan extensive collection of Shells, Plants, and other objects of Natu-\\nral History, whenever the resident citizens would furnish suitable\\ncases for their arrangement and preservation.\\nThe Reverend Clergy. We of New Ipswich are safe from the rocks and\\nshoals in the perilous voyage of life when the helm s a lee.\\nTo this the Rev. Samuel Lee, Pastor of the Congregational\\nChurch, responded as follows\\nMr. President Although my name is found in the vocabulary of\\nthe sailor, I have had but little experience of the sea, and must con-\\nfess my ignorance, in many particulars, of the import of nautical\\nterms. If, however, I rightly interpret the phrase in which you are\\nunderstood to allude to myself, I welcorne it. I will adopt it as a\\nmotto. It is significant of a naost important part of the work which\\nI am attempting to accomplish upon my fellow-men in the name of\\nthe Master.\\nI find mankind, (and our friends of every creed will tolerate the\\nutterance, since the text has been put into my hands by the officers\\nof the day and by the rules of my profession, I must stick to my\\ntext, I find mankind, under the influence of the wind and tide\\nof life, going the wrong, though it is the broad way away from\\nthe port of safety the haven of rest. And I put the helm\\na-lee, and I press it down with all my might and for the rea-\\nson that I would turn men from the error of their ways. And that,\\nnot by some slight deviation from their former course, but quite\\nabout, so that their former course shall compare with the present as\\ndarkness with light.\\nAnd, Mr. President, I am speaking at the close of a century.\\nMay I be permitted to allude to the clergy of that entire period.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0516.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 477\\nWe have been told by the Orator of the day, that among the earli-\\nest arranorements entered into by the inhabitants of this town, was\\none to secure for themselves a Minister. And I am happy to say,\\nthat, in the true idea of Apostolic succession, there has been, from\\nthe first, an unbroken line of men who, in the particular indicated\\nby the text you have given me, have been like the last in the series\\nthe humble incumbent of the present day. They have all put\\nthe helm a-lee.\\nAnd, Sir, allow me to magnify mine office. New Ipswich\\nhas been distinguished for men of excellence, and especially for\\nmen of great efficiency. Now, Sir, the philosophy of England in\\nthe days of Charles II. and of New England from 1620 to this glad\\nday, is the philosophy of New Ipswich for the last century and for\\nthe present hour. We connect now and here, as then and there,\\nsimilar antecedents and consequents, as cause and effect. And\\namong the causes that have secured to our goodly town such honor\\nfrom the character of her sons, that, decisive above all others, is\\nunquestionably the influence of her pulpit whose proclamations\\nwere first from yonder eastern hill, and then from that other over\\nagainst it the Gerizim and the Ebal of our inheritance. That\\ngreat and good man, the venerable and now sainted Farrar, and\\nAvhose son, worthy of such a sire, has spoken with so much propri-\\nety of his father to-day, has, in my humble opinion, done more than\\nany other man I had almost said, than all others, to secure those\\nresults upon character of which we are so proud, and I would hope\\nnot ungrateful, this day.\\nParson Farrar kept the helm a-lee, and his successors have done\\nthe same. And, let me add, wo to that successor, unworthy as he\\nwill be of the name, who shall fail to do so. Why, Sir, the father\\nof the New Ipswich pulpit would come up from his grave, like the\\nghost of Samuel, and utter in his ear the fearful message, that the\\nLord had departed from him and become his enemy.\\nI respond, Sir, with all my heart, to the sentiment proposed\\nWe of New Ipswich are safe from rocks and shoals, in the peril-\\nous voyage of life, while her clergy keep the helm a-Zce.\\nSeveral other letters from those who found it impossible to attend,\\nwere then presented from which the following are extracts\\nRev. Ebenkzer Newhall, now of Willsboro, N. Y.\\nAs an humble individual, who received his birth in that place, his early\\ntraininjT at its schools, his preparatory course at its Academy, and wlio can,\\nas doubtless others can, designate and recognize many a stone and many a\\nrock, many a vale and many a heipht. the sijjht of which, the rememhrance\\nof vthich, the imaginary sisht of which, calls up emotions and sensations of\\ninexpressible interest, it would truly gratify me to be present. I should be\\nolad to furnish some incidents, connected with some of the early settlers,\\ntheir history, the Church, or the Literary Institutions of the place, which", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0517.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "478 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nstill flourishes though I must reproach myself, that I have treasured up so\\nfew of these incidental facts. 1 should be glad to relate some from the lips\\nof my grandmother, relative to the first venerable Pastor, his family, his\\nvisits in the family at that early time, with incidents about his ministry.\\nFrom his hands the writer received baptism.\\nI must be excused for alluding to another name, great, and dear to many,\\nwho outlived a century, a large part of which period he was a resident, in\\nactive and public life. And though my tribute is a small one, yet his name\\nI love to call to mind, of whom I have heard a father speak in terms of un-\\nmeasured respect his person I love to call to view, whose words of favor\\nand whose signature procured me introduction and attention in the Univer-\\nsity. The man, or the youth, who has had the favor of one who outlived a\\ncentury, whose life was a material part of the century, and whose name is\\none of the brightest ornainents of the New Hampshire Bench, may be excus-\\ned for speaking a word. We almost imagine the meridian period of Rev.\\nStephen Farrar and Judge Farrar, and their contemporaries, a sort of golden\\nage in morals and religion.\\nMy desire and hope is, that the moral worth, the goodness, the intelli-\\ngence, the unsullied religion of the place of our birth, may be as eminent as\\nits advantages.\\nRev. Rodney G. Dknnis, now of Grafton, Mass.\\nAlthough the town of New Ipswich is not the place of my nativity, yet I\\nclaim to be one of her adoj/led sons. She took me, when quite young, under\\nher fostering care, and fitted me at her time-honored Academy, for giving\\ninstruction in the common school, and ultimately for admission to Bowdoin\\nCollege, under the tuition and presidency of her own native and most wor-\\nthy son, the late Rev. Jesse Appleton, D. D. It was beneath the salutary\\ninfluence of her literary and religious institutions, attended, at one time\\nparticularly, with remarkable displays of the divine power, that I first\\nlearned, as I humbly trust, to apprehend correctly the gospel of the grace of\\nGod, and become a participant and teacher of its sublime realities. For\\nthese reasons, her name and her history will ever be dear to my mind.