{"1": {"fulltext": "F 44\\n.R9A3\\nDDDDSllbbSA", "height": "3531", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^Ht.\\n.T. v \\\\o\\nV\\nr-A ./.c:.;^/^ /.ij^ o a^*\\\\c:;i;^/v\\n^m^^\\\\ oV =:^ic\\\\\\n0\\n^rt\\nv-^;^\\nff7:*\\\\o V \\\\y V ^o\\nAY P^\\n0* r^ w^fma ^v\\nbV\\n0*\\nO I*", "height": "3408", "width": "2069", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00c2\u00b0,*v\\nV-^\\nV\\n-^0^\\n4^\\nv-0^\\nt\\n^o f :\u00c2\u00a3M^r^^ -^j-s ov^^^aia ix^^\\\\ -p\\n^K", "height": "3367", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3429", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "]i ltOT3 E D.4.Tr EO I^\\nOF\\nTOWN HALL IN RYE, N. H.\\nNov. 19, 1878.", "height": "3367", "width": "1813", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE TOWN OF RYE.\\nThe following inloresling aketcli was prepared and read at tbf dedication of\\nthe new Town Hall at Kye, Nov. 19ib, 1873, by Rev. J. K. Aldkicii, of that town:\\nHistory is made up of leading inci\\ndenls. rboiigh being made contnuaHy,\\nit is marked byeias. Prominent events\\nstand loiib as waynnrks, linking us with\\npast generations, enabling us to trace the\\ncciniicction lietwein us and that wbich\\nh;is gone before. The town of Rye has\\nan bunorable record. Within its present\\nlimits in all proliability was made ihe first\\nsettlement in New Ilainnshire. New\\nllanipsbire was first visited by Martin\\nring in 1603, with two ships, the Speed-\\nwell and the Discoverer. The exi odi-\\ntioii was Titled out und:-:f the palr^nage\\nof the mayor, :ildermen and met chants of\\nthe litv of Bristol in England, to prose-\\ncute the discoveiy of the nordiern parts\\nof Virginia He with his followers as\\ncended the Piscataq^a as far as the Great\\nBay wliicb is formed by the union of Bel-\\nlamy liank. Oyster, Lasnprey, Squam-\\nscott and VVinnicut river-*, andlies be-\\ntween Di;ih;im and Grt enland They e.\\\\-\\nplored the forests in search of sas.-fras,\\nwhich was highly valued at that tiine ior\\nit medicinal properties, and it is altogeth-\\ner probable tiiat part of the town of Kye\\nwhich bord rs on the Piscataqua was\\npressed by their foot-teps. in iGOo a\\nFret C b ve. isel is said to have touched at\\nOdiorne s Point, wheie Champlain met a\\nsmall company of Indians, to whom he\\nmade presens of knives. c., and from\\nthi-m obtained information of the coast.\\nIt wj S ne.Kt visited by apt. John Smith\\nin 1614, who ascertained the I iver Piscat-\\naqua to be a s;ife harbor with ii rock\\\\\\nshore. On his return to England he pre-\\nsented to the Prince of Wales, afterwards\\nCharles I, a map of the set coast aling\\nwhich he had s.iiled, si;c miles of which,\\none-third of t!.e coast line of the State, is\\nincluded in the town of Kye. In the\\nyear 1606 King James granted a charter of\\nVirginia, as tlie whole territory was then\\ncalled, between the 34tb iincl 45tli de-\\ngrees of north latitude, to two companies,\\nassigning the southern part to the Lo. i-\\ndon Company, and the northern, including\\nthe present town of Kye, to the Plymouth,\\ncomposed of personj residing in Bristol,\\nE.xeter, and Plymouth. Ihe Plymouth\\nCompany finding lliemselves liable to be\\nencroached upon, petitioned for a new\\ncharier and obtained it in 1620. Two\\nof the most enterprising m mbers of this\\ncompany were Sir Feidinando Gorges\\nand Capt. John Mason. In 1621 Capt.\\nJohn Mason procured I loni the company\\na grant of the land between river Naum-\\nkeag, now taleui, and the Meriimac,\\nand extending back to the bead waters\\nof e:u h. The next year, 1622, he and\\nGorges conjointly obtained a grant ot\\nthe territory extending from the Merri-\\nmac to the Saga tahock, (ihe Kennebec\\naccording to one authority, and the An-\\ndroscoggin according to others.) and\\nback to the great Lakes and the river of\\nCanada, the St. La^Mence. This territo-\\nry they called Laconia, and the same year\\nlU22. formed the company of Laconia, and\\nin the Spring of 16 23 they sent over Da-\\nvid Thompson, a Scotchman, Edward and\\nWi Ham Hilton and others. Thompson\\nwith one division settled at Odiorne s\\nPoint, or Little Harbor iis it was then\\ncalled, and the Ililtons went eight miles\\nfurther up the river and formed a settle-\\nment to which they gave the name of\\nNortham, now Dover. It v\\\\ill be seen\\nfro -i this that the two settlements were\\nformed ut about the same time, but in\\npdnt of priority the preference must be\\ngiven to that at Little Harbor, as they\\nall came over together and it was eight\\nmiles nearer the.r I oint of embarkation.\\nTo the Town of li\\\\e therefore belongs\\nunquestionably the. hono-r ot the first set-\\ntlement in New Hampshire. Ibese first\\nsettlers were sent from England bv the\\nCompany To found a p antation on\\nPiscataqua river, to cultivate the vine\\ndiscover mines carry on the fisheries,\\nand trad J with the naiives They are\\nbelieved to have arrived in the month o", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "May. The first house erected was called\\nMason Hall. Soon after they erected a\\nGarrison House or Fort, ;ind salt works,\\nand established a fishery. The site of the\\nManor House or Mason Hall does not\\nappear to be positively known, but is\\noelieved to have been erected on the\\niiighest point of laml on the north side\\nof the iane whicli leads nearly to the\\niieach, from the opposite side of the road\\njust before reai hing the house of Mr.\\nCharles S. Odiorne. The ;^arrison house\\nwas probably erected ab ut 20 or 30 rods\\nfrom this house in a southeasterly direc-\\ntion. A few rods to the west is the an\\neient burial ground, containing about 40\\ngraves. There each in his narrow cell\\nforever laid, the rude forefathers of the\\nhamlet sleep. The tradition is that they\\nthought at first that Little Harbor, lying\\nbetween Odiornt;\\\\s Point and Newcastle,\\noriginally Great Island, was the main har-\\nbor or mouth of t!ie Piscatiqui, and\\nconsequeritly formed the sett ement there,\\nand that afterwards one if the early set-\\ntlers in chasing a wounded goosn which\\nhe had shot, ran round to the north side\\nof Great Island, and discovered Great\\nHarbor. The cackling of a flock of\\ngeese anciently, it is said, saved Home,\\nand the pursuit of this one it seems if sve\\nare to credit the tradition, led to an im-\\nportant discovery. The inference is,\\nthat though not desirable to he a goose,\\nit may be well to follow one. Thompson\\nleft the colony about one year after his\\narrival and removed to an island in Mas-\\nsachusetts Bay. afterwards called by his\\nown name. Alason received a new grant\\nIVom the Plymouth comp:;ny to the mid\\ndie of the Piscataqaa, Nov. 7, 1G29, am!\\nin 1031, eiiiht years afier the landing at\\nLittle Harbor, he sent over about 80 em-\\nigrants to act as stewards, agents, work-\\nmen, and servants. Among these are the\\nnames of Francis Rand, William Seavey,\\nVVilliam Berry, Thomas VValford, and\\nWilliam and Anthony Bi-acket, who\\nwere among the first settlers in that part\\nof Rye which went originally by the name\\nof 8andy Beach. Luring the year 1031\\nasetilement was formed at Strawberry\\nBndt, now Portsmouth, and the Great\\nHouse was built. Portsmouth was incor-\\nporated by a charter in 1633. Ic i.iclud-\\nod not only the territory within its pres-\\nent limits, bat Great Island, now New-\\ncastle, and that part of Rye which was\\ncalled Little Harbor and Sandy Beach.\\nAt a town meeting held in I ortsmouth in\\n1033, a committee wa- chosen to lay out\\nthe lands to the people of Sandy Beach,\\nviz Wm. Berry, Anthonv Bracket,\\nThomas Seavey, Francis Rand and James\\nJohn\u00c2\u00bbon. The territory gnnted to Ma-\\nson Gorges in which the town oi Rye\\nis included, by request ofPortsmouth and\\nDover, and previous assignment of the\\nproprietors, became .subject to Massachu-\\nsetts Oct. 9, 1641, and continued thu.s\\nuntil Charles the IL ascended\\nthe throne. Then Robert Tuf on, the\\ngrandson of Capt. John Mason, who had\\nsucce ded him in the inheritance and had\\ntaken the name of Mason, sued for juris-\\ndictioK under his former pa ent, and a\\ndecision was mad in his favor in 1075,\\nbut owing to the opposition of the inhab-\\nitants he did not come into actual pos\\nsession. In 1680, agiinst the protests of\\nthe people both of Dover and Portsmouth,\\nthe king or lered New Hampshire to be-\\ncome a colony. Oct. 15, 1679, Great Isl-\\nau l, now Newcastle, was set off from\\nPortsmouth and incorporated by Mass..\\nbut the ne :t year, 1680, when by order of\\nthe king N II. became a sepaiate prov-\\nince, ic again became a part of Ports-\\nmouth.\\nThe agent, of ;he Portsmouth colony in\\n163 L was Capt. Walter Neale. At that\\ntime the two colonies at Little Harbor\\nand Dover became separate, and were call-\\ned the lower and the upper plantations.\\nLittle Harbor received the name of Odi-\\norne s Point, from .lotin Jdiorne who oc-\\ncupied this locality in 1G60; 43 acres were\\nthen owned hy him. He was a citizen of\\nroitsiuouth in 1653, and as it was then a\\npart of Portsmouth he prob ibly resided\\nI here a that time. He was the father of\\nJoiham Odiorne. a promimMit man in the\\ncohuiy, who died in 1748 at the age of\\n73. When that part of Rye originally\\ncalled Sandy Beach, aow Foss Beach, was\\nsettled, is not known, some saying in\\n1035, others in 1633. But as its earliest\\nsettleis are known to have come over to-\\ngether in 1631, I think it altogether prob-\\nable that it ma} have been settled soon\\nafier, perhaps in the same year. The\\nRev. Huntington Porter, in his New\\nYear s sermon, states the first settler was\\nJohn Berry this evidently should have\\nbeen Win. Berry, as Wm. Berry come\\nover in 1031, and John Berry was Wm.\\n[ietry s eldest son. Wm. Berry received\\na grant of land at Sandy Beach in 1652,\\nbut there is no mention oi John s receiving\\nany until 1600. It is probable that Wm.