{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3486", "width": "2111", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "I LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. J\\nfp,\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ^B\\n^*S5S5\u00c2\u00bb2Se^\\n^^5s\u00c2\u00a9*\u00c2\u00abse^", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PROCEEDINGS\\nSESQUI-CENTENNIAL\\nCELEBRATION\\nPETERBOROUGH, N. H,\\nTHURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1889.\\nWITH THE ACTION OF THE TOWN AND ITS COMMITTEES INCIDENTAL\\nTHERETO.\\nPETERBORO\\nPRINTED AT THE PETERBOUO TKANSCKIIT OFI TCE.\\n1890.\\ny^\\nvv", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "?^v^", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ACTION OF THE TOWN OF PETERBOROUGH AND ITS\\nCOMMITTEES.\\nPreliminary to its Sesqui-Centennial Celebration,\\nThursday, October 24th, 1889.\\nAt a meeting of the town, held November 6, 1888, under the ar-\\nticle in the warrant to see what action the town would take for the\\nproper observance of the 150th anniversary of its settlement, it\\nwas voted\\nThat Frederick Livingston, R. B. Hatch, D. M. AVhite, eT. R.\\nMiller and M. L. Morrison be a committee to take into considera-\\ntion the advisability of observing the one hundred and fiftieth an-\\nniversary of the incorporation of the town by an appropriate cele-\\nbration, and report a suitable program for the occasion at the an-\\nnual town meeting in March next.\\nAt its annual meeting, held March 12, 1889, the committee on\\nthe celebration of the loOth anniversary made the following re-\\nport\\nThe committee appointed by the town November G, 1888, to\\ntake into consideration the advisability of observing the 150th an-\\nniversary of the incorporation of the town, and report a suitable\\nprogram, etc., have given the subject that consideration which in\\ntheir judgment its importance demands, and in deference to the\\nwishes of a large number of our citizens, would recommend the\\nadoption of the following by the town at its present meeting:\\nResolced, That we celebrate, on Thursday, the 24:th day of Octo-\\nber next, the 150th anniversai y of the incorporation of tlie town.\\nResolved, That the following citizens constitute an honorai y\\ncommittee on that occasion: Frederick Livingston, John H. Mor-\\nison, William S. Treadwell, Jesse Upton, Theophilus P. Ames,\\nAlvah Ames, John Little, Samuel R. Miller, Nathaniel H. Moore,\\nDaniel B. Cutter, Asa Davis, Amzi Childs, Thomas Little, Nathan\\nB. Buss, Sargent Bohonon, Samuel Converse.\\nResolved, That the following citizens are chosen as a committee\\nof arrangements, whose duty it shall be to invito such guests as\\nthej^ shall see fit, and do and provide all things necessary for the\\ncelebration, viz.: John R. Miller, Charles H. Brooks, Ebenezer W.\\nMcintosh, Charles Scott, George W. Farrar, William Ames, John\\nWilder, Thomas B. Tucker, Winslow S. Kyes, Josci)h Farnum,\\nRiley B. Hatch, Frank G. Clarke, Ezra M. Smith, Daniel M. White,", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "James F. Brennan, Samuel E. Crowell, James II. Wood, A\\\\^illiam\\nH. Walbridofe, Sylvester Teiiney, Andrew J. Walbridg-e, John\\nGates, Mortier L. Morrison, Granville P. Felt, Elbridge Howe,\\nJoseph Brackett, John Cragin, Albert W. Noone, William ISIoore,\\nGeorge H. Longley, Stephen D. Robbe, John Q. Adams, Collins C.\\nRobbins, Isaac Hadley, John O. Nay, Jones N. Dodge, Charles\\nWilder, Henry K. French, Franklin Field, Andrew A. Farns-\\nworth, \\\\yillard D. Chase, John II. Cutler, William G.Livingston.\\nResolved, That the town raise and ap])ropriate the sum of three\\nhuiuired and tifty dollars for tiie purpose of defraying any ex-\\npenses incident to the celebration, and that the Selectmen are here-\\nby authorized to draw orders on the treasurer for all bills of said\\ncommittees, provided their amount shall not exceed the above\\nnamed sum.\\nVoted to accept the above report, and to adopt the resolutions,\\nand raise and appropriate the sum of $350 for that purpose.\\nAt the first meeting of the committee of arrangements, at which\\na majority was present, held May 1, John R. Miller was elected\\nchairnmn, and James F. Brennan, Secretary. William Ames, Wil-\\nliam H. AValbridge and John Wilder were appointed a connnittee\\nto nominate the several committees necessary to carry out the cele-\\nbration and report at a future meeting.\\nM. L. Morrison, R. B. Hatch and J. R. Miller Avere elected as a\\n(ommittee to select and secure the orator of the day, and said\\ncommittee made as their report, at the next meeting of the com-\\nmittee of arrangements, held June 12, that they had secured Hon.\\nNathaniel Holmes, of Cambridge, Mass.\\nAt this meeting, the committee on nominations for sub-com-\\nmittees, made their rejjort, which was adopted, and the following\\npersons constitute the various committees Avho jjrosecuted their\\nvarious departments to a successfvd termination\\nExecutive Committee. F. G. Clarke, H. K. Freiieli, Charles\\nScott, Wm. Ames, W. D. Chase.\\nCommittee on Invitations. Joseph Farnum, W. G. Living-\\nston, Charles Wilder, A. A. Farnsworth, E. M. Smitli.\\nCommittee on Collation. Isaac Pettengill, Sylvester Tcnney,\\nJones N. Dodge.\\nCommittee on Decouations. John Gates, F. A. Tracy, W. S.\\nKyes.\\nCommittee on Music. Fred Robbe, Fred J. Ames, T. F. Burns.\\nCommittee on Finance. C. H. Brooks, E. W. Mcintosh, S.\\nE. Crowell.\\nIt was A^oted that (lie executive committee, and those on decora-\\ntion and collation have power to appoint such sub-conmiittees, and\\nobtain such other assistance as may be necessary in carrying out\\nthe details of their several offices.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "The committee to secure an orator, with the secretary, were ap-\\npointed to furnisli the orator such information and dates as he\\nmay require.\\nThe executive committee, at a meeting- held September 20, de-\\ncided upon a grand trades jirocession, as part of the program,\\nand \u00c2\u00abIso to add an antiquarian room, as one of tlie attractive fea-\\ntures.\\nMr. and Mrs. John Scott, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Steele, Mr. and\\nMrs. Wm. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Saunders, were appoint-\\ned a committee to liave in charge the antiquarian room.\\nJames F. Brennan, Jolui Wilder, Charles C. Spear were appoint-\\ned a committee to have in charge the street parade.\\nWilliam Moore was appointed bj^ the committee on music to have\\ncharge of the singing.\\nGeorge H. Longley was appointed to see tliat those who were\\nmembers of the band and chorus fifty years ago were invited and\\nassig^ned a prominent place in the hall.\\nAt a meeting- of the executive committee, held October 5, John\\nR. Miller was selected as President of the Day, Charles Scott,\\nToastmoster, Gen. D. M. AVhite, Chief Marshal, with i)Ower to\\nappoint his aids Josepli Farnum and John Scott a committee to\\nhave in charge the newspaper reporters who may be present;\\nH. K. French, M. L. Morrison, A. A. Farnsworth a committee on\\nreception.\\nA route of the procession (which is embraced in the general or-\\nders of tlic chief marshal) and a program for the exercises in the\\ntown hall were adopted.\\nThe committee of invitation reported that they had sent out up-\\nward of eight hundred circular invitations, and had the names of\\nabout one hundred more former residents whose present address\\nthey had been unable to ascertain.\\nThe committee on collation reported that they had arranged\\nwith Ervin H. Smith to provide the dinner in the banquet hall, at\\na stipulated price.\\nIt was voted to invite all citizens in the village, and especially\\nthose on the line of march, to decorate tlieir houses, tluis render-\\ning our village more attractive, and emphasizing our welcome to\\nour absent sons and daughters who meet with us on this festive\\noccasion.\\nIt was also voted tliat the executive committee provide for the\\ndecoration of tlie exterior of the town hall building.\\nIt was voted that the exercises of the day be followed by a grand\\nvocal concert, and the committee reported that thcj had engaged\\nthe celebrated Arion Quartet, assisted by Miss Ida Florence, a\\nprofessional reader.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6\\nThe following general orders were issued by Gen. D. M. White,\\nupon assuming the position assigned him:\\nGenekal Okueks Office of Chief Marshal,\\nNo. 1. Gkanite Block.\\nPeterboro N. H., October i. 1S83.\\nI. Having been appointed Chief Marshal of the exercises on the occasion of the\\ncelebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the\\ntown of Peterboro to be held on the 24th inst., I hereliy assume the duties of the of-\\nfice, and announce the following appointments as Assistant Marshals and Aids Capt.\\nL. P. Wilson, Chief of Staff Capt. M. L. Morrison, Assistant Marshal and Chief of\\nDivision Capt. C. A. Jaquith, Assistant Marshal and Chief of Division Aids\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Her-\\nman A. While, Dr. F. A. Hodgdon, John C. Swallow, Rev. J. H. UoCfman, Dr. C. J.\\nAllen, John n. Dane, John W. Rol)be, Rev. W. H. Walbiidge.\\nII. Chiefs of Divi.-ions and Aids will report to the Chief Marshal at his office,\\nmounted, at S o clock a. m., the 24th instant. They will also report in person to Capt.\\nWilson, Chief of Staff, at such time or times before the day of parade as he may des-\\nignate, for the purpose of instruction.\\nIII. Peterboro Cadet Band, A. P. Stevens Post 6. G. A. R., Charles L. Fuller Camp,\\nS. of v., and the Peterboro High School Cadets will report toll. A. White in front of\\nG. A. R. Hea lquarters promptly at 8: 0 a. m., the 24th inst., who will report with the\\ncommand to the Chief Marshal at 8:15 a. m., near the resi lence of Dr. Caase on Con-\\ncord St., where temporary heaJquirters will beestabrnheJ.\\nIV. Capt. E. H. Smith commanding Troop A. Cavalry, N. H. N. G., will report\\nwith his command to the Chief Marshal at temporary headquaiters as designated in\\nparagraph III. of these orders, at S:10 a. m., on the morning of the parade.\\nV. The line will be formed in three divitions, the light of the first resting on Con-\\ncord St. near the village cemetery, and will break into column in the f jllowing or-\\nder\\nPlatoon of Police.\\nChief Marshal and AiJs.\\nl irxt DlcWton.\\nPeterboro Cadet Band\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F. J. Ames, Leader.\\nAaron F. Stevens Post 6, G. A. R.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George R. Peasley, Commander.\\nChas. L. Fuller Camp, S. of V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. M. Robbins, Commander.\\nPeterboro High School Cadets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harry L. Steele, Commander.\\nTroop A, Cavalry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. H. Smith, Commander.\\nThe Trade Procession will be divided, and will constitute the secon I and third dl-\\nvi.sions. They will be underlhe command of Captains Morrison and J^iquiih, respec-\\ntively, and will be ba formed on the left of the fl/st division at the noitli end of Con-\\ncord St. All teams and representations of trade and industry must report to the\\nChief Mari-h il punctually at 8:10 a. m.\\nVI. The CO umn will move precisely at 9 o clock in the order abjve named over the\\nfollowing route unless otherwise ordered by the executive committee Up Concord\\nSt. to Main, up Main to Grove, through Grove St. and over Mori -ion Bridge to Granite\\nSt., through Granite to Main, up Main and Union Sts. to Prospect St., when the second\\nand third divisions will be di^mi33ed, the first division returning down Union and\\nMain Sts. to the town hall, where it will be disbanded.\\nVII. Parties who participate in the trade or industrial parade can confer with\\nCapt. Wil8on,Chief of Staff, or the Chiefs of Divisions, for any information at any time\\nprior to the day of celebration. Any parties who have not already signified their in-\\ntention to take part in the parade but desire to do so, should notify Capt. M. L. Morri-\\nson, that a place may be assigned them in the procession. Bcliuving a-i I do that all\\ncitizens who are enterprijing enough to engage in thi-t parade, cin realiz3 and com-\\nprehend the importance and absolute necessity of punctuality, it seems unnecessary\\nlor me to again remind them that they should report promptly at the lime and places\\ndesignnted in these orders, that the literary and other e.xerciics m:iy not be delayed\\nor Interrupted, bearing in mind that the column will move at 9 o cl jck, precisely, on\\nthe morning of The Day we Celebrate.\\nD. M. WHITE, Chief Marshal.\\nL. P. WILSON, Chief of Staff.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PARADE OF TRADES PROCESSION.\\nThe future historian of Peterborough will have occasion to re-\\ncord Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of October, 1889, as wit-\\nnessing- one of the most interesting, if not one of the most impor-\\ntant events in the history of the town. Other events may have left\\na more lasting impress upon the welfare and prosperity of the\\ntown, but none ever afforded the opportunity for so much real sol-\\nid happiness and enjoyment of the multitude of sons and daughters\\nof the good old town as did this occasion. On that day the peo-\\nple of Peterborough had, by special invitation, invited all the ab-\\nsent sons and daughters and all former residents of the toAvn, to\\njoin with them in celebrating, with fitting exercises, the one hun-\\ndred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town. The\\nresponse was g ratifying in the extreme.\\nFor many days previous the incoming trains brought many, and\\non the twenty-third they were heavily freighted with those who\\njoyously accepted the invitation to join in the festivities of the\\nfollowing day. And many were the warm hearted and cordial\\ngreetings of old friends who had long been separated by distant\\nhomes. The excursion trains on the morning of the celebration\\nwere packed with people from the adjoining towns, while others\\ncame in teams, and not within the last half centurj^ had there been\\nso large a gathering- of people in the good old tow n, especially of\\nits absent sons and daughters, as came together on this memorable\\noccasion.\\nThe changeable aspect of the weather for several days previous\\nhad caused alternate hopes and fears in the minds of those most\\ninterested in the celebration, but when the morn came the heart of\\nthe great multitude rejoiced in the promise of a perfect day. And\\nthe pi omise was fulfilled, for it proved a most glorious day unto\\nthe end.\\nAt an early hour the main streets of the village were filled with\\nteams and lined with pedestrians on either side, all anxious to se-\\ncure a full view of the trades procession, which was forming at\\nthe lower end of Concord street. The procession was formed un-\\nder the direction of Gen. D. M. White, chief marshal of the day,\\nassisted by numerous aids, and moved promptly at the appointed\\nhour 9 A. M. in the following order:\\nFirst Division.\\nPlatoon of Police.\\nChief Marshal, General Daniel M. White.\\nCapt. L. P. Wilson, Chief of Staff.\\nHon. M. L. Morrison and Capt. C. A. Jaquith, Assistant Marshals\\nand Chiefs of Divisions.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Aids\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Herman A. White, Dr. F. A. Hodgdon, John C. Swallow,\\nRev. J. II. Hoffman, Dr. C. J. Allen, John H. Dane, John W.\\nRobbc, Rev. W. II. Walbridge, mounted.\\nPeterboro Cadet Band, 21 pieces, F. J. Ames, leader.\\nAaron F. Stevens Post 6, G. A. R., Geo. R. Peasley, commander.\\nGeo. B. McClellan Post 88, G. A. R., of East JaflFrey,\\nW. J. Allen, commander.\\nPeterboro School Cadets, Harry L. Steele, commander.\\nTroop A, Cavalry, N. H. N. G., Ervin H. Smith, commander.\\nSecond Division.\\nAncient Carriages, one containing Will A. Knight and wife, the\\nother Leroy P. Greenwood and daughter; A. T. Hovey and lady,\\nand John F. Dunklec and lady mounted on pillions, with Geo.\\nW. Towle on foot acting as conductor, and all dressed in tine,\\nwell preserved old costumes of the last century.\\nForty-Jive Floats and Carriayes representing the Trades and\\nIndustries of the Toivn, asfolloivs:\\nPeterboro Transcript, Messrs. Farnum Scott. Reporters taking\\nnotes and compositor setting type, representing a printing office\\nin operation. A printing press was kept in motion and hand-\\nbills were thrown out along the entire route of the procession.\\nBrennan s Marble and Granite Works, established in 1849.\\nS. Tenney Son, furniture, carpets and furnishings.\\nTucker s Hotel, Thomas B.. Tucker, proprietor.\\nJesse Martin, tailoring establishment in operation.\\nNicliols Brothers, stove dealers, and workers in tin, sheet iron,\\ncopper, c. A most elaborate display.\\nG. W. Farrar Son, representation of the interior of a wheel-\\nwright and blacksmith shop-forge in full blast, men shai)ing iron\\non an an anvil Avith vigorous blows, a body maker busy on a\\ncarriage, wheels and other parts of vehicles, a horse meanwhile\\nbeing shod. Upon the same float was our veteran carriage\\npainter, Lorenzo Holt, with his men engaged in painting.\\nPeterboro Bakery delivery team\\nE. Howe Co., truss and supporter manufactory in operation.\\nHoward M. Ilerse} marble and granite works.\\nJ. C. Diamond, wood and lumber.\\nWill A. Knight, milk.\\nC. F. Davis, boots, shoes and rubbers.\\nThe Briggs Piano Stool Company, display of\\nmanufactured goods.\\nA. Taylor Co., meats and provisions.\\nAmbrose L. Shattuck, ice.\\nJ. M. Collins, milk.\\nSmith Brothers, groceries and hardware, two teams.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "J. Wilder Co., clothing, hats, caps, trunks, c.\\nViiiall s Mills, Geo. H. Vinall Co., proprietors, lumber, two\\nteams, one with unsawed logs, the other with the\\ntinished product in variety.\\nL. E. Wilson, artist, display of photographic work.\\nThird Division.\\nTwo teams containing a choir composed of the girls of the public\\nschools.\\nFrank E. Taggart, display of stoves.\\nE. G. Davis, clothier, hatter and gents furnisher.\\nS. P. Longley, meats and provisions.\\nPhoenix and Union Manufacturing Companies, three floats, one\\nbearing an ancient hand loom in operation, with ancient wheels\\nboth great and small, displayed ready for the spinners use.\\nNext came a modern loom weaving cloth, the poAver being fur-\\nnished by a belt from a wheel of the vehicle, while the third\\nteam contained the finished products.\\nSettler s log cabin with family inside, smoke ascending from the\\nchimney, and the traditional coon skin tacked\\nup just outside the door.\\nAmerican Express Company team, Geo. P. Dustan, agent.\\nWalbridge Taylor, flour, gi-ain, meal, feed, dry\\ngoods, and groceries.\\nAlvin Townsend, teamster and general jobber, portable engine\\nmounted on a truck.\\nA. Fuller, mowing machines and other farm machinery.\\nW. S. Goodnow, drj goods, gi oceries, and clerk fitting customer\\nto a suit of ready made clothing.\\nBoston Store, display of dry goods, cloaks, small wares, c.\\nJ. G. Leonard, watches, jewelry and sewing machines.\\nC. Edwin Jaquith Co., carpenters and builders, three floats.\\nThe first had a log cabin in process of building while the pro-\\ncession moA ed on, and in contrast with this folloAved another\\nbearing a miniature modern house on which the carpenters toiled\\nenergetically, with Marden building tlie chimney, the tliird con-\\ntaining an exhibit of dooi s, sash, blinds, c.\\nG. S. Stockwell Co., and C. A. Coffin Co., slioes.\\nHilaire Bourdon, representation of Indians and early settlers in\\ntheir early haunts, showing miniature forest and wigwam.\\nE. H. A. O. Smith, market gardeners, extensive\\ndisplay of vegetables.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "EXERCISES IN TOWN HALL.\\nFORENOON.\\nLong before the lengthy column composing the Ti-ades Proces-\\nsion had been dismissed, the crowd had taken possession of the\\ntown hall and filled every available seat and standing place, and\\npromptly at 11 o clock the indoor exercises were commenced.\\nThe stage was tastefully trinnned with evergreen and potted\\nplants, the dates, 1739, 1839 and 1889, being made especial-\\nly conspicuous. The platform was occupied by the officers of the\\nday, the following citizens acting as vice presidents: Freder-\\nick Livingston, John H. Morison, Nathaniel IL Moore, Isaac\\nHadley, Thomas Little, Asa Davis, Sargent Bohonon, Nathan B.\\nBuss, Amzi Childs, Christopher A. Wheeler, Alvah Ames, Stephen\\nWhite, W^illiam F. Pratt, Jesse Upton, Samuel Converse, Andrew\\nA. Farnsworth, Stephen D. Robbe, Theophilus P. Ames, John M.\\nRamsey, Allen Buckminster, Hubert Brennan, Granville P. Felt,\\nFranklin Field, Augustus Fuller, Charles IL Brooks, Levi Cross,\\nJohn B. Dane, John Q. Adams, Joseph Farnum, and with these\\nwere seated a chorus of forty singers, several of whom ])artici-\\npated in the centennial celebration of fifty years ago, and i)rom-\\ninent invited guests.\\nThe formal exercises of the day were as follows\\nOverture, Mignonette, by Pcterboro Cadet Band.\\nAddress of Welcome, by lion. F. G. larjce, Chairman of the\\nExeciitive Committee\\nLadies and Gentlemen: In behalf of the executive committee\\nrepresenting the town of Pctei boro ui)on this occasion, I extend\\nto each and all a cordial and friendly wek^ome to the festivities of\\nthe day, and I assure you that the satisfaction Of her citizens will\\nbe co-extensive with the enjoyment of their guests. We have met\\ntoday to celebrate an important event in the history of our town\\nthe absence of her former sons and daughters would have been\\nsadly missed their presence here today in such goodly numbers\\nmakes our joy complete, and it is the truest token of loyalty and\\naffection that you could possibly render to the old i)lace. May the\\ntender memories of the past, as well as the fond enjoyment of the\\npresent, amply reward you for your efforts.\\nLord Nelson said to his men at Trafalgar, England expects\\nevery man to do his duty. In behalf of the citizens of Peterboi-o", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11\\nI say to you that every person has performed his duty in connec-\\ntion witli this event, and spared no pains to malce tins a day of\\nenjoyment to all, and what we expect of her sons and daughters is,\\nto ask and it shall he given you. Fifty years ago today the\\ntown of Peterboro celebrated in a fitting manner the one hun-\\ndredth anniversary of its corporate existence. Then New Eng-\\nland and California Avere separated seemingly by impenetrable\\nbarriers today they are joined together by a band of iron that\\nwill make them neighbors forever. Then the knowledge of im-\\nportant events moved at a moderate pace today intelligence is\\nflashed under the Atlantic ocean to the Queen of England almost\\ninstantaneously, and all agree that we are living in a marvellous\\nage. Then the town of Peterboro was a quiet, isolated village;\\ntoday it is a bustling, thriving, growing town, connected by rail\\nor wire with the civilized world.\\nIs it not most fitting that we should pause today, upon this im-\\nportant and interesting occasion, beside this one hundred and\\nfiftieth milestone, and consider together the changes, the wondrous\\nchanges that have been wrought during the past fifty years by the\\nhand and brain of man\\nFifty years ago today such men as Jonathan Smith, Stephen P.\\nSteele, John Scott, James Scott, Frederick Livingston, William\\nFollansbee, Timothy K. Ames and others, were not only conspic-\\nuous in the centennial celebration of the town, but they were im-\\n])ortant factors in its development and prosperity. These men\\nwith one exception have all passed away. They are gone. In their\\nday and generation they performed well their parts, and thej have\\nleft an indellible stamp upon our institutions and upon the char-\\nacter of our people. We are here today, among other things, to\\npay a just and loyal tribute to their worth, and to their memory,\\nand while they Avrought exceedingly well, not the least of their\\nachievements being the founding of the first ree public library in\\nthe United States, and for it are entitled to our unspeakable praise,\\nyet the fact is that the present generation excels the past. It ought\\nto excel, for we have had thcbonefitof their wisdom and experience.\\nWe are not, hoAvever, relying upon the reputation and experience\\nof our ancestry alone, but rather upon the brains and sagacity of\\nour own men and women, adopting that as a motto which Avas\\nncA er known to fail. Excelsior Excelsior\\nIf the standard of education, temperance, and good citizenship\\nhas since been raised by us to a considerable extent, I am sure that\\nthe former sons and daughters of Peterboro Avill not be jealous of\\nthe fact, any more than Ave are jealous of the reputations they have\\nAvon abroad, but they Avill rather rejoice with us today at this evi-\\ndence of our progress and reform.\\nWhile Ave may have advanced in these respects, there are some\\nthings that I promise yt)U have not changed. They never Avill", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nchang-e. I refer to the hearts of our people. They still beat as\\ntruly, as afFectionately, and as hospitably as they did in 39. And\\nag-ain they welcome you in our midst.\\nPrayer by Eev. W. H. Walbridge.\\nAddress by John R. Miller, President of the Day\\nFellow Citizp:xs of Peterborough: To very few, and but\\nonce in a lifetime, falls the honor conferred upon me, on an occa-\\nsion like the present. Appropriately can I address you as fellow\\ncitizens, since my ancestors were among the first settlers, and with\\ntheir descendants, sleep in your cemeteries and from my earliest\\nrecollections this has been my home. Here have I labored with\\nand for you, and what good fortune is mine has been acquired in\\nyour midst and by your favor.\\nFifty eventful years have passed since our citizens assembled,\\nas we are gathered today, to celebrate the first centennial anniver-\\nsary of the town, and with g-lad music and song- in oration and re-\\nsponsive addresses, they paid their tribute to the early settlers, as\\nthey recounted their hardships and privations their ])eculiarities\\nand their virtues, and held up to those who might come after them,\\nsuch qualities and usages as should pass away with their genera-\\ntion. Their tribute to those sturdy pioneers was not unmerited.\\nNot alone for the heritage beqeathed to their children and their\\nchildren s children, was their gratitude manifested, but in the\\nprogress they had developed. At the close of the day, and when\\nthe darkness rendered it nearly impossible to distinguish each\\nother s faces, their meeting- was adjourned for a century; and\\nwith shouting and clap] ing- of hands ^^joy mingling- with pensive\\nthoughts the assembly separated to lie down in their graves long-\\nbefore the next meeting should be held. Though but one half\\nthat time has elapsed, how true of nearly all those who were then\\nactive participants in those scenes. One only of the conunittee of\\narrangements is with us; and grown old gracefully the orator\\nof 1830 is spared to join with us in this second anniversary. The\\ncommander of one of the military companies, (S. R. Miller), the\\npride of the town, which added nuich to the pageantry of that oc-\\ncasion, honors our gathering by his presence, and a few of that\\nsplendid body of men still remain to participate in our rejoicing s.\\nA favored few of tliose who joined in music and song listen once\\nmore to the refrain, while the youth of that early period and such\\nas have since come uj)on the stage, compose the active celebrants\\nof today.\\nThe record of the first half of her second century is fully com-\\npleted, and the town has deemed it Avise that we come tog-ether,\\nand invite our absent sons and daughters to contemplate that\\nrecord and determine for ourselv(!s if the responsibilities and op-\\nportunities committed to us by the fathers have been faithfully\\nexecuted and wisely improved. To this end, an answer to the", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\ninquiry, What in the history of Peterboro during tlie fiftj years,\\nis deserving of a celebration made to the connnittee after one\\nof its meetings, may be pertinent to the liour. What we were in\\n1839 what we are in 1889. Material progress, wealth, improve-\\nments and natural advantages presented to the rising generation\\nare some of the pi oblems presented, as well as that important one,\\nHave we, as a people, improved in all knowledge, virtue, and every\\nmoral principle We can but glance at, (we cannot realize) the\\nchange in growth and general outline of our village compared to\\nwhat it was in 1839. Few of the buildings of that time are now\\nthe same, while larger and more modern structures adorn our\\nstreets, and our manufactories and places of business have all\\nbeen added as the old gave place to the new while the majority\\nof farm houses are supplanted by larger and more convenient\\nbuildings, streets have multiplied with sidewalks, and street lamps,\\nand gutters and sewers stone bridges span the rivers in place of\\nwooden the town furnishes its own time, and owns its own ap-\\npliances for extinguishing tires the little old town house has long\\nbeen a dwelling place, while a more commodious succeeded it, and\\nstill later, the present luxurious opera house the little red school\\nhouses one out in the lot, and one on the hill, where first we\\nlearned to read, and their dubious substitute the old academy,\\nwithin whose walls so many of us received our all of educational\\nadvantages, (now alas! forsaken), while today, our children enjoy\\nthe luxury of the beautiful rooms, with all the modern improve-\\nments grouped beneath the walls of the building that crowns\\nthe Hill of Science, and ottering to them educational advantages\\nundreamed of, when to those pursuits our steps we bent. The va-\\nrious religious societies, which had aforetime worshipped on the\\nhills, wisely removed to the centre their earthly temples, within a\\nbrotherly distance of each other, and with their modern chapels\\nand organs, have banished the antiquated bass viol and violin. The\\nrailroad came, and then another, and then departed the old stage\\ncoaches and their merry drivers the resounding crack of their\\nwhips, and the grace and ease and agility Avith which they round-\\ned out the triji surmounted the rise and halted at the hotel while\\nthe teams, our arteries of commerce until then, sought other fields,\\nand the mails that supplied our utmost ueeds at three times a week,\\nhave increased to four times a day, and still in our fast age, the\\ndemand is, more speed. Our neighbors furnished the weekly\\nnews and supplied the locals, save what we purchased from the\\ncounty seat, until the Transcript had its birth; and then the daily\\npaj^ers and telegraph and telephone are some among the many\\nstrides in our advancing progTcss.\\nEventful years truly were those which embrace the first half of\\nthe period of which we take note today. Often was our peace\\nbroken in upon, and our usual (juiet disturbed. Excitements fol-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nlowed each othei in rapid succession. The revolutionizing politi-\\ncal cami)ai i:n of 1840 the advent of Millerism, followed closely\\nby that of Mornionism, in the labors of Magin and nearly all the\\nprominent L:itter Day Saints the Gold Fever of 184!) the nevei\\nto-bc-forgotten Know Nothing agitation, when so many saw Sam\\nthe birth of a new party and its ultimate triumph in the election\\nof Abraham Lincoln, with all which we had much to do and more\\nto say. But the culmination was reached when a portion of the\\ncountry resorted to arms against the government, and the tidings\\nwere tlashed over the wires tliat Fort Sumter had been lired upon.\\nIt was then demoustrated, and not before, tliat the citizens of old\\nPeterboro were true to the precepts and principles of our ances-\\ntors. There was not a disloyal man in our midst, and although\\nstrong political prejudices were manifested, and injudicious utter-\\nances indulged in, I think I know whereof I speak, when I assert\\nthat no traitcn- had a dwelling here.\\nFrom the first call for volunteers, until the tinal requisition, all\\ncitizens manifested an unflagging interest in the defence of the na-\\ntion. There were few sacrifices too great for them to make.\\nIn public town meetings and in private gatherings they provided\\nfor furnishing the tOAvn s quotas as fast as requisitions Avere made.\\nThey were lavish of their means that their men should have every-\\nthing required for their necessities. Ample provision Avas made\\nfor the families of those who went forth to do battle for them.\\nOur best and bravest abandoned their varied callings, and the\\nluxury of pleasant homes and the society of their dearest friends\\nmarched to the front Avith but one common impulse, and that, that\\nthe nation might be preserved doing all and daring all, if but the\\nbest government knoAvn to man be i)erpetuated. In the heat of\\nsummer, in the cold of Avinter, in sunshine and in storm, in swamp\\nand through thicket, they faltered not Avhere the battle raged\\nfiercest, and where the killed, wounded and missing outnumbered\\nthe survivors, could be found the brave volunteers from old Peter-\\nboro And not alone went they forth. The loyal hearts and\\nprayers of motliers and sisters, of fatliers and brothers and friends\\nAvent with them, and in so far as it Avere possil)le, ministered to\\ntheir needs, and aided to their utmost in lightening the hardships\\ntliat their devotion to country had imposed. Cherished and\\nrevered will ever be the memory of those who laid down tlieir\\nlives; Avhile our gratitude shall in no degree groAV less toward\\nthose who returned to enjoy with us tlie ])rotection of that govern-\\nment which they so heroically maintained.\\nIt must be apparent to the unprejudiced observer, that, as a\\ntown, we have kept pace with the outside Avorld in those advances\\nand improvements Avhich are so needful in rendering a community\\npi osperous. The church and the school house, emblematic of re-\\nligion and intc^lligence Avithout Avhich no republic can cmdure", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nimproved and more potent for good, still stand side by side, and\\nfor the higher education of our people. In our customs and hab-\\nits we acknowledge no backward step, and our purpose is out-\\nlined to go up higher, and take our brother Avith us. In material\\nwealth we rank ninth in valuation among all the towns in the\\nstate. In influence, political and otherwise, we call your attention\\nto the number of our citizens who have tilled postitions of honor\\nand responsibility in the state and county, and which trusts were\\nexecuted with signal ability; to the many who have distinguished\\nthemselves and honored the town in the legislative department of\\nthe state, and to that still larger number who have honored the va-\\nrious offices in the gift of the town, and whose faithful services\\nhave contributed so much to enhance our growth and prosperity.\\nIn view of what she has accomplished and of what that is an ear-\\nnest she will undertake, is it necessary, speaking for the town, for\\nme to assert that there is no better place upon which God s sunshine\\nfalls in which to work out that success in life to which the young\\nman or woman, native or adopted, has tirmly, faithfully and deter-\\nminedly resolved to achieve Not one of our citizens in all the\\npast, nor in the future will there be likely to be one, who casts his\\nlot with the dwellers in this valley, and beneath the shadow of our\\ngrand old mountain, but will lind that his merit, ability and adaj)-\\ntion for position will be recognized. Such has been the policy of\\nthis community since it had an organization. We adi|iit that the\\njudgement of the masses is critical seeniingly sometimes slow:\\nbut the deserving triumph in the end.\\nAssembled here, with our absent sons and daughters, we would\\nun te in doing honor to the memories of those early settlers and\\ntheir descendants, whose untiring industry, sterling virtues, in-\\ndomitable energy and courage, and far seeing wisdom have made\\npossible the Peterboro of today. Be it ours to transmit to our\\nposterity this heritage, with vaster possibilities than when we re-\\nceived it one endeared to us all by the tenderest memories it were\\npossible to invoke our birthplace and our home; that spot to\\nwhich memory shall revert in all the adverse hours of life, and the\\none place dearest of all on earth. May it be the last longing earth-\\nly desire of every native soti and daughter that they be laid\\nto rest in their native soil, and beside the friends they loved, and\\ntheir requiem, the sougliing pines, which have kept unceasing\\nvigils over the graves of their ancestors.\\nSinging by the choir, Mozart s 12th Mass, Glory to God on\\nHiffh.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "AN ADDRESS\\nDiCl.IVKHEU AT TIIK 150tH AnNIVKRSARY OF THE TOWN OF PETER-\\nBOROUGH, N. H., October 24, 1889,\\nBY NATHANIEL HOLMI\\nMr. President, and Fellow Citizens We are here assembled\\nto celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town of\\nPeterborough- AYe have laid aside for the hour the absorbing inter-\\nests of the present that we uiay duly conunemorate the deeds and\\ndays of our ancestors, consider of our own progress, and take some\\nnew reckoning, perhaps, for that open future, which, though not\\naltogether unknowable, not even the prophet of the Three Times\\n(;ould be expected to reveal to us in full.\\nThe town of Peterborough may be said to date its origin from\\nthe year ITJW, when the Province of Massachusetts made a gi-ant of\\na township of six miles square beyond the ridge of the East Mo-\\nnadnoc to a company of proprietors, some of them citizens of old\\nConcord; but no one of them appears to have become an actual\\nsettler. The whole reg-ion was then a wilderness of forest. A few\\nt-arlier attempts at clearing had been driven of! by the Indians. For\\nsome time, there was doubt about the civil jurisdiction and the\\ntitle to the soil; but in 1741 tlie bouiidarj line between the two\\nprovinces, as established by oi-der of the King in Council, was sur-\\nveyed to run from a point three miles north of the Merrimac at\\nPawtuckct Falls straight westward across the northward trend of\\nthe river valley to the Connecticut, cutting the old town of Dun-\\nstable in two in the middle, leaving the northern part to take the\\nnames of Nashua, Ilollis, Merrimac and others, and clearly fix i ng this\\nolder grant within the province of New Hampshire. And in 1748\\nthe Masonian proprietors, who had acquired, in 174G,i the orig-\\ninal grant of King James I. to the council of Plymouth, confirmed\\nby deed the titles of the previous grantees and settlers; and as early\\nas 1753 the new town had taken the name of Peterborough from the\\nEarl of Peterborough, as the county afterwards, in 1771,2 took its\\n(i) For a statement of this title, see the Address of the Hon. Joel Parker, in Cutter s\\nHistory of Jaffrey, Concord, N. H., 1881, pp. 544-552, and on the organization of towns,\\nP- 554-\\n(2) Worcester s History of Hollis, Boston, 1870, p. 121.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "17\\nname from the Earl of Hillsborougli, two notable Englishmen of\\nthat period. It was incorporated by that name under Gov. Benning\\nWentworth, on the 17th of January, 1760; and then, for the first\\ntime, the small colony of hopeful inhabitants (who had thus far\\nmade their own laws), was invested with ample powers of munici-\\npal government, and its steady groAvth and prosperity were as-\\nsured.\\nThe learned centennial address of the Rev. John H. Morison,\\nwho stood much nearer thau we now do to the traditions that had\\ncome down through the older men from the earliest times, and the\\nelaborate History of the late Dr. Albert Smith, who gave much\\nstudy, care and pains to the favorite topic of his later years, have\\nleft little tliat can be added, now, to the story of the tirst settlers,\\nor even to the account of the civil, industrial, and moral or relig-\\nious growth and development of the whole community down to our\\nday and generation. We delight to dwell on the romantic tale, but\\nhere we must take an eagle flight over a wide field, touching only\\nthe higher tops of things, those main facts and features which, like\\nthe best passages of scripture, may be none the worse for being\\nrepeated.\\nThe earliest cleai ings, made in face of danger from the Indians,\\nwere begun a few years prior to 1739. The names of these earliest\\npioneers were (according to various traditions) Capt. Thomas Mor-\\nison, Wm. McNee, John Taggart, Wm. Ritchie, Wm. Scott, Wm.\\nRobbe, Samuel Stinson, Thomas Cuniiigham, Jonatlian Morison,\\nWm. Wallace, Wm. Mitchell, and Hugh and Wm. Gregg; but no\\npermanent families w^ere established before 1749, increasing to\\nsome fifty families within the next ten years. They came from the\\nScotch-Irish colonies that had already been planted at London-\\nderry, N. H., and Lunenburg, Mass., and they were not altogether\\nstrangers to each other.\\nIn the summer of 1718, five ships with a hundred or more emi-\\ngrant families came over from the north of Ireland to Boston\\nsome of them found their way to AVorcester and thence to Palmei-,\\nPelham, Coleraine, and other towns in Massachusetts a large num-\\nber under the lead of the Rev. John Morchead founded the Fedei--\\nal Street Church in Boston; and one ship with some twenty fami-\\nlies, sailing for the Merrimac late in autumn, was driven into Cas-\\nco Bay, and was frozen in for the winter at the place which soon af-\\nterwards became the town of Portland. Their provisions giving oat,\\nthey suffered some hardships, but found relief among the inhabi-\\ntants there. Upon a petition addressed to the General Court of\\nMassachusetts, it was voted to send them 100 bushels of corn meal\\nat the expense of the Treasury. A few families settled in that\\nvicinity: the rest, in the spring of 1719, sailed up the Merrimac\\nto Haverhill, and thence proceeded to that high and beautiful re-\\ngion of country that was called Nuttield, because it abounded in", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18\\nchestnuts, butterituts, and walnuts and there they determined to\\nlocate their prant of twelve miles square of land. This grant (it\\nseems) had been made by Gov, Samuel Shute, then (iovornor of\\nboth Provinces, upon a petition signed in Ireland. March 2Gth,\\n1718, by 217 persons, all but seven (says Dr. Smith) signing- in a\\nfair, leg ible hand, before they set out on their voyage. These\\nsixteen first settlers and their families that had thus arrived, on the\\n22d day of April, 1719, had come over in company with their pas-\\ntor, the Kev. James McGregor, most of them from his Parish of\\nAghadowey six miles south of Coleraine in the Connty of London-\\nderry, I.i Under a large oak tree on the shore of a bright sun-\\nny lake they joined in prayer and thanksgiving for their safe ar-\\nrival in a land where conscience was free. Among them were\\nSamuel ^Ulison, James Gregg, James McKean. John ^Mitchell, John\\nMorison, Thomas Steele, and John Stuart. They were soon joined\\nby a large number of their compatriots, the lands were divided out\\nto a long list of grantees, and in 1722 the town was incorporated\\nby New Hampshire authority by the name of Londonderry.\\nIn 1736 (seventeen years later) another ship with emigrants from\\nthe same counties in Ireland landed at Boston; these families\\npassed the winter at Lexington, and in the next summer settled at\\nLunenberg, Mass., and other towns in that vicinity. xVmong them\\nwere the names Cuningham, Ferguson, McNee, Little, Robbe,\\nScott, Smith, Stuart, Swan, AYhite and Wilson.\\nFrom these colonies Peterborough was tirst settled: but from\\ntime to time at later dates, and esix^cially after the Uevolution,\\nthere came also among them other families, ujostly of Eng-lish Pu-\\nritan descent, from various other towns in both Provinces. These\\nfamilies have had an important influence upon the aSairs and\\nprosperity of the town in the later times, but the i-haracter, man-\\nners and faith of the Scot(;h-Irish element largely prevailed through-\\nout the whole first century.\\nAt the time when the new LondondeiTv was founded, descend-\\nants of the English Puritans from Massachusetts had settled along\\nthe Merrimac river as far north as the old town of Dunstable, or\\neven the UncancM nue Hills. Some jealousies existed for a tinte be-\\ntween the two sorts of people. At first, the Puritans hardly knew\\nwhat to make of the new comers some mistook tltem for wild\\nIrish. When they started up the Merrimac in boats, and one w^as\\nupset in the rapids, it was said that\\nThey soon began to scream and bawl,\\nAs out they tumbled one and all.\\nAnd, if the Devil had spread his net,\\nHe could have made a glorious haul.\\n(i) L. A. Morrison s Rambles tj\u00c2\u00bb Europe, Boston, i8", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "19\\nThe proprietors of East Pennacook (Concord) refused to allow\\nthem to settle there, but they were not excluded from the later\\n.Suncook grant of 17;51 to the survivors of Capt. Lovewcll s bloody\\nfight with the formidable Paugus. The Quaker poet Whittieri\\nin his interesting arcoiint of the Londonderry rustic poet, Jtob-\\nert Dinsmoor, gives a graphic description of these people. They\\nseemed to combine (he says) the austere Presbyterianism of John\\nKnox with something of the Milesian wit, humor and jovialty of\\nold Ireland. They were nevertheless an industrious, shrewd, and\\nthriving community. They introduced the culture of flax and\\nthe potato, the little-wheel and the maiiufactur\u00c2\u00ab of linens. They\\nsoon had good dwellings, a commodious meeting house, schools,\\nfine farms and orchards, and accumulated wealth around them.\\nBy 1775, Londonderry ranked second only to Portsmouth in popu-\\nlation. Tiiey were a substantial, cheerful, and sociable sort of\\nfolks, were not afraid of cider, nor indeed of a little whi key upon\\noccasion. The Puritans said of them that they held as fast to\\ntheir pint of doctrine as to their pint of rum. They soon had pos-\\nsession of the fisheries at Amoskeag Falls, where they found plen-\\nty of shad and salmoii, and (according to the poetical Mr. William\\nStark)\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIt was often said that their only care,\\nAnd their only wish, and their oidy pi-ayer,\\nVin- the present world and the world to come,\\nAVas a string of eels and a jug of rum.