\\nBut there is yet another consideration which has ever surrounded her, in\\nmy estimation, with excellence, and inspired me with veneration for her\\ncharacter and desires for her continued prosperity. Jt is the worth of her\\nearly settlers. They were men of rare intellectual endowments, of ardent\\nand consistent piety, and of firm adherence to the principles and cause of\\ncivil and religious liberty. This was her brightest glory in former times;\\nto this, more than any other cause, she owes her steady and brilliant pro-\\ngress and may it never be diverted, or obscured by counteracting influ-\\nences. I give you the following sentiment\\nThe Pulpit of JVew Ipswich May it ever be the defence of those fixed and\\neternal principles of religion, for which it was so pure and distinguished in the\\ndays of a Farrar and a Hall.\\nIsaac Spatjlding, Esq., now of Nashua, regretted the necessity\\nof being absent, and furnished the following sentiment\\nThe Town of JVew Ipswich Like a wise and virtuous matron, she has look-\\ned well to the ways of her household, furnished her children with the means of\\nmoral and mental cultivation, and dismissed them duly (jualified to follow the\\ndiverging paths of life. May she continue to send forth her Appletons, Barretts,\\nFarrars and Adamses to bless the community and do honor to their parentage.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0518.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 479\\nThe ^Prentices of our toion they soon became skilful journeymen, and have\\nsince set up for themselves with success we welcome one back to-day, with\\nhis partner and young Prentices.\\nWilliam H. Prentice, Esq. of Boston, grandson of Capt. Hoar,\\nreplied in some appropriate remarks, and gave as a sentiment, and\\nin allusion to the stream on whose banks he was born\\nThe Souhegan so intimately connected with the fame and prosperity of this\\ntown, and ever dear in the memory of those who drank its waters and sported on\\nits banks in childhoood.\\nElisha L. Hammond, of Northampton, in a letter wherein he al-\\nludes to the sacrifices of blood and treasure which our fathers made\\n.in behalf of freedom, gave as a sentiment the injunction of the\\nApostle\\nRemember them that are in bonds as bound with them and them which\\nsuffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body.\\nStephen Fakrar Safford ofTered the following comprehensive\\nsentiment. It was furnished by telegraph, and was dated Quincy,\\nIllinois, (a distance of two thousand miles,) Sept. 9, (two days pre-\\nvious.) It may serve as one of the evidences of improvement upon\\nthe means of intercommunication one hundred years ago.\\nNew Ipswich granite hills, pearly rills, pleasant dells, merry bells;\\nFathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, blessings on thee all.\\nThe following most interesting communication was received from\\na large colony who went from New Ipswich as the founders of the\\nflourishing town of Denmark, near Fort Madison, in Iowa.\\nTo the Committee of Arrangements of the\\nNew Ipswich Centennial Celebration\\nSeeing an invitation in some of the public journals, requesting the em-\\nigrants from New Ipswich, now residing in other places, to be present or to\\ncommunicate to you on that occasion those of us who are natives of that\\nplace, and those of us who had adopted tliat as our home, and emigrated to\\nthis place and located in and about Denmark, still sympathizing with you\\nand feeling an interest in the happiness of those we have left, and trusting\\nthat the same is reciprocated by you, have thought proper to respond to\\nthe call in a brief review of our efforts, and of those influences upon our\\nminds which have had a tendency to fix our habits of life and our moral\\nprinciples, and to show the result of those habits and principles practically\\ncarried out in action. In the spring of 1836, the pioneers of our colony\\ncame to this place and made the location, and also such arrangements as\\nwe could make, in the shape of Log Cabins, for our then present teimporal\\ncomfort, with but four finiilies the first winter, closely stowed in two cab-\\nins. In the summer of 1837, we commenced holding religious meetings on\\nthe Sabbath in one of our rooins, reading sermons, c. And from that\\ntime we had occasional preaching, mostly by these sent out as miesionaries\\nby the Hcniie Missionary Society, until the summer of 18.38, when Asa\\nTurner, our present pastor, then emplo^ ed as agent for the Western States,\\ncame and resided with us. In May, 1838, a church was here organized", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0519.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "480 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nwith thirty-two members. In November, 1840, our present pastor, Asa\\nTurner, was installed over us. In 1845-6, we built a substantial brick\\nchurch, 63 by 43 feet, at an expense of about $4000, which was dedicated\\nto the worship of the triune God in July 1846, the Bell from the cupola of\\nwhich now, regularly, on each returning Sabbath, calls us to the worship of\\nGod.\\nSince the organization of our church, there have been added, at various\\nlimes, by profession, 98, and by letter 109 members, making in all who\\nhave been united with us 239 members and we have now in regular stand-\\ning 172 one of the largest, if not the largest congregational church in\\nIowa. And this embraces (with gratitude to the great Head of the Church\\nwe say it,) almost all of our children and of those connected with us who\\nhave come to sufficient maturity to fully understand the subject. We have\\nalso a Sabbath school of 175 members, embracing those of all ages, from\\nthe gray hair to the child of four or five years. We have, for the last four\\nyears, supported our own minister, and we pay annually about $150 to the\\nBible, Tract and Missionary cause. We also, in the outset, built a small\\nhouse which we occupied for meetings and for a school-house for primary\\neducation.\\nThe four families who first came here laid out the town of Denmark,\\nwhich is three-fourths of a mile square, into town lots for building, and dona-\\nted one-half of those lots to the purposes of Education, and placetl them, by\\na legislative act, in the hands of five trustees, therein named, to be held and\\ndisposed of by them and their successors in office, and the avails to be secur-\\ned as a permanent fund, the interest of which only to be expended in sus-\\ntaining a High School or an Academy. This design has been further\\nforwarded by erecting, by voluntary subscription, a two-story building of\\ndressed stone, 40 by 30 feet, at an expense of about $1500, and a School is\\nnow in successful operation in the same. About seven-eighths of those\\ndonated lots have been sold, and the fund from these sales amounts to some\\n$1440.\\nWe have also, within the limitsof the town, two substantial brick school-\\nhouses, built by a tax levied by law upon taxable property, at a cost of more\\nthan $1000, with some fifty to sixty scholars each, for primary education.\\nWe mention these things to show the result of principles carried out.