\\nBerry and the others who came over from\\nEngland with him settled at Sandy Beach\\nat about the same time. Wm. Berry is\\nspoken of as of Sandy Beach and of Lit-\\ntle Harbor, showing that he must have\\nowned lands or resided in both places.", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "He must have dieil previous to 1669, as in\\nDec. 9th in that year, his widow Jane,\\nthen a^ed 50, married Nathaniel Dnke\\nwho was l)i rn in 161 2, was at Hampton\\nin 16;)3, and resided in Portsmouth from\\n1656 to 1690.\\ni he firsr. ileed ever given of land in-\\ncluded within the limits of the town of\\nR\\\\e, was given by J ine Drake widow of\\nWm Berry, in 1609 to \\\\Vm Seavy, Sen\\nof house, la id and marsh on South side\\nof broiik that runs between land then\\nowned by William Seavy and Thomas Sea-\\nvey. It appears that VVilliam Seavy paid\\nfor this land before the death of Wm\\nBerry, Imt failed to get a deed of it.\\nFrom this we inter that Win Berry died\\nsuddenly, perh ips like others of i he early\\nsettlers vvas kided by the Indians, and\\nthat he died about the ye ir 1669 in which\\nthe deed was given. Of tliese first set-\\ntlers of Sandy Bi-ach to whom we have j\\nrefeired who c ime over in 163l. Thorn is\\nSeavy appears to have lived until 170\\nThe manner of his death is uncertain.\\nFrancis iiand was killed Sept 29. 1691,\\nwhile his son wa- out fishing. 21 weie\\nkilled at the same time, among them an-\\nother of ilie first settlers. Uapt Anthony\\nBracket; and others were captured, in-\\ncluding two young children of the Brack-\\ntts, a boy wh uu they recovered and a\\ngirl who was carried to Canada, and\\nthere marr ed a Frenchman, and a tei-\\nwards come back to claim her share in\\nher father s property. One or more of\\ntheciiildren killed at the time were dash-\\ned against a ri ck whieh stood in the road\\nnear Sam l M. R^ind s. The tradition is\\nthat the stain of blood wis to be seen for\\nmany yeais. The rock h is since been re-\\nmoved to make a highway. Captain\\nBracket s house was set on fire. S )me\\nof his sons were at work in the salt marsh,\\nand having tiie guns, went over to the\\ngarrison house at Saunders Point, now\\nFoss beach. Thomas Hand, the son of\\nFrancis who was killed, when he c.tme\\nfrom fishing, being a courageous man, fol-\\nlowed them over to Bracket s and Jired at\\nthem, whieii frightened them awav. Old\\nMrs. Rand, nearly blind, supposed to be\\nthe wife of Francis, was kided by the\\nIndians while htr husband had gone to\\nmill. She was ^apprehensive of danger\\nand i^egged him not to go, saying the\\nIndians would kill hei but he m ide light\\nof her fe:irs, telling her there were no\\nIndians this side of Lake Winnipiseogee.\\nGreat must have been his consternation\\nto find on his return that her fears had\\nbeen realized. This must have been very\\nnear the time that he was massacred. A\\nlittle girl named Judkins, 5 years old, was\\ncaptured, in 1691, with her brother. Her\\nbrother was frozen to death when cross-\\ning Lake Winnipiseogee near .Moulton-\\nboruugu. She was with them several\\nyears and came near perishing wirh hun-\\nger. She lived to return and afterwards\\nma lied a Randall.\\nShe died in Moultonborough. A child\\nnamed Ksiher, surname not given, wa*\\ntaken from the cradle about this lime by\\nthe Ittdians while its mother was away;\\nher iatlier bo-ight her back with a keg of\\nrum She afterwards married a VVaters,\\nlived to a ^reat age, become poor and\\ndeaf, and was supported by the town.\\nTho uas VVaUord, another of the early set-\\nih-rs of San Iv Be.ich who came over in\\nIG31, was killed by Indians on the hill by\\nJohn S. Il ^mick s. Tradition says that\\naft^r he was .diot he cr.iwled on his hands\\na.id kn es to where Robinson Fo-s now\\nlives. 11 IS wife was accused of witchcraft.\\nThere is stiil on record an account of the\\ntrial of Goodwitf, Wabord, at Portss\\nmouth in 1638. The complainant Su-\\nsannah Trimuiiiiijs testified as follows:\\nAs I was g ing h.;me on Sunday night.\\nI heard a rustling in the woods which I\\nsupoosed to be occasioned by swine, and\\npresently there appeared a woman whom\\nI apprehended to bo Go id wife Walfurd\\nShe asked me tn lend her a pound of cot\\nton. I fold her I had but two pounds in\\nthe h luse and I would not spare any to\\nmy mother. She said I had better have\\ndon(! it, for I was going a great jiurney,\\nbut should never come there. She tht^n\\nUft m and I was struck as with a chip of\\nfire on the back; and she vanished tow,\\nards the water-side, in my apprehensionr\\nin the shape of a cat. She had on her\\nhead a white Imen hood, tied under her\\nchin and I.er waistcoat and petticoat\\nwere rod, with an old gown, apron, and\\na black hat upon her head. Several\\nother wi nesses were examined but the\\ncase was not then decided, and was prob-\\nabl} dropped at the n(!xt term of the\\nCourt. Mrs. Walford afterward brought\\nan* action for slander against Robert\\nCoutch for saying that she was a witch\\na;id he could prove her one. The ver-\\ndict w IS in her favor five pounds and\\ncosts.\\nAnother prominent person among the\\nearly settlers of the town of Rye, was\\nCapt. John Locke. He was a carpenter,\\nthe son of John Locke of Ijondon. who\\nmarried Christian French, July 26, 1621\\nHe was born Sept. 16, 1627, and came\\nfrom Yorkshire, England, in 1644. Tra-\\ndition savs that lie first settled in Dover,", "height": "3413", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "I,\\nV\\n6\\nwhere lie had a tract, of land, but this is\\nprobably incorect as the eirli^ st records\\nof Dover contain no evidence that he ev-\\ner resided or had a right of land there.\\nFrom thence in-tSoSi, he is said to have\\nri^inoved to what is known as Fort Point\\nin New Castle. From Newcastle he re-\\nmoved to Sagamore Creek, where l.e re\\nsided until 1655, when I C removed to\\nJossel\\\\n s N* ok, afterwards called from\\nhim Locke s Neck, now known as Straw s\\nPoint, v^fhich was ihen a part of Hampton.\\nHere as it appears Iroin the records of\\ntown of Hampton, he sat down on com-\\nmon lands. It appears that the town of\\nHampton was indignunt at his taking\\nsuch liberties without so much as s yiiig\\nby your leave, and May 24, 1666, a\\ncommittee was chosen to pull up his\\nfence, and M ircii 12, 1G67, to warn him\\nto desist from improving the town s land,\\nand to noiify him that the town is dis-\\npleased v/it!i his building there. Com\\n])laint was mad against him as a tres-\\npasser, and he was warned to appear at\\nthe next meeting and give an account of\\nhimself. On the 8th of March 1667, the\\ntown voted as follows Upon the n)o-\\nti(m of John Locke who desire h to yield\\nhimself to ye town of Hampton as an in-\\nhabitant umi.ngst us, being already seltind\\ntapon Josselyn s Neck in Hampton bounds,\\nthe town hath acCfpled of ye s lid John\\nLocke for an ini;ahit:in accordingly.\\nFri m all which we see that he w s a man\\nof firmness and not easily driven from his\\npu pose. At the present time when men\\nare allowed to become ci izens at will,\\nthe opposition of the town of Hampton\\nto bis settleiueiit among them may not\\nbe easily comprehended. But the times\\nwere different. A seitlemen! in its in-\\nfancy would have been very much exposed\\nto injury if no precautions had been ta-\\nken in regard lo receiving inhabitants.\\nMischievous and di orderly persons mi^ht\\nhave come in and harrassed be setilers\\nTills was foresenn and me;isures taken\\nto prevent it. The power of admitting\\ninhabitants, and of granting them the\\nprivileges of freemen was s^rictl guard-\\ned. After the town was once organized\\nnone wen* admitted from abr iad without\\nthe permission of the freemen, so that\\ntheir treatment of Locke was by no means\\nexceptional, as will be seen from thi^ fol-\\nlowing vote That no manner of per\\nsen should come into the tmvn as an\\ninhabitant, without the penalty of 20s.\\nper week, unless he give sali-factor\\nsecurity to the town.\\nCapt. John Locke was an energetic,\\ncourageous man, very active against the\\nLidians, and instrumental in defeating\\nthem in several of their aUempts to de-\\nstroy the inhabitants on the sea-coast,\\nwhich excited their personal hostility and\\nth^y came from Canada, eight in num-\\nber, with an expressed design as ajipeaied\\nafterwards to avi nge themselves in his\\ndeaih He was kibed while reaping in\\nhis field, Aug. 26, 1G9G, at the age of 70,\\nthough one account says 78. The firsi, is\\nprobably more correct.\\ni he Indian is often spoken of as cher-\\nishing a determined spirit of revenge, nd\\nwe have comt^ to look on him in ihis re-\\nspect as difff.rlnfi materially from the\\nwhite nun. Bui human nature is essen-\\nlially (he same. The difference is owing\\nto circumstances. We have an idustra-\\ntion of ihis thirsting for levenue in the\\ncontlu t of Capt. Locke s grandson.\\nThough not born until 1702, six years af-\\n!er ;he deaih of his grandfather, such was\\nthe hostile feeling excited within hiiu by\\nthe knowledge of the circums ance, that\\nhe killed an Indian in peaceful times, al-\\nh-giiig that the Indians killed his grand-\\nfa hei, thus vi-iting the puni.-hinent on an\\ninnoci-ni representative ot the race. I his\\nmurder was coin nitted oa the spot\\nwhere Dea. Jonathan Locke now lives.\\nThe firs Jenni is according to tra iition\\n;ip(jears to have been Francis, a baker\\nwho cam with two brolliers from Ky,\\nKngland. he alone settling here, and\\nfrom hi II probably fhe town of Kye re-\\nceived its name. The Rev. Mr. Porter\\nin his Half Ceniury Sermon says that the\\ntown from its first seti lenient ree\u00c2\u00abived the\\nnamri it now beai s which was given, it\\nis -upposed, by reason of some ot its first\\ninhabitants coming from the townoflhe\\n.