\\nThey were apt to be ready at a stand-up fight: w^hen an imperti-\\nnent fellow replied to the Rev. James McGregor that Nothing\\nsaved him but his cloth, he immediately threw off his coat and\\nsquared himself for action, saying, It shall not protect you, sir;\\nwhereupon the other thought best to retreat. They were not slow\\nat the French and Indian wars, as the names of Goffe, Gregg,\\nMoore, Todd, Stark, Cunningham and Wilson, may bear witness.\\nThey were fond of public gatherings, social parties, fiddling and\\ndancing, and the eloquence of town meetings. They had retained\\nthe old market-fair, where all sorts of persons annually congrega-\\nted, gentlemen and beggars, horse-jockies, peddlers, wrestlers,\\ngay young farmers and buxom lasses, in riotous merry-making a\\nsort of Protestant carnival (thinks AVhittier) relaxing thcigrimness\\nof Puritanism for leagues around.\\nThis little colony of ours had planted itself on the very fi ontier\\nof these French and Indian wars (1744-1 7G3), and of course they\\nhad to be as skillful with their muskets as with their axes or their\\nscythes. The earlier accounts are somewhat meagre, but records\\nshow that in 17. /J, the propi-ietors voted to send KJ lbs. of powder,\\nand 20 lbs of lead, and in 17.04, one bbl. of powder, 100 lbs. of\\nlead, and 200 flints to Alexander Scott for the use of the settlers,\\n(i) Prose Works, Boston 1889, Vol. II. p. 251.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20\\nand before 1700, the town had sent thirty-two men to tliese wars.\\nOf the (ujjiit men enlisted in Rodger s Rangers, six fell at once\\nin an Indian ambuscade near Lake George. Fourteen lost their\\nlives in this service a. great number (remarks Dr. Smith) for so\\nsmall and weak a settlement.\\nThe first small meeting house was built on the hill in 17. )2; but\\nof the earliest society or its ministers, of the first scliools, or of\\nthe mode of conducting civil business, no records remain. They\\nprobably managed their afiairs in the way that suited them best.\\nIt was much the same with another portion of this same emigra-\\ntion that went to Pennsylvania and settled in the western part of\\nChester Co., and in the Cumberland Valley, from 1720 to 1750, of\\nwhose first congTegations no records Avere preserved. Simple\\nlieadstones without name or inscription marked the graves of most\\nof them. 2 A few tottering stones in the little cemetery on the\\nhill record the memory of most (not all) of those who first died in\\nthis town. There is something pathetic as well as quaint in the\\nearlier votings of the incorporated town (17G0-1766) to send\\nto Pennsylvane for a gospel minister, and if any come he shall be\\ntreated like a gentleman to lay the floor of the meeting house,\\nand build plank seats, and glaze the windows to communion-\\nate the Rev. Mr. Mori-ow to send us a minister fx om Ireland, a\\nCalvinist of the Presbyterian Constitution, a preacher of the word\\nand not a reader promising \u00c2\u00a345 salary and a good new beaver\\nhat, if he will accept it to empower Hugh Wilson to go to\\nPhiladelphia, (h* anywhere else on this continent for a minister:\\nand ag-ain that AYm. Robbe have liberty to build a seat for him-\\nself at the left hand of the pulpit, and that he may sit in it as long\\nas he pleases. This Wm. Robbe was no doubt a good man. He\\nwas a seventh son, and cured the King- s Evil gratis, by his mere\\ntouch and the gift of a small coin tied around the neck of the suf-\\nferers, who went their way rejoicing. It may remind us of the\\ngood King Duncan, as described by Shakespeare\\nA most miraculous work in this good king I\\nHow he solicits Heaven,\\nHimself but knows but strang-ely-visited people.\\nAll swollen and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye.\\nThe mere despair of surgery, he cures:\\nHang-iuga golden stuni]) about theiv necks.\\nPut on with holy prayers.\\nSome still believed in ghosts and witches, and of course the\\ndevil. Even as late as when John Murray began to i)reach univer-\\nsal salvation, a pious elderly lady declared he ought to be arrest-\\ned, for that it was a shame that any vagabond should be allowed\\nto go about preaching that there was na devil. Old black Baker\\n(i) Smith s History of Peterborough, Boston, 1876, p. 145, 350.\\n(2) Kevin s Churches of the Valley (Cumberlanxl), Philadelphia, 1852, p. igt.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "21-\\nsaw him once in person at a fork of the road, with horns and\\ncloven feet, spitting- five, and oftering- liim a book to read, but he\\ndodged away on the other track, and ran for liis life. Under the\\nconditions of this early time, we need not much wonder that\\nwhen the admission of a new member to the Church was in ques-\\ntion, and objection was raised that he made too free use of the\\nbottle, Well, said a g-rave elder, if the Loi-dmaun hae a church\\nin Peterborough, he maun ee n take such as there be.\\nBut we are not to make too large an inference from such anec-\\ndotes. These men belonged, in the old country, neither to the\\nhigher gentry, nor to the lower sort of people, but to the middle\\nclass of substantial farmers and tradesmen. Some of them had\\nconsiderable education, most of them had property, and were men\\nof good ability and strong character. They possessed the energ-y,\\nthe faith and cheerful nature that could make life endurable under\\nthe hardships and privations of their actual situation on the fron-\\ntiers of civilized society. They had brought with them the man-\\nners, customs, and habits of the Scotland and Ireland of the sev-\\nenteenth and tirst half of the eighteenth century. I need not re-\\npeat examples of their quaint humor and queer stories, nor of\\ntheir free use of ardent spirits on all i)ublic occasions, house-rais-\\nings, trainings, dancing parties, weddings and funerals, whereof\\nyou have doubtless already heard enough you may find them par-\\nalleled in the descriptions of the Scottish poet, Robert Ferguson,\\nor of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, in the poems of Burns, or in\\nthe more i-ecent Reminiscences of Scottish Life, by Dr. E. B.\\nRamsay, Dean of Edinburgh.\\nAt this early period, the roads ran along the higher plateaus,\\nand over the highest hills; not one ran along the rivers. The main\\nroad came down from the East Mountain Pass by Cunningham s\\nPond to the Street (so called) at Wilson s Tavern; at a later\\ndate, a branch ran northward along the base of the ridge by Capt.\\nSanmel Cunningham s and thence down to the Street at Gor-\\ndon s Corner. The meeting house, at first a rough series of addi-\\ntions, was built on the highest hill near the centre of the town,\\nand was replaced at a later day by a huge barnlike edifice (not fin-\\nished until 1784), without steeple or tower, without paint, and\\nwithout fire to warm it in the coldest winter like Dante in the\\n14t]i century, they had to keep warm by imagining an extreme\\ncontrast of opposites. From this sightly elevation, the later white\\nsteeples of Hancock (Jaflrey, until 1828, had none) and of course\\nDublin, situated in a pass of the western ridge, just under the lofty\\npeak of the Grand Monadnoc (which had to be abandoned in the\\nwinter), were distinctly visible. It was said of the Rev. Mr.\\nSprague of Dublin that when he came to that point in his sermon\\nwhich spoke of faith moving mountains, he stopped short, and\\nlooking a moment at the Monadnoc, added a doubt whether the", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22\\nscripture could apply to that mountain. \\\\Mion a bass viol waa\\ntirst introduced here to help out the singing, Matthew Templeton,\\ngood pious soul, bolted straight home, declaring it was no better\\nthan worshipping Dagon, but when he went down to Greentield,\\nand found that they had a (loon there (which Dr. Smith supposes\\nto have been a bassoon), he turned back home and gave it up. A\\npagoda-like sounding board hung over the pulpit from the high\\nceiling above by a twisted iron rod: that it did not l)i-eak and fall\\non the minister s head, undoubtedly had the good efl cct of inspir-\\ning the young with an unfailing trust in Providence. Of the sage\\nassemblies of old and young under the beech trees at noon time, at\\nwhich all human aflfairs were ably discussed by the wiser heads,\\nyou have doubtless heard already; and it is curious to read in\\nJohn Eamsayi that not long before his day, it was the custom in\\nthe Highlands on a Sunday (or when there was no sermon) for the\\npeople to assemble in their best clothes on the sunny side of a hill,\\nfrom the chief men to their humblest followers, to talk over their\\ntraditions and genealogies, which memory preserved with a pre-\\ncision not inferior to that of the Jews of old; the older men com-\\nmunicating to the rising generation the wisdom and knoAvledge\\nwhich they had acquired or received from their fathers.\\nScarcely less primitive were the conditions here, at these early\\ndates. In 1754, the proprietors voted that the Rev. Mr. Harvey\\nshould have a gun for his use as long as he was an inhabitant.\\nProbably no man was safe then without a gun near at hand. They\\nhad only occasional i)reachcrs before IKK;, when the Kev. John\\nMorison (who came from Scotland, a graduate of the University\\nof Edinburgh in 1705) became the tirst settled minister. He was\\nto have 100 aci es of land if he continued seven years, and\\nwas dismissed in 1772. He is said to have been a man of learn-\\ning and ability, but he seems not to have given entire satisfaction\\nto his people, being charged at last with the gravest immoralities.\\nHe joined the army at Cambridge, and went over to the British in\\nBoston, after the battle of Bunker Hill, and died in Charlestown,\\nS. C, in 1782.\\nThe next settled minister was the Kev. David Annan. He came\\nfrom Scotland (under the auspices of his ohh^r brother Robert) at\\nthe age of eighteen,2 linished his education at Rutger s (college,\\nNew Jersey, and was ordained at Wallkill for the ministry at\\nPeterborough, in 1778; but he had preached here before that date.\\nIn that year, Wm. Smith, Samuel Moore, Wm. McNee, and Samuel\\nMitchell, were consecrated elders by the Rev. Robert Annan, then\\nof the Federal Street Church in Boston, whei-e he was the succes-\\nsor of the Rev. John Morehead already mentioned and he was suc-\\n(i) Scotland and Scotsmen of the \\\\Wi Century, London, 1888, Vol. II, p. 407.\\n(2) I have in my possession a copy of John Mair s Latin and English Sallust, Edinb., 1756,\\nin which his name is written of the date of 1769, when he was fifteen years old.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "23\\nceeded there, in 1786, by the Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap, the historian\\nof New Hampshire, whose doctrine closely verged on Unitarian-\\nism and his successor there was the celebrated Dr. Channing.\\nUpon his settlement, he received 100 acres of wild land in the\\nGridley tract on the old road to Dublin and \u00c2\u00a365 salary and in\\n1781, the town voted to clear, seed, and fence ten acres of land\\nfor their minister. It appears that about seven years later, some\\ntrouble about seeding- with rye and grass and fencing was set-\\ntled by compromise and at length there began to be complaint\\nabout his administration of the gospel, and he was dismissed at\\nhis own request in 1792. After preaching a few years at Chester,\\nhe was finally deposed from the ministry by the Presbytery of\\nLondonderry, in 1800, In the next year he visited Scotland, and died\\nin Ireland in 1802, but exactly where or under what circumstan-\\nces, his family in this country seem never to have known, A grow-\\ning habit of intemperance destroyed the usefulness of his later\\nyears. In the hands of a later owner, the old farm-house has giv-\\nen place to the modern residence in Avhich Mr, Levi Cross now\\nlives. He is said to have been a man of good attainments, of more\\nthan common endowments, and a ready speaker, stern and austere,\\nbut easily pleased, and if opposed, haughty and overbearing.\\nMany stories are told of him, which I need not repeat. One tra-\\ndition says that he made a fiddle with his jackknif e, and would sit\\nwith his bible open before him and his inspiriting glass standing\\nby, and (as we may suppose), for want of better music in his soul,\\nwould play tunes for the children to dance. While preaching at\\nChester, his good parishioners were not a little shocked when they\\nheard of his saying that he had prayed over one bed of onions\\nand fiddled over another, to see which would fare the best i the\\nresult of the experiment was not reported.\\nThe Rev. Elijah Dunbar, a native of Canton, Mass., but of Scotch\\ndescent, and a graduate of Harvard College in 1794, was ordained\\nhis successor, Oct, 23d, 1799 and with the coming in of the pres-\\nent century, a new era began for both town and church for the\\nindustrial, educational, social, and religious amelioration of the\\npeople.\\nThis Scotch-Irish emigration had come, originally, in some part\\nfrom the Higlilands, but in greater part from the Lowland coun-\\nties, and they were mostly of Anglo-Saxon, Danish, or old Norse\\nderivation. They had colonized the six counties of Ulster in the\\ntime of James I, They or their ancestors had suffered the utmost\\nseverities of war and oppression in that dreadful period of English\\nhistory, extending from the days of Cromwell to the union of the\\nkingdoms under Queen Anne, in which calamity fell heaviest on\\nScotland and Ireland, Within it occurred the serious troubles\\nwith the Catholics in Ireland, the tei-rible persecutions of the Cam-\\nL (i) Chase s History qf Old Chester, Auburn, N. H,, 1869, pp. 159, 330.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24\\neronian Presbytorians in Scotland under Charles II., in which the\\npeople were driven from their churches, and peaceful meetings\\nwere hunted out of the fields and woods with tire and sword, and\\ngood men were ruthlessly slain because they would not be convert-\\ned to the English Church; the merciless war, devastation and fam-\\nine under James II., from the seige of Londonderry to the battle of\\nthe Boyne and the vindictive massaci-e of men, women and children\\nat Glencoe in 1G02, and other intolerable grievances even under\\nthe Protestant King William.\\nFrom 1690 to 177;l, there was a continual emigration of these\\npeople to the American colonies; great numbers of them took\\nrefuge in Pennsylvania under Wm. Perm s liberal promise of\\ncheap land and freedom of conscience. The names of many of\\nthose who settled in Chester County, and in the Cumberland valley,\\nfrom 1720 to 1750, strikingly duplicate the New Ilampshii-e names\\nthat came fi om the same counties in Ireland at the same dates.\\nI have found among them the familiar names of Allison, Blair,\\nCaldwell, Cunningham, Davidson, Haraill, Holmes, Hopkins, Hun-\\nter, McClary, McFarland, Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Morison, Ritchie,\\nRobbe, Scott, Smith, Steele, Stuart, Swan, Taggart, Templeton,\\nTodd, Turner, Wallace, Watts, Wilson and White, Avitli a like rep-\\netition of Christian names for many of them.i As early as 1736,\\nthey began to settle in the Cumberland Valley west of the Susque-\\nhannah, and soon reached the western counties on the Ohio, and\\nthence entered the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and even down\\nto Abingdon, west of the Alleghanies. Otliers coming by way of\\nCharlestown, S. C, settled the upland valleys and plains of the\\nYadkin and Catawba in the two Carolinas. They threaded the passes\\nof the Alleghanies, and established themselves on the AVatauga and\\ntheHolston, head waters of the Tennessee, almost beyond the reach\\nof any civil government but their own. They peopled the rich\\nvalley of the Cumberland in Tennesee, and followed Daniel Boon\\ninto the plains of Kentucky. This Indian fi ontier became the scene\\nof the daring exploits of the heroic James Robertson, John Sevier,\\nEvan and Isaac Shelby, AVm. and Arthur Campbell, Andrew\\nMoore, Robert Patterson, Benjamin Logan, McGee, McGarry, Mc-\\nConnell, John Todd and Geo. Rogers Clarke, and many more, as\\nwe may read in the pathetic histories of those woeful times of the\\nextension of the United Colonies to the Mississippi River.\\nAfter the peace of 1768, still more Heart of Oak Presbyterians\\nfrom the same counties in Ir( land streamed into the INliddle and\\nSouthern Provinces; other grievances were now added to the\\nprevious sufferings, and especially in Antrim County, where, upon\\nthe expiration of leases, rents were raised beyond their endurance.\\nThey struck for a fee-simple title and absolute ownership in the\\n(i) Futhey and Cope s Hhton/ of Chester Co., Pa., Philadelphia, 1881, pp. 150-187; Nev-\\nin s Churches of the Valley {Cumberland), Philadelphia, 1852.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "25\\nsoil on which they were to live and labor, and for a land Avhere\\nconscience, too, was free. In Pennsylvania they soon balanced the\\ninfluence of the Quakers. In the Carolinas they formed a larger\\npart of tlio valiant forces tliat under the lead of Campbell, Shelby,\\nMarlon, Sumter, and Gates, cleared the southern colonies of the\\nBritish and their Eoyalist adlierents, in the first years of the Revo-\\nlution, tigjiting with a courage and patriotic devotion tliat have sel-\\ndom been surpassed, and have made King s Mountain memora-\\nble in history. The pitiable afflictions of these frontier settle-\\nments, during the French and Indian wars, prior to the Revolu-\\ntion, were scarcely exceeded by the like barbarities of the Brit-\\nish and Indians that compelled Gen. Washington and his small\\narmies, and also these frontier settlers, to fight the British do-\\nminion and power, both in the civilized front and in the savage\\nrear from Ganada to Georgia, and from the Allcghanics to the\\nMississippi. I\\nIn North Carolina, seven Presbyterian ministers, headed by the\\nRev. Alex. Craighead, with their people, were among the brave\\nmen that, in May, 1775, adopted at Charlotte the famous Mecklen-\\nburg Declaration that was (as it were) the prototype of the Amer-\\nican Declaration of Independence. Indeed, (says Bancroft)\\nthe first public voice that was raised for total independence of the\\nBritish crown and Parliament came, not from the Puritans of\\nNew England, nor from the Dutch of New York, nor from the\\nplanters of Virginia, but from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. 2\\nNot tliat these others were less steady, or not even foremost in the\\ncause of liherty, but that these Scotch-Irish settlers had had a\\nmore recent and a sharper experience (or a more vivid memory)\\nof the bitter wrongs and oppressions they or their fathers befoi e\\nthem had suflered in tiic land of their origin, and were the more\\ndetermined (if possible) to have freedom, right, and justice in\\nAmerica. John Sullivan of Durham, the chastiser of the hostile\\nIroquois, descend(!d from the chiefs of the O Sullivans of the south\\nof Ireland, was a leader of the Sons of Liberty that stormed\\nthe British fort at Portsmouth, in Dec. 1774, and captured the\\npowder and lead tliat helped to fill the horns and pouches of the\\nminute men of New Hampshire that stood by the fence at\\nBunker Hill under Col. John Stark of the Londonderry colony\\nfrom the noiih of Ireland; and as early as the 23d of May, 1775,\\nan official letter of the New Hampshire Convention of Delegates\\nurged upon the Continental Congress the i)olicy of declaring a\\ntotal independence of Great Britain.3\\n(i) Doddridge s Xnlex mill Indian Wars, Albany, 1876: Shaler s Kentiirlni, Boston,\\n1885: Phelan s H s/orij of Tantessec, Boston, 1888; Roosevelt s WinniiKj of the West, vol.\\nII., New York, 1889.\\n(2) IHslnri/ of the United States, vjl. V. 64-7;, vol. VII. 169, 370-373, Boston, 1852.\\n(3) McClintock s History of X. II., p. 376.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26\\nWhen the Revolution beg an, the town of Peterborough, having\\nscarcely more than 500 inhabitants, was among the first to be wide\\nawake in freedom s cause. As many as sixty men Avere \u00c2\u00a7ent to\\njoin the forces at Cambridge. Thirty-two enlisted in the regi-\\nment that was raised in this vicinity by that Major Samuel Gregg\\nwho had stood on the heights of Abraham under General AVolfe\\nin 1759, and they mai ched with all speed, day and night, arriving\\nonly one day too late for the battle at Bunker Hill but a consid-\\nerable number of Peterborough men were there to share in the\\nhonor of the day. Capt. Wm. Scott s company, was certainly\\nthere, one-half of it attached to the reg iment of Col. James Reed\\nof Rindge, and the other to that of Col. John Stark and Lieut.\\nJames Taggart, Randall McAlister, Geo. McLeod, Thomas Green,\\nDavid Scott, and John Graham were wounded, and Capt. Scott\\nhimself wounded and taken prisoneri and it is a well authenti-\\ncated fact that he laid on the ground there all the frosty night\\nof the 17th of June. Capt. John Tag-gart was also thei e, serving\\nas a Lieut, under Capt. Isaac Farwell, and on the retreat stopped\\nwith his men to take a drink from their canteens and then said,\\nNow boys, let us trust in God, and take another run. He died\\nJuly 7th, 1777, probably killed at the evacuation of Ticouderoga\\non that day .2 It is authentically related also that Major Robert\\nWilson (who had fought under Wolfe at Quebec) on hearing\\nnews of the intended march of the British fi om Boston, started on\\nthe instant with his company, and had reached Groton when he\\nheard the result of the battles of the 19th of April. These were\\nminute men, but (as tradition says) a rather motley set of soldiers,\\nnot so bad as that ragged regiment with which Sir John Fallstaff\\nwould not march through Coventry, but some had heavy old\\nQueen s arms, some light French fusees, some pitchforks, some\\nshilalahs, and Tom McCoy took his flail, declaring he would thrash\\nthe British if he could get near enough, like Spenser s hero, Ta-\\nlus,\\na man of ii on mould,\\nWlio in his hand an iron flail did hold.\\nWherewith he thresh d out falsehood, and did truth unfold.\\nThe story of Captain William Scott is quite famous. After\\nescaping from the Britisli at Halifax, he joined the army at Fort\\nWashington, and barely escaped being a prisoner again b)\\nswimming the Hudson river. He was wounded again at Sarato-\\nga, gallantly rescued a drowning family in the harbor of New\\nYork, and was in Rhode Island under Sullivan, serving with his\\ntwo sons through the war.\\n(i) McClintock s History of New Hampshire, Boston, 1888, pp. 334, 335: Smith s Histo-\\nry of Peterboroaghr p. 157.\\n(2) Kidder s Hist, of the \\\\st N. H. Regiment, Albany, 1868, p. 129.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "27\\nCapt. Samuel Cunningham, one of the two that escaped the In-\\ndian massacre neai- Lake George, and one of those that rallied for\\nLexington in 1775, commanded a company at Bennington under\\nStark, and finding himself in another ambuscade of Indians and\\nTories there, he called out in a loud voice, Bring up 500 men on\\ntheir flank! Whereupon, Tories, Indians and all, took to their\\nheels, leaving arms and baggage behind. Here it was that the\\nyoung Jeremiah Smith (who was with Capt. Cunningham as his\\nservant) had the honor of being wounded. Major Ilobei t Wilson\\nwas also in the battle, and was sent to Boston in charge of some\\n600 Hessian prisoners.\\nCol. Andrew Todd, the famous French and Indian fighter of\\nLondonderry (who resided in this town in his latter days) said to\\nhis grandsons, about starting for Bennington, Never turn your\\nbacks on the enemies of your country. John Todd, Senior, of this\\ntown (who was one of them), himself full six feet tall, is report-\\ned to have said when he got home that he had met Hessians there\\n(more probably Brunswickers) seven feet high!\\nNot many men were required from this town in the war of 1812\\nbut twenty-tlu*ee answered a call for the defense of Portsmouth\\nand Peterborough had the honor of furnishing one of the most\\nbrilliant and efficient oflicers of that war in the person of Gen.\\nJames Miller.\\nOn the late war in defense of the national flag, and on the part\\ntaken in it by this town, there is less need that I should dwell upon\\nthis occasion, since the memory of it must be still fresh in your\\nminds. I find it recorded that this town furnished as many as\\n209 men to the 2d, 6th, 13th and other N. H. regiments during that\\nterrible conflict. No one who reads of the losses of these regi-\\nments in killed and wounded in the manj^ battles in which they\\nwere engaged will doubt, and I may safely say it is certain, that\\nthis latest generation had not forgotten nor lost sight of the glori-\\nous examples of courage and devotion that had been left them by\\ntheir ancestors and forerunners. The Soldiers Monument, erect-\\ned by the people to the memory of their townsmen who fell, or\\nlost their lives in the service, records forty-five names, and among\\nthem four commissioned oflicers, Capt. Gustavus A. Forbush,\\nLieut. Timothy K. Ames, Lieut. Charles L. Fuller, and Lieut.\\nJohn M. Dodd, and also two women, Sophia, wife of Lieut. Col.\\nCharles Scott, and Katie, wife of Capt. John A. Cummings; for\\nthe other sex was not wanting in sympatliy and help even at the\\nseat of war: a generous tribute to the patriotic men and women\\nwho sacrificed their lives to the cause of fi-eedom, and for the good\\nof the nation May it be an example, and an inspiration, to the\\nlatest generation that shall come after us. In no nobler cause\\ncould they have fallen than tliat of maintaining and perpetuating\\nthe most just, the most truly fi-ee, and on the whole the best gov-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28\\nernmcnt the world has seen a g-ovcriimcnt whicli is grounded, and\\nonly can bo grounded, on the intelligeiicH?, jnulriotisin and self-\\nsacriticing devotion oi: the people who made it, or were born un-\\nder it, or were sworn to adopt it, and alone can uphold it, if it is\\nto stand lirni on its own foundations of riglit, law and liberty, and\\nof which the prime and supreme object is to establish, secure, and\\ndefend the just civil rights and liberties of all who live under it,\\nin due line of order, degree, and authentic place in the whole civil\\nframe and social organization of the republic.\\nThose tliat returned from the war were nearly as five to one.\\nHow many of them still survive as worthy citizens of the town, I\\nhave no means of knowing- exac^tly. Some few of them I know\\nand take pleasure in alluding- ta that far descended Scotch-Irish\\nline of Scotts, which produced (in Lieut. Col. Charles Scott) a\\nAvortliy represntativeof his martial ancestors, both in respect of his\\nmilitary service in the late war, ami of the important civil posi-\\ntions he has held (one of them being that of High Sherift of the\\nCounty for eighteen years), since the war and also to that branch\\nof the large family of Whites, which was descended from Patrick\\nAVhite, who had three sons in the revolutionary war, and found a\\nfitting representative in tliat young scion, who came out of the\\ncavalry service with a lieutenant s connnission, and has since risen\\nto high distinctions for military skill as a Brigadier General of the\\nNew Hampshire militia, and now holds a respectable rank in the\\nlegal profession of his native town and county (Gen. D. M.\\nWhite), and is at present a U. S. consul in Canada.\\nThe Scotch-Irish settlers brought with them the culture of flax\\nand tlie little-wheel. Linens and woolens liad been manufactured\\nin the north of Ireland for three centuries or more but in l( t)9,\\ncertain French Huguenots, headed by Louis Cromndin, tlie invent-\\nor of the little-wheel, inti oduced that valuable instrument, the\\nnuisic of which for a century and a half was the glory of the small\\nfarmer s inglenook. The new Londonderry soon became noted\\nfar and wide for its linens, and by tlie legislative act of March 7th,\\n1731, the busy town was autliorized to stamj) its goods witli a seal,\\nhaving the words Lo)idondcrri/, jV. engraved upon it, to mark\\nthe superiority of their manufacture. This was the first trade-\\nmark I have read of in the history of American law. John Hop-\\nkins purchased a large tract of land for a web of linen cloth.\\nMadam Miller, wife of Dea. Samuel, made the linens that paid for\\nthe farms of her four sons in this town. The domestic manufac-\\nture of linims and woolens prevailed almost universally throughout\\nthe century. AVhen the patriotic town of Boston was resisting Brit-\\nish taxation in America, at a certain anniversary of the Society\\nfor the Tromotion of Domestic Manufactures, three hundred\\nwomen with their little-wheels sat in a tripple row on Boston Com-\\nmon, busily spinning the flax. In the early days, men were still", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "29\\nthe weavers; but tlic women, too, took an interest in the welfare\\nof their country and of their husbands, for tliey Averc not merely\\nspinsters, but spinners and weavers both in nearly every farm-\\nhouse in the land.\\nThe Hon. Samuel Smith, son of AVm. Smith, Esq., may be said\\nto have been the founder of this village, and the pioneer of its\\nmanufacturing industries. As early as 1793, he began to erect a\\nseries of all sorts of mills on the site of the present Phoenix fac-\\ntory. In 1808-9 was built the first factory for spinning cotton,\\ncalled the Old Bell because it had a bell, and in 1809-10, the\\nOld South became the second, and the Old North followed in\\n1813. The stockholders were nearly all citizens or sons of the\\ntown, and among them were the names Ferguson, Field, Holmes,\\nMiller, Morison, Robbe, Scott, Smith, Steele and AVilson. In\\n1812, Samuel Smith put cotton-spinning into one end of his long\\nseries of mills, and in 1823, the other end was replaced by a large\\nbrick eatton-mill for both spinning and weaving, called the Phoe-\\nnix, and it was put in operation by his son, Samuel G. Smith.\\nOne cold morning in December, 1828, I saw t^ o miles off a col-\\numn of smoke ascending straight up into the clear sky, and ran\\nall the way to the village to witncs. the burning of the great Phoe-\\nnix factory: a disaster that gi eatly impaired the fortunes of its\\nprincipal owners; but other capitalists coming in, another Phoenix\\npresently ai ose from its ashes, and was placed under the superin-\\nendence of John H. Steele, and subseqiientlj^ of Frederick (and\\nthen of Jonas) Livingston, and under the direction of Mr. A\\\\^m.\\nAmes, it still flourishes with wings spread as ever before.\\nAmong the capitalists who have built up and sustained the three\\nlargest cotton mills of this tawn from tliat day to this, is properly\\nto be named hei e that able and enterprising merchant of Boston,\\nthe late Isaac Parker, head of tlie old and wealthy iirm of Parker,\\nBlanchard, Wilder Co., son of the Hon. Abel Parker of Jaftrey,\\nand brother of Judges Asa and Edmund Parker, and of that learned\\njurist, Chief Justice Joel Parker of this State, a remarkable family\\nof sons, born just over the Jaffrey line near the southwest corner\\nof Peterborough, or, (as he said in his interesting letter read at the\\nlast centennial), born, as it were, upan the borders of the town,\\nand familiar with its brooks and rivers before factories were\\nhardly thought of. He began his busy life when a boy with set-\\nting card teeth at home for Mr. Snow of Peterborough.\\nI once asked my father where he learned to build machinery.\\nWhy, nowhere, said he, a man that can turn a spindle and\\nmake a little-wheel can build a whole cotton factory. His father\\nwas a little-wheel maker as well as farmer, and his father before\\nhim had been a Londonderry weaver and farmer. While he and\\nhis elder brother, Nathaniel Holmes, Jr., were building the ma-\\nchinery of the South Factory, there came one day to the shop a", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30\\nyoung man fi om Salisbury, N. C, seeking employment, and he\\nwas taken in. His father had emigrated to that place from the\\nnorth of Ireland, and died leaving his son a poor orphan boy. He\\nhad heard of the Yankee town from Nathaniel Morison while en-\\ngaged for a time in the making of carriages in that State, and who\\nhad employed and befriended him. This was John H. Steele. He\\nbecame an expert machinist, and built the tirst looms of the Old\\nBell factory, which were set running in May, 1818. This was the\\nfirst cotton-factory but one (that of Benj. Prichard at New Ips-\\nwich in 1803), and these were the first power looms built in the\\nState of New Hampshire. He had great difficulties to overcome.\\nHis models came from Slater s mills in Rhode Island, or jjossibly\\nfrom AValtham, Mass. No regulator of speed had tlien been in-\\nvented. He told the story himself that while he was puttering and\\ncontriving for three days or more to get his loom into working\\norder, a boy standing by said to his little sister, Wliat is Mr.\\nSteele doing there? Why? she asked. Because, said the\\nboy, it sometimes looks like cloth and sometimes like harness.\\nHis friend John Smith, Esq., had said to him, Steele, Steele, you\\nbooby, why don t you try. Nathaniel Holmes, Jr., built the\\nmachinery of the first cotton mill at East Jafti-ey, with Artemas\\nLawrence, then the Avery cotton-mill at Meredith Bridge (now\\nLaconia), and then another of his own at Sanbornton Bridge (now\\nTilton). Sanmel Holmes, with his younger brothers Eiios and\\nJohn, built a cotton-factory for spinning and weaving and a\\nmachine shop at Springfield, Vt., in 1822-23, and a newer mill on\\nthe same water power still makes satinet warps under the direc-\\ntion of Henry B. Holmes, a grandson of John. I scarcely need add\\nthat John H. Steele built the first Union cotton-mill in West Pe-\\nterborough, in which he was an owner, and for many years the\\nprosperous superintendent and he became an influential citizen\\nin the town aftairs, and was a representative in the legislature, a\\ncouncillor, and twice the governor of the State. In his later days,\\nhe lived a near neighbor to my father in the village, and they often\\nsat together, talking over the events of their earlier days, and dis-\\ncussing the politics of the nation. They belonged to the old Jef-\\nfersonian school of political ideas, and found it difficult to recon-\\ncile themselves to the fearful catastroplie of civil war, until an in-\\nevitable necessity had forced it upon them, and they lived to see\\nthe constitution preserved.\\nThe first looms of the Phoenix factory were built under the di-\\nrection of John and Robert Annan, sons of the Rev. David An-\\nnan, in 1822; and the machinery of the Union cotton-n)ill No. 2,\\nwas built under the supervision of Josiah S. Morison, a grand-\\nson of Dca. Robert Morison, and a skillful niachinist; and it was\\nput in operation under the superintendence of Frederick Living-\\nston, in 1858. The two Livingstojis, Frederick born in Townsend,", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "31\\nMass., and Jonas, born in Sharon (once a pai t of Peterborough\\nSlip sons of William and Elizabeth (Saunders) Livingston (who\\ncame over, the one directly from Scotland, and the other from the\\nnorth of Ireland), were endowed by nature with ability, in-\\nsight and prudence, were educated here in all mechanical skill,\\npersevering industry, and a M ise economy of business, and may\\nbe said to have been fit and worthy successors of Samuel Smith\\nand John H. Steele in the management and development of the\\nmanufacturing intei ests and financial prosperity of the town in\\ncommon with their own. The stately form of Frederick Living-\\nston, sound in body and mind at the green old age of 88 years, is\\nstill visible among us, if not exactly the last tree in the deluge of\\ntime, yet the compeer of the earlier men who have departed, and an\\nexample to the younger who are still coming on.\\nThere were and still are other active and able men in these indus-\\ntries, not to be overlooked, though I can but name some few of\\nthem these were (after Nathaniel Morison, sometime proprietor\\nof the South factory, who died while yet a young man), Stephen\\nFelt, who put looms into the North factory in 1823, and was for some\\nyears also proprietor of the South factory, and his son, Granville\\nP. Felt, for many years (and until fire and other calamity overtook\\nhim) an extensive builder of machinery of all kinds; then there\\nwas the old Eagle factory of Daniel Abbot, Thomas Baker, and\\nJoseph and Abisha Tubbs (now replaced by another), and their suc-\\ncessors, Moore Colby, or William Moore, for many years a pros-\\nperous builder of machinerj^ and a substantial citizen the several\\nsaw and grist mills from that of Jonathan Morison in 1751, of\\nBenj. Chamberlain, Asa Davis, Abraham Holmes and others, down\\nto the large new flouring mill of Walbridge Taylor and then\\nthe paper makers, the Smiths, A. P. Morrison, and the Cheneys;\\nthe woolen mills of AVm. Powers, Thomas Wilson, and Henry F.\\nCogswell and his successors, the Noones, father and sons, exten-\\nsive manufacturers of woolens down to this time; the peg mill of\\nMark Wilder, for some time a large business in small things, and\\nnow the big shoe factory of Mr. C. A. Coflin, or I hardly know\\nwhom factories of all sorts, cards, baskets, i^iano stools, hair\\ndyes, and finally Brennan s marbles that the memories of the dead\\nmay be fitly recorded: and indeed if I were to include all the\\nmercantile and professional avocations, saying nothing of the ag-\\nricultural, a greater variety than I could enumerate, unless the sun\\nwere to stand still for a while.\\nThe old South has disappeared from the face of the earth,\\ngone up in fire, and no phoenix to rise from its ashes. The old\\nNorth has lost its ancient cunning, but has gained a new one,\\nand now sends out thermometers and barometers all over the\\ncountry under the magic hand of Charles Wilder, son of Mark.\\nThe old Bell has survived its function of spinning and weaving,", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32\\nits great water power having been converted to the transforming of\\nwood into paper, and the hist thing I heard of it was that wlieii it\\nbecame known lliat its enterpi-ising owner was going to niak(! wa-\\nter ])alls out of paper, some great Western Trust Coni[tany gobbled\\nup tlie whole concern, and sluit down its gates.\\nTlie days of domestic manufactures seem to have departed. Eveu\\nat the last centeiuiial, several speakers (compliiueuting the ladies),\\nwarned them to beware of tlutlerers and imilate the virtues of their\\nmothers, if not of their grandmothers, who had few luxuries, did\\ntheir own Avork, and heard littleotlicr music- than tliat of the wheel or\\nloom, but were (said Gen.. John Steele, umrshal of the day), honest,\\nwise and virtuous, and if they ever indulged in a song, it was sure\\nto be the old Battle of the lioync. Wc arc not to imagine, how-\\never, that there were no sports or pleasures in those days; for it\\nwas also said that Avlien the minister eluded the young men and\\nwomen for dancing together, the elderly Mrs. Gordon (one of the\\nstrictest Presbyterian sect) rather snappishly remarked, Let the\\nminister take his dram out of his own bottle, play his own iiddle,\\nand leave tlie young people to their innocent amusements. Sam-\\nuel A])plet()n, a na .ive of New Ipswich and a wealthy merchant-\\nmaiuifa(;lurer of Boston, sent in liis toast to the ladies: that where-\\nas the matrons of the olden time, as in tiio days of King Solomon,\\nlaid their hands to the spindle and distatf, spun and wove by their\\nown fu esides, and clothed themselves and families in homespun,\\nnow, their granddaughter^!, merely watching tlic spinning-jenny\\nand the loom, clothe themselves in silks, and fare sumptuously ev-\\nery day. I am afraid, however, that the ladies of our time may\\nsuspect that all the truth lies in the first proposition, and all the\\npoetry in the last. When I look at these great cotton-mills, I am\\nreminded of the pictures of royal palaces in the midst of orna-\\nmental grcmnds and gardens; they look very well on the outside.\\nSure enough, the domestic wheels are gone. Dr. Smith thus sang\\nliis sad requiem over them: Little-wheel and lireat-wheel, wheel-\\nhead and wheel-pin, dislati quills and quill-wheel, hatchel, swifts,\\nand clock-reel, cards, spools, and warping-bars, reed-;, harness,\\nloom all, all have long since gone to the attic, or banishment from\\nall our households; the buzz of the little-wheel, the whirr of the\\ngreat-wheel, and the constant click of the loom arc heard no more.\\nTrue enough and perhaps the sewing-machine will go next; but\\nwhat has become of them? Why they are all hived uj) into these\\nsame royal nalaces aforesaid, to be whirled by water, by sleam, or\\nby electric power. Does anyone ask how then arc jieoplc to live?\\nLive! AV^hy, bless your soul, you are to live on nectar and ambro-\\nsia, like the gods and godesses of the golden age, and dress in\\nrobes of celestial moonshine.\\nBy the end of the first century considerable changes had taken\\nplace. When the men of the second and third generations had", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "33\\ncome upon the stage, knowledge and book learning were more dif-\\nfused. Newspapers and new ideas were afloat in the air. The\\nleaders of the congregation were becoming wiser tlian their minis-\\nters. Coiigregatioualists of Puritan descent had become more nu-\\nmei ous, and a new era came in with the new century and tlie set-\\ntlement of the IJev. Elijah Dunbar, a Congregationalist; but a\\nlarge part of the people still preferred the Presbyterian forms.\\nThe difficulties Avere not easily to be reconciled, but a satisfactory\\narrangement was made that the Presbyterians should have the\\nLord s supper administered after their own manner, one Sunday\\nin each year, and the Rev. Dr. Wm. Morison of the Londonderry\\nPresbytery officiated in this until his death in 1818. It was object-\\ned by some that Mr. Dunbar was an Arminian. The Rev. Mr.\\nSprague of Dublin assisted at his ordination. Several leading men\\nof the congregation waited on him to know what they should do\\nwith this Mr. Dunbar. What s the matter? asked Mr. Sprague.\\nAVhy, said they, he preaches nothing but works, works,\\nworks. Oh, is that all, said he of Dublin, then you will never\\nbe hurt, for no people need such preaching more than you of\\nPeterborough. A\\\\^hen the church in Nashua proposed to settle\\nthe Rev. Elias Smith, in 1757, many objected and said, he is not\\nof our persuasion, but favors the Arminian scheme, which (as we\\njudge) tends to pervert the gospels and darken the counsels of\\nGod. In half a century more much progress had been made. In\\n1820, Mr. Dunbar, with his deacons Smith and Holmes as dele-\\ngates, took part in the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Leonard, a Uni-\\ntai ian, at Dublin as the successor of Mr. Sprague who had been\\nmore of a Unitarian than a Calvinist.i By the year 1825 the\\nTown-Church in Peterborough came to an end. The old meeting\\nhouse on the hill had become dilapidated, untenantable, and soon\\ndisappeared altogether. The people were separated into two soci-\\neties one built a new Presbyterian Church at Gordon s Corner,\\nwhich continued some years under the ministry of the Rev. Peter\\nHolt, the other built the fine Unitarian church in the village.\\nLike variances seem to have continued in the Presbyterian section;\\ntheir connection with the Londonderry Presbytery soon came to\\nan end they took on the more convenient Congregational form,\\nand built a new church in the village, in 1839; and finally all prac-\\ntical differences seem to have been accommodated in the new\\norganization of the Union Evangelical Church, which has now a\\nlarge congregation. Under whatever changes, the society has con-\\ntinued to have an important and beneficial influence on the moral,\\nsocial and religious culture of the people. In the language of the\\nRev. George Dustan, who was for twenty-five years its able and\\nfaithful pastor, I may say, This people builded better than they\\n(i) Hist, of Dublin, Boston, 1855, p. 181.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34\\nknew and the result has proved that Scotch-Irish temperament\\nand heart, thoroughly annealed by prayer and consecrated com-\\nmon sense, is good material for a church, and rarely has a\\nchurch no larger than this had so many and so judicious men and\\nwomen in christian alliance, and kept abreast of the liberal\\naim of the times. i The Presbyterian Synod, stretching over a\\nwhole state, appears to have been less adapted to the civil and so-\\ncial organization of the towns of New England, but it still prevails\\nextensively in the South and West where no such towns exist.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Dunbar continued his useful labors for twenty-\\nseven years. He was a man of large stature and dignified pres-\\nence, and his sonorous voice easily filled the large house. In his\\nlater time, it began to be seriously felt again among the wiser\\nheads that under the pressing difficulties of various kinds that had\\nbeset the course of his own excellent life he had fallen behind the\\nknowledge, learning and advancing ideas of the growing time;\\nand in 1827, the Rev. Abiel Abbot was ordained his successor in\\nthe newly organized Congregational Unitarian Society.\\nThe Rev. Dr. Abbot was a man of superior learning, ability\\nand character, a graduate of Harvard College in 1787. and his val-\\nuable instruction was entirely acceptable to his people for the\\ntwenty-one years of service he was able to render them, before his\\nadvancing age compelled him to retire in 1848 and he was fol-\\nlowed by a succession of able and worthy men, for an account of\\nwhom I must leave you to Dr. Smith s History and your own\\nrecollection. The society celebrated its semi-centennial year in\\n1876, at which the discourse was delivered by the Rev. M. J.\\nSavage of Boston. Dr. Abbot seems to have held a high rank\\namong the Unitarian clergj of his day. In his latest years (and he\\ndied in 1859 at the venerable age of 93), he resided with his grand-\\nson, the Rev. Sanmel Abbot Smith of West Cambridge, Mass.,\\nwho united in his name and in himself the two lines of Smith and\\nAbbot, and Avas a worthy representative of so notable an ancestry\\na man of fine genius and generous nature, whose life was cut off\\nby a too early death in his zealous devotion to the health and com-\\nfort of the citizen soldiers at the seat of war in Virginia.