\\nWe look back to the spirit and principles of the Pilgrim Fathers so strongly\\nmarked in the first settlers of New Ipswich, for moral and intellectual cul-\\nture, and to those habit^5 of industry and close application of the physical\\npowers so well adapted to promote the greatest amount of hap[)iness to man,\\nwhich by example and influence were the very means of forming our char-\\nacters and fixing our principles. One very marked trait in the character of\\nthe first settlers of New Ipswich, was their veneration for the institutions of\\nthe Bible, and particularly for their minister.\\nOur motto is Our own best good, here and hereafter, and the best good\\nof those who shall come after us. And we feel that we have here laid the\\nfoundation of our motto and we trust that the generations who shall heie\\ncome after us, will reap the advantages of our labors. We feel that\\nour temporal and pecuniary interests have not been materially diminished\\nby any sacrifices which we have made in carrying out our principles for\\nour temporal pros|)erity has been fully equal to our prosperity in other re-\\nspects. Of this we cannot particularly speak in this sheet but will say\\nto all our friends, Come and see.\\nThe health of our settlement has been unusual. Only two deaths have\\noccured, of those who have lived in New Ipswich, in the fourteen years", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0520.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 4S1\\nwhich we have been here and about thirty deaths in all, in onr settlement,\\nof those associated with us fourteen adults and sixteen or seventeen child-\\nren. In conclusion, we beg leave to present the following sentiment\\nMay the Puritan virtues of those, whose deeds we this day celebrate, be ever\\ncherished by their descendants, so that promised njercies may continue to be\\nshown unto another third and fourth generation.\\nDated at Denmark, this 26th of August, 1850.\\nTimothy Fox,\\nm\\nFrancis Sawyer,\\nMary Fox,\\nCJ\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\nLydia Sawyer,\\nLewis Epps,\\no\\nElbridge Sawyer,\\nLucy Epps,\\nHannah Hornby,\\nCurtis Shedd,\\nCharles E. Whitmarsh,\\nSophronia Shedd,\\ncH\\no\\nGeorge Shedd,\\nWilliam Brown,\\nO\\ns\\nOliver Brooks,\\nLucy K. Brown,\\nfc,\\nEliza C. F. Brooks,\\nHartwell J. Taylor,\\nFlood Wilder,\\nHarriet W. Taylor,\\nLaura Wilder,\\nDaniel Epps,\\nFrancis Sawyer, Jr,,\\nAnna Epps,\\nLucy Sawyer.\\nWe have appointed Curtis Shedd and J. E- Leeper our Delegates to the\\nCentennial Celebration.\\nProgress arid Reform; watchwords of the settlers and sons of New Ipswich.\\nRev. John Chandler, of Shirley, in reply to this, gave a some-\\nwhat detailed account of the privations and perseverance of the\\nearly settlers their subsequent enterprises especially in the estab-\\nlishment of the Academy and of Cotton Manufactories he alluded\\nto the baneful effects of the use of ardent spirits, which formerly\\nprevailed, and to the success of the Temperance Reform he gave\\nsketches of some of the citizens and especially of President Apple-\\nton and concluded as follows\\nMr. President Suffer me to close my remarks by appending to\\nthem a sentiment involving what I regard the merits of two of the\\nmost distinguished natives of this tovvn one of whom has long\\nsince ascended to his reward, and the other stands lingering upon\\nthe shores of time, awaiting, submissively, his summons to depart\\nto his place of rest. I will say,\\nRev. Jesse Appleton and Samuel Appleton, Esq. the divine and the mer-\\nchant; the scholar and the philanthropist: the one has left a monument of his\\ngreatness in his printed works, the other will leave a monument of his goodness,\\nequally durable, in his deeds of benevolence. May succeeding generations hold\\nin grateful remembrance their truly moral, social and religious worth.\\nThe President remarked, that, sixty-three years ago, Nathaniel\\nGould was appointed by the town to set the psalm and that\\nthere was direct evidence of there being three generations of his\\nadopted children now present, who have been setting psalms and\\nmaking psalm tunes, more or less, ever since and we doubt not\\nthat the father, whose voice we have, most of us, heard before, will\\nlet us hear it once more.\\n61", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0521.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "482 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nDea. Nathaniel D. Gould replied, that he was by far more used\\nto sing than to speak in public, and should have been very willing\\nto present himself in that way on this occasion. After recapitulat-\\ning many of his reminiscences of sixty years ago, when the minis-\\nter and deacons and some others wore wigs and cocked hats, and\\nwhen it was still the practice for the deacon in front of the pulpit\\nto line the psalm, which was then sung with a power and quaver\\nof the voice which still rung in his ears he gave a sketch of the\\nattention which had at different times been paid to music in town,\\nwhich has been embodied in the preceding history. He concluded\\nwith a sentiment nearly in the words of one of the patriarchs of\\nthe town [Dea. E. Adams]\\nMusic If David with a single instrument could cause the Evil Spirit to de-\\npart from Saul, may we not ascribe to the influence of good music much of the\\nsocial harmony that has prevailed in town during so large a part of the past cen-\\ntury; and confidently hope that the excellent music of to-day may banish every\\nevil spirit from the present and coming generation.\\nOur Great Grandfathers: Would that their virtues might be as readily and\\nsuccessfully assumed by the present generation as their costumes have been.\\nMr. George M, Champney, in behalf of several persons here al-\\nluded to, replied\\nAs the sentiment just offered is supposed to refer to the persons\\nwho have for this occasion assumed the garb worn by our ancestors\\na century since, they would respond to it, by apologizing for\\nundertaking to represent a class so worthy and dignified as those\\ngentlemen of the old school. They did not expect to wear the\\nmantle, nor even to fill the shoes of those honored men, whose\\nknee-buckles they are not worthy to unloose. But in the exer-\\ncise of a truant disposition, they thought it might not be unaccept-\\nable to the young persons present at this gathering, to look upon\\nthe costumes of the days we are commemorating, and to bring be-\\nfore the elderly ones associations of the past, which must linger\\npleasantly in their meinories. If they have in any degree added to\\nthe variety or interest of this happy occasion, they will esteem it\\nas an undeserved honor. For had they been treated as they\\nstrongly suspect might have been their deserts, at their presumption\\nin imitating our venerated grandsires, they would probably have\\nshared the fate of the daw, who arrayed herself in borrowed\\nfeathers.\\nMr. Chairman I think your memory must extend to the verge of\\nthat period known as the days of the cocked-up hat and cane.\\nAnd they doubtless seem to you as palmy days, that never will or\\ncan return. You cannot now see such gentlemen as then walked\\nthese streets, under the protection of a wig and cane, and of a dig-\\nnity that awed into distance and respectful obedience the wildest", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0522.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBARATION. 