-ame name in i^^ngland. Francis Jenness\\nso far as it appear^ was (he onh one that\\ncame from that town, arid hence we con-\\nclude that the town received its name from\\nliim; it is believed ihat he came previous\\nto 16C0. One account states that he came\\nwi h .Anthony liracket and Ca|)t. J hn\\nLocke, but this is a mistake, as tiie coming\\nol the one is known lo have preceded by\\nseveral years the coming of the other In\\n1675 he received a giant of the common\\nlands by the sea from the town of llainp-\\nton. e lived near the presen residence\\nof Mr. Sheridan Jenness, aiiil is said to\\nhave died in 1716, aged 82 The name\\noriginally was Jennings. The first Phil-\\nbrick who came to llye was Joseph, about\\nthe year 1700, and settled near the house\\nof Francis Jenness in the ^outh part of the\\ntown. He was the grandson of Thomas\\nPnilhrick who came from Lincolnihire,\\nEn Hand,wi(h Sir Ivichard Saltinstall. and", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "settled in VVatertown in 1630, and re-\\nmoved to llaiupton in iGto, and d ed in\\n1667, very a ^eil. Joseph iiie l Nov. 7,\\n175;), in his y^d year,\\nJoseph Brown also is said to have lieen\\none of the (ist settlers of t le tow i of\\nRye, of which he was selectman in 1728.\\nHis gramlfather Jolni Br wn was a ba\\nker, c un from London in England in\\n1635, was one of the pri priitors of\\nHampton in 1638; afterwards one of the\\nlargest landholders in the place.\\nThe Indiin massacre at Portsmouth\\nPlanis and Sigamoie Ci eek was on the\\n26th of June 1006. F uir cen were killed\\nand six were wounded Among the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wounded w:\u00c2\u00bbs Mrs. Mary Brewster, wife\\not Joiin Biewster Jr., great gr unison ut\\nElder VVm. Brewster who came over in the\\nMayflower. She was scalped, and deep-\\nly woanded hj a tomahawk, ;ind was tak-\\nen up for dead. She afterwards recov-\\nered, and became the mother of four sons,\\nand lived 48 years, dying Sept. 22, 1711,\\naged 78. I ^ive dwelling houses were\\nburned and nine barns. Ihe attack was\\nmade at early dawn, and as the people\\nawoke from theii slutiihcrs they wore\\ngreeted iiy the light nftheir burning barns,\\nCaf)t. Shackfi rd of Portsmouth radieil\\nbis military company and pursued them;\\ntheir direction was through long Swamp;\\nin a cour.-e for Rye about four miles dis-\\ntant from the Plains, Capt Shackford and\\nhis men discovered them with their plun\\nder and captives; they w re at. breakiiist,\\nand had plac 1 the four prisoners they had\\ntaken in a position to rece ive the first of\\nfeet ofa discharge of guns, should they\\nbe suddenly surprised; they were on the\\ndeclivity of a hill near the boundary line\\nbetween (Greenland and Rye, which has\\nb Cn cal ed lireaKtast lliU, troin this cir-\\ncumstanct!. Thi; cnnpany rushed up. in\\nthti ground. re cuiMl the prisoners and re-\\ntook the plunder, but the enemy escap-\\ned and coni caled themselves in the\\nswamp til nit;ht; then in iheir canoes,\\nwhich they h id previously concealed in\\nthe bushes at Sand} Beach, they took\\ntheir departure, and m tde their escape by\\ngong outside of the Isles of Shoa s\\nAnother statement is as fodows At\\nthe tim the Indians destrovi^l Ports-\\nmouth Plains by fire, t lev landed on Jos-\\nselyn s neck, now Straw s Point, by nigut,\\nan I as Capt. John Lo -ke was r^^ading his\\nbible, on Sabliath morning, looking up he\\nobserved their canoes concealed in the\\nbushes, and scuttled them, which compel-\\ncd the Indians to retreat by laud.\\nThe town of Newcastle was incorpora-\\nted in 1G93, 1 embraced in addition to its\\npresent limits Great Island, also that part\\nof Rye extending from Little Harbor now\\ncalled Odiurne s Point to Poss Beach.\\nThe present town of Rye was originally\\ntaken from Portsmouth, Greenland, llamp-\\ntom and Newcastle, and was incorporated\\nApril 30, 1726.\\nAnother account says 1718, but this is\\nprobably a mis ake. At the time of its\\nincorporation Jotham Odiorne and Sam-\\nuel Hracketw ere appcinti-d a committee to\\nsettle with the selectmen of the town of-\\nNew astle. It was for many years after\\nits formation into a Society, styled the\\nParish of Rye in Newcastle. Only since\\nthe commencement of the Ameiican Rev-\\nolution has it exercised town privileges.\\nB fore that time it acted in conjunction\\nwith Newcastle, in the choice of represent-\\natives, and in other usual town business,\\nbut a separation from the town of New-\\ncastle was agitated at an e irlier period.\\nMarch 1, 1758 as appears from the re-\\ncords, a town meeting was warned, among\\nother things, to see wheiher the Parish\\nwill for to get off from going to the Great\\nIsland to choose .Assembly men! but no\\naction appears to have been t.iken. The\\n(irst meetingdiouse was erected in 1725,\\nand the next year July 10, 1726, a church\\nwas organized. Other matters pertain-\\nin j; to the history of the town in its relig-\\nious and educational aspevts are of course\\nomittiHl.\\nTh town has contributed more largely\\nto the settb inent of the interior of the\\nState, than any other according to its\\niz Epsom, Rochester, Barringfon,\\nChester and many other towns recognize\\nm ny of their inhabitants as having been o-\\nriginaby from this place, and the cliurches\\nin a number of these towns were first\\nformed in part by members removed\\nfrom the church of Christ here.\\nIn 1753 Scarlet Fever extensively pre-\\nvailed. Many children died, three or\\nfour in a fumly. 1761 the Small Po.x\\nprevailed extensively.\\nRye Ha-bor was dug out in 179- vot-\\ned Mav 7th. 133 days labor appear to\\nhave tieen given. In the Canada or\\nFrench War, H persons lost their lives\\nin the service of tlieir countiy, and thirty-\\neighi in the war of thu Revolution, by sea\\nand land, most of them young men. Mr.\\nPorter says twenty-einht,but this is a mis-\\ntake, as thirty-eight na/ncs are record il,\\nCapt Joseph Parsons raised his own com-\\npany in the war of ihe revolution.\\nNearly ad of them were from Rye.\\nNinety five from this town served under\\nhim at different times, and at least four\\nother coiniiianders. How many priva-", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nteersmen thnre were is not known. Ju-\\nly 18, 1774, two deputies, Samuel\\nKnowles and Samuel Jenness. were cho-\\nsfu to go to the convention at P^xeter, to\\nchoose delefrates to a general Conj^re-s.\\nand at the same time it was voted ihaf\\nthe Selectmen shall raise three pounds\\ntowards paying the delegates, and that the\\nParish will defiay the charges of the\\ndeputies.\\nThe town w;is visited wiih great sick-\\nness and mortality in 1803. Aiore than\\n22o peisons were seized with diseases of\\nvaiious kinds. 35 died. In 1816 the\\nspoiled fever prevailed. I he disease\\nwas so infectious and the mortality so\\ngreat as seriously to alarm the inhab-\\ntants. The buriaU were ruade by night.\\nIn the last war with Great Britain, Mari h\\n18. 1813, an Alarm list Company of ob\\nofficers and privates was formed in this\\ntown, of which Jonathan VVed^ewood\\nwas chosen Captain, 92 from the town\\nof Rye were engaged in this war, besides\\nthe alarm C -mpanv. Eleven cavalry serv-\\ned under Capt. James Colman, and the\\nothers in two companie. of infantry under\\nCaptains Ephraim Phibrick and Samuel\\nP. Berry. IG served as privnteersmen.\\n4 were captured, 2 lost. Three, Koberi\\nRobinson. R chard R. Locke, and Na-\\nthaniel G. Lear, were put in Dartmoor\\nprison. Dr. Joseph Paisons served as\\nSurgeon s mate on the ship Orlando. Foi-\\nty eight appliidfor bounty land, under\\nthe act of March 3, 1855.\\nAs early as 1834, as appears from the\\nrecords, iht town committed itself by th-\\nfollowing vote in favor of temperance:\\nVoted, that the selectmen shiU not\\ngrant license to any person to retail ar-\\ndent spirit in this town the present year.\\nAmi March, 8, 1836 it was further voied\\nthat no cigars or pipes shall be smoked\\nin or about the meeting houses or school\\nbouses on the Sabbath, under the penalty\\nof one dollar fine for each and every of-\\nfence, to be collected by a complaint be-\\nfore a Justice of the Peace, by the sexton,\\nSelectmen, or tithing men.\\nIn the late rebellion 100 men enlisted,\\nforty six in 1801, fifty four in 1862\\nForty-four were dratted Aug. 1, 1863.\\nSix are known to have lost their lives in\\nthe service. Charles Holmes, killed at\\nthe first bailie at Bull Run, J. Harrison\\nFoye killed May 3. 1862. Wra. F. Math-\\ner, killed at the battle of Cold Harbor,\\nJune, 1864. David Locke, killed at Har-\\nrison s Landing, Sept 29, 1864 John H.\\nShapleigh, killed at Waynesboro Virgin-\\nia, Sept. 28, 1864 Lieut. Robert P. Shai\\n1-igh died June 2, 1865.\\nWhat a contrast between the present\\nand the past How liale we realize the\\nhardships of the early \u00e2\u0096\u00a0ettlers! They\\nhad few of the comforts and none of the\\nluxuries of life. The wildness of nature\\nwas to be subdued forests to he levelled\\nhouses to be erected, and they had only\\nthe rudest iiuplemenis. The great, ocean\\nwith its rolling waves, was ever reminding\\nthem that a well nigh impassable barrier\\nlay between them and the dear old coun-\\ntry they had left behind. They were har-\\nassed continually with feai For aujiht\\nthey knew, a savage might be lurking in\\nambush, or a wild iieist in every thicket.\\nWhen they lay down at night they knew\\nnot but it might be their last sleep. The}\\nleft their homes consciou-* that they might\\nbe matis acred, or return to find their\\nwives and children murdered, or carried\\ninto an almost hopeless captivity, and their\\nhabitations in ruins. Tlieir arms were\\nconstantly with them, at their work and\\nby their firesides and even when in the\\nhouse of God, they were guarding against\\nsurprise and were ready to defend them-\\nselves at a moment s notice. Every man\\ncarried as it were his life in his hands, and\\nthe lives of his dear ones. Consider the\\nprivileges and bles.sings of to-day, and re-\\nmember that they are the reward of their\\nlabors.\\nThe citizens of Rye from the time of the\\nRevolution onward have shown themselves\\nthe hei uic defenders of liberty.\\nThey have loved their country, and been\\nloyal to free principles, and whenever their\\ncountry has been imperilled, have made an\\nearnest and manly resistance to organized\\noppression and wrong. They have vindi-\\ncated the cause of truth and justice, and\\nmaintained the honor of the dear old tiag.