\\nOther religious societies began to be formed as early as 1824, for\\nan account of which and their beneficial influence in their several\\nspheres I must i^fer you to history and your own memories,\\nMethodist, Baptist, and finally Catholic; for even the Catholics\\nhave also come among you, glad to enjoy the blessings of freedom\\nof opinion, conscience, and worship, in peaceful community with all\\nthe rest, under a government which secures to all alike a just and\\nequal liberty under the general law of the land, and willing (I\\ntrust) to participate in the benefits of that general system of com-\\n(i) Historical Address, Peterborough, iS", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "35\\nmon schools, open and free to all, and maintained at the public ex-\\npense, the object of which is, was, and should be, to teach all chil-\\ndren alike to read, write and cipher, or those prime elements of\\nthe intelligence and knowledge which must lie at the foundation of\\nall free and just government, that common school system, which\\nis older than the National Constitution, and which has been grow-\\ning into the customs and laws of the several States for two cen-\\nturies and a half, and goes back for its inception almost to the very\\nfirst Colonial origins.\\nCommon schools have existed in this town ever since its incor-\\nporation. They have grown to the number of eleven districts, and\\nwithin the memory of those now living, if not now, they were well\\nfilled witli boys and girls anywhere from five to twenty-one years\\nof age. The school system was reorganized by the Legislature in\\n1827, and there is now a State Superintendent of Public Schools.\\nAs the population gravitates toward the central valleys, the\\nschools must needs follow, and if they do not increase in breadth,\\nthey may grow in volume and height. An Academy for higher\\nbranches was founded on voluntary gifts in 1836, which seems not\\nto have found an adequate patronage; but in 1871, a High School,\\nmore nearly answering the needs of the immediate community, was\\nestablished by the town, and is open to all of sufiicient qualifica-\\ntion. It has a tine new building on a sightly elevation.\\nAs early as 1811, some small libraries of limited use began to be\\ncollected, and in 1833, a public library was founded by the town,\\nto be maintained out of the town treasury, and be open and free to\\nall. It has received considerable additions from time to time from\\nprivate contributions of the citizens, or from the liberal donations\\nof sons of Petei borough, who have gone forth to other towns and\\nstates, and have not forgotten their native place. This library has\\nthe credit of having been the first of the kind to be established in\\nall the United States. It numbers at present about 5000 volumes\\nand now, surely, there can no longer be excuse for ministers or\\npeople, if they do not keep up with the knowledge, science, litera-\\nture and progress of the age.\\nOf the long roll of professional men which such a people and\\nsuch institutions could produce, or could maintain, whether natives\\nor strangers, it might be superfluous, if it were possible, for me to\\nundertake an adequate account. Dr. Smith enumerates them all\\ndown to his time.* I can only allude to some of them as I have occa-\\nsion. I may remark, however, of the physicians, that it appears that\\n(i) The lawyers now in practice are Ezra M. Smith, Daniel M. White, Riley B. Hatch,\\nFrank G. Clarke, and James F. Brennan.\\nPhysicians now in practice: Drs. John H. Cutler, Willard D. Chase. C. J. Allen, F. A.\\nHodgdon (Homeopathic), and Cyrus H. Hayward (Dentist).\\nClergymen: Rev. W. H. Walbridge, Unitarian; Rev. J. H. Hoffman, Evangelical; Rev.\\nJames A. Francis, Baptist; Rev. P. L. McEvoy of Jaffrey, Catholic; and Rev. Dana Cotton,\\nMethodist.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "86\\nnearly all of those who were natives to this town have gone else-\\nwhere to practice their profession, while nearly all who have prac-\\nticed here for any length of time have come fx om other places.\\nI can hardly except Dr. Albert Smith, who first went abroad, but\\nsoon returned to pi acticc here all the rest of his life. Nor can I\\nomit to mention our venerable fellow citizen, Dr. Daniel B. Cut-\\nter, a descendant of one branch of the numerous family of Jaffrey\\nCutters, a graduate of Dartmouth college, in 1833, ISI. D. at Yale\\nin 1835, who came to this town in 1837, and has dilligently and\\nfaithfully practiced his pi-ofession here all his life long with the\\nrespect and g-ood will of the people and if he were not the first,\\nhe seems likely not to be the last among you. In 1881, Dr. Cutter\\npublished his interesting History of the Town of Jaffrey.\\nThe composition of the people changes in more senses than one.\\nIt was estimated by Dr. Smith that not much more than one-sixth\\nof the inhabitants were direct descendants of the early settlers.\\nHe gave a list of thirty-seven influential families of the century\\nbefore he wrote, in which not a single descendant, bearing the\\nname, remained in the town, and of fort) more in which but few\\nof the name still I emained here; and he mentioned fifteen of the\\noriginal settlers on wild land, whose descendants of the name still\\noccupied the farms of their forefathers. And all this was doubt-\\nless so far true. I have found as many as twenty descendants still\\nliving on farms that were occupied by their ancestors more than a\\nhalf century ago, three of them with a change of name.i Dr.\\nSmith also obsei-ved that in looking over the active business men of\\nthe town, they seemed to be all ncAv: he does not say they were\\nall entire strangers. No doubt some of them were, and perhaps\\nstill more are now but we must bear in mind that farms have be-\\ncome more and more a merchantable commodity, and that the\\nmere names in the tax list are not a very certain test of continu-\\nance for we all know very well that one side of every house al-\\nways shows a kind proclivity towards a change of name. It is\\ncertain that if you take the known descendants (wherever they\\nare) of the older families, and trace them back for three or four\\ngenerations, you will find them to be nearly all cousins in some\\ndegree. If you take in all the principal families (excepting only\\nvery recent comers), whether originally of Scotch-Irish, English\\nPuritan, or other descent, you may find, perhaps, that the continu-\\nal intermarriages widen out in the descending stream and commix-\\nture of life until the branching lines are nearly all linked togeth-\\ner, and names and distinctions become greatly modified, or are\\nwholly lost, in the one whole body corporate and politic that con-\\ntinues to live on as before. This is only a particular instance of\\n(i) These names were Adams, Barber, Brackett, Diamond, Dunbar, Field (John and Wil-\\nliam), Hunt, Leathers, L.)ngley, McCoy, Moore, Morison, Hadley (Wm. and Isaac), Robbe,\\nTempleton, Treadwell, Washburn and Wilson.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "37\\nthat constant process that has been going on thronghout the coun-\\ntry for two centuries or more of the rapid interweaving of the va-\\nrious threads of kindred race and stock, of capacit_y, talent, genius,\\ninto the more refined texture and complex web of a new American\\npeople.\\nNevertheless, I will endeavor to trace some brief summary of\\nthe chief families, earlier or later, and I will begin with the set-\\ntlers from Londonderry:\\nAnd first, the Morisons were descendants here of that John\\nMorison, whose father John died at the new Londonderry in 1736,\\nand who stood with his father s family under the walls of old Lon-\\ndonderry at the famous siege, died here in 1776, at the age of 98, and\\nmay very well be styled the patriarch of the town. They were an\\nimportant family here for several generations. If but few of\\nthem now remain, more may be found in other states. Five of\\nthem, still partly resident among you, I may just mention, the late\\nProf. Horace Morison, for many years an eminent instructor at\\nBaltimore, who died here in 1870, and whose family retain at this\\nday the homestead of his ancestor; Geo. S. Morison, Esq., the\\ndistinguished civil engineer, and his brother, the Eev. Robert S.,\\nboth landholders in the town; Nathaniel Holmes Morison, LL.D.,\\nProvost of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, for many years a\\nsuccessful educator of young ladies in that city, also a land own-\\ner, and a liberal benefactor of the schools and library of his native\\nplace; and the Rev. Dr. John Hopkins Morison, the eloquent ora-\\ntor of the last Centennial Celebration, whose rare genius, extensive\\nlearning, and great excellence of character, have gained him dis-\\ntinction wherever he has wandered, doing honor to himself, his\\nlineage, and the place of his birth. May his eighty years of well-\\nspent life long rest easy on his venerable head. In the line of Na-\\nthaniel and Mary (Hopkins) Morison, son of Dea. Robert and\\nEhzabeth (Holmes) Morison, there have been eleven graduates of\\nHarvard College, and as many as eleven students at Phillips Exe-\\nter Academy.\\nNext the Ritchies, descendents of that earliest pioneer, William\\nRitchie, whose son John, the first male child born in this town,\\ngave his life to his country s service at Cambridge, in 1776, a re-\\nspectable family of farmers here for several generations. The\\nRev. William Ritchie, a grandson of the elder William, Avas a\\nspeaker at the last centennial, and died in 1842. Five of his grand-\\nsons lost their lives in the late war, Henry being killed in battle in\\n1864. The old elms that fifty years ago hung over the red house\\nof the Ritchies now stand around its ruined cellar on the present\\nfarm of Mr. Geo. S. Morison, one of the first spots cleared in the\\ntown.\\nThen the Steeles, descendents of Thomas and Martha (Mori-\\nson) Steele of Londonderry, and of their son, Capt. David Steele", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38\\nof this town, have furnished a long succession of substantial farm-\\ners, manufacturers and teachers, two major oenerals of militia,\\nand as many as six lawyers of distinction to as fnany towns in\\nthe State, down to the late Stephen P. Steele, a trusted counsellor,\\nwho held high civil positions in the town aflairs. Jonatlian\\nSteele, a son of Capt. David, was an eminent lawyer of Dui-hara,\\nstudent, partner, and son-in-laAV of Maj. Gen. John Sullivan, and\\na judge of tlio supreme court of the State. Jonathan Steele of Ep-\\nsom, a son of Thomas of this town, was also an able and eloquent\\nadvocate, and the compeer at the bar of Geo. Sullivan and Ezekiel\\nWebster, whose eloquence (when he was himself), said Chief\\nJustice Smith, was beyond any music I ever heard. But few,\\nif any of the name, remain here how many representatives in the\\nseveral lines of descent there may be living elsewhere is more\\nthan I can tell. The line of the Hon. John H. Steele is represent-\\ned by his son George, in Wisconsin, by his son Charles in Ohio,\\nand by his grandson, John H. Steele, the present town clerk.\\nThe Greggs, too, were an influential family, descendents liere\\nof the famous Major Samuel Gregg of the revolutionary time, who\\nhad fought under Gen. Wolfe at Quebec, and of his brother, Lieut.\\nJohn Gregg; and they are not yet extinct, though none of the\\nname remain in this town. In another branch of the original\\nfamily was that English Admiral Gregg who was recommend-\\ned by his government to the Empress Catherine II. of Russia,\\nand whose grandson, Lieut. Gen. Gregg, held high rank in the\\nRussian service as late as 1872, and still felt an interest in the\\nAmerican branch of the family .1 They derive their name from\\nthe McGregors of Loch Lomond. Col. William Gregg of Lon-\\ndonderry was also a distinguished officer of the revolution. Ma-\\njor Samuel was an industrious and prudent man, and when not en-\\ngaged in the service made little-wheels, raised flax for the women\\nto spin, and was (said his grandson, the late Samuel Gregg of\\nBoston) a great economist, from whose well-loaded table no\\nman ever went away hungry. He was a grandson of Capt.\\nJames Gregg, one of the first sixteen settlers of Londonderry, a\\nchief man there, who had a special grant of land for a mill. The\\nold mill may still be seen at the east end of the bridge over Beaver\\nBrook in the lower village of Derry. He was the founder of a\\nnumerous family in this and other States. Catharine Gregg of\\nLondonderry (I think) was the mother of Gen. James Miller. Rep-\\nresentatives are still to be found, on one side or the other of the\\nhouse. Mr. Washington P. Gregg (son of Samuel of Boston), a\\nlawyer by profession, was for 45 years or more the faitlrful clerk\\nof the city council there, and now lives at East Milton, active and\\nbright, tliough well up towards 90, and has in his possession the\\n(i) Letter of E. H. Derby, Esq., of Boston, who met him at St. Petersburg in that year.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "39\\nfamily bible and the official sword of Major Samuel Gregg his\\ngreat grandfather.\\nThe Mitchells, decended from Dea. Samuel Mitchell, the first\\ntown clerk, and a pillar of the church, continued to be substantial\\nfarmers in this town within the memory of some now living. If\\nthe name has disappeared from the town lists, it is still represent-\\ned in other places. His son, Benjamin, was present at the last cen-\\ntennial as one of the three survivors of the eighty-three citizens\\nwho signed the Association Test, in 1776. Stephen Mitchell, Esq.,\\nhis son, was an eminent lawyer of Durham, and was selected to\\naddress Lafayette in 1825. Another son, Dr. Frederick A. Mitch-\\nell, was a distinguished physician at Chester, and died in 1809, at\\nthe age of 80.\\nOf the Millers, there were two branches, both from London-\\nderry, one descended from Dea. Samuel Miller, who purchased, in\\n1780, the four hundred acres of land for his four sons, Matthew,\\nJames, William, and John, that were paid for by the linens spun\\nand woven by Madam Miller. They have been a numerous and in-\\nfluential family down to a late day. Of this line were Gen. James\\nMiller (son of James), the distinguished ofiicer of the war of 1812\\n(for an adequate account of whom I must refer you to Dr. Smith\\nand other historians), and his brother Hugh, for many years se-\\nlectman and representative the late Dea. Sanmel (son of Hugh)\\nof the Unitarian congregation; and Mark Miller (son of Andrew),\\na noted horticultural editor in Iowa, and his brother, Dr. Luke\\nMiller, an eminent surgeon of Minnesota. No one of this branch\\nremains here, unless I may name Miss Martha Wilder, a grand-\\ndaughter of Jane (Miller) Templeton (a sister of Gen. James Mil-\\nler) who resides on the old homestead of Matthew Templeton, her\\ngreatgrandfather. In the line of the other Samuel, a respectable\\nfamily of farmers here for several generations, there are two rep-\\nresentatives, one of them being John R. Miller, Esq., president of\\nthe day, who has been in successive years a journalist, druggist,\\npostmaster, justice of the peace, and (I thirik I may add) a very\\nuseful citizen in general.\\nThe Allisons, descendents of Samuel and Catharine (Steele) Al-\\nlison of the first sixteen settlers of Londonderry, were represented\\nin this town by John Allison, his great grandson (and son of Sam-\\nuel 3d of Dunbarton) and in the families of Daniel Abbot and\\nDea. Nathaniel Holmes, who married daughters of Samuel 2d, of\\nLondonderry. John Allison was for many years the overseer of\\nthe Old Bell, factory. The name has disappeared from this\\ntown, but is still represented by his son, John P. Allison, Esq., a\\nthriving lawyer of Sioux City, Iowa. Daniel Abbot, who worked\\nas a carpenter on the old meetinghouse when a boy, was for many\\nyears a cotton manufacturer and a trader here, and died at West-\\nford, Mass., at the age of 84; his wife died in New York City in", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40\\n1837. Representatives still survive in the families of his sou Dan-\\niel (I think), of the late John Scott of Detroit, and of Jefferson\\nFletcher, formerly a trader here. And here I may add the name\\nof Samuel Allison Holmes son of Samuel of this town, and a\\ngreat grandson of that Capt. Samuel Allison 2d, who was one of\\nCapt. Mitcheirs Londonderry Troopers in the Indian wars, and\\nwas keeper (with John Bell) of the Londonderry powder in 1775.\\nHe was 1st Lieut, and Adjt. of Lieut. Col. Easton s St. Louis battal-\\nion in the Mexican war, and served all through the late war as\\nColonel of two successive Missouri regiments, commanded a bri-\\ngade in Gen. Grant s campaign against Vicksburg, ami was pres-\\nent with his regiment at the battles of Franklin and Nashville un-\\nder Gen. Thomas.\\nThe MooRES, descendants here of the brothers Samuel and AVil-\\nllara, sons of that John Moore of Londonderry who was born on\\nthe night of the massacre of Glencoe, in which John, his father,\\nwas killed, and his mother, two sisters and himself barely escaped\\nwith their lives, have been a respectable family in this town from\\nan early period down to this day, and they are still creditably rep-\\nresented both here and in other States, especially New York, Illi-\\nnois, and Michigan.\\nDea. Samuel Moore married, in 1751, Mai garet, daughter of\\nJohn and Margaret (Wallace) Morison, a sister of Elizabeth, who\\nmarried William Smith, Esq., of this town at about the same\\ntime since it is said that they were attending her wedding, and\\nliked the idea so well that they immediately mounted horse and\\nrode to a justice of the peace at Chester, and were joined at once\\nwithout further ceremony. He came to this town with Samuel Todd,\\nin that year, and bouglit land on Windy Row, and settled first on\\nwhat has since been called the Spring place, and later on the\\nfarm known as the Mitchell place. He was the first representa-\\ntive of the town at Exeter in 1775, and held important town oflSces\\nuntil the end of the Revolution. He owned two slaves, named Baker\\nand Rose, and sold Baker his freedom, but never I cceived any\\npay, and provided in Ids will that his son Ebenezer should support\\nRose as long as she lived. I have found that several of the Moore\\nfamilies of Londonderry and Bedford owned slaves at that early\\nperiod.\\nThe brother, William Moore, married Janet, daughter of Na-\\nthaniel and Elizabeth (Moore) Holmes of Londonderry, and set-\\ntled in this town about 1763. He had seen service in the French\\nand Indian wars, was a Lieut, of militia, and a warm patriot in\\nthe revolution she was a noted spinner and weaver of both linens\\nand woolens, and a patriot also, if all accounts be correct. In this\\nline were the late Dea. Nathaniel and his sons, John of South\\nCarolina, William and Dea. Nathaniel H. of this town, George\\nWashington and Thomas of Michigan, and William A. Moore,", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "41\\nEsq., a lawyer of Detroit and a g-raiidsoii of the elder Wil-\\nliam. Ill the name of Dea. Nathaniel Holmes Moore was thus\\nunited a double line of Moores interwoven with the Holmes\\nline, his great grandmother Holmes having been a daugJiter of an-\\nother John and Janet Moore, Avho came over to Londonderry from\\nAntrim County, Ireland, about the year 1724, and were the jjarents al-\\nso of Col. Robert of Londonderrj and Col. Daniel of Bedford, both\\ncolonels of N. TI. regiments of militia in the revolutionary service.\\nThey are said to have suflered great hardships on the passage over,\\nand she was called Jenny Flavel because she was a great reader\\nof the Puritan Flavel s Works. No doubt she was a very pious\\nwomau, but probably not quite so fierce as that Jenny Geddes that\\nhurled her stool at Laud s Tidchan Bishop s head, Wilt thou say\\nmass at my lug, then. Col. Daniel Moore (wlio was a captain\\nunder Stark at Bunker Hill) served all through the revolution, his\\nregiment being at Saratoga under Gates, and in Ilhode Island\\nunder Sullivan. As many as four of his great grandsons served in\\nthe late war, two of them in Gen. Sykes regulars, both captives in\\nthe Libby prison, where one of them died, and the other being ex-\\nchanged served to the end of the war, but with health greatly im-\\npaired for the rest of his life, and he died at the soldier s home in\\nMaine, in 1880. The memory of Henry Moore, son of Dea. Na-\\nthaniel H., is recorded on the soldiers monument iu this town.\\nJames N. Moore, sou of Thomas, served in the late war, and Capt.\\nWilliam C. Moore, son of George W., was wounded and cap-\\ntured in the first Bull Run battle, and was nearly starved in Libby\\nprison before he was exchanged and made a captain and he served\\nwith distinction to the end of the war, but unfortunately lost his\\nlife, soon afterward, in crossiug a swollen river on the western\\nplains. You all know how well our venerable fellow-citizen here\\n(who still occupies the early homestead of his family) has exem-\\nplified tlirough his long life the virtues, the patriotism and the\\nfaith of his ancestors, who believed (nearly all of them) in the\\nlanguage of their day and generation in the resurection of the\\nbody by the mighty power of (jlod.\\nThe HoLMESES were represented here in two branches, probably\\nof the same stem: one that of Abraham Holmes, son of John and\\ngrandson of Abraham, a first grantee of Londonderry, Avhose great\\ngrandson, Mr. Thomas Holmes, now occupies the homestead of his\\nancestor there the other was that of Dea. Nathaniel of this town,\\na sou of Nathaniel of Londonderry, who came over from Coleraine,\\nIreland, iu 1740, with his father (Nathaniel of Coleraine), who\\nwent on to Pennsylvania Avith his three minor sons. He settled in\\nthis town in 1784, but he had been here before that date;. Tradi-\\ntion says that he went to Cambridge in 1775 at sixteen as servant\\nto Lieut. Henry Ferguson, and he enlisted (with his older brother\\nJonathan) in Capt. Finley s Londonderry company for Benning-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42\\nton in 1777. The name has disappeared from the town lists, but\\nis numerously represented in this and other States, and especially\\nin New York and Michigan. There have been soldiers, farmers,\\nmachinist s manufacturers, mei chants, and professional men among-\\nthem. Other descendants of Nathaniel of Coleraine were wealthy\\nfamilies at Carlisle, Pa., still represented in that State, New Jersey,\\nNew York, Tennessee, and Missouri and descendants of Robert\\nHolmes, the youngest son of Nathaniel of Londonderry (who lived\\nwith his brother here when a young man), now reside in New York,\\nMissouri, and California, and at Elmgrove, the homestead of their\\nancestor, on the fertile banks of the Elkhoru (Scott Co., Ky.),\\nand at other places in the chosen land of Daniel Boon. Jonathan,\\nyoungest son of Dea. Nathaniel, succeeded to the home farm\\nwhich he sold to the town for a Poor farm, in 1837. The price\\n($3,850) was paid out of the town s share in the distribution of\\nsurplus revenue in the administration of General Jackson. He\\nremoved to Bronson, Mich., and died there in 1884, leaving a Avid-\\now, two sons and two daughters, and a large estate. She was a\\ngranddaughter of Ensign John Taggavt of Dublin, who served at\\nBunker Hill,i and was born in this town, a son of John, the early\\nsettler. The old house has been burned down, the old wheel-shop is\\ngone; some barns remain, but of the two or three orchards that\\nonce filled a whole cellar with barrels and hogsheads of cider only\\na few scattered, half-dead trees survive; but the better part of the\\nfarm in the hands of Ezra M. Smith, Esq., still shows green fields\\nand fat cattle. In the line of Abraham was the late Prof. Stephen\\nR. Holmes, a graduate of Harvard College in 1822, son of David of\\nAmherst; in the other line, on one side or tlic other of the bouse,\\nthere have been eight college men, five at Dartmouth and three at\\nHarvard, and at least six at Phillips Exeter Academy.\\nThe family of George Senteu, a trader at the South Village,\\nand sometime a mail-contractor, who married a daughter of Gen.\\nJohn Steele, is represented by his son John of Eagle River, and his\\ndaughter, Mrs. Antoinette Mandlebaum of Detroit.\\nThe SsriLKYS began here with Dr. David Smiley, who came from\\nHaverhill, Mass., in 17G0, a revolutionary soldier, a doctor, and a\\nBaptist preacher, not exactly a jack, of all trades, but a kind of\\nmaster of all arts, first a shoemaker, then a soldier, then a farm-\\ner, then studied medicine, and then (nobody knows where) theol-\\nogy; and, like the Rev. Dr. Doddridge on the Pennsylvania fron-\\ntier, he preached and practised all his life long with good etfect on\\nhis patients, and only since the last Centennial laid down all\\nearthly functions at the venerable age of 95. He is still represented\\nhere by Mrs. John G. Leonard, a daughter of that ingenious watch-\\nmaker and very useful citizen, the late Mr. David Smiley.\\nMatthew Wallace, for many years of the early time, wasmod-\\n(i) Hist, of Dublin, Boston, 1855.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "43\\nenitor, town clerk, selectman, tithingman, and representative,\\nand owned the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Saninel Morison Place prior to 1789. His lirst\\nwife was (1 think) a daughter of Matthew Wright of Londonder-\\nry, and his second was Mai-garet, daughter of Capt. Thonnis Mor-\\nison. He removed long ago to Vermont, where he died. His son\\nJonathan was a Universallst minister at Potsdam, N. Y. The\\nWallaces were an important family of Londonderry, three of\\nwhom married daughters of Col. Robert Moore, and were noted\\nmen of llennikcr. They were descendants of Thomas and Mary\\n(Wilson) Wallace, that very notable lady who in her day was called\\nOcean Mary, becansc she was born at sea on board of a pirate\\nship which had captured the vessel on Avhicli her parents were em-\\nigrants in 1720; but the pirate captain, having a wife and children\\nof his own at home, had some touch of humanity left in hiin, and\\nset them all free, and sent them on their voyage with rich presents\\nto the happy motlier and child.\\nThe Davisons (or Davidsons), descendants of Dea. Thomas Da-\\nvidson who settled in the soutliwest part of the town in 1755, have\\ndisappeared from the lists. When he married Miss Anna Wright,\\ndaughter of Matthew Wright of Londonderry, in 1757, she is said\\nto have borrowed from Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes her large wooden\\nbowl that was carved out of a huge oak knot, and held near a half\\nbushel, for the barley broth that was served in the orchard at her\\nwedding. It came from Antrim Co., Ireland (and still survives),\\nand was supposed by the elder ladies to be two hundred years old,\\nand to have been used perhaps by some Highland clan for\\nTlie healsonie pairilch. chief o Scotia s food,\\nBut further this deponent saitli not; perhaps, after all, it came\\nFrom old King Coiil\\nWilli liad a blown bowl.\\nAikI was a juiiy old soul.\\nNothing -aid about the Avhiskey. He died in 1813 at 86; she died\\nin 1823 at 88. I remembei attending her funeral at the old man-\\nsion of the Davisons one cold day in January when the snow was\\nthree or four feet deep. There were no ai dent spirits there then,\\nI think, but would not be very certain. Their son Charles married\\nAbigail, sister of Asa Evans, and lived on the Davison (or Frost)\\nplace near the village. Their daughter Mary mariiod Major\\nJotham Hoar, whose daughter Sally (widow of Nathaniel Holmes,\\nJr., and of William Mooi-e of Michigan) died in 1887, being\\nwithin ten days of 100 years of age. Their son William, who\\nmarried his cousin Jane, daughter of Matthew Wright of JafFrey,\\nsucceeded to the farm, and died at the age of 70. I never knew\\nof his being a hard drinker, but two or three of his sons certainly\\nwere, as also their uncle Matthew Wright, if all accounts are\\ntrue; and it was said of him that he was a man of ability, but an\\n(i) Cogswells Hist. 0/ HenniLcr, i83o.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44\\ninfidel (wliicli I suppose meant something very bad in those days),\\nand further (what was no doubt true) tluit on his death-bed he\\nsent his son down to New Ipswich for a big- jug- of rum, that\\na the poor divils at his funeral might have enough. John Ram-\\nsay of Ochtertyre mentions a gentleman of Menteith, who, in giving\\ndirections for his funeral, added, For God s sake, Joini,give them\\na a hearty drink. It was an old saying that a Scot s funeral was\\nmerrier than his wedding. And Dr. E. B. Ramsay tells of an old\\nmaiden lady of Strathspey, who sent for her nephew, and said to\\nhim, Willy, I m deeing, and as ye 11 hae charge of a I leave,\\nmind now, that as meikle whiskey be drunk at my funeral as\\nthere was at my baptism. Tiiese old cusotms have happily\\npassed away. Until near the end of the first century, the boys\\nworked at home till twenty one. At the Davison s as elsewhere\\none might see the skins of fox, mink, musquash, and )-arely an\\notter, nailed up to dry, and the meadow brooks were fished, some-\\ntimes at night witli pine torches and spear, a sort of trident or\\nthree-taed leister as Burns called it. Now, I suppose we should\\nhave to go to the Great AVest to find either the boys or the fishing and\\nhunting. The old mansion of tiie Davisons is gone, but the farm\\nis still productive in the industrious hands of Mr. William Moore.\\nSome few representatives still slirvive, I think, in other places.\\nWilliam s s;)n John, a machinist and a very res|)ectable man, re-\\nsided (when last I heard of him) with his family at Ilolyokf!, Mass.\\nJohn Todd, Senior, a grandson of the famous Col. Andrew Todd\\nwho married Beatrix, one of the daughters of that John Moore that\\nwas killed at Glencoe, and lived in this town in his latter days with\\ntheir daughter (Mrs. William Miller), was a son of Samuel, the pio-\\nneer settler whose camp provisions the Indians stole (but did not\\nfind those he had buried in the woods), and who was killed at last\\nby the falling of a tree. This John was present at the surrender of\\nBurgoyne. When a young man, he lived with the Hon. John Bell\\nof Londonderry. His first wife was Rachel, daughter of George\\nand Mary (Bell) Duncan, and his second was Sarah, widow of the\\nRev. David Annan. He was a Scotch Presbyterian of the old\\nstyle, a man of the kindest feeling and most benevolent nature. He\\nlived to nearly 90, and always had prayers in his family, at which\\nhe would read and sing, line by line, one of David s Psalms: what\\nthe tune was I would not undertake to say,\\nPerhaps Dundee s wild, warbling measures rise,\\nOr plaintive Martin s, worthy of the name,\\nOr noble Elgin beats the heavenward flame,\\nThe sweetest far of Scotia s holy lays,\\nbut what I do remember is, that at the end of each line, his loud\\nvoice would take a sudden twist upward to the highest note in the\\nscale, ending in a kind of screech. The young jjcoplc could hardly\\nhelp laughing, if they had dared to laugh my sister Elizabeth\\nsaid that she was frightened rather, and indeed, it was more like", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "45\\n4n Indian warwhoop than any musical cadence. His son, Dea.\\nJohn Todd, Jr., some years resident here, will be remembered as\\nan Elder in the Presbyterian church, a member of the legislature,\\nand a good man of the type of his ancestors, and I learn from a\\nlelter (lately received from him) that he reads without spectacles,\\nfeels well, sleeps well, and writes well; and in which he says he\\nwould be glad to be here on this occasion, and will always feel\\nproud of his native place, but never expects to go far from home\\nagain. He is still living in his 90th year at Wiscoj N. Y. When\\nI saw him last, nearly twenty years ago, so like he was that I almost\\nthought I saw his father s ghost revisiting the glimpses of the\\nmoon. There are some younger representatives still living: Sam-\\nuel J. Todd, Esq., a son of Daniel of Preble, N. Y., is a distin-\\nguished lawyer of Beloit, Wisconsin.\\nThe Annans, descendants of the Eev. David Annan, whose\\nfather, Robert (and his eldest son John), held lands of the Earl of\\nLeven at Cei-es near Cupar of Fife, Scotland, have not continued\\nhere within the last half century, but they are still numerous in\\nother places. His sons, John and Robert, and Robert s son John,\\nand John s sons Robert G. and David L., were master-machinists\\nat Franklin, Lowell, Manchester and Lawrence. William Henry\\nAnnan, a son of John, (now of Boston) was a roving sailor in his\\nyounger days, but came lioine to join the navy in the late war,\\nand his brother, Capt. Frank Annan, served in the army. Two\\nsons of David L. of Lawi encc are civil engineers at Kansas City,\\nthe younger (David) being a graduate of Dartmouth College,\\nin 1885.\\nAnd now 1 come to the Lunenburgers: there have been many of\\nequal and some of still greater note among them.\\nAnd first, the Smiths, descendants of Robert and his two sons,\\nJohn and William, first emigrants, Avho came to this town about\\nthe year 1751 to 1757. It has been a notable family in this and\\nother states, for the most part enterprising men and leading citi-\\nzens, whether as farmers, manufacturers, merchants, magistrates,\\nor professional men, supporters of schools, churches, private inter-\\nests and the public good. John, the elder brother (who married\\nMary Harkness of Lunenburg), liad a large farm on the west side\\nof the Contoocook, where he died in 1801, at the ageof 8G; she\\ndied in 1822 at 87. I remember seeing her but a year or two\\nbefore her death, sitting in the corner at the Smith mansion\\n(where Mr. Ellsworth now lives), quietly smoking her pipe. Of\\ntheir five sons, I can only mention that Robert studied medicine,\\nand practised at Bristol, Vt., and that William succeeded to the\\nfarm where he lived nearly all his life, a respectable farmer and\\nworthy man, and died at the age of 90. Of the eight daughters, I\\nwill only take time to say that Elizabeth married John White of\\nthe Wiiitc Place, the father of the late Robert White, Sarah mar-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46\\nricd first tlic Kcv. David Annan, and second, Jolin Todd, Senior,\\nMar farct married Thomas Flctclier of New Ipswich, and Nancy,\\nlier first cousin, Dca. Jonathan Smith. Of William s sons, John\\nand Dexter sell led in Mi(;liiu;an, and James, the yoiinyest, a grad-\\nuate of Yale College in 1840, b( 4an to practise law in New Or-\\nleans, and died much lamented in 1847, a young man full of learn-\\niii r, of zealous ambition and flattering liopes, thus early cut off by\\nan insidious lung disease.\\nAmong tlie descendants of AYilliam and Elizabeth (Morison)\\nSmith, himself a chief man and magistrate of the earlier time,\\nwhose largo farm was situated on the plateau to the east of the\\nContoocook valley, there were numerous and able representatives\\non whom it will be unnecessary for me to dwell, since the partic-\\nular history of Dr. Albert Smith, his grandson, has given a full\\nand excellent account of them, Of Dr. Albert Smith himself,\\n(who died in 1878 in his 77th year), I scarcely need add, that he\\nwas a son of the Hon. Samuel Smith and a graduate of Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1825, M. D. in IS:];), and LL. D. in 1870, and practised\\nmedicine in this town nearly all his life, being also a distinguished\\nmedical professor at Dartmouth, and was a good citizen in every\\nway, to whom we are all much indebted for his valuable History\\nof the Town of Peterborough.\\nOne earlier offshoot of this original stem, it would be inexcusa-\\nble in me to pass over in silence, though a man so illustrious as to\\nbo presumably well enough known to all here present, the Hon,\\nJeremiah Smith. Nor could I add much to the well wi ifteu life of\\nhim by the Rev. Dr. Morison, who knew all about him; but I may\\nsay that besides being an influential member of congress in the\\nadministration of Washington, and chief justice and governor of\\nthe State, he was a man of superior mind and genius, a good classi-\\ncal scholar, a learned jurist, and an honorable citizen. In his later\\nyears he was a trustee and treasurer of Phillips Exeter Academy,\\nand his poi trait now hangs in the academic hall there among the\\nworthies of that institution. I remember seeing himself there\\n(when I was a student), a rather tall jx rson of genial pres-\\nence, Avith his large library around him, his hair as white (and his\\nconscience no doubt as pure) as the driven snow, and there was a\\ncertain humorous twinkle in his clear gray eye, an hereditary spar-\\nkle (I imagine) of the wit and humor of the Scotch-Irish race from\\nwhich he sprung. Said Daniel Webster, when Jeiemiali Smith\\nbecame chief justice, it was a day of the gladsome light of juris-\\nprudence. Again, Mr. Webster said that he was perhaps the\\nbest talker he had been acquainted with, full of knowledge of\\nbooks and men, had a great deal of wit and humor, and abhorred\\nsilence as an intolerable state of existence. But one son survived\\nhim, the Hon. Jeren)iah Smith of Dover, a worthy representative", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "47\\nof his ancestral line, also distiiigiiished for his learning and ability\\nas a justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire.\\nJames and William II. Smith, sons ol: John Smith, Esq., of this\\ntown, and grandsons of the elder William, Avere prosperous mer-\\nchants at St. Louis. James Smith gave over a quarter of a million\\ndollars to the benefit of AVashingtau University at St. Louis, and\\nmade a libei al donation to the library of his native town. William\\nEliot Smith, son of William IL, and for some years a schol-\\narly horticulturalist, is now proprietor of an extensive Glass\\nWorks, at Alton, 111.; and his excellent father is still active and\\nalert at over 80l years of age, and his mother is still living and\\nbright also, the only surviving- child of the Hon. Samuel Smith.\\nThe family of Hugh Wilson, an influential first settler, disap-\\npeared from this town at an early date. The other AVilsons were\\ndescendents of that ]Major llobcrt AVilson who stood on the Heights\\nof Abraham under Gen. AVolfe in 1759, and marched those GOO Hes-\\nsians from Bennington to Boston in 1777. He was a stout and val-\\niant man, over six feet in height, industrious and prudent in busi-\\nness affairs, and acquired considerable property. Madam AVilson\\nseems to have been a woman worthy of such a husband; she spun\\nthe linens and made the butter that helped to send her son James\\nthrough Harvard College to become one of the most eminent law-\\nj ers in the State, and her son John also to become another in the\\nState of Maine. Gen. James AVilson of Keene, son of James,\\nwas an eloquent advocate and public orator, an active and useful\\nman, and a brilliant Major General of militia. He made an in-\\nteresting speech at the last centennial here, and died in 1881 at the\\nage of 84. His greatest oratorical effort, perhaps, was that deliv-\\nered at Keene, in 1861, to arouse his fellow citizens to the duty of\\nsaving the national government from destruction. But few of the\\nname remain in this town, but there are other representatives still\\nliving, and especially on the female side of the house, where they\\nstill exhibit much of the character and genius of their ancestors.\\nThe Stuarts, descended from that AAllliam Stuart who was\\nthe first man buried on the hill, were a numerous and respectable\\nfamily in the earlier times. None of the name now reside here,\\nthough there are representatives elsewhere and in other names.\\nThe family of Charles Stuart, a son of AV^illiam, was connected\\nwith the Fergusons, Moorcs, Carters, Evanses, and Turners.\\nThere were three eminent laAvyers of the name: (Charles Jesse of\\nLancaster, John of Groton, Mass., and Charles of New York City,\\na son of John and a graduate of Harvard College in 1830. A\\ndaughter of Charles J. Stuart lives in Cambridge, the wife of Prof.\\nFrancis Bowen of Harvard University. Sarah Stuart (a daughter\\nof John), the late Mrs. Berry of Washington, D. C, was a lady of\\nmarked character, genius, and romantic adventure in her day. The\\nCharles Stuart Place embraced the present farms of M. L. Mor-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rison and John O. Nay, which are still productive, and the large\\nsquare mansion of the Stuarts (in the hands of Mr. Morrison),\\nlooks brighter than in the olden time.\\nOf the ScoTTS there were two branches one descended from that\\nWilliam Scott, Senior, who was one of the earliest pioneers; the\\nother from Alexander Scott and his son, the famous Major William,\\nwho settled here in 1749. Of the first line were the late John\\nScott of Detroit, and his brother, the late James Scott of this town,\\nwho was an able man, and held high civil positions, political and\\nfinancial, and was so well known among you that I need say no\\nmore that he was, as also the other, a worthy representative of\\nthis substantial portion of the Scott family. His widow and\\ndauoiiter are living representatives also of that notable family of\\nWilsons. In the other branch, descendants from that Alexander\\nScott who had charge of the powder, lead and flints of the early\\nsettlers, I have already alluded to the military characters, but\\nscarcely less I cmarkable for wisdom and prudence in civil affairs\\nand business were tlie Hon. John Scott and his son William, and\\nhis sons, tiie late Hon. Albert S. Scott, Kendall, Charles, Henry, and\\nJohn of the Peterborough Transcript.\\nThere were two branches of the Whites, also, both descendants\\nof the first emigrant, John AVhite one was that of his son Pat-\\nrick, born in Ireland in 1710, an educated man who brought some\\nproperty with him, and was the ancestor of the eastern (or Pond)\\nWhites. Three of his sons, John, William, and David, were sol-\\ndiers in the revolution their descendants, besides being substan-\\ntial farmers and worthy citizens, have furnished the town with\\nmartial music and martial men down to this day. John White, the\\nbrother of Patrick, was born in Lunenburg, was the grandfather\\nof the late Robert White, and began the AVhite Place so called,\\nAvherc Mr. N. II. Morison now resides. Joseph Addison Wiiite, a\\nson of Robert, and a graduate of Harvard College in 1840, was a\\n.teacher in Pennsylvania, and died young; but three of his sisters\\nhave intelligent and prosperous families of the names of SpofTord\\n.and Cunningham at Rockford, 111.\\nThe Ror.Bics, who were noted Indian fighters in the earlier days,\\n:and ])atriots in the revolution, have been respectable farmers and\\ngood citizens to this day. Samuel Robbe, who was at Saratoga\\nin 1777, and married a daughter of the famous Major William\\nScott, is still well represented by his son, Mr. Stephen D. Robbe,\\non the old homestead of his ancestor; but the old one story house\\nof the first century has given place to an elegant mansion of two\\nstories in this first half of the second; and there are other repre-\\nsentatives of this quite numerous family either at home here\\nor abroad.\\nThe names Alld, Cunningham, Ferguson, Gordon, and Swan\\nhave disappeared from the town lists, but scions of the stock, and", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "49\\nand some of the name still survive both here and in other places.\\nMr. James Swan of Illinois is here to-day. The famous Capt. Sam-\\nuel Cunningham is still represented by the families of Samuel,\\nNewton, and Franklin Cunningham of Rockford, 111., and by his\\ngranddaughters, Mrs. Augustus Fuller and Miss Catherine Miller\\nCaldwell of this town, and by others in Massachusetts, and in Bel-\\nfast, Me., which was founded by a company from Londonderry.\\nOf the Nays, descended from Dea. William McNee, one of the\\nearliest pioneers, there have been eight or nine generations of in-\\nfluential citizens. If they are not so very numerous here now, it\\nis certain that Dr. Smith reckoned up 1114 of them, not long ago,\\nand I fear it would dizzy the arithmetic of memory if I were to\\nundertake to count them all at this time, here and elsewhere, and\\nespecially if I were to include both sides of the house, but I may\\njust mention Mr. Marshall Nay, son of Major Samuel, Josiah, son\\nof AVilliam, and John O., son of George, not omitting his intelli-\\ngent wife Caroline, daughter of Samuel McCoy, who still lives in the\\nvillage, hale and hearty at 77, a grandson of that Gilbert of Sharon\\nwho came directly from old Scotland.\\nIf but few of the respectable family of Littles still subsist here\\nin their proper name, they are certainly numerous in the progeny\\nof Mr. Jesse C. Little, an Elder in the kingdom of Salt Lake.\\nThe Rev. Elijah Dunbar (who was of Scotch descent) has liv-\\ning representatives in the families of some of his sons and daugh-\\nters, one of them, the blind poet Henry, who wrote a hymn for\\nthe last centennial and the old Dunbar place is owned by one of\\nthem. Rev. Mr. Dunbar (who died at Milford in 1850, at the age\\nof 77) was present at the last centennial; and his toast, To the\\ncitizen soldiery, was characteristic of his race, suggesting that if\\na man had no sword when his country called, he should sell his\\ncoat, and buy one.\\nThe families of English Puritan descent have been increasing\\nin proportion down to this time. There have been many able and\\nworthy men among them they have taken a full share in all the\\ninterests of the town, furnished their due quota to the civil aud\\nmilitary service and the learned professions, and added to the roll\\nof fame at home and abroad. In the various interweavings of all\\nstocks and threads into one communitj^, they have come to exei*-\\ncise at this day a controlling power and influence upon the credit\\nand prosperity of the growing town. Here I can but briefly al-\\nlude to some few of them:\\nAnd first the Hadleys, farmers and brickmakers for several\\nsuccessive generations from that early settler, Ebcnezer Hadley,\\nwho stood with his father and brother (Samuel who fell) on Lex-\\nington Common that day when the British first fired on American\\nliberty, have been good men aud useful citizens down to the pres-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50\\ncut Isaac and AVilliam, who still occupy the liomcsteads of their\\nancestors, though the brlckniaking- has nearly ccaspd.\\nAnd also the Diamonds, descended from that patiuotic drummer,\\nWm. Diamond, who druuimed the martial music all the way from\\nLexington to the end of the revolution, some of whom still occupy\\nthe homestead of their ancestor.\\nThen the Fields, farmers, tanners, and Christian men, from\\nthat John Field and his two sons, AV^illiam and Dea. John, who\\ncame from tlie old Puritan town of Braintree in 17SG, and have\\nbeen respectable citizens down to the late John Field, the wealthy\\nleather merchant of Boston, always a substantial promoter of pri-\\nvate morals and the public good, and a liberal benefactor of his\\nnative place; and I may add his son, Dr. Henrj M. Field of\\nNewton, and Dr. David Youngman of Boston, a worthy scion of\\nthe same stock, and also the sons of William Field, Alexander H.