483\\nlarchins in their play. What are our town meetings and their mo-\\nderators, our selectmen, deacons and tything-men, to those who\\nfilled these offices then What are our captains and colonels to the\\nmilitary heroes that headed the train-bands on the common or\\nthe muster field in those days Alas, we ne er shall look upon\\ntheir like again. The counterfeit presentments now before\\nyou must painfully remind of a glory that is departed. To cut\\nshort, however, these sad recollections, I will resume my seat, and\\nhand you the following sentiment\\nThe Spirit that animated our Fathers may it not depart with the costume\\nto which they gave historic dignity.\\nThe JVavy and its gallant Officers few of them are likely to be twice\\ncaught in the same trap.\\nThe President remarked, that this seemed to be a doubled-headed\\nmatrimonial shot, intended to hit a certain Greene, who yet was\\nnot so green but that he was shrewd enough to select his partner\\nfrom New Ipswich and also a certain Miller, who, like some millers\\nof old, had taken toll twice from the same grist.\\nLieut. James F. Miller, whose matrimonial alliance was alluded\\nto, rose and said, that the Navy needed no defence or praise from\\nhim it had spoken for itself, whenever or wherever the country\\ndemanded. He spoke particularly of the unparalleled achievement\\nof Com. Connor, seconded by every heart and hand in his squad-\\nron, in landing, under the guns of Vera Cruz, an army of 12,000\\nmen, with horses, ammunition and baggao^e, in six hours, without\\nthe loss of a man or a horse.\\nIn reference. Sir, to that part of the sentiment alluding specially\\nto myself, I am happy to say that I am not solitary and alone in\\nits application and I am not so greene as to be responsible for\\nthe whole, and I trust you are not so green as to allow gentle-\\nmen to accept the good things of the day without acknowledgment.\\n[The President asked pardon for his verdancy.]\\nTurning, Sir, from subjects of a personal and professional bear-\\ning I think. Sir, this great gathering of old faces, this meeting of\\nold friends upon our old play-grounds, must cause a thrill of hap-\\npiness and pleasure in our bosoms to-day, which we have seldom\\nexperienced through the course of life. I confess I feel it to no\\nsmall extent. It was remarked by the Orator of the day, that of\\ntwelve Vice Presidents at the late New Hampshire Festival, this\\nlittle town of hill and valley, with scarcely a smooth acre upon its\\nsurface, contributed five of them,^ each one of them prominent, and\\nsome of them pre-eminent in different lines of business or profes-\\nsion, and each esteemed and admired in all the public and domestic\\nSamuel and Nathan Appleton, Timothy Farrar, Samuel Batchelder, and\\nJonas Chickering.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0523.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "484 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nrelations of life. And, Sir, that pride may well be a little flushed\\nto-day, after having listened to the eloquence and poetry of two\\nothers of her sons, the fame of one of whom is not, and the other s\\nwill not be, bounded by the limits of town, state, or country, how-\\never expanded, in which they were born.\\nSome allusion having been made to Peterborough folks, Mr.\\nF. Kidder, after recounting the fact that, during the Revolution,\\ncompanies were formed of men from that town and this, to do ser-\\nvice in the war, offered the following\\nThe towns of Peterborous;h and A ew Ipswich, jointly represented in one com-\\npany on the glorious battle-fields of Bunker Hill and Bennington; may they never\\nbe divided in any good word or work.\\nHon. Timothy Farrar read a paper in reference to the satirical\\nPoem, and its author, referred to in the preceding history, p. 183,\\nof which the following is an abstract\\nAmong all who have hitherto vied with each other in doing honor\\nto our ancestors and predecessors, I regret to observe that no one\\nhas risen to do justice to our ancient, learned and illustrious fellow-\\ntownsman, his Honor Isaac Iambic. For the apathy that has thus\\nfar been manifested towards him, I am constrained to fear, that\\nmany now present may be ignorant of his important life, character,\\nand works. Lest this should be the case, I would mention that the\\nold gentleman flourished about the beginning of the present centu-\\nry. His lineage and early history, like that of the town, is involved\\nin great obscurity. There is no doubt that, like many other very\\ngreat men, he was a native of this town, with whose fame and his-\\ntory he has identified his name. That he was educated at your\\nprincipal literary Institution may be safely inferred from some pas-\\nsages in his works and that he was a member of that venerable\\nassemblage, the Demosthenian Society, he all but directly asserts.\\nThat he was on terms of familiarity with many highly respectable\\ncitizens is quite evident from the freedom with which he introduces\\ntheir names and conduct. His great work was completed and pub-\\nlished at the end of the first year of this century. It was a regularly\\nbuilt Epic Poem, having a Dedication, Argument, Text and Notes,\\nall in due form and may be considered, by way of eminence, the\\nEpic. He assumed jurisdiction over the follies of the town, and\\nlashed them to his heart s content. He was particularly severe on\\nthe matters of the Turnpike and the Singing Schools on the latter\\nsubject he was absolutely unmerciful, because the town would not\\nvote money to pay for teaching music. It is obvious, from his ex-\\ntreme sensitiveness on the subject, that he was a great viusician,\\nor at least a great mvsical amateur.\\nIn one passage of his great Epic, he speaks of the store upon\\nthe height, a well-known locality to the people of that generation,", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0524.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 485\\nand of things said and done there, in a manner to show that he was\\na frequent visitor. If our friend in Cambridge, who occupied the\\nstore in those days, could be induced to state his recollections of\\nthe old gentleman, he would doubtless amuse the assembly with\\nmany interesting anecdotes in regard to his manners and habits,\\nalbeit, from their strong attachment for each other, he would have\\ndone it with great personal kindness and respect, though it is\\nnot to be disguised that Isaac spoke of him in disparaging\\nterms. Had our friend in Cambridge been capable of harboring\\nmalice, there might have been some reason to suspect him of foul\\nplay, on account of the gross and unfounded attack made on him in\\nthe Poem. That he was in some way knowing to the cause of\\nIsaac s disappearance, I am reluctantly compelled to admit there is\\ntoo much reason to believe. But I beg you to consider that he is\\nabsent, and unable to answer for himself. The melancholy truth\\nundoubtedly is, that Isaac Iambic actually died, by force, violence,\\nfraud, or otherwise, in the course of the year 1S02. I give you\\nThe immortal Memory of His Honor Isaac Iambic. His own works are his\\nbest eulogy.\\nThe adopted Sons of JVew Ipswich.\\nDr. Thomas H. Cochran rose, and replied to this toast.\\nSeveral volunteer toasts were given, and songs were known to be\\nin readiness by N. D. Gould, James Spaulding, George M. Champ-\\nney, and William D. Lock but the coming darkness brought the\\nexercises to a close just as every man had become eager for toast-\\ngiving and speech-making.