\\nRecall the past, let your imagination\\nbring up before you those who at differ-\\nent times have gone out from among you,\\nleaving wife and children and home, and all\\nthat was dear to them, and offered them-\\nselves a sacrifice upon the altar of their\\ncountry, for their country s good. Think\\nof :hem pining in hospitals and prisons\\nof their wearisome marches their dying\\ngroans and their mutilated bodies, as they\\nlay weltering in tlieir gore or were lifted\\nfrom the blood-stained earth on which\\nthey fell of the anguish, the bitter heart-\\nrending sorrow, ot^ fathers and mothers,\\nbrothers and sisters, widows and orphans,\\nand read in it the price they paid, the\\ncost of our free institutions.", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES IN RYE.\\nADDRESS OF KKV. ALVA II 11. MORRILL.\\nBy thfi assignment of your committee,\\nit becomes my duty to speik to you at\\nthis time concernii g the religious imer-\\nests of our town from earliest times till\\nthe present. It will he well lor us to\\nbear this fact in mind, that we owe much\\nof our temporal prosperity to religious in-\\nstitutions. This has been clearly exem-\\nplitied in tiie early history of tlic town.\\nThe early settlers being only thinly scat-\\ntered through the trnvn, and in low cir-\\ncumstance- were destitute of the settled\\nminisiry for about ninety years, and dur-\\ning all this time their circumstances were\\nbut little improved. The commencement\\nof their era of prosperity was cotempora-\\nry with the founding of the church. J he\\nfirst meeting house in this town was erect-\\ned in 1725. The timlier ibr this Iiouse\\nwas dr.iwn to the spot by nun yoked to-\\ngether. The reason of this joking of\\nmen is not known Intt whatever it was,\\ntheir zeil in the good w^rk was commend-\\nable, and wo thy of imitation.\\nAs to the size or style of this primitive\\nmeeting house, nothing is known. It,\\nwas prui alily like others of the same time,\\ndestitute of architectural beauty, ru(]ely\\nfinished and plainly furnished, without\\nsti ves, cushiouH, carp^ ts or even piint;\\nin fact entirely free from any of the com-\\nforts or conveniences of modern church\\nes. Here without doubt, the gra) -haired\\nfather, the care-worn mother, the stal-\\nwart young man, the blushing maiden,\\nand the little child reverently listened to\\nthe long prayer and lengthy sermon, with\\nscarce a thought of a more attractive\\nand comfortable place of w i ship.\\nThe meeting-house built, the nc.\\\\t step\\nwas to find a preacher. At a parish\\nmeeting held on May 9th, 1726. it\\nwas voted that Mr, Nathaniel Morrill\\nshould be the settled minister of this par\\nish. llis salai v was 90 pounds, equiva-\\nlent to $300. By vote of the Parish.\\nJune 29lh, 172G, the 26th day of July\\nnext was set apart as a day of fasting and\\nprayer, to supplicate the throne of grace\\nand seek God s blessing in ye great and\\nweighty affair of settling Christ s church\\nin this parish, which ye Lord grant may\\nredound to his glory. It appears by\\nthis that the church was organized the\\n20th of July 1726- 20 persons were dis-\\nmissed from the church in Hampton to\\njoin heri Mr. Morrill was ordained the\\n14th of the following September.\\nU hcn fixing the time, the parish voted\\nthat Richard Jenness and Nathaniel Rand\\nshould provide a dinner for ye ministers\\nand me-sengers at ye parish charge, in\\ncase e contributions and Iree-will offer-\\nings of persons should fall short, which is\\nto be on ye last Sa!)batli in August.\\nEverything appears to have gone on\\nsmoothly for some years, and Mr. Morrill\\nseems to have enjoyed the esteem of the\\npeople; as in 1732 the parisli voted him\\na gratuity of 20 pounds, and in 1733 they\\n\\\\oiedthat four collections should be taken\\nfor him during the year. But something\\nseems to have suddenly transpired, for in\\ntwo month- of the last vote, they voted\\nthat Mr. Morrill shall not preach in this\\nparish, nni- hire a minister for it and\\nthat vve will not pay his salary. He\\nwas dismissed Sept. 26, 1733. Of his\\nj ministry here nothing is recorded, as the\\nj church record extends back no further\\nI than 1736, hence we cannot know what\\nI was the cause of this summary action on\\nI the part of the parish. He was a man of\\nacknowledged abilities. Tradition has it\\nthat the best that could be said of him is\\nwilt an old parishioner said after his dis-\\nmissal, that when he was in the pulpit\\nhenever ought to go out. and when out,\\nhe never ought to go in.\\nFor more than three years the people\\nwere without a pastor, but they were not\\nidle. In Nov. 173-1, 450 pounds of Bills\\nof Credit were appropriated to procure a\\nparsonage house and land. Of this an-\\ncient parsonage but little is known, but\\nit was probably in keeping with the meet-\\ning-house only more substantial, as it serv-\\ned its purpose 70 years, while the uk eting", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nhouse was used only about 35. In 1735\\na comiuittee was appoiiiled by the parish\\ntocoiisu t with certan\\\\ clerg\\\\meu aboui\\nsettling a minister. They heard several\\ncandidates, and finally August 16ih 17; 6,\\nMr. Samu 1 Parsons received and accept-\\ned the call to become their pastor, on a\\nsalary of 140 pounds, 20 cords of wood,\\nwith the parsunaj^e He was o^ dained\\nand installed Nov. 3, ot the same year.\\nThe house vv:is not finished until alter Mr.\\nParsons occupied it, but in tht-; foUowinix\\nspring it was completed, and an orchard\\nset 01. t. Kor was the meeting-house fin-\\nished until 17o9, 14 years afier ii had\\nbeen built, fur we find in this year that\\nthey voted to finish the meeting-house,\\nall but what joined the pe^s. Nothing\\nof special int rest occurs agam until Jan.\\n2^!th, 1755, when a vote was taken in ref-\\nerence to repaiiingthe old meeting-house,\\nor buildiuii a new one, which resulted in\\nfavor of the new.\\nSeveral recorded their dissent. The\\ndimt^nsion.s of this house were G0.\\\\40.\\nNear the close of the following year it\\nwas voted to build a steeple. How long\\nthis house was in process of budding is\\nnot known, as there is no record of its\\ndedicition, but probably it was several\\nyears. 1 hus the first meeting house, af-\\nter a brief existence of only about 35\\nyears, was torn down to give place to an\\nother. Several appropriations were made\\nfor a bell, uniil finally in 1766, ihe select-\\nmi-n were ill^tructed to pay tor the same,\\nand a committee were lo hiie it hung as\\ncheaply as possible. This house was lo-\\ncaU d closeto the street, nearly west Iron)\\nthe presen Congregationalist Church,\\nand is well remembered by the older por-\\ntion of our community. From \u00e2\u0080\u00a2sundry\\nvotes that were passed, mentioning the\\nwomen s seats below, and the women s\\ngallery, I conclude that there were cer-\\ntain seals for nn^ii and others for women.\\nThis meeting house was of the okl lash-\\nioned kind, with its high square pews.,\\ngallery on three sides, high pulpit, its\\nsounding board, c. The parish en(Uav-\\nort^d to preserve good order in the ser-\\nvice of God s house, judging from the\\nmany instnictions given at different times\\nto the tiihing men, and other votes, such\\nas, every person ouniing to meeting on\\nthe Lord s day in time of service inusi\\nuike his seat in the meeting house direct-\\nly, and the belfry and stairs mu^t be\\ncleared ot boys alter service begins.\\nAt lengih by age and paralytic shocks\\nMr. Parsons hecyme unable to perform\\nthe duties of his ollice, and in June 18ih,\\n1784, J. cacons Jenness and Locke were\\nchosen a committee to go to North Hill\\nand inquire of the niinislers for a young\\nman who had a good recommendation\\nanit would be likely to spttie.\\nEff irts wer.- now made to effect some\\nsettlement with Mr. Parsons, that the field\\nmight be cUar for a young man. After\\ntwo attempts, an Mrrangement was finally\\nperfected, Oct. 11, 17\u00c2\u00ab4, by which Mr.\\nSamuel VVallis, Jr., agreed to keep Mr.\\nPersons during his natural life for ^S5 prr\\nyear, and Mr. Parsons, signed an agree\\nII ent releasing the [)arish from any obli-\\ngation to him, in consideration of this pro-\\nvision fot his support. Oct. 25, 1784, the\\nchurch met at Mi-, Parsons house and vo-\\nted to call I dr. ILmting on Poiter to be-\\ncome colleague pastor, the pirish on the\\nsame day concurring m the aition ot the\\nchurch. Mr. Porter accepted the call,\\nand the following were the article.s of\\nagreement 75 pounds the firsi year, 80\\nthe second, 85 the third and 9u pounds\\nthe fourth and following years, to be paid\\nin gold or silver, or an equivalent; use of\\nthe p:irsonage, wiiich was to be kept in\\nlepair, and after Mr. Parsons death,\\neight cords of wood brought to his door.\\nTne p und was equivalent to 3 1-3 dol-\\nl.irsofour money. Mr. Porter was or-\\ndained and installed Deo. 29(h, 1784.\\nMr. Parsons died Jan. 4th 1789. DurinTg\\nhis pastorate over 2ou persons were ad-\\nmitted to full communion, and 1.581 names\\nare recorded on ihe church book as hav-\\ning been baijtized, and the marriag. s of\\nnearly 400 couples are also recorded. He\\n.-eems to have been highly esteemed by\\nth\u00c2\u00ab parish, as a few yeais after his death\\nthey voted to purchase head stones for\\nMr and Mrs. Parsons graves.\\nAfier the death of Mr. Parsons, until\\n1828, one of the items in tie record of\\nevery annual election was Vendue of\\nMr. Porter s wood. The new meeting\\nhouse was not fully finished at first, as a\\nvote was p issed iMarch 29 17UG instruct-\\ning the selectmen to furnish clapboards\\nand timber for the crowns of the windows,\\nand the following year the parish voted to\\nclapboard and otherwise improve the\\nhouse. In 1805 they vcted to paint the\\noutside the same color as the steeple, and\\nto paint the pulpit and dea^ ons seats\\nm;diogany color and also to paint the\\nfront and pillars of the gallery. In 18o\u00c2\u00ab\\na part of tne meetinghouse was convert-\\ned into an arsenal, as we find that the\\ntown voted that tlie powder and balls for\\nthe town be deposited in the u^ of the\\nmeeting liouse.