\\nof Kansas, Albert of Newmarket, Henry, and Franklin who re-\\nsides on the homestead of their ancestor.\\nAnd the Thayers, also, who bring their lineage from tlie Pil-\\ngrim John Alden, beginning- here with tiiat Dea. Christopher\\nThayer, who was out in the French war of 1757 at sixteen,\\nand served in the revolution a inimerous family that whether\\nhere or in other places has produced many useful nuni, several\\ncollege graduates, who were journalists and writers of distinction,\\ndown to Prof. James Bradley Tliayer of tlie law school of Harvard\\nUniversity.\\nThe Edeses of English descent, dating liere from that Sam-\\nuel Edes who was at Lexington, drove the oxen at Bunker\\nHill, and was the founder of a large and respectable family,\\nhave produced sev(n al farmers, some teacliers, one eminent phy-\\nsician (Dr. Hiram J. of Iowa), two distinguished lawyers (Amasa\\nand liis son Samuel II. of Newi)ort), down to the late Isaac Edes\\n(who occupied the old homestead) and Samuel, the third, lately a\\nprosperous tin and stove mauufactui er and rei)resentativ(^ of this\\ntown; and I need not omit his intelligent daughter Maria, relict\\nof the late Rev. Sanuiel Abbot Smith of Arlington, Mass., of whose\\nthree sons, one (Abbot Edes Smith) graduated at Harvard College\\nin 1877, and is now a lawyer in Chicago; another (George A.)\\nis a practical chemist, and the other (Samuel IT.) is a promising\\nyoung lawyer in Boston.\\nThe Barhers were descended from Silas Barber who came to this\\ntown in 1780, and lived to the age of 96, whose; sightly brick\\nhomestead is now occupied by his grandson, Gilbert; and if the\\nlarge old mansion of his son John on Windy Row has dwindled to\\none story, and the three or four large barns are nearly gone to\\nruin on the thin rocky soil, its people still live and flourish in Kan-\\nsas, and in the vilhig c here, at least on one side of the house of\\nRiley B. Hatch, Esq. and the niiighboring farm, once of Samuel", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "51\\nand Betsey (Stuart) Turner, probably the tallest couple ever seen\\nhere, would now (I think) be called a new forest, were it not that\\na certain Mr. Ilayward from Hancock had conceived the idea of\\nheading- oft the bush by planting- orchards, as it were, lighting- the\\ndevil with fire, for it seems that apple trees will grow where any\\nother can. But the Turners are not yet Avholly extinct, as we may\\nsee ill Mrs. Converse and Mrs. Goodhue, and in those live young\\nmen, Charles and Samuel W. Nichols.\\nAnd then tlie WiirrxEMOUKS, beginning- with that Nathaniel\\nWhittemore, a soldier of the revolution, Avho came to this town in\\n1781, draw their line of descent through Thomas of Charles-\\nton, Mass., (1641) all the way from the M liite-meres of Ilitchin,\\nHertford Co., England. Three of his sons, Nathaniel, Jr., James\\nand Bernard, Avere at times merchants in Boston, and they are\\nnumerously represented in this and other States, in tlie law by\\nBernard B. of Nashua, Joseph of Detroit, and Nathaniel, Jr., of\\nBay City, Mich., in medicine by Dr. Israel T. Hunt of Boston,\\nin the hotel business by Mr. J. B. McGilvray of the Maplewood and\\nSan Marco, and in the cotton manufacture by John Farwell, sou\\nof the late Nathaniel Whittemore Farwell of Boston. The old\\nfarm has nearly gone to forest again; but in a small open space\\n(a little off the modern road) on a rising knoll where the grass is\\nstill green, there stand two magnificent old elms to mark the site\\nof the vanished tavern house of their ancestor.\\nAmong the Jewetts, descendants of John Jewett, who came to\\nthis town from Westford, Mass., in 1797, there have been several\\nnotable residents and some worthy re])resentatives abroad. His\\neldest son, John, Avas a wealthy and honorable merchant of New\\nYork City, and died there in 1867, at the age of 81. Another son,\\nAhimaz, married Eliza, a daughter of the Hon. John Scott, and\\nlived and died in this town. Of their children were the Avell\\nknown citizens, Charles, and the late Dea. George A. JeAvett of the\\nUnion Evangelical Church, described as a good man and a Chris-\\ntian, and Eiizal)eth (Mrs. AVm. B. Hale) and her son, the distin-\\nguished scholar, Prof. AVm. G. Hale of Cornell UniA ersity, a grad-\\nuate of Harvard College in 1870. The elder John s second Avife\\nAvas Margaret, daughter of Dea. Samuel Moore, and their daugh-\\nter Elizabeth (widow of the late Ira Felt) still resides in tlie village\\nhere in full possession of her faculties at the great age of S(). Her\\nfather died at nearly 85, and her mother at the age of 8.). They\\nlived, in their latter days, on Avhat is now known as the Frost\\nPlace, then owned by their eldest son, John of New York. This\\neligible place has had a rather noticeable history. It Avas origi-\\nnally the farm of Charles and Abigail (Evans) Davidson. The\\nold red house on the north side of the road (in wiiich Ahimaz Jew-\\nett once lived for a time) has long since disai)peared. The better\\nmodern residence on the s )uth side of the road Avas built (I think)", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52\\nbefore the farm was sold by Charles Davidson and wife to Na-\\nthaniel Holmes, Jr., in 1815; and it passed from him to Bernard\\nWhittemore, from him to Nathaniel AVhittemore, Jr., from him to\\nDavid F. McGilvray, from him to John Jewett, and from him to\\nCyrus Frost, who came from Dublin, and is now owned by his\\nsou, Charles Albert; an instance of the many farms that have not\\nonly changed owners, but have passed from one family to an-\\nother.i\\nThe Evanses, beginning here wilh Asa Evans who came from\\nLeominster, Mass., in 1784, were an influential family in the first\\ncentury. He was a large farmer and a trader, selectman and keeper\\nof the tavern of that day in the village. Many representatives\\nsurvive in other names, if not in that of Evans, both in this town\\nand in other places.\\nJames Walker, Esq., who was a native of Rindge and a grad-\\nuate of Dartmouth College, came to this town in 1814, and prac-\\ntised law here the rest of his life, and was a man of ability and in-\\ntegrity in the profession. His son, the late Geoi-ge Walker, Esq.,\\nalso a graduate of Dartmouth College, and of the Harvard Law\\nSchool, was an eminent lawyer of Springfield, Mass., and a politi-\\ncal economist of some note, an agent abroad of the U. S. Treas-\\nury, in 18G5, and in his later years Consul General to Paris.\\nJudge William Penniman, a son of Adam Penniman of this\\ntown, was a distinguished public man of Orleans County, N. Y.,\\nand died there in 1872, at the age of 79.\\nThomas Payson, a graduate of Harvard oUege in 1784, and an\\neminent teacher for most of his life, resided in this town in his\\nlater years, and of his large family there were some prosperous\\nmerchants, and several daughters who were well educated teach-\\ners. Miss Putnam of Boston, a relative of the family and some-\\ntime resident here, will be remembered for her amiable social\\nqualities and her generous gift of Putnam Grove to the public-\\nuse as a park.\\nDr. John Mussey, who came to this toAvn in 1800, was a prom-\\ninent physician and a Presbyterian of the straitest sect. He is\\nsaid to have told a curious witch story that happened to his\\nhorse, but with some of Macbeth s misgivings, perhaps, as to the\\nmetaphysical aid. The name has disappeared from the town\\nlists, but his son. Dr. Reuben D. Mussey of Dartmouth College.\\nCincinnati, Ohio, and Boston, and his sons, Drs. William H. and\\nFrancis B. Mussey of Ohio, wex c very eminent physicians, sur-\\ngeons, and medical professors.\\nDr. Kendall Bruce, who came to this town in 1812, is still\\nrepresented here by his grandsons George and Charles F., sons of\\nPeter Bruce and one son of Charles F. is a physician and another\\na clergyman in Massachusetts.\\n(i) Recently sold again to Prof. Wm. Caldwetl, adescendant of Capt. Samuel Cunningham.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "53\\nDr. John Young, who came to this town in 1764, was the most\\nskillful physician the town had nntil his death in 1807. His\\ncharges had to be low in those days and he died poor, partly\\nowing- perhaps to his intemperate habits. At last the town voted\\nto take his worldly circumstances into consideration and gave\\nhim the use of two cows. His daughter. Miss Jane Young-, a\\nrather memorable person, lived here all her life in her own small\\nhouse, dying in 1857 at the age of 84 and her maltese cat and\\nher garden flowers did not long survive.\\nAnother remarkable lady was Miss Fanny Smith, a daughter of\\nDea. Robert Smith and a half-sister of Dr. Jesse Smith, the dis-\\ntinguished surgeon of Cincinnati, Ohio. Like Miss Young she\\nlived by herself in her own home, was a gi-eat reader, a pious\\nSunday-school teacher, full of talent but somewhat eccentric, and\\nsuch an ardent lover of freedom that when she died in 1858, at 78,\\nshe dedicated one side of her gravestone To the Cause of Eman-\\ncipation: may God prosper it, and all the people say, Amen.\\nThe Carters came from Leominster, Mass., and were a family\\nof considerable note in this town. David and Oliver Carter, sons\\nof Oliver and Jenny (Stuart) Carter of Carter s Corner, were\\nenterprising- merchants in Boston. It is said that David Carter\\ncarried the first gold (2000 ounces) from the California mines to\\nthe Philadelphia mint. Milton and Henry Carter will not soon be\\nforg-otten by the lovers of music, sacred or profane.\\nThe Ameses, descendants of Timothy Ames, who came from\\nAndover, Mass., in 1793, have been an important family for sever-\\nal generations. His son, Timothy K. Ames, was, in the course of\\nhis long and useful life, a kind of patriarch, deputy sheriff, and\\nauctioneer for the whole country around, moderator, selectman.\\nJustice of the Peace, and representative, and always an active sup-\\nporter of town, school, and church. The soldier s monument re-\\ncords the memory of his grandson, Lieut. Timothy K. Ames, son\\nof T. Parsons Ames, and a young- lawyer of promise, among the\\nheroes of Peterboi ough who fell in the late war.\\nThe Ameses and the Carters for several generations furnished\\nthe young people with music and dancing of a superior quality.\\nMost of them were tall men of graceful manners and nimble limbs,\\nand could cut a pigeon-wing with the best of them. It was said\\nof the elder Timothy that he played the violin so lieartily and\\nwell that it made no difference whether he were asleep or awake.\\nThe young people, I said, not meaning to exclude all the older\\nfolks for the story is told that Dea. Holmes who stood six feet in\\nheight and weighed over 300, and Mrs. Upton who did not weigh less\\nthan 200, could dance Fisher s Hornpipe to the green-bag fiddle\\nof that notorious African that bought his freedom from Dea. Sam-\\nuel Moore, and forgot to pay for it, the unforgetable old Baker.\\nThe Uptons were a stalwart set of men. Thomas Upton could", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54\\nlay more rods of stone wall in a day than any other man, Jacob\\nUpton was a yiant ov^er six feet hi ;li and a reat mower. He\\ncarried a wider swath than any otlier man could. He took not\\nless than a full tumbler of New England rum at each drink, and\\nthen his scythe would go through the grass as if there were a two-\\nhorse power behind it. At this day (as I am told) Mr. William\\nMoore s little girl rides on the mowing machine, and Avill cut two\\nacres to Jacob s one any day, and never drink a drop. How many\\nof them remain here I cannot tell, but some of tliem still flourish in\\nother places, and I have heard of one (Mr. Eli Upton, sou of Eli,\\nthe miller) whom I knew as a boy, and whose father was not rich,\\nthat he had become a wealthy farmer and stock raiser in western\\nIllinois, with something like a tliousand acres of land.\\nMany others of whom I could say much I must pass over; but\\nI cannot omit the late Col. WnrrcoMU Fiiench from Dublin, Avhose\\nactive life began in the era of mail-stages, nor his enterprising suc-\\ncessor, Mr. Hknry K. Fkench of the newer era of railroads, who\\nbuilt up tlie best hotel in Peterborough (now of Mr. Tucker), and\\nare not to be forgotten among the benefactors of the town nor in-\\ndeed that other railroad man, Mr. Bknjamix P. Chenky, who was\\nwell known here in the day of stage-coaches, and who, tliough not\\na native nor exactly a resident, seems now bent on restoring the\\nold homestead of the Wilsons to greater magnificence than it ever\\nknew before. John Farnum drove the heavy teams to Boston,\\nuntil railroads came; his son Joseph learned the printer s trade in\\nthe ofRoe of the Peterborough Transcript, of which he is now\\nthe senior editor and joint proprietor.\\nAmong the later comers, too numerous to mention, wen* tliose\\nother Cheneys, sons of Moses Cheney who came from Holder-\\nness, in 1835, to engage in papei -making witii his brother-in-laAV\\nA.P.Morrison; the liev. Dr. Oren B. Cheney, a graduate of\\nDartmouth College in 183!), a Baptist clergyman and President of\\nBates College at Lewiston, Me. Cliarles G. Cheney, a graduiite of\\nDartmouth in 1845, and a well-known lawyer of this town, Avho\\ndied a young man; Elias H. Cheney, a journalist and editor; and\\nPerson Colby Cheney, an active paper-maker, for many years a\\nhighly respected citizen here, and more recently of Manchester,\\nwho was a quartermaster in tlie late war, and has since been a\\npopular governor of tlie State and a United States Senator; of\\nwhose merits, oiterprise, and great personal worth, tliere is no\\nneed that I should speak further in this place.\\nNor must I fail to mention his accomplished lady, a slip of that\\npersistent White stock already alluded to; for the ladies are not\\nto be altogether overlooked. They have, in all times, borne their\\nshare of the duties and burdens of society, and they are entitled\\nto a full share of the honors of this occasion. AVhether they spin\\nas of old, or dress in silks without work, or are the comforters", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "55\\nand helpers of those who do work, and fight, and govern the\\ncountry, or are the educators of those that shall coinc after us, or\\nare to be poets, novelists, editors, clerks, doctors, lawyers or\\ndivines, it nevertheless remains true for all time that the finer\\nsensibilities, the native virtues, veiled proprieties and deep-gianc-\\ning wise advice of the other sex, do lie at the very heart and life\\nof all humanity. Said a great Englisli Lord Chancellor, The\\nduke is tlie strength, the duchess the ornament of the house.\\nThus we see how the abilities, character and genius of the fore-\\nfathers, whether in the family or in the whole comnumity of fam-\\nilies, are sure to come about in the longer or shorter circuit and\\nperpetual round of all the trades, callings and professions, and of\\nall the more brilliant careers, civil or military, private or public;\\nand the whole body politic continues to whirl itself onward and\\nupward, or be whirled by the higher powers, its head high in the\\nair serene and its feet surely and safely travelling along the\\nground.\\nLooking over the whole half century, we may notice many\\nchanges for better or worse, but mostly for the better. Not\\nmuch more than fifty years ago, Daniel Gibbs and his one-horse\\nmail-wagon gave place to lines of mail-stages, and weekly teams\\ndid the freighting business to Boston. The larger farmers still\\nloaded up a big sleigh or sled in winter with purl: and other prod-\\nuce, and drove it down to Boston, returning with supplies of\\ngroceries. When I went to St. Louis, in 1839, I traveled all the\\nway by stage, canal, and steamboat, and the first letters received\\nfrom home cost me twenty five cents postage. Now, railroad\\ntrains carry mails, passengers and freight, twice a day, and letter-\\npostage is two cents to any part of the country; and. if you like,\\nyou can go by railroad almost to the ends of the earth. The\\nmorning newspaper and the telegraph bring the daily ucavs, or\\nhourly messages, from the uttermost parts of the civilized world,\\nand the telephone promises soon to enable you to talk with Boston,\\nNew York, or Washington, at your leisure. The electric light,\\nand the electric rail-car, if not already here, are perhaps not very\\nfar off There were no men here in the first century that would\\nnow be called rich there are some richer men here now I suppose,\\nbut no millionaire (I think) has grown up in this town, though in\\nthese days the mania for getting enormously rich seems to be\\nturning the whole world upside down.\\nThe village evidently grows in luimbers and extciil, there is a\\ngreater variety of manufactures and trades, and four times as\\nmany shops and stores. Business is more lively, and Mealth and\\ncomfort plainly increase. The place looks better than it did fifty\\nyears ago. New streets have been built up, and the old ones im-\\nproved; finer houses have been erected, and the older ones put in\\nbetter order; unkempt yards now show green lawns Avith flowers;", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "66\\nand tall trees shade the streets. The public buildings are larger\\nand better, tlie great factories look more inviting, the schools\\ngrow higher, the libraries swell in volume, and churches multiply.\\nIf society, if morals, if religion, is not better, it is more genial,\\nfree, and general, the humanities are more regarded, the charities\\nmore thought of, and with all other blessings (it is. to be hoped)\\nthere comes increase of wisdom in the sight of the Most High.\\nIf population does not expand within, emigration expands with-\\nout. New Hampshire (as Daniel Webster said in his day) is a\\ngood state to emigrate from. If the rougher hill farms go to for-\\nest seed again, the young farmers, with vigorous wing, fly over\\nthe ridges into the richer western plains; or they slip down into\\nthe lower villages to add fresh activity to the growing enter-\\nprise and ingenuity of the place or they rush abroad into the\\ngreat cities to reinforce the commerce, the intellect, the character,\\nand the genius of the whole country.\\nThe smooth I ouud hills and rolling plateaus and well watered\\nvalleys remain fresh and green as in the earlier times. If here\\nand tliere an old farm house goes to decay, new and better ones\\nare built instead the dark weather beaten dwellings that in the\\nfirst century never saw paint have nearly everywhere put on a\\nnew trim of bright colors. Sons and daughters return from the\\nwider fields and centres of wealth and prosperity to remodel and\\nembellish the old mansions of their ancestors into elegant summer\\nresidences, adding life to the local business, and giving tone the\\nhigher social culture. The varied and beautiful scenery of the\\nwhole mountain-rimmed basin aftbrds ever new attraction to the\\nstranger, and charms and delights the native resident. The Grand\\nMonadnoc, as at the first day, towers sublime into the clear blue\\nsky, as it were in sen)piternal majesty looking down, silently,\\ngraciously, upon the smiling scenes below\\nIn his own loom s garment dressed,\\nBy Ills proper bounty blessed,\\nFast abides this constant giver,\\nPouring mai)y a clieerftil river;\\nTo far eyes, an ai-rial isle\\nUnploiiglied, which finer spirits pile,\\nVViiich morn and crimson evening paint,\\nFor bard, for lover, and for saint;\\nThe people s pride, the country s core,\\nInspirer, prophet, evermore.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "67\\nPOEM\\nBy Prof. N. H. Morison, of Baltimore, Md.\\nBead by liev. J. II. Morison, D. D.\\nFull fifty years of life and toil\\nHave filled their circles free,\\nSince our good town rejoicing\\nHeld its first gTeat jubilee.\\nMidst joys and sorrows fitly borne,\\nAnd hurryings to and fro,\\nWhat changes, kind or sad, have come,\\nSince fifty years ago?\\nStill Grand Monadnock guards the west,\\nWith all its ancient pride\\nAnd fair Contoocook to the sea\\nStill rolls its joyous tide.\\nThe Pack-Monadnocks clothe the morn,\\nIn radiant beauty still\\nAnd Nubanusit s toiling wave\\nStill turns the busy mill.\\nThe fields are still as white with corn,\\nThe dancing bi ooks as bold,\\nAnd autumn s tints as Avarm and bright,\\nAs in the days of old.\\nThe bills and dales, the streams and woods,\\nThe mountain s evening glow,\\nAre all as glad and beautiful.\\nAs fifty years ago.\\nThe magic charms of nature stay,\\nBut men will come and go\\nAnd many a household fire has died.\\nSince fifty years ago.\\nThe ancient mansion still is seen\\nBeneath its sheltering tree\\nBut where the youths and maidens fair\\nThat filled these homes with glee?\\nAlas their names have vanished quite\\nTheir home another fills\\nAnd fields the fathers won with toil\\nThe heedless stranger tills.\\nGone is the mother s toiling care;\\nGone arc the sons she bore\\nAnd gou) the race from which they sprung\\nTheir place is here no more.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58\\nSome sought the city s busy mart;\\nSome trod the western wild,\\nWhere one high place in power attained.\\nThe nation s honored child\\nAnd one a princely fortune g ained,\\nBut laid his treasures down\\nIn generous gifts to learning made,\\nAnd to his native town.\\nSome sought the placer s golden hoard.\\nSome nurse the luscious vine\\nSome plant the scented orange grove\\nSome delve the teeming mine.\\nO er prairies broad and mountains bare\\nTheir homes are scattered wide,\\nFrom cold Alaska s snowy peaks\\nTo Tampa s seething tide.\\nWe watch with fond parental pride\\nThese children s g rowing powers.\\nAnd, with the honors they have won,\\nWe claim them still as ours.\\nNew faces throng- our village streets\\nNew manners too appear\\nAnd, in the council of the town,\\nNew voices now we hear.\\nAnd yet no discord mars the sound,\\nNo jealousy the view\\nFor social ties have made as one\\nOur townsmen, old and new.\\nThe old traditions are preserved\\nThe fathers still revered\\nTheir traits, stamped deep upon the tow n.\\nHave never disappeared.\\nWe see their manly energf}-\\nWe see their courage bold\\nWe see their scorn of meanness vile,\\nAs in the days of old.\\nWe see their homely eloquence\\nTheir biting- wit and fi-own,\\nTo pull i)r( tentious ignorance\\nAnd prating- folly down.\\nWe see their teasing mirthfulness.\\nThat friend nor foe will spare\\nFun that tlie eyes alone express;\\nTheir love of play that s fair.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "59\\nAll honor to the fathers then,\\nWho built this ship of state\\nAnd honor to their worthy sons,\\nWhose labors made it great.\\nAnd honor to the citizens\\nOf this, our later day,\\nWhose hands the rudder firmly grasp,\\nTo guide it on its way.\\nAnd so, when fifty years again\\nHave told their circuits round.\\nThe ship shall still be sailing on,\\nWith every timber sound.\\nIn j ^outh s fair morn, when life was new,\\nAnd patriot feeling strong,\\nI made for friends that loved and cheered\\nMy earlier festal song.\\nAnd now, when age its frosts has spread,\\nAnd fi iends have passed away,\\nI lay this wreath of grateful verse\\nUpon their tombs to-day.\\nMy task is done, but feelings strong\\nWithin my bosom swell,\\nAs, to these scenes of youth and joy,\\nI bid a last farewell.\\nFarewell, ye hills so fondly loved\\nYe waters, dai k and bright\\nFarewell, ye fields where oft I ve roved;\\nMy native town, good night.\\nBenediction by Eev. J. H. Hoffman.\\nDuring the intermission for dinner the band gave a fine concert\\nfrom the band stand in Phoenix park, rendering the following se-\\nselections:\\nMarch, On the Right. I W^altz, *Fairy.\\nOvKKTURE, ^Le Claire. Medley. Wake uj) (labriel.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60\\nAfternoon.\\nAt two o clock promptly, the vast audience which had again as-\\nsembled in the Town Hall was called to order by the President, in\\nthe following manner:\\nFellow Citizens: The formal exercises of this occasion, as ar-\\nranged by the Executive Committee, have been concluded, and\\nwhat to all of us partake of a more social greeting, are now to be\\nheld. In this afternoon gathering, I have summoned to my assist-\\nance my fellow townsman one who like myself is native of the\\nsoil, and who has known no other home than this one identified as\\na leader in the political, military and material interests which\\nmark the progress we have developed in the last fifty years who\\nhas presided in more deliberative assemblies than any citizen now\\nliving, and a long time custodian of the peace and dignity of the\\nState. I have the pleasure of introducing Col. Charles Scott.\\nMr. President I thank you for the very flattering introduction\\nyou have given me, and did I suppose you had called me here for\\nthe purpose of making a speech, I must be dull indeed did I not\\nfind suflScient in your presentation to claim my attention. It is\\ntrue that I am a native of this good old town, and have ever made\\nit my home; that I have found here among these grand old hills a\\nsuflicient field in which to exercise Avhat little of ability I possess,\\nand have been deeply interested in the welfare of this my native\\ntown, have aided in its deliberations and sought to increase its\\ngrowth and general prosperity, and to assist in maintaining the\\nhigh standard of enterprise and moral worth inaugurated by\\nthe early settlers and fathers. How far we have been successful\\nin our eflForts let those to whom we bequeath the legacy given to us,\\nanswer. It is also true, Mr. President, that ever since a boy I have\\nbeen interested in and connected with some military organization.\\nPeterborough has ever been famous for the martial and patriotic\\nspirit of her citizens. In the early history of the town, during the\\nFrench and Indian wars, from the years 1755 to 17G0, with a popu-\\nlation of only about 400 people, she gave thirty of her best men to\\ndrive back the invaders, the French, and to protect their families\\nand homes from the merciless savage. In the war of the revolu-\\ntion for independence, when the population of the town numbered\\nless than GOO souls, 145 did service for their country, many of\\nwhom served during the entire seven years of war, and among\\nwhom were my ancestors. Do you think it strange, Mr. President,\\nthat with such an ancestry as this that the native sons of old Peter-\\nborough should early manifest a patriotic spirit and love of country,\\nand pride in the place of their birth? Oh, no; recreant indeed\\nwould they be did they not manifest a willingness, a desire even,\\nto maintain at whatever sacrifice, the glorious legacy so dearly\\npurchased. In the later wars of 1812 and 1814 Peterborough took", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "61\\nno backward steps, but gave to the service of her country, twenty-\\nfive of her citizens, among them tliat famous son, Gen. James Mil-\\nler, whose military record shone resplendent, and whose reputation\\nbecame as wide as the world. I ll try sir were his words, im-\\nmortal tvords. How many a student in life, how many a business\\nman acting under the inspiration of that motto has bounded on\\nfrom one obstacle to another until he has mastered the situation\\nand gained the victory.\\nBut let us come down a little further in the history of the town.\\nWhat have we been doing in the last fifty years? If, sir, there is\\nany one thing of which I boast for Peterborough, it is her record,\\nthe part she bore in the unfortunate struggle forced upon the coun-\\ntry in 1861 by those who sought to dishonor our flag and break\\ndown the government established by our fathers. More than one-\\ntenth of our population entered the army for the Union, and did\\nvaliant service for the country they loved. Many of them never\\nreturned to enjoy the homes they had helped to save. They were\\nmy schoolmates in boyhood, my companions and associates in\\nbusiness in later years, my comrades in the field, and by me, at\\nleast, shall never be forgotten. But Mr. President, the time alloted\\nto us to be together is limited, and I must not prolong my remarks.\\nI see before me many natives and former residents of Peterbo-\\nrough whose voices we wish to hear, and to whom the time le-\\ngitimately belongs. I will now call upon the Rev. Mr. Hoff^man\\nto offer prayer.\\nPrayer by Rev. John H. Hoff man.\\nThe Chairman\\nAnd now, having partaken of the bountiful collation in the ban-\\nquet hall overhead and listened to solemn prayer, let this vast audi-\\nence all rise, and led by the choir, join in singing old Peterbo-\\nrough Praise God from whom all blessings flow.\\nAll joined in singing old Peterborough.\\nThe Chairman\\nMy heart was made glad a few days since in hearing the tones of\\nthe old Academy Bell as they came floating out upon the breeze\\nfrom its new home in our new school building, having been moved\\nfrom the tower of the old academy, where it had stood sentinel for\\nmore than half a century. I see present with us to-day one who I\\nam sure would recognize the peculiar tones of that bell wherever\\nhe might hear them one who was for more than a quarter of a\\ncentury pastor of one of our leading churches, and intimately con-\\nnected with the educational interests of the town, the Rev. George\\nDustan, who will speak to\\nThe Schools of Peterborough.\\nMr. President: My theme is School Work and its Results for\\nfifty years. Having been personally identified with my subject", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62\\nfor nearly thirty years and deeply interested iu it, I feel somewhat\\nprepared to speak upon it. I believe, also, that most of my audi-\\nence will be in full sympathy with me iu to-day s cursory review\\nof the school work of the past, since it touches every home, every\\nprofession, and every business interest here.\\nCradled in this beautiful vallev, and somewhat shut out fi^iui the\\noutside world by lofty hills, Peterborough has, nevertheless, been\\nmaking history the past five decades, A\\\\^hether the work has been\\nwell done will better appear in the future, perhaps, though some\\nresults may be seen to-day, at the close of a century and a half\\nfrom the first sound of the settler s axe on the hillsides about us,\\nand the first smoke of the settler s cabin a pledge and a promise\\nof future harvests of grain on the hillsides and of children in the\\ncabins, which pledge and promise have been fulfilled for one hun-\\ndred and fifty years.\\nI should have been untrue to my judgment and heart as one who\\nhas ever been interested in the growth and prosperity of this fair\\ntown in enterprise, morality and education, had I not responded to\\nyour invitation to be present and enjoy this feast of fat things.\\nThough not a son to the manor born, I am something better, per-\\nhaps. Most of you could not help being born here; but I am a\\nson by choice persistent choice, too, having persevered I became\\nson by marrying one of the many fair daughters of your town,\\nand father of children who call this their native place. So, with a\\nloyalty as true as steel, chastened by the tender and touching mem-\\nories of the past, I should, had I not gathered with the assembled\\ntribes here to-day, have proved recreant to the deepest feeling of\\nmy nature and the warmest sentiments of home and humanity that\\nforever live in the breast of the patriot, however sharp be the cli-\\nmate or rough the soil of the home to Avhich he has given his best\\nthoughts and matui-est energies.\\nRecognizing your own love and respect, I may say the peaks of the\\nhills around Peterborough are not truer in their pointing heaven-\\nward, and the rivers in these valleys not more certain in their\\ncourse than the flow of my feelings toward you and yours.\\nAfter listening to the interesting address of the morning, and the\\nreading of the interesting poem, especially from his lips whose\\nheart is as the heart of tenderness, and whose life interest in this\\ntown has run as a red silken strand of love through nearly a centu-\\nry of your history, and whose look is forward into the coming sto-\\nry of the years, with the same interest in all that pertains to the\\nbest good of this people of every sect, politics or name.\\nI do not aspire to rhetorical utterance, but in plain and simple\\nspeech, to tell something of the story of your labors and rewards\\nas scholars. Undoubtedly the schools here, as elsewhere have la-\\nboi-ed under the disadvantages of poor school houses and incompe-\\ntent teachers at times, but I am persuaded their success will com-", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "63\\npare favorably with scholars in other towns. We are told by the\\ntown historian that in 1837 a neat brick building was bnilt on a lot\\npresented to the town by Gen. James Wilson which was to be used\\nas an academy, and in that academy have been educated, from the\\ndays of Principal Hurd to the present time, the most promising\\nyouths of the last forty years. The teachers in that academj^ gen-\\nerally proved very capable. Some of them were possessed of more\\nthan usual scholarship and ability to impart knowledge. The\\nyouth of Peterborough have had the opportunity of securing well\\ndisciplined minds under the care of many efficient teachers, who\\nhave given instruction in the academy and high school in the past.\\nAnd whatever happens to the building or the grounds, that spot\\nwill ever live in the memory as a place sacred to friendship and to\\nscholarship. Previous to the erection of the academy building, a\\nschool house of note had been built east of the Main sti-eet bridge,\\ntwo stories high the upper part built by subscription and to be\\nused as an academy. This building proved serviceable for school\\npurposes for several years, until the school house situated on what\\nis now the railroad lot was erected made necessary by the growth\\nof the centre district. In 1871 the high school district was estab-\\nlished by vote of the town. This school was created none too soon,\\nand has answered a need and done a work for education of most\\nvital importance. Within a short time the schools in town have\\nbeen consolidated into one district, to their great advantage. Sev-\\neral school houses have been built, and a commodious and conven-\\nient school house crowns one of the hills of the village, to the joy\\nof the inhabitants and the honor of the town. This edifice will\\nprobably stand for many years till the two hundredth anniversa-\\nry of the town occurs a monument to the good judgment of the\\ncommittee of selection, and as a result of many discussions in the\\ntown hall, wise and otherwise, heated and jocose, but all subsiding\\ninto good nature.\\nIt seemed not the wisest thing for all to remain in the home nest,\\nand as the eagle pushes her eaglets from the eyrie, that they may\\ntest the strength and plume their wings for lofty flights, so some\\nof your choicest youth have been constrained to go forth to find\\nwork and win fame in other places. This town has not been float-\\ned up to the level of other towns of like population by extraneous\\nforce, as a vessel is sometimes lifted by an incoming tide that\\ntouches all keels alike, but by the force of inherent vigor, through\\nculture and mature strength of character.\\nMost prominent among those who have contributed to the suc-\\ncess of your schools the first part of the century may be mentioned\\nRevs. Cutler and Robinson, Dr. Cutter, who was superintending\\nschool committee many years; Dr. Smith, Mr. Howe, Ex-Gov.\\nSteele, the Noones, Adams, Cheneys and Morisons. But perhaps\\nno one did more for the welfare of education, as teacher and citi-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64\\nzen, than A. S. Scott, Esq., whose final effoi-ts were crowned by\\nthe creation of the high school.\\nThere is a pleasant tradition among older citizens of the snccess\\nof the Peterborough lyceum, and I have no doubt the schools de-\\nrived very much of benefit from that vigorous institution of which\\nour President of the day was a worthy member.\\nI wish also to mention as a great assistance to the educational\\nwork of the town, your valuable town library, which hasgrown under\\nthe fostering care of Messrs. Pendleton, Jackson, Hatch, Dr. Cut-\\nler, AYalbridge, Chase, and others, to such grand proportions and\\ninfluence; also promoting by large use at the fireside, the acquisi-\\ntion of a good amount of practical knowledge. Says one There\\nmay be epics in men s brains just as there are oaks in acorns, but\\nthe tree and the book must come out to measure them. The\\nearnest and successful men and women here and those who have\\ngone forth from you, had the promise of success in the schools\\nwithin the environment of this fair town.\\nThe weekly paper issued here has also been a most important\\nfactor in the work of educating the young. This paper has always\\nbeen in sympathy with the best education of the people, and has\\ncontributed very much to the acquisition of a valuable amount of\\npractical knowledge. The editors are to be congratulated on their\\nsuccess, and the inhabitants on the pleasure and information afibrd-\\ned them weekly in perusing their village paper.\\nWith increased numbers of children attending school, increased\\nfacilities for doing school Avork, increased appropriations for\\nschool support, better trained and more ctficient teachers, there\\nseems no reason why the schools of Peterborough sliould not only\\nretain their rank attained in the jjast, but also advance to more\\ncommanding usefulness and higher success. While but few of the\\nyoung people before me may be looking forward to a professional\\ncareer, yet all who shall improve their op])ortunities in the schools\\nto-day may become men and women fitted in scholarship and char-\\nacter to occupy any position of trust in the town or state.\\nMy friends, it has been a privilege and a pleasure to have been\\nassociated with you in school work here for one-fourth of a cen-\\ntury, and to have assisted in any degree in giving direction to the\\nthoughts of the young on social and moral questions of the times.\\nOf course you cannot get the same results out of all material.\\nYou may grind them both in the self-same mill,\\nYou may bind them heart and brow;\\nBut the poet will follow the rainbow still.\\nAnd the other will follow the plow.\\nAnd yet in the plan of God they shall each fulfill the purpose de-\\nsigned, and prove useful in their day and genei-ation.\\nImportant as may be the material interests of this town I do not\\ndeem them the ones most demanding attention attractive as may", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "m\\no\\nre\\no\\no\\nr\\ncd\\nG\\nr\\nD", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "65\\nbe the allurements of gain and honor, I do not deem them the\\nhighest end of pursuit. Intellectual and moral character are\\nmore necessary in citizens than fine establishments with impaired\\nvirtue. I believe j^ou are contributing to the elevation of the com-\\nmunity by cherisbing your schools and your churches in the inter-\\nest of sound learning and high virtue.\\nTo you the test of loyalty and devotion to country came wlien\\nyoung men here, some of them but just out of school and others\\njust entering upon business life, answ.ered the call for soldiers and\\nwent forth in defense of their country, for which service the\\\\- had\\nbeen in some measure prepared by the discipline of the school room.\\nIt is said that in the formation of the features of the human face\\nour climate and natural scenery give a moulding and shading to\\nthe general expression of the countenance so that every child born\\nin New Hampshire has a peculiar mark, that will show the delicate\\nbut strong impress of the touch of nature among these hills and\\nvalleys.\\nIf so, what scenery anywhere surpasses in commanding and win-\\nning beaut} that which appears mantling and gracing the vast\\nbasin of forests and farms that lies within the embrace of our hills?\\nNo scenery was ever better fitted to mould and make rugged and\\nstrong, manly character, and develope gentle and delicate lines of\\nthought and sympathy, than that which gems our valleys and\\ncrowns our mountains, as to-day, with a coronation of glory.\\nIt is ray warmest wish that you may so cultivate the brawn,\\nbrain and heart of your children, that they may be i-ecognized ev-\\nerywhere by the infallible characteristics of true men and women\\nin the honor that stamps the brow, the light of intelligence that\\ngleams from the eye, and the language of truth and purity that\\nflows from the lips as here, or in any part of our land, they shall\\ncontribute material of stable Avorth, upon which may be built the\\nsuccess of a people who are moulding the destinies of states. And\\nas we take the hand of one born here, or look into his eye. the grasp\\nof the first shall be that of a friend, and the look of the other shall\\nbespeak unfaltering trust in truth and God.\\nThe Chairman\\nI now ask your attention while I read a letter from an absent son\\nof the town, and will call upon the Hon. Thomas Moore of Adrian,\\nMichigan, a native of old Peterborough, to respond to the senti-\\nment therein contained.\\nBoston, October 21, 18 S9.\\nJoseph Farxum, Esq., and Othehs, CoMMrrrEE of IxvrrATiON.\\nGentlemen: When I first learned that Peterborough was to cele-\\nbrate its 150th anniversary, on the 24th inst., I intended to be pres-\\nent and participate in its exercises and festivities. But circum-\\nstances have transpired that will prevent my attendance on that in-\\nteresting occasion.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66\\nI rejf ret this exceedingly, as it would give me great pleasure to be\\npresent, and once more grasp the hands and look into the faces of\\nmy early friends and acquaintances.\\nI Avas born in Peterborough, and spent some of my happiest\\nyears in that good old town. The remains of my niotlier repose in\\nthe old cemetery on the hillside, near the site of tlie first meet-\\ning house.\\nTlioso liills and valleys, those sandy plains and shady woodlands,\\nthe old Contoocook and its fertile meadows, are all imprinted in\\nmy memory. Those old fashioned farm houses and the more mod-\\nern village dwellings, I shall never forget them, nor the dear\\nfriends who once inhabited them. I often recall the words of Gen.\\nJames Wilson, in his speech at your centennial celebration, just\\nfiftv years ago. Among many other interesting remarks, he said:\\nForget Peterborough! How can 1 forget her? Why, sir, I\\nwas born just over there. The bones of my ancestors, paternal\\nand maternal, are deposited just over there; and among\\nthem, there, repose the remains of my mother. Oh! sir, it would\\nbe cold and heartless ingratitude to forget the place where one s\\nbest friends slumber in death Spare me, Oh spare me such a\\nreproach.\\nI hope and trust that your plans and expectations for the celebra-\\ntion of the day will be fully realized, and that the proceedings and\\nthe various exercises will be enjoyable and satisfactory to all con-\\ncerned.\\nAllow me in closing to give you the following toast:\\nThe absent sons and daughters of Peterborough: In all their\\nwanderings and sojournings, may they never forget their mother\\nthe dear old town of Peterborough.\\nI am faithfully and truly yours,\\nJDavid Youngman, M. D.\\nResponse by Hon. Thomas Moore, of Adrian, Mich.\\nMr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Citizens of Pe-\\nterborough It gives me the greatest pleasure of my life to be\\npresent to-day, and mingle with you, and enjoy the festivities of\\nthis grand memorial day in honor of the early settlement of this\\ntown. And in behalf of the absent sons and daughters of Peter-\\nborough, whose homes are scattered far and wide in the great and\\nbusy cities of the west on its grand and fertile prairies on the\\nold Pacific s slope yes, wherever in this grand country of ours\\nthere is push and enterprise, there you will find the grand old\\nblood of Peterborough. The magnificent pageant of the morning,\\nas it passed through your streets representing your numerous in-\\ndustries, most surely tell of your prosj^erity, and that Peterborough\\nto-day is not by any means on the decline, but in fact was at lio\\nl)eriod in its history so prosperous as to-day. Be assured, my\\nfriends, those absent sons and daughters whose homes are far\\naway, could they have witnessed it and mingled with you in this\\nfestive occasion, would have most truly been proud of the success\\nof old Peterborough, the home of their childhood days.\\nThe old mountains which have so fondly encircled your pleasant\\nvalley, and stood like the grand old guardians of your homes and", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "67\\ninterests, are there to-day without one moment of relief. They\\nseem to have grown old, but they are faithful to duty yet. Your\\nhills look barren, and the old rocks even seem to have grown gray,\\nbut the old Contoocook, with its tributaries, as they haste along to\\nthe old Merrimac, have given golden opportunities for manufac-\\nturing, which has been, and is to-daj^ more than ever in the past,\\nthe grand success of old New England.\\nAs we stand here to-day and cast back in memory over the past,\\nhow great the changes. Those noble men and women, the found-\\ners of the progress we hero see on every hand are gone, but their\\ngrand w^orth, their unselfish lives, their determined purpose laid the\\nnoble foundation on which rests to-day a civilization such as the\\nworld before has never seen. We stand to-day with uncovered\\nheads beside their graves. And proud are we to be the sons and\\ndaughters of such noble parents and we can truly say blessed in-\\ndeed of God are the sons and daughters of Peterborough. We find\\nby the records of the town that while the sons of Peterborough\\nhave been active in the development of the town, they have never\\nfailed to do their duty in the welfare of their country. Although\\nreared and schooled in the arts of peace, when war with its cruel\\nwork of destruction came, Peterborough never faltered in her duty.\\nThe old French and Indian war found many a true soldier among\\nthe sons of Peterborough. And when the war of the revolution\\ncame the sons of Peterborough were found at Lexington and Con-\\ncord, at Bunker Hill, at Bennington and Saratoga. And the moth-\\ners said to their husbands and brothers, Go, and die if need be,\\nthat your county may live. Such were the characters, and of such\\nmaterial were the fathers of Peterborough made whose memory we\\nhave met to-day to honor. Well may we pause for one day in the\\nbusy work of life, and thank God while we rear a tablet to their\\nmemory. And in later years, when the great war of the rebellion\\ncame, when treason and secession turned her guns on old Sumter,\\nand tore down the dear old flag which our fathers bore through such\\nhardships and trials with unfaltering faith, its thunders were heard\\nby the sons of Peterborough, and like the minute men of the olden\\ntime the sons of Peterborough left the shop, the mill and the farm.