\\nOn motion, it was voted that the thanks of the assembly be pre-\\nsented to the Orator and Poet of the day, and that copies of the\\nAddress and Poem be requested for the Press.\\nVoted, That the President of the day be requested to nominate\\na Publishing Committee, and notify them of the same.\\nVoted, That a Committee of five be chosen to solicit subscriptions\\nfrom non-resident natives and alumni, to form a permanent fund in\\naid of the New Ipswich Academy and, on nomination, the foUow-\\npersons were chosen Hon. Samuel Batchelder, Hon. Timothy\\nFarrar, Jonas Chickering, Esq., Dr. A. A. Gould, and Frederic\\nKidder, Esq.\\nOn motion of Mr. F. Kidder, it was voted that it is the sense of\\nthis meeting that a centennial meeting be held during the year\\n1860, in commemoration of the organization of the first church, and\\nthe settlement of the first pastor.\\nVoted, That the members of the General Committee for this oc-\\ncasion be a Standing Committee, to take such measures at that\\ntime as may be requisite to effect the object.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0525.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "486\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nHYMN.\\nBY JAMES SPAULDING.\\nSung at the close of the Services.\\nGod of our fathers, Thou didst bless\\nThem in the dreary wilderness;\\nTo Thee this day, we joyful raise\\nA hymn of Gratitude and Praise.\\nWhen perils dark beset them there,\\nOur fathers trusted in Thy care;\\nFrom dangers they deliverance found;\\nThy loving kindness hedged them round.\\nThrough feeble age Thy guiding hand\\nTheir faltering footsteps did attend.\\nWas their support, their hope and stay\\nWhen life was waning fast away.\\nTo Thee, O God, their children now.\\nThis day before Thee humbly bow;\\nAs Thou our fathers deigned to hear.\\nWilt Thou to us incline Thine ear.\\nTo Thy protecting power we owe\\nAll that we have, or are, or know;\\nTo Thee this day we joyful raise\\nThis hymn of Gratitude and Praise.\\nSONG.\\nBY GEORGE M. CHAMPNEY.\\nIn the good old days, those honest days.\\nOne hundred years ago.\\nOur fathers from old Ipswich came.\\nThis land to reap and sow.\\nThey found a rough and sterile soil.\\nWith forests overlaid.\\nAnd hills, that to their reverent eyes\\nSublimest scenes displayed.\\nThey cleared the way, their houses built-.\\nNor feared the savage foe,\\nFor our fathers were a hardy race.\\nOne hundred years ago.\\nBut you ve been told of those rough days\\nIn which our sires were schooled.\\nBy him who was our orator.\\nThe learned Doctor Gould;\\nHis page is glowing bright with names\\nThat ne er shall be forgot\\nTheir memory shall dwell around\\nThis consecrated spot.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0526.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n487\\nThose names we ll sing, as best we may,\\nIn harmony s rich flow\\nFor our fathers were a worthy race\\nOne hundred years ago.\\nTvvas Foster, who, with wife and child.\\nDwelt first amid these hills.\\nBraving, with sturdy arm and heart.\\nThe early settlers ills.\\nThen Hoar and Tucker followed on.\\nWith axe, and plough, and spade;\\nAnd Appleton, with pious zeal.\\nSoon lent his powerful aid;\\nFor learning and for virtue s cause,\\nHis sons their wealth bestow,\\nAnd bear a name more honored now\\nThan a hundred years ago.\\nAnd now come Builard, Bates, and How,\\nTo swell the little band;\\nThe Adamses and VVoolsons too,\\nSeek out the forest land.\\nNor Whittemore shall be forgot\\nWhile stands that lofly hill;\\nWhile Fletcher s patriot deeds shall live\\nWhile waters turn the mill.\\nWe ll sing of Chandler, Stevens, Brown,\\nAnd Barrett, who, you know,\\nStood high among the race that lived\\nOne hundred years ago.\\nThe village smiles, the fields are green,\\nThe church surmounts the hill.\\nThe school-house rears its modest front\\nThe eager mind to fill.\\nIndustry s busy hum is heard,\\nThe cattle browse the plain,\\nThe brooklet turns the mammoth wheel\\nTo grind the ripened grain.\\nAnd Knowlton, IJavis, Wilson, Breed,\\nTheir ready aid bestow\\nTo make this scene of fair content\\nOne hundred years ago.\\nSafford and Taylor, King and White,\\nWere men of solid worth;\\nAnd Preston s skill with lance and pill\\nGave hope to many a hearth.\\nPrichard and Heald, and Wheeler too.\\nOur praises well may claim.\\nWhose judgments ripe and honest thrift\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Might gild the huniblest name.\\nOur dames, in search of goods and wares\\nFor substance or for show,\\nTo Rogers, Hills, or Hartwells went\\nOne hundred years ago.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0527.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "488 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nWe ll gather yet, from out the list,\\nSome names of bright renown.\\nSee Kidder, like thut mountain, stand\\nAmong the men in town.\\nThe pulpit and the bench both claim\\nThe Farrars as their own,\\nWhose lives of purity and faith\\nBright on their altars shone.\\nWhen knotty points our fathers found,\\nAnd legal lore would know,\\nChampney the law expounded well\\nOne hundred years ago.\\nWhen music s silvery voice is heard.\\nWhen flows the graceful pen.\\nThe Goulds in memory s cells are stirred\\nAnd move our hearts again.\\nIn Chickering we re proud to trace\\nSkill for the Art divine.\\nWhose triumphs now have won a fame\\nThese hills can ne er confine.\\nWe ve nurtured too, beside our streams,\\nA Batchelder, you know.\\nAlthough we had no cotton mills\\nA hundred years ago.\\nStill might we cull names fair and good,\\nFrom those who cast their lot\\nAmong these scenes so wild and rude\\nBut, they ll not be forgot.\\nTheir virtues and their deeds have swelled\\nThe stream that here has flown.\\nBearing to us those blessings dear\\nWe fondly call our own;\\nAnd since to those we owe so much.\\nWho here good seed did sow.\\nWe ll pledge to all that noble band\\nOf a hundred years ago.\\nIn the evening, the spacious mansion of George Barrett, Esq.\\nwas thrown open, and many hundreds of the sons and daughters of\\nNew Ipswich, resident and non-resident, met for social intercourse.\\nSuch as chose music or the merrj dance, or to sit down and recount\\nthe events of auld lang syne, all had free and ample opportunity.\\nA sumptuous entertainment was given, on temperance principles,\\nand it was only on the near approach of early dawn that the com-\\npany finally and reluctantly separated.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0528.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "INDEX OF NAMES.\\nAdams Family, 289.\\nAsa, 76, 79.\\nDea. Benj n, 56, 57, 58, 60,\\n61, 71, 95, 90, 109, 145,\\n155, 172, 257, 266, 272.\\n290.\\nMaj. Benj n, 161. 198, 214.\\n127, 244, 245, 272, 273, 283,\\n291, 292.\\nDea. Ephraim, 21, 48, 57,\\n59, 60,63,72, 81,88, 90,\\n93,108,155,165,172,256,\\n266, 267. 289, 290, 354.\\nEphraim, Jr., 159, 175, 251,\\n267, 274, 277.\\nEbenezer, 213, 262, 290, 291,\\n292.\\nFrederick A., 211, 214, 263.\\nHenry, 274, 291, 293.\\nIsaac, 132, 161, 178, 211,\\n269,270,274,291,293.\\nJonas, 102, 103, 293.\\nJohn, 102, 103,290.\\nLevi, 71, 76, 102.\\nMoody, 161, 235, 274, 285,\\na35.\\nPhineas, 71, 76, 102, 293.\\nQuincy, 272, 290, 354.\\nStephen, Jr., 71, 76, 102,\\n146, 155, 281.\\nStephen, 60, 70, 172, 177,\\n278, 285. 