\\nIn 1810, the old parsonage house,\\nwhich had been built about 75 years, had", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "11\\nbecome so unfit for its purpos-, lliat a\\nnew o e was votml, and ilie work of coii-\\nstiuction se ms to have gone rapidly for-\\nward. The parson ige was to be 38 by 29\\nfeet, was to iiave two ihiinne\\\\s the first\\nstory H feet post, the second story 7 feet\\npost, c. It was built near the site of\\ntlie old house, a little to the east of it, and\\nsome of the timber of thi- old house was\\nto be used in its construction It was oc-\\ncupied as a parsoiKif^e only about 20\\nyears, when it was sold on account of ai^\\niiicunibrance. This hiuse is still stan I-\\nin beii)g now the residence of Mr. Isaac\\nllar.d.\\nThus far in our his ory of tlie relijfious\\ninteiests of thi: town, wo have spoken of\\nbut one church, because there had been\\nbut or)e for more th m 90 years. But it\\nis not to be so in the afer history, as Kye,\\nlike aha st ever} other New Enj^land\\ntow.i where once the only church was tiie\\nCongiegational, is to have, like them,\\nchurches of other denoniinations tlian the\\nslam/in f/ order.\\nAbout 1S05 or 10. we cannot ascertain\\nthe date exactly, Elder Eben Leavitt be-\\ngan to preach in this vicinity the doctrine\\nnow held by the denomination called\\nChi istian. which had its origin near the\\nbeginnnig of the pre-ent century, Many\\neiubrac d the. -e vii^ws, which were then\\nregarded as heretical f r heterodox, but\\nwhch now, such has been the chang\u00c2\u00ab in\\ntheolog cal views, are regarded as ortho-\\nilo.x, and those embracing them held in\\nesteem by all evangelical churches. Of\\ncourse there was a division. Instead of\\nall attending one church, tht^y now at-\\ntended two. About, the same time a\\nsmall meeting house was built, by Mr.\\nNathaniel Ki.owles aided by a few others,\\non his land, which is now owntd by Mr.\\nCharles Knowles, the meeting house\\nstandnig midway of the lane leading from\\nthe street to his house, on the right hand\\nside.\\nWe learn that there was considera le\\nbitterness, and many harsh saying occa-\\nsioned by this new depariure, as would\\nlikely be the case, and that Mr. Porter\\ndoubted the wisdom o( such a course and\\neven opposed it ;is we should naturally\\nexpect. However, the y \u00c2\u00bbung society\\nflourished amid all this opposition, and\\ngained in inlluencc. sn th it in 1824. the\\ntown believed in toleiation, as is witness-\\ned by the fact that it voted to supply the\\nChristian as well as the Cong, church\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.vith wood, which was done for several\\nyeuis.\\nThe early records of the Christian\\nChurch and Society arc not as full as we\\ncould wish, and hence many items which\\nwould have been of interest at this time\\nare not within our reai h.\\nIn 1824 and also 1827, extensive revi-\\nvals were enjo} ed under the labors of\\nEldeis Leavitt, Philbrick \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ind others of\\nthe hristian denomination, which greatly\\nstrt-nglheind that society. i he [jasloral\\ncare of this people wa-i taken by Eid.\\nI^Jphraim l hilbrick,who had been convert-\\ned under the labo: s of Eld. Leavitt, and\\nord. lined here, until 1839. In 1828,\\nNov. 7, -in ai^reement was entered into\\nby I he town and Mr. Porter whereby the\\nci\\\\il contract between him ami tlie town\\nas pastor, was dissolved, the town paying\\nMr. Porter !$3oO, and granting him the\\nuse of the parsonage until March, 183 J\\nand by this action the Local church was\\ndisestablished.\\nIn 182 J, the use of the meeting house\\nwas granted to the Christians, Methodists\\nand Universalists for one half the time,\\nthe Co.ig. Society worshippmg one half\\nof the time at the centre schoolhouse in\\ncons quence.\\nThe Chri-tian Society however seem\\nnot to have used the old meetinghouse long\\nfor IJec. 13, 1830, pel mission was granted\\nthem to move their meeting house before\\nalluded to, upon the tov\\\\ n lands at the\\ncentie near the pouml, and it was soon af-\\nter moved, and stood directly in front of\\nthe present church.\\nThe Methodists however held meetings\\nquite regularly for a line and occupied\\nthe old meeting house, but soon h id only\\noccasional jireaching, a.s no society or\\nchurch was formed till several 3 ears af-\\nter. Just before the dissolution of the\\ncivil compact with Mr. Porter, an effort\\nwas made to form a new re ii^ious society.\\nto act in conjunctionwith the Cong, church,\\nand Its organization was ffected Oct. 24,\\n1828, under the name of tiie 3d religions\\nsociety in Liye, but the name was change 1\\nMarch 28, 183l3, to the Congicgational\\nSociety. There were 135 signatures at\\nthe time of its organization.\\nIn 1829, the burden of cate and re-\\nsponsibility being too great for Mr. Por-\\nter, who was considerably adv.aiiced in\\nyears, the Cong, society on April 8 .h in-\\nvited Mr. Bezaleel Smith to become col-\\nleague pastor with Mr. Porter, and he\\nwas ordained and installed May 13,1829.\\nIn Feb. lS3f the Cong, church and so-\\nciety became interested ii the matter of a\\nparsonage for thi^ir minister, asthe town\\nparsonage was sold in June 1830, and af-\\nter several meetings for that purpose a\\nsubscription w.^s started, which soou\\namounted to ever S8i30, and a little after", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nto the requisite $1000, the ?um whi -h\\nmust be raised before any of the subscrip\\ntions became due. A committee of 12\\nwere chosen to expend the money, and\\nthey first bought o acres ot land of Miss\\nM.Locke, which in a few months was sold,\\nand in April 1833, the Lieu Amos Gar-\\nland farm was purchased for .$1200. for\\nparsonage purposes. A barn was built\\nand some otlier improvements, making\\nthe entire cost of lh parsona ;e land and\\nbuildings about $1500 at that limn. It\\nseems that in 1839 there was a debt of\\nover $80 on the parsonage, and the sub\\nscribers for a parsonage voted that they\\nwould deed the pr perty to thu Congre-\\ngationalist !-ocie y. if said society wnuld\\nassume the debt, which ihey d d, and the\\nparsonage was deeded to the society, De-\\ncember 16, 1839.\\nThe Cong, society continued to occupy\\nthe old meeting house, with no effort to\\nsecure a new house, until March 25, 1837,\\nwhen at the annual meeting it was voted\\nt J choose a committee of four to circulate\\na subscription paper to raise money for a\\nnew meeting house. The building com-\\nmittee were authorized to expend a sum\\nnot exceeding $2700. The audience room\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was finished so as to be dedicaed Dec. 27,\\n1837. It appears from the records that\\nthe house cost $2918. The highest paid\\nfor a pew was$60.10. The house contain-\\ned 64 pews. At a meeting held Oct. 28,\\n1839, Thomas J Parsons Esq., with such\\npersons as he might associate with him-\\nself, was granted the privilege of finishing\\na hall in the basement, to be controlled by\\nthem until such time as the society should\\npay for the cost of finishing said hall with\\ninterest. The finishing of the vestry cost\\nnearly $800. The society took possession\\nof it in 1841, having paid the expenses of\\nfinishing it.\\nBat we must now go back a little\\nas to time. According to the church rec-\\nord, the Christian church was organized\\nAug. 20, 1833, as this is the date of its\\nconstitution. It had probably been or-\\nganized before, but as we have no pre-\\nvious recoid, and as the constitution or\\ncovenant was adopted at this time, we\\nmust date this as the organization of the\\nchurch under its present form. The names\\nof forty persons are recorded as the\\nmembers at this time. Large accessions\\nwere received in the spring of 1839. That\\nyear was one of great importance to the\\nreligious societie-; of this town. March\\n16th of this year the Methodist Episcopal\\nSociety was organized. April 12th a\\nbuilding committee was chosen, and such\\nwas the rapidity \\\\vith which the work was\\ndone that the meeting house was dedicated\\nOct. 9th, 18.39, Rev. Jacob Sanborn\\npreac iins the sermon.\\nthis house with the land cost about\\nS2300, and contained 48 pews, if I remem-\\nber correctly.\\nThe Cnristian Society, that had wor-\\nshipped several years in a h Use far too\\nsmiil for their needs and uuwoithy ol its\\npurpose, during tliis year also erected\\ntheir church.\\nTheir house cost, including the land on\\nwhich it stands, and that occupied by the\\nsheds, $3750, the land being SoGO. it\\ncontained, as now, 60 pews The pews\\nwere all prized at $60 apiece, and were\\nsold ;it auction for choice, the highest\\nchoice money being $33, so the highest\\npaid for a pew was $93. According to\\nthe church record, it was dedicated 34\\nyears ago to d.iy, but this is a mistake, as\\nin the life of Eld-r Mark Fernald, mention\\ni-i made of the dedication, at which he\\nwas present, as taking place Oct. 30ih,\\n1839, which is undoubtedly correct, llev.\\nDavid Mdlard, then of Portsmouth, who\\ndied at Jackson, Mich, a few weeks sinci%\\npreached the dedication sermon.\\nIn July 12, 1841, Rev. Mr. Smi h was\\ndismissed from the Cong Church, and on\\nDec. 1 Ith of the same year, Rev. James\\nF. McRwen was installed. Durmg Mr.\\nMcEw.:n s pastorate. Rev. Huntingto i\\nPorter died. His death occurri d in\\nMarch 7, 1^*44. During this long pastor-\\nate over 850 were baptised, and over\\n400 couples married. But few compara-\\ntively seem to have been added to the\\nchurch during his pastorate.\\nBut we must turn back for a moment\\nto bid farewell to the old meeting house.\\nIn 1840, March 25ih, it was sold for $280.\\nIt was moved into the lot between the\\nCong. Church and the buildings now\\nowned by Mr. Albert Walker, and some-\\nwhat repaired, designed to be occupied\\nfor Universalist preaching, but was soon\\nmoved to Portsinouihand uspd as a stable,\\nstanding on the lot on State St near Mid-\\ndle, now occupied by Mr. B. Frank Web-\\nster s new houise. It was destroyed by\\nfire some s x or seven years since, and\\nthus endeth its history.