\\nYes, and gave their lives that the dear old flag might still wave as\\nin the days of the fathers. Yes, citizens of Peterborough, as we\\nstand here to-day with uncovered heads in solemn memory of the\\npast, and rear a tablet that shall tell to generations yet to come,\\nhow the fathers and mothers laid the foundation of this grand civ-\\nilization, under God Almighty s inspiration, that to-day is the\\nwonder and admiration of the world, let us devoutly thank him\\nfor these treasures which arc above i)rice.\\nAnd now, citizens of Peterborough, and friends, in behalf of\\nthe absent ones, I sincerely thank you for your most cordial invi-\\ntation, through your committee, to attend this grand festival, and", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68\\nmay tlie riciiest of heaveu s blessings be ever yours. And let me\\nassui e you these words only expi-ess faintly the good wishes of the\\nabsent ones for your weal in all the avenues of life. And when we\\nand ou are done with earth, may we all meet in that great festal\\ntlnoiig which is beyond tlie shores of time, to spend an eternity\\nthrough Christ our great redeemer, where sorrow will never come.\\nMay God bless you all.\\nThe Chairman\\nMu. Pkesidknt: We are fortunate to-day in having with us in\\nthe person of Miss Betsey FoUansbee, the oldest living member of\\nthe choir who sang to us fifty years ago on the occasion of Peterbo-\\nrough s centennial. I will now read a letter from a younger mem-\\nber of that choir, now living in St. Helena, Cal.\\nSt. Helena, Cal., October 16, 1889.\\nGeo. H. Longley, Chairman of Choir Committee Dear Sir: I\\nread in the Transcript an invitation for all members of the choir\\nof 183 J to be present Oct. 24, 1889. I sincerely regret that it is\\nnot possible for me to be with you on that occasion. I think I am\\ncorrect in representing myself the youngest member of that choir.\\nIt would give me real pleasure to meet the remnant of that nu-\\nmerous body of fifty years ago, and join them in singing some of\\nthe old songs that were sung on that occasion. Sad must be the\\nreflection of many that may participate in your celebration, as\\nthey look over the assembly and miss the familiar faces of the silver\\nhaired Abbot, Payi**^ Smith, Steele, Moore, Miller, Ames, Scott\\nand others aye, and many of the sons of those sires, who were\\n.then in the prime of life, and in their places behold faces un-\\nknown to that time. P^ifty years hence the childi en of to-day will\\nbe the old men with silvered hair.\\nIt has been my fortune to see nuich of the beauty and grandeur\\nof scenery of both the Atlantic and Pacific slopes. I now reside in\\none of tho most beautiful valleys of California, but no view could\\nbe dearer to my sight than that of grand Monadnock, or the clear,\\nrippling waters of the Contoocook, or Nubanusit. For romantic\\nscenery, Peterborough ranks with the best of our country.\\nHoping that all who celebrate 188 J may live to celebrate 11)39, I\\nsend greetings to all who remember\\nSoPHRONiA Scott Allyn.\\nResponse by choir.\\nThe Chairman:\\nFellow Citizens: New Hampshire is honored to-day in the\\nfact that hei sons are sought for to hold positions of responsibility\\nand honor throughout the republic. Tlie great State of Massachu-\\nsetts in the politic-al contest now before her i eople, places at the\\nhead of her ticket for the ofllces of governor and lieutenant-gov-\\n(Muor the names of New Hampshire born men. Peterborough has\\ndone her full share in producing men Avho have filled honorable\\nstations in the nation. We are fortunate to-day in the presence of\\none, who, not born here in town, received most of his early train-\\ning among us, and who for many years was connected with the", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "69\\nmanufacturing- interests of the town and deeply interested in its\\ngrowtli and prosperity one whom the citizens of this, his native\\nState, thought good enough to twice elect to the office of chief\\nmagistrate. Allow me to introduce Ex-Governor P. C Cheney of\\nManchester, N. H.\\nMr. President Ladies and Gentlemen: I thank my friend,\\nthe toastmaster, for this kindly introduction, and thank you all for\\nthis cordial greeting. A few days ago, I was notified that upon\\nthis occasion I would be called upon for a five or ten minutes\\nspeech, and tliat I might select my own subject. You all know\\nthat impromptu speeches are as a rule, carefully written out and\\ncommitted to memory. The constant and pressing demand upon\\nmy time has prevented any attempt on my part to observe this cus-\\ntom, so I come before you with simple jottings, which are more\\nin the nature of personal recollections regarding the events which\\nwere so notable here fifty years ago.\\nAlthough but eleven years of age, recollections of the incidents\\nconnected with them are as fresh in my memory as if of recent oc-\\ncurrence. Too young to be of service, yet I was old enough to be\\nan interested observer of much that transpired, and large enough,\\nI doubt not, to be. at times considerably in the way but I remem-\\nber that my cup of happiness was full, and that nothing occurred\\nto mar the pleasure of the day. On the street, in front of the\\nchurch where the exercises were held, the late A. D. AVhitcomb,\\nEsq., of Hancock, the late Charles G. Cheney, my brother, and my-\\nself, witnessed the imposing procession, listened to the martial\\nstrains of music, and watched with eager eyes the steady marching\\nof the Peterborough Guards, Capt. Oliver, and the Peterborough\\nLight Infantry, Capt. Samuel R. Miller. Their uniforms were\\nattractive, and to us as boys, dazzling.\\nI remember that I took a special interest in the Peterborough\\nGuards, for it was a new company, comparatively. My uncle, the\\nlate A. P. Morrison, was one of the line officers, and I was fre-\\nquently drafted into service to do errands, and allowed to assist in\\nmaking cartridges for sham fights at the annual musters, and help\\nunbox and brush up the trappings for May trainings.\\nI remember well that the church was filled to its utmost capacitj\\nincluding a large number of the more immediate descendants of\\nthe early settlers of this goodly town of Peterborough. I remem-\\nber well the long list of names of these settlers, conspicuously ar-\\nranged on the walls of the church, that they might the more emphat-\\nically be honored by the vast audience. It was here that I first list-\\nened to the distinguished and honored gentleman who delivered the\\ncentennial address, and, Mr. President, I still have in mind the im-\\npression made upon me by the orator, and I trust you will pardon\\nme for saying in this presence, that his fifty years of a conspicuous-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70\\nly christian life since then, has only been in confirmation of my boy-\\nhood remembrance.\\nThis highest type of manhood and moral excellence, which has\\nbeen so helpfnl to all who have come within its inflnence, affords a\\nstriking illustration of the divine attributes in man, mingling with\\nhis fellow men, leading them onward and upward.\\nI also recall to mind the speech of Capt. Oliver, speaking for\\nthe citizen soldiery. I suppose that what marked this particularly\\nupon my mind, was my great interest in the company.\\nA sentence of this speech relative to the future of our country\\nseems almost prophetic, and is worthy of being reproduced here.\\nHe says: Our country is destined to grow on to till the valley of\\nthe Mississippi, to spread itself along the Ked River, the Arkansas,\\nthe Missouri; climb the Rocky Mountains, descend upon the Col-\\numbia and overspread the shores of the Pacific Ocean, with a hun-\\ndred millions of human beings, as free and independent as our-\\nselves. Since these words were uttered, our country, through the\\nprecious blood of her citizen soldiery, has laid aside her shackles and\\nbecome free in reality.\\nHer population has increased from seventeen to sixty-five mil-\\nlions of people, and upon the Pacific slope she has a single city with\\n300,000 inhabitants. She has been put to a crucial test, such as no\\nother government on the face of the earth has ever been subjected\\nto, and emerged from it in all the glory and pride of a great re-\\npublic, wMiich had for its foundation-stone equal rights for all.\\nOther speeches, too, I remember, notably those of Dr. Smith,\\nCaptain Scott, and Gen. Wilson, names that will, to the latest gen-\\neration, be esteemed, beloved and honored. It is indeed fitting\\nthat a tribute of respect should at this time be paid to the memory\\nof all the men who reflected so much credit on the town at the close\\nof the first century of its settlement. If the young men and boys\\nwho are present to-day, and who are to be the future custodians\\nof the town s good name and honor, and who, with others, are\\nto conduct the exercises of the two hundredth anniversary, will see\\nto it that in their intellectual attainments and moral worth they are\\nequally meritorious as were those of the first, you may be assured that\\nyou will leave to the. succeeding generations the historical records\\nof the town, as having reflected credit and distinction upon the de-\\nscendants and successors of the town s earlier settlers.\\nMr. President, referring move particularly to our own connec-\\ntion with the events which have become a matter of record within\\nthe last fifty years, I can but recall them Avith a feeling of sadness,\\nfor within that time, of the many who were here then, but few are\\nleft; wise as we believe the rulings of Providence, yet the hours\\nof excessive sorrow, which have come to those who still remain,\\nhave made the burdens and trials of life seem at times almost over-\\npowering, but their enduring faith, their exalted hope, and implic-", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "71\\nit trust that finally all would be overruled for good, has carried\\nthem safely along, with the hope that the few years left to iheiii\\nhere may be the more fitting for the life beyond.\\nThe treasured dead we have in our memory, and we are not un-\\nmindful of how important and helpful was their life work, while\\nhere. To them may much be ascribed, through which the town\\nhas been \u00c2\u00abo notably honored and given such prominence among her\\nsister towns. No people were ever more keenly alive to a sense of\\nhonor, more loyal to their government, or more liberal and chari-\\ntable in their dealings with their fellow men than the citizens of\\nPeterborough. Their aim and purpose have been progressive in\\nadvancing the pnblic interest in sustaining the nation s honor nor\\nhave they been forgetful of their own honor in not caring for their\\nheroic dead. The artistic and simple shaft which you have erected\\nby the shore of your beautiful river, marks well your affection, as\\nwell as your purpose, to ever hold them in tender recollection.\\nThe present indebtedness of the town may also well be cited in\\nthis connection, for it is composed largely of your war tax to save\\nyour government, and your contributions to ensure first-class rail-\\nroad facilities to your business men.\\nThe interest in your public library, your public schools, your\\nchurches, and all that goes to mark the character of the people as\\nprogressive, is everywhei-e observant, and as citizens you may well\\nbe proud of the commanding position of your town. Those of us\\nwho were long so closely associated with you, but called to other\\nfields, have not forgotten their old time friends, nor allowed their\\nlove and affection to become extinct by the more imperative de-\\nmands made upon them in a more extended sphere of action.\\nWith you they have a common feeling of pride in all that redounds\\nto the glory and fame of the town. Speaking for myself person-\\nally, I may say that the thirty-two years, during which this was\\nmy home, and which included my boyhood days, my youth, and\\nmy early manhood, receiving as I did from her people their un-\\nbounded confidence and friendship, I have ever been loath to sever\\nmy connection entirely with you.\\nI have found pleasure in retaining my membership with your lodg-\\nes, and declining to sell my pew in the church where I was wont\\nto worship. This last reference calls to mind many incidents well\\nknown to many of you, and some of them were of a mirthful\\nclass, but which I suppose are well nigh forgotten. Want of time\\nwill not allow them to be introduced here to any extent, but there\\nis one so brief, so apt and withal so characteristeric, that I will\\nventure to repeat it.\\nThe time and place was the Unitarian church under the pastor-\\nship of the scholarly Rev. Dr. Robinson. The janitor or sexton of\\nthe church was our old friend, Mr. Joseph Cram. A furious,\\nblinding, long continued snow storm, had culminated upon a Sab-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "72\\nbath morning, and the roads and streets were impassible. The\\nsexton shoveled his way to the church, lighted his fires, and rang\\nthe first bell. No one appeared in i-esponse, yet at the given time\\nhe tolled the bell for the commencement of the service. Just as\\nhe had finished the minister appeared, nearly exhausted by his ef-\\nforts to get there. He eagerly inquired if there were many people\\nthere. Not anybody, replied the sexton, but you and I, and\\nwe would not be here if we were not paid for it. The minister\\nwas no longer serious, but found his way back home with his ser-\\nmon, and so greatly amused as to relate the witty and sly retort to\\nhis many friends.\\nBut, Mr. President, I have used up my allotted time, and I will\\nclose with my thanks for your attention.\\nThe Chairman\\nMr. President: Recognizing the prominence of the name of\\nSmith as connected with the \\\\rdst history of Peterborough, 1 ad-\\ndressed a note to the Hon. Jeremiah Smith of Dover, N. H., a dis-\\ntinguished representative of that honored name, inviting him to be\\npresent to-day and favor you with a short address. We are hon-\\nored by his presence, but his health will not permit him to address\\nyou. I will therefore call upon Jonathan Smith, Esq., of Clinton,\\nMass., who will speak to the sentiment,\\nThe Smiths of Peterborough.\\nMr. President and Fellow Citizens of Peterborough: I\\nmust ask your indulgence in declining to make any extended allu-\\nsion to the family to which I belong. The presence here this af-\\nternoon of its most distinguished living representative, whose\\nhealth and modesty (a prominent trait, by the way, of all the sons\\nand daughters of Peterborough), prevent his describing to you their\\ncharacters, and the prominent parts they had in the early history\\nof the town, renders the task a more appropriate one for him than\\nmyself. But the kindly introduction of your chairman calls to\\nmind one feature of the history of Peterborough which deserves a\\nstronger emphasis in these exercises than it has yet received, illus-\\ntrating as it does the character of the early settlers and their de-\\nscendants, and the kind of men they were and we know are still.\\nTo the student of our local history no chapter is more interesting\\nor suggestive than that which relates to our military annals. It\\nopens within six years from the first permanent settlement of the\\ntown, and closes at a period within the memory of nearly all pres-\\nent. It is interesting in view of the number of soldiers the town has\\nfurnished for the difTerent wars, the hardships they endured and the\\nsacrifices they freely made for the difTerent causes they defended.\\nIt is also suggestive of many thoughts in light of the fact that every\\nwar in which the town has taken an active part was waged for the", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "73\\ndefense or preservation of religious freedom and the institutions\\nof civil liberty. The war with Mexico, a causeless quarrel with a\\nweak neighbor, struck no sympathetic cord in the hearts of her\\npeople. It is not known that a single citizen of the town served in\\nthe armies of Generals Scott or Taylor. The contest with Great\\nBritain in 1812 did not draw a single man, with one exception,\\ninto active service. Twenty-three, when a draft was inin)inent,\\nvolunteered for the defense of Portsmouth to protect that\\nplace from foreign invasion, but not a man was injured and not\\none marched bej ond the borders of the State. The early settlers\\nof the town, any more than their descendants in 1861, were no\\nlovers of strife. Military achievements and glory had no attrac-\\ntions for them. They had fled from wars and persecutions in the\\nold country to seek peace and quiet, under liberty, upon these\\nwestern shores. For their conscience sake, and to enjoy the bless-\\nings of freedom in their own way, they came here to clear the for-\\nests and build their homes, and for these they braved the rig-\\nors of a severe climate, and bore all the privations incident to a\\nfrontier life in an almost unbroken wilderness. Peaceful men,\\nloving peaceful pursuits, they were yet men of the truest courage.\\nTheirs was not a mere physical courage, born of a strong baud and\\nclear head; it was rather a sacred courage, born of a strong hand\\nand a vigorous understanding united to a humble, tender and\\nloving heart. A good believing, strong minded man for a new\\nsettler, John Brown once said, is worth a thousand men without\\ncharacter. It is a faithful description of the founders of Peter-\\nborough. It was their consistent, upright characters, joined to\\ntheir fearless lives, which early gave right direction to the town,\\nand which stamped their impress upon the people for all time.\\nThe infant colony was fortunate in this, that it was never the\\nvictim of an Indian massacre. Yet the savage foe was all about\\nit, and for years the settlers literally slept upon their arms in\\nhourly fear of attack. It was the irony of fate that they came so\\nfar and braved so much for the sake of peace and quiet, that they\\nshould find themselves in their new homes in the midst of dangers\\ngreater and more dreaded than any they had left behind. If it\\nkept alive in their minds a familiarity with the scenes and suffer-\\nings of war, it also intensified their loyalty to those great princi-\\nples of civil and religious liberty which they came here to plant\\nand to enjoy.\\nIn the war of 1755, a contest between the civilization of France\\nand the civilization of England for supremacy on this continent,\\nthey recognized the issue and cheerfully did their full part. The\\nsettlement was hardly six years old, yet at the close of that bloody\\nstruggle in 1759, though the whole male population between 10 and\\nand 60 years, able bodied and otherwise, was barely eighty per-\\nsons, the town had furnished thirty-six men for the army, of whom", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74\\nf(Hirto(Mi had been killed or died in camp. Probably more than\\none-half of those fit for military duty and of military age had\\nentered the service, and 25 per cent, had perished. Only those\\nhere to-day familiar with wai- and all it means can imagine the\\nprivations those soldiers endured in their long marches through\\nunbroken forests; with rations poor, meagre and uncertain of sui\\nply in hourly peril of the deadly ambush by cruel and wily foes:\\nwith no agent of the sanitary commission or ministering angel of\\nthe Red Cross at their elbows to catch them as they fell by hostile\\nbullet or deadly disease, bear them tenderly away to comfortable\\nand well furnished hospitals, minister to their wants and soothe\\ntheir sufferings. But well knowing all this they did not shrink;\\nthe hardships and the perils of that war neither abated their pat-\\nriotism nor cooled their ardor for the colonial cause. The town\\nfurnished its full quota of men and had its representatives in every\\ncampaign from 1755 to the fall of Quebec in 1759. When, sixteen\\nyears later, the war with the mother country came, appealing as it\\ndid to their strong love for these homes which they had planted\\nhere at the expense of so much sorrow and toil, and to their broad-\\ner and more comx^rehensive ideas of local self government, taxa-\\ntion by consent only, and freedom from irresponsible kingly au-\\nthority, they entered zealously into it. It was hardly light (ui the\\nmorning of April 19th, 1775, when a tired horseman aroused Capt.\\nRobert A\\\\^ilson at his residence on the Street Road, a few rods up\\nthe hill south of the Wilson corner, with the news that the British\\ntroops were leaving Boston on an expedition into the country.\\nBefore noon of that day, says the old chronicle, every able\\nbodied man in town was on the march to the relief of their breth-\\nren at Concord and Lexing-ton. Seventeen soldiers of the town\\nfought at Bunker Hill, of whom four were wounded. Twenty-\\nfive took part in the campaign against Burgoyne, and from first to\\nlast one hundred and forty-five diflerent men served in the army\\none out of every five of the whole population.\\nNearly every able bodied man of military age must in course of\\nthe war, have entered the service. Nothing suggests to the mind\\nso vividly the severity of that conflict, the terrible drain it was\\nupon the resources of the town, or the stern, unflinching devotion\\nof the fathers to the ideas and principles which underlay the revo-\\nlutionary war, as this one fact. We must remember, too, that ag-\\nriculture was the only industry; that there was no money for\\ntaxes; that the currency was fluctuating and often worthless;\\nthat in addition to the constant drain of men the town had to fur-\\nnish its quota of beef and other supplies for the army in the field;\\nthe people were poor, had nothing but their land, barely cleai-ed\\nof trees, rocky and sterile, from which to support themselves and\\nfill their contributions for the public service. Only a brave, con-\\nscientious and determined peoj)le, fighting for a righteous cause^", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "75\\ncan for eight long weary years carry on such war and bear its bur-\\ndens. And we may well suppose that when the victory was finally\\nwon and they had gained all for which they had contended, they\\ncounted it all as joy that they had dared and sacrificed so much,\\nand that the principles for which they had contended were more\\nlovingly cherished for the price they had paid for them.\\nOnly one other military event, since the revolution, has touched\\nthe town in a manner to test the patriotism of its people and try\\ntheir patience and courage. I need not name it it is fresh in the\\nminds of all. In 1861 not one of the revolutionary soldiers or cit-\\nizens was living. A few of the veterans of 1812 remained, objects\\nof peculiar veneration and respect to the young men of twenty-\\neight years ago. The town knew nothing of war or of the hard-\\nships and sufferings that come with it. The people were absorbed\\nin business, taking deep interest in the questions out of which the\\nrebellion finally grew, but no more anticipating an armed conflict\\nwith the South than we are to-day. The great awakening of i^at-\\nriotism which the sound of the first hostile cannon produced will\\nnever be forgotten by those who witnessed it. In the space of four\\nyears the town sent 10 per cent, of its entire population into the\\narmy, and more than 40 per cent, of its able bodied men of mili-\\ntary age.\\nThe character of that gigantic struggle, the terrible sacrifices of\\ntreasure and blood, which for four long vcars the town, like the\\nold priest of Israel, poured upon the country s altar, need no far-\\nther rehearsal here to-day. After twenty-five years of peace and\\nunexampled prosperity, its effects are still seen in the scores of\\nfeeble and battle scarred forms which daily walk your streets\\nyou read them in the records of forty-five of the bravest and best\\nof your sons and daughters whose names are written on yonder\\nmonument the greatness of your sacrifice comes back to you upon\\nevery returning Memorial Day, when the Grand Army decks with\\nthe flowers of spring the graves of more than fifty of their com-\\nrades, who, since the war have been mustered out of all earthly\\nservice. Surely in the presence of all these memorials we may\\nwell claim that the spirit of the fathers descended upon their\\nchildren of 1861. As we recall their names and deeds, whether\\nthey fell in the deadly ambush on the shores of Lake George in\\n17o8, or perished in resistance to northern invasion at Saratoga in\\n1777, or died on the heights of Gettysburg, or wore their lives\\naway in the prison pens of Salisbury and Andersonville\\nOur souls grow fine\\nWith keen vibrations from the touch Divine\\nOf noble natures gone.\\nWe are proud of their self devotion, their unflinching courage,\\nand their loyalty to the truth. Such heroism and such memories\\nare the richest heritage wliich can descend to any people in any", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76.\\nag-e, and we may well be grateful that our dear old town has such\\na priceless legacy of patriotism and self denial committed to her\\nkeeping. May we, her sons and daughters, assembled here to re-\\nnew our vows of love and fealty to the place of our birth, make\\nfresh resolve that the love of country, and that steadfast loyalty to\\nthe principles of right and justice which the fatliers so nobly ex-\\nemplified and their children in 61 so bravely maintained, shall de-\\nscend to our children and to our children s children to the remotest\\ngeneration.\\nThe Chairman:\\nI will now call upon the Eev. W. H. Walbridge to respond to\\nthe sentiment,\\nThe Religious Interests of Peterborough.\\nMr. President If the religious interests of Peterborough are\\nto be represented on this interesting occasion, it is fitting, perhaps,\\nthat the oldest settled pastor, and pastor of the oldest church in\\nthis town should speak for the churches.\\nOthers have spoken of the industrial progi ess of the town dur-\\ning the last half century, of the improved methods of agriculture\\nand manufacture, of the new and better educational facilities\\nwhich the town affords as compared with those of fifty years ago.\\nWe have witnessed a long and imposing procession, civic, military,\\nindustrial, representing the social, mechanical and commercial life\\nof the people. Show to one Avho is accustomed to reckon only the\\nmarket value of everthing, who measures all human activities by\\ncommercial standards, I confess that the work of the churches may\\nappear very insignificant in the pi csence of this grand display of\\nmaterial things, and these evidences of gi-owth andprogi-ess. And\\nthe minister may be pardoned if he pauses for the moment to ask,\\nOf what use am I? What part or lot has the church in this msig-\\nnificent display which speaks of the industry, skill, thrift and in-\\ntelligence of tlie people of this town?\\nThe common opinion respecting all human avocations and activ-\\nities takes a utilitarian form. Almost the only mention which\\npeople are wont to ask concerning any proposed measure or pro-\\nject is, will it pay? or what is it worth? will it provide\\nbread or shoes, wine or furniture? The plane of thought and\\nsolicitude is a material one. We want to see all human energies\\nof hand, brain and heart directed toward the creation of things\\nand an increase of the material resources of our country. We are\\nprone in our day to count nothing of value which cannot be con-\\nverted into money or its equivalent. The glory of scientific dis-\\ncovery and nKH^lianical inventions is often seen only in the relation\\nof tliese to the pocket and the larder. If a knowledge of chemis-\\ntry and electricity and the laws of the universe will enable man to\\nweave cloth out of grass and wood and so clothe himself in gar-", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "77\\nments cheap and fine, or send his message from Boston to London\\nin the fraction of a minute, science is a splendid thing, for it is\\nthe servant of man and serves his material interests. Men are not\\nslow to detect the outward value of industry and iuventions, and\\na knoweldge of mechanics. But how many minds perceive the\\neducational value of these things? How many apprehend in\\nthe slightest degree that all these human activities have a higher\\nend and are capable of ministering to higher uses, in the education\\nof the spirit, the culture and development of those faculties where-\\nby we perceive the wisdom and glory of God manifested in all and\\nthrough all.\\nThe progress of the human race in the past fifty years has been\\ngreat. No age has ever witnessed such grand achievements in the\\ndomain of physical things as our own. The power whicli man\\nhas acquired over the forces of nature is indeed marvellous. And\\nthese discoveries and inventions have contributed in a large meas-\\nure towards an increase of wealth and a multiplication of those\\nthings which minister to the physical comfort and material pros-\\nperity of man. I trust that you will not understand me as depre-\\nciating these evidences of material growth and prosperity. I\\nwould not utter a single word to detract from the value of the\\ngrand achievements of this age and generation, or withhold my\\npoor tribute of admiration and praise for those who have done so\\nmuch to improve the physical condition and advance the material\\ninterests of man. With you I rejoice in what our eyes behold this\\nday. With you I glory in the industrial progress of a century and\\na half since this town was incorporated whose close we celebrate\\nto-day.\\nBut in the name of the church I would urge my plea for that\\nwhich I conceive to be higher, better, holier, for that which is\\nmore essential to the largest, fullest, divinest life of the individu-\\nal and the race, and without which no life can attain to the highest\\nand noblest development of all its powers.\\nIt seems to me that there is great danger that we may come to\\nlook upon these achievements of modern thought and inventive\\ngenius the telegraph and the telephone, and all the numerous\\ncontrivances of mechanical ingenviity and skill as the only, or the\\nchief props of our civilization, and so to consider that man has\\nattained his full stature, his greatest power, when he has subdued\\nthe material world, conquered the forces of nature, and made\\nthem his tributaries to minister to his physical needs and pour\\ngold into his cotfers.\\nI would remind you that a nation s strength does not reside in\\nits material riches, in its armies and navies, not in the application\\nof steam and electricity to mechanical uses. It is something far\\nmore subtile and powerful and permanent than these things which\\nmake a nation strong and insures it against decay. These things", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "ought ye to have done and not to have left the other undone. An\\nexckisive devotion to material interests may tend toward the\\ndecay and not the upbuilding of national and individual life.\\nHistory bears witness that some of tlie mightiest civilizations of\\nthe past have perished, not from a lack of material resources they\\nliad bread enough and to spare. Gold and silver (hey had in\\nabundance. They died of spiritual starvation; because it is writ-\\nten that man shall not live by bread alone, and his life con-\\nsisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.\\nThe apostles of science and art, of learning and religion, the\\ngreat poets and philosophers and statesmen of the past, whose\\nnames have become household words were men into whose souls\\nshone the light of a diviner truth, a nobler ideal than is found in\\nthe pursuit of wealth as the end of life. The ideal which went be-\\nfore them as a i)illar of fire and cloud was nothing that the eye\\ncould see or the hand grasp. It was the ti ue, the beautiful, the\\ngood. This is the highest, divinest philosophy of life. It is un-\\nder the inspiration of such a spirit that beauty, chivalry, love, and\\nall the sublimest virtues flourish and increase.\\nAnd this is the function of the church to keep before men the\\nhigher ideal of life to charm the soul upward to woo and win\\nman from the worship of Mammon to the love of rightousness,\\nfrom the gratification of sensual appetites and desires to the life\\nof tlie spirit, to remind him that he is not wholly of the earth\\nearthy, but a living soul, a child of God, and heir to incorrupti-\\nble riches, and if mankind ever rises above the animal and gains\\na complete victory over the baser passions and propensities of his\\nnature; if he is to become something more than a calculating ma-\\nchine or a mere pleasure seeker if the moral and spiritual senti-\\nments are to be enthroned over tlie merely animal desires, it will\\nbe largely due to the power and influence of the Christian church.\\nIt is not the business of the church to create things but to train\\nmen, to form character. Theodore Parker said that the highest\\nfunction of a nation is to bring forth and bring up noble men and\\nwomen. The fairest fruit which the people of any town can\\nshow is not the product of its farms and forges, its looms and\\nworkshops, but the high characters, intellectual, moral and relig-\\nious, of its men and women. And this must always be the true\\ntest of progress, viz. What sort of men and women are bred and\\nreared? If they be lacking in those qualities which alone can give\\nworth and dignity and glory to manhood and womanhood it is in\\nvain to boast of the crops Ave raise, the shoes we make, the cloth\\nwe weave. If our modern civilization bears not a higlier and bet-\\nter type of men and women than was born and bred in the past,\\nthen we may well consider whether we have made progress in what\\nis most vital to the strength and integrity of the commonwealth.\\nToward this supreme end and aim of life it Avill be found, I think,", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "79\\nthat the church has contributed not a little. And so we may justly\\nfeel that in everything that has contributed to the growth and\\nprosperity of our town in what is essential and of permanent\\nvalue, the churches have not been found wanting-. They have\\ndone their part, and will so continue in the future to labor for\\nwhat is highest and best.\\nThe Chairman:\\nI have here a letter from a native of Peterborough, Prof. N. H.\\nMorison, of Baltimore, Md., the author of the flue poem to which\\nyou liave this day listened, and whose annual return to his sum-\\nmer home among us we so much welcome, which 1 will now read\\n20 W. Madison St., Baltimore, Md., Oct. 20, 1889.\\nF. G. Clarke, Esq., Chairman. Dear Sir: I find, as I antic-\\nipated, that neither my occupations nor my health will permit me\\nto make a journey to Peterborongh for the celebration. I regret\\nthis the more, as it is probably the last important occasion at which\\nI shall be able to take a part in the town s proceedings. The fam-\\nily will be well represented by mj brother who will read my\\nsmall contribution to the occasion a contribution which has\\nawakened in me a stronger and a sadder feeling than is my wont,\\nas the past came vividly before me in the composition.\\nMy youth in Peterborough was a happy one, my friends numer-\\nous and ardent, and the recollections of my early life are still most\\nagreeable, but sad from the entire loss of those I best knew and\\nmost loved. In matnre life we were scattered broad-cast over the\\nland and most of my friends have finished their work and de-\\nparted. We a little longer wait, but it cannot be long.\\nI trust that the town will maintain its old reputation for enter-\\nprise and honesty, and that those characteristics which have given\\nit a peculiar fame among its neighbors may never depart.\\nI am, my dear sir, yours very truly,\\nN. H. Morison.\\nThe Chairman announced that he had received interesting letters\\nfi om absent sons and daughters, and the following embrace the\\nsame:\\nMedina, Mich., Oct. 17, 1889.\\nGentlemen :^Your card of Oct. 7, inviting me to be present\\nat the loOth anniversary of the settlement of my native town of\\nPeterborough is received. I can assure you, gentlemen, that it\\nwould give me great pleasure to be present with you on the 24th\\nof the present month and participate in the exercises and festivi-\\nties of the occasion, and take by the hand old friends, some of\\nwhom I have not met for more than fifty years, and may never\\nmeet again, but circumstances beyond my control render it impos-\\nsible. It is pleasant, after a residence of fifty-three years in the\\nwest, to be remembered by the inhabitants of my native town.\\nEighteen years of my early life were passed on the old Moore\\nhomestead, and five years in the machine shops of Peterborough,\\nbut in all my wanderings I have never had any wish to deny the\\nfact that I was born among the granite hills of New Hampshire,\\nor that I was a Peterborough boy. Your early inhabitants were\\nnoted for their push and enterprise. The first water loom and the", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "80\\nfirst cloth manufactured in New Hampsliire upon a water loom\\nwas manufactured at the old Bell Factory in Peterboroujih. I look\\nwith aduiiration on the old men of Peterboroug:h of seventy years\\nago. There was something- in the bean porridge and brown bread\\nmanufactured by the ])ioneer mothers of Peterborough that brought\\ntheir sons and their daug^hters to the front. I take no small pride\\nin reviewing the military history of the descendants of the pioneer\\nfathers and mothers of Peterboroug-h. The battle of Brownstown\\nmade the name of Gen. James Miller a household name among\\nthe native French of Michigan when I came here in 18;U. Every\\nschool boy in America is aware of the fact that Abraham Lincoln\\nwas in the Blackhawk war, but few even in Peterborough may be\\naware of the fact that Cyrus Felt, a Peterborough bov, carried a\\nmusket and served in the same regiment and in the same campaign\\nwith Abraham Lincoln. In the late war they were among the first\\nand the last to put down the Rebellion. They were in the first\\nMichigan infantry that made the first advance into Virginia, on\\nthe 24th of May, 1861, and they were present at the surrender of\\nGen. Lee and the capture of Jelf Davis. They served on every\\nbattle field with the army of the Potomac. They were with Grant\\nat Fort Donelson, at Pittsburg Landing and at Vicksburg; with\\nThomas at Nashville; with Rosecrans at Stone river, and they\\nfought with Hooker among the clouds at Lookout mountain, and\\nthey went with Shei mau in his march to the Sea.\\nThis anniversary brings to my mind many pleasing recollections\\nof my childhood and youth. 1 can never forget my native town.\\nMy ancestors for three generations are buried there.\\nVerj^ respectfully yours,\\nGeorge W. Mooke.\\nNo. 1449 Mass. Ave., Washington, D. C, 17 Oct., 1889.\\nGentlemen: Your kind invitation to the celebration of the 24th\\ninstant, at Peterborough, is received, and I must thank you for it,\\nthough unable to be present.\\nI have no doubt that the exceptional high standing of your town\\namong those of the State, is most due to the hardy Scotch-Ii ish\\nstock from Londonderry, which formed the bulk of its original\\nsettlers a stock iv/iose h/ood, in the words of a modern most em-\\ninent statesman, ^has enriched (til who have had the t/ood fortune\\nto inherit it. After quoting this high euloi/iiini, I trust it may\\nsavor of pride alone and not of vanity, if I add that I find in my\\nown pedigree that particular one of those male pioneers who lived,\\nT think, to the most extreme old age the first John Morrison.\\nAmong your natives, too, was my wife s grandfather. General\\nJames Miller, U. S. A., of the same Scotch origin, whose charac-\\nter as drawn by Hawthorne in his celebrated preface to T/ e\\nScarlet Jjetter, and as exemplified in his life is yet further evi-\\ndence of the sterling quality of those Londonderry settk^rs.\\nI was much struck by the sup(!rb ajjpearance of a ])rocession of\\nScotchmen whom I saw pass down School street in Boston on the\\n29th of August last, and I am quite of the belief tliat no more dis-\\ntinguished tyi)e of manly beauty can be found in Europe or Amer-\\nica, than among the Scotch and their descendants.\\n1 often had occasion to consult your excellent History of Pe-\\nterborough when preparing the oration which I jjronounced at\\nthe centennial celebration of your neighbor town of Tenqjle, and\\nin writing the history of my native place. Its genealogies were", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "81\\nquite full, I remember; but if any omissions occurred, you will\\nnow have an opportunity to supply them in the continued chroni-\\ncle, which your new celebration will make necessary.\\nI have the honor to remain, gentlemen,\\nYour obedient servant,\\nHenry Ames Blood.\\nDover N. IL, October lo, 188!\\nDear Col. Scott: Your very kind invitation to attend the Pe-\\nterborough Anniversary has been duly received but I doubt\\nwhether it Avill be convenient for me to be present. If I do at-\\ntend, I must ask to be excused from speech making. The old\\nhomestead will be creditably represented in that line by my cousin\\nJonathan. Yours truly,\\nJeremiah Smith.\\nBeloit, Wisconsin, October lo, 1889.\\nJoseph Farnum, c. Gentlemen I have to thank your com-\\nmittee for your invitation to meet the citizens of Peterborough,\\nN. H., on the 24th inst., when they propose to celebrate the 150th\\nanniversary of the incorporation of their town. I regret that I am\\n\u00c2\u00ab;ompelled to forego the pleasure of meeting with you.\\nOn February 21st, 183!\u00c2\u00bb, now more than fifty years ago, I turned\\niny face towards the west. I have a very clear recollection of\\nwhat Peterborough and her people were then, and I should like\\nvery much to see what they are now, and how they conduct their\\npublic meetings.\\nWhen I was a boy, among other of the leading men in the town\\nmeetings were John H. Steele, Stephen P. Steele and his uncle\\nJohn Steele, and Wm. Scott. Now they are all sleeping with the\\ngreat majority. Fifty years is a very long bridge, and on the\\ncard which I received there are but three familiar names.\\nHon. Nathaniel Holmes was a young man Mhen I was a boy\\nJohn AVilder and I were boys together, attending the old No. 1\\nschool; A. A. Farnsworth, if I am not mistaken, used to attend\\nthe Presbyterian church, as I myself did in those days. The cler-\\ngyman was the Rev. Mr. Holt, and he Avas succeeded by the Rev.\\nMr. Pine. Fifty years ago we had no railroad, except one from\\nBoston to Lowell. There were no railroads in New Hampshire.\\nWe had no daily papers, no telegraph and no telephone, and the cler-\\ngymen were not prcacliing against the sin of reading the Sunday\\nnewsi)ai)ers. In those days we liad two long sermons every Sunday.\\nI think the)^ were very sound, but the boys thought them a little\\ntedious. So far as I ever heard there was no difference if opinion\\namong the boys on that subject. In those days we had no advanced\\nritual, there was no difference between the high and low church as\\nnow. There was nothing in the service to appeal to the imagina-\\ntion or the eye. The result was, that to the young, it seemed a\\nlittle dry. 1 presume it is different now.\\nI still indulge in the ho])e that sometime I shall seePeterborougli\\nagain, but it is impossible for me to be with you on tiie 21th inst.\\nYours very sincerely,\\nS. J. Toi i).", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82\\nNashua, October 22, 1889.\\nGf.xtlkmkn: I regret that unavoidable enyajrements will pre-\\nvent niv acceptance of your invitation to attend the celebration of\\nthe l;J(ith anniver.sary of the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2settlement of the town of Peterbo-\\nrough.\\nThe pa\u00c2\u00abt liistory of Peterborough will compare favorably with\\nthat of any other town in the State. The town has been a nursery\\nof men aiid women who have gone forth, not only into other\\ntowns in New Hampshire, but into other states, to build up and\\nimprove the liomes of their adoption. She has sent forth, too, a\\nlarge number who have made their mark on the tield of battle,\\nas statesmen, in the learned professions, and in the varied walks\\nof life. She did her part in furnishing soldiers in the war of the\\nrevolution, in tlie war of 1812, and in the late war between the\\nStates. With other soldiers from the town, Capt. William Scott\\nwas severely wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, was taken to\\nHalifax as prisoner of war, but escaped after a few months con-\\nfinement, and was subsequently commander of a company in Col.\\nJackson s regiment in Massachusetts. At Lundy s Lane. Col. Mil-\\nler, on being ordered to storm a British battery, replied, I ll try,\\nsir, and not only captured and held the position, but with it seven\\npieces of elegant brass cannon, and was thereupon immediately\\npromoted to the rank of General. She has contributed three gov-\\nernors to this State and one to tlie Territory of Arkansas. She has\\nfurnished seven members of congress, three judges of State su-\\npreme courts one of whom was chief justice, and sevei-al pro-\\nfessors of colleges, as well as a number of accomplished teacliers\\nof the public scliools of the country.\\nSince the centennial celebration of the settlement of the town in\\n1839, Peterborough has made noteworthy progress in material and\\nindustrial prosperity; may those now living and celebrating this,\\nher 150th anniversary, and who shall survive to celebrate her bi-\\ncentenary, in 1939, witness still more remarkable progress and\\nprosperity, in the comparison of the two epochs.\\nYours very truly,\\nB. B. AVhittemore.\\nHaverhill, Mass., October 21, 1889.\\nMr. Andrew A. Farnsworth, Cojimittee of Invitation. Dear\\nSir:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Your earnest and most cordial invitation to be present and\\nparticipate in the exercises and festivities connected with the cele-\\nbration of the loOth anniversary of the incorporation of the town\\nof Peterborough is received.