293.\\nThomas, 290, 291, 293.\\nZachariah, 101, 146, 172,\\n231, 276, 293.\\nAinsworth, William, 132, 211,\\n230, 282.\\nFred. S., 214, 329.\\nAllen, Stephen T., 208, 210.\\nAmes, Oilman, 2.39, 282.\\nJlartin, 241, 282, 283, 284.\\nAppleton Family, 294.\\nAppleton, Aaron, 303.\\nFrancis, 303, 198, 273, 380.\\nIsaac, 26, 30, 42, 52, 53, 54,\\n55, 69, 63, 64, 161, 172,\\n197, 198, 223, 239, 244,\\n266, 267, 273, 276, 284,\\n297, 302, .303, 304, 305,\\n307, 310, 319, 377.\\nJesse, 204, 213, 304, 305,\\n322, 320, 328.\\nJohn, 260, 273, 472.\\nJohn Jr 214.\\nJoseph, 213, 283,303,305,\\n353.\\nMoses, ,303, 304, 305,\\nNathan, 214, 294, 304, 306,\\n311.\\nSamuel, 207, 209, 226, 228,\\n233, 248, 305, 308, 309,\\n310, .311, 312, 313, 314,\\n315, 343.\\nliACUEi.DER Family, 335\\nUacholdpr, Eliza, 3 .t3, 443.\\nIlai-vev, 231, 2S3, 3.S4\\nJohn M.,283, 3.38, 229.\\n.loseph, 239, 277, 283, 308.\\nJosiah, 140, 161, 219,239,\\n248, 275, 284. 285.\\nKuthy, 219, 419.\\nSiiniuel, 122, 128, 129, 1.30,\\n155, 255, 277, -335.\\nCanine!, Jr.. 138, 140,160,\\n211, 248, 269, 283, 285,\\n33o, 337.\\nBacon, Retire, 71, 259, 279.\\nMargaret, 2-59.\\nIjailey, Levi, 190, 219, 245, 275.\\nBaker, Joseph, 71, 240, 273.\\nBancroft, James, 276, 279.\\nBarbour, Isaac R.,164, 181, 211,\\n220, 276.\\nBarr, James, 155, 222, 249, 274,\\n280, 356.\\nDr. James, 16, 65, 128, 140,\\n215, 232, 284, 386.\\nBarrett Family, 330.\\nCapt. Charles, 69, 70, 73,\\n105, 115, 116, 118, 197,\\n198, [199, 200, 210, 222,\\n223, 224, 226, 231, 234,\\n2.35, 244, 267, 268, 280,\\n285, 309, 330, 331, 354,\\n406, 413, 414, 415.\\nCharles, Jr., 161, 162, 163,\\n211, 213, 228, 233, 255,\\n299, 270, 282, 311, 333.\\nGeorge, 211, 235, 234, 236,\\n255, 284, 285, 3-33, 334.\\nJoseph, Esq., 43, 62, 161,\\n279, 270, 272, 283, 305,\\n322, 376, 388, 389.\\nJoseph A., 214, 220, 232.\\nBartlett, John, 214, 334.\\nGeorge, 334.\\nNoah, 172, 245, 242, 268,\\n277, 309, 334, 389, 122,\\n124.\\nSamuel, 70, 257, 303, 334,\\n378.\\nBarton, Aaron, 125.\\nBateman, Charles, 248, 282, 284.\\nBates, Lt. Joseph, 43, 59, 60,\\n62, 64, 65, 71, 72, 81, 83,\\n85, 88, 143, l44, 150, 172,\\n196, 2.32, 267, 272, 338,\\n366, 388.\\nRev. Keuben, 189, 428.\\nBennett, Abraham, 146, 281.\\nBigelow. Silas, 235, 280, 438.\\nBillings, Benj. A., 2.39, 284.\\nBinney, John, 161, 281, 378,\\n437.\\nBliss, J. W., 162, 2.36, 281, 282.\\nBlodgett, Aaron, 274.\\nBoston, a Slave, 155, 256.\\nBoyce, Rev. Mr., 189.\\nBoynton, Earl, 161, 273.\\nOliver, 249,273,283.\\nBreed, Aaron, 278.\\nohn, 79, 73, yi\\n278, 338, 339.\\nDr Nathaniel, 215.\\nBriant, Edmond, 71, 172,196,\\n239, 273, 270, 339, 377.\\nJoseph, 239.\\nBrickett, Moses, 242, 282, 283.\\nOilman, 2.35, 283.\\nJames, 283.\\nBride, James, 272.\\nBrooks, Daniel, 225, 274, 275,\\n782.\\nDavid, 70, 276.\\nJoseph, 71, 435.\\nNewton, 285.\\nLeonard, 237, 2.S5.\\nSolomon, 275, 282.\\nStephen, 279, 434.\\nAValton, 279.\\nWilliam, 274.\\nBrown Family, 3.59.\\nBrown, Abner, 244, 274, .340.\\nAddi.\u00c2\u00abon, 214. .341.\\nDr. Oalviu, 216.\\nEleazer, 161, 281, 341, 245,\\n248.\\nEbL.i.t::(.r, 228, 2.39, 250, 272,\\n341.\\nBrown, Josiah, 71, 72, 76, 86,\\n88, 94, 109, 150, 155, 172\\n186, 187,t267, 274, 339,\\n340.\\nJohn, 30, SI, 50, 54, 60, 61,\\n71,150,187,267,272,273,\\n279,341.\\nJohn. Jr., 71, 102.\\nJoseph, 198, 200, 210, 211,\\n277, .341.\\nBuckman, Joseph, 241,383,435,\\nBenoni, 277.\\nAaron, 277.\\nBuUard, Asa, 61, 211, .342,\\nEbenezer, 30, 31, 50,53, 54,\\n60,61,342.\\nEleazer, 102.\\nEphraim, 342.\\nIsaac, 342.\\nJoseph, 30, 31, 50, 53, 54,\\n60,61.\\nBumham, Stephen, 213, 283.\\nBurrows, William, 277, 278, 298.\\nButman, John, 159, 239, 280.\\nCaesar, colored, 155,256, 272.\\nCampbell, Caleb, 43, 161, 276,\\n351, a55, 377.\\nRobert, 60, 70, 146, 280, 351.\\nCarleton, Abraham, 278.\\nJesse, 60, 71, 76, 146, 278.\\nMoses, 272.\\nNathaniel, 60, 70, 76, 677.\\nChamberlain, Aaron, 70, 270.\\nEphraim, 70.\\nLoammi, 226.\\nChampney Family, 343.\\nChampney, Benjamin, 123, 1.35,\\n161, 175, 192, 193, 197,\\n211, 214, 215, 224, 228,\\n258, 262, 275, 332, 344,\\n346,347,391,419,458.\\nJonas C, 344, 360.\\nGeorge M., 233, 247, 252,\\n283, 342, 345.\\nJohn, 2.34, 275, 343, 344,\\n345.\\nChandler Family, 348.\\nChandler, James, 86, 109, 146,\\n155, 161, 172, 175, 267,\\n270, 276, 277, 280, 348,\\n387,429.\\nJohn, 30,31,50,54,55,60,\\n69, 172,} 215, 231, 236,\\n256, 274, 348, 349.\\nRoger, 161, 227, 233, 245,\\n277, 280, 348, 446.\\nChickering Family, 349.\\nChickering, Abner, 161, 176,\\n229, 245, 272, 349, 415.\\nJonas, 349, 451.\\nClark, Benj. A., 272, 289.\\nBunker, 70, 274.\\nIsaac, 71, 150, 172, 273.\\nJohn, 193, 211, 204, 273,\\n282,284,353,355.\\nJohn P., 281, 282, 353, 234,\\n246.\\nClary, Daniel. 60. 71, 249, 277,\\n279, 351, 352.\\nRev. Joseph W., 371, 385.\\nWilliam, 71, 98, 150, 277,\\n351, 3S6.\\nOlough, Dr. John, 216, 345.\\nCloves, I eter, 239, 285.\\nOochiau, Dr. T.n., 216, 2S5,\\n330, 428.\\nLevi, 240, 285.\\nCoffin, Robert A., 208, 210.\\nCollins, Jo cpb, 2lb0.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0529.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "II\\nINDEX OF NAMES.\\nCollins, Nathan, 280.\\nConant, Abel, 215.\\nAndrew, 272, 274.\\nZ., 278.\\nConn, Andrew, 60, 146, 278.\\nCooke, Noah, 283, .352, 3.5.3.\\nJosiah P., 213, 352, 353.\\n--^orey, Hezekiah, 60, 70, 146,\\n244.\\nCraggin, Benjamin, 96, 354,\\nCragin Familt, 353.\\nCragin, Francis, 160, 272, 33.3,\\n.354.\\nIsaiah, 239, 284, 355.\\nJoseph, 161, 272, 278, 286,\\n354, 355, 390.\\nLeonard, 275,282,3.55.\\nSamuel, 351, 3.55.\\nSilas, 240, 275, 285, 354,\\n425.\\nCram, Benjamin, 279.\\nLnke, 233.\\nCrosby Family, 355.\\nCrosby, Hannah. 172.\\nJoel, 60. 146, 172, 355.\\nJohn, 140.\\nJonah. 172, 355.\\nJosiah; 60, 210, 277, 3.55.\\nRobert, 61, 64, 145, 266, 277\\n355.\\nCtJMMiNGS Family, 257.\\nCummings. Charles, 274, 356,\\n425.\\nCapt. Eleazer, 55, 73, 80,\\n146, 1.55, 196, 198, 202,\\n221, 276, 278, 281, 355,\\n425.\\nSamuel, 102, 231, 247, 375,\\n376.\\nEev. Seneca, 219, 433.\\nCnTTER Family, 357.\\nCutter, John 71. 80, 90, 150,\\n155, 172, 215, 272, 273,\\n277,356,442,\\nNathan, 60, 71. 155, 273,\\n277, 356.\\nDavis Family, 357.\\nDavis, Benjamin, 71, 161, 274,\\n277,335,857.\\nMiss Clarissa, 21, 91.\\nJames, 273, 357, 374.\\nJonathan, 70, 102, 172,233,\\n244, 274. 3.57.\\nJoseph, 43, 171, 217, 234,\\n240, 259, 273, 3-55, 374,\\n377.\\nJoel, 226.\\nJosiah, 70, 226, 280, 357.\\nDr. Kendall, 215.\\nMoses, 161, 275.\\nSilas, 71, 150, 280, 283, 357,\\n446.\\nSolomon, 120, 2.3:1 274,-357.\\nStephen, 71, 172, 341, 357.\\nThomas, 70, 102, 275, 276,\\n357, 875.\\nDennis, Arthur, 2,31, 273.\\nIJoduey G., 214.\\nThomas, 2ij, 30, 31, 51, 54.\\nDix, Jonathan, 140, 155,\\n232, 2.34, 284,. 361.\\nDurcn, N. G., 246, 419, 428.\\nDutton, John, 60,71,143,172,\\n249,275.\\nJonas, 90.\\nSamuel, 159, 239, 285, 400.\\nT!a.stman, Lnkc,210.\\nEaton, Joseph Jr., 186,277.\\no; P., 211, 2.33, 283.\\nEdes, Amasa, 208, 210.\\nEdwards, Ebenezer, 211.\\nE. P., 1.39, 282, 288, 284.\\nEmerson Family, 445.\\nEmerson, Brown, 21S, 445.\\nDaniel, 30, 165, 166, 167,\\n168, 198, 200, 210, 279.\\nJohn, 279, 445.\\nReuben, 213, 262, 203, 445.\\nThomas, 278, 445.\\nWilliam, 262, 277, 445.\\nEpps, Lewis, 2-39, 246, 276, 378.\\nEstabrook, Esterbrook) 2-35,\\n305, 415.\\nSamuel, 280, 387.\\nSolomon, 166, 280.\\nEveleth, Edward, 42.\\nEverett, David, 283, .321.\\nDolly, 208, 2.39, 285.