\\nRye was somewhat stirred by the great\\nreligious excitement of 1843 and 44, inau-\\ngurated by those who believed the world\\nwas then coming to an end. Several here\\nembraced these views, and about 20 mem-\\nbers withdrew from the Christian Church,\\nand with others maintained a meeting\\nfor some years at the South School House\\nAfter the lapse of several years, the\\nmeeting was given up and they attended\\nworship at the other churches, though not\\nreturning to their former church relation.\\nIn 1842 the Methodist Society voted to", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "13\\nbuild a parsonage, which secius to have\\nlicen completed by 18i3, and though fur\\na while ihey were in debt, yet in due\\ntime i was all puid. It cost about $800.\\nAp il 8tl), 18-I(j ]\\\\Ir. McEwen was dis-\\nmi-sed from his pastorate, and august -ith\\n1847 Kev. J. T. Otis was installe.i. and\\ncontinued to be pastor in the Cong, church\\nuntil April 24th 1866, when he was dis\\nmissed, being the last settled pastor of\\nthat church.\\nRev. Giles Leach began to supply for\\nthis church Oct 11th 1867, and continued\\nthus untihhe close of 1870. since which\\ntime I hern has been only occasional\\npnaching for that society, until May last,\\nwhen Rev. J. K, Aldrich began his la-\\nbors. He has not yet been installed. The\\nMethodist Society in 185U made quite ex-\\ntensive repairs to their church, at an ex-\\npense of about $500, and it was dedicated\\nJune 2nd of that year. Rev Mr. Hall of\\nPortsmouth preaching the sermon.\\nFor several years past, there his been\\nnothing of special interest to demand our\\nattention. Iiimiedi^itely following the\\nyears of church-building, there was a\\ngreat revival interest and many were re-\\nceived into the churches. For nearly 30\\nyears there have been no such spasms of\\nrelij^ious interest as before, though there\\nhave been several revivals. The winter of\\n67 and 58 witnessed many cinversions\\nA few years since the believers in the\\nimmediate cominj!; of Christ, usually\\nknown a-* Second Adventists.revived their\\nmeetings here, which had been suspemted\\na few years alter the 43 and 44 excitement,\\nand in May 1872 dedicated a chapel, on\\nSouth road, so called, near Cheslcy s Cor-\\nner. Regular services are held, the Sab-\\nbath services being conduced by vari us\\nclergymen of that order, as usually ihe\\nchurches of this faith do not have pastors.\\nI have already given the names of the\\nvarious pastors of the Cong, church, and\\nit may not be amiss to mention the pastors\\nof the other societies. After 1839 for\\ns-mo two years Eld Philbrick and Rev T.\\nF. Barry ofHciated conjointly as pastors\\nof the Christian Church. After the Rev,\\nAbuer Hall was pastor some 2 years,\\nhe was followed by the Rfv. W. H.\\nNason, l|o years, Kev. Mr. Moshin, sev-\\neral years. Rev. S. Hinckly ^4 year, W.\\nH Ireland 2 years, J. H. Row^ll oyears,\\nJoel Wilson 8 years, Timothy Cole 2\\nyears, J. L Pierce 3 years, B. Dick-\\nson 3 years, C. Simonil-; 1 year, David\\nKnowiton yX ynar, J. L. Pierce again 2\\nyears, J. P. Nelson, 1 year, T. Oow,\\n9 months, and the present pastor, K^\\nA. H. iMorrill, followed, commencing his\\nlabors April 1st 1872.\\nThe Methodist Society have had the\\nlabors of J. T. Adams, Mr. VVallingford,\\nMr. Macendo, Mr. Legro, J. W. Adams,\\nN. M. Bailey, N. L. Chase, W. H.\\nSfewait, G. \\\\V. T. Rogers, and others\\nwhose names I have be n unable to ob\\ntain.\\nRev A. Folsom was the last set-\\ntled preacher. Regular services were not\\nheld after 1868, if I am to judge from the\\nrecords of the societj I may say a word\\nfurther relative to the number of mem-\\nbers connected with the various churches.\\nAs near as I can estimate, the Cono-.\\nchurch, in its recorded history of 187\\nyears, (there are no records of its first\\nten years) has had about 500 members.\\nIn Mr. Porter s day the greatest number\\nwas 85 and the smallest 56. Its present\\nmembership is between 50 and 60.\\nThe Methodist Church, in itshistorv of\\nabout 30 years, has had connected with it\\non probation and in full fellowship about\\n75.\\nThe Christian Church, in its 50 y ars\\nof existence, has had 240 members, and\\nnow numbers 120.\\nI hardly nee I to say that the Metho-\\ndist Church and parsonage were sold the\\npiesent year, for the fact that we are now\\nassembled in the old M. E. Church,\\nenlarged, repaired, owned by the town,\\nand by these services dedicated as a\\nTown Hall, is familiar to all.\\nIn conclusion I may say that the pres-\\nent religious Societies are in a tlourishing:\\ncondition, and abundantly able to sus-\\ntain themselves creditably in this commu-\\nnity are on kindly terms with each other;\\nand we hope they may keep in view the\\ngreat objects for which they were estab-\\nlished, and that they may meet with large\\nsuccess.", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "THE TOWN HALL.\\nTJje town of Rye purchased the Methodist Episcopal raeeting-liouse and site, for\\n$1000 had it remodelled at a cost of $2660, and furnished at a cost of $595 mak-\\ning a total cost of $4255.\\nThe town bell was previously removed from the Congregational Church, and be-\\ning era k( d, was recast and placed on the new building. This bell had previously\\nbeen twice cracked and recast.\\nThe committee for remodelling were Emmons B. Philbrick, Eben L. Seavey, Simon\\nL. Chesley. Tl.e plans were drawn by E, B. Philhrick.\\nERRATA.\\nPage 7, Ifttb line from top, the John Brewster Jr. whose wife was wounded at\\nthe Massacre on Portsmouth Plains cannot be traced as the great grandson of Elder\\nWm. Brewster, though he was probably a lenial descendent from him.\\nPage 7, 6th line from bottom Dr. John W. and not Dr. Joseph Parsons, served as\\nSurgeon s mate on the ship Orlando.\\nPage 8, 26th line from top, Eleven Cavalry enlisted in Capt. Colman s company.\\nIt appears that they did not serve under him.\\nPage 9, 3rd line from bottom, first column, read 20th day of July, instead of 26th\\nPage 12, first column, 25th Jine from bottom, read $300 instead of $6", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE SCHOOL HISTORY OF RYE.\\nADDRESS OF G. II. JENNESS, SUPT. SCHOOL COMMITTEE.\\nIt i.s not probable that thorc was any\\norganized slIiooI sysiein until sometime\\nafter the in orporation of the Town in\\n172(), although what is known as the\\nmovinjj school is referred to soon af-\\nter the Parish was severed from Newcas-\\ntle. The moving school was an insti-\\ntution peculiar to the early settlemcnti,\\nand was kept at privati^ housci in differ-\\nent neighborhoods so as to accommodate\\nthe children of as many families as cir-\\ncumstances wonM permit. Ihe family\\nthat entertained the moving schot.l, of\\ncourse boarded the schoolmaster, who was\\nin those days considered quite a dignitary,\\nsecond in importance only to the minister\\nand the Justice ot the Peace.\\nPrevious to any organized effort to es-\\ntabh li public schools, ih smaller children\\nwere taught by village dames which\\nsounds large at first, but which being in-\\nterpreted, is generally acknowledged, 1\\nbelieve, to have been usid as a genteel\\ne.\\\\pres ion for Old Maids.\\nThose who desiied to fit f)r college\\nwere generally taken in hand by the\\nminister and prepared as well as their\\ntimi and talents would allow. A fVw\\nsca tered acadamies afforded opportuni-\\nties for thoso who possessed the means, to\\nacquire a fair education, but the m iss of\\nthe people had to be contented with the\\nfacilities offered by the moving schools.\\nlit lit ii l(: f\\nEverything relating to our early school\\nhistory is left in a very tVagmeniary and\\nlisjointed condition. The searcher after\\nfacts finds but few to gather, and those\\nonly recoided at irregular intervals.\\nWhile the town records are very com-\\nplete upnn the important subject of ring\\ning the bell, and while the town clerks\\nhave been commendably faithful in record-\\ning the names of all the great men who\\nhave filled the positions of Hog-reeve\\nand Fence-viewer. both leave us in\\nblissful ignorance upon the vital subject\\nof Education. The earliest date that I\\nhave been able to find upon the regular\\nTown records, concerning schotd raaiters\\nis March 23, 1729, when it was Voted at\\nfd ul meetiiiji i hat the Selectmen should be\\nenipowere l to liive a school-master and\\nmove him several times as they see cause\\nfor the conveniency of the children s go-\\ning to school.\\nIn 1731 it was Voted that the sekct-\\nmen be empowered to hire a schoolm.,8-\\nter one half of the year.\\nIn June, 1737, there was an article in\\nthe warrant, I o sen what you will do\\nconcerning a school, but as there is no\\naction recorded it is not probable that\\nthere was any school that year.\\nin 1739, Voted that there should be a\\nmoving schoid and that every party that\\nhath the benefit of the school shall pro-\\nvide a house to keep school in, and that\\nthe moving school siiall lie at the discre-\\ntion of the SehctMienof the Parish.\\nFrom 1739 to 1751 regular school ap-\\npropriations were made, and in the latter\\nyear the question of a new school house\\nwas agitated, and was a lively issue at\\nmany subsequent Town meetings. In\\n1751, tiie people were invited To see if\\nthey will do anything concerning build-\\ning a school-house in the Parish, and in\\n1752 to see if they will vote to build two\\nschool-houses. It will be observed th it\\nthe Town is spoken of as the Parish for\\nmany years after its incorporation, and\\nwere there nothing but the records of the\\nTown clerks to guide us, we should infer\\nthat Rye continued to be a Parish of New-\\ncastle long after it is known to have been\\nseparate.\\nIn 1756, there Avere local dissensions\\nand jealousies, and a first-class school\\nrow all over town. It finally culminated\\nin a proposition, To see if the parish will\\nvote the school money shall be divided,\\nand let each party hire a school-master\\naccording to their liking, and in 1757,\\nTo see if the parish will settle the school\\nin two pltces or settle the school at the", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nCentre. The voting at the meeting\\nwas slightly contra lictory as will be seen\\nby the f liowing record\\n1st Vi ted that the school should be\\nkept i n the Centre of the F irish.