\\nI distinctly remember as a mere lad of sitting in the east gallery\\nof the Unitarian church on the occasion of the 100th anniversary,\\nfifty vears ago, and listening to the oration which told of the vir-\\ntues and achievements of the early settlers of the town. Although\\nI do not remember of seeing a report of the exercises from that\\ndav to this, I recall one toast that was given on that occasion by\\nCapt. Samuel C. Oliver, partly i)erha]is from its nature and partly,\\nit may be, from the fact of the author s residence being in the\\nsame section of the town of my own. It was this: It s no more\\nthan fair thai the fair partake of our fare.\\nWhen niv mind reverts to old unique and historic Peterborough,\\nthe i)lace of my nativitv and home of my youth, around Avhich\\nclusters so many precious memories of early days, and whose\\nsoil holds the precious dust of my ancestry, I am reminded of the", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "83\\nwords of the psalmist, If I forget thee, O, Jerusalem, let my\\nright hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my\\ntongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem\\nabove my chief joy.\\nThere is one link of association that seems to bind the beautiful\\ncity of my adoption to that of my old home. As I sit in my (jffice\\nmy eyes rest on a majestic river, gliding along towards the ocean.\\nThe little stream that furnishes power for most of your industries\\nunites its w^aters near the Capitol of your State with the bi-oader\\nMei-rimack, and as these waters flow along past the manufacturing-\\ncities of Manchester, Lowell and Law^rence, it is said that they\\ncarry more spindles and machinery than any other river on the\\nglobe.\\nAllow me to offer a sentiment: May the declining years of the\\nold inhabitants of Peterborough, who have served their genera-\\ntion by the will of God during the last half century, be as i)eace-\\nful as the combined w^aters of the Contoocook and Merrimack as\\nthey enter the sea.\\nWhile expressing my deep regret for my inabilitj to be present\\non what must be a most joj^ous occasion, and thanking you for\\nyour kind invitation, allow^ me to reciprocate by extending to my\\nold townsmen a most hearty and cordial invitation to visit this\\nborder city, the home of Hannah Duston and the birtli])lace of our\\nown poet Whittier, nextsummer, when we shall celebrate the 250th\\nanniversary of this delightful city.\\nFraternally yours,\\nGeo. Thayer.\\nNashua, N. H., October 23, 1889.\\nTo Joseph Farnum, Esq., and Others, Committee of Invita-\\ntion, Gentlemen: When I received your invitatien to be pres-\\nent at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the incorpora-\\ntion of the town of Peterborough, I fully intended to be present\\nupon this most interesting occasion, but the serious illness of my\\naged father calls me to his bedside every night. I must therefore\\nforego the pleasure of joining my friends and a goodly company\\nof the distinguished men and women who claim Peterborough as\\nthe place of their birth or residence during some part of their lives.\\nBefore I became a resident of Peterborough, in 1858, I was famil-\\niar with much of the early history of the town, and knew some-\\nthing of the services rendered by its sons, who had shown them-\\nselves most worthy descendants of the Londonderry colony, both\\nin Church and State.\\nA six years residence among your people made it apparent to\\nme that the virtues of the fathers were exemplitied in the intelli-\\ngence, independence and good sense of those who at that time\\nwere sustaining the good reputation of your ancient town. I re-\\ngret exceedingly that I cannot be present with you.\\nVery truly yours,\\nGeo. a. Ramsdell.\\nSeattle, Washington, October 18, 1889.\\nJoseph Farniim, et al. Gentlemen: Please accept sincere\\nthanks for your kind invitation to be present at the 150th anniver-\\nsary of the incorporation of dear old Peterborough. AVhile it will", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84\\nbe iiiip(js ible for ine to be with you in person, I assure you I shall\\nbe in tliou iIit, as I ever hold dear my native town, and shall ever\\nbe interested in her prosperity. Enclosed find ).00 which please\\ndrop into the celebration fund, as I wish to add my mite to make\\nit a success. With kind regards, I remain,\\nVery truly yours,\\nWillis L. Ames.\\nHurley, Dakota, Octobkk 18, 1889.\\nJoseph Faknlm, Escj*., PETEUBOROU(in, N. H., Chaikman Com-\\nmittee OF Invitation. Dear Sir: Your kind invitation to be\\nwith you on the 24th inst. is at hand, and duly noted. Adow\\nme to thank you for the same, and express regrets at not being\\nable to be i)resent on an occasion of so much interest to all former\\nas well as present residents of your town. Absent sons should not\\nforget their mother. That the day may be auspicious, and your\\nfullest expectations regarding this Anniversary be more than real-\\nized, is tlie wish of your former townsman,\\nJ. H. Farnswokth.\\nTJovalston, Mass., October 21, 1889.\\nTo Committee of Invitation. Gentlemen: It was with great\\n[)leasure and satisfaction that we received your kind invitation to\\nparticipate in the exercises and festivities of the semi-centennial,\\nto take place October 24, and due ])reparation was made to be pres-\\nent, but an unexpected call to serve a good cause, and allowing no\\ndelay, will prevent our being present. Please accept our reg-rets\\nand permit the following sentiment: May the patriotism, love of\\nhome, good citizenship, the zeal and progress so fully represented\\nby the fathers and mothers of the past, be faithfully and impar-\\ntially sustained by the sons and daug-hters of the present.\\nVery kindly yours,\\nT. M. LONGLEY.\\nEagle River, Mich., October 15, 1889.\\nJoseph Farnum and Others, Committee of Invitation: Your\\ncard of 7th inst. inviting me to attend the loOtli anniversary of the\\nincorporation of tlie town of Peterborough is just at hand, and,\\nwhile nothing tumid give me more pleasure than to meet my old\\nac(|naintances (who must be few now), on such an occasion, I re-\\ngret to say tiiat business duties Avill bar me from such enjoyment.\\nPermit nie to thank you heartily for your kind invitation. I at-\\ntended the looth anniversary, beingtiien a resident of tiie town, and\\nwell remember many of the speakers of that day, one of whom,\\nCcn. James Wilson, was a life-long friend of mine, and his inter-\\nest located me here among the best (topper mines of the world.\\nAgain thanking you for your kind remembrance of me, and hoping\\nthe occasion may fully meet your anticipations, I am\\nVery respectfully yours,\\nJno. Sexter.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "85\\nNew Lisbon, AVis., October 11, 18.S9.\\nGentlemen of Committee of Invitation Your postal just re-\\nceived. I think you can hardly realize the thrill of pleasure\\nthat the name Peterborough sent through my heart. Nothing\\nwould give me greater happiness than to be with you on this anni-\\nversary. My earliest recollections dates from your town. While\\nit will be impossible for me to be with you in person, you have\\nmy heartiest good wishes that the festivities maybe agreen spot in\\nyour memories never to be forgotten.\\nSincerely yours,\\nFred E. Boynton.\\nNew Lisbon, Wis., October, 1.5, 1889.\\nJoseph Farnum and Others, Committee of Invitation. Gen-\\ntlemen Your kind invitation to meet and participate in the ex-\\nercises and festivities of this eventful occasion is at hand, and\\nmeets with my unbounded sympathy and encouragement. The\\nthought thrills the soul with delight, and the pen falters when\\nobliged to announce that circumstances prevent.\\nThe iirosperity and growth of Peterborough is watched by her\\nabsent sons with no small degree of pride, and the intense inter-\\nest she (her residents) exhibits in her local, state and national\\nevents, manifests a wide awake spirit that can be traced back to\\nthe originators of the town, whose minds are embedded with solid\\ncommon sense, immovable as the hills and correct as the judg-\\nment record. Immigration has invaded its enclosure, but the pure\\nstreams of morality from tlie fountain head follow the direction\\nmarked out by its originators, and gives it impulse, influence and\\nprinciple.\\nAfter thirty years of absence from my native town I returned,\\nexpecting much, but found my conceptions more than realized.\\nBeautiful and valuable residences dotted the hill tops, while the\\nvalleys and water powers were utilized by immense structures and\\ninviting homes. Articles manufactured in Peterborough are sold\\nby the merchants and business men of New Lisbon, Wis. The\\nEast mountains we were trying to tunnel or remove thirty years\\nag-o for commercial benefits are flanked or rode over by railroads.\\nThe aged and honored had passed behind the veil, and the simple\\nname was inscribed upon the cemetery tombstone, while the hum-\\nming spindle and busy workshops were living monuments to their\\nenterprise and genius. The middle aged had become old; the\\nyoung wore locks of grey, while the infants and babes were obey-\\ning the Divine injunction to increase, multiply and replenish the\\nearth. Perhaps we are not really born until we die, and if death\\nshould be only a change of residence, we hope it to be among the\\nearnest, enteriirising people of Peterborough.\\nYour schoolmate and fi iend.\\nElias Boynton.\\nNewton Loaver Falls, Mass., October 19, 1889.\\nMessrs. Joseph Farnum and Others. Gentlemen: I thank\\nyou for your kind invitation to be present at your sesqui-centennial.\\nAlthough not a native or former resident, T feel a strong interest\\nin the welfare of the town. Mrs. W., whom I married in Peter-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86\\nl\u00c2\u00bborou j;h fifty years aoo was a native of Peterborouj^li, and her im-\\nmediate relatives reside there now. If nothing unforeseen pre-\\nvents I intend to be present.\\nYours most respectfully,\\nS. G. AViLLIAMS.\\nN. B. I attended the celebration fifty years ago.\\nLowell, Octouek 19, 1889.\\nHon. Joseph Farnum, and Gentlemen of the Co.m httee of\\nInvitation: I have i-eceived your invitation to the lAoth anniver-\\nsary of the incorporation of tlie town of Peterborough, on October\\n2-tth, 1889. You have my thanks for the kind invitation.\\nAs 1 was the first child born in the town (West Peterborough),\\nI think that borough should be represented, therefore I shall en-\\ndeavor to be jiresent on that occasion.\\nY^ours, c.,\\nSamuel Lawrence.\\nPhiladelphia, Pa., Octoher 19, 1889.\\nJoseph Farnum and Others, Committee of Invitation. Gen-\\ntlemen: I havej Our invitation to participate in your sesqui-cen-\\nteunial celebration on the 24th prox. 1 very well remember the\\npleasant occasion we had fifty years ago, in which I took great in-\\nterest. I would be very glad to be with you on this occasion, but\\nmy health and age will prevent. The i)ainf ul part of it would be the\\nabsence of old and familiar faces\u00e2\u0080\u0094 /r/e?u/s who long since passed\\non. I shall be with you in spirit, and hope you will have as good\\na time as we did fifty years ago.\\nVery truly yours.\\nWm. B. Bement.\\nUtica N. Y., October 24, 1889.\\nJ. Farnum, Peterhorough, N. H.: I find to my exceeding sor-\\nrow that 1 cannot be with the old ladies and gentlemen who were\\nl)oys and girls together in 39, hence I send you greeting. Will\\nmaterialize at the two hundredth, if permitted.\\nCordially yours,\\nJas. S. Gray.\\nAugusta, Me., October 24, 1889.\\nHon. Frank G. Clarke, Peterboroucjh, N. H.: Prosperity\\nto Peterborough for another century and a half.\\nLeslie C. Cornish.\\nAntrim, N. II. October K), 1889.\\nCol. F. G. Clarke. Dear Sir: Your kind invitation to at-\\ntend the celebration of the IfjOth anniversary of the settlement of\\nthe town of Peterborough is i-eceived. I am very sorry to be\\nobliged to decline the invitation, having agreed about a Aveek ago\\nto attend a meeting of the Merrimack County Pomona Grange at\\nBradford, on Thursday, October 24, and I am already advertised\\nfor that occasion.\\nTruly yours,\\nD. H. Goodell.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "87\\n713 Fulton St., Troy, N. Y., October 14, 188!).\\nGents. Yours of the lOtli instant ctune duly to hand. I tliaiik\\nyou very much for your kind invitation, but regret being unable\\nto attend, as it would give me great satisfaction to be in good old\\nPeterborough once more; and meet my aged friends. Only age and\\ninfirmity prevent. It has always given me great pleasure to visit\\nmy native home, especially on such occasions.\\nYours very truly,\\nSarah T. Moore.\\nBelfast, Me., October. 1889.\\nDear Friends: Your circular of October was duly received,\\nand I should be most happy to be with you as a native of Peterbo-\\nrough, N. H. But distance and the infirmities of age prevent me\\nfrom attending- this 150th anniversary of the town.\\nI shall be eighty-five years old if I live until the last day of this\\nyear; was born in 1804:, the last day. I shall always cherish the\\nmost sweet and grateful memories of Peterborough and its people.\\nI heard Rev. J. H. Morison s address fifty years ago. Still hope\\nto have the privilege of reading the one of the 24th.\\nI realize time is short and uncertain. Those in life who started\\nwith us are nearly all gone a few remain to remind us of bygones,\\nbut many, many, have gone the way of all the earth so the oldest\\nman in your town can testify. I am tired and must close. I can\\nwrite only a little while at a time. Please make due allowance\\nfor an aged lady s imperfect letter. Kind regards to all. VYisli-\\ning you all health and prosperity, I close.\\nMary B. Pierce.\\nSanta Cruz, Cal., October 16, 1889.\\nGentlemen of the Committee of Invitation: I regret it is\\nnot convenient to accept your kind invitation to attend the sesqui-\\ncentennial anniversary. Nothing but distance prevents. I assure\\nyou no daughter of old Peterborough would enjoy it more than I.\\nI shall be there in spirit, and enjoy in imagination the festivities\\nin which I can take no part.\\nVery respectfully yours,\\nHarriet Wilson.\\n146 Elm St., Northampton, Mass., October 24, 1889.\\nTo the Citizens of Peterborough. Dear Friends I thank\\nyou most sincerely for your cordial invitation to me and mine to\\nbe present on the 24th, to celebrate the l.)Oth anniversary of the\\nincorporation of the town, but it is entirely impossil)le for me to\\nbe present, only in spirit, which I shall most truly be. ]May the\\nday be rich with interchange of thoughts and friendly gre(;ting.\\nPleasant and sad memories come to me as I think of dear old Pe-\\nterborough. May God be with you and bless you all, is the sin-\\ncere wish of\\nYour old friend,\\nMrs. Charles B. Ferry.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88\\nThe Chairman:\\nI will now present a gentleman, Ucy. A. M. Pendleton of Mil-\\nford, N. H., who, not a native, was for several years a citizen, and\\nhas taken a deeper interest in, and done more for our excellent\\nTown Librarj than any person now living, who will speak to\\nThe Town Library.\\nMr President If it had been thought of I would gladly have\\nprepared a paper on the town library worthy of your attention,\\nbut without preparation perhaps I can show you how long a time\\nit took for the germ to become the perfected institution. The first\\nhint of a free town library I have met with in my reading is found\\nin a powerful and impassioned address of Lutlier s to the munici-\\npal councils of the German towns, exhorting them to establish\\neverywhere Christian schools, both learned and elementary. The\\nstrength of a town, he says, does not consist in its towers and\\nbuildings, but in counting a great number of learned, serious,\\nhonest, well-educated citizens. Do not fancy Hebrew and Greek\\nto be unnecessary. These languages are the sheath which covers\\nthe sword of the spirit. How could I have combatted and over-\\nthrown pope and sophists, even having the true faith, if I had not\\npossessed the languages And then, carried away by his inspi-\\nration, he turns aside from his subje ^t to say: You must found\\nlibraries for learned books, not only the fathers but also the\\npagan writers, the fine arts, law, history, medicine must be rep-\\nresented in such collections.\\nLuther s words were living things, and forthwith the town\\ncouncils of his dear Germans, as he called them, began to make\\nnotable collections of books for the free use of all their citizens.\\nTheir example si)read into France and Italy, and, indeed, into\\nmost of the leading nations of the continenl^, and doubtless did a\\ngreat and useful work in the furtherance of the Reformation. But\\nbecause no stated provision was made for their increase, and be-\\ncause no one then thought of loaning them for home use, they\\ngradually sank into neglect and disuse. Though several of them\\nwere more than once revived, and though they continue to exist\\nto this day, the impulse they gained from Luther lost its vital\\nforce, and they ceased to be among the forming elements of mod-\\nern development.\\nSingularly enough, though general on the continent, they did not\\ncross the channel, and no instance of such a library was to be\\nfound in tiie P)rilish Isles, till, stimulated by the foundation of our\\nown Boston pul)lic library, the Libraries Act of (ireat Britain\\nwas passed in 1850. But the Pilgrim fathers in their long sojourn\\nin Holland had doubtless become familiar with them, and carried\\nthe germ of the public library along with the germ of the common\\nschool, the university and the town meeting to this country. The", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "89\\nbooks they carried across seas they ordained in a public statute\\nwhich seems almost pathetic now\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and they should be preserved\\nwith religious care as if the fate of the infant commonwealth\\nwas bound up in them, and the curious visitor to that hallowed spot\\non the wintry coast may still take in his hand with awe the ver-\\nitable volumes which were the solace and intellectual stimulant of\\nthe founders, or their immediate successors, of Plymouth colony.\\nThere was a shadowy library of like character in early Boston,\\nwhich is several times alluded to in such records as have survived,\\nbut which probably perished either in the fires of 1711 or 1747 that\\ntwice destroyed the town house and the jjublic records.\\nFor a long time after the germ remained dormant. It did not\\neven occur to sagacious Franklin to give it a new birth. His pro-\\nprietors or subscription libraries which, begun in Philadelphia,\\nspread so rapidly over the middle states and New England, till\\nthey became a part of the social and intellecual life of almost every\\nconsiderable town, were essentially private libraries restricted to\\nthose who owned or paid for them, and of which Peterboro had\\nsucessively two if not three at a very early period of its history.\\nSo slow was the progress of an idea that at the close of the\\neighteenth century there were only two libraries in the country\\nin any sense public, and those, I believe, were both theological.\\nAt last in 1833, Dr. Abiel Abbot, then the minister of the Unita-\\nrian church of Peterborough, a lover of books and the founder of\\ntwo other libraries, conceived the idea and carried into execution\\nthe project of a library to be owned by the town, supported by\\nannual town appropriations, managed by a committee of its ap-\\npointment, and whose volumes should be accessible not only in the\\nlibrary room, but find their way into the humblest as well as the\\nmost conspicuous homes, to be the unfailing and perpetual joy of\\nall such of its inhabitants as love the dear companionship of books.\\nPeterborough Town Library became thus the first instance of\\nits kind in the United States, preceding the Boston Public, which\\nis often claimed as first, by fifteen years. It also antedates all\\nthe public libraries of Great Britain and its dependencies by a\\nstill longer period, and is therefore the first library to realize the\\ncomplete idea of a free town library among the hundred millions\\nor more who speak the English tongue on the planet.\\nPeterborough has no honor greater than this. It is her chief est\\ncrown and glory always to be held with honorable pride and\\npreserved with a care as sacred as the Pilgrim statute enjoined. It\\nhas many wants, chief among which is a building, beautiful for\\nits situation, noble in its proportions, containing many apart-\\nments and uses, which Avill make it a kind of town university, and\\naltogether worthy of its exceptional historic renown. It will\\nrequire no small sum to build it, and to endow it so that it may\\nbe the leading educational institution of the town. I appeal to", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "90\\non, the retunied sous and daughters of Peterborough who have\\ncoine from near and fai- to take part in this anniversary, to join\\nwith those who keep the old place at home, in making this honored\\ninstitution, by its outward habitation, and by its endowment, the\\ncrowning joy as well as chief honor of Peterborough forever.\\nThe Chairman\\nI see with us here to-day one with whom in boyhood I went to\\nschool, who learned his trade in the printing office in this town,\\nand afterwards became proprietor of the establishment and editor\\nof the paper, who for several years past has been the editor and\\npublisher of an important weekly in another portion of tlie State,\\nand who has recently been honored by the district in which he re-\\nsides to an election to the N. H. Senate. I refer to Hon. E. H.\\nCheney of Lebanon, N. H., and invite him to speak to the theme,\\nThe Printers of Peterborough.\\nMr. Chairman and Friends What best befits this day, it may\\nbe, is wit and humor; yet it has its serious side. Fill up the\\nhours as we will with mirth-provoking reminiscence, till laughter\\nholding both its sides confront us, we can but heave a sigh as we\\nrecall joys that shall never return, and faces we shall know no\\nmore. I recall a bit of boyish indignation over the fact that I was\\nnot deemed old enough to attend the centennial. In families such\\nas you and I, sir, represent, so common on those days, so rare to-\\nday, it was necessary to draw the line somewhere. The one-horse\\nshay and the thoroughbrace wagon would not hold all so I was\\nleft at home with two younger sisters to bother the hired girl\\nwhile the rest of the dozen went to the centennial. If any little Pe-\\nterborians have been left at home to-day against their will, I hope\\nthey will harbor their resentment as long as I have harbored mine,\\nand come hei-e to tell it fifty years from to-day.\\nA picture comes to mind. The scene is the little, low, square,\\nbrick school house on Winnie Row, old No. 9, where, only, I\\nknew the district school I see yourself, of a bright winter morning\\nclad, trousers and long frock, in the blue and white striped frock\\ning of the period, made from wool grown on the farm, spun and\\nwoven in the home all wool, a yard wide and no shoddy warm\\nas a mother s love and almost as enduring. I see you coming In\\nwhen the school is rapped to order, from your frolic in the snow,\\ncheeks all aglow with health. You enter the door, turn to the left,\\nmarch up one of those steep aisles, the hot breath puffing out of\\nyour mouth in gi eat clouds, and congealing in an atmosphere not\\nyet sufficiently tempered by a tardily kindled and reluctant fire\\nyourself and fully thirty like you. Gen. Ira Cross among them,\\ntakes his seat by my side, and I playfully cut with my hand\\nthe hot breath issuing from his mouth. It seems but yesterday.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "91\\nLTp the opposite slope march as many red cheeked girls, or more\\nthe fairest, save one, my eyes have ever rested on clad in home-\\nspun, woolen gowns. O, for one look to-day at the reality of this\\npicture as it comes to me through the years.\\nAnd what a responsibility rested on the Dartmouth freshman or\\nsophomore who for the time being- presided over these three or\\nfour score youth. How reverently, sometimes mischievously, we\\nlooked up to him.\\nAnd still we gazed, and still the wonder grew.\\nHow one small head could carry all he knew.\\nNor did we fail to measure with keen eye the ferule which he\\nbrandished as an emblem of his authority. Nor yet the pile of\\ngoose quills on his desk, shaped into pens for our use by his skill-\\nful hands. How these pictures will come back to us. Nor those\\nalone of the day school. Around the churches of Peterborough\\ncluster a multitude of tender, arid some sacred memories. Three\\nof the present church structures were erected in the half decade of\\nwhich I speak, immediately following the centennial. It was an\\nera of church building. With what interest we watched the pro-\\ngi-ess of each and saw it dedicated with due solemnity.\\nIt was here after my return fi-om the academy, that I learned at\\nthe hands of a lamented brother of yours, but little my senior, the\\nart preservative. Here, too, with another lamented brother of\\nyours as my model, I first felt the dignity and responsibility of\\nsaying we instead of I. Eeceiving the Transcript at the\\nhands of these, I turned it over, two years later, to yourself.\\nThe village lyceum, and debating societies; the dramatic ex-\\nhibitions the spelling schools the wi iting schools the singing\\nschools, and for some, but not for me, the dancing schools. That\\nsingle rope swing in front of the old academy on which we boys\\nused to swing out at full length over the road and around the single\\ntree upon the bank I wondered, as I looked to-day, if it can be\\nthe same lone tree that stands there still. The swing in the rear\\nof the academy in which we used to swing the girls till we were\\nout of breath; the big swing in the woods between the paper\\nmill and the Wilder peg mill; the games of ball upon the school\\nhouse green; the parties where we sometimes went to Rome\\nthe sleigh rides Avhat wonders of sleigh rides Peterborough used\\nto have a hundred or a hundred and fifty couples at a time, on\\nthe road to Keene, with the merry jingle of bells and the merrier\\nlaugh of thrice a hundred voices. Our coasting and our skating\\ndays; the May trainings and the musters. I recall especially that\\nmuster of the old 22d regiment in September, 1844, with its visit-\\ning organizations\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Jaflfrcy Rifles and the Dublin Grenadiers of\\nthe old 12th regiment, and others from other regiments whose\\nnanics I forget. The line at the morning dress parade extended", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "92\\nfrom the old Bell Factorj down Main street to beyond the granite\\nbridge.\\nWhat forms, what voices do we thus recall. Who will deny us\\na sigh that they are gone forever? I would not call them back.\\nThe rough places of life might come with them. And its mis-\\ntakes; Avho would live them over? How fortunate it is that we\\nlive over and over and over again our joys, and forget our sorrows\\nalmost so soon as they are fled. The fittest survives, even in our\\nmemory.\\nPeterborough has been fortunate, though I do say it, in the char-\\nacter of its local press clean, pure, wholesome, healthful, fit to be\\nin the family through all its history. You cannot too highly prize\\nit. I pity him and the community cursed by his presence, who,\\ncharged with the duty to say what shall and what shall not go in-\\nto the local paper, forgets that tremendous consequences to some\\nhang on the character of what he admits to its columns, and forgets\\nthat for the right discharge of his duty he is responsible to Almighty\\nGod. Dear old Transcript at once my mother and my child;\\nthis heart of mine is ever yours.\\nI rejoice to see that Peterborough faces the rising sun, and to\\nnote as evidence this commodious opera house and yonder school\\nhouse. It would have been a pity to celebrate this day with the\\nschool house problem unsolved. It is up hill business this facing\\nthe future. Sitting where we do, sir, turn which way we will,\\nthe incline is steep; the hills are all around. Yonder summit may\\nbe a trifle higher than the rest, but sunrise is over there. The\\nfounders of this village, as if to symbolize the spirit that was in\\nthem, buried their dead on the summit of sunrise hill. They\\nseemed to say, No rest till we reach the top. Men and women\\nof Peterborough Would you be not degenerate sous and daugh-\\nters of noble sires and dames Then gather out of the past all that\\nis best in it; but face the rising sun your motto: No rest till\\nyou reach the top.\\nIn conclusion, permit me to read a few lines which, almost so\\nsoon as your kind invitation called these hallowed memories to\\nmind, I had put into very imperfect verse, as embodying the\\nthoughts which most possess me.\\nThose Friends or Other Days.\\nO,* where are the friends of my earlier days?\\nGone out through the world in devious ways.\\nBut, revered though never so widely apart,\\nThose friends of my childhood are dear to my heart.\\nGone out through tlie world Some fallen by the way,\\nAnd entered, alas! on eternity s day.\\nAlas! did I say? O, why do we weep\\nO er friends of our childhood fallen asleep?", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "93\\nThe joys of our springtime are ended and gone,\\nAnd faded the visions that once were our own.\\nWith tread less elastic, and locks silvering o er,\\nWe. too, are approaching the evergreen shore.\\nBut friends near at home and friends far away\\nAre gathered this sesqui-centeunial day.\\nTo revive hallowed memories and join friendly hands,\\nWe are come from our homes in far and near lands.\\nWe are come from the South we are come from the North\\nWherever life s duties have beckoned us forth.\\nWe are come from the East; we are come from the West,\\nBend o er us, old friends, in the realms of the blest.\\nBend o er us, old friends, though hidden from view.\\nAnd with us, in spirit, old friendships renew.\\nThough the days when we mingled are left far behind,\\nIt can never be true Out of sight, out of mind.\\nMid feasting of reason and flowing of soul,\\nOf the living and dead let us here call the roll\\nThen, returned to life s duties, with vigor pursue\\nOur way, as before us it opens to view.\\nWe are gathering home, one by one. Be it ours\\nWith love and with goodness to fill up the hours.\\nThey shall pass swiftly o er us these few years to come;\\nAnd the friends gone before us shall welcome us home.\\nThe Chairman\\nMr. President: It now gives me great pleasure to introduce\\nto this assembly one of the oldest, most honored, and best loved of\\nour native citizens one whose wise and pure counsel has bene-\\nfitted all peoples who have been privileged to listen to his eloquent\\nwords one wiio having partially laid aside the mantle of labor,\\nhas come back to us as a citizen, and who was the orator of the\\nday fifty years ago the Rev. Dr. John H. ]Morison, whose topic\\nwill be,\\nPeterborough Homes.\\nIn his impromptu remarks Dr. Morison, in speaking of our\\nhomes, quoted a sentiment given fifty years ago by Gen. James\\nMiller, one of the two Peterborough men who gained what might\\nbe called a national reputation. The words quoted were, May\\nwe encourage literature, revere religion, and love one another.\\nIt would be difficult, he said, to find words which, in a short\\ncompass, would better indicate the character of a Christian home,\\nespecially as illustrated by the home in which Gen. Miller had his\\nearly training. I remember the house in which his parents resided\\nseventy-five years ago. It was a low, one story cottage, in size and\\nshape very much like that in which Eobert Burns was born.\\nHis parents lived to be nearly 90 years old, and if they knew little\\nof literature, they certainly excelled in the other qualities com-\\nmended by their son. His reijutation was that of a soldier, but a\\nman of a more reverent nature or a more tender heart could not\\nbe found. The home into wliich he was born was admirablv fitted", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "94\\nto cherish such a spirit and to form such a character. And the\\nhome in wliich he lived after he retired from the g-overnorship\\nof Alabama was marked by the same simple habits and kindly af-\\nfections as long as he or his children lived.\\nIn like manner the only other sou of Peterborough who gained a\\nnational rojjutation, was born in a home fitted to call out the great\\n(jualities of mind and character for wliicii he was distiiiguished.\\nThe father was a mild, thoughtful, upriglit man, liberal in many-\\nways, but especially so in his ideas of family governmc^nt. leaving\\nto his children a wide margin for freedom of thought and action,\\nwhere tliey were left to decide for themselves. His wife was of a\\nmore impulsive and authoritative disposition. If, as one who re-\\nmembered her well once said to me, She kept the scold a going,\\nit came not so much from a bad temper as from an excess of ener-\\ngy, which must find relief in some kind of forcible utterance.\\nLike most persons of that generation, she spoke in a strongly\\nmarked Scotch dialect, and was always ready with a keen repartee.\\nWhen iier son, having got a little book learning, undertook to\\ncomment on his mother s ungrammatical language, she sharply re-\\nplied: But wha taught you language? It was my wheel; and\\nwhen ye U hae spun as many lang three threads to teach me gram-\\nmar as I hae to teach you, I ll talk better grammar.\\nThere was a keen sense of humor in the household, and nothing\\ncalled it out so unmercifully as the presence of anything mean or\\ndishonest. There was great intellectual activity among all the chil-\\ndren, but especially with Jeremiah, who in his early years was\\nhaunted by an overpowering longing for knowledge. The boy\\nwould sometimes walk off four or five miles in quest of a book, and\\nmake himself in no small measure, master of its contents on his\\nway back. Books were scarce. But in his home tliere was one\\nbook looked uj) to with reverence by them all. And that book, ap-\\npealing to what is deepest and highest in our nature, did more than\\nall others, not only to color but to create, the atmosphere of\\nthought, emotion and affection in which they lived, and by which\\ntheir characters were formed.\\nSuch Avas the home in which he had his early training, and the\\nhome in which he lived when he retired from the active business\\nof life was pre-eminently distinguished by all the characteristics of\\nwhich I have spoken. It was my great privilege in early youth to\\nbe received as a member of Judge Smith s family. His sou was\\na man of rare intellectual endowments and personal attractions,\\nand his daughter was endowed in a remarkable degree with the\\nvirtues, the intellectual attainments, the affections and graces\\nwhich em-ich and adorn a Christian home, while he himself was al-\\nways looked up to with filial reverence as the soui-ce and object of\\nloving devotion. But in one short season, when he was nearly sev-\\nenty years old, all his family, his wife, his daughter and his son.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "95\\nwere taken from him, and he was left in the world alone. But af-\\nterward the home Avas renewed. A wife, even more richh en-\\ndowed than the daughter had been, was placed at the head of the\\nhousehold. Never had its beneticent intluences on its inmates, oi-\\non those who from without were drawn to it, been more richly\\nfelt. And the last years of that great man s life, cheered and\\nhelped as he was by the angel at his side, were even more blessed\\nthan those which had gone before.\\nHere, under more favoi-able auspices, Avith larger means and op-\\nportunities, was the natural expansion or evolution of the early\\nPeterborough home. Those homes, scattered as they were thiough-\\nout the town no one knew them better than I did as a boy. There\\nwas liomely fare, and a plenty of hard work. But there Avere the\\nhardy virtues, the tender affections, the devout reverence, the\\nthoughtful habits, the contentment, the sweetness and the light,\\nwhich may give encouragement and life and growth to all that is\\nholiest and best in our nature. From such homes in the darkest\\ndays of our rebellion came forth the valor and the worth which\\nsaved the nation. When, after the terrible disasters of the second\\nBull Run, I found that sixty-two young men from the homes\\nof this small town had offered themselves, I no longer had any\\ndoubt as to the result of the war. These homes, and such as\\nthey, have been so associated with all that is dearest to us, and\\nin their very poverty so richly endowed with all that should be\\nmost precious and sacred, that I would say of them, as I heard\\nDaniel Webster say, the tears rolling down his cheeks as he spoke,\\nthat *I can hardly think of them without emotion, or speak of them\\nwithout tears. So long as such homes continue, our country, its\\nchurches, its schools, its laws and its liberties are safe.\\nThe speaker closed witli a few words to illustrate the tender and\\nsoftening influences of these homes.\\nThe Chairman\\nIt is an old and oft repeated saying that the Press is mightier\\nthan the sword. I will call upon John Scott, Esq., of the Tran-\\nscript to respond to the toast,\\nThe Local Press.\\nMr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The history of the\\npress of Peterborough is almost spanned by my lifetime. At the\\ncentennial celebration there was no local newspaper, and previous\\nto that time but two small journals had sustained a brief and pre-\\ncarious existence. In the absence of the newspaper, the post office,\\nthe corner store, and the ladies* sewing circle, were the principal\\nmediums for disseminating the news of the day, and with com-\\nmendable zeal and fidelity was the self-imposed task performed.\\nThe first newspaper in town was printed in the old Joel Brown\\nstore building, near the granite bridge, bv Wni. P. and John S.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "96\\nDunbar. Its first number appeared in the latter part of 1829. under\\nthe somewhat top heavy title of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0The Ililhhord Republican and\\nNew Hampshire Clarion. It was a small sheet, well edited by\\nRev. Elijah Dunbar, and closed its existence April 29, 1831, at the\\nage of about one year and five months.\\nThe second Paper was ^^The Fha iiix Gazette, printed by Miller\\nBradbury, in the year 1832, previous to ihe election of Andrew\\nJackson to his second term of the presidency. It was a warm sup-\\nporter of his administration. The names of the committee of the\\nopposing party, were Timothy K. Ames and Timothy Fox. The\\nprincipal traders in the place at that time were Brown Wilson,\\nSmith Tiiompson, and Wm. H. Rodgers. Ashley Loriiig\\nwas the hatter, and Jonathan Locke of Greenfield, cloth dress-\\ner. The following editorial is a specimen of the political feeling\\nof those days:\\nOn which side of the fence is Deacon Boylston now? We ask for in-\\nformition, for really we supposed from appearance tliat the Deacon\\nliad )t into the wrf)n jj ppiv. There is comfort for him however now\\na crumb of consolation from the Antimasonic election in Pennsylvania.\\nWhat do you tliink, Deacon, of antiniasonry. Is it not beautiful to see\\nKindred and friends ar/ree each?\\nThe t lay men say it Penn., if New York, if Ohio, if Kentucky, if\\nVermont, and if a dozen more States vote for anti-.Jackson electors,\\nand if all the antimason and federal electors vote for Clay he will be\\nelected. So if the comet should happen to lisht on the top of Monad-\\nnock Movmtain and flourish his fiery tail tor ten miles round, there\\nwould be but little use for candles in Dublin and .Jatfrey. One if is as\\nyood as another.\\nOf the length of the life of this publication we have no record,\\nbut it must have been brief, probablj^ closing with the political\\ncampaign.\\nThe tlurd newspaper, and not the second, as stated in the Histo-\\nry of Peterborough, Avas a little sheet published by S. P. Brown,\\nand was called The Peterfwronr/h Messenr/er. It was started in\\nthe summer of 1847, but after an existence of ten months, died,\\nlike its predecessors, of that ever popular cause of death heart\\nfailure.\\nThe collapse of The 3Iessencier found its proprietor indebted to\\nJohn P. Miller, our worthy President of the Day. for a somewhat\\nextended service as journeyman printer. After waiting a time\\nwith patience, or, possibly, impatience, for his pay, Mr. Miller\\nlevied an execution upon the oflice, which came into his posession\\nat a price smaller than the sum claimed in the writ; and to this day\\nthe balance of $150, with interest, remains unpaid, unless per-\\nchance, Mr. Miller considers the honor of having been the founder\\nof the Transcript as full equivalent for the debt.\\nAdmitting Kendall C. Scott to ])artnership in the fall of 1848,\\njob work failing to occupy the lime of both, the publication of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0The Contoocook Transcript was commenced on Saturday, June\\n2, 1849, under the firm name of Miller Scott, adopting as their", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "97\\nmotto, The Faithful are certain of their Reward. The paper\\nfrom the start was a live one, and many of its editorials would\\nhave done credit to a more pretentious sheet.\\n[A copy of Vol. I., No. 4, of the Contoocook Transcript, printed Sat-\\nurday, June 28, 1849, and heavily draped in mourning for President\\nJames K. Polk, v^^ho died the Sunday previous, was exhibited to the\\naudience.]\\nIn May, 1851, K. C. Scott became sole proprietor, and he in turn\\na year or two later sold out to Elias H. Cheney, who had just com-\\npleted his apprenticeship in the office. It was during Mr. Cheney s\\nadministration that the motto was changed to We ll Try, Sir.\\nUpon closing his connection with the Transcript, Mr. Miller\\nworked as journeyman printer about six mo nths in the state of\\nNew York, after which he returned to Peterborough, deserted the\\ncraft, and became a dispenser of drugs, in which occupation he\\nstill continues. From a financial point of view his course was a\\nwise one, for squills, pills, poultices, plasters, ipecac, Epsom salts,\\ncastor oil, calomel, and kindred luxuries the masses will have, but\\nit is only the more intellectual and cultured people who feel that\\nthe newspaper is indispensable.\\nMarch 7, 1855, Charles Scott became sole proprietor, and contin-\\nued to fill the editorial chair until November 20, 1856, when K. C.\\nScott again purchased the office, which remained in his possession\\nuntil November 18, 1865, when your humble servant was admitted\\nto partnership, and March 1st, 1866, bargained for the other half of\\nthe business. March 3, 1866, the Transcriqjt was issued by John\\nScott Co., the Co. being more a myth than a reality.\\nBefore another week had rolled round, however, a partnership\\nhad been formed between Joseph Farnum and myself. Since that\\ntime we have continued to work in double harness, and to-day,\\nif I mistake not, as members of the firm of Farnum Scott, we\\nrepresent the oldest business partnership in town.\\nWith the exception of the time when Mr. Cheiiey presided over\\nits destinies, some member of my family has been connected with\\nthe Transcript and it Avas for many years a fondly cherished hope\\nthat I might some day be succeeded by one of my progeny, but the\\ndeath of my sunny-faced, happy-hearted little boy renders it hardly\\nprobable that the name of Scott will much longer be connected\\nwith your local newspaper.\\nThe last motto which graced the first page of the Transcript, and\\nadopted by K. C. Scott, was Our Local Interests, and from first\\nto last we believe that our local interests have been zealously pro-\\nmoted by its several proprietors.\\nPermit me to read briefly from an article from the pen of E. H.\\nCheney, and published January 4, 1854. AVhile discussing the best\\nmeans of promoting the business prosperity of the town he says:", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "98\\nWe cannot help t.innking, that if Peterborough does not reach that\\ndegree of prosperity which, a few years ago, slie seemed destined to en-\\njoy, she must take to herself all the blame. If our business men would\\ninterest themselves in this matter, and make one-half the exertions\\nthat are made in many places which we could mention, not a single\\nyear would pass without changing the entire aspect of things in Peter-\\nborough. We believe that with no extraordinary eifort, and without\\nany great outlay of capital, much of our water power might be used to\\ngreat advantage, and made to advance the best interests of the town.\\nBut our main object in writing this article is to direct the attention of\\nour wealthy citizens, and owners of real estate to one branch of manu-\\nfacturing business which might be carried on here successfully, and\\ntend as much as anything else to improve the value of their property,\\nand give an increased impulse to all kinds of business. W^e allude to the\\nmanufacture of shoes. This appears to be just the place for carrying\\non this business on a large scale, and we have often wondered that the\\nmatter did not arrest the attention of those whom we know to be anx-\\nious to promote the best interests of the town.\\nAll things come to those who wait/ and Mr. Cheney is here to\\nsee our town blessed, and not cursed as some would have it, with\\na grand shoe manufacturing establishment.\\nThat tlie tone of the Transcrii)t has always been loyal and pat-\\nriotic none will deny. Its position at the breaking out of the war\\nis briefly stated in the following short extracts from an editorial\\nwritten one week before the fall of Sumter by a brother of mine\\nwho has since passed to the silent majority\\nAVe are persistently and unequivocally for ])eace in every contingency,\\nbut one. The South may unite under the confederate constitution\\nmay throw all protection over chattel slavery that they can may legis-\\nlate that it is right in principle and practically advantageous to the\\nStates may bring to the stake and halter every abolitionist that is un-\\nfortunate enough to be caught in their midst may shackle free speech\\nand a free press in fine may establish, strengthen and perpetuate the\\nvilest, most absolute and relentless despotism there is on the face of\\nthe earth and still we are for peace. ji^ The\\nonly contingency in which war will be justifiable, will be when the\\nsafety and preservation of the great principles of human brotlierhood\\nand equality established by the revolutionary struggle demand it. Let\\nthe wolves and hyenas howl so long as they do not attack us, but when\\nthey have shed one drop of the blood of the patriots who still stand\\nfirm and brave under the folds of the flag of their country, preferring\\ndeath in its defence to desertion, it will be time for the great heart of\\nthe nation to quicken its jiulsations, and patriotic union-loving freemen\\nof the North to stiffen their sinews for the conflict.