\\nJohn, 96, 160, 2.30, 245, 246,\\n264, 275.\\nFairbanks, Ephraim, 161, 239,\\n277, 348.\\nSamuel B., 219\\nFarley, George F., 215, 270, 276,\\n284.\\nFarnsworth, Daniel, 71, 88.\\nMarshall, 172.\\nThomas, 60, 64, 71, 244.\\nFarr, Levi. 277.\\nNathaniel, 70, 277, 278.\\nFaeear Family, 358.\\nFarrar, Caleb, 240, 245, -3.39, 419.\\nEphraim U., 1.32, 211, 269,\\n270, 283, 319, 320, 339,\\n860, 419, 463.\\nIsaac B., 123, 234. 284, 339.\\nJames, 60, 61, 62, 66, 275,\\n284, 339.\\nMark, 247, 272, 432, 434.\\nMadam, 283.\\nSamuel, 71, 213, 339, 358,\\n3f!3.\\nStephen, 61, 72, 81, 85, 109,\\n110, 121, 1.3;^, 169, 170,\\n172, 173, 174, 177, 184,\\n198, 199, 200, 202, 210,\\n219, 231, 235, 236, 256,\\n272, 273, 274, .287, 809,\\nTimothy, 62, 71, 74, 103,\\n105, 107, 108, 116, 155,\\n117, 121, 139, 142, 275,\\n355, 368, 369, 423, 468.\\nFarwell, Daniel, 275, 177.\\nIsaac, 70, 277.\\nDr. Moors, 216, 275, 285.\\nRu.ssell, 239, 276, 277, 435.\\nFelt, Peter, 122, 142, 160, 161,\\n211, 226, 255, 269, 270,\\n276, 375.\\nFitch, John 46\\nrisk, Josiah, 273.\\nFletcuer Family, .374.\\nFletcher, Cumminss, 159, 239,\\n211, 270.\\nEbenezer, 95, 192, 186, 187,\\n219, 231, 2.33, 236, 239,\\n2S6, 285, .374, 375.\\nEphraim, 394,376.\\nFrancis. 60, 64, 71, 105, 106,\\n151, 196, 244, 277, 374.\\nHenry, 71, 279.\\nJohn, 276, 277.\\nJosiah, 222, 234, 240, 273,\\n374.\\nFleteher, Peter, GO, 71, 81, 96,\\n193, 272, 374.\\nRoby, 231. 241, 282, 283.\\nSampson, 2.32, 232, 283, 389.\\nSimeon, 60, 69, 146, 172,\\n244, 249, 275, 274.\\nThomas, 43,60. 71,149,150,\\n1.55, 172, 198, 202, 210,\\n215, 244, 273, 374, 877,\\n420.\\nFoote, Asahel,210.\\nFoster, Abijah, 43,54,61,2.51,\\n272, 283, 276, 338, 374,\\n375, 276,30,31,50.\\nDaniel, 79, 95, 96, 239, 275,\\n276, 277, 285.\\nEbenezer, 43, 199, .377.\\nEphraim, 70, 100, 102, 103,\\n276.\\nFoster, Marv, 43, 60, 70, 146,\\n285, 3t7.\\nSamuel, 61, 102, 103, 276.\\nSilas, 234, 281.\\nFox Family, 377.\\nFox, Ephraim, 277, 398.\\nGeorge, 277, 398.\\nTimothy, 70, 150,1.55, 160,\\n234, 245, 268, 269, 277^\\n284, 353, 877, 386, 428.\\nFrench, David, 241, 283, 284.\\nJoseph, 29, 30, 54.\\nGallup, Dr. Wm., 216, 285.\\nGibbs, Benjamin, 60, 70, 86, 109,\\n146, 867, 278, 393.\\nGibson, C. S.,-**. ^ST\\nCol. George, 226,232,246,\\n273, 275, 304.\\nDr. Henry, 216, 230, 252,\\n253, 275.\\nDr. Stillmjin, 216, 217, 2.36,\\n275, 280, 340, 374, 426.\\nGiles, Daniel, 277.\\nGodding, Ariel, 279.\\nIIenr5 187-\\nGoing, John, 275, 378.\\nNoah, 275, 378.\\nGoodale, Phineas, ,59.\\nGoold, Adam, 71, 274, 379.\\nGocLD Family, 279.\\nGould, John, 101, 161, 2.39, 249,\\n258, 270, 273, 285, 349,\\n380, 406.\\nAmbrose, 380\\nAugustus A. 214, 383, 453.\\nCharles D., 383.\\nNathaniel, 71, 379. 381, -382.\\nN. D., 133, 13-5, 100, 175,\\n176, 178, 192, 211, 220.\\n234, 263, 2f 4. 265, 269,\\n278, 284. ,353, 381.\\nSimeon, 60, 64, 71, 98, 105,\\n150, 155, 196, 355, 379,\\n380, 432.\\nGrace, (a Slave,) 256.\\nGreele, Samuel, 2( 4, 245, 249.\\nGuernsey, Rev. Jo.seph IV 189.\\nHall, Richard, 126, 1.35, 138,\\n160, 164, 175, 176, 177,\\n179, 184, 211, 214, 219,\\n284, 383.\\nHorace, 214, 871, 384.\\nWilliam, 125, 250, 334, 889.\\nHallet, Allen, 285.\\nHammond, E. L., 235. 282, 423.\\nHarding, Rev. Mr.. 189.\\nUarkiiess, John, 71, 76, 270.\\nRobert, 71.\\nHartshorn, Jonathan, 272, 4,32.", "height": "3368", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0530.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "INDEX OF NAMES.\\nIll\\nHartwell, Ephraim, 118, 124, Hughes, Charles, 225.\\nIfiO, 175, 198, 200, 202,\\n210, 221, 244, 255, 284, Iambic, Isaac, 126, 138, 220.\\n359, .386. Ida, Simeon, 237, 279.\\nnassall, William, 241, 282. Ireland, Jane 0., 219.\\nHastings, Chirles, 128, 283. _ Kev^Mr., 219, 443.\\nHaven, Martin, 239, 285.\\nHeald Family, 386.\\nUeald, Ebenezer, 60, 64, 274.\\nJosiah, 280, 389.\\nThomas, 60, 64, 70, 74, 90,\\n93, 101, 105, 116, 155,\\n190\\n246\\n415\\nTimothy ,30, 31, 50, 54, 59, William, 239, 285.\\nCO, 61, 64, 69, 143, 167, Johnson, Ichabod, 263\\nMansfield Pamiit, 416.\\nMansfield, William, 274, 281.\\nMcClarv, Daniel, 60.\\nMelvin, David, 70, 76, 102, 189.\\nJohn, 70, 71, 89. 187.\\nNathaniel, 70, 390.\\nIsaacs, Edward M., 123, 2,33, Meriam, Nathan, 150, 155, 161,\\n282, 283, 446 198, 202, 279.\\nHenry, 140, 285, 283, 284, Miller, Lieut. J. F., 378.\\n446. Miles, Abel, 179, 278.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009e_o Milliken, Joseph, 204,210,212.\\nJafiuith,_James, 2(4, 2(8. Morrison, Thomas, 76,79.\\n251, 252, 266, 280, 386.\\n387.\\nHedge, Mr., 197, 308.\\nHerrick, Charles, 120, 274.\\nHewes, Kobert, 222, 223.\\nHewett, ^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0illiam, 102, 274.\\nHeywood, Samuel, 71, 110, 234,\\n276, 283, 288.\\nHildreth, Simeon, 60, 70, 96,\\n103, 146, 277, 447.\\nJames, 277, 447.\\nStephen, 70, 102, 277, 447.\\nHiiLS Family, 388.\\nHills, David, 43, 71, 83, 84, 85,\\n149, 155, 202, 222, 232,\\n272, 283, 383, 389.\\nJabez, 380.\\nJohn F., 139, 161, 232, 272,\\n283, 378, 389.\\nMary, 389.\\nSarah, 489.\\nHoar Family, 391.\\nHoar, Benjamin, 30, 31, 34, 44,\\n50. 51, 53, 54. 56, 57, 70,\\n143, 1.56, 147, 167, 172,\\n234, 239, 243, 250, 256,\\n257, 266, 275, 391, 392,\\n421, 444.\\nJotham, 96, 155, 275, 397.\\nHodge, Levi, 240, 285.\\nHodgkins, Tabitha, 377.\\nWilliam, 70, 140. 276.\\nHoLDEN Family, 390.\\nIra S., 247, 390.\\nReuben. 278, 390. 425.\\nSamuel, 70, 146, 239, 248,\\n278 390.\\nHolland, John, 63, 66, 304.\\nHolt, Aitemas, 273.\\nS. B., 2.35, 283.\\nHolton, Jesse, 161, 225. 274, 275,\\n284.\\nHorsley, James, 106, 267, 275.\\nHosmer, A., 2S0.\\nCa.stalio, 270, 27i!, 273.\\nNathan, 280\\nReuben, 146, 390.\\nHoughton, Stedmau, 240, 248,\\n285, 355.\\nHouse, A. H., 187.\\nHow Family, 392.\\nHow, Ichabod, 61, 63, 64, 69,\\n144, 146, 167, 172, 266,\\n273, 392.\\nIsaac, 60, 63, 71, 72,\\nWm. W., 211, 234, 281, 282,\\n353, 427.\\nJoNE3 Family, 393.\\nJones, Ebenezer, 276.\\nElisha, 217, 276.\\nDr. Frederick, 216, 275.\\nJohn Taylor, 214, 217.\\nRichard H., 239, 393.\\nStephen F., 214.\\nKelly, Joseph, 66, 364.\\nKesson, Charles, 282.\\nKidder Family, 304.\\nKidder, Aaron, 60. 64, 69, 144,\\n243, 266, 405, 407.\\nEdward, 398, 399, 507.\\nIsaiah, 122, 140, 175, 211,\\n222, 226, 233, 244, 269,\\n273, 283, 406, 497, 411.\\nReuben, 11, 30, 31, .34, .37,\\n38,63, 64,65,71.129,145,\\n155, 164, 167, 172, 213,\\nJoseph, 235, 280.\\nOnesimus, 278, 417.\\nSeth, 278, 280.\\nNutting, Hiram, 241, 276,\\nObear, Clark H., 258, 285. e.\\nJosiah, 239, 285. v 1-\\nPalmer, David, 201, 204, 211,\\n212, 263.\\nEbenezer, 234, 419.\\nElijah, 214, 418.\\nJohn, 418, 439.\\nJonathan, 70, 96, 102.\\nJoseph, 70, 86, 93, 100,105,\\n107, 109. 244, 267, 273,\\n277, 417.\\nLuther, 161, 418.\\nSamuel, 50, 64, 71, 240,\\n278, 283, 418, 419.\\nStephen, 71, 95, 96, 155,\\n244, 273, 418, 442.\\nZachariah, 222, 245, 277,\\n418.\\n223, 243, 236, 254, 255, Parkhurst, John, 186, 284.\\n2,56, 266, 273, 405,406, Payson, Rev. Seth, 174, 177, 198,\\n407, 409\\nRachel, 71, 150, 172, 404.\\nSusanna, 396, 399, 406.\\nThomas, 71, 102, 196, 398,\\n399, 403, 404, 405, 407.\\nWilder, 76, 406.\\nKimball, Ezra, 240, 275.\\nJonathan, 109, 114, 239,\\n283.\\nKinney, Kinny, Samuel, 60, 64,\\n70, 146, 275, 415.\\nJonathan, 189, 275.\\nKing, Benj.amin, 15, 76, 257,\\n272, 4.30.\\nGeorge F., 214.\\nSeth, 62, 142, 135, 140, 100,\\n200, 203, 219, 219, 237,\\n360, 361.\\nPerham, Samuel, 59, 61, 273,\\n419.