\\n2nd. Voted that the school be 1 P\\none-half of the year to the eastward of\\nthe mee ting-h ^use.\\n3rd. Voted that the school be kept in\\ntwo p a -es above ihe meeting-house.\\nS ich votinii as thut sets at defiance the\\nfundamental law of Physics, that tuo\\nbodes cannot occupy the same space ai\\nthe s^me lime. Hi w the dilEcul y was\\nfinally adjusted does not appear, but in\\nMarch 23, 1761, it was Voted that the\\nschool sho ild be one-half above and the\\noher half below the meeting house.\\n(This does not mean in the bellfiy a part\\nof th time, and the remainder in the\\nbasement. Ed.)\\nIn 1764:,sotU(^ unexpneted fit of liberal-\\nity seized upon someliody, for there was\\nan article in the warrant. To see if the\\\\\\nwill buy a school-house and lot with a\\nhou-e on it, or liuihl a housi^ for a sch ol-\\nmas er. The disease didn t sprcsad how-\\nevf-r, and. f course, the schoolma-t r s\\nhouse wasn t built. It i^ certain, however,\\nthat there weie two school-houses built in\\ntown sometime between 1704 and H. ^i\\nfor in the lattei year there was an arlicle\\nin the warra t. To see if the Palish will\\nbuild A school-house, or repair the old\\nones; and it a sul)^^equent meeting the\\nsamf- year, it was Voted th:it the .-e ect-\\nnien repair ihe scho houses, and put\\ntiiem in order. Tiiispoves that theie\\nwere then at least two-hnuses, and that\\nthey had been builr, and knocked into a\\ncondition to need repai s since 1764. The\\nsclioolhovs of those days were, in coinnion\\npfrlance, a pretty lough et for in two\\nyeais from that time, it was found neces-\\nsary to build new ngain Up repairs of\\n1784 being rather i-h rt-iive I.\\nIn 1786 it was Voted there shall I e\\na new school house built where the old\\none now stands betwt-t n Mr. Johnson s\\nand Mr. Nathan Knuwles The cost\\nw s\u00c2\u00a3l4 9s6d.\\nIt was but partially finished however,\\nfor in Jan. 17^9, we find an article in the\\nwarrant lo see what the town wid do to\\nfinish the sehoo -house by N Knowles;\\nbut as,fhe .-(diool-honse fever had si me-\\nwhat su tfided, no action was taken upon\\nthe matter.\\nIn April of the same year it was voted\\nThat theie be winder heters at the\\nsouth school-house by N. Knowles. The\\nrecording of the vote indicates, that a\\n.schoolmaster was quite as much needed as\\nwinder slieters.\\nIn 1791, Voted to build a school h e\\nAt the east end of the Parish. Cost, \u00c2\u00a334\\n18s 7d.\\nIn 1796, Voted the town shall be di-\\nvided into 2 equal parts for to hire schools\\nfoe each District.\\nIn 1797, Voted the Selectmen shall\\nkeep 18 months school, the school to be-\\ngin the 1st of May at both school houses\\nand keet on five months, -nd shall t egin\\nthe middle of November and keep on four\\nmonths. .^Iterthis there aie no recorded\\nvotes worthy of special mention, untd\\n1816, when it was -Voted that no scholar\\nbelow the meeting house shall go to the\\nupper school, and nonr above ihe meeting\\nhouse shall go to tlie lower school.\\nIn 182G, two brick school houses were\\nbuih in what are now the South and West\\nD stricts, and in 1827 two more were buik\\nin the Cenueand Ea-t Disiricts.at an :iv-\\nera:ie cost of some $400, or $500 each.\\nIn 1827, the Town w is divided into two\\nDistricts, each containing two school-\\nhouses. In 1833, the Seh ctmen divided\\nthe Town into four Distiicts. In lb45,\\nthe Town was re disiricte I, and the boun-\\ndary lines defined In 1854 it was vo-\\nted that the ro .?n convey by d ed or oth-\\nerwise to each school district the school-\\nhouses located in the sai e for their spe-\\ncific use; since which time every d s-\\ntrict has been entirely independent of the\\nto^n in regard to the manayenient of\\nits local affairs. Within three years a\\nnew scho 1-house has been buik in the\\nWest district at a cost ol nearly $2(l00.\\nanil the Sou h and East have been re-\\npaired at an aggregate cost of SllUO\\nI liey are all in ^iood order now und are\\na it credit lo the inlelligen ;e and liberali-\\nty of our citizens.\\nihe amount of money appropriated for\\nsci ool purposes in 1741 was \u00c2\u00a320, in\\n1744 \u00c2\u00a325 174 j\u00c2\u00a3b(), 1792 \u00c2\u00a392, 1795$177,\\n1797 $378. and in 1^05 $-167, v, hidi is\\nthe larg st amount previous to 1825.\\nFrom that year th amount gr dually in-\\ncieaed to $000, *70(). $MIO, J(iO, and\\nfinally in 1870 to $1200, the present ap-\\npro{)riation. Unlike most oiher lowns\\nin he State, the money is equall\\\\ divided\\nbetween the four di-li icts, and thus ev-\\ner) scholar in town is placed upon exactly\\nthe same footing in regard to the privi-\\nleges of our schools.\\nI p to the time of re-d strict ng the\\ntown, the Seleeimen retained supreme\\ncontrol of all school matters, and hired\\nthe Teachers when the people did not", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "17\\nchoose tbeui in open Town-mefetlng, which\\nit appears they did in our early history.\\nAmong the incidental expenses of the\\nschools, the bills for wood were noiably\\nlarge, the old-fashioned fire-places re-\\nquiring a hirge amount in cold weaiher.\\nThe annual expense was from $25 to $-13,\\nand that for only two school-houses, and\\nwhen wood vvas very cheap. Among oth-\\ner incidentals was ihe regular charjie\\nfor Going after Teachers, from which ii\\nis inferred that the a|.iplications for a\\nsituation as Teacher were not as numer-\\nous as at present. The usual expense for\\ngoing after teachers was about two dol-\\nlars, but in ]8(I0 the St-lecinien had a bill\\nof $6.25 for hiring a schtiol-mi^tress. In-\\nasmuch as this i cm was about three times\\nthe usual amount, it must have bten that\\nthe year 18o0 was not a good year for\\nschool-marms, or else the extra $\u00e2\u0096\u00a04.25\\nwas for constructive daa)ages inflicted up-\\non the Selectmen s modesty.\\nOf the Teacliers the records furnish but\\nlittle information. The only person men-\\ntioned is Christopher Gold (probably\\nmeaning Gould) who was in 17(32 elected\\nto keep school for .six months. We hear\\nno moie of him until March 1773, when it\\nwas Voted i ot ti hire iMas erGold an\\\\\\nlonger, from which I infer that he taught\\nmost of tht school time during the in er-\\nvenin^; 11 years. Ihrought! e courtesy of\\nJhomas J. Farsuns, E^q., 1 am able to\\nlurnish from his private r^ cords the names\\nof several of the leachi rs of previous gen-\\nerations. Among them may be mentioned\\nJoseph Parsons and Rid ard W ebster,\\nwho taught in 1786 and 1787 In 1 J,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a290 and 91 Peter Mitel ell and John C r-\\nroll. in l~i^ 6, James Lane. In 1794\\nJohn L. Pi()er. After iheni came at va-\\nrious periods Samuel Willey John\\nFre ch, a A r, Sherburne, Noah liurn-\\nham, John W. Parson^, Richard VV eb-\\nster Jr., Jtseph Dahon. Joseph Dame,\\nLevi Meirill, Noah W iggin, Tliomas J.\\nParsons, John A. Tiefcthen, ai d scores\\nof oilers whose names are n ore or less\\nfamiliar to you. Ihe wag^s p.iid ranged\\nfiom $1\u00c2\u00bb to $20 per monih xdu.-ive if\\nbo ird the earlier teachers being paid in\\nthe English cmreiicy\\nDr. John W. Parsons taught school\\nand practiced medicine at the ^alne time.\\nhenever he was called upon to attend\\nthe sick, the children were dismissed and\\nsent home. Somelim s after teaching\\nSCI ool all day, he would walk over to\\nKorih Hampton to attend his patients\\nthere, returning home on foot in the even-\\ninir.\\nOne of the old Teachers, Levi Merrill,\\nwho taught at the East Schoolhouse,\\nboarded at the house of a prominent resi-\\ndent of the district, and, as sometimes\\nhappens in such instances, formed an in-\\ntimate acquaititance with one of the daugh-\\nters, which speedily ripened ir.fo some-\\nthing decidedly like courting. The old\\nman was opposed to the match, and in or-\\nder to break up the arrargement, refused\\nto board the t- acher at the next term of\\nschool. He went to one of the neighbors\\nto board, and a little boy who attended\\nschool wasemplosed by the teacher to\\ncarry letters to the fair damsel whenever\\nthe coast was clear, and the window was\\nraised a litile for a signal. The boy was\\nhandsomely rewarded for carrying the\\nniiilby being let off fi om all the whip-\\npings he was supposed to deserve, and\\nstill livt s at three score and ten to relate\\nthe story. He h iS held mnny positions\\nof honor and trust in his town and State,\\nami is familiarly known as b quire Par-\\nsons. Contrary to all the cases laid\\ndown in the novels for our guidance, the\\nieacher di Jn t marry the giil after all,\\nbui only fanned the latent lo\\\\e into a lit-\\ntle ffame. and then completely extinguish-\\ned It by marrying at other woman.\\nIn lalei years Hall Locke is widely re-\\nmembered for his scholarly attainments\\nand eccentric manners, in addition to\\nhis otliei accomplishmi nts, he could do\\nsome first -class swearing whi^never he\\nthoi;ght ihe ociasion demanded it, or\\nwhenever the school grew a little too\\nnoisy. At one time he had reasons for\\npiinishii.ga boy, who is yet living, whose\\nhair in his youthful days was about the\\nColor of my whiskers (red). Seizing his\\nruler he went for that youngster for\\nthe purpose ol reas ning with him by\\nthe only pr cess then known among\\nteachers. The boy, however, did nut de-\\nsire to be whipped just then, so he snatch-\\ned his hat, darted oui of ihe schoolhouse\\nand staried off, witii Lccke following after\\nin hot pursuit. The M.ister was a little\\nlime, and the boy soon put a safe dis-\\ntance between himself and his dreaded\\nenemy. As Locke saw him slowly but\\nsureiy slipping out of his reach, he Hung\\nhis ruler after him witn all the energy of\\na passionate man, and yelled out Oh!\\nou litt e yaller headed if 1 could get\\nhold of ye, I d fix \\\\e.