\\nThat these words echoed the patriotic sentiment of this commu-\\nnity peace at any cost, save dishonor the names on the bronze\\ntablet in yonder grove, the graves we annually decorate, and the\\nmimber here who wear the veteran s badge, give ample testimony.\\nOf the Transcript under its present administration I will not speak.\\nIt is familiar to you, being a weekly visitor in most of your homes.\\nMany of yon have been subscribers from the first issue until the\\npresent time. Long may it continue to be worthy of your sup-\\nport.\\nThe Chairman\\nI will now call upon W. D. Chase, M.D., to respond to the toast,", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "99\\nThe Medical Profession.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: AV^hat the world has\\naccomplished duriiig- the past fifty years is a question of great in-\\nterest, and the answer returned is full of gratification.\\nPerhaps in no period in the world s history has such a great\\nrevolution taken place in the industrial, mechanical, political and\\nsocial conditions, as during the past five decades. The spirit of in-\\nquiry and investigation has entered into every art and science.\\nIn no department has there been more painstaking experiments\\nand patient investigation than in the art and science of medicine.\\nTime will not allow me even to hint at the discoveries made as to\\nthe minute structure of the human body, of the physiology of the\\nbrain, the wonderful achievements of surgery, the knowledge of\\nthe causes of diseases and the laws that govern them. Most of\\nthe progress of the world is accomplished by slow, patient toil and\\nstudy, but 0(!casionally there appears a genius who opens up new\\nfields of discoveries and investigation. Of such a genius is M.\\nPasteur of Paris. His attention was called to the subject of the\\nfermentation of beer and wine. He found that the change called\\nfermentation was caused by the growth of a micro-organism\\nthat lived upon some element in the wine until that element was\\nconsumed. He found the process of putrefaction was brought\\nabout by the same process. As soon as the life passes out of an\\nanimal organism it is fallen upon by myriads of organisms that live\\nupon it until it is all consumed. This and other discoveries, similar\\nin character, led the French government to ask Pasteur to inves-\\ntigate the cause of the disease that was destroying the silk-worm.\\nThe silk culture is a great industry in the south of France. Some\\ndisease had fallen upon the w orm, and the industry w^as threat-\\nened with ruin. Various theories were advanced as to the cause of\\nthe disease, and hundreds of remedies suggested, but nothing was\\nof any avail.\\nPasteur found that this disease was caused by a micro-organism\\nthat lived and flourished upon the worm until it was destroyed.\\nNo curative means could be found, but there are to be seen in all\\nof the silk worm nurseries in France to-day boys and girls with\\nmicroscopes examining the moth and their eggs, and all of the un-\\nhealthy ones are destroyed. The silk industry of France was thus\\npreserved.\\nTime will not permit us to speak of the woi k he accomplished\\nin the study of splenic fever which was rapidly destroying the\\ncattle and sheep of P^rance, and the means he suggested to stay the\\ndisease or his more recent w ork in hydrophobia, but sulfice it to\\nsay that he opened a field in which others have entered with fruit-\\nful results.\\nIt is a generally adopted theory, to-day, that Infectious diseases\\nare caused bv living organisms. In fact Koch of Berlin has es-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "100\\ntablishecl the fact that consumption is caused by a baccillus that\\nlives and flourishes upon the human organism. Curative measures\\nin infectious diseases may never be found, but preventative means\\nwill be, and wide spread plagues and epidemics will be things of\\nthe past.\\nI have spoken more particularly of the work of Pasteur to show\\nthe line of investigation at tlie present time, and the beneficent re-\\nsults that may be expected from it.\\nI wish very briefly to speak of the physicians who filled this field\\nfor a large portion of the last fifty years: Drs. William Follans-\\nbee, Albert Smith, and Daniel B. Cutter, men who ever took a\\ndeep interest in the educational, religious, financial and social af-\\nfairs of the town.\\nDr. Follansbee commenced his practice in town in 1826, and died\\nin 1867. He was a good physician and an upright man. A man\\nof good judgment and of rare tact and ability.\\nDr. Smith commenced his practice in town in 1838, and died in\\n1878. He was a man of wide cultui e and attainments. He was\\nnot only familiar with the literature of his own profession but in\\ngeneral literature. He was professor in the medical department at\\nDartmouth college for twenty-three years. He contributed arti-\\ncles to the medical journals and medical societies, but his chief\\nliterary work was as historian of his native town, Peterborough,\\nwhich does credit to his painstaking investigation and scholarlv\\ntastes. He came of a family noted for theii- intellectual ability\\nand high moral character, and well did Dr. Smith maintain the\\ngood name of the family.\\nDr. Cutter, who, I am pleased to say, is still with us, commenced\\nhis practice in town in 1833, but on account of infirmities and ad-\\nvancing years has not been in active work for some time. He\\nwas a good physician and an honorable man. He has given some\\nattention to literary matters, being the author of the history of his\\nnative town, Jaffrey, N. H., which does credit to his patient re-\\nsearch and literary ability. Long may he live to enjoy the fruits\\nof an honorable career.\\nOf the successors of these physicians we shall refrain from speak-\\ning, leaving their merits or demerits to be spoken of by others,\\nonly hoping that they may leave behind them as honorable a name\\nand record as their predecessors.\\nThe Chairman\\nPeterborough has given to the practise of law many eminent men\\nwho have honored the profession and been a credit to the town. I\\nwill ask Gen. D. M. White to respond to the sentiment,\\nTiiK Lawyers of Peterborough.\\nMu. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Peterborough is the\\nland of my birth. Her babbling brooks and rushing rivers, her", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "101\\ngreen pastures and flowery meadows, her beautiful valleys and\\ngrand old hills, are ever suggesting happy incidents of my boy-\\nhood days. The farm and the school are remembered as an\\nepoch filled brim full with hard work and trials, while the office.\\nthe struggle for success, the business responsibility, mark periods\\nof sterner realities which are ever filling my mind with vivid recol-\\nlections of later days. The reminiscences of the grand old town,\\nthe memory of her social and industrious people who have been\\nmy associates in business and pleasure, the happiness that has\\nclustered around a happy home with a loving wife and dear chil-\\ndren in it, awakens in my heart on this centennial day, when ab-\\nsent sons and daughters return to the land of their nativity for a\\nreunion of hearts and an interchange of greetings, thoughts which\\nlend a charm to my whole life, although those memories and\\nassociations are not unalloyed with grief and sadness. Here I\\nhave spent the greater part of mj life. I am proud to be recorded\\nas one of the sons of this town, so many of whom have distin-\\nguished themselves in all of the learned professions and in all the\\ntrades and callings of active business life.\\nIt is now one hundred and fifty years since Peterborough was\\nincorporated as a town and assumed all the advantages and was\\nvested with all the rights and privileges of a municipalitj^, accord-\\ned to New Hampshire townships at that time. Fifty years ago the\\ngood people then living who had been identified with the interests\\nand instrumental in developing the growth and progress of Peter-\\nborough, assembled to celebrate in a commendable way the results\\nof the labor and enterprise of her citizens during the first one hun-\\ndred years. The success that had been attained, the prosperity\\nthat had been acquired, and the happiness that had been enjoyed\\nwas not accomplished by any one class of her citizens. The minis-\\nters, the doctors, the tradesmen, the manufacturers, the farmers,\\nthe artisans, the laborers even the lawyers and last but not least,\\nthe noble women of those early days the true wives and fond\\nmothers of that period were all contributors to the success and all\\nwere common recipients of those blessings which their frugality\\nand industry secured. We have now reached the milestone of the\\nthird half century, and we have come together on this beautiful au-\\ntumnal da J beneath a bright sun and a clear sky, surrounded on ev-\\nery hand by the gorgeous beauty of a landscape of which none but\\na New Englander can boast, and which none but the hand of God\\ncan present, to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversa-\\nry of this grand old town, with its picturesque beauty, nestling as\\nit does in this charming valley on either side of our Contoocook,\\nstretching far up on the hillside in every direction, to cele-\\nbrate this epoch in a manner, I trust, as becomes a sober, thought-\\nful, industrious, God fearing, liberty loving, law abiding people.\\nThe history of our town has been written. In it has been told", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "102\\nthe story of her professional, industrial and social affairs of life.\\nMany of us know that story by heart, while some of you who\\nare assembled here today have had the good fortune of a personal\\nacquaintance with many of the progressive men and women who\\nhave moved the wheels of industry at home, and with other of her\\nsons and daughters who were raised and instructed here, and then\\nwent forth into other towns and states and become true and wor-\\nthy representatives of the hardy and enterprising stock from\\nwhich they sprang, and whose influence of mind, and strength of\\nmuscle, and force of character, and goodness of purpose, has been\\nfelt and recognized in the march of progress, as a power in edu-\\ncational interests, in the learned professions, and in all the varied\\nand industrial pursuits of life wherever they may have been.\\nWhat a panorama of social, local and national events is pre-\\nsented to our mind though we are removed only one hundred and\\nfifty years from the incorporation of the town, as we look back\\nover this period of time and I eview our history. One hundred\\nand fifty years embracing the lifetime of several generations, yet\\nit is but the morning hour of the day that is to come in nieasuring\\nthe duration of our Republic and the glory and grandeur it is to\\nattain. AVhat hopes and fears have crowded in upon the hearts\\nand minds of the people who have lived in this valley and dwelt\\nupon our everlasting hills how many fond hopes must have been\\nshattered, how many realized; what hardships and privations en-\\ndured incident to a new home in a primeval forest; the encroach-\\nment of the home government upon the rights our fathers sought\\nto establish in the New World the perilous act and uncertain re-\\nsult of secession from the mother country; the declaration of\\nindependence, the war of the Revolution culminating in victory;\\nthe dawn of peace the establishment of the National Government\\nunder the Constitution; the bloody and sanguinary wars with the\\nIndians; the war of 1812 which resulted in securing the honor\\nof the American flag on land and sea, teaching England a lesson\\nwhich was as costly to her as it was humiliating, that the rights\\nand liberties of American citizens which were acquired as the re-\\nsult of the Revolution, were forever to be I espected and recognized\\nthe establishment of the Monroe doctrine, in which the people\\nof the United States said to all the world, lay not your hands ruth-\\nfully upon us, and which has ever since been recognized as a well\\ndefined principle of American diplomacy; the war with Mexico,\\nwhich w^as brought to an early and successful termination, result-\\ning in extensive and valuable acquisitions to the United States,\\nextending our boundaries from ocean to ocean, the agitation of the\\nslavery question; the Avar of the Rebellion, a cruel conflict waged\\non the one hand by a deluded, misguided people for the establish-\\nment of a precept, wicked in its conception and felonious in pur-\\npose, and resisted on the other hand by the valor and patriotism", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "103\\nof a brave and determined people a war in which more brave\\nmen were sacrificed on the field of battle, and more wealth ex-\\npended and property destroyed in carrying on the conflict for the\\npreservation and perpetuation of self government than has been\\nlost and expended in all the wars from the days when Napoleon\\nleft the field of AVaterloo.\\nGreat financial embarrassments have marked with a black letter\\ndifFerent periods of our country s existence, wrecking commercial\\nenterprise, while a thousand and one trials have beset our prog-\\nress, under which a nation of less will and perseverance than the\\nAmerican people would have ignominiously failed. To-day how\\ndiflerent are the circumstances of this generation. We look out\\nupon our beautiful and happy homes, our productive farms, our\\ndomestic and thriving manufactories. We also look out upon a\\ncountry made busy and active with the lives of sixty -five millions\\nof people who are at peace within themselves and with the whole\\ncivilized world and as we look about us, and behold with pride\\nand admiration what our ancestors have produced here in Peterbo-\\nrough and know how well they wrought, when we take a broader\\nview and partially comprehend what has been accomplished in\\nour country, when we realize that this local thrift and progress,\\nand all of these great national events and local achievements which\\nhave changed the circumstances and conditions of the whole hu-\\nman race, and influenced for the better all the nations of the earth,\\nhave transpired, and been accomplished since the day when the\\nfirst adventurous pioneer invaded the wilderness that darkened\\nthese waters and shaded these hillsides, and whose ax was then\\nheard ringing up and down these valleys, opening up the forests\\nand letting in the sunlight of God to warm and kiss the earth\\nwhich had nev( r been disturbed, making it a fit and beautiful\\nplace for the comfort and abode of man when we comprehend all\\nthis I say, notwithstanding our ambition and enthusiasm, our\\nheai ts command us to halt on this 150th anniversary of our incor-\\nporation as a town sober minded reflection also commands us to-\\nday to stand still, for a daj^, to turn the mind backward, and as we\\nreview our history, and listen to the story of this people, we find\\nthat Peterborough has indeed just cause to be proud of her sons\\nand daughters.\\nThey might have been seen and may now be found occupying\\nhonorable positions in all the industrial and professional callings\\nof an active and busy life. Her sturdy and honest yeomanry, her\\ningenious mechanics and skilled artisans are inferior to none. The\\ndoctors she has produced have stood high in their profession. Her\\nlearned ministers of the gospel as a rule have been earnest workers\\nin the cause of Christianity, and consistent men walking above re-\\nproach. Peterborough has a right to celebrate over the events ac-\\ncomplished by her children whether at home or abroad, because", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "104\\nthey have been identified with tlie history and development of the\\nwhole country. Why, sir, we are lost, actually lost in wonder and\\namazement at the thought of what tliis young- Republic has accom-\\nplished in this short time. It is a waste of time to talk about the\\nweakness and instability of a republic. Since the organization of\\nour government, kingdoms and empires have virtually vanished\\nfrom the face of the earth, and republics have sprung up and are now\\nflourishing on the same soil. Thrones and dynasties have crum-\\nbled and fallen into oblivion, and yet the American republic to-\\nday is the strongest, the wealthiest, the best, most acceptable gov-\\nernment on the face of God s whole earth. She is growing\\nstronger and stronger every day by the virtue, wisdom, and\\ngood sense of her people. She is making wonderful progress in\\neverything pertaining to civilization. She is developing her won-\\nderful natural resources. Her vast mountains of gold, silver, cop-\\nper, coal, lead, iron and granite are being made to yield up their\\ntreasure of wealth for the use and benefit of man. Her great\\nmanufactories, watched over by the most heroic and sagacious\\nbusiness men of the age, aided by the keenest ingenuity of the\\nhuman mind, are outstripping the manufactories of the old world.\\nShe is rich in intellectual and moral worth, in her educational and\\nscientific attainments, which are layingbroad and deep the founda-\\ntion for permanent self government, around which the storms of\\nlocal passion and prejudice can play with harmless imimnity, and\\nagainst which the assaults of the combined nations of the earth\\ncannot prevail. It is marvellous, Mr. President, to contemplate.\\nIt is wonderful to behold\\nYou have listened to-day fellow citizens to pleasing and eloquent\\nI cmarks from gentlemen speaking upon subjects and institutions\\nconnected with Peterborough, which are and always have been of\\ngreat interest to us her schools, her muanufa(;turing and indus-\\ntrial pursuits, her military record, her Irish American citizens, her\\ndoctors, her ministers, the early homes and mothers of Peterbo-\\nrough, all of which have been powerful factors and controlling\\nagencies in our progress and development. To me, Mr. Chairman,\\nyou have assigned the honor and agreeable duty of speaking for\\nanother class of our fellow citizens, a class who are always able to\\nspeak for themselves, and always willing to speak for others when\\nwell paid for it; a class who are not to be, and who from the very\\nnature of their calling and their existence among you, never can be\\nforgotten, a class who have done more, if I may be pardoned for\\nbeing egotistical, not for myself, but for the whole fraternity,\\nfor the material, to say nothing about the spiritual i)rosperi-\\nty of the town than any one class of her citizens, and which has\\nbeen done in that self sacrificing, gracious, unbegrudging manner\\nthat always commends itself to a Christian community, yet, as a\\nmatter of fact, and in order to save a contradiction of my state-", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "105\\nment upon a point, which in itself is quite natural and cannot bc\\nsuccessfiiUy defended, I am willing- to concede, that while they\\nhave been honored and trusted servants of the conununitj thej^\\nhave been only human, and most generally, when serving public\\nand private enterprise with what they have had, which has princi-\\npally been, undivided support and gratuitous advice, have had\\nan eye open for themselves, sometimes, of course, just the same as\\nthe doctors and ministers have! I refer to and am speaking of\\nThe Lawyers of Peterborough, and I suppose, Mr. President\\nand fellow citizens, that in listening to what I have said, you have\\nbeen asking yourselves, what has all this to do with the lawyers of\\nPeterborough, or what have the lawyers of Peterborough had to\\ndo with all this? AYhy, sir, they have had a great deal to do with\\nall this. In the brief time allowed me in Avhich to prepare to\\nspeak for this profession, I have been unable to procure facts and\\ndates such as would enable me to do justice to the learning, ability\\nand character of each one of them individuallj^, so instead of fol-\\nlowing the old stereotyped way of saying good things about good\\nmen, I have referred to the progress, development and prosperity\\nof our town and nation in a general way, embracing principles\\nalmost entii-ely of a public character, instead of dwelling upon in-\\ndividual characteristics of those men, and in that way speak words\\nof praise and commendation of the Lawyers of Peterborough\\nby showing that they have contributed toward all this, and have\\nto a greater or less degree been instrumental in accomplishing\\nthese great and grand results.\\nMy fellow citizens, go back with me to 1777, and we tind the boy\\nJerry Smith fighting the battles of his country at Bennington, and\\nin 1787 after having been educated at Harvard and Eutger s Col-\\nleges we find him practicing law in this town as the first lawyer\\nwho settled here, where he remained ten years, and it is said of\\nhim, and to his credit, that he never found time to encom-age or\\nto engage in the petty law suits of the citizens, which, according to\\nall accounts were numerous and often bitter. While he remained\\nin Peterborough he served three terms in the State legislature,\\nduring which time he revised the laws of New Hampshire. He\\nwas a conspicuous member of the convention which framed the\\npresent State constitution. In 1790 he was elected as representa-\\ntive to the second congress of the United States, being elected to\\nthat ofiice during four successive terms, serving with distinction\\nthrough the most important ])eriod of our country s history. In\\n171*7 he was appointed United States District Attorney for New\\nHampshire. In 1800 he was appointed Judge of Probate for Rock-\\ningham County. In 1801 he was appointed Judge of tlie United\\nStates Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire. In 1802\\nhe was appointed Chief Justice of the Sui)erior Court of Jiulicature\\nin New Hampshire, which ofRce he held until ISO!), when he was", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "106\\nchosen Govcrnoi of the State. In 1810 he resumed his practice at\\nthe bar, and in 1813 was again appointed Chief Justice of New\\nHampshire, and continued in office until 1816, at which time, after\\na conspicuous and honorable career, he withdrew from public life\\nand ag ain resumed his profession, which he followed until 1820,\\nand then retired from active practice. He died in 1842 at the age\\nof eighty-two years. As a lawyer, legislator, judge of probate, judge\\nof the District Court of the United States, chief justice of the\\nSuperior Court of New Hampshire, governor, and representative\\nin Congress, his acts and deeds shine forth prominently and clear-\\nly in the history of the State. He was truly a sage of the law,\\nwithout doubt was one of the ablest men New Hampshire ever\\nproduced, and above all and over all, he was a citizen of stainless\\ncharacter and an honest man. Such, briefly told, was the brilliant\\nand honorable career of the first lawyer who ever practiced in\\nPeterborough. Now my friends, if you will follow me down\\nthrough the generations from that time to the present, a period of\\none hundred and two years, you will be able to catch a bird s eye\\nview of what the ^Lawyers of Peterborough have done, how they\\nhave been engaged, and many of you knowing them as you have,\\ncan gather some inspiration from the active lives and honorable\\ndeeds of the men for whom I am speaking.\\nSince the days of Jeremiah Smith to the i)resent time there have\\nbeen seventeen lawyers located in Peterborough, viz. Jeremiah\\nSmith, James Wilson, Stephen P. Steele, James AYalker, Artemas L.\\nHolmes, David J. Clark, Edward S. Cutter, Charles G. Cheney.\\nGeorge A. Ramsdell,. Cornelius V. Dearborn, Albert S. Scott,\\nEugene Lewis, Riley B. Hatch, Ezra M. Smith, Frank G. Clarke,\\nJames F. Brennan and myself. Of this number seven of them,\\nviz.: Jeremiah Smith, James Wilson, Stephen P. Steele, Artemas\\nL. Holmes, Albert S. Scott, James F. Brennan, and myself are na-\\ntives of the town.\\nTo sum up what they have done during the one hundred and two\\nyears, I am only able to speak of their lives and character, of their\\nsocial, public and private qualities as men, and allude to their\\nwork and worth in a general way, because it is my purpose at\\nthis time to speak in an individual manner of the learning and\\nabilitj of but a few of these men, and the uprightness with which\\nthey have discharged the varied duties and responsible trusts\\nwhich their fellow citizens have called upon them to perform.\\nProminent among the fi^rst lawyers who practiced in Peterbo-\\nrough and who followed immediately after Jeremiah Smith, was\\nJames Wilson, a native of this town. He was born August 16,\\n1766, and graduated from Harvard College in 1789. He read law\\nwith Judge Lincoln of AYorcester and Judge Jeremiah Smith of\\nPeterborough, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in\\n1702 and conunenced practicM3 in Peterborough, where he remained", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "107\\nfor twenty-three years, after which, in 1815 he removed to Kcene.\\nHe was a man and a lawyer of no ordinary ability and won for\\nhimself by his tact, legal acumen, and fidelity to his clients, an en-\\nviable reputation among the lawyers, not only in Hillsborough\\naud Cheshire Counties where he had an extensive pi actice, but\\nthroughout the State. For thirteen consecutive years he repre-\\nsented this town in the popular branch of the legislature, which of\\nitself is a compliment, proclaiming to this and succeeding genera-\\ntions the confidence that his fellow citizens had in his integrity\\nand ability. Pie was also elected to the eleventh congress by the\\nFederalists in 1809, but served only one term as about that time the\\nFederalist party began to lose its power and influence. He died\\nat Keene, N. H., in 1849, aged seventy-three j-ears, honored and\\nrespected by all who knew him.\\nStephen P. Steele is another of the pioneer lawyers of Peterbo-\\nrough. He was born in this town July 26, 1784, graduated at\\nWilliams college in 1809, read law in the office of James Wilson\\nin Peterborough, and practiced his profession here from the time\\nhe was admitted to the bar, about 1812, until about the time of his\\ndeath in 1857. He represented the town in the legislature two\\nyears, and served as a delegate to the constitutional convention in\\n1850. He was a lawyer of fair ability and always evinced a lively\\ninterest in the affairs of Peterborough.\\nJames Walker, a son of Peterborough by adoption, was another\\nconspicuous character in the legal fraternity of the town. Born in\\nRindge in 1784, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1804.\\nHe came to Peterborough in 1814 and began the practice of law,\\nwhich he continued with success until the time of his death, which\\noccurred in 1854. He was a man who stood eminent in his pro-\\nfession, a man of brains and intellectual ability, with a strong\\nmind and unbending force of purpose. He was a man whom\\nmany of the older inhabitants remember well. Many of you re-\\nmember him I presume, partially on account of his quaint unyield-\\ning mind, uncommon traits of character, and freaks of eccentric\\nhabits peculiar to James Walker alone, and partially from his good\\ncitizenship, his true worth as a friend and sterling integrity as a man.\\nFrom what I have been able to learn about Mr. AValker, which has\\nbeen obtained principally from some of the older residents, I am\\nhappily led to believe, that he was indeed one of the remarkable\\nmen of his age and generation, and I regret that nowhere have I\\nbeen able to find a just and suitable record of this man who was so\\nlong identified with the interests of Peterborough, except that his-\\ntory which is recorded in the hearts of his fellow citizens who had\\nthe good fortune to serve on the stage of active life with him, and\\ntherefore knew him best. The unqualified verdict of these people\\nis, that he always identified himself with whatever seemed for the\\ninterest of Peterborough, and in all such matters, whether public", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "108\\nor private, liis sound judgement was ahvaj s souglit and his wise\\ncounsel always followed. For forty years this man practiced\\namong his neighbors and fellow townsmen, a profession which\\nmany people unjustly repute as unquestionably bad, if not abso-\\nlutely disreputable, and yet, at the end of that time so honorable\\nand ui)riglit had been his life and dealings witli his fellow men that\\nhe closed the door of his oifice behind him and went home to lie\\ndown and die among the people with whom he had spent an active and\\nconspicuous life without an enemy in the whole community. He\\nwas a man who carried influence and conviction with him because\\nof his honesty of purpose and personal disinterestedness, a man of\\nwhom much more can be said than I would be justified in saying\\nat this time, and I can do no more and say no less than by closing\\nwith the j)lain, ungarnished statement which I know will be en-\\ndorsed by all who knew him, that ichatever he did, whatever he\\nsaid, and ivherever he went, whether in public or private af-\\nfairs, whether in the practice of his profession or in social and\\npersonal relations with his fellow beings, he was actuated by un-\\nselfish motives, uninfluenced for personal gain, and was al-\\nways found on the side of right, trutli and justice, standing head\\nand shoulders above other men of greater pretentions. What\\ngreater tribute can be paid a man, what more can a man desire\\nwhen he is ready to lie down and die after a long and useful life,\\nthan a statement like this, coming as it does from the hearts of a/l\\nthe people, as their honest, unqualitied verdict of their respect and\\nesteem of the man, who has not only been their friend and neigh-\\nbor, but their counsellor and adviser for forty years in all the\\ntrials and vicissitudes incident to public and private life?\\nArtemas L. Holmes, a native of this town, was a graduate froin\\nDartmouth in 1835, read law, and after being admitted to the bar.\\npracticed a short time in Peterborough, then went to 8t. Louis\\nwliere he practiced a number of years, then removed to New York\\nity where he died in 1871. David J. Clark was also a lawyer in\\nthis town at one time, but 1 have been unable to learn any thing-\\nvery definitely of him here or his career elsewhere. Edward S.\\nCutter is another lawj er who deserves special mention, and who\\nis well remembered by many of the older people now living. I do\\nnot remember Avhen Mr. Cutter was a citizen of Peterborough, my\\nacquaintance witli him dating from about the time I was admitted\\nto the bar in 1874. Tie was a native of Jafl rey and graduated from\\nDartmouth College in 1844, and was principal of Peterborough\\nAcademy for two years after, from 1844 to 1846, proving himself\\nto be a thorough and i)o])ular teacher. He then began the study of\\nlaw which lie pursued until ISI J in the office of Hon. James Walk-\\ner of P(!terboroug]i and Judge Daniel Clark of Manchester. In\\n1849 when he was admitted to the Hillsborough County bar he be-\\ngan his practice in Petex borougli, where he continued and enjoyed", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "109\\na large and ever increasing business until 1858, when he removed\\nto.Amlicrst to assume the duties of clerk of the Supreme Court for\\nHillsborough County, which office he held and filled with ability\\nand satisfaction to the court until about 1870, when he removed to\\nBoston and began the practice of his profession in that city. He\\nreturned to Nashua a few years since, where he is now engaged\\nin practicing law^ As a member of the green bag fraternity he\\nhas always stood high in the profession, as a man lie has the con-\\nfidence and friendship of all, and as a citizen is honored and re-\\nspected by everybody where he has lived. George A. Ramsdell,\\nCornelius V. Dearborn and Eugene Lewis were all practicing law-\\nyers in Peterborough, the two former for a number of years.\\nThey were all men of unquestionable integrity, lawyers of good\\nability, having the confidence of all who knew them. They re-\\nquired and sought larger fields of practice, and Messrs. Ramsdell\\nand Dearborn moved to Nashua a number of years ago, and Mr.\\nLewis removed and located in Moline, 111., a few years later, where\\nhe is now engaged in a lucrative and extensive business.\\nAlbert S. Scott is the next Peterborough lawyer on our list.\\nHaving been born here, and having been prominently associated\\nwith the business and prosperity of the town during his whole life,\\nsomething more than a passing notice of him is required at this\\ntime and on this occasion. Mr. Scott was born in 1824 and lived\\nhere until he died in 1877, with the exception of a few years tem-\\nporary absence. He was educated in the public schools of the\\ntown, at Peterborough Academy, Hancock Literary and Scientific\\nInstitute, Phillips Exeter Academy, and was at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege one year. From the time he was about fifteen years old un-\\ntil 1859 when he was admitted to the bar, he devoted more or less\\nof his time to teaching. As a teacher his course of instruction\\nwas thorough and systematic and therefore successful. He ren-\\ndered a vast amount of gratuitous service, and devoted much time\\nto our public schools. For many years he was an active and use-\\nful member of the superintending school committee. This is a pub-\\nlic dutj that has always been done in Peterborough without thanks,\\ncompensation or reward of any kind, notwithstanding the fact that\\nit is one of the most important and responsible positions in town\\nand one that always sought the best mind, the richest and clearest\\nintellect, and well did Mr. Scott perform the full share of this gra-\\ntuitous and unappreciated work. I remember well when a lad in\\nschool the frequent visits that Mr. Scott made to the old school\\nhouse on the hill, sometimes appearing as a matter of official duty\\nto direct and encourage in educational affairs, somelimes at the\\nrequest of the teacher or in resi^onse to the petition of a parent to\\ndischarge a sterner responsibility which Avas incumbent on the com-\\nmittee man. It was sometimes to give a moral lecture, sometimes\\nto reprimand and not unfrequeutly to expel a bad boy with a vicious", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "110\\nheart, and reprehensible, untamed, and ungovernable spirit. What-\\never was the object of his visit we were always sure that it would\\nbe accomplished without an apolog-y on his part. His influence in\\nschool matters was felt and always recognized as long as he lived,\\nand every boy who was strugg-ling- to g-et an education and wanted\\na friend to assist and encourag e him found such a friend in Mr.\\nScott. Soon after he left colleg-e he began the study of medicine\\nwith Dr. Albert Smith and attended one course of medical lectures\\nat Dartmouth Medical College, but for some reason he then aban-\\ndoned the study of medicine and began the study of law with\\nDearborn Cheney, then practicing in Peterborough, and was ad-\\nmitted to the Hillsborough County bar in 1859. My impression is\\nhe first located for the practice of his professeon in East JatFrey,\\nand after remaining there for a short time returned and established\\nhimself in Peterborough, where he continued in practice until the\\ntime of his death, with the exception of a few years, during which\\ntime he was cashier of the First National Bank of Peterborough.\\nHe was a man of excellent ability and stood well in the legal pro-\\nfession. As a lawyer he was considered a safe and conscientious\\nadviser and an excellent general practitioner; but without doubt\\nhe appeared to the best advantage as an able and effective advo-\\ncate. In this branch of the profession he excelled, and it is not\\nsaying too much to state that he had but a few if any superiors in\\nthe Hillsborough County bar. He was entrusted with many posi-\\ntions of honor and responsibility by his fellow citizens during his\\nlifetime, among which I may mention that he represented the town\\nfour years in the popular branch of the legislature and served as a\\nmember of the Governor s council two terms, in 1875 and 187(3.\\nMr. Scott was a man of noble qualities of heart, a patriotic, enter-\\nprising citizen, and an earnest, zealous worker in charitable as well\\nas public enterprises, always identifying himself with the social\\nafijiirs and business interests of his native town. He was a good\\nfriend to all who would be befriended, a devoted husband, and a\\nconsistent Christian worker. As a man, he was dignified in manner,\\ndecided in principle and firm in the faith that was in him. As a\\ngentleman, he was genial, in principle generous, gladdening the\\nhearts of those with whom he had social and business relations.\\nIn principle and example he lived a noble, upright life, and died\\ntrusting explicitly in his Lord and Master, whom he had tried con-\\nscientiously to serve all his life. By his death Peterborough lost\\none of her most honored citizens, and his premature and untimely\\ndeath Avas mourned by all who knew him.\\nIn addition to the seventeen lawyers who have practiced in town\\nthere are thirty-one natives of Peterborough who have read law\\nand practiced elsewhere, viz. Jonathan Steele, John Wilson, Zach-\\neus Porter, David Steele, Jonathan Steele 2d, David Steele, David\\nSteele 2d, Isaac P. Osgood, Amasa Edes, David Scott, Gustavus", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nSwan, Gen. James Miller, Thomas F. Goodhue, Stephen Mitchell,\\nJohn Stuart, Charles Jesse Stuart, James Wilson, Jr., Jonathan\\nSmith, Jr., George Walker, Nathaniel Holmes, Samuel A. Holmes,\\nBernard B. Whittemore, James Smith, George A. Hunt, John P.\\nAllison, Samuel John Todd, Frederick C. Ingalls, Timothy K.\\nAmes 2d, Jonathan Smith, Will A. Scott, and Frank H. Mackintosh.\\nMany of these men like many of those who have practiced in Pe-\\nterborough were strong, forcible men. We find them in all parts\\nof our land leading lights iu the legal profession, in education,\\nliterature, politics men of worth and genuine integrity, pos-\\nsessing judgment and sterling common sense. All of these men\\nfurnish examples of strong intellectual ability, adorned with a fin-\\nished and classical education. Therefore you will observe if I have\\nnot over estimated the worth, and drawn too bright a picture of\\nthe work that the Lawyers of Peterborough have wrought, that\\nthey have played no unimportant part in the work of our govern-\\nment at home and abroad, the freest and best this side of Heaven,\\nand which indeed is founded upon the unwritten law of God, yet,\\nnotwithstanding the fact that our government is anchored upon\\nsuch principles as the Great Law Giver has promulgated for the\\ngovernment of all the people and nations of the earth, you could\\nnot carry out its principles and precepts, life would not be\\nsafe, liberty would be lost, and the pursuits and happiness of man\\nwould be sacrificed were it not for the legal men of our land, who,\\nby their legal training vitalize these precepts and principles of law\\nand become the means and end of putting them into practical op-\\neration. Without written, well defined and well executed law,\\nmen could not be qualified to respect constituted authority and gov-\\nernment could not be maintained. Without lawyers to propound\\nand define what law is good and what is bad, all business and com-\\nmercial interest, and society, which is the foundation upon which\\nthe whole superstructure of government is built, would become\\ndisorganized, and in a short time the people would become incapa-\\nble of self government. Without law and lawyers, kingdoms and\\nempires and republics would become convulsed with taint and cor-\\nruption, riot and passion would assume dominion, strife and war\\nwould follow, and ruin would be the inevitable prelude to the\\ndownfall of any government.\\nSodom and Gomorrah, Nineveh and Babylon, Egypt and Jerusa-\\nlem, Greece, Carthage and Rome in the decline of their influence\\nand power, and glory, furnish examples of overwhelming evidence\\nof the destruction of nations when the people begin to disregard\\nsound law and good government. As this decline gradually but\\nsurely came upon those once mighty nations, occasioned by a de-\\ngeneration of their once learned and classic people, and a disregard\\nfor their former love of justice and observance of order, neither", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "112\\nthe fiery eloquence of Cicero, nor the loi,ac of Demosthenes could\\nturn buck the liearts of tlie people from pending ruin.\\nIt was the law and order, tempered with right and justice flow-\\ning: out and shimmering in a blaze of living liglit from the brain of\\nAdams and Jefferson and other apostles of American liberty that\\nbrought us out of the land of bondage into the land of freedom.\\nThus we see that the richest, most cultivated and most powerful\\nnations, with all their armies and navies, with all their scliools and\\nsciences have been virtually swept from the face of the earth be-\\ncause they have disregarded the law and order made and estab-\\nlished for them, which is the foundation upon which states and\\nnations as well as societ_v stand. Remove a nation s virtue and re-\\nlax the administration of justice and you take away every element\\nwhich is capable of holding her together and making her grand and\\ngreat as well as progressive and permanent. The ministration of\\nthe law strikes at the roots of those disorganizing i)rincij)les of\\nprofligacy and vice which endanger and destroy the rights and lib-\\nerties of the people and disturb the peace and happiness of society.\\nIt cannot be denied but what lawyers advance the interest of good\\ngovernment and make the prosperity of a community possible and\\nprepare a peoi)le for a higher and more perfect state of existence,\\nmaking them better in all the social, civil and religious relations they\\nsustain on earth, man toward man and man toward God.\\nCircumstances interpose, and time forbids allowing ine to follow\\neach one of those gentlemen through life and presenting even a\\nbrief abstract of the varied and interesting work of their public\\nand private career. I cannot, however, forego the pleasure that it\\nwill aflbrd me to mention the name of one of these gentlemen whom\\nI am delighted to welcome here to-day, and I know he will pardon\\nme for speaking of him in his presence, because of the respect and\\nmutual friendship we have always entertained for each other, one\\nwho is not only a brother lawyer and a comrade, but one who has\\nbeen my fi-iend all his life; I refer to the Hon. Jonathan Smith of\\nClinton, Mass., who has so ably spoken to you this afternoon upon\\nthe Military Record of Peterborough. We were boys together.\\nWe were born and reared side by side in the same neighborhood.\\nWe have slept in the same bed, we have both kiioAvn when boys\\nwhat hard work was on a farm. Ilis father s and my father s land\\nadjoined and we have sweat together in the same hay field. We\\nhave looked into the field where the other was hard at work, and I\\npresume he has wished that I had to do his work, as I have wished\\nthat he had to do mine. This we did as a matter of course with\\nthe best of feelings one toward the other. We di-ank water from\\nthe same jug, as in after years we drank from the same canteen.\\nWe attended the same school, tumbled in the same snow, toed the\\nsame crack, and have been chastised with the same rod. We have\\nliad our school boy quarrels and bloodless encounters, using ex-", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "113\\npressions toward each other which are nowhere to be found in the\\nChristian catechism, and have hnrled language at one another which\\nwas never tanght us in the Sunday school. When a boy, as now a\\nman, ho caught on easily. It was no task for him to learn his\\nlessons. A little time devoted to his books kept him ahead of his\\nfellows. Unfortunately, this gave him ample time for mischief-\\nmaking with steady going boys like myself. I always sat beside\\nhim in school and had to hold close communion with my books all day\\nlong whether it was what was most agreeable to me or not. I used\\nto envy him because he had so much time for sly, questionable rec-\\nreation during the six hours in the day which has been set aside in\\nNew England from time immemorial for school purposes. I re-\\nmember that on a certain occasion, in order to test the sincerity and\\ntenderness of his friendship, while he was at the blackboard explain-\\ning an example in mathematics, which he had the audacity to believe\\nhe could do better than I could, Iplacedalai-ge tack in his seat, the\\nmost agravatiug and tenacious part pointing upwards. Upon re-\\nturning to his seat unconscious of the pi esence of the cruel little\\nvillain Avho almost seemed to reach up for his victim, the conse-\\nquences and logical exclamations resulting from the weight of a\\none hundred and fifty pound boy coming in contact with such a\\nsly little intruder are better understood by observation, combined\\nwith a lillle experience, than by description! In consequence of\\nthis and one or two other similar experiences that really puts a se-\\nvere test to even a boy s goodness and Christianity, I came to\\nthe conclusion that, if he should choose the law as his profession\\nhe would make a success of it, as the phrases and expressions then\\nused, if not strictly of lec/al form and impoi-t, were certainly clear,\\nrompreheitsive and forcible, although I have never seen any such\\nlanguage or quotations as he used in any of the ancient or even\\nmodern text books. These little episodes w^ere only the freaks of\\nschool boys, and if ever there were any hard feelings between us,\\nit lasted only for a day. We served in the same company and regi-\\nment in the military service of the United States in the war of the\\nRebellion. We were not only comrades, but fast friends. As we\\nhad slept in the same bed when bo}S, so in the Avar we slept in the\\nsame bunk and beside the same camp fire. We drank from the\\nsame cup, fed wuth the same knife and fork, and sipped from the\\nsame spoon. As we had worked side by side in the same field of\\ncorn when boys, later on we fought side by side on the same\\nfield of battle for the defense of our country s tlag and to preserve\\nthe nation s honor. AV^e shared together the dangers of the picket\\npost and skirmish line, the fatigue of the march, and the monoto-\\nny of the camp. He was a good soldier, a true comrade, and\\nwhen that time shall come, as it is sure to come, that moves us on-\\nward and completes the inevitable destiny of all the children of\\nmen, and when the marble shaft is placed to point out to his pos-", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "114\\nterity and to future generations the final resting- place where sleeps\\na brave soldier, a true patriot, a good and noble man, an appropri-\\npriate epitaph to be placed upon tliat monument would be, //e\\nate his hard tack without yrianhling. From the war we returned\\nto the home of our fathers together. Later on we were ix ading\\nlaw at the same time, and since then we have made its practice our\\nregular profession. Really, our lives have seemed to run from\\nearliest boyhood in the same channel, and as real as that seems to\\nus, we have been equally as true friends.\\nAfter being mustered ont of the service in 1865 he completed his\\ncourse of education, entering Dartmouth in 1867, and graduated\\nfrom that institution in 1871. AYhile in college he was perse-\\nvering as well as industrious, having an object in view, which was\\nto fit himself for an honorable, useful life, relying entirely upon his\\nown resources and ability to furnish the sinews necessary to secure\\na college education. In the fall of 1870 while in college, and in the\\nfall of 1871 after graduating, he taught the academy at Lancaster,\\nN. H. He was editor of the Cobs Republican from December,\\n1871, to June, 1773. His pithy articles and sharp thrusts estab-\\nlished his reputation as an able and fearless champion of his polit-\\nical faith. The editor s chair, howev^er, was not the place for\\nwhich he educated himself, and in June, 1873, he entered the law\\noffice of Cross Burnham in Manchester, was admitted to the\\nHillsborough County bar in January, 1875, and immediately opened\\nan oflBce in that city and began the pi actice of his profession. He\\nwas elected city solicitor of Manchester in 1876, re-elected to the\\nsame office in 1877 and again in 1878. In 1878 he removed to Clin-\\nton, Mass., where he has since been engaged in an extensive law\\npractice. He was special justice of the second district court of\\nEastern Worcester from 1881 to 1886, at which time he resigned to\\ntake his seat in the Massachusetts house of representatives, having\\nbeen elected a member of that body from the fifth Worcester rep-\\nresentative district, comprising the citj of Clinton and six neigh-\\nboring towns, which office he held one year. He was rea])pointed\\nspecial justice of the second district court of Eastern Worcester in\\n1889, which position he now holds.\\nThis honorable record of my estimable brother, proves conclu-\\nsively that he is in truth and fact a worthy scion of his distin-\\nguished progenitor of whom I have spoken that he has the confi-\\ndence and respect of the whole connnunity in which he Jives and\\nto which he is justly entitled and from among all the sons and\\ndaughters of Peterborough, and my many friends who have re-\\nturned to-day to the old hearthstone from all over our country,\\nthere are none I am more glad to see, and no one to whom I ex-\\ntei)d a more cordial welcome and fraternal greeting than to him.\\nThere is now a larger number of lawyers in Peterborough than\\nhas been located here at any one time before. This may indicate", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "115\\none condition of things and yet mean quite another. One might\\nnatiii-ally tliink and perhaijs be led to believe that the love of strife\\namong- the citizens was increasing, that the moral atmosphere vras\\nbecoming contaminated with ungodly things, and that the temper\\nof the inhabitants was getting to be unquestionably bad. Quite\\nthe opposite, however, prove to be the real facts in the case. Lit-\\nigation and lawsuits are constantly growing less.\\nI once heard a doctor say in responding for the medical gentle-\\nmen, that it naturally followed that the more doctors there were in\\na community the more sickness and affliction there must Jiecessarily\\nbe The reverse is the case with the legal fraternity. The more\\nlawyers the less litigation and greater the happiness This is the\\nvery best reason why you should tolerate those you have with you\\nand encourage others to come! Beyond a question of doubt, the\\nmorals of the inhabitants are better than in the earlier days of the\\ntown, and the morbid love for strife and litigation which we are\\ntold once prevailed to such an extent that almost everybody in\\ntown was involved in some kind of a lawsuit or personal quarrel,\\nis constantly diminishing. The lawyers in a self sacrificing spirit are\\nwilling to take upon themselves, veiy largely, if not entirely, the re-\\nsponsibility of this improved condition of society and the peaceful\\nturn of mind that now seems to pervade the whole community This\\nis a very desirable condition of aflTairs for the people, but how is it\\nfor the lawyers Cannot you see that it is mighty hard for the green\\nbag fraternity? It is safe to say that, with five lawyers in Peter-\\nborough, there is not more than twenty-five per cent, of the litiga-\\ntion there was in the early history of the town. Certainly there is\\nno occasion for the town to consider the proposition of giving anv\\nlawyer a bonus of five hundred dollars a year to stay here, simply\\nto discourage lawsuits and litigation as it once proposed to do by\\nJeremiah Smith. There seems to be but very little inducement for\\nyoung men to prepare themselves and engage in the legal profes-\\nsion now days in this community, except to promote and secure\\ngood order, and stimulate peace and good will on earth among\\nthe children of men This we do as a matter of fact, purely from\\nbenevolent and philanthropic principles and compunction of con-\\nscience, in an unbegrudging, self sacrificing manner, and withal, a\\nfirm determmation to keep constantly in view, whether we do\\nmuch business or but little, the noble i^rinciples once expressed bv\\nDaniel Webster at a public dinner when called upon to respond in\\nbehalf of The Lawyers, when he closed with this sentiment:\\nThe law. It has honored us; may we honor it. Such truly has\\nbeen the practice, purpose, and character of the older Lawyers of\\nPeterborough who have completed their work and gone to their\\nreward, leaving for the people of this town the proud conscious-\\nness that her sons have not only honored the law, but that they\\nhave elevated and dignified that profession which is adorned", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "116\\nwith the brightest and keenest intellect of mankind. May their\\nexample be emulated by those now in the drama of active life, and\\nmay those who follow us continue to elevate and diofnify the hon-\\norable profession. The influence and example of such men as I\\nhave spoken of, ought at least to prevent us and those who shall\\nsucceed us, from becoming promoters and conspirators of strife,\\nand at least encourage them to strive to attain the highest ideal in\\nthe profession, to cause them to feel that they are not merely\\nlawyers, having- an aim only for personal gain, but to realize that\\nthat they are indeed ministers in the Temple of Justice, that justice\\nis demanding of them to subordinate greed and gloritication after\\nthe manner and custom of men, and to devote their energy in assist-\\ning to I edress wrong, preventing oppression, and securing eternal\\njustice between man and man. This much briefly told of the his-\\ntory of the sons and Lawyers of Peterborough who have prac-\\nticed the legal profession here and elsewhere will be sufficient at\\nthis time to convince an intelligent people that they have occupied\\nno ignoble place in this town and other communities in which they\\nhave lived that they have been conspicuous actors in the grand\\nevents which make up the history of our town and country, and I\\ntrust I shall not be considered presumptuous if I state that the law-\\nyers hold a ijosition in local and public matters b_v virtue of their\\nprofession, which places thein paramount to all other i)rofessional\\njnen, and that the lawyers who have practiced in Peterborough and\\nher sons who have practiced elsewhere have had a great influence in\\nshaping and directing the destiny of affairs, and compare favorably\\nin ability and legal attainments Avith those of any other town in\\nthe State of New Hampshire.\\nThe Lawyers of Peterborough have served you in the govern-\\nment of your town, they have always taken an active interest in\\nthe cause of education, they have always been interested in your\\nchurches and the cause of Christianity, they have always been\\nfound on the side of truth and justice, they have been of liberal\\nmind and advanced ideas, they have served you in both branches\\nof the State legislature and as the governor and chief executive of\\nthe State, they have filled and honored every department in our\\ncourts of justice, they have sat upon the bench, have influenced\\ncourts by their logical and legal arguments, and warped the minds\\nof jurists by the force of their strong and eloquent pleas. Their\\nvoices have been heard in the halls of our National CongTCss, and\\nwhen law, and argument, and modern diplomacy have failed\\namong men and nations to establish the riglit and correct the\\nwrong, they have been seen in the foremost rank of dang-er on the\\nfield of battle fighting for justice, defending the flag and protect-\\ning their country s honor, and above all else, they have been re-\\nspectable citizens, at all times taking an interest in the general wel-\\nfare and prosperity of the town, and as a rule, have had the confi-", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "117\\ndence and respect of tlieir fellow citizens in the community in\\nwhich they lived.\\nOur historian somewhere records the fact that the ministerial\\nhistory of the town is the darkest pag-e in the calendar. The legal\\nprofession has furnished no such chapter for our history. The\\nLawyers of Peterborough need no words of mine to defend thom,\\nand I cannot pronounce a more fitting and truthful eulogy, or one\\nthat will speak louder in their praise or more eloquently in their\\ncommendation than by saying, and without fear of contradiction,\\nthat they have taken part and been associated, at some time, in\\nsome place, and in some way, with some or all of the great and\\ngi-and events, either local or national, tlie accomplishment of which\\nhas made our town, and county, and state, and country, so grand\\nand glorious, and Peterborough has indeed especial reason to be\\nproud of her sons who have made law their profession. They have\\nall discharged their duty and performed their part as American\\ncitizens in working out tlie glory and salvation of our common\\ncountry, securing for us an honorable and independent existence\\namong the nations of the earth, the future possibilities of which\\nare grand beyond conception. Of the seventeen lawyers who have\\npracticed in Peterborough, I have made brief mention Avith the ex-\\nception of the rive last named, who are now living and are engaged in\\nthe practice of their profession in this town. Of them it is not my\\npurpose to speak individually. You know them all as well as I.\\nOur race in life is not run, our work like most of our predecessors\\nof whom I have spoken is unfinished, and we will leave them and\\ntheir labor, and their record, as subjects for future generations,\\nand for those who will celebrate the two hundreth anniversary of\\nour towai fifty years from to-day, trusting my friends that the law\\nwill be as ably promulgated and as honestly and conscientiously\\nadministered during the ne.\\\\t one hundred and fifty years as it has\\nbeen in the past, and that Peterborough may continue to raise up\\nmen who will do equal honor to the legal profession.\\nThe Chairman:\\nMr. President: 1 desire to present now a gentleman, a son of\\nPeterborough, one who as a conqjanion and schoolmate in boyhood\\nI remember as deeply interested in vocal and instrumental music.\\nI introduce to you Ethan Iladley, Esq., of Chicopee, Mass., who\\nwill speak to the theme,\\nOur Former Citizens.\\nMr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens of my Native Town:\\nIt gives me great pleasure to be present with you today, to look\\nin the faces of so many I knew in boyhood, and to have so vividly\\nbrought to remembrance the events of fifty years ago. But there\\ncomes a feeling of sadness as I look back over the neighborhoods of", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "118\\nmy acquaintance, call to mind tlie inmates of the homes, my as-\\nsociates and schoolmates, and know that a large majority of them\\nare gone, never to return. My father s household seems to be an\\nexception. There were eight brothers and sisters then, and all\\nare living today also, three others born since, the youngest about\\nforty years of age. Nearly a generation has come and gone since\\nI have resided here, and yet there are no places or localities that\\ncome back to mind with such pleasurable distinctness as the hills and\\nmountains, valleys and streams of Peterborough.\\nI was a small lad of eleven years at the time of the celebration\\nof the one hundredth anniversary, too young to be permitted to\\ntake any acLiv^e part in the exercises of that occasion, but my fa-\\nther was a member of the choir, and I being somewhat musically\\ninclined, he allowed me to go with him to some of the prelimina-\\nry gatherings and rehearsals for singing. I remember of going\\nto a meeting in the old town hall on what is now Concord street,\\ncalled to make arrangements for the singing, an important part of\\nwhich was to choose a leader. The choice lay between two Mr.\\nNahum Warren and Mr. Milton Carter. Now, for certain reasons,\\nI had come to entertain the highest respect for the musical ability\\nof Nahum AVarren, and felt very sure that he ought to be chosen\\nleader, but when the vote vras taken, it was found that a large ma-\\njority thought otherwise, and Mr. Carter was elected. As I look\\nback upon it now with maturer judgment, I should say, that while\\nthe sineers did not choose the best musician, they nevertheless\\nmade no mistake in the choice, for Mr. Carter, with his goahead-\\nitiveness, push and musical enthusiain, would arouse an interest in\\nthe singers that Mr. Warren very likely would have failed to have\\ndone.\\nAfter choosing a leader came the question as to what should be\\nsung. Selections were made from old and somewhat familiar\\nmusic, but they thought that the grand occasion called for some-\\nthing new, and so sent abroad and procured an antliem entitled,\\nA Multitude of Angels. It was a noisy and somewhat peculiar\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2piece of music, and some of the lads of the village named it a\\nmultitude of devils. Probably it has not been sung in Peterbo-\\nro^igli since then; certainly I have never heard it, but think I can\\nrecall somo of the opening strains. (Sings.)\\nA multitude of angels, a multitude of angels,\\nWith a shout! with a shout!\\nAnd in thought I can see Mr. Carter as he stood there drilling\\nthe united choirs, vigorously marking the time with his fiddle bow,\\nor joining in the chorus with voice and violin, trying to beget in\\nthe siugers something of his own enthusiasm. And he met with\\ncommendable success; for when the time arrived, the music was\\nforcibly rendered, and A Multitude of Angels filled every nook\\nand corner of the church.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "119\\nOn the morning of the 24th, probably every boy in town who\\ncould do so was in the village. I was on hand, and as the proces-\\nsion was being formed on Concord street, very naturally gravita-\\nted to the front where the musicians were, for we had a band that\\nday. If a comparison was to be made between that and the one\\nto whose stirring strains we have listened today, it might in some\\nrespects be unfavorable for the former organization, but they were\\nno mean company of musicians. Small in numbers, but not small\\nmen. There was Mr. Morse of Dublin, a man of stalwart frame,\\nthough he placed a small instrument an E-flat bugle, but little\\nused at the present time and Mr. Phillips, known as Dick Phillips.\\nAs I recall him, he had largeness in more directions than one.\\nLarge eyebrows, a large face, mouth and lips, and large also in the\\nregion of the stomach and abdomen. But when he put the large\\ncup or mouthpiece of his instrument to those large lips, the tones\\nthat came forth from that slide trombone, were anything but small.\\nThey were true and telling. And there was Merrill Peavey, who\\nplayed a B-tiat bugle another instrument gone out of use. And\\nthere were thi-ee brothers of the White family, all of them full of\\nmusic and thei-e were probably some others whom I do not recall.\\nNow these musicians were in readiness to play with music selec-\\nted and in their bookracks, when the marshal of the day, Gen.\\nJohn Steele, walked to the front, and in a courteous yet somewhat\\ndignitied manner, said: Gentlemen of the band will please play,\\nAll Long Syne. Now, evidently, Auld Lang Syne was not\\nin the jjrogram, and the musicians looked at one another enquir-\\ningly, as if to say, what shall we do? One said, We can t play it.\\nAnother, O, yes we can. Well, what key shall we play it in?\\nAfter deciding what the key should be, at the word of command\\nthey played without notes, marching to the slow time of this famil-\\niar air to the church, where they continued playing until the celeb-\\nrities and veterans had passed in, when the tune was changed\\nfor a lively quickstep. There may be some of those players pres-\\nent, and I am querying whether they can recall that tune. I fancy\\nits strains are running through my mind, and for their sakes and\\nthose who heard them, without regard to musical taste or style,\\nwill endeavor to give them vocal form. (Sings The Prince Eugene\\nQuickstep. And so, marching to the rapid movement of this\\nrollicking quickstep, the church was soon tilled to overflowing, and\\nthere was no room for boys. At least I thought so, and being a\\nsomewhat bashful boy, failed to gain admittance, and therefore\\nrecall little else that was done.\\nThere are many here to-day who were here tif ty years ago. There\\nare probably, also, many who will be living when the two hun-\\ndredth anniversary shall come but none of us, fellow citizens,\\nwho can remember the past fifty years, will be living then, to re-\\ncall the present. We shall all have yielded to the fell destroyer.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "120\\nBut thanks, there will be no lack of people to celebrate the two\\nhundredth anniversaiy, if they choose to do so. I believe there Is\\na future yet for Peterborough; when man shall have advanced in\\nknowledge as he surely will, and better understands how to utilize\\nthe sources of wealth, comfort and i)Ower, to be found in the\\nstreams and soil, and beneath the soil of these hills and valleys;\\nand when some of the evils that have afflicted, and do still afflict\\nthis as well as most other towns, when these shall have been put\\nfar away, there shall be found dwelling here in generations to\\ncome, a prosperous, contented and happy people.\\nThe Chairman\\nI will now call upon James F. Brennan, Esq., to respond to the\\nclosing toast for this occasion,\\nOur Irish American Citizens.\\nMr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen My memory leads\\nme back over a comparatively brief jjart of the time covered by the\\nrecollections of the gray haired men and women who are here pres-\\nent. I was born in this beautiful village; my first hallowed rec-\\nollections cluster here; its territory is familiar to me; I know its\\npeople and something of its history, and wherever I go my mind\\nreverts with pride to this good old town. It is with great pleasure\\nthat I accept the honor of responding to this toast, and in what I\\nhave to say shall not refer to the compai atively modern generation\\nof Irishmen Murphy, Brennan, llamill, Noone, and scores of\\nothei S and their descendants, who have helped to build up this\\ntown, and whose history should be left for a resume of fifty years\\nhence, but to those eai ly settlers who came across the ocean, and\\ntheir descendants men who risked all, even life itself, to make\\nthis spot a fit place for the abode of men. They were com-\\nposed in a very small part of Scotchmen, Englishmen and other\\nnationalities, but the essential i)art of the pioneers of our town, in\\nfact nearly all of them, were Irishmen, for I assume that where\\n,men were born in Ireland, as they were, where many of their fa-\\nthers, perhaps, also, some of their grandfathers were born, they\\nwere men who can unqualifiedly be called Irishmen. Adopt any\\nother standard and a large part of the inhabitants of Ireland at the\\ntime they emigrated would not be considered Irishmen, and prob-\\nably few persons in this town to-day would be considered Ameri-\\ncans. The Scotchmen who came to Ireland, and from Avhom some\\nof the pioneers of this town trace their ancestry, landed on that\\nI^merald Isle, as our town history records it, in IGIO, more than a\\ncentury and a quarter before their descendants came to this country\\nin 17;3( They were indeed Irishmen lo the manor born, with\\nall the traits, impulses and characteristics of that i)eople, having, as\\nthe Rev. Dr. Morison said in his centennial address, the comic\\nhumor and pathos of the Irish, and to their severe character and", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "121\\nhabits another comforter came in, of Irish parentage; the long-\\ncountenance became short, the broad Irish hiimor besran to rise,\\netc. Need I ask the indulgence of my hearers if I occupy a part of\\nthe time allotted to me in naming some of these men who were the\\nfounders of this town and the inaugurators of civilization in this\\nsection\\nSamuel Gordon and wife (Eleanor IVIitchell) were born in the\\nCounty Tyrone, Ireland, as were also his father and mother they\\nare all buried in the old cemetery on the hill. By marriage the\\nblood intermixed M ith Holden, Kimball, Barnes, Pierce, Cochran,\\nDickey, AVhite, Brooks and Hurd.\\nWilliam Alld was born in Ireland in 1723, and was one of the\\nearly settlers. The blood mixed by marriage with Swan, Metcalf.\\nWorcester, Way and Whitten.\\nJohn McKean was born in Ballymony, Ireland, in 1714, and was\\nthe ancestor of all the McKeans in this section. His son James\\nlived and died on the David Blanchard place.\\nJohn Ferguson was born in Ireland in 1704, and came to this\\ncountry with the Smiths, Wilsons and Littles. The blood in-\\nfused into Morison, Stuart, Duncan, Miller, Moore, Evans and\\nWhiting.\\nGeorge Duncan was born in Ireland and was the ancestor of all\\nof that name in this section. Shortly after emigrating he married\\nMary Bell of Ballymony, and their progeny married into Taggart,\\nTodd, Black, McCIellan, Moore, Wallace, Wells and Cummings.\\nJohn Swan came from Ireland, and the family mixed by mar-\\nriage with Parker, Stuart, Gilchrest. Morse, Caldwell, Alld, Saw-\\nyer, Graham, Chamberlain, Nay, Hoyt, Steele, Hannaford, Moore,\\nMitchell, Cutter and White.\\nJoseph Turner and wife emigrated from Ireland with their sons\\nThomas, Joseph and William, who were all born there. The blood\\nby marriage went into AYellman, Sanders, Shedd, Converse, Nich-\\nols, Goodhue, Nutting, Taggart, Davis and Preston.\\nJohn Moore emigrated from Irela)id in 1718, and is the ancestor\\nof all of the same name here. The blood mixed by marriage with\\nJewett, Priest, Taggart, Woodward, Smith, Gregg, Dinsmore.\\nWood, Steele, Turner, Holmes, Burnham, Jordan and Phelps.\\nAndrew Todd was born in Ireland in 1G97, and married a daugh-\\nter of John Moore. Their progeny married with Morison, Miller,\\nTaggart and Brown.\\nJohn Smiley, after his marriage, emigrated from Ireland. The\\nblood by marriage went into Miller, Hovey, Parker, McCoy, Wil-\\nson and Leonard.\\nAbial Sawyer was born in Ireland in 1721, where also his wife\\nwas born in 1726. From them all of the name about here trace\\ntheir origin, intermixing by marriage with Gregg, Bailey, Scott,\\nFarnsworth, Howard and Nichols.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "122\\nMatthew and James Templeton came from Ireland, and their\\nblood intermixed by marriage with Holmes, Miller, Robbe, Wil-\\nder and McCoy.\\nAVilliam Robbe, both of his wives, and seven childi en, were all\\nborn in Ireland, three generations of the family having- lived\\nthere. From them all of the name in town trace their origin.\\nThey mixed by marriage with Taggart, Whittemore, Farnsworth,\\nMussey, White, Redding, Chapman, Gowing, Livingston, Morri-\\nson, Moore, FoUansbee and Swallow.\\nThomas Steele was born in Ireland in 1G94, and came here in\\n1718. The blood mixed by marriage with Gregg, Mitchell, Wil-\\nson, Smith, Ramsey, Swan, Senter, Willey and Rice. With anoth-\\ner branch of the Steeles which emigrated from Ireland was the fa-\\nther of the late John H. Steele, governor of our State in 1844-5.\\nWilliam Wilson emigrated from the County Tyrone, Ireland, in\\n1737, w^ith liis wife, davighter, and son Robert who was born in\\nthat county, and who commanded a party of men organized to go\\nto Lexington, armed, as our town history says, with guns, pitch-\\nforks and shillalahs. The blood by marriage went into Swan,\\nSteele, Johnson, Hunter, Lee, Gibbon, Scott, Jackson, Sherwood,\\nFisk and Taintor.\\nThomas Davidson emigrated fi-om Ireland with his brother John\\nDavidson, and Matthew Wright. By marriage the blood w^ent in-\\nto Patrick, Hoar, Dodge, Clark, Cutter and Nichols.\\nThomas Cunningham was a native of Ireland. The blood mixed\\nby marriage with Robbe, McKean, Treadwell, Hale, Goodhue,\\nJackson, Caldwell, Porter and Bishop.\\nJohn Wallace came to Londonderry fi om the County Antrim,\\nIreland, in 1719, and was the ancestor of the name here. The\\nblood is mixed with Mitchell, Xoone and Spline.\\n.Tames Gregg emigrated from Ireland to Loudondery In 1718,\\nand was the ancestor of all of the name In this section. The fami-\\nly intermixed with Steele, Gibbs, Hutchlns, Nelson, Macy and\\nWright.\\nWilliam McNee, born In Ireland in 1711, was one of the settlers\\nof the town. Before he came to this country he married Mary E.\\nBrownley, by whom he had all his clilldren. His descendants\\nhave now reached the eighth generation, but unfortunately the\\nname is entirely lost. The first and second generations retained\\nthe name, but the third changed it to Nay. They intermixed with\\nCunningham, Taggart, Millikln, Sw^an, Upton, Weston, Davidson,\\nTurner, Miller, Gilbert, Frost, Buss, AVood, Felt, Cross, Porter,\\nJaquith, Vose, Adams, Young, Balch, Perkins and Hapgood.\\nNathaniel Holmes (the ancestor of our able orator here to-day\\nand all of the name in this section) was born in Coleralne, Ireland,\\nas was also his father. Thus we have three generations of this\\nfamily which lived in Ireland. He was an early settler and by", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "12:5\\nmarriage the blood mixed with Whittemore, Adams. Clement.\\nSwasey, Leach, Kimball, Dickey, Hall, Grifflii, Gregg-, Miller.\\nAiken, Bruce, Sewall, Smith, Newton and Livingston.\\nThere were two distinct families of Millers in town, remotely\\nrelated; the ancestors of both, however, came from Ireland. Back\\nto these people our president of this day and all of the name here-\\nabouts trace their ancestry. They intermarried with Patterson,\\nBurns, Campbell, Vickery, Johnson, Mead, Shipman, Templeton,\\nMcFarland, White, Duncan, Davis, Kopes, Wilkins, Phelps, Mc-\\nCoy, Thompson, Cunningham, Taggart, Gowing, Clark, Gregg.\\nHolt, Sanderson, Wilder and Scott.\\nAll of the Whites in town, including the marshal of this day.\\nare descendants of Patrick White, who was born in Ireland in\\n1710. By marriage they intermixed with Stuart, Shearer, Gregg.\\nUpton, Cram, Stearns, Carley, Parker, Grant, Dennis, Goodwin,\\nFarmer, Perry, Swan, Pierce, Fisk, Washburn, Whittemore, Shat-\\ntuck, Leighton, Burns, Alld, Grimes, Loring, Holmes, Mitchell,\\nScott, Cunningham, Lakin, Spafford, Longley, Kyes and Tenney.\\nSamuel Morison and wife emigrated from Ireland, leaving their\\nparents, but taking with them eight children, who were all born\\nthere. From them descended all that family in this section who\\nspell their name with one r, including- our poet of to-day, and the\\nvenerable gentleman whom we are proud to have with us here,\\nwho delivered the oration at our centennial fifty years ago. By\\nmarriage their blood went into the following named families:\\nSteele, Mack, Knight, Johnson, Bassett, Williams, Mitchell, Smith.\\nMoore, Todd, AVallace, Hale, Graham, Felt, Wilcox, Holmes, Bux-\\nton and Wells.\\nJames Smith, the progenitor of all the Smiths in this section.\\nwas from Ireland. His son Robert was born in Moneymore, Ire-\\nland, and with his four children, John, Sarah, Mary and William,\\nall born near Lough Neagh, came to this country in 1736. Thus\\nwe find that three generations of this family were from Ireland.\\nDr. Smith, the historian of our town, was a descendant of this\\nfamily. By marriage the blood went into Bell, McNee, Morison,\\nWhite, Annan, Dunshee, Fletcher, Smiley, Burns, McCrillis, Em-\\nery, Findley, Pierce, Russell, Barker, Fifield, Cavender, Walker,\\nGordon, Fox, P\\\\)ster, Reynolds, Kilbourne, Jones, Leonaid. Blan-\\nchard, Lewis, Cheney and Dearborn.\\nWilliam Scott emigrated in 17:}(i from Coleraine, Ireland, where\\nall his children were born, among them William, Avho settled here\\nthe same year. This man and liis father were Irish, as was also\\nAlexander Scott, progenitor of another branch which settled here\\nand emigrated at the same time. From tiiese families sprang\\nevery person of the name in town, among them our efficient toast-\\nmaster, and by marriage the blood has mingled with Cochran.\\nRobbe, VVills, Maxfield, Cummings, Ramsey. Whitney, Lincoln.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "124\\nLooinis, Gi-ay, Ballard, Jewett. Fuller, Eawcrs. Orr. Allyii. Blaii-\\nchard, Clark and Ramsdell.\\nThis is only a partial list of the Irislnucii wlio were the founders\\naud builders of Peterboi ough which may he completed at some\\nfuture time. It could be extended considerably, but sutficient\\nnames are here given to show the nationality of the men to whom\\nthis town owes its existence. All the brief facts here given are\\ntaken from the history of this town and that of Londonderrv,\\nN. H.\\nThus we see that there are comparatively few persons in town\\nto-day, with the exception of recent comers, who have not coursing\\nin their veins the blood of those sturdy Irishmen wlio made\\nthis town what it is, whose bodies have long- since returned to\\nclay in the old cemetery on the hill, and whose history is the his-\\ntory of the town itself. Long may tlieir memory be cherished\\nLong: may the pride which exists in such ancestry be retained\\nThey were brave, honest, manly men, who broke down the bar-\\nriers that civilization nnght enter. Their lot was a life of hard-\\nship it is ours to enjoy the fruits of their work.\\nNot only the privations of this cold, uninviting- country were\\ntheirs to suffer, but intolerance and bigotry met them at the\\nthreshold of the country to which they were about to bring- a bless-\\ning-. Rev. Dr. Morison iu his centennial address, said that when\\nthe Smiths, Wilsons, Littles and others arrived, it was noised\\nabout that a pack of Irishmen had landed. They were denied\\neven lodgings. Mr. Winship, of Lexington, who extended a wel-\\ncome to them, however, said, If this house reached from here to\\nCharlestown, and I could find such Irish as these, I would have\\nit filled up with Irish, and none but Irish.\\nIf there is a town or city in this broad land owing a greater debt\\nof gratitude to that green isle over the sea than does this town, I\\nknow it not. If there is a place which should extend more\\nearnest and loving sympathy to Ireland in her struggles, I know\\nnot where it is. It Avas there that your forefathers and mine\\nwere born there where their infant feet were directed there\\nwhere they were educated in those grand principles of hon-\\nesty, sturdy manhood and bravery well fitting- them to become\\nthe pioneers of any country, and fortunate it was for that land\\ntoward which they turned their faces. Here they built their log\\ncabins, and shrines to worship God, and reared families of from\\neight to sixteen children, for they were people among whom large\\nfamilies were jiopular, and the more modern aversion to a large num-\\nber of children had not taken possession of those God-fearing men\\nand women. Happy it was that the duty of populating this coun-\\ntry was theirs, and not that of the present generation, whose dispo-\\nsition to do this might be doubted. Dr. Smith writes in our town\\nhistory Of the large and influential families of Todd, Templeton,", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "12.-)\\nSwan, Alld, Stuart, Cuniiingham, Mitchell, Ritchie, Ferguson, and\\nmany more, not a single individual of their family remains in\\ntown; and of the large families of Steele, Kobbe, Smith, Moi ison,\\nMoore and Holmes, their numbers are greatly lessened, and they\\nare growing less every year.\\nIn reviewing tlie character of these men, we should not, as a\\ntirst essential, go into an inquiry of how they worshipped God of\\nwhat were their religious or political belief; whether Pi-otestant\\nor Catholic, Whig or Tory. AVe only ask were they honest men,\\nholding fast to those principles which they believed right? The\\nanswer to this will not bring the blush of shame upon our cheek,\\nnor the consciousness of regret that their blood is part and parcel\\nof our bodies. If we follow in their footsteps in our dealings\\nwith men if we are as honest and courageous as they if we do\\nan equal share to make the world better and more attractive to fu-\\nture generations, w^e can, when the toil of this life is over, re. t in\\nthe secure belief of duty well done.\\nThe Chairman:\\nThe lateness of the hour and the gathering darkness remind me\\nthat these very interesting exercises must be brought to a close.\\nThe audience wi.l i.ow rise and join the choir in singing Amer-\\nica:\\nMy country, tis of thee.\\nSung by the united audience with great spirit, after which the\\ngathering adjourned to meet October 24, 19 )9.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "ANTIQUARIAN DEPARTMENT.\\nThis department, under tlie management of the very efficient\\ncommittee, proved to be one of tlie chief attractions to those who\\nwere so fortunate as to gain admission to the limited quarters as-\\nsigned for the display of the rare exhibits that were contributed\\non the occasion. The following- is a partial list, although many\\nother articles of interest, and equally deserving of notice were on\\nexhibition\\nWm. Ames two iron kettles 130 years old, warming- pan and\\nfoot warmer.\\nMrs. A. W. Xoone hand card 75 years old.\\nMrs. H. P. Bullard slippers, black veil, hose and sampler made\\nin 1825.\\nProf. M. H. Fiske of Temple pocket register taken by his\\ngrandfather from the dead body of a British soldier during, the\\nyear 1777.\\nMrs. F. F. Myrick China teapot and glass tea caddy brought\\nfrom China in 1795.\\nMiss Fannie Richardson ear jewels KiO years old.\\nJohn Scott first nnrror brought to town, and very old cups and\\nsaucers.\\nJ. F. Brennan copies of the first written and first printed cata-\\nlogues of the town library, and a complete set of annual town\\nreports.\\nMrs. John Adams bread toaster, bedspread, ancient crockery,\\ncoffee and tea pot.\\nMrs. Betsey AVashburn plate, sampler and toddy tumbler.\\nMrs. Frank Spaulding dress, crockery, chair, and tea canister,\\nall centenarians.\\nMrs. J. E. Saunders spider a century old, ancient creamer and\\nplate.\\nMrs. A. L. Nay slippers, book, shoulder cape, snuffer and tray,\\nbead bag, plate and nutmeg grater.\\nMrs. Fannie Carter choice ancient crockery.\\nA. W. Noone a large number of samples of goods manufac-\\ntured at his mill.\\nTwo dolls 61 years old were exhibited by Mrs. Tnbbs and Mrs.\\nAvery, and pitcher 100 years old by Flora J. Tubbs.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "127\\nMrs. Fanny Swan tea caddy in vise when tea was $5 a pound,\\nold chair.\\nFred S. Piper small silver spoons.\\nFrank Davis sermon 121 years old, christening cup and chair.\\nC. A. Wheeler continental three dollar bill, 1775, sun dial used\\nby the thirteenth family which settled in Hancock in 1775, a buss\\nmade with a pen-knife and finely carved.\\nNellie W. McGilvray 125 years old sugar bowl and creamer.\\nThe flue old framed portraits and samplers which attracted a\\nlarge share of attention, were sent from Rutherford, N. J., by\\nMrs. Mary L. Hallock, at her own expense. They were fine like-\\nnesses of Daniel and Sally (Allison) Abbot, both born in London-\\nderry in 1769. The portraits were painted in 1806. One of the\\nsamplers was made by Jane Abbot, afterwards Mrs. John Scott of\\nDetroit, Mich., in 1811, and the other by Sally Abbot, afterwards\\nMrs. Jeflerson Fletcher of Westford, Mass., in 1818.\\nMrs. C. A. Rice of Heimiker skirt embroidered by Mrs. J. M.\\nRamsey in 1809, when in her 14th year, veil and collar by Mrs.\\nBetsey Steele, collar by Jane Steele, towel by Irene Felt, pin cus^h-\\nion and handkerchief.\\nMrs. Geo. Cragin pair of silver candlesticks brought from Eng-\\nland to Salem, Mass., 160 years ago, and a tooth from the whale,\\nit is supposed, that swallowed Jonah.\\nMrs. Alice Tucker very ancient punch bowl, and a Bible print-\\ned in 1734.\\nAncient bibles were loaned by E. M. Felt, F. A. Wallace, Misses\\nLizzie Blanchard and Mary Snow.\\nThe tall clock which stood at the right of the stage was one of\\nthe first brought to town, and is the property of John C. Swallow.\\nThe little wall clock suspended at the left of the stage was owned\\nby Mrs. M. A. Howe, and is a relic of the AVhiting family. F. P.\\nFisk also exhibited a very ancient time piece.\\nOf ancient books there were a number, the oldest being a work\\non medicine, printed in London, England, in the year 1652, loaned\\nby C. H. Hay ward,\\nGeo. H. Longley exhibited a pair of saddle bags once belonging\\nto old aunt Susa Morrison, and known to be over 110 years old.\\nMrs Caroline Clark exhibited a prayer book 274 years old, also a\\npair of spectacles 175 years old, cups, saucers, pepper box, mustard\\npots, mugs, Salter, plates, pewter porringer, silver teapot, and two\\nvery ancient chairs finely preserved and now inconstant daily use.\\nMrs. Isaac D. White contributed three baby caps 100 years old,\\nand a still more aged imtmeg grater, cups and saucers, two samp-\\nlers, and an hour glass which has been an heir loom in her family\\nfor more than 125 vears.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "128\\nHon. Peter Clark of New Ipswich presented an old German flag-\\non made in the year 1671. It was unearthed in Sharon, some time\\nsince, by a man who was engaged in digging out a woodchuck.\\nMrs. W. G. Livingston copy of the first sermon preached in\\nXew England, teapot more than 100 years old, candlestick lOO\\nyears old.\\nMrs. Charles Jewett Mother Goose s melodies, printed in 1733.\\nSampson Washburn linen doily made from flax grown on\\nAVashburn farm, of which samples were shown choice needle\\nwork and two old almanacs.\\nMrs. A. II. Wheeler hour glass, slippers 17o and stockings 1; )0\\nyears old, home made linen, two ladies wallets, lady s lunch bag.\\nBenoni Fuller table 100 years old.\\nH. W. Dunbar relic of old meeting house.\\nMrs. Charles Scott brass candlesticks, brouglit from England\\n1 16 j ears ago.\\nMrs. Samuel Taggart\u00e2\u0080\u0094 elegant old Hiina tea set.\\nMiss Ellen Edes black silk wedding dress worn by J. D. Dia-\\nmond s grandmother 125 years ago.\\nA. F. Grimes pair brass candlesticks, and silver castor former-\\nly owned by Mrs. L. W. Hogan a choice relic.\\nMrs. Clarence White elegant China tea set, old fashioned high\\nbacked comb, clock reel.\\nJames Wilson old oval, swinging tavern sign, William Wil-\\nson, 1798; spinning wheel, clock reel and old portrait.\\nWm. Moore ancient chair and two old paintings in water col-\\nors.\\nJ. C. Swallow linen sheet and bedspread made on hand loom,\\nand a well preserved old surveyor s compass used in the early days\\nof Peterborough.\\nMrs. P. D. Brown books 158 years old, handkerchief, breast-\\npin, spectacles, thread case and shawl.\\nMrs. L. R. Pierce sampler, handglass, spectacles, ancient book,\\npewter plate and basin.\\nMiss Ann Woodward Ladies circular made from a dress more\\nthan 200 years old, sun dial brought from Ireland 200 years ago,\\nand a copy of one of the first geographies used in this country.\\nMrs. George Hunt gourd used as a coffee holder, candlesticks\\nused in the illumination of the old Hancock house in Boston when\\ntlie Declaration of Independence was celebrated, powder horn,\\nsampler, etc., from the estate of the late Col. John Little.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL NOTES,\\nI ETERBOROUGII CADET HAND.\\nThe following is a list of the members of Pcitcrborouoh Cadet\\nBand at the 150th anniversarv celebration:\\nHenry B. Needhani,\\nFred J. Ames,\\nLouis J. Dean,\\nScott J. Appleton,\\nFrank H. Osborn,\\nAVilliam P. Averill,\\nGeorge W. Prestoii,\\nThomas F. Bnrns,\\nFred G. Livingston,\\nCharles A. Robbe,\\nLouis -E. Fitzg-erald,\\nAugustin Blanchette,\\nGeorge F. Diamond,\\nCharles H. Warren,\\nFred G. Eobbe,\\nFred W. Hardy,\\nFrank E. Longlev,\\nFrank E. Eusself,\\nAlgernon L. Holt,\\nCharles G. Rourke,\\nAbraham E. Burgess,\\nEdgar J. Treadwell,\\nDrum Major.\\nLeader and Director.\\nPiccolo.\\nE-flat Clarinet.\\nB-flat Clarinet\\nE-flat Cornet.\\nE-flat Cornet.\\nSolo B-flat Cornet.\\n1st B-flat Cornet-\\n1st B-flat Cornet.\\n2d B-flat Cornet.\\n1st Alto.\\n2d Alto.\\nodAlto.\\n1st Trombone.\\nBaritone.\\nB-flat Bass.\\nTuba.\\nTuba.\\nBass Drum.\\nSnare Drum.\\nCymbals.\\nNAMES OF THE SESQUI-OENTENNIAI. SIXOER.s.\\nThe following is a list of the names of those who took part in\\nthe singing exercises\\nWilliam Moore Director. Mrs. xVddie C. Leathe, Pianist.\\nSopt ano.\\nMrs. Abbie M. Colby,\\nMrs. J. L. Fleming,\\nMiss L. Carrie Blanchard.\\nMiss Nellie C. White,\\nMiss Flora J. Tnbbs,\\nMiss Alice J. Sawver.\\nMiss Ethel C. Smith.\\nLena M. Shedd.\\nMrs. F. K. Longlev,\\nMrs. Will A. Knight,\\nMrs. A. E. OUis,\\nMrs. Geo. W. Ames, Jr.,\\nMrs. Agnes A. Wheeeler,\\nMrs. Alvah Puffer,\\nMrs. Margie A. Davis,\\nMiss\\nAlto.\\nMrs. Geo. AV. Farrar,\\nMrs. R. B. ILatch,\\nMrs. F. J. Shedd.\\nMrs. J. B. Shedd,\\nMrs. J. R. Moonev.\\nMrs. (i. R. Senter,\\nMrs. (;adie F. Hadley.\\nMrs. Geo. A. Sanders.\\n:\\\\Iiss Addie F. Bailey,\\nMiss C(n-a E. Davis.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "(Jeorge H. Hardy,\\nGeorge C. Duiicaii,\\nJolni Cragiu,\\nDaniel F. Emery,\\np]lbridge Howe,\\nJeruiue B. Sliedd,\\nWilliam T. Lawrence,\\nLnke F. Richardson,\\nJohn O. Xav,\\nWill A. Knigiit,\\n180\\nTenor\\nBass.\\nFrank J. Shedd.\\nEdgar M. NVilkins,\\nAlbion P. Howe,\\nJohn AV. Howe,\\nThomas A. Liscord,\\nFred B. Thonijjson.\\nFreeman Pelsey,\\nCharles H. Weeks,\\nJohn H. Matthews,\\nCharles E. Rav.\\nPieces sung Mozart s 12th Mass, (ilory to God on High; Peter-\\nliorough; Ode on Science; Strike IIk; Cymbals; Sons of Zion.\\nand America.\\nTHE CONCERT.\\nThe concert in the evening by the Arion Quartet,, assisted by Miss\\nIda Florence, elocutionist, of Boston, drew a large audience to the\\nopera house. The following is the program rendered:\\n1. Quartet.\\n2. Reading\\nMiss Florence.\\nEncore The Goblins.\\nSolo\\nAY. I). Allen.\\nEncore My Pretty Jane.\\n-1. Quartet\\nEncore Laugh, Bovs, Laugh.\\nPraise of the Soldier.\\nRobert of Lincoln.\\nLast Night.\\nBill of Fare.\\nReading.\\n(1. Duet.\\nSleep walking scene from Macbeth.\\nMiss Florence.\\nEight Bells.\\nMessrs. Allen and Aboni.\\nu Toast.\\n\\\\h The Water Mill.\\nSpecimen Reading Class.\\n7. (Quartet\\n8. Reading.\\nMiss Florence.\\nEncore Two Fond Lovers.\\n!t. Quartet\\nEncore AVho built the Ark\\n10. Solo\\nEncore\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tomorivtw will be Friday.\\n11. Reading.. Dorcas Pennyroyal s Love Affairs.\\nEncore Foreigners views of the Statue of Liberty in Ncav\\nYork Harbor.\\nSimple Simon.\\nMan-o -AA ars-Man.\\n12. Quartet.\\nSerenade.", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "As tlie n\\\\iniei ous encores would seem to indicate, tlie program\\nwas entluisiastically received, and tlie evening s entertainment was\\na pleasing one. The singing by the quartet was harmonious, and\\nMiss Florence won immediate favor by the excellence of her read-\\nings. The net receipts added a goodly sum to the centennial fund.\\nMuch credit is due to Mr. W. D. Allen, formerly superintendent\\nof the shoe factory and a resident, through whose efforts the ser-\\nvices of the quartet and talented reader were secured.\\nFollowing the concert, a large number joined in a social dance\\nunder the auspices of Appleton s orchestra, the centennial program\\nclosing with the concert.\\nThe following- is a list of those who were members of the choir\\nand band at the celebration tlfty years ago who were present at\\nthis celebration: Mrs. Betsey Follansbee, aged 84 years: Alvali\\nAmes, aged 83 j^ears; Mrs. Emeline Twitchell Clark, Mrs. Char-\\nlotte Wilson Jackson, Mrs. Sarah Cheney Abbott, Mrs. Elizabeth\\nStone Peavey, Mrs. Andrew A. Farnsworth, Mrs. Louisa E. Burtt,\\nMissElmira Fife, Miss Elvira Fife, Andrew A. Farnsworth, The-\\nophilus P. Ames, members of the choir; Peter H. Clark and Stej^h-\\nen AVhite, members of the band.\\nThe newspaper men present were John F. Faxon of the Boston\\nHerald, C. C. Clifford of the Boston Journal, Geo. H. Longley of\\nthe Boston Globe, Burnham of the Manchester Union, A. E. De-\\nWolfe of the Nashua Telegraph, E. M. Stanyan and F. P. Whitte-\\nmore of the Nashua Gazette, J. J. Donahue of the Associated\\nPress, E. H. Cheney of the Lebanon Free Press, and A. A. Rotch\\nof the Amherst Cabinet.\\nAbout four hundred people partook of the excellent dinner fur-\\nnished by caterer E. H. Smith, Avho received many compliments.\\nIt is estimated that there were nearly one thousand former sons\\nand daughters of Peterborough present at the celebration, and it is\\nto be regretted that a correct list of them was not secured.\\nIt should pass into history as a credit to this town that, notwith-\\nstanding a larger nund)er of people than ever before were congre-\\ngated here on sesqui-centennial day, not a single ai-rest was made\\nfor drunkenness or disorder, and we have yet to leai u that any\\nperson was seen or known to be badly intoxicated upon our streets\\non that dav.", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3410", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "N#", "height": "3526", "width": "2111", "jp2-path": "proceedingsofses00pet_0150.jp2"}}