\\nParker, Abigail, 344, 349, 419.\\nAsa, 102, 103, 419.\\nPierce, Warren, 204. 210.\\nPollard, Benjamin, 71,140, 150,\\n284, 429.\\nJames, 428.\\nJoseph, 70, 146, 172, 278,\\n280, 418.\\nRuth, 172, 378, 428.\\nPorter, Experience, lt34, 175.\\nPowers, Peter, 30, 31, 54, 165,\\n166, 167, 430.\\n176, 240, 246, 279, 284, pratt, John, 70, 109, 161, 193,\\n423\\nKittredge, Dr., 285.\\nKnights, Enos, 109, 239, 274,\\n415, 434.\\nElijah, 239, 274, 415.\\nKnowlton, Benjamin, 60, 64, 71,\\n73, 155, 244, 272, 415.\\nJohn, 272, 278, 355, 390.\\n425.\\nLawrence, 240, 277.\\nEdward A., 210.\\nJoseph. 283.\\nLee, Samuel, 417.\\nWilliam, 280.\\n101, 102, 109, 114, 115, Lock, Jonathan, 198.\\n190, 248, 267, 274, 392, AVilliam. 233,273.274,275,\\n393. 277, 250, 285, 444, 446.\\nHubbard, Ch,arles, 210,284,285, james, 101, 280, 284, 285,\\nJohn, 197, 198, 200, 202, ^r, i\\n20.3, 210, 211, 212, 216, Lowell, Feter, 76, 77.\\n262, 208, 283, 309. 422.\\nJonathan, 30, 31, 52, 54, Manning, Salathiel, 226, 2.32, Pritchard, Alanson, 249, 427,\\n266 275. Amos, 71,239,262,272,283\\n248, 249, 268, 277, 419,\\n420.\\nNathaniel, 70, 249, 420.\\nPhineas, 214, 239, 277, 335,\\n420.\\nPrentice, Henry, 420, 421.\\nNathaniel, 221, 224, 275,\\n282, 420, 421.\\nATilliam H., 44, 420, 421.\\nPreston, Isaac, 231, 249, 272,\\n281.\\nJames, 60, 280, 281, 421.\\nJohn, 71, 63, 84, 70, 105,\\n109, 114, 116, 118, 133,\\n150, 155, 135, 139, 140,\\n142, 160, 162, 172, 197,\\n198, 202, 249, 252, 255,\\n256, 267, 268, 269, 270,\\n276, 282, 283, 284, 344,\\n345, 362, 406, 421, 434.\\nSamuel, 70, 220, 422.", "height": "3357", "width": "1973", "jp2-path": "historyofnewipsw00kidd_0531.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "IV\\nINDEX OF NAMES.\\n890, 425.\\nPricliard, Asa, 245, 274-\\nBenjamin, 222, 238, 275,\\n276,428.\\nOilman, 228, 426.\\nJeremiah, 76, 90, 102,103,\\n160, 192, I9S, 202, 211,\\n226, 240, 245, 268, 273,\\n284, 375, 425. 426, 428.\\nPaul, 71, 81, 106, 109, 114,\\n256, 267, 272, 424.\\nPerley, 214, 425.\\nStephen, 272, 284, 425, 428,\\n432.\\nWilliam, 55, 102, 106, 161,\\n245, 249, 272, 274, 275,\\n356, 425, 427.\\nProctor, Oliver, 15, 56, 62, 143,\\n273,283,428.\\nPudney, Henry. .30, 31, 50. 54.\\nPutnam, John, 238, 275, 276.\\nRamsdell, Amos, 235, 280.\\nGeorge, 278, 280.\\nReuben, 245, 246.\\nCol. 392, 436, 439.\\nJames, 76, 77, 234, 281.\\nRhoades, Eleazer, 226, 275.\\nSilas, 71, 172, 274, 419.\\nRichardson, Charles, 224, 347.\\nllobbins, Josiah, 71, 155.\\nKoby, Ralph, 239, 284. 285, 375.\\nUumrill, David, 70, 96, 146, 278,\\n279.\\nRus.sell, Lysander, E., 239, 280.\\nReuben, 274, 444.\\nRyan, Rogers, 276, 281.\\nSanderson, James, 229,281.\\nCol. Isaac, 132, 161, 285.\\nSafford, Benjamin, 17, 140, 142,\\n60, 63, 70, 96, 139, 146,\\n172, 259, 295, 275, 348, 429.\\nReuben, 310, 429.\\nSanders, George, 241, 281, 282,\\n443.\\nScripture, Oliver, 215, 272, 372,\\n443.\\ni^carle, Ephraim, 1.39, 288.\\nSeverance, Abba, 60, 272.\\nShattuck, Abel, 161, 239, 275,\\n285,430.\\nFrancis, 102, 240, 273, 280,\\n283.\\nJohn, 246, 275, 285, 4-30.\\nSliebuel, 272, 274, 275, 4.30.\\nWilliam,70, 73, 85,90, 194,\\n276, 429.\\nShed, Heury, 214.\\nSherwin, David, 198, 285, 425.\\nSmith, Abijah, 71, 90, 172, 196,\\n2,39, 244, 248, 272, 273,\\n278, 285, 389, 430.\\nCharles, 247, 4.30.\\nEarl, 206, 207, 210.\\nElijah, 239, 272, 430.\\niriram, 228. 282.\\nJeremiah, 96, 233, 246, 270,\\n276, 4.30.\\nJesse, 96, 206, 210, 430.\\nJudge, 97, 9S, 368.\\nNathaniel, 31, .51, .54.\\nI olly, 430,\\nSamuel, 1,59, 430.\\nSpiinlding, Andrew, ,30, 31, ,54,\\n60, 71, 146, 155, 172, 276.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2356, 430.\\nIsaac, 240, 274, 283, 432.\\nSpaulding, James, 44, 125.\\nSewall, 125, 4,32.\\nThomas, 60, 70, 146, 2.34,\\n249, 273, 275, 276, 232,\\n431, 444.\\nStephen, 161, 276, 431.\\nSpear, Joseph, 274, 432.\\nAVilliam, 61, 69, 71, 149, 155,\\n196, 274, 4,32.\\nSpoor, Ephraim, 125, 274, 415.\\nStark, Gen. John, 71, 89, 96,\\n215, .352.\\nStart, Ebeuezer, 246, 4.32.\\nGeorge, 60, 71, 172, 202, 432,\\n437.\\n.Tohn, 76, 4.32.\\nMoses, 380, 432.\\nWilliam, 71, 272, 428, 4-32.\\nStearns, Charles, 239, 281, 285,\\n4;i3.\\nIsaac, C, 332.\\nIsaac, 278, 280, 417, 433.\\nJesse, 219, 351, 433.\\nSternes, Timothy, 75, 214, 274,\\n279.\\nStevens, Ephraim, 76, 96, 434.\\nJohn, 30, 31, 52, 53, .54, 434.\\nJohn, T., 232, 284, 285, 388.\\nJoseph, 30, 31, 44, 50, 54,\\n56,164,16.5,167,272,434.\\nJonathan, 71, 432, 434.\\nStickney, Joseph, 273.\\nMoody, 293.\\nStone, Nathaniel, 93, 98, 147,\\n266.\\nStratton. Daniel, 71, 271, 4.34.\\nNehemiah, 96, 102, 425.\\nSeth, 239, 241, 282, 285,\\nSullivan, Gen. 80, 100, 375, 417,\\nTaft, James, 140, 231, 240, 284.\\nTalcott, Hart, 206, 210.\\nTaylor, Amos, 61, 173, 277, 4,35.\\nOliver, S., 175, 210, 214, 435.\\nReuben, 61, 70, 146, 430,\\n4.34, 435.\\nSauiuel, 161, 276, 279, 434,\\n435.\\nThaddeus, 435.\\nZebodee,161, 4,31, 434,435.\\nTenney, .loseph, 70, 259, 277\\n278, 280.\\nSampson, 281.\\nThayer, Stephen, 211, 270, 285.\\n^Vood, 240,\\nThomas, Odoardo, 70, 149, 277,\\n4o5.\\nTidder, James, 70, 102, 277.\\nTowne, Ezra, 72, 75, (6, 77, 86,\\n442, 200, il, 79, 150, 172,\\n244, 246 .249, 272, 340,\\n432, 435, 437.\\nEdmund, 71,272.\\nElijah, 122, 140, 234, 239,\\n245. 283, 287.\\nTucker, Moses, 44, 46, 48, 00,\\n63, 69, 70, 172, 16(i, 243,\\n244,246,274,275,432,437,\\n441.\\nWalker. Charles, 125, 164. 182,\\n211, 284.\\nItMuforth. 27.5, 277.\\nDauicl, 179, 28J.4:i8.\\nI esse, KG. 271, 279. 43S,\\n445.\\nJohn, 146. 276, 279. 28], 4v37,\\n438.\\nWalker, Samuel. 71, 96, 102.\\nZach s, 275.280. 438,\\nWalton, Josi.ah, 18.71. 76, 78, 86,\\n96, 102, 103, 146, 150, 155,\\n174, 282.\\nWarner. Joliu, 71, 192, 198, 221,\\n262. 267, 420.\\nWarren, Joseph, 70, 280.\\nPeter, 222, 231, 259, 273.\\nWaugh, Robert, 60.\\nWebster, Daniel, 368, 369, 370.\\nWentworth, Gov. 11, 409, 411.\\nWetherbee, Abijah, 238, 245,\\n278, 276.\\nWheeler, Jonas, 70, 280, 259,\\n274, 280, 439.\\nRichard, 96, 277, 281, 286,\\n440, 443.\\nSamuel C, 248, 252, 274\\n392, 493.\\nSamuel, 96, 196. 279, 349.\\nSeth, 70, 195, 127, 159, 160,\\n191, 241, 267, 268, 278,\\n280,440.\\n.Silas, 125, 274, 279,280,\\n281, 282. 3.35, 440.\\nStephen, 132, 161, 236, 269,\\n270, 280, 440.\\nWhcelock, Ithamer, 102,441.\\nJoel, 273. 274,279,441.\\nTimothy, 71, 275, 356, 437,\\n441.\\nWhite, Archibald, ,30, 31, 50, 54,\\n00, 176, 96, 212, 274, 440,\\nWhittemore, Amos, 189, 252,\\n276, 442.\\nPeletiah, 60. 70, 76, 96, 102,\\n146, 155, 275, 375, 442.\\nSamuel, 60, 70, 81, 146, 235,\\n244, 266, 280, 441, 442,\\n443.\\nWilder, Joseph P., 238, 245, 279.\\nWilUins, John, 70, 275,276, 425,\\n431.\\nDavid, 275, 278.\\nJohn, 275.276, 425, 531.\\n.Tosiah, 161, 275.\\nWillard, Andrew, 283, 282.\\nWilley, Newton, 161, 240, 245,\\n285.\\nWilliams, Benjamin, 71, 76, 90.\\n1,50.\\nE. B. 279, 4,35, 532.\\nIsaiah, 239, 284, 442.\\nWilson Family. 442.\\nWilson, Isaac, 272, 443.\\nJas. 60. 443.\\nJohn, 161, 272, 356, 443.\\nSupply, 70, 76, 78, 124, 136,\\n160, 161, 176, 211, 244,\\n246, 208, 272, 856, 434,\\n442. 443.\\nWoods, Gen. Henry, 70,198,200,\\n210.\\nWoolson, Jonas, 50, 56, 58, 60,\\n105, 106, 172, 230, 266,\\n274, 444, 446.\\nJoseph, 30, 31, 54, 54, 64, 70,\\n239.\\nWorcester, AVooster, Rev. Fran-\\ncis, 164, 165..\\nRev. Samuel, 134, 205. 210. 212,\\n219.307.\\nWiighl, Oliver. 70. 277, 2S1.\\nSiiinuel.Oi. 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