\\nOf the Supervision of the schools the\\nmachinery was much more cumbrous than\\nat present. The Commiitee-men s visit\\nwas regarded as an e-vent of great import-", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nance, and a vast amount of dignity was\\nembodied in their long faces and stand-up\\ncollars. I had hoped to obtain a com-\\nplete list of my predecessors, but the in-\\nexcusable neg ijicnce of the Town Clerks\\nhas rendered it impossible.\\nThe fust committee on record is that o\\n1798, when iL was voted that Rev. Hunt-\\nington Porter, John Carroll and Col. Jos\\neph Parsons be a commitiee to inspect\\nthe sch(Jols.\\nThe nf^xt year (1799) the sam com-\\nmittee were re-elec!ed :ind the whole\\nboard of Selectmen in the bargain. Now\\nLadies and Gentlemen, it is bad enough\\nto have one committee, it is worsH to have\\nthree, but to send all the Selectmen be-\\nsides, is pushing matters to that point\\nwhere forbearance ceases to be a vir-\\ntue.\\nIn 1812 the committee consisted of Rev\\nII. Porter and Dr. Joseph Parsons. In\\n1813 (^ol. Thomas G ss, John W. Par-\\nsons and Peter Jenness.\\nIn 1827 tne State passed a Special Act\\nin regard to the supervision of schools,\\nsince which time most of the small town-i\\nin N. ri. have elected a committee cou-\\nsistin^if of only one person. From 1827\\nto 1856 by the most shameful remissness\\nthere is no record whatever of s -hool\\nofficers. How m my blight -d hopes and\\ncherished ambitions slumber in that twen-\\nty-nine years of unrecu dc greatness, cm\\nnever be fully known. Men who put on\\na bran-ne^v shirt coll ir, and submitted to\\nevery indignity of the toilet, who faci-d\\nfrowning school-masters anil giggling\\nschool jiirls, endured it all in vain, and\\nhavti not even the poor boon of their\\nnames upon t.hn Town s parchment. Af-\\nter this, what IS fame? In I8 )7 Charles J.\\nBrown was elected Supt. C )m, and was\\nel Cted again in 59, 60, 63, 64, 65 and\\n66. Levi T. Walker was elected in 1858\\nand again in 01 and 62, Thomas J.\\nParsons was elected ai 1867 and re elect-\\ned in 1SG8. From I8G9 until the present,\\nyour humble servant (G. H. Jenness\\nIn all systems of school diseipliurf, un-\\ntil a comparatively recent date. Force was\\nthe controlling Power. Ev ry pupil was\\nlooked upon as a subject, over which the\\nmaster was the supreme ru er; and no\\nKing on his throne ever wielded a more\\ndespotic power. The idea of self-govern-\\nment in school, never entered the heads\\nof those old champions of the birch ami\\ncowhide. Brute force and hat alone was\\nrelied upon to concpier and keep in sub-\\njection the natural hilarity of youth. Un-\\nder such management every schoolroom\\nbecame a place to be shunnel. and its\\noccupants only went there because they\\nfelt obliged tn. Every boy hoped a-.d\\nprayed for the day when he should feel\\nable to Ick the mas er That cne\\nword master tells I he whole .story ln!-\\ntwct-n thi past and pres-^nt school civdi-\\nzation. No one then thought of being a\\nTeacher simply.\\n1 he punishments were frequently se-\\nvere, and someiimes absolutely brutal.\\nThe stick, ihe ruler, and the rawhide\\nwere used for the most trifling offences,\\nand were always viewed as the necessary\\nmeans of presL-rving even the semblance\\nof good order. Every boy whi had li e\\nand snap enough in him to elevae him\\nabove the level of a fool, expected a\\ndaily whip[)ing is inui-h as he expected\\nhis supper, and felt leally disappointed (li\\nhe didn t get it. In niy schooldays t\\nwas considered sufficient punishment for\\nany ordinary misdemeanor, to be set back\\namong thi^ large girls a kind of punish-\\nment that has been aptly styled cdpilal\\npunishment, and a kind that the must of\\nus felt ai Ie to endure.\\nUpon one point all the records are\\nconspicuously silent the absence if ail\\nintimation that woman had anything to\\ndo in the management of our public scnools\\nunder the old syst -m. Our forefathers\\nhad not outgrown the idea that in all the\\npractical avocations or life worn m shouid\\nbe regaided as a subordinite and not as\\nan equal. Hence if a m m had a large\\nfamily of children to educ iie, he did the\\nbest ne could for the boys, and encour-\\naged the girls not to ini-ddle with book\\nlarnin.\\nBut time makes all things even, and\\nif in one generatiini the woman were push-\\ned to the rear, in another they have march-\\ned to the front. That mythical whi lii;ig\\nof time which tvc hear so much about,\\nhas bi ought tliem the safest and swei-t-\\nest of revenges a revolution of public\\nopinion. The State of N. II. last year\\nemployed 3823 teachers, of which 3296\\nwere women. The percentage in their\\nfavor gains year by year, and the day) is\\napparently not far distant when the last\\nteacher of the male persuasion will be\\nput on exhibition by some future Barnnm,\\nattached to a great moral show, and\\ngazed upon ns the last specimen of a race\\nwho did as well as could be expected,\\nbut who were compelled to submit to the\\ninexorable logic of events. Surely the\\nwomen of N. H. ought not to complain\\nand bother themselves about female suf-\\nfrage, when they marshal the armies of", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "19\\ntbe schoolroom, a place more pof.eiit in\\nsliapiii j)ul)lic opinion than any other\\nFor otie 1 do not Ti giet ihv chanj^e nor\\nbelieve the State a loser. 1 he ^taiistios\\nini ic ate ;i praciual but t^u e jirowtii in ihe\\nrifiht direction, an incieast d average at-\\nttmlan e a hijjher tirade of studies, and\\na {rreafcr piiI Mi intere~t. Tbo contrast\\nin teacher!*, ticiiooi-honses, studies, and\\nindeed the whole school machinerv, is so\\njrieat that it seems to ine tlie most persist-\\nent stickler for old times must ackiowl-\\nthe revohi inn Men sometimes think\\ntl ey ari- irav lling tlie backward road,\\nwh II they have only stood still while the\\nwiirM of intelli rence has moved on\\nIt is in the highest degree creditable to\\ntlie Town, that during the last few years it\\nlia-^ expened so much money lor school-\\nhouses and schools It is creditable that\\nit has finished this commodious and beauti-\\nful town hall for t!ie public good. What-\\never its CGst,you will find it money \u00e2\u0096\u00a0well in-\\nvested, for no money is poorly expended\\nthat increases the facilities for a better ed-\\nucation and assists in elevating the public\\ntaste.\\nIt is for you, ladies and gentlemen, to\\nprofit by the comparisons drawn and gath-\\ner new inspiraiion from the lessons of the\\npast. Our school historv, though meagre\\nin recorded etents, is rich in treasured re-\\ncollect inns and personal reminiscences.\\nFor 250 years tlie Parish and Town have\\nbeen solicitious for the education of tlieir\\nchildren. However primitive the sur-\\nroundings, the people never wholly lost\\nsight of the common .school, and in the corn-\\npa. i.son that we institute between their\\ncondition and our own, the advantages that\\nmodern civilization lavishes upon us must\\nnot be forgotten. Their struggle under\\nadverse circumstances should only nerve\\nus to greater exertions and arouse us to\\nquicker perceptions of public duty.\\nThe fuiure of our great country has its\\ndestinies for good or evil i^ecurely inter-\\nwoven in tlie late of its common schools.\\nWherever over all its vast expanse of fer-\\ntile lands and blooming fields, its secluded\\nhomes and busy marts of trade, wherever\\nthe school-house raises its palatial towers\\nor humble roof, the future American citi-\\nzen is being prepared for the destinies\\nthat await him. More potent than an\\narmy with guns and banners is tha army\\nof iOOCOO teachers that will to-morrow-\\nmorn ing step over the thresholds of Amer-\\nican sciiool-hous s. They are training the\\nPresidents, the Congressmen and Govern-\\nors who in the lifetime of some (jf the\\nboys present to-night will make and exe-\\ncute the laws for a hundred millions of\\npeople. State pride if nothing more\\nshould stimulate to his best energies every\\nnative of New Hampshire. Altliough\\nsmall in territory, and stubborn in soil,\\nyet she has a record of which every citi-\\nzen may well be proud. Her noblest sons\\nhave made the nation famous that iionored\\nthem. Her best blood has crim.soned every\\nAmerican battle-field, whether victory or\\ndisaster perched upon iier banners. What\\ncitizen of the Old Oranite State docs not\\nfeel proud of his illustrati ius kindred?\\nOf Stark, and Scammell, and Langdon,\\nand (jove and Cro.ss and their heroic\\ncompanions? What New Hampshire\\nheart dees not beat faster as Daniel Web-\\nster s stinging reply to the Austrian Min-\\nister is read and pondered Who can\\nlorget the career of such men as Cass.\\nWoodbury, Bell, Pierce, Chase, Hale, AVil-\\nson, Greeley and others whose names are\\nas familiar as household words Over-\\nriding all political distinctions, and the\\nnarrow prdjudices of party, we unite as\\none people to do honor to the men who by\\ntheir talents, their integrity, their charac-\\nters and their renown have done infinite\\nhonor to us. Whenever Patriotism has re-\\nquired a sacrifiice, war an offering, or\\nLiberty a champion, New Hampshire has\\nnever faltered. Her sons have been known\\nand honored wherever the American Hag\\ncasts a shadow or covers a deck. In War\\nand Peace, in science and adventure, they\\nhave acted well their part. Tliev have\\nshed imperishable renown upon the glori-\\nous old State, and by their example, their\\nwords, their deeds and every consid-\\neration of patriotism, call upon us one and\\nall to nuuntain its honor. It is in part to\\nthat iiigh and noble puipose that we meet\\nto night to consecrate ou Hall. May\\nwe strengthen the tics tliat unite us, the\\nsacred duties that bind us, and make the\\nTown, the Stale and ourselves better for\\nour presence.", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab9^", "height": "3408", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3408", